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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola :

" WILL ‘THE Conservation Building be open all year?-

That's the question people are asking ‘when

they mill around the spanking new $325,000 addition ht the State Fair,

There is talk of keeping the Conservation Building open on a limited scale. The fish, snakes, birds and animals will be moved out after the Fair ends this Friday. Interested citizens, when they’re.told that, aren't satisfied. You can count me in that group, . :

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THE FAIR BOARD envisions extra revenue throughout the year fromi“the use of the main

~ exhibition hall and the auditorium. Sounds like

good management, After all, the Conservation Building is owned by the State Fair setup. The Conservation Department is a tenant.

Of course, the average parent who brings his kids to the Conservation Building and sees the exhibits and gets as much kick out of them as the young ones, often doesn’t hear some of the reasons why it's a Fair Week show.

Besides being ohly a tenant, the Conservation Department doesn't have the funds to maintain permanent exhibits and the wildlife.

Another problem is feed and its.storage. Then there is the problem of shelter during the winter months for the animals and fowl. At the State Parks and hatcheries, where the wildlife will ~b rermoved, the facilities are Blequate and installe CONSERVATION Department officials estimate that four to five men would be required to operate the building -as it is today through the slack period. That costs money. The budget won't stand the addgd expense.

All the above arguments are pretty easy to understand. Nevertheless, you wind up kicking the big log outside and saying it's a crying shame to empty the 28 aquariums, pack up all the snakes, tear down the various booths, shoo out, the pheasants and ducks and geese and pull the blinds.

It's irritating to the streak of pride you have for your State to hear a Conservation officer say that he's had five teachers tell him what a wonderful thing it would be to bring the children in during the school year.

You hear that over 60,000 persons pass through the building every day. You see the young and old gazing at the fish, laughing at the racoons, falling in love with the deer, staring in awe at the rattlesnakes and the diamond backs.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

® INDIA OR BUST, Sept. 5—We're off on the long haul to New Delhi, India, but I've smoked a: hookah, or ‘‘hubbly-bubbly,” first.

For the hookah—that long-tubed pipe that has

.a quart of water in the bowl to give you a long,

cool smoke—is puffed contentedly by the Saloon Society hot-shots all over the Middle East. *-

I borrowed one in Beirut. I got a Lebanese boy to light it. Then I borrowed a fez, or “tarbush.” And I smoked. But not exactly contentedly. For I kept wondering who had smoked this pipe before me. And, frankly, the hard drawing that is necessary on the hubbly-bubbly made me a little sick at my stomach. : ww ds IT WASN'T SERIQUS, and so the record of the wandering Wilsons is good so far—we haven't got “Tehran Tummy” that tourists often get. “Tehran Tummy?” It'S the same thing that tourists often get in Mexico if they don’t watch the water. “Don’t .touch the salads!” our friends kept warning us in Caire, Istanbul and Beirut, “Nor the ice.” 3 Not the ice, mind you.* And us traveling the Hot Belt! In Turkey, it was 108, hottest ‘in six years. It's

been 100 nearly every day.

So it was always a joy to work our way back to the air-conditioned Bristol Hotel in Beirut, which is where Pan-American puts up many of its American passengers. Helping to make Americans comfortable here was another American, former Chicago and Washington newspaperwoman Margaret Anne Clark, a graduate of Iowa State, 1942. “I've started a baby-sitting service for Americans and Europeans,” she said. At first Lebanese girls looked down on the idea of taking care of somebody’s baby—but now it's become popular—and even Lebanese boys are asking for the jobs. WITH 10,000 MILES behind us now, the one thing that impresses us is the fact you see so many Americans everywhere. Why, in Cairo, Anita (The FaceT Colby, Tal mous American model and publicist, was on the floor above us at\the Shepheard’s. But I mean American construction workers, gdldiers, businessmen -—and im the months to ‘ come, there'll be more, The Americans we left behind in the Middle Kast are about like Americans everywhere. There is no burlesque, them. So what do they watch in the cafes? The next

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Sept. 5-1 wish to blow a kiss today to the New York State Bar Association,

+ which has ‘been responsible for a chunk of legis-

lation that may provide a little cheer for me and “a few, hundred thousand kinfolks-—men of the " small businesses, professions and the arts who

have not formerly been allowed to declare a.

depreciation on their own bodies as wage earners.

