Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1942 — Page 9

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" Homer Vagabond

SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Aug. 5. —In this column I will try to give you a general idea of the mental attitude of the American soldiers who _ are the ‘vanguard of the new A. E. P. Some of them have been here going on six months now, others only a short while, but

their feelings are all about the same. I have now traveled enough

and lived enough with the troops that I think I have a pretty good idea of their general outlook. Basically it is this— 1, They are impatient to get into action—not because of any thirst for war but because they want to get it over with and get home. ' Getting home is the real point. But they know they may. not see home again till the fighthe is done, land they are tired of waiting. I saw the other day that a poll showed 48 per cent of the American people /in favor of opening a second front this

summer. I am sure a similar poll among the Amer-.

ican troops in northern Ireland would go 99 per cent for an immediate descent on the continent. 2. The soldiers say they have reached the peak of their army schooling. In America they learned about all there was to learn short of actual combat. And now that they are just busily marking time, it seems anticlimactic to them.

No Kick Against the Army

3. THEY DON'T DISLIKE Ireland, but they miss + America’s weather. No matter how well they may fall in with the local community, they miss above all

+ things their home companionships. They miss Amer-

ican things. They feel that things at hqme are not only different from. things over here, but that they are better. Time after time I have heard a soldier say that he now appreciates his home town—which he had never thought much of before.

4. In general there is no kick at all against the army. Without exception the men praise ‘the army

food. And it seems to me that they like their officers|

better than our soldiers did in the last war. As for money, they are getting more now than they know what to do with. 5. Oddly enough, they don’t mind the rather primitive way most of them are living. They have adjusted themselves to it quickly. It isn’t the physical inconvenience they dislike, it’s the waiting for action. Time Aloesn’t hang heavy, for they are kept pretty busy. It’s

just ‘that they want to get the fight finished and

get home,

They Miss the Little News

6. THEY MISS THE small news from home. Over}

here they get the headline news, but none of what we might call the second-stratum American news—such things as an explosion in Iowa, a train wreck in Pennsylvania, a heat wave in Kansas, Ralph Ingersoll joining the army, or the latest effects of’gas rationing. They devour the Stars and Stripes, 4 en I get

to London I'm going to suggest that it carry one page| a week of just this type of news from home. And I'll

bet a shilling to tuppence that nothing comes of it. 7. The soldiers’ time is too occupied for much philosophizing or introspection. “8. When they boys left their home towns to go

into the army some of them may have done so in a|

spirit of adventure. But. life right now is neither adventurous nor romantic to them. It is just everyday soldiering. 9. Despite their wich to be home, practically all the boys are proud and glad to be over here instead of stymied in some camp back in America. 10. Taken all in all, the viduals and units are pretty

world. J I guess that’s what it takes to win a war.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

EVAN WALKER wonders how many new cuss words have been invented by men trying to make ‘their cuffless trousers hang on ordinary pant hangers. It's d&z!?/$* annoying to find a pressed pair of trou‘sers on the wardrobe floor. Evan seemed downright grateful, when we suggested two remedies: (1) Glue some felt or something like it inside the old hangers or (2) buy some better hangers. .. . The county rationing board has received a letter from Lieut. (j. g) Harrison S. Miller, the former local\ newspaper and publicity man. Writes Harrison from San Francisco: “Please accept the inclesed ration book, I am departing from continental United States in service of U. S. navy. Should I reach Tokyo for tea, I presume sugar will be furnished there.” Might be, Harrison, might be, providing you boys raise - enough cain over there.

‘A Low-Down Trick

THE HUSBAND of one of the women injured in the accident in front of Ayres’ a couple of weeks ago tells us that some depraved person pilfered his wife's purse while she lay helpless on the sidewalk. Preity low, we call it. . . . A story going the rounds is that some one out.at Allison : phony badge bearing the ture of' Hitler “and the guy got past 18 guides.” And so, the story concludes, the guards are getting pretty tough on carrying out their duties. We don’t know what happened out at Allison. if anything, but the reason the guards are more zealous these days probably is the fact they're

