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DICK MATTHEWS, who used to “cut » Persian rug” in Iran with the signal corps, finds civilian life

Mizup in Husbands

THE RED CROSS home service, which contacts

+ husbands who married overseas and tells them when

their brides will arrive here, has an occasional embarrassing moment, For instance, the other day they phoned in behalf of a husband of one bride and a woman answered. Asked if they were talking to the home of “Mr. Doe,” they proceeded to tell the lady that Mr. Doe's wife was arriving from: England at a certain time. ‘The lady on the other end of the wire almost fainted. Her husband, it seems, had served in‘ England. and was back home. And there was more

asked “Inside” for help in locating a George Kerr, believed to be living in Indianapolis. Mrs. Kerr received a letter af her home addressed to a man by that name. If said that Mr. Kerr's father was seriously ill in East St. Louis, Ill. Mrs. Kerr's husband also is named George and he was in California at

- the time. By telegram she discovered. her husband

was not the right “George Kerr.” The letter had been sent to a half dozen Indianapelis addresses before it reached Mrs. Kerr and was already opened, If anyone knows the identity of the “George Kerr,” Mrs. Kerr would appreciate a call at her home, LI4855, , , . Visitors at the statehouse these days can't help missing the new peint job at the corner of the hall that leads into Governor Gates’ office. Our in-

SHANGHAI, Feb. 18—From the dark caverns of an old Taoist temple, where smoke from a thousand

"joss sticks fills the air, and where candlelight dances

and flickers beneath the gods of ancient China, came today the reason why American housewives burn the potatoes, spoil the roast, and sometimes experience general disaster in the kitchen.

Excellent wives, cooks, and helpmates though they

be, American women just don’t show the proper respect toward the kitchen god, who, as everybody presides over matters of cuisine. He sees to -the mashed potatoes are white and fluffy that the chicken is done to a golden brown. | year long, the kitchen god, whose real name Chia, serves faithfully and well. Like any er servant, however, he expects a little attention and then. And he expects a holiday once a year that he can visit his friends. So the practical Chinese housewife, who never burns the bamboo shoots or scorches the soya beans and mushrooms, sees fo it that he gets it.

16 Favorite Foods ‘ON THE 23d day of the 12th moon, a ceremony is held to give Chao Chia a hearty send-off on his week’s trip to his ancestral home in the sky. The best room in the house is set aside for this purpose, as befits a man of the importance of the kitchen god. A gaily ‘colored piece of paper bearing the picture of Chao Chis (who looks like Charles Laughton with sideburns) is rolled into a scroll and placed in a little paper sedan-chair. In front of the sedan-chair are 16 plates .of uncooked food, including fruit, dates, tung Ku, lien hsin, moh-erh, and other delicacies dear to the palate of Chao Chia.

Aviation

THOUSANDS of Americans are going to fly their own planes. And the casualty rate is going to be high Gntil ‘the air intellience index of the country is raised éonsiderably. There's nothing mysterious about flying, but it's a one-strike game and you have to keep thinking all the time you're at the controls. Acceptance of terms that never have been understood can cause disaster as surely as mismanagement

of the controls themselves. For instance, years of effort were required to get rid of the silly idea that

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there were “air pockets” in the atmosphere. This term led the to believe there were suc hazards in the gir as: or vacuum spots, and that if a plane

stumbled into one of them it would crash to. the ground. Education Required THE GOOD sense of the public has washed out the dramatie stuff about flying that had been fed us by Hollywood. , Airpower’s record in the war cohsolidated, public acceptance .of fiying as a hard-headed

business that could be conducted by ordinary humans -

possessed merely 6f sound mentality. The aiporaft industry in general knows all. this. Confuséd, however, by the ending of a war for which neither they por the government were prepared, aircraft are with the production of planes pnd ‘engines and the organization. of their sales depart rather than with the necessity for education of ‘the people to whom they propose to sell these small planes. 'Afd ‘if we ever néed anything in

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most vivid impression was one of the utter smallness of & human being who needed so much outward gramdeur to build up his sense of importance. The man himself is gone and the pomp and ceremony are no more. For some strange reason, verses from the Bible kept running through my mind. Humility and the strength which the humble man draws from outside himself when he is‘ called upon to do tasks that are apparently beyond his human power—these are the qualities which make great men. That spirit. is absent here.” This nation has not known that spirit, but it will have to acquire something akin to it before it ‘can face the colossal task of reconstruction.

