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By Ed Sovola

; FOR Anation ot Sure ant pais who.iclela regimentation is for the birds, we sure have a lot of uniforms (excluding military) on the streets. Perhaps you haven't paid much attention to aniforms. The milkman, mailman, Coca-Cola man, doorman, ‘bellboy look natural in a uniform. » Without it you (probably wouldn't recognize them. Think you would? Trafic Officer Art. Feltman, Ohio and Meridian Sts, who was asked how he feels about ‘wearing the blue every day, has a pet gripe. : He doesn’t mind being asked by a stranger in town if he is a policeman. And after 15 years in uniform, it's like a Sunday suit to him. He does get his lid lifted, however, when people he nods to, speaks to while in uniform, fail to recognize him in civilian clothes.

James Bell, doorman at the Lincoln Hotel, sald he isn’t conscious of his uniform. It is part of his job and he would feel uncomfortable performing his duties in street clothes.

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FRANKLY, I thought my ears would hum after several uniformed men had been approached. Supervisor Walter Terry, Indianapolis Railways, who can be seen on the Circle every day sald, “I'm proud of my uniform.” With no malice intended, 1 countered “Why?” “Well, you stand out, and when transit riders need information they look for the man with the uniform,” explained Walter “They see the uniform and know I'm with the bus company. 1 practically live in it. I like the company I work for and the uniform.”

Elevator Dispatcher Ora Hobaugh, Merchants Bank Building, is touchy about one uniform and it 18n’t the one he is currently wearing. He doesn’t like khaki clothes.

“Why shouldnt I like this uniform 7?” said Ora. “The bank furnishes everything. it's good-looking and saves wear and tear on my own clothes.”

I passed several soldiers but I had the feeling

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Apr. 28—T liked Betty Hutton's remark at the Palace when a baby hegan weeping. “Don’t cry, honey” pleaded Betty, “I get better as I go along.” When Weepstakes Winner Johnnie Ray leaves the Copacabana, Hal Block proposed this name for the new show: “After the Bawl ‘was Over.”

Senator Kefauver’s slated to name Gael Sullivan his national chairman. (He's executive secretary of the Theater Owners of America) .. Eleanor returns Holm from Palm Beach soon to press for immediate trial of her separation case against Billy; so this'll be her Last Summer of Rose. (Ouch.) Broadway's Like This: Jack E. Leonard's wife told him at 2 a. m., “You better go sit around Lindy’s and Toots Shor’s a while, or you won't be able to sleep tonight.” Danielle Lamar, French chantootsie coming to the Latin Quarter, says, “In France, I disliked my figure. In America, I like it. Americans appreciate such figures.” : Geo. Bernard Shaw, asked what he thought of TV, said, “I'm afraid to look.” Nobody needs be afraid to look at Olivia De Havilland who was just beautiful last night when she opened in his “Candida.”

Her husband, Marcus Goodrich, stayed away

from the opening—working on a book. There's one great line in the play: when the swain in love with Olivia tells her platitudinous pastorhusband what they've done while he was out sermonizing. “I've been making a fool of myself in private,” he says, “while you've been doing the same thing in public.” db

THE MIDNIGHT EARL—Orson Wells, Bob Hope and Lena Horne are set for shows in Israel this summer . . . Henry Morgan used his gal Eve Hunter as a panelist on his first new TV show . .. Checkgrabber Johnny Meyer gave saloonist Jim Glennon just what he’d always needed: a stuffed turtle he'd carried all over town for hours. Bandleader Meyer Davis will give 10 per cent of the royalties for an acceptable title for a Republican campaign song. Send titles to him at 139 W. 57th St, New York. His last GOP song title was “Date in '48." I proposed “We Won't Be Blue in '52,” but in spite of this brilliant suggestion, he declared the contest still open.

