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ROLLA NEIL HARGER, professor of and toxicology at the Indiana university medical

-school since 1922, is the No. 1 eritic of Indianapolis and a fearless individual who doesn’t hésitate to state

his convictions publicly. Chairman of the enforce-

ment committee of the chamber of commerce safety.

council, short, ‘rotund Dr. Harger recently lambasted the police, city officials and county prosecutor for what he termed laxity in traffic law enforcement, Dr. Harger isn't ‘anybody’s scalp in particular. He

* wants t6 see Indianapolis’ traffic problem solved—

the problem that takes many lives here each year. And he's ggt his own ideas about how this should be done. , . . Dr. Harger has been around enough to know what he is talking about. He's been pally with safety experts and has made an extensive study of their ideas, . . , To him, the matter of traffic safety is a serious public health problem. He'll tel] you that saving lives is not a theoretical job but one that is based on demonstrated results, “Doc” Harger wants to get at the root of the evil, force drivers to refrain from violations before the crashes occur. He feels this calls for stringent enforcement. , . . Maintaining that the public has the idea they can commit violations freely because they know nothing will happeny to them when they are caught, Doc Harger wants the prosecutor’s office and the police to get together and remedy this situation.

Wants Force Increased HE SAYS OUR streets are not properly patrolled,

there are not enough policemen assigned to traffic

duty. Only about one-eighth of the force is now handling traffic, he says, and there should be at least a quarter of the department doing the job. This recommendation was made by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, an organization of which Chief Jesse McMurtry is a member. . , . A remedy suggested by police experts which Doc Harger firmly believes in is: “The level of traffic law enforcement should be gradually raised until the accident trend is definitely turned downward. This level of enforcement should then be maintained.” , .. The I. U. professor thinks traffic policemen should be seen ‘making arrests all over the city instead of in certain sections each dav. Impressing the public with the fact that they will be arrested for violations and strengthening that with convictions from properly prepared cases would trim the accident rate, he be-

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as the “state toxicologist,” Doc Harger will tell you he isn’t that officially for there is no such position. He got that name from the fact that coroners all over the state have asked for help from him. . .. Inventor of the famous “drunkometer,” Doc Harger never made a penny out of his invention, gave it to the Indiana university foundation.

Adviser on Poisons

HE HAS been called to testify in criminal cases all over the country and was prominent in the D. C. Stephenson case here. . , . Continually getting letters asking for advice on poisons, Doc Harger keeps up a steady flow of correspondence. Living at 5015 Graceland ave., Doc Harger is married and the father of three children. They are Mrs. Betty Stalcup, Dr. Robert W. Harger, now interning at City hospital, and Miss Susan Harger, freshman at Purdue. . , . In his spare time, Doc Harger likes to piddle around in a garden, likes to raise golden bantam corn “as long as the worms leave ‘em alone.” He admits he is a mediocre bridge player and he and Mrs. Harger have a standing tournament with another couple in bridge and croquet. He also teaches a Sunday school class for ’teen-agers at the Fairview Presbyterian church. . . He keeps a terific amount of literature in his office and numerous files. . . . He's constantly on the

F“Neves®, . . Doc ‘Harger, “who at- 56s is: one of the “go” but his. pet peeve is still our traffig wproblem

“Tourist Harvest ~~ By Jeanne Bellary NEFF INSTALLED

. country’S foremost experts on poisons, was‘born in a

sod house in northwest Kansas. It would take a book to relate his professional experience and the

sctivities in which he has engaged. Popularly known

HAVANA; Cuba, Feb, 16.—Cuba’s first bang-up tourist season since Pearl Harbor is in full swing. Major hotels in Havana are crowded. The Nacional is booked up to March 5 at rates ranging from $13 a day to $48 for an oceanfront suite, And rooms are scarce at the four other tourist hotels where rates run from $5 to $18. Pleasure-bent visitors, mostly Americans, are swarming into Cuba .at the rate of more than 7000 a month, At this rate, 1946 will bring the tropical island three times as many tourists as last year. Almost all the tourists are coming by plane. The cruise ships which used to bring as many as 100,000 visitors a year a decade ago aren't back in service yet, but the current flow of tourists to Havana is the largest since 1941. : United States citizens need no passports to visit Cuba, but should carry proof of American citizenship, such as a birth certificate, for readmittance to the United States. >

Is Carnival Season

THIS IS the beginning of “carnival” season, which will reach a climax the last week of this month. A few masquerade costumes are to be seen already in the crowd that promenades every Sunday night between the trees and stone balustrades lining the lighted parkway in the center of the Prado. .- Tourists will get an eyeful when “carnival” really gets under way. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes and best music among groups of masqueraders parading through the streets. A fiesta is planned for Feb. 24, a national holiday commemorating the start of the Cuban revolution of |, 1895. This celebration will coincide with the scheduled date for finishing a new traffic circle known as “Agua Dulce” at the intersection of five thorough-

