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“HOW TO BE AN Experf Car Buyer.” Egad, Joe, learn me, learn me quick. a or Being an expert in any field of endeavor always impressed me ds being something desirable. So much so that on the average of once a month I take (and am taken) a day off to put forth effort in that direction. Yesterday was the day. In a lot of respects’yesterday was a special day as you can guess fro my opening statement which really is the title of W. J. K. Cummings new book, “How to Be an Expert Car Buyer.” Just to be on the safe side before I report what happened to me and Mr. Cummings’ book, I better say he has the following after his name on the title page: *“B.Sc.; BSc. in M.E., Engineers Club of Philadelphia and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.” It would be OK to proceed now as I believe enough credit has been given where credit was due. |

Sassy Salpsman Makes Sale

I ALMOST went throtughthe glass door of a small bookstore after seeing the volume in question on display. Such was my eagerness to learn the rather complicated business of buying an automobile without getting rooked. (Mr, Cummings uses the expression: “Don’t Get Stuck.”) “Is it a pretty good book?” I asked a salesman who gave me the impression he wasn't particularly interested whather shop kept or not, “Don't know—didn't read it—$1 please.” There's nothing quite as exhilarating as seeing a man push himself and his merchandise. I shook the dust off two dusty volumes in the The fellow would do well to observe the tactics of used car dealers, I thought, feeling a bit sorry for him, 1 read the book from cover to cover and I must say the book makes you feel as if you

A WARY BUYER—'"Mr, Inside Indianapolis went used car shopping after fortifying himself with a book that promised to make an expert out of him. What price education and what price used cars?

INSIDE INDIANAPOLIS . . . by Ed Sovola . .

. tHe business practices of -the individual,” he sald ‘rather disgustedly.

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could take the bull by the horns and get your money's worth on a used car lot. Before the day was over, I vowed, I might have wheels. With the nine chapters firmly in mind, I went into the field of battle. No sooner had I brought the first principle of the third chapter (MECHANICAL DEFECTS WHICH YOU CAN DETECT IN THE DEALER'S SHOWROOM) into play on a model that caught my eye, a twitchy sort of an individual approached me demanding to know what I ‘was doing. : I quoted from the book. ‘Closely inspect the outside paint and body sheet metal. Stand so the car is between you and a bright light; then sight along the car sides and along the roof to detect any surface irregularities.” 4 “Say, that's cute,” the salesman hissed through his tobacco stained teeth, “Got any more of the same?” k Without budging from the rear of the 1931 Oldsmobile I read on: “No. 2--Insert the blade of a penknife between the windshield’'s rubber seal strip and the body steel; then pry away the rubber slightly.” . “That's good, that's good,” the sharple sputtered. “Any more?’ “No. 3—If owner allows, make a fine scratch on the inside edge of a door, down to the bare metal. Is a bright taxi or commercial car color revealed in the scratch?” “That book gets better as it goes along” wag the guy's comment, Evidently he was smart. er than he looked and I decided to be wary. “Mind if I see it?” he asked. I refused to let the book leave my hands. You understand why, don't you? Can't be too careful. “The man showed genuine surprise when I showed him in black and white the 36 tricks used “to ‘stick’ unsuspecting new and used car buyers.” His face fell a good 12 inches when read him the 32 pointers on finding defects on an automobile while it's in the lot,

The Tables Are Turned

THERE WERE 13 pointers op finding things wrong with an automobile while test driving it. Ten more pointers dealt with finding defects which could be detected in a garage or Service station. Well, sir, when I was all through the salesman opened up on me. Not really opened up with a lot of yelling and thumping of hands, Just a man-to-man talk. { Most of all he stressed the point that a car buyer should know the merchant. Then the car owner should remember his own business practice when he became a. dealer in a transaction. “T “could write: a Book 10: times: thicker about

“The man in the street could ‘put all shady dealers out of business in a week,” | he added. Listening to the salesman made the a little futile. Reading the book made a man think every car dealer was a crook. going to win?

Too tough. Wonder what kind of an expert rm try to be next month? also in the 5.Cent SUNDAY TIMES.

