Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1946 — Page 17

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THERE WAS plenty of “color” in that freak’ acci-

dent on 8. Meridian st. the other afternoon when

a truck plunged after the driver lost control. In case you didn't notice, the name of the driver was “Green” who told police everything went “black” on him at the scene of the accident, which was at “Orange” st. . \ . Possibly you have seen those printed, stamped cards the downtown stores are sending out to their customers so that they may get a pair of the precious nylons. One side is an order blank and the other is for the address of the store. Well, we know of one young woman who may lose out on her rationed pair because the card she received didn't have any, printing on the order side. She's going to send it in anyway and hopes the store knows the card is legitimate. ... And speaking of hose, there were plenty of them that were dirtied up , pretty -badly in that rain downtown yesterday. The cars did a complete job of splashing, as many women will attest. ; f

Another Kind of ‘Suit’ _ A. H. M. GRA , hresident of Marion County Residential Builders, was sitting ‘with a friend the other night in a restauarant. The friend made refer~ ence to a “suit” and asked Mr. Graves if he might be

. Mrs. Walter Reinacker, left, of the School 31 PT. A, and Mrs, John Ryan , . . a three-fold celebration,

CRANJAS DE TOPILEJO, Mexico, Feb. 14.—What can be done for Mexico's barefooted, unwashed millions? : ; A colonization project in the mountains 25 miles south of Mexico City along the road to Acapulco is demonstrating one answer. ; Here at 9000 feet above sea level on rolling land once covered by pine forests, an interesting experiment is under. way. After 400 years, last season was the first anybody tried to farm the area. The wood was cut off many years ago by Indian charcoal burners. The stumps rotted, so today there is a tract of about 9500 acres within the federal district of Mexico. The air is rare and the nights cold, but potatoes. oats, timothy and other grasses thrive. One hundred Mexican families have been granted 40 acres each. This i§ much more land than the peon has been accustomed to working with his oxen and wooden plow. . Loans of 10,000 pesos ($2000) per family—that's a lot of money in Mexico—are being made to buy mules, livestock, machinery, seed, and to build a house. Corrals for the farm animals are made of pine saplings bolted together. A heavy, pressed-fiber shingle is used for roofing.

Bank Established for Project THE PROJECT is a joint affair of the federal district and the federal department of agriculture. The two governments have established a 2,500,000 peso bank, Pinanciera Rural del Distrito Federal S. A.

" The S. A. means it is a corporation.

Co-operating farmers put up 500.000 pesos of this. The bank lends the money to the “colonas” at the going rate of interest. Gen. Miguel Acosta, a landowner and patriot who has studied American farming in the Illinois corn

Science

FEW LAYMEN realize how intensive a search for new sources of petroleum went on during world war II. Oil was used up at a furious rate during the fighting days and everyone in the imdustry realized how swiftly reserves were being used up. y It was said early in world war II that the chief difference between it and world war I was the method of delivering explosives against the enemy. In world war I, explosives for the most part were shot out of guns and the search was constantly for bigger and bigger guns. Thus, for example, the

" kaiser's experts developed the long-range gun for

bombarding Paris. In world war II, the bomb came into its own. Airplanes that finally reached their climax in the Superfortress became the preferred method of reaching the enemy’s industrial targets. e guns lost none of their importance on the fighting front, the big guns were self-propelling, which meant, of course, that they employed gasoline engines for motive power. Smaller guns found new uses in tanks.

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FINALLY, a whole new flock of small boats, landing craft of all sorts, some carrying rocket-launchers, others transporting tanks, etc, made their appearance, It was no wonder, therefore, that automobile owners in this country were restricted to » few gallons of gasoline per month. f/ About $55,200,000 was spent in 1945 in hunting for oil by so-called geophysical methods; according

My Day

LONDON, Feb. 13.—From my own personal standpoint—and I'm sure every delegate to the UNO conference must feel the same way-the experience of watching this organization begin its work has been exceptiomally interesting. Merely listening to so mapy points of view is not only good discipline, but opens up vast fields of knowledge. Most of us need to explore this knowledge if we are going to meet the needs of the next few years intelligently. While it is reported that there is not actual starvation throughout Europe, there is hunger practically everywhere, That means people with less energy for Work and less resistance to disease. However, the physical factor is not the only thing, nor perhaps the most serious thing, that worries the keenest observers. We must remember that a good part of Europe was swept by invading armies not only once, but twice. First, the Nazis came and, in every village, town and city that they occupied, they removed leaders they suspected of being unfriendly to them, putting in others. Then, the allies came along and got rid of those whom they could not trust. - We know, from all we have heard, how difficult it has been to find weople to organize and carry on, civil governthent as well as initiate and guide reconstruction. Armies of occupation cannot take the place of a country’s own civilian leaders, However, throughout Europe, many of the former leaders, both men and women, are now gone. That is why I think it will take some time before we see a real tackling of reconstruction problems by peoples who 100k out-on ruined flelds and crumbling towns.

