Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1938 — Page 9

Vagabond From Indiana= Ernie Pyle

Young Scientist Seeking Cancer Cure Pounces on Cottonwood Salve Given Ernie by Women in Alaska.

((INCINN ATI, July 9.—This is a column about a distinguished scientist, but there's hardly anything about science in it, thank goodness. The scientist in question 1s Dr. George He is director of the Institutum Divi Thomae, a research institute set up here by the Catholic Church three years ago. People say thev're doing some of the greatest work In original in America today. Dr. the youngest member of great Pontifical Academy of Science. He one of the white hopes for an eventual cancer cure. He is a close friend of Dr. Alexis Carrel (Lindbergh's co-worker). In Cincinnati his reputation stands almost upon a pedestal. I was scared stiff when I went out to see him. Well, I went in and here was Dr. Sperti in shirtsleeves. No beard. No glasses. No professional look. Just a blackhaired young man who smiled and hand. It turned out we were born the both love heat, were both reticent and in about two minutes we were stretch neck and neck, each a word edgewise. We decided we were both ws, and 1 staved

for lunch

Speri Sperti.

research Sperti 1s the

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1 not a priest a layman. He genius 5 st in his 39s, vet the list hlevements he mmvented a meter Since then he has made

people has prac-

use other but down £100,000 from a2 private conthe University He developed irradiation ef foods"

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even know how

Positive Cancer Can Be Whipped

Srey

After lunch

lounced 2a ta ad ] & time

ther Miller and 1 about cancer They have not 1 1b the cure for cancer. But they've found a lot that known before. The mighty good race, 1 asked Dr. Sperti if they had h to make feel cancer said, “Absolutely During

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By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady Thinks That the Power Of Words Often Overlooked.

HH PARK Yiaav__Aftey night 1

random idlv re

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15ed volume of the read poems Nn we know lines without come who the In many of the modern thing poetry published casually in newspapers these old poems live because of the cadence the words S them permanentlv in our minds ] people in political or ay emphasis on

1lence which is easily

v Temrherine her thew ¢ remembering where: the {from and =13¢ An Se | ¥ . author is. I wonder i

which

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: S we today gazines just as which som in is wht business the finding of repcated over *h they hope will eventually the masses of the people. to mean a thousand things the original phrase never even ive a power all their own and them in this light made recently by when he received University In undergraduates sentence could zo tion. He said history that my generation openly faced the problem of hand and the waste productive sources on that my through the puzzling

ing American

think ning

Aa Speech

reasurv

of the an T emnle Te lempie his last sentence he addressed the

iy ticular,

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nlder generati

four ungerconsumption on the one of unused generation began maze enjovment

the other

to cut a way

that separates the people from the

of economic security . The postwar gencalled the lost will yund itself. TT

eration has been

omeiimes genera

fion eneration. I hope go down in history

as the generation which his

genera-

tion wh seduced by the glittering

prizes tha the If into

country a:

awards to few, turned

tse rsuilt of the welfare of America

the world

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aved

its courage and resourcefulness, and

its example

Explore New Road

Henry Morgenthau Jr. evident] the future may be personal individual or a great power, ne with 1% the determinashall rise as well and if if does primary effort the co-operative the personal good, and not rated as

feels as IT do that

CCess In may mean

great weal

that, if it

tllda

th for an

but does not carry

on that emphasize as a whole rather

others

the than

little value

ood of

be considered of

morning we explored a new road which 1 the making for a long time. It is a [ when finished be two parallel

stri concrete and will, ne, mean y there will for people to travel on between New York City Albany, N. Y. Ai present, the road stops quite suddenly back Rhinebeck, N. Y., and you take little, winding country road until vou find vourself Albany post road

that roads and

the

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, July 9—One reason whv zo many people get away with speeding in a city is bethey have a law the motorcycle officer follow the speeder a certain distance and own speedometer

cause that has'ta check the speed with his One of speeders came through mv home town once when officer on foot arrested him for speeding the man savs “How did’ja know 1 was goin’ that fast?—you ain't got no motorcvele?” The officer says “Well, if you'd see that yellow dog chasin’ your car—when that dog can't keep up with a fella, I know he's doing more than 30 miles an hour.”

