Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1947 — Page 15

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THIS 1S THE WAY to start a mental riot. Take Aristotle's “Ethics,” have 30 persons read the first chapter, “Ethica Nicomachea,” seat them at a long tabe and then start the ball rolling by asking, “Does every act aim at some good?” . $0 You're at the Eli Lilly & Co. Great Books session and you wonder what youre doing there. “Ethica | Nicomachea” buzzes in youn head. You feel better

when your neighbor doesn't know what it means, either ! .

Leading the discussion are Art Eastman and Mary Kay Lashbrook. They're at the head” of the long table and you can see them if you lean over on the table. But if youre like me, you sit back. No use stickia.g one’s neck out too far, ohe thinks.

MRS. LASHBROOK directed the opening question to Mrs. Kate Dulling. Mrs. Dulling repeated the question, “Does every act aim at some good?” and proceeded to say no. / ' Twenty-nine persons edged closer to the table and began to fidget while Mrs. Dulling continued saying that every act should aim at good. The 30th member of the group (me) still kept his neck in: Someone threw in a statement that the word good was awful ambiguous To make matters worse, this same needler wanted to know if Joan of Arcs act made her feel good. I found out who this fellow was who persisted in throwing more wood on a fire that was beginning to smoulder. It was Tom. Clarke. Great books. Great arguments. Great guns began to open up. Words such as self-sacrifice, rationalization, adaptation, pleasure, contentment, absolute; relative and justification began bouncing around like buckshot Harold Dulling interrupted the discussion to turn off the air-conditioning unit. Even that act was dragged into the discussion. Was it good.or bad? Art Eastman called for order. One of the three ladies, who were knitting socks, dropped a stitch when the room suddenly became quiet. She picked the stitch up as the volume picked up. I don’t know how but Jean Craig had the floor and she was saying that under no circumstances were the Nazis justified in their acts, not even when party members believed they were doing right. A small bombshell, indeed. Mr. Parke wanted a definition of a bad act. Miss Craig said, “Anything that is bad to personal happiness.” Wow. g From then on, right up Aristotle's ‘alley, happiness was kicked around so much I began to wonder if I had ever been so happy in my life. S80, off we went on happiness. Charlotte Engle thought Happiness was limited within the 10 Commandments. Not only was it limited, but no one could achieve a complete staté of happiness in this world, stated Miss Engle.

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~The Indianapolis Times - gar SECTS MONDAY, DECEMBER B15 = FGETS Christmas Tree, Symbol Of Joy, Inspires Fear In Heart Of Boy,

His Tragedy Teaches

| Lesson of Safety b By DONNA MIKELS "WAIT A MINUTE"—The two-hour Great | TO MOST small boys a | Books discussion is over but co-leaders (left to Christmas tree is a thing that | right) Art Eastman and Mary Kay Lashbrook (dreams are made of . . . re-| <till” draw the fire of Dale Spurgeon,’ Sophie ‘minder of joys it brought last ||

Schroeder and Hardey Adriance. \year and a symbol of more . . {good things to come. Take the Savage, for Instance | It's hard to imagine thoughts of

_ SIDNEY CRAIG inquired if a savage was happy. 8 Yule tree bringing clouds of fea: There was a slight pause as a couple members of the to the eyes of a T-year-old lad. group sang “Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t wanna Little David Lewis Fox; sen of Mr. leave the Congo.” and-Mrs. Howard Fox, 4615 Hillside Mr. Eastman steered the floundering Great Books Ave., still believes in Santa Claus ship back on a course of good, healthy, hot ex- but he has good reason to think of! change of ideas. Christmas trees in terms of pain John . Modrall thought a definition of happiness and horror. [ would be appropriate. I did, too, Hardy Adriance It was just a year ago this month | & said it was a matter of adaptability. Mr. Duling that David looked under a tree and agreed and recounted how a slightly stilted party found the new scooter he wanted. can be adapted to something pretty nice by introduc- He was one of the happiest boys on ing several rounds of drinks. Hillside as he raced all over the Sophie Schroeder, Hazel Workman and Elinor neighborhood on his new toy Beecher went into the cumulative idea which even- But his happiness was shortlived tually spells happiness in this hfe. The last of December ne was Mr. Adriance quoted a passage from Aristotle. out playing on the scooter when his Dale Spurgeon quoted another. Mr. Eastman jolted mother heard screams ofepain, me out of a fine state of mind by asking me what 2 > my idea was on happiness. Z

