Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1941 — Page 9

MONDAY, MARCH 24, 194]

The Indianapolis Times

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Hoosier Vagabond

(Ernie Pyle has just returned to this country by Clipper. The following was written before he left London, and wirelessed to The Indianapolis Times.)

LON®ON (by wireless).—The time has come for me to start home. My duty has been done. I have

successfully carried out all my secret missions. I have rallied the British to a fighting pitch. I have told an assistant to one of Mr. Churchill's aids just what the next move should be. And I have a plan which, after a little more thinking over, may whip the night bombers. So I will now return to America and vote myself a commission in the rear guard. I came over here originally for only a month. Somehow that has miraculously stretched on into the fourth month, almost without my being aware of it. The truth is, I like it over here. But I don’t like any place as well as America, and I guess it's time I was getting out of England anyway. I don’t yet say “rather!” nor “bloody,” but I do find myself automatically looking in the right direction for traffic. Another month and I would probably be standing for Parliament from Hants. After three months in Great Britain I still have no fears about Britain's “sticking it.” Of course I would like to say that everybody was made of steel, that nobody ever got scared or panicky, and that every single soul was working himself to the bone for the war. But I have run into people who were petrified by bombs. I have one friend who loses several pounds during every bad raid. I have also been in some badly blitzed places where spirits were getting pretty low and people were wondering just how much more they could take.

No Defeatist Talk

I have found a good many stories of selfishness, of running away by people who could afford to run away. But none of these is expressive of the national character. What you have read in the daily papers back home about Britain's courage and calmness as a nation is absolutely true. Maybe there is something that would break them, but if so it hasn't been tried yet. Britain as a whole is of one mind. I have never heard any defeatist talk or appeasement talk. Even

By Ernie Pyle

on the Clydeside and in Wales I heard very little “this is a capitalistic war” kind of talk. : ‘It is my feeling that the people are ahead of the government in the national will to win; that much of the government still waits to cast a timid political eye at the tides of opinion and the shades of precedent before acting; and that only a few are of the stripe of Churchill and Beaverbrook, with the capacity for complimenting the people's intelligence by moving boldly. On the whole I have worked up a feeling, from 2000 milés of travel over Britain, that the war effort is not yet supreme. Thousands and thousands of people want to do something to help but are given no direction, no orders. The organization of the war effort seems to me to be far from perfect. Talent and time and desire to serve are wasted.

Peaceful Lulls Boring

As far as I could gather during my travels the mass of the British people aren’t thinking much about war aims. They haven't any very specific ideas of their own. They hope for a better world somehow, but they are pretty vague about it. The chief thought right now is to get the war finished, and then fix it so Germany can’t do this thing again to the next generation. The midwinter lull in bombing while Hitler was contemplating his next steps seemed to me a bad thing for the British people. It is human nature to get bored and complacent when nothing is happening. When the enemy is not about, then you're just fighting in theory. But when things are popping, you're excited and keyed up and working against time, and actually you feel better. I have felt better myself. For example—bhis may sound like affection but it isn't—when I returned to London after my travels around the country everything was quiet. Day after day went by with nary a bomb and only a few false alarms. And actually I got a sort of spring fever from it—a kind of jittery, aimless, do-nothing complex. I simply couldn't make myself get to work, But the minute the bombs started again, life seemed to come back into the old frame. There was purpose in doing things and work became interesting once more. In any crisis I am sure the British will come through. But you get awfully tired of sustaining the pitch between crises. I wish I could bring an air-raid siren home with

me to blow it at myself every once in a while—between crises.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

NOT SO LONG AGO this newspaper published a photograph of the Airport's “Fire Department’’—a, little truck of almost prehistoric vintage, which has been skilfully disguised to make it look like a fire truck. Well, Saturday a grass fire started at the Airport and out clanged the little truck to wage war on the fire. But right in the middle of al] the excitement, the truck caught on fire and the “firemen” had to stop and put out the fire on the truck. Real fire engines from town extinguished the grass blaze,

He Was Good, Too

COL. ROSCOE TURNER was guest star on a local radio program yesterday and the production man at the station did a lot of worrying about whether things would go all right. He wanted to be sure Roscoe got a lot of rehearsal and yet there was a bit of diplomacy necessary, he thought. Roscoe showed up just in time for a couple of short runthroughs and then went cn the air. He never muffed a word. The production man breathed a deep sigh and congratulated the colonel on his performance. Roscoe raised an eyebrow “Were you worried about me?” he asked. The p. m. admitted he had been. “You needn't have been,” grinned Roscoe. “I had my own program for 34 weeks before my accident, you know. Ever hear of ‘Skyblazers'?” The gentleman's face is still red.

