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NEW YORK, July 6—When my alleged brain detected the fact that Pat Rooney is turning 71, it went clank-clank-clank and I began remembening the Good Old Days, when I hadn't heard of an ulcer or a kineoscope or marijuana. Pat was in his “last days'-—everybody thought ~—back in my flamin’ youth. But today he seems to be in his prime. D’you remember “vo-de-o-do” and “poo-poo-puhdo” and “Don’t be an airedale” and “You're the nuts” and the other red hot expressions of the flapper period? : - Mary McCarty sings a “Flamin’ Youth” song that reminded me of the era. D'you remember back to “Oh, You Kid” . . . and “Don’t be a sap” ... and Mae West's famous broadcast with Edgar Bergen . . . and “Aw, nertz!” . , , and “June Night” . . . and “Doodle-dee-do” . ., . and “If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight”? They were all very big in my day in Ohio, the No. 1 state in the union. (Texas is 24.) D'you remember “old-fashioned bellyaches” . +. step-ins ... prohibition, when the real thirsty drank wood alcohol . . . Vanity Fair magazine . . « tent shows that always played “Where the River 8hannon Flows"?
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: Happened Last Night
REMEMBER . . . when fountain pens worked % + +» Hod Eller's shine ball , . . champion bowler Jimmy Smith . . . Ponzi . . . Blue Eagle parades
+ . » when you spent “scrip” . .. you had to go “gather the eggs?” hens, not the comedians, laid.) D’you remember “You're the cat's pajamas” ... and “She’s the cat's meow” . . . when Robert A. Taft was a STATE Senator (I do. I covered him in ’32), Can you ever forget the way the college students painted up théir old cars and their new slickers . . . When Bing Crosby had hair (as when he played in “Pennies From Heaven”) , ,. when a girl was “a young chicken”? Ss EZIO PINZA is really excellent in the picture “Strictly Dishonorable”— but the surprise at a preview at Loew's 83d St. was the audience applauding Greta Garbo & John Gilbert in a scene from “Flesh & the Devil”, shown in the picture. The crowd went mad at seeing Gee Gee on the screen again. Mrs. ‘Ferruel Tagliavini hastened to Paris to join her opera-singing husband who's ill. . i Arlene Judge's son, Rusty, got his pilot's license
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~—he's 18. . . . Has Mike DiSalle definitely decided to oppose John Bricker for Senator? g ob ob
D'YOU RECALL the shag (not so long ago) « + » When most of the autos turned out in Detroit and Flint were open cars, and just the rich had sedans . . . when people got “blotto”? Remember the depression days when you didn’t know. whether a queue of people was a breadline —or a bank run . .. when the N. Y. World sold 114,000 extra copies, the St. Louis Post Dispatch 40,000 extra copies about “Lucky Lindy” and his
Americana By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, July 6—When they soaked me a buck-20 the other day for a pat of hamburg, I got to thinking it would be a fine, neighborly thing if the government would subsidize the white-collar man a little bit. Make a good campaign program for a smart politician—government support for old Joe Tremble, clerk, married, two kids, take-home pay $59.60 a week. This is entirely legal, for they support the farmers already, with the government buying in’ competition with the customer, in order to drive the prices for feod higher. Farm support was conceived originally to keep the hayshakers out of bankruptcy; to keep them from letting the crops wither, unharvested, and to prevent them from plowing under little piggies as not worth the effort of raising. - bb 2 WELL, a farmer is. a man, and a white-collar afd the whitestoll
Tremble’s check and amputates jt at the source. There are all sorts of tax-dodging gimmicks connected with farming and ranching, which is one of the reasons it is an insult to ask a cowgrower how many head he is running on the land. He don’t want to get pinned down. The tax collector might get nosy. So if Joe Tremble qualifies as a man and a citizen and a taxpayer, then I do not see why the government cannot underwrite him some. Say the hamburg costs $1.20, due to the fact that the government has subsidized the farmer. Well, then, seems to me the government ought to get Jp at least a dollar per pound, leaving Joe to pay 20 cents, : This would apply to potatoes, milk, spinach, pork chops, bread and all the other precious gems we are supposed to buy from the local Cartier with the heavy thumb. “GB For a long time, the government has been giving handouts to all kinds of people, in the forms of subsidy, tax loopholes, and federal projects. They kick into the kitty of the shipping people, who are sure enough private business. They build great big expensive projects like the TVA for the especial benefit of the farmer The old WPA used to underwrite the fumblous ef-
Outside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola
Continued From Page One
I'd’ quit or else smoke English, in my mouth.
