Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1947 — Page 13

com

termine.

good 9-15,

“THE SCHOOLS ARE YOURS.” Pretty théme for American Education Week, November don’t you think? Pi ? Since “yours” includes me (taxpayer) I thought it might be an appropriate time to play teacher. To be on the safe side (didn’t want anyone asking questions I couldn't dnswer) I asked Mrs. Helen Gray, principal of School 38, 2050 Winter Ave. if I could be “big man’ in the first grade. . “You can if ‘Miss Marshall doesn't object,” Mrs Gray said. * Margaret Marshall, first grade teacher, was sympathetic to the idea. The only thing she insisted on was that I come to school at eight in the morning and follow through at least until noon. ‘No ducking ™it in the middle of the morning. Shake, yeacher.

Billetin Boards Dull

THE FIRST DUTY of a good school teacher is to read the bulletin board in the morning. About all I can say for the bulletins I read with Miss Marshall is that they make dull reading so early in the morning. By quarter after eight the children began to file into the room. My first impression .was that thay Were little, shy angels, Mothers and fathers will understand what I.mean when I say that impression doesn't last long. : Five minutes before the 8:30 bell all the children were “excused.” After the bell rang and the first movement. ‘of Beethoven's “Fifth Symphony” was piarved, School 38 was ready to get down to business. While the class sang a morning hymn 1 took the roll. Felt funny to be on the other end of the stick. How 1 used to hate teachers who took roll every morning. But receiving education and giving it are two different. things.

READING LESSON— Mr. Inside" holds the attention of ‘Schoel 38 B's during American Education Week.

By Ed Sovola

Miss Marshall set the pattern of study for the day. | Thefe were to be games, printing on the blackboard, | reading, exercises in the work book and a music lesson. r wn : Mrs. Lettie Trefz, handwriting consultant, was coming to check ‘how the ‘childrén ‘were progressing

=tauemens Chevrolet D

the music lesson. Marshall said. For my benefit, Miss Marshall had the children put their name cards in front. of themselves. The cards were used at the beginning of the school year: By the time the tykes finished (telling the most

I was getting off easy, Miss

SECOND SECTION

before, I realized it takes a terrific amount of patience |

and understanding to be a teacher. Patricia, for instance, said “My Mommy made me some white fudge.” pudding .for supper and Janet got a new pair of shoes, :

The classic remark came when little Diana stood | up and told the class that “My cousin is just about! dying.” Of course, teacher had to swallow hard and| fast to keep from falling out of his chair, Without Miss Marshall's . help I would have wreckéd the entire educational system. I'm sure of it. Handling 27 children with the minimum of noise and confusion is something of a feat. And when you work sound principles of progressive learning into 27 active minds you're really doing something,

Accepted as Teacher

FOR ALL PRACTICAL purposes 1 was accepted as the teacher. No kidding, I listened while a group read, checked work hooks and even got roped into playing “London Bridge Is Falling Down” during the recreation period. i Miss Marshall averted .a major disaster when I: marked an X instead of C, meaning correct, in one little girl's work book. The pasteup sentences were |

matched wrong and I had to mark an X. |

I was ready to pass the crying girl to the eighth grade. I felt about as low as a human being can feel. Miss Marshall quieted the youngster. It wasn't! long before I had the pleasure of marking an extra large C in her book. Education marched unsteadily onward. Miss Oren led the class in several lusty renditions of nursery rhymes. Mrs. Trefz told Miss. Marshall that the class was progressing “very nicely” in their blackboard printing. There was one long-haired 1B lass who printed “a dog” almost as well as a sign painter, By 11:55°T had the feeling that T was gaining the confidence of the class. Even though my nerves were & bit frayed my experience as a teacher had not been in vain, One of my students said she liked me and asked if T were coming back. Schools are great stuff but, brother, we should be glad there are people who choose teaching as a career and say “‘The Schools Are Yours’ but I'm’ making them mine.”

