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SUNDAY, DEC. 26, 1048 _

Inside Indianapolis

“IT'S OUR BEST opportunity to make friends,” gentleman of the red marking-

What the ‘oficial had to say sounded mighty

be among

__ interesting to s determined to he Set Sus the refund booths..open up for ess. 'm sorry, 1 keep saying eve ear to make mine cash.) g yy His attitude, frankly, was rather comforting in these days When everyone is beating on the drums of “another bust.” Tenacious fellows, though, these retailers,

It was also my good fortune to ,scan several . pages of signals which those in command hope “will be read by floor managers on down to credit .and refund clerks. Interesting.

Maintain That Christmas Spirit

“LET'S KEEP that old Christmas spirit throughout the holidays until all our customers

are completely satisfied,” was typical of the sug’

gestions for R-Day. Remember when “The Cus+tomer Is Always Right” set the standard? “We have concentrated on thoroughly indoctrinating our increased staff in the philosophy of returns,” another high official stated. After further questioning on this “philosophy of returns,” I -have-come-to-the-conclusion-that it's a pretty good thing (for the present) and it involves a subtle mixture of emotions and actions on the part of the refunding clerk. that should theoretically leave the customer as happy as if

1+ doesn't fit. ; . Madam, don't you worry ur pretty little head about that. We're ready or you.

Pay Day fu

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 — Sen. Ralph -E. Flanders, the Vermont machine-tool manufacturer, was sitting behind his mahogahy desk with his feet cocked on his built-in footstool, worrying

- about whether President Truman will have any-

thing except his rubbers to take with him when eventually he quits the White House. This is quite- a worry at that. Particularly for Mr. T. who-can’t come right out and say that he wants a raise, even if he feels he deserves one. On the question of hiking his own wage, he's got to keep mum, On account, apparently, of modesty forbids. Everybody else; Including” Flanders and Co. seems to agree that Mr. T's $75,000 a year and his $40,000 expense account aren't enough to save him from going broke. He's got too many international hot-shots to feed at state dinners and too many trips to take in a private railroad car (for which he's got to buy tickets) to have anything left at the end of the year.

And So . . . A Boost Is Asked

of all hands, from ex-President to the old curmudgeon, Harold Ickes, and come up with a bill boosting the wages of 218 topflight federals. It would give Mr. Truman a salary of $100,000 a year and a swindle sheet (no disrespect intended) of $90,000. This bill will go to the new Congress on Jan. 3, which will have exactly 16 days, including Saturdays and Sundays, to decide whether the presidential pay ought to be hiked. If the boys can’t make up their minds about it in that time, President Truman is out of luck. And I might as "well be brutal about it. Our founding fathers didn’t -seem to have a “High “opinion of Presidents, got $25,000 a year under a law written in 1789 and the writers of the Constitution didn’t want him, or any of his successors putting: the pressure on Congress to raise his. wage. Ey put in a

as we concluded our discussion aoe wt

The - first President -

heard the last of that one.

By Ed Sovola he had

received the Tight piece of merchandie in the first place.

It works something like this. Now, let's suppose I take my “Jiffy Pants Presser” (and I am) back to get cold hard cash. I'm sad about the whole thing, The clerk is sad, too, but not as “sad as I am because that would spoil the phil

osophy. She can't say “You poor jerk,” either, and

reach- for the cash box. That's not in the realm of super service. The goal is to sell another piece of merchandise, another pants presser if possible and do it in such a way that I'm happy. The whole thing hinges on making the customer happy and satisfied.

