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‘By Ed Sovola
' MEMBERS of the Indiana I scattered all over the RR s Symphony are
Dr. Fabien Sevitzky is supposed to be Summer Soliage In "LaGrange but the ho ji ravels and changes his mind 3 Honolulu. he could be in
You can count on one man in the orga at ni to remain close to the music of the Fanisation His name fis Arthur Deming, librarian, a
I found Mr. Deming poking around the m room of the Murat Theater. The room has pi ins Jai. Wish Her $65,000 worth of scores on -shelves, Mr. Deming is overs - Tie nalves NY g erseeing the addi SS Bb
MAESTRO SEVITZKY alone has 600 orche Strations ang scores in Po His conductor's scores number 153. Indianapolis Sym 315 orchestrations, ¥Iphony owns Even $0 each year new scores are 3 s » purchased and rented. Last year Mr. Deming rented 70. A music lover wanted to know why. Well, it’s this way. Some orchestrations are not for sale. The owners prefer to rent the stuff. Much of modern music hasn't been printed in quantity. When only two orchestrations of a selection exist, you rent it or you don't get it. And then there is cost consideration. A comfosition Jhst wii make the program once is rented. Ir. Deming has to watch hi 8, Sad but true. Pennies - Pd Bb ONE ORCHESTRATION of Wagnerian music Mr. Deming peeked into to see that it was in good shape, cost the Symphony $500. Usually the price is $25 up to $100.
Property Manager Marty Larner and Drummer Ralph Lillard disrupted the conversation with suggestions about the. shelving which Mr. Deming respectfully disregarded.
Shortly the slight, bearded librarian is going to straighten up the library. He has to work up steam for the annual task. He's holding up awhile because he never knows when helll get a call from Dr. Sevitzky for music. The maestro’s requests are always emergencies and that leaves the library slightly disorganized. "SB LAST SUMMER Mr. Deming was called in the middle of the night from San Diego to get the orchestration for “Stars and Stripes Forever.” The number was on a program and unlike the Indianapolis Symphony, the musicians can’t play Dr. Sevitzky had to have action-and Mr. Deming had to get out of bed. Didn’t surprise him. . After he gets the library in shape, Mr. Deming checks the music for wear. the pages dog-eared. Long road trips, and -this vear the Symphony traveled far and wide, in-
It Happened Last Night
By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, May 16—Do you look funny— like you aren't put together quite right? You, too, can be a movie star.
Forget the Red Skeltons and the Pinky Lees. Take Tyrone Power whom my Beautiful Wife wishes I. resembled somewhat more. Quite a lot of years ago, Ty, then unknown, was taken to a New York talent scout for a Hollywood film company. The fellow who took him over got bawled out for it. “What are you wasting my time for?” fumed the talent sleuth. “That boy’s impossible. He's got eyebrows that grow together.” , You know what happened. The fellow who had seen something in Tyrone Power later spotted Van Johnson, a nobody at the time. “You're outa your
Tyrone Power
mind. What are you gonna do with that guy?”
queried his dearest detractors. “He's a piece of wood and has the personality of a boat oar.” Before that, this fellow I'm rippling on about knew Cary Grant, then Archie Leach. “He was never an actor, and knew it,” this fellow I'm talking about says now. “He was very stiff. He got into pictures. But he said, ‘They’ll drop me.’ - “They did, too. Then Frank Capra took Cary Grant and Carole Lombard and combined their faults—Grant’s stiffness and her voice—and made them great.” The fellow—Leonard Sillman, producer of several “New Faces” shows on Broadway—has a theory that you people who are simply pretty good performers will never get anywhere. “That's the kiss of death , , . just to think vou're pretty good. “People have got to hate you or love you...
