Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1942 — Page 17

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SEATTLE Jan 20.-All my life I've wanted to know jujitsu. Like most men of small dimensions and slight courage, I've always felt that if I only knew jujitsu I could throw all these modern Greek gods nimbly into the ashcan and emerge a hero So now I have met a jujitsu expert, and I'm on my way. This fellow not only knows jujitsu, he has gone so far beyond it he could make hash out of a whole squad of regular jujitsuers. I did not ask this expert to show me any jujitsu tricks. In the first place he was so big I was afraid he'd kill me on the first lesson; and second, he gave me four books on the subject. I'm going to study at home by candlelight. My jujitsu friend is Svend J. Jorgensen, Seattle policeman. He is a hearty. good-natured guy who looks just like & cop. He is 50 and built like a yoke of oxen. Never Fired a Shot PATROLMAN JORGENSEN has never fired a shot in his 23 years on the force. He is proud of that. “I'd rather have a medal for not killing somebody than for killing somebody.” he savs and yet during his police career he has captured 67 gunmen, one murderer, and 30 safecrackers Jorgensen could shoot ‘em dead if he had to. Re is a super crack shot. He holds 127 medals — more than anybody on the force—for sharpshooting Jorgensen got interested in jujitsu shortly after joining the police force. One night a Seattle tough guy, with & gun in each pocket and another stuck in his sock, killed two rookie policemen and a detective. “They got killed because they'd never been trained to protect themselves ™ he savs. So he started figuring out how policemen could take guns away from bad men.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A LETTER to the Mayor suggests that he equip all police squad cars with brooms with which to sweep broken glass from the streets. The idea. which sounds good to us but probably not to the police, was offered as a means of making precious tires last longer. . Street Commissioner Wilbur Winship is wondering if the rubber shortage is going to result in an epidemic of shattered nerves When complaints start pouring in to his office about some particularly noisy manhole cover. Wilbur fixes it with strips of rubber tubes. Now he's started looking for a good substitute for the rubber. ‘ . Anent the sugar rationing shenanigans, some restaurant prorietors have stopped putting sugar bowls on the table. They got tired of refilling the bowls every whipstitch. Instead, the waitress inquires if you wish sugar, and if so. how many teaspoonfuls. Then she wields the spoon.

Looks Like Rain. Sh-h-h!

UNCLE SAM really is stingy with his weather information nowaday. The idea. of course, is to avoid giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The airlines, for instance, receive reports via ticker tape on weather conditions in other cities. But they can't nut out the information. They must destroy the ticker tape at the end of the day. And they cant even phone the reports from the airport to their downtown offices either. And if a prospective passenger wants to know how the weather happens to be along the route, the most information he can get is that “the flight will be routine.” Nice day today, isnt it? Or is it?

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 —Nobody ever will be able to add up the terrible cost that is resulting. not from bad decisions, but from just plain red tape. delay in paper work, lost messages and orders, and other causes growing out of sloppy administration. These are the needless defeats we are suffering. For instance. the War Department decides it must have a special munitions plant. It selects a location in Ohio and goes to the White House for approval. But at the White House the Army is tipped off that one of the Kentucky Senators is after that plant nd the matter must be looked into. Six months later the Army gets the plant in Kentucky. By that time it needs two plants, so it gets the Ohio plant as well. But six months’ time has been lost A copper company is asked to expand its output. The haggling begins in Washington. But the company is impressed with the need of speed and starts work, althcugh the deal is not closed until three months later. Five months of haggling and time-kill-ing before the aluminum expansion program is begun—and now we are paving for it.

It Would Cur! Your Hair

THE TRUMAN REPORT gives some appalling instances of such delays on the desks in Washington. Clerks around here could tell many stories about important papers being lost, about whole desks full of mislaid priority orders. Some of the lend-lease routines took six weeks and involved passing papers through more than 20 desks. The simple matter of distributing copies and obtaining the necessary initialing has in one branch of lend-lease come almost to the point of breakdown Even from the outside enough can be observed to make your hair curl. We wouldn't dare reveal

My Day

NEW YORK CITY. Wednesday.—I forgot to tell you yesterday about a delightful lunch which Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gould, the editors of the Ladies

By Ernie Pyle

First he got an American to teach him some jujitsu tricks. Then he took lessons from a Japanese expert. With that basis, he began inventing his own brand of jujitsu. Today his jujitsu is only 15 per cent Japanese, and 85 per cent Jorgensen. Years ago the Police Department started Jorgensen teaching jujitsu to the force. Now every man on it has had some training. Jorgensen has taught thousands of people, including military police, U. 8S. Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and National and State Guardsmen. He has even trained some girls at the University of just in case. Thank goodness I'm too old for college. Jorgensen has two grown daughters and a boy of 15. “Do the girls know jujitsu? I asked “Sure they do.” he said.

