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True, ‘in order to believe the above statem ent : pazent imi have a wonderful imagination and nH alth that 3 le Dean great things often have What would you say if someone told you that he has seen children climb inte a dentist's chair thout a whimper and leave hopping and skipPing? Hard to believe, isn’t it? And without the use of drugs or whips, yet. Notice that nothing has been said about the , pulling and filling of teeth. That's beCause an oral hygienist can’t perform those services. She (the feminine pronoun is used because
all oral hygienists in captivity are females) is conFig ie Prophylactic measures such as cleanand applying sodium floride along with procedure, : i
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Happy teeth . . . A little patient named Susan, ready for a sodium fluoride treatment, smiles for Oral Hygienist Patricia Pallardy of the Children's Clinic at the Indiana University School of Dentistry.
Sweetest Day
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By Ed Sovola
dentistry will result (we hope), is an oral hygienist at the Indiana University School of Dentistry. I watched her work. Why wasn't I introduced to someone lke Patricia on my first trip to the dentist? Kids nowadays get all the breaks. A daughter of a former professor of dentistry at Indiana University and now at Terhple University, Patricia has a theory about childish fears associated with dentists. . She believes in the gentle and early introduction which fits in nicely with the new theories in
Susan had good teeth and her mother wanted them to stay that way. Patricia says the best time to think about teeth is when they are in good shape. Just before it was time for the little blond girl to come in, Patricia told me that Susan almost cried the first time she came to the clinic with her mother, “I talked to Susan, showed her the mirror, let her touch the cleaning tool and smell the cleaning powder,” said Patricia. “Then I put the rubber cleaning cup on her fingernail and showed her bow it tickled. By the time we were ready to apply the cup to her teeth, Susan had lost her fears. You must keep them amused and make them feel as if they're helping.” Susan walked in and shyly climbed into the small dental chair. Patricia remarked how pretty her sweater was and how pretty her hair looked. It did, too. Cotton rolls were cut to fit the holder, which kept the cheek and tongue away from the teeth during the treatment. The excess parts of the roll were given Susan. The holder was placed in her mouth, “Susan likes to have her teeth tickled,” said Patricia, turning on the air which dried off the teeth to be treated. Susan gurgled and nodded her head. “Pid you brush your teeth?” Susan nodded again. Patricia told Susan how she was going to fix it so the bugs wouldn't get her teeth. The chatter was constant. Doesn't this (soditm fluoride solution) smell like gum? Open wide and we'll get those big teeth in the back. Susan is going to have real pretty teeth when she grows up. Isn't this fun? Susan is a good littie girl. Susan helps by sitting very still, She's so brave her mother doesn't even have to be here, isn’t that right, Susan? :
Susan Beams, Sits Still
WHEN THE APPLICATION WAS ove?, took about 15 minutes, Susan beamed and sat still. What was the matter with the child? She was only waiting for the ride down. Patricia had sold her a bill of goods that the little downward movement of the chair was great sport. Susan clutched the arms as if she were getting ready to drop a 100 feet. : “When you coming back to see me, Susan?” asked the hygienist. “Tomorrow,” said Susan, tugging on her skirt and turning merrily on her heel. Of course, she wouldn't be back tomorrow. Too soon. But when the time came for the final treatment, Susan would go. It's fun. And if, some day, it’s time to catch a small decay that shows up, Susan will also be ready. . The School of Dentistry borrowed the graduate oral hygienist of Temple University from the State Board of Health, The loan was for an indefinite period of time. If shop rumor is correct, the State Board people are going to have a tough time getting Patricia back.
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Oct. 14—I am to abandon my cus-
tomary ill-humor on Saturday, because Saturday is Sweetest Day in 200 cities and also by proclamation by Mayor O'Dwyer, and I will just be consarned if I will go around acting churlish on a day that is set aside by the merchants for me to be sweet on. . If time permits I may have a chat with Pegler, too, to see if I can’t get him to loosen up and smile a little, because a day to be sweet in is a cherished thing and I don’t want to make those candy manufacturers unhappy. Also the quantrillion other merchants who have set aside this hallowed eve to peddle a few dry goods and such on what is termed “the only gift-giving day between Father's Day and Christmas.”
