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CONTRARY TO what you read on safety posters, alcohol will mix with gasoline. Under the supervision of State Police Laboratory Director Robert. F, Borkensein, I mixed pure grain alcohol and automobile jumping juice. Blends perfectly. Then I tried gasoline and the stuff New Year's ¥ive merrymakers will handle. Booze and gasoline spell trouble the moment they are brought together, The water content in whisky prevents a smooth mixture with gasoline. There is no water in pure grain alcohol. That is why it becomes as one with gasoline. The point Lt. Borkenstein and this fun lover are trying to make is this, watch your mixture. It's as simple as that.

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FOR THE greater part of the year, I try to bring the brighter side of lif ta_you. Tomorrow night will be fun night {6r a lot of us. We'll ring out the old year and sing in the new and be gay, hopeful, maybe a little high. Then the party will begin to break up, and home or a late eating spot will be the destination. Be careful. Try to remember that the guy who says he can drive better with a couple of drinks under ‘his belt is speaking sheer nonsense. That goes for you as well as me and Joe. Men who have studied the effects of alcohol have come up with interesting results. A motorist only “feels” he can drive better, if he feels anything at all.

ALCOHOL washes away the little inhibitions that are so important on the highway. Alcohol dulls self-criticism. Scientists don’t bother with the question of whether a man is sober or not. They are interested in whether his driving ability has been impaired by drink. Even one. Traffic safety engineers are disturbed with the phrase “drunken driver.” The¥ wish it had never been coined. “Drinking drivers” is more of a worry. IN MICHIGAN a survey of 17,000 accidents was made. Three times as many accidents were caused by drinking drivers as those who were

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“under the influence” as established by laboratory tests. Exhaustive tests have established that driving ability is reduced by drinking one beer or one cocktail which will leave about .03 per cent alcohol in the system. You might be interested in what you should do to be perfectly safe, according to laboratory standards which don’t encompass ordinary highway risks,"after having one cocktail tomorrow night, \ 8 . DR. LEON GREENBERG, director of Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, says to wait half an hour before driving after one. If you have two drinks, wait two hours; three, wait four hours. Should you be attending a big party and have four drinks, amuse yourself for six hours before driving, Now, supose you had four and someone handed you “one for the road.” Dr, Greenberg recommends you wait eight hours. Sounds fantastic when you're cold sober, doesn’t it? There probably isn’t a drinking driver alive who would abjde by such a table. Is there anyone in the audience who hasn't driven with a few under his belt? Not likely. There are circumstances always coming up when we forget. MEN LIKE Dr. Greenberg and Lt. Borkenstein, who hate the massacre on the highways, preach caution and try to spread knowledge about the effects of alcohol. They know drinking slows a man’s reaction time down; it creates a false confidence; it dulls concentration and judgment and affects vision. The table of waiting periods after a certain number of drinks is sound advice. Who will follow it? Nobody. At least not to the letter. So other suggestions are made to protect you. First, nold your speed down. Then guard against taking chances, showing off. Concentrate on your driving. Don’t take the last drink offered you. You don’t need “one for the road.” If a friend suggests you take a cab or stay over, don't be insulted. The friend means well, He probably has more sense than you. Take a cab. Stay the night. Let someone drive you home, Have a good time tomorrow night. And remember, booze and gasoline don't mix. I tried.

It Happened Last Night Prop That Telophone.,

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Dec. 20—And you think you've got trouble.

Western Union Telegraph—one of the sponsors of Tallulah Bankhead’s “Big Show” Sunday night —wouldn’t permit the program to include a scheduled long distance phone call to Ozzie and Harriet from their son in California. “Why boost telephone calls?” argued a spokesman for the telegraph company. “The phone company’s our biggest competitor.” Irving Hoffman, the columnist, was annoyed the other day by a female visitor whom he finally told: “Put the light and yourself out.” Later he commented: “She could use a broom and bath.”

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show, “Top Banana,” Gentleman Georgie Solotaire maintains that the theme song of the B'way ticket brokers is, “But yes, we have no ‘Bananas’.” . LE ONE OF THE BEST exchanges about televi« sion occurred on Tallulah’s “Big Show” recently when Jack Carson said, “Radio, what’s that? I'm in television.” Tallulah: “Radio’s the mother of television.” Carson: “Who's the father?” : Tallulah: “Television, darling, had no father!” (Scripter Mort Greene wrote it.) oe < ole

WHEN I'M ASKED, ‘Do you have a television

. 2m Tr ES President Truman will have been in office” program?” I'm forced to repeat a conversation I

seven years at the end of this term; if re-elected, he'll presumably serve 11 years. So the question before the country now can be boiled down to the old crap-shooters’ expression ...7...or 11?

