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“WHEN W. B. (BILLY) GRIFFIS became assistant supervisor of the city’s gamewel] division in 1926 someone told him to operate the mechanical end of the department and they would handle its political business. That was O. K. with Billy and, in his 34 years of
| fork ‘in the gamewell, he has never “dirtied his fin-
gers in the political mud pie,” as he puts it. “1 came here on Friday morning, Nov. 1, 1012, and have been working in some capacity through both Republican and Democratic administrations,” he boasted. “I read my politics in the papers,” Billy said. He doesn’t become entangled in. politics because he fervently believes that the gamewell department shouldn't be “disturbed.” . “The gamewell division is the heart of the fire department,” Billy explained. “No piece of fire apparatus ‘can be directed without our aid.” The gamewell division is located on the fourth floor of the City hall, housing huge fuses, relays, ticker tape machines, generators, telephone switch-
‘boards and location : charts. Interconnect all this
equipment and the heart of the fire department is evident,
Control Fire Movements
ALL FIRE reports come to this department, either from fire alarm boxes or by direct telephone. The reports are pin-pointed on a scroll-like chart of the
| city and the switchboard operator notifies the right
fire company to “make the run.”
politics in 34 years.
Miner's Welfare
WATH UPON DEARNE, England, March 9.—It is going to be difficult convincing anybody back in London that I have been crawling about in the Yorkshire coal mines. My face is nicely tanned as if from the tropics. 1 glow from ultra-violet-ray treatments and the mineralized waters of the pithead baths. Company doctors have checked those old wounds from the Pinnish-German campaign. I have had plenty of good beer, extra mea} and even a glass
"of milk.
The point is this: Every one of these coal miners’ welfare services, and many more, are constantly available here for employees of Manvers Main Oollieries, Ltd. Either they are entirely free, or the cost is a few pennies. Take your choice: Sun-ray lamps, intricate shortwave and heat machines, soothing baths, expert medical advice on general health and personnel guidance. It’s all here, maintained by a benevolent company interested in employee health and morale.
Suspicious of Innovations BUT WHAT happens? Each welfare innovation meets suspicion and indifference by the older miners. They deliberately avoid such benefits as sunlamps, established along a moving platform so that fn about two minutes they receive the effects of eight hours of sunshine. They shy away with muttered suspicions. This peculiar psychology
Science
CONCERN OVER the. danger of some Superatomic bomb of the future starting a chain reaction that would explode the atmosphere serves to remind us of the narrow margins under which life is possible compared to the wide range of conditions in the universe. The more we think about it, the more amazing §t becomes that life is possible at all upon this 10th-rate planet of ours as it revolves about our fifth-rate sun. Let us start with so simple’ a matter as temperature. The range in the universe is enormous. The temperature of empty space—so-called absolute zero is 450 degrees below zero, fahrenheit. When it is night on the moon, the temperature of that unlucky globe falls almost that low. In the other direction, it is impossible to say what the limit is. The surface temperature of the sun is 10,000 degrees, fahrenheit. But the temperature at the center of the sun has been calculated to be a much greater figure, somewhere between $000 and 7000 times as great. Original guesses as to the temperature at the penter of the atomic bomb explosion put it at about 1,000,000 degrees, but some scientists seem inclined now to believe that the temperature exceeded that at the center of the sun,
Higher Temperatures THERE ARE many stars with surface temperatures in excess of the surface &emperature of our sun and these may well have far higher temperatures at their centers, Life on earth would be extinguished in a matter of days if the temperature of the earth's surface rose above that of the boiling point of water—a tempera~ture of 212 degrees—and it would not last very long
My Day
NEW YORK (Friday)—Night ‘before last was an unforgettable evening. I went “to see the play “Antigone” with a friend who fortunately appreciated #t as much as I did. It would be presumptuous of me to try to praise adequately the work done by Miss. Katherine Cornell and Bir Cedric Hardwicke in the principal roles, Everything they did was beautifully done, and I can only express deep gratitude that it was possible for me to see something as moving and as beautiful as this play. It is not the play that Sophocles wrote, and yet the essence of what he wanted to convey is.all there. Tt is an adaptation by Lewis Galantiere from a
of the British collier
. French play by Jean Anouilh, I wish that I could
have seen it given in French before the Crerman censors in occupied France.
