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Inside Indiana By Ed Sovela

+ NOTE: EA Sovola, for several years the city’s most outspoken bachelor, will be married tomorrow. This is his last column for thres weeks as he leaves for his homeymoon-vacation. We join with you, the readers, in wishing Roseand Ed Godspeed. I'M ASSUMING it is a natural reaction for a a man to sit in a corner on the eve of His wedding day and indulge in some serious thinking. A new life is about to begin. . In spite of the friendly teasing a prospective groom endures, I think there ‘is a heavy overtone of seridusness in speech and action that increases the wonderful feeling that one has chosen the right course, the right person to traverse that course and marriage is one of the most important manifesta- _ tions in our society. : Two persons make a contract and tell their family and friends of their intentions. First come the amiles and handshakes and ocongratulations and wishes for a happy future, 3 People stop to express their sentiments. They give of their time and money and you can't stop them. Nothing you have ever done In your life released so much voluntary action. ‘And yeu find yourself wondering why. How much is there to the cracks about “ball and chain,” that another “good man bit the dust,” that “you’ll be wiping that smile off your face?”

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; PERSONALLY, I remember best the day Rosery and I went home and the family was there to hear the news. My tongue was thick. The { alities were short. The response that follgwed was long and warm and it was exciting to tch the néw member of the family circle bee a part of our future. : It was comforting to watch my mother relinquish her hold on me. Her work was over. I think only a son and a mother can feel the slight

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By Earl Wilson

CHICAGO, July 11-—While here in Chicago cdvering the Republican riots, I found out Herbert Hoover wears a tea-shirt on TV-—and I on’t mean ‘a T-shirt either, Mr. Printer, ¢ Like many sedate gentlemen, Mr. H. prefers white—but was finally persuaded weeks ago that it: doesn’t look well on TV. He yielded: one Saturday oleh to weéar a pastel shade on V the next day-—but it was too late to buy any other shirts, “I've an inspiration,” spoke up his secretary, Bernice (Bunnie) Milfer, “I'll dye ome of his shirts in strong tea.” = You ladies (and Arthur Godfrey) will understand. Being fond of the idea, Miss Miller dyed two of his shirts in tea (Orange Pekoe, I think it was) right there in the Waldorf Towers. The former President didn’t object to that kind of attire. It came out a pale beige. It wasn't white, but still it was a white shirt. * + 2 {AND TUESDAY night as he addressed the millions from Chaosville, he wore the same shirt. I believe he’s the only Republican who wears lemon-flavored shirts. I've been around tasting er Republican shirts and found they're mostly ored with something that just came over-on # boat from the old countrys a x Fwverybody around TV and radio was sort of edge—for Mr. Hoover has inspired some of the greatest fluffs. # Bob Trout once said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, you have just listened to Herbert Hoover, the only former living President of the United Sgates.” Another announcer got into a worse i and shouted, “And now, ladies and gentleer , I bring you—Hoobert Heever.” . The crowds and confusion got worse. Leo Mcy, the Hollywood director, suffered one of the st cases of confusion. : Hopping into a cab, he said, “I want something to eat. Driver, take me to Toot Shor’s. . Just forgot, that's all. He thought he was in New York. ; In calling this city “Noisetown,” I'm not far oft —for something new and noisy’s been added: Life-gized television in smart restaurants while you're diping (se you don’t have “to go to the

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i yp, YOU HAVE Herbert Hoover on the screen instead of a floor show made up of half-dressed cuties who almost kick the bottle r table. . : The Beautiful Wife and I tried it at the Blackstone. On the life-size screen Mr. Hoover Was orating to us and at our backs—out In the lobby

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

{ CHICAGO, July 11—When I carved this into imperishable stone it looked awful Ike-y out, but whoever wins the distinction of being the Republican candidate my say one silent prayer fof himself. That is that he will make a better President than he made a candidate, If he makes esident at all. oo Pais has been a convention that seems: to have been decided on a basis of who has been weonger than whom. The fight over credentials of: delegates litérally has seemed to determine choice of the man, in a parliamentary fight which has discarded personality and qualification for te¢hnicality. It has been a battle of whereases. "Mr. Taft has been portrayed in the light of an unsuccessful horse thief, and Mr. Eisenhower has seemingly been able to close the barn door after the horse was swiped. It has been so far a tontest over the legitimacy of the purloined delegates, with Tke winning the scrap and almost certainly the right to contest for the na-

