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Inside Indianapolis: By Ed Sovola’ 3 AS A STRONG advocate of walking, I prabably shouldn't beat the drum for another driveIn. But one more won't, at least it shouldn't, bring

about a general atrophy ef our legs. Anyone whd has ever borrowed. a book from

"a library knows how difficult it is to get back.

The money paid to ‘libraries for

overdue. books should be jn your pocket. You could quit work today .

Many book lovers have cried on my shoulder. about the trou-: ble they have had getting a book back. It's an old story of no parking spaces, traffic violation wasted mileage ; time. What would be simpler than a drive-in return box for books?

n ” " WE CAN DRIVE up to make hamwk deposits, withdrawals, Mama can toss her bundle of laundry from the front seat of her automobile. The Post Office has mailboxes on the sidewalk. } It. is possible in this day and age to live in an automobile, If you want to eat you pull into a drive-in restaurant. Entertainment? Drive-in want your car washed? Drve-in; And yet, if you want to return a book, you have to park the buggy, trot up long steps, wait 15 minutes while somebody is having his charges tabulated so you can pay yours “ bb WITH DRIVE-IN book boxes, we wouldn't have overdue books. With drive-in book boxes, we would read more, get the books back quicker and raise our intelligence level two percentage

- points, at least.

‘Course you'll still have to park to get your books to start with. I discussed this with Librarian Marian McFadden at Central Library. She's all for the idea, It has been bouncing around her cerebellum for a long time. That was encouraging news, It shows we're on the right track. . * bb FURTHERMORE, Miss McFadden has literature on her desk "about .a sidewalk book box.

It Happened Last Night By Earl Wilson

TOKYO, Sept. 18 It's not that I wanted to see a geisha girl myself, but I know you would, so I arranged a sukiyaki party. Yes, anything for YOU, dear reader, on our round-the-world hop. Tokiko, Tama and Kohiro were the geishas’ names, and also one who spoke English? called Betty Boop. “Why Betty Boop?” 1 asked her, and, with a smile and a head toss, she said, “I don’t want to talk” —but I heard a General named ‘her that. The geishas joined us almost .as soon as we took off our shoes, put on slippers and walked into the Shinkuraku Restaurant. The geishas wore kimonos and silly sashes that are supposed to help their figures. Somebody has said that a Japanese girl looks like a Coca-Cola walking. The geishas bowed very low and respectfully to us menfolk. “Am I supposed to bow back?” I asked a fellow. He sald no—the Japanese women love to be humble. > + WE ALL SAT DOWN on the floor and started eating rice and raw fish heads—all but the geishas, who served, and made jokes in Japanese,

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The Beautiful Wife was glad to learn that in Japanese it would be Beautiful Okusan, and so, instead of BW. she would be “B.0.” This and other useful information came out as we sat there eating and drinking the warm saki, which is a rice wine. “If Toots Shor could see this!” the B.O. said. For the saki was served in thimblefuls in a cup so

‘tiny it should have been ashamed of itself.

Lots of other geishas joined us. Geishas aren't supposed to drink but geishas will be girls. > 4 ¢

YOSHINO was one geisha. Her name means Cherry Blossom Mountain. You add Chan to her names (Yoshinochan) and it means “Dear Little Cherry Blossom Mountain.” I kept calling the girl next to me ‘“Yoshinochan.” For half an hour, at least, Finally somebody told me that wasn't Yoshinochan, “That's Tokikochan,” I was informed. shinochan’s across the table there.” All the Chans look alike to me, or so somebody would shout “Kampali,” which means “Dry glass.” The geishas would lean across the table and fil up the master’s glass and a couple of them might have a little for themselves although in a very ladylike, apologetic, humble way. > 4

WE KEPT MOISTENING our kissers with warm perfumed washrags which they gave us before we even ate one bite. Then the geishas put on a little floor show, mainly dancing. It was very respectable and dull. “How about the tab?” I. asked at the finish. “Oh, the Japanese are too polite to give you a hill now. They will send it around to your hotel tomorrow noon,” I was told. We said-a merry good night to the geisha and put on our shoes and went back to the hotel. To our amazement, the bill for the party was already there, and it was $13 a person. The geishas? I understand they took off their