Passed German Censors M. ANUIEH must have done a very interesting plece of writing to get the story past the censors, and yet give the French, who were subtle enough to understand it, the lift of seeing their masters condemned for their crimes against France. Apparently, the Germans were unaware of what was being conveyed through the drama! : ! English adaptation is very beautiful and I
Inside Indianapolis Hoosier Profile] =
On a small piece of bronze apparatus, resembling a decoding machine, the number of the fire station is sef up, a button is pressed and the gong sounds in the fire station; The system of gongs, plus punches on a tape, inform the firemen of the fire's location. “In case’ our "electrical equipment is shut down, "I.merely throw a switch -that places this system on storage. wet-cell batteries that can operate for 60 hours,” Mr. Griffis explained. “However, we've, never had to operate on the batteries that long,” he asserted. “Our well-trained electricians can spot trouble in .a few minutes and correct it in that time, too.” Billy was born in Carthage, O., in 1878, and received his early electrical experience from his father, N. C. Griffis, with the telephone company in Cincinnati, O. His father worked with Thomas Edison as a railroad telegrapher in the east. “Dad’s really a master with the old key,” Billy said. “He’s 95 now and lives with my miece in Hamilton, 0,” After being educated in Carthage public schools, Billy began working with the telephone company. From 1907 to 1912, he was employed by the Terre Haute-Indianapolis-Eastern Traction Co. as a- dispatcher. -
Red Corriden Souvenir “Y QUIT my job and came to work here the next morning,” he states, And in his 34 years, he's been lineman, telephone operator, trouble shooter, assistant and supervisor. He became supervisor again when the Tyndall administration came into office in 1943. Billy is a baseball fan from way back. He once played semi-pro ball as a catcher around Cincinnati, and he has a bent finger to prove it, Last summer at a Cincinnati-Brooklyn ball game, John Corriden, Dodger coach, gave Billy a souvenir ball from the game in remembrance of the time “we slugged the old apple around in our youth.” “I haven't been seeing many ball games since my wife died a few years ago,” he said. “But I'll be out at Victory field when the season opens this year.” He'd have to travel the length of the country to see his children and grandchildren. One daughter, Mrs. Sylvia Frakes lives in Yonkers, N. Y.; another, Mrs. Gladys Andersen in Los Angeles, Cal, and his son, V. A. Grifis in Pt Scott, Kas. He has three grandchildren, two of whom were recently released from the armed forces. Billy's proud of his association with the fire and police departments, He belongs to the International Municipal Signal association and was president of the organization in 1930. He helped organize and was president of the International Firefighters association from 1918 to 1924. A 32d degree Mason, he belongs to Marion lodge 35, Scottish Rite and the Shrine, “I'm eight years beyond the retirement age,” the immaculately dressed Billy said, “but I wouldn't think of quitting in my prime.” He loves chasing fire engines. Stillerman.)
By Nat A. Barrows
must be clearly understood, or the impending nationalization and state operation of all British mines will bog down before it gets a decent start. No heavy worker anywhere has more reason for suspicion than the collier in this country. Manvers, with its superbly operated “picture postcard” ming at Barnborough, unfortunately stands apart. Too many private owners ignore the workers’ welfare and underground conditions.
Whipped Dog Attitude
BY LONG and bitter experience the miner has developed the attitude of a whipped dog. He mistrusts any pat on the head for fear it will. be followed by a kick. Even in the best mines he has been conditioned to think “They're merely giving me welfare because they- want more work out of me.”
