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Inside Indianapolis
OSCAR BROWN, who runs a drugstore at Parker and 10th sts, was typing out a prescription label recently when an employee interrupted to ask a question. Mr. Brown answered the question and finished his typing simultaneously, then pasted the label on the medicine and rushed it out to the customer. When he handed it over the customer burst out laughing as he read the directions: “Two teaspoonsful dissolved in watgy every two years.” Quite & wait between doses, we'd say. . . . Glancing over
the layaway terms of a local store we noticed a’
ing difference in the time given for most pur- . and for women’s hats. Most purchases are
30 days but women’s hats must be called for within six, Indicative of how fast hat styles are expected to ‘change, we wonder? . . . Mrs. Juanita Fenton McCubbins would like to locate any Midland high school alumni living in or around Indi anapolis. A picnic for Midlanders is planned tomorrow night and reservations have to be made on the Soutite. Mrs, McCubbins’ phone number is FR-
Veteran Church Member “A METHODIST bred-Methodist born. There's one less Methodist when I'm gone.” This chant is one of the childhood memories of Mrs. Nellie Winings, Spink-Arms hotel, who’s been a member of Roberts Park Methodist church for “’steen” years, « + « Mrs, Winings is believed to be the oldest con3
a % ea An early member of Roberts Park church. . . . Mrs. Nellie Winings was attending Roberts park and its predecessors “’steen” years ago.
Social Register
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—Ten simoleons of the firm's cash I have paid out ‘today for a green suedecovered copy of Mrs. Carolyn Hagner Shaw's 1047 Washington social list. : There are 800 society leader in this book, including a smear of counts and countesses, and anybody who is anybody in our town associates with nobody else. Mr. Othman, equipped though he is with a long-tail coat and an appetite for free champagne, again is out in the cold. Not listed. Doomed to associate for another full year with nobodies. I am studying Mrs. Shaw's book anyhow, so that if by some mischance I bump into Prince and Princess Pignatelli Di Montecalvo or even the honorable Harold L. and Mrs. Ickes, I'll know how to act. The publisher covers every possibility. Sometimes capital cocktail parties get rough; Mrs. Shaw lists the phone number of the police, National 3313. If an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary sets fire to my house, I'll merely call the fire departnt, Hobart 1616.
wwaluable Volume INVALUABLE, THIS volume is. It even contains tthe phone numbers of all the hospitals, including St. Elizabeth’s, an institution devoted to mental cases. Mrs. Shaw lists the home addresses of all the society leaders, until she gets to the T's. Then she bogs down. She has a Truman, Harry S. with Mrs, and Miss Mary Margaret, phone number “National 1414, living at the White House. No street number. 'Smatter, Sis? “Do not neglect to leave cards at the White House
Science
WHEN TOWSER, the energetic wire-haired terrier, meets the cute poodle from across the way, does the encounter set his heart to beating faster and his breath t¢ coming quicker? How do his reactions to the sudden discovery of a succulent beef bone compare with his response to Fifi, the poodle? Scientists at the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., are. going to find out with the aid of a walkie-talkie that enables Towser to broadcast the behavior of his heart and lungs. The device is an adaptation of the portable radios that American troops carried ashore in amphibious landings in world war II so that the’ fighters could keep in touch with the ships offshore. The canine walkie-talkie, however, is a miniature affair, employing the lightest batteries and smallest radio tubes available. It broadcasts its message only or a few hundred feet. In place of a microphone there is a kind of stethoope that can be put in place against the dog's chest so that ‘it automatically picks up the sound of his heart or breathing, according to the way in which it is adjusted.
Checks Canine Emotions I SAW THE device during the recent conference of biologists and psychologists at the Jackson laboratory. Dr. C. C. Little, director of the laboratory, described it to us to the accompaniment of the heart beats of a dog who was comfortably wearing the device and meanwhile walking about the laboratory, sniffing the visitors’ shoes. Dr, Little explained that heretofore it has been possible to study the heart’ and breathing of a dog only when he was confined in the laboratory. A dog wearing the walkie-talkie can be allowed to run freely about a field and his behavior correlated with the broadcast record. It Is expected that studies with the new device will throw a great deal of light upon the emotions of dogs. The new study is part of the program at the Jack-
My Day
HYDE PARK, Thursday.—The other evening, I attended a Democratic women's: club meeting in a nearby town. I am beginning to think that the question uppermost in women’s minds is how they can make themselves heard. They feel that, through their organizations, they do not have as much influence as they should have. 4 Woman after woman asks me: “What shall T do to make it clear that I want peace?” They are not interested in controversies between government officials. They do not know a great deal about the difficulties of negotiating peace treaties, but they do know that they do not want their “children to grow up with an atomic war hanging over their heads.
