Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1941 — Page 15
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TOLEDD, o, Sept. 4.—You may be® getting good 2s ng sick of glass, but you'll have to listen to just one "more, because I'm not a fellow to gather pearls of (Does * hat make sense, or not?) 7; ‘tell you a few things, and don’t think I. can’t, either. For instance, about ruby-colored glass. I suppose ‘you think they make -ruby-colored glass by putting some chemical in it, or even paint. Well, they don’t. They do it by putting in gold. Yes, ordinary pure gold. I don’t now why it makes glass ruby-colored, but it does.
Oddly enough, the gold has to
be added to the sand-lime-ash mixture before, it's put into the
furnace, and not after the mix--
Hure has Becine molten. ‘As a result, in the old days Edmund Drummond Libby used to take a $20 gold piece out of his pocket every morning and throw it
# into the bin of sand that was going to the furnace
~ that day. But eventually this practice was stopped. Why? Because the glass got so it would come .out crystal clear, instead of ruby-eolored. How could that happen? Well, because some of the workmen were fishing around in the mix till they found the $20 gold piece, and putting it in their own pockets. So now they use gold flakes, or gold dust, or something.
And About Cut Glass
You Know cut glass. All of my life, right’ up to
; yesterday, I had thought that cut glass was cut by
& man holding a pencil-sized stick in his hand, with a cutting wheel on the end. The same way they cut. window glass in the stores, you know. Well, cut glass isn’t cut that way, and never has been cut that way. The foreman of Libbey’s cutting. department told me he used to think ihe same thing 1 did. No, cut glass is cut by emory Wheels spinning
-but he has been cutting for 34 years.
By Ernie Pyle
rapidly around ona spindle. The cutter olds’ the glass against the. wheel, until it grinds whatever groove. he’s achieving. So you might say cut glass isn’t the right word—it’s ground glass! Libbey’s finishing department is a world in itself. Here all the fine “Modern American” hand ‘made stuff is decorated and engraved and polished. @ It is still done inn an old-fashioned way. ' One of the polishing ‘tubs and .wheels is the same ‘one that Libbey used at the World's Fair. in 1893. They say it will certainly last another 50 years. Howard Lucas is foreman of this peft. He is an excellent cutter himself. He is still a ung! man, € apprentices of old, he started when he was a ‘child. He
. made $2.50 a week during his four-year apprentice-
ship. Lucas says he can remember that his first foreman always came to work in a long-tailed coat and black silk-hat. Glass cutters are aristocracy—in everything but pay. They are artisans, skilled almost beyond comprehension. ° Yet cutters make only about half what glassblowers make. The average fine cutter gets around $35 a week. The blower makes up to $70 a week. It is very hard to get boys to go into glass-cutting apprenticeships nowadays. It takes long practice, and the goal isn’t much when you achieve it, except in personal satisfaction. : i
And, Oh Yes—Those Stems
And. now, in conclusion, an important discovery, by myself. This piece of information will mean’ nothing to those who have not heard the joke about the Martini glasses. And the joke is too good to tell to ‘you newcomers. ‘But, to those who do kmow the joke, I would like to say that I have gone into the matter thoroughly, taken it up with all the Libbéy officials, seen the result of special laboratory and field tests, and at this juncture I am able and qualified to state conclusively that: In spite of what the bartender said, the stems are NOT the best part! :
Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)
0 K YOUNG LADY who works at a radio station has 8 standing order for a cab at 8:45 a. m. every Sunday to take her to work. Last Sunday the cab was late, so she phbned the company. { “My cab hasn’t shown up,” she complained. “Lady,” the voice replied, “we're not sending out any cabs today. There's a maniac driving one of our cabs and we don’t know which one he’s in.” “Oh!” she replied, and dashed out the door for a streetcar. There in front of the house was a cab. The cabby asked if she'd called for
She stalled a bit, rather flustered, then decided to take a chance. After all, this cabby didn’t look like a maniac. But nevertheless, she was jittery all the way downtown. She got there safely. ' After she got over her nervousness, at the office, she decided to phone the cab company and give them 8 :good. ‘bawling out for having maniacs in their cabs and wo people to death. “Madam, we don’t know what youre talking “Are you sure you talked to our office when you called before?” : « “Oh!” -8he hadn’t thought of that possibility ~ before. Maar, . vg 3 Feeney Got No Passes THOSE REPORTS that Sheriff Feeney and Chief Morrissey went out to the Fair Tuesday night and “ordered the Fair Board to close the bingo con- ' gession” are untrue say both Al and Mike. _ ‘The State Police have charge of policing the * grounds. “I haven't even been out to the Fair,” said Sheriff Feeney. “I'm having some trouble with my ear, and 7 Tosips they didn’t send me any passes. They never
: Fence- Building
: LONDON, Sept. AL the beginning of this third year of war Hitler finds himself like a bull caught in a pen from which he may not be able to escape. - He is encircled, The fact that the corral is very F large does not alter the fact that it is a corral. Encirclement is the fate which severy power always fears. It" has
been Germany’s historic phobia.
