Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1946 — Page 21

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party, at Mrs. Schafhauser’s request.

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Inside Indianapolis What's in a 2 Name?

| THERE WAS“a series of obidicidences: a4 United Laundries, 232 N. Illifois st., the other day, namely about names. The clerk there, Mrs. Jane Schlueter,

. was a little amysed when one of her first customers,

a Mr, Christian, was followed closely by a Mr: Bishop.

Then she thought the .coincidence was complete

a few minutes later, when another customer gave his name as Mr. Blessing. The afternoon, however, fol-

Jowed right along in ‘the morning's pattern. A -Mr. Throne was followed closely by a Mr, Powers. Then on their heels came a Mr, Sterling, no less... . It's a

bit gloomy over around the Claypool hotel coffee Tomorrow will be the last day for one of the favorite persons of both regular customers and employees. Mrs, Caroline Schafhauser, manager

for three years, is leaving to take a job in Monticello,

Ind. Mrs. Schafhauser is such a favorite that some of the customers say they'd rather do without butter than, her friendly greeting. There'll be no farewell She explains she didn’t want a farewell party because she didn't want to cry on her last day here, -

Mrs. Jane Schlueter . Blessing,

. + After the Bishop came

Life in Tokyo

TOKYO, May 3.—A life of ease and personal comfort is enjoyed by high-ranking American officers here, Enlisted men live in converted office buildings or gquonset huts. Despite pronouncements on the virtues of equality and democracy, general headquarters itself is pro-

viding the Japanese with an example of the old army rule: Rank has its privileges. The personal service provided by the Japanesegovernment at the request of general headquarters averages five servants for each general. The cost is borne by Japan as part of the cost of occupation. Since Japan's ability to pay is limited, the amount spent for this purpose will reduce the amount available for reparations and thus the American taxpayer will, ini. the end, help foot the bill. Aside from personal servants and hotel billets for single officers, general headquarters.is securing private dwellings for officers who have dependents. Wealthy Japs are moving out to make way for generals, colonels and majors. Headquarters has taken over the Imperial hotel here and it houses 85 “guests.” The Japanese employees provided at the request of headquarters No. 460, which averages 5.2 servants per general or’ other “Vv. 1. P.” (very important person).

40 Japs for 14 Colonels

OFFICERS below the rank of general are assigned to the Mitsui club where 40 Japanese employees care for the needs of 14 colonels and majors, or to the Philippine embassy where 41 employees minister to 24 officers, or to the navy club where 93 Japs look after the wants of 80 officers. These figures do not

Calorie Cutting

(Second of a Series) WASHINGTON, May 3. — A 1500-calorie-per-day diet, suggested for twice a week use by Americans to save food for Europe's hungry, cuts in half the amount recommended for a moderately active man by the national research council when it set up a nutrition yardstick for the nation in May, 1941. It is lower than the 2700 calorie daily allowance set for an emergency diet during the depression years of nutritionists advising the department of public welfafe at Roches-

ter, N. Y.

The nutrition yardstick was set as a goal toward which to aim in planning practical diets for a nation preparing for war, The emphasis was on getting every man, woman and child as well nourished as possible. The standards may, therefore, be higher than the amounts required for bare maintenance,

Calories Measure of Energy CALORIES are a measure of heat or energy. They may be used to measure the energy to be got from food or the energy required by the human body. In determining the energy, or calories, required by the body, scientists start: with a base, called the basal metabolism. It is usually expressed in terms of calories of heat lost from the body over a given period, such as one hour or 24 hours, when the person is lying at rest. It is measured about 14 hours after the last meal to eliminate the amount of energy spent in digesting and absorbing food. In sleep even less energy is spent, but the waking, resting state is more practical for measuring basal energy expenditure.

My Day

NEW YORK (Thursday) ~The other evening, I attended and spoke at a dinner for the United Jewish Appeal. It was given for men in the entertain-

ment field. Billy: Rose, the producer, presided and spoke with deep féeling of his experience in visiting. displaced persons’ camps in Germany dast November. The gens erous response of those present at the dinner was truly heart-warming. The experiment of driving up to Hunter college yesterday was fairly successful, but it still took me nearly 50 minutes to make the trip!. It is a pleasanter trip. by car, but I am not sure driving in New York City isn’t. more wearisome than taking the subway, even though the latter doesn’t start at your own door and bring you back there. I was attending, as an ex-officio member, the meefings of the United Nations subcommission on the status of women. Their chief discussion yesterday centered on the purpose for which the subcommission wis appointed.

Seek Methods for Operation THEY FINALLY décided their objective was to raise the status of women so as to achieve equality with ‘men and greater freedom. In the.coufge of the next few meetings, I think, they.will undertake to examine methods through which this can be accomplished” and the areas in which the work must begin. As in the case of the temporary human rights

! 5, Suminlaagos, they will only make recommendations to

‘the eeononsie and social council, but theif esumisep-

"ler

, wrinkles.

to find them an Indiana salesman.

