Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1949 — Page 29

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{English language tough? Ha. have used in referring to thelr Si —5 80 we have a few letters in words that are “Usually our attendance is perfeet." s a few vowels that ge in sound at ran. Stewart. Usually, but not today,

Pree nok ali i 48 spelled alike, “SEAFt STAppING “WItH E¥ #80 what? : We j - “easihos Monday and Wedne 3 These arguments, sound as they are, didn’t im- School and iipress a single student of Englis nooNs at the Oent: 5 he nglish at the Central the Indianapolis Public immigran

Servi One member of th Y Schools a tough time putting rants,

ces Division of milk and havi dias y is conducting extras in the séntence which the teacher classes recen “I buy pint of milk” would be «Mrs. Naomi Stewart, teacher, sided-in with the Stewart suggested; if it told why, where, for anew friends of America who found the peculiari- m nd if the word “yesterday” were the lead [ties of Su language amusing sometimes, insur- won 3 mounta e other times, a Mr. Svensson tackled the problem and illus- %_ “Make yourself at home for awhile,” sugges traded to me with the word bought that English ‘Mrs, Btewart, “and you'll” appreciate more w s the newcomer here finds preplexing and + 80, yd

“Peek in Attendance Book ~~ | WHILE THE class took up

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Mr, Svensson's difficulty reflected in the faces of the other students, After he had it whipped and broke out in smiles, that, too, registered with the class. Everyone was all smiles. My explanation for - . re they left oft this is that they're all in the same boat, ‘ 'at the previous meeting, the stiidy of measuring 80 many terms of measurement were used by terms such as pint, peck, and the like, I the class the session began to spund like a meeting ; poked around the attendance book, gt welgnts and measurement people from Wash- . Sven Svensson, his wife, Lin ngton. t the only words omitted were ¢ Ulla Jacobson, cam Ao this Lilia, 4nd da ghiat, fifth and jigger. Probably just as well to omit : Dec. 7, 1048. Hoar any one of them talk and those from the vocabulary. ' i there was no guessing where they came from. a. sitive class had a fine chuckle when a { ‘Mrs. Nyna “Rosenthal and Mrs. Ida lick - Studen ame hopelessly involved with the word ‘came here’ from Austria via Shanghal, ee ey Bnoltuin. 1 could appreciate. the gificuity, same. J spent nine years. Both ladies have been here since eS linoleum throws me as does aluminum. “last Jan. 7. They didn’t waste any time in start » A Writing session followed the practical speak: ing to learn: the lan ing exercise. The room became quiet as heads bent , Coming by way of Sweden from Austria, Mrs. low over the work books. Sight reading ‘came Dorothy Hiliring arrived in this country las after the writing ordeal which ended with lusty ‘month, She didn’t pick up any Swedish dialect, sighs of relief and head shaking, The room however, SRR Suddenly wi silied hi a oh Sous aisperem 2. Mrs. Evonne Far, . alects and Where before speech had "been s * native of Syria. age, here since June, 1947, 15 a and precise, now it was pouring -out-in-torrents ‘The class had its absentees. Three Swiss im- Mixed well with laughter, I felt sort of ignorant. ‘migrants and one from Greece were absent. Mrs, The reading lesson dealt with the month of . 8 February and two great Americans, Abraham Lincoln (the 1 was trouslesome) and George . Washington (the e in George is silent), It was surprising to see so much fierce: determination displayed by the newcomers, It wasn’t often that Mrs. Stewart had to correct a student more than once,

Easy Word to Esarn A HAND went up when ‘he word celebrate was mentioned and the student asked what it _ meant. Teacher explained celebrate called for having a big time. “When we celebrate anyone's birthday,” sald Mrs. Stewart, “we have cake, ice cream, coffee . ." : 3 : No need to go further. Celebrate was.plain as day. ir oe - It's been known for a long ‘ime that foreigners 6 pick up certain words quickly. ice cream, cake, big time and others are examples, Celebrate, Mrs, Stewart whispered, will be one of those her students won't forget. : “Coke” she added, was one of thé first words to be learned, used, pronounced correctly. > Add-hot dog, popeern;. hamburger and double feature ‘0 “Coke” and you have an American. That shouldn't take long.

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English is easy . . . To the new arrival fo this country the peculiarities are a headache. Here [let to right) Namomi-Stewart explains a silent atter to Ulla Jacobson and Mr. and Mrs. Sven. Svensson.

GOP Face-Lifting

NEW YORK, Feb. 5—There is a rumble that ' the Republican Party, desperate over its dumpy ' figure and dishpan hands, is going to send itself to charm school. This is in order to learn how * to go steady with the voters, like the Democrats do. A talented face-lifter, in the form of public

"relations counsel, will of necessity conduct the : class. Steve Hannagan, who reclaimed Miami Beach and Sun Valley from the wastelands, is prominently mentioned for the job.

