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IT Poo fomt Get You 1T1T I -I ay wth alkimg ury BY JOHN MURRAY Fre Pre Staff Writer The Wayne County Jury Commission was questioning a lady whose Southern drawl had not been diminished by her years in Detroit. "Do you know the difference between a defendant and a plaintiff?" one Commissioner asked. "Ah sho do," she replied. "Ah ought to know what a plaintiff is. Ah've got 12 children to prove it." She was excused from jury duty.

0 FEOPLE WHO SUDDENLY GET hard of hearing when they face questioning on their fitness to serve as jurors are numerous. The Commissioners generally trap them by lowering their voices almost to a whisper. Sooner or later the person faking deafness will forget his affliction and answer a muted question. Some observers feel that the list of legitimate exemptions from jury duty is so long that many tall excuses are unnecessary. CLARENCE R.

SHAW EXPLAINED that the following groups are excused automatically unless they waive their exemption All officers of city, county, state or Federal governments, including police, firemen, postoff ice and customs employes. AH attorneys, doctors, ministers and priests, officers and professors of universities, preceptors and teachers of incorporated academies, superintendents and teachers of public schools, and all ferrymen. All active or contributing members of any military organization all railroad presidents, managers, superintendents, engineers, heads of departments and conductors, and anyone over 70 years of age. IN ADDITION, SHAW SAID, THE Commission exempts all mothers with infants to care for, and, during the war, all war workers were exempted. Juries are now numbering more men than women, Shaw's records showed.

During the war, women were far more numerous for the obvious reason that men were in service or war work. ALTHOUGH PERSONS OVER 70 ARE automatically exempt, some waive the exemption out of a life-long curiosity to serve on a jury. Shaw recalled one man in his 90's who reported for questioning. The elderly gentleman said it was the first time in 40 years that he had been in downtown Detroit, and the first time in his life that he had been on an elevator. The preliminary questioning by the Commission is merely a screening service for the court, Shaw explained, and is not required by law.

When a person gets sassy about the questioning, 'the Commission can certify him for jury duty and let him do his explaining to the judge. ONCE YOU'VE DONE YOUR jury duty, you're exempt from another call for three years. Even when you're on a panel and ready to be drawn for service, the court can defer you for periods up to one year. Names of prospective jurors are drawn from the voting registration lists of the townships and cities of the county. If you really don't want to serve as a juror simply quit voting.

ACCORDING TO SHAW MEN TRY to get out of jury duty much of tener than do women. Shaw attributes this to the jury pay. Wayne County jurors get $6 a day. This means a loss of pay for most men. 7 THEY SAY, BOSS: DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, Aug.

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C. DEAR DOSS: The Presidential and Congressional election campaigns appear to be boiling down to these main scrapping items who's vw3 f' PgUP Ji rn -jrr iivri-if' 1 ir 'IT WTirri fmm I ill 11 II 'Rfpj ill 1 4i fei, I' lit 'AA I 1 -t iiUJ4-r-- lliVnit Vl 1 1 it 1 Ut- rnvf 1 responsible for the high cost of livine. and 8 Added to 'Great' List TIIORSTEIN VEBLEN' "The Theory of the Leisure Class" is this week's selection in the Free Press-Michigan State College list of 100 Great Books. Although it is an economic treatise written in a heavy and repetitious style, Richard M. Dorson, assistant professor of history and political science, points out that it has expanded its reading public steadily in the half century since its publication.

One reason for that, Dorson believes, is that the book is not in any eense a convention economic tract, but incorporates anthropology and history and an analysis I 1 why, and which party most sincerely has the common man's interest, at heart. Take any way you please, the campaigns have jumped off with he sort of start that assures no dull moments until the ballots are counted in November, and maybe they will carry over into more slambanging in the 81st Congress next January. The nominees certainly have no lack of things to talk about, but food rationing and controls, which the Republicans have no intention of enacting, was the cellonhane wraD- of social institutions into its challenging thesis. IT HAS MOMENTS of marvelous comedy, Dorson continued, when it reveals by example the practices of "conspicuous consumption" and the survivals or revivals of archaic customs such as the cap and gown ceremonies at collegiate in-" lOL-ti it iih Tmitm niwilnr rfr- jftw.aa--aw., aawjiii -'vigLri n.a.aSaaigrfuiKMt tinuiV fi.rfa-.ninriiniiiiMUnijWiv ifltlTMtil mi i r-tn' nr- stitutions to signify the acquisition of "useless" knowledge. TAKING A "STROLL" with his wife, Joseph Villa, a paralyzed veteran, leaves his home at Needham, by means of a ramp.