Sweet Are the Uses of Promotion
I WILL just ignore the sordid commercialism in one of the brochures on Sweetest Day, which says, quote: “All you need to do is cash in on Sweetest Day,” because by cracky if I am going to be sweet T' will be sweet all the way, just like Louise Baer, newly elected Sweetest Woman of the Year is sweet on her own time, and this once I ain’t kidding. No matter what the book says, such as “It's easy. Any advertisement on gift merchandise can be promoted as Sweetest Day merchandise,” I will go for Guy Lombardo being the sweetest orchestra leader because he has earned it if only on age, and I will even hold still for Earl Wilson as the sweetest author although I always thought Truman Capote had that one hands down. You can see how this sweetness is already infiltrating so I ain't. going to tell you that this is about the same kind of cold commercial dodge as Mother's Day and all the other days, including Don’t Cut That Corn, It Never Drew a Knife on You Day, or even the special weeks, such as Pray Do Not Assault That Cold With Penicillin, Baccilli Have Got to Live Also Week. Oh, stay sweet as I am, Sweet Leilani, my Sweeter than Sweet and confidentially I hate candy.
Let me see. Mary Pickford is now the Sweetheart of Sweetest Day, which I guess I gotta like if I intend to stay saccharine, but jeepers, she’s been playing that role a long time and maybe we could do with a little updating on it. I mean she ain't no bobbysoxer, no matter how well you like Charles (Buddy) Rogers, and if I weren't being sweet I would render a sermon on people who put nicknames like (Buddy) in (parentheses) like that. I was called Buddy, once, by a few chosen enemies, and it was bad enough without (parentheses). ! Oh, sweet, and lovely, sweeter than the roses in| May, and sell that surplus, or we will name another day. i | Who can quarrel with charity, and Sweetest] Day dispenses a lot of same, and in this new-laid| benevolence I will not quibble over Durante as the sweetest comedian, because the Bugle is my boy and if you can call a man sweet in a non-sissy| sense Durante is the man. i | But what makes Lauritz Melchior the sweetest | tenor? Or Ezra Rachlin—I quote—'chosen for! broadening the scope of classical music through] his outstanding development of the Austin (Tex.)| Symphony Orchestra” the sweetest conductor? I] know, tenors and sweeter conductors on relief. Whoa. I forgot my role. | Kiss me sweet and kiss me gentle, kiss me on my sentimental. Or simple and dimple.
Sweetest Columnist
YOU MIGHT want some reporting. Sweetest) Day kicked off as a shill for the candy trade and| has since gotten so good that it may run Mother's Day into the gutter as a hot gimmick to unload goods. Who wants to fight that? The wars of tomorrow are won in the selling fields of Sweetin’. It occurs suddenly that there is no nomination for sweetest columnist of the year, possibly on the grounds that unsweet columnists would knock| the choice. This is inconceivable in a democracy,| and anyhow, I think I won it walking. Sweet is the word for me. . ..
Labor Savers
: le f ridely led By Frederick C. Othman itcry can a net |
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—Some day a genius in the grocery business is going to invent a super market with clerks to do the work for the customers, As an old heaver of canned goods and shover of iron baskets on wheels, I predict that this will make him rich. Until that happy day arrives I guess we patrons will have to do the labor for the grocers. One more improvement along this line and the merchants won't need to do anything at all. What brings on these melancholy reflections is the fact that the boss men of the National Asso ciation of Food Chains are in town working on making life easier for themselves. ; On the mezzanine floor of the Statler Hotel they have set up the model grocery of the future. They have stocked it with genuine’ beefsteaks in cellophane; they've dribbled caulifiower leaves on the hostelry’s red carpets, and they've produced a store where practically everything is operated by woman, or customer, power. They've even developed machinery to keep her honest. One of the few items which the shopper doesn’t have to run, herself, is the Crawford husker, powered by an electric motor.
Unique Labor Saver
THIS AMAZING device, price $195, f. 0. b, East Moline, Ill, automatically husks from the oranges the tissue papers in which other automatic machines had wrapped ’em in the first place. For $49.50 extra the orange unwrapper will stamp on each orange its retail price. : The husker man demonstrated this for me, but unfortunately his oranges had not arrived. He
got the prettiest 10-cent sign you ever saw stamped
on his hand in purple indelible ink. . The displays included machines in which the iadies could grind their own coffee, tenderize their own ‘tough steaks, and weigh their own potatoes. Lansing P. Shields, president of the Grand
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maker of the convention, had his own contribution to the good life of the grocer. He calls it the foodomat. This is a gravity arrangement, whereby the customer keeps the shelves filled. When she takes out a can of pork and beans another slides down in its place. The grocers also were taking a big fuss about doing away with their butchers. Each piece of pot roast, liver and chopped-up turkey was in a cellophane envelope on the shelf of an open-top refrigerator. I heard a couple of the experts arguing about the propriety of a recent advertisement showing a lady in white gloves picking up a chunk of this pre-wrapped round steak. The question was whether the white gloves were a good sales touch, or a bad. The ladies who haul down their own canned goods, weigh their own fruits, sack their own vegetables and select their own meat have got to trundle same to the cashier. There have been some startling developments in the trundlers.