onsider Home Situation
WHEN THEY get through talking about keeping the peace, then they begin talking about the home situation. And here again, the cry is: “How can we be effective in making our.representatives know what we want and pay attention to us?” Though women have gone in for education on political questions, ,comparatively few of them have
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tinuous nfember of Roberts Park church, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this week. That doesn’t mean, though, that she’s been a member all + + She does recall Roberts Chapél, located at the site of the present Guaranty building, and Wesley chapel which was replaced at Market and’ Pennsylvania st. by the Lemcke building. Both buildings immediately preceded the present church. One of the favorite sports of the congregation is to get Mrs. Winings to repeat anecdotes of what went on when Roberts Park was young. The stories she tells most often, however, like she and her girlfriends eating pickles in prayer service and overturning the bench, or putting chewed up licorice in the rims of an elderly man’s hat are the ones she declines. to tell to the press. “I have to preserve some dignity,” she laughs. “Anyway, it might give the children now
some ideas.” She admits, though, that there was a|}
time when she didn’t worry too much about dignity. Like the time class meeting was being held in her family’s home, before construction of the ‘present
church, One man “got religion,” and “got happy,”|!
lifting his feet high and “walking up and down the
golden streets,” in her parents’ long dining room.|
“The happier he got the more tickled I got,” Mrs. Winings recalls somewhat embarrassedly. “I finally got to giggling so hard I had to be taken from the room.” Just to prove it didn’t pay she adds, “You can guess what I got after they took’ me out.”
Poetic Justice ON OUR WAY up to visit Mrs. Winings we noticed that the Spink-Arms elevator, like ‘a couple of others in town, still has the 1943 elevator inspection certificate posted: What's the matter? Has the elevator inspector forgotten his way to the hotel? . . . We want to report an example of poetic justice, which took place on an early morning Central bus last week. As the bus, which for once wasn't crowded, pulled onto Meridian st. the driver began totaling fares and taking down his changer, preparatory to going to the barns. At Vermont the driver had to stop for a red light. He pretended not to notice a man waiting on the corner so the man came out and knocked on the window shaxply. The driver, who apparently
didn’t want to change his report, continued to look| ;
the other way. His indifference irritated the waiting man who knocked even harder and finally walked around in front of the bus, Even then, with half of his passengers making loud remarks about “What's going on?” the driver wouldn't open his doors. The light changed, the bus started forward and the indignant man stood his ground, giving the driver one of those well-known “if-looks could kill” stares. The man finally stepped back and the bus went on in. The last passengers off the bus at the Circle, however, got a big snicker because the driver, who'd been in such a hurry to go to the barns, was rerouted and sent out again. That, we think, was poetic vengeance for Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, the
‘man whom the driver wouldn't pick up.
By Frederick C. Othman
once a year,” Mrs. Shaw orders. “A married woman leaves two of hers and three of her husband's.”
Can't Always Be Right AND DO NOT ask me why. Ask Mrs. Shaw, phone, Wisconsin 3030. The trouble with including politicians in an ‘annual social list is that they don’t stay put. This results in errors. How was Mrs. Shaw to know that Henry Wallace would be fired out of the cabinet? Her book adds, incidentally, the Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. William O. Douglas live on Eastern avenue in Silver Spring, Md. Haw. The judge was evicted a couple of weeks ago. A new street is being cut through what used to be his parlor. But that is carping; a social arbiter can’t be right all the time. Sometimes she has to admit she doesn't even know the answers. . « Take the case of Ken McKellar, president. pro tempore of the senate, and Sam Rayburn, speaker of the house. Who outranks which? Mrs. Shaw's best advice, which I surely shall follow to the letter, is this: “Do not ask the speaker of the house and the president pro tempore of the senate to the same dinner.” - And another thing. Just because Ken is head man at the senate, don’t give him the rank and respect due the missing vice president. I'll watch that, too. Publisher Shaw says, in fact, that you can’t expect to have much fun at your own dinner parties. As she puts it: “It is well to remember that personal friendships do not count in official circles.” She is wonderful. So's her book. See me when you are in a social jam. I'll lend you a copy.
