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MORNING, JUNE 17, 1931 SECTION THREE EIGIIT PAGES PAGE 1 STRICTLY THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER NEWS FEATURES EDITORIAL PAGE ON THE NEWS AMUSEMENTS One Parade Not Enough For Dedication Of Westwood-Northern Boulevard Today; Two Exhibitions Have Been Planned No Laughter For Indian Kids When School Term Ends For The Year They Go Home To Face Hunger Not A Vacation i i 1 I vv- Enquirer (Kslnt Photo. Fifteen-year-old Eloise Berchtold, the Cincinnati Zoo's youngest "animal trainer," holds "Debbie," a favorite performer in the Children's Zoo. 500-mile tour of the reservation by truck to pick up pupils. Despite almost impassable roads and inevitable motor trouble, McNair called on all trading posts and hundreds of hogans to round up his class. He picked up one pupil from as far away as Monticello, Utah, 120 miles from Dennehotso.

At roundup time, McNair learned that all Navahos do not share the new reservation interest in education. When he visited one hogan and asked if there were any school-age children in the family, a wizened old Indian father looked away from McNair to his son and said sternly: "He's been giving us some trouble lately. Yes, we'll send him to school." But Navaho parents always part more willingly with boys than with girls. Girls are wanted at home. They make better herders of sheep.

On entering 1, Navaho children are so shy, McNair says that teachers find it a problem even to learn their names. One boy in his class was especially reticent. McNair promptly dubbed him "Jack Rock." Most Navaho children do not have, any name other than their Indian name. Federal boarding schools do not use Indian names. Tri'be superstition makes Indian names useless.

In times of misfortune, a Navaho often blames his name for his bad luck and changes it. The schools find it less confus And after the war, returning veterans 3,600 Navaho tribesmen served in the armed forces brought home to the reservation a full understanding of the value of an En'-' ih-speaking education. A demand for teachers the teachers whom Uncle Sam had promised but not provided arose like so many smoke signals from the reservation. Uncle Sam heeded this demand. More teachers arrived.

In August, 1950, Mr. McNair joined the trek of teachers to Navaholand. He was assigned to the Federal boarding school at Dennehotso. Consisting of five classrooms, cafeteria and sleeping quarters for both teachers and children, the school at Dennehotso is one of 53 schools on the reservation. It was built in 1935.

Until five years ago, it. was a "one-room school" because not enough Navaho children responded. Last year 150children were enrolled and all five classrooms were almost filled. At first sight of Dennehotso' isolated wastelands, the teacher admits he felt "utterly dejected." But when school opened and Navaho children moved into his life, dejection left him. No Indian children moved into his life, however, until he went out and brought them to school.

HIS FIRST duty as an Indian Service teacher was a three-week, Enquirer Enjoyed BV JAMES T. GOLDEN JR. ONE PARADE isn't going to be enough to celebrate the dedication of the Westwood-Northern Boulevard extension this afternoon. There are going to be two parados, starting from points one and one-quarter miles apart as a salute of aerial bombs sounds at 2 :30 p. m.

But the two are to meet and mingle at the boulevard and War-dall Avenue, where the ceremonies will be held. It's a two-parade deal because the extension represents a link between city and county, and a unique piece of cooperation between city and county officials, IjiiiIs L. Meyer, master of ceremonies and a prime mover for the Westwood-Northern since 1928, explained. So city officials, representatives of the Westwood Civic Association and other city folk will pa-rade westward from Montani Avenue, and County Commissioners and other officials and county people will start at Boudinot Avenue at the end of the boulevard extension at the county line and travel eastward. The Monfort Heights, Cheviot, White Oak, Bridgetown and Grreen Township Civic Associations, and the Western Hills Business Association, have been asked to send delegations for the eastbound pa strip and two 18-foot lanes running its 2.6-mile course, was proposed May 4, 1928, by Henry M.

Waite, at a Western Hills meeting, but it met with such immediate opposition that one speaker even was booed. However, building of the new Union Terminal yards, with elimination of Harrison and Queen City Avenues' grades, and the Harrison Avenue and Liberty Street viaducts, made a new viaduct and western thoroughfare essential. Mr. Meyer and a group of friends got busy; organized a long speaking campaign; got donations of virtually all the needed land from owners of property abutting the proposed boulevard; got the boulevard placed on the bond program which the voters approved in 1929. But the city, kept pigeonholing Ihe project; the money was spent on Columbia Parkway, Mr.

