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you might come along quietly on this one ‘since'my * Soncers 18 With 3 man's. Madiows. 1-know i's Decessity with you. : ‘To-begin with, let me say I'm not afraid to say Tve had my first manicure. It was sort of an experiment. Besides, plenty ‘of guys get a manicure.

ByEd Sovola oe : -—

Bs win owas] = 'Rinay, a 1050 —

for the day. I was Pryor and Ernest ; Mr. Sotho: Same ov: snd 16EsS nd sv) i .-his eyes. “You manicure right in the shop where peo], can see you?” “Certainly,” said Miss May, whipping ot long "nail file. She ‘was undecidéd for a er] where to begin. - Finally she choose a finger and|

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Coal Shortage Closes. Schools

‘And you're not ‘necessarily a sissy if you' ve had a —Eeanicure:

There's only one person I wouldn't want to find out about the manicure. That's my mother. She might not understand. Not that she condones dirty or battered fingernails. She doesn’t. She's just. one of those thrifty persons from the old school he believes a man or woman ought to be capable of taking care of his. or her scratchers. Manicure,

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Took: Courage

; IT WASN'T easy to work up enough courage to walk into a barber shop and. say. you wanted.a. manicure. I'll bet I: walked five miles around town before popping’ into the Warren Hotel shop. Hoosler Vagabond Ernie Pyle used to stay at the Warren whenever he came to Indianapolis. of course, that wasn’t the main reason for going

Proprietor Henry Bowsher and Thelma May, manicurist, were the reasons. I was pretty sure they would be sympathetic to my fling-at the unknown. When a buck is burning a hole in’ your pocket, get ‘rid of it. Miss May wasn't too horrified when she examined my hands. She only gasped and turned pale. Didn't collapse. The barber shop just opened

Hi h gloss . man" his first. manicure. He liked it so well he “refused to wash his hands.

Sissy War

. Thelma May gives a “gentle.

- look.-as if I was used to that sort of thing. You

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began | the violin. The filing didn’t ‘take long. There wasn't much to file. An abrasive stick knocked off the rough | edges. She kept ‘telling me to relax. With a small stiff brush Miss May applied cuticle remover on all the fingers of my right hand. Then she sevayes out small piles of dead tissue. a “,. A man cdme in for-a shave anda ‘shine. He glanced over to the manicurist’s table. I tried to

know, man of the world, gentleman, wolf about

pr J Bowsher remembered Ernie Pyle getting

“haircuts ahd shoe shines bit he couldn't recall]

whether Ernie ever had a manicure. He didn’t think Ernie sat still long enough to get one. Surprised me what a manicure involves. After scraping away the cuticle, Miss May clipped hard skin and ragged edgas. Soaking. the fingers in a small pan of water made me fee! funny, too. The most pleasant part of the entire ordeal was having Miss May hold my hand. Strictly in liné of duty but it was pleasant. I called attention to the fact that the thumbnail on her left hand was short and worn. She said all manicurists have that trouble. It's hard to keep the file and emery board off that finger when ‘you're working. Miss May regards manicures as a necessity. Well-groomed fingernails and clean hands are a mark of distinction, She seemed unhappy that she

sa customer. — “Fl bet I could have talked him into a manicure,” was her confident comment.

wasn’t in the barber shop during the years Ernie

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No More Claws

THE LEFT hand took the same treatment as| the right. File, emery board, cuticle remover, | scraping, cutting and soaking.

One of the last acts was a dose of hand lotion. | ! -—

Miss May does that during the winter months. When the lotion was rubbed into the skin. she| proceeded to dust each nail with a powder and| brought a buifer into action. Just nke, shining! shoes. They looked fine. The manicurist was glad| I passed by the clear nail polish.” All: done. Thank | you. On the street the fingernails looked. so good I

didn’t put my gloves on. No one would make me!

stick my hands in my pockets by looking at the claws now. Dirty firigernails were inexcusable. So messy. Made a man feel he shou!d have a shine, shave, shampoo, his suit pressed. Not bad. I'm not sure whether it's a luxury.or not.. What do. you think?

