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‘Inside I le By Ed Covldianapolis

THE TRASH heap some folks cali a museum iy SM ehouse basement has to £0. Been ng once a year for th vos Bod. y e past four. Still Periodically, in a spirit of elvie pride, places such’ as the Herron Art Museum, Benjamin Harrison Home, Children’s Museum, and World, War Memorial have been recommended in this space as interesting spots to visit. . It is heartening to learn attendance and interest picks up slightly after each boost. This gives a man courage to whack away at the museum in the Statehouse. Of course, nothing much ever happens to the exhibit except that it gets grimmer, dirtier and shoddier. BN BUT AS DROPS of water will wear away granite, perhaps a small voice some day will move the keepers of the heap to take inventory of the junk and properly dispose of same, The story is that only the General Assembly

can put a broom and torch to the exhibit which,

except for loaned jawbones of horses and equally valuable articles, is the property of the State of Indiana. A good housekeeper, someone who detests ‘dirt and disorder, is desperately needed. Not a magpie. Not a collection of string and wrapping paper and tin foil ang ried skulls of ‘squirrels. 3 o@ oo . TO BE FAIR and constructiye about the museum, one must say many articles of clothing, glassware, Indian trinkets, household goods of ploneer days, stuffed birds, Civil War mementoes should be preserved. There is a way of doing it. Certainly not the way it's done in the Statehouse basement. the one place the small voice recommends the citizens of Indiana and visitors to stay away from because it is an eyesore and a disgrace to the rest of the building and the grounds. SS FOR EXAMPLE, in one huge case there is a collection of rocks. They're not marked. A viewer has no idea where they came from or why. The rocks are piled into the glass case as pebbles on a beach. Another glass case, thick with dust, holds “material used in the building of the Statehouse.” Bo what? ii : Three golden eagles, majestically poised, strain

under the weight of dust. Not far away are two “rhea StaITings. “We don’t have enough of the

critters loose on our lawns and buildings, we have to stuff them and place them on exhibition.

By Earl Wilson

MAIN TENT, Chicago, July 9—Imagine arrivIng at the big Republican circus and finding that your precious hotel reservation has already been claimed by a fellow nervy enough to have the same name you do.

A Congressman at that—poetry-writing Congressman Earl Wilson of Bedford, Ind., whose congressional immunity protected him from your thoughts after you'd battled your way through the crush to your door—only to find it's his door. All this was part of the “color” of Confusionville which you'll remember long after the great battle of Chicago is over.

Heywood Broun told once how he’d remarked to his wife that he must leave the house and

go out looking for local color. His wife said.

when he came back that she never knew what local color was but that it smelled exactly like scotch whisky. Here it had a bourbon smell. You can't forget one delegate inviting you to drop into one of his three rooms. 3 . “Is that your suite?” you asked. “Well,” he apologized, “tlat’s just our drinkin’

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OLD-TIMER Alice Longworth was sweeping about here, warming up verbally, to give us possibly another mot such as the crack she made in other years about Gov. Dewey, "Twas she, supposedly, who called Dewey “the bridegroom on the wedding cake” and said— when he decided to repeat his effort—*a fallen souffle never rises again.” Seen here looking slim and youthful—her husband, Nick Longworth, died almost 20 years ago ~—she said: . “Yes, I'm hot stuff. I'm a member of Belles for Bob.” That's the group of young beauties, mostly from New York, and rather exclusive socially, who agreed with the slogan, “Get on the raft, come up with Taft.” Beautiful young Florence Pritchett of cafe society and social register society was a Belle. for Bob. She's the wife of Earl E. T. Smith. Each of his initials is supposed to be worth a million dollars. On her chic blouse she wore a Taft pin — Taft being spelled out in dia-

monds. . : My Beautiful Wife, who likes diamonds, or

would if given the chance, glanced enviously at

the pin and said: “The fool. She should have been for Eisen-

hower.”

