Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1941 — Page 15

THURSDAY, DEC. 25, 1941

‘Hoosier Vagabond

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25. —It happens. in this time of national peril, that I have oné good friend in San Francisco who is Japanese, Or rather, I should say American-J ese. For although this girl looks as Japanese as to, she was born in California, has never been to Japan, has never wanted to go, doesn't know anybody there, and speaks very poor Japanese. She is 28. She is as loyal to America as anybody, not because she is consciously and mechanically patriotic but because this is her country the same as mine, and always has been. So I thought it would be interesting to chat with her, and see how thousands of perfectly loyal : Améerican-Japanese like herself are faring these days. Well, to tell the truth, they refit faring so badly. In fact, I've been sort of proud of thé general attitude of Californians toward the local Japanese. I've seen very little display of dangercus fanaticism. Naturally everybody is violéntly anti-Japanese, and all that. And there have been a few instances of hotheadedness and insults. But I've yet to hear a story of real lowdown ignorant public violence, the kind that occasionally happened to Germans in the last war. The Japanese are conducting themselves well in California, and So are the Americans. But to get on with our girl frriend. This is what she says: She goes about the city just as she always did. She holds her head up and walks down the street and looks people in the face, because she is American, She was downtown every day in the Christmas rush, and nobody looked mean at her or said anything nasty to her. Two days after war was declared, she called up two or three of the big downtown stores and asked if she could still use her charge accounts. They said

“sure,” She's Registered for Defense Work

My girl's husband—they have been married just two months—owns a Store here. In the first two

By Ernie Pyle days of war, the Treasury ¢ A re in Francisco toa ven seared sn ach Japanese. t our couple had no smployeés, so they stayed open. _ ad The bank accounts of all ple Japanese ndmes were instantly frozen. But after two days sofié were unfrozen, and my gif! has no kick on that account. Even most of ‘thé business houses that were padlocked are now be opened, Treasury can satisfy tse t théy aren't fifthcolumn stores. My girl's store i$ béihg madé & first-aid station in San Francisco's defense schémé. And she herself has registered for civil defensé. She doesn't know what they'll &ssign her to do, but she can roll bandages and do lots of handy little things. My girl has no accent at all. It sometimes sééms incongruous to hear such wholly American ! : coming from such a wholly Japanesé face. Shé use such phrases as “that hysterically hectic Sufiday,” & “give thé devil his due.” : My git! has considerable feelihg against thé Chinese. Not as between the two nations dnd their war, but just locally. She oh the local Chifiésé have traded on America's ind feeling toward China in the last few years. Ga At one school hére the Chinese children all Showed up one morning recently with badges saying “I am Chinese” So now thé Japanése, in indignation, aré preparing buttons for their children saying “I am an American.” Hard Going Financially ~ FINANCIALLY, it is going to go hard with most of the Ameérican Japanésé out hére. Beécausé many Americans who hire Japanesé or patronize Japanese are going to quit. Not because théy especially want to, but because they're afraid they'll be suspected if they keep on having Japaresé in théir homes or are seen taking clothes to a Japahesé cleaner. At the énd I asked my gif! what conflict went on inside of people liké her at this moment, for although ther are Americans, pure Japanésé blood does run in their veins. And she said that most of them felt only & terrible shame. “We just feel that we must apologize to everybody for our ancestral psoplé having done this awful thing» she says.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

JUST IN CASE you were wondering what the employees of the Governor's office gave Governor Schricker for Christmas, it was a silver coffee pot. It would have been another of those famous white hats except for the fact he already has quite a supply of them by now. The office group gave Secretary Ray E. Smith a clock, while Frank Hillenbrand, the undersecretary, received a dictionary. No hint, they said. . . County Clerk Charley Ettinger threw a big party for his office force at the Hoosier A. C. Tuesday night. Santa Claus (his voice sounded suspiciously like Charley's) passed out gifts—booklets containing $5 worth of defense stamps. In turn the emplovees gave the County Clerk an oriental rug. By the way, Charley will be announcing his candidacy for re-election one of these days. . County Treasurer Walter Boetcher swore there was no significance attached to his gift to the Treasurer's office employees. Each got a big ham.

