Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1951 — Page 25

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By Ed Sovola

THE BELL atop St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove doesn't awaken the songbirds at 5:30 a. m. A morning. They're up long before the bell This may come as a shock to a full-of-hot-air resident of that sparkling little burg. I ought to identify the man for telling me such a fantastic bird tale. Better listen more carefully, chum; Perhaps I shouldn't be so gullible. But what are you going to do when a perfectly coherent individual tells you all about the birds and bells of Beech Grove? “No kidding, just as soon as the hospital bell rings at 5:30 ‘in the morning, like magic, all the birds in town start singiing. It's the darndest thing you ever saw or heard,” this fellow said. o> » : NATURALLY 1 questioned him thoroughly. Was he ever up at 5:30” Every day. Was he sure someone else heard the birds burst into song to the tune of the hospital bell? Everyone in town. Did the birds sing every morning? Every morning at the stroke of the bell. “Amazing,” 1 said. ! “Absolutely,” he said. At the crack of dawn, I was gazing at the bell tower of St. Francis Hospital. The clarity with which I saw the thing was surprising, It isn’t often that I'm out at the break of day. Nothing was blurred. There have been occasions when they were. / ¢ © 0 THE NEIGHBORHOOD was quiet. Only the birds were up and singing. What gives? Had the bell been rung? Mrs. Bernadine Dennis, hospital switchboard operator, said it had not. Sister M. Martina would ring the bell at 5:30 a. m., not before. “Did you know that the birds are singing?”

BELL OF ST. FRANCIS . . . the birds sing before the bell rings in Beech Grove.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Apr. 27.—Our favorite funnyman on the American scene is still plump Mike DiSalle, the Price Stabilizer. Somebody told him he's doing a good job ‘‘because you can roll with the punches.” ./ “I've got the figure for rolling,” said Mike, patting his corporation. He was asked about running for Governor of Ohio. “When I get done with this job,” he said, “I won't be able to carry a majority in my own family.” .» eb MY SON SLUGGER didn't do this, but he would have if he'd had a BB-gun. One kid we know sat with his BB-gun in hand watching a cowboy and Indian battle on television. Suddenly the boy fired right into the screen to help the cowboys. The screen was blasted to smithereens. Pop's getting the set fixed now and son is very sad at having such an itchy trigger-finger. ¢ ¢ : GEE WHIZ . . . Shelley Winters and Farley Granger an- ow nounced their en- gE Th So gagement—but I 4 J a remember once asking Shelley whether they might get married and she replied: “Get married? Never! We're much too good friends for that.” o 4 » GEN. MacARTHUR is really quite human. He shaves h i m self, unlike the D uk e of 3 he y Windsor who has lay WW! x Waldort sar Shelley Winters ber sent up. He often talks like other people. War correspondent Marguerite Higgins says that at a party in Tokyo he said, “Hey, tall, blonde and lovely, come up and see me sometime.” She later got an interview with him on the basis of that invitation after being turned down by one of his aides. + © ¢ THE GREAT Jimmy Durante has never been better than he is now at the Copacabana. When he's tossing piano tops and sheet music. aided by Fddie Jackson and Jack Roth, you don't mind if

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Apr. 27—Today I am Harry Truman, and I don't know as I like the part very much. I am sitting in the Blair House and wondering all of a sudden if I am as smart as I thought. Who would have figured when I fire the guy with the gold hat that it is go- ‘ ing to make a political bum out of me? The way it stacks now 1 am practically convicted of kicking dogs and attacking motherhood. You would have thought he fired me, the way 1 have been treated since the man came home. I'm the boss, ain't I? I'm the Commander-in-Chief. If X want to fire a general, I fire a general. I will do the letter writing around here. Let Gen. MacArthur play soldier and stay away from that pen and ink. 1 looked pretty good in there, I thought, when I made the speech just before he got home. I am for peace and what's right, and no guy can cross me up when I get my head fixed for peace the way I want it, strictly according to my terms. But how am I going to know that the man with the circus hat is going to cross me up? Here I get Gen. Bradley to get up and make himself a tame speech just to take the edge off anything Mac might say. Gen. Bradley goes right along my line on Korea and he lays in a couple good zingers on Gen. MacArthur's insubordination. I figure I'm fixed and I got Gen. MacAr-

