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: DOCTORS ARE not much good when it comes to problems of the jilted, aching heart. "Realizing the many extenuating circumstances ip the case, I still think my friend at the Indiana University Medical Center could have done better than he did. Too bad I must honor his professional integrity and not reveal his identity. “Do you know there's a terrific shortage of nurses?” was the question that turned the tide. It was a cruel blow, It was rather useless to cover up, but no other course WAS open. “Who sald anything about nurses?” was my retort. “What I came to see you about was a little advice and help. Keep in mind that my girl Barbara married another guy and I'm lost.” “I understand perfectly,” the anonymous staff member continued. “That's why you came to me practically insisting" we take a walk around the - hospitals; All of a sudden you're interested in the noble profession of nursing. Why?" Sometimes you can’t tell the truth to a friend. It was just my luck that a hope for an introduction to a beautiful nurse becomes complicated and next to impossible. There are a lot of nice young chaps dating nurses, what's wrong with that?
It's Just Like Seasickness
WE DIDN'T tarry anywhere on our walk. There were plenty of opportunities for fine introductions but do you think he'd help a guy out? No, “Try taking about five grains of chlorotone,” was one of his bits of advice. After a great deal of prodding I found out chlorotone is given to seasick persons. His argument was that lovesick
and. seasick persons. felt.just. about .the same...... .
. The quest still on, Mr.
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Miss Louise Irwin said "Howdy-doody," too. :
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My argument was that I didn’t esl that bad, to which my host suggested a most novel idea. “Be . fundamental,” he sald. “Go Into some farmer's woods and cut a rick of wood a day.” “How much is a rick?” I asked. “Enolgh, " was his answer and I got the point. “A rick of wood a day would make you gq thinking of this foolishness. Broken heart, a deed.” Cruel, cruel world. . “You have no Jdea what it's Hke to be jilted just as spring is coming along. Just as a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love he gets a wet towel in the face.” Thosé wete sound arguments ‘and it was apparent they made an impression. He admitted he hadn't thought of that angle.
“That's all the more reason you should work your)
muscles. There's no better substitute for starved emotion than an aching back, shoulders and arms.” “You're still holding out for grabbing an ax and cutting down a forest?” “It's an old and tried remedy. - Much better, than meeting a pretty girl on the rebound and getting yourself all involved. Besides, I don't want any wolves coming here and luring away our
is.” As we passed the dietitians’ office in Long Hospital, a brilliant idea came to me. What could be better for a man who has had his share of heartaches than a slick dietitian? After all, wasn't the way to‘a man’s heart through his stomach? “I'll see you around,” I said, turning’ suddenly into the office. “Before 1 could introduce myself properly; -the| doctor had me by my coat lapel. I wasn't going to give an inch, but I did when I heard a couple threads snap. { “Say, who was that?” was my innocent:like approach. “That's Miss Louise Irwin, assistant director and therapeutic dietitian, and you can skip the baloney,” - Snapped the good doctor, Who was sort
or peeved: = He Wants One Who Can Cook
“IN THE name of humanity, wouldn't you|
betic or a man with a peptic ulcer or formulas for babies than a diet for a supposedly soul-stritken man who right now is probably thinking of af steak?” Well, in the name of humanity, yes. “You're not much help to an old buddy, wl you?” The sad look on face No. 9 didn’t impress| the man of medicine. | “If I had known yoli wanted to see me about! getting introduced” to a few nurses I wouldn't have!
answered the phone.” he said.
“That's just peachy,” I snapped. “I might Just| as well have gone to an Indian medicine man,” « | I didn’t wait for an address he said he had.| Comedians irritate me. I'm going to find me a; debutante with lots of money, big cars, a little] place in Florida, Vermont and Brown County. One| who can cook, too. | Ach, Barbara, what hast thou wrought? |
DP’s of the Greens
‘By Robert C Ruark
WASHINGTON, Mar, 8—As any golfing widow can tell you, the man who spends his Saturdays pummeling a little ball through cow pastures is apt to be irritable, according to the state of the greens, the violericé of his slice, or the accuracy of his chip shots. In Washington, about 60,000 week-end club swingers maintain a state of steady fury.
