Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1946 — Page 13

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ach’ other, wor ne hall and threw att and his bag, the. house seemed » notice, like a big g been half asleep 1ses and becomes und of a familiar

y ” xcited, myself, and med fitting that should Teturn und of wind and

Sly, “Won't you let gs?" . eard me. He had e into ‘the living ter a few quick he room, he was | came alive again. ng made his olive and his eyes and nd I saw that he a black mustache, black Irishman!" heard my mother her people were ways tried to do ling, but today 1 Colin 'Witzgerald's fell in love with » » > ckled and gauche ; for my age, bi nstant that neve eet such a magls black Irishman. yone, Cecelia?” he mother?” ld Honora herself nd screamed. Was e wanted to know. . she knew it was e. was to come up once, at once, do

stairs three at a her glad cry when r room and then

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+ their fellow apartment dwellers,

German descent,

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Inside Indianapolis By Dong Mikels| ny

¥ APARTMENT houses are populariye believed to be spots where no one knows his next door neighbor But that’s fet the case at St. James court,”2102-8 N. Meridian st. Nicknamed "St. ‘James Infirmary’ by dts tenants, the building is tenanted largely by 3- to 10-year residents, all of whom are pretty chummy with The “over the bannister” chatter is as neighborly as small town “over the back fence,” gossip.’ . ..for instance, every after hoon about 3 there's a “coffee klatch” in the apartment of Mrs.’ Sol Schwarz. When we dropped in ‘Mrs, Schwarz, Mrs, Carl Johantges, and Mis. Lloyd Véazey, pd finished the coffee and were sitting around in a urrent events” session. Mrs. “Schwarz, who's of told us the “coffee klatch,” is an old German custonr of dropping in neighbors’ homes for coffee- every afternoon. The womert like Mrs. Schwarz’ coffee, so she usually is hostess. (If Mrs. Bchwarz's name’ comes out, “S-c-h-w-a-r-z" we'll pat, ourselves on the ‘back; she says it always ends up with a “t" in it) / No Gripes for Landlord HOW'D YOU like to go up and down four flights

of stairs, nine steps each, four or five times each day? Multiply that by two and yeu'll have some idea of

Custodian H. J. Hendrickson . , . Two steps at a time.

New Drug

NORWICH, N. Y, Sept. 9.—The vellow glittering stuff I saw today looked like finely ground gold, but it wasn't. It was furacin. This is a new, powerful drug that promises to take its place alongside the world's most effective germ killers. ; It is being manufactured in a series of spick and span laboratoriés in this picturesque Chenango river valley town. Unlike penicillin, which is made from mould, furacin is a chemical compound. It’s common source is plain, ordinary oat .hulls-— the same oat hulls which come from the great plains of the Midwest.

Furacin already: has established itself for effective."

ness in the treatment of infected battle wound® It is credited with saving a Igf or an arm for many a soldier, who returned home with a wound that would not heal Furacin, as a dressing, also has proved itself a weapon against infection in skin grafting operations, iii the treatment of diabetic gangrene, furuncles, surace ulcers and infections resulting from burns n does a bacteriological cleanup.

Attacks All Bacteria

«+ IT DOES double duty in that it attacks both positive and negative.type bacteria. In some cases, it prevents growth of infections, in others, it kills. As a dressing it is being used now only as a topical treatment on humnas, but further oral tests are being conducted on mice, rats, dogs rabbits and monkeys. Tests made on mice show that of the negative types, furacin goes after and either stops or kills such bacteria as those which cause meat poisoning and paratyphoid fever. The positive types it attacks in-

Science

PEA-SIZED bits of carbon. 14 have heen shipped from the atomic energv plant at Oak Ridge. Tenn. to a number of the leading medical research institutions of the nation. Ordinary earbon is known to the chemist -as carbon 12 because it possesses an atomic weight'of 12. (This is on anarbitrary scale which fixes the atomic weight

of ordinary oxvgen at 16 as a standard.)

