Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1941 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 194]

Hoosier Vagabond

MADISON, Wis, Aug. 27.—The place I chose for my cheese inquiry was the factory of the Madison Milk Producers Ass'n. This is a farmers’ co-operative —as many things in Wisconsin are. The association is made up of about 450 farmers within a radius of 15 miles of Madison. They supply nearly all of Madison's daily milk. But they are up against an oscillating demand. In the winter Madison is close to 15.000 bigger than in summer, due to the State University. Come June and Madison is flooded with milk. So what to do? So make cheese out of it. The associations cheesery is not a large place. It is just a gray concrete building up a cinder alley, and you'd never know from looking at the outside what it was. Yet it is the second biggest Swiss-cheese factory in America (Kraft's is first), and it is the biggest in the world owned by a farmer's co-operative. Last year it turned out more than 800,000 pounds of Swiss cheese. Incidentally, more Swiss cheese is made in America than in Switzerland. It doesn’t take long to get a batch of milk into the form of cheese. It locks like cheese within three hours after starting. It's the ageing and curing that take the time. You begin making cheese (and they begin every day at our factory) by pouring milk into waist-high, copper-lined kettles, then heating them with steam to about 100 degrees. Then they put in a few drops of “starter,” which is a syrupy-looking substance filled with millions of germs. These are all nice, domesticated, harmless germs. All they do is make the milk turn into cheese.

3000 Pounds Make 200 Pounds

So let's get on. For the next three hours more heat is applied. The stuff curdles without souring, and starts turning hard. Gradually, through stirring, the whey is expelled. It takes 3000 pounds of milk to make 200 pounds of cheese, so vou see they get rid of a lot of whev. When the cheese is ready to leave the kettle it is dipped out with a big linen net and put into a container where pressure is applied the rest of that day and all night, squeezing out the last of the whey.

By Ernie Pyle

When the cheese comes out next morning, it is called a “wheel” or “drum.” The wheel is then put into a large vat of brine, where it floats for three days. This is for it to absorb salt. For some reason they can’t mix in the sait as they make it. After the brining, the “wheels” are put in a cool room, on wooden shelves, for 10 days. Then they go to the “warm room,” where the temperature is kept at 75 and the humidity at 80. They stay here from four to eight weeks, being washed and salted twice a week.

How the Holes Are Made

It is here in the “warm room” that the “eyes” form. the “eyes” being those holes you find in cheese. The Government grades cheese by its “eyes,” yet the eyes do not indicate the cheese’s eating qaulity. A cheese with medium-sized, medium-spaced round eves is the highest grade. But cheese can have eyes too close together, and too big and all lopsided, and still be just as good eating. It's simply that the public likes to see cheese with nice regular eyes. When the wheels leave the “warm room” after a month or two, they go to shelves in a cold room, and here they finally get some rest, They just lie there on their shelves, in semi-darkness, and grow gracefully old. The only disturbance is when a Government man comes in once a week and plugs them, like a watermelon. When the cheese is from four to six months old it is ready to sell. .

It Mustn't Bite Back!

I had always thought that the older a cheese, the better it was. I thought a cheese 100 years old was sort of like Napeleon Brandy or Louis XIV furniture. But no. You get a cheese more than a year old, and it gets impertinent. That's all I know about cheese, except that once a month this factory gets an order from a man near Escondido, Cal. His name is John Anderson Weaver, and he hates Hitler, For all over his envelope he writes, in alternaie red and blue crayon, such phrases as “To Hell with Hitler,” and “Hitler Lindbergh” and “Hitler Wheeler” and “Who's Running Labor?” You can hardly find the address amidst all the red and blue vituperation on the envelope. I can just see him out there in California, eating cheese with one hand. damning Hitler with the other, and having a wonderful time.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

AN UNOFFICIAL committee of one reports progress in the remodeling of the Civic Theater. The actors won't know the dressing rooms when they commence to make up in October. Theres actually room to spare, and the walis are lined with mirrors. Gee, how the actors will love that! The auditorium walls are paneled about six feet high with natural grajned wood, and a moulding conceals indirect lighting. There is new rounded paneling around the proscenium, and an ingenious door set into the paneling beneath the footlights exposes a neat set of steps leading up to the stage when the door’s opened. The new workshop, next to the theater, is little more than walls as yet, and the new switchboard hasn't been installed, but they seem to be well on the way. And on the stage is the most frightening pile of junk you ever saw. Just thought we'd keep you posted.

We'll Stick to H. H.

