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“MY GOOD MAN, of course something besides celery dressing and cranberry sauce should

. go with the traditional turkey, I'm a gastroenter-

ologist.” I handed him my card. My suspicious friend of three hours in the waiting room and 30 seconds in his “inner sanctum” jerked his glasses off and pointed the rails at me. Then he said: “I'm a doctor, too,” and threw my press pass on the floor. “I'll continue now, slowly.” His action rather surprised me. Usually I get along with scientific men in grand style. Almost

as if I were able to speak their e, you might say. “With ving dinners if everyone re-

membered to be temperate, the holiday would be so much more enjoyable and I'd get fewer calls along about the time I'm trying to relax,” the scientist said calmly.

He's Glad Someone Is Interested

“IM GLAD you came,” he continued. “I'm glad

there's jomeone interested in this problem of making oneself uncomfortable by overeating. Bad business, bad business.” The good gastroenterologist (what a thing to ‘be called) smiled pleasantly when I told him I was glad he was glad that someone besides himself was interested in the stomach. “I'm not going to stuff myself,” I added. “Excellent, and you'll be better off for it. Did you know that it’s more healthful to leave the dinner table hungry than stuffed?” I told the stomach man that on occasion I had tried to talk myself into believing what he said was true .

Bes BE oo 5 Fn Wy Se From a gastroenterologist's point of view (count the turkey in, too), Thanksgiving isn't such a hot day. We like it fine, don't we?

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“Ah, there are so many things I could tell you about that most abused organ, the stomach,” my friend groaned, rubbing a substantial paunch. | sald he could tell me about pylorospasm, cholelithiasis, peristalsis, pepsinogen, rennin, lipase, the phenolphthalein test, Gunzburg’'s test, Weber's guaiac test, primary dyspepsia and the relation of turkey gravy to hyperacidity.” “Go ahead,” I urged. “But, no, you wouldn't understand it all and I don’t want you to leave here with any false notions or confused data.” : “. “Do you think I could possibly get mixed up about the phenolphthalein test?” was my parry. - “Easily.” Needless to say, that settled that. My friend with the inside dope on the anatomy

By Ed Sovola|

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Science,

and pathology of the stomach and intestines,

outlined a bit of a menu that he thinks is great for people who are interested in feeling “fit as a fiddle” when the turkey is just a shell of its former self,

I'm shuddering but I'm writing the Gastroenterologist’s Delight for Thanksgiving, 1948: Half of a medium-sized drumstick (if you must have a drumstick); one slice of white bread; spoonful of potatoes; half a cup each of two vegetables (gad) and one cup of some kind of a beverage. The last item means a cup of coffee, weak tea, milk or orange juice. Oh, you assumed as much. My stomach began to ache slightly while I listened to the merits of such a meal. The man was absolutely delighted with his own words until I asked him if he intended to tackle a spoonfull of potatoes and get hilarious over a cup of weak tea. “You have forgotten again,” was his retort, “that I'm a gastroenterologist.”

I said I didn’t either forget. I went so far as to say I'd never forget what he was. “Would you put hot mustard on your hand until it burned your skin?” (All the answers were no). “Would you put horse-radish on your hand?” “Would you put alcohol on your hand until it burned the skin?” 3

More, More, More and More

IT WAS DIFFICULT but I tried to act surprised. when he informed me people put such things on their stomachs. On their stomachs, yet. Shocking, doctor, positively shocking.

Most of the information that came my way was very good. Very healthful. The things I found out about the stomach could make, me afraid to eat Pablum. It's wonderful how much some people know about a gadget like the stomach.

But, friend, today is Thanksgiving. And I; feel better for seeing a gastroenterologist so I could remind you to be careful. So, once again I say, be careful.

As for me, there hasn't been a Thanksgiving that I haven't made a pig of myself and this year it isn't going to be any different. ... .... More turkey, more stuffing, more sweet potatoes and another half dozen hot rolls. Thank you.

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Amo Everybody

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Nov. 25—As I probe the innards of that noble bird today, I shall pause momentarily to give my annual thanks for people. Without people it would be pretty dull around here. This is an essay I do annually, for lack of a better medium of thanks-expression. It is one I hope the customers will sit through, like polite adults attending little Wilbur's recitation of Horatius. It is the one in which I am allowed to burble, like a kid at Christmas. Even when Roosevelt was shifting Thanksgiving around, and I managed to mislay two feasts in one year, I was acutely aware that somewhere in the period I should burn an offering to the clients. God bless them, clients, bless them every one. Also the subjects. On Thanksgiving I love everybody. I was thinking recently that the nicest thing that has happened to me recently was an interview with a stripteaser who was another stripteaser’s. mother. She said briefly that, due to her mellowed years, she never bumped frontways. She always bumped sideways. I thank that strip-lady. She has defined decorum for me, and is more important than Emily Post.

