Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1948 — Page 11

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AT THE MOMENT there’s still a question in my mind whether I'm glad I went to the Central Indiana Safety Conference yesterday. One sure thing, a man has to be careful or else. The reason (pretty ironic, too) is that there's an abundance of portable safety merchandise displayed on the mezzanine of the Claypool Hotel. And besides that, the demonstrators are willing to show how their gimmicks work. ~~ One gentleman with a snake bite kit was especially helpful. My interest in the kit was aroused by its small size. Since I was sure not more than & thimbleful of remedy could possibly be in the square tin, I casually asked if it were a sample. You see, because of my early exposure to Wild West Weekly, I had been led to believe whisky was good (the only thing) for snake pites.

Knocks Proof From Whisky Myth

THE BIG hunk of high pressure from Medical Supply Co., Chicago, proceeded to knock the 100 proof from the whisky myth. I guess it’s a myth. If it isn’t a cure for snake bite it must be a myth. 80, there I was being very polite and listening to a long and spirited discussion about an item that interested me not in the least. The net weight of the pack was eight ounces and to give you an {dea of what it had, get a load of this; instructions. tourniquet, inhalants, lancet, glass surgical syringe, lubricant, rubber adapter, iodine swabs and adhesive compress bandages. “Nice,” I said attempting to move along to the fire extinguisher dispiay. “Speaking of the cure you thought the Kit included,” the demonstrator hastily added, “here's something that is excellent for hangovers. Clears your head just like that.” ." “Like that” was followed by a sharp snap of the fingers. The idea was for me to take a whiff

Absolutely safe . .. Hitting oneself across the toes with a hammer is one of the commoner sights at the Indiana Safety Conference.

By Ed Sovola

of something he held between another set of fingers. I inhaled. After my hat returned to my head and the floor stopped quivering like a snake my vocal chords began to function. They functioned for a full two minutes. It’s wonderful how well you can express yourself with a clear head. “You shouldn’t have whiffed so hard,” was the salesman’s only defense as he hid behind a harrier of fire extinguishers. “That extinguisher is empty,” popped up an-

other. “Let me show you the newest, absolutely!

latest thing in extinguishers.” Nice gag. He showed it to me, all right, but that was the end. His merchandise was so new there was no literature on it. No name, either. All he knew was’ that it sprays a dry powder and oil companies “are crazy about it.” Without : further incident I proceeded through a display of horrible-looking asbestos ready-to-wear that would probably frighten the men from Mars. Not exactly the type of merchandise you would buy for Christmas presents. A couple of long automobile horns prompted me to ask the man in charge, how come. Loud automobile horns are most annoying and dangerous, was my comment. as I added a false set of ac-

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cident statistics to prove my point. “I never heard of those percentages before.” he said. He wasn’t telling me a thing. Hot rod en-' thusiasts, he argued, were not the only ones who| bought the horn with the “warning power of a, tornado.” “However, here's an accessory there's no question about,” was the next maneuver while I examined a road sander. The sander is designed to give traction and con-| ‘rol on icy roads. iardly the type of equipment for your coupe but it’s still more practical than a fox tail or air horns. . i A few yards away a new type of hot water bottle was being demonstrated. Slip a cartridge into a small flask affair, pull back a little ham mer, the man said, and presto -heat. Too cleve:

‘The Best Money Could Buy’

I LISTENED to a long pitch about safety glasses. They were “the best money could buy.”| A short distance away, quite confidentally, I was, told that it was my good fortune to be holding the “world’s best safety goggle.” A good argument could have been easy to start except for the fact| that I spied a guy pounding his toes with a huge, iron mallet. t Of all things, dress shoes with steel toes. What ext? Plastic shoes with steel toes for men, he aid. Next year maybe. An invitation to strike the man’s shoes with he hammer was turned down. I also refused to] ave my big toe tapped. ! “Excellent for Christmas shopping,” I thought! vas a poor selling point. That's all we need, spe-| ial shoes for shopping. Don’t we have enough! troubles? . It's kind of fun to see men practice what they| preach, though. Man. breaking glasses, swinging! hammers, shooting nails through steel plates sure, livens up a safety conference. Who cares if a big, toe is mashed in the process? Poke me in the eye, Mac, I'm wearing Saf-I-Shield.