(By Larry
It is a discouraging state of affairs for those
seriously coprerned with improving the miners’ lot. More than one enlightened private owner has thrown up his hands after repeated attempts at extra benefits. The labor government will have this problem of depressed mental outlook, tossed smack into its lap after nationalization. The danger is that the government may fail to appreciate how deeply reactionary and resistant to changes even the most socialistic miner has become. Ignorance and superstition are not the least of the obstacles before state operation of Britain's basic industry. ’
By David Dietz
if it fell permanently below 32 degrees, the freezing point of water. While mankind might work out methods of surviving for a time a temperature continuously below freezing, it would mean the start of a world-wide glacial age, the death of all plant life, and eventually starvation for all animal life, including man.
Depending Factors
PRESENT temperature conditions on earth are the
composite result of three factors. One is the output
of heat from the sun. The second is the distance between earth and sun. And the third is the constitution and composition of the earth’s atmosphere.
Pérhaps the rotation of the earth on its axis should
also be mentioned. Temperatures on the moon range from approxi-
mately that of boiling water to a temperature close
to that of empty space. The reasons for this are two-
fold. One is the fact that the moon turns on its
axis in the same length of time that it goes around the earth.
The result of this is that any given spot on the moon's surface has day for approximately two weeks and night for an equal length of timg. The second reason is that the moon has no atmosphere. During the long day the moon's surface bakes in the direct sunlight, getting hotter and hotter. During the long
night, the temperature quickly goes down and down.
Our atmosphere keeps out a great deal of the sun's radiation but also acts as a blanket to hang onto the radiation that does get through. Moreover, # the movement of currents in the earth's atmosphere
helps to distribute the solar heat more evenly.
There are many variations between temperature on the earth’s surface and the temperature at various levels in the earth's atmosphere and many of these
are poorly understood at the moment.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
as fine as this is on our New York stage and that it
has a good audience, ’
When the curtain went down, it took me a minute to realize that the play was over and that I was not in ancient Thebes, but in the modern city of New York, where the same old fight is going on between the things of the flesh and the things of the spirit! We certainly need a modern Antigone, but I don't
known just where we are going to find her!
G. 1.’s Show Appreciation
A REQUEST has come to me and I am glad to comply with it. In a letter from West Drayton, Mid-
dlesex county, England, is the following paragraph:
“Would you through your daily column, give a mother's thanks for all those nice letters which have been sent to this country by returned G. Is? They
are most gratifying.”
I'am very glad that our young soldiers were so appreciative of the hospitality shown them by individuals in Great Britain and that they took the
trouble to write to those who had been kind. Over the
small amount of oatmeal. Or we can use stale bread to make plain or French toast. agriculturé also urges the use of potatoes instead
of bread, and some ladies may be glad to know that
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SECOND SECTION
TODAY is graduation day for 47 students at Purdue university but there'll be no caps and gowns in evidence. The students, state police trainees and city police officers, have just completed a two-week course of training in police techniques sponsored by Purdue and Indiana universities, the F. B. 1, the Automobile Protective and Information Bureau and the state police. Prof. J. L. Lingo, director of the
school and head of the Purdue university safety institute, and Col.
