Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1946 — Page 13

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Inside Indianapolis

COLLECTING PLAYING CARDS seems: to be, catching on as a hobby in Indianapolis, We recently eto a collection of jokers and got letters from two other: ecard collectors. . . . Bight-year-old Ruth Padget, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Scott Padget, 3923 Kenwood ae, has 2567 playing cards in three scrapbooks. She gollects them for the different backs and has no duplication. In her ks she's found 127 Jokers and she’s going to trade them off to Barbara Hibner, our original card collector... . A freshman at Shortridge high school, Alyce May, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. J. W. May, 3710 N. Pennsylyania st., has about 1650 jokers, all different. Horse cards are her favorites and®she has about 200. She also has a joker with the Democratic donkey and Republican elephant being put through their paces by a lady animal tr#iner.

His Own Historic Library

HARVEY HAMBLE, 457 N. LaSalle st., has almost enough curios to start his own historic library, He's

Harvey Hamble . . . he has enough curios to stock ‘a library.

Mexico's Bread

PUEBLO, Mexico, Feb. 5.—Mexico is making a valiant effort to increase her food. supply for a fast-growing population. She is spending more than any other nation on frrigation to bring more acres under the plow. Poverty in this mountainous country, apparent almost everywhere, is closely linked with the fact that there is not enough rain to grow a crop. Only a comparatively small/area in the tropics gets enough precipitation to grow food regularly without irrigation. : Orive Alba, government director of reclamation, says there are 54 large irrigation projects under construction and 61 smaller ones. By deyeloping all the country’s hydraulic resources, he believes that 20,000,000 more acres can be: brought under cultivation, or five times the present irrigated area. Another 5000000 acres can be opened for settlement in the humid, tropical zone of southern Mexico by drainage, sanitation and control of malaria. This is the program our neighbor has set for herself. Iin 1910, there were 12,000,000 persons "in Mexico. Today there are more than 21,000,000. The food output has not kept pace with the population.

Heavy Food Imports

MEXICO'S statesmen are concerned over Beavy imports of wheat.and earn during the last few years. In 1944, wheat production was only half that consumed and 475,000 metric tons (17,456,000 bushels) were imported. Corn-was short, too, because of. the 1943 drought. Imports totaled 150,000 metric tons. Sugar imports totaled 47,000 tons. Mexico is predominantly an agricultural nation,

: with two-thirds of her people on the land.

Science

FUNDS contributed in the March of Dimes cam= paign now nearing its close will be used not only for the care and treatment of victims of poliomyelitis but to finance the research program.of the National Foundation fer Infantile Paralysis. In this program lies the hope of the eventual eonquest of the disease which will save thousands of victims from its crippling effects and save the nation the millions of dollars that their. care entails. As Mr, Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation, points out, not only is the care ‘of pélio victims extremely expensive but after each epidemic there are hundreds of men, women and children added to the list of those needing care, On Sept. 25, 1945, the foundation made grants totaling $565,547 to 25 institutions for polio research. These grants were made by the foundation's. hoard of trustees on recommendation of the organization's medical conmimittees, committees ‘whose membership includes the most tinguished medical authorities of the nation.

Common Disease

AMONG the institutions given grants were the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the University of Colorado School of Medieine, the Stanford University Medical school; ete. This program is so important because researches are confirming startling and amazing changes in the medieal view of the nature of infantile paralysis. The first is the belief that infantile paralysis is an exceedingly common disease. It was formerly thought that the disease was rare. Now it is believed that 90 to 95 per cent of the population have had it, in many cases not once but several times.

My Day.

