Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1942 — Page 9
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WASHINGTON, June 3—The British put one thousand bombers over Cologne and protected them with several hundred fighters. It's becoming very risky business to say that anything is impossible. A year ago such a feat would have been regarded as impossible. I have heard airmen say that it was not possible to use more than 500 planes in a raid. More than that would result in dangerous congestion in takeoff. landing and going to and from the target. Practical men thought England had used all of her available space for airfields. It wouldn't be possible to put up much more than 300 planes, or 500 at the outside. Yet when the 1000-plane raid is achieved, with the low loss of less than 3 per cent, the British and American air officers say it is only the beginning. There will be larger raids. Some are talking about raids by 5000 planes. That does seem fantastic, but it isn’t safe any more to gay that it can't be done. For a long time we were all pretty well steeped in the German legend of invincibility. It threw us off completely as to Russia. We got into the state of mind where we thought Hitler could literally do anything
Remember—and Compare!
HE WOULD GO through Russia like a knife through soft cheese. He would pulverize England from the air. He couldnt possibly be beaten—the only chance was to starve him out by blockade. When President Roosevelt said he wanted 50,000 planes made in America by the end of this year, most people thought it was good propaganda but no more than that. Now we know that mark will be reached and passed. “They told us you couldn't make airplanes by mass schemes. An airplane was a delicate machine and had to be tailor-made, each one a special job. Henry
By Raymond Clapper
Ford didn't know about making bombers, but he said
in his simple-minded way that if you could make one kind of a machine by mass production, say an automobile, you could make any other kind of a machine the same way. He's doing it—making bombers as he made Ford cars. Chrysler is making tanks the same way. Studebaker is making engines the same way. General Motors is doing it. The fellows who didn’t know how to make airplanes proved to know more about it than the specialists.
Don’t Give Up Too Easily
HENRY J. KAISER, who didn't know anything about shipbuilding, is building ships far faster than the professional companies. He went at it as a manufacturer, not as a shipbuilder.
The expert again has been caught with his nose
so deep down in the details and in traditional ways of operation that he missed the possibilities. Experts are indispensable. They are the fellows who get the job done. But sometimes it has to be started by the outsider who is just too ignorant to know about all the difficulties. He hasn't sense enough to know there is a limit to what can be done, and, sure enough, time and again he turns out to have been nearer right than the men who knew all about it. That's why both kinds of men have to team up. Because they do team up so well in America, we do jobs no other nation can do. What has been done thus far must make most of us ready to believe that more can be done. Likewise when people say it is impossible to prevent war because we have never been able to prevent it, I wonder if they are not giving up too easily. When the impossible is being done every day now, I'm willing to ride along with Undersecretary Welles, Vice President Wallace and a host of others who think the chances of being able to do it are good enough to warrant a try at it. If the united nations can lick Hitler, then I refuse to think that it is impossible for them to figure out a way to prevent another one of these wars.
Ernie Pyle, in poor health for some time, has been forced to take a rest. However, he is expected to resume his daily column within a short time.
Inside Indianapoils By Lowell Nussbaum
L. M. TOOLE. an attorney for the gross income tax department, probably is the town’s No. 1 opponent of conceding putts. For a member of his golf fourgome to suggest Mr. Tooie concede a short putt is like waving a red flag at a bull. Whenever that happens. we're told, he digs down in his golf bag and pulls out a newspaper clipping telling how Byron Nelson missed a one-foot putt. “And,” he says indignantly, as he restores the clipping to the bag. “vou're not as good as Nelson, so PUTT.” . . . Bob Neilson, general secretary of the Family Welfare society, has just returned with his wife and 3-vear-old twins from a vacation trip to visit relatives in Oregon. He got back with four “slicks” on his wheels. . , . Mrs. Florence Stone, who handles publicity for several erganizations, including Methodist hospital, is so sold on the hospital that she's trying out its facilities herself In other words. she entered the hospital vesterday and was to undergo an operation today. we'll bet she gets service—plus.
Coincidence Department
A WEEK OR SO AGO. Mrs. Joseph T. McDermott. 30 E. 30th st, wife of the president of Hamell & McDermott, phoned Mrs. Fred Bates Johnson, wife of the lawver. and invited the Johnsons to attend the McDermotts’ wedding anniversary celebration June 2. “It's our 25th anniversary,” Mrs. McDermott added. “It's ours, too—we were married the same day,” remarked Mrs. Johnson. And so both couples served as hosts at the reception yesterday at the McDermotts’ home. Curiously enough, it was home to both couples, since the Johnsons formerly lived there and had sold the house to the McDermotts a few years ago.
