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| Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

WOULD someone care to match Christmas

shopping notes and thoughts with ‘me? Have

you been trampled lately? It all began like this: Hey, busy man, you better start bucking the crowd , . . time's a-wastin’ . » + it's not going to be any easier the longer you wait . . . get going, Buster, growling and procrastination -will get you nowhere. 5 All right, lady, the revolving doors were put in just far your exclusive use . .. c'mon, if youre in such a hurry, move . . . oops, sorry, sir, those fwo delinquents. were pushing on the door . . . yowie, is this the only store in.town? . . ,*where did all these people come from? , . . where the heck is a guy supposed to start? ... pardon me «+. may I get through, please? . . . that's all right, I have more shoe polish at hdme;

Sueno.

WONDER if my brother would like . . . nu. “ .. better get the kids taken care of first . “could you tell me what floor? . . . pardon me, what floor are the ... maybe John’s gift should “be? ... this is ridiculous, don’t these people have “homes to go to? ... what did he get last year that I had to exchange? . .. phew, it's hot’. . . . sorry, just trying to take my coat off. too bad my tribe doesn’t live in Indianapolis .. . boy, would that ibe simple . . . if John drank, the problem would “be simple . .. good ol’ Pa, never any problem. , . . Madam, I'm not a salesman, see? I am carrying my coat and hat . . . that’s all right . . . I hate to wait, too . . . there must be something to this business of shopping early, Ma'am.

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HOW MUCH is this corduroy jacket? . . . That much? . . . Thank you, just looking, ha ha . « » where are men’s robes? . ,. A guy would be crazy to fight his way that far . . . maybe a couple of good ties . . . easy to get home . . he likes big boxes. . . . Can you tell me where

the nearest water fountain is? ... You can’t. . . . _ Just started to work today? . . . Takes time to learn these things ... dummy. .. . Hi, Jim, how

. . Sure is murder . . . yeh, see you around sometime . . . yeh, give me a buzz . . . let's try to get together ... I'm still in the same place . . . what the heck’s his last name? J can't move any faster, lady. . . . Shall I hop on top of the counter? . . . Doing the best I can. ... Are the elevators running today? . .. Where can I get something for a girl in her first year of high school? , . . Step to the rear of the elevator? . . . I'll be outside in a minute . , .

va doin’?. .

"lady, may I move my hat up? it's being . . .

never mind, too, late . . . if this elevator moves ‘ everyone will be surprised.

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COMING OUT ... may Il1,.. sorry... excuse it pléhse . . . thank you... where did the people get those packages they're carrying? . . . girls’ sweaters . . . high school age . . . now what size would Dwayne take? . . . Christmas, bah . . . how would a crisp greenback in an envelope be? . . . she likes packages . . . will someone wait on me? . , , there must be something besides sweaters . , . pardon me.

It Happened Last Ni By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Dec. 19—City Hall suspects Rudolph Halley’'ll marry Janice Brosh very soon. . . . Secretary of the Treasury Snyder's gotta go. . . . The wrath over McGrath may make Sen. Kefauver (or Clark Clifford) new Atty. Gen. . . . Elsa Maxwell's giving a “poker and canasta" for the Duke & Duchess. Didn't invite me. Probably knows I'm no card player. Couldn't be ‘any other reason, . . . Mrs. Gary Cooper's beau ‘is socialite Howell Van Gerbig, the ex-athlete. ‘... Hildegarde dredged up this old-timer for her ‘chi¢” Pierre audience: “The bees are very funny ;souls . . . They do not practice birth controls . . . And that is why in times like these . . . There are so many sons o’ bees.” ¥ oo THE CURRENT Washington wheeze: A Civil Service investigation found a shocking amount of duplication of effort at the capital city. The ‘duplication was -—— everybody doing absolutely nothing. : ah DENNIS JAMES is on TV so much that one fellow,’ before ‘turning on his set, asks, “Dennis, anyone?”. . . . Lady Sylvia Ashley's new love is ‘British Capt. Stuart Symington (not OUR Stuart Symington), aide to the Gov. of Nassau. She's building a house there to forget Clark Gable. . . Gabby Hayes fans are hollering their protests against fim being taken oft TV. . . . Dagmar turned down a fee to atteld a bra company party. Her atty. wants her to be dignified now and hopes everybody’ll Torget her bosom. oo SILLY STORY at the Miami Beach Monte Carlo about the way to make dandruff disappear. Take small pills in red, blue, green and purple,