Christmas at the Hospital

WILLIAM FORTUNE is spending Christmas at the Methodi.t Hospital. He was taken there Sunday when he developed a gall bladder infection. . . . And General Tyndall has a touch of the gout. . . Sergt. Alexander S. Carroll and his anti-aircraft battery have been transferred from Ft. Sheridan, Ill, to the West Coast. Thus he missed Christmas dinner.at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James F. (Bell Telephone) Carroll. . . . Joan Fox is going in for “firsts.” The first to receive a cadet pin for service at the enlisted men's Service Club, she also was the first to have the misfortune to lose her pin, she reports. . . . The Service Club gets quite a few calls from women offering their services in any way they can help. One woman, informed shé could help in the pantry, replied: “Oh, nothing like that; I want 0 do something dangerous.”

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—For a few bright, remembered hours at this season we all usually retreat from the daily struggle and forget the pressure of reality while we enjoy the warmer glow of happiness among our dear ones and friends. That is denied to many on this Christmas. In this particular year of our Lord we are all tempted, I suppose, to feel bitter despair among the mangled ruins of what might have been. Hate against those who have done it chokes up the spirit. What place have any words of hope in print beside the news that appears in these pages? Perhaps none. Perhaps they will be howled " down by the screaming, deadly events. They say human nature doesn't change. Peace has been the dream of the ages. But only a dream. For 2000 years the Star has been shining, and nothing has come of it. Or has something come of it? I wonder. Why should we give in? Why give in now when we may be pulling up the last long mile toward the top of the hill. At least it looks like the top up there. True, people have been climbing for centuries and they are tired. But we are a long way up the hill now. It is worth while to press the journey still a little farther.

We Do Move Forward

IF HUMAN NATURE does not change, it does change its standards. That we know. Even in the short life of the United States we have seen these standards change. When this Republic was founded we were throwg people in prison because they could not pay their D Men and women are still living who remember ar v—who remember when human beings were oid on the auction block like a bale of tobacco. I have here tn my desk now an old newspaper, The Washington Gazette, the issue of July 26, 179%. John Adams, the New England Puritan, was Presi-

My Day

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—There are few homes in this country or probably anywhere in the world where this will be a merry Christmas. Germany, from whence onte came so many of the most delightful Christmas customs, which we all observe,

but a very empty victory. The control of other peoples through fear and force, can never bring any real satisfaction. And now the sacrifices are likely to bé not only greater than ever before, but to have meaning, because instead of vietory, are the rumblings 4 slow but suré defeat.

Light on the Subject THE SCORE OR SO children in the Marion

County Juvenile Detention Home had a Christmas],

party and who do you think they invited as their special guest? None other than that man who sent them there—Juvenile Judge Wilfred Bradshaw. They

put on a Christmas program for him. . . presented City Controller James E. Deery with some fluorescent lights for his private office. The only difficulty is that the lights require alternating current, while the non-modeérn City Hall uses direct current. An exchange will fix that, “These lights ought to keep us from making any more budget errors,” quipped Jim. . . . Uncle Louis Brandt, president of the Works Board, threw a -party yesterday for members of the Board, the Mayor, other officials and newspapermen. He served a buffet luncheon on the glass-topped table ordinarily reserved for Board deliberations. Uncle Louis personally prepared multiple-deckér sandwiches for everybody. They were so thick that only Joe E. Brown could encompass one of them comfortably.

The First 1000

EMPLOYMENT at the local Curtiss-Wright propeller plant has passed the 1000 mark and still is going up. The 1000th employee was Ernest Allérd, 25-year-old auto machinist who was with the Chrysler plant at New Castle eight years. . . . Among thé Army boys who managed to wangle Christmas furloughs is First Lieut. Earl Hoff. Barl, who used to do the school page for Thé Times, will finish his course in the Ft. Benning (Ga. Infantry Command School early next month. . . | Two men heaved and grunted, rolling a very heavy keg toward a waiting airliner at Municipal Airport the othér night. The keg clanked suspiciously. A guard went rushing up, demanded that the keg be opened and inspected. “It's all right,” an air express employee told him. “It’s Just a keg of bolts. They need em in Detroit badly enough to pay air express on them.”

By Raymond Clapper

dent of the United States. On the first page is this advertisement: “A Runaway in Custody. Was committed to my custody a bright Mulatto Girl, about 18 or 17 years old, who says she was bound to a baker in Alexandria. The owner is requested to take her away and pay Charges as the law directs. (signed) Joseph Boone, Sheriff.” Maybe human naturé hasn't changed. But something has changed since that slave advertisement was published in the capital of the United States of America. Something has changed even sincé I have been a newspaper man in Washington, and that’s not so long, either. Someéthing has changed since Herbert Hoover left the White House. Within the present Administration we have changed our standards.

