Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1940 — Page 4

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STATE'S SOCIAL * “NEEDS SUBJECT

Forum Here Nov. 7 to Dis- ». BUSS Legislative Program In Four Fields.

i A symposium on Indiana’s present legislative needs will highlight the opening session of the Indiana State Conference on Social Work,

Banks, internationally-known check-

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er player, will give a demonstration before the Y. M. C. A. Chess Club [at the Central Y. M. C. A. at 7:30

Participants in the forum, to pe | 0'clock tonight. While blindfolded,

held at Keith's Theater, Nov. 7, |1€ Will play chess and checkers at

will discuss current legislative (De same time.

The last time he

|. “Y” classes to open—Courses in creative writing and scientific gov- | ernment will be started at the Y. M. C. A. evening school next Thurs-

day. George Kaufman, assistant advertising director of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. who | has written many short stories and

needs in the fields of child wel-| Was here he played 10 games of magazine articles, will direct the

fare, mental health, corrections and Checkers and 17 games of chess

‘personnel for public administration. | WPile blindfolded.

= Forum speakers will include Mrs. Perry W. Lesh, Indianapolis; chairman of the Indiana Citizens’ ComMittee on Child Welfare Legislation; Joseph G. Wood, Indianapolis attorney and member of the In-

diana State Advisory Council on|

Mental Hygiene; Dr. Edwin H. Sutherland, Indiana University professor and chairman of the Indiana Council on the Prevention of Crime and Delinquency; and a representatlve of the Indiana League of Women Voters, to be selected later. +The forum will be presided over By ‘Murray A. Auerbach, Indianap@lis, president of the State Conference on Social Work and executive Secretary of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association. #: On Friday, Nov. 8, Philip D. Flanher of Chicago, consultant for the American Public Welfare AssociaYon, will lecture to social workers on “Trends In Work Relief.” The @iddress will be made before the Committee on Unemployment ReHef, Dudley A. Smith, director of the Indiana Unemployment ReYiet Commission will preside.

“Americans on Trek” will be the theme for a group of study meetings at the Irvington Presbyterian Church this month. The series will start at 6:15 o’clock this evening when one group will present a migrant skit following a pot-luck dinner. Mrs. Robert Reed will lead adults in a discussion of the background and problems of a migrant. The following Thursday evenings will be featured by discussions of various phases of the migrant’s problems. Next Thursday evening, 0. S. Flick will tell of constructive activities being carried on for the benefit of migrants, :

’ Conscript Dance Tomorrow—A patriotic dance sponsored by the St. Philip Neri Catholic Church is to be held at the St. Philip Neri Auditorium tomorrow night. The dance, a novelty conscription affair, is to be staged in an atmosphere of a “Parasian Nite in ’18.” American flags will be displayed from the balcony and stage.

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writing course. Eugene Fife Jr, attorney, will lead the class in the study of government.

Myron Green..,Portrays Indianapolis’ industrial growth.

“Indianapolis, fortunately, has never been accused of being a boom town,” says the Exchange Club’s bulletin this week. “Its commercial interests believe in obtaining industries that stick, and expand—hence the industrial growth of the city during recent years is a fascinating story of progress.” Pointing out that the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce is on the alert constantly to locate new industries of this type, the Exchange bulletin announces that Myron Green, industrial commis=sioner of the Chamber, will describe the growth of industry here at the Club's meeting to-

morrow noon in the Hotel Severin. Legion Sponsors Party—Service

Post 128, American Legion, will sponsor a benefit bridge and euchre party in the Oaklandon Hall tomorrow night. Members of the committee are Fred C. Duzan, Glenn Downey and Chester E. Lawson.

Technocracy Is Topic—Paul Sykes of Seattle, Wash., is to speak on “This Crucial Period and Technocracy” at the Hotel Washington at 8 p. m. tomorrow. A question period will follow the lecture.

CONFERENCES HINT NEW AID TO BRITISH

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (U. P). —President Roosevelt prepared today for a week-end conference with Earl of Athlone, new Governor-Gen-eral of Canada, amidst indications that the United States is preparing more “aid short of war” to Great

Britain. > Athlone, brother of the dowager Queen Mary of Britain and uncle of King George VI, will come to the President’s Hyde Park, N. Y., home this week-end. Officials sought to minimize significance of the meeting, but disclosures coincided with important developments in United States relations with the British Empire.

Joseph P. Kennedy is coming home for “consultation” next week while Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador, confers with his foreign office after a trans-Atlantic plane trip to London. : Athlone and his wife, Princess Alice, have been hosts this week at | Quebec to Prime Minister W. L. | MacKenzie King of Canada, the Canadian war-leader with whom Mr. Roosevelt. created a joint board to plan defense of North America. Mr, Roosevelt conferred Tuesday with Canadian Minister Christie, and yesterday with Robert G. Casey, Australian Minister to the United States.

U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain :

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School News—

TEACHERS RIDE MUSIC CIRGUIT IN UNIQUE PLAN

Direct Orchestras In Grades.

By EARL HOFF

The music rises to a crescendo, but -as the orchestra holds quivering to the last note, a horn flats, a fiddle squeaks and a music stand topples with a crash. The teacher shudders. The music halts and 15 youngsters look up expectantly. Up goes the instructor’s baton again and the orchestra starts over again. This time only the fiddle squeaks on the finale. The third time is perfect. ‘As tl instructor’s baton falls, the youngsters ‘look up at him and grin. They'd get it right this time. He grins back. “That’s all for today,” he says, “I'll see you again next week.”