Americana By Robert C. Ruark -
NEW YORK, May 16—Being just a stranger here myself, I feel a touch like Miss Alice in the Wonderland when I keep reading about the prisoners everywhere doing things to the captors in the fine namé of free enterprise, or something. No living man can make heads or tails out of this business in Koje Island, not even the people who are there and writing about it. All 1 know is that a -general, or two generals, dumb enough to get abducted by the prisoners and still dumber to make a lot of foolish deals with the prisoners are not worthy of being generals in even such a burlesque military operation/ as is the thing in Korea. The air of unreality thickens as you hear tell of the : lengthy conference on the teletype, and the complete foolishness of the press conference in which this silly Gen. Dodd answers no questions. What kind of war they run out there I don't know, any more than I know what kind of penal system
they operate here. >
> THE FIRST LAW of putting people in jail is that they have no civil liberties as construed by the four freedoms. People in jail are supposed to do what the man says. They are not supposed to take the man and tell him to do what they say. 3 On the same page of the paper that says, «Clark Reads the Riot Act to Dodd and Colson, there is a subsidiary story which says “Four Cons Flee Texas Prison Farm, Kidnap Mother,
Girl, as Hostages.” It seems to me that lately.
I have read nothing that has to do with any‘hing but revolt of guys who have no right to avolt, whether they be civil convicts or military wmvicts, The flouting of authority appears to be en‘mic, not only in the nation, but in the world. Ve had the recent rash of refusals to fly by officers of our own Air Force, and mostly they
seem to be getting away with it. Se & e
WHAT APPEARS to have happened is a world revolution of people who have no right to revolute, if that is a verb. Fliers are supposed to fly, and not argue. Prisoners are supposed to stay put, with no bargaining powers. Prisoners of war are supposed to obey the rules that made them prisoners of war. They are not supposed to have agents, and, certainly, generals and wardens are supposed to run their own shows, else they would not be generals or wardens in the irst place. : 8 It is possible that I sound slightly fascistic, hut, holy heaven, the reason you shove people into jalls and PW camps and U. 8. Air Forces "in the first place is that you have taken-away the eivil liberties that allow them to be indignant
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“God of our tathérs and our God, give us the faith to believe in the ultimate triumph of righteousness. We pray for the bifocals of faith that see the despair and the need of the hour, but also see, further on, the patience of our God working. out his plan in the world he has , made." The issue before us involves in its scope the salvation of our nation and the welfare of the civilized world. What happens to our way of life in America has its effect upon the
MUSIC PILES ON—Indiana
olis Symphony Librarian Arthur Deming is always close to music, in season and out.
crease the hazards for keeping music ship-shape. He'll have to buy more transparent tape, thread and paste this year, eo 7 IT'S A COMPLIMENT to American production genius that our music holds together and is printed on better paper than foreign music. The persons who think that the only lasting music tomes from across. the Atlantic sit up and take
notice. Mr. Deming says our music lasts longer. lives of each and every AmeriThe poorest, flimsiest music comes from can citizen. France. If the French print their music on the a. 8 8
WE MUST AWAKE to the conditions of today, realizé that it is our duty to improve them. We must then look to the future with faith in the ultimate triumph of good. Faith alone is not enough. We must implement our faith by. our thoughts and words and’ ac“tions, In order to do this we must sharpen our perceptions and our sensibilities, which perhaps have become blunted and dulled during these years of speed and noise and confusion. We must be sure that we are able to de-
same paper they print their money, I'm not surprised it doesn’t last. Let's not spread this around. Some comedian will hear of this and before we know it 40 million tons of paper stock will be shipped over there. LE MUSIC ISN'T the only possesion housed in the library. Mr. Deming is in charge of an E Flat clarinet, one contra-bassoon, a banjo and an alto flute. The Instruments are rarely used and few musicians bother to own them. Rather than have Dr. Sevitzky blow his stack when a score calls for an E flat clarinet or a contra-bassoon, the fathers of the Symphony-invested-in the instruments. One fine day in the near future, Mr. Deming will get next season’s program from the maestro.
