Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1942 — Page 15

MARCH 19, 1942 |

Hoosier Vagabond

LOS ANGELES, March 19.—Pershing Square In. Los Angeles is one of the funniest places I've seen. It is & nice block-square park in the center of downtown Los Angeles. And for some reason it has grown into a place where people congregate and argue in public. It is the Hyde Park of America, except that it's much better than London's Hyde Park.

In Pershing Square people don’t get up on' soapboxes and make wild speeches. It’s more per sonal than that, They stand in little knots and argue man to man, I don’t know how each individual arguments get started, but I suppose a potential arguer simply ' walks along, sees some other guy who looks like an arguer, walks up to him and says, “Do you think all ovantions are accidents?” The guy says yes, or possibly no, and theyre off. Rapidly a little crowd gathers around. Pretty soon an onlooker will shove in his two cents’ worth. And the argument in that one group will flow back and forth among various contestants for hours. :

Another Lie Is Frustrated

IF YOU WALK through Pershing Square you'll find the place dotted with these little belligerent groups. It’s a circus. I've listened to dozens of them, and ag far as I can figure out, nobody knows what ~ he’s talking about. In no other place in the world ‘will you hear so many four-dollar words so 3horoughly ‘misused as in Pershing Square.

For instance, the other day one group, of which I was a member, was arguing on the age of the Chinese people. One well-dressed college fellow said ‘the Chinese were thousands of years old before the Bible was written, Whereupon a middle-aged man, an Englishman with a broad provincial accent, shook his fist and

yelled, “Naow, sir! The Chinese frustrated that lie. If you don’t believe it go to the library and read the historicals.” ; The thing. that has amazed me most about the Pershing Square thinkers is that the war hasn't changed ' their arguments at all. One afternoon 1 stopped past a dozen different groups. Not a one was discussing the war. They were still arguing the same old subjects they've been screaming at each other about for years—Soci and God.

So Goes the World

PEOPLE TELL me that the attitude of the public toward Filipinos has changed radically. Heretofore, Filipinos in southern California have been treated worse than Negroes. But now they're being treated with respect. I have a very dear friend herg who is a Filipino. He is a steward on a crack Southern Pacific train between here and San Francisco. So I asked him about this change. He says. it is. true. The public is bending over backward to be.nice to Filipinos. It’s easy now for 2 Filipino to get a job. And he says the travelers whom he serves are practically gushy. They give him long speeches of praise as though he personally were just back from Bataan after wiping out a few hundred Japs. So goes the world.

The Clan of Eleanors

IF 1'EVER get in the army, it is my ambition to receive & directive to proceed to an unannounced destination and set up a military installation. 2 A friend of mine who teaches in a grade school and has a lot of Japanese pupils tells a funny incident, Previously all her students had thoroughly unpronounceable Japanese names. But the morning after Pearl Harbor all the little Japanese girls showed up with American first names, such as Mary, Carol and Virginia, But the most popular name of all, that morning after Pearl Harbor, was Eleanor.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

GORDON THOMPSON, headmaster at Orchard school, had quite an exciting time the other evening while waiting for his wife to finish up at a bridge party. When he arrived to get her, he found she wouldn’t be ready to leave for a while so he went

into Stedfeld’s pharmacy, 48th and Pennsylvania, to wait. He drank a coke, bought and read a newspaper, looked over the magazine rack, studied the various counters, bought another coke. By that time it was pretty late and the hired help brought in the bicycles and started locking up. Mr. Thompson had to get out so he sat in his car. Then he remembered he had to write a letter, so he got out paper and began writing. He hadn’t been writing long until the car door was opened and a uniformed figure barked: “Get out—on the other side.” There was another cop there. “What are you doing?” asked the police"man. “Believe it or not, I was just writing a letter,” explained Mr. Thompson. That didn’t make sense to the policeman, but finally Mr. Thompson established his identity. Then he went back to waiting.

No Mean City

TWO ROOSEVELTS are in the top 25 registrants of Board 10. Oné is Melville Roosevelt Farrington; the other, Bedford Roosevelt Gregory. . . . Russ Campbell, the Mayor’s secretary, thinks maybe New York hasn’t learned that Indianapolis is “No Mean City.” The other day the postman delivered a letter from the Carlin=Hand ‘Speakers Bureau, New York, It was 2 ‘Town Hall; Indianapolis, Ind. . . . The . ©. bar is featuring a Victory cocktail. It's ‘made of applejack, grenadine and lime juice, and they get half a dollar for it. The ohly reason we mention it is that every time they sell one, they ‘paste two

