Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1952 — Page 21

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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola Me

"ALEXANDER POPE once wrote: “Just as the

twig is bent the tree's inclined.” That bit of wisdom has been behind glass in the offices of the State Conservation Department for a long time. The Division of Education finally dusted the glass and today is. attempting“to bend Hoosier youth (twigs) in hopes that our natural . resources will remain as bountiful as Mother Nature intended them to ‘be. T.ou Hasenstab, ffeld representative, offered to show how the program of interesting the youngsters in the wonders of the outdoors is progressing. He has been passing out illustrated

booklets to .primary classes in county #€nd city .

schools. They're called “The Basic Science Edu-

cation Series,” Row, Peterson & Co. The plan is to place a series of booklets in one school in each of the 92 counties and many cities. This is a trial run, in some respects, Another great factor for the limitation is financial. The Division of Education has $1800 to, spend’ on the program. It isn’t much. At least it is a start. WE WENT to. University Heights School, Clay Township, to see the reaction the teachers and the youngsters had to the booklets, “Leaves,” and “Birds.” Fifth graders received 12 of each. In the near future, they will receive 12 “Trees,” and 12 “Saving Wildlife.” Mr. Hasenstab didn't know what Teachers Mrs. Bonna Voss and Mrs. Esther Baldwin would say ‘about the booklets. He was confident they would be enthusiastic. He hasn't had any cri-

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YOUTH AND OUTDOORS—Indiana is taking conservation into thet schools and the kids love it. Above illustration (in color) is from The Basic Science Education Series. I

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson:

NEW YORK, Jan. 18—Mama, Raise Your Boy to be a Crooner. God forbid it should happen to Slugger and 1 should have to listen to him vocalize while our Schnauzer Cookie barks in the next room. But economically, singing looks like a soft touch for a young man, because since the early days of Bing Crosby and Russ Columbo, crooners have driven Cadillacs and got their haircuts from barbers who came to see them. And now there's an invitation to Tony Bennett’s backstage party at the Paramount. “Tony Bennett? Who's Tony Bennett?” you'd have said last June. My Dad and Mother in Defiance, 0., probably would still say it. Tony's the. New’ Crooner who, at 25, has earned $200,000 in the last six months, largely with two records, “Because of You” and “Cold, Cold Heart.” &» & -& THEN THERE ARE SOME other New Crooners—notably Guy Mitchell and Johnny Ray. Now I don’t want no trouble with nobody about Johnny Ray. : 1 met him recently ‘and found him quite normal. (To my surprise.) He makes weird grimaces when singing. “He always sounds to me like he’s got a bellyache,” one expert said. There's a suspicion that his agents feed him something that gets his digestion out of Kkilter,

.and that if.it ever clears up, he won't be able

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to sing any more. Musically, he resembles Bing Crosby in that he comes from Oregon and Bing comes from Washington. But he’s popular, especially out in Ohio where he got his start. Now for some advice—and don't forget now, I discovered Frank Sinatra. You forgot about that? You see, I was driven out to Meadowbrook about 10 years ago tq see Tommy Dorsey. “That boy singer will be another Bing Crosby,” my Beautiful Wife said. “You're nuts,” I replied. Ten years later he was another Bing Crosby.

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Jan, 18—The President's speech ghout preparedness in civil defense against atomic attack was real sound in general concept, until you stubbed your toe and flopped over the middle portion. It is habit, you know, to chide the faceless ¥little” man, which is always you and me, with neglect to do this and failure to do that. This is known as the give-'em-hell technique, and is not uncommon to Mr. Truman. The give-'em-hell technique is a sharp rebuke, and is always employed as a mashed synonym for incompetence on high. fy Always we are banged K across the brow with “our” failure to prevent inflation, and exhorted to go forth and sin no more. We are confronted with “our” inability to produce more guns and tanks and ships and money. . Always, but always, the danger of immediate destruction by “them,” or “they,” is dusted off as a gimmick when the man is preparing to shake down another shower of fresh tax money to provide sewing machines for the suffering Patagonians. We live under a steady threat, a constant accusation.

