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LONDON . (by wireless).—As a ‘whole pictuge, life in London's: public air-raid shelters reminds me of _nothing so much as our own makeshift depression . camps at home, : i . They sprang up suddenly out.of a desperate heed = .. and amid considerable.chaos. Like our camps, they are gradually getting better: . As. in our Okie * camps, the people have set up a form of self-government. They elect their own leaders, and they have committees and representa‘tives who sit on higher councils for making ‘shelter rules and de-

manding better conditions —and -

God knows there is plenty of room for better conditions in some of the shelters. - The body heat of thousands of. ; packed people makes some shelters stifiing. In others, deep beneath stone arches and with concrete floors, the chill dampness is deadly. At one church in Stepney people were actudlly sleeping until recently in stone coffins that once held corpses. | It wasn't udtil my second week of visiting shelters, when I was taken purposely to certain places, that I saw. what a modernized shelter can begin to look like. Let's take the borough of Stepney as an example of what they are trying to do, ‘This Borough of a quarter of a million pedple has 300 shelters. They are not at regular intervals, but they are never many blocks apart. Most of them are hot marked. At night you just have to know ahead of time which door to go in. i . Out

Want Shelters Thinned

All these basements are leased by the. borough. When the blitz started they weren't ready, and ever Pe they've been working on these basements right

the midst of all the people,.trying to make them

now. Stepney has a program. nstantly being rented and conjen the program is finished, “if it is ever finished, théy hope to have 500 shelters. Both for safety from. bombs, and for reasons of health, they want to| disperse—to get the shelters thinned 6ut. Under the new program they pick a strong basement, then work on it for weeks until ‘it is fully ready before letting anybody in. < At first it is shored up with a maze of brick walls, hich also divide the basement into rooms housing Then wooden bunks are in= stalled in rows. The ceilings are sealed with concrete

more habitable. But - More basements are C verted into shelters.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

THE NEXT TIME you start grumbling about the Thursday evening restaurant crushes and wanting to know why all the maids have to have one evening in particular off, give just a thought to the “1-Go-U-Go Club,” which is composed mostly of maids and which i meets every Thursday evening to play (of all things!) bridge. The club also includes a few telephone operators and stenographers and once each year stages a benefit party to raise funds for Christmas. (The party is tonight at the Citizens’ Gas Auditorium.) Last Christmas, the girls used their fund through The Times’ Clothe-"A-Child campaign. - ' The problem of prizes appar=ently has been bothering Miss Leone Thimling; the president, and ; Miss Lulu Roédel, who is in charge of prizes, because they've just confided that the game

. winners definitely will not receive dish mops, table

“service or bed linen, State Planning for Defense

THERE WAS AN AIR of mystery about the Indiana Civic Association meeting at the “Claypool yes <erday. That was because few knew what it was about or who was running it. The general bewilder-

' ment increased when Federal -and State officials be-

gan arriving and talking about national defense

planning.

For your information, the convention was just

_ what it looked lke: A citizens’ movement .to bring about her

about State planning during defense industrial ex-

‘Washington

: ‘WASHINGTON, Feb, 6—In upholding the .consti-

". futionality of the Wage-Hour Act, the Supreme Court . gives new vigor to democratic processes.

