Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1948 — Page 21

ALMOST ABOARD THE PRES TRAIN—If ever a man felt like booting himself, Felt that all the way back from Terre

I.came back by bus. Should have been on the train, but, just as the Secret Service man said, what's life” The big brainstorm to ride the Presiden Special came yesterday exactly two seconds after I decided it was time to feed my big fat bazoo. Please bear with me ‘when’ I call ‘myself names. Quick, like a ‘bunny, and with no further thought of food, I was at Terminal Station buying a ticket for Terre Haute, All the way there I figured my strategy, It couldn't miss, I told myself. In fact, I kept repeating it. ay In Terre Haute, the first man I contacted was Marsee Cox, city editor of The Terre Haute Tribune. Mr, Cox said I had a job at that late stage of the program to get on the train. “pish, posh,” I said. “Nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it." ; Mr. Cox got on the phone, called the chief of police and in two minutes handed me a piece of paper with the name of the man I should see to start the ball rolling. 2 :

Hopes Went Down to Zero

FULL steam ahead to the Terre Haute Union Station which is just about as sooty as ours. Puffing pretty hard, still ‘determined as ever, I asked a conductor if he knew where I could find Capt. Gus G. Lowe, St. Louis police division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The man couldn’t help me, He did tell me where could find the trainmaster. I found the assistant trainmaster, C. F. Barraider, who was most helpful and sympathetic. : His directions I followed to the letter. First I bought a coach ticket to Indianapolis. and asked the ticket seller to page Capt. Lowe. Then I waited and bit my fingernails.

Capt. Lowe wasn’t around but several people I approached said he would be at the station. An engineer said he would be on the lookout. He was, too, because in about 15 minutes he pointed the captain out. He

I didn’t run to the Pennsylvania Railroad police officer and I'm glad I didn’t. He was flanked by a rugged-looking trio which I immediately found out were Secret Service agents the minute I said IT wanted to ride the presidential train. " you have any credentials?” asked one of the agents who seemed to betin charge. ® “No,” I answered, “but I'm on assignment and I just have to get on that train.” Well, to make a long, sad story short, and to give some measure of credit to the Secret Service, it was nothing doing unless I got an official OK from the President’s secretary. z And how, pray tell? The agent said wire the train. Then he whipped out his schedule and informed me that it was too late to wire because the train had already pulled out of St. Louis and - there weren't any more stops until Terre Haute. My hopes went down fo about zero. Then they went up. Would it be all right if I wired from town to Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer, who was on the train? Maybe he could

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RIO DE JANEIRO, June 18—It may be of some interest to the American millions who dislocate their spines to the beat of Latin rhythm that the samba, bounciest of all the imported turkey-trots; is born and reared in a series of slums that surpass Anything I ever saw, including

casbahs, - i TH Garish, gaudy Rio Is highly sensitive about its favelas, or squatter-villages, which make an ugly smear on the candy-box beauty of the “marvclous city.” 4 ; . The fawvelas are not unlike our depression-day piano-craté suburbs in their jungle-like simplicity. of architecture, unbeautifully devoid of sanitation. Some 200,000 people live in them, making this slum the. fifth largest city in Brazil. . The favela I visited was Mangueira, one of the largest, and home-site - of the champion samba teams. Mangueira is pitched on the side of a steep hill, with fhe shanties tacked precariously to its sharply sloping face. The houses—if you can call them houses—are huts of mud wattles, hammeredflat" gasoline tins, and scraps of wood, Scrawny chickens picked away in slimy pools of refuse, and naked black, brown, yellow and offwhite babies played everywhere, Nobody knows just how many poor folks live in each favela. The - people just come there, throw up a shanty, and remain until the owner of the land, the police or the state kicks them off.

