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WHO HAS lived in the city more than six years before visiting the President Harrison Memorial Home, 1230 N. Delaware 8t.? Do I have arrecord? . A twinge of shame tickled the spine at the front door. Excuses didn’t help any. The simple fact, and it stood out like the sign on the side of the door, was that a person just doesn’t take the time to see the “interesting points” wher® he lives. Leave those for the tourists. x Frankly, I didn’t know what to expect in the home of the 23d President of the United States. In six years of paddling around the city, not one person has ever mentioned the home or recom-

Visit ‘Memorial— Live and Learn

~~ The Indianapolis Times

mended a visit. For .all I knew, the place could

be haunted. 5 Mrs. Ruth Woodworth, curator, 6pened the door. It was bolted on the inside. In order to get tn you have to ring the doorbell as a small sign directs. Over the button is another card with & “Push Hard” on Rt Bool way to control traffic. LJ

THE TWINGE of shame turned into a tremor when I looked at the list of guests from the previous day. Three Indiana visitors came from Leb! anon, Richmond, Evansville. . Couples from West Virginia, Early, la., Chilfren, Texas, Kansas City, Mo., signed the guest’ Three visitors from our own city completed the day's business. The charge is 30c for adults and 10c for children. The hours are from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. The yearly take wouldn't be enough to pay a doorman. Mrs. Woodworth immediately gave you the Impression that sh® was glad you came and there were many things of interest to be seen. We stepped into the large front hall. It was like being on a movie set after the director says “Quiet.” The year could have been 1800. Mrs. Woodworth explained the history of the home and family furnishings as if your ears were transmitting to the world. She is no ordinary guide. She loves her work and association with the past, much of which she hunted ddwn. * ¢ > @ : ; IN THE FRONT hall is a portrait of Caroline Scott Harrison, the First Lady who died in the White House Oct. 25, 1892. The First Lady who was largely responsible for getting Americans into the habit of rising when the National Anthem was played. You look at an old cherry grandfather clock which was built about 1800 and which keeps better time than the watch you have on your wrist. ..Besides that, the clock™“has a moon dial and date dial that work. An antique lover would turn handsprings at the original finish of the wood. A Texas steer horn chair and a fire hose nozzle lamp, gifts.to President Harrison, are also in the front hall. A graceful half spiral staircase presents a challenge to any bona fide bannister slider. Mrs. Woodworth told a story about almost

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson NEW YORK, May 1-—T'll probably be all right in a couple of days, .

By then I should be over one of the greatest parties in years—a steak-and-champagne affair given for Ethel Merman by John Bruno of the Pen & Pencil. y It probably cost $5000. © 4d "Twas for between 200 and = J 300. The champagne (Bollinger '43) was served from jeroboams, which are approximately gallons. Of course you didn’t have te drink a gallon if you didn’t want to, but a lot of people didn't want to make the host feel bad. Everybody sang-—espe-cially husky-voiced Tallulah Bankhead. « When she finished “Bye, Bye, Blackbird,” Peter Lind Hayes said: “That fellah sure had a great voice.” Noel Coward sang, “T'll See You Again”’—but forgot some of the lyrics, Mary Healy prompted him. People laughed about his forgetting the song ... since he wrote it. - Florence Chadwick, the channel champ, didn’t know what to do when she got up, so somebody ‘shouted: “Swim something.” Dagmar did her specialty—taking a bow. After Shirley Booth, Russel Nype, Ann Jeffreys, Ray Middleton and Denise Darcel had sung, came Fritzi Scheff, thrilling us all. with “Kiss Me Again.” After the yelling had sort of died down, Fritzi modestly said: “When you're 50 years fn show business, you ought to be able to do something.” Around 4:30 a. m.—when some old fogies had gone home—Tallulah Bankhead brought in Johnnie Ray.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., May 1-—Skipped over here to sit up with a sick friend, and bumped into the Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research, which seems to me to present the best argument against socialized medicine I have yet encountered. ele The : Lovelace clinic does not_ offer free hair pieces or gratis teeth, but it does spend a lot of time diagnosing people for odd ailments, and in -re- ° search in the most advanced techniques of curing such things as cancer, heart dis eases and lung troubles. From = a standpoint of patients, it collets + modestly, - according to the individual ability to pay. Its physicians are some: 30 men who are content to re- i ceive a slight income for the privilege of practicing medicine full time with the best modern equipment. Most of the men could command five times their income outside. It is a purely private foundation, in that the government gives it no grant, and its income derives from personal gifts and from whatever the patients may pay. It is patterned on the Mayo Clinie, and may; I believe, soon be equally famous —if only for its advanced wotk on heart, cancer

