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SHAKAMAK STATE PARK, Sept. 7 (Delayed) — Delayed is right. In fact, it’s a little short of a miracle that I'm able to write at all after three days of “roughing it.” : I had a premonition that Troop 88's final summer outing was going to be a.hig deal while I watched Scoutmaster Lee Peters valiantly try to get his 14 boys into a half-ton truck and a car, Getting them in was one thing and making them stay put was another. Lee planned to leave Indianapolis at five o'clock Friday evening. It was exactly 20 minutes afier six when the two-vehicle caravan finally began to roll. Junior assistant scoutmaster Walter Ballew was drivingsthe sedan with the trailer. Five scouts, loaded with energy, were in the car and they were letting the countryside know about it. Jim Bayles, assistant scoutmaster, was driving the truck. Eight scouts and one bugle were in the back. Lee and I were in the cab with a steel top over our heads.. Very important, a steel top. . We made two stops on the way out to Shakamak. The entire candy stock of the little gas station on Route 40 disappeared as if by magic. The attendant asked no questions as he raked in dimes and nickels. There's one question Lee always asks several times before he gives the signal to go: “Is everyone here?”
Another Stop Is Made
JUST OUTSIDE of Terre Haute another stop was made, By that time Lee had commandeered the bugle. I thought sure we'd spend the night in jail. Where do those kids get their energy? I didn't have the answer, Lee said he had a bunch of healthy boys in his troop. That's no excuse for all that energy. The camp site was blacker than the ace of spades. The plan was to set up three tents. Lanterns were lit
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For a full half hour I lost track of Lee. Only after I got whacked on the shins with a ridgepole did I figure out the safest thing to do in camp was to keep moving. The tents went up—how is still a mystery to me-—the milk was taken to-the lake until morning and each man was assigned to a bunk.
HALF OF A HEARTY CREW—The other half of Troop 88 is around somewhere making the most of the Shakamak State Park hike, "Where's Froggy, Skinny?"
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“Let's sack out,” Lee called. (Sack out means go to bed.) Only no one was ready to go to bed. There
was talk of taking a hike. Lee, Harris Liechti, a new —
Dr. Buckner, Home From Tour, Reports Yugoslavia Rebuilding
member of the troop, and I were in one tent, The
My sleeping bag was too hot. Sleeping on top was impossible because of the mosquitoes. Finally I wrapped a towel around my head, a heavy shirt around my arms and tucked my trouser legs into the tops of my sweat socks, " While the boys were settling down—it: took a good two hours and many threats from Lee—the image of | my bed at home kept floating past me. The last thing I remembered was looking at:my wrist watch, It was 20 minutes of four, At seven I was awakened by a series of “Yahoo's” and “Lets eat.” Roger Williams began blowing on the bugle. And it wasn't reveille, just noise. 3 A quick trip to Jasonville for provisions had to be made. The amount of stuff Lee bought should have been plenty for a week. By the time we returned |} and began preparing bacon and eggs most of the
They should have waited because Lee rustled up a good batch of eggs and bacon. Roll call: Harry Smith, Louis Plummer, Carl Danenman, Jim Lahr, Roger Williams, Don Reibel, Hilton Johnson, Walter Ballew, Jack Carbaugh, Ross Indman, Bob Kicks, Harris Liechti, Peter Reibel and Jim Bayles. All present and accounted for, sir, After the dishes were washed the group took a hike. Before it was half over everyone wanted to go swimming. When we finally hit the beach you would have thought the Marines were landing. Roger Williams was the first to go off the 35-foot tower. Wieners and pork and beans were the main course for dinner, Back to the beach for tackle football in four feet of water. Bruised, beaten and feeling the effects of the sun, I sat down to the evening meal of pork chops, corn, mashed potatoes, milk and loads of bread. . : While newcomer Harris Liechti went out with the boys tor the mythical “snipe” hunt, Lee and I relaxed. Not for long. The troop returned and immediately wanted to play “capture the flag,” a rugged black-| out game which I didn't want-any part of. A When bedtime came around, I asked Lee if he'd drive me to the Park hotel in JasonVille,
Tosses in the Towel “DON'T TELL the boys I'm throwing in the towel.” + Lee said it would be kept secret. T'm sure T was asleep before I reachell the bed after turning out the
light. Walter Ballew, Jack Carbaugh and Bob Hicks
“HOt Tie ott of bed. “IHey Were tHe ‘order Boys and
“they knew how I felt.” | More sun, more swimming, more football and the|
last meal was coming up before we struck camp. Still gives a first-hand picture of no letup by members of Troop 88. : It
After every speck of food was gone, Lee gave the! orders to strike camp. Tents, equipment and personal |
could put my sneakers. in it. ’ ; | We left Shakamgk as we entered, a whoopin’ and a hollerin’. The only sad note among the boys was|
that the next day was school. But they didn't dwell | tation of the Yugoslav government.
