Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1942 — Page 11

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1942

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RIVERSIDE, Cal, March 24.—On the way out from Los Angeles I picked up a couple of soldier hitchhikers and brought them in to Riverside with me. They turned out to be midwestern boys, university graduates, who had enlisted before the draft could get them. They bad been to Los Angeles on overnight leave. They were hoping they could find a nice place to dance but they never did, and were disappointed. “We weren't looking for society girls, nor the other kind either,” one of them said. “We just like to dance, and thought maybe we could meet a couple of nice girls who work in stores or are secretaries.” But they didn’t. They tried two or three taxi-dance places, but didn’t like the types of girls. They finally wound up by going into a place which said, “Reduced rates for men in uniform.” It led up a dark stairs to a sad little bar in a gloomy room. It was the kind of place they had feared it would be. They said one lone sailor was sitting at the bar, half asleep, and looking very lonesome among the girls of the place. So the boys gave up and started back to camp.

The Panhandling Brigade

THEY TOLD ME a couple of things about the public that I hadn't heard before. One was that in Los Angeles men in uniform are constantly being stopped by nice old ladies who are grateful to them for helping save the country. The old ladies don’t want anything except just to express their appreciation. The boys seemed quite touched by it. The other was that panhandlers continually play the soldiers for handouts. This burned the boys up.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A CERTAIN prominent physician takes his wife to the Murat temple every Saturday night the Symphony orchestra is playing, lets her out of the car, then has his chauffeur drive him to Tomlinson hall the doctor and chauffeur listen to the WIBC jamboree broadcast. Sheldon Raiser has been transferred by National Transitads, Inc, to the Buffalo office, The March 16 issue of the magazine Life, covering activities at the Navy's Great Lakes station, had a picture of Jim Clark (formerly I. A. C. instructor) teaching a group of gobs to swim. Jim's the son of Police Reporter Heze Clark. Wilbert (Skeet) Sage is among the growing army of bicveling enthusiasts. He takes his young daughter Sandra pedaling Sundays.

Back to Washington TOM HENDRICKS, secretary of the State Medical association, is en route back te Washington to

and park outside, where

lock after his part time “dime a year” job with the procurement and assignment service for physicians dentists and veterinarians. He rotates between there and here. Edward P. Brennan of the state accounts board is ill at home with a throat infection. Howard Marmon, who has been spending the winter at St. Petersburg, reports he’s feeling much better, thank vou The locals back from Florida report they saw more Indiana license plates there than most anv other state. But vou should have seen them flying out when those gas rationing rumors hit the headlines. Speaking of rumors, authorities at Ft. Harrison deny last week's reports that some of Pearl Harbor's wounded have arrived there

From Calcutta

CALCUTTA, March 24—The arrival of Sir Staffcrd Cripps in India may be worth several divisions to the united nations, because of the effect on morale throughout the east. He comes not a minute too soon to infuse new confidence in India, which appears now right under the gun of the next Japanese advance. It is no secret that the amount of assistance given to the British defenders by the native populations of Malaya and Burma was disappointing. Full support of the population here is essential to stem the Jap tide. Long standing Indian demand for dominion status, or some greater autonomy, has reached a new peak. Native leaders seeing an opportunity to press the issue, are doing so with utmost energy. Native leaders have made much of the reluctance of the Churchill government to deal with the Indian question. Until the Cripps mission was announced, the situation was growing difficult Cripps’ selection was a most happy choice. He is a personal friend of Nehru, leader of the congress party, which is the most aggressive force for selfdetermination. Furthermore, the socialist inclinations of Cripps fit in with the left wing tendency of Nehru.

