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EVERY YEAR about. this time, in fact, ever since an old uncle of mine told me about the bees. and the flowers, race horses, corn silk and goose pimples, the latter intrigued me. No less than 20 times in the last 20 Octobers, 1 have said that as soon as I had some time I

“would investigate the fascinating goose pimple,

make a study of it, perhaps become an authority and eventually write a paper for Popular Mechanics or some other scientific journal. The reennial crop of goose pimples would come and go, October would move along until November, the Christmas goose would follow the Thanksgiving turkey, Easter would invariably be rained out, vacations would begin pffffft—school days again, October would come with another batch of goose pimples and I would be in about the same state of affairs—rubbing my goose pimples, swearing: “This year it's going to be different.”

This Year It's Different

WELL, THIS YEAR it is different. This year I can call a goose pimple cutis anserina. I can also say dermatospasmus. Or, if you don't understand that, try horripilation. All three mean goose pimple. Now; please, don't rush to your dictionary and attempt to find out how far off the beam I am. The man who told me is a specialist in such matters and besides. he checked the spelling on my paper after I had written them down (with his help). The man I talked to is an authority on the goose pimple and many other allied and not-so-allied matters pertaining to the human body, yours, mine an” Betty Grable's, The reason I must keep his name a secret is that medical men don’t like publicity. They don’t like to have their pictures.in the newspapers. The followers of Hippocrates shun anything that might be construed as the work of a huckster.

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CELLS hAIR FOLLICLE FAT -GOOSE PIMPLE==The study of the cufis anserina it a most fascinating pastime. It needn't

be a pastime, however. It can or could be worked into a thesis of some sort, we believe,

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INSIDE INDIANAPOLIS also will

Cutis Anserina Explained

“some kind of a reflex defense mechanism: I'm not.

appear in THE SUNDAY TIMES .

- ‘The Indianapolis

However, if you're so nosey ‘ahd the type that can't take a guy's word, send me $622.92 (I'll supply the envelope and stamp), and by return

mail ~ou'll receive the name of this eminent spe- &

clalist and a signed statement that we had words. For another $100 I'll tell you how many. Here's. an accurate report on my interview with this specialist. My opening question, after proper introductions and display of my press pass, was: “Doctor, what is a goose pimple?” “Are you afflicted with them, my poor man?"| asked the medico, reaching for one of those thumping hammers which was on his cluttered desk. It took a while to explain that at the moment) T had no visible goose pimples, but that morning| there were plenty on my arms and back. “What frightened you?" “Cold water,” T answered. “That'll do it.” : “You're telling me,” I chortled politely. I had a feeling the goose pimple discussion was going to get out of hand. It did.

TO FACILITATE matters I shall give you my notes as I copied them. Good luck, Here we go: “Goose pimples, in medical terminology we refer to them as cutis anserina or dermatospasmus or horripilation, are a function of fear or cold. They're responses to stress situations , , anything that will excite abnormally . . . regardless of the surrounding environment . , , little muscle at the base of each hair . . . here, let me draw you a

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picture . where's my pencil ... . oh, here it is, «++ Now, there . , . where were we? . epidermis’ Aermil cells . . . hair follicle , .

. this little muséle pulls. at the base of the hair follicle which! causes the hair itself to rise producing a small. lump on the surface of the skin... they're of no use whatsoever , | “No ," . I'm sure Rita Hayworth’s goose pimples conform’ to the principle . . . submerge the big toe in cold water . , . reflex phenomenon . . ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny . . . (check with the doc after interview) .., . sympathetic nervous sys‘em is involved with the emotions . . . we have instances where human beings have had tails , . J gills, .'. we are mimicking our ancestors ; . . those impulses pass to the braih regions whare they cor-| relate down to the thalamus . , . shall'T open the

window? . , . old home week . . . Star Spangled Banner , . , and that's why you don’t have goose] pimples all the time . ... and that's what a uoee pimple 1s."

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"Thank you, doctor,” CARTE sald thin year it's different: This year q can call a goose pimple a cutis anserina and the other twc or five names I can think of at the moment. v And that's what a goose pimple is, friend. When you have them in the mornings. don’t worry about them. they won't hurt you. T think they’ re,

sure, however, and wouldn't want you to be quoting me to vour friends. There are =~ many interesting things to be learned in the scientific world.

--By Harman W.. Nichols!

