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Hurt thinks the children might haVe done it—a

of cabbage stalk was tossed carelessly into the hydrator a while back, Since nothing else was kept in that section of the ice box at the time, it remained there until Mrs. Hurt opened the hydrator the other } day. There, in full bloom, was a growing plant that measured almost five inches in height. Mrs. Hurt

are told that there is a certain bus driver on the Central ave. line who chants his street destinations

like a circus sideshow barker. up song patter of “awlright, awlright, le's step to

the 4 reah, there's plenty of room in the reah!” They say 4

he really gets in the swing of things pronouncing

streets like “Misshhi-gun” and “Noo Yawk 'n Mazza~

juuzetts” and “Thirrr-teenthh!”

Gets Chimpanzee Pet

Indianola ave., acquiring a chimpanzee as a pet. Mrs, Myers, whose husband is superintendent of the city garage, works on the switchboard at police headquarters. Recently, the serviceman called to get some information and in the course of the conversation with Mrs, Myers, he told her about the chimpanzee, saying he had brought it from Africa. The first thing you know, Mrs. Myers was the new owner of the At present he is at a veterinary’s getting a good health check and is expected to be back at the Myers’ residence this week-end. The chimp weighs about 30 pounds and loves to ride in an automobile Mrs. Myers says. Named Mr. Good-Good because Mrs. Myers wants him to “be good” he soon will have a homd in a cage in the Myers’ back yard. And,

animal.

naturally, he is crazy about bananas,

Culture

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, Feb, 13.—This seems a good time-to ponder on the speculations of Oswald (Incidentally, the only man I ever knew who had read “The Decline of the West” all the way through was a barber in Chicago's La Salle hotel.) But one doesn’t have to read it all the way through to get its main idea. This is simple enough. Spengler, a German schoolmaster, came to the conclusion that the life history of what he called “cultures” mirrored the life history of the individuals" who composed

Spengler,

them.

The life history of an individual mirrors the life history of the cells in his body. All life, said Spengler, was a matter of rhythm, and could be reduced to

a diagram. : This idea Whs corroborated by the American biologist and student of population-growth, Dr. Raymond Pearl, who showed that the life cycle of a colony of yeast cells was identical with that of the pumpkin; and that both followed the same curve as

the life cycle of nations,

Gradual Leveling Out

THE CYCLE of growth can be represented by the letter 8, laid on its side, with the ends flattened out. Growth—be it of a plant, an animal or a nation— proceeds slowly in ‘the beginning, then has a rapid rise, followed by a gradual leveling out. In this connection it is interesting to note that the population curve of the United States closely follows that of France—the only difference being that France has reached the leveling-off stage and we are approach-

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Spengler contended that cultures have a life of their own; and that this life follows a definite and immutable course. He pictured this course in terms of the seasons—spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Aviation

SOMEHOW or other, our commercial aviation set- . up reminds me of a lad who, large for his age, is wearing Ais first pair of long pants in public, and trying to appear comfortable smoking a big black

cigar.

The Big Boy is just back from the wars, where he upset the whole applecart and scrapped all the textbooks. He has done himself proud, and everybody is proud of him, except these who always were afraid of him and tried to curb his growth by assigning him messenger-boy work. He licked the world and nmiade the world acknowledge the licking. The Big Boy will be justified if he should choose But he has been more than decent about his wartime success, and seems satisfied that his belittiers are silenced by results that speak for

to howl a bit.

themselves.

Gone are the lean days, the long, lean days of working for cakes and coffee while he was crusading up and down the planet trying to tell folks about Today he can raise mil-

the muscles in his wings, lions where heretofore he had to beg thousands.

Will He Stay on Beam?

THE BIG question therefore is: Can the Big Boy weather prosperity? He has everything it takes to wrap up the entire world in a network of air transportation and to make flying as common as pig tracks. He is going to do it, too, if he doesn’t forget the cakes and coffee days, and that Rome wasn't built in a day, and that dividends have to be paid on money borrowed from glassy-eyed bankers, who smile only when balance sheets end in black figures. There is nothing much wrong with the lad, except that he is listening to a lot of folks who dont know how he got where he is, and don’t know where he is going. These folks didn’t know what made aviation tick before the war, and neither do they know thst in five war years aviation had leaped ahead another 20 years. They are talking a lot of

My Day

LONDON, Feb. 12. — Having summarized the achievements of the UNO conference, I want now to say a few things about the personalities of the people

with whom I've come in contact.