The United States government, in the form of the Department of the Interior, owns Washington’s five municipal courses, and leases them for operation to a private concessionaire. Potomac Park, a lowland links, sometimes gets so wet they have to call the city fire department pump it out. The sight of a duck swimming the fairway is not unusual. In summer, Rock Creek Park's fairways grow _ hip deep in hay. The bald spots and driving tees are iron-hard. I have actually seen players carrying hammers to sink the tees. Washington golfers have been cursing the courses, the government, and the concessionaire, a portly man named Severine G. Leoffler, for as: long as I can recafl. Mr. Leoffler, a man with several .golf-club. flops behind him, has leased the links from Uncle Sam since 1921. Interior Department Secretary Cap Krug, a man of assorted troubles, now adds golf to his hingry Navajos and tide and ofl problems. He is currently stuck with the task of resolving a hearty squabble over Mr. Loeffler's right to continue as ‘a concessionaire, It is an odd story of govern-
_ment entangled in outside industry.
“Contract Expires but That's All
MR. LEOFFLER'S contract] ran .out last Dec. 31. He has offered no new bid, but still remains in control of the courses, by virtue of a tacit understanding with Irving Root, an interior executive. This understanding came about pecullarly—Léoffler lent the government money. Interior wanted a clubhouse for the Ft. DuPont course. Congress wouldn't okay the expenditure. So Leoffler lent $57,000 to Uncle Sam, out of accrued profits, with his personal cinch for contract extension as “Se curity.” Uncle. 8am'’s golf courses do an annual half-million-dollar business, out of which Leoffler has taken big profits in past. On that gross figure,
however, he claims to have lost $6000 last year, | a rather neat trick. | Mr. Leoffler has no professionals, provides no| caddies, and has always been cavalier about up- | keep. He alsp employs many relatives. He works under no bond, and there is no official audit on income available since 1945. Even his 1948 state-
ment, due at the end of the year, was only turned .
in last week. As Mr. Leoffler's contract expired, a big Cleve- | land firm of concessionaires shot in a bid for the! courses, a bid which bettered Leoffief’s proposi- | tion on all counts. | Even in 1948's “losing” year, the government would have made $45,000. after improvements under the Clevelanders’ terms, Oddly, again, the bid was shelved, although nobody else, not even Leoffler, had offered a counter-bid. . Mr. Root says the department is vnder no obligation to ask for other bids, al-| though it is stated departmental policy to ad-| vertise expiring contracts. t
Thriving Tempest Tosses About
A THRIVING tempest has cooked up around the conflict. The Cleveland firmy is represented by noisy little Ray Alvis; a: former fight promoter who is expert at ballyhoo. “ Ray has swept some Congressmen into the ‘deal; and spends his time baying ominousiy-at-the Interior Department and shouting for Leoffler’s scalp. He is joined, to a milder degree, by the local press, and to a heavy extent by the golfers, who scream for Leoffler's dismissal. Long sore at paying high prices for decrepit courses, one group has even allied to enjoin the government from extending his contract. These hackers claim to be the displaced persons of the sports world, and clamor for the exercise of civil rights. The" department ‘has -now officially clammed up, pending Cap Krug’s decision. The district dubs were hopeful, but cynical about the outcome. Mr. Leoffler's greens may be scabby and his fairways unkempt, they said, but he had been around a long time, and had a full quota of friends-at-eoyrt. In final analysis, they feared, 1 government-operated golf was likes 86 many other
goxernment yentures-<the race was not always, &
to the swift.
Senate Babble-On By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—Last week our Sena-
“tee Ade no plessed thing but tadk: This.
week they - have. vowed .to do some. more of the same. Looks to me like we'll have to put the
gentlemen on a piecework pay scale.
Then maybe they'll pass“some laws, Older heads than mine claim I'm all wrong. They .say that the best government is the least government and so long as the Senate is tied up in its filibuster it is damaging nothing but its own blood pressure and gs such is worth whatever it costs. This strikes me as the negative approach. It makes me groan when I sit in the press gallery and figure that as a taxpayer I'm paying each one of the 96 lawgivers at the rate of $15,000 per year for doing nothing but yammer. The trouble is, it’s hard to place the blame. President Truman says the boys have got to pass a law against their own talk-talk-talk, so.they can get to a vote on his civil rights legislation. The southerners, who are equally as sincere, say they'll talk until they keel over before they'll stuff gags in their own mouths.
