Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1941 — Page 11

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 194]

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SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

ALBUQUERQUE, July 8.—In a previous column I hinted at the great works of construction carried on by this department during its vacation, but did not go into detail. So now I have decided, in order to head off any fake claims of creative ability by lesser constructionists, to tell you exactly what I built. Well, I built a fence. It is not only a fence, it is the finest fence in Albuquerque. There are some who say it is the finest fence west of Alequippa, Pa., but I would not wish to go that far. There may be some fences I haven't seen. This fence is of the picket type. It runs 130 feet along the east side of our lot, then turns and incloses the whole southern portion, : to the tune of another 150 feet. Unless my addition is wrong, that makes 280 feet # of picket fence. And I don’t care where you put 280 feet of picket fence—whether down the middle of Death Valley or. up the side of the Washington Monument—it’s still a lot of picket fence. It may be that a good many of you have no idea how to build a picket fence, so I will tell you, since helping others is one of my missions in life.

How to Build a Fence

First you borrow ga ‘posthole digger ang start in. The modern country gentleman orders his post-holes from the hardware store and has them delivered by truck. But that is the soft way, and not commensurate with the ideals of us rugged Southwestern pioneers. Well, you dig postholes until you're out of breath and your hands are all swollen and bleeding from broken blisters, and then you go in the house and drink a big glass of orange juice and sit there and moan for an hour or so. When the holes are finally dug, you set the posts. For this you use a spirit level with one hand, getting the posts exactly straight up and down, while with the other hand you push in the dirt and tamp it down with a broken brookstick handle. : Now you have your line of posts. Next vou wander over, sort of nonchalantly, to the lumber pile that belongs to the contractor building that new house a little way up the street. You select a large number of two-by-fours, and stagger nonchalantly back to your own -yard with

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

THERE STILL ARE far too few who know about and use the Fall Creek Parkway playground on the northeast side. The Parkway playground runs for several miles and it is a haven for fishermen, for minnow seekers, for wading, for evening meals in the outdoors. One of the reasons it isn’t used so much is that folks still don’t know how to reach it. Well, it's on the old Allisonville Road. Turn right at the first ‘street after the Keystone Ave. bridge (east of the bridge). A young couple we know went bicycling out that way last Sunday and when they got back they said it was just like a trip through the Limberlost—only better. Incidentally, we know the swellest black raspberry patch in all Marion County. out in that But we're not going to give you instructions

area.

on that one, because we're keeping that one for

ourselves.

"Around the Town

WE HEAR that Ronald Hazen, chief engineer at Allison’s, has gone to England to see for himself what the Allison-motored airplanes are doing in action. He left about two weeks ago. . .|. Allison already has set up an engine servicing school in England and half a dozen boys trained at the Speedway City plant are over there now. More may be sent later, so— some young man working over his machine at the local firm may be riding high in a Clipper Ship soon. . Somebody dropped a tomato seed on the State House lawn some moons back and you'd know wouldn’t you, that the seed would sprout a little plant and eventually some little tomatoes. The Governor got the first one. . Bill Evans, the public schools’

b/” Washington

WASHINGTON, July 8.—The new tax bill approved by the House Ways and Means Committee is, for ‘all of its higher rates, still a piece of political trimming that shows the white feathers sticking up

all through it. The measure, as it should, lays a heavy sock on corporation profits and on some of the income brackets. There is no excuse whatever for excessive profits escaping in these times. The brackets from $10,000 on up are hit hard. But anybody with a net income of $10,000 a year, even if he has a wife and two children, isn't going to starve or be deprived of essentials by having to pay practically $1000 in income tax as the new bill requires. A single man with a net ncome of $10,000 will pay nearly : $1500 in income taxes. He'll still have money left over for orchids. Where the Congressmen welshed was in facing the more numerous smaller-income class. It is ridiculous to leave untouched, as the committee has, the present exemptions. Under the committee’s bill a single man with a net income of $1000 a year would pay only $15 income tax. ‘Earning $2000 a year he would pay $110. Those are trifling levies. A married couple with no children, earning $2500, would pay only $38. With two children and earning $3000 they would pay only $11. These are hardly as much as they all pay in automobiles. taxes. Why should not a family earning under $2500 pay income tax?

