Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1941 — Page 11

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: y began reviving handmade glass in a “f big » they wanted Mr. Bloom over here. So he: rented the Beaver house, and now they live in a large, - ung , rented house a few blocks from the plant.

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EDO, O., Sept. 2—They say. that Aaron 4 is the second-best glassmaker in the world. ev say the best one is Bert Kraft, now working n San cisco. I don’t know how you arrive at 0 is first and who is second. Maybe the estimates Soe are Regardless, any glass

" have Aaron Bloom at work. ~~ ‘Mr. Bloom is 68 years old. «He has been a glassmaker for 58 years. In other words, he started when he was 10. By the time he was 15 he ‘was a glassmaker in . big demand. : . He was horn in Sweden. He ‘went to Finland at 15, and came to this country when he was 19, He has never been back to Europe. There is no trace of accent in \ his speech, except in the tradi«y”s. He says, for instance, “I yoined

loom says that when he was just a young decided that, whatever he did, he would tter than the other fellow. That way he ‘an excellent carpenter and bricklayer well as glass-blower. He has never been out of

work. | w % For. almost 50 years he has worked in the “glass houses” of America. Even with the decline of hand- , and in the depths of the depression, he always had work. And he has always made good | Today, nearing 70, he is making $70 a week, that is the least he has made in 30 years. money the Blooms have raised a family of 8, all of whom have done well. The Bloom’s real home is in .Beaver, Pa.

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both deeply religious. For many years, at Beaver, Mr. Bloom did non-denominational preaching. As he | says, he preached to-the prisoners “in the Beaver vail” He and Mrs. Bloom read the Bible continu‘ously all day on Sunday. And for 30 years he has

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STATE FAIR NOTES: Pssst! Have you noticed that naughty game they're playing out at the Fair-

ZY ? That's right, it’s Bingo. There's a pretty good | crowd around it all the time, but it doesn’t | seem /stir up the enthusiasm of some of those private games. Maybe that’s partly because the prizes are merchandise instead of cash, and also partly because it’s right out in the open and there’s nothing hush-hush about it. Say, wouldn't the State be red-faced if Prosecutor Blue woul pull one of his gambling raids out there? . . . ' Have you noticed that all the exhibits in the I. U. building haying moving parts are covered with .- cellophane? Well, they weren’t the oa . first day, and the proverbial small Ee boys sticking their fingers in the ts” to see what made them work wrecked some exhibits so they WOULDN'T work. . . . When , of Bloomington, was taking part in a play I. U. Building, the script called for him to a Bible. He reached for it and, when he ‘down 10 minutes later, discovered the book 3 was—"Invitation to Murder.” -

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signed that: contract to head the Capitals again this fall, but it looks like there wasn't any ' doubt in his mind that he will sign. Herbie came : down here from his home in Duluth over the week- | end to enroll his football playing son, George, in ' Shortridge. While here, Herbie took in the Lucky _ Teter show. .. .'. John Bartee is back in"town serv- . ing. as an organizer for the United Auto Workers

‘ab Allison's. When he wasn't re-elected secretary of the Indiana State Industrial Union Council a ouple of months ago, he returned to his old job at

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| . LONDON, Sept. 2—The war has entered its third : year. At the beginning of the second year the out-

I here was black indeed. Mussolini had just made that England would go down. At that time

'guessed correctly. Today, by way of contrast, finds the seeds of potential victory planted. It now : remains for these seeds to be watered and cultivated until they ‘flower in fulfillment of the hopes of all decent people. Victory is not just around the corner, but for the-first time an opportunity of achieving it can be seen. Can we find the key that will unlock American proBE duction? Without American proog '. duction the now-existing possiat bilities of victory cannot be fully lized. The Battle of the Atlantic is going favorfor Britain. Those dark days of last spring massed. American oil tankers have contributed to England’s needs. Those American motorki ble over being asked to reduce their driving don’t appreciate what has already through the diversion of American

