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er the Action, 1 ‘Willis Goldbeck fright, State Board of Health since With hundreds of people climbing over my back. director of the "J Holiday" picture, ex- | mid-July when the disease bePat Patterson. whose exact duties with Al s fo the “extra” how Tot. fo breathe, move, | gan a rampage over thé state corn Productions have never been defined, tripped : og The answers to the most freover me. In the tall we axchanged words an: eye. Th quent asked questions and other of greeting which cannot be ted. “waited for & Catastrophe to mit. <TC “| pertinent. polio
“I'm in the picture, Pat” I sald as he put away a half of a house brick. The effect on him was start] rat. 2 beck ‘must be ont of his mind,” muttered Willis Goldbeck was the director and the man , who could break or make a star. Van Johnson, to mention one, is a product of the man who at that particular moment was making the 10th take of a scene -involving Allen Martin (Johnny Holliday) and half the police department. Men on loud speakers begged for. quiet, from everyone on the street. Each time the cameras ground to about the half-way mark on the scene, a tin can clattered, someone dropped a timber or § babe in arms let go with a lusty cry. Patrolmen James Hayes and Chris Greenwood, riding in the squad car, hoped it wouldn't be 43 takes as they heard were required to complete a scene the previous night. It was excruclating to sit and watch the same thing go on. and on. .Twelve-year-old Allen, figuring conJEvatively, must have pounded the door 1500 es. At 12:30 in the morning, everything just folded . 1 had a chance to exchange a few words, with the director. The man appeared as cool and collectéd as 4 pigeon ii University Park. Yés, he knew about the arrangement. He suggested I stick around. Thanks.
in Shoveling Food
VERYONE pid ek off and began shovel~ing meat and potatoes. There was no air of urgency or tension. Just maddening despera-
tion. Technicians and cameramen and prop handlers grumbled they were -Yéady to finish. Some of the bit actors, like myself, fumed and
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- had come.
At times the operation made one recall the the very worst days, of the WPA. It] seemed as if those who were doing absolutely | nothing had assistants, . Just when patience wore | to the breaking point, something would happen and hope would rear its ugly head and you'd keep sitting on the curb. i It was 5:10 in the morning when shouts roused | me from a troubled and disgusted sleep on the corner of West and Ray Sts. My big moment “Goldbeck wants you.” Location was the last stool near the rear of Shea's Tavern. (Duggan’'s Tavern in the movie.) | Goldbeck placed me in position, told me not to! move a muscle, bat an eye or breathe. If I had, to breathe, would I please take it easy? I “ Cameramen Hal Mohr and Edward Fitzgerald shoved me around. Half-inch to the right, inch | back, half-inch to the left. Without doing a thing except sneaking a short breath, somehow four | takes were fouled up. The foam on the beer in| front of me died three times before the all-ctear | was sounded. “Sir, how long will T be in the movie?” | “You 11 be on about 15 seconds in the second scene,” answered Director Goldbeck. “That's at} the beginning of the movie.” . Look for a tavern scene when the picture | comes here. When you see a bum who is sup-| posed to look drunk, that will be me. Not a drop but I'm acting drunk by not moving al muscle. I don’t understand these Hollywood people. Twenty-three employees of Armour & Co. (on| the .second floor), say they want “You, Too” when! it's written. It's 37 today for a total of 1097. Goal—30,000. Only 28903 short. . |
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pay were released in fol+ wing. prepared question and ies. statement by Dr. Leroy ‘E. Burney, state health commissioner, “to relieve undue fear and ala through the presentation of aecurats information and knowl What is poliomyelitis? A common communicable dis. ease. Poliomyelitis usually runs a mild course, without paralysis. The majority of cases will go unrecognized. What are the usual symptoms? Common symptoms are fever, sore throat, headache, stiffness
| of neck and back, nauseua,
vomiting and constipation. What causes polio? Poliomyelitis virus. Other diseases caused by viruses are measles, mumps and chicken-
a is polio spread? By contact with nasal discharges, sputa, and fecal discharges of infected persons. The virus of polio is so widespread that contact with it sooner or later is inevitable. Flies have been found to-carry
| the virus but there is no re- | ‘liable evidence of spread by in-
sects, food, water or sewage. What is the time period between |axposure and onset of the disease? Usually 7 to 14 days, but may be as short as five days or
| as long as 35 days.