Provides Seat for Baby
ONE HAD a special seat attached, in case the customer had a baby loose. Another, produced by the Folding Carrier Corp. of Oklahoma City, had two baskets, one for groceries and one too small even for an undersized infant. A Mr, Plemmons, representing the factory, said this small basket was for items like lipsticks, hairpins and other such merchandise now sold in super markets. It is a psychological device. With the basket in front of her, said Mr. P., she is inclined to use it, instead of her pocketbook, for her small purchases. 3 He said he hated to reflect on the honesty of American housewives, but added that I would be surprised. I'm thinking seriously of going into the grocery business, myself, and catch up on my rest; either that, or start manufacturing rocking chairs for the proprietors of super markets,
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1949
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Element of Friendship Is A Great Human Value
Mayer House, a Red Feather Agency, Extends A Warm Heart, Helping Hand to Needy
. theater, cashier.
Pat Peat . . . "on location" for water color painting.
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Jim Guillaume . . . GI art student.
The girls’ clubs are arranged, by ages. The little tots play, the |'teen-agers learn such practical
Here is another story in a series
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more than popular of recent years, the director says. | Another unusual feature of the
brary. Here a wide selection of
help you with the Community Fund Contest sponsored and financed | There's a Couples Club for toys for all ages may be bor-
y General Motors dealers of Marion
County.
By CLIFFORD THURMAN Loneliness is a terrible thing. And to avert loneliness—there unusually active.
is friendship.
encouraging grip of a friendly hand. People turn to their friends for companionship, in times of grief and when they need help. i Mayer Neighborhood House, 448 W. Norwood St. offers that equipped gymnasium with organ-
Lloyd Baker . . . scholarship winner.
Gone Are Days of
Starving in Garret BUDDING artists, studying at
{things as sewing, cooking and Mayer House is a toy-lending li-i John Herron Art School, take a
realistic approach to their life's
|young marrieds and there's a rowed for kiddies to play with; Work. |'teen-age juke box club which is for a time and then returned. It! {has been very successful and the young artist lived in a garret on
Gone are the days when the
| A special club is for small boys.| 1dea. is expanding to other ¢om- a meager subsistence while paintMost folk know the value of friends and have experienced the They call themselves the “Stink-|
ers.” Mayer House offers a full
in an ever-ex-,~
income brackets who live, rear their children in the community. Many Religions, Vocations ' [week One of Indianpolis’ Red Feather ways Agencies, the Mayer Neighbor-neigh
It is an oasis, a bright spot where|
{cation and friendship. | Among people served by and | who . use Mayer Neighborhood | House, Mr. Shaw points out, are those of many religions and vo-| |. cations. { | Mayer Neighborhood House, | then, offers a widely diversified] | program for both young and old] in which almost 700 persons are; now participating. | Included in the program are| I clubs, classes, teams and special] |
Grotto Auxiliary ‘To Be Entertained I
The Sahara Grotto Auxiliary | will be entertained by the Sahara Grotto prophets at a meeting at | 8 p. m. Wednesday in the Grotto| | auditorium, 4107 E. Washington
St. Mrs. Leatha Prather, aux-| i iliary president, will preside. | David Showalter is Sahara Grotto) Monarch. |
Committees meeting are: Visiting, a noon luncheon Tuesday in the home of Mrs. Helen Hester, 5365 E. Washington St.; decorating, a noon luncheon Wednesday in the home of Mrs. Frances Ferguson, 160 S. Fifth Ave. Beech Grove, and dining room committee, luncheon Thursday in the]
1st,
E. 38th St.
ENGINEER TO SPEAK
Harry O. Garman, civil .engi-|os us,
; M neer, will speak on /Fifty Years of Gene of
of Memory” before the Scientech!; IClub of Indianapolis Monday noon in Hotel Antlers.
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hood House is one of six settle- ing the life of their children, pre-| ment houses in the city. It servesiventing juvenile delinquency and | what Executive Director James P./other such matters. Then, too, the ball teams and other organizaShaw described as a geographical adults have frequent purely rec-|tions which compete in a city in-! area rather than a cultural area. reational meetings. |
Tiger 6th, home of Mrs. Lillian Henkel, 3031] Tiscretor:, Sth 7th, radio. consolette |bination; 8th, radio table model combi
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vised sports events. Boys girls and even
for such discussions as % and means of improving)
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MARION COUNTY GENERAL MOTORS DEALERS’ CONTEST |
FREE ENTRY BLANK—Mail It Now to |
COMMUNITY FUND CONTEST | P. O. Box No. 1681, Indianapolis, Ind.
