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THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1948 PAGE 19,

By Ed Sovola

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SE SECOND SECTION

Favored WOOL ATS

for Misses, for e brightest foree for spring . .., ert and all’ wool coats .-. . fash. lange shoulders, cks . . . single or ed styles. Griy, yarn-dyed gray, or green.

8 to Pay: erred, Layaway

FASHIONS, at WASSON'S

LIANA” SUCKER

ECOAT

style housecoat in hat’s so easy to launder! 29-Inch

what the young men and women of Indiana high schools have on the walls and showcases. It's not in mo to say what I saw was “exciting,” “thrilling,” “simply gorgeous.” I liked it. Pretty good stuff. Out of the several h examples of art and craft in the pictorial, graphic arts, design, commercial art, t and commercial arts divisions, 137 entries will sent to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pa, for showing in the 21st Annual National High School Art Exhibition, May 9 to 31. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed so thagysome of our Indianapolis entries pick up a few of those 72 four-year scholarships that are being offered.

‘Not Bad—Who Do Dat?’

WHEN I walked into the auditorium, inecidentally, the exhibition ‘is free, Nancy MecClam-

DAILY. UNVEILING—Nancy McClamrock uncovers the work of two Indianapolis students at the Indiana Regional High School Art Exhibition.

Painting Sam

a long Bair to appreciate

mind posing for either one of the young ladies. Looking at Arthur Campbell's pencil drawing of a cottage in the woods reminded ‘me of the

boy, knows where to put those pencil lines so they look like something. It doesn’t seem possible you can make a picture like he has at the exhibit with a lowly pencil. And the two pencil portraits he has close by give the pencil new dignity. That's to me. I don’t know what you think of a pencil as a medium. .

It Was a Honey of a Job ANNA’ PERRONIE of Manual lettered the creed of the United Nations and as an example for the commercial art division, I'd say it was a honey of a job. If you haven't read the creed or you'd like to read it again as a refresher of

an ideal we all hope would someday be realized, go up for that alone. “We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the

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scourge of war which twice in our lifetime has| =

brought untold sorrow to mankind...” Something to think about. Besides the beautiful lettering, it’s a beautiful hope. Ever think that if you had the time you could do something clever with your hands? There are plenty of examples of ¢lever things at the exhibition. From a nursery wallpaper design by Patricia Matthews of St. Mary Academy to a pair of plastic table lamps by Mike Owens of Washington High Scliool, you can feast your eyes. And don’t overlogk the jewelry and ceramics display case. Miss McClamrock said positively and abso-

lutely that all the decorative pieces in the casei! were made by high school students. They fooled |}

me. I thought that some enterprising department manager had set up a display of his merchandise. “They got some doggone good wash work here,” a young fellow commented to his companion. I finally figured out he must have meant the black and white drawings of stemwear, silverware,

billfold and a cocking pan. The kind of illustra-| tions you see in newspaper ads. I noticed that! : Sister M. Dolorita was the teacher of most of|: the students of St. Mary Academy who had wash §

drawings. I'm not kidding. The show has about everything you'd expect a show of that type to have. Frankly, it has a little more than I expected. We

have some mighty clever young Hoosiers, that's 3

for sure,

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By Robert C. Ruark

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Mar. 18—I have been sort of tickled ever since I met Sam Smith. Sam Smith is a serious artist, and if that isn’t the corniest name for an artist you ever heard, I will wait until you produce somebody with a paintbrush named Homer Scroggins. Sam is a big lunk of a guy with squinched-up eyes and a GI haircut which makes him look like a cross between a Sioux warrior and a scrubbing brush. Last: time I saw him he had putty under his fingernails and a big smear of paint on his ngse. Not portrait painting paint—house paint. What I like about Sam is that he is the complete switch on the artist of song and story, starting ewith his name and working on down to his income, views on art and general personality. Everything that you see in Greenwich Village, in Santa Fe, in Taos, Sam aint. He takes regular baths. He is going to be married tomorrow to a pretty girl. He makes plenty of money. He owns a house, not an attic or a dobe hovel or a grim furnished room. He has a big new car and a trailer. He does not .brood in corners or send his soul scurrying up and down the canyons. He does not marry Indians, for artistic experience or braid his hair. Yet I would say that one day 8am Smith will be one of America’s ranking artists, along with- Thomas Benton and Grant Wood.

