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THE DOCTOR excused himself, said he was .

too busy to chat and. there I was holding the telephone a bit flabbergadted. Suddenly the switchboard between my ears lit up spelling out: “Use your head; no free games.” « It was unlike the research medical man to be

!» so brusque. You can always depend on ‘him for

: a good breeze session and on occasion, an idea

for filling a certain space in this newspaper. Is the good doctor cracking up? Does he have troubles at home? Did he drop a new microscope on his big toe, smashing the miscroscope, or did one of the young scientists run off with his secretary? I ‘sat there asking foolish questions.

After exhausting every possibility, I concluded the doctor probably was too busy to that and at which point I almost choked. That's just what the man said, he was too busy to bat the breeze. : $ :

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SEVERAL MORE questions were asked. Why naven’t my friends told me that 13 areas in my mouth flap too much. Thirteen. From bad to worse and by nightfall, the enchanted hour when my personality changes for the better, accordng to the number of times I gargle, I was a vreck. Why did Alexander Bell and Don Ameche 1ave to invent the telephone?

The next morning, instead of calling Jack Lewis, service engineer for the Indiana Bell ‘elephone Co., I struggled over.to his office on oot. I wouldn't have touched a telephone that norning with a five-foot-two-with-eyes-of-blue telephone operator. Some of the pebbles in the sidewalk were almost insurmountable. That's how low I felt. Was I a telephone boor-bore? Tack would know,

HEY, MABEL—I want to talk to the old man about an important poker game. Don't you know telephone etiquet?

It Hap By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Mar. 17—Everybody’s scienceminded now—so being af very sclentific-type fellah, I measured two famous voices—Tallulah Bankhead’s and Ethel Nerman'’s. I was going to make a bum out of Thomas A. Edison. “Spare no expense as long as somebody else is paying for it,” was my motto. We had a sound meter, or decibel-measurer, brought all the way down from General Electric at Schenectady. “Dollings, let's go upstairs away from this horrible clatter,” said Tallulah, when we met on stage. "Twas 11:30 a. m. Sunday gt NBC's “Big Show” rehearsal. “How about singing something, Miss Bankhead?” asked Dick De Michele, who's a scientist, and Clyde D. Wagner, who isn’t. They’d chaperoned the gadget (which is storage-battery size) and plugged it in. “You want ME to sing?” garumphed Tallulah whose famous voice is the one that none is deeper than, “Thanks for the compliment, dolling.” > 4 &

ETHEL LAUGHED. Us scientists got an idea—measure their laughs. Ethel’'s was 92 decibels; Tallulah’s was 77. Then Tallulah “introduced” Ethel. “Well, Dollings,” she said, “we're FORCED to have Ethel Merman on the show again tonight...” “Down to 67,” happily reported Mr. De Michele reading the meter. “Your turn, Miss Merman.” “Tallulah, I think you're the most DIVINE woman,” said Ethel. .’ The meter showed 77. “See,” Tallulah crowed. “She's getting deeper. I knew I'd dcmoralize her.”

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 17—Mr. Tyrus Raymond Cobb has just leaped into print with some memoirs shaped to enrage the current crop of baseball athletes and thelr aficionados, and the old gentleman just might be right about three-quarters of the time. The Georgia Peach’s tirade in Life suggests rather strong- =. ly that today's crop of major leaguers are a flock of bums, for the most part; that the hal- = lowed game has lost its quaint 2 purity, and that things just generally ain't what they used

sEspecially in the last cate- € gory is the old diamond devil 2 correct. Things have changed : around these parts consider- =a ably since he dived feet first es ‘ from the minors in 1905, and it is not illogical to assume that baseball may have changed with it. The horseless carriage and the airplane may have worked greater changes on the world than we yet suspect, including the ability of shortstops to go to their left. » Sometimes I wonder what ever happened to the art of accurate tobacco-spitting, a craft in which most grown men and quite a few small boys were exceedingly proficient some years ago, but which no longer seems to be requisite to the social graces, It is possible that it went the way of the emery ball, the shine ball, the rock-hard diamond and the 10-day blue shirt as a badge of the baseball player

> b : IN MR. COBB'S DAY, or so Pappy Clark Griffith used to tell me, ballplayers wore thuggish caps and were often not allowed in the better hotels. They came largely from the plowed ground of tiny towns, and were regarded socially as somewhere between poolreom habitues and prize They gave all their time to baseball because there wasn't much else for them to do or other places they were welcome. They became proficient in all the sneaky artifices of pitching subterfuge and hoodlumized conduct, on the diamond, because théy were rough men from a rough background, making slim wages in a mean, dog-bitten sport that was played more like a war than a game. , They saved every cent they made, paid no taxes, and were able to retire on the earnings of a few years. The retirement incentive itself is absent today, due to taxes, and the off-season labors which Mr. Cobb so abhors are necessary if the athlete intends to eat after he can’t run ‘out a hit any more. <* @ THE BADGE of proficiency i was the fron-man pitching stunt, and tight, strategic ball played as dirty as they could get away with. The way the oldsters tell me it was pretty grim, with few elements of sportsmanship evident to counterbalance the bean ball and the up-flung spiked foot. A man had to stay in fighting con“dition to survive, ne A +o.

