Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1947 — Page 11

Life In a Harem

JERUSALEM, July 14—Ever wonder what its like

Inside a harem? As the occupant of what was once wite No. Is Jealers Yor room in the old Husseini harem on the Nablus rd. . I hereby report on some aspects of life behind barred sake windows.

exquisite setting of tiled floor, huge windows of Moorish curves, walls three feet thick, lofty ceiling and a door strong enough to discourage a crusader, The room is large enough to hold all 11 members of the' United Nations special committee on Palestine, their alternates and" a fair chunk of the secretariat. Wife No. 3 was a prisoner behind the walls, but she had plenty of space in her own apartment. In front of the 10-foot-wide windows looking west is a ledge on which No. 3 could recline and peer, unseen, at the passing camel trains and the goat herds.

runt Sheep in Courtyard v IN THOSE DAYS, before Allenby drove the Turk out of the Holy Land in the first world war, an upperhts class Moslem woman could never show her Jace to . the outside world. “ray on, The veil still: persists in Palestine but cull among older women. It is part of the spirit of nationalism seething among the Arabs of the Middle East to drop the * 8 hideous black mask from the women. No. 3 wife could be awakened, as I am now, by $€8 the sunrise call to prayer from the minaret tower ust outside “our” window. . or $300 : Five times a day, the muezzin from his balcony

1. Our loans dre above the ancient mosque chants:

' furni “Allahu akbar . , . hayya ‘alas sala!” oo ture, «Allah is great. There is no God but Allah and $50, $100, Mohammed is his prophet. Come to prayer!” d take 12, 15 or In the back yard is a compound where sheep rest repay depending for the night after grazing on the slopes of the f your loan. Mount of Olives. ney you need to lls, vacation or v. HFC svics D . Dod; y. HFC service Tax Oo gers convenient 4 ¢ + SER nable. » THe CoN July ‘14, ~~ Most of our $15. NCE 000-a-year congressmen, aside from Senator Harry P. » Cain of Tacoma, Wash, who is my bon, will kindly ednesda quit using my drinking water. SW Night They also can stop wearing out my sidewalks with y their out-size brogans and if their houses burn down hone: Riley 5404 I don’t want em wailing for help from my fire dehone: Riley 1471 partment.

I hate to believe congress (not you, Senator Cain) is a crew of tax dodgers; it pains me even to wonder whether any lawmaker can be a chiseler, but here are the facts: The gentlemen, who function as a composite mayor for the District of Columbia, were working on the local income tax law. Rep. Joseph P. O'Hara of Minnesota said-he thought it would be nice if the law exempted any federal employee who claims citizenship anywhere else. The house agreed this was a lovely idea. So eventually did the senate. Few members kicked out loud except Senator Cain—my favorite lawmaker— , and he lost. So now we're about to get a revised income tax in the District, which no federal worker, including congressmen, has to pay.

Taxpayers Are Sore ; THERE ARE more government clerks here than anybody else. They are, of course, supposed to pay taxes in their home states if these have any taxes. Thirteen states don’t. But not one dimé do they have to fork overs here on their government wages. The rest of us—the storekeepers, newspapermen, and taxi drivers—do the paying for their drinking water, their fire protection and their street paving. (They bétter quit wearing out my highways with their limousines.) J Taxpayers are sore at the non-taxpayers. The local editorial writers are denouncing congress as

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Fan Letters

HOLLYWOOD, July 14~Today I'm going to let the readers write a column by showing you some of the many letters I've received in the last few weeks. From Decatur, Ala.: “I am the English wife of an ex-G. I. and I am wondering if some of the American stars know how silly they sound trying to imitate the English. For heaven's sake, let the Americans keep their ‘accent and leave the English accent strictly

' for the English.” From Shinnston, W. Va.: “You asked what we, the people, wanted; either old, established stars who

can turn in fine performances or the over-stuffed, * publicity-built glamour boys and girls. Personally, I'm so tired of the newly publicized amateurs they : give us today that I could spontaneously combust. Give us good performances, not painted dummies.” From Los Angeles: “We "want more musicals.” From Pasadena, Cal.: “Let the British make their © own movies, make mine American. I saw: ‘The Yearling’ It was straight home country stuff and I ~ though it was great.” From Laurel, Miss.: “Never have I read a comment which pleased me more than your suggestion that we have more pictures made specially for children. There are thousands of good stories that would thrill children and only a very few of them have been made so far.”

