Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1941 — Page 9

SATURDAY, JULY.5,

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" WASHINGTON, July 5.—Herbert Hoover has ' shown judgment that will be generally applauded in acting promptly .to squelch any idea that he is trying to climb back into office through opposition to the Administration foreign policy. The New York Daily News suggested editorially a Hoo-ver-Lindbergh Presidential ticket for 1944. Mr. Hoover ‘promptly replied

that he would never again accept

public office. It was a clear, decisive, categorical statement that should absolve Mr. Hoover completely from any suspicion of selfseeking in his present campaign But that doesn’t give any more sense to what Mr. Hoover says about our foreign policy. Sincerity is proof only of good intentions, not necessarily of good judgment. Mr. ‘Hoover's speeches reveal a refusal, as do Lindpbergh’s, to face the real -conditions in this world. He can’t see anything more in the Administration policy than an attemtp to establish the “four freedoms” everywhere in the world. He seizes upon a piece of Roosevelt window dressing and tries to base his case on that. The four freedoms haven’t much to do with what we are up against. The reality is that if Hitler, after crushing Russia as he seems to be “doing. then crushes England, he will be in a position. to close the oceans to us. We would stand as the only obstacle to Hitler's mastery of the world. He would not let us get away with that. Hitler is no sap. We would be able to venture off our shores only with his consent and on his terms. Take note of the Robin Moor sinking.

- What Lindbergh Wants:

Of course Col. Lindbergh says we can make. ourselves impregnable. His idea is that of a Western Hemisphere armed to the teeth with men standing around waiting for hostile planes to appear overhead or hostile armies to scramble up on the beach. When you see them overhead, or see them coming up on the beach, then cut loose. Lindbergh is asking for the kind of world in which we would never be free for

By Raymond Clapper

one instant from the danger of attack. He would have us standing around waiting for Hitler to make some move in the night as he did when he attacked Norway or when he atacked Russia, waiting with guns cocked for the fateful hour which Hitler would pick. Lindbergh doesn’t mention what our situation would be with Hitler in control of the British fleet, which added to present Axis ngva outclass us. He assumes that our fleet would always Je supreme on the ocean. He doesn’t. picture what our situation would be once a mightier naval force was in being and what would happen if it should overpower our Navy. |

The German Strategy

There is a good tip for us in the German strategy|

now. Germany wants the Ukraine, But Germany is not wasting time trying to “capture” the Ukraine. Germany is heading straight for the Russian Army. Hitler is out to bust it. Because once he busts the Russian Army, then the Ukraine and all Russia are at his command. Similarly, Hitler would attack us, probably, when he had the naval force which he believed would enable him to smash our Navy. Once he did that, then everything else would follow in due course. Why doesn’t Lindbergh discuss that Why doesn’t he discuss the whittling away of Latin America even

without direct military attack that would be possible |"

if Hitler won completely in Europe? Why doesn't he discuss: whether we can prevent Hitler, in event of his victory, from dumping arms into Latin America, arming those countries out of his surpluses and supplying his own technicians? Why doesn’t Lindbergh discuss how we can prevent Hitler from using such

tactics to encircle us without ever having fired a shot? | -

Lindbergh is living in a fool’s paradise. He {is deluding thousands of people who are not thinking for themselves, and who swallow his juvenile orations without chewing them over. Lindbergh for Vice President! Well, that’s not so bad. A Vice President can’t do much harm. But I'd want to se sure that the Presidential candidate had a doctor's certificate swearing that he would live through his term.

Ernie Pyle is on vacation. He will be back on the job Monday.

Inside Indianapolis 4nd “Our Town’)

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Meredith Nicholson, famed author, world traveler and diplomat who rarely finds cornbread the way he wants it except in In- _ diana. The world’s finest chefs haven't been able to break him of his idea that a. good meal consists of country ham, home baked beans and cornbread. Mr. Nicholson is now 74 years of age, a big (5 feet, 11 inches... 180 pounds) man with a magnificent carriage who carries his broad shoulders like a soldier. H& has a striking face, square cut, with a jutting chin and determined expression. Dignified, in manner, he sometimes gives the impression of austerity. On the contrary, his tastes are extremely simple and he is an immensely “human” person. He is one of Indiana’s three or four best-known literary giants. Visitors are always fascinated by ‘his smoking. He smokes cigarets chain style and talks with them in his mouth. His visitors can’t take their eyes off the cigaret as the ash gets longer and longer without falling. Finally, it falls, usually on his vest. Mr. Nicholson wouldn’t think of using an ash tray—not even if you surrounded him with them. .

