Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1947 — Page 19

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NO ONE IN the halls outside of the Indiana university medical school auditorium -seemed excited. Even though in a few minutes the weekly clinicopathological conference (seminar) was to. begin, small groups of people continued to smoke and chatter in low tones. Incredible. Soon scientific minds ‘were to discuss

and probe perplexing problems of the human body and almost everycne took it in a matter-of-fact way. Except me, Here was a chance to broaden myself, I heard someone say, “Well, we might as well go in.” That ‘was my cue. I didn't want to appear too

‘eager 30 I took a seat in the balcony where I could

look down on the lecture platform, motion picture screen, and the X-ray lighter-upper machine. Young doctors in their white working clothes dotted the auditorium, Older men in street clothes were seated in the front row downstairs, A nurse and geveral women spectators completed the audience. Dr. Bert Hoeflick presented the first case: A Budden and Unexpected Death in a Patient Suffering from Cancer, 1 The first few words I understood perfectly and then I began to get lost. Medical jargon tends to become complicated. In a few minutes I knew it was hopeless unless I got some help. A studious-looking medical student sat next to me. By the time I drummed up-enough” courage to ask him for help Dr, Hoeflick was stepping away from the microphone.

Wrong Pronunciation

ONE WORD stood out in my mind. un T could crack the vocabulary I'd be all right. "Pardon me,” I-began, ‘but would you tell me what a sontemeter is?” The student looked at me as if I had hit him with a wef tea bag. . “Sontemeter?” He shook his head. 1 followed "up. quickly. Evidently I had committed a faux pas. “Dr. Hoeflick kept referring to—this sontemeter something. I don't quite understand.” “You probably mean centimeter. Here in med school we use the French pronunciation. The layman uses the other more familiar pronunciation.” “Thank you.” The layman, Centimeter—sontometer—sontometer—centimeter. I don't get it. Dr. John Van Nuys, medical director of the medical center, began discussing the case,

Confusing . THE CASE history was flashed on the screen. A good chance to figure what this thing b all about at my leisure,

PERFECTLY ORIENTATED—But it's tough on

those who aren't, -

In the very first line I ran into AET—36. Obviously an abbreviation. But what? The report. was full of abbreviations and strange $5 words. “Say—pardon me again—but what does -that AET ~—36 mean?” “Where?” “In the first line of the case history on the screen,”

I pointed out.

The medical student was an understanding fellow. In a calm tone he explained that the patient was 36 years old. Dr. Van Nuys was deep in the discussion.-He, too, was speaking in a strange language. I decided I better concentrate on the screen. : BMR plus-80-esnused me. Probably meant “back medium round slightly larger than 30 inches” “41 ventured another question. “What does TNPN— 55 mean?” Dr. Van Nuys concluded his discussion. Dr. olit-|

‘ford Wiethoff was to present the autopsy findings. ' The lights went out and a slide showing a Cross| and sanitation. This is a return to

section of a part of the human anatomy Was flashe on the screen. The medical student looked at me “strangely in the! darkened auditorium. i “TNPN—55 means the total non-protein nitrogen.” “Oh. ” “Say, where did you come from?” he asked me in| an irritated tone. I mumbled something about Glockenspiel Institute in Cicero, Ill, and made a rapid exit to the words of “mediastinum,” “systolic murmur” and “easinophile.” Never again, The night air felt good on my persplsing cranium.

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U.S. in Business

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, . March 13.—Now we've got the U. 8. government, itself, joining the National Association of Manufacturers.

- The government, being only a small business (and I'll explain that, too, in a minute), pays $50 a year for its membership in N. A. M. For weeks now the senate civil service committee has been enquiring into the weird enterprises of Government Services, Inc. This is a quasi-federal corporation, which runs restaurants for government clerks, sight-seeing boats for tourists, an insurance company and a convalescent home for its own help. It has been known to take an occasional profitable flier in the stock market. G. 8. 1. also operates swimming pools, tennis courts, and a bicycle rental agency. It functions as host at the Bluebeard hotel in the Virgin islands, is landlord at two housing projects, and runs a grist mill, powered by a water wheel, in Rock Creek park. This mill, which sells souvenir corn meal to visitors at 25 cents a package, has one elderly miller on the job. This would seem to make the government a businessman, all right, and a small businessman at that.

