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SWEETIE PIE By NADINE SELTZER Edson ''Pop's writing a to raise a daughter and bear Inez Robb French Take Over Paris Dieu, mon petit chou, the French have taken Paris. They swarm all over the place, pre-empting such American enclaves as the Louvre, the- Folies Bergere, Maxim's, the Tour d'Argent, Place Vendome, the Rue de la Paix and even the Ritz bar, where legend has it that the bar will collapse the day a Frenchman pays for a drink. Well, sir, Frenchmen are paying for drinks in the Ritz bar at the moment, probably because there are so few Americans through whom to fight their way to the cash register. And the bar still stands. Evan Pam Pam, the little chain of restaudants specializing in American breakfasts (orange juice, bacon or ham and eggs sunny side up and U.S.

coffee), is comfortably filled with Frenchmen enjoying these delicacies. Tourist Season The French never had It so good in Paris on my previous visits to the City of Light, which always coincided with the tourist season. On those occasions the metropolis always had been commandeered by English, Italians, Germans, Swiss, Dutch, Belgians, Americans, Swedes, Norwegians, South Americans, Egyptians and all other sensible nationalities who agree that Gay Paree is every man's home away from home. What becomes of the Parisian during the tourist season would make an study for the Ford Foundation. For the first time I realize that he flees his city in great numbers.

It might be fascinating to band the Parisian, as we band migratory birds in the U.S.A., to discover his flight and habitat during June, July and August. Nothing demonstrates so graphically the extent of French penetration of Paris at this season than the fact that even the flea market has been abandoned to them. When I went to the market earlier today and merchants heard my flat, clear American accent, many burst into tears of joy at this harbinger of the bonanza to come after a long hard winter with their own kind. Ride in Own Cabs Come to think qf it, perhaps something else demonstrates even more dramatically the completeness of the French occupation of Paris: they are even riding in their own taxicabs. This probably will be astounding news to thousands of Americans who believe that Paris taxis and drivers were Invented solely to take them.

I have had a long wait and a hard time flagging a taxi whenever I have wanted one on this visit. This may in large part be traceable to the fact that winter is fighting a stiff rear-guard action. It would be untrue report that there is skating on the Seine, but neither is anyone swimming in it. So, perhaps the Parisian is taking cabs for the same reason I am: to get in the cold. The tourist who returns like a homing pigeon to Paris this summer will And that something new has been added to France's coinage.

Within the past four months, she has minted a shiny 100 -franc piece, the same size and approximately the same value as the American quarter. It is easier to handle and far less bulky than the 100 -franc note (which always had the deceptive habit of making an American with a pocketful of such folding money feel he was in the chips). I regret to report that the 100 -franc piece goes just as fast and no further than the note: here today and gone instanter. Distributed by United FMture Syndicate Edwin P. Jordon, M.D.

Parents Need Wisdom Written (or When I was a boy I never realized how hard it was to be' a good parent. Personal experience has given, me a new slant; large numbers of parents send in difficult questions also. A few of these are discussed i today. One mother writes that her 13-year-old son weighs 175 pounds, which is far too much, and some people say he has glandular trouble and others that he eats too much. She adds that he does have a large appetite and the possibly significant item that he is an only child.

One' could not say that the boy does not have glandular trouble without examining him, but it is certainly much more likely that his overweight is the result of too much food. Perhaps he is deeply unhappy for some reason and he eats too much because that is one of the few things he thoroughly enjoys. Other Activities This possibility should at least be explored by the mother and perhaps a sympathetic physician. The child should also be steered into better dietary habits and, if possible, into activities other than eating from which he can derive pleasure. A difficult problem of another kind is presented Mrs.

who says that her 6-year- old child was fine until he started school. He went to school for a couple of weeks and then became so, nervous that he stuttered. On the advice of the school he was-taken out, but when he was started the NEA Service 4 next year the same thing happened. This is really a serious protn Iem and the child should be most carefully examined mentally and physically to find out whether the nervousness and stuttering are the result of some emotional difficulty which can be remedied by calm and careful handling or whether there is some more deep-seated mental difficulty which would make it better for the youngster to be sent to a special school. When this kind of thing develops there should be no delay in getting the best possible advice.

Bad Breath Another mother tells that her 16-year-old daughter has a most offensive odor on her breath. Obviously this can be serious, too, since a 16-year-old girl is likely to be extremely conscious of her personal attributes, and if she feels that she is displeasing to others it may have a "most harmful emotional effect on her now and in the future. Most difficulties with bad breath come from disorders of the mouth or gums, from intestinal disturbances or from food, the odors of which are eliminated through the. lungs. All of these possibilities should be and if anything can be found which is even partially responsible it should be corrected at once.