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n I 4 / i RUNNING to a vacant lot nearby To my surprise, I drew support when I said hap- she found*a neighbor holding her a h piness to me was a reflective thing. “When you son in his arms, extinguishing a - look back at a period of life and the good moments fire that had eaten his clothing and outweigh the bad, you can say you've had a measure seared his legs. of happiness,” 1 said bravely. David and some boys had found a Of course, 1 must mention that there were fire- Christmas tree, carelessly abandoned works about my theory. But that's what makes on the dot. To the boys it seemed! things interesting. the natural thing to light it. Arter Two hours weren't sufficient for a greater part of that another boy threw a can of the members. Mr. Eastman and Mrs. Lashbrook cleaning fluid, found in a garage, closed the meeting and settled back for some “heavy into the flames. thinking.” « ' | The liquid splashed on David's My exit came when the question was popped about legs and the fire licked after it. His

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whether morons were happy or not. Who cares? 'iny lezs were flaming torcnes I'm happy. Does that sound right? when the neighbor heard nis i screams and extinguished the Nie From the first of the vear 0 June, the dark-eyed, brown-hairad

boy lay in a General Hospital Led and physicians doubted that Le

By Frederick C. Othman would ever walk. An attack of

I — WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Good news today—for the ladies of the WCTU: The plushiest saloon in the capital these nights looks like a snow scene. On account of all the white table cloths without customers sitting around ‘em, I'm talking about the place where the Meyerses, Johnny and Gen. Benny, used to do their cavorting. Where famous beauties warbled and a celebrated band tootled for the benefit of hot shots on wartime expense accounts.

Where a $20 bill pressed into the hand of the head waiter sometimes helped to get a table and where the management used to wear out a blue velvet rope a month holding back the free-spending contractors and the businessmen seeking forgetfulness from their woes with the OPA, the WPB and the ODT. Things have come to a sorry pass in this de de luxe of $7 heefsteaks and $24 champagne. The boss is, out drumming up customers. Soliciting ‘em by telephone, like a stock salesman for a Canadian gold mine.

Times Must Be Getting Tough

HE EVEN CALLED ME last ‘nigh? proving how desperate he was. He said he hadn't seen me around the joint lately. Poor devil. He never did see me there, except on wedding anniversaries, but I let that pass. I told him I didn’t object to his saloon, 1 just couldn't afford it. He sighed. Then it came out. “Nobody can afford it,” he said. “I got more waiters in the place right now than clients.” That shows what a fancy saloon he runs. He calls the suckers clients, So he hemmed and hawed, as saloon-keepers will, and told a joke which could have been funnier. Eventually he got to the point:

I ——— The war is over for nearly everybody except bar- . . AAT : smallpox complicated his recovery. keepers and hey, is the Anti-Saloon League running ¥ ty

” » ” the Ways and Means Committee of the House of pr was SENT HOME in June Representatives? to gain strength for more skin

It turned out, after he'd calmed himself a little, grafting Then he went back in that he was complaining about the 20 per cent cab- Ayoust and again was hospitalized aret tax. The war's been over for more than tW0 yh,.5,0 Oct. 15 Neighbors touched years now, he said, and the Bureau of Internal yy the Christmas tragedy gave Revenue still is taking every fifth drink. eight pints of blood to the boy. “Or put it another way,” he continfied. “Every As soon as he recovered from the time a client spends $10 with me I have to add on gheration David. made his long 4 another $2 for the Treasury Department.” postponed start to school. He was A highball in his place, tax included, costs $1.10. js doing good at catching up reThat's expensive thirst-quenching and, as he said, cently when he caught the mumps. the host for a party of siX, say, thinks twice before pas getting over them just in time he orders another round, for Christmas. “Think of it,” my saloon keeper lamented. “He gice David's return home, the wrecks a $10 bill every time he orders a round of neighborhood mothers haven't drinks. So he makes ‘em last. He nurses ‘em. Or he ,eeded to lecture their sons on the! Soesn’t come in at all.” danger of matches. One look &t his