Florence Pritchett

eH & FRED ALLEN was credited with the sagest observation so far: “I'll bet Eisenhower wishes he were back in a nice quiet war somewhere.” Suave, cool-looking, pipe-smoking David - 8. Ingalls, the rich Clevelander who runs the Taft campaign, said: +

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

CHICAGO, July 9—They stood up and shouted for about 15 minutes when the other old man came aboard—the other old man who was scorned once upon a time through no fault of his own,

Herbert Hoover, only living former President of the United States, sounded the real keynote of the Republican conclave here. This was Mister Republican, Robert Taft {sn't. Douglas MacArthur isn't. Ike Eisenhower isn’t. The shaggy old man with a petulant baby's jowly face is Mister Republican, in all the senses that Republican used to mean. The others are late-come-to-the-feast-—and you can tell this by the way they applauded the old man, Hoover, when they didn’t go mad for Douglas MacArthur, And you mustn't forget that both Doug and Hoover are for Bob Taft. It is a sort of shame that we cannot shear a few years off Hoover, twist back the clock a tiny bit, and once more present an honest, quiet, and dignified thinking man for President. We wasted Hoover in the early years--we have been wasting his talents since Roosevelt made a circus of the top job. i ® > ¢ IN LOOKING back we remember that Tom Dewey failed to inspire, and got his ears pinned by a noisy clerk who is our current leader. There have been too many theatrics about MacArthur to make him believable—the rhetoric often gets in front of the man. All of em from Taft and back again seem to have a criticizable angle. Hoover's quiet remark that “You will need to change administrations to do that,” his “12 years of lost statesmanship,” all his appraisals suddenly make sense, as ‘a man who balances a budget makes sense, He has seemed to appraise us rather than exhort us, and it seems to me we stand more in need of appraisal than of exhortation. d wh ae 4 : What Mister Herbert Hoover said, quietly, .is that Integrity must be restored to a frustrated people—that they must give back dignity” and integrity and pride to the people inside the United

Statehousé Museum Features Pust

THREE OLD CLOCKS, uncovered and unprotected, ‘stand in silence on top of a case. One clock has a sprung door and a hand is missing. The clocks belong in the window. of a Massachusetts Ave. second hand store. What's special ,

about them?

A feeble attempt has been made to clean the glass on several cases, That's the best that can be said, feeble, because most of the glass is so

grimy it’s almost opaque.

A display of albino cfows, raccoons and opossums makes you gasp. Fortunately the sign informs a person what color = specimens are supnservation Department be a better agency to handle wild life? - <

posed to be. Wouldn't the

ONE SHUDDERS at a model of the Brown County jail. One continues to shudder at a ‘“fossil tooth of Virginia deer” and a bone “evidently prehistoric.” Might have come from the vicinity

of Kingan's, too. ;

Why anyone would place a split deer horn, tied with a piece of string, under a glass case, staggers the imagination. In the same breath you ask why skulls of squirrels, a shark jaw,.a hunk of Kansas limestone, bobcat teeth, alligator teeth, a Baltimore oriole’s nest, a shattered doctor crab, pile of unidentified pebbles were placed on

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ON THE BOTTOM of a long case, which is directly in front of the Coke machine, undoubtedly the filthiest glass case in the entire city, one sees a stuffed bobcat, a porcupine, a red fox and a freak pig. In the middle of the row of animals, is an old radio with a big horn beside it, to a small pile of radio parts is a sign: is the way we used to make our

receiving coils.” It is?

A monstrous chunk of incongruity is the glassware and reptile exhibits. In the rear of the case are cups and saucers and glassware of days when grandfather wore short pants and hated shoes. In front of the case were placed an igunna, a rattlesnake, an armadillo and a crocodile.