French, Italian cigarets. When in Rome, do as Romans do. Three days ago the last American cigaret went up in smoke. . Ten minutes later I
was dying for a cigaret. Three | minutes ‘later a Frenchman | recommended a pack of weeds | in a blue package. | the end of my “Wet is a favorite in France,” he said. Due to the unsettled condi-
chair.
course, I didn’t have the cigaret
Bolstered by another brandy, I was ready to try again. I checked. the possible | area in case of a blackout and asked the waiter to stand by. | He produced a match. Wonder- { ful. That left me with two free hands with which to grasp the
The match sputtered, touched moment to puff came again. I
drew smoke in my mouth and { held it. The waiter stepped back
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| Po You Remember The Good Old Days?
flight . . . the deadlocked 1924 Democratic convention and the cry, “Alabama, 24 votes for Underwood!" ? ” * & Here's an old poem I doubt if you do remember. It comes from School Supt..C. M. Sims of Piqua, 0., who learned it as a boy:*
“Say Chimmie, lemme tell you I'd be happy as a clam If I only was de feller Dat me mudder t'inks I am; She t'inks I am a wonder An’ she knows her little lad Could never mix wid nuttin’ Dat was ugly, mean or bad. Oh, lots o' times I sit and t'ink How nice 'twould be, gee whiz, If a feller was de feller Dat his mudder t'inks he is.” Bp dG GOOD RUMOR MAN: Perry Como's fitting his house with the new things-——nylon carpets. . John Jacob Astor's Steady Thing, Kay Kehoe, the ex-model, often has dates with guys who don’t even have $100,000 let alone millions. + + «» Never heard so much good talk as about Ava
Gardner in “Showboat.” ¢ os ALL OVER: Hank Greenberg's mother is
being operated upon, mgr.,, Kappi. Jordan, off to Mexico to divorce writer Roy Jordan, denied plans to wed Sid Steicker, the Jerseyite. . . Wasn't Vie Damone smuggled out of camp some way to see his new pieture?
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WISH I'D: SAID THAT: “The only voice a wife gives her husband in what she buys is the invoice”’—Harvey Stone. . old ob EARL’S PEARLS . .. Hal Block, the TV guy, thinks maybe the Russians in their peace plans are waving a lot of bull with their Red fiag. TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: When a B'wayite dies, notes Jack Barry, he often goes to meet his co-maker, oe o> "e B'WAY BULLETINS, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” closes in September-—to.go on the road. . .. Mel Torme's B. W., Candy (8t. Louis) Toxtin, flew in to N. Y. to join Mel in an apt. now that he's on TV. .. . Ex-Ambassador Henry Fletcher and Lady Doverdale were a Colony duo.
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GOULASH: NBC TV exec. Ed Madden is urging ad agency sponsors to cut down on commercials now cluttering the medium. . . The Bared and the Beard (Gypsy Rose Lee and John Carridine) appear ‘together on “Leave It to the Girls” Sunday. ide Cu DOROTHY. SARNOFF notices that nowadays when a man speaks of his salad days—he means he's dieting. . . . That's Earl, brother,
How About Subsidizing Poor White-Collar Guy?
forts of untalented poets, cunnythumbed painters and left-footed folk dancers. They compete today with the purchasing power of the people to buy up commodities, forcing exports to the starving Scowegians, and then tax-billing the citizens for the privilege of being overbid on the home front for gratis disposal abroad. Every time the cost of living jumps the unions go out for another buck an hour, and. Washington sighs and says you better give it to 'em.
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farm, run a few head of cattle and plant a
. couple ‘acres of cafrots, and Uncle Sam will let
youtspend ‘thousands of deductible dollars making an old Chic Sale info a summer house. Be will fence you off jth Ives everoreons.. nourish your soil with free; Sk i Srtilizer, and guarantee you such a flexible floor on ‘¢rop prices that the more you raise, the higher the fee, rather than reducing it according to supply and demand. : The Hollywood hams convert earned, taxable income into individual bucketshops, called independent producing outfits, and keep three-quar-ters of what they make. The speculators in GI housing play the capital gains dodge to the hilt, kicking in 25 per cent or less, instead of the 60, 70 or 80 per cent whack normally demanded by Internal Revenue. All the people who deal in untraceable cash, from headwaiters to hackers to black-and-gray marketeers, get a reasonably free ride.
