Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1948 — Page 36

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©. JUST BECAUSE fit doesn't glitter, isn't tied {with a ribbon, doesn’t mean it can't be a Christ- © mas present. Like a new driveway, for instance. j © And what would you say if Santa brought you a

. mew roof? +. Gee whiz and happy No#l, there's a lot of stuff . that hasn't been considered for gift wrapping, Why + resort to neckties or mink coats? Use some imagtion and give the distinctive gift, I say, a “Really, I'm surprised no.one has thought of the really, really practical gift. No kidding. What would you rather have (let's be honest about this

= thing), a horrible looking shirt for $4.50 or. a good

faucet to replace that thing that has been leaking + dn your kitchen for the past six months? Natur- ! ally, It's installed. It wouldn't be bad, would it?

Sounds a Little Silly, You Say “YOURE inclined to say right off, “Why, that's pilly. Who ever heard of giving a faucet, installed yet, for a Christmas present?” No one has heard of it, but does that make the gift bad? A faucet is Just as good as a shirt, any day, especially if you have plenty of shirts and a leaky faucet, I know the idea is revolutionary, but hang . around. There's more here than meets the eye. Let's say you're handy with a brush and wallpaper. Let's also say your brother-in-law, who isn’t so handy with wallpaper, has a nursery that could stand a fancy pattern, 80, you rush down to a store and for around 10 bucks you buy some paper and material. A

couple evenings Yefore Christmas you paper the

room. You spend your time and expend effort and

possibly even find out the in-law isn't such a

eluck after all. On the door you slap a sticker *Don’t opén until Christmas” and leave behind you a present that will be appreciated for a couple of

rs. The same with brother-in-law, Mac. He's clever with concrete and has noticed you need a new driveway. Does he give you a necktie? No. He calls a concrete outfit and orders four cubic yards of concrete which he proceeds to fashion into an 8-foot wide, 4-inch thick and 41-foot long driveway. The job will cost him. {nr the neighborhood of $45 and won't you be happy? Just think

* of all the years you will enjoy the use of a con-

crete driveway. In my search for “the gift of the year,” I discovered that there are aluminum gutters on the market which need no soldering, riveting or other tricky steps. A man with the basic knowledge of hammer and nails can do a superb. guttering job, I was told by a gentleman who has the stuff Cost? : Listen, for 100 feet of lifetime gutters, retail houses will ask something around $75. Now don’t tell me a set of golf clubs would be more appreclated than a set of gutters, installed. Gifts that touch the warm spot, man, Getting interested, aren't you? I wouldn't be taking back that wrist watch or those handkerchiefs and buying a replacement bath tub if I were you. What I would do, though, is plan for next year if your shopping is over, Ever consider giving someone a basement shower installed by

Yule Cocktails

Plywood Yuletide . . . it may

Makes a fine gift.

Despite Influx

Before Oct. 7, 1948 about all Turkish towels and Turkish bath

{populated with Americans,

opinions of my own

(ways of the Western world, and \most_ particularly those of Amerlica, it has affected them to about the same degree as company| ‘manners affect {a naughty boy. | Bits of national {character keep {showing through. | Consider polyg|amy, once dear {to Turkish cul{ture. It is now |illegal, but it re{mains. There is {the case of our new servant. | This young wo-

Miss Truax

NAPOLIS TIMES

If Turkey has adopted the|

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Turks Loyal to Old Ways

of the West

Polygamy, Though Forbidden by Law, Still Practiced Without Public Censure

By LILLIAN TRUAX ™:*

I knew of Turkey had.to do with s. Fellow travelers on the trip to

Istanbul assured me that it was a modern place and was practically

After three months of comparative Turkish living, and almost complete isolation from the Americans who live here, I've formed |

Miss Lillian Truax of’ Clermont is being married in Istanbul, Turkey, to Ismail Hakkl Egilmez, a Turkish citizen whom she met as a student at Indiana University. This is another.in a series of articles by Miss Truax, describing experiences of a Hoosier girl in the Turkish capital.

evade conventions. But one always runs the risk that secret meetings will be discovered, and the girl's reputation would be’ in shreds. Secret affairs may have the spice of excitement, but they could never be much fun, es Mamma is really the star in a Turkish courtship. If a man

man married, in |a religious ceremony, a man who |subsequently took another wife

be the vogue. D. C.-Woodcock displays part of a game room.

