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A8 SPRING took its first peep around the corner this week, Mrs. Norma Koster stole a quick look at her desk calendar, ;pushed it back, made dozens of mental notes and geared herself for the long, hard schedule ahead. . Springtime is playtime, and Mrs. Koster’s job is to teach people how to play. As supervisor of special activities for the park and recreation department, she's been doing that for 21 years—but she stumbled into the job quite by accident.
Back in June, 1926, she applied for a job as a
playground supervisor for the summer. She liked the job, so she stayed. Diversity is her chief stock in trade. She is as
natural on a baseball diamond, volleyball court or shooting’ marbles with a bunch of youngsters as she would be at a festival or pageant. When she has a spare minute she sandwiches in odd assignments, such as setting up a program for a church or Parent-Teacher association. Se
Learns Thrift From Budget LONG YEARS of operating on a budget for the
park department has pounded thrift into her ventures,
PLAY SUPERVISOR—Mrs.
Norma Koster is equally at ease on a baseball diamond or at a cotillion,
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so that now she can arrange a huge public festival on a small budget. “We have to cut the corners,” says Mrs. Koster. “Many people don't approve of charging for the park department sponsors—because the department is tax-su id. Her office is plainly. furnished. Its only decoration is a ceramic wall plaque, lost among boxes of supplies anda few examples of craft, work. Around the recreation office she’s known as the walking telephone directory. She declares many other park départmeént workers will walk up a flight of stairs to ask her for a telephone number instead of looking up the number in the directory. She doesn’t write on her appointment calendar. Instead she keeps her dates in the back of her head. Her friends say she seldom ‘misses an appointment. “Though she has a finger in every recreational pie the park department cooks up, her favorite programs are those involving dancing.
Gymnastic Career Sidetracked
“DANCING HELPS many boys and girls’ through the rough spots of the ‘awkward state’,)” she says. “Furthermore, it teaches them manners they can't
pick up in many activities.”
Mrs. Koster tries to inject some form of physical exercise into all her programs. She-regards exercise as almost a cure-all. Evidence that her reasoning is good is the fact that in 21 years she hasn't been off
‘the job a single day because of illness,
Another of her pet projects is helping polio victims. Dancing aids greatly in this, she believes, though she employs other forms of physical therapy. Perhaps some of this feeling about exercise i§ due to the fact that she prepared herself to be a gym. teacher. That career was sidetracked after she found she liked recreational work. better. ‘Mrs. Koster has been called by many groups to
teach them special dances. Once when a Norwegian club asked for her services, she went prepared to
teach Norwegian folk dances. to know how to square-dance. For a number of years she taught dancing, speclalizing in teaching children. During an experimental program, she learned. she could teach children as young as 18 months. While most of her work has been with childfen, she also has helped adult groups plan programs and entertainment.- She thinks she has made a startling discovery. . Big men will play parlor games—what’s more, she says, they like them. (By Richard Berry.)
But the group wanted
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, March 15.—Ever watch a row of congressmen ease into seats they know are hot and spend the next four hours squirming? I did. A piteous sight it was. It almost (but not quite) melted the heart of Rep. Harold (Tax Cut) Knutson of Minnesota, who arranged this refined torture for the Democrats on his ways and means committee. These gentlemen were bitterly opposed to Mr. Knutson’s bill slashing income taxes 20 per cent. They charged him with stacking the cards. They said why not let some Democrats testify about taxes? : The wily Republican from St. Cloud, Minn., said, all right, he would. The Democrats cried, when? Mr. Knutson said as soon as he could round up a couple of Democrats who also were tax experts. He said this was difficult, but he would try. After a session on the long distance telephone he announced success. He said he had found two good Democrats, both of whom had served as undersecretary of the treasury under the late President Roosevelt. He added that they were exceptionally intelli gent; both agreed with him that taxes should be chopped drastically.
