Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1946 — Page 13

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, Corp. at the fairgrounds. ... A civilian expediter at the army air forces supply depot there, she bid on

ful. . . . Now she’s Declared surplus war property, the lenses were man-

ufactured to fit in spotlights on airport runways, . . .

They're five inches in diameter and an eighth.of an inch thick. . , , Mrs. Jones’ bid on the entire lot was $5... . Another bidder quoted the same price per

thousand, but they went to Mrs, Jones because she figured

the unit price down to four decimals. , . , The other bidder calculated the price per lens down

from the plate glass circles, Mrs, Jones theorizes, are picture frames, book-ends and drapery holders. . . . A friend bought a dozen with the idea of converting . them into powder-boxes. , . LAh, well, they didn't cost much anyway,” sighs Mrs. Jones.

“Mood Color” Scheme at Roberts Park

THE CONGREGATION of Roberts Park Methodist church; 401 N. Delaware st., should be “in the mood” three weeks hence. . , . By that time the church's new “mood color” scheme will be completed. . . . Theory of the innovation is to decorate various church rooms with hues befitting the age groups and purpose for which they are designed... . For, instance, the children’s room will be painted “sunlight yellow.” , , , Peach walls will brighten the youth room and the skating rink will be aptly capped with an “outdoor” ceiling of eggshell blue. . .. Subdued gray-white walls will intensify the atmosphere of the sanctuary, while lights behind the stained glass windows will throw the brilliantly garbed holy figures in striking relief. , , . A special church committee, including Dr. Sumner L. Martin, pastor, selected the colors, . . , Incidentally, the church, oldest in the downtown district, is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year with the slogan “A Clean Church and a Clean Slate.” , .. The “clean slate” refers to its efforts to raise $45,000 with which to clear all debts.

47-Year Rail Career Ends

WHEN Engineer Harry B. Clow eased his iron into Union station «it 8 a. m. today, ending

rse > lly from Bellefontaine, O., he also closed the

doof on a 47-year railroading career. ...As he released the steam on the Big Four locomotive, friends, relatives and fellow-employees flocked around the cab to wring his hand. ... And for awhile, it

Inside Indianapolis

IF MRS, ROSEMARY JONES of 6264 Central ave.

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hh Wii Wenpgpeet® Mrs. Rosemary Jones , . . $5. bought a houseful of war surplus gadgets and a headache,

looked as if Mr. Clow had lodged a cinder in his eye on his final run. ...Is our face red? ,.. Private

Detective Robert M. Dodd placed a classified ad in

The Times and received a letter from the ad department promising him a rate discount if he paid up by Feb. 30. ... “I knew The Times could get a

lot of things done,” said Detective Dodd, “but never

believed it would be able to put two more days in February.” , . . Speaking of letters, City Engineer Thomas R. Jacobi displays one in which the correspondent complained: “Along our street the lights are alful dock.” , in the dark over the emergency 24-hour vigil kept by the fire department... , Over the phone the other day, a woman asked Fire Capt. Al Rubush of Station 3 whether the station would accept clothing for overseas relief. .,, The captain said, certainly. +. « “How long do you stay open?” the feminine voice asked innocently. , .. Capt. Rubush, who has stood many an all-night fire watch, did NOT burn up himself. . , . He just fumed a little. . . . Barbara Schaeffer of The Times society staff is fretting over the loss of her pet cocker spaniel, “Reggie,” given to her at a food editor's conference in Cincinnati last month. + » « “Reggie trotted out of an open gate at the Schaeffer home, 305 N. Drexel ave., Friday. ,.. She's five months old and solid black.

Suffering Rich By Howard Vincent O’Brien

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, Feb. 27.—A land of cone trasts, California — a place where extremes meet, Where else. I wonder, can you lie in a swimming pool and see snow-capped mountains above yoy? California is a larid of mystery, too. Why, for example, are all the creatures of the desert—plant and animal—so pale in color? The obvious answer is “protective coloration”; but this doesn’t explain why there are so many kinds of beetle—all extremely black. Some of these beetles emit an unpleasant and (to insects) lethal odor; and one zoological guess is that the blackness is a warning. Nobody knows. And why is the salton sea—a landlocked inland sea —so full of salt-water barnacles? Nobody knows that, either, One who travels must associate largely with the affluent, since only the affluent can travel. This year, the land has a thicker coat of affluence than usual. The air is thick with money.