TODAY'S BEST DAFFYNITION: “Hard loser —a fat dame on a diet” —Liza Morrow. «+ “Ike Has a Temper” in People Today will disturb Eisenhower backers . . . Socialite Laverne Alexander and Bill Davis, manager of Manny

Grandma By Elizabeth Toomey

LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Tex. Apr. 28 —A couple of Texas youngsters have a master sergeant for a grandmother. Officially grandma is M/Sgt. Kathryn Miller, 53, the oldest enlisted WAF and the only grandmother in the blue Air Force uniform, “I'm not so young, but I'm pretty active,” the white-haired sergeant said. “I've only been on’ gick call twice in the nine years I've been in uniform.” She was sitting at her desk in the WAF supply office where she works, waiting to drive 100 miles to pick up her two grandchildren for one of their frequent visits to the WAF training center here.

“My granddaughter, Tracey, told her little brother the last time they were over that if he wasn't quiet the sergeant wouldn't invite him back again,” she said with a smile’

Tracey, 4, and Brooks, 2, are the children of her only son, James, a dentist in S8an Benito, Tex. “1 didn’t know they were old enough to realize I was a sergeant,” she admitted. > +

EVEN WHEN she first joined the Women's Army Corps in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1943, before the. WAF was formed, Sgt. Miller was older than

most of the recruits. But the usual problems of adjusting to life in a barracks, drills, saluting and army discipline never bothered her. “My husband owned a small town drug store in Illinois, and I worked in it before he died,’ she explained. “If you have a country drug stor you practically raise all the youngsters in town so 1 never’ had any trouble getting along with the young girls.” A young WAF called from an adjoining office: “Katy, may I baby with your grandchildren in the morning while you work?” The sergeant grinned. * ‘They all call me Katy," she said. “They never tease me about being a grandmother. They seem to take it for granted.” When the younger WAFS go out on dates or go to the base parties Katy usually stays behind in the barracks reading or sewing. She makes clothes for her grandchildren on the sewing machine in the day room of the barracks. “She used to help us sew on our insignia and. see that all of our buttons were on,” said one WAF major, who remembered Katy days

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16 Would: be Sider 10 keep. clear, or Tuckui'in Texas with the reserve officers is still fresh in. a lot of our minds. ‘It is better to let Bion enough alone.

* * + WHAT WAS NEEDED, and you can't ever find them at the proper time, was a Shriner in a red fez, yellow pants, green vest aad white puttees, Some S8hriner who misplaced his wager pistols. I was frightened by one once. Ben B. Blieden, manager of Indianapolis Uniform Salés Co., had the lowdown on uniforms. In fact, he'd like to see more people wearing uniforms. (He still wears business suits.)

Psychology reared its ugly head. Uniforms give people a feeling of security. They're identified with a group and membership in a group means strength. Kase of identitication plays an

' important part in the pride one feels wearing a

uniform. “Does a man with stripes and a Number have

‘a feeling of security?”

The uniform executive made mo comment. He went on to say uniforms are a means of advertising. The name of a company or a product on a man’s back is just that much more gravy in the till. ¢ + o

“ANOTHER IMPORTANT consideration is identification. When a housewife sees a man in a uniform of a fitm or utility whose services she uses,” said Mr. Blieden, “she is immediately at ease.” He stressed utility. As long as some form of clothing has to be worn, why not use practical, long-wearing materials which usually go into uniforms? I didn’t know why not. “Can you furnish a uniform for the whitecollared worker? An outfit with strong elbows, frayless collars, seats that are guaranteed against shine?” Mr. Blieden cautioned me about being face. tious. At the present time he is selling office coats for desk men, workers in brokerage offices, He wouldn't be surprised if the nation didn’t become uniform conscious. . OK. Wonder what kind of a uniform a news: paperman in 1999 will be wearing? Surely he won't have a press pass in his hat.

