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"A .PLEA for voluntary workers as well as dona-

“tions of old bedclothing, shirts and other clothes

‘has been made to city and county housewives by the Cancer Loan Cupboard, a part of the Marion County Cancer society.” The Cupboard, which maintains “headquarters at the Little Red Door, county cancer

‘headquarters on W.' Michigan st., is composed of’

“women who give their time and energy toward making comfortable those afflicted with cancer.”They have all

. arn! hos, mnracssen, Sheet: pillowcases, rocking

Anyone who can give any ; for the Cupboard or who has any of the articles needed by them should contact Mr8. Garrett F. Kirby at CH3177. She is chairman of the Indiarapolis organi‘zation and Mrs, Irving L. Thompson is Marion county chairman, Mrs. Emery W. Cowley is chairman of the surgical dressing committee.

Surprise Gift: Nylons! IT WAS a pleasant surprise for Mrs. Elizabeth Spalding, 620 N. Grant ave, the other day when she opened a package mailed to her from a friend in

ave, was in yesterday to tell us that the piano which Danny Coyle offered to give to a boys’ organization in “Inside’s” column the other day, now belongs to the Riley center. Mr, Coyle offered the piano after tavern on N. Keystone burned down. “Mr. Lee a City park department truck would bring the out to the ceriter no later than today. ... the way the weather treated us over the weekit still wasn’t bad enough to keep the golfers We know of one man, Roy Sieloff, 865 N. Ritter ave, who was out swinging his clubs, wearingrubber boots instead of the usual golf shoes. He seemed to have enjoyed himself, too.

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‘War Isn't Over

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 19.—The war is not over for dozens of scientists working at San Juan's famous school of tropical medicine. They are still struggling to develop new drugs and new treatments for American soldiers, who came home with diseases contracted in stinking foxholes of the Pacific and other tropic battlefields. Medical men from Columbia university, Indiana university and other United States institutions are among those carrying on research here. What they discover may be of vital importance to the boy in the next block of your town, who still is fighting his own private battle against malaria, filariasie, schistosomiasis, or other malady that was little known in the United States until the war sent hundreds of thousands of boys to pest-infested places. The director of the San Juan school is Dr. P. Morales Otero. The institution is one of only three dt its type, according to Arturo A. Plard, administrative officer. Another is in Louisiana, while the British maintain a third in London, for the benefit of theirsfarflung tropical colonies.

All Charity, No Politics

THE SAN JUAN school is operated under a strict policy of “all charity and no politics,” Plard declared. All the patients suffering: from tropical maladies in the institution’s 50-bed hospital are charity cases, referred by other hospitals on the island. In the special children’s ward, big-eyed, thinlegged infants are the hospital's youngest and often most pathetic cases. In the men’s and women's ward, patients range in age up to octogenarians. Established in: 1926, the school’s laboratories and hospital are housed in a picturesque Spanish-style building constructed, with funds from a federal gov-

Science

IT 1S ENTIRELY possible that our sun might blow up in the next 10 seconds in an explosion so vast that

the atomic bomb would be the mere pop of a firecracker by comparison. | The fact that it hasn't happened in the last 2,000,000 years leads us to feel fairly safe, but at some period prior to that something did happen to the sun. for astronomers are of the opinion that our earth and the other planets were formed of material that was originally thrown out of the sun. The recent flare-up of the star known as T Coronae Borealis reminds us that stars have a way of exploding. And the gigantic sunspots that appeared on the sun at the start of this month emphasizes the fact that our sun is a great seething, cauldron of activity.

