Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1952 — Page 19
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Inside I ndianapolis By Ed Sovola
ONLY ONE man’ attended Ruth Templetos's “The Professional Course of Instruction on Infant Care.” Sad commentary on men during “National Baby Week.” + The location of fhe class might have been & tactor. And yet, the ladies found their way to the infant department in the basement of the Wm. H. Block Co. It's over on the Market St. side. Coul®¥ even be under Market St. Hard to tell in the. base- | ment. 1 started right off by asking the clinical instructor of obstetrics at the Indiana University Training School for Nurs es how many babies she had. Brrrrr.
Miss Templeton informed the only man attending the class that “It isn't necessary to have a baby to be an expert.” I sat next to a stroller for an hour and kept my mouth shut. It might not be necessary but I don't see where it would hurt anything. Miss Pauline Pedersen, senior, IU Training School for Nurses, opened the discussion with a
few remarks about cating 1 for Your Baby.”
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THE ONLY question I asked Miss Pedersen was why she spelled her name with a "“d.” She said she was of Danish extraction which was a good explanation if that’s the way Danes spell Petersen. (The telephone book lists several Petersons.) : , Her information about the needs of a baby undoubtedly is correct. Miss Templeton remained silent and the ladies sat still when Miss Pedersen said “Buy only what you need for a new baby" and then recited from a catalog.
Gad, a baby needs more than diapers despite
the pictures you see on posters and in magazines. They need . . . a baby needs four or five shirts, five or six nightgowns, 12 pads (must be knee pads for crawling), two or three sweaters, three or four blankets, oil cloths, rubber sheeting, firm mattress. With three sweaters, why does a baby need four blankets? She recommended babies be dressed according to the weather and the best materials to buy are washable ones. a iy sounded reasonable, @» o«
THE LADIES were told what to bring to the hospital-—comb, toothbrush, hair brush, cosmetics, reading material, slippers, gowns, §1 for inci-
It Ha By Earl P tteon
NEW YORK, Apr. 30—As a country bumpkin, I'm sick of hearing our women bellyache about French fashions every year-—yel go on wearing the luxurious junk. So thank the Lord for Candy Jones. She's had the intestines to tell her 122 pretties up at the Conover Girls agency not to be caught in the new 1952 Paris insanities. “Unless they're being paid to model them,” she amends. “But they're not to wear them of their own free will.” Sd + 2 “WHAT'S wrong with ’em this time?” I asked Mrs. Conover. “They waste the waist.” Candy's from WilkesBarre, Scranton and Atlantic City. Those points have never been accued of being Frenchy. “We call the French styles waistwasters. . “They've something called a fascia,” said Candy. “Do you know what a fascia is?” “I know what an old fascia, is” I replied helpfully. “This fascia is very new,” Candy said. “It's a high sash to show you where the girl's waist is.” “Don’t go to the trouble. I can usually find it,” I said. 3 “Not with these” snorted Candy. “It puts a girl's waistline way up under her throat, A man won't know where to put his arm. Then there's the martingale.” “That's something horses wear.” Ld
> 2 “This martingale goes on colts, It's a belt up on the shoulder blades. With two buttons on it. A man wants to dance wth a girl, so he puts his arm around her martingale, and also around her fascia ©... “Stop, stop. I need a roadmap, »1 pleaded. “Then they covered the whole thing up with a plastron.” < Who' s plastered?” > % % “PLASTRON. That's like a dicky. It comes around the back of the neck and meets the fascia.” Candy spoke sharply also of the waist nipper “that nips in your ribcage.” “My grandmother was a doctor,” Candy said. “She saved many women's lives by making them take off their cinchers, which are like waistnippers.” “I don't wish to appear forward,” 1 sald, “but what happened to the bosom in this French
deal?”
