Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1946 — Page 11

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Inside Indianapo _ THE PAVORITE story in the Tuling industiy

at the moment, wé" are told, concerns Elmer E. ©. Meadley, executive secretary of the Marfon™ County

Residential builders. Mr, Meadley is conscientious, our. informant - reports, and he worked so late into ‘the night in his office in the Inland building recently he had to sleep on a.desk top because he discovered + + A woman who didn’t give her name called to say that while she was riding on a Riverside bus’ the other day she saw four or five street tleaners busy sweeping a comparatively clean street on Stadium dr. along the water

company = property. It was all right with her but she couldn't

figure out why N. Illinois st. south’of 16th st. where she lives hasn't been cleaned. She says the street is filthy, . , . Mrs. A. E. Knight, 255 S. Emerson ave, sends in another “first robin” claim. Last Thursday she saw one having a meal with starlings.

Marilyn Franz . . . and her favorite musical dressing table.

Mexican Industry

VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Feb. 11.—Mexico is old, according to American standards—but it is still undeveloped and a land of opportunity. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the tropics south and east of here. Millions of acres of crop and ranch land and rich hardwood forests await pioneers who can subdue the Jungle. Drainage and sanitation to control malaria are needed. So are road and electric power. A first requisite, too, is continued stable government to maintain order and protect life and property of the investor. If Mexico wants a higher standard of living it can have it by encouraging foreign capital as well as more enterprise by its own people, The steadying hand of President Avila Camacho is seen behind the rebirth of industry during the last Six years. The government organ, El Nacional, reports that 450 new industries with a total capital of 300,000,000 pesos ($60,000,000) have been launched or organized in Mexico recently as a result of a law exempting new or essential industries from taxation for five years. ™ : ;

Coyal Nut Business

MONEY IN southern Mexico literally grows on trees. We spent last evening in the Victoria hotel dining room with a young Mexican businessman and his associates. A 1931 graduate of Cornell university, he is the son of a wealthy landowner from the Laguna region around ‘Torreon whose land was taken over for collective farms. : Today the young man has built a profitable business buying coyal nuts that grow on palm trees south and east’ of Vera Cruz.

Aviatic THE spectacular dashy of the army air corps’ jet plane across the United States in 4 hours and 43 minutes is a milestone, It settles the question as to the range of jet propelled planes. Six hundred miles an hour cross-country is rather startling at first glance, but, after all, it is just as easy to fly fast in a properly designed plane as it is to travel in a slower plane—and much more comfortable. \ ! A pilot's coriception of speed is relatively fast. From-an altitude of 5000 or 10,000 feet a distant mountain range, a bay, an inlet, or a city can take a mighty long time to disappear under a wing even if you are making 300 miles an hour. On the other hand, 150 miles an hour at tree-top level seems far faster. Our yardstick for measuring travel in miles per hour is all wrong. Man never will achieve an : air speed which will satisfy him. He always will be reaching for more because he will never catch up with what his eyes see ahead of him.

Long Road Ahead

THE NATURAL question stemming from the performance of the army jet plane is when will the airlines use such planes and make such speeds? I'll hazard a conservative guess that the earliest date before we see our first standard airline jet plane is about five years distant, There is a long road ahead in the refinement of air transport design before we ean utilize the full efficiency of jet propulsion. Radically different aircraft first must be designed and tested. The successful production of a 400 or 600-mile-an-hour transport is impossible only when the first lines drawn on a blue print are put there with

My Day

LONDON, Feb. 10.—8ince we are very near the end of this first session of the UNO conference, perhaps it would be well to evaluate some of its real accomplishments. The greatest, I think, is that at the end we still are a group of 51 nations working together. When I was originally asked to come over, I thought that all we would accomplish would be the organization of machinery and the election of a secretary general. I felt that then it would be only wise to let a little time elapse for the secretariat to be chosen and learn to work together and for the secretary general to familiarize himself with his permanent home in the United States, even though it might be in temporary quarters there, That is not, however, all that has happened. To be sure, the organizing was done, but what really proved that the organization has life and strength is what happened beyond that stage. The first important thing, I think, is that the charter stood the