Stellar Explosions IT SEEMS now that T Coronae Borealis merely heated up quite a bit, putting it in the class of an irregular variable star, but stellar explosions are well known. Such stars that explode are called novae, a word from the Latin méaning “new.” . The reason for this name is that sometimes a star invisible except in the telescope becomes visible to the unaided eye, thus appearing as a new star. Stars which explode with a particularly complete smash-up are known as supernovae. The sudden flaring up of a nova is a spectacular event and if the star becomes particularly bright may cause widespread comment. Some astronomers have maintained that the Star of Bethlehem might have

_been a nova,

ONE OF THE most famous of all novae is known

My Day

DUBLIN, En Route to New York, Feb. 18.—While I was in London, I happened to hear someone say, “Given a certain situatien, the United Nations Organization might possibly succeed.” Curtously, from the very beginning, I felt that, unless we approached our work in a spirit of defeatism, we would succeed. So I never for a minute thought of the possibility of failure. In smalyzing my feeling, I find it arises from the fact that, in all the years of my husband public life, particularly the last 12, in which he seemed to meet one crisis after another, I never once heard him make a remark which indicated that any crisis could not be solved. X He might frankly admit he did not know the answer to a difficult situation, but he always had complete confidence that someone would find the answer, No one can expect always to deal correctly with every question, but a confident approach gives one a better chance of success.

Cites Effect of Atom Bomb

MY OWN approach to any difficulties that emerge among the United Nations is that there is one paramount thing fo remember—namely, that we have discovered super weapons of destruction. If we wish, We gan destroy ourselves and our entire civilization. If we do not wish to do this, then we must learn to get on together without war, That entails the success of United Nations Organization. It does not seem to me to be a question of “if”

Training School Planned in Park Work

design, development, tion, maintenance, construction and

An intensive training course for park and recreation superintend-

ents will be held March 11-22 at| conservation.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY .19, 1946

BELGIANS STRUCK A i BLOW FOR ALLIES—

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Sewing for the Cancer Cupboard. . . right, Mrs. Fred Mahaffey, Mrs, Julia Ray Iles, Mrs, J. F. Zimmer and Mrs. Jesse McMurtry.

No Breaking of Rules

THERE ARE a couple of safety-minded ‘bus drivers in Indianapolis, we are told, who know that rules are rules. The automatic signal at the Belt railroad and W, Washington st. went haywire the other night and started flashing even though no train was coming. ‘Some motorists went across the tracks and the occupants of the busses got impatient, urged the drivers to go on. They shook their heads, said there was a rule against it and besides, each said, the other driver might report him, The passengers had to walt until a police squad arrived and waved them on... . Floyd Boyer, 3038 W. 18th st, was initiated into a new fraternity last week. Jack Wetzler, 1912 N. Warman ave., pinned a “fraternity pin” on Mr. Boyer out at Alllson’s plant No. 2 The pin: a safety pin, The fraternity: The Stork. The reason: Mr, Boyer's new son, James Douglas, born Feb. 12 at Coleman. It was a large safety pin and the new proud papa wore it around the office all day.

By John A. Thale

ernment agency, on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic ocean. It is maintained under the joint co-operation of the University of Puerto Rico and Columbia univer sity, Its annual budget is about $375,000. About half of that sum is derived from the University of Puerto Rico, a little less from the insular government, and the balance from Colombia, Plard explained. “One thing we lack is endowments,” he added. “We are authorized to have them, under our set-up,

Research Center NOT SO widely known in the United States, the San Juan institution has won a wide reputation among Latin American medical circles. It has researchers working there today from Colombia and the Dominican Republic, as well as students from Venezuela and othér parts of South America. It recently had a group of sanitary engineers from Brazil, Peru, Chile and Panama. Dr. Morales Otero commented a trifle crisply in his last annual report about the relative feeling about the school in Latin America as compared to the United States. . “Our relations with Latin America seems to have been helped, but, unfortunately, we cannot say the same for those with the United States in spite of all efforts to find support on the mainland,” he told the board of special trustees. “The tendency there seems

to be toward creating new facilities rather than toward supporting those already established. “Whether it is sometimes due to personalities, or whether it arises from that sense of superiority for all things on the continent, it, nevertheless, helps to] work towards a lack of understanding and to bring

about only a state of confusion.” Copyrignt, 1946, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc

By David Dietz

|] EOPOLDSVILLE, Belgian

Congo, Feb. 19.—People

of the Belgian Congo believe

[they made one of the greatest

of all contributions to complete United Nations victory. Throughout the war, the Belgian Congo furnished the United States with considerable amounts of uranium ore—basic raw material of atomic bombs. This ore made possible the success of the Manhattan Engineer project, development of the bomb and the blasting of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force immediate Japanese surrender. a » » . FURTHERMORE, unless new reserves of ore should be discovered and exploited elsewhere, the United States, Canada and Great Britain

will retain the lead, for some time °

to come, of atomic fission’ for either military or industrial purposes. This would be true even though all the industrial know-how secrets now under discussion were to be given freely to the world. Some of the Congo uranium ore

|wenf to Canada for processing.

There it was mingled with a lesser quantity of uranium ore from the Dominion’s own mines in the Northwest territories. Under the veil of military secrecy, the American public has assumed that all the ore used in the bombs originated in Canada. Governor General Pierre Ryckmans, without disclosing the terms or the length of time the U. 8. contracts with the Belgian Congo ore producers have to run, summarizes his satisfaction with’ the simple expression: : “The uranium is perfectly safe.” y ” ” » S80 FAR as I can ascertain, neither Great Britain nor Canada is formally a party to the contract, but the Belgians think of the United States as representative of the Anglo-American alliance in the deal. “We had very pleasant relations with the United States and Great Britain during the war,” Governor Ryckmans said, in oblique reference

to this unity of interest,

“We wanted to free Belgium from the Germans. Obviously we could not do that ourselves, So we did everything in our power to help the British and Americans, who were doing the fighting. The uranium supplies were part of that cooperation. That is all there was to it. We were very happy to have

| been able to do what we did.”

” ® » GOVERNOR Rychmans felt that it is up to American authorities to disclose whether they think best about the volume of ore received from the Congo and its relationship to the total supply. Other apparently informea sources told me that the Congo produced by far the largest share of the uranium used, though they had no figures. :

ined Uranium for Bomb

The ore was mined far in the interior, brought down the Congo by boat and railroad, and transshipped at the port of Matadi. Of what happened to it thereafter they had no knowledge except as the atomic bomb was publicized. . » » THE CANADIAN government, however, has a reflnery at Port

Hope, Ontario, operated by the crown-owned Allied War Supply Co. It also +has a governmentowned agency, the Eldorado Co. to exploit its own ore in the Northwest’ territory. It seems a reasonable presumption

that the Congo ore and the Eil-

dorado ore were merged, for processing, at Port Hope, and the re-

sultant uranium came in a common supply to-the United States.

Examination of lend-lease figures throw no light upon the volume or monetary value of the Congo's ore. n » . or TO July 1, 1045, Belgium is credited with $55,647,000 of reverse lend-lease, and the Congo with only $182,000. What Belguim supplied to that amount is not clear, It is pos-| sible, of course, that—since the Congo is a colony with no individual financial entity—the uranium was credited to the mother country for security reasons, On the other hand, it is possible, despite the nature of the contracts, that the ore was charged against Canada, when it went there for processing, and then the dominfon by charging the United States for the processed uranium sent to Tennessee,

By ROBERT J. CASEY Times Special Writer

IERRE, S. Dak., Feb. 19.—It was

blowing a gale outside—as it some-

. Missouri Valley Envisioned as a Paradise

fertile acres ‘have been dry and dusty so long that the farmers are longer interested in reports of

times does on the Dakota prairie. There was fine promise of a bliz- |drouth in other parts. Drouth is no

waved an arm to indicate a new

paradise,

| zard. Governor M. Q. Sharpe went to the window of his office and news to the west river country. It's

la condition as normal as the cycle

He spoke and vast seas of corn and wheat began to flow out of of day and night.

the bleak horizons. He griddled the whole west-river country with shiny | new railroads and covered a net- |