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POLICE DISCLOSE that a celebrated father is having his pretty young daughter—and her Boy Friend—shadowed by private sleuths . . . Greta Garbo, who hung around her Capri villa Just one day, was at Manny Wolfe's with Dr. Peter Gautte, an escort unknown to the B'way mob . . . Ten more high Brooklyn cops will be indicted for perjury .. . Popular Park Sheraton

Mgr. Neal Lang may transfer early in ’52 to the

Detroit -Book-Cadillac which’ll spend a million $ to glamorize . . . Lovely Vivian Blaine of “Guys & Dolls” lands star billing in her next MGM film with Gene Kelly . . . Latest rumor is that Rita Hayworth may go back ty Aly Khan and fight with him instead of Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures. Due to his battling with Rita, the latter's chums now call him “Aly Cohn.”

Because of the sell-out of the Phil Silvers

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Dec. 20—You may be happy today for the families of ;the four American fliers,

and for the airmen themselves, who were ran-.

somed loose from the Hungarian blackmailers for the comparatively picayunish sum of $120,000, but you can be very sad for and:a bit ashamed of the greatest nation in the world. We went for the badger game, for the old shakedown, and the snickers must he profuse in the backrooms of the -curtained world. . We are smack back in the days of the Barbary pirates, or so it seems, and a new and facile plan for accruing American dollars has been successfully launched. The snatch racket is on ggain, and big old, powerful old, tough old Uncle Sam .is shelling out the bribe money without a squeak. You can be heavily ashamed of ‘your own government, which literally suffered its private citizenry to dictate a course of official action, by illegally forcing the State Department's hand. However generous or noble the aim, the task of liberating Amerian fliers in Hungary was not the concern of Robert Vogeler or of American individuals, by direct subscription. The law forbids negotiation between private citizens and foreign powers—and even if it didn’t, we supposedly have a government to act in behalf of each of us— ‘especially when we run into trouble abroad." THE VERY size of the ransom demanded is an insult, in that it comprises merely u traffic violation. The or-else penalty of three months imprisonment is another certain indication that the American Air Forcers had committed no definite act of espionage, but had merely flown “lllegally” in the air, ! We have allowed our planes to be shot down by “friendly nations.” We have had our citizens snatched and dropped into dungeons. We had to pay heavy indemnities to buy Bob Vogeler back. The Associated Press’ Bill Oatis is still stuck away in a black hole somewhere, It took the singlehanded effort of a newspaper chain te shake the State Department's Angus Ward loose from his Red captors, while the department wriggled help-

leugly, PENA a WE HAVE a government that ‘will send us off

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once had with Lucius Beebe, the bon vivant who covered only the plushest saloons. He mentioned that he had champagne for breakfast, - “Did you say,” I asked him, bug-eyed, “that you have champagne for breakfast?” “Why, certainly,” he said. “Doesn’t everybody?” ge We whe EARL’S PEARLS ... A shy girl, says the Stage Coach’s Bethe Douglas is one who has to be whistled at twice.

TODAY'S WORST POEM: “Breathes there a man who's so abnormal, he can’t be stirred by a low-cut formal.”—Tony Bennett. :

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TODAY'S BROADWAY DIALOG (reported by Anthony Pettito): “I never dreamed life could be empty.” , . . “Why don’t you get married?” . “I am.” :

JOEY ADAMS, going into the Paramount, didn’t mind paying $90 for a bottle of perfume for his gal Cindy—after all, he gets a nickel back on the bottle. , , . That's Earl, brother.

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the consent of the people, and we throw billions into foreign vacuums without active consent of the people. But the dignity of American forces and of American passports is watered .down to a tevel of contempt on foreign soil. : Certainly, you cannot advocate a declaration

-of war against Hungary as a protective measure

to re-establish American prestige, but I will say that such a war, in defense-of our nation, would make as much or more sense than the war we started in Korea:

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_ BUT IT SEEMS fo me that certain drastic economic and diplomatic measures short of war might have been employed as a weapon against the persistent insults at the hands of the puppet state of Hungary. As I recall, we felt deeply enough about the North African pirates to hand them a whip-

ping, and the principle is the same today. We °

might at least have sent Hungary's enyoys packing; we might at least have closed down any commercial dealings with the Hungarians. We have solved nothing at all by the whacking bribe we paid for Mr, Vogeler's release—nothing whatsoever by buying back our fliers at the cutrate price of $120,000. All we have done is tool up for a thriving traffic in kidnaping for profit by bandit nations. As individuals it is'not our responsibility to

kill the racket. It is the business of the men who -

are appointed by the people we elect.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

: Q—I can raise yelow calla lilies very well. But for some reason white ones blast before the buds can open. Have you any idea what causes this? Clifford Bauer, 3826 Kenwood Ave. A--Blasting of flower buds is very often due to too dry air around the plant. Buf the fact that your yellow callas do all right under the same conditions suggests some other reason. Bud blasting is often caused by thrips. And calla lilies .do suffer from several of the 57 varieties (or more) of thrips. So, if you're sure dry air is not the difficulty, try treating your plants for