Difficult to Rebuild Communities IN ADDITION, there is a floating population without roofs over their heads, with scant food and clothing, and with nop real purpose in life. Is it any wonder that they frequently are driven to desperation? : ~ Out of people who fought in resistance niove-

ments and for whom the greatest viriye was to Li,

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the rain, many of the women left their collections on the front porch so they wouldn't get wet. They reported the collector came all the way to the porches to get the cans and in some instances, where they

were left out on the sidewalk and spilled, the man]. carefully picked them up. This certainly was an{

“about, face” from the former procedure reported by women out there who said everything had to be “just 80” to be collected. : ’

Three-Way Celebration THERE WAS a three-fold celebration at School '31, at 307 Lincoln st. yesterday. A Miss Lillian Reiffel,

a teacher, was celebrating her 50th anniversary in|’ the profession at the school, it was the 35th birthday |

of the school’s parent-teacher association and, today

being St. Valentine's day, they tied that up with the | celebration which included a tea in the auditorium. |

Mrs. John Ryan, 531 Lincoln st., made a huge valentine which was dotted with smaller valentines formed into small corsages for the women present. Past presidents of the P.-T. A. and teachers at the school attended. . . . Proud papa Cecil A. Taylor, local at-

torney, already has a football and legal career|

planned for his 11-day-old son, Cecil A. Taylor. This week he wrote L. L. Fisher of Indiana university he expects to send a future halfback down to Bloomington for. the ,Crimson eleven, boasting of young Cecil's 16-inch shoulder span. Mr. Taylor, deputy reporter of the -supreme and appellate courts, has nicknamed the boy “The Judge.” He thinks it might pérsuade young Taylor to take up law.

belt, is general manager of the district's agriculture project. ' In the United States only 22 per cent of the population produces the bulk of the food for the other 78 per cent, plus some for export. In Mexico two-thirds of the people live onthe land but fail by a wide margin to feed themselves and the city dwellers. Tractor stations controlled by the central bank provide a machine and operator to break the tough

for the service by the hour. The station also owns terracing equipment and est machinery. The colona owns four little mules, has a plow, cultivator and other small.tools: Each is to have chickens and a couple of cows. The project looks more practical than our resettlement administration's 10acre homesteads in Arkansas and Louisiana.

Results First Year Are Encouraging THE FIRST season's results were encouraging. The settlers turned out more than 500,000 pesos ($100.000) worth of farm produce. TT One peon family cleared 15,000 pesos ($3000) on 40 acres of potatoes, and the yield wasn't heavy because local seed was used. By Mexican standards that

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department, The proposal, submitted three months ago, is being studied by Attorney ‘General James E. Emmert. Joseph M. Cooper, Madison pin

ing about President Truman and I are concerned about wild life.

by his color. If he’s pink, he'll put up a fight. String along. with congress and me today and you'll learn something. The members of the house

family is in the money. Several others harvested 7000 to 10,000 pesos clear from potatoes, oats'and hay. The bank handles the sale of produce, deducts its advances, gives the farm family one-fourth of what's left and applies three-fourths on the debt. Most fam- | ilies will be out of debt in two years. f A water pressure system is being installed for the Topilejo project and spring water is being piped down from the mountain to each farmhouse. A school equipped with sanitary plumbing and a

- home for the teacher is being erected for each 27

families. Copyright, 1948, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc

By David Dietz

to Dr. G./A. Heiland, professor of geophysics of the Colorado School of Mines. By geophysical methods are meant such methods of prospecting as those which depend upon the use of such instruments as the seismograph. Artificial earthquakes are created by exploding charges of dynamite or TNT and the resulting earthquake waves are recorded on seismographs. These indicate the structure of the rock layers and indicate where oil might be found.