‘to teach youngsters the dances of the good old days.

FRANK KIRCHBERGER, of Amietichn Airlines, almost fainted the other day when’ he looked toward’ the counter where Miss Ann Knight was talking to .a customer. “There on the counter was a bag of candy, torn open. The cardinal sin at the. office is to munch candy in the presence of customers. Mr. Kirchberger thought perhaps Miss Knight had been caught off guard so he snatched-the candy off the counter and put it back on a desk. He walked away and a Tew minutes later looked back.. There.was the offending sack, back on the counter again. As soon as the customer left he hurried up to the clerk to see if she'd gone ‘berserk. But before he could say a word she jumped on him, saying: “What did you mean taking that passenger's candy?” ... We see the postoffice is ever alert. In the mail we got a letter from Ogunquit Art Center, in Ogunquit, Maine. Evidently their mailing machine had slipped, because the stamp was on the rear: instead of front right. The painstaking

postoffice had turned it over and cancelled it on the t

back. . . . It's no wonder postmen and other people who.have to deal with addresses in Indianapolis get Looking in the directory we notice there's a S. East st..- Eastern ave. and Southeastern ave There's also a Northwestern ave. and a north and south West st.

Suspender Salesman Sought

THE STRANGEST requests pour into the office of Paul Ross, in the state departméht of commerce and public relations. Yesterday he received a letter from a-suspender company in Brooklyn, N. Y., asking him Mr. Ross says he'll admit it sounds like a job with plenty of snap and elastic possibilities. But, says he, his job is selling Indiana not suspenders. What's more, how could he recommend the. product to anyone, he queries, since it isn't made in Hooslerland? At any rate, Mr. Ross wrote them- politely and said it was more than he could take on his shoulders right at this time. . C. C. Becker of 2007 N. Capitol ave. is concerned about the way old fashioned waltzes, quadrilles and polkas are becoming past arts. What this country needs, he tells us, is a revival of an all American dance program consisting chiefly of quadrilles. "What Mr. Becker would like to do is to see a school opened

Then if the pupils got proficient enough, let them give demonstrations. He'd particularly like to revive dances of Washington, Jefferson, Limcoln, Harrison and Wilson’s times. . . . That sly grin on the face of Brown (Doc) Ransdell, Indianapolis correspondent

for the Louisville Courier-Journal, is an inch or so|j broader this week. He's the grandad (and not so old |; either) of Emily Ransdell Vogt, born in Boston, Mass. |

By William H. Newton

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Captains and lieutenants live at the Yurako build- | $5

ing where 458 Japanese look after 640 officers. Enlisted men who are stationed in downtown billets such

as the SBanshin building have 318 employees for 929!

men. As a rule the proportiohs gun: For each general, 5.2 Jap employees; colonels, 2.8 employees; majors, 1.7; captains, .7, and enlisted men, .3.

Finest Homes for Generals IN FEBRUARY when Gen. MacArthur announced plans to open Japan to army wives and children beginning May 1 he warned living conditions would “represent a type of pioneering reminiscent of the

pioneer days of our own West during the 19th cen-|:

tury.” The families of generals, colonels, lieutenant col- | onels, and majors who come to Tokyo will pioneer- it

in the finest homes in the city. Houses are graded “

thus: For generals, class A—Finest homes in Tokyo. For colonels, class B—Typical house contains 11 rooms, a Japanese style bath, two western-style toilets. For lieutenant colonels, class C—Typical house has| nine rooms, one Jap bath, one western toilet.

For majors, class D—Eight or nine rooms, one Jap-| =

anese bath and one Japanese style toilet. The Japanese government has been asked to provide electric stoves and refrigerators for all the houses. Families of captains and lesser grades and those| of enlisted men will live in quonset huts. There will! be central messing and bathing facilities for them.

By Jane Stafford

The basal energy requirements vary with sex, age | and body surface. This last is usually roughly de-| termined from weight and height.

Energy Requirements ADDED TO the basal requirement are requirements for the activities of the waking day. These have been figured on a calorie-per-pound-per-hour rate. For example, the average grown person might use half a calorie per hour for each pound of his body weight when just lying still but awake. If he walks very fast he may use “slightly over four calories per hour for each pound of body weight. From such figures, scientists have calculated that a shoemaker would require between 2000 and 2400

calories per day while a lumberman would require over 5000 calories per day. A seamstress requires 1800 to 2000 calories a day while a cleaning woman would need 2700 to 3000 calories daily. Women need more calories when they are pregnant and still more when they are nursing their babies. Children need additional calories as they grow older in order to meet the increasing size of . their | bodies. They also need more to make up for the] amount spent in physical activity. This is particularly true of boys. ,As one scientist says, and most parents will agree, no one has yet been able to measure accurately the enormous amount of energy put forth by a child, especially an active boy.