Doors are extra wide, garages big enough so veterans can wheel themselves to their cars. ROOM HAS BEEN left under the washstand to accommodate Villa's wheelchair. Much planning went into the homes in the village for disabled veterans. RAMPS, WIDE DOORS AID PARAPLEGICS 11 111 UTToTII milt for Vets neelchair Villa ge "But most of all, the book provokes and irritates and stimulates its readers with an ingenious dissection of the Twentieth Century's foremost social problem that of hostile economic classes. "Veblen traces the development of these classes from primitive societies.

Here the roots of class differentiation first appear with the specialization of function, so that social prestige accrues to the predatory and exploitative groups who despise manual labor. "BECAUSE VEBLEN explains MRS. VILLA, WHO met her One of the paraplegics who will soon occupy one of the free-wheeling homes is Cy Rosenthal, former Boston Red Sox pitcher who was husband while he was a patient and she a WAC at Cushing General Hospital in nearby Framing- NEEDHAM, Mass. UP) A community of houses built around a wheelchair is springing up in this suburb of Boston. The houses are designed so paraplegic veterans (those paralyzed from the waist down) can maneuver about unhampered by the usual architectural restrictions.

Doors are a foot and a half wider to permit free passage of wheelchairs and there are Leach ping for social welfare issues in President Truman's 26 point special session message. HE RANG THE KEYNOTE to that in his July 15 nomination acceptance speech at Philadelphia, when he said: "The Republican Party favors the privileged few and not the common, every day man. Ever since its inception, that party has been under the control of special privileges, and they concretely proved it in the 80th Congress." To which retorted the Republican House-Senate Steering Committee "The Democrats controlled Congress for 14 years, professing the greatest interest in social welfare legislation. Now they say that they failed to deal adequately with social security, education, health and housing, and blame the Republicans for not enacting the program they failed to enact during 14 years. WHEN THE MISSISSIPPI delegation and half of the Alabamans walked out of the Democratic convention because of the Northern majority adoption of a civil rights plank for Negroes the Truman Democrats were worried sick.

They're beginning to feel better now, in spite of the fact that the anti-poll tax bill has been plopped right into the center of the special session stage. The Northern and Middle Ground Democrats can't see any of those Southern states going Republican, since the Republicans in Congress are backing the poll tax and other civil rights measures. They do expect a smaller Democratic vote than usual in the South, bf.t they're hoping that will turn out to be a Truman majority in the windup. NOBODY HERE SEEMS QUITE able yet to evaluate the vote-getting pull of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party. Guesses on his total in some 40 states where he expects to be on the ballot have been ranging up to 5,000,000.

But the strong evidence of Communist domination in the Progressive platform and setup of its national managing committee is being counted on now, by the Democrats at least, to wean the anti-Commies away from Wallace to Truman in the showdown. PAUL R. LEACH would never get out," Cimino said. "So we got together with an architect and planned a house best suited for paralyzed veterans." TWO HOUSES ARE already occupied and five others are under construction. Lots are staked for about 23 more houses.

injured when the mine layer on which he was serving struck a mine at Le Havre. He enlisted in the Navy after his only son was ham, said: "It seems all the planning was done around that chair. If they measured the house once they measured it a thousand times just to be sure Joe the class struggle in gentlemanly and witty fashion, and proposes no no thresholds. "I saw if the house ever caught fire while he was home alone he solution whatever, he stands as a delightful contrast to Marxist killed in action. solemnity and exhortation.

Just how serious veblen was in all this and the other boys could get in and out of everywhere in a wheelchair. remains a poser for his audience." "But that's the way it should Case of Haydn's Missing Head Nears Solution After 140 Years be," she continued. "There's no Minnesota Farm use spending a lot of money build ing a house and then not being Income Soars able to get around it. CIMINO SAID COST OF the ST. PAUL, Minn (U.R) Min nesota's farmers are worth A concrete ramp leads Into the house instead of steps and another ramp connects the kitchen and garage.

