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“UNACCUSTOMED AS I AM to public speaking.”
You've heard of that expression. But have you ever
been in a spot where the above fits like a tight shoe? And. can you imagine a group of men meeting regularly for the express purpose of getting its members and guests to make speeches? Well, that's what the Eli Lilly Toastmasters club does. Personally, I thought, attending a meeting is bad enough but to gfe a speech every time you attend is worse. The Toastmasters don't see eye to eye with me on the subject. Not only jis the attendance good at the meetings but the enthusiasm for speechmaking is phenomenal. They lead off with food which is fine. The meetings are held in the Lilly board of directors room, which isn't bad either. Then just about the time you tell yourself you're glad you came, the topicmaster of the evening hands you the subject of your two-minute speech. When I got mine, Topicmaster Wendell Phillips was grinning from ear to ear. I started to grin too until I looked at the subject: How to be a successful public speaker. The meeting was rapped to order by Asa Stevens, president of the club. One thing about the Toast masters, they don't spend a lot of time with the business at hand. All they're doing is hurrying to get at the speeches or “trigger topics” as they're called. s : One thing bothered me. I was sure the topicmaster would lead off with me by virtue of my topic and that I was a guest. Ralph Ernsberger was called and he opened the organized gabfest with: What is a successful man?
Speeches Make Good Listening
MY MAIN activity was net listening to speeches but to get in shape so I'd have something, to offer the men besides a lot of stammering. This had to be good. Fortunately the vein of the speeches was light. Some made good listening. It would have been much better if a guy knew exactly. when he was to face the group. The timekeeper had two lights with which he let the speaker know when a minute and a half was up and when he wis through. Two minutes didn't seem long. Especially on crackerjack talks such as John Clarke gave on how to successfully not be invited back again as a House guest and Harold Duling’s on how to successfully run the house while your wife is away. For the uninitiated who were quaking in their boots at the thought of the speech, talks such as Mr. Clarke and Mr. Duling gave were disconcerting. It sounds easy but you know darn well what's in the noggin so far isn't much. Waiting to be called upon was like waiting for the dentist to start pulling your front teeth. Everyone
- else seemed calm. The critics, Jim Goble, Ralph
Ernsberger and Ed Hixon sat at the head of the table and jotted down notes. After all the speeches were made, they'd rip the speakers and speeches apart. Li in Art Eastman of public relations asked if I were nervous. I told him no, chain-smoking was just a
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Salvaged Bricks Used | To Build Cannery
By ROBERT BLOEM WITH FOOD costs" at all(time higlr levels, Central state ‘hospital for the insane now is equipped to can about 15,000
WELL, I'LL TELL YOU—Critic James Goble [Eedlons ot Tondstyns ® year (left) and Topicmaster Wendell W. Phillips of the UNGEr 118 own steam,
Eli Lilly Toastmasters club discuss a "pernt” in | A NeW cannery, manned to a large question, extent by patients, now is turning
nasty habit I acquired. What's a little white le out from 300. to 1000 gallons ot when you're ready to go into the frying pan. canned foods daily. It was form-|
Lona 1 Minut ally dedicated at the reorganization 2) wo Inules meeting of the institution's board of TIME WAS a wastin’' and my speech was still a at | jumbled mess. How are you going to tell a bunch of ‘rUstees last week. guys who are practically rabid on the subject to be THE LITTLE ceremony
a successful public speaker? passed
Then right out of the blue cigaret smoke one word . ye or Toc flash int ' , , dnd shed into my mind, psychology. Psychology for before the war. Through . the
the speech and for the toastmasters. way to win. Mr. Phillips, in introducing a subject, always made it sound as if the one you had was next on the program. This procedure didn't help quiet the butterflies in my stomach. But psychology was making some headway. Relax, I told myself, and when you get up act natural, don't use big words, watch ®our gestures and don’t, above all, put your hands in your pockets — oops — Mr, Phillips was calling. 