Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1941 — Page 24
‘today, and I discovered that I have real talent i for this old, old profession. At least that’s my story. When they suggested I try my hand (or rather my mouth) at blowing some glass, I was - luctant and full of fear, fo 1 "knew all’ the real glass blowers would stand around and laugh at me. But I couldn't be a coward and just flatly refuse. : . So one of the blowers gave me a few preliminary instructions, and then they got a gob of molten glass on the end of a pipe and handed it to me and said, “Keep t and blow hard.”
‘as nervous as a cat, The realization that .
to work so fast was what flustered me. was blowing I'd forget to turn it, and then of glass all out of shape. Then I'd start turning it get to blow, during which time the glass was ouling and becoming unworkable. I'm an awfully fast fellow to catch on, as you , and first thing I knew I was getting the it. ‘It was such a wonderful sensation of lishment that I lost all my bashfulness and “blew brazenly until my eyes stuck out.
e Regular Pyle Luck nally the glass started to turn from red to white, - realized it was now too cool, and I was just out my lungs into a glass bulb that was hard. “they took it away from me, and one of the “grabbed a wooden paddle and rubbed real hard the bottom of the huge bulb, flattening it out.
another broke the glass away from the pipe
there, lo and behold, was a sort’ of glass vase
= ereupon they said they ‘would give it to me. Tou can imagine my delight. For years and years
orig it % is mine. Al] things come to him who I always say.
EAST SIDERS in the vicinity of the RCA plant lve been pretty curious over some mysterious midAt and early morning vocal blasts from the plant:
y've called newspaper offices and reported hear-
late. as 3 a. m., voices apparently magnified by some sort of loud speaker system, warning of “plane attack,” or “gir raid,” and issuing commands having to ‘do with ship movements, : Well, we've cleared up the mystery. The RCA is developing a new type sound broadcasting sys- . tem for use on the ocean at times and places where the use of radio might give away the ship’s location to enemy raiders. With these new devices, it is planned, ship’s officers can “holler” from one ship to another in g without using radio. The reason for all the ‘at RCA is they'r testing to see how far the 8 can be heard. course the details are all pretty much hush Maybe we shouldn’t have told you this ‘much. it to yourself,
ah’s Witnesses
ATTRACTIVE "yoiing woman who knocked door and offered us a tract on Jehova's Wit~ ormed us our fellow citizens aren’t so bad
what sort of 4 a reception she usually gets in r to door missionary work, she said 99 per cent . peorie ar are courteous; only 1 per cent slam the
De Sasa. about 300 or 350 Witnesses in town, us. The reason that it seems there are more ? get around quite a bit.” an
DN, Sept. 1.—Deeply moved by undisputed jorts that the American people are less war-minded iy than they were last May, Britishers who regard
can declaration of war as the sine qua non .
7, have been examining the causes for that : reversal of opinion and the means - of overcoming it. : Their unanimous conclusion is that ‘Americans are less willing to
enter the war now than:they were last spring because they feel that -American participation in the war is less necessary now. Since, these people are convinced, an American declaration of war is in fact more urgent now than ever before, this . change of attitude must be attributed to lack of good information. The remedy, they suggest, is to regime of mutual admiration and backslap1 3 which the two peoples have been engaged ¢ and frankly to one another. dea was universally approved when it was ed publicly by Herbert Agar, editor of le Courier-Journal on his nt visit to untry. In a speech at Grosvenor’s he Jambasted his British EE for failing ankly to Americans on the subject of AmerArt cipation in the war.
M r. Agar Said
ve to win the war together,” he 2 Sal, “In e, then, do nof encourage us. to indulge cy that if America supplies guns, tanks, nes, somebody is going to win the war I know nothing about military affairs, but ot neéd an expert to tell us that the war,
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long run, ‘is going to need vast quantities -
and men. We could provide a first-class d air force tomorrow, as well as munitions. hope the war will. be won quickly, and it there will be some. break next year. But ous to think in terms: like these. Every
ARK, Suriey—Yeleriay was a very busy
and Chandler. The evening one had a
would droop down toward the floor
e beginning of the war, and to start lalking
By Ernie Pyle
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The ars of the Trade
The world of glass-blowing has a language all its own. , Glassmakers work - in teams, each team called a “shop.” A company like Libbey’s will have 10 or 15 «“ ops” all working at once in the same big room around one big conical furnace. The head. man of each shop is called a “gaffer” He merely puts on the final touches of "artistry that make a great piece of glass. He is the genius in the woodpile. Next under him is a “servitor,” who prepares the glass in rough form for the ‘‘gaffer,” and hands it to him when it is all ready. Both ‘“gaffers” and “servi-
tors” are usually men past middle age. And, just]
as most railroad firemen are perfectly capable of running the engine, so most “servitors” are capable of being “gaffers.” 7 Beneath these two are other team bers. One is the “gatherer,” who goes to the oor; sticks in the steel pipe, twists it in the molten glass mass and “gathers” a gob of glass on the end of the pipe. They say he can judge within half an ounce how much glass he has.
