Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1941 — Page 15

“resulting. {paper manufa i ~ fortunes. One these: is: The ‘Rytex Co., ®polis, which does a big biisiness all over the country in name dnd address social eer- . respondence paper. The firms business is boo; and. . of it to the draft. You see, he réasons, there are about “1,500,000 ‘boys in the Army - camps. Each of these receives: an average of one letter a week from home ' and another from girl friends, and replies to both. That's 6,000,000 letters a week, which "is a lot of correspondence paper. The only fly in the ointment is ‘that the company had to give up, for this year at least, its profitable line of Christmas greeting cards—couldn’t spare the: paper from its - corresponderice paper business. Paper mill representatives have informed the firm that in January and February. it will receive only 65 per cent as much paper as it got last January and February. By the way, a mill representative tells, us the

* Government is using tremendous quantities’ ‘of paper— f

375 carloads of mimeograph paper in one lot, 140 tons of bond paper scratch pads for one camp and 550 carloads of boxboard a ay for shells. Furthermore, he says, it takes 4° railroad carload—about 40,000 pounds—of paper fo provide the - Fblueprims necessary to build one battleship. . That's what he told us, anyway. :

Slug Trouble

THEY'VE BEEN HAVING “sug” trouble down on the near South Side and this seems to be the answer: Miss Ruby Ertel, principel of School 6, near Manual, noticed some of the pupils “jingled” as they walked. Investigating, she found their pockets filled with metal slugs resembling coins. The pupils explained they’d found : them dumped on a vacant lot near the school, and had been using them in place of. money. One you r proudly " informed her tha, it “you Bus, Jone _of Rhese in the

¢ |

255 x : Ee - from the national For iaing Py. writing lady 1d be reaping. Sheir -k

"Mid Erte] called on the rest of the pupils in the] “school for a “slug shower” and got. ® Now the nearby merchants are eating waster.

President . ; : Mervin J. Hamel attributes most. Here and There woh ute | “CAP” OTTO PETIT, who resigned a police Heu-].

tenancy year to runifor sheriff, gad ‘who was reins fo the force 10 days ago as’'a pa assigned to the Police Identification Dienriy better known as the Rogues’ Gallery... . . By he way, in case any of you were wondering what d become of Patrolman Forest Allison who used had econ rwaers ‘at Washington ‘and Meridian, he's now. patrolling Washington between Castrol and and ilisiols! to prevent double parkin Deput Clarence Sparrow who does the work is. getting - to be rather expert with color film. ‘He has some. p “good color tr

gruesome, Brown County Again

» DALE BESSIRE and. Fred Bates Johnson, the latter sometimes known as Sage of Brown County, _are ‘authority for the:announcement that this is the most freakish Brown County autumn in all history. For a long time it was feared there'd be no color in

“the foliage. But the fears were groundless, From 10 to| 20 per cent of the trees still have green leaves, and |

these combined with the: usual autumn tints—purples, reds, browns and yellows—combine to pr a. gorgeous freak of nature remaining unusually late in the season. , . . The next meeting of the Indianapolis Literary Club ‘is to be Nov. 17. The essay is “World Revolution dnd Religion.” The essayist—the Rev. Jean "8S. Milner... . In a- ‘ward description of that giant Consolidated bomber that landed at Municipal Airport yesterday: “Just mean looking.” . . . Politics never fails to amage us. ‘Judge. Charles 5 Karabell died at 2:55 &. m. ye ay. And before noon; every political hotspot. in: town was. buzzing with gossip ‘about his probable successor

Ernie Pyle is on leave of Shien because o tre illness of his wife. wg

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WA re N, Nov. 12 Armistice Day, yesterday found the United States engaged in an undeclared naval war with Germany. It -anybody’s guess -

.. whether we will soon go to war with Japan or whether

ns will be ‘averted’ by the conferences to begin here

pan’s “special . But whether it"is to be| peace, or war in the Pacific, American. lives “are being 1 in the{ Atlantic a ‘naval war. || Fak Is it going to be in vain again? save swe. going to throw security ‘away ‘after this war is won, as we -codid the last time? - -<Those iare | the questions’ that | stared ‘America accusingly in the j face on Armistice Day, 1941. They i are, questions. for us, and for the io ‘Brhish. “And. they would be “better answébed now thanover‘the tomb of the Unknown. “Soldier of the Sefond World: War, On: the Monday morning of Nov. 11, 23 years ago, Woadrow: Wilson, in ‘announcing the Armistice, said “Everything. for which America fought -has been sic Woodrow S¥ijsor Pistoly alteady has written how wrong.