The manual clearly tells Susie: “It's the satis<|

fied customer who comes back again and again” even though Susie (so soon after Christmas) doesn’t particularly care if she never sees a satisfied customer again, Still the favorite with sales. girls, you know, are the people who know what they want, have cash ready and don't insist on knowing the name of the president of the knitting .mill' which manufactured the sweater, Or, insist on telling the sales girl all about the president; of the knitting mill which manufactured the sweater, Most volume retailers are making special preparations for the exchange rush, You're glad they are, aren't you? You have a couple things that are going back tomorrow, don’t you? In “Spite of “that; friend; most of —the—men- whose business it is to keep tab on the public pulse, are saying that this year's crop of gift exchanges isn’t going to be as large as in previous years. | Reason? “In almost every line of merchandise this| season we have had a better selection, better | quality and more on hand all during the rush” explained another vitally interested official who | is hoping what he says is true about exchanges. | Everything I heard sounded fine but as I = plained: to-the merchandisers; it- would. be. a thing" to know what the real pitch was on yo exchanging business. What's the pitch? What kind of fibs go over best and still don't maxe you feel foolish? Bo

Telling the Truth Saves Time IT'S UNANIMOUS that telling the truth saves| time in the long run. If you've made up your| mind at home that someway you're going to get ~your money back, say so to the refund clerk.| (There. goes my fancy story.) In other words,| don’t beat around the bush. If you want your dough back, ask. If you want other merchandise, | ask, and the boys claim the savings on the nerves | will be terrific. The memos are underlining patience, diplomacy, super-service, courtesy, graciousness dnd the that the spirit of Christmas must follow throug

Please note, the Complaint Department has dis- P00

appeared, too. 3 AHN, next thing you know some buyer will be

selling a million copies of The Philosophy of Illinois, ing Gifts. {another skull, that of a 45-year-yours old-Indian-mate--Both-fall-in-the = La at home. If you don’t the girls will highly-prized Shell-Midden epoch.

-Exchan s like "you can leave that~ehip on

brush them off with leaves of holly. Christmas| spirit is still in full swing, tra la la la, la,

check boosted during his term of office.

So this Congress as represented by Sen. we commonly associat Flanders is writing a bill for the benefit of the Indian. Weapons were 1§ng spears next President, a fellow by the name of Truman, which were thrown with great who leads his own inaugural parade to the White skill to kill game,” he explained.

House on Jan. 20. This is legal, so long as the |

incoming Congress adopts the _bill before" the {ped with stone and fashioned presidential calliope tootles down Pennsylvania | from a light, reed-like substance balanced by feathers, is in the Sen. Flanders and his cohort, Herbert R. museum collection.

Ave.

O'Conor of Maryland, figure the thing is urgent and hope that their fellow lawmakers make up their minds in time. but it may be that tha extra $50,000 for expenses | would be legal.

(department, it conjures life of another age, {can locate the first men of the Jams West in the time table of | history. NR

in an Indian maiden's skull he] has fitted together.

[dle West, {larger streams in ‘he Ohio and | | Tennessee valleys,”

id. By Frederick C. Othman ™.%..; lived before the use!

of pottery was invented and there | {was clause saying no Presidemt can have- his pay-| seeds, | were no bows and arrows which |

If they don’t, Mr. Truman ynqi t will have to struggle along on his $75,000 wage; jindiang Shrew Sule 8 Iw ag

| along which they

THE INDIAN APOLIS TIMES

Professor Probes Mysteries of Aboriginal Life

Dr. George K. Neumann athe rom bone he builds history.