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Happy Crackpot

| By Robert C. Ruark

w., Taft-Hartley Act Blasted w= A} Political Rally Here

I give up this month trying to be an expert. |

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1048 To

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emocrats Bid For Labor's

LABOR GETS TOGETHER—Three of the score: of labor leaders who sponsored the Democratic mass meeting at Tomlinson Hall last night in a movement to’ unite all labor factions in a "common cause’ were (left to right Ray C. Gilbert of the Broth. erhood of Railroad Trainmen, Thomas Hutson, director of the labor division of the Indiana Demoeratic Committee; and Neal Edwards, president-of the Indiana Cl

Deny State Fund Used as OP Gif

2 Agencies Hit Back At Democratic Charge

The State Conservation Dee partment and the State Board of Accounts today issued a ‘“‘cates gorical denial” that the $100 cone tribution made by the operator of a state lodge to the Republican

POLITICAL ACTION—An appeal to all organized labor for a "united front" behind the national, state and county Democratic tickets here was made last night by Undersecretary of Labor John W. Gibson (left) after a conference, with Democratic. County Chairman. Paul McDuff, : eh atin

Cabinet Undersecretary Scores Congress

For Passing ‘Most Vicious Legislation’ Nearly every labor union in Indiana was represented last night lat . Tomlinson Hall rally described by Democratic leaders as the “beginning of a new era in united political action for the work ing people of the nation.” . | + Leaders of more than a score of both CIO and AFL unions {from all parts of the state pooled their voting power .in what they tdescribed—as—a-mass—movement | - Te . .

MIAMI, Oct.” 21—It is not every day you get to see a former Yale professor happily engaged in running a combination juke joint, filling station, curio shop and zoo. And it is even rarer to see said professor blithely rassling a 10-foot boa constrictor. i This professor is named Marshall Baldwin Bishop. For 15 years he toiled behind an ivytwined desk at New Ha%en, where he was assistant professor of zoology. Then one day in 1942 his collar got too tight, the students lost charm, and his desk seemed to grow bigger and bleaker. For you see, Prof, Bishop is a crackpot. He says so himself.

“J-am-a-erackpot: says Prof, Bishop, a husky.

blond gent of some 39 years. “But I am a happy crackpot. I hate neckties. I like to go barefooted. I don't like problems. I like this,” and he wayed his arms. : “This” is a roadside tavern, souvenir factory and zoo. The tavern is equipped with gas pumps, juke boxes. peanut butter crackers. beer, pickled snakes in jars and bottles, turtles, live owls, belts, wallets and gadgets, all of snakehide. rep EET Ee A Tew Epiders too) some -athigators. a hawk or so, a seething pit-full of assorted squirmers, and a big boa constrictor. They all belong to the professor. *

Makes Snakes Respect Him

THE backslid pedagogue draws his livelihood from snakes and scorpions and such. He supplies universities and zoos and little private organizations like. Rockefeller Institute with specimens. He buys all kinds of snakes for their hides, and his factory department turns them into belts and such. He milks snakes of their venom as ¢almly as a milkmaid turns the faucet on a cow, He catches a great many of his own reptiles. Mr. Bishop would just as lief leap into an Everglades ditch to snare a water moccasin with his ungloved hands as take a little drink. He is contemptuous of snakes. He says the snakes know it, and respect him.

MR. RUARK'S COLUMN: also appears in the 5-Cent SUNDAY TIMES.

“My Bishop was ‘a scientist of ‘some -note:-It- was he. Mr. Gibson--warned. the audience

_casional hurricane, he has been known to move visions. of that law,” he said. .

To see him stride, barefooted and barelegged,

into a den of whirring rattlesnakes is a hair- against anti-labor legislation and the workers will enjoy a balanced whitening experience. I watched him chivvy an ‘reactionary government.” standard of living, prevent anoth-evil-tempered, six-foot rattler into a corner, thwart] They heard Under Secretary of |i depression and Yaise The min. at least three strikes with a snake hook, and then|Labor John W, Gibson lambast MU WEE to at least 75 cents stroke the critter on the head. . {the 80th Congress as “responsi-| ? This was no prop snake either. Mr. Bishop|ble for the most Vicious anti (Iker speakers at the rally inmilked him later, and drained one ounce of venom|labor legislation that has ever|® : jeorge 8.” Dailey, Demfrom the fangs. He did it with bare hands, hold- been enacted in the history ot |gerat c cangidate fog prosecutor; ing ifs head over a glass and pressing the poisonithe country.” ales F. i unning| am, Demos sacs. Personally, I would rather write for a living.| Seen "Worse to. Come prs c¢ candidate for sheriff, and Se ) ndrew Jacobs, Democratic can<