That Old Gray Felt HIS IDEA OF “proper exercise” is walking. He prefers the city’s sidewalks to the country and the nearer the Circle the better he likes it. He always says he'd like to retire to a little farm to raise chickens and carrots, but his friends always laugh, and say that if ever there was a round peg in a square hole “it would be Nick on a farm.” Choosy about his clothing, he has all his suits ‘tailor-made and yet for the last 20 years, he’s hung on to a battered old gray felt hat, which he took to

South America with him. He’s had a lot of other hats in the meantime, but he always goes back to the old gray felt. He is one of those rare individuals who makes a real art of conversation. He loves to reminisce, but when he does, he has the ability to make his listeners

‘Prices’ Henderson

WASHINGTON, July 5.—Of all the headaches in Washington today, the man with perhaps the most thankless job in the whole defense set-up is Leon Henderson, administrator of OPACS, the Office of Price ‘Administration and Civilian Supply. All the man has to do is keep the prices of everything, including rents, from getting too high, and vrotect consumars in. their wants after military ‘demands are met. . The object of all this is to prevent profiteering and inflation which in the last war ran costs up about $15,000,000,000 more than they should have been and helped bring on the crash.

This sounds noble in purpose if ever anything did but the QPACS theory has run into the ‘cold fact that the business conception of keeping prices down is to keep them down on everything except the particular animal, vegetable or mineral kingdom items which the fellow you're dealing with happens to be interested in. When the idea for OPACS was first announced by the President last April, it was thought that its purposes were so meritorious there would be no trouble securing co-operation of manufacturer and merchant. Consequently, the agency was set up by executive order and without legislative authority.

Wise Boys Sharpen Their Pencils

Then some of the smart gentry began to figure ways to beat Henderson's schedule of prices. Records

HYDE PARK, Friday, July 4—I have just read’ a report made by a committee of farmers who attended the annual A. A. A. meeting in Washington in the early part of June. I am quoting a few sen- . -tences from:the preamble because I think this docu- : ment is of statesmanlike quality and deserves the praise of all citizens in the nation. “In the interest of the national welfare, we pledge ourselves to marshalling the agricultural resources of this country so as best to meet the needs of defense. In fulfilling this pledge it is essential to avoid throwing agriculture any further out of balance than is required by the necessity to meet successfully the challenge to our i democratic way of life. The defense effort must succeed. The interests of any economic group must be subservient to it and inspired by a willingness to give rather than to take. ‘As representing the farmers of the nation in ‘respect .to the program of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, we assure the people and the Government of the United States of our full com-

i pliance with this policy.”

- They then proceed to make their recommendations. : I cannot quote them all here, but I think consideraf

_ a few are worthy tion. They apply

actually live through the era. He would have made a maghificent history teacher.

Started Writing 40 Years Ago

“NICK” WAS BORN in Crawfordsville in ’66, the son of a Montgomery County farmer. The family moved here when he was 5 and he went through grade and high school here and then went to work. After working in drugstores and printing offices, he took up law when he was 19, but later gave that up. He was a newspaperman for a few years and then turned to business as a stockbroker for a year and then treasurer of a coal mining corporation in Colorado. He said afterwards that these were the unhappiest years of his life. About 40 years ago, he began to devote his time exclusively to writing. His first public work, “Short Flights,” a book of poems, came out in 1891. One of his best. known books, “House of a Thousand Candles,” was published in 1905. He became a great friend of Riley and Tarkington and to this day is one of the most active in perpetuating the Riley tradition. “Who's Who” lists 28 books of his, plus one play. He hasn’t written a book since 1929.

‘Fried Meat Democracy!

COMMUNITY SERVICE is an obsession with him, He feels that Americans have a definite responsibility to their communities and his pet peeve is a person

who, - blessed with the advantage of education and]

financial security, declines to help the community Problems. He considers himself an “insulting Democrat.” In 1933 he was named U, S. Ambassador to Paraguay and a year or so later was transferred to Venezuela and in 1938 to Nicaragua as U. S. Minister. He left the diplomatic service this year and arrived home a couple of months ago. He writes his stories and letters in longhand on foolscap paper in a beautiful script. his essays his best work. Will Bobbs once referred to him as one of the very best of all literary technicians. ; He likes the radio, enjoys all kinds of music, particularly classical tunes. He is devoted to Elmer Davis. He likes movies. He reads a great deal at home, mostly history, biography and poefry and almost no fiction. And he thinks Indiana is the greatest place in the world. He likes to refer to is as: “The onegallus, fried meat democracy.”

