Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1942 — Page 9

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TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1942 |

Washington

WASHINGTON, June 16.—The scrap rubber drive has got started largely through the urgings of Secretary Ickes. It will tell us how much scrav rubber we have. Then there can be no further argument about our rubber situation. Why the argument has been allowed to ge on until this late date is hard to understand. The first thing that Pearl Harbor told us was that we wouldn't get any more rubber. Six months later we begin finding out how much salvage rubber we have. It is typical of the jinx that has hung over the subject of rubber. Even last week, after it was apparent that we had to check up on scrap rubber before public sentiment would be satisfied as to the necessity of general! rationing, the WPB was opposing the special quickie drive now starting. WPB had a general junk salvage campaign in preparation and it didn't want to be upset by making a special rubber drive. Secretary Ickes and the oil industry worked out a quick collection plan and finally persuaded the president to go ahead with it.

As Long as They Understand—

FULL PUBLIC co-operation in this drive will go far toward ending the demeralizing controversy. There is a lesson in this experience. It is that willing acceptance of restrictions can be expected only if the government takes the trouble to make it clear how and why the resirictions are necessary. The press has had a large pat on the back for voluntarily withholding the news of the Molotov visit until it was released by the government. The fact

Ernie Pyle is now in Washington, getting ready to go abroad. He hopes to start within the next few weeks.

By Raymond Clapper

that Molotov was here was known among newspapermen. Molotov lived in the Blair house, opposite the State department, on Pennsylvania ave. near 17th st. one of the busiest locations in Washington. The press and radio were asked to make no reference to his presence for the reason that the safety of his return to Moscow might be jeopardized. When the reason was clear, there was no argument. It was a big news event but there was no protest at the suppression. The reason was sufficient on its

face.

It's Right at the Top

YOU HAVEN'T HEARD any serious balking at gasoline rationing in the east, because the reason was made clear. Everybody knew it was transportation difficulty. The reason was sufficient on its face and the public accepted it without much resistance, The rubber shortage 1s without doubt acute. No person in any positicn of responsibility with regard to the rubber supply has any doubt of it. But so many conflicting statements have been made that the public is skeptical. Officials who hesitate to say what the public does not want to hear have encouraged this suspicion by making hints that something may turn up. If the government had begun weeks ago to round up scrap and get the evidence clear, much of the questioning and opposition would have melted away in face of the obvious necessity. The administration is overhauling its information services to co-ordinate the numerous government publicity offices, so they will all tell the same story. The trouble goes higher up than the information offices of the government. The men running the war effort get around the table at the White House twice a week or oftener. It ought to be possible for them to agree on the facts and stick to them, or else keep still until the facts can be obtained.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

IF THE SERVICE in your favorite store or restaurant isn't up to its old standard, don't let it upset vou. Have patience and thus save your own—and others’ nerves. There probably never was a time when the local labor turnover was greater. An executive of one of the larger downtown stores says his store has had better than a 40 per cent labor turnover in the last year, “And when they quit,” he said, “it's usually to have a baby, or to go to Allison's.” The big defense plants—Allison, RCA, Bridgeport Brass, Cur-tiss-Wright, Naval Ordnance—and many of the smaller ones, too, have used high wages to lure thousands of workers away from the lower paid service trades in recent months. To replace them, it has been necessary in many instances to hire “green” help. The result has been a headache, both for the public and management, not to mention the help. And so, if you can overlook a clerk or waitress’ bungling do it. The chances are you'll feel better, and we know she will, Save your cuss words for the Japs.

Just Snooping AROUND TOWN: Pat lunching at Craig's. . . front Kresge's haired artist dash off genuine water colors which he . . . Soldierly looking, club swinging

SEEN Flynn, the u ial

I'he crowd on the watching a

banker

sidewalk in of white-

offers at 35 cents military policemen keeping order in the bus terminal. . . Pvt. Harry Morrison (ex of The Times’ sport desk) back in town on a week-end furlough from Chanute field where he's studying to be an army in other words, a weather man Sergt. Harry Smenner ex of The United Press) back home greeting friends . Signs in all the store win-

meteorologist—

dows reminding us that Sunday is Father's day. (Hope poor Father doesn't have to pay the bills.)

Why Not Just Let It Grow?