Can't Improve on Facts

ae FROM WASHINGTON, D. €.: “Congratulations on 00s® » your statement that ‘movies hash up history’ When a fact from the history of our country is such a r to complete, dramatic, ready-made story, how does Hollywood think it can improve on it? It's a crime to rewrite the lives of our forefathers” do We, the Women lace, wide. LATEST NEWS from the fashion front is a re- ¢ 0 port that men who design women's fur coats are 5 *" fighting it out over whether coats should be long enough to cover the longer skirts now coming in or remain short. nes in This may seem like a trivial matter to the man back- of the famlly. But it may be more important to you 4 95 than you think, Pop. . Little Woman Unhappy » IF THE LONG fur coat boys win out the little woman is going to be mighty unhappy about that +h ue fur coat shg was so enthusiastic about last year— thout ‘the one she described so glibly as a sound investmar- rr ment because she could wear it four or five years. 2 98 If the short coat boys win with their argument ». “-

My predecessor here, whoever she was, lived in an’

"in Hollywood. If the Hollywood big shots would make

But it must real harem. When old Husseini, grand uncle of the present grand mufti, built this place as the first private dwell« ing outside the gates of the old city 70 years ago, goats quartered inside the harem itself. Each night, as the muezzin summoned the faithful for the fifth time, servants herded the goats into the courtyard, upstairs, and into what is now restored as a huge music and reception room of great charm. Husseini had four wives, each living side by side in their own quarters, Eunuchs guarded the massive door that isolated the women’s section from the rest of the harem.

Strife Is Barred Out ALL FOUR wives ate in a common dining room, served by eunuchs and Arab girls, The inner courtyard, where now we sit after dinner and discuss the problems of Palestine, was the women's place of recreation. As today, palm trees, flowers and a fountain gave it the peace and solace in which the strife outside the walls does not penetrate. Today this old ' varem is in the hands of John D. Whiting, Palestine-born descendant of Vermonters, who is certainly one of the world's authorities on the Holy Land. He operates it as the American colony hostel, a hotel in which is preserved many, Priceless antiquities of biblical days. Less fortunate members of Judge Emil Sandstroem’s party from the United Nations bemoan their bad luck in the hotel-room lottery. They cannot take back stories beginning: I was the inmate of a harem in Jerusalem .

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congress seldom has been denounced before. “A cheap little device for tax dodging that should be beneath the dignity of the U. 8. congress,” says one paper. “Any sort of decent regard for fair play would repeal it,” says a second. “Political shenanigans,” shouts one editorial. “Unconstitutional,” barks another. Rep. O'Hara read the editorials and he was hurt. He could not understand how the writers (who'll have to pay part of the gentleman’s loca] expenses for him) could be so vicious.” He pointed out that 222 gentlemen, including himself, voted for his beautiful idea. An overwhelming majority,

Who's Sick?

THE LAW-GIVER from Glencoe, Minn, told his fellow congressmen that the authors. of the editorials not only were selfish, but lacking in respect for the dignity of congress. Either that, he said, or they were suffering from liver trouble. The gentleman, of course, does not include me. My innards are okay; I'll not be sick until that unhappy day when I have to pay taxes and he doesn’t. I don’t know what'll happen if I see him then, stooping down at one of my drinking fountains. Nor do I know what he thinks about Senator Cain, whose internal mechanism, I am happy to report, also is in excellent condition. Senator Cain battled to the last for a non-hocus-pocus income tax. When a conference between house and senate agreed that Rep. O’Hara’s idea was, indeed, a magnificent one, Senator Cain exploded. He announced that if congress couldn't adopt a tax that everybody paid, then, so help him, he'd introduce a bill eliminating the District income tax altogether, That may mean a local sales tax, if it passes, At least we'll all suffer together. Senator Cain, step up and have a drink of my water, The rest of you fellows, scram. -

By Erskine Johnson

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From Denver, Colo.: “Ask the producers to get away from that steddy run of tripe they are turning out and give us a picture on sports subjects. Here's a suggestion. Why not a movie about the life of Babe Ruth? Can you find a more colorful sports figure?” From New York: “I believe it’s about time they gave Larry Parks a real break on his own now, while his success in “The Jolson Story’ is still in the public's mind. That boy is tops.”