LONDON, Feb. 4—1It is extremely difficult for us in the United States to conceive of the conditions today confronting the people in the countries of Europe, and even here in Great Britain. For instance, it has just been announced that

the British government will not be able to buy any more powdered eggs from us. That means, of course, that the peeple will no longer be able to buy them. We in the United States are not very fond of powdered eggs, but this announcement caused consternation among the British. In my mall is a letter which tells me in no uncertain terms what this will mean to the average British home. I quote from it here: “I wonder if your ‘folks at home’ know what it means to us to be deprived of the dried eggs they have been sending us. This deprivation is almost certainly one of the worst we have been called upon to face. “We can now have no scrambled eggs for breakfast (already reserved for men and children only in most households). We can never give the childréif Yorkshire pudding and gravy on the many non-meat days. We can never serve pancakes or pudding, and there is only enough milk for one milk pudding a week. We can never make any sort of cake. What confectioners will do seems impossible to surmise. “We loved your boys especially for theirrwonderful kindness to’ our children. - What they will think ef this, I don’t know. They know of our struggle to get fed.” ) }

Europe Still Feels Effects of War I THINK this letter illustrates as well as anything relse the little things which affect some nations greatly and leave us completely untouched, at home. mig ie was i over, Loe people here nk 1s Butspe

indiana Curios

descended from the family that founded one of the earliest trading posts in Indiana and he has many keepsakes of pioneer Indiana. Just recently he found a copy of the New. York Ledger which announced the assassination, of ‘President Lincoln, THe paper is being kept in a table more than 200 years old, made when some of his pioneer ancestors set up housekeeping in Noblesville. Mr, Hamble’s family, incidentally, has always owned the land the family home is on in Noblesville and their deed is the original sheepskin lang grant. ... Even the bees don’t want to get mixed up in OPA red tape. ‘Sometimes the bees have a hard winter, when they run out of food, fotcing beekeepers to supply a syrup to see them through till spring. Since the war, a hard winter for fhe bees meant a wrestle with the OPA for sugar rations. . . . 80 the bees got wise. J. W. Starkey, Indiana's chief bee inspector, says the bees stocked up well for this winter and that the draw on sugar rations will be light. .,. The window decorators in L. 8. Ayres were attracting quite a bit of attention yesterday. Hard working girls in working clothes were busy painting lace valentines on the windows. From where we stood we could see quite a crowd taking time out to stand and watch the girls. The painters, incidentally, worked right on apparently unaware of the audience.

A Week-End In Florida NOTE ON high living: ‘Sunday night a chubby, baldish man ordered a real gourmet’s dinner in the Lincoln hotel Tuscany room, Dining alone on a meal that started off with Bluepoints he kept his mind occupied with a colorful comic book. . .. It's darn seldom anyone from ‘Indianapolis goes to Miami, Fla., for the week-end but Catherine Roelkey, a Red Cross worker at Billings hospital, is just the gal who did it. Miss Roelkey and LaVern Miniat, another Red Cross worker, hitch-hiked a ride in a general's plane from Patterson field, O,, to Miami. They would have been back in time for work Monday but bad weather kept them grounded for awhile. As a matter of fact, the people in the Red Cross office at Billings who'd waved goodby to Miss Roelkey as she went to spend the week-end in Ohio were no little surprised | to get a telegram saying she was in Florida. She |

got back on Tuesday. ... We get all sorts of com- |

plaints around here. Just recently a women called in to complain that she couldn't get programs listed on The Times radio schedule on her set. An investigation revealed that the missing programs were listed | as coming from an FM station,

By George Thiem

Her problem is either to increase agricultural output to cut down imports or to build more factories and industrialize. She is doing both, The big dam across the Atoyac river near here, together with its l4-mile main irrigation channel, is nearing completion. A New York construction firm is doing part of the engineering. When completed, the $20,000,000 project is expected to water 112500 acres. The hydroelectric plant to be installed will gen. erate 20,000 horsepower. The electricity to come

from this and other hydro plants is depended upon

to spark ‘the country’s industrialization program.

Chance for Indians [THE MILLIONS of Indians now living in grass: huts on the desest with their cactus and a few starved goats will be able to raise corn, wheat, cotton,

when they can get water.

