Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1946 — Page 17

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AS MUSICIANS, the members of the Indianapolis symphony orchestra revolve around Fabien Sevitzky. As individuals, away from their music stands, they

EL revolve around stage manager Charlie Schlegel,

During, intermissions, before and after concerts, the most frequent word heard backstage at the Murat temple is “Charlie—CHARLIE." “Charlie—do you have a little oil-—-the lock on my trunk is stuck.” *I don't like this doohicky on the hanger, Charlie. Do you have anything I can cut it off with?” “My chair squeaks Charlie. The maestro looked at me during rehearsal—can you fix it?” Charlie can and usually does in between his other tasks. A stage manager's lot is hectic. It's a good thing for everyone at Murat that the 65-yedr-old

y’ cigar-smoking ‘charge d'affaires” is about as temper- . mental as a comfortable pair of shoes, . words, he takes everything in his stride.

Road Jobs Pose Problem

In other

CONCERTS at “home” are a snap compared to road jobs. After 37 years at the Temple and going on the 10th year with the “maestro” Mr. Schlegel has the routine down pat—except when the auditorium is

rented out for a night and everytifing has to be moved including the conductor's podium. Rehearsals are scheduled for 10 a. m. To Mr. Yes, late

Sevitzky that means 10 a. m. on the dot.

It better play when it gets there . . . Charlie Schlegel packs the harp for a concert out of town.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—John L. Lewis looked like a buddah in a gray vest one size too tight. The lawyers argued and the judge made pointed remarks, but John L.'s expression never changed. His gaze settled on the bright red dress of a radio girl in the courtroom and there it stayed. Nothing moved but the fingers of his right hand, fishing in his upper vest pocket. ; These pudgy digits extracted finally a fat and pale perfecto banded in gold. Mr. Lewis held this masterpiece of the cigar-maker's art under his flared nostrils and sniffed its aroma. He must have been breathing, but no quiver came {rom any of his 240 pounds, His lawyers were objecting to everything. The judge rocked comfortably in his red leather swivel chair and observed that the government's suggested findings of fact and law seemed about right to him. The lawver wondered if this meant the judge intended to find Mr. Lewis guilty of contempt. The judge said “yes.” Then, said the lawyer, his client had a statement. Ponderously the buddha, who had not spoken in court in a week, got td his feet. From the inner pocket of his wrinkled, double-breasted coat he extracted a speech typed on onion-skin paper. He began in a low voice to read it. It was a trembly voice, charged with emotion, but with the words wellspaced.

Barrymore Performance

I DO NOT want to do John L. an injustice, It is not for me in a case like this to say that he was act-

~ By Ed Sovola®

concert-goers, even rehearsals go on time at the Murat. So Mr. Schlegel has to be up- early to set the stage. Road trips such as the orchestra took to Bloomington yesterday throw a monkey wrench into the setup. All told, 36 huge cases have to be shipped. Some have to have special attention. Irreplaceable instruments, all the music for the concert, the wardrobe trunks, stands, and even a traveling podium for Mr. Sevitzky are shipped. The stuff has to be kept straight, make connections on time, and arrive safely because on the other end of the line Mr, Schlegel ‘is waiting to set it all up. z In 10 years only one concert started late and that was three years ago in Syracuse, N. Y. The train was snowed under—it wasn't “Charlie's” fault. Since Mr. Sevitzky came to the Murat has there ever been a late concert? “NEVER,” Mr, Schlegel said,