Other Inequalities

There e ridiculous inequalities in the excise taxes. A “use” tax of $5 is applied to automobiles. That's fair enough. But why only a $5 “use” tax for yachts and airplanes? Why let a yacht or a ‘private airplane off for the same tax that the family Ford carries? : : 3 If clocks, a necessity, are taxed 10%, why should

My Day

NEW YORK, Monday.—I find that there is a lack of realization that the aluminum which you and I are collecting, must be held and not turned in until the date which has been set, July 21. Trying to turn it in now is a bad plan apparently, for some patriotic housekeepers have been used by junk dealers who found it very pleasant to collect aluminum and make some money out of it. So you and I may prepare by obtaining our new pots and pans in some substitute ware for our aluminum utensils. We must not turn the aluminum in until some person officially designated to receive it is announced by (Mayor LaGuardia. It began to rain yesterday afternoon, but in spite of that and " heavy traffic, three of us managed so make our way up to Mrs, George Huntington's for ‘a very pleasant evening. I was presented with three _ beautifully colored postcards of the grounds and cottages, which Mrs. Huntington's maid and chauffeur had colored with infinite care. Today we are off for New York City, and it will be 8 busy day. I shall have to tell you more about it tomorrow, for I only know that I am to be on the steps of | ihe Olly Bail st. 11 oviock, Piola there ob,

‘its nerve.

By Ernie Pyle

them. Then you nail the two-by-fours on top of the posts. When this is completed you have a level, straight line on top of your fence from one end 4 the other. That is, you have a level, straight line if you Wn that type of person. But if you invest your works with those purer artistic and creative effects for} which I strive, then the top of your fence resemble an old scenic railway after an air raid. After this you rest a couple of days, and then ut on the lower line of two-by-fours, about 15 inches from the ground. Then you nail a row of boards—| one-by-eights—the entire length of the fence, along the ground. This is comparatively easy, provided the neighboring contractor hasn't used up all his one-by-eights. ; Now we are ready for the picketing. You get the pickets at a lumber yard and they saw them to whatever length you specify.

A Lovely Assistant

I was assisted in my picket-putting-on by a young lady of our neighborhood, a charming young lady of 15 summers of whom I am considerably enamored, Shirley Mount by name. We worked out a sort of speed-up system. While I nailed one picket, Shirley would measure and mark where the next picket should go, then hand me the picket and the four nails to put in it. Under this system, our pickets went on like the wind. In fact, we got to going so fast that we picketed seven feet beyond the end of the fence before realizing we had finished. We would have gone even faster if I could have devoted more attention to the nails and less to Shirley's eyes. It's great to be young and live in Albuquerque. No report on a fence is complete without a statistical summary. All right, my fence is 280 feet long. I dug 30 postholes. We put on between 9300 and 1000 pickets. I drove more than 4000 nails, all with a ten-cent-store hammer, and never hit my thumb once. We were employed, in total elapsed time, some two and a half weeks. The fence cost so much I'm ashamed to say.it. If you're willing to pay the price, Shirley and I will build a fence for you, too. We have incorporated under the trade name of “Pyle & Mount, Ye Olde Pickete Fencers.” Our business motto is: “When Better Fences Are Built, We'll Be Sitting on the Front Porch Drinking Orange Juice.”

publicity man, is off on his vacation next week. He's taking the family up to have a look at the famous Soo locks and then he’s going to hunt a nice, quiet little lake for some fishing.

More About Defense

THEY'RE JUST beating time at the Chevrolet Commercial Body plant, waiting for an announcement from Detroit G. M. to find out just what the local factory will make for G. M.'s 89 million dollar Pratt & Whitney engine order. It’s reported that Commercial Body may play quite an important part in filling the order, but further plant expansions probably will be unnecessary. We know of one North Side automobile agency where you can’t get your new car serviced at the 2000-mile mark without giving them at least a week's notice. They just sold so many cars. . .

