Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1950 — Page 21

Inside Indianapolis _

ave already appointed. ver a

GET YOUR nose ready, ‘re to have it counted next week. you gomg

_ Henry E. Neal, census supervisor, doesn’t know. T. Burns, assistant supervisor, doesn’t <Jknow. The cop at Maryland and Illinois Sts. doesn’t know. I gave up trying to find out when the eleJaton operator in the Roosevelt bonding didn’t OW.

Allow for Hazards 5%

+ THE BUREAU figures to have everyone in the

city counted in 16 days. Mr. Neal has 20 days estimated for the county. They're allowing for getting stuck in the mud, being chased by a bull or two and other ‘unforeseen out-in-the-open hazards,

: I was fortunate in wandering into the bureau _ just ‘When the technical trainer from Washington ‘was in-high gear giving 28 crew leaders the low- = -business.

down. on. the.

‘Back to Voodoo

government's technical trainer. I was ready to ¥in up. Mr. Neal said the charming young lady's name was MISS Dorothy Paul. She'll be here for the greater ‘part of the census. She is staying with a brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard

. 8. Paul, 14 8, Chester St. Miss Paul, a native of

this greatest town in the world, will return to Washington when the census is well on its way. I counted real fast for Miss Paul. Mr. Neal said to knock it off, the 510 census takers were

~ One, two, three . .. Washington sent Dorothy Paul to instruct on counting heads during census.

- three things,”

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: BE a th The Soverament foRMS, COMME so soon after Mar. 15, laid me low. Smelling salts and the magic word “rebate” brought me out of the coma. : Little wonder Miss Paul is training the crew leaders who in turn will train the 510 enumerators. Not only are they going to count people; but they're going to ask if you have running water, for instance. Then they're going to ask if it is cold or} hot running water. If your water comes out of a hole in the ground. they want to know. If you

have a tub or don’t have a tub, Uncle Sam wants{

to know, ~All of the information will show our Uncle a lot. It probably will be printed in a fat book. Mr, Neal said the figures gathered in the sutisus cannot be used for inves taxation,

"tion, or to browbeat anyone into the military or “jury service or Compulsion of schoo} attendance. SB gre eng AE TT jo This taxpayer was really frapressed with his

After giving the “queationnaire a fast gander, I was extremely curious to know if it would take more than a week for each person. Mr. Neal scoffed. Three times he scoffed. An enumerator

shouldn’t take longer “than 12 minutes with a

family. Bachelors much less. Of course, Mr. Neal is using the ideal figure with ideal people, The type that answer direct questions correctly and quickly and leave out the funny story about Aunt Minnie that isn’t funny to anyone except Aunt Minnie. - “We'd be very grateful if people would do these said Mr. Neal. “One—check an enumerator's identification card. Two—provide a place for writing, and third—give direct answers to the questions asked.”

“You mean if a housewife asked one of your i

men to maybe fix a leaky faucet or rewire a lamp that would be asking too much?” “Yes.” “Oh. ”

Call the Cops

THE identification card an enumerator carries must be shown before you allow him to enter under the pretext of taking the census. Should one forget to show his credentials, ask that they be shown, Call the cops if a “census taker” refuses to show the yellow card with the personal signature of Henry E, Neal orrit. A good thing to remember beginning April Fool's Day. Don’t let anyone fool you.

Every person, wherever humanly possible, will i be counted. Mr. Neal is even sending an enu-

merator to the city and county jails. Should you happen to be in either the day they're counting at your house, don’t worry, you will be added later. The nice part about it, the fact that you happened to be in the clink will not be on the record. Nice, isn't it? “Can you count me in right now?” “We begin Apr. 1 and no fooling,” said the boss counter,

By-Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Mar. 23=—I am pleased that we have finally reverted to voodoo of a fairly base grade in order to fetch rain to this great metropolis, in this advanced year of the H-bomb and the flying saucer, but it seems to me we aren't going at it in quite the right way. This pelting the clouds with dry ice from aircraft or spraying the clouds with silver lodide— inflammable stuff which might set fire to the

Heavens, who knows anything theses days?—seems ~~

to be rather ordinary witchcraft, like using the rabbit's foot and High John the Conqueror power instead of a more professional conjure, Also there are too many magicians in the act, including the legislators who tried to crowd through a couple of bills restricting the right to make rain and to set up a commission to study the project. “Also too many props. Airplanes,

“trucks, two-way radio, blowers, seeders, sprayers

—this is merely 20th Century . complication of simple sorcery.

