Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1942 — Page 13

LAGUNA BEACH, Cal, March 18.—On the way up the coast I stopped past La Jolla to see Max and

Margaret Miller, My periodic knockings at the Miller .

. door have become sort of a tradition, so now one of them just opens the door and calls to the other, “Here he is again.” Max Miller writes books. He is on ‘his 14th now, if I have kept count correctly. He had just finished the first draft of his newest one, and felt so relieved he decided to take a vacation and ride up to Los Angeles with me. We put the top down and came ripping up the highway in our camel’s-hair coats and with the sun beating down on our balding heads, and we were -the cynosure of all eyes, as Shakespeare would say. on the way up we got around to the question of what each of us was going to do, personally, about the war in lieu of continuing to write our respective brands of deathless literature. It wound up that we were both in a quandary, didn’t know what we should do or wanted to do, probably couldn't do it if we tried, and got exactly nowhere with our problem. “I thought maybe you'd have an answer,” Max said. “But I guess it’s the halt leading the blind.” At any rate, neither of us can see how writing a thousand words a day—even such beautiful words as ours—can destroy any Japanese.

Well, Isn't It?

MARGARET MILLER has caught the writing habit, too, and has recently composed what is doubtless an epic, on ‘sea life. It is a book for children. It isn’t out yet, but will be very soon. Also, Margaret not long ago sneaked over on Max a magazine piece on the trials and tribulations of being an author's wife. Her title for it was: “It’s Better Than Working in a Fish Cannery.” Max still feels like spanking her. It being a literary day, we stopped in South

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A LOT OF SLEEP has been lost by street railway

officials and civic leaders over the problem of stretch-

ing local transportation facilities to cover our. present and prospective needs. The problem. is severe now, and it’s certain to be terrific once defense workers and others put up their cars and start riding busses and streetcars. One proposal calls for staggering the pay dates of various plants and firms in order to spread out the shopping days throughout the week. Another calls for cutting office workers’ lunch hours 15 minutes and sending them home 15 minutes earlier in the evening to spread out the rush hour. Another idea being studied by a C. of C. and Merchants Association committee is

* that of changing downtown store hours to 10 a. m. to

6 p. m. or even 10:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. And then there's the idea of factories staggering their working hours. Nobody knows what the answer is, but you can look for a definite program to be announced

shortly.

St. Patrick Smith

PATRICK JOSEPH i prominent young attorney, celebrated St. Pa 's day yesterday by - Wrearing '& gheen silt and Orange Socks” promise. Tt looks like one of our ;home town boys—a former employee of The Times, in fact—has made good in a big way. The Russet cafeteria advertisement in a local paper yesterday stated: “We were honored last evening by the President of Royal Air Force Cadet James F. Partlowe, who is home on furlough from Trenton, Ont.” You don’t suppose they meant “by the presence of, etc?” Jim Carr is in Washington for a few days. . . . We don’t know

From Cairo

CAIRO, March 18 (By Wireless) —If it’s not revealing any military secret—and almost everything seems to:be a military secret in. this part of the wor.d —I should like to report the profownd observation that Americans are introducing strange ways of living in darkest Africa. The Americans are insisting on their conveniences. Natives in the jungle and desert are mystified by modern plumbing installed in place of the buckets and other primitive arrangements that British pioneers seem to be content with. Old British hands in Africa don’t mind discomforts if they can have their tea. When I arrived at an R. A. F. camp I found two officers in tin bathtubs under a tree, soaping themselves while natives poured .water on them. “Open-air bathing has many advantages over bathrooms,” one of them said. ~The Britishers seem to be much better at roughing it than the Americans. For years they have put up with living conditions in Africa that Americans won't tolerate. The Americans start by digging wells to get pure water. They bring in refrigerators so they can have fresh meat, vegetables, fruit juice and other energy-producing foods. Next they put in showers and other conveniences, and finally comfortable sleeping quarters. It may seem like pampering, hut the result is that the Americans put in a longer day’s work and are therefore able to do construction Jobs in an incredibly short time.

It Can Be Done for Peace

SOME PARTS OF AFRICA that I have just come through are traditionally called white men’s graveyards. When our construction forces first arrived, some of the men were hard hit by malaria.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday. — Mrs. < Helm, Miss Thompson and I went down to Annapolis, Md.,

. yesterday, Every year I have been ‘asked to speak

joie vomin's. Sb thels. I begin to feel a little

‘ research—he devotes as long as two years to a

have to find used parts. And without replacements,

‘the British embassy, who have organized a group

We stayed a couple of hours and all praised each.

other to the skies. It was wonderful. *

with a facility for words and a tenaciousness

—and I don't doubt that some day his carry great respect. He and his wife Katie live in one of spectacular nouses you ever saw. If is a tage perched on a shelf halfway down the pendicular cliff that rises smack out of the ocean, You can’t even see their house till you walk to the edge of the precipice and peek over. Then you look right down upon its roof. You descend by a steep stairway. You walk in the back door, through

small high

the house, and look out the front window. And from|

there you look straight down into the ocean, iar below you; and you look at ocean northward, and southward, and westward.