Pilot Training
NEW YORK, June 3.—Recently the army air forces training command called on the civil aeronautics administration to produce 2000 instructors—1000 elementary and 1000 secondary—by June 15. This is a significant army about-face toward the CAA's civil pilot training program and a strong commendation for that program. Recognition of the CAA's great work in getting thousands of youngsters into the air has been withheld for reasons which those who realized the importance of airpower in this war could not understand. The senseless “two years of college or its equivalent” restriction on candidates for the army and navy air services has been kicked overboard. But it took a long time. In my opinion healthy, intelligent high school graduates are better recruits for a fighting force than college graduates. mainly because the high school graduate hasn't keen tainted by the nonsense of modern college life.
Canine Mohican
WINKY, A GENUINE all-breeds dog owned by Miss Edith Evans, a copy writer for Block's, must have a trace of homing pigeon in his makeup. When he got blitzed in an encounter with some neighborhood pooches, Miss Evans grabbed a cab and rushed him to a veterinary hospital some distance away. Three nights later, Wink managed to pick the lock on his cage, leaped through a screened window and escaped. Notified the next morning at the office by the veterinarian, Miss Evans phoned home and found that Winky had just arrived there, weary but happy. . Lieut. Jimmy Carvin, in civilian life the Power & Light Co. advertising manager, has been assigned as assistant public relations officer at the Chico army flying school, Chico, Cal.—wherever it is. He writes friends that he's enjoying military life but that “it’s a funny feeling” to be stopped by an enthusiastic sentry and have to “stand in front of the business end of a fixed bayonet when the guy on the other end wants to argue.” No doubt.
All Decks on Deck
THE FORTY & EIGHT is campaigning for contri- | butions of playing cards to help the boys in the armed | forces while away the time while aboard ship. The organization, fun and honor society of the American Legion, is asking for new or moderately used cards, or for cash. It points out that there are thousands of troops being transported to other countries. Sometimes the trips take 30 or 35 days, and there's not much else for the boys to do aboard but play cards. The goal is 50,000 decks between now and autumn; 10000 decks a month thereafter. Heading up the drive is Charles W. Ardery, corresponding national of the Forty & Eight, 777 N. Meridian st. . . . Some of the flags flying above our downtown buildings are beginning to look rather tattered.
By Maj. Al Williams
service chiefs was to regard it as a challenge to their own flight-training programs. The vision of Robert Hinckley and a few other indomitables at the head of the CAA is responsible for what the program has accomplished to date— supplying 2000 flight instructors to the army—but the status of civil pilot training is still undefined. What now? Will the combat aireservices call for another 2000 flight instructors in the next 60 or 90 days, or will they demand 4000 or 5000?
A Home-Made Sensible Plan
THE ARMY AND NAVY air services are missing the best bet for recruiting flight cadet material. Both are appealing for recruits by radio, sales talks, magazine and newspaper advertisements. But you can't talk people into flight training as effectively as you can lead them into it. A carefully planned expansion of the civil pilot training program into every town with an adequate airport and an operator would provide more air cadets than the services could handle. Why not set up a primary flight training program
Average Man Asleep, Says Blitz Veteran
An American who has lived in London 20 years and has experienced 1400 hours of German raids on England writes challengingly in the following article. He has just completed his first visit to the United States since Pearl Harbor.
By MARCEL WALLENSTEIN Times Special Writer NEW YORK, June 3.— The night of the trial blackout in Manhattan, air raid wardens drove pedestrians indoors. There were arguments and delays at street corners. The lights of the world’s brightest city went out—even the traffic lights. The lights inside the buildings were extinguished. Famous midtown hotels and restaurants were labyrinths of darkness, without emergency illumination so badly needed in an air attack, when immediate operations must be performed on kitchen tables or draw-
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‘Not a Bucket of Sand...
TRAFFIC, save for an occasional crawling police car or motorcycle, died in every street. No ambuilances with clanging bells found their routes through the night; no emergency fire engines made an appearance. If civilian firefighting parties existed—men and women trained to deal with flaming showers of thermite cylinders —there was no evidence of them in central Manhattan. Hotel servants (Britain trains them to stand their posts when bombs fall) idled in the doorways of my hotel to watch the show. Not a bucket of sand, the best weapon for fire bombs, not a long-handled rake, not a stirrup pump was ready and waiting. The town stood still, which is the worst thing a town can do in an air raid. “Visiting firemen” (it now seemed the term should be applied literally) and others from New York had repeatedly
NAVY RECRUITS T0 TAKE OATHS
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To Be Observed Here Next Sunday.