“ 4n the federal service now and thus subject to court-

martial. , , . A reader wants to know what those signal

Washington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—Our trouble, said one army officer to me, is that as a people we are looking

for a cure-all to win the war ih some easy way. That

observation, made not in any spirit 6f complaint but in the course of a matter-of-fact appraisal of where we stand, struck me as having a good deal of point just now. Our instinct tells us—and you may be sure that the information in Washington supports it—that we have a much harder fight on our hands than we thought some time ago. Naturally we look for some trick way that will spare us the agony of winning the hard way. For instance, the cargo plane is an essential of modern war. Manufacture has been going on for some time. In fact, its usefulness is so obvious that in our eager search for a short cut we begin to dream of enormous fleets of cargo planes carrying as much as freight cars, taking the place of surface ships. There are proposals to shift from shipbuilding to cargo planes, even to shift from bomber production “to cargo planes. If you allow yourself to dream a moment you can see all of our supply problems overcome: by using thousands of flying freight cars. Such dreams begin with a practical idea, but inflate it until it assumes grotesque shape that. loses all touch with reality.

It’s a Production Problem

MANY PEOPLE are impatient that the 1000-plane raids over Germany have not been maintained. Yet the enormous tankloads of gasoline consumed, the losses of crews and planes which drain replacements, create many difficulties of which. the bystander is unaware. In flying to India and China last spring, I had several _opportunities to observe the enormous effort required to keep in the air even. ithe pitifully small force of planes there..

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.— Yesterday was such a clear and beautiful day that we went to the top of the hill back of my cottage for a picnic on the porch . of the president's little cottage. He—has had vistas cut, so he: as you sit on his porch, if. the weather is clear, you can see the Catskill mountains to the north and “straight down across the Hudson river. By walking a very short distance from the highest point of all, one can get a view of the foothills of the Berskshires and the Shawangunk range to the south. We all enjoyed ourselves, except the poor cat. She had to be shut up ‘because she went after a little dog that was completely intimidated by her. Fortunately, as we. left, I remembered she must be given her freedom

/ iy and the closet door was o

pened. In the late afternoon I had to meet a train, and chen go to the library for the opening of an exhibi-

Hon of “Paintings of f Dutchess. County, ? hid Instbers

xed up a ‘stooge witha

"flags on the navy mast at the southwest corner of the

federal building indicate. We checked, and they stand for—USN. Appropriate, isn't it?

Women and the Law

HERBERT KENNEY, director of the state legislative bureau, received a letter from a woman who said she was having some trouble and would he please send her all the laws concerning women. Herb wrote back that there are 12 volumes of Burns’ Revised statutes and practically every single law in them affects women as well as men. . , . Scraped with a finger in the dust on the rear of a bus: Pass quietly please—driver asleep. . . . Frank Maloney, superintendent of the General Protestant Orphans association, is going into the foreign service for the Red Cross. His wife is going to take over his duties here. . Virginia Samsell, executive secretary of the Camp Fire Girls, is taking leave of absence, effective Aug. 15, for the Red Cross’ hospital recreation service.

Turns Tomato Picker

MISS GRACE A. SPEER, executive secretary of the Art Association of Indianapolis, has volunteered

her services as a tomato picker during part of her|-

vacation. She looks on it as patriotic service combined with outdoor exercise every bit as good as playing golf or riding horseback—her favorite sports. Sheil sinyest her tomato money, in war stamps maybe a bond if she picks ‘tomatoes fast enough. . . . Mrs. C. ‘Lewis: Green, mother of seven children, received a questionnaire the other day from her alma mater—Wilson college—asking certain personal data. There were only four lines for the names of her children. She managed to crowd all seven names in the space, then added a postscript: *“Aren’t-Wilson alumnae supposed to have more than four children?”

By Raymond Clapper

Simon Lake, the pioneer submarine designer, proposes cargo submarines, large enough also to transport 2500 troops. If you can build a small submarine you can build a large one. But how long would it take? That always is a question in this war. These are not crackpot ideas i /principle. But the physical task of production impikes stern limits. Archimedes said that if he had a lever strong enough and a fulcrum strong enough he could lift the earth. His principle was sound, but he was up against a production problem.

