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O. C. FIDLER, 5241 E. 10th st. has some tomato plants in his yard that are really whoppers. They're nearing 19 feet tall and grow about six inches a week. The vines are full of little yellow tomatoes and Mr. Fidler tells us they're delicious. . . . Over at the county agricultural agent's office a we're told that six to eight feet is | ; the average height for a tomato J plant which has been well trained up a pole. : . . The record for tall tomato plants was set a couple of years ago by W. E. Renshaw of the Prairie Farmer Publishing Co. He had one 21 feet tall. This year, he says, his plants haven't reached the 20-foot mark yet. . . . Jake Feld, 160 W. 44th st, has grown. glass conscious since he's in the’ tire business. Driving t§ work Friday morning, he said he saw seven puddles of glass in the street on the way downtown. At 14th and Pennsylvania sts. he saw a Banquet milk man stop his truck, get out a broom and sweep a pile of glass out of the street. And the broken glass wasn't a milk bottle, either,

Travels Without a Shirt

EVERETT OBERLIES, 709 E. 40th st., was mighty glad to get back to Indianapolis Friday night. He's a merchandise man for Real Silk and had to make a business trip to Chicago Thursday. ‘ He packed his bags, put them in his car and was ready to leave for the train. But Mrs. Oberlies, not knowing that her husband's suit case “was in the car, decided to drive a friend “home from work. Then she stopped at a filling sta~- "prey Corinne tion for water and next proceeded Humphrey and 19 to the grocery. Mr, Oberlies fran- go tomato plant, tically called every place he knew where he might locate his wife and his suitcase. Finally he caught the train and. decided to buy a clean shirt and some socks in Chicago. But this

Berlin Test Tube By Helen Kirkpatrick

BERLIN.—Berlin is a huge test tube in which allied chemists are attempting to blend two economic and political systems without any results as yet. The enthusiasm of the allied leaders for co-opera-“tion in running Germany and agreement on highsounding principles at their meetings, are not sufficient to create a practical, workable blend of Russian economy and western capitalism. Contradictions now can be found in almost every question of routine administration, with notable examples in banking, commerce, law and politics. There is no common banking practice and the two systems use different methods here. The Russians have blocked all German bank accounts, issuing loans only to those engaged in work for the Red army. The Germans are permitted by the Americans to draw up to 300 marks ($30) a month from blocked accounts. In principle, the western allies intend to permit the Germans to withdraw or borrow to restart small pusiness—grocery, shoe and bicycle repair shops.

. No Private Business THE RUSSIANS do not admit the principle of private business. . iA guestion arose a few weeks ago on fuel distribution. An order had been given for Berlin's many woods to be cut to provide winter fuel. The allied kommandatur (the four Berlin district commanders) considered whether the distribution should be by municipalities or through private dealers. The western allies favored private handling as one means of restarting commerce and giving employment. The Russians advocated municipal distribution. Practical considerations — lack” of privately-owned

Science

A VAST amount of the political discussion now going on concerning the future of the atomic bomb and atomic energy seems to be proceeding without the slightest regard for the scientific facts involved. It has long been an American custom to ignore the sicentist when discussions reach the political level, but this is a luxury which the nation cannot afford where so gigantic a force as thgp of the atom is concerned. The lack of attention to scientific fact is particularly evident in the discussions about the policy of keeping the atomic bomb secret. Thus, for example, Chairman Sumners of the house judiciary committee, has introduced a bill pro- _ viding the death penalty for di- * yulging atomic bomb secrets to foreign powers.

Marvelous Thing Is the Secret

NOW, IF there is anything clear at all about the development of the atomic bomb, it is the marvelous way in which the scientists and army people connected with it kept the whole thing secret. It would seem that whatever safeguards applied then as to secrecy were ample and it is to be presumed that they still exist. Perhaps I am being oversensitive about the situation, but I can see little more in the proposed legislation than a gratuitous insult to the men who developed the bomb. This, however, is a minor point. The important thing about all discussions of secrecy is that so many people take it for granted that we can keep the bomb a t secret if we so choose. Pirst of all, it is necessary to remember, as Presi-

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HYDE PARK, Sunday. —I went down to New York City on Priday- to attend a meeting of a small, new

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was out, too. He had an appointment earlier than ‘the stores opened. . . . Mrs. Sue Wintrode and Mrs.

