Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1941 — Page 9

“Hoosier Vagabond

TOLEDO, O., Aug. 30.—Toledo is a great glassaking city. For half a century it has been what ji might call the glass-making capital of America. The town is full of glass companies. To a stranger ey are a confusing hodge-podge. . There are Owens- \ Illinois, - and Libbey-Owens-Ford, : and Libby Glass, and several more mixups of Libbeys and Owenses and what-nots—none of whom have anything to do with each other except that, in a roundabout, left-handed way, they sometimes do. See? op . So I've just given up on the names and devoted my fulsome talents to the Libbey Glass Co. which is actually a subsidiary of Owens-Illinois, and let's not go any further into the name business, or we'll be lost. . Libbey Glass does two things: It makes millions

’ of drinking glasses, in such a gigantic production

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stream that each one costs almost nothing; and it makes fantastically beautiful hand-worked glass, so expensive that one simple vase costs $35. Libbey is the oldest company in Toledo. In fact it has been about the No. 1 name in glass for more

than a century. It was the leader when heavy cup

glass was the rage on dining-room sideboards at “the beginning of the century. Then oe pubis suddenly got sick of ornate cut i glass, and the business went into a decline. It got ‘down to the point gvhere actually only a few men . were working. at in the business had

« to find other jobs. .We Can Do It Better, Too

But now there is a revival. The war is affecting the glass market, as it is affecting every thing else. We can’t get fine glass any more from Czechoslovakia and Sweden. So we've turned again to making it ourselves. And (you probably knew this would follow) we're making it even; better than they ever did over Te. } Ee revival started about two years ago. Libbey’s hunted up the old-timers, and coaxed them back to

PROFILE OF THE WEEK—William Patrick Flynn, a vice president of the Indiana National Bank who, on the side, runs a virtual “private employment agency, finding jobs and otherwise helping his friends who i n their luck. Although he’s ranked as a dom a topnotch young banker, he still has trouble keeping tab on his own checking account balance. Despite the fact he’s been in the banking business about a quarter century, he’s still only 42, and looks a lot younger. In fact, his youthful dppearance has plagued him for “years and he’s had a tendency to fib ‘about his

age—adding on a few years. Pat ‘Flynn is about 5 feet 9

inches tall and weighs close to

His hair is thick and coal He has a

160. black, his eyes blue. : . hearty laugh and a voice you don’t , have to strain fo hear. He walks with his toes angling out, and swings along pretty fast. He likes bow ties, “has a habit of whistling through his teeth to indicate surprise. When he’s in ga conference he “chews” on his molars, flexing his jaw muscles. . He lives at 4175 Central Ave., and also has the 475 for his telephone number and auto license plates. *

“A Whiz on an Adding Machine

BORN AND REARED on the West Side, Mr. n left school while still a mere boy, got a job as a ssenger at the Indiana National, was promoted clerk and became a whiz on an adding machine. bank examiner spotted him,as a likely lad and got m-an examiner's job. Later he became the Indianbolis «Clearing House examiner and in 1930, when he was only 31, was called back to the Indiana National RS vice president in charge of credit. ’ He and Eddie Cantor share one distinction—each has five daughters and no sons. The Flynn daughters range from below school age to college age. Pat and the kids are great pals, and the Flynn home is a headquarters for the girls’ friends. Very. observing, he never misses a thing. And he

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"has a keen memory, especially for people. Occasionally °

he may forget a name but never a face or where he met the person. When he can’t remember the name, it’s “Hello, Mr. Kokomo,” or “Hello, Mr. Coal Co.”

U.S. Too Smug

LONDON, Aug. 30.—For a week or so I have been digging around here, and the more I learn about what actually is going on the more I feel that we Americans .are being too smug about ourselves in what we call our ald-to-Britain policy. The term is unfortunate for . two reasons. First, it gives us

Americans ga feeling of indulging in a bit of charity, when as a matter of fact, is is decidedly to our own self interest that Hitler be

licked. Second, it hypnotizes us into thinking that we are doing a great.deal when actually our heav:iest production is in words. } If it were not that the thing would be perhaps too much of an interference with the time of people who are busy with their war effort, I think the most constructive thing would be for us to send around for aamelves and find out what is happening, We don’t ‘know the story in America. It doesn’t get through.