fle'll have to start digging music out for 85 tect subtle differences beusielans. : tween good and evil, between tor fuse isn’t all fiddling. Mr. Deming will vouch right and wrong. As Alex-
ander Pope so well expressed it: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
Maybe You. Too. Can Be a Star
either one. Just to like you is no good. “Take Tallulah Bankhead’'s whisky voice and her blinking They called Al Jolson the greatest, He drove plenty of people out of the theater in his time. “For years some people loathed Ethel Merman. Thought she was bored. She is one of the great women of all time,”
Mr. 8illman’s got another “New Faces” coming
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“Let nobody be discouraged about not looking conventional,” he says. “Take Clark Gable. After he'd been in films for some time, he was fired by one of the most astute men in the industry. The fellow who fired him said, ‘He can never get anywhere on account of his ears.” “ @ THE MIDNIGHT EARL . .. The pressure on some of the NY Yankee generals to bring Joe DiMaggio back grows stronger and stronger , . . A probe of the city’s licensing system is to be asked next by administration foes. Frank Costello's under the impression he got a clean bill from the Grand Jury looking into possible jury funny business. But we learn the inquiry is continuing . . . Marilyn Ross does a great singing job in the new Latin Quarter show. Lenore Lonergan, who didn't want to stay
and zoos always fascinated the creator of the “Follies.” Tiny elephants in jade and ivory always paraded across his desk he never hesitated to send to Africa for a live baby elephant for his Hastings-on-Hudson
in “Of Thee I Sing,” is stopping the show with menagerie. her song, “Because” .'., . Clark Gable’s friend, Just after Natalie Thompson Friede, now in California, getting in-
stalled here in the world’s crossroads inn called the Oriental Hotel I was told of a young American, Bob Johnson, who recently sold a piece to the Saturday Evening Post for $2000. He's with the local Pan American World Airways personnel; he has an extraordinary knowledge of the Orient—and he loves animals. So it was with the likeable and garrulous Mr. Johnson that I paid a call upon the Boon Vanit Co., Ltd., and its sales department, which is just a big yard in an out-of-the-way section of ‘Bangkok, on the other side of the choppy and clay-red river, the Chao Bhraya. A smiling export manager, one Mr, Luang . Visal Bochanakich, showed us the stock, sent in direct from the -jungle. . They have just about everything. x =
expects to give up her apt. here . . , Josephine Baker's now reveling in good reviews at Ciro’'s in Hollywood. The Phil Bakers celebrated an anniversary at the Viennese Lantern . . . Buddy Baer, new darling of the young girls, came back from a fan club party with lipstick of all shades on his collar. “If it'd just been one shade,” said his wife, Mae Mann, “I'd have been worried.” In my lifetime I don’t expect to see a greater dance team than Darvas and Julia, the Irene and Vernon Castle of today, who opened at the Latin Quarter in their first NY engagement. Lou Walters has offered his “best show yet”"—just as he always does. (Not a bad formula.) That's Earl, brother.
Mr. Morehouse
Prison’s Nol A Union Hall
price they pay for being wicked or getting captured or being recalled. Se S : SLIGHT ORDER and some discipline is part of a system, and you have to have some sort of 1 system to run a railroad or a world. Violation of the system shows up a frightening weakness in the administration of the system, which will wreck it if you let it run. If this mock general, Dodd, who got himself captured in a camp his prisoners seem to run, and if his successor, Colson, who got canned, are allowed to remain in the Army, I am losing a lot of faith in the Army. A guy who can't handle 30 slight a chore as keeping a flock of, captives n line ain't much of a warrior, in my book. e* : THE SAME applies to all the wardens of the prisons that have made so many headlines lately. A prison is not a union hall. It is a place you put people to keep them away from other people because they have acted so bad other people are not safe in their vicinity. You cannot correct in a prison; you only control. If you can’t control em Vou are a real lousy jailer, and deserve to step down. " Recently I have felt that the entire world has gone mad, and I suspect I may be right. The news would seem to substantiate the theory that down is up. right is wrong, and authority {is strictly for the birds.
