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Inside Indianapolis

THE IRON KEY mystery of Butler university has been’ solved. Norman Williams, former Butler halfback who recently returned to school affer being in service, saw an item here that the key was missing. He remembered taking it home after the Wabash college-Butler game in 1842. Shortly after that game he was off to the Pacific with the marines and the key was forgotten. Yesterday he did some searching

. around his home at 3510 N. Pennsylvania st. and

came up with the key, which is the grid symbol between Wabash and Butler. The key is back in But~ ler’'s hands and will be ready for the winner of the football game between the two schools Nov. 2... . One of our best eavesdroppers reports that Indiana state fair officials are trying to get Spike Jones and his City Slickers here for the opening of the fair Aug. 31. Our agent overheard plans to get Jones, whose recent appearance here almost set an attendance record, to play ‘at a two-hour concert on the opening night at the Coliseum. The concert probably will be on “Musical Depreciation,” one of the Jones’ specialties,

Yoward Smith and “Mike” . . . They both deliver the papers,

Health Agency

WASHINGTON, June 19. — Prospects of a single national health agency integrating operations of the government's four medical services were raised today by President Truman's request for a full-fledged study of federal health services.

Mr. Truman told the budget bureau to suggest “a first-class committee of medical experts” to undertake a comprehensive study of army and navy medical services, the public health service and medical functions of the veterans administration. The President said the committee should not begin work until his plan for unification of the armed forces has been acted upon and the future of proposed national health legislation has been decided. The President's action followed his study of the final report submitted to him by a committee on integration of governmental medical services, which began a tentative study of the federal medical picture last Dec. 12.

‘Present Methods Extravagant’

THE COMMITTEE found that the present method by which the army, navy public health service and veterans’ agencies provide medical services was “inefficient, ineffective and extravagant.” “Each agency, for all practical purposes, now acts as a separate unit and competition for personnel and facilities is the rule,” the committee said. President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton university headed the committee. The group made a detailed report on medical services offered by the veterans administration, approving generally the agency's

Science

EN ROUTE TO BIKINI—The total amount of energy released by the atomic bomb is about the same as that expended in the average summer

thunderstorm. This may come as a surprise to many readers. The difference lies in the fact that the atomic bomb releases its energy in one spot in a ten-millionth of 4 second, whereas the thunderstorm spends its energy over a period of an hour and over an area that may be 30 miles in diameter. But there are many similarities between the atomic bomb explosion and the thunderstorm. My attention was called to the subject by Com. Norman Myrick, one of the members of Joint Task Force One, who is particularly interested in meteorology. If you recall the photographs of the Grevious atomic bomb explosions, you will remember that the explosion creates a tall, towering, turbulent cloud capped with a sort of “mushroom.” This is not unlike the familiar “anvil” cloud of a typical summer thunderstorm. ) Like the atomic bomb egplosion, the thunderstorm is a heat and pressure phenomenon. The sun, however, supplies the original energy for the thunderstorm.

Energy Released THE SUN'S rays heat the air and it begins to rise. ' At high levels it encounters cold air and is chilled. The moisture in the originally hot summer air then condenses into droplets which begin to fall This act of condensation itself releases a tre-

My Day

0 HYDE PARK, Tuesday. — Two graduates of the class of '46 at Mount Holyoke wrote a little article in the Mount Holyoke News, addressed to the class of 1960. They are young people just starting out in life, but they are thinking about the future and they said sométhing to the little '6-year-olds of voday which I think perhaps needs to be said to people of all ages in this country, now and always. “Never forget that these (the war years now and in the past, Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, etc.) are lestimonies of man's failure to grasp his responsibilities for his fellow man.” Bishop Bernard J. Sheil of Chicago, in his fine speech to the American Veterans Committee at their convention in Des Moines, Iowa, stressed somewhat the same idea when he said the slogan this young veterans’ group had adopted was very heartening-— namely, “Citizens First, Veterans Second.”