* THEN HE gets up in front of my Congress, just as weak as milk, and kind of casually mentions that his battle plans had the approval of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and throws the whole

thing right back in my lap. Now we got six months of argument on that one, all by itself, and in the meantime I am ac-

SCA firing a guy for obeying orders from the

JCSX As least that's how the public sees it. . o would have thought that the people would have gone nuts over the guy, like they did? They never made that much fuss about me, not even when I hung one on Dewey. They

About Bells and Birds

Mrs. Dennis knew. She heard the first merry whistles of the redbirds about 3:45 a. m. The redbirds always are the first to announce the coming of a new day. " * © ED GEHRING, painter and maintenance man, came into the office. He was intrigued with the idea that Sister M. Martina's bell-ringing efforts should awaken Beech Grove songbirds. “I know a lot of people wake up when the bell rings, but I didn't know the birds paid any attention. On the way to the hospital heard redbirds and one catbird going strong,” Ed said. “Let's go talk to Kenneth Kyser, the engineer.” We dragged the engineer away from his boilers. in the distance we heard quail whistling. Ken thought a rooster in the neighborhood . was responsible for starting the songbirds off. ¥ He had heard him many times. Who got the rooster up? Ed thought a dog over on Main St., someplace, roused the rooster. We were getting no place. * % THE LIGHTER it got in the East, the more noise the birds made. Sparrows were out in great numbers. martins to arrive. The two men looked silently at the birds, then up at the bell tower and rested their eyes on me. Too bad I didn’t have a bottle of Murine with me. They asked if I would like to see the bell Sure. We went to the fourth floor and climbed an iron ladder to the tower. you could hear the birds well. see Indianapolis. I don't know what Grove would have thought had they seen three grown men prowling around the tower of St. Francis Hospital at 5:10 a. m. BD “WHAT WOULD happen if I moved the bell and made it ring?’ The two men stiffened. For

You also could

the bell to ring before 5:30 would throw the town |

into a dither, We climbed down and proceeded to the lawn on the northwest side of the hospital. There we waited. Exactly at 5:30 a. m., the bell rang three times, Then three more times. Sister M. Martina cut loose. ready to rise and shine. As the bell pealed merrily, three sparrows

Beech Grove was

flew out of the birdhouse in the orchard. Ken is | Of course, | The |=

painting and cleaning two others. they were in the boiler room. No birds. robins seemed to get louder and the redbirds took up the challenge. hn db

“YOU KNOW,” began Ed, “if somebody should | get out of the sack right now, he'd think the !

birds started singing with the bell. That sounds logical, doesn’t it?” It sure does. Too bad I had to be in Beech Grove at 5:30 a. m. to discover it. But who wants to sleep at that hour? Certainly not us

birds.

DiSalle Is Wilson's

Favorite Funnyman

he's telling gags you suspect you've heard him tell before. The other night he said, “What a jernt dis is? Nothin’ but poles, poles, poles, poles. No wonder dey never booked any dog acts!” > <*> < THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Long bitter against TV, Metro-Goldwin-Mayer’s giving in. It is granting permission to its stars to do TV commercials. . . . Bway movie houses are yielding, too. Mel Torme, Paramount headliner, is being permitted to appear on M. Berle's program. And Dagmar’s been booked by the Paramount solely because of her TV fame. Who'd thave thought TV would become so mighty so soon? > 2 GOOD RUMOR MAN: Spencer Tracy's daughter’s flirting with the idea of working as an MGM messenger in Hollywood. . . . Now Barbara Hutton has pleurisy. . . . Although Gen. MacArthur's aides are being cautioned about that Remington Rand job, his name's on the dotted line, and the job is just about the biggest. It's believed that when the furore subsides. he'll step right in. ... Sherry (Milwaukee) Stevens is getting gasps at Old Knick Music Hall

