Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1948 — Page 21

si¥adan to say that you're going to keep - 00 Job Tight to the fast minute?” I asked Nellie Ridlen, clerk in the change of address ent at the post office. at Teich “ bly will,” commented Loren ey, a siramaice wrong addresses and sits at*a next to Miss Ridlen. «on second thought,” mused the lady who started in the post office when the boys were going “gver there” in 1918, “I think I'll go home about today.” 7 iB = as I was going to make a bright remark shout her audacity, James Steele, clerk-in-charge, asked if she wanted to work overtime. Miss Ridjen wasn't interested in overtime.

Great Many Interruptions

1 NOTICED that there were a great many interruptions. Maybe Miss Ridlen intended to work put on the “last day” she might just as well had pung up a sign with “Out to Lunch” on it. (Note to the postal authorities: Any slowdown in Miss Ridlen's production was not her fault. You can’t stop friends from wishing her well, can you?) It seemed funny to me to watch someone who has worked faithfully for 30 years try to continue

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"GOOD TO THE LAST MINUTE—If was Nellie Ridlen's last day at the post office yesterday after 30 years but she "tried" to give Uncle

Sam his due. a ——

to do so right up to the deadline. After 30 years| I think I'd kick up my heels a little. Not Miss

In fact. she was doing three things at once. Working the changes in addresses, answering questions and saying “Thank you” to her wellwishing friends. She admitted, however, that it was exciting to think of retiring. “Seems as if I'm going on a vacation. Car’: Pelp thinking about what I'm going to do.” “What are you going to do?” Not bad. Not bad at all. First thing Miss Ridlen is going to do is to move to a cottage on White River for the summer. She to have her fill of fishing -and relaxing by the time the leaves change. When they do, she’s going to change “I haven't made up my mind where I'm going yet but it's either going to ive California or Florida,” said Miss Ridlen. : “Best of luck to you Nell,” interrupted Elizabeth Spees, nurse at the Federal Building. “The best of everything from now on in,” said Frank Bennett, superintendent of mails, who was retiring yesterday along about 4:25, too. Get the picture now? How you going to do any work when people keep coming over to tell you how much they're going to miss you and stuff? “How you doing?” asked Mr. Fateley of a gentleman who looked quite pleased with himself. No wonder he was pleased. It was Burton W. Spencer of the directory department who was completing 32 years of service that day. He had a look in his eye that told you he intended to rake it easy on his last day. Mr. Spencer looked at Miss Ridlen and told me that “They work the wemen harder than they do the men around here.” Between -such- interruptions I found out Miss Ridlen never expected to work any 30 years when she reported for work May 13, 1918. “I rather believed that all the women would be thrown out after the war was over,” she said with a sigh, “but they didn’t.”

Visited All but 2 States in Union

MR. FATELEY popped up and flatly stated he was glad the women stayed. It seems Miss Ridlen has helped him more times than he can count with tricky addresses and names of towns. Miss Ridlen has visited all the states of the Union except New Mexico and North Dakota and she intends to visit them, if not this year, the next. Another thing that intrigued Miss Ridlen yesterday was the gift she knew she was getting from the post office employees. She already had a purse, piece of luggage and a party behind her, (I didn't tell her but I knew. It was $106.70. Nice gift.) : A commotion behind some cases proved to be not another retiring employee but Lennie B. Glover, 2609 E. Pearl St, who was being transferred from a residence to a business district. Why the commotion? Mr. Glover had received a $100 bill from his patrons. And that’s the sort of thing that happened yesterday at the post office where people were saying goodby and stuffing money in their pockets. Fine work, I'd say.

Script Written

NEW YORK, July 1—It will behoove—love that word—the Democrats to seize the minutes of the recent GOP rat race in Philadelphia and mull them carefully, ere they meet in happy conclave two weeks hence. The Republicans wrote a script which was fum- ; blous, but which, if tightened and the bugs shaken ¥ out, may serve the Democrats full well, =A lot of % pioneering went on in Philadelphia last week, and

the Donkey serenaders can profit by the pitfalls of . the Elephant. 2 : d cottons In the matter of keynote speeches, there is no trim necessity for a heavy rewrite on Gov. Dwight

Green's opening salvo. px Far as 1 could see, he covered everything. The Republicans are pledged to revere motherhood, love dogs, cast out crime, cut prices, stabilize wages, prevent war, increase the output of iceboxes, Indorse sacred love, maintain strict party asceticism while giving the furriners a benign aid and assistance, slash taxes, regulate the weather, snip the Irish pennants off the coat of bureaucracy and come: out strongly for God, country and Thomas E. Dewey. If the Democrat hackwriters will just delete a . § few insidious comments on the late Mr. Roosevelt, substitute Democrat for GOP and insert some extra, bitter paragraphs about their personal renegade, the Hon. Hank, then they need fret no more about what to say on opening night. They might, in the interests of brevity, ignore a keynote speech entirely, figuring that the Republicans have said it all, anyhow.