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ITS OVER-ALL investment so far is just a million-and-a-half. It works closely witha brandnew hospital, which opened formally yesterday. This hospital is the Bataan Memorial Hospital, built . on grounds donated by" Dr. William Lovelace. It is as entirely functional and modern as any building in the land, and it was constructed at a cost of $14,000 a room. ; Funds for the project were collected privately by thé Methodists. Just across from it sits the fine new Veterans’ Hospital, which was paid for with government funds. The cost was $34,000 a room. ‘That argues a difference of $20,000 a room between private spending and government spending. I think the whole story of socialized medicine might rest on tat one statistic. ) o> ; : ONE _OF THE co-founders of the. Lovelace

Miss Merman

Foundation is W. Randolph Lovelace II, nephew

and associate of the man who it. Randy Lovelace is a surgeon with long experience at the

Mayo Clinic, and one of the few nonfliers who the Distinguished Flying Cross. He

ever earned i got this in 1943 for jumping in a parachute from

40,000

air where there literally is no air.

Something of Dr. Lovelace's selfless offer of his life for scientific experimentation is manifested * in the !

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feet up in the stratosphere,” and nearly freezing off a-hand in the process. The guinea-pig p job was part of an investigation-of the upper

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into a tremor . ..

every piece of furniture, bric-a-brac,” personal effect .in the home. type-of-dispenser with a spigot was presented to President Harrison by the Republican Women’s

A fancy ice water pitcher-

Club of Glenwood, Iowa, in 1888. That was dec-

ades before the gals were allowed to vote. Brings

to mind the deep freezers of today. Nothing new under thé political hat. SS , IN THE Gown Room were the silk and satin creations worn by Mrs. Harrison and her daughter, Mrs. Robert McKee, at the inauguration and state functions. For being packed in tobacco leaves for 50 years, the gowns show little deterioration. . The Master Bedroom has the massive handcarved bed in which Benjamin Harrison died. There is also a cradle which belonged to’ William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States and grandfather of the 23d President. All the intimate history which Mrs. Wood‘worth spins. history that goes back to the first Benjamin Harrison and the year 1633, is stag- . gering. : You stand in, awe in front of a picture of John Scott Harrison, “the son of one President and the father of another.” The front parlor, the back parlor and the library complete the tour. Sincerely you admit to Mrs. Woodworth that you're surprised how interesting the visit was. “We hear that statement often and we like . it.” laughed Mrs. Woodworth. “I have a lady in town who recently made her 15th visit.” + 1 don’t know about 15 trips, but another one soon will be taken. Live and learn.

. Champagne Flows At $5000 Party

The party started all over again. They had a jam session. > 4 DARNED IF I DIDN'T enjoy Johnnie's singing. Looking lean and beardless and openthroated as he sang, with His eyes closed and gripping his fists, he seemed like some young poet out of history. 3 So I decided righf then to reverse state that I finally like his voice. There. I've said it and I'm glad. I'd say the party ranked with those given by the late Evalyn Walsh McLean in Washington, and by Sonja Henie and the late Atwater Kent in Hollywood. What was it for? Sort of a farewell to “The Merm” who takes “Call Me Madam” to Washington next week. Then she goes to Mexico for a divorce, and on to Hollywood to do the movie. 1 heard that Tallulah, Johnnie Ray and the rest were still singing at noon. By that time some of the guests had been in bed a whole hour, : * ¢ o THE MIDNIGHT EARL... Abbott and Costello’s burlesque-type of benefit performance for “The Troupers” (the women of show business) had the ladies worried this a. m. at the Latin Quarter. But it ended with nobody suffering

worse than blushes. .. Bing Crosby canceled his N. Y. visit.