TEavesdropper Gels Earful, y 7 But Often Misses a Chapter

Snatches of Conversation Give Hints “Of Tragedy, Comedy in Everyday Life - x

By VICTOR PE SON EAVESDROPPING" tain't polite, but it sure is informative. Amazing what bits of information you can pick up on the : Jatrusts in stores; Im restaurants and on” vehicles: of public trans portation. It's a marvelous way of peering at a cross fon of Indian {apolis life. It also is frustrating. Your ears pick a wonderful isituation. You hang on every ‘word. Then a noise blots out the company wasn’t rn release conversation or a “busybody” the information, but “he was, shoves his way between you and Here it is: {the real-life * "soap opera.” Ladies, look forward to the 5 foc too-far distant day when" AN INVOLVED domestie situ<|your meat will come pre [ation Vid reaching a climax injaged from the packer. NN e bus termina hambur- | An Army private and his pale, | SIMs, SHOPS: TON ats, in a neat |tired-looking wife sat huddled on pockace ready for you to take {a bench; the classified rental section of a Rewspaper spread on Roms and pop 18 the'ovan - te their laps. the deep freeze, | “Jim, I'm so tired I could die” “We ve got a lot of problems, [the woman said. | though, * the - packa: conned 40 ." " a usiness associate. I'm sorry, honey, Hp Sobtier don't want to give up cutting {it's warm here and we can sit and buyers-are insisting on pick=

|down. I guess I shouldn't have ing out the carcasses.’ lasked you to ‘come, but I couldn't] apt Ea Ho stand being alone.” THE OLD ears were getting “What are we going to do if we tired until I happened to over{can’t find a place to live,” the hear Genevieve and Louise. They [tired wife ‘said. “I'm almost/were talking about Elaine . . .

(said. “I can't help®“Rt

1 Anthropologist Studies Bones of First Inhabitants

Dr. George K. Neumann Traces Early

Midwest History in Skeletal Remains BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 25—Human bone crumbling into dust

placed them in

finfront-of the: face:

To Dr. George K. Neumann, Indiana University anthropology | From skeletal bits he|

on the sandy shores.

localities, the tribes/called “Racial

died and lived somewhere be-|

gY museum, ~ © summer

- LE

A GIFT from the University of|shell

it was accompanied by grounds. : “This is one of the tribes thatital remains.

[12 to 15 feet covering an area [During

mounds became burial attention, Prof.

buried its dead in a sitting soar. ready to go Jome i mother,” tion,” Prof. Neumann said, “They

(crypts with their legs flexed and | {knees touching chin. The arms | |were ‘crossed and the ‘hands held

THEN “THERE were the two, YOU know Elaine? Why, just round burial 1, 4ies on an escaiator of a down- the other day, she . . {town department store. They| 1 certainly do,” interrupted

PRESENTLY, Dr. ‘Neumann is feta skirt,

working on two books which he Your gold earrings. means little to most people other than-as a reminder of death. expects to place with his pub-|Y°" ‘ll stop the Party. "

|lishers sometime next year, Xl wii of American Indians Phy-| sical Types’ probably will be] Currentiy-he is most interested | cooped clams and baked them» ished as one of the series; Judging sponsored by the Indiana His-| He has es-| from. the-way the shells are piled torical Society. The other will be! [tablished she was 18 when she i certain Differentials |must have turned out en masse \the North American Indian.” [tween 2000 B. C. and 900 A. Di|for the festivities.

A graduate of the University of | ; fact The rare specimen is the most R

Towering above the whispering Chicago, the ‘anthropologist came h.| {ancient in the university anthro- gtreams, sometimes as high as/to Indiana University ‘in 1942.] vacation, = or| [equal to twb city squares, the/when classes do not demand his| I Neumann exca-| |vates Indian mounds for skele- |

poor Elaine, Said Genevieve:

Little vid Louise. “How could anybody forget her?”

were in their 70's, in lace and black. r Said one tHe other— Well, I saw her on.the street | “Now you wear that gold, tar.|the other day. She didn't see rose print blouse and Me thank goodness, But, my, I just know how she has changed,” went on Genevieve. “Hmph! She could change. There was plenty of room for it. She just never seemed to grow up,” Louise ‘said icely. “Well, honey, she really,.really ‘has changed now. You wouldn't [believe it unless you saw it. with on the next stool: your own eyes like I did. We “She is a looker. “The wife [look young compared to her,” doesn't know anything about |Genevieve opined. I don't think,” he added. “I never could bear her afr, “But brother,. you ‘should see |She always made me feel I had her husband. He's the biggest wrinkles an inch deep,” sald one man Ive ever seen.” Louise.