He Takes Some Kidding

IN HIS OFF TIME Jorgensen runs a little school| called “Jorgensen's Jujitsu Gym.” It is in the back end of a restaurant. He takes private pupils, averaging abdut 100 a year. He trains them in classes, twice a week for three months. The course costs $30. He has written four booklets on his favorite subject. Jorgensen is so wrapped up in his subject that he sometimes comes in for a little kidding. For ins stance, at roll call the other morning--“I have here a cablegram concerning Patrolman Jorgensen,” the captain said. “It is such an unusual recognition of his work in jujitsu that I wish to read it aloud” And the captain read approximately as follows: . . “In view of the distinguished place Patrolman S. J. Jorgensen occupies in the world of scientific selfdefense, it is hereby requested that the Seattle Police Department detach him for this period of emergency. in order that he may be matched by our Government with the best jujitsu expert in Japan. They shall then wrestle it out in a previously designated meadow, and the winner shall decide who wins the war. (Signed) Gen. Douglas MacArthur.” GET 18 SAN. 8 NARE SRNHER- WER YOURS t it.

Ho, Hum; Quiet Day A TYPICAL DAY in the life of Governor Schricker: 9:15 a. m. (yesterday), to Block's to dedicate defense murals; 10 a. m., to the Claypool to address the Dairy Products Manufacturers; back to office for

conferences on this and that—mostly that; 3 p. m., to Murat Temple to participate in award of Navy E to the P. R. Mallory Co.; back to offiee for more conferences on this and that; in evening, to Clinton, Ind. for a speech at civic celebration over the new powder plant. . . . When the Indianapolis Symphony | Orchestra is recording (and they're just finishing up| a three-day session today) they go to extremes to avoid any unnecessary noise. They even disconnect the telephone switchboard in the Murat lobby to prevent the buzz-zz-zz from being recorded. . . . The Alcoholic Beverages Commission reports quite a run on liquor stamps. The wholesalers, it seems, are loading up heavily in anticipation of price hikes. They're also looking for higher Federal liquor taxes.

Birthday? The 28th

THE NUMBER 28 and the “J” months have quite a bit of significance in the family of Charles B. DeTurk, director of Indiana State Parks. The first birthday of their youngest offspring, Florence, was observed yesterday—Jan. 28. Next on the birthday list is Harry, who will be 3 on June 28 while Eleanor will be 8 on July 28 They live at 811 Berkley Road. . . . A group of local manufacturers will meet Monday to hear a talk by a Washington bureau representative coming here to urge them to save every ounce of scrap metal in their plants. They'll also be asked to dig out all old junk and help relieve the woeful shortage of scrap for the blast furnaces.

By Raymond Clapper

the full story of the delays and runarounds in con-! nection with getting material out to the Southwest! Pacific, the stories of empty ships waiting for planes that are available, but held up because the right of-! ficial can’t be found to sign the releases. | So it was a relief to get out of Washington the! other day and spend a few hours around one of the! largest airplane-engine plants in the world—Pratt & Whitney. There you see airplane engines being as-| sembled, wrapped, and packed into boxes. It is something to see those boxes being rolled te the load-! ing dock for then you know that the war production program is not all talk about what we are going to do some day.

The Production Is There

AS OF SEVERAL months ago—and it is permissible to use such figures because they go back to last!

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Vill=The Role of France

Copyright. 1842 dy The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. Some day when the world is in full possession of the

facts and the history of modern Europe can be adequately written, the demarcation line as it exists in France may well be recognized as one of the most efficient and diabolical of Hitler's inventions for subjugating a conquered people. The jagged border that separates “free” France from the occupied zone, a line that runs from the southern tip of

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Switzerland north and west and finally

Spanish frontier, in many

respects is the secret of Hitler's hold on a people that despises and hates him in the

overwhelming majority.

