Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1949 — Page 13
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WOULD YOU believe that there are women who get all upset when they are told their stockings are baggy? One of these days, 80 help me, I'm m “gding to give up being helpful to the ladies. And quit trying to figure them out. Imagine biting the hand that points out a crooked seam.
It was with a light heart and bouncing step
‘that I ventured forth on my mission the other day."
Why not ogle with a ‘purpose’ Why not win friends and influence charming ladies by dropping helpful hints at their feet? Somewhere in the back of my mind the idea occurred to me that a woman might appreciate a reminder that the only blemish in her whole outfit was a meandering stocking seam. We've all seen those at one time or another. Speak up, my good man, ie ' “Hey, your stockings are crooked.” That approaeh, casual as casual can be, didn't work the first time used. Didn't work the second time, either, The direct approach only produced cold stares. Icy stares. Something was lacking. Injecting more finesse into my observations, I intercepted another woman with ‘this: “It's none of my business, hut your heels are bending under your shoes, Just thought you'd like to know.”
He Just Won't Give Up
FORTUNATELY, the sidewalk was crowded and it was easy to lose oneself in a matter of seconde, A less determined man would have stopped then and there. The police certainly couldn't do anything. Or could they? No use waiting to find out. Women can be so unreasonable when they're excited,
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Joan Elward is introduced to 8 new idea for keeping 1 stocking seams straight.
Too Much Meat
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NEW "YORK, Sept. 14—While never a man r to knock a well-turned ankle, or even to be properly scornful of a dimpled knee, I find myself agreeing with Life Magazine about the Bikini bathing suit, which has wisped across the water from the European loafing spots. The Bikini is composed of three articles of clothing—two about the size of band-aids and the other roughly comparable to a pen-wiper in its dimensions. These fragments are surrounded by naked womanhood, giving a sometimes startling effect to a man of true shyness, such as 1 possess. I encountered the Bikini two years ago, in Capri. I spent the first day blushing, the second day bored, and the third day rather midly annoved at womanhood in general. Very few young ladies, and no old ladies at all are so constructed that they seem at home in these fragile dibs and dabs of cloth. No fat }adies:—-ho- skinny ladies, no ladies with too much ~dopside or too much bottomside should be caught alive in a Bikini.
Just a Little Bored
AFTER FIRST blush at the prospect of much goose-pimpled feminity hurling itself about on the Piccolo Marina—that was the day I‘introduced the verb “ogler” meaning to stare rudely, into the French language—I suddenly began to * get bored even at-the pretty ones. There was just too doggone much meat around. It was like strolling ‘through the freeze room of a Wholesale butcher shop.” I began to yawn. Then the annoyance set in. It seemed, as I sat there in this welter of near-nudity, that women owe a certain responsibility to the public. Some legal restriction, perhaps, on how much a lady can display according to her personal qualifications to display same. For instance I do not believe that a woman of the general proportions of Miss Elsa Maxwell has any legal right to appear upon any beach where others are present in anything short of a mother hubbard which ends at her ankles. This would apply equally to the long girl with
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WASHINGTON Sept 14—Congressmen, who ~were elected for jobs more important. worry about the licensing of this city’s fish markets, the honesty of its cops, the pay of its schoolteachers, and whether it's legal for the voteless citizens to shoot predatory birds.on the streets. The lawgivers, who can't seem to believe the inhabitants might better govern themselves, devote a great deal of their valuable time to these ftems »>f a muaicipal nature. The results seldom are satisfactory tu the taxpayers, who pay, but have no say about where the money goes. So thé Senate District Committee usually is jammed on meeting days with civic leaders who . are irate, not about the state of the world, or even -of. the nation, but about why aren't there more traffic lights on Fessenden St.
Get a Praying Mayor
NOW we've got a new unofficial mayor of Washington, the dapper Sen. Matt Neely of West . Virginia, freshly appointed. chairman of the committee. I dropped in on his first meeting and I am happy to report that he opened it with prayer. He also read the 127th Psalm, quoted liberally from
the Bible, and urged the assembled citizens to bang .
