Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1939 — Page 9

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From diana vie Pyle

Our Columnist: Has. Leained How:

To Ward Off Colds, but Quite a Germ Battle Occurs Beforehand.

"EY. WEST, Jan. 31.—Maybe you'd like to know about the germ battle I can feel going on inside ‘me. To begin with, I've always been subject to colds. I can catch cold by sitting in a draft, by drinking strange water, by sleeping

all night in a gutter or by dining with the Prince of Wales.

The only thing in the world that doesn’t give me

a cold (this must be pldin contrariness) is to get soaking wet in a chilly rain. That never hurts me a bit. But since my work makes it impossible for me to stay out in the rain all the time, I become the harrowed victim of from six to eight colds a year. Well, some time ago a friend in San Francisco told me about cold capsules. They're the. same thing that doctors ‘inject into people under the name of “cold shots,” except that you just swallow a capsule full, instead of having it shot into you with a needle. All right, I'm taking them. And they 'w You take them twice a week, over a period of about three months. That gives you immunity for three: more months. But to get around| to the point. After I've been taking them for a month, say, I catch cold. Or rather the cold germs get in me, pitch their tents, and get all ready for their usual devastating march through my system. '

Right Always Triumphs

But wait. These other germs—my new protectors— that I've been taking in capsules. They hold up their hands and call out: , “Stay! No trespassing allowed in the innards of we'll fight.”

| Mr. Bylo

And the battle is on. And I'm swearing to you that I can actually feel this life-and-death struggle between these two sets of germs going on inside me.

It’s impossible to describe just how it feels. only say that I can feel the initial stages of a cold inside me; and in addition there is another funny

feeling that does not belong to the usual cold.

That’s the battle feeling.

For about a day I feel half-sick. And then the boys on my side win (right always prevails over might, you know) and after that the cold is gone and I Jevers to my chronic state of feeling just ordinarily ousy. There’s another queer thing about me that might interest the physiologists.

That’s the snowstorms I have in my stom—but that’s a story to tell sisting} around a I some evening.

Don’t forget to remind me of it.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

French Musician Heard at Concert; Comments on Goebbels’ Statement. Vy AspGToN. Monday —All of our guests last night sang “Happy Birthday” to the President just as the clock struck midnight, which was a nice beginning for his birthday. Many young movie stars are here today to help him celebrate his birthday by making the birthday balls a success throughout this city. This morning I attended Mrs. Lawrence Townsend’s concert and heard our friend Mr. Rene Le

‘Roy, who is over here from France, play his flute. |:

He has become well known and popular in this country but I can remember his very first trip when he could hardly speak any English. He brought a letter from friends in France to introduce him to us as At that time I took him to see his first American play, “Green Pastures.” After we saw “Outward Bound” last night, he reminded me of this and said both plays were good for the soul.

Mr. Robert Casadesus played on the program this morning. He is a fine pianist. Madame Bidu Sayao sang charmingly and Mrs. Hull who was with me, was much interested in her because she remembered four years ago that Madame Sayao made her first trip to the United States on the same boat which brought Secretary and Mrs. Hull home. At that time Madame Sayao could hardly speak a word of English. Today she sang her English songs with a perfect accent. That is an interesting statement by Minister Goeb“We see our Reich today respected—or at least feared.” No one will deny- that he speaks the truth, but many of us

wonder whether we want that to be the attitude of |

the world where our own nation is concerned. I would prefer to have it amended and use the word

” “loved” instead of “feared.”

A Hard Winter for Many

With us it is still raining and I imagine that in other places it is snowing, The winter which started

out so kindly, has turned out to be a hard winter

after all. Those of us who have a warm place to sleep, plenty of clothing and enough food are really not concerned, beyond a mild desire to see the sun

‘now and then.

However, I cannot help wondering about the sharecroppers’ families in Missouri. I fear that human suffering is not confined to Europe these days. It is true that an investigation is in progress as to the rights and wrongs of these people and their attitude toward their former employers, but from the point of view of the women and children this in-

- vestigation is really immaterial.

