Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1950 — Page 13

: on po WHAT DO THEY do to you in a laboratory? Only time would tell and there wasn't much left, The day before my new family doctor gave me what we.can now call half of a physical examination. Seemed pretty thorough to me, But, no, off

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factthat-Iwasto-write about the experience Two loors above was where my doctor had given me part of the works the day before.

Right From the Heart : "

SHE LED me to a door with a frosted glass in it and told me to go inside, undress and put on the gown that was on the bed. “The doctor will be in shortly.” There were gadgets to burn in that room. If a tellow had a screwdriver and a pair of pliers he could really have some fun. The dime I tried using. for. a screwdriver wasn't getting me anywhere, ‘Aren’t you undressed yet?” asked a gentleman wearing white trousers and a short-sleeved, white pullover shirt. “Come one, we have work to do.” . At first glance the doctor seemed like a decent sort of a fellow. At second glance and an exchange of a few wdrds,-the doctor was OK in my books. Proceed.

1 stretched out on the bed.as directed. A portable outfit was pushed near the bed. of wires hanging loose. “Perhaps you're wondering what this is,” said as I extended my lower

It had a lot

the .doctor, lip and

‘What's up, doc? ... "Mr. Inside Indianape"lis" watches courageously (he thinks) as a few drops of his blood are taken. Tomorrow he'll hear the health verdict.

‘my left arm, Before I knew what had happened, |

Waiting to Learn the Score

Spots on my wrists, ankles and a strip-across my. chest were rubbed with electrode jelly. The doctor-attached wires to my wrists and ankles. ! “Before you turn the current on, will I get a hood?” ’ He flipped a couple of switches and the electrocardiograph machine whirred into action. Heart,’ old thing, if you ever feit like, pumping, now is the hour. About the time 1 was sure my heart was on the blink, the doctor unhooked me and said it was in| fine shape. He'd let my doctor tell me more at the! conference. He called for a nurse. She came in with a tray. Oooops—there was the hypodermic. 1 shut my = eyes. Everyone laughed.” They were working on|

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the nurse had a sample of my blood. Didn't hurt| at all.- A guy can be an awful baby: Of course, a I don’t want that to get around. ; Quickly the nurse wiped off the end of my mid-| dle finger on the left hand with a wad of cotton. ! Then she stuck it with a miniature bayonet. “When you're through with: me I'll be anemic,” | I screamed, “You're quite ‘a comedian, aren't you?" com-| mented the doctor. Yeah. Drops of blood were captured and thrown into little tubes, All the } aieln 2 blood-letting (really mot much) would determine’ President Benjamin Harrison and Author Booth the condition of my hemoglobin and red and white Tarkington (left) are buried. within a stone's throw. corpuscles. Also the usual routine check for venereal disease. The urinalysis would show if I had anything wrong with my ‘kidneys and whether there was any symptom of diabetes. On the way to the X-ray machine, in another room, I noticed my strength hadn't ebbed from the loss of blood. In a flash they had a picture of my lungs. “Put your clothes on,” said the doctor. “Tomorrow youre to report to your doctor.| He'll have all the records. Thanks for coming in. ‘We need more people taking care of themselves:

The body of Caleb B. Smith, oddentia cabinet member, ear

arrived to occupy the mausoleum built for his remains.

5 This_is_the grave of Mrs. Lucy Ann Seaton the first person to be buried in Crown Hill Cemetery.

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I FELT brave all of a sudden since everything was over. ‘There's no reason to be afraid of a physical examination, is there, doctor? If more! folks were examined regularly and went to their doctor as soon as they suspected something was| wrong instead of indulging in home remedies and| hope, we would get somewhere in the battle against] disease.” “To-|

“That's what T said.” quipped the doctor. morrow vou get a speech and a grade, I hope it's! a diploma.” y

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The new $1.5 million Community Mausoleum will be dedicated soon, There is’

By Herman WwW. Nichols entombmehts.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 28-—~The sow, or mama hog. is a dumb critter. She feeds her young, but it's just like her, often as not, to roll over on the litter and take a nap, particularily if it's cold in the hog house. Such a roll can keep a lot of pork chops and pigkled pig's feet from getting to market. General Electric thinks it has solved the dilemma of the sow, with no help from her. It has devised a gimmick which it calculates will grow move, rather than fewer pigs, by the simple process of saving the lives of those which are born in the first place. If you follow me. The GE experts figured that if the sow gets chilly-—so do the little pigs.

They Just Need a Warm Place

THEY figured if mama and the pigs were in a piace that was warm, more of the little 6nes would grow-up-to- make fine bacon, pork chops, or hams. There were all sorts of experiments and the

electricians finally came up with some heat lamps.

