Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1942 — Page 15

FRIDAY, JAN. 9, 1942

The Indianapolis Times

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Hoosier Vagabond

ALBUQUERQUE, Jan. 9.—What, pray tell me, have I wrought now? Lord have pity on my poor sinful soul: I must have been thinking about something else at the time. For I have bought a Great Dane! The whole thing is still a little vague to me, it all happened so suddenly. But as far as I can remember, it went like this: That Girl was delighted and agog over the toy shepherd I brought from Washington. But I still had in mind getting her a Great Dane some day. We talked casually about it, and she said yes shed like a Great Dane, too, but perhaps two dogs all of a sudden would be too much for her, so she'd rather wait while for the Dane. But since I'm going to be gone long time, I thought it would be smart to look at a ane and sort of get things lined up, in case she wanted it while I was away. So we drove out to a kennel here in Albuquerque. When we stopped the car a monstrous beast stuck its gigantic head in the car window and almost scared us to death. It was just one of several colossal animals running around the place—all Danes. They set up such a fiendish baying that it sounded as though the Hounds of the Baskerville were entertaining at a murder party.

The Jig Was Up

WELL, we plugged our ears and looked around. We were rather struck by a seven-months-old puppy which was already waist-high and weighed 100 pounds. It was RQrindle-colored d striped like a tiger. Its face was a million years old and you couldnt help but laugh when he looked at you. And the damn dog kept leaning against me all the time. I suppose it was that leaning as much as anything else that caused my destruction. All of a sudden I knew the jig was up. I looked at That Girl and saw

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her jig was up, too. So I turned my head to the sky, bayed loud and long, and whipped out the old checkbook. We brought him out to the house and turned him loose in the big south lot with the picket fence around it The little toy shepherd was there, too. A furious sniffing took place between Mr. Big and Miss Little. And all of a sudden they became friends. So now we have two dogs. The little one is named Cheetah. The big one Piper. The little one can walk right under the big one, with six inches to spare. Yet already she leads him around by the nose. The two dogs are wonderful for each other. They walk everywhere side by side, like two soldiers. When we come out the door they are standing there at attention with their ears cocked, one so ghastly big, one so dollishly tiny. All Those Mouths to Feed

MR. BIG IS SO immense that he leaps exactly like an elephant. I am in deadly fear for his safety every time he gets two of his feet off the ground. He is pathetically awkward. When he lies down in the house, it sounds as though a cow had suddenly fainted in the living room. Piper loves to be petted, and likes to be in the house better than outside. I am sure he is a lapdog at heart. That Girl is both horrified and riotously delighted with her strange new team. Already she is’ starting to get sore at people who see our dogs for the first time and don't go into ecstacies over them. There is a lot of jealousy floating around our house. Each dog is jealous of the other one: That Girl is jealous of me because the dogs follow me, and I'm jealous of her because the dogs are hers. And right now I'm facing a choice between two awful alternatives. I can't bear to leave these creatures, and yet I don't dare stay. For the brutes between them eat six pounds a day. so I've got to get back on the road in order to support them. Wish we'd bought white mice instead.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

BOB SMITH, the lawyer, has a brilliant idea for ending the war without firing another shot—merely by replacing cannons with printing presses. His plan calls for flooding the Axis countries with tons and tons of counterfeit German reichmarks and Italian lira, dumped out of bombing planes. All this counterfeit money would get the Axis population so confused that they'd lose faith in their money and within a week or two their economic system would break down, Bob figures. The only drawback to the plan that he can see is that the Axis get busy and retaliate against us and Britain. . . . The war has pretty well stripped the John Herron Art School classes of men students. There are only four men left in the fourth and fifth year classes. Two of these are scheduled to don a uniform soon, and maybe a d. . The advanced students at John H are planning to do a mural for the billiard room of the Service Men's Club. It probably will be a pictorial record of local defense activities.

