Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1942 — Page 15

Hoosier Vagabond

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 5~-Carl Spits, the

dog man, is an amazing person in his relations with dogs. He handles dogs wholesale, hundreds of them a year, and yet he knows every individual dog as well as he'd knaw a man. There are more than 150

dogs in his kennels right row, left there by owners for boarding or training. Some have been there for months, some only a few days. But there isn’t one of those 150 dogs that Spitz doesn’t know personally, by name and by some little trait he’ll tell you about. And there isn’t a dog that doesn’t know him and doesn’t come bounding to the wire gate to lick his hand. I asked him if he'd ever seen a dog that didn’t like him imme- | diately. “Let's put it the other ¢ said. “Have I ever seen g dog I didn’t like?” He answered | it himself: “Well, actually, yes, I don’t like some dogs on sight. But if I take a job Usining such a ii I never let the dog know I don’t e ”

Trains 300 a Year

SPITZ TRAINS AROUND 300 dogs a year for . private owners—just schooling them in good house ~ manners, and obedience, and maybe a few little tricks. This is the bulk of his training work, and what he likes best. Then in his movie work he trains anywhele from five to 50 dogs |a year. He finds the movie work

fluctuating and jundependable. . Spitz’ kennels are around. three sides of his house. ~ He has a loud-speaker system, and you'd never guess . what it’s for. Itis so that if Spitz hears a disturbance . in the kennels al night he can stay right in bed and + talk the dogs i quietness again! Spitz recently built a nice new house for himself, about 50 yards from his old home.. But he doesn’t live in it. Instead, he put his head trainer in it. Wher the time came for him to move, he just ¢couldn’t Hed be too| far away from his dogs!

Inside

‘WE THOUGHT WE HAD an item for you the other day when | la citizen phoned in about a tow-in truck hauling away a 1941 licensed car from the 100 block, E. 22d st. | The tow-in truck, we were told, itself had 1941 plates. Then we recalled it wasn't much of an item. Trucks, you remember, couldn’t buy plates until last Saturday because of the suit over the 1941 truck license law, so truckers are getting a week or .so of leniency. . . . Glenn Markland, | public relations man for the State { Alcoholic Beverage Commission, is | making quite a few speeches over | the state, explaining the work of | the ABC and extolling the merits { of temperance. . . . | book salesmen are watching with 3 | interest see who succeeds Dr. Daniel 8. Robinson as a member of the State Board of Education. e successor [must be a college president, and a Republican, to keep the required balance on the board.

: Old Grad Hadden

ONE OF FITS minor triumphs is to return to your alfa mater a§"the principal speaker af; some more._or less im t event, That distinction, we're happy to report, has fallen to Sam Hadden, chairman of our State Highway Com! jon. Sam went to the University of lllinois yesterday to address the 29th annual conference on highway engineering. He was graduated in 19 . Bernard Lynch, fire prevention chief, exhibited the national colors Tuesday when he was a guest speaker at the Indianapolis Council of _ Women’s luncheon. One of the council members pinned a white ¢arnation on Bernie's blue uniform.

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Washington

WASHINGTON, March 5.—Although a number of organizations and students ot economics and * problems are giving earnest thought to postwg:! tions, their efforts are receiving little attention. Interest here in Washington is as low: as it could pos- '- | sibly be. That is natural. The war has taken such a grave turn that it is | a question of making sure first

| that we will be in a position to | have anything at all to say about i the postwar world. k XE we lose this ‘war, ‘that, is if f (we do not smash Germany and | Japan to helplessness, we can have | little or no say. They will tell us. If Germany and Japan survive undefeated, all of our effor{, will go to staying armed to the: teeth and to standing onl the alert ready for a surprise blow. That will be our war job, all cut out for us, and 2 grim and bitter ¢ne it will be.

So until the crisis of this year is passed, until it is clear that the ce has been turned and that the final ‘decision |s only a matter of time, postwar planning remains a remote interest. No one would wish President Roosevelt and his war organization to take much time out to plan for the world after * the war and so risk losing the war.

It All Dovetails

THE SIGNIFIGANCE of the recent agreement with Great Britain was that it laid a basis for cooperation after the war but left the details until we see what the situation is to be. The Atlantic charter . also lays a foundaion of aspirations and ultimate goals which are to be the policy guide when the time comes that our side is in a position to steer the reconstruction of the world.

My Day

~ SEATTLE, Wash, Wednesday. —T have’ very little information to give you today, because when one spends most of one's time in a hospital not a great many things happen. I went in to see a young girl filers, whose Luother and sister. tsiephoned to ack if 1 sould not stop in because she had eard I was in the hospital. She s very ill, and they thoughi it t help her. The child looked as though she quite a high fever, and ‘told ne she was threatened with preuonia. ever, she seemed tO be ly , and I hope with all he modern treatments we have } will come through it all right, | Yesterday, & young man rode elevator with us. He

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| By Ernie Pyle

Work Makes the Dog

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training of army dogs. The best breeds are Doberman, German shepherd and boxer, because they're intelligent and fast on their feet. He has had one Airedale, and wishes he oul get more, Males predominate slightly in the sen dogs under training. But female dogs make by fa the best Red Cross dogs. I asked why. “The moth: instinct, I guess,” Spitz said. “I don’t know what else. ”» - 5 Spitz says the old-fashioned sheep collie would be wonderful for guard work, but good ones are rare now. He says many a fine breed of dog has been spoiled by too little work. He says work—genuine, necessary work—is what keeps a breed of dogs high in character and intelligence. Spitz is delighted with the way army enlisted men handled the dogs he has already delivered. Of the 25 armyimen assigned for him to train in handling the dogs, he says there were four he’d even pick as potential trainers for his own school.