OUR NEW ACTING FIRE CHIEF has two first names, and therein lies a tale. One of the first names is Harry. The other is Herbert. Which comes first and which second is the story. On the Safety Board's personnel records, he's listed as Herbert H. Fulmer. On the payroll, the name's Harry ‘"H. He's known over Indianapolis, for the most part, as Herbert H. Over the State, he's better known as Harry H. In his school days, he was known variously as Herbert H.. H. Harry and a lot of other combinations. In a legal matter some years ago he had to make an affidavit to the effect that all these various name combinations referred to him,

A ica’s Job LONDON, Aug. 27.—Intimate collaboration between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill is the real lifeline of the struggle against Hitler. If that were broken or weakened nothing else would prevail in the end. Russia's powerful resistance would be left eventually on a sinking foundation. The determination of the British people would be impotent, American resources and production would not find effective use in this struggle. This indispensable Roosevelt-Churchill collaboration could be wrecked by pettiness or narrow views or lack of courage on the part of either or both of these two men. It is for‘unate for our world that we have two such great leaders. able personally to co-operate so effectively. But the collaboration must have more than that if it is to count fully. It must have behind it mutual understanding and breadth of view on the part of the two peoples from whom the leaders derive their power. A good deal more of this is needed.

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IN TALKING HERE with many people of diverse interests, I am picking up a few hints which I believe might well be taken to heart by all of us in the United States. First of all, I find that people here are becoming weary of being told how brave they are. Sometimes we in America lay it on too thick. You have only to look at some of the wrecked buildings to know that these people have been through something. Nearly everyone with whom I have talked about it says frankly that he was frightened. They are inclined to feel that they are being patronized by any well-fed American who comes over here, after a warm, secure winter at home. and gushes over them for being so noble and heroic about it all. It offends their self-

respect. : They aren't looking for sympathy here.

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.—I have just finished reading a book by Mrs. Elizabeth von Hesse called: “So to speak,” which was published on Aug. 20. I think it will be of great assistance to everyone interested in improving his ability to think on his feet and speak effectively. There are many quotations in it which are delightful and I was particularly struck by one or two poems by Maxeda von Hesse, the daughter of the author. I hope this book will be widely read. It gives good advice for our physical and mental wellbeing, as well as assuring to us, if we follow its advice, a more pleasing presentation of our ideas to the public. Yesterday was a busy day in Washington. A press conference at 11, to which Dr. Louise Stanley of the Bureau of Home Economics, in the Agriculture Department, brought the various samples they have developed in ¢ cotton stockings. She then showed us some very charming models of work clothes developed for housewives and women workers on the farm and in the factory. ‘The designs were not only practical but very attractive. Since the Department offers its designs to the trade, I hope some of these garments will be on the market shortly at attractive prices. At noon, Mrs. Dana Backus brought Mr. William

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We won't keep you in confusion any longer. He says his real name, unless he’s too confused to remember, is HARRY HERBERT Fulmer,

The Cantwell Memory

J. FRANK CANTWELL, the impresario of the Home Show, happens to be president of the Southern Club, comprised of folks who used to live in the South. A committee meeting was needed so Frank arranged for the committee to meet at his home Monday night. Came Monday night and the committee members began ringing the Cantwell doorbell, but Frank wasn’t there. It seems he'd forgotten about the meeting and took Mrs. Cantwell to a movie. Such Southern hospitality! . . . The Junior Chamberites will be the official dispensers of information at the State Fair this year. If you find a child whose parents are lost, just take him to the Jaycee booth in the administration building and they'll fix things up. Directors of the booth are C. Irwin Sutton and Corwin Carter.

Mr. Whitney's Watch

WITHQUT A DOUBT, the most rugged individualist in town is C. M. Whitney of the gas utility's auditing department. Mr. Whitney, according to reports, can't see eye to eye with daylight time enthusiasts. So he keeps his watch running on Central Standard Time. Instead of going to work at 8 a. m,, like the others in his department, he starts at 7—by his watch. It's all the same, he says. . . . The State A. B. 'C, we hear, privately is catching heck for its recent interpretation of the liquor laws as they apply to private clubs. Under the A. B. C. interpretation, no one but a club member may buy liquor in a private club—not even a member's wife. Some club members are squawking to the A. B. C. about this. A lot more aren't.