At the assembly sessions, our delegation is seated next to the Russians. On the first day I was delighted to find that next to me was V. V. Kuznetsov, president of the All-Union Central Council of Trade

Unions of the U. 8. 8. R.

He greeted me in a most friendly fashion, and I remembered that he had come to my apartment in New York one afternoon to interpret for a group of Russian women who were part of a workers’ delegation sent over from Russia to visit some of our factories, It's funny how a little opportunity like this of seeing some one in your own home, even for a little while, makes you feel much more friendly

with them. :

I had met Ambassador Andrei Gromyko in Washington but had never had any long conversations with him, During this conference, I've seen him frequently and once had the pleasure of sitting next to him at lunch. All these little contacts do develop - better understanding. I begin to feel, in regard to my fellow committee Arutiunian, who presented Russia’s side in the refugee debate, that we have a basis for which, with opportunity, we might develop a pleasant P.

member, Prof.

acquaintanceshi ; No Language Barrier With British

IN THE British delegation, which sits in front of ours at the assembly sessions, I've watched Philip NoelBaker with particular interest. His old association with and devotion to the League of Nations makes him, I think, extremely anxious for this new organization to succeed. Nevertheless, he is somewhat

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dianapolis . IE THINGS HAPPEN = every *day< in ii ndianapolis to housewives and the latest is the “freak. plant” that has sprung up in the hydrator of the ice box In the home of Mrs. Naomi Hurt, 2424 Brookside pkwy., north drive. In some manner—-Mrs.

@ Mrs, Naomi Hurt and her locbox plant . . the cabbage stalk started growing.

. Parachute Shots ;

HERE'S THE latest information as to how to

the markings out of parachutes several housewives have been using to make clothes. Marjorie Buring, Columbus, Ind, says that the lettering will come out with Rit color remover. She says it won't entirely

disappear during the boiling process but if rubbed

with soap and rinsed afterwards, no trace can be found of the marks. , . ering around the 50 mark at noon yesterday and

, The temperatures were hov-

many downtown office workers were seen on the streets without coats on. But out in E. Ohlo st, 1100 block, we saw a tiny little girl—she couldn't have‘been over four—walking down the street clutching a box’ of'.crackers and singing “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!”

By Howard Vincent O’Brien

"SECOND SECTION

in the army.

is digging deep into city, county and state affairs. His objective: To spade out the roots of existing administrative evils. As director of the C. of C.'s bu-~ reau of ‘governmental research, the youthful (he's 31) Mr, Dortch proceeds on the theory good government fosters good business in the community.

“Indiana is a ripe field for improvement,” he says. » # . QUICK to scent off-color politics, Mr. Dortch will attend all public governmental meetings hereabouts. From behind the scenes he has

spurred a number of investigations

The great civilizations of Egypt, China and Rome all oss Into action on their case,

took this course.

47-year-old

current thought. He believed that evolution was shotgun wedding should end in di-

away from individualism instead of toward it. Ac-

vorce, separate maintenance, or a

cording to him, the life cycle of a culture proceeds church wedding.

from personal independence authority.

toward centralized

By divorce, they mean independence. A church wedding, for them,

Its autumn phase—the one in which we are now-is would be admission into the union

that of what he calls “Caesarism.” blood strife between dictator-led nations, and culminates in the iron tranquility of a Pax Romanum.

Hour of the Demagogue

INCIDENTALLY, his book, “The Decline of the

West,” appeared at the end of world war L It fore-

cast not only the rise of a Hitler but of many Hitlers.

It is a period of

as a full-fledged, 40th state. Separate maintenance would give them some form of dominion status. » - » THE MOST optimistic islanders hope that this year finally will see them voting to settle their own

1¢ Spengler is to be believed, we are in the evening| future. Several bills setting up a

of “democracy.” The hour of the demagogue is strik-

plebiscite have been stymied in

ing. It is time for exploitation of apathetic and un. |COnETess for many months. The

disciplined mobs. And for a couple. of centuries we coming

can count on more and bigger wars.