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ONE REASON the story doesn’t get through is that for military reasons a great deal has been kept out of . print. But there is another reason. The story could ' be told more fully without damdage in any respect to the military situation. But it is not being told because there is a definite policy here of not saying anything that would seem to be critical of the United “States. It is understandable that the British people should take that position for themselves. But I am over here - an American citizen, as a taxpayer, and as a reporter. And I have encountered a number of things which ought to be known back home. But some things “1 ‘want to say can’t be said because the British don’t want anything going out of here that might be critical "of American aid, even when it is said by an American, ~~ My only battle with the censor has been over this. It is all very tactful on the part of the British Government, but I think it would help the real objective of both governments if American correspondents here

My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday.—Yesterday afternoon I

"went in swimming with my two Texas grandchildren

and Bobby Baker. Bobby is 13 and was practicing his diving, and climbing on and off the floating mattress. Chandler, who seems quite a grown up young ; lady now, has learned to swim fairly well this summer, tried to copy Bobby, and climbed on and off the ‘mattress, and had a grand time dogpaddling about. Elliott Jr., however, told me firmly that while he would put on his bathing suit, he doubted if he would go into the pool until his mother came on Saturday. The jure of a toy boat was too much for him, and soon he was paddling around at the shallow erid with water wings on. He felt just as . proud of himself as if he had suddenly learned to* swim without any help at all. _ Six of us went down to dinner at the Silver Swan, which is on Route 9, below Poughkeepsie. Some friends had written me to be sure to stop there, but it is so near home I have never managed to do it before, We enjoyed it very much and returned just ‘in to welcome our guests from the immediate

| neigh rhood,~ who came to christen a mew little

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By Ernie Pyle

work. It didn’t take much coaxing, for a glassmaker is a craftsman and is never happy at anything else. Today in Toledo scores of old-time craftsmen are back before the furnaces, blowing and twirling and shaping molten glass inte free-hand pieces of art, very much as it has been done for centuries before them. The trend in modern fine glass is away from the ornate and toward the simple. It’s This Simple I speut the whole day in the Libbey factory, watching them make glass both by hand and by machine. Glass-making is one of the most fascinating things I've ever watched, because right before

your eyes you see a miracle. Just think, if you yourself were to take a wheel-

barrow load of sand, lime and ash—really nothing but |

a load of dirt, you see. Then you heat it to 2600 degrees, and it gets fluid, about like molasses. And then, when you let it cool, instead of turning back to dirt again, as it should, it comes out clear and clean and brittle, like glass. My gosh, it IS. glass!

What. No Paper?

Many industries are being hamstrung now by war priorities. Unable to get raw materials they are shutting down plants all over the country: But glass is just the opposite. nf There is no shortage whatever 'in the materials from which glass is made. . The only catch to the business right now is that the Government is creating needs for so much more glassware than usual that the glass companies don’t have time or facilities to supply their regular markets. The only shortage that may affect the glass industry is paper. For years glass has been shipped in cardboard cartons. But one of the first shortages in a war economy is paper. It is likely the glass people will eventually have to abandon cardboard cartons and go back ‘to wooden boxes. Wood is re expensive—and then, too, there may be a luniber shortage., At least it’s something to worry about, in an other-

wise cheerful world. .

His friends cal] him either Bill or Pat; his family sometimes Willy, but he’s never called William,

He's Allergic to Exercise

PAT DOESN'T CARE much for any form of sport or for anything that smacks of exercise. He's always planning to work in the yard but never seems to get around to it. Once he took up golf but it didn’t last a season. Sometimes he takes his daughters to the Riviera pool and goes in himself, but just paddles around a bit. Occasionally he takes in a baseball or football game. He reads a lot, especially love stories, and often ‘sits up late with a good book. He hates to go -to bed and hates worse to get up in the morning. Bridge doesn't attract him, probably because he can't converse freely at the same time, Food doesn’t interest him, either—he just minces at it. He’s pretty certain to top off his lunch with a chocolate soda. He hates to eat lunch alone and will find someone with whom to converse even if he has to detain a waiter. He talks all the time he’s driving a car and scares’ his passengers| silly when he turns around to talk ‘to someone in the back seat while driving 70 miles per hour. |

Those Imaginary Ills |

NICE HANDWRITING is somewhat with Pat. He has two or three-distinct| types. His letters are signed in a Spencerian hand. His ordinary writing is more an up and down type. It’s been said that, at least in vears past, he’s been prone to employ persons on the strength of their handwriting. ' | . At the office he insists _that everything be just so. He'll spend an hour on one letter, insists it be perfect. He's a gldnce reader—doesn’t | waste time reading every word. . Pat has a keen inquiring mind. And he has the disconcerting habit of bombarding a person with questions and knowing the answers before his victim can reply. . He has a lively sense of humor, likes to disguise his voice and “kid” his friends over the phone. Pat's always imagining there’s something wrong with him. Mentally he’s had about every ailment there is. Confidentially, his friends tell us about the only thing ever wrong with him is sinus trouble.

