Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1941 — Page 19

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Hoosier Vagabond

FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1941

The Indianapolis Times

TOLEDO, O. Aug. 29.—TI'll have to apologize to Michigan. Or maybe, instead, the State Legislature should vote me a medal in gratitude. I don’t know which. At any rate, I had intended working my way across Michigan, taking about a week and writing columns all the way. But actually I came across in seven hours and never wrote a line. There’s no reason for it—at least no Michigan reason. I liked Michigan all right. I intended to stop in Grand Rapids and write about the furniture factories, but all I did there was eat breakfast. It was my plan to stop in Lansing and write about the State capital, but all I did there was get shaved—my first barber shave in years. The university at Ann Arbor had been on my list, but all I did in Ann Arbor was drive rapidly through the university grounds and look twice out the window. It was just one of those days when I couldn't bear to stop, couldn't bear to crash a new city where I didn’t know a soul, couldn’t bear to get out from behind the privacy of my own steering wheel. Surely you've had days when you wanted to stay in the house and not answer the doorbell and not see anybody. Just driving all day long is the traveler’s version of the same thing.

Great Men Look Alike

Before we start tearing Toledo apart, I want to get down a few spare items we might not find a place for later. For example, I walked inéo the office of the Wisconsin State-Journal in Madison and introduced my-. self, and the man turned out to be Lawrence Fitzpatrick, who is a brother of Fritzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, probably America’s No. 1 cartoonist. There’s nothing so startling about that, since lots of people have brothers, except Lawrence Fitzpatrick said that I look so much like his cartoonist brother that when he saw me walking in he almost jumped up and came running over. Now you can understand why Cartoonist Fitzpatrick is a great man.

Competition, Eh, Ernie

I had tough luck in Madison. wouldn't talk to me.

Lots of people

By Ernie Pyle

I called up a professor at the university, and his

secretary or somebody said no, he wouldn't see me,|

because he’d had bad experiences with newspapermen. He isn’t so original. I've had bad experiences with professors, too. Then I called up the Sprague-Dawley Co. which raises thousands of white rats and sells them to medical and experimental labcratories all over the country. Thought I might write me a white-rat column. But they parleyed for quite awhile over it, while I held the phone, and finally said for me to call back in a month and they would decide whether they would talk to me. Me call back in a month! Why in a month I may be in Siberia, raising white rats myself.

Concerning the U. P. You often see the initials “U. P.” used in the

newspapears. In the newspaper world, “U. P.” means the United Press. Through the far Midwest and Rocky Mountain States, “U. P.” means the Union Pacific

Railroad. But now I've found a new one. Saw it in a Milwaukee paper. It said “U. P, Teachers to Meet at Escanaba.” And, in this case, “U. P.” means Upper

Peninsula. That's the part of Michigan which lies to the northwest of Lake Michigan. You might make up a sentence says, “According to the U. P, the U, P. does not run through the U. P.” You might, but I wouldn't see much sense in it.

America’s Breadbasket

And now, before we plunge into the smoke and grime of the industrial world, I want to give one last report on America’s bread-bowl, the great grain states. The Northwest is just about to bust and spill over, it’s so full of grain. Every elevator and storage bin in every city and town is crammed full. Every crib ane shed on every farm is full. All over the Northwest they're boarding up chicken houses and pigpens for grain, and putting grain in cellars and rooms in

their houses. They say that in Dakota farmers have had to sack their wheat and stack it on the ground. They say you can see a 40-acre field covered solid with wheat sacks piled shoulder-high, the entire vast assemblage covered with tarpaulin. The horn of plenty. Nature is fattening us up for the kill, I presume.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

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MAYOR SULLIVAN'S plans to name a “fair rent” committee have caused a bit of apprehension on the pe of labor unions and other groups composed largely of workers. If the Mayor isn't careful, these groups argue, he might even make things worse, as, they say, actually happened in another Indiana city. There, labor leaders report, the committee somehow turned out to be preponderantly on the side of the landlords, and any appeal from a recent raise has had “two strikes” against it to start with. On the other hand, supporters of the committee plan contend, labor unions are not the only groups opposing rent boosts. High rents reduce the people's purchasing power and that hurts the merchants, both wholesale and retail. High rents also threaten every employer with the necessity of pay raises to meet the higher costs. oe Personally, we don't envy the Mayor his job.

