Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1946 — Page 19

Inside Indianapolis 5

“GOING. UP—PLEASE.” “Going down-—please.” “Step to the rear of the car—please.” Happy holiday season-—yeah man. In the same breath pity the poor department - store elevator operator. Rough is "the word for their way of life, “Not in all cases, however. There are places of business where life is “practically” normal. “This is the busiest Christmas I have experienced in ‘my four years as an operator,” Evelyn J. Griffith at Wm. H. Block Co. told me as I squeezed into her car. I thought about taking my hat off. Zoom—my arms were pinned down by a wall of human flesh. One “gentleman” in the crowd managed to doff his. When he got off on the fifth floor—he proceeded to get it back into shape again after much creasing. Miss Griffith has a little seat on the car where she can ride sitting down. It's close to the controls. Mighty close. But not close enough, because a rather stout and determined shopper squeezed in between the seat and Miss Griffith. “All in a day's work,” she laughed, “but it does make things a little crowded. That's for sure.” Escalators get their share of business. it would be interesting to find out where all the people come from—where they are going and why did they pick a particular day to buck the crowds. Someone explained to me once the law that governs the number of persons who go to a certain spot. It's the law of statistical regularity. This law prevents everyone in Indianapolis from going to one place at one time like the lingerie department at Block's. I do believe the law is being broken in some departments.

Life a Bit Easier

ACROSS THE STREET in the Roosevelt building life is a bit easier. Business is almost as usual— except, and here's the hitch, There are 18 beauty shops in the building. Many ladies do their Christmas shopping and later in the afternoon they head for one of the beauty shops. That's the only time Thomas McBride, 3190 8. Tacoma gve., feels the pinch of Christmas. Mrs. Rose Jebb, 3120 N. Illinois st., is a starter at H. P. Wasson & Co. She is the one who determines when a car is at capacity and should take off. She's kept pretty busy watching all the elevators and answering questions.

‘'m the Operator’

HELEN SEYMOUR, Oaklandon, operator on car 1 recounted a recent experience during an extra heavy rush period. For some reason the elevator became so crowded she couldn't operate the controls. She twisted and turned, trying desperately to free herself and get going. “Where are you going—up, down, or out?” a woman shopper asked her with a sound of impatience in her voice. ; “I'm the operator,” Mrs. Seymour answered. Well,

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Alaska Railroad

By Ed Sovola

CHRISTMAS AND THE COIFFURE—Thomas McBride, elevator operator, gets his share of the yuletide atmosphere indirectly.

that was different and the passenger gave her room. Still keeping my hat on my head I followed the crowd into an L. 8S. Ayres & Co. elevator. It isn't hard to get in once you are in the middle of a mob of shoppers.” For a couple of feet I didn't even have to move my legs. On the fourth floor a waman found a spot in the front of the car—looked up and down—made sure she was clear of the doors and then announced that she wanted the. fourth floor. Mrs. Beth Jac , 2043 Indianapolis ave. told her courteously (the patience of some operators) “But

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different families: Johnny and Jimmy, two

Grow Up Robustly

Just Like All Other Boys Who Didn't Have Benefit of ‘Guinea Pig’ Beginning

By KAY SHERWOOD Staff Writer

‘NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Twins Johnny and Jimmy ‘Woods, scientific “guinea pigs” in babyhood, are now growing up as robustly normal as their playmates who didn't have the benefit of all the specialized training psychologists cooked up for the boys and are as different as two kids from

" WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11,.1946 Twins of ‘Scientific’ Babyhood Normal

in a family of eight children

fant behavior experiments

conducted by Dr. Myrtle B. McGraw in the Normal Child Development Study of the Columbia university. and Babies hospital. For the first 22 months of their lives they spent eight hours a day in the laboratory. Jimmy was allowed to gurgle by himself in the crib as an average baby would. Jimmy was scientifically stimulated to develop his

he was a year old. By the time he was a 16-months-old he was roller skating down the hall to the pool. - Later Jimmy was given an intensive three-months’ training to

this is the fourth floor you are on, please.” Unflustered—the woman stepped out of the ear | and went on her way—on the fourth floor. That's what she wanted. |

A day on the elevator circuit wouldn't be ‘complete | COmPletely

without a ride on the fast-moving cars at the Mer- |

catch up with his twin. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Woods, regard their sons as “normal.” Their in- . = =

chants Bank building. Quite a change in atmosphere | Jimmy

here. Most of the riders are men. bundles among them. Business has increased during the Christmas season, according to operator Orville McAtee, 3101 Moore!

