Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1948 — Page 11

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Inside Indian {Fr THE PEOPLE at Central Library ever put Cook (the one I intend to write someday). on Joe shelf I'hope that it will be checked out more than once in 11 years. Scares me, an would be doing the right thing with his typewriter if he could write a book such as “The Kinsey Report.” Not only does that man of varied information have people checking his book out, he pas them waiting in line for it. I couldn't believe Grover, Te snowdll me the 49 waiting slips did I take the book at face value. That's the kind of a to write, said IL «All the books here don't: enjoy.-such popularity,

a At that moment I became interested i a book called “Handbook. of Civilian Defense.”

One Book ‘Rests’ Since 1943

s8 GROVER sald she was sure quite a few ks in the library had a limited number of calls. { noticed the defense book had been taken out 7. 1942 for the last time. I hope this doesn't sake the Defense Council of New York sore at us pat that's the truth. One of the chapters I turned to at random py saying, “An important protection is a | head.” Pretty brilliant stuff. No wonder it fasn't been taken out in over six years. Miss Grover and I went in search of the !‘popu- + editions. She handed me “How to Be a it” by Will Cuppy which isn’t exactly on the geller lists. It hadn’t been out of the place since June 10, 1943 Mr. Cuppy may be to blame for this with his dedication. Get a load of this: “To Isabel Pater-

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"BEST SELLERS"—Marilyn Miller hunts for dust-gathering volumes which”have seen the light of print_and that's about all.

Spot Cash

NEW YORK, June 2—I try to keep a close eye on the ladies, chiefly for their own good, and 1 am about to give up on them. As June bows in, it's hard to feel very orange-blossomy. The girls have certainly been acting unmaidenly of late, honest to Betsy. I admire the honesty of the divorced lass in Rockeville Centre, Long Island, who calmly inserted a “Wife for Sale” ad in the local paper, offering herself as a bride to any guy who could show up at the altar with 10 grand and a thin gold band in his fist. ° Mrs. Dorothy Lawler just said candidly that she was tired of trying to make ends meet, what with two kids and all—and she was shopping for 2 guy with cash in the kick. If he was young and pretty, fine. But the lady made it bitterly plain that she was ‘primarily intetested in dough. You have to go for the candor, but it's a powerful kick in the pants for young love, and for words rhyming with.croon and spoon. Many a filly has closed her eyes and dreamed of Tyrone Power, while mentally computing the mink jackets the could purchase as Mrs. Wilbur Q. Hogjowl. But it's a rare lass who'll come right out and admit that love -is-for-the- birds, -and what she. telly adores is money,

A Sicker ™ Jeon ,

WE HAVE BEEN reared on a steady diet of dogma, to wit, that a bird in a gilded cage is a sicker pigeon than a happily mated squab who doesn’t know where her next monthful of birdMed is coming from. These was something to the effect that when the butcher-bill flies in the vindow, true love flies out the door—but we al¥ays downplayed it in the mating season, I do not wish, really, to see the whole course of man-with-maid computed on a spot-cash basis. “¥ourmurmur;- fr the ‘shell-pink ear of your beloved, “My what a cutums ootsums ittle peachaks 00 13,” it would be tremendously disconcertIng to have her snap back: “All very well, Bud, t what's your bank balance?” That is a ques-

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‘WASHINGTON, June 2--1If all the experts “ho came to Washington in freshly-creased pants 1 testify before Congress this year were placed

2d to end now, they'd make a lot of frustrated people.

The lawmakers are huffing ‘and puffing. They're orking by day and by night, but ready or not, they intend to close down their oratory factory . weeks hence, - And dozens of bills upon hich they labored long, if not lovingly, get the

" heave-ho into the biggest waste basket in world.

You think I'm kidding? Underneath the Senate Building, at the far end of the senatorial ay train, is a vast chamber stacked to the pling with the doggondest mass of hearings, "scripts, reports, and mimeographed speeches wor to awe the rag man. Including millions of i on laws which may get passed next year, aps, or the year after that, maybe. ule enjoyed listening to the statesmen snarl n tach other about oleomargarine and ComUnists and roofs for the homeless, to identify Pleces of legislation with only the slightest

ai Ce of becoming law this session. Sometimes oa end of a tough day trying to figure out

the lawgivers were arguing about, I've

Yours, ‘em of wasting my valuable time. And

~Good for Most of Us

te] FER A GOOD NIGHT'S sleep, is of now, Bumpy Ler about the gentlemen under the dome. time tr, theY may be sometimes, but by the tuck hey get through wrangling over a law— tertay the one about oleo—you can be dead Tt am. that everybody in America knows about It's oe law still may.be a mistake when finally want ed. but it'll be what most of the people “hey prhat's the way a democracy works and, M not engulfed in the superheated and like 3 a. Sulphurous air of the gentlemen, I

of how margarine bill as a perfect example teary ® legislative wheels creak. For half a . Oleo makers and city folks have yam-