Plenty of Action

WHEN THE BATON came down in Bloomington all the equipment had to be packed and shipped again with care and loving kindness Fortunately after a road trip, rehearsals the next day are scheduled later in the afternoon. Musicians Just don't fiddle around during a concert and sleep all day. They fiddle and blow six days a week under the baton of maestro Sevitzky. That's what makes it tough on Mr. Schlegel. He has to be ready long before the musicians arrive. He's also the man who gets the orchestra together. Five minutes before the concert he buzzes both sides of the stage. There's no time lost after that, Two minutes before the opening notes he buzzes the maestro who comes down immediately. Just before he walks on stage, Mr. Sevitzky takes a couple of healthy full body stretches and touches his toes—without bending his knees. That's the secret of his agility on the podium. If, by chance, the maestro muses his hair doing this, he goes into Mr. Schlegel’s five by five office and uses the mirror hung there for that purpose: Even though Mr. Schlegel in his time has rubbed elbows with the theatrical and concert great, he himself doesn’t play any instrument. He is quick to mention that his daughter plays an excellent bit of piano. 4 In recent years he has been without the help of his wife Goldie, who worked in the wardrobe end of the business on and off for 25 years. But Mrs. Schlegel confines herself to house and club activities. Completing his 44th year of married life, beginning his 37th year as stage manager, Mr. Schlegel believes he's good for another 37 years at the Murat. “No kidding,” he said, “I have a peculiar constitution. It seems to demand plenty of activity. I get it here so that's why I think I have plenty of years to go.” “Charlie—have you seen my footstool?” Hmmmmm-—it was on the other side of the stage. Someone should buy him a pair of roller skates.

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SECOND SECTION

Red Tape Makes Fight A Difficult One

(First of a Series)

By JACK THOMPSON

ONE MAN in Indianapolis is waging a battle against approximately 2,000,000 furtive, destructive, disease-bearing enemies. They are the city’s rat population. But so

can remember only one other who played upon an equally magnificent set of vocal cords as if they were a cathedral organ, making them roar and in the next breath sending them into an ear-cupping pianissimo., That was the late John Barrymore, reciting Hamlet's - soliloquy in an otherwise forgotten movie. About the only difference was that Mr. Barrymore wept when the camera stopped grinding.

Every Word Taken Down

WHAT MR. LEWIS actually had to say about the sordid history of injunctions, the brutal work of the miners underground, and the deprivation of their constitutional rights you may read elsewhere. Nearly 50 of the best reporters irl the business took down his every word, but it is impossible for reporters te convey on paper the bitterness and the almost-but-not-quite tone of sarcasm of the mighty organ when it boomed: “Your injunction, sir, I respectfully submit, deprives the unions of their constitutional rights.” How can a reporter get.across the idea that the intonation of that word “respectfully,” somehow seemed not quite that? wasn't speaking respectfully? Maybe he can't help it when his inflections seem to belie his words. And, of course, maybe my ears are no good. Anyway Mr. Lewis finished his speech with a bel- | lows. He folded his manuscript and placed it in his! pocket. He removed his eyeglasses, He resumed his | chair. *

Who is to say Mr. Lewis|

{nually. Alone and armed with nothing {more than statistics and good ideas, plus a little poison, Mr. Hundley is |doing a lot of espionage work—but little else. He would but he can't. No City Ordinance

For one thing he is roped and hog-tied by a state ordinance. For another there is no city ordinance {for rat elimination. | If it hadn't been for Dr. Gerald F. Kempf, secretary of the city | board of health, the rats would have had it easier yet. They might even be walking bolding into furniture stores to make down payments on items for their comfortable and secure homes, Dr. Kempf and the late Dr. Her{man G. Morgan, fed up with the old rat elimination setup, decided to at{tack the problem from a different angle. The old system provided for the killing of rats but not the elimination of conditions in which they

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One Man in Indianapolis Wages Million Rats

Uphill War on 2

RATS WELCOME HERE—No city ordinance now prevents such conditions as these which help breed the city's

2 million rat population.

HAPPY HUNTING GROUND—A rat killer can't " make much headway when rodents breed faster in places like this trash pile than they can be killed.