Wants Go U nsatisfied,

PEOPLE who have money are said to be “rich.” And the fact that there is no other word for the cone dition of having money, seems to me rather significant, In. my youth—which was a period of tranquility the like of which I shall not probably see again—a rich man was said to be “well off.” That is, he had what he wanted—which can hardly be said of any rich man today. No matter how much money you have these days, you can't have what you want. Even more accurately, a wealthy person was once described as a “man of means.” This phrase is worth a moment's meditation.. It is an excellent example of semantics—the meaning

Aviation

BACK in the early 1920's when the postoffice de-

partment was operating the airmail, they quickly =

recognized that unless planes could be flown regularly at night the whole project would have to be abandoned. This introduced the age of round-the-clock commercial flying. Today we have our night-lighted federal airways with flashing beacons at 10-mile intervals. A white flashing light followed.by a red flash means no land ing facilities. A white flash followed by a green

means landing facilities available. A split white flashing beacon always indicates a*military airport. It's easier to find your way across cofntry following these light beacons on a clear night than during the daylight—with less chance of getting lost. All you have to do is follow them—and keep them on your left. Thus the development of night flying laid the groundwork for airline operations, Now let's studys another development which must be effective to consolidate air transportation in the over-all industrial picture. Man can fly safely and navigate accurately in the air when he can see the ground and the horizon, or even when both are obscured by clouds and fog. .

Fog Is Problem

HOWEVER, like every other human enterprise, a flight must be begun and ended. And. it is in this phase that scheduled air transportation today stands face to face with its most expensive limitations. The mechanical facilities are available for an airliner to land or take off under conditions where the ceiling is 400 to 600 feet and the horizontal vision is a quarter of a mile. But when Old Man Weather clamps the fog right down on the runway and you can’t see across the field, transportation stops. And

My Day

NEW YORK, Feb. 27—While at Hyde Park last week-end, I walked over to talk to a Norwegian-Amer-ican who lives in one of the houses on our land and does fine cabinet work. He was full of the letters which have just begun to come in from Norway about various members of his wife's family as well as his own. Storles of heroism poured out as I listened. They were tales of the feats of young men and womeh in the resistance movement, and even of children who, when questioned by the Germans, kept their own

counsel and never gave their families away,

I think my tenant was glad to have a chance to talk to me. He said some people wouldn't believe him

«and thought he was just giving out propaganda. Nat-

urally, to find that I could match his stories, not only in Norway but in many other countries, was a satisfaction to him, I want to tell you a little today about one branch of the work our army is doing in Germany which I think we know little about over here, In the American

"zone, Brig. vn, Robert A. McClure, a regular army

officer, 1s in charge of the policies and operations of the information-control division of our military government. He seems to be fully aware of the issues at stake and very well qualified for his job.

German ‘Thinking’ Is Influenced I TALKED to a number of men working under him and gained an insight into some of their problems. Hitler and Goebbels did a wonderful job, from their own point of view, on the thinking processes of the

We began, of course, in the period of psychological

of words. : To have means implies that you have ends. Means without ends is meaningless. And the life of the rich thése days is certainly meaningless, dt is a tale told by an idiot. Whatever may be said of the rich nowadays, they are certainly not “well off.” I should think that one of the pleasantest things money could buy would be privacy. What could be more delightful than luxurious solitude—the ability to retreat at will from a noisy world?

Deliberately Seek Crowds

YET THOSE with the means to tranquillity actually pursue clamor. They crowd like anchovies in a bottle into airless dives and with elbows pressed against their sides, sit stuffing their protesting bellies with starch and alcohol. Able to buy silence, they deafen themselves with a mad combination of tub-thumping music and inebriate laughter. They seem actually to have a preference for discomfort, And should, perchance, they find a place where every prospect pleases and only man is vile, they busy themselves in boosting it—luring newcomers to buy and build. i Alas, I have no more time for speculation on the mysteries of nature. I have to busy myself with the problem. of getting hotel accommodations in. Los Angeles—and if you don't think this is a problem, just come out and try solving it. Some hotels are too busy to answer the telephone, let alone discuss the ‘matter of reservations. And none will let a guest stay longer than a week. There is a room shortage, even for people of means.

By Maj. Al Williams

that's exactly where the big airliner begins to eat its head off. An airliner can earn its’ upkeep only when working aloft carrying passengers, freight and mail. These big fellows usually put in 18 to 19 hours in the air out 6f every 24 hours—with the ground time allocated to careful inspection and maintenance. A single fog-bound airliner, canceled out, sitting on! an airport, can cost an airline thousands of dollars a day, A widespread bad weather area grounding | dozens of the ships, can make a mighty big hole in| the airline's pocketbook. A short time ago we had| a really bad month and one airline official told me| that canceled-out flights had cost his company more than a hundred thousand dollars.