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, ‘Mar. 3—The. cheery. news that the

" H-bomb can bé rigged to create a cloud of deadly

dandruff which would wipe out all the world fetches us wistfully backward, to Sabatini, the swasher of literary buckles. Mr. Sabatini died not long ago, probably as much from despair as any old age. It is difficult to peddle the cloak-and-dagger in a brave new world where the kiddies get toy cyclotrons and Geiger counters for Christmas. J 1 daresay Capt. Blood, Scaramouche or the Sea Hawk would be a bit bewildered, and highly impotent, in our times. These creatures of ‘Sabatini’s ~pen-lived in an-age where a man had to be a man to be a warrior. Combat was highly personalized business, then, and a man who could not use a

-#word® Very rarely wore one.

M~n Was Measured by His Muscle

THE MEASURE of a man was his muscle, his personal resourcefulness, and his skill with a ‘pistol or a cutlass. Single combat was the keystone of

force, and even in naval action, the payoff was

when you slung the grapples into your enemy ship and the crews swarmed aboard, to hack gleefully at each other. The dismal business of sinking a rival by radar has taken a deal of personal exhiliration from sea-fighting. I recall that when the dashing Peter Blood delicately pinked. a. competitor with his frogsticker, he would rearrange the ruffles at his wrist and saunter off to dally with a damsel for a few months. There was a night of feasting and was-sail-all between combats, with plenty of sun and fresh sea-air and dicing to leaven the hardships of piracy. They called this piracy, then, and the penalty was hanging, but it seems highly civilized in retrospect, when compared to our own standards of uneasy peace. Oh, I suppose when Blood’s boys or the Sea

Fur Neckties, Yet

WASHINGTON, Mar, 3—This business of feeding President Truman grows increasingly complicated; now it involves war between the sexes, top-sectet documents and a genuine mink necktie.

Not that thir -bothrers—Mr: and potatoes last Saturday night when the White

--House-photographers- fed him. He -had.the same

the week before when the radio correspondents gave him a free meal. And that's what he's going to get this Saturday night when the White House correspondents toss him a banquet. “On this he thrives. He's a meat- and- -potato man, anyhow.

The Ladies Fight Back

HIS DINNER is costing $27.50 for myself and

one guest and not including a shoeshine, or getting—off~Hampton-Roads; with pink elephants making

my hard-boiled’ shirt washed. This strikes me as

tpiFe-had--Theat—Seclet” and how 1 got my paws on one

Hawk's men sacked a téwn, a few civilians got bruised and a few maidens ravished, but it was small-scale bruising and ravishing— -nothing even

Ruth Ann Gasisdy left), editor School's yearbook; Nancy Pierson, art staff member, and Ru anne Pattison, art director, are publishing their book at Porter's photography studios while schools are closed during coal shortage.

in chief of Manual High

uled practice. Robert J. Shultz, director, took the band into the

found or warmer weather permits classes to open.

to compare with the havoc when our own boys liberated a city in the last peace-promotion. Even | a modern visitation of a band of Arab goums on! an open city can scarcely rival the horrors of the morrow, as plotted by the myopic men with the

bulging brains ‘and the chicken- breasts.

® This is what strikes me wrong about oblitera-

tion. ~The men-who man the test-tubes generally

could not defeat a husky Girl Scout in hand-to-|-

hand conflict, or sharpen a pencil without inflict-

ing severe bodily harm to themselves. Tt is difi=]"”

cult to imagine one of today's Som mangle swinging in the rigging or laying about him with! a cutlass. The men who command our doom wotld have largely been left.home with the women in Blood’s day, or slain as Yalueless by the Hawk's corsairs.

Always Rede the Lead Chariot

ogress reports in the home of Miss Charlotte Moore, owell, Miss Florence Smock and Miss Emily Wright. Repent cards were scheduled for distribution Morday; but the forced schoo “vacation” will delay them.

