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SOUND ean, be scrambled ints colors of the

‘rainbow by sending it through an instrument

developed by Maico of Indiana called a “ChromaHzer.” You should “see” a wolf whistle, Real pretty. Bo ¢ i 3 © I add the latter observation hurriedly because the folks at Maico, distributors of medical acoustics in--struments, frown when : ,ireat their new baby frivolously. They have high hopes of aiding persons, especially children, with speech impediments. The local Maico manager,

G. M. Burrill, insists on a serious level of operation even when Kan Griffin, is playing “Indian Love Call’ 'on the organ while the Chromalizer changes sound i to color. Mr. Burrill played the hy récord to show thé many pure musical tones on the viewing portion of the Chromalizer. ‘EP IT IS a speech analyzer which uses colors to depiet the variousssound frequencies that make “p the spoken word. If a child has difficulty in pronouncing 8 or other consonants, Mr, Burrill could, as he did recently at an Indiana University speech clinic, place the child in front of the in-

strument and have it say a few julcy consonants

in a microphone. . - : Then. Mr. Burrill would say the words correctly, It is up to the child to match the correct

color and remember the position of the mouths

when the color appears. Motivation and ace complishment have a great affinity for each- other in speech correction. Children with hearing defects are the main targets and even at the present stage of development, the Indianapolis Speech and Hearing Center Inc, is highly interestéd in the potential, cn MY ¢ WITHOUT SOUND, the Chromalizer appears like a box with an opaque glass front, Grunt into the microphone and a panel of green will show up. Besides green, there are panels of blue, pink, red and orange. : x Mr. Burrill explained that & man of Charles Laughton’s ability in enunciating would produce clear, bright panels. = The better the speech, the better the color. Garble speech, produce guttural sounds, and you have a muddy mixture.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Apr. 2—It's happening to all you fathers everywhere just now, so it happened .to me-—my son was in a school play. “School play,” 1 said. How brutal of me, It was “Pirates of Penzance” —and my boy Slugger played a daughtér—he was a chorus girl, “They had some trouble with Slugger when they tried to put lipstick on him,” Comedian Bert Lahr's son, Johnny, reported later. Johnny Lahr was

and the Gorgeous Mother-in-Law saw no other actors, of course, Only Slugger’ in his flowered yellow calico dress and yellow bonnet. Slugger completed this feminine disguise nicely with tennis shoes. u ot " : "Twas Mommy h her own kitchen-cal- Slugger loused hands who made the dress. Mommy is very clever with the sewing machine, Mommy says. Oh, 'twas a big night at the Riverdale Country School, where many famous names are heard. Daddy was very happy/when he saw big movie mogul David O. Selznick in the lobby. “Did you come here to sign up my bo, maybe?” Daddy asked Mr, Selznick hopefully. Mr. 8. coughed nérvously. There was a beautiful lady at his side—Mrs. Selznick, known professionally as Jennifer Jones.

_ One of her-sons, a sixth grader, played a pirate, Her fifth grade son played a policeman. dd

DADDY HADN'T noticed any other sons. Just his own. Daddy especially noticed Sluggy’s athletic singing. , “He wanted everybody to hear him,” Mr. Selznick mentioned... = I . True. Sluggy sang as fervently as an Atlantic City diamond auctioneer. 10 minutes before clgsing time. Daddy met novelist Laura Hobson and other famous people in the lobby, also, and browbeat them into saying that Sluggy was a show-stopper. “Did you notice,” Daddy asked, daring them to say they hadn’t, “that Sluggy was one of the ‘girls on the end’ and that in the finale, Slug was

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Apr. 2—The only way I can fig-

ure it is the little man was a touch smarter and a wee bit less vain than we had him pegged for.