Then there is a “stick boy” who grabs the pipe|
and to the furnace with it every minute or two for a little reheating. And also there is the “carry-in boy,” whose name is reversed, for what he actually does is carry out the
completed piece of glassware to the annealing fur-}
naces. He does this by taking the glass in a forked Stick wrapped with asbestos. That's absolutely all e does.
Did He Bow to You, Ernest?
There seemed to me a great deal of waste mo-
tion in the hand-making of glass. But that is, of |
course, as it should be. If they wanted to call in an efficiency expert he no doubt could haVe one man do the whole operation, from “gathering” to “carrying out.” But it’s always been done this other way, and you can’t efficiency-ezpert an artist. You get the impression in a glass-house of a real artisan’s caste system, and it is simply beneath the nobles of the craft to do minor things. There is actually a sort of heraldry -about making a fine piece of glass. In fact I think it would be nice if the *“servitor” were to bow when he hands the pipe to His Lordship, the “gaffer.”
And then, unimpressed by our lack of interest in becoming one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, she resumed her efforts to ‘sell” us. “We aren’t afraid of the devil, death or destruction,” we told her, confident that would discourage her completely. “Then,” she warned us, w&gging an admo; finger, “you're headed straight for destruction.”
Bundles for Britain
SHE WON'T LIKE this item about her activities because she’s the kind of a person that would prefer to remain completely anonymous. | Nevertheless, our nomination for one of the most unselfish pieces of work this summer goes to Miss Ruth A. Sheerin, daughter of Tom Sheerin. All summer long she has been knitting sweaters, socks and headgear for needy British children. result of her summer’s work was enough knitted oe to fill a box about five feet high and five feet wide. That's a heck of a lot of knitting.
Feeney’'s Mice Brigade
YOU HAVE TO DO something pretty bad before they’ll fingerprint you at the jail right now. The reason is that “Baby,” one of the jail’s three cats, chose the Singe rinting room as the nursery for her ‘three brand: ttens. * The ki 12-year-old Whitey” still is ‘head of the cat brigade at the jail. Sheriff Al Feeney says he’s afraid “Whitey” : may spoil the young ’uns so they'll be too lazy to go out and hunt: their own mice. . 4. We hate to remind the boys and girls of if, but they've got only one week of grace left. School starts a week from today.
If it’s any consolation, they might start looking for-|.
ward to Oct. 23. That's when the kids get to play again and the teachers have to “go to school” at the Teachers’ Convention,
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By Wm. H Siciih
time you encourage the American people to think|
like that, you help to put them to sleep, and it takes weeks to wake them up again.” Certainly, something was accomplished along these lines at the Atlantic conference between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Churchill and Roosevelt may have enjoyed their personal contact and their “eight points” served an imPobtant | purpose, but the meeting, in fact, was designed to thresh out some very serious business.
Examining Unpleasant Facts
Even Roosevelt may have heard some things about | American production which surprised him. When the full story of the conference can be told, which will be after the war is over, it will be discovered that some very unpleasant facts were examined. Everybody who knows about that conference is|. now prepared to admit that it was more important for the problegps it unearthed than for the pleasantries which were exchanged. If the authorities can be made to realize it, there is also ample opportunity to use the American press as an outlet for an expression of views which the British do not like to express officially. This applies not only to the general situation but to details as well. Until now, correspondents have been unable to criticize either the’ quality or the quantity of certain supplies which were sent to the Allies for fear Ameri‘can sensibilities might be injured. Only at the beginning of this week, one agency
* correspondent, who is an expert on aircraft, was pre-
vented from revealing to the American public that certain American aircraft and engines were far below the standard required. In this case American sensibilities may have heen spared, but an American illusion was preserved and urgent corrections in the American supply program presumably delayed. Under the regime of perfect candor which is now advocated, such a story as that would have been| allowed to pass, millions of dollars might have been saved, and both American and Bri lives might have been saved. Copyright, 1941, by The Daily News, Ine Times and The Chisagy
By Eleanor Roosevelt
well as you are “able, is perhaps the main satisfaction in life for most people. I wonder how many people know that the statue of the “Minute Man,” which is used on our dgfense bonds posters, was done by the sculptor, el Chester French, who did the great marhle Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial in ‘Washington, D.C.