From Cairo

CAIRO, March 19 (By wireless)—If it seems to many of you in America that the Middle East is a remote and inaccessible theater of war for us, you should bear in mind that it has the great advantage of gesting around the problem of fighting a twoocean war with a one-ocean navy. While the distance is far, it can be handled on the basis of a one-ocean navy. Once across the Atlantic, the chief ocean problem is solved, for the Indian ocean is a long way from both Japan and Germany. Thus the two-ocean problem is thrown into their laps and out of ours, “TMe considerable naval losses suffered by the allies in the southwest Pacific make operations in the Pacific even more difficult than immediately after Pearl Harbor. To attempt the Pacific job entirely with aircraft, and without seapower, seems impractical to many military experts. So, at best, major offensive operations in the Pacific must await further naval building. This Middle East area brings our army. ground and air forces into the picture, ‘because it provides a place for them to operate, and the chief problem of the navy is confined to the Atlantic. The situation seems to make possible an economy of effort, which is highly desirable for the time being.

Putting It in Simple Terms

TRUE, THE LINE from America to Cairo is long and circuitous. But aircraft cut down the time greatly. Cairo is only a week from America by plane, TLe possibilities of carrying cargo by air have only been scratched as yet. Enormous problems are involved in getting fuel laid down. Some points must: be supplied by camels or donkey farts. The size of the job is suggested by the fact that at 2000 gallons of are needed to refill ® large plane if it has landed with its normal re-

25-cent war savings stamps in a book they keep at the bar. And as fast as the books get full, they're going to buy war bonds. The nice part about it is that if they start selling too many and get too much money tied up in bonds, all they have to do to slow down . the business is to start making the Victory cocktails unpalatable. .

Contribution to Defense .

THERE ARE a lot of broken hearts (male) around the statehouse these days. The reason: Miss Thelma Williams, beautiful blond secretary to Hugh Dillin in the Public Service Commission offices has quit and taken a job at Curtiss-Wright. . . . During the draft lottery in Washington Tuesday night, the boys in local selective service headquarters had a little lottery of their own. The object was to guess how many

‘numbers would have to be drawn in Washington

until cne of the local boards got its first 25 names. Maj. Lytle Freehafer, statistical expert for the local boards, proved his right to the expert title. He hit 1t right on the nose with a guess of 88.

23-Y ear-Old Sugar

DAVID PEAT, 9-year-old son of the John Herron Art museum director, keeps things in an uproar at the art school these days, searching for empty paint tubes. He takes them to his school so his class will get credit for the salvaged tin and lead. . The Madden-Nottingham legion auxiliary had a party the other day in observance of the legion’s 23d birthday. Those present ate a birthday cake baked by Mrs. E. E. Saelton of 948 W. 30th st. It was made out of sugar 23 years old. Mrs. Shelton had bought five pounds of sugar, paying $1.30, just before the armistice, and put it away as a souvenir. . , . Robert Taylor (of the local Couficil of Social Agencies) has just received word from the Census bureau that Indianapolis had one Japanese and 40 Chinese residents on apr 1940. We're glad the proportion wasn’t reversed,

By Raymond Clapper

serve 0. fuel. The maximum load one camel can carry is about 80 gallons. Add to that slow pace the difficulties of the rainy season. Still, the job is being done and it can go on being done. With the basic problems now solved, it remains only to expand tke operations. As long as the Middle East is.held, fuel will be plentiful. If it should be lost, then the only source left would be America, adding again to the shipping problem.

What We're Up Against

I HAVE GONE into these details with the consent of authorities here, since nothing is. involved

* that the enemy cannot figure out for himself, while

on the other hand it is desirable that Americans have as much information as possible regarding the importance of the problems of this area. Intelligent support for our government's effort requires that the public understand the geographical and other questions involved. Unless public opinion can stand on the solid rock of accurate information, the coming congressional campaign will produce distorted and misleading statements that ‘might lead to embarrassment of the administration during the most difficult war effort America Las ever undertaken. After a little time out of the United States, it seems to me that we have not yet appreciated the size of the task and the danger of losing unless we throw in everything for hard, concentrated blows. We are up against a strong, efficient, daring enemy who knows most of the answers. Aside from production figures, specific movements and locations, we can assume that the enemy knows a good deal about us. Therefore extensive secrecy has the .effect only of hampering our public. and congress in their effort to give intelligent backing to the government. 3 I have heard many criticisms of the English. The British have carried the load for two and a half years, struggling against heavy odds. When you get over here and see how hard it is jo canny ro " war et long distances, it increases or any constructiv ) done as g tive that’s being

By Eleanor Roneeps

studying methods of instruction, a civil engineer who also taught and was much impressed by our abundance of laboratories. Mrs. Enit Kaufmann, sent by Mrs. ‘Dorothy Canfield Fisher, brought me some photographs of her water color portraits. She is a person, a refugee, who ‘ini gratitude for what this country has meant to her, wishes to make a portrait record of the people in this period who have contributed something

. to the life of the nation. Mrs. Kaufmann will ‘deposit this record in one of ‘the ‘museums, so that in years to come, people can see the soul of those who lived through this period,

because she claims that only a painting can show what a subject is really like. Last night T went to a concert given by the Phila-

By Ernie Pyle|

Careful Menu Choice an Aid To Economy

This is the fourth 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.

