The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 15

THE ALMANAC The Indianapolis Star Of Poor Richard's Wife Saturday, November 21, 1953 Sports Financial Classified A FAMILIAR superstition is that if you break a dish you can't stop until you have broken three. In this aee of preater efficiency, does this limit apply also to the Plan To Cut Income Tax Red Tape Pushed larger essentials of home, inquires Mrs. Farmer S. She hopes so, because last week the car went on a sit-down strike, a few days later the refrigerator's pulse stopped beating, and the next dav. which withholding tax, who have an annual income of $4,500 plus an step right up and save on our additional $600 for each exemp tion, and from those not sub ject to the withholding tax who was early Monday jV'i I VtfT morning, the sole was 7 coming loose on the schoolboy's shoe.

1 make more than a flat $600 a year. The plan would also simplify the now-complicated penalties clause of the law and settle on a flat 6 per cent interest on unpaid tax balances. WHY DO the irre-iistihle bargains always occur when my money is an immovable object? About one fifth of the 85,000 Hoosiers now required to file Federal income tax estimates would be exempt under a plan tentatively approved by Treasury Dpeartment and congressional officials, an Internal Revenue spokesman said here yesterday. Under the proposed plan to be presented to the House Ways and Means Committee, single persons earning less than $5,000 a year and married persons with an income of less than $10,000 a year would be exempt from filing estimates if covered by the government's withholding tax. In the case of those not subject to withholding taxes, the new plan would require estimates only from those whose income exceeds $600 a year, plus $(i00 for each exemption, plus an additional $100 a year.

The present law requires estimates from persons, even though they are subject to little girl, lying on her back under the bed, had eaten the pears, ecstatically, down to the last whispered splinter of core, as you can do with only a good pear. She saved the day for herself only by reason of the fact that, while eating them, she had learned to pronounce the poetic name correctly. A ROCKING CHAIR is valuable in the farm kitchen because it establishes, willy niJly, a note of old-fashioned leisure. And, besides, it offers another place to lay stuff you really ought to put away. THAT WAS one of our pleasantest visits unplanned, unannounced, wholly spontaneous.

She had a letter to read to me, from a beloved mutual acquaintance, and she came at mid-morning of a day exceptionally busy for each of us. We talked at leisure about beliefs and thoughts, our children, and things of more than surface interest to us both. Neither had an ax to grind, a bitterness to relate, nor a solution to enforce to any problem. It was a brief, unguarded meeting of kindred minds. When she left, going back to her window-washing (she has 13S sides of window to wash), I returned to the typewriter, feeling refreshed and enriched, and having missed the mail.

RFI'RIIA'E: When somebody calls 1o say Wednesday night's 4-H demonstration, for which you were grooming your 10-year-old "simple dessert" demonstrator, has been postponed to mid-afternoon Sunday. Oh, how I love postponers! And suddenly, that same morning, the man who usually comes to noon dinner decides 1o go to the stockyards with the truck driver and cattle. The day stretches ahead, luxurious as the paws of a purring kitten. Thinks to the reprieves, you will get everything caught up, churning done, ironing finished, cookies baked for tomorrow's Girl Scout refreshments, letters written, house cleaned for a family Thanksgiving reunion. How I love reprieves, stock trucks, cattle and the man who didn't come to dinner! all-wool topcoats AN OIU'MAKniST, who had a poetic Appreciation of melodious words and fine fruit, brought home? a box of luxurious Duchess d'Angnuleme pears and put thrn tinder the bed in an unhealed bedroom, to ripen tn perfection.

1 This happened several years ago, before freezers and furnaces were common on the' farms.) The man had a little girl fi years old, who was also poetic, but less exacting in her standards of perfection. Children, being less exacting than their elders, often get more out of life, including more Duchess d'Angouleme pears. As the man should have expected, the little girl discovered the pears right away, and every day visited them in their dusty isolation beyond the long-fringed, crocheted bedspread. When the man decided it was about time for the pears to have reached a state of perfection he went to get them and discovered four left in the box. Laid neatly beside the box, among the cottony gray dustballs under the bed, W'ere little ghostly matchstick cores.