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iy 2 » =» CAN OCCUPATION of Iceland has had which makes this an important turning n the war. Supplies can now be brought ross. the Atlantic a siinoss, seslish le Josges. ' there are enough ships—an now outping sinkings—and if there is enough American = to load the ships, then there need be ng \conéérn about England holding. - England is preparing . .One high official tells me that bombing of be decisive if there is sufficient fighter:plane on. Bombings were decisive at Warsaw and n, where the defending air. forces were d. But if the R. A. F. gets enough machines,

)] PARK, Monday. —Yesterday, Mr. and Mrs. len, and Mr. and Mrs. Eric Knight lunched It was ail ‘extremely interesting occasion.

oosier Vagabond By Ernie Boe

Mr. Bloom was “saved”—he uses the word fre-|"

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plausible reason to believe he might have .

for more bombings this.

quently—about 35 years ago. Since then he has not takerr a drink, smoked, gambled or sworn. Further, he has not seen a movie. : : “well, why?” I asked. “You don’t think it’s sinful to see a movie do you?” . «I certainly do,” said Mr. Bloom. “It’s sinful because movies don’t satisfy. If you see one you enjoy it, but it doesn’t satisfy so then you want to see another one.” : : Mr. Bloom was addicted ‘to gambling in his earlier days. Right here in Toledo he once played poker for 18 hours straight, and drank 43 whiskys while he was doing it. : ~ “But now,” he says, “if somebody would set an ounce -of ‘whisky on that table, and put a $1000 ‘bill beside it, and tell me I could have the $1000 if Id drink the whisky, I wouldn't do it. And we need the

money, too.” ; The Blooms have ng close friends in Toledo. Mrs. Bloom told me that. The reason is that they do not wish to associate with people who are less religious than they, and since that includes practically every-

body in Toledo, they have no friends.

Heavy Underwear the Year Round

But this is getting to be all about religiop, and very little about glass-making. The days we went to the

plant, Mr. Bloom was making candle-sticks. It was|

fascinating to watch him. He is quick and deft and his hand is as steady as a rock. Also, he has a sense of the dramatic, and when visitors are around he works with almost theatrical gestures. Possibly he picked this up at the New York World’s Fair, where he publicly exhibited his glass-making skill for the Libbey company for sev-

* eral months.

Mr. Bloom wears heavy underwear even in summer. In a few more weeks he will put n even heavier underwear. That's true of most glass workers. Some even wear sweaters around the fiery-hot furnaces. Lots of clothes absorb the perspiration. Mr. Bloom absolutely loves his work. He loves it so

"much that he spends his noon-hour making things

of glass to give away. Or, rather, he did do that. The union put a stop (to it; on the theory that no union member had a right to work for nothing. So. Mr. Bloom now has to sit around during his lunch hour, but the union has ruled that he can ars ing the twice-a-day recesses, since that is company time instead of his own. :

- x) o qe : ‘ » Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

the Studebaker plant in South Bend, but didn’t stay there long.

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“NO LEFT TURN” signs placed at the four entrances to Monument Circle might save out-of-town motorists occasional embarrassing moments. ‘There’s nothipg to inform drivers that the Circle’s a oneway street, and quite a few blithely swing left, only to find their way blocked by an irate home-towner. .. . A “STOP” sign at 59th St. to keep eastbound motorists from driving right out into the usually heavy and fast traffic on Westfield Blvd. might save a bad accident some day. There's a sign on the east side of the intersection but none on the west. . . ,And while we're out in that direction, it would be nice if the City would remove tree limbs that block the “Stop” sign on Westfield Blvd. at the west side of Meridian. It's pretty hard to see. Youre welcome, Mr, Loehr.

