Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1946 — Page 17

er. Zipper on with your books. 1.69

bular scarves in n spun prints,

r rayons in sevwhite. Brown,

$1

.

Bi Indianapolis “Dead Letter’ Man]

% "YOU THINK nylons are scarce! Just try to gets

| reservation in the ‘local hotels for either the weekjend of the state basketball tourney or around the - ‘$ime for the 500-mile race, Tourney rooms are rari

es now, and accommodations during the Speedway classic are rapidly reaching that stage. The Washington hotel received its first request for rooms for the races months and months ago. It came from a couple from far off Nova Scotia. , . . And while we're talking about scarcities (and who isn't), the fishermen. may as well face the fact that rods and reels are still few and far between. Local stores are expecting some shipments in a few months, but it's likely that the start of the fishing season will still find some Waltonians haunting sporting good stores instead of lakes and rivers. .,., A letter to the Hoosier Forum complaining about the nylon shortage brought results. A woman who read the letter in which the writer complained about a British bride getting hose while she (the writer) went nylonless called to get the name and address of the writer. It seemed the letter had aroused the caller's sympathy and she was ‘going to send the complainant a pair of her nylons.

Labor of Kindness

THERE'S A LOT of kidding about a postman taking a walk on his day off but Charles R. Schellenberg, carrier on a downtown route, has another kind of “postman’s holiday,” Between his four trips daily he occupies his time with trying to deliver foreign letters that have gone to the dead letter section. ... The letters which mail authorities have been unable to deliver, go to the dead section for a 30-day period before being returned to the sender. Mr. Schellenberg visits the section once or twice a week, gets the letters and tries to get them to the party to whom they're addressed. He usually tries contacting someone of the same nationality as the writer and inquires around for the addressee, Oftimes he'll find someone who recognizes the name and can provide information as to how the addressee can be located. .« ++ He's been doing this as a hobby for years and he's developed a few tricks. One thing he’s learned is that Italians often put the last name first without any comma and that throws the postoffice off. Or, if the letter is from Greece, Mr. Schellenberg will see what province it's from and then check with someone from that same province. He's made a wide ac~ quaintance among persons who come to Indianapolis from foreign countries besides getting a big kick out of seeing that a letter from the old home gets delivered. Since the end of the war thing's have picked up, with letters coming through for the first time in

+ years and people overseas are mailing them to old

addresses. A carrier for 29 years, Mr. Schellenberg resides at 806 Lincoln st.

Political ‘Jefe’

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 22—A great majority of 2,000,000 Americans look for their political leadership to a swarthy, chain-smoking Latin American political “Jefe” (chief) with an American wife. Luis Munoz Marin has built in Puerto Rico an organization that clanks along with the same power and precision as the famed American machines welded by Mr. Hague of Jersey City, Mr. Pendergast of Kansas City, Mr. Kelly of Chicago, or Mr. Crump of Memphis. Mr. Munoz runs the Popular party, and the “populares” run Puerto Rican politics. They hold all but two of the 19 seats in the senate and all- but two of the 39 in the house of representatives in the current insular legislature. They are the “bright young men” who have rielped

ex-brain truster Gov. Rexford Guy Tugwell put across

his experiment in governmental planning here in the poverty-ridden island. “I know more Puerto Ricans than anybody else in history—more ‘even than the Spaniards who #first landed here,” is the confident boast of Jefe Luis.

Covered Whole Island

HE GOT TO know them by covering virtually every foot of the 100-mile length and 35-mile width of the island, He went by car where there were roads and climbed onto “various kinds of animals” to go far back into the hills and mountains where perch miserable shacks, Mr. Munoz’ favorite political platform is under any tree, talking to small knots of peons, sugarcane cutters, sharecroppers—the desperately poor people of his desperately poor island. He likes to be out in the open even when he is working at his well-guarded suburb¥n homey, not far from San Juan. Tables and benches have been set out under the trees of the yard.

Aviation

THE CIVIL Aeronautics administration has just announced that very high frequency (VHF) -adio for aircraft communication is in the offing for commercial and private flying use. Anything that will lift radio communications out of the “static interference belt” will be welcomed by all airmen. - But while we are making improvements in radio facilities, another step might be in order. At present, the use of aircraft radio involves a hocus-pocus that-is inconvenient and expensive, and downright irritating. The federal communication commission requires an annual frequency check on aircraft transmitters that can be attested only by certain testing laboratories and receiving stations (for a fee). The average aircraft transmitter is of limited range, and, therefore, the plane and transmitter must be flown to the vicinity of the station making the test. Why such a test is recessary I wouldn't know, because in my humble opinion each time I contact a control tower and get answer back I have made such a test.