Children Wait Without Crying

1 VISITED .the “bunker,” an old air raid shelter used as an overnight station.for German .refugees ousted frofn other countries and now in search of new homes within their own borders. The room was crowded when I went in—largely women and children; with a few men. Disease has been kept down, although that seems a miracle. What is. perhaps most revealing is the statement that the public health doctor of the district murmured in my ear: “The mothers are often indifferent” that is, they let’ their ‘children wander, they've lost so many. . As we went out two children, a little boy of. 10 and his younger sister, sat on a bench stolidly waiting for someone to come and get them and give them shelter, Their mother had gone away and left them behind. But they didp’t cry as children ordinarily

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The Governor's curiosity resulted in refinishing doors at the State House.

formants tell us that the governor himself got curious about the kind of wood in those massive doors outside the office of Frank C. Tukey, his undersecretary. He decided to find out. Workmen started removing the varnish— there were so many coats of paint the door was almost black—and found the door was hardwood. With the paint removed, it was a light color, resembling the natural wood. So, to blend with the door and to lighten the otherwise drab building, the corner of the hall was painted, too, It's very attractive. An overall job such as this on the statehouse interior would certainly give it a much more pleasant atmosphere.

Hears Son Coming Home

TWO BITS of good news came to Capt. A. C. Magenheimeg of the police traffic: division last week. Yesterday, Capt. Magenheimer was promoted to his presént rank from lieutenant and the other day he received word from ‘his son, Cpl, Robert Magenheimer, who is stationed on_Guam, that he expected to come home A crew chief on a C-54, his son recently flew to Tokyo where he bought his mother some gifts of silk. , . . Note to resident on W. Michigan st.: In case you wondered why your street lights were on out there last Priday, here's the answer. Trouble developed in the lines from the storm Thursday night and the Power & Light company’ workmen had to turn the lights on while testing the circuit.

‘The Kitchen God By Wittiam H Nowion

The Chinese housewife, who is an excellent housekeeper and a very fine cook, indeed, is no more anxious than her American sister, to have people around gossiping about the way she runs the kitchen and keeps house generally. Being a very practical person, she does something about it. "So just before the kitchen god's paper sedan-chair is ignited, thus sending him gaily on his holiday, she fixes him a yuan pao, or golden ornament, which is made of sticky candy, and which is Chao’s favorite dish. Chao, of course, is delighted with this attention. As he gains altitude, he eats the candy, which causes his teeth to stick together. As a result, when he gets home, he's unable to say a word against the housewife, her kitchen, or the way she does the cleaning.

Missed Seeing Hip .* I WAS ANXIOUS to learn about the kitchen god and, with an interpreter, I visited the temple where most of the ancient gods of China are to be found. It was the 29th day of the 12th moon of the Chinese lunar calendar. An old monk in a grey cotton gown met us at the gate. “This American,” said the interpreter, “wants to see the kitchen god.” “The kitchen god,” said the monk, with dignity, “is not here.” “What do you mean?” asked the interpreter. “This American has been chasirig me around town all day and now he just wants to see the kitchen god and then I can go home.” ; i “The kitchen god,” repeated the monk firmly, “is not here.” : “Well, where is he?” said tfe interpreter. “The kitchen god,” said the monk, “is on his holiday. Don’t these foreigners know anything?”

‘By Maj. Al Williams

aviation in this country today, we need a tremendous program of education. . For instance, it is probably going to take a long time to get rid of such things as “the weather closed in on me.”