long on that. There was still some time left and they In the same party with Dr. Buck- = 1 ) |ner, who is the “editor of World age? Take an overnight cafaping trip. Nothifig like Call magazine, were other editors
were making the most of it. Do you want to feel your
Kaiser 5 Steel
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—About the only fellow I know who can take a subject like steel, shortage of, and give it sex appeal is Henry (The Incredible) Kaiser. If we don’t get more steel soon (this is a sample Kaiserism) there’ll be-such a depression we'll either give our country back to the Indians—or hand it over to the Russians. : It turned out that Mr. Kaiser had a new deal he wanted to present the reconstruction finance corporation, whereby the government would lower its valuation of his Fontana steel plant in California, he'd sell mortgage bonds to the public, and thus would boom western steel production. The 250-pound Mr. Kaiser, with a voice like the basso on a de luxe juke box, eyeglasses whose horn rims must have weighed a pound and a half, and a bald dome that glistened softly in the indirect lights of the Statler hotel, called a press conference to tell about his hopes,
Got to Produce More
THE MOTHERLY-LOOKING Mrs. K. sat in the back of the room while her celebrated husband told the capital's financial experts about his plans, the + steel business in general, and the state of the nation as reflected in his own widely assorted enterprises. I don’t know whether the white bumble bees flitting amorig the red blossoms on his cravat were symbolic. His idea was that people have got to produce more— like those bees—and how can they when they've got no steel? Take one of the biggest automobile assembly plants in the west, he said, a hew one geared to turn
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out 800 sedans a day in Long Beach, Cal, and pro-|
ducing none, because of no steel. One of the experts ligious life of Yugoslavia as “natural land normal”
asked him what automobile company. Mr. Kaiser beamed while the flash bulbs exploded. !
and economic situation in gear disappeared. My bag was in the truck before 1 Yugoslavia.
|a visit to that country at the invi-
= and clergymen from the United States.
| magazine of the Disciples of Christ | published here.
SECOND SECTION
TRAVELER TO YUGOSLAVIA — Dr. George W. Buckner Jr. has just returned from a trip to Yugoslavia Finds Religious Life
‘Natural and Normal’ By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Dr. George W. Buckner Jr.
he much-discussed religious
He has just-returned from :
World Call’ i$ the international
Dr. Buckner described the re-
but told how the
Modesty, he said, caused him to omit the name. But since the question was asked, well, it was the KaiserFrazer auto company’s plant; a total loss so far because of no stuff to stamp out motor cars. ; The man who has become since the war the fourth biggest automobile manufacturer in the world sald he didn’t really expeet a depression. He doubted 1f anybody would give America to the Indians, or to Russia, either, because he believed there will be more steel, no matter what the old-line steel industry | claims. “And watch the prices of automobiles come down,”
Here is Dr. George W. Buckner's story of the recent tour of Yugoslavia: made by a group of American editors and clergymen which caused an uproar in both the religious and secular press.
DINNER HOST—Msgr. Svetogar Ritig, D. D., of Zagreb, Croatia, entertained Dr. Buckner at dinner.