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The job to be done on the Republicans is one of coarsening them up to a level of the common man.

with a mournful air of conscious piety, like an old maid with bad news-te break. The party's face has been pinched, and righteousness has exuded from the pores. And, like a mama's boy in his Sunday serge, the Republicans have refused to get down into the dift to fight with the other kids. us ” You may hazard a thousand guesses at. what

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Mrs. Lillie Swift . ... She's lonesome for her pet.

Grandmother Misses Pet Snatched . For Pound, So Chief Rouls Takes Over

By DONNA MIKELS . POLICE CHIEF ROULS stepped in to handle the case personally. Two men were put on the lie detector machine. A picture was posted in the police roll: call room, alerting all officers to “be on the lookout.” : : : ; ; a »The case was neither a sensational murder nor a major crime. The might of the Indianapolis police force was turned to the tas! of returning a misst t toa age py turned to Police Chiet Rouls for {It's his department's. fault,{ 8d. omen Chief Rouls admits, that “Mack,” And Chief Rouls, apologetic for the pet fox terrier of Mrs. Thomas the rudeness and carelessness of Swift, 310 8. Ritter Ave., is miss-|th® pound. dropped everything ing. That's why he intervened|®!®e to try to gofrect the mistake. personally and made the search <8 8 8 for the dog a “top drawer” order HE PUT the two truck drivers, of business. who now said they “didn't remember,” on the lie detector machine. He assigned a lieutenant to get a picture of “Mack” to show all policemen at roll call and ordered them to be on the lookout. for the animal. “He and other officers have certainly been lovely,” said Mrs. Swift. “Had they been that nice

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» sn ONE OF Mack's favorite pastimes was walking with the postman around his neighborhood each morning. That's what he was doing the miorning of Jan. 20 when the Indianapolis Dog Pound truck spottéd the pair. “You want to get rid of that dog?” the truck driver called to the mailman. “No,” the mailman answered, “He just lives over here on Ritter.” Despite this answer the pound man picked up “Mack” and put him in the rear of the truck. The mailman hurried back to break thé news to Mrs. Swift. In . tears, Mrs, Swift called her hus- > band who rushed to the .dog pound. At the - pound, however, BSgt. James Panye told Mr, Swift the truck would not return to the pound until 3 p. m. -Mr, Swift knew how dear “Mack” was to his wife and their grandchildren, so he waited.

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THREE HOURS later the truck returned. It was then that 8gt. Payne and pound officials discovered that somehow “Mack” had gotten away. . T h e pound superintendent, whom both Mr. and Mrs. Swift] - described as “consistently rude,”

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Mack . . . No. | on the police “lookout list,"

Those people are Chief Rouls, However, the search still has Who's sorry his department made

If anyone knows a mistake; Mrs. Swift, who misses the whereabouts of “Mack.” a her pet, and the mailman, who is

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Mr. Hannagan wants no part of political business. For one thing, you can’t put a bathing suit on it. Steve built Miami into eminence by surrounding young ladies with oranges, clothing them in wispy swim suits, and shipping their glossy photographs to the newspapers. By and by “Miami” replaced “money” on the popular tongue. But you cannot work this angle on the Republicans, becduse Bob Taft in bathing drawers

would peddle few papers. There is not much to be done with Mr. Thomas Edwin Dewey, either. Even with a dagger in his teeth and his chest

«tattooed, Mr. Dewey would still manage to look

like Mr. Dewey.

. Party’s Face Is Pinched

ALTHOUGH Mr. Hoover has shed his choker

~ eollar, and his acquired considerable public affec- . tion in recent years, it's too late in the piece to

~ concentrate on the young blood, if there be same.

trick him out in pink slacks and sun glasses.

Seems to me that whoever gets the face-lifting job is going to have to ignore the old gaffers and

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couldn't give any satisfactory explanation. The truck driver said the door on the truck ‘was loose and. that a dog got away at 15th and Lewis Sts. But the Swifts combed that neighborhood and found witnessés who saw the truck parked there and remembered that “Mack” was still in the truck at that time. " It was then that Mrs. Swift

elected Mr. Truman; my guess is that it was basically Harry's broad streak of healthy vul= garity. Mr. Dewey, suave and condescending on ‘his tower, just wouldn't come down and rassle. He couldn't compete with that photo of Lauren Bacall's long legs perched on Harry's piano. He couldn't compete with Harry's fondness for poker and bourbon and old, sometimes disreputable acquaintances. He couldn’t match Harry's barnyard anecdotes and his ‘capacity for getting -hollering mad. Mr. Dewey was frankly too pure to be real,