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‘By Ed Sovola

son—Than whom there there just isn’t, that's all.” I put the thing back ina hurry. Let it stay there another five years. Most fiction books enjoy something you can call reader interest. And I noticed .the majority Were not written or compiled by Ph. DJs. Of course, you know what Ph. D's are. They're the people with three college degrees, one on top of the other, “The Heart of the Puritah” edited by Elizabeth Deering: Hanscom; Ph.-D.-and professor of-English ‘a Smith College, is a formidable looking tome. That's from the outside. When you get on the inside; it's worse. I guess readers can smell this book because it has a blank checking card in the holder. :

Even the simple preface starts off tunny. Lucky University because I could ‘e_ out “Praefatio” meant preface. Now,. you wouldn't read a book that started out that way, would you? Neither would I. . Senier Clerk Marilyn Miller got into the spirit of things and found “New Directions” for me. It's a little thing that was edited by Warren Bower,

department of English, Washington Square Col

lege, New York University. The book which deals with the student in a changing world came to the library in 1937. It hasn't been out once since then. I can't imagine why, either. After every chapter it has suggestions

, for study. suggestions for writing and tells you

plainly: “This essay bristles with ideas about education. Choose one and develop ib into a more fully stated paper.” I'll take a Mayor Feeneyapproved comic book any day. It wasn't very long before I had more authors of the slow seller caliber than I could handle. Miss Grover and Miss Miller were really gigging them out. One volume that struck my fancy was a gift to the library from The Jewel Tea Company. No one has taken the book out since its presentation to the library in 1940. The title, “Barrington TownWarming” could have an appeal until you open a few pages as I did. ”

‘l Got Pretty Discouraged’

IN THE SPEECH “Social Change and Indi

_ vidual Growth,” some speaker told the listeners o

Barrington that “Donkeys do a lot of friendly

~ visiting—rolling in the dust together, rubbing each other's backs. They are sociable and friendly.

Their manners compared to those of men at the bridge table are angelic.” Gadzooks. I didn’t know that.

Just about the time I was getting pretty dis-| couraged about all the books in front of me, Miss| Grover informed me that I shouldn't make fun of| the things. { “Someday, someone, someplace will come here and find a use for any one of these books. And the information they'll get from them will be important in some respect or other,” said Miss Grover. Well, maybe so. It takes all kinds but it scares| me to see a book just gathering dust instead of royalties. . . Ah, “The Bird Lovers’ Anthology.” Awfully| nice cover and it looks good on the shelf, doesn't it? “Let it rest in peace, Miss Grover.”

By Robert C. Ruark

tion for prospective father-in-laws, who are invariably typecast as villains. There has always beén a beautiful fiction, since Romeo beamed his first calf-eye at the balcony girl, that=love conquered all, and even though oft proven false, it has been a happy portion of our house rules. The predication -of matrimony purely on a Dun & Bradstreet rating would render jobless a lot of poets and writers, and add to the burden of the Wall Street chroniclers. :

The Leap Year Spirit I DO NOT care to read, in the financial columns: “Dear Mr. Hendershot: Yesterday, my boy friend's Amalgamated Mucilage dropped two points in the market. Do you think he has really ceased to care, or has his preoccupation with grain futures come between us?”

This has been, by evidence, probably the leap-| ingest year since they voted to stitch that extra) day on February, Fired by the shooting license that -is--granted - them every. four. seasons, the girls have run practically amok. ‘ .

In Pueblo, Colo., the lady mashers have be- . come s0-thick on the sidewalks that police have! 28

issued a warning to young men, pleatling with them not to walk alone at night. The Leap Year spirit has even penetratéd the Iron Curtain—a} descriptive term for Russia I just invented. One of the wide-beamed Russky lasses up and kid-| naped an American sergeant, and they haven't been heard from since. ( If only out of deference to the silver service! advertisement, I plead for a maintenance of the romance angle of matrimony, and request that| the women revert slightly to the downcast eye and the all-but-forgotten blush. It is well to give thought to the economic assets of your cavalier, but kindly refrain from demanding a premarital audit of his trouser pockets, ~='FThere is time A for. that, later-—and “AY