Wanted: A Sizzle-Sozzle

WE WILL rule out the power of prayer here, since we have obviously settled on black magic as the answer to our water problem, but it does seem odd that no professional rainmaker was called in to pray for rain. A Back jn Carolina: we used to have. traveling exhorters of such high skill that they even specified the amount of Tain that was

: needed.

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I remember one pei -prayer who was 80 good he used to say: “And in conclusion, O Lord, don't send us no rip-roarin’ gully-washer, no ragin’ torrents, no furious floods. All us people here in Brunswick County need right now is a gentle sizzle-sozzle.” But prayer conflicts with voodoo, and one nullifies the other, so enough of prayer, and on with the incantations. Anybody with one dry bone to rub sgalnst the other in his conjure pouch knows that a sure-bob method of making rain is to choose up a flock of vestal virgins from the community and get them to dance around with very few clothes on in the dark of the moon, while the torches flicker and the tom-toms pound. Then the head voodoo man

_ doesn’t, the witch doctor has obviously selected

puts on his rain-making suit, which consists of a head-dress of weeping willow, to simulate rainfall, and shakes a couple of gourd rattles to make the sound of the drops. At the right time he picks out one of the best looking gals and disappears. It generally rains right after. If it

the wrong dame, and must come back and choose a fresh candidate for the ceremony. There. Was a time when they kept a herd of these comely critters around in the dispensary, and in some instances when the need for rain was desperate, they even sacrificed them to the rain-god. This is impossible in our society, since there is no way you can plead femporary insanity in the slaying of a sacrifice to a heathen god, or even call it a mercy killing. The American Indians used to set a sight of store by dancing as a method of jarring the clouds loose from their heavenly pennies, but the jitterbug is ill-suited to rain-making and must be discarded. Rain-dancing is slow and monotonous stuff, which sometimes consumes weeks, and certainly no modern human could stay away from the television set long enough to dance up a slight storm. Also the union would get mixed up in it and it would be Taft-Hartley all over again.

A Surc-Fire System

A GOOD simple way to make rain is to take | ~a-few- necessary -ingredients-and-go-up-on-a high

You build a fire of]

hill to talk to the clouds. herbs, and sprinkle some owls’ feathers, scorpions’ tongues, newt-livers and toad gall into the flames. Then you slay a small black goat and fry him over the fire. Then you leave him there as an offering] to the Cloud King, murmuring thrice over a secret | formula I am not at-liberty to divulge. I must warn against making a small effigy of i Mayor O'Dwyer and sticking it full of pins, even | if you blame him for the rain shertage. It-would|

be real teugh on the mayor and does not bring | ; But there are so many simple recipes and|:: ceremonies to make the heavens weep that I am|# surprised we take all this time and trouble with

rain.

airplanes, iodide and two-way radio. O;—Papa Damballah! Times have certainly changed,

Blue Potato Hero _By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Mar. 23—I guess we'll have to put La Monte Graw down as the hero of the government’s blue potato opera. He is a potato producer who hates the idea of the federals buying, dyeing and burying his spuds. © - _That-almest makes this a.man-bites-dog story.

To the Senators in charge of writing a new law

to spend more millions’-buying up more surplus potatoes, it is shocking: A potato man who wants Uncle Sam's long nose kept out of his business.

“I understand you want to talk in opposition .

to the pending potato bill,” began the incredulous Sen. .Allen J, Ellender (D: La.). “Yes, suh,” replied Mr. Graw in emphatic accents southern. “I sho’ do.”

Moguls Glower at Him

WHILE THE POTATO moguls from Maine and elsewhere glowered at him, the cheerful-look-ing Mr. Graw said he and his fellow members of the Florida Potato Council were fed up with taking alms from uncle, “We are free American citizens who prefer to earn what we get; not sell our products to the government,” he continued. “We can find nothing good in any part of a price-support program.” He sald in almost so many words that since Congress was sappy enough to get the nation i its present potato mess, it- should get rid of i current surplus the best way it could, and Hone forever more keep its bumbling minions out of the potato business,

“THen the poptato people can work out their

own problems in the good old American way,” he said. “All we want is the privilege of running our own business again.”