the table and shout if they expected anything from Congress. The natives quickly got into the mood; they also quoted from the Good Book. Mrs. Ernest W. Howard, a handsome lady in a green. hat representing the North Washington Council, wondered why Congress didn't do something about the frequent.flash floods at Fifth and Ingraham Sts, &4er ‘neighbors there frequently have to go home by boat. “1 hope,” said she, “that you will agree with the Biblical quotation that charity begins at home.” Oops, “Madam.” replied the Senator, “I have read the Bible through and it doesn’t say that. Nowhere
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On the other hand, they can be very under-| standing. Provided, of course, you use a fair’ -amount- of diplomacy, Example: “Pardon me.| ma'am, I'm so-and-so from The Times. Today I' m| sort of fashion editor and may I say that the out| fit you're wearing is.chic? Everything is in such perfect taste. Have you ever been nominated tor| one of the 10 best-dressed women in America?" While the ‘woman is telling you that she is| “wearing an “old thing” she made over, you don’ t| agree. You just wait until you have an oppor-| tunity for the question of the week. Mrs. E, C. Gibson, 4317 E, Washington St., oe formed me that she wouldn't object to being told
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ing if she were told in a nice way. “If 1 were losing a belt off my coat and a gentleman came up to me and told me about it, 1 would appreciate it,” Mrs. Gibson said. How about a Blip showing? Well. Crooked seams? iB “The type of man who would notice seams are, crodked is the type of man who would not tell al lady,” concluded Mrs. Gibson. I couldn't convince | her otherwise. Anyway, the East Side lady saw some merit in the idea if—-and there were many provisions, Mrs. Richard J. Dunham. 1320 N. New Jersey) 8t., wouldn't object to being told her seams were! crooked if the man was VERY discreet and polite and didn't make ‘a joke of the situation or laugh and had a fine sense of appreciation for construecs tive criticism. Whew,
All Depends on Approach “IT ALL depends on how a person told me thaf my slip was showing or my seams were crooked. A girl would like to know, of course, but! she wouldn't want to be insulted,” sald Joan, Elward, 536 N. Jefferson Ave, | A quick check of Miss Elward’s seams revealed they were straight. No sign of a slip showing. Neat as a pin. No wonder she wouldn't object. Probably never had a crooked seam in her life.| There are women like that. Even with the cautious approach, not all was' rosy. Caroline Fore, Noblesville, told me bluntly witowasnl.anybody’s business if. her stocking SAIS... happened to be crooked. Slip? Awful. Button! on the back of a blouse? Sir! Baggy stockings, at the knee? POLICE. 1 left Miss Fore with a feeling of great thanks-| giving that we didn't meet when the survey first| started. ‘‘Hey, your seams are crooked,” might] not have gone over, “A lady doesn’t absolutely ] Ouch. My original motive was to some day have Indianapolis: known as the only city in the world] where no slips show and where stocking seams are| straight. But, beforé large-scale operations begin, | mavbe we ought to hear from the ladies. Men,! It's just an idea, friends. o o> oo Employees of thé Department of Conservation gave “You, Too” a shot in the arm yesterday with 43 signing the booster sheet. They really gant me to write the book,..With the score at 1801, the! sights are now trained on 2000. the 30,000 goal. That's the number needed to do| _business with the riblishef,
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the knobby knock-knees, and to all others with| such unusual accouterments as would encite un-!| due annoyance among the spectators. (I wish | I could say here that this might easily hold true! for fat old gentlemen with hairy shoulders who, wear skimpy shorts, ‘but I am not belaboring the, gents today.) What I do not understand is why so prideful a, thing as a female can be so utterly unwitting of | ; her general effect when romping on a beach or shorts-ing around in the country. They spend a| few billion a year creating a myth, for the im-| pressment of the male, and then they take it alli off and show you the raw material and the dough is wasted. | A lady will prison herself in a girdle, moor her overgenerosities with assorted hampers and ham-| mocks, supplement deficiencies, spend six hours on| her halt and rebuild a.complete face for the be-| musement of her” quarry. But she will take the same guy to a beach and emerge as nearly naturatas an egg. Then she wonders why the oveligat dies in Cuthbert's little red eyes.
No Way to Lure fo Male |
THEFEMALE form is not something that can be flounced about in the public domain without a lessening of its mystery quotient, and once that’s] gone, the ladies are on the way out of business. | Another hard fact is that not all ladies have! Grable’s legs or Hayworth’s torso, and a flagrant! exposure of inadequacies is not designed to lure a potenttal:life-partner: dawn: the daffodilly path: The patience of man has been strained for a considerable time with the foolishnesses of fashion and the unadulterated imbecilities women prac-
sexes. I.do not believe they can expect the boys to accept all the mish-mash they go through on the dressing side and simultaneously hold still for complete undress. since the one nullifies he other Among the more sensible lassies cannot think that public nakedness is Tony No man who asks for a caviar canape wishes to be se rved a full course, New England boiled dinner.