Lig MILITARY VIO

| fled. The Ger vas a

armies had der: The German DAVY. WAS, =8lthough ‘scuftied: Inthe States rad

“The o BS, aw pitas alias con“dol “ghich ha Eg eh led: these ra soa \vinning- powers .‘toico-operate in: military, economic, financial and ship-

ping activities were abandoned, Wilson had never

leaders ‘in his ‘peace aims, and his: ‘failure to obtain binding commitments before. the war was over could never be fully repaired. * Our country went inte the war on a wave of hate

“By Raymond Clapper

agoliat Germany. When. Getmany. was. beaten the ‘American people considered the job. done, .and this Government’ was encouraged to. pull out. The Kaiser was gone, and we’ had no further interest. We are in. ‘much’ danger of repeating that tragic mistake. * President Rdosevelt has echoed some of the generalities: of the Atlantic Charter about economic ‘justice to all nations ‘after the war, about insuring that they have fair access. to .raw materials. But many of those raw materials ire now under British and Dutch motiopoly, some of the ‘most. important ‘ones ‘being ‘lacated in the East dies; Which we may ‘go to war fo defend. Even without ‘declaring war, we have® put into operation: the most intimate kind of collaboration with Britain, Russia and China. = This partnership covers military weapons, pooling: of -raw materials, pooling ‘of shipping, and financing. én the Neutrality Act is repealed American’ ships will be ‘going into all belligerent ports and.our- merchant, marine as well as our Navy Ruck be’ fused into, the common effort Sgains: © s ?

The Same old: Blank-Check: Buis WE. E ARE, DEEPLY entangled . under fhe Jefid:

Through. Jendiloss Mr. ‘Rocitvelt probably jiss ker to affect ‘the ‘shaping of ‘the world than ‘any other man ever ‘has’ “held--including ‘Hitler, because Mr. ‘Roosevelt has control in his own discretion over decisive aid to Britain, Russia and China -and to any other ‘country large ‘or small. $2 ‘Noman’ ‘and no country ever before had. such steer0s “a8 is provided by lend-lease. ; : this fc be used only to defeat Hitler? Or will the American people insist: this time that our power be used to bring seme tind of order into world affairs? Mr. Roosevelt is: ‘doing little about it. Some officials see the. need of it, but others closest him’ are hoiding back. They say, don’t annoy the British by bringing up. such questions now. “The result is that we are slipping into war: on the same old blankscheck basis that made the last armistice a Hocker and the prelude’ to another war,

~ Captive. Custoriers By John W. Love|

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—The system of distributing the nation’s supplies of raw materials by direct allocations, now beginning tobe installed Under OPM, is expected gradually to tie customers ta their sources

of supply. It is likely before long to produce the captive customer. | The people in charge of the allocations here are not saying much about that; but they will not be - | surprised if the assignment of the ‘supplies of critical materials‘ to

the various industrial fields in pro-

portion to what they have taken

!in‘the- ‘past or can prove they need. :

in ‘the future should work out. in this way. Buyers have to : look to their usual sources and not go Shopping a around. + tem is. commencing in

and 1 HAY Ho pen, before long to the

Jndustry, where the choice of sources in ‘the ‘heavier stuff is: seldom broad anyway. One of the places it may be felt, next year is in a portion of the paper and printing irae: whet shortages’ up 10.25 | and 30 per cent are e.

I elailers Unlikely X

fine their sales to People’ they knew. - The captive-consumer idea simply flows from a prospective requirement that, in the materials bon are scarce, the primary producers or manufacturers hol fae od in oe tak epch of hols customers re n Jos nol Gal rcentage share of what Because the primary producers in the scarce maatiale Bly | want { to ® Joak after their old customers first, : uc e on ne - ad ex ictal Ww ones, it is be

a portion of what they want.

Price Regulation Easier :

| PRICE REGULATION is expected to be ‘made { the more necessary, but aiso.the easier. . The policing (of -prices will be possible ‘through inspection of the records of transactions made: under the allocations. Each industry is likely eventually - to have its code symbol, and each. member company in: the ind {Sil Par wey Juese vides ahd mumbers ‘on all pu 0 ers 1 will be practical, if ae or re ny Washington of the prices. and ihe. ST nae € source goods are moving to

codes and numbers

OD will ever get down’ to ae his customers is doubted.

make th riAgE Noare in Eastern: : wey might have ge con-

their own

tun out of some things, but selection of |

gasoline LO

n Saditonal quantities. of okie. “oockegeers” 8

Re Bherifrs phe Phographic 2 ansparencies, even | though some of ‘the, jithjosts--viclently ‘deceased—are ;

tial

On Sacrifices |

hs a he ened ie. win ling ABA dministration, mea

Division, ‘Office of Price A

means _sitizens buy only whit they need, care for 1 so It

absolutely’ nothing.

coutitry a efficient and st

will take good care of the thin

nothing.”

this mass , production era.

