Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1946 — Page 21

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Inside Indianapolis

LOOK OUT FOR a disease which is making headway in the city. It's called—"skatereetis.” When you first get the disease it is apt torraise bumps and welts: on various parts of the body. Advanced stages of this peculiar malady cause a person to spin, bend in convulsive but graceful routines and go round and round s maple arena for hours every day in the week. Bkaienpetis begins when a person places eight wheels under ihe arches of his feet, throws caution to the winds and puts his money on the nose. of fun, At Rollerland, 926 N. Pennsylvania ave, any night of the week you see the effects of skatereetis. Qbservation, nothing clinical understand, shows a whale of a lot of people who don't give a hoot about this “eetis.,” The only thing to do about it is skate, If you can walk—you can skate. There is no age limit and no restriction to roller skating, A mother-son combination was Mrs, Porter Pate, 406 N. LaSalle ave, and Melton Pate, They had just finished a waltz number and were headed for the soda fountain. Mrs. Pate pointed out her daughter Pacia, who was

Spinning ‘her wheels . . . Dona Lee White finishes a fast routine.

Suit Problem

WASHINGTON, Nov, 14~—The news, fellow wearers of shiny britches, is bad; no telling when the two-pants suit will return to remove the glisten from

the rear of the male, or downtrodden, sex. Females wear their clothés any way they want

They can and. do put on two skirts at once (the top one being known as a peplum). Males are lucky to

have any pants at all.

What brings this up is an announcement by the style committee of the National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers. Says the government is product, but he did say the s about to make the two-pants suit legal again. Also had done an excellent job,

the vest with the double-breasted ‘suit,

Only the pants makers are so busy making special

By Ed. Sovola zooming around the rink with a partner. - Melton, recently discharged “from the navy, is learning how to skate backwards. “No, I haven't taken any spills yet—=but the evening isn't over yet,” he laughed. Mrs. Pate has been skating ever since Rollerland opened five years ago. Ken Kasmire, organist, changed the tempo of the music and the “all skate” number on ‘the program began. The floor looked like a whirlpool. Some skaters zigged—others zagged— and my head spun around watching on the sidelines. *gSkafereetis hadn't hit me yet. ‘&pl. Jimmy Roede, Marion, Mich. and Sgt. Gordon Anderson, Muskegon, Mich., prepared to go out on the floor. They are stationed at Camp Atterbury, The sergeant serving as spokesman said, “This is our favorite sport while we're waiting for—you-know-what.”

An Idea for World Peace A LIMBER AND good-looking young lady was cutting the maple with some fancy free style spinning and jumping. It seemed so easy—effortless —looked as if anyone could do it. ‘A glance around the rink cuts that erroneous line of thinking short. Especially when the rink comes up and hits a skater, ‘That happens too—somethimes to some pretty good skaters. Not knowing to whom I was talking, I mentioned how well the girl was skating to a young® man who was also watching.: No wonder she's “pretty good.” Charles Swan, 1516 N. New Jersey st, who took second place in novice dance last May, told what the score was. The young lady was Dona Lee White, 2855 Brill rd, 7 a sophomore at Shortridge and winner of novice dance in '42, senior dance in '43, '44, '45, novice ladies figures in "45 and '46. Ah yes, live and learn. Sitting on the sidelines just aching to get in on the fun were Mrs. Charles Malone, 1119 Division st, and Mrs. Forrest Fields, 517 Warren ave. They brought their daughters to Rollerland for the evening. Nancy Malone, 10, and Agatha Fields, 12, were getting ready to take part in the “Hello skaters” number, In this number men line up on one side of the rink anid women on the other. Attendants pick out partners at random. The partners then begin to skate in line. After evesyone is paired, William (Pat) Patterson, 919 N. Pennsylvania ave. manager, shuffles the partners by calling over the public address system “Hello skaters.” The man moves up one partner. It gives the skaters an opportunity to meet a lot of folks in a congenial atmosphere and skate with some mighty proficient skatereetists. Everyone gets along so well, young and-old, good and wobbly, I wondered if it wouldn't be a good idea to put skates on the United Nations delegates an hour a day to promote a better feeling. After all, aren't they trying to get the peoples of the world on a better footing with one another? What's the difference if it can be done on roller skates?