Novel Shop Harry Got Out in the Corn " P I DON'T CARE how many deacons we raise GIVES You Beer

to the hill, wide America is "corny and| . . ’ ow oanan And ‘a Haircut

vulgar. It tells smutty jokes and re and cusses and‘drinks whisky and shoots pool and] ogles girls on windy corners and listens to moron humor on the radio and owes money and cries and fights and makes mistakes. It admires pugnacity over suavity and resents condescension. And it votes. . The corn grew tall in Mr. Truman's campaign, but he was working with an audience which attends broadcasts of radio. quiz programs, reads comic books, and admires double-feature movies. It 1s an audience which sings songs like “Mairzie Doats"” and joins booster clubs. It goes on conventions to- Atlantic City, applauds the| 0. pithouse planned to adver. striptease, and votes. tise his haircuts-and-beer. But A corny vote is just as good as a sophisticated |ipon he decided against it. “Busivote—and twice d8 good as the ballot of an in-|naes is heavy enough as ft is.” tellectual who stays at home on election day to erences eprere _ thumb his collection of. rare old thousand-dollar| gj} Must Register

bills. { Although none are being cailed

MELBORNE, Australia, Feb. 5 —Here in Melbourne you can get a haircut—and a beer—at Ted Pithouse’s barbershop. - ; Mr. Pithouse claims to run the only barbershop of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. 3 .

. ” ” HiS SHOP, is located in the middle of a’ series of bars on either side of an arcade. Serving beer to his customers is no chore.

The job at hand will be to develop a couple of glamour boys, who can make the people laugh for induction this month, Brig. and cry, and at the people's own level. _|Gen, Robinson Hitchcock, state The aim is to vuigarize the Republicans, 80|gelective service director, today they may walk with the home-folks, instead of cautioned all 18-year-olds that the angels. A thorough basic training in crap-| they are still required to register shooting, Chic Sale humor, raucous name-calling, | oi n their local draft boards on loud haberdashery and eve-gouging 18 TeCOM-|i oir eighteenth birthday or with mended. Also a steady diet of raw meat. We , ~, .", h ’ just got to keep 'em fierce. In five days therea tex,

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Feb, 5—I've already got a

"tiled bath in my farm house, doggone it, And also-

I" screens on the windows dnd an electric pump-on--

my well, I regret to report.

These items cost like sin. I scrimped and

. saved and paid for 'em with my own hard-earned { money and this seems to have been a mistake. “If ! I'd been smart, waited a while, and continued to - ' do my bathing in a barrel, I probably could have

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persuaded the government to fix up my house, free, © You think, fellow farmers, that I'm kidding? Well, maybe; and then again, maybe not. All I know is that Congress is working on a new public housing bill, intended to clear up city slums, build 10w-cost apartments for the poor and bring some of the comforts of life to us hard-pressed rural

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The experts, including Housing Administrator

' Raymond W, Foley, figure that when this scheme

gets going good it will cost the taxpayers about $445,000,000 a year and will be cheap at the price. Bo Foley spent an hour and 20 minutes reading a statement to the Senate Banking Committee about the bill. Other gentlemen read other docuThe Senators asked -questions by the dozen and in the hubbub I got to looking at the bill; itself. ;

Law Only 63 Pages long THIS proposed law is 63 pages long. It takes up about tearing down ratty flats in the cities and

‘replacing them with model apartments, It sets

up a research center where government scientists would figure out how to build better houses cheaper, And now we get to those free bathrooms. Section 4 of this legislation says we farmers deserve good houses and if we can't beg or borrow the money anywhere else first, we. can apply to Uncle Samuel for a loan. The rules about who can porrow and how much are a little complicated and I won't go into same. % Subsection “A” then goes into further compli-

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With No Strings Attached | 80 FOR farmerg.such as Othman the bill offers | grants with no strings attached for modernizing their houses. Uncle Sam under the proposed legislation stands ready to hand the likes of us $500 cash for such improvements as baths, fly screens and water systems, We won't have to pay it back. Not ever. Whether this is good or bad in the general plan of things is not for me to say. Some of the planners think it is wonderful; others, equally as respected, use the word terrible, All'T know is that I should have hung on to my barrel a little longer, Or should I? If I hadn't built my Bath, which is a beauty with cream-colored tile and silent-action plumbing, my credit still would be good, And then under the bill I wouldn't be eligible for a free bathroom. What would have happened if I'd spent my waterworks money on a diamond ring, a streamlined sedan, or a vacation in the Bahamas, I don't know. oe In all his 63-page statement Administrator, Foley didn’t say a word about the possibility of high-flying farmers spending their dough on fun so they'd be eligible for a free bathtub, . Was I a fool, gentlemen, for using my own money to buy what I thought were necessities? When maybe they could have been gifts from my

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|with identifying tags on his coloriginally, not so rude and nasty, | lar. they could make three people we would not have been so|DAPPY.

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