“The Supreme Court has not-approved the WageHour Act. It-has only said that Congress had a right to pass'it. . 1. That's real progress in restoring the legislative branch to its rightful place in the democratic system. . This is particularly helpful now when, because of other circumstances; we are compelled to lodge unusual power in presidential hands and to an extent shortcircuit normal legislative action— as in the Lenc-Lease Bill. So far as the Supreme Court is concerned, this decision marks a full retreat to its proper place in. the American . 2 system—after a ‘long period in which it usurped control over legislative policy. Some of the justices who joined unanimously” in affirming the constitutionality of this law may not, personally, believe it is a wise law. I don’t know, and it doesn’t. matter whether as individuals they would have voted for such a law or not. The point is that the court now takes the position that Congress determines policy, not the court. Associate Justice Stone, who has been a monument of enlightened conservatism on the Court throughout the recent tempestuous years, said in the opinion that “the motive and: purpose of a regulation. of Interstate commerce are matters for legislative judgment upon the exercise of which the Constitution places no. restriction and over which the courts are given no control.” Court Attitude Changes That sounds like common sense but the Court did not always take this view in the past. If it had done so, much M toe controversy that tore the country apart might have been avoided. For years a majority of the court, loaded with reactionary hardshells who acted as if they thought they were United States Senators instead of judges, attempted to exercise legislative powers. They hid behind the pretext of interpréting the Constitution.

\ ” y —s ' NEW ¥ORK, Wednesday. —On leaving the very pleasant lunch given by Mrs. Frank Walker yesterday, I'went to the Calvary Baptist Church, where an

afternoon seminar on the migratory worker was

--going on under the auspices of the National Christian : sMission. The churches have been : working for some time on this problem; and I feel it is a very good thing for all of us, no matter to what speeial denomination wg may belong, to join in-work . Which translates into actien the spiritual beliefs we hold. Over the: banisters, as I came out of’ the church, a little old lady called 3s mei French. I answered her in her own language, for I think one must ‘have a hunger sometimes, when in a for- ‘ eign land, to hear other people language of your birth. From there I went receive a h from William C. Ruxton, president British-American Ambulance Corps, Inc. A ‘of the one given to me sent to n=

| THURSDAY, FEB. 6, 1941"

By Ernie Pyle

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so water can't seep through. The floors are concreted Af they were rot already. A first-aid room is installed, with medical supplies. Banks of modern private toilets are buili, - Some shelters even have shower baths. For the disinclination of poor‘people to bathe ts worrying the doctors. E Canteens are installed so the shelterers can get something warm at a reasonable’ price. Last, and best of ‘all, a .system of forced ‘ventilation is put in. It is really air-conditioning—it can blow in either hot or cold air, and suck out dead air. That is what Stepney is shooting at. And other boroughs are, too. . 8 i - » , > . Church ‘Finds’ Religion The churches have really done a great work .in this shelter emergency. Many thousands of people are spending their nights in the lower depths of strongly built churches. ‘ In ‘fact, of all the public shelters I have seen I like best one in the basement of the Church of St. Martin’s in the Fields, in Trafalgar Square. “This old church is known to all American tourists who have been in London. Until a year and a half ago its extensive crypts, like wine cellars, were filled with the bones of the ancient dead. But thé yecigt had these taken out and buried elsewhere, ghout 18 months ago, preparatory to using .these rooms for social activities. ey got the job finished just in time for the ‘war. J , The newly emptied crypts made perfect air-raid shelters. . The crypts are filled with double-decked bunks. Central heating has just been installed. Also banks of new private tollets. Everything is delightfully clean. There is a séparate crypt for mothers wi small babies. There is an all-night restaurant fo people in uniform. There is a canteen for civilians. You don’t. have to listen to a mission sermon, either. There are billiard and pingpong tables in the big central hall. It is more like a clubhouse than a church. ; St. Martin's can sleep 500 people. Although it is in the rich West End, anybody can come. And anybody -does--well-dressed men of the world, old Jewish mothers, soldiers) girls, and a great run of just average people like you and me. You warm to St. Martin’s. as you do to a new acquaintance whom you like immensely. There is character here. , hy When you see 2 church with a bomb hole in its side and 500 pretty safe and happy people in its basement, ancl girls smoking cigarets inside the sacred walls: without anybody yelling at them, then I say .the church has found a real religion.

