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By Ed Sovola

FIRST THING I'd like to say is, it’s wonderful to get back home and the Nova Scotians needn’t keep a light burning in their windows for my return.

Second, please don't needle me (more than five minutes at a time) about tuna fish. The American team lost. They didn’t have a strike during the Severith International Tuna Cup Match. Fishing stunk. And I didn't bring back any tuna in cans, either. With that, I'd like to get happily back to the quest for my daily bread, hit the ball on dry land again, Today the man’s.billfold is up for discussion. Let me ask you, how many ounces (or pounds) of useless cards do ybu haul around in yours?

Shadows Billfold Buyer

MOST INTERESTING question. It occurred to me yesterday while pounding around town, getting the feel of concrete sidewalks and leaning on showcases of stores instead of rails on ships and boats. Busily engaged with some thinking in the billfold section of one of the town’s leading department stores, I noticed an intelligent-looking, welldressed man of perhaps 45 years glance into a showcase, halt his executive stride. He pointed to a billfold behind the glass. The saleslady took out a box of billifolds, the gentleman grabbed the one that caught his eye, felt the leather, tried to break and twist it in two, rifled the card windows, pulled the money section asunder and said, “I'll take it.” There was a man of action who knew what he wanted. He never hesitated or went in circles, unable to make decisions. Hold on, though. Mr. Who's Who in the business world did have a problem, It began when he decided to transfer

. his money and cards to the new billfold. At first

he tried to stuff the bundle from the old bilifold into the new one. The cards wouldn't fit, the leather being new and stiff. Then he decided to sort his stack. Ten or 15 cards were important, couldn't be thrown away. There was some hesitation on a few. One card was almost torn up but finally it was stuffed in the shirt pocket. } The other side of the bilifold was bulging with equally important cards. Few were black, the pencil scribbling blurred. Some were yellowed with age. Ragged and unevenly folded ‘scraps of paper seemed as valuable. as the engraved card.

The new bilifold, the kind with extra windows for cards, was too small, Several scraps of paper were stuffed in the man’s coat pocket. Either they were more important or less important than the paper in his shirt pocket. Frankly, I just stood there with my mouth open. The male animal could be as much of a magpie with his billfold as a woman is with her purse. Disturbing. But how prevalent is this habit of stuffing one's bilifold? A three-inch thick filing case is an awful sight in a man's hip pocket. Orderliness begins at home. Two hours later, my billfold was cleared of cards that were from five to 10 years old. There were addresses of no earthly value. Some of the girls have been married for years. Dreamer. If a paper shortage hits us again, I'm writing the President, suggesting he issue an executive order for men throughout the land to rid themselves of unnecessary cards. I'll bet we could get a million pounds of excellent paper stock overnight. I didn’t let the matter drop. Sales people confirmed my suspicions. The female clerks were especially garrulous in describing how the male foolishly gathers and totes paper. I was under the impression that one lady was scoffing at men. Younger men have a strong preference for billfolds with ‘plenty of room for pictures. The older man prefers to utilize space for more practical cardboard. “F had a man try for an hour to decide which cards he didn't need,” said a saleswoman. “Finally he jammed everything in the new bilifold.” Surveys show 65 per cent of wallet sales are impulse sales. Women buy 80 per cent of the men's wallets sold. Surveys don’t show what percentage of women fill them with money.

Green Notes for Stuffing

STUFFING A BILLFOLD and carrying it in the hip pocket cuts down on its longevity. Of course, if you're able to stuff it with bales of green stuff, what do you, care? The best and safest place for your wallet is supposed to be the inside pocket of your coat. Carrying it there doesn’t spoil the fit of your clothes, the salesladies said. “Men really don’t have any right to poke fun at the contents of a woman's purse,” added another, } Could be. Mine's flat today. Neat, though. Have you checked your billfold lately?

Human Habit

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 22 — The word ‘“hoarder” has a nasty sound and a nasty connotation, when somebody else is doing it, but hoarding is a very human habit, and I do not see how you can get awfully indignant about it. “Hoarding,” in a sense, is a dirty word for thrift, for selfish providence, for looking ahead to the future. One of the celebrated fables concerned the ant and the grasshopper.