Some Censors Are Needed

IT WOULD be wise, after the experience with Madame Luce, to post a couple of burly censors at the side of their secondary speaker. Mrs. Luce Was severely chastised for her momentary lapse from party glorification, to shove in a brace of hefty plugs for her boy, Li'l Arthur Vandenberg. It turned out that this profited Lf1 Arthur naught, but if he had crept in as a nominee, the Dewey-Taft-Stassen delegations would have been bitter, indeed, at the usurping of pristine party talk-time to shill for a personal favorite. To this end, the Democrats might have the Strong-armers standing on the alert, equipped with

By Robert C. Ruark

gags to muffle the mouth of any impassioned| orator who suddenly switches from dicta to indorsement, sdy, of Bill Douglas or Mrs. Roosevelt over the head of Harry T. It will look fusny on television. But shucks, everything looks funny on television. The Democrats should also profit heavily from the Republican experience with that new monster, video. For instance, only a couple of delegations caught on to the fact that, if you demanded a roll-call, each separate delegate got his face on the television screen. In addition to firing a resounding “Ah still stick with Mistah Dewey” or “Vandenberg forever” at the constituents, Joe Delegate can also project his pan for a brief but important second of fame. Of such, I am told, are minor civil service appointments and postmasterships made.

Plugs for the Ears Are Handy

IT IS fo be assumed that, after the hue-and-cry that was raised over the unsightly spectacle the speakers made on the vicious little screens, that no politico in his right mind will show up in Philadelphia without a pot of makeup paste. This will apply especially to the lady speakers, who come out even worse than the men under the merciless lights of video. It is also needless to warn the next batch of delegates that sobriety is to be recommended as an antidote to the specter of television, because a snootful is unbeautiful to watch on a screen, and apt to-enrage the voters back home. As to fashion, the sports shirt and rumpled seersucker suit will be de rigeur. The gentleman may eschew the coat, because a hot man in a coat and tie looks twice as ghastly as a hot man in a shirt with an open neck. And it will-be hot, my peers. It will be certainly hot. ' As to shoes, I recommend something in suede or buck, with slashes on the sides to let the bunions breathe. Socks should be heavy, and talcum lavishly used, to avoid a dread disease called convention feet. And lastly, if you have any plugs for the ears, they come in handy, mighty handy, for occasional respite from the rhetoric that flows all around.

WASHINGTON, July 1—Congress finished its fob until next January? Haw, and a couple of bg horse laughs. This town is full of Con-

Ettssmen, mostly Republican, investigating things thatll be embarrassing (they hope) to the Democrats, th Some of their hearings are in progress now; : ¢ir hawkshaws are delving deep into the files - the dope they expect to turn into exposes, iy the embattled Democrats are fighting back. 0 holds barred, either. . Jetore this summer is over I expect to be Titing pieces about the general who became 8 surplus big-shot and allegedly peddled Red

J Cross blood as a sex tonic in the Shanghai black market.

“ir have no doubt that I'll also be worrying ut the Pan-American highway again and OW come it meandered far out of the way to 2 by the front door of the president of one the banana republics. a There'll be tales'of boondoggling in the tropics, MMunists in high places, and love-making in Eovernment fying machines. n Nuh Investigations in the past have resulted ror) big-wigs holding their tempers and Y saying, “Yes, sir, I'm sorry” to any Con8ressmap snarling at ‘em.

