Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1941 — Page 18

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INVITE You were,

By ALBERTA DEAN

. ‘MISS NEWTON went to visit her four nephews at defense camp for one reason. To be able to talk about ~ it when she returned. Being unmarried, Miss Newton didn’t have much in common with the matrons of her age, and gradually they had dropped her from

| * “their club circles. It had been all by ' of 10 years since her name

had beer. in the paper. / On the day of her réturn from her visit at camp, her first-impulse was to telephone the newspaper.

| But she cast the thought aside,

‘knowing that she would get a paragraph at the most. Then she thought of the pep rally that Greenville would stage tonight. It . was to be in conjunction with the national drive for funds to maintain the proposed Army-Navy recreaticn centers.

; ” 8 ” SHE HELD tightly to the receiv-

er, then opened her little-bird eyes | |

at what he was saying. “You want some startling facts? Something that would persuade people to to-

] hate to the cause? Hmmmmmm.”

The way she trembled, you knew

she wasn’t going to muff this

chance. Even if she had to stretch

“That’s your father when he thought he was an income tax expert!”

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

.. a point. She rolled her eyes and | {I talked into the mouthpiece. i

“Well, my dear friend, I do have some actual statistics on the prev_alence of vice in the camp area. Perfectly astounding facts!” While she waited for his reactior, a faint smile of triumph cracked her thin lips. And she relaxed when Mr. Williams said yes. Her first fright, under the dazzle

of the lights in the town hall, was

reporter.

when she spotted Mary Murphy, Sure, she would be there.

Smart creature, with her lovely

' lim legs and expensive soft cream wool sports clothes. ‘clothes ~ horse,

Just a young in Miss Newton’s

3 opinion, was Mary Murphy, feature

writer.

went everywhere, saw everything,

5 ‘and wrote about it.

. And a small inner voice told Miss

' Newton, “Anything you say will be

written—oy Mary Murphy.”

= * Nevertheless, here she was, the ~ mmousy Miss Newton on the speak-

ers’ platform with all the city offi-

" gials and civic leaders. She smiled

bled every day to be photographed

idle

‘coldly at club women down below. Whose women, poor things, scram-

pouring tea or giving talks on stupid reform movements. Tonight, just for tonight, they would look up to

d ¥ “her. The cameraman’s bulb flashed.

Her face would be seen in the pa-

| _per tomorrow. 3he would be making

~~ Jocal history. When Mr. Williams spoke her “ame she preened her bony frame

and stalked her respectable self to

the center of the stage. The loudspeaker gave her courage. She felt that she was talking to it alone. ‘ She started to speak of the things

i g the boys would like to haye. Things

jike chocolate cake and books and a place dway from camp to sit around and play cards, and once in a while to dance with girls. : Mr. Williams interrupted her almost impatiently. “The Government

to the public, countless times, Miss Newton. What we want to emphasize is the urgency of those needs, that our volunteer workers here tonight can present some real arguments in their house-to-house canvass. : “But—"' “Isn’t it true, Miss Newton, that you have seen with your own eyes the deplorable vice conditions existing near the camp you just visited?” 2 #2 .n

/° SHE THREW aside her inhibi“tions,. “Yes, Mr. Williams. It was dreadful. For miles and miles along the roadside, every foot of space was taken up by trailer camps, housing the lowest type of people. Yes,” she stormed, “they have placed themselves in these sectors near the camp, with the sole objective of providing lewd entertainment for our fine young boys who are in delense service for the country.” . Mary Murphy’s story the next day

carried mention of Miss Newton's |

‘report of the moral situation. It was “paragraph, the readers could tell, that was written in boredom by a porter who had heard and writn similar facts before, and iailed to recognize any of it as spot news. It was mentioned, one could guess, a spirit of tolerance and symthy toward the quiet Miss Newwho, apparently craved the light. .And why not give it to poor soul? That was what one d between the lines. } Miss Newton, when she read paper, grew hysterical. She befrightened by the written ' Mer own words. She called

Just a grinning girl who| Ji

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l eESIEGING THE i cies oF | BELIUM AND PLATEA,, i BURNED | Boy 7A AND ll SC/tLr IIR UNDER. THE I WALLS TO | SUFEFOCATE. | THE ENEMY.

SEND IN YOUR ODDS...”

Sta WORD TO THE WIFE IS SELDOAA IF EVER SUFFICIENT,” SAYS KATHERINE STUART GUTHRIE, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA.

By William Ferguson

COPR. 1981 BY NEA SERVICE,

ING. 7-22

“How dare you allow a dangerous reporter to quote people and distort the facts? How could anyone think that I, a woman of my standing, would be placed in a position to view conditions of vice? How do you suppose the mothers will feel? They'll be worried to death. They'll beg me to tell them that it isn’t true. You must get rid:of that reporter, I tell you. Get rid of her. She’s a menace!”

TOMORROW: An old doctor takes time out to mend a broken romance in “Heart’s Desire,” by Betty Buck.

(All events, names and characters in this t story are fictitious.)

Try Putting That ‘Chigger to Sleep

By Science Service SAN JUAN, Porto. Rico, Juiy 22.— To stop the itching of mosquito bites and chiggers, try rubbing the bites briskly with cotton .soaked in chloroform, being careful to keep 'it away from eyes, nose and mouth, This should be good for flea bites and swimmers’ itch, says W. A. Hoffman, professor of parasitology at the School of Tropical Medicine here, in a report to the technical journal, Science. do It stops the itching quickly. The sooner it-is used after the bites, the better, he found in tests.on himself and several other persons, including some physicians, who had been bitten by the local red bug or chigger, mosquitoes, black flies and gnats. Skin doctors may object to chloroform as being irritating, but Professor Hoffman reports that it causes only a temporary burning sensation. ' He urges that it be given critical trials,

WAR BRINGS DIP IN OLD-AGE BENEFITS

WASHINGTON, July 22 (U. P.). —Chairman' Arthur J. Altmeyer of

the Social Security Board said yesterday that defense employment has caused a drop in retirements because of age and that many persons who had retired and were receiving pensions have returned to work. He said that 27,000 persons 65 or older have returned to gainful employment, giving up their pensions.

There were 150 octogenerians in this|’

group, he said. He said the effect of this trend is to lower the total contributed by the Federal Government fo State oldage assistance systems, but he pointed out that when the defense program ends there will be a sudden, sharp increase in retirements. Furthermore, he added, these persons who work beyond the permissive retirement age, 65, will accumulate heavier-than-normal pension benefit rights. :

$1,578,500 ASKED - FOR ‘HELIUM PLANTS

WASHINGTON, July 22 (U. P).|

—President Roosevelt today asked for a supplemental Interior Department appropriation of $1,578,500, most of which would be for construction of helium plants to fill immediate needs of Army and Navy lighter-than-aircraft. The request was accompanied by a letter from Budget Director Harold Smith, explaining more helium-

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COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

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