80 Per Cent

Live Here By Earl Hoff

FROM A WELTER of statistics gathered by school faculties there is emerging a composite picture of the 1930 graduate 10 years later. :

man still living in Indianapolis with an income of $35 a week. He is a ‘solid citizen who enjoys reading technical magazines and best seller novels. From a 10-year perspective, he believes the study of English aided him most in finding a job and in getting satisfaction out of life. ° Behind these simple statements lie long months of research by high school teachers, who, armed with questionnaires, sought out by mail and personal contact the nearly 2000 who got diplomas from six city schools in 1930. They found 1200. The hundreds of answer§ were heaped on the desk of H. L. Harshman, administrative research director for public schools. Dovetailed by Mr. Harshman at the di rection of Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan, they form a document that school officials say will help them guide boys and girls of today. : ” 2 ” THE SURVEY WAS made during the last months of 1940. One of the most significant reports made by the 60 per cent of the graduates contacted was that 92.8 per cent of the men and 40.7

pansion and afterwards. - The man who organized the thing is Lee Ninde, a Ft. Wayne realtor. Purdue Has taken an interest in the movement and the National Resources Board is co-operating.’ :

Here end There

OUR LOCAL REAL ESTATE men are showing a fondness for Florida vacations. In the South are Bob Kershaw, Maurice Mackey and Bill Kingdon. Just returaec is Bob Allison. . . . It’s just ‘come to our attention that Capt. Bob Dietz of the Butler. basKetball team: is almost certain to set a new all-time scoring reccrd for the Bulldogs. Most points scored by a player cluring his three years’ was 464 by Oral ‘Hildebrand. Dietz now has 459 and a couple of .games to go. . . . Ownie Bush has just purchased himself a new auto, a DeSoto. . . . The folks out Arlington Ave. way are all jittery about the new Naval Ordnance Plant. A surveyor was sighted the other day and now the folks are cordvinced the moving in of the machinery is overdue. :

Surprise for Daddy : SUSAN McGRAIL, daughter of Ed McGrail, Amerjcan Legion publicity director, has a surprise in store for daddy when he returns from New York where he has beer on business for the past month. It is a complete diary she is keeping on a slight case of mumps, duly recorded in Susan's records under the heading: of “Bumps.” ‘Daddy telephoned the family from New York last night, but Susan insisted that mother say -nothing “pumps.” “We'll keep it as a surprise until he gets back,” Susan told mother.

By Raymond Clapper

Like the ancient oracles reading the entrails, they found whatever they went looking for. They. wrote their own éccnomic predictions, as Justice Stone said in the celebrated AAA decision, into their opinions. That is what has caused 90 per cent of our court trouble. The Court was in politics—making public policy instead of leaving that to Congress. : Eighteen years ago the Supreme Court held that Congress could hot legislate: to exclude from interstate cornmerce goods produced by child labor. That was in the notorious decision of Hammer V.: Dagenhart.’ The Court found half a dozen reasons why the original Child Labor Law was unconstitutional under the commerce power. This week the Court unanimously, threw out that decision as totally out of order, repudiated it by name, and in upholding the Wage-Hour Act said flatly that the Constitution gave Congress control over interstate commerce and that Congress could employ that cbntrol in any way it desired. ; Self-Restraint All Around In the labor case, which brought a union jurisdic‘tional dispute before the Court. under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, the Court, with two Justices dissenting, disqualified indictments brought by. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold against officials of thé carpenters’ union, holding that the Sherman Act did not apply to inter-union disputes of this character in view of the restrictions enacted subsequently in the Clayton and Noryis-La Guardia acts. Both the majority and the two dissenting Justices sought Wo read the intent of Congress. The majority upheld the Court in quashing the indictment, leaving it to Congress to say specifically if it -wishes this kind of dispute brought under the ban. The labor case is not clear cut on the point, but in the wage-hour case the Court moved sharply toward a policy of judicial self-restraint which Attorney General Robert Jackson pleads for in his recent book, “The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy,” and which Justice Stone urged upon his brethren in one of his decisions during the heat of the court fight. Judicial self-restraint, legislative self-restraint, executive self-restraint—self restraint-all around! That is the cornerstone of democracy. Without it democey works badly.” With it democracy can do any-