perintendent, will officiate at ceremonies concluding the course this afternoon. » " » THE CLASS consists of 25 state police trooper candidates and 22 police officers from Hoosier cities. The city policemen, who came from Logansport, Hammond, Noblesville, Terre Haute, Anderson, Lafayette, La Porte and Huntington, will return to their regular duties, but for the state police rookies it's back to the classrooms to continue their training in practical experience under the guidance of veteran officers. The police training school, an experiment expected to set a pattrn for other states, will make law enforcement more efficient by standardization of policing methods, according to police administrators. What's more, it is expected to save the taxpayers money. o » » THE AVERAGE age of the state trooper candidates is 25. All are
MUSIC THERAPY—
Austin R. Killian, state police su-
Mad Pianist To Play Over Radio Sunday
radio yesterday morning, I heard an appeal asking that all of us eat one less slice of bread a day and making the very good suggestion that, « instead" of having bread for breakfast, we have a
DETROIT, March 9 (U. P.).— Music Master X, the mad Nijinski of the piano, was the center of a national psychiatric test today, but his tortured mind was unaware of the experiment. Mr. X, a famous pianist until his mind went blank nine years ago, will be the subject of a demonstration of “music therapy,” that momentarily brings relief from the jumbled voices of insanity. ‘ Arrangements are being made for Mr. X to play Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody for a nation-wide radio audience tomorrow night from a small room at the Wayne county general hospital. 8-8 8 DR. TRA ALTSHULER, his physician and friend, hopes the demonstration will be a step toward recovery for the mad musician, who like Ballet Master Vaslev Nijinski lost his mind at the height of his fame. Dr. Altshuler already has demonstrated the value of music therapy—the formation within the mind of a “tonal world that refuses to become insane.” Mr. X recently gave a concert for the International Association of Music Teachers, and while playing brilliantly, appeared normal. When his flying fingers stopped, he relapsed into mumbling and Helplessness, 2 ” ” A FEW DAYS ago, Dr. Altshuler took him to a concert of the Detroit symphony orchestra. During the program, Mr. X's confusion vanished and he followed the piano parts with his, hands, as though duplicating them on an invisible keyboard. Music Master X will play on the “We the People” radio program at 9:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) tomorrow (CBS). Hands Co-ordinate His mind is so confused he is unable to turn the pages of the score, a chore Dr. Altshuler does for him. But his hands co-or-dinate perfectly with his eyes while playing. He is called Mr. X because state law forbids, use of his true name. Mr. X is 45. He became interested in music when he was 7, studied the plano constantly and was a patron of the Detroit symphony. He became insane in 1937.
¢ » ” ” DR. ALTSHULER and Dr. T. K. Gruber, county hospital superintendent, began their music theraipe experiments 18 months ago after Mr. X failed to respond to heat, insulin and electrical shock treatments, «> Mr. X showed. ho interest at first. Then, he began to listen at~
The department of |tentively to the music.
“Still later, he began to play himself,” his doctor said. =~ “Now he plays Dawlessly.”
~The Indianapolis Time
SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1946
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Instructors of the State Police training school closing today at Purdue are: (left to right) M. Sgt. Norman C. Burnworth, state police; G. H. Hennegar, Automobile Protective and Information bureau; Capt. Don L. Kooken, director of state police training division, and Prof. J. L. Lingo, director of the school and
head of the Purdue safety institute.
of them served overseas, so the fact
DEAR MISS TILLIE:
other mothers. How shall I go about it? Social Parent.
» s 2 DEAR SOCIAL PARENT: Go back and visit school—and go often. The teacher won't Le so busy as she was on the first day. But do more than visit. Ask her about the Parent-Teacher association. Almost every school has such a club that meets once a month (and I believe its dues are the lowest on record—20 cents a year). You'll find, in the club, people like yourself who want to get acquainted with each other. The meetings are both educational and social. = Usually there's a speaker or music or both, and then a social hour with refreshments and opportunity for teachers and parents to talk. Last year one of our former pupils—an officer avith plenty of gold braid—told us what the school had meant to him. And at Christmas time, the children put on a play that their teacher had written. (The children’s acting might well cause Hollywood juveniles to look to -their laurels.) The president of the club, one of “our mothers,” will probably ask you to serve on a social or program committee. That will help you know people, too. The P.-T. A. committees do a
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had in the army or navy.