Weather Not Mystery IF YOU are in bad weather it is because you took off without getting the latest weather reports, or if you did get them you ignored them. If you take off in good weather and “get” into bad weather, it is not because the weather trapped you, it is because you didn’t study the weather forecasts along your proposed route. Or it might -be you didn't understand it. At any rate, when the “weather closes in” around a pilot, the pilot is to blame. “Contact” flying weather is the private -flier’s weather until vast scientific ‘progress provides him with: equipment to see through clouds, fog and storm. “Contact” means flying where you can see the ground and the horizon. Flying in any other kind of weather is “instrument” flying—commonly and erroneously called “blind” flying. “Instrument”, flying means depending upon the “turn and bank”--the artificial’ horizon, rate of climb, sensitive altimeter - instruments and a good reliable timepiece. All except the timepiece (watch or clock) are substitutes for your inability to see the ground or horizon. “The successful use of these instruments comes only from arduous training and constant practice. + Pe It. is simple enough fo “get on the instruments” and continue to fly on the instruments, It is getting

““off the instruments” and on “contact” again for the

landing of a ship that requires all the training.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

would—they just sat motionless. Your heart went out to these innocent victims of a system which that great room of Hitler's represented. You can measure the extent of physical damage done to cities. You can restore water supplies, gas and electricity. and you can rebuild the buildings needed to establish a military government. But how to gauge what has happened to human beings —that is incalculable.

Future Rests With Leaders !

HOW SOON will an economy which is being completely. changed be re-established, and what effect will the new situation have on the rest of the world? These are questions that cannot be answered now and may not be answered for a long time to come. The real answer will depend on the wisdom of the leaders of various nations and their ability to make their people understand the world conditions that we face today. The men and girls in the various services have a feeling of the problem and the misery which exists all around them. At a soldiers ¢lub in Berlin, they smiled when I said I wondered how we were going to like eating dark bread at home. The boy: next to me at tableSaid: “Id like to tell them what the people have over here.” : And, later, another soldier said to me: “I can't think why they had to fight each other. The language is a bar; but while our customs are different, all over we seem to havé a lot of things that are just the same.” . : That's really a great discovery—‘“all , over we have to find and build on, and those, I imagine, are the only things that can give us hope. y

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By JACK THOMPSON ~~ INDIANAPOLIS soon may have a “Tin Pan Alley” of its ow. It all began one day last spring when Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Cook, 4520 E. 10th st., took a trip to Chicago. They had been writing songs for their own amusemgnt almost 15 years. Hopefully, they were seeking fame and fortune, ” ® ». 2 THE : CHICAGO trip was dis~

that a trip to New York looked like the next move.

office they had waited. New York is a lot tougher for aspiring song writers to crack than Chicago, he said. Why not go back to Indianapolis and form your own group to have songs arranged, promoted and published? ® . “ advice. They returned and contacted approximately 250 ambitious composers throughout the state. Replies were instantaneous and favorable. : Two weeks ago 50 hopefuls met in the Arthur Jordan conservatory student hall to exchange ideas and discuss the possibilities of an Indianapolis “Tin Pan Alley.”

» » » THE ORGANIZATION began to crystalize last week when several members assembled to draft a constitution and lay out objectives for the new club. : . A large group is expected to convene for the next session in Central

g0|Y. M. C. A, 310 N. Illinois st. at

7:30_p. m. Wednesday, where action will be taken on the by-laws and future plans will be outlined. » . # MRS. LEPHA HAVENS, arranger and piano teacher in Pearson's music - department, has become keenly interested in the new club. She arranged two of Hoagy Carmichael’s songs, “Army of Hippocrates,” written for nurses at Billings hospital, and “Ain't God Good to Indiana,” the words of William Herschell's poem put to music, plus many others. One song writer who is 100 per

