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Inside Indianapolis
HOW MUCH does the sound of a Yo \ mean A special voice saying, “Hello, Mom.” or, Hg honey, how are the kids?" 8 80 out to Camp Attérbury. There over 22,000 men out there trl s for war oh thinking of home.and millions of little things that go with it. Their thoughts 80 to every part
of the country. ~~ At Camp Atterbury there are also 65 1s from 26 cities in Indiana. They're telephone Sila
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4 : i ‘Phone Brings Home Close’ ) PERIODICALLY a man whose business it is to poke around, observe and report, runs across an
activity in our way of life that convinces bim its ultimate aim will be achieved. And it isn’t be-
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possible odds-and provide when theoretically there are no provisions. My faith took on a new luster’ bécause we haven't lost our touch with the basic things that make us strong. Walk into one of the telephone centers in the evening at Camp Atterbury and in one minute you'll reel from the impact of what makes us strong. Officers and enlisted men, the activity of the day behind them, sit and stand and hope to bring within earshot loved ones hundreds and a thousand miles away. A man wants to call home. He wants to'know how things are going. He wants to hear, “I love you, Joe” He wants to hear that the leaves are turning in his backyard. The receiver becomes a soft hand and the mouthpiece turns into lips and the booth is his living room. Attendants take calls from men who don’t give a thought to anything except that they want to get through. They shouldn't have to think of anything else. No one expects the men in uniform to do otherwise. The responsibility’ for the in-
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stallation and operation rests on other uncomplaining shoulders, . 5 To get the picture of what a phone call can do to the morale of a man, I watched a solema ‘youngster place his call at the desk. The attendant took his name, whom he was calling and where. As she repeated the information, an operator at a toll center a mile away was jotting down the order. In a matter of minutes the party on the other end of the line was breathlessly waiting. In the meantime, in those few minutes, the face of the boy, the man, the soldier, was composing his ‘speech. You could tell his imagination knew no bounds, Although the room was crowded, the soldier was lost in his thoughts. Everything he loved _had crowded his.mind-until-he-was-afraid-the time came he would be unable to speak or would say’ something foolish, “Pvt. John Jones, take your call in Booth 3.”
Sermon
This “Sermon of the Week” was written by Rabbl Maurice Goldblatt, spiritual leader of Indianapolis Hebrew congregations. :
HE EXPERIENCE of a : new war came as a tremendous shock to the American people. We were just beginning to think in terms of recovery from the recent war when the news of June 25 announcing the attack upon Korea broke. : Whether or not it pected Was Tot the for our disturbed equilibrium; rather it was the thought that
The way Pvt. Jones bolted out of his chair you! wondered if he would stop before he went through | the side of the building. Fortunately the receiver) was small or else Pvt. Jones would have crawled into it, over the wires and home. - | It's a different Pvt. Jones who steps slowly] out of the booth. He's lost again in his thoughts but the freshness of the conversation makes his] cheeks glow. He'll think about it far into the] night. He'll remember the things he forgot to! say. The things he should have said differently. | When can he call again? Payday. Maybe he'll call collect. ! There are many like Pvt, Jones at Camp Atterbury with their own countless problems and countless delicious moments before, during and after a simple thing like a telephone call. I talked to the girls who moved to Camp Atterbury to do a vital job. They occupy two WAC barracks. They work around the clock. Their quarters brighten every day. Someone else is worry about furniture, light bulbs, lamps, curtains, window shades, throw rugs, transportation to the barracks and the centers. Regina Arnold, 1221 St. Peter St., told me she enjoys the new life she is leading. “I'm learning how to do the Pennsylvania Polka,” she said. “This place is like a sorority. We have a swell bunch of girls.”
Transportation Is Good ANOTHER girl popped up and said she has a captain to take her places. They speak of Earl Lamphere of Edinburg as their brother. Earl drives a station wagon for the| telephone company and he has the amazing ability of always being where he is needed. A company official remarked that he doesn’t) know when Earl sleeps. Earl intended to take every 14th day off. So far, no one remembers the day Earl wasn’t around to drive one girl or a dozen home or to lunch or supper. ’ Men responsible for the telephone center installations laugh when they tell of the weeks they, spent working until midnight and then being back on the job at 6 in the morning. But the job was whipped, that is all that matters. Some of the men in charge are getting eight hours sleep now. What's in the sound of a voice? Sometimes only the courage and faith to get the job done.