=These-five juniorhigh-schootivachers-froms School No: Z-are

paring wil 606 N. Dearborn St. Left fo right are Miss Moore, Charles Scudde

W. J.

Locked doors at the i High School building failed to keep the school band from sched. 44th St., for rehearsal. Public school buildings will remain closed indefinitely until coal supplies are

Realtors Warned [To Fight ‘Planning’

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basement of his home at 249 W.

Ross Tells Dangers

Of Central Controls —Jn-staff-and organization meets ings, Indianapolis realtors today studied ‘steps to combat the | “horrendous trend toward central { economic planning in this country.” | They

‘were warned yesterday

~— by Dr. M. O. Ross, Butler Uni=— | versity president, of this trend

{by democracies “who are swallowling central planning without con« {cern of the hook in it.” : This hook involves social and moral motives as well as economic standards; Dr. Ross mies warned. It involves the loss of. human relations and dignity, he said. Dr. Ross rapped the “cradle to the grave” philosophy in a lunch-

| About People—

MEN have always fought, and always will, and the innocent bystander got hurt in the process, but atleast in the olden days the commander rode the lead chariot’ and: exposed his chest to spears. If there was undue cruelty it was conscious cruelty, and affected relatively small segments of the population. : ; Bloody and useless as ancient conflict was, it] seems relatively. civilized as contrasted to today’s calm contemplation of setting fire to and/or poisoning the universe, either on purpose or by accident.

I suppose I am just an old fuddy-duddy, but{gates will attend the Mid-Winter uates of women's colleges,

war seemed to have been exciting, dangerous sport, when it was waged by man against man. The new version is ‘as dull as dishwater, if rather more deadly, since it has passed from the soldier's handsy into caves of the magicians.

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By Frederick C. Othman

| Evanston,

Truman (who thus got an extra free meal he wasH't counting on) as guest of honor. | The leading ladies: among the correspondents) rushed out to their sisters a letter labeled *“Top|

tell. This document suggested “that e: bring the Undersecretary a birthday present. rE Kimball Tikes bright ~ ties,” the ~letter!! " concluded. “Let’s give him some he will be proud] to wear and that will reflect credit on us around | the Pentagon.” : H-m-m-m=m. * Poor Mr. Kimball. He received 42 neckties; all right; 42 incredible cravats. He got ’em with yellow egg splashes built: in; with hula ‘girls dancing under bamboo trees; with red cats chasing green mice; with battleships aground

eyes at blue donkeys, and with the hydrogen!

{warned the InTdians" to béware

Minnesota Professor to Speak at Meeting

Dr. C. Gilbert W renn, professor of education at the University |department, will speak at the first! speak on “The Milky Way and

of Minnesota (Minneapolis), will be guest speaker at the informal annual dinner of the Psychology Beyond.” dinner meeting of the Central Branch of the National Vocational Club at 7:45 p. m. Mar. 13 in the » Guidance association at Butler Mar. 13. {Hawthorne Room, Miss Dorothy Dr. Willlam L. Howard, chairman of Butler faculty advisers'|Ponton, Indianapolis senior, pres-| dena, Cal, committee, will direct the meeting to open-at 6.p. m. and be held | ident of the club, will preside. in the Atherton Center. m——————— 28» Following the program dele-|bad job” colleges are doing. Grad

Conference’ of Education spon-/added, marry more successfully ties today to insored by Butler and the Indiana- than those .from co- educational spect the Lock- § polis City Schools, in progress on) Universities, {heed ‘and Doug- |

the Fairview. cam us. Ty las" Aircraft §f P "Lora Lee Michel, 9, has started plants there. The

Mrs, D. Leigh Colvin, national a new picture at Columbia studios, prince, husband president, of the Women’s .Chris- happy as a lark. She's legally of Queen Julitian Temperance {adopted now by her stepmother, ana, flew his own Union, today in {Mrs.- Otto Michel, who fought a plane to Los An1, hair-pulling battle in court when geles, predicted a the child's mother, - Mrs. Lena He said -all ‘completely dry” "| Brunson, claimed custody of the he’d have to do India within a girl. with thé movie Vishiors.” He said the problems of few years, She colony will be to, he atomic age should be disNotre Dame niGtory departmentyattend a private! rince Bernhard cussed by the United Nations and | Landi -a-workshop-for-high aimer-partyto be giver by-Lome-not-by-the