By Peter Edson

were falsified. Bills of sale were made out for larger quantities than were actually delivered. Phony freight rates were charged. Dealers were designated as buyers’ agents, entitling them to commissions which ran the prices above the ceiling. Lower quality materials were sold at higher quality prices. Better business and fair trade simply went right out the window. in other words, in the competitive demand for materials and the lure of sellers to make the most profit possible. There are a few Government economists and thinkers in Washington who say that what the country needs is a good inflationary boom. Let prices rise, they argue. Let’s have a good old inflatoin such as Germany had after the last war. The middle classes may suffer, but it’s the only way the Government can pay off its debts with cheap money, and in that manner get the countfy out of the hole. This idea is held by so few men that they talk about it only in private.

Washington Dust Storm

“Fidelity! Bravery! Integrity!” is the motto of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Both have the initials FBI. . . . up to June 1, California had more defense contracts than any other state—$1.7 billion worth. . . . South Dakota had least, $1.1 million. . . . The German-U. 8. Mixed Claims Commission, set up in 1922 to handle international war damages, is just winding up its affairs nearly 19 years later, and just in time, apparently, to make way for a new commission of the same kind . . . By Aug. 1, one-third of U. S. airlines’ commercial fleets of 385 planes will have been turned over to the Government for aid to Britain.

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

to any business or family group when translated into other purposes, though certain things apply specifically only to people who have land which they can use. “The strength of the nation lies in the strength of the individual families that comprise it. The security of the individual family depends on the security ‘of the nation. During the period of defense preparedness and increased industrial activity and higher prices, farm families should, as far as possible, reduce debts to a minimum and accumulate reserves of cash and commodities.” “To keep our agriculture in a healthy condition, it is necessary for prices of farm products and industrial prices to be kept in balance.” “Adequate production by farmers should not be at unnecessary expense of conservation of land and other resources.” . + “That greater emphasis should be given to proper nutrition. Official records reveal that about. onethird of our people are below the safety line in health’ largely due to inadequate and improper diet. This appalling deficienéy must - be correc The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Claude Wickard, ‘makes ga special plea asking that, where we can, we reduce the consumption of cheese. We have never considered cheese an essential] part of our diet, but the British are accustomed to using it in greater quantities. I am sure we will make every effort to Hoss any Seguests such gs this. Pe =

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Camp, Inc. the great army staple, pork and beans, beef and beans, corned beef hash, meat and vegetable stew.

Millions of cans of concentrated food, filled. and sealed automatically, roll off the conveyors into waiting trucks and freight cars. Each can is small enough to be carried in a soldier’s pack. Each can contains one meal, prepared to U. S. Army specifications. The Army—even a streamlined, mechanized army—still travels on its stomach. That’s why StokelyVan Camp of Indianapolis became important to national de-

fense. ” ”

100-Gallon Kettles

FIVE YEARS AGO, in Chicago, Army dieticians and chemists began to develop a new type of food for the soldier in the field. Strict specifications for the ration were set up. It had to be palatable. There had to be enough of it. It had to be nourishing. It had to have bulk. It had to provide a balanced diet. It had to be compact, it couldn't spoil and its cost had to be reasonable. After years of laboratory experiment, Type C Field Ration was developed. That is what Stokely-Van Camp is making in its huge Indianapolis cannery as well as in five other plants in the nation. Type C field ration consists of three major combinations of meat and vegetables. Unit M-1 is meat and beans. - Unit M-2 is meat and vegetable hash. Unit M-3 is meat and vegetable stew. Each is the entree for a soldier's meal when he is in the field and cut off from the rolling soup kitchen. . Each contains 12 ounces of food. It is a small, round can opened by ripping off a metal strip, as a can of ‘coffee is opened. The key to unwind the strip. however. is not provided. The sol-

TURKS ‘UNDERSTAND’

ANKARA, Turkey, July 5 (U. P.). —Premier Reyfik Saydam said in a wireless speech last. night’ that the Turks “are a people who understand the true value of Germany's promises of friendship, and who have respect for the high place which Germany takes in the civilized world. “We hope with our whole hearts that no poison of misunderstanding will be mingled with the spirit of healthy friendship which we have renewed,” he added. He thanked Adolf Hitler for friendly references made in

Turkey had followed “with great attention (German) allegations that Russia had demanded the Dardanelles.” He commented that Turkey had not remained indifferent to the report “even if it-is only imaginary.” -Saydam also said that the Turk-. ish and British nations understood: each other.

