Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1947 — Page 13

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"THERE © COMES A "TIME in every man's life when he keeps his trap shut. My time came yesterday. : . Dr. Maynard K. Hine, dean of the Indiana univer= sity school of dentistry, was gluing three dental students and myself a sneak preview of an ancient kit of dental instruments. Today, you can see this same kit in the assembly room of the Claypool hotel, where the 90th annual session of the Indiana State Dental association is having a three-day powwow, Seniors Hudson G, Kelley and Lawrence Lang and junior Harold Smiley iooked at the tools of yore and then at me. I smiled weakly and drew my lips to indicate that not a tooth reposed in my jaws. I don't think I fooled them, " “Men-—what do you think of this outfit?” asked Dean Hine. The students had various reactions from I wrote my comment on a piece of scratch paper—"No cemiff€nt.” “Kelly, how would you like to buy yourself a set

of these tools to start your practice this summer?”

Dean Hine asked. “Thanks, thanks a lot, bdt no thanks, Dean,” Mr. Kelley amg back.

Important Item Missing “WHY ALL the mother of pearl handles?’ Mr. Lang asked. The dean said the handles were to impress the patient. One little item was missing from the top shelf of the tool chest, I thought—a mother-of-pearl baseball bat,

Mr. Smiley wanted to know about sterilization of

the instruments. “Smiley, that's a good question, but if you re-

member, 100 years ago they didn’t know about sterili-

zation and neither did they know about anesthetics,” the dean explained. Bv 4 (ime the students had the other shelf out, an’ tsm ui the kit revealed some might potent1 . aphernalia, Lang thought the Instruments on the second snell were more practical but still a long way from what is in general use today. “Give that man two silver dollars, thought. ‘Yes, T imagine old Dr. Austin Gray Vanderbilt put those instruments to some good use,” said Dean Hine. “What's this, Dean?” Mr. Kelley asked, holding up a bowstring with a gadget that looked like a short ire pick. “That's a bowstring drill,” "the dean answered, “but I'm atraid it wasn't very practical. - Here, let me show you.” Mr. Kelley stepped up bravely. The nerve of some guys. I saw what the good dean meant by nok practical. The bow was coming close to the eye on one swipe and the ear on. the other. Remember, Mr. Kelley didn't have a toothache and Dean Hine was being careful, : “I ean't see it,” Mr. Lang remarked. “How would a dentist operate the drill when he undoubtedly would Lave to hola ‘patient With a Yiif-Nelson grip?” “What's this?" asked Mr. Smiley. All of the more gruesome instruments were coming out of the bottom of the case. “Funny 'hing,”.began Dean Hine, “you don't see very many of these any moze. That's an extracting

doctor,” I

key. The tooth is extracted by leverage.”

NO DOUBT A MOLAR WOULD GIVE— But dental students (left to right) Harold Smiley and Hudson G. Kelley wonder how, as Lawrence Lang demonstrates with an ancient extracting instrument.

To me there was nothing funny about this minia- |.

ture ice tong that-Mr. Smiley was examining. Of course, the future dentists wanted to know how it worked. The dean laid his hand on my shoulder. Just as I was turning to a beautiful mother-of-pearl shade of white Dean Hine picked up a model set of uppers and lowers.

No Charge for Hemorrhage

SECOND SECTION .

unselfish attitudes in family delinquency in Indianapolis w

court last Jan. 1. As a matter of fact, most of the probation staff work is being directed at the parents rather than on the juvenile delinquents in a new rehabilitation system inaugurated by Judge Hoffmann. “In most of the cases coming through the court we have found that discord and selfishness on the part of the parents caused the chil-

dren's anti-social attitudes and evéntual waywardness,” he said. » » »

“ONLY a few children would’ ever | become: delinquent if they have had a happy home life in an atmosphere of harmony and family affection.” But correction of defects in family life is n he solution to all the cases.