Bill, the Pigeon °

W. D. McGUIRE, the coal dealer at Zionsville (it's almost Inside Indianapolis), has a most remarkable pigeon. Bill, the pigeon, used to ride the tailgate of coal trucks making deliveries, but he's getting pretty old now and stays in the coal yard office. Mr. McGuire talks to Bill just as he would to a pet dog, and Bill seems to understand a lot he says. For instance, “Give me a kiss,” calls for a peck McGuire's face. Bill will obey orders to “Get in your box.” At night, when Mr. McGuire is closing the office, he tells Bill to “get a drink,” and Bill hops into the next room and gets it. A The pigeon won't allow anyone except Mr. McGuire to go near the desk office. If anyone tries, Bill takes a lusty nip out of his ankle.

U.S. and R.A.F.

LONDON, Aug. 29.—We Americans have done a great deal of talking in big figures, but the results are pitifully short of what they ought to be. They are pitifully short of what most Americans suppose them to be. In the United States we talked in big figures, but they come out at this end in little figures. For military reasons not much detail can be offered in support of that generalization, but I know that the generalization stands up. The Bell Airacobra which is just beginning to come in, can hold its tail up against anything. Our Flying Fortresses have earned a high reputation, even though the ones we have sent have come without the better type of military engine which should have been found in the later models.

2 = = IN THE UNITED STATES there have been reports that American aviation equipment was allowed to stand unused over here. That may have been due to time lost in testing planes. For instance, it was the practice here to put American planes through a series of scientific tests which required several weeks —the tests being the same ones that were applied to the planes before they left the United States. That superfluous second testing is being scaled down now with a saving of time. ”

EJ 2 IT WOULD BE A GOOD idea for the United States to give every encouragement and assistance to the work of training British fliers in America. Any help that can be given to training more crews will be a real service. It would be a help if we could send over American crews and mechanics in larger numbers. We forget how hard pressed for mechanical and technical manpower England Is. I think some of the delays in the use of American-

My Day

HYDE PARK, Thursday—I told you yesterday of the defense housing registration which is being done in Pensacola, Fla. I want to mention also a housing development for colored people which pleased’ me very much. I was not able to go out and look at it very carefully, but it seemed to be well planned, and considerable, attractive landscaping had been done. One of the ministers had written to me about it, and told me that the people living there were making every effort to provide opportunities for civic education and recreation. : The only trouble is that with the influx of pecple who have come to Pensacola, there. must be thousands of people who are forced to live in sub-standard dwellings. We are going to face

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- a similar situation right here in this area before long,

because our housing situation has been none too good. With any influx of people, it will become a great deal worse. It would be one thing if it was just a question of living temporarily in poor surroundings and paying a low rental, but the rents skyrocket and which should be condemned,

Oe Favs Should 00 a pri that should cover a decent apartment. This

It Won't Be Long, Now

SCHOOL OFFICIALS are looking for an increase in enrollment when the public schools open a week from Monday—Sept. 8—but they don’t have much idea of how much of an increase. In ordinary years, they can pretty much judge the first grade enrollment by turning back to the birth records of six years earlier. Six years ago the number of births was high, so were pretty sure of an increase in first graders. What has the school officials stopped is the heavy influx of defense workers from other cities. There's no way of telling what percentage of them have children of school age. : If theyre scattered over the 80-odd grade school buildings, the chances are they can be absorbed into the system with the addition of only a spare teacher here and there. If too many of them are in one school district, that's going to make things tough. Oh well, if things get too tough, they can always find self-sacrificing volunteers willing to give up their places to the newcomers.

Here and There

EASLEY BLACKWOOD, our nationally known bridge authority, mathematical genius and insurance executive, has an article on his specialty—slam bidding—in the September issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. . . . The “inside dope” of the moment at the State House is that the Governor probably will remove the present Board of Beauty Culture Examiners because of certain complaints he’s received about board employees attempting to organize beauty culturists into labor unions. . . . The “V for Victory” campaign is being commercialized. An East Side firm with the word Victory in its name is passing out gummed windshield stickers bearing a large “V” and the word “Victory” printed on it—with the firm's name in smaller type. . . . A car being driven down Meridian St. by a young man bore a sign: “This car for sale cheap—I've been drafted.”