(Complete the following statement in 25 additional words or less)
“I give to the Community Fund because
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($5000 Worth of Prizes Paid for by General Motors Dealers of Marion County.)
Community Fund Contest
You may use the official entry blank in The Times or write your entry on a
Jo ria Coan radio: separate sheet of paper ter as man ograph combination console; 4th, re-|times as you wish but each entry must be tor; Sth, home freezer; auto-|on separate entry blank or sheet of
entries to Community Fund Conradio; (test, P. O. 1681, Indianapolis.
nation; ‘9th through 13th, portabl ugh radio, Entries must be postmarked not later AB Sitoush 35. 1abis ods} than midnight Oct. 24th and must be reThe Rules ceived no later than
ov. 1. ( Entries will be judged on the basiz of rion County except paid employees originality, aptness and sincerity by the al “Motors dealers, the Com-|Reyhen H. Donnelley Corp. -Judges ded and its agencies and mem-|cigion be final. In cass of ties, their families. {duplicate prizes will be awarded. All n 28 entries, contents and Ideas then become
Com-|the property of the Indianapolis and unity Fund.
contest is open only to residents
_ additional words or “1 give to the . Marion County Comm
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munities, Mr. Shaw says.
Unique is “The Pantry Shelf” which is maintained quietly by { foodstuffs — canned {goods and staples—are kept on thand for special emergencies in the community.
“The Pantry Shelf,” Mr. Shaw
Emergency Only { This service is for emergency only, the director emphasizes, and only takes care of situations like this ‘until help from regular welfare agencies can be established. Two Bendix washing machines have been set up in the basement {for the ronvenience of neighbor{hood housewives. It is frequently in use.
There are free movies once a
{week and the game rooms are
time after school or in the early evenings when large groups are
[not enjoying the various games |afforded.
At present there are 684 members enrolled in Mayer Neighborhood House. The membership is
l about equally divided, 352 men]
and boys women. Annual Budget
and 332 girls and
always open. There's hardly a!
ling his “masterpieces.” The war.
{aged group of students now have |
[the organization. Here a ready/families to support and some
{work as many hours as they |spend in classes. | To gain funds for their educa{tion many of the art students {have jobs entirely unrelated to
adults take part/explains, “is not a publicized or|their main interest. They work as in basketball often used service. It is for such baby sitters, sales clerks, factory volley ball and dire cases as when papa fails to|employees, waitresses and even activities. come home or a mother and chil-{as bank tellers, There's a foot-/dren are deserted, or in cases of ball team, base-/illness and unexpected troubles.” have their third annual sidewalk
Tomorrow the students will (sale in the school court to gain additional funds. Oil paintings, | water colors, prints, etchings, {pottery and sculpture will be {sold from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m, { ” Md - | —NOT ONLY will the sale bene« fit the students, they say, but it {will also enable the public to pure {chase original works of art at {low cost. Oil paintings and pot|tery have been priced as low as $3.50. © The sale will be held in a care |nival like, Greenwich Village ate mosphere. Crepe streamers will decorate the court and works of {art will be set in rows. Refresh!ments will be served. Previous sales have been “highly” successful, students say. Last !spring’'s sale netted the young lartists over $400,
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Five professional and two main-| | [tenance employees make up the dent body is Wilson Frayer, 3739 |staff with volunteer workers com-|Creston Dr.
ing in for the supervisory work
Annual budget of Mayer Neighborhood House is $22,785. Of this amount $5790 comes from selfsupporting activities.
in its 55th year, having been established as a mission by the Second Presbyterian Church. It is now one of the largest and most
active institutions of its kind in
this section of the country.
Addresses Dentists Dr. Frank C. Hughes, of the In-
tistry in Indianapolis,
speaker before “the American
cisco today.
Mayer Neighborhood House is!
diana University School of Denwas a
Denture Society in Ban Fran-
Typical of the Art School's stu.
With a family of (three, Bill is majoring in com-
| in the various clubs and classes. mercial art to get a “successful
|start,” although his main interest is in painting and the fine arts. Donna Ostick of Columbus, a fifth-year student, is a cashier at {the nearby Cinema Theater. She works four hours each night in addition to eight hours of classes. She has been a baby sitter and sales clerk while going to school.
Al Miller, 2049 N. Meridian 8t., formerly worked from 10:30 p. m. to 6:30 a. m. in a factory and went to art school eight hours a day. . “It's not hard to support my wife and child.” he says, “but the fn finding working
|hours.”