Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1949 — Page 21
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By Ed Sovola
IT'S NO SECRET that crooked seams on a women's legs make most men shudder. Hosiery seams should be straight. Always. Especially on legs that command a second and third glance. For the moment that tirade should suffice for letting it be known that hosiery seams should be straight. Oh, yes, most emphatically count me in among those men who shudder and those who take second and third glances. So it wasn't surprising that when I got wind of something supposedly new in the hosiery world, something that would forever banish from the sight of men the ninth most unsightly wonder in the world, I was excited. You're raising your brows now so I might just as well say right here, if you were a student of hosiery seams you, too, would be excited. You needn't think my reaction is silly, friend. Plenty of people study all kinds of things,
Goes Straight to Source
AS IN all of my scientific investigations, I went right to the crux of the matter. It's my policy to be my own Better Business Bureau. It's more fun that way. The saleslady said ‘she would be most happy
to explain the features of Prestige Nylons. For my wife? No. For my sweetheart? No. For whom? Me. Oh. Silly girl. But, after I explained what was going
to be done she understood perfectly, I think. Anyway, she smiled and looked like she did. “You see,” she said, ‘‘the four-lengths-in-one plus the new non-slip top. keep the seams straight. ‘A lady, or a gentleman, as in your case, whether he or she be short, medium, tall, the stocking will fit the leg length. It's tailored to fit you.” The message had that smooth roll of the far Ill-tell-you-what-I'm-gonna-do angle.
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Beauties, eh? . .. Today's experiment involved testing a new stocking featuring nonslip seams. (Note: They won't stay straight on a horse as shown on the left.)
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NEW YORK, Mar. 25—Well, today IT am a handcuff volunteer in this man's Army, where the sergeants kiss the recruits a fond good night and watch over his moral welfare like a mother hen, and if you will pardon the expression, I am so mad I could spit spikes. Yessir, here I am in my little soldier suit, playing war like the Russians was going to march in tomorrow and it says right there, in black and white, that there ain't going to be no more draft ‘til the durn thing dies in 1950. But it don't make no difference to Buster, because Buster a patriot. Buster is in the Army, and Buster is going to stay a patriot until his term runs out. But what is Buster doing here? This will sit pretty sore with the average guy who listened to the bogy-boys in Washington tell how everybody between certain ages were going to get dragged into the great peacetime Army unless they run, do not walk, to the nearest recruit station. ] They register nine million kids for the draft and then they hint gently that if you will get into the reserves or go willingly or dive in when you ain't old enough to feed yourself you can beat the old, hard, mean draft.
Body Is a Body and That's That
IF YOU'RE only 18 you can duck the old, hard, mean draft and just serve 12 months. and anybody knows you can't build a soldier in no 12 months, especially if he hasn't started to shave yet and his voice ain't changed. But they welcome you in anyhow, because a body is a body. Then they auction off the 21-month tours with choice of service to the real candidates and so they
all leap in without being called. So what happens’.
is you finally only draft 30,000 guys out of nine million registered. Another 162,000 volunteer. Then they knock off induction for the duration and what happens to the other 8,800,000 candidates for distinction? What happens to the smart dudes who don’t volunteer? What happens to the soulful objectars and the guys with high numbers and the dodgers? Friend, I will tell you what happens to the other eight million-odd. They are sitting outside in
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the lady knew what she was doing or else she was reading some company literature. I was we. She had memorized the advertising folder. The demonstration of the four-in-one lengths! and how they should be attached to the garter for the long position, intermediate position, medium
SECOND SECTION. and short position was rather complicated. You,
see, I'm a Paris garter man, myself. I shall try to give you a good, clear picture of] this top. The top of the stocking has a kind of a one section with four other sections built in which| vou can use either ‘one of the four while’ the other |
sections disappear somewhere or drop down and stuff. Understand? | It was necessary to find a girl in the store who| was wearing Prestige Nylons. Her instructions were to wark, walk, do things for two hours as she always did. I checked her seams before the, experiment started. They were straight. “At the end of two hours,”
Plan Religious Education Unit
WITH the theme “We Build for I said, “I'll be back youth,” the North Methodist and we'll compare seams.”
