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Wednesday, March IB, 1855
'Slant Strides did Shoe Comfort for Men
' The effort to get men's feet
out of leather cases and into
something both smart and com
fortable for warm weather goes
on apace and this spring it is
really getting somewhere.
Mesh started the ball rolling.
And the shoe of mesh and leath
er still has great popular appeal,
with particular interest in the
natural to wheat mesh com
bined with black or brown. This
Is a shoe for late spring or sum
mer. A popular shoe, but one
that no longer has any great
style significance.
"The smart man, who wants a
good looking town shoe that he
can wear early, and right
through summer, is going for the
new models in perforated or
woven leathers which have a
well-tailored smart air while al
lowing the foot to breathe.
Many of these 'shoes are Amer
ican designs. Others originated
in Italy or Spain, where men's
footwear is a matter of great
interest to all concerned.
If expense is no object, the
handwoven leather shoe, in
which all fashioning and fitting
is done in the handling of the
a triumph. And it has inspired
leather without lasting is really
some very handsome shoes, in
which all or the major portion
of the vamp is of laced strips, so
well styled that the shoe is a
perfect accompaniment for town
business suits.
Tans and brown are favored
in shoes of this type, but black
is smart, especially with the
charcoal and off-black green and
brown flannels and worsteds for
business wear. And there are
also some good looking shoes in
navy blue calfskin.
In perforated shoes, another
way of getting ventilation plus
style, the most popular models
show a perforated section in the
vamp with plain edge. Brown is
the leading color, but the tone
combinations are also popular.
In other models the entire
vamp is perforated with plain
quarter, this perhaps having the
style edge, since there is more
and more interest in the plain
toe effect.
While perforations and woven
leathers were originally intro
duced for reason of coolness and
comfort, they have caught on so
rapidly that many shoes now
simulate the effect with em
bossed leathers. These may be
no cooler than regulation shoes,
ion band wagon, showing how
but they are riding on the fash
have appealed to the public
these new air-conditioned shoes
fancy.
In real summer styles, the
classic tan and white spectator
gets the new look in a two-eye
let butcher type with perforated
vamp and quarter of white buck
Sir Francis Drake named the
Farallone islands, off San Fran
cisco, the Islands of St. James,
in 1579.
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Toddler's shoes in red and
white. Sizes 4 to 8 4.45
Children's white 2 -strap
sandals. Sizes 4 to 8, 8V4 to
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Little girls' white ankle strap
sandal. 4 to 8 4.95
8!i to 12 5.95
Girls' patent sandals,
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NYLON BLENDED Take a
breather in airy, moccasin
style shoes for spring. Here ny
lon and grain calf are blended
to provide ease and comfort. (By
Pink With Black
In Men's Footwear
Will men wear pink shoes?
They . have accepted pink shirts,
especially for wear with new
and popular charcoal shades in
clothing. The New in Shoes this
season include not overall pink
footwear, but pink with black,
with navy and with charcoal.
Other newest style footwear
highlights for men include
black calf with green suede for
a two eyelet oxford and yellow
calf with red soles and piping
in a blucher.
Soft .shrunken grains are now
very high style in black, navy,
darkest brown and charcoal.
ine new lower toplme is be
ing used on everything from
footwear for active sports to
town and dancing shoes.
Matching mesh, in brown,
black or navy is being used for
men.
wall last effects in slinons. with
the wall of mesh and the vamp
and quarter of calf.
The pure white leather slip-
on, cut like a slipper and with
punched cut-outs and with
black sole and heel is here for
Pigskin is going high style on
men's footwear in wing tip pat
terns and dark town colors.
Charcoal polished calf with
matching suede is an elegant
town wing tip treatment.
National Archives
Building Contains
Reams of Records
Washington (U.R) If you
want information about loyalty
oaths during the civil war or
maps dealing with sunken treas
ure, the National. Archives
building here can fix you up.
There are now nearly 800,000
cubic feet of records which date
from pre-Revolutionary times
to the post-Korean conflict.
Scholars and writers seek in
formation and material on al
most every conceivable subject
the geology of the Antarctic,
literary figures in diplomacy,
activities of the American Con
go Co., and how the New Deal
affected Puerto Rican political
movements.
