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g By Ed | Sovola

S0 FRED WARING and his Glee Club would

"sound better on Monument Circle singing Christ-

mas carols. So. what? That's what I almost said to a burly loudmouth one evening while listgning to him gripe about the quality of. music that was filling the Circle. And I almost followed that up by asking him if he thought he could do better, . “Why, I ought to pupch you inl the nose,” I said’ in a fighting voice after making sure he was on Washington St. It pays to be safe, . ’ It certainly is funny how easily a chance remark can spoil your evening sometimes. Before overhearing the crack about how corny the mixed chorus of boys and girls sounded under the protective canvas, it never occurred to me to bring “cory” into the picture. “0. Come, All Ye Faithful” sounded pretty good just-then-and that's about all that mattered. Maybe It was the decorations of the sight. of many attentive and appreciative listeners that

Caroling Over a Fifth :

IT DIDN'T take a lot of effort to move around

. and see a middle-aged couple practically standing

-on-their-toes-in order-to--get-a-glimpsé of ‘the singers. They seemed rather proud of something and my guess was a daughter or son was a member of the choral group. Tt didn’t take a lot of time thinking to figure out why many people spent a lot of time with ‘the

ceslas,”’ have been numerous. the full treatment, I might add. Especially on cold nights when one has fortified” himself against the cold along with 20 or more companions who

have a terrific urge to do a bit of caroling. The mood, time, place and the company you're in has quite a good deal to do with caroling, its effect and reception or participation, I do believe, I remember seeing - and - listening - to. three cronies one night last year who presented a rrific caroling session to all. the ‘faithful who athered. They sang just about everything Jn the book. The songs they didn’t know the "Words to they hummed. . About the time the proprietor was ready to "shut the customers off for the evening, the three happy carolers suddenly began to sniff and wheeze and homesickness and past sins overwhelmed shém, You're off base if you don’t think that ‘didn’t throw a damper on ¥n otherwise rather gay and festive evening. If Joe had thrown his wares at us, lock, stock and fifth, he couldn't have induced a note of the rousing “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.”

something of a favorite of mine. There occasions

That's what I say, caroling depends on the mood. ;

On or-Off Key, It's All Free .......

MAYBE it isn't right at this time of the season to ‘get peeved at a clown who popped off about a choir. t's possible the outfit could have practiced .a few more hours before making an

decorations, arrangements and presentation. More , appearance.

work for a pretty good thing than I did, that’s for sure. Of course, I'm busy, like the most of ds. The singers burst forth with “Good King Wen-

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But wlien you stop and think about it, no one is asking for a donation, admissfon or gifts, The caroling is free. Why, you can even join a group in song if you feel like a chorus or two. You probably have your own feelings on the

‘subject. Maybe-you- think. as Scrooge. did: “‘Christ-|

mas, bah!” That's your privilige. Personally, I'll take a minute or two during the,day and’ listen to what is coming from .the south steps of the Monument. Good, bad, key, I'll take it. You children the other noon. It took the director two minutes to get them together and when she did, the kids ‘weren't together long. But, they thought FRI RESIST rey oy too even “though they were laughing. 1 thought it was swell’ No one Has nore fun than a kid at Christmas time. Boy, they've got it made. That must be the reason most people like “caroling. Any kind of caroling as long as it’s done in the spirit of Christmas. There's a lot of that on the Monument, Circle.

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.- WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 Mead, which. . the British are going to send over here for us to drink, may never take the place of a gobd slug of bourbon .on a cold, damp day, but it is a drink with possibilities. yi Mead, pronounced med, goes back to anolont times, when no Greek dr Roman couch was com-

plete without a beaker of the stuff within reaching

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distance. It's made of honey. and water—fermented like all get-out, of course—and nobody's made any of it since the end of the 17th Century, when honey got too expensive.