HE LOCKED one of the molars with ge key. “See; you'd be surprised how much leverage you can get, with one of these things.” Needless. to say, I wasn't surprised. The dean admitted that even though the instrument was used during a period when there wasn't much finesse the net result would be—one tooth gone, maybe part of a jAwbone and possibly a hemorrhage. “But in case of a hemorrhage” the dean said, picking up a long pair of scissors, “you just take these things and cut some gauze.” Nothing to it. Everyone agreed that a burnisher, tongue-depres-sor and a mouth mirror had some value. But the soldering iron, files, almost all of the scalers, punches and the crude swage would be frowned upon in an office. I frowned heavily on the whole snevfiig’ “Any buyers?” Dean Hine asked with a mile, ' The students suddenly remembered they had to go aad look at the commercial exhibits on the mezzanine of the Claypool. T remembered that I wanted to go out and shake the hand of my dentist.

“Sometimes, even when parental supervision and family life appear to {be perféct a child becomes delinquent for reasons that are not apparent on the Surface,” Judge Hoftman said. » » ” IT IS in these cases that expert {treatment is necessary, he said, 'if the children are to be safe from a life of crime. Judge Hoffmann said he would propose in his 1848 court budget a fund to establish a psychiatric division either with a full-time psychiatrist or a part-time staff . “We have found that psychiatric treatment is necessary for many delinquent children in order to

WASHINGTON, May 21.—What big business has done to the Amana Society of Iowa shouldn't happen to an infidel.

Since 1854 the pious members have been tilling their 26,000 fertile acres, worshipping God according to their own lights, and reflecting credit upon Iowa and the nation. They clipped the wool from’ their seep and turned it into blankets of superb quality. Their fat hogs each fall became Westphalia-style bacon arel hams for the premjum market. The Amanites cut lumber from their own stand of walnut trees and made by hand some of America’s finest colonial-type furniture. Fifteen years ago they started making frozen food lockers; this business also flourished. All was as prosperous as it was peaceful in the township of the Amana society, where the Golden Rule prevailed and no man cheated another. Came the war.

They Led the Nation

THE PATRIOTIC members expanded their freeze factory and expanded it again, producing refrigerators for the army and the navy. Steel took the place of wood, the clank of machinery drowned out the low of the cattle, and war's end found the society with a modernized refrigerating factory. The hard-working members went after business and soon had the biggest output of commercial food lockers in the country. Sheet steel was scarce by last summer. . The price was $80 a ton, but the mills were selling only to old customers and alloting them only what they'd used before the war. George C. Foerstner, the youngish manager of the plant, told the senate small business committee how high-binders offered him steel at double and triple

prices, how they made promises they didn’t keep, and | how one of them took his money, but still hasn't even delivered a needle. : In accents almost as thick as his eyeglasses Foerstner told a tale of an’ Amana lamb among the wolves. Brokers in Chicago and Detroit; mysterious voices on telephones, and firms with fancy letterheads but no

permanent address all had their part in clipping the!

devout refrigerator-maker. He paid several dealers $265 a ton for steel he should have got for $80. Last July he signed a contract with the Stakes Steel Supply Corp. of Detroit for 1300 tons of steel and sent a check for $2600, or $2 a ton, to bind the deal. Then he waited and waited some more. He got no steel. Nor money, either. . This February he sent his lawyer, R. E. Hatter of Marengo, Ia. to Detroit. The booming-voice Hatter, who sat with him in the senate caucus room, took up the story. ’ ‘Daisy - Chain’ Operations “ALL THESE DEALS were what the trade called ‘daisy-chain’ operations,” Mr.#atter testified. “There'd be commissions to give to people who'd done nothing to earn them and this Detroit thing didn’t seem to be much different from the others.

“So I got in touch with the attorney for the Stakes!

company and he said we could -either have our money! back, or he'd force these men to give us steel. We were desperate. I said let us have the steel.” “Did you get it?” asked Senator Edward Martin of | Pennsylvania. “We still don’t have the steel; they still have our! $2600," Mr. Hatter replied. And that's what big business did do the Amana society. Makes me a little sad to tell about it.