_ By Frederick C. Othman
does t the Bi ble say "anything. ‘about charity beginning.at home. — His honor turned to the troubles of Mrs. Leslie’ B. Wright, in a red hat, who spoke for the Northwest Council of Citizens Associations. She said it was a delight to have such an attractive chairman as the gentleman from West Virginia. “It is- nice to have such attractive witnesses as you,” replied his honor. Against Daylight Time ONE. OF "the things that pained Mrs. Wright was daylight saving time. She's against it and so are all her friends. “The Congressmen who voted for it said they needed this extra daylight for recreational purposes,” she added. “I haven't noticed 'ém getting any prettier from this exercise.” ] Woolsey W. Hall, dignified Negro leader, wanted the Senators to investigate why the District had condemned the Macedonia Baptist Church: this looked like skullduggery to him. Mrs.
Franklin G. Sartwell said the Congressman ought to pass a law providing for the care of firemén who hurt themselves fighting: blazes across the
District line. Others wanted a new airport, more traffic lights,
more judges, and better schools. Along came Daniel Crystal, a young man representing the Lawyers’ Guild
“According to the Bible the meek shall inherit the earth,” he said. ‘But according to the Senator the meek shall not get District. appropriations from Congress.” - Touche. The bells clanged soon thereafter and the Senators moved down the hall to consider the plight of Great Britain and, for that matter, the whole world. The citizens who want to shoot starlings on sight got crowded out. They'll be back later to take up how to get rid of the capital's pesky birds.
The Quiz Master
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Drama Of $3.8 Million Unfolds In Bell Rate Increase Hearing
Photos by John Spicklemire, Times Staff Photographer
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William E. Steckler (lef), public counselor for Indiana, reads his rebuttal Yo Indiana Bell Telephone In the distance is! Co.'s plea for higher rates before the Public Service
Commission. Circled in center is white-hai
vising Mr. Steckler.
cmos -r ER vi vetoes eter < ie ————— ig Opposing counsel before the patient PSC court. Af fhe left, Indiana Bell counsel Stevenson leans over to get material from his brief case.
associate counsel.
ing the State.
Hoosier Corn Crop Ahead of Season
263, 12, 000-Bushel Yield Predicted
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The - Hoosigr crop was ahead of ithe season Today and prospects centinue very gqod. to excellent, the Weather Bureau's crop bulletin said Crop statisticians at Purdue University and the. Department of Agriculture forecast a corn
only 6 per cent lower than last year's record crop.
All reported that the majority.
of the corn crop was safe from frost damage.
“The tomato crop has been dis-*
appointing this year,” said Paul A. Miller, Weather Bureau chief.’ “A few areas report a near normal crop. but, on the whole, cool weather and too much rain
has caused slow ripening with much cracking and breaking.” Mr. Miller -added many canneries reported sharply curtailed schedules because of low receipts. Predictions indicated most yields of other crops were above average. Soybeans were reported well podded and some were already ripe. Production was forecast at 28702,000 bushels, Other forecasts were oats, 57 720,000 bushels. hay. 2.321.000 tons; potatoes, 3,570,000 bushels apples, 1.680.000 bushels, and peaches, 780,000 bushels.
Township, 4 Towns Have Tax Rate Cut
Proposed tax rates for 1950 for incororated communities have been
: | rio u a 29? Test Your Skill Picts by ihe Marion Couniy Tax
Who said, “A guard dies but never surrenders”? The saying has been attributed to General Cambronne, at the end of the battle of Waterloo, when summoned to surrender the remnant of the Imperial Guard. ® * Have any quintuplets. been bern since the Dionnes? Yes. Two hoys and three girls were born to the de Diligenti family on July 15, 1943, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The mother was attended only by a midwife,
How did the term “Grog” originate? The popular British naval officer, Admiral Vernon, introduced’ the use of rum and water) among the ship's company. The new beverage proved so. palatable that it became as popular as! the brave admiral himself. Thus it was called
The reductions announced aft-
er a review of néxt year's. budg1 €ts, involve Southport, Speedway, | Lynhurst {brought the rates below the cur-| |rent year's level.
and Castleton, and
A reduction in the school and tuition funds for Pike Township,
“Grog” from the nickname ‘of the rough grogram brought the rate down from $2.10)
cloak that he wore in bad weather, * > @
How many parts has an anchor? Eight——ring, stock, ‘shank, bill, fluke, arm, throat and crown. |
to $2.0975. The 1950 budgets for Perry. Washington. Lawrence and Decatur Townships will be studied tuday by the board. os
|Pendleton Pike,
Next this way are Perry O'Neal and Patrick Smith,
On the right, Mr. Steckler is on his feet while Reporter Herman Tierney stenotice in an effort to ‘attract the stupider of the #ypes the record. This side of Mr. Steckler is James M. Honaker, with
the Cyrus G. Hill Co., assist-
This is the court which will decide whether Indiana Bell gets a
Roscoe Freeman, victor_in the drama of millions.