Petain France's commercial life, it

It cuts across thes vital arteries of

cripples industry, it divides

families, it has provoked bitter misunderstandings and recriminations among Frenchmen on both sides of it, and it has almost made two nations of a people whose devotion

to Patrie” was traditionally as strong as any in Europe. Most of Vichy's politics has been built around an effort to alleviate somehow the tremendous burden this artificial division has produced. But Vichy and the French people alike have paid dearly for every slightest concession, until they have reached a point where either retreat or advance will ring down on them the vengeance of the mighty forces at war in the world. 2 2 8

Demarcation Line

THE PROBLEM dates back to the frantic days of June, 1940, when 12000000 persons were swarming the roads of France, fleeing the invader, when communications of every type were cut or destroyed, when Nazi bombers were singing their deadly hymn over most of ghe country. At Bordeaux was a group of leaders who wanted to move to North Africa and carry on the fight. Another group headed by, the now deposed Pierre Laval, thought it better to have peace, or at least an armistice. Vichy and the demarcation line will be their perpetual monument. A great many Frenchmen now agree it was a tragic mistake. Since that moment the Nazis have held two principl threats over the heads of the French people. The first was that they would invade the entire country, should it become necessary. There are hosts of supporters for the theory that even today this would be a benefit, that it would once agéin unite France in opposition to its conquerers, as the occupied area is now united, that it would bring home to the supporters of Vichy's policy what Nazi domination actually means. The second major threat is the treatment that will be accorded some million and a half French prisoners who are still in the hands of the Nazis and who represent virtually every family in France. Whether they would have been more poorly treated had all of the country been occupied is an open question. Health experts believe tuberculosis exists already among almost 15 per cént

of these unfortunates.

2 2 2 THE GERMANS for their part have cultivated assiduously the

impression that they are perfectly capable of starving the whole lot should the French become too intractable. Hitler himself has made it clear that in those few cases where relatives of ‘“volunteers” fighting on the Eastern Front have been released from prison camps the “volunteers” will be considered as hostages for the good behavior of their families. The prisoner threat is the more real of the two. They can be mistreated. They might be released, and the Nagis have held out this possibility regularly as bait for Vichy's co-operation, although it is almost impossible for the Germans to turn loose any large numbers because of their desperate need for labor. France's need is equally desperate, but France's fields and vineyards and factories must go unmanned until the Nazis' requirements are satisfied. Complete occupation would almost certainly drive at least some of the present Vichy leaders into active opposition in exile and might have repercussions through the important French colonies. It would mean a further, and perhaps impossible, strain on the extended forces of Hitler. The feeling in Berlin more than a year ago during the frantic days that followed the arrest of Laval was that complete occupation would have been undertaken the, had the Nazis felt thémselves able to divert sufficient strength.

Plays Dreary Role

' ON SUCH A STAGE one of the most fantastic governments in history is playing its dreary role. It is shot through with intrigue among its members. It is opposed by 95 per cent of the population of the occupied zone, by a somewhat smaller but increasing percentage in the unoccupied area where sentiment has crystallized more slowly. It lives and operates in scattered, crowded hotel bedrooms in ap atmosphere of centinued impermanency. One wing finds its strongest members among men like Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu, Jacques Bencist-Mechin, Vichy’s direct contact with the Nazis’ “ambassador” Otto Abetz, in Paris, and Paul Marion, Minister of Information who is responsible for the pro-German, anti-American attitude of the French press. The appointment

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Frenchmen in a German prison camp are considered hostages for the good behavior of their families,

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Some million and a half of them are still in the hands of the Nazis and they represent virtually every

family in France.

of Bencist-Mechin and Marion was dictated by the Nazis and they were released from prisoners’ camps to fill the posts. This group, eager not only for full-scale co-operation but attempting to build a miniature Nazi state in France, operates for the time being through the medium of Admiral Darlan, whose position is even more venal. Darlan’s rule is still considered transitory by the Nazis until they can compel the return of Laval, and by the patriotic French who will get rid of him at their first opportunity. Fanatically anti-British, Darlan has given away almost everything the Nazis have asked, only to have many of his deals overruled by Marshal Petain or sabotaged by other members of the cabinet. Pucheu is one of the most dangerous of the group. A former industrial engineer, he has undertaken to reorganize the French police along the German model and will shortly as a result have a trained body of armed men at his service, including an “elite guard” that bears more and more resemblance to the SS of Himm-

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Pucheu Complains

ATTEMPTING TO justify the imposition of central control on local and community police, Pucheu complained bitterly in a recent interview that many of thege groups were still in the hands of the “Communists,” Vichy's favorite label for anyone who disagrees with it.