The last gate to escape was closed .
by Hitler himself when he marched
against Russia. Begin at the top of the map and you can trace the wail around . Hitler. It is held by the British Fleet down through the North Sea, by the Royal Air force along the Channel and around the French Coast, by the diplomacy of Portugal and Spain, by ‘the British Fleet again through the Mediteriafiesn, by British and Russian land forces « up through Iran to the juncture with the Russian lines on the Eastern Front. : The fence meanders. It is far from hog-tight, and it is very long indeed. But it is a fence. If made tight enough it can hold Hitler in, and in time begin crowding him closer within a constricted area of freedom.
8 » 8 - THAT SEEMS to me to- be the large pattern which the war has now taken. Fundamentally, it is a pattern which’ can be made threatening to Hitler and perhaps, in time, fatal to him. 4 The business at hand is to realize the possibilities of this situation and to follow them up with con- . stantly increasing strength. This means that Britain, - ' Russia and the United States must work all around the encircling fence avith ever-increasing numbers ‘of + ships, planes, tanks and other equipment. British airplane production was the best of the war last week. It is running ahead of ours in the . United States. This enables the R: A. F. to hold the line and to drive it in somewhat around the French coast. In the Middle East American supplies are extremely important now. One of the most difficult problems will be supplying the Russian line. None of the three available routes offers a simple solution of these problems of supply. But it is vital for a
A / solution to be found, because Hitler must not be
y Day
WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Last night Wwe saw a very beautiful movie, a documentary film, “The Forgotten Village,” written by John Steinbeck, with music by Hans Eisler. It is the story of a boy in a small village in Mexico and shows the life of the village, the superstititions which still exist, and the bad sanitation. It portrays the gathering of the family round the fire in the evening, the birth of a new baby, the selling of the corn which is the basis of life, a festival and a death in
leaves his village, because the local has ‘brought knowledge and inspiration to such of the youth of the community who ; Ge _are open to new ideas. The boy will return trained to lead his people a better lite I was tremendously interested in { Eo Hucks which 0 over almost impassable 1s serve people in these remote villages rural medical service seems to me of great Mexico is doing something which we , for we need to improve our own § in many’ ways.
of ‘the young people of the International § Service, who were with us in Campobello last r, Were here last night. Since of them
“And anyway, I'm not worrying about Dingo games. When they're run by patriotic, fraternal or religious organizations on their own grounds, I've no objections to them.”
This Is Art!
ONE OF THE SHOWS on the State Fair ss winds up with a dancing act that’s nearly nude and rather lewd. ‘The other night, one of the less restrained spectators let out a loud whistle just as the act was reaching its climax. Up popped a guard and panicked the audience with: “Shut up, you; if you don’t like it, get out. This is’ ART!” ,.. We observed at the Board of Agriculture’s dinner for the press that Governor Schricker and Lieut. Gov. Dawson are pretty: well matched in their fried chicken eating ability. Both spurn silverware and use their fingers— as is proper. . .. There's a nicely mounted fish in the window. of the Brandlein’s flower shop, 3359 Boulevard Place, with a card reading: “Great Northern Pike caught July 6, 1941, by Carl Brandlein ‘in Lake Freeman, 8 pounds; 1 ounce.” Pretty nice catch.