Food for Sober Thought

HE REMINDED them what it means to be a citizen today, and I think his speech must have sent many a young man soberly out to work in the coming years. Bishop Sheil stressed the need of treating labor as’ human beings and giving them the co-operation with management which they are now asking, Then he took up another thorny problem, the treatment of minorities, He wondered whether the Jew and the Negro did not.sometimes smile wryly

HOWARD SMITH, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Smith, 1241 W, 32d st, has a helper on his Times route. When he passes papers he takes his pet‘fox terrier “Mike” riding in the basket of his bicycle. Sometimes Mike runs along beside, but most of the time he lounges in the basket. Even when Howard parks the bicycle at the curb, the dog remains right in his “doghouse on wheels” until the paper boy returns. . . . Indianapolis should have a lot of well kept lawns this summer. We understand one large store here already has sold 1200 lawn mowers. . . .-The big flag which hangs. over at the City hall has been taken down for cleaning... . A city flusher went berserk on N. Meridian st. near the. postoffice Monday night and made a lot of women awfully mad at the city. The flusher was running merrily south on Meridian st. about 10 p. m,, spouting water to right and left. The man running the flusher acted.as if he wete deaf to the shouts of women whom he sprayed. At least, he must have been deaf or some of the things they called him would have turned his face red. The flusher continued right on down the street, leaving a trail of wet sidewalks, soaked cars and soggy pedestrians in its wake.

On Birthday Mailing List SENATOR HOMER. CAPEHART'S Indianapolis secretary phones us with the solution to Mrs. Marjorie Maxine Rike’s dilemma. Mrs. Rike, of 855 Biltmore st., has been bewildered because she’s received birthday cards from the senator for two years and she couldn't figure out how he knew her, not to mention knowing her birth date, The senator's secretary explains that Mrs. Rike was once employed at Niagara division, Packard Manufacturing Co., one of the senator's factories. She thereby got on the senator's birthday mailing list, since he mails greetings to all present and past employees. . . . The bun shortage must be better and the beer drought more acute. We hear a downtown restaurant is refusing to séll beer, unless the beer-drinker purchases a sandwich. . It’s amazing how spoons will travel.” We ate in the Claypool hotel yesterday with a spoon marked “Murphy’s.” . . . The Claypool, incidentally, is getting a new coat of paint and a general clean-up.. We saw one worker on the Washington st. side who'd almost succeeded in erasing the last of those “Kilroy was here” signs. . .. Firemen from station 13 gave Maryland st. a good bath yesterday. For hours they were testing hose and turning the 200 block on Maryland into a miniature pool.

By Edwin H. Newman

program. It emphasized, however, that VA services as well as those of the other three medical services would be improved by integration. The final study should dig deeply into the need for

specialized training, cinical and scientific research, the |

committee said. It also should propose joint programs of supply, training, personnel procurement, disability compensation, personnel rating and promotions for the four services, it added.

Higher Pay Is Urged THE GROUP saw a particular necessity for suggestions on the establishment of adequate medical services in strategic industrial centers vulnerable to atomic bombs and other modern weapons of war.

It added that better professional training, faster |

promotions for unusual ability was shown and higher basic salaries might help. Mr. Truman took exception to the committee's recommendation that VA provide outpatient care for veterans with non-service connected disabilities. He said that it would overburden the VA's home-town

.care programs.

He passed on to budget director Harold D. Smith recommendations for: ONE: Expansion of post-graduate and in-service training and establishment of internships in VA hospitals. TWO: Revision of the pension system, to encourage rehabilitation rather than disability. THREE: Improvement of professional libraries in hospitals and a common medical record system for army, navy, VA and public health services,

By David Dietz

mendous amount of energy. Remember, that to boil water, that is, turn it into vapor, you must apply a lot of heat. In the case just cited, the transformation of the vapor back to water droplets releases that heat or energy.

Friction Electrifies Clouds THUS, MORE energy is supplied to the lower alr and the turbulence becomes greater, Finally, we have the great, turbulent thundercloud, sometimes called a “caulifiower cloud” because of -its appearance. There may be just one or a whole series of them covering together an area from five to 30 miles in diameter and extending upwards to a height of 12,000 feet. The turbulence and friction produces ionization or electrification of the clouds and soon the lightning begins to flash. Each lightning flash may be several thousand amperes of current at a potential 100,000,000 volts but it only lasts a fraction of a second. Actually there is only a few cents worth of electricity at current prices in a lightning flash. Prevailing winds at the top of the thunderclouds causes a sheet of cloud to drift off. This is the familiar “anvil cloud.” The explosion of the atomic bomb likewise releases heat and pressure put it is concentrated. So it creates ‘a narrower “thundercloud” than does the thunderstorm. Its cloud has a diameter perhaps less than a mile. But it towers up much higher, Perhaps to a height of 60,000 feet. Prevailing winds in the stratosphere cause the top of the cloud to mushroom out just like the familiar “anvil” cloud.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

when they pledged allegiance to our flag “with lib erty and justice for all.” I saw somewhere that some of the people of Des Moines were a little depressed because this veterans’ group had done so little night-clubbing and general entertainment, These veterans stuck to their business and argued their problems out. Perhaps this younger generation is a more serious generation. The veterans, at least, have a closer acquaintance with death than many of us older people have experienced.