DON ABEL is looking for an army tank or maybe a couple of grass-eating mountain goats to solve his lawn problem. At his home at 5207 N. Capitoi ave.—right at the top of the hill—he has what he considers the steepest terrace in town. Cutting the grass on it is no child's play. He's tried wearing his spiked golf shoes when he pushed the mower, but that didn't work. He even tied ropes to the handle of the mower and tried to let it down and pull it back up the terrace that way. All in all, it must be quite a problem. . , . In Cincinnati attending a war chest meeting, Stanley Shipnes (Sears) had a difficult time convincing a long distance operator that he wasn't a “Mr. Shipes of Appalachicola.” At first he thought it was a joke by some of his waggish friend, but he finally found there really was a Mr. Shipes.

No Mean City

WE WHO LIVE here seldom notice it, but a visitor entering the city on N. Meridian st. must receive a pretty nice impression of Indianapolis. To get an idea of what we mean, just start at 16th st. and drive south some sunny afternoon when there are a few fleecy white clouds in the blue sky. Then notice the score or so of colorful flags flying, the wide open spaces of the plaza, the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument in the background, the massive World War memorial to the left, and the generally attractive appearance of the entire scene, . , , The thrice daily march of several hundred sailors from the Butler fieldhouse to the Butler canteen for their meals provides a regular field day for the neighboring kids. The boys and girls line up and salute the gobs and sometimes they sing for them-—such songs as “Anchors Aweigh.” Occasionally the sailors relax their military dignity and return the kids’ salutes, and sometimes their squad leader even has them march zig-zag fashion. That really brings cheers from the kids.

Thank Airpower By Maj. Al Williams

NEW YORK, June 16.—The rapid swing of fortunes in this war may soon amaze the world. Consider the series of heavy British air raids against the Ruhr and the vital manufacturing areas of western Germany. A few hours before the raids began, Germany was looking to those areas for the machinery and supplies to keep her field forces operating. Then, in 80 minutes, those essential facilities were reduced to masses of smoking ruins. A few hours before their contact with the American air ang naval forces west of Midway, the Japs had about 11 more warships than they possessed after the battle developed. In this victory for our navy we find again that battleships—Jap battleships, this time—are unable to defend themselves against task forces composed of hit-and-run surface craft. Except for their Pearl Harbor surprise attack the Japs have been working on relatively short lines of communications, with the advantages in their Their new attack on Midway with carriers, battleships, cruisers and transports indicates that the Pacific war is moving into a secondary phase of attempted invasion of points far east of the areas which they have been operating. This puts us technically on the defensive, but it holds vast possibilities upon which our alert naval leaders can and will play for all they are worth.

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Changing the Whole Picture

has been done to all such forces when shore-based air units could get at them. In our Midway victory, the Japs lost two and possibly three carriers—specially built surface craft which cannot readily be replaced, to say nothing of their planes and their highly trained crews—and this loss undoubtedly will have a great influence on their sea strategy from here on. The destruction of those carriers is far more important to us than all the other surface craft the Japs lost in that engagement, including the battleships and cruisers. No amount of battleship strength can possibly make up for those two or three carriers, for no major sea force can move as a fieet seeking the enemy, nor as escort for invasion transports, without protection by carriers.

On the Road to Victory EACH JAP CARRIER badly damaged or sunk is another brick in our wall against a successful invasion of Alaska, Midway, Pearl Harbor or our West Coast. The same observations will apply to American strategy in what may become the third stage of the Pacific war—the recapture of Jap island strongholds. We will have to storm those islands, with air. sea and landpower invasion forces, attacking enemy positions which have shore-based air forces.

Ten times the strength of any surface naval force we could muster could not accomplish that Job unless it was spearheaded by carrier-borne fighting air forces. This is where we begin to give the Jap strategists great cause for worry through our determination to further expand our already enormous aircraft building program.

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Fitting Wor

Training Time Reduced

By Using Those Skilled

In Similar

Occupations

By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, June 16.—War has taken men from the job of filling cream puffs in a bakery and put them to filling shells or cartridge cases in a munitions plant. Men can take their hands from the making of inner tubes and put those same hands and skills to work making rubber assault boats for invasion of enemy lands.

The mechanic who used

to tinker with the engine of

the family jallopy now adjusts the 400-horsepower engines

of tanks.