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THAT LEAVES you and me and old Joe Tremble, who wears a necktie to ‘work, and gets docked for social security, withholding, charity, and anything else the cashier can think of. No subsidies, few raises, no protection. Just the rising cost of diving and the automatic tax. If I am a politician I would come out foursquare for relief for our own displaced person, white-collared Joe Tremble. He is just as deserving as the rest, maybe more, and he is getting sick and tired of playing Forgotten Man in the great gravy train.
Want Tobacco Cure? Try French Cigarets
10 paces. I can best describe how my mouth felt by saying little people had just burned some old tar paper. landing
and asked the waiter to see if my mouth was black. He said it .was “rouge” (red). bleeding? No. Then I waved him away and returned ‘to my cigaret, The second puff was catastrophic. My lungs seemed to cave in and all vital organs ceased to function momentar-
cigaret and the
tions of the world, I won't mention the brand. Frenchmen like them, I suppose, and it would be a mite undiplomatic
Is Marta to give the name. Just remem-
Another ber the cigarets that come in a |
blue pack. They're available in every tobacco shop. I couldn’t wait to get out in | the fresh air to light up. Un-
like American cigarets, the French ones don’t wrapped in ‘cellophane. The
manufacturer also uses a minimum of paste on the paper. | When I broke open the seal the | rest of the package broke open. | Small matter. The first puff produced paralysis of the throat and my vision began to leave. The tongue began to shrivel and the taste buds closed up shop indefinitely. » » ”
FORTUNATELY a sidewalk | cafe was near. With the aid of two Boy Scouts who were wearing sidearms and had just helped an old lady into a paddy wagon, I made -it to the cafe. * There a brandy revived me.
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Ingrid?
Marta Toren
Is Marta Toren another Ingrid Bergman? Why this new movie star from Sweden is being heralded as another Ingrid Bergman is reported in Parade Magazine Sunday. % Marta’s picture—in color— period. graces the cover of Parade t
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ily. The upper portion, of my | body was on fire and my tongue almost escaped. Urgent calls for a fire extinguisher went unheeded.
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with no better results. Foremost in my mind was a desire to live, to taste food again and have partial feeling return to my tongue. The break with tobacco was complete. I can’t say clean when my mouth still feels and tastes the way it does. If you asked me to be my “own tobacco expert,” to be “satisfied,” to ference,” I would look you in the eye with the coldness of a marble statue and calmly say: “I -quit smoking, ‘thank you. Filthy habit, you know, and ex- . | pensive, too.”
quit cigarets. You don't need psychological self - treatment. You don’t have to go for weeks torturing yourself and your friends before you have successfully mastered tobaeco. It isn’t necessary to make lists, read long-winded articles by experts who smoked 10 packs of cigarets while writing the article. It isn’t necessary to eat great quantities of sweets or chew gum constantly while - going .gthrough the transition
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The Malady Lingers on—
Diskitis Virus Has C
By JEANE JONES HEY'RE suffering from “diskitis,” these teen-age
platter fans who converge on.
Indianapolis record departments
| and stores. And they infect their
older friends and neighbors with the disease.
Now that school is out and they have more time, you'll see them: in listening booths using index fingers for drum sticks fo “knock out” the beat, or lost in the: dreamy rhythm of the day's most popular ballad. They confine themselves — usually three or four in a booth to sing, hum, whistle and occasionally dance as they spin the platters of Mario Lanza, Billy Eckstine, King Cole, Sarah Vaughn, Kay Starr and Ray Anthony. Most of them are just freeloading. Dealers estimate about 90 per cent of their listeping is recreation, 10 per cent for buy-
{| ing. But no one minds, for the | listener today is the buyer to-
morrow, and the kids are usually careful and considerate. ” » =
BUT THEY DO present minor problems as they give the waxed wheels a whirl. Booths are at a premium in most record stores and teen-agers sometimes have to be asked to “wait out front” while the paying customers spin a platter or two. Their enthusiasm romps away with “them occasionally and clerks have to ask noisy parties to “keep it down to a roar.” They come early and stay late, . some even pack a lunch. An hour or two is about the average, but a few will stay four. Their favorites are as changeable as their choice in clothes or heartbeats. : Mario Lanza is their idol now and they've helped to make him the biggest seller on Victor Red Seal labels of all times. They'll take him heavy or light. Dealers report an increased interest in serious music too, and they attribute it to Lanza.