Lost Kids at the Fair
DICK MILLER, who's been helping run publicity for the State Fair the last six years as assistant to Levi Moore, tells us this is his last year. Too many other irons in the fire, says Dick. One is his job as manager of. the Coliseum during the winter months. We'll bet he’s back again next year at the Fair. . . . Thus far, the State Police have reunited something over 200 lost children with their equally lost parents. And the number of husbands and wives and elderly people reunited. via the loud speaker system is probably even greater. It’s pretty easy for kids to get lost. | They get interested in something ahead and push ‘on until they reach it. “The parents. meanwhile, stop to look at something along the way. First thing they know they're lost. Oddly enough, so far the number of lost children and the number of parents looking for them has come out exactly even.
By Raymond Clapper
allowed to succeed in his present effort to "break through the encircling wall on the east. 2 # x =» THE TASK is, first, production, upon which much emphasis is now being placed. Second, it is transportation, especially shipping. The lines of supply are long and dangerous. The Atlantic line from the
United States to England is only one of them. At one time it was under severe attack, but recent figures show a great improvement. This line of ‘supply, at present, is just about equal to the load placed on it.
| The line to the Middle East from both Britain].
and the United States is going to require a vast tonnage if the volume of supplies going over it is to. amount to anything, because of the long hauls involved. The same applies fo the line from the United States to Vladivostok. We are not able to get the most out of our shipping at the present time. Convoying is the safest method, but it is slow and it means many ships wor at only about a third of their capacity. Delays in turnarounds are increased, as ships must wait for convoys to assemble, and when a large number of ships reach a given port togetner they cannot unload as rapidly as if arrivals were spaced more evenly. ” { ” ” AT TIMES the whole task seems so huge and intricate as 0 make one despair of it ever being accomplished. We see such difficulties as adjusting planes nufactured in the United States to the actual ni of -operation over here. These difficulties will perhaps be even greater with planes sent to Russia, where the language problem and other dissimilarities are so much greater than those’ between the United States and England. . The volume of American supplies to England rises so slowly as to cause ‘one to wonder how we can ever hope ‘to land any significant quantity of material | in Russia. But the problem is not impossible of solution. It is only large, and we have never been defeated in an undertaking merely because of its size. Our resources of industrial capacity are adequate as they are linked to the vast shipping resources of the British Empire and the large resources of Russia. Combined, the resources of these three powers—these three great industrial powers—surely can more than match German industry. :
By Eleanor Rooseuel
came from Seattle, Wash, ‘they brought another Seattle friend, so I am beginning to gather up quite a number of young acquaintances whom I shall want to see when I visit my daughter this month. Some of these young people are starting to hitch~ hike back to college and look upon it as a real adventure. They have, of course, definite destinations, but hitch-hiking gives. them a chance to. see unexpected places and make new acquaintances. Instead of being merely a furney, it is an exciting and unpredictable experience. This morning I had a press conference and several appointments before a group of young friends ,came. to meet my daughters-in-law, Mrs. James ' Roosevelt and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, at lunch, - Dean William Fletcher Russell of Teachers College. Columbia University, is holding a meeting here in the White House this afternoon to discuss a:
graphic messages over ocean cables when one end
lies. in a free country and
the other is controlled by a totalitarian dictatorship? Shall we have to cut the ca-
bles, or can we set up some
operation of our end of these oe, to prevent Hitler from using them as a method of for¢ing an entry into our internal affairs? What arrangements shall we be forced to set up regarding the exchange of mail? Will it not be . necessary for this country to have a censorship of mail at the frontiers? If we have to control foreign trade, as we surely shall if the Nazis win, shall we not have to open all - first-class mail to see whether it contains currency? Shall we be able to have exchange of funds by money order with the totalitarian postal sys-
they control all movements of funds through a central station and seize any foreign money coming in, no matter for whom it is destined. What about the billions of dollars worth of American property held in Germany or in the countries that Hitler has been tak-, ing over? What about the debts owed to American banks and bondholders by Germany and other European nations? If we are to be engaged in permanent hostilities * with the dictators, all private interests must continue to suffer. But if we are to have a period of formal peace, some arrangements must be made to adjust these matters. They will prove extraordinarily difficult, to settle. We must not forget that the Nazis have long experience in this kind of negotiations. They have worked out new revolutionary methods of turning every one of these factors to their own advantage. We shall be fearfully handicapped if we allow individuals on this side to negotiate with ‘a centralized bureaucracy on the other. Almost ' inevitably the United States Government must
ters of this kind in order to present a stiff front to the Nazi pressure. > E » ”
Sacrifice Liberties?