The Mitchell Plans 'Demo Repair' In Evansvillc Democratic National Chairman Stephen will isit Evansville Monday on a nationwide "fence-mending" tour of marginal congressional districts. Preparing for next year's congressional races, the Democratic leader has been visiting areas the party hopes to swing back into the fold. Mitchell will meet with voting blocs in the Eighth District, which was wrested away by the Republicans after it was held by Democrats two straight terms. The district, is one that wavers between the two parties. A NEWS COM ERKNCE, luncheon and dinner is planned.

Charles E. Skillen, chairman of the Indiana Democratic Central Committee; Thomas R. Hutson, secretary, and others will attend. Arizona, Missouri, New Mexico and other states are on Mitchell's current tour agenda. The Vanderburgh County visit is sufficient because it "is one of about half a dozen counties in the United States which never has voted for a losing presidential Representative D.

Bailey Merrill, Evansville Republican, won the 1952 Eighth District -congressional race with 52.8 per cent of the vote. Mitchell will visit Indianapolis within the near future but no date has been set. UU JAMES E. I MtMl II That Reminds Me! GOOD HUMOR MAX: James L. Dilley.

Indianapolis ad man, looked up from a scrapbook, chuckling. Before him was a clipping of the quip of the irate diner: "Hey, waiter, there's an F-L-Y The tweeds are the newest of the new. The gabardines end velours the smoothest of the smooth. The Shetlands the smartest of the smart. Styled right up to the minute with bal collars, raglan or set-in sleeves.

Very specially priced! 7 I in my alphabet soup!" It was a gag Dilley had sold to the old Life magazine in 1927 for It was one of 25,000 rib-ticklers produced by the quick Dilley brain during his -eight years as nne of the country's top humor men. The years were 1924 to 1932 in the era of old Life, Judge, College Humor ft Lawyer Lays Tax Shortage To 'Mistakes' A Michigan City attorney, facing charges of evading nearly $20,00 in income taxes, denied yesterday in Federal Court here that shortages in his returns were anything but mistakes resulting from his poor health and his inability to hire competent secretarial help. Admitting from the stand that he owes the government about $18,459 in back taxes, Robert E. Glasscott, 50 years old, testified that he had "wanted to pay and requested a bill from Internal Revenue," but that he never received one. Glasscott's testimony came shortly before Defense Attorneys Alex Campbell and James Strawbridge rested their case and filed a motion for dismissal.

Legal arguments and Judge William E. Steckler's charge to the jury were postponed until Monday morning. KEY DEFEXSK witnesses presented yesterday were Stanley Price, South Bend, a certified public accountant and a former head of the University of Notre Dame department of accounting, who disputed many of the tax computations presented earlier by Internal Revenue investigators, and William Bart-lett, a client of Glasscott. Describing Glasscott's serious cardiac condition that kept the attorney on a half-time schedule from 1944 through 1946, Bartlett also told the jury that an inability to find clerical help during the war kept Glasscott's office in "a perpetual condition of disarray." The government has maintained that Glasscott kept a double set of books and deliberately withheld income in an effort to evade taxes. if if" day night? C-us Oh, she's that cute little brunet I had at the dance Monday night!" There was the automobile, in this case the Tin Lizzie, and the Dilley quip: "Henry Ford is in favor of prohibition, but still he keeps on manufacturing those little cocktail shakers." Speaking of prohibition, another Dilley: "A speakeasy is a place where you go in and shout to your friends, yell for a bartender and call out.

your drinks." 1926 Dilley gag from Life: "A mammoth restaurant, the largest Chinese cafe in the world, has been opened in Chicago. Darn clever people, these Greeks!" DILLEY TRIED HIS hand at humor again several months back in a column in Quote magazine. He hadn't lost his old touch. For instance: "Dag Hammarskjold, new U.N. secretary general, must, be an AWFULLY nice fellow.