By Raymond Clapper

made aircraft may be partly accounted for by the fact that mechanics were not available to undertake quickly the adjustments and the supplementary equipment that are necessary -before the planes are ready for the air. This is something that deserves a good deal of earnest thought, since everyone here and in the United States is expecting the war to go on at least

“another year.

One day this week the Air Ministry reported that seven bombers were missing after a day's operations ended. Keep that up awhile and you can’t help feeling it. The time might come when you got tired and departed from the Air Force. Therefore the training program in the United States is most essential, and needs all the help our Government can give it. » » =

WE MIGHT AS WELL face the facts which are to be inferred from what we know of England's manpower shortage. It stands to reason that if we are going to send over a large number of airplanes in the near future the operating force will need to be expanded. I don’t think there is any answer to that expansion except in the use of American mechanics, specialist crews and, in time perhaps, American pilots. Unless the United States is willing to enter into that program, or unless Americans volunteer for that work, England might in time find herself with planes, but with not enough personnel to service and operate them to full advantage. ” tJ s

AND THE CRY is for bombers. The Royal Air Force needs high altitude bombers. Bombers which have to operate at lower ceilings, as do many bombers now being used over Germany, have to go through heavy anti-aircraft fire and it gets to be a costly business. They need every big bomber we can send. If any real dent is to be made in Germany, the R. A. F.’s operations will have to expand materially,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

situation will be familiar to people all over the country and it seems to me that we should take hold and do something to improve our housing situation. I was told an amusing story the other day of a 16-year-old boy who had been given some land on the side of a mountain out west. He had spent the summer building his own cabin, cut down the trees himself and did all the work. His mother remarked that it was wonderful what children could do if just allowed to go ahead on their own. I am not sure, however, that all children or their elders would have the initiative or ability of this youngster. Unfortunately, circumstances limit some of us. We may not live on the side of a mountain, even if the prospect has charm. We are having a meeting of the youth members of the National Advisory Committee of the National Youth Administration here today, and have enjoyed holding it in the open air and eating our lunch out of doors. A more perfect day could not be imagined. Have you, by any chance, seen a picture book for adults called: “Little Nog. Glamour Chick Number One,” by Imogene Wolcott? The illusirations are done by Walter Early. To glance through this book will take you perhdps five minutes, but I think you will get several laughs out of and that is something which all of us enjoy days.

S. America To ‘Explode’ If Nazis Win

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customers. How can we prevent Latin-American exporters from shipping goods to Hitler, who will offer to buy everything in sight? Some persons may say, “But Europe will be so disorganized that it will have nothing to send in exchange.” I want to point out that Hitler will have one sort of commodities which the LatinAmerican States will desire above all things—arms.

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Use Arms for Bait

THE TRIUMPH OF FORCE in Europe will be the signal for every Latin-American nation to be armed. They will fear revolution from within and aggression from without. The german war equipment, wearing the blue ribbon of victory, is bound to be rated the best in the world, and it would be offered at attractive prices in enormous quantities. It is certain to be snapped up by Latin-American republics, waiting anxiously to get rid of surplus raw products. This is no mere dream. It is a continuation of the tactics which the Nazis have already used successfully for years before the war. They continually armed their small neighbors. The export of war equipment was one of Germany’s best trading assets. Some may say that the Nazis

MOST WORKERS T0 REST 3 DAYS

Man in Overalls Forgets Defense Work Over Labor Day Week-End.

On Monday Indianapolis and the nation pays tribute to the army behind the army—the millions of workers who, toiling day and night in the country’s factories, are making the defense of the Western Hemisphere possible. In most of the industries the workers are receiving a three-day holiday to observe Labor Day—three

days of rest and fun away from lathes and drills where month after month they pile up stores for “democracy’s Arsenal.” At Allison Engineering Corp, where the deep throated powerhouses of our warplanes are turned out, the machines and men will rest tomorrow through Monday. At Cur-tiss-Wright Corp. the production of propellors will cease over the week-end and in many other defense and non-defense industries the boilers will be stoked until Tuesday. Not only will the man in overalls leave his machine but white collar workers, as well, will stream from their desks to the out-of-doors for the fall holiday. All Governmental units, including the Post Office banks, and the State Employment Service will be open Saturday but will not re-open until Tuesday. . The joy of a holiday will be somewhat dimmed for 83,000 school children who will remember that the school bell rings on the first Monday following the first Monday in September. The week-end will be far from a time of relaxation for county, state and city police. This is expected to be the biggest week-end in traffic that has ever occured in Indiana. Workers of all kinds, hard pressed by international events, will board trains, busses and their own cars in a mass exodus from the metropolitan area. Safety officials urged everyone to

“Hitler will have one sort of commodities which the Latin-American

States will desire above all things—arms.