Why, There's Even Harold Ickes

I GIVE THANKS to a variety of folks. I like Chief Rising Cloud, who claims his forebears were gypped, and who wants to buy back Manhattan for the original 24 bucks. I give thanks for Arthur Godfrey. I cherish the unfrocked Yale professor in Florida who admires rattlesnakes and Bourbon in equal proportion, and who isn’t afraid of either, I like the bum on my block who panhandles money to buy cat-food, and the other, snobbish bum who will only sleep in convertible coupes. Occasionally I am happy to think about Harold Ickes, the man with the chin anybody can plant a sock on. I also give thanks for the prepositions I often end sentences with. And the fact that when I use ain’t, or a multiple negative like

lll “ain't got none,” the copyreaders generally leave it lay. They have stopped trying to reform me.

On Thanksgiving Day you can even love copy- J. Dufek, USN, a member of the

readers. Some of my best friends are copyreaders. What I always say, a copyreader is. just as good as anybody else, and if he thinks he can improve your copy with a pencil, well, that’s fine. That's what I always say—except when I am threatening to cut the lights out of one with his own shears.

Nobody Has Been Shot—Yet

OH, I LOVE the fallibility of you and me and Dr. Gallup, when we all lay such large, square eggs that there isn't even any use blushing or trying to explain them. I love a huge sector that can be flatly wrong—and still not be forced to flee to sanctuary in Guatemala. All the clay-footed idols are still working, even after the monumental misappraisal of Mr. Truman's popularity. I like Mr. Truman, too. Yet. I am real thankful for all the pretty girls, like Lana Turner, who lead colorful emotional lives, and for people like Robert Mitchum.

I am grateful for the folks who conduct society gambling swindles, and for Mrs. Betty Henderson, who puts her legs on the table when the opera opens, and for the lady who calls the cops when I play the typewriter too loud with the window open. I admire the courteous bus drivers and the income tax collectors and the worshipful fans who accuse me of possessing two heads, neither of which comes equipped with brajns. I am thankful for the city of New Orleans, for Mr. Timothy Costello's steaks, and for the newspaper business. I even appreciate the radio, since it has taught me the worth of silence. But mostly I lay my offering at the feet of people. I am convinced they are permanent. And they have more fun than anybody, including monkeys.

Song of Thanks

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—I'm thankful I don’t like turkey; not at 85 cents a pound I don't. The only family in all America that can enjoy its turkey today, I suppose, is that of Harry Truman. His bird cost him not a cent. That's one of the advantages of being President. He gets so many prize turkeys as Thanksgiving gifts that he can take his choice and turn the rest over to the local orphanages. So much for expensive birds with tough drumsticks, I'm eating pork chops; they're only 70 cents a pound. As for things for which to be thankful, they're more plentiful this year than in a long time.

Even the Republicans Will Eat

EVERYBODY'S GOT A JOB, for one thing, and even the Republicans are likely to land on their feet. My spies report that when Tom Dewey finishes being governor of New York, he can, if he wants, open one of the most prosperous law offices in thé country. Lesser Republicans may have to take lesser jobs, but they'll all continue to eat. Crops never have been better, 2nd while business isn’t quite so good as it was earlier in the year, maybe that’s something in itself for which to be grateful. For two weeks running, department store sales have been a little smaller than they were in the same weeks last year. This indicates that fewer Christmas shoppers this year will be trampled; that possibly prices will be a little lower. Special bargain sales are being held before Christmas instead of after, for a change. Dollar butter’s only a horrid memory. I'm not too happy about the $1.75 it costs here for a shave and a

The Quiz Master

What is the difference between a filterable virus and bacteria? Bacteria may be seen under powerful microscopes, but a filterable virus is invisible; it is so small that it passes through the pores of the finest filters. > > &

Who were the buccaneers? They were sea-robbers or pirates who during the 16th and 17th centuries maintained . themselves in the Caribbean Sea and waged eonstant warfare against the Spaniards. in

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By Frederick C. Othman

haircut, but most other things seem to be down a little in cost. Thanks to the committee of Rep. W. Kingsland Macy of New York, even the auto salesmen who used to demand $500 tips before they'd sell a customer a car have promised to quit. The sale of television sets is booming, but few are sold without a discount off list price. The shows on the ends of the tubes are getting better, too, and for that I am profoundly thankful.