By Eleanor Roosevelt

committee, Here in Washington they are trying to raise- $25,000—the $1000 was handed to Mr. Ruxton today for the purchase of a flying ambulance to pick up aviators shot down at sea. Fs Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hawkins of Reno, Nev., arrived to spend last night with us, and we had the ' usual small’ dinner preceding the Congressional reception. After the reception was over, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., and I left on the night train for New York. We breakfasted in my apartment in New York and at 9 o'clock Rose Schneiderman of the Women’s Trade Union League joined us there. We started at once for Greénpoint, Brooklyn, where I had promised to speak for a.few minutes to the girls who have been on strike at the Leviton factory for a great many weeks. : . We are now starting én our drive to Amherst, Mass. Both of us are armed with fur coats and warm clothes, though I confess it seemed impossible to beLieve ix Washington that it could really be cold up We heve had a warm winter so far in Washington and I have been able to sleep with both my bedroom windows open. My bed stands between them, so when the wind blows I sometimes am awakened in the middle of the night by swishing curtains over my face and shades and papers blowing off my night . tablel Lian tana

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per cent of the women were. in private employement at the time of the survey. [ The small number of the women employed was accounted for by the fact that 73.9 per cent were married and only a third of the married women continued in-their

jobs. Of the 399 men who reported on their wages, the average was $35.34 a week. The average for 222 women was $22.72. Many of those who did not report were professional and small businessmen, Mr. Harshman said. Theif incomes: might have boosted the average. : Twenty-five per cent of the men and 23 per cent of the women em=

Ten Years After

The average 1930 Indianapolis high school graduate still lives in the City. ’ « Nine-tenths of the men and four of every 10 of the women: are working in private employment. The average weekly wage of the men is $3534 and the women $22.72. Two of each of the 10 graduates own their own home. More than seven of each 10 are married and only 4.1 per cent have been divorced. More than four out of 10 attended college.

WILLKIE FLYING SOUTH ATLANTIC

Due to Reach West Indies Tomorrow; "€riticizes Nazi Government.

LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 6 (U.P.). —Wendell L. Willkie was en route home today aboard the Pan-Amer-ican’ Airways. Dixie Clipper to tell Americana what he had seen and heard in a nine-day, whirlwind tour of inspections and conferences in Great Britain, \ Flying the airline’s new South Atlantic Toute, the Dixie Clipper is due in the West. Indies tomorrow morning. Leaves Note for German People In London, the Ministry of Information disclosed the text of a message Mr. Willkie had left for transmission to the German people. It was understood that a British Broadcasting Co. official had asked Mr. ‘Willkie if he pad any message he would like to send to Germany and that Mr. Willkie had written the following note for the B. B. C. to transmit to the German people: “I am purely of German descent. My family name is not Willkie, but Willicke. My grandpagents left Germany 90 years ago because they were protestant against the autocracy and demanded the right to live as free men. I, too, claim that right. I am proud of my German blood, but I hate aggression and tyranny.” . Protests ‘Lust for Power’ “Tell the German people my convictions are shared in full’ by an overwhelming majority of my fellaw

untrymen of German descent. They, too, believe in freedom and human rights. Tell the German we German Americans reject and hate the aggression and lust for power of the present German Government.” . After Mr. Willkie reached Lisbon safely yesterday the British Government disclosed that a squadron of fighting planes had been sent to escort the commercial plane on which Mr. Willkie rode, but the sky was so cloudy it was doubted that the fighters ever found the ‘commercial liner once it had taken

HAWAKA PLANT °

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WASHINGTON, Peb. 6 (U. P).— The War Department has awarded a $283,658 contract to the United

Ind. A contract for $234,432 worth of electric equipment

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In a huge study hall at Tech High dianapolis high schools of the class of

ployed were working in the cler< ical-sales field.