By David Dietz
son Memorial laboratory which has been made possible by a grant of $282,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation. Its basic purpose is to study the genetic factors of intelligence and emotional radiation in mammals. In other words, the scientists are trying to find out how great a role the factors of inheritance play in creating differences in intelligence or emotional behavior.
Light on Human Behavior IT IS HOPED that ultimately these studies will throw light on human behavior Within recent years a number of detailed studies have been made of the psychology of the anthropoid apes, particularly the chimpanzee, in an effort to arrive at some ofthe fundamental factors underlying human behavior. Among the most iflteresting of these was an experiment in which an eminent psychologist raised a baby chimpanzee in his own family along with his new-born infant. This gave him the opportunity to make comparisons in the rate of learning, ability, etc., between the two. But Dr. Little feels that there are several reasons why studies of the anthropoid apes will not answer the problem. For one thing, the psychological reactions of these primates are almost as complicated as those of man himself and therefore pose almost equal difficulties of interpretation. A second difficulty grows out of the fact that the present day anthropoid ape may represent a long development that has carried him far from the “missing link” that represented the original common ancestor of the anthropoids and of man. In other words, the behavior-of the ape is not merely a simpler kind of behavior than that of man. It may contain elements of specialization far differ-| ent from human behavior. Dr. Little believes, therefore, that there is greater chance of getting at the basic elements of mammalian behavior by studying dogs. Tomorrow: The psychology of dogs.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
gone in for the kind of practical education which teaches them that there is only one way to influence a political party. That way is to work for their party and to become important enough in their own community so that, when: they say they want something, the powers-that-be listen because, in return, they need the work the women can do.
Great Similarity Found HOUSEKEEPING in the government Is not really much more complicated than housekeeping in the home. And the way to understand government problems is to think them through the way you think through your home problems. You'll find that there is a great similarity between running a family.of children and.a home, and running a city and dealing with the city fathers.
last, “How can we be effective?” If they really mean it and if we can arouse women in other countries, we are going to see some changes both at home and abroad.
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IS SHE OURS? . ,. Strained faces show the tension of sorority members as they ‘wait for a very special girl for pledging. Emoting here are (left to right), Valeria Valente, Clinton; Dorothy Steinsberger, Terre Haute, and Carol Barnett, Princeton.
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Sorority ‘Squea
TRADITION TIME . .. This is the “Squeal.” Every year sorority members and most of the student body at Indiana State Teachers’ college, Terre Haute, gather outside the administration building the day of formal pledging for women. Each: sorority
THE SCOREBOARD ... As each girl comes out singly, her choice is registered on a blackboard. Mary Francis Ryan, Terre Haute, tells This ends any silence as he shouts out the name to scorekeeper Dennis Trueblood, Terre Haute. The squealing begins in earnest on the part of her future sorority sisters and the men add typical collegiate comments in good-natured
squeal with unfettered joy.
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future pledges. front sorority members wait anxiously and silently
RUNNING THE GANTLET ... No blows are Glruck but it adds to the spirit of the season to have a giant, two-handed paddle swung harmlessly in the air. Male voices exhort the young ladies to run at full tilt to their sisters. Many respond by taking the bottom steps in
a wild leap. Marilyn Lane, Decker, puts on full speed as she runs past Paul Brown, Rosedale.
SHE'S OURS! . . . Delirious actives and a crying pledge embrace and
The squealing swells to a terrific noise, so great
the following silence is tomb-like. This year 154 women, mostly fresh-
men, were pledged.
| By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M.D, ANESTHESIA has developed ' so rapidly in recent years that the | average patient is more apt to talk
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operation. Something relatively new been added to anesthesia now. It is not an anesthetic at all, bu a way of securing muscular relax|ation while the anesthetic is being | given. The patient doesti't know about | muscle does not contract. [it because it is given after he is| | asleep, but the surgeon appreciates lit because of the greater ease. with | |which it enables him to operate. | dB | until recently THE PATIENT also benefits, in| toxic effects lessened shock from the operation. The anesthetist appreciates "it be-
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CURARE has been used for over about his anesthetic than about his [100 years in physiological experiments on muscle. Anyone who has has | ever taken a course im physiology on the | A
It paralyzes the nerve ending in | the muscle; even though nerve im- | pulses pass through the nerve, the
Physicians have wondered about | tion is the only justifiable reason | made it possible for it for a long time, and suggestions | have been made that it might be {used to relax spastic muscles. But
IN 1938 AN explorer came back I am glad to see women in this country asking at|cause_ with it he is able to.carry|from South America with an ade-
THE DOCTOR SAYS: Poison Arrow Drug Proves Medical Aid
Operations Less Painful Due to Curare
Pharmacologists soon developed a thesia is a great contribution to purified product which has a se-|medical science. lective action on the nerves ending in muscle. Curare is not used as a substitute for anesthesia. It is always given | to the anesthetized patient.