By Robert C. Ruar
NEW YORK, Aug. 17—We—This is the on ‘younguns are out of the nest. And most of the!
torial “we. used only for grave-and considered opinion—have been viewing the story of the new French “youth serum” with mingled emotion and ~ considerable misgiving. This is a thing, it would appear, to be handled as seriously as the atom, with a stern board of governors and a rigid set of rules. It seems a Dr. Emmanuel Jean. Sobieski, of Paris, has concocted an elixir which will move grandfathers to pinch chorus girls, set grandmothers to doing the rumba, restore hair color and melt double chins. According to the good doctor, only about 8 per cept of the people he has treated have failed to kick the slats out of the stall. The rest neigh shrilly, arch their necks and paw the ground. ;
Must Use It Sparingly
THIS IS a dan . I doubt if we can trust it to the military, and to date the United Nations has not shown itself competent to run the An 3
roe it out sparingly. sy t ‘a _ Otherwise we are faced with a world just rocketing with rejuvenated ancients, all throwing ~ théir heels agd cackling evilly over their newfound energy. If you have ever seen an old gaffer, spiked by optimism and nerve tonic,” you will know “what IT mean. — Old age is the greatest single blessing granted to us by God, in that the appetites and frustrations, the stresses and the strains, the hopes and the fears of the first 50 years have largely simmered down to a neutral tranquility. Old age is the locker room of life’s tennis match, with the score decided, containing a pleasant fatigue, and a measured contemplation of things past. Old age is when you don't have to worry about the bulge around the middle, or the poverty of hair on the scalp. Old age is when all the wondrous awfulness of romantic love is done, all the
sing of _youth forgotten by your mate. - Old "age is when you can quit striving in the marts, because if you ain't where you aimed at you, ain’t apt to get there, Old age is the golden period! in which a hearty appetite and a decent digestion | ™® are treasured above rubies. Old age is when you! can just set and rock and muse. Old age, it seems to me, is too comfortable an} estate to get disrupted by some kind of new-| fangled monkey gland which will invest Gramps| with delusions of romantic grandeur, causing. him to leap from the easy chair and fracture a iba as he clutches for the cook. It would be tragic indeed if a hoary old goat, who had settled snugly into the hammock to await|
his exit cue, suddenly became imbued again with ®®se® all the stimull which tolled him to grief as a younker. It would be much too much like running a movie backward.” Even -if “the serum were able to supply the necessary energy and muscular eo-| ordination, they have not yet invented one which! can roll back the mind to its adolescent state.
SO HERE you ould have a Bushy body, clam. oring to make all the mistakes it made over a span of 40 years—winking at the redheads, betting the horses, playing the stock market, fighting with the in-laws—and a tired, eroded old brain saying:
“See here, You've been through all this nonsense,
before. Go some place and set down before your heart quits.” No greater frustration could ever be visited on man. The old bucks would be shouldering the! young bucks out of the way, and the beldames, would be clawing at the debutantes, and the world would be so full of energetic people that there would. be no. peace anywhere. Apart from that, what is the earthly use of perfecting a nostrum to keep mankind vital in-| definitely, when we already own 'the copyright of the weapon which can cut him down before his time, even if the said time be 250 years of age?
Yakety-Yak
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By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—Every day is Thursday, the second of June, in the Senate of the U. 8. A, Yesterday was Thursday there. So was today. = Tomorrow also. And -so on until I. wouldn't be surprised that when the first snows of winter shroud the Capitol dome it still will be June 2 within. : This is because the Senate is the gréatest deliberative body in the world. These things, like what day it is, have got to be discussed. No telling when the lawgivers-——who wrote a special law saying they had to give up‘and go home & couple of weeks ago—actually will get away. ’ Sen. Seott Lucas of Illinois, the boss man of the Democrats, announces lugubriously every few days that things aren't going so well, and he pushes the tentative quitting date ahead again. His latest pronouncement on this unhappy subject was to the effect that the boys couldn't possibly get their job done by Labor Day. He said in language a little more diplomatic " than this that they're a bunch of windbags. Yakety-yakety-yak. He thinks they'd better start passing some laws. J»
Two Tired Republicans
S80 I DROPPED in on a Grade B- cocktaileroo . the other evening, where 1 ran into a-céuple of Senators. Republicans. They were tired and they were hot and they wanted to go fishing back home. They got me into a corner and they wondered what I'd heard about adjournment. They said they, being members of the loyal opposition, never heard anything. They just sweated and hoped. I'told the gentlemen, thinking I was cracking a small joke, that they probably wouldn't get away from here before Thanksgiving, if then. This wasn’t funny to thém.” They both said solemnly that IT undoubtedly was correct. The moral, if any, is don't try to spoof Senators. Everybody, including the carpenters rebuilding
+. Mike Strauss to the deep’ freezer of Mrs.