A child can catch pneumonia whether his family

' §s camping on the main road, where it can be seen,

or off the road where the passersby are not so apt to notice conditions. Pneumonia may be just as serious whether .your family is in the right or wrong in making a protest against the conditions under

"which they worked and lived. I hope the people who

live nearby are keeping in very close touch with these families and ne sure that as much suffering as possible is being alleviated.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service EMOVING the earth blanket from the most famous athletic field in the world is a goal of Ger-

man archeologists now working in Greece, at Olympia. When modern Olympic games at Berlin in 1936 inspired Herr Hitler to renew German digging at the original scene of Olympics, German archeologists cast about to think what they could dig for. -

Germans had excavated Olympia 60 years ago, with enough thoroughness to give the world a good idea of the place. religious heart of Greek Olympia, was completely uncovered and its ruined temples, altars and pedestals were revealed. Olympia’s famous statues of gods and heroes proved the chief disappointment. Few statues could be found either within the sacred area or outside of it—for the excavators spread their investigato important buildings around the temple area, at times through nearly 20 feet of earth to

the ruins Still—Olympia is yielding pay dirt to the present ‘expedition. Foundations of an impressively large portico, that bordered the sacred area at south and east, have been entirely uncovered, and a quantity of Doric architectural Tragments have been found and.

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The walled-in sacred grove, the

Second Section

Ten Years of

Progressin U.S.

Despite Slumps ls Cited

(First of a Series) By David Dietz Scripps-Howard Science Editor ET every American begin 1939 with a true understanding of the greatness of America, the blessings of democracy and the success of the American way of doing business. Such understanding will insure the future of America and at a time when the lights of civilization burn low in many parts of the globe, it may save the whole world. Sometimes a tremendous story can be condensed into a few figures. The triumph

of the American way can be told

in such fashion. From many at our disposal let us choose those for electric refrigerators.

At first glance an electric refrigerator may seem a prosaic thing with which to illustrate the future of a nation. But let us not: forget that it is out of such things as electric refrigerators that the American standard of living is compounded. The housewife who has an electric refrigerator is proud of it. It simplifies housekeeping, preserves the fresh flavor of foods and guards the family health.

° Here are the important figures: In 1929 the nation. bought 778,000 electric refrigerators. In 1937 it bought approximately three times as many, or 2,300,000. The average retail price of a refrigerator "in 1929 was $290 and the average consumption of electricity 725 kilowatt hours. In. 1937 the average retail price had dropped to $173 and the average consumption of electricity to 248 kilowatt hours.

Now the first nine months of 1929 represented the dizziest heights of the post-war prosperity. The stock market was at its highest. Never was there so much optimism.

Then, on Oct. 29 of that year, came the collapse of the market.

On that memorable “Black Tuesday,” the greatest crash in the history of the - Stock Exchange took place. And as the ticker tape carried the story of swiftly falling prices, the depression began. 2 a xy

OST people look upon the last 10 years. as years of financial difficulty. - Some have had their minds tuned so completely to the problems occasioned by a worldwide depression that they have slipped into a groove of permanent gloom.

Suppose, then, that we turn to our statistics upon electrical refrigerators. The facts are that three times as many refrigerators were bought in. 1937 as in 1929, that on the average each refrigerator cost $117 less to buy and operated on about one-third as much electricity.