Is a Complicated Problem

SO THERE IS a feelng of confidence that the Cripps mission is sincere and will not stall for time. That feeling of confidence is most essential to any accomplishment, because the tendency here now is to distrust promises and to increase demands on the British government. nis whole question is complicated and full of age-old political and religious conflicts. which make it difficult for Americans to have any intelligent opin-

My Day

SEATTLE. Wash, Monday —I heartily saying goodby to people days, and yet that seems to be our lot. I left Diega Sunday morning, did my broadcast in the afternoon from Los Angeles, lunched with some friends and started my journey “1 up the coast to Seattle before dark Southern California is very beautiful with its flowers and waving trees and houses covered with vines. I can quite understand the feeling of the gentleman. who said to me as we came into San Diego, “I never return to southern California without realizing how rich it makes me feel. We seem to have so much given us lavishly by nature.” He had to add that, for the moment, man was reducing some of these riches. He was crowding in a little too quickly on a city that was not quite prepared to receive him in such numbers, or so rapidly. However, this condition is something which can be remedied and the climate is a permanent gift. Strangely enough, I suppose if you live iong nough in certain places, their very familiarity makes you feel an affection for them. In spite of the beauty, which I acknowledge and

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By Ernie Pyle

Making $21 a month, and then getting hit twice a| block by panhandlers. One of my soldiers, who has a mind of his own, said he stopped and gave one panhandler a nice little lecture on ethics. But it didn’t faze the pan-| handler. He gave our soldier a good cussing.

“Too Much Sex”

THESE TWO BOYS are probably typical of thousands of American youngsters in the army now. They are well educated, obviously from good families, and intelligent. And they find army life tough for boys! like themselves, from the mental standpoint. They're cussed and ordered around by “superiors”; with an I. Q. corresponding to that of a horse. Some of the old-timers seem to take special delight in browbeating anybody who has been to college. The boys can take it—but it dulls the keen edge of their enthusiasm for giving all they've got to the war. They don’t see why recruits can’t be trained on a basis of man-to-man decency. And yet, almost in contradiction to that feeling, they think America is in the mess it’s in now because we had got too soft. Nobody wants to work hard, everybody's looking out for himself, nobody wants to give up his comforts. And one of the boys said: “And another thing, people think too much about sex in this country. That's what caused France to fall. We're just as bad as they are.”

Tires and Taxes

IT IS TRUE that many people have left California because of fear. But certainly not enough to hurt anything, and California is better off without that kind of people anyhow. No matter how much it strains, California simply cannot expect a big tourist flood from now on. There will be some, of course, but the great rush is over for the duration. { And the reason, as I figure it, is not so much fear as two other things—tires and taxes.

Levi Moore Has Troubles

NOTES ABOUT TOWN: Fred Bates Johnson back from Florida with a nice coat of tan, which he'll probably lose before summer. . Levi Moore, State fair publicity director, lunching at the Hotel Harrison and looking worried—probably no fair this vear, you know. . Heiny Moesch fluttering around the State Conservation department's interesting exhibit at the Sportsmen's show like a hen with baby chicks. Heinys wondering if he’s going to have to remove the 70 truckloads of sand used in the exhibit. Normally it’s given to the Home Show, but—no Home Show this vear . And all over town, people wearIng topcoats and sometimes no coats wandering around, apparently daydreaming. 'Tis the spring.

Aid for Cripples

LEADERS OF THE Inaiana Society for Crippled | Children’s Easter seal sale are pleased over the pub- | response thus far. Not satisfied with buying many persons are offering other things. For instance, reports Mrs. Frieda S. Robinson of the board. several physicians have offered their services without charge in caring for crippled children. A woman wrote in offering to take care of a crippled child in her country home for a week. She expressed the hope others might take up the idea. We second the motion . Ralph M. Haas of the Culver hospital laboratory, Crawfordsville, writes to question The Times’ recent story on how to save water. Mr Haas quoted us as saving: “One sixteenth inch stream of water leaking from a faucet or pipe—a stream no larger than the lead in a pencil—will waste 26,230 gallons of water in a month.” Mr. Haas thinks that’s a heck of a lot of water. He got out his pencil and tried to figure it out and decided we were way off. Well, we went back to our original informant—the Indianapolis Water Co.. and they say we were right. So let Mr. Haas and the Water company fight it out.