The Grass Is Always Greener

THE OCEAN is the highway that passes their|

front window, but the traffic on their highway is much more interesting than on any concourse for wheels and tires. Last week on the rocks below their window a huge turtle lay for hours, a gigantic fellow that must have weighed a ton. Such a turtle is almost unknown in these parts. Occasionally theyre thrilled by a procession of warships and submarines; and when Los Angeles puts on its anti-aircraft fireworks they can see it better than the people in Los Angeles; and one day John Weld swears he saw a regular fictional sea monster swimming past, although Katie laughs at him. They recently picked up part of a rudder from a wrecked ship on their beach.

My job looks wonderful to a: lot of people. Other jobs look wonderful to me. The next pasture is always greener, I envy the Welds and their hidden house by the side of the vastest road on earth.

whether to believe it or not, but ‘tis reported that Sheriff Al Feeney has purchased a bicycle, complete with all legal devices such as bell and lights, and is riding it around at night, In a pinch he could loan it to one of his deputies.

Such Goings-On

EVERYTHING SEEMS to happen to the Indianapolis Railways. For instance, the phone rang yesterday. A woman rather belligerently began complaining about

the service. Her story, boiled down, was that she = on a certain streetcar at the end of the line. e operator, however, didn’t have his mind on his business and took a spin out into the country for about an hour before he finally took the streetcar down town. The street railways official courteously explained that he just.didn’t see how that could happen, as streetcars must operate on fixed tracks and couldn’t go out in the country for a spin. The indignant caller said she didn’t know about that—just not to let it happen again,

New Wire From Old

THEY SAY you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but that’s not the way we hear it. For instance, the Bell Telephone is stringing 400 miles of copper wire on the Indispapolis-Lazayette lead, as they call it, and ising all new wire, they've salvaged 1 files of copper wire from other leads, ae hiened it out and are using it over again. It's the war... . . The new orders of the War Production board to halt manufacture of amusement devices such as slot machines and pin ball games, has devotees of the sport worried. Already, slot machine operators are finding it difficult to get repair parts:

pin ball machines are likely to become museum pieces after a few months, since they wear out quickly.

By Raymond Clapper

But Pan-American Airways brought in a Rockefeller expert on tropical health, and measures were taken that practically eliminated time lost from such maladies. The day I was at one of these spots, only one man was in the hospital. The traveler feels everywhere the sense of achievement that the builders of the Panama canal must have felt. In the last analysis it is an attempt to apply all the available knowledge and technology to developing projects buried in depths hardly touched heretofore by civilization, If this can be done for war, it can also be done in peacetime. I wapt to emphasize that the work the Americans are doing is based on foundations laid by the British, who did the pioneering.

It May Take a Long Time

THEIR BIG CONTRIBUTION was to stake out locations and to establish footholds in the earlier days of their empire. Today these footholds of empire provide the only ground from which the united nations can operate—a fact we are sometimes inclined to forget. Yet I think the British would be the first to recognize that without American resources it would never be possible to go ahead on the necessary scale. It will take both Britain and America, plus Russia and China, to do the job of breaking up the axis. If some individual Americans feel that the British are not doing enough, if some of the British feel resentful that we are not content to follow their methods in projects connected with the war, those are superficial irritations, not helpful to the common job which must be done lest aH of us lose. The closer one comes to the war, the harder the job of stopping the axis seems. We cannot afford to kid ourselves that it will be easy. It will take everything that all of us have. It is a good sign that the start America is now making is being made on a big scale, adequate to carry on for a long time—for it may take a long time to finish the job.

By Eleanor Roosevelt |

0 Al. Jah Ler Yams. and here 1" not i ammis tree-shaded lawn space as there used to be. The city of Annapolis, itself, has great charm, some very lovely .old houses and, of course, St. John's college, which is quite unique. In the evening I dined with a few people trom

which meets every two weeks, the better to acquaint} themselves with what the American scene is really

John Weld writes semi-historical novels. So: far] he is little known; but he is a painstaking craftsman|

Those Grocery Dollars Must Buy More Now

This is the third of a series of articles on how to economize during war-time. The Times suggests that readers clip ‘and save these articles. Ensuing issues will cover such topics as electricity, gas, clothes and recreation.