A bill is up for consideration by the Senate Finance Committe that is the fruit of some years of research by the bar association's tax experts. It is called the individual retirement plan, and is based on postponement of taxes on a portion of yearly earnings, thereby offering some security to people who work for-themselves and acocordingly have no boss to mail them pension checks in their old age, but who have been prevented from adequate savings by the extraordinarily high taxes on earned income. .

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IT 1S A VERY simple plan. It permits postponement- of federal income taxes on earnings paid into retirement funds maintained by a man's agricultural, labor, business, industrial or professional associations for ‘the eventual security of their members. A man would be allowed to set aside 10 per cent of his annual income, up

to $7500. Distribution of retirement income from such a trust, the bill proposes, is made when the participant -is 60, either in a lump sum, in installments or as an annuity. The postponed taxes fall due when the member begins drawing on the fund. The government gets its whack, in the end, and thereby loses nothing, But in the meantime, the luckless gelf-employer is at least permitted

" to hive up a few bob against the day he runs out

of gas and wants to take it easy. ; is & : THERE ALSO is an important -amendment to “the bill permitting a fund member to take olit

his savings before reaching 60 if permanent dis- % ability forces his retirement. 7

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no strip-teasing, to entertain

He Wants the Fair Zoo

Spared for All Us Kids

A SMALL VOICE within you says-that the conservation propaganda for safeguarding our resources is getting through,” If one out of five persons - who ‘walk through

are dangerous, the work and the money spent wasn’t. wasted.

You remember what a Conservation “officer told you once. “Conservation is like making love to a widow—you can’t overdo it.”

It. isn’t everyone who, enjoys trampling the fields and. roughing it. in the open. But there are darn few who don't enjoy séeing a fine body of water, an excellent stand of timber, fish, animals,

We're pushing deeper and deeper into the great

outdoors, ‘Gas pipes, ‘sewer pipes, power lines

and ‘fences are spreading out. dow *

«COMPARED TO many of those who are vitally interested in making love to conservation, I'm a young punk. My memory, however, goes back to the time when Wolf Lake, up north in Lake County, was really a, Jake, about gone,

There used to be hundreds of acres of open fields and woods where we kids stalked imaginary Indians, played Robin Hood, hunted all the ®ild beasts of the forests and jungles. You couldn't sell us playgrounds and gymnasiums. You can’t build them like ol’ Mother Nature can.

That was 25, 20, 15 years ago. When you stop and think about it, that's not such a long time ago. Turn your memory around and go into the past. It makes you feel sorry for the children of today, doesn’t it?

It seems we ought to have something for them, for ourselves. I don't want to look at pic~ tures or hear stories or have someone show me a stuffed animal. I want it to move. I want to watch it swim, glimb, ead.

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ABOVE ALL, I would like to see what we have left preserved, what can be restored, put

back in shape. And, man, oh, man, when we have ..

something like what's in and around the Conservation Building, I hate to see it carted away. Kenneth M. Kunkel, director of the pdiana State Department of Conseryation, listened to my ravings and said, “We can do anything if we're given enough support, 4 Well, Mr. Kunkel can lean on me. wants to join in? Come on, sound off.

About ‘Hubbly-Bubbly® And Tehran Tummy’

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best thing. The most popular form of entertainment in this part of the world—belly dancers! bu

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THE ‘MIDNIGHT EARL IN NEW YORK: A gang war's brewing in Miami over control of rackets . . . Milton Berle opens the Milton Berle Restaurant on West 57th St. next month. He's talking to NBC about a late wire and the Toots Shor set hears Jackie Eigen may b’cast. Eigen’s

“also got an offer to disc the LA Ambassador's “Cocoanut Grove .

