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_ JUST ABOUT THIS TIME three years.ago Lucille Batson, executive director of the Children's bureau of the Indianapolis; Orphan's home, began, thinking about: a group of “forgotten ‘mothers.” It was about -time, she decided, someone paid tribe ute to a group of Indianapolls women who volunteer
for “motherhood” —foster mothers who care for under
privileged children, As 1s characteristic of her, Miss Batson did some« thing about it. Yesterday the bureau's auxiliary sponsored its third annual “Foster Mother's day" luncheon, honoring more than 70 women who assume the Tespansibilicy of motherhood with little of its glories, . Recognized nationally. for ner interest in child wel
fare, Miss Batson is chairman of the boarding homes
committee of the Council of Social Agencies, secretary - ;
of the council's executive committee; a member of the executive committee of the National Conference of Social work and chairman of the local chapter of the
_ American Association of Social Workers.
The local social worker has a reputation’ of being twice as choosy as nature about who becomes one of ber “mothers.” This she takes as a compliment. “Children,” she says, “are the community's most valuable-asset. It follows that children whe have been knocked around should be given affection, understand«ing, & good home and all those things that are every " child's birthright." She anxiously points ‘out that “foster mothers,”
~ and “adoptive mothers” shouldn't be confused. The
+ foster mothers care for a child on a temporary basis knowing that eventually it may return to its own home.
Visits Parents Frequently
MISS BATSON missed being a Hoosier by the river, the Wabash, which separates Indiana from her farm home near Keensburg, IIL. Still a “farm girl at heart,” she charges down road 67 in her “aging Chevvie" frequently to visit her parents. She was graduated from Mt. Carmel, Ill. high school and later returned there to teach English after graduation from the old Oxford college in Oxford, O, One day she got tired of grading English papers. That, coupled with an interest in social work developed in a sociology course at Oxford, influenced her to go to Cincinnati, There she studied at the University of Cincinnati and did research work in the Helen 8. Trounstine foundation. She received a Commonwealth fellowship to the New York school of social work from which she eventually received her master’s degree after study Interspersed with working.
While in the university, she did field work in the™
Institute of Child guidance; Jobs with social agencies in St. Louis and Cincinnati led her to the local Children's bureau in 1947, Her real love is on the casework side of child placement, where she can “meet people.” Gradually, how ever, she was advanced in the executive brackets and accepted the directorship four years ago. Her mind still can be diverted from executive duties by the presence of a child in the office. As soon as she hears a child's voice in the office her door will open and pretty soon the child is perched on her desk, looking out her 8th floor view of Indianapolis
_ from the Odd Fellows building.
Miss LUCILLE BATSON—She wanted a doy for
‘volunteer mothers."
‘Watch Men Make Mouths’
ONLY ONCE was her confidence in the ability to fascinate any child shattered. Starting into her office, she found a tiny boy who had wandered into a dental laboratory across the way and was watching the men make teeth. 8he took him into her office and gave him her best birdseye view description of Indianapolis, pointing out trains and sights with zest. She thought she had him completely entranced but as soon as she answered her ringing phone he interrupted to ask: “Now can I go back and watch the men make mouths?” On time off her favorite pastime somewhat a “postman’s holiday.” She likes to visit with her young nieces and nephew or her friends and staffers’ children. She calls these ‘children brought up in normal homes her “balance wheel These, she says, keep her from seeing psychiatric bugaboos in every child. Her friends know Miss Batson as a “great talker,” an avid reader and a “lousy bridge player.” She admits the accuracy of the later description but excuses it by saying she plays poor bridge because she's more interested in conversation than cards. She has a great sense of humor and she's recently been embarrassed by one of her humorous touches | popping up officially, Once, after a ussite ‘witir eficiess Communiiy-fund budget forms she enclosed with the budget a hastily written parody on Browning's “My Last Duchess,” reading in part: “That's my last budget, lying on the desk Loeking as if it is complete . . . I said ‘complete’ by design, for what budget is ever complete . , .” ‘She thought the poem would be read and discarded. Recently, however, Paul Beisser who is conducting a child welfare survey here mentioned it. Then to her embarrassment she learned her little “joke” had not been an exvephion to the “file everything” rule at fund offices. (By Donna Mikels.)