The simultaneous swearing in of all new navy recruits in Indianapolis at 1:25 p. m. Sunday will be part of a navy's nation-wide “Avenge Pearl Harbor Day.”
Just six months after, to the minute, that the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, all recruits enlisted between last Sunday and this coming Sunday will take the oath of allegiance. Lieut. L. D. Blanchard, USNR, of the Indianapolis recruiting station, will administer the oath to enlistees here. Recruits from the Lafayette, Richmond and Columbus sub-sta-tions, will come to the Hoosier capital for the program. Similar services will be held in the Anderson and Vincennes stations. Comm. R. H. G. Mathews will administer the oath at Anderson, and Lieut. F. M. Hall will have charge at Vincennes
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Promoted to Captain
J. Robert Sutherlin of Indianapolis, a member of the coast artillery stationed at Ft. Brady, Mich. has been promoted from first lieutenant to captain. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Sutherlin,
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It's Stormy Path to Victory,
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America
“New York (left) was dead—frozen in the blackout . . . the authorities had beceme the unconscious allies of the enemy.” London learned early. As at right, thousands of trained men and women sweep into the streets during air raids—all doing their jobs efficiently.
been in London in the months of the night air attacks and had seen the intricate devices necessary to protect a metropolis. There was little to show the lessons had been applied. Not a blue light showed people caught in the streets the way to shelter, first aid post or gas decontamination station. And where were the police? New York was dead—frozen in tne blackout—and so the authorities had become the unconscious allies of the enemy, for that is precisely the condition raiding airmen attempt to produce. Hitler knows killing civilians will win no battles and so has little interest in killing civilians. If he can create chaos, stop or scramble traffic, halt pfoduction, if only for a few hours, then the raid has been successful. ”
London Learned Lesson
LONDON learned that early. London was ready the night in September, 1940, when the Ger-
mans first came in force. Tens of thousands of trained men and women swept into the streets and did their jobs efficiently. In this one fieid of total war the English were ready. After New York's 20-minute blackout, someone on Madison ave. said, “Of course, it was just a trial. We haven't had experience vet. We'll be all right after we've had one or two raids.” To a man with the experience of German air raids on English
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cities, it seemed an expensive and tragic manner of learning. People could be trained in advance for this emergency—they have to be trained in advance if panic, useless destruction and loss of life are to be averted. The people want training and guidance. The impression grows as one travels across the continent. The people are not in the war. Industry is in the war. American machines, mechanics, manufacturers are grinding, riveting and planning as they never have done hefore.
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Time Running Out
AT WILLOW RUN near Detroit a gleaming bomber comes off the line every few minutes; tanks clatter from newly built factories in a mighty stream, acres of shells and bombs stand on the concrete floors of a hundred plants. American industry is harnessed and straining at its job. You see it in Chicago and in Kansas City. Blast furnaces burn in the night below the plane that carries you south and west. When you talk to generals you have the impression that they know what is needed and are preparing to do it with realism and drive. The army will fight when it is ready and the men who lead it are neither vague nor uncertain as to their objectives. The few sailors you meet also know what is required and that time in which to do it is running out.
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But the people are not certain. They hardly have been touched, except those whose sons have left home for the camps or the seas or already have been sacrificed on Bataan or Wake or Pearl Harbor or in the deadly water off Java. The people have never felt the lasn of total war. They never have seen their . historic monuments, their churches and hospitals ground to rubble, their children carried from wrecked houses dead or disfigured with wounds that were worse than death.
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Americans Uncertain
AMERICANS have yet to know the sickening odors of burning flesh or to watch water from broken mains rise in crowded cellars from which there is no exit, no hope of rescue. When such things happened in London you had the impression the people and not the army were fighting the war. The people, the rich and the poor, the old and the young saved London repeatedly with their rakes and their sand and their little hoses. They gave their blood in transfusion, they gave up and are still giving up all luxuries and many necessities. It is an exception to see a man of military age in civilian clothes in a restaurant in London. Americans do not seem certain whom they are fighting. The government comes in for more abuse and criticism than the Germans
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and the Japanese. When they curse Hitler and wear a piece of jewelry in the V shape and buy a few bonds, many believe they have contributed generously. ”n zn
People Need Guidance
OF COURSE they stand up when the band plays the national anthem. Not still and thoughtful or with tears in their eyes, but they take off their hats. At the Belmont Park races many kept talking, and scratched themselves, or marked their programs when the band played that fine old tune, No one expects the mass of people anywhere to make tremendous sacrifices voluntarily. Luxury and money and goods have to be taken from them as it was taken from the embattled peoples of Eurcpe. That time will come— and soon. Until then it will be impossible to realize what total war means. The people need guidance. They have been confused by public scolding, by well meaning or possibly not too intelligent task masters, by paper floods from verbose and ill-trained public relations departments, by too optimistic military and naval comruniques. Shameful defeats have been turned into brilliant last stands, setbacks minimized and minor victories inflated. The time for hard thinking is at the next cross roads, coming on fast. Presently Americans will learn how stormy is the path to victory.