of a fetish

By Raymond Clapper

were. able to discuss more freely the activities of the

American Government as they come through on this|

side. Lo 2 ” ” WE HAVE in our lend-lease organization provided ‘no satisfactory way whereby the small arid unexpected rush orders that. are always turning/up &an be put through. Our lend-lease machinery 1s geared to big mass orders. But always the unexpected minor things, small but immediately urgent, are coming up. It takes weeks to get anything through the red-tape mill in Washington—which is something I learned in Washington, not here. But you can never get any complaint of that kind out of here, although the situation is such that if I were a Britisher I would begin to long for the good old days of J. P, Morgan financing, which carried no red tape. ’ We've left the lend-lease program in an anomalous position. Nobody here or in Washington knows whether: we are giving the materials, or whether it is to be paid for. Nobody knows whether it is gift or loan. Yet we are inclined to act as if it were a gift. We would put all kinds of strings on it. . We hear numerous people rattling around telling the British how they ought to handle lend-lease ma-

terials, especially the distribution of lend-lease food |

and other non-military items such as farm implements. . I have copy killed out of dispatches which admittedly was of no military value whatever, and it was frankly withheld solely on the ground that it is a fixed policy not to pass material critical of details of the lend-lease operations. Such a policy, it seems to me, tends to interfere with complete frankness and clear understanding at both ends, which is essential to the most effective functioning of the lend-lease program. by x x IN FUNDAMENTALS there is the finest spirit between the two governments, and the operation is proceeding successfully. The difficulties are in those details. Everywhere one finds good will on both sides. What is needed is still more interchange between American and British officials and others so that each side. will understand more fully the problems and difficulties of the other.

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ment in promoting antagonism of this kind. They could play both

sides simultaneously and most useful.

finally pick the one that promised to be the

In some such manner, Nazi agents might come to acquire military

bases within striking distance of

the Canal Zone and would be in a

position to put considerable pressure on one after another of the little

countries of Central America. Plenty of German and other totalitarian agents are in this area today. They already have farreaching plans and a broad vista of miscellaneous avenues of approach to this general situation. Wherever and whenever we draw a deadline, we can be accused of imperialism and exploitation of small neighbbrs. Berlin can stress racial antagonisms or sympathies in the familiar Nazi way, or may turn around and use a Communist approach to underprivileged natives, or both these methods and others may all be applied simultaneously,

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How Can We Counteract?

THERE SEEMS TO BE the possibility that such tactics might have considerable success throughout Mexico and as far as the line of the Rio Grande. Apparently no one can say for sure just what shade of red represents the majority of opinion In Mexico today, but Berlin is good at matching colors. How can an America organized for peace frame a long-term military policy which can successfully counteract these tactics throughout Latin America? We have no love for military expeditions; we have no secret propaganda and corruption funds. We have stood for a policy of freedom of action and expression for the individual, which makes airtight control over these regions contrary to our habits of thought and action. The Nazis all along the line have an advantage in their type of tactics. For example, they can threaten private individuals and their families with present or fue ture punishment if they are antiNazi. We would’ not wish to stoop to these tactics.

50,000 VOTERS ARE CAUTIONED

Must Return: Reinstatement Cards or Register, Clerks Warn.

About 50,000 Marion County residents will have to reregister .for voting next spring unless they return within 30 days the reinstatement cards being sent’ them by registration clerks. The clerks have found that many residents who have been disqualified from the voters’ rolls because of their failure to vote in either of the last two general elections. The permanent registration law, passed in 1933, provides that a voter's registration shall be permanent unless he fails to vote in two successive eléctions. 306,000 On Lists

A check of the lists during the

By Eleanor Roosevelt

playhouse which used to be Arnold Berge’s pewter shop. . ” ” 2 HE HAS MIGRATED now to his own barn and gave me the opportunity to turn this building into a playroom, which I hope will be useful to many people on the place through the winter months. The Valley Vagabond Players gave an excellent performance of “Johnny Doodle,” which everyone enjoyed. The singing at the end was also a great success. For refreshments of cider and doughnuts, we moved over to my cottage and then the cast stayed to talk for a little while around my fire. It was 11 o'clock before we settled back to our usual country _quiet. I am very much interested in what the young drama students have been doing. They look up Hudson River material and use it to produce plays in the neighborhood, which gives us much of our own history in very palatable fashion! There seems to me to be much material in “Johnny Doodle,” pertinent to the situations we meet today. Work, determination and firm rooted convictions, will carry you through many a seemingly Ropeless struggle. : This is another beautiful “October” day. Perhaps we are reversing our months and enjoying autumn now. Nevertheless, I revel in these days and was glad to rise early this morning to see a young guest