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

~NEW YORK, Dec:-19—The constitutionality of taxes, as currently collected, seems to have been placed in something resembling jeopardy by the recent shenanigans in scandal-ridden Washington. It occurs to the outraged bystander who pays up and owes, at interest, what he cannot pinch out of the budget at the time, that maybe the whole system of 'tariff-levy is away out of line with justice. : It, is basically unjust to withhold any portion of a man’s earnings, against his will, for instance. I do not think that a withholding tax will stand up under strictest legal scrutiny, even though it has been something of a bless-

ing to most of us in these tithe NN

bitten times.

CERTAINLY, there has been a point to the outraged beefs of those who scream that they do not wish to perform as unpaid tax collectors for the government, using valuable time as well ‘as lumps of capital to fulfill somebody else’s obligation to get the dough up on T-day. I do not feel personally that I am responsible for the tax obligations of a secretary or a servant, but I am, or at least the government says I am. We have no say-so in the expenditure of tax moneys. They rear back and lend a chunk of your dough to some bankrupt foreign power without so much as the well-known by-your-leave. They give it away, but you pay the freight. They will run an outfit like the RFC on your tax money ladling out huge gobs of money for private operations to gamble with—and cancel out the loan if the private operators take a spill. I do not think this is any more legal than spending withheld money instead of paying it into the federal till. o> Re THE CONCEPT of capital gains and of depletion, as in oil-well operation is as unjust as anything ever devised by man to mulct the mob. Do not tell me that as a man I am not as good as an oil well which gets a tax write-off of 27% per cent, or a piece of real estate, which can be

. sold after six months for a capital-gains tax of

\ only 26 per cent. They give the oil well a free ‘ride because oil is supposed to deplete .itself, ‘and once upon a time the government wished to encourage wildcat drilling. As a human created in God's image, do you not deplete yourself, too, with daily toil, until one day you are worn out and ‘unfit for labor? Is a house that can be sold at a T4 per cent keepable/profit mggre full of dignity than a man? sue

“IN LIGHT of the corruption and forced resigination of so many tax people, I am beginning to ‘wonder about.the legal right of a tax collector to ‘come into your home or office and arbitrarily dis‘allow certain items that you may feel represent ‘legal deductions. 4». Who is this bun that comes in and throws. his ‘weight? For all we know, he may just be jockey-

ren R. Austin is expected to re-

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THOUGHTS ON SHOPPING—"During the depression-it-was easy, we exchanged Christmas greetings.” o .

Christmas shopping is for women . . . they know more abott sizes . . . they Have the patience to haggle and pull and tear do you have a light blue sweater with short sleeves for a girl about this high? . . . she’s 14 . . . big for her age . . . all right, take your time . . . first come, first serve . . . phooey on sweaters.

What's to do about my mother? . . . thats

the big problem . . , get that out of the wa) and the rest won't be much trouble . . . robe? .-lawn mower? . jewelry? . SNOW

shovel? . . . perfume is out . . . lingerie is out . silverware? . . . thank you, I'm standing

here thinking about beginning a movement to ban Christmas shopping . . . oh? . . . you'll go along with that? . . . where's the water fountain on this floor? . , . too far.

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‘DURING the depression Christmas gifts were

simple . . ., we exchanged greetings . . . every year it’s getting worse. . . the smart thing would be to start shopping about Jupme . . . I'll take that one . . . size doesn’t matter . . . just wrap

it up . . . this isn’t your department . . . the lady in the black blouse will take care of me? . , wanna bet? Pardon me .. . EXCUSE ME . .. out of my way . . . one side . . . how's business today, George? . . . yeh, tried to do some Christmas shopping . . . let me have the usual . . . no, make it a double . .. Merry Christmas shopping, George ...aaaah,