Roman Hollywood By Frederick C. Othman
ROME, Oct. 14—Hollywood seems to have comg. to the Tiber and this is old home week for me. Friends of long ago like Robert Taylor, Deborah "Kerr, director Mervyn Leroy, and producer Sam Zimbalist are making a movie here as big as life, or even a good deal bigger. They're operating in Cinecitta Studios, which Mussolini built back in 1937, and which are an exact duplicate of a Hollywood lot, except that the cement work is a little crumbly around the Ss. . . Even the not unpleasant odor of the sound stages, reflecting human bodies, hot lights and damp plaster, recalled memories of happy days 10 years ago during my Hollywood columning
So if you'll pardon the sentimentality and my lack of practice lately, I'll try to do a Hollywood
piece again: Dollars Are Different THE BOYS are producing the biggest, finest movie ever made (somehow I seem to remember they said that about almost every. picture I ever watched), but this time they really do seem to be shooting the works. Seven million dollars worth, In European-blocked currencies, that is. This explains why they are operating under the Italian gun, rather than the Culver City ditto. The lights gre the same. But the dollars are different. © What they have cooking is a little technicolor ftem called “Quo Vadis,” in whi¢h they are using 10,000 extras, three herds of lions for Christianthrowing purposes, troops of elephants, and a half-million yards of gold brocade to drape the Jovelies in Nero's court. I ran into Mr. Taylor first thing. He said this was such a super epic that he had no doubt it would run at least four days at a single unreeling. This was supposed to be a joke. He was a weary actor, who's been wearing a suit of ancient chain mail with brass studs daily since last May and who’s lost 12 pounds in the process. While he bemoaned his fate, I studied half a
dozen bloody and beaten corpses piled up in front of the remains of a genuine Roman viaduct which just happened to be there and which Mussolini | never ordered torn down. . “Christians,” said Mr, Taylor, pointing to the, bodies. These, it turned out, were the remains of | some of the performers director Leroy had ordered | tossed into the lion's den. Seems that when they started to jump they were flesh and blood, but) when they reached the hungry beasts they were plaster. This disappointed the lions, but Mr. Leroy said he didn’t believe the cash customers ever) would notice the trick. There still was one lion in a small cage nearby. A trained one. For purposes of realism Metro-
as an early Christian and allowing him to wrestle his pet for the benefit of the pagan crowds. The | lion trainer, unfortunately, was out to lunch and| I did not get to see this performance. That's the way it nearly always was in. Hollywood, too. | I usually missed seeing the crucial scene.
Planes Ruin Sound Tracks INSIDE, the assistant directors were yelping, “silencio,” at a small horde of technicolored | Italians, who were functioning as Christians about | to throw off the yoke of their pagan oppressors. | These modern Romans seemed to regard the di-| rectors as tyrants, too. They kept on yammering until the directors had screamed themselves hoarse. : | But when they started acting, they gave it] their all, | I never did see such enthusiasm in Hollywood ' on the part of the $13-per-day supers. I wish I could have stayed longer, but I had a fast ride to Paris coming up via TWA. The thought of it made Mr. Leroy glum. Over his ancient Rome four-motored flying machines buzz| all day long. How much they've cost him in ruined | sound tracks he hates to contemplate. It was| better back in the year 1 A. D. Nothing in the skies, but birds. |
Korea Sidelights
By Fred Sparks
SOMEWHERE IN NORTH KOREA, Oct. 14 «Noted while hiding in a ditch: ; Four things I like about Korea—The way the focals, who still fear Red revenge, show us Redplanted land mines. —How bfficers share cold chow and freezing fox holes with GIs, rubbing more enlisted elbows than in War IL —The way Navy ships garaged in Inchon harbor greet any mud-miserable doughfoot who climbs aboard. (The white hats dip into their own’ sea‘pags for gifts of gorgeous clean clothes, lice loos‘ening soap, precious rum...). —How snap-easy it is for uniformed Yanks to thumb a ride. Hitchhiking, spawned in War I, comes of fullest age in Korea. -
Imported Giggle Water FOUR THINGS I hate about Korea—The col onels who hog-grab needed air space to import le water from Tokyo while GIs can’t get anything stronger than chlorinated water. —The South Korean bureaucrats, who scattered like scared seagulls when the northerners snarled, and now moan to United States agents: “You must rebuild this country—it’s your headache now.” —The cringing, crawling cowards who “suffer” SIW’s—self-inflicted wounds. These creeps enjoyed the goodies of the best-paid Army for years
and now, when the chips are down, shoot off their ,
own shivering big toe (or such) to avoid Bolshevik bullets. —Those graduates of Moscow's school for civil war who've set back their native Korea, in 100 days, more than the occupying Jap did in BO years. , Wish you were here. Ever since the first caveman creamed his neighbor with a sharp rock soldiers have been souvenir siap-happy. Proof positive that warriors have ‘not changed since the children’s crusade is offered by this local airport
“Sharp or pointed objects such as swords must not be put into baggage.”