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GLADIATORS Taft and Ike each have characteristics that their worshipers find endearing. With Taft, famous as being no glamour man, it’s ‘that unruly strand of hair that sticks stubbornly down the back of his neck. With Ike, it’s the warm way he says “Good

one woman HEART WORRY AND ITS CURE—

evening” to the ladies.

“He said it just as darling,” sighed as she raced across the street and managed to get greeted by him just as he was going into an elevator at the Blackstone. : ‘Just in case Taft should be next President, you might care to know what he has for breakfast: Double orange juice, two 34-minute eggs, coffee. And he’s been too busy here, according to underground sources, to tip the waiter. A husinessman, he’ll do the tipping when he leaves.

TODAY'S WORST CORN: Julann Caffrey of TV: claims to have a talking dog. Ask it a difficult question like “What's on top of the house?”

and it instantly replies, “Woof.” ¢ ¢ &

TAFFY TUTTLE gave Up nudism. She stayed out too long in the hot sun without anything on and now she’s the toast of the town. , . , That's

Earl, brother.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—We have just bought a place where we want some shade. We don’t want to wait forever for it. Someone has suggested Chinese elms. What do you think of them? Or what kind of trees would you suggest?—E. R. M. A—The Chinese elm is a beautiful tree that grows fast and is in’ very bad graces of landscapers and tree experts, For they know of so many Chinese elm tragedies. Just this week I saw another typical one. A really beautiful Chinese elm at just the right size to provide good shade had the whole top broken out by a not too violent wind storm. Now if you are the sort of person who can harden his heart at tHe right time, here's the ideal procedure. “Quick growing tree such as the Chinese elm or’ willow or poplar. Then in permanent spots at the same time plant some of the stronger wooded trees. Some that grow reasonably fast are tulip poplar, pin oak, red maple, or the thornless honey locust (the new Moraine thornless honey locust is said to be an almost perfect shade tree with no troubles). Then when your better trees -are big. enough, cut out the soft wooded trees. neople can't bring themselves to compromise is to plant the soft maple—really the But don’t use it at the curb. Branches droop and interfere

best of the quick growing trees.

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Real Keynote Sounded By Herbert Hoover

States, Before we try to remake the world. Hoover wants to free us before we take on the others, much as Mister Lincoln wished to free the local slaves before he resettled Uganda.

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I HAVE BEEN looking at this convention

without enthusiasm until now.

bustling nothing, full of cheap gestures and loud actors. And all of a sudden I find a man I can be proud of in what can otherwise best be As a man who was aiming to quit the convention, out of sheer disgust at-- the aimless activity, presence makes me believe that the whole noisy mess might possibly be worth sweating out. This may be cornball, but here is what I think Mr. Hoover said—you must pay your bills. You must not tax yourself to a point You must not get yourself mixed up in a whole lot of foreign quarrels that you cannot win and will understand before you have placed yourself in a position to keep the local fences mended.

construed as a handful of frogs.

where you can’t pay your bills.

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THAT SEEMS to be called isolationism, by some, and is against the high and fancy phrases we have heazd for many a dreary year. But it is old, common, Hoosier sense — {it is the final desperate effort of a man to restore common Hoosler sense to a nation that has been living in a kind of international Greenwich Villa

too many years.

Even Mr. Hoover's fast phrasing of foreign policy, warwise, makes sense to a simple and possibly ignorant man like me. He just says that he wants us to be able to strike so hard, and so vindictively, back at an aggressor, that nobody will make a pass at us in the first place. He is even so practical that he wants our Allies to contribute a tiny touch to their own defense. F do not wish to burble, really. I just wish we could rerun Herbert Hoover for President, because I am certain sure we could win with him and

fetch a little sanity back home.

“Deer killed in Wisconsin” is hung. Why not a head of a deer killed in Indiana? There were plenty killed last year in Brown County. Why one from Wisconsin? Surely State Parks would be more ideal to exhibit many of the historic relics. stuff could go to the Children’s Museum, the new Conservation building at the Fairgrounds, Spring Mill. Park, Clifty Falls, McCormick's Creek, George Rogers Clark Memorial Park... “Feel better now. The porcupines and th snakes and armadillos and bobcats and shark jaws can rest in peace for another year.