That, or just plain tired of trying to live in a.

world that kept refusing steadfastly to see it his way. It is very probable that Harry will never admit even to himself all the salient factors involved in his refusal to run again, What I think is that he recognized a broad antipathy to himself as Hafry the Man, symbol of a party that has wasted tod much money, made too many ‘mistakes, and become finally infested with the vermin of thievery and stupidity. I believe Mr. Truman knew he could win the last time, I believe with equal vehemence that he knows he couldn't win this time, if they ran Howdy Doody against him. Despite his vanity, despite the soft words his cronies and the snuggle-bugs caressed him with, Mr, Truman the politician was too basicily shrewd to fall on his fanny for all to applaud. This way he has an out, It can always be the other feller's fault if the Democratic Party topples. . S$ JN. MY LIFETIME I have met a lot of Tiumans. Being steeped in mediocrity, they have small tolarance for criticism and at the last they lose nearly all power to assay themselves for good and bad, competence and incompetence. Mr. Truman's book, recently released, was a powerful sermon in self-approval by-a man who could not brook the suggestion that he mightn't be 100 per cent right. 8 Mr, Truman's sensitivity to criticism, especially at the hands of the preas, has developed.from a mild irritation at first to a perforated ulcer af the last. It has become literally pathologic. Tha intemperance of his hatred for criticism hus reached a state of obsession which would frighi+n a psychiatrist. It even creeps into the consciousness of his associates. One of 'em spent an evening recently telling me that the boss never reaa the bulk of the blasts, and then devoted an hour to the recitation of the commas, articles and cons junctions of some obscure condemnatory piece I had written and almost forgotten, ‘ > bw : MY BET is that Harty Truman, the unsuccessful businessman, and the accidental success as a politician from a late-blooming beginning, suadenly ‘cannot tolerate the idea of another four years of critical punishmeént, Mr, Trumans memoirs show that he identifies himself with the big men of history. If he has eyes to see today he watches himself losing largeness asx he progresses—even to a possible point of impeachment if his judgment continues to falter and hs friends keep on betraying him.

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Pid You Ever See + A Well Whistle?

For the child with a hearing defeet, Malco has powerful earphones. You would have to be stone deal not to hear instruction. The basi¢ speech range is between 1000 and 3000 frequency. All speech patterns fall between the frequency of 125 to 12,000. You're in the majority if you operate between 1000 and 4000,

Mr. Burrill demonstrated a good 8 on the

—Chromatizer— It—hit 4000-and the red panel-ap—

peared. I asked how Actor Jimmy Stewart's voice would look on the Chromalizer and the question made Mr. Burrill shudder. © “Let's not get into politics” said the color scrambler, “hut Roosevelt would make the instrument light up as pretty as a Christmas tree, Jimmy Stewart, rough.” > * ¢ 4 e THE IDFA is to take a child who has difficulty with 8's and Z's, for example, There are a great many difficult combinations such as T and D, L and Z, F and TH. Well with concentrated effort, Mr, Burrill says the § difficulty could he cleared up in a few sessions, proper clarity of color appears, on to the next problem. Stuttering often isn’t 1foticeable to the stutterer. It shows up vividly on the screen of the Chromalizer. I tried a sentence and stuck in several uh, uh’s, and it came out like a rallroad crossing flasher, It's a challenge to speak easily, clearly while viewing the array of colors. Mr. Burrill played a record of “Perpetual Motion,” in which string instruments aré predominant. Evén without the knowledge of musical notes, I was able to pick out key and recurring sounds.and their counterpart colors. . ¢& ¢ SPEECH PROBLEMS to the people who have them are not funny. And I guess Mr. Burrill had a perfect right to look askance at my wolf whistle and quick attempts at dialect, He sat still for a few raucous notes of singing. too. Seeing mv voice, I believe, i$ as had as hearing it. The session came to an end when I suggested getting Johnny Rav’s record of “Cry.” “We want to get the Chromalizer on the market.” quipped Mr. Burrjll. “We don't think we'ré all wet and there is no use in deliberately soaking the works.” 7 Anyway, a wolf whistle ix a brilliant orange, changes to red and finally melts into pink." Isn't science wonderful? ”

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For ‘Daddy knows plenty about choruses, And he knows that “the prettiest girl” always gels that center position, 3 “So you were put here,” Daddy told Sluggy— proud that Sluggy was so talented "because you were better than the others.” “Nope. It's not so,” Sluggy said. “We raced to see who got there first, and I beat.” I sadly fear Slugger hasn't a future as a chorus girl after all, z * & » THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... Frank Sinatra was magnificent when Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson and other celebrities watched him open at the Paramount, Producer Julie Styne reached for a handkerchief when he sang “Birth of the Blues.” Frankie then called his kids, and Tina, 3, frankly asked, “How was huciness, Daddy?” He could honestly answer, “Swell.” . Josephine Baker’)l comeback at a major Hollywood cafe in May. ., .. The King Committee will fold up. . . . Guy Lombardo takes Jack Benny's CBS summer spot. Lana Turner, who'd prefer a million from