The poor girl didn't know anything about any- Church will launch a $200,000 thing but promised to follow instructions. No fund-raising campaign Sunday fair touching or fixing her stockings for the next for the construction of a new two hours. $400,000 religious education buildAn empty dressing room gave me the nd of in protection I needed to slip into the nylons. If anyone saw me in nylons I'd have to leave town. After ot the amount needed, $80,000 slipping garters on (I refused to even listen about 2!réady has been subscribed. An a garter belt), 1 slipped out of the store my legs Additional §50.000 is expected to covered with nylon and the nylon covered by my, be paid in by July 1, according to trouser legs. W. Esterline, bullgmg, comHe chairman. Tries Bends and Hurdles | The new building, scheduled for MY FIRST act was to wrap my | round a completion next year, will be bar stool. Then I ran at full spee. r three erected immediately north of the blocks. In University Park, 15 deep knee bends Present sanctuary at 38th and N. were performed, three park benches hurdled and Meridian Sts. It will contain a a wine bottle kicked. ground floor and first and second At the World War Memorial monument, I floors. hopped up five steps first on one foot and then a nu =a the other, all the way to the top. In front of the, THE Sunday morning service American Legion headquarters, I sat cross-legged Will be observed as “History on the curb for half an hour just watching the Making Sunday,” starting at 9 cars go by. a. m. with a prayer meeting in Curiosity was killing me to see how the seams the sanctuary. A record attendwere doing. It also would have killed me to pull/ance is anticipated in the church my trouser leg up and peek and have someone see school at 9:30 a. m. the stockings. The casual onlooker, would he| Following at 10:45 a. m. will understand? No. No peeking then. My final act/be the History Making Service was to wrap my legs around another bar stool. If of Spiritual Vision. Distribution, the seams could withstand that, they'd withstand signing and dedication of subanything. |scriptions will be held at the The comparison turned out to be horrible. Hor-|11:45 a. m. worship. rible for me, that is. The young lady (she had been Additional subscriptions will be told about my project) wore her seams elegantly. received and dedicated at the 7:30 She swore on a stack of Vogue magazines she p. m. Sunday evening services to hadn't fixed them while I was gone. be observed as “Victory Praise ‘My seams: were a mess, a perfect mess. “They Service.” The total amount sub-
won't stay straight,” I wailed. scribed during the day will be The little group of observers argued the con- announced at the close of the ditions of the experiment were all wrong. They service. The Rev. Dallas L.
said Prestige Nylons weren't made to stay straight’ Browning, pastor, and Dr. William on a horse. That's what they said, horse. C. Hartinger, associate pastor, Well, I'll just keep watching the seams go by will be’ in charge of both servand see if these new-fangled jobbies stay straight. ices. Man, what a project. ® ®
_a man with a noble intent draws the same pay as! school for children, was built in
THE completion of the new building will mark the 10th of By Robert C. Ruark a series of historic North Church dates over a 106-year period. —" | In 1843 the Sugar Grove Mistweed suits, laughing their “neads off at us eager Sion was begun by a small group patriots inside. Because we, friends, are stuck. | ©f pioneers at 48 W., Maple Rd. We are the great peacetime Army and we re- The Mission was organized as a main in same until we finish out the tour. Dis- church in 1855. The “Little White charges ain't retroactive in this man's Army, and ‘€hurch,” now used as a church
the guy you had to hog-tie to drag into the selec- 1900. tive service center. | North Methodist Church was Now, I aint going to play sucker and go over organized in 1920 and merged the hill or sass back to the sergeant or forget what| with the Mapleton Church the i= a muster, because 21 months or 12 months ain’t next year. The present sanctuary forever, and one of these days I am graduated. was completed in 1931. Ground And like the man said, I am a happy patriot and extending north from the church I won't never, never have to be drafted again When | and if the inductions are revived.