I'm new to the city and my little girl has just started in the first grade. I took her to school the first day, but I didn’t have a chance to talk to her teacher, as there were about 50 other mothers starting their children. I'd like to get acquainted with the teacher and the
AFTER 80 HOURS OF LECTURES ON CRIME AND-SAFETY— =
47 Police - Students- Graduate
Today is commencement day at Purdue university for these would-be state police rookies and officers from Hoosier city forces,
world war II veterans and many the same amount of free time they|of the F. B, I. gave practical dem-
onstrations.
that the school was operated on a| The lessons ranged from ‘crim- THE SCHOOL military basis meant hothing tolinal and accident investigation to|Prof, Lingo. Other instructors were Lewis and Hutcheson is explained them. ‘They were organized into|the history and development of po-|Capt. Don L. Kooken, director of on the ground that these two tosections and platoons and marched |licing. Instruction also was given to mess and classes. A full training {in the use of firearms, scientific schedule—80 lecture hours crammed |laboratory methods, public speak-|neoar Automobile Protective and into 14 days—offered them about |ing and police photography. Agents|Information Bureau.
MISS TILLIE'S NOTEBOOK ... . By Hilda Wesson
s ers, with a membership of more o Parents: Visit Schoo ©) fm uF ion ws oid pee « political contests in several -doubte don't. They think that because of it, children are learning more than they ever did in their lives. Teach-
ers believe that it's just as important for children to learn to
the state police training division; M. Sgt. Norman C. Burnworth, Indiana state police, and G. H. Hen- . =
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dent Truman's conference this week . {with Labor Leaders John L. Lewis
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as an effort to, head off threatens ing difficulties between the admins istration’ and the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. is showing ine creasing displeasure with the ads ministration, which is taking it serie ously because of the coming cone gressional elections, A. F. of L. spokesmen complain that the rival C. I. O. has been given undue consideration in forme ing the wage-price policy. They charge that Lee Pressman, OC, I. O, general counsel, wrote one of the official stabilization orders intends ed to put the new policy into effect,
» . » THEY ASSERT also that the working out of a pattern of wage increases around 18% cents an hour has rewarded the CO. I. O, unions that went on strike, and for the present has penalized the ‘much larger number of A. F. of L. unions that didn't strike, The A. F. of L's animus also is reflecied in its refusal to name 8» candidate for the office of second assistant secretary in the department of labor. Daniel W, Tracy, former A. PF. of L. official, was first assistant - secretary until a few months ago. ‘He resigned in apparent disagree~ ment with some policies of Secretary Schwellenbach, and eventually Second Assistant Secretary John W. Gibson - was promoted to his place. : 3 . = = " MR. GIBSON until last fall was president of the Michigan ©. 1. O, council. The A. P. of L. was asked by Mr. Schwellenbach to nominate a man to succeed him as second assistant—but the A. F. of L, claiming to be the country's dominant organization, declined to “play second fiddle.” Apparently the administration is viewing with some alarm the possibility that considerable A. P, of L. political support, which is supposed to be non-partisan but was predominently Democratic during the Roosevelt. years, may be wooed away by the Republicans. Mr. Truman's invitation to Messrs.
oo» was directed’ by
gether are expected to wield large influence on A. F, of L. policies.
¥ THE TWO labor leaders went into a fist fight once in an A. F. of L. convention over organizational afe fairs—but not over politics. Mr, Lewis, it. will be recalled, is president of the United Mine Work-
ful states, including Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohjo. Mr. Hutcheson is head of the big carpenters union, and in several presidential campaigns he has chairmaned the labor division of
take on responsibility as to study what's inside the covers of a book.
the Republican national committee.
And do children love it! They
Parents, teachers and chil dren, too, are urged to send their school worries to Miss Tillie, in care of The Times.
