Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1939 — Page 8

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30-PIECE BAND IS FORMED FOR

SAFETY CAMP

280 Pupils Are Expected for

Training Aug. 28 to Sept. 1; Staff Named.

A Safety Patrol band today was!

added to the program for the third

annual School Safety Patrol Of-|. ficers’ Training Camp at the Boy| Scout Reservation from Aug. 28 to|

Sept. 1. The 30-piece band, composed of patrol members in Indianapolis schools,

nucleus for a larger, city-wide band |

to be formed during the school year. William A. Evans, director of school safety education and camp superintendent, said an attendance of 280 was anticipated this year. Camp officers include Charles W. Youngman, School 8 principal, commandant; Sergt. A. C. Magenheimer of the Police Accident Prevention Bureau, assistant commandant; Donald Klopp, registrar and canteen: William Davis, canteen assistant; William Sanford, commissar; Herbert Traub, engineer; Patrick Rooney, campfire, and Alonzo Eidson, band.

Instructors Named

The staff of instructors will include William Merrill, Daniel Gregg, Murray Dalmar, George Fisher, L. T. Stafford, Paul Miller, W. H. Gossett, Fred Henke, Stanley Norton and Harold Reiss. Physical examinations will be

given from Aug. 23 to 26 in the World War Memorial for all those expecting to attend camp, Mr. Evans

said. Expenses of campers will be

paid by Parent-Teacher Associations in public schools and other groups in parochial schools. The camp is conducted under auspices of the Indianapolis Safety Education Council and the Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher Associations. Serves as Model

Since its inauguration the camp has served as a model for ones established at Detroit and Miami, Fla. Those completing the course successfully will be awarded sweaters. The day will begin with a first

call at 6:15 a. m. with breakfast at | 6:45. Tent inspection follows and after several classes the first chance | to swim will be at 10:30. The daily | program closes with taps at 9 p. m. Among the subjects campers will | study are history and organization of patrols, patrols at work, leadership problems, school district study, safety at school, safety on the | street, fire prevention, first aid and water safety.

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By JAMES Audley Dunham, D. L.

HILLIS WILL ADDRESS |. U. MEN'S ROUNDUP

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. July 17.— Glenn R. Hillis will be the princi‘pal speaker for the annual Men's | Roundup of the Indiana University summer session to he held Wednesay. Mr. Hillis, a Kokomo attorney, is an Indiana graduate and national chairman of the American Legion welfare division. Prof. A. L. Kohlmeier, history department head, will be master of ceremonies, and Prof. Velorus Martz

of the School of Education, will give the welcome address. The program

|games followed by a picnic dinner lat the fieldhouse. Group singing | will be led by Prof. William Ross of the music school. | The roundup is being sponsored |by the Phi Deita Kappa honorary |educational fraternity with Alden | Peterson as general chairman. | Harold E. Moore, director of the Indiana University Bureau of Teacher | Recommendations, is sponsor.

Audley Dunham and Rogers’ Shakespearean guanies

Plaster Casts of Nineties Among Smith s Souvenirs

(Doctorum Lcckum), hobbies as he has keys in his lock shop at North and Illinois Sts. One of these hobbies happens to be slight-of-hand. Eight years ago, this avocation started him off on another hobby, with the result that today Mr. Dunham has what is said to be the ccunfry’s largest private collection of John Rogers plaster-cast statuary.

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THRASHER has almost as many

It all came about when Mr. Dunham saw the sculpture group titled “The Traveling Magician.” He was impressed by it as a magician, not a connoisseur. He admired the humor, realism and above all the fidelity of the Nineteenth Century sculptor’s work.

Impressed by Figures

Here was a man, thought Mr. Dunham, who knew his legerdemain —the magician’s rolled sleeves, the dramatic pose, the mystified spectators, the little tambourine girl asleep at the magician’s feet and, above all, the boy under the stage pushing a pigeon up to the performer. The little boy settled it. Dr. Dunham started looking into the matter of Rogers sculpture. Rogers, he discovered, was a contemporary of Currier and Ives, and his work was as much a part of Victorian America’s art life as were the Currier and Ives colored lithographs. Born in New England in 1829, Rogers dirfted into sculpture by accident. Self-taught, he deserted the prevailing classicism and turned to the life and people of his own times for inspiration.