All's Well at Othman Acres

AND AS FOR THINGS at Othman Acres, I can't believe it, myself. The beaten-up old house, which my bride found almost exactly a year ago, shines within and without. The automatic dish washer does its stuff three times'a day without a whimper, the cow still gives milk when the proper knobs are pulled, and I can tell you who may remember my bathless days that I am grateful for my tiled shower. My tractor’s running fine (I finally identified the pitman and greased it, thanks to numerous correspondents who drew me diagrams). And I suppose that I am more grateful to you readers, who write me letters patting me on the back sometimes and telling me off when I pull a boner, than to anybody else. I never knew before I became a writer of a daily piece what a wonderful feeling it is to have friends I've never seen and (doggone it) probably never will. Now go back to your dinner and until tomorrow let's forget the politicians. Mostly they're nice Joes, but I'm thankful for this one day of ignoring ‘em.

??? Test Your Skill ???

When did the Arabs first settle in Palestine? The Jews were driven out of Palestine by the Romans in 70 A. D. In the 7th century the country was invaded by the Arabs. They in turn were conquered by the Turks, who ruled Palestine until their defeat in the First World War. S. % From® what observatory is Standard Time. reckoned?

Standard Time is reckoned from the Royal

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Capt. George J. Dufek, USN . . . expedition to Antarctica. » ” = B & i By Ps Recent Underseas Studies Described

By JOHN WILSON Outstanding American educa-

vene here for the 48th annual convention of the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, Inc., which opens a two-day session in the Claypool Hotel tomorrow. % On the program will be John 3 L. Worzel, research associate in geology, Columbia University, who will speak on “Recent Studies of the Atlantic Ocean Basins;” Dr. Leo J. Brueckner, Chief of Elementary Education, U. 8. Office of Military Govern- # nt, Berlin, and Capt. George

Adm. Byrd Antarctic expedition. } Among the Indianapolis speak- V ers are Dr. Frank B. Wade of Atlantis in Azores . . . Shortridge High School, who will

describe research in “The Cause] Dr. W. D. Reeve, of Color in Turquoise and the|the department of mathematics, Cause of Fading,” and Dr.| Teachers College, Columbia UniThomas B. Noble Jr. noted|versity, will speak on “General archaeologist, who will speak on| Mathematics for Grades Nine to the primitive people of the south- | Twelve.” He is author of textwestern United States. |books and tests in mathematics 28 jand editor of “The Mathematics THE ORGANIZATION with a Teacher.” world-wide membership is headed go nn by Dr. J. E. Potzger, botany de-| DR. WADE and Walter C. partment head at Butler Univer-| Geisler of the Shortridge chemis-

sity. Mr. Worzel will speak at the try department have been con-

general meeting at 9:30 a. m. to- ducting research on turquoise for morrow. A research assistant at|{several years. Dr. Wade was the Woods Hole Oceanographic|Scheduled to explain the nature of Institution, he was a member of his work at the chemistry section the institution’s expedition to the meeting this afternoon. Mid-Atlantic ridge which Dr.| At the annual banquet at 6:30 Maurice Ewing, association mem-|{P. m. tomorrow Dr. Brueckner, ber, led. former professor of elémentary He was engaged in water education at the University of sound transmission experiments Minnesota, will discuss the quesduring the war. (tion: “How Successful Are We The research, which has been|in Our Efforts to Reform German under way for the last three|Education?” years, has included surveys, meas-| An election of officers will be urements, profiling and photo-|held at the annual business meetgraphing of the Atlantic Ocean|ing Saturday morning. Capt. Dubasin and the Gulf of Mexico. fek will lecture on “Our Navy