you and costing not more than $15 if the drain/in. a second Moslem ceremony. male Turks are in this group) is in a good spot and connections are right? These ceremonies are not recog- mamma may even launch the

nized by the government of Tur-|

hasn't taken definite steps toward the altar by the time he is 35 (about 70 per cent of unattached

campaign. . She looks over the

How About a Plywood Game Room? MAYBE YOU know how much it would cost | to build a game room in a basement with plywood.

| key, but they are recognized by available crop of young women. [the people. -

| She selects somé likely possibili-

Consequently, this man may ties, and searches their back-

The figure I was quoted was $100 for a 10 by 12|chooses, and -all may live toroom. Plywood is getting more plentiful now, too. gether without censure. The govWell, anyway, in" my way of thinking, a game ernment ignores the situation, the

room is a pretty fancy gift. Just coat. Too much money, you say.

don’t have to give a roof, new siding, paint a house, install a bath tub, change the plumbing,

pour a new drjveway.

Why, with a piece of holly in your working cap and a big smile wish your relatives, friends and neighbors a Merry Christmas by washing “their cies, barely provides a man with windows, cleaning out the gutters, or basement or You might wash the car.

furnace. nothing wrong with changing a the list is endless.

your Christmas shopping out of

your red and green pick and shovel and start making with the Yuletide greetings for the

season.

This idea may revolutionize Christmas,

might, you never can tell about

By Robert

The opportunities for opening a new frontier for Christmas presents is open. There's no use in fighting the crowds to get

as good as a fur Moslem religion sanctions it and {his fellow men may think him’ a trifle old-fashioned. It must be said that this practice is more prevalent among the gypsiés and lower classes. The well-to-do have a system all their own which, considering its intrica-

All right, you

lone wife before he dies of old There's | age. tire, either. Ah, . =» , FIRST, there is the problem of finding a likely mate. With the strict social barriers between the male and female population, this is not easy, and the choice is limited. Social events where young people may meet are rare, being limited almost entirely to occasional chaperoned dances and wedding or engagement parties.

the way. Grab

It good ideas.

C. Ruar

| Co-educational schools are few) ‘and are not usually attended by tchildren of the “first” families. | - It is more necessary for a girl

NEW YORK, Dec. 18—Oh, sho’, I'll miss the snow. And I don’t suppose Santa Claus comes to the wicked little city of Tangier where I'll hang my sock to the nearest Arab on Christmas Eve. “ Spanish Morocco is sort of off the beaten track for reindeer. But one thing I'll miss with

kindred concoctions of fruit-juice’ and fusel-ofl the yuletide host up to torture his guests. And I will miss, with even more pleasure the conversations about skiing, the newsreels about skiing,

cream.. They sprinkle basco on it, an consume it at

eggs.

short on eggnog and ski-lifts. » ” » I NEVER quite understood just the devils creep into. the of the Christmas cocktailers, a fantastic desire to

mulligan stew,

Saturday during the non-festive

certain je ne sais quol, Inducted by ‘the addition of a pot of face-

book, eggnog is only a dairy lunch on a bender, and If IT am hungry I will order ham and

» » » BUT THE purich-bow] boys are worse. There are only so many things you can do to infuse cream with courage without curdling same, but punch is the tippler's

punch. No matter-what you put

YOU CAN count on going to and curacoa and eau de vie and the house of type A on any Grinlvitn hazel and gin and raisins| and plums and buttons and bows] year, and he will shove a bottle and apples and pineapples and of scotch or nourishing rye at Worcestershire sauce and talcum you and command you to try it.'powder and alum and lard and|can do little It has been enriched by vitamins vanilla extract in it. A to Z. This year, feeling a bit | daring, he has substituted «''-~./there has been nothing new to vitz and malayarak for the for- say about this devilish Tastee An mal brandy. And it- now nas a tation since it was invented by] two sadists and an exponent of

nutmeg and tacommand you to -point. In my tures—including

pound fractures,

cover,

ski.

burnoose

You can't hurt Ruark. *

Concerning skiers and skiing, |

and no" skiing sequence has: ever adorned a newsreel or magazine

No thank you. If anybody asks, tell 'em I'm fleeing from the

~_ Salaam alefkum, kids, and I'll see you in the casbah. The first on the left belongs to