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15-If Herkimer doesn't want to practice his flute, hack the end off the “thing and let little Herk use it for a pea shooter That's the advice of black-haired. fast-talking Ruby Newman, society maestro and director of the New England Conservatory of Music. Ruby got all worked up over the subject hetween numbers at the Hotel Statler here. So worked up that he took a nasty slap at his old colleagues, the music teachers. “There -ought-to. be a law.” he shouted. Ruby “thinks that muse ~teachers Ktroukd be “required to take examinations, just like the doctors, lawyers and dentists. To see if they know their stuff. “If a kid doesn’t want to play a violin, don't make him do it,” said the maestro, who plays a violin. “He'll sour things up in his first recital just for spite. Cost you a lot of money and embarrassment and do nobody any good.”

Brings Back a Memory

THAT brought back a memory of my first recital when 1 was supposed to play “Robin's Lullaby” on’ my little ifiddle. Mom straightened my Buster Brown tie. gave me a little shove and up I went onto the stage. I played the lullaby. a little off-key, 1 suppose, with my back to the audience. But that's getting away from Ruby Newman. He's bitter about the tutors who claim they can teach a= many as 20 instruments. “Most of ‘em, he said, “can’t teach one decently. Parents should select a music teacher

with thé' care they pick a college or a doctor for their youngster.” Ruby got dawn to figures although he didn't sav whether he used the Newman Poll or what to! get them, He said that parents, by insisting on’ violin, tuba and piano practice. kill the musical keenness of at least 5 million kids a year. : “You can't club a treble clef into a kid.” he added, coining a good one. “Gosh, vou'd be sur-| prised at the monotones that show up for violin lessons. How can a monotone ever: learn to play a fiddle?” Really Sore at Parents WHILE Ruby is a little sore at the music; teachers he kind of pities ‘em. He's really = sore at the parents, Some big folks, he said, actually go to the extreme of physical violence to make a kid saw a fiddle or toetle a trumpet when the kid would! rather be out playing baseball or digging worms} for a fishing trip. “No.wonder.” he said, “that stamp collecting. and’ book-reading ranks ahead of music.” For most instruments, Ruby. said, a degree of, finger dexterity is necessary. Just acquiring this dexterity when Mom decides it's time to hunt.up a music teacher. Playing at! that time i= not a pleasure. It becomes a chore; a| bore, no less. | Let the boy, or girl. kick a football or sew a' doll dress for awhile. If there's music inside, it'll come ott by: itself, the maestro insisted. . But don’t misunderstand Fiddler Newman. Music-— he loves it,

SS ——— — . — Magic A WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—This best: of all possible worlds can stand some improvements and, according to my spies from all over, steps are being taken. Let us first consider alarm clocks. Sure, they'll wake you up and send you stumbling in your bare feet to the cold floor. But will they put you in a good humor? My operative in Guatemala City, Guatemala, reports that so far as he knows he is the only proprietor in the Western Hemisphere of an alarm clock that sends him downstairs daily with a smile and a kiss for his wife, This wonder clock each morning at 7 turns on his phonograph, which plays Strauss waltzes. He usually sleeps across the Beautiful Blue Danube, but begins to crack an eye about half way through the Vienna Woods. At this juncture his clock switches on his bedroom lights,

At 7:10 It Pours the Coffee

HE STAYS under ‘the blankets for a few more minutes, while his most perfect of timepieces whirs. And at 7:10 a. m., precisely, when he's almost completely awake, a spigot beneath the dial opens automatically and pours him a cup of strong, hot coffee, Only once has he had any trouble with his combined clock and percolator. That was when he forgot to place a cup beneath the faucet the night before. Made a horrible mess of his rug. He sald he read an advertisement of this -Good Cheer clock in one of the Latin magazines that circulate south of the border and at considerable expense and travail, imported it from ‘Milan. He had his worst. moments with the Guatemalan customs agents. They couldn't decida whether he'd bought a clock or a coffee pot and after a fruitless search of the regulations they wanted to send it back to Italy. My West Coast agent informs me of another boon to long-suffering humanity.” Said he was “voling down La Cienega Blvd. in a Los Angeles taxicab at about 40 miles an hour, when the horn went beep-beep-beep. It kept on beeping.