i ' i H Speaking for Secretary of La-|didate for Congress. Wife Doesn't Mind, Either |bor Maurice J. Tobin, whose trip! Among scores of labor leaders BEFORE HE quit the

hallowed halls of Yale, here was canceled due to illness, participating in the meeting were Leon Bates, international agent who first proved that the polio virus was transmit-'that “you haven't: learned half of the United Auto Workers, Neal

ted by flies as well as by humans. He has ‘spidersthe ‘story about the Taft-Hartley Edwards, president of the Indiana C10 and Industrial Council; Wil-

- . i ) i” liam C. Birthright, president of yohe Nations) Asso ton, o the International Barhers Union, uY ployers In .,4 Sam Byers, president of the

general are waiting. until they| : get a friendly President to really nian Laundry Workers

take your hide off under pro-| “Others . were James Robb, iregional. director . of the Steel

| “The only chance you have to Workers Union; Raymond re EY ORS “SOM “CAR x EP ps 4, protect your jobs and a decent Berndt, regional director of the ; li Mavor Reginald Sullivan and May: ok standard of living is to re-elect United Auto Workers; Loren ndianapolis, ex-mayor egina pullivan an layor . President Truman and a Dem-| Houser, regional director of the Feeney, came out last night for full co-operation with organized labor behind the Democratic ticket of candi-

named after him. He is an authority on rare blind pct.” Coa fish.. Various scientific expeditions carried him all| over the world. Mr. Bishop's. home, well out of Miami on the Tamiami trail, sometimes becomes a trifle infested. During periods of unseasonable cold, or an oc-

the whole menagerie .into his Tiving quarters for warmth. | This could stir up considerable strife with an unreasonable wife, but not Mrs. Bishop. A fashion illustrator, she is on record as being

ocratic Congress, |{CIO; Carl H. Mullen, president

funds. Their denial followed a charge made ‘Tuesday Democratio State Chairman Ira Haymaker that LaMarr Bittinger, former

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Brown County State Park, had paid $100 to GOP campaign fund from state park lodge accounts.

equally adjusted to scorpions and pet otters. A spider in the orange juice is not. in this case, com-| “Otherwise you will see the of the Indiana State Federation " : d Bi ; parable to a fly in the ointment although a coral gains made by labor in the last of Labor; Ray C. Gilbert, of the dates from President Truman on down to all county today by the Conservation Desnake sleeping snugly in a. lady's bedroom slipper few years slipping away from Brotherhood of Rallway Train- candidates.” partment. . men; Thomas Hutson, former es 2 CRAB oh The itemized list of the “err

might spur certain spouses to drastic action with you."

state labor commisisoner; James

crude household implements. . Calls for United Vote ; .. » - ra . neous debits” included the $100 t . said he does t miss ) Suffridge, international secretary , "The truant professor =a e does not miss| Mi. Ginson pointed out there of the Retail Clerks Union: tary Civic Pride Example Given sonteibution. Mr. McDonough

the soporific life among the students, and that six are 61,000,000 workers on jobs in years of rassling alligators, being occasionally the nation today * chewed by rattlers and nipped by: scerpions has, “Sixty million voters orn quis b 1 . Oth trud rear- ! een immensely relaxing. Other men trudge drear antee 60 million jobs and more

met J. Williams, president of the! For an example of a Slogan nore than 15 words—on a plain

Joint Council of Teamsters, and|ijn The Times Civic Pride Con- plese ot paper and 2 it to N. A. Gibson, of the Brotherhood {Civic Pride Contest, Indianapolis of Firemen and Engineers. test William A. Evans, assistant... 214 Ww Maryland St. En-