Not many big

ave, but not to the overflowing-and-bulging-at-the- | Annee

seams point. The. ride takes your breath away (cars move at 600 feet a minute) but it's nice. to doff the topper and have elbow room. :

Much slimmer than his twin—he weighs 138 pounds and is five feet nine inches tall, He is‘neat, welld, restless and reticent in conversation with strangers. “I go my wn way. Yeah, I got a lot of friends. Now and then Johnny and I study together. “Electric wiring, that's what

= - |like. That's why I picked my school.

| They got good shop courses. We're making lamps out of old boxes.

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By Frederick C. Othman | Pretty soon I guess I can fix Mom's

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WASHINGTON, Dee, 11.—Our government won't sell itself some engines for its own railroad. It won't even talk to itself about the deal. I fear it's sore at itself. The government obviously has a split personality and should consult a psychiatrist. If it kindly will put a cold towel on its brow and quit muttering, I'll try to explain: The general manager of the Alaska railroad was testifving before congress .a while back about the streak of rust the interior department is pleased to call a railway. If it doesn't get some new locomotives soon the government won't have any railroad, except on a map. The man sald he knew where he could find. some engines, all right; hefty new diesels, still packed in grease. “Where?” asked Rep. John J. Rooney. “On the docks over in Europe,” said the government's railroader. “Surplus property.” “Well, why don't you take ‘'em?” Rep. Rooney asked. “The office of foreign liquidation won't do business with us,” the federal railway chief moaned. Time passed. Service on the Alaska railroad grew no better. And here was a special house committee looking into disposal of surplus property, including locomotives, abroad.

Couldn't Deliver

ON THE CARPET were Ma). Gen. Donald H. Connolly, the FLC boss, and his attorney, Chester P. Lane.

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Science

A CANCER is like a fire which, once ignited, continues to burn as long 8s there is fuel to feed fit. This fact, Dr. Peyton Rous, famous cancer author-

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“Now about these locomotives the Alaska raizond)

wanted,” began Rep. Rooney. The general and his lawyer indicated that if they'd only known the government's other hand wanted locomotives, they'd have been glad to oblige.

| ironing cord. “Sure, I'll go to high school. But it's gotta be a good trade school. “I play basketball. (Johnny got the physical push.) I'm on a team. ‘I swim a lot, too.

|cycle). Mom had to pay for most

“Of course,” said Mr. Lane, “we couldn't deliver of it but I paid for part of it out of

these locomotives to Alaska because we are not geared for that. We do not have the funds, and it may be that

the Alaska railroad had no funds to pay the freight, |

either.”

All Is Not Lost

REP. ROONEY scratched his ear. He said the problem was that the Alaska railroad only heard rumors that the foreign liquidation commission had some surplus engines. truth officially. “Don’t you let other branches of the government know what you've got for sale?” the congressman demanded. The general sald he couldn't do that. He'd have to have a central inventory of his billions of dollars worth of stuff scattered around the world, he said, and that would take a building bigger than the capitol. “So how many surplus diesel engines do you have now?” Rep. Rooney asked. The engine salesmen weren't exactly sure. Neither did they know for certain where their locomotives, if any, were located at the moment, though they believed they could find out.

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money 1 made running errands after school. “1 don't have a girl. (Eight-year-lold sister Janie, also an alumna of the Child Development Study, {chimed in with “Has too got a girl

‘and she's beeyootiful.” Jimmy gave took a dancing lesson and it wasn't ‘her a warning leok.) Now and then se hot. I like to read -- the con-

'1 take a girl to the movies. {venture stories I like to read. { “The training didn't make much |difference to me one way or the other.”