From Here and There

MISS MARCIA FURNAS, head of the central library’s circulation department, was checking through

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 24.—If it seems unreason=able to Henry Ford or some other industrialists that they should be compelled to negotiate with organized labor, or if it seems unreasonable to labor unions that they are under public pressure to forget some of their petty quarrels, they should note what is happening in Great Britain. The British are in such a desperate position that they have had to give their government complete power over all property and over all persons. Just a few days ago Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor, broke the hard news that women would be conscripted for war work. Only mothers with small babies will be excepted. Others, regardless of economic class, must work at whatever the government orders. They may be sent to any part of the British Isles, many will live in strange surroundings, some in labor camps, and dainty hands will grow callouses. “It is a strange thing,” said Labor Minister Bevin, “to be happening in a country like this.”

Readjusting Our Ways

We are under no such extreme necessity as that which has moved England to these drastic measures with lives and property. Yet we are under some necessity to readjust our ways, our privileges and some of our rights, in order that the program the Government has now undertaken shall not be obstructed unnecessarily. Fortunately, as this is written, the stubborn strike at Wright Field seems to have been settled. There the A. F. of L. refused to work beside five C. I. O. electricians. Top officials of the A. F. of L. here deplored the tieup as much as the Army did and they made efforts to help a settlement, But they encoun-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday—Hidden away on the middle pages of the New York Times this morning were two items which I feel should be brought to the attention of as many people as possible in this country. One, a very small item on an inside page, told us that Hugh H. Bennett, Eye Chief of the Soil Conservation le © Service, estimated that because of soil erosion 45 per cent of our water supply now conserved by dams, would be completely wiped out in a hundred years. A hundred years may seem a long time, but it passes quickly. However, it does give us an opportunity to prevent anything of this kind happening in this country. Every person should watch soil erosion in his vicinity and insist that it be prevented by a Government project. Our water supply must be preserved for future generations. Industrial and agricuitural development depend on it. When we have progressed to the point of knowing what we should do, it will be nothing short of criminal if we do not do it. The second item was given a somewhat more Prominent position, and perhaps ecveryone was as

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a damaged book, “Speeches for Special Occasions.” the other day. She found that two pages had been torn out. One page contained a speech on “Civic Virtue,” the other on “Henesty.” Honest . .. ever since the photo of a very charming Howe High School girl appeared in The Times in connection with a school story, she has been besieged with fan mail. Boys from other city high schools have sought to strike up an acquaintance and she’s even had invitations to attend state fraternity dances in Indianapolis from out-of-town college boys. . . . It's getting to be about that time: We saw the first official car for the 1941 500-mile race parked at a downtown curb.

Around the Town

WE HEAR THAT Sheriff Feeney, a teetotaler, conducted a raid in the river area over the week-end, confiscated some liquor. And, believe it or not, the label on the liquor was “Sherriff’'s Rare Old Liquor.” Even Mr. Feeney chuckled over that one. ... We're told, ‘too, that out at Allison's they recently received another German plane motor for inspection. In this case, the Nazi ship had crashed in mud, and the boys at Allison's had to spend a good many hours cleaning off the mud before they could get close enough to see what the motor looked like. . .. It happened along E. New York St. The flashy, red coupe was trying to pass the black sedan, but the sedan wouldn't have it. The coupe honked but the sedan kept complacently

on the inner track. Finally ‘at State St. the red coupe started over the yellow line to pass and the driver of the sedan rolled down his window, “Get back there, you dope,” he shouted angrily. “You want to be another traffic death?” The red coupe followed orders.

By Raymond Clapper

tered the bitter feelings of A. F. of L. workers who regarded the five C. I. O. electricians as scabs. The electrical contractor engaged by the Army for the work at Wright Field has long been engaged in a fight with the A. F. of L., which holds that he signed an agreement with the C. I. O. at cut rates, and that the C. I. O. willingly dealt with him in order to make inroads on the A. F. of L. Several years of interunion warfare lie behind this incident. Yet it is difficult for an outsider to believe that such warfare should be carried over into work as urgent as this which was tied up at Wright Field. In this, as in other like disputes, the country as a whole seems entitled to expect both sides to reach an armistice for the duration and permit essential work to continue.