NEXT: How to figure calories.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

dations will look toward the establishment of a permanent subcommission, and that permanent group will be able to do a great deal to change the world atmosphere in regard to women.

Meeting Set for Youth : MISS THOMPSON and I lunched with George Bye to discuss some business, Late in the afternoon, when I got home from the United Nations meetings, I found a British publisher, Frederick Muller, and the countess Regina Regis de Oliveira waiting to have tea with me. I was so late we had been talking only a few minutes when Dr. Algernon Black, of the Ethical Culture society, came in. I asked him to tell fie about the encampment for citizenship which the American Ethicdl union is sponsoring at, the Fieldston school, New York, from July 1 to Aug. 10. It sounds like an exciting adventure. The .age group is to be from 17 to 23. Any young people throughout the United States—veterans, students, farmers, teachers, industrial workers—anyone within the age group and able to meet the qualifications may enjoy this interesting experience. , The great city of New York will be used as a laboratory. Outstanding . educators will be the directors in the various flelds of activity. As the name of the encampment implies, it is an effort to help the young people of today to. understand their world in transition. We have won a war. We still have a peace to win, To do that successfully, our

{of cod, sardine, and halibut.

' EVERY DAY IS SATURDAY » Donald greets the world with a grin as his mother bathes him.

By CLIFF McDOWELL NEA Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.—The forces engaged in the battle of the sea lions seem to have missed the

word that war in the Pacific ended

on V-J day. Their conflict is just reaching its climax. The feud is between the herds of sea lions that populate the waters

{off the California coast and the

commercial fishermen who earn their living from these waters, and it’s been going on for a long time. Fishing interests contend the sea lions, being polygamous creatures indeed, have increased their population to such an extent that their fish diet is depleting the schools These are the fish upon which the fishermen depend for a livelihood and which make up a good portion of the coast's food menu.

RHANNAH |

CAMERA CLOSEUPS .

A LONG DAY AHEAD ... Mrs. George Shults, 553% Massachusetts ave, mother of triplet boys, sleepily turns off the alarm at 5:30 a. m.

JUST ANOTHER MEAL , .. This time Dennis takes the bottle, but his brothers will follow in rapid succession on the 10 a. m. schedule.

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is fully dressed

FRIDAY, MAY" 3 1946

. By Victor Peterson 4

A Day in he Life of the Shults Triplets

Ts STILL EARLY ... By 6:15 a. m, Mrs. Shults

and started on the first feeding.

Wide awake, Dennis enjoys his bottle.

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THE SECOND ROUND... Flanked by 12 bottles, Mrs. Shults pre«

pares formula for the rest of the

day and the early feeding on the

morrow, It takes a case of condensed milk a week to feed the triplets.

READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT . .. All fed and polished the -6-month-old boys look up to see what is going on. But it is getting.

near their 10 a. m. feeding and their tummies are ready to be filled. So here in their best bib-and-tucker are Donald, Dennis and Danny. The parents can single any one out immediately, but for the aid of friends and relatives name bracelets have been attached to each of the

little fellows.

mother, who has

the world of the sea lions was fired by the California state fish and game commission, This official arbiter declared it was planning to kill off half the sea lions along the state's coast. “Fine,” said the fishermen. “Treason!” barked the sea lions, in a mighty chorus. And Dr. Robert C. Miller, director of the California Academy of Sciences, came to their afd, voicing opposition to the proposed slaughter and suggesting further research | on the subject. He offered the services of his institution to conduct a survey. Roth Dr. Miller and Dr. Robert T. Orr, currator of birds and mammals and chairman of the conser-

The shot that was heard around |

young le must know more about being good eitizens than their elders knew.

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vation committee of the American Society of Mammalogists, contend {that the damage done by the sea {lions is a gross exaggeration.

Differ on Damage

They said the dietary whimsies |of the sea lion had been studied in

{1899 and in 1018 and that the over-|

whelming preference on sea lion menus was squid and octupus, with only a slight craving indicated for rock cod, sardines, and salmon. But Charles McLaughlin, president of the executive board of Local 36, Small Boat Fishermen of Southern California (C. I. Q.), de-

each boat of halibut fishermen from $50 to $100 a day because of mutilated fish. He estimates the sea lion population al the Western coast to be between 15,000 and 20000 and he wants half of these to be removed. Dr. Francis N. Clark, chief of the bureau of marine fisheries, contends. about 8000 sea lions inhabit the California coast. “He says that the control measure would not deci mate the herds but would alleviate the damage suffered by fishing interests.