Asian Hillbilly By George Weller

SWAT, Pakistan, Sept. 18.— The most prosperous kingdom in Asia ‘owes itx strength to a northwest, frontier hillbilly in chin whiskers who made good as ahsolute monarch. The peppery Wali of Swat, today in active, athletic “retirement,” is Asia's Bernarr MacFadden. Two years ago the Wali removed his simple turban of office, laid it en a marble table, and watched the Prime Minister of Pakistan place it on the head of his son. He blinked through his heavy tortoise shell glasses, and then moved out of the ice cream palace at Saidu Sharif, his little capital, to a tiny villa up a quiet dead-end valley. From here the ‘retired” Wali, pushing 70, leads a life of lively virility that would make a stretcher case of most Americans half his ago. eb . WHEN THE JACKALS of the Northwest frontier have ceased howling about two in the morning, the Wall gets up to the burring of his American alarm clock. Never having had time to learn to read and write in his scarred career, he now studies Arabic, a foreign language, before dawn, with a yawning tutor. He studies till the stars fade and the sun comes over the snowy mountains that rim his little kingdom. Then he climbs an almost” perpendicular 1200-foot peak that overhangs his little castle, Hig bodyguard, walked out of breath, gives up half way. y He comes down hy seven, has a little tea, and begins work for the day. Five times a day he stops for brief prayer. “Fifteen years ago.” he told me, “1 had a 45inch waist and 1 weighed 224. 1 decided to diacipline myself. I cut down food, slicing a little

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‘How About Drive-In : Book Depository?

“I'he box’ weighs 400 pounds and costs $265. She thought this year's budget would allow her to purchase the thing. The dough wasn't there, It's a shame a city the sie of Indianapolis can't fihd $265. " : > The box -is water proof, theft proof and fool proof, It would be plainly marked so nobody would stuff rubbish in although that possibility is unlikely. I can speak from experience,

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A COUPLE OF YFARS ago I sat in a trash vox on-the Circle and in three hours there wasn't enough paper in the box to make a decent spitball. We laughed for a good five seconds at the way our minds met on the same subject. We had something in common. We wished we had a book box, toe. ? > . Now I'm not going ta rest until there is a hook box out in front of Central Library. This town ought to have one as a test, The main library is the logical une to get the first drive-in box, It happens that I don't have $265 this week or we could end this discussion right here, I don't have money but:I have a good mouth that can flap in the right places: Wn

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PEOPLE are going to hear of this matter. When you start out ona deal involving the public good, strarige things happen. Before the day is out Miss McFadden may be writing an order. Personally, I'm going to sit tight for a day or 20. This will give me a chdnce to see which way the wind ig blowing. If the reaction is favorable, if «there secms to be some support for a drive-in book box, I'm going to run over to City Hall and see Mayor Bayt. I may have to build one.

WHAT DO YOU think of all this? How do you suggest we handle the project of getting a drive-in box? Should we heckle the city fathers or do it ourselves? Is it worth the trouble? I think it is. A city

without a drive-in book hox is behind the times,

We don’t want out-of-state visitors to point at

Indianapolis and say, “That's the city without the you-know-what.” . What do I hear from the precincts?

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kimonos, put on regular skirts, and- went home, And not to any sukiyaki! In the last six years they have become very fond of a snack consisting of a coke and hamburger. ge DO THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN NEW YORK or . An hour before Harry Gross was found, a friend of his said, “Those ex-cops had him killed. They have got plenty of money left, and there are a hundred hoodlums around who would kill him for that kind of money.” : Gross egpects to get at most a year in jail. He's broke: now though he gave more than 500 cops very expensive watches, tipped waiters $50, and sent $500 tips to beautiful girls who had dates with police officials, He was so generous to cops that others who bribed them claimed he “spoiled” them. Mrs. Eddie Foy is recovering in St. Claire's Hospital after a minor operation . . . Comedian Myron Cohen, the ex-silk salesman, hits $4500-a-week headlining at Chicago's Chez Paree ... Lew Ayres, an ambulance attendant during the war, helped lift a drunken bum up off the street at 59th and 6th. : :

S&T : WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The geography books should be changed: The ea | capital of America is no longer ; in Washington . . . it's all in Europe” —Phil, Regan. LE EE GOOD RUMOR MAN: Lana Turner won't get much settle‘ment from Bob Topping — for the good reason that he isn’t rich any more . .. Actor Hank Ladd has put aside his makeup to become a TV producer-di-rector for Kudner . . . Willie Moore, Dinty’'s son, long barred from his dad’s famous restaurant, will open his own restaurant in Palm Beach —and bar his father HST and Bill closeted 2 hours the other day. Sa JOHN CARROLL, movie actor who turned to cafe singing, opened at the Versailles where he was a big hit—but also about the most nervous crooner around. The crowd liked it. < oe oe EARL'S PEARLS . .. Nancy Kelly's suggestion for a sign on a lawn that's having a hard time growing: “Your feet are killing me.”