By ROSEMARY REDDING

IT COSTS 25.5 per cent more to fill the family market basket than it did a year ago. That isn’t news to the housewife. She feels the pinch every time she shops. At the same time she is struck head-on with a recent government survey showing that more than a third of the nation’s families are living on diets well below the “safety line” for good nutrition. Thus the housewife’s problem

is doubled. Not only must she stretch her food dollar but at the same time try to keep her meals up to the “nutrition yardsti ”» Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? Yet, the interesting fact brought out by the government survey was that a check of diets showed that women needn’t spend anymore to turn the trick. The story is that the housewife just hasn't been spending her money properly. Thousands of the diets, the government showed, could be brought well above the safety line at a slight additional cost. In many cases this could have been done by simply using. more milk in its less expensive forms and by including more . of the cheaper leafy and green-colored vegetables. Likewise economical choices could be made in practically all the important groups.

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U. S. Offers Guides

BUT HOUSEWIVES can’t expect to have scientific knowledge on the nutrition problem at their fingertips. The government is aware of their predicament. It is therefore making available information on buying, diet and food preparation, showing how good eating is possible on the shrunken dollar. One of the government’s most recent efforts is the designing of weekly marketing lists designed to .guide families in planning meals that measure up to the yardstick and yet fit in with budgets. One is geared to the needs of-low-income families; the second to consumers who can afford greater variety and higher cost foods. “ The charts (one of them is here) are used this way: At the left, beside the description ‘that fits, write the name of every person who eats at your table. If any description fits more than one person, write the name of the extra person on one of the extra lines and fill in the appropriate quantities. Next take a ruler and. draw a line through the quantities of food having no one’s name beside them. Now add up the amounts remaining to the totals. Thus you have the family marketing list for a week in terms of types of food.

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How It Works

LET US ASSUME that there is a family of two adults and two children. That would mean that at least 20 quarts of milk would be necessary. Mmm, the cost! Rarely, too, does an adult consume a quart of milk a day. So the housewife must plot some other way for the family to consume it. The youngest may receive his in the disguise of soups and puddings and the older child may eat cheese dishes with his elders. The use of evaporated milk may be counted too. For quick reference remember that one quart of fluid milk equals five ounces of American cheese; or one quart of skim milk and 1% ounces of butter; or 41 ounces of dried skim. milk; - or 1% ounces of dried skim milk; and 1% ounces of butter; or 17 ounces of evaporated milk. By vitamin C rich vegetables and fruits are meant ones like

® WAR QUIZ

1—A private was dancing with a pretty girl at a post dance when a. man with the chevrons pictured here cut in and took her away. Later the girl asked the pri-. vate why he

A LOW-COST ADEQUATE MARKETING LIST

KINDS AND AMOUNTS OF FOOD FOR A WEEK

FAMILY MEMBERS

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Potatoes, sweet rich foods

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tomatoes, oranges, grapefruit, strawberries and raw cabbage. Naturally strawberries will be purchased only in season. In the leafy, green and yellow vegetable class draw on snap beans, carrots, cabbage and kale, and for other vegetables and fruits consider apples, peaches, pears, onions, corn and celery. The total of eggs on your shopping list may look large. So don’t give them to the family as just plain eggs. Use them in custards, omelets, etc. Under the flour allotment, count 1%. pounds of bread as one pound of flour. Fats include butter, fatty bacon, cooking or table oils. These dinners can be prepared from the low-cost marketing list: Fried salt pork with milk gravy Mashed potatoes Panned kale Cornbread Sirup Milk for children

Beef and vegetable stew Dumplings Potatoes in jackets Stewed dried fruit Cookies Enriched bread Milk for children

" Bean stew with frankfurters . Shredded cabbage salad Rice pudding with raisins Enriched bread

Liver and cereal loaf with gravy Carrot sticks Enriched bread Milk for children Gingerbread with applesauce

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Advice From Uncle Sam

THE CONSUMERS’ counsel division of the Department of Agriculture also has these helpful memos to offer: EGGS: Use better grades for poaching, frying and boiling. Use cheaper grades for sauces and baked dishes. Cook slowly at moderate heat. Fast cooking makes whites tough. Never “boil” an egg. For cooking in the shell, soft or hard, the water should only simmer, Never store near strongly scented foods. MILK: Fluid milk has all the food values of whole milk except those in the cream and butter. For fussy, non-milk drinkers, try concealing the milk quota in soups, sauces, ‘gravies, puddings, ice creams. MEATS, FISH, POULTRY: Lean parts of the cheaper .cuts and grades are as nutritious as the more expensive. Roast or

Stretch the meat flavor by come bining with low-flavored foods; cook all meat, poultry and fish at moderate temperatures, «Use trimmings and hones .to flavor soups and leftover vegetables. Liver, kidneys and heart are higher in food values than some other meat cuts!