The Experts Arrive
THEY DID, too. Roswell F. Magill, the No. 2 man’
of the treasury in 1937 and 1938, said the government is like a housewife who wants a new mink coat when her husband (the taxpayers) can't even afford rabbit. Forget the mink and snick one-fifth from everybody's tax bill; he said, before it is too late. John W. Hanes, who succeeded him as treasury findersecretary and kept the job until the end of 1939, went even further. He saw signs of a depression already on the horizon and said if taxes weren't sliced pronto, business might slide into a tailspin. The Republican committeemen leaned back and
laced their fingers across their middles, comfortably. Smug was the word ‘for them. The Democrats suffered audibly. They argued with the Messrs. Magill and Hanes, both of whom managed to mention at opportune moments their own experiefices as Democratic financiers of government. The continuing controversy finally led Mr. Knutson to apologize for his fellow congressmen. “I am sure, Dr. Magill,” he said, “that you are greatly impressed by the cordiality of your former colleagues.” Dr. Magill, a big-time attorney in New York now, grinned and said he came only because he-was asked. No patriotic citizen could do less. Big, -deep-voiced and poised, he made an impressive witness,
Incentive Isn't There “THERE ISN'T the incentive any more to get up early and work late,” he said. “When a man’s income gets up to $18,000 a year, the government takes at least half above that. I don’t cry for the men who
get $50,000, but these are the men who\are running 5
America's businesses. “They're the men who have got to do the job. And it is imperative to reduce taxes and give people some incentive to climb the ladder. Today it is difficult, if not impossible for a younger man to save his money, expand his business, and become another Ford or Chrysler. “I see the young men in my own office and it is awfully hard for a man earning even $10,000 a year to lay aside enough money to buy a house. That bothers me. I wasn't brought up that way.” The Democratic congressmen by now were squirming painfully. If only Dr. Magill and Mr. Hanes had been Republicans, they wouldn't have suffered so badly. As it was, their agonized cries unnerved me; I got out of there.
Bit-Part Stars
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, March 15.—Stop the presses, blow the steamship whistles, and pop the bubble gum. Larry Parks is playing Larry Parks and not Al Jolson. There's no, mistake about it. Franchot Tone comes right out and says, “Ladies and gentlemen, our guest from Hollywood, Larry Parks.” It’s for a banquet scene in: the Columbia flicker, “The.Ivady Knew How.” Larry is playing the two-day bit against the advice of some friends. “Why play a bit,” they argued, “after being nominated for an Academy Award?” } Larry said he couldn't resist if. “I don't care,” he said. “They introduce me as Larry Parks, not as Al Jolson.” There's a rash of stars playing bits at Columbia. Errol Flynnand Nora Eddington dance by the camera
for a quitk flash in ‘The Lady From Shanghai.” Joe
Cotten leads a mule across a street-for a quicker Rash A] the same ? Pitre:
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then they like to play bit. roles.
Eleanor Breaks Records ELEANOR POWELL'S soreen caregr has suffered lately. , Producers, said she was washed up. * 80 what happens? Eleanor goes on a personal
appearance”tour. * At a night club in Buffalo, N. Y,, she breaks the boxoffice records of Sophie Tucker, Joe E. Lewis, and Harry Richman. People stand in line outside in the snow for two hours to see her. It's the old story. .Stars aren't appreciated until they go out of town and prove. that the fans still love ‘em. / The censors again: For a scene in “Jeopardy,” Vincent Price tells Ella Raines that money is a might handy thing to have because “look at what you can Juyshirt, airlines, Balkan countries. nThe censors said unh- ‘unh and the line was revised to “ships, airlines, headwaiters.” It broke writer Bill Bowers’ heart. : :
Ginger to Do Fantasy
GINGER ROGERS will do a fantasy, “I Found a Dream,” at Columbia. They're trying to get Jimmy Stewart as her co-star. y ’ Glenn Ford plays another tough character. in “The Man From gfColorado.). “There's not a redeeming
feature about the guy. S88 Glenn, “but I-love jt.”