Chaucer Spoke Highly of It

NOW, what. with Marshall Plan bees and all, honey is cheaper and a group of British hooch makers is being permitted to work up soms mead again, on the condition they send it all over to the N. 8. in exchange for nice, crisp dollars. They've already got enough far 400,000 bottles maturing In an old flour mill in Cornwall, and American grog shops ought to start getting a sup“ply by next summer, . People, Who go around taking genteel ‘sips of Chateau O'Harrigan '06 turn wp their noses at mead because it-isn’t made from grapes, duf it's not too bad. For ‘one thing, it's got a bigger kick than ordinary wine, which should be no handicap in this country. For another, it tastes pretty good —-some of it like sherry, and other varieties like Vermouth and Rhine wine, Chaucer; 2 ‘two-bottle

Good Old Daze

1‘ _mari in his prime, spoke highly of it. Although the Greeks and Romans drank their share of it, mead is mostly remembered as the firewater of the Druids, a crowd of medicine men who ran things in France and Ireland before Caesar liberated those countries. The Druids were philesophers and judges with a good stock of incantatipns, who. went around culling the mistletoe Jand burning men alive’in wicker cages. Naturally, they needed an occasional snort or two. to relax.

Honey Gathered by Nice Bees

BEING great for tradition, the ancient Irish monks endorsed the Druids’ drinking habits by allowing a ration of mead at their festivals. And, later on, the Ancient Order of Druids—a kind of 18th Century English Rotary Club—used to fine their members a certain amount of honey for offenses like not singing loud . enough at ‘their luncheons. This. loot then was used to'make mead ~for- the monthly revels. Like any wine, the quality of mead varies, It all - depends on the kind of flowers the honey “comes from and the type of bets that stole it. Mead from sunflowers is in the bar-whisky class; the orchid stuff is for the carriage—or lobbyist— trade. Likewise, you will not get the sdme Kind of| mead from honey hijicked by a bunch of bees| which hang around poolrooms as you will from honey gathered by nice bees. :

WASHINGTON, Dek. 23—T've done my Christmas shopping and I can report that Benjamin F._ president” of the United States Steel Corp, is right; The shopper--is beginning to get a Dreak. : “The pink- -taced chief of one, of. the biggest corporations in the . world hooked. on his hoen-

rimmed -eyeglasses, poked a well- manicured finger >

af the lawgivérs on Sén. Ralph Flanders’ investigating committee and said that all the signposts are pointing tea slowdown. of business from. its frenzied pace.of the. last several years, . He said he didn’t mean a depression was upon

..0.. FAr from it. He meant simply that business

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life seems to be “returning to a more moderate; pre-war pace. i: : what, he asked, is wrong with that? probably) wand: ‘ev nappler: in the process. $6, all right. ~My bride said that she'd been a good, ip now, for 17 years. Cooked my meals, milked the cow, ‘put up with my politician friends, saved my money, painted the front porch when it needed it, and in general had done-her duty -as- she saw it: She said she wanted for Christmas, more

ask youl Teve that shed been:

at _even 80 did seem reasonable, So I went out to buy a bed. It was a heartening experience.

Beds All Over the Place

THE furniture stores, I was delighted" to" dis cover, were full of furniture. Beds all over the place. All kinds of beds. All prices. Plenty of sales ladies, too. With plenty of time to help me select a bed. Not since before the war have 1 been welcomed so cordially, or been allowed to bounce on so many mattresses. This put me in a good mood and, if I dv say

so, I bought a little sockdolager of a bed. =» It is a solid mahogany job (I figured veneer -wasn't good enough for the occasion) with handcarved posts that. reach almost to the ceiling. A mahogany rail connects the tops of these posts and the rail supports a canopy, thus producing a bed with a roof. “I do mot see any good reason for this; since oyr ceilings are in better shape than those of the White ‘House—and-aren’t-likely-to -dribble-down plaster. But. that was the kind of bed my Hilda wanted. Like the one George Washington gave Martha.

There wasn't any abracadabra about strikes

-and--slow -orders.. from..the. factory, either. The] lady took my money and said I could have instant delivery. So I told her to send it out at her con‘Venience onthe theory that a bed with its own Pipe CHPIStIRS present can’t hide. conveniently in the hall closet.

