Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1945 — Page 7

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| OHAMPAIGN, 1, i Sept. 13 (U. P.)~Over-awed spectators, most admitting they wanted to see an atheist, today again jammed the little circuit courtroom where three Judges are hearing a bar the teaching of EE from Champaign public schools, The suit was brought by Mrs Vashti McCollum, 32-year-old pro-

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who seeks to obtain a writ of mandamus prohibiting the . Champaign board of education from holding religious classes in the city’s schools. Horrifled gasps went through the courtroom yesterday, third day of the trial,'when a Unitarian pastor likened the story of Jesus Christ to that of Santa Claus. ‘The Rev. Philip Schug, 31, who said he preferred not call himself a Christian, defined God as a “force or agency or some person behind the universe.” = Asked by Defense Attorney John L. Franklin whether he felt the same reverence for Santa Claus that he did for Jesus Christ, Schug answered that he regarded them both as folk ‘tales, Folk Tales, He Says “The story of Santa Claus,” he qualified, “is not so deeply tinged with religious feeling nor so implanted in the culture of the people. ” Schug, who first interested the Chicago Action Council in Mrs. McCollum’s efforts to confine the teaching of religion to churches, said that members of his church usually called themselves Christians because they believed the word had “a certain amount of social value.” When asked whether he considered himself a Christian, Schug

‘replied that he. preferred not to

use the terms. Mrs. McCollum, pért, wide-eyed daughter of a Rochester, N. Y., architect and free-thinker, testified for the first time yesterday in her effort to keep religion out of schools

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Both sides have threatened to carry the suit to the U. 8 supreme court, if necessary, to get a final opinion, Mrs, McCollum, who says she opposes the religion classes as a violation of the traditional doctrine of separation of church and state, told the court tnat her 10-year-old son, James Terry, had becn subjected to ridicule because he did not participate in the courses. Appearing more like a co-ed than the wife of a University of Illinois professor and the mother of three children, Mrs. McCollum defined her belief as “rationalism, ’which she said included atheism.

“Having found no proof that there is a God, so far as I am concerned there is none,” she said in response to Franklin's question ing. She added, however, that she did not deny there might be a God in the minds of other people. The slight, pug-nosed matron related in court how Terry had come

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LOCAL BRIEFS

The Ethical Beauty Schools of Indiana, Inc, will hold their first meeting of the fall season at 1 p.m. Sept. 23, in ‘Hotel Lincoln, Mrs, Jess LeFevre, Ft. Wayne, president, will preside. ' Principal speaker will be Mrs. Florence E. Harris, executive secretary of the national council boards of beauty culture,

Robert Wise of Indianapolis will edit the Butler university student directory this year. ‘Barbara Fark

Guide, distributed to freshman, with Peg O'Donnell, sports editor, and ' William Pittman, business manager,

Alvin R. Rolfs of the Purdue university English department has resumed his duties after spending two years in war service as a Red Cross field director. Stationed at various army air force fields throughout England, Mr. Rolfs is believed to have been the only Purdue’ faculty member to serve as both a Red Cross fleld director and field supervisor during. the war.

A fish fry will be held at the Center Methodist church, Bluff rd. and Epler ave, at 5:30 p.m, Satur-

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Dr. M. O. Ross, president of Butler .university, will speak to the members of the Association of Credit Men at Terre Haute Tuesday. Subject of his talk will be “Private Enterprise in the PostWar Peril

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'BLIND EDITOR GOING T0 ENGLAND TO WED

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Sept. 13 (U. P.).—Blind, 33-year-old Miss Mary Mansfield rode with her seeing-eye” dog on an eastbound

to wed her blind fiance after a 10year romance through Braille love messages. Miss Mansfield and her trusty

day for. New York. Saturday she will sail for England to meet Harry Christopher Marson, to whom she has been engaged since 1938. The small, blond woman—sight= less since birth—has corresponded with Marson for 10 years. In 185, after her graduation from Colorado college, Miss Mansfield became editor of Literary Spokesman, a magazine for the sightless printed in Braille. Marsom, who lives at Luton, England, 30 miles north of London, was a subscriber to the magazine, The two began exchanging letters. Three years later they became engaged.

pointed on the state planning committee for elementary education by Dr, Clement T, Malan, state super-. intendent of public instruction.

Indianapolis public schools, Luther Lockwood, Columbus; Miss Eleanor

ence Pound, Vigo county.

Stanley A. “Cain, graduate of Butler university and native of Indianapolis, has been elected president of the Tennessee Acadamy of Science and also selected to

at Biarritz, France.

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WARNS OF SOCIAL

CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 13.—Indian« apolis was congratulated today for having maintained an enviable record in its fight against venereal diseases, but was warned against the. possible “danger ahead.” Both the praise and the warning came from Howard F. Feast, regional director of the federal se-

vision for Indidna, Wisconsin. Referring to the “danger ahead” of prostitution and veneral diseases) Mr. Feast declared: is every reason to believe that the racketeers and gangsters who con. trolled the prostitution racket be- | fore the war are making post-war | plans to renew their: activities, “We can hold and extend the gains | made against prostitution and venereal disease,” he said, “but it will |

strated in Indianapolis.”

He cited the manner in which the mayor's advisory committee on!

clals and public agencies,

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (U. P.).—The long-scarce but never-

and private

shirt’ with a vail long enough to stay put—-is on its way back.

frills, This was today's good news from fhe war production board which lifted all restrictions on the cut, design and workmanship of men's shirts, pajamas

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can't keep their eyes on their books, with a congressional medal of « honor winner at the next desk. Pfe. Gino Merl, from making history is studying it now in his senior year at Blakely

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TRAVEL GREATER. THAN IN WAR-TINE

NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (U. P)— Most travel restrictions are off but if you want to sleep in a bed and eat a hot meal there is still no place like home. ’ ; ' Hotel and travel conditions across the country are more jammed today than anytiine during the war, a Hotel men said they expected no easing of the situation for at least a year, possibly two. The lifting of the ODT ban on conventions was partly to blame for the jam, hotel managers said. However in New York, where most hotels were booked through January, operators said, the heaviest demand for rooms came from servicemen and their families, motoring vacationists,” and traveling salesmen now returning to the road. There appeared to be very little {slackening in rail travel. Airlines were picking up more civilian travelers as priorities dropped off, but {they were only a small part of the railroad overflow,

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Schedule More Army Units to Return to U. S|

PARIS, Sept. 13 (U. P.).—Tofl redeployment timetable of U, army divisions:

17th Airborne, 14th 69th Infantry: Regiments in awaiting shipment Sept. 14. 273d Regiment on high seas. 63d -Infantry:: 25th and 255th Regiments at La Havre awaiting! transfer to United Kingdom Sept. 17 for shipment home. 103d Infantry: Loading at Le Havre, will clear for United States by Sept. 15. 6th Armored: Now shipping from Le Havre for United States. 98th Infantry and 5th Armored: Moving from assembly area command to Le Havre. Oth Armored: At assembly area command, moves to port by Sept. 15. 99th Infantry: In Marseille staging area, some elements now

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The congressmen are members oF la house foreign affairs 8 mittee recently returned from vestigating UNRRA in eastern | (rope. Rep. Thomas S. Gordon (D. Ik); chairman of - the subcommittes sald “We should end UNRRA at once unless we can get better co-operation” from recipient mn tions. 9 Rep. Joseph F. Ryter (D. ‘Conn another committee member, s: that = before granting further UNRRA funds the United 8 should make certain BR

“abuse” of UNRRA will be stopped.

“We must see to it that UNR is operated as the relief and habilitation organization it was tended to be,” Ryter said.

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