Meyer recalls. The Westwood-Northern Boulevard Boosters' Association kept plugging; got the Federal Government to agree to participate; straightened out the City Planning Commission's objections. The city paid only about one-tenth of the necessary $1 million, for materials and a little of the land; $900,000 of the cost was paid by Federal WPA money. On May 4. 1541 exactly 13 years after the Waite meeting at which speakers were heckled the boulevard was dedicated.

Now the Western Killers have come to love it. They'll extend their love to the county line about 3 p. m. today. rade, since the extension will make access to their territories easier.

The St. Catherine School band will provide music. County Commissioner Hobart A. WehUIng will present the extension to the City of Cincinnati; Vice Mayor Edward N. Waldvo-Rol, Chairman of Council's Highway Committee, will accept it; Mayor Albert I.

Cash then will present it to the community, and Ired IHekmeyer, President of the Westwood Civic Association will accept. The ribbon across the boulevard will be cut by George M. Lemmel, County Engineer. EXTENSION' is unusual, in that, lying entirely within the city, it was built and paid for by the county. Happened this way, Mr.

Wehking explains: The state had asked the county, for the first; time, to participate in a slate project, the improvement of Bcechmont Avenue Levee. But the commissioners didn't want to set a precedent by accepting. So Mr. Wehking suggested that the city take over what would have been the county share of the levee project, and the county build the boulevard extension in return. That plan was agreeable to his colleagues in both governments.

The county stayed clear of involvement with the state, and the new four-lane Westwood-Northern strip of concrete and macadam (cost more than $400,000, Mr. Lemmel says) is a sort of stretched-out monument to a bit of good old Yankee horse trading. The handsome original boule- vard, with a 10-foot center park BT WALTER DELAXEV. IN CINCINNATI, children run, laugh, shout in June when schools close for summer. On the Navaho Indian Reservation in the Southwestern United jEtates, children cry.

Cincinnati children schools homes where there is food. ''Navaho children go home from Federal boarding schools to hunger. Cinjnnati teacher of Navaho Indian children has seen them iry cn leaving school. He is Joseph V. McNair, 1015 Benz Price Hill, a 1949 graduate of the University of Cincinnati Teachers College.

Mr. McNair, who has just come Jinrne on summer vacation, is one of; five teachers in the Federal boarding school at Dennehotso, Arizona. The teacher says that, to spare rears, Navaho children never are told the date when school will Hose. Because, all' through the school year, they eat government food. When they return to wasteland hogans, they don't eat.

In the school year just ended, the Cincinnatian taught a class cf 26 Navahos, ranging in age from nine to 14 years. His class, according to the Indian school system, embraced the second, third and fourth grades. Of his 26 pupils, 21 will return to his class when school reopens. Five reached a passing mark and Will move to the fifth grade. Having lived a year among the Navahos, Mr.

McNair knows the story of reservation hunger and ignorance. He knows 'the story of Uncle Sam's broken promises to the Navahos. both the largest and the poorest tribe of U. S. Indians.

IX THE TREATY of 1868. ihirh Navahos signed aftpr surrender to Kit. Carson and four years of imprisonment in Ft. Sumner, Uncle Sam promised one teacher for every 30 children. Uncle Sam did not keep this promise.

And the Navahos, except for an occasional reminder to Washington that the Federal gov. ernment had not kept its promise, did not care. Until World War II, the reservation showed only a passive attitude toward education. During World War II drafting the Navahos, always fighters, were stung to learn that illiteracy was keeping their braves from to give a permanent name to Even By Navahos tSS ing child. In all friendliness, the Navahos Carnivals Not For Suck ers Is Advice Of Youthful Artist Who Earns His Living Drawing Portraits At Tent Shows She's Fearless! This Teen-Age Animal Trainer' When Spiders Are Absent BY CHARLES WARNICK.

THE FAUNA OF the jungle holds no fears for 15-year-old Eloise Berc-htold. who wants to know why she should waste time attending teen-age parties when she could be petting a leopard or wrestling with her 200-pound bear. At this stage of her young life Eloise finds animals, domestic or wild, vicious or even tempered, the most fascinating things she has ever encountered. She is passing her third summer working with them at the Cincinnati Zoo. The animals in the Children's Zoo the friendly monkeys, the funny little pigs and the soft-haired rabbits are her main charges, but she jumps at every opportunity to branch out to the Hops, leopards and other creatures which are confined behind sturdy bars and in deep grottos.