WHAT ARRANGEMENTS would be ‘necessary to take care of American patents registered in Europe? Under probable circumstances the owners here would get no royalties, nor would our authors and composers be able to collect anything in the way of royalties on copyrighted , articles and musical compositions used over there. Would we be willing to grant such rights to authors, composers and patent owners of the Old World when we know -that the
government? ‘Would we allow Hitler or his agents the right to appear in an American eoust to Forover sums ue from e people pla; Strauss waltzes? Playing Under the new setup Hitler would be the effective owner: of the trade-marks of French champagne, Harris tweeds, and Copenhagen porcelain. He would control all stock of owned anywhere in Europe. Gould we let him vote that stock in our annual meetings? The impact of an immense os talitarian state through all these channels upon our economic life
U. S. 18 READY TO COMBAT GAS
Through Field Tests In Maneuvers.
By RALPH MARTIN . Times Special Writer .
spect for the army mule. The use of training: gases in the
of education for the great group of aliens who are| Gi
to
‘become citizens of our country during the nex: few years. It is an important will
undertaking and
mean a great deal in improving the quality of citi-{me zenship they are able: ed to t their new home. |
I hope a great many women throughout the country will be celebrating Jane Addam’s birthday on Sept. 6. Miss Addams served humanity so well she should never be forgotten. Anyone who knew her, will remember the inspiration of her presence, but her’ spirit went far beyond the individuals who knew her. It affected the thinking and living of the world. * 7 Ay Bh
extend its control over. ail mat- -
money would go to the central
American corporations” now
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warfare officers have a healthy re-| |
giant war maneuvers in the area of| south Arkansas, west Louisiana, and] east. Texas has Shown ‘again that]
American government ownership
tems? It would not seem so, as
“Under the new set-up, Hitler would be the effective owner of the tolbmarks of
would’ be most dangerous and des
“=structive.
I feel that it would prove necessary for us to abandon, at least for a time, many ‘of the liberties to which we have become accustomed. Our free economic society could not function: under such a condition of external pressure in a totalitarian world. We could not allow American
legal. firms to represent the dic- °
tators without some ‘sort of control by our ‘authorities. We could not allow the liberty of the press, the mails and- of public meetings to be extended to foreign governmental agencies. This: involves ‘the censorship in our own .country @ of activities which have been guaranteed under our’ Bill of Rights. We. should have to suspend or
amend our Constitution, Creating !
a new bureaucratic system: of control over the individual. ‘ We should - undoubtedly - beforced to have a Federal Police, fingerprinting everyone. We might even have to extend .police power, requiring that every citizen report. his movements, that . every arrival and departure ‘at hotels be reported to the nearest police station, as is done in Europe, and that an American equivalent ‘of the Gestapo or OGPU be called into existence to combat actual or potential fifth-
. column activities.
We should have to sacrifice a goodly yortion of our treasured
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U. s. Would Have io Sacrifice Liberties to Trade With Nazis
- (This is the tenth of twelve instalments taken from Douglas Miller's YOU CAN'T DO BUSINESS WITH HITLER.)