The pledge will be given over the dio by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt who is assistant director in charge .of volunteer participation in the Office of Civilian Defense,

and Miss Harriet Elliott,

Associate Administrator in

in the Office of Price Ad-

ministration, in chaxge of . Washington,

the Consumers Division. ‘The real purpose of the pledge

{is to impart information. Actual-

ly, nobody in the Government expects a «ation of more than 130,000,000 consumers to change their habits overnight.

Preparing for Shock

IT. IS TO MAKE everyone

aware of what is happening to the nation’s economy during the defense’ program. It is to prevent surprise-and disbelief when Mrs. John Q. Consumer finds out one fine day -that she can’t buy a brand new thigamajig to replace the one. the family has had for years ‘because thigamajigs just aren't on the market any more. The answer is, of course, that the productive energy—Ilabor, materials and wealth—that went into producing thigamajigs

planes ahd tanks. But more than that is taking place in the nation’s economy. The challenge that & free de-.

mocracy can’t wage war as ef-

fectively as ‘a Fascist state unless it operates on a totalitarian

economic basis is being met in

Washington by a group of économists of divergent points of view. In the two years the. defense

{program has been under way, two: | ‘theories involving = widespread changes in the nation’s’ economic

life have come to the Tore.

has been ‘diverted to battleships, bombing :

Following’ the pattern of World War I, the come into being and up to 5 er was the cominant mt. ‘of economic planning in " a No u. S$. Inventory

‘ALTHOUGH every business.

takes an inventory: of its stock

and resources at the beginning of the year or during an emergency,

“sacrifice” Wieory has last

ho ity of the wealth, goods . ©

and ma United States of America, the worlds richest. assec on of human beings, has ey en taker Economists knew what. the na-.

; tional income wss-~about 60 bil- . lions. of dollars ainually.

‘They "knew what manufgcturing capacity was in a general way for war materials and heavy goods, But no one knew what the nhation’s total cabacity was. The ‘National Resour Board and al‘lied agencies are trying - to find ouf now. They are taking an enormous inventory, . but, the ‘experts fear

that by the time this gargantuan

task is completed, conditions will ‘have changed to thie point where the inventory will: be invalid.

8 8 8

ON THE BASIS of the known capacities jof the nation to produce, exponents oi the sacrifice theory asserted:

. Liane gan

goods) at 4 i¢ : 2, The vs oh Bilis the. nation

8 bier (constimeg’

i. 4

resources of the

can't be guns: (mu-

FECL EP

ents aow, Sere has to id :

made, the Tess butter 1 could gir0- : duce—productive capacity would “have to be released from radios and typewriters to make machine guns and airplanesi ps .3..To further this plan, a rigid system. ‘of priorities’ would have to be set up so that all materials vital to defense could be instantly available. In general outline, this is theory : der which the nation has been ting. It means less and. less butter and more and more guns

"as ploughshares are beaten info

swords and washtubs into bornb‘ing planes.

In oppostion to what Price Adminis

trator Leon Henderson calls the “sacrifice school” of defense economics, “another school has arisen, - championed by Mr. Hen-_ "~ derson: and ‘others; called the ex- - pansion school. ~~

Urge Pant Increase fuk

8 ; ry 8 on :

less and less. butter and more. and.

more guns.

But the opansioiiisls: believe, :

that the "nation’s economy can |

eventually expand to produce all” the consumer goods and all the .. war goods this country” can: use. 2

To this end, they advocate increased plant, capacity. If there is ot ‘enough steel, If ‘there are not enough Fr mills to make more steel, ‘build them.

‘make more 1

, They argue that: outside of a - ‘few raw materials’ this country

‘has resourtes to double its pro-

“ductive . capacity, “and, in the ent, s

process, absorb all unempl ‘creating more goods. a ‘purchasing. :power -: than ‘before.

more.

ever i

“To bring about this’ situation, mate

ome. con :

DISABLED | BROUP,.

Many Would Be Be Asset to Defense Effort, Parley Is Told.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 12 (U. PJ). —Utilization of a vast reservoir of manpower through rehabilitation and employment of partially disabled workers was. proposed today

at the opening session of the sixth|

annual meeting of the Industrial

Hygiene Foundation.

Reports to the delegates by ‘Dr. Henry H. Kessler,” medical director

‘of the New Jersey Rehabilitation

Clinic, and ‘M. M. Walter, director of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Rehabilitation, cited the great potenproductivity of physically handicapped workers in suitable

token, the customers won't want to abandon the suppliers who can sell them at least Jobs.