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Times photo by Dean Timmerman,
'DEEP IN A DREAM'—When Lanza sings, who can think of anything else?
Albums are a little rich for the average teen-ager’'s allowance, but when a new musical comes to town, stores know that the “gang” will drop in to listen. ” ” n DIXIELAND is gaining in popularity, but the kids cling to the ballad singers. They
e last article of a series directed to men and
Ses CRSA DER SE
. By OLLIE RANDALL
Consultant on Services for the Aged, Community Skrvice Society of New York
TO THE professional social worker the terse entry “Case Closed” means, at its bést, that a family is able at last to declare its own Independence Day after being
dependent on the community for money and guidance,
or perhaps both.
Until recent years, however, the social worker knew
that the entry “Case Closed,” usually meant that one more dreary life had
gone to a home for the aged or had left this world, as all mortals must.
Today, we who counsel the
aging have a bright new rubber stamp for many of our case records. It's a cheerful notation that reads “Living Reopened.” It’s the new entry for mature men and women who come to us for advice
and encouragement rather than for mere kindness and refuge.
Let me tell the stoty of Mrs. Gertrude Bristol. After thirty years of marriage, Mrs. Bristol lost her husband suddenly when she was 53. There was only a little insurance—‘“just burying money” she called it. After her married children had returned to ‘their midwest homes, she came to a community bureau for the aged, believing that as a widow of 53 she was in the sunset of life. » » ” THE AGENCY counsellor sought to know whether the three basic needs for mature living were met by Mrs. Bristol. First, did she have ‘“Somewhere to live?” Yes, with the Social Security benefits accrued from her husband’s years of employment, her small home could be maintained. Second, did she have ‘“Some-
| thing to do?” Well, at 53 and in Later in the day I tried again |
good health there was certainly much that she could do, but she lacked any special vocational training. . . Third, did she have “Someone to care?”’” Important as that point was, its answer had to be deferred until point two could be explored. About getting a job, Mrs. Bristol ruefully said, “I've never done anything. in my life to earn money, but I'm a wonderfully good cook if I do say so myself.” And so with the local engagement and marriage news
Flies Take Notice—
Here's Bad News For Insects—DDT Has A New Partner, DMC
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By PAUL F. ELLIS United Press Science Editor
NEW YORK, July 6-—S8cience had some bad news for flies and other insects today.
. to provide her with an inex-
haustible mailing list, she had attractive cards printed announcing that she would teach
brides and brides-to-be the -
fine points of simple, easy-to-prepare husband-pleasing cooking. Within a year she was doing a brisk business and had added a shopping service to help young wives take advantage of sales and buy food to the best advantage. :
8 u o SHE IS in constant contact with the younger generation, an important factor in keeping her own viewpoint flexible and youthful. She is making a comfortable and pleasant living, and the happy husbands of
her pupils are definitely ‘“some-
ones to care.” The case is closed on fhe agency's book; but life has definitely reopened for Mrs. Bristol. Another situation that deserves the same notation is that of a fine-looking older man who is known to his district welfare office as “The Major.” Nearing 70, Mr, Hartman, a widower, received a small subsistence allowance to augment a very small pension. Daytimes he patiently made futile rounds of employment agencies, evenings he “took courses” at a city college. And then, as a new semester began, the Major came to his social worker and proudly announced that he was ‘“resigning” her help. He had noticed that in one of his classes a young veteran alternated attendance with his pretty wife, one of them baby-
- sitting with their two small
children each evening.
” ” ~ THE SOLUTION was simplicity itself, our client explained. He had shifted his own courses to daytime hours and had taken over the babysitting shift for the young couple. They were now able to attend classes together and their spare room provided the
resulting “marriage” of the chemicals gets rid of DDT-resistant merous DDT-like chemicals with flies. The combination also might DDT, and discovered that one be effective in killing tough rats. known as dimite, with a technical The combination was reported abbreviation of DMC appeared to
like Latin music too, and they go for novelty tunes in a big way. over “bop.” About 10 per cent of the teen-agers will ask for classical music.