53 Funny what 40 pairs of eyes will do to psychology. years. Including purchase. of -nea It literally flew out the window. The words weren't equipment, the plant was put infh coming out as they should. I leanéd on the table, | OPeration at 5-008 o only 333,000, wore either ton Inte or Too early, © "|, SOURCE of the vegetables canned The two minutes I spoke were the longest two | LOF hospital Sonsumpeion be pri old minutes of my life. And when I got the red light Deke RI 3 : EY ie) I wae still in the middle of psychology. The applause fgrion state Yea) in 1039 and must have been because I was the last “trigger” man. | since ut on a scientific, up-to- date While Ozzie Johnson gave a report on his trip to| fs basis. the international convention in Minneapolis, I was Prior to acquisition of the farm,’ trying to get myself orientated. At least it was over. Dr. Bahr said, Central had little What did the critics have to. say? Did they take =~... 0 "oo ar since products it ‘easy on the guest? Nothing of the sort. The po 50 { tillabl 2 were, whole outfit is serious about the merits of being of ite gi _ ' mer seaable to express yourself publicly. I got both barrels. | bg Sum tool But from the toastmasters’ showing and mine, I SOL ae t ni dont - nts. y have to admit it, the men have a good idea nl for Jus an ial Palle operation. There's just no excuse for a man to get! ABOUT 50 AUnts supervised by | thrown by a two-minute speech. experts, work In the airy 40 by 130foot during the three months of the
That was the shortage-ridden years it was sty-
mied time after time, partly by, shortages of equipment, partly by lack of engineering help and partly by lack of funds. Dr, Max A. Bahr, veteran superintendent of the hospital, said the plant was constructed entirely of {brick salvaged from other institu tional buildings razed during rece:
‘The Durante Story’
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 21.—When Hollywood gets around to filming “The Cantor Story,” there may be a casting problem for the role of Jimmy Durante. Jimmy has to be portrayed in the film, of course, because he was playing the piano when Eddie was a singing waiter in a Coney Island beer parlor. Both were about 18. , The problem will be Jimmy's demand that “the guy bas to have a nose just as big as mine.” And when they get around to filming “The Durante Story,” which I'm hoping for, Jimmy's father certainly will get some of the best laughs in the picture. Durante's pop was a New York barber named Bartholomew Durante. And pop was a character. He once sat in a movie theater all day to see a trailer for one of Jimmy's films four times. Papa thought it was the feature picture and later wrote
Jimmy: “You were great. But it was such a short picture.”
Papa and the Pool ANOTHER time Jimmy rented Mary Pickford’s ~palatial beach home and installed papa-Durante in ft for a vacation. There was a swimming pool in the back yard but it wasn't filled with water and one day Jimmy caught papa dumping garbage into the,
pool.
“Papa,” screamed Durante, “why are you dumping garbage into that swimming pool?” “Swimming pool?” replied papa Durante with a blank stare, “I thought it was a garbage dump.” The “Fabulous” Texan” company was on location In Arizona. The story called for a couple of Indians
_ to send up smoke signals. Edmund Grainger, assoti‘ate producer of the picture, scouted up a couple of
We, the Women
canning season to prepare the winter's supply. {machinery cannot be purchased but lis used on a rental basis, Dr. Bahr said. He estimated savings in food local honest-to-pete Indians to do the bit, He wanted! lcosts would “return the investment the thing to be authentic. After the action of the scene was completed and!
the cameras stopped turning, Grainger went right over to congratulate the Indians on their fine job. 00 Scout Scout Heads One of the Redskins broke in on him with: “Oh, there warn't anything to it at all, Mr. T M t tl. I.
By Erskine Johnson
Grainger. We learned how to send smoke signals from the movies.”
Cars of the Stars
Bill (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd, the cowboy star. It's versity. a station wagon with Bill's name in silver letters on| The . 8th national training con- | the panels. |terence, to continue until Sept. 11,
Bill drives into the parking lot at Lucey's will set a goal for the next five
* restaurant every day and tells Ralph, the attendant, years of Scout activity. E It's the best-looking| The meeting will be the first of :
to “park it up in front, Ralph. car in town.” Ralph parks it up front. |Scout - executives since 1839. The Ralph has been parking cars at Lucey's for 16/ program will include years. He knows the stars by their honks, and their groups, guest speakers, eccentricities. Like Betty Hutton, who always tells hibits. Ralph, “Now park it in the shade.” “Even at 1 o'clock in the morning,” says Ralph,!for discussion, including indoor and “Miss Hutton says: “Ralph, park it in. the shade.” outdoor activities, finance, The most expensive car driven by a Hollywood relations, and council procedures.