tional throne. : > ¢ @

IN THIS ONE we seem to have lucked out, -

fot good or bad, on our candidate, because no living non-liar can say that the Taft and Eisenhower campaigns have been managed with exceptional shrewdness. The duel of mistakes just finally resolved itself into a faintly hollow note of #riumph-—as of this time-~for IKe. ‘We have almost been apt to forget out here that the end of this week's work is only the beginning to the basic strife, and that whoever gets the nod has now got to settle down and labor with an eye to defeating the Democratic lad. Certainly, the battle in November will be less bitter than the battle within ‘the Republican Party, which may be one reason the elephant boys have been out of steady employment so long. The intramural warfare has continued for a week, and I still don’t know what the Republican Party stands for, except its own anger at its own components. Mr. MacArthur keynoted, apd Mr. Hoover keynoted, but they were speaking contrary to the undeclared views of the man they mdy have to support, since they have been admittedly more or Tart than for Eisenhower, I WOULD LIKE to suggest at this point that there is still an election to be won over the politically sophisticated Democrats, who are laying back just loaded for the Republican bear. Four years ago when the GOPers dropped the mantle on Tom Dewey they figured it was all over but the patronage, and settled down in the hammock for the summer. This gave us four more years of Democratic administration, which by common count seems’ to

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changes in attitude af they appear in such cire cumstances. ; It is remarkable how easily and quickly the sphere of influence can change when everyone concerned iz in accord. Equally remarkable is how another woman can pick upsfthe responsibilities as they are released. ¢ + @® I DON'T think I'm wrong in saying that the emphasis on the future of the marriage is what gives a man the most confidence, strength and hope. . You look at a set of crystal and you remember the words of a friend as she spoke about her crystal. “We received this crystal as a wedding gift. We've had it now for 38 years.” God willing, ours will last that long, too. There is something about the plural that makes you feel good. “We” are going home after

. our return from Florida, My mother will visit

“us” and “we're” Roing to buy something for the apartment that can be used some day in “our” house. : ; .« It's going to be extremely nice not to walk into an apartment and turn on the lights. 1 detest walking into a dark apartment, turning on the radio to break the silence. Christmas and Thanksgiving will be different. Some day we'll have a Christmas tree and a Thanksgiving turkey and we'll share our happiness with others. ¢ & ¢ I FULLY realize millions have experienced the feelings that I express now. They're not new, I'm sure. But they're new to me and they”ll continue to be new to others. : I remember well the words of the priest who will marry us tomorrow. He spoke of the sanctity of marriage. He spoke of the future and illustrated how important marriage was in the eyes of the Lord. “He denied the privilege of bringing new life into this world to His angels,” the priest said, al On the eve of a beginning. new life, a man can't help thinking deeply, solemnly. Strangely enough it doesn’t detract from the happiness that he feels, z

Hoover's Shirt Had Hot Tea Flavoring

—some demonstrators were sereaming: “We want Taft and MacArthur.” We could hardly hear ourselves eat. There's something new. for actors to worry about in that—not that they need anything. “Television has taken the place of live actors in this room during the convention,” somebody in charge told us. : “We were going to hire Phil Regan to sing— but television's cheaper.” Gertrude Niesen was one of the convention's

victims—speaking of the saloon &ociety division. .

She had a birthday and received a large package with a cute note: “Dear Gertrude, now that you have finally turned 21 and can vote, here is something you will want to hold dear.” 3 ' In the package were Ike, Taft, MacArthur and Stassen badges. The jokesters were sticking to the theme of how rugged Gen. Eisenhower has found the campaign. “I hear he wants to re-enlist” was the line craveling around the bars. However, many folks thought the convention should take the counsel of Fred Allen, who said: “The Republican Party can ledrn something from the Siamese twins. They cannot survive if they are split.” ! > % o¢ a THE MIDNIGHT EARL ... Arturo Toscaninl fiéw unexpectedly from Italy for some Amerjean dentistry . .. Bobo Rockefellér's pals say she'll resume her stage career in the fall. . . Marianne Reynolds described Averell Harriman as a fellow who's attractive physically, mentally and financially . . . Milton Berle returns to the U, 8. July 17. Johnny Mercer's suffering from ulcers on the Coast . . . Art Tatum broke his leg in California, The Riviera’s Sammy Davis Jr. signed to appear in the “Eddie Cantor Story” to be filmed in Oct. +. « » Gloria Marlowe sings in “The King and 1.” Peter Gimbel of the dept. store lbot and Mary Bailey announce their engagement this week . . . Ali Kahn's current favorite dancing partner is American ballerina Nora Kaye. ¢ ¢ * WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Most girls marry to make anothér name for themselves.”—S8heila

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* . TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Veep Alben Barkley, speaking at a dinner, placed a watch before him and sald, “By looking at this I can tell how long I've been speaking—if I can remember when I started.” At The Colony someone pointed out that an instructed delegate is a guy who's been warned about his behavior by the wife he didn’t take along with Him , .., That's Earl, brother,