the ‘Capitol roof, wants 'em to leave, There'll be no peace for the President until they get out of here. At least 100,000 government clerks will be worrying about their jobs until. the lawmakers go. away. Fact is, they Seem to have overstayed their welcome: Except with me. I love 'em. As far as I'm concerned, it can be Thursday, June 2, on the legislative calendar indefinitely. The longer they! remain and the louder they yammer, the easier my work. Once they leave, I'll have to dig in odd places for thes¢ pieces-for-the paper. Cornucopia of : News AS IT IS NOW, they're producing a cornucopia of news. All I havefto do is find ap easy chair and listen. The members of both housés so, far have introduced an incredible 10,000" bills. About T7000 in the House; 3000 in the Senate. The authors are delighted to talk about any one of ‘em for publication. Then there are thé investigations of everything from the B-36 to the ability of Reclamation Chief Bess Truman in Independence, Mo. Free deep freezers! for, prominnt people have become lately one of their favorite subjects. Mine, too. wiou're going to” hear more about ‘that, a lot| more, and also about the big jug labeled cham-| pagne, which mystery man John Maragon tried to] bring in from Europe as a gift for a lady high In| the administration. The customs agent in New| York sniffed deeply, but what he smelled wasn't bubble water, It was verbena. ‘ Now the Senators are wondering whether John | tried to smuggle in a consignment of French per-| fume. “And did he pay a fine for it?" asked Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.). “And if not, why not?” Thursday, June 2, you are a wonderful day. 1 hope you never end. ;
The Quiz Master
297 Test Your Skill ???
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How long is the patient con{tions Probably not longer than seven days from onset of disease. State Board of Health regulations require 14 days’ isolation of the patient. Should families having a mem-
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Miss Carolyn Fompelman, physiol therapist at the cavwilicasmt home of Indiana University Med.
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occurs among children from infancy through the ninth year. It is’ rare in babies under six months of age. Average age at time of contracting the disease is higher in rural areas due to postponement of exposure at earlier ages. Why don't more grown-ups get the disease? By the time most people have reached the age of 20, they have developed an immunity through having had the disease in a mild form or having had repeated contacts with the virus.
ber with- polio be avoided. «sa What is the risk to pregnant
neighbors? No, except children should not come in contact with the patient until 14 days have elapsed since disease began. There is absolutely no reason for adult neighbors to avoid parents of a poliomyelitis patient or refuse to visit their | business establishments. Who is“ susceptible to the dis-
The greatest. niimber of cases
Annual Hog Show P
Cash Prizes Totaling $450 to Be Awarded
Several hundred Hoosier hog! | producers -are—-expected-to-attend -
women during the polio season? Some authorities believe pregnant women are more susceptible to polio than nont pregnant women. The difference in susceptibility is not great, If any. Normal babies are born to women having polio during pregnancy or at time of delivery.
Do operations bring on polio?
Na. Unless an emergency .
exists, nose and throat opera-
tions and dental extractions should be postponed during a high incidence of the diseases. Nerve endings exposed by such operations may permit entry of the virus and conceivably cause a more severe form of the disease.
ical Center, gives exercises to a young boy recovering from polio.
What are the possibilities for
recovery in [poliomyelitis?
In an average group of. 100 cases it has been found that™ 50 will recover completely 25-30 will show slight aftereffects
Are there any drugs, chemi- what js the death rate in polio?
cals, vaccines or sera effiective
against polio? No. However, research progressing in this direction. What are my chances of contracting polio? Indiana has averaged annually six known cases per 100,000 population during the past 10 years. Leaving out the age factor, this means you have approximately one chance in
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16,666 of contracting the dis -
ease.
It varies for 5 to 20 per cent. The greater the number of -nonparalytic and abortive cases reported, the lower. the death rate. The greater the number of bulbar cases, where - the virus attacks the stem of the brain, threatening the cells that control breathing and circulation, the higher the death rate.
What can I do as a parent to reduce the chance of my child's
What are the chances of my contracting polio?
child having polio? For those under 20 years of age and based upon rates of some of Indiana's worst polio years, the chances are approxi Th a of com reacting pol contracting oirtie
of omen
iin ot dying
_ hygiene, including ; with soap and water before
Make sure your child avoids excessive fatigue and chilling. Encourage good personal handwashing
handling food or drink. Protect your child from un-
alan: Parains hs necessary contacts with per-
Polio Carnival Nets $108.26 for Riley Hospital Fund
th® 12th annual State Ton Litter, . 5 Hog Show tomorrow at the ln-| =
dianapolis Stockyards, Cash premiums totaling
will be awarded to winning litters in two classes by the Belt Rail-
‘road and Stockyards Co, Indian-|
apolis Livestock Exchange and! Producers’ Marketing Association.)