$1000 a Crack for Portraits

YOUNG MR. SMITH, he's just 30, gets $1000 a crack for portraits. He sells his little stuff for $300, $400, and up. He will average between $300 and $400 a month in cash income, and he is a great trader. He swapped a painting for his trailer. He has swapped a painting for some expensive carpenter’s tools, and for a load of timber for his new house. He has plenty of legal counsel, three lawyers do his bidding for a painting. Sam never took a formal art lesson in his

3 life, unless you count-a two weeks’ course at the

University of New Mexico, a course in modern art which he quit in disgust. He has been ‘painting professionally since he was 14 just by natural feel, the way he builds a house. The house is important. Sam had a girl and he wanted to get married and he figured that a

westerner ought to have a threshold to carry his bride over. Houses come high, on the hoof, so Sam decided to build one. It is a pretty big house.

that it is the first house he ever built bothers him not at all, He says any man with a feeling for life and a little common sense can build a good house, from foundation to the third coat of paint. | When he's finished he will have about $14,000 worth of house for a net cost of four grand plus personal effort.

Painted for Army 5 Years

SAM THINKS that infatuation with .modern art is a lot of affected nonsense, since there is no standard by which a picture of an icebox mounted on skis and wearing waterwings can justify a title such as “Infidelity.” If he draws a picture of an African drummer boy it looks like an African drummer boy. Sam spent five years roaming the world and painting for the Army. Yet there is no candybox art in him, and I would say that, in technique alone, he can sass back to Messrs. Wood and Benton at this moment. Somehow, hit, miss and blind luck, my friend Sam is a polished technician on an easel, to such effect that his figures jump out of the frame and grab you. His landscapes carry the smell of the| terrain whether it's Chinese, African or New Mexican. Nothing I have seen of his work would

ever be a candidate for the top half of a calendar. |"

Mr. Smith is a very happy man. He éan knock

out a few canvases of dobe huts, canyons and cottonwoods to make the eatin’ money and the];

rest of his days he spends on laborious projects for his own satisfaction. He takes off in his car and trailer for weeks at the time, on fishing and| sketching trips. He mixes his own paints and| builds .his own frames. I think he will be the first| artist in years to do anything notable with the American Indian.Sam Smith is not like the fugitives from reality | who hide their artistic incapabilities behind a| front of phony Bohemianism. He's a good painter who is being rewarded early for his craftsman-|

ship, and once a day he kicks himself in the §

pants because he's so happy he can’t believe it's true,

Hot Bees

WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—The Agriculture Department intends, Congress willing, to spend $37 million this year on scientific research, including how best to maintain apartment houses With radiant heat for bees. Electric radiators it's going to use, because a warm bee makes more honey, better, than a cold one. That makes us, fellow taxpayers, patrons of the sciences and we might as well take a quick look at what our money's doing for the birds, bees, trees, and, of course, how to squeeze molasses out of the latter. It is a brave new world the Agriculture Department is building (if those lawmakers don’t do too much penny pinching), so with no further ado let's get our eyes opened: The department's first television program showed how to carve a turkey. There are 17 different tribes of grasshoppers plaguing our land; the red-legged ones are the worst; the department’s battling them all. Fire is fine for killing Weeds in cotton patches, but not so good for corn. The corn burns, too. The Bureau of Agricultural Research has discovered that if a cow doesn’t get her vitamin-A, she goes blind. If the Bureau of Home Economics gets the necessary $12,000, it will study the value of eggs in the human diet. Each passing year makes the hen a more efficient egg factory. The hen that could produce only a dozen eggs 10 years ago today manufactures 15; no telling to what

By Frederick C. Othman

of killing people. Benzene hexachloride does a| Of less recognizable behind their sheets and masks are (left to right, brutal job on bugs, too, but it makes the tomatoes| {front row) Barbara Padgett, Lowell. Long and Richard Kocher and (left to right, rear) Maggie Bosiak, Stanley Gosc, Ruth Dortch and Melvin Alexander.

taste funny. ’ | Dried alfalfa juice seems to be a high-class) fodder for poultry, The department's making] candy (lemon balls and peppermint sticks) partly | out of soy beans. | And listen closely, fellow patrons, to the noise-| less noise at the experimental station at Belts-| ville, Md. Sound waves so loud you can’t hear) ‘em are tenderizing tough beefsteaks there, as well as homogenizing milk and killing germs. The| scientists have read about this silent noise being able to cut grass, but they haven't tried that.| Not yet.

Cloth From Peanuts, Too THE BUREAU of Dairy Husbandry is pouring ascorbic acid into milk to see if it will taste fresh longer. The department's chemists are making cloth from peanuts and boards from wheat straw. They're also seeing if they can worry some rubber from a Russian weed called kok-sargyk. The cows that turned droopy last year in New Hampshire, it has been discovered, didn't get enough cobalt to eat. ; X . In Madison, Wis., the timber scientists have

got so hot that for every pound of wood (any old |’

lumber will do) boiled in water with acids, they get a full pound of molasses. Only trouble is the molasses isn’t so good; has