' test of the implementation period and proved that

it is an adequate instrument under which machinery could be set up.’ ’ Next, most of us were balancing the potential strength of the UNO against the first effort made through the League of Nations, Many of the European countries which had worked in that body, particularly those men who put their whole hearts into it, were hopeful of the success of this new organiza tion but, because of their experience, a little skeptical. The peoples of their countries in many cases could hardly be aroused to enthusiasm now for anything except where the next loaf of bread is coming from.

Differs From League of Nations

IN ONE VERY important way, this organization differs from the League of Nations. When the league was suggested, the U. 8, through its president, was deeply involved. But under our kind of government it requires not only the interest of the executive but the co-operation of both major political parties in our legislative bodies. They were not present at

,-the framing of the league and took no part in ite.

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slis ~~ Music Comes Out

_ MARILYN FRANZ, 10-year-old daughter of Mr.|

‘and Mrs. Norbert J. Pranz, 2403 E. Raymond st., is the proud possessor of an old Regina music box which her father has converted into a musical dressing table. The music box belonged to Marilyn's greatgrandmother and is in perfect. playing condition. Her -father made a false top for the box and used the actual top to frame a mirror. Her mother made a ruffled skirt for the table which is yellow with pink roses in it, matching the chair coverings and drapes in her room. Marilyn, a fifth grade pupil at St. - Paul's school, is a friend of little Barbara Hibner who collects jokers from decks of playing cards as was told in Inside Indianapolis Feb, 1. The music box has 50 old style records and Marilyn's favorite is “Silent Night.” . . . Seen around the town: The The Lion Patrol, Troop 83 of the Boy Scouts, has an interesting display of knots and lashings and -woodcraft in the window of the Morris Plan building. There are some pretty tricky knots on exhibit and they have won many ribbons. , . . A comparison between the streetcars of the “Gay 90's” and today is shown in an Indianapolis Railways display in the Security Trust Co. building.

Slightly Charred Piano

DANNY COYLE, whose tavern at 4360 N. Keystohe ave. burned down some time back, has a slightly charred piano he is willing to give away to some boys’ organization who wants it. He said that he can be reached at the Keystone ave. address most any time of the day or at his home, 3515 N. Pennsylvania st. Any group wanting the piano can come and get it, Danny says. It's in good playing condition, too, he claims. . . . Add signs of spring: The elderly man who walked down W. Maryland st. last Saturday carrying a gardening spade in his hand. . + + Passersby were amused to see a sailor, his chest bedecked with campaign ribboris, walking oa the Circle with his wife and baby and looking imploringly at the Mrs. with that “what do I do now?” look as the baby squalled loudly. . . . We are told that the Barrett Hardware on E. Waghington st. has gobs and gobs of old light bulbs in the store, including some of the old arc lamp type, . . . Mrs Earl FP, Jordan, 2005 N. Dearhorn st., writes that she is another local person who has. a copy of the old newspaper, The People. She points out that the paper has many advertisements in it but not a single price is quoted in any of them.

By George Thiem

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The nuts yield a rich oil similar to cocoanut oil The wartime demand sent prices soaring and returns | to the harvesters went from 6 to 50 pesos a ton. There are no roads into the jungle. The nuts are hauled out by powerboats that skirt the gulf coast and run inland on the numerous rivers. Natives bring the nuts by burro or on two-wheeled carts to the docks. The rivers that empty into the gulf are full of fish that swim inland to spawn like salmon. When the fish are running, the Indian fishermen get only 10 or 15 centavos (2 to 3 cents) a kilo (2.2 pounds),