Saloons Closing Everywhere scarred legs and remembrances of

ALL OVER WASHINGTON, and the nation, for no BSOVIsinE screntis Ws SOU that matter, saloons are closing. No matter What's = wppic has taught us a lesson. happened to the rest of the nation's economy, the 100" his mother. said” ‘We don’t depression is upon ‘em. My man-said he thought _ ; ica. thi bro Congress might be interested to know that better oni hi i Wig is marning than 50,000 voters beat drums, tell blue jokes, imitate . , Sinatra and otherwise earn their living in night clubs. “yOU SEE, we didn't think David “We're being driven out of business,” he said. would walk again. If it hadn't been “And what I want to know is whether Congress is for Dr. Harry Brown and the <gindoing it on purpose.” grafting device he worked out as a That question's for Chairman Harold Knutson of Jap prisoner, I don't think David the Ways and Means Committee. Knutson and Co. could be thinking about asking write the tax laws and in their own sweet time I Santa for skates this year.” suppose they'll answer it. I drink tap water, myself. “1 don't know who threw away It's cheaper and, I understand, better for the health. the tree that caused David's trou-

DAVID LEWIS. FOX — Christmas trees hold no happy memories for this one almost crippled him for life.

Six Sure-Fire Steps to Take Two Years of College To Avoid a Christmas Fire Freq to Worthy Studen Urged by Commission

Photo vr Bebry Qlesing, , Times stan Photographer 7-year-old boy, for the flames from

Snorts and Swords

NEW YORK, Dec. 15—It’s not the long blades that bother Alex Linton, 43, as he goes about his daily chore of swallowing 100 swords. It's the long hours that get him down. “You come in around noon on this job,” he complained, wiping down a bayonet blade with a dry cloth before performing his act at Hubert's Museum on W. 42d St. “and you never get away before 11:30 p. m. It don't give a man much time for any outside life.” Mr. Linton, only a few inches taller than most of his working tools, is from North Bergen, N. J. He has been swallowing swords since he was 12. “My father was in the trade before me,” he said, “and he died at 84. 1 guess the business didn't do him too much harm.” He swallows four 27-inchers at the same time. He swallows another two with a flaming cigaret sandwiched between them.

Certainly Beats Working Hard

“ONLY ABOUT SEVEN of us left in this business,” he said, “and I don't know why. It certainly beats working hard.” His swords don’t cut his throat because the edges aren't sharp, he sa.d. “But I can swallow a blade with only one sharp edge without any trouble,” he added. “If both edges

‘Wedding at Ranch

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 15—Cowboy star Roy Rogers and Dale Evans will tie the matrimonial knot New Year's Eve at the Davis, Okla, ranch home of GovRoy J. Turner of Oklahoma. The wedding was arranged by the governor's assistant, V. B. (Bill) Likins. . Headline of the year paper): “Ty Power Gives Up Lana to Fight Reds.”

Annabella to Give Up ANNABELLA, in turn, will give up Ty when she files suit for divorce against him in Los Angeles. She told me shell file the suit very shortly, that she and Ty talked it over immediately after his arrival in Hollywood from that overseas junket. The French star was in the office of a Hollywood press agent, getting fitted for a publicity ‘campaign to counteract tne rumors that have been flying ever since she snd Ty separated. She told me: “People think I am trying to get a lot of his money. It is not true, Even the furniture in our home is mine.” Then came the usual: “We are friends.” Annabella was wearing ‘a rather confused expression and’ a pair of the latest model shoes from Paris—high button shoes

(in a Los Angeles nevs-

without the buttons. Instead of buttoned, they were . “Very popular:

laced. “They are booties.” she said. in Paris. They'll soon be wearing them in America.” Sam Goldwyn called in his chief accountant the other day, handed him a sheaf of papers and said: “It's important -that we get all these reports in before the end of our physical year.” * : That was a nice tribute Al Jolson paid Larry