Real Americana

NEW YORK, Nov. 10—Once upon a time I fell among evil companions, namely some shipping people who think nothing of squandering an afternoon over lunch, and so came upon a place that should. be mounted on wheels and circulated over the land. In 8 season when it is fashionable to refresh the citizens of the value of old-time Americana, I suggest that Ye Olde Chop House be uprooted and sent barnstorfiiing, along. with the Freedom Train, j The chop house has been standing since 1800. Its present owner, Harry Kramer, has been host for only a little while—42 years. Ella, the star waitress, is a neophyte. ' Slie was hired in 1912 and has only served some 350,000 meals. Tony the waiter put on his first apron in 1909, and Lizzie, another waitress, retired this summer after working there since 1906. Tine the chef has been there since 1920. Alex the dishwasher has 20 years in. Charlie the silver-man has counted the forks for a quarter of a century, and only six people have been discharged in 42 years. In all these years ne union has ever operated in this monument to the ancient days, when a fine meal could be obtaingd without hurdling a-rope or bribe ing a captain of waiters. Mr. Kramer never sold a drop of booze during prohibition, an oversight he occasionally regrets. But all through the Twenties you gould count off the cabooses of nine railroad presidents seateti at the oyster bar. The place is down on the corner of the island, in the financial district, and I get a bang every time I sit down in one of the battered booths, beca : most of the financial giants of the past 50 years et to chow there daily. »

Go for Grub, Nof to Gawk

THE OLD RESTAURANT is one of a handful of New York tombstones which cite graphically the fact that once you were able to eat publicly, with the accent on food instead of ostentation. You never went to the chop house to be seen—you went there to stuff yourself on opulent, hearty grub which was uncluttered by continental service. “I could dress up a man in an admiral's form and stand him at the door,” says Mr. Kramer. “May«

By Robert C. Ruark we - be he Wiig, make the customers feel important. But I do that myself. I say hello and goodby to everybody. My kind of advertising is to watch a man enJoying a dish of terrapin stew and go over to ask him if he'd like some more.” Mr. Kramer's menu ;offers today, to the lusty tyccons of downtown New York, such things as dia-mond-back terrapin,” broiled partridge, whole broiled plover, pheasant, reindeer steak, pompano, stone crabs, mallard duck, South American quail, venison steak, Scotch grouse and English mutton chops. The chop house today is a sort of dusty, musty museum. It is cluttered with moth-eaten bear-masks and mangy deer, weapons, pictures, framed letters, ship-models and bric-a-brac. You can read the will of the earliest Vanderbilt, written in the Seventies when he still spelled it Vaf Der Bilt. and used “fs” for “s’s.” There is an original photo of Abe Lincoln, and chromos of Prince Albert and Edward VII as beamish boys. . The cheese cake consists mainly of semiidraped ladies made legitimate by the fact that a doctor was taking a sounding with a stethoscope.

Ghosts Present

Then there was butterscotch

OPEN . HOUSE — Chevrolet-Indianapolis Division

Motors Corp. today opened the doors of this new office building which leads into the expanded plant. An official three-day celebration inaugurates the completed expansion which began in 1945.

THE GHOSTS OF OLD Gen. Cornelius Vander--B

hilt, of Astors and Whitneys, of all the ancient buc-

caneers of Wall Street, peer over your shoulder as you J

eat. Dusty clippings of long forgotten fires; archaic cartoons, walrus-mustached photos gone brown and speckled, all keep you in a Father Knickerbocker mood.

Mr. Kramer's two sons. Leonard and Jerry, and #8

Mrs. Kramer form the structure around which the old place is pun... There.is no pomp; your will see-a Wall Street mogul draw up in a%limousine; only to get a bad time from Elle if he is late for his dinner. There is no hat check girl, no photograph girl, no headwaiter, no captain of waiters. There aren't many of these places left, which is why I say it ought to be shunted around the nation. As an advertisement for employer-labor relationship; as a sermon for uncomplicated living, Ye Olde Chop Hcuse is as valuable a relic of early Americana as any document under glass.