an old sentimentalist, I should hate to see Cupld|

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~The Indianapolis

Swimming Safety Emphasized At Institute Held By Red Cross

Picture Story By Victor Peterson

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TOP PERFORMER—Miss Rosemary Bergman constantly tries to perfect her diving form as every time she steps to the board she is on the spot: The- women of the state are after her crown as champion of the low board. Miss Bergman exhibited several dives at the institute besides participating as a demonstrator. Among the lecturers were such well-known sports figures as-Phil Reisler, Butler University; Robert Royer, Indiana University; Richard Papenguth, Purdue University; Charles Sawin, Riviera Club; Leo Sanders, Indiana AAU president, and Ed Carpenter, Long Acre pool manager.

MAKING A BIG SPLASH—That is what Red Cross sponsors of the first Water Safety Institute in the state hope to make in swimming circles. The institute was held recently in the Butler University pool at the fieldhouse. More than 200 physical education instructors, pool managers and Red Cross representatives attended from over the state. The all-day session was under the direction of James Clark, Red Cross water safety committee chairman. ‘Demonstrating the use of kickboards for nonswimmers are (left to. right), Raymond Miller, Joseph Sands and James Mitchell, all of Butler University.

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SAFETY FIRST—Don Zemlock, Indiana Red Cross field representative, put a

team of swimmers through their paces in an analysis of various swimming strokes. The meeting emphasized the great need of developing an individual's. ability so that he safely may enjoy swimming. Then, in time of crisis, the person also will be able to handle ‘himself correctly. With Mrs. Louise Sever holding their. feet ta .the pool's saving, competitive and synchronized swimming. were Ledge, Miss BarBara Sartor (left) and Miss Bergman demonstrate one way to practice demonstrated, It is hoped to make the institute a yearly the sidestroke. i RRO Os ry Sa oe —

THAT'S RIGHT — Earl Montgomery, Kirshbaum Center athletic director, called encouragement to Joan Libby as she showed spectators how a beginner learns to breath while swimming. Mr. Montgomery conducted a ‘session for the teaching of nonswimmers. Diving, life

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openly replaced by mammon as the agent who! stirs the maiden’'s fancy when the leaves begin to bud. :

mered for yellow margarine without a 10-cent per pound tax. The farmers and their representatives in Congress sneered at 'em. Came the war and widespread use of soy bean oil in margarine. Mahy a Midwest dairy farmer | found himself also growing beans. on oleo taxes took a new tack. That explains how the House of Representa-

trying. The resultant oratory was plain incred-| ible. The butter boys claimed margarine was green, until bleached, and inclined to explode. One|

of 'em said lack of butter was responsible for June 12.

slant eyes in the Orient. And, he demanded, did| Americans want to look like Chinese? The mar-|

garine cohorts responded that some butter wasn’t Dr. Frederick L. Hovde, presifit to eat; they listed the things ‘(too horrid to/dent of the university. Commis-

mention except possibly in the Congressional Record) that sometimes had been found in ft. Eventually the Housé passed the bill and sent it over to the Senate.

Will Dish Labeling Work? THE FINANCE COMMITTEE there liked the idea, all right, except for one thing: How to keep high-binding restaurant keepers from foisting off

oleo on the ciistomers who thought they were | dress will be the farewell charge buying butter? Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who |bY the president.

does a good deal of eating out, particularly was worried about this. So the Senators added an amendment forcing! the lunch counters of ‘America to put margarine on dishes labeled “margarine.” How to keep a sodd fountain from spreading oléo on a "ham sandwich they didn’t go into.

to] ——— : dent; Elwood lL. C il, Cin- : or rn on hu ol ds havo ee Yeti at Torin Wor] mt Best 1, Crome, Ci hing thw hr There'll he a batile about this as ix a bate OES 10 Meet Friday [Hall 210 N, Delaware St. f ‘Jones, Cigeinnati, secretary-treas. : Whether ft can be won by one sidé DF the other| Prospect Auxillary, OES, will The meeting is sponsored by 5. Ce

- by June 19 is doubtful, but the fact.remains that hold a dinner meeting at noon the Americans for “when, as, and If the bill does become law, we|Friday in its hall Prospect St. Action committee. voters will know exactly what's cooking. Kind of and State Ave. A business meet- tives of the C10, AFL and Rail at that, Wiest Jou think about. it.|ing will be held at 2 p.'m.

