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* “THE CASE Behind the Frosted Glass.” Good title for a mystery book, isn't it? *The title, which will probably never adorn the cover of a book, (titles are easier to write than books) came to me as I emerged, from the dingiest of the subterranean rooms at the statehouse and ran smack into a small frosted glass enclosure that had wisps of smoke curling above it. Rather than go any farther and possibly find a door, I stood on a chair and peeked over the dusty top. Who knows, was my argument for looking, there might be a disconsolate Republican . in there burning records over an alcohol lamp. What I saw wasn’t disconsolate. He might have been a Republican, though. A sharp “ssssst” made the man turn from a mess of papers and a volume that might have been the complete works of Sears, Roebuck. It must have been 12 inches thick. : “What ‘are you doing?” { asked. In a pleasant enough voice, the well-groomed gent answered “I might ask you the same thing.” He could, too.

It Turns Qut He's a Lawyer .

WHEN I WENT around to the door and quit playing Nick Carter in “The Case Behind the Frosted Glass,” Alvin Myer, assistant deputy attorney general, was my host. As a taxpayer and technically the employer of Mr. Myer, I asked for a brief fill-in on what he was doing at the precise moment I saw him staring into space.

“I was thinking about a point of law in this alleged forgery of voters’ registrations case in Evansville. The defense appealed the decision of the lower courts and ‘I'm doing the necessary preliminary work when the case comes before the court again,” said Mr. Myer. “What are you doing with the pocket edition?” was my next question as I pointed to the “big book.” The huge bound volume, Mr. Myer explained, was a transcript of the entire trial—everything. By everything I assumed he meant even the cough of a witness as she was cross-examined.” There were 2061 pages, 8%; by 14 inches, in the transcript. » A glance to an open page wasn't very enlightening and the fact that what Mr. Myer was talking about didn't come in on the beam made matters even worse. The situation was almost as bad as trying to look af=your neighbor's paper during an exam only to find blank spaces instead of answers. Somebody was trying to find out something and all this followed the letter “Q”-—question. Somebody was trying to answer in such a way as to make the first somebody really work to get even a resemblence of a fact. This was beside the letter “A”—answer. “Doesn't make sense.” | Mr. Myer said, “I wouldn't say that.” { “The stuff isn’t very interesting.” Mr. Myer said, “On the contrary, the facts of the case are very interesting.” We didn't see eye to eye. It was easy to change the ‘subject. I merely wanted ‘to know where Mr. Myer came from. Briefly, and I don’t mean 2061 pages, Mr. Myer came here from New Albany, Floyd County, where

Ye Daze of Yore

he was prosecuting attorney. Prior to that he was assistant professor of law at the University of Louisville. Whereas, to wit, hitherto and prior to that, he was a law student at Indiana University. Since Mr. Myer didn’t belong to the same fraternity I did I won’t mention his. '

The Job Has a Few Laughs “ARE YOU GOING to be reading the transcript and the other four books and briefs the rest of the day?” The fellow alumnus almost had a stroke. It seems a lawyer does more than go into court and argue. Without digging out the facts and pledity of hours studying a cafe a lawyer is “a bag of wind,” Mr, MyeF informed me. I brought up another point of law. My contention was that he was engaged in a rather tedious and dull work with no laughs. A man has to have a job with a few laughs, I said. : Well, shut my mouth. In a twinkling, Mr. Myer was reading from Hampton V. North Carolina Pulp Co. (49 F. Supp.625): - “Professor Aagssiz, the eminent Harvard scientist said: ‘Fish is a good brain food.’ One person wanted to know, ‘in what quantities should it be taken?’ The great scientist wrote back: ‘In your case, a whale a day for thirty days.” That opinion was the funniest thing I have read since my column yesterday. I wanted more. I had a new insight on law. The character who wrote it was good. Assistant Deputy Attorney General Alvin Myer closed the case by telling me politely he had work to do, and would I mind beating it out of his office? “The ‘Case Behind the Frosted Glass” closed. Still think it's a good title.