Senator on Horse By Frederick C. Othman |

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UP)—You may have noticed lately the brief news items out of the West about Sen. Glen H. Taylor of Idaho and his cross country horseback ride. They have told you how he figured on clop-clop-pety-clopping across the nation in the. interests of peace, how he—not the horse—developed saddle sores at Tucson, Ariz, and how (according to Mrs. Taylor, who issued bulletins in Los Angeles) he traded this beast. in on a more comfortable steed. All this made amusing reading. The gentleman from Idaho is a smart young fellow. An éx-vaudevillain and hill-billy radio troubador he may be, but Sen.- Taylor is no dope. I got to wondering, as did his constituents, what was cooking beneath his handsome héad of hair: a We shouldn't have worried about him. The senator is in with a report, scribbled from his saddle-bag, about what he had in mind. We may not agree, but al least we can listen respectfully: People, he said, have been calling him “that crazy senator on’ horseback.” That's fine. He's been trying to call attention in the most spectacular way posible to himself and his idea on how to head off any more wars,

Horse Trip Drew Headlines

HE HAD TO DO it this way, he continued, because his hair wasn't white and his beard wasn't two feet long. Americans ordinarily don't listen to their senators, he said, unless they've been on the job around 40 years. Hence the horse. It made headlines and drew audiences. Sen. Taylor's been asking his listeners to put themselves in the position of the Russians and then see how they felt”about American policies. And again I repeat I'm not trying to take sides, but to report what a U. 8. senator is telling the people at-

tracted by his horse. “In other words,” he wrote, “How would we feel if the Russians suddenly began dredging the harbors of Mexico, building hard-surface roads to the borders of California and Texas and otherwise making military preparations for an unannounced purpose? I think we would be plenty upset. That is exactly what the United States has been doing In Turkey and, to some extent, in Greece.” Sen. Taylor listed a number of similar suppositions, which he asked his clients to consider seriously, His thought was that the United States did hot intend to make war on Russia—but it must have looked that way to the Russians. He said our relief! work abroad couldn't have appeared otherwise in Moscow. ! “How much better to have turned all of these acyvities over to the United Nations and therefore, made of the United Nations a strong organization which could handle the problems,” he wrote. “I be- | lieve that Russia is now firmly convinced that we are bent on total destruction of communism, by war if necessary,

‘Believes War Can Be Averted'.

“I BELIEVE THAT communism and free enterprise capitalism can exist in the same world. I believe that if we would retreat from our power politics assault and provide both Russia and the world at large with tanglible evidence of our good faith that we can avert a war.” | That is not nearly all the senator had to say, but it gives you the general idea. He's feeling fine, now that he has a horse that fits, but President Truman has ruined his trip by calling Congress back to work next week. Sen. Taylor said he'd have to abandon his horseback ride before it was half finished and get back to work, listening to his elders in the -Senate speak.

Expensive Dances

' HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10—Helen Hayes still owes MGM one picture on an old contract: The studio hopes to lure her out from New York to star in “Ves-

“pers in Vienna.”

New high for night club salaries. Eleanor Powell, it's said, will get $100,000 for a 12-week dancing engagement at the Miami, Fla, Colonial Inn—IF the deal goes through.

Crosby Digs In

JOHNNY WrISSMULLER will go to London in

February to star in a big. aquatic show. MGM's reissue of the anti-Soviet film, “Ninotchka,” cariics this ad billing: “The picture which kids the commissars,”

| t

By Erskine Johnson

Bing Crosby, the fellow who turned to records for his radio show so he wouldn't have to be at a certain place at a certain time, is now cutting two shows a week, on Friday and Saturday, to pile up a supply of shows before the Petrillo ban against recordings by musicians becomes effective.

Astaire Not Retiring I'VE BEEN PREDICTING it for almost a year— Fred Astaire finally confirmed it. The screen's greatest dancer definitely is not retiring from the camera.

After "Easter Parade,” «in which he replaced Gene Kelly, Astaire will.go right-on- dancing. He-told me: “My retirement was a mistake. I wasn't happy.”

PONDEROUS MACHINES-—The giant press shown here is about to trim excess metal from the windshield edge of a truck cab top. Operating the machine are (left to right) Edgar Cheeseman, 2119 N. lilinois St., and Clyde Akers, 4652 Vandalia. St. :

ALONG THE LINE—With a perfected finish, panels are hung on a conveyor which carries them through the paint spray booth and into the care of such workers ‘as Edward B. Payne, 2313 E.’LeGrande

Ave.