Top prizes in each class will be $30 with additional awards grad-|
uated down to $5 per litter of
The program will open at 9 a.m. with judging of litters by Prof. J. A. Hoefer of Purdue University. A display of education
exhibits will be held from 10 a. m.
to 1 p.m. Litters will be auctioned off at 2:30 p.m. by Mark Bottema.
Purpose of the show is to ac-|
{quaint hog producers with the
{type of carcass desired by packers.
and ultimately by consumers.
Dutch Scientist To Visit Here
+ “Herman-Vam Dyke; scientist of
{Leiden University, Holland, is! {scheduled to visit relatives here today before he continues a trip to.Boston, where - he will deliver a “series of lec turés at the International “Conference on Low Temperature Physics. Mr. Van Dyke will visit Mrs. {John “F. Gormley, 1508" Mills . | Ave.,, a cousin, Mr. v and Christian Lammers, an uncle, {Niagara Falls via Canada, then to Boston.
U. S. Navy Aircraft To Be Displayed Here
Two carrier-based type U. 8.
an Dyke
R.R. 8,
ave aircraft, the Gruman “Hell- This is true despite fighter and ‘the’ Gruman it may take years to explore, will prove and cultivate the strophan-|
venger” torpedo-bomber,
$450.
polio,
Vital Information On Disease Given
sons other than their usual associates, g Put your child ta.-bed m= mediately if fever, sore throat, upset stomach or headache ap pear and call your family phy= sician at once.
Should children be allowed t>
go to camp?
Yes, providing the supervise
ors follow the suggestions made
above, However, children from
. epidemic areas should remain
at home until high incidence ~~
subsides, Should my child be allowed to
go swimming? - Thereis no objection to.
swimming in non - epidemic areas provided the pool, lake or creek is free of pollution, Avoidance of fatigue and chill= - ing is important. Crowding should be minimized. In epidemic areas, children” under 18 should be discouraged from swimming. . Should children be permitted
to travel? There is no objection to travel provided physical ex-
haustion due to long trips is avoided. It is undesirable to take a child into’ an area of
high polio incidence.
What about picnics, reunions
and other public gatherings?
Talk it over with your local health officer. He knows fully - the situation in your communi« ty; he is ‘aware of the problem in the entire state through his relationship with the State Board of Health, and his medical training and experience well qualify him to answer your
_questions in the light of pres-
ent knowledge concerning poliomyelitis. He also merits your full support and ‘co-opera-tion in: Ris efforts to do every- . thing possible. fo protect you and the other people of the community and state. Since so little is known of what should local communities do to prepare them-
‘selves for situations in the fu-
ture? Plan for year - around, fulltime public health programs. Improve community sanitation. Don't wait for a‘crisis to take action for community health measures. Strive for sound health education programs to keep well informed in polio and all other health problems. The press and radio merit commendation . their splendid efforts in senting factual and objec information on the polio situg+ tion in Indiana this year. =
Dairy Group Names
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Englehart to Solicit Exposition Funds
The appointment of a New York
|New York Stock Exchange and chairman of the national spon-
| |soring committee for the exposition.
Austin. 8. Englehart, president
{of General Foods, has accepted the chairmanship for the New
York.area, Mr. Schram said. The names of seven more bus-
|inessmen and breeders have also {been added to the list of those : {serving on the national committee [for the exposition which will be (held from Oct. 8-15. y
They include: Armand Hammer, {president of United Distillers of
{ America, Inc.; D. F. Norton, president of “Nestles' "Milk Products
Corp.; Hugh J. Chisholm, Port
A carnival and white elephant sale given last week-end at the home of George A, Bird, 1242 Chester, L. I., New York, breeder; s. Irvington Ave., netted $108.26 for the Riley Hospital polio fund. Children who took part in the | {Charles E. Cotting, president of
carnival included Brenda Bird (in wagon); front row {left to right), John Dake, Walter Hensel, John \Chedcoe, Inc.,
Boston, Mass,; F,
| Hensel, Bob Bird, Pat Wall, Joan Bird, Barbara Woodall, Melvin Wilson, Katherine: Wilson, Richard’ {Henry Jones, Gaithersburg, Md., Lowe and Thelma Waterman; back row (left to right), Anna Dell Dorn, Pat Som, Margaret’ Byas, |
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“" Hormone for Arthritis, Rheumatic Fever ) May Be 'Fountain of Youth' to the Aging
By WATSON DAVIS, Director, Science. Service
| WASHINGTON,
Aug. 17-—The fountain of youth for aging at least $20 a day to
Iday, have been treated. It costs susiain a
| Pabst,
Ibreeder; Dwight Mills, Lake
$ man to solicit funds in his area {for the forthcoming International [Dairy Exposition at the State - [Fairgrounds was announced today {by Emil Schram, president of the --
‘Placid, N. Y., breeder, and Fred
chairman of the Pabst Brewing Co.