On Subduing Pride

It is a small sacrifice—and involves chiefly pride and prestige. The loss of pubiic favor through such prolonged controversies is a severe loss to the cause of organized labor and far outweighs any possible] gains that could be won through persisting in a strike. During the last few days comment has been increasingly favorable regarding the personnel of the new Defense Mediation Board. One of the most hopeful signs is the fact that the labor members seem temperamentally adapted. George Harrison, for instance, was chairman of the peace committee to negotiate for peace between the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. He worked up an agreement which was approved by Phillip Murray of C. I. O., and now one of the labor members of the new mediation board. The agreement fell through because John L. Lewis rejected it. To make this thing go, much good will is neces sary all around. In ordinary times good will is a scarce article in a labor dispute. But a question of patriotism is involved now, and good will becomes something more than merely a saintly luxury. It becomes a national necessity.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

shocked by it as I was, but it may be that they did not read the full storv. The time has passed, I think, when in any prison in our nation, whether controlled by local, state or Federal Government, any crime should be punished by lashes given by the warden on the prisoner’s bare back. It savors too much of concentration camps in countries which we do not wish to use as an example. This lashing was done in the presence of 75 people and the press reported how each man took it. I felt as though I was reading about the days of Henry VIII, in England, when people went to public whippings and hangings. The men were to serve a five-year term in any case for the crime or theft which they had committed. Not just the prisoners are affected by lashings. I Pyar walking around a state prison in another state with a man who carried a long horse whip. All the time, as I looked at him, I shuddered at the thought that he should have control over ‘any other human beings. Complete power over others is not good for any of us, but with the right to use a whip it is almost sure to degrade. Let us look into the laws of our communities to find out what they are, because such laws as this do not serve to rehabilitate prisoners or prepare them for a return to society as better men. Another beautiful day and a ride this morning.

British Are Cautious on

U. S. Men

Here are the first in a series of parallel dispatches by Mr. Morris and Mr. Wilson, who have just returned to the United States from tours of England and Axis countries.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS (Copyright, 1941, by United Press.)

The page boy snapped on a red light in the lobby of a. London hotel and put up a sign that read: “Air Alarm.” Across the street a little anti-aircraft gun fired three staccato rounds at the end of the air-raid siren’s wail. Through the lobby drifted the even voice of a news broadcaster: “The Admiralty regrets to

announce the loss of . ..” Beside me, a lanky, thin-faced man who knows as much about British foreign policy as anybody outside the Cabinet tapped on the table for emphasis. “We should be damn’ fools,” he said quietly, “if we did not want the United States in the war tomorrow.” His words were typical of a change that has come over the privately expressed views of British officiaildom as the winter war lull changes to bitter conflict in the air and on the sea. It is a viewpoint that a visitor may miss entirely at first but which comes into bold relief as you dig beneath the surface. Everywhere I went in England the first question asked by Cabinet ministers, commanders of the armed forces, businessmen, soldiers, pubkeepers and workers was: “What is the United States going to do?” And everywhere I asked the same people: “Do you want or expect the United States to get into the war?” For two weeks the answers seemed to be similar and to correspond to the official position originally put forward by Prime Minister Winston Churchill—that Britain wanted all material aid from the United States but not a declaration of war.

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Policeman and Lord Agree

One night in an air-raid shelter a policeman answered my question in almost the same words that had been used earlier at the luncheon table by Lord B——, who directs the activities of Home Guard troops in a vital defense area. “What would we do with an American Expeditionary Force?” both asked. “We don’t need American troops and we don’t want to have to feed them. All we want is material aid.” Then, as I prepared to leave England, I began adding up all of the answers I had collected. And in each reply, especially from persons in important government posts, I began to notice qualifications and changes. A trend began to emerge; a growing belief among well-informed Britons that an American declaration of war was desirable if not essential to prevent a German victory. Officially, Britain's policy continues to be one of seeking all aid as rapidly as possible. But the beginning now of a new German air and sea campaign that may be expected to reach unprecedented intensity this spring can only push forward the argument of those who favor American entry.

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Joe Alex Morris reports from the British side: British officialdom wants America in the war tomorrow, but makes

the suggestion indirectly and cautiously,

They believe it would be a

devastating blow to the German people, a stimulant to conquered coun-

tries. believe the war will be won or lost

They want more destroyers, more submarine chasers.