Jungle Fierceness Rubs Off

AT NIGHT, thousands of tiny fires sputter and wink on the hill. You can hear the thréb of the drums, talking to old, half-remembered African gods. Here they dance the macumba, the voodoo dance. And here the sambas you hear in the glit-# tery New York gin mills are born in the brains of black men who scuff catskin drums , with the horny heels of their hands. There was a time when there was a lot of shootin’ and cuttin’ in the favelas, but some of the jungle fierceness of the people has rubbed off, and police raids grow less. and less frequent. The favelas are still no place, however, for a , Stranger to wander alone—especially on the feast

Poor Senators

WASHINGTON, June 18—This is the week to be glad you're not a Senator. ‘Snarled at by your wife for staying out all night and by President Truman for not passing the laws he wants, Blearyeyed. Rumple-suited. Dead-tired. . Dollar signs whirling around inside your cranium. Hot-footing' it from office building to chamber to cellar conference rooms and back again when the quorum bells: clang. ‘Needing a haircut you can't get. : J : Jumped on by ‘lobbyists: disappointed by bills you didn’t pass. Button-holed by radio newsmen demanding you say a few words. Smoking too much. Getting ‘a crick- in the’ neck from trying to catch some shuteye on a cloakroom sofa. Worrving about what's going to happen in PhiladelPhia next week. And saying things you're going to wish you hadn't. So¢ They were the. Senators mostly looking a little balder than before, and paler of face. Tangling with such an assortment of incredible problems as to send a fellow to the South Sea islands, Multimillion dollar appropriation bills to pass, deals to

make with the House, and presidential vetoes to Consider.

Want Talking Time Limited PLAINTIVELY, Sen. George D. Aiken of Vermont wondered aloud at intervals when the Sen24 intended to take up the long-range farm proBram with fe price supports for eatables. ; py Sen. .J. William Fulbright of Arkansas farm Yowing that he'd offer an amendment to the AW repealing the olepmargarine taxes. Laney, im do that, threatened Sen. William Phane.wrg North Dakota, brandishing his setloment pped cigar, and he'd amend the amen With the civil rights program. : oy + hay, cried the southerners. They'd talk Wear, oy against it. “arily the management. meaning the RepubReap Called up a veto of the ullwinkle Bill, which would let the rail-

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“FAREWELL, MR. PRESIDENT" "—The presidential train pulled out of Terre Haute yesterday and left someone waiting at the station. Guess who. 3 get an ‘OK from the secretary during the seven minutes the train was to be in the station. _ The agents nodded and I was off like a shot. In a taxi, in Western Union office, a fine plea to the EO en and have a boy at the station when the train arrived and back to the station to wait. ob, yes, and bite my fingernails. = ‘ From: then on it was just a question of watching the authoritative agent and the Western Union boy. I waited and watched until I was weak at the knees. Remember, no lunch.

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The train was about 20 minutes late from the

time it was originally scheduled to arrive. 1 began to feel the pressure of Terre Haute resi-

.dents on my back. Not one inch did I budge

from what I thought would be a vantage point.

Hemmed In—Couldn’t Move

A FEW minutes before the train pulled in, I made a big mistake which undoubtedly cost me the train ride. I left my position to follow two Western Union boys who were being escorted by an agent. ’ 2 The train pulled in, I lost sight of the boys with my message, the crowd surged forward and I was hemmed in like I have never been hemmed in before. I couldn't move, Couldn't make anyone else move. The President appeared on the platform and spoke while I fumed. A can opener couldn’t have cut me out of the spot I was in. Three minutes after the train pulled out of the station, I was talking to a Secret Service agent I had not watched. “Your request was OK'd a minute before the train pulled out. Where were you?” That was the sum and substance of the conversation. Easily I could have made the air blue. Especially after the agent reminded me for the umpteenth time that I should have made arrangements earlier. : : Just kick me.

By Robert C. Ruark

nights when they are passing the caxachu bottle around, and the drums are bubbling in the blood.

If there is a single concerted community effort in these slums, it is in the weeks previous to the annual “carneval,” when the people make a mardi gras, and there is competition for the best samba songs and dances. ' They have an escola de samba—& samba academy—in Mangueira, the only real building in the village. There they practice feverishly, and the people of Mangueira win monotonously.

Ragged—But They Laugh and Sing

ODDLY, to me, there is no atthosphere of sadness, of conscious degradation, of despair. .in this community of physical misery. : 1 The people may wear rags, but they Jaugh and sing. The young boys play a kind of soccer in the sketchy; littered alleys, and the women jabber merrily around the public fountain.