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he roared, thumping the billlard-cloth covered table. people are divided in their opinion ing of the Orthodox and Roman “Nothing tan stop 'em from coming down when Wwe toward the government's refusal to| Catholic churches and found them Yugoslavia, was forced to leave embers of the clergy of various lcontinue the support of the church recognized by the state and affi- ; liated academically with the coun- the National Liberation movement, |,» Germans and Italians and the was made president of the commis- |, .; pascists. Thi§ is unquestion“Priests and members of -varloussion for faith of the Republic of | ably true, but it is not the whole govakia
get the flow of material. All we need is steel.
“Today, after two years of prophecies by the steel py taxation. “Thus, some of the companies, the shortage still is appalling. It is stag- people prefer the union of church |iry’s universities.
gering to the economy.”
Lose Vast Sums of Money ALL MANUFACTURING is suffering; he added. Many a week such giant corporations as General ‘Motors Co. lose vast sums of money, simply because they can't produce cars without the material. He's a convincing talker. disagree -with him.
the whole nation worrying about the ‘steel problem! and that, there is no doubt, is good.
Laugh of Party
By Erskine Johnson
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 9~Hollywood's open-armed welcome to Margaret Truman's singing debut at the Hollywood bowl didn't surprise Abe Burrows, who said: “It was a pleasure to have some one here from Washington who wasn't on an investigation.” Chubby, semi-bald, bespectacled Abe Burrows ostensibly is a radio writer. He helped Ed Gardner write Duffy's Tavern for three‘years, will write the Joan Davis show again this year. But for some time now he has held the undisputed title of Hollywood's No. 1 party entertainer with a mad routine of kidding popular songwriting, satirizing Norman Corwin’s radio dramatics and just saying funny things. Like the time Paramount hired him as a producerwriter when “Going My Way” was-‘a big hit. The studio asked him what he'd like to do and Abe said: “I'd like to film a re-make.” “Great,” said the studio. “What picture would you like to re-make?? And Abe replied: “Going My Way.”
Laughs, But No Cash
FOR ALMOST five years, at the private parties, Abe entertained the sophisticated upper strata of New
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York and Hollywood show business, But he-couldn't four of the six republics of federal
get paid for anything except his radio writing.
“We get your humor,” big shots in the film and duals and inspected such institu.
radio business told him, “but the public won't.” But now Abe is proving the big shots were wrong. He has his own radio show now. and he's proving | that Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public can understand | his humor. “Hollywood and New York sophisticates,” says Abe,|
and state and others do not,” he| said.
Most of his competitors P : I'd hate to decide which side is|to those whom we wished to see” right, but-one thing I do know: Mr. Kaiser will have ni. Buckner explained.
: Americans was in the question of|favor the government's Policy of ——— - . —_——— r number of Roman Catholic, Ortho|dox and Protestant churches. and Criticism {Mohammedan and Jewish | munities. :
tions as we requested. In the half|the dozen of the largest cities of the! state.” country, as well as in the villages, {we found religious edifices open
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Tour Aided by Officials in religious attire. { monasteries and saw
Members of the Yugoslav gov- wayside shrines, One
of Lourdes.
eligious liberty, we visited a large | disestablishing the church.
always comes to the| |a state church tion. . “This criticism wag not particu-|
“Our party members traveled In
separation of
Honored at Dinner Dr. Buckner spoke with pleasure)
|Zagreb in 1041,
“I would be a mistake to assume, |tolerance, 3 is “Since the major interest of the however, that all of the people addresses made by a Franciscan! higher clergy, but there is apparent ple was,” he said, “one of shock. i frair, on Orthodox priest and the no disposition to indict whole faiths This was followed immediately by q Many heads of the Moslem and Jewish for the attitudes of individuals or expressions of determination to win
| welcome this though others do not. communities.
Moslems third, Dr, mates. 3 “We talked with numbers of the as a veritable “beehive of activity” the long, hard pull which they |everywhere, services being-regularly'and satisfaction of being the din-|clergy of all these groups who, like in commenting on general condi-'know is ahead.”
