Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1945 — Page 21

ygestions 's Gifts!

ns: ¥

Dresses

Cotton

ss-up cottons , 8 to 6x, and

at Pt. Harrison during the to

terested to know the 1947 Indiana license plates will bear Notre Dame's colors—biue numerals on a gold background. This year's plates have Indiana univer-

didn't tum out too well—it's too. dark. Next year's plates will have Purdue’s colors, black and gold. Auto

bers. Last year, 8600 such special requests were honored, . . . Pedestrians in the vicinity of Illinois and

* Maryland sts. have been gawking at the second-floor

show window of the Display Supply Co., #¥% 8. Illinois st. For tight in plain view sits a wax dressmodel. Realistic and blond, the model attracts a

: lot of attention—maybe because it's totally unclad.

. + « Harry A. Rogers, executive sécretary of the Ine dianapolis Coal Merchants association, says the local supply of good quality coal is increasing. Less lowgrade fuel will have to be used this-Winter than was used during the war. That sffould help make the “smog” less dense, Mr. Rogers believes. . . . Henry Schad, 1421 Linden st, who makes vases 4s a hobby, was written up in this column Nov. 27. Since then

forbidden. . . . If smoking in bed were Mr. Schad, who is custodian of Holy Name Catholic

Strictly allowed in the army, the nifty, Billings-invented

church in Beech Grove, has had so many requests

ash tray would help. Above, Pfc. Bill Jacoby of that he asks us to say he can't take any more for a while. He can't get enough glass containers to|

Hollywood, caster, N. Y.

Gertrude Stein

Cal. Below, Pfe. Jerry Floss. of Lan-

paint up into vases,

By Paul Ghali

PARIS, Dec, 7—At 72, Gertrude Stein, who has riod in America, with brothers fighting brothers, and

so many talents that she doesn't know which to prefer, is trying to figure whether 1045 peace will be " as thrilling as 1940 war, and !

frankly votes for negative. I ushered myself into her Latin Quarter fiat, which has been the home of Gertrude Stein for eight years now. ig

“1 don’t know you,” said Ger-

trude Stein, “Come in.”

Gertrude has emerged from this

France have preserved her beautifully, i

Those who knew her before’ say she looks even better now. The closely cropped

family feuds on a pyramidal scale, All ‘this she has depicted in a play which the American University theater, Biarritz, will give soon. The play bears the very Steinesque title of “Yes 1s for a Very Young Man” On the whole, Gertrude feels that G. I.s have no moral courage and get depressed much too easily. Although G. I.s don't like being told this, apparently

they take it from her quite well:

Gertrude Stein is writing a book on her G. I. experiences in the form of conversation among G. Is and on the reason why they are disillusioned. The book will be called “Brewsie dnd Wilie.” Gertrude’s thesis is that industrialism brings poverty moral poverty naturally—not only to individuals but

also to countries, and that you cannot stop induse

trialism except by catastrophes,

hair is’ white and the face is wrinkled, but this hap- Know Weak Will Lose

pened long before the war,

THIS WAR which has disappointed so many about

The mind has its vivacious turn and the dark p.....0 yas rather enhanced Miss Stein's admiration

trude is surely not aging.

Sabotages, hostage-shootings, and all the rest,

absence, :

Writes War Play

- brown eyes look as in Picasso's masterpiece painted g. yis couritry. She thinks the French have a mar- . 40 years ago. She has the same hatred of the common, the same irritation of the banal, and the same teeny-weeny bit of inclination to scandalife. (

velous technique for rising from the ashes. - A typical individualist herself, Gertrude Stein believes that France was saved from utter defeat by individual courage... Against the Germans wha are strong only in group; the French were individually

“Now that pedce has brotight anew its dullness on

this world, Miss Stein is turning to operas. Her next work, she describes, as an opera on American screen —a mixed work of fantasy—with Suzan B. Anthony as principal character. It will be called “The Mother

MAQUIS’ life ground the little town of Culoz op tg All»

where she spent four years seclusion deeply interested her, It reminded her of the post Civil war pe-

Aviation

By John A. Thale

MEXCO, D. F., Dec. 7—There is more than On Saturday the lesser lights of the military forces meets the eye in the scheduled visit of a troupe of will look over the aerial armada, with other govern-

American combat airplanes to Mexicd- City this

~end. 3

Mexican public will be given a chance to crawl over and peer

"into a score of the types of bomb-

ers and fighters than ran the German and Jap air forces out of the skies.

But above that, there is the primary objective of getting . mcross the idea of airpower to the

Mexican military hierarchy, American officials consider that

most vital, since Mexico is logi~

cally one of the nations most important in a scheme of hemisphere

defense. Much of that defense plan is likely to be drawn at the inter-American meeting next March

Rio De Janeiro, Brasil

Officially it is billed’as a sort of flying circus, The

ment officials below the cabinet rank. After that members of the American colony will be permitted to inspect the planes. And then, on Sunday the general Mexican public will be let in. The planes will return to their Texas bases on Monday. ; Thus, it appears quite evident that American military men are more eager to impress Mexican officials than they are to give the Mexican public a show, Mexico currently is quite air-minded in a military way. Although the air force itself is no armada, the

- members of Escuadron 201 have been winning hys-

terical public acclaim for months, They even outrank as public- heroes the latest and most sensational of the bull fighters. . Mexican Token Force ESCUADRON 201 is the token force of Mexican

in aviators sent to fight with the allies in the Pacific.