myself and

To

. start “The Road to Bali” . . . Horace Stoneham

was 49 Sunday. Toots Shor hesitated to wish him “Happy Birthday” because continued rain had washed the N. Y. Giants out of $150,000 or more in receipts . . . Parisienne Jacqueline Duval

. appears in “Red Ball Express.”

Gifted comedienne Lencre Lonergan decided after all to stay in “Of Thee I Sing” ... Bob Russell—mec of the “Miss America” pageant until they split—will mc the “Miss Universe” show in Long Beach; Cal ..., Abe Attell's recovered from his abscessed leg. Most of us liked Georgina Campbéll Manville, who was killed .in that car crash, Thyra Samter Winslow remembers her as a reporter saying 10 years ago, “I'm going to be somebody.” ... Wm. O'Dwyer’s friends are shuddering about what may happen to him if the GOP wins the election. . , . That's Earl, brother.

Competent Service, But No Free Toupees

atomic people at-nearby Los Alamos; and much of their experimentation is in connection with the . effect of high air speeds on people. ¢ & @

THE WHOLE POINT of my story is that I never saw such a flock of brilliance so happy at work, so proud to be at work, and so scornful of mass production at the people's expense. They

_are no ‘fee grabbers, no hacks willing to slog

along at making reports to conform with governmental red tape and tables of , organization” they are not entirely popular with the general practioners of Albuquerque, for the simple reason .that collective facilities can offer so much more swiftly and competently in diagnosis of disease than can individual specialists on the outside. As a team, they also cost the patient much less. . : But it is not a saving at government instigation. It is a saving effected by the “power of capital. I might point out as a clincher that the chairman of the board of trustees is Floyd Odlum of the Atlas Corp. the United Fruit Co, and Consolidated Aircraft Corp. That seems to take it out of the bureaucracy. :

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith Jr

Q—What can I grow in shade? (This to answer a number of readers who have various problems, north side of house, shady yard, etc.). A—If you want flowers (as most of these questioners do) there is nothing I like better (and hope you do, too) than the plantain leaved lily. You may know it under any one‘ of its various names as August lily, day lily (do not confuse it with the true day lily or hemerocallis), or

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

sometimes hosta or funkia. It has delightfully fragrant white flowers in late summer. And you can get a number of varieties, some with variegated foliage, some with lavender or blue-laven--der-flawers. One of the best shribs for shade is the improved variety of coral berry. (A nursery: -man friend scolds me for recommending this Decause it is so much enjoyed by oyster shell scale. But then who knows whether you're going to have oyster shell scale?) Hemerocallis will grow and flower-in shade; so will lilies. of and es and violas. Also, there's very little than the ordinary wax leaf nia. Get _ different varieties and you'll have an’ amazingly good lodking flower bed. Then, if you'll give it the ‘and rich soil it likes, the tuberous rooted begonia is the belly’ of the ball in shade. (Tt. - does do better if it a little sun). And fancy leaved caladiums. give yo color if not