After that we shall have something like a Rameses II, with world peace at the price of complete regi-

mentation.

This is not a cheering picture; and it may comfort you to know that many scholars take violent issue with Spengler’s philosophy. But when I read somebody's assurance that history does not necessarily repeat itself, I recall the remark of one his-

Puerto Rican delegation hopes to blast loose one of them. What the voters among Puerto Rico’s 2,000,000 population would decide is anybody's guess at this point. They have clung tenaciously to their Latin American language, customs and temperament despite the nearly 50 years that have passed since the United States took

torian—that Rome had “fallen” at least 400 years); .., over from Spain as a colony

before the Romans knew it.

A reading of history demonstrates one fact—no- 8 8

body ever knows his own part in it. We may be on

THEORETICALLY, some classes

our way to glory or oblivion; but we shall have to be|in the schools are supposed to he dead a couple of centuries before the verdict is in. |taught in Spanish, some in English.

By Maj. Al Williams

rainbow claptrap to the Big Boy, and he is having a

tough time staying on the beam. To date, he fails to recognize these folk as out-

Actually, it works out that many teachers try the English, find out they're off the beam as far as the pupils are concerned, and resignedly, if unofficially, go back to Spanish instructions. These 2,000,000 island Americans get along very well without a single English-language newspaper among

and-out promoters. Some of them are trying to sell them. There used to be one in San him on establishing a country-club status for himself, | Juan. It reached a circulation of that he is the “white hope” of the post-war period. |about 8000, but never was listed He senses—no matter what the magicians say— [a money-maker. .

that this country soon will have to get back to real He always has worked hard, and I think {ghost to labor troubles and other

hard work.

that he is beginning to recognize that he will have

Six months ago it gave up tne difficulties, and there is no talk of

to work harder than ever before. A bit of slipshod [reviving it or starting another.

thinking now may mean millions and the loss of

control of his business.

Fake Glamour Gone THE JOB of transporting the G. I. public by air

is a cold business proposition of rendering acceptable service and taking in a little more each month than

BUT DESPITE the fact that they talk, live, think and eat in Spanish, a large part of the population is fanatically jealous of its American citizenship. Those people yearn with all their hearts to have their island

he pays out. Fantastically high speeds and pressure |become a new state in the Union.

advertising can mean trouble, too. Gone is all the iake glamour of air transport. Even the movies don't

have heroines screaming around airline operation offices any more.

The Big Boy will have to divide his passenger glientele into “coach” and “Pullman” categories. r | with millions of people all over the the “air coach” traffic, we have to back suitable planes

Most of them agree frankly that it's a practical patriotism. ‘Why shouldn't we desire to be a part of the greatest nation in the world?” one explained. “And

world wanting to come to the

—and they need not be speedsters—up to loading |United States to become American

docks. No reservations, no more ticket counter congestion, no more free meals aloft, and everybody

aboard carrying his own handbag.

citizens—a thing which we Puerto Ricans already are—we would be foolish just to toss our citizenship

And he knows how to handle his “Pullman” air aside.” 3

trade as a deluxe service.

But if the Big Boy wants no truck with interstate

Ld » » THE INDEPENDENCE group are

commerce commission, he will have to stop asking |o..; from pride, economic advanfor legislation against the little guy with one or tWo, aces and vi fact that a great planes who carries passengers anywhere when he many Puerto Ricans just don't like can get them, This little fellow one day will be the |, .ricans very much.’

feeder airline, and the Big Boy will need this feeder

There is on their side—but by

network, which will feed volume into his main-line, | o means allied with them—a small, rabid nationalist party. Nationalist party spokesmen are all for independence—preferably obtained by driving ‘all resident continental

long-distance service.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

perhaps, at times, a little too much influenced by the

past.

Since there is no language . barrier between our delegation and the British group, we have a medium for understanding which greatly enhances our opportunities to reach similar conclusions. For instance, in

our work in the social committee, we have differed occasionally but never really on fundamentals.

