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WHEN SANTA CLAUS gets his letters from his hand, rose to his feet and announced that he!
the first graders of School 43, he isn’t i ; , going to do much reading. Those kids believe in brevity. . Dear Santa: I want a cowboy suit, goodby,
Jerry? Z “Dear Santa: I am a good Brin train, bicycle, filling station, ey. Br iy med On the level, a morning in the first grade watching the young ones write the most important letter in their lives to the most important person (right now), takes 10 years off your life. Well, a year,
Imaginations Run Rife ‘ TEACHER Eloise Procter explained what the youngsters lacked in writing ability, they made up In imagination. In school since September, most of the children still had trouble with words such as lactobacillus, syncretism and cochineal, Cat, dog, house were a cinch. To whip them into a mood for writing Santa, Miss Procter gave them a little business about when Christmas was to be this year (they knew), when school was out (sharp on this one, too) and if they saw in the pictures on the walls anything they would like to have. : Maybe I shouldn't say this. Well, after the usual wants such as dolls, tricycles, bathinets, guns and holster sets were voiced, a 6-year-old sport raised
“Gimme” , , . Stephen writes a few words to Santa.
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wanted a long Buick for Christmas. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he were dating girls in the third! grade. That boy is going places, ! There was some difference of opinion as to where to send the letters. Several said Ayres’ department store. Others thouglit Santa's Address was Block's. A couple insisted letters should be sent’ to North Pole. That's where I always sent mine. Just as 1 was Waving my hand, trying to get the attention of Miss Proctor, the matter was settled. < ‘ “Santa gets letters at Sears Roebuck,” a small dynamo of energy cried. » Oh, he. Little wonder the ol’ boy never brought me what I wanted. Doesn't matter. I never put any
stamps on the létters, anyway. Ld
Without. exception, each boy and girl stoutly proclaimed angelic ualities. As a matter of fact, a blue-eyed, pint-sized Cinderella with golden pigtails seemed to sprout wings and halo when she told how she helps her mother around the house. Her| long lashes fluttered, the wings (real all of a| sudden) ever so gently stirred the classroom air] and the halo glistened. If she doesn't get a whole] sack full of toys, maybe reindeers. sled and all, Santa Claus is an old meanie. Scares an old bachelor how smart the little rascals are. A majority of the pupils maintained by vigorous shakes of their hands that they possessed toys from last Christmas. A piercing voice in the back “of the room stopped the discussion with the unbe-| lievable statement that an electric train was ‘in| good condition. Under lock and key? No. i An international note was introduced when| Miss Procter asked what they planned to do with the toys that were absolutely non-essential; in the| future. Toys that were not long for this world | but which might be enjoyed by the less fortunate. “I'm going to send all my old toys to Europe,” | a future diplomat stated, pulling on his playsuit| suspenders. Not one protest broke the merry bedlam ‘of the room. i
A Sincere Word: ‘Gimme’
THE ACTUAL writing was undertaken with a/ great deal of seriousness and ear-pulling and nose-| rubbing. Samples of words and phrases were let-| tered on the board. There was ample opportunity for expression. Looking over the samples, brevity] and terseness was the rule. “Dear Santa: I help my mother. I want a doll, goodby, Karen.” So sweet, uninhibited and to the point. No| fancy words or beating around Santa’s whiskers. | You know, outside of the words “daddy” and “mommy,” “gimme” is the tenderest. I get the biggest kick when my little nephew says “gimme.” See him twice a year. Cute little guy. And he beams all over when he gets a nickel from his| T'ncle Ed. When he goes to junior high next year, he'll get a dime.
Red Campus
BELGRADE; Yugoslavia, Dec. 5-—What is life like on a Communist campus? Generally, it has absut as much “rah-rah-siss-boom-ba” spirit as a convention of the petunia lovers of Philadelphia, I've been discussing Lenin-leaning with a typical high school students Paja Radorvitch, (It's not his exact namie, for he spoke without official clearance , .., and this is a police state.) Paja's class has 38 boys—no co-eds——from 18 to 21. The horrible Hun's occupation slowed formal education in these parts. The older students mountain-climbed with Tito/s- Partisans learning how to silence sentries by strangling.