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By MARIANNE PACHNER NEA Staff Writer

and learn how to be a decent parent!” That is the sentence Judge George T. Martin. has imposed on scores of parents haled into his Dearborn courtroom. The School for Delinquent Parents, it's called. One evening every two weeks the tall doors of the musty old Dearborn. Municipal courthouse swing open to admit a sorry parade of chastened men and women, come to learn their duties as the heads of families. » » # THEY ARE the parents who, with overstuffed wartime pay envelopes, toured the beer taverns and the dance halls while their offspring went unfed and uncared for - at home. They are the greedy ones who piled up overtime at night at the expense of hours that might have been spent with their sons and daughters. They are the drunks, the brawlers, the financially irresponsible whose victims are their own neglected and abused children. On the theory that juvenile delinquency can nearly always be traced to family difficulties and that jailing and fining a parent can often work more hardship than . correction, Judge Martin started his school a year and a half ago. » » ” PARENTS charged with non-support, drunkenness, and battery, disturbance of the peace, etc, are told upon conviction for a first offense they can either attend classes as a condition of probation, or accept the usual fine or jail sentence. Most of them choose the classes. . | Today records show that no | parent who has completed the |course has ever been brought back |into court on similar charges, and [the City of Dearborn has the best

neglect, assault

SECOND SECTION

MR AND MRS. COOK took his

Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Cook idea for Indiana song writers.

Tommy Martin, who lives in Brook-

side park and works for Jungclaus Construction Co, 1 8 He used to write poetry and as he figured out the verse “melodies seamed to come: with it. Tommy says he doesn’t know a thing about music technique. So he grabs the nearest telephone when a tune idea hits him and calls up Miss Ruthie Small of Clermont who writes it down for posterity. ” ” » x OWEN MeCORMACK, display manager for 18 years at Morrison's store, listened to popular music for

many years before he concluded that his musical desires could not

DEARBORN, Mich. Feb. 18. — “Ninety days in jail—or go to school

be satisfied by phonograph and

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Parents Sentenced

Judge George T. Martin solves delinquency cases brought to his court by seniencing parents to attend ' classes in which their problems are discussed.

resord ‘ of juvenile protection in the county. Classes are held in the judge's own courtroom and last about an hour. The first half-hour is: devoted to talk on some phase homé and family living by an ex-

ipert in the field. The second half

is used for questions and general discussion. » ” ” SUBJECTS include general family health, specific child health, family finances, family récreation, home economics, dietetics, housekeeping, child psychology, child guidance, care of the sick and problems of youth. The aim is to eliminate as much as possible the trial-and-error casualties of childraising.

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SONG WRITERS HERE STRIKE A NEW NOTE—

diana “Tin Pan

Talks are practical and pointed

++ « They tried to have some songs published and ended up with a new

So, five years ago he walked into a music store, purchased a Bsaxophone and taught himself to blow it, never dreaming of becoming a writer.

* As time passed he began tooting out original melodies: Mr. MecCormack now has a song, “How Can You Tell Whemn You're in Love,” accepted by Hollywod' publishers, and another, “Reminding Me of You,” in the hands of local publisher Carl Leon Eddy.

MR. EDDY also finds the new

FEBRUARY 18,1946

cussions and corresponding with each other. Mr, Eddy has fooled around with music for many years and is now publishing three songs written . by Indiana aspirants. The songs: Owen McCormack’s melody; a number entitled, “Wishing and Waiting” by Betty Forsythe of Frankfort, and Alvena Cook's, “Our Symphony.” The new club members all hope

ranks of Indiana's many famous song writers, such as Carmichael; Russell Robinson, writer of “Mary Lou,” “Margie” and others; ‘Cole

organization a great idea. He says he has never heard of a club. of this kind before and that members will actually learn the music business by attending dis«

Practical problems are discussed in Dearborn’s “School for De-

linquent Parents.”

tension Service.

speaker I heard did not just say are court cases.. Some “border-

it is important that a child be loved and made to feel wanted, but went on to tell of actual problems arising because a child felt’ unwanted. She advised ‘her listeners to help avoid humiliating children by scolding them in front of their friends, and to talk ‘things over instead of demanding arbitrary obedience, " » » CHILDREN should be encouraged to bring their friends home, she said. They should be given a certain amount of privacy. When things go wrong, careful listening and quiet observation will often lead a parent to the root of the trouble. “Students” number 50 to 75 a session, Sometimes one parent attends, sometimes both. Not all

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| THE DOCTOR SAYS: Careless. Dish-Washing Leaves Germs—

Diseases Can Be Spread in Home!

