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The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 95

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t. uCiIOii'i 1 li ivLL -UGH PAG -S "IAGIJ 1 SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1919 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER NEWS FEATURES EDITORIAL PAGE COMMENT ON THE NEWS AMUSEMENTS She's Big Physically And Mentally Consultant Advises 19 Companies On Public Relations Gives 269 Pints Of Blood r- 4 1 i "2 1 I I 1 1 I A 3T Enquirer (Kami Photo. MISS PRESSMAN Hits That Ball. i i- fVw MRS. GKANT CANNON.

The Winner! Shell Beat Polio, Calcium Growth, Energetic Invalid Says BY JACK KAMEY. (THE ENQUIRER'S SUNDAY EDITOR) FRANCES PRESSMAN never complains. From her hospital bed in the living room of her apartment at 1115 Egan Ct, the polio. invalid minds her business, keeps smiling. Frances hasn't walked since she was stricken by polio in 1944 and became rigidly acquainted with respirators, hospitals, BY JACK DUDLEY.

"TRY TO PERFECT yourself in so many different ways that you can take care of yourself in any situation. Never stop learning." This sage advice given some years ago started the development of an amazing person. Taking to heart the above bit of wisdom from her father, Mrs. Nina K. Weber shows the infinite capacity that a human being has for thinking and doing.

"Web," who Is a big woman physically (she weighs 235 pounds), is also big mentally. At least 19 companies in and around Cincinnati think so. They all retain her services as an adviser and consultant on human and public relations. Simply put, Web's job is to get employer and employee to arrive, at a better understanding of oni-another. On the other hand, she occupies a rare position in business for tchich there has been litth: precedent and few openings.

Through a carefully prearranged plan, Web has walked Into companies as a new director, typist, telephone operator, clerk or executive. SOMETIMES her objective is to find out which of two men is the better fitted for promotion. She has been called upon to build up the morale of a key man who has developed an inferiority complex due to a speech impediment or a physical deformity. Occasionally an employer gets the idea that everyone in his company is against him. Web goes to work to make the employer agree about some things and accept others.

In her 27 years of experience Web has been discovered in her investigatory work only once. She is just downright slick in her operations. A dinner party at the home of a company head is often the scene that sets up Web's entry into a business. The after-dinner conversation turns to the qualification necessary for a certain job in the host's company. Through clever maneuvering of the table talk, the man, who is to be investigated by Web, innocently recommends her lor the job.

Thus she is able to carry on her investigation without the slightest suspicion from the subject. FROM THE TIME she takes a case until the two to six weeks it have taken the Carnegie course since 1945 have been amazed at her feats of memory. She knows the first and last names of ail the graduates as well as the occupation, telephene number and automobile license number of many ol them. During an entire course, Wei hears a total of 160 speeches a week for a period of 17 weeks. Arthur Hastell, President of the Fey Wine and a member of one of the classes, asked Web at the com pletion of the 17 weeks if she knew what he said in his first speech.

Ho was dumfounded to hear her repeat the speech with many verbatim quotes. "You can train yourself to remember anything you want to if you remember you have a subcon-: ious mind," she declared. WEB TRIES, to impress upon her Carnegie associates the impor-' tance of following their hunches. She claims that if a person follows his hunches, eventually they will all be correct. She pointed out that some of her personal decisions have been dictated by hunches that have proven correct.

WEB WEIGHED only 103 pounds 15 years ago. She has found that she can get away with a lot more today simply because she is overweight. "I am not by-passed so easily," she said. The story behind her weight gain is another interesting chapter in her life. Doctors discovered 21 years ago that Web had a rare type of blood that was extremely beneficial to persons suffering from certain kinds of blood disease.

Web knew little about the- medical reasons for the popularity ol her blood but she did know that it saved lives. She gave her blood without charge because it was "God-given." She traveled all over the country giving transfusions and receiving only her transportation expenses. Just 10 weeks ago, Web gave hei 269th pint of blood and the doctors told her to call it quits. She was found to be one step away from leukemia and the blood-donating had somehow caused her cells to start breaking down and had created a glandular disturbance causing her weight to gain. Truly a remarkable woman in sickness or in health, Web goes right on perfecting herself so that she can meet any situation.