County Joins Melee

Los Angeles county joined in the |melee’ when Supervisor Raymond V. {Darby filed a request with the fish and game commission. asking that the sea Hons living on Catalina island be spared inasmuch as hey are a tourist attraction, Victor Martin, the fisherman's Northern California representative,

clares that sta lions are costing

sald “the sea lion is just as de-

TIME FOR REST... Brother James plays with Dennis as Danny looks on. Donald looks away, bored. But it Is no rest period for the

the day's wash to do.

Californians Debate War on

structive as the mountain lion. They are of no value except as a tourist attraction, and reduction of the herds would not hurt the tourist.” A poll taken in 1944 of troll fishing boats, he stated, showed sea lions had inflicted an average of $500 damage to the equipment of each vessel during the year. Some 1000 boats were polled, Martin said.

Suggests New Census

Cruelty to Animals took an interest in the discussion when Charles W. PFriedricks, secretary-manager, voiced skepticism as to how fast the herds had grown. He stated “we woulde Be definitely opposed to anything like wholesale slaughter.” He suggested a new census to find out just how many there really are. Dr. Alden H. Miller, director of the University of California's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, termed the proposal to kill off half the

herds “a definite threat to the species.” . Meanwhile, Emil N. Ott Jr, executive secretary of the state

fish and game commission, has announced that Max Hoffman of

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D, ALL YOUNG children are susceptible to German measles (rubella). Young adults may acquire the ifi= fection if they missed it in childhood. In the last few years it has been learned that it may ‘cause serious complications in the infant in the early part of pregaancy. : When expectant mothers acquire German measles during the first two months of pregnancy, their Julies may be affected. Children under such circumstances may have. cataracts of the lens of the eye, imperfect development of the heart, defifness, and mental de~ ficiency. -

» " THE PROBABLE explanation for this unusual complication is an infection of the developing baby, as the same virus affects tissues in a different way, depending on the stage of development.

The Society for the Prevention of-

ALL FOR A DAY... Well, almost. Daniy gets his evening meal and then off the boys go to bed.

Now Mother Shults can mend some clothes.

Sea Lions

Eureka, Cal, has been granted a permit to use 25 sea lions in an experiment to determine if their carcasses have ahy commercial value, Sea Lions, Not Seals

The flesh is inedible; even dogs pas sit up when it's prepared as a food for canines, The fur is too thin for commercial purposes and the carcass, according to some observers, is mostly bone and it would be unprofitable to extract the small amount of oil present. Mistakenly, these sea lions are often called seals, but they are not a seal and milady’'s chances of getting a sealskin coat are not going to be improved by any open season on sea lions. The one commercial value they do have is as circus performers. The “trained seals” that balance balloons on their noses and delight the youngsters with their clown-like antics are really sea lions. But the number required for vaudeville stage and circus tent is too small to be significant in the current multi-ringed squabble over these barking broods with the flatfooted flippers.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Children Are Susceptible

Beware of German Measles

Usually no special treatment * * recommended for German measles. In the case of an exposed pregnant woman, it is advisable to give gammaglobulin as a preventive measure, German measles, while similar in some respects to measles, is caused by a separate virus, Infection does not develop in susceptible persons until two or three weeks after exposure, : » n ” GERMAN measles may start without any, warning signs and run a short, uncomplicated course. But some patients first have sore throat. The disease is usually spread by direct contact. Caseés are reported from January to June, with most infections in May. Apparently, children who have

The rash of German meas

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CLEANUP EXTENDS TO SOUTHWEST SECTION

Inclement weather and huge cols lection loads sent the city street cleaning and collection department crews into extra days on the annual clean-up campaign as the teams moved into the southwest section

| today.

More than 2385 loads of trash have been collected during the past week in three sections of the city, Street Commissioner Luther E. Tex announced. The: city is divided into four districts at Meridian and 16th sts. : “The drive will continue until we have scoured the city complete {ly,” Mr. Tex stated. He reported that his department received a $6042 sweeper to aug= ment the depleted service crews and anticipates five new trucks soon. Meanwhile, Don R. Money, divi= sional chairman of Mayor Tyndall's clean-up committee, revealed that he was meeting tomorrow with Don H. Barnett, pyblicity director of the Boy Scouts, to discuss plans for summer city-wide clean-up activie

had measles are more liable to de<|of a pea, and are velop German measles. e nitak They never usually confers immunity for charge pus, as often o- other infec ok

| ties.

sembles those of regular measles and scarlet fever, It starts as small, round or oval spots orl the face or neck, around the mouth, back of the ears, on the scalp, or the skin of the body. The rash quickly spreads over the entire body, and in a day or two it begins to fade. German measles is distinguished from measles by the absence of in flammation of the mouth. “hn PATIENTS with German measieg should be put to bed for a day of so, and fed liberally. Their eyes should be protected from excessive glare, The patient's temperapure may reach 101 degrees F., but this seldom lasts more than two or three days, Swollen § present, They A