Casts Now Scarce

Rogers made 88 of these small groups, and the plaster casts became the badge of a family’s cultural taste. The Travelers Insurance Co. has estimated that nearly 100,000 casts were made from these 88 originals. Mr. Dunham thinks the number was considerably less. At any rate, they were no rarity. Yet today, they almost have gone the way of the dodo and the passenger pigeon. Tastes changed, a new generation grew up, and the Rogers groups departed the parlor for the trash bin lor, if they were more fortunate, the | attic. When Life magazine repro{duced 10 of the Rogers groups recently is was the first inkling millions of Americans had of the works’ existence, let alone their popularity. The firm of L. T. Gilbert & Son, New York art dealers, told Mr. Dunham recently, “We can get you a Rembrandt, a Watteau or a Stradivarius violin more easily than we can get you a Rogers.” Yet Lorado Taft, the noted American sculptor, has called Rogers’ work an important contribution both to American art and American history, and technically, “exceedingly faithful and amazingly accurate.”

Collects Nine Groups

Mr. Dunham has managed to collect nine groups. Some were posed by Rogers’ wife and children, almost his only models. Others were done from photographs, like the “Council of War,” which shows Lincoln, Grant and Edmund Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War. “Rogers could do with clay what | Alec Templeton does with music. | He could look at a momentary happening, then go home and record | every detail of costume, pose and | expression.” | Mr. Dunham is a collector for sen|timental as well as artistic reasons. |One group, “School Days,” shows | Just such an organ-grinder, monkey and music-box with animated puppets as he remembers from his own boyhood. And of the group from a performance of “Othello,” pictured above, Mr. Dunham says: “I remember that very stage set from the days when I used to be an usher at English's Theater.”

Only One in Existence

HIGHWAY WORK HEAVY IN STATE

Contracts First Half of 1939 Total $6,521,336, Dicus Discloses.

Contracts totaling $6,521,336 for paving, grading, bridge and grade separation construction work on the State highway system were awarded

¢ | during the first six months of 1939,

State Highway Commission Chairman T. A. Dicus reported today. This figure does not represent the entire six-months construction program, several large contracts for 1939 work having been awarded during the last months of 1938, Mr.

Dicus said. During June the department’s program was slowed by frequent rains, he said. Only 25 miles of paving and grading were completed. Construction work jobs were provided for 2552 workers in June, Mr. Dicus said, an increase of more than 900 in the number directly employed by contractors in May. A total of 81 road, bridge and grade separation projects were in operation during the month and con-

tracts for approximately 250 miles’

of paving surfacing and grading were awarded, the department reported. The highway program will

[reach its peak in August, Mr. Dicus

said.

3 LEAVE FOR JUNIOR CONSERVATION CAMP

Raymond Taber of Decatur Township, Robert Richardson of Bridgeport and C. J. Murphy, assistant Marion County agricultural agent, left today for the State Conservation Camp for Juniors at McCormick’s Creek Canyon State Park. They will camp there for the week. Two from each county in the state will attend the camp, sponsored by the State Conservation Department.

Incidentally, the “Othello” group,

only reproduction in existence. But his first love is the Rogers, collection. It is insured for more | | than $1000. but he has refused

groups at his own price.

{a great artist,” says Mr. Dunham] | by way of explanation. “You can see fineness, cleanness, sympathy | land humanity in all his work. And | I wouldn't part with my examples: (of it for any price.”

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Billy (Horse) Dead—'Best Friend’ Gone

MEMPHIS, Tenn.. July 17 (U. P.).—An old man—he said he was “up in the 70s”— walked into a newspaper office today and asked how much it would cost to “get a little piece written about my Billy.” Billy was his horse, the “bes’ friend ah ever had,” and had just died. “We's been working t’gether fo’ 23 years,” said the old man,

Louis McCulley. “He made a livin’ fo’ me all these years. Ah asked de Lawd to take Billy befo’ he did me, cause ah didn't want him lef’ in nobody else’s hands.

“Billy was about all ah had left, an’ ah just wanted to get a little piece in the paper about him.” The aged man got the “piece in the paper,” free.

TOUR IS OUTLINED FOR 4-H PIG GLUB

The annual Marion County 4-H Pig Club tour willesbe held Friday, July 28, C. J. Murphy, assistant agricultural agent, announced today. It is planned to make stops at six farms, he said. These will include two where 4-H Club members are feeding market pigs, two where there are breeding gilts and two with sow and litter projects developed as a result of experience in 4-H Club work. Among the subjects which may be presented are demonstrations of show ring behavior, judging, sanitation and disease control, display of homemade equipment, treatment of pigs for lice or mange and dis-

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