BD ALL OVER: The Plaza has a MacArthur cocktail: pineapple juice, dark rum and fruit. A customer noted: “One drink and they throw you out.” . . . The China Doll closed . . . Bing’ll sing “01d Soldiers Never Die” on CBS tomorrow. . . . Mae West is now being balky about bringing her “Diamond Lil” to Monte Proser’s Cafe Theater. < ob WITH Mistinguette now admittedly an American bust after having done badly at Martinique cafe, we can pass on Bugs Baer's crack: “Why should I go to look at her 83-year-old legs when I have a pair of 60-year-old legs of my own I can’t bear to look at?” ® ¢

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: An Army sergeant told his squad they'd now hear a lecture on Keats. “Of course,” he said, “I don't suppose any of you ignorant guys knows what a Geat is.” A teller of off-color stories, claims Chicago's Shamus O’Slattery, is nothing but a smut-aleck. . «+ That's Earl, brother.

‘I'm Still the Boss

Or I Thought So’

couldn't have made much more fuss if the good

Lord had come to pay us a call. And where am I? Out in left field. Away out.

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the residents of Beech

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~ The Indianapolis Times

ing Bee Semifinals Tonight °

Spell

Barbara Haessig Sam Canary Sacred Heart School 383

Judy Harrison School 10

Mary Gainey School 14

Fred Musgrave Martin Joachim School 82

School 51

o PRR Patty Brier Perry Twp.

Jean Wendling Sacred Heart

Theresa Louise Nancy Lee Calland Kashman St. Michael's Assumption

Sally Mabel School 357

School 58

Carol Somrak Holy Trinity

Nancy Zore Holy Trinity

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Marie Jeter School 42

Anita Lanier School 42

Carol Shrum Decatur Twp.

Robert Delks Perry Twp.

Sandra Louise Norman Sims Kirkham School 49 School 82

54 Preliminary Winners Compete;

Times Contest Finals Tomorrow

THE BEST grammar school spellers in the Indianapolis area will compete at 7:30 tonight in the semifinals of the annual Times

Spelling Bee.

Fifty-four pupils who won in the preliminaries will take part in the spelldown in the World War Memorial auditorium. They represent the 18 community center districts of Indian-

apolis and the nine townships in the county school system. Two pupils represent each district. s » » THE public will be admitted free. Contestants should be at the War Memorial by 7:15 p. m. Thirty-four preliminary winners will be spelled down in the semifinals. The remaining 20

I will return to the War Memo-

| finals.

rial at 1 p. m. tomorrow for the

The boy or girl who proves to be the best speller tomorrow will be crowned Indianapolis champion. That pupil could be a student from a county school. The Indianapolis Champion will go to Washington late next month for a fun-filled week of sightseeing dnd entertainment and to compete in the National Spelling Bee. . = ~ Ed THIS area's champion could win as much as $500 in Washington if he or she wins the na-