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By ROSEMARY REDDING MRS. INDIANAPOLIS has become penny-wise. No wonder! The value of the housewife’s dollar is shrinking daily. Ask the grocer. He knows. He will tell you that many women who formerly phoned in their orders now come in to shop in person. He will tell you that they used to give a can of corn a casual glance and say ‘I'll take that.” Today they go into the price, the size, the quality and the ramifications of how little they can buy without sacrificing quality. This briefly is the situation as war touches the family market basket: Food prices are advancing at a greater rate than any other commodity-—35.5 per cent over” Ts $7 There are ‘somé shortages, groceries and imports-like certain

spices and fancy coffees. Supplies of tea are low. Sugar is increasing in price. Eventually milk and bread routes might have to be combined. There are shortages in paper which may mean less paper bags and boxes and those paper containers for milk. The housewife may find that because of the tire rationing, etc., grocery deliveries may be curtailed and that she must walk to the grocery rether than drive the family. car. All of this foretells ‘“belttightening.” It is a challenge: Stretch the food dollar without injuring the family’s health and energy. : It can be done. Careful observance of three major rules will do it:

‘BOND SUNDAY’

Everyone Is Asked to Enroll.

diana’s own idea.

of liberty bonds per capita.

especially in fancy,

1. “A penney saved Is a penny earned.” The wise housewife shops in person to get the most for her money. 2. The cheapest and surest way to get vitamins is at the family dinner table. Oranges are one of the foods rich in Vitamin C, the one

which prevents scurvy and rickets.

3. A housewife debates whether to take the small or large size can of beans. Quantity buying is usually a way to stretch the food dollar.

“Notice that she has invested in the large size boxes of soap granules

and chips.

have not planned or bought wisely. 6. Learn about the nutritive values of foods. Obtain lists showing which foods contain proteins, sugars, etc. Your government will send you free a booklet with reliable information on this subject. Just write the Department of Agriculture, Washington, and ask for Bulletin 1757, “Diets to Fit the Family Income.”

WISE BUYING 1. Buy foods in season. Foods which are plentiful are generally cheaper. Now is a poor time to include strawberries. Wait until June. This is the time of the year when root vegetables are plentiful. Consider carrots, turnips and parsnips. Winter squash is another not to forget. And look into all the possibiliities of apples. Although this is the season for citrus fruits— oranges, grapefruit, etc.—they are higher than in the past but must be considered “good buys” since the indication is that prices will continue to go up. 2. Learn to use substitutes. If oranges are too high for your pocketbook, try buying tomato juice, other fresh fruits or plan on a cabbage salad. These will _.give you the same vitamins, Try ‘using evaporated milk in cooking and egg and cheese dishes in

INDIANA'S OWN

It's a Hoosier Idea and

Bond Sunday, April 12, is In-

It originated among the merh-® bers of the state defense savings staff, who hope to keep the Hoosier state out in front in bond purchases, as during the first world war when it led in the purchase

On Bond Sunday, Hoosier wage and salary earners will go to bond pledging centers in their neighborhood and sign pledges to buy bonds or signify what part they already are taking in the bond program. The polls will, be open from noon

1. Careful planning. 2. Wise buying. 3. No wasting. t J ” ”

CAREFUL PLANNING 1. PLAN your meals a week at a time. Sit down at the kitchen table with pad and pencil and write out menus for seven days, estimating the costs of the foods, including a list of stapls. Plan to have leftovers. (Scraps from Sunday’s baked ham will intrigue the family on Monday in a ham loaf or creamed.) 2. Buy in large quantities. Make your shopping days the ones on which your grocer features “specials.” (But if you haven't proper refrigeration or storage space this

HOLD EVERYTHING

bulk shopping may be a waste.) 3. Take time to compare prices! If the grocer has a special on spinach don't hestitate to substitute for green beans‘ on your Thursday dinner menu. Or if you can't get spareribs consider preparing lentils with milk as a meat substitute. 4. Make sure that each day's menus contain all the vital foods necessary to keep up nutrition standards. When substituting on the menus, green vegetables should sub for other green vegetables and

be sure that the dish substituted ,

for meat contains proteins. 5. Plan for a variety. Just because stews and casseroles are cheap don’t serve them every day, If the family is tired of them you

By Clyde Lewis

BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U..5. PAT. OFF.

3-18

“Gur gaga may be stale, but we can't beat the boss for corny comedy!”