Dues, $50

SO THERE was Frank W. Hoover, the general manager, testifying about G. S. I. being a member of the National Restaurant association, the Washington Restaurant association, the Washington board of trade, the National Safety Council, the National Association of Cost Accountants and—by paying his dues—the Rotary club. “Is the G. S. I. a member of the National Association of Manufacturers?” asked Senator Raymond E. Baldwin, Conn. “Oh, ves sir,” replied Mr. Hoover: “We only have to pay $50 a year for that and a very valuable service

they render us, tco. Why, some business have to pay $10,000 a year dues. But we get just the same information and literature as they do for our $50.” He displayed some of the N. A. M.'s pamphlets.

Burst of Pride

“YES, BUT don't you think you suffered a little burst of pride when you joined the N. A. M.?" asked Senator Baldwin. “Particularly when you have only one employee (that gray- haired miller) engaged in manufacturing?” Mr. Hoover said he didn’t think so. Senator Baldwin said he could see no excuse for any government agency being a paid-up member of the National Manufacturing Association. Then he changed the subject The senators were wondering also about the $5000 check, signed by the treasurer of the United States and payable to the stock brokerage firm of Harriman & Co. Samuel Goodacre, treasurer of G. S. I. explained that one. Seems that in 1929 G. S. I. had some surplus cash, so it invested in the preferred stock of the North American. Co. “It paid 6 per cent interest,” said Mr. Goodacre, “and we made $4800 in interest during the 16 years we held it. Then we sold it for $5000. And I wish I had some stock like that in my own portfolio.” The senators’ counsel read a District of Columbia statute, prohibiting corporations like G. S. I. from buying stocks of other firms. Mr. Goodacre said if a crime had been committed, he supposed the statute of limitations would take care of it now. G. 8.1. now keeps all its spare cash in government bonds, he said, except for $5000 in the bonds of the Georgetown Gas Co. And I think I'll drop out to Rock Creek park and buy me a package of federal corn meal. I want to make some government muffins for Senator Baldwin.

Accent on Love

HOLLYWOOD, March 13.—We're always intrigued by the movie hero's romantic pitch to the heroine. Those celluloid love lines make you wonder whether writers have personally used them (and if they were successful), if itis the result ‘of -eavesdropping with notebook and pencil behind park benches, or just imagination. We made a tour of the sets at Universal-Inter-national the other day. The accent was on jove—in beautiful language. Michael Redgrave was holding Joan Bennett in

his arms on the set of “Secret Beyond the Door” and

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There’ s something in“your-fece I saw once before, in South Dakota, in. the wheat country. weather. - Just before the cyclone the air had a fiat, golden shimmering stillness. You have it in your face —the same hush before a storm. And when you smile, it's like the first breath of wind bending down the wheat.” ; Few gals could resist such talk. And then you wonder how actors, given such beautiful dialog -to capture their leading ladies, react to the same situation in real life. I suspect a good many of them have conveniently remembered some romantic lines from old scripts and old plays.

Used His Best Lines

1 KNOW the late John Barrymore once did.

He was wooing a young day in one of his pictures.

on the set between scenes. A sound man pushed a microphone up to the open window of John's dressing room, and the cast crew impolitely listened-in in ‘the sound truck outside the stage.

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By Erskine Johnson

Everyone got hysterical over the Barrymore pitch. He was using lines from Shakespeare and a dialog from a couple of movies in which he had appeared. But old John had the last laugh. Later he told me those lines worked. REKO's new movie, “Memory of Love,” has, T think, the best title of all time. ‘It's what everybody has. Director Sam Wood is paging Joan Crawford for the role of a Russian siren in the film version of Rex Beach's “The World in His Arms.”