‘Wake Up or Blow Up—

Mankind Is

And don’t mention baseball to me, either. I

can still hear those boos from the opener between the Yankees and the Senators. They almost tore the house down at the end of the game. The last President they hung a solid razz on was Herbert Hoover, and they backed up the moving vans to the White House on him at the next election. I wonder? > I EXPECT I was pretty dumb not to meet the big guy at the airport, after what happened in Honolulu and San Francisco. I send that Vaughan down to meet him, and get my brains beat out for that, too. Who they expect I'm going to send, Margaret? Vaughan is a general, ain't he? You send a General to meet a General. Where I make the big boot is going out to Wake to talk things over with Old Magnificent. A President is chump to go flying off to visit the help. I shoulda made him come see me, and taken some of the edge off his triumphal return. Planes fly two ways, and I am still the boss man, Or 1 thought =o. I dunno. Somehow this hasn't been my year. Seems like the last 12 months have been full of nothing but grief. Every time I get one thing squared away something else pops up. Like the RFC. If it ain't refrigerators it's mink coats. ® -¢ » NOW THE papers say I am running a smear campaign to discredit MacArthur. This thing could last a long piece, and hurt. If they put that corncob pipe and spangled hat up for President right now he could whip anybody in the country, including me. What am I saying? Ther®’s just one thing that comforts me a little. The opposition has got so dam’ many campaign issues now that they are apt to water down before the stumpin’ starts. I still got a good year to patch up the fences —especially if we can get rid of this MacArthur issue in the next six months. » 3 The only thing is, Korea is starting to look lousy again, and I gotta remember that this isn’t MacArthur's war any longer. This is the Harry 8. Truman special. Mac is out from under and the whole shebang belongs to me. Oh, brother. Things were sure simpler in the Senate.

| above starvation;

Ruth Jo Rosser Frances Dalton

Helen Baler

FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1951

Janet Hoyt School 34

St. Mark's

G. Grosdidier St. Patrick’s

George Wirtz St. Patrick’s

Holy Angels Holy Angels

Billy Miller Center Twp.

Stella Hardwick

Charlotte Stewart Christ the King Decatur Twp.

Marsha Seraphine

M. Johnson : Kathryn Teague

Gloria Garrett

Charles Koehler

Joseph McNellis

Cathedral Grade Cathedral Grade

Forrest Jones St. Rita's Bt. Rita’s

Virgil Jones School 17

Ann Gray School 17

Ben Giroud Center Twp. Franklin Twp. Wayne Twp. Wayne

Marjorie Reasoner Franklin Twp.

Carol Arden

Billy Haskett

Warren Twp. Washington Twp. Washington Twp. Warren Twp.

tional title. The national champion also will win an expense paid trip to New York. The least the Indianapolis Champion can win in Washington is $40. Each contestant in tonight's semifinals will receive a coveted Times Spelling Bee pin for being a district winner. The Indianapolis champion

We Could Perform Great Wonders [ga », Over Globe With Our Know-How ; 3

CHAPTER SIX By FRANK C. LAUBACH

THE PER CAPITA annual

income of the lower two-thirds

of the human race is $41 a year; for China and Indonesia it is

$22. We must lift that.

: The food consumption of two-thirds of humanity is 2150 calories a day, 400 calories below an adequate diet and only 300

those who go 3040 a day. J How could we change these figures? (I do not refer to ours —we can diet.) If we can increase the world yield of agriculture 10 per cent and make it available to all people, there will be sufficient food for perfect health. And we can go far above that. How? For one thing, by introducing better seeds all over the world. Where introduced, hybrid corn has already increased the production from 20

| per cent to 300 per cent.

5 n & AGRICULTURAL science can perform similar miracles for every crop by using better plows, better fertilizers, better irrigation systems, and by destroying diseases of crops. If we applied our agricultural know-how over the world we could increase the food supply 80 much that instead of 1500 millions of the world being far below the decency level, we could support three billions with food to spart. We have the know-how, and need only to show how. There also are exciting opportunities to reclaim vast areas of the world that are now arid. Africa has a fifth of the world’s surface, one-third desert, a third jungle, with high, cool plateaus. Its possibilities for development in agriculture

| are incalculably great.