A Unique System

Practically the same scene is being repeated exactly 66 times a week in Indianapolis. The setting is in the City’s grade schools where 11 high school teachers are riding a weekly circuit This is the only city of any size that has such a system of bringing music to grammar school pupils, according to Ralph W. Wright, schools music director. The high school music school teachers give instrumental instruction in either five or 10 schools each week. In each school they instruct beginners for an hour and the school orchestra for an hour. The important part of the system is that the teachers themselves can still shiver when they hear a horn flat or a fiddle squeak, Mr. Wright says. This is because they teach advanced high school pupils as well as grade school beginners. “Their ears don’t become used to hearing out-of- tune music as they would if that was all they heard,” Mr. Wright says. In most schools, the pupils buy their own instruments. In a few the school furnish some of them and in others the P.-T.-A. outfits the orchestra.

Started in 1937

Pupils begin tooting horns early, some of them in the first grade. Besides the instruction in school, many of them take private lessons. One result of the system that was started in 1937 is that high school teachers may have a pupil for as long as 12 years instruction instead of only four. Also, it stirs a love for music very early in a child’s life, Mr. Wright pointed out. In many instances, this has been transmitted by the child to his entire family and each member gets an instrument to form a home orchestra, Mr. Wright said.

Program ‘Only Started’

Instrumental classes increase during the second semester because

‘Imany children get instruments for

Christmas. And they carry right through summer vacation. Mr. Wright insists that the program is only started and is the advance guard of “a new era, instrumentally, in the City.” He cited the .Manual Training High School May Festival as an example of what can be done. Each year a group of grade school orchestras get together for one rehearsal and then give a mass afternoon performance. But school orchestras. aren't allowed to languish in closed music rooms. Whenever there is an audi-

P.-T.-A. meeting the orchestra gets the spotlight. Then the owner of a fiddle that persists in squeaking gets a dirty look from the cymbals man and a dig from the tuba player.

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20 to Vie for National Husking Title Oct. 30 PHIL MURRAY GIVES

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—Athletes in.overalls will compete Oct. 30 for the 1940 National corn husking championship on the Henry Keppy farm, seven miles southwest of Davenport. A field containing 60 acres of Iowa’s finest hybrid corn has been

selected for the meet. It will be the first time since 1931 that the tournament has been held in Iowa, since the event is rotated each year among the 10 states which send competitors. Lawrence (Slim) Pitzer of Attica, Ind.,, won the title in 1939, but he will not be back to defend his championship. As a result, there are expected to be only 20 contestants, representing the winners and runners-up in 10 state meets which are scheduled between Oct. 23 and 28. Arthur Thompson, associate editor of Wallace’s Farmer and Iowa Homestead, one of eight midwestern farm magazines ° which sponsors the meet, estimated that 3000 huskers will compete in elim-

ination tournaments to determine the finalists.

States which send representatives are Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Yyisconsin, Ohio and South Daota.

The first state corn husking tournament was sponsored by Henry A. Wallace of Iowa, Democratic candidate for vice president.

He felt that farmers were every bit as athletic as college football players and were entitled to a chance to display their prowess in a national meet. To husk corn for 80 minutes straight at top speed, without a rest, requires: more stamina than to play football for 60 minutes or basketball for 40 minutes, sponsors say. The world’s record for husking is held by Elmer Carlson, of Audubon, Iowa, who tossed 41.5 bushels of clean corn into his wagon to win the national title in 1935. He was 26 at the time and has retired from competition after winning virtually every honor possible in his field.

The first national contest : was held in 1924 in Iowa, with Fred Stanek, an Iowa farmer, winning. Since then the event has been held continuously. Coming just seven days before the election this year, the contest {could well be ‘a mecca for both | state and national politicians seek- | | ing the farm vote. f But even Mr. Wallace, the orig- | inator, will not be invited ve pur. |

of his candidacy. Politics have purposely been kept out of the meet throughout the years.

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| of its kind to be held in the United | | States, will’ be conducted the day | before the corn husking tourna- | ment on a nearby farm. If sufficient interest is shown this year it|

will be made an annual event.

WRITER LEAVES ITALY ! ROME, Out. 17 (U. P.).—Herbert| Matthews, New York Times corre-| spondent expelled from Italy by the, government, entrained for Switzer-| land today. He was expected to! cross the frontier late this evening.

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WALLAGE SUPPORT

WITH WALLACE MOTORCADE IN WEST VIRGINIA, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—Henry Wallace, Democratic candidate for Vice President, campaigned through West Virginia mining and manufacturing - towns today “on a record of achievement.” He came into the State after a series of speeches in Pennsylvania, climaxed last night in Pittsburgh by the unqualified indorsement of hil Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers of America. Mr. Murray, who seconded Mr. Wallace’s nomination at Chicago, pledged that he would “use all my influence with labor to re-elect President Roosevelt and his running mate in November.

FEAR CYCLONE KILLS 100

BOMBAY, India, Oct. 17 (U.P.). —One hundred persons were feared killed yesterday in a cyclone which swept this area and inflicted prop-

erty damage estimated at $800,000.

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