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Inside Indianapolis ; By Ed Sovola

MONEY can be a problem, If you don’t have. Too much (it is said), problems. Even new, lovely greenbacks from Washington are a problem. : : Bank tellers, the year around, are extra care- - ful when they break open a bundle of new money. The sizing in the paper make 6 them sticky and tricky to count. ; Incidentally, the sizing has nothing to do with the value of a note. % Come Christmas, when shopners have exhausted all possibilities on store counters, tellers are swamped with requests for new money. . Teller Charles. P. Chambers, Ifdiana National Bank, said he will pass out as high as $15,000 in new money in one day. By Monday, when the season to be jolly is about over, ‘Charlie may handle $1500. Peanuts. TT There are those who say a great deal of sentiment is lacking when money is given for a Christmas present. Personally, I like it. Money is so restful and green. And how pretty a bundle of $20 bills the size of a housebrick would look wrapped up with a red bow under a Christmas tree.

oo oo I'VE HEARD IT said that money for Christmas sh ws a lack of imagination. How wrong can one be? What would a bundle such as I have descrioéed under your tree do to your imagination? One dollar bills are the most popular, Next in demand are $5 bills. Teller John MacLucas thinks many milk salesmen (I don’t use milkman since the Polk Milk Company corrected me), postmen, elevator operators and delivery men will see many _ bills this year. T “Money is an easy way to show your appreciation for service without getting too personal. It's a fine token of your esteem,” said John. Not bad. It's a teller's job to handle money. When you talk to a man in a cage he is careful not to convey the impression that he wishes customers wouldn't bother him. But a teller also wishes people would figure out what they want before they

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It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Dec. 20—Price Stabflizer Mike DiSalle completed a year on the job and the reporters ,gave him a party at which one toasted him as being “witty, weighty and wonderful.”

A Taft-for-President supporter has just revived the ancient one: “Are you still a staunch

Democrat?” . . . Yes, but this year the staunch is worse than usual.” ‘+ B

Mimi Benzell tells us it took

fly from Atlanta to Newark the day of the big snow and five hours, 40 minutes to go by bus from Newark to her home on 79th St. Manhattan,

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MILTON BERLE’'S “winter vacation replacements’ will be: Georgie Price, Jan. 8; Jack Haley, Jan. 15. . . . 'Ray for Peter Lind Hayes and his beautiful wife, Mary Healy. They go ‘to Hollywood in February to do a picture for Stanley Kramer. . . . Rocky Graziano's already training for his Feb-

But the Graziano camp still thinks Sugar Ray will retire before the fight comes off. . . . Silent film star Hazel Dawn's dtr., Hazel, Dawn Jr. stars in “Fairmeadows, U. 8, A.”

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Americana

By Robert C. Ruark

\ . NEW YORK, Dec. 20—The spirit of Christmas having been variously translated in terms of nearly everything, including a psychiatric approach to Santa Claus and the fact that the bride of your bosom must be overjoyed with a new floor waxer, I still believe that the immortal embezzler, O. Henry, most nearly had it tabbed when he wrote a story called, “The Gifts of the Magi.” Most folks remember the story of Della, who cut off and sold her treasured, lovely hair, in order to buy a watch chain for her husband's most-treas-ured possession, an heirloom watch. Jim, in the meantime, had hocked the watch to buy.a special set of fancy combs for the now nonexistent hair. A watchless chain, perhaps, and combs for vanished locks may be frustrating, but the spirit of giving remained intact despite lack of function,

WE HAVE BEEN prone of recent years to formulate the Christmas spirit according to what is practical, what we need, or else we give in a sense of duty, without enthusiasm—a joyless giving followed by a dreary succession of bills. Me, I need a new suit=but would rather have an elephant gun, on the off-chance a rogue escapes from the circus next year. All of which is preamble to a kind of nice Christmas story, New York style. The cast is made up of a press agent, four actresses, and a lot of poor kids. And the odd thing is that the press agent, who lives by getting people’s names mentioned in Broadway columns, won't allow his name to be used. The actresses—one of whom is so down on her luck that she is studying typing in the mornings —won’t allow their names to be mentioned. And budding actresses can use what press agents call

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THERE ARE 64 boys and 62 girls at the Children’s Center of the New York Welfare Department, located at 1 East 104th St. here, and they range from 12 to 16 years in age. They are at a rough age for charity, for the younger kids more or less dominate the field. Their needs are more psychological than actual, at that age—some new frocks, not hand-me-downs for the girls, some athletic equipment for the boys. Stuff like baseball gloves and skates and stuff. So the four anonymous angels have been hustling around for the last few weeks, doing a piece of mild but charitable blackmail on their friends, and sandbagging some wholesale prices from clothing and sports dealers. And the press agent, who works for money and who lives by space for