- superintendent of schools and 8 tries must be in The Times office

ily to classrooms, now he goes to the 'Glades for by electing a Democratic Pres a copperheads or to Brazil for boa constrictors. 1 ‘ ’ - “But then.” he says, “I am a crackpot. A hap- ident and a Democratic Con- Report Three Cases |member of the Indianapolis Civic - posmarked by midnight

| gress,” he said. . Mr. Gibson laid the blame tor OF Vandalism one:

(high prices directly at the door| police. today reported three| “Like a tooth, a clean city Long Life of Birds

py crackpot.” [Pride Committee, suggests thig

EE ————— —— — - Doesn't Add Up WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—Now we've got Congress worrying about whether some New York school masters are teaching communism to the

young. ‘ Having listened to a couple of the professors deny any such thing, I'm wondering, myself,

about something else.

One of them teaches matheniatics in Junior High School; when he adds, he has to count on his fingers and then he's none too sure of the who teaches English at DeWitt Clinton High School, is a badly shaken For a while at least I'm afraid he'll not be much good at expounding Elizabethan poetry, It's a dirty trick to snitch on teacher to the’ kids, I know, but I can’t resist reporting on Abraham Lederman, the youthful-looking president of Local 555 of the CIO Teachers’ Union, who earns his living teaching arithmetic to small fry, He showed up before the House Labor Committee investigators in a red tie and a pink shirt, mentioned his war record and ‘his patriotism, and refused on constitutional grounds to say Rep. Samuel K. McConnell Jr, the chairman, wondered how many

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whether he was a Communist. members he had on:the union's executive board,

Adds 'Em Up on His Fingers

~ PROF. LEDERMAN said he'd have to count. He shut his eyes, and carefully on his fingers, Then he opened his

counted off the members. eyes and said! “Thirty-three.”

~ “You sure?” insisted the gentleman from Penn~

sylvania.

The mathematics instructor counted on his He said he wasn't really. He sald je 32 members and then again there * And if he only had a pencil, may-

fingers again. there migh might be

"In your mathematics class do you give your MR. OTHMAN'S COLUMN also appears in the 5-Cent

The Quiz

itself so perfectly to temples of worship?

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1.egislature, Congress or the Congress.

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{of the Republican leadership in more cases of vandalism under never decays.” (Congress. ) [the guise of Halloween fun. | This isn't an official entry from! Although more than 100 kinds Every housewife knows why Earl Cunningham, 57 E. Maple Mr. Evans, of course, but it of birds have become extinct hee Joliars wont stretch enough Rd., reported that his car was might give you an idea for a|during the past two centuries, m meer. ae Said, ehey Jono [damaged while it was parked in|slogan that could win a share ofnone have become extinct in it . ’ ! {the 5300 block of Carrollton Ave. ” : 1 r two | own pupils a second guess on the answers to their the OPA price controls as the re-|jast evening. The a oy Ave 9100 in prizes tor you Atsiea haa ORY one A SC problems?” inquired Rep. McConnell. sult of the biggest lobby pressure goaped, windshield wiper torn, The contest is sponsored by) The professor said sometimes he did; he said in the history of the nation.” [loose and tires deflated The ry Ihe Clvie. Beige oo As ery i hool teacher. i . ittee e other Indianapolis 4 . . bor him. very ladle ae a Ware, urls Charge at NAM | Aster Tatick, 354 E. Morris St. newspap 0 residents Drive Against Flies he isn't ! He won't say JP%1 “The National Association of told police he left his car parked to the need of co-operation for! : : WO. Manufacturers has spent millions for a half hour in 600 block Luett { Killing one fly now saves Th the rofessor was M Diamond, a better Indl lis e other .p ) ax nd, &5¢ dollars lobbying against price St. Vandals removed the wind-® oF 18d anapoiis, having many to kill later in the small gray-haired man with heavy eyeglasses, a co 1 ) R Write your slogan entry—in not! season. . cinnamon mustache and a shirt with sleeves that/, ntrol and in favor of anti-labor shield wiper and gas cap, broke| TU? YT were so long they bothered him. His job is teach: |yo5 amas" the past two years, the aerial and tore holes in the Ing Engl te re A a a oii | “Is time for united action! A soft drink bottle, apparently ight now ou minute.” he ng my | “But 1 Y: lamong the working people of the hurled from a passing car, broke rah ow. under sub na and this committee | COUNTY to keep a government a window valued at $10 at the Ho dare me. I am Pena I am upset.” that will enact laws to control home of Everett Turner, 1111 There was no doubt about this. The longer inflation, stabilize living costs so Hanna Ave. last night, | he testified, the more upset he became. But h

did make a few points and I must. report for the Teachers fo See Operetta 49

benefit of his pupils that no matter how excited]

he became, his English remained impeccable, W itt by L . | p ils Written by Local Pupils