Keeping You Posted

DID YOU EVER wonder what you'd do if you forgot the Ayres telephone service number—MA-15112? Well, according to the telephone book, it’s listed as Time Of Day Bureau, 1 W. Washington St.

The Birds Sacrifice, Too

THE GOVERNOR, by the way, today received a package frem Atlanta, Ind., all wrapped up in brown paper. It turned out to be a battered aluminum bird bath, sent in by Mrs. Margaret Woods. She referred to the aluminum pan as “Old General Battery, Company 2, Domestic Battleground.” She said she wanted it to go to “the glorious aluminum drive.” She said in her letter that “since this is a timesof sacrifice for all, my feathered friends will have to bathe in a tin basin.”

By Raymond Clapper

phonographs and records escape with only the same tax? And the danger is that as Congress considers this tentative bill this tendency, as usual, will be to whittle down the taxes instead of shoving them up. The more Congress debates a tax bill, the more it loses Even in these times members tend to follow the old rule—vote for every appropriation bill and against every tax bill. Heavy taxation is needed now both to raise revenue and to check the danger of inflation. In the coming year we will raise 12 or 13 billion dollars by taxation. But we expect to spend twice that much at least on defense alone, not counting the other expensive activities of the Government. The debt will rise faster in the next two or three years than it ever has been before. That is one source of inflation danger.

The Inflation Peril

The other danger is that earning power is rising, and mass purchasing power is growing rapidly, as a result of defense-industry pay rolls. With the huge amount of money floating around seeking to buy goods, the available goods are being sharply cut down. Supply is shrinking while demand is growing. That means only one thing . . . price inflation unless Government control and heavy taxation are firmly applied. Reduced private spending now may work greatly to our advantage later. When war production slows down, there will be urgent need of taking up the slack. That will be the time to stimulate civilian purchase so that industry can change over to peacetime work without going through a long slump. Taxation and heavy investment in defense savings bonds are important aids to keeping things in balance now. Incidentally, with heavier taxation ahead, most families will find it worthwhile to take advantage of the Government's new method for easing the blow of the income-tax bill. The new tax-anticipation notes, bearing interest, will enable the average family to put away in advance money out of this year's earnings with which to pay next year’s taxes.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the Mayor and I participate in functions together for about an hour and a half. I keep receiving letters from people who head the Women’s Institutes in England, an organization which is comparable to our home bureaus, and which is affiliated with them internationally. The letters tell me what the seeds we sent have meant to them. Yesterday, I received a letter from a woman with whom I went to school in England, and who lives on the coast there. I quote part of her letter: Jt is splendid to feel that your great country redlizes so fully what we are up against and there is a lovely feeling of kinship with all the peoples who are banded together to overcome this embodiment of evil. Indeed, this is a righteous war and a crusade to save those who are oppressed. We are all sacrificing everything gladly for the sake of freedom and to save goodness, kindness and self-respect. Life here is curious, such an odd sense and a realization of the impermanence of all material things and possessions. One sows seeds, one plants and cultivates with a detached feeling, wondering subconsciously whether one wil] be there to reap the crops or whether their progress will be hastened by a bomb.” I can hardly realize that the little girl I remember could have written this letter, but it is one worth our considering. Impermanence for certain things is not so bad if we can count on permanence in our real yalyes,

PARKING ENDED

ON 17 STREETS

INRUSH HOURS

Council” 0. Ks Ri Restrictions Proposed by the City’s Traffic Engineer.