ern surgery has been greatly aided by . proper. preparation of the patient, by the use of suitable anesthetics, by keeping the patient in good condition while on the operating table, and by starting supportive treatment before the patient is returned to his hospital room. These and other innovations have surgeons to | develop greater skills, to develop operations for the relief of more and more diseases, and to bring relax much more than do many the benefits of surgery to persons patients who receive large doses|of advanced years. of anesthetic agents. 4:8 8 Although it has been employed! Question: Is malaria curable? only since 1942, thousands of| Answer: If there is no additional
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SORORITY, PLEASE? . . . Campus men supervise the “Squeal” Here Rebecca 's office to have her group pointed
Robert Lightcap, Hammond. Oué to see if their choice matched.
We, The Women Easy, 2 | Divorces Are Very Popular
By RUTH MILLETT
A SCREEN star interviewed in New York told the reporter about the painless divorce she recently got in Mexico, Since the proceedings were cone ducted in a language — Spanish —= which the screen beauty couldn't understand, she didn’t even have to concentrate on what was going on, She said, “Si, si,” a couple of times, and that snapped her marriage ties—after which the mayor of the town kissed hér hand and sent her forth a free woman, " n = DIVORCE ISN'T quite that sime ple in our county yet—but it has been made painless enough so that last year one-third as many persons as were married decided to try divorce. Not all of them were able to go to Reno and combine a divorce with a gay vacation. But even so, the divorce was probably pretty painless. The divorcing partners didn't need to worry that their divorced status would make them less soe [= acceptable. »
» » THEY DIDN'T need to fear tha$ { having one marriage failure charged against them would tag them as | poor marital risks. : | Marriage experts may so regard | them, but most people today look on a divorce as an unfortunate | experience rather than as a pere { sonal failure. | Our making divorce painless may | be broad-minded. But can we real. {ly expect to make it painless withe
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‘OPEN COUNTER-DRIVE _ AGAINST CHINA REDS
| NANKING, Oct. 4 (U, P).—-
| Strong government réinforcements
{today opened a counter-offensive | against Communist troops attaaking {the Peiping-Hankow railway at {Paoting, 80 miles southwest of | Peiping. Fighting was reported both by | Communist and Nationalist sources, The Communist attack apparentiy was designed to halt the Nationalist drive on Kalgan, Communist strong {hold in Chahar province, approXie mately 100 miles northwest of Peipe ing. ’ Peace negotiations still were | stalemated. Chief Communist negoe tiator Chou En-lai" was reported al | “still studying” Chiang Kai-shek's ™" {rejection of his latest demand, Chou {asked the government to call off its drive on Kalgan, put Chiang said , (no cease-fire order would be issued until Communists agree to reorgane | ization of the state council and the army, |
PRICE OF SPRINGS, METAL BEDS HIKED
| WASHINGTON, Oct, 4 (U, P.).— OPA opened the way today for | higher laundry and dry cleaning | prices, jacked up the price of bede springs and metal beds and. ree moved all controls from household brooms, | It granted a 6 per cent increase on coll and flat bedsprings and metal beds to cover higher costs for labor and materials. |" In an order effective Oct. 8, OPA {authorized its field offices to raise [ceilings on laundry-dry cleaning I'services where found necessary lo | cover rising costs. It did not ine dicate how large: the increases might be. ‘
CARRIER TO RETURN WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U, P.) = The 45,000-ton aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt was schede uled to return to the United States
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{the patient . on lighter levels of | quate supply of the drug, as well {anesthetic with less harm to the as with specimens of the various I patient This new ‘drug is curare, which is dians in its manufacture.
plants which are used by the In-| I purified form as a helper in anes-|two years,
patients have been relaxed through its use. The introduction of curate in
exposure and if the patient is kept today after a Mediterranean good« on suppressive treatment, most ma- will cruise. She will tie up at Nore |larial iffections disappear within folk, Va, to await further assigne ment.
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