Olivia Was Beautiful To These Tired Eyes

Wolf's, are engaged . . . The Jackie Robinsons are buying a farm near Albany. 2 . & &

MAYOR IMPELLITTERI returns from his vacation Monday. His reelection drive's already being mapped . . . Russell Nype’'s chosen bride to be is Dianthe Mander, a non-professional . .. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor (both in good health) return to Paris next month . . , U. 8. narcotics sleuths in Italy sadly admit they haven't yet pinned anything on’ Lucky Luciano. Jimmy Durante, performing for one evening only at Bill Miller's Riviera opening as a favor to Jane Froman, told the throng: “I've been in show business 40 years and this is my first one-nighter.” Comic Phil Foster told the restive audience: “You should hear my routine sometime when you're listening.” Betty Furness will earn over $125,000 in the next 16 months doing TV commercials. (And she ain't married) . . . Lenore Lemmon’s off to the Virgin Islands to divorce Hamish Menzies . . , Gloria Warner, the school teacher singer, discovered in Florida, and now singing gloria-sly at the Village Vanguard, will marry Attorney Wm. Spane in September. Today's Lucky Gal is sure enough Patricia Finch, “South Pacific” chorus girl who's been cast suddenly in the No, 2 feminine role in “Of Thee I Sing.” A hard-worker (she finished four years’ work at Michigan State in three, she got her break when ’'twas decided that gifted comedienne Lenore Lonergan didn’t belong in the part—because it’s not a comedy role. A horse asked Leo Durocher for a tryout with the Giants, says Gene Seville, The horse knocked one out of the park,

Pat Finch and also pegged a ball 300 yards. ‘ “Terrific,” said Durocher, “Let's see you run bases.” .

“If I could run,” neighed the nag, “I'd be at Jamaica.” : do WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Being a good husband is like any bther job—it helps if you like the boss” —Louis Nizer; An era ends! A long-time 51st St. cafe site (last occupied by ‘the Sugar Hill) is becoming a TV studio. > * » EARL'S PEARLS . . . Ethel Smith asked a gent, “Who was that gal 1 saw you outfit last night?” , , . That's Earl, brother,

WAF On Sick Call Twice In 9 Years

when she was the supply sergeant for her officer's candidate school class. *. oS “KATY HAS a way of getting anything out of people. She could always wangle extra supplies from the store room without requisition.” In eleven more years: Sgt. Hiller can retire with an Army pension except that the prospect of doing nothing doesn’t appeal to her. “lI had thought I might get out when the war ended,” she said. “But where élse could I get as good a job with as much security? I make $221 a month besides my meals and living quarters and my pension will be more than social security would be.” Every now and then she goes back home to Pinckneyville, Ill, and visits the housewifes who used to be her neighbors. “They're always interested in knowing where I've been,” she said. She's alread served in a dozen bases scattered across the country, The sergeant’s grandchildren would rather watch her march in military parades.

Dishing the Dirt. By Marguerite Smith

Q—Please suggest some perennials not too hard to raise but something to give us bloom all summer. We have not gardened very long and have raised mostly annuals. West Side. A—You'll want to start many things next fall. But you can get quite a few to give you bloom the rest of this year. Bleeding heart, for example, is available in pots to set out right now. Delphinium, of course. They're not so hard to raise if

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

you give them lime and good drainage. Shasta daisies and painted daisies and hemerocallis of all kinds are very easy to raise. Columbine is another. These to give you early bloom though if you choose the day lilies (hemerocallis) carefully you can have different varieties in bloom most of the summer. For mid-summer there's nothing better than the golden headed achiellea Golden Plate. It lasts in bloom for weeks, is very easy to raise. Also for mid-summer, hardy phlox in variety. For late fall and up to frost ,go in for chrysanthemums with a few hardy asters and Silver Kivg artemisia. :

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AFT ER DIVORCE .

MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1952

- WHAT No.

egrets Almost

By MORRIS L. ERNST AND DAVID LOTH IN THE last 10 years 8 million Americans have

walked out of court with a divorce decree, to face . .. what? The procedure by which they were able to get a court order dissolving their marriage gave them no idea.

