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Inside inaianapolis By Ed Sovola : - IT IS said that history repeats itself. Well, then, the penny post card is coming back. From coast to coast there have been yowls about the passing of the penny post card® The

“little feller was my friend, too. It's’ impossible to repay him for all he has done.

Before we put up a permanent marker, however, let's keep in mind that he was born May 1, 18783, and in six short years he was smacked by inflation. History shows he was worth 2 cents for 18 years. Perhaps some oldtimers remember how

the price was slashed and Penny Post Card came back in 1897.

Everything went along smoothly until U. S. entered World War I in 1917. Congress gave

him the needle and he was worth twice as much again. Poor thing, -

No kidding, this is the straight dope. Roscoe Abel, general superintendent of finance, and Marion Clarke, chief station examiner, dug up all the information for me at the Post Office. It Jame come out of my thumb just to make you appy.

By 1920 2-penny post card caught the legislators’ eyes and a vote was taken, Millions of cards were overprinted with the penny symbol and he was back where he started from in 1873. Current history you know. Many of you already have pasted a stamp on a post card and haven't liked the taste or the inconvenience. You won't have to do that long. Presses will be _rolling soon,

Mr. Abel says larger post offices, where substantial stocks of post cards are on- hand, will overprint in three lines this information: “Revalued 2¢—P.O. Dept.” The ink will be slightly lighter than the present color of the 1-cent Jefferson stamp.

> & . I ASKED why 49 cards now cost 98¢ and 50

cards cost $1.40. Mr. Abel shrugged his shoulders °

and referred to Public Law 233 which rules that

It Happened Last N ight

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Dec. 5—Tyrone Power was wonderfully candid about the whole thing. “I'm going to stay In bed and let the girl go to work,” he said. The girl, of course, was his Beautiful Wife, Linda Christian. The idea that she was going back to the movies as a wage-earner seemed to thrill him. None of this “No-wife-of-mine-shall-ever-have-a-career” stuff from Ty. ’ “You seem quite happy about it” I sald. We were sitting in his,’ I mean their, suite at the Pierre. He'd just apprised me that Linda was to appear in “Happy Time” for Stanley Kramer. “Yes, sir, for a while I'm going to be the one that stays in bed,” he confessed. “711 be the one to scream, ‘Don’t wake me up when you leave. Don’t run that water in the bathtub.” I shall give instructions that I not be awakened until about 10:30.” : oo oe D3 THE HANDSOME double-breasted-suited leading man couldn’t contain his joy. He mentioned, not vindictively, I'm sure, that women movie stars have to get up so much earlier than men because of their makeup problems. Therefore, Mrs. Power would be getting up at 5 or 6 while he was snoozing away till 10:30. About this minute there was a phone call. Ty hopped up to take it. “Mrs. Power isn’t here now,” he said. “This is Mr. Power. Can I help you?” Yes, he could. He could give Mrs. Power a message that she was being engaged to appear on a certain TV progam ot a certain time. ALREADY she had caused some comment on TV here. On one program, she had been asked what it was that Tyrone said to her after he said, “How do you do” the first time. “Well, I don’t think I could say that on the air,” she said. Power laughed. “That was about four years ago that I said whatever it was,” he said. “She doesn’t know and I don’t either.” “How was it that she got this major role in pictures? She hasn’t done any movies for a while, has she?” “This was from a test she made in England,” Power answered. “You see, she was always going to have a baby, and that held her back. Now that we've bridged that gap ... We now have a daughter. She hasn’t worked since before we were married, and even then they were only minor roles...” - ; So & SH : IT SEEMED imperative to find out what Power would be doing with his time if and when he ever got up when she went to work.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Jan. 5—The sin of a wrecked

economy is most evident in a collapse of the moral scaffolding that keeps men basically honest. If

—=o-there is an answer to the bust-up of our general

decencies, you can drop it almost squarely at the door of economic uncertainty—spiralling™ prices, devalued currency, ravenous: x taxation. On all three counts we have whipped the free horse nearly to death—and then profess surprise when the citizens start to take the short cuts. During the war I saw ruinous inflation come to several countries, especially Italy, and -

—of honesty, decency and pride —was almost immediate. People stole and lied, who had never stolen nor lied. People : killed for as little as a package of cigarets or a pair of shoes. The streets were full of women who did not belong on the streets. 4 _ The downfall of homely virtue is easily understandable when you consider that from waking to sleeping, man is concerned with a simple problem: How do I make a living today, and a living tomorrow? How do I feed and clothe and housc myself and my family? The average man will do it honestly if possible. If he cannot do it honestly he will do it the best way he can. : > OP THE HEAVIEST single drive I know of today, in the face of prices and taxes, is man’s urge toward “keepin’ ‘money.” It is a phrase you hear continually—“How can I make some money 1 can keep?” Not just money. The taxes grab just money. But keepin’ money. Cash money. Unmarked, unaccountable monéy. Stashing-away money. ‘ This means heavy

expense-account money,

: which keeps a heavy sector of our mildly salaried

populace alive, and provides the big luxuries for the more highly paid and highly taxed citjzens. The gin-mills, the plush hotels; the cafes and the theaters of the land live on expenseaccount money, lavishly tossed because Uncle Sain would get it anyhow. . : But that isn’t keepin’ money. That's spendin’ money. Spendin’ money is what you blow. on entertainment of people, like gpvernment officlals or influence peddlers, who can show you some tricks that will allow you to squirrel away some holding money for tomorrow. That is-

where the fast shuffle ‘takes over.