Bing Creshy’s radio package, »with more stations being added every day, is now costirig his sponsor $34,000 a week. But Bing has to pay all the production and cast bills. Swedish Signe Hasso will ‘get her final American citizenship papers in July. Annabella sails for France on the America March 19. She won't return to Hollywood until .September.
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We, the Women CCT By Ruth Millet Gomme i A IN THE year 1947 it shouldn't be necessary to Eight in every 100. have other important uses
"defend a woman's right to work.
But it often is necessary. For there are still men —and women, too—who go around making flat statements about a woman's place being in the home. on the fact that women refuse to stay there. “Ninety-two out of 100 women who work do so because they need to, not because they like it or want ‘pin money,” says the U, 8. bureau of labor statistics.
Need Their Earnings ~
BREAKING the figures down still further the
bureau reports: Eighty-four in every 100 have to support themselves and often dgpendents.
And they blame half of the world's troubles
for their earnings, such as paying debts, buying a home, educating children. Only eight in every 100 work solely “because they like to work.” So it looks as though the “woman’s- -place- in-the-home” advocates who scream the loudest when jobs begin to get scarce have a problem on their hands.
Kitchen’s the Problem
BEFORE THEY can send women back to the kitchen; -they'H-have to figure out the way to provide the kitchen for 84 out of every 100 women. Until they can solve that problem they had better let working” women alone. Right now they're doing a good job of providing the kitchen—and bringing home the bacon to cook: in it. v
Indiana U. Acquires 1450 Books on Theater
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of the Herbert Stanley Renton col the theater.
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latter place before his death in BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 15.|1939, during which time he collected Acquisition by Indiana university ihooks and literature dealing with
Development of the Irish, Scotch,
book in‘ the collection is William Prynne’s. “Histrio - Mastix, "The Players Scourge of Actors Tragsadie,” published in 1633. " Approximately 50 prompt books and plays that belonged to William J. LeMoyne, great American actor who “was active in the. pofession
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And all night long You can hear the sap’s low song, Hear the drip, drip, drip in the pails.
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Red Cross Cee
Human Drama Lies Behind Every Pledge
Workers Tell Stories At Report Meeting
* The first report on the progress of the Red Cross campaign was issued today. Workers flocked to the report luncheon yesterday at IPALCO hall to turn in pledges totaling $108,207.50, just under 34 per cent of the 1047 goal.” = To anyone reading the report set up on a long blackboard in Red Cross campaign quarters, it was
only a maze of figures. But to the people whose efforts had made the total to date this high and who hope to carry the campaign through to its $322,000 goal, it was a heartwarming indication. that Indianapolis is as responsive as ever to the Red Cross campaign. There's a story back of each filled in pledge card. A residential solicitor who held a baby while the child's mother hunted up her pocketbook. Another neighborhood worker who stirred the pudding so it wouldn't stick as the houseworker filled out her card. By such effort as this, residential solicitors have raised $2563.80.