By far the great majority of the generals in the 1¢V served under Gen. Dougias MacArthur in the

. Mexican army are ground generals. What United Philippines and other spots. Every time the group tary men are hoping to do is give them an impressive and first-hand ledge of the power of ; planes convince them of airpower’s im-

to which Escuadron 201 was assigned went into actibn, Mexibo City newspapers carried the event in boxcar

and this is the first step In the unification of China.

* The generalissimo’s great strength has been his

By BARBARA SCHAEFFER ¢ A CATHEDRAL in the midst of slums , . . A living and dramatic symbol of understanding among men, of friendship and love of humanity displayed in real

words are inadequate to de-

scribe Flanner House, This will read like a fairy story, and it is a fairy story. It consists of dreams and plans in the hearts of men that rarely materialize, And this was a dream-—come true. . . . MOST cathedrals are built of massive stone, colored glass, gold trimmings—this cathedral is built of human beings, ‘life blood and sweat, Forty-six years ago Flanner House opened its doors, For the first time in those years

this year in a new home, a shining tribute to the accomplishments of

west side of the city. : » ¥ » TODAY a new health clinic will be dedicated. Under construction on the Flanner House grounds, the new building will offer facilities for the most extensive health pro gram ever undertaken, Tas

new--many cities have them--all

[cities need them. It is the combi-

nation of the health clinic with a tremendous program of social serv-

housing that is magnificent.

{ 1} Ir af g if

{ § § ; | 8

i A I

ianapo

: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7,1945 ST {HEALTH CLINIC DEDICATION TODAY, ANOTHER TRIUMPH— - |r

Flanner House... Like a Fair

ec In

"SECOND SECTION

Another dream come true—out of the rubble of the slums Flanner

H struction, will care Tor child health, prenatal care, tubercular patients and social diseases. It will open the

work ‘and service . . . but |

it will celebrate its Founders day

the extensive work, centered on the

Day Nursery at Flanner House. Here are

nd four, and others kindergarten a ws A health clinic in itself is no hool-age children corhe in for meals and after school, to wait for their mothers to come home

» . » ON THE other side of the cor. ridor from these rooms are the .No other place in the United! group activity rooms where the States is there an institution which |specialized interest groups of boys so completely presents these services land girls all ages may gather and

ice, vocational aid, self service and

H i it JEis

: E 2 : E g 3 ve

i Ht 1388 HH izs

3 i ; | :

i E i 7 ;

_ While their mothers work the Wills children play and receive cars from the experienced staff in the several, just up from their afternoon nap, playing in the bright

freshments, dancing, checkers, ping pong, they have fun.. And then one stops to marvel at

this wonderful building, this ecathedral in the midst of slums. Three years ago only an. abandoned tile

plant stood on that site. Cleo Blackburn saw through the old and dirty brick, he saw new buildings, park-

dream erected—the health clinic, ”

{the all-purpose room where the teen-agers meet, where there are

still under construction,

nic shown above, now under con--

the last word in convenience and the way to health. ; Mrs. Zephyr Woodson, who recently came to Flanner House from Chicago, is also on the clinic staff,

ways, and a refuge for the needy. The Negroes and the Quakers pitched in to build that first build. ing. They cleaned the brick, built and painted the interior squipment, doors, cupboards. Now Mr. Blackburn has seen another part of his

each year under the employment

ment a record is kept of the person

. » S80 ON the tour ‘one goes through

.| Dr. Walter H. Maddux, loaned to Planner House from the Children’s

Indianapolis in April and has developed health clinics for children in ¢ Georgia, Alabama, Mississippl and

‘His plan—for he too has great visions to educate the people

t of the year.

about nutrition. ‘There is an isola-| tion ward for a diseased child,

The two-story building will offer

8 8 8 AND MANY need jobs. Nearly 12,000 persons are placed

program in jobs. After the place-

and of the employer. And under the Vocational Aid department is the industrial relations division. Here Grant Hawkins conciliates labor and management when the welfare of the Negro is concerned

Through the co-operation of the

y Sto ry| Let Mosquitoes

. chomp-chomping on your ankles,

Get Ready fo a

Feast on You

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Better

next summer's mosquitos. = This is because of the price of steel ingots, :

like this I don't know, but: “You can hear those mosquitos new, b-3-z-z-buzzing through your new, post-war screen door with ifs spe cial welcome mat built in for bugs, These mosquitos needn't be athe letes. They need not be brainy. Any dopey mosquito, according to Robert A. Seidel, can stroll through your new screens and go

» #” ® / HE BLAMES the OPA, which has been blamed for so many things, except insect welts, that if has Tost count. Let's see’ if we can scratch out the facts:

g 2

ES5Z 1 is 4H FS

i nl i 3

EY Drunk Pests

We, the WomenWe Need Not Put Up With