Board of health officials know the inopportune time, so it was tossed situation and they are concerned. ’ 2 3 They haggled with City Council | They want a blanket city ordinance |

The brows, which seem to frame his eyes in un- college graduate at a $3600 annual

brushed fur, turned in the direction of the red spot salary to study the situation and]

on the second bench. The judge ordered John L. back make a survey. This program started

rat killers. Dr. Kempf explained that he and | colleagues had a “pretty good ordi-

| aside,

Now, Dr. Kempf says, the legis- the party. Others who assisted were lature may change the state ordi- Mary Ann Malott, Julia

Ruth Ann Thomas Wins DAR Medal

Howe Spelling Bee Contestants Named

students will “spell each other down

Howe and Washington high school

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City Payroll Tax Proposal Is Disapproved

Study Group Hints At Other Sources

Scrapping of the proposal to levy a municipal payroll and gross ine come tax was recommended by the finance committee of city couneéil today, after a four-month investi gation, The committee, headed by Coun ciiman Herman E. Bowers, urged the council to seek to relieve the property tax burden by other methods. It recommended an investigation of a number of other sources of tax revenue under existing legislation, The imposition of a municipal gross income tax would require special legislation, Compared to Other Cities In a report to the council, Mr. Bowers’ committee found thas among 23 comparable cities, Indianapolis:

property taxes. TWO: Derives the least revenue from public utility taxes and permits, . THREE: Derives the minimum contribution from city enterprises. FOUR: Is the median city from the standpoint of state adi. “Our committee has reviewed the types of revenue financing used by many cities,” the report said. “We have noted the small amounts of taxes raised by multitudinous | licenses and nuisance taxes. Utility Tax Receipts Low “We have reviewed arguments for and against city income taxes om

Noon and Brandt Steele. Alternates include Marianna Fullen, Rosalind

Bohn,

Ruth Ann Thomas has been chosen to receive the D. A. R. good ecitizénship award at Howe high school. Norma Ziegler, Marianna Fullen, and Lois Wick also were candidates. Miss Thomas will compete in state-wide contest and will receive a four-day trip to Washington.

Shorthand Certificates Given Shorthand certificates recently were awarded the following students at Howe high school: Lucy Evans, Norma Ziegler, Phyllis Bell, Delilah Bearley, Margaret DeWitte, Barbara | Jackson, Suzanne Moshenrose, Joyce | Rose, Anna Mae Schauinger, Shirley | Walker and Jane Willis,

The Home “Economics club of Howe high school held an initiation | party for members recently. Jo Ann|

| Marquis, president, was in charge of

i Ann Moore, |

|and finally got permission to hire ato give complete power to a staff of nance in the forthcoming session Martha Schumaker and Jane Marand he believes it might be a good shall. Sally Shields gave a reading,

{dea to wait and see what kind of and group singing followed.

a measure the state adopts.

Then,

Puerto Rican Speaks

Hitzke, Helen Aldrich, Michael Pet- | tinger, Jim Lohman and- Robert that property taxes finance 98 per

| r — — —— [far it's only a paper warfare. to a finish” in a contest called “Lis- | salaries, wages and business income, | Jay Hundley, city rodent control ten for a Spell” over radio aten “We recommend that the come 3 " supervisor, points out that the rats WISH, Dec. 10. mon couneil determine the adequacy § Mr. Lewis Speaks By Frederick C. Othman [vio tive bere — nearly four times Six Hove Salis are Rosemary of present. legsaton. whieh per RD ® | the number of humans in the city— Arnold, Katherine Nitchman, Carol mits the city to increase revenues - amv {are costing the public $8,000,000 an- Gambill, Dick Bakemeier, Bob De- from public utilities, enterprises

and state aid, to share the burden {of property taxes.” A survey of the 23 cities showed

cent of municipal expenditures in Indianapolis, compared to 52 per cent in New Orleans, La.; 65 per {cent in Kansas City, Mo, and 53 {per cent in Birmingham, Ala, Public utility taxes supply only 1 per cent of revenues here compared |to 12 per cent in Seattle, Wash.; 23 per cent in Columbus, O.; 10 per cent in Houston, Tex., and 7 per cent in Atlanta, Ga.