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ions on the subject. There is keen interest in this question In America, and rightly so, because of its importance to successful war effort. But any attempt to mix in regarding details might do more harm than good. Beyond hoping and urging some adjustment to relieve the situation, there is not much that Amercans can contribute to discussion. One hopeful factor is that Nehru is strongly conscious of the need for axis defeat. Gandhi's policy originally was non-resistance on all questions. He abandoned that after war began, so his spiritual leadership as the elder statesman of the Indian in- | dependence movement is for united nations victory. |

Nehru's Present Attitude

THOSE WHO THINK of winning their freedom with the help of an invader are living in fools’ paradise, according to Nehru. He says that such an attitude is merely panic or cowardice, and is a greater danger to India even than the peril of foreign invasion, which must be resisted by Indians. In resisting aggression Indians need not allow themselves to become tools for present imperial system, he emphasizes. Most important, Nehru says he is prepared to undertake effective defense of India against any foreign aggression, and that the all-India congress can not run away in panic from the dangers and risks which confront it. That summarizes Nehru's present attitude. His] conference recently with Generalissimo Chiang Kai- | shek appears to have resulted in this position favor- | Ing strong defense. Nehru is impressed by Chinese! resistance. Chiang’s influence on him is regarded as! strong. This may provide a basis for a Cripps solution. But the most difficult complication arises from the | Moslem minority, which objects to any change that] might give power to the Hindu majority under Nehru. That is where all speculation hits a rock. Much will depend on Cripps’ ability to work out an adjustment with the Moslem leader, Ali Jinnah.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

enjoy when here, I never have any desire permanent- | Iv to leave the countryside which for me has been “home” during most of the years of my life. Nature Is not so kind, winters are hard, summers are sometimes too hot, sometimes too cold. the lot of the farmer and gardener is always a gamble, and yet I like the change of seasons. I would miss never having a landscape covered by snow. The coming of spring seems to be more wonderful because of the extremes that lie before 1t and beyond it. No coloring in the world seems to me more brilliant than an autumn hillside, with scarlet and gold maple and russet oak leaves mixed in with the evergreen of pine and hemlock. I forgot to tell you that Mme. Genevieve Tabouis brought me her book the other day. She may be a modern Cassandra, but I have an idea her experiences may be valuable reading for some of the rest of us. I look forward to dipping into this book as soon as possible. Also, I should have told you long ago about “America’s Housekeeping Book,” compiled by the New York Herald Tribune's home institute and published by Scribner's. It is the best aid to the young housekeeper I have seen and full of useful information, no matter how experienced you may be. It is pleasant to be back with my daughter and son-in-law and I am particularly glad to find her rapidly regaining in strength.

WAT RS BIT LIFE

Shop Wisely! You Can Still Look Pretty

This is the eighth of a series

of articles on how to economize

during war-time. The Times suggests readers clip and save these

articles.

By ROSEMARY REDDING

YOU CAN PAY higher taxes, face shortages and “look darn pretty right through it all.” That's the way one of the leading fashion magazines puts it. Yes, the average American woman is the best dressed in the world. And what a time Miss and Mrs. America have had living up to that! And now, we suspect, of all the things which they will have to give up, clothes will come near to being the dearest. But the time has come to look at the situation squarely and so let's take a deep breath girls, and realize that we are going to have to kiss a lot of other things goodby besides the boys.

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But Don’t Hoard

THERE ALREADY are shortages and forecasts of more. Prices are going up. The production of those lovely wools which go into coats and suits is being cut just about in half. Silk supplies may last through 1942. The rationing of rubber not only affects girdles, but rubber soled shoes and the elastic that puts the stretch in

the pumps we wear. And manufacturers are cutting down on the weaves of fabrics and the variety of colors. Let's take stock and decide where we go from here. But in that long range plan of yours, don’t confuse it with hoarding. Don’t go out and buy more hose than you can possible use in the next few months. There will always be hose—if not silk ones, some other kind. Shortages may not be as bad as they seem and you probably will be surprised at the attractive clothes the designers will create out of “non critical materials.” Map out a three point clothes program, something like this: 1. Proper planning. 2. Wise buying. 3. Proper care.