The moderates of the Frénch Cabinet have opposed each move of these French Nazis more energetically than is generally recognized. They have the tacit support and assistance of most of the body of civil servants and permanent department heads. Many of the decisions of Darlan and his wing find their way into reality only after exasperating delays and in vitiated form. Nazi gains or reverses are the

barometer for Vichy's composite attitude. I visited the “temporary” French capital in October, during the period of the Nazis’ most impressive gains in Russia and their most extravagant victory communiques. There was an air there of complete defeatism. The French reopened negotiations with the Nazis that had been hanging fire for weeks. Gen. Weygand was dismissed from: his North African post as a result. As always, the concession, a major one, was followed by a wave of stricken conscience that is still making itself felt and has been strengthened greatly by Nazis losses in Russia. Occupying a unique position, often holding a balance of power, is Marshal Henri Phillipe Petain. The 86-year-old “Savior of Verdun” continues to hold the almost uniform respect of the French people, and by some strange process to be dissociated in their ‘minds from the despised government that he heads. I talked #priefly with Petain duririg a lunchhour walk in the park by the Allier River, and came away from the meeting with a much better impression than I had been prepared to expect. His judgment may perhaps be questioned, but not, I believe, his sincerity.

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A Uniting Force

A WELL-INFORMED Frenchman with whom I spoke pleaded for an understanding of Petain's special status. “The marshal,” he said, “is the only force in France today that can keep the nation united at all. It is important that he should have this sympathy but it must never be extended to the Vichy Government or its policies. It would be too powerful a lever in the hands of the Germans.” + Petain has said “no” to so many Hitler demands that the Germans in Vichy call him “Marechal Nein.” The Nazis, meanwhile, do everything they can to provoke an

open rupture between Vichy and the United States. The German controlled Paris press fulminates constantly against Vichy and against United States Ambassador William D. Leahy, an excellent ine dication of the share Leahy has played in stiffening the attitude of the French. Nazi spokesmen in Berlin were confidently predicting an early break in Deceme ber. It has not occurred, and the situation today, if anything, is less tense. Frenchmen everywhere were numbed and stunned by their defeat, but a year and half later they are recovering. The accounts of sabotage, of attacks on German officers are too numer ous and well-known to be repeate ed here, but the experience of a French businessman whose afe fairs took him from the unoccu= pied zone to Paris illustrates the change that has occurred.

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France Is a Problem

HE WAS TO meet an acquaifitance in Paris whose views had been inclined towards the Gere mans. My friend’s wife had caue tioned him tearfully to keep his anti-Vichy sentiments concedled. Outside Paris, the acquaintance pointed to open pastures “sometimes used as German airfields,” to hay stacks that concealed bomb caches, to item after item connected with the Nazi occupation, until my friend could contain himself no longer. “You know my feelings,” he said, “and to see this evidence of French defeat is galling, to say the least.” “I'm sorry,” apologized the Parie sian, “I thought you might be in touch with the British.” France remains the problem child of Hitler's Europe, too ime portant for reasons of size and geography to be omitted from the new order, and growing daily more difficult to handle from the Nazi view. The End.

October—this one plant was producing as many air-' plane engines as all of England. Under this one roof were being produced last fall half as many engines as Germany was turning out. there is the Wright plant and Allison and coming up now is the big Ford engine plant, and to follow! that toward the end of the year the Buick and Chev- | rolet plants i So if last fall Pratt & Whitney and Wright were! producing double England's engine output and the approximate equal of Germany's, it is clear that by the end of this year in plane engines we shall have an enormous edge over Axis output. Coming out in quantity now on the assembly line is a new airplane engine—unmatched in power anywhere else in the world, This is not a blueprint. I saw literally scores of these big engines in the final assembly and in the crating lines. |

The men running this industry saw no limit to DePauw University placed itself on a virtual “war-footing™ today.

what could be produced, provided—they always said— they could get the materials. That is the Government’s job. In the end that will be bottleneck. Which! is what disturbs one in view of the countless little]

delays on the desks in Washington.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

unfamiliar to me. It seemed a happier period and the painting which I liked the best, facés you at the

woteractis DEPAUW GOES

New Courses Are Added,

changes of the present emergency, the University has revised its cur-

defeats we are suffering daily because of needless! riculum.

from civilian and military angles, were sanctioned by the Joint Board of Trustees and Visitors at a recent meeting. Further study will determine future changes.

ON WAR BASIS

Graduation Made Possible | In Three Years.

Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind, Jan. 20—

Gearing rapidly to meet the

Courses, vital to the war effort

Classes in Summer In an effort to speed up gradua-

Average Woman ( Who Really Doesn't Exist) Is Short, Heavy and Hippy, Survey Shows

By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. — An Agriculture Department scientific compendium of research into feminine sizes and shapes reveals that the average American woman is short, heavy for her height, thickwaisted and hippy.