Labor Lines Improved

WHEN A MAN is thrown out of work we now recognize it as an obligation to port him out of public funds. Employers are taxed 10 provide unemployment insurance, We no longer force such victims of economic conditions to beg on the streets or to depend upon the charity of some private citizen.

During the present Administration the nation has assumed a whole new set of responsibilities which formerly were not considered the obligation of society at all. Whether human nature has changed or not, our attitude and conduct toward fellow beings have changed and the result comes to the same thing. If the human nature of employers has not changed, they are compelled by law to deal with unions of their employees, so that the individual workman is not left at a hopeless disadvantage against & huge corporation. The price of labor is no longer fixed by the length of the line at the hiring gate. It wasn’t necessary to change human nature. We just changed our ideas of what was fair and just, and put those ideas into effect without waiting for human nature to change. Likewise, when this war is won, the victorious nations, without waiting for hurhan nature to change, can, if they will it strongly enough, put into : measures that will prevent butcher 168 from ever becoming strong enough to massaére of

By Eleanor Roosevelt

thet are at

shall give to peoples an opportunity tg livé 6 in peace and justice, and yet a thé which men may havé for power when the heads of governments, and are nbt too to the voice of their people.

In the Christthas story, there is much food fer thought for all of us, and in the whole

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To Kél§ Ainéficans plan their

Harder Work Fale Rewards Seen by Wickard

As Farmer's Share in U.S. Victory Effort

ves to give their utmost to the ulti-

maté goal—rvictory—in the coming year, outstanding leaders in industry

and written sbties,

weittéh for

goverfimént Have been askedl to look ahead to 1942. They have a J pl 1 cal Series, “1942 and Aty of Agrictilttifé Claude

By CLAUDE R.

YOU.” The first of this Wickard, appeais below.

WitKARD NEA Service

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Hatrder work, more difficulties; but fair rewards for abiihdant production. That, in

my opinioh; is the outlook it We have before us the

1942 for my fellow farmers. biggest and hardest job we

farmers ever have tackled; it is only our fair share of the

biggest and hardest job the

nation ever has undertaken.

Oiir hation heeds an abundance of ri€h, nourishing food; it is our job to produce it. Other nidtions, joined with us in.

our struggle, need American

food; we must prodicé more

to supply their needs. We cannot fail.

We have a lead start on the job. We began last summer to plan for production in 1942, to meet the food and fiber needs of the nation as nearly as they

could be anticipated. Last summer when we set up

“We have a head start on the job” Secretary Claude R. Wickard . .

NO '42 DROUGHT, DATA INDICATES

If Records Repeat, There Should Be Plenty of Rain in County.

If the experience of 60 years is any guitie, there ought to be plenty of rain for Marion County crops in 1942. There had bettér be. A repetition of the 1940 and 1941 summer droughts will do serious damage to Marion County agriculture, in the opinion of County Agent Horace Abbott. Weatherman J. H. Armington said that periods of drought and comparatively heavy rainfall have alternated about every two years since 1882 in the County. The drought which extended |

through last summer until October began about August, 1939.

Two Good Years Seen

On the basis of rainfall experience, next year and 1943 ought to be fat years. But that is no promise. The County has been chealed of its rainfall over the last 11 years. Weather Buréau and Indianapolis Water Co. figures show that thé County has a rainfall défielency of 4742 inches since 1930. Last year, for instance, instead of the normal rainfall of 399 ihthes, only 2882 inches fell. So far this year, the rainfall has not réeachéd 29%: inches.

Injures Corn Crop These figités mean losses to Marion County farmers who éach year plant and hope to hatvést & corn crop totaling 40000 4 largér than thé entire area of Ih-

lis. iis year, corn production in some areas of thé County fell to 10 bushels &n acre. On test ] which Kept well-watered, yield rea a¢ high as 90 b an acre. Normal r corn is 50 to 55 bushels, Mr, Abbott, but the yied jie famntan be short af th the drought cycle is éndeé. This

Had to Import Feed

the County's supply of inadequate to feed its livestock. Corn had to be from Illinois and Iowa. If that has to be done ##fin next year, me price of meat may ad-

more. the corn languished in the summer, the soybean F1op

the goals, we found that we needed to make some adjustments in our 1942 production to meet rapidly changing conditions. British food needs and the desirability of building up some reserves for post-war use entered into the calculations, on top of increas= ing requirements at home.