Win

[Miss Temple last May. {your baby next time,” | Miss Temple. ”

she told

: = » : { Salvado Dali of New | Spanish- -born pianter, refused to{day to serve on a committee which plans to welcome to the U. 8S. a “world peace” delegation “because of the presence of outstanding Communists among the

worid-pegce

of legal loop- | school history “and. geography B. Mayer, movie executive. tion headed by Pable Picasso, holes: "Phiegreats: .iteachers on.the Notre Dame. BRI ron cxnionions soy lo hs ol semen wHpanish-born -abstractionist;. est threat to {pus June 27-July 25. In charge “Lt. Governor John ‘Watkins oo rr 0» x prohibitions will’ be Prof. Marshall Smelser has announced that approximate- Bing Crosby,

f1¥ 1 million sheets of seals will movie and radio Ibe mailed to Indiana - citizens/star, will underLt. Gen. Robert L. ER ag by the Indiana Society go an appendeéelgners or possession-t Smyt {said last night in New York that for Crippled. Children,’ to. eperTtomy next week,’ cal’ medicinal purposes Fes Tesag any peace-treaty {Lhe society's 1950 Easter Seal his brother. jwith Japan | sale. O. M, Swihart, president of Larry said today

Delores wy Bisth, 19, daugh- | 'should provide a ‘ithe Indiana Society, is-directing in Hollywood. He

| complete success | may be such ex- ‘Mrs. Colvin ceptions as allowing sale to for-

{and Prof. John J. Hooke." »

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..-.a. little costly... There have been some heated argu:

ments among my peers about the high price of

.bomb..erupting around the world. ‘His mink tie had a border of ‘Whitest ermine.

are barred from the banquet because they wear skirts. They have been biting the red varnish off their fingernails these many years over this

“Mrs. Truman never asked to come “to our feed,” cried a male spokesman for the association. “Why should these other females? Fact is, I wish

feeding Presidents. . He got one with three hand-painted men on it|to & young writer because her Munist .aggres-i ing the sale J Marion County. |Tueésday. : other objected. Miss Blyt EEL ® I The appendix oe battles pale “Into insi ificance . when advertising a new movie and another, covered 1 — to the fight of the Tor, who with cats, publicizing the Chesapeake & Ohio Thomas Fairbanks, 24, were mar-|_ Communist i Ann Harding, (has been giving: yo ry . pay. their $2 annual dues to the association, but Railroad. ried yesterday in San Bernardino, foild. over. the once ‘a leading - {Bing trouble off

One of the ladies presented him with a second- | Cal.

hand cravat, freshly cleaned and pressed, which | her brother brought back from the wars, It was

_khaki-colored: neat but not gaudy. She suggested Mich., ed th Undersecretary might like to wear it to books ¥oday in an effort io decide if he should sue officials of controlling

that the work as a symbol of unification. among the fighting men.

they’d bar men from their hen parties. It would . He Can’ t Escape

save a lot of bother.” And so on, growing louder by the minute. Then came Dan A. Kimball, the Undersecretary of the Navy who was 54 years old and who should have known better, inviting the 42 lady members ‘to a consolidation—dinner in. celebration of his

birthday. He provided a handsome naval officer this will teach him not to stick his nose in other|is in a Stronger and better posi-|ts his skull at a pre-nuptial cele-|

to escort each girl and he brought in President

THAT'S the trouble. Mr. Kimball has got to {down strike to protest county | 5 =

wear these ties. - The ladies drop in on him regu-| larly during the course of business. Insofar as his neckties are corcerned, he might as well be | married to all 42 of 'em.=Ah, well. He brought it’ upon himself. Maybe

people's fights.