He Ought to Succeed

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THE 34 EMPLOYEES in the State Auditor's office gave their boss, Dick James, a pretty nice New Year's It was a formal resolution, signed by all 34, themselves that in 1942 they will do every ved them better than its been done before,

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—Even though this is the est war budget of any nation any time, I'm not to try to write anything about it, because it

don't know how you are making out trying to digest these gigantic chunks of news that are coming out of Washington, but I'm dizzy. It is like trying to figure an understandable pattern out of a convulsion. And this is a convulsion we are going through. For two hours the other day I sat with other Washington correspondents in President RoOosevelt's office while he explained the war budget. More important to me than anything he said was the fact that he was holding the conference, or seminar as he calls it. He had just been engaged for two weeks in the wearing conferences strain of the loss of Manila. That very morning Mr. Roosevelt had gone to Congress and delivered his message calling for the unprecedented program of war prdouction. He returned to the White House about 1 o'clock.

Not Much of a Dictator

AFTER LUNCH he undertook to explain the war budget in order to assist the Washington reporters who would be writing their dispatches about this complicated array of figures. Though he must have been unbelievably tired and pressed with critical business, he never showed impatience. I left thinking not much about the budget but a lot about whether a man who could go through that

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—This question of prisrities and tire rationing is bringing the war home to a great many people in a serious way. For instance, in the naval ammunition base at Hingman, Mass, they have a thousand men at work. Because of poor housing facilities, many of them come from many miles away by car. They are already considering the possibility of traveling by train and bus but it is not always an easy thing to work out. One man I heard of in Alabama, had a prosperous small business which employed nine people only = a short time ago. Today, no in3 3 come is coming in and all his men } are out of jobs. It is not as though they could just walk in to take a defense job. There are many men out of jobs in other industries in Alabama which are changing over to new types of work. In the interim, the workers must perhaps retrain. Sometimes the communities have made no provision for free retraining programs for these workers. Unemployment compensation varies in different states, but it is really never adequate for all of a family’s needs. Faced with the rising cost, of living, it is

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except within the office, and that they will co-operate fully with all other State employees. . . . Sam Hadden, State Highway Commission chairman, isn’t worrying any about gas tax collections falling off this year

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because of the tire situation. He expects car owners to keep on driving almost as much as last year when gas tax collections reached the all-time high $16,700,000. It's next year—1943—when present tires are worn out or threadbare that he’s worrying about.

Pet Peeve Department

THE TIRE CRISIS gives us an excuse to rant a bit about one of our pet peeves—the way attendants drive cars on parking lots and parking garages. On some lots, the attendants spin the wheels in starting, race 20 or 30 feet, then slam on the brakes and slide to a stop. And the whine of protesting tires can be heard almost continuously from the ramps of some parking garages. Attendants of a few garages pick up cars on Monument Circle and occasionally at night, instead of going straight to the garage with them, race the cars around the Circle two or three times so fast the tires shriek and it sounds like the cars are going to upset. All of which does tires little, if any, good, and scares the wits out of nearby pedestrians. Well, now that we've got that off our chest, we feel better.

The National Anthem

THAT LITTLE ITEM the other day about Donald Burchard, Butler's publicity director, being unable to buy a record of the “Star-Spangled Banner” backfired on us. Mrs. Ruth Seidel Jackson, in charge of Block's record department, phoned us that she carries three vocal recordings and one symphonic record of the national anthem. We called Mr. Burchard, who told us it was a military band recording they'd been seeking. “We've got one of those too,” replied Mrs. Jackson. Mr. Burchard said someone else had done the looking. It's all pretty confusing, isn't it. And now comes a card from Nellie Taylor saying McCrorys 5 and 10 carries the Kate Smith recording of the anthem. We hereby officially admit you can buy the national anthem in our stores.