Make. Beauty Secondary FROM WOLLASTON, Mass.: “Can't the producers of motion pictures get it through their heads that the second rate crime pictures are not art and not entertainment?” From New York City: “I agree with you on your recent story about the labeled beauty so common

beauty -a-secondary factor: in: determining the. acting qualifications of the individual, the standard of the American film would be able to equal the dramatic artistry of the superior foreign film.” From Fullerton, Cal.: “Hollywood is slipping. Some of the most enjoyable movies recently haye been British pictures. They seem to strive for ‘realism, rather than lavish, colossal, stupendous extravaganzas of the empty Hollywood variety.” From Sedalia, Mo.: “We went to two movies this last week. ‘Humoresque’ and ‘The Man I Love. All the leading lady did in each film was sit around and hold a cigaret and a drink in her hand. Is that acting?” From Chickasha, Okla.: “When you say that Clark Gable. made a mistake in picking his role in ‘Adventure’ I object. No one I know came away from the picture disappointed in Gable or in the story.”

By Ruth Millett

that a long coat will look frumpy and lack dash, you may not have to foot the bill for a new one. If the fight turns out to a be a draw, you're still fairly safe because ther a woman won't be completely out of the fashion piéture with a short fur coat.

Pop Can’t Skirt It YOU REALLY deserve a break on the fur coat length, Pop, because the battle for the longer skirt length is already won. Come fall, the little woman is going to wail, “I simply haven't a thing to wear.” Ad from the fashionable point of view, she won't ave. 80 don't dismiss the battle of the fur coat length lightly. Actually, the outcome is as important to You as to the little woman.

Insurance Firm Elects Four Executives Four executives of the State Life Insurance Co.-of Indianapolis have been elected to new posts,

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Novena to Close Wednesday Night

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor UNUSUAL DUTIES claim the attention of the Carmelite nuns as they:mark the silver

Indiana.

At the moment, they are sponsoring their annual novena with services held out of doors on the grounds of Carmel on the Cold Spring rd. Simultaneously, they are preparing to send seven of their number to found a new monastery in Terre Haute in the fall. The novena will close Wednesday at 8 p.m, . Ww Roe WORK, prayer, fasting and selfsacrifice are the rule of this cloistered order. But with vestments to make and housekeeping equipment to assemble for their prospective institution, the sisters will tell you they are busier than ever before. Reverend Mother Agnes of Jesus, prioress here, with six of the local nuns, will establish the new monastery. At the invitation of Mother Agnes and her associates, the Rev. Fr. Thomas W. Tobin, C. 8S.R., of New York is delivering the sermons for the novena. The Most Rev, Paul ©. Schulte, archbishop of Indianapolis, will give benediction at the closing service. Different priests of the city have been officiating in this capacity nightly and their choirs have been presenting the music. o n » » A NOTE of wistfulness creeps into the voice df Mother ‘Agnes as she speaks of leaving the house of prayer which so closely recembles an old feudal castle. The garden where she and the sisters work of spend theif recréation periods seems especially dear to them. Madonna and assumption lilies grow along the turreted wall while daisies, larkspur and salvia offer lovely splotches of color among the beans and peas of a small } vegetable patch.