Carbon By

eonsent scientists are now beginning to use the world

14 is a radioactive isotope common

Fura-"

how many steps H. J. Hendric Kson, St. .Jemes court iy ever$ day during his first year as custodian, After a while-he “got wise” and ‘began | going up“thé four flights ih each of the buildings two at a time, On the whole, the. custodian says, it's a lot less tiring. than taking short steps... . This sum= mer he's been climbing even more steps, what with papering the buildings, . Incidentally, most of the tenants we talked to had” a good word, rather than a| gripe, about tiveir landlord, R. ‘W, Coons. Mare of| them commended thé frequent paperings than hid about lack of grass on the front lawn, tion seemed to be mutual for Mr, Hendrickson said | most-of his tenants were “nice triendly people—easy | to get along with. Only ene or ‘two that are “frozen | up” in the whole building,” he added. ve

Houses Hobbyists THE BUILDING has its share of hobbyists. Both Mrs. Schwarz and Miss Bernice Wiley are coin collectors. We {ried but couldn't find Miss Wiley to inspect. her collection, Mrs, foreign and ancient coins, Fulala,. the neighbors tell us, are the undisputed champion needle wielders in the building. Their embroidery and needle works is something to decording to the other women... . . Another collector Is a. newcomer a ta Indianapolis, Mrs: Herbert Schweitzer, who recently moved, here trom Harttord, Conn. When she first moved in Mrs. Schweitzer -had rows and rows of- precious antiques lining the halls of the south building, while she decided what she wanted to move in and what would have.to.ge in storage. Her apartment is crammed full of period furniture and other antiques now, and ‘she has nalt again as much in storage until she can find a house. . v Mr. and Mrs, Schweitzer are probably two of the few people in Indianapolis who were pleased by the recent unseasonal cold spell. Used to New England weather, they “were sweltering here until the mercury dropped. .. Another hobbyist is Mrs. J. Allen Bomm, who's ‘an’ amateur interior decorator.

Schwarz has all sorts of

see,

Any holiday, be it Christmas or the anniversary of!

National Doughnut week, and Mrs. Bomm's apart ment is appropriately decorated. The neighbors always drop in so they can see what latest marvel has resulted from Mrs, Bomm rubbing two pieces of crepe

together, She also converted an old cabinet radio into a breath of Hawaii, removing the doors ane building 8 beach scene in the center. Hula girls cavort in the sand beneath mihiature palm trees in a setting she constructed- {rom a mirror, sand, a few twigs and some figurines. Just before we left we heard a couple tenants speaking about an eviction and thought they were sympathizing with some poor fellow tenant. It surprised us to learn the eévictee was the landiord himself. Mr. Coons, the St

James landlord," was one of the persons who ‘had to find other quarters

took over the Century building,

By Paul F. Ellis

cludes staph, aureus and strep. hemolyticus—common causes of infection. Furacin also has been effective in mice against the trypanosome, the causative organism of African sleeping sickness. - Test tube methods show effectiveness against the organisms causing lockKjaw, “tuberculosis and anthrax. The toxicity of furacin is relatively low able reactions of patients are rare. The man who developed this~all?American produced drug.” which has been accepted by the American Medical association. is Dr. Albert B. Scott. He is a quiet mannered West Virginian who looks éven younger than his 40 years. Not a ‘Wonder Drug’ . HE ADMITS he is a conservative and that's why he insists that furacin is not a “wonder drug.” Dr. Scott went tn work for Melvin C. Eaton, president of Eaton laboratories before the war on an assignment to-look around for “something new.” He immediately turned down the so-called “furan ring” of the chemical compound world. Chemical literature was virtually blank on. the subject. He had no precedents in which to find a lead. With a group of associates. he began experimenting, testing the furan compounds bacteriologically and trving different combinations of elements. One particular compound found in the process had unusually high activity against bacteria. It also had low toxicity, no skin irritation and no retardation of wound healing. It. was a compound of nitro, turaldehvde and semicarbazone groups. , Much laboratory work to find out new furacin is now being done.