“Old-Timer” of the Wheels

“PRACTICALLY a civilian,” Cpl. Paul Easter,

SECOND SECTION

~The Indianapolis

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1946

413 N. Alabama st., was at Rollerland to see how it felt to be on skates again after two-and-a-half years. The veteran of Philippines, Okinawa, Leyte, Korea, and Tokyo said it felt just like “aboard ship

during a storm.” In the states only six days, he’s | still “a iittle unsteady.” For contrast after Mr. Pat-|

terson showed me a pair of roller shoe skates that were made for a 20-month-old girl, I asked to meet

an “old-timer” of the wheels. , That evening it was] Holland Robinson, 2222 Duke ave. This is his 29th 14 This is the story of a man who consecutive year on skates. He was skating with his traipsed the European and Amerdaughter, Mrs. Nola Just. Ellis Brown, 508 S. Luett ican continents for 17 years looking st., who was Miss White's partner in most of her for his life's work only to find it in skating championships, got a little gripe off his chest.

“People have a poor idea about roller skating. Any-

thing that can be done &n ice—can be done on ing His product is millions of years roller skates.” I seconded the motion and if ice gd, yet new to man. skaters don't believe this—get in touch with Mr. |

Brown at Rollerland, LI-3000.

By. Frederick C. Othman

ner said. “You ean lose in 30 days in inventories the “boy in West Virginia,” he said. “It profits you've made in two years. I know. I did just ‘was during the first world war when that in 1920. In 30 days the prices of men’s clothing I was in. service that 1 really ma-

dropped 30 per cent. , Tire of Saying ‘No’

prices, the retailer shivers.”

pants for Bing Crosby and friends to go with their necessity has gone up less?

funny-looking shirts that there hardly are enough

pants now to match singly with coats.

[the back yard of his wife's home.

‘upon him.

“SO NOW WHENEVER there is another boost in something really in demand. What |it was to be I didn't know.” Mr. Grosner held no brief for the cgtton shirt | With what time he had from makers and the way they'd boosted the price of their duty, Mr. Sarver toured every uit and overcoat makers European despite the shiny pants reach. Everywhere he saw rocks for over the country, he continued his parents. situation.” What he meant was that a wool suit worth | gardens, rock. for fountains, rock: search. | Then he met his wife-to-be in Prof. J. R. Ball of ‘the geology deAlways they got so hot from the the hilly country of Montgomery partment analyzed it. It proved to be Caltareous Tufa ied among rocky to farm, but as the two rock, earlier known as Travertine. | terms. There have been books published on the art them unless planted in pots or in roamed along the little stream The geologist said it should work ers of Mr. Sarver's product has

se Na bi! a

As for vests with double-breasted. suits, there isn't much chance soon of those, either, no matter what the good old civilian production administration decides. 1t takes twice as much rayon to make the . pack of a vest as it does to line a coat, So no vests. Some manufacturers even are talking about not even making vests to'go with single-breasted coats.

No Mere Handout THIS INFORMATION comes from no mere handout. I have gone to the chairman of the style committee, Gerald D. Grosner, who also runs one of Washington’s leading haberdasheries. The clothing merchants, he says, are beginning to see light, but they still aren't out of the woods: They're worried about pants. They're worried about vests. But what they're really worried about is bigger price tags. “All retailers dread rising prices,” Chairman Gros-

My Day

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-—How do” we pay for peace? One of the first things to §o is to overcome our own prejudices and intolerances. That is a high price, for these prejudices are among our pet indulgences, We still are thinking largely along the lines of isolationism and are shirking our responsibility as a leader nation. A picture of the possible feeling in congress on the refugee question was painted for me the other day by a responsible man, He said: “You think we ought to welcome, within our present immigration quota system, the full numbers allowed over the year, not insisting that they should come month by month, according to the old regulation, but using up unused quotas at any time that people are available to come. “I tell you that asking for such a change would only lead to the complete cutting-off of all immigration to this country. “The labor groups, the veterans’ groups, many of the agricultural groups, and the representatives of states in which there are only a few foreign-born, want no responsibility for disolaced people and want no competition. § “They remember the depression, when .jobs were scarce. They want no more people to make jobs any scarcer, and they will bring pressure oh congress to keep out all so-called displaced persons from Europe or any other part of the world.”

Have No Future in Europe IF WE FEEL that way, the samé-fears must assail people in many other countries where displaced persons might find a chance to start life anew. Yet we are willing to pay the price to keep these refugees in camps in Europe where they have no future and are constantly deteriorating as human

lost 12 of its wartime 28 ships, Ar- | Eleven of the

of saying, ‘No,’ gracefully. and held staff meetings, but I don’t know how much this helped. |

things are-looking up. |

“When the poor salesman says ‘No’ all day long,

he's likely to grow pretty tired of it and forget the rock whic graceful part.”