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q-—Where can I get the fertilizer called Krilium? Reader. A—First, Krilium is not a fertilizer. It is a chemical (poly-acrilonitrite) that improves _the mechanical condition of hard tight packed soil. Krilium is the trade name (just as Frigidaire is for a special kind of mechanical refrigerator) for this particular chemical. You can get Krilium the product of Monsanto Chemical Co. in about two weeks from local dealers. Monsanto has released some publicity saying they would fill mail orders direct to the company the middle of
Read Marguerite Smith's’ Garden Column in The Sunday Times
Kitchen Prowler
If you want a frisky 6-month-old elephant, and are willing to pay $400, you can walk right out with Bonsong. Very friendly, this -Bonsong. He has an engaging way of following the cook into the kitchen; he goes long on a diet of grass, potatoes, sugar cane and powdered milk. If you prefer to have Bonsong delivered
to you in the States, the price is $2000. : There's a bright-eyed tiger cub, three months old, available at the Burapa Read lot for $400; just pick it up and take it away, and it won't bite —yet. It’s now fed on goat milk exclusively. If you want it sent home to you in Amerfca the cost will be $750. A snarling black panther, which put on a great show during our visit, costs $850 delivered in San Francisco or Indianapolis or Atlanta; I didn’t ask the cash‘and-carry price. Mr. Bochanakich, an animal man who seems to love his work, showed us pythons ($40 each, right here), love birds, flying squirrels and parrots. There's an irascible fellow in red and blue, a real beauty, for $40. And there's a small collection of Malayan bear cubs, real cuties, obtainable for $35 each—in Bangkok. We thanked Mr. Bochanakich, took his car and went on
the month. But to protect their local dealers . back to the bar of the Oriental. they have assured the dealers they will not mail There Bob Johnson, over a glass of Mekhong, the local rice
out Krilium before it is available on the local market. So .you would just be paying extra postage if you order it direct from the company. Another form of this same chemical, packaged by another chemical company (American Cyana- ; mid) and sold under their trade name for it, which is Soil Life, is available either now or will be within a few days on the local market. Most ' garden dealers will have limited amounts of both . these. But neither one adds any plant food to the soil, To DY I, the physical
brandy, told me about the rain trees of Thailand and the traf- _ fic in opium. I later went to the téléphone, ealled our man at the Burapa Road, and asked how one of those $35 Malayan bear cubs would fit into the life on a Georgia farm. Oh, very
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» By CHARLES W, TOBEY
From New Hampshire
late Peter Marshall, former
chaplain of the Senate, which was delivered shortly before his passing, that I have long held in ‘my heart. It is particularly meaningful to us in’ these troubled days.
As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, - with her face; "We first endure, then pity, then embrace,
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= » » LET US sharpen our perceptions, then so there will be no doubt in our own minds as to the things which are honest and those which are dishonest, This does not always mean legal and illegal, for there is very often a wide difference between dishonest and illegal. The criteria is for us to de-
cide. according to our own consciences. The very enormity of the
evil facts disclosed through our committee hearings is in itself enoligh to jolt one out of complacency. At one point there came before us the district attorney of Brooklyn, Miles McDonald. As he testified; he developed an amazing story of the organized traffic in marijuana and heroin among the school children of Brooklyn. 1 was very deeply moved and broke in to say: “What bothers me most about your splendid testimony this afternoon is your allusion to the, ‘conditions of the school children nver there in Brooklyn, school- children who have been corrupted by these emissaries of evil, the narcotics peddlers. The children under this influ-
Bangkok After Dark—
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Go to Bangkok
By WARD MOREHOUSE BANGKOK, Thailand, May 15—If the great Ziegfeld were alive today—Florenz Ziegfeld, of course—he would certainly be aware of the importance of the river port of Bangkok as a wild animal trading center.