Don’t Expect Any Miracles

I MAY SEEM TO belittle imagination and boldness. but that is not the purpose. We are up against bold and imaginative enemies. We shall need every ounce of those qualities ourselves. We have been slow in some respects; slow to develop airpower, slow to break away from the battleship. Our army was indifferent to gliders until the Germans used them. We need to outdo our enemies in imagination. But we can learn something else from them, the thing that I suppose my military friend had in mind. It is that with all the tricks that can be employed, there still remains a lot of hard pedestrian plugging to do. Hitler used the blitz, heavy bombing, the dive bombers, air troop carriers, gliders and parachutists. But he depended on no one of these alone. He still had to go through hard, gruelling cainpaigns as the Japanese troops have had to do. To win thus far they have used everything. They tried short cuts but they did not win the war. ven” a we shall have the same experience. We are pot likely to find a simple formula or simple|: device for victory any more than Hitler has found one, * With all of his advanced military technique he .s finding the road hard and paved with the mangled bodies of his own men. No miraculous short cut has worked for him, and we will save ourselves bitter dissphefiment if we cease expecting a miracle on our side, .

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

The association had chosen 11 winning pictures, which are to be photographed for a calendar. The 12th is to be chosen by the public, so everybody was asked to vote and the voting will continue until the close of the exhibition at the end of this month. * This morning Miss Thompson and I are going to

New York City. After speaking at Teachers’ college, Columbia university, tonight, I shall take the night train to Washington. I have a letter from Mrs. Nathan Straus of me American Women’s Voluntary Services, asking me if I would not remind women everywhere in the country that they should take a home nursing course. There are two reasons for this, Wherever possible, people with minor ailments should be: cared for at home, because hospital facilities at present are being taxed to the utmost. Their resources are being so

+ largely drawn upon, that hospital care must of neces-

sity be limited. Secondly, people who must go to hospitals will be returned as convalescents sooner than usual and more knowledge of home nursing is necessary. The volunteer nurses’ aids are being trained by the hospitals; but of course, rd his uaining. it Tiling to tye of.

By Ernie Pyle|

The useless ruins of buildings and desolate streets wen all that the Russians left for the Nast invaders : of Kerch, port on the Kerch peninsula of the Crimea.

Italians, saplired by the British before they were driven ouf of Libya, are being taken

- a prison camp via transport,

OUTLAW PRESS

HAUNTS NAZIS §

Underground Papers Urge Occupied Europe to. Fight Back.

and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. - SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, Aug. 5. — e than 200 illegal newspapers, operating under the very ‘eyes of the gestapo, appear daily in ‘occupied Europe and exhort the popu-

lations of conquered territories to}:

rise against their oppressors. The editors, distributors printers of the clandestine sheets keep their identity a well-guarded secret for exposure would mean the firing squad. Most of the “freedom” papers are

published in innocent-looking attics] |

or cellars; some are printed in woodmen’s shacks or small caves buried deep in forests. “Lookouts

and

and “grapevine” messengers warn| gia

the editors of approaching gestapo investigators with the result that the entire plant, usually consisting of only a small handpress, is whisked away to new quarters to escape detection. Poles Most Daring Most daring and enterprising among the underground newsmen are the Poles. They front-page political and war news picked up on “forbidden” wave lengths of American or British broadcasts. . The Poles even print special newspapers for children.

“Deadline” for the Polish papers ,

falls on market day when the peasants go to town to sell their produce.

‘The papers are hidden in sacks of}

vegetables or fruits and are sold to “reliable” patrons. There is no fixed price for such papers. One is even marked: “As much as you can give, and, if you realize what's at stake, even more.” Czech newspapermen have had to contend with increasing German | vigilance since. the assination of “Hangman” Reinhard Heydrich, reich’s protector for Bohemia and Moravia. Despite this ruthless suppression, however, no less .than two dozen illegal sheets still * circulate in Praha alone, a reliable Soucy from that city reports. Used Chain Letters