Novels, Potatoes! Mrs. Grant Cannon Hits Pay Dirt In her surgery and her bed. Enquirer (Welllnger) Photo. Not By-passed So Easily. attorney in a mock trial demonstrating the power of mind over matter when a visiting lawyer suggested that such methods could be used to get the young members of his law firm to think on their feet.

WEB'S CAREER in human relations as applied to business ha3 led her all over the United States and Canada. Now she is staying somewhat closer to her home at 1243 Grace Hyde Park, because of an invalid mother. Since 1945, Veb has been an adviser and consultant for the Dale Carnegie classes on effective speaking, personality development and human relations whicfi are held here. The more than 700 persons who MRS. NINA WEBER.

takes her to finish it, Web is in terrogating constantly. "I make men feel important by asking them for suggestions," she said, Her memory is so keen that she can remember all details of her conversation with the person under investigation. Web has at least two men under observation when she is conducting a survey for a promotion in ihe upper brackets of a business. "I look for the man who has the best command of any situation," she said. "He also must meet the public well and think well on his feet." She became interested in human relations in business when she was studying applied psychology in college.

She was the prosecuting For $400, A $25,000 Production Movie Club To Provide Hospitals With Bargain Film To Sell School Girls On Nursing pleasant, determined, easy way, sho believes she can beat the polio rap. When polio struck Frances, a real competitor was knocked out of action. In 1935, Frances, then 18 years old, won the public parks tennis championship of Cincinnati. She won the women's title atain prior to her day of grief in 1044. At table tennis she was rated 10th among Ohio's women players She still has more on the ball than most folk; Five years in hospitals, surgery, confinement to her bed, didn't sour her spirit, a quiet, warm, flame evident in her voice, eyes and easy smile.

MORE TROUBLE than polio, enough in itself, bludgeoned Frances. Airequisite treatment for polio i3 exercise. Frances, who could run and stroke and smash with Cincinnati's best women tennis players, when she was playing, and who operated a machine lathe at Wright's during the war and kept books for an advertising concern, couldn't exercise. r. For along with polio, came a cal-clum growth, forming1 over her bone joints.

She chuckles, says she was a unique case, that she was lucky the calcium formed only over the joints, did not grow inward. She insists she is fortunate because her 'surgeon, Dr. Joseph Freiberg, can cut away the calcium in her hips, shoulders and hands easier than if it had grown inward. Dr. Freiberg can't tell Frances whether she is or isn't going to walk again.

She says she is, and that she's going to show him. HARDLY was she out of the respirator and placed in a ward at General Hospital than she began planning her future. Work. She was going to work somehow. She struck upon the idea of selling cards and stationery and napkins and knick-knacks.

When she was removed to a ward in Jewish Hospital Frances was ready for action. She had obtained a sales representative, a friend, Sylvia Balkany, with the Avon Cameron Hobby Shop. She had obtained a small stock of supplies. She assessed her good fortunes. The national polio foundation assumed the greatest percentage cf her hospital expense.

Everybody at General and Jewish Hospitals was kind. At Jewish, helped her tend her small stock of supplies, found storage space for it. She kept her card index system of customers and sales. CAME THE DAY she could go home. A small apartment had beea found for her at 1115 Egan Ct.

Her bed was placed beside the picture window in the living room. Everybody on the street knew her, waved at her as they passed by, smiled when she moved a hand in response. Just inside her window toy were placed. Children of the neighborhood simply walk in and start playing and Frances smiles. From the telephone company came another boon.

Burr Helck and Roy Wilmoth, engineers, dreamed up a gadget. Attached to the head of her hospital bed, the gadget keeps the telephone in position beside Frances's head. Her Bmall business is growing slowly. She's selling books of matches for advertising and mono-gramcd specialties. Lying there, she keeps her card index, does her bookkeeping.

NOT LONG AGO came a gift, a television set for Frances. The gift was delivered without a signature or signatures upon the greeting card. It was simply good neighbors and friends wishing Frances well. At Jewish Hospital one day, Frances was pjaying cards with an Armenian refugee when a woman of color poked her head into the ward. The woman walked over, told Frances she was going to pray for her.