The ant stacked it away; the grasshopper blew

his wad on fun and games. The squirrel is a hoarder—he merrily gathers his nuts in May, and stashes them in the deep freeze against a tough winter. Let me say that I am not a hoarder, since I never seem to accumulate enough ready cash to place me actively in the hoarding business. I believe we are fresh out of sugar at the moment; the new tires are clamped on the car, after 30,000 miles on the original set, and the liquor trove is mighty skimpy. Nothing left but meager gin. By my honest inclination today is to go out and buy a flock of staples—a few bales of cigarets, a ton or so of sugar, a hamper of nylons for mama and a reserve set of tires. If I could afford to stockpile a little nourishing whisky, against the recurring ague, I would do it, because I am in no sense a noble man.

‘Don’t Know Where | Am’

AND THE REASON I am not a noble man today, by definition is largely due to distHusionment at the hands of my masters in Washington. The way they run it, with controls on this, and no controls on that, I don’t know where I am or what I can believe. : I own a set of frazzled principles, left over from the last war, during which I was blissfully overseas and therefore suffered no civilian short-

Cigarets I smoked—the Navy sold them to me for 60 cents a carton. Red meat I ate. Gasoline and tires and transport were kindly furnished by Uncle Sam. . But I remember that the homeside soap-chips shortage assumed proportions which over-shad-owed the second front, and that ladies used to hurl each other through shop windows to get their dainty paws on a pair of nylons.

“ Mumble of Guns, Butter

‘we wholeheartedly did in the last ome.

There was heavy traffic in gasoline coupons and cigarets. The steak-easy flourished like the old-time speak-easy. Pleasant living lurked under the counter, and the memory of it all is still mighty green in the civilian mind. I personally will not hoard—much. I will not turn down a case of Scotch, for instance, for I am not out of my -mind. I think that panic buying is wrong and hurtful to the mass, since it creates ig shortages and finally screams for control. But I do not find much fault with the people who do it. . We are beset today with fresh credit strictures and a new list of controllable commodities. It is half-headed restriction, with elastic limits and escape hatches for the wise guys. We wistfully ask the people not to drive up prices, not to clamor for heavy wage increases, but we define no real barriers against inflation and exploitation.

WE PUT OFF the tough excess profits bill. We mumble of guns and butter, with no solid prediction that we will get either, both or neither. It seems we are too snug to the last war to enter in the economic college spirit of this one, as understandable. We suffered a deep drought of alarm clocks and stockings; of cars and houses; of steaks and catsup and pepper and beer and booze and airplane reservations. We have observed the government's hoarding in the artificial bolstering of farm prices, the lavish squandering of our funds abroad, and all the little funny-businesses in Washington — funnybusinesses which have milked the till and delivered precious little in the way of results. + I think a deep distrust in the wisdom and probity of our peers has been planted, and it is hard to blame the people, if, today, they crowd

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1950

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Oust Acheson From Cabinet, Craig Demands

Legion Chief Flays State Department For ‘Pink Cohorts’

tional commander last called for removal of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. In a Constitution Week speech at the World War Memorial Building here, Legion Commander George N. Craig, Brazil, Ind, said replacement of Mr. Acheson “should be demanded at once.”

Although Mr. Craig's demand does not carry the full weight of official action by the Legion, this

official. + Lists Reasons

Principal reasons Mr. Craig gave for scrapping Mr. Acheson were:

Americans have lost confidence in the State Department. Mr. Acheson has followed a policy of appeasement in the Far East. The State Department is dotted with “pink cohorts.” “Replacement of Dean Acheson and his pink cohorts would be a welcome relief to the American ple. “It should be demanded at once,” the Legion chief declared. “One after another, our State Department people's loyalty has been questioned. With so many good, clean living, God-fearing Americans to choose from, why cannot we staff our State Department with men whose loyalty is above question? “Without necessarily passing on the merits or demerits of individuals, it is increasingly apparent that the people of the United States have lost confidence in the trustworthiness of our State Department. Its officials must be replaced if that confidence is to be restored,” Mr. Craig told the listeners. Recalls Hiss Incident The Legion commander also blamed Mr. Acheson for “forcing the resignation” of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, That was because Mr, Johnson opposed the “sellout policies” of the State Department, he said. Mr. Craig recalled the Alger Hiss incident and reminded listeners that only a series of “accidents” led to the State Department official’s conviction on Red spy perjury. Mr. Craig also demanded strong, aggressive action against Russia. He suggested the following new American foreign policy: “Extend our Monroe Doctrine to embrace the free areas of the world which desire such protection. “Apply ruthless economic sanction upon Russia. We should immediately demand the abroga-

the grocery store and flood the department store and stack their bathrooms full of tires which will probably rot before they use them. You deplore the trend, but you understand it. We have been subject to so many pretty si that suspicion of all save bread in the pan rife among the yeomanry. .