Plan Fishing Industry THE NATIVES and their business friend have plans for an ice plant to freeze and hold the fish until the price rises to 2 or 3 pesos a kilo. A cannery may follow, “I'll build the plant and get 50 per cent on my money,” our informant explained. “They've agreed to that. Byt the fishermen will get a lot more .for their product and a chance to own the ice plant.” This is the kind of enterprise and co-operation Mexico needs. Mexico has many patriotic leaders, some in government, who are interested in something else besides graft and exploitation. A group of progressive industrialists have signed a pact with Mexico's equivalent of the C. 1. O., Tecognizing that their interests are mutual : They propose to work together to industrialige the country, each playing fair with the other. The future of our neighbor republic and its down this path. a

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the specific purpose of creating a plane possessed of such performance. ‘ The mere addition of more power is the least economical way to gain speed. For instance, in a plane that is designed for a top speed of 250 miles per hour, the doubling of the horsepower might result in only 25 to 40 miles an' hour increase in speed. Between now and the eventual jet transport with its 400 or 600 miles an hour, there is an unbelievable amount of work to be done.

Big Plane Drawbacks WE ARE entering the era of big air transports. “Big air transports” has a nice ring to it, but it means a lot of headaches and still unsolved problems for airline operators. 3 Take the new airline giant—the C-54—a fourengine job carrying 54 passengers. [Every minute on the ground at intermediate or turn-around airports while passengers, baggage, and mail are being loaded and unloaded means many miles of flight travel lost on schedules. How many minutes do you think it will take to get 54 passengers off and 54 new passengers aboard.

If we assume 30 seconds as an average per-passen-ger change, the “ground time” would be 27 minutes. In terms of cruising speed each minute means three and a half miles. This gives you an idea as to what “ground time” means to the revenue-earning capacity of a C-54, If there is any hesitancy about accepting the measure of travel in units of time rather than in miles per hour, all we need to do is to think over some of these operations—all of which must be measured in time.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

formation. When it came to be presented to congress, it was possible for the [Republican party to prevent the U. 8S. from becoming part of the organization. The people of our country were indifferent. War is never popular in the U. 8. and, never having had it actually on our own soil since the days of the Civil war, we were always obliged to send our men out of the country. This makes the whole proceeding much remoter from the civilian population. When the losses had been accepted and the men were home again, our great desire in the past has been to forget that war ever existed.

. Can’t Remain Aloof From World

THIS TIME; however, I think we have learned the lesson that becoming involved in war does not lie entirely in any one nation’s hands and. that therefore we must concern ourselves in the affairs of the world, particularly in working our peaceful solutions of world difficulties. Otherwise, no matter how hard we try to keep aloof, we will wake up some morning to find ourselves involved. Fortunately this time, we now have on the U. 8. delegation, and we had in San Francisco when the charter was written, representatives of our foreign affairs committee in bpth senate and house. Both our major political parties are represented and therefore they go back to report to their co-workers and their constituents throughout the nation, and support on a non-political basis is assured. For this reason, I feel that in the organization of the UNO there is a great strength which was lacking in the ‘league. For no machinery to help build peace could be of any value unless the five great powers were involved and had to come to an agreement on whatever*measure came before them. My letters from home are becoming very urgent. I broke a great many engagements when I came over here. Some of the people who counted on me

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mental cards. Maybe it’s because of the return of so many servicemen —or the extra money jingling in many pockets—any-

way the little paper tokens of affection are selling like hotcakes.

* ~ » - " DOWNTOWN business people who know say that the real peak hasn't come yet, because Indianapolis folk are just as tardy about shopping for this annual event as they are for Christmas. The theme of valentines this gear seems to be on the “jive” side. But the old-fashioned gentleman who wishes to say “I love you” with a hearts and flowers motif can find something to please him in mst any store. With the expansive mood so prevalent as the result of the end

_ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1946

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By ELIZABETH M. STRAIN stock rises about this time of the year, is|98 enjoying a post-war boom in Indianapolis. With only three days remaining until St. Valentine's day, men and women, too, are quietly dropping into their favorite stationery or department store to purchase senti-

of the war, many lucky Indianapolis women are going to receive more than frilly cards. : s = =