By Raymond Clapper

performance with such patience and good will had very much of the dictator stuff in him after all. If he were of the dictator stripe, he surely would not have used precious hours just so the public might better understand what the Government was trying to do. Dictators don’t explain. They tell you. I had a feeling, too, that Mr. Roosevelt was coping with astronomical figures with the same sense of being unable to grasp them that we all experience. Dollars are now only symbols on the books. A budget of 59 billion dollars is not anything you or I or President Roosevelt can comprehend literally. It is hardly more than a way of saying that we must have a whole lot of weapons. It is a way of trying to say that about half of the effort of the American people must be put into the war. You might as well say we are going to use up 59,000,000,000 eggs on the war.

Not a Question of Money

THE QUESTION, where is the money coming from doesn't make much sense either. People asked that question when Hitler was building his war machine. They said he couldn't find the money to pay for it. Hitler didn't think in terms of money. He figured how many planes he needed, how many tanks. He set out to round up the material. He built the factories and did the work. He thought only in goods and men at work. In America we have to figure that aside from a bare living, practically everything else goes into the war. The war will take it one way or another. It will take a clever man to escape. Our earnings, after a modest living, will go into war bonds and taxes. And in spite of it, we'll find, as the people of England have found under worse nardship, that life still is worth living.

By Eleanor Roosevelt!

totally inadequate. At the same time, the Byrd committee in Congress advocates cutting down on WPA and NYA. It is undoubtedly true that some day we shall have more men at work, and that there is a place for every skilled worker, who will eventually find that place when our production is at its peak. In the meantime, however, if we do not use the instruments which we have built up, like WPA and NYA, to bridge over temporary conditions which will last anywhere from six weeks to six months, we can not expect very good civilian morale. War or no war, people do not come home happily to a family of hungry children. All of the economic theories in the world translate themselves eventually to what happens to people in communities. The sooner all of us understand this, the better it will be for production in the long run. I had a few people at dinner last night to talk over certain problems and then worked late at my desk. This morning, I walked up to the Office of Civilian Defense, and the snow was clean and beautiful and the air really snappy. I spent the morning meeting with various people, went to speak to the ladies’ auxiliary of St. Thomas’ Church at 11:45, and to see Mr. Norman Davis of the American Red Cross this afternoon. Otherwise my whole day has been spent at the Office of Civilian De

2) Dollar Issued in Malaya Has

| No Backing Except Bayonet Thrust.

i By GEORGE WELLER

| Copyright. 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

SINGAPORE, Jan. 9.—The Japanese wariords have stolen a page from Adolf Hitler's book on how to loot populations and alienate peoples and, like the master himself, have made a piece of funny money out of it. The new Japanese dollar, the successor in conquered northern Malaya to the Straits’ dollar, is being issued like its European sister, the Reichskredit Kassenchein, without the decadent democratic, plutocratic formality of metal backing. Like the Reichswehr all the Japanese army uses is the printing press, backed by the bayonet. Merchants and anyone else having anything that the Army wants are given the choice of taking this money or a bayonet thrust. $10 Note is Floral Job

But if upcountry reports are true, Japan's Army has not quite grasped the German principle that this rubber money is meant as a genteel substitute for looting. Like the Germans before the Balkans were added to the conquests of Poland, Norway and the Low Countries, the little yellow deliverers both spread this funny money and help themselves to loot. Money is on exhibit here in 50sent, $1, $5, $10 and $50 denominations. The $10 note is a very floral job by comparison with the prim German fakes and the Italian occupation money used in Greece, which is full of misspellings and mistakes in Greek grammer. It is printed in American treasury style: “The Japanese Government promises to pay the bearer on demand.” There is a rich banana tree on one side of the $10 note and a tropical island on the other. The letters M A percede the numerals on the $1 denominations, possibly an abbreviation for Malay. Singapore Press on Guard After the Singapore newspapers’ carefully explanations of why the | occupation dollars are valueless, no{body here has any excuse for taking any Japanese money. “They offer to pay dollars,” says the Singapore Free Press and challenges sternly: “Where are the dollars? The real $10 note is mauve. On this blue, fake note there is no signature, no picture of the king and no tiger watermark.” The Morning Tribune says critically: “The fake $1 note is bigger than the real note. The promise to pay is useless. There is no signature. There is no picture of the king and no picture of the tiger on the back.” Japan will not catch Singapore off guard a second time, not, anyway, about money.