Need More Objective View

1 SOMETIMES wonder if it would not be a valu-

able thing for some of us who are older to face the

fact that, even though we did not fight the war, our acquaintance with death may be much nearer than we think. Even in the halls of congress, we might take a little more objective view of some of the problems before us. | It is often apparent most people are thinking primarily of how this or that particular measure or action in congress is going to affect them and their interests. As a matter of fact, it may affect a great many people but it may never touch the individual who starts the ball rolling one way or another. Two things come to my mind. One is the action on price control. The other is the possible action on our sugar supply. Both deserve a little thought on the part of all of us, so I'll discuss them further tomorrow.

New York Woman to Speak in Franklin

Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind. June 19.—Mrs,

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and a member of the committee on Baptist Mission Society of Indiana.|beside the driveway, Mrs. Treon schools, will deliver four addresses in Franklin this week. speak to approximately 126 women ; who are assembled on the Franklin tive board of the Women's Ameri-|soliege campus for the annual

can Baptist Home Mission society | workers’ conference of the Women's arrangements,

Mrs. W. H. Dillard, of North VerShe will{non, president of the conference,

Mrs. H. Roy Drake, of Terre Haute, |is chairman of the co ttee on

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SECOND SECTION

No service is too humble . . Sharon Ford sell empty soft drink grocery store at 4801 Guilford ave. papers and magazines to sell.

By WILLIAM EGGERT A JUNIOR-SIZE campaign, more rich in purpose than in the money it will realize, has been started by | five young North side girls to help feed Europe's starving children. The girls, too young to classify themselves as a teeg-age group, have [banded to form “Errand Service,” a non-profit neighborhood utility | that dispenses courtesi®s to house- | wives in return for contributions. | { All the money they earn will go to|

| . { famine relief.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1946

. Jeananne Reddington (left) and

bottles to Mrs. Belle Johns at a The girls also collect used news-

The girls opened their service by handprinting cards advertising their purpose. The cards advertised the name and telephone number of each girl, The day-time errands were to include letter mailing, delivering groceries, going to the corner drug store, and tending babies and invalid children. » ” ” SINCE THEN the girls have increased <heir field of opération. They are gathering, with permission, all empty soda and pop bottles on rear porches and in ga-

FIVE GIRLS OPERATE VACATION ‘ERRAND SERVICE'—

Earn Pennies to Aid Starving

Pennies for Europe's starving . . Rosalie Schmidt, 7, to mail a letter for a neighbor, part of the service a group of North side girls are performing to earn money to aid starving

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rages and selling them to the gro- 4

cer and druggist.

Newspapers and §

| CHARTER MEMBERS of the or-| magazines are being bundled for i%8

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Guilford ave. within a block of each

| ganization, all of whom live on |

sale.

| Used fats is another item on their

other, are Rosalie Schmidt, 7, of profit list. They coliected 16 pounds

4709 Guilford; Sharon Ford, 10, of of 4701 Guilford; Jeananne Red-| |dington, 9, of 4608 Guilford, and | {Barbara Jean Barnes, 9, of 4717] { Guilford. | There are no liabilities to “Er{rand Service” and its chief capital stock is the five freckle-faced girls that rap daily on neighbors’ doors asking to perform sorhe deed worthy of compensation, M » ” “ERRAND SERVICE” originally was a mother’s idea to keep the girls occupied during the summer vacation from public grade school 70 and the St. Joan of Arc parochial school i

j | the first day and sold them to a {4719 Guilford: Patty McAllister, 10,

butcher at the regular 4-cents-per= pound price. A tabulation of the first three days’ work showed a $5 fund and enough local publicity to attract other girls to join in the drive. The charter members have decided to meet once a week on a front porch “to take under advisement any new member.” ' ” »

» NONE OF the girls have ever|

know of starvation was learned in newspaper classroom “Brownie” heard of

seen a famished child, What poy)

headlines, pictures and discussions. In their Scout work they first starvation diets, This]

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Of Surplus Is Called 'Scandal’

