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IVE DAD A PEACHY RAKE!" “Pather's Day

won't be complete without a dandy fingernail clipper.”

“End Pop's moth worries—Give him a sack of deadlio.

* plothballs.”

Gift advertisements for Father's Day had me stumped. Does the “Man of the House” really get all the things you see advertised? A few hours of pavement pounding and counter leaning revealed that he does. The list runs from minnow traps to dress suits to aceyted soap “He'll be thrilled to use.” Miss Shopping Service at L. 8, ‘Ayres & Co. said that shirts for Pop are going like hot cakes. I think that's fine. It would beta sad state .of affairs if the “King” had to wear a turned-collar shirt on his big

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This Will Tickle Him

“I GOT AN ORDER for a lawn mower,” the lady: said, “and I'm pretty sure it's going to be a gift." Practical, to say the least. Salesman Edwin Whitley on ‘the second floor, between customers, said, “I didn't think there were 80 many fathers in the city,” Women, with a great deal of confidence, were pick ing out shirts, slacks, T-shirts and swimming trunks, I hope Dad likes the colors I saw go over the counter, Greeting card counters were almost unapproachable. I tried to ease my way up to one counter, When women stand four deep at a counter you don’t ease

-your way through, you politely push.

“A CASTING ROD FOR POP—John Manien helps a customer choose the “right thing" for Father's Day.

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Plug for Plugs

WASHINGTON, June 13.—Thé automobile industry has convinced me; while there still is time I'm going to trade in my old sedan as down payment on a horse. These Joes in the auto business are super-salesmen anyhow. They already had me wavering on the horse deal, when Rep. John D. Dingell of Detroit threw in the clincher: “And before an automobile is finally junked, ” he asked the witness, “doesn’t it pay more in taxes than

I’ originally cost?”

It does, indeed, agreed A. E. Barit, the distinguished, white-haired president of the Hudson Motor

Car Co, of Detroit. He offered to provide the figures. w

on auto, parts, use, gas and oil taxes, These will prove that before one of his $2000 coupes gasps its last, its owner will have paid an assortment of greedy governments another $2000 for the privilege of wearing out.

Even Accidents Taxed

“GREEDY” is Motor-Maker Barit's word. He told the house ways and means committee that the tax collectors are never satisfied; they even oollect a special tax on motorists’ misfortunes. He said he meant when an automobilist smashes his radiator or rips a fender, he has to hand his Uncle 8am a te~ on repairing the damage. This is one of the beauties of my new horse; if he scratches his flank, he refinishes the surface himself, tax-free. Mr. Barit led a parade of automobile specialists, each one of whom contributed his argument in favor of the Othman taxless horse. Take James J. Newman, vice-president of the B. F. Goodrich Co, of

- Akron, O.

The, federal tire tax in itself is not fair, he said, but what worries him are the covetous ones collecting taxes onthe taxes. The federal take on a small automobile is around $70; then along come the collectors

- Virginialee Carmack said several fathers were going

» worth.”

“Yes, pipes, cigars and tobacco are a big item,” og Walter K. Dolmetsch, salesman, at L. Strauss & are of themselves when they're buying a pipe. They know exactly what kind of a pipe Father would like.” Just for curfosity's sake I asked suit salesman Earl F. Hanson on the second floor if he had sold any suits for the great day, “Heck yes,” sald Mr. Hanson, “Why I just sold a lady a suit, sport coat and slacks. The measurements she brought in were very good. The clothes should fit. When a woman comes in for a suit with only her husband's shirt collar size, that's when it becomes tricky.” Mr. Hanson thinks women are ‘more. secure in choosing a color than most men, And a man, as a rule, will spend more time buying a suit. Mr. Hanson didn’t say how much time a woman spent in buying a suit or a dress for herself. © At the Wm, H. Block Co. I stepped up to a busy tie counter, some fancy neckwear this Sunday. One woman was holding up a tie. for the clerk, Shuddering, I almost stopped her, Then 'I remembered my previous conversations. Maybe she knew what she was. doing. But there were some awiul pretty ties on the counter, Oh well. On the third floor, in the Western Trading Post,

to get silver. saddle ornaments, cowboy boots and colorful western shirts, & “How about saddles?” Miss Carmack had a couple of good Prospects; who thought a saddle was just the thing for Father's Day. Robert Dearmin, salesman at Hudgins Carter Co., 24 N. Meridian st., was opening a box of ties when I walked into the men's shop. He thinks the week before Father's Day is almost as busy as the week before Christmas in the shop. I believe it. According to Mr. Dearmin, women take more time selecting ties than men do, Strange situation, Earlier I found out women took less time than men in selecting suits and now I.was told they took more time in selecting ties. Just doesn’t add up. How about gifts for the outdoor Pop? John Manlen, salesman, Vonnegut Hardware Co., has sold fishing rods, bait, pellet guns and-—De- Liars. “A hot item this De<Liar,” Mr. Manien said. “I sold 18 yesterday. It'§ a combination scale and measuring gadget for the fisherthan. Pocket size.”