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It's all in the way you look at a point of law. Alvin Myer, ‘assistant deputy attorney general,

finds a 206!-page transcript interesting. You

might prefer Li'l Abner.

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Nov. 16—Ran into a fellow the other day who says he knows what's wrong with women—married women, that is—and why we got so many divorces and so much yack-yacking and squabbling in the ivy-twined cottage. Says he demands. to be heard. . “Trouble is,” this fellow says, “they aren't tired enough. They have too much time on their hands, unless they have nine or ten kids hauling at them. They got so many shortcuts to houskeeping today that eventide finds the old lady as fresh as a daisy. “The old man staggers home from a rough session at the ropewalk, or whatever, and this dewy dynamo is just laying for him. She has had all day to think about how women get the short end of the stick, and she’s ripe for a row. “Unless her everloving takes her out and wears her down on a dancefloor somewhere, she's a cinch to start chewing on him before sack-tire.” This man says that in the good old olden days of erstwhile yore, by the time the old man got home and settled down in the rump-sprung easy chair, ma’s tongue was hanging out and she was right pleased to sag into her loveseat with the second section of the paper.

Now You Take My Ma

“TAKE MY MA,” this man said. “She was out of the hay at seven, to fire up the stove and fix breakfast for pa and the kids. She had to wash three sets of dishes and make all the beds. She had to lug the rugs out in the back yard for a going-over with the rug beater. If we were going to have beans she had to string ’em or pick ’em or however it is you undress a bean. “If we ate bread she made the bread, because self-respecting people didn’t eat store-bought lightbread. If we had butter for the bread she churned it herself. If you brought home a churn to the average woman today she’d plant a spring of phylodendron in it. » “My ma washed the clothes and ironed them, and she went to the store every day for the meat and potatoes. She.fed the chickens and polished the floors and ground the coffee. She puttered around in the garden and looked after her roseI

bushes and whipped the children for their o#n good and worried about the budget.” By the time pa got home from commerce she was ready to wind the clock and call it a day. They stayed married 62 years.” The man paused for breath.

Goofballs or Rye Whisky

“LOOK AT IT NOW,” he said angrily. “You buy a deep-freeze and go marketing twice a year. The electric washer washes and dries the dishes

and the eleétric clothes-washer washes the clothes.

The electric vacuum cleaner beats the rugs, and the butter and the coffee and the bread come ready for the table. Frozen foods make it unnecessary to shell a pea or string a bean or separate the spinach from the sand. “You buy a performing stove and shove the :ggs and coffee aboard it before you go to bed. The garbage-disposal unit grinds the garbage. With this diet nonsense you can get your nutriment out of pills. “So they don’t get tired. Pa comes home whipped and ma wants to go off/on a rumba. Or she has been listening to the radio or reading the women's magazines all day, so her head is full of soapflakes and rabble-rousing, or she has spent all afternoon telling some psychiatrist that she isn’t understood. So she takes it all out on the old man. He's worried and tax-bothered and ¢jog-tired, so he snaps back. “They finally get to bed and both of 'em are so mad they have insomnia, which leads to goofballs or straight rye whisky and that works on the nerves and the first thing you know she's in Reno and he's sitting up half the night with a busted flush or a quiet blond. The family gets wrecked and the kids go to live with grammaw. “Bring back the churn,” says the man. “Bring back the carpet-beater and. the ice-cream freezer, If we don't cut ’em down to our size we're done for” ii Sy These statements do not necessarily reflect the views of the author, who is a married man, himself.

Auto Tune-Up

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—The auto dealers, their trade association chiefs and their lawyers ‘sputtered up to the Capitol today with radiators steaming, brakes squealing and headlights (all right, eyeglasses) blinking. They also were feeling righteous. Cheating the customers with hocus-pocus trade-ins and then making ‘em buy accessories they neither needed nor wanted? Not them, said the auto salesmen. Nothing like that ever happened in their salesrooms, they said. There is no doubt they've had their troubles with a lack of new automobiles and a surplus of cash customers, but it is not for me to judge ’'em here. I'll leave that to Rep. W. Kingsland Macy of Islip, N. Y., who drives a pre-war sedan himself and’ who thinks that some of them at least are high-binders.