Without more ado, the woman dropped to her knees, -began beating her breasts, bowing her head to the floor. Then the woman would raise her hands and voice to the heavens, all the while chanting "Lord, make this woman well." Over and over and over. Frances said the Armenian's eyes popped large in wonder. He kept muttering: "This, I never see before. This, I never see before.

This, I never see before." AN HOl'R OR SO with Frances Pressman brings a conviction that her faith and determination are the medicine to put her on her feet. She's still hitting that ball. BY MIRIAM BECK. "WE'RE GOING to experiment with Idaho potatoes," Mrs. Grant Cannon of Newtown Josephine Johnson, Pulitzer prize winner for fiction said, watching her young son and daughter cutting the potatoes for seed.

"They're the only potatoes I really like and we want to see if we can grow them here." Josephine Johnson's has been a life of deeply interesting experiments in agriculture and in shaping a world more to her liking. And, perhaps because she is an artist, most of the experiments in which she has had a finger have turned out beautifully. In 1934 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel, "Now In November," one of the most poignant pictures of the American fanner's struggle against poverty and the forces of nature In our literature. She says Its success was a great surprise, but It was too long ago to talk about. She was 24 years old at the time.

Today she Is In the Cininnati area as the wife of Grant Cannon, managing editor of the FARM QUARTERLY. MRS. CANNON'S INTEREST In farms and farm life dates back to a time when her parents moved out to a farm near Webster Groves, Mo. She says the story of "Now In November" Is wholly imaginary, but that does not mean that it was not true. It mirrored the agricultural hardships of the period so well that it had, and till has, a terrible ring of truth.

"Just after it was published, a girl wrote vie from tome place in the South, 'You've written the whole story my family," Mrs. Cannon says in a sort of wonder. But Mrs. Cannon's efforts for the farmer did not end with merely a strong and artistic contribution to literature. In 1939, the Missouri sharecroppers were evicted by planters who stood to gain by taking the government checks for themselves and using day labor.

The sharecroppers went out on the highway because they had no place else to go, and Josephine Johnson became interested in their claims. She went among them to investigate their plight and wrote her findings for the St. Louis papers. The U. S.

Government finally came to their aid and built the Delmo Homes in colonies over Southeast Missouri as an emergency measure to meet the needs of the 650 families. In 1945, the government decided to liquidate the project and sell the houses to the highest bidder. That meant that the sharecroppers who had lived in them would have to go, they knew not whither, for they had no money to compete with the highest bidder. JOSEPHINE JOHNSON in St. Louis, David Burgess, a field missionary of the Episcopal and Congregational churches, Bishop William Scarlet of the Episcopal Diocese of St.

Louis and Fannie Cook decided that something had to be done immediately. What the sharecroppers needed was $285,000, of which $73,000 would be required as a down payment. "It was a lot of money, but we got it," Mrs. Cannon says quietly. That was how the Delmo Housing Corporation came Into being.

Title to the Delmo homes pasted from the Farm Security Administration to the Delmo Homes Corporation. The purpose of the corporation was to sell the homes at an average price" of $800, with a down payment of $100 fcy each purchaser and the remainder to be paid at the rate of $7.50 a month. That was in 1945. Almost every sharecropper owns his own home now. "Almost everybody said It couldn't be done, but it has been done," the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch commented In January of last year. MRS. CANNON'S current interest in agriculture is in the Farm Quarterly, to which she is contributor, and in the old farmhouse which the Cannons have purchased near Newtown. The Farm Quarterly too is an experiment and something of an adventure. It was the original idea of Aron Mathieu of the Rosenthal Publishing Co.

Previous farm magazines have been on the old almanac type, from which they are descended. They have been printed on poor paper and few have paid much attention to make-up or the permanent worth of the articles. The Farm Quarterly attempts to give the farmer careful and accurate information as to the latest methods In progressive farming and it also gives him a magazine he will care to keep for the sheer beauty of its format. It prints the finest photographs of farm life published in this country. That the Farm Quarterly Is "turning out beautifully" Is proved by the public's response to it especially the farmers.

Its circulation in its third year is 205,000 and the overwhelming proportion of that is in towns under 10,000 or in rural communities. "TIMES HAVE changed a great deal from the time when Jo wrote "Now In November," Grant Cannon, wjio Is from a Utah farm himself, says. "The farmers hit rockbnttom in 1934. Now they earn something more nearly in proportion to the work they put in. We hope that by the use of scientific methods on the farm, it can be kept that way." The Cannons' personal experiment in country living Is just beginning.