The German war equipment,

wearing the blue ribbon of victory, is bound to be rated the best in the

world.

It is certain to be snapped up by Latin-American republics,

waiting anxiously to get rid of surplus products.”

would not sell arms to potential enemies. They have never shown any disinclination to do this in the past. Confident of their own overwhelming superiority, sure that they can retain the latest and most effective types of weapons, they gladly export secondhand military equipment, or even some of the best for the right prices. In the recent campaign against Yugoslavia and Greece, for example, both those nations had been chiefly equipped with German bullets, but this was all a part of Hitler's game. He doesn't mind. His opponents had paid for the weapons in essential raw materials which were worth more to him than the lives of some of his soldiers. » o o

Latins Lean to Axis

IT MAY BE ARGUED that the South American nations will be outfitted through our own American defense program, but if Hitler wins in Europe we shall need

HOLD EVERYTHING

“Good morning!

U. B. BISHOP TO GIVE SUGGESS FORMULA

Bishop Fred L. Dennis, presiding bishop of the White River Conference of the United Brethren Church, was to close the session today with an address, “The Unfailing Formula for Success.” The Rev. Virgil Hunt was reelected superintendent of the conference at the election of officers yesterday. Other re-elections were those of the Rev. L. P. Cooper, Brazil, who will serve his 22d term of office as treasurer; the Rev. E. A. Struble, Muncie, who has been recording secretary 13 years; the Rev. L. A. Huddleston, Indianapolis, statistical secretary; the Rev. N. P. France,

Daleville, registrar, and Dr. J. B. Parson, Dale, trustee. n

[__COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT, OFF. And how's my patient feeling today?”

nearly every plane and every gun that we can make at home. It may be argued that the Good Neighbor Policy and better relations between the American republics in recent years will cause them all to maintain a solid front against Hitler's wiles. This overlooks the fact that, even before Hitler has won complete victory in Europe, a number of Latin-American states have shown unmistakable signs that they favor co-operation with the Axis, X

Already, they seem to have decided which is the stronger of the opposing forces and on which side their bread is buttered. The Nazis at this moment have the inside track in several Latin-American countries, including Panama, the guardian of the Canal. There are a great number of reasons why Latin-American nations feel moved in this direction. Many of them are political dictatorships with only an outward facade of democracy. They feel a strong affinity toward the authoritarian forms of government.

In many of these states there

8-29

Bidding for Fame In Orchid Sarong

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29 (U. P.). —Dorothy Lamour’s sarong supremacy was challenged today by Maria Montez, black-haired, vi-brant-figured, Latin American beauty. Universal Studios have been grooming her for “jungle” roles a year, and she started to work yesterday in “White Savage,” wearing a sarong made of orchids. Her first assignment was making love to Brian Donlevy. “I've been waiting for this opportunity a long time and now I'm frightened,” she said as she left Mr. Donlevy’'s arms. “See how I'm shaking?” She was , but Mr. Don-

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are individual problems of racial antagonism, and so Nazi doctrines of racial superiority form a welcome bulwark to the rule of white aristocracy in countries where there are large Indian, Negro, and mestizo populations.

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Still Distrust U. S.

ASIDE FROM THE strong pull of economic forces which draws them into the Axis orbit, many Latin-American states still cher-

ish suspicions toward their stronger neighbor of the North. They resent our long self-satis-fied assumption of political, economic, and even moral superiority. They are tired of living in a world of Anglo-Saxon leadership and would be glad to try something else for a change. Let us not forget that North Americans have gone to South America on business only. They have remained within their exclusive circles, patronized exclusive clubs; never, for the most part, have they married Latin-Ameri-can women or adopted the language of the countries where they domiciled.

ship and a potential military opposition. If the present government does not come around promptly, the Nazis can negotiate with the ope position, supply them with arms and equipment, finance a sudden coup d'etat, and obtain power in his way.

