Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1941 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1941.

TEACHERS’ PAY ‘Busy Preparing for Shriners EQUALITY ASKED

Increases Are Proposed by Civic Organizations; Reappointments Due.

By EARL HOFF A proposed equalization of public school teachers’ salaries which would bring some increases will be discussed today. Representatives of teachers groups and civic and taxpayers organizations will meet in the office of the City Schools Su-| perintendent The Indianapolis Federation of School Teachers and the Indianapolis Teachers Union are seeking a written schedule of wage increases based on service and qualifications. They point out that there are some discrepancies in the present unwritten schedule, The Federation asserts that there are a number of teachers at the

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WAR IS REVIVED

Ludlow Says 95% Oppose Conflict; Points to Debates in Nation.

By RICHARD LEWIS

Dr. Max A. Bahr was seated at his desk in the old-fashioned, highceilinged superintendent's office at Central State Hospital There before him on the desk were tests and pictures used in mental examinations. He had preTimes Special pared with scientific thoroughness WASHINGTON, April 8 —Repre- | for an interview on the occasion

{of his appointment to the Police sentative Louis Ludlow (D. Ind) | ang Fire Department Merit Board.

today reported a “sharp revival of, The white-haired. jovial superinterest” in his war referendum intendent who Suveens Dr. dpe | ray De Armond, now in military amendment, | service, as psychiatrist member of The subject is being debated on| the board, pulled his glasses down the radio and in schoolhouses and|his nose to peer over them at the other meeting places throughout interviewer, the country, he declared. The rea-| “Well.” he said, chewing the end son for this revival is that 95 per of a dead cigar, “what do you want cent of the American pecple want| to know. I ought to tell you the no part in a foreign war, the In-|Board hasn't had a meeting since dianapolis Congressman contends. | I was appointed. The Mayor has to “It appears that lately there has! appoint one more member before come over the people more of a We meet.” h realization of how close to the| "Well, uh,” the interviewer conchasm of war we really are and an tinued. “You're sort of in favor of, out-cropping determination that if this merit system. I mean to say

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$2000 annual income level who have a wide degree of experience and qualifications. Adjustment of this and other salary matters are sought Besides the School Board and the (eachers groups, organizations which will be represented are In-

it comes to a proposition of sending our boys to fight in foreign wars in Europe, Africa or Asia the people shall have something to say about it,” Representative Ludlow asserted. “The peofle have seen a trend of events that points more and

more to the involvement of our

| “Oh, yes, yes,” Dr. Bahr responded quickly, looking up in surprise. | It was easy to see that he took the merit system for granted — never { questioned it at all. | Before interviewer could change his tack, Dr. Bahr launched into a discussion of the pictures and

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dianapolis Chamber of. Commerce the Indiana Taxpayers Association, the Indianapolis Real Estate Board and the County Board of Tax AdJustments At School Board meeting tonight. Ray Wakeland, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, since Feb. 23, 1937. will be released, Evans Woollen Jr., school board president

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In addition to his duties as Judge of Criminal Court, Dewey E.

Murat Shrine, is busy these days

with arrangements for the 67th annual North American convention of the Imperial Council of the Shrine to be held here June 10-12. Miss Laura Stadler, 2937 Ruckle St. is helping Judge Myers prepare for distribution a part of the hundreds of pieces of literature describ-

35,000 CONVENE

tests on his desk.

| manpower on foreign battlefields. “Of course, we wouldn't use these

| rs : , a | With the realism of that prospect to examine candidates,” Dr. Bahr store them they are looking more qi “These are for chiidren; help |and more to the war referendums tel] the mental age. Mental age resolution as the people's brake on js different than physical age | war, he said sometimes, you know. Maybe we

-—, could use some of these on native RAPS DEMOCRATS li That never develops IN FIGHT ON G. 0. P.

past the age of 16. Did you know that?” FRANKLIN, Ind., April 8. —Robert

“The idea.” said Dr. Bahr, warming up to the subject, “is to tind out what the child sees in this

wiich he has conducted hig office.’ Mr. Woollen asserted. He said the Board would do all in its power to see that Mr. Wakeland secured another position, Four other school will be reappointed. They. are DeWitt 8S. Morgan, superintendent since Sept. 1, 1939; L. L. Dickerson,

administrators

BLOOMINGTON, April 8-— Poetry was described as the lanthe “definite” article and prose and life the language of the ‘indefinite article by Dr. Robert Tristram Coffin, Pulitzer prize winning poet here today. In a lecture—the second of the]

guage of

HERE JUNE 10-12

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H. Loring, Young Republican na- |

| tional committeeman of Indiana, charged in an address here yesterday that the Democrats are trying {to sabotage the constructive program enacted by the G. O. P.-con-trolled Legislature, He asserted that the Democrats were raising funds to combat the

{ picture. How he interprets it. All | of these tests are standardized and in giving them thousands of times, we have established a norm. Now, look at this one.” It was another drawing. this time a 19th Century scene with an atmosphere of heavy tragedy about |it. In a garishly furnished room, a

Arranging Details at Murat Temple.

The mere planning for a national {convention of Shriners is a business] lin itself. If there should be any doubt about this just peek in on Karl L. Friedfrichs at his headquarters at the Murat Temple. | There, with a small army of helpfers, Mr. Friedrichs is arranging for hundreds of small details—each essential in order to successfully play |host to some 35,000 Shriners. Mr. Friedrichs is secretary of the {group making plans for the annual convention of the Shrine Imperial {Council of North America to be held | {there June 10-12. ge The Shrine’s 159 Temples in the AI nN \ 2 |United States, Canada, Hawaii, [Mexico and the Canal Zone will each

send four official delegates, another y [100 uniformed men and “as many . more” as are able to make the trip. | The group will number close of 135,000 all told—the city's biggest jconvention since it can remember

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(vention, Inc. Dr. C. E. Cox is president of the] {organization and Criminal Court] |Judge Dewey E. Myers is vice presi-| dent. Mr. Friedrichs is the man on the scene every day until late at night. | |A staff of stenographers, secretaries land assistants have been helping {him for many weeks now and things are just now getting under way, he reports. There is so much business eoninected with the convention arrangements that Mr. Friedrichs keeps the {public and Shriners throughout the| country informed by a series of} “communiques.” “To the businessmen of Indianapolis: “The Murat Imperial Convention, Inc, wishes to announce that the Evans Flag and Decorating Co. has been appointed the official decorator for the Shrine Imperial Convention 0

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REFERENDUM ON Dr. Bahr Pictures Work as

Questions Fail Interviewer

Dr. Max A. Bahr

“Look’s like a domestic quarrel,” Dr. Bahr commented. “Then again, maybe he's going away to war or on a long trip somewhere. Different interpretations. Tells us a lot, For an hour or more, Dr. Bahr the reasons people behave the way thev do, in a chatty, humorous manner. Suddenly he stopped in the middle of a sentence

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“This was supposed to be an in- | tence: “My job, I suppose, will sim= terview, wasn't it?” he demanded. (PLY be to find out whether the cane So it was. didate is mentally fit for the job.” It was already time to go. Dr.| He waved the unlichted cigar to Bahr looked distressed. Then|ward the barred windows of the quickly, he summed up his new | huge hospital building role on the Merit Board in a sen-| “That ought to be easy,” he said.

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