lot of work. They help teachers raise money to buy pictures, radios, etc, for their schoolrooms. They
supplied with seeds and bulbs. They manage paper sales and have school suppers and entertainment, and are, in fact, a very important part of the school. You'd be surprised how much better children get along with their teachers when their mothers come regularly to the P.-T, A. They like the idea that their mothers and
gives them a feeling of security in their school life. . Andon the teacher's side, getting acquainted with parents means better insight into the lives of their children, and, as a consequence, a clearer understanding of how to teach them more effectively. So don't feel strange about asking to join the P.-T. A. It's your club, you know. v » tJ » Kids, do you like your mothers to come to P.-T. A. meetings? And teachers, what do you think of the P.-T. A? » ~ » DO YOU THINK— That there's too much of this extra-curricular-activity business in
publish the school paper, sell it and make money on it. They give entertainments to raise funds to pay for equipment needed by the school—radios, loud speakers, cur-
We, the Wome Calls Teachers
the teachers know each other. It
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TODAY SUE
tains for the stage. 2 They arrange for dances and parties, hiring’ the orchestra and buying the refreshments, selling the tickets and under such management a - keep the gardens in the school yard Jhig=at is are », paying propos They organize bands and choruses and public speaking groups. They give time for office work and housekeeping jobs. They carry on campaigns for candidates for class officers and manage the voting. They solicit funds for Junior Red Cross, children’s theaters and museum memberships. They're so busy with all these activities that you are perhaps led to remark. “School wasn't like this when I was young. Don't the kids do any studying any more?” Indeed they do, and perform. better in their work because of a genuine interest in their lives. And teacher? in the old days, when readin’ and 'ritin’ and ’'rithmetic madé up the entire course of study. Today she’s a part of all the activities—a spona consultant, a business director, and, most of all, a friend of the kids, and one of them in learning this game of living. . SAID: My teacher just yelled and yelled at us ajl afternoon. Maybe we were bad, but we were badder still when the schools these days? Teachersishe yelled.
Specialists, but Pay Is Too Low
By RUTH MILLETT ALL BUT 179 of the more than 800 teachers in the public schools of Paterson, N. J., suddenly became too “ill” to report for work one day recently—in protest against .the city's withholding from them a cost-of-living bonus, Parents who had deposited Johnny in front of his schoolhouse at the regular time’ that morning had to go back and get him a little later. A teachers’ strike—extending over even a week—is one that ought to get results. For after a few days of having the kids under, foot, mothers wolld say to fathers, “Those teachers are worth whatever they say they are.” : ® = IT WOULD probably take 4a strike in most communities to make parents realize just what teachers are paid-—-and what they are worth, just for keeping children out of mischief and out of the way for six or seven hours a day. School teachers are completely taken for granted by most parents. They wouldn't be if the parents —fathers as well as mothers—vise ited their kids’ classrooms occasionally. .
Far easier for her
STATE GOP INVITES VETERAN ACTIVITY
Indiana Republicans today welcomed war veterans into the organization and asked them to take an active interest in party affairs. Gov, Gates and state G.OP.
pealed for veteran participation yesterday at an organization meeting of committees preparing for the party's summer nominating convention. “We need your views and ideas to strengthen our party aims,” Gov. Gates told the veterans, “We must recognize that the Republican party has traditionally been the party of the veteran and of his best interests” Mr. Jenner said, George L. Denpy, Indianapolis, was elected chairman of the plat-
|form advisory committee. Thomas
W. Hodges,
committee. Secretary for. both
groups 1s Lows Bowman, wpolls, : .
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War Department Cuts Down Bread
WASHINGTON, March 9 (U, P.) ~The war department supported President Truman's plea for food conservation today by making drastic cuts in the bread and cereals served at the Penta-
Workers in the huge war department office building were informed they would find at the cafeterias: One breadless day a week, customers limited to one slice of bread per meal, no breakfast cereal served one day a week, and discontinuance of muffins and rolls made entirely of wheat
PATTON'S WILL FILED LOS ANGELES, March 9 (U. P). —Gen, George 8. Patton’ for probate today, left Gary, was elected |and securities to his | chairman of the veterans’ advisory (daughters. Patton's wilow was left
I spent a day recently watching a first-grade teacher handle a roomful of children at the pushing, shoving, wriggling age. And the way she handled them seemed like a modern miracle.
» » o SPELLING became a game; reads ing became fun, Never was a child made to feel stupid or disgraced--as once so often happened i= school. And the business of the day, for all its moved ahead like clockwork. .