‘Il Don’t Know What to Believe’
BUT HOW do I know that? How do I know what they will do with this here fair white body? They tell You one thing and then go do just the opposite and maybe the next draft will be strictly spostgraduate with nobody eligible except us alumni. How do I know what to believe? But if vou think you got a happy Army now, you are just olowing smoke. Wouldn't you feel sore if they made a sucker out of you? As I sit here on my GI cot, far from home and mother, and as I polish that gun and dubbin them shoes I sit and think about civilians my same age and people in Washington who run a draft like it was some sort of girls’ game, changing: their minds! every other week, while the eager heroes get stuck! with the stick. What I think ain’t printable. A draft is a serious thing and when a man dreams up a draft there ought to be some sort of clause in the contract which says’ what will happen’ * i} to one will happen to all. The articles of war don't «5, mention nothing about a dogface being able to 4 : change his mind. ~ No. don't expect us to go over the hill or shoot \/ the supply sergeant because that is stupid and things are stupid enough already. But you won't mind if us handcuff volunteers moan a little lower than usual, will you? Because, friend, the way they run this draft, with near blackmail and all to get us into it, is simply one 1elluva a way to run a railroad.
By Frederick C. Othman
Little White Church now in
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25 When Rep. Charles Fdward Potter, a black-haired young fellow from Cheboygan Mich., hobbled to the floor of the House to make a speech about pensions for veterans and placed his two plastic canes on the
table, he said nothing about his own war record. He didn’t have to. J He lost both his legs in battle at Colmar,
France, and if ever a disabled war veteran had a right to talk about Honest John Rankin's $125 billion pension scheme, the youthful gentleman from Michigan was the one. When he joined.the Army in 1942, said Congressman Potter, he wasn't thinking about collecting any cash rewards. Neither, said he, were gny of the other youngsters who shed their civvies at about the same time. w “You can't make mercenaries out of the veterans by paying them a few dollars each,” he told his fellow lawgivers. He came then to his big idea.
Always Seem to Lose Peace
OUR fighting men have done their duty, penSonor no pensions, ever since our history began, lhe said. They've won every war they ever fought. And this has been all to the good, except for one thing: “We always seem to lose the peace,’ Rep. Potter explained. “And I am wondering if it" might Dot be a good idea to provide pensions for the peacemakers in the hope that they would be inspired to do a better job. Yes, I believe I could vote in good conscience for a bill giving pensions to diplomats. But for this bill I cannot.” . Rep. Potter then grasped his translucent canes with the electric batteries in their handles and with less effort than you'd imagine propelled his mechanical legs toward his seat. The applause was what the official reporters might call thunderous,
And before we worry bol the somewhat i incredible pension debate, let us consider briefly Rep. Potter's canes. They have electric lights in ‘em, which he switches on at night for crossing streets
Stop Wasting
Not only ph they illuminate the gutter, but they To Grow Hair, AMA Says
make it possible for passing motorists to see him. They're comforting for a fellow who still hasn't
‘Cures’ Useless,
quite got the hang of navigating on aluminum legs Report States His speech, I'm afraid had little effect on Mis- CHICAGO. Mar. 25 (UP) Bald sissippi’s Rep. Rankin, or upon the timid gentle- and balding American men are