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Second Section

Entered aa at Postoffice,

SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1938

What Do You Read in Summer?

Your Book Fare Doesn't Change Much, Libra ry Records Show

By Joe Collier O now that it's summer

you and some giddy little novel and 10,000 red ants are going out under the pasture tree for your vacation reading, eh? And you're going to put the classics and near classics so far back on the bookshelves that a posse couldn’t find them? And you won’t look them up again until the snow flies? Well, according to Indianapolis Public Library figures, that's just what you and a lot of other larvae-stage book worms think. Ever since people have been reading books on a wholesale basis, it seems, they have thought of the summer time as being good only for light reading. Luther Dickerson, Indianapolis Public Librarian, poking through records of the borrowings of the last few winters and summers, today said that they show pretty conclusively that such is not the Case In time—that 1s, December, January and February —records here show that 47 per cent of all books borrowed are nonfiction, or of the so-called type.

the winter

heavier oy HN 5 Lg the time—July, AuL gust and per

cent of all books borrowed are of

summer September—41.5 the so-called serious type. Mr. Dickerson said, there 1s no more relative demand classified as how

Moreover

for mystery stories,

light reading, no matter many people are gathered to their and how, when and bright than are curled up with a in your lap and a fireplace In vour immediate vicinity In fact, the proportionate demand for mystery stories and for works religion remain almost constant throughout the year, Mr, Dickerson said Indianapolis Public Library borrowers take 2,750,000 books a vear. They take out about 30 to 33 per cent fewer books in the summer time than in the winter for general reading. That's because, Mr. Dickerson said, many people are out of town on vacain the summer, and nearly all persons have more time to spend comfortably out-of-doors than in the winter But of the borrowers who use vacation privileges during the summer, a surprisingly large numand get alwavs read.

whom

hot

fathers by the sun is when they

book

out

tions

ber their reading

pian some of the books they've intended to get around to Such as “David Copperfield” and Vanity Fair’ and books in that category. Those readers, of course, with non=though they ordinarily This among li-

literature

are not classed the

fiction readers even

are tackling things not

classified as light reading is technically

standard

known brarians as

» » »

| E VERY summer +4 son said, ‘our are

taxed on books of that tvpe. Men, take out this type of

Al resources

Dicker -

especially, reading The nonfiction books taken out in the summer concern themselves with travel, biography, politics, world affairs and things that certainly don’t have a “whodunit” facility for the reader. Prowling around in the records, Mr. Dickerson and his staff came upon the wholly unexpected disclesure that the circulation from the Business Branch of the Library drops only 20 per cent in summer months as against 30 to 33 per cent for system as a whole “This probably is accounted for In the fact that reading and consultation of books and all other matters pertaining to earning a living have come to be regarded as necessities which have no regard for the hot summer months,” Mr. Dickerson said The Library lending policy for summer takes into consideration that Summer and winter are es=sentially different, and that most

the tn

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Miss Ruth Brawn, 5826 E. Michigan St, leaves the Public Library with an armload of hooks selected for summer reading,

When

nal-

them account, i expended is

to him az he orders he returns anced and all returned to him Now, if voure making up a list for summer reading, Keep all this in mind. Not that there is a noticeable waiting list for “Pilgrim’'s Progress,” but you might, at, that, have a little trouble getting “Treasure Island.”

their for longer periods during ihe reading schedule which permits

season to

ously alter

from one

people conan

summes the

habits another

living them to draw reasonable numbers

manv fake not mes moving away

weeks

For another eople y Peony of for the

to Sept, 30

hooks entire period

vacations, someti city for se These people still are Indianapolis taxpavers When they go on vacations thev would have to spend considerable sums