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THE LATE FDR was a master at implied disaster, and invoked it often as a political weapon. The present chief exec freely admits and is proud of the fact that he bulled his way into re-election on last-minute bluster. ; * 80 I was struck by Harry's phrase in the middle of a stout cataloguing of our laggardness in preparing for an A-bHo6mb attack. “Regardless of the wishful talk to the contrary, you and I are now in a national emergency as grave as any we have ever faced. We have not won the war against time. We have no right to feel safe militarily or on the home front , . .” The boy lost my business right there. All of 2 sudden; as a faceless man, I say: “Whoa, easy.” * WHAT is the exact size of this national emergency that you guys have been squawking about for the last six years, and why haven't we got a right, by now, to. feel safe militarily and on the home front? Whose fault is it that. in the last six years of your sway, doc, we haven't accomplished the necessary steps to smitch of security against ‘aggression and some sort of stability at e? i * We mounted, moved and won a big war in four years, We kept inflation to a minimum, by ds,» while we were involved in a two-ocean conflict, with lend-lease

_ to everybody we sould hustle as an ally, - oii . o&» : 2%

' armed might var : - ® period of six years of your reign, and we still

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ticism yet except that the State of Indiana was stingy with the booklets. : Principal Hugh P. Thompson ‘met us as if we had informed him he wouldn't have any income tax to pay for 1951. He showed 'us a box of booklets parents had sent him when the children told about those they received in school and how few were available. The booklets have been on the market ‘for-a long time. . The two men plunged into the subject of conservation. Mr. Thompson told of a boy's conservation club in Beech Grove. He thought. so much of their work he was considering letting the members use a portion of his 93 acres of farm and woédland as.an outdoor laboratory. If they f wanted to, they could even build a cabin.

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MR. HASENSTAB knew the boys and assured Mr. Thompson he had nothing to fear. It was an unusual group. Conservation was serious business with them, That’s the kind of talk you like to hear. A boy or. girl can’t pick a finer hobby than the study of birds, flowers, trees, wildlife. And when the interest is coupled with conserving instead of destroying, you have an unbeatable combination. Mrs. Voss and Mrs. Baldwin couldn't say enough about the booklets. The only question ih their minds was how to get enough to go around. For her science class, Mrs. Voss personally bought - “Spiders,” “Winds,” “Clouds,” “Trees” A supplement doesn't last long when 50 youngsters get through thumbing the pages. Mr. Thompson said he has earmarked $73 from a special fund which he is going to use to buy more booklets. ‘How many of you children enjoyed the booklets we have been reading?” asked Mrs, Voss. Every hand in the room shot up. wd ds LITTLE KAY Kleifgen kept her hand in the air. Her request was acknowledged and she told us she had 50 trees classified and could recognize them in the woods. Many were working on scrapbooks of mounted leaves. One boy said he had 17 different leaves in his scrapbook. Two boys said they could hardly wait until spring came so they could watch the birds. The right kind, healthy type of curiosity sparkled in their eyes. Provide the proper opportunities and the kids won’t go_wrong. ! Heinie. Moesch, director of the Division of Education, has a powerful thought. “We spend money on progation, enforcement, research. Why not spend money on our youth?” Teachers such as Mrs. Voss and Mrs. Baldwin ask the same question. It's a shame that Mrs. Voss has to spend her own money to buy the booklets her pupils enjoy and study. The $73 Mr. Thompson talked about has a peanut sound in this day and age. How much does a reform school cost? “As these .twigs bend the tree, so the youngster molds the man.”

Want a Crooner In Your Family?

That's how I discovered Frank Sinatra and don’t forget jit. First tip to mothers—don’t send your boy to college. He'll start feeling superior to crooners and wind up a bank president or something dull like that. Look what happened to Rudy Vallee.

That's all the tips we’ll have time for today. Raise your boy to be a crooner and he’ll make your name famous. Unless his agents change his name to one more romantic. Like they generally do nowadays. Oh, well, fame isn’t everything, I always say. There's also money. » hs fy