Tip for New Play

By Erskine Johnson

Alle id HOLLYWOOD, May 21.—Somebody really should write a play titled, “Life With Lindsay and Crouse.” The collaborators of “Life With Father,” Howard Lindsay and Russe] Crouse, are characters. The news from Hollywood that. Irgne Dunne and Bill Powel] would play the leads in “Life With Father” was sent to Lindsay and Crouse in a 13-page typewritten letter which ended: “Are you in-concur-rence with these selections?” ; The complete answer was a one-word telegram: “Sure.” A writer once called Crouse and told him about an idea he had for a play. He asked Crouse to please tell Lindsay. “Oh,” said Croust, “Lindsay's on the wire. He listens to all my telephone conversations.” When they wrote “State of the Union,” a critic commented that it was so timely it would be stale whert it reached New York. Lindsay's comment was: “Nuts. Congress can't move faster than Lindsay and Crouse.” ; When Crouse was told that 6600 red-haired children had been used in “Life With Father” in the original cast, the road company and the movie since 1939, he said: “If this continues, we'll have to buy a farm and Just raise red-haired children.” ‘

Pasternak Keeps Promise DESI ARNEZ is off for a six-weeks band tour with Lucille Ball tagging along. Who said no one in Hollywood keeps a promise? A year and a half ago, Joe Pasternak promised Carleton Young a role in “The Kissing Bandit.” At the

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We, the Women

A METHODIST bishop recently pointed out to a senate committe¢ that he has noticed no man or woman drinker picttired in liqudr ‘advertisements is ever disheveled or silly in" appearance.” Well we can't very well expect the liquor industry to show men and women staggering around and looking silly—unless §e demand, realism in all our advertising, can we?’

The Crispy Housewife : HOW ABOUT those wash-day advertisements, for instance? The ones where the housewife, dressed in a cute, crisp pinafore, goes about the business of

doing the family wash as daintily as though she were

serving tea? And how about the girl in the advertisements who

... hecepts a man’s compliments on her pretty, smooth

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is time Young was under contract to M-G-M. Joe Just signed him for the role although Young no longer is on the Metro payroll. Very quietly, Steve Hannegan has taken on Leo Durocher as a client. Steve hopes to improve his public relations by 19048. Now, that Laraine Day's divorce from Ray Hendricks has been upheld but her marriage to. Leo ruled illegal for a year, Leo will spend the rest of the year in a Beverly Hills hotel room. : Tommy Dorsey just bought a 95- foot yacht. keep Pat Dane happy? Tyrone Power probably will have his own air show in the fall. Ditto Ingrid Bergman in an hour dramatic piece.

A Gift for Miss America

LAURITZ MELCHOIR and Jane Powell will team up in a new M-G-M filmusical, “Luxury Liner.” Mary MacLaren, star of silent pictures, will make her film comeback in Paramount's “Dream Girl.” Jackie Cooper is learning the ups and downs of helicopter flying. Miss America, Marily Buferd, was presented with a pair of gold eagles as honorary colonel of the llywood American Legion post. Now where do | wear a pair of eagles on a bathing suit? Gregory Peck is reading a néw play from Thomas | Wolfe's “The Web and the Rock.” more time off to do it, Helen Hayes to ¢6-star. No complaint about type casting fro; Cary Grant. He's playing an angel in “The Bishop's Wife.” He'll play the role of the devil in that picture he is to

make for Alexandef Korda in England, _—

By Ruth Millett

ursas with a sales talk on the’benefits of a particular soap What about all those sweet pictures of family life where’ the dad wears his house slippers and smokes his pipe leaning back in his easy chair, mother looks happy over her mending, and three children play quietly on the floor?

A Bequtiful World .

WOULD YOU expect the house to be cluttered. ;

the children fighting, mother depressed over the amount’ of the mending, and dad annoyed with all’ the racket? No, the world of advertising is a beautiful, orderly place where people drink without getting . drunk, everyone is neat-appearing, and kitchen - sinks are never filled with dirty dishes.

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WASHINGTON,

Monrovia, Cal.