The reference service boasts
that about 400,000 reference de
mands are supplied annually.
Congressmen frequently call
upon the staff to produce infor
mation needed in connection
with legislative activities.
One state used copies of rec
ords to support its claims to off
shore petroleum rights and an
other found that maps (there
are 900,000 maps and charts)
were very useful in planning a
re-survey of its coastal and in
land waters.
Preservation Problem
Among many historic docu
ments on exhibit are the Decla
ration of Independence, the Con
stitution of the United States
and the Bill of Rights. General
Services Administration reports
that last year some 25,000 stu
dents from 32 states viewed
these charters of American lib
erty. Archives officials also recog
nize the need to preserve the
legibility of its precious docu
ments for future generations.
The Declaration of Indepen
dence is already badly faded,
partly due to damaging light.
Special filters now control the
'injurious effects of natural and
low-intensity light and photo
lighting is prohibited.
, Filters are being installed in
all display cases and special
problems in the preservation of
exhibited documents were in
vestigated. A recent survey re
vealed that over 8,000,000 items
are in need of some repair.
TWO-EYELET BLUCHER Smart, sophisticated colors feature the
New in Shoes for men as in the instance of the two-eyelet 'blucher
above with charcoal grey mudguard and trim in buckskin. (By
Bates).
SCIENCE AT WORK
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Seienct Editoi
New York (U.R) -The reason
American physicians prescribe
some four billion doses of habit
forming and potentially deadly
"sleeping pills" every year is
because they work benefits in
the human body which nothing
else can bring about.
Drs. Joseph F. Fazekas and
Theodore Koppanyi asked over
300 medical educators and prac
ticing physicians for their opin
ions. They concluded that
"sleeping pills" are prescribed
in such huge numbers not be
cause of "the physician's lack of
conscience, knowledge or
awareness of the problems in
volved but to the rudimentary
state of medical and biologic
science."
What the public calls "sleep
ing pills," doctors call thex bar
biturates. They're a family of
potent ' central nervous system
depressing drugs derived from
barbituric acid. They've become
an enormous problem because it
is possible to become addicted
to them no less than to opium
and because an overdose is fatal
and people keep killing them
selves with them, either acciden
tally or intentionally.
Necessary Or Legitimate
Drs. Fazekas and Koppanyi
wanted to know if members of
the medical profession thought
they and their fellows : were
using them "promiscuously."
They asked this and other ques
tions of the professors of medi
cine, neurology and phychiatry
in American and Canadian uni
versities, of the staffs of two
hospitals, and of a number of
general practitioners.
Of the 112 who answered the
question about promiscuity, 75
said yes and eight more said yes
with reservations. But the other
President's Visit Turns Capital
Flower Show Into Utter Confusion
Washington U.R) Flower
shows normally are sedate, fra
grant affairs conducted in li
brary-like calm. That is, until a
President of the United States
comes to call.
Then brick walls collapse,
photographers fall into glisten
ing garden pools, garden club
ladies get their corsages crushed
and men with live alligators
shove their alleged pets at the
chief executive.
Such was the case here yester
day when Mr. Eisenhower, sub
bing for his wife who was back
at the White House getting over
the flu, visited the National
Flower Garden show at the huge
District of Columbia armory.
Until the President arrived,
the armory was a bit of floral
paradise as well-dressed matrons
moved between the displays, ad
miring the flowers and plants
and wishing their gardens at
home could look the same.
Confusion Reigns
When the word passed that
the President was on the prem
ises, however, the place took on
all the aspects of a department
store basement with nylons on
sale for a dime a pair.
The President went first to
see "Mamie's Garden," a strik-
STYLE WINNERS For . casual
stepping a smart model adapted
from the Swiss, shown above, is
available in the new ginger
crushed grain or smooth cherry
leather. In the lower photo un
usually low cut is this raised
seam moccasin slated to be a
style winner this season in
smooth orange toned leather.
(Both by Thorn McAn). - -
ing plot of chalk white tulips,
boxwoods and blooming dog
wood trees set within a serpen
tine brick wall and flagstone ter
race. The garden will be given
to the Eisenhower farm at Get
tysburg, Pa., by the Allied Flor
ists association.
