Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1948 — Page 21

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meeting the In and About Indianapolis Educators Club. In the first row. sat 12 5A qpils from School 67. Miss Denk explained the youngsters were present at the demonstration for no other reason except that the group was the last to receive instruction ‘on the:Tonette, an important instrument in the exploratory. technique,

There's a Way fo Find Out

THE SYSTEM includes giving a child instruction on the Tonette.and allowing it ‘and a book to be taken home for a week. At the end of that time, either Miss Denk or Mr. Rutan test the young would-be musician for willingness to learn, interest, persistence, capacity for work, ability to work independently and allied characteristics. The educators were told how easy it was to

THE BEGINNING—AIlberta

Denk, teacher, starts 5-A student Jeri Suer on the road to music with a new technique in finding instruments for students.

music

Come and Get It

youngster Tonette and displays it during the test, there is reason to go on.

a cross section of a larger group. Every youngster had a degree of skill with the Tonette.

violin “0 the children THis agtion has a tendency, est and curiosity in the potential musician, * : Blow His Face Blue

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The group at the demonstration represented

Miss Denk explained and showed the use of the to the two teachers, to stimulate inter-.

AFTER THE demonstration, each boy and]

girl was allowed to play the violin. under the watchful eye of Miss Denk.

Mr. Rutan explained the mechanics of the |

trumpet and demonstrated how to make “noise.” In this department, the youngsters had difficulty.!

One boy literally blew until his face became blue and still couldn't make a sound which amused most of his classmates a great deal. { A boy named Harry (for the demonstration the pupils were called only by their first names) blew a blast that shook the room. Mr, Rutan asked if he could sustain a note, not quite as loud as his first try. Harry come through like a veteran. Someone behind me said, “I couldn’t do that well after three lessons.” The last instrument was the clarinet. Mr. Rutan went through the same kind of routine he did for the trumpet. The clarinet became something of a favorite with the children. Maybe because they could get sound out of it easier. It was clear that the violin wasn't the most popular instrument. In music circles this was a sad situation. All over the country, Mr. Rutan said, there aren't enough pupils taking up string instruments. The trend is not critical yet but in a few years it could be. The final step was to call on each child and ask which instrument they would like to play. Seven chose the clarinet, four preferred the trumpet and one girl, Jeri Suer, chose the violin, After choosing an instrument, each child is| given a letter to the parents which explains the! procedure and includes the recommendations of | the teacher. The letter has a blank where the, parents voice their intentions to provide an in-| strument. } Miss Denk and Mr. Rutan may have some-| thing. Boy, I remember when I was handed my | uncle's mandolin and told to play the thing. You

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* know, I still don’t like the mandolin. ER

By Robert C. Ruark

HOUSTON, Tex., Mar. 12-—It seems to me that if I were a real young buck, free-footed and fanciful, I would settle down in Houston for a few years, just to see what happens to it. Chicago, 50 years ago, must have been a lot' like Houston. So must San Francisco, both, before and after the earthquake. There is a lot of frontier left in this town, because it has just begun to flex its muscles, and is on the verge of busting right out of its pants. Money, here, has not yet been totally corrupted into a starchy transaction between dyspeptic bankers. I know of one oil millionaire" who still flings silver dollars to the street urchins, and another so rowdy he can't get into the town’s best gaming joint, let alone the country clubs. Houston was building even during the war, ° when most places weren't, and today the town is a gaunt skyscrape of upthrusting towers. They use to call Houston Jesse’s town, because of Jesse Jones’ encompassing clutch on it, and old Jesse is still in there pitching. But new rich characters like Glenn McCarthy are throwing millions on the rug and asking Jesse to fade it. The real estate news is about the biggest assignment on the lagal papers, because last month Houston topped - cago in building Hobby, the ex-WAC boss, who once remarked for publication that it sure would be a nice town if" they ever got it finished. It is a city of great gesture. An oil man named Hugh Roy Cullen once bundled up 180 million bucks—I presume, in an old newspaper—and handed it to the city as a gift. This was regarded as a pretty good present, even in inflated times, and what H. R. does today is front-page news.

Stole the Play From Galveston

THE CURRENT eminence of oil and ships and meat has made, almost, a goldrush city of Houston. They dug a deep ship channel up from Galveston, and stole a great deal of play away fram that port. . The oil pumps still rear up in the outer city limits, and you can see the flare of the burning, escaping gas at nights, throwing a weird glow ever the. half-finished town. he reek of oil is on the flat lands outside, and the shining tubes of the refineries and re-cycling plants make a surrealist scene of the drab’ countryside. It sort Of tickles your fancy to see a cow being milked on one side of the road, and on the other,