Bob Topping, can maybe get $75,000 . . . Joyce -

Mathews and a new beau were at Sardi's ... A taxi strike is again a N. Y. threat. Midwest politicians who dislike Gov. Dewey's hold on Gen. Ike will push for Gen. MacArthur for Prez if Taft is counted out. > BH & TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: B'way wit Solly Violinsky was visited in a hospital by a friend who said, “I'll have the Friars send you some flowers.” Replied Solly: “Have 'éem send me a bouquet of money.” Barbara Nichols, busty heauty in “Pal Joey,” will get a big chance—to play the lead in “Gentlemen Prefer Blonds” on the road . . . Gentleman Georgie Solotaire’s description of an old chick: “She looks like frayeds<curtains.” >. & THE NEXT report on cancer research by Dr, C. P. Rhoads of Sloan-Kettering Institute will be devoted almost entirely to the important and encouraging work on viruses hy Dr. Alice Moore (“a lady scientist who doesn’t look like one”), She told science writers how one Russian ens cephalitis virus didn’t help rats. “It killed the cancer, but it also killed the rat,” she said. “You can do that with a rat trap.” Sarah Vaughan got her third mink coat from her husband at a birthday party at the Birdland « « +» Peggy Fears terminated at the Torch Room + « +» The Embers, recovered from its fire, reopens ‘Apr. 10 with Joey Bushkin, .,.. That's Earl, brother,

What's Behind Harry's Decision to Step Down?

locking series of {impossibles. Taxation has reached a point of the diminishing return, Corruption in his political house has touched the stage of desperation and insolubility before the hose and the hroom, Nobody really knows what gives with the atom, for good or bad. * 4 9% SAM LUBELL, in a remarkably fine estimation of the man in a recent Saturday Evening Post piece, sharply ‘delineated the fact that Truman the man of grand decision was actually a static executive who achieved stagnation by bouncing one crisis off the other, to get nowhere with the maximum of noise and bustle, ' It has been seven years since President Roosevelt died and’ Mr. Truman took over, In that time he has resolved almost none of the problems that beset the nation. He has traded minor crises for sparring time, and the Korean imbecility is a prime example. * 4 o HE HAS BREEN President on his own. for four years and we still have no real, workable strength in defense. We have not approached a solution of our differences with the Russians. We have not settled our own economy, An honest man, himself, Mr. Truman can't or won't keep his own little circle of friends honest, Jt Harry quits it all now, he can leave the mess to others, and retire with his historical place fairly secure. I think the guy got tired of trying to cope with large affairs with small talents, and just decided to quit when he was closer to winning than he'll ever he again,

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—1I have an oleander that is growing so tall. It blooms heautifully every summer. But how can I trim it down and is thiz the time of year? Mrs. William Powell, 4403 N, Meridian St. A Spring is the time to prune your oleander. Cut back branches that have grown out of proportion. But do not prune too. heavily, Most plants pruned very héavily get upset and send out long stems and leaves at the expense of Read Marquerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times flowers (or fruit in the case of fruit trees), If you definitely prefer a smaller plant, you might start some new slips each year. They root easily. And any plant that normally grows to shrub or tree size as the oleander does iz going to keep on trying no matter how much you prune it back, You may win. Or Mother Nature may. She usually does, alas. : Send questions on gardening to Dishing the

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By MORGAN FITZ Times Special Writer

ELLENTON, 8. C,,

Apre 2—Whén Uncle Sam puts

the finger on a spot for making the world’s mightiest weapon of war, what happens to the spot? The answer comes from people here who have had

to move family, homes, jobs, and even their cemeteries to make way for H-Boom.on the Savannah -— the government's 202,000-acre hydrogen bomb plant, Their storfes are sometimes tragic, sometimes comic. Some folks are joyous with sudden new wealth, othérs have come on sudden hard times, There's greed, ambition and crime. There's a lot of what you would expect when a great new technical city—with its easy