GOP Loyalties Vary
SOME OF the Republicans side with Mr. T., while some stand up for Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia and Co. talking; they are prepared to keep it up indefinitely and, if they do, some things about our nation can go to pot. : Take rent control. More of my correspondents claim it's bad than otherwise, but the fact remains that it expires the end of this month. Unless the Senate cuts out the argument about its right to talk, nearly 5000 rent controllers lose their jobs and the price of an apartment across the nation
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The Quiz Master
How many persons die each year from frostbite in in the United States? . An average of 363 persons die each year In iy uy. from freezing and frostbite. ’ Voli * What 1s hard water? Fi ]
The latter are doing the
will be up to negotiations between landlord and tenantyno a Maybe that's good. “1 wouldn't know, buf "tHe: fact remains that Mr. Truman. has asked his lawgivers to extend control over rents for another | two years. t The trouble seems to be, for one thing, that 'Mr. Truman has hurt the feeling of his more | sensitive legislators. Take Sen. Russell. He told] his cohorts that he wouldn't feel right about | accepting his wages as a U. 8. Senator if he had) to take orders from the White House.
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the Streets,” will ap- | The recent spring-like weather chief deputy of real estate for the pear in tomorrow's brought romance to the Odd Fel- reassessment, will answer ques- . Times. [lows building, corner of Wash- tions.
buster, "but said he was not filibustering. were, he added, he would quote a few more newspaper: pieces on the subject. In almost the ~ breath he said he felt so strongly on the subject! that he could’ talk indefinitely. |
Saves His Larynx
FORTUNATELY for his own larynx and the! ears of his peers, he didn't. When last I Jooked in on the gentlemen, Sen. Arthur V. Watkins, white-haired Republican from Utah, was st off on an entirely different subject. And those southerners were egging him on, Sen. Watkins said it was a doggone, “funny thing that newspaper reporters could find out what was in the Atlantic treaty, but Senator's couldn't. Whenever it looked like he was about to sit down, one or another of the filibusters would jump up and ask him a question. The idea was that it didn’t matter what their cohorts talked about, so long as they reached no vote on shutting off filibusters. And that's the way it is, taxpayers. Plecework seems to be the only answer; pay 'em for laws passed - and dock ‘em, maybe, for time out for talk.
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flowers - like - will speak on Allison's experjence Wins by a Head
{Autter is Charlie | with its new turbotjet engine, cur-| A truckload of crisp, chilled elevator oper a-
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in California, arrived in Indian-'ing some 17 |a meeting of the | apolis this morning. Years and gener- {Indiana section The truck pulled into the quar- ally recognized of the Society of
ters of the Indianapolis Fruit Co.,|as thé building's 422-24"8.'N. Jersey St. with 300 official weather" WE |crates of tightly-packed lettuce, man. ul ‘sprayed with cracked ice. Willam| Before leavingf Abbott, of Newport, Minn, was the building each in the driver's cab. ve fi He had a relief driver to re, SININS, tenants Mr. Schneider ee ndiLey gy mont, Neb, and brought ‘the load | {it going to rain, Charlie? and the basic. differ- 1. C. McC on through alone. x either take or leave umbrellas ences in design Coron Ive been gone a month,” helon nis advice. About a week ago considerations, production and sald. “I'm tired of horsin’ around. | 85+ yer - old Charlie surprised testing problems and acceptance I'm going home for a rest. {them with the reply: ‘The Qualifications on turbo-jets in the| | weather's right for romance” and annual meeting of the Society of, Farm Bureau ; Parley he proved his forecast Saturday Automotive Engineers in Detroit when, he was. married to Mrs. A dinner at 6:30 p.m, will pre-| jLidatPiachers 1520 8. Richland cede the meeting. Eight hundred stockholders are Ave. Now the tenants are think-| . cu expected to attend the annual{ing about giving Charlie a, MIMS Dorothy Schoneker, meeting of the Indiana Farm! “shower.” ; (daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William| Bureau Co-operative Association] Schoneker, 5515 Kenwood Ave. tomorrow and Thursday in the Roy T. Combs, Center Township has been pledged t> Tusitala, cre-|
tL They will tepre- (assessor, will speak on “What the ative writing honorary sorority,
Dean W. I. Myers, Cornel tng. | New .Reassessment of Property in DePauw University. « |versity, will deliver the principal Will Mean to You" at the PTA| She was one of 11 finalists chos-| {address on ‘the “Economic Out-| meeting of School No. 3 in 23 N./en from 77 candidates who sub-/® {look for Farm Co-operatives,” at) Rural St, at 2:15 p. m, tomorrow mitted original manuscripts. A
Automotive En- / |gineers at 8 p.m, Thursday in the + | Antlers Hotel, 1 Mr. McCrea re-
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TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1949
Photos by William Oates, Times Sia Photographer,
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Passing Laws
Sen. Milford E. Arness . . . the Senate sent its songbird to entertain “the " House. And the House, ever ready for song, lent him its ears.