"A DAY AT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS" —Richard Burnette portrays an oldtime photographer in this skit from “The Old Trunk oe the Washington High School Junior Vaudeville at 8 p. m. today and tomorrow at the school. His old-fashioned model is Norma Fortune. This comedy skit is one of But Sam is having very little trouble. The fact| several flashback scenes in the "Old Trunk" act, an act in which memories aroused from searching a trunk in the attic materialize into skits,

"SPOOKY HOLLOW'"—This eerie setting where goblins and

ghosts cavort is another act from the junior class vaudeville. More

(Photos By Lloyd Walton, Times Staff Photographer)

Upstairs," ons of the five acts in

"BEAUTIFUL OHIO WALTZ" — Another number from "The Old Trunk Upstairs’ features (in pairs, front to rearh Evelyn Jean Leuernz and Helen Cubert, Olga Dreflak and JoAnn Littlejohn, Mary Helen Gish and Norma McKinney, Mary Lou Staab and Irene Rejko and Ruth Coffey.

Sweet Rhythms Of Yesteryear . In Washington High Vaudeville

"THE BOWERY CLOG" —These junior pretties do a mean clog in the "Sidewalks of New York" act. They are (left to right) Violet Leak, Dorothy Houchens, Janet Smith, Dorothy Tingle, Joan Woehler, Delores Seaborg, Mae Cunningham and Pat Hamm. The vaudeville is being staged principally by the junior class of Washington, aided by

representatives of the senior and sophomore classes.

Tutors of Crippled

To Attend Clinic

Instructional Methods To Be Discussed

Instructional methods and special equipment for the teaching of crippled and handicapped boys and girls will be discussed at a clinic for tutors of crippled chile dren tomorrow at James Whitcomb Riley Hospital $~» Children. Arranged by Mrs, Fred E, Tou mey, director of the Cerebral Palsy Clinic at Riley Hospital, the program will include a series of discussions and demonstrations, a luncheon and a tour of

. : frenzied activity she will be moved tomorrow. i, 1g, tie belt, pointed Poll ’ the flavor of a rolling pin. But it'll ferment, all ‘Among those on the program de, sweeping skirt. ollen on Bee's Shoes right, and that brings on alcohol; you can let will be Mrs. Winifred Kahman, ’ ping DDT AND ASSOCIATED other chemicals are your imagination vary on ae ese, And Paaily director of physical and oc cups i eat , but the chemists T like the idea of growing radio-active corn up in| tional theraby in the hospitalf backgrounds with great stuff for killing off bugs, bu Ee en oF a re win Py g

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have got to watch their step. They also are killing bees, including the steam-heated ones, and that’s having its effect on the apple crop (on account of pollen on the bees’ shoes, students). A special extra new insecticide, called parathion, slays bugs as they've never been slaughtered before, but it also has the unfortunate effect

while it’s ‘happening (via X-ray) inside a cow. I mean I'm all for science and I only hope the scientists whose pet projects I have skimmed over lightly here won't think I'm sneering. As far as I'm concerned they can spénd $37 million where, they think it'll do the most good. ; {

the Indiana University M Center; Miss Anita Slominski, loccupational therapist, and Mrs. Vida Davison, psychologist in the Cerebral Palsy Clinic; Mrs. J. D. Garrison, public school teacher assigned to the Riley Hospital; Dr. Louis Nie, instructor in the

® Department of Neuro. Paychistes : t the Medical Center, an 2 run ed 8 The Quiz Master 22? Test Your Skill 22? fhras etions Comer, sod i | illed therapy field consultant for the rders Fille - = — Crippled Children Division of the — Whi from? —When did France lose Canada? State Welfare Department. ae Te i A Da ie ad into the Te lost Canada in 1759 at the final e Welfar: p 4 U. 8. by Negro slaves. Its name is a corruption battle of the Heights of Abraham. Czech Reds Get Tough ' of the Italian bandore and Portugese banduro, * & © | UP). ' HOUSECOAT derived from the Greek Pandours, a three- G_ For what purpose is oakum used in ship-| PRAGUE, ua 18 (UP)—The stringed instrument. building? . . y : voir ET "“ . x ’ oe QUARTERS, Lar e o *. A—Oskum consists of Joose fiber obtained by “THE DOLL DANCE"—Still glother ét from "The Old Trunk Upstairs" is this "Doll Dance," one of a series [canceled the dmmounity of Six nom: 9 receive its name? untwisting and picking old hemp ropes. Mixed : nimate s are (left to right) Loi , Loui > , Shi dd, the first s at WASSON'S Q—How did + the Stapetrult receive ia name? wat oll the seams of wooden| Of flashback scenes. The animated dolls are | ght) Lois Tutterow, Louise Gosc, Phyllis Boone, Shirley Todd be handed over o the :

elusters similar to a bunch of grapes.

Dorothy Deason and Celia Boone. Faculty sponsors for the play are Audie Watkins.andsMrs. Elizabeth Hatfield.