Malaria Fever Fight Is Pressed

THE FIGHT AGAINST malaria fever in Indiana defense areas is being pressed more vigorously with the addition this’ week of 200 more WPA workers to the 60 men already at the “front.” Sponsored by the Indiana State Board of Health, the winter work consists of straightening sluggish streams, draining stagnant water, and cleaning out weed beds and brush where the Anopheles mosquito is likely to breed. With spring the workers will paint banks of sluggish streams and other possible breeding grounds with oil to kill budding mosquitoes. ' Present projects are under way at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Baer Field at Ft. Wayne, the Charlestown smokeless powder plant, the Quartermaster Depot at Jeffersonville, the Kingsbury Ordnance Depot at La Porte, and the Jeffer-

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is important for a woman to be a person.” Miss Marjorie Miller dons

her army nurse's uniform at Ft. Harrison, checks up on her appearance in a mirror, and perhaps paraphrases Miss Nightingale thus: “It is important for a nurse to be a woman.” bottle of perfume, sets it down again. It also is important for a nurse to leave perfume in the bottle,

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By LESTER POSVAR The girl from Morocco felt her heart pounding beneath her tan coat as she climbed the steps of the Post Hospital at Ft. Harrison. A big moment in her life had arrived. It was as ii she had been born a boy, gone to West Point, and then, like Second Lieut. George A. Custer and Second Lieut. John J. Pershing of yesteryears, started on the career leading to the stars of a general. Doris Graves, the girl from Morocco, Newton County, Indiana, was England when Florence Nightingale starting her career as Second Lieut. was horn a woman.” 3 y ~ | DS nes oe Nurse Corp go Well, Sir Edward ought to derive oe | some satisfaction from the fact that Formality Dispensed With | Army nurses now have respectable

There was no stiff -formality of rank. First Lieut. Viola

; ‘ Ferguson Second Lieut. Doris salut eh vr " o o 4 : : aluting as Lieut. Graves reported|Giaves and their “sister officers” at

to her superior officer. First Lieut. Ft, Harrison have commissions Viola Ferguson simply took the girl|from the President of the United

from Morocco by the arm and said:| States which “strictly charge and RI . : require all officers and soldiers” Hens 19 have you ith ">! under their command “to be obedThus the "chief His: 4 viian] ZF, to their commands “accord- ; B= |ing to the rules and discipline of of 23 years’ service in the Army, | war.» greeted the newest “sister officer.” 8

| Perhaps all those strict charges : {by the commander-in-chief of the Sir Edward Cook, biographer of | Army and Navy mean that a soldier the woman who had to overcome|who is told by Mrs. Ferguson or even the prejudice of army sur-|Miss Graves to eat his spinach will geons when she took genteel women | have to eat his spinach—and like to hospitals behind the British lines | it, “according to the rules and disin the Crimean War, once lamented: | cipline of war.” “A great commander was lost to| However, any patient at Ft. Har-

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authority to order a hospitalized soldier to take medicine, or to eat food he doesn’t like. De Nardo, Joliet, Ill, recovering from pneumonia has learned after three months in the Army that a Miss Van Zandt is from Bishbee, Ariz.

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The Army nurse corps gets a (right) of Morocco, Ind., starts out from West Point. She is given the Nurse Mrs. Viola Ferguson, who Harrison, is a first lieutenant.

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rison will assure you that the nurses fare nurses first, superior officers jonly incidentally. They handle the reluctant fellows much as Florence Nightingale handled the wounded Scottish Highlander. “This man won't take his medicine,” a hospital orderly complained to the Lady with the Lamp. “Why will you not take it?” Miss Nightingale asked with a smile. “Because I took some once and it made me sick. I haven't liked medicine ever since.