THE SISTERS "did" not wait for “suitable” weather to put in their

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MONDAY, JULY 14, 1947

WELCOME—Each guest to he Carmelite siamastery | on the |» The sisters wear a brown and

Cold Spring rd. is greeted by Virgin facing the door. seeds but hurried into the. garden and did their planting between showers in the raw, wet spring, Mother Agnes reports. To do all the praying, sewing, gardening and other labors of love they set for themselves, the Carmelites rise at 4:45 a. m.. They give the first hour of ‘the day to mental prayer and afterward recite their divine office and attend mass. They say. in parts the same words as the officiating priest. They bake the altar bread for archdiocesan churches, do their housework and attend vespers al

+2 and 5 p- m. Silence is steadfastly maintained except during the two hours out of 24 designated for rec-

Freak Squeak Judges Snowed Under With Letters

Winner of Last Week's Competition To Be Announced in Times Tomorrow

Winner of last week's prize in The Times Freak Squeak letter contest ‘will be announced tomorrow in The Times, the judges promised today. When the board began its task of selecting the best accident account at 10 a. m. today, it faced a task that might extend into the night. For entrhnts flooded The Times 0 office with letters at the last minute. Many of them barely made

the 12 midnight postmark deadline Priday. The first job was to select the best letter of the week. That letter will earn $5 for the writer. Then the letters which won each of the four weekly contests were to be judged to determine the outstanding Freak Squeak of the series. The grand prize of $25 was to be awarded in addition to the $5 weekly prize. The contest, which attracted hundreds of letters from all parts of the state, was staged by The Times in co-operation with the Indianapolis Safety council. In line with the official rules, the Freak = Squeak * “letters recounted accidents that could have brought serious injury or death to some individual—but didn't.

Dr. Wiggins Appointed To Minnesota Faculty

Dr. Forrest Oran Wiggins, Indianapolis educator, has been appointed an instructor in philosophy at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, He is the first Negro to be permanently named to the university's faculty. Dr. Wiggins, who lives

arily on the staff last year. A graduate of Technical high school, he attended Butler university and the Sorbonne in Paris, France, later doing gradugte work at University of Wisconsin,

at 507 W. 26th st., served tempor-,

Henry Ford Il ‘Man of Year

Chosen By New York

Financial Writers NEW YORK, July 14 (U. P)~ Henry Ford II, president of the Ford

‘Motor Co., is the “man of the year,”

inthe opinion of the New York financial writers association. Robert Denver, association president, announced today that Mr. Ford was the majority choice in the |" first annual poll conducted by the financial writers’ group. “The election consisted of two consecutive mail ballots, in which | voting was restricted to members of the working financial press in New York. Mr, Ford was designated in the returns as “the man in finance or industry, who, in 1946, contributed most in advancing American economic ideals at home and abro The nomination of Mr. Ford, Mr. Denver said, resulted from the fact that “he drastically reformed his company’s labor policy, and because he combatted successfully demagogic charges of labor interests in general by means of frank revelation of decreasing labor efficiency and increasing production costs.” Bernard M. Baruch, elder statesman and presidential adviser, polled

the second largest number of votes.

Carnival =By Dick Turner

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a life-size statue of the Blessed

reation, Then the sisters draw, paint, embroider, talk to each other on mary subjects or do pretty much as they. please.

~ » » AFTER 5 P. M,, the front door Is locked to the public and the monastery remains quiet until rising bell rings in the ‘morning. Of course during the novena, the door remains open until after the services. Each sister has her own bare little cell, She observes the continual abe stinence and fasting which are prescribed throughout the year for Carmelites. In the Lenten season and on special days, the fast is so rigorous that it is called a' “black fast.”

white wool habit and neither shdes or sandals. The latter custom gains for them the™ descriptive word, “discalced.”

. » » THEY LIVE by alms. Everything they have is given to them as will be a washing machine, a mangle, cook stove and other articles if their hew monastéry is to be prop~ erly furnished. The Indiana Carmel was founded in 1922 in New Albany by the late Mother Theresa of the Trinity. The founding prioress, a member of the Charles Seelbach family of Kentucky, was brought up in Louisville -and Lexington. Mother Hilda of Divine Providence, second prioress in succession and now a guest of the 8t. Francis hospital,

ZCarmelite Nuns Here Observe Silver Anniversary of Order

LET UUAL

WORK-—This drawing which acdoms the invitations fo the Carmelite novena was made by one of the nuns. S

was a co-founder ' with Mother Theresa. Mother Hilda is a member of the Ammann family of St. Louis who supplied financial aid for the first Indiana’ Carmel Sommmuty,

THE FOUNDING nuns came to New Albany from Iowa and when they left the southern part of Indiana, they sold their large frame house to the Baptist church to be

‘converted into - Sunday school

rooms. Mother -Agnes succeeded Mother Hilda. ‘The present priorédss and her associates will. expand the order's work in the’ state at the request of Archbishop Schulte. “We must find happiness in doing God's will and not be sad because we are going away,” is the expressed Philosophy of Mother Agnes.