Dog Owners Warned
To Restrain Their Pets City and county dog owners were warned ‘today against
| people and a defense against more of the chronic diseases than patient with 100 milligrams of laxing in the restraint of their {arthritis may be found in-cortisone and similar hormonés so_dra- cortisone which is val lued at $200 nets as und © | matically effective in making the rheumatically crippled get Up and t6 $400 a’ gram. Next year pro- Re i Mclals reported
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materials for synthesizing this That |
adrenal cortical hormone,
Service is asking $1,750,000 in|
He then will travel to {emergency money to speed the and medical research and investiga-|
| tion.
There is official excitment over
{the fact th&t a vine, growing of
[whieh is illegal in Africa, has
{seeds that under certain condi-| [tions contains a substance from which cortisone can be mad
on display at Weir Cook Alr-|thus plants whose seeds seem to
|4 p.'m., the Navy Department announced today. Naval
'triining. program, a
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|port, Sunday from 10 a. m. to|substitute so conveniently for the | .
bile of sla
{is now the starting point of cor-
! aviators accompanying tisone synthesis. The earth's atmosphere extends to a distance the planes will explain the me-
of 10,000 to 15,000 miles out from the surface chanics of the craft and answer
questions concerning Naval fly- + Who said, “The more. 1 see ot men the better ine “The two officers will also
riswer guestions relating to the
Seems to Restore Tissues
port ls discovery that the’ sub-’
|stance that treats the patients
iso effectively actually seems to {1s why the U. 8. Public Health restore some of the tissues of |
ithe body that have been sup-|
» In Mayo Clinic human experi-|
ments, much to the surprise of the investigatotrs, old joints that were stiff were loosened up and the connective tissues were found |
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e.|t0 be . physiologically .rénewed’] | This is the basis of renewed hope that fact tha {that a discovery even beyond the |successful treatment of the rheu-|
{matic diseases has been made. Cortisone is also being tried,
of cancer.
| The supply of this hormone, | produced by Merck & Co.
have to be given he |
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duction from ox bile” (it: takes
about “2000 to 2500 patients. Substitute Sought
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28 animals under observation as
That is, the reason that there isan intensive search for new raw/40 cattle to produce :enough for Possible rabies cases. No positive one day's treatment) will supply | cases were reported during the [past week, however,
Since January, a total of 121
Ir ‘some substitute for ox bile have been impounded as strays. fposedly irreversably changed by! {from the slaughter houses could In Indianapolis, 95 have been the inevitable process of aging. be found, the quantity mig be picked up as compared to 136 last
farger.
Natives are prohibited from raising the strophanthus because |makihg ant arrow poison and in making a brew with which charged criminals were tried usually to die of_ the powerful | heart-stimulating ‘ghucocides
drink. used as. the cortisone raw. ma-
htered cattle which | experimentally, in certain kinds terial.) All plant’ and animal sources, | wishing transportation will
for steroid . chemicals out
the U, 8. A. Js the obyious but is still extremely small; Only a (napbalare and acetic acid) but|given for the benefit a Siying = generally. “attributed to Mme, Noval Aviation . Cadet fight distant goal, but of deeper" im- score = or two of paglents, who|it would be a long and expan- fund. The Rev. Tr.
every sive process.
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in| {the potion they were forced to) (Not the same chemicals
his
year, Four cats and one cow are also under observation, pound
vine officials said. they - have used it in
Plan Summer Festival The Holy Spirit Catholic Parish will hold Its annual summer fes[tival Friday and Saturday on the school grounds, 238 E. 10th St.
The festival will open with a {fish fry Friday at 5 p. m. Persons be
of met at the end of the KE. 10th St. in which cortisone could be made! carline, B. 10th and Arlington, a Relief of seven million ar- what issocalied -the most complex | are being ‘sought. Chemists be-| and will be |thritics and over a hundred thou- and difficult chemical synthesis|lieve they can make the hormone school Srounds. sand rheumafic fever patients In of commercial or medical value, out of mothballs and vinegar
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