America By Robert C. Ruark
FT. WORTH, Apr. 30—The question that you run onto everywhere you go these days is always political, and is tinged with a touch of desperation. It is as if, in this big country, we were unable to dig.up a couple of competents for the chores of running the nation. I have never seen such widéspread skepticism about the presidentiar pool. The average guy around does not figure that Bob Taft could beat a, THey seem to fancy Ike, some, but skepticism is also thare about him. The popular idea seems to he that a coalition of Taft and Gen. MacArthur will drive Gen. Eisenhower out of the picture by convention time, On the Deniocratic side, nobody seems to have a faint idea of a suitable contestant. Estes Kefauver looks likéliest, in their minds, but thay doubt he can satisfy the South sufficiently to knock off a noniination. Down here in Texas they look longingly at Dick Russell but they also figure he can’t satisfy the North. > BS %
THERE 18 an anger among the people that also is frustrating in thas they” want to throw somebody out and they don’ t know who to throw. constant comment is that it is time to change, but’ they do not seem to see Row the change cin be effected. The depth of anger at the last few years of the Truman reign is almost constant. They are angry about Korea. They-are angry about prices and taxes: They can quote you by the book on the scandals. Living costs to the scene dwarf perspective and create apathy. Away from Washington ‘the folks ‘are real fighting sore. There is one thing to consider among the voters that has not impressed me sharply before. Some of the candidates are going to have to stand up and talk on draft policy. : 5 ONE LADY I know had a son who was pretty battered up in Korea. The other day her second son was assigned to Europe. She sees it simply that it is morally wrong to send. one boy off to death and discomfort in Korea whjle sending her other boy to a pretty pleasant operation in Ger‘many, and allowing chance to decide the whole
- question of who goes where.
bitterness on Korea is Vicious. Polfbically Ti the Democrats could have made -a
ppened Last N ight
' Bankhead.”
‘nitrogen in the manure?
Men Cool to Study On Infant Care dentals. I've heard people taik aboutseheck books but Miss Pedersen failed to mention them.
It was news to hear that most babies are slightly cross-eyed when they're born and in a
majority “of cases the eyes are blue. There cer-
tainly have been some changes with my eyeballs,
- First they were blue, then brown and now red.
Oh, had a black one once. Miss Templeton demonstrated the sponge bath with a rubber baby. She said she prefers to work with live babies as she does ‘at the hospital. There were no babies in We audience to speak of. >
THE SPONGE bath is actually a washcloth bath. Miss Templeton did not use a sponge. This lick-and-a-promise technique is used until a baby is six weeks old. After that you're supposed to use a bathinette because the manufacturers would soon have surplus stocks if you didn't. Every mother should have a bath tray for the baby which has talcum, cotton, rubbing alcohol, sterile gauze, Q tips, safety pins, scissors, glass jars and a good castile soap, unscented. Don’t ask me why but you're not supposed to oil a child's scalp, use soap on his face, drop him. The longer you keep soap off his face, the better the complexion is. Of course, after he's up and around and starts dating and things, soap is necessary. A damp, wet cloth will do the trick during the early months. Miss Templeton apologized for the rubber baby midway through the demonstration. She said live babies are wiggly and mothers must always keep one hand on them, especially when they're being moved. . The “football hold” is exactly what it sounds like. The baby is tucked under one arm leaving the mother free to work with the other. Works well with a rubber baby. * » WATER SHOULD be about 80 degrees, A good sponge bath takes 20 minutes while a pathinette scrub takes 10. A baby is scrubbed and dunked in a bathinette, Much faster than working with a sponge . . . a washcloth.
Pretty interesting stuff if you have the time.
I imagine if you're a mother it would be even more interesting. Miss Templeton and Miss Pedersen will be at the same washstand until Friday. . That rubber baby is going to be the cleanest rubber baby Block's has, The lecture starts at 1:30 every afternoon. Eat a light lunch if you plan to attend. It's warm in the basement and you aaaaaaaaahhhh , , , excuse me.