Checker-Up for Dad's Yurns

“YES, I'M giving this to my Dad,” said Juanita Miller, 617 Sanders st. “From now on,” Miss Miller

was laughing, “he’s going to be more accurate with his |

stories.” Just for the fun of it, I called E. M. Dill at the Dill Implement Co. and asked if he had sold any tractors for Father's Day. “I can’t say for sure,” Mr. Dill said, “but we did sell a garden tractor to a woman the other day and had five more ask about them. -Take it for what it's

Well, Pop, what do you think?

By Frederick C. Othman

in at least 10 states, slapping a sales tax on the $70. Mr. Newman said this was not fair, Nor is it all. D. Willard Max, an earnest young man who rebuilds electric starters and generators in St. Louis, told perhaps the best horse promotion tale of all. He said he didn't much mind paying a tax of 5 per cent on a new generator in an automobile; buf it pained him to pay the same tax all over again on the same widget after it burns out and he fixes it. “This is what I mean,” he said, diving into a large box and roming up with a rusty piece of machinery, AGH dribbled a spot of black grease on the committee’s green broadlobm. Max held his apparatus with an old rag, but managed to blacken hi¢ hands

before he could explain how a motorist had traded it|

in. “An old piece of junk on which the tax already was paid,” Mr. Max said. “So I repair it and trade it to the next fellow with a burned out generator for his old one, and so on indefinitely. Only the government collects the full tax on each deal.”

No Taxes on Oats

“And you'd be surprised how sure some women |:

Evidently Dad was going to be sprouting |’

church.

TENORS START—Beginning the theme of the first "Kyrie" in Bach's B minor Mass are (left to right): Orville Luedtke, Miss Katharine Rinehart and Robert Batman. They are part of G. Fred Holler's summer Bach study group meeting Monday evenings at First Presbyterian

G. Fred Holler Enthusiastic About Great .: Work Hailed ‘Climax of Choral Music’

By HENRY BUTLER

“DON'T WORRY; welll give it here some day.” G. Fred Holler,

| Bach's Mass in B minor.

Not to use heavy adjectives, the music. Mr. Holler’s ; enthusiasm for the great work dates from his associa- | tion with John Finley Williamson's!

celebrated Westminster choir, which

has sung the Mass with such conductors as Stokowski and Toscanini.

Monday night, Mr. Holler communicated enthusiasm to his 27 volunteer singers.” In the sheer delight of sight reading their way through difficult but magnificent choruses, the group forgot the sweltering heat, » » . WITH Mrs. Bernice Fee Mozingo, ithe Bach choir’s regular accompanist, at the piano, the singers, some of them choir members, some of them summer enthusiasts, kept one eye on the score, one on Mr, Holler.

“Keep it-moving there. Don’t ever drag it,” he would say, emphasizing his instruction with vigorous gestures. Be “Don’t ever: 5688p." (By “scoop,” Mr. Holler meant the trombone-like, note). “‘Scooping’ is all right in (Italian; opera, not in Bach,” he said earnestly. / "8 = ONCE when the altos “slid home” in a measure of the second “Kyrie,” Mr. Holler good-humoredly bawled them out.

“There are three notes in that

Sinatra-like : slide from note to

director of the Indianapolis Bach choir, was talking to his summer Bachistudy group at First Presbyterian church Monday night. He referred to

Bach Mass is the climax of choral

pitch, I want to hear those three notes, not a slide.” When the basses muffed a pas-

‘said, “The trouble is we don’t hear that G sharp, so wo don't know where we are.” Mr. Holler straightened out the difficulty.

” » ”n HE LED his cheerfully perspiring singers through chorus after chorus. They came to the “Qui Tollis.”

said. “The whole work is full of marvelous music. Why, you haven't heard anything until you've heard the ‘Agnus Dei.” Mr. Holler hopes some time to present the entire mass with his Bach choir, It would take a lot of preparation, he says.

$8 % ¥ MEANWHILE, there's no better way for people to get acquainted with Bach than to join such a study group, he ‘believes. " The practice sessions will continue at First Presbyterian church at 7:30 p. m. Mondays until about the middle of next month., Volunteers who can read music and follow the score can join at any time

dividual auditions. Two joined up Monday night. Only requirement: Each candidate must own a copy of the B minor Mass. To a music-lover that

IF A GENERATOR is patched often enough the total tax can make it worth its weight in gold. And that’s another feature about my horse. All I need | to start him, I understand, are my heels; the hidden taxes on rubber heels are negligible. A bucket of oats makes a good generator and serves also as a nontaxable fuel. The auto makers expressed concern about my horse. | They said people weren't going to spend®money forever on autos equipped with more taxes than accessories. Cut out some of the auto levies, or the horse is here to stay. Giddap, Dobbin, and we'll take the tax collector for a ride.