Throw the Book

By Robert C. Ruark

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NEW YORK, Nov. 30—I quarrel with the verdict of Federal Judge Harold Medina, who just hit a draft dodger with a year and a day, with the hint that if he came back to court repentant before a certain date the sentence might lighten. To my mind, the judge should have thrown the book. : A year and a day is not bad duty, as time in ranks is reckoned, and few prisons are less pleasant than the rudimentary indoctrination to hayfoot, strawfoot, especially to the kind of Greenwich Village “intellectual” who objects to a draft on social, political and philosophic grounds. A quiet, warm cell is fine for the composition of nonrhyming poetry, and one meets so many interesting people in a jail. I know something about this particular rugged individualist, who served 19 months in jail during the last war for refusal to report for induction. His name is Sander Katz, and he is one of the long-hairs who stroll the Village streets, lost in reverie and a turtle-neck sweater. He has scruples against the draft act, but no scruples against the enjoyment of living in an intact country, made possible by a draft act. Mr. Katz, if inducted, would be utterly useless as a soldier, and would undoubtedly receive a Section 8, which would loose him swiftly on the streets of Bohemia.

A Young Man With Sad Eyes ~

IT IS MY POINT, though, that he should be given the chance to qualify for his psychiatric discharge, or else you have no law. Or, on refusal

‘to comply, he might be sentenced to double the

time of the existing draft enrollment—42 months. No matter what you think of a draft, especially in peace, it is law for the nation and a great many fine young men will be ripped untimely from their personal pursuit of happiness to take part in same. The pre-draft volunteers will serve a minimum of 18 months. The draftees will serve 24. Mr. Katz, if unpardoned, serves 12 months. I was talking, the other day, to a young man with: sad eyes—eyes which grew somber because he bestowed about three years on Johnston, Canton, and Palmyra Islands. This boy pulled a year and a quarter on Canton Island alone. No soli-

Law Abider

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—The champion law abider of 1948 seems to be Burnett Rhett Maybank, Senator from Charleston, 8. C. The law was simple enough. It said everybody running for election to the Senate had to report to the clerk of that august body exactly how much money he spent on street posters, cigars, lollypops, and other items designed to influence the balloters in his favor. The law added that he had to make a preliminary report before the election—so che voters would know how much cash he was using to woo them—and a second, final report about now. Last month Sen. Maybank couldn't think of a dime he’d put out in his own behalf. So he filled out the voluminous document provided. by the government, stuffed it in an envelope, licked

20 cents worth of postage stamps and dispatched

it to Washington by, registered mail. Then, as every South Carolinian knows, he won the election.

Honest to the Last Penny

AND IT was time to fill out his final report on campaign expenses. He still hadn't spent gnything. Or had he? The gentleman from South Carolina got to worrying. He'd spent 29 cents to mail that first report to the Senate clerk, Ladn’t he? And wasn’t he about to spend 29 cents more to send in the second report on how 1uch he hadn’t spent? Sen. M. took no chances with his conscience, or the law. He put down for all to see, total campaign expenses, 58 cents. Some of his colleagues weren't so conscientious. They reported that they spent nothing, when ob-

. viously they had to buy as many stamps as did ! the champion obeyer of the law. Some other

Senators spent whopping big sums in their anxiety

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- sight-seeing guides point them out to strangers.

| tary cell can be much worse than Canton Island—| a grim pimple of treeless land in the middle of} the Pacific. |

While this guy was sweating out a confinement

easily comparable to a prison, young Katz spent a quiet 19 months in a state-side brig. Katz had a deal for himself. And I might add that he'd) be eligible for draft exemption if he had con-| formed to a national demand that caught up all| the splendid youth presently planted at Anzio and Tarawa. on A peacetime draft is a specitically awful thing| —pointless to the individual, if there is to be no war, irksome at best, and superfluous if the war really comes, since its blueprint will be speedily scrapped in favor of a plan embracing everybody, including veterans.