Local Men in Varied Service Branches
Are Stationed at Posts Throughout
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Pvt. Davidson
LEFT — Pvt. Gordon Davidson Jr. has returned to his station with the marine corps at New River, N. C, after spending a week-end leave with his mother, Mrs. John L. Bannon, 1014 Oliver ave. Pvt. Davidson attended Technical high school. RIGHT—Jack G. Hamar was promoted to corporal in the marines a month ago and last week he left for duty “somewhere in the Pacific.” He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Hamar, 3330 N. Emerson ave, Enlisting three years ago, he has been stationed at San Diego, Cal.
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Vern Harvey Robert L. Brooks
LEFT—Pvt. Vern Harvey is a member of an air corps transport squadron at Westover field, Mass., where he is in training as an airplane mechanic. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Harvey, 2127 N. Station st. He attended Technical high school. RIGHT—Corp. Robert L. Brooks, 3032 N. New Jersey st. is on furlough from Camp Chaffee, Ark. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Brooks of St. Paul, Ind, and was formerly employed at the H. Lieber & Co. His brother, Pvt. Lawrence R., is stationed at Chanute Field, Rantoul, IIL
Robert Hawkins Kenneth Arnold
LEFT—A 10-day furlough ended, Sergt. Robert F. Hawkins has returned to his army duties at Ft. Warren, Wyo. He spent his leave with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. V. E. Hawkins, 2523 N. Olney ave. RIGHT — Kenneth Arnold Jr. is a member of the military police force at Ft. Leonard Wood, Miss. He is a former member of Lucky Teeter’s “Hell Drivers” and lived in Indianapolis for 10 years before entering the service. He is the son of Mr, and Mrs, Kenneth Arnold of Thayer, Ind, and entered the army last March.
GETS PROMOTION
IN GREAT BRITAIN
Carl N. DeVaney, who is now serving with the A. E PF . some w here in
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SON OF HERD EVADES DRAFT
Attorney Says Pacifism Was Instilled in Him Before Birth.
NEWARK, N. J., June 3 (U. P.).— Whitney Bowles Jr., 23, who has
. been married 10 days, faced im-
prisonment today for draft dodging. despite his attorney’s plea that the death of his hero father in the World war had instilled him with the principles of pacifism while he was “still in his mother’s womb.” When Bowles registered, he told his draft board that he was a conscientious objector. He was charged with “wilfully refusing to report to his draft board for induction into the army.” His attorney, Irving Pilch, pleaded with a federal district court jury of eight men and four women that Bowles was opposed to war before he was born. Father Won Cross He said Bowles’ father, Sergt. Whitney Bowles, was killed in action at Le Chatelet, France, on Sept. 30, 1918. He was awarded, Although it was 11 days before Bowles .was born, he was influenced by his father’s death, Mr. Pilch contended. Judge William PF. Smith did not
Promotions from first lieutenants set a date for sentencing him and
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3009 N. Pennsylvania st. is in Spokane,
Anvhow, the army wants 2000 CAA-trained ingiructor pilots right away, and this is the first real
tary flight training close to home, and then require them to sign up for the duration?
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cheid, Maurice L. McDermond, Nick E. Presecan and Robert B. Shepard.
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Pvt. Robert E. Burkhead is in training at Keesler field, Miss. where he is a member of the ground training forces. He is the son of Mrs. B. E. Fike, 432 Massachusets
evidence that the combat air services are inclined to tap the nation’s real pilot wealth.
A Lack of Foresight
WHEN THE CAA inaugurated the civil pilot training program, the first reaction of the combat air
ing the supreme session of the organization. Mrs. Clara Kittle, past queen of Koran temple and supreme deputy, is also attending the session. Mrs.
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The aerial camera for use on scout and observation and reconnaissance planes is essential to both the army and navy air forces
With the award of wings to the first batch of youngsters in each town there would be a stampede of others to earn and wear wings, There's no end to the flight cadet material available, but the military can't seem to get to it. Here's one home-made, sensible plan.