They and their 3 or 4 million children represent the core of the divorce problem in this country. At this rate 800,000 ‘more adults and 300,000 children will join them this year more than 4000 individuals every day thé courts are open. No one knows how many more think about it or cannot agree about it. : Most of the divorced couples are entering a new life of which they know even less than they knew of marriage. . * - THE EIGHT millions in 10 years have been the subject of a vast amount of analysis as to why they broke up their homes, the events leading up to the tragedy. But concerning what happens after they walk away from the bar of justice with their new freedom, the experts and the reformers, the analysts and the viewers with alarm, are silent. The only people who know are the people who nave been through the mill Some of the 8 million have learned to lvs .lone—liking it or hating it. Most of them have found a new home. A census study in 1948 showed that of all those divorced in the previous five years, three-quarters already were remarried. About 88 per cent of those divorced between-1934 and 1943 had remarried by 1948. Obviously, therefore, the most common fate of the divorced is marriage. Two out of every five also have minor children. Figures also Fhow that war and prosperity send both marriage and divorce rates up. Depression or a release from emergency tensions sends both down.

~ ” ~ ALL THIS is merely statistical. The 8 million and their millions of children are people. Because they are the people who also know something about what happens after divorce,

EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is a completely fresh approach” to the old problem of divorce. It's the story of what happens to most couples AFTER they are divorced. This is the first of a series from the book, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, Just published by Harper & Brothers.

we have asked some of them to tell their stories here, These articles, therefore, have

scores of collaborators. They are not especially representa tive of any segment of society. Whether they are typical of divorced people, we do not know, but we doubt it. Probably there is no such thing as “typical” in such an individual part of life as mar.

riage and divorce. What they

do offer is experience, one from which they hope others may profit and that is why they told their stories for us.

“1 THINK you will find that practically all of the people who have got divorces were without adequate advice as to what would happen after divorce,” said Josephine, a young, divorced lady. “The absurdity of the aituas tion lies in the fact that if a couple want a divorce and can afford it, and both agree. on the terms of what you call a separation agreement, the ar vorce goes through and usually the ‘hypocritical tawdry court proceeding takes less than 10 minutes. “In our case, for instance, Joe and I were sexually compatible. We came from the same groups in society. We had no money troubles, Our children were normal. : “We both enjoyed our children. Wé had some interests in common and we each had our

INDUSTRY IS EAGER—

Jobs Aplen

By LEONARD RUPPERT Times Special Writer NEW YORK Apr. 28-The college senior who's « looking for a job this spring.-and can't find a good one will be a mighty unusual fellow.

Graduation time is still two months off, but colleges and universities throughout the land, report the current employment boom is an all-time

> record breaker.

Big employers have been flocking to the campuses in unprecedented numbers since December, two month ead of schedule. They're descending on some college job-place-ment offices at the rate of five and six a day and are putting in bids for nearly every senior the schools can furnish. The rush has been so great many schools were forced to set arbitrary dates for the beginning of interviews and to limit the number of interviewers to prevent interference with class schedules. Schools that didn’t, found themselves woefully unprepared for the influx. » “ »

NUMBER ONE on the job list everywhere is the engineering student. Schools replying to a recent survey agreed that he can tually write his own job ticketanywhere in the country. At Rutgers, state university of New Jersey, technical graduates are picking ffom an average of four to six offers. One large aircraft firm hired one of the 17 mechanical engineers the placement office could find for it to interview. At Yale, one company offered to hire the entire class of graduate electrical engineering students, virtually sight wunseen, At the University of Michigan, the average is a dozen offers per student and 137 firms came looking in March alone. The University of California reports that many firms are willing to send. an interviewer all the way across the continent to get just one employee. » ” #" IN DEMAND are scientists, accountants, chemists, business administration majors, sales and merchandising personnel, students trained

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in insurance work and teachers.

Rutgers reports that every student seeking a job should have one by the end of May, At Duke, seniors have already had more than 6400 job offers, 3000 more than the total for all of 1951. Georgia Tech will be all sold out through next December’s classes by May 1. And there have been slim pickings at Illinois since Easter. Of course, the biggest employer of all is Uncle 8am. Large numbers of graduates, in somé cases more than half the class, will enter the armed forces soon after receiving their di*.plomas. 2

But this makes little differ-

ence to the companies now seeking their services. Many hire them anyhow, gambling that they'll return to work after discharge. There's going to

be a shortage for years to come, say the firms, so they might as well get men lined up now. » . » OUR COMPANIES keep in touch with the drafted graduate through news letters and other publications to remind him there's a job waiting. In most cases, they give him credit for accumulated seniority.

