Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1951 — Page 23

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Give Your Blood Now; Voluntarily, Proudly

BLOOD DONORS NEEDED—Empty beds at the Red Cross Defense Blood Center are mute

evidence of why plasma supplies are critically low.

Another Story, Page. 12 TEN AMERICANS were asked on the Circle if they have given blood to the Red Cross Blood Bank. The answers will shock you. All questions were directed to persons who, in this writer's estimation, appeared physically able to part with a pint of blood. No. 1—Woman-—"“Never seriously considered it. You have an idea that one of these days you'll et around to the Blood Bank and you never do. guess I should.” No. 2—Man-—"Sure I gave blood. Last year, one pint. Do you want me to give more?” No. 3—Woman—'Just didn’t have the time to go down and see if they would accept me.” No. 4—~Woman—“1 tried to give blood during the last war but I was turned down because of an anemic condition. I know, I look healthy and feel healthy but the doctors don't want it.” . > & NO. 5—Man—He saw the Red Cross “Wear It Proudly” poster and heard my question but refused to answer. The man simply waved his hand and veered away. No. 6—Man—"T've given blood overseas but not for free. I sold it to hospitals.” No. 7—Woman—“1I know it may sound silly but I haven't given blood because I didn’t think 1 could take it. Those needles and things give me the creeps.” : No. 8—Man—“I gave two pints so far and one of these days I'm going again.” No. 9—Woman—“I'm scared to give blood.” No. 10—Man—"I guess giving blood is the patriotic thing to do but I didn’t get around to it. I'm pretty busy with business matters.” & ’

IT IS HARD to imagine what the reaction would be if some of the above answers were shown the men in Korea. Worse yet, what a painful jolt it would be if a recording were sent of the several blithe voices to soldiers who are pleading and praying for life on the battlefield and in hospitals. The Red Cross Defense Blood Center is located at 18 W. Georgia St. It is open on Tuesday from 2 to 8 p. m. and on Thursday from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. You can call LI-1441 and make advance appointments. co ;

It Happened By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Sept. 27—Bing Crosby, something like 20 years ago, was refused z job by a Fox Film movie scout who said, “We can’t use you, Why, your ears have wings.”

& Bing still sees the man almost every Sunday church—never, however, without raising a fer and repeatedly flicking his ear.

Faye Enterson was complimented this week the calm way she handled a major hooboo on, TV program-—when an English actor, hired to se Pepsi-Cola, unexpectedly blurted out ia.” Faye merely said, “An Englishman couldn't be expected to know as much as we do about Pepsi-Cola.” But in the control room a program executive gulped, then said, “I don’t believe it” ® © +

KEN MURRAY'S brilliant writer, Seaman Jacobs, reports a very serious situation in the home of a famous ventriloquist. He talks in his sleep. is annoys his wife, because she has to get out of bed and go into another room to hear what he’s saying. > 2° : NBC CHAIRMAN Niles Trammell told a recent employees’ meeting, “I remember when 1 started at the starvation salary of $160 a month..." There was a loud groan from a few pages, etc. —who claim they're still starving at it. ¥ * * o EARL'S PEARLS—As George Burns and any other husband can tell you, “A word to the wife is insufficient.” * ¢ <¢ B'WAY BULLETINS—Now that bookmaking will be wide open again, one of the bookies’ real enemies in the Police Dept. will be moved to

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 27—This rickety old frame is racked with laughter over the story of the expulsion of a testifier in the RFC fraud-possi-bility hearings. The Senate Investigating Committee, at the suggestion of Sen. Joe McCarthy gave the boot to Cecil Green, Lithofold Corp.'s Washington man, because “he # had a martini for lunch and was in no condition to testify.” 1 don’t know whether the man was loaded, but I sure would have hated to take a breath check on the peers who ‘were present at his dismissal. That Washington town, if anything, is a more fanatic devotee of the threehour martini luncheon than New York, which Nate the midday booze pre good. It Ny will But drop into the Occidental or Harvey's or ‘O’'Donnell’s or a dozen other of the more: pepular chow halls on any given day save Sunday, it is amazing just how many of the nation’s bulwarks can be seen pearl-diving after the onion in that Gibson, the very dry one with the dividend in the -little- jug. I expect a great. deal of heavy legislation has been born over the oysters and roast beef, and considerable statesmanship has emerged from the office bottle the boys work on where there ain't time to go down-

Last Night

The Indianapolis quota is 6000 pints a month. Less than 2000 are being donated and there is serious concern over the fact that the 50,000-pint annual goal for the city won't be reached.