ht Expect Rudolph Hall Expect Rudolp alley g To (Tie Knet Soon

Scatter on head. Dandruff disappears. Is re-

placed by confetti. . 4 THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Ken Murray's éxwife Cleatus Caldwell brings their sons, Ken Jr. and Court, 9 and 8, in from L. A. to be on his Christmas TV show. . .. Max Liebman’s such a TV producer that the Saturday show's still getting raves even when Caesar and Coca were off. . . Marlene Dietrich has made 12 records: in German, said to be the sexiest ever. (If in German, who can tell?) Henry Morgan's harem is peeved at him for favoring Eve Hunter, of TV. . , . John Emery, Tallulah’s ex-husband, and Bill 5 hd Langner, her beau, were in Sardi's together. Bernie Hart said: '“I've got two tickets to the toughest show to get into | in town—Tallulah’s trial.” . . . United Nations Headman War-

sign. He’s ill. . . . Probable new Federal Power chairman: ExCongressman Ray McKeough of Illinois. . . . Evelyn Marr's & at the Old Romanian.

Miss Marr

Tony DeMarco’s in Mt. Sinai Hospital, . . Harry Steinman, who made Sugar Hill a big cafe

success, stepped out: Izzy Bushkoff took over. Steinman’ll head another spot. . . . Jan Murray dropped into Chandler’s to announce he’d become the father of a son.

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“STAY OUT OF COURT, SON,” Grampa always said. “Most law suits are loss suits.” . , That's Earl, brother.

Tax Setup Makes His Blood Boil

ing for a shakedown. What makes him wield the big club of authority in your obligation to the government? He is just a man on a small salary trying to make a showing for the bigger boys up top. And the bigger boys, goodness knows, have certainly proved -up as a fine bunch of thieves and knaves.

0 oo oe WE MIGHT inquire testily as to what right a deal may be made with the Secretary of the Treasury that will allow a general to take a capitalgains profit on his memoirs, while hundreds of thousands of other writers pay a straight income tax. This deal was made for Gen. Eisenhower, who walked out with better than a clear halfmillion for his priceless remembrances. By whose authority was this deal made? Why does not Perry Burgess have the same right to to show a capital gains on his new book, “Born of Those Years”? The alleviation of the plight of sufferers from leprosy has been his life’s work, too. node we ie WHY CANNOT a baseball player or an actor or any man of limited earning span regard himself as a machine that wears out, and declare a depreciation on himself? Who says he can’t? T. Lamar Caudle, the see-moan see-moan of Harry's age of enlightenment? Who else says so? John Snyder of the Treasury? That wonderful ornament to our government, Howard McGrath? Maybe so Tom Clark? In my book these guys aren't good enqugh to mold our lives. Maybe all taxes are illegal; but, illegal or not, I want more quality and consistency in their collection and enforcement.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Some time ago I read about a preparation for the mixing of Copper X and water to be used as a dormant spray on roses to kill blackspot. This was to be sprayed on the ground as well as

the bushes to kill all traces of it before the next _

year’s growth started. Can you give me any information on this? Mrs. Charles Lowe, Carmel. A—It has always been good practice to spray

or dust ground around roses before hilling them .

up for the winter—using whatever preparation

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column | in The Sunday Times

you used during the summer on your bushes. The American Rose Society recommends certain copper sprays to be mixed with oil sprays for scale to control blackspot. If you had any direc - tions at all for mixing on the package you bought, you would be safe to follow them. For dormant _ plants can stand much stronger sprays than growing plants can, But do wait now until warm February or March days. Temperatures are

likely to be too cold in the next few weeks for a

dormant spray to do much good. s rg . . »

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THERE was a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all men through Him might believe. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that

light.

That was the true light, which lLghteth every

man that cometh into the world,

By PAUL GUINNESS Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be

delivered; and she brought forth a son.

And her neigh-

bours and her cousins heard how the Lord had ‘showed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.

And it came to pass on the ~ighth day that they came to ircumcise the child; and they “alled him Zacharias, after the ame of his father. And his mother answered and id! am “Not so; but he lled John.” And they said unto her: “There is none of thy Kkindred that is called by this name.” ' And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.