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‘ting soil for seed flats

Gets Valuable Tips - On Telephone Usage

' He listened to the tale about the doctor. with a smile on his lips. Every time I began to run down at the mouth, Jack would say, “Go on, certainly there are other things you: do wrong on the phone.” * 2 ¢

ALL OF A SUDDEN there was nothing else to tell. Twenty-two stenographers threw their pencils on the floor and closed their notebooks. Someone estimated my testimony would probably run around 50 million words. I felt as loose as a Congressman. Jack sald the doctor had every right to cut the conversation short. During business hours, I should have the sense and courtesy to state my business and that's all. If the doctor had time to chat, he would initiate chatter. Always try to put yourself in another person's telephone receiver, “You know, there are some people who work for a living,” laughed Jack. Ha, ha. . It's Jack's job to spread the word about correct telephone usage to business executives, employees who use the telephone a great deal and anyone who happens to wander into his web, like I did. “We're friends, aren't we?” asked Jack. «o> oo"

MY HAND TWISTED the knob on the lock on ‘the pocket where the wallet hangs out and said, “I guess so.” 2 “To. make this short and sweet, I'll assume you are the type of person who does everything wrong on the phone. In that way we'll cover faults in a hurry and you can take what you want for self-improvement. OK?” Jack began by saying one must not shout In a mouthpiece. Lips should be half an inch rom the mouthpiece. Normal voice level should be

used and if you can’t hear, see an ear doctor -

or call the phone company. « Of course, he made it pretty plain that I ought to use my head when I'm in the mood for yaking, Be considerate of the time of day and type of phone. A party line is to be used by all equally. Jack said to give a person a minute or more to answer the phone. About the time you're hanging up. the party may be reaching. *' <> o “ARE YOU ALWAYS sure of your number when you place a call? Are you ready and know what to talk about when the called person answers? Don't worry him about the weather politics, income taxes when the subject for discussion is a date of a meeting.” Several suggestions weren't new. You're posed’ to say “Thank you” for-best results it’s impolite to slam a information that .is neighborly practice. “Greet the caller pleasantly and don’t make him guess,” continued Jack. “A telephone isn’t a toy to play games with.” Doesn't hurt anyone to brush up on his conduct in everyday tasks. Little slips become big slips and if not watched make one slipshod. In no time a bad habit develops,

Call me sometime. You'll never recognize voice, I betcha. O5aiee Toy

supand receiver. Calling back for being looked up is a good

Dove Coos Deeper Even Than Tallulah

THEY SANG. her thrilling way soared to 97.

“Step “aside, Buster,” flourish.

Her “Bye, Bye, Blackbird” sank the meter to 65. When she lowered her chin, and growled a dragon-like “So beeeeeee-ware,” it fell to 57. What did it mean? Well, Ethel's was 30 decibels higher than a fire wagon with a blaring siren that happened to 80 by just then. Where to find one deeper than Tallulah’s. At Central Park Zoo, we found that some seals barking for fish registered 75—much higher than Tallulah’s deepest. Then — success. Some pigeons cooing their mating calls registered 50, out-Tallulahing Tallulah. : “Anybody or anything cooing a mating call is beautiful,” Tallulah said, when I broke the news to her. “The world would be better if there were more mating calls!” “Sb EARL’S PEARLS . . . Medical tip to Lana Turner from Benton Berman: How to get rid of a headache—go to Reno. > ’ WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The Navy's building a carrier so big sailors will have to start to

the rail Friday to get sick on: Monday”’—Sammy Kaye.

Ethel sang “Show Business” in + « «just for us. The pointer

Talu warned with a

oS & TAFFY TUTTLE was telling Henry Jerome, the Hotel Edison maestro, that if she accepted all the invitations she gets to go riding on Sunday, she would have to walk. , . . That's Earl, brother.

Baseball’s Changed, But Is That Bad?