French Fashions Cause a Revolt
“Pooh,” poohed Candy. “The French don't have any chest to worry about.” “Listen,” I said, “I thought you model agencies didn’t care for curvy gals anyway. ”
~ “You're talking about other figencles. The high
fashion ideas is changing a little anyway. The flat-chested, frustrated old biddies who used to be fashion editors were responsible, but there’s’a new school now. They wanted girls with blank looks who had their mouths open and looked like fish. “You know what the Princeton boys call them?" said Candy. “Adenoid Annies.” “And do you know what we call this new ‘French dressing’? Very simple, ‘French frights.’”
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THE MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Gypsy Rose
Lee's husband, Artist Julio de Diego, says all's well with them: “She's in Europe, I'm in America
-—~how can we fight?’ Gypsy-——who's heen away
almost a year—stays on till September. The “Heel of the Month Club” is B'way's newest award group. Any nominations? , . , John Daly, and ABC've got contract squabbles . , . A big magazine writer got clipped with a whisky glass by his lady fair in a cafe , , , Jean Seville was spotlighted on “Spotlite, N.Y.” ‘The Sheldon (21 Club) Tannens are expecting « « « Sylvia Ashley went to the Palace in black glasses and somebody piped, ‘Look, Tallulah
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EARL'S PEARLS . , . Russia, figures Guy Lebow, is going from .Red to Worse. oo oY,
MRS. JOSE FERRER (Phyllis Hill), out of “The Shrike” due to an appendicitis operation, returns shortly . . . Faye Emerson got $125,000 and an offer of a special good-will job from her sponsors when she left the TV show , . . D. A, McDonald's next blast will be at the N, Y, abortion racket. Paulette Goddard helped Producer Cy Howard talent-scout comedienne Kay Ballard at the Blue Angel her first night back from Europe . . . Blond Jerri Bfanchard signed to play a Mae West-Tex Guinan role in Arthur Klein's show, “Look Ahead” . . . Sizzling platter at the Embers: Nina Foch and Roger Dann. * %
BING CROSBY wrote Phil (“Top Banans™) Silvers he would visit him on hjs N. ¥. trip. “You won the Antoinette Perry Award and it'll be very good for me to be seen with you,” Bing said . . . Betty Hutton was at the Copa with the Abe Lastfogels, hearing Johnnie Ray. Two tables away sat her ex-husband, Chicago's Ted Briskin, stag. . WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The latest short order on Bway is, ‘Gimme a hamburger and onions, and a chlorophyll tablet.”—Julian N. Jablin. MANY BLONDES DON'T LIKE baseball, observes Nat King Cole, but spend plenty of time in the bleachers , , , That's Earl, brother.
+ All They Know Is They Want a Change
worse mistake than the treatment of the whole Korean business, from impetuous entry to the dilatory prosecution and the dragged-out truce, There has never been much broad sympathy for our intervention there, because the home folks figure that nobody worries about Koreans, North or South, no matter what the long-term implications were. And, they say, if there was an original point, we have loused it up by the part-time way we fought it, It seems to me there is a broad impatience with the way we have heen running the nation, and attempting to run the world and an acuteBees. of critical perception of our.big affairs, t is. odd that ip the spring not one mention has,been made to me of baseball and maybe the politicians better keep that in mind as time goes by. They are up for inspection by a lot of people who took everything for granted until now,
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—We want to raise some vegetables this year. Our soil. is Irvington clay. I think it's probably subsoil from basement excavation. It's very hard. We put quite a lot of sheep manure on it and peat moss. Do you think we should put some chemical fertilizer on to balance” the Do you think we can raise vegetables? Anna Rice, 3617 Spann Ave, A—Yes, to your questions, if you want to go to the necessary trouble. A soil test would be a good way to start, (Free at county agent's office, 902 N. Meridian.) Use a complete chemical ferti-
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column : in The Sunday Times
lizer under rows. . Then mulch, and mulch again. For your biggest problem is to. get enough soil conditioning material onto your garden. That's a lot to do in one year. So concentrate any compost or rotted manure or good topsoil you can get, in vegetable rows or transplant holes. As soon as plants are big enough to mulch easily, cover the ‘ground between rows with: straw, peat or ground corncobs, Limit the size of your garden. Raiss only the easier things such as cabbage, tomatoes sweet potatoes, chard, onions (from gets), bean: This summer save every scrap of %weeds, law;
clippings and garbage to enrich that ground. °
the states is.the best diet that
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AFTER DIVORCE—WHAT? .