They in the Atlantic where this remark-

able picture of a British convoy was taken,

This is how that argument developed in my conversations in England with three influential persons: I

We had been talking for almost an hour when the depart= mental chief leaned back in his easy chair, gazed at the ceiling and asked: “Did you ever think that Hitler might gain an advan=tage by declaring war on the United States?” Look out, I told myself quickly, the propaganda machine is about to start grinding. “Well,” my host continued, “I don’t think that he will do it, but sometimes it gives me a sort of nightmare feeling because it might be a master stroke to offset the possibility of an American declaration of war on Germany. If war were inevitable, the Nazis might do it. “But in any event it illustrates the effect that American entry into the war would have on German morale. It would not merely be a matter of bolstering British confidence. It would be a devastating blow to the German people, who have not forgotten what followed American entry into the World War in 1917. “It would have about the same effect on the other peoples of Europe. Britain would find things much easier with Turkey, France, Spain and even the occupied states. They remember, too. “I sometimes think that it would bring a quick end to the war.”

A few days later a man whose job is of great importance in keeping the British war production machine in operation interrupted my questions to ask a few of his own. v “How long will it take American industry to hit its war stride?” he asked. “Do you think it can be done in time unless the United States enters the war and puts industry on a wartime basis?” As he went on it became obvious that they were not so much questions as they were doubts. And these doubts were more impressive because here was a man who knew the problem inside and out expressing an entirely different view from that given me repeatedly by the average Briton, who argued that American entry would cause the United States to keep war materials for her own. defense. . “I wonder,” he said, “if it will be possible for the United States to make her full war effort without a declaration of war. “It also seems erroneous to me to argue that America would hold

back materials from Britain, because if the United States were in the war Americans would be united behind the idea that Britain is their first line of defense and must be saved at all costs to keep the war on this side of the Atlantic. I think there would be more instead of less materials sent ere.”

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” ll. The third and most impressive sign of the British trend of thought came from a man who

has spent his life in the fighting services.

“We have the methods that will lick the submarines just as we did in the World War,” he said. “But we need more destroyers and chas=ers to do it.” If all other factors were ignored, the need of Britain for small warships to fight the great Nazi U-boat and air siege would be enough to convince many Britons of the desirability of Amer= ican entry into the war. In addition, merchant shipping is urgently needed. There is no tendency on the part of British officials to discount the gravity of the Nazi siege, although it is not emphasized to the British public as strongly as is the danger of invasion. Destroyers and chasers cannot be turned out overnight, but the United States Navy could ge into action in a hurry. And speed may be decisive to Britain this summer. The possibility that President Roosevelt will trade more destroy= ers to Britain or that American warships will convoy part way across the Atlantic emphasizes the importance of bolstering the protection of British life lines. One argument advanced against American participation in the war is that the United States Navy would be kept busy guarding the Pacific Ocean because of Japan's ties with the Axis. But in British minds the Atlantic is where the war will be won or lost. If it is won, the Pacific problems can be dealt with later, If it is lost, the Pacific won't matter to Britain. In all of this, the problem of an American Expeditionary Force is left in abeyance — but nobody doubts it would arise eventually. Air personnel might be of vital importance to Britain this summer but Britain does not want any American troops (other than a possible token unit) in the British Isles at present. Campaigns in Africa and the Balkans present a different problem, however, and if Britain is to carry the war by air, land and sea to the Continent at some future date there will be an urgent need for unlimited numbers of. fighting men.

CONVOY TALK STIRS LONDON

Officials Upset Over Fact That U. S. Stories Name Possible Ports.

Copvright, 1041, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, March 24—Reports from Washington that the United States is considering escorting ships to Europe by way of Labrador, Greenland and Iceland, with American bombers, has created quite a sensation in London. Such a plan might be feasible and effective if the proper air bases were available and, of course, the general public has not stopped to consider whether such is the case. Officials and newspapermen here are not as much interested in the

nature of the reports as in the fact that, right or wrong, they should be printed. They are particularly interested in the fact that the American stories should mention Aberdeen as the probable terminal of any such convoy route, and they wonder when the Germans are going to start plastering Aberdeen with their bombers. With all due respect to the highly competent, legitimately inquisitive correspondents, who produce such stories, the British are wondering once more when people on the other side of the Atlantic are going to learn to keep their mouths shut about important military information. If, they point out, the United States and Great Britain are going tc develop a far northern route, it is of the utmost importance that the Germans be kept in the dark as long as possible. American newspaper correspondents stationed in London are becoming extremely fed up with the manner in which stories which the censorship prevents them from sending—often for extremely ade-