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once and for all; there is no
such, thing as having purely
economic relations - with the
- totalitarian states. Every business deal carries with it political, milfary. social propaganda
implications.” ‘
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Germany's Economic Plan Would Operate Business
Bly ponantn | By Centralized
This is the seventh of 12 installments taken from Douglas Mil-’
‘Control
ler’s, “You Can’t Do Business With Hitler.”
y DOUGLAS MILLER
Author and By no! Commercial Attache in Berlin
‘a TOTALITARIAN EUROPE would operate its econ-
omy through highly organized, centralized control.
Hitler wins, we should not be able to. negotiate agreements
with individual firms over there.
Everything would be
routed through a government agency, We ‘should have to operate. under the regulations laid down by dictators famous for insistence on their own way. The Nazis believe in 100 per cent or nothing—and 100 per cent for them and nothing for us would be the usual arrangement.
I well. remember how American’
firms who completed business negotiations through the Nazi Government up to last year were
compelled to ship their goods on
German ships, use German insurante companies, make a contract enforceable under German law
and in German courts, provide at their own expense for German in-
spectors who came to this country in advance of shipments.
The Nazis even insisted that"
contracts made with German firms should carry a printed ‘clause to ‘the effect that contract is made under National Socialist principles.” No American knew “what National Socialist principles were, and we were never able to find out in advance. In practice, however, this meant that the American firm was strictly bound to the contract but
that the Germans were able to
get out of it at any time by quoting such versions of National Socialist principles as they cared to apply at the moment. We. must get this straight once and for all: There is “no. such thing .as having purely -economic relations with the totalitarian
states. Every business deal car-
ries with: it political, military, soclal, propaganda implications.
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Methods Nazis Use
TO IMAGINE the sort of treat-'
ment we should get from
a victorious Germany, the
examine methods the Nazis ‘have used in
dealing with Sweden, Switzerland, and of other weaker countries. .
called upon to submit a complete | | These Dames =
list of jis smployees. yore checked against
“this .
* trade control.
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Chicago.” You see what the Nazis + really would like: To unify Europe and divide America. : It is an illusion to suppose that, after the war, we could get rid of our surplus agricultural com--modities to a totalitarian Europe on- any advantageous basis. Any products of which we had a surplus would be just the products they would not buy. 2 For example, in the last few years the Germans put a maximum price of 6 cents per pound on United States cotton while at the same time they were buying cotton of inferior quality from Latin America, Africa and Asia at 9 to 10 cents per pound. They did this to divert trade from this country and to put us I a more difficult trading posion. Nor could we expect to secure from Europe the products which we happened to want. We might find that all these items were on the Verboten list
- ® = # * New Trading Setup IN CONSIDERING .the economic pressure which Hitler might
HOLD EVERYTHING
apoly to the United “States through - third countries, let us briefly list the trading areas of
. the world as they would appear
atfer a Nazi victory. In the Old World, there would probably remain but two such areas: the Axis, covering Europe, Africa, and part of Asia; and the
_ Japanese Empire in East Asia.
Both these economic blocs practice the strictest of centralized They would continue to deal with each other on the basis of special bilateral agree-
ments, covering specified ex-
changes of commodities and services between them. They would undoubtedly attempt to continue this system of trade with the countries of the
. ‘New World.
Most of the Western republics are now tied to the American economic system through SecretaryHull's network of reciprocal rade agreement. Our system provides for Most favored-nation treatment—namely, that when two of these states complete an agreement, other countries are granted the benefit or the lowered tariff rates, provided they join in making similar agreements.
Special Favors Problem
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE for us to include in our sy. states which
Those nations which have made special agreements with Germany by so doing promise to give the Germans special favors. . Hence, no state in. Latin Amefica may at the same time .be a member of the United States sys~tem: of trade agreements and a member of the German bilateral trading system. Unfortunately for us, there are still several Latin-American countries which have remained outside our trade system. Wé have not been able to find room for them in it, because we are unable to make satisfactory arrangements for importing their commodities, many of which are directly competitive with United States produc
Those countries, of whom the most important is Argentina, turn European
more naturally to the market and will have no choice
but to enter Hitler's system of
bilateral agreements. This will lead’ to increased trade with Europe. As soon as this trade has reached the point where it is absolutely vital to Argentina and other
Latin-American countries, all Ger=
EB Co.; ) by
: Wh lin ed
mans will use their position of preponderance to insist that all trade with the United States be stopped, that American firms in those countries be closed down, and that American salesmen and business executives be sent home. These tactics are precisely the ones which German has successfully used in Eastern Europe for several years.
