Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1941 — Page 9

[ Hoosier Vagabond

SAN ‘piEGO, May 31 —There has been a lot of talk in various places about the Government throwing up gigantic new defense industries, bringing in thousands of people to run them, yet providing no places for these new people to live. Here in’ San Diego, for instance, men are ac- - tually driving 80 miles a day to work. Homeowners are buying double-decked bunks, putting them in their garages, and renting them out to aircraft workmen. The greatest eongestion is in the area around the aircraft plants. It

seems single men don’t: like to °

travel far to work, so they are jammed up as much as four in a room in rooming-houses near the plant. But the Government is doing something about it here. Jt is, in fact, building the biggest governmental housing project in America. It is creating a whole new city just outside of San Diego—yet within the city limits—a city of 3000 houses, which will hold at least 10,000 people. It is up on the mesa above San Diego, and you can see a long way from there. The place, so far, is called the Kearny Mesa project. It wasn’t started until last February. When ground was broken, it was absolutely untouched mesa, covered with high bush and lousy with “sidewinder” _ rattlesnakes. Today the houses stretch almost as far as you can see. The first families already have moved in. Building goes steadily on. More than 3000 men are work- - ing at it. The rattlesnakes, incidentally, ‘are putting up =a fight for their domain. They tell me there have been 90 workmen in the hospital this spring with rattlesnake bites.

Houses Are Permanent

This new city will be two and a half miles long, a mile and a half wide. It will have parks and playgrounds and churches. It will have two elementary schools,” and one Junior High School. It will have stores at each end, and in the middle. It is six miles from downtown San Diego and thers

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town ’)

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Charles Walter Jones, who at 38 is one of Indianapolis’ hardest working civic leaders and who probably has as many loyal “friends as any man in town. Charley Jones has been general superintendent at Block’s since November, 1936. For 12 years.prior to that ® , he was - employment manager at Lilly’s. i He happens to be one of the town’s handsomest men—a 180pound, six-footer with {friendly blue-gray eyes and a flourishing head of dark, wavy hair, just beginning to show gray at the fringes. He is an immaculate dresser and has excellent taste. His only eccenfricty in dressing is his ties. His friends say he is either extremely loyal to those who give him Christmas ties, or that there is something boiling within his rather quiet nature that expresses itself in his ties. He is not only an excellent talker, he is an excellent listener. When he is standing, talking or listening, he usually has one or both hands in his coat pockets.

He's a Hard Worker

HE IS A glutton for punishment when it comes to civic work and he has never been known to refuse a civic responsibility if it is within his power to take it on. He has been active in the Community Fund - for several years and for-the last few, chairman of major campaign divisions. He is on the.board of, and intensely interested in, the Goodwill Industries, on the board of the Y. M. C. A. and various other organizations. He never does anything to attract attention and: last winter when newspapers used his photograph several times in connection with civic affairs, it got his goat and "he requested them not to use it again. We don’t know what he’ll think about this. ; He was born in Marion, Ind,, March 23d, 1903, attended the Lafayette schools and DePauw. He had quite a variety of occupations before he got started in personnel work.

Washingto WASHINGTON, May 31.—~We are now smack up against the question—you and I as individuals—as to how much freedom of speech we should exercise. The ) question is whether, in the national interest, we should now refrain from saying some things that we might s have felt free to say a few days ago—before President Rooseyelt . spoke, Totalitarian government takes care of the free-speech problem by simply forbidding free speech and throwing violators into coéncen- + tration camps. Democracy ase sumes that its citizens are able to impose upon themselves voluntarily those restraints of speech which are necessary to enable the gove ernment to function effectively. We are in a new situation. Our country is now operating in a dangerous world situation. It is dealing with other nations and it is squared away ready to resist advances by Hitler out into the Atlantic. President Roosevelt has announced a policy, just as President Monroe announced the Monroe Doctrine. A Matter of Timing He has announced too that he will not wait until the bombs start dropping over here, for that would be inviting suicide. He has announced that he will take measures that seem necessary to insure delivery of war goods to England. Thus President Roosevelt has stated the "general - conditions under which he would take military action to protect our own security. Forty Senators and Representatives of the noninterventionist group in Congress met the day after ‘Mr. Roosevelt announced this policy. This group issued a statement calling upon citizens to “carry on with rerfewed vigor and determination the campaign to keep our country out of shooting war.” In the absence of any qualifying exceptions, it must