: = GE IE THERE ARE two or three legal ways-tosmake

"and keep money today. One is off oil ventures.

One is off capital gains, where you buy and. onto a property or a stock for six months and then sell it. This kind of iAvestment can be 86id for a penalty of only 26 per cent, leaving the seller a three-quarter profit. A rigged stock, A : business merger or expansion,

the right word on a real-estate development near - installation, sly stuff with govern- -

a: government : advance knowledge of gov-

* perform many devious, useful tasks.

Will It Return?

all sales of 50 or more cards must carry an ad- .

ditional charge of 10 per cent and the charge must be collected at the time of the sale. My first impulse was to put a dent in the front of Mr. Abel's desk. with my foot. Can't

quite see why,I should pay 2 cents a card up to=

'49 and then pay .12.cents for the 50th. Congress made the law. It's up to the Post Office personnel to abide by it. (How many of my friends would like to see me run for Congress?) Mr. Clarke is rather pleased with the small number of cards that are coming through without the extra stamp. Mofe individuals comply and remember than don’t. For 60 days post cards will: be forwarded with the “Postage Due” stamp on them. Bulk cards, such as sent out by firms or advertisers, are being notified to come up and get their mail in order.

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$ : YES, a dear friend is gone but I'm not going

to wail too. loudly. He may be returning one year. Mr. Abel and Mr. Clarke wouldn't commit themselves. Their attitude is understandable. When I think of all the things Penny Post Card has done for me, I get all choked up. What college . man hasn't put him to work, swiftly, cheaply, to the point? A penny post card would get you 10 bucks the same as a telegram oh a phone call. And always in the back of your mij d you were pleased: at the display of thrift. | The folks at home never liked Penny Ppst Capd. They wanted letters. But when it came

right down to the busy lad at school, Penny’

Post Card was a face saver. After you-have written— I'm studying hard and everything is going well. The laundry bag came and the guys in my room sure liked the food you sent! I'll be home in a couple of weeks maybe.”—What else is there to say? Penny Post Card's services are too numerous to mention. . I'm sure you have. trained him to He deserves a moment of silence. Don’t say goodby. Just say so long. History may repeat itself.

Linda Will Work While Ty Sleeps

“I thought I.told you I was going to stay in bed.” " “But you will eventually get up some time?” “I don’t know.” Power leaned back and considered it. “I don’t like California much when I'm not working, Maybe I'll go away. “You see, in California we don’t walk like you do here. That’s the reason so many movie actors get into trouble. Nothing to do. | “Now I saw Dietrich yesterday while walking. What a fabulous woman. I saw her on Fifth Ave. walking with a man. Without a word I walked up to her, took her by the arm, and walked with her in the other direction.

“She turned and introduced me to the man, who was her husband.

~“It was 80 strange. Somehow you never expect to see Dietrich with her husband.” It'll be three years Jan. 27 since their {llustrious marriage in Italy. They get along agreeably. Except that they do differ slightly’ about whether Tyrone should take them both up in a chartered plane which he pilots. “She doesn’t like it,” Power admitted. “She holds the plane up all the way. “I usually give her some maps to keep her busy.” > @

MRS. POWER then had a few words to say

about why she had been late for the interview =~

and had come in when it was almost over. “I came in just before you left on purpose,” she said. : : “On PURPOSE,” I said. “Sure, I hurried back on purpose just to get here while you were still here.” ik t ane was laughing. He took it the y ‘I'm glad to get back to working,” she said. “Since I"ve not been working, about all I've done is try to learn Russian. I thought I could learn it quick if I could only be in Russia—but I don’t want to be in Russia.” : And that was one-half the reason we didn’t finish the interview in Russian. The other half was that I still at this late date have never determined whether it’s “vodka” or “wodka.”

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TODAY'S WORST PUN: Robert Q. Lewis is

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TODAYS LDAFFINITION: Nancy Craig's young daughter calls a forei entanglement: “Spaghetti.” n on

Everybody’s Broke— Except the Crooks

cent over 10 years ago, with the dollar cut to half its value, it is not difficult to see where

the public servant can slip easily into a bribable position. ?