- money, easy virtue, and thou-

sands of new workers to house and care for—is suddenly rolled out on top of a drowsy Southern farm area. * ~ Pld ONE OF the biggest headaches is housing, both for'those whose homes have been uprooted and for the thousands of workers who are pouring in. A woman in nearby Augusta, Ga.,, had a garage apartment for rent, so ghe put an ad in the ‘paper. She was aroused by a phone call at 2:30 the next morning. It was from a man who'd waited up to get the pa~ per as it came off the press. The woman said she wouldn't rent anything to anybody at 2:30 a. m., and hung up. She'd been asleep only a few hours when she began to get calls from other people who. got up early to get the papgr. = ® nn ¥

AT THE same time people began rolling up to her house in taxicabs, She rented the apartment to the first couple who afrived in person.. But. that didn’t stop the telephgne, ~ She tried keeping it off the -hook, but phone company officials explained that it threw a whole circuit out of whack, It had rung 139 times when she stopped counting. That's the way housing is _arouad- here. Prices of farm land’ and lots in and. around Aiken, 8. C,, also on the bomb plant fringe, jumped 50 tox75 per cent, Costs of three to flyebedroom houses zoomed more than 30 per cent.

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ton and the other three villages in the plant area were well paid by the government for their property, But the boomtown

. Third Message By AUSTIN PARDUE Bisbup of the Diocese of Pittsburgh AFTER years of search for a scholarly definition of the word “heart” as it iz used in the New Testament, the Book of Common Prayer and other liturgies, it appears that little material is available on the subject. Yet the word fs all - impor. tant and within its orbit ‘is contained . the answers to practically all of man’s personal and cole lective probs lems, Dr. Bure ton Scott East. on, the great Dr, Pardue New Testament scholar, once defined fit as containing “the dum total of a man's inner at-

titude toward life.” He said that it iz =something 2%in to what is popularly called the

erations of Rountrees

EDITOR'S NOTE: On Nov, 28, 1950, the first faint boom of the H-Bomb was heard in the little community of Ellenton, 8, C. In spring, 1952, the boom _ had become KEllenton's death knell—and big business in the land around it, Morgan Fitz, veteran reporter in the aren, tells the story in words and pletures exclusively for The Indianapolis Times,

price of new homes and land nearby, plus the expense of pulling up roots and putting them down elsewhere, have left some families worse off financially than they were before, “When all's told,” says Jack Seymour, of Ellenton, “I figure I'll come out about $500 in the hole.” About 80 families in Ellenton have had their houses put on wheels and moved outside the plant area. This hasn't always worked out too well. One house crashed through a bridge. Inexperienced movers damaged others. ’ . » » THE ELDERLY and the sick have sufferad particularly in the big move. A number of old peoplé have died here before their time in the past year, and neighbors say the ordeal of

pulling up stakes has been too

Dr. Fred Brinkley, an Ellenton physician for 40 years, is philosophic about the whole thing. “It's tough to have to give up your home, the land you love, and most of all your friends, But if it's best for my country, and knowing that others ~are sacrificing more, then I'm willing.” The story of what the HBoom on the Savannah has meant-—in reverse—to Ellenton ‘is the same in other South Carolina villages in the new Atomic Energy Commission plant area.

The uprooted people of Dun-

barton, Meyers Mill and Snelling—as well as from the farmlands nearby---are flooding Into towns and villages outside the vast plant site. With them have come thousands of construc

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Jackson, 8. C., for instance, previously had only 300 people, Now nobody's sure just how many people it has, but there are too many, And the nervous village fathers expect an eventual population of 10,000,

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have ground slowly in providing houging which it was known

would be needed when the §

project was first announced in November, 1950. Only in the

BOOM TOWN PATTERN created by H-bo mb, is seen on Broad St., Aug cars from every state now crowd the once leisurely Southern thor of a new trailer camp (right) near Augusta for 1000 families: of H-bomb

last few months has a start “°°

been made on traller camps and low-cost housing projects. Although rent controls have been put in effect, real estate is

overflow; business in general is booming. Statistics show a 60 to 80 per cent jump in general business receipts, railroads and airlines are weighed down under tremendously Increased - freight and passenger loads, and unemployment is at a new low of only 1.8 per cent in the area. ~ ~ ~

SATURDAY traffic in Augus-

ta, Ga. one of the nearby hoom ° .

cities, reminds you of Times Square. The police force has been considerably expanded to handle the fast-rising amount of gambling, vice, robbery, and liquor law violations. The rise in the crime rate results partly from the in. creased population and partly from the fact that some of the newcomers are merely wishful drifters, often unemployable,

time af Atomic H-bomb project.