By measuring 59 external dimen-

HOLD EVERYTHING

sions of 14698 women selected at random in seven states and the District of Columbia, the Bureau of Home Economics arrived at data which it pelieves is fairly representative, when boiled down and averaged up, of the nation’s 40,000,000 white women over 18. The mean woman, as the Bureau calls her, stands only five feet

I|the sense of average, is a math- | | ematical figure only;

three inches tall while weighing 133% pounds. She has a 15.27 neck, a 3562 bust, a 20.15 waist and— heaven help her—a 38.82 hip. When you consider that the current ideal of feminine beauty is a creature five feet six inches tall weighing 122 pounds with a 34 bust, 25 waist and 35 hip, you get an idea of how far the mean American woman misses the mark.

First Scientific Study Of course, the mean woman, in

she doesn’t exist in the flesh. As a matter of fact, as the department points out, American women present “an almost bewildering variety of shapes and sizes.” To aid manufacturers of women’s clothing, the department sought a system for predicting all dimensions from a given few. Since no

an esthetic point of view, left the inference that Arkansas women, on the average, are the best-built in the country. In the 18-29 age group they're the tallest, at least, and come as near as others to the bust, waist and hip ideals. There was one fact which was well-established in folk lore long before the department undertook to give it scientific authority, viz: “As women grow older their girths increase.”

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—=Name the Filipino who led the insurrection against the U. 8, troops occupying the Philippines in 1899. 2—What is the most abundant me tallic element in the earth's crust? 3—Alaska has a Representative or 8 Delegate in the Congress of the United States? 4—Magyars are native of Hungary, France or Spain?

scientific study of the kind had ever been made before, the department undertook to measure everything from ankle height to shoulder slope and from neck girth to sit-

end of the gallery and is a most beautiful vista of fields and gently rolling hills. I spent some hours with the dentist and saw many people at the house; then attended a meeting of the Washington Bureau of the International Student

tion, the Univergity now makes it possible for an entering freshman to complete his course in three years. A summer session, which makes DePauw a year around in-

5--What species of bird is called “King of Birds”? 6-—Copernicus, Herschel and Halley were famous astronomers, phile osophers or medieval merchants?

Home Journal, gave in Washington on Monday. They invited Mrs. Henry Wallace, Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Sumner Welles and representatives of the Latin-

American republics and a pin of beautiful design was presented to each guest. The pin combines all the flags of the Americas, making a most decorative as well as symbolic piece of jewelry. Mr. Gould hopes that this pin may become as popular an emblem of the unity of our nations as were the combination of the Allied flags in the last war. The difference is that this is made of a more permanent material which symbolizes, we hope, the more permanent nature of our understanding and co-operation. Yesterday morning as I walked along 57th St, I saw that Mr. Rosenberg's gallery is holding an exhibition of Von Gogh paintings for the benefit of the Red Cross. I went in and to my surprise, found some 10 or 12 paintings which I had never seen before. They belong to a period of Von Gogh's painting which was a

Service. In the evening we went to see “Safe Crown,” a charming, though not absorbing play. It depends largely on the acting for its success, and it is fortunate that Mr. Sam Jaffe and Mr. Morris Carnovsky are such dependable actors. There are innumerable laughs and that is good for the soul. Today I am going down to Long Island to spend a few hours with my daughter-in-law, Ethel. She baby have moved home and I am most see how little Franklin IIT likes his new baby brother, who is still a stranger to his father. Little Chandler Roosevelt said a sweet thing about her new baby brother a few days ago. They were at him in his crib and decided that he looked and Chandler looked up at her mother and said: t must be because he has never seen his daddy,

mummy.” I will be back in New York City early enough to Philadelphia

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may enter in February; June graduates in the summer period. Tradition was broken with the announcéement selected accepted

finances by the increased the Alumni Fund will tailed with the movement.

provide an airport at Greencastle

January high school graduates

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ting-spread. Weight, Height Best Clues

After analyzing the correlations between the various measuremerits, the investigators concluded that the best clues to a woman's body type were her weight and over-all height. For example, it was discovered if a woman is five feet four inches tall and weighs 135 pounds, she probably will have a 38.58 bust, 28.99 waist, 38.91 hip and 38.60 sit-ting-spread. The report disclosed that, among those measured, New Jersey women were the shortest, thickest and heaviest, while women of the District of Columbia were the smallest, both in weight and girth.

A comparative table, while not|

Answers

1—Emilio Aguinaldo. 2—Aluminum, 3-Delegate. 4-—Hungary. 5—Eagle. G==Astronomers.

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