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fares, one being the road to commercial Rancho Boyergs airport. nn About 500 workmen in three shifts. are working around the clock to finish “Agua Dulce” and the lighted fountain being built in the center of the concrete circle. 3 :

Tourists ‘in Groove MEANTIME, Havana's tourists are back in the pre-war groove. They take snapshots of ancient forts and churches, the sweeping curve of the oceanfront boulevard with Morro Castle in the background, the marble and bronze monuments that dot the city’s plazas. They drive to the beaches, or into the countryside with its thatched cottages among clusters of royal palms. At night; tourists flock to sidewalk cafes across the street from the towering dome of the capitol to sip drinks and listen to rhumba music pléyed by orchestras on small stands so close to one another that they almost drown each other, Music echoes all over downtown Havana after sundown, and tourists learn to hum such tunes as “Asi, Asi,” or “Now the Women Command.” This last is a satire on President Ramon Grau San Martin’s serious remark, during a speech dedicating a new street, about the influence of women in public affairs. It's all only 90 minutes by plane from Miami, and Cubans admit they don’t know where they'd put the additional thousands of tourists who would be arriving by steamship if the ships were running now. As it is, the visitors are spending more than $1,000,000 a month in Cuba, on the basis of the Cuban Tourist commission’s estimate of $150" a tourist. Copyright, 1946, by The Indianapolif Times sand The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

By David Dietz

J THE SUDDEN flare-up in brilliance of T Co- for it. For this reason it is sometimes referred to as * rona Borealis last week bore spectacular testimony the “carbon cycle.”

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to the fact that while the atomic bomb may be something new in the universe, atomic energy and atomic explosions are very, very old. For the stellar outbursts that astronomers viewed last Saturday actually took place 800 years ago. The star in the constellation of Corona Borealis or the Northern Crown, known to astronomers as Star “T,” is so far away that its light takes 800 years to ‘reach us. But astronomers have observed far more explosive outbursts in stars in distant nebulae so far away that their light takes 1,000,000 years to reach us. We may bé' certain, therefore, that nature has been setting off atomic explosions for millions of years. Astronomers are now convinced that our own sun and all the stars owe their constant outpouring of energy to the release of atomic energy deep in their * interiors.

Hydrogen Becomes Helium

THE BASIC process is believed to be one by which hydrogen is converted into helium so that hydrogen is really the fuel that keeps the sun and stars shining. But it is not combustion in the ordinary sense of the word, that is burning or oxidation. It is a true nuclear reaction in which the hydrogen loses its identity as such and éventually is transformed into helium, four hydrogen atoms becoming one helium atom. ‘ * Astronomers believe that this takes place in a series of six steps with carbon serving as the vehicle

My Day

BERLIN, Feb. 15.—My visit to Frankfurt was packed so full of emotions, it is hard to give you an adequate idea of what I saw and how I felt.

Yesterday morning, we visited the, Zeilsheim Jewish displaced-persons camp. It is one of the best, since the people are living in houses previously occupled by Germans. In these houses, each little family has a room to itself. Often a family must cross a room occu~ pied by another in arder to enter or leave the house, but there are doors and walls to separate them, If they like, they may bring food from the camp kitchen to their rooms and eat in what they call “home.” They made me a speech at a monument they have erected to the six million dead Jewish people. I answered from an aching heart. When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? Someone asked a man, who looked old but couldn’t have been really old, about his family, This was his answer: “They were made into soap.” They had been burned to death in a concentration camp. Outside the school, the children greeted me. They told me a little boy of 10 was the camp singer. He looked 6. He had wandered into camp one day with his brother, all alone, so he was the head of his family. He sang for me-a song of his people—a song of freedom. Your heart cried out that there was no freedom—and where was hope, without which human beings cannot ‘live?

Feeling of Desperation in Camp THERE I8 a feeling of desperation and sorrow in tii camp which seems beyond expression. An

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Reaction Usually at Steady Rate IT IS also believed by astronomers that other nuclear transformations are possible in the interior of a star, depending upon the temperature and pressure. But all these reactions go on at steady rates, releasing energy in a constant stream. . In some stars, however, the process seems to speed up at times. Such stars grow hotter and brighter and, therefore, are known as variable stars. Certain types of variables are periodic, going through their changes in definite cycles, but others are irregular, having no definite cycle. Finally, there are stars in which the atomic process seems to get completely out of hand, resulting in an atomic expldsion. Such exploding stars are known to astronomers as “novae” or “new stars.” The first assumption was that T Corona Borealis was such a nova, but Dr. J. J. Nassau, director of the Warner & Swasey observatory of Case School of Applied Science, is inclined to class it as an irregular variable since its spectrum appears to resemble the latter rather than a nova. ! Since this star last flared up in 1866, it has the distinction of having waited longer between flare-ups than any known irregular «variable.