There is no odor of poverty— even though the place is filthy. There is a general jubilance, at great variation from the somberness of Buenos Aires and the cold, gritty towns of Chile and Peru.

It is, of course, the influence of the Negro. slave again, for there is little merriment in the pure Spaniard, the Portuguese, or the Indian.

Rio’s languor, its humor, its careless gaiety and warm. charm is more the property of the African than of the original settlers. It is reflected in the music, as the pure Spaniard’s dolor crops out in the tango, most dismal of all music.

The Brazilian samba says that the subject's lot may ®e low, but what the hell, the sun is hot, clothes are unnecessary, most women are faithless, anyhow—and a man can always pick a banana, steal a chicken, or find another dame. The cost of living Jn Rio is mountainous, but it ‘seems to have dug no ditch in the leisurely enjoyment of that living by all its peoples, rich and or. They frolic in the sugary sand of the beaches, open to everybody, and they walk along with a sort of samba roll, a samba kick. ~The whole feeling of Rio is in the walk of its citizens. They ain't goin’ nowhere, . special, but goin’ there is lots of fun.

By Frederick C. Othman

roads fix their rates without regard to the anti-| trust laws. . | A terrible bill, snorted Sen. Joseph C. O'Ma-

honey of Wyoming. His pince-nez fell to the end|T'

of its black ribbon as he began a speech. Couldn’t he agree to limit his talking time, | pleaded Sen. Kenneth 8. Wherry of Nebraska, the| Republican whip. He could not, ‘said Sen. O'Mahoney. The gentleman from Nebraska looked up at the press galleries and with his forefinger made a throat-cutting gesture. Sen. O’Mahoney continued to denounce the bill.

Just Who's a Screwball?

AND Sen. Clyde M. Reed, the white-haired newspaper publisher of Parsons, Kas., who helped write it, interrupted to say it was a good law. He said the Senators should not be influenced by the screwballs of the Department of Justice. “I dop’t like to see the able attorneys of the department called screwballs,” protested Sen. Ernest W. McFarland of Arizona. Listen to ’em as much as he’d been forced to do, replied Sen. Reed, and he'd know they were screwballs. Sen. Wherry and most of his cohorts beat it outside for ‘urgent business in the conference department. They came, back after about two hours. Sen. O'Mahoney still was talking. Sen. Wherry demanded to know. if he was nearly finished. “I have been talking to empty seats,” said Sen. O’Mzhoney. “I trust 'the Senators still absent will return from lunch. There.is much that they should know about this bill.” ; Sen. Wherry suggested, with elaborate sarcasm that perhaps. the gentleman from Wyoming intended to deliver his speech a second time? Sen. O'Mahoney bowed and/said that wasn’t such a bad idea. Sen. Austin opened his mouth to say something about the farm bill, thought better of it, and sat down. And as I say, in this final week of Congress, it is a wonderful feeling not to be a Senator, I can go home for dinner tonight. They'll get

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(Second of Two Articles)

By DONNA MIKELS SINCE the rabies épidemic took over Indianapolis there have been thousands of words issued about the why's and wherefore’s of the

disease. Ee What they all boil down to is gs this: There is an epidemic of rabies. Dogs have it. They can communicate it to other dogs or to humans. If a rabid animal bites an un{vaccinated animal, the disease {may be spread. > If humans are bitten by an dog—big, small, tail-wagging or snarling, foaming at the mouth or not—they may get rabies. Ii they do get it, they die. : »

“IT'S THE only disease we know where the results are always the same,” says Dr. Raymond Fagan of the state health board. “There’s no such thing as a ‘mild’ case of rabies. You always die with it.” The only protection dogs have against rabies is a preventive inoculation. The only protection humans have is to get rid of it in animals. Inoculation gives animals protection against contacting the disease from other animals. Pasteur treatments to prevent rabies from developing is the only recourse for persons who have been bitten by a dog which might be rabid.

surefire symptom of rabies

the other hand it might be

| worse one—next year and still anon {other 10 years from now.