Bitter and Ample Punishment

BUT IT has been deemed by Congress as a necessary measure to security, and is shaped for universal application. As the law of the best] surviving nation it supposedly owns no special exemptions, even to people .whose high moral principles condemn it as evil I am personally sick of the dissenters who! enjoy the benefits and refuse the penalties of| living in this particular land. So long as we operate by duly passed law, the punishment for| non-conformation should be bitter and ample—| ample to the point of dramatic emphasis. | It has been doubly difficult to sell this current draft legislation to the nation—it will become, more difficult if the wilful dodgers escape with] a slap on the pinky. | Young Master Katz will be eligible for another confinement if he refuses to register when he is

sprung rom his present sentence—if he serves| |

that sentence at all. Theoretically he can be kept} in the brig in perpetuity, but that won't happen.| It would be so much simpler to tuck him away, for the duration of the Selective Service Act, plus double-time. And it would serve, simultaneously,

all the good kids now wearing khaki that they, haven't been chumped by their Uncle Sambo. We certainly owe them a reiteration that what applies to one applies to all.

By Frederick C. Othman

to sit behind small mahogany desks on the Senfloor and enjoy the privilege of free snuff while actually at work making laws. Biggest spender by far was Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan, who put out $26,009.68 according to his first report, and who still hasn't added up the rest. It'll take him nearly two years of hard work, at $15,000 per, to get that back from his senatorial wage. Already he's got an argument. Officially he won, but his Democratic opponent, Frank Hook (who reported that he spent only $1995) claimed that somebody's adding machine went haywire and is demanding a recount.

Green Grass Beats Greenbacks

THE takers of polls may be interested to know that the amount of money spent by a senatorial candidate seems to have little effect on the people with the ballots in their fists. The second biggest spender turned out to be Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia. He dropped $17,441.41, according to his preliminary report, and lost to Matt Neely, who used to be the one bright spot of color in the House of Representatives; he always wore double-breasted suits the color of grass. Mr. Neely’s victory cost him $2520.60. Sen. John L. McClelland spent $37.50 to get reelected in Arkansas, while J. Melville Broughton, the North Carolina Democrat, dug down for only $350 to defeat John A. Wilkinson, an optimist. North Carolinians are snickering over the fact that Republican Wilkinson spent $10,073.67 in a state where Republicans are such oddities that

My final statistic concerns C. 8. Hamea, who

ran for the Senate in Montana on the Prohibi-|

tion ticket. He spent $488.40. He lost. I'm glad.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1948

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Photographer John Spicklemire and The Times' high speed foqueres camera

catches the football workout on ice of the McKellen Bros., Gil an

Tuffy, during

the Sonja Henie Ice Review at the Coliseum.

. . . VA to Reinstate Trainees Rapidly Veteran attending schools or/training establishments and ceras a lecture to the sharpers and a reassurance t0 taking on-the-job training and tain types of vocational sciiools.

Once More, Tuffy

Asks Parking Ban

who were dropped from subsist- They are required of veteran-stu-| ence rolls when their progress re-/dents in colleges, other institu- i > .

ports failed to reach the Veterans Administration in time will be restored to the rolls as rapidly as

tions of higher learning, institutional on-farm courses and correspondence courses.

Johnson Calls Street

Local Physicians to Aid

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Diabetes Detection Week

Plan Free Medical Diagnosis Dec. 6 to 12

To ‘Help Find the Missing Million’

possible, the VA announced to-|

day. ! . or Monthly progress reports must Laundry Gives Dividend

be received by the VA within 60] The Progress Laundry Co. has days after the first delinquency.|declared a 35-cent regular diviWhen reports come in later than|dent and a 60-cent extra divident 60 days, veterans lose subsistence payable Dec. 16 to stockholders for the delinquent period. jon record Dec. 4. This brings the Reports of progress are re-| year’s dividends to $2, the same quired for veterans enrolled in job'as for 1947.

CARNIVAL By Dick Turner

‘Traffic Menace’

The city today recommended that all parking be discontinued on E, 38th St. from Fall Creek Parkway to Keystone Ave. Lewis L. Cap.) Johnson, traffic engineer, declared that the street was a “traffic menace,” He said that more than 870 arrests have been made on that one stretch of road ‘this year. Residents in the area have complained to police that the street {is a virtual speedway. Cars and

A “missing persons” hunt will begin here this week-end when city physicians become Hippocratic hawkshaws in a search for undetected sufferers from diabetes. The hunt will be a part of national Diabetes Detection Week, which has as its slogan the appeal, “Help Find the Missing Million.”