By Raymond Clapper

want planes. They want ships bringing food so their men can do a real day's work on properly-fed stomachs. They aren't taking this punishment because they are brave and noble, but because they have to take it—or be kicked around by the Nazis as the French are. And they'd rather suffer anything else than accept such degradation. They are realistic about it. You have to be realistic if you are to get through this kind of business.

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I FEEL DEFINITELY that we Americans are talking too much. Words are rapidly losing their force. Even the masterful Churchill sounded just a bit threadbare the other night. It has all been said, over and over again, here and in the United States. Words no longer mean very much. Action, such as that in Iran, is the only kind of thing that talks now. From America we have tco many words and too fev weapons. For two years we have been talking about how Britain must stand. For at least a year and a half we have been talking about the planes and tanks we are going to send over. People here are beginning to want to see those planes and tanks. If we had bombers to send here, the British would put them over Germany now. I think we have oversold ourselves, and unless we can deliver the goods the result will be a most unhappy one all around.

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THE TEMPER .OF the British people is more normal and realistic than that in the United States, where we either brag like a seed catalog about what we are going to produce or else exhibit a fear of war that amounts almost to a national psychosis. It seems very late in the day for that sort of state of mind to persist, and it must make us look pretty foolish in the eyes of the people who have been thrcugh last winter's heavy blitzes. I believe they would respect us much more over here, and would have greater confidence in us, if we allowed our case to rest frankly on the realities of our situation and then confined ourselves, for the moment, to doing a faster job of production and delivery.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

A. Dillon of Ithaca, N. Y, winner of the first prize in the national competition for a “Song of the Hour” sponsored by the Women’s Division of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. He wrote a song many’ years ago which you will remember: “I Want a Girl.” That song has been sung from coast to coast in many gatherings in this country. Mr. Dillon entered this competition because he and Mrs. Dillon apparently make it a hobby to bring up young people. They have brought up eight youngsters besides their own, so the young girl who is at present growing up in their home, begged him to win this competition so she might put aside $300 towards her college fund. J Well, the $300 were won and the song is called: “Me and My Uncle Sam.” I hope you will insist on hearing it. There were many other prize winners, so we shall ‘be hearing a number of good songs that have as their object making us understand some phase of our obligations as citizens of the U. S. A. today. Mrs. Hobbe, from Texas, Mr. and Mrs. John Herrick and one or two other friends lunched with me yesterday. The afternoon was taken up with appointments. At about 7, the Duke of Kent, and his aide, Sir Louis Greig, returned from their day’s trip. Our dinner and the evening were pleasant and I said goodby with regret to our guests. Miss Thompson: and I took the night train for New York City. The day here is going to be spent largely in going over things stored in the warehouse.

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only possible solution which Hitler can accept would be that all all that represents ability and leadership in Britain must be snuffed out. This is so essential and can be so easy. It will not be necessary to occupy all of the British Isles, but only to conquer or destroy the British fleet and then control the seas to reduce the .population of Britain in a short time to manageable limits. Consider the method which Hitler used to cut down the number of some of his enemies on the Continent. In November, 1938, when 70,000 Jewish men were placed in concentration camps, the Nazis were willing, of course, to ransom the wealthy. But the bulk of the Jews taken in this raid were poor. No matter what pressure was applied, no funds were forthcoming. Under these circumstances, it would never do to turn them loose in Germany. It would spoil the future market for Jews to let them

CHARLESTOWN ROADS COSTLY

$579,000 Spent in Area; Cited as Example of Defense Program.

Times Special

creased traffic on Indiana State

Route 62 from 700 to 14,000 vehicles a day, necessitating highway construction costing $579,000, the Federal Works Agency reported today. This was cited by Thomas H. MacDonald, Commissioner of Public Roads, as an outstanding example of the use of regular Federal-aid funds for defense highway construction. Funds were spend on a total of 4262 miles and engineering work on an additional 1548 miles, Mr. MacDonald said. The Charlestown construction covered 11.4 miles on Route 62. In addition, defense highway construction in Indiana included 52 miles at Ft. Harrison and one mile at the Ft. Wayne Air Corps Field. The Federal-aid funds apportioned to the States each year are available only for designated Fed-eral-aid systems.