THE MIDNIGHT EARL... “Poor Soul” Bert Wheeler, the beloved funnyman landed the come-

dian role in “Jamie,” the Abe Burrows-directed show that'll star John Raitt and Ann Jeffreys. On Thursday, Jan. 3, we reported *“ ‘Silent Frank’ Costello will.almost. surely refuse to testify at his contempt trial.” (We can brag once, can’t we?) , .. Midnitems: Winthrop Rockefeller and Betty Fuller, Sharman Douglas and Bill Hanson . . « A voice claiming to be that of Mrs. Benson Ford called Cartier’'s to -order some gold . The ticket- § buyers’ waiting line is now at | ° “Pal Joey” ... Arturo Toscanini has a very light gray afterconcert robe with “The Champ” embroidered above the pocket © . +. « Libby Dean, the lovely ; chantootsie, is sparking the ! show at Havana Madrid. a The Maharanee of CoochBehr (Nancy Valentine) wore a sari to the “Fancy Meeting You Again” premiere with Mike § Todd. At El Morocco Mike posed with her while his ex; Joan Blondell, was in another party . . . Jan Murray heads the Copa Show Jan. 31.

Libby Dean

A ‘Faceless’ Man Finds His Tongue

haven't got it rebuilt, although the -taxes are tougher than ever. Who lowered taxes when we needed to keep them high, and raised them when they should have been lowered? Who ordered the discontin--uation of big ships whose keels had already been laid? Who bought a program of guns and butter as well as arms and men? Who has been horsing around with the universal military training program for donkey's years? Who stuck us into that idiot’s delight in Korea? Me, the unready citizen? Old faceless Joe, the forgotten man? Have I been fixing tax cases and rigging deals with the RFC and surrounding the high offices with thieves and operators and influence peddlers? I would say no. I have fired remarkably few generals lately, or' attempted to mix politics with the national well-being. “ Bb - : « THE WILDEST dreamer could scarcely call this comic tragedy in Washington a government for, by and of the people, lately, There are too many people who have not had a hand in its administration or a claw in its till.

We have suffered instead a shouting spree of.

inept diagnosis and fumbling .operation by a bevy -

of barbers. I do not hold with continually hitting the citizen over the head in apology for governmental shortcoming. The current crew has been jin long enough to have it figured out by now, using the people's money and the people's blood, without resting the fault for failure on the people’s bowed neck.

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—I did not have much success with my tuberous begonias last yeaf. Would you give information on them? When should they be started? I stored them in vermiculite, N, Capitol Ave. A—Your question reminds me that we still have a few of the leaflets on tuberous begonia culture left. These leaflets were prepared last year from directions followed by a very su reader. Her luck was so good after foll these particular cultural hints she share them with others in-begonia

e. So if

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column = . in The Sunday Times

you want a copy, (free) send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Marguerite Smith, Dishing the Dirt, THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES, Indianapolis’ 9, Ind. As to starting the roots, midFebruary is a good time if you have a place to grow them oh until warm weather. For it takes : ing. And an ‘early -start gives you a long bloom period, ‘But

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when he's reminded that everybody thinks he said, “Come wiz me to ze Casbah." He didn't say-it at all, says Boyer, who wants to be considered an actor and not ''only a lover.

By RICHARD KLEINER Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Jan. 18— Charles Boyer, the man who never said, “Come wiz me to ze Casbah,” sipped his orange juice and looked surprised at all the fuss. He's suddenly begu recognized as a fine actor; possibly a great one, since his apearance on Broadway in “Don uan in Hell.”

The man most Americans think of as the personification of continental love - making doesn't. consider himself primarily a love-maker. He js an actor, he says, and a versatile one. : He signed an autograph on the back of an envelope for a well-minked matron as he told

of his varied stage background. “My craft ig acting. In French movies and on the

French stage I played all types ‘of roles. Even after I came to America. I played all types of roles. But three or four pictures—Ilike ‘Algiers’ and ‘Love Affair'—were very successful. And so the public thinks of me as only a lover.

o u » “LATELY, of course, I've stayed away from love-making parts. In my last three pictures, 1 played a priest, a 70-year-old doctor and .a Hindu. And in ‘Don Juan,’ I play Don Juan, but that’s a romantic part only by. definition.” Boyer is a quiet-spoken, conservatively dressed man -who

This Will Kill You—

Uncle Wentworth Grew Old Happily

CHAPTER FIVE

By CHARLES

FURCOLOWE

“You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; “And yet you inceassantly stand on your head— “Do you think, at your age, it is right?” Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventurés in Wonderland) My Uncle Wentworth is 97 years old, a fact which

he'll tell you boastfully if you so much as drop a vital

statistic in his hearing.