Paul C. Moellering and clerks . , . Frankie dloyed “Back Home
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With 'Back Home in Indiana’
Final Session of State Legislature
Like a Floor Show and a Carnival
The last night of the Legislature in Indiana, by tradition as well as by impulse, is something between a floor show and a carnival, Spectators agreed last night it certainly was something.” : The Senate, which claims more dighity by reason of fewer numbers than the House of Representatives, confined itself to a barbershop octet. They called it barbershop, some
{Rep. Roscoe Scott (D. Greencass that's where they-got clipped. It! tle) with a pair of roller skates, the better to skate. out of the was definitely an octet. It sang : “Back Home in Indiana” eight chamber when he doesn’t want to times. : {vote either ‘way. Rep. Scott had The House had more lavish en-|the last laugh. He kept the skates, 8 There was a good déal of ex-
Frankie Carle, the pianist, and! his daughter, Marjorie Hughes, |cans said it was easy to get Demfrom the Circle Theater. Marjorie OCrats to Sign anything. * sang “Back Home in Indiana”| Speaker Robert Heller anand Frankie accompanied on- a nounced the second act with a. spinet piano on fhe rostrum. {bang of his gavel. Then Sen. Milford. E. Anness, a |. Someone. yelled: tenor from Metamora, pushed bust.” :-through the throng Sh began to| Someone answered: Sing. his favorite so Ou group. “Back Home in Rp was ie in the markle hall! House Goes Wild “Back Home in Indiana.”
When they called the bonu s | conference committee to report Th Set Four Act Stow -
[the .Senate, the tenor had tol School to Give
{leave. Then the House went wild. Revué Mar. 24-25
Up" stepped their own musical! A four-act show, the Ripples, will be presented by Broad Ripple High School Mar, 24-25 in the |gymnasium, C. Edgar Stahl, vice principal {wholesaler. Rep. Glenn Slenker, Perey genta), director 2 pe Rip: sald|tor of the show crews and. come | {they were the best and only cigars. 'mittees. [he ever received from a Demo- | Crews or committees and their lerat.- members are: Faculty Committee: Mr. Stahl, Teetor’s cornet died away in ‘the Miss Mary L. Connor, Miss Mir{corridors filled with somewhat {am King and Miss Margate} anguished lobbyists, Rep. Clem Coombs. Conway of Mooreland auctioned] Stage Crew: Lee Caldwell, ‘Ba loff a $1.50 box of candy for $35 Elrod, Frank Little, Bob Sar ito Fred Griese, a tavern owner igean geant, . Fred Chatles [of Evansville. Proceeds - are for Schoonover, all under supervision {flowers for the secretaries. of Miss Connor, That Song Again Program Committes : Miss Marie Smith, an Indiana! Programs: Sidney R. Esten, Vir University senior of Bloomington,/Bel Clark, Jack Barnett, Bill stepped up to the rostrum and Hearne and Mrs. Jane Gable. Stagecraft Crew; Verner Mas : lorers Virgel Clark, Bonnie Jurd, Donald. McDormed, Alfred Sark. Arens, Shiroliff, Gene {key and Richard Moulton,
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Hagerstown, one of the few man-| ufacturers of Perfect Circle piston rings who is also a virtuoso on the cornet. He blasted out the | sweet strains of an old favorite: | “Back Home in Indiana.” . While this was going on, a man
women representatives with the
Turner of New Albany, a tobacco)
“Back Home in Indiana.” Several representatives: wanted! to send for Blackstone, the magi-,
on grounds the House didn't need . magician, it needed an umpire,
Besides, said two Republicans, |, was aman downstairs who)“
of veterans