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By MORRIS L. ERNST AND DAVID LOTH HILDREN should be the most important considera-

tion for all parents contemplating a Separation. Virtually everyones accepts that fact intellectually. But in divorce any exercise of the intelligence on this point

is rare. Neither the courts nor ‘the lawyers nor the couple are encouraged by law .or custom to give precedence to the welfare of the children. Women first, perhaps, but not children. The courts accept, almost universally, whatever terms parents and lawyers have bargained out in advance, This is all the more shocking because more children are involved in divorce than is generally supposed. Childless marriages, it is often said, are the ones that break up-—and they do make up a majority of American divorces. : But of the 421,000 couples di~ vorced in 1948 more than two of every five had living children under 21. There were a total of 313,000 such children. Since 95 per cent of the divorces and many legal separations are by agreement which the courts’ simply ratify, the case of the children nevér is ‘put before an impartial qualified. authority. Only in rare instances the parents have enough sense and loyalty to place the children’s interests first. Then they must find competent guides in the law or medicine or psychology or among their friends to draw up the agreement on this basis.

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“ing can be more hurtful than

to live in an atmosphere of bitterness and hatred, in a home completely lacking in tenderness, with parents who are competing constantly for authority,

By MARY FRAZER Soripps-Howard New York Writer

NEW YORK, May 1— The ringmaster, red-coated, spanking white-trousered, top-hatted, announced, ‘“Ladeeezzzz .and gentlemen—,” as ringmasters have intoned those magic words for generations unnumbered. Pinito de Oro, dazzling Spanish beauty who defies death and the laws of gravity as well on a swinging trapeze, rose slowly to her lofty perch. Around the huge arena, 60 “lovely lissome lassies” in bespangled green and gold swung and swayed. or. The 16,000 circus fans In Madison Square Garden — in the heart of the world’s most sophisticated city—chorused 2 mighty “Ooooohhh.” Backstage, the “Oococoohhh” came through clearly. Emmett Kelly, master of all th great clowns Ringling Bros: and Barnum & Bailey has produced and presented, heard it, as he Teaned against

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¥ 4 4 > “MARVELOUS, wonderful, isn’t it?” Emmett said softly, grinning- with his real mouth, and: with the mouth that's painted on in the true tradition 6f harlequinry. : Thirty-one yéars a clown, this Kelly fellow from Lafayette, Ind. , . . Three decades and more with circuses. And Emmett still loves every minute of every Big Top performance. And this year of 1952, Emmett, and all the Big Toppers from boss man John Ringling North down to the tiniest toddler in an acrobat family, are happier than ever before. For what the 16,000 spectators who've been jam-packing

the Garden twice daily, since-

.the circus opened the '52 season Apr. 4, don’t know, is that they're witnessing as’ well, “The Greatest Paradox iniShow Business.” ” » ” THIS 52 CIRCUS is breaking all records. Strangely, with TV still «in swaddling clothes, yet strong enough 40 give radio and the movies mighty headaches . with sports event promoters baffled by the laws of diminishing returns . . . With the Broadway theater

Chlorophyll’

By RICHARD KLEIMER Times Special Writer > NEW YORK, May I — Dut where the tall alfalfa grows, the farmers are walking around with smiles on their faces and money in their pockets, That's because alfalfa is the best source of chlorophyll and chlorophyll is sweeping across the nation with & green frenzy. re : There are actually two phases to the chlorophyll orgy. First, it's an ethical—in the pharmaceutical sense — preparation, used to keep wounds clean and deodorized. And, secongdly, it’s the latest fad, in the grand tradition of midget golf, Frank Sinatra afid poodle haircuts. : , : ~ Jt's the fad aspect that is booming the alfalfh belt. Sud- " denly, a product has to have chlorophyll in it, or people won't

buy. Manufacturers are adding: a“dash of chlorophyll to -

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Morris Ernest is a New York lawyer who has handled many ° divorce cases. David Loth is a former newspaper editor and writer. : Here the authors discuss problems arising for most couples after divorce... This is the fourth of a series from their book, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, just published by Harper & Brothers.

control, affection—or at least for the outward signs of these things. . ? On the other hand e damage may be done

qual to the

~child's personality if the same

atmosphere of bitterness and hatred prevails after the divorce, if tenderness still is missing, if the.competition between parénts persists, The fact that he is torn between two homes as well ad two parents may add to the child's demoralization. In more than a dozen court cases children have sued for damages because of the loss of a home. This isn't surprising, for in making up a divorce settlement wheére children are involved, the things that really matter, at least in a. child's. future, usually receive the least attention.