Grinding Their . . . Teeth

~ YOU MAY remember the other day when Con- " gressman Macy issued a formal statement chargIng that the automobile dealers of Washington have cheated the customers of $4.4 million so far this year. If the same thing has gone on across the country, said the gentleman from Islip, no telling how many million Americans have been skinned in their rush to buy 1949 models with torpedo bodies, black light instrument panels and no fenders. The auto men have been grinding their gears and/or teeth ever since, holding meetings, issuing statements of their own, and making plans. Rep. Macy has called in a few motorists, with cars dolled up to the tune of $400 and $500, to tell their sad tales in public. He also has called in th dealers to defend themselves. « There is no doubt that some have taken all the traffic would bear. Others undoubtedly have been honest. ‘Whether Congress passes a special law to curb the greedy ones depends largely on the

evidence garnered by Rep. Macy. The horrid instances are numerous. One citizen who thought he was buying a low-priced twodoor coach found it equipped with fog lights, spotlights, a back-up light and a light under the hood. It had a heater, a radio with an extra speaker in the rear, a windshield wiper on the back window, and special water squirters behind the regular windshield wipers. It had a costly steering wheel, an electric clock, two cigar lighters, a lap robe, puncture-proof tubes in the tires, a special holder for tissues (in case he had a cold while driving), extra ash trays and widgets to buzz when he got too close to the curb.

The car had been waxed and polished at a cost of $40 and sprayed underneath with a goo which

was supposed to silence rattles and cost $40 more.|

It had a hydraulic jack, a windshield defogger, a sun visor, three rear-view mirrors, chromium rims on the wheels and special tin flaps to hide these from view.

Complete With Suitcases

IN THE luggage compartment was a set of matched suitcases. And that’s all he had to buy to get his car, anything else would have weighted it down until it probably wouldn't have run. It was offered to him on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. He took it at an extra cost of better than $600.

This is an exaggerated example, but it actually happened. Rep. Macy said the accessory loads ranged from $300 up. He also charged that when| the dealers took in an old car as a trade-in—and usually they insisted on one or they wouldn't play —they valued it at $500.or so less than it was worth. The net result was that some people desperately| eager for new cars paid up to $1000 more than they should have, the Congressman continued. His hearings, in any event, should be interesting. I'll be there, fellow motorists, listening carefully.

The Quiz Master

Who said, “There is no royal road to learning”?

The famous mathematician Euclid, upon being asked by Ptolemy Soter, his pupil, if geometry could not be made easier replied, “There is no royal road to learning.”

29? Test Your Skill 22?

How old is palmistry?

Its origin is not definitely known, but palmistry existed in| China 3000 years before Christ 2 Hon ancient Greek writings make men-, on of it.

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SECOND SECTION

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1948

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that he could put his program in The voters responded in a optimistic hopes.

off, the Truman camp is wonder-

gress will last. = Or, for that mat-= ter, will there be one? 4 - This may seem strange to the. voters who were told in that all would bef well between the} Executive andj Legislative} branches if only: a Democraticcontrolled Congress were elected. But Truman & Co., it must be

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with a Democratic Congress as well as the 80th Republican Congress which came in for so much denunciation. Memories Unpleasant When he took office in April,

one will be. Mr. Truman himself had just come from the Senate and he had many close friends in .both houses. And running the Congress were such New Dealers as Sen. Alben Barkley, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Majority Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts. But Mr. Truman's memories of that Democratic Congress are far from pleasagt. It was that Congress which so emasculated the price-control law that Mr. Truman junked it just before the 1946 Congressional elections. He failed to mention this during the campaign when he assailed the Republican Congress for failing to do anything to stop high prices. Short Honeymoon Seen Hence the White House skepticism of any long honeymoon with Congress can be understood. But there are enough differences between the situation today and that existing during the last Democratic Congress to justify considerable hope in the Truman camp. First, is the President himself. The voters have given him the stature .necessary to command the attention and respect of 'Congress. Second, the voters so evidently agreed with what the President said about the 80th Congress and its actions that the new Congress will feel itself publicly ordered to go along with many of the President’s proposals. Got to Move Fast Realists around Mr. Truman think the first 100. days of the new Congress will be the time to