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1052
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By MORRIS L. ERNEST and DAVID LOTH
"HIS is the story of a divorced couple we shall call Paul and Pauline because in some ways they were so
much alike.
They made a striking: couple.
slim and dark. Both were well read, well informed and extremely articulate. They had the same taste In books and plays and politics and sports. They liked the same people and even the same dogs. But they couldn’t get along at all, Pauline had been the spoiled beautiful darling of her family ever since she could remember, She married twice, each time to industrious, capable men, before she ever met Paul. She had had a child by each of them and liked to tell people what a good mother she was. Paul had earned his way to
the senior partnership in a successful law firm, and had been through one marriage and one divorce on the way, His first wife and their child lived halfway across the country; she had remarried and Paul never saw them, Perhaps the couple will be easier to understand if we print their narrative in dialog style with alternate paragraphs from each of their letters.
« PAULINE --I think my
friends are sorry for me, but
I'm sorry for Paul. He is sick
emotionally, you know, and I understand these things, I've had experience. Both of my former husbands were rather weak creatures: I suppose my maternal instinct attracted me to them.
But I had to have more thsn just that, Of course my children were my real life for years, It was such a responsibility bringing them up to a realization of their position. I
Both were tall and
Morris Ernsts is the well known New York lawyer who has handled many - divorce cases, David’ Loth is a former newspaper editor. and hjographer. d Here the authors discuss problems arising for most couples after divorce, This is the third of a series from their book, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, just published by Harper & Brothers,
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think I've heen a good mother; my children have suffered not at all.
PAUL — I'd heard all about Pauline’s previous marriages. I'd known one of the husbands. Here, I told myself, is a woman who never had a real man to dominate her, I felt pretty sure I was the man for the job. 1 did it, too. But the trouble was that she didn’t really want a man at all. What she wanted was the image of a man to reflect for her how wonderful she was. She wanted something that looked and acted and talked
like a man but would melt when she came in the room or opened her mouth.
PAULINE—Of course Paul was crazy about me, and in his heart he still is, But I am afraid that deep down there was weakness there, too, A woman can do only so, much for a man, and then she has to give up. ; Not that I was r blunt or brutal with Pa 1 made a home for him that was so per-
WHEN YOU'RE 65~—
Our Longer Life Span Posts A
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NEW YORK, Apr. 30 — You will live longer and the autumn of your years will be spiced with spring if a young but powerful organization here gets what it’s fighting for. On the theory that time Is what old folks have the least of, the National Committee on the Aging is trying to move fast to ease the already serious plight of the nation’s older people before the situation gets out of hand, The cOmmittee was formed a year and a half ago by sociolo-
gists and other specialists who
took a long look at the figures on old folks and decided something must be done, quick. Here are some of the figures. A hundred years ago only about one person in 40 was 65
-. years old or more. Today it's
one out of 13, for a total 65-ahd-over population of 12 million. By 1980, say the experts, one out of seven people will he 85 or over. At that time—only 28 years from now--—-the number of old people will be 24 million, or double what it is now, But while their number will have increased 100 per cent, the rest of the population will show only a 20 per cent gain,
THE seriousness of the situation is voiced by Theodore Klumpp, president of a New York chemical company, who presided recently at a commit-tee-sponsored conference of interested offictals from industry, medicine, labor and education. He says it's a “crisis.” From the standpoint of money alone, care of the aged is a problem of concern to us all. The New York State Joint
"About our compulsory re-
tirement age, Joe. I've been thinking it over the last few years, and—waell—forget it."