i, d Ralph, “that’s Cl Coback A Guin Speaken “Oh,” sai alph, “that's Clara ack's car. : $9000 job.” ’ Guest speakers will include three
members of the national executive board of the Boy Scouts of America. They are Wheeler McMillen, editor-in-chief, Farm Journal; William V
“Clara Coback. “She's a big star,” a big star.” Ralph was driving me crazy.
I never heard of her.” Ralph said. “Clara Coback—
Clara Coback?
Could he mean Claudette Colbert? land sins cooing “Oh, .yes,” said Ralph, “Claudette Coback.” [torney.
Obviously, Ralph knows Hollywood's honks and
Other speakers its cars better than some of its names, peakers aye. Dr. James E.
(West, chief Scout; Dr. George J. (Fisher, national Scout commis-| sioner; W. Arthur McKinney, astans to the chief Scout executive, (who will report on the 6th World |8cout jamboree being held in
By Ruth Millett
SHE is middle-aged, and the children in her large family are grown and gone from home. So, for the first time in 30 years, she has leisure time on her hands. By all rights—according to those who tell Amerfcan women what's wrong with them-—she should be unhappy, neurotic and a problem to her husband and children.
Joy to Her Family INSTEAD she is a happy woman and a joy to her family. What is her answer to the experts? It is so simple they. probably wouldn't be impressed. But here it Is: She is doing the things she always wanted to do, and never had time for. Such things as becoming an expert at ralsing
Hit-Run Suspect
Deadline
You have until [aC Fo Y Deis or mail your best Pies Amateur Photo
An auto license number ated rE Amaew 214 W. Doniest, by an alert witness resulted in thelland st. Indianapolis 9. Entries re-|P, Martens, 38-year-old shipping
last night of a suspected hit ceived after that d run driver.
car as she was crossing Virginia, ave. in the 200 block. The driver of the car sped away | photo: but Delbert Sharkey,
Tracing the car owner by the| license number, police arrested Cecil Riggle, 44, of 2824 McPherson ave, The motor of his car was still hot and there was a dent in -— Vending right front fender. H
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Photo Conyess.
next week's contest, Mrs. Flossie Pelfull, 44, of 1343 Best photo of the week will earn " Deloss st, was struck down by al $5 for the entrant. Submit as many pictures as you Mrs. Celeste Sell’'s death. | wish, but write on the back of each! Mrs. Sell's husband, Francls, 40, Photographer's name, ad- sat a few feet away yesterday as 26, of 614 dress, phone number, shutter speed, Mr. Martens told in detail of a fourBerwick st., got the license number. {diaphragm opening, type camera and months’ illicit romance with the at-|
‘Child's Arm Caught
-year-old boy stuck his arm e vending, slot of a soft drink bottle dispensing machine late yes-
|France; Juan Laine, chief Scout of flowers, reading everything about flower growing Mexico, and John Stiles, that she can lay her hands on, experimenting with|executive commissioner of the Boy all sorts of seeds. |Scouts Association for Canada, Her gardening isn't limited to flowers, but flowers p———————
sive her the most pleasure, Find 99 in One Grave Time for Travel | OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 21 (U. P.).
SHE has time for. doing her own home decorat- —An army patrol has discovered the ing, too, and time to plan her traveling carefully ashes of 99 U. 8, British, Dutch
éind far enough ahead of time so that she can get and Australian war prisoners, it was!