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WASHINGTON, May 10.—There were Communists to the right of me and Communists to the left, while down below on the floor of the house the gentlemen were denouncing you-know-who. I kept an eye open for somebody in black whiskers to ease a package with a hissing fuse over the gallery rail, but nothing like this happened. I didn't even see any whiskers. These Communists were young fellows, war veterans, in convention here at Turner's boxing arena, an ancient barn of a place, where the odor of arnica and six-cent cigars is ingrained in the woodwork. About 300. of them took the morning off to learn what congress thinks about them. Mostly they were hatless. (Hatlessness seems to be one of the labels of Communists.) Some wore pieces of their army uniforms. They filed into the galleries, found seats, and listened intently to the lawmakers calling them names.
Had Chins in Hands
THE CONGRESSMEN were debating the -GrecoTurkish loan of $400 million. The question was whether this would help stop the gpread of communism, or spread it all'the faster. Rep. Robert F. (Where'll-you-get-the- -money) Rich of Pennsylvania said the place to squelch communism was here in Washington, right now, at Turner's boxing emporium. The Communists eyed him impassively. Mostly they had their chins in their hands. At this juncture I noticed a curious thing. About half of them wore no ties. Almost all of the others flaunted cravats of maroen, scarlet, peony, rust, ruby
Toothpick Stardom
By Frederick C. Othman
and combinations of all the shades involving red. Up jumped Rep. John Rankin, the Mississippi Communist hater, to charge that the boss Communist here at the pugilistic headquarters made a speech comparing President Truman with Adolf Hitler. “These young men who call themselves Communist war veterans are being deceived,” the white-haired Rankin cried, surveying the rosy-necktied ones in the balcony. “God grant that they see the error of their ways.” Not a muscle on a communistic face changed; these gents were as expressionless as chorus girls at the 11 a. m. performance in a skidrow burlesque.
Beset With Hunger Pains
EVENTUALLY the lawmakers began to shout at each other. They agreed they hated Communists, but one side cla the loan wouldn't fence in the Soyiet Union, while the other insisted it would. I've never heard congressmen bellow louder, or sound bitterer. Not even the woolihi-faced Communists could doubt the sincerity of all the men on either end of the debate. But as the hours went by the visitors were beset, even as non-Communists, with hunger pangs. Gradually they filed downstairs. I went with ‘em. A cerise-tied Communist wondered where was the best place to eat? His companion with the carroty cravat (evidently a local boy) sounded like a capitalist, “Senators don't eat so good,” he said. “The house restaurant is better.” They both had the 65-cent sausage special. So did I. Not bad, either, for a capitalistic lunch,
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, May 10.—A young lady who studied dramatics for a year with a toothpick stuck behind
. her eye-teeth to cure a speech impediment is about
to be introduced on the screen by Howard Hughes as
Hollywood's newest star, Her name is Faith Domergue (pronounced “Doughmerg”). .She's been waiting in Hollywood's wings for six years. Faith is 22, raven haired, and big-eyed. It's an unusual beauty of Creole heritage. Her father .is a Frenchman, her mother French-Spanish. She was born in the New Orleans French quarter but has lived most of her life in California. Millionaire Hughes signed her to a contract in 1941 when she was only 16. Like his other discovery, Jane Russell, he kept her under wraps for six years. Now he will introduce her with typical Hughes ballyhoo in “Vendpita,” a movie of vengeance and reprisal in post-Napoleonic Corsica. But maybe we better explain that toothpick stuck behind Faith's eye-teeth for a year. “I had a lisp,” she confided. "It wath awful. I couldn't thay a thing without lithping.”
No Love Scenes
HER DRAMATIC coach suggested the toothpick behind the eye-teeth. For a year Faith read lines with the toothpick in her mouth. It worked. There is no trace of a lisp today. : “Vendetta” 1s based on the famous Prosper Merimee classic, “Colomba.” Faith plays Colomba, a girl
is ready to be launched as a movie star.
who demands that her brother revenge the murder of her father. Together they track down the killers. It's rather unusual for a Howard Hughes film. There. are no love scenes, Faith plays the entire role in a black, high-necked mourning dress and is killed herself in the final reel. Except for Joseph Calleia, there are no big names in the cast. The leading man is George Dolenz, onetime assistant manager of a Hollywood night club, who has played only minor roles in several B pictures. Hughes” press agent was bemoaning this lack of names one day, observing that it would be a difficult picture to publicize. Said Hughes: “I don’t see why. It's a picture with all new faces.”