By ROGER STUART Scripps-Howard Staff Writer = WASHINGTON, June 19.—Chair« man Slaughter (D, Mo.) of a spe= cial house committee to investigate surplus property disposal, wants to know why so much money is res quired by the war assets adminise tration to sell so few goods. War assets is in charge of dis posal of 90 per cent of all surpluses, It has 25,000 employees, It expects to hire 35000 more. So far $18 billion worth of surplus property has been turned over Jo the agency for disposal, Yet it has sold only slightly over $2 billion worth at approximately 45 per cent of cost, Next year, according to war assets’ plans, it will sell perhaps $18 billion worth, while receiving additional surpluses from owning agencies at the rate of at least $1 billion a month, “8.8 REP. SLAUGHTER requested the house appropriations committee, which is considering war assets’ budget, to let ‘him attend its hears ings. As chairman of the investi gating committee, he hoped to learn what war assets planned to do with so much money. He was denfed admittance, “I wanted to hear evidence from an agency that last month sold $40 million worth of material and spent $35 million doing it,” said Rep, Slaughter. Those figures, he added, were ob= tained from the treasury statement of May 29, which showed war assets’ receipts and expenditures for the first 27 days of May . nw. . WAR ASSETS’ handling of sure plus disposal was described by Sen-

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ator Wiley (R. Wis) as “a worse scandal than Teapot Dome.” “It is my belief,” Senator Wiley told the senate small business com= mittee, “that war assets’ adminis tration of this program is a national disgrace and is crying to high heaven for full exposure and for immediate correction.” The Teapot Dome parallel, he said, lies in war assets, “flagrant violation of the law with respect to priorities for veterans and educas tional institutions.” He added that “a commercial crowd” had taken over the disposal agency's electronics program “and has operated it ruthlessly in a man~ ner harmful to the best interests of the country.” . ” . IRKED BY criticism, Lt. Gen, Edmund B. Gregory, chief of the

Banking their earnings . . . proceeds of their “Errand Service” go into a coffee jar “for the starving children.” Left to right the girls

are Jeananne Reddington, Sharon Schmidt,

| background made them eager to aid | destitute children abroad.

Mothers in the neighborhood have been surprised by the girls’ zeal One mother has reported, “the girls

are sentimental about the drive and | that each girl would surrender part| they're up early each morning plan-|of her weekly allowance and place

ning the day's work.”

Ford, Patty McAllister and Rosalie

ACCORDING to 10-year-old | Sharon Ford, they plan to keep | “Errand Service” functioning all | sustmer, | And one of their first moves was

[it in the fund's “coffee jar” bank.

By MARGUERITE SMITH “FOR EFFECTIVE planting in a yard you've got to have a stopping place—a fence or a hedge for background.” That is the opinion of

{Mrs. A. J. Treon, 5138 E. 16th st. °

| “I like to have an edge around | things, too,” Mrs. Treon said as we looked over the thriving vegetable

garden at the rear of the attract- .

|ively planted acre. In front of the vegetable plot a line of azaleamums gives the effect of a ow hedge. Behind it and at

the rear of the yard a row of .&8

{Chinese elms eventually will make [a tall screen, while the same variety {planted around the front yard is | kept trimmed to low hedge height, » n » BUT SUCCESSFUL gardening {depends as much on soil as on {artistic leaning. (Mrs. Treon likes |to paint in both oils and water |colors but says “mud on my hands is soothing to my soul”) So she explained how their vegetables hap« | pened to be growing so lustily on (a §pot that was “just a hole in the ground when we moved here four years ago.” The filled in dirt was that all-too-common clay. “First we brought in plastering sand to lighten it up, You just bave to keep ground loose for good growth, Plants are like people. They need air and when soil packs tight around the roots they choke.” Then they used “a lot of lime, [until the ground was white with it.” It not only improved the | texture of the cloddy soil but the Freon strawberries “actually were | sweeter this year so we didn't need so much sugar on them.” (And lime isn't rationed!) ” » ” AMONG the roses that grow in profusion everywhere, draping over the picket fences, decorating the raised bed (for better drainage)

has one odd semi-double climber, The small flowers are lavendar.

same rose blossoming in England, where it was called the “blue rose.”

| interesting plant. An unusually fast

Mrs. A. J. Treon, 5138 E. 16th st. , , . and her lavender climbing ross, |

growing and practically indestructible vine, it is useful for thick (and quick) shade, Its enormous leaves are most attractive. Though it is considered an annual, Mrs. Treon has found it hardy. » » n MRS. HERBERT F. NORMANN, 605 8. Sherman drive, likes sweet scented flowers. In addition to oldfashioned clove pinks, sweet wil liams, and larkspur, sie has the evening scented primrose (oenothera). She uses it effectively to top

the front yard terrace. The large here and there in her backyard |[Mr. Griffey succeeds Elliott French a” waxing cloth