Wanted: Loose-Leaf Textbooks PAJA STUDIES Beigrade's brand of Bolshevfsm as well as languages, mathematics, history, geography and biology. He no more passes one Communist line than he’s told to forget same. Before the ComInform resolved it was no longer responsible for Tito's debts, current history featured Soviet goodness. Today—with GI-van expected to parachute in for conquest—Paja had better get Stalin-worship out of his head . . . or lose said head. In fact, Paja says: “Our history books are being rewritten so often we joke: ‘They should be printed on loose leaves.’ Last year we were taught America wants Europe as 4 colony. Now we are told Russia wants to make us a colony.” But Paja minds his political homework. Any ideological hitch would bar him from the university—which he hopes to enter next year—even if his regular marks brand him “genius.” Paja physically labors for Tito one day every two weeks—and one solid month each summer, The biwe€kly “voluntary working action” group hauls bricks on a Belgrade construction job, Last year's month-long duty was swinging a pick on: the aborning Zagreb-Belgrade highway. For all this Paja doesn’t earn a thin dinar . . , just. food and boots. But should he make the university, tuition will be on Tito. As if that isn't enough muscle-building to satisfy Charles Atlas, Paja has to pretzel him-
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self around the parallel bars for long hours of mass physical culture, Which helps (here's the pay-off) make Paja a good soldier for Tito. There is afternoon drill and, following their summer\menth on the highway, Paja’'s class goes under canvas for two weeks of army maneuvers, Despite the howling hatred, Russian is still compulsory. The lads also plug German, English] or French, this being a most trilinqual eapital.| Paja’s classmates, whose parents are low in| the Communist economy, hit a free chow line at| lunch: Soup, beans, cabbage and brown bread.| Chocolate marshmallow nut sundaes are as un-| known hereabouts as a live man chanting: “Down! with Tito.” . ‘
1000 Students—2 Basketballs LIKE ALL Yugoslavia, the school is short of| everything but Marxism. There are exactly two| ‘basketballs and one soccer ball in the gym for| (roughly) 1000 studentd. or | There ‘isn’t an unrationed pencil or paper) pad for sale in this tattered town, and Paja draws his meager supplies from teacher. Needless to add, there are no roadster raconteurs—not even a single. bike is parked outside the school building. Ironically, collecting pictures of cars-of-all-nations is a hot hobby. i } When the school tosses a dance, jug jivers| love “Scatterbrain,” “Jealousy” and “Besama| Mucha.” : | Paja says “lakska” is the name for a female fast number. There is no tag for a shy miss . . .| “in Belgrade there aren't any.’ Co-eds, .inci- i dentally, are forbittden to paint lips or nails.
A recent check bn career choices of Paja’s. Bottema & Son thrive on 327 acres south of Beech Grove. One regis-| like It, 1s with so many rich peo- ever, : lg? £ 32 : . gis-'fingers spread over the c¢ , : | classmates showed: 12 bureaucrats, 13 mechanics, tered 2-year-old. Holstein recently made farm news on completion gripping prea To ie sounty: ple who dabble in purebred stock, the sum 6 soldiers, 1 marine, 2 lawyers, 1 doctor, 3 en- of a 353-day production test. She provided 543 pounds of butterfatithe Bottemas held to their pres- but we'll stack
gineers. Nobody—smart be a capitalist.
lads—expressed a desire to
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Running Short
By Frederick C Othman of constructive breeding,”|
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Honest John Snyder gave himself a careful shave, put on his black, or testifying, suit and rolled up to Capitol Hill to give the lawgivers the lowdown on the fiscal situation. His funeral costume was appropriate. Anyway you look at it, the outlook ain’t good. We owe too much money to ourselves. The government’s spending more than it takes in and the more it spends which it hasn’t got, the more there {= for the rest of us to spend. That's inflation and, while it doesn’t make sense to me, Honest John says that's the way bank credit works. Where a dollar's concerned, I'd rather take his word than anybody's. He not only knows all about dollars, he makes 'emy in a factory on 14th St, where all his printers have green faces from the ink they
_rub off those pretty dollar bills.