By David Dietz

rays of various sorts. Lord Rutherford, in his pioneer studies of radium, showed that there were three types from radium and subsequently identified each of them.

Unfavor-

secrets of

funtil 5 or 5:30 p. m

Some Isotopes Long-Lired

THE ALPHA ravs consist of the Hiclél of helium atoms... The beta r#vs are ‘electrons. The gamma rays are true energy radiations or photons, resembling X-ravs but of shorter ‘wavelength. .

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MEXICANS CAMP AT SHERMAN DURING PACKING SEASON—

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} By VICTOR PETERSON | Times Staff Writer SHERIDAN, Ind., Sept. 9. —A bonfire roars nightly here at the Sheridan Packing

Co. » Now is the height ofthe tomato packing season . and here. for the picking are some 90 migrant workers of Mexican extraction. * Every night they company grounds. shadows drift the workers, their wives and many children. They =it in a circle, the firelight playing over their bronze features. \ Soon comes ‘the rhythmic twanging of guitars, a hanjo joins in. Soft voices in ‘dulcet tones swell the music and: Spanish songs of ancestral times fill the air.

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build a fire on From out of the

” THIS IS the ond of 4 long day. in the fields for many of the men and women It also is the end .of a long day for the womenfolk who stay in camp to care for the children, do the washing and prepare mountainous quantities of food for ravenous appetites whetted in the field. These people are typical of thousands of migrants who swarm north every yeéar following the maturity of crops. Each.place they make their camp a bit’ of Americanized Mexico springs up. They are a happy, care-free lot of hard workers. The many children let. the camp know when fit is time the time the dew is aif the crops ever*thing is a hive of activity. » THE MEN ih Yo the fields to work Meanwhile the!

MIGRANT WORKERS AT CAMP.

.\ + Vietoria Llanas, 11,

writes a

letter for her father, Marcus,

for six on the grounds of the Sheridan Packing Co. Sheridan, Ind.

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IN THE FIELDS. . ..

imes

Migrants Harvesting Tomatoes

while her mother does the family wash

Entire families follow the maturity of crops northward for their livelihood, Here

in the tomato fields are (left to right) Antonia Espinosa, Maria Dimas and Bony. Confreras.

women prepare for their return. “They are doing a about every 15 minutes,’ {ham Craig, co-owner of the packing plant. “They are a clean group and are as hard working a set of people

as I ever have seen His migrant employees numbers women remain at camp to carry on about 50 in the flelds. Some 20

the chores: Around them scamper

Whooping Cough Vaccine Urged

jsome 20 children,

washing | said wil- |

balls.

. » ” ” AFTER WORK the men, women and children join in games of baseball, their favorite sport. Bundavs finds more of the same or a trip to a movie in one of the small towns of the neighborhood But throughout all the light-| heartedness runs a streak of

the

faith

! Everywhere can

THUS MOST of them have their plunt as to say, ‘church”

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PAGE 3 | ———Housing - Land and Labor Big Shortages t In Gl Housing

By JAMES M. HASWELL | WASHINGTON, Sept, §.—Land and labor are the two big shortages {In the future of the veterand' housing program. ‘So far shortages have been mostly in bullding materials, | Priorities, sét-asides, subsidies and other devices have beén Created tc get materials into > 0e hands of the 1 builders, | It has been assumed that v hen [the tpaterials arrived there would {be room- to build the houses find

| workers on Hand ready and willing =

| to build them, . | So far, this has been largely true. Today there are 1,690,000 men #4gaged in construction activity, including 587,000 Dullding houses.