Ex-Prisoner of War at Work And the downtown division, where four teams raised $1128 during the first part of the campaign. One of these downtown teams, the group soliciting in the area between New York and Ohio sts. and from Pennsylvania to Pine st. has a special interest in obtaining funds for the Red Cross—the captain and four of his team are all ex-prisoners of war. The captain, Norman W. Lauchwas captured on Corregidor in 1942 and liberated in 1945 after imprisonment in notorious Bilibad. “Even . before my folks knew where I was the Red Cross had supplies there for me,” Mr. Lauchner said. “When we came back home we all thought we'd have only time for
or nicotine, take this early planting. Some, like Shirley poppies, really prefer it). “I'm trying out some new petunias, too,” Mrs. Thomson continued, “but these choice varieties I give special care, starting them.indoors. Since I don’t have a sunny south window" I wait until mid-March when I .can keep them on. the inclosed BACK POrchi.. .. ly... Sey It's unheated, gets only mornin sun, but hardy seeds like petunias, pansies and sweet peas ment necessary will stand it if the temperature drops for a day or two.” » ” o INSTEAD of seed flats she prefers flower pots or tins, “something that holds more dirt.” “They don’t dry out So fast, are easy to.water from the bottom, so I don't have much trouble with damping off and I don't bother to treat the seeds with chemicals.” Her favorite pansies, Swiss giants in red shades, were used one year for an effective edging combination. She planted them “just behind dwarf white alyyscum to outline her flower ‘border. Sweet peas started indoors are easy to transplant after the ground is workable, blossom earlier, Mrs. ‘Thomson-points-out. This year she is trying out the newly developed Cuthbertsons to see if they live up to the spectacular claims of heat resistance, with five to seven blooms on 12- inch stems. She's found that planting Swe peas outdoors where-they get morn~ing sun, aftern B Shade, prolongs the blooming ge
MRS. HENRY COOPER, 3438 Birchwood ave. says she's noticed that flat podded. green beans of the bountiful type, get stringy faster when they're not promptly picked. Like sweet potatoes? Start your own plants in a sunny window right, now.
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Early Spring Is the Time To Sow Snapdragon Seeds
Petunias Planted in Enclosed Back Porch Will Withstand Drop in Temperature
By MARGUERITE SMITH IT'S TIME TO SOW a few flower seeds outdoors. You can also get some sweet potato plants started in a sunny window. Mrs. Claude Thomson, 41 N. Kealing ave. sowed snapdragon and petunia seed last week on top of the snow. “When I don’t get hardy flower seeds sown in the fall I have better luck if I sow them very early in the spring,” she says. (Any flower that self-sows in your garden, as larkspur, moss rose,
GROW YOUR OWN—Dr. 5752 E. Washington st., shows the simple equip-
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seven bushels’ from window raised plants. “I covered the whole potato with water. ‘As soon as the sprouts are two feet long you can cut them in two just below a leaf joint. Put the cut end in water. It will root, too. They can be bunched together in one container to save space. “Sometimes I had so many vines stated I'd risk plants outdoors the first of May. I had plenty to replant. If they didn't I had early potatoes.” = A south window is best, but east or west, will do, says Dr. Mock.
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all the things we missed.” All Ready to Help “There’s not;a one of us, though, who isn’t willing to take time for the Red Cross drive.” The other ex-prisoners on his team are Stewart Reed, 1304 Broadway; Dennis Raymer, Dearborn hotel, and Harry Sullivan, 2147 Talbott ave., all prisoners of the Germans; and Henry Bracken, 515 N. Lindley, prisoner of the Italians and later the Germans. Another unique volunteer group is the women’s auxiliary of the Indianapolis Medical association; the only such club to act as a team. Appropriately enough, these wemen were assigned the professional group, getting subscriptions from physicians, dentists and other professional groups. So far, these: women have succeeded to the tune of $2421.50. Other Division Reports Other divisional reports included: Area (outside the city) $223.76; special gifts, $8880; government and education, $10,264.50; public service, $11,021.95; commercial, $26,702, and industrial $42,564.30. Hugh K. Duffield, general chairman of the 1947 drive, said every worker is pushing solicitation, to put the drive over by March 26. “The campaign is not a success unless it reaches its goal on time,” he said. “Even though-<the money is eventually reached, “It is a real success, not only in dollar and cents, but in value to the community, if the workers can po rR Nor ve A HENS BGs
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Roosevelt's Yacht Destroyed by Fire _ BALTIMORE, Md, March 15 (U;
P.).—The 1200-ton Canadian whaling ship Mayflower, once the
private yacht of the late President Roosevelt, was a charred hull today. |.
The ship burst into flames in Chesapeake . bay last night after an explosion in the boiler room.
One member of the ship's 23-man |.