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physical prowess. He swam before |

terests are widely separated but they rarely quarrel, says Mrs, Woods. The twins have never been any problem to her but sometimes

when they came home from the laboratory “they were a handful.” “At the clinic they learned to push pedestals together and climb up on them to get toys hung from the ceiling. When they came home they'd push chairs together and pull things off the bookcase. But {they got marvelous care. I don't really .know whether the training has made any difference.” Dr. McGraw whose interest In the boys is now purely social, comments, “Being ‘guinea pigs’ did them no harm.” Both are in the eighth grade but

I like to bike Iride (indicating his shiny new bi-!

I'm what you'd call a spectator |sportsman. (At 16 months he could {roller skate.)

go to different schools. Here's how the boys compare at ‘14: ! » » » Johnny Five feet nine inches tall and chunky—he weighs 174 pounds, has a round, smiling face and an af- | fable, easy-going conversational air {with strangers. This is what he says about himself: “Jimmy and I don't play together very much. I got one or two good {friends. I don’t hang around with | gangs. “In school, I like spelling best. Sometimes I get 100 per cent. But this month I handed in a sloppy paper and the teacher tore it up and gave me Zero so maybe you'd | better not say anything about that. Algebra's easy, too, Maybe when I get far deeper into it, it won't be. “I'd like to go to college. I want to be a civil engineer. “I like football, basketball, hockey and swimming—to watch. I guess

“lI don't have any girl. Once I

{derised stuff about what's going on in the world. “Naw, I don't think the training made any difference in my life. I

{liked the clinic though.” is alumna of same child development plan.

HISTORY IN PICTURES—Jimmy and Johnny Woods st 4, 6, 8 and 14 years (top to bottom). Jimmy is on the left in each picture. Sister Jane, who posed with them on their 8th birthday,

From TB Seen In Our Time

80% in 40 Years |

By Science Service: NEW YORK, Dec. 11. —Tuberculo= sis can be wiped out in our time through a well - co-ordinated and vigorous attack. It should be possible within & generation virtually to eliminate T, B. as a cause of death in our coun try. v These statements are made by statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. report, Since the beginning of the cene tury, the death rate from the dise ease in the United States has been cut about four-fifth—from approxis mately 200 per 100,000 to about 40, * In many sections of the country T, . has already been reduced to ale most negligible proportions, There is less chance of becoming Infected today. This is because there are fewer active cases to serve as foci of infection. Living and worke ing conditions also are more healthe ful.

Facilities for detecting existing cases have rapidly multiplied. Now a greater porportion of unsuspected infectors are discovered in the early stages, when the chances of cure are best,

X-Rays Help Greatly

Mass use of X-ray in schools and colleges, in factories and in entire communities has helped greatly, Latest available figures show tha$ in 1944, 43 states had tuberculosis death rates under 50 per 100,000, whereas in 1034 only 20 states had such a low rate.

The death rate from T. B. ia Utah, Wyoming, Iowa, North Dae kota and Nebraska has dropped te well below 20 per 10,000. Yet despite this marked improves ment, T, B. today takes more than 50,000 lives a year in the United States. .

It remains the principal cause of death among white females 20 to 34 years, accounting for about onee fifth of all deaths in this broad age range, Among white males tuberculosis ranks second only to accidents im the prime ages from 20 to 39. Among colored males of this age range, the disease outranks every other cause, as it does among colored females from 10 to 39 years. : The virtual stamping out of the disease must await the full utiliza tion of existing knowledge and facilities for discovering and treate ing the cases.