Legislative Committee on Problems of the Aging reports that “almost $5 billion a year” is spent in the U, 8. on the three major forms of economic protection in old age—old age assistance, old age and survivors insurance and private pension systems, That cost, which would logically increase as the number of old people grows, iz heing horne largely by,the middleage group. The latter are already hard-pressed, not only in care of the aged, but in sup-
fect that everybody who came -to it exclaimed over it, No one
could ever say that Paul had a wife who let him down.
PAULI was proud of her, too, She was a wonderful
clothes horse — still is, She's
got sparkle and life—on the surface, But as the years rolled on I got the idea she was dull and cloudy inside. 1 couldn't stand being alone with her; and she upset me whenever we were in the company of other people, even old friends.
the np go on, Train long in school than they used to. What has brought about this new and pressing problem of the aged? Briefly, it's that people are just living longer these days, thanks largely to advances in medicine. For instance, the average man lived
° to be 48 years old in 1900. To-
day, he lives to be 686. ” ~ ”
AS THE NATIONAL Committee on the Aging sees if, the main troubles in old age are economie insecurity, loneliness’ and a feeling of no longer being useful. Involved in the latter are problems of heaith,
One of the committee's chief targets is the compulsory retirement at 65. The committee argues that the elderly usually retire hecause they are forced to, not because they want to. Participants in a recent con ference sponsored by the committee found this basis for retirement “socially wasteful.” Older persons “willing and able to meet job requirements could make a positive contribution to
the national economy,” they concluded. A union representative pre-
dicted that labor will soon try to get laws passed tn compel new industries to employ a certain number of older workers. ~ » ” HE WARNED that the cost of maintaining an increasingly
larger population of old people could well become prohibitive.
Such a population could develop -
a soclal-pplitical force that would “threaten the existing structure of the community,” he said. With big hopes but a small bank account, the committee
Basic Army Chow In Korea Close
By DOUGLAS LARSEN Times Special Writer PUSAN, Korea, Apr. 30 -—- Every day, sometime in the middle of the afternoon after he has carefully checked his daily shipping and stock conitrol reports, Capt. Jacob Born stein of New York decides just what all U, 8. soldiers in Korea will eat several days hence.
A former baker, the plump, genial Capt. Bornstein makes up the "Army menu for the entire Korean theater. Except for the men at the front who get extra. allotments of fresh eggs, fruits, vegetables and meat flown in to them, every man from..private to general gets exactly the same basic chow, “Steak is my favorite, and if it were possible I'd put it on the menu at least four times a -week,” Capt. Bornstein says. “However,” he adds, “the menu we are now giving the men in {orea is one that no Army foo ‘xpert ever thought possible h ore the fighting here.” - He explains: “What we feed the menu
money can buy. In a foreign theater our goal is to get as close to the state-side menu as possible. The limitat'on, however, outside ‘the U, 8, amount of perishables we can get. We are getting plenty here, about one-third of all of the food. 2 enough to make ours the/closest thing to the UU. 8 menu ever achieved for an American Army outside the zone of the interior.” » ” ” THE MEN at the front, ‘every other place back up this.claim. And’ there is unanimous opinion among the men that in the way of pers sonal needs-—clothing, tobacco, shaving gear and soap — they
and
are also the best equipped Army
in history. . An inspection of the huge crowded Quartermaster Corps section of the bustling Pusan "waterfront reveals the amazing
story of just why Unifed Na-
tions troops are faring so well if ‘Korea this winter, newly completed cold storage
is the
in Korea,
Glant,
warehouses dally recefle the hundreds of tons of perishables brought in by ship from Japan, and In some cases straight from the U. 8 » ~ »
THUS, trains leave Pusan for
* some distribution point farther
north every few hours loaded with the fruit, meat, potatoes, flour, butter, salad dressing and even a proportionate amount of catsup, mustard, salt and pepper. It's all done neatly and efficiently according to a working formula. x
The goal is to keep at least a 30-day supply of food ahead at all times in the Pusan warehouses. Of course, this isn't possible on some perishable
«items, but if something should
close up the docks here permanently for any period of time, the troops would be assured of at least a month's supply of food while other points of supply could be created. On Semis and other equipment for the oops. an attempt is
PAULINE -- Divorce ‘vas.