1t is doggone funny, added Mr. Graw, while he polished his spectacles, that Americans brag about | their production genius making merchandise avail-| able at low prices, but when a potato farmer ap‘plies a little genius to his acres and make two potatoes were only one grew before, he as a subversive. “He's sick of it. “You mean all the Florida growers agree to| this?” insisted Sen. Spessard Holland (D. Fla.). “Yes, suh,” snapped Mr. Graw.

“1s. the ~government taking. many. of your.?

“potatoes now?” asked Sen. Edward P. Thye (R. inn). The mobile features of Mr, Graw turned sad. Unfortunately, said he, shedding a figurative tear, the answer was “yes.” The government is buying

" thousands of -bushels of Florida potatoes.

Géts Dickens From Wife

FACT 1S, he added, Mrs. Graw has been giving him the dickens about it, While the federals are buying up Florida's potatoes wholesale, she’s forced to pay eight cents a pound for them at her grocery in Orlando. Then she reads about the government selling its potatoes for -a penny a hundred pounds and she thinks her husband ought to take steps. . He's doing his best, Mrs. Graw will be glad to learn. The flabbergasted Senators were impressed. So, I must admit, was I. Fact is, the longer I listened to Mr. Graw on the subject of the government in the potato business, the smarter he sounded and the handsomer he looked. As a taxpayer (and for Mrs. G.'s benefit) I'd call him a great man. And also unique.

The Quiz Master

PP? Test Your Skill ???

To what family do peach, Rie and plum trees belong? A= Peach, apple, plum and pear trees and strawberry and raspberry plants are technically members of the rose family. ® © ¢ With what countries is the United States still in a formal state of war? 5 and Japan. Peace treaties ~ have > Are war prisoner checks tas ‘exempt? i ‘War claims payments to former prisoners. o ‘and certain civilian internees will be exempt ‘federal income taxes, an. to a Fling

What American boat race corresponds to the Oxford and Cambridge boat race held on the Thames in England? The intercollegiate rowing races at Pough-, keepsie, N.Y, are generally regarded as the Amer-| ean equivalent of the Oxford races. The leading merican rowing colleges (except Yale and Harvpe have sent eight-oared crews to compete over; the four-mile course on the Hudson River at. Poughkeepals, N. XY, since 1895. > oo » Was it President _Hoover or President Roose.velt who proclaimed the bank holiday?

All busi in. the Guited States were slojed Franklin

Gosh, Mom, this is New York . . . Jarry Dun-

away, 7-year-old Indianapolis leukemia victim (Roy Rogers outfit an' all), struts about New York with his mother, Mrs. Ruby Dunaway, before starting home.

York seven weeks ago. Here, he's getting a lift diesel locomotive on the Spirit of St. Louis.

Mule train next . . . ry has ridden ary from an airplane to Cliff Thurman, Times rewrite man, since he left for New

e Indianapolis

All The Way Home, Jerry Dunawa F lashes A Big, F at, Happy Smile

Gee, Mom, we're home . . . Jerry smiles happily as the Spirit of St. Louis, Pennsylvania Railroad's crack passenger train,” rolls into Indianapolis Union Station. Mrs. Ruby Dunaway smiles

happily.

ting down to some se to see the big

home.

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Lets get these thin straight, Jim . , . Jerry, Roy Rogers uniform and all, Wate no time § in gets og ss playing in his own living room. His lite brother, Jim he Indianapolis leukemia victim starts catching up on seven-weeks lost play at his

Jerry reads the way into a Flanner & Buchanan limousine for the drive from the railroad station to the Dunaway home. Meme. bers of the family with him are Jimmy, 2; Earl Dunaway, his father, and Mrs. Dunaway. Jerry just couldn't wait to get back to his own room, toys and his own personal gold fish.

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About People—

Menninger Foundation Elects Alfred Landon

Ex-Presidential Candidate to Aid in Drive

For $1.3 Miliior as Board Member

Alfred M. Landon, GOP candi- Taking note of date for President. in 1936, has

of Bovernars of the Menninger i ; Foundation, naae 3 tionally known psychiatric” institute at Topeka. The former

least. and added: witnesses here, I

day I am 65.” orf »

mands for his resignation, become a ‘member of the board Acheson said he will not step out voluntarily—not right away, at He said he is “In the presence of

retire as Secretary of State the

ing and entering. He was held! under $5000 bond for action by ‘the grand jury.

recent GOP de-| Mr.