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soming all over the front pages of the newspapers at home. The British Broadcasting Corp. also was guilty of another indiscre-

tion when Air Commodore R. V. Goodard broadcast the strictly confidential fact that the Germans had been missing a good many of their targets in recent raids on port cities. “Many bombs are dropped on the ports, but by far the greater number fall wide, often miles away. There are a variety of reasons for this, reasons of navigation and of weather, reasons of character and reasons of defense.” Newspaper correspondents never have been allowed to say such things as that and the reasons for the ban have been good enough to convince even them,

83% AT INDIANA U. EXPECT WAR IN ’41

Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 24. —As far as 83 per cent of the students at Indiana University are concerned, the United States will go to war Oct. 27, 1941. A survey conducted by the Daily Student, campus newspaper, disclosed that only 17 per cent think the United States can stay out. Students were selected at random with 84 per cent of the men and 82 per cent of the women voting “yes.” Men students selected the date of the U. S. entry into the conflict for Nov. 7; women chose Oct. 132.

Nazis View

Conflict As Incidental

By LYLE C. WILSON (Copyright, 1941, by United Press.)

War in Germany is businesslike, unspectacular, inconvenient and a strain on the capacity and nerves of the people. Any rubberneck American can discover that for himself with or without

the German language.

The war is businesslike because Germans seem to regard it merely as incidental to larger objectives. It is unspectacular because the war that Germans at home really know is a war of highspeed production and rigorously rationed consumption rather than a showy engagement of men and machines in the field or in the air. (The real war of bombs and bullets has not been brought to Germany proper, Air raids, yes, but they have been scattered and in many cases irregular.) The war is inconvenient because war needs and war effort take priority over practically every non-military, consideration from the repair of a watch-it will take as much as six months sometimes if you are a civilian— to the purchase of a house key, a liter of gasoline or a metal hinge.

Confident—Not Positive

The war is a strain on the capacity and nerves of the German people because they are not now merely in the 19th month of farflung armed conflict but actually in the 27th year of an era that began in August, 1914, with the start of World War 1, Twentyseven years of war, inflation, starvation, National Socialism, and a form of recovery capped by today’s war are enough to jangle the nerves of a brass Buddha, The Germans appear to be confident of victory in this latest war—but, of course, not everyone is positive of that.: One of the first things that strikes you about Germany is evidence that the boom is on. I counted 17 pages of help wanted advertisements in a single Berlin Sunday newspaper. There were jobs for every kind of skilled and unskilled worker, In looking over the social security set-up, I inquired what was paid in the way of unemployment benefits. “We don’t pay unemployment benefits,” I was told. “We just get the worker another job the same day.” There is, in fact, more money in the pockets of the German people than there are goods and services to be purchased there. So Germany is a seller's market today, a boom-time bonanza—except that the Government has fixed prices, fixed rents, fixed wages and permits corporations to earn not more than 6 per cent on pain either of reducing their prices or lending the surplus earnings to the state for the conduct of the war,

Enough But Not Fancy

I began my discovery of Ger-many-at-war in Munich. Getting into Germany these days—and getting out—is no simple matter. I flew in from Lisbon by way of Madrid and Barcelona in a series of two-hour hops and two or three-day lay-overs—a rate of progress which is typical of wartime transportation in Europe. The big Junkers plane crosses the Gulf of Lyon and soars up the valley of the Rhone River in unoccupied France to a point north of the mountains bristling in a semi-circle around the northern borders of Italy and Switzerland. Then the plane swings east over Belfort, France, to Germany and the customs control station at Munich. There is no pampering of passengers on the German Lufthansa’s Barcelona - to - Berlin flight. There was a 65-cent breakfast; four thin ham and sausage sandwiches, an apple, an orange, coffee, sugar, and skimmed milk. Finally we reached Munich long after noon. A hot meal was what I wanted and a sausage sandwich for 20 cents and a bottle of beer was what I got. That was all there was to be had at Munich's splendid new airport, but it was enough, which is fairly typical of German food today—enough but nothing fancy. Airport attendants seemed surprised when I asked about air raids, but said they had them lightly about once a month dur-