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Arthur Coleman, both of Marion, were in Indian. apolis the other day and were chatting near Pennsylvania and Market sts. Meanwhile, Mrs, Wintrode's daughter was waiting in the car nearby. She was a little impatient and started playing with the new bubble liquid, Stratosphere. Bubbles started floating down the street, And the first person to appear was one of the traffic policemen nearby. In a gruff voice he said to the young lady, “Say you know what's going. to happen if you don't stop that?” She answered no, rather scared. “I'm going to have to-go out and spend another 75 cents” he replied. “Everytime I see that stuff I want some more. I used up all of my last bottle.”

Nature Study in Crown Hill ABOUT 25 OR 30 nature lovers strolled through Crown Hill cemetery yesterday to see some of the most unusual trees in the city. James Cook, 2335 E. Garfield dr, led the hike for members of the Nature Study club of Indiana.’, .. Raymond Seibert,

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tion of unusual trees was planted about 10 years ago. There are the European form of the silver poplar, the London plane tree, many varieties of Southern trees, flowering crabs, Maiden-hair, golden-rain tree and many others. Lawrence Sheridan, landscape architect for the grounds, suggested that these trees be planted and thought lot owners there would enjoy them. ‘When various tours are taken through the cemetery, a big blue print is loaned out by the office so that the unusual trees can be located. Many of them are planted north of 38th st. and along the 42d st. boundary. . . . Mr. Cook recently returned “from Florida where he worked in botanical gardens and studied southern trees. He plans to go back again soon. , , . There has been quite a. bit of arguing going on in one of the departments at Allison’s about Sonny Hogan’s pet kitten.. They say the cat couldn’t get his head caught in, a pint thermos bottle. But-Capt. Daniel (Danny) O'Donnell of fire* station 16 says he saw it with his own eyes and broke the bottle so. the cat could get-out. Capt. O'Donnell still has the broken thermos bottle to back up his story, .. . Capt. O'Donnell says it's a good thing Mrs. Truman

"SECOND SECTION THE STORY OF THE ATOM

~-—— MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1945 — No. 7: Germans Toy With Secret :

(1) The first artificially radio active elements ever made were produced in Paris in 1934 by the daughter and son-in-law of Marie Curie, Irene Curie-Joliot and F. Joliot, whose laboratory with its huge electrical equipment is shown above. To do this; they bombarded the elements ' boron, aluminum apd magnesium with alpha particles, or the hearts of helium atoms, It is now known that rédioactive forms of all the elements can be produced. Many of these already have become highly useful in medical and other forms of biological research.

Radio-active sodium in table salt on a soda cracker, for example, can be followed in {its course through the body, by the radiation it gives off.

(2) Neutrons, used. in the atomic bomb, have proven to be some of the most useful of bullets to fire at atoms to blow them to bits. A stream of atomic "bullets, fired from a cyclotron with a force of 40,000,000 electron volts, will cause a plece of steel in their path to vanish into vapor. The neutrons, made up of ooth positive and negative charges of electricity, goes straight to its mark because

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it is. not pulled out of its course by any force in the outer shell of the atom. It was discovered by James Chadwick in England. The first neutrons obtained were knocked out of the atoms of beryl lium, a close relative of aluminum, with alpha particles.

(3) With the discovery of the neutron, science had in its possession the first essential ingredient of the atomic bomb, The second essential ingredient, U-235, was discovered two years later by Arthur J. Dempster at the University of Chicago. It was found by Dempster’s atomic microscope,

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tric field, were deflected by the pull of a magnet and permitted to fall on a photographic plate. U-235 made a spot on the photograph, Ordinary uranium is a mixture of U-234, U-235, and U238. The process of separating U235 wa slike pulling iron buck shot of one size out of the air with a magnet when iron shot of different size was fired from a gun, The iron shot would be attracted by the magnet; but each would be deflected according to its“weight.