‘Enforcement of new parking bans |§

during rush hours on 17 of the City’s busiest streets to relieve congestion was started today by the Police Department. The restrictions were contained in an ordinance passed by the City Council last night as the first step in an extensive traffic reform program recommended by the City’s new traffic engineer, James E. Loer. The engineer told councilmen that the parking bans “are the only solution to bottle-neck traffic conditions existing in various parts of ‘the city during rush hours.” The restrictions will permit two

lanes of moving traffic where only |2

one can pass now because of parked cars and three i of traffic on streets where two lanes no n. The ordinance will ST ie ing between 7 and 9 a. m. on the following streets: East side of Madison Ave. from Lincoln to South Sts. East side of S. Meridian St. from Adler to South Sts. North side of E. Michigan St. from East St. to Emerson Ave. except where parking is now prohibited at all hours, which will remain in effect. West side of Ft. Wayne Ave. from Pennsylvania to E. 10th Sts. West side of Central Ave. from E. 10th to E. 34th Sts. West side of College Ave. from Massachusetts Ave. to Fall Creek Blvd. North side of E. 10th St. from Massachusetts Ave. to Kealing Ave. West side of Illinois St. from 16th to 34th Sts.

Other Parking Rules

Parking will be prohibited between 4:30 p. m. and 6 p. m. on the following streets: West side of Madison Ave. from Lincoln to South Sts. West side of S. Meridian St. from Adler to South Sts. South side of E. Michigan St. from East St. to Emerson Ave. East side of Ft. Wayne Ave. from North to 10th Sts., except where parking is now prohibited at all hours, which will remain in effect. East side of Central Ave. from 10th to 34th Sts. South. side of E. 10th St. from Massachusetts to Kealing Aves. East side of College Ave. from Massachusetts Ave. to Fall Creek Blvd. East side of Illinois St. from 16th to 34th Sts. Both sides of Michigan St. from East to West Sts. South side of 16th St. from Delaware St. to College Ave. Left turns will be prohibited at four more intersections between 7 and 9 a. m. and 4:30 and 6 p. m.: Sherman Drive and E. New York St.; Noble and E. New York, Sts.; Noble and E., Market Sts.; Massachusetts Ave. Delaware and New York Sts.

Pay Action Delayed

At the request of Capt. Claude Ream of the Fire Department, the Council postponed for two more weeks the ordinance that would authorize an increase of 15 per cent in the pay of all City firemen. Capt. Ream said firemen wanted the delay in order to “get the support of the entire City Administration, instead of only a few.” The proposed increase would add about $193,000 a year to the Fire Deparment payroll. An amendment to the ordinance giving policemen a similar pay boost will be introduced at the next Council meeting by Councilman Harmon A. Campbell, Republican, he announced last night. Councilmen had to delay their session last night for one hour on the advice of attorneys who said the law prescribed that they meet at 7:30 p. m. Cen'ral Standard time.

Change Meeting Time

They all came at 7:30 (Daylight Saving Time) and adjourned in caucus for an hour, then passed an ordinance to set the meeting time at 6:30 during Daylight Saving Time. An ordinance appropriating $5000 to the Park Department to maintain the new recreation center for soldiers and sailors on W. Wabash St. was passed by the Council. An ordinance to regulate all motor boat traffic on White River between the Emrichsville Bridge and 38th St. was introduced. It provides for a $1 license fee for all motor boats and prohibits high speeds, noisy motors and reckless driving.

24 FROM HERE AT MORAVIAN MEETING

Twenty-four members of the First and Second Moravian churches were attending the third annual Middle States Moravian Young People s Conference at Celina, O., today. * The conference, to which nine churches in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan will send delegrates, will continue until Saturday. The Rev. Stanley R. Woltjen, pastor of the two Indianapolis churches, will lecture on “Essentials of Christian Living for Youth" Those. from the First Church are Helen Louise Warvel, Joanne Warvel, Jean Rusia, Lois Michael, Eugenia Elliott and Donald Marlin. Attending from the Second Church are Jane Gray, LaVonne Byrd, Marthann Oertel, Mary Lois Wright, Martha Bivens, Joan Guthrie, Edna Cunningham, Joanne Allanson, Dorothea Allanson, Margaret Cunningham, Alberta Newell, Merilyn Castle, Eugene Allanson, Alfred Perry, Donald Perry, Mrs. Wesley Cunningham, Mrs. Clarence Cunningham and Mrs. Waite Castle.