Winning Candidate Will Need Prayers

If the Republicans keep on yelling at one another through the hot months, and rehashing the bitterness of the attempted horse thievery, there is.a fairly good chance that some quiet politician with a jackass for an emblem will tike up residence in that newly décorated house in Wash-

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IF YOU RECALL, the elephant boys blew the last one out of smugness. Even the personal magnitude of an Eisenhower can become obsecured in a family fight, as it has been obsecured in the last couple of months when Ike

« made a belated start to impress the nation with

his worth. You cannot have been out here very long without feeling a faint disgust at the hollering and back-stabbing that the Republicans have ¢ngaged in. You leave the city with a sense of nonappreciation for the real issue, for the real people who will represent the party. You just feel like a serious writing man who has been fighting a losing battle with commas and semicolons to the exclusion of the sense of the piece he had in mind. i

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

QI have on hand several kinds of fertiliser but am still not clear about when to use which, Those I have are Vigoro, Hyponex and bone meal. —R. M.

A—A good general rule is to use chemicals (quick-acting fertilizers such as Hyponex and Vigoro (when a plant needs quick stimulation. Or whenever for whatever reason you want it to grow right away. Both Vigoro and Hyponex are quick acting fertilizers. Vigoro is easier (and I think leas expensive) to use under rows in the vegetable garden. Or to scatter over a garden before it's-turned. But when we want a starter solution or a transplanting solution or when 1 suddenly realize a houseplant needs a little oomph, then I use Hyponex (or one of the other compietely soluble powders). Simply because it's easier to handle and leaves no messy residue to rinse out of pail or watering can. Bone meal is one of the organic fertilizers. In general, consider an organic fertilizer as a onece-living material (such as cottonseed meal or dried blood). These slower to act. So use bone meal in the fall around

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DEATH ON WHEELS—

Street Traffic ‘Scares’ Race Ace

"HOT PILOT —Jac: McGrath,

Times photos by John R. 8pickiemire Speedway veteran and top

race driver, ready for a tour of Indianapolis traffic.

By JOE ALLISON “IT SCARES ME,” top race driver Jack McGrath

says of Indianapolis traffic.

“T'd a lot rather drive on the Speedway. They may be ‘going 180 or 190 miles an hour, but it's a lot safer,”

he sald after a 35-mile tour of jammed Indianapolis streets. I rode with the veteran driver as he. threaded his way through the morning rush hour traffic and watched him expertly avoid fender scraping and bumper banging. As we pulled out of Speedway City on 16th 8t., he was forced 10 slow up as a hurrying driver rushed through a stop sign without stopping. He signaled carefully he was changing lanes and nosed the car into the passing side. Again he was forced to slow up as a wandering driver pulled suddenly from the right lane to pass the car ahead of him,

” 2 = “THIS IS a lot more work than a race,” Mr. McGrath said. “On the track, you can be fairly sure the other boys know where they are and what they are doing. Not here.” In downtown teaffic, he was time after time forced to slow up or turn to avold fenderscraping with other cars wandering from lane to lane. He drove “defensively” all the time, keeping close watch on other cars. “Defénsive driving is the only way,” he said. “You've got to be able to take care of the other fellow's mistakes while being sure you don’t make any yourself.”

He drove compietely relaxed, which he explained is the secret of lasting out the four hours of driving in the “500.” ,

“The least bit of tension during the race and you would be tired before it is half over,” he said. ” » » EVEN «though he was physically relaxed, he was alert at every minute for traffic tieups and accident threats.

During all the 35 miles he did not have to make a sudden stop or an abrupt turn in spite of constant driving errors by others.

Indianapolis traffic, he said, is “not bad in general.”

" Speed is much lower here than in his home town of Los Angeles, he pointed out.

He did complain, however, of a lack of automatic signals permitting left turns. He said lack of these signals jams traffic here more than in say other city he has seen. ws i = = : "REPAIR SHOPS must do a good business in brake relining.” he said. “People here race away from stops and jam on the brakes for the next one an awful lot here.” Wary pedestrians also were noted by Mr. McGrath.

HEART WORRY AND ITS CURE—

Your Health Is Entirely Up To You

CHAPTER FIVE

How to Take a Look at Yourself By PETER J. STEINCHRON, M.D.