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BR'WAY BULLETINS: Ex-detective Mickey Reardon, who spent 6 months in jail after the Gross investigation, is working for a brewery... Rex Harrison hopes to direct a B'way play starring his wife, Lilli Palmer... Ethel Smith's latest party boasted a slot machine, rigged so as to give Rudy Halley the jack-pot. he iy TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: “Nowadays when couples go. to pictures to hold hands, she has to hold both of his.”-——London Opinion. ie dh Bb TAFFY TUTTLE maintains that ham goes with eggs and bread with butter, but dollars practically never with sense , .. That's Earl, brother.

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THE “OLD” WALI never sleeps more than five hours a day.;and eats only once, just after sunset. His meal®is a few spoonfuls of rice, a vegetable, and tea. The kingdom this aged athlete haz hacked out of the fierce Pathan tribez is a valley asvstem

closely planted with corn and rice. healthy and

simple. Part of it was taken by arms from his old enemy the Nawab of Dir, the next state over the mountains. : The method of the Wali was to build a ‘tough, four-towered blockhouse wherever he captured new land. Today there are 80 of these unassail-

able blockhouses to defend a kingdom of 550,000 *

people. ’ ad SWAT'S DEFENSES, communication? and foreign affairs are in the hands of Pakistan. lo the old days, when the state was being whipped into shape things weren't so benevolent. The official Swat history records how ‘conspirators’ were “deprived of life.” -The Wali selected his title with the help of the British political adviser at Malakand Pass, back in the 1920's. Before “Wali” “which means simply “ruler”--was chosen, several higher titles were rejected, The rifles-man monarch refused to he called a “Nawab,” or duke, because that would have put him on the level of his enemy, the ruler of Dir. “Sultan” had to be rejected, ton. After all, another hard swinger named Babe Ruth was using that title already.

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urned Out To Be Two Little Boys

By RICHARD SHULL REDICT the sex and number of babies to be born to women and you'll be wealthy for life. An accurate; fool-proof tem would bring more praise fathers than for his

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Fdison ever received light bulb. Men like 1117 N. Arsenal Ave. could be

spared the hectic moments such as he suffered on Aug. 1, 1951. He was expecting a baby girl. His wife, Lassie, brought a pair of boys instead. Jt's true that X-rays ean show how many children to expect, but there's still the old bugaboo of determining the sex in advance. Only two men have claimed to be able to make accurate reports in this respect in recent years. One was a doctor who would. ~ gaze deep into the mothers eves. then solemnly | pronounce “boy” “or “girl.” He held a good, but, not perfect. batting average.

James Buchanan,

un = n THE OTHER was a lecturer who had his ‘system worked out on a revolving. cardboard disc and based his prophecies on the lunar calendar. He lectured in a San Francisco burlesque house. : Most recognized medical men make their predictions after checking the baby’s heart beat, sizing up its location in respect to the mother, weighingin the mother, and noting a few girth measurements.

Even then, if you glance quickly, you'll note that the doctor usually will cross his

fingers secretly before offering a verdict. But while modern medicine still is using its hit and miss methods, men ‘such as James Buchanan continue to become fathers, and continue to wonder why they got ‘boys when they wanted girls, and vice versa. Of “course, James was more fortunate than some amazed males. Mrs, Buchanan had had

ONE BOTTLE, TWO STRAWS—When a mother has twins, as does ‘Mrs. James Buchanan, she

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3 X-rays when she was six- hag to develop some labor saving plans. months along, just to confirm : the doctor's suspicion that if make an ample supply for one Under average conditions, According to lassie, who

she was to have one baby, it would be a whopper. The X-ray showed twins. =» - ” SO, YOU SEE, all James now had to worry about was which sex and when. He set out on a sound program to prepare for any eventuality. Instead of twin baby beds, he purchased one large-size baby bed, good for a single, twins or triplets. Next, he advised his wife on the matter of clothing. Just

child, then, if two arrive, merely split it between them until more can be made.