It Happened Last Night

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Hoosier Wilson Is There First

“I'm sure of one thing. I'm sure we're going to win. I've never said that before.” In this mob of reporters a columnist is nothing. Years ago I knew this David Ingalls well, covered some of his political campajgns.

ing him here, I reminded him of ur good old

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1952

‘MUSIC CLINIC—

At IU It's Do-Re-Mi All Day

By HENRY BUTLER Times Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, July 9 —Some 200 young singers and instrumentalists from seven states are learning new ways with music at Indiana . University this week. Occasion: The annual music clinic for high. school students and teachers ? conducted by Dean Wilfred C. Bain’s School of Music and the "IU Public Music Services Office, directed by Dr. M. F. Shadley.

From 6:30 a, m. reveille to 10 p. m. lights out, the young visitors have a busy program of rehearsals, classes, recreation and.evening concerts,

= » » GROUPED FOR ORCHESTRA, band and chorus, the students come here from Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio, as well as Indiana.

They're pitting - their wits and musical experience against three nationally known conductors on the IU music faculty: Ernst Hoffman, orchestra; Daniel L. Martino, band, and George F. Krueger, chorus.

~Ando-thepire getting a TeRb Hyare HL Can “§lop “an of for the second year, he told me. About a fourth are here for their third year. “Without exaggeration, is the best clinic band we've had by far,” he said.

workout. At Monday's first orchestra rehearsal in East Hall of the music school, Mr. + Hoffman was teaching them the second movement of Tchaikovsky's “Pathetique” Symphony. “It's good for them,” he told me privately. ‘Maybe they never tried reading 5/4 time,” Playing 5/4 time is like riding the‘unicycle. You have to get the knack. Mr. Hoffman's guest orchestra started with numerous clinkers, but were beginning to smooth out in the half hour or so I heard them. 28 8 MUCH OF THE IMPROVEMENT was due to Mr. Hoffman’s knack of arousing con-

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SOUNDING BRASS—James E. Noble (left), director of music in the Peru public schools, here conducts the Indiana University High School : Music Clinic band, pinch-hitting for 1U band director Daniel L. Martine. ’

chestra in the middle of a discordant traffic jam without anybody getting nervous or

hurt. With humor and pa-

tience, he leads his players to discover they can do what they never did before. Orchestra, I may say, still lags behind band in high school music, and not just here in the Middle West. Even allowing for that lag, there is good material in this year's IU Clinic orchestra. Mr. Martino is enthusiastic about the band material this year's clinic has brought. About half-of the 115 students enrolled in the band are here

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LISTENING TO part of a re- 4p hedrsal of the band, conducted by James E. Noble, director of music in the Peru public

schools, while Mr, Martino was holding a class for band diI could understand what Mr. Martino meant. Good accurate pitch, smooth dynamic control. In early afternoon, Mr, Kruestarting his clinic chorus on Palestrina's Christmas motet “Hodie Chri

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it isn't that hard. half note rates one beat, how many beats does a whole note get?” right verbal answer, the right singing.

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FINALLY HE SAID, “Where are my counsellors?” dozen teachers rose to their feet in the back of Recital Hall,

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“Come up here and help 'em fing. Hammer 'em on the head if they don't sing the right notes,” he said, still poker face, The visitors snickered appreciatively, They did much bet: ter on the re-take of the difficult passage of counterpoint. Orchestra, band and chorus will give a joint concert at 2 p. m. Sunday In nicely alr, cooled IU auditorium. At the rate of progress I heard Monday, those young people will be doing excellently in their concert, The concert will coincide with the opening of the State "Conference of the Indiana Music Teachers Association, which will continue through Tuesday.