Costs $176,000,000

Access roads to defense areas that are also on the Federal-1aid secondary system are being improved, he declared, and portions of the Fed-eral-aid system on the strategic system , approved by the Secretary of War are being given priority over other work. The 4262 miles of construction to be financed by Federal-State funds and the 1548 miles of surveys or engineering supervision of construction for work to be carried out with other Federal and highway funds is to cost $176,000,000 of which $98,000,000 is Federal aid. The mileage is broken down as follows: Strategic network, 4340 miles; Naval establishments, 250; industrial production areas, 100; reservation roads, 200, and Hawaii defense, 10. The program includes 896 structures, four-fifths of them bridges and the remaining fifth grade sep-

other highways. Work on an additional 2010 miles, including 106 structures, to cost $80,000,000 has been planned.

i RAF EAGLETS TO ARIZONA PHOENIX, Ariz. (U. P.).—A new contingent of 60 British youths has arrived to increase to 110 the number of Royal Air Force cadets tak-

ing preliminary flight courses at Thunderbird Field.

second continental power in Europe. to organize a second military power on Germany's frontiers, even if it is only in the form of a state which might have military significance, an attack against Germany and see therein not only the right but the duty to prevent the

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Destroy England Completely, Then Hitlerism Would Sweep World

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Hitler could have no place in his new European order for the British people. They have had too long an experience of freedom. They have too much latent energy and They are too proud to make good slaves.

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Pneumonia Did the Work

The Jews were lightly dressed, usually only in whatever they wore when captured, often only their pajamas. They were given hard, outdoor work to do for long hours, then forced to sleep on the ground or on straw beds in partially open shelters, without adequate bedcovering. The natural result of this was pneumonia, which swept away so many men that the government had to enlarge the crematories which burned the remains.

In 1941, the Nazi solution of the Polish and Jewish population problems along the new eastern frontier is much the same. The great part of Poland is to be German and is being provided with a new set of German landlords.

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They need, of course, Polish la= borers to operate their estates, but this number is far smaller than the existing population of the country; so the surplus Poles and Jews have been hurried out of the greater part of the country and concentrated in a limited area behind barbed wire. There has been no adequate attempt to provide food, shelter, or employment for these people. They have been dying like flies. This, of course, is what the Nazis wanted. Hitler uses the sharp weapon of starvation to prune away undesirable racial elements in his New Europe, just as a surgeon uses his knife to cut away diseased flesh.

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British Too Obstinate

Over a temporary period, of course, Htiler will need the labor of many slaves in Europe. Since 1939, great numbers of conquered Poles, as well as Czechs, French-

Mystery of Why Wavell

Went to India Answered

By UNITED PRESS The Anglo-Russian campaign for control of Iran was believed today to have given the answer to the

British Government's action in midsummer in transferring Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell from supreme British command &{ in the Middle { Bast to command ! of Empire forces ! in India.

Gen. Wavell,

der the pressure of attempting to aid the Greeks against German invasion, was shifted to India, not because of criticism of his operations in the Mediterranean, but to put a strong man in control in India when the British Government learned of the impending German assault on Russia, it was believed. Observers believe that Wavell was selected because the German attack on Russia ultimately would endanger British oil supplies in Iran (Persia). Major German successes in southern Russia not only

Gen. Wavell

would open the road to Iran's oil and Russian oil in the Caucasus but it would enable them to strike at British oil in Iraq and against India through Afghanistan. Thus the British for weeks have been seizing the initiative in the Near and Middle East. Wavell's command in India and the present operations against Iran were part of a general plan to mend British defenses. It included the British occupation of Iraq and Syria and continued wooing of Turkey. With Empire forces stretched eastward all the way from Egypt to Afghanistan, Gen. Wavell will be in a better position to defend Britain’s Eastern oil supplies, the approaches to the Indian Empire and to retain

control of the Suez Canal. In addition to bolstering British defenses, Anglo-Russian control, of Iran will open a route for continued British support of Russia through Iran. Supplies from India, Australia and the United States can be sent to Iran ports on the Persian Gulf and then shipped into Russia, well behind fighting lines even if the Red Army is pushed back to the Urals.

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“It will not be necessary for the Nazis to occupy all of the British Isles, but only to conquer or destroy the British fleet and then control the seas to reduce the population of Britain in a short time to mane

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men, Belgians, Danes, Norwegians and Dutch, have been taken from their homes, sometimes voluntarily by the promise of food, sometimes under compulsion, and put to work in the German industrial 4nd transportation industries. No doubt a certain number of British can be used, although their usefulness may be more limited than that of less obstinate peoples. I fully believe that, if Hitler wins, the arrest and incarceration of leading persons in Britain and the use of considerable numbers of British as slaves on the Continent will leave in the British Isles only a small population made up mostly of agricultural laborers and a small number of industrial workingmen, for example, in shipyards, a population wholly unable to maintain the continuity of British policy and British culture. A treaty of peace with Britain seems very unlikely. For one thing, the British will fight on even if the British Isles are taken. It is certain that Canada would be protected by the United States, that resistance to Hitler would still continue there. Undoubtedly, many persons would get away to carry on the fight from a new overseas base. However, it would not matter much to Hitler if a certain number of the British did escape and carried on the war from another base abroad. They could hardly

2595 T0 ANSWER 15TH ARMY CALL

September Induction to

Include 1000 Examined In August.