There you have the real measure of what has been happening in America. The biggest mistake that we can make is to permit the difficulties of the last 10 years blind us to the progress of those same years. The fact of the matter is that American industry has forged ahead upon every frontier during the last decade. It has made tremendous strides and it has passed its gains along to the average American citizen, the ultimate

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consumer, in the form of better products at lower prices. The 1937 refrigerator was a better product that the 1929 one because it cost only one-third as much to operate. ‘Yet it sold for $117 less. The same thing is true of other commodities. While the citizens of the dictator countries have had to struggle along on substitutes for dozens of - products, ranging

all the way from butter ® ‘Tubhas

ber, the American cit found an ever en rtment of improved goods from which to choose. 2 8 8 OMPARE the. American streamlined automobile of today with the automobile of 1929. Refinement hardly dreamed of in 1929, refinements that mean a more efficient, safer, smootherriding and more luxurious car, are at the command of today's buyer. There has been an equal improvement in automobile tires so that the buyer today gets better tires that cost him less per mile of service. If we turn to the radio field, we find the same story. Consider for example, what your dollar buys in the way of a radio today compared to what it bought in 1929. Whereas it was once practically impossible to buy a good radio without spending hundreds of dollars, that much money need be spent today only for the de luxe models. You can find the radio today to suit your pocketbook at prices ranging down to as little as $15 or less. And radio has made vast

improvements in 10 years. The.

all-wave set, capable of tuning in broadcasting, police calls, amateur stations and Europeah shortY/ave, programs, was unknown in

If you choose to travel by train, you can pick out one of the new

streamlined trains—steam, electric

or Diesel-powered. You ride in a swifter train which couples the artistic achievements of smart designers with the technical triumphs of brilliant engineers and scientists.

Side Glances—By Clark

If you are building a home, you have dozens of new materials to

choose from. New methods of insulation, unknown 10 years ago, are available to you. You can have an all-electric kitchen if you please with walls in gay tiles or various materials of glass. Electric refrigerators, electric ranges, electric dishwashers and other labor-saving. and time-saving de~vices are at your

"One need only ‘make a our”

through a department store to see the new things that have been developed during the last 10 years— new fabrics of all sorts including new types of rayon, new plastics that can be made into beads;

combs, and hundreds of other ar-

ticles, new alloys of aluminum, nickel, stainless steel, and so on.

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LL these things have been accomplished under American democracy. Uncle Sam need only compare conditions here with conditions elsewhere in the world to realize what an excellent system he has. Looking across either ocean, Uncle Sam sees little to admire and no system that he wishes to copy. There is no nation on earth that he would trade places with. Both ‘Fascists and Communists like to heap abuse upon the American way of doing things. They try to make themselves believe that America is standi still, that the nation is’ over-

whelmed by its troubles, even that

its system of doing things is beginning to crack and fall apart.

The impotence of communism is

fully attested by the fact that during the Czechoslovak crises the nations of Europe were: able to proceed with their negotiations for ‘the so-called “peace of Munich” with total disregard for the existence of Russia. How badly things are faring with the Fascist dictators is equally a matter of record in spite of the Munich victory. For their nations are armed camps in which both capital and labor are regimented by the government.

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All the basic things which to ‘an American make life worth living—freedom of speech, a free press, political freedom, religious freedom—are gone. And what have the citizens of the dictatorships gotten in their place?

The concentration camp gapes for the citizen who dares speak his mind on any subject. Even the capitalist who bet on fascism as an antidote for communism has found the cure as bad as the disease. Like the worker, the capitalist has been regimented by the system which puts the state above the man. : And so the citizen of the dictator state lives in an atmosphere of growing hatred with the

- awful specter of war always on

the horizon. Truly, every Ameri-

can may exclaim in all sincerity, -

“Thank God for America.” ® 2 2

EANWHILE, America, while wrestling with the problems of the depression, has made tremendous strides forward and lost

none of the historic freedoms that

the nation was founded upon. An American still has the right to vote, to criticize a public official if he chooses, to express his, opin-

ion in a speech or a letter to the

editor of a newspaper, to worship God in the church of his own choice. Great intellects-<be they literary men like Thomas Mann or scientists like Albert Einstein— are finding refuge in America. This nation will profit by their contributions to science, engineering, art, and literature. -An outstanding factor in Amer-

ica’s progress during the last

decade, has been the wisdom of great American corporations: in carrying on scientific research during the darkest hours of the early depression years. The finer automobiles, streamlined trains. electrical products and other marvels of today grew out of that research. . New types of stainless steel, new alloys of many sorts, new plastics,

- new dyes, new chemical products

of a thousand sorts were necessary

Everyday Movisyby Worman

Entered as” Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

at Postoffice,

This composite photo, showing one of the great streamlined locomotives " of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad dashing ahead from the floor of the New York Stock

Exchange, symbolizes the

mighty progress that America has made in every line of industry since the stock market crash of 1929.