By Frederick C. Othman

The din was awful. My man shouted, what was the matter? Nothing, said the cabbie. He was disgusted. His revered employers had installed upon the engine a governor arrangement which started ‘the horn to tootling whenever his speedometer hit 40. Only way to shut off this invitation to the cops to arrest him was to take his foot off the gas. He did so. The horn went silent and my visitor to the West for the first time in his life completed a taxi ride at a sedate and soothing speed. I must pass on word finally from my New England spy about forthcoming and hitherto secret improvements of the telephone. Turns. out that the bosses of the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., were squiring at a hearing in Boston before the Massachusetts Public Service Commission. They wanted to hike their rates? Why? Well, they said, they intended to improve their service. ’ The commissioners looked at ‘em with jaundiced eye and said, how? The NET & T. moguls had to divulge the detalis of the new telephone now In the works at.the Bell Telephone

Most youngsters are| ©

laboratories, Manufacture of sample models begins next year.

Phone Ring Can Be Regulated

THE NEW telephone has a) new kind of dial, which the engineers insist a fellow can see, They alwo. claim. it. wont, under. any circumstances, bite his dialing finger. This, in itself, is .a great im-

provement, but more important still is a knob at the side. It regulates the loudness of the bell.

This makes you master -of your fats, -Or. at. least] nigh

and at long last you can fix it so it won't jangie you out of your skin. The super phone also is four ounces lighter than the current model. This should be important

~toladies including one. related.to. me by marriage,

who ‘hold brief little two-hour phone conversations. ‘Ought to keep ‘their right elbows from getting stiff,

MR. OTHMAN'S COLUMN also wil appear in THE SUNDAY TIMES

The Quiz Master

Which is the oldest state seal in America? It Is the Great Seal of Maryland, ordered eut in 1648 by Cecil Onlvert, the Second Lord Baltimore.

? LS ; What Is the greatest crop in the United States? The greatest erop In the United State is corn. This year's crop, as estimated by the United States ent of Agriculture, ‘will ‘reach an all-time high of 3,500,000,000 bushels.

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??? Test Your Skill ???

What is meant by the term ‘gray goods’? Gray goods, or grey goods, in cotton textile manufacturing Is cotton fabric before itis dyed ‘or finished. In rayon and silk trade, fabric before dyeing and Bnishing ie onlled greige goods.

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Did Walter Johnson ever pitch a no-hit game?

Walter Johnson hed one no-hit July 1, 1920, when Washington played The score was 1-0,

game Boston.

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IU Homecoming

SECOND SECTION . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1948

lways A Smile—Always A .ro ruman ‘Finds On Indiana Jun

Picture Story by Victor Peterson, Times Staff § Phatographer,

SMILE FOR HOOSIERS —As President Truman's. special campaign train criss: crossed. Indiana this week, thousands of Hoosiers saw these two famous smiles—the ° ‘Prasident's: and daughter Margaret's. At: each. stop. local. Democrats, dechnigions.. newsmen and photographers jammed “around the “traim-untit spectators were some-.. times forced fo yell: "Out of the way, let's see the President.”

MORNING WALK-—On a brief “operational” stop in Indianapolis, President Truman stepped off the smokefilled train to take a Walk in the smcke-filled railroad “yards. Today he gefs a Better view. of ‘the city; the.Memorial steps. A cae

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FELLOW RIDERS— Wherever the’ Presidential Special goes in Indiana, state candidates like these rode along. Charles Fleming of Hammond (lef) is the Democratic candidate for secretary of state and with him is John Watkins, Bloomfield publisher, who is runsiag for lieutenant governor.

MR. WHITE HAT—Former Gov. Henry Schricker a candidate, has been a regular rider on the di ood wherever it went in Indiana. - With him hates are Jack Mev ; Spach publicity man (left), and nations} commitioomen: for dare i McHale. : pa wr

LITTLE LISTENERS—Young voters of the future like

these were among the most rapt listeners to Mr, Tru-

ALWAYS A CROWD-—Throughout the Hoosier state, crowds like this one made it clear that the President of the United States is.stillsa drawing card, a ; the. folks intend to re-elect him or not. Stops and speeches were brief, but in many towns large crowds ‘gathered long t before the train was due.

Is Highway Detours Listed [Ear Biter Jailed

Triplet Girls Bo m Downstate The Indiana State Highway De- over and county oil mat (new For ‘Disturbance’ partment today announced de- Sonatruciion # north 1 miles] “NEW ORLEANS. Oc 15 (UP)

Begins Tonight EVANSVILLE, Oct. 15 (UP) IND. i5-From U. 8

man's Indiana speeches. At many points schools were

dismissed.