diet , ,' , Margaret Truman's escort to “The

. . Judy Garland’s on a yogurt

Medium” premiere will be producer Evan Frankel , . , William Saroyan’s got a new tune called “My Betty” , . . Although the remaining top Jersey gamblers are lying low, the small books still operate wide open . . , Connie Moore arrives Sunday to &tart her TV show. ge oo < B'WAY BULLETINS: Harry Gross is telling pals he'll cop a plea and thereby get only between two and five

years , . . Joe Walcott’s p. a. tours have been financially disappointing There's a

genuine opium den going full blast in a shady midtown hotel . + Rosemarie, who wasn't Jane Russell going to do any TV until after “Top Banana’ opened, was guest on the Colgate show as per friendship agreement with Jackie Gleason . . . Georgia Gibbs and magazine biggie Ray W. Martin are on the edge of the ledge . . . Linda Darnell and limping Bob Levitt were a Blue Angel midnitem . . . Jane Russell, now appearing in “His Kind of Woman” at the Paramount, won't do TV until] they make a 38-inch screen,

EARL’'S PEARLS: If's Henny Youngman’s thought that going to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker these days is really going to the cleaners. . ed»

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/ WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Even the best family tree has its sap.”—Casa Seville's Jerry Bergen. oo a oN

TODAY'S DAFFYNITION: “Seasickness” says singer Tony Bennett, “is ocean travel by rail.” : - Cavanagh's Ray . Doyle asked a customer about some bruises on her face. “Oh.” she said, “I got them from my boy friend. He's been keeping me under raps” , . . That's Earl, brother.

Here's Break for Man

Without Pension Check

while still permitting the government to collect its full share eventually—thereby also providing a certain security for the government. It lessens the likelihood of tax-dodging by people who earn

their money in cash,

And it recognizes, finally, that the human being is easily’ the equal of a machine, and should be entitled to some provision for the fact that a human body deteriorates and depletes itself, and is entitled to some consideration.

THIS 1S the first legislation that I know of which is pointed at that consideration. The government allows a 2712 per cent tax forgiveness on oil wells, because of the depletion quotient, It allows a capital gain on stock transfers and resale of property, and it will allow you to write

off a depreciation’ on buildings and machinery.

But up to. now the guy who runs his own.business or plays baseball or paints pictures or ham-

mers a typewriter or removes an appendix has Been smacked right on the button by the tax Individual enterprise actually has been penalized by undue tax emphasis on earned income, and especially the enterprise of such people .who must compress their major earnings into a rélatively short span of years... people like ac,

people.

tors and writers and athletes. Ta dt

I HAVE BEEN hollering for years for some sort of government intercession on behalf of the individual, and now it seems we finally have the necessary machinery in an amendment to the pro- .

posed revenue act of 1951 introduced by Sen.

Irving M. Ives of New York. It has attracted

widespread disinterest in the ;Congress so far, and I would sure admire to see a little action.

Because I still figure that a man is as good as a house or a truck or a dirty old well, and it is about time the government recognizes that the individual shows wear and tear for every day he ~ toils, .

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remember that. .matches, cigarets and open fires in our forests

Today it's shot and’

Who else’

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

The Roving Camero—

Fair Fun With The

SLIDE TROMBONE—Eugel _ Anderson, Billy Henderson and Donald McMann with the world's smallest horns. .

SERVICE, PLEASE—"Daddy, I'm tired."

By WILBUR A. YAUCH Chapter Three

BASIC GOALS FOR JUNIOR

By the time your child has

had six years of the kind of schooling described in the previous chapter you have a right to expect something rather con-

crete to come out of it, If the school cannot produce a person who looks and acts like an educated child by this time one of two things is probably true: Either the child is

incapable of being educated, or the school has .not done what

you have a right to expect.

5 o 5 BUT BEFORE YOU: make complaints at school, test your child at home. If he possesses the following knowledge after six terms in classrooms. you can be sure the school has done its job well: Every child of normal ability should be able to read. You have a right to expect your child. to pick up a story book ‘or a reader written for children of 12 and read it with ease. Don’t judge his ability by his oral reading. Whether or not child can sound out all the

words is no test of his ability.