Final Fortune

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—I am happy to report that at long last some good use has been found for a finial. A what? A finial. I didn’t know what 4" finial was, myself, until the day before yesterday when George Kernodle, the celebrated antique dealer, dropped by to see me. He'd been worrying about the useless finial for a long time. Take the table lamp with the silk shade in your own parlor. On top of it, directly above the electric globe, is a round ball; a kind of marble usually. That's the finial. No good for anything, except to get busted, until Mr. Kernodle took steps.

No More Scorched Fingers =,

HE DECIDED why not turn the finial into the switch? Twist it and turn on the light. Twist it again and shut it off. No fumbling around for buttons undet the shade, no more scorched fingers, no more lamps smashed in the process of getting lit. So George started hand-building lamps with switches in their finials in the back of his antique shop on Wisconsin Ave. He also applied for a U. 8. patent and pat momentarily is pending. Now he’s being. besieged by lamp manufacturers who want the right to make the world’s first useful finial. aE This goes to prove all over again that the simple things are the best. The surprising part is that nobody thought of it long ago; the pleasant part is that Mr. Kernodle’s idea likely will make him a wealthy man. There are some other neat schemes in the works. Some weeks ago, for instance, I mentioned

the fact that I'd drink more tea if the tags on

the ends of the strings to the tea bags weren't always eoming off and flavoring my tea with ink.

Along came a packer of tea with samples of his new stringless bags. They work fine, too. On the side of each bag is a strip of filter paper, under which you slip your spoon. With this ar-| rangement you can navigate the bag in the cup and eventually lift it out without any danger of a string falling off. Now comes another outfit with a related idea; coffee in small bags, like tea. Drop one in your cup, pour in some hot water,’swish the bag around, and you've got a cup of coffee. These have been on sale now for some time in New England, where the citizens have found them excellent. They should be available across the country shortly. By now you motorists probably have tried one of the new silicone-containing auto waxes, Smear

-it on, let it dry, rub it off, and you've got an

automobile a good deal shinier even than when it left the factory.

Car Polishing Made Easy

THE SILICONES are post-war types of synthetic resins which have the peculiar property of causing®wax to flow smoothly, evenly and thinly on any hard surface. They take the rubbing out of a Synday morning car-polishing job and in the last few months they have revolutionized the auto polish business. One of the manufacturers thereof has put on the market silicone-impregnated tissues to- polish

eyeglasses without smears. Now he’s about to]

produce furniture-polishing cloths with the silicones built in. The idea is that a housewife should be able to make her living room glisten, including the finials on her lamps, quicker than I can tell about it.

BeHe's 'Ex' Says He's Good Carpenter

Artist William Grant Sherry,

was working in

Laguna Beach, Cal, today as a

Mrs,

sick” when they located ‘her at a downtown hotel. The first hint Edson had that her ss = @ daughter was in New York was

said, “but I've got to finish a canasta game first.”

Film Actress . Ava Gardner

our enemy. is y.

Pa., was reunited last night with her mother at the home of a family friend in New York City. Police said the attractive blonde

carpenter. ‘““I al-lered by a florist. The note said has been asways told Bette “I love you very much, Mummy, signed the role that's what - I'but this is all I can afford. I Ee a could do well if{have only six dollars left.” make of “Showshe gave up the # » boat.” Miss movies,” he said.| v1.00. year-old Judith Zomber Gardner was I am a g00d 404 of jeukemia in Atlants, Ga., awsrdsd tite : yesterday while her father, Pfc. part sough Mr. Sherry ak James Zomber, was on the last Judy Garland, So has opened ,.o or an emergency flight from attempted

tion or clarification of the existing nonaggression pacts between England and Russia, and France and Russia. We must know who are our friends ... and who is

Urges Offensive “Withdraw American recognition of Soviet Russia. “Abrogate the Yalta Pact and other agreements Russia has broken. “Go on the offensive in the unconventional warfare against communism everywhere. We cannot afford to engage in any more |satellite wars as preliminaries |should there be a final showdown with Russia. “Make the practice of communism a crime in the United States. “Adopt a program of Universal Military Training.” Mr. Craig also urged that!o American protection of Korea be extended to Formosa. “There should be immediate riddance of any so-called statesmen who believe that a policy of appeasement on Korea or Formosa can contribute ‘to a victory for human freedom,” he said.