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Heart Skips Cause Needless Worry

“#2. CHAPTER THREE

Heart, Skip and Jump

By PETER STEINCHRON, M. D.

“Doctor,” she said, “I'm too frightened to go to sleep, I thrash around for

hours fighting it. Every time my heart skips it seems to turn over in my throat. It seems -like eternity before the next beat comes along. Waiting, I think this is the end.”

Heart skips, like pain, are one of the common causes of heart-awareness. Discomfort and fear are always magnified and less sufferable deep in the night.

To lie alone, anxious to ery out in fear and yet unwilling to waken the rest of the household, takes courage—and takes it out of you. Therefore the sleeplessness and the tossing.

At the outset, believe me when I say the heart symptoms I am discussing now never killed anyone. They may go off in the dark and upset you like an ¢xplosion. But, like a blank cartridge, they make a lot of ndise but are harmless, The skips are the thunder and not the lightning.

Even the medical terms sound

awful. We call these skips prematuré contractions. Sometimes the label is: extrasystoles. Despite their awesome names, here is a simple explanation of these heart skips. ” " »

NORMALLY, the heart beats originate in a node in an auricle called the sino-auricular node, . Whether the heart beat “is gixty or ninety, it is regular in force and produces no symptoms, But, when due to increased irritability of the heart muscle, numerous beats originate elsewhere than in the regular node, we have the above-named extrasystoles. These beats produce different effects on you and me. One person will say: “I feel a slap Inside my chest, every time there is a skip.” Another says: “My heart turns over.” Another, “There is such a long wait until the next regu-

This is the HW fRitte the irregularity may last only a few days. Normal heart may return for days, weeks, or months, and the skipping may

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lar beat comes along I'm sure my heart won't beat again.” Whatever the person's reaction, he has become aware of his heart. With it comes awareness of life—and death. Then follows the long train of worry, sleeplessness, fatigue, and loss of normal bounce and enjoyment of life. Fear has entered. Fear of illness—heartsickness, And that, where “the heart is involved, always means death in the mind of the anxious layman. n ” ”

MOST HEART SKIPS occur in normal hearts. True, they are present in organic diseases also, but at that time they are but a part of the overall picture of definite organic disease. In other words, a child with rheumatic heart disease may have heart skips, but these go along with real heart disease. The same applies to definite cases of coronary disease, hypertensive heart disease, and so on. Always bear in mind that skips which suddénly come out

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a normal heart disappear as quickly into nowhere. One patient will have one heart skip and never have another. It has come and gone so fast his momentary awareness of a difference in heart rate is soon forgotten. Most people Who have sKips eXperience them often enough and long enough to be really concerned about themselves, i 5 » ” THERE are many who are as calm as the surface of a pool on an August aftergoon. For example, a man of 69 was in today who “has had skips for the past seven years.” “Do they bother you?” 1 asked. “Why should they?” he answered. “I'm perfectly healthy.

My father died at 94 and I ex-.

pect to beat him out.” You may have a skip every few beats of the heart day in and day out (including the night) for months. However,

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you have extrasystoles— you will soon note they diminish as you become active, When you walk, bend, or exert In any other way, your pulse becomes faster and the skips disappear. As soon, however, as exertion is over and the heart rate returns to normal the skips return to full force. That is why you are more aware of them when sitting at

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entire attention is’ focused on - these little peculiar sensations _in the chest; and you magnify their importance ’ DOCTORS DO NOT know the specific causes of heart skips. There are habits and circumstances which tend to favor their occurrence. the For example,

mental stress seems to be a soil in which they grow. Added to nervousness and tension are such over habits as oversmoking, overdrinking, overworking and overeating.

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Also a few under habits such. as undersleeping, undereating, and undervacationing. To repeat: Don’t let heart skips get you down. They will leave-—as they came. The immediate treatment is moderation in living. ed There are well-known drug treatments that help very much, But these are the doctor's province and not your personal concern,

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