YWCA Candlelight Services Set

Program to Be Given Sunday at 4 p. m. candlelight

Christmas services

; !will be held in the ¥Y. W. C. A. at

By David Dietz |

“The fact that tumor cells are no mere ordinary

cells which have seized an opporunity to go on the| Others on the program are: Ruth |

loose is the basis for the present-day search for some

4:30 p. m. Sunday, Christine Johnson, member of the T. A. 8. Y-Teen club, will be leader 'of the services,

Taylor, president of the Little

Lucrative Yule Timber—

Annual Harvest of Christmas Trees

Conservation-Minded Persons Decry Waste; Supply Not Shortened by Freight Embargo

By JACK VAN COEVERING Times Special Writer CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Christmas trees are becoming a multi-million-dollar business. Throughout the country, some 15-million trees are {ready for the holiday demand. Prices range from $1 to $5—and that {adds up to real money. A Christmas tree, in the lake states, is usually a balsam or a spruce. The same is true in New England and the Appalachian section.

are planted.

needles longest.

Becomes Multi-Million Dollar Business

eroded acres by harvesting Christmas trees 10 or 15 years after they

Most prized Christmas both the United States and Canada is the balsam fir, which holds its |

Most beautiful of all

spruce, which is closely covered heating units; and, in decorating with small needles and many cones: [the tree, don't use lighted candles, Caution Against Fire

tree In

How to Stay Alive: Until Christmas

WASHINGTON, Dec, 11 (U, P), —Warning that more people are killed by accidents in December than in any other month, the Amere ican Red Cross today listed these “don'ts” for the holiday season: Don't rush; don't jay-walk; don’§ carry so many bundles that you can't see where you're going; don's push; don't drive fast in bad {weather; don't put the Christmas

is the (ree close to fireplaces or other

combustible decorations, bad exten

The U. 8. forest service recom- [on cords, or unreliable stepladders.

distinguishing chemical trait of the neoplastic cell,” Women Y-Teen club at School 26, Elsewhere in the country, virtually mends setting your tree in three TE —

Dr. Rous says. Sadye Alexander, president of all kinds of evergreens are used. embargo did not shorten the supply. |. aris of water to which have been | Accident Sets This search is beginning to yield important infor- | T. A. 8, Anna Bess Smith, presi- The lodgepole pine and Douglas| By Christmas eve unsold trees on added five grams of citric acid and | : . mation and Dr. Rous thinks that some day it may dent of Merry Pals, Celia Jones, fir are frequently uséd in Colorado. | city lots become worthless as yes-|. crams of malic acid or pectin. | Stage for Thief lead to a crucial discovery. president of the Girl Reserve club On the Pacific coast, it is principal- terday’s newspaper. When the tree is in place add 15| While a trackless trolley operator,

|at School 27 and chairman of the ly Douglas fir, Every year, conservation-minded | ...¢ of calcium carbonate to the A] : . : : i | . S pha Houston, 29, of 539 Bell st. Heredity Studied |grade and junior high Inter-club| In Maryland, Virginia and Wash- folks decry this waste. acid solution; As the tree uses this lwo beind the Vehicle 10 invests