The Quiz Master

272 Test a skill 27?

How many Rocky Mountain goats are left? ' It is estimated that there are 14,000 Rocky Mountain goats in the continental United States. Most of them are in the wilderness areas of the national forests in Washington, Idaho and Mon-

tana. Goats are also found in Alaska. They may cape areas, all within Sra daily travel range of

be hunted under special permit and in accordance with state laws. “ie

Can minéral’ deposits ' in the Antarctic be detected from the air? | Scientists are now locating ore deposits by

What is the most desirable forest environment, for wildlife in general? It is ti» forest or woodland in which there in a mixture of food-bearing and cover-producing, plants (from trees to grass), plus water.-and es-

the wildlife. Contrary to general belief, such con-| ditions do not always exist in mature forests. e % <

What units of measurement are used in deter- _ mining the weight and height of horses? The height of horses is measured in hands

aerial photography. This is accomplished by a (four inches) and their weight in stones (14 new instrument called an aerial magnetometer pounds), which, hung by cable from a plane, can measure — > & & | the changes magnetism of the earth, there-

" Which apes have no tails? > ! ac Sher 414 10ur gecics of Atithtopoid apes without _tails—the gorilla. the Shampater, the orang-

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gibbon, = 2

imsbilesand air planes, Miss Bly used steamboats, horse vehicles, and raliroad trains exsiuively.

today she was married secretly rand-from=Coms

dent of Mills College for Women! What conveyances did Nellie By x use in her trip of Oakland; Cal. blames the high jcreate conditions divorce rate among college Wom-\maye it easy for them to take reporter, made en on “educating girls as though over the world without a struga trip around the world in 72 days 6 hours and they were men.” 11 minutes. As this ‘was before the era of auto- vorce rate among college women, was twice that of college men: and Saliea. it a symptom of “the of Butler University pryehology Dr. Marry BE. Dun, Butler, will Helficieney X in admin

ter ‘of ‘the late John Barrymore (Japanese - Army § the state sale assisted by Ken-will enter St. find Actress Dolores Costello, said 0 Protect the-ls- neth—R.—Mitler, state executive John's Hospital J Frdtréctor Karl Zimmer 18 ditect- In Santa Monica]

Angelina Pappan, 14, of Pasa] whose" last wish was aj labor {visit from Shirley Temple, lost 'her year-long fight against a] Prince Bernhard of The Nether- tare blood disease: She died yeshe/lands shunned Los Angeles “par- terday. Angelina, who was studying to be an actress, entertained] “Bring|

York, |

‘|economic planning despite ‘hor‘land Germany in the last

eon address before the Indianapolis Real Estate Board yesterday afternoon.

~ Outlines Program =

fa 4 {| He said battling the drift to{ward central government control lcould be accomplished most ef- | fectively by: ONE: Opposing monopolies, “in aswell as ustry,” wherever they tend to develop. “We must maintain a compe[tition for it is the life blood of free enterprise,” he said.’ TWO: Re-entering actively in formation of public policy. : “Overcome the futility you belleve accompanies public policy | action,” he urged. THREE: Supporting the church, for it “stresses human dignity, morals and ideals.” “It emphasizes the importance of the individual in society,” he said. FOUR: Revamping the educa= tional system to graduate stu- - dents trained to lead in human xl tions as well as in letters professions. "

«Cites: ‘Horrendous. Examples’.

The Butler president edpraased surprise at the growth of central

rendous examples of Russia, lly years.” . “He explained ‘human aspirations

pects of central planning are the ar for the growth.

star of the and on - for some time,” his|

Far East” if the

2.93 2 Y root {screen, ' spruced | brother said. Rep Fred L. Crawford, R., Soviet Union fup today. Sheil = i locked through his law] and Communist Lt. Gen. a ™ David Mba ‘dgwo of Nigeria, | China succeed i Eichelberger Fe Bla A ene TAfrica, experienced his Hrst win-