It was a simple thing, really. They are the same kind of lamps we use around the house to take the ache out of sore shoulders after a rough game of handball and use to thaw the water pipes in the basement. Put the same lamps in the pig -brooder and vou geft-—-more piggies surviving. The same sort of treatment can be used in the hen house. The lamb shed, and the cow barn to protect the young of each. In cases where the heat lamps are used. according to Joseph P. Ditchman, farm hghting specialist

Babies and Votes

—— April Fools’ Day Is a Particularly Trying

for GE, an average of 11; pigs per litter are saved. Mr. Ditchman reasons it like this: A sow farrows early in the spring and averages six to eight pigs to the litter. A litter of five just about breaks even—on the open market. Profits to the man in overalls come on all over five pigs. . It takes about 140 pounds of feed to bring one pig to market age. A pig saved is a lot of money icans still have the ability to laugh about the great unknown. saved. And the more pigs on the market, the less city | folks have to pay for a slice of ham.

Time for Officials, Custodians of Crown Hill

pe (Third in a Series) — —-— One fine morning the worker’ . eerie ere. dd Mi8 horse plodded toward the "By VICTOR PETERSON crest of Strawberry Hill, today NO MORE desiring death than the next person, Amer- the tombsite of James ‘Whitcomb Riley. Halfway to the summit the horse stopped. No amount of Grg- EE . It is only natural, therefore, that jokes, humorous inci- ing induced another step forward. iL

‘dents and fanciful stories should come out of Crown Hill, He looked back over his shoul- : der with pleading eyes.

A map of the Mile Square is carved in the stone of Alexander

{the nation’s largest cemetery in acreage. . a . ’ { Finally man and horse re- Ral ‘ . Do | alston who platted downtown Indianapolis. Easy fo Build, ond Cost Much April Fools’ Day is a trying time to the Crown Hill treated. J 9 Pol Indianapolis AS FOR the farmers: loffice staff. The telephone, | es wen LA . erected an Indiana limestone without word to living soul. Heated brooders, according to Mr. Ditchman, A nter by daylight and hope o, “BOSS,” the man told his su- mausoleum. Over the door was In time his strange actions were are easy to build and don't cost much. They con- lexander Graham Bell's con- escape detection of guards at perior who chastised him for carved the date, 1864. While the forgotten. But once when Ad-

miral Brown, then a captain, was making his way around the tip of {South America to Japan, it was

sist of a boarded-off corner of the farrowing pen. | tribution to aid man, rings ‘night. And, although Crown Hill failure to work, “if that horse structure was under constructiom,

lconstantly. Last th m- no longer employs walking has sense enough not to go up is believed to have been a Cui os eight’ inches, ‘ber i ee. nr " |guards accompanied by bulldogs, the hill, it's good encugh for me. hr » “Sincennes,

llovers still are flushed regularly You're going to. have to fire me pg 1 necessary t ke harbo Almost without exception the » . “ventually everything was sary to make harbor on the A heat lamp can be attached to the roof, about voice would say, “I'm plan ning from their rendezvous. before I'll go that way again. Even to receive the statesman. coast of Patagonja. From the 16 to 36 inches above the ground. Mr. Graves call” or is “Mr. Among the sweethearts, how- He looked for other work they. (ha still of night he was ex- bridge the captain noted one man

The electric light company will tell you that a Gravee in?" At times the routine Vers Was a pair who first came next day. in" a group of very tall natives,

humed and sent on his way >. 0g bearing the weight, Another employee once watched : . vi He § be w é pig brooder consumes about 36 kilowatt hours of changed to Mr. Lot. Mr. Stone alone each ! .W under armed guard. .The body He appeared to be white. A small electric power per litter. That is from the time a ic {pie the marble orchard?” op Of SOrrow. It was the custom openmouthed as he saw. ( hinese- never SE What happened D0at set out from shore bearing pig is born until it's big enough to go out and risk jp... looking for a deadbeat.” "lof a young widow to arive 1a icaTy Wace Ireshly-cogked to Caleb Smith is a matter of the stranger to shipside. b old. | “rown Hill pleasant Sunday 0c on the graves of relatives.’ . “ : A CF . : a bad ¢ aie hat wh Entering into the spirit of the mornings and lay flowers on her When they came to that of Conjecture. Some believe high- He proved to bé the missing The Department of Agriculture says Pig day is the only solution, Most of * the family patriarch, waymen waylaid the somber MF. McDougal, well-known to