The garage, attached to the house, is about five feet 'wider and longer than the usual one-car stall. That enables the paraplegic to wheel right up to his specially equipped automobile. THE BATHROOM wash bowl and mirrors are set so that the occupant can shave while seated in his chair. The shower stall is extra wide. The idea for the community project originated after builder Charles A.

Cimino sold a house built for normal use to Joseph Villa, a paraplegic veteran, and then noted it was Impossible for him to get around without assistance. houses ranges from $15,000 to $20,000. A report on farm assets by Rex We're trying to keep it a com sion; the Academy of Music and the present Duke of Esterhazy, who wants to restore the head to the body. Now apparently the Duke is going to win. Esterhazy recently has won solid support for his plan.

confessed he had stolen the head from his friend's flat on the day he died. He willed it to the Pathological Museum of Vienna University. There were three claimants to the head: The University, which took posses munity just for these boys." the builder said. W. Cox, University of Minnesota agricultural economist, shows that the state's farm wealth has skyrocketed from $2,228,000,000 in 1940 to an all-time high of about $5,000,000,000 today.

"It's a wonderful location," savs Villa, a native of Barre, Vt. "We call it Paraplegic Center." r77 Who: Tiger Would Beat Lion in Short Fight jO0 in i TTTk ouscivives uay ound -1 TO 1 S3 ttie oame Mervwiiere LONDON Mrs. Margaret Cheyne breakfasted alone, her ac Continued from Tage One for breakfast she discussed the day's meals with maid, drove to town and shopped until noon i countant husband was out of town, lunched with boys went to beauty shop, met cousin for tea andother full meal at 5, home at 7 halted the boys' playtime and made them study dined at 9 p. stayed up until midnight, reading and talking with husband. her three sons were upstairs with the measles glanced at paper and wondered over the Berlin crisis.

BY ERIC LESSING VIENNA (AP) The head of Franz Joseph Haydn, one of Austria's greatest composers, may soon be returned to the body from which it was severed nearly 140 years ago. Haydn died in 1809 and was buried in Vienna. Later the Duke of Cambridge, a son of George II of England, proposed to move the body to Eisenstadt, scene of many Haydn triumphs. When the coffin was opened, Haydn's head was not with the body. TWELVE YEARS later a secretary of the Duke of Es-terhazy confessed on his deathbed that 10 days after Haydn's death he had bribed the grave-digger, opened the grave and severed the head from the body.

The secretary had turned the head over to a group of physicians who wanted to prove man's potential genius by comparing the measurements of human skulls. The physician named by the secretary as the actual purchaser of the head was questioned by police. He swore he was innocent. Only after his death, when his will was read, did it become clear that he was the owner of Haydn's head.He had willed it to the Vienna Academy of Music, but it was missing from his effects. 0 YEARS LATER the head turned up again, this time in the wiirof another doctor who Planned how to stretch the meat ration into three meals; the eggs, bacon and cheese rations into three more and piece out the rest with fish, vegetables, buns and some tinned stuff.

ROME Signora Alisa Cima PARIS Mme. Jacqueline Mas-lowski, 32, wife of a White Russian employed by a motion picture firm, nursed her three-months-old baby at 7 a. saw her husband off to work and went back to bed until 9:30. Left baby alone in two-room Passy apartment, went shopping and found, among other items, a bargain In peaches at 18 cents a pound. Prepared and ate luncheon with husband, then walked with baby in carriage and accompanied by Izzarelli, 33, started the day at 7:30, making coffee for herself and husband, left three-room flat to shop before the fresh vegetables Christian Rule Given as Guide in Business CINCINNATI, Young men interested in becoming "contented millionaires" get some advice from Donald MacDonald.

He told them to share their profits with their employes, don't cheat business partners or competitors, and behave "like a Christian instead of a pagan." MACDONALD, who is executive secretary of the Christian Business Men's Committee, likes to point to half a dozen or more widely-known millionaires in the CBMC as proof of the success of the formula. The CBMC was organized 11 years ago In Chicago by a group of industrialists who were worried about the methods of modern business men. Many of the members have daily sister, as far as Eiffel Tower through EDITOR'S NOTE: This is No. 8 in the weekly series on "personalities" at the Detroit Zoological Park. BY JAMES S.