Finds Fault With Wording

SIR GEORGE RENDEL, chief British member of | the committee, is very apt to find fault, usually quite correctly, with our English. At times, when he wished to change certain wording, I think the Russian dele-' gate suspected him of some deep, nefarious plot to] change the real meaning! I was much amused once when the Russian delegate supported me in a wording, which I knew was not very good English, because

he said he could understand it better.

The leaders of the French delegation always speak and their language in itself is beautiful. I've been interested to see Paul Boncuor come to the rostrom of the assembly on several occasions. I think he has one of the finest heads I've

with distinction,

ever seen and a very beautiful expression.

I like very much indeed the young French woman who has served on the social committee. She seemed, r at times, a little over-earnest and concerned, but I think that was because she understood no English | and, in trying to follow the discussions, her brows would knit and she’d shake her head as though to

say, “I have no ides what you are talking about.”

I've seen something of a good many of the women who are here—probably because there are so few of them.- Mrs, Verwey from the Netherlands is a most able and attractive young woman. Her mind is keen, she grasps quickly the points which her advisers make, and then nuts them befoge her audience con-'

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§|LOCAL GOVERNMENT BUDGETS DUE FOR CHECKUP—

. Trouble Shooter’ Back on Job

Already, the wiry, inquisitive “mathematical wizard"

in past years. In 1040, he was the first to detect the “million” dollar

sight, somebody had failed to pro-

vide for payment of a temporary loan, In 1939 his efforts led to a sweep~ ing and effective probe of poor relef allotments in Marion county. ’ ” ¥ # AT A GLANCE, he can analyse a complex budget that would be about as comprehensible as anun« hinged jig-saw puzzle to the aver~ age observer, He has an innate

type of governmental expert.

“There are two kinds of .advis-|surveys the problem, then blasts|back."

By JOHN A. THALE, Times Foreign Correspondent SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 13.—~This may be the year when the United States loses one of its colonies, or gains a 40th state. Puerto Rican political leaders ars busy laying plans for dispatching a pressure delegation to Washington about March 1 to try to dynamite

Now that Uncle Sam is back’ from the wars, the islanders want to Spengler's thesis isin direct opposition to most know whether their

Americans into the sea at or on

part; has been estimated at from 100 to 3000,

More middle-of-the-road islanders speak in behalf of some foggy form of dominion status, where the Puerto Ricans would get more self government and yet retain all of

TF INDIANAPOLIS harbors any public budget, payroll or contract jugglers, their seats are less secure today. Carl Dortch, the Chamber of Commerce's ace govern- } imental trouble-shooter, is back on the job after three years

Carl Dorteh . . . Bill Book's right arm Is back.

ers,” he asserts. “ sketchily

the free United States trade rights and other economic advantages they now have, . » » : VIRTUALLY all the Puerto Rican leaders admit that there must be strings to whatever form of government they choose. They simply can't afford full independence, and statehood, too, possibly would be out of their reach unless some kind of a deal were made, The wheels of the insular government are turned largely by rumpower. Under special laws, all federal excise taxes collected on rum, tobacco and other products, are fun-

public officials. , . , The other thoroughly familiarizes himself with all angles involved, then quietly

irons out kinks by co-operating

with public officials.” a uw »

"are handmaidens of public adminis- | tration, Mr. Dortch for the past month has been steeping himself in

sald: “Now I've got my right.

Puerto Rico May Ask U.S. for Statehood

government instead of going into the U, 8. treasury. Without the approximately $60,000,000 that rum taxes contribute, the Puerto Rican treasury would be a sick cookie.

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AUTO OFFICIAL HURT

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bound plants were more likely to bloom. So she has kept her plant, which is now comparatively large, in a 5 inch pot. She has it growing in the standard mixture of % peat, % sand and % good garden soil, gives it a lot of water and keeps it in a north window.

much interested in the wild birds that flock jo their yard “until sometimes you'd think that tree out there was simply blossoming with cardinals.” It's not unusual for them to count as many of 25 cardinals in a single tree. r ® » - “WE WERE figuring up the othe night how much feed we'd used this year,” Mrs. Remler said, “and we've fed 300 pounds of sunflower and wild bird seed.” Red-eyed towhees raised a family in their yard last summer, Tufted titmice, crested fiycatchers, chickadees, catbirds, brown thrashers and the Carolina wren are regular visitors. Even as we talked a male and a female downy woodpecker came and had a snack of the suet that hangs in a chicken wire cover close to the dining rdom window. Table scraps, peanuts, and peamut butter are other tidbits their birds fancy. “It's almost time for our mocking