Canned Goods

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Reac the labels on canned goods for they teil the contents atid

grade. Extra Fancy—The finest. Fancy—Excellent.

Choice—A good quality but not so fine as extra fancy or fancy. Standard—A middle grade and the most commonly purchased.

Sub-standard—Fruit and vegetables not quite in shape but excellent for purees, soups, certain salads, etc.

ing other foods. Store fats and oils in tightly covered containers. Refined sugars and sirups. are good for energy only. Molasses,

- sorghum and other unrefined sir-

ups have value, too.

VEGETABLES AND FRUITS: Eat fruits raw as often as possible; some vegetables are best raw, too. Cook vegetables in as little water as possible, as quickly as possible with NO SODA. Cook root vegetables in their skins. Standard grades of canned fruits

and vegetables are as nourishing as fancy grades.

CEREALS AND BREADS: Whole-grain breads and cereals have more food values than the highly refined kinds. Enriched breads and flours have more food value than the ordinary kind. Home cooked cereals cost less than the ready to eat kind; some of them are higher in food values.

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Vitami

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VITAMIN A .Not

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| lize water in which

VITAMIN B Destroyed by extreme heat. Soluble in water—therefore uti-.

cooked.

Result of deficiency —Jlowered resistance to infection of ears, throat, nose, lungs; retards growth, affects reproduction.

Result of deficiency —Loss of appetite, loss of weight, inefficient digestion and elimination, lack of growth, increased

Source=b utter, cream, cheese, whole milk (dried, fresh, evaporated or condensed), fish - liver oils, yellow vege- - tables, egg Jolks, bananas, oranges. Source — Whole grains, yeast, most vegetables and fruits milk, egg "yolks.

nervousness.

VITAMIN C Easily destroyed by

plexion, Joints,

Result of deficiency —Loss of energy, retarded growth, ill health, muddy com-

rheumatism, tadbth decay, gum inflammation.

, Source —- Citrus fruits, tomatoes raw or cooked, raw cabbage, young vegetables, uncooked fruits, raw green vegetables, strawber-

pains in

Source — Sunshine, fish-liver oils, egg yolks, irradiated foods.

Source —Buttermilk,

How to save on your”

DEFENSE COURSE LEADERS NAMED

3 to Direct Training of All County Volunteers but - Air Raid Wardens.

- The correlation of all civiliah dee fense instruction of volunteer work= ers in the county will be directed by three men appointed yesterday tn

the county defense training staff. They are Maj. L..H. Corbaley, Carl G. Winter and Capt. Joseph H. Niesse. In announcing the appointments Maj, Gen. Robert H, Tyndall, county defense director, said the staff would direct all ime struction in the organization exces air raid warden courses.

Legion Trains Wardens

The training of air raid wardens is being handled by the Indiana de partment of the American Legion with Frank Mumford in charge. ; To qualify as a civilian defense worker in any ‘of the activity branches an indiivdual must coms plete a specified number of stu hours. Courses will be given wi the co-operation of authorities as the sheriff, fire chief and Red Cross. : Seek Co-ordination At a meeting in the War Mee morial yesterday the co-ordination of all activities and civilian defense work in Indianapolis and Marion county was discussed. Attending . were Harry Yockey, chairman of the speakers’ bureau advisory committee; Russell Camp~ bell and Paul Richey, co-ordinators for the promotion bureau; Col. Russell B. Moore, deputy director, and Mrs. H. H. Arnholter, director of the women’s division.

ANGRY MRS. MINSKY ‘BEATS UP’ LAWYER

NEW YORK, March 19 (U. PJ).

‘| —A hearing on a petition to ri

the Gaiety theater, one of a ip ber of burlesque houses Sloged Mayor F. H. La Guardia, with a display of physical yesterday when Mrs. Molly mother of a burlesque theater erator, took a swing at a city torney. Charles C. Weinstein, corporation counsel, had in hearings before Supreme Justice Aaron J. Levy that Minsky, Mrs. Minsky's son, been convicted previously of ing an obstene. show at