——— a —C—

NATIONAL INSURANCE PLAN TO BE PUSHED

WASHINGTON, March 18 (U.P).

—A first attempt at a national insurance program appeared certain,

or posited the: tray. on a Tack end

Chinese in N. Y. Gets 1st Number

NEW YORK, March 18 (U. P.. —One of two men in New York today to. hold number 3485, the first number drawn in the “T-draft, was Chin’ Fong Ho, 21,

| & Chinese waiter.

Gin Fong. Ho: was ‘balancing a fray on his fingertips when he

| heard the news. The dishes shook,

‘but he made a neat recovery, de-

place of meat. 3. With proper cooking the less expensive cuts of meat can be flavorful and quite as nutritious as the higher-priced cuts. Try spareribs, kidneys, beef and pork liver, shanks of lamb and ham, braised short ribs of beef. 4. Buy graded meat. Learn the grades so that you don’t pay premium prices for the standard grades. Beef grades have been set up by the U. 8. department of agriculture. They include: “prime,” the highest, rarely seen by domestic users; “Choice,” highest grade commonly available to consumers; “Good,” for those

, will be proud. You can.p

with small. budgets who want quality; “Commercial,” for cone sumers able to buy beef only if prices are below average; “Utile ity,” lowest, includes meats which are not tender bit can be made palatable by imaginative cooking. 5. Read the labels. Check can numbers to find out how much you are getting in contents. Large sizes may be twice in quantity but may not cost double the smaller can. The same goes for packages. Look for indication of ‘grade. Unbroken slices of fruit often cost more so buy broken ones if they will do the job just as well. 6. Check weights. A pair of scales in the kitchen on which you can check to see if you have been short weighted would be - valuable purchase. Bring the ine accuracy to the grocer’s atten tion next time you shop. 7. Watch for quantity offerings. Six bars of soap often cost less per cake when bought in quantity. Buying larger quantities of potatoes, flour, etc., ofien mean savings. . »

NO WASTING

1. USE LEFTOVERS, This really can become an art of which you your left

meals so that there overs. 2. Follow recipes which come from reliable sources and follow measurements carefully. 3. Keep foods well covered in the ice box. 4. Improve your storage facilis ties. : 5. Save the bones and water in which meats have been cooked and use then in soups. 6. Peel fruits and vegetakles paper thin. 7. Cook vegetables in as little water as possible and then savy the water for soups, etc.

TOMORROW: your meals.

W: How to plan

and serving chart on page 17.

We call your attention to the valuable buying, cooking

Cut it out and save it.

SALE HEARING

Argument for Approval by State Board to Be Heard March 31. A hearing on the proposed -sale

of the Indianapolis Gas. Co. to the city has been set by the Indiana

.|public service commission for

March 31. The commission's approval is one of several steps necessary to the

which includes 600 miles of mains. . The city council, which has been asked to pass an ordimance to the effect that it is “expedient” to purchase the property, has set a public ‘hearing for 7:30.p. m. Tuesday. Directors of the Citizens Gas & Coke utility, which has been operating its own and the Irdianapolis Gas ‘mains, will meet soon to arrange details of the proposed $7,property. ’ Stockholders To Meet Stockholders of Indianapolis Gas will meet at 10:30 a. m. March. 26, to approve. the compromise agreement authorizing the sale. They also will be asked to approve expenses of nearly $400,000 to be paid by the company but included in the sale price. Representing counsel fees, expenses and other fees, they are: The Chase National bank of New York, trustee for bondholders, $199,500; ‘Indianapolis Gas :Co.; $111,235; bondholders group, $58,000. Also included ‘are additional closing expenses, including the escrow depository's fee and expenses and certain out of pocket expenses estimated at $15,000.

EX-BALLPLAYER KILLED March 18 (U. P)~—

BRAZIL, Frank Oash, 36, former Brasil semi- : baseball player, was

P.S.C. SETS GAS|

city’s acquisition of the property, |

000,000 bond issue to pay for the| |

McMILLAN ‘OUTSIDE U. 8’ Sergt. James A. McMillian, son. of Mrs. Virgil Hughes and husband of Mrs. Mabel McMillan, 422 N. Jefe ferson ave., is serving “somewhere outside the United States. He was formerly stationed at Camp Shelby. He was a member of the national guard before his induction Jan. 17, 1941.

A °* WARQUIZ 1—These ships are some of the navy’s “hens and her chickens”

What. are the vessels, and why is the larger one a “hen”?

2—The Island of Java may have

name was a U. 8. by-word. Why? “3-=What is the biggest wartime function of the American army's.