“And it's going to get the water,” said the governor. And apparently

as Tycho’s nova in honor of that famous astronomer wo. of broad highways with busy sprout without moisture. The west i be’ s right. who first spied it. In the year 1572 Tyco Brahe had trycks He filled the sky with air- river country failed to live up to its

almost abandoned astronomy and was devoting most | of his time to alchemy. seeking to turn iron and lead into gold. At this period of his life he was dabbling |

-with a variety of things. He concocted a patent medi- |

cine, guaranteed to cure. all ills, which became as popular over the continent of Europe as some of the patent pills of more recent years. On Nov, 11, 1572, an event occurred which turned Tycho back to astronomy, thus leading eventually to| the marvelous observations of this great astronomer! upon which Kepler based his laws of planetary motions.

Star of Bethlehem TYCHO described the occurrence in his diary, writing: “On quitting my chemical laboratory one evening, I raised my eyes to the well-known vault of heaven, and observed with undescribable atsonishment, near the zenith in Cassiopeia, a radiant star of a magnitude never before seen.” Tycho's nova grew so bright that it rivaled the planet Venus and could even be seen in the daytime, We are certain today that it was what we now call a supernova. A nova which appeared in 1604 was first noted by Johann Kepler and so was christened Kepler's nova, It was this nova which led him to advance the theory that the Star of Bethlehem might have been a nova, Extremely bright novae in the present century have included ones in 1018 and 1925. Less bright novae have appeared in 1934 and 1936. .

By Eleanor Roosevelt

we succeed, since the only alternative is complete degtruction. Therefore, I've never allowed myself to be pessimistic. I hope that the primitive urge of self-preservation will drive all leaders of all peoples to the same effort for attaining peace which they put into destroying their enemies in war.

Stresses Participation of Women THAT'S ONE reason why I feel that the particis pation, of women in this effort is more important throughout the world than ever before. Men and! women have found, in many other undertakings, that | success was achieved when they worked closely to-! gether. It seems to me essential that women should now take their place in public affairs. Women free to do so should work along with men and accept responsibility within their communities, ! and that should carry on up into positions of state and national importance. There are still, of course, many countries in which women are not recognized as equal citizens and have! many restrictions imposed on them. In those coun-| tries, changes must come about more slowly. In the matter, however, of keeping before our people the importance of the work of United Nations) Organization, I hope women have the capacity to| think up new ways of presenting the urgency of! establishing peaceful international relations on a firm footing. When all isgsaid and done, the greatest thing in life for any woman is love of her family, and it is her family that is at stake in the failure or success of this Srganisstion.

administra-) park and recreation department; Kenneth Lackey, superintendent of

the Gary park department.

{But usually it hasn't rained.

‘close to the ground and provided

McCormicks Creek state park. . The course will be sponsored by Indiana university, the park division of the state department of .conservation and the Indiana state L park and recreation association. The program, ‘conducted by Gartt G. Eppley, field recreation contant at Indiana university, will de discussions on planning of and recreation systems, park

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feld secretary of the

Among the discussion leaders will be: Roberts Mann, superintendent of conservation for the Cook county (Ill) forest preserve; L. H, Weir, National Recreation association; Robert Thompson, forester, National Park service; Herbert Evison, chief of the land rl=nning branch of the National: Park: service; Paul Brown, superintendent of the Indianapolis

K. Mark Cowen, superintendent of, recreation, Indianapolis; Robert FP. Wirsching, director of state parks, state department of conservation; Howard H. Michaud, assistant professor of forestry, Purdue university; Kenneth Schielle, directar of the State Economics council;

Sidney Esten, chief naturalist for| L

the Indiana Department of Conservation, and Mr, Eppley.