A Morale Job “But if I give it to you myself you will take it, won't you?” Needless to say, the soldier took his medicine. It was Florence Nightingale who

set for nurses the examples of cheerfulness, willingness to work | long hours. While war has changed | in the nine decades since she went to the Crimea—which is to say that] man’s inhumanity to man has increased—Army nurses still must work hard and long, be cheerful to keep up the morale of others. The “ladies and officers” work every day in the week. Only once a month do they get a day off.

A 12-Hour Day

The working day starts at 7 a. m. for the day shift, at 7 p. m. for the night shift. The first thing a nurse does when she goes on duty at 7 o'clock in the morning is to see about breakfast. The patient’s breakfast, of course. While even a buck private has a right, under the United States Constitution and the Articles of War, to grumble at breakfast time, the lieutenants of the Army Nurse Corps have to smile through it all — as Florence Nightingale and other nurses have smiled for the soldiers in the hospitals.

More Nurses Needed

While Uncle Sam is rapidly expanding his army, he needs more lieutenants for the Nurse Corps. Those who apply must be high school graduates, and also graduates of an accredited school of nursing. They must have met the requirements for state registration, and they must meet the physical requirements for military service. And they must be older than 22, younger than 40. Capt. Mildred P. Carter, assistant Superintendent of the Army Nurse, Corps, Fifth Corps, Area Headquarters, Ft. Hayes, Columbus, O., will be glad to hear from anyone who

meets those qualifications. rls, keep on smiling,

new recruit. Miss Doris Graves the same as if she had graduated rank of a second lieutentnt. Chief welcomes the new nurse to Ft.

WAIT RULING ON OLD FAIR ISSUE

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Board Asks Beamer Decide if Schricker or Dawson Controls.

The long-smouldering issue of whether Republican Lieut. Gov, Charles Dawson or Democratic Gov= ernor Schricker should have control of the Indiana State Fair and the Fair Grounds has been tossed squarely into the lap of Democratic Attorney General George Beamer. The State Fair Board (composed of 10 Democrats and six Republi cans) yesterday adopted a resolution asking the attorney general to cone strue the law governing the control of the Fair and Fair Grounds. The vote which was taken after Mr. Dawson and Paul S. Dunn, Re= publican Fair manager, left the room was reported to have been 1l-to-3 with Republicans Guy Cant= well and O. L. Reddish said to have voted with the Democrates. Some of the members were absent.

Court Opinion Cited

The resolution pointed out that that one of the G. O. P. decentralization laws passed by the 41 legis= lature abolished the old division of agriculture, passed its powers on to the lieutenant governor, created the State Fair Board and gave control of the Fair and the Fair Grounds to the lieutenant governor. It also pointed out that the Su preme Court opinion invalidating most of the decentralization program presented a direct conflict since the opinion held that management of all state property is an executive function and must be exercised by the Governor,

Governor Has No Comment

John Bright Webb, former Democratic state senator and a member of the Board, introduced the resolution. Other Democrats asserted that they had long been anxious to get the question of control decided but that they had withheld action last summer since the Fair or=ganization had already been set up under Mr. Dawson. Governor Schricker declined to comment on the matter today. It was reported, however, that he had nothing whatsoever to do with the introduction of the resolution. In the past, the Lieutenant Gove ernors have had charge of the Fair, The Fair Board signed contracts yesterday with Johnny Jones’ Shows for the midway attraction in the Fair next fall; Lucky Teeter, for a performance Sunday, Sept. 6, and with the Barns-Curruthers show for the attraction in front of the grandstand.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the A. B. C. D. powers. 1—What country is nicknamed “Emerald Isle”? 3—The earth is nearer to the sun when the United States is have ing winter; true or false? 4—In the U. S. Navy, which kind of vessels are named for fish? 5—Supply the last: name of the artist James Abbott McNeill

the North Pcle? T—The famous Rose Bowl football stadium is located in Palo Alto, Pasadena, or Los Angeles? Answers 1—America, Great Britain, China and Dutch East Indies. 2—Ireland. 3—True. 4—Submarines. 5—Whistler. 6—Arctic Ocean. T—Pasadena.

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