No Holes Punched in Walls

THE bed arrived Immediately on a 1049 model 2

truck with a couple of careful, or #949 ‘model, drivers in charge. They wiped their feet when they came in:

-They.{ook. aff. their. hais.. And they. carried. thats .

hed Jae though it were an incubator baby: They punched no holes in the wallpaper. They made no scratches in the floor, They put that bed together and rubbed it down with flannel cloths. They said wouldn't my bride like for ’em to carry the old one to the ‘gttic™ She didn't exactly. faint. Weakly, she said} she would. They did. Then they said they hoped she enjoyed her new bed and wished her a Merry Christmas and, as I said before, Ben Fairless, the big ironmongery

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SECOND SECTION

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Mr. and Mrs. William O. Bec

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~of. wood found around. the house.

Santa in all his finery peers info the chimney at the home of Louis Benjamin, 2305 Kessler Blvd., N. Dr. This scene is one of the eye-stopgers and many automobiles halt’ for passengers to look.

y. #546 Allisonville Rd., show" “Fheir cleverness with hand-made figures singing the traditional Christmas carols. In about six hours’ the couple constructed the figures from scrap paper, flour paste and odd bits

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Mostly About People |

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1948

A Christmas Survey by Victor Peterson

MER RYGHA[STHAS

Tl Merry Christmas that the lights on_the lawn before Tom Joyce's home, 3853 N. Meritiian St., wish Passeby. Outdoor decorating, once so popular, is being: seen more and more infre-

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Lake before the house.

There is no. Hauty of Drs. Norman an jolly man with the stomach and entrance. Wreaths decorate the the windows for the holiday se season. The ingley is one of the-most— attractive on the North Side.

=Oprer-ot-the-most-strik Lake Dr., New Augusta. blue lights. In each window are red ps for sands, All

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Homes Here Herald Yuletide ith Gay, Colorful Decorations

but that St. Nick is going to visit the home Olga Booher, 4919 N. Meridian St. The

pect ck of joys. oat Jatehas the front

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man, is right. If this is business slowing down enough to give people time to smile at each other, who can complain about that?

The Quiz Master

??? Test Your Skill 2???

Residence. Hall organization at|N, J, College. nr.

students on the campus,

Which is thé correct abbreviation, AB or BA for the degree of Bachelor of Arts? The degree was originally written in Latin and both forms, Artium Baccalaureus and Baccalaureus Artium, are equally correct. f > ¢

What do commercial fertilizers consist of? They are generally made up of potash, nitrogen and phosphoric acid 3 ¢ * © What is St. Elmo's Fire? St. Elmo is the name given to St. Peter Gonvalez, patron of sallors. The electricity occurring in thunder storms at the tips of ships’ masts and church steeples is called St. Elmo's Fire. *

® When did a Jew first sit in the British Parliament? * Baron Lionel Rothschild was the first Jew to sit’in the British Parliament. He was elected to Parliament in 1849 and 1852, though the laws of religious on did not permit him to take his seht until um,

. Why was Sir Waiter Raligh executed? Specifically: Sir Walter Raleigh was executed on a charge of. treason. Actually he was ‘exeouted to please Spain, whose favor King James wished te gain. Raleigh had encroached upon

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What was the first .women's college in the U. 8. to grant degrees to women? Elmira College, ‘an educational institution for women, founded in 1855 in Elmira, N. Y. The first class of 17 graduated with the AB Uegres in 1859. ® } To what region does Waters” refer? Charles Wakefield Cadman derived his inspiration from the legends of the Indians of northern Minnesota.

Ld of the Sky Blue

United States that actually drew passengers? The “Tom Thumb,” designed by Peter Cooper. On Aug. 28, 1830, it carried 26 passengers 18 miles over the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad Co., in one hour nd Biteen minutes.

* ® ig In government when es a bill becomé & Taw? A bill becomes a law either over the President's

signature, or a passage hy Congress over his veto. * *

Did Oliver Wendell Holmes, jurist, fight in the Civil War? After graduating from Harvard in Holmes entered the Union .Army as an officer, and was mustered ouf in 1884, having been wounded three times. »

the American

1861, [buy some new under-inens, ”

officials say, and is a member of, the Catholic Club, Student Union |S Music Committee, Veterans Club and Sigma Tau Pi: During the war she served as a WAVE and was stationed at Pensacola, Fla.| Miss Eiverling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Harvey Everling, is| majoring in. commerce’ at Ken.» tucky State. » » » rr— wit Novelist W. oy Somerset ' Maugham ar-| : rived on the Queen Mary i New York today| 5 | for his first visit|

church Palace on

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| States: since|Khan 1045. “I've retired |Brittanic.