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her such complete despair? From there we went to Wiesbaden and visited a displaced persons camp for Poles and Balts. These are refugees who, because of political differences with their present governments, cannot see their way to return to their own countries. And yet they fought against the Nazis and many of them spent long years in concentration or forced-labor camps. Here they live in barracks, and the camp is run by a wonderful French UNRRA team. My admiration for these French people is unbounded. They have given the refugees work to do, and have repaired and made buildings habitable. To be sure, the buildings are only barracks and three families —seven people in all=were living in one bedroom; their q separated only by curtains.

. 8 Two Kinds of Food THE FOOD in this camp is supervised by a very capable woman, and they have a variety of diet for different ages. But soup and bread was the main meal. The soup for older people had beans in it; the soup for children had vegetables in it, with a little piece of meat. . I went away from. this camp more hopeful, but still with a sense of depression weighing upon me. What's the ultimate answer? We in UNO asked the economic and social council to create a commission to study this refugee problem, but I cannot say I envy them their ‘work.’ Late in the afternoon, back in Frankfurt, I met a group of German newspaper correspondents, When they asked me whether I thought the whole German nation was responsible for the war, I answered ‘what to me seems uvbvious, 3 All the people of Germany have to accept responsibility for having tolerated a leadership which first brought misery to groups of people within their whrld chaos,

SECOND SECTION

By HARVEY HARRIS IF there is any similarity in

of Leslie, Bertha and Blair— Butler “university professors can find the reason in their surname. They are, respectively, Father,

Mother and Son Sparks, who are attending the same classes. All are

Saturday morning visual education classes. :

The trio drive down from Peru weekly in order to pursue their vocational goals,

» RT s FATHER, Leslie McKinley Sparks, graduated from Butler in 1936 with a ‘bachelor of science degree in education. Now he’s working on his

township school in Miami county. Son, Blair Wilson Sparks, is interested in physical education. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Butler in 1942 in religion. | Now he's taking graduate work [toward an M. 8. award in the field of calisthenics, A basketball and softball coach at Nora (Ind. grade schogl, he teaches physical ‘education. :

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catch up with the male members of her family. If she can’t equal the academic record of husband and son, at least the versatile Mrs. Sparks is determined to, maintain pace with the others. “And I enjoy it tremendously,” the distaff member of the Sparks household says. ; “ » . MRS. SPARKS is an undergraduate student. She's working toward her first degree, a bachelor of

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quently Mother has to pay attention to the advice of Son, not to mention the oft-repeated words of wisdom from Dad Sparks. They've had many of the courses that Mother is taking for her degree. For that reason the fellows sometimes put their heads together on some suggestion for the underclassman in the family. But in Saturday's classes, where the family trio gather; there is none of this. Mother Sparks quite offen can teach Dad and Junior 8 thing or two. In addition to

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» » ~ ANOTHER SON, John, is taking work in his spare time at Butler, Not enrolled this semester, he worked on his B. 8. last summer when he wasn't teaching at the Redkey (Ind.) grade-sehool. Whatever their interest SHBNgH the Sparks are as one in agreeing that college is wonderful. The 140mile round trip that the family makes each Saturday is evidence of that sentiment.

HOSPITAL HEAD

Pledges Greater Service to Community.

Robert Neff, new superintendent of Methodist hospital, today pledged the institution to even greater responsibility to the community. He was inaugurated formally at a luncheon-meeting yesterday attended by almost 200 physicians, college . authorities, city and state officials and others. Held in the White Cross Guild service center, the affair followed an annual meeting of the hospital's trustees and election of officers. Part of Community “A hospital no longer is a house of mystery,” Mr. Neff declared. “It is an essential part of every community and there is an obligation to serve the people of that community.” He praised the work of the White Cross Guild as exemplary. Also, tribute was paid to the 500 members of the hospital's medical staff, including 214 who served in world war II. Dr. John Kerr, lone casualty among staff members, was the subject of a resolution adopted by the trustees. Dr. E. R. Bartlett, a DePauw university dean, and Howard A. Sweetman were the only new officers elected at the trustees’ earlier meeting. They were chosen to fill the posts of third vice president and trustee-at-large, respectively. Bishop Lowe Re-elected Re-elected were Bishop Titus Lowe, president; W. H. Forse, first vice president; the Rev. Jean 8S. Milner, second —vice president: —J--Floyd King, treasurer; A. K. Cox, assistant treasurer; the Rev. Guy O. Carpenter, secretary, and Miss Thelma Hawthorne, assistant secretary. Mr. Forse was named chairman of the executive committee, while Mrs. D. A. Bartley became chairman of the White Cross Guild committee, A total of 39,337 persons was served at the hospital last year, it was revealed, with 338 students being trained in the nursing school. A letter of appreciation was presented to Mr, Orien Fifer, who served temporarily as superintendent until Mr. Neff's appointment. Bishop Titus Lowe presided. A prayer of consecration was given by the Rev. Milner. Benediction was read by Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt. Greetings were acknowledged by Lt. Gov. Richard James, Mayor Tyndall and Dr, William M. Dugan, president of the hospital's medical staff, :