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If you're thinking of coming to Bangkok I suggest a riverview room with a porch (or lanin) at the Hotel Oriental, which is right beside the water, but if you're writing for a living you'll have to keep your typewriter inside. The river spectacle, with the traffic inclusive of sampans, junks, rice boats, barges, freighters, tugs, steamers, is fascinating—and entirely distracting. . . , I struck Bangkok in what is known as the hot season before the rains begin. All the Americans I've seen are coatless and without tie. popular with the U. 8. colony— gin and lime juice. There are always bananas on your breakfast tray, along with papaya and mangoes. : Americans passing through Bangkok have a way of looking up, and immediately, Ed Lind, sales manager for Pan American, a man of great experience in the Far East, and Jimmie Thompson, of the Thai Silk Co., which supplied the silk for many of the costumes for the Broadway production of “The King and 1.” Mr. Thompson is wondering if Gertrude Lawrence won't want to get to Bangkok for at least a onenight stand—possibly five years from now. . . . Ed Lind tells me that Bangkok, now a city of great importance in southeast Asia; is served by 13 airlines and that from 50 to 60 planes go through every week. So saying, I'll begin packing for the flight to Hong Kong, four hours away via Clipper. Next report from the Hotel Peninsular, en route back to America, via Hawaii.
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the norm in America. As they grow up and have homes of their own, their moral depravity makes them unfit for family life. They have a lowered standard of morals, and a lower standard of citizenship.
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“THESE deficiencies probe so deeply into our national life that the whole moral fabric of the nation is in peril. It seems to me that one of the great weaknesses in America today is the fact that the home and the church have lost a large degree of their influence. Can this in-
The Middle-Age Myth . . . No. 5—
Gain Sense of
By A. E. STREESEMAN, M. D.
BECAUSE of the way many women have handled themselves in the
home the last remaining
reservoir of slave labor in this country is the wife. That's why the deep discontent of so many housewives can actually be explained as a need to feel important. (This ex-
plains the popularity of tha
many soap operas that drama- ° ‘tize the role of the housewife.)
But blowing up her role is no good. It won't work. The reason for this is that keeping house is a means to an end only, And that end, the really important part, is the family. This means that it is possible for a woman to have true importance in making a home for her family.. But it also means that many women are handicapped in their opportunities to develop . their own sense of financial security. .. It's often. heen said that the woman who's had some busi-
- ness training makes a better
wife and housewife than the girl who goes straight from her father’s home to her husband’s home. This is true, It means that he owns a certain sense of independence derived from that fact that she knows a way of earning her own living. This is a feeling that's important to the self-respect of any man; it's also important to women, who are human beings, too.
Women need to have money
of their own. Saving bits and .
pleces from the household money isn’t enough; this is skittering around the main problem. They need to have enough money of their own to give them some sense of financial security,
How can a woman achieve this. for her middle years? In many ways. She can begin, as a young married woman, to earn money in spare hours. It may be a part-time job or it
Greed and Taxes... No. 5—
Nailing Grafters Must Be a
In this, the last of a series, James W. Dowling, who recently resigned as chief investigator of the King Committee, suggests what can be done to prevent more tax scandals. By EDWARD J. MOWERY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ONTHS ago, the King Committee probing tax scandals decided~the most effective way to smoke out tax grafters was to lay the record bare at public hearings. “The administration's shoul-der-hair bristled,” said James W. Dowling, who recently resigned as the committee's chief investigator. “Then the presure began to stymie public questioning of such figures as Joseph D. Nunan Jr, Daniel A. Bolich and James B, E. Olson (all former Revenue officials). “We wanted the public to know why former Internal Revenue Commissioner Nunan refused to reveal the extent of his wealth, why he ripped up his canceled vouchers as they were received from the bank monthly, ‘and how he obtained a financial interest in the bowling alleys in New York's new bus terminal. . “We also thought the public would be interested in learning why former ‘Assistant Commissioner Bolich paid household
expenses ) ders, spent $25,000
with postal money orwhile
‘earning $13,000 and maintained ‘a I ns home in New
Jersey.” The administration's first real roadblock, he said, came when the committee started its San Francisco hear-
ings and the Justice Department moved to set up a special grand jury in Brooklyn,