By ARTHUR J. SNIDE

While the youngster will be

prevent . his ‘being spoiled, ‘Mr. Marlow... suspects - the Dowager Queen Mary will have ‘something to say about his upbringing. “She did a good job on disciplining Edward, Prince of Wales," he added. “She straightened him out when he got out of line.” Edward, who later renounced the throne for the “woman love,” became one of the most democratic and widely-loved of the British royalty.

Faces Happy Boyhood

Queen Mary always insisted that the royal family get closer to the people and it is likely the little prince's training will be planned with that in mind.

If the pattern of Edward's rearing is followed, the prince's boyhood will be happy and carefree, with no responsibilities except that of acquiring certain courtesies befitting his dignity. He will be privately tutored up to college age. He will study scores of subjects necessary in preparing to rule some day over 500 million subjects. His course of study will be different from any other schoolboy's. He must be well-grounded in languages, the histories of all countries, political science, nomics, government.

Study Boxing, Golf

He will be taught horsemanship, swimming, boxing, golf, tennis, squash. Edward became proficient in all of these as well as in big game hunting, aviation and mountaineering. ; Because the Windsor family descends from a long line of seafarers, the prince probably will enter college as a naval cadet. He will live as one of the crowd and expect the same rough time as any other cadet. The Prince of Wales was nicknamed “the Sardine” at college because of his small stature. Following naval training, the heir-presumptive probably will go to Oxford. . . In the summers he will travel

through

ing just how long the honeymoon |get with the new Democratic Con-|through. 3 “We've got to move fast from §

New Prince Faces "The Rod" On Spinach-Littered Path

CHICAGO, Nov. 16—The royal road to adolescence for Britain's new prince won't be spankless and spinach-free.

“He'll get his bottom tanned like anyone else,” declared Arthur H. Marlow, the British consul-general here.

watching his diet and weight and a governess skilled in child care to

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The Truman Re-Deal—No. 3 President May Honeymoon Wi

Hopes to Push New Program

100 Days

By EARL RICHERT, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 16—Over and over again as he pleaded for votes, President Truman asked for a Democratic Congress so|.

to effect.

manner exceeding even his most|.

And yet today, even before the first flush of victory has worn

most of their program

the start,” said one who recalled that President Roosevelt was in trouble with Congress soon after his 1936 landslide. The Truman victory “returned the southern Democrats to power in Congress because of the seniority system which will give them most of the powerful committee chairmanships.

crats who dampened hopes of smooth sailing between the President and Congress. The Presi-

civil-rights program back to Con-

remembered, has had dealings|gress again as he has pledged to| §

do. Bans Compromise This undoubtedly will arouse much opposition again, although some southerners have been indicating they might now be willing

1945, Mr. Truman had a Congress|to give in on some of the minor which numerically was just as|points. strongly Democratic as the new|plans no. compromise.

But the Truman Camp

If a full-fledged fight occurs on the Negro-rights proposals, as seems likely,

issues. Offsetting the votes of the conservative southern Democrats, to some extent, will be the votes of a number of northern Republicans who, like Sen. George Aiken (R. Vt.), feel that the Republican Party must forge a liberal record if it is ever to capture the Presidency. Next to civil rights, the President probably will encounter the most opposition in Congress to his national health insurance program. This is the program which the medical profession calls “socialized medicine” and the doctors will go all out to fight it—as they have done ever since it was proposed. . Key Issues Studied Unlike most of his other domestic proposals,’ health insur-

first base in Congress. Also, the President’s social security program must pass muster with two tough, conservative southérners, Sen. Walter George (Ga.) and Rep. Robert Doughton (N. C.) who will head the committee handling the legislation. : Rep. Doughton, now 886, already is wondering where the money is coming from for many: of the things the President wants. Also, Sen. Harry Byrd (D. Va.) will continue his efforts to hold down