the fun of pouring over travel literature and mak- disclosed today. They had been ing an adventure of her trips. {forced to work in nearby mines, She is simply using her leisure to do some of died of various causes and ‘had the things she always wanted to do. Punny that been buried in a common grave. we have a so-called “lost sex,” when it can be so
easy for a woman to find herself when her big job Carnival —By. Dick Turner
in life is done. \ \ A / ) 1 \
“Lost Week End Ends in Death
CHICAGO, Aug. 21 (U. P.)~Lioyd
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time will go Into cork was allowed his freedom un- | der bond today ‘while police awaited | laboratory reports on the cause of
Ttractive 39-year-old‘ matron, She was found, nude and dying, in her apartment Monday morning. | Mr. Martens admitted that he had spent a “lost week-end” with her, |+ drinking and making love, | He denied, however, that he had caused the bruises found on Mrs. Bell's. body. . None of them were, serious enough to have caused her | _ death, autopsy experts said. An inquest, at which Mr. Martens | ‘was not permitted to testify, |continued until Sept. 19. Author~ Dot be thm on Mes, Bes sande port by them on Mrs. Bell's condi-
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'Food Grown ( On Its 200- -Acre Farm
Some of the patented |
lot the state” in a state’ 1 3 very few years.
| More than 2000 Boy Scout leaders HOLLYWOOD'S flashiest automobile belongs to will meet Sept. 3 at Indiana uni-
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Sixty topics are on the agenda ;
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| State Hospital Cans
FINISHED PRODUCT—Built entirely of brick salvaged fom Good buildings, this new cannery at Central hospital recently got into production, Fifty patients, upenvissd by professional experts, are turning out 800 to 1000 qallons of canned foods daily.
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State to Establish | : Roadside Parks
Sites in Porter,
Warren Counties The Indiana State Highway com- i mission plans construction of two : new roadside parks for the con- . venience of motorists. fl One park will be located in Porter county on state road 130 just west of Valparaiso and the other, in Warren county, on state road 63 south of West Lebanon, according to specifications named by John H. Lauer, highway commission chairman. The Porter county “rest spot’ will be called the “Tom Auck Memorial” in honor of a Valparaiso man who lost his life in world war II. The conservation club of that community gave the land to the state. The commission's landscaping department will plant trees and shrubs on the site, The second park is an addition to the Hanging Rock Rest park south of West Lebanon. So many persons use this park that it has become inadequate, the commission reports. The addition will be built about one-fourth of a mile from the present spot. Both Tom Auck and Hanging Rock will be provided with standard
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war by a never-ending variety of shortages. The long wait paid off, however,
when new postwar equipment finally got into production to utilize food produced on 250 acres of hospital farmland.
{Riley hospital here, is in “good con[Riley hospltal here, sin “good con- A} Sern) Diego Zoo | recovery. SAN DIEGO, Cal. Aug. 31.—Four i
Nine-year-old Mitzie Meredith 18 rare and expensive fur coats have {the third poliomyelitis victim 1nigrrived at the San Diego 200. The 3 Fulton couhty in the last three coats are being worn by their own- i | weeks. ers, a quartet of northern fur seais, Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank the only ones in any 200. A { Meredith, said she had been All| The four seals were donated to several days. She became worse the 700 here by the fish and wild{vesterday and the family physician jie service for close range study by recommended she be moved here. |scientists. Biologist William H. . | Mr. Meredith flies his own plane sholes brought the precious cargo i but it was too small to carry the from St. Paul island in the Pribilof patient comfortably so he hired a group off Alaska. plane and pilot from the Rochester) zoo personnel are going to keep airport for the flight yesterday. |the seals under close observation. Dr. Donald J. Casely, medical |Day-lo-day study of the animals in | center director, said Mitzie has polio | tne zoo here will supplement the A {in mild form which has had a field observations of government sci- n slight effect on both legs, He said 'entists seeking more knowledge : the child would be required to stay about the nat.ve life of this value |at the hospital three weeks, |able species of fur coat.
INSPECTION TOUR—Central hospital officials and trustees looked over the institution's new cannery last week as it went to work. Left to right they are (top row) Walter Lewis, head farmer: Earl Kuhn, chief clerk; William Suckow, Franklin, treasurer: Wallace O. Lee, | president of the board: and (front row) Dr. Max A. Bahr, superintendent; Marion Ayers, tiustees' secretary,
and Charles B. Jenkins, Noblesville, vice-president of the board.