Swears He's Not a Communist Group From Public Schools Here Produce

HE SAID that just because he wrote editorials| , And Stage Own Three-Act Composition

in the school teachers’ magazines, denouncing the | Tart-Hartley “act was: no-sign he: was. a .Com-| munist. He added that it was none of the com-| This is a special day for a group of 45 publi¢- school pupils.” mittee’s business what political party he joined, They are producing an operetta they had written; but that he would swear under oath that he Was] The audience will be composed of state teachers’ convention no Commie, Never had been, | delegates meeting in the Shortridge High School auditorium today, Committee counsel Irving McCann showed him | 5 “The Affairs of Lady Carrolton,” written in three acts, is the .a..cartoon_in his paper of “a frightened-looking story of conflict for a lady's hand. The overture, dialog, plot, in teacher of the female sex with a death-head aDOVE Tact everything, was written-by === ee ter yo dGeewith ‘witch hunt’ on. it.” - Was ‘this|9 to 13-year-old grade school and principals at Tech. On one Prof. Diamond's idea of the congressional 1ab5F | pupils during a ‘special music other occasion the operstta was committee? class last summer in School 2... presented for. pupils of School 2, “I don't expect you. to like it,” he said, “but| go ,.rt of a plan to give special] Most of the 47 writers of the: that is our opinion.” training to talented pupils, the Play took part in today's producSoon thereafter he. left for New York. My guess| i. ccnools gave aptitude tests tion. A few of the older partielis that his students won't be getting much homes |s = 0s 1iiqren and chose 75 for pants are high school students work for the next several days, the course. k now, SUNDAY TIMES Guild Classes . Yesterday's full dress rehearsal . ee | Two classes were opened, omejWwas fully recorded dnd filmed. in - "in Crispus Attucks High School part for public school records. land one in School 2. Three in-| Ralph Wright, director of music

? i ? \for the public schools, sald the P77 Test Your Skill ?7 ? |structors were assigned to guide EO ie Proile #2 hols, 8 id. the

{the classes. For six weeks the classes met the summer Was designed to give

w./for three hours each school day, the same special attention to more d-| composing their operettas. ' advanced pupils in the music de{The Attucks class called theirs partments that is given to slower “The Golden Locket,” and have students in other departments. produced it at Garfield Park dur- It is -not beyond the hope of By what vote is. a decision of the Supreme | ing summer activities there, |school officials, he added, thist Court of the United States determined? The work of School 2 also has|these special classes will provi ® By a majority of the judges hearing the par.’ |been produced in Garfield Park a start for a future “great” in the

teular case. / activities and for school teachers!field of music composition. . {

- By Frederick C. Othman

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“We hold, these truths to be self-evident. . 1s this phrase from the Declaration of Indepen ence or the Preamble to the Constitution? The Declaration of Independence. | ® & ¢

DISCOVERY—Lady Carrolton, central figure in the

school pupils, learns of a plot to liquidate her lover.

Mary Crider, a villager,

Strolling th

market place are Sharron-Lee Yetter, as Lady Carfolton; Virginia C and William Dean, a gardener. presented ‘at Shortridge High School today. pres

was forced to contribute to the GOP fund and produced the can~ celled check. Mr. Bittinger ad-

ftted writing’ the check and sald was state money.

I ————————————— CHURCH DANCE PLANNED

An old-fashioned

round dance will be held by the Ladies of St. Anthony Catholie Church from 8:30 to 12 p. m, toe morrow in St. Anthony Hall, 371 N. Warman Ave. Ernest Duffin is chairman,

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