Canadian crew was reported missing. He was identified by the navy as. Robert Telloquin, st. Joseph, | + Desarel, Wii Sanaa, He wes |
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Sherry, who wants % ps house. When Mona finally arrives, she is out f breath and xsi . argeorge Brothers brought me home,” she says.
“I'll tell you about it while we eat.”
CHAPTER 2 SHERRY went into the kitchen and put the chops on the broiler.
was set and the vegetables only needed heating up. .. She took the salads out of ‘the fcebox and put them on the table, but all the while she was thifiking of George Brothers. She had seen him once when she had met Mona downtown for lunch. He was the head of the insurance company for which Mona worked. He looked well fed and -comfortable, and his hair was thinning on top. He seemed like a nice, pleasant person all right, but not the sort of man to cause such a ftriumphant glow. When their meal wae almost over Sherry understood.
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person’s point of view, so clearly sometimes that she lost. her own. 80 she understood Mona's elation when, out of one hundred and thirty-seven girls, George Brnthers had taken her home. As Mona talked, the uninteresting man ‘became as important to Sherry as he was to Mona and the other hundred and thirty-six. She could see them there in the huge room with row after row of desks. Some of them were old, the ones that had been dependably there.
Edging In—
Cluster Flies
By The Weather Editor . Temperatures remain below average in Indianapolis but the springtime keeps edging in. The state entomologist’s office reported several calls from residents
By Karen DeWolf
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for years and got and her desk was third end near the entrance t Brothers’ private office. i 4 s x» Wig SHERRY could see her, sleek and efficient, handling papers with her Brothers had seen hér there two months ago for the first time, He sald, “Good morning,” and heads had turned from the nearest desks Ne vator once and exchanged the time of day. Sherry imagined the man's surprise at ‘Mona's throaty, cule tured voice and precocious poise,
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this week asking what in the world little clusters of flies were doing in their houses. Assistant Entomologist Clark explained they were just that —cluster flies. They are parasites which live on earthworms. They lodge in your attic all winter. When warmer temperatures arrive, the cluster flies stir about, get ready to go outside and find an earthworm in which to lay their eggs. Usually the clusters sift through little spaces in the attic walls—just like "they got in. But some of the more daring start flying about the house. It Could Be Tough
T asked Mr. Clark what happened if the flies went outside and found no earthworms as is likely right now, and he said: “Well; just tough on the cluster flies. They would die.” The below seasonal temperatures have nipped buds on some forsythia bushes, though. Peach buds have been nipped a little, too. ' Don’t look for it to be any warmer until well into next week. The temperatures will range from four to eight degrees below normal for the next five days. There will be minor spurts in the thermometer by the middle of the week. After that; nobody knows. But you can bet we're not having an early spring. Reports indicate a slight greening of wheat in the Terre Haute area hha, senerally Yhgat» and nd.other “any > £YOpS:.. Are... not growth.’ ’
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She said, “Do you know what I decided today?”
Mona said, “No, darling, What?"
there was a little satisfied smile around her lips. Sherry leafed fore ward eagerly. “Mona, I'm going to write! Really work at it and do something important. Maybe even classic! I'm sure I can!” Mona said, “Of course you can, - You write beautifully.” She turned back to the fire, and after a while ‘she threw her cigaret in it and rose languorously. She said, “I think I'l. put new linen collar and cuffs on the henna wool.” Sherry was surprised. “But I just put the pique hel back on;” she told her. » » - MONA thanked her but thought . she would change them, and went into the bedroom. Sherry sat Ar. stared at the fire, She felt she ought to offer to change the collar and cuffs. She did all their sewing. . . After all, Mona ‘worked all day. But tne hew Hl en i Telt vaguely resentful:
So Mona had not’ been .ablé to call her because of the impression it would make on. George Brothers! What had Mona been thinking when she was smiling that secree tive little smile into the fire? Surely, she wouldn't— Whiskers jumped down from the chair and stretched. She went to the door and meowed.
. SHERRY said, I think it's sti raining, putsy,” but she opened: the
door,