Don’t Fill the Bill «

WE'VE GOT radio beams, but they just don’t fill the bill for bringing airliners in for a landing under zero-zero visibility. Radar is coming. It promises to enable pilots to see airports and runways irrespective of the thickness of a fog blanket. If it can do that with absolute certainty and accuracy, then we've got the biggest answer to the most expensive problem and the greatest headaches, ' In addition, we have the engineers’ promise to burn off the fog with gas flames lining the rugways. When either or.both of these expedients permit the air transport to get on ‘or off an airport irrespective! of Old Man Weather’s cranky whims, then the air-|

i |Indiana’s nationally famous* fair

SECOND SECTION

Fairgre By ROBERT BLOEM FOR the second time since Pearl Harbor, the state fairground is due for a first class face-lifting. This time it will be reconverted to usefulness as a fairground. Last

time, shortly after the fateful attack on Dec. 7, 1941, the home of

became the site of one of the most tremendous supply operations of

« » It seems some citizens likewise are

the whole war effort.

air forces parts depot remaining to be cleared, army officials today gave the state unqualified assurance that plans for the 1946 fair could go into high gear by March 14. . » ~ SIMULTANEOUSLY, the technical service command which has been operating the depot, returned

state fair board. The action brought to 34 the total number of buildings already turned back.

ing officer of the depot, said most of the principal buildings, such as the cattle barn, the hog and sheep barns, would be available to the fair board by March 1. On or before the 14th, he said, the depot staff will move out bag and baggage. Meanwhild, Lt, Gov. Richard T. James and fair board Secretary Orval Pratt announced -they were in “complete agreement” with the army engineers on what work will have to be done to put the grounds in shape for the coming fair, ® . » “WE HAVEN'T agreed on the figure for a settlement yet,” Mr. James commented, “but there's been no controversy and we now are positive we'll have plenty of time to make preparations for the first post-war fair.” Key to the settlement factor, which is expected to run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, is the fact that many “improvements” made by the army are not regarded by the fair board as improving the grounds at all. On the contrary, Mr. Pratt said, much of the work done in making the grounds into a parts depot now must be undone. = ” x FOR EXAMPLE, the great barns which were the depot's warehouses, now house an estimated $150,000 worth of heating equipment and

With only a skelton of the great

Lt. Col. Fred F. Cupp, command

While the

und was an barn. Reconversion calls for

new lighting facilities. The engl rs have agreed that, while on some types of property this would be a decided improvement, there is no need for heating (in buildings which are used only in the late summer months. The heating units are bulky. They get in the way. They will have to come out. That's just one of the jobs to be done. The concrete floor of the cowbarn has been damaged to the extent of an estimated $30,000 by changes and additions including a railroad spur into the center of the building. The army needed the spur. The fair board doesn’t, so the federal government will foot the bill of putting the floor back in shape after the rails are removed. ” » ” A NUMBER of new buildings built by the army, such as a garage and a maintenance building, are valued at $67,229, But when {it comes to having a fair, they're just so much waste space, the fair board says. The engineers agree, so the buildings will come down. Even the little “honeymoon cottage,” home of former lieutenant governors, came in for new improvements by the depot forces. An extension of the little white picket fence around the cottage will stay, but the big new dining room added as an officers’ mess, will be torn off. The state had a cottage, it still wants a cottage, and the huge dining room is considered very un-

; WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 77, 1086 _ = START PLANS NEXT MONTH FOR INDIANA'S FAMOUS SHOW—

d Due for Face-Lifting’

-engine parts depot, trains went chugging Int and out of the huge cattle the huge poultry building to the dition with the federal government footing

In addition to extending the “honeymoon cottage,” the technical service command added a wing (left) to serve as a dining room for officers at the fairground depot.

cottage-like, even thought it was necessary and served its wartime purpose, ® »

” ALL ' TOLD, the government spent $463,607 on improvements it needed. There has been no contention that the money was wasted because the power lines, roads, lighting and buildings were needed at the time, But Indiana wants its fairground back in the condition it was given, and they're going to get it. Reason for a cash settlement is to permit the state to contract for the reconversion job itself. It will take four to six inches of

dirt on the race track to put it into

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homey little picket fence around

condition—another job t6 be done by late summer. Hundreds of yards of railroad track that criss-cross the grounds will come out, however, at railroad expense.

» . ~ GOVERNMENT resurfacing of roads and construction of approximately 600 yards of new road probably will be considered as permanent “improvement.” The state will benefit to the extent of a high priority on certain maintenance equipment such as power tugs, compressors and similar equipment, which will be taken along with whatever amount of cash is decided upon in the settlement.

By MARGUERITE SMITH O you wish you had a lit- | tle greenhouse. Or just

la ‘good place to start early plants for the garden?