One-pant suits and overcoats are arriving in

slightly better assortment than before. So are shirts. Shoes haven't gone up too much yet, and the retailers | are keeping their fingers crossed. The (did you know that America's shops almost ran out of same last spring?) has passed. If a haberdasher looks the same situation was true. hard enough, Mr. Grosner indicated, he can say that |

Another six months, he added, and he believes he

and associates can give the customers about what they want at prices they can afford to pay. He hopes. Happy day.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

beings, creating a menace to the economy of the whole area in which they are. + Their children are growing up in unhealthy surroundings. And the mere fact of their presence is creating a problem which may change the political situation of almost any country overnight,

U. S. Must Take Leader's Role

IF PEACE depends upon us—and many feel it must —then we will achieve it only by giving leadership. We will achieve it only by making sacrifices. We cannot tell other people what to do. We must show them by our example what we think is right, and that will lead them to recognize their own responsibilities. Certainly the recent election showed that there is no sympathy in this country with the American Communists and that we wish democratic policies to govern our country. However, that does not absolve us from making every effort to find a way to get on with Russian Communists. Under our ‘very theory of democracy, we must grant them the right to make their own decisions and live their own lives. “In the final analysis, it is only by making our economic system work and making our form of government meet the needs of the people better than any other economic system or any other form of government, that we show its strength and desirability to other nations. - ‘You may say that the Russians will never know of our achievements, since their information services are all government-controlled, but sooner or later human beings communicate with each other, If we fail, the Russians will know it, and if we succeed, they will know it. By our very success, we will draw them toward better understanding of our objectives, and we will build one more bridge over which to march to the peace for which we strive,

Argentina Building Up Merchant Shipping Fleet

BUENOS AIRES (U. P.) —Having and the Mediterranean,

(five ships under construction in Flota Mercante’'s | Great Britain and another on the

gentina's Flota Mercante del Esta- ships were returned to Italy, France ways in Sweden.

do (government: owned merchant and Denmark-—their original own-

fleet) is buying and building ships | ers—after sailing under Argentine in Britain, Sweden and the United {fegistry during the war. The 12th, {cargo-passenger vessels. . Officials . the Rio de la Plata, burned at With the first of these new ves- | Acapulco, Mexico, in 1944, in England, the United States,

States.

Meanwhile, the Flota Mercante is planning to let contracts for three

are studying the bids of 26 builders way. .

CRAWFORDSVILLE MAN MINES ROCK FOR GARDENS— “|

~ Finds Life's Work in Back Yar

Hobart Sarver, Alamo rd. R. R. 3. Crawfordsville, Ind., scrapes loose dirt away from a rock formation on his land. Blasting out the rock, Caltareous Tufa, Mr. Sarver sells it for rock gardens.

By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. Nov.

With his hands he earns his liv-

Hobart Sarver, Alamo rd, R, R. 3, Crawfordsville, is a contented man, for his search was successful and the years haven't left many marks

* » - “Y HAD it tough when I was a

tured. “So I decided to find something I really wanted to do and to market

$50 before the war now costs $60, and what other for monuments.

“But our big problem,” Mr. Grosner said, “has been sun it almost was impossible to county. Her parents’ land was too that of trying to keep our customers on speaking (touch them. Flowers d

1 have bought them all heavy soil which had to be watered. through the grounds, he noticed beautifully in a rock garden. ». 2 8 the rock was cool to the touch.

HE HAD found his life's work. | Now all he had to do was find a

and in, around” and over which little crevice.

Rock and minnows for sale. Hobart Sarver stands beside the sign outside his farm which attracts buyers from over the nation.

beauty spot he could |he shifted from one job to another his wife bought the land from her Samples were sent to

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Unions May

Seek to Curb Strike Moves

By 8. BURTON HEALTH NEA Staff Writer

NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Organized

labor is worrying more than it cares to admit over action the next congress may take in an effort to curb what many consider union excesses, and to cut down the frequency and seriousness of strikes.

Experienced observers believe

there is a possibility this worry may avert a major strike wave that was in the making up to election day. *Organized labor's tactics this fall and winter will depend partly upon how far it thinks the G. O. P, will dare to go in the face of the 1948 presidential poll; what it concludes President Truman will do in view of the increasingly open feeling of politicians that he cannot possibly be re-elected and what John L. Lewis proves able to get away with.