Thr ough Being Polite to Congress tte if .the performance of Julius A. Krug, critery ng-sized Secretary of the Interior, is any polit, on, the administration is all through being suber 0 Congress. The executive expenditures an Committee of Rep. Forest A. Harness of Indiay called him up to explain charges of monkey ~. ness, fiscal and otherwise, within the Federal “Ureau of Reclamation. For six weeks, on and off, the committee has

Exposes Wanted By Frederick C. Othman

reclamation business because they weren't engineers. Never have I seen a cabinet member any angrier than Mr. Krug when he appeared to defend himself, Straus and Co. His cheeks grew redder and his voice bitterer as he went along. Sen. Downey, he said, was like a gypsy forced to leave each campground and finally bringing his bag of trinkets to the Harness Committee. The committeemen, he said, spent thousands

of dollars of the taxpayers’ money seeking facts per

that already were printed in the official record.

Looks Like Dangerous Summer

THEN, said he, the committee influenced the whole Congress into writing what he called the unconstitutional, improper, and administratively loathsome law easing Mr. Straus and one" Richard Boke out of the dam building business. The way he pronounced that word, “loathsome,” with special hissing emphasis on the letter “g” in the middle of it, was something to hear.

Made Chairman Harness’ eyebrows leap far above ra

the tops of his rimless glasses. When eventually Mr. Harness got the chance he demanded: “Now Mr. Krug, no matter what you think about the merits of a bill as passed by Congress, do you think, as a member of the President's cabinet, you should say that such a law is loathsome?” That didn’t slow down Mr. Krug. He said he admired Congress. Had the greatest of respect for ito “And if I have expressed my feelings vigorously, it is because I feel so strongly about it,” he added. ' He took back nothing. The bill, ds far as he is concerned, is loathsome. The Congressmen questioned him and Mr. Straus, who sat beside him in a white linen suit, for hours. Z The lawmakers wondered even if Mr. Krug was referring to Congressmen in a speech when he used the word, jassacks, to wonder. : And it looks like a dangerous summer to me;

The Indianapolis

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SECOND SECTION

PUBLIC ENEMY NO.

a No. | enemy of pleasant summer living in Indianapolis, is the target of a "clean up" war.

THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1948

|—The common housefly,

Increased Supply of DD Can Help Eliminate Pests

First of Two Articles

“There ain't no flies on me.”

Hoosier capital.

a lot of dead flies which otherwise would have left behind broods to up the fly population this year. The second strike is that the normal fly time has been held back this spring by chilly weather in Indianapolis and the state. Flie$, being cold-blooded insects, feed and breed most freely when it is warm. The prolonged cold weather, until the last week,

helped hold them down.

THOSE two factors, are the

He let ‘em continue

principal reasons Indianapolis isn’t bothered with as many buzzing nuisances this year. And persons interested in: long-range fly control fear that resulting complacency may cause a lack of interest and co-operation in fly control. They add that any such “let down” will provide the golden opportunity for flies to build up their numbers again. With a little effort, Indianapolis could pitch in right now and

By DONNA MIKELS

That could be the boast of Indianapolis this year, if it takes advantage of a one-in-a-million chance to make the city fly-free. The house-fly population has two strikes against it in the

One is that the widespread anti-fly campaign last year produced

virtually eliminate one of the worst nuisances of hot weather. Another advantage for the citizens in the Humans vs. Flies war here is the increased supply of DDT and the new knowledge on its use. (Instructions on use of DDT will be given in the second article of this series.) ” » » HOWEVER, DDT isn't the whole story in combating flies. The prime requisite for a fly-free area still is cleanliness, Garbage cans and littered areas around

and kept clean. ‘

frames fit correctly,

crawl. They should also checked carefully for rust-holes and punctures. - * As a second caution, brush or

Summer Nursing Class Opens

~ Methodist Hospital

Acts to Ease Crisis

Methodist Hospital school of nursing today announced admittance of the first summer class in nursing in the history of the school, as an emergency measure in the critical nursing shortage. Twenty - eight preclinical students, 12 of whom are recipients of $200 scholarships from a fund recently raised by the hospital, have been admitted. Classes will start July 5. Miss E, Louise Grant, director of the school, said the decision to admit a summer class in addition to the usual fall and midwinter classes was occasioned by the seirious shortage of nurses. She {said the move entailed ‘“‘consider{able sacrifice” on the part of faculty members. More Awards Available Preclinical students will be capped at the end of six months and will become freshmen. Applications now are being received! for the September class and more scholarships are available for this session. Scholarship winners in the summer class are:

| Wayne La

ton ; th P Miss Patricia Ann Ritter, Elkhart; iss Margare: Lucille rling, Richmond; Miss ry Anne G. ornburg, Modoc, and Miss Vera Jean Riggins, on. er members of the class are: Miss Arlene June Birt. 88 ss

Hagerstown; Connersville, Tharp, Eaton.