The attitude of the parents and others toward youngest is important; if everything is done which can be done the situation should be taken as lightly as possible. Indeed the greatest kind of wisdom is called for on the part of parents. Elephants Stampeded WASHINGTON (NEA)Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler's statement that Mrs. Eisenhower's health might prevent the President from being, a candidate for re-election is only one of his reasons for believing Ike 'won't run Among Butler's other arguments are. these: 1.

The President feels that by 1956 he will have done the job he was elected to do. 2. The President does, not really like the White House job. 3. The President's appeal to the voters will not be as great in 1956.

4. The Democrats can beat the Republicans in 1956. Wishful Thinking All this is perhaps more wishful thinking than sound political reasoning. There couldn't possibly be a less informed authority on what goes on in the mind of a Republican President the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. They are his views, however, for what they afe worth.

Democratic Chairman Butler's statement in New- York that Mrs. Eisenhower's health was not too good and that this would cause the President not to run created a storm of Republican criticism in Washington, as fully reported in the news columns. One thing Butler has' shown a great capacity for in the few months he has been Democratic National Chairman is to stampede the Republican elephants. Whether he does this by accident or on purpose is not yet clear. The net is the same.

If he keeps on at this rate, he'll have everybody crazy by November, 1956. Victory Prediction Chairman Butler's contention that the Democrats can win the 1956 election, regardless of candidates, is something else again. Butler is of course paid a handsome salary to promote and publicize this point of view. The basis for it is a belief that in the 1956 election there will not be 60 million votes cast, as there were in 1952. The appeal Eisenhower as a war hero plus gripes over 20 years of Democratic control are held responsible for the 33-tc-26-million vote.

Democrats now say they, have to change only three million votes to win. They point to the latest Gallup poll projections, indicating more Democrats in the country than Republians. If the 1956 vote should be smaller than in 1952, it would be a reversal of all past trends. For the Democrats to win in a small vote election would also be a reversal of past theories that the bigger the vote, the better the Democratic prospects for victory. 1954 Results Election results of 1954 provide the major arguments for Democratic beliefs their 1956 chances are improved.

They claim now that. Republican state legislatures in New York, California and other states gerrymandered Democrats out of 14 Congressional seats, which should have been added to their present 29 -seat majority. They point to 27 Democratic governors now in office. In state legislatures, the Democrats claim net gains in 1954 of 404 House seats and 106 Senate seats: They now control 25 lower houses and 20 Senates in state legislatures, with two states evenly divided. BARBS A Massachusetts man asked for a wife would not fire the furnace.

Her mistake was in not keeping him in hot water. In England two men knowingly the sainje nurse. We'd that they "both need one. Women always look better than, men, but it takes theni a lot longer to do it. It never takes a youngster long to learn how to squeeze toothpaste out of the middte of the tube instead of the end.

The average pianist's fingers move 2,000 times a minute. And the neighbors wish he himself would move just once. Bandits robbed the owner of a New York wholesale banana company. They just slipped up and peeled off $540. People will do anything to save money.

A Texas millionaire married his nurse. A golf ball leaves the club head at about 135 miles an hour About twice as fast as the golfer leaves his office. Stan Delaplane 's Hoi Boyle (Elif Vakrrafif lb CUaltfnrttlau Thursday, Mar. 17,1955 29 POSTCARD 'When Irish Eyes The hewJ that Mr. Moriarty's Chophouse on Sixth Avenue in New York is serving "Irish Coffee Royal" brought Mr.

Joe Sheridan to my door. "It brought me out of hiding as you might say," said Mr. Sheridan. "Irish coffee royal indeed!" Mr. Sheridan is the inventor of Irish" or Qaelic coffee.

This brew of coffee, Irish whisky and a float of thick cream has been slowly spreading across the United States. I ran into it first at rainy Shannon Airport. It appears on all Irish, menus. It spread to San Francisco, to the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, to the Mapes in Reno. "I've not the pleasure of being acquainted with Mr.

Moriarty," said Mr. Sheridan. "But it's Irish coffee to be sure and not Irish coffee royal. "Now I invented it in the old days when the flyin' boats were coming to Foynes in Ireland. They were havin' a celebration like for the new lines and they wanted a drink with a warm glow to it.

"There's some say that I put the whisky in it to take away the taste of the horrible Irish coffee. But thatls not true. It was a drink I took myself every morning for my hangover. I put a little whisky in the coffee'. "I don't drink now," said Mr.

Sheridan, "for it became bad for the health and I.couldn't do it financially. As a matter of fact I'm a member of the AA, a back-sliding one in a way. For sometimes I've gone for a good one and worked my way from the? elegant Hotel St. Francis down to Skid Road and back again. "I brought my friends from the St.

Francis down to Skid Road;" said Mr. Joe Sheridan. "But the St. Francis objected when I brought my friends from Skid Road up to the St. Francis." Mr.