” r ” _ THERE MAY be a great todo over the exact amount of money to be allowed for his upkeep, schooling and so on. Where he spends his vacations is good for hours of discussion. But the development of the child is the sum of a vast number of trifling incidents,

HOOSIER CLOWN TELLS WHY—

'52 Circus Is Show World Paradox

Lafayette. :

“season hitting an all-time high

in fast closings ... With all this setting show world graybeards into a pessimistic tizzy, here's the circus packing ‘em in, Here's the most ancient form of entertainment in the world, presenting the same tinsel-glit-ter as ever, and knocking competition for a row of juggler's nine-pins: And at hefty prices, too. Ducats are $1.50 to $6.50, and all four upcoming weekend performances are sold out except a few of the $1.50 brand. Why?

EMMETT KELLY considered

A stately and beautiful blonde clad fn gold tights sprinkled with bubbles, who was headed for a seat beside a mammoth

champagne glass atop a float. Then he said, “I think it's because the circus is for the sight alone. There don't have

juice, which wouldn't look good

green.

THERE ARE the common’

uses—tooth paste, deodorants,

mouthwash, chewing gum--and others not so common. There is chlorophyll in some dog foods, shampoos, cig arets, reducing pills, candles, toilet paper, in- \ her soles, rectal suppositories and moth balls. There has éven been ' chlorophyll added to a scalp treatment for bald-headed men. ‘By the latest count, there are 29 different brands of tablets containing chlorophyll, enough to take your breath away. Altogether, some 65 products have hopped ¢n the green bandwagon, with new ones reaching the market virtually. every day. ‘ This boom to business stems from a chemical compound : which is as old as nature itself. Chlorophyll is the stuff which makes plants green. Scientists have known what it was for ip

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thoughts and attitudes which seldom get very much consideration, especially in the storms of divorce. ;

« Yet parents often find wise to pay especial heed to these things if they are divorced. One such mother, Dorothy L——, was alert to little things. She says of the turning point of one of her relationships with ‘her children after divorce:

MASTER OF ALL—That's Emmett Kelly who hails from

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with his father our youngest

to be any spoken gags. No lines. Nothing but scenes and spectacles, sights anyone and everyone can understand, yet that ‘every member of the family interprets in his own way. “There's nothing risque about the circus. And yet it's stimulating. “It’s real, even while it's the greatest make-believe in the world. And I think right now, with so mich trouble in -the world, the circus is more popular than ever because it gives folks a wonderful, but wholesome, release from - their tensions.” Emmett—who uses no “gag” costume, simply a poignantly

, authentic suit of rags—paused

again, to nod and smile at the roar of applause whith followed “The Great Bomba,” who “hurtles headlong with violent velocity,” double somersaulting in an automobile.

They didn't know how it worked, They didn’t know what it was for for in humans. They didn’t know how to extract pure chlerophyll. And they still don’t know the whole truth, On purity, for example, the extration methods are steadily being improved. : Two men made the biggest contributions to chlorophyll's prosperity. Benjamin Gruskin

tried it on wounds and discov--

ered that it had definite healing tendencies. It doesn’t kill bacteria, like penicillin, but it prevents new bacteria from growing and keeps the wound clean. ‘#@ =» " .DR. F. HOWARD WESTCOTT experimented with it on patients with secondary anemia. He fed them chlorophyll and vitamin B-complex, in an effort to build up their hemogolbin. The B-complex. ordinarily produces a foul odor, but Dr. Westcott noted that it didn’t happen

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—y trl son was brought home and left at the front drive. That night I found him weeping after he had gone to bed, and he finally told me that it was because his father did not want to come

into the house.” + - » ” .