[movie appear-

Ja- in

| Prince George's County, Md -for pan, the former commander o false imprisonment, Mr. Crawford the U. 8. Eighth Army.in Japan, ‘recerstly staged a two-day sit- |said. ~

ter weather when hé entolled this| {week in the IU School of Business. .

t lance four years. Miss Harding ‘has been. signed | pail practices after he was ar-| Mae Bower, ‘rors child ac-| {by Metro - Goldrested for assaulting an cffice tress, spent her, wedding day in| wyn-Mayer, assistant. [jail in Los Angeles today because She'll take the 2.9.8 'her bridegroom -to-be, Charlie role of Jane

Willis F. Beltz, 112 Central Ave.,! /has been elected secretary. of the| {Purdue Camera Club. He is a

Miss Harding

Engineering.

-|is greatly criticized today as a

#+ No one man or government is

[senior in the School of Electrical John B, Lookabill, realtor ‘and

“Anyone who opposes this trend

|disbeliever in humanitarianism,” (he said. “This is a false accusa~

“Central economic planning" will

{He cited the present economic |plight of England.

capable of efficient administration {of economic destiny, he warned - the realtors. Dr. Ross was introduced by

builder and Butler alumnus.

The American banking Industry | MeCarthy, 57, died after a blow Powell's mother. :

‘ tion than everi ation, Miss Bower, 45, was’ in| J. Warper "Kiund, 38, Wilmingbefore in its hi i8-| custody because she told con-|ton, Del, insurance salesman and tory, John B.igicting stories about the deatn|former _ Delaware state. tennis Snyder, Secre- op tno man who was to be her/champion, said today he. had| tary of the fifth husband. {asked Gen. Douglas MacArthur Treasury, said 2 w [to find him a Japanese wife. He last night in Lan-| go. 5oeeph C. O° Mahoney, Wy- says Japanese girls are” more, caster, Pa. He ‘oming Democrat, said today Rus- spiritual, sensitive and courteous addressed t h eg, hag “no idea than the “materialistic” AmeriAmerican Insti- or waging ag- ‘ean girls. tute 9 Banking ressive war sn at . HebelleveS thiS ig g3inst the Notre Dame and the Sipe lair year will be good ynited States.” | Refining Co. -will continue the] ithe SoLE10, WETS Fepresun ted w hes for both business The chairman of 3 petroleum research started in 10474, nt-in the Broad Ripple post and banking. the Senate com- bn Notre Dame through Jan. 31, neh and adopted a Ry .

pr. | proposing the study. sna |. The Hoover Commission report, Dr. Sidney D. Field, 6002 Kings- | based on its original study, pro-

_| poses a redistribution of the funcbus brs ida etussied bide tions of the Veterans Administra : Iti v { post- graduate course in general! Sen. O'Mahoney |; thesia at . Ohio State Uni-|

versity Coliege of Dentistry, | Commission,” the resolution

| The 11th district department {of the Indiana American Legion today was on record as urging a | further study by the Hoover Commission of veterans affairs ad- | ministration. Thirty-nine of the 56 posts In

Mr. Snyder Current industrial production and| {mittee on interi-

Milton Burton’ has retail trade are at “solid levels” or and insular based on consumer demand, helaffairs said said. _ Communists are

{“counti on a Dr. Lynn T. White Jr., presi- counting rt:

“We- do not-. . . condemn the

jwhich would | whole findings of the Hoover

He said the di- gig»

. Legion Asks Hoover Group :To Study VA Further

ices to veterans or in any other function of government.” The resolution adds, however, that the Legion district is “not convinced that real economy will result - from splitting the funce tions of the Veterans Administra tion between several additional federal agencies, nor are we convinced that the welfare of the veteran will be more efficiently ‘served by such Tedistsibution of functions amongst several widely, separated bureaus.” Et It is proposed that the new study be made in the light of | today’s situation rather than that of 1946 and early 1947, used be | fore by the Hoover Commission, “which reflected the expected n=

- Dr. = "Livingston, me member. tral Library. 40 E. St. Clair St.!advocate extrayagance, aste or