BUT SHORTAGES of skilled build. ing-trades workers are beginning to develop. These wiit be more apparent as the building program grows bigger, Carpenters and bricklayers already are few, and recruiting new workers goes slowly because other kinds of jobs offer competing attractions, Residential building is at a dia advantage because industridl nd commercial construction offer longer-lasting jobs and often offer higher wages. Veterans’ housing must be built down to a price, which

limits the possible investment in { labor, ” ” » THE APPRENTICE training

[service of the department of "labor | reports 61,000 apprentices recruited

tin July alone—but it's still going to

‘bea tight squeeze. By spring, Housing Ekpediter Wilson thinks, labor will be a major factor in limiting the size of the housing boom. He wishes the mayor's committees in the various cities would get busy surveying their areas and recruiting what apprentices they can. So far, most of the 753,000 dwelling units started since the war have been located on building lots already served with water, light, gas, streets, sewers and other utilities. But as the program goes on builders will have to move out further and develop new areas.

» nN ” | A SURVEY of 51 cities. shows (builders are fot under much pres- | sure about this yet. In 70 per cent of the cities bullders know where | they'regaing to put all the houses [they can stat this year and next. Only three of the 51 communities | report the bulk of the new housing {going into unincorporated and un{organized areas. But the situation will get worse,

Con 1046, by The Indianapolis Times | icago Daily News, Inc

| We, The Women —— Entire Nation | Has Acquired | Itching Palms

By RUTH MILLETT THE VETERAN student had the

all fat as butter- derings realize that life is transient. Most of them are Roman Catholic. be seen figurines and other small insignia of their @Partment owner's spoken promise In many instances a family | that the apartment was his, and

will carry with. it a small shrine everything looked rosy. at which: to worship

| Of course, he didn’t like it much «that the landlady had been so “I presume you and

with. them for they are your wife won't be having a haby serious These people in their wan« in a land of foreign tongues

PEACE AND JOBS THE DOCTOR SAYS: All Infants Should Be i

{while you live here—because I never rent to anyone with children.” But he didn't say anything—be{cause with his wife working a baby wasn't In their plans, ”