' thrips. Spray or dust with a pyrethrum (Special

Red Arrow is one) or nicotine preparation (Blac Leaf 40). Be sure to repeat in 10 days. Ras : Send garden questions to Marguerite th, ~the Dirt, INDIANAPOLIS TIMES;

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By JEANE JONES MORE THAN three years in uniform but never a day in service. That's the record of John Dransfield whose heroic figure graces the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. . actually, Mr. Dransfield posed for two of the statues decorating Indian's monument to her “silent victors.” : But there's another statue of * John Dransfield in Indianapolis,

one that is his favorite. It's in the Morton group at the Statehouse east entrance.

“That's the one the Sculptor Rudolph Schwarz did just for me,” Mr. Dransfield says, his eyes twinkling. Even now, after nearly 50 years, there's a striking resemblance. “People always said they knew that one was of me,” he says proudly. i Mr, Dransfield posed for three other commemorative statues that now stand on courthouse

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~ » ~ “I BEGAN posing when these sagging muscles of mine were hard and sinewy.” Mr. Dransfield says. “I worked in the American Hominy Mill when I first met Rudolph Schwarz. I stopped in a corner tavern after work each evening. One man in there had been eyeing me for about a week and he made me nervous: I complained to the proprietor. A few minutes the man came over to me and safd he was Rudolph Schwarz.” : “I'd heard he had come here

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talked awhile and then he asked if I would model for him.”

“I wasn't so sure I wanted the job, but when he mentioned the salary, $12 a week, I said ves. That was big money then, nearly three dollars a week more than I made at the mill and I could keep my job there too.” ’ » » »

THE JOB was to be for two weeks, but lasted three years. Mr. Dransfield replaced Frank Frizt who posed for many of the Monument figures. “We worked hour after hour,” Mr. Dransfield recalls. “It seems like just standing still would be easy, but it wasn’t, Four hours and 10 minutes without a break was my record.” Mr. Dransfield says that Sculptor Schwarz was a “typical artist.” “Some days everything seemed to go just

right and he'd work fast, but °

there were other days when he was a little temperamental.” Money for the monument was from public donations and everyone was interested in the work. Towns decided they needed their own special monuments and they often sent a committee of citizens to see

Mr. Schwarz's work, Mr, Dransfield says. a “One day 1 was posing on-a high block when a group came in, They talked to Mr. Schwarz for a time and 1 thought I'd step down and rest.

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one of the women pointed at me and began screaming. The next thing I knew they were

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Then they began laughing, I still, they thought I was a statue and they were afraid the thing was falling when I moved.” ”, » " VISITORS were not the only distractions. Then as now there were sidewalk superintendents. Gen. Fred Knefler, monument

custodian, didn’t like the beards

on the faces of the stone soldiers. “When the Civil War started I -had only beardless voung fellows under my command,” he complained: “Nof old men with full beards as they appear in the design. They look too German.” So instead of a sculptor, Mr.

Schwarz became a barbér and

with a chisel instead of a razor, shaved the beards. What of the nameless lady who stands atop the monument? “She was a .beautiful girl,” recalls Mr, Dransfield. “She was about 21 then and she had

blonde hair and a sunny dis-

position, I believe her name was Louise Brunch.” There were others too who

took part in building this monument, which is said to be the grandest achievement of architectural and sculptural art in the world. CW WT 3 IT WAS STARTED in 1887 under, the direction of architect Bruno Schmitz and dedicated in 1902, ha ' 3

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It was Mr, Schmitz who persuaded M. Schwarz to come to America. He was sure he wouldn't like it here and didn't bring his family. But a few months in Indianapolis convinced Mr, Schwarz he never wanted to leave America and he sent for his family, A daughter, Mrs. Helen Kolthoff lives in Beech Grove, and a son; Carl, in Pittsburgh. Mr. Dransfield also recalls a Heinrich Zoderer, who assisted in casting some of the statues in hronze. “As far as I know, I'm the only one left,” Mr, Dransfield says, Mr. Schwarz died in 1913, but not before he had com pleted statues for Crawfordsville, Mt. Vernon, Terre Haute, Franklin, Vincennes, Princeton, Detroit and Garfield Park. In addition there were many memorial tablets made by the man, who had he lived, might have become one of America's foremost. sculptors. ¢ » 5 ” » “I DON'T come down to see | the statues very often now” said Mr, Dransfield, who retired this year from the tavern he operated on 8. Meridian St, since 1917. ' “My bronze clothing is turhing green and there are pigepps roosting on my stone head. People ‘don’t stop to look and admire -the way they used ito, either, fd “I, guess these things don’t mean‘ as much to the people as they did to us,” Dransfield said, hails