harder for me than him because he always had his office to go to, but I know my duties and 1 was quite willing to continue being a good wife to him, When Paul said he wanted to leave me, I was perfectly calm and sensible. 1 told him he must do what he thought best for
himself and not think about what might happen to me.
PAUL -- Has our divorce worked? It certainly hasn't settled anything for meé and 1
doubt if it has for her. I'm ne more comfortable alone, and I Just shy off from other gals at the last minute,
Sometimes I run into Pauline at parties—I wouldn't try to avold her—and it sort of rubs salt in my wounds. I guess I'll just have to get ‘used to the ides that I cai’t be happy with her or without her.
PAULINE~I cut short my trip to Europe to get back in case he needed me. I still think that he does need me and I am sure he is desperately unhappy because he decided on the divorce,
I see a great man but. whether I could y posi friends or not 1 cannot say, They all respect me, and not Just because I am rich, I think they must recognize character,
‘don't you?
On the face of it, neither
marriage nor divorce could do very much for either Paul or
Pauline,
They cannot derive from any relationship the compan-
churches and housing co-opera-tives interested
ar)
"Remember the good old days back at the office?
now is branching out in all directions while serving as a clearing house for hundreds of ideas on problems of the aging. At the suggestion of the Federal Security Agency, it is guiding the various states in setting up ‘minimum standards for all kinds of housing for the aged, such as old folks homes and nursing homes, $
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AN AMENDMENT to the Social Security Act provides that by July 1, 1953, all states must have machinery « for setting such housing standards, if they are to receive federal reimburse-
care of the aged for eventual distribution tq interested organizations and agencies, xs “It has already been learned, for instance,” says a commits tee official, “that sich time: honored oldsters’ menus as bread and butter, applesaucs
protein diet—body-building and disease-protecting stuff.” The committee has a long row to hoe and a lot of misimpressions about the aged to correct, but it has made a healthy start. Says Miss Ollie A. Randall, vice chairman of the commits tee and its former acting chairman: “The gap between what is required to make life even tol. erable for many old people, and what is specifically available for them now, is’ still far too great to permit any resting on imaginary laurels,”
To U. S. Quality
made to maintain a 60-day backlog. » ~ ~ ACCORDING to Lt, Col Shelby 1. Gillette, the QM officer in charge of the dock operation, there are 44,000 separate quartermaster items In what they call the II and IV categories, other than food and everything from razor blades to tent poles. As Col. Gillette puts
it, “everything to satisfy the
needs of the individual.”
Newest major quartermaster item to be arriving for delivery
to the front is an improved type ° of tent. It is packed in prefab--
ricated wooden sections and insulted with spun glass.
As part of the business of.
fighting a war the Afferican Army way, there are 2000 tons of office supplies moving through every couple of months. Everything from paper clips to huge filing cabinets are included in the huge area where these items are stocked. a
” » ” COL. GILLETTE, says the
problem’ of stealing—pliferage
in Army talk—has been espes cially serious for the QM In Pusan. And it's understandable, he says, with hundreds of tons of everything the Koreans need so desperately, stored In a crowded area where the need is worst. He operates on the theory that the troops need it more, however, and maintains a heavy guard at all times. It also forces extremely careful super vision of the Korean‘ workers ho/ help handle the supplies, or some time, Col. Gillette explains, the most serious problam wipe stealing of » from t flour sacks. string could be secreted easily and made excellent wicks for the Korean lamps, Un
flour. ; Another knotty proble which has been in neatly by the QM is the i differant kinds of van varied tastes k. TE te. 2