Prepping for Stardom
THE STORY behind the new face Faith Domergue will bring to the screen is the story of a giyl who started acting in high school. A Warner Studio talent scout saw her, gave her a contract, changed her name to Faith Dawn. She was 16 and still going to school. She was under contract to Warners only six weeks when Hughes met her and bought her contract., For six years Howard Hughes paid her a salary, sent her to dramatic school. When Jane Russell appeared in “Young Widow,” Faith was supposed to have played the second leading role. The script was rewritten so many times that she wound up playing a two-minute bit. But now, after six years of waiting—part of the time’ with a toothpick in her mouth—Faith Domergue
We, the Women
RECENTLY Ohio. State university sponsored a panel discussion on the question: “Is“radio meeting the needs of our children?” Judging from the’ opinions of the experts who took
part in the debate, the main concern of parents and educators is whether" the. programs children are listening to are harmful or not.
Effect a Problem
BUT ISN'T the effect of radio programs o ‘on youngier? as much a problem of quantity as quality?
n't how on many
iafhiency 1 bas du chien ane "In the maming the mother eae from facing
hours the radio is on also an impor-
By Ruth Millett
« her own problems by listening to the agonies and frustrations -of one soap opera heroine. after the other. When the father gets home he listens to his favorite programs. * ‘
Noisy Qutsider
THE CHILDREN also have their sghedule of favorites. During dinner, news broadcasts reduce table conversation to requests for salt and pepper.
Through it all, there is no real family closeness |
and companionship. Instead of sharing experiences of -the day, they are all escaping each other. Radio makes thinking, good Solivessation, and soncentration. , nearly impossible.
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Evansville's
Floating Colony ‘Solves’ Housing
By FLDON RDARK Soripps-Howard Staff Writer
EVANSVILLE, Ind, May 10~If
housing problem, why not chuck it all and come here and join the Pigeon, Creek shantyboat colony? The creek empties into the Ohio river at Evansville, You won't have to get permission from any housing authority or knuckle to any landlord? Just get a big dry-goods box, mount it on two or three barrels or steel drums, and paddle ‘up the creek till you find a likely looking spot. Then you tie up and stay. No rent to pay, no anchorage fee. At least that's the way mudspattered, 80-year-old John T. Yackle, dean of the colony, explains it. He ought to know. He has been tied up in this creek 16 years. For 40 years prior to that he lived in cramped quarters in town as a regular rent-paying citizen, and had enough. » ” » MR. YACKLE, a small man with a brown, weather-lined face and watery eyes, lives alone in a tworoom houseboat. It's mighty old and needs repairs constantly, but it’s dotfitortabiv;” He contracted to pay $130 for it when he was in the money back in the WPA days. He still owes some on it; but the fellow never presses him. Mr, Yackle’s only income now is an old-age pension. “My boat is old but still pretty good,” Mr. Yackle says. “She's sunk on me four times, but I always manage to get ’er afloat again. It's better than a lot of them barrel shanties.” It isn't nearly as swanky as several larger houseboats tied up on the other side of the creek—those with fresh, paint and screened decks and curtains at the windows. Women live in them, and their husbands have jobs. As we stood on the front end of Mr. Yackle’s shantyboat and chatted, he told me more about his neighbors. ‘ » ” ” “A WIDOW woman lives in that nice boat right ahead of us,” he said. She's well fixed and don’t have to worry. She's got $1800 in the bank. Used to work in a restaurant. Now she cooks and washes for that feller in the little boat right behind her. He pays her $5 a week. He owns half interest in a small grocery. “See that nice-looking boat down the creek onthe other side? The pest fisherman in town lives there. In fact, he’s the only real fisherman here. He has eight children. That feller in the boat beached just above him has about eight, too. Some big families here on the creek. Kids all go to school, too.” I asked about a rather dilapidated shanty on steel drums in the middle of a mud flat. “That barrel boat is owned by a woman,” Mr. Yackle said. “She's in jail. Got into a little trouble, But her time's about up.” » » » SOME OF the colony had jobs in nearby broom or furniture fac-
life easy, living on money they saved during the war, Some of the shanty-boaters get their drinking water from a pump driven in the mud flat, but others, more cautious, tote theirs ‘from nearby filling: stations. “They charge us two bits a month for water.” Years ago the shantyboat colony was pretty well, Police ‘had to answer calls nearby every day and night. But now it is a lot quieter and more orderly. There isn't much visiting. Everybody tends to his own business. 3 Mr. Yackle has found it a healthtul life. Right now he is ailing a bit and is taking some medicine, “but 1t's the first‘ doctor medicine I've had to take since I was 13.” Mr. Yackle’s idea of recreation is to get into his skiff, go down une creek into the Ohio, and row around,
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MOTHER'S DAY — Four- year-old Marilyn Mason, George ‘E. Mason, 5544 N. lllinois st., is a vision of wh most days of the year and especially on Mother's day,
Plans for Tomorrow By Barton Rees Pogue
> We plan a special sort of thing « For tomorrow's Mother's Day, We'll wear our flowers, and bring her gifts In the usual sort of way, But we want to take her out to eat, We're sure that’s what she wishes, So she won't spend the afternoon . At washing dirty dishes.