Betty Hutton says she wants to have another baby | William _L. Fortune, y y C y Grant, Edwin Haerle, George B. jer and children’s home operator, was and kicked him. During the beat-

Huff, Bert C. McCammon, Ras W. held on an open charge today ‘in the ing, he. said, David's head . struck | Powel, John G. Tinder, J. Russell ‘death of David Pismian, 4, whom the floor. and a stove. gn

after doing three more pictures.

Song .a Publicity Stunt STORY BEHIND a song: Ray ‘Livingstone wrote the hit song, “To Each His Own,”

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SECOND SECTION

Delegates Had Good Attendance Record

By JACK THOMPSON

WHEN THE FINAL score is counted, this is what Indianapolis and Marion county got out of the 85th general assembly : Among the bills passed that have a direct bearing on the county and city’ was a measure creating a second criminal court to relieve the existing court's overburdened docket. Marion county legislators. stood solidly behind this bill, For the next two years ‘Indianapolis will be the subject of study for a nine-member commission set up to consider the merit system of employment f6r the city. Awaiting the governor's signature, the measluke was approved by the delegation. EJ ” » i WITH FULL support of the local legislators the assembly passed a {bill giving’ the mayor ‘permission to {make .two separate boards out of {the present board of public works

the old set up, changed during political squabbles several administrations back. The delegation appeared rather disinterested in a bill which would have given the mayor authority to {go outside the police department to | appoint a police chief, The meas~ ure died in committee. | Another bill quietly snuffed out | would have ended racial segregation in public schools here and elsewhere in the state. ~ » » = | WHEN A Marion county “ripper bill” came up for action, the dele- | gation sanctigned it unanimously. {A patronage shift taking the power ot appointing the welfare board from the Democratic juvenile court judge to the Republican circuit court judge is provided in the measure.

the house delegation to a bill designed to divide equally the share of grade separation costs between the railroads and the public. Railroad management and railroad brotherhoods also opposed the bill. It was defeated with the reue Hoosier taxpayers will continue to pay 80 per cent of the cost of any track elevation constructed in the next two years. » =

» A NUMBER of bills to provide

Marion county officials and judges

Decided opposition was taken by |

“or The Record—Here Is Marion County Fared In

VOTING RECORD OF MARION COUNTY DELEGATION IN LEGISLATURE ON MAJOR BILLS

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: 1. GOVERNMENT H. B. 42—Unified state department of revenue.

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H. B. 81—Metropolitan aviation board.for Marion County.

No Action

H. B. 96—Transfer appointment he court to circuit court.

of welfare board from |

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petit jury venires monthly instead

fi. B. 98—Permits county commissioners to A grand. and

of annually.

H. B. 146—Cities and counties to divide equally the taxpayers’ share of grade separation projects.

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for new state building.

H.B. i 153—480,000 for purchase of Deaconess hospital as site

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H. B. 211—Permits longer trucks on RRR

No Action

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H. B. 301—Gives Marion County an

additional criminal court”

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two boards, ‘one for works and one

H. B. 303—Breaks city board of works and sanitation into

for sanitation.

f “to relieve congested criminal -court docket. } | |

H. B. 355—Reassessment of all Indiana property in 1949.

H. B. 403—Creates nine-member commission to study Indianapolis personnel problems. Object, merit system.

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8. B. 9—Clears city’s title to market square, site of Tomlin-

S. B. T0— Authorizes Marion county and Indianapolis to act together to finance and build joint governmental building.

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sets maximum salary at $4600.

§. B. 12—Require circuit court clerks to be attorneys and

ranks.

§. B. 283—Requires selection of fire chief from SEER

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Ti. SOCIAL LEGIL H. B. 17—Additional care for aged,

three regional welfare directorships.

SLATION blind, etc., and eliminates

rehabilitation for blind.