POOLER Free Press Staff Writer PROBABLY the question asked most oten at the zoo is "Can a lion whip a tiger?" Is the lion, really, the boss of the. beasts? The zoo always hedges a little on this. The curator points out that the lion has more stamina, the tiger more strength. You might put it this way: If the tiger can get the edge in the first few minutes of the fight, he'll win. If it goes more than one round, put your money on the lion.

But if it came to straight fisticuffs between the beasts, the zoo people would put their money on the huge Kodiak bear. There is a powerful baby! STILL PEOPLE HAVE THE GREATEST interest in the lion which might give him claim to the king title. He isn't strictly an African beast. He once roamed a great part of Asia and still is found in parts of India. You know how big he gets up to 10 feet long and weighing 500 pounds but maybe you didn't know that some males could be called "baldy." Not all male lions grow those heavy manes, particularly among the Nubians, which makes it pretty hard for hunters to spot the boys from the girls.

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF the lion cubs, like other members of the cat family, are born with their eyes closed. But there is a difference in eyes in the cat family if you get close enough to look. The big members lions, tigers, jaguars have round pupils. The smaller cats lynx, ocelot and common house cat have vertical or slit pupils to their eyes. The lion, being a meat eater, is quite a hunter himself Out at the Detroit Zoo he is fed 12 pounds of meat a day for six days of the week that is.

On the seventh day he isn't fed a thing. THAT'S BECAUSE IN THETiatural state the lion does not kill for food every day. And if he was fed seven days a week he would lose his gaunt look. Once a lion starts getting fat oddly he doesn't live long. Considering what a mighty hunter the lion is, it is a good thing he's on a diet part of the time.

NEXT WEEK: The Turtle who fishes. and fruits were picked over. Back at 10 and prepared a lunch of spaghetti, meat stew, green beans and fruits, the day's big meal. A quiet hour with husband, reading newspapers husband returned to work at 5 p. m.

She cleared up dishes, worked over household accounts, wrote letters late in the evening she went into mid-Rome, did some shopping, met her husband and returned home for a light supper. after dinner, glanced paper, went to movie. ATHENS Mrs. Anna Hadji-Poulou, 58-year-old widow, awakened at 6 a. m.

and prepared breakfast for son, son's wife and 16 month old grandson Christopher did household chores in morning and rested after substantial noon meal took baby for walk in afternoon prepared Im if a -ii I i it i i i U.S. Rainfall Vexes Indians The Lion Is King Up to a Point Cradles Bl amed for Head Shapes supper of bread, Dutter, marmalade and tea family retired at 10 p. m. "I handle the family budget and can spend only $3 a day for food." MADRID Senora Josefina Rod-riquez de Cardona, 50, had a happy day purchasing 40 pounds of potatoes at less than five cents a pound there was housework, there was shopping. "I have to walk from stall to stall bargaining for everything.

To get your money's worth is more difficult than reaching an accord with those Soviets. And prayer services in their offices and factories at which employers and employes gather to "ask God to show us the right way to do business." SUCH PRACTICES, MacDonald naid, have made it possible for CBMC members to avoid strikes and labor trouble, that in the past seemed "unavoidable." "You can't go wrong when you make God your business partner," he added. The CBMC has 10,000 members, In such widely scattered areas as the Philippines. England, Canada, China, New Zealand and the United Stftes. I NEW YORK (U.R) Unseasonably heavy rainfall in the eastern area of the United States had repercussions among the Indians of Ecuador.

The reason is that the rain slowed up purchase of the straw hats manufactured in Ecuador. Where previously the industry relied on steamers to reach the United States with their cargoes of hats, the rain upset the schedule. Shipments are now being flown In large quantities to meet the belated demand. College, and Dr. Carleton S.

Coon, of Harvard, report in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. The head flattening may result from local methods of cradling a baby. They point to some other people, from the Near East, who also have round and sometimes flattened heads. When they migrated to America and gave up their old custom of cradling babies, the children grew up to have longer heals. PHILADELPHIA (AP) The way babies are cradled may explain the strange head shape among some people in Balkan countries.

Their heads are very round and often show flattening at the back. Anthropologists thought they belonged to a particular race, and gave them a name, dinarics. But race may not be the reason for the head flattening, Dr. Robert W. Brooklyn to find those potatoes, lust Imagine.