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In Indianapolis’ By Ed Sovola The WHAT DO the men and women who must

work in the midst of horn-blowing and whoopeemaking think about their fate? =

We can begin with Hehd Waiter George Ray.

“© Some Folks Work On New Year's Eve

who will be atéhis post in the Cascage Room of =

the Columbia Club. - George has. had two New

Year's Eves off in 36 years, and doesn't remember (it's been so long ago) what he did. George is looking forward to the big evening with “eager anticipation.” He "says he always enjoys himself and believes he has as good a time as the guests, It makes him happy to see other people happy. That's his life, his Tivejjhagd, helping others enjoy themselves. > The boss of Columbia Club, Jack Flory, can't remember ever having a New Year's Eve off since he started in the business in 1913. ? : eb @ Tin PERHAPS the head that wears-the top responsibility worries more. Anyway, Jack $aid he can’t quite get into the spirit of the evening when he’s trying to see that everything i8 going well, He doesn't’ feel any particular pangs of remorse when preparing for the big night, New Year's Eve means work, more than usual. When the guests express themselves favorably during the evening, Jack is satisfied. Along about 3 a. m., ‘when he's through, Jack goes home. No late parties. ve Trophy Room Bartender Roy Beard, Athletic Club, who hasn't been loose on New Year's Eve for the past 10 years, wishes “somone would take ‘my place so I could have fun” en he’s getting ready for the night. ~ “Once I'm working and busy, I don’t mind. In fact, I usually have fun,” Roy said. After work, Roy goes home. He doesn’t have enough steam left to do anything else. ob D

WAITRESS Alberta Hughes, 13 years of New Year's Eve experience, was more philosophical

" than Roy, “I might as well work., I like to see

people have fun and I see it here. It’s nice to go home and know you've had fun and earned money.” ] The Hochman boys of Sam's Subway, Harry and Saul, have a practical working arrangement for the evening. Last year Saul worked and Harry was off. This year Harry will hold down the fort. “I don’t feel anything special. It's my work and I have to dn it. Saul is off this year, I was off last year. I went to a party last year, Saul is going this year. That's the way it goes. When I get home about 3 in the morning, T'lf probally feel a lot better than a lot of people.” You're so right, Harry. . Bob Davidson, manager of LaRue’s, who hasn't tooted for four years now, says he will feel “a twinge” when he’s ready to slip into his

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

2 NEW YORK, Dec. 31—“Toastmaster General” George Jessel—who was on a plane which was forced to crash-land the other day—had to give an after-dinner speech that night. Georgie had heard the frightened passengers mumbling their prayers. He'd been instructed how to fall in case the door burst open. He'd been asked to give the name of his next of kin. Facing his audience that evening, he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I'm very glad to be here tonight—and that’s the understatement of the year.” > 5 o : JESSEL’S been hearing about enormous fan mail received by stars. “Listen,” he replied, “there a company in New Jersey that writes fan mail by the pound. Not long ago it sent dozens of letters to one network saying, ‘We fell in love with Joe Schmo’s voice on the program last night.’ But due to a mixup in schedules, all the letters arrived two days before he was on the air.” ® @

MARTHA RAYE’'S daughter Melody is, we believe, the only 68-year-old who has a mink coat to match her mother’s. Melody also has an ermine to match Martha's. And with Mom getting a bundle to do another NBC TV show Jan. §, Melody’s also getting a new breath-of-spring mink like Mother's (As the old farmer said, “What fur?”)

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AN IMPORTANT advance in medicine, to be revealed soon, will enable doctors to complete the ,entire task of blood-typing in 20 seconds, although it now sometimes takes hours. A Queens doctor's invention, mow being patented, will save thousands and thousands of lives. . Wild Rumor Dept.: Price Stabilizer Mi¢hael DiSalle may succeed Attotney Gen. McGrath. , . . Margaret Truman's sometimes escort, Attorney Marvin Braverman, was at Gogi's Larue with Betty Betz—and he’s no teen-ager. . . . Jackie Gleason’s comment on Toots Shor’s globularity: “He's the only man who ever swallowed a basketball and lived.” “Today every diplomat must watch his appease and accuse”’—London Opinion, ¢ + ¢ . SPANISH CIRCLES are upset about the latest work of sculptor Marcella De Roche of Detroit

Americana . By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Dec. 31—This has been a lousy year in a great many respects, and I will bury its corpse with precious little wailing at the bier. Its imperfections have been numerous, its problems multifarious, and its conduct somewhat scandalous. It may be known as the year of the scientific miracle—for the first time mink was successful-

ly crossed skunk, and not even chlorophyll could kill the odor.