Hiroshima. The charges with which the navy confronts Little are the same ones whispered to me September, 1945, when I reached this tragic camp from Nagasaki. I was the first visitor to the camp after the war ended. One enlisted man after another told me: “When I get home I'll get Little broken if its the last thing I do” * . » ~ » OTHER starved, hollow-eyed American said Little made himself unpopular by his strictness in {handling food distribution, but that anyone forced to deal with starving, hate-filled men would, likewise, {have made enemies. The charges on which the navy-is {trying Little remain a secret. The press is barred from the courtmartial. According to navy spokesmen, Little—who is an Annapolis graduate, class of 1930—asked for a secret trial. This is his right. ~ » ” . WHEN I arrived at Camp 17 at Omuta in Kyushu, I was the first free American these 1700 allied prisoners had seen in four years. Little was among those who bombarded me with questions about the outer world. He seemingly bore no eonsciousness of guilt for having “betrayed,” as his detractors claimed, three Americans who deid at Japanese hands. x The actual club with which cer-

VAY MAY 21. io -

rohation Staff Works O o Cut Juvenile Delinqu

City Can Lick Problem by Réstoring

Harmony in Home, Judge Hoffmann Declares ‘By NOBLE REED

RESTORE HARMONY between’ the parents with more

life and most of the juvenile ill disappear.

This is the general conclusion reached by Judgé Joseph 0. Hoffmann after four months of observation in handling {scores of children’s cases sirice he became head of Juvenile .

determine what can be done for them,” he said. » » y THE JUDGE pointed out that ordinary interviews by probation workers spot the trouble in the child's background. in most of the cases, but in othérs—the most seri-

necessary. In these cases, he said, the mental conflicts causing all the trouble are not known even by the. child himnself and only psychiatric treatment will disclose them for study and correction. » » » ‘ NEARLY all delinquent children can be rehabilitated if proper treats ment is provided with co-operation of the parents and close relatives, court records show. Judge Hoffmann pointed out a recent case in which a 14-year-old boy had been designated for the boys’ school “because nothing could be done for him.” He had been in trouble many times and was listed as a hopeless “repeater.” ”

home life and found serious conflicts between the parents, and general disintegration of family life,” he said. “After working with the parents, they were induced to spend more time at home with their children.” , A few wg later Judge Hoffman said, the institutional commitment

records.

Accusers of Commander Say He Served As Stooge for Enemy, Sent 3 Men to Deaths

Times Special Writer .. By GEORGE WELLER May 21.—The ‘cut-throat intrigues of famished | American men and officers in a Japanese prison camp are being aired here at the secret court martial of Lt.: Cmdr. Edward Neal Little of

Little was food czar in a hunger camp between Nagasaki and

tainly one and “probably two of these prisoners i were killed,” I brought back to the United States. I still have it. It is a hand-carved club about four feet lopg and looks like a crude baseball bat. An American military courtmartial already has sent to their deaths before firing squads two former cammanders of Camp 17.

that Little did the dirty work of these two Japanese cammanders in

ous ones—expert observations are

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tipping off misdeeds by erring American prisoners. They did not hesitate to call him “a stoolpigeon for the Japs.” However, Little has an excellent navy record and hds been awarded the Silver Star for action on Bataan.

In this camp it was part of the Japanese’ technique to feed the prisoners.insufficiently, but to make the American officers responsible for, distribution. Food handlers had the prize posts under Little’s administration. Around the long, drab tables tiny shovelfuls of rice with a slice of pickle were - given out. Little's chief cook was a youngster who told me: “Our only meat was dog, and dog was rare.”

» » » : TWO GROUPS of officers formed

warring cliques in the camp, thus

undermining discipline by losing the men's respect. One bitter issue was the black market in Tice. Only men who worked full-time in <4he rottenbeamed coal mine could get full rations. Those too sick to go underground got two-thirds rations unless they were confined to the infirmary, where they got one-third.