My Day

HYDE PARK, N. Y., Friday—We arrived herelast night just 15 minutes after my husband reached ‘home, which shows that there are some advantages to flying, for I left Washington three hours later than he did. He insists, however, that he accomplished a great deal more work on the way, and I haven't a doubt that is true. Thompson and I motored up from La Guardia Field, and it was quite evident that a holiday crowd was wending its way up the parkway. We passed one accident, but mo one seemed to be seriously hurt. On the whole, I thought the driving was fairly careful,

though a few cars whizzed past me

al a pretty rapid rate of speed. I see that Secretary Ickes is sting that we have gasless and universal daylight saving, thereby saving power. The gasless Sundays

rubber, but a considerable number of human lives. The power, however, if ‘it means fewer lights, will be hard on me, because 1 have acquired the. bad habit ' of working late at . When I don vanplasion 10 read is B to resist. _- A young crescen ‘moon added drive last night. Though

By Ernie Pyle

will he bus service. The whole ‘thing is costing a little under $10,000,000. The contract calls: for completion within 300 working days, whith means by mid- 3

The’ houses: are permanent—not of the semi-per- : manent Army cantonment type. They are compact and furnished with all modern contraptions. No two houses of the same design are put side-by-side. They sit. back from the street with ample lawn spate. “There isn’t a house with a garage in'this new city. Cars will have to stand out; the idea being, apparently, - that when people start buying these houses after the war, they cap build their own garages. For after the war the Government intends to sell the whole thing—not by the individual house, but to ‘private companies able to. take over large sections of 400 or 500 houses, which in turn will sell them to in‘dividuals. These 3000 houses will be rented now only to men doing - defense work—which here means largely the workers at Consolidated Aircraft.

Rent Raised on Pay

The houses are of three sizes—one, two hoe threerooms. The rental rate will not be based on size, but upon the occupant’s wages. For example: Wages $16 to $20 a week—house rent $14 a month. Wages $24 to $30 a week—rent $20 a month. ! Wages $36 to $44 a week—rent $30 a: month. Wages $44 to $52 a week—house $36 a month. Wages more than $60 a week—house for $50 a mon ae size of the house a workman gets depends not his salary but on the size of his family. A man can’t get a big house just because he can afford it. If ’you’re married, but childless, you get only a onebedroom house. Some other fellow might get a threebedroom ‘house and pay less rent than you do, simply because he had a big family and was making less. When this new city is finished, the Government intends to put up no more permanent Houses. But| i that doesn’t mean it has shut its eyes to future housing needs here.

For it has set the private building industry of San Diego a quota of 4500 new houses within the next six months, in addition to regular normal building, which alrendy has run over 2300 houses this year,

Woes of a Suburbanite

CHARLEY RECENTLY built a new home in Williams Creek and ha« been spending what spare time he has working on the grounds. In neighborly fashion, he borrows tools from the neighbors and has been mowing grass at 5:30 in the morning. It's a mistake to. mention the subject of grass to him. If you do, you'll hear a heart-breaking tale of woe on the difficulties of getting a good lawn started. He rides the Indiana Railways bus betweep home and the office and he is quite a hitchhiker, thumbing rides with some farmer or casual passerby. He is| usually late in starting from the office for the bus in the evening and ‘about once a week he has to grab a cab to catch the bus en route. His son, Nickie, 6 (whose birthday is the same as his), is a junior edition of Charley Jones and when he works in the yard, the little one follows him around, doing exactly the same thing. Also in the Jones family is a young lady named Nancy, now 12.