Africa has 40 per cent of the -

lower die. Ours in America is

Frank C. Laubach, worldfamous missionary and foreign representative of the National Council of the Churches of Christ, U." 8, A. more than 60 million illiterates to read in their own language. This is the last of six articles from his sensational book, WAKE UP OR BLOW UP, jist published by Fleming H. Revell.

possible hydroelectric horse-

power of the whole world. Less than 1 per cent Is used. n ~ Ld

THERE ARE proposals to turn the water of the Niger River, the Zambesi, the Nile, the Congo, out over rich desert loam and convert enormous areas into lush tropical gardens and farms. Much of the Sahara could be covered with grass or farmed. In Asia, Iraq has an eightman board to reconstruct the vast (irrigation system which made it possible to support 30,000,000 people when Babylon was in her prime. That {irrigation program fis being blocked by a dispute as to who will control and exploit the water supply. That kind of thing makes the Communists gleeful. . Afghanistan has never had a missionary, because it is solidly Moslem, But, awakening with the rest of the world, it invited Morrison-Knudsen, an Ameri~ can engineering firm, to make a plan for building roads and

has taught.

EAGER TO LEARN—A? an “each-one-teach-one” class in

will receive tomorrow a gold champion’s pin, a gold wrist watch, a 24-volume set of Encyclopaedia Britannica in addition to the free trip to Washington. The next four place winners will receive finalist pins and fountain pen and pencil sets. : The school attended by the Indianapolis champion will re-

Watching Our

Angola, a Portuguese colony in Southwest Africa.

industries, for which they expect to spend 135 million dollars.

” » - ISRAEL has one of the most astonishing programs in the

world, whieh has already turned desert and rocks into a paradise.

They have plans to develop the Jordan Valley which will make fertile 900,000 acres that now are arid, provide room for two million people and generate 500 million kilowatts of electricity. This plan was conceived by the famous Ameri can soil - conservation expert, Dr, Walter C. Lowdermilk,

The reason Israel can carry out this program is that the Jews tithe, and so can raise 100 million dollars a year for Palestine.

If the Protestants of the United States would tithe to remove hunger and despair abroad through technicallytrained missionaries, they could have more than two billion a vear to help the world. That would be ample. :

WE WILL not listen to our

Lord and do this, we are going

to listen tothe threat of Com-.

munists rolling down over Asia ® 4

James Etter Marjorie Weston Gall Thompson

Barbara Linsin St. Michael's

Ralph Levitt School 84

Annette Hay Patricia

Marilyn Miller Jack McMonigle Julia Mitchell Pike Twp. Lawrence Twp. Lawrence Twp

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School 66 School 68

Dick Kremp St. Lawrence

Marsh Twp.

ceive a year's use of Encyalofilms for the 1951-52 term.

department of Arsenal School. Mr,

cause of his popularity with contestants in past Times Spelling Bees. Mr. Allen also will be pronouncer for the finals. The judges, also instructors at Arsenal Téch, will be Mrs. Susannah Day, Miss Jean Wells and Paul C. Wadleigh. Thousands of grammar school pupils have competed in the spelldown to select the semifinalists. The Times Spelling Bee again was staged with the co-operation of the City Park and Recreation Depart. ment.

Nation

and Africa, and perhaps over the whole of Europe. The sick world is in desperate need of our medical knowledge, We can still be of tremendous assistance to the health of Latin America. The tse fly is all across the center of Africa. It has been keeping down the population éf men and cattle. Cholera and smallpox "and the plague have been conquered and can be wholly stopped. Malaria strikes 300 millien people a year. Malaria and mosquito control at 20 cents per person can practically wipe. out the disease all over the world. There is a bacillus called BCG which can now immunize children against tuberculosis, the worst killer in the world, n » » : 3 VENEREAL disease, affect ing easily half of Africa and a fourth of Asia, can now be cured by penicillin and other means. : Enormous aid can be given all over the world in combating the diseases and insects which kill citrus fruits, cocoa, indeed, most plants and nearly all doe mestic animals. aie We far outmatch Russia in this realm of technical ) fe Russia will stir up the desire of

the world—Ilet us fulfill it! It ~

is the thing America believés in, excels in; we need not fear competition. :

Why net fight cur war where we have the tremendous advantage with our technicians, out to win the heart of. the world with unselfish competent service? | " . rv That would be the kind of religion that TAKE Smad the kind of religion it gets ree sults, its head fn the clouds, but its feet on the ground.

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