One man with whom I talked had paid another one full dipper of rice to break his arm so that he could stay above ground. » » » ' AS HIS secret trial undoubtedly is revealing, Little was active in trying to break up this parallel exchange system of food. This barter, natural enough in a moneyless camp of famine, undoubtedly made his attempts to get

more food from the Japanese more

The Heart of America—

after. the war, when a G. A. R. crowd demanded a speech. It happened on Aug. 11, 1880. The veterans were encamped on the old state fair grounds, now. Franklin park. President Rutherford B. Hayes had come here ta address them. Gen. Sherman had joined the presidential party when {it

Carnival—By Dick Turner

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passed through his home town, Lancaster, O, There was a lot of speech-making, and after every orator finishéd the veterans yelled, “We want Uncle Billy!” meaning Sherman. Finally they got Uncle Billy—and the world got “War Is Hell!” The thought occurred to him as he paid tribute to their dead comrades. » » - THE MAYOR thinks the spot should be marked, and he's going to get a monuntent even if he has to beg one. He calls himself “the beggin'est mayor in America.” He begs for the public. The city's revenue is inadequate, and he says antiquated state laws have him so hog-tied that he can’t increase taxes to meet the needs. So when he wants funds for little prdiects about which he is enthusiastic, he just sends out “begging” letters to businessmen and civic clubs. That's how he raised the money for the planting of 50,000 tulip bulbs that have made the city hall gardens and terraces a picture of colorful beauty, Us spring. » THIS FALL there wil be another flower show in those same gardens— chrysanthemums. His honor already has begged the money. Another pet project for which he begs is the annual national caddie’s golf tournament, held at Ohio State university here. That's the mayor's

up enough trophies and other prizes to’ fill a warehouse, This energetic, ambitious, 36-year-old Republican mayor, hand-

also can talk about big projects: Just across the Scioto river ork is beginning on a new city a torium to be called Memorial Ball,

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‘Beggin’est Mayor’ Out to Mark Spot Where Sherman Coined "War Is Hell’ Line

Young Columbus; O., Official an Expert.

At Passing Hat for Benefit of Citizens By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer COLUMBUS, O., May 21.—Mayor J. A. Rhodes wants to mark, with an appropriate monument, the spot in Columbus where Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman first said, “War Is Hell!” You may have thought Gen. Sherman coined that expression in battle, with Minie-balls whistling around his ears. Says the general made the famous observation at a picnic here, long

“Two more than Paris has across the Seine.” When you ask Mayor Rhodes what the pripcipal business of the

town is, he promptly says, “Ohio State football.” Columbus’ principal support

comes from the large number of state and federal institutions here. It is not a city of high-salaried people in boom times, nor a city of low-salaried people in bad times. So it has neither the ups nor the downs that big industrial cities have. It's just smooth and comsuntoriable,.

COLUMBUS R oIolelly surrounds several small cities. Bexley, for instance, is an incorporated city of 10,000. It is in Columbus, but not a part of it: Bexley has its own city officials, police force and garbage vollection. It buys fire protection and water from Columbus. ‘It was a town before Columbus grew out to and around it, and they have refused to give up their charter. Other towns with a similar status are Grandview and Arlington,

WORD-A-DAY

By BACH

THE RIVER divides the city, * have 17 bridges,” the pow

I believes parents are cause of most juvenile delinquency.

Secret Navy Trial Airs Cut-Throat Plots

sy rai commen Of Famished Gls In Jap Prison Camp

difficult than they already were,

Little told me how hard he tried to get the black market stamped out in order to meet the recurrent Japanese argument: “The Ameri cans have food enough fo trade with, don't they?” i

“Little did turn these men the Japs. He may even have the Japs to make an example RE punishing them severely. 94 “But, of course, he never intended that they should be killed. eh

“Little had no authority pune i these men severely army officers with whom he 1 associatéd on the American board refused to tum in

was better to thwart or submit to the Japs. . “BUT Little eee that : the cost of seeming to play & with the Japanese he had to food thievery or else a nt : men would suffer rice cuts.” = Of

was powerless to intervene. Little's enemies point out shrieks .and sounds of suffe from the guardhouse were aut all over the Bray tie : of Camp 17. %

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