Gray Ladies Chapter Sets Hospital ‘Carnival’ Patients at Billings Hospital and their guests will be entertained at a “carnival” tonight, sponsored by the Gray Ladies of the Indianapolis Chapter, American Red Cross. _ Gray Ladies serving on the party committee are Mrs. Russell Fletcher, chairman; Miss Midge Hunter, co-chairman; Miss Virginia Childers, Miss Donna Budd, ‘Miss Joan Bridwell, Mrs. Fred Abernathy, Miss Janet

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if I've got to sit in on these deliberations, I'm

going to get myself a catcher's mask.

Mrs. W, H. Becker, Mrs, Walter {Anderson, Miss Margaret Pend!

entries will be retyrned.

under way next week.

You can win as much as $30, best for any one week of the contest, which closes at midnight July 30, you will receive a $5 cash prize. Your letter then qualifies for judging in the final grand prize award of $25 for the best letter of the four weeks. You could win in more than one week, and each additional letter that wins a weekly prize will get you another $5. Co-operating With Council The Times again is staging the letter-writing safety contest in conjunction with the Indianapolis Safety Council.

The following grand prize letter of last year’s contest—submitted

iby Velma Shackelford, 1921 N.

Illinois 8t.—is an example of what we mean by Freak Squeak: “I was rushing to work at Brownstown. I took a shortcut which led across several railroad tracks. A freight train with the bell ringing at a standstill on one

188 track obstructed the view and the iss sound of an approaching fast jalpassenger on another track. een Thinking the parked freight the

only train near, I darted across, stubbed my toe and fell, just as the fast passenger train whizzed by too close for comfort. “My Freak Squeak taught me it was ‘better late than never’

Loa 2nd after that experience I always

cross tracks at regular crossings.” Write a letter recounting your

e oxen | Closest brush with injury or death,

and send it by midnight Friday, July 9, to Freak 8queak Editor, Indianapolis Times, 214 W. Maryland St. Letters received after that time will be judged for the second week's contest. i Brief Letters Wanted You can send an account of

member of your immediate family.

less: me this safety lesson ,..” - All entries become the pro of the Indianapolis Times and the Indianapolis Safety Council. No

them are the-places where flies feed and breed. To.get rid of flies these spots must be ‘cleaned up

your Freak Squeak, or one of a

You may submit any number of letters on one week or take part any number of weeks, even after winning a prize. Keep your letter brief, and complete your letter with a statement in 25 words or “My Freak Squeak taught

Another first line of defensé ‘is good screening. Screens should be checked carefully to be sure the with no crack through which flies may be

#2 Strikes Against Flies Here If We Pitch In Now, T

ENEMY TERRITORY—Open garbage of garbage and rubbish are the first tro fly-tree Indianapolis is to clean up spots

spray the screens, their frames and a wall area »wand each window and door with residualtype DDT, Flies naturally try to get in at doors and windows and it's a good spot to V death wAlting ‘fer them. YY) ing, Incidentally, experts warn against mixing DDT with paint when you paint, your screens. This looked promising In early stages but has proven .less effective than other methods. The

weatherproofing

DDT in. »

{give

To the people participation in

their fly war

Times® Annual Freak Squeak Contest to Open Next Week

Cash Prizes to Reward Most Interesting

Accounts of Narrow Escapes

By ART WRIGHT 5 The Times' annual safety-promoting Freak Squeak contest gets

Again there will be cash prizes awarded to the persons sending in “the most interesting accounts of near-accidents which could have caused serious injury or death . .. but didn’t. . or mare,

{

perty scolding about not sharing with

Why Not Try This?

oil base paints form a tight,

Reported

months.

If your letter is judged| Dr,

atmosphere for length of time.” Four or five cases resulting

Family Scrapbook _By DR. ERNEST G. OSBORNE.

weeks, he said.

that not any of

hey’

THESE simple precautions will Indianapolis a pleasant summer with none of ‘the buzz-

ing pests around. it ough cltizens are willing to make the relatively small effort it costs.

campaign last year takes care of

Warn -Pie-Lovers On ‘Cream Fills™

Food Poisoning Cases

Pie-lovers today were warned of the dangers of eating creamfilled pies during the summer

Gerald F. Kempf, health director, said this type of pie is a “potential hazard” if it is exposed to warm and moist

sumption of cream pies have been reported in the past two

The city health director added

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pails such as this one and careless disposal nts in fly warfare. First step toward a like this.

film sealing|Indiana state- entomologist: “You can’t afford.to quit. If you do, the flies will be right back. The big gains made last year must be held and they can be held with relatively little effort. “But the minimum of effort must be forthe you 't let George do it, You won and held your yard of front in the battle last year; now you have to keep on holding it.”