Evanston ave., in just one

window that brings light to his

{time a colorful decoration for the | social room he will shortly parti-

Denzil P. Washmuth, 4856

month made himself a conservatory| §

whole basement and is at the same] *

| tion off. This little greenhouse developed

2, I is] from An ordinary basement window.

It is about 3 by 6 feet and can take a five-foot plant at its deepest part. A narrow raised shelf built around | the edge increases the really enor-

{mous quantity of plants it will hold |

and the whole thing is easily tended.

” » o MR. WASHMUTH began by removing foundation blocks to enlarge the opening, chipping odd blocks in half to make regular lines which he will later cover with ce- | ment as he has already done on the| sill. “Anyone could do it,” he said,

modesty for it looked pretty wonder- | ful to me. Mrs. Washmuth added: |

’| Butler school of religion will address with what I thought was impressive |,

County Christian Church union |

of poured cement in forms flaring at the bottom for greater strength. The top is made of sloping double~ strength glass, the sidewalls, above

3 Mr. and Mrs. Denzil P, Washmuth, 4956 Evanston ave. . . . ingenuity and “horse sense” is responsible for the basement greenhouse,

GARDENING: Here's a Tip on How to Start Early Plants

Use Your Basement for a

the cement foundation, of ordinary glass, The side windows swing open for ventilation and here he will later have screens so the windows can

BUTLER PROFESSOR T0 ADDRESS DINNER

Prof. 8. Marion Smith of the

e quarterly dinner of the Marion

“Of course, you've got to use a lit~| Friday at 6:30 p.m. In the Linwood | tle horse-sense in working out the Christian church.

plans.” This, it appears, is especially; necessary if you don’t want the

Prof. Smith will discuss “A Great

Work” at the meeting which will be

lines will be relieved of their greatest financial hazard, | house to sag.engagingly in the mid- dedicated to the function of men

And the public will enjoy real scheduled air service. Around-the-clock flying is dawning. Such a development will lift the private plane out of its present limited status, As science raises the range of human vision, re-| gardless of the weather, the entire aviation picture | brightens to unpredictable horizons.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the propaganda techniques used by the Nazis to bring it about. We are now carrying on a re-education and a ré-orientation program. This must not be relaxed for a minute or the consequences will be very serious. For the Nazi poison has gone deep into the hearts and minds of young and old in Germany.

Eyes Closed to Suffering |

THEIR FUEHRER gave them some material things | which they could appreciate—full employment (even if it was in preparation for war), better houses, radios, the little three-wheeled cars. They closed their eyes to the concentration camp which lay over the hill and which, as human beings, they had to forget in order to be able to enjoy life, The job before us is a long-term job, ._ : One of the things going on now is an effort to reestablish a free press, None has existed in Germany for many years. It is not wholly free today, for it is not allowed to criticize the military government or allied policy. However, the papers are staffed by German editors and German reporters, and are subject only to post-publication scrutiny. They are being encouraged to develop high modern standards based on the high ideals of American journalism, but they may not propagate ideas of racism, Nazism or militarism, The same géneral policy applies to radio news. This is one of the most important undertakings by our military government. Everyone should be watching it with interest and should insist that it be carried on until the roots of Nazism are wiped out.

warfare, to study the warped German mentality wid THE DOCTOR SAYS: Radium's Use Requires Training

Rays Useful Against Cancer

| By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.|dosage is based on this difference.

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dle of your African violets,

in the. church. The Linwood choir |

“You have to guard against the Will sing, directed by Mrs. Vina |

bean = having no support,” as Mr, Crosstreet. Washmuth es it, “so I put, wards, pastor of the Fairfax church, will lead the community singing.

a steel I-beam across the top of the window, and that supports the house.”

» » » HE DUG down beside the window

|dent, will preside at the dinner, and Dr. E. L. Day, executive secre- | tary of the union, will be in charge. | {perhaps 3% feet below the ground |The Rev. Ronald Secrest is church | level for his sidewalls, making them | pastor.

The Rev. Arthur Ed-

Harmon Pritchard, union: presi-

| RADIUM treatments may be given

to the outside of the body, or inside a body cavity such as the mouth or deep in the tissues. The best

given, tected by special guards and those who handle the radium also are protected.

When radium. treatments are normal tissues are pro-

any new method of treatment apparently gives benefit for a time.

| emanations are supposed to have extra value on this account, but

Plane Is Landed In Corn Field

SOUPY WEATHER, no flight instruments and lack of gas yesterday forced ex-serviceman Nor-

man D. Clifton, Green field, to land his small plane in a corn field located at about 2000 E. 80th st. As his fuel supply ran low, Mr, Clifton dropped low, looking for a landing spot.