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radio-isotope to describe these substances. . To these ravs identified by Lord Rutherford we DAL OF PUBLIC HE WAS surprised, though, when The uranium pile at Oak'Ridge was originally built pst now add, neutrons and positrons which are re- ALL INFANTS should” be immu- cess in stopping its spread by isola-| Immunizations of babies, in ad- the Apartment got away—until he for the conversion of uranium’into plutonium for Use jeased in certain instances from other radioactive rized against ‘whoaping cough tion or quarantine dition to injections. for whooping ound out thatthe landlady’s palm in atomic bombs. As most readers know by now. the ajements. 2 Kiwi civth . The chief complication in whoop- cough, diphtheria and tetanus, /N2d been crossed with a $50 bribe. pile_consists of a large mass of graphite. in ‘which The figure of 10,000 to 25.000 vears used above | ink Steady Work, Security during the six month, Jor ve ing cough is spells of coughing should iiiclude vaccination against| Ihen he was bewildered. He rods of uranium are imbedded. with reference to the radioactivity of carbon 4 refers cisease Is commonest Among Pre- which interfere with eating. and smallpox. Protection against this MeVer dreamed the landlady was the Atoms of uranium 235 present in the uranium {, the “half-life” of the substance. ‘This term. half-| Economist Says. school ehildren sleeping. The spells = produce ‘a disease is important in childhood, |tYPe to take a bribe. jmdergo fission, releasing Subatormie particles known ye js one that is constantly used in speaking of Deaths are rare among victims wWeakéned condition in which the as young children #Ye susceptible. | He oui have known. The nimneutrons. These fly out at high speed but are such isotopes and’ the layman should become ac-| NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (U. P).= yore than 2 years old, but children sitk child may readily contract Physicians recommend repeat vac Le le tie of people who are J owed down by the graphite. = quainted with" it. American people generally believe can he made very ill, by whooping Other diseases, cination when the child starts to i ay xn RF ne mame Striking an atom of ordinary uranium of uranifim Each time a beta particle is emitted from a given (he pest form of security is the cough. on» thool, to increase resistance against . other— 8 nak ona disgrace. 238 in another rod a neutron changes it.into element it of carbon 14. it means that one atom in it ‘has. . : : art! 1 ihe i” hvtielans ” FRAIL children and those who possible exposure 3 ou can get almost anything you No. 93 or neptunium, which by a spontaneous radio- yngergone a radioactive change. It is not possible to Tight to Work continyously, Stua: h : tt pre piVGlans SCT are weakened by whooping cough The eontrol of contagioys dis- | WARY with a bribe. active change is converted into element No. 94 OF [edict when any given atom will undergo this change Chase, well-known economist, said | Fsfian recommend Vaccination. ‘often given. immune human eases in infants and. children ds TR AN plutonium. but only the rate at which the change goes on. loday in emphasizing that peace SERIE W Scoping cough, Shee * aid erm directly responsible for the great| AND YOUR chances of really inIf, however, other chemical elements are inserted Therefore, isotopes are rated according to the 2nd jobs are the main goals of both Dh jo did I ae Pa s This 1s obtained from persons increase in the span of human life. | sulting the man with the goods— into the uranium pile, tifey are bombarded by the jonoin of time that it will take one half of the atoms Civilians and returning service Yeni tion who have recently been immunized\Jf we wish to maintain the gain, |Whether the goods happen to be a neutrons and changed into other isotopes. But be- j, any given mass to undergo such a change. erans. : Fon. against whooping cough: or who we must continue to vaccinate {railroad reservation, a hotel room, cause these. isotopes are unstable, they undergo sub- This figure is known as the half-life of the In a report on the aftermath ofy a . have had the disease children lor a new car—with the discreet sequent. disintegration, giving off rays like radium. = ° jioione, It can vary from a few minutes in the case WAL S00n to be issued by the Twe:-: BUI Dr Lewis W Sauer reports diet t—— i are pretty slim, : : of some isotopes to millions of years in the case 'of | 'i€th Century fund, an institute for in Medical Clinics of North Amer- “That isn't necessary, you know,” : Carbon Made Radioactive ’ scientific research in ‘current eco- ica that 80 to 85 per cent of vac- as become the accepted phra others Yobl Mr. Ch d the cinated children studied in a recent y alum 0 P phrase of ext , . : : : . nomic problems, Mr. Chase said the ! ; : {the*man who reaches out for the IN THIS fashion, ordinary carbon is converted At the end of its half-life, a’ given mass of carbon American public wants the business survey did not contract whooping - | Grive,

into radioactive-carbon or carbon 14 in the uranium pile at Oak Ridge. Each pea-sized unit of carbon 14 will emit 37,000,000 beta particles pér second for the next 10,000 to 25.000 vears. Radioactive substances are capable of releasing

My Day

HYDE PARK, Sunday. —It 18 serious and sad read ing that we cannot reach peaceful decisions betw employers and employees without strikes, even wh h 80 much is at stake as in thé tie-up of our shipping.

When you realize that this not only means losses

to employers, shippers and wage-earners, may result in actual starvation in many cou throughout the world, you wonder why it is not pos

sible for reasonable men to come to just arranges ments. There is risk fhat our troops in many coun,

tries will not, receive their supplies and thus be forced to make life even harder for the people in occupied countries And the consequences seem’ to go on endlessly— yei the only thing dividing us here in this country is an economic situation. v

Giving Poor Example WHEN YOU try to arrange matters between na=ns, you have racial, political and economic quesons involved. It seems to me we dare giving a very poor example of our people's ability to govern themselves and settle their differences. Mayor O'Dwyer so far has been unable to get the employers and employees together in the truckIng strike, and so the people of the great city of New York will be living on the bare essentials. 3 re a :

because half be half

14 will still give off beta rays but now, the original mass J&<inert, the rate will only of what if, origin was. An. othet Wong, by that time, the mass consists of half carb 14 and half carbon 12 or ordinary earbon,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the economic suffering to a

from real

“This will cause a vast. loss £.wtandpoint, but will also mean great many persons. The effect of what we do over here

reaching today that we have no right to be as irre

sponsible as we are showing ourselves to be in these! but - alse two great strikes. I suppose labor will accuse man108.