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Two wars, two budgets. A few weeks back marched with French troops through Indo-Chinese rice paddies padding after neighborhood Communists. - The French, I found, keep one eye on the foe, one on the wallet. Two examples: When the airborne wishes to battle-drop it must consider: (A) How to assure return of ‘chutes. (B) How to ruin Reds. A commander who can’t guarantee A can't venture B. | en a French slugger wants a new pair of boots he must fill out more forms than Henry Ford! III filing his income tax. ’ Rh But the American Army continues to pursue our handouts-across-the-sea-policy like an alcohol-| dunked sailor on New Year's Eve. i I have séen: An American supply sergeant toss | a Korean a carton of cigarets when he asked for! a smoke. GIs can-open C-rations to evict the can-| dy bar, ditch the rest. Slightly punctured tires “Surveyed,” seldom repaired. And T assure you— | natives squatting ¥ear camps will be well-clothed | ‘for generations. : { * Personally, I would like to be an efficiency ex-! pert, paid 10 per cent of all I could save withou handcuffing one finger of the war effort. In one] month I'd have sufficient crisp currency to spend | my sagging years buttering pate de fois gras on caviar sandwiches. :
Peel Captured Snipers ! KOREAN STREET SCENES: If you see a man ankling naked down a highway-—a Marine is not’ far behind. Captured snipers are peeled like bananas; too many have concealed grenades in their underthings . . . A mud-splattered Marine corpsman taking a whisp of dirt out of a Korean kid’s eye ... an umbrella-carrying gentleman—clad in spotless white—advancing to a GI, shaking his hand, saying (in New York English) “welcome to my country.” . . . A water-buffalo pulling a cart blocking a convoy of steel-bellied tanks. An Army | “duck” splashing through a rice paddy....
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What was the name of the man who lived in California and called himself the Emperor of the United States—or wasn't there such a man? Yes, there was, according to a Federal Writers’
= book on California. It says that the man, ie A. Norton, was born - Ehgland in 1819
: arrived in. San. at age of 30. ren nassing a fortune, and losing it, his mind unbalanced and he became a ward of 7, Dressed in an old
a familiar figure on downtown streets. He clared himself Emperor of the United States Protector of Mexicd. He was permitted to eat drink gratis, and to draw checks up to on San Francisco banks. These ‘ always honored, and Norton added by selling 50-cent “bonds” and by collecting “taxes.” He dropped dead om the
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it was all too soon, coming within five years of the conclusion of a second world war. Some of us, mindful of the great miracles related in biblical literature, may feel that
Scripture: “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Is. 2:4.
only a miracle can save man- | kind from complete annihila- | tion now. We look upon the history of | the past hundred years and see | in the succession of wars a mounting threat to the contin- | uation of our civilization. Because of that threat and because of the seeming ineptitude of man on the plane of international relations, we regretfully turn to, the possibility of a miracle, If only the heavens would open and the voice of God be heard, re-echoing the sentiment of the prophet ‘Peace, peace be to him that is far off and to him that is near.”
= ” = WHILE JUDAISM has never discounted the reality of mira-
New Men of Israel Don't Take to Toil
Male Immigrants
Leave Work to Women | By PETER LISAGOR
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14 (CDN)—Israeli authorities face a | huge task—getting some of their male immigrants not back to put| down on the farm. | Some 80,000 Oriental immi- | grants to the budding state never | heard of an old western custom— that the man in the family is the! breadwinner.
Though Jewish religionists, these arrivals from Yeman, Iraq] and Morocco are children of Mos-| lem cultures, and their views of a | woman's rights would make female suffragettes wince. These peoplé have to be “democratized,” says Dr. Joseph Bur-
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| stein, educational and Syloaral | nead of Hisdradruth, Israel's co-Goldwyn-Mayer is dressing this animal's trainer OPerative organization.
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that the women Jdid all the work before these Oriental groups immigrated to Israel. “The men don't know what work means,” he explained. With 90 per cent of the land still “a wilderness,” he says, the| job of converting ‘these men to laborers and skilled hands is one of Israel’s big problems. | Fortunately, he says, 60 per cent of the 80,000 are young enough to be weaned away from the notion that women have no rights and men no duties.
Thirty Languages
Another obstacle in absorbing these as well as’ the European immigrants, Dr. Burstein observes, is that of languages. Some 30 languages, ranging from Chinese through Russian and Persian to various Arabic dialects, are spoken by the million and a quarter population. Night classes. In the native language are making a dent in the problem, Dr’ Burstein says. But the big task of conquering the wilderness through land cultivation and other projects demand strong backs and willing hands. . For that, the Oriental. groups have to be taught the western] theme that the pants a man! wears in the family may often be! overalls, i Copyright, 1950. for The Indianapolis Times
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himself to work for the miracles he would have performed for him. That is particularly true in the matter of peacemaking. The classic statement of Isaiah sums up the preachment of Judaism about peace: “It shall come to pass in the end of days . . . And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation Neither shall they learn war any more.” The prophet’s panacea for peace was that only by converting the instruments of war to
| peacetime purposes would man
achieve peace. To do this requires understanding based on respect, equality, mutual helpfulness, honor and integrity. This is a large order. Nevertheless it remains the goal of Judaism whose who.e mission is peace. A word of warning is in place. Recently we have heen living in an atmosphere of hysteria. During the sumaner much publicity was given to the circulation of the Stockholm petition. It has been conclusively shown that the Communists promoted this petition for the obvious purpose of pulling the wool over our
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ing a lasting peace. It is the task of every religious Jew and the task of everyone who has religious faith in a God-cen- | tered universe to continue his |
serve the unity of most of the nations of the carth in the | United Nations’ resistance “to- | aggression. That in itself is a kind of miracle for which we should be grateful. It has been amply demonstrated that the world is in danger of imminent destruction. Religious faith, buttressed by common sense and the science laboratory, requires that we continue to hope and pray, and, | moreover, to work for peace.
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