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“Common courtesy and . consideration -for others in line ought to encourage a person.to take as little time as possible,” one teller remarked, ; eS oD

. IN THIS «same vein, Teller Jerry 8. Comella

becomes a wee bit nervous when a woman (they're.

the worst offenders) changes her mind a couple of times. or example, after carefully counting out’ 25 singles and four $5 bills, the lady sees'a different combination. The singles look too small, * “Make that 10 singles, one $10 bill and five $5 bills. One dollar isn’t much for an exceptional delivery man, .is it?” "What can Jerry say? Large firm orders for new money are fairly easy. Jerry had one the other day for $5500. A

messenger came in with a complete list of the

denominations desired. No changes. like “I just love to watch you count. I can't count money that fast. If you would go slower I could keep up with . . . ha . .. ha" Ha. Teller C. F. McClain wanted me to inform you all that, new silver dollars haven't been minted since 1935. Many customers, who asx for silver, are disappointed when they can't get shiny dollars, Indiana National has a plentiful supply of halves, quarters, mes and nickels that shine, ; < THIS IS HARD to believe. The tellers have requests for $25 bills. Not many. Enough, though, to provide a laugh at lunch every other day. The government doesn’t print $25 bills. For a gag you could give a $2 bill and a $5. Charlie Chambers said the best way to count new money jis by the serial number. New money is put up in 100 note stacks. If the last two numbers happen to be 76 -10 five spots ‘down the pile will have 86. For the inexperienced, the best way to handle the clean and sticky stuff is to crumple each bill, snap it, rub it between your fingers. It's not necessary to jump on a bill. Here's another helpful bit of information. Should your dog chew a $20 bill or Junior lights the logs in the fireplace with a nasty note, try to get at least three-fifths of the paper intact. You can redeem the note for full value. If half is gone, you get half the amount of the denomination. : Money, money, moné#y.” Brother, can you spare a dime?

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Witty. Weiahty. Likeable Mike

Then there was the kid who went to the store and told Santa what he wanted. Santa nodded pleasantly. “Better write it down,” the kid said. ting him on the head. The kid mistrusted him and went to the end, of the line, waited, and again faced Santa, who said, “And what do you want, little man?” “I want you to write my list.down. like I told you,” shouted the kid. “I knew you'd forget it, BURTON TURKUS, author of the best seller, “Murder, Inc.,” was accosted by his friend, Comedian Red Buttons, who demanded: “Why didn’t you put me in vour book?” “Why don’t you kill somebody?” replied Turkus. . About the Walter Wanger shooting of agent Jennings Lang, cab driver Arthur Gossett remarked, “I was surprised that anybody in Hollywood cared that much about their marriage.” As the panhandler said: when he asked a passerby for $100, “I'm patting all. my begs in one askit.” WL EARL'S PEARLS . . . Diana Herbert says a drama critic is a man who, hearing any actor is “at liberty,” sneers, “Why?”

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The cold gals never get fur coats.” —Quote. We can’t quite believe Ernest Adler's fable of the fellow in such a high bracket that for a Christmas present he's getting a salary cut. . .. That Earl, brother. Si

Broadway Turns Up A Christmas Miracle

his clients, has actually gone to work on the deal for no space and no fee. This I consider a modern miracle of the Yule.

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I LIKE IT as an example of Christmas giving in that there is no thought of personal gain, ‘and no real necessity to do it. The donors of time and effort can scarcely afford the time of the effort, let alone money. It is not a necessary thing for the kids—they will be comfortably, if unmodishly clad, and I suppose Abe Lincoln never had a ball bat in his life. There is not even a plump for general contribution here. .

It’s just nice, I think, that some young women who are still battling the career business would stop ‘to remember that a young girl might like a new and possibly. fancy frock for Christmas, instead of somebody's dreary idea of alms. Or that some adolescent boy might be weary of shoes and socks as a Christmas present, ‘ang might like to brandish an Eddie Stanky-type glove. 2 I am a suspicious fellow and New York, in the press-agent-actress league, is full of angles, but short on angels. There do not seem to be any angles to this, which is almost like discovering the milk of human kidness in a shark.

I wish a happy Christmas to the four anony-’

mous angels, and to the press agent turned Santa Claus, who have suddenly rebuilt my faith in Broadway.