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Campbell Blasts GOP ‘Hate’ Policy

Rips Jenner's Slap At Gen. Marshall

A villainous philosophy of hatemongering is the only policy Indiana Republican leaders have offered the people in this campaign, Alex Campbell, Democratic senatorial candidate, charged in a major campaign speech here last night. The Democratic candidate ripped into Sen. William E, Jenner's recent tirade against Gen. George C. Marshall, newly. appointed Secretary of Defense. He demanded that Sen. Homer

E. Capehart, GOP candidate for re-election, either defend or denounce Sen. Jenner's “vicious remarks” against the general. “We were prepared for a smear campaign on the part of Republicans but we were not prepared for the events last Friday in which Sen. Jenner played the most villainous role ever enacted on the floor of the Senate,” Mr. Campbell said. Says Capechart Pussied “In our most apprehensive moments we could not imagine his sinking to such depths that his blast would keep even his political stooge, Sen. Capehart, yondering which way to jump.” The Democratic candidate said Sen, Jenner was not satisfied with a recent poll which rated him the second worst senator. “Jenner sought and achieved rock bottom,” Mr. Campbell sald. “In his attempt to brand this great patriot a traitor and a spy, Jenner came as close as he will ever come to being the most

than 13,000.

terested in developing boys whom I'd be glad to have my daughters

mer Boy Scout. lyoung. - And Mr. Lee's son Wal-

Or, One Way to Slow Traffic

‘Just Easing Off —

—Pholes by Loyd Wallon, Times Shell Whop! Right on the nose of a car foll a storm-blown free in the 2100 block N. Delaware Sh, during last night's storm.

Photographer.

Wallace O. Lee Steps Down

As Boy Scout Commissioner

Dean of Adult Leaders in Field Looks Back on 36 Years of Service

“Once a Scout, always a Scout.”

That's why Wallace O. Lee,

who resigned yesterday after

36 years as Boy Scout Commissioner of Indiana, today said he is not ending his Scout activities. He is “just easing off.” Mr. Lee was the dean of adult leaders in the Boy Scouts of America, and of the world. No other commissioner has ever

served that long. When Mr. Lee took office in 1913, there Were. 450 Boy Scouts in Indiana. Now there are more

Mr. Lee holds not a trace of regret—or even feeling of sacrifice—for his years of work. “That's because the things one gets out of Scouting are much greater than he puts into it,” he said. “There 18 much joy in such

of your work in the molding of young character,” Mr. Lee, who is 60, said he is resigning “not because I am an old man but because I should start taking things easier and it's time to make room for a younger commissioner.” Mr, Lee never was a Boy Scout himself, because he was already an adult when the first troops were organized. “My friends often wondered why I was so interested in Scouting,” he recalled. “I was a bachelor when I started, and after my first two children were girls. Bo I always explained that I was in-

marry.” Son an Eagle Scout One daughter did marry a forThe other died

lace Jr. rose to Eagle Scout.

service. You can see the results

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for adult leaders.” He added: “In

|Scouting, a person enjoys associa-|

tion with the finest men in the community.’

Scout awards given to Mr. Lee| the Silver Beaver and cities

include Silver Antelope, He is a member of the national council.

em| Mr. Lee, vice president of the

Indianapolis Power & Light Co., said he will reduce his other

trations.” “The . find, themselves the victims’ of outagreements at Yalta and Potsdam and of action in the United Nations,” he a

hideous fraud this 17-year-old double cross really is and what swindle continues to

civic activities soon.

talked about map in the world.”| «while on the subject of famThe Democratic candidate ily, " hea mused, “let me say that charged that the Republican i80-ithe sacrifices made by. me or any lationists in Indiana have neveristher man is only half of what presented a constructive program ithe wives have made. They stay on foreign policy. home alone, night after night, “Until now we have heard from while we do Scout work.”

Three More Hoosiers Killed in Action in Korea

The Department of Defense son of Mrs. Lida Nicholson, New casualty list today included 24|Castle. (Previously reported Hoosiers. wounded.)

Republicans only what they would not do in the fleld of foreign policy,” he said. “For the first time we have, at least by indirection, the Jenner solution, the Indiana Republican solution to our woes.