This was one of those years of decision, I truly believe, and there is no Pollyanna in me when I say that I think all the unpleasantnesses have roused a sudden wakening among the yeomanry. We have lazed along in the belief that destiny was over the hill, when all the time it was crouching on the doorstep. Our complacency has been bounced and battered pretty good, in 1951. We have had a sudden, shocked péek at ourselves—at the corruption of officials, at the cynicism of government, at the weakening of moral fiber among most of us. We have stepd: aghast before a collapse of ancient values, and in the waning, months it seems to me we have suddenly realized that this is happening to us, Not to him or her To Be, John Citizen.

WE HAVE staggered through the age of the fix, the bribe, the collusion of politics and crime. We have wept somewhat over the downfall of ideals among the young, and observed apathy in all quarters. We have despaired over any sound, eventual solution to a global nastiness that seems intent on reducing the world to a smoking slag Heap on one hand, or else a vast poorhouse of bare necessity, where only the keepers live like gmen. In past we have pondered the decline #hd fall of. empires—the Greeks, ‘the Romans, the Carthaginians—as ancient happenstances that touch us not. It is only in recent days that we have reflected that in one man’s span we have seen Germany wrecked twice, Russia rise from anarchy to a vast slave empire, and England reduced from world-ruler to an impoverished second-class power. Se ue eM WE HAVE BEEN on hand as Asia surged upward, and as America touched its peak among the titans of the globe. We suddenly realize that we ‘stand solidly 6n the threshold of what could be our decline and eventual fall. We have ridden herd on the greatest age of history the scarred ‘old world has ever seen—and I believe that this

ne At year, this 1951, that many of us "1 think oo have taken a very brutal inventory

on our Sh on ngs in the Dast 17 wenthe._not m on the high-dome plane as on £7 the working tif and the mesk-miened mdadie

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BIG NIGHT WORKERS—The men behind the (staggering) men don't mind working, they say. :

work clothes (tuxedo) and checks himself in the mirror. “I like parties,” Bob said. “But I have to work and we'll have fun here tonight.” -» I THOUGHT sure Bob was one man who would get in on part of the evening’s fun after work when he can relax. Bob laughed. “When I get through here it will be 3:30 in the morning. The only thing I'll feel will be fatigue. You know how it is to show up at a party when it's been going full blast for several hours, especially on New Year's Eve. Most of my friends will be obnoxious by then. By the time I'd get that way there wouldn't be anyone left.” There's one club in town that will be unique tonight. It's the Indianapolis Press Club. It will be closed tighter than a drum after 6 p. m. What are the bartenders going to do? Louis Cooper, who will have his first New Year's off in 30 years, will stay home. And be mighty happy, too. “od bh GEORGE WOODRUFF, who will be off for the first-time in 10 years, has big plans, as far as he is concerned. George is going to take it easy and watch television. When you stop and think about it, Louis and George have picked about the best thing one could do. They must think New Year's Eve at home pretty important if that's what they're planning after all these years. Have fun, gentlemen, and don't stay up too ate,

Georgie Jessel Has Real Scare on Plane

which depicts Franco holding a bull on his shoulders, the bull symbolizing the Spa nish people. They're upset because the work is titled, “Franco Throws It.” : Sb ONE OF MY NICEST Christmas gifts was a fountain pen with my signature engraved on it— identical to a gift a year ago from the same person. + “How nice of him to give me a new one” I remarked to the Beautiful Wife. “Because I don’t know what happened to the first one. I lost that one, just a few days after last Christmas.” “No, you didn’t lose it,” said the B. W, “I liked it. It's in my purse.” od THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Ann Sothern, deeply grateful for her recovery from infectious hepatitus, told friends she’s considered joining a religious order. . . . Myron Cohen’s record, “Boiled Beef,” is a runaway....Shapely Marilyn Monroe's considered for the lead in the film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” The Rudolph Halleys will return from honeymoonin’ to

- don our braggin’ but we forecast the marriage Dec. 13.).... Reba Monness, the pretty '50 table tennis champ, will m.c. on TV....Ginny Sims and oilman Bob Calhoun will wed around Apr. 1.