THE OTHERS WERE scattered throughout a wide variety of occupations, bearing up the contention of officials that'a broad curriculum is necessary in 'Indian< apolis schools. A definite correlation between high school grades and income

was noted. Men who had an A :

average were earning $38.72 a week; those with B average earned .$3596 and the. C pupils were earning an average of $30.90 a week.

The same ratio was noted for

women, those with A averages earning $2734 a week, the B pupils making $2143 and the C students earning an average of $17.36 each week. Approximatély - 80 per cent of . the 1930 class continued to live in Indianapolis. Nearly 19 per cent ' owned their own homes and 30 per cent continued to live with relatives. : } ” i" o THIS FACT, Mr. Morgan said, the City’s investment was being paid back ! educated citizens of the community. - Vio, 3 The 71 per cent of the men and

' ‘women who. married after gradu-

ation had a’ low divorce average ‘of only 4.1 per cent. The national ‘average is six per cent. An inverse ratjo was shown between marriage and average des. ‘Only 37.5 per.cent of the béys who made As were married whereas 75.3 per cent .of those. whose grade average was C were

Sendte Refuses

To Laud Willkie

INDIANA’S REPUBLICAN ‘Senators gave the .cold shoulder to their 1940 “native son” Presidential candidate today in voting down a Democratic resolution commending Wendell Willkie for “his patriotism and service to the Republic in time of danger.” \ But the G. O. P. legislators insisted that they were the victims of a “partisan trick.” Senator . Albert Ferris (R. Milton) recalled that he pulled the same “trick” on the Democrats in 1937 when he offered a resolution commending Senator Frederick VanNuys, a Democrat, for his fight on the Supreme Court “packing” plan. The Democrats had to back down on that one, too. Senator Charles Bedwell (D. Sullivan) insisted he was sincere, however, in wanting to “express our appreciation to a. distinguished citizen of Indiana for his patriotismi and non-partisan devotion to his country.”

CONTRACTS “LET ‘FOR . 65° MILES OF ROAD

Contracts for construction of 65 miles of In roads, eight bridges and four grade separations were awarded by the State Highway Commission during January. James D. Adams, Commission , said the total contrach

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daily lessons. School officials hope that a survey of graduates of all Ine in preparing for an adult world. :

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In a survey of all Indianapolis high school graduates of 1930,

school officials found a definite correlation

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married. Out of line with the general correlation was the fact that 60 per cent of the men who were A-plus pupils ‘were married. The spme ratio applied to women. x Mr. Harshman interpreted this as indicating pupils with high grades postponed marriage because of college, Many of the girls with high grades chose a Sarcet rather than marriage, he Of the. high school graduates, . 40.8 per tent went to college and slightly more than half of .that number received college diplomas.

CITY BAR NAMES

George Eggleston to Manage Office; Operations To Begin Soon.

With offices at 224 N. Meridian St. nearing completion, the Indianapolis Legal Aid Soeciéty will- start operation soon, Jeremial® L. Cadick, Indianapolis Bar Association Legal Aid Commiftee ..chairman, announced today. : George W. Eggleston, Indianapolis attorney for 14 years, was society attorney-manager last night by Mr. Cadick at a Bar Association meeting. Mr. Cadick emphasized that (1) the Legal Aid Society was a separate - corporation apart from the Bar Association, and (2) that it was

for help. He said that already numerous re< quests had been received from ail over the state but could not be given attention until the society was ready to function. 3 . The society was formed several weeks ago after investigation of need for free legal service by the Bar Association. It is being: financed by the. Indianapolis Foundation, ‘ the Bar Association, and by. the sale: of memberships to. local attorneys. Mr. Eggleston was a deputy prose-

Chairman, cost of “all projects started last month was $3,078,000. - .