Study of Printing Industry Released

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The 23d annual ratio study of the printing industry, entitled “Ratios for Print ing Management for the Year 1945,” has been released by Printing Industry of America, Inc. It is based on an analysis of 948 operating statements of printing plants which had a total sales vol ume of $157,292,232 in 1945. These plants are located in 147 cities {within 40 different states. “Participation in the 1945 ratio study of the printing industry showed a further sharp increase

ing, but I'd bet my last remaining scoop of coal that for sentencing today, but if the buddha was listening in July. Little has been accom- nance” drafted when the electioh he says, the city ordinance can be | Miss Margarita Diaz, from Puer- |OVer 1944 when 387 plants with a this was a speech he'd rehearsed before a mirror. I there was no visible sign. plished yet -2,000,000 rats are big came along. He said the bill might | correlated with the state law with- | Rico recently spoke before the Sales volume of $102,706,331 took - odds against one man. thave created a controversy at aniout chance of conflict. |language students Latin American Part in the survey,” according te LS, > | a y —— - DE . 4 history pupils and Howe faculty | Dennis A. BWeeney of Tndiauapolit - R | ik S rf members. Miss Diaz is a sister of Charman of the ratio study comussians § m L Mrs. Renato Pacini, 5331 Rosslyn mittee, and executive secretary of My Day By Eleanor Roosevelt or ar S ; e e ave. the Indiana State Printers associe pla a ation. I ———

NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Yesterday, as you met people on the street looking cold and blown about by the wind, it was funny how many of them would say the same thing: “Well, such cold weather won't

make them want to bring the United Nations here permanently.” And sure enough, it looks as though San Francisco and Philadelphia are now the favorites. Of course, we may suddenly wake up and find that

be held, it would seem wise to close the afternoon meetings at 6 o'clock, the reconvene from 7 to 9:30. | I think it would make a great difference to many | delegates if a more or less tentative schedule could | be made out, and the approximate time for evening | meetings known beforehand. One group could meet’ Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; and another, | “Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The uncertainty

Peasants Belong to Land, But Each Has A Small Plot for His Own Use

Eugene Lyons, for six years the United Press correspondent in |collective, Seviét Russia, is an autherity-on its history and system. The third of a series of articles Mr. Lyons has written exclusively for the Scripps-

Ancestors Under Feudal Regime

on sufferance.. It may be-—-and often is-—confiscated by the collective. If you get permission to leave {the kolkhoz the plot reverts to the

Chairman Is Boss

Brandt Steele and Mary Moreland recently were elected president and secretary respectively of the Howe high school French club. Miss* Narcie Pollitt is the sponsor of the club.

This Child Leamed

“This clearly demonstrates the {tremendous practical value attached {to this study by printers all over the country,” he. said.

Orphans’ Group Plans

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The Lutheran Orphans’ Welfare