= ” ” PAUL MELTSNER, the painter, will raise $150,000 in the U. 8. for Paris’ “City of Artists of All Nations.” ... Argosy Editor Jerry Mason got this note: “Here's a $64 question: Would you lend me $647”... Cecil B. DeMille got a guarantee from the Music Hall that “Greatest Show” will stay 12 weeks—assuring him a record. (“Mrs. Miniver” stayed 11.) > Sb THEY TELL of the British doctor who insisted on making love to his pretty patient, and when she demanded to know why, he explained, “Why, haven’t you heard? Socialized medicine!”... That's Earl, brother.

Year's About Over, And Good Riddance

class. Many things have shocked us into unpleasantly honest appraisal. dod ue WE HAVE BEEN shocked by the futilities of our government in the handling of our personal affairs. We have been shocked by runaway inflation, by ever-mounting taxes. We have been shocked by scandals in athletics, by dope addiction among our youth, by graft among our cops and elected officials. We have been shocked by scandals in tax collection, scandals that haye been typified by iceboxes and plane rides and free jars of jelly and mink coats and free hotel rooms— things that we can understand better than we understand the billions the statisticians toss at us. Never have I heard so much complaining as I have heard this year. Everybody's got a beef, Never have I seen a people so serious, so lacking in spontaneous gaiety, so short of a sense of humor. People seem angry—angry and impatient, It wars the year of the tart temper, the strident voice, the frustrated desperation. It was the year of heavy drinking and feverish escape. It was also the year of a definite grasping for God, a year of reaching out for some sort of reiterated faith on which to Jean in a world that is buffeted by uncertainty. It was a mean year, a sad year, a puzzled year, but it was not a wasted year. It was a year of coming to closer grips with unpleasant reality, On that score, alone, I think it was a good year, if only because it argues that we might be able to do a better job on 1952.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Could you tell me if it is possible to raise soulangeana magnolia from seed and if the seed requires any ‘special care to start them. The seed seems so hard I wondered if they required freezing or chipping to start them. Do they require grafting? Mrs. W. H, Graham, Rt. 5. A-—Magnolia seed decays rather easily. So it is better to get it planted as soon as you take it off the tree. Common practice is to soak the

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

seed in water (or water plus soda) until the pulp comes off easily. Then it's wise to disinfect before planting (with a mercury disinfectant) again to prevent decay. Keep the seed box in a cool place over winter. Germination tdkes place in the spring. Soulangeana is commonly grafted and you might get faster growth from a grafted plant. But you can certainly raise an own-root plant. As to freezing, many seeds commonly said to need freezing nate just as well if several months of cool rather than freezing

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1951 .

ANNUAL GUIDE—

Your Income Tax Primer—No. 1

By RICHARD A, MULLENS Times Special Writer

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QUEST FOR EDUCATION—

Wife Helps Keep 1U

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dec. 31—The education of Lucian A. Arata at Indiana University is strictly a fam-

ily affair.

Mr. Arata, a straight-A student who was graduated

from Mishawaka High School 16 years ago, said “I couldn't have come to college if it wasn’t for the encouragement and help of my wife.” For the ‘last 10; years he and his wife have budgeted his income as a clerk in the Mishawaka post office with one goal in mind—a college education for him. And during that time they have reared a family—Chris, 11, a sixth-grader now enrolled in St.. Charles Parochial School; Roseann, 8, a third-grader, and Virginia, 415, who is attending nursery school in the University’'s Hoosier Courts Apartment area where the family is now living,

” » ” 3 MR. ARATA was one of 60 students selected this year by the IU Foundation for a new

kind of scholarship, one that.

recognizes not only scholastic ability but a student’s initiative in working his way through school. ; To help put himself through school, Mr, Arata now is working as a part-time clerk at Godsey’s supermarket in Bloomington. Those 10% years of saving and skimping in Mishawaka took the co-operation of the o