Here the first difficulty de
veloped. . One man insisted on
giving the President a huge vase
brimming with two dozen Hap
piness roses. Mr. Eisenhower
wanted to see the rest of the
show and he wasn't about to go
trudging through the aisles haul
ing the vase of flowers.
He turned it over to a Secret
Service man who disappeared,
only to cause a lady gardener to
shrill, "Where's he going with
our flowers they're for the
President."
Wishing Wells
Then the President moved to
ward a series of wishing wells
into which the public was invit
ed to toss coins for the Crippled
Children's society. Two camera
men, trying for a high angle shot
of the President's approach,
climbed up what looked like a
sturdy garden wall.
The wall was not cemented,
however, and buckled under the
weight. Down came a cascade of
peat moss, top soil, bricks and
two photographers at the Presi
dent's feet.
He remarked, "That will make
good golf soil," and proceeded
toward the wishing wells where
he discovered he had no coins.
"If I can find luck, let's not
pass it up," he said, dispatching
an aide for change.
Armed with $2 in quarters,
the President began tossing
coins into the small, knee-deep
pools. One photographer, duti
fully intent on what he saw
through his camera viewfinder
and not on his footing, calmly
plunged into the first pond.
Ough To Be Ashamed '
One gentleman gardener trum
peted, "Hey, you, don't do that."
A lady stuck her head from be
hind a hedge and shrilled at the
poor man who was trying to
clamber out of the water, "You
ought to be ashamed of your
self." Ladies pushed and shoved to
get near Mr. Eisenhower who
took all the fuss with good hu
mor. One lady loped along be
hind the presidential group,
calling out at frequent intervals,
"Don't forget the Patent Office."
After several yelps, investiga
tion proved that she didn't want
the President to pass up the
floral display on the Patent Of
fice which patents about 80 new
flowers a year. The President
visited and approved.
Then, on his way out of the
building, he stopped to view a
jungle exhibit, standing in the
midst of which was a man with
a live alligator about three feet
long. The man pushed the 'gator
toward the chief executive.
Mr. Eisenhower fixed a steely
eye on the reptile, warning with
cautious humor, "He's not going
to bite me, by gum." Then the
President returned to the White
House and such workaday rou
tine as war and taxes.
questions broadened the investi-j
gation, and, from the answers to
them, the; questioners found that
they had to distinguish between
necessary and legitimate uses of
the drugs.
The necessary uses, they
found, were in epilepsy and oth
er convulsive states, for the
tranquilization of maniacal pa
tients," and as anesthetic agents
The legitimate uses they cata
logued as relief of apprehen
sion and anxiety states, persist
ent severeinsomnia, thyrotoxi
cosis, essential hypehtension
and probably gastro-intestinal
disturbances."
Their interpretation was ne
cessary because of marked dis
agreement among the answering
doctors to the opposing ques
tions: (1) what are the legiti
mate indications for barbitu
rates? (2) what are the unneces
sary uses of - barbituates? Im
pressive numbers lined up on
opposing sides.
Nothing Preferable
Forty-six out of 334 thought
insomnia legitimately called for
barbiturates, but 42 others said
barbiturates were not" neces
sary" in the treatment of in
somnia. Fifty-eight thought the
drugs legitimate for "acute an
xiety, panic and tension states"
but 36 thought them unneces
sary for those states.
The questioners reviewed
other agents for depressing the
central nervous system and
found ijpne "preferable." There-
.Ji y UCil UlbUlOtCd VY 111 .VFAiU&WU
to be used by the medical pro
fession." They suggested that
doctors should always be care
ful to prescribe them in the
smallest effective doses possible,
always on a short-term basis,
and should never use them
when something would do as
well or better.
They doubted that any effec
tive law could be devised
against "the so-called promiscu
ous use of barbituates." They
thought that laws tougher than
the present ones governing them
and other habit-forming drugs,
would drive the manufacture
"underground to a greater ex
tent than at present." Doctors,
pharmacists, teachers, clergy
men, and social workers could
do more than laws to "curb the
illicit barbiturate traffic."
They made their report in the
technical journal, Postgraduate
Medicine.
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