Garbled History

By Erskine Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, June 13.—I think it's about time for the school teachers of America to do something about Hollywood's historical trash. The youngsters go to see a picture with an historical background, and the facts are so garbled that young history students sneer at their teachers: “Tiat's not the way I heard it. Charles Laughton did it different.” The studios have expensive research departments. But somewhere between the time the’ research department gives the facts and the time the youngsters see the pictures, somebody gets mixed up. Hollywood invariably rewrites history to fit jts boy meets girl stories, If Hollywood touches on history, the movie makers should be right about it. I've seen studios spend thousands in getting the exact type of furniture, lighting fixtures, costumes for the ladies, and lace cuffs for the men in historical movies. But then they take history and twist it to fit the star and the same old love story. It makes the whole thing just as far wrong as having Washington crossing the Delaware with a jitterbug at his side blowing bubble gum to the accompaniment of a portable radio.

Knows the Lingo AFTER ALL these years,’ Wallace Beery is taking up golf.. “After all,” he says, “I already know most of the words. I once drove a team of mules.” Jackie Cooper is working on an original screen play about a modern Robinson Crusoe. The hero is a war

flier lost at sea who’ discovers an uncharted island. Bill Demarest’s book, “Showman’'s Road,” will hit the bookstalls in the fall. Bill tells about his early | days in vaudeville in the wild West in 18¢0. Susan Peters, stil] confined to her wheel chair, Is

taking horseback riding lessons as another step in|

her progress. Big Jim Davis, who plays the villain in the new van Johnson movie, “The Romance of Rosy Ridge,” surprised the studio by receiving more wolf-calls from the young gals in the audience than Van: Could be |

that the gals have lost interest in Van since his mar-

riage to Evie Wynn and their announcement thati he'll be a father in January.

Scouts Are Guests

VERONICA LAKE and her husband, Andre de when they

Toth, will get $200,000, plus 25 per cent of the net, for doing “There Goes Lona Henry.”

passage, girls, and they all have

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: ALTOS FOLLOW—Continuing the "Kyrie Eleison' thi different key (left to right, front row) are: Miss Martha MacDougall ochran, Mrs. Gertrude Luedtke and Mrs. Ruth Bair; fpack. row) Miss Betty Brock, Mrs. Eleanor Hammer, Miss & Ruth Garrett and 1 Miss Betty M. Fickerl),

Weapons Are Now Available

This Is Year to Massacre Flies

Cleanup Campaigns, Intelligently-Applied

DDT Spraying Can Start Us on a New Era By. DR. FRANK THONE

(Copyright, 1947,

FLIES HAVE HAD a long and thoroughly dishonorable history. the digestive tract:

| Everybody has heard of “Beezlebub,

| Babylonian form of that name was Ba'al-z’bub, which. means the god diarrhea.

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prince of devils.” Well, the original

i of buzzing things, that is to say, god of flies. : The ancient Egyptians apparently did not deify the fly, though they [to be called “summer complaint’ did special religious honors to that gther offspring of the dungheap, 'in babies,

the scarab. However, their sculptures an j omb paintings carry graphic testimony to the abundance of flies | even in the palaces of the Pharaohs.

| flie: Did you ever ‘notice, in Egyptian |

pictures, those long-handled fans! | of peacock feathers borne by the [roa flunkeys? Their main function was to keep the flies from set- | | tling on the royal person—or drowning in the royal beer-goblet. » » ” UNTIL practically the beginning of the present century, .people merely considered flies nuisances were thick, and tried to brush them away. When they {were fewer, they were interesting

The Spanish, really a literal tribe, have re-titled objects for nature study.

“Body and Soul” to “Carne y Spiritu,” which means,

“Meat and Spirit.” Two hundred and seven Boy Scouts from Rich-

field, Utah, were guests on the “Sleep, My Love” set,

and Claudette Colbert posed for pictures with them. The 14-year-old lad standing next to her was sport-| ing some chin fuzz which might be mistaken for a beard. “Why, youre the first Boy Scout I've ever seen with a beard,” Claudette said. After the group! shot was taken, this 14-year-old piped up, in a voice] obviously changing: “Say, fellers, who wuz that good-lookin’' redhead who liked mah beard?”