| Feel Weak

WASHINGTON, Mar. 12—Now it turns out that my good red blood, which the Red Cross extracted froin me during the war, went on sale in Shanghai at $25 a throw as a rejuvenation tonic for debilitated Chinese, Some oriental may be walking around this minute, thinking he feels gingery on account of the blood I traded for a cup of weak coffee and a small cookie. The tale of what happened to 200,000 units of blood plasma (undoubtedly including mine) in the Chinese black market gets weirder and wilder-eyed as it unfolds before the Senate Banking Committee. I feel a little weak, as I did upon the Red Cross blood-extracting table during the war, but I think maybe I can piece the story together so that. it begins to make sense: Thomas B. McCabe, the paper magnate who used to be foreign liquidation commissioner, sald the blood deal in China was all a mistake. Seems there was a big pile of medical supplies on Okinawa which had been damaged by a typhoon and which the Navy turned over to his boys, sight unseen. They in turn peddled it, without looking at it, to the Chinese government. Mr, McCabe, who is up for confirmation as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, said that as soon as he learned about the blood ‘going on sale to weak-kneed individuals in , he did everything he could to get it back. He was happy to report that 88 per cent was recave and restored to the Red Cross. #

Bull Market in Blood

“OH, YEAH?” said a bright-eyed young man named Walter G. Rundle. “The Chinese sold it back.” 3 “Kind of a bull market in blood, to use an American expression,” suggested Sen. Charles W. Tobey of N. H., chairman of the committee. “Yes sir, it was,” replied Mr, Rundle, who used to be the Shanghai bureau manager of the United Press, and who learned about what happened in the first place to my blood. The Chinese

a tiger-bucking trip down to Galveston.

a 100,000 million dollar plant which is used for milking natural gas. “That's what they do with it, in the re-cycling plants—herd the natural gas into corrals of pipe and cylinders and drain it td of its hydrocarbons, principally a high octane) gasoline, . i Then they turn the depleted gas out to pasture again, forcing it at tremendous pressure back into the earth. Four hundred and fifty million cubic feet of this gas gets milked daily, and 80 per cent goes back into the ground to fatten off the subterranean pastures until it is ready for milking again.

Bottle Town and No Cocktails

HOUSTON is a rough, brawling town, with its residents ready to fight or play, as the mood strikes them. Its crime rate is high, and it is a bottle town, a hard-drinking city which serves no effete cocktails, but expects its citizens to take a jug by the neck and kill it. It is certainly a place where a man’s bank account can’t be reckoned by his table manners or his costume or the company he keeps. There is not a great deal of inherited money in Houston; it was pulled out of the ground or off the pastures by its owners, the trustee to finance Highriding Houston spends a lot of time over the week-end in Galveston, 50-odd miles away. Galveston has become Houston's gold coast, a play city on an island—a wide-open town where the slot machines spill round silver dollars on the rugs, where the crap tables are clotted with former cowhands betting $500 a crack, and where the roulette wheels spin fqr the ladies wearing clothes they never envisioned when they were sweating over the cookstove a few years back. The bars stand open 24 hours a day, and the music won't quit. ; Oddly, and conversely, much of the mgney isn't loud and raucous. Many a millionaire lives semimodestly in town, and plows his money back into the ground outside. People I know, several times millionaires, take their fast-rolling dollars and stick them into ranches, with ho thought of more oil, but of rooting thémselves firmly as farmers and ranchers into the soil that has treated them so well, ’ . It’s an exciting town, this Houston, a town which makes you feel that there's plenty more for everybody if you only want to come and get it.

By Frederick C. Othman

bought it cheap from our government—which didn’t realize what it was selling, you understand —and then began advertising it. Mr. Rundle rummaged in a pile of papers. He came up with blood invoices on the Shanghai market, plus Chinese newspapers showing the blood advertisements. : He said that when he learned about the blood situation, he called upon the Red Cross director, who'd been trying for months to get back the plasma.

Changed Name fo Corpuscles “BUT NOTHING much happened, except that the Chinese quit advertising it as human blood and began calling it red and white corpuscles,” Mr: Rundle added. .He wrote the story, which was published around the world, and the Red Cross began getting back some of its plasma. “But the Chinese didn't give it back,” said Mr. Rundle. “They sold it back at what I understand was a nice profit. I tried to find out exactly what this profit was, but the Foreign Liquidation Commission wasn't very obliging. I never did learn the terms of that transaction.” Months later, he continued, when all the blood was supposed to be in the vaults of the Red Cross. it still was on sale in Chinese drug stores, only the price had gone up. Now it was $35 per unit. Mr. Rundle turned up numerous other flabbergasting details of monkeyshines in the sale of millions of dollars worth of war surpluses to the Chinese, he testified, but when he went to Mr. McCabe, at the latter's invitation, he received a cool reception. “I should say that I got the little-boy treatment,” he said. “They told me I shouldn't get excited about such errors in judgment. I said that when an American Army colonel (unnamed) had a fine house, three cars, a speedboat and an airplane, that wasn’t only an error in judgment.”

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Illness of the individual worker,imore than 50,300 users.

sickness and death in the family, and personal matters such as weddings, dentist and business appointments and miscellaneous home obligations are the primary reasons advanced for absenteeism. This is according to a survey by the national industrial conference board revealed today.