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aan Sen. Walter George (D. Ga.) . . ."Shates tough task onéSetial Security program.

bert Humphréy of Minnesota into the new Congress. The fairest skies seem to lie ahead for the President's foreignaffairs policies. The southerners generally have leaned to interna-

government expenditures. So, the Truman program is none too assured, despite the Demo-| cratic majorities and the election| of such liberals as Sens.-elect Paul Douglas of Illinois and Hu-

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fswimming in the Mediterranean, {riding with ‘Canadian cattlemen, throwing a boomerang in Australia and dancing in Wash{ington . After he reaches 18, he will |have his own quarters and house{hold staff, including secretaries, {servants and chauffeur. | Before taking over the throne, he will have visited every country in the world as a British good{will ambassador and thoroughly {familiarized himself with affairs |of state. Copyright, 1948; by The Indianapolis Times

tionalism and only a small number of Midwestern Republicans are expected to fight Marshall Plan appropriations and related legislation, such as renewal of the reciprocal trade treaty act.

Announce $5400 Grant to Il

Research in ovarian physiology conducted by Dr. Robert T. Hill, Indiana University professor of anatomy, has been recognized and continued through a $5400 grant given by the United States Public Health Service. --

The new grant for 1948-49 is a,

removal of one amounting to $4800 made last year to Dr. Hill, who has been a faculty member since 1937. Another grant, amounting to $7560, recently was made to Dr. John H. Van Dyke, associate pro-

fessor in‘the department of anatomy. It will be used for experimental cancer research with special reference to the thyroid gland

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Gardeners Urged To Begin Clean-Up

Vines, Stalks Should be Burned

Guard against insects destroying your garden next year by beginning a clean-up program this fall, James Clark, assistant state entomologist, warned Hoos{ler gardeners today.

All vines and stalks in the {garden should be collected and {burned ‘and special efforts should {be made to destroy cucumber,

Md, Bes eautioned.

a éy ‘allow the ¢6rn borer to live until spring but tree leaves should not be burned because of their fertilizer value which is roughly equal to the same weight of manure,

Should Burn Plants

Flower gardens call for special treatment and all tops of peony, iris and dahlia plants should be burned as well as other debris which might harbor borers. A soft mulch of rotted manure, straw or peat-moss should be spread around such perennials as roses. Evergreens should also be mulched with peat-moss. The first hard freeze after Thanksgiving should be the occasion for berry growers to dress their strawberfy plants with a winnowed wheat straw mulch. A light mulch the year round -not only protects the plants in winter but helps hold moisture in summer, ‘prevents the growth of weeds and aids in keeping the {berries clean.” Ft

His ‘Achilles Heel Is "Way Too High

Patrolman Herschel Robinson seems fated to get it in the neck. The patrolman was injured yesterday when the squad car in which he was riding stopped sud{denly to avoid hitting a tractorjtraller. At General Hospital, he {was treated fora meck injury. It was the same type injury he received Oct. 5 when emergency car 5, on which he was riding, was in a collision at Alabama and Washington Sts.

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Baptist Church Unit ‘To Present Playlet

| The Woman’s Federation of the

|Emerson Avenue Baptist Church will present a White Cross play(let, Mrs. Asa Hoy in a talk and {special music at the meeting to{morrow afternoon in the church. | James O’'Nan will sing accom{panied by Mrs. Clinton Purdue in {the afternoon. White Cross sewing at 10 a. m., noon, luncheon {and business will precede the program. :

'2 Universities Offer New Mailing Project {A new mailing project, “Community Teamwork,” is the latest move on the part of Indiana and Purdue Universities in their drive to encourage community-wide participation in the field of adult education. A monthly news letter will be sent to school officials, libraries, chambers of commerce, labor groups and civic organizations throughout the state.

Fall Festival Thursday

St. Mark’s United Lutheran Church will hold its annual fall

{festival Thursday with luncheon

served from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m.

estroyed moderator of

and dinner from 5 to 7 p: mg. In the bullding, Linden and Prolect|creased Streets.