| | “GIFTED CHEMISTS are concerhing themselves council; Betty Jo Jackson, président | ington, D. C.,, a scrub pine takes 8 When trees are cut without Te- solution, add water. This will help [gate an accident last night, someons with these possibilities, trying to learn precisely ©f the Teen Timers, and Vivian RUNS. localiti hit __ |sard to law or good forest practices, n;iq4 needles on all evergreens ex- stepped inside and stole his money what chemical portion of the carcinogenic molecule is Snyder, member of the T. A. S. Re CB Jijas, N oe pale such oitcries are justified. [cept hemlocks. {belt containing $8. associated with its singular effect.” |" Music will be furnished by Anna sot TR Bivie, hei ok, re wre In most cases, however, Ohrist- | When your Christmas tree is in| He told police that an automobile Dr. Rous also thinks that studies in genetics or ‘Walker, member of the Senior Sub- White cedar an Teiwo are used. mas tree harvests are actually & the house, never forget thie way it driven by Samuel Smith, 27, of 1021 heredity may throw much light on cancer. debs; Donzella Douglas, from the Harvest in Fall | part of good foypest management. burns—w h 00s h—on your rubbish | N. Missouri st., had struck his car, Among the institutions which, have’ made this sort Girl Reserve club of School 37; the| The business of harvesting this] Balsam Fir Most Prized . |pile after Christmas. It will do the |then crashed into one parked at the of study possible is the Jackson Memorial Laboratory School 28 choir, directed by Miss {annual crop begins in the fall, when; Many land owners manage their same inside your house, if you ever | curb. of Bar Harbor, Me., where strains of rhice of known Clara Reese Kirk, and the Y-Teen cutters go into the woods after swamps to make them yield a crop [allow it to catch fire, Passengers said a man entered the heredity are bred. trio, composed of Barbara Merri- | trees, It continues as truckers of trees year after year. Thinning Copyright. 148. by The Irdianapoite Times trolley, took the belt and fled before These studies have produced some strains of mice Weather, Patricia Harris and Bessle, bring huge loads to thetropolitan'operations are another source of | sad The Chicago Daily News, Int: | iheir astonished eyes. which have striking liabilities to spontaneous tumors Whitted. markets. 'yule trees. of one sort or another while others show an equally Following services will be the Yas | Since virtually all Christmas trees| Farmers have discovered that | Church Group Plans remarkable freedom from such growths. |ditional observance of the “Hanging are shipped by truck, the freight!they can get a cash crop trom Christmas Party

“A high percentage of the ‘animals ‘of certain Of the Green” a ceremony prefacSILLY NOTIONS

ity of the Rockefeller institute, points out, is the primary fact which must be kept in mind in seeking the cause of cancer. ! At, the time the atomic bomb was first announced, the lay public was introduced to the term “chain reaction.” The bomb, of course, depends upon a chain reaction which, once started, keeps itself going. But as was pointed out at the time, an ordinary fire is one of the oldest examples of a chain reaction. Cancer might then also be considered as a chain reaction. All doctors realize, Dr. Rous says, that the carcinogenic agents are only the matches which light the fire, The fire burns on, once ignited, irrespective of the particular type of match that was used. Experiments have shown that cancers can be caused in animals by the injection of various hydrocarbons. But they can also be induced by certain other . agents, ranging from overdoses of X-rays to the ova or eggs of certain worms known as the bilharzia or schistosoma. ®

| Policeman's ‘Bribe’ Group Three of the Woman's So- | Goes to Clothe-A-Child

By Palumbo! ciety of Christian Service of North! The Indianapolis Times Clothe-A« | Methodist church will present a Child Christmas fund is $16.68

breeds, in some instances every animal, may develop ing the Yuletide season's’ activities. lung tumors or liver tumors or leukemia after they Readings for the ceremony will grow up, or every ageing female may have mammary be done by members of the Business

Not Ordinary Cells

DR. ROUS dismisses the idea, frequgntly advanced, that cancer cells are ordinary cells which have started to grow wild because some governing influence of the body which previously kept them in check has been removed.

cancer, while other strains almost or never have and Professional Girls’ club. Music growths of the sort mentioned,” Dr. Rous says. (will be furnished by a group of

room.

“And back of the primary tumor liabilities may be !singers from the several Industrial

secondary ones. An animal escaping the mammary tumor which kills most individuals of its strain may be prone to leukemia later on.”

We, the Women

By Ruth' Millett

THREE UNIVERSITY of Chicago social scientists have launched a 30-year study in an effort to find out what it takes to keep elderly people happy. Until we have the scientific answer, it's safe to guess that the most important factor in his happiness is the elderly person's deep-rooted determination to be both useful and happy. While the Chicago professors are studying their 2000 cases, here's a brief on a happy. elderly woman whom I have beén studying for some time just because it is so rare to find a really happy older person today. Though she has passed the 60 milestone she still works at a job. Her grown children have tried to make her give it up—but she says that as long as she can she intends to be self-supporting. -

Holds Place in Community |

NOR HAS she accepted the repeated invitations of her grown childrén to live with ‘one of "them. Her place in the community- is a result of years of living arid she doesn't intend to be uprooted. Also, she thinks she will stay on more friendly terms with

‘her children it she leads a life tliat is separate from

She is as fond of her children ‘as is any mother, and she's just as concerned over their troubles and proud of théir successes. But she doesn't live through them. She is too busy living herself. Young people—including her own children—enjoy her company because she has been true to a rule she laid down for herself when her children were growing up: “Never let anything your children do or say shock you.”