He'll Have to Borrow THIS YEAR, mourned Mr. Snyder, the government is going to spend $43 billion for one thing and another, from price supports for potatoes to sterling silver finger bowls with gadroon borders for admirals, It’s going to take in only $38 billion. That means, he continued lugubriously, that he’s got to write checks for $5 billion more than he has in his sock. If you tried this you'd go to jail. But when Mr. Snyder pens a bouncy check, he merely borrows the proceeds from a bank, a bond buyer, or maybe an insurance company. If" he's got to borrow, Honest John would rather give his IOU to a private citizen because, for reasons beyond me, that's not inflationary. This is why he keeps super salesmen, with drum majorettes, on the road peddling savings bonds. What pains him is borrowing from banks. The trouble is that every time a bank slips him a dollar, another one automatically grows for general spending purposes. ‘This obviously IX nonsense at least to me it is—but that's what happens when
the dollar maker borrows back from the banks
his own products. He can explain this phenomenon —————
at length, but with all respect for Mr. Fiscal, I must report that it sounds like purest gobblegook. So Honest John told the lawgivers that what, we've got to do is balance the budget. There are
son Raymond said. “Like the old he invested in cattle. From the than ' $50,000. Sale of who jauctioneer says, ‘Buy ‘em good sale of one, he would buy two. grosses more than §15000 yearly Mae, have walked off with 10 of always is on the lookout for anand breéd ‘em better’. At the end of five years he re- and dairy products yield $20,000 the last 12 grand champions in/other goodsbuy to breed 'em betThat has been the operational turned to Holland and brought annually. |state 4-H shows, Iter. fA — - Re COA -SMH ISP eine . — New Allison Aircraft Engine Is Described As World's Mightiest Production of a new propeller. rm woo : ; ’ bn y . — HE engine will place the ; 7 : : dy 3 2 ge
two ways to do this, One is to raise taxes. a pro- turbine cedure in election year that gives a Congressman United States “out front” in the the midnight shudders. The other is to cut ex- world-wide race for aireraft powpenses, a horrid thought that couses bureaucrats ey
and harbor planners to talk to themselves,
The gentleman on the subcommittee for the Economic Report wondered what Mr.
man. He also said again that he wouldn't raise the pricé of gold, but that he'd have no objections if Congress whacked the price of silver,
ing. He's got enough fights as it is without picking another one with those tough silver boys.
Not Recession, but Adjustment
ment. |
“Well, how serious would the adjustment have
to become before you'd call it a recession?” Insist-| THE
ed Sen. Douglas. Honest John, who is a cautious man, sald he'd] have to study that, ,
The Quiz Master
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Can trees reproduce without fertilization? Yes: asexual reproduction has heen found to occur in several birches and perhaps in other
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What are the most important forms of forest
game? . . Deer, elk, grouse, tree squirrels, turkey and bear. : . ; ; ¢ + 9 _Which country was the first to grant full recognition to Soviet Russia?: . Great Britain, which recognized the U. 8S. 8. R. on Feb. 1, 1924. «
Where is Mount Ararat? This traditional site of the landing of Noah's Ark is on'the border between Turkey and Iran, near Soviet Armenia; ; * @ @ “Were halos used before Christ? Their use was probably of astrological origin and it is exemplified in Egyptian, Etruscan, Indian, Greek and Roman art. ’ ” ¢ @ Why was Maj. Andre, the British spy, hanged? Maj. Andre had- negotiated with Benedict Arhola for the surrender of West Point to the Brit
and 13,863 pounds of top milk,
And business wasn’t even dis- Twelvelms Hartog Bess create no the day he arrived from Holland, cussed . , . in this land the only business is Tito, surprise with the Bottemas. Top home of Holstein cattle, The 1 nd dered t likely | production is an old story. Their e four lads considered “mos ely to suc- Holstein herd yearly fills more ir ceed” are those boning to join the Communist mjlk cans than any other of like this country on a cattle boat at|ling heifers are kept as. replace-iat the Ohio fair, They also had drop over dead,” Raymond ssid.