- before these new products could

be given to the public. A one- . piece automobile top of steel was not possible ‘until the right kind of steel was available. To find out just how much American industry has advanced in the last decade, I have spent the last few weeks examining records and talking to officials of many corporations. I have visited + laboratories and talked to research directors, scientists aiid engineers. Among the corporetions I have

: visited have been Westinghouse

Electric & Manufacturing Co., U. S. Steel Corp., General Electric Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Aluminum Co. of American, and others. In succeeding articles in this. series I propose fo deal in detail with various fields of industry— electrical products, steel, aluminum, automobiles, tires, ete.

Next—The electrical industry.

‘Formers’ Speed Plane Output

By Science Service

NEW YORK, Jan. 31. — The cheapest and simplest process for mass production of airplanes ever

devised is now under secret develop--

ment at a small factory in Bendix, N. J, Science Servics learned here exclusively. Airplane wings, seaplane floats and other large aircraft assemblies are made by wrapping sheets of flexible plywood arpund formers. The process is very much like the job of=building a suit of clothes around a ftailor’s ‘dummy. This revolutionary new method of plane construction is ‘pionesred by Eugene L. Vidal, former chief of the now nonexistent Bureau of Air Commerce, The process dispenses with costly molds and skilled labor required by other methods of using plasticbonded plywood. The U. S. Navy is already testing seaplane floats made by the experimental company. Cheap production of 10 or 10,000 planes of a given type is now possible for the first time.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—For what degree -do the initials J. C. D. stand? | 2—On what river is the city of Berlin, Germany? 3—How is 1939 written in Roman numerals? 4—For what is Sir Henry Bessemer famous? 5—What does perfidious mean? 6—Can women vote in the U. S at the age of 18? 4 7—Who was appointed by Presi= dent Roosevelt to fill the TVA post vacuted by Arthur B ‘Morgan? 2 8 =

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PAGE 9 Qur Town By Anton Scherrer

Ayres’ Employees Go in for Hobbies In a Big Way With Tastes That Run To Twins, Pigeons and Rare Books.

OU won’t believe it any more than I did, but Mildred Sommer of the Advertising Division of L. S. Ayres collects twins. She has a scrap book of 44414 examples collected over a period of 18 years. Her collection includes 24 sets of triplets, 9 sets of quad ruplets, and two sets of quintuplets. Triplets, says. Miss Sommer, count as 1% twins, quads as 2 sets, and quints as 2% sets which accounts for the curious

fraction in the total number. Miss Sommer comes by her hobby hon--estly enough; she’s a twin herself. I can tell you much more about the folks down at Ayres and what they do with their spare time. It took a lot of poking around, though, to find out . . . Clifford Gage (Porter’s Division) makes furniture of discarded wood crates picked up in the employees lunch room. The last thing he made was a nightstand (a salvaged Blue Goose orange box). . P. 1. Gieorgescu (Shoe Repair) raises prize-winning homing pigeons. . . . Harry Hurt (Fur= niture) collects and makes horse bridles. . . . Opal Tilson (Coat Department) writes poetry, good enough to be put into a book titled “Chin Up.” Ayres sold around a hundred copies at Christmas time. Lyman and Fritz Ayres (Merchandising Division) spend their spare time making miniature trains. Honest . . . so’ does Jacob Yager (Men’s Furnishings). ... Harry Pryor (Porter’s Division) gathers bugs and has the niftiest collection of pickled grasshoppers anywhere around here. . . . Lowell Worley (Packing Division) collects safety match box covers; had some=- . « » Alice Claire Hollingsworth (Section Manager) kills time making chamois gloves; purtiest things you ever saw. .. . William Walker (Housekeeping Division) tans rab bit and groundhog skins. William Rowland Allen (Personnel) paints pice tures. “The Wave,” dashed off in a leisurely moment, measures less than 2 by 4 inches, but gosh the punch it packs. . . . Ted Underwood (Elevators) makes candy. . . . Katrina Fertig (House Furnishings Department) bakes cakes, even Jaeger Torten. . .. PF. O. Gaylord (Layaway Division) spent his spare time Le inventing a home budget plan and swears WOrkS. « o »