BUYS LAKE HOTEL ROCHESTER, Ind. July 8 (U. P.).—Emil (Pop) Martin of Kokomo today announced the purchase of the West Side Hotel at Lake Manitou from Charles Kreighbaum of Lafayette. Mr. Martin said the hotel

oud be improved at a cost of $35,-

Trained Experts Find Amazing Carelessness

In Thorough Checkover

This is the second of a series of articles on the activities of G-Men.

By PETER EDSON Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, July 8.—At FBI headquarters in Washington, they tell this story in all seriousness: In a plant having one of the more important defense contracts, there was an individual who was charged with the keeping of blueprints and confidential records in a

special vault. But he was afraid he might forget the lock combination, so he scratched the numbers in the paint on the sidewall of the vault, where almost anyone going by

could see them.

It has been downright dumbness of this sort which has made necessary one of the FBI's less glamorous but more important jobs in the problem of preventing sabotage of the defense effort—the work of inspecting plants with defense orders to make sure that the ordinary, every-day, common sense precautions are taken for safe-

ty and secrecy. This plant survey work

began in the fall of 1939 at

the request of the War and Navy departments. Furnishing the FBI with a list of some 2000 plants which had im-

portant defense contracts, the-Intelligence divisions of the armed services asked that these factories be surveyed to make sure that the protective facilities, the policing and inspection of fire hazards were adequate for any emergency. Already some 1500 of these plants have been surveyed, and as the defense effort grows, this

same inspection may be extended to some 12,000 additional factories and mills and shops having government contracts for national preparedness.

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Get Special Training

Before FBI agents are assigned :

to this industrial survey work, they are brought into Washington headquarters for special training. Most of the agents being basically lawyers and accountants by profession, they have to be given short courses in industrial engineering te fit: them for this deI tailed plant inspection. On the job, at the plant, the agent begins his inspection of the most vulnerable points in its operations—the source of power, water or fuel, the storage of raw materials,’ the key operations which might stop production in the entire factory if there were breakdowns at these bottleneck points. Making sure that these vital spots have the primary protection they deserve is the first check. A survey of personnel systems comes next. Application forms are gone over to make sure that such . simple and fundamental - things as citizenship and nationality are accurately known. Previous military service and particularly the whereabouts of applicants in the 1914-18 period pro-

. installation of

Before suspected packages are opened, FBI technicians, like the one above, take a peek at the contents through their portable X-ray

machines. He is examining a white wooden box.

One look and he

knew it was a bomb. What the X-ray disclosed is pictured below.

vide leads for the identification of any workers who seek jobs under assumed names, just as much as a check of police records, or social security numbers will do. o ” 2

Check Plant Movement

Methods of checking the entrance of employees into the plant and the movement of employees from one department to another within the larger estab-

lishments get a good going over. Shipping and receiving platforms, and the movements of delivery or supply trucks call for the truck registers and inspection. Restricted areas have been set up in some plants, where only certain employees may enter. Guarding of blueprints has been

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found necessary in many plants, too. Inspection even gets down to controlling the movement of visitors through the plant, the disposal of wastepaper from the drafting rooms and offices, handling the mail and the most careful identification of janitors and charwomen.