{planes and the future with hope. And listening to the steam sizzling | from the radiator valve you began | to share something of his vision. In spite of a lifetime of experience

|with South Dakota you began to [think that maybe, after all, this

| post-war world might amount to something. Admittedly a window in Pierre is no proper vantage point from which to look out upon a reconstructed Eden. Even in midsummer on a clear day you are not likely to see much evidence of a promised land. All about you roll the bare hills of the Missouri basin. Beyond them, as far as you can see and farther, the empty prairie and the badlands ride out 170 odd miles to the Black hills, If there has been rain you may find some agricultural sstivily. There will be green corn in e fields and some fair looking cattle.

Green Corn When It Rains

When this area was an open cattle range it did pretty well. Even. in dry weather, which was quite plentiful, it was coated with a product called buffalo grass that curled up

forage for cows all the year round. About forty years ago it was opened for settlement, divided into homesteads and fenced. It had something of a boom when the railroads started westward from the Missouri river. There was a lot of talk about a miracle called “dryfarming” and considerable experimenting with trick plows, cover crops and prayer. But somehow nobody could convince the seeds that they ought to

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‘advance notices.

Soil Is Fertile

“The soil is good out there,” the governor said. And nobody would deny that. You recall how in the early days the Milwaukee railroad marked the limits of its right of way from Chamberlain to Rapid City, with two furrows 218 miles long, furrows that were one continuous cluster of glowing wildflowers. You recall the crops that sprang up during the wet years of the twenties, The soil is good, all right. “But it needs water,” said the governor. And there was no argument about that either.

In the turmoil of war and the worse turmoil of reconversion, the people of the United States—even those most vitally concerned-—have found no time to talk about the Missouri valley authority. Folks in the Middle West who have heard about it at all have generally looked upon it as another flood control and power project touching the lives of only a handful of people and possibly nothing more than a federal boondoggle. : : 80 it’s something of a surprise to find out the extent and visien of the plan, the tremendous amount of engineering work that has

These thousands of potentially already gone into it.

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-—Beri-

beri, which kills tens of thousands each year in the Orient, besides

causing uncounted misery and disability, could be eradicated at a cost of not much mose than 10 cents per person per year, This cost figure is given by Dr. M. ©. Kik, of the University of Arkansas, and Dr, Robert R. Williams, of the Bell Telephone laboratories, in a report published by the food and nutrition board of the National Research council here, Beriberi, as most persons mow know, results from a diet lacking in thiamin, or. vitamin B-1. When rice, staple food of most Oriental people, is milled and polished to a

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

CHILD psychiatry, one of the newer specialties in medicine, 1s concerned with the problems of children who do not show satisfactory growth and development. Problems vary from mild complaints of nervousness, difficulty . in feeding, bed wetting and petty lying, to violent behavior, delinquency and actual mental disorders. Every physician encounters problem children in his practice. In treating these patients, parents and physicians would like to believe these children will outgrow their difficulties, but experience has shown that many do not outgrow them. In fact, many nervous and mental diseases in adults develop out of these experiences in ‘infancy and childhood. Child psychiatry is based upon the belief that there is a cause and effect in every problem encountered., The cause or causes may

be ‘difficult to find, but search will often Provide cles.

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Dime Per Capita Could End Beriberi, Scourge of Orient

pretty gleaming white, it loses most of its thiamin. About half the population of the Orient lose what little thiamin is left in the polished white rice by cooking it in large amounts of water and throwing away this cooking water, The most practical way of eradicating beriberi in the Orient, in the opinion of Dr. Kik and Dr. Williams, would be to enrich white rice, as our white flour has been enriched. The flavor and ap ce would not be changed. Only“1% to 2% of the rice would have to be specially processed, an economic advantage. The necessary vitamins, the scientists point out, would probably have to be produced in at least the larger Asiati¢ countries to avoid un-

popular drains on their foreign ex-

change.

PROBLEM children always should be studied in their family setting. All members of the family

should be interviewed, so the cause of the tension can be found. Recent advances in medicine justify the belief that emotional stress has greater influence on health and disease than was previously suspected. All problem children should be given a thorough physical examination. Some will not show any physical abnormalities. Others may show some minor condition which makes the child self-conscious. Unhappiness often is caused by unkind remarks about physical defects made by unthinking persons. The problem child's mental development should be studied, also his ability to make reasonably good adjustments to life's problems, While the services of a clinical psychologist are of value, most of us, by using tables of development, can tell how our children compare with other children of their

age and development.