Greenhouse

stay open all summer. As for the cost: ;

“I was figuring it up the other evening,” he said, “and I was surprised myself to see that it has cost only about $20 so far and another five dollars will more ' than take care of screens and the few hinges I have yet to get.” » » - THE BOTTOM of the ‘greenhouse” he filled with fine gravel to a depth of about five inches, over this he put a layer of sand in which he sinks his flower pots. In other years, Mr, Washniuth started his seeds in flats on a basement window shelf. This year he has deplhiniums and asters planted in an ingenious starting box that will shortly go into the greenhouse. He has lined a regular seed, flat’ with four layers of heavy wax paper, filled it with soll with a flower pot sunk in th center. * After he planted the seeds he soaked the seed bed, and now waters the flat only through the flower pot.

» n » MRS. WASHMUTH likes the window hothouse not only because of the flowers andoplants she can keep in it. but because it makes the basement so light. “I can sit down here and sew now and look at the flowers while I work,” she commented. Lolita Washmuth, 14, who has studied at John Herron Art institute, likes to rearrange her mother’s cut flowers until they are “just exactly right.” Her sister, Carol, 10, transplants ragged robins to adorn her playhouse yard in summer with fine

His engine cut Mr. Clifton out. at 300 feet. He was bound | for the Greenfield airport from Gary. Mr. Clifton was not hurt and the plane was only slightly .damaged. .

Spring waters containing radium

method of applying the radium and

the most suitable dose in each case requires special training for the physician who uses it. Arthur U, Desjarding and Marvin M. D. Williams point out that radium as such does not have any value in treatments, The effects which follow radium treatment are the results of rays given off by radium. Radium disintegrates slowly through the years, and as it does, it gives off “radon” which also can be used in treatment. . 28 » THE ACTION of radium rays on tumors and growths depends on the

cells of which the tumor is com-|

posed, as sole cells are more sensitive to the rays than others and

When radium is taken internally over a long period of time, it may have a harmful effect on the blood corpuscles. j Certain amount of the radium is eliminated through the bowel and kidneys, but a small percentage lodges in the bone, where it seems to become more active; the blood cells are manufactured in the bone marrow, so they are destroyed without difficulty. ” » » » WATER solutions of radon and radium chloride are sometimes used in the treatment of disease," but such solutions are of doubtful value. Msdny of the conditions in which

“radium. water” is recommended are chronie conditions in which

| their effect probably has nothing to do with their radioactivity, ~ ” n X-RAYS and radium have essentially the same effect on the tissues. At one time the X-ray will be used because of ease of application, and in another radium is employed, alone or in combination with Xrays, When a physician prescribes radium treatment, it does not necessarily ‘mean that the growth is cancerous, as radium is used in| treatment of certain skin disordérs, birthmarks, warts and kelojds (thick scars),

Certain forms - of .cancer are treated with radium with great suecess, notably those of the female genitalia,

disregard for the over-all effect. * HANNAH ¢ .. . “7

come up with something as sweeps ing as the Case bill. A

Under congressional procedures, if the senate and house versions differ, they nprmally are sent to “conference.” In this case the

tion: (1) Opinion polls have ine dicated public desire for a new law to curb the growing pows er of labor unions, and to them the senate has shown no reace tion; (2) the entire 435 member

-p Slection this year, and periodicals ly it passes bills bitterly opposed by the unions; (3) only one-third of the senate's membership of 08 comes up this year. The house is generally regards ed as “closer to the people,” bes cause of its frequent elections, But the senate will decide whethe sr there will be any new labor aw.

We, the Women——

Women Save Manners for

* Social Events

7 By RUTH MILLETT “WOMEN HAVE NO MAN. NERS” proclaims a well-known former sports writer in a recent magazine article. And what he says of the pushs ing, scowling, inconsiderate mane ner of women in public’ places is pretty much true But a better basis for his ace cusation would have been “Wome en Have Party Manners.”

For women do have manners, but the great majority of them hold their manners in reserve for social occasions,

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~ ” » IT IS usually the woman of the family who insists on meeting its social obligations. She's the one who says “What can I do to help?” when trouble strikes a family friend; who murmurs the polite thing at social functions, ete,

In their own social circles, women are meticulous about amenities.

But when in a crowd most women don't bother to be ladies They fight with salesgirls and waitresses, shove in crowds, sce cept men’s courtesies without a smiling “Thank you,” and wear icy stares when dealing with any one that don't know. : . » ” THEY fight with the person who shares a party line with them, but talk in dulcet tones to their frien2s, i g Somewhere, along the line wo