The 10 or 12 thousand salary dollars that used to spell affluence is not enough to keep a Washington big shot in fancy cocktail clothes and ample booze. He cannot live up to his neighbors on that sort of salary.

Nor can you expect to hold the minor official entirely honest on the three, four, even five-thou-sand dollar pay check, which is supposed to maintain a high standard of living as a whitecollar man. =

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THE BIG seekers after keepin’ monéy will pervert the little man. The little seeker after keepin’ money will allow himself to be perverted. Every man looks for the loophole, because honest or dishonest, he searches for a security that has been forcibly denied him by his own government. Government, in the six years of post-war, has literally succeeded in making thieves of a great many honest men. :

This is why I think it will be impossible to clean the stables in Washington. The fault reaches too deeply into an administration that has allowed a dizzying inflation that was never present during World War II, and which has succeeded in taxing the high, middle and low beyond the possibility of thrift today or saving for tomorrow.

Itisa thought for the incumbents as we head into the big election year—the thought that, no matter how much money you make, or how little. money you make, éverybody is busted flat except the crooks and their pawns. :

Dishing the Dirt

By Marguerite Smith

Q—Some of the lower leaves on my African violet are droopy. I wonder if touching the rim of the pot would cause this? The rest of the plant is quite healthy and growing nicely and has flower spikes forming. Mrs, M. A. White, Danville, (Also answering Mrs. Grace Harris, Tipton).

A~It is natural for older leaves to die off. But some growers say that chemicals in the. clay pot will rot every leaf that touches it. Try this method I saw a very successful grower use. Put little cardboard collars on the pot rims, Or try covering the rims with a smidgeon ef aluminum ° Soll Be sure you're not giving the plant too much water. . ; 7 :

- Q—I don’t seem to have much luck with vio- ,

lets. Is 70-degrees too hot for them? E.R. Roogevelt Ave, AARNE . Sh

ways) is because they can take so much ‘Just be sure the heated air isn’t too dry fortheme . «-% te Co

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LEARNING THE STEPS—Ronald King (left) and

on house building from Invan Haven, Tech High carpentry instructor.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, Marion County Schools Look Ahead—

Their Future Is |

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LITTLE GUY, BIG JOB—David Bruning lifts a pattern from the mold he made in the Tech foundry shop.

By DAVID WATSON

The heart of America’s industrial future is beating today in classrooms and shops of the nation’s high schools. In the swelling Marion County industrial area, hundreds of high school boys. and girls pore over their books and

practice at office and shop machines.

In not too many years they will form the core of the skilled labor force here. And the future looks gopd for them.

As they leave the classroom, most will find industry waiting for them. There is a big demand for the worker who knows his way around a machine shop, and for the girl adept at stenographic work and fingering office machinery.

INDUSTRIAL observers here *. doubt they could get one tenth of the skilled help they need if expansion continues for two more years at the rate of the last two years. Armed forces and. private business already are sweeping the ranks of potential office help. . A peculiar twist to the labor pinch is blamed on the low birth rate of the 30s. Employees have bumped into a “shortage” of 18-year-olds. By the time the number of 18-year-olds again reaches the pre - depression average, the trained and educated youth of today will have had time to advance to the top in his chosen field. That's the word from H. H. Walter, director of guidance at Technical High School. The problem of today, Mr. Walter declared, is to convince

Kenneth Goodman get tips

Dean Timmerman,

youngsters there is an advantage to completing education as well as becoming skilled in a selected trade. With that combination, the youth entering industry today finds a speedier route to the top levels. But many of today’s high school student® are lured from the classroom because of the big money they can scoop from the production lines, Mr. Walter said. -

» ” ” FOR THOSE pupils who plan to become engineers, the high

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RUNNING SMOOTHLY—Herbert English operates complex milling machine

in Tech shop. School's equipment is modern, much of it war surplus.

STILL WET—Ted Lepscum (left) and Maurice Carmichael run the flatbed of the school paper comes out. Printing is one of the shop trades at Tech.

school shop courses often provide elementary practical knowledge which aids them in advance study.

There has been a big upswing

in demand “for machinists, dec-

orators, painters, printers, carpenters, stenographers, bookkeépers and the many building trade skills. :

In offices alone, some 600 girls could have been hired this year if the high schools could have trained that many more. To help meet the labor de-

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n These Shops

press as a new issue

mand over the years, the Indie anapolis Public School system has issued vocational certifi cates to pupils completing & prescribed shop course. The certificate indicates the pupils has spent approximately, half of his school day for two years in the study of a single shop course. The course is die vided between study and actual work at the craft. Over the years at Tech, about one-fourth of its graduating senfors have earned the certs ficates.