Writer Looks Info Effect Of War on Morals of World

Only in Germany Has There Been Collapse,

According to Evidence Correspondent Finds By FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent. PARIS, Nov. 25—"Has war and postwar confugion broken down moral codes?” > As a map-skipping foreign correspondent.l've often been so questioned. Giving a glib, shatter-fact-proof answer is as simple as psycho-analyzing, a depressed Portuguese shrimp. Nevertheless, I've thumbed my notes (which include two addresses written in lipstick) and, > offer some personal reports be-|fight after a night in the sin-

low: | cellars. ’ : _| Certainly war and occupation If there's been a crashing col |didn’t help. ”

lapse of morality anywhere it's

been in Germany. It began be-

shatter morals. In Greece for

Adolf’s asylum. It began with the foolish fuehrer himself. He] was more interested in massproducing blond super-kids (for the wehrmacht) than in legal] marriage. Righteous Spain In degrading child-manufac-| In Spain, girls from the overturing plants, prime couples were| Whelming majority of families linked—Ilike prize cattle. ‘This|are extrémely righteous. Roads—and other Nazi-directed sins—|ter activities and football weekstarted the love-'em-and-leave- end shenanigans would shame ‘em vogue. | senorita. When you kiss her Males Scarce {you're either engaged—or about

When Yanks tanked into the|t® De.

| “England's morals—like everyjuthensng. Many Tae or une else, parallel America’'s— P Bo -. |although some Yanks think the hereafter, Males were scarce.| So were candy bars. Today,

British slightly more clean-liv-frauleins pursue both with equal |1N8passion. A GI is a daily double. |

wich than a divorce.

Most traveled foreigners beBut the ancient morality ot|lieve, America’s Morajgike. is axis partner Japan is of sterner|P° oe soo oan stuff. In Tokyo—that blackened|NOt as stu y 2 a ash-pot—there might be, here Lesseinty not as and there, a good girl gone post- . war agelaba However, While|COPYFiEh, 1048. by The Indiahapotis Times roving MacArthur's Nippon Ij t———— saw no widespread weakening of Singer Tells of Row family ties. o tor as adultry goes, I ve-/At Murder Hearing lieve it seldom exists outside of | 1.08 ANGELES, Nov. 25 (UP) Tokyo. True, no progressive Wom-|__ ya] Graham, a singer, claimed en's club—armed with “equal-l{545y that he prevented Jerome rights” pamphlets—could endorse perreri from hitting his wife the Jap way-of-wooing. A Jap with 4 poker a few hours before wife is just so much extra bag-| Ferreri was shot and hacked to gage. But if it’s a “love nest|geath. raided” or “other woman speaks”| Graham, one of several boardheadline you seek—avoid Japan.|ers at the large Ferreri mansion,

intellect, Victorian morals went| Charles Fauci, another roomer, bankrupt in France between |stopped:Ferreri:from:striking his wars. Some thinkers insist, years|wife, “Elizabeth.

England, which siands ‘onthe first*meridian;*hence,’ Green-

Obgervatory of Greenwich,

(Yaps and Their

Grinding war doesn’t always | It seems a certain American] fore allied planes block-husted; ample family units are tightly piece knit. The orthodox church wins money and to get it aboard that {more than mere lip support. It's|unfortunate LST. |easier to obtain a uranium sand-|

Mrs. Ferreri

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1948 .

Dr. J. E. Potzger . . . preside

explores ocean depths.

head of Explores Antarctica” at the gen-

|eral meeting which will follow. Capt. Dufek served as navigator of the USS Bear during the 1939-41 Antarctic expedition headed by Rear Adm. Richard E, Byrd. He was commander of the East Group Task Force 68 during the 1946-47 expedition. sis =» i DURING WORLD WAR- II he was an air officer in the Mediterranean area and participated in {the invasions of North Africa and Southern France. During the final months of the European War, he commanded the famed anti-submarine killer group which captured the last U-boat in the war. Meetings of elementary school, [junior high school, senior high school, junior college and con[servation groups also will be held Saturday morning. In the after{noon members will” tour labora[tories of the State Highway Com-| ‘mission and the State Board ef |Health and the Indianapolis [Motor Speedway.

| Past presidents of the associa-

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Explorers, Educators To Address Teachers Here

nt of Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers.

Dr. Maurice Ewing (right) on deck of Atlantis.

Dr. Frank B. Wade

tion from Indianapolis include

Dr. W. D. Reeve

cox of Washington High School Dr. Wade, Walter G. Gingery,land Walter H. Carnahan, former principal of Washington High'head of the Shortridge matheSchool, and Mrs. Willlam B. Wil-Iimatics department.