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curve, the U-234 end U-238 dif ferent curves. : r (4) At the time of Dempster’s discvery. Adolf Hitler was rallying the German people to world con« quest. Not far from the resound ing footsteps of the goose-stepping Nazis in Berlin before their Fuehrer, a group of scientists was quietly at work. They had put together the two ingredients of the atomic bomb—U-235 and neutrons ~which might have brought victory to the Reich if events had: gone differently ;

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Hogan didn’t ask Lt. Robert Newby to get the cat’s head out ofsthe bottle. The lieutenant is allergic to cats and runs every time he sees one. . . . Col Peyton Winlock, former commandant of the disciplinary barracks at Ft. Harrison, is on a 30-day sick leave in Ames, Iowa. .

transport—weighed entirely in the Russians’ favor. The principle remains unclarified. Russian legal methods differ greatly from those of the western allies and no common procedure has been worked out. Only last week did the Russians agree fo allow the British, French and Americans to attend the trial of the nead of the schutzpolizei (security police), a man removed from the American zone by the Russians on the grounds that he was really a Nazi, Obstacles in the way of establishing a single legal code and common courts are great, but such must be done, in the view of the allied officers concerne with law and order.

Recognize Other Parties IN THEORY the Russians recognize the existence of political parties other than the Communist, but in practice the Communists have a dominant voice. It is, unquestionably the best organized party and the only one providing semi-trained teachers for -the schools. The Americans abolished the block and house leader system largely because they found these leaders applying undue pressure on the people to join the Communist party. Those working on day to day problems do not all believe the blending of the two economic and political systems to be impossible. But no serious steps have yet been taken to do so. ! When the allied control council gets down to creating a single railroad administration for all Germany, and to establishing a common banking, commercial and legal procedure, it will then be tackling the main problem confronting it today. Railroads will probably be the test case of whether the two systems can be blended.

By David Dietz

dent Truman stated, that the British and the Canadians co-operated in the development of the bomb. Sir James Chadwick, famous British physicist, was in this country throughout the project as the British consultant to Maj. Gen. L. R. Groves. It must be presumed, therefore, that most if not all of the information concerning the bomb is already in British hands. But more important than that is the fact that the basic information on which the bomb project was carried out was common property in 1940 and as President Truman stated, we were in a race against the Germans for the attainment of the bomb.

Shall We Keep or Share Secret?

FORMER Prime Minister Churchill stated the opinion that at best we might keep the atomic bomb a secret for three years. Those three years, he said, were our precious chance to establish world peace on a permanent basis. There should be careful discussion at this time as to whether we intend to keep the bomb secret during those years or share the information with other nations in addition to Great “Britain and Canada. But those discussions must be based on the reality of the situation which is that we cannot keep any nation so determined from independently developing an atomic bomb. In particular, it is well to understand that Russia, with vhst resources, many exceptionally fine scientific laboratories and a group of brilliant physicists, including such figures as Dr, Kapitza, can undoubtedly make rapid progress. Cables from Russia indicate that the Soviet is turning its attention to the subject of atomic energy. It is extremely important that these facts be faced squarely.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

her own well-being and for her children’s sake, she should try to find some kind of boarding school, but she feared the expense would be prohibitive, Quickly, suggestions were made that the group might find some member in her neighborhood who could help out and thereby give her more free time, It was heartening to see how general was the realiza~ tion that both she and her children would lose some thing very valuable if, so early in their lives, the lat ter were separated from their mother and their own home, ‘

These women are, for the most part, very young, and for many of them renewal of a family life may come in the future. But this new organization may give them, during a very difficult period of their lives, the companionship and the sense of backing which every woman needs and which her husband usually provides, I hope that I may be able to be them in the coming winter. If they find that their organizati

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SHY BUTTERFLIES—

Japanese Girls Warned Against ‘Amiable Smile’

By DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Sept. 17.— American officers said today that fraternization probably would never be-

occupying forces of Japan. But, nevertheless, Tokyo newspapers warned Japanese girls against bare legs and “meaningless amiable smiles.” Col. Carol V. Cadwell, Arcadia, Cal., provost marshal for the 8th army, said the occupation had been orderly with very few sex incidents. - LA ” ” » MEANWHILE, newspa-~-pers which for the last several days have been warning Japa.nese women to avoid provoking low whistles and other manifestations from American soldiers stepped up their campaign. Yomiuri Hochi—which appar« ently had never heard of occl« dental toeless sandals, printed an article headed: “Young Girls’ Smiles Invite Misunderstanding. Bare Legs Also Stimulating.” Under the headline Yomiuri said: “In America and European countries women give no thought to being half naked on the beach, and at evening parties displaying their whole backs, and men in general don't consider this anything strange. “In daily life the women of America and Europe are proud to show their legs but would blush with embarrassment if their toes were séen. ‘That's the reason why sight of girls wearing ‘geta’ slippers which are considered cheap in Japan are apt to give the wrong impression to allied officers and men.” s # s THE ARTICLE added that in western countries women who laugh in public are considered easy pickups. Even if an allied soldier should salute or wink -or come talking broken Japanese asking road directions, the answer must be businesslike,” Yomiuri said. “Heavy ' makeup, the painting of eyebrows and excessive lipstick rouge should be avoided at this time “To cast inquisitive eyes at oc cupation troops on the street must alsg/be avoided . , .”