Qil Search Declines ; : “THE UPWARD trend in geophysical oil exploration which prevailed during the first three war years continued sharply into the first four months of 1945,” Prof. Heilland writes in Mining and Metallurgy, official journal of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. “It then leveledtoff with a light drop toward the end of the year,” he continues. The average total number of geophysical field crews in 1945 was 562, representing a 25 per cent increase over the averag of 451 in 1944. : “The average number of seismic reflection crews was 361 or 64 per cent of the total, representing an increase of 20 per cent over the average of 1944. “Gravimeter crews numbering 172, or 31 per cent of the total, were 36.5 per cent higher than in 1944. Miscellaneous crews, practically all magnetom= eters, were 29, or 5 per cent of the total, representing a 26 per cent increase over the 1044 average.” Prof, Heiland adds that geophysical exploration for oil in foreign countries, including the Caribbean and South America, was up almost 50 per cent in 1945 over 1944.

agriculture committee, fishermen every one, climbed onto their mahogany dais to consider one of their favorite subjects. > r ” THE TROUBLE seemed to be that when the army engineers slap up a dam in a river, they don’t {give a hoot what happens to the birds and the beasts. So Rep. A. Willis Robertson, | woodsman,, nature lover and fish fancier of Lexington, Va., proposed a law, which would force the builders to consider the feathered, furred and finny things before they

He was explaining his bill to the fishermen. “Suppose the army ‘built a number of dams,” interrupted Rep. William 8, Hill (Colo.) “and that resulted in lakes, in which there'd be fish, now would ...”

» tJ ® “THAT'S THE trouble with the army,” said Rep. Robertson. “It’s always building something we don’t know about.” “I'm talking about trout,” Rep. Hill “The speckled trout is the est,” agreed Rep Robertson. “No it isn't,” said Rep. Hill. “I'm talking about the rainbow trout.” » - » “THAT'S all right too,” Rep. Robertson replied. “Any fish that's in water cold enough to make its flesh pink is a fighting fish. That's what I'm talking about. Dams are not .good for trout, The army cannot build a dam across a stream without ruining the home of some fish, or beaver, or woodchuck, or something.”

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# LJ . “TAKE the dams in the Mississippi river from St. Paul to Cairo, IL,” suggested Rep, August H. Andresen, Minn. “These dams cause

By Eleanor Roosevelt cheat, kill and destroy, it is difficult to build a lawabiding community where the old standards of right or wrong, of public and private morality, must exist | again. ’ } I'm frank tq say it is dlways a surprise to me to find how passionately men can feel about rules of procedure. Toward the end of our work in the assembly committee on which I served, we spent three hours one afternoon arguing about rules. I found it hard to grow excited about them when I was unable to see that they affected the substance of our future actions one way or another.

Committee's Reporter Very Capable I LIKED very much the chairman of our committee, Prime Minister Peter Fraser of New Zealand. He is such a fine person, and one cannot help having af- | fection, for him. There were times, though, when I| thought his Scotch convictions (he's a native of Scotland) found expression, even though he tried to be an impartial chairman, I algo want to mention Miss Freida Dalen of Norway, rapporteur for our committee, This is an important position because, in the way you write a committee's report, you cad do what we in America call “slanting the news.” Just a little change in emphasis ' may give a false impression of the way the committee really felt. | Considering the heated arguments that went on in our committee and the insistence on diverse for- | mulas and words to express exact meanings, I thought | Miss Daleri did a wonderful piece of work. | Among the other women I've met here, one of the most interesting to me is Madame Evdokia' Uralova, delegate from White Russia. I have a real feeling of friendliness as a result of our few opportunities to talk together, She and Miss Vishinsky, daughter of Andrei Vishinsky, came to tea with me the other afternoon. hk y Miss Vishinsky is pretty and very able. - But I was surprised when she announced that she was teaching criminal law in a high school. I discovered that what she meant was a college, which in Russia is known as a “superior school,” :

pools and every year the army drains them, so tensfof thousands of tons of fish have been suffocated and the muskrats ‘starved out.” “Tch-teh,” said Rep. Robertson. “But these are#flood control dams

ment with 150-room hotel by half-million

. By MARC WAGGENER Times Staff Writer

ADISON, Feb. 14.—A group of public spirited Madison citizens are anxious to see history repeated here to the tune of a half-million dollars out of their pockets. They propose to advance the money to finance a new

‘turned any more rivers into ponds.

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Madison citizens would suppledollar loan to state. .

state park. Their investment

would be liquidated from the hotel receipts, after which the

‘property of the state, admin={e" 1 "cOmMmMerce Spoxesmn; “Who istered by the conservation Nepvanay resubmitted the pro-

to conservation commission

members, visiting Clifty Falls on a

two-day inspection of parks, was told a decision by Mr. Emmert is expected soon.