NA large number of persons handicapped by minor disabili-

~ :{ties, but possessing great poten-

tialities for functional performance, are being rejected for military service and condemned as undesirable by industry,” Dr. Kessler’s report stdted. “Thus a vast reservoir of manpower is annually being lost to

ustry | the national economy.”

Special Help Sought ‘Dr. Kessler claimed disabled

workers “may not only be normal-

ly productive, but ‘may actually excel in a chosen field.” Handi-

cagped workers and the so-called

over-age employee are not more

-| prone ‘to accidents, according to the|

Director Walker's report ‘urged 3 guidance, education and

By ROSCOE ¥ LEMING - Times Specia’ Writer 5 DENVER, Nov. 12-In 1923, when Gen. Billy. Mitchel got. his chance to prove whit bombs could do to battleships, tiie commander

of . the first .bombing plane to

swoop down af the old battle-.

ship Virginia was a young cap tain, just three yenrs out of the

cavalry. The plane's first boml,

hit. The young: cap tain, now ‘a

stocky lieutenant - colonel whose"

speech reflects; his North Carc-:

; "4 Colonel Duncan. some lina upbringing, - ‘who is black »

halted and yally. smiling. is the

center of the biggest’ Army on

“Beh. quit yoo-

troversy ‘since’, Jen. ordered the: boys: to

“hooing. His name is-Early E. W. '

“out defense.

~bounds- it ‘he ‘became | convinced’; that. the ‘doctrines. previched by . lls: pastor we were prometing naLF The ‘Amerie. ‘First. ‘order came a8 ‘the’ ’climax of ‘a long and ‘mounting : impatience, “on the

= Colonel's part, with ‘people ‘who in “his view are hampéring, al + getting - :somewhere. ov tional: Jtadards are extraordi-

“His men at Lowry. are. work-. |

an 1100-pounder, ‘nade a direct x ing. in two shifts to rush’ their -

“ais a’m, i and sthdies until a

~The ‘first ‘class gets up ‘erpoon;: second ‘class studies ihe evening Unt § m. time ‘ago 19 ‘contrasted gh this schedule with that of civilian. ‘workers, and denounced defense s Whichilie ssid ought te he endef,

> iy * 0 3

Duncan, and he commands the’

huge Lowry Field here, where ' i. fe : ommittes tor: months before he cans A 5 he said.

the Army Air Corps trains it

‘bombardiers and photcgmphers.

Col. Duncan meade the Penver headquarters: of ‘the: America First Committee - “for Lowry. Field soldiers, said he would ‘fake*simila

‘out-of-bouncls’ 5 and. ta ar action

“decided to put the Committee

_out of bounds: and forbid its liter 1 Severs ver

‘all phices’ ‘where po-

regarding litical organization might pro- bin by’ -— even

‘mote national | churches, 8 » 2

THOSE WHO Know the

Colonel feel” thats. barritig orders

from higher up, he wouldn't hesidate. to put a. church: out "of

HOLD EVERYTHING

“were centés of ro-Nea propagands. ‘Only four or five Popes Field men had usually attended any one eating ; of, the America First Committee Col. ) what iends expected he Would do ‘some day—get into ‘a

JOBS URGED FOR ; Colonel Who C Opened Fire ‘America First

‘Bombed Ship to Prove Mitchel's Theory

{controversy because of his de- |

cided views.

- Untler him, Lowry is one of the: thest-running - and happiest

of oF Poste. despite the long hours and’ hard work.

It is an ad- | vanced training center, and most

of ‘the personnel feel they are

mally ‘high.

ir. » ns

COL. DUNCAN has said he

feels. as if he were the head of a

university, and somewhat em- |H

‘barassed fo be there. He told:

‘with a grin of talking to three selectees and’ finding that: each |

: possessed : a doctorate--one | trom:

ane from: Columbia, one

Hé got the A. B. aki the UniJomity of North Carolina, and had entered upon the law course hen the First: World’ War

and’ observed the war a the “cockpit of a cavalry horse, with: .aleyin 11th and ater the. int Cavalry in Siberia. - During 1919 he ‘was’ with. the Ninth Cavalry in the -Philip-

Its edueca~

e cavalry

WN APPRO

Ten in

City, One One in.

Grove. on. ‘College

The.

today 2 y

Frayed

Ec] .Oglettiorpe, Ga,, |Protestan “Sug putin for the air corps, but was shunted off: to. th

“Surgeons” List.

sricals Goliege ot Surgeo So fe Sia oa

pines, but he kept his Air Corps | .

ition alive, and was trans-.

ferred to that service in 1020. |% He flew the 6 Amys: ‘Brsh smoker, 2+ mber

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