WORD-A-DAY

By BACH

First Entrant Will Have Picture Taken

And Printed in Paper; Show Starts J July 28

By ART WRIGHT * Registration of entries in The Times Mutt Dog show starts today

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Hunt Employee Missing Here

With one suspect arrested, police continued to search today for two others, a man and woman, believed

tion of an Internationa] Harvester

and there's a singular honor awaiting the first entrant. The first owner to get his entry to The Times on the official entry form which appears in today’s paper will have his picture taken with his

mutt dog. The photograph will appear in The Times. pis The show starts July 28 at the city playgrounds. Each entrant

will take his (or her) mutt dog

for the preliminary event. The winning dog in each of the six divisions at each playground will take part in the district eliminations on ‘Wednesday, July 30. The district winners will compete for the grand prizes in the city-wide contest Friday, Aug. 1, at a downtown location. Prizes in Six Divisions The only restrictions are these: The dog ,must be unpedigreed and the owner must not be more than 16 years old. Prizes will be awarded in six divisions: The biggest dog, the smallest dog, the dog dressed in the most comical costume, the dog with the

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most unique or best descriptive name, the best behaved dog, the best trick dog. There is no entry fee or charge of any kind. Evérything is free and, judging by last year's contest, it will be a lot of fun for contestants as well as spectators. Co-operate With Times Again this year the city park and recreation division is co-operating with The Times in staging the Mutt Dog Show. Get your dog's picture in The Times . . . clip the official entry form now and mail it in. Keep reading your Times for news of the show and valuable information for contestants.

employee, The suspect was arrested after | George Wolfe, 305 N. East st., told | police his brother, Theodore Wolfe, | 21, same address, had been missing since 2 a. m. yesterday. Last persons to see Mr. Wolfe) were Ray Bandy, 29, of 631 Warren | ave, and James Anderson, 19, of | 548 Chase st. They told police the three of, them were sitting on the sidewalk! al 600 Birch st. when a man attacked them with a beer bottle. Mr, Bandy and Mr. Anderson said they fled and thought Mr. Wolfe did likewise. They said they did not see Mr, Wolfe after that.

A man and women in a ear seemed to be accompanying the man with the beer bottle, they told police. One person living in the vicinity told police he was awakened by a disturbance and saw two men beating a third. They forced him into a car despite protests, the wit, ness said. The suspect is charged with vagrancy and is undergoing questioning.

Army Captain Convicted On Black Mart Charges

TOKYO, July 14 (U, P) ges | John D. Ward, Trenton, N. J., was

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Flint Glass: Union Renames Officers

All international officers of the A. PF. of L. Flint Glass Workers union of North America were reelected in the closing session of the union's 70th convention here yesterday. The officers are Harry H. Cook, president; William G. Muhleman, first vice president; Victor G. Walk, second vice president; Gur Alexander, third vice president; Charles M. Scheff, secretary-treasurer, and Arthur Elbert, assistant. secretarytreasurer. All are from Toledo, O., international headquarters of the union. Members of ‘the Skilled Glass Workers union, meeting with the

Arsonist Pastor

Loses His Church

MILWAUKEE, July 14 (U, P).—~ Members of Milwaukee's Cavalry Presbyterian churcn have ‘voted to accept the resignation of Dr. John Lewis, 73-year-old convicted arsonist. ; f Lewis, who was found guilty June 28 of burning the church last January, is now visiting his dsughter in Pennsylvania, His resignation will become eflfective Sept. 1. Lewis was granted a stay of execution on a one-to-five year term at Waupun state prison pending an appeal

Capeharts Give Dinner For Mrs. Fraser

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