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AOR one thing F mav become and people may be able to read to more advantage at home. They are, accordingly, able to draw books not too much in demand

veral June 1

the

from at a time In addition, ‘the Library offers vacationers a special mailing service for summer reading. The borrower opens an account by for vacation reading material depositing $1 against which postTherefore, there is a regular age is charged for mailing books

reading rooms

uncomfortable

Young Member of Parliament Has Job of Getting British to Enlist for Air Raid Precaution Work

they now had 430,000 volunOne million are still needed { The volunteers would serve as air raid precaution wardens, firemen, (and first aid nurses and ambulance workers. Local authorities are do-

addressing . an y said an extended trip in order NEA Service Staff Correspondent Lloyd, said to him: | teers ONDON, July 9 —Thirty-six-| “You have a tough job before you year-old, good-looking Geof-| Ihe nation, as a whole, does not ; sve that / av “11 Dropfrew William Llovd, Parliamentary believe that A. R. P. have been prop Undersecretary for Home Affairs in| erly handled in the past by your dee British Cabinet, has just had! par t srefor atio o f i : {farimen and, therefore. the nati 7 put the response has not been as wished on him ore of Britain's|has not responded to the many A.| rapid as desired hardest jobs—that of getting people | R. P. appeals which have been made | T2P1@ : to enlist voluntarily for air raid to it” precaution work without at the! Figures would seem to justify Mr, = truth is tnat John Bull and same time Inspiring panic among | McKenzie's remarks. Two vears wife are rather stolid people those same Britons | ago, Mr. Lloyd reported there were| It is going to be Mr. Lloyd's job Grant McKenzie, secretary of the 100,000 volunteers One million | to wake them up. It has already local government department of the | were needed. The other day it was | been announced that soon he is tu lin Berlin

Labor Part) ; make

letter to Mr

open

By Milton Bronner

He is best Chamberlain

he has

| ties. the possible Premier

| chosen,

could

because gone

the way of posters and pamphlets,

{ ment. He himself has tested a new type of gas mask in a ber filled with lethal gas. He has | flown at night to test the efficien|cy of a blackout in a great indus trial town. He has made j of the air raid precautions in vogue and Paris,

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Second-Claze Indianapolis,

cham- |

studies |

TEST YOUR

| Jasper—By Frank Owen

ie Glances—By Clark

'COPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE. ING. T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

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KNOWLEDGE

CA 1—-Name the smallest the Great Lakes. 2—What is meant inflation? 3-—-What is ethnology? 4—Which state is nicknamed “Centennial State?” 5—=Name the commander-in-chief of the armv of Pre}ident Cardenas of Mexico, What is coeducation? 7-—What is the minimum age for the President of the U. S.? 8-—-Who won the most valuable player award in the American League in 1937? o

by monetary

on n 1—-Lake Ontario, 2—Disproportionate and rela=tively sharp and sudden increase in the quantity of money. 3—Science of the study of living races. 4—Colorado. o—Gen. Rivas Guillen, 6—The education of both sexes in the same classes in an institution. T—Thirty-five years. 8—Charlie Gehringer,

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Qur Town

By Anton Scherrer

Here's a Policeman Who Will Lose Two Days of Sleep During Summer Because of the New Blue Shirts.

KNOW far too many policemen for my own good, but now and then one of them § . Such as t e I met does me a good turn. Such as the one I met the other day who allowed me to examine his new shirt. He actually let me feel it. It’s awful nice material—a little too heavy to suit me, but just the right thing, I suspect, for a cop. If you don’t know about the new shirts our cops are wearing this summer, because vou haven't been downtown since the Fourth of July. In that case, let me enlighten you. The new shirts are of a deep blue (the deepest 1 ever saw this side of Capri), and to set off the blue, they're decorated with 13 brass buttons, every one of which 1S Inscribed with a capital “P.” There are two (2) buttons on each cuff, one (1) on each shoulder, four 4) down the front, and one (!) on each pocket I'hat's right, a cop's shirt has twe (2) pockets—in Indianapols, anyway. I don't know why. That makes a dozen (12) buttons. To save mv life, T can’t remember where the 13th button is, but it'a somewhere around The shirts cost $2.50 apiece, and some policemen on the force own as many as six ($15) ‘he cop I talked with bought four (310), and hopes to heaven that it will be enough to last him through the summer. Strangely enough, however, my policeman with four shirts is as well off as the cop who bought six For example, my cop has as ‘many sets of buttons as the one who bought six shirts. It's terribly complicated, I know, but substantially it amounts to this: That no matter how many summer shirts a cop started out with, he got only one set buttons to go with the outfit

