Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1949 — Page 29

church v 5 it ove IE THOR the keeper up ? If they don't, they should. Speaking y as an observer and I realize my attitude might be different If I were an active participant, here's why, In the first place, going to church-aions 15.4 good mark, right? Furthermore, add a youngster or two with ants in the go-to-meetin’ snowsuit, garnish well with patience, perseverance, kindness and paternal love for an hour and if you're not eligible for honorable mention at least, there's no justice where the roll’ is called up. yonder. I'm sure there is, however—there has to be for parents who are doing the Christian thing with their young ones. At one of my day-of-rest excursions I noticed from where I sat, almost in the rear of the church, more than the usual number of parents and fidgeting young ones. With my eyes focused on infinity, I asked to be excused for the rest of the service since my attention was turning towards the little angels who were making with the monkeyshines anyway. To my right and one pew in front was a young couple with the cutest and best behaved child I have ever seen. Behaved from the standpoint of temper, not energy and curiosity. That little—(I'll have to say “thing” since I don't know whether it was a boy or girl) that little thing didn’t cry once but did it move. At one time everyone in my row was smiling and trying to be. unobtrusive with their kitchy-koo's.

Baby Goes to Papa THE FATHER displayed excellent control. Not once did he have that look which told his wife, “Here, you take care of YOUR child.” The mother tried her entire bag of tricks to keep the child looking forward and sitting still. Nothing doing. Papa got an armful of baby when a pudgy hand grabbed Mamma’s coiffure and tugged. . Both parents exchanged looks of resignation when baby began chewing on the church offering envelope. The paper must have had the right amount of soothing elements because for a good 15 minutes the child munched happily, making hardly any disturbance, Two small boys, one of whom could have been of school age, sat with an elderly lady I presumed to be their grandmother. The service began with the two boys sitting beside each other.

Shortly, grandmother found it necessary to- sit.

between them after seme finger-waving and whispered admonitions. All boy and a yard wide, the twosome had, all the qualities for growing ub and being President. Their guardian angel must ‘have a rugged time keeping up with them. Anyway, Grandma A blue-eyed little gal found looking at the people in the rear more fun than looking at the backs of heads forward. Smart little pumpkin. She had a knack of rolling her eyes, breaking into a slow smile and frying to give those watching her the impression she was the essence of

hing penn esis 1and nickels in “honest” meters over here, b--And itis the hope of debonair, Ralph Tucker, the mayor, that| the good citizens will stuff some | $75,000 a year into the curbstone| cash registers, f But the story does not end there. Urdef the placid surface of | this hard-working town the political waters are rotled and muddy with criticism. both in the council

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS

Ir s Tes Auto Hitching Posts’ irk Terre Haute

and among the citizens.

There is a hint that the city

may have paid to6 much when ° the Board of Works accepted the bid of $72 a piece for the Miller, meter made In Chicago. The low And when you multiply the $12 nickel - swallowing bid for another meter was $60. differential by 1400 meters, there posts” for automobiles.

Mayor Is Satisfied Matacs... Will | Pay Off

1s the neat sum of $16800 in-| volved: .

Mayor. Tucker rises quickly to|

{defend the decision of the Board | lof . Works.

He likes the chosen | meters because he says they’ re)

: “foolproof.” " “When they are out of order § they will not register a viola-

tion,” he pointed out. “Most others do. And we do not want citizens

‘ining up at the traffic window

complaining that the meter told a lle” People aren't sure, even with ithe $75,000 annual take from

parkers, that the city, which is)

broke, should have gone out on a limb to the tune of an extra $16,‘800 simply to line the streets with

Little angel . . . The pulpit happens to be the other way but He will understand this inquisitive young church-goer.

coyness, She gave the -man in the pulpit a stiff battle for the attention of the faithful near her. |

Pint-Size Perfection IT TOOK a fair-sized portion of the service! time to figure out what was wrong with a little fellow who came in with his mother. I noticed when he came in it was under his own power. His Mamma wasn’t pulling or holding him. He entered the’ pew and did exactly what his mother did. For quite awhile I thought he was sick. That, “'m sorry to say, was unfair. The thing that threw me off was the boy's perfect deportment. I imagine perfect deportment is desirable in a child but I'll take a boy who makes the angels puff a little and shake their heads. You know the kind I mean, not the downright ornery and nasty kind, but one with a little extra zing, a sparkle in his eye and one who doesn’t bawl his head off if he skins his knee: through a new pair of trousers. (If I had to buy! a few children’s clothes my attitude might be: different. I admit it.) It was remarkable that not one of the sev--eral young ones present threw a full-scale tan-! trum. A couple of times one wound up about in| the center of .church but neyer did quite let go. | Exasperating is the word for a parent who must travel any length of floor with a bundle of violent vocal chords under the piercing glares of the disturbed. Ouch. | i After it's all said and washed, though, I know few parents who would want their children any different. In fact, they want: them to stay. as sweet as they are as long as possible. | Little ‘angels, “that’s what Shey are and any-| one who says different is a . . . parent.