Joe Sheridan is a chef. He has been chef at Shannon and at Waikiki and presently at Place Pigalle in San Francisco. "Now I've kept under cover while the Irish coffee thing was beginning in the United States," he said, "until I could see which way the wind blows. "I'm in hopes that it will go through the hotels down to the bars. For it's better for Irish whisky that way and Ireland bein'.

my country, I want it all for the best." I asked Mr. Sheridan if he had a preference in Irish whisky for the makings. "In the old days, I used John Powers or John Jamieson's. It was served in the best hotels in Ireland and was drunk by the elite of Ireland. Now in those days, Williams of Tullamore was a small concern and was not used by the high class people.

The O'Regans would never dream of it. "But now I see Tullamore Dew has gone all out and captured the export trade in many places. For their effort I'd give them' a recommendation. Not to say the others are anything but good Irish whisky too. "I have not been too keen now on how they would handle it in New York.

For there's much of the shamrock and pig sort of thing. And sometimes a bar will ask me to come around and tell some Irish lies and give the recipe. But I'm not for that as being undignified for Ireland. "Not that I'm always a dignified man," said Mr. Sheridan.

"But that was before I stopped the drink." I asked Mr. Sheridan how much sugar he put in the coffee-and-whisky. "Two lumps, cocktail size," he said. "When I made it for myself for the hangover, I drank it black. But with all the vice presidents and the big people comin' to Foynes for the celebrations, I floated the cream on top for the taste and the looks of it.

"I called it Gaelic coffee. But here in America it would be alright to call it Irish coffee. It being an Irish drink, invented by an Irishman and served in Ireland. "But now 'Irish coffee that I would not approve. What with the interest that seems to be comin' along and the fine hotels in America takin' it up.

"It's add to think it all came out of my hangover," said Mr. Joe Sheridan. Volkswagens Popular PATTERNS by McNiusht Syndicate, Inc. Sam Dawson Understanding Market WASHINGTON Sensational leaps of the bulls and dizzy dips of the bears in the stock market this they foretell good times or hard? Senators, government officials and financiers are busy debating what effect the goings-on here and in Wall Street will have on business and jobs. They're trying to ideclde whether rising stock prices inspire general business confidence, or whether confidence in the future sparks the bulls; whether falling stock prices are a blow to public confidence in thj whole economy, or whether fear of coming hard times generates, a bear market on the stock exchange.

There are even a puzzled few who ask if it'r all being done with mirrors. Beyond Room The question of what 's ahead reaches out beyond the garbled caucus room where the Senate Banking Committee is carrying on a study of the 18-month-old bull market; w' government officials, bro! ers industrialists" give their views on- fast- rising market 's benefits or dangers. You can see wonderment and vorry in the intent ai ience that the inquiry. Those attending some students, but mostly middle-aged cou from out of eager to find, if they can, a as. to what may lie ahead for them.

Whether they own, stock or not, they appear to feel they ha a stake in the market's course. Two Beliefs It 's the old story of two popular beliefs: (1) either the stock market is a barometer showing what's ahead within the next six months; or (2) the trend of stock prices in itself will affect daily lives by making times good or bad. Most of the audience Is old enough to remember 1929. Without exception witnesses agree there are many and important points of strength in today's" economy which were missing in 1929. Sen.

Fullbright (D-Ark), committee chairman, stresses that the stock market probe of 20 years ago came after the crash of 1929 and sought a cure, while today's inquiry comes while times are good and aims at preventing another such bust NEW. YORK Whoever thought Adolf Hitler would help solve America's traffic problems? But in a small way he -nearly'lb years after his death. All because of the ''Beetle." That is the' nickname for the Volkswagen, the small mass- produced motor car which Hitler once promised every German family would soon' be able to afford. Most German families can't buy one yet. But last year more Americans bought Volkswagens than any other kind of Imported automobile.

"Some 29,151 foreign-made cars were sold in the United States in 1954," said Arthur Stanton, "and 6,341 were Volkswagens." tall, lean 37-year- old ex-Navy officer and husband bf TV panelist Joan Alexander, is president of World- Wide Automobiles Corp. He distributes the Volkswagens In five Eastern states. Business Grows He and four partners went into the import-export field after the last war with $48,000 they borrowed. Now they do a business here and in Paris, French Morocco and Tokyo. They deal in Cuban sugar and Japanese toys as well as German and.

American automobiles and electrical products. But Stanton's pet project right now is the Volkeswagen. "Since January they've been selling at the rate of 2,000 a month," he said. "In another couple yeaes they'll have an annual sale of 50,000 here. Then Detroit will start taking a long, hard look at the small car market." The "Beetle" holds four passengers (five, if one is a child) and is only 13 feet long.