| Bible College Head To Speak at Butler
9 Local Doctors To Address Parley
R. M. Bell, president of John- ‘ son Bible College Kimberlin. The names of 18 Hoosier docHeights, Tenn. will be guest tors who will speak at the Indispeaker at opening convocation of na Medical Association's 100th
Butler University School of Re-/convention beginning Sept. -26 ligion at 11. a. m. tomorrow {in Were announced today.
Sweney Chapel. The speakers were Drs. Arthur
President M. O. Ross will pre- N. Ferguson, Ft. Wayne; Harold side and introduce the guest D. Caylor, Bluffton; Stephen L. Johnson, Evansville; David Adler,
speaker. ‘
(Columbus; Wemnpls Dodds, Craw-/
Go : {fordsville;, Lall G. Montgomery to Symposium and E. H.'Clauser, both of Mun-
Three Indianapolis men will cio: David A. Bickel and Carl 8. attend the second annual sym- Cylbertson, both of South. Bend, posium on orthopedic appliances and nine Indianapolis doctors next week ‘at Mellon. Institute, carl P. Huber, Ralph J. McQuisPittsburgh. They are Dr. C. D. ton, Harris B. Shumaker, James
Martz, 23 E, Ohio 8t.; Theron F. Balch. James O. Ritchey. DonDavidson, 1130 N, Hawthorne ald J, Wolfram. Karl M. Koons, Lane, and J. G. Pring, 7436 John D. Van Nuys and Martha
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W. Jacobsen of the Cyrus. G. Hill Co., engineers, adAt the right is quiet-spoken
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_ Thomas D. Stevenson, general counsel for Indiana Bell and trial lawyer for 40
40 years, who makes the
State keep its facts and figures straight.
* The utility gallery soaks up the arguments. Here against the Ward, associate of the secretary.
treasurer of Indiana Bell; James Thompson, Indiana Bell accountant;
Al Warne, secretary-treasurer;
Harold . Bickett,
accountant for
Western Electric Corp., and Julius West, his assistant.
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$3.8 million yearly rate increase. Members of the Public Service Commission (left to right) are Hugh Abbott, Lawrence Cannon and
They listen patiently, confer often, and hold their péace until they decide the
‘Shongri La’ WAC Reveals She's a Bride ANNAPOLIS, Md, ‘Sept. 14 (UP) Margaret Hastings, 34, former WAC ¢orporal who was stranded 47 days with two men “lost valley” in New Guinea, prin today that she is the wife of an Insurance salesman. Her husband, Robert C. AtkKinson, 29, said he and the WAC corporal were married June 24 at Fortestville, Md., near Washing-| ton. He sald he met his bride while he was employed at a Lake Placid, N. Y., hotel, where she was working as a stenographer. In 1945, the former WAC was one of#*hree survivors of a plane cragh in an obscure’ New Guinea (valley later dubbed ‘Shangri La."
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Appeal From Ruling Hinted
By a 4 to 1 vote, the Marion County Board of Zoning Appeals has rejected a petition to erect a filling station on the northwest corner of 30th St. and Kessler Blvd. The board's decision came yesterday after an hour-long are gumefit between attorneys for the petitioner, P. 0. Bonham, 3050 Kessler Blvd. and George B.
| Huff, representing the Northeast
Wayne Township Civic' Association, Inc. As the hearing ended, however, Mr. Huff ‘indicated the association might withdraw its objection
“if a properly designed station was to be an integral part of the proposed modern - shopping center Mr. Bonham told the board it was his intention to build. a service station that was to be part of the proposed business center, There were indications that an appeal from the board's ruling
might. be filed.
State Polio Total Remains at 727
Indiana's polio total since the firit of the year remained at 727 today, with. no new cases reported to the State Board of Health, Twelve new cases were reported yésterday. There were no -new deaths, with the toll for the year remaining at 72. One of the new cases yestere day was from Jay County, which has been hardest hit with a total of 80 cases. ond high, reported: three new cases with a total of 69, and Del aware, third in total incidence, had one new case and ‘a total
of 64.
Other counties reporting cases were Marion County, two, and one each in Adams, Posey, Grant and Perry Countian,
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