The old farmhouse is about a century old and has 14 rooms in it which is too many, Mrs. Cannon says. Their stock at the present time consists of 12 White Jtock hens and a rooster, a cat and five kittens, and an estimated 3,000 bats which have taken abode in the attic. Mr. Cannon tried to oust these tenants with sulphur candles and DDT but the bats didn't understand.

This year they're back. The Cannons are going to try some more experiments on them. "I haven't been writing much lately," Mrs. Cannon lays. "I've been too busy." But the record shows that her third novel, "Wild-wood," was published two years ago.

She is the author of another novel, the title of which is "Jordanstown." Sho has also written a book of poetry and a collection of short stories, one of which took the O. Henry award In 1935. 1 mmi ftp j'ifc His Own Obituary! But Carrel Didn't Get To Read It FOR LESS THAN $400, Cincinnati Movie Club is producing a motion picture glamorizing the nursing profession. Had it been done for the hospitals by commercial the production would have cost more than $25,000. The film, "Deed To Happiness," is designed to promote interest in nursing among high school girls and alleviate the shortage of nurses in hospitals of Greater Cincinnati and Southwestern Ohio.

Prints of the full color motion picture, with narration by Howard Chamberlain of VLW, are to be sold at cost to Cincinnati hospitals and screened in high schools. The production represents realization of the Camera Club's intention to be of real service to the community. A DOZEN MEMBERS of the club have been working gratis three to four hours a week for almost four months on the production, writing- the script, planning the scenario and lighting and narration, photographing the scenes. For the production, the club obtained without a penny of expense the advice of Max Lasky, professional producer of industrial motion pictures, who charges $75,000 for one of his movies. Lasky has produced films for Cincinnati Milling Machine Proctor Gamble, Formica, and McGregor-Goldsmith in Cincinnati.

Theme of the club's movie is the idea that every girl, although not born rich, is possessed of a maternal instinct safeguarding the nation's strength. SO, THE MOVIE club becomes a recruiting service for hospitals hard hit by the shortage of nurses. The film doesn't attack from a money angle the hospitals' specific problem, the fact that, when studying and working, student nurses earn nothing but room and board and uniforms, and must pay tuition. It does attack the money difficulty from another angle, the fact that a registered nurse is equipped for good-paying and stable positions. There is, for instance, the airline stewardless deal, natural outlet for an RN.

And, of course, there Is marriage and motherhood, where the BN can be brought into constant play. FOB GIBL high school pupils the film emphasizes a female child's early interest in mothering her doll, her quick interest in helping others. Star of the picture is a Cincinnati nurse, Charlotte Beard, RN. The film, through flashbacks, shows Charlotte, playing a high school senior, envisioning her student days in nursing (all scenes were shot in Cincinnati hospitals). As Charlotte's vision widens, she becomes aware of her importance, of the benefits the nursing profession bestows upon the world.

The film Illustrates the maintenance, bor.rd, room and laundry service received during her training period. From then on, all facets of a nurse's life are photographed. BY DAVID S. AUSTIN'. NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS printed about George P.

Carrel, former Cincinnati Mayor, after he died the other day recalled an incident when he was in office. One of his old friends wonders if George now isn't looking down on us with tolerant amusement, always a salient characteristic of his. Carrel never wanted to be Mayi and, to his friends, he made no bones about it. "I'd rather go fishing," he declared. "Let somebody else have it.

AH you get out of that office Is a lot of newspaper abuse and a lot of enemies." But the necessities of the political situation required that he make the race for the benefit of the party, so he ran and was elected. Before long he was getting large doses of the newspaper criticism he had expected. One newspaper was particularly virulent toward him and, although Carrel was ns tolerant and good-natured a mar. as could be found anywhere, us unceasing vituperation at length got him into a state of sullen anhrer. something wholly unlike him.