The irrigation program is going forward at heavy cost. The Puebla-Tehuacan project on the Atoyac river means an investment of nearly $200 for every acre watered. Ministry of agriculture officials believe ! the country will get it back over the years in more! food and a higher standard of living. The government plans to settle 2250 “colona” families in this single project. Each family will get 20 hectares, or about 50 acres. Instead of scratching in #he dry desert dust for 8 living, as many are doing now, these people will] .have a chance to eat a balanced meal. wear decent clothes and send their children to school.

By David Dietz

" Apparently it is only the case which goes onto paralysis that is uncommon. Most cases are so mild in their symptoms that they pass unnoticed or are regarded as a mild cold, sore throat, upset stomach or something of the sort.

More Cases in Country THE SECOND new view is that infantile paralysis is a rural and not an urban disease. Big cities have more cases only because there are more people in them. The percentage of cases runs higher in rural areas. And in the cities, the first cases in an epidemic occur on the outskirts of she city where the | territory is fairly rural Part of the studies conducted by the National | Foundation for Infantile Paralysis consists in making | an intensive investigation of every epidemic. When an epidemic occurs, the first wave of the medical army thrown into the field by the National Foundation consists of the shock troops—the doctors, nurses and physical therapists equipped to dingnose and treat acute cases. Following them, however, the foundation sends a second wave into the field, the epidemiologists whose duty is to study the outbreak and to learn from it what they can about the way in which an epidemic begins and spreads. These epidemiologists are trained medical scientists from the leading universities of the nation, many of them world-famous students of medicine. They are among the scientists who have been given grants by the National Foundation to carry on scientific researches that it is hoped one day+will conquer the disease.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

are hardly as well able as we are to settle down | a normal life. I had a army yt inviting Senator Connally and myself to have dinner with them. They said that they were on their last leave before returning home. I had a dinner engagement, so could not accept, but asked them to drop in for a talk with me before 1 went out. This they did, and I found I had two boys from Texas, one from North Carolina, one from Ohio, and one from New York.

Haven't Thought Much of Plans

ALL OF THEM, apparently, are planning to 'go|

on with their education when they reach home, but one of theg sald: “We haven't thought about it very much, for when you are over here, getting home seems so far away that you don’t really make any definite plans.” I can understand that, but I asked them whether they had hqd any chance, while here, to study the problems which as citizens they need to understand when they reach home. They said that was difficult to do, since you could never get more than 10 or 12 men together at any one time. ideal for a discussion group. But I gathered that discussions” were not going on very actively in the ranks of our soldiers, Nearly all the: assembly delegates are beginning to talk about the end of the session. I think our work ig being speeded up. I imagine that the United States delegation is not the only one with statesmen who feel they have obligations at home pressing heavily upon them. Belgium, for instance, will have a general election soon and, naturally, any man in public life wants to get home at such a time. - _

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' SECOND SECTION ‘TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 1M6. LIVING QUARTERS HAD TO BE FOUND, THEY WERE. 1" iii

Housing Program Licked at 1.U.

Sprawling over the Indiana university campus area near the field house is a section of the school’s own little city for ex-servicemen, . |

-has sent me, an Involuntary tarian, a tome with a cent full-color picture of & steak on front, entitled * Three Times a Day." kad Smith, are you trying to . me crazy? Why didn’t you sen me a plece of meat? Eft. This is & fine time to be tors turing people with books about . what elegant stuff meat is haw it keeps you from catching colds, and makes your ify work harder,

Waiting to be moved to new nine-unit dormitories near the fieldhouse is furniture stacked In the I. vu

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a, gymnasjum, (First of Two Articles) PRESIDENT WELLS became a {commuter to Washington to slash Times Staff Writer {red tape. Harold W. Jordan, service BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 5.—Early last November, enterpise director; Ivan McDaniel, | Indiana university's: affable President Herman B. Wells trailer development head, and Henry lost his temper at a staff meeting. " E. Pearson, superintendent of build. | .. Usually a chuckling, friendly man, his eyes were snap- "8 2nd grounds, pitched in. : ‘ | Then the results began to pour in. ping as he hammered on the table and rapped out an order Mattresses. fiom. Newcastle. trails that sent the school’s high officials hustling to solve one of lays from Crane naval depot.