In this respect, Mrs. Buchanan showed a mother's

wisdom. Reasoned l.assie Buchanan, if her husband wanted

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a girl, since he had already picked girls’ names for twins, since their last two children

had been boys and their first a girl. then, naturally, they would have twin boys. She trimmed all the clothing in blue,

Fabulous Fishing—

Anybody Can Hook 'Em Up In

By ANDY ANDERSON Seripps-Howard Staff Writer McKINLEY RIVER, OUT FROM GREAT SLAVE LODGE, Sept. 18 Up here, just a hop, skip and jump from the Arctic Circle and the Barrens, vou marvel at the primitive way of life you have to live.

No matter who you are, if you come up here to this camp vou have to live the hard way. 1 found that out today when Leonard Mor- : ris, owner of the camp and my guide for the day, set me ashore at the mouth of the McKinley. I wanted to tie into a big grayling. But I never did. I stumbled and waded up streams to scores of deep holes and east flies into them. The net results were three. small gravling and a northern pike. 1 think at one time 1 farther away from civilization than I have ever been before. And surprisingly, the temperature was about 75 degrees. This is quite hot when you are encased in rubber waders, hip length, Anyway, I decided to rest and

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something. I there was a

small cinnamon bear. He was looking for blue berries, which rare now ripe... I had no gun.

And believe me 1 did not feel too happy. The bear looked at

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me and I decided to outstare him. Finally he decided to he on his way and I was happy indeed.

» = o WHEN I GOT BACK to camp the rest of the party had al-

.ready tired of fishing. They had

all caught 100 pounds or more of fish. It doesn’t take one long to get his fill of fishin’ up here.

Anyone can catch these fish 7

and they offer a battle which sore shoulders in camp will attest to. Ernie Biffett, one of the oldest and most bush pilots, wants to flv Leonard Morris over the Arctic Circle tn Lake Baker and over the Barrens to the caribou herds, which IT am told number about 3.000.000. I'd like to make that trip can't gpare the time, Two young men from Chicago dropped in on the lake in a

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‘seaplane they had flown from

Chicago. They left here headed

for Baker Lake and complete isolation and: thought nothing of the trip. If one little thing happened to the plane they

might be marooned or until Canadian planes located them,

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childbirth isn't too hard on the father. He needs only to arrange for a baby sitter to take care of the brood, make sure he has enough cigarets to chain smoke in the waiting room, and then wait. = LJ n JAMES BUCHANAN thought this was the coward’'s way out. That's why he arranged for his wife to have the twins months early at home,

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replace pontoons. You get an idea of the distances and unsettled area by studying the population figures. The Northwest Territories are nearly 1,500,000 square Iiiles in area yet there are only about 12,000 people in all that area. The population is mostly Indians and Eskimos but marly whites have come in to work the gold, copper and uranium mines. One copper mine, some 800 miles from here, will be

seemed to have more presence of mind than James at the time, he was in the kitchen in the act of getting something to drink when the first baby sent out an SOS,

James was flabbergasted.

Mrs. Mary Cornell, a friend who

had dropped in, was quick. She ran down the street tn a neighbor who sometimes subs as a’ mid-wife. 5 The babies and Lassie were

included in a side trip if I ever get back here again. Three churches make efforts to Christianize the Eskimos and Indians. The Baptist. Anglicans and Catholic faiths have numerous missions. Yellowknife has a mission of Holy Rollers. " n a FAR UP IN COPPER MINE the churches got into quite a row about saving the souls of the Eskimos. The Anglicans complained to the Mounties that the Catholic priest. was using unfair tactics because he gave the ESkimos tea The Mounties advised the Anglicans to serve sugar with did—and—the Eskimos came back to them, The Baptists went one better, serving sugar and cookies and

again. the Eskimos switched faiths, One of the interesting stories of the Northwest concernz a Scotchman living at Spence