How did he get that way?

Uncle Wentworth prides him-

self on the fact that he never

deprived himself of the physical pleasures of life. Even today, at 97, he smokes half a dozen or more cigars a day, downs a glass of wine before lunch and a couple of cocktails before dinner (plus a few glasses of beer after). He ogles Faye Emerson on television before hopping happily off to bed. Wentworth has followed a similar routine nearly all his life, despite the repeated remonstrances of his mother and, later, his wife, Penelope.

He Was Warned’ But Paid No Heed

“Wentworth,” Aunt Penelope used to say, shaking an admonishing finger, “You'll go to your grave early-—and don’t come running to me when it happens.” Uncle Wentworth gets a good chuckle out of this every , year when he trots out to the cemetery to put lilies on her grave. h Aunt Péhelope, too, lived to a rather ripe old age, 77. Aunt Penelope’s old-age recipe was far more strait-laced #nd austere than her husband's. A charter member of the WCTU, she never drank, never smoked, and according to Wentworth, seldom did anything else that was any fun. Embodied in

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Editor's Note: This is the last installment of a series taken from the recently published book, THIS WILL KILL YOU.

Wentworth and Penelope are the theories of two of the more popular schools of thought on

the art of living to an advanced

age. One school advocates doing what you feel like doing. Enjoy yourself, this group says, and let the rules go hang. If you like tobacco, smoke, If you like liquor, drink. The other group is far more ahstemious. Never mind whether or not you like a thing, its members say. If it’s not good for you, don’t do it. If you like it, in faet; the chances are that it's not good for you.

Heredity Your

Best Insurance But if you lack one essential

quality, you've got two strikes

on you right from the start, no matter which school of thought you follow, What is it? Proper heredity. If your parents and your grandparents all checked out in their forties or fifties, it's somewhat unlikely that you'll ever become a nonagenarian. If you cash in your chips at 70, as a matter of fact, you can

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signs autographs graciously but obviously doesn't enjoy the sport. His hair, is thin and gray-

ing, but his appeal to the ladies .

is still strong. He says he .read about 200% scripts since his last Broadway

appearance (“Red Glove” in 1949) looking for a good part. Most of them never reached Broadway. Those that did, “|

Boyer says with a smile, were flops. “It. proves to me my ment was sound.” he says

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» u on . HE JUMPED at Charles Laughton’s invitation to join in the "production of “Don Juan,” which is the dream sequence of Georg® Bernard Shaw's classic, “Man and Superman.” Laughton. Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke and AgnesgMoorehead comprise the four-characte: cast. Shaw was still alive when the idea began to take shape, and Boyer is proud that the Irish playwright approved the casting. Particularly so since the French-born star is well aware of the limitations his accent places on the roles he can accept. “I'd like to do a play a season here.” he says. “But 1 have trouble finding a good part. My accent limits me so. 1 can’t play any Shakespeare or any Shaw Don Juan was a Spaniard so |

can play him, by stretching things a little.” | ” = »

IT WAS Boyer's difficulties with English which made kim concentrate on movids, rather than the stage, when he first came to America. “In the movies, you know,”

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ON-STAGE—Boyer as he appears in "Don. Juan in Hell" has suddenly been recognized as he wants to be . , . a fine actor.

he says, “if you make a slip, they can shoot it over. But on the stage, if you slip, you've

slipped.” His relationg with television have also been affected by the language barrier, He says flatly that he'll never do a live television play.

“On television,” he says, shuddering a little at the thought, “if I made a fumble, I'd get more panicky than

someone who's spoken English from birth, But I'm very glad they invented television —-1 enjoy watching it.” >. 2 = THE STAR groaned a little when the “Casbah” quote was mentioned. “I seem to be spending my life denying that 1 ever said that,” he said. wearily. “Some impersonator dreamed that one

Uncle Wentworth

Good heredity is the best old, age insurance you can have. If your forefathers (and mothers) were a bunch of long-lived old buzzards your chances of winding up in the old ladies’ or old men’s home (if that's your idea of fun) are definitely better than average.