Lyle C. Wilson reports from the German side: —War in Germany is businesse like but it would jangle the nerves of a brass Buddha, It is 17 pages of help wanted ads in the Sunday paper and six months to replace a house key. It is a seller's market, a boom-time bonanza—potato and carrot soup and unrationed beer. Here German women are shown arriving at a factory for work. Their children will be cared for at a kindergarten.

ing good weather. Upward of a dozen camouflaged German mili tary planes were on the field, however, just in case,

Carrot-Potato Soup

At the customs barrier officials took it as a matter of course that I was bringing into their country quantities of soap, coffee, and shaving things for myself and members of the United Press staff in Berlin, and silk stockings, a girdle and such like for the American girl within the United Press circle there. They -carefully counted and weighed every “article except the stockings, and assessed a stiff duty on the lot. They returned my passport and gave me a receipt which testified that I had stepped over the in= visible line which separates Ger= many from the outside world. Two hours later the big Junkers finally was grounded in Dresden, unable to proceed to Berlin because of bad weather in the north, Every restaurant in Germany must have on its daily menu at least one dish which can be obtained without food tickets. In the big Dresden railway sta tion that dish was potato and carrot soup, thickened a bit and served hot in a huge bowl. Beer is unrationed, and with the soup we also had bread, although food tickets normally are demanded for that. The Berlin-bound express train from Vienna was what I had railway tickets for, but the wise bag« gage porter advised strongly that I take a local train for Berlin scheduled to leave about the same time. The express does the Dres=-den-Berlin run in three hours and the local requires five, but the porter explained that expresses from the east were running up to 13 hours behind sched ule during the winter months,

Congestion in the West

So far as I know, that express train has not reached Berlin yet, although it doubtless did arrive sometime the following day. The secret of its delay was partly heavy snow and cold weather but more significantly it marked a flood tide of military movement southeastward toward the Bale kans. That was in mid-January and since that first night in Germany I learned all through traffic from the east was many hours delayed, the reasons for that mass military movement became increasingly clear as German troops surged in and over the Balkans. Some six weeks later when I left Germany there wera symptoms of similar congestion of transportation to the west, toe ward the occupied areas of Belgium, The Netherlands, and France from whose Channel and North Sea ports any invasion of Great Britain would be launched. Train traftic from the west was not greatly impeded when I left Germany. But the military authorities were canceling pere mits for civilians to visit the oce cupied regions and Channel ports, explaining that transportation conditions made such permits une desirable. I know they were being canceled. They canceled mine.

Seeks Artists’ Aid in Hiding Plants Vital to U. S. Defense

KANSAS CITY, Mo. March 24 (U. P.).—Keith Martin, director of the Kansas City Art Institute and one of the nation’s leading authorities on industrial camouflage, today called upon artists and art students to help hide big new defense plants from enemy bombers. “There are a lot of artists who think that they are not temperamentally suited to such work, but I think that their contribution to national defense can be as valuable as any group or profession.” Mr. Martin, who will conduct a conference with engineers, construction experts and officers of the War Department here this month, said that there was as much need for speed in developing camouflage as for actual production of defense materials. “As soon as we put up our big plants we had better get them hidden,” he said. “President Roosevelt, for all practical purposes, has declared war on the Axis powers, and the sooner we realize that we are vulnerable to plane attacks, the better off we will be, even though the immediate probability of attack is remote.” Mr. Martin added it takes a real artist, one with practical talents, and great adaptability to become a camouflage expert, and at present there are not enough men fitting these qualifications to camouflage

the big industrial plants in a single city,

His plan, which he has outlined to the War Department and to Lieut. Col. Homers St. Gaudens, chief of the Army’s Camouflage Re= search Department, calls for imme= diate development and training of hundreds of young technicians in classes similar to the one he cone ducts at the Institute, At that class 60 students are studying problems of terrain, vege= tation, landscaping, construction work, change of seasons and natural protective coloration. Mr. Martin says that when the students complete ‘their courses they will be trained to go vo any city in the nation and supervise the setting up of similar training projects. In that way, he believes, the actual work of industrial camofliflage will be so well underway within a year that the more vital plants will be “hidden away” shortly thereafter.

MILK DELIVERIES ON SUNDAYS WILL STOP

Sunday milk deliveries will be discontinued beginning = April 13 and a six-day milk delivery schede ule will be put into effect as the result of a survey by distributors among customers. The new schedule will give the milkman Sunday, off but there will be no reduction in pay, distributors said,