'E's 'Ad Hit

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Feb. 19—1I say, Old Fellow, I see by the penny press that there's a move afoot in London to purge the English lengwidge of the stains it accumulated in wartime, when the young and innocent were subject to the base accents of the ruddy Yenks. I couldn't be more in accord. Ekchually, Old Thing. Labourite and Conservative have allied on the beaches and in the pubs to bring back the speech of England to the ringing clarity of a Larry Olivier in a Shakespearean production. One must applaud this belated unity between parties, and one must seriously deplore the fact that purest

Mrs. Leah Manning, on the floor for La-| bour, bemoans the fact that “so many of our children speak in clipped and ugly speech and American idion:, which is very unfortunate.” It'sa nasty | bit ‘0’ work, rally, and should be stamped out ere all is lost. ; Stab me for a Tory, I'd no bleddy idjeah that there’ was room in British argot for corruption.’ Upper clahss English generally sounds as if it's being spoken through a cleaning mop, and has been so saturated with slang that it is gibberish to the average uninitiate, British sleng, I mean, Old Laddie. Lor’ love a bloody duck, Cawkneh, as spoken in the salons of the East End, sounds as if the speaker is being strangled, and every syllable is a grunt. Cockney slang is so involved when a man

._says, “Well, Myte, I must ave a go at me apples,

0D Lancastrian was perverted by the Texas drawl Eh, bah goom, Lad, one must, indeed! Members of both ‘houses have agreed — first time they've agreed on anything since Mr. Churchfil retired to paint pictures—that a proposed national theater would restore unsullied English to the tongaes of the nippers. One Conservative, citing the deplorable corruption of the language, - fetched gales of laughter as he imitated a Brooklyn mother teaching her child some English poetry. A ruddy riot, ekchually, Old Boy. Brooklynese is funnier than Cockney, yet.

and pears, " it means he's going to bed. It is thieves’ talk for going up the stairs, as “trouble and stryfe” is a synonym for wyfe. Wyfe is a synonym for wife. The citizens of Lancaster, Cornwall and Yorkshire have such individual idiosycrasies of speech that there is less mutual resemblance. to English than Neapolitan has to classical Italian. The con-| sonental scramble that passes for languge in Wales is intelligible only to a Welshman. Ah, Hell, open and crack, there is silly you are to; bother your head with grammar, when everybody is named Evan Evans and Gwylym Liewellyn, and cities are all called Yrfyydhwfinnycrl

'E Tykes It Bad

EE, CHOOM, I mun tak’ exception to the slur on thé Yanks when I think of the landed aristocraceh, which pronounces. Cholmondeley as Chumley, and which knocks all suffixes, all prefixes, and most of the middle out of most words. . Unforchnit, Deahoboy, but right as rain. Too ruddy right, Deah Fellow. Quaite. Stone the crows, Old Crumpet, I must tootle off... This cleansing of the language will take a bit of doing, and one wants a bit of practice at fit. It was so fraightfully inconsidrit of the Ameddi-| cans to muddy up our mothah tongue with their low slang, thiit if we don’t all put a shoulder to the wheel, before you can say knife, we'll have, had it, and every mothah’s son will be emulating Senatah Klegh’'n on the Fred Benny show. My oath, yes, we'll all be donein by those rich subversionists from Fletbush. — —cheeroh, and toodle-bloody-o0o0. : !

Big Domes

By Frederick C.. Othman

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—The beauty about “Congressmen as. a -class is the artistry within their hearts; each one—as =o ably noted by Rep. Louis C. Rabaut of Michigan—has the soul of a Benvenuto Cellini. ‘So there were the 435 architécts of the House of Representatives, craning their necks up at the ceiling (which threatened to fall down on ‘em until they trussed it up with iron girders in 1040) and wondering what to do about it. The ceiling, consisting of a vast skylight with the seals ef the 48 states wrought in colored glass, continues to frighten Speaker Sam Rayburn, despite the spider-work of dun- colored iron-mongery holding it up.

Never, Never, Never . .. No HE SAID he wished his colleagues kindly would hurry up and approve the $2,274,500 appropriation to build a new roof so he could have some peace of mind when he sat beneath it. “What?” cried Rep. Karl Stefan of Nebraska. “do away with the seals, streamline the chamber, put in neon lights, and make it look like a night club?” Never, said he. Some of his fellow architects said they, too, had seen the plans, and however much the place may sound like a night club at midnight on New Year's Eve, it won't look like

ome. They said-

the-plans which [Architect David Lynn has been mulling for eight years will

produce a wood-paneled room with indirect light-

ing and genuine dignity. Not so, cried the opposition ‘architects. They

walls would destroy a shrine of American freedom.” A gentleman from Indiana stared upward and sald durned if he could see the great seal of the Hoosier state,~account of -all the iron braces in the way. The other architects also bent back their: necks until you would have thought they were watching an exploding airplane. The lady architect from Ohio, Mrs. Frances P.| Bolton, said she feared so many fluted columns; would be installed that they would have the effect, of burying the speaker, Marble columns, she added, have a cold feel. : l

Eager to See Gold Paint

THE SPEAKER, still eyeing those girders he didn’t trust, said he'd certainly like to see some gold paint on the walls, as in the good old days. He said he liked gold paint. When more architects pleaded for the status quo, Rep. Rabaut no longer could contain himself. Architect Rabaut, a modernist at heart, said yes and If it were so necessary to keep the place old-fashioned, why not use quill pens plucked from geese? For that matter, why not move the capitol back to Philadelphia, where it was in the first place? “The gentlemen of this House just seem to ut. fine arts than the Fine Arts:

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Came the vote. The mgdernists won 86-72 and

rushed in an amendment calling for tearing out -that ended the aluminum girder idea. Then after|

the whole ceiling, replaeing the framework with aluminum girders, and putting back the skylight just like it was 80 years ago, except safer. “In these aislés have walked the great of America,” cried Rep. George A. Dondero, the Royal Oak, Mich., architect.

“To. change these ©

some more palaver on extraneous subjects, the architects adopted the $466882,177.52 first deficiency appropriation bill, It includes the cash for the new ceiling, which will be built when the: gentlemen. adjourn this summer. Whether the speaker also gets his gold paint is problematical.

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