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ble,” the mother continued. “We had burned ours in the furnace. / So it was someone else's. By Robert Richards “But I do hope that everyone who reads about Davie will dispose of are sharp, then I got to be careful.” {their own tree safely. ...1 wouldn't | For a while he tried knife throwing He had a want any other mother to go pretty girl for a’ target and had a wonderful time through the agony.” tossing the steel her way. | “Christmas Safety” sounds like a “But I had to give it up,” he said. “On a job dull thing to write or read about like that, a man can't afford to take a drink and I It's far from dull, however, to see don't like that. I can take a snort any time I want the tragedy of fear in a small boy's to and still guzzle down my swords.” eyes at Christmas. Linton also swallows a neon tube. He has to do CA this in a hurry because the manufacturer made it a little too large and it cuts off his breatiting entirely.

Lack of Scars Baffles Docs “SEVERAL YEARS AGO I worked for a doc at Bellevue Hospital?” he recalled. “All I did was to sit on a table and swallow tubes. Then he lit me up| inside and explained to his medical students just

Placing in water keeps it moist, decreases shedding and increases fire resistance. Sweeping Changes in Higher Education Concept Doubles Enrollment Proposed by 19¢"

TWO: Have an approved fire extinguisher handy—just in case. THREE: Keep extension wires tucked against walls away from heavily traveled areas. Walking over such wires can wear off insulation and produce a fire hazard, FOUR: Do not connect too many lighting sets to one outlet Follow instructions which come with sets and see that all the By JAMES C. AUSTIN, United Press Staff Correcpondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—President Truman's commission on higl education urged today that all worthy students be given tuition-n schooling through the first two years of college. Calling for “sweeping changes” in higher education, the commissi also recommended a reduction in tuition fees for college upper classm

bulbs light. FIVE: Don't use shaky chairs or makeshift ladders to decorate {and graduate students, prompt elimination of the “quota system” a segregation and doubling present

the top. Be careful about letting the young fry decorate higher than |college attendance by 1960. and colleges and the segregation

they can reach from the floor, SIX: As a last precaution take down the tree as soon as ‘whites and Negroes. In the first of six volumes re-| n | - FIVE: Revising graduate and p'

Christmas is over and dispose of it by giving it to the rubbish man ting on “Higher Education for popuing 8 [fessional school education to me

or cutting it up to burn in an incinerator. Don't put it out where small boys will be tempted to make a bonfire American Democracy,” the 30-mem-| two wartime per commission also told Mr. Tru-'t effective for training well-rouns

ar TE. mi : Ex-Gl's robiems Aussies to Honor FDR, Churchill Times Foreign Service pay tribute to the : leaders and to American and British man that many of the European Persons. : ficrease in tate servicemen, concepts of education should be BIX: Expanding Federal gove:

BRISBANE, Australia, Dec ment support of higher educati , In dedicating abandoned and that the American, ppo g Public Interest Drops,

15— A ing Winston Churchill and Pranklin D. Roosevelt will be built by

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$50,000 memorial church honoreducation system should be SEVEN: Expanding adult educ Angelican Archbishop Reginald C. strengthened and attuned “to the tion.

what was taking place.” the Church of England In this Halse told a crowd of 500 that needs of the free citizens of our! EIGHT: Distributing federal : Linton’s longest blades go down into the entrance Says Stalnaker Queensland capital city. “these fwo national heroes of democracy.” {to education in a manner that ° of his stomach. He has one curled steel piece which i100 = galnaker, director of christian democracy left behind “Community Colleges” aid the poorer states to bring th

A special hall of memories, which has the aproval of Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs, Churchill, is planned to

them an undying memory of part-! nership that saved the world from slavery and despair.”

he pretends to drive down with a hammer. “ ’ t fu The docs always want to work me over,” he said. Sue, Inidiang Depa a oe ae “They look down my throat and they keep insisting \ .. “." «leveling off of public inthat they should find a lot of scar tissue, but they ct" in th . ble I velar never find any scars at all.” terest” in Lne pho pe v * Stans Linton figures it would ruin his fun if he up and Al the same Lilt, tiers has vesh

told them that all his swords are dull. a “growing complexity” mn Veterans - | problems, he said.