Bluecoats Rank With Bluebloods You have no idea how that one set of buttons has changed the habits of Indianapolis cops. The police« man I talked with says it takes him all of 30 minutes It means staying up a half-hour later every night or getting up a half-

it's

Mr. Scherrer

to get the 13 buttons into his shirt,

hour earlier every morning, Anvway vou look at it. it

means that for the next three months our policemen will get a half-hour's less sleep every night. had that figured out, too, and said that it amounted to practically two (2) days’ loss of sleep this summer, At that, I thought my policeman was doing right well to fasten 13 buttons in 30 minutes, especially when you consider that the policemen’s buttons are of the cotter clamp type, the same tricky ones that society swells use to button up their dress shirts. That's why they have to have a valet, or at least a wife. I don't want to put too fine a point on all this, but it also occurred to me that it takes only four cotter pins to turn out a society swell, including his cuffs, whereas it takes more than a dozen to make an Indianapolis cop.

My cop

Jane Jordan—

Either Make Spirited Drive to Win Girl or Forget Her, Boy Advised.

{ EAR JANE JORDAN I About together a then and 1 seen then I can say 1 her a am not working and can't ask her seems to have forgotten me What would vou dn?

am a fellow 24 vears old. girl of 15. Wa We have quarreled her 10 times much as evel for a date ind savs she

vears ago I met a half

four went and a

since

ear have love

1bhout since Now 1 Anvway At1Se

B.C

she fiec 10h or I'd

OME =

Answer—If IT wanted her 1'd trv to win her 10h If after a fair trial T was unsuccessful up as a hopeless task. The point is: Do thing, one way or the other. Either make a campaign to arouse the young lady's interest or put her out of your mind completely To moon over a girl while making only half-hearted attempts to win her is to be an ineffectual sort of person who courts failure. To hang on to her in dreams after she has definitely said no is to show a

lack of courage in making new adjustments,

give It

n n n EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl of 17. I have been going with a boy for about five months now, At first he came to see me every other night and on the nights that he didn't come he called me on the telephone. Lately he seems very unconcerned and only comes about twice a week. I have grown to like him very much and don't want to lose his interest. I thought perhaps you could give me a few helpful suggestions and tell me a book to read. I have heard of such books but never of any particular one. M. B

Answer--You can't expect a young man to come to see you one night and call you up the next forever. It seems to me that the voung man has seuvtled down to normal after his first fine frenzy. However, if you feel he needs stirring up again, a rival is usually the hest method. Tt never pays to work ton hard at wine ning a young man, Keep busy and interested in other things and let him do the work. Read ‘I'he Way to His Heart’ by Beeckman n ” oy EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a girl

been in love

old. I but this this well

0) vears have never really hefore time IT think it is the thing. I have known hoy virtually all my life but didn't know him very until about a vear ago when we were properly intioduced. The very next night he asked me for a date. He dated me three or four times after that and then dropped me. I try to avoid him as much as possible, for if I see him my heart skips beats. Is this love? Shall I keep on trying to get him or try hard to forget? BE. A R.

real

Answer---No, it isn't love but just a remote relative, Don't take it so seriously that you avoid the boy. All you have to do is to remain pieasant and cordial and not let him know that vou have more than a casual interest in him. If he doesn't jell there are plenty of others just as attractive, JANE JORDAN.

Put vour problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily

New Books Today Public Library Presents—

Craton is the word for it in opera as in movies

and theater. Sensational tales of great names, fabulous salaries, and outbursts of temperament, ine terest not only ever increasing numbers of opera fans, but even the people who never willingly listen to any musie, H. Howard Taubman in his OPERA FRONT AND BACK (Scribner) has written an entertaining and detailed account of the activities of the Metropolitan. He describes the planning of the seasons, the pro= duction of the operas, the audiences, the difficulties of handling the enormous staff composed of autoe cratic general managers, flery conductors, hard worke Ing orchestra, ballet, supers, costume and set designers, radio staff, and the artists themselves. There are many amusing anecdotes of unexpected mishaps during performances and of scenes caused by the consuming jealously of the stars—tkat troublesome minority which quarrels over everything from dresse ing rooms and curtain calls to affairs of the heart. But that, we are relieved to learn, is the exception; most singers are rational, kindly human beings, and the operas, for the most part, are a harmonious blendingy of music and drama.