We want appointments rich and lush, With waiters on the scene, And mother ruling at the board In style to fit a queen. - There'll be soft music with the meal, The notion is a winner; Our mother will be thrilled, we know, Being taken out to dinner!
There'll be no flush of kitchen heat, No roast gnd pies and rolls, ‘There'll be great quiet and good food, And contentment in our souls. The children won't be rushing in, Accusing and confessing, Without confusion we will sit, And dad will say the blessing.
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But what does mother say to this? She wants the heat and. pies, She wants the glory of her rolls Reflected in our eyes; She wants the children and their noise, The other would be dreary, She wants her family at her home, And the fun of being weary!
May ‘Cold Wave’ Came Close to Breaking Record
By The Weather Editor Don’t look now but we came awfully close to breaking some all-time cold records this week. Hoosiers don't know what they have done to deserve this but on yesterday, for instance, the thermometer slid to 32 degrees at 5 a. m. and the all-time record for a May 9 was in 1923 when the Teading was 31. May 8 was a cold day, too, back in 1923 when the temperature reached 32.© Our minimum for Thursday of 1947 was 36 degrees, only four degrees warmer. The mean temperature—and you can take that both ways—was 44 on Thursday. : . Temperature Below Normal On Wednesday, the mean temperature was 46/ degrees, or 14 degrees below normal, on Tuesday it was 56, or 4 degrees below and Monday the thermometer said 10 degrees below normal with an average reading of 49. : . And the end is not in sight yet. It might even snow before next week is over, a good covering like we had in 1923. For the next four days the ‘temperature will average 2 to 4 degrees below normal. The temperature will rise slightly Mon- |
and Wednesday. You can expect a half inch of rain occuring tomorrow and Wednesday. The farmers are getting in some pretty good licks with their plowing
days put a halt to all those bumper crop predictions you've been hearing about, Damage Not Known
It is anybody's guess as to the plenty, fruit growers say.
Everything that stopped growing last week, sa
country. . The mushroom hunters were Just
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Natural blot photo by Lloyd B. Wallon, Times Staff Photographer.
| Wolf, 38, refused to accept food or| water for the 14th day she would
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{Woman Refuses Food 14th Day
Sheriff Says ‘He Won't Let Her Die
NEW HAVEN, Conn, May 10 (U. P.).)—Jall officials said if Wilma
be moved to a hospital today for forced feeding.
night. “I feel sorry for the poor woman,” Several - physicians were amazed that Miss Wolf still lived after 14 days without food and water. One said that most persons cannot survivé without water for more than four days. Miss Wolf has refused food and water since April 27 when she was sentenced to 30 days for contempt after calling city court Judge Thomas R. Fitzsimmons a “Tat Republican.” When offered sustenance, she said: y “I won't eat. It isn't suitaty in jail and oesides I don't belong here with the trash.” Miss Wolf was arrested April 16 when she tried to force her way into the administrative: offices of Yale university in Woodbridge hall. The next day, while free on bail, she was arrested again at the Yale art school, and’ charged with breach of peace, resisting and trespassing.
Mothers Club Plans Spring Tea Monday The ™ Beta Phi" Mothers club
4 p. m. Monday at the Butler university chapter house. Mrs. Frank Millis is in charge of the program. Music will be provided by Miss Shirley Loucks, Miss Margaret Bowers and the Pi Phi chorus, Mrs. W. A. Singleton, arrangements chairman, will be assisted by Mesdames W. -A. Evans, H. J. Walker, Bruce Chiles, George Bowman and J. J. Wichser. Mrs. Ethel Wright and Mas. Joe Hill will pour. Honor guests will include Mrs, M. O. Ross, Dean Elizabeth Ward, Mrs. C. C. Bagley, mothers club presidents and house mothers of
“I'm not going to ‘let her die.*|° .|Sheriff Edward J. Slavin said last
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and deep so roots aren't Try transplanting solution. It up wilted plants. Chemicals diss solved in water sre better distributed, safer to use than wher i dry. A good general rule for planting—do it just after a: fi¢ has bloomed rather than me mediately before. » n #
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