H. B. 147—Creates new board of industrial aid and vocational

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handicapped children.

H. B. 163—Provides for education of physically and ntentally

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S. B. 59—Outlaws hate-propagating organizations such as

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profit.

S. B. 210—Outlaws ASCAP and similar organizations formed to control public performance rights of music played for

: ITI. HEALTH H. B. 25—Provides for joint city-county health department, |

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H. B. 140—Provides that minority race member on city | health board need not be a physician.

one mile of church or school.

H. B. 169—Prohibits unloading or feeding garbage within |

sheriff.

~~ 1V. SALARIES - H. B. 27—Additional pay for county surveyor and deputy

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of third class cities.

HB. 133—Increases salaries for may®rs and Sther officials

judges in Marion County.

H. B.

were rejected by the house delegation after Marion countv senators suggested or approved the additional pay. Among these was the old “fee bill” measure. This bill would have given the circuit court clerk and the sheriff $1.50 each for issuing and serving fee bills. Sheriff Albert C. Magenheimer stated publicly he considered this a bad bill, since officers should not receive extra pay for merely doing their duty. The bill was tagged by its authors as an “incentive measure.”

w - » THE HOUSE delegation successfully opposed & measure which would have given $4 a day to a dozen county officials to supplement the $10.000 a year salary now paid these officers. A split in the house delegation

= came on a bill imposing a two-year

jLmitagion on portal-to-portal pay suits. Five members. were for the. bill; six were against it, and one did not vote. Throughout the session the delegation held a good attendance record. Only member not présent was. Sengtor John W. Atherton, who was excused because of illness. Members of the Marion county delegation are: Senators Atherton, Mrs. Arcada S. Balz, Robert Lee Brokenburr, Paul G. Moffett, Hoyt Moore and Roger G. Wolcott, and Reps. Wayne O. Adams, Kenneth Blackwell, Mrs. Nelle B. Downey, | Wilbur H,

r Townsend and Mrs. Margin

Evans and Jay | Wyatt,

solely as a publicity stunt to advertise Olivia de’

Havililand’s movie of the same name.

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big success but more millions heard the song than

saw._the picture, It sold 4,000,000 records, 1,000,000 sheets of -music,

and was on the Hit Parade for 20 weeks. It earned Circus May 16- 17

the 31-year-old writers close to $30,000. But it could

not be considered for an Academy Award because

it was not in the picture. An unexplained hit, every company except one for whom Jay's brother is music scout. Brother Allen said it was no good, Nor did Ray and Jay, when ordered to write it, think the title was good for a song. People who can't remember what comes after “A Tose must remain with the sun and the rain” have nothing on Lyricist Ray. He forgets, too,

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We, the Women

By Ruth Millett

WHAT SHOULD every husband know? How to cope with mechanical household gadgets, There is no surer way for a man to win a modern woman's respect than by saying with assurance

“oil take a look’ at it” when she reports -that the

washing machine has up and quit on her. How to make a housewife who has been doing unglamorous jobs all day {eel glamorous in. the evening. The wife whose, husband can do that will never envy women whose husbands have more money nor ‘will ‘she delight in finding fault with him.

Reforming ‘Won't Work

How to «perform the duties of a host, without frequent promptings from his wife. How to kid a woman out of her; minor faults, instead of trying: to reform her for her own. good. ‘When to put down his newspaper and really listen to what his wife has to say. 7. How/to get a little privacy in his own home, 80 that his wife doesn’t open’ his mail or ask “Who was it, dear?” whenever he has a telephone call,

He Needs Some Privacy

HOW TO KEEP his wife from assuming that he ALWAYS wants to share his leisure time with her, s0 that he can enjoy the companionship of men