n » » THE DISTRUST of U. 8. troops which the Japanese women showed during the first days of occupation has been somewhat dispelled. In the streets of Tokyo, Yokohama and other towns there has been a striking absence of flirtations and small talk between the Yanks and Japanese women. : There is no wholesale whistling and wisecracking at girls such as orrespondents have become accustomed to in Australia, Hawaii and the Philippines.

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By ERNEST HOBERECHT United Press Staff Correspondent

YOKOHAMA, Sept. 17.—~The ecivilian prison here is filled with some of Japan's worst war criminals, but the man that the G. I guards hate most is a German—Col. Josef Meisinger, the Warsaw butch= er Ro

Giant, 260pound Meisinger sits alone in his cell and has noth ing to say to the little yellow men around him. The former gestapo bully is extremely nervous and apt to jump at the sudden clanging of a door. His red-rimmed eyes blink continuously and he chews savagely at a pipe or cigars. He brought tons of luggage with him, and a neatly-typed itemized list in German, just to be certain that nothing was lost. 5 »n » “THE colonel considers himself a pretty big man,” a guard said. “Yes, sir, I think he is plumb unhappy about all this.” Not far away, Lt. Gen. Nasaharu Homma, the Japanese commander

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responsible for the Bataan “death march,” sits in his cell and reads Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can't Happen Here,” or W. W. Jacobs’ “Short Cruises.” Homma's cellmate is Lt. Gen. Shigemori Kuroda, who succeeded him as Japanese commander in Kuroda is reading Charles A. Beards “American Government,” and the Holy Bible as he awaits the war trials,

” ” ” THE TWO generals live in spotlessly clean cells, 20 feet wide and 20 feet long with a 16-foot high ceiling, like most of the other 26 war criminals in’ the building, Homma and Kuroda have army cots with two heavy blankets, large wooden racks for holding their clothing and baggage, a toilet equipped with soft American tissue, and a private wash basin, Shozo Kurata, former Japanese ambassador to the Philippines, sits alone in his cell and writes furiously in a notebook. 8 » » MURATA asked if he might be able to take a bath twice a week and the guards surprised him by saying he could jump into the community bath any time he wished. The bathroom has two Japanesestyle tubs 20 feet long and four feet

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Tojo cabinet members Sadaichi Suzuki and Michiyo Iwamura were cell mates. They lay on their cots reading when I passed. 8 o 2 FORMER Finance Minister Okinorbu Kaya and Hiroya Ino, minister of agriculture and forestry in Tojo’s cabinet, also are cellmates. Col. Suzuki, responsible for atrocities committed at the Shinagawa prison camp, sits staring glumly through barred windows. Joso P. Laurell, president of the Japanese-sponsored Philippine republic, shares a cell with his son. Jorge B. Vargas, former Filipino puppet ambassador to Japan, is in another cell with two sons,

nN Ld ADM, SHIGETARO SHIMADA, navy minister at the time of Pearl Harbor, rates a cell by himself. Both he and Meisinger have their names neatly lettered on the cell doors. - Many smaller fry filled other cells, but there is still room for more. Capt. John P, 'Preslock of New York City, a Fordham graduate, is prison “warden.” An anti-aircraft officer, he was assigned the job a few days ago. “I treat the prisoners like my own men,” he ssid. “I mean they get the same food, the same type sleeping quarters, and the

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kind of beds.”

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. HEALTH is the first objective of education, according to the National Education association, but many children in our country do not enjoy the benefits of a good school health program. i uy The program » #%. ~~ should include : health protec=discovery and correction of defects, and health promaotion. Schools should - be located in ' guitable places, and the buildings should have proper lighting, adequate ventilation, good seating, fire protection, hand washing facilities, safe drinking water, and sanitary toilets. Crowding large numbers of children together, even under idéal conditions, tends to spread contagious diseases. . n » EVERY school child should have a - good physical examination at regular times. Physical defects develop in child

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THE DOCTOR SAYS: Frequent Checkups a Necessity.