Laughs a Lot .

SHE DOESN'T feel that because she is an “older woman” others should consider her comfort. Concern with the happiness, pleasure and comfort of other people has been a life-long habit with her, and the years have only served to make her more sensitive to the feelings of others, She laughs a lot. She has a way of seeing the . funny side of incidents that would otherwise be annoyances, 8he has never quit making new friends because she still meets strangers eagerly and expectantly. ". -8he rarely offers advice to anyone. It's too bad she isn't one of the “case histories” the Chicago professors intend to study. They sould learn a lot from her, ge

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|clubs, under the direction of Mrs. | Lucretia Love. | Sue Evelyn Thompson will relate Charles Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” lat the close of the ritual, |

Less Than 5% of State ‘Veterans Are Jobless |

Unemployed Hoosier war veterans [received $1,314,360 in readjustment allowances during November, Di-| rector Noble R. Shaw of the Indiana | employment security division said | yesterday. | Mr. Shaw said the average num- | ber of 16575 veterans paid each | week represented less than 5 per cent of the 35000 state dis-| chargees. Mr. Shaw sald the other {95 per cent was employed or in! l.business or school. i Veterans will have until two years | after the official end..of world {war II to claim compensation in case of unemployment, “Mr, Shaw | said.

Bill of Rights Day | WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U.P). | — President, Truman has designated | Dec. 15 as Bill of Rights day. The | date marks the 155th anniyersary of ‘the adoption of the bill of rights, . 5 : i

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The program will include Christmas carols, directed by Mrs. Charles

A. Breece, two arias from Handel's| Howard in municipal court.

“Messiah” and the Bach-Gounod “Ave Maria,” sung by Mrs. Jané Burroughs Adams, accompanied by Walter Whitworth, and instrumental solos by Susan Bowers, pianist, and Mrs. H. H. Peabody, violinist, with Mary Susan Singer as accompanist. Mrs. Alice Alexander will read a story, “The Black Madonna,” assisted by Mrs. E, W. McIlvaine. Dr,

Dallas L. Browning will offer the

| Mrs. L. E Schultz is program | chairman, and Miss Anna Mock is group chairman,

Employment Services Group Elects Officers.

| Thomas W. Bennett has been relelected president of the Indiana chapter, International Association of Public Employment Services, He is manager of the Indianapolis office of the state employment service, WL " | James Bailey, Mavion, has ‘been named’ vice president. He is manlager of the Muncie office. | Mrs. Mary Lou Huffine, Indian- {

apolis, was appointed by Mr. BenInes to Ye a8 secretary.treasuser.

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Christmas “program at 1:30 p. m.| richer today because a couple ate

tomorrow in the church assembly tempted to bribe Police Sgt. John

Foran as he arrested them. Sgt. Foran accepted the bribe and { turned it over to Judge Joseph The

judge, with the consent of the dee

‘To Be Dinner Guests

More than 100 district, neighbors | hood and field scout commissioners from eight central Indiana counties will be guests at a Christmas appre= ciation dinner at 6:30 p. m. tonight in the Athenaeum. Dr. Gunnar H. Berg, national die rector of training, will speak. Me» morial services for a former séout= ing leader, C. C. Perry, will be held.

27 Amputees’ Get Cars CHICAGO, Dec. 11 (U, P.).—The veterans administration program for disabled ex-servicemen has pro= vided automobiles for 327 amputees. and given pensions and - tions to 113,875 former hoes Tllinois and northern Indiams, the - regional office said today. Approxs imately 250 other amputees are awaiting delivery of a cam

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