Bay, 660 miles north of Yellowknife, He has been up for 10 vearsz bid: still gubzacribes

there

to his home town paper in Edinburg, Scotland. Mail comes in only once a

year so the Scotchman gets all his papers in one delivery. He opens only one paper daily, that one on the same date, only a year later than it: was published, He argues that this way his news is a year old but it Las continuity, u u ~ BUSH PILOTS TELL remarkable stories of tors and trappers or at least mildly insane. The bush hopper iz told by the trapper when he sets him down

some prospecgoing mad

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BONN, Germany. Sept. 18 man republic as a "sovereign threatens to break down. able quantities of Ruhr coal, Coal (CDN) Allied-German relation- state. 3 If the Germans are accepted as will he short in German homes ships, far “from improving, are On:the one side the allies have full partners they are going to be this winter. No matter how the

i enjoyed a. very special position awkward and tough bargainers. Allies may argue that better manheading for their nastiest and |i,’ Germany “since the moment If they aren't, it is entirely possi- agement or Ea policies on most unpleasant period. lof the Nazi surrender. A large ble that the volatilé Bonn parlia- the part of the Germans would One German said it was like part of their authority already ment will refuse to ratify the eliminate this deficiency, the fact a family row in. which voices has been turned back to the agreements with disastrous re-lof the compulsory export remains. grow shriller and either-side. At the very best some Of it, : integration. ive anti-Allied propaganda. hurtful and unnecessary things They talk grandly now of re- Allied authorities Incline to be = “External assets” nas been anwill be shouted. At the worst placing the “occupation statute’ waspish about the ‘“ungrateful- other of these painful foel. This thére is the possibility of perma- by “contractual” agreements -39 ness” of the Germans. On the Ger- js the term for German. propnent strain and damage. [of them in all under which the man side, the officials speak of the arty. seized in foreign countries Unfortunately, this period of Bonn government will ‘accept cer- repeated “disappointments” they during the war, For \ 8ix years mutual antagonism seems un- tain specific obligations. ‘have suffered at Allied hands. avoidable, It {x part and parcel : i rr

bargaining between equals The international Ruhs Authority would be returned. or a

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But “contractural’ agreements The sére spots are numerAus. that some at least of these assets say.

taken to Methodiat Hospital, James had taken to celebrating, ordeal over, Later, their doctor, who had been so reassuring during her pregnancy, was located at ths gdlf dinks. un 3H n AS SOON as James was cers tain his wife and both babies were all right, he started the hectic, brain-culling process of finding names, | Secretly he had compounded names for a boy and a girl in case of a mixed set, and he had publicly announced his selec~ tions for two girls, but it took time to adjust himself to the idea of two more boys in the family. While James was trating ©“ on names at Lassie was having the trouble at the hospital. two days, she had given up. Then James proudly strolled into the room at Methodist te

concenhome, same After

announce Donald Keith and Ronald Wayne. Now back home, Mrs. Buchs anan's biggest problem has been overcome, thanks to a diaper service, he 2 x om THERE ARE STILL, minor considerations which ' trouble

her at times: How does one mother preserve her neat home

against twg destruction-bent boys when they reach that “tyrant age”? How can she

keep up with her bowling and stil do double duty on the diaper detail? Her main consolation is that she'll no longer be going to work somewhere. Henceforth, her main tasks will be right at home. In addition to the twins, Mrs. Buchanan also has 10 and 15-year-old boys and a 17-year-old daughter.

And James Buchanan just

continues to work as a fireman on the railroad and to wonder if and when the next baby comes, will it be a girl?

HELP!—Mrs.

Buchanan gards a stack of diapers, equip. ment for twins,

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Canada

on a ‘ake about when the trapper expects to be out. Maybe it will be six months hence. But the bush pilot makes it a point to be there. Often two prospectors or trappers are together and both are psychopathic before. they get back to civilization. Many personable young ladiés come up here. Some are looking for a husband, others seek to make a stake and others

supported by each of the four gold mines. And they have some good TooKipg girls on the teams, too,

Fs ” ” EVERY COMMUNITY, no matter how zmall, has sort of sports or community _ You ean pick up ontgide radio programs most of the

gOome activity time but there {3 much ztatie, Air bility carry

linea have a big responaionce a week. They must thirteen gold bricks out from the refineries at Yellow- ’ knife, « Each gold brick weighs from 60 to 70 pounds and they are flown out. Pop and Mom Anderson, cooks at the Great Slave Lodge, huve a son who lost his eyesight in World War 1 He was in the famed 49ers of EdmonThe lad recently won a lot for some artistic done in the hos-

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ations Headed For Rough Voyage

credited with these amounts, Now the Allied’ high commission has written a blunt “30” to; the whole business. It is over and done, the commission has decreed. There will’ be no credits, and no German may sue for the return of his property. “Qccupation costs,” now ré“defense contributions,’ are the most troublesome of all These are the amounts which the Germans are required to pay for the support of “Allied troops.-in Germany. a +

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