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Peb. 6— President Herman B Wells of Indiana University was reported here téday as the first choice for the presidency of the Universtiy of Minnesota. at SR But President Wells said he “could

Minnesota president, is to retire at the end

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Wells Won't Consider Taking Presidency of Minnesota U.

as a consequence, visited with them merely in an advisory capacity.” AL. 3, Dr. Wells.is the youngest state university head in the na He became acting president in June, 1937, following the resignation of William Lowe. Bryan, who now is president emeritus. By unanimous vote of the I. U. trustees on March

not ready to accept -applications |.

between grades and future

. DEFINITE CORRELATION between high school grades and the length of time spent in college was found. -Most who had been good high school pupils graduated from higher .institutions. : Puzzling to school officials, however, was the fact that a large number of 1930 graduates with high scholarship did not: go to college. They suggester three ‘probable causes: Lack of funds, no desire to go to college or quick opportuni

ty. to earn a-good living °

" without a college degree. Of significance to'school admin<

; HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 6 (U. P).— Marion Talley charged her husband today with offering to keep quiet

jon his accusations against her and

seven different men—if she'd give him $150,000 cash and custody of their child. : / The once buxom Missouri girl, who became a Metrovoolitan Opera diva, told the Superior Court she considered this offer hlackmajl, She turned it down. Her husband, Adolf Eckstrom, New .York music teacher, then named Edgar Bergen and six others, she said. He accused her of “acts of misconduct” with them all. That turned the! case of the Marion—who had to shed 25 pounds before the movies would consider her a few years back—into a transcontinental , name-calling contest. Prize was 5-year-old Susan, who wears glasses like her mother’s. Botlr parents want her. ‘Susan now is’ with: her mother in Beverly Hills, while a New: York judge deéides whéther she is fit to keep her, Eckstrom charged she is not, becdse of those seven men. They include, besides Charlie McCarthy’s boss, the late Rust Heinz, New York society’ man; Rhodes, the actor; Arthur Rosenstein, music coach; John 8. Keith, New . York attorniey; Jean Sablon, French singer, and‘ Aubrey Scotto, who produced Marion’s only movie. The 35-year-old Miss Tally, who is seeking a divorce here on grounds of cruelty, filed with the court am-

| plification of her charges against

TO’ BE REGISTERED

A ‘state-wide inventory of registered nurses for national defense

sorship of the United States Public Health Service.) >

'Blackmail,’ Marion-Talley LEGAL AID CHIEF]

NURSES OF STATE |

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istrators was the fact that less . than 30 per cent of men who made a C average went to college ' and less than 22 per cent of girls with similar averages had addie tional education. , - {io In planning courses for pupilg of this type, a program of traine ing which may ignore college ene trance requiremenfs and offer more specialized training fer busi«

ness and industry should be proe ‘= |

vided, the official concluded. : * 2 8 = ie ASIDE FROM COLLEGE, 153% ',per cent of the mén and 31.3 per | cent of the women took special , training after graduation, , The men listed English, mathe= matics, shop. and science courses as those which helped them most / to get employment. The women listed, ‘in .their importance, come mercial - courses, ' English, home economics and mathematics. As to courses which contributed to enjoyment of life, English’ and social sciences were first choice for both. ¥ 4 Women did more reading after high School, choosing special ine terest magazines.” The men liked technical periodicals. The choice

of both in novels followed the best .

seller list with “Gone With the

Wind,” “Grapes of Wrath” and na

* “My Son, My Son,” in the van. =~ = It would be dangerous to make J

too many gerferalizations from the a 10-year study, educators say, but they assert that the document is one of the most significant ever compiled by Indianapolis schools. It will act as a double-check gn the value of courses.

Eckstrom, whom she now called 2 charges. “w She said that in 1936 her huss

their child and the $150,000, or would see that she got some * licious publicity.” She, said turned him down. Three years la

of their child. Four months ago when she fil

said he told her that unless he Susan, he would file an naming her and the seven men. ‘= Miss Talley .added that sha turned him down again. Next, mori= ing she read in the papers his accusations.

"TEST ‘YOUR . KNOWLEDGE

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