Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1941 — Page 19

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TODAY'S SHORT STORY—

Sick Man By MARY DRAKE

“YOU'VE BEEN complaining all

winter long about the dampness up| -

here, Uncle Albert. I've made ten-

\ tative arrangements for us to go down to the Culf Coast for a month or two, until the summer has really set in. . : “I won't go, Claude. That’s final!”

hands impatiently around the knobbed walking stick he affected and stuck out his lower jaw stubbornly. “I guess I can see through your little tricks by this time.” “But, uncle! You can afford it. The, Gulf is just the place for you— if you really feel as badly as you sav a” A

give up the unequal task of trying to shelter his mother’s brother from nis own hypochondriac tendencies, ‘but he had a streak of the Johnston tenacity, too. “If I feel as hadly, you say!” mimicked Uncle Albert. “Ill .change it, uncle. I meant pecause you. feel badly. We could start) on the week-end, and the Mays are driving down. We could go with them and save the train fare.” : The old nian eonsidered this. Any saving at all was attractive to Al‘bert Johnston, who possibly had more money than anyone else in town, and no one but his nephew to leave it to. : “You keep forgetting that I'm ailergic, Claude! I think you'd purposely take me down to a piace like that/so I'd be exposed to some kind of fever and die. You'd get ail my money, Claude, and I'm remembering it!” = “Yes, you're allergic, Uncle Albert,” Claude gave up the unequal struggle. old theme. ‘I'm not sure what it is that you're allergic to, but it must be something.” The old man grunted and smiled to himself. “I'll stay right here, Claude. I just heard of a newfangled kind of therapeutic lamp that someone named Peters is putting on the market. I'll get all the sunshine I need, right here in my own home, where I'm safe... You go find out about the lamp .. . and mind, don't let them hold you up for it.” 8 un 8 AS USUAL Claude consulted Dr. Pavis, the Johnston family physician, before he did anything about the therapeutic lamp for his uncle. Dr. Davis was the bumper between the old man and the little army of quacks and fakers who found in

Albert Johnston a ready target for|

their sales talk. “Why not get the lamp for him, Claude?” the doctor advised. “It will keep his mind occupied for a while—and the rays will prebably

have some health value. - He could] -

do worse, I imagine.”

“You're telling me. I've stuck

with him through a fancy appen-|

dectomy which he didn’t need, and 500 different kinds of patent medicines that he wanted for ailments he simply doesn’t have. A sun lamp is simple, after that.” “The old boy is sound as a dollar, Claude. I'll testify to that, al- : though I wouldn't dare admit it to his face. He'd most likely bring suit against me for malpractice if I told him. that there was nothing wrong with him.” : “I can foresee a long siege ahead, Dr. Davis,” Claude prophesied. “Uncle has just caught up with the edical . times. He heard about allergies the other day, and I ean just feel the urge forming in his mind to have a flock of tests made.” : = 8 “WELL, AS LONG as we keep Uncle Albert satisfied and away from unethical people, he'll probably live to be a"hundred. That's our job. “And—if anyone asks you —he isn’t allergic to anything in this world. If Uncle Alpert comes in for allergy tests, I'll handle it all right!” ag s . Uncle Albert’ proved to be im“mensely delighted with the new lamp. It made him feel that something healing was biting deep down ‘inside his aging body. For two weeks Claude heard not a word * ‘about a patent medicine, a quack ‘doctor, or a new system of medici‘nal philesophy. The old man had a new toy. oi Then : Claude telephoned. ‘His{ voice was sad, and _ the doctor

Claude had the inclination . to|-

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“A message from your wife, sir—partly in code!”

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WERE NOT EATEN BY CIVILIZED PEOPLES UNTIL AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

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ANSWER—He draws the water into his trunk, then squirts it

into ‘his mouth.

By William Ferguson

Jusr THIRTY -TWO YEARS AGO,

BLERIOT,

FAMOUS FLYER, AMAZED SPECTATORS AT THE WORLD'S FIRST AVIATION EXPOSITION IN FRANCE BY CIRCLING A RACING COURSE IN HIS PLANE A \ AT A SPEED

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“An: allergy to what, Claude?” asked the doctor. “I tried to plug.the socket into the wall while I was still in the bathtub and I discovered that I have a strange allergy. to eiectricity. What's good for a burn, Doc?”

Tomorrow: A man who thought . he knew the answers to everything learns. one thing more in 1 Suestion Man,” by Joseph Barn, : :

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FIND TEAR GAS GOOD FOR WATERMELONS

By Science Service WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18.— Tear gas (chloropicrin)’ makes the soil safe fo} watermelons in parts of the country, especially. the South, where the destructive eel-worm pest

has practically wiped out water‘melon culture, U. S. Department of Agriculture scientists have discov-

Chloropicrin has been known fer

some time as dn effective soit disinfectant, killing some kinds of

weed seeds as well as worms, earth-

dwelling" insects, etc. It has been

used by 'greenhousemen, but its places it out of the question for the large masses of soil in’ outdoor fields and gardens. - rg . Key to its usefulness in water-

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thought, a little embarrasred.

it.

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nielon fields lies in the slowngss of worms’ migration: through the soil. They tgavel at the very modest prate of an inch a month. Hence, if the area “that is going to be occu‘pled is cleaned out the crop can be ‘grown and charvested before ‘the slow-moving eelworms. can re-

CALLS MALE POLES TO AID HOMELAND

NEW YORK, June 18 (U. P.)— Dr. Sylvester Gruszka, Polish consul general here, issued a call to arms today to all Polish male citizens in the United States between the ages of 18 and 50. iE ak Acting under authorization of the Consulate requested all affected by the call to get in touch immediately with the nearest Polish Consulates. "The call was directed only to Poles not “subject to the United

States Selective Sérvice Law. It.disclosed that training camps were be-

ing established for them at Wind-|

sor, Ont. just across the border from Detroit. : Dr. Gruszka. estimated that there are about 50,000 Polish men in this country in: the age Specified cate-

gory but said he had no way of}.

knowing how many of them were subject to American registration and therefore not affected by his proclamation.

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