” ” ” Apparently Picayunish Programs of apparently picayunish insistence on what should be obvious detail of plant pro-

tection have of course worked

some inconvenience to loyal employees, but recognizing the emergency nature of the present defense effort they have seen the real need for war-time police methods as plant insurance. Also, the FBI has made clear that its surveys have nothing to do with the legitimate labor relations between employer and employee. Plant survey work by the FBI has uncovered some amazing things in defense industries. In one plant, there was the most careful check of all blueprints and models, with strict insistence

that all such specification ma-

terial be receipted for while in use, then locked in a safe place at night. This looked good, until it was discovered there was a glass\ window in the back of the vault, \ easily accessible from a small landing leading to the plant yard. t another plant, no one knew the name or record of the man guarding the blueprints, and it was found he had been hired only a few days before, without investigation. When the plant surveys first began, one agent assigned to a factory for inspection, was able to walk into the plant at three different entrances withoutfbeing questioned. He then poked around the plant all day, ask \questions and receiving courteous answers on all the highly confidential work which the plant was doing on a defense order. “Confirmed carelessness like this, as much as anything else would make the American defense effort vulnerable to sabotage and espionage,” says Director J. Edgar Hoover.

COUNTY RELIEF

DIPS SHARPLY SINGE JAN. 1

Direct Outlays for First 6 Months $334,000 Below 1940.

A drop of $334,000 in Marion County’s spending for direct relief during the first six months of this year, compared to the same period a year ago, was revealed in a report compiled at the County Auditor's office today. Relief expenditures in all nine

townships so far this year totaled $495,171 compared to $829,770 spent

j| during the first half of 1940.

For several years, previous to 1939, Center Township alone spent an average of one million dollars every six months and some years the total for Center was near three million dollars for a full year.

During the last six months, Cene ter's relief bill was only $421,463, the lowest it has been for any six months period in nearly 10 years.

Pike Expense Lowest

The June expense for Center this year was only $37,290, the lowest of any month in many years. In June, 1940, the bill was $76,769. At one time, during the early depression years, Center Township spent as much as $295,000 in a single month, The lowest relief bill of any towne ship in the county was Pike where only $150 was spent during the last six months, compared to $408 a year ago. During May, Pike Township spent only $12 for relief. Next to Center in spending was Wayne Township where about $42,« 000 was spent for relief in the last six months, compared to $68,000 during the first six months of 1940. Relief expenses in all nine towne . ships during June was $44,779, only half as much as the expenditures in 1 townships during June, 1940.

STUDY TEACHING PROBLEMS HERE

3-Week Butler Laboratory Is Part of Summer Session.

A three weeks’ laboratory in cure riculum problems opened this weele at Butler University under the di«

rection of Dr. P. M. Bail, dean of the University’s College of Educae tion. The course is part of the annual Summer Session special unit pro gram, Problems in English are being considered this week in charge of Miss Mabel Goddary, head of the Tech High School English Departe ment. Next week the course will be devoted to the study of science cur= riculum problems in charge of Carl F. Hanske, head of the Manual Training High School Science Department. Paul Seehausen of Shortridge High School and president of the Indiana Council for Social Studies will be in charge of the final week of the conference when social science problems will be considered.

Burdette Charles of Orland, Ind., has been awarded a full-tuition graduate study scholarship, Dr. Roy M. Robbins, director of the Butler Division of Graduate Instruction, announced today. Mr. Charles will use the scholarship to work on the master of arts degree in religion.

DESCRIBES SYSTEM AT ANTIOCH COLLEGE

Antioch College’s co-operative syse tem of education, which combines academic study with practical train ing in business and industry, was described to a group of Indiane apolis employers and personnel die rectors at a luncheon meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic Club yes terday. The meeting was sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Come merce. Robert A. Levin, college community manager, reviewed the history of the co-op education syse tem at Antioch, which was origi« nated in 1921 by Arthur E. Morgan, then college president. Under the plan, students work at actual jobs in business or industry for 10-week periods, alternating these periods with similar periods of study in the college classrooms,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Where are the Plains of Abrae ham?

2—Who was recently named by the President to be Chief Justice of the United States?

3—What common eating implement bears the same name as a wood club used in golf? 4—The place where the Pilgrim Fathers landed in New England

5—Of what tree are acorns the fruit?

6—Complete the proverb, “A stitch in time may «=«« ««=-?

Answers

1—Quebec, Canada. 2—Harlan Fiske Stone. 3—Spoon. 4—Plymouth Rock. 5—Oak. 6—'‘save nine.”

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