Cash Rarely Part

Giving Away Wealth Bad Form in Islands

By GEORGE WELLER + Times Foreign Correspondent YAP, American Rticronesia,

(Nov. 25—The hard-headed people of Yap disagree with American] |foreign policy. They maintain that the place for a nation’s money is at home. The case of the grounded LST,

{say the Yaps, just serves to prove P

{their point.

somehow managed to acquire a| of Yap's famous stone

The ship weighed anchor and moved down the harbor, passing through the deep safe waters without mishap. But then it went firmly aground onto a reef. A board of naval officers studied the situation for a week trying to determine why the ship {went ashore. The final decision thad nothing to do with a piece of money in the hold. | The Yaps, however, knew better. | Every piece of Yap money is a collector's item and a collector’s challenge. It comes in all sizes from huge cartwheels to pieces the size of a quarter. And every piece has a complex history and value depending on what it has bought in the past and the prestige of its owner. Some even have names. An American who gives away his national money overseas may be considered bighearted, or even astute. But a Yap who does so is considered a traitor, for he has given away not only a piece of his nation’s wealth but its tradition. The value of Yap money changes. The Yap attitude about it does not. ’ | That attitude is simple; money stays with its earner. f

high h d|CALL JAPANESE SEA STRIKE Pummeled by a people of high testified yesterday that he an A Es A RI nave been plenty of bruises for|Chinese gove ent, Wang ¥

80,000 members of the all-Japan|the women who got there later\wu, today denied press seamen’s union today called ajand, tried to eat. amily. . The| Part.o ey i

of streamlined * lo wisisned and} mer; on, | 48-hour, strike: fon. 8: war. It ‘charged ™ 's|strikegwill, tie up§750,000%tons fot | A) Sty A Hd ne |coastal *shipping. y

Male Joins Distaff Press Welcoming First Lady Back

Newspaperwomen’s National Group Admits Man to Its Annual Tea for First Time

By DOUGLAS LARSEN, NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 25-—You never saw so many women with such fancy hats drinking so much tea in all your life. Beneath one of the best looking hats—a gold mesh sort of business with green and white feathers-—was Mrs. Harry Truman. Fashion editors have whispered that Mrs. Truman's hats were as unstylish as those of England's Queen Mary, but this one looked sharp, | The event was the annual tea Waiter worried might melt any given by the Women’s National minute. It stood the gaff. There ress Club for the President’s| wag also a big candy book cure

wife, and daughter, in this case.| Dorothy Williams is president of jTOUnded by a lot of other candy

the club this year. She presented 0n Which was printed “Mrs. Trume to Mrs. Truman first of all,|Man, Welcome Home.” This was explaining to- her that I was pe-| her first major social event since :. ing given this honor because [the election. Was the frst male TeDorte iio A Changed Woman ad ever been a guest of the organization to cover the event. A lot of the gals there were The First Lady shakes hands Saying that Mrs. Truman apwith a comfortable, firm ip | Peared to be a changed woman and flashes a convincing smile. [Since the election. They said she She said that she was glad to be Was just ignoring some of the back in town after being down Women who had been loudest in south with the President. She | their predictions that Mrs. Dewey said she didn't get as good a tan|Would be the next First Lady. as the others on the trip because It’s possible that the female urge

|she had done a lot of shopping | to do a little quiet crowing is

and hadn't much time on the Stronger than it is in the male. beach. |If the First Lady was snubbing Margaret Heavier anybody it escaped me. Toward Margaret has a good hand-|the end she looked a little bored

shake too. She didn't have much|and tired. of a tan to show for her visit] Eavesdropping on some of the down south, either. She looked conversation didn’t produce any a little different from the last|very spectacular news. A lot of time I saw her. Later I heard|the talk was on how to get extra all of the women buzzing around [tickets to the Army-Navy game. that Margaret had gained a lot|The rest was mostly about of weight lately. They said that/ maids, kids and clothes. she was wearing her hair short-| Ope cabinet wife said to ane er, too. That was it. She had| other:

gained weight. But it doesn’t “Do you really think Congress hurt her looks any. Neither does is finally going to raise the salae

the new hair-do. 2% The food and tea Were sensas ries of government officials? The answer was:

tional. Shrimp, tiny sandwiches —but enough of them to do the! “Honey, I've stopped worrying trick—caviar, cakes, cookies and about that one.” the best French pastries I ever mere———————————— tasted. It's a good thing I was/ CHINESE DENIES FLIGHT first in the reception line and got| NANKING, Nov. 25 (UP)—The to the table fast. There must|former finance minister of the