We understand that almost everybody calls him by his first name." Dilley hopes the return of Judge may lead to the day when newsstands will be stacked deep again with good humor magazines. "We need to learn to laugh again," he said. "It would be good for our nerves in this atomic age." "That Reminds Me!" is a regular Saturday feature. all-wool zip-coats i i I' and Film Fun. DILLEY, TODAY a successful publisher of financial advertising, had dusted off the scrapbook in answer to a young columnist's question: "What did the 1920s have, that we don't have today, that inspired so much original humor?" The scrapbook gave a ready answer: "Nothing except, today there is no first-rate humor magazine to buy and publish original humor." The '20s hnd their peroxide blonds too, and the Dilley joke: "Joe--Who was that cute little blond you had at the dance Thurs- 4 95 I ft:" itst.

i.i (ir.f.r w. rniE The orry Clinic i Don't let the warm fall fool you! Cold weather is sure to come. We have wonderful values waiting for you Jn color-ful tweeds, gabardines and smooth fabrics with an all-wool lining to zip in for zero, Special Judge Chosen For Pinball Case R. Donald Kroger, Indianapolis attorney, was selected yesterday to serve as a special judge in the controversial pin-ball injunction case in Superior Court, Room 3. As special judge, he will have authority to decide if pinball machines can be operated legally in Marion County.

An injunction action filed by 26 Indianapolis operators of the devices asks for a court, order barring law enforcement officials from seizing them on sight. Judge Norman E. Brennan, regular judge of the court, issued such a temporary order last July but canceled it in September. Machine owners were given a week to remove them from business places. Kroger was selected as judge when Charles W.

Cook attorney for pinball interests, eliminated the name of Paul N. Rowe, Indianapolis Bar Association president, from a list of prospective judges submitted by Judge Brennan. No date for the trial has been set. CASE Don Toland is the dynamic head of the General L'lectric plant at Danville. 111.

Earlier this year the Supervisors' Club a 1 4 'K 4 ar if? of the G-E had invited me to Danville to address a public audience at night. So a few of us had dinner before the meeting. And Mr. Poland asked me about the nature of my talk that night. "What is the most important idea to keep in mind," he said, "in getting along with people?" This is a very frequent Holier! Mclntvrc tattoo we'd be more tactful in correcting people.

For when anybody receives a criticism or correction, even though it is for his own ultimate best interests, that criticism deflates his importance. Then he grows angry or hitter or vindictive and wants to strike back. Instead of "jelling" at our children or "bawling" out an employe or "barking" at a patient or client we'd curb our caustic tongues if we'd just remember that tattoo on his chest "I WANT TO FEEL IMPORTANT." "Well, Dr. Crane, how can an employer train workers and administer correction without making the recipient feel less important?" Mr. Poland inquired.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL slrategy for that, universal problem is to use the "sandwich method." Insert the correction or reproof as the meaty middle layer of your sandwich. Rut start off with an honest compliment first. Praise the person you are going to correct. Your initial praise forms the basic layer of the psychological sandwich. Then smile and casually lead into the meaty layer by saying, "Bill, I wonder if you wouldn't get better results if you did that in this manner." Even with your original compliment, plus this smiling, casual lead-in, he may vaguely feel belfttled and less important.

So push his ego back to par, or even higher, by fading out with another sincere compliment as your final layer of the sandwich! (CopyrltM. 1853. Syndlrt. Int.) Court Blocks Wile Slayer's New Trial Bid The Indiana Supreme Court split 2 to 2 yesterday and thereby rejected the demand of a convicted wife slaver for a new-trial. The convict is Ralph V.

Leedy, sentenced to life imprisonment for the second degree murder of his wife, Evelyn, in February, 1952. in Whitley County. He sought to set aside the verdict with a plea in abatement, declaring the jury commissioners vvho drew the names of the talesmen were not sworn in open court and wore instructed improperly by Special Judge Burr Glenn. Demurrers of the state were sustained in the lower court and Leedy's attorneys carried the case to 1he Supreme Court. Chief Justice Arch N.

Bobbitt and Judge Floyd S. Diaper ruled that "pleas 'in abatement are dilatory pleas not favored in the law" because they are intended to delay proceedings or overthrow verdicts. Such pleas must prove every fact, alleged, they said. Judges Frank Gilkison and James A. Emmert disagreed.

The deciding vote in Leedy's favor rested with Judge Dan C. Flanagan, who could not participate because he was one of the convicted man's attorneys in the original trial. suits query by industrial leaders, for we now realize that human relations is the biggest field for progress in industry. Mechanical and chemical and electrical engineering have made wonderful progress. But human engineering is so new that it is still almost a virgin field.