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Sites have been selected and surveyed for 105 dams and reservoirs: Arrangements have been completed for 22 power plants. Irrigation systems have been laid out not only in South Dakota but in Montana,

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The whole valley of the Missouri and all the tributary valleys are considered as a unit in the project with dams and spillways in the hills and a system of levees all the way from Sioux City to St. Louis. The flow of water will be completely harnessed, virtually eliminating the danger of floods. “Well get water out here,” said Governor Sharpe, “and when we do we can feed the world.” They'll get the water all right. And it's amazing to look at the blueprints of the project that will get it for them, The Missouri valley reclamation at this writing looks to be the greatest engineering job ever undertaken in the history of the world.

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and Chicago Dally News, Ine,

BYRD ASKS U. §. TO GUT STAFF IN HALF

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (U. P.) — Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) wants the government to save itself $4,000,000,000 by firing half of its 3,000,000 employees. A 50 per cent cut in government personnel, Senator Byrd said in a radio broadcast last night, is possible and would result in more efficient government operation. “I believe we could cut a lot of deadwood off the government payroll,” he said. “We could keep the better workers, we would accomplish more and we could pay those who remain a fair salary.” If all the federal workers were placed single file, Senator Byrd added, the line would stretZR" from Washington to San Antonio, Tex.— a distance of 1700 miles.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Mental Ailments May Begin Early

Problem Child: Often Is Sick

WHAT are the sources of tension in the average home as they affect children? Parents who do not get along and quarrel a great deal, cause tension in their children

Children may imagine that their] parents do not love them, and sometimes this is real fear. Older children may feel they are unwanted! in the family group. There is a time in every child's lite when he likes to be consulted about family matters, Failure to observe this interest in family prob. lems and the desire to help may cause tension. Many children are depressed by failure or the possibility of failure. Sometimes these failures result when too many demands are made on the child by his parents. Problem children are sick children and should be seen by physicians, but parents and families should realize the important part they play in the normal growth and development of their children and help the children in every pos

But, he sald, “If we have cofie gressional, as well as public back ing, that will enable us to keep: inflation under lock and keéy and maintain stability in our Ameri

Association of Manufacturers and the National Dry Goods associa. tion, are all wrong.

# ” " THE CONGRESSIONAL quese tioners wanted to know if the “bulge,” resulting from the price increase intended to settle the steel strike, is just a bit of ine flation or something to be res garded with equanimity. ! They also asked whether further price boosts authorized te meet wage boosts might produce a ‘breakthrough in the bulge? James G. Rogers Jr, and Geoffrey Baker, higher-ups in OPA under the new director, Paul Porter, assured the congressmen it's merely a bulge that won't _ break 1 the inflation line.

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Decries Use Of Soap Opera

In Housework

By RUTH MILLETT A NEWS magazine, in attempt ing to explain the hold radio soap operas have on American house wives, quoted one addict's tribute to the escape dramas as typical of thousands of feminine Hsteners. 8he confided: “I always listen while I'm ironing. It makes me forget I'm ironing.” If homemaking is such =» dreary, depressing job that thous sands of American women wy to blot out reality by daily living’ vicariously through the struggles and triumphs and romances of soap opera heroines, hasn't the

education of women failed pas thetically? . LONG BEFORE the days of soap opera, my grandmother managed to make the lois of iron. ing far from dull. She escaped from its routine sameness, wo, bug imaginatively. There was. always a book of Nellie loved Jone < open | de he

up to the bursting point.”

sible way.

as she ironed, and she committed those mt If h er grandchildren

the kitchen while she worked, recited the poems to them. But it is extremely do & y of the soap operas, hich so women

do

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escape from the routine jobs, will ever for their education, education of thelr grandchildren, s