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By MARGUERITE SMITH

year there's an epidemic of gigantic flowers that smell so bad they drive their admirers almost out of the house and move less serious gardeners to suggest the plants really ought to be quarantined.

Known variously as snake palm, sacred lily of India or of China, lily of the Nile, Afritan lily, they may differ in minor details but perform in house and garden in much the same way. . Mrs. A. F. Augustine, 6280 N. Chester st., has an African lily that she hoped was going to be pleasantly lacking in “the typical arum fragrance.” Her hopes are proving vain, however. A mere infant as these fast growing, bare stemmed oddities go, it is now less than four feet tall but still shoeting upward. # » » A NOT too distant relative of these sacred lilies set some kind of record in October, 1937, when a specimen of amorphophallus titanum in the New York Botanical Garden bore a flower almost twice as tall as the average woman and so wide a long-armed man could not reach from one side to the other. This variety is supposed to bear the largest flowers known to man. But the so-called flower, resembling a giant calla lily, is really made up of a leafy sheath or bract a central spike on which are quantities of true flowers, speaking botanically. |, : Mrs. - Augustine's lily, its sheath a dark plum color, the central column a darker shade, and the stem a leopard spotted mixture of dark green and purplish rose, is really beautiful,

. oN ®. Sm THE TUBER from which it grows without benefit of soil or water looks like a cross between a potato and a gladiolus corm. As soon as the weather gets warm, Mrs. Augusting sets the tuber in the ground in quite deep shade. There it produces a giant leaf “something like a palm leaf.” Fleshy roots grow near the surface of the soil and at the end of each another tuber is produced. These take about four years to reach flowering size. She digs the bulbs before frost, treats them “about the way I do my glad corms.” When the young shoot appears in late winter the bulb is brought to the light and from there on performs without any assistance,

LAFOLLETTE GIVES CAMPAIGN PLATFORM

Charles M. LaFollette, Evans ville, candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination, told a fourth ward G. O. P. meeting here last night that the party must promote a constructive economic program to make capitalism work. Mr. LaFollette, indorsed recently by the OC. I O. Political Action Committee, stopped over in Indianapolis on his way to Chicago, where he will address a Fair Employment Practices commission rally tomorrow. He outlined eight principles by which the G. O. P. could recreate a capitalism in America approximating the philosophy of Lincoln. He proposed broadening the basis of ownership and participation in industrial management; develop-

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ment of worker-management cooperation; tax rellef for workers and Investors in new industries; elimination of discrimination by race, creed or color in economic life; social security: maintenance of high wage standards; revitalization of congress’ “auditing” func

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Protestant Home Acts to Relieve Children's Crowding

The General Protestant Orphans’ Home came forward today to relieve overcrowded conditions which Marion county has fafled to relieve at the Board of Childrens Guardfans’ home. The Protestant home will take 15 to 19 children who are now housed in cramped quarters at the Guardfans’ home. In addition to this immediate relief, it will consider improvements to care for 15 to 20 more children in the future. This was announced today by Adolph G. Emhardt, president of the Protestant home board. He said the -board has voted to care for the overflow home “to the fullest extent.” This action followed a meeting of the city’s social service agency representatives last week to consider a move to ease the situation at Guardians. Capacity of the Protestant home, however, is limited by state law, under which it can house only 43

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a plan for a long range survey on the actual needs of orphaned children in the city and county. The survey would provide the basis for plafining what the agencles term an “adequate” child welfare program here.

LOCAL VETERANS ARRIVE IN U. S.

Fourteen Indianapolis arrived in Ban Francisco Wednesday aboard the Warhawk for processing at Camp Atterbury. are T. 5th Or. John J, Wilkin- , Sth Gr, William "A. Stinson; Pfe, Melvin D, Coleman; Cpl. Franklin; T, 4th Gr. Alvin J. Kintner; ul »

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