Set ‘Passes Twice’

TO DEMONSTRATE the futility of periodically testing radio transmitters, a friend of mine notified a testing laboratory that on a specified day he would check wave-length frequency with two airplanes. On that day he took one ship, called the laboratory, and reported “NC——testing, 1-2-3-4, etc.” until he received an acknowledgment of the message. "He then handed his mike to his companion, who repeated the performance, only this time giving the

‘My Day

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—One of the things which seems to me very important for the future is that every nation belonging to the United Nations organigation, in building up its personnel, should remember not only the obvipus people who must be in every council or committee discussing world situations, but also some of the groups that are often forgotten. Everyone realizes that the legislative and executive bodies of all nations must be represented. In all the different agencies, there also. must be representatives who have expert understanding of the questions under discussion. And some representatives must ‘be on hand who have the point of view of the general public, There are several special groups, however, which I think have a right to representation somewhere in athe set-up, One is the group of younger represenMeatives of the arts, sciences and cultural fields, because they will be the people thinking primarily of future developments, and that is what we need to have in mind in everything we undertake.

Young Minds Are Needed + ~

PROBABLY no question that comes before the UNO in the next few years is going to have an answer that you can discover by a knowledge of the past alone. Most of the things that come up in international relations are going to be adventures in new types of contact and of procedure. All of which will require young, elestic and well-trained minds to work

A rh 4 A La Jf KE *

tom” ¢

Postman Schellenberg . . . He delivers letters as a hobby.

Judge Loves Fiddles WE LEARN that Dan V. White, judge of the probate court, is quite a fiddler fan. Judge White, who owns several fiddles himself, really goes for oldtime fiddle music and frequently attends contests throughout Indiana. Although our informant can’t] remember whether or not the judge has ever won one, he knows that the “fiddling fanatic” has participated in .several contests and also has judged a bunch of them. Incidentally, the judge should impart some of his knowledge of old-time music to one of his friends, who tipped us off. The friend-informant referred to one of the fiddling tunes as “Turkey In the Hay.” . . . Times Staffer Dick Berry, who yesterday offered a selection of glee club music to any worthy organization, got two takers. A representative of an American Legion post in Anderson, Ind., which has a men’s chorus of 40, is coming to town to pick up most of the 500 selections. The rest will go to

SECOND SECTION

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1946

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor

HE Rev. Clarence E. Sitler will accompany a ship load of heifers abroad to pro-

starving children, “No cows, no milk, no babies, no world.” This expresses the pastor's reason for temporarily leaving nis church and his family to go to Eu. rope. : Seated in his study in the Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed church today, he talked of his im. pending trip. A gleam in his eye and enthusiasm in his voice, he described his and the other escorts’ duties: To feed and water the heifers twice daily, bed them down at night and keep their stalls clean. » » ” IF CALVES are born en route, he intends to ald the laboring cows On the last voyage of the kind, 20 heifers calved. Only good milk cow: are acceptable for shipment, They cross the sea to replenish

vide milk for children—not to be! slaughtered for meat. While the Church of the Brethren sponsors the heifer movement, churches, organizations and _ngividuals

vide life-renewing milk for

herds depleted by war and to pro-

2, Sitler drops her money in the "bank of the world" to help buy the heifers her father, the Rev. Clarence E. Sitler, will escort to Europe.

many denominations contribute to the fund. Very small children, of the Rev.

Mr. BSitler’s Sunday school and

INDIANAPOLIS PASTOR WILL CARE FOR SHIPLOAD OF COWSs—

‘No Milk, No Babies, No World’

i

AL

tion have a “stake” in the venture. The children gave their pennies and members of the congregation also made contributions to the heifer

of 'the neighborhood, and his congrega- (fund. Naturally, then, Immanuel] think.

church granted its pastor a leave of absence covering sufficient time to : carry out his plan,

livered by the Brethren to France, ' Qreece, Yugoslavia and Poland, The cows are turned over to an administrative body such as th® agricpltural department of the government and then distributed among the farmers of the country, one to each, as long as they last.

hand information on the subject.

Up to now, herds have been de-

. . w REV. MR. SITLER recalled the many sermons he has preached about the suffering and privation of Europe. Now he feels he will be able to bring back some first

The pastor does not know precisely when he will sail, as all details have not been arranged, but i$ probably will be in the spring from New York or Baltimore. While he’s gone, Mrs. Sitler and the three little Sitlers are going to do their bit to alleviate the housing shortage. They will offer rooms

to some soldier and his wife or to|

two home-seeking girls. This will keep the family from getting too lonesome while father is away, they

(Last of

the Melo Lords, a Noblesville quartet.