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MANY REASONS are listed® for the lack of blood donors. Primary reason is public apathy, You can take the first sentence of the first woman questioned and go on from there. “Never seriously considered it.” In some sections of the country there are no adequate facilities for donors. In others, petty fights between local organizations have created a bottleneck. . It is a known fact that the country’s reserve supply of whole blood and plasma is about gone, That's the reason for all the shouting and pleading that is going on. Men in responsible positions remember the lessons learned in World War IL ¢ ° @

AN ALL-OUT offensive or defensive action in Korea would mean that a great many soldiers and Korean civilians would die who otherwise could be saved. A sudden attack on the United States coupled with a maximum effort on the front lines, wherever they may be, is too horrible for many who are responsible for the nation’s welfare to discuss freely. It is hoped that blood will flow from Amerfcans on the homefront voluntarily and never spilled wantonly, brutally. The fear of paih connected with giving blood is ridiculous. If you have ever pricked your finger with a pin you have a good idea how much pain is involved. > * ¢

IF YOU were asked to withstand a 45 slug, a bayonet slash, piece of shrapnel, then there would be some justification for being timid. The picture of empty beds at the W. Georgia St. center is not pretty. The inset picture taken on a battlefield in Korea speaks for itself. It is our duty to go off in a corner and examine our hearts. If the answers we find deal with apathy, negligence, fear, for God and country we ought to do something—now. It’s being done now in Korea.

Bing Gets Revenge

another post . , . “Little Jackie” Heller, Pittsburgh cafe operator, will make a TV splash here. > »

%* THE MIDNIGHT EARL-—Hollywood rejected iit the idea of doing Bookmaker Harry Grose’ life story because there'd be no moral ending unless at the end of his jail term | turned-—honest policeman. TV. censors now have the fancy title—“Taste Co-ordina-tors” . . . Police have learned who pulled the Hope Hampton jewel burglary . f. Vito Marcantonio hopes to be the Progressive Party's candidate for President in '52 in the Henry Wallace manner. e 5 GHOD RUMOR MAN: “Senator Claghorn” (Kenny Delmar) goes back to Texas with Dan Dailey & Diana Lynn when * Theater Guild of the Air plays “Casanova Brown” in Houston Qct. 7. . . Gen. MacArthur's friends believe he'll stump for Sen. Taft if the latter's nominated for Prez . . . Arthur Freed, who's already practically grabbed Dolores Gray for pictures, comes in to see her in “T'wo on the Aisle” for the first time next week . . . Bernice sings at the Park Avenue. * > » WISH I'D SAID THAT—“In deciding upon a career today, young people must make a choice. They must decide whether they want to be happy or be in television.,”—Fred Allen. ° If there's going to be a decrease in _ hisky prices, says the London Opinion, well. aii right; “Say When!" + + + That's Earl, brother.

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strongly recommend that any testifier before any committee, when the subject is skullduggery, be force-fed at least four of the delicate marriages between gin and vermouth. That way’ we might more easily arrive at truth. * ¢ 9

A MARTINI opens the pores of the spirit. more or less extravagantly, and causes the tongue to wag violently, The fourth martini strikes off the shackles of inhibition, and encourages forgetfulness of planned caution, it induces a man to regard himself as a giant whose word is law, and whose every deed is a monument to his ego. It breeds momentary invincibility and involuntary honesty. This, it seems to me, could come in handy at some of these hearings when you just know that the subjects have made up a pretty scenario and are perjuring themselves pink. Martinis foster a recklessness that at times might lead to fact instead of manufactured fancy. da A SUCCESSFUL hostess I know has always practiced but one rule of thumb on entertainment. She pours a wicked belt, and she serves her f. late, because what she spends on the booze n “groceries. enough,” she says, with alarming candor, “and they won't give a damn what you throw at 'em in the way of food.” This is frighteningly cynical, but might very work as an adjunct to cross-examination.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1951

‘Try It," They Say—

A Day With

Times Photos by Lioyd B. Walton

COLLABORATORS—Herb and Dee Sweet, joint authors of "Try It Just for Fun" and "Try I Because It's Fun," two new play books for children, start the morning at Acorn Farm, their home near Noblesville, with a walk to the farm's weather station. Based on a regular feature of The Times comic page, the "Try It" books were published this week by Henry Holt & Co. at $1 each

NERVE.CENTER-—Herb's upstairs studio in one of the tiny, quaint wings of the pioneer Midwest style farm house the Sweets planned and built is a model of

efficiency. Files contain thousands of clippings and ideas for

"Try 1."

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which was planned and built by children attending the Sweets’ summer day camp at Acorn Farm, Herb and Dee decide they won't need instruments to tell the day is going to be fine.

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OPEN-AIR STUDIO—On the flagstone terrace back of their meat, compact house full of antiques, Herb likes to do his easel work. Here he's making "Try It" posters in color for a forthcoms K" address in St. Louis.

"STUFFIES" When the Sweets’ daughters, Judee and Jill, are attending - school in Indianapolis, Dee has the daily chore of making beds in the girls’ room

and arranging ‘groups of the two or three dozen "stuffies,” mostly woolly dogs,

CHARACTER — Dicky W