FOR INSTANCE; furs and jeweiry and blouses, bags and negligees are also listed as favorite purchases, It seems that, as at Christmas, with many long-awaited things still unobtainable, a lot of money is being poured into luxury gifts. But many a lovely is‘ going to wish in vain for nylons since local stores have been unable to assist Cupid in this respect. » » » FLORISTS, with stocks somewhat below normal, are anticipating’ the usual rush for both cut flowers and corsages. One of the four biggest days for the florists, Valentine's ranks with

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Christmas, Easter and Mother's] 14, The emperors forthwith in

y. Usually ample supplies of roses, snap dragons and sweet peag have been reduced by lack of sunlight. As one florist put it, “We can give them the warmth, but it takes the sun to make them bloom.” And

this winter has had too many sun-}

less days. ; Operators of candy shops just shrug their shoulders, since every day’s a rush day with sugar rationing.

» » ” SERVICEMEN, both in and out of uniform, seem to prefer the sentimental type of - valentine, salesgirls report. They also buy a large proportion of the ones addressed to mothers. The cards are not especially larger pr. more elaborate this year since most of them were produced during war-time shortages. And, although they are a little more plentiful, the Indianapolis stor are all on quotas. ; JL » » JUST IN case you've forgotten, here’s how the whole thing started: The ancient Roman oracles noted

that birds began mating on Feb.

VALENTINE'S DAY: Roses Are Still Red and Violets Blue—

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Post-War Boom

itiated the Feast of Lupercalia, ded~ icated to the pastoral god, Lupercus, and the goddess of love, Juno. Ar love lottery, featuring the drawing by young men of girls’ names from an urn, was the highlight of the day. But the Christian church frowned on such a pagan rite, and instead dedicated the day to St. Valentine, the patron of sweethearts. - »

. THE CUSTOM of sending valentines began in England around 1400. They were ornate handmade affairs decorated with real lace.] These creations were left on the doorstep as the bashful swain knocked and ran away. By 1700 they were considered definite pro-

Valentines today are no longer restricted to sweethearts. You can find them inscribed to all members of the family (including your moth-er-in-law).

Otherwise these smaller companies will be forced out of busi-. ness, he says, : " Bi

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ray, president of the Scaife Co. also of Pittsburgh. “If these miscellaneous com panies don’t reopen their plants,” he said, “it won't do the basic steel companies much good to try to keep operating. ” " " “THESE SMALLER companies make many items that are essential to other industries and to consumer markets. “These plants in other indus. tries would have te shut dowm, and the markets would be practically closed.” : The small companies! “small” even though some of them employ close to 10,000 men

into whatever wage-and-price pattern was arrived at by the industry's “big fellows” with the governs ment and the union. tia But that, said Col. Ervin, is not a fact, because “if the steel-using fabricators have to pay both ine

creased wages and increased ma- a

of work even after the basic ste strike is settled.” : !

The “penny dreadfuls” (the uncomplimentary type usually sent anonomously) seem to have fallen from favor and are offered by only

a few stores.

By DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff ‘Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.-Don't be disturbed if the delivery of your electric washing machine has been delayed. There are still washboards. The army has just declared surplus for sale to the public $333,960 worth of the old-fashioned washboards such as grandmother and the G. Is used—433,727 boards, to be exact. ’ ‘ They are authentic in every detail, complete to the soap shelf at top and .the “crimped glass surface, rough on one side only.” » ” » AND FOR that soap shelf, the public may be able to buy some of the 4,384,240 bars of army surplus laundry soap, once valued at $183,232. However, priority claimants, such as federal, state and local institutions and veterans, have first rights in the laundry soap buying. Similar priority restrictions have been placed on the $332,520 worth of G. I. safety razors and $293,056 of blades which are going on sale soon. » » » DITTO, the 238,002 whiskbrooms and clothes brushes for which the army laid out $80,920, There are no priority conditions on the unloading of 14,778,330 cakes of toilet soap, valued at $825,506 and ranging in types. from the floral to the antiseptic scented varieties. They are being sold ir the regular

for various engagements during this current month will really arrive or notl

are beginning to be a little worried as to whether 1.