Look for Quality

TAKE STOCK. Prepare to buy only what vou actually need and in the quality to which vou have been accustomed. Buy things to last—consider quality over price. Purchases for the duration will be the classics, ones which will not be out of style next year. Forget all about those fancy little hats,

sandals and junk jewelry. It is a busy life you will be leading from now on and often there will be no time for clothes changes. Have you forgotten the criticism brought down on the heads of the women who were named as “best dressed” this year? It is a time to be practical, but at the same time not to be grim. Write this down right at the list: “I wont be into buying anything that Go through your closets and drawers. List the things you have on hand. In the process, you will probably find a lot of thing with ‘‘possibilities” which you never before realized. Look over your list with a eritical eye. Will my coats “do” for another year or two or are they in such bad condition that a new one is a real necessity? Think it over, Perhaps some new trimming on that cloth coat or some repairs will make it nearly new again.

” ” ” List Your Musts ONCE YOU have been really critical about the list, make another of the things you will HAVE to buv. second point in Wise buying. Hysterical shopping sprees and hoarding will only heighten your neighbor's fear and off she will go cn the same kind of an expedition. Then real shortages do result and prices do go up. Buy sanely in that you buy fewer things, all durable, because they are going to have to last. After all, replacements of cheaper quality articles may be hard to get later. And anyway you want to keep repairs at a minimum and that’s easier to do on clothes which originally were wise investments.

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Consider color, line and design. | basically | black, now is no time to go in for |

If your wardrobe is browns or navys when other items in your wardrobe don’t match so well. edge over fussiness and an even greater one these days. As to design, the couriers will probably not spring any innovas tions on us just at this

will not notice any drastic changes in clothes. But the designers, bless them, will step in then with

new things—the kind that really |

will help to cover up the loss of, or substitute for, the things we will have to give up.

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Hose can be bought to fit the individual, not only in the foot, but in the leg and in length as well.

Read Those Labels

JUST SPECULATE on what can be done with a cotton wardrobe this summer, with the addition of a bunch of violets on that old black straw hat and a white collar on that old dress. One of the really constructive things that is bound to emerge from all this though is the education of the American woman in buying, a careful inspection of what she purchases. One of the important keys to that, of course, is in reading labels. Every trade has a language of its own. The textile industry has one and if a woman learns it, she certainly can stretch her dollar. For instance, the varn count is often marked on cotton goods. Learn that a higher fabric count means the warp vards are closer together and, other things being equal, the fabric will be strong and durable. Look for loader, filler and sizing—the starch which often washes out with the first Jaundering and leaves a ‘“sleezy” fabric. ™ The government has long been cognizant of the need for labeling and through its efforts the slip marked satin really has to be. Pre-shrunk really means what it says. If the amount of shrinkage marked is more than 3 per cent, think twice before you purchase a garment. n ”

Boon to Shoppers

THE NEW WOOL products labeling act is a boon to shoppers, too. By its provisions, a wool fabric must be labelled as to its exact contents: virgin (all wool), reprocessed (wool made up once, never used and then rewoven), or reused (woven and actually used, reclaimed and woven again).

Since a coat or suit will be the most expensive item to be bought, let us use it as an example for wise shopping. Sure. it is a little higher in price, maybe the wool isn’t quite so good and the lining not pure silk. Trimming, if fur, is now on the luxury list and taxable. Maybe a good investment for next fali would be a smart unfurred box or princess style coat which will be good for several seasons. . Look at the labels, inspect the silk. Ask questions. See that the seams are generous and well stitched and that the lining fits smoothly.

For warmth, get sleeves shaped to the wrist, a straight skirt with a wide front overlap and fastenings placed to keep the coat from blowing open. Is the coat cut accurately with the grain of the

Wise buying includes the inspection of labels, linings and finishing

of seams,

cloth; the armholes ample and seams finished with pre-shrunk tape? It is your business, too, to watch for weighted fabrics in blouses and colorfast labels on cotton dresses and play clothes.