Statesmen and Governor ONE OF GOVERNOR Schricker’s favorite stories when he gets to reminiscing is the ore. about the gang at the boarding: house in®which he lived during the days he was a. deputy court clerk back in Knox. One of the boarders, a girl named Esther Johnson, the Governor recalls, wrote a prophetic poem about

the seven or eight young people living at the house.|

Her reference to young Schricker was as a future. “statesman - and governor.” Smart girl, eh! Mr. Schricker sas he wonders where she is now. What's the matter, Governor—wondering about what comes next? . . . The hosiery buying spree seems to be pretty well over with, but the memory lingers on. We know a private secretary who snagged her hose the other morning and thought she would run out during the noon hour and pick up another pair. She went to two big department stores and there wasn’t & pair of ‘nylons—size nine —in either store, she was told. Her lunch: hour was up, so she wound ‘up by ordering a couple of pairs. And she got no assurance when—if ever—they’d arrive.

By Raymond Clapper

then Britain will be able to take the ‘bombings. How much punishment Britain can give Germany depends ‘again on American production of -bombers. The present bombing raids on German territory are costly. Almost évery day the British communiques report losses of five, six, seven planes. Lost bombe must. be replaced. It will be to the shame of Amexican industry if we fail to supply that demand.

” » ” RUSSIA'S RESISTANCE has made the biggest change in the fundamental balance of the war. Russia has thrown into the war an Army that, in size and will to fight, provides real-resistance to the

German Army for the first time. : But we must recognize that Russia is losing an appalling amount of equipment. Worse yet, Russia is losing a big percentage of her production of war materials. Russia must look to the United States for a substantial part of her war materials for this next year. Unless the American people want to see Hitler win they will forget about idealogies and strive to put weapons into the hands of the Russian peoples who have the will and the numbers necessary to smash the menacing German force.

ONE HAS ONLY to look at tortured France to see that the new order which Hitler has promised to establish in Europe is but an order of imposed misery which only fires such instincts of rebellion as broke out in France last week. The Dutch, the Norwegians, the Poles, and now it is becoming evident the French, will live for the day when they are again their own masters. Somehow or other, people get guns—and they begin shooting at the Lavals. That human spirit which smoulders beneath the Gestapo all aver Europe today is the great silent ally of Hitler's enemies. In time it will come actively into the war. The first two years of the war were Hitler's years. It is largely for American production to say whose

year this one is to be.

* By Eleanor Roosevelt

particular one was compiled by Negro workers and = an invenigry of {Be Fecords of all Negro izaons: and 0 e hol , chil family , of many individuals. ny . Papers They have searched the manuscript holdings of the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library. Mr. John C. Dancey Jr. whose calendar

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by the Board of Trade for German - American Commerce, New York. : On, page three appears a lead

Nazis Want Trade Only on Beneficial Terms to the Reich

is the eighth of 12 installments taken from Douglas Miller's YOU CAN'T DO BUSINESS ‘WITH HITLER. -

By DOUGLAS MILLER Author and Former Commercial Atthche in Berlin

AMERICANS WHO. believe that we " might eome to some sort of satisfactory trade relations with a victorious Germany, might study the German-American Commerce Bulletin of March, 1941, published

editorial, “German-American Re- -

lations at the Crossroads.”

of this runs as follows: “Germany with a population of more than one hundred million people could easily buy from the United States each year three to four million bales of cotton, large quantities of wheat, lard, canned meat, fruits, copper, and a great variety of finished produts, if reasonable and normal trade relations could more be established between both countries. ‘Will American wheat farmers, cotton growers, and fruit

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producers be given the opportun-

ity to‘export again when the restoration of peace will leave most of Europe bare and in vital need of these essentials?” This is the sort of which German business circles have been giving us for years.

‘No Policy Change

hard-working German propagandists in New York, their same magazine contains on Page 12 an official: article sent over from Berlin and:signed by Erich Neumann, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economics—one of the -responsible heads of the Nazi government. This official blurts out the following statement of Germany’s real economic aims: “All, we wish to do is to make ourselves independent of the outside world in the domains of foodstuffs and indispensable industrial materials. All other products, particularly. those we can do without in times of emergency, but which are a part of the standard of living to which a highly developed nation has a just claim, will. continue to be obtained from foreign sources, in exchange for our own surplus production of ‘manufactured articles.”