It is a little ridiculous for any old man to become so caught up in old, embellished memories of his youth that he can righteously condemn a youngster in a different sport as a poor practitioner, yet Cobb lavishly condemns Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams. He does it without considering that they were not paid fabulous salaries to bunt, or to endanger their livelihood by on-field rowdyism that could pay off in serious injury. Dimag got his 100 G’s and Williams got his chunk for belting that ball as far and as often as possible. SSB COBB'S right about baseball having gone off

oo BE: Precision-sport;-for-it-has-iong been a battle of the home i

run, with pitchers as pawns rather than principals. But you still get the superb 1-0 extra-inning throwing performances of his youth, and you still

ort that will erase many a memory of a judicious When Mr. Cobb entitles his iece, “They Don't Play Baseball any More,” he rn when he refers to the game of his. heyday. They don’t box bare-knuckle any more, either, and you see so few horses used as common carriers. I also believe the bow-and:arrow is thought to be passe as a method of warfare, but we still have wars, and

they have become no less popular with the masses.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—How does vermiculite compare with potHas vermiculite any food Valier Slow the seedlings be watered at all mes w: iquid fertilizer? Mrs, L. 2906 E. 37th St. L. Mpveland, A—Vermiculite has two big advantages over soil for seed flats. It is so loose, seedlings push through it and grow easily in it. It holds so much afr it cuts the danger of damping off to almost zero. (Soil-grown seedlings damp off quickly if soil is kept too moist.) The big dis-

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times 3

advantage of vermiculite is that it lacks plant food. Vermiculite is simply a mica like mineral _ popped by intense heat much as corn ts. popped. So seed flats filled, with vermiculite alone do need fertilizer solution. But not “at all times.” Follow directions on whatever kind you buy. For analyses differ. Whatever you do, do not overdo the fertilizing. If you don’t want to bother with this regular fertilizing, use about an inch layer of vermiculite on top of good topsoil in your seed flats. Roots of the growing plantlets will reach down into the soil for food. (Send garden questions to Marguerite Smith, Dishing §he Dirt, The

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FT. HARRISON—

AG School Marks An

FAST WORK—Stenography students are trained to take dictation in shorthand at a min. imum speed of 90 words per minute, transcribe

EDUCATION BY MAIL—Like most colleges and universities, the Adjutant . General's School maintains an extension that offers correspondence courses to all military personnel on active or inactive dut here for grading.

y. Over 6000 students send their lessons

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ELECTRONIC BRAINS—In the

_ The Indianapolis Times

MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1952

A VERY interested, but militarily naive southern

tution.

and airmen.

gentlewoman once asked an enlisted member of the Adjutant General's School how long he would be assigned to the school before graduating as a general. The young man replied, “Ma’am, the Adjutant General’'s School doesn’t train generals; it only trains the men who make them.” The school, at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, is celebrating its first anniversary in Indjana this month. It trains officers and enlisted men in Army administration. Seven academic departments offer 16 courses of instruction... ranging from the highly technical advanced officer course : (seven months) down to the two-week WAC-WAF recruit- § ing indoctrination course: : Administrative courses are designed to cover almost every phase of Army management: Classification and assignment, records’ keeping, military law, duty rosters, and the dozens of other administrative procedures which knit the Army into an efficient,

» ” BUT THAT'S not the only concern of the school. Recruiters, officer and enlisted, are trained to bring the needs of the services clearly home to the men and women of the country who make up the pool of potential soldiers

The special services department instructs officer and enlisted personnel in the Army recreation program, Crafts, service club management, soldier music and soldier shows are some of the subjects taught. The school has moved many times since its establishment in 1940. The ninth move brought the school

extended fighting insti-

hiversary

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machine accounting department students familiarize themselves with instruments such as this huge accounting machine. The machines do the combined work of 12 fast typists without error, and can solve 150 mathematical problems per minute.

COMMAND-—The advanced officers cour offers instruction for those : greater command responsibilities. The course is a 3l.week program for

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50 officers destined for

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tes usi iters and touch type at a min- 3 captain or higher, Here students work out a i a per minute. to Ft. Harrison last March from Ft. Lee, Va. tactical problem. $8 ¢ 8 $c § 5°96 9 § $5 2 72. 2 .% 9°72 7-99 35.9 77 9

EDITOR'S NOTE: How many millions have we poured into the defense of Western Europe? What have

we received out of it so far?

These are questions millions of Americans are asking themselves as Congress debates President Truman’s request for $7.9 billions in new Foreign Aid. Armed with hitherto-unpublished figures on _ country-by-country assistance, an outstanding editorreporter has traveled through Europe measuring the extent of the gains bought with America’s billions. ~~~ Here is his analysis, in-the first of five dispatches

supplied exclusively through NEA Service and The:

Indianapolis Times.

n s Ld By RICHARD HOLLANDER

PARIS, Mar. 17—The people of the United States have spent nearly $12 billion—exclusive of loans—since the end of World War II to aid the actively anti-Russian countries of Europe, and every taxpayer has the right

to ask: Is this investment paying off? Obviously, the answer isn't

as simple as the question. First off, the money we've spent has to be broken down

into three main categories. (See .

chart).