Last spring he'd hide out in the

years ago when it was “just a tiny ° sprig.” After two years it flowered. © She looked up some information § about it and learned that pot- §

brushpile we keep at the back of our lot next door for the birds to nest in, and when he saw .the other birds coming to feed he'd rush at them and scare them off. He got a mate somehow, too, but they didn’t stay and we were glad of it, for even after we put a special feeder out in“the back for him he was just mean. “When the mulberries are ripe the cedar waxwings come and stay until they either get filled up or the mulberries are gone. And the trees will be loaded all the time with waxwings.”

" . NOT THE least of thelr “wild life” is a squirrel who jumps onto the feeder that hangs in the dining room window, “We finally had to tie the feeder down so he wouldn't swing it into the window,” Mrs. Remler said. “Now he jumps up there and eats and that drives Dotty (the Remlers’

bird to come back,” Mrs. Remler| fox terrier) almost crazy, When I continued. “But I don’t like him.|go out in the yard it's a fight be-

tween us to see who'll get in first.

e Is Haven to Birds

GARDENING: Chinese Evergreen Flowering Here

Local Hom

Mr. and Mrs. Remler are both The Chinese evergreen at the home of Mrs. Arthur Remler produced

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I have to jump in the door and shut it quick or he'd be’ in ahead of me.” If you want birds (and your garden will be better if you encourage them, Mrs. Remler thinks) you'd better not have a cat. Of course, -you can always bell your cat to give the birds a warning. Then if you plant trees and shrubs that will provide food and cover, the birds will surely come to your yard, » » ”

MRS. REMLER suggested, among others, high hush cranberries, flowering honeysuckle, wild raspberries, wild cherry trees and wild plums, as well as mulberries. The Remlers have five bird feeders and in the summertime three bird baths for their pets. In the winter they put out warm water and keep coarse sand in all the feeders. : Their daughter, Mrs. C. A. Aunble, West Newton, has already seen several bluebirds and a gold finch near her home in the country.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Germs—Rather Than Bad Food—Gets You

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

PHYSICIANS often are called to see patients suffering with a stomach and intestinal upset characterized by pains, vomiting and diarrhea. The attacks come on rather suddenly and seem to be related to food. Patients assume they have been poisoned by food, but most attacks of so-called food poisoning turn out to be Tood infec tion. The patient has eaten foods which contained germs, and this has made him sick. Many .years ago physicians believed that ptomaines caused food poisoning. For a time, all food upsets were called ptomaine poisoning. . =» C ¥T IS not likely that anyone could eat food which was decomposed so badly that it. contained ptomaines. When “poisonous” foods are examined for germs, the true cause of the difficulty reveals “ptomaine poisoning” to be a myth. In the past, milk and milk prod~

ucts’ were the foods which most

frequently transmitted disease. In many . places in our country this still is a common method of spreading disease. - As soon as a community starts to use properly pasteurized milk, food infections of this type rapidly disappear. Raw milk is a common spreader of disease. ” ” » INSPECTION of meat is another safeguard against spreading infections through food. The, are certain animal diseases w are not included in meat inspection as they have been found impractical Trichinosis 6r pork worm disease is contracted by eating improperly cooked pork: The larvae of this worm which lie imbedded in the muscle are effectively killed by appropriate storage at a low temperature. Storage standards are well established.) If meat if used before the proper (time, and -if it is hot thoroughly

‘Ptomaine Poisoning’ Mostly Myth

IF FOOD poisoning is suspected, the patient should be made to vomit and a physician should be summoned. Sample of the suspected food should be kept and turned over to the physician on his arrival, To be certain that all suspected food has been removed from the stomach the physiclan may pass a stomach tube and wash out the remainder. Further ‘treatment depends on the cause of the upset and the condition of the patient. True fodd poisoning may cause shdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. More often the attack turns out to be an infected

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