Such dramatic change-overs will be made from all sorts of peacetime industries to the essential jobs of war. And it will be done at a minimum cost of time and with-

out wastage of precious human resources, because of the careful plans already laid before Pearl Harbor by job experts of the U. S. employment service. In time of peace, these experts prepared for war. Originally aimed at the world's recurring war against the great enemy, unemployment, a nine-year program of research on jobs was ready to go into immediate action when War came,

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Check 40,000,000

NOW THESE job experts are able to tell the manpower commission just where to turn for labor trained in the peculiar skills of hand or eye or arm which are so needed for war production. Study of the jobs of war and the jobs of peace has revealed which are so closely related in terms of the human traits required that they can be grouped together in the same “job family.” A complete survey of available American manpower is being obtained through the selective service system. Forty million men of all ages from high school age

on up to three score and five have checked a list of 188 jobs to indicate those for which they have any training or experience, As listed on the selective service questionnaire, the jobs carry the names by which they are best known to the public. Actually the 189 job names include some 650 different occupations. The man who checks the term airplane mechanic may have worked at any of eight different jobs—all of them essential to war production and all facing a shortage of workers. Some of the job names listed are general enough to cover as many as 20 different occupations, But many of those listed are related in the same job family. The man who checks ‘“toolmaker” is also potential raw material for a job as a diemaker or an instrument maker. And some of the jobs listed are not important at all in America's growing war industry. They are there because the qualifications for them are so much like those for jobs that are essential.

Search ‘Family Tree’

CLOSEST JOB to that of the automatic screw machine opera-

tors needed so badly in war industries is found in the textile industry. There, screw machine operators are employed under many other different job names. You will find “textile machine operator” listed on the selective service occupations questionnaire. To fill an essential job in a war industry, the first step of the government experts is to search the “family tree” of that occupation to see what related job in a nonessential peace industry employing large numbers of workers is the closest “cousin.” Often the non-essential “cousin” is so closely related that very little training is required before the men can step right into the essential war job. Here is how the job experts, under the direction of Dr. C. L. Shartle, trace occupational families for this new sort of job genealogy. First step was the setting up of a dictionary of “work done” verbs which would best describe the principal job of each occupation. Joining, heating, mixing, machining, rigging, measuring, spraying, designing and dyeing—these are a few of the hundreds that will give you an idea of how they go. Then each of these is broken down into more specific tasks. Joining, for example, includes nailing, gluing, winding, welding, sewing.

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Fit Workers to Tools

AFTER THE related occupas= tions are sorted according to the sort of work done, the next step is to sort them according to the

kind of machine or tools used. Third step is to find out the degree of accuracy required—is it a precision job or one that can be done slap-dash? Fourth step is to find the answer to the question—what is reguired of the worker. Does he have to be strong, clever with his hands, have unusual eyesight, eyehand co-ordination, or ability to follow complex written directions? Fifth step is to consider the kinds of materials used in the work. To sew canvas is not quite the same as to sew silk crepe, and the surgeon who must sew up a wound has an altogether different job still. When all this sorting has been done for the essential war job and for all the related occupations, the job expert is ready to prepare the job family tree. It appears finally in a series of tables. The first table includes all the jobs that are practically twin brothers to the war job that must be filled.

Pitching the Old Woo

Astronomer Fancied Himself as Experienced Lover Says Young Wife Who Denies Charges of Infidelity. OAKLAND, Cal, June 16 (U. P.) Astronomer Damon Beard, 25,

fancied himself an experienced

lover and frequently came home

smeared with lipstick and suffering from ‘severe alcoholic sickness,” according to his wife, Virginia, 20, in contesting his divorce suit. Mrs, Beard sought to match the testimony of her husband who

said his action is “a campaign against vice” fidelity with nearly a dozen men. |

She recalled the night he told her he had spent with a deal mute friend in Sacramento. Later, she said, she learned he had been out with a couple of girls named Grace and Sally. Her attorney. Edward Craig, wanted to know what the University of California teacher looked

and accused her of in-

NURSE FROM BATAAN BACKS UP SHERMAN

| WASHINGTON, June 16 (U. P.). | —One of the army nurses who {escaped from Bataan to Corregidor

WAR BONDS

Hitler found out that his high powered mechanized and motorized army bogged down in the snow and mud of the Russian winter. Although our army is largely mechanized the cavalry horse is still a highly essential factor in this mounted division and in the field artillery. The army also maintains remount farms where many cavalry horses are bred and raised.