YBest estimates at present list at least 1 million persons in the

United States and Canada who are unaware that they are dia-

betic. Goal of the local campaign,

Banks, Harold C. Thornton, J. L. Arbogast and William M. Dugan. The state committee is composed of Dr. Willlam D., Gambill sponsored by the Indianapolisiy, 40 napolis, chairman; Drs. B.

Cn Dishetes Sr Te on: Edlavitch, Ft. Wayne; Russell diabetes under medical care. wolf iack. Lajayette; Laufa are, {this end, Indianapolis physicians polis, . ’ Hewitt, South Bend.

??? Test Your Skill 22?

Did Benjamin Franklin sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? Franklin signed both of these documents. He also signed the Treaty of Alliance with ance and the Treaty of Peace with Englan-.

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What was the aim of the original Holy | Alliance? : The Holy Alliance was an agreement between Russia, Prussia and Austria to preserve the status quo after the defeat of Napoleon I.

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{trucks roar’ down the street at | speeds in excess of 50 and 60! {miles per hour. { Dotted With Signs The street is dotted with signs! proclaiming: “Thirty miles per] hour enforced.” | Police Lt. Willlam Hague is jcurrently making an intensive survey of the street. He is ex{pected to make a report on further recommendations to Capt. Audry Jacobs. Lt. Hague said a preliminary examination of the area indicated that luminous lines would aid in {eliminating many of the accidents {which have plagued the street's intersections. He said that the chief cause of mishaps seems to be the construction of the road. On many portions of the four-lane road, he said, the street narrows to three lanes.

$1600 Rings Reported

Stolen From Home Here A wedding and engagement

have been asked to make free|

urine tests for sugar—the diabetes the drive, Dec. 6 to 12. | Persons who wish to take advantage of this service are, re-|

full meal. Run Tests

tip-off—during the week of Students Report $400

Stolen From House Approximately $400 in clothes

|minded by physicians that such ang household articles were stolen {urine examinations can best be from a house at 1925 Ruckle St. {taken after the patient has had a sometime during Thanksgiving

week-end, police said today. The articles belonged to Joseph

Arrangements have been made s Eyans and William H. Young,

clan might not be able to. take the test by providing that specimens can be sent by the physician to the laboratories of Methodist, St. Vincent's, St. Francis, General and Medical Center Hospitals, where the tests will be run without charge. Dr. Franklin B. Peck, president of the local Diabetes Society, stressed that the success ' with which the disease can be treated depends upon early diagnosis. “If diabetes is found early, the patient's life and his normal span are not disturbed to a great extent,” he said. “But, before a physician can treat the diabetic he has to know who he is.”

ring set valued at $1600 was stolen from Mrs. A. L. Perkins,

523 E. 64th St, sometime during, the first week in November, she

Honorary President Dr. John A. MacDonald is honorary president of the Society, with Dr. C. L. Rudesill as vice president and Dr. Laura Hare,

go told police yesterday. |secretary-treasurer. 4 | The theft was not immediately ireported because, Mrs. Perkins ing directed by a local committee

The ‘detection drive itself is be-

"Certainly you're still the bouncer—it's just that we need you fo. said, she thought she might have composed of Dr. William B. Dub-

bounce ‘em iin for a while instead, of out!”

~ imislaid the rings.

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'lin, chairman; Drs. Horace M.

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to cover cases in which a physi-'nath 24, both of Anderson, 8. C.,

and students at Lincoln Chiro= practic College. They found the front door to the house, which they are renting, open when they

returned there yesterday, .and their belongings gone. Entrance had been made

through a coal chute, they said.

Evansville Boy Wins Double 4-H Honors

Times State Service EVANSVILLE, Nov. 30.—Double national 4-H honors today were won by Floyd Lee Riggs, R. R. 8, who was selected as one of the 10 sectional winners in a dairy production contest. His prize was a trip to the National Club Congress, which opened Sunday in Chicago.

In addition to the trip, he alse

six national $200 scholarships awarded in the contest. Donor lof the trip dnd the scholarship i. {the Kraft Foods Co., cago. 2

was named winner of one of the