the toughest problems the a Ct: tt Chariestows powder plant, Suro 3 eran the righ an education. War plan ngsbury an e sctigel has Se er faced th You've got to get housing some- Field, Ill. Beds from Ft. Sheridan, ow only four months

By EARL HOFF

| Mr. Graham invented Graham Graham

Purtherntore, it says 18 that when kittens eat only vegetables they Jove become cats. » i AS FOR, men, i hate to tell you: Authors P. J, Schlink and M. C.

cream, and alcohol as a beverage, take tp the sorry case of Sylvester Graham,

crackers and opened » restaurant, serving only Geaham bread and Graham mush in Boston in 1837. ‘ He said that if young men turned from meat to Graham meal, they would ot be so sinful.

THIS STATEMENT was so widely published that all young men everywhere began ‘eating meat, the Graham restaurant went ‘bloole—and hardly anybody anymore eats Graham crackers

where, someway and it has to be Ill. Pillows from Indianapolis. ater, the problem has* been ready early in February. 1 ‘don't Blankets from Columbus, O. Chairs | whipped and as a result when the want anybody to say no. * I. want from Cincinnati. Piping from New| sresults,” he told the staff. | Jersey. new semester opens Monday ums Ward G. Biddle, vice president = Everyone worked overtime fo do! married ex-G. Is. will be able to and treasyrer, got on the telephone the job as the university's own {live in new Hormitories for as little as $40 a Semiater

Jose Salas, freshman Rica, helps move bedding into new | dormitories at I. U. which will house 300" returning. Setvicomen, beans, alfalfa, fruits, vegetables and more livestock t"* | ore . .

and made long-diftance calls. J. A.[little city began tp sprawl all over Franklin, assistant treasurer. and the campus area near the fieldClaude J. Black, purchasing agent, house. packed their bags and ‘© started » combing Indiana and nearby states WORKMEN ar now adding the |of co-operation,” Mr. Bardwell homes for as little as $25 a month | {for surplus housing units and fur- last touches to the nine new dormi- tsald. “Every trade and every union lor apartments in a community nishings. : tory units on both sides of the nt did everythin ible to ‘building for $108 per semester. | * x» field house where ground was bro- |*8® g* possible The aggressive way that I. U.| MRS. ALICE NELSON, director ken only last Jan. 8. Two hundred help us get this project done.” isolved its housing shortage for the: of halls and residences, got to work fifty trailers are in the parking |Other Bloomington folk helped, too, (second semester is a blueprint for on the existing facilities. area near the stadium. Students | {by making extra quarters available what Indianapolis, faced with a| Dean of “Men ‘Robert E. Bates soon will move beds and furniture! = 0 homes. much more acute veterans’ housing | | made foraging trips for supplies. into the old USO building down. |! how that the current =r shortage, might do. Estus P. Bardwell and Harold F./tdwn in Bloomington. Apartments | 'lem appears under control, I.U. is] Indiana's second semester pro- Doerr, his assistant, who had been are ready in South Hall planning for the really big bulge | gram started when President Wells involved in the more visionary work| Here is how thé university ex- . |instructed Dr. Wendell W. Wright, of planning the university's per-| pects to care for the increase that cn director of the school's veterans’ manent expansioy. found themselves is expected to boost enrollmenj to | Pifty more trailers are to affairs, to make an estimate of working late at nights to blueprintia record 7100: | dded. The school will egect single how many ex-service men would an immediate building boom, | 400—Hoosier halls (new tempo- |. + double-room structures to | be seeking admission this month. | Branch = McCracken, just home rary dormitories). house 600 from barracks used in * = - {from the, navy to resume coaching| 200—Town house (old USO). {Evansville and Walkerton. And as | USING any and university | duties, went "out and bought mat-| 300—Men’s permanent dorms bY coon. as materials are available {statistics he said that the figure | tresses. 1doubling up. {construction will start on permawould be between 1000 and 1400. | Just out of the service also, 355—Trailers and south hal! nent structures to house 2000. That was when President Wells Arthur M. Weimer, dean of the busi-