ANOTHER talked] THATS Gh business, {wrinkles. Obviously ‘the meat - packing|character,

“An I wandered into ‘bar after that one—just to get the male slant on life. A customer about 25 cupped his hands around a beer. He

almost whispered to the man

in|

. - » 2 2; IT. I'll take my I understand they add

customer.

“These people lived in the Mid-| especially along the,

Prof. Neu-|

They ate] There,

na agriculture.” nuts, and berries.

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A replica of such a spear, tip-

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“Anyhow,” said Sen. Flanders, puffing an un-| usually pungent pipe, “we hope he'll be left something besides his rubbers when he gets through.”

What's a Senator's Value?

ANOTHER prohlem seems: to concern Dear ‘Alben i Barkley: who will be Vice President on on Jiu. THE BIT would “increase the

President from $20,000 to $30,000 ay a pr oily slip|

him a $10,000 expense account. Only we don’t have any V-P at the moment. And Dear Alben's a Senator and is it legal for him to vote to boost his own wage the minute he takes his new job? Some say, yes. Some say;|s no. The Blackstone hoys are arguing now.

give them all $25,000, which they'll get when-

ever Congress gets around to making it law. And |Essig, an entomologist ' of the | University of California, Berke-!

le coughed. Sen. O'Conor frowned and then smiled. ah lead to using insects as food. |

what about Senators?

That was a mean question. Sen. Flanders]

They both said they had no intentions of boosting |

their own wages, They hadn't even thought about jn New York, Dr. Essig recalled| | that . insects have been on the | . earth for some 50,000,000 years! and that their survival rate is; much better than man's. year, the insécts take millions of

it. I believe them, but if the Secretary of Interior, for instance. is worth $25,000, what is the value of a Senator? My guess is that we haven’ t

~.. PAPEETE, Tahit; Dec. 25—Anyone can still. be a beachcomber inthe South Seas, but the cost

has gone up. The times when being a castaway was some-

“thing anyones could work out for-himself-at-a-free

‘market rate are now gone: A career of dereliction now costs $200 a month and up, the price fixed by the French authorities. ‘So, bécauge very few beac to meet such a figure, they are staying away from Tahiti in large numbers.

Must Hand It Over »

THE FRENCH insist that anyone who wants to sample the carefree life, urider Tahiti's cocoa~ nut palms, must have plenty of dollars to do it with. And the first thing the candidate for beachcombing must do is hand his money over to the French—in dollars, Every application for a visa to Tahiti must be passed personally by the governor of French Oceania, M. Pierre Maestracci, an amiable Corsican. This process may take weeks to months, Each would-be speck of human flotsam must

can afford.

lay on the line, in dollars, enough money to pay his steamship fare back. where he came from. No insolvent beaché¢ombers are desired in Tahiti.

cutting the cuffs of his trousers to rags, or get. “ting “tattooed; -hand-the French. government. $200 for each month of. prospective. a

At Pegged Rate, Too

‘China here inthe capital city of Tahiti. The beachcomber draws his dollars out in francs, not at the free market rate of 135 to the dollar, but

dollar. i t Some wily Heachcombers complied with thist rule of the $200 deposit, but lived off other dollars, changing them in Papeete at the high free rate. The,

minimum of $50-a-week worth of decadence. Married couples pay double, Going native is going to hell, combers say, and this time they mean it;

The Quiz Master

How many varieties of hummingbirds are there? There are over 400 kinds of hummingbirds in Central and South America, and there are 17 in western United States, but the only one found east of the Mississippi River u me ruby-throat. |

When was the American Legion organized? The American Legion was organized at Paris, France, in 1919. The adoption of the name was moved by Maurice K. Gordon of Texas. It was incorporated by an act of Congress on Sept. ‘16, 1919. ;

1 ¢ & 4 What language is known-as the “language of lovers?” According to an old Spanish proverb, Spanish is the language ior lovers; Italian for singers, French for diplomats, German for horses and English fpr sees il In World War in. did the United “States deglare war on Germany and Japan simultaneously? The United States declared war on Japan, Dec. 8, 1941; war on Germany was declared Dee. 11, after Germany had declared war on. uk. . Uw

. ??? Test Your Skill ???