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AND HE asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying. “His name is John.” And they marvelled all. And his ‘mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God. And fear came up on all that dwelt round them, and all these sayings were noised ‘abroad throughout all the hill country of Judea. And all they that heard them

Real Bad Weather Can

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is

told the wonderful, old story of Christmas in a new, dramat'e recital, Paul Guinness was a Britis? \'rmy chaplain during ‘the wai He was imprisoned for two ane a half years in German camps During that time his only possession was a New Testament. From it he blended the four Gospels into one running, harmonious story of the Life of Christ. After the war his remarkable version was published in book form. This is the third of six chapters. taken from the book, THE CHRIST OF ALL NATIONS, recently published in America by Association Press.

laid them up in their hearts, saying: “What manner of child shall this be?” And the hand of the Lord was with him. And his father Zacharias was

CHAPTER THREE By JACQUELINE BERKE and VIVIAN WILSON IT IS only recently that doctors have agreed to recognize day-to-day weather changes as forces that actually influence the course of a disease. Sometimes the weather tips the delicate balance of the sick person toward life—

or death. : In trying to make a medical study of weather's effects, researchers are confronted with problems that might well discourage the bravest souls among them. You can study a climate easily; a season presents certain problems but it is around long enough for a good look. . Weather is another story. Tt shifts constantly. No sooner do you pin down a weather condition and begin to relate it to some bodily changes than— phoof — the weather has changed. » 5 8 A CHICAGO physician, Dr. William Petersen, emphasized what appears at first glance to be a rather obvious truism:

A human being is not a static immutable creature either. You cannot study a man as you study an X-ray or a medical text. :

- And that, Dr. Petersen maintained, is precisely what the present generation of researchers is trying to do.

“You take a blood count, you measure the respiration rate, you test the muscle tone > of an individual. And then you assume,” said Dr, Petersen, “that these results apply under all sorts of conditions. . You've got to realize that a human being is constantly changing—his pulse rate, his blood pressure, his general metabolism—all these things vary according to the special circumstances of the environment. And weather is a special circumstance.”

“Of course we know that” answers the opposite camp of researchers, who are somewhat impatient at being reminded. of facts which every doctor knows. But the change in the normal person, they insist, is within a normal, predictable range. Naturally people's bodies function differently in December from the way they do’in July, but the difference is not great enough to stir up any excitement, - 8. 800 AT THIS point Dr. Petersen would simply refer his opponents to his monumental fourvolume work, The Patient and the Weather, which shows con-

THE SONGS OF

EDITOR'S NOTE: Mesdames Berke and Wilson have been studying the effect of weather on human beings since their student days at Columbia University.

Here they show the influence

of weather on human beings according to the latest scientific data. This is the third of a series from the book, WATCH FOR THE WEATHER, just published by Viking Press.

“clusively "that the so-called nor-

mal person when studied over a long period of time varies tremendously and significantly in his basic body functions.

The blood, for example, is shifting continually between internal and external regions of the body, and the entire organisms, in the words of Dr. Petersen, is “pendulating constantly between poles of normality.” Dr. Petersen and his colieagues have studied dozens of diseases in relation to the weather. It is amazing to discover that in almost every diSease a major weather disturbance will have a distinctly bad effect. Dr, ‘Petersen did studies on asthma in an effort to track down the exact physiological mechanism at work. He studied death records of asthmatics and discovered that in a surprisingly large number of cases fatal attacks occurred shortly after a severe weather change—a sharp drop in temperature followed by a slow rise, : 5 a »

THE neuropsychiatrist, Hans H. Reese, of the University of Wisconsin has told his col ieagues, “Adequate and inadequate oxidation in cells and tissues is an4important explanation to psychiatric disorders. And this is weather-linked, biochemically ‘measurable and clinically obvious.” The weather is the secondary culprit that tips the balance in those predisposed to abnormal conduct. The vague, shadowy images of the potential paranoiac may blossom into a vivid delusion of grandeur. The chronic unhappiness of the emotionally insecure may suddenly flare up into-an acute manic-depressive

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filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying:

“Blessed be the Lord God of :

Israel; for He hath visited and redeemed His people, and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in.the house of His servant David; as He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world began; that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant; the oath which He sware to our father Abraham, that he would grant unto us, that we, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holi1088 ‘and righteousness befor im, “all the days ‘of our life.’