MATT: yuan just out of service can have trailer

Home ‘Show Place’ for UNO Protested

York, there is still that barren tax- We got the free plateau where the world's | colleges, churches, synagogues, hosfair held forth. Possibly Flushing | pitals, jails, fishing, hunting, riding, Meadows isn't as top-drawer so- | golf, swimming, tennis, horseback cially as Westchester, but there was | {riding and crap games. room enough to entertain more 1 ® = than half a million in one night, employ 50,000, and to be visited, bride, pleads Easton. But UNO says | priced residential section in the|————— — in 148 days, by 50,000 folks. | nope and proceeds*to try to muscle | country. It is full of show- place GERMANS decided that the Su- 8H 'a flock of poor tired millionaires hoiges which, in most cases, serve detenland was a fine spot to raise] gOME 5000 UNO people ought to Out of their shanties. as something more than a roof and Germans in, and sort of took over ye ape to squeeze in out there with- The taxpayers of walls to keep out the weather. |im protective custody. ' out starting inter-family squabbles . | The question arises as to just apout space for the kids to play in BUT if the citizens of Westchester what ‘UNO wants in the way of a4 room to hang out the-waghing. where men want to settle down with lived in sod huts the principle is|a permanent flop. Is it scenery? | There is enough fallow space on ® fireplace, a setter dog and a pipe, | the same. A man spends most of Is it solitude, where the delegates 'yono island to house the residents| ‘De people in Westchester wish UNO| life chirping that his home is his may claw their whiskers and con- of a medium-sized Balkan country.| WOuld please go away and stop mak- | castle. Then a flock of strangersisider ways and means of belling|Ay] around the east coast, munici-| {ing passes at other people’s real| walk in, ‘mutter “that's for me,” |the international cat? Or is it palities are giving UNO the beckon, | State. and calmly anounce that they are high life in the city, with musical | ‘There is, for instance, a slick-| We just finished one war about taking over, and will the owner of | | comedies, plush boozing dens and paper brochure at hand from the that kind of thing, they feel, and said castle kindly go look some- | bright lights to help ‘shove the good burghers of Easton, Pa., of- they are willing to start another if where else for a house? legislating along? (fering UNO everything but platinum : them furriners don’t iight some-| There was a lot of righteous ® x = |andirons. | where else. yelling when they plowed the Okies| IF IT'S scenery, there's a lot of | * & = | off the land—land on which the that commodity, at present unem-| WE GOT convenient location, ‘PUBLISHER'S WIDOW Okies were merely tenants. There ployed in the West, the Middle says Easton. We got climate. We got was a tremendous howl when the West and the South—and the only scenery, cultural benefits, hotels, = — residents who would put up a véll| Focreanatinl facilities and chicken at being dispossessed are gophers. |every Sunday. We have open spaces 30 vast that

By ROBERT C. RUARK Scripps-Howard Staff riter NEW YORK, Feb. 5—Any guy who has spent the last three or four years shooting at people who trespassed on other folks’ property, | in ‘the name of Lebensraum, is bound to be a bit puzzled by UNO's | selection of Westchester county and adjoining Connecticut as its per- | manent site. “Those ‘wefl-manictired Boondocks make up- about the highest~

Westchester |

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PARIS; Feb. § (U, P), = Mrs:

We ‘are only 55 miles north of| the former publisher of the New leach little UNO-man' could have Philadelphia, continues Easton,| York Herald, died of angina pectoris {his 40 acres and a mule and|plainly in a grandiose mood. Or,|at her home here yesterday. She enough ‘scenery to satisfy a calen- if you don't like to sleep on Sunday | was' 80. Two sons survive, Olivier dar artist. |afternoons, New York and the flesh- and Rene de Reuter, born of her Ir they want hd be near New | pots are only 68 miles away. | first marriage to Baron De Reuter.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Foreign Objects in Lungs Cause Infection