BY WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D.

EATING utensils which are not properly - sterilized after use may serve as spreaders of communicable diseases. Home practices in dishwashing should be the same as sanitary practices recommended for public eating places. After utensils have been used, they should be scraped of grease and food and soaked in water to avoid drying of adherent particles. Glasses should be washed first, silverware next, then dishes, and finally the pets and pans. Ideal method for washing dishes is to use soap and water which is so hot that toweling is unnecessary. » » » COMMERCIAL establishments use dishwashing machines which combine hot water, a forceful stream, and mixture of soap or detergent which combines with the food particles on the utensils. Dishes, glassware and silverware which

come through such a process” are free of disease germs and ‘they should not be touched with soiled hands or, towels afterward. Glasses should always be racked on a clean surface with the open side down. This prevents droplets of infected mucus from depositing in the glasses from coughing, sneezing or talking in the immediate vicinity, and there is another advantage in that the average person picks up a glass near the top. Silverware in public eating places should not be stored in open compartments but should be wrapped in individual napkins. Selection of silverware from an open box results in contamination from solied hands which may carry disease germs. . a's > DRINKING glasses in some public eating places have been: found

capable of ploducing disease.

to contain hundreds of thousands

Soda clerks do not clean glasses properly if inefficient dip solutions are employed, as the study of some of these dip solutions actually revealed as many germs as were pres-| ent in sewage. The common drinking cup has been outlawed, but in many places it is replaced by carelessly washed and handled glassware: Opportunity for employees to change from street to work clothes and places for them to wash their hands should be provided in all public eating places. Most of the intestinal - diseases spread by food and improperly washed eating utensils result from carelessness in personal hygiene. : oy The public should support public health departments in their efforts to provide safe eating places by getting behind a reasonable ordi-

of germs per glass, many of them _ ment,

nance and working for its enforce-

o School

Addressing the class, held jn Judge Martin's Court room, is Elizabeth Irwin of the University of Michigan Ex-

| research that crime among minors

Porter; Iva B. Linebarger, who composed “My Prayer” and Thomas Payne Weisterndorfl, author of “I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen.” ,

liners” have been advised to attend rather than have a warrant issued against them. Others are interested outsiders, There are offenders whose children ran around naked and hungry in an empty house while they themselves were out hitting the night-spots. One had taken an 8-year-old along to the beer-gardens, feeding him a midnight snack of hard-boiled eggs and potato chips for supper. . » " ” A MOTHER who never could get her son up in the morning to go to school said she wasn’t boss in her own home. Investigation re|vealed she wasn’t much concerned with ‘the hours he had kept the night before, and that her current boy-friend was more important to her than her child. One mother was convicted of forging her own birth certificate s0' that her 15-year-old daughter might obtain a summer job in a war plant, She later persuaded the daughter to give up school for the job. Now the mother is a “regular” at the judge's classes, The relationship between juvenile delinquency and high wages first gave Judge Martin his idea, As a" school board member a few years back, he discovered through

had reached a peak in fabulous 1929, dropped off during the depression, started up again in 1940 and had gone on to a new high during the WAL years. This was in direct ratio to moheymaking opportunities open to parents, Most parents, Judge Martin feels, are willing to Jearn and their faults are ‘those of ignorance, not wilful misconduct.

INDEX UP

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P). ~The wholesale commodity index of the bureau of labor statistics rose 0.3 per cent during the week ended Feb. 9 to 107.1 per cent of the 1926

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We, the Women Ex-GlI's Know Wives Better

Than the Army

By RUTH MILLETT “THE army told ‘em to stay home. “The navy told 'em to be good boys and STAY HOME. “But here they are.” Thus begins a story in the Néw York World-Telegram about the ex-G.1's and sallors from. such far-away points as Kansas and Kentucky, Oregon and Iowa, West Virginia and Indiana who made the long trip to New York to be on hand when their fors eign-born brides set foot on American soil. “Sure,” went on the story, “they know the services had it all fixed to shepherd the girls and kiddies on special trains right into their lovin’ arms. And they got those notices that

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