Many firms are trying to get a: jump on their competitors by offering summer work to juniors, then trying to interest them in staying on after graduation.

At the University of Kansas, companies are even talking to sophomores, though their graduation is two years away and most are certain to be drafted, making it three of four years before the student can actually start work. Outstanding

prospécis are

Morris L. Ernst

HE WAS born in Uniontown, Ala, in 1888. He was educated at Willams Col lege and New York Law School. He has been a member of the New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff and Ernst since 1015, In his law practice Mr. Ernst's alm has been to help his clients

riage. He has been a member of the New York State Banking Board, Special Counsel for the War Production Board, Counsel for the Dramatic Guild and Authors League of America. He is author of several books «and writes for topnotch

magazines.

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About the Authors

David Loth

HE WAS born in St. Louls in 1899, graduated from fhe University of Missouri in 1820. That same year he went to work is reporter for the New York World, did rewrite, was cable editor and Sunday editor of the same paper until its sale in 1981, Later he was on the staff of the New York Times. He government service n 1041 as chief of publica tions of the Office of InterAmerican Affairs, became information director of the Surplus Property Board in 1946. He was founder and first “editor of Press Research, a Washington press service, As a writer he has published some notable biographies including LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT, THE BROWNINGS and ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

servers and

' LLL ELE) own separate hobbies. For part of the marriage I worked, and I had an exciting career, but during the time when the chil-

often flown to the plants to observe working conditions first hand. If they take the job, the firm will find them a house and pay all moving expenses. And the companies go all out in plugging the advantages of the cities in which their plants are located. However, most firms avoid any out-and-out high pressure tactics, having found that the students resent them, | 5 5 -» RECRUITERS for government agencies have often gone a bit overboard in picturing their annual leave programs, sick leaves and similar features because the salaries they pay are lower than private industry’s.

But the fact that many agen-

cies have been able to get draft deferments for engineers ‘could be said to even the advantage.

dren were young, I worked as

a housewife, “Neither of us had any of the common vices such as

College Gra

Starting salaries are averaging 10 to 20 per cent higher than last year to compensate for the cost of living rise. Technical grads are getting $300$400 per month. Those in other fields are averaging $25 to $50 less, according to survey reports. The situation varies, however, and some graduates are getting as much as $500. Nearly all companies offer liberal benefits, including group insurance, vacations, hospitalization and pension plans, ~ » » THE ENGINEERING shortage is a product of supply and demand. In 1950, there were approximately 50,00¢ engineering openings and about the same number of graduates (o fill them. But, in the two years since, the demand has jumped to more than 60,000 openings

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. gambling or bumming at night,

As far as I know, we wers both what is called extrovert. We both had friends and all or our friends were bewildered and ‘shocked when the news of the divorce was announced, » » #

“AS USUAL, however, our friends: divided. Some stuck by Joe and - some stuck by me, There was only one that realized there is no clear ’ line between the guilty and the pure, and hence remained

friendly to both of us.

“Above all, our marriage had

‘been cemented, I thought, be~

cause we and the children al’ liked cruising. But for all that, we. found our marriage broken, and never understood why or , what it would mean to all of us. “I think both Joe and I have often, since our divorce, admits ted to ourselves, sis we have hinted to each other and the children, that if we had known then what we know now, we could have saved our marriage, our home and our Shilgren,

JOSEPHINE a put the finger of experience upon the weak spot in our divoree pro= cedure, The system is not concerned with the reasons why a par. ticular m failed, nor with what will happen to the individuals * involved in that failure afterward, : The result is” that no one has any respect tor the eystem, !

though one wants to ' change there no agrees ment about how. i The very judges who pre~ side in our divorce courts, the lawyers who practice befors them; the couples who their cdses to the bar, the

ally, all have more or contempt open or concealed for the whole use it or endur despise it.