MANY PARENTS would have soothed the little boy as best they could and shrugged off his distress as childish, probably of small moment and anyway inevitable. But the 1-8 believed that just because

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Then he trudged off to take his place behind a breath-tak-ing float in the “Good Old Times” spectacle. ~ ” » ° AND the spectacle went on, a great, glittering pageant featuring characters from Adam and Eve to Cleopatra to Mme. Pompadour to a Buck Rogerslike “Tomorrow.” Complete it is, with clowns, elephants, horses, beautiful girls and every tradition of the tanbark, dressed up to make even a Billy Rose “Jumbo” show mere roasted peanuts by comparison. The rest of the 25 displays (acts) of the '52 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus followed. * Performing bears- and savage lions, Trained apes, trick dogs. More beautiful women and talented men doing more impossible feats on high wires and atop horses and with animals and jugglers props than

$456 Million Green Tide Sweeps: Nation

This accidental discovery has been verified by countless researchers. Chlorophyll is

so powerful a deodorant that a

test tube of pure essence of skunk can be made to smell as sweet as new-mown hay with a small pinch in 30 seconds.

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ONE COMPANY to profit is the relatively new and small Rystan Co., founded by a former advertising man, O'Neill Ryan Jr. Mr. Ryan became fascinated with Mr. Gruskin’s work, financed him, poured some $4.2 million ‘(including reinvestments) into the project. Mr. Gruskin’s patent is now controlled by - Rystan, which lcenses companies to use it. Litigation is curfently in process

to determine just how binding

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dren's home, they owed more consideration. Dorothy writes: “After that we made great efforts to handle things differ ently. We met to welcome the children home or to see them off to school or camp. We met to make decisions or to discuss problems .or to enforce dis pline, to arrange for birthdays or holidays. . . . ; “It was quite evident that the children wanted and appreciated friendly communication between their parents, wers disturbed and upset by friction and were reassured when we presented a harmonious front.” It ts out of the serenity which has been achieved for the whole family, that Mrs, L— also writes: = “If children “8ré torn hetween conflicting poles- and suffer divided allegiance, they are emotionally confused and insecure. Sh . “If they are denied one parent, they feel cheated of a natural relation and resent it. “If they are used as buffers, they become a . “If they are ocourtéd by parents separately, they Jan to play one parent against another, and completely lack discipline, © ' ° “If they are used as an emotional outlet or a peg for as disappointed or lonely parent, they are crippled and tied . . . - “Although two people ars completely divorced as man and wife, both legally and emotionally, it is well to face the fact - from the start that if they are parents they aré bound by their children whether they like it or not—‘for better or for worse’ and until death do them part.” .

Next: A Sense of Fallure,

every Phineas T. Barnum, back in the actual good old days, ever dreamed of. Yet nothing really new, even though John Ringling North boasts more “First Time in America” acts than ever before in circus history. Emmett ambled up again. “The theme this year is ‘The Good Old Times,’ you know,” he said. “And I think maybe one reason the people are coms * ing to~ the circus more than ever before this year is because they feel: ‘Here's one thing that will still be around, . with just about the same show, years from now when 1952 has become the good old times. . Emmett wasn't clowning when he said it. He was listen~ ing, with his wonderful, wistful smile, to the ringmaster says ing: “Ladeeeez and gentlemen.” As Tr ters have intoned ‘‘ those magic words for generations uncounted. . . . : AEC

embarrassed by the fad part of the product’s rise. They like the idea of this new industry — estimated now at about $450 million a year—but hey eat it’s reached the silly stage. - : Actually, the serious scientists have high hopes that the really important discoveries on the uses of chlorophyll are ' © yet to come. They know it's a ~ | remarkable wound healer, tis | Sue stimulator, bacteria inhibi | RL J na ___“BUT NOBODY knows yet what élse it’s good for,” says one chemist. : Sn ; Col. Warner Bowers, E ays _ the drug is now stan ply in the