From reading music magazines, they know about the music that mother and dad
"Old age care is no longer a sentimental effort to old folks.'
day Mrs: Harriet J. White took her first airplane trip. The child,
his fourth flight.
Major with a ‘rent-free home in exchange for his services. A third case that was never really opened came to light in one of our other district offices not long ago. Two forward looking couples who" had come
in for advice and ~guidance stopped by to say they had solved their problem and worked out a "reward for liv-
ing plan” of their own. Both husbands are fishermen and their wives possess that happy turn of mind that makes it possible for their husbands to fish in peace. By attending antique sales they learned that much of their heavy, three - generations family furniture had sufficient sales value to give them money enough for a well built houseboat. It would serve as their yearround living Quarters, insiire them good fishing and good company while discovering new waters and new horizons together, They spend the win-
The scientists tried out nu-|by putting more DMC in the mixh ture. Thus, only a small part of DMC was found necessary to give DDT the extra potency against the when DDT first was used as an housefly. DMC alone was not fa-ingecticide, it had almest a 100
It was particularly bad news|, ....iicts of the Technical De-/be the best.
‘most potent of all insect killers.
works together with DDT. The
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Ga., in Science Magazine, official DDT now has a partner, an- publication of the American Assoother chemical substance ; that Siation for the Advan ence.
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velopment Service, United States| They mixed DMC with DDT in| Public Health Service, Savannah, varying amounts. They reported tion, when applied on the surface offspring appeared to develop a “yery high kills” from a combina-|in field tests, gave poor results, resistance. Thus, the new combition of 100 parts of DDT and only but when used in a waier mixture nation may have a significant role 10 parts of DMC. The mortalityland sprayed as a ‘mist, it killed in getting rid of all types of flies, rates, however, were not increased highly-resistant houseflies, : v * W - :
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A few are ‘real gone’.
and older sisters and brothers danced and listened to. Trumpet man Bix Beiderbecke was dead before they were born, and Glenn Miller was killed when they were just “young fry,” but they ask for the “old-timers.” They prefer Artie Shaw's “Stardust” and the late Bunny
. ; THE OIL PEOPLE ¢an make a million a year, . : » and then write off the profit on one cheap dry ‘| % a n 1 hole, ducking astronomical taxes. You buy a . ;
ter months in the South and move to northern waters for the summer fishing. ~ ” ou
THERE 1S no need for winter wardrobes and no furnace bills. By acting as fishing guides and selling bait the two
men are assured of money for gasoline and “boughten goods.” The wives find an eager market for their well prepared box lunches. All four of these mature people are doing the things they have wanted to do all their lives. Unusual examples, you may say? No, not particularly in this day of more enlightened “forty-plus” counsel and more alert and interested clients. Maturity should be a time of
reward, not for terror. The very fact that a Foundation for Forty-plus Living exists
proves the new thinkfng that is replacing one-time pessimism. ” » » OLD AGE care ig no longer a sentimental effort, to help
tal to female houseflies.
Berigan's “I Can't Get Started™ to- more recent recordings of these songs. ” ” ”
WHILE RECORD sales usually dip a little in the summertime, teen-age buyers remain constant. There's always a new platter, and once in awhile they'll buy it.
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' The day before her 100th birth.
Albert Leroy Freitchen, is off on
old folks to whom it is good to be kind. Today we know that people at 40 should begin to plan for their retirement years, because at the age of 60 or 65 they will still be men and women with a future.
Encouragement of individual enterprise, guidance in social adjustment and belief in every human being’s, continuing value and dignity, will bring produce tive returns. Of the three basic needs “Somewhere to live” and “Something to do” are problems for which community planning must often be responsible,
But the third need, “Someone to care,” cannot be met by workers. It must be met by community conscience that will not accept the entry “Case Closed," that, instead, will make the effort to use the bright new stamp “Living Ree opened.” (Copyright, 1951
United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
As for the war on rats, the
|scientists found DDT-DMC combi-
nations may be more poisonous than either compound alone.
{per cent mortality record, but as
The scientists said the combina- surviving flies multiplied, their
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insects that carry disease to
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