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entire family. And none in the family seems dismayed by the fact that there are more years of close budgeting ahead if Mr, Arata succeeds in gaining admission to the School of Medicine, After being out of high school for so many years, the Mishawaka father wasn’t sure he'd still. know how to study. Two years ago, while still working fulltime in the postoffice, he enrolled in clases at the Indiana University Center in South Bend. From the beginning he made top grades—straight A's. = A oy

WITH two years of college credit toward . a degree, Mr. Arata and his family took the big step last fall and moved to Bloomington. In doing so they gave up their comfortable home in Mishawaka with its large yard for the children. Their University Apartment which rents for a modest sum is comfortable but it is smaller quarters than the family has been used to. At the age of 34 and with a family, a man like Mr. Arata does not enter college on the same basis as a teen-ager just out of high school.. Like all parents, he and His wife have

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Hubby In School

BRINGS HOME THE BACON—IU scholarship winner clerks in meat market in spare time,

shown first concern toward getting their children settled in a new environment. » ” ” HE IS not working as many hours outside of class as he would like to because he wants to be sure of a proper study program and because he wants to

spend as much time with his family.as he can right now. Jokingly, he says “Right now we're living. off the fat we've saved up,” which means, however, doing without entertainment and other luxuries and carrying his lunch to school, Mr, Arata plans to spend the

Christmas vacation working in the Bloomington postoffice and he hopes later in the school year to begin working more hours in his spare-time job eacn week. How's he doing scholastically? His zoology professor says he is one of the best students in the class,

Refugees Take Stitch In Time To Help Themselves

By CORRINNE HARDESTY Times Special Writer

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 31—

Several million stitches have *

been taken in time to end

misery, desolation and idleness for a group of refugees stranded

in flimsy, dilapidated barracks,

remote from normal human contacts, in Land Oldenburg, Germany. The stitches were taken in more than 100,000 sheets made in a “self-help” bedding factory set up through the efforts

of American Friends Service:

- Committee workers who have been in Camp Burlagsberg, and other refugee installations in The Oldenburg area, for about

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years, ; _ The story of the stitches’

full of “trials, errors, tears and a happy ending—is told in reports from Quaker workers and received at the Committee's headquarters here. “Many of the degenerating forces which worked so tragically against these people,” wrote one worker, “have been replaced by a quality of regen~ eration brought by the opportunity for work and earning and self-respect provided by the bed linen workshop.”

THE INHABITANTS of Camp Burlagsberg, about 300 in number, are expdllees from East Prussia, Silesia and Pomerania, They are among the approximately 8 million Volksdeutsche thrust into Western

Germany under terms of the Potsdam Agreement. There is no international aid for them. Some 400,000 still live in camps or other “mass quarters.” Camp Burlagsberg is three miles from the nearest village, without transport facilities. It was originally a small antiaircraft installation. ! There is electric current for the barracks, when it works. There ig only one water faucet for all, Most of the men are

unemployed. Fuel is scarce, or

non-existent,

About 60 square feet of bar-

rack space serves as. living room, bedroom and dining room for a family. Perhaps the only person in the camp with a bed of his own is a tiny baby who

has a homemade cradle. Subsistence funds from the German government barely cover a meager diet. » ” » THE LITTLE FACTORY, which has replaced unproductive idleness with “the elec-

trifying experience of creative

work,” employs up to 36 women from the camp's 80 families. Many kinds of co-operation helped produce the “miracle of happiness” workshop. Quaker workers encouraged the idea and talked with campers and Gemeinde ‘township officials. Sewing machines came from America through the “gifts-in-

Small cash grants, American and German contrib-

utors (amounting to about $2500) got the project initiated, It is expected the little enter prise may eventually pay off these grants, which can then be used for other develop ments. '

» = . ON A SATURDAY at the end of the first “big” week, when 35 women received their pay (it averaged about $35 a month), a shopkeeper in a nearby village asked if Burlagsbergers had come into fortunes, “No, but something just as good,” one refugee woman replied, “We have now started a little imdustry which gives us

work and we are all-so happy

to have a chance to earn, and to: buy’ some of the things we need,” ~~