’ 8 un.» Can’t Be Isolated % NAZI-SPONSORED revolutions have occurred in several countries already, generally quickly put on but only because they were remature. Already in Brazil the presidentictator has been besieged in his own palace by Nazi-inspired revblutionists. In Chile and in Uruguay such movements have resulted in vioence. A German victory would insure more activity of the same kind. Does anyone believe that these putsches would all fail or that the Nazis would not be able to secure a foothold in the South American 4Continent at some point? § The United States cannot mainsetain a naval patrol all the way sthrough the Atlantic and Pacific. We cannot enforce a blockade of ¢ Europe, Asia and Africa. eo We cannot call out the Marines to stop Mussolini from sending his daughter on a friendly visit é to the president of a Latin-Ameri-can republic, bringing with her 50 ¢ disguised military and aviation experts to start the training of Nazi Bunds under assumed names. We cannot forbid revolutions in South America. We cannot active= 8 ly interfere in the internal polie tics of the Latin-American republics without often arousing the re-

The German, Italian, Spanish, y sentment of the country concerned

Portuguese immigrants have come §

to Latin America to make it their home. They have

languages and come far closer to the hearts of the people than we have ever done. I believe that a Hitler victory would be signalized by a succession of Nazi-inspired revolutions in Latin-American countries, exploding like a packet of firecrackers.

In many of these countries, $ dictator-

there exist a military

DRAFTEE GETS OLD JOB BACK

Official Says Firm Sets ‘Fine Example for . . « Employers.’

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (U. P).— In the first case of its kind since enactment of the Selective Service Law, a discharged draftee has been returned to his former job after consultations between the employer an Federal authorities, U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy announced in Brooklyn today. The case was that of Sylvester Cara, who was inducted May 1 and discharged June 27 after the death of his father. The Grossman Shoe Co. informed him that his job as assistant foreman, which he had held for three years, had been eliminated in his absence. Mr. Kennedy was notified of the situation by Mr. Cara’s local draft board and summoned Morgan Grossman, president of the firm, Mr. Grossman agreed to restore Mr. Carra to the

payroll at his former wage with the

understanding that if no work could be found for him, the salary would continue as long as Mr. Cara is out of employment during the coming year. Mr. Kennedy praised the firm for acting “in the full spirit of the selective Serive act,” a provision .of which requires employers to return discharged draftees to their former positions, and said it had “set a fine example for other employers” and made an “important contribution to morale.”

NAVY’S RECRUTIING EXTENDS TO GIRLS

SEATTLE, Wash.—(U. P.).—The Navy recruiting office has interested at least three Seattle girls in sea-going career, : Evidently misled by first names, the Navy extended invitations to Torbjorg Gaupseth, Jerry Elliott and Frances Wright.

All, unfortunately, have a “Miss” prefixed

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intermingled § and adopted local customs and

and of its neighbors, and thus bringing about the very condition which we hoped to prevent. No, it is not possible that the , totalitarian tide can be successfully held back from moving across the South Atlantic. We must abandon the belief that we can isolate all the New Warld from a victorious Germany.

(Copyright, 1941, by Little Brown and Co.} distributed by United Feature Syndicate.)

Tomorrow — “Seige of North America.”

Slug Fails So He Gets Angry

GARY, Ind. (U. P.).—George

{ Miller, drug clerk, believed there

might have been some justification in a customer’s anger when, failing to get the nickel back after dialing a wrong number, the customer yanked the receiver off the hook and walked out of the store with it. But it was something of a shock when telephone company worke= ers repairing the phone reported that the last coin deposited was a slug.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Cattle have no upper front teeth; true or false. 2—What is the correct pronunciaetion of corps? 3—What is the name of a province in Treland that is also a type of overcoat? "4—Who is President and Executive Yuan of China? 5—Who is called the Bard?” 6—The fluviograph is an instrument for measuring and recording aue matically the rise and fall of a river, the flow of water, or the speed of airplanes? T—Which amendment to the U. 8. Constitution abolished slavery? 8§—Where is the Simplon Tunnel?

Answers

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1—True. 2—Kor. 3—Ulster. 4—Gen. Chiang Kai-shek. 5—Shakespeare. 6—Rise and fall of rivers. 7—Thirteenth. 8—Swiss Alps. : 2 wu. 8

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