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as to the schedule makes it difficult for any one to In theory your -kolkhoz is seit- About Medicines : Ml the headquarters committee has decided on a place plan on any free time, and this is a bad arrangement Howard newspapers is published today. governing through a chairmah and| o;NTON N. J. Dec 4 (U. P) Sseosiaton will Load I's annual Jule i of which nobody ever heard. for everyone: All the delegates have some calls upon | By EUGENE LYONS managing board elected by its mem-| Lo P. Michaud aged 2'% ’ con=17:30 upp oy ay home 3310 E it No matter what place is giosen or a Pereaniut their attention which are not connected with their The majority of Russians still live in villages and work on the land. | Pers: : ne 30 aspirin tablets, a bottle| Washington st. ' ll home, it will be some time before the Galley ations UN work. | If you were a Soviet citizen the likelihood is therefore that you would| ID Practice this has been largely |; on medicine and a bottle of| The ways and means committee, Ki moves, 1a the Teantime, 3 Seems Yo he hat Some Ni H C d d {ve working on some “kolkhoz,” or collective farm. {forgotten. The chairman is today | oq liver oil from the family medi- which is in charge of the supper, ! SUKI Wplen: J¢ done hn wy Hoa of making remoelier Londemne | A few farms on an old-style individual basis are still tolerated in the 0 Most regions appointed by the |... chest last night. includes Mrs. Harry Brandt, chaire aster > Hoge ee ha eT as I SEE by the papers that Pastor Martin Niemoeller, Soviet Far East and elsewhere, but they are negligible in the country's | Ministry of agriculture. He is paid | “gs {1 his indiscriminate ran- man, Mrs. Harold Laut, Mrs. Here | ig y Bess on le RD and cause a stein 5 . German Lutheran churchman who was jailed by the total farming. There are also large “state farms” run by the government ® salary and bonuses on output and |, king of the bottles and jars,iman Klasing, Mrs. Ed. Rothkopf : A BE on io SE but on the space ou ho Nazis, has arrived in this country and is scheduled to with hired labor like factories, The | ee. DAS Some Joe rive like the direc- {Rollin had the good fortune to top and Mrs. Harris, Koelling. | Buccs ’ N make a lecture tour. I understand that Dr. Niemoeller | overwhelming portion of farming, What is left—normally about 40 for of a lagiory, . % |his feat off with an appropriate| The association will meet Priday i} uceess, : has stated in the past that he was against the Nazis however, is done by the kolkhozes. per cent—is divided among the! a ipertais festions Whig to chaser—-a bottle of-castor oil. at 12:30 noon for the regular Office S ace Needed because of what they did to the church but that he To an American the label collec- kolkhoz members on the piecework plant, 1 : quotas to Burren ered Doctors at St. Mary's hospital in{monthly luncheon and business ses« P had no quarrel with them politically. And I think-tive farm sounds like a co-opera-' arrangement. 10 tne governiyjens at 1s own prices, | paxsaic said today his condition sion at the home. Mrs. Paul Rup= I THINK that, during the period when the general I remember reading a report that, when his country tive undertaking of the kind he| The average peasant is happy if ihe norms of. work or members— |... satisfactory. precht will preside. assembly is in session, there should be sufficient office went to war, he offered his services for submarine knows in our rural areas. It is his share is enough to feed his ®'® decided by regional or national | space assigned to each delegation wherever meetings work in the navy. nothing of the sort. family for the year. But the bet-. bureaus. are taking place. Then a delegation’s daily schedule One may applaud his bravery and his devotion to - As a collectivized peasant you ter-paid types of farm laborers are The Rolkhoses are also responsi- SILLY NOTIONS By Palumbo might run approximately as follows: 8:30 to 10:30, his church, but one can hardly applaud his attitude Would be permanently attached to|likely to have surpluses which they | Ple for supplying quotas of workers | : | office work, reading of papers, mail, etc.; 10:30 a. m. on the Nazi politics, and I cannot quite see why we the land like your serf forebears un- may sell in the free market in near- |for road-building, for state farms J of . | to 1 p. m, morning sessions; 1 te 2:30, lunch hour, should be asked to listen to his lectures. I am sure|der feudalism. You could transfer! by towns and cities. {and for industrial projects that during ,which lunch could be served in the office he is a good man according to his lights, but his| to another farm or move to the| They must carry their surplus to|DAPpen to be short of labor. These | | while a delegation discussion meeting was held; 3 to lights are not those of the people of the United States city only with official permission. the market personally and sell it | leased” farmers share in the crop | | 6 or 7, afternoon sessions. If evening sessions are to who did not like the Hitler political doctrines. | No Equal Shares. | personally, otherwise it is punished Of Hels Jelign. a thinly deuibed| er — — — — Moreover, there would be no hs Sapiiailstie EU but | type of forced labor similar to the | share - and - share - alike Nrsense) e, peat 8 |“corvee” or labor drafts under Rus- | {hopeless fight against collectivi-| | . | 8 S. | 8 3 e Ww th WwW B about your status. Your labor | ti {sian feudalism until it was abolished e, e omen y Ruth Millett | would be figured by a complicated Millions f them were exiled from {by Czar Alexander II, |method under which some types! 