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1947 os
RECONSTRUCTION—These apartment houses being built in Zagreb illustrate '
the reconstruction going forward in Yugoslavia. |
to dig, wheel away dirt and on their own personal jobs.
conducted and people freely at-|ner guest of Msgr. Svetogar Ritig, Msgr. Ritig, hold.responsible govern- tions in the country. He desgribed D. D., former pastor of St. Mark’s/ment posts in the fields of recon-| Catholic church in Zagreb, who|struction, social service or religious entmnizy with a minimum of mae “We met the theological faculties played” a colorful part in his coun- affairs,” Dr. Buckner. continued, of the higher institutions of learn- try's history during -the war years.
Msgr. Ritig, a believer in a united
He gave support to
| religious orders go about the streets| Croatia in 1944 and became minister | oo oo We visited without portfolio of the Croatian " innumerable! government in 1846. He also is a day we/deputy of the federative assembly ernment were helpful but in n0| traveled’ for miles in the country|and of the Croation diet, |sense monopolized the time of the and encountered multitudes bringparty or kept us from free access ing their crippled. and sick to the dinner he attended as an illustration : Yugoslav equivalent of the Shrine of : [taken place in the field of religious)
Dr, Buckner also cited another
the improvement which has
It was at Sarajevo with
“We all spoke of the new spirit of
com- | point that the church is no longer respect and tolerance which exists,” demned have received sentence as| After several trips to Great Brite supported by taxa- he added
OrthodoX in Lead
The most numerous
[Yugoslavia and met such indivi-|larly impressive to Americans who| group in Yugoslavia is the Orthodox, are committed to the principle of or Pravosiay church and Roman Catholics second and the up the sword shall perish by the them, he recalled, “facing up to the Buckner esti~ sword.” .
church with
LABOR OF LOVE—Trade union members and others in Yugoslavia dénate threehour periods of reconstruction work in the late afternoons.
religious | to which they happened to belong. |sald that hé never had felt greats
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en and women come hammer nails on public projects after spending long hours
the people’s efforts té rebuild their “i
chinery and told how roads, rails (8 “I feel that too much publicity|roads, factories, cottages and apart i {hag been given to the fact that|ment houses are being constructed ] in all areas. |
Visits Other Points
leaving. Yugoslavia,. Dr, Buckner spent five days in Czechos | six days in Geneva, There were also indieiguals Switzerland, at the headquarters of |among the higher clergy and 1arge|the world Council of Churches and [numbers of the lower clergy of allithan went to England. {faiths who took part in the national | He arrived in Britain on the day resistance movement and came later |¢,11,wing the announcement of the to share actively in the government. |, policies with’ regard to the | Disaffection Revealed |dollar and the inevitable new “aus “There are still elements of dis- terities.” affection, especially among the, “The first response of the peo
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| groups. lout and faith that this can be | “Individuals who have been con- done.”
lindividual eriminals, not as repre-|ain, one of them extending over a [sentatives of the ecclesiastical group period of two years’ residence, he
{ “A prominent priest commenting er admiratiom for the basic chare lon this fact said: ‘He that taketh acter of the people. For he saw
realities of the emergency which Dr. Buckner spoke of Yugoslavia has suddenly come upon them and
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“don’t know what's going on in the world. don't read the newspapers. more than they do.”
All America Laughing SO NOW ALL of Abe's party routines are going out on the air, and all America is laughing over such! Burrows’ classics as “Father Wants to Start a Third) Party, He's Been Thrown Out of Two Tonight,” “Oh, the Night We Were Wed, I Needed a Wife Like!
a Hole in the Head,” and such Burrows' observa- Dear Mrs. Manners:
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“Torch songs are written by songwriters so rich M
that a dame wouldn't think of leaving 'em."” Abe ‘will be writing his own show as well as the Joan Davis program in the fall.
Cafe Gets the Bi
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By L. James Lyle”
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9—There was a time, back before the invention of the 25-cent dollar, when Vernon Steves would sell you a meal for two bits and you could listen to the warbling of 200 canaries while you ate. At that time, the Canary den, as Steve's place is called, employed 11 waitresses, two cooks and two dishwashers. The entire ceiling of the den was covered solid with canary cages. Now, Mr. Steves runs the place himself. He's the cook, dishwasher and waiter. The canary chorus has dwindled to 26 birds. Your meal costs 35 cents.