men who are against the whole idea of multibillion pensions {or veterans—but who are afraid wasting {6 vote that way. In public, that is. nu in an attempt to grow hair The lawgivers demonstrated that they were de- committee of the lighted to kill the Rankin Bill when they could do Medic 80 anonymously. But when the motion came to revive it, they had to sign their John Henry's for the record. So they changed their minds. They that were ‘taking no chances on the veterans back Ca! devices, home voting against 'em two years hence. light, hormones. vitamins or any , : other, treatment will regenerate ‘ ’ t { t " Calls Procedure Shameful {hair lost in ordinary baldness: THERE were exceptions, of course, like Rep. | This applies both to young men Potter. Such a one also was Rep. John A. Carroll|and_older men, the AMA's com: of Colorado, who fought in both World Wars. He. mittee on cosmetics said in a re too, was bitterly opposed to pensions. He called port published in the Journal of the scheme of writing the bill ‘on the floor a the American Medical Association shameful thing and he managed to get a couple ‘High Sounding Terms’ Ren, Walter B. Huber of Onis said. the Vet.| 'Self-designated hair and scalo erans of Foreign Wars favored his amendment specialists or “trichologists may | } , ’ : use ‘“high-sounding terms that cutting out World War II survivors. Rep. James E. | an io ¢ g Van Zandt of Pennsylvania said they did not connote scientific background and oe of : 'Itraining,” the committee said,
either, s can be determin “Confusion. This bill but so far as can be determined
“Seé.” said Rep. Carroll. [they have no qualifications other ht to b 3 ue o he sent back to committee. than a full head of hair, a busi-
Rep. Potter said nothing. Just sat there with brai q tite f his legs stiff in front of him, while he fiddled with fo=° Pr 4 [0d an appetie fal
“millions of dollars” an-
American al Association said today. The committee members said “neither massage, mechani tonies, ultra-viole:
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his trick walking sticks. asy money.” | As for hair tonics, these simply 299 2 said, and “most of these products Test Your Skill 27? ¢ |are simple mixtures of well-known Who wrote the song: “I'm a Good Old Rebel"? or maintaining hair or in curing dandruff.” This song was written shortly after the civil
War by Maj. Innes Randolph, a Virginian who Still to Be Proved served on J. E. B. Stuart's staff. This song was The germ; theory of dandruff sung before the Prince of Wales and Queen Vie- is popular, the committee said.
toria was sald to have heen quite fascinated by it. ‘bjt until an organism is proved 4 a to be the cause of dandruff and {until a drug is found which kills In World War 11 what was refered to as Opera- or inhibits that specific or-| tion Sea Lion? |ganism,” the theory is apt to be Operation Sea Llon was the German plan for pure supposition. the invasion of Britain. The plas Was never ear- The committee granted that “in! ried out. . rare instances” continued mas-
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FRIDAY, ‘MARCH 25, , 1949
Fund-Raising Drive
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Architect's drawing of present North Methodist Church and proposed religious education building on right.
to 39th St. was purchased in stone. Paved parking space in the 1943 from the late George W. rear and at the sides of the Marott, who donated $10,000 of structure will be provided. Burns the purchase price to the church. and James are the architects and » Leslie Colvin co. is contractor. THE around floor of the new » ” - building will house classes of the JOHN A. GOLL is general senior high school chairman of the Lenten Loyalty and college ages. Clubs and game Advance committee and E. J. rooms are planned and will be Fricke and Leroy Plumley are coequipped for meetings, games, chairmen. Lester Irons is fiparties and programs for scout- nance committee chairman. Co- ; .|chairmen ‘are James Esterline, %¢ On the first floor space will be Edward Gallahye and Floyd Walprovided for children through lace. kindergarten groups. A large Serving on the Women's parlor will "be available for Activities committeg are Mrs. W. buildings will be paved and land- Mesdames Clarence V. Knipp, ings. pert, E. P. Zink and G. B. Supple, Classes for children of the first publicity director. six school grades will be housed Other committee chairmen are on the second floor. {Fred Hoke, trustees; Leroy PlumThe exterior of the building ley, publicity; Raymond Clutter, will be a combination of Briar men's activities, and Claude M. Hill sandstone and Indiana lime- Keesling, church school activities.