Schools Need Health Program

hood in such insidious ways, that they are often present before the parent is aware of it. For.example, children may develop nearsightedness before they start school, afterward, or before they graduate, It would be ideal if children going to school for the first time, could have their physical defects corrected before starting, i" u » ~ SPECIAL examinations should be

given to children returning to school after illness, before participation in strenuous athletics, and when they are not making satisfactory progress. Correction of physical defects is possible if the home co-operates with the school, This is the most difficult problem in the development of a good school health program, Usual excuse given by parents for not having defects corrected is that they cannot afford it, but indifference or antagonism is usually responsible, as medical services are available to all through private and public channels, i . 48 CHILDREN should be given a chance to develop to. their highest level of achievement, and uncor-

rected defects should not be allowed to interfere. . Contagious disease control includes the immunization of children against small pox, diphtheria, whooping cough, and sometimes scarlet fever. Children should stay home when {ll with contagious disease even though it may mean breaking a perfect attendance record, Health promotion (Instruction) is an important part of the school health program, wy » ~ »

LEARNING the health rules is not enough as children should also be encouraged to practice them. Again it is necessary for the home to understand what the school is teaching concerning diet, exercise, sleep, care of the body, and atti tudes. School days should be the happlest time of our life, and children who make satisfactory progress in school find them so. The modern home is not arranged primarily for children, but schools are and chil dren would rather be with children’ than with adults. Unhappy school children are the result of maladjusted home or

SOUTHPORT H. S. HAS FIVE AT CONFERENCE

Pive boys are representing SBouthport high school at the state Hi-Y officer training conference being

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held this week at Camp Tecumseh, near Delphi. They are Donald Gustian, William Howard, Jack Webb, George Huber and Bob Dugdale, who are accompanied by C. E. Leichty, faculty sponsor, Cheer leaders-chosen for this yeat are Martha Woods, Agnes Misinice, Margle Tuttle, Mary Lou Irwin, Joan Allen and Alberta Derritte, Editor of the school paper Is Carol McQuillen, and Virginia DeNise will be correspondent for the city papers. Officers for the Puture Farmers of America this year are Fred Mounts, president; Don Wilkins, vice president; Wilbur Tapy, secretary: Albert Windhorst, treasurer, and James McCauley, reporter. »

DEPAUW REGISTERING STUDENTS ON FRIDAY

Approximately 475 new students

Must Need Money —To Give Up Eye

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 17 (U. P.). ~The following appeared on the: want ad page of the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune yesterday under the personal items, “Need money badly; will give up one of my eyes to a-blind person willing to pay a good price and doctor's expenses.”

It was unsigned, but designated a box number at the Tribune office.

EIGHT MISSIONARIES, FORMER POWS, HOME

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 (U. P.) ~Eight French-Canadian Catholic missionaries, captured by the Japanese in Manchuria, today were resting in San Francisco before reIsoclety headquarters, in Quebec.

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We, the Women Golfer's Wife Stays Away

From Game

By RUTH MILLETT IN THE world of sports Mrs Byron Nelson, wife of the golfer, is something of an oddity. * When her famous husband playe insan important tournament Nelson doesn't follow him breath~ lessly = around

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right idea in thinking who makes a sport his ‘the means of earning his hood doesn’t need a wife on to cheer him on, any more than any other husband needs a wife

litjle woman 1s sitting home tend. ing to her own knitting, where her husband can find her when the day's work is over,

~ 5 » CERTAINLY, the men whose wives are always on hand te cheer them on lack the oppor tunity of coming home and letting the little woman in on all the ime “portant happenings of the day. You can't tell a woman anye thing if she already knows all about it, and already has her own opinions on the subject. The surgeon's wife isn’t on hand to cheer him on when he is per« forming a delicate operation. The lawyer's wife isn't on hand when he is making a dramatic plea in court, 80 why should the wife of a golf, tennis, baseball or football pro feel she has to share his career with him. It may be fun for the wives to sit in the grandstands cheering their men on, but it would probably be better for the men to have the little woman waiting to say, “Well, how did 1%

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WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

are expected to enroll at DePauw university on registration day, Sept. 21, with an anticipated 500 before the end of the registration period. Orientation week begins today for the new students., A total registra-

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Dottie Dripple will be found on Page 15 today.