Master Sergeant William T. White Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs, William T. White, 5124 E. Washington st. is home from Camp Shelby on a short furlough.
moted from captain to major, He is an officer of a field artillery armored battalion and was stationed at Ft. Knox, Ky, before going
Pvt. Leo Mieth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Mieth, 2901 Prospect st., has been transferred from Camp
My Day
NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.— Yesterday morning in Washington dawned with a grey and stormy looking sky. Soon after breakfast I went to see my
friend. Mrs. Edward MacCauley, who fell the other dav and broke her hip, which means three months : in bed. To anyone so active as she is, this is a real penalty at such a time. We had an early luncheon at which the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were our guests, I was very much interested to hear from the duke that he had started a small organization, resembling our CCC camps, in the Bahama islands and felt it was going to do valuable work. With naval activity in the Caribbean, these islands have been kept much more active than usual. I think the duke and duchess were looking forward to a few davs of rest in the United States. I see by the paper, however, this morning, that the duke has been called back to the islands because of some labor disturbances. Immediately after lunch, we went to the airport and waited for a delayed plane. This resulted in my being somewhat late at my apartment in New York City for a meeting al which I had asked Miss
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
Viola Ilma to tell something about the work of the Young Men’s Vocational] Foundation. Miss Ima had so many interesting stories to tell about the boys whom she has succeeded in placing in jobs, that I think everyone present was interested. Those she helped to get into the army and navy are apparently making good. The right job in industry, however, is hard to find. I think the success of the work of this organization can best be shown by the simple figures she gave. During the first year she placed some 80 boys out of the New York state reform schools in jobs. This past year, with the aid of a larger staff, she has developed such good relationships with case workers, the parole board and employers, that more than 100 boys have been placed. We are very anxious to interest more groups of people in this work, not because it is necessary to have a big staff or a very large budget, but because much can be done with comparatively moderate sums of money and a greater number of people who are really interested. At this time it is important to give a helping hand to boys who find it hard under the best of circumstances to establish themselves, because they lack real stability in their lives, After dining at home, we went to see Miss Mayris Chaney dance. We ended the evening enjoying a glass of lemonade on a very crowded hotel roof, where Tommy Dorsey's orchestra evidently attracts
Perry, O., to the air corps technical school, Keesler field, Miss. Private Mieth enlisted last May 8.
3 Billions Spent For War in May
WASHINGTON, June 3 (U. P). —The war effort cost the United States $3,552,676,087.59 in May and $22,130,946,353.04 in the first 10 months of this fiscal year, it was revealed today. The public debt at the end of May was up $3,609,261,105.27 over May, 1941, and stood at $74,258,032,411.34. Heaviest spender last month was the war department with $1,496,932,729.72. The navy spent $1,228,379,580.73. The lend-lease bill was $626,246,052.27.
FRAUD IN ‘COON DOGS LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 3 (U. P). —Thomas C. Doran, 35, of Murray, Ky., was fined $1,000 and $50 court costs yesterday for mail fraud in selling the nation’s coon and ‘pos-
Ew overseas. Maj. Maj. DeVaney peyaney was
formerly employed by the Indianapolis Power and Light Co. and is
a graduate of Purdue university.
UPSTATE NAVY BASE
GETS NEW PLANES
PERU, Ind. June 3 (U, P.)—Two new type N3N-1 naval training planes are now in use at the yet uncompleted naval reserve training base. Flown from Gross Ille base at Detroit last week, the planes are being used for administrative pur-
poses by navy officers. Completion of the base is expected by July. *
U. S.-JAP EXCHANGE JUNE 10 | WASHINGTON, June 3 (U. P.).—|
The first exchange of American and Japanese diplomats and newspapermen interned since the outbreak of
the war will begin June 10 when two ships sail simultaneously from New York and a Japanese port, it
is understood here.
Mrs. Green Green will tour California, Texas and Virginia be-
fore returning to Indianapolis.
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By UNITED PRESS The axis propaganda machines got their signals crossed today and unintentionally gave a vivid demonstration of how axis news is made. Berlin radio, quoting “Vichy sources,” broadcast that an unidentified submarine fired a tor-
pedo at the British aircraft carrier Eagle near Gibraltar which
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mander saw it coming and turned
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A few hours later, radio Rome
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added that the Eagle “immediately filed to Gilbraltar.” It was then Tokyo's turn and the Japanese didn't wait long. Radio Tokyo, quoting “Berlin
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in planning battle formations and in obtaining information on enemy fortifications and movements. They look something like a cannon, and cost about $3400 apiece.
The aerial cameraman can plot wide territories in bold relief so that army or navy intelligence can make accurate measurements territory. We need
and navy. You can help buy them with your purchases of war bonds. Invest at least 10 per cent of your every pay day, and help