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Sabsidized Trade
THE NAZIS will force certain Latin-American nations to decide whether they will do all their business with Europe or none at all.
In this way they may be ‘able to create a trade bloc of several South American countries, particularly at the southern end. of the continent. And we may be sure there will be considerable likelihood that this
_ totalitarian trade area could ex-
pand to the northward, gradually pushing out our advance agents from ope country after another. Let us remember that Hitler would have the slave labor of the greater part of the world to work with. He could quote prices with which American firms could never compete. He could even afford to do business for nothing if necessary. We know that the Nazis offered a few years ago to equip the forts of the Dardanelles with artillery free of charge, just to get German equipment ‘used by the Turks. Over in this hemisphere, German planes have. been carrying the mail free of charge in some parts of South America, in order to cut out the service of PanAmerican Airways. . Does anyone imagine that private firms in. the United States can stand up successfully against this type of subsidized competition? ” » »
High Pressure Dumping
~ SMALL NATIONS the world over have tried in vain to protect
" themselves against such high-
pressure dumping. I remember years ago when the National Bank of Afghanistan approached me .in order to obtain army trucks, ambulances, staff cars, and similar equipment. They pref United * States at high prices rather than take Soviet materials which were practically a gift. I remember how the government of Abyssinia tried to interest American firms in constructing a radio station in Addis Ababa. They would rather pay
market prices for our radio |
equipment than take cheaper Italian apparatus, staffed and serviced by Italian engineers. Both these little countries suspected that ° totalitarian powers
{ had only military objectives: in.
mind when they made apparently generous offers to supply goods cheaply. I well remember how the War Departments in Bulgaria, in Es-
~ thonia, and in Lithuania tried to
get me to interest American ma-chine-tool manwfacturers in bpilding: factories in those countries. for the manufacture of machine guns, rifles, and anti-air-craft guns. It was not a question of price. They did not wish their But the lesson for us
They all proved to be heise. a:
They Yee” ul competed In end to submit. ae
Tomorrow—“Hitler’s Barter: Methods.”
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TOMORROW
ROBB QUITS AS |
(G. I. 0. DIRECTOR
Plans to Devote Full
Time as Organizer For S. W. 0. C.
The resignation of James Robb as Indiana regional director of Congress of Industrial Organizas tions, effective today, has been sube mitted to Phillip S. Murray, presie dent of the C. I. O. :
Mr. Robb announced he plans to devote his entire time to the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee, a C. I. O. affiliate, of which “he ls is regional director. He is expected to resgin also as regional director of the Packing House Workers Union. Mr. Robb explained he has ree signed ‘the Congress of Industrial Organizations post ° because the duties of the various posts were foo heavy. His successor will be named by Mr. Murray.
DAYLIGHT TIME T0 END HERE SEPT, 28
Indianapolis id due to return to Central Standard Time at 1 a. my, Sunday, Sept. 28. San While most of Indiana's cities will follow suit, there are a few
stragglers, and even a few which are jumping the Kokomo changed t ‘midnight lash : night, and Rushville citizens pick up that lost hour tonight. wi Rochester changed its mind. The city .council originally voted to go back Sept. 29, but instead will do it tomorrow. Mayor W. A. Compton of Tipton is expected to ask his. council for a change next Sunday, and Noblesville goes back to Stand ard Time a week from today. i Some cities will make the change ; as late as Oct, 5. At Goshen the city council is considering extends ing tHe daylight hour to Oct, 26, fole lowing Chicago, which is holding its daylight schedule until that date, Other cities in northern lata also may fall in with Chicago
TEST YOUR
1—A stethoscope is used by a mus Siejan, a machinist or a physis
morial to the Confederacy? : 4—It is colder at the South Pole Than a the North Pole; true or alse
5—Do the arteries or the veins ‘in
: human beings outward from
? 6—A columbarium is a nursery tor columbine plants, a structure surrounded by columns, or a ree pository for urns containing@the ashes of cremated bodies? 1—The actual weight of a ship | denoted by its “gross tonnage™ or displacement tonnage”? 8—Which one of the follo metals is the heaviest know known substance in the wor iridium, lead, osmium?
Answers 1—A
physician. 2—Lifeless objects. ; 3 Sibrie Mountain, Georgia.