RESUME COAL PARLEY

WASHINGTON, July 5 (U. P.) — Full negotiating committees for the

soft ‘coal operators were oned for a. meeting this afternoon with both sides report ” to

Each of 1,000,000 Cans Has One Meal

By RICHARD LEWIS IN ONE OF the world’s largest canning factories, miles of shining tin cans stream by overhead on roaring conveyor belts. This is one of Indianapolis’ major defense industries, vital but not spectacular. Bright red sauce steams and bubbles through transparent pipes of pyrex glass. Jets of blue steam hiss from the safety valves of giant cooking retorts. Women jn white, starched dresses move silently among the ma-

This is the S. East St. plant of Stokely Bros. & Van It makes beans for the Army; baked beans,

Stokely'’s s Giant Kitchens Help Feed The Army,

GERMAN PROMISES|

speeches to Turkey and said that]

United Mine Workers (C. I. O.) and|

avert a walkout © of next Tuesday.

dier starts to peel off the strip with the point of his bayonet and after he has it started. it peels off easily. The ration can be eaten hot or cold, but tastes better hot. Unopened, the can preserves its nourishment indefinitely—for years. The food is good. When supplemented with dehydrated coffee, biscuits and chocolate which complete the soldier’s food supply, the ration is as much as the average man can eat. Army men believe it spells the doom of hardtack.

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Million Cans—Nothing

IN THE VAST operation of Stokely-Van Camp's S. East St. plant, a million cans of Type C. is only a fraction of the total output But the canning concern is ready on short notice to double its capacity if and when the extra capacity is needed. The initial step in the preparation of Type C does not begin at this plant, however. It begins next door at the American Can Co. factory where

the tin cans mount the conveyor .

belts from machines which turn them out as fast as the eye can follow the process. The continuous grating rear of the machines and the conveyors is deafening. Long afterward, it rings in the ears. The conveyors bear a steady stream of gleaming cans through a tunnel into Stokely-Van Camp's. This is a seven-story building where one of the chief sources of power is gravity. From the loading platforms the raw materials — meat, potatoes, carrots, beans, peas and tomato pulp move up to the seventh floor. That's where the food processing starts. When they reach the bottom again, dropping from floor to floor in pipes, they are in the can, ready to serve. This is mass production. For pork and beans, there are four separate streams of raw ma-

HOLD EVERYTHING

0,000 miners on’ #

1. At the giant S. East St. plant of Stokely Bros. & Van Camp, Inc., the job of supplying Uncle Sam’s soldiers with emergency field ration is carried on largely by machines. Here Is one of the few

manual operations—bean picking. 2. Stokely’s has thousands of acres of Hoosier farmland leased for the fall tomato crop. ning is one of the plant’s specialties. The crop is brought to the loading platforms daily during the season,

inspected, washed and graded before canning. 3. The Stokely-Van Camp plant, largest of its kind in the world. tripled on short notice. At present, the plant has a contract with the Army for $1,000,000 worth of Type O

emergency field ration, a new type of canned, concentrated nourishment.

terials flowing through the plant. There is first the can and its lid,

“then the pork, the beans and the

sauce. Each is prepared separate-

ly. 2 # =

‘A Matter of Psychology

AS THOMAS E. BRICK, plant manager, explained it: “The can has to meet the sauce, the pork and the beans at the psychological moment.” From the basement, the.beans are conveyed to the seventh floor where they are soaked for several hours in 1000 gallon tanks. Then they drop through pipes to the sixth floor for parboiling. Gravity takes them to the fifth floor where they pour into the cans. As the cans move in stops and starts along the conveyor, the pork is added. And then the cans rotate beneath an overhead con-

For Type C Ration, special potato peeling machines are called into use, together with automatic meat cutters, grinders and brazers. Cooking is done in 100 gal lon metal kettles. The potato peeler is a wonder, a K. P.’s dream of heaven. Actually, it doesn’t peel potatoes. It wears the skin off so that slices are not lost as in peeling. Then there is another: mechanism which autoWageally slices the potato to any

The Army cans are of special size. During the World War, square cans were used because

Tomato cane

Here capacity can be doubled or

they fit in the knapsack better, '

But this time it's going to be the

round cans. They are cheaper make. Cooked, packed and sealed, the Army ration is shipped to destina« tions specified in the bid. Stokely-Van Camp executives

don’t know where all of it goes, ' Sometimes, they have received ine ! structions to ship the food to an’ Atlantic seaport. They are ine '

structed to leave it on the dock. |

Where it goes from there, is the business of Uncle Sam.