We, the Women

By Ruth Millett

“WHY DOESN'T somebody tell women that it is.

a lot more important Jor a man to be proud of his wife's looks than it ever was before they were married?” The man who asked that question in his letter went on to say how many men of his acquaintance had matried attractive girls who, in a few short years lost most of their attractiveness,

They Don’t Realize

HE BEASONED-and perhaps rightly $o—that the women who grow carelss about their figures and are

; imaginative About their dress—just don't realize

: important their. looks sre to the man they martied. : i ace. ou 1 gn Wad, hy stanly

know that a man wants to be proud of his date. They'll spend two hours getting ready to go to the movies and half a day glamorizing themselves for a dance. Of course, most women-—after they take on a fulltime job of housekeeping and: being a mother—have less time to spend on their appearance,

Use Will Power

BUT WITH A little will power they can keep their figures. With imagination and planning they can ret .in enough beauty licks to make the most of whatever beauty is theirs at any age. All they need to remember is that it is much more Import toa man to be ‘able to say with pride, | “This’ is ‘my wife,” than it ever was: for him to say, “This is Miss so-and-so." 5 a.

Quite typical is the nineteenthcentury nursery jingle that begins: “Baby bye, here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and 1.” Imagine a twentieth-century mother even tolerating a fly in the same room with her baby, let alone inviting the infant's attention to

lit as something pleasant and inter-

lesting.

WHEN a fly Bini into difficulties, | it might even attract sympathy, as a har ture, King

hakespeare has forlorn om; say: “ are to the gods As flies to wanton boys! They kill us for their sport.” And in the later and less literate effusions of “The Spider and the Fly” type, the spider was always

the victim. It was centuries before people discovered that the hidden sting of a fly, though disguised and delayed, can be deadlier than tHe bite of an asp,

REALIZATION of "ihe potential deadliness of flies came .to the American people sugigenly and dramatically,

. During ‘the -American

ess and helpless little crea-

the villain and the poor fly always |

Spanish war of “1008, raw recruits herded | -

| 4 | ghastly losses from RIGA

| cially typhoid fever. | Newspaper reports said they “died | {like flies.” It would have been more Scents to say that they died of

in the unscreened mess tents. could easily be told from their|

(rectly from nearby open-pit latrines ! lin a feeble attempt at sanitation.

BY THAT Si the germ theory of diseases - launched by the brilliant researches of Pasteur had had about 20 years of impact on medical thinking and practice. The significance of that deadly circuit from latrine to mess tents was not lost on the ‘army physicians. Thé venerable entomologist, Dr. L. O. Howard, proposed renaming |

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the insect “typhoid fly” instead of housefly. The phrase “Swat the fly!” was born. Diseases that have been proved to be fly-borne are mainly those of Typhoid fever, amebic and bacillary dysentary and The latter two probably {comprise most cases of what used

” » ” THE FIRST “swat the fly” cam- | paign, shortly after the turn of the |century, was not very successful. There were still many horses even in the cities; and where horses are, A will breed. Effective fly-kill-

Fries swarmed over ‘their food as

: Border Veterans To Convene Here

Mexican Border Veterans association of which Col. Alfred L. Moudy of Indianapolis is commander in chief, will hold its 18th annual natiorial encampment at the Columbia club tomorrow and Sunday. Speakers will include former Senator Raymond C. Willis, Howard Le Maxwell, state adjutant general, and H. C. Willis, editor of the Waterloo (Ind) Tribune.

Members are expected from every |

state in the nation. National officers for the coming year will be elected. The national auxiliary, headed by Mrs. Winnie Ellen Gulley, Indianapolis, will hold its annual meeting at the same time,

Mrs. Strieby Heads Librarian Group

| Mrs. Irene M. Strieby, Eli Lilly Co. librarian, is presiding over the

‘{ 38th annual convention of Special

Libraries association today in Chicago. s She was elected president of the the convention

organization at | which will close today. More than 1000 librarians from business and

industrial organizations and universities throughout the country are attending the meeting. The new president is a member {of the. sssociation’s Iridiana chapter of which John H. rector’ of libraries - urdud nly

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ing means were lacking—fly swatters and sticky fly-paper are not very effective weapons. Still, some good was accomplished. The fly lost its position as a tolerated nuisance. Houses and stores were more generally screened. And the increasing use of automobiles and plumbing in cities deprived flies of many natural breeding and feeding places. : » . . FLIES became recognized as the vermin they are, and were no more welcome on the premises than rats or bedbugs.

Now the weapons are available: Clean-up campaigns plus .intelligently applied DDT spraying. The summer of 1947 can be remembered by Indianapolis as oe yedr of the Great Fly Massacre if everybody makes wp his mind to participate.

have his eal my before deciting: on the permanent fare for Indianapolis Railways, Ine. ama Although it. appeared today that the PSC next week will grant thrée-for-a-quarter token rate. Dawson said he wants to give commission petitions bearing '

the. four-for-a-quarter rate, He said he also wants to commission for three things: fares for school children; tion of charge for transfers,

permanent a

temporary setting the.rate at 81 cents.»

Carnival—By Dick Turner