Nuts Sometimes Enter Larynx

|By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D., YOUNG children are more apt spiration and expiration, and may | PEANUTS constitute nearly half | to Apia foreign bodies because | fe heard at some distance. Physi. lot the shape of their larynx and, ciang detect the sound best by plac- | ihe | aspirated . organic {its position high in the throat. |ing the stethoscope in front of the found in the lung. Very young mechanism for shutting off the {mouth instead of on the chest wall. children should not eal peanuts | larynx when they are swallowing | » n» and other varieties because of the|food. Children may play with pea- | | Tar postion ” the Jug bloked, in their mouths and irate | e peanu usually airless. greater danger of aspiration by nuts Ms aw uths and asp i Tea a them. Children are often ridicled | An foreign body in the Jun this account, so early removal of the by their parents when they say they ae colons, especially oy nut is indicated. X-ray examinahave swallowed something, but this| the child is crying or moving is not a wise policy. about. A constant, dry, irritating Foreign bodies have a Afty-Afty cough comes on in spells, it sugchance of going into the lungs or |®ests that the foreign body may |esophagus. Immediate coughing and |be moving ‘around. Lungs conchoking are suggestive of lung en- taining foreign bodies fill up with [trance, but symptoms may be de- secretions and this further interlayed when the piece is so' small ferences with breathing. that obstruction to the bronchi does! A child with a foreign body in

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this complication, even though the peanut does not show on the film. It may be. possible to dislodge al foreign body by holding the child up by his feet, but this may cause it to lodge in the larynx and shut {off breathing. A physician who is skilled in the use of the bronchoscope. a flexible

not occur. , its lungs wheezes like an asth- | metal, electrically-lighted instruLate effects of lung foreign bodies matic,’ except that it is more in- ment; with a forceps for |are abscess and chronic inflam- : obstructiye material, should be TE The Whee PUR 08. lh in) Allg

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and Connecticut have been reading about the housing shortage. At ages |

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tion is of great value in detecting).

except babies and Othman. I tell | you, Smith, I'm tired of Grahani crackers. I've got a cold and it doesn't make me feel any better to, read that this is because I'm not eating meat.

Page 85 says that meat-eating mer’ enjoy exceptional immunity to colds, have good appetites and that extra something which per- J mits them to take alcohol with + impunity. ’ 52 ®

IT WOULD to. take with ‘and if 1 had some meat I'd try it. Smith, youre making me unhappier by the minute, Your book says that when a» woman eats meat three times a day she gladly will spin, weave, keep the house clean, lzunder, help care for the livestock and work in the field. What ‘I need is meat to feed my bride (who hasn't been getting anything much lately but spinach); then I can spend my time in contemplation.

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War Lessons May Benefit | Women's Clubs

l. By RUTH MILLETT | CAPT. MILDRED McAFEE {| HORTON, still technically ranking officer of the WAVES, but actually back at her old job as president of Wellesley college, recently reported some of the things the navy had taught her.. | One, she said, is that there are certain advantages to regimenta- | tion—of the keep-off-the-grass | grass variety. t Explained the navy’s top woman officer: “Once I came hack to Wellesley to find students dnd { faculty members involved in a long discussion as to whether | town girls riding bicycles should | use a certain path. The path ended on a main road where there was a great deal of and it was dangerous. ’ . " » A ‘ “1 SAT for what seemed hours listening to the discussion and simply writhing.

‘No more bicycling on this path'?™ Now if one woman has {rom her experience in the service learned * to see the absurdity in the famnine trait of talking all around an issue instead of arriving quickly at a clear-cut decision, perhaps it is a lesson thousands of women veterans have learned, If so, they ought to do a lot fo the feminine world, especially if they become active in women's clubs.

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» rn - FOR one ‘the one thing that makes women's clubs so often a