last three weeks disclosed that at least 50,000 of the total 306,000 names on the registrations rolls hadn’t voted since the 1936 election. Records of past years show that only about 10 per cent of the residents facing loss of their voting rights return the cards for reinstatement. At that rate only about 5000 of the 50,000 will be reinstated, the remainder remaining off the books. Hundreds of the voters slated for. disfranchisement have moved out of the county or have died since the last registration check.

SAVE PAPER FOR DEFENSE

‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U. P). —Defense officials revealed today that householders in New York City and Chicago will be asked next week to conserve newspapers, magazines, paper boxes and wrappings for collection by waste paper dealers. The campaign will be sponsored primarily by manufacturers of paperboard who face the prospect of

off and to take Bobby Baker over for an early morning ride, Fi :

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closing their faetories because of a shortage of waste paper,

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The Latin American who champions Hitler now is in no particular danger of reprisal if Hitler loses, but anyone who opposes Hitler knows what to expect if the Nazis win. The risks are unevenly distributed. To appear sympathetic with the totalitarians is simply a form of life and’ property insurance which many a prudent Latin American takes out \ under existing circumstances. Just how ‘far in Latin America the Nazis now pian, io extend their sway is a matter of dispute. I have seen Nazi maps which illustrate a difference of opinion on this point. Some maps of the future world give Germany control to the quarter-sphere, some to the Panama Canal, some to the Rio Grande, and some include all North America in a new German-. dominated “world. These latter assume that the German Americans take over the United States as advance agents for Hitler.

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Obligated to Protect Canada

IF WE ASSUME Britain's defeat

in the European war, what of

British North America? Canada and Newfoundland are now at war with Germany. British refugees

and perhaps even the British fleet

might very easily flee there. It is inconceivable that the Ca--nadians would surrender to Hitler. They have every reason to refuse his terms and rely on the United States to protect them. We are obligated to do so, not merely on account of our expressed promises, but to defend our vital interests. | , All" or part of the British fleet may be| forced to seek American bases. These vessels might anchor in Canadian ports for a while, but in the long run there is only one

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HITLER

* su ; Be a hain —g “The Nazis would be in their element promoting antagonisms (in South America). They could play both sides simultaneously and finally pick the one that promised to be thes most useful.”

country in this hemisphere where they can obtain adequate repairs, outfitting, supplies — namely, the United States. If the British fleet transfers its permanent base to the Western Hemisphere, that base can only be the United States territory,

is will be an additional in- |,

Th volvement for us in the present war. We could not refuse to receive such vessels without the risk of losing their co-operation. They might be sunk by their own crews. We cannot receive them without opposing Hitler and making it more certain that we should be part of new long-range hostilities.

Generous Tone Likely

IF HITLER WINS in Europe we can assume that he will adopt a policy toward the United States designed to stréngthen American appeasers; designed to discredit British sympathizers, to weaken the policy of any Washington administration, and to divide American opinion as deeply as he can. It seems to me very likely that Hitler would adopt a gener-

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“Belay, there, Smith—we don’t christen torpedoes before launching : ‘em?”

Spurned, Burns ®o | Divorcee's Face

DENVER, Aug. 30 (U. P.).— When Mrs. Verda Sodia, a pretty divorcee, declined to marry Ray. Rennison, 30, a furrier, she said he demanded that she repay the $200 he had wasted courting her. For his efforts to collect, Rennison was in jail today. Mrs. Sodia, 25, an elevator operator,’ charged that he squirted ammonia in. her face, because she wasn’t paying up fast enough. His bond was set at $3000. She said she had agreed to pay Rennison back, after declining to marry him, at the rate of $5 a month. 1 They met yesterday on a street corner, and she said he demanded that she meet her obligations.

PAINTERS VOTE DAY’S WAGES TO AID ALLIES

NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (U, P.).— The wages of A. F. of L. painters for Saturday, Sept. 27, will be turned over to organizations active in advancing defense and aiding the Allies. The. Brotherhood of Painters ahd Decorators, with a membership in

‘|New York of 16,000, voted 16 to 1

to relax its five-day week rule for that purpose.