Has Book Printed in 1498

Richard Buttolph (Merchandise Division) collects rare books; has one printed in 1498, just 47 years after the first known -book was printed in Europe. . .C. L. Stokesbury (Watch Repair) kills time making guns in his home shop, using nothing but his hands. . . . Martha Clinehens (Book Shop), who was never known to take a drop, collects whisky Bottles; empty, of course.

Rudolf Haerle (Section Manager) collects pistols; his home, I'm told, looks like an arsenal. . . . J. C. Householder, a boy in Fur Storage, collects Indian relics, arrowheads, stone axes, pottery; all of which he has dug up around here. . . . William Cole (Repair Department) makes doll houses and fits them up with door bells and electric lights; he makes the chandeliers of buttons and pins. . . . At least six people at Ayres are amateur photographers; good enough to exhibit, I mean. . . « Another half. dozen run amateur radio stations. . . . Mayjewell V. Long (Lingerie Department) collects modern perfume bottles. . . . Romilda Dilly (Advertising) spent her spare time lately painting a decorative screen with pink elephants running wild, As a final touch, she added a green monkey on the general theory that anyone who sees pink elephants also see a green monkey. Sounds reasonable enou

Shucks, I thought I'd cover the whole subject. IX might have known better. Ayres have 1700 people working for them, most of whom have hobbies. The rest, it appears, still kill time playing golf. Like Wile liam Stout (Personnel) for instance.

Jane Jordan—

Young Man Assured He Is in Loves Warned Against Haste in Proposing.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a young man nearing 21. I have heen going with a certain girl for two years, off and on. During this time I enjoyed her company but would just as soon have gone some place else with somebody else. About 15 months ago we separated and’the separation lasted until the first of this month.

During this time my feelings changed to such an extent that I could not understand myself, and the girl had not changed at all. Now I have never been in love nor have I ever felt this way about a girl before. She is about my age, nice looking, pleasant, a good listener, and she loves children. While I like to go out and do things, she is of the quiet type but will go out with me and have a good time.. Now will you please try to define my reactions toward this girl? I would rather be with her than do anything else, and I have given up my favorite: pastimes just to be with her. I have considered proposing, with the necessary financial background, of course. Please try to help me. I am in such a state that I don’t know what to do. % - BOB.

Mr. Scherrer

” # ” Answer—Enjoy it while it lasts for such feelings are not permanent. From your symptoms I should say that you were head over heels in love, and it’s a grand feeling, isn’t it? Do not be too hasty in pro= posing to the girl. Wait and see how you feel about her’ after the romantic haze in which you now move has cleared up a little. As it is you're hardly capable. of deciding what you want to'do.: The trouble with most young. people is that they are so delighted with the fever of loving someone

| that they believe the roseate glow will last forever,

They .rush into marriage without waiting to test the durability of their emotions. Even if this turns out to be love, romance will fade, to be replaced with a less exciting but more lasting congeniality. If you and the young lady have many things in common, if you love many things together, and are one in general purpose, you have a good basis for agfuture marriage. At present you overvalue each other,’ which is natural enough, but how will you feel when you dis= cover each other's fault? 2 JANE JORDAN.

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