" a a “AND THOU, child,” Zach vias continued, “shalt be called <he prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways; to give knowledge of salvation unto His people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” And the -child grew, and waxed strong: in spirit, and was in the desert till the day of his showing unto Israel. (Copyright by Association Press: TOMORROW: Unto You Is Bern a Saviour.

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fg OOPS—Don't take any chances with the weather. It can be pretty tough,

episode. All the odd and obscure periods of excitement, or stupor, which the psychiatrist cannot otherwise explain, can often be explained if the weather is taken into consideration. : 19-year-old boy has six acute episodes in six months; every one of thém takes place

MORE MEAT?—

Hints About Low-

By GAYNOR MADDOX Times Special Writer

CHICAGO, Dec. 19 — Looks like Santa Claus may hang a thick juicy steak on the average family’s Christmas tree this year, That's the belief of John Holmes, president of Swift & Co, world's largest meat packers. . Harry 8. Eldred, executive vice president of Armour & Co, second largest packers, adds similar Christmas news. “The only meat,” he sald, “and that . means any type or kind of meat-—that should be sold at a high price in the immediate future is steaks and roasts of the extraordinary fine grade such A8 you get in expensive restaurants and clubs. Many other cuts will be available at or below celling prices.” The U. 8. Department of Agriculture reports that beef output in the first half of the November was 18 per cent greater than during October. “As more and more comes into the market, house-

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during a time of unusually low temperatures. A middle-aged woman becomes violent, almost ‘homicidal, on three separate nights in February; all three nights set records as “coldest of the year.” " An elderly man with strong feelings of persecution be-

wife prices should come down, other factors remaining unchanged,” Holmes told me in his Chicago office overlooking the stockyards. There are indications, however, that if a greatly acceler-

Zated rearmament program puts

more money in our pockets and

EDITOR'S NOTE: First of a series of two articles.

if the war threat should be intensified, the meat price picture might change. "8 ” » ELDRED said there is still no surplus of top grade beef and added they could sell more of it

if they had it. John Hblmes, keen-minded, clear-eyed © and with strong moral convictions, denied the

accusations of some consumer groups that the big packers control both the supply and price of meat. For a long period, until this big seasonal run of cow beef and the accelerating movement of steers from the feed lots began, our kill was restricted by OPS prices from one-third to one-quarter of normal,” he said. “We used every ingenuity we could think of, including taking loszes on our beef, to keep our customers supplied. And with ®

comes convinced on a Saturday morning that he has been poisoned by his doctor; the same morning the weather is so turbulent that every new paper ifi the city carries & weather story on the front page. n Dr. Reese and his associates do not maintain the weather explains most psychiatric episodes, but they have discovered that it does explain some. Psychiatrists who find themselves baffled by completely unpredictable and unaccountable behavior in their patients may be enlightened by a weather report. 3 It sounds incredible? Yes, in some ways it does, but after all if weather can make a normal person restless, excited, irritable, why is it so far-fetched to conjécture that this same weathér can push the mentally disordered person over the line into a violent seizure? - NEXT: Your Seasons Are Showing.

Priced Steaks

all that we were unable to do it. Other big companies were pretty much in the same fix.” He was unwilling to say directly that some processors who have been handling more meat than normal were cheating under OPS rules, but he thought many of them had failed to res port their purchases or had miss interpreted the rules. E » 8 NOT THE YULE SPIRIT, nor controls, but weather, sea-. sonal trends and bigger payrolls have turned the trick in favor of the family meat platter. The weather has been exceptional for several years, he explained. Good weather means good grass ‘on the ranges and

good feed grains in the fields,

These things build up the nation’s meat supply. “It takes two years to grow a! steer,” Holmes said, “and cycles of cattle production usually run from four to five years or longer. Cattle raisers are beginning to increase marketing but these marketings still are not as heavy as a year ago, despite the fact we have more cattle on hand now, As a result, he added glancing out toward the yards, “with plenty of feed for fattening we are going to get more beef.” 3

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