ONE: Immediate public and private relief — for DP -camps and milk stations, for emergency food and winter clothing —-to ease, temporarily, the personal tragedies of war. About $1.5 billion went for this purpose to these countries. : TWO: Long-term economic aid to rebuild the economy and Jocal industry of the various countries so that they might one day stand on their own feet, cease to be a drain on U, 8. taxpayers, and. through _do-

mestic prosperity, combat the

internal menace of communism. (This' largely came to- an end with the outbreak of the Korean war.)

. Pp v THREE: Military. aid to strengthen the countries with this aim in view: To make the anti:*Communist and anti-Rus-sian countries strong enough to discourafe Russian aggression in Europe, or, failing that, to resist it until-we can get rolling. This is what Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower continually emphasizes as “enlightened selfinterest.” : k

To acniéve this {t is sometimes considered necessary to continue economic aid to certain countries, to revitalize those local industyies that conceivably can be turned to war production, and to make it possible for the governments to finance larger. defense budgets. But, with the approach of the bright spring of another fateful year, we are not ready to face the threat of a Russian. attack. Bhis is the sober opinion of American observers and experts abroad who are prepared to face the grim facts. Most of them do face these facts. They are too close to the guns to do otherwise,

These impressions and opinfons, together with the information in the rest of this series, were gathered on. a reporting trip to 10 countries of Europe and North Africa to study the progress of rearmament of our Allies. But as 1952 moves ahead, there are certain specific indi-

‘ cators of how our money is be-

ing spent, and why, and with

‘what result toward the: ultimate

goal of collective security. If you look at some of our allies and potential allies in Europe with a cold eye you find a conglomeration of what a

- wry post-World War I humorist . a - !

ta. b. *

On-the-Spot Analysis Shows the Present Score

ENGLAND

OUTRIGHT GRANTS : (Excluding. relief) .....$12 Billion

"RELIEF ........0.s0...$15 Billion

FRANCE

RICHARD HOLLANDER is managing editor of the Washington Dally News and a lecturer on psychological warfare at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. : He hiis traveled extensively in Europe and Africa since World War II. He served four years overseas during the war in England, North Africa and on the European Continent, chiefly in the psy-

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called “small busted nations. To which the unsympathetic would add “disgruntled, selfish and disagreeable.”

a ou on s THERE'S France, for _instance.

Unstable politically, she is harboring millions of Communist sympathizers: — and

fighting every step of the way . against further drains on her

economy for development of such prime mutual security projects as air bases. for the American jets. There's Britain, with an economy almost on the rocks, but which could be recalled to roblist’ health if some way could be found to mine annually some 20 million more tons of the coal that lies temptingly beneath the island, >

| About- Hollander

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chological warfare division of the U. 8. Army. " To obtain this series he went to France, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Libya, Algeria, Mofocco and the United Kingdom. . But first he went to American congressional sources In Washington for the country-by-country breakdown on foreign aid in all categories, in order to measure the results of his observations abroad. Part of that problem could be solved with more mine labor. There are 2 million unemployed people in Italy, many of whom would like to go to England to work .in the mines. But the British mine labor organizations won't have it. Then there's Italy with those two million unemployed, a high birth rate, and a local problem of communism similar to France's. Those millions of Communist Party votes represent a sufficiently strong danger to make any goverment walk warily when it comes to our demands that great portions of the national budgets be earmarked for military defense. Take Yugoslavia, newest collaborator in our alliance - against Russia.

1951....8 8 Billion

TURKEY

Tito is no less a Communist dictator than when he was an honored partner behind the Iron Curtain. His country is woefully poor and only a long and expensive process of oute side investment will bring the Yugoslav economy for war-— or for peace—up to the posture ing of the Yugoslav military talk. Greece -and Turkey are small and poor and have had to start almost from scratch in become ing modern military powers, ” n

2 "NO ONE, not even Gen, Fisenhower in his North Ate lantic Treaty Organization headquarters outside Paris, could begin to read the future of all this. It adds up to play ing the odds of calculated military risks—since no one can tell what goes on in Stale in’'s mind—and at the same time assisting the economy of the various countries so that in the:foreseeable future they can take over their own jobs of military defense.

There is only one thing that ]

these mis-mated and often tra

ditionally antipathetic nations have in common. They form a

wall around the Iren Curtain,

NATO's aim is to reinforce that wall with steel. And, de-

spite the continuing problems

that sometimes seem almost ine superable, there is reason to hope that this without eventually destroying the American taxpayer. = NEXT: France and Italy.

be done

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