Artificial Respiration Is Streamlined; Back Pressure

By WADE JONES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-— Millions of Americans trained to give artificial respiration now can breathe a little easier themselves. Their vital technique, used since 1927, is being streamlined on the basis of special research tests, and

the new version will be put into] effect as soon as possible by nine| organizations and agencies spe-

cializing in first aid training. They include the American Red Cross and the armed forces. 3

The move consists of a changeover from the Schafer prone pres-

sure system to the back pressure

arm lift method, an adaptation of the Nielsen system used for years] in Denmark and Norway and other European countries; The shift was partially the, re-| sult of efforts by the armed]

forces to find a way to treat large! -

numbers of nerve gas victims effectively in event of another world war,

a = TESTS SHOWED the back pres-sure-arm lift method produced a|

TO START cycle in back essura-arm lift method of articial ation, operator Dt a mors bask so that thumbs ouch a of hands just below

SECOND, operator rocks forward slowly, keeping his elbows straight, until his arms are approximately vertical, exerting steady pressure upon the victim's chest. Operator kneels on knee at the head of .victim.

markedly greater exchange of air in the victim's lungs than the Schafer system. This is a highly important factor in reviving persons in deep asphyxia such’ as could be produced by nerve gas. A basic difference in the two systéms is that the back pressurearm lift forces air into the.lungs

as well as expels it.

To accomplish this the person giving the treatment kneels at the victim's head. The’ victim is laid on his stomach with his arms folded under his head and his face resting on his crossed hands. The first-aider’s initial movement is to place his hands on the victim's back just below a line between the arm’ pits and press down by easing his we ward onto the hands. This expéls the air from the lungs. He then grasps the upper part of each of the victim's arms and pulls them toward. him, then releases them. This sucks air into the lungs. The

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formed rhythmically 12 times a minute. » ” td THIS METHOD differs from the Schafer in that the first-alder kneels over the victim’s legs In the latter system, and alternately swings his weight forward onto] his hands placed on the lower part of the victim's back, and releases

the lungs but does not actively] provide for getting it back in. “Tests showed the back pressurearm lift method produced more than twice the exchange of air in| the victim’s lungs provided by the| prone pressure. In addition it was virtually as easy to teach. The Red Cross began research into new methods of artificial respiration in 1947, and made grants for research in the two years following. | Two years ago the Army Chemical Center started research on “the growing question” of how, best to treat & large number of people -in event of warfare in which poison or nerve gas might be used. The chemical center arranged for research by four

THIRD, operator rocks backward, slowly sliding his hands to the victim's arms just above the elbows. Victim is placed prone with elbows bent and

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FOURTH, operator continues to rock backward, raising victim’s arms until resistance and tension are felt at victim's shoulder. Then he drops the arms and completes a: full cycle,

repeated 12 times a minute, »

teams headed by outstanding physiologists throughout the coun-

try. .

1.48.48 - RESEARCHERS for the Red

Cross, the Army and other interested agencies conducted a wide variety of tests, many under unusual conditions. Included in the studies were amimals; volunteers holding their breaths, persons who had just died, sick or injured patients who had stopped breathifig, and volunteers who were given drugs which completely paralyzed their ability to breathe for a short period of time. These experiments; described by the researchers as “extremely necessary” were carried out under “carefully controlled conditions,” they said. iy ‘Used to restore "breathing to persons awhose respiration has

dopted

Authorities in this field reporf {that if resuscitation is begun “al« most immediately” after breaths - ling stops, “most victims” can be revived. If it is nat started fom |six to nine minutes “relatively [few” can be saved. = » n

THE AGREEMENT by the nine |agencies and organizations to: {adopt the new method was made following an October conference called by the National Research . Council, at which top scientists and other authorities presented (the findings of latest research. Besides the Red Cross and the {armed forces, the participating |organizations ‘are the Civil De{fense Administration, the Publie |Health Service, the Bureau of Mines, the Boy Scouts, the Girl |Scouts, the Américan Telephone |and Telegraph Co., and the Coun= cil on Physical Medicine and Ree habilitation of the American Medlscal Association. A few organie zations had already included the Nielsen method in their programs and others are expected to do so soon, The Red Cross, which trains more people in first aid and arti ficlal respiration than any other civilian organization, issued 1,187, 935 first aid and life saving cere tificates last year.

” » ITS FIRST Move in the changeover 1 be to teach the

new system to its 104,331 first aid and water safety instructors. This is beginning with a series of conferences to be held throughout the country this month. In addition, the Red Cross is printing three million _supplements on the new system for it first’ ald and water safety texte books. : Officials of the organization emphasize the changeover cannot be made immediately and that the millions of persons already trained in the .Sghafer method should ] continue to use it until they have received formal . training in ' new method. Red Cross

particular ‘value in cases of{will offer special drowning; suffocation, electric courses on the Nielsen system j shock, and poisoning’ hy- illumi-isoon as “a be nating gas or carbon monoxide. made. Ee Ba a x = é he 5 b> x hE