{to please a young man's mother than the young man himself. Behavior which is likely to attract the latter is sure to repel the former and mammas, being more important, are catered to. A girl to. help things along except be unobtrusive and hope

A girl's looks are by far her greatest personal asset. Person-

{chance. To be a success, a girl must strive to appear spineless. 2 ” - X-rays ‘of com-| LEARNING to know one's its by-product— | prospective mate is not considered necessary and is frowned upon if not prohibited. No girl who hopes to make a good marriage (and this is practically the sole function of Turkish daughters) would dare be seen publicly in the company of a young man to whom she is not engaged. . As they have since time began, young couples do find ways to

that someone will notice what a mance.

tality, that alt important —ingre- Not South, for Winter race suicide. Yet they talk about dient to Americans, never gets a it with the burning concentration of atomic scientists. They show the same old ple-

take still a third wife if- he so{8rounds for traces of immodesty,

irrespectability and questionable

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past

Top Secret

"By Frederick C. Othman

~“WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—Some clumsy oaf stepped on one of the rolls of film that Whittaker Chambers used to stuff his pumpkin. The boys are arguing now about whether he was a Communist or a Congressional cop. 80 the sunlight on Editor Chambers’ pumpkin patch blotted out the interpational secrets on same and when the House un-American Activities Committee’s photo-finishers took the film from the hypo, all they got was a strip of blank cellyoid. This was unfortunate. It must have been that particular roll which contained the ultra-secret information somebody | sneaked out of the State Department for the benefit of Russia's spies. "I say this with no fear of contradiction because I have spent this day poring over the socalled secrets found on the other films in Cham= bers’ fruit (or was it a vegetable?) and I can report that in general they indicate our diplomats

Lap Up the Little Sausages THEY’'D go to cocktaileroos in Vienna, Berlin, London, Paris and wherever, lap up the little sausages on the toothpicks, sip the champagne, and write interminably long reports back to head|quarters on what one fellow with a ribbon on his | shirt said to another, | “Nearly 200 of these secret documents, detailing | conversations. at banquets among others, have {been released by the committee for publication lover over this week-end. My suggestion is that you don't bother to read ‘em. Most important of these items is a report from Vinegar Joe Stilwell back in 1938 that the Russians were shipping guns to the Communists in China then. This may be interesting, but I do not see how it could have been an American secret of interest to the Communists. If they were sending

in 1937 and 1938 spent a great deal of time eating.’

bullets to the Orient, they knew it, without hiring Chambers to send this information along to ‘em, Another roll of film also contained some facts which weren't of much use to the Russkies, either, Somebody seemed to have stepped on this one, too, but Chairman Karl Mundt’'s darkroom boys developed enough to indicate that it contained documents of the Navy Air Force. So Rep. Mundt asked the Navy if it would be good eno send along the originals. It was delighted.

Available in Any Maintenance Manin.

THESE particular secrets consisted of memos to the Navy's mechanics on how to grind the valves in the flying machines of the day, how to make microphone plugs for their earphones, how heavily to load transport planes, how to grease inertia starter motors, how to coat generator wires

with glypial varnish, and how to adjust fuel-dump °

valves. If the Soviets paid their spies any consid erable sum for.that information, they were badly stung; about the same stuff ¢can be found in any good manual on airplane-motor maintenance. Rep. Mundt said, incidentally, that this particu~ lar layout wasn't filched from the Navy, but from the Bureau of Standards. Not that it matters much now. » The chairman added in a pleasant conference with the press that he still kept four top-secret items in his vault. He said he had the key and, barring developments he didn't expect; intended to keep ’em there. On the face of it, then, 1948's most celebrated pumpkin doesn’t seem to deserve all the black ink that was lavished on it. But it did result in the indictment of Alger Hiss, the one-time State Department diplomat, and I'm inclined to believe now that we're still going to learn whether Alger or Whittaker was a l—r. Thanks to that pumpkin,

ancestors. Woe to her who went walking alone with a young man. Past mistakes, no matter how slight, are not forgiven, If the

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his helpless friends.

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This he less corruption of both cow-es-sence and whisky or punch, one of the more virulent brands of which is a Scandinavian compost-

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in it, it can’t taste any worse than it tasted originally. This leads its blendors to great lengths of laboratory experimentation, I have a friend named Stuart who is genérally regarded ad sane until. he locks himself in the

and a punchbowl. Cackliing as| evilly as any Dr, Jekyll, he begins

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