= : Jimmy, a gin chewing, veers. drinking monkev of Birmingham, Ala, left a void in the life of Jack Harding that not even $500could fill. Mr. Harding was awarded $500 in a court judgment against Ivan Bell, wno borrowed the monkey in 1945 and never returned him. But,

almost 58

promise I shall

-— Fy SovVernor = Harding said, Jimmy, who flew hi Kansas will ad- - Lana Turner, compat missions: with him in the vise and assist i screen star, pacific, was “worth many times the Menninger wants hr film that to me. He was just like one trustees in pol- name to be her .¢ the family. icy and will aid | legal one. on in campaigning, She was born! for $1.3 million Julian Jean Tur- ; ib = for .foundation + mer 29 years ago 2 Mr. Landon expansion, in Wallace, Ida-

“The foundation, beginning “in 1919 as a center of medical and psychiatric treatment for Topeka residents; is now. primarily a imental health research and edu-

ho, the actress’ said in a superior court petition .in Hollywood. But she

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Miss Wilson Among Indianapolis speakers at/lis study at the University of Elizabeth Taylor and

Mr. Banker

lat Butler tomorrow will be Miss - ® = Gloria ‘Wilson of RCA and David|

oa Motos. oDORSOHLE the Heel (Philadelphia), ng are ndianapolis Associa-| . tion of Industrial Editors and the rereative Post y Butler Journalism Department. leventually will The principal speaker will be ven my British Francis J. Burtt, director of in-| : dustrial relations for the Ameri- POlitics. The can Steel & Wire Co., Cleveland. former governor Registration will begin at 9:30/f Minnesota a. m. In Arthur Jordan Memorial 5aid the recent hall for the program to begin at|British elections 10:30 a. m. caused no change in foreign policy but stalled British domestic policy “in dead center.” He predicted

Mr. Acheson Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) were in complete agreement

today—at least on questions in- when

Baoeriot agreement-—on university af-i hide from police?

afraid he'd be accused of break-'you must have a yeaestion,

wants the court] 'to legalize her name .as ! ‘She is mar fed| Ae =

| RESEARCH ACTIVITIES of

(were recognized today by the Na-. itional Research’ Council] through [the award of a post-dostorate fel{lowship ta James D. Watson. A

the fellowship Istudy of the growth of bacterir

Mr. Watson will mal: the Industrial Editors conference Copenhagen, Denmark.

Harold E. Stassen, president of screen Banker, Allison Division of Gen-|the University of Pennsylvania Whirlwind two weeks’ trip to New York for her honey- stock.”

another British {election in nine months which will 1.1 comedian.

fanow 3 shght Hajevity o favor marriage for Miss Williams, nservative Party |

and went inside to investigate. How about the tools he had enport, Iowa, held. The game of ? He found, them,ichance was revived there as an volving. Yale University. Both are he said. he the overcoat, ‘police ice cream social. Yale men. Mr. Acheson said he|said contained knives? He found for refreshments but got bingo and Sen. Taft have a long record|the overcoat too. Why did he cards free. Cash prizes were

of Bacteriology!

student, he will for thr

use of rad

‘Conrad Hilton Jr.

Elizabeth Taylor, star, has

{moon wardrobe. i | She'll’ be married May 6 to! { [Conrad Hilton Jr., whose father {| controls the Waldorf-Astoria Ho- | tel in New York. Miss Taylor's last screen role 1 {before her marriage was that of { |a bride. She takes the Mole of [bride in the Warner Bros. film, “The Father of the Bride.” ‘Miss {Taylor “co-stars - with Spencer { Tracy.

o » » Hannah Wiliams, ex-wife of {Jack Dempsey, former heavy-

Mr. Stassen

[mooned today in Los Angeles {with Thomas J. Monaghan, night It was the third 37.1 and the second for her bride- " groom who is 38. Mr. Dempsey

| Wallace T. Smith, 24, of Wash- and - the showgirl were divorced mothers in the 48 states, District instructor;. Dr. E. Vernon Hahn, ’ {ington, D, C., readily zdmitted to eight years ago. 2 ja U, 8. Commissioner he was in Sen. Taft a hardware store after closing Bingo is legal "when it's sefved| Mar. hours. He said he heard a noise With ice cream and cake, Clarke}

| Filseth, county attorney of Dav-| Customers paid

He said he was awarded. “To constitute gambling,

Johann Strauss

flew to New: York te confer -with-state's chighest court acting on

18-year-old travel agency. wound. up a ployers complained the ‘romance” shopping made