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Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—I have a blue and a pink violet. They have a white mold. Mrs. George Hall, Carmel. Q—I recently found white specks on one violet. Mrs. A. E. Herbskersman, Southport. A—From these and a dozen other queries I am beginning to think there are almost no really healthy African violets to be found in Marion County. So at the risk of turning this into an

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Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

African violet column, we'll consider the violet's extensive troubles. When you find white specks on violets or any other plant (usually it's the fleshy stemmed ones), suspeqt mealy bugs. Especially if the specks. are fltiffy, cottony looking things. Though they seem lifeless they're really insects. And bad ones. If the plant has just a few, pick them off with a toothpick or pipe cleaner, Be sure to squash them completely. If the plant is really infested with clusters of the beasts, I'd just get rid of it and start over. Nicotime sulfate spray, used repeatedly, may help. But it will be work.

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THE SONGS OF CHRISTMAS

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UNTO YOU IS BORN A SAVIOUR

HE WAS in the world, and the world was made by

Him, “and the world knew Him hot. own, and His own received Him -not.

He came unta His But as many as

received Him, to them gave He power to become the

sons of God.

By PAUL GUINNESS And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria,) And all went to be

taxed city. And Joseph also went ap from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of Dayid, to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

And so it was that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. | And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in

everyone into his own

—the—fields,—keeping—watch over

their flock by night. And, lo, the "angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid.

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“AND THE angel said unto them: “Fear not; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great ‘joy, which ‘shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; ve shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.” And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the

Oops—Your Seasons Are Showing

EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is told the wonderful, old story of Christmas a new, dramatic recital. Paul Guinness was a British army chaplain during the war. He was imprisoned for two and A half years in German camps. His only possession was a New Testament. From it, he blended the Four Gospels into one running, harmonious story of the Life of Christ. Long after the war this remarkable version was published in book form. This is the fourth of six chapters taken from that hook, THE CHRIST OF ALL NATIONS, recently published in America by the Association Press.

heavenly Kost praising God, and

saying: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”

And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another:

“Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord has made known unto us.”

And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger, And when they had seen it, they made Known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. _

CHAPTER FOUR By JACQUELINE BERKE and VIVIAN WILSON

DR. ALEXANDER J. NEDZEL of the University of Illinois College of Medicine is one of the prominent investigators studying the relation of medicine to weather

and season.

Dr. Nedzel explains that all drugs depend for their effectiveness on how they are absorbed and distributed in the body. A drug that is consumed rapidly will produce a vastly different from one that is consumed slowly. 3

The effect depends to a great extent on the state of the body at the time the drug is taken. That in turn goes back to the weather and the season.

Experimental evidence is beginning to pile up. The same dose of a commonly used drug called neoarsphenamine had a much stronger effect on rabbits in late winter than it did in fall or summer. ’

Digitalis administered to cats provoked different responses depending on when and where it was given. Its potency was greatest in ‘the mountains, where the barometric pressure is low. At sea level the effect of digitalis varied. Any turbulent weather change—a storm, a hurricane, even an increase in humidity-—caused weird and unexpected fluctuations in the drug’s strength. Speaking of drugs—and alcohol is one-——here is a fact that has confounded many people who: thought they could cope with liquor. Have you ever noticed that a single glass of beer, if you gulp «it down hurriedly on a hot July afternoon, leaves you embarrassingly tipsy? Normally a glass of beer has no effect at all, but, as Professor Clarence Mills of Cincinnati University has shown, liquor may be more intoxieating in hot weather thaw it is at any other time. Generally, when we drink

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth article of a series which describe the effect of the weather on human hehavior. They are from the book, WATCH OUT FOR THE WEATHER, just published by Viking Press.

anything as mild as a glass of beer the small percentage of alcoholic content is immediately burned in our bodies and we show no npticeable symptoms. But in the summertime we are warm; our nervous tissues immediately absorb it.

That is the trouble.. They absorb the alcohol se quickly that the body does not have a normal chance to burn it. The nervous tissues deaden before we can say, “I'll have another,” and we are slightly tight on one glass of beer, 7 n » n

WHAT IS it about the body that invites different ills at different seasons—colds in wintertime and stomach disorders in summer?

A simple, and basically sound answer is this: Blood contains cells that fight infections of all kinds. Cold air causes the blood to rush from the outer skin areas of the body to the inner organs. Because of this the outer tissues of the body the tissues of the nose, throat, ears, and so on-—-are reduced in their blood supply and are therefore less effectively protected against germs that settle in the upper respiratory tract. The bodyguards are no lorger on duty in sufficient force, and a losing battle with the invading army of germs and microbes may follow,

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— -THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1951

"MARY, JOSEPH AND CHILD'"—Antonio Ressolino, 15th Century Italian artist, carved this sculpture of Jesus and His parents.

And all they that heard it

wondered at-those-things-whict— the womb. shall be-called holy

were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these

things and pondered them in her heart, And the shepherds returned, - glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

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AND WHEN eight days were accomplished for the circumcision of the child, his name was called JESUS which was so named of the ange! before he was conceived in the womb.