: | The reason for this is that ra“WHY doesn’t aience do SOME" es does mot a. that = thing about rabies? Why wih the normal 21 days incubation they find out something about it? peri od. A dog might be exposed These were questions asked as thei, rabies today and the disease Indianapolis public became rabies-| = ad: not’ show: up for six conscious. months. Actually from a medical stand. Whe eu point, there is no. nore reason for; _ . . ; Fiestas overs city thn fr NACEINATION I tot Jou fo e ove { . ey ches So a medical prob-6n dogs under 6 months. It is lem, it is a problem of control. {not effective on dogs which are ys trol of rabies/already in the incubation stage. ¢ means for control of ra Thi that x plas are well known. They've been S means that every dog in Ini th + {dianapolis could be vaccinated toused Successiylly in 9 e youn day and there would still be a triescand With degrees 0 SUCCeSS| reservoir of potential rabies in in this country, The only reason TICE had baer exposed ber rabies thrives is because the pub- : ih a lic is not sufficiently interested to{'® a . co-operate with control programs. 2 x.» z= = = | THIS reservoir—plus the new ‘CONTROL is remarkably susceptible population which will simple. It would work something be born—will build up to another

ka this: Vackinate all dogs epidemic if Indianapolis is not

ng dog population. continuous program. HREE: Enforce licensing] Thé worst fear of health aumeasures better and make is-/thorities is that this year’s inoculation program, plus the natural decline of the epidemic will be = = {sufficiently successful to "overA PROGRAM of this nature shadow the rabies scare. Already extended over several years time| Indianapolis’ peak in any one would virtually do away with/week has dropped from 19 to 5 rabies. It would eliminate the cases. - ; common carriar because there; Although the present mass would be no susceptible popula-/inoculation program may appear tion. A continuous vaccinationito have wiped rabies out, health program would prevent buildingjofficials say, it actually will be a up of another susceptible popula-icase of locking the barn door &° ” » »

tion to cause recurrence of epi-ijate. demics. . If the public were interested WHAT actually will happen is enough to extend this year’s emer-i. .t rabies, far from bein g gency rabies inoculation Programiuc.ineq out * will have gone uninto a permanent set up, Indian-| 40 oround ‘to work up ‘another apolis would become rabies-free, epidemic. in a few years. : And, they say, when people stop ® = = being scared they lose interest in HOWEVER, if, as past experi-/a control program. ence indicates, the program is for-|' That's the way it stands today. gotten just as soon as rabies The choice of pitching in now wanes, the same situation whichito clean up rabies for good or produced this year’s epidemic will| waiting for a worse rabies epiproduce another—and possibly a'demic is up to Indianapolis.

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vaccination.

SPRING FEVER OR RABIES?—Absence of any one

This dog looks tired and sleepy, one sign of rabies. On

+ JPWO: Eliminate the stray or sufficiently aroused to institute a

ndianapolis Times

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948

Control Of Rabies Is Simple If Public Is Interested Enougl

RABID OR NOT—Her antine at the city dog poun signs of "furious" rabies by i

is chief obstacle fo control.

spring fever.

and the menacing stare. None, however, is a sure sign.

{Purdue Teachers

e's another animal in quar-: d which shows some of the rritability, tendency to snap

To Retire June 30

Seven Serve on Staff Many Years

“. Times Stale Service LAFAYETTE, June 18—Beven

Purdue University staff members who have served the University a number of years will officially retire from duties June 30. They are: Se Prof. O. F. Hall, professor of educational sociology and assos

GIVE YOUR PETS A BREAK—There's little or no pain connected with giving pets an anti-rabic shot, Matter of fact, this pooch was in the veterinarian's hands only a moment. Ali dog owners are urged to have pets inoculated when the free city-wide rabies campaign sets up at the nearest school.

Scientist Surveys Hoosiers For Preferences in Music

Finds Tastes Determined by Numerous | Factors Including Age, Sex apd Wealth | By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER { Science Service Psychology Writer = EVANSVILLE, June 18—The old adage ‘no accounting” for tastes” failed to receive scientific support from a survey of musical tastes of more than a thousand residents of this city.

| They were made after eligibil- { The

Recove odes 10 Loca Students Receive Degrees

World War II area and theater) medals have been presented to! 63 naval veterans by Capt. A. D.