In other words, the National .

Socialist government intends after the war to maintain the policy they have already been practising before the war—to be selfsufficient in foodstuffs and industrial war materials. ; “In the light of this official standpoint, let’s look back to the propaganda of our New York Nazis. How in the world can we expect to sell cotton, wheat or copper when every one of these items is blocked out by the Nazis on the basis of national policy?

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Protect Own Business

BUT SOMEONE may say that Secretary of State Neumann is willing that Germany import from us other products, “particularly those we can do without in times of emergency.” With foodstuffs and industrial war materials ruled out, what about our chances of selling manufactured

goods? Well, to tell the truth, each of

the twenty-five Import Control

‘Offices in Germany has an ad-

visory committee taken from Ger‘man industry and trade. ‘Most ‘of these ‘committees are headed by businessmen who are manufacturing articles which are usually competitive with American products. : : * They have adopted a very consistent policy of keeping out foreign products which might hurt their own business. Yes, but what did our t before the’ war actually co of,

if all these kinds of goods were

kept out?

The answer:.It was made up ‘|

fisst of rush shipments of emer. gency war stocks Squipment ent; and secondly of goods shipped i by American companies to their subsidiaries in “the

propaganda

with victorious Germany after the war?. Remember that Germany would be Europe. - .' Could we barter with Europe? A great deal has been written and conjectured on this subject. Probably no American has had the opportunity to see as much negotiation for barter deals as I have. -It was my experience that the only successful barter negotiations

.. which our American firms were UNFORTUNATELY, for these °

ever able to conclude with Germany were small deals, averaging perhaps one or two thousand dollars apiece. : + These ' arrangements = usually covered ' commodities which the firm produced or used itself and which were not for resale to others; ‘but in this modern world it is rare to find the possibility of large business = arrangements of this type. Seldom could we a single American company which could exchange an arficle of its own manufacture for one {rom a single German company which happened to manufacture some product that our firm wanted and where the price of the goods on both sides proved suitable. ‘ Usually, international trade occurs in items which are for resale ‘and not for use directly by the importer. In cases where goods must be resold, this simple type of barter. fails to meet the situadion. »

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“Impossible Rules

NOT ONLY THAT—The German government set up rules and regulations for the conduct of barter deals which made them almost impossible as “far as the United States was concerned. Since Germany desired to reduce imports from the United States and increase exports to this country, the German government was unwilling to allow barter deals with us at the straight ratio of one for one. They insisted that barter ratio should be set at a minimum of one unit of American goods in value and the balance in cash against 1.3 units of German goods in value.

.T do not happen to remember any deal which we actually were able to work-out at this- minimum rate. The usual barter ratio for our ordinary commodities was

« set at three to one.

For example, American walnut growers tried to arrange a barter of $100,000 worth ‘of walnuts but found ‘they would have to buy $300,000 worth of German burlap bags and barbed wire in exchange. . ) This ‘means . that. the Associa-

tion here would have to invest

$200,000 in cash and hope to be able to recover this money by the resale of the bags and wire in the United States. Such. an arrangement makes trade practically impossible for American interests. Most of our firms know their own business better than -any other business. Our walnut growers know something about selling walnuts, but

‘very little of the market for bur-

lap bugs and barbed wire, If

* they succeeded in getting rid of

their walnuts to Germany, they

“found themselves faced with the

problem of gefting rid of three times as large a quantity of un-

' familiar German goods as the

amount which ‘they started to sell. ! “agli.

