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JUST FIGURED out what was wrong with the two-hour ear-banging session I had with the captain and a sergeant of the U. 8. Army and another sergeant of the U., 8. Air Force. No griping or cussing. Not a single word in either category. Before you start referring to me as a liar, , barracks barrister and choicier names of distinction, Mac, note, take heed, how I have separated the two branches of<Service now that we have unification of all military branches. Happy? Another thing that impressed me was the efficiency, interest and morale with which the members of the trio tackled their work, paper work, lots of paper work. Capt. Eurice Barzynski, highest brass wearing silver ski tracks in Tndiana WAC and WAF recruiting circles, is almost a happy and satisfied officer, in fact, She said so and I believe it. Her staff, consisting of M/Sgt. Dorothea English and Sgt. Marie Bradley reflect the attitude of their captain. Amazing, and I think you know what I mean. )

A Slick Chick in Khaki MY BRUSH with the girls who “are entitled to the same rights, benefits, and privileges as male soldiers,” was the result of a strictly routine habit of using the halls of the Federal building for exercise when the weather is bad or there's too much dirt in the air. Sometimes I use the first floor when I'm in a hurry and can’t take much of a workout. Sometimes it’s the second, third or fourth, as it was yesterday. Sometimes I look into open doorways when I heel-and-toe.

Yesterday I looked into Room 429. My first

GREETINGS—Capt. Eunice Barzynski does her recruiting work quietly and methodically but when the occasion demands it, she'll talk “Careers for Women" with the vim of a door-to-door salesman.

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Come to the Casbah By Robert c. Ruark ~yite Jo fe Lasbal Ay Rouen . Ruark

NEW YORK, Nov. 3—Come with me to the Casbah, kiddies, and let us stride among the garbage cans and snoring bums. I used to think Algiers had a picturesque slum, but Algiers can't hold a bearded beggar to my native quarter. My street, down in the Village, js about .a hundred yards long, and it's a dead-ender. But you get more action there, of an evening, than you'd expect from, the Rue de Lappe in Paris, King's Cross in Sydney, and the old French Quarter in New Orleans. My street is always full of cops and fire trucks and commotion, because the natives are so uninhibited. : Why, in one week-end, we had a stabbing on the sidewalk, and two cats had kittens—also on the sidewalk. One husband locked out one wife, and the gas line busted in another citizen’s house. The Poetry Society met, as usual, and the neighbots turned in the junk man to the cops three or four times, for the sin of beating babycarriages into plowshares much too early in the morning and late at night. There were assorted dogfights, a crap game on the corner, and one lady's pet cat got abducted by a sinister cat-napper who claims stewed felines taste just like rabbit.

We Specialize in Bums NEXT TO CATS, we specialize in bums. Our bums are, I believe, the peer of all the bums in New York. They are selective, prideful bums. with specialties. There is one, long lean bum, for instance, who adores cats, and not for culinary purposes, either. Before he has his first slug of canned heat, this bum panhandles in behalf of the long, lean, mangy cats who flock round him as if he were construcled of catnip. When he accumulates a quarter, he goes to the butcher shop and buys two bits worth of chicken entrails and similar leavings. Then we have another bum who is strictly, honorable regarding the spending of his hustled

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impression was that I was looking at a slick chick in khaki who ought to be wearing other than khaki. I believe that takes care gf my first impression. i . The second impression was to speak. IT did. The third impression was that the khaki-clad woman in front of me was a captain. A captain who took her job seriously, a captain who believed every word the recruiting pamphlet carried and couldn’t imagine. herself in anything but khaki. I'm a graduate of the swift-appraisal-of-women school. So, instead of idle chatter my interest centered on the army. Capt. Barzynski approved. . = Well, sir, before you could say “Women between the ages of 18 and 35 years are eligible to apply for enlistment,” I had four blurb sheets in| my hands. They'll make fine reading on cold winter nights when there isn’t another blessed thing to do. That doesn’t imply, you understand, that women eligible for the WAC or WAF. wouldn't find the reading interesting. : The good captain spoke freely about her job and the service. She said her job was to keep the 11 main stations in Indiana up to date with regulations. Regulations come from Washington to Indianapolis where Capt. Barzynski interprets and forwards. A stack of papers was lying on her desk and my question was: “Are you interpreting now?” In a way she was and in a way she wasn’t. In the first place, the “papers” were records of applicants and they were being compared and studied for final selection. 3 “A girl may be processed at any of the 11 main stations but the final selection is made in this office,” said Capt. Barzynski. . “How many of the lucky girls do you select?” On the average, four girls are selected every two weeks. The quotas run pretty close to eight a month. The captain didn’t have the exact figures but she thought 60 applicants would be the number she selects from every month, “We are concentrating on quality, not quantity,” was her explanation. “That, however, per-

to get prior service people interested.” Along about that time we were on our way to the Indianapolis main station, 342 Massachusetts Ave,, or the same place the boys registered several weeks ago. At the station we saw Sgts. Bradley and English processing two applicants. A third girl, who was scheduled to be shipped to Camp Lee, Virginia, for basic training the next day, sat by the front windows waiting to be sworn in. (She was waiting for a major. You're right, he was a male member of the army.) The station recruits for:both the WAC and the WAF, I was told. But from what I could gather as three women tried to do a selling job, prior service gals are the ones who are high on the priority list in the recruiting stations. “What's the gimmick to sell them on the idea?”