first-served basis. a bn Le aN» WAR ASSETS CORP. officials,

trade channels on a first-come,

who have the job of turning military surpluses into cash, are confident these items will be snapped up by a commodity-hungry public. They are less optimistic, however, on the 1,730,000 pairs of knit wristlets and fingerless gloves and $7,000,000 worth of bolts, nuts and screws they now have on their hands.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: _Faulty Blood Circulation Causes Fainting

Symptoms, First Aid Explained

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

FAULTY circulation of blood in the brain is responsible for fainting. An attack can be prevented by sitting down and leaning forward or by putting the head on the knees, but when loss of consciousness occurs, the body is best placed in a horizontal position with the head lowered. ‘ Good circulation in the brain depends on forceful contractions of the heart, sufficient blood, and proper filling of the vessels, Patients with heart disease may faint because of feebléness of heart ac tion; hemorrhage can cause fainting from insufficient blood or there may be a faulty blood distribution in’ the system from standing or nervousness. : ih ” » ” : NAUSEA, belc and vomiting may precede the fainting attacks, and yawning, dizziness and abdominal disturbances are often noted. Patient feels as though he should lie down, and may do s0 no mat-

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John 8. Cooke, vice president of the corporation's consumer goods division, is working on a program to speed up the unloading of these mechanical items. ~ ” » HE HAS turned over to the civilian production administration nearly 9,000,000 yards of commercial sheeting And cotton twill which the

ter where he is. Some persons faint so rapidly there are no warning signs. The face is as ‘white as death, and the skin is usually covered with cold sweat; numbness develops in various of the body as everything seems to turn black. As the victim sinks to the floor, apparently some consciousness is present even though the eyes are closed. With recovery of muscle control, patient is able to rise, although some persons remain pale and weak for some time. ¢ ss =» =n FAINTING is the most frequent conditiod requiring first aid. It is more common in adolescents and among females, but it may occur in either sex at any age. Usually the tendency to faint. disappears ‘with maturity. One form of fainting originates in the brain from nervous shock. Some persons who witness a serious accident in which there is bloodshed may faint without any

other reason. Thoughts of a dis-|at once :

Want a Washboard—Like Grandmother's?

army just declared surplus. The CPA, exerting its priority and allocation rights, has claimed this still-critically short come modity and will channel! it into the hands of manufacturers. Recently, the OPA took similar allocation steps to channel sur-|. plus nylon, rayon and wool fabrics. to manufacturers.

agreeable experience may cause another person to faint. One adult out of every 200 faints when he acts ‘as a blood donor, probably from nervous reasons,

» » » IT 1S possible to faint while sitting or lying down, and older per sons may faint upon suddenly assuming an upright position, after sitting for some time. There is a strong factor of suggestion in fainting, as several persons may pass out in crowded places at the same time. : : When someone faints he should be laid in a comfortable position. The head should be turned to one side to prevent swallowing of the

tongue ‘or vomitus. No attempt]

We, the Wome Couple's Altar Plans Run Into Modeth Snags

By RUTH MILLETT A COUPLE—both 72 years old —who met 50 years ago, but just got around to marrying this year, were late to their wedding be cause life has becomie so coms plicated in this beautiful postwar world. The bride lost a suitcase en route to meet her bridegroom and the only remaining pair of stockings had runs, Finding another pair was quite a headache. The marriage license clerk in California was reluctant to accept the bride's Massachusetts blood test. And then the couple couldn't get a taxi to take them to the church, ; » ” ~ od FIFTY years ago they wouldn't have run into so many difficulties.

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but a large amount of water should not be dashed on the face. If quick response is not obtained, medical aid should be summoned

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