Started It All | AND IT'S ALL the fault of Joe, a talking mynah bird. 3 The story starts back in 1935, in the era of the nickel cup of coffee. At that time Mr. Steves’ place was absolutely birdless. He had only one waitress, a véry hefty gal who was given to amateur extemporaneous opera singing. One day a sailor, on the beach and broke, .came in with a caged canary. The salt suggested that the singing bird would aid the digestion of Mr. Steves’
customers. In short, Mr, Steves traded the salt -a— proudly.
meal for the bird. : v ‘M wasn's long until the word got around and
beached sailors flocked into the place, all wanting! to trade a canary fora meal. Business also flourished as the place became a curiousity eatery. That led to the hiring of all the help. Mr, Steves made his mistake, he says, when he took Joe as a trade-in on a plate of beef stew. It seems Joe was a busybody, who had ideas of his vwn about the diet of the customers. A waitress would sing out, “roast beef” and before the kitchen oould fill the order, Joe would chirp, “make that corned beef hash.”
Pretty soon Mr. Steves’ customers were in high.
dudgeon and the help was: quitting left and right.| “Customers were getting coffee instead of milk, | “fish instead of meat—everything except what they ordered,” Mr. Steves recalls. “Everybody got mad.”
Joe Is Traded Off, Too
NOW, WITH business not what it used to be, Mr.| Steves has ‘traded off all the warblers but 26. He! rund’ the “place: by himself and still has plenty of time to tend the five electric incubators he has scattered about the place. “I've got some of the finest eggs in the state in those things”
and biggest goose, Mr. Steves up
Joe, the talking mynah, was among the birds he traded off.
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They | They puslic knows ASK Mrs. Manners:
Husband Can’t Budget Home Expenses |
Should Wife Control Purse-Strings? | Or Is Hubby Saving for Birthday?
Y husband just can't budget for household expenses. How can I get hold of the pay check?
Seldom can a wife control the purse and her husband retain his “self-respect, ‘You remember the old refrain: “Don’t you worry your head, little girl, I'll take care of you." let your husband pay the bills. Tell him héis better at business than you and then pray he saved enough to go around: Facing a glowering landlady short of funds a few times or wilting beneath the melting glance of a frowning grocer may force your husband to appreciate your thrift. Remember, he may be saving for your ijutay
with some .of those unaccounted for nickels. 4 In-Law Trouble In Love But— My husband and I were happy My mother-in-law keeps under nel he returned from overseas, mining me with nasty jabs but is Now we are dissatisfied with eyeryaffectionate when my husband is thing and every place, and with!
around. Should I tell my husband? each other. ‘We have a home and 'NSTRUCTIVE; EXPLANATORY
EDNA. |are inJove, and we have known » {great hi ss—but ; The borderline between deceit [7% NOPRINess=DUL Fob TE% Tore and good taste is a thin one. Be- Excitement prevailed during the ing civil is chilly but safe, so try routine faded—men it on your mothee-in-law until were inducted, homes smashed, your husband learns the sitwa- |... died, “The war was fought tion. He will learm because | gop soourity go feel it your debt to | mother will slip—but he won't | ,.... what your men did worth
admit it, so hold your tongue. | 1. price. Fake contentment if Slide over a little for mother-in- Wh . ent |
law on that pedestal you want to ascend, ; A husband often subconsciqusly expects his wife to-help atone bis other for the heartaches he caused in boyhood. You will hope that your sen and his wife | do the same, if you have a son, . qd v
ate it and expose your husband to it. Don’t be restless just to rival the dramatic problems of’ the discontented “girl next door.” | You can’t curb universal tur-
Be a good wife and a good witi-
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gen. Make your home a place of refuge and give your husband the peace of mind he wants, Unselfishness and "activity will help minimize your problems.
Painfully Honest young man six vears since 1 1éTt high school, and “SAVER.” was true to him during the Now he wants to finish college and be given temporary freedom. I don’t,
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WORD-A-DAY
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want freedom—I want to get mar-| The man is commendably i ried. How can I talk him.out of though painfully honest. Give i his? “NEGLECTED.” him freedom—your willingness
| may startle him—and bask in your | glorious youth,
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