they spread gentleman, - it a tempting feast of atch ea, procession as it came north. i capt. Brown from boyhood days. The workman could restrain] Others stoutly maintain a dis- | Pages for news of Hooslerland, = ing t ts to keep it ha himself-no-longer: Of the strange agreement between the widow! . vas unwiling-10-return-to-his od oi't ave to ing "10 a DIE 10 keep PPY- were out. lof his wife on a neighboring lot. custom, he asked: land cemetery officials regarfling Dative land for in the foreign he Keep it warm. | Not all mistaken calls are qm." i400 nd widower were “And when do you think they future care of the mausoleum Ted as king. Eventually the 7 | meant as jokes. A local hotel.and|gy. cers and at first too over- Will come up and eat?” {made her change her mind about! jwapherey returned to Infliana to B F der k C. Othm n. [2 dar have Smiles telephone| come with grief zn notice gash ak Stienal composite en burial. Today the historical fe 21a Wiiay Ju Iivied in Stown “| ne. day the young lady » ‘ ) . . y re eric a {tempting to make overnight res- other. 5 Re uy. young fad¥ "The same time, my American] an ie helionny buried in an a tale sounds incredible, but ro

‘husband's grave. personable appeared, had a like haibt. e [came to mourn over—the grave

brooder research and development have been going the calls are by innocent dupes ‘on for ‘a long time, among state colleges and eX- who were told a Mr. Graves at| periment stations and power suppliers: {TAlbot 4561 phoned while they!

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—The time has come to consider babies. Just babies. And, of course, whether it is good practice for Corigressmen to

kiss "em.__ Max L. Grant, the Providence, R. I., philanthropist, who owns so many businesses he has

brought up “this tender subject. As a representative of the American Parents Corhmittee, he wanted the House Appropriations Committee to divvy up more money for the Federal Children's Bureau. Before he finished he put on the official record some fascinating information about Congressitien. After all, they used to be babies, too. ——The- Children s-Bureau-has- just published—the — 25,000,000th copy of its pamphlet, Infant Care, which Mr. Granti said he understood ‘the lawgivers mailed to the expectant mothers in their districts. :

ATipto Politicians “YOU MEN sitting here are good politicians,” “You really know that when you are out for office the first thing you do is grab a child and hug it, because you know the psychology of the parent. You know that is the quickest way to a vote. You...’ Oops. Rep. Erett P. Scrivner R. Kas.) said, for one thing, he'd never kissed a baby in all

his political life. And, for another, he'd never sent a baby-care pamphlet to an expectant mother,

Rep. Scrivner said the mailing of pamphlets could lead to embarrassment. “We send them to mothers when we have learned that they are already mothers,” he added. Harumpf, went Rep. Frank B. Keefe, Republican husky from Oshkosh, Wis. If Max could suggest a method whereby the statesmen could gend these booklets to expectant mothers without getting into a jam, he'd appreciate it. Mr. Grant said that's what he liked to hear; the Congressmen were interested in babies. Now, said he, there is the matter of premature births. “I was born a seven-months-old baby quite

jervations or appointments. Gen-| "por automobile refused to brother, your relatives come up| wn Hill officers shake their cemetery, : |erally they are startled when th p - heads in no more disbelief. over a long while ago.” interrupted the six-foot Mr. | y they n theyigiart. What could a gentleman to smell their flowers.” And so untenanted 1s the it than the records Re another

{hear the greeting from the num- do but come to her assistance? And then there are the weird]

Keefe. ber they dialed. tal ft weathering auseleun marked resident of the City of the Dead. “ » They are married now, theirs is tales of the empty mausoleum “er » y e 2 You are one of the fortunate ones, snapped | It would” seem likely such a lone of the romances of young and the grave of the King of! |for all to see, > B. SMITH. Though they have searched and ax. ghostly place would reek with Patagonia ‘searched, checked and double- » couples which blossomed as they gonia. | THE STORY “ot “the King of ’ “I have gotten along pretty well” insisted the © "" superstition. Such is not p R S ~ Caleb B. Smith was a member y B checked, every reference lists the Congressman. sat on marble slabs above cit : : em! Patagonia brought together ; “You. are the exception that proves the rule” 'the case. At least lovers have no jzens log dead. of a presidential cabinet. An im- George Brown, the only admiral name of the man in question as eplied the manufacturer of streetcar fare boxes, rtear-of-marble-statuary-for they — here ig onc story of supersti=Portant-man-in—his—day,—it-was—to he burted-in- Crown Hit, and, Acute Gastritis. rep i are ‘a constant thorn in the side i ver \ . only fitting the family should And so Acute Gastritis is buried dealer in mortgages, developer of automobile tion, but it never has been sub E amily should” one George McDougal. Hil ) fluid drives, and weaver of textiles. of cemetery officials. stantiated. It happened in the consider-his burial spot a thing It seems Mr. McDougal, an In on Crown 3, one 6f 117,000 in “Maybe if you had had this program enforced A un 4 days employees used horses rath- of substance dianapolis resident, tired of the the 540-acre cemetery. I would have been eight feet tall instead dj what THE dark retreats are perfect er than trucks to clear away ex- Crown Hill had barely opened restraints of civilized life and dis- (Tomorrow: Crown HUI of the 1 am.” remarked Rep. Keefe. spots for the lovesick who often cess dirt from a fresh digging. for business when his widow appeared from the _commun ity future.) .