ABOUT THIS TIME a reporter on that paper who, despite tho paper's attitude, had remained personal friends with Carrel walked downtown with Carrel at 1 unch time one day. On the way they discussed an official action of Carrel's that morning, and the reporter remarked: "Well, George, that will make another paragraph to add on your obituary." Carrel stopped and demanded to know what the reporter meant. The reporter explained that newspapers often prepared the story of a prominent man's life and public career, so that when he died a short lead could be written hastily end the entire story set in type and slapped into the next edition. Carrel was interested. After mulling it over, he said to the reporter: "Listen; we always have been friends and still are, aren't we?" "Sure! Why?" "Well, you know how that scandal sheet of yours has been smearing me.

I'd certainly like to see what they will say about me wheq I'm gone. Do you think you could sneak out that obituary and let me take a look at it?" THE REPORTEB started to laugh but Carrel checked him. He was In earnest, Finally the reporter told him that he could not possibly sneak out Carrel's obituary. But he reminded Carrel that the paper invariably fpoke better of a Republican public official after he died than when he was living. that was the way it was the day after Carrel died.

Of course the truth Is that George P. Carrel, though never a great man (he never pretended or aspired to be) was an honest man of strong personal principles who really did very well in office under conditions so difficult and attacks so malicious and unreasonable that any bony would have been lucky to escape from thnt office with his reputation for personal Integrity intact. Yet Carrell succeeded in doing just that. In fact, his reputation for integrity grew In office. American Hospital Association, the film is to cost less than $400.

An average production figure for a 15-minute commercial film is $25,000. It can run higher; for instance, the $75,000 Lasky obtains for a commercial The club's intention is to attack, through the motion-picture medium, one civic problem after an. other. Through that system the club hopes to make noteworthy contributions to Cincinnati, at tho same time making the city more camera conscious. ON THE HOSPITAL promotion, the club's work is completed when the film is finished and placed in the files of every hospital in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Screening of the film In the schools, enticing high school seniors into the nursing profession through the "Deed To Happiness" then becomes a responsibility of the hospitals. For less than $400, the hospitals obtain a $25,000 bargain deal. The hospitals couldn't have obtained a better bargain nor could the Cincinnati Movie Club have selected a better job for its initial civic contribution. MOST OF THE EQUIPMENT used in the production is provided by the club members. The list of production personnel on the project: Louis Barnett, radio broadcast engineer, cinematographer (interiors) and sound recordist.

The Camera Club members faithfully photographed a Caesarian birth, then cleaned it up properly for a high school audience. There are operating room scenes illustrating the nurse's importance her place as the surgeon's second set of hands. Depicting how human life hangs in the balance unless the nurse hands the surgeon the correct instrument at the precise second he want it. The flashback technique is used throughout. Until Miss Beard finally realizes upon the night of her graduation that she wants to be a nurse.

MEMBERS of the camera club produced the film at rock bottom cost. There was no payment whatsoever to any person having anything to do with the film. The production technique and work was provided gratis. Tho scenario was written gratis. The cast worked for free.

For them, It's a hobby translated Into service. It has requires three to four hours works a week for almost four months by everybody involved. And, before it Is completed soon it will require several full days of work by everybody involved, with everybody available at the same time. Since.ost of the 12 movie club members producing the film are specialists with Cincinnati firms, it is no small task that getting together for a full day. WHEN COMPLETED for the Southwestern Ohio District of the Walter Deer, in engineering service department of a machine tool company, Vice President of movie club and technical advisor.

Robert' Evans, in personnel department of a machine tool company, secretary of movie club and photographer of production stills for movie. Mac Huffman, field engineer in machine tooLcompany, President of movie club and cinematographer (interiors). Tom Miller, sales engineer of a machine tool company, assistant electrician, Mrs. Tom Miller, housewife, script girl. Elliott Otte, President of a sanitarium, coordinator between movie club and local hospitals where movie-makers go on location.

Introduced the club's nurse recruiting film idea. Henry Shea, design engineer for a machine tool company, script writer for movie. Kurt Siems( in engineering service department of a tool company, treasurer of movie club and cinematographer (exteriors). George Schmitz, in advertising department of a machine tool company, art work and titles for movie. Edith Schwartz, housewife, alternate script girl.

Marion. Russell Smith, electrical Installations for electric contracting firm, chief electrician and lighting specialist on movie, Henry Thurmond, professional cinematographer for a commercial photography studio..

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