9 eerie ees ad a. eo of farm work are paid five o even | 1929 onward for refusing to join | 4 . ; is . ‘ Eo the collectives “voluntarily.” The Business Library THE TIME of year is again at hand when if you ds giving’ the statistics and always boring to the per- |10 times as much as others. | peasant, opposition led to a famine happen to say, “How have you been?” to the ‘ac- son who must listen politely, with now and then a - AS nearly as it can be done under | © 1932-33 in which from four to Gets New Books quaintance who stops you on the street or to the sympathetic headshake and the=assurance that there farm conditions the government| =~" on. "vw oioq friend who calls you on the telephone, you are almost does seem to be an epidemic raging. enforces a plecework system and | * The following new books have sure to hear about somebody's cold. . (big differentials in farm earnings. Concessions Made + | been received at the business branch Your friend is right in the middle of ii Dhe/ Might Drop the Query § You Would hove suey Hung Although the government con-!of the public library: i i § say a 5 anted or “ g { or She BURKS Se 18 Soi, Sows with a lon, or She AND IT ALL starts with that innocent little ques- pri the disposition of pu crops quered it was obliged to make Arbitration of Industrial Dis- | IS Just up atver a bout wi Due: tion, “How have you been?” which everybody always, rhe kolkhoz system 15 in STOPS. | various concessions to the jarmery putes,” by Clarence M. Updegraff;| . . . , ’ . i s 1 Salis : . 5! is ricultural pro-|«ori | Favorite Winter Topic naively expects to have answered with a satisfactory. , sharecropping arrangement. The| order 10 raise ag P Origin and Development of Group y “Fine, thank you.” But not this time of year. government 1s the sole landowner duction. Hospitalization in the United States, | IF THE FRIEND is ‘hale and hearty, then her It would make for pleasanter conversation {f-we{, iro farmers retain a fraction] TMe Tight to. sell their surplus. is 149.1940,” -by J.T. Richardson; husband has been home with a cpld, or the kids adopted “Let's not discuss our colds” as a national of the crops they raise one of these privileges. Another is «Great Britain in the World Eco- | have been passing one around. slogan, . ay [the right of the peasant to cultivate | nomics” by A. E. Kahn; “Selecting | : . : ; i | The collective does not even own | te ad yo { And either way, you'll get all the details. But maybe it would be simpler if--during the its tools and machines |8 small plot for his private use and | ang Operating a Business of . Your Because colds are a favorite wintertime conver- winter months-—we just stopped asking that lead “These are Yented from a govern- | © sell what he can spare of this in| oun» by Gus Earson and Walter! | | sational topic—always fascinating to the person who question, “How have you been?” ! dar {the free market. Teller, and “Business Phases in Six | . Alp Sadly oa... bv pl a. y ment machine-tractor station serv- | : h rou would p 5 ~ } or Te gr |ing the locality, and paid for with | Actually, being human, you Would | Languages,” by Dagobert de Levie. | ¢ QBs, B id t B T P h + | t WwW ddi O +fit ja share of the crop this over and | Put more effort and loving - care Se ——————————————————— ® ¢ [NS - - 8 y . E | $ 5 th n| oS a J A 1) rides-to-be turn Farachules To, YYEGOING WUTHS frm wu smer fuwes ed hiss 2° "" Shortwave to Be Clear | {AIL LONDON ~ (U, P.). — Clothes- thei? complete bridal outfits—cou- They were recently released by the| Half for Taxes, Fees, | That _explains why about one- By Science Servies Pal, starved British brides-to-be have pon-free. board of trade. . | Roughly, half’ of what a kolkhoz fifth of ‘all produce sold in the free| WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — Radio| TE 3 ED : la - Some of the parachutes went to raises goes to pay, these fees, taxes, markets comes from the private enthusiasts listening to shortwave — béen swamping West End stores| The former Royal air force par-| oe. oc’ to be made up as |interest on seed’ credits and the plots, though these are only a tiny |broadcasts, particularly those from | 2 : A 57 YS 5 ME | eager to buy brand new unopened achutes sell for about $20 and the coat linings, women’s underwear, like. | fraction of the nation’s total culti- northern Europe, will have another | : vie nylon parachutes with which the majority are made of finest nylon, | frocks and blouses. The remainder Part of the remainder goes into vated area. week of good reception, the national| 12-4 al girls have found they can make while the remainder are at jae being sold directly to the public. compulsory agricultural reserves. Of course, the plot is yours only | bureau of standards predicts. Ae EEN . ; \ es i ¢ . \ ' ' . 5 % a hid’ S . . r ; o a x “ wer ® “ Le ¢ ga . i Won > . » . . 5 ’