" HOWEVER RELUCTANT they

{are to concede it for publication, the

[smarter union politicians realize a | that they took a bad beating in the a | election, ,

The three stales whose citizens

voted to ban closed shop contracts ~Arizona, Nebraska and South Darhs | kota—are predominantly non-in-Sy | dustrial, But their act was a triple~ {length straw in the wind.

Massachusetts overwhelmingly de-

cided to require unions to make public financial reports. California, hitherto strongly New Deal. rejected | the fair employment practices act, | promoted by the P, A. C.

nwo WEST VIRGINIA re-elected Sen-

ad Kilgore against open, active

opposition by the Mine Workers. Union-sponsored candidates generally fared badly, even in strong industrial centers.

No alert labor politician could

doubt that, rightly or wrongly, the

relaxes or does odd jobs.

the hillsides. In the winter he electorate had “had enough” of many things, including many union

He also takes time off when he activities, and had switshed from accumulates 40 to 50 tons in his active partisanship of a dent pro-

his maul, his dynamite and his |

dog, for company, and sets to | work.

sale pile. Then, when it gets down |laborites to either indifference or

to about 20 tons, he takes his drill, | active distaste.

It may be coincidence — but it

is a tribute to his foresight — that president Daniel J. Tobin's Inter-

. u = {national Teamsters, in election

HIS PRICES haven't risen over | the years. He established them

week, warned editorially that “strikes have become a national

originally to make on the average menace.”

what he did at his previous types of work. “I wouldn't feel right raising | prices on something God stuck in |

» HE ADDED that if the international union shirks its duty of dis-

my back 'vard,” he said. “Besides, |¢iPlining locals “the government as my trade grows so does my {will act,” and laid responsibility for

income.” His Caltareous "Pufa rock comes in just about any price a person cares for from five cents each up to $500. Most of the sales run from 25 cents to $15, however.

| ‘many restrictive laws that have been passed” directly at the door of | wildcat strikers.

That was about as far as a union

| president perhaps could go. Many

labor men realize that it is not only

Anyone pausing long enough to wildeat strikes, but strikes in gens

study the rocks can find count-|

less impressions of tree leaves,

bark, limbs and other plant life which died millions of years ago.|

This is due to a precipitation of | calcium carbonate which coated, saturated and preserved them as

= ” ~ ONE OF the most prolific buy-|

been J. I. Holcomb, Cold Spring rd, Indianapolis. Truckload after

IT HAS done just that for hun- | truckload was hauled from this IT ALSO seemed quite porous dreds upon hundreds of customers hilly country to Indianapolis where | h would attract little heat and plant life sprouted from every who in the past 23 years have | Mr. Holcomb created on his grounds But this couldn't be found their way ‘over the dusty a man-made cave complete with |

plants could grow without pots or what he was looking for, thought gravel road to the Hibernia Mill | rock formations. |

little watering.

Back in the states, upon discharge, |

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Infection Starts With Headache. Fever—

Vaccination Used to Curb Influenza Threat

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. {retaining its power to produce im- ditions, and because of the possiIN VIEW of the outbreak of in- munity when inoculated into man. bility of sharp reactions from its caused by virus. Many of the inTo vaccinate against influenza, 1|Use, some public health authorities fections called “flu” are not influ‘month. and next, there is wide-|ce, of vaccine is injected under hesitate to recommend it. spread interest in the possibility of ithe skin. This must be given well preventing the disease by vaccina-|in advance of a possible outbreak. 'tion with inactivated influenza vi-

| fluenza which is anticipated this

rus R and B, which is now available | for civilian use. Infection with influenza virus A starts suddenly with fever, head‘ache, dry throat, and generalized laching pain, usually lasting three or four days. B-type influenza virus infection {usually is milder in onset, less se{vere in its effect, and shorter in | duration. » » ” NEITHER TYPE can be treated {with sulfa drugs, penicillin, or | streptomycin. In Novémber and | December, 1943, however, the influ-

|enza vaccine A and B proved suc- |

cessful, in the majority of cases, in | preventing the infection. Influenza virus attacks the lining membrane of the respiratory systém from the tip of the nose to the bottom of the lungs, and the surface cells are destroyed in the se{vere inflammatory reaction. Bowel or intestinal “flu” does not {actually exist, for the virus does not |attack the stomach or intestine.