\weight boxing champion, honey-|state committee to select the In-| {tlons, better facilities, more pere

Judge Named For Harris Case

~High--Court-Upholds Prosecutor's Plea

prize and an element of chance. The new setup does not include a jeonsigeration/ Mr. Filseth ruled. » . CW. Morrow, member of the British Columbia legislature, re-| Tires” Slate. Service

residents complained of guUIIIVAN, m— ‘lack of heat in the government counpy he Ma amy liquor store during a recent cold |gtewart today prepared to qualify snap. They said the liquor froze himself. as. special judge in the

in the bottles and they had to coming trial of Sullivan Circuit break the glass and lick the liquor! Judge Norval K. Harris,

popsicle fashion, " | Judge Harris faces trial on eyed | ithree felony counts which resulted

Danny Kaye, comedian, the Metropolitan pers. | in New! (from a grand jury Invistigatios

York today as a new place: to strut in a wise cracking role, He said he was seriously consid-

The Indiana Supreme Court | stepped in and ordered the appointment of Judge Stewart to sit .|a8 special judge. ’ {| Early this week, however, Judge *| Harris, in a move to discredit the | prosecutor, appointed —a special E | prosecutor to, investigate Mr. Pui |cell's private and public life. : oe Ag a counter measure, ‘Mr. Plir= Mr. Kaye cell asked the = —1Ss5U€ & WFit of Fledermaus. next December Toe the investigation. star, receiving as much as $20, 000 ‘a week for. personal appear- > Court Grants Writ ances as laughmaker and singer, Yesterday in: Indianapolis ths

Rudolph Bing, Met director, to take the nonsinging role of Frosch, a comic jailer, in fhe

ohibition to bar

Mr. Bing. Mr. Purcell's petition, voted in hia # ow = favor. In granfing the prosecu~ Handsome Lennart Jakell,’ 26, tor’s request for the writ, the

said reports of his Manila "Court- court also gave Judge Harris until !ship” of Vicky Quirino, daughter Apr. 3 to fite motions showing of the Philippine president, Were why the temporary restraining “improperly magnified.” Return- grder S&hould not be made per: ing to San Francisco from Ma- manent. fila, nine days everdue, learned he had .lost his Jobing E He said his em

Mea while, AttornepGeneral 5 mmett” McMannamon became a target of Judge Harris’ ire. In a lengthy letter, Judge Hars ris criticized the attorney general for “showing an attitude of a monarch, king, czar or dictator.”

Mental Hygiene Society his garage. The robbers appar-

ently worked for hours with Raps Training Lag sledges, pokers, etc., before they! hint BRglY Sreenined Tndines {finally pried open the safe. They| | charged RSiene ] a ay found it empty. It wasn't locked tp ‘HEC "0 hind e age . n ; in the first place. Mr. Bailey said. | Providing training -for . ow ychiatric social: workers, nurses | Mrs. W.W. Reedy, 3663 N. enn-{30d clinical psychologists. Pennsylvania 8t., has been named| Objectives of the group are ine by Gov. Schricker to head the creased funds for state institu

the agency a “laughing LJ » ” . Howard Bailey told Adrian, Mich., police today that safe-| crackers wasted a lot of time in

diana Mother, The American/sonnel and a review of mental Mothers Committee with head- health facilities with an eye on quarters in New York is con-| recommendations for legislative’ ducting the project to find the action. American Mother of 1950. Officials are Mrs. Doris Phillips, She will be chosen from Indiana University social service

of Columbia, Alaska, Hawail and Dr, C, I. Williams. Rabbi Maurice. Puerto Rico. Nominations close! |Goldblatt, Mrs. Henry M. Gra. - § 31- with Indiana citizens! i {ham, Judge Alex Clark, Kenneth ble to submit nominations to rbert Gaskill, ' Mrs. Ready or her assistants. {B- Miller, Mis. He Be . * [Mrs. Merton N. Good. Hag. Golden Rule Chapter, OFS, will| Ft: Wayne, and Edward Wilson, meet tomorrow night at the Ma-/Muncle. sonic Temple. Mrs. Esther Schie: f-| Arthur ©. Loftin,

is Worthy matron and John rector Indiana Fura wor patron. ) ealth, is

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