From toys to tools of war is a womanpower conversion completed without a minute’s delay. That is because the same girl (upper left and upper right) uses the same electric screwdriver to assemble parachute flare casings in the afternoon that she used in the morning

for Junior's train. Above,

two men checking the 400-horsepower

Wright Whirlwind engine for a 28-ton tank make use of the same “family” of related skills that were used in peacetime on the family

flivver,

Little or no training would be required for the man who was taken from such a closely related job .and put into the war job. Then, as we go down the family tree, succeeding tables: include jobs differing from the key job at first only perhaps in a single characteristic, but later in more and more. All are, however, like the key job in some way or in several ways. The job of gauge inspector is one of the bottlenecks of manpower. The demand far exceeds the available supply. Yet to become efficient in all the phases of this job would require years of experience and training — years during which the war must be won. To short-cut the obviously impractical job of training raw recruits for this important job, the occupational experts worked out a family tree for gauge inspectors including only those occupations which occur in industries that cannot continue peacetime production on account of shortages.

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Precise Work Involved

FOUR INDUSTRIES contribute to the first branch of most closely related . occupations. These are jobs which involve precise meas~ urements of materials, parts or assemblies, with the use of micrometers, calipers or gauges and the reading of blueprints, Stove manufacturing has a job called “atomizer specialist.” Radio has what they call a “check inspector.” Automobile factories employ “thickness inspectors” and

“gaugers.” And the electric equip= ment industry has finishing ine spectors, shaft inspectors, microms eter inspectors, circulating-process inspectors and raw material inspectors, o uo n

From Peace to War

BUT STOVES and console ra=dios, automobiles and waffle irons are out for the duration, These

workers are first line of supply now for war production manpower. - The second branch of occupations involve the setting up of a precision machine for shaping metal products or the operating of the precision machine. The clock and watch industry has men who can do these things --fox-lathe operations, underturn=ers and wheel cutters. In a third branch of the family are the workers who test machines or mechanical assemblies for satisfactory performance. Two additional industries may be tapped for this group. The office machine industry has a business machine inspector. There is a refrigerator tester in the refrigerating equipment industry. Ammunition factories need workers to operate automatic and semi-automatic machines for the loading of ammunition, Closest cousins to these jobs outside the ammunition industry were found in such widely differ= ent industries as bakeries, grain and feed mills, tobacco factories, fertilizer plants, brick and tile works, bedspring factories, ice cream factories and canneries.

Roines to Meet Again

Manual High Club to Hold Its 28th Annual Banquet and Miss Arda Knox Will Greet Her Former Pupils. Athletically, Shortridge and Manual high schools weren't speaking

in 1914,

That had been the situation for several years.

Too many pupils,

by one means or another, found themselves in White river when the

games were over.

And so two Manual pupils went to Miss Arda S. Knox, a teacher,

to see if something couldn't be done about bringing the schools together. The pupils were Edward A. Gardner, now of 4054 N. Illinois st., and Donald Kraull,

now of the San Francisco Call- |

Bulletin. y Their conference with Miss

Knox was the start of the Roines |

two !

| American Mercury by Thurman A. Arnold, “Profit of Prosperity.” About 200 men and women probably will be back—living again as Manual high school honor pupils.

SPONSOR CARD PARTY Keystone auxiliary, O. E. S., will

‘and later to Australia today confirmed Sherman's opinion of war— | “it's hell.” She is Lieut. Mary Lohr, now

| sponsor a card party at the Wm, | H. Block Co. auditorium at 1:30 |p. m. tomorrow, Mrs. Alice Beave er, president, has charge of are

like whe) he came home. “He looked like he'd been romancing all night,” said Mrs “He looked like he'd been

AN ATTEMPT TO carry the Pacific war 2000 and more miles eastward in the Pacific means that Jap aircraft carriers, escorted by heavier ships of the line

Our decision to waylay battieship construction and concentrate on building 500,000 tons of carriers —perhaps 25 of them—and, meanwhile, the whittling

club at Manual, one of the few high school organizations in the city that remains “important” to

including battleships, must be exposed to our shorebased air forces. This in itself holds out for us opportunity to do to Jap surface forces just what

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday. —The Flag day ceremony in the state dining room at the White House yesterday afternoon was very impressive. The flags of the united nations were placed in ag circle and underneath each flag stood the representative of his country. At the table, in the middle of the room, sat the president and the secretary of state with the Mexican ambassador and President Quezon of the Philippines, who were joining the united nations. The president read Stephen Benet's beautiful praver. which I am giving in part in the hope all will cut it out and keep it with them. “God of the free, we pledge our lives and hearts today to the cause of all free mankind. “Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all free men and nations. Grant us faith and understanding to cherish all those who fight for freedom as if they were our brothers. Grant us brotherhood in hope and union, not only for the

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down of existing Jap carrier strength, as in the Midway battle, mean that we're on the road to victory.