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Mr. Maugham reporters.

Miss Joan Everling, 1514 Sauley| Un-American Activities Commit8t., recently became president of | tee, was reported resting satisfacthe house council of the Women’s|torily at his home in Allentown, today following a gastro-| Eastern Kehtucky State Teachers intestinal hemorrhage.

She is one of the outstanding "King George VI and members| describes her "experiences. college of the royal family will attend services at Buckingham | Christmas palace sources said today.

“strangling” sounds coming from the telephone of Warren Yates, the Verona, N. J. operator asked police to investigate. A patrol‘man awakened Mr. Yates who "explained he had knocked the telephone off the hook in his sleep and had been snoring into

Rita ‘Hayworth, Hollywoo d to the United movie star, and Indian Prince All| disembarked Cobh, England, from the Hiner

today at

Mrs. Whittaker Chambers, wife wrifers,” he told/of the central figure in the Com-| message through to the CAA in {munist spy case, has been cleared; {Anchorage and before “I'm here to see friends and of negligence in ithe automobile helicopter landed near ys. There ice but Dr. Brown took good care {death of an elderly woman pedes-| ” trian in Baltimore. ‘Mrs. Maggie| helicopter. It Rep. I Parnell “Thomas (R. Thomas, 70, died Friday after be- him present. ; N, Ja, Shauigh of the louse ing struck by, the Chamifers car/| Shortly after the: qgticopteriin the air againat the strong win

spend a night on a frozen lake in sub-zero temperatures whe the plane carrying her to the hospital was forced qown,

morning,

feet above the water, where we followed the ice of Cook Inlet.

ing and it was below zero.

light dress and coat weren't very | warm,

death. Medical Officer Arrives

“he” pilot ‘managed fo ’ get

was a medical, officer aboard the of me,

Pas a relief to have

By MRS. FREIDA JOHANSEN, as Told to Tnited Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 23—We took off from Kenal Tuesday afternoon on what was supposed to be a 35-minute trip to Anchorage, where I was going to have my baby. There isn't much in the way of medical facilities at Kenal. Shortly after we took off we-ran into a heavy snowstorm. The pliot couldn't make ‘Anchorage. Snow forced him, down to ¢ about 50 50

jarived the Ar Force sent a a ansport plane . which had a Finally, getting low on gas dnd | Spans in it. They put mé in the with our engine sputtering, Wei, ne and tried to take off. The landed on a small lake which WAS |onow was blinding and the wind frozen over. The wind was blow-/ |thirew the plane around. The offi- . |cers said it was so cold the in1 only had on light stockingsistruments were frozen. They said and ordinary street shoes. My we couldn't get to Anchorage.

Plane Blown Off Lake

. 1 was afraid the baby would] We turned around and almost come and we would freeze to cracked up landing on the ice in the dark. Lt. Charles Weir guided us in by swinging a flashlight. a!The wind made. us swerve. and n'/we almost ran him down. long a| We spent a cold night on the

The next morning they decided ito see if they couid-get-the-

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Mofher-fo-Be Tells of Alaskan-Flight——.

Plane Taking Her to Hospital Forced Down On Ice; Air Force Finally Effects Rescue

Mrs. Frelda Johansen, an expectant mother, was forced : Sh

and ice and fog. They were afraid I'd get hurt so they made one practice attempt. The wind brew the plane off the lake and into some trees where it stuck with its wings punctured and the propeller bent, Then Lt. Weir sald he would make an attempt to get the hells

was anxious to get me to the hospital. e flew into Avshiorage 10 feet above the ice of Cook Inlet and Knik Arm, n When we arrived at Anchorage the snow was so heavy Wwe couldn't even see the field or the city. But the pilot got our plane down somehow. I can’t express my thanks tothe Air Force men for the wonderful treatment they gave me and for the risks they took. Jue] seal 8 I feel little guilty having busy trying to get me to es hospital.

Mallory Distributes $344,043 to Employees

A tota) of $3482) was die

tributed to paid and aried employees INS und val & Co. recently.

Thé amount represented extra accumulated during the

first 10 months of this’ year un.

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