GARDENING: Vegetable Plots Must Have a Stopping Place—

Flowers Form Attractive Background

of pink reminiscent of apple blossoms and the plants grow almost weedily. Another evening primrose, this variety a sunny yellow, is used by Mrs. R. H. Lawler, 4111 E. 10th st. for an eye-catching band of gold on one side of the front yard. These “sun drops” (nice name) multiply so delightfully Mrs. Lawler keeps the plants thinned or they'd encroach on the nearby roses. » ” » + NOT unmindful of food shortages, Mrs. Lawler tucks green onion sets

. vegetable plot might make some

disposal agency, pleaded before the same committee for a congressional {and national “change of mind” on the surplus problem. He assured the senators that the new site-sale plan for disposal of goods, which is expected to be well {under way by Sept. 1, is “an extremely ambitious program.” The 35,000 employees yet to be hired will work on this program, Six hundred sales, conducted si multaneously, Gen. Gregory said, will offer the best means of speeding distribution of an estimated $33 billion worth of surpluses to vets erans and small businessmen.

We the Women Don't Let Child

Express Self at Others’ Expense

| By RUTH MILLETT

asparagus plants and some rhubarb. With so many war

abandoning their backyard plots to) im not going to punish him for it.”

Sounds like the “let ‘em ex= |press themselves” psychology parents were trying out on Junior a few years ago. : “Don’t pay any attention,” Mama would say sweetly when her 4-year« Id pride and joy bopped a guest on the head with a small hatchet, because the guest made the mistake of sitting in a chair Junior himself liked.

gardeners |

devote their energies entirely »

flowers, with such a staple food as dry beans practically unobtainable | these days, why not make the most | of your yard with some late veg-| etables? During war years bush | beans were used to edge flower) beds, and many a tomato plant climbed the. rose trellis. A row of | kidney beans at the edge of the

very welcome food this next winter,

Fisher Reopens

Law Office Here!

Patrick J. Fisher, discharged vet-|

eran of four years’ service with the judge advocate general's department, has re- _- opened his law office here in the J Indiana Trust building. : Mr. Fisher served in the New Hebrides, British Solomons and Russell islands, He established the | first legal assist-

ance office at the 4 Guadalcan a) Patrick J. Fisher

island command, assisting military

personnel and their dependents,

PICK ALUMNI HEADS AT MASONIC HOME

Times Special

fred Griffey, of Terre Haute, was elected president of the Indiana Masonic Home High School alumni association at the annual homecoming held Saturday and Sunday.

Noble C. York was elected vice president, and Miss Marjorie Higdon was re-elected secretary-treas-{urer, Both are from Indianapolis.

Her Japanese hop vine is another white “primroses” open with a touch | flower border, as well as a few 'of Indianapolis, '

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FRANKLIN, Ind, June 19.—Al-|

MRS. GUY LOMBARDO, whose pet pooch—a 4-year-old Dane {naméd Kirk—bit her so badly she {had to have 30 stitches taken in one hand and 20 in her face, ex< cused the dog's viciousness with

these words: “It was all my fault, {I knew he didn't like to be kissed,

» » » AND IF Junior decided to jump up and down on satin upholstery when he and Mama went calling, that was okay, too—with Mama, who had been taught you must never say “No” to a child but sim« ply try to distract his, attention, The child experts didn’t figure on 4-year-olds with Junior's powers of concentration, But, fortunately, the “let 'em ex-

i [press themselves” theory of child

training has been relaxed some=

* | what, and now Mama is allowed to

be a little harder on Junior,

#H o ” SHE CAN'T spank him, of course, But, she can carry him off, kicking and screaming, to his own room when he gets entirely out of hand, S80, even though Mrs. Lombardo | believes in using something akin to “child psychology” on her pets, it lpoks as if she could take a lesson from parents who found the “let {'em express themselves” theory nice | but impractical. You can't live happily with a child or a dog who is allowed to “express himself” at the expense of | other people. :

MAKE FLOOR WAXER IN SWEEPER STYLE

WASHINGTON—A floor cleaner and waxer is a perforated aluminum tray, about the size of a .carpet sweeper, attached to an ordinary mop handle. A steel wool pad is clamped over it foreleaning; this is replaced with when desired, liquid wax being poured into the tray,