‘American Losses

OF COURSE, in any barter arrangement the German Govern-

* ment insisted upon fixing the

price, both of the American and of the German goods in question. The price set on German goods was usually the local price, nat-

. urally a high one on account. of

the high nominal exchange value of the mark and the amount of

‘currency and. credit inflation

which has gone on inside Germany. The price set on the American goods was usually an arbitrarily low one and represented an attempt to beat us down. ’ In order to save something from the wreck of their German holdings, many American companies have been forced to accept merchandise which was either un-

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salable, or so different from their usual line of business that they could hardly hope to put it on the market in this or other countries except at considerable loss. In this category come the 8,000,000 mouth organs which an. oil company got in exchange for a large press for making automobile bodies, and the live hippopotamus

which a motion-picture firm took for motion-pic- .

as part payment ture films. Other firms have taken patents, participations, processes, and stock as ‘part payment on unpaid bills; but. there' are still outstanding. large sums, much of which probably means total loss. It is not as if the Germans were completely unable to pay their debts. For instance, the German Government suspends interest payments on bonds held in the United States until the market price of such bonds falls to very low levels—such as five cents on the dollar. ‘At that point ‘the Germans quietly proceed to buy: up the bonds. They are doing so even at the present time, and so profit by their own default. ; In the same way the German Government ' has claimed to be unable “to. pay Americans the judgments which German courts have rendered in their favor, but it is quite able to finance propaganda in foreign countries and to produce military supplies and equipment for cash.

TOMORROW — “Dealing - With the Gangsters.” :

(Copyright, 1941, by Little, Brown and Co.; Platributed Voy United - Feature Syndicate, Inc.) !

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which State was referred to during the -anti-slavery agitation as “bleeding”? =

2—Give the words that

following quotation: “... .... ap what crimes are committed in Thy name.” Te 3—Which race ' horse ' defeated : laway in the Arlington Classic Stakes? : ;

is a candidate for a third term as Mayor of New York; true or false?

5—Lord Haw Haw is a British stage

. character, a character in fiction, or a German radio. propagandist? 6—~Name the five States which now + have the largest population? 7—The opera “Carmen” has three or “four acts? lp eg 8—Name the -author of “The Fifteen Decisive Battles of ~ the World”?

: Answers Siow gill 3—Attention. i

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| WOULD PERIL LABOR * "|" ST. CHARLES, Tl, Sept. 2 (U, " |P).—Senator Burton K. Wheeler Fx, (D. Mont.) asserted last night that

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* LIGHTER RIFLE |

Semi-Automatic ‘Carbine to ‘Replace Pistols Just Behind Front Lines.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U., P.), —Lieut. Col. Rene R. Studler, Army small arms expert, revealed today that production will begin within the next few months on a lighte weight rifle to- replace pistols and sub-machine guns as weapons for use by supporting troops in ‘the immediate rear of the firing line. Adoption by the Army of the

weapon—a semi-automatic carbine —is an outgrowth of tests recently made on six rifles of the carbine type developed by five private arms. manufacturing concerns and the Springfield Armory, he said in

cial publication “Army Ordnance.” “Within the next few months,” | Col. Studler wrote, “there will he selected and put into production a lightweight rifle which will permit the under-armed members of our Army to. perform their basic milie tary functions with a minimum of interference and, in addition, make them available - for sustained ofe fensive or defensive action.” 3.

Called Vulnerable

Officers as well as enlisted men. wil be equipped with the weapons. In emphasizing the need for a weapon of the carbine type, Col, Studler pointed out- that the use of highly mobile shock troops, of air-borne units and’ of parachute troops has made the immediate rear of the firing line most vule nerable to enemy action. , “The pistol being relatively ine efficient,” he continued, “these men have need of a better ‘wedpon capable of ‘sustained accurate fire up to ranges of approximately 300 yards. It is obvious that such a gun must ‘be as compact and as light as+ possible.” : Small-arms manufacturers were asked to submit lightweight rifles that were both automatic or semis ° automatic, with magazines of five, 10, 20 and 50 rounds’ . capacity, The guns were tested under vary= ing conditions.

WHEELER SAYS WAR

labor would lose its: “hard . wol rights” for generations if the States should plunge into war, - “In. any war, it is the men and women of labor who do the fighting and dying—and the paying,” he told “audience

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