She is so fearless Zoo officials have had to warn hrr several times about petting animals which could decapitate her with one blow. Eloise's affection for the lower orders is not confined to the Zoo alone. Her home on Kemper Road, Foster, Ohio, probably could pass as a first-class ma-nagerie. Among the animals and reptiles she houses there is her bear, "Teddy;" a deer, a rabbit, a dog. two raccoons, 30 turtles, seven snakes and a 32 -foot alligator which has a room all to itself.

HOW SHE GOT the bear is a story in itself. A Cincinnatian brought it back to Cincinnati and after keeping it for a time turned it over to the Society For The Prevention For Cruelty To Animals. The SPCA gave it to the Children's Zoo. The Zoo found the animal too wild and vicious and gave it to Eloise. When she got "Teddy" he was 4 months old and weighed an even 12 pounds.

Today, more than a year later, he weighs over 200 pounds and when he stands up he can rest his front paws on Eloise's1 shoulders. No longer vicious, he likes nothing better than his daily romp with Eloise. Her theory about handling animals is fo never show fear of them. "If you act alraid of them," she says, "or try to pull away sharply when one grabs you, you're lost." Eloise's greatest ambition is to be a lion tamer. She hopes some day to be able to join a circus so that she can work with the king of beasts.

The red-haired, blue-jeaned girl hasn't given much thought to marriage, hut when she does fall in love she hopes it will he with a lion tamer. Although Eloise would jump at the chance to get in a cage with a growling, thick-muscled lion, she is not absolutely fearless. "Spiders are one thing that I am afraid of." she sheepishly admits. "I just couldn't stand one of the hairy things walking on me." The Enquirer is read by Navaho Indians. Tribe members at Dennehotso, receive the daily and Sunday Enquirer through Joseph W.

McNair, 1015 Bcna Price, Hill. Mr. McNair fciibsrribes to The I from Dennehotso, where he teaches Indian rhil-drpn on the Navaho Reservation. After reading earh issue, be gives The Enquirer to tribesmen. In reaching Dennehotso.

The Enquirer is delivered to one of the most isolated spots in the United States. Dennehotso's post office Is at Kayenta, 28 miles away. Kay-enta's nearest railroad is at Flagstaff, 158 more miles from Dennehotso. Mail reaches Dennehotso only twice weekly meaning that the teacher and the Navahos have a lot of Enquirers to read with retaliate. They give Indian names to white men.

In Navaho, McNair is "Hosteen Nosch meaning "Mr. Big-All-Over." Unmarried, McNair leads the life of a typical batchclor at Dennehotso. He noes his own cooking and thinks nothing of driving lo Flagstaff 186 miles away to shop for a quarter of beef for himself and the other white men at the school. McNair is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph McNair, of the Benz Avenue address. A veteran of World War II, he was a First Lieutenant in the Army Parachute Infantry in the European theater. Army service and wartime blackouts prepared him for one phase of life at the Dennehotso Indian school lights go out at 10:30 p. m. (An Indian Service regulation to save diesel fuel.) "So," McNair says, "my pupils and I do not burn the midnight JAMES THEODORE ROBE, University of Cincinnati student, is a lightning artist and a carney.

Lightning artists are those deft persons who for money will quickly put your likeness on canvas If you pause before their easels on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village or the sunlit alleys of the French Quarter in New Orleans. A carney is one who makes his oil." military service. each delivery. Enquirw Cochran I Phot: Beret-topped James Robe displays what he considers his lucky piece the first "carney" profile he ever drew. "I like to travel," Robe confides, "and I can make a good living that way, but I'll have fo settle down some day and get married and work for advertising outfits, I guess.

Carney life is tough. As for the near future, I'm scheduled to go into the Army in August, but I'm hoping for an educational deferment I'm a good student." families some place. They work hard for six months and usually go to Florida in the winter or work at jobs at; home. He has been in 36 of the 48 states and in Mexico. At UC, he works on Profile, the literary and humor magazine, and lately has been turning out sets for "UC On TV." living at fairs and carnivals.

Combining the two, says Robe, is quite rare. He got the idea from a pretty young girl at a Michigan State Fair, and he's been earning in-come at it for the last three years. A quiet, slender chap, he is 22 years old, a junior student specializing in advertising design in the UC College of Applied Arts, and a native of Birmingham, Mich. His course of study involves classes part-time and outside work part-time. The work part is where the speedy carney artist business' comes in.