Indiana has been called upon for 2595 men to be inducted into the Army between Sept. 19 and Oct. 2. This is the 15th Selective Service call made on the state and, when completed, will bring to more than 20,000 the number of Indiana selectees now in service. Included among the men to be inducted in September will be approximately 1000 who participated in the August trial of the physical examination procedure by which

registrants receive examination by the Army Board some 30 days prior to induction, Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, State selective Service director, said he expects an even larger quota in October. It is estimated that there are about 8000 men still in Indiana who are now classified in 1-A awaiting induction, A number of the September inductees are expected to be 21-year-old men who registered on July 1 in the second registration,

DENY LINDBERGH USE OF CITY AUDITORIUM

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 27 (U. P.).—The City Council has voted unanimously to deny Col. Charles A. Lindbergh the use of the city’s auditorium for an address Friday night. Some 250 persons appeared be-

fore the council to protest Col. ‘| Lindbergh’s use of the auditorium.

Many of those protesting were American Legion members. A. P. Van Meter, one of the councilmen, said: “We are not denying Lindbergh freedom of speech. He can go out on the street corner and talk until he gets tired. We just don’t want him in our public buildings.”

SCHOLARSHIPS WON BY 3 LOCAL GIRLS

Three Indianapolis girls have received undergraduate scholarships at Northwestern University for the school year 1941-42. They are Miss Martha Murphy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie B. Murphy, 1117 Parker Ave.; Miss Mary Worsham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony H. Worsham, 4325 Guilford Ave., and Miss Marion L. Parks, daughter of Mr; and Mrs.

Elliott H, Parks, 336 Grand Ave.

operate effectively around the British Isles and draw their fuel and supplies from .across the Ate lantic. A food blockade of the British Isles could then be effected, whether some of the Brite ish batleships escaped to Canada or not.

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Turning Point in History

When we think of the progress of the war, we must not consider a defeat of Britain as just one episode in a series of disasters— it would represent the end of a chapter in human history. If Britain should fall, there would be little that America could do against Hitler in his own home territory. Our last possible base of operations against the vitals of the Reich would have vanished, The fall of Britain also means the end of the Atlantic blockade, Within a few weeks German ships could put to sea in every direc tion to bring in vital materials which are now desperately missed, to carry Nazi emissaries far and wide. This would signalize that the barriers were down to totalitare ianism. It would spread like a raging fire over most of the remaining areas of the world.

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'Meow'—Fighting Word to Coyle

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (U. P.).— Patrolman Patrick Coyle never wants to see another cat.

He has had nothing but trou= ble since the night he was walk= ing his post in the Bowery and saw a woman pick up something from a sidewalk and stuff it into a burlap sack. Over her protests, he opened the sack and six cats jumped out and fled. She de=nounced him for interfering with her “voluntary humane work in ridding the city of sick, starving cats.” She said he gathered the cats and took them to the Amer= ican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The cat Patrolman Coyle had seen her get belonged to a restaurant, which refused to press charges, so the policeman had to let her go. She, however, had a friend write a letter to Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine accusing Patrolman Doyle of un=gentlemanly conduct in letting cats out of her bag. There was adepartmental investigation which finally ended yesterday with his exoneration. Now he gets letters addressed, “Cat Lover,” “Bowery Cat Protec= tor,” etc., and his fellow officers yell “meow” at him,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What island is famous for its

tailless cats?

2—Who was the “old woman” in

the nursery rhyme who had so many children she did not know what to do?

3—Richard Mansfield was a famous

American sculptor, novelist or actor?

playwright,

4—Who wrote “She Stoops to Cone

quer”?

5—The molecular construction of

matter means that a number of molecules combine to form atoms; true or false?

6—How many arms has an octopus? T—How many players are required

+ for a baseball game? Answers

1—Isle of Man. . 2—0ld woman who lived in a shoe, 3—Actor. 4—Oliver Goldsmith. 5—False. 6—Eight. T—Eighteen.

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