By John A. Thale|

Mr. Munoz, who. reached his 48th birthday this month, can be completely charming in either English or Spanish, His English is completely idiomatic, studded with words like “yeah,” “one thing and ananother,” “this 'n that,” and other Americanisms.

Half of Life in U. S. HIS AMERICAN-STYLE speech has been polished by having spent—in short stretches—about half of his life in the United States. He went to Georgetown uni- | versity and once wrote specia] articles on world affairs | for the Balfimore Sun.

Mr. Munoz’ rise to power has been built on his own personal charm. Even enemies find themselves being | virtually hypnotized by his resonant voice, his headrolling earnestness, and his trigger-quick ability to! argue a point in crystal-clear, dramatic phrases. Even most of Mr. Munoz’ enemies are willing to

wgrant that he is not personally interested in financial

gain from his bossism. His salary from his job ‘as president of the insular senate is $540 a year, and he

cracia, the Popular party newspaper.

There is a saying that all Mr. Munoz really wants | mendation #n new regulations for

for himself is food, cigarets and a little whisky. “Except that I like a little sherry now and then in stead of whisky,” is his comment.

ditions in the state's first “Our traffic light system serts.

the situation.” thing, however, is gathering |dust in the files in a building

where dust- gathering has long become an established practice. a Ves E. Loer, former city traffic engineer, in June, 1944, presented a detailed report and recom- ' mendation for an improved traf{fic control signal system to the committee on downtown traffic. That report still rests between { documents on smoke abatement

and the housing problem in a cabmet in the office of Mayor Tyndall's

post-war planning committee.

" » - AS RECENT as 1945, the safety has ‘Some income from his connection with La Demo- SON 95 the Sndianapelis chsmber

of commerce presented a recom-

motorists and pedestrians including an improved signal system. This two-page letter from Wal-

It was during one of his stays in the United States |1ace O. Lee keeps Mr. Loer’s sugges-

that Mr. Munoz married pretty Muna Lee, now gon. Bo company.

nected with the Latin American division of the U. 8. state department in Washington She left the island | several years ago, and there has been some talk of a | divorce since. They have a son, Luisito, now taking, graduate work in journalism at Columbia university, | and a daughter, Munita, also in the United States.

Copyright, 1946, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc, :

By Maj. Al Williams

NC number of another ship that had been ieft at Jiome. A day or so later he received acknowledgment | from the lab to the effect that the first ship's set was| “on” frequency, whereas the second was slightly off but still within the allowable tolerances.

Raps License Setup

A SECOND change in FCC rules in the interest | of time, effort and money would be to wash out the! requirement for the annual licensing of aircraft radio by FCC inspectors. Again, the owner is required to fly his airplane to an airport where an FCC inspector can be located, | in many instances 500 miles from his home field or base. The examination of the equipment consists of the inspector admiring the color of the upholstering and all the gimmicks with which the airplane is fitted. In due time he exclaims, “You're equipped with a| —'T-30 transmitter,” and he proceeds to set the in-| formation down. The amazing part of the inspection | is that at no time was the set turned on and ‘ested so there could be no doubt as to whether or not the! transmitter was fitted with any tubes. Having completed the inspection you then fly home, provided the weather and daylight will ‘e$ you. | Maybe you've only consumed one day, maybe it's two | or three, The net result is a further conviction that flying /r| sport is an expensive and dangerous avocation—for | you may get strangled in government requireraents and red tape. {

| without a

By Eleanor Roosevelt

is always of value because a knowledge of the past is essential, but his knowledge alone will not be sufficient to meet the questions of the future. The second group that I think needs representation in every delegation to the UNO are the men who fought the war, They know, as no civilian can possibly know and as no man who fought in any previous war can possibly know, the meaning of war today. They have the greatest incentive of any group to work for peace. .

Veterans Must Be H ord

THEY HAVE paid with their bodies and with years of their lives. Many of their friends and relatives have paid by making the ultimate sacrifice and are now lying in some far-away land, or 'at the bottom of some ocean. They speak with the voice, not only of the living but of the dead, and above every other group, they have a right to be heard. I take it for granted that women will be répresented eventually in every delegation, for in many nations women fought the war side by side with their men, and in all nations they participated fully in whatever was done at home to win the war. Above everything else, women have brought into the world the childien who will be vitally affected by the actions of those ‘who are our representatives in the United Nations organization. . -

Women as mothers are constantly projecting’

themselves into the future and are therefore deeply concerned with every phase of the preservation and , Sevelopmeny of life on this globe.