The 30-horsepower motor is in the rear. Under the front hood is a spare tire, the gas tank, and luggage space. The car, which sells for about $1,495, goes 33 miles on a gallon James Marlow of gas in the city, 40 in the country, can reach a speed of 65-70 miles an hour. Doesn 't Freeze "The motor is air-cooled," said Stanton, "so it doesn't heat up in summer or freeze in winter. nothing really new about it.

It was basically created in 1929 by Fernainand Porsche, the famous Austrian designer. "Hitler seized on the idea, of Selling it to the German masses at $400 a car, but never got around to it. The Volkswagen was used as a German jeep in the war. Field Marshal Rommel found it was a good military vehicle in his desert campaign because it had no trouble pushing through sand." The civilian Volkeswagen; made in a factory held in pro- tectlve trust by the German government, got into real mass production late in the 1940s. Last year the factory turned out 240,000.

This year it will gear up to 330,000 of which 55 per cent will be exported. A Volkswagen factory branch in Canada is planned. Easy to Park "The cars are popular in this country with two classes of people," said "wealthy people who buy them as a second car, and working people who want a low-priced car- that is cheaper to operate and easier to park than a standard size automobile. Many American tourists buy the cars in Germany, where the price is only $1,130, drive them around Europe on, their vacations, and then ship them home. But the irony of Hitler's, "dream car" for the German masses is that, while an American working man can easily afford one, few German workers can.

"In terms of their own currency," said Stanton, "a wagen would cost them the equivalent of $4,500." That isn't a dream price to an average German. It's an impossible The Yalta Papers WASHINGTON (JPi The Yalta papers. What are they? A better question might be: Where were they? A State Department team spent years trying to find them and put them together. The main ones are together now. They are a record of what went on before and during the February, 1945, wartime conference of President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin.

Now that he has the papers all together, 840 pages in galley proof, printed by the government printer, Secretary of State Dulles isn't sure what to do with them. He has 26 sets of these papers, bound in paper. No Record Kept There is no word-for-word record of what was said at Yalta. No stenographer took shorthand notes. But many of those present kept notes, some a lot, some a few.

The Yalta papers are made up of those notes, plus documents resulting from the conference, letters exchanged before it, and various State Department memoranda in preparation for it. In the years after the war several State Department officials, in their spare time, searched for the Yalta papers. In 1953 the Eisenhower administration ordered that the "gathering of the papers be made a full-time project. Three State Department officials concentrated on the job, with help from others. Hunt Made Some Yalta papers were in a central filing area of the State BUGS BUNNY Department.

But they wife inadequately classified. So a hunt had to be made there, and then through the rest of the department. Some department people connected with the.conference-still had papers relating to it filed in their own offices. These had to be tracked down. The research team had to get other papers from the armed forces.

Roosevelt papers at the Hyde Park Memorial Library-had to be combed over. And the researchers had to depend for some of their clues on the published memoirs and biographies of some of those at Yalta. From what can be learned, some of the things said among the Big Three might, if published now, embarrass this country a bit. Roosevelt is said to have made a flip crack about Germany, now an American ally. Dulles Tuesday refused to say yes or no to this question: Did Churchill ask that the Yalta papers not be published? The State Department Wednesday decided to make the papers public.

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John Hume Ross, aircraftsman, the official- name of the author of these, vivid recollections of a rookie, mechanic in the 1920 's. Lawrence of Arabia, bitter at his failure to win independence for Feisal's Arabs, hid his identity under became legally T. E. and fled publicity for concealment in the ranks of enlisted men. He joined the RAF in 1922, trained at Depot, as it was called, a base camp with base camp routine, moved up a step, went straight to work at an airfield.

This book, a s6rt of diary, consists of notes he took for a book, which he did not write; they were not to be published until 1950. They are now made public, if you can afford it, at $20 a book in an edition of only 1,000 numbered copies. Snagglestooth, Stiffy, Taffy; Sailor, Nobby, Cook, the padre and other memorable charac-. ters fill these pages with endless raucous noise, brawling, horseplay and a good service man could eat and sleep, work and drill, enjoy his friends and fight with his officers, and fly around the world on about four four-letter words, They are not the whole book, however; they serve as background, or illustrations, for Lawrence's own words, often brilliantly evocative, and his thoughts oh the wretchedness of the first months, the happiness of the later years in RAF uniform. Whatever Richard Aldington may charge the much-discussed debunking biography promised for publication here, Lawrence is a mdst exciting writer.

His book marvelously overflows with vitality, with maleness, with a fierce.wild stewing of life. This belongs with the very best books, fiction or non-fiction, about 20th 1 century soldiering. What They Soy Freedom of the press certainly includes photography and it seems to me that those of us who believe in freedom of the press should insist on the right to rer port the news through Judge Walter B. Jones, president Alabama Bar Association. The stability of, the American economy depends on the prosperity and security of the American Mike Mansfield The New York subway is a fine place to practice self-denial.

The average subway ride is enough to test anyone's Rav. Joseph H. Sheehan..