An Old Deep Sea Fisherman

HE DETESTS ANY form of violent exercise and abhors golf. His one sporting accomplishment is fishing and he is prone to talk about “the big fellow’ he caught in Florida last year. He enjoys a good stage show and likes to go to the movies ‘occasionally. His reading consists mostly of biographies, current event magazines, etc., and very little fiction. He likes ta play good records at home. He has a sweet tooth both for cookies.as well as candies, and when he goes home: at nights ore of the first things he does is poke arcund: the cookie jar. His pet peeve is gum-chewing stenographers. He cafi’t stand loud and unexpected noises and probably was the happiest man-in the city when fireworks were outlawed. He is not only a great story-teller (he will do anything to make a good story better), but a great kidder. Typical is the friend who joshed about ‘perfume. Charley promptly had a bottle of perfume boxed, done up elaborately and delivered by special messenger to the embarrassment of the josher. Then, too, Charley Jones has the nicest dimples in Indianapolis.

62% SAY NAZIS MAY FIGHT U. §,

Growing Number Doubts Hitler’s Reassurances, Gallup. Reports.

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director,. American 2 Institute of Public 0 PRINCETON, N:* i 5 31— That Adolf Hitler's speeches have failed to reassure Americans regarding Germany’s intentions to= ward this country, and that a majority of Americans think a vietorious Germany would eventually start 'a war ‘against the United States, are facts which emerge today from a na-tion-wide survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion. If Britain is defeated in the present struggle, | 62 per cent of ; those interviewed say they think Germany ‘and Italy will launch an attack on this country “within the next 10 years.” 28 per cent think there would not be such an attack, and 9 per cent say they are undecided. Voters in the survey were asked: “If Germany and Italy should defeat Britain in the ‘present war, ‘do. you think Germany:and Italy would svart a war against the United States within the next 10 years?” A Typical Remark

A typical reply is this one, from an Easterner in his 20’s: “We've got to expect an attack Sooner or later if Britain is allowed go down. After: all,- we remember that Hitler also said he had no more territorial demands in Europe -not so very long-ago.” Among those with- definite 'opinions the division was approximately 68 to 32. The development of American public opinion on: the whole issue of ' German intentions is « clearly marked in successive Institute surveys over the last three years. In the years before Adolf Hitler's rise it is probable that very -few Americans thought of Germany as a menace to the United Sttaes. But by March, 1938, shortly after Hitler’s march into Austria, the Institute found 40 persons in every 100 saying ‘they thought ‘the United States “would have to fight Germany again” during their lifetimes. Trend of Opinion By the time of the Munich conference ‘that autumn, the number expecting eventual hostilities had

By Raymond Clapper

be assumed that even under the conditions outlined by President Roosevelt, this group would oppose military action. The same attitude appears to have been taken by the America First Committee, which announces it will redouble its efforis to keep the country out of war. These groups, it appears, will exert every effort to arouse the country to opposition against any action unless the shells of Hitler should begin to fall on the soil of the Western Hemisphere. Then they would presumably consent to war.

National Policy Fixed So we have here a difference of judgment. The non-interyentionist bloc in Congress and the America First people think we do not need to do anything until

the shooting actually reaches American shores. Presi-

dent Roosevelt, with the support of his military and naval ‘advisers, of his Cabinet and of many others, we must act long before that stage has been reached. The Government takes one view. These Lindbergh groups take: the opposite view. : President Roosevelt has announced that his view will be put|t0 into effect. The other group announces it will =i to stir up the country to force the President to reverse his decision which already has been announced to the world. Is it in the interest of our national security that free speech should be exercised to that extreme limit? I think not. After long national debate the policy has been fixed. I believe that to agitate a popular rebellion against it amounis in effect to encouraging sedition. To expose and condemn Tailures and shortcomings in our defense program is another matter. The effect of that is to spur our preparation. To undermine popular support for the policy is to weaken the Gove ernment as it stands in the face of danger. To use free speech for that purpose is to pervert its usefulness to democracy. It is to turn it from a weapon of strengi into a shackle. - Xa 2

By Eleanor Roosevel?