Enjoy Only Brief h Congress

Chiefs Protestants Hear Woman

Moderator

| Miss Kenyon Speaker

At Convention Session

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor The first woman moderator of (the Congregational-Christian {Churches of 1.5 million members is speaking in Indianapolis as part of the current nationwide {Advance in Foreign Missions.

She is Miss Helen Kenyon, ond jof many visiting celebrities wha are guests in Indianapolis homes {and hotels. | The Christian | flag flew over City, Hall today Be a tribute to approximately 10, Protestants expected to attend the interdenominational missionary meeting today at 7:45 o'clock in Cadle Tabernacle. Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the New York Methodist Area and American president of the World Council of Churches, will !give the principal address. | Thirteen denominations which will co-operate in the united session in Cadle also schedule separate sessions in their own churches this week, In the Methodist state meeting today in the Roberts Park Church, Bishop Richard C. Raines of the Indiana Area presided.

Seeks Missionaries

A call for 1000 new men mise sionaries was given ‘by Dr. T. T. Brumbaugh, assistant secretary of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church, New York. At the same meeting, Miss Mary Lou Barnwell of New York, executive secretary of the deaconess work, made an appeal for 1000 women missionaries and deaconesses for work at home and abroad. The effort to enlist the new Methodist missionaries, men and women, will cover the next four years. The effort will also ine |clude the locating of a total of {3000 displaced persons in the {United States and 300 in Indiana {by Methodists. This plan was {outlined by Dr. G. R. Warfield, executive secretary for the com-

\bean and tomato vines as they|Mission for overseas relief of harbor insects and diseases in [aden ‘Bishop

Raines is a memMiss K [ New ork, the DI al alChristian Churches, yn this afternoon and will be heard again tomorrow in the First Congregational Church. She expressed a deep interest in the missionary advance as an example of Chris. tian unity. Miss Kenyon indi. cated, by way of Christian unity, she is doing all she can to furs they 8 mesgel of Jet own denpomon an e Evangelical Reformed Church. 8 ana Works for Unity “When two denominations com together, the new one is finer iy the two that made it. I took the moderatorship because I thought I could help with the adjustment to come atfer the merger of my church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. “When we two unite, as the names imply, four churches ‘will be one, For each of the denomie nations represents two which ale ready have merged. I believe the Protestant Church is _ thinking more and more that we ought to be working more cjosely together, ‘One World in Christ,’ you know, is the slogan of today’s mission ary onferenes. “We of the Congregationale Christian and the E a R. Churches have chosen the name, ‘United Church of Christ; for our prospective organization, We hope many other denominations evene tually will join us. % Urges Paganism Fight Chief Albert J. Luthuli, Chris. tian Zulu layman and adminis {trator of the Congregationale Christian’ Church of Natal, South {Africa, urged today that “Chris« [tians the world over, irrespective {of race or color, form .a united |front to fight paganism.” | Christian missionaries have |been pioneers in all progressive {and welfare service among Afri. cans, the chief said. “Africans {feel much indebted to Christian |missions and the church in Africa. The day of missions is not finished in Africa.” Chief Luthuli also will address the sectional meeting.of Congregational - Christians this after noon in the First Congregational Church and speak briefly tonight in Cadle. He is a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Medlicott on N. New Jersey St, Others on Program

In addition to Chief Luthul, another representative from the continent of Africa is the Rt. Rev. Bravid W. Harris, Episcopal bishop of the Missionary district of Liberia, West Africa. Bishop Harris is American born. He ad- ' dressed the Episcopal Synod of the Midwest last night in Christ Episcopal Church on the Circle. Also on the Cadle Tabernacle program tonight will be Mrs, Helen Scott Saulsbury who ree cently toured India to inspect hospitals. She represents the Presbyterian Church in the USA, Seek New Funds Advance in Foreign Missions is sponsored by the Foreign Missions Conference of North |America.. New missionaries, additional funds, greater e ncy