16 Carloads of Steel, 8 of Lumber Used Daily

In Manufacture of Truck Bodies By VICTOR PETERSON

THE CHEVROLET-INDIANAPOLIS Division of Cieneral Motors

Corp. opens its doors today on”a completed giant expansion program |

which began in 1045, . The’ modernized plant at Holly and Henry. Sts. is spread over 45 acres and designed for the fabrication of truck bodies. Official opening began this morning with a General Motors executives and the ———— — press. Further tours for officials, factured buggies and Chevrolet employees and thelr fam-| “ip. oo years. section “alter ilies will be held tomorrow. Wednes- section of the old plant was re-

day, doctors employed by General | placed witout the loss of a day’s Motors, will open a three-day con- production, Further expansion was

tour of the plant by

later truck

{vention here with ceremonies at halted by the war, and civilian pro-

the factory.” duction stopped. y w.n During the war; the plant manuCHEVROLET HAS BEEN an in- factured gun mounts for armored tregal part of Indianapolis” indus- cars, bearings fdr Allison engines trial scene for 17 years. In 1930 and parts for the Chevrolet-built the firm bought the Martin Parry Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine: Body Corp. which for years manu-' In September, 1945, expansion

jana

———

of General s

polis Times olet Division Opens Doo On Modernized 45-Acre Plant

interesting thing that had happened to them the day ©

PAGES.

HQOSIER AT WORK — Herman J. Lentz, 1645 N. Belle. Vieu lace, is one of the firm's 4200 employees. Here he mills a die for a. side panel of a suburban. carry-all body. The local Chevrolet company is the world's largest exclusive commercial body plant.

| .

“A SATIN FINISH — As portions of the all-steel truck bodies move along the vait assembly lines they are carefully checked for perfection. Harold T. Flora. ‘828.

Dennison St.

sands away surface ‘irregularities of a fender for a cab over engine

truck. The latest devices for efficient production have been incarporated into the

expanded plant,

scene,

plans once again took shape Today ‘there are 4200 employees, 3800 of whom ‘are hourly earners working the around-the-clock shift six days a week, » » YS THE MANUFACTURING AREA has been expanded from 405.000 square feet to 863,982 square feet Space for office and personnel staffs has grown from 18400 square feet to 60,205 square feet, Daily an increased production of all-steel truck bodies is “flowing

wage

{from the modernized assembly lines.

In a day's time the plant consumes 16 carloads of steel, eight carloads .of lumber and 750 vards of fabric. From. this, employees fashion their product wilt leaves he plant in 33 carloads and eight truckloads daily. Chevrolet - has planted. its deep in Southwest Indianapolis as the world's largest exclusive commercial body plant.

roots

Included are safety p

READY. FOR SHIPMENT — A sma dock shows workmen preparing several loads of the day's production, The expansion climaxes the plant's 17 years on the local industrial

3 2

* . Russian Press . Quiet on Bomb MOSCOW, Nov, 10 (UP) Moscow's newspapers were printed today for the first time since Noy 7, when the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution began, but none expfinded the reference Foreign Minister Via-

cheslav M. Molotov made, to the atomic bomb last Thursday.

1" ’ i Ol

WAYWARD BUS FOUND NEW YORK, Nov. 10 Police marked solved today

(UP)== the

case of the wayward bus. A 44-

passenger bus was found yesterday sitting empty and blocking trafic at a Bronx intersection. Bus company officials had not missed the bus. Police guessed it must have rolled into the street when other

+ vi busses were taken out on Qulge | chances with this

«wanted closé supervision

recautions for workers.

7 Fa

| portion of the truck-loading

Many British Approve Suppressing Communism LONDON, Nov. 10 (UP)Daily Express said today that its public opinion poll showed 41 per of the British people “favor government action to suppress come munism The poll. said to be a representauve cross-section, showed that 28 per cent favored normal freedom for Communists, while 24 per cent of their

The

cent

activities.

Guards Holiday. Dinner LONDON, \ Nov. 10 (UP)~The customers of Sydney Adams’ pub were amazed today to see a fat goose wadding about behind the bar. “That is my Christmas din~ ner,” Adams said. “Thieves grabbed three others so I'am taking ne ous." :