scent of honeysuckle as greeted us along the Vir ginia roads last week, the air was filled with country smells and country sounds and I ehjoyed every mile of the drive. Today is a beautiful day, so ‘much cooler than Washington that I am almost This is not just a holiday, but a day on which we pay particular honor to those who died serving their country in the years gone by. The events of the present time give the day a special 1% Reales 1ast summers yr ‘I have often said that I wished we could. celebrate “If Germany and Italy should deon this day, not only our military heroes, but those|feat Britain in the present war, do who served their country in other ways during times|you think. Germany and Italy would of peace. It is, perhaps, harder to keep the spirit of (start ‘a war against the’ United self-sacrifice alive when no great crisis: confronts us. Stes within the est 10 eas?” A crisis is with us again, however, and I feel sure| that all our people will face inconveniences and ever sacrifices with a steadfast spirit. It is often much harder to live than to die, but if you must voluntarily risk death, the cause is important. I do not feel that the sacrfice of those Who|A ‘fought for democracy and believed they would end war in 1918, was in vain. What they stood for awakeried in a great many people a new conscience about the meaning of democracy. They did not, however, reach enough peaple to prevent the recurrence of some of the things which |fered a" severe heart attack at his hoped to eliminate from human life forever. Ilhome in Manesty, Cum

war’ actually came that a majority came to cexpect a relatively early challenge.

The following figures show the trend of U. S. opinion since the fall

Yes July, 1040 «58%

December March, 1041 vers 6 April 62

{auxiliary,

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Like Poppies in Spring, Tiny Flags Bloom Over War Dead

City Slackens Defense Pace for Day to Pay Homage to Those Who Fought for Ideals. |

Indianapolis took time out yesterday from its part in arming the nation to pay homdge to those who, in past wars, have died fighting: for their country and their country’s ideals. Tiny American flags, like so many poppies in spring, blossomed abundantly over the’ soldier graves in Crown Hill and other city

cemeteries. The Drum and Bugle Corps of the Maj. Harold C. Megrew Camp, Spanish War Veterans, sent martial music floating over the 700 graves left by the Civili War in Crown Hill and side by side, attending the services were O. N. Wilmington, 96,

and Aaron Royster, 97, two mem-|

bers of the. rapidly disappearing Grand Army of the Republic.

Other services held yesterday. in-| §

cluded those of the Sons of Spanish-| =

American War Veterans in Garfield Park; the Alvin P. Hovey Women’s

Relief Corps at Mt. Jackson ceme-| '

tery; the American War Mothers, Daughters of the Union, Woman's Relief Corps, the Sons of Veterans’ Service Star “Legion, American Legion auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of: Union Veterans and Ladies of the Grand Army. These services were held at the Monument. The Rev. Raymond G. Hoekstra, Calvary Tabernacle Church pastor,

||in ‘charge of services at the Monu‘iment said: .

“We have again: committed ourselves .to the defense of our liberty. We will resist any and all attempts to force upon us the pagan philosophies ‘that offend both. God and . . on the stones of this altar let there be inscri forever the high ideals and purpose of our sac rifice, hits, Hoeriy and freedom of worship.”

June Prockimed As Dairy Month

JUNE WILL BE “Dairy Month”

risen slightly. - But it was not until’

LONDON, May 31 (U. P).—8ir| Hugh Walpole, §7, novelist, has suf-

berland, it|

in Indiana by proclamation of Governor Schricker. The proclamation declared that products of the dairy cow furnish Indiana farmers with “the largest single. source of farm income.” Governor Schricker urged citizens, because of the cost of milk prod-

ucts and because of their nutri- |

tional value, to increase their. consumption ‘of milk and other dairy products.

SCOUT FAMILIES TO PICNIC The families and friends of Boy Scouts of Troop 72 will hold a picnic Sunday afternoon at the Indianapolis Boy: Scout Reservation. Mrs. C. C. Cook is in Sharge of arrangements. shite

1. Rally around the juke box!

Johnson of ‘the: WPA. 3 Registration is in charge of

One of the most exclusive clubs in- town today reported increased membership and buzzing activity. . It is the . Soldiers-Sailors-Ma-rines recreation center in the old traction terminal freight house which is open only to men in uni-

form and no ladies ‘allowed. The young ladies in the pictures

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Is the mecca: of the suldiors, sailors and marines, and it’s tree, we

Miss Fanchon: Fattig. Left to right:

Ferguson, Clyde Brewster. and Charles Hlinka.

were drafted to help get the center going, but since then—they’re taboo! The ‘center, which opened last week, is staffed by six WPA recreation directors. A. J. Thatcher, WPA recreation supervisor for Marion County is in charge. The center has several writing rooms, each with its own Station-

2, Private Robert Postal, en route. to. Tennessee, stops. to compose a Tove letter, aided by Miss mile )

Sergeants trwid "Chitwood, 1 I

ery. There is‘a music room with ‘a piano. - There are juke boxes and, free pinball machines. So— If you want to invite a service man for dinner— . If you want to furnish enters tainment at the Fort or Armory— If you know a soldier who wants to write a letter—: Call the Center.

lett said to the church members.