NEXT: How to wage DDT war against files.

. ‘bear

who think their the Boy Scout

obligation, come

In Milk

Anyo.

who noticed a Polk In ck making deliveries this morning probably took it in as part of the scenery. But on July 1, 1803, when the late Bamuel O. Dungan drove the : first retail Polk milk wagon over the streets of Indianapolis,it was - anevent. Inthose days, delivery of a bottle of milk to the doorstep was a newfane gled fad. : In the ensuing 5p years, Polk Sanitary Milk Co. has kept step Mr. Dungan oiih the growth of Indianapolis. Today more than

by Kempf

city

“just a short

food poisoning from the con-

the cases was

‘No, No, It's Mine’

The Merrills were upset because

serious, though several were hospitalized, but it is entirely possible that eating a contaminated pie could prove fatal. His advice was to avoid these delicacies unless absolutely certain they have been properly refrigerated. He pointed out that

'| food which smells all right might

(be contaminated.

| “This applies to all pre-cooked foods such as meat loaf and to minced foods as ham salad,” Dr. Kempf said. “Only one hour exposure in hot weather is sufficient for poison to be produced by

100 modern refrigerated retail Polk wagons and trucks make de livery on every street and road in Indianapolis, carrying not ‘only milk but butter, cottage cheese, eggs and other products, Under the direction of J. Duane Dungan, president of the Polk Co., a new department has been developed for the manufacture of ice cream to be distributed in the regular milk delivery system. Polk gathers grade A milk from a radius of more than 100 miles, using Board of Health.

Dickie, who was almost four; bacteria.”

inspected dairy farms.

would never - share his toys or books with children who visited him. They tried scolding, begging and other time-honored methods, but whenever another child attempted even to touch one of Dickie's possessions, there was a “No. No. It's mine” for him. After they had talked the situation over with a friend, they realized that they were setting the pattern for Dickie. If he picked up a book his mother was reading, she said quickly, “No. No. It’s mine” and took it away from him. If he touched his father's pen as it lay on the desk, there was the same reaction, It was only natural that Dickie had decided that you snould hold on to your own things. The Merrills changed their tactics. When their youngster picked up some article belonging to them, they helped him to see how it was used and for what. After a few weeks of this and no further

Chicago Medical said. “Nothing

of keeping cool calm.”

Dr. Piszczek

easier to settle then, he said; healthy.

hot weather, he

* Dr. Piszczek other children, they were pleased fce, drinking to see Dickie beginning to let

other youngsters use his toys.

The decision of the judges will gral A ;

Children do learn most effec

CLs Ee anas ae

arguments should always be settled in cool weather. It's not only

There are a lot of ways to buck

them are bad. He said the theory of dunking one’s head in a bucket of water or cooling off wrists is/far from effective.

liquids, and lying in front of a fan are other methods that do more harm than good. ; Instead of these things, he

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Tips on How to Keep Cool —Eat Less and—Don't Feud

‘Lazy Man Is Practically Immune From

Torrid Waves,” Medical Authority Says

CHICAGO, July 1 (UP)-—If you want to stay cool this sume mer, keep your shirt on. Fuming at the boss or feuding with the wife is just asking a heat wave to knock ‘you for a loop, Dr. Edward H. Piszczek of the

Society said today.

“Emotional stresses and strains send temperatures soaring,” he

could be worse

during hot weather. The first rule|8ested some of the following

is to be mentally steps to keepicool | Eat Might foods. Four or five light meals are preferable to two or three heavy ones. : Wear as few clothes as possible, but keep the body protected from the sun. Avoid alcoholic beverages. Stay away from too much strong sunlight. Increase “your consumption of salt. Get plenty of sleep. : “And one of the most important ways to keep cool,” said Dr. Piszezek, “is to loaf as much as possible. To do this

suggested that

them peaceably but much more

said, but some of

said swallowing too many cold

one should loll in the shade

#96 yumime from heat/t

Polk Co. Pioneers 4 :

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