By Eleanor Roosevelt!

space of this bitter war, but for the days to come which shall and must unite all the children of the earth.

“Our earth is but a small star in the great uniYet, of it, we can make if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, un-| : divided by senseless distinctions of race, color o| ha § Jucory it made nim s mote

verse.

theory. Grant us that courage and foreseeing to begin this task today so that our children and our children's children may be proud of the name of men. “Yet, most of all, grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years—a brotherhood not of words, but of acts and deeds. We are all of us

children of earth—grant us that simple knowledge. | If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed.

If they hunger, we hunger. If their freedom is taken away, our freedom is not secure.

“Grant us a common faith that man shall know,

Beard. pitching a little of the old wo00.” Superior Judge James G. Quinn confessed perplexity at what constituted “woo.” “Oh, you know what woo is,” said Mrs. Beard, “and his face was a smear of lipstick.” She also said Damon bragged about his associations with other women. “He said being married gave him a big advantage over a singie man,” Mrs. Beard testified. “He

experienced lover.” Mrs. Beard denied entertaining men alone at home and complained, on the other hand, that mice ran through the house every night because Damon fed them cheese in the hope of taming them.

0. E. 8. TO NOTE BIRTHDAYS Englewood auxiliary, O. E. S,, will

bread and peace—that he shall know justice and meet tomorrow in Englewood Marighteousness, freedom and security, an equal op-|sonic temple, 2714 E. Washington portunity and an equal chance to do his best, not/st. Members whose birthdays fall only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And|in April, May and June will be

in that faith let us march toward the clean world| honored. Mrs. Mabel Pollock,

our hands can make. Amen.”

presi-

recuperating at Walter Reed hospital from the effects of diseases which at one time brought 80 per cent of the Bataan defenders to field hospitals. “I saw a young soldier who hadn't had anything to eat in eight days except three glasses of pineapple juice,” she said. “He came into the hospital suffering from malnutrition, and was almost starved. The next day when I saw him his leg had been shot off by the Japs.” She said there were medical supplies in the southern islands, but there were no ships to carry them to Bataan or Corregidor. “At first we had 10 grains of quinine a day,” She said. “As the supply ran low, only the patients who needed it got it. Finally no one had it. Eighty per cent of us had malaria, dysentery or diarrhea. |My temperature was 102. But we all worked on.”

G. A. R. LADIES TO MEET

T. W. Bennett circle 23, Ladies of the G. A. R, will meet at 1 p. m. Thursday in Ft. Friendly, 512 N. Illinois st.

These select horses cost from $100 to $1656 and our crack cavalrymen are expert riders and carry on the traditions which have followed the cavalry from the earliest days of the army. Purchase of war savings bonds will insure good mounts for the cavalry. You and your neighbors buying war bonds and stamps regularly every pay day can help buy these horses for the U. S. cavalry. Invest at least 10 per cent of your income in war bonds.

CLASS PLANS WIENER ROAST The first aid class under the direction of John L. Mason, which has been meeting at the Floyd Jones studio, 20th and Delaware sts., will have a wiener roast at Washington park Thursday evening. The committee in charge includes Paul Jones, Lilia Eads and Virginia

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its members long after they're out of school. Tomorrow night the Associated Roines alumni organization will

rangements.

HOLD EVERYTHING

hold its 28th annual banquet at |

the Second Reformed Pleasant and Shelby sts. And, as usual, Miss Knox, who knows thousands of former Manual pupils by their first names, will be on hand. And chances are she will make a little talk, as usual. This time, Miss Knox she'll probably talk about building up a Roines club scholarship fund.

church,

said, |

The club is principally a scholastic organization now and last year | started to give scholarships. This |

year $100 awards were given to Robert Elder and Herman Tilly. W. 8S. Barnhart, Manual vice principal, is to be inducted as an honorary member, an honor which is widely sought,

The principal speaker will be | Dan W. Flickinger, Indianapolis |

insurance man who graduated three years before the club was organized. He's to make an address based on an article in the