How many men became president of the United States because of the death of the President?

cause of the death of their superiors. They were John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson,| Chester Arthur, Coolidge and Harry Truman. ® ¢ 9

Who’ invented the rhumba? The rhumba grew out of the native tribal dances of the Negroes of Africa. The dance and

the rhythm of the music were probably brought nutritious, he said. first

to Latin America by African slaves. The melodies were of Spanish origin. > & *

Did ‘we learn about rubber from the Indians?

When Columbus landed in Haiti during his sec-inard C. Gavit, dean of the Indi-| ond voyage, he saw native boys playing with balls\ana University School of Law will that bounced, and learned that these bi balls hie ‘preside in the three-day annual meeting of the ‘Association of conquerors of Mexico learned from American Law Schools starting the Indians how te coat their clothing with this Senda) id the Hotel Netherlands,

made from the hardened juice of 8 trée. the Spanish

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Insects as Food Find Defender

As for the Cabinet members, the bill would er eos Beal

By AS h folk By George Weller opens up new sgrcirirar tana

via irrigation or reclamation. |

that science made some earnest]

“He must also, before growing his beard or investigations Hi 1 Somtonny

lands already -are-eating--inseets; and that “probably the most gen-| : erally available and preferred in-| sects the world over are locusts “THE “$200 fs. deposited: “in the bani’ tn-Indo- or migratory grasshoppers’... cif

“often—appeared unexpectedly from unknown lands in countless| at the pegged governmental rate of 490.5 to a numbers and, while in most cases,

food for hungry human beings.”

have been warned that unless they have a hoppers now are being sold as long background of low-rate beachcombing, they food in Mexico and the Philip-| must bring their expenditures up to a decent|pines. water fresh, cooked, dried or pulverized the old beach- in soups and other ways.” {

butterflies and moths.

he safd.

pillarg are “put up in cans and sold at groceries,” and in China

Presid President be-|no less than 50 species of insects Sven Vio NS became 4 are consumed in the daily diet.

008€ alvin cords show the Indians of the Teodoro .B ay, 0 Monk Lake region in California |

gathered and ate the ephydrid fly | which were washed up on win- | dows on the shores of the lake) by windstorms.

Dean to Preside

Bugs Held Botter

Able to Survive By PAUL F. ELLIS ° United Press Science Whiter NEW YORK, Dec. 25—Man, if

And according to Dr. E. O,

Cal., man's plight .on earth

At a méeting:on"entomologists, Beginning: tomorrow m orning at 9 o'clock and

lasting until 9 o'clock Wednesday night you

‘Each portant sdvings on a piano for your home.

ons of food away from man, wn Spinets

styles, . hogany will be availgble the sale. The savings jase for yourself by

finished in Blonde; Walnut or. Ma-

Used in Many Lands { Dr. Essig sald it's about time

each plas: Hany for best selection. {

* MASON -AND- HAMLIN * CHICKERING TF * CABLE J EVERETT MINIPIANO * HARDMAN * MUSETTE

GULBRANSEN

He said huniap beings in many

The grasshoppers, he “said;

hey destroyed the locel vegeta-| ¥ fon, including crops, they became | 9

He said certain types of pol

In China, beetles are

he reported, “consumed

Indians Eat Moths California Indians, he said, ate:

y were eaten; either fresh, | ed, dried, boiled or roasted,”

oasipe

COURSE OF PIANO LESSONS GIVEN i WITH EACH PIANO __

: In ‘Mexico, he said, white cater-|

Dr. Essig also said that re-|

“They are the size of a kernel of wheat and are apparently very

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