And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the

In the summer the situation is reversed. The blood leaves the internal regions to scttle in the outer areas. The respiratory tract is amply defended now, at the expense of the intestines. And so thé intestines are less protected during the summer months, with the inevitable result—summer stomach infections. ?

» ” » WE KNOW today that children gain more weight in the late summer and early fall than at any other time.of the year. In faet one study showed that the rate of gain in the last half of the year is four times greater than the rate of gain in the first half. We also know that the iodine content of the skin. varies with the season. In both animals and human beings a higher iodine level is maintained in the blood in the summer than in the winter. Exactly how this affects skin diseases is a matter that many dermatologists have started to wonder about, People with various skin diseases generally show spontaneous improvement in the summer. Of course the sunshine of summer helps a great deal, but, as several specialists have said, that isn’t the whole story.

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Lord, “Every male that openeth

to the Lord”), and to offer a sacrifice according to that which .is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, and two pigeons.” 2

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

And he came by the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought the child Jesus,

to do for him after the custom of the law, then he took him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said. »

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have just as much to do with it——though no one has yet traced the specific mechanism at work here. Recent investigation shows that even food allergies are weather - linked. You would think that if tomatoes make you break out in a rash, they would have that same unattractive effect no matter when you eat them. But this it not so. Tomatoes may not agree with you in December and January, but try them in July - and August. There is a very healthy possibility that you may get along with them perfectly well in the summer.

“Lord, now lettest thou thy ing to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all* people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.” ® » ”

AND JOSEPH and his mother marveled at those things which were spoken of him. And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary, his mother:

“Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also; that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” - (Copyright by Association Press) TOMORROW: His Star Kose in the East,

a cold? Why, the cold gives

And also we ‘have learned that the body: is seasonally sensitive to various drugs. What may poison you in December may create only a mild nausea in May; similarly what may cure you in June may be only a half-baked treatment in January. ' We naturally expect that a properly standardized pharma ceutical preparation will have the same effect no matter when we take it. The drug itself is relatively not affected by the passing seasons, but our bodies are. NEXT: Is Changing?

Our Climate

U. S. Needs Record Grain Crops

By GAYNOR MADDOX Times Special Writer

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 20 - We need record-breaking crops to sustain our well-heeled appe-

tites and our bigger supply of babies. Our increasing high state of high living is putting a strain on our agriculture, according to Harry A. Bullis, board chairman: of’ General -Mills. “There is growing concern for the g nation’s food ie supply,” he 4 said. Recently, HEA partment of Mr. Maddox Agriculture appealed to farmers to increase their acreage devoted to grains, particularly feed grains, The rising consumption of meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products points up that anxiety, Bullis believes. The grain needed for an pancake or cereal breakfast can be held in the palm of the hand. But a bacon and egg breakfast takes at least a bushel basket of grain to produce it. Bullis, 60, impressively tall and vigorous, is one of the country’s most progressive industrial leaders and is noted for

his economic optimism. Neves-

theless, he is ‘concerned over our accelerating indirect consumption of grains.

n » » “THE 1951 CROP was large according to pre-war standards, although not quite up to expectations,” he told me in his Minneapolis office overlooking mills on both sides of the Mississippi River. “Part of the

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a series of two articles.

‘crop was impaired by wet har-

vest and early frost. At the same time we have the largest animal production in history.” At the interview were also Donald A. Stevens, internationally’ quoted wheat executive and vice president of the company (largest millers in the world) and Charles H. Bell, executive vice president. Bullis symmarized their combined opinions. “The Department of Agricul« ture call for record breaking crops is based on the fact that during the 1951-52 period we produced less grain than we

will. consume - domestically and

export” he explained. “Not short production, but our rather tremendous consumption plus a fairly large export program, was the cause. . However, Bullis believes the country can easily produce ample food for our entire population. ;

“BUT IT may not be abhle year after year to oduce in such abundance that our per capita rations can include such generous proportions of high cost foods (in terms of cereals) as the steaks and bacon and eggs and broiled chicken we are now eating,” he cautioned. Many people can be fed by direct feeding of cereal grains, but the acreage requirements to produce meat and poultry, for example, are four to seven times greater. “That is why our national eating habits, plus our growing population, demand better than average production on a larger than average acreage,” he insisted. ” AM » “HOWEVER, if Mother Nature should give us just one poor crop year, something will have to give. Otherwise we might actually run ‘out of cereal grain,” he warned. “Apparent. ly, the American people are not in the mood to conserve the resourees of our farms. That is ‘a dangerous national attitude,

particularly at this time of world crisis. Although ‘our gH. : cultural potential ' tre dous, it is not fact nro “What we eat for ter is more perilously on weather than most Americans realize,” he saide = A

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