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More Dairy Products

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, we found we needed to produce less cotton, wheat, tobacco and produce more milk for cheése, evaporated and dried milk; more hogs for meat and lard; more chickens for meat and eggs; more vegetables for canning. e expected that our imports of vegetable oils would be greatly reduced by the war, and so we planned for big increases in thé acreage of soybeans and peanuts for oil. The total production then planned for 1942 represented a net increase of about 2 per cent over the record high production of 1941, but the job could be done without plowing up any more land. In general, the 1042 production goals as planned still hold good. We may have to revise them upward in some lines, and as this is written, we are going over them. We shall notify farmers of the revisions well in advance of planting time.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. — Japanése bombs on Hawaii and the Philippiheés have resulted in a flow

of outright donations to the United States Treasury to help finance the wer, Treasury officials say gifts have been comung in at a rate of more than $1000 a day. A Chinese in Montana wrote President Roosevelt: “Enclosed money order for $25 is my humble donation to help kill Japs. heart she is full for the cause of the U. S,; you spend money where it do most good, me buy bonds later.”

Veteran Doés Part

From an 8-year-old Buffalo girll Mr. Roosevelt received 48 pennies, two dimes and four small Canadian coins. She wrote: “Because you are at war for the love of America I am sending my pénniés to you. I don’t want you to pay me back with defense stamps because I want to give it to you. If I needed it I would want somebody to give it to me. Instead of buying Mickey his dog food tonight I'm sending you the dime it would cost me.” Contributions have ranged from a few pennies to $2000. A Michigan World War veteran sént the Treasury 15 adjusted-serv-ice certificates—a part of his bonus ayment—with a currént valué of 50 e€aech. The gift totaled $862.50.

The picture, as the American farmer looks forward to 1942, is both somber with war's darkness and bright

YOU FARMERS were asked to plan your individual production to have a proportionate part in the adjusted production for 1942.

The reports submitted by your neighbors who did the farm-to-farm canvass show that your total production plans meéet the 1942 goals with margins to spare. You know there are difficulties ghead before the plans on paper become food on the table. We're not going to be able to hire as much skilled farm labor next year as we'd like, It may be that we can train teen-age boys, and young women from the cities to help in farm work. But regardless of the kind of help we get, I can't see any sure substitute for longer hours and harder work on the part of every member of the farm family. .

$1000 a Day Is Donated To U. S. to Finance War

From New England a woman sent {a $50 check, represéntihg interest received from \Jnitédl States bonds. She s#ld she would rélusé to tike monéy from the Covernment #&t this time.

Immigrant Sends Check

A check for $100 was séht by 600 students and teachers in a Pennsylvania high school. They wrote Secretary Morgenthau that they had collected the money for a Christmas ice-cream party, but that théy were calling off the party and giving the money to help fight the war. A Congressman sent thé Treasury a day's pay, something over $30. Five workers in a small Florida mahufacturing plant wrote the Treasury that they had agreed to work four hours a week for the benefit of the Government as long as thé war lasts. They enclosed a check for $960, their combined earnings for the first four hours. A naturalizéd Ozéch, giving the Government $100, wroté Secretary Morgenthau from New York: “As an immigrant who is happy to have found shelter in this country for his family and for himself, and feeling that an all-out effort is necessary to crush Hitlerism, I beg you to accept my enclosed check as a modest and wholehéarted cohtribution to America’s great task of arming against all her ehémies.” A donor of $5 askéd that it be used for & bBoniber rivet,

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with the promise of victory.

You're not going to be able to buy much new farm machinery as you'd like, because the metals have to go into war production. We hope there will be plenty for repair parts, but you should certainly gét as many spare parts as possible ortlered early in the year.

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No War Boom Prices

YOU'RE NOT being asked to to step up production of the vital farm products and take a risk on the price, The basic crops, cotton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco, have a floor under them at 85 per cent of parity, established by the loan rate. Cheese, dried skim milk, evaporated milk, hogs, eggs, and chickens are supported at 85 per cent of parity by purchases. There is reason to believe that

RUSH REPAIRS AT HONOLULU

Army Takes Reporters on Tour of Bases Damaged In Jap Surprise.