The key to lengthening your physical age is in the word “geriatrics,” which is concerned with the physical health of the aging. Geriatrics is a relative newcomer to the medical sciences, but {it is already an

probably count yourself old hand at postponing old age.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 18 There's a lady in Flushing, N. Y., who will never believe that the Army is an impersonal They arranged a surprise party for her sdn on his

oufit.

18th birthday. That little shin-dig was only one of the more than 5000. birthday parties which the USO has planned since it was reactivated a year ago. The service organization feels that a birthday away

. from home can be the loneliest

day of the year for a young and mobilizes its biggest guns to give the boy ‘a happy birthday. The Flushing mother was ‘worried about her young son, - who was spending ‘his first birthday away from home. She sent a special delivery letter to the USO Club in Portland, Ore, near where he was stationed at an Air Force base. en

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_ eration. The next day; the boy = v ‘was assigned to the USO Club , out. at the monthly parties.

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on “special duty.” When he got thers he found the special duty was to be guest of honor at his own surprise party: Most of the more than 200 . USO Clubs give monthly birthday parties rather than individual ones. Every soldier or sailor or Marine whose birthday falls in that month is invited. At ore such affair at the Okinawa USO, one GI ‘blew out two candles, He explained that that month also marked the birthday of his brother, fighting in Korea. take a hint, so-the diréctor sli off a piece of the cake

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, Korea:

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There is usually a ‘big cake, with enough candles to accommodate all the birthday boys. And there's ice cream and

candy and all the trimmings,

including the compulsory rendition of “Happy Birthday to You.” :

Some USOs even manage to provide presents. But most’ of the boys don’t miss them if they don’t have them. To them it’s enough that they're remembered, and that there was a party with pretty girls and motherly hostesses. Usually there's a dance -and games to round out the eve- * ning. ll The: ‘USO lounges are oftén scenes of other birthday parties, too. These are ar-

ranged by the boys for their

‘buddies, on the exact date. So

: Ly "the men in uniform often have THE USO volunteers go all two birthday parties at ‘their

neighborhood USO.

—Rert Kirchheimer,

and his bad habits.

First, the doctor who specializes in geriatrics doesn't give your a superficial examination when you put yourself in his hands. He knows that you are not there merely for a routine check-up, but to establish a health pattern for your body which you can follow for the -rest of your life.

Here Is How A Geriatrician Works

His inspection, therefore, is no hurried half-hour affair, but a matter of two or three long interviews, tests, exami-

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OFF-STAGE — Boyer wiz out (excuse it, without) makeup has thin and graying hair, but still has strong appeal to the ladies,

up. I don't mind impersonators but I don't particularly encour« age them, either.” A lady in a gray fur coat walked past, then did a double take and. stared at Boyer a moment. She fished in her handbag Yor a piece of paper and a pencil. and came over, “ n »

“I MUST get your autos graph.” she said, excitedly, "Oh, my, this is tHrilling. I must tell you-—you won't believe this, but it's true—I've kept vou picture on my. dressing “table for vears. Believe me, Mr, Boyer, I'll treasure this mo« ment.” : Boyer scrawled his signature on the paper, smiled briefly and turned away. “Come on.” he said, “let's go someplace where it's quieten®

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nations, and questionings, dure ing which he finda out your whole health history (including that of your ancestors, as fay as it ean be determined), the present condition of your heart, lungs, stomach, eyes, nerves, glands, etc, your living, eats ing and working habits, your problems, worries, fears, and plans, and anything else that may have a bearing on your future. The next step is to determine, from the data collected, those parts of your body which are aging or tending to age faster“ than the rest of you, and decide what can be done to retard the process. Finally, a complete life and health program is mapped out for you, to remedy or remove all possible conditions making for age or illness, to provide the proper regimen of food, rest, and exercise, and to insure —-as far as possible—that you'll liva as long as you're afraid you won't. If you would grow old and stay young, this is your cup of tea.

Life Is What You Make It

Remember that to a great ex=. ° tent life is what you make fit. Let each day be an adventure in living, not another step on the road to the cemetery. Don't waste time doing a lot of things you don't enjoy merely because vou think you ought to be doing them. Spend as much time as possible doing things that are fun. Let the neighbors fret about what you ought to be doing. Finally, don't worry. It won't do you any good, and won't help you grow old—that is, young. “As a man thinketh, so fis he.” Think yourself young and vou aren't likely. to be old.

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