“I called Adrian DeWind (chief committee counsel) from New York,” Mr. Dowling declared, “and warned that if this jury should subpena our incomplete files; our cases against Nunan, Bolich and Olson would go down the drain. Obviously these men wouldn't testify in public while a grand jury had their cases. “The committee held an emergency meeting in San Francisco and directed me by phone to move the files to Washington the same night and turn them over to the House sergeant of arms (out of the Federal jury's reach). You (the Scripps - Howard newspapers) carried that story exclusively and the breach between Congress and the administration widened.” ; Removal of the files halted the committee's investigation for about a month when intelligence agents assigned to the probers were ordered back to the revenue bureau. “Another - hassle developed,” Mr. Dowling said, “when the revenue bureau violently opposed i worth
may be work she can do in her home. Whatever it is, it should be enough to keep her feeling that in her middle years, she will not be one of the frightened, insecure women who is suddenly widowed and forced to work when she has never held a job in her life. Money is important to everyone and this includes women. A' good marriage should, of course, be a partnership in money matters as well as in other things. . It is in the first years of marriage that you must share the responsibilities of handling the “family budget” with your husband. If you accept the role of “shrinking violet” to be doled nickels and dimes, without asserting yourself as an individual, your husband will treat You as a child, and resentment
migsioner (John B.) Dunlap wanted to audit employees’ returns for a three-year (not a five-year) period so bureau morale wouldn't be injured. The questionnaire wrangle went on and on.” i ” o » WHILE the administration assertedly tried to jettison the committee findings, the public demanded that the investiga. tion continue. ; “Thousands of letters and phone calls poured in,” Mr, Dowling said, “and we devel. oped a small army of confi dential informers who aided us in tax probes throughout the country. Among them were current and former high government officials, . taxpayers, businessmen and lawyers. Their . information, of course, was held in strictest confidence.” Mr. Dowling, who believes a thorough probe of tax graft would take “at least three more _ years,” said soberly: . © “I'm convinced there should be a permanent congressional watchdog committee to police the tax-collecting system but this is no panacea. Reorganization of the bureau with its synthetic shuffling of responsi-
bility isn’t the answer, either.
must: have—is a revival t ~. application of the and teachings of the Master of Men. Until that virtue lives in Amers ica again, 1 tremble for Amer fca's future.” >
had a poet. His name was John Greenleaf - Whittier.
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He had a home up near 8quam Lake. He was a great man, a Quaker, and he wrote some wonderful things in poetry. In one poem, called Problems, he commented on the ills of the nation, and he closed with this couplet. ‘But solution there is none, save in the rule of Chirst alone.’ ” : There is the answer, When the hearts of men and women are touched, they take their inspiration from the Master of Men, and then we will have a righteous and a new America, and we will have a - nation in which ‘dwelleth righteousness,’ and, before God, it is high time. The disclosure of the terrible traffic in narcotics among the school children of Brooklyn was the fact above all others which jolted me awake to the horrors of what actually was going on in our country. This and many other facts brought out in evidence before the committee have jolted and shocked other people across the nation. There is evidence that ‘the whole nation is becoming aroussd in righteous indigna= tion, and that we may be on the threshold of a rising tide of moral and spiritual regeneration throughout the that could wash out these blots upon the name of America,
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on both parts is bound to be the outcome. As a bride, a girl who's never had a chance to handle money before may be extravagant. But, given the right chance, she'll get over her extravagance and learn to handle money so that it does the most for her and her family, a If you understand the impor tance of money early in mars riage, you contribute the in
in to ‘marriage the actual earning power you would have had the business world. 8o it's important for you to be realistic about money, to learn to spend wisely, to understand all of your husband's investments and financial affairs. Then, if you're equipped to support yourself in addition, you need not fear impoverishment in your middle age.
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be promoted strictly upon the merit system and be paid coms mensurately to eliminate temptation.”
while handling returns involving millions. Lo “As long as there are cheating taxpayers willing to pay for a fix, there will be underpaid bureau fixers willing to oblige,” Mr. Dowling said. i “The most unfortunate facet on,”
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