From June to November and from Christmas to March, he is at fairs and carnivals around the country. He and his mother who has encouraged his talent since he was 10 travel with an automobile and a house trailer. 'When he is at school, they live in the trailer at 4364 Reading Rd. At a carnival, he first rents a booth, which costs from $5 to $12 a day. (This cost is called the "nut" in carney lingo.) Next, he hangs out his sign offering a full-color, pastel portrait to be done in 10 minutes for $1.

Pastels are sticks of pigment with which one draws. His sign, like most carney pitches, is misleading. Actually he offers two deals. One is a profile, done in from four to eight minutes, for $1. The second is a portrait, which takes about 45 minutes, for $5.

And then he charges $1 for a cardboard frame and backing. In this manner, with a lot or ability and a subtle appeal to the vanity of those who stop, he is able to gross up to $70 in an I cight-to-12-hour day. The average day's take is about $35. THIS IS NOT bad for a young fellow, Robe admits, but it is peanuts next to what many slick carney men make. For example, those who run the strong-arm joints and flat stores such as wheels, shell games and other gambling devices sometimes take as much as $4,000 from one good mark (sucker), and many times extract from $80 to $200.

They skin more than one a day, too. The strong-arm joints and flat stores have higher overhead, of course. Thy must pay off handsomely to the local fuzz police I and to the big man who runs the carnival. Then there are the lucrative hankv nanks so-called games of "This Is My Valley Four of. Joseph W.

McNair's Indian pupils clown for his camera. A few moments after he took the picture, the Cincinnatian told the kids school was about to end for the summer. They im- mediately broke in to wails of anguish. Mr. McNair is shown in the inset.

Big Day For This Pop! He's Not Extinct But Tracks Are Final Stronghold Of Colorful Blacksmith BY WILLIAM ANZER JR. THE MODERN day race track has turned out to be the last stronghold for the village blacksmith who was as much a part of the American scene as the town hall at the beginning of the century. Take River Downs as an example. With Ihe current racing season well under way, the track keeps seven blacksmiths busy shoeing the temperish bangtails, i One of these is 58-year-old Norman Trice, who has been shoeing horses since he was 13 years old. Deeply tanned and heavily muscled, Mr.

Price could easily be Longfellow's famed blacksmith suddenly come to life. The blacksmith's shop has changed only slightly since the automobile replaced the horse. Still present are the pungent odors of burning coals and red-hot horseshoes tempering in the forge. The ball peen hammer still issues the familiar resounding ring and the big leather apron has remained over the years an important part of the smith's habiliment. A native of Kansas who now lives in Tampa, Mr.

Price is a member of the union of traveling blacksmiths. "We are affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and are permitted to travel to any track in the nation as long as we remain union members in good standing," he pointed out. Contrary to popular belief, the actual shoeing of a thoroughbred race horse is done when the shoe is cold to protect the steed's tender hoof from injury. "We used to do all the fitting in the track shop," the blacksmith explained, "but we now go directly to the stall. It saves time and is less strenuous on the horse." Before the horse is shod, his hooves must be carefully cleaned and pared.

First the "frog" or horny pad and excess foot are cut off and then the hoof is made level and smooth with a rasp. The shoe is then fitted and nailed down. BECATSK THE thoroughbred's hooves grow very fast, his shoes must be reset every 21 to 25 days to prevent injury and allow maximum running ability. A race horse's footgear will vary as much as a movie star's. A horse running in the mud will wear what the trade terms a "sticker," a shoe which has one sharp calk on the outside of the heel.

Another shoe with two flat blocks on the heel is called, appropriately enough, a "block heel." Both aluminum and steel shoes are used on the modern race horse. A set of four aluminum shoes weighs eight ounces. A horse wearing steel shoes carries twice that weight on his pounding hooves. The blacksmith said the average thoroughbred isn't as difficult to shoe as people believe. "They have been wearing shoes since they were colts and as a result are pretty accustomed to being shod," he said.

Mr. Smith bemoaned the fact that blacksmithing as a profession is being taken up by only a small percentage of the present generation. "Maybe it's the lack of glamour and prestige," he added, "but when I was a boy almost every kid I knew worshipped the blacksmith and wanted to grow up to be just like him. "Then again maybe it's just too tough a job for the modern-day youth. Being a good blacksmith requires plenty of hard work and clean living and you can't learn to hold strong horses by been all night in the corner saloon." isn't making any money in caring for the, children.