Ask him to read a paragraph silently, then tell you what ‘it, says. He should be able to tell you what the important words in the paragraph mean when you ask him. Every child. of normal ability

“should be able to use numbers

accurately: » ” BY THE TIME A child: fin-

ishes the sixth grade he should"

be able to add, subtract, multi-

. ply, and divide without making - bad blunders, He will also be

able to work, but with less-ac-curacy, with decimals and frac-

How Good Is Your School?—

Test Your Child or Basic Goals

tio Bry child of ‘mormal. ing ability. ia

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Wilbur A. Yauch of Ohio University is an experienced educator who served for many years as a school principal in Cleveland and New York City. In addition, he is a father himself.

. Here, Dr. Yauch invites American parents to take a fresh look at our school system early In autumn at the start of a new term. This is the third of a series of six articles from the book, “How Good Is Your School?” just published.

ability stiould Know something about the world he lives in. If the school has been ‘on ite toes,” your child will be well acquainted with his natural environment, the way people make. a living, how your town is run, the need for conserving our natural and human resources, a little of how our country got to be what it is, simple scientific ph#nomena.

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DON'T BE SATISFIED with a “showy” knowledge such as “the love life of the guppies.” I would want’ every child to have some knowledge not generally known. But, if that is all he has, he is an ignoramus. Every child of normal ability should be able to speak easily, and write clearly and simply. When you talk with your child, does he hem and haw around, searching. for words,

and then is hard to under-

stand? Or can he say what he wants to without stumbling, and with a good use of English?

So much of our business is done

orally that no one can hope to succeed without a good. speak-

By the end of the grade able to put the. same things on paper that he is able to say. Don’t be fooled by the fact that your daughter comes home *. an =a with 100 per cent in spelling tests every week. And your son brings horhe perfect papers in handwriting. Better take.a look at the

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Small Fry

Times Photos by John R. Spicklemire

sixth your child should be pretty necktie. If he can’t do a half-way decent job of this,

somebody ‘‘missed the boat.”

EVERY CHILD, regardless of mental ability, should be able to appreciate good music. I am not talking about Wagnerian opera. Some children

Check These Points

When you visit your sc hool, you won't be able to ‘learn whether the teacher is teaching in the best way. But there are many factors you will be able to judge. With this series, HOW GOOD IS. YOUR SCHOOL?, 100 items are listed for you to check on your visit. Here are another 12: :

THE CHILDREN

ONE: The children are able to take care of their own needs without too much direction from the teacher. TWO: They are well-be-haved, good citizens. THREE: They show respect for one another. FOUR: They work well together. FIVE: They are polite to each other and the teacher. many vital interests . in SIX: They respept the which they engage. freedoms they havg, and Don't try to use this list don’t take advant ge of as a rating scale. You. ‘them. : should not expect to find SEVEN: The a: ount of your school 100 per’ cent noise in the room fs-direct- perfect. ly related to what the chil- You do have a right to dren are doing. expect it tor be GOOD. “You EIGHT: They af owe it to your child to see discuss and Blan tog that fit fs. . :

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good, simple English, with a minimum of grammatical . mistakes. NINE: Their writing is legible, and the content interesting. TEN: They know how and what to write about in good form, ? ELEVEN: They are well informed about the world they live in. TWELVE: They have

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note he writes after Christmas, thanking his Aunt Tillie for the

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may get this far in their musieal education, but to the vast majority it will be pure “bunk.” We have a right to expect that their musical tastes will be at least one notch above boogie-woogie. Every child, vegurdiess of mental ability, should. be able to express himself in some art form. Whether it be in clay, paint, crayon, linoleum block, basketry, or any other medium, your child should have Some ability to produce something of his own creation. ® ” td WHAT has your child brought home recently along this line? Was it a nice lily painted at Easter time, along with every other child in the grade? Or did he bring home a pieture that he had to explain before you knew what It was, Don't overlook this important ability when” you test your child. Finally, every child should show definite training in good citizenship. ' = » n SPECIFICALLY, if the school is doing its job, your child should be able to do the follow-

ing things: , ONE — Share his personal possessions with others without quarreling.

TWO-—Make plans that in. clude others without insisting that everything be done his way, THREE. --Get into discussions with others and be willing to

listen to. their points of view,

FOUR-—-Have a sincere respect’ for authority, when that autherity is fair and gmpastial : FIVE. Be A goad Spoit, hath