25 Dogs of His Own!

SPITZ WON'T TAKE any dog you bring to him for private training. There is many a “psychopathic” dog, he says, that simply can’t be trained any further by him than by its owner. In addition to all the dogs he boards and trains for other people, Spitz has 25 dogs of his own. Some are his movie dogs, others are just pets. He has three great Danes. He doesn't care much for wirehaireds. He loves the dog of his own name (the spitz), his last one of which has just died. He'll soon get another,

He owns several bird dogs, fully trained, but never

gets time to hunt. In the big back lot Spitz has all kinds of apparatus for training. An old broken-down auto is used for training dogs to go in auto doors. There are pools and bridges and. hurdles and high jumps There is even a playground slide. “Is that for your children or the dogs?” I asked. . “Both,” said Spitz. “One of my Danes will climb up on that thing and slide down it belly-fashion by the hour.” Oh to be a dog, now that spring is almost here.

Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

The red was on his cheeks when three fellow firemen snickered as he got up to speak, still’ wearing the; flower.

Meets His Match

| BOB HARRISON of the School Board is limping these days. It"seems Bob and Mrs. Harrison visited relatives Sunday and while there filled a gallon glass jug with rain water to take home for hair washing purposes. En route home, they picked up a cartén of cokes and several other packages. Bob was carrying the cokes and jug of rain water and had another package under one arm when he stepped into his apartment. Then, he stepped on a kitchen match on the floor. He skidded and fell. The jug broke and soaked the floor and Bob.

On the tiny tip-of Batagn. peninsula, Lugeniisiand, a Small army of Amedivan- and ' Philippine soldiers amazes the world by standing off the might of Japan in one of the . most brilliant military achievements of the war, Here are some hitherto unpublished

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No Sympathy

A YOUNG MAN who had been notified by his}

draft board (No. 13—by the way) to appear for final physical examination went to the board and asked to

be deferred. At first he said he wanted to enlist in|§

the navy. Then he gave his real reason: He'd been arrested on a drunken driving charge, fined $10 and|s costs and sentenced to 10 days, in jail by Municipsi| 3 Judge Niblack and wanted time “to appeal to Criminal court and get the days knocked off.” ‘At that, one of the board members looked up and moved “no deferment.” The board member was the Rev. Roy H. Turley of the University Heights U. B. church. It so happened that the Rev. Mr. Turley’s car had been

demolished only a few days earlier in a collision with, Si

another car, the driver of which, the pastor explained,

had been arrested on a drunken driving charge. The}!

board secretary wrote: “No deferment.”

By Raymond Clapper

However, the very fact that the ‘government is limited in what it can do now makes it all the more ‘necessary that others carry on the st cussion. This is the period in which be assembling the | materials, survéying the possibilities, working over the possible lines of action. We can be building up a fund of thought which

will not leave us totally unprepared to consider these|'

questions when the opportunity does come.

Unfortunately the house recently voted down al |

proposal which would have authorized funds to enable the national resources planning board to proceed with stuides. Aside from the international problems, much internal preparation must be made in order to avoid a severe collapse when war production is sharply reduced. Much work by states and local governments

will be necessary. .It should all dovetail with national|

public-works programs.

First Things Come First

BUT THE HOUSE refused to auth: studies. Unless more encouragement is Sarize — es apt to reach the end of the war as unprepared for that drastic changeover back to peacetime work as we were when the necessity of changing to war pro-! duction hit us. The fact that we have so many more immediate difficulties to overcome means that these first things have to come first. Busy officials have no time for anything else. But there is need for encouragement of every effort to enable us to understand some of the questions that will arise when we win the war. because Americans are unprepared for the problems which the victory in the last war created, we were unable to play our part toward creating a stabilizing world force. Unless we are prepared mentally for many readjustments, we may make the same mistake again, : :

By Eleanor Roosevelt

founding the Swedish hospital, and that her other son was now on the board of directors. I stole a little present, which had come to the President before I left Washington, and I must tell you about it. Fo When Alexander Woollcott was staying with wll this winter, he discovered that my husband liked! Rudyard Kipling’s writings, which is, perhaps, an old-| fashioned habit. Mr. Woollcott asked if the President had seen one of the last stories that Kipling had}. written, called “Proofs of Holy Writ.” My husband had not seen it, and when Mr. Wonlitors Sieg wen: it, he found it out of print. But, the other day, he sent him copies privately printed in February, 1 day. Doran & Co. With it came = letter addressed

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