“You might have been President,” Max shot

-back, He said he personally had spent $700,000 devel-

pe fr me nt Two Tech Graduates Named To Journalism Sorority

couldn't dig up a measly $2 million to hel

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children. | Tech High School Radio Drama The {illness of self .- his seeing-eye dog ef. I. Hedrick (D. W. Va) wondered. Margaret Cemage, Leanna Owens Given Club will present “Freshman Fol- Gov. Earl Long | telephone into the race for goverwhat kind of textiles he made. Max listed Memberships in Professional Group lies” tomorrow at the school. Mrs, Of Baton® Rouge J nor ‘f Alabama. ReV. Farell,

has forced post-

i ‘who preaches by telephone, wag. ponement of af

not -disturbed-about being candi date No. 13, figuring he can triumph over superstition as he has blindness.

velvets, plushes, corduroy and velveteen. Two graduates of Tech High School -have been selected. tc mem-

: —— make any baby clothing?" Mr. Hedrick, “pership in Franklin College (Franklin) Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, nsist I” national honorary professional journalism sorority. ordur ant They are: Miss Margaret Louise Gamage, daughter of Mr. and C oy Knee P ’ Mrs. F. T. Gamage, 917 N. Graham St., and Miss Leanna Owens,

“NO,” said Max. “But, yes—bh, I forgot. 1 ht tM aM H. Walte 0 2046 Whee should know my business. The big outlet for daug ero roan rs: gperSuone seler-St. Others:

Ressie Fix will direct the foliles and Robert O. Gwyn, the music. planned special k The cast, comprised of freshmen, gession of the [> will include: John Schlenck, Char- [ouisiana Legislene Kreiger, Judy Chance, Larry |ature, his wife Green; Ann Carison—Maritbyn-Ki-—rernrted-— today:

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The Quiz Master

Is the light of the firefly under the insects

control?

Fireflies have the power of self-illumination, or displaying a shining light, at will. The light is entirely under control of the insect. Why they give out this illumination is a disputed question. Some authors think that it is to attract each other. ‘Others think that it is a warning signal, for they

. are rarely eaten by ‘birds.

> ¢ In a presidential election are the ballots uniform throughout the United States? The Australian ballot is used in all the states

“of the Union. The ballots, however, are not all the

haw as each is printed in accordance with state We 1

our corduroy is knee pants. The reason it is 80 | [Smith to first sergeants. Corps, vett, John Nickols,— Phyllis ies, The governor Screen Directors Guild nomina- A popular is that the kids have a harder job |Avis G. Ashby and Charles E. Janct Beck, Pattl Good, MVINI'is bedfast fol- tion as best director of the quar. rubbing out corduroy at the knees Playing] | Ford and Pvts. Clayton A. Gra. McClure, Don Lang and Edward owing 3° heart ter for “All the King's Men." marbles than they do with worsteds.” {ham and Kenneth "L. Summers Klinge. attack. Mrs - Victor Mature * Rep. Keefe said he believed Max had come ‘lwere promoted to sergeants 1st : # a» Long fal that Gov, long "0. ire ave to the wrong place; he should have taken up| lclass. Corps. Ivan F. Bourn and Col. Peter C. Bullard, veteran there would be no session to re h ny ” together the matter of more money for the Children’s. Thomas L. Day and Pvts. Thomas of the two world wars, will com- vise the general statues of the pes Be Bureau with President Truman. E. Fentz, Howard H. Kinney, Er- plete 40 years of state, “until the governor is up “Fy lc ply “Why don't you get in a cab and go down vin FE. Lawrence, Benny Sheffer. active military 5 and around.” B or ry Mature {0 the White House and makc your speech to) Ernest W. Wayman and Richard Service tomor- Li 4 =# -n . sued Victor for the President?” he asked. : Williams were advanced to cadet TOW. He has heen / Somebody's done it again gio...e Nov. 4 Max said he believed he would. He said he'd sergeants. Promoted ‘to corporal executive of the #8 George Hall of Marinette, Wi " - ru be delighted to take Rep. Keefe with him. That were cadet privates Jack L. Ne- Indiana military 2 built a 19-foot boat in his hase Clie i wasf't all he said. He gave the committee quite | Miss Gamage Miss Owens yo tosh and John G. McKee. digtrict repre- @ ment only to find that hell have A days . a day; after all, a Congressman can't afford- to pamed to membership were Bar- Dr. Robert W. Briggs, 2116, senting. in Indi- to tear out the foundation to take | . . ro a the be against babies, as “such. ‘Even when he refuses n.ra Williams, Danville, Terry Boulevard Place, has been electeq Na. the Com- it outdoors. stor iy to kiss ‘em. |Tull, Kokomo, and Mary Field an associate fellow of the Amer. manding Gen - : # un on "She's finally | Dailey and: Jeanne Jones of ican College of Chest Physicians, ¢ral of the Fifth Tex Beneke, band leader. said qi<missed her 1° Matyre 5 nklin. : * |honorary medical society. He re- Army with head- [today in Corlandt, N. Y., that he git for divorce 22? Test Your Skill Miss Gamage served as man- ceived the recognition for gradu- duarters at Ft. and his wife, 2 n=