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surely be able to find employment, the survey. nde, . cates, = The shortage of has made even ‘the most criminating employers less fussy. Most schools report the interviewers seem little in terested In how ues ord knows, they just wan him before someone Py Thus, even the students low marks-those who normally have to get out and

. scratch for a job—now have

an easy time finding good post tions, # =n MANY OF the best technical students aré turning down all offers so they can go on to graduate work. They know that an advanced degree will come mand them a higher sals salary. To offset this, many firms

the students to work and study. :

at the same time-—at near their plants.

The students having most] difficulty in the job hunt are. those in personnel work, advertising and law. Also scarce are publishing and radio-TV programming offers and the de] mand for journalists varies’ throughout the nation. In the Southwest, the University of Texas is getting six journalism requests for every one it can fill, but elsewhere good news. paper jobs are few. This doean’t mean there aren't jobs in those categories. There: are jobs, but they're not as plush as the others,—

Only Newcomer Blase About Jap Quakes

By OLAND D. RUSSELL Seripos-Howard Staff Writer TOKYO, Apr. 28—The round-the-world tourists are flocking back to Japan again and frequently one of the t quesfions is: “What are the chances of an earthquake?”

Chances are About 500 earth shocks of varying sizes are registered annually. That is nearly two a day-— but few of them are actually felt, especially by newcomers. First time you feel an honest: to-goodness earthquake in Japan—and are assured it isn't a passing truck — your reaction is likely to be: “It’s been overrated. Nothing to .it.,” Second time, you're likely to say: “Well. . .” And third time, especially if you're inside, you'll run like hell. The last was, in effect, standard advice posted by the Occupation, which boned up on earthquakes and how to take them. . ” ” ~ IT IS A curious fact that the more earthquakes. you experience, the more scared you can get, in spite of every effort to be calm and sophisticated. Just how scared -you should be, in reaction to various degrees of’ shocks, is a matter to be

pretty good. -

worked out to your own personal satisfaction. One old-time foreign resident

used to watch his cat— a Japanese cat, therefore a little more intuitive than foreign cats, and ‘people, about earthquakes. This particular cat had the added faculty of producing small litters of kittens with great regularity. Said the old-timer: “If my cat sat through the first tremor without moving I wouldn't even hother to get out of my chair. If she picked up a kitten and started ambling for the door, I'd stand up and get ready to

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sprint myself. But if she left her kittens behind and streaked for the door or ar open window, I'd make every effort to be a couple of yards in front -of her.” It’s probably as good a system as any, but not very help-

ful to people without cats, ” " »

BEFORE you've been here very long, foreign “experts” on quakes are likely to tell you to watch the direction of the tremors for an indication of their seriousness.. If the house starts shaking back and forth laterally, or horizontally, it may not be so bad. But if it's vertical-—Iif your chair or the table is lifted up a couple inches and dropped-—-watch out, Try to view the rest of it from safe open ground, away from crashing buildings or telephone poles. Your are told to try to think of earthquakes this way: Imagine four or five billiard balls in a row, touching each other, on a pool table, When the cue ball makes a direct hit on the the ball at the other end that goes scoot-

ing, off while the ones in the

middle stay nearly motionless.

Same way with quakes. The Impact comes from way down bee low the surface and progresses through various layers of soil which remain relatively une

jarred, It's the last top layer:

which goes into that old and often lethal jive. » ”

» CONSEQUENTLY, the best

‘way to build with earthquakes

in mind is to sink the foundations way down and insulate, or isolate, them “from the surface areas on a floating princi

ple. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright used the idea with Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, which “floated” through the great earthquake of 1923 without losing a brick. More earthquake lore: Major temblors often occur at inter vals of 30 to 50 years—that's shown by a study of quakes going back to the first recorded in Japan; in 416 A, D. (So watch

. out for a big one next Jears

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