Something New—That's the Army THREE cold stares shivered my timbers. The gimmick is that any gal who was discharged honorably and enlists before Jan. 4, 1949, gets the rank she held at the time of discharge. In order to sell something you have to be sold

on it first, salesmen will tell you. So will the cap-|

tain and the sergeants I talked to.

They list advantages of the service. And they]

do it _awithout using so much as a darn. Sounds almégP* impossible, but it's true. Something new every day. That's the army.

up for a nickel. His arms were full of packages. “I got hamburg,” he said. “I got two bottles of beer. I got a bottle of ketchup, a head of lettuce and a loafa bread. But I ain't got an onion, and damned if I can’eat hamburg without no onion. A nickel buys the onion, chum. If you will be so kindly.” I was so kindly. s We have still another bum with principles. This bum is an unashamedly drunken bum. My wife and I were picking our way through the debris caused by the cat-loving bum when the drunken bum stopped me. He was apologetic.

Look, Mac, Pardon the Bite

“LOOK, MAC,” he says to me. “Ordinarily I will not bite you when you are walking with a lady, but my buddies and I are dying of thirst, and we have not yet raised the first half-buck toward the pint. If it is not going to be at least half-a-buck, do not bother, because this is one of these nights when we don’t want to raise no false hopes. If you please.” I pleased. Most of the bums, when the weather permits, will sleep on the sidewalk or in doorways. But when it rains or snows, they try to spend the night in parked cars. Down here, the car-owners generally leave them unlocked, to prevent forced

entry. But we have one class-conscious bum who |§

will only sleep in convertibles. ; This one was sleeping in a Ford with a canvas top, on a recent wet evening, and the car's owner roused him by kicking his feet.

out, still hazy. He took a fast look at the car. “A Ford, no less,” he sneered. “Nineteen-forty-two model. when I went to bed. I must,” the drunk said re-

The feet were|3 sticking out the open door. The bum staggered |;

I could of swore it was a Cadillac|}

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GOP Gloomy As Democrats Beam

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GLOOM—Clark Springer, state Republican chairman, reported by telephone to his boss, Gov. Gates, in Columbia City. It was sad news he had to relate for

5 ® a N RS ROR TN Cog Nd " JOY—While faces were long on the seventh floor of the Claypool Hotel, they were filled with laughter in Democratic. headquarters on the second. An unusually good report brought ear-to-ear smiles to Ira Haymaker, Democratic state chairman, and Mrs. Ruby Ware, state vice chairwoman. An early air of tenseness evaporated as more and more returns poured in,

the OP as election returns poured in at party headquarters last night.

THE REASON—The ubiquitous campaigner under the white hat scored a smashing victory in the gubernatorial race over his Republican opponent, Hobart Creighton. Henry F. Schricker appeared at the party wigwam late last night to accept congratulations on his second election to the governorship. Here he is in pow-wow with Frank: McHale, ‘Democratic national committeeman (right). Mr. and Mrs. Schricker voted in Knox but made a hurried return. automobile trip to be in on the wind-up festivities.

THE REPORT—The Indianapolis Times and radio station WISH joined hands to bring an eager public up-to-the-minute accounts of the fast-breaking state and national election races. Times" staffers channeled a steady flow of events and tabulations to the city room. They were interpreted by top political analysts. Shown at the microphone are (left to right) Dan Kidney, Times Washington Bureau; Gene Allison, WISH; Art Wright, Times public service director, and Robert Bloem, political writer.

flectively, “have been drunker than I thought.” He lurched off, a picture of despoiled dignity. You can see why I am fascinated by my new street. It is noisy, and it is dirty, but it is never, never dull.

alms. He stopped me the other night, and hit me

Indiana highway accidents ac-|curve at the junction of Thompcounted for four deaths yesterday!son Rd. and Bridgeport Rd., westinjcrn Marion County, early this | morning. The truck went into a|Taswell three hours earleir.

and today, including one Marion County. The dead are: os Fred Stillwell Jr. 21, Baltimore, 0, Marilyn Whitaker, Oaks, Ind. Harry Judd, 55, Taswell. John Gibbs, 37, Austin. Mr. Stillwell was driving .aland a tree.

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STRUCK JRAIN—Mrs. Elizabeth Sudler, 5353 Evan injury today when she drove her car into the side of the Monon Tippecanoe passenger train at the 46th St. crossing. Mrs. Sudler was thrown free of the car, which was demolished. She is in fair condition in St. Vincent's Hospital.