Right now, the Metropolitan Traffic Survey is compiling data on the daily traffic movements of 13,000 Indianapolis families in seeking a solution to the congested | situation. . The state highway commission, the public roads administration of |

a Series)

By LARRY STILLERMAN NY ‘Indianapolis policeman can tell you why traffic con-

city are congested. is inadequate,” one patrolman

“The volume of traffic is,greater both in vehicle \and pedestrian travel, yet nothing is being done to alleviate But something has been done.

That some-

the federal government and the city planning commission are cooperating with the survey, » - » SINCE 1945, the state has operated more than 50 miles of roads in the city, including some within the “mile-square.” Although the city maintains traffic signals on the state operated roads, any improve‘ments will now have to be made in co-operation with the state. Before the legislature gave the state control of roads within the citv, the Loer report suggested improvements in the downtown area

and west, West st. Within the described area there are 76 intersections controlled by signals with 27 regulated from a Meridian and Washington sts. station. Twenty-eight intersections are operated by individual controls, while other intersections are maintained by double and triple pairings | throughout the area, = » » THE ALTERNATE control system lacks the flexibility needed to provide for adjustments in various vol~'

bounded on the north by St. Clair st.; east, Noble st.; south, South st.

A DATE WITH AN AUTO ACCIDENT—No. 3 Ancient Signal System Here Jams Traffic

umes of traffic, since the “go” in~tervals for both main and cross street traffic are equal. The Loer report asserts that new synchronous controls should be provided for a flexible progressive system, and the individual controls should be kept in step by a master controller. The report points out that the cuntrols should have a triple reset feature to re-synchronize the system at different times during the day to permit a continuous movement of traffic at a predetermined speed on both the main and cross streets, This system used in Chicago and Cincinnati . is recommended by Frank Y. Hardy, present city traffic engineer, and officers in the apolis police department pe a solution to the traffic 8 “® » THE LOER report also advocates a new design of signals. This includes new lenses, increased wat-

below the yellow. Location of the signals within the normal line of vision and installation at the same positions at all intersections is also recommended. “The driver should never be re- { quired to look for the signal on one side of the street at one intersec- | tion -and on the other side of the | street at another intersection,” the report states. “There are many sig- | nals hidden by street light standards or trolley poles.”

tage and colors with red, at the top; yellow, instead of the present amber, in the middle, and green,

PEDESTRIAN “walk-wait” signals are also suggested to control travel at the following intersections: On Washington st. at Delaware, Pennsylvania, Meridian, Illinois and Capitol; on Market st. at Delaware, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Capitol; on Ohio st. at Pennsylvania, Meridian and Illinois, and at all four entrances to the circle.

The Chamber of Commerce rec ommendation also advises: °

tical three-color units. 2. Walk-wait signals in the downtown area. 3. Vehicular signals where pedestrian signals are not installed, so arranged that one side always directly faces the pedestrian. : “- 88 MR. LOER estimates the cost for rebuilding the traffic signal system in the downtown area at $145,000. An additional $10,000 would be necessary for the installation of walk-wait signals, When it is considered that, more than 1,500,000 vehicular movements per day will be controlled by the signals and more than 1,000,000 pedestrian actions per day would be aided by the walk-wait signals, the estimated costs are not excessive, the report indicates. Mr. Loer suggested that plans and drawings for the new system be begun immediately. That was in 1044. Now the report just accumulates dust, while traffic casualties ‘mount daily.

Protests Washington's Statue Without a Shirt

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Your statue of George Washington shirt, congressional lovers of art, is becoming no more | dignified with the years. ~The father of his country, half

. naked in’ white marble, looks like

a brave man emerging from a cold shower. I regret to report that he is goose-pimply. Congress men, I still claim you didn’t do right by our George. " » 5

IT HAS been my custom to make an annual pilgrimage on | this day to the embarrassed | George in furtherance of my campaign to force congress to buy | him a shirt. I have been snubbed and looked-down-the-nose-at by | the lawmakers, but I shall not give up, . Our sorry story begins in 1832 when congress slipped $5000 to

Horatio Greenough, the Boston | sculptor, for a statue of Wash- | I | the ‘marine band tootling,

ington.

> HANNAH

Horatio emerged six years later from his studio in Florence, Italy, with the 20-foot statue in a box so big Horatio had to chop down the olive trees on one side of the road to Leghorn.

THE STATUE was dangling |

over a small freighter when a

| pulley broke. Washington plunged

through the hull to the mud below. The boat sank on top of him, Congress sent a battleship to bring George to New York, where he was placed aboard a flatcar and headed for the capitol.