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What’s What in Hose

STOCKINGS, LIKEWISE, have helpful labels. They tell the thread weight (2-thread, 3thread, etc.) which indicates the texture of the hose. The gauge is given, the fineness of the Kknitting, indicative of strength and elasticity. Hose can be bought to fit the individual not only in the foot but other ways, Certainly the correct fit will ge a long way toward the length of time they wear. Another money - saving tip: Buy three pairs of one shade. When one stocking gets a run, save it and put it with a matehing stocking whose mate also has been ruined. Hose can be mend= ed too. One of the local depart-

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ment stores will reknit runs until they are scarcely noticeable for 19 cents. Are you like one of the women who came into the corset depart ment of one of the said she wanted to lay in a fiveyear supply of girdles? We are assured that even if rubber isn't available for girdles, the manufacturers can provide some sort of a substitute. In the field of shoes, women will be affected by their own activities as much as by any shortages. With auto manufacturing and tire rationing, women are bound to be doing more walking than in the days when the family jalopy always stood just outside the door. Further, women who are doing Red Oross and civilian defense work, are sure to find lower heels more comfortable for long hours on their feet and

that durable leathers and fabrics ars necessities.

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Shoes Can Be Fixed

DO YOU HAVE a pair of shoes which have been stored away because they feel a bit too short? There are shoe repair shops which can lengthen them for you. That pair of wedgies which is still in good condition but no longer in style, can be “resurrected.” too. A skilled cobbler can replace those big cork heels with the regular kind,

And while on the subject of wise buying, women more and more are finding that learning to sew often relieves a strain on their budget. Local sewing centers will teach you how. The government is co-operating by publishing innumerable booklets with sewing hints. If inter ested, write the U. S. department of agriculture. Of course, an amateur won't chance ruining an expensive fabe rie or making a suit or coat right off. If you want to remodel or alter a coat, the government can tell you about that, too. The booklet “Coat Making at Home” comes free. Who knows? Maybe American women will turn out to be the best “go withouters” just as easily as they have been the world’s best dressers.

TOMORROW: The third point in your clothes savings program,

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OPEN HOUSE SET FOR SOUTH SIDE

Craft and Art Work to Be Shown in Community Center Thursday.

Products of the work shop, art studio and craftwork classes of the South side community center will be on display at an open house and family night program at the center Thursday night. A marionette show amateur boxing bouts will be ine cluded on the program which be= gins at 7 p. m, Other entertainment will include a dance revue by pupils of Mary Jane Thompson, movies, community singing, games, dancing and musical “mixers” di= rected by Norma Koster and Lois Chesterfield. Youth council members will act as hosts and hostesses and Henry Ostrom will speak on “Civilian Dee fense and Your Community.” Spee cial activities have been planned in the game room for children but they must be accompanied by one of their parents.

Those in Charge Committees in charge are Mrs,

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|Mel Shaw, general chairman; Mrs,

William Carey, Mrs. Virginia Brandlien and Mrs. Joseph Farley, registration; Mrs. Charles Eckhart, |Mrs. Versie Henderson and Mrs, (Lethal Lawrence, adult council; [Mrs. Pauline Caesar, civilian | mobilization, Also Mrs, John West and Mrs, {Glen Boyer, concessions; Mrs. Le= nora Gundlach and Mrs. Rose | Bagelking, membership; Mrs, Wile {liam O'Dell, Mrs. Iretta McDowell, Mrs, John Striebeck and Mrs. Max ‘Swain, hostesses, and James Russell, {Pat Kelly, Betty West and Mary Kelly, youth council.

* WARQUIZ

1. This is a picture of a typical {American battleship. Is there a {school of thought in the big na= vies of the world which says this type of ship is of very little use nowadays and, if so, why?

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{ 2. Many nations in guarding | their coasts use small dirigible balloons called blimps. In what respect is the United States better [fitted to employ them than any other nation? 3. Despite the fact American planes sank or damaged Jap ships and downed some of their aire planes, Nipponese soldiers obtained a foothold on the island of Bali. This little spot of earth had been in the news long before the war, Was it because of the fame of Balinese hunters, fishermen, dancers or singers?

Answers 1. There are many naval {who say battleships are of little [value because they have to be guarded by destroyers lest they be torpedoed by submarines, and, furthermore, are subject to sinke (ing by dive bombers. 2. America has a monopoly on helium, a noninflammable gas which makes inflated blimps safe from explosions. Other nations (have to use highly explosive hye | drogen, 3. The island of Bali is noted for its native dancers.

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