Blackledge, commanding officer es of the U, 8. Naval Ordnance Participate in 77th Plant. | Wlinois Ceremonies

| ity of applicants was determined.| Ten Indianapolis students will ; Rois and eligibility|P¢ among those graduating at the dates are as follows: Victory 77th annual commencement of the |medal, American Area—for serv- University of Illinois, Urbana, toand morrow «nd Sunday.

E |clate in rural life studies in the L (agricultural extension service, On

the staff since 1917, he iz widely known over the state as a speaker, John W, Bchwab, extension spes clalist in animal husbandry. He is known to Indiana farmers through his work in agricultural extension since 1913, Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, who Sunday was given an honorary degree for her outstanding work as an engineer. She has been a member of the Purdue staff since 1935 as professor of management, Prof. Frank F. Hargrave, pros fessor of economics since 1920, He is widely known for his aus thorship of “A Pioneer Indiana Railroad,” an early story of the Monon. : Miss Blanche Miller, of the Pure due library staff. She has served there the last 47 years. Last month she received a distine guished service award from the Purdue Alumni Association. Prof. Ralph B. Trueblood, of the general engineering staff. He has been on the faculty since 1902, most of that time in charge of the woodworking shop whers thousands of engineering students learned pattern-making and other phases of woodworking in their training program. Prof. George F. Buxton, of the Division of Technical Extension, He has conducted the foremane ship training courses with more than 12,000 enrolled for 25 years in more than 100 Indiana cities and towns. Mrs. Mabel L. Harlan, assistant in agricultural extension, another staff member for more than 30 years. She retired several months

U. S. Checker Champion

Whether you would rather hear the Boston “Pops” Orchestra ice between Dec. 7, 1941, |playing “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes

exans sounding off with “Beyond on your sex, your age, how much| you have heard of either kind of

" 1g Mar. 2, 1946; European-African— r Ted Daffa 9 Ps for service between Dec. 7, 1941, ¥ {and Noy. 8, 1945; Asiatic-Pacific or more old like “Drink to Me!—for service between Dec. 7, 1941,

Only With Thine Eyes” and “An- and Mar, 2, 1948, { Distribution of

the Shadow of a Doubt” depends

area and

They are Maurice W. Angell, 92/10 Play at YMCA

(E. 524 St, B. S.; Miss Helen M.| Walter F. Hellman, U. 8. {Corneli] 222 Downey Ave. A. B.; tournament checker champion, {Donald A. Countryman, 5755 N. will play simultaneous checker New Jersey St, B. 8.; James A. and chess games against all comCunningham, 4520 Broadway, petitors at 8 p. m. Saturday in

music before and also upon your ; social class. . {dante Cantabile.”

{i This was discovered in a sur- As you. might expect, musical

1 training helps to account for your vey conducted here by Dr. Karl IF. Schueasler a sociologist now at musical fasts, Training piles Indiana University, He eports| People gistike Jazz ad hill- Hy his findings in the forthcoming t does not, however, af-

(music. issue of the American Sociologi-| fect your liking for popular seleccal Review.

{tions like the Wayne King récord. {Both untrained and trained ears If you want to see how your own musical taste measures. up, delight in the Strauss waltz. listen to the following records in| addition to the two mentioned

ground affects your taste, too.

Your social and economic back-|

theater medals for | veterans employed ‘nance Plant will -be made later.

the Marine B. 8.; Stanley Herman, 4465 at the Ord- College Ave, B. 8.; Jack H. Jeliliffe, 4225 N. Illinois St. B. 3.; { - Wiliam L Lambert, 5252 N, New t {Jersey St., B. 8.; Thomas B. LayEnrollment Announced icock, 6164 Norwaldo Ave, B. S8.; | Enrollment of five technologists Robert Stump, 127 Blue Ridge in the Central Indiana chapter, Rd. M. 8.; and Allen Van Duren, {American Foundrymen's Associ-|326 E. 47th St., M. 8. ation, was announced today. They| Other graduates from Indiana are: B. E. Turner and R. A.linclude Vertus E. Bixenstine and Zeph, Nationa] Malleable & Steel Miss Doris E. Goodpasture, both

ithe Central YMCA.