Archbishop Urges K. of C.| Rodrk's Travels—
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To Retain Liquor Rule G bli Wi |) N S K sosron. we mw. pr Gambling Will Never Stop in Reno, ie Warning that liquor is the root of much crime, Archbishop Richard But It Could Be Ignored, Says Judge J. Cushing, Boston, urged the
§ “The most rabid people around {the gambling tables, he points out, |are visitors from states where {gambling is illegal. “The average fellow born and raised here may go in occasionally and lose a few dollars,” the Judge lcontinues, “and then feel like kicking himself. But many of these {visitors lose everything.” He has seen some drunkards rebut never a confirmed
81-Year-Old Jurist Began Flying at 68,
Is Insitution in Nevada Legal History
The archbishop spoke at the By ELDON ROARK, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Knights’ 65th annual convention + RENO, Aug. 21.—No reportorial visit to this place is complete withyesterday and asked that they vote Out *a call on Judge Benjamin F. Curler. | against proposals that would give Judge Curler was born in the state of pioneer parents, For more, membership to persons engaged in than 20 years he sat on the District court bench here in Reno. He the liquor business and allow liquor has been a member of the Nevada bar longer than any other member. lin council rooms. - He was admitted in 1891, I ——— ———— " { Judge Curler is now in retirement. ment as long as those people are > © {His wavy hair is white, but his eye~|in power.” |form, A;
Knights of Columbus to retain its strict rules governing the organization,
brows are dark and his chin is firm,. Gambling, in his opinion, breaks gambler. | land he doesn’t look his .81 years. up more homes than liquor, “es-| Summing up the problem, Judge He learned to fly an airplane after pecially since women have taken it Curler made this observation: he was 68, He has owned three— up He says it gets to be a disease, Just because gambling can't be has done his share of ground loops You see women with babies in their sthgped out doesn't mean that |—and still has%his private pilot's arms frantically working = slot 8 commdnity must be turned over
pretty home, and naturally we got overrun with playboys and playon the subject of gambling in Reno, girls, prices are spiraling, and legi-| By BACH ~ | JUDGE CURLER hasn't the fg- | "RESOLUTE FHA Approves ] lures, but he suspects Reno ranks | g J | “Nevada has an indeterminaterental housing sentence law,” he sald. “But it | rison Homes, will be built at Ken- might commit erime. Now we navel {tucky and Huron sts. in Souths jail delivery almost every time § | walkup structure of 20 units total-| ) | ing 74 roonts, to be built at Creigh- gambling if he thought it could
I asked if gambling were pretty timate business people and good old | high in crime. “rhe statistics might (rez’ o-lat Apu, Two additional Bend. The two-story structure will the board of pardons meets.” ton and Hoagland aves. in Pt.be done.c But to make it illegal,
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“Don't ‘worry! I. didn’t make the last syment on my car finance Sompany will find us ny
well regulated here. home-loving, hard-working John jot show the pictures anyway, be- | DETERMINED; UNSHAKEN; BOLD; ve for Indiana world war II), ..4 to be that when we sentenced ‘have a total of 72 rooms, A mort-| He doesn't place the blame wl Wayne. A mortgage of $139,500 will ho ger. merely would drive it be-
"RN | Nearly anything goes in Reno, interests” ~ { I CALLED at his modest but Judge Curler sald. The town fs To e———————— ¥ WORD-A-DAY sald. “It does its own regulating, circle, '!And we'll never have law enforce , nc» [nes might not be against the | (aw here. federal housing administration, ‘meant he would serve 10. That One, a 16-unit project called Har- was a deterrent for others who| {Irving Trust Co., New York. " tentiary 1s inadequate, | The other project is a three-story . 8» Ci JUDGE CURLER would wipe out # & Trust Co, Pt. Wayne. - .
(Heense. |machines. [to the gambling and saloon i “It isn't regulated at all” he Q. Citizen are caught in a Vicks) ause what is against the law else- FIRM; INFLEXIBLE; STERDFAST {veterans have been approved by the , man for one to 10 -yeais, fit ‘gage of $124,000 will be held by the tirely upon the board. The peni- | ond the-| be hed by the. Lincoln Nationa! closed doors, “as it is in so) | Bank * cities.” ’ o
in no time!’