- occasionally or just get off by. himself when he

ite to. who can manage all of those points

it was redorded for mearly

More than 10,000 Boy Scouts from eight central Indiana counties will take part in the sixth annual scout circus at the state fair grounds ‘coliseum May “16 and 17, | Boys from Marion, Johnson, Hancock, Shelby, Hendricks, Boone, Clinfon and Montgomery counties will participate in the nine program events depicting all phases of scouting. More than 8000 cub scouts, boy scouts and senior scouts of the Central Indiana council are expected: to be on the tarmack of the coliseum for the grand entry.

onstrations of fire building, signaling, first aid; astronomy, outdoor life. Ticket sale “kick-off” for the clrcus will take place at 6:30 p. m, Monday at a dinner for officials at North Methodist church. Approximately 400 scout officials from the eight counties will attend to complete final details for the show and receive tickets for distribution to the boys in their units. J. G. Sinclair was appointed general chairman of the circus by Wil-

Scouts will Have tickets for sale after Monday and the commissions received will be used by the troops

officers.

S. B. 91—Makes possible salary increase to $14,200 a year for |

V. ELECTIONS | | 47—Direct primary. elections for nomination of state

state candidates...

§. B. 25—Reforms political convention system of nominating

§. B. 99—Places municipal election

county boards.

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years.

VI. LIQUOR | H. B. 54—Local option by precincts, referendum every four

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result.

H. B. 189—Local option—referendum to decide whether legis- | lature shall act and how it may replace lost revenues which

H. B. 203—Administration bill to “remove liquor from

politics.”

H. B. 246—Requires Instruction wn of liquor on human body.

public schools on effects

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H. B. 107—Two year limitation on

VII. LABOR

Food portal-to-portal paysuits. No Action

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conciliation and arbitration panels

8. B. 40—Puts policemen on 48-hour week ‘except in emer- |

gencies.

fi. B. 392—Outlaws strikes in public utilities, sets up state

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to settle disputes.

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between midnight and 6 a. m. |

into one county school unit.

SB. 240—Permits women to work around the clock in in- 1 dustry by" suspending for two years present ban on work

| VIII. EDUCATION | H. B. 241—Authorizes consolidation of township school units

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fi. B. 333—Prohibits firing of teachers or refusal to hire them

ers’ salaries,

§.B. 151—Increased tuition payments by state toward teach-

8S. B. 157—Increase minimum pay

4-Year-Old Boy Dies While Being Whipped |

KALAMAZOO, Mich, March 13 (U. P.) —Lester Carpenter, 26, farm-'

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| Buder, Carpenter said the little bo angered him and, fo whipped . the Step Up Codl Production ~ But That Isn't All, They Also Have an i Alarm * That Wakes You, Provides Hot Beverage

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LONDON, March 13.—New answers to Britain's No. 4 question—

One more suggestion for increased efficiency in the mines was issued bx the Empire Tea bureau, promoter of the British national beverage. The bureau has perfected a method of serving hot tea at mide morning and midafternoon to the men in the pits.

creased in" a Sheffield colliery,” | pedside lamp, alarm clock, one-cup said Kenneth Read, spokesman for | kettle and teapot. ;

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Tea Bureau Helps

By BARBARA NEBLETT Times Foreign Correspondent

up coal production—crop up by the dozen every day.

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The program will include dem- |,

to finance syecial Pojesis and}

the bureau's tea center in Piccadilly Circus. j

Report Favorable “During a three-month experi-|alarm for, say, 7:30, then ment with our underground tea|the light. At 7:20 the burner service, the pit manager's report|the kettle will switch on. . was so favorable that we hope to ] make the service available to all jeans over and British mines.” This newest project is only one tiny phase of the bureau's work. 1f a Brifon wants to give a formal party, open a cafe, buy a new teapot, have some rare old tea analyzed, or increase, the ‘efficiency of his business, there's a branch of the bureau to help him. At the center, there's a tricycle tea wagon on display that will roam} the streets of London, come summer, to serve shoppers, sightseers or workers.

'¢ Tea Alarm Resembling American ice wagons, the “stop me” tea truck provides automatic taps for “tea, . | |milk-and sugar that releases Jus ~tenough of each for one a

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