who seem to turn up at any big boom town project. / Some of the old guard Southerners deplore fhe influx of Northerners as another Yankee invasion of their homeland. What they feel is in peril this time is their leisurely, friendly way of life, On the other hand, the Big Boom is welcomed by many of the younger people in this area of South Carolina and northern Georgia, ~ ” » THERE'S still another aspect of the situation which is causing concern. What happens when the bubble bursts? The number of workers required. to build the 250 permanent plant buildings, 66 miles of

THE DEAD MOVE, TOO, for the H-bomb project requires moving most of the 150 com. eteries in the area. Here the Rountree family visits its plot in Dunbarten, S. C., where four gen. have lived, Nearly 4500 graves will be relocated by the Atemie

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are, and plant workers,

railroads and 105 miles of roads, will hit a peak of about 45,000 this September. Then the hordes of tin-hatted construction gangs will mount their trailers and battered autos and move on. After con struction is completed some. time in 1955, a. regular pla force of only about 900 wil be : required. 53 ~ And Ellenton's Jack Seymour voices the concern of many when he says: Bo “I wouldn't fuss too much if I could be sure in my own mind that they wouldn't close up th whole H-bomb plant after’ Ir

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Korean War's over. de that, there are sure going to be a lot of hot folks in this country.”

EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is a Lenten and Easter appeal, directed to men and women everywhere to capture the spirit of Lent and carry It with them all the year. Dr, Pardue ix one of America’s leading Fpiseopal clergymen. Today's message is the third from his book, CREATE AND MAKE NEW, just published by Harper & Brothers as their “Book for Lent” subcotiscious mind, finitely larger scope. He inferred that at «he core of the heart is the Spark of God that lives in every man

yet of ‘ine

“the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” However, the bulk of this entity of. power and mystery is that part of a man which containe hi= real self

his fears, hates, resentments, jealousies and the

virtues. In other words, the heart signifies the real mdn as

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he is, not the man as he would try to make himself and others think he is, . x ua 4 TO SHOW how deeply embedded in Christianity, Protestant and Roman Catholic, is the constant use of the word “heart,” I have collected a few brief quotations from, various lHturgical forms. From “The Book of Common Worship” of the Congregational Church: I.et us pray for. a deeper personal faith in God and Christ, that shall grip our own hearts, vitalize the church, and make convincing appeal to the world, From “The Book of Common Worship” of the Preshyterian Church: And while we pray for the outward growth of Thy kingdom In the world, we pray also for its inward growth in hearts of men. . From “The Book of Worship” of the Methodist Church: We beseech thee to hear us,

A Boy at Calvary

Thet Sakron’s parents would Jet him go to Jerusalem to see the outlaw Barabbos was unthinkable. - Still he could ask. That night the boy did: ‘Father, | wish te go to Jerusalem.’ ‘You mean a Passover pil: grimdge?’ Yes, yes, of course,’ answered Sakrom . quickly.

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In high holiday spirits, Sakron and three friends set out for the golden capital. Entering Beth-

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O Lord, that thou wouldest stir up the hearts of thy faithful people to greater ohedience, and’ unite thy church te face the world’s great need, From “The Ideal Daily Missal” of the Roman Catholic Church: 0, God, unto whom every heart lies open, and every wish speaketh, and from whom no secret 1s hidden, cleanse the thoughts of our hearts, by the impouring of the Holy Ghost, From “The Book of Common Prayer”: Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires know, and from whom no secrets are hid; cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of Thy Holy Spirit, ... : . Nn THE: heart is powerful, What the heart really believes will always tend to come true. It

has unlimited drive. Destruetive attitudes, fears, and hatreds, will tend to become

By Jay Heavilii and Walt Scott

manifest both in one's physical body and in one's human relationships. The development of psychosomatic medicine makes this clear, ; Psychosomatic illnesses are those which, though seemingly of physical origin, are actually caused hy sins of the spirit which lurk in the heart, or in that portion of it which we generally know as . the sub “A

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At nearly every medical meéts Ing illnesses are reported whose origins prove to be mental, As a rule they originate in the spiritual sins that are basically contrary to the command of Jesus, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all. thy mind, this ix the first and great commandment and the second Is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (Copyright, 1052, by Harper & Brothersd NEXT: The Heart Can Cone trol the Mind.

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