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Purdue Plans By Frederick C. othman 38th Graduation

His thinking University’s 88th commencement {exercises will be held at 2:30 p. m. tives managed to pry the tax repeal bill out of Sunday afternoon, June 13 at the the Agriculture Committee after. 50 yéars of Hall of Music, for more than 1500 |graduating students,

courses in “military science and|lieved missing” tactios.

tion, the only commencement ad- the missing was C. R. Earlywine, |

(tion will be given by the Rev. (William R. Graham, pastor of) Central Presbyterian Church of! Lafayette. | cago, president. of the Purdue - The Chester Bowles talk origi-| |Alumni Association, will induct nally scheduled at the AmailgaNow the Senate must pass the bill, as stil) | members of the graduating class mated Clothing Workers Hall seems possible. Then it's got to go to the House|!nto the association.

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Hoosier Among 28 Missing ~|After Navy Launch Sinks

| | Carrier Skipper ‘Puzzled’ by Tragedy; nie week Icimte: Dramati

Liberty Boat Declared Built for Rough Seas |ciub, noon luncheon June 8 at NORFOLK, Va., June 2 (UP)—Navy and Coast Guard vessels the clubhouse; Hospitality Comtoday began a search for the bodies of 28 sailors and marines, | missing and presumed drowned when a Liberty launch foundered Mnittee, 3 p. Mm. June 9 with Mrs. and overturned in the choppy waters of Hampton Roads Monday Evelyn Spilker, 427 N. Chester air of mystery surrounded the night. , Ave. wedding plans of former King The 50-foot boat was swamped in heavy seas as it was re. Telephone Committee, 8 p. m. Michael of Romania and Princess turning 92° men to the aircraft cio po the missing | june fot op Mrs. Dorothe Bi. Anne of Bourbon-Parma today. carrier U. 8. 8. Kearsarge from men nag probably been carried ing Committee, luncheon at noon| The latest report from Athens, their last night ashore before qc, 4. sea by an ebbing tide. |Friday with Mrs. Audrey Cun- Where the ceremony was to have sailing with a Mediterranean task The cause of the swamping wags ningham, 1152 Dawson 8t. [been performed this week-end,

Grotto Auxiliary | |. The Sahara Grotto auxiliary |committees scheduled to meet

1500 Students To Receive Degrees

Times Stalp Service

LAFAYETTE, June 2—Purdue

Latest Athens’ Report

Anne Is Ill LONDON, June 2 (UP)—An

The current semester ends

force. « > not known. The Nav [sald it had been postponed bes . ! y planned | Most of the personnel aboard an 1 |cause of Anne's f{liness. It was Degrees will be conferred by the liberty boat were rescued h Investigation but no charges

[said that she and Michael were [expected in three or four days, | But one of the biggest factors

|by vessels of the force, anchored in the roads.

were expected against the weer PoStal Em lo ees who dispatched the boat in the!

rough seas.

|off-again touch may be religion, Vatican's Stand

A high Vatican source close_to the Secretariat of State of Pope

tragedy was still a “puzzle.” He sald the. boat had a capacity of 122 men and only 92 were aboard at the time of the accident.

after the task force had sailed-after a delay of| more than 10 hours, President to Speak One Hoosier Listed

In keeping with Purdue tradi-| The only Hoosier listed among

The 16th annual convention of | district six, National Alliance of, : [Postal Employees, will meet §at- py; (014 the United Press that if y [urday and Sunday here. Dele-. Michael and the Danish princess WOE ERNOER gates. from Ohio, Michigan, west-| are married in the -Greek Orthoapprentice Seattian, 1745 N. Sixth) 52 Yor YOu 0b ve print Write Jerry ern Pennsylvania and Indiana 9°% Church as planned the Holy

See will consider; the marriage No bodies had been recovered ___LangeN ¢/o The indlanaoolis Times will be present. “ifelt.” ? The Invocation and. benedic-early today. Coast .guard ) | S— w=—====| The district executive commit-

. {tee will meet Saturday at Sen- Michael, a Greek O Bowles to Talk

ate Avenue YMCA. The Vatican 1s reported to At VFW Hall Tonight

| The convention session will be have demanded that any children

Fritz B, Ernst, Chi-

meeting Sunday night.

| Officers of district six are: Cur-

tis C. Garvin, Cleveland, presi-/ SHULL IL Thigh Rive on chances

Chicago, national sident, at a Roman Catholics. Michael is res ag ent" ® ported unwilling fo meet those

“ {will be held at 8 p. m. tonight.at!

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List 4 Activities for Michael's Wedding On Again, Off Again:

4 Anne is a ”Roman Catholic; rthodox. ;

|Sunday with. Ashby B. Carter, born of the union be reared as .

terms. because of ‘the possible