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According to almost 50 per cent of the executives queried, the most successful way to reduce absenteeism is “to make the supervisor entirely responsible for the attendance record of his group,” the survey showed. Experience of nearly ofie-third of the co-operators indicated that Cc . B Di k formal disciplinary action in nts cases of irregular attendance is arniva y ICK “‘one.of the most effective con- —— trols—particularly in: the case of||¥ unexcused absences.” { Three Strikes and Out

The number of warnings varies from one to four before the habitual offender is dismissed from the payroll and, of these, the most common is ‘“‘thrée strikes and you're out.” Sickness of the individual was) listed as the cause of most of] the absenteeism in 95 per cent of the companies surveyed. { Three per cent listed “long hours for extended periods” asi the chief cause. The remaining!|. 2 per cent reported “lack of interest in the job.” Frequently mentioned excuses for absence were transportation #iMculties, injuries, housing conditions, oversleeping, lack of control of liberal sickness plans and|

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The Quiz Master

Q—Did Dr. physician in the Army? A—Dr. Walker entered the Army as served as assistant army surgeon in War, the first woman to hold that commission.

Mary Walker actually serve as a 2?

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A—The nobility, clergy, commons, and the bos an PL the Civil press. . Radio is frequently referred to as * Spanish Club to Meet

Q—How was the measure of an inch originally Davis High » El" Revezo A-The thicktess of 3 maw's thumb way tho p.m.

“over-indulgence.” { Other methods of reducing ab|senteeism reported included sick-! {benefit plans, improved working! |} conditions, liberality in permit-|} ~*“=*3: {ting changes in shifts for tem-! {porary periods and emergencies, ‘making attendance a factor in !merit-rating plans and colored; cards for absentees in time-clock! racks. 2 | i 1 |

The March meeting of the Ben| School Spanish Club. | , will be held at 7 Thursday in the senior high 1 building. i

FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1948

open sgason on basketball officials along about this time of year in Indiana, with the state tourney in progress. But it might be wise to look at these signals to see what the whistler is signaling before cutting loose with the boos. Jack O'Neal of Indianapolis, long-time member of the Rules Committee of the Indiana Officials Association, depicts familiar signals. At the top (left) he shows how the referee designates traveling or an out-

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of-bounds decision; the "'t"' with the fingers makes a technical foul; his fingers designate the number of the fouling player, or signals them for a jump ball; the upraised hand (lower left] signals for a timeout. Pushing easily is recognized by the outstretched-hands, palms outward, and holding by grasping one wrist with a free hand. The hands waving. from side fo side downward signify that a play has been nullified for’ a previous foul or infraction.

Seniors at Tech |Old German Guide Worries Seek Better Class About Castle and Book

Troubles of War Leave No Mark; Memories of Prince, Twain Foremost { By DAVID M. NICHOL, Times Foreign Correspondent senior class. David Lennington| HEIDELBERG, Germany, Mar. 12—Phillip Mechling is one, of 18 <BlPIan, the few Germans on whom the troubles of the last few years have Participants in a radio pro-|left glimost no mark. i gram were Mrs. Ressie Fix, direc- r. Mechling's charge is no such mundane thing as a grocery tor, and Margaret Blocksom, store or a student hoarding house. His worries are "sp less

Maja Bowman, Judith Ann Frink, y Mary Lou Beck, Martha Sue % ba oily breakfast than on some ancient masonry and how

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C. Fahey, Henry Wilson, Michael Stanfield and|®Yed. round little man, with spectful retreat. snowy handle-bar mustaches, has| Back in the hotel, “Teddy” and been a guide in the Heidel-{Mr. Mechling sat over a bottle of berg Castle until he is as much a|cognac until long after the sun part of the frowning ruins as the had flooded the valley with its thick walls and the ornate carv-| light. : Can't Leave

ings themselves. . Mr. Mechling’s real life, as he! His “building,” the 600-year-old sits in a tiny, mountain railroad castle, is one of the few for which cafe, or goes home at sundown to{the American can find no possi his modest dwelling, is made of|ble reason for requisitioning, und memories in which the last 30|Which no modern German agency SAR vat, Yet it is always in his

James White, senior council | president, appointed the following {committee to draw up codes:

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| years play almost no part. ‘Teddy” in His Heart Mark Twain, who spent four months here when Mr. Mechling was just a junior guide, is his favorite literary man. But the warmest spot of all in this warm old man's heart is reserved for “Teddy,” Prince of Wales and now Duke of Windsor. . Twain's book, “A Tramp Abroad,” written here, is the one which concerns him most. His

— own copy is lost, and he has not WORD-A-DAY

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light. Mr. Mechling suggested the party should come at 11:30. “We went through the castle,” he recalls, “and then the Prince asked to see some of the student life of Heidelberg. He made only one requirement. We shouldn't! tell anyone who he was.” { Hit the Spots Accompanied by an Oxford wl tor and a plainclothes policeman, ! the Prince set off for famous stu- | dent gathering spots like Zum Bebpel J Rote Ochsen. e nce put away 18 beers, Mr. Mechling insists. The Seuss | tutor had 12. The policeman) managed nine. y started home the through