CLUB JOINS NAVY WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U.P. .— The Navy~has announced that the entire membership of the Govington, Ky., New Drop Inn Club, 12 youths

ranging in age from 17. to 19 years,

have joined the U. S. Navy. They enlisted at the Cincinnati Navy recruiting office, :

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“|side the city. ;

ous and friendly tone toward the United States while he was consolidating his new Europe. He would overlook for the moment . any hostile acts which we might have made and invite us to parti-

Spin n ine redivision of world territory.

Hitler could place us in a very embarrasing position. If we extended aid, co-operation, and some form of control to former British, French, Dutch, and Danish possessions in this hemisphere, including, of course, Canada, Newfoundland, Greenland, the West Indies, and the Guianas, we should only do what our own military security demanded, but Hitler could make it appear that we were adopting a policy parallel to his own. and then he might, ‘in a grand gesture, make us a present of territories which he was not able to possess himself. We should almost be forced to move in this direction, to assume responsibility for liquidating what was 168 of the war in North America. =~ .We should be forced to make a sudden and perhaps unwelcome choice between a general policy of war toward the Old World, and

BRITAIN SCORED BY LINDBERGH

‘She Will Turn Against Us If Expedient,” He Tells 8000 Oklahomans.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Aug. 30 (U. P.)—Charles A. Lindbergh, speaking in a baseball park because the City Council would not let him use Municipal Auditorium, said last night that Britain may turn against the United States, “as she has turned against France and Finland.”

becomes expedient to her welfare in the future,” he told an America First Committee rally which, 8000 persons attended. . More than 100 peace officers circulated through the crowd at the request of the local America First Committee which said it feared an “embarrassing incident.” * Five organizations, including two American Legion posts, had petitioned the City Council not to let Col. Lindbergh speak within the city limits. The baseball park is just out-

Hyde Is Heckled

There was only one incident. Everett Gwin, 32, who said he was recently and honorably discharged from the National Guard, heckled Herbert K. Hyde, Oklahoma chairman of the America First Committee. Mr. Hyde invited Mr. Gwin to “come to the platform and say what you have to say.” Mr. Gwin accepted ands d, “I'm, ready to go back any time,” but boos drowned him out. Col. Lindbergh was applauded when he said: . “It seems clear to me that ‘the quickest way for Germany to lose the war would be to attack America, and that the quickest way for America to lose a war would be to attack Germany.” : Col. Lindbergh invited those who “question my words” to read the history of United States-British: relations for the last 150 years, and re-

“She will: turn against us if it]

entering into a complex series of negotiated agreements with Hitler covering a wide range of topics. We could not argue with Hitler; we would not submit to him. We could either fight him or negotiate with him. We might finally try to adopt a combination of both policies. -I can imagine a situation arising somewhat in the form of a truce while prisoners were exchanged or other necessary formalities completed, but over the long fuure a general policy of undeclared war between our free world ‘and Hitler’s slave empire. Such a long-range hemisphere antagonism would bring with it a revolution in American policy, a= . reorganization of American economic life. It would tend to shat ter our political and social institu= tions, and it would drastically re vise our hopes for a fuller and ‘freer existence. . Ameriea would pass from a civilized- era into a long night of siege.

NEXT—“Nazi Pressure Upon Our Trade.” :

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England and France less than two years ago. “If you will do this, I believe you will agree with me that we must depend upon ourselves and ourselves only for security in the future,” he said.

He said he had been convinced that Britain and France could not defeat Germany and “the dominant position in Europe has shifted from England as a sea power to Germany asa land and air force.” ; Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) spoke after Lindbergh. “If our interventionists want to free a country from the domination of another country, we ought. to declare war on Great Britain ‘to free India,” Senator Wheeler. said. “I have never seen such slavery as I saw in India a few years ago.”

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In which photoplay did Fred Ase taire and Ginger Rogers intro duce the Carioca dance? 2—Name the capital of Florida. 3—Caraway is the name of an aroe matic herb, a United States Senator or a kind of conveyance? 4—How long is a fortnight?

President on the “Bull Moose” '- [ Party ticket? 6—What is ichthyology? T—Which - Major League baseball club is sometimes called the “Flatbush boys?” . 8—What kind of literature is assoe ciated with the hame “Nick Care ter’? 3 —- Angwers 1—“Flying Down to Rio.” 2—Tallahassee. : 3—Aromatic herb, and Senator Hate tie W. Caraway. 4—Fourteen days. 5—Theodore Roosevelt. 6—The science of fish. 7—Brooklyn Dodgers. 8—Dime novels.

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