Party. breed in the state,
sald today.
Snyder by the Allison Division of Genthought they ought to do. He said that was their eral Motors, the new engine is problem. He's got his own troubles trying to ad- identified as the XT-40 turbominister the laws they pass. But he did say he'd Prop.
like to see taxes hiked. So would President Tru- Produces more power for its size - « « and weight than any similar en-
gine revealed anywhere else in the world.
test by successful completion of _8en. Paul Douglas, (D. Ill:) said he must be ground passive on the silver subject. S8en.'Ralph Flanders, four engines now are being in(R. Vt.) suggested that he was hopefully passive. stalled in The Secretary of the Treasury said he wasn't say- Flying Boat for early flight.
greatly speeds the obsolescence of all reciprocating engines in both {military HE ALSO said this country has had no reces- craft,” E. B. Newill, vice presi- 8/0n shafting and reduction gear. only boost local employment, but sions since he took over the moneybags. Sen. dent of General Motors and gen-| Douglas said he thought we were in the midst of era) manager of Allison Division, type engine, is expected to give'ing “the aircraft engine capital one now. Mr. Snyder said, no, this was an adjust- said. f
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THE LARGEST purebred Holstein herd in Indiana grazes vir- of the Citizens Gas & Coke Uttiity [14500 In milk, ad aid Yattor oiotanas have a standing 10 ually in the shadows of downtown buildings. [stdnds today. RATE pd. and utter, | The op His, i s - Hardly out of Indianapolis smog, the prized cattle of C. M.| The city’s industrial-residential jos om said. “It's no hobby | hp. Sale Sgn. Jaan La in offspring. Curréhtly
Twelvelms Hartog Bess . . , milk production raised eyebrows.
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WAS » : “ous tion this ; \seyen firsts at the Indiana State N& year. a MORE THAN 100 animals con- pdir. seven at the Till “But every one’s a gamble, Yo Now 76, he worked his way to stitute the herd. Some 35 year-and two a ht Tinos Pale vet know when Folia
16. He took the only job he knew, ments and for sale; 23 new-born |“You' |milking cows. For five years he calves wobble on untried legs; i he grand shumplon at a ." labored at 50 cents a week milk- expect offspring momentarily, 30 has been- judged third best ud. 'D it ever sifice I could walk dwn “I GUESS it's all due to 45 ing 30 cows twice a day. [engage in milk production. |dered in the nation © |to the barn.” i What money he could lay by,| The herd values out at better | we He still has years to go to cateh stock! RAYMOND and his sister, Effie up withy his energetic father
national aviation authorities
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Allison engineers said it
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qualification tests and
This is a three-quarter front view of the newly developed XT-40 turho-prop. engine, designed and now bei oduced by the: Allison Division of the General Motors Corp. =P os, ; "pr Y
. -y engine is one of the smalest ever stand at about ,9000, including of our best reciprocating engines,”| A turbo-prop engine is HK& the XF40 built. It produces more than two Some on at the Bedford plant. Mr, Newill said, “and producing turbo-jet, a gas‘ turbine engine, wt Employment . : One AT or oY sald pro- twice as much power for each However; most of the energy deexten- quction of the engine would not pound of weight, the XT-40 rounds veloped in the turbine is converted out the military requirement for into mechanical power and used ah engine of the gas turbine type for driving a propeller with only which will transport pay loads a small portion of the turbine en- 4 over long distances at high speed ergy utilized as thrust out of ihe... ow
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“Development of the
horsepower for each pound of
engine weight, including
and. commercial air-
Mass production of the new- could lead to Indianapolis becom-
/ ja sharp up-swing in Allison’s em- of the world.” Considering its horsepower, the ploymant tables, which. currently “By matching the fuel economy
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‘OF THE SAVIOR . . .
By William E. G
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Bm cel n ision. Christ's . coming wos foretold mony a ref hy ied it. ' pa lt yn: s0id, “Abroham rejoiced to see my doy.” (John 8:56.)