Traffic Accidents Kill Four In State

smashed forward into the cab of afternoon in an accident on Ind. the truck. Mr. Stillwell was dead |31, near Memphis, when the car when state police arrived. Miss Whitaker was injured Oct. Hensley Miller, Austin, went out 30 near Highland on U. 8. 41/of control and hit a tree. Mr. when the. automobile in which|Gibbs’ brother, Carl, 26, was reshe was riding hit an abutment ported in critical condition. AnShe died last night!other brother, truck loaded with sheet methlin a Hammond hospital. When he fajled to negotiate a| Harry Judd ‘died at 10 p. m. harmed.

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A STUDY—Paul Squires, GOP publicity director, received bad news over the telephone as state returns gave Mr. Schricker the edge. The placard on the back of the elephant merely lends irony to the scene.

AND VICTORY-—County Democratic headquarters echoed bedlam as one candidate after another was assured victory. In unrestrained joy Harry Gasper, eighth ward chairman (left), and George Dailey hugged and waltzed as the latter was elected prosecutor. Loyal party workers celebrated noisily.

Legion 389 to Help Santa Visit Homes, Lodges Here Exhibit Planned

|saking the sooty chimney en-| officer of the post; financial: ray By Homemakers trance of the mystical Mr. Klaus. Suhre, chairman; personnel The Homemakers Association

i j the hiring of |B. Mullendore, post commander, Gifts, Forsake Chimney for Front Door wi, A ane aa ng be- chairman; traffic — John Moore- Of Marion County will present an

Santa Claus’ will put in a personal appearance at many local| oqo training as Santa’s assistants, man; executive—officers and past achievement program marking 20 homes Christmas eve and Christmas morning, assisted by the exec-| nd for the rental of the Manu-| commanders of Post 389. years of organized home demonutive committee of the American Legion Northeast Post No. 389.|¢ turer's Building at the State | stration work in the county to

Operating on a plan which proved successful on a limited scale Fairgrounds to hold a huge party Arrange Hoosier 'morrow and Friday at Ipalco

IN DEFEAT—Keeping tab on precinct returns from around Hoosierland brought anything but joy to the face of Ross

Teckemeyer. Many old-time’ Republicans shook their heads in disbelief as they saw favorites fall.

. ‘Delivery Service’ Kris to Distribute

last year by its originator, James Phillips, 3336 N. Denny 8t., the for destitute families. eed + . | Pri post plans a “Santa Claus Delivery Service” which will visit! All requests for Santa service Yule Special Train Ball ssn 2d lavas Streets homes and distribute presents to |must be relayed to the Legion y ..... ¢irmers may make res, on Em as dos the ‘children. |and private individuals will be post by Dec. 15 so the transporta- ,.ooiione” on the Hoosier Christ-| Ui be presented by the 47 home Charitable programs and in. charged a fee. tion committee can make up... Special train, being organ-| [= © 0" be with a member Progra: | “Santas” will be costumed In gchedules. Rates for the service ized by the Indiana Farm Bureau, °° rin 3 metho stitutions will receive the service the traditional garb and will en- to stores, lodges and individuals, ™ ©. poociens to the annual) SbiP of more an Fin Se: free, while small stores, lodges'ter through ordinary doors, for- wij be $5 for a single call or $10 convention of the American Farm/ Of the Drofie 3 25 8 pris . at ST . |an hour. | Bureau Federation at Atlantic 08% at. 10a. mn. Friday and an Meeting Planned For Psychologists Name Committees City, Dec. 9 to 19, the Bureau| Stow at 10 8 Fo IUCRY SOC BC b All profits from the venture will announced today. ‘home demonstration program Fri. The Indiana Association of will be held "Saturday, the firstig, {5 the Northeast post charita-| The trip also will include sight-| 200 EE ona ; Clinical and Applied Psycholo- 2t-10 a.m. in the Florentine Room pie fund for the promotion of seeing at Niagara Falls, New Il hold a two-day Of the Claypool Hotel on “The guch charities as Boys’ State, the York City, Philadelphia and : gists, Inc, will ho Role of the Psychologist in Edu-|post's Boy Scout troop, Junior Washington, D. C. Auxiliary to Meet meeting here Friday and. Satur-/cation,” and the second: at 1:30 American Legion baseball, Vet-! reat Thea anak: inspoctiomaot the -. Jb i. 50 the send Door Pron. |cTans’ Orphans Home at Knights- EG Lunch Planned Ladies’. Auxiliary to Canton InThe November program - will Canary Cottage on “The Prob- town and other service activities. OES -willld lis No. 2, Patriaréh Mili. begin at 8 p, m. Friday with a|lem of Dynamic Diagnosis. .The Legion post has named the| Prospect Alxiilary ty Sana will be held at 8p. m. symposium “What Do Psychologi-| Preceding the dinner at 6:30| following committees for the meet at noon Fri 2 or 31 aon On : cal Test Results Really Mean?” p. m. Saturday, the annual IACAP service: 5 —eon, to be followed by Sok ph rrow Sermania 400 in the Empire Room of the Clay- business meeting will be held in| Promotion—James Jtlize ih mesting at 2 p. m. . ¥| Fg wi Bas t Mr s pool Hotel. Two“. symposiums'the Canary Cottage. ‘| sisted by Ray Fiscus, past finance Birr is president. Mathel ndley :

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