NEW YORK, May 31 (U. P)— LaGuardia Field pilots are “100 per cent loyal to the President” and have not, as recently reported, formed a “Copperhead Club” to support Charles: A. Lindbergh, Maj. Elmer Haslett said today. Maj. Haslett is director of the Bureau of Aviation of the New York City Department of Docks, which operates « LaGuardia Field. His statement was prompted by remarks made by the Rev. Homer=\, Tomlinson, head of the Church of God, who. with other delegates to. a church convention visited the airport and were greeted by Maj. Haslett. The Rev. Tomlinson referred to the passing of an old custom among members of his church of handling snakes to demonstrate their faith. “You have had trouble with serpents and copperheads,” Maj. Has-

“We have been advised that we have a Copperhead Club here. This is untrue. The knowledge and avia-

tion ‘talent at LaGuardia Field is

' HOLD EVERYTHING

learned: today. He had amv)

Deny LaGuardia, Field Pilots Organized ‘Copperhead Club’

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the best in the world. We resent, therefore, the reflection on the loy-{ alty of the airport personnel to the national: call,” Three weeks ago in.a press conference, President Roosevelt compared ‘the isolationist Lindbergh to copperheads of Civil War days and the flier ‘countered by resigning his| Reserve Commission in ‘the Air Corps. . Subsequently it was reported that a group of LaGuardia Field pilots had sént.Lindbergh ‘a tele-

offering 'to- form a Club.” After: his speech: to the church delegates, Maj. Haslett told report ers: “Of course I referred to Lindbergh. He is still a great aviator. This is just a flat denial that any Copperhead Club exists here. The pilots are 100 p per. cent loyal. to the Presien

opperhead

give full credit to Lindbergh as an aviator, but it is Lindbergh's job to

aviation only. Asked if “he ‘meant’ that Lind-

that the President had ‘declared a ‘state’ of unlimited national: emer-| gency, 3 Maj. Haslett replied:

MODEL FLIERS PLAN TREK TO LOUSHLE

the. contest ‘ fliers of

tion Forum of the National AeroThe Aero - Club’ “of Kentucky is

“There. is; no one who does not}: sign off now 'and buckle down tol

bergh’s speeches were improper now | pe 1—There are more male stammierers.

zes, | 1—=True. | 3-=Fictitious Tino snd. South Carolina

U. 5. 1S REAL HEAT

SAYS. LISBON PAPER

By JOHN T, WHITAKER '

LIEBON, May ie not

Germany, threatens, the Azores and

the Cape Verde Islands; says Voz, Catholic newspaper, here.. 3k Quoting President Roosevelt's are

gument that sea power will win the

war and that losses to British ship-

ping is the Anglo-Saxons’ gravest.

problem, th gram pledging their support and|Chcervations. | Lor Cee fWO.

It asks, first, whether Germany has sea power necessary to seize the islands and, .second, how

America thinks that her seizure of ;

lands will increase shipbuilding. The Catholic organ declares that Roosevelt cannot speak for Europe and adds the admonition that he can Sheak for the Americas “if they consent.”

“TE ST YOU R KNOWLEDGE

than female; true or false?

2—A mashie is’ used. in‘ ‘golf, tennis,

or football?

3—Was Sherlock Holmes a real or

fictitious character? '

4—Of which’ States are Springfield and-Columbia the capitals? .

5—For what degree do the initials

'D..D. 8. stand?

6—About one-ninth, one-tenth, ‘op’ one-eleventh, of the bulk of an

‘iceberg is above water?

: once, twice, or three times? Avswers j

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