-peter, charcoal and sulphur. The saltpeter used is |

[Eenjazin Harri- b on since August, 1948. jon duty. During World War I} sepaartion, he was on the staffs of the Sev-| He sald he had |enth Corps and of General Dwight| 1.4 his attor{EisenhoWwer. He's been decorated ney to file ;the (by the French, Belgium and U. 8. git five weeks {governments. 24 |ago but changed - lf BB his mind last Five Indianapolis students are week, asking {among the 71 award-winning/him “to hold {members of IU's Marching 1Hun-|everything.” Ap-

¢ ¢ ¢ |aging editor of the Arsenal Can- ate work at, Sea View Hospital, | [non and {s on the staffs of The New York city. . ’ {Franklin and the Almanack year-| “ What is gunpowder made of? | book. She won a Theta Pi Head- Dean n ¢ Gunpowder is an explosive mixture of salt-|liner Award last .year. © | Graebner, Dr. A. Miss Gamage is treasurer of A. Harwood and the Indian saltpeter or nitre, obtained chiefly from Franklin chapter of Pi Beta Phi Dr. Donald B. the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile or artificially social sorority. Meyers of Butfrom the air. Miss Owens writes for The ler will give re {Franklin and Almanack staffs fresher lectures ‘and belongs to Zeta Tau Alpha under sponsor- | social sorority. ship of the! | school’s College

« A ride in a whirling cement mixer cost Tommy Heckler, 10, of Vancouver, B.: C., 30 cents— and a black eye and cut nose: His jotaer Playnvates assessed riders,

Col. Bullard At present he Is in Europe ,riar a month's

| Marguerite, have a been reconciled #

‘Weman, 57, Injured In Fall on Ice

A 57-year “old —Indianapoli¥ woman_ was hospitalized . this morning after a fall on: the ice

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What was Jonathan Swift's intention in writ-| ing “Gulliver's Travels”?

Mr. Beneke

This widely known and popular book was writ- Master Sgt. William T. Camp- of Pharmacy for dred "band. They are: Donaldparently the in the 4300 block in E. Michigan ten as a satire on men high In public life whom bell has announced 18 promotions pharmacists of Miller, 1241 Calhoun St., John!lawyer didn’t receive the-notifi- St. the author disliked. It Is divided into four. books. for the, ROTC at Tech High Indiana in Ar Long, 5030 Carrollton Ave.: Gene cation to withhold the suit for he Mrs. Ruth Segal of 4311 E, With the lapse of time its satire has become some- School. Pvl. Donald L. Inman thur Jordan Me- , = oo Poston, 802 N. Colorado -Ave.: proceeded with the fling. .r ° Michigan St. was -taken to St. what meaningless and the first two books, which and Sgt. Joseph L. Sanders were morial Hall at a Pa ’ ner Wesley Murphy, 906 E. Morris St., Soa Vincent's Hospital. She was suftell of voyages to the land of the pigmies and the promoted to cadet masters and p. m. tomorrow. Dr. Edward J. and Tillman Buggs, 1926 W. 10th; The Rev: W. Reeee Farnell Jr. !fering from a fractured left army

land of the giant, have become javenily classics. Sgts. John Ballard and James E. Rowe will preside, | St. (of | Mobile; Ala,

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