The plan is identical with one

and the Old Curmudigeon; congress

There should be more, ahd we're not talking about beauties bathing

in champagne. We mean home-loving eagles, dispossessed chipmunks, hungry ducks, and pugnacious trout.

You can tell one of the latter

to save the lives of people,” ‘said Rep. George M. Grant of Alabama. “Now you want to save the lives of fish. Is. there not a conflict?”

Not much of a one, Rep. Andresen said. Rep. Robertson said he didn't think so, either.

STATE'S CREL —t THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 STATE'S CREDIT GOOD FOR HALF A MILLION

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state park, a favorite resting place

... A view of the Ohio river as seen from Lilly memorial in Clifty Falls

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and lookout for park visitors.

that was accepted and Barried out at Clifty Falls 21 years"ago, » " » pry IT WAS 1919, just: a few | months after General Assembly had | created the conservation department | | that 573 acres of land on a high! bluff overlooking the Ohio river and located a short distance west of Madison became the third in the expanding. thatn of Indians stave pike.

This tract, now including 617 acres, Was acquired largely by gift of Madison and Jefferson county citizens. , » ¥ » ON THE edge of this bluff members. of thg Madison Realty Co. and the conservation department

“WELL, you can’t put flood water in a lake when it's already full of water,” Rep. Grant insisted. “By the ‘way, this bill talks about migratory birds. Just what is a migratory bird?” “He's a bird who flies across boundary lines,” Rep. Robertson said. “That brings up an interesting subject, our national bird—the eagle. He is not a migratory bird and under our present laws the federal government has no control over Only other thing before the com-

set out the stakes for the present Clifty Inn. It was Aug. 25, 1924 when Olifty Inn was completed and opened 'to thé public. This structure, with 32 sleeping rooms, was expected to meet demands of park visitors for years to come. But soon a 75-year-old stone house nearby on “Rose Hill”

had to be converted into an. annex.). SEC RF is 3

“RECORDS of the conservation department show that more than 1,700,750 visitors have been registered at the park since its establishment and itis necessary now to make reservations weeks in advance for accommodations during the summer season.

The Trouble With Dams Is: They Kill: Fish|

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN . United Press Staff Correspondent : ASHINGTON, Feb, 14.—The rest of this nation can do the worry-

ducks. House Bill “3461 provides that they be fed by thé government. “Shouldn't we skip that until we get more corn?” asked Rep. Andresen.

. » # “A LOT of people think the ducks are hungry and ought to be fed,” Rep. Robertson sald. “Some sportsmen are against feeding ducks, I know. But we are not getting ducks in the eastern part of the country. They are passing us by.” Rep. Hill said he still was more interested in trout. Me, too. Take

mitte, Rep. Robertson said, was

note, dam builders. Kill any more fish and you'll build no more dams.

the Indiana national guard is 16,.237 members in the ground force and 1087 in the air force.

td » # REACTIVATION of the 38th division as an all-Indiana outfit was made possible through a war department policy to continue in each state military orgahizations most

Tentative allotments of guard personnel. provide for the reactivation of all national guard units before world war ‘II and the formation of many new ones. The proposed force would have 571,000 officers and men in the ground force and 47,600 in the air force.

With St. Va

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor Nuns and pupils in the Catholic

schools today are making frequent mention of the religious meaning of St. Valentine's day. They are recalling the supreme courage of the man who died for his religious beliefs before Christianity was 300 years old—the immortal Valentine. St. Valentine, or Father Valentine, along with St. Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs in the persecution of the Catholic church under the Emperor, Claudius 11. . St. Valentine was arrested and gent by the emperor to the prefect of Rome. When the prefect discovered that all effort to force the priest to, renounce his faith was in vain, he ordered him beaten with clubs and finally beheaded. The martyr died on Feb. 14, 270 A. D.

Religious History Connected

lentine Studied

There was a custom prevailing in decadent Rome of that period to honor a heathen goddess with a lottery in which “young men drew the names of girls for their favors. Ironically enough, the custom was explained by the fact that Feb. 14 was the day the birds began to mate. A number’ of zealous bishops of the church succeeded in substituting the names of saints to be exchanged on this day. In due course, the day became known the world around as St. Valentine's day. “It, symbolizes what Christianity has done to abolish® the immoral customs of heathen antiquity,” records church history. Thus the church will tell you, St. Valentine's day has ‘a deeper meaning than the one uppermost in the human mind when sentimental messages are exchanged in