Mr. Hellman, who is from Gary, was five times Indiana checker champion and won the U. 8. championship in the 1047 national tournament. He is tha guest of the YMCA Chess and Checker Club headed by J. R. Stevenson.

above: Bach, “Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major,” by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra; “Sugar,” a jazz piece played by tte Capitol Jazzmen; Piston, “The Incredible Flutist,” by the Boston “Pops”; Strauss, “Vienna Life,” vy the Andre Kostelanetz orchestra; Tschaikowsky, ‘Andan‘e Cantabile,” by the Minneapolis Symphony; and “Time and Time Again,” by the Wayne King or chestra. If you are a man, don’t be too surprised if you don’t care much for any of these pieces. “The enjoyment of classical music in American culture is pri-| marily a feminine reaction,” Dr.| Schuessler concludes as one re-| {sult of the survey. More women than men like all types of music, he found. | Hill-billy music is the only kind preferred by more men ‘than| women. t Old people like old songs, the

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lukewarm meat in their too-warm -lunchroom. And then rush back for more arguing.

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Wealthy people enjoy classical music, while poor people like ‘jazz and hill-billy, it was indicated.

Brightwood OES

Meejs Tomorrow Brightwood Chapter 399, OES,

Castings Co., Indianapolis; F. L.

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will hold a called meeting for| $2for your ideas we print. Write Jerry inspection tomorrow at Veritas Langell c/o The Indianapolis Times Masonic Temple. m—— Mrs. Sonona Woodruff, grand, worthy matron, will be honored § xh > OOPS + guest. Dinner will be served at] 00

6:30 p. m. and chapter will open at 8 p. m. Regular stated meeting will be held at 8 p. m. Mon-| day in the Temple. i

mere ter 2 OES Group to Meet

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Broad Ripple Auxiliary, OES, will hold a pitch-in luncheon and | MOVES UP AND DOWN AS WELL AS meeting Wednesday in the Ma- | BACKWARDS TO ACCOMMODATE

sonic Temple, Broad Ripple and

BOTH THE LONE AND SHORT. Guilford Aves. The auxiliary will

MRS. L. KN. MORRISON,

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‘Moccasin Manor To Open Tuesday

- A summer canteen for high school, called the “Moccasin Manor”, will'be open in Warren Central ‘High School - Tuesday, from 7:30 p. m. to 10:30 p. .m - The canteen will provide varie ous types ofllentertainment, ine cluding badminton, croquet, vols leyball and dancing. 7

of Anderson; Miss Dorothy M. Davenport, Bloomington; George {P. Scharf, Crawfordsville; Juan |H. Romas, Frankfort; Gilford H. |{Hennegar Jr. Martinsville, and {Paul M. Kinter, Tipton.

Navy Club Auxiliary ‘To Meet Tuesday :

| A meeting of the Navy Club {Auxiliary USS Indianapolis, Ship 142, will be held at 7:30 p. m. Tues-| day in the Central YMCA. Mrs. Ruth Anderson, commandant, will preside. Delegates to the na-|- Ray Laffin is president and tional reunion of the Navy. Club Marlene Alichorn is vice president USA in Ft. Wayne Thursday willjof the organization. a receive voting instructions. | Other committee members igs Delegates from the local auxil-iclude Susie Faiss, Sam Rumfopily fary will be Mrs. Ruth Ander- Donna Barksdale, Eunice Cots son, Mrs. Mercedes H, Wann, ran, Barbara Frakes, Phyllis Mil. Mrs. Edna Hoffman and Miss ler, Roseanne Williamson, Duane Nelda Wann. Others attending|Bruhn, Gerald Shoemaker, David are: Mrs. Viola Honan, Mrs. Olinghouse, Paul Camel, “Helen ‘Birdie Young, Mrs, Olive Stamm Glende, Gloria McGahan, Joha

hold husbahds’ night at 6:30} p. m. June 26. I

\and Mrs.’ Melba Cuffel. {Wright and Sylvia Merrill

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