Dr. William C. Hartinger and Dr. Dallas L. Browning
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Magic Show Here Sahara Grotto will sponsor a | magic show at 8 p. m, Wednesday and Thursday in the clubhouse,
Youths Plead Not Guilty; Two Others Refuse to Enter Plea, Vex Judge
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Money Trying Grotto to Sponsor Trial Date Set for Four
On Draft Evasion Charges
4107 E. Washington St. William Pacey is president of May trial dates were set in Federal Court today for four young the Grotto cast which will have men who pleaded not guilty to charges of failure to register for charge of the show. Duke Stern selective service, will be master of ceremonies. Two others who refused to enter pleas drew sharp comments Others on the program will be from Judge Baltzell. Arraignment of a seventh was postponed. Merle Calvert, Carl Manifort When William Edwards Wildman, Earlham College student Gene Kenney. C. McCord Purdy, from Cincinnati, was arraigned - Oscar Parrish, Charles Harad, he announced that I plead he had registered on Mar. 1, Lou Gerber and Jack Watson. mute while the grand jury was delibe No.. you're not going to plead erating. The court instructed him . that way Judge Baltzell told to confer with his attorney, with Dr. K. K. Chen to Give him. Wildman insisted that he the case to be disposed of later, Frank Mann Lecture wanted to make no plea. so the 36 Arraigned Dr. K. K. Chen. professor of court ordered a not guilty plea The men accused of failure to pharmacology at the Indiana entered and set trial for May 3 register were among 36 due for | University school of medicine, Refuses to Plead arraignment during. the day on | will present the second lecture of Charles Frantz, 23. Earlham last week'e Grandi: Jury indict. © |the Frank Mann series at 8& p. m. student from Rocky Ford, Col, ments. sage may produce a fine, color- today in the school auditorium. also declined to plead. and drew Russell Breeden, 48, Leavens less, fuzzy down similar to that, pq wij speak on “Variations in a comment from Judge Baltzell to worth, Inds hatchery operator
seen on the heads of newborn pryg Action.” The lectureship the effect that “in all my 25 and
babies. was established several years ago years on the bench I've never had charge But this drops off after reach- by Phi Beta Pi, medical fratern- boys, or anybody else, for that income tax payments ing a half an inch in length and!jty, in honor of Dr. Mann, an matter come before me and re- $47,510, asked for said. The judge sent Frantz to conrar & fer with his attorney, East Sta Ch ro WBA 140 to Sponsor astern ar aprer bench ag: gain. Luncheon, Card Party t Others indicted by the Federal them before Pleading. Mrs. Ruth Millholland will be Woman's Benefit Association, will 5¢ fajjure to register and ar- Bevin Sails for uU. 5. installed as worthy matron and Sponsor a noon luncheon and rgigned today included: 26. np Despite Illness { Range store, 2464 N. Meridian 4 wmartinsville, plea of not guilty, of West Newton Fastern Star gt next Wednesday. trial set for May 3 the Masonic Hall of dinner reservations. Mrs. Mabel gtate College student, Myers is chairman of the card pot guilty, trial May 3.
is not replaced, the committee alumnus of the medical school. fuse to enter a plea.” he would be To Install Officers Fidelity Review No. 140, Grand jury last week on charges Roy Hollowell as worthy patron Ard party in the Chambers Richard Shuffiebarger, chapter in ceremonies at 8 p. m.| Mrs. Ella Morgan is in charge Amos Brokaw, installed party, assisted by Mrs. Herbert Richard” H: Graves, 25.
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plea of with asthma, there, -Othér officers to be
indicted on a of attempted evasion of totaling and was grant. ed a delay of arraignment until His attorney explained indicating that copies of the income tax ree called before the turns were received dnly yesters day and time was needed to study
SOUTHAMPTON, England, (UP) British Foreign 23. Muncie, Ball Secretary Ernest Bevin, affected sailed aboard the Queen Mary for the United States West today to sign the Atlantic treaty.
will be Mrs. Clementeen Haver- Rueder, Mrs. Grace Spurlin and jafayette, Earlham student, plea He appeared ill as he stepped
stick, associate matron; William Mrs. Ella Hiatt, Haverstick, associate patron; 9s Mrs. Mary Alice Record, secre- NAZI EXECUTED |Cal., Earlham student, tary Mrs. Helen Drinkut, treas- AMSTERDAM, Mar, 25 (UP) not guilty, trial May 4. casf off from Southampton urer; Mrs. Florence Close, con- A firing squad ‘today executed Armin L. Saeger Jr. 23, Phila- he would remain in bed today. ductress, and Mrs. Dorothy Coch- Hans Albin Rauter, chief of the delphia; Pa. another Earlham ran, associate conductress. Mrs. Nazi police during the: German student. charged with failure to catch up on lost sleep,” Cora Moray will be installing of- | occupation, for war crimes and register, appeared for bi ficer,. |erim crimes against Hungary.
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