Robert Ruark Is on Vacation. | Mr. Stalnaker praised the experience and service of city and county ~ veterans’ affairs officers.

By Erskine Johnson Most of Problems Local

He said a survey made this year shows that 75 per cent of a veterParks on his Thanksgiving program. Said Al, “I an’'s problems are strictly local in have lots to be thankful forthe food I eat, the origin and solution, and most reclothes I wear and Larry Parks” And he's so right. quests for veterans’ assistance could Esther Williams is about to sign a contract for not be handled by any agency other a vaudeville tour, than the local service officer. Vincent Price is planning a Hollywood stage pro- The official said there is an allduction of “Victoria Regina,” repeating the Prince 'ime record of 105000 veterans in Albert role that brought him to fame 10 years ago hospitals and the peak had not Life in Hollywood department: Mickey Rooney's deen reached.

father and his stepfather were a chummy twosome Indiana has nearly 50.000 former at a football game. GIs in its colleges and schools, with

New Witch Hunt Started 17.000 taking other training, he

added. MARJORIE RAMBEAU, who was paralyzed in. Mr. Stalnaker said there is a need : one leg as a result of an auto accident three years for consideration of the possibility f oe / 7 ago, and had to learn to walk again, has turned of supplying matching funds by the Er ) { | producer to make a film short. It will show women's state to supplement local funds in |, 2 CSREES, i

and civic clubs the. needs of spastic and paralytic the continued operation of city and i ) Re

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‘community colleges” to provide all qualified students with at least 14 years of education at public cost —eight years of elementary school- | Indianapolis Rotary Club 58 ing, four of high school and the nae; at noon Tuesday in the Cl first two years in college. The ho pool Hotel. posed community colleges woul . Corespand to uor coliges | me 1, pi Sa All of those things, the commis- chairman: Everett E. Allison, 1 sion said, would bring outmoded U.| chairman; Stanley J. Dyer, tre 8. educational methods more In rer: Irby 8. de Fenelon, Wilk tune with the responsibilities of E. Ready and Prancis A. Wilheln-:

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Beit pid 7408 deme ee . Carnival—By Dick Turner ofary Meels Tuesday

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Responding to the commission’s initial report, Mr. Truman said in a statement that “a carefully developed program to strengthen higher education, taken together with a program for the support of elementary and secondary education, will inevitably strengthen our | nation and enrich the lives of our citizens." | The commission's 12 recommendations included: | ONE: Reorienting educational programs and administration to the | IM | needs of democracy. Sweeping \ {changes in curriculums. i

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Somebody has started a new witch hunt in Holly- fairs centers. wood. Before they get to you with a lot of hatchedup propaganda. here are the facts. A new orgam- Airfield Stenographer zation, called the Motion Picture Research Soc " ae it is reported, will make an all-out attempt to harness Position Open’ public. opinion against divorce in Hollywood, siming . Applications for appointment as at film casts which include divorced stars. Accord- a eivil service clerk-stenographer ing to a survey made by the trade paper, the Holly- for the CAA Airway Communication wood Reporter, 20.9 per cent of the people in the flim Station at Weir Cook Field will be industry have been divorced. The national ‘divorce accepted this week. rate for 1947 shows that 40 per cent of ‘the mar-| Announcement of the vacancy riages throughout the country go on the rocks .I was made by Richard Raph, maindon't defend divorce, but Hollywood has 10 per cent tenance technician in charge of the| jess divorce than the national average. What town station. Salary for the position is} can boast of a better record? $2168 per year. y 9 } . .

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TWO: Increasing college enroll ment by 1960 to a minimum of 4.800,000 vouths between 18 and 21, and 600000 in professional and ‘graduate schools. | Train More Adults | THREE: Healing the present rift, | between education for work and education for life. : : FOUR: Eliminating the “quota {4 i aySlem” operating in many schools | Loses

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COM. 1947 BY MEA'SEAVIOL, MC. 7. M. REO. B. 8. PAT. OFF.

“| hope you realize, Pop, that by going to bed without any dinner I'm saving you a couple of bucks on the grocery bill"

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