STEP OUT of your skin (if you can). Stand off and look at

yourself objectively. = To

make any progress in neutralizing your symptoms of Imaginary Heart Trouble, forget about the I, ME, MYSELF. Now, consider the following advice. Bee how the recommendations apply fo you; then apply them. You cannot wish for improvement and expect results; you must take action. Only in that way can you make good new habits; and break (or bend) bad old ones. * Suppose you have conséiéntiously tried to be calm — yet can't run away from yourself and your fears.. Suppose others still find you “hard to live with” —and you find yourself “hard to live with” because your heart keeps bothering you. Then there is only one sensible step to take. Walk toward the telephone now to make An appointment with an unhurried, understanding, sympathetic physician. Probably your own doctor is that kind of man. This is the first important action in stepping out

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This is the fifth heart-te-heart talk between you and a noted physician about what You think of your ‘heart condition." These chapters are from the hook, HEART WORRY AND ITS CURE, published by Wilfred Funk, Ipc.~—Editors.

of your skin and looking at Yourself objectively. It is like seeing somebody elsé in trouble and running for help — in addition to offering your own help. YF 5 IF YOUR DOCTOR has assured you that you don't have heart trouble, here are specific suggestions to help overcome imaginary heart trouble: ONE—S8hun worrisome and pessimistic individuals, Run from the friend who shakes hands and grins broadly—yet spoils it all by habitually ending with, “You're looking bad, Harry, What's the trouble?” TWO-—-Stay away from depressing movies and plays. THREE-—~Do not read “heavy” books and those pertaining to war and the horrible potentialities of the atom bomb. Ditto for newspaper, radio, and

television accounts. FOUR Attend musieal fhows, concerts; read light,

sparkling books.

FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1952

HETERY MAN FOR HIMSELF—Mr. McGrath threaded his way through this maze of downtown rattic.

HEADS UP—This jungle of cars was eyed carefully by Mr.

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INDIANAPOLIS TRAFFIC—If “scares” top rece driver Jack McGr

hottest races, :

While he stopped several walked carefully around the -aid. “They seem pédestrians the right of way, in eveéry cage the

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FIVE --8hun friends who are always discussing the war and depression - around - the-corner, Associate with those who give you a lift. SIX Set aside periods eof the day for relaxation and renewal of energy. SEVEN-—If you are fat--re-duce, Preferably under a doctor's care. Don’t take thyroid or the benzedrine drugs unless your doctor tells you to do so. EIGHT-—If you are thin-— gain, There's no truth to the ~statement: “T've been thin all my life, I'm sure I can’t gain an ounce.”

. ~ » OVERSMOKING is habit just as not smoking is habit. If you dre a one - two - or - threepacker -a-day it's as easy to stop entirely as if you smoke only a half-dozen cigarets daily. And if you have smoked for 20 or 30 years; it is not true that sudden withdrawal of tobacco will harm you. If your doctor thinks tobacco is playing no part in your symptoms—fine. I smoke, myself, and can appreciate how you feel about

stopping. But if he believes the need for a try of nonsmoking, you would be foolhardy not to co-operate. : - Nobody knows whether tobacco is good or bad for everyone. But dpctors know it may

car. “Pedestrians must be afraid they are ‘open season’ here,” he

be bad (and possibly good) for some.

Liquor? Somle people drink

' too much. They are the chronic

alcoholics. Some don't drink enough because they don't drink at all.

I realize when I suggest one ounce (or two at the most) for

most people after 40 I am on’

dangerous ground —- according to those organizations that are doing such fine jobs in fighting chronic alcoholism, » " » YET I DO IT in full realization of the grave problem chronic alcoholism presents, In my experience, never seen a patient become a chronic alcoholic who began taking an ounce of liquor a day after his fortieth birthday. This small amount of alcohol taken nightly does much to relieve

‘tension and keep digestion at

the dinner hour.

A glass of beer or sherry may be substituted for the “hard liquor” if you prefer. Alcohol in small amounts is ideal in cutting the daily “string of tension,” however, it should not. be used in larger amounts simply because the tension is “ropesized.” Better to have tension and Imaginary Heart Disease

~ than become a chronic alco-

holie. Coffee is another individual problem, Some persons can't

I have

McGrath whe prefers the 100-mph-

surprised hen a driver stops for them.” “All in all,” he said, “T'll take he race track.”

sleép after coffee; others can’t sleep without it. 1 have known individuals who drank 10 to 15 cups daily for years without evident harm; yet others after one cup have heartburn, palpitation, and nervousness, : » 2 » YOU CAN SOLVE your own problem easily. Stop taking it for a few weeks, If you feel better, cross it off your diet list. if not, continue to drink ite moderately. Pon't overwork (the dan= gers of this are self-evident). Don’t wundervacation, Noth ing does more to relieve anxiety —-and therefore to combat Imaginary Heart Trouble than frequent periods of complete rest, If you are able to fo s0, take a winter and summer vaeation, If not, at least an extra day or two off each ménth, to interrupt the {tension under which most of us work.

This suggestion {is perhaps more important than all the others: Do something: now about easing your chronic anxiety about your “heart trouble.” There is only one good answer to that problem, See your doctor for proper antidotes to neutralize this slow poison. :

(Copyright by Peter J Stetherohn Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Ine.)

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