May Not See It Again for a While

| yet; the officials said.

Mr. Lee said he has long

thought of resigning, “but I hung on because the need is so great

French, Reds Clash On Invasion Route

SAIGON, Indo-China, Sept. 22 (UP)-—S8kirmishes broke out today between French troops and Viet Minh Communist troops along Colonial Route No. 4—the invasion route to Indo-China from the Chinese Communist

border. French officiais said their troops ran into rebel patrols

while en route from Thatke to Dongkhe, which the rebels captured and later evacuated. No Major Battle No major battle has developed

The officials said that French troops have been in a position to reoccupy Dongkhe for some time but that they were proceeding toward it cautiously because of the operations of snipers. At Lackay and Pakha, two other key points in northen Tonkin province, Communist activities were confined to sniping. Meantime, there was no new in-

Three Indiana men were reported killed in action. An Indianapolis soldier was listed as wounded. i KILLED IN ACTION Pfe. Earl Brown, brother of Mrs. Iva Remar, New Richmond. Pvt. Jack Farley Jr, son of Mrs. Lillie Mae Turner, Anderson. jy Pfc. John L. Losh, son of Grover| Cleveland Losh, Brooklyn, WOUNDED Cpl. Gilbert W. Ernst, son of

Mrs. Ruth Ernst, 1414 Spann Ave. ;!

brother of Mrs. Dorothy Mathus, 19223 W. Michigan “8t., Indianapolis,

Pvt. Eldon Farleigh Adamson,|

son of Mrs. Amelia Jane Adamson, Leavenwprth, Sgt. Charles E. Barkley, son of Mrs. Cora M. Barkley, Lafayette. Pfc. Charles L. Jasperson, son of Mrs. Mary Jasperson, Gary. Ste. Charles Robert Kenley, son of Howard A. Kenley, Noblesville. (Previously reported missing.) Pvt. Woodrow E. McRoey, sor: of Mrs, Stella Draper, Milltown. Opl. Howard W. Reynolds, son of Mrs. Jessie Reynolds, Hammond. : Opl. Derral Tarrance, brother of Paul Tarrance, Clarksville. Opl. Jesse R. Townsend, son of Mrs. Lola Townsend, Peru. Capt. Maurice L. Young, husband of Mrs. Ida P. Young, Gary. Pvt, Virgil Arnold, son of John E. Arnold, New Goshen. Cpl. ‘Guy L. McCluskey, son of Mrs.~ Addie Mae McCluskey,

|formation on French operations

Evansville. Opl. Robert L. Scott, brother of John F. Scott, Atlanta 2d. Lt. George J. Small, husband of Mrs. Maude P. Small, Princeton. Cpl. William H. Suter, son of Mrs. Jesse G. Suter, Colfax. Cpl. James E. Sandlin, son of Mrs. Lillie S8andlin, Vernon, MISSIN G IN ACTION Pvt. Jackie L. Mowery, son of Amer- Roy a Mrvery, pee),

in southern Tonkin province," where Fresh Communist outbreaks were reported to have occurred on the heels of the Communist attacks in the north.

JUST A LITTLE LATE BROCKTON, Mass., Sept. 22 (UP) — The Cuban Savernment notified Adolph Anderson toda TAL 1010 Stati Bim A adn Tor his: service in the Spanish-Amer

tan War 51 yours ago.

Pto. Harold Truesdale Jr.. son of Mrs. Harold Truesdale, G Green-

castle, : . INJURED

Cpl. Bdgar L. Harris, husbagd of Mrs. Betty IL Harris, Ft. Wayne. Sgt. Harold J. Ulepergor, of rs. Retta J. Ulsperger, Peru. “tig

Cpl. Gilbert ‘w. * Ernst, was wounded Aug. 30 while fighting with the 1st Cavalry in Korea. His mother, Mrs. Ruth Ernst, 1414 Spann Ave. said the telegram listed him as seriously wounded. She feels sure, however, that Cpl. Ernst is all right, At the time she recelved the telegram he was in a hospital in Yokohama, Japan. Mrs. Ernst, who devotes much of her time to Red Cross work, said that serving coffee and cookies to thea men about ready to leave for training camps helps her to stay content in the face of her son's injury. She said she worries like any other. mother, but gets a certain amount eof peace out of her work, The Times published a story in its Hoosier Hero column on Cpl. Ernst when he was a recruit planning to make the Army a

Cpl. Ernst

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