ALTHOUGH Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz now have two boys under their wings, they don't confine their foster parent activities to the male sex. They have taken several girls to care for until they could be returned to their parents. One of the two boys they are now carrying for has a crippled foot, but officials of the home say nr-diral aid he is getting from them coupled with the care he is receiving from Mr.

and Mrs. Schwartz is curing him. Miss Nola Pooley, Supervisor of Foster Homes for the Children's Home, has nothing but praise for the farmer and his wife. "They treat their foster children exactly as their own," she said. "Their contribution to the community is great because they provide a normal, healthy home- 'life for children who would be deprived of it oherxise." in Cincinnati.

And the popular James Melton made his operatic debut here. A PROMISING young singer was accepted for a role in the Zoo Opera a few years ago. Then unknown, Dorothy Kirsten returns to Cincinnati opera this year a famous name in music. And it will be her first appearance here since she got her start on the boards at the Zoo. Two operas that were revived by the Cincinnati company in recent years have since gained a great measure of popularity.

Salome and Der Rosenkavalier have since become popular favorites at, the "Met" and on other opera stales. Another innovation this year is the dual settinc- Crand opera will be given at the same old stand in the Zoo. Operettas on Tuesday nights will be staged at Cincinnati Garden, where the capacity is greater and the property is impervious to inclement weather. So the opera's press agent hopet that the austere Metropolitan Qpera will implement its equally embarrassing financial structure by staging light opera at Madison Square Garden. A press agent has a constitutional prerogative dream.

Cincinnati is proud of its musical background. The old city has enjoyed" songs with its beer foi many years. And through thos years she has had lo be resource, ful. st times, to preserve hei great musical organization. But she still sings through her BY JOHN F.

CROXIV. (THE ENQUIRKR CITY EDITOR.) SUMMER OPERA soon will make its appearance again, but with some deviation from tradition. Tradition hai been a motivating force in Cincinnati's famous summer opera season. Yet, the association has shown initiative that attracts attention nationally to this landmark of the Valley. Great names of the opera and concert stage have made debuts here; old operas have been revived in Cincinnati; and a dual site enterprise is being undertaken this year.

But the most spectacular innovation yet achieved by the Cincinnati company seems to be th? revival last year of Rosalinda, an appealing operetta by Johann MraiiHX. Dormant for years, the work was revived last year by the Cincinnati Zoo Opera Association. It was taken up by the Metropolitan Opera Co. in New York; the "Met" is putting a special company on the road with the production; Concert Manager S. Hu-rok of the National Concerts and Artists is putting out a road show, too; and Columbia and Victor Records are boasting of their sales of Rosalinda albums.

The Cincinnati revival started something. But such achievement is not entirely unfamiliar to the city's musirol organization. Two of the opera stage's greatest Cat mens- Gladys Swar.hoiit and Rise Steven made their de-huts in the role on the Zoo staee. Grace Moore sang her first Tosca THIS BEING Father's Day, Farmer Fred Schwartz of Rural Route ,1, Morrow, Ohio, should collect a raft of presents. Since 1944, tall, black-haired Wr.

Schwartz and" his energetic wife have opened their rambling farmhouse to nine children who, for one reason or another, have become temporary wards of society. These nine plus the -three children of his own will pay homage to him today. The Schwartzs are foster parents working with the Children's Home, a Community Chest organization. Because the 150-acre farm they own is considered an ideal ei vironment for children, the Chil-itren's Home has authorized them to" care for three children at a time. Right now, Mr.

and Mrs. Slchwartz are providing a home Jof two teen-age boys whose parents are unable to support them for the time being. I The children are cared for by 1h? couple until their actual paints are able to begin supporting again. I For each child Mr. and Mrs.

Schwartz take under their nvif, 4b Children's Home pays them $7 Jweek to provide shelter and Jood. Medical care and clothWg wj-e provided by the home. In Jhfse days of zooming food prices. is apparent that Mr; Schwartz skill, such as rings, darts, fish ponds, etc. These boys pay off the carnival owner, but not the local fuzz because they are careful not to take more than $5 or $10 from a customer.

The hanky panks, flat stores and strong-arm joints have gimmicks, control devices, so that you can't win unless the operator wants you to. "As a matter of fact, the guys who cut silhouettes make more than I do," Robe asserts. "But my joint has more class than most and I don't have any trouble getting a spot, like the dishonest one." There are lots of good carneys. he says. They have houses and.