Famed 38th Will March Again

HE famous 38th “Cyclone” division, which fotght through the) This compares with the pre-war Philippines campaign and earned the name, “Avengers of Bataan,” strength of 205,000 in the ground is to be reactivated as an all-Indiana outfit. Plans for reviving the division, which has been demobilized since the Japanese surrender, were announced today as the war department/* GROUND FORCES would comcalled on state governors to raise a national guard of 622,500 officers and prise 29 infantry divisions, two men. This is twice thg total of per- - sonnel in the pre-war organization. /clogely identified with the history Proposed quota for renewal of|of the state.

force and §000 in aviation. * » »

armored divisions and 18 regimental .combat teams. The air force would have 12 wings, 27 groups and 84 squadrons in addition to 12 control and warning groups. Brig. Gen, Ben H. Watt, state adjutant general, said that the reactivation would not take place until “late summer or early fall” and that it probably would take two years fo fulfill the complete table of organizations of the unit. He raid that it was hoped the plan could be completed by the end of 1948, » - .

THE CYCLONE division was Inducted into federal service Jan. 17, 1841, trained at Camp Shelby, Miss, and went through the Louisiana maneuvers. Amphibious training was given the outfit in Florida and Texas, following which it was shipped overseas to Hawaii. Here the division went through extensive jungle training and later headed for the Phillipines, landing at Leyte

secured, Some of the units were in the fighting there with other divisions. Then, after the Luzon landings and while the other outfits were fighting for Manila, the 38th came up ZigZag pass to recapture Bataan. . » » THE OUTFIT also recaptured several islands in M Bay and during all the Philippines’ fighting, kept a tally of Japs killed. It ran up a record in this and also was given credit for capturing large numbers of the enemy. The 38th also took part in the final surren-

a worldly manner,

der of the Japanese,

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"THE DOCTOR SAYS: Coughing and Sneezing Spread Disease

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

MUMPS is an infection of the salivary glands (sometimes the sex glands are affected) caused by a specific virus. Incubation period of mumps is 12 to 26 days; as a rule 18 days after exposure, a susceptible child’ or adult comes down with mumps, although many lightly exposed persons do not contract mumps even though they are susceptible, The virus is found In secretions of the mouth and possibly in the nose. It is spread in talking, coughing and sneezing, or by contami nated hands; the virus probably enters the body through the month. #8 8 nh o MUMPS- virus infects suscgptible persons of all ages, but the disease |octurs most frequently between § |and 15 years. Infants usually are {protected up to the age of 9 jmonths and, one attack usually jconfers permanent immunity, al-

| Mumps -is contagious as long as there is any swelling or inflammation, of the salivary or sex glands. Symptoms usually start with a pain below the ear which may be mistaken for earache. This is followed by swelling of the salivary glands as the temperatute rises. In severe cases, the patient may become {ll before the onset of swelling and there may be a high fever, nausea, vomiting and pros tration. ” ~ SWELLING of salivary glands reaches its height on the second day, although the other glands may be affectéd later, Both sides ususlly are involved, although one side may swell a day or two before Inflammation of the sex glands in the male is uncommon before puberty; in epidemics, about one out of five adults develops orchitis, ik . The complication usually “starts between the Wifth and tenth day,

|Ehotsh second attacks of the disease are not rare,

reaches its height in two or three

Mumps Victims Must Stay Abed

days and then subsides. not common following this compli-

|cation, although the glands may

be smaller afterward. » . ~ SOME patients develop headache, stiffness of the neck, and fever about a week after the salivary gland swelling. Examination of the spinal fluid may show signs of inflamation (mild meningitis). The outlook is good, even though the patient may be dull and complain of headache for several days. Mumps patients should stay in bed as long as there is fever and swelling. Secondary infection of the mouth can be avoided by suitable oral hygiene; plenty of fluids and soft diet are indicated. i Winter and spring are the sea sons of greatest prevalence of mumps; the disease is common in large cities where at times it assumes epidemic proportions. We do not have a reliable method of preventing the spread of mumps as susceptibles are usually exposed before the disease is recognized,

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Dig for Change

By RUTH MILLETT : “YOU CAN say that women are | 100 per cent more trouble on a | bus than men,” the drive: and collector of a Fifth ave. bus ems phatically confided to a New York

Instead, they stand blocking door while they fish around a crowded handbag for 10

~ # » AND IT'S the truth, isn't it? Much as women instinctively want to be charming and do the right thing #%t all times, they hav never caught’ on to the idea . an assortment of change, og available, would simplify many of = | their daily business transactions, | %

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