By FRANK TREMANE United Press Staff Correspondent HONOLULU, Dec. 25.—The Army took a group of correspondents to Hickam and Wheeler Fields and Schofield Barracks today to see the progréss that had been made in repairing them. Hickam Field had been considerably cleaned up since I saw it during the raids on Dec. 7. Officers said the planes which attacked Hickam, while another group simultaneously swooped on Pearl Harbor, came from out at sea. They bombed a row of hangars, then swung to the left toward Pearl Harbor, over the barracks, leaving a second group of hangars and the control tower untouched. The Japanese first dive-bombed the dir depot, then strafed it, the officers said. Incendiaries started destructive fires, and explosives bent girders and did considerable damage. However, the officers expldinéd, the aircraft in the depot were mostly old.

Series of Attacks

He said a “distinct series” of attacks betwéen 8 a. m. and noon left the runways intact. The attacks were concentrated largely on hangar§ #nd barracks, and the barracks were badly damaged, but could still be used, because they were constructed of reinforced concrete. However, much of the air force personnel is living in tents and quarters evacuated by civilians and eating from field kitchens. I saw numerous wrecked planes, but also many in the air, and we were shown a group of aircraft that had just arrived from the West

Coast. From Hickdm, we were driven to Wheeler Field, which is next to Schofield Barracks. The first attack of two formations on Wheeler Field Same from the north, the officér said. The first attack was cohcentrated on the industrial area at the westefn énd of thé field, on hangars and line planes from hangars. Most of the casualties at Wheeler Field were caused by bombs, the officer said.

Plane Parts Salvaged

He pointed out that many planes previously reported lost already were

ably damaged

dispersed and protected by bunkers to obviate mdss destruction. He praised pilots who braved machine gun bullets and bombs to to their é8 and take off. hose planes were lost be-

praying for a serviceable plane, he ii young pilot “stole” a

plane in order to fight. to “Schofield "Bark

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the demand for most farm commodities will hold prices well above the supporting level. Supplies of feed are adequate and the ratio of feed cost to the price of livestock products is favorable to increased production.

I don’t think farmers want to see farm prices skyrocket, as they did in World War 1. Too many of us lost our shirts and our farms in the crash that followed the last war. We are anxious to avoid it again. We want parity prices, but we'll not push for more than parity. That is my interpretation of the sentiment of most farmers, and it is the basis on which the policies of the Department of Agriculture are founded. Abundant production to meet urgent needs is the request the nation makés of you; the reward, parity prices for farm products.

Patents Human Torpedo Carrier

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Dee. 256.—Going the Japs’ two-mdn stub ohé better, Otto K. A. Frindt 6f Chicago oTers what he calls a torpedo carrier. His invention is protected by a patent. His idea is in effect, a man-carrying torpedo, with means for automatically flipping the pilot out into the water when within a couple of hundred yards of the target. The pilot would then have to také his chances with drowning, sharks and other perils of the deep, along with the victims of his torpedo. The craft consists of a very nar« now hull, sustained by air chambers on either side and driven by a pair of powerful, high-speed gasoline engines. In the nose of the boat is what amounts to a short-barreled cannon, containing a powder charge that will drive the projectile-like torpedo into the vitals of its target before it explodes.

SHARE TEMPLE PULPIT Rabbi Elias Charty and thé Rev, Almon ‘J, Coble, pastor of the Brightwood Methodist Church, will share the pulpit in a special serve ice at Beth-El Zedeck Temple toe morrow evening.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Graphite is an essential part of what common article sold by sta tioners? 2—Theré is a special U. S. Court to settle claims against the Federal Government; true or false? 3—Sidney Carton is the hero of what book? 4—What do the initials, D. A. R. stand for? 5—Cairo is the capital of which country? 6—What kind of commodities have a warp ahd woof? T--Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce under two Presidents; name them. . 8=Was Frankenstein the name of the monster, or of its creator in the story with that title?

Answers 1—Lead pencil.

2—True. 3—“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. : 4—-Daughtérs of the Revolution.

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back in the air, and that parts of | 5—Egypt

6—Textiles, 7—Harding and Coolidge. 8—-The crestor.

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