By DOUGLASS MILLER Author and Former Commercial Attache at Berlin
IF WE ASSUME a Hitler victory over the Old World, just how can we continue to conduct ordinary day-to-day relations between the hemispheres?" Let us try to imagine how difficult this would be and “some of the troubles that would arise for us. Just how can we arrange the normal exchange of tele-
- tweeds and Copenhagen: porcelain”
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liberties in order to preserve a ;
certain remnant of them. This is
not a’ pretty ‘picture. =” H ”
Trade at Standstill
IF HITLER. WINS, we can expect our economic picture in. the United States to be somewhat as follows:
An "industry
‘expanded war
which we must maintain and en-
large. for the purpose of North America and hemisphere defense. A ‘backed-up supply of certain exportable commodities, ineluding cotton, grain and tobacco, for. which no market in the Western, Hemisphere can be found. “A growing shortage of certain critical materials, : which up. to now have been secured from the Old World. : These shortages would: not amount to: ‘much: in terms of . American dollars, but they might mean dangerous - deficiencies in certain areas of our defense pro-gram-and in the ‘supply’ of many . goods commonly used in the United States. If Germany wins, our foreign trade will come almost ‘to a standAt the present time twothirds of our foreign’ trade is with the: British Empire. ' We have placed that proportion of our eggs in one basket. Hitler bids fair to smash both basket and eggs. | Another large segment of our trade, prior to the war, lay wit Japan. If Hitler wins, he migh
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take sist to integrate Huropean
and Asiatic trade, so that this - market and ‘source of supply -
would be taken from us. We should also find an immediate drop in our business with the southern _ part of Latin America. ‘What was left of ‘our foreign trade would ‘be only the portion which goes to North America and the . Caribbean area. This restricted trade zone contains a large: number of our good cus“tomers, but it would be impossible for .them to absorb our. :customary. total exports. We shall be forced either to trade with Hitler or to make a sudden readjustment of our. economy which is bound to be:painful and distressing to millions of ‘Americans. Either choice involves us in acute difficulties,
; Tig ng ag State Socialism SUPPOSE WE TRY to trade with Hitler. The American Gov-
ernment must then commence
"negotiations in Berlin’. for some sort ‘of exchange of commodities. We “shall be handicapped at “every turn because the Germans can put prgssure upon factions and commgdity groups in: this country to | secure larger ‘shares of the deal for their own ‘particu-
lar advan % not. be able to inter-
We shal fere in. same way in Ger-
ARGENTINA WILL
|STUDY DIES Quiz)
|U. S. Visit: Planned to Get
New Ideas for War On Nazis.
By ALLEN HADEN CopyHeht, Jost oy The Indiabanolis Times
- gt nd ile © i Cima, News: Inc.
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one “Dies committee” to another, |:
.Argentina’s own probers of subversive activities will shortly sail for Washington to- study methods employed to run down Nazis and other anti-American agents. Jose Luis Cantilo, president of
ties, “accepted an invitation from Speaks aker Sam ate gre « of pie
House of will be -Deputy Raol Damonte
{ Taborda, secretdry of the powerful
Radical party the Chamber and} chairman of e lower House's committee to. investigate anti« Argentine activitiés, and two «col-
investigate: un-American. 1
many, becaus
the Argenyia Chamber of Depu-|7
the epiese ‘capital. In lo iid
activities | EA Bu- |
French - champagne, Harris
* = over there: no one
‘but the cen ent can
“conduct business: i with .
a foreign power except on Pain of death. If ' the American Goverriment decides to negotiate, it may préfer to draw up only a covering agreement under which American interests could buy or sell with Berlin. If this is done, ‘the Germans will out-trade us. They will use . their - united strength to force unfair concessions from individual groups inthis country.
If, on the other nd. we con- ;
form to the Nazi pattern’ and conduct special negotiations between Washington and Berlin, covering
.. commodities on a barter. basis, we
- shall“ have to upset our whole economy as we know it how. - This: would put the American Government directly into all sorts of trading enterprises. Our authorities here would have to swap stocks of American goods with the Germans at fixed prices, and then import the Old World equivalents and allot. them in some manner tq firms in this country.
Just: how can we maintain our
system of free enterprise if our government is thus forced indirectly into all the deals which concern trade with the outside world? ‘We should be on a fair way to planned economy and a system of State Socialism.
TOMORROW: “Attacé k Our ‘ Defense.
(Copyright, een Inc
1941, by Little, Brown and ribited by United Feature
TEST YO UR KNOWLEDGE
1-—-Wolves drink" water in the same manner as dogs; true or false? 2—Esperanto is a species of fish, the name of a planet or the name of a universal language? 3—Which of these States is smallest in area: Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island?
4—Which : nominee for President
used a brown derby asa ‘political symhol?
8—Complete the verse: “Little drops
of water, little grains of sand,
6—For what diseased condition. of the brain do the initials D. Ts stand? 7—Name the first: Labor Party Premier of Great Britain. 8—Are President and‘ Mrs. Frank-
+ 1 |
lin D. Roosevelt fifth or sixth
cousins, or fifth cousins once re-
moved? : Answers 1—True.
2—Universal language.