Few Die as 'Grand Old Man' Enforces 'Code’' in Duels

By ALLEN HADEN

BUENOS AIRES, June 23 = ia Clipper)—“Ready! Fire. One. Two. Three.” Two tiny pfutts and the duel is over. “The quarrel is ended,” the master of ceremonies bawls. Neither of the duellers is hurt. Both stand a little astonished and embarrassed. The pistols hang in limp hands. Nothing is quite so meaningless as an empty gun. We stand in a little group away from the duellers, some 18 of us, including the four seconds. The master of ceremonies is in front.

barrelled blue = beauties, delicate arabesques incised in the metal, Breech-loading, the trigger is se$ so fine that the trembling of a nervous finger will fire the charge. There are three little lacquer boxes in the case. One contains black powder, another the caps, the third curious grey pills. The pills are tinfoil lightly rolled into a round ball. “What are these things? Are your duels then fakes?” I asked in sure prise. He laughed, his whole jovial red face wrinkling in smiles. He picked out some lead bullets, almost round, the size of large peas. “These are the real thing,” he said. “Sometimes I don’t load the pistols with bullets. Why? To allow two boys to shoot and pere

tainer into which the transparent glass pipes of sauce feed. The sauce fills the can to the brim and as the can moves on its jerky path, a machine catches it a moment and stamps on the lid. As the cans come off the belt, men lasso 30 or 40 of them at a time with rubber loops and place them in round, metal baskets which are tnen wheeled to the cooking retorts. Everything is cooked in the can. On the floor below, the cans are delivered to the machines which paste on the labels, and then they are loaded into a. row of moving boxes. The boxes stop for an automatic pat to push all the cans in line and then ‘chute’ down to the loading platforms. The entire process looks enor-

- cal.

mously simple. Perhaps, that is because it is well ordered and logiIt is gauged to run continuously; as a truck pulls in with raw materials, another pulls out with the finished product while from another corner of the building cans are streaming into the plant.

Near him is the grand old man of Argentine honor codes, Juan Carlos Gallegos, without whom no duel is complete. The master hurries to one of the duellers. A handshake and a whispered conversation. There is a nod of assent. He hurries to the other, who shakes his head. A handshake and we disperse.

"Don Juan Indispensable

I tramped alongside the master towards the cars. “What did you ask them?” “I inquired whether . they would now welcome a proposal of reconciliation if it were made. One of them refused, hence it would be improper to make it.” For months I had been waiting to see a duel. Don Juan Carlos Gallegos spoke of them often and had promised to take me to the first one at which he officiated. He is indispensable, since he. is one of the. few men in Argentina who possesses ' dueling pistols, but infinitely more important, who knows the code of honor. “These days,” said Don Juan Carlos, “boys will fight for anything and nothing. . You never know speSitlenlly what they are fighting for but. I generally get 'a pretty good idea. Many of the. causes are not

| recognized in the code of honor.

Nervous Triggers

ep stopped one duel recently,” he continued. “Two friends exchanged the usual obscenities over the telephone in the heat of conversation. They. both appealed to me so. I constituted myself into a court of honor ‘and ruled that since there was no intention to offend, there was no offense. Besides, the telephone is a poor way to insult people!”

Don Juan Carlos out his pistols. Neatly packed in a velvet-

haps kill each other for some idiotic reason? Que va!” and he waves his hand grandly at the absurdity of such bemavior.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

ie obtained from a plant, a chemi« cal element or a metal come pound?

2—Crows usually fly forward in a

straight line; true or false?

3—What is the common name for

the Headquarters of the Metro« politan Police Office in London,

4—What famous address began

with; “Four score and seven years ago = = ="?

5—Name the five senses. 6—"“The Thinker,” a famous an

was ve iptuted by Jo Da . Hoffman or A

Answers

1—Plant. 2—False. 3—New Scotland Yard. 4—Lincoln’s Gettysburg Additasint 5—8ight, hearing, smell, taste touch. : : 6—Rodin.

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