The tunnel at Baltimore was too |

tight for Washington. Back to New York he went, aboard the battleship again, down

to New Orleans and finally, by a |

tunnel-free route, he reached the capital. Total cost: $26,500, olive trees included.

s ”

IN 1841 came the unveiling with the

speaker. of the house pulling the | cord, and good gosh! There was George, twice as big | as life, clad as a Roman senator in thong sandals, on his way from | that cold bath. His chest bare. Around his hips was a sheet. A | laurel wreath (I am not, either, | making this up) -rested daintily | among his curls. ®

was

= CONGRESS decided on dynamite; then a killjoy mentioned the law prohibiting destruction of any ‘work of art owned by the federal government. Was this a work of art? Horatio insisted tearfully it was. The toga, he said, was timeless... | Congress tried to stop the argu- | ment by putting up $5000 for a shed around Washington. The | opposition called this an eye-sore. ” » » THE BATTLE raged for 60 | { years, or until 1908, when the law- | ' makers produced a final $5000 and

| an overcoat.

| paign. - He reports only that the - | curator of the basement displays

| the statue is not hidden;

had George Washington carted to the Smithsonian institution. There I found George today, hidden as usual, behind a row of antique printing presses in the cellar, and obviously in need of

Dr. Alexander Wetmore, secretary of the Smithsonian, is taking no part for or against my cam-

is hurt and wishes I would quit writing these annua] dispatches. ¥ » » . DR. WETMORE quotes him as feeling that Washington has a certain dignity as a carelessly clad Roman. The curator insists further that it just happens to be behind the printing presses. I am nothing if not fair. I re- | port both sides, Congress, I claim

George Washington deserves a shirt.

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D, ONE TO FOUR weeks after ex posure to typhoid germs, susceptible persons develop headache, weariness, backache, cough, nosebleed, and tenderness in the abdomen. Fever mounts slowly until the second week of the illness, when it reaches its peak. Tiny red spots resembling flea bites appear in the skin, Diarrhea from inflamed intestines further weakens the patient as the spléen enlarges and the abdomen becomes distended. At the end of the third week the fever abates, other symptoms gradually disappear, and most patients recover, “After the illness is apparently over there may be relapses with serious complications. : a = =» TYPHOID, once high on ihe list of killing summer diseases, ‘Ss now largely controlled by public health measures. Typhoid germ carriers, however, are. still a menace to the public health unless they are treated or regulated. The mastery of twphoid 1 a bril-

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Human Carriers Spread Disease

Typhoid Control Lies at Source

control, and it would be as prevalent as ever if it were not for vaccination and sanitation. For some time after ‘ecovery, typhoid germs are found in the bowel discharges. In the majority of ex-typhoid patients, the eerms disappear as the body defenses become stronger. A certain number of ‘cases, how ever, estimated at 3 to 5 per nent, never are completely rid of the germs, and while these carriers of typhoid are not harmed by the germs, they, can cause regular typhoid in susceptible people. »” ” ” THERE have been many famous typhoid carriers ‘in history. “Typhoid Mary,” the cook who spread typhoid fever in her wake in the many homes in which she was employed, is known to all school

children, Less well publicized carriers are known to public health depart ments and officials in the various states.

In one of our northern states,

lant chapter in contagious

disaoea Tocant Outhreay: Bad an unvswAl

a0 5 CN

' | had eaten all the head cheese and

feature, All of the first cases to develop were men. Public health : officials learned there had been a public farm sale in the community, and that it was a common practice at these sales to serve lunch. » » . THESE men were served at the table first and had eaten heartily of some head cheese which was supplied by an older woman in the community. When the women and children were served, the men

with it many typhoid germs. Ex« amination of the woman who supplied the head cheese revealed she was a typhold carrier. In most states, typhoid carriers are registered with the health department. They gre not permitted to handle food or food products, as this is the usual way in which they spread the disease. With reasonable precautions, they may engage in other lines of activity and are encouraged .to do 80. Although no successful drug treatment is now known, several

1. New modern signals with op-|.

‘votes.

operating on both the AM and frequency modulation systems. From interfering with none educational or cule

——We, the Women Believes Buyer

Should 'Holler' To Get Goods

By RUTH MILLETT

THE CIVILIAN Production Ade ministration has finally cracked down on shirt and nylon hosiery manufacturers reported to he hoarding supplies, by ordering them to halt production immes diately until their stocks are re= duced to “more reasonable leve els.” Until they comply they will ne} be allowed to accept yarn or fabs ric or place new orders for such material. It’s high time the CPA stepped in to do something for the shops weary consumer,

. td » THE ACTION undoubtedly would have been taken sooner if the consumer had risen in’ indig-