"EVERYBODY SHOULD be visualized as bearing a magic tattoo across his chest," I replied to Don Poland, "And that tattoo, in capital letters, reads: "I WANT TO FEEL IMPORTANT." Our first birth cry as an infant is thus to get attention. "And many men, in particular, are so obsessed with their own ego that they sink a small fortune in an elaborate mausoleum to show off their importance 100 years after they are dead." If we parents and teachers and bosses In industry could always see that famous if all-wool worsted and jheen gabardine Phone Firm-Union Arbitration Imcl Takes A llreather A nonpartisan arbi a i panel meeting here to air complaints of both the Indiana Bell Telephone Company and the CIO Communications Workers of America adjourned its hearings yesterday until Monday. The panel, consisting of Aaron New York attorney; Peter M. Kelliher, Chicago, and Patrick J. Fisher, Indianapolis, is hearing 1he individual rases of 20 CWA employes fired by the company last summer in connection with alleged violence in the 60-day, state-wide telephone strike here.

Th pane concluded' the hrar-ing on George Cannady. Shelhy-ville, who is charged by the company of advocating the US'-of force against the company at a union meeting, shoving women employes and threatening at least one person. Monday the panel will return to the case against Jack Eastman, for allegedly leading and inciting mass picketing and frightening and intimidating nonstriking women workers. AMIS V. tlAHTOX.

M. f. That Body Of ours Si ill IX FORMER days the physician's first act. in treating a patient was to have him put out his tongue. The story told by the tongue, if coated, was whether the patient was constipated and liver 5) i h' fJ9t i sluggish.

Today the tongue tells much more than this, owing to the discovery of the vitamins. In the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Drs, William B. Bean and Margaret Vance state that the complexity of clinical nutrition is well demonstrated in the problem of disorders of the tongue caused by deficiency diseases. It's the extra trousers that male these suits such prize values but that's not all! The worsteds are rich and resilient. You'll find all the most popular patterns among them, including splash weaves, checks and over-plaids.

The silky sheen gabardines come in the most wanted colors (Skipper blue is especially important.) Come in today! Canlor Defends Use Of 'Maxie The Taxi' Hollywood, Cal. (UP) Come-dian Eddie Cantor said yesterday the idea for one of his television comedy characters is 30 years old and was not stolen from a New York cab driver's manuscript. The cah driver, Samuel Silverman, filed a $2,225,000 damage suit against Cantor in New York, charging Cantor plagiarized the idea. pressure with a glass slide, smoking and the application of mild irritants." The article outlines the usual characteristics of acute pellagious glossitis and reports the results of the effectiveness of the treatment, given. The patients who served as the subjects of the observations were admitted to the medical service of the State University of Iowa Hospital.

The method used was to place patient in hospital, confined to bed and usually given a diet low in protein (milk, meat, eggs, fish) and low in Vitamin B-complex factors- nothing but water and glucose for a three-day control period. The chief evidence was on color photography. ONE T.VTIEXT was then given mg. of cozymase into a vein and within an hour she remarked that her tongue was no longer sore. A normal state was reached in 21 hours.

In another given similar treatment there was a decided improvement in well-being. A farmer addicted to alcohol, who hud cirrhosis of the liver and pellagious glossitis, was given tryptophane. Within 24 hours' tongue became normal. NO DOWN PAYMENT on Block'i Budget Plan, Just 6 convenient monthly payments. Small carrying charge.

moil llilrd floor Cotton Heads County Council Irwin W. Cotton, a heatinc and air conditioning engineer, was elected president of the Marion County Council yesterday. He succeeds Ronald M. Man-non, coal dealer and Wayne Township farmer, who was elected vice-president of the county's seven-member appropriating body, "FIFTEEN YEARS ago Dr. Bean began to make observations of the tongue in pellagra, a deficiency disease, using hand lenses, 20-power magnifiers, and, later, the slit lamp, in an effort to learn more of the changes in the tongue caused by specific treatment.

Many of these changes in appearance of the tongue could be produced at will in the normal tongue by varying the temperature, moisture, exposure to air, Admiral Found Dead Annapolis, Md. (AP) Rear Adm. Marion Clinton Robertson, 68 years old, was found dead in his home here Thursday night by a neighbor, open Sal lining, 0 tu 5:25.