Wo x = OUTBREAKS OF influenza start {at approximately the same time |every two or three years and last

about two or three months. Between epidemics no trace of virus can be discovered in persons ill with infections of the respiratory tract. In recent. years, most of the cases have been mild and not complicated by pneumonia. Influenza virus vaccine A and B is. manufactured . by inoculating

tities-of virus can be grown in this

y - gels, Argentine shipping routes will | - Aiming at an eventual 37 vessels, |[France, Denmark, Belgium and THE VIRUS is treated in such a

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be extended to northern Europe thie Argentine maritime concern has | Italy,

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"way that it is harmless while still

' o » ” THIS YEAR, however, it. will be! {used on large groups of persons ™ The vaccine protects for only a schools, colleges, and industry, to short time, about six months to a |prevent loss of time from illness. but further protection can Most of our educational institutions {be developed later by injecting a are so crowded they would find it | booster dose of the vaccine, Because the vaccine has not been [should many of them become {ll tested under severe epidemic con- | with influenza at the same time,

SILLY NOTIONS

| Fatalities result from complica-

for their students

By Palumbo {since he had measles at the age of

incubated chicken. eggs with a | small amount of virus. Large quan-*

DEGREE THROUGH NCE SCHOOLS!» «t=.

“GOT HS LAW CORRE SPONDE

0 200 workers by the army and 20,200

| Mr, Sarver. It was too opportune. | Rock farm, as the Sarvers have| Mr. Sarver still is amazed that Of this type of rock he found Besides, there didn't appear to be named their place. | necktie crisis \none in his European wanderings. enough of the rock.

“That 17-year search was the

Influenza is a specific disease

enza at all. The proper influenza treatment involves bed rest, light diet, plenty of water, and analgesic drugs for relief of pain.

tions, and it is .well that we will be able to control this disease in the future. » » ~

QUESTION: My 10-year-old son has suffered convulsion seizures

19. He has attacks every two or

three weeks, even though he takes (medicine, How do you account for [this? ANSWER: Many patient§ who (continue to have convulsive seizures

|often over a long period of time {either are not taking their medicine | regularly or are being made more {nervous by the anxiety others dis- | play about their condition. |

SERVICES TO FIRE 93,000 CIVILIANS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (U. P), --The dismissal of about 93,000 more army and navy civilian employees was ordered by the budget bureau | yesterday. This was the first step in a new |economy move that will leave the (services with almost 1,000,000 fewer |ctvilian workers than they had on | V=J day. The bureau said the cuts will be fully effective by Jan. 1. Then new

service employment quotas for the

first quarter of 1947 will be trimmed down from the present level of | 986,000 civilian workers to 892,600: The cut calls. for dismissal of 73,«

eral, that have begun to pall on the public, including a substantial segment of unionism itself.

We, the Wome

| Naming Child

Called Pretty

Unimportant

By RUTH MILLETT A COUPLE of years from now when some friendly passerby says, “And ‘what's your name, Son?” to

| when he married his wife he mar-|a certain little boy in San Pedro, During the spring, summer and ried his work. Of both he says: the! fall Mr, Sarver works, chipping and : As rock lay deep, and in time hevwand dynamiting his precious rock from |best thing I ever did.”

Cal, the answer may be: “No got any name.” Or maybe it will be “Butch” or “Mike,” depending on the little boy's mood. » » » .. THAT WILL be because the parents of that certain little boy, born recently ir a San Pedro hospital, plan not to give him a name. They explain: “We've always thought a child was handicapped by names chosen by doting fathers and mothers. When our boy is old enough to know what he wants, he can choose his own.” . » » THERE IS no denying that a name is important (especially to its owner when another misspells, mis< pronounces, or forgets it), but aren't the San Pedro parents tackling the problem from the wrong end? There is nothing to the most beautiful name that can be rolled. off the -human tongue or to the most ludicrous ‘until the owner's personality gives meaning to the name, % The name of a new-born babe, whether it has m pleasing sound or makes family friends say, “Now why did they saddle him with a name like that?, is nothihg but a name, .

» ” . NOBODY can tell whether it will ever become a famous name or forever remain known to only a few, . No one can predict whether that name, spoken 30 or 40 years later, will bring forth envy, respect, contempt, pity, or complete indife ference. In a sense, every kid names him« self, For what his name comes to mean to others is entirely his own doing. So no matter what his parents tack on him for a name, he alone turns it into a good name * or a bad one.

REPORTS RUSS PLAN WHALING OPERATIONS

LONDON, Nov. 14 (U, P.).—~The Financial Times Oslo reported yesterday that I will | enter: the Antarctic whaling fleld for the first time next season. | The correspondent said Swedish machinery had iS pr Russian floating. whaling and ‘that the Russians had

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