agement and management will accuse labor, and “government wil say: that it has done what it could 410 bring them together, ; There is only one voice letf : to. be gheard. That is the voice ‘of the public, and 1 think they had better say in no uncertain. terms that. labor and management committees must be formed and they must come to agreements.

Able to Do Things Alone”

ON FRIDAY I visited the Emma Hardy memorial home in Cornwall-on-Hudson, where blind people under care of the Lighthouse in New York City come in groups of 45 for a two-weeks’' vacation. Many of them are cases who really need help and adjustment to a new and terrible handicap, and things are so arranged for them here that they find themselves more able to do things alone, We lunohed afterwards at the Stork King Arms with Mrs. Sidney Sherwood and a few of the staff, and I returned in time to greet my week-end guests.

economy

is so far-|

cycle. smoothed out Stating that veterans of world war II differ sharply from veterans of earlier wars, Mr. Chase said it 1s a different world this time for two reasons. : Stand, Fall Together the first place, American is so interdependent that no one large class can prosper while the rest of us are in the dumps,” he said. “For better or for worse, Wwe must go up or down together.” Commenting on the significance of the summary, he said unemployment is the major worry, “greater in veterans’ minds than the fear of world war III." On the civilian side, the economist noted a considerable willingness on the part of the gefieral citizen to tax himself to pay for needed services, He pointed out that almost threequarters of the peaple believe the federal government should collect | enoygh taxes to provide medical] care for every person who needs, it and an old-age pension for every citizen over 66.

“In

ATTEND TRAFFIC SCHOOL | State Troopefs Robert M. Holaday and J. Russell Prior, Indianapolis, will attend a trafic police administration school opening today | 'at Northwestern university. Both | men are world war II veterans.

cough after exposure, and that there

were no deaths among those who did It would seem. then, that whoop-ing-cough vaccine is very effiective

in its present stage of development ” » n

INJECTIONS of whooping-cough vaccine can be combined with diphtheria toxoid and tetanus toxoid, 50 that the «child will develop protection against three diseases at the same time, Al children are exposed to diphtheria and whooping cough sooner or later, and, since tetanis germs enter dirty wounds, this combined method is of great advantage When vaccinated children exposed to whooping cough, are given another injection, called a nooster dose. Children previously immunized for any contagious disease can receive added protection in this way,

are

” ” ” BECAUSE of the possibility of exposure in school, most physicians recommend*-that whooping-cough

booster doses be given to children | | entering kindergarten or first grade.

Whooping cough starts like the common cold, As the child continues to cough, spells with a whoop appear. The disease early ‘stages,

Is contagious and for that

in its reason

I public health office have litle puc-.

they,

STATE DAIRIES

MILK

Co,

|. O course, it’s the buying public's own fault. They started the bribery racket, And. now they're, stuck with it, The choice of whether or not to {succumb to the bribery technique is | still technically up to the individual, He can bribe—or he can let some(body who does get what he wants.

Ask West Side Water Service

The Indianapolis Water Co. has | been asked by West Side business- | men to extend & water main from ‘the Mount Jackson area to Ben Davis.

- Members of the 40-West club, the =

businessmen told the company in a

letter that the investment would be.

immediately profitable. At least four township schools and scores of new commercial and industrial buildings would be users, they said. | “Water lines you have extended 'into-a number of undeveloped areas - in Indianapolis do not afford the opportunity for water consumers offered by our community in the territory lying between the railroad tracks north and south of Wash-

|ington st. from Mt. Jackson to Ben

| Davis,” the letter said.

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