{tours on the following Indiana over county gravel iroad construetion): in

Triplet girls born yesterday highways: Coatesville, 3a miles over county(— Police puzzled a long today | 40. ME... and... Mrs... Powell. . 8. | IND... \—Closed south of a: de- YANN. Aon AL before charging 26-year-old C BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 16 = ‘ fo i a ee hh Nh Ago A WITH “nghting Homecoming at Indiana Univer-| Faulkner were reported In (hrigge out) closed to traffic over 2 tons 13 iit) », county” oll ‘mat 's ann’ ity will be touched off with “excellent health” and released i south edge of Pennville; 18 hil ove - IND, His=siom Rd. § 16 Rd 9 in Hunt.|INE the peace sity ouc off with a Rds, 22, 203 and 18 (weak bridge gion Caunty; .18% A off a 8%: miles aver Ras. 8, Vann bit a half-inch his parade and bonfire pep rally to- from incubators at Deaconess IND; SEast t Todo Liberty; 29 mien) 147 And 9 (bridge construct Rd. d 31 (surface constru 9—-Prom Pulask ‘w wife's right ear when he found t with..Coach . Clyde Smith; Hospital here today. Yon) lhe ND or county ofl ki, Winhimue: her en ni one of his wood and his football staf: addressing The parents said they. were Til. apron, Mat Judson Sut 3 ® Nan noe River), t ing the rally. “surprised” when informed of (atabiling - road surisce) yo, detour s miles. “ab "Ran Sa. in vi

Students will spend the ‘'morning decorating competitive soror-| ity,.4raternity and. residence halls before. the Ohio State-Indiana football game.

iles; the birth of triplet daughters, Prom Delong to Rd. 110] 34nd $4 construe after already having selected repute county. ail ‘na 110 ples ol oe nd names. for the twin sons they | IND. #3-Ciosed to traffic over 2 tons f Gree r } a d 23 ov: Rds, . d 35 expected. 5 r A A od Jets we var Fos 2 3 3 i ey Se The. girls were Tinmed Jane joven bel Ltn 2 ibs are Contest winners will receive Ann, Jeanette Viola and Jeane cuio: detour § oe over vest dye of Monit] IND, 241-From Wheatland to Mon cups from Gov. Ralph E. Gates) Maria. They. weighed five |Pstlon, then north on county road to (City, 20 miles over 61 and 50 oi mat before the afternoon tilt. ds ‘11 ound | ridge. eotsttuction LT ‘Gov. Gates will also crown the

five p d IND, « 238—From Ridgeville No Deerfle! IND, 534-West of Rd. 10 ountes and’ four pounds 11 ; miles over sounty ¢ } mat ‘(bridge Sela: [over Ras. 0, Homecoming Queen, who will be either Delores Shumm, Indianap-|

construction). ) ounces, respectively, physicians |mridge and isth at in Tadianapons. Beste sald,” trafic detour olis freshman, 815 Bolton Ave, Or) The father operates an ice Marchella Chastain, a Salem senior. The resyts of yesterday's,

Waking sa ur ov ine "is a Three Buined in Blast y ra a over ashington, mon chigan HAMILTON, 0., Oct. 18 (UP) delivery route, Mr, and Mrs, [snd Rorshing Sta, ihridge contruction dl Three. Man Ware b one are . ttle “blue Homecoming Queen final election, seriously, in an explosion at the ments. The

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will not be gnnounced until to-| ——————— — . a =AL the south edge of Hammand, Hamilton plant of the Estate ip, nl morrow. miles over © Yt Prac con. Heatrola division of the Homa 'g:

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{ { A pre-game picnic will be held Actress Leaves Hospital structing grade separation with new. Tri- Electric Corp. today.

highway in the stadium for all former var- pop 1.Yyw “IND. U—Liberty east to Ohlo line: sity letter winners. OLLYWOOD, Oct. 15 (UP)--| J JCEigirtn, i, ina 31 oriane OK Europe Aid Fund

Activities will ‘conclude with the {Actress Rita Johnson left St. out) (this detour extends Into Ohio ove I WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UP) Building. The dance is sponsored a serious brain injury 4 from oh. north-hound

47th annual Blanket Hop in the] Vincent's Hospital tor home yes-, i bog a Close at the White River), oun ty Men's gymnasium and the Union terday, Ban dianagolls | Administration, fd o by Sigma Delta Chi, national pro- when she was struck by a hair| (irate iteup attr 8 and Tis B. LL fessional journalism fraternity. dryer in her apartment Sept. 6. | 9—Prom Salem lo Pekin; RT raion Germany and | ’ ‘ ;