When the German invasion of April, 1940, cut off Norway from the rest of the world, the populace de-

pended at first on the chain letter|

for news of what was happening outside of the German sphere of influence. Now underground newspapers are plaguing Maj. Vidkun Quisling, Hitler's puppet ruler. PAIN, both Catholic and 8 e, are indefatigable workers in the cause of Molland’s underground press. Religious papers, of which tnere are a score, constantly exhort the Dutch tol. sabotage German efforts to co-ordi-nate Holland with the new order| and urge continued Tesistance against Nazi rule. France's illegal newspapers enjoy ‘wide circulation in both the occupied and unoccupied territories. Some are printed on machines, often

stolen from big plants; others are!

mimeographed and some are printed | on toy handpresses. One De Gaul-

Sopiuie sea his. sheet proudly

: gp n v when they marched into the Soviet city

open. formation over the

This picture; made at night, shows the end of a JU-88 German bomber shot down by. anti-aircraft fire over ‘the Nile delta area. Searchlight at right played an important part in downing the enemy.

WARNS SWISS GUARD LIBERTY

Army Chief Tells Youth of .Bern to Beware of «Propaganda.

By PAUL GHALI

BERN, Aug. 5.—Addressing Bernese youth, on Aug, 1—Switzerland’s independence day—Gen, Henri Guisan, head of the small, but eminently well-trained Swiss drmy, declared that the Swiss place in Europe's

new’ order can only be that of a}

“free country.” He warned Swiss. youths not to

let themselves be impressed by “in-' sidious propaganda” and reminded). his audience that military service

was their paramount ‘duty. The Swiss today wish to remain faithful to their flag and the tradition of ‘independence of their forefathers, the general said..

FDR Greetings Bared

These powerful words, coming from the elected army chief of this small democratic island of peace in BEurope’s turbulent sea, were only released for publication today. The federal chancery simultaneously released the names of heads of state who addressed telegrams to Swiss t Philippe Etter- on He occasion of the national fes-

ve) ele Roosevelt heads the list, followed by- various presidents of the South American’ republics and Marshal Philippe Petain, Vichy-France's chief of state. The only other European country represented in the official list is Slovakia.

* PLAN “PARDIECK PICNIC : “ The sixth annual’ reunion of the Pardieck family will be held Aug. 16 -Shield’s park in Seymour. Mar-

r-ftin ek of Seymour: is resi-

Ing

WAR BONDS

When an air raid comes, the lives of your loved ones may depend on the range and altitude: finder. : This device is. an essen= tial element. in anti-aircraft fire control. 1t is an optical instrument, designed to mathematically and automatically compute firing data required.

' One of these devices: costs about $20,000 and we need hundreds of them. You can help pay for them by investing at.least ten per cent - of your income :in war bonds every payday. A payroll allotment pledge at your place of em-~ ployment is the easiest method of war bond investment—and at maturity will pay you $ for every $3 you invest. °

11TH DISTRICT G. 0. P. WOMEN ENTERTAIN Eleventh district ' Republican ‘women will entertain presidents of | local Republican clubs, ward chairwonten + and ‘precinct -committeewomen ‘at 7:30 p m. Friday in the ballroom of the - Columbia club. The meeting is offe of a series being held in preparation for the coming election.

Barker Snodgrass of Nashville, state

vice chairman; Mrs. Mary Compton, Tipton, ‘state vice ‘director of Young! Republicans,

| cent-of-payroll participation,

Guests will include Mrs. Eleanor |

HOSIERY BOND PLAN PRAISED

Morgenthau Says It Sets Pattern for Other Industries.

Joint . management-labor establishment of a war bond payroll allottment plan in the hosiery in-

‘|'dustry today was described in Washington ‘by Treasury Secretary Mor-

genthau as “setting a pattern which

may well be followed in many other |.

American industries.” "The campaign, with a goal of $5,000,000 within a year through 100 per cent-of-personnel and 10 per was set-up by: the American Federation of Hosiery Workers (C. I. O.) and three manufacturers’ associations. The federation’s Indianapolis local is Branch 3), of which Donald L. Edison is president and business agent. : The three ménufacturers’ associations are the Full-Fashioned Hosiery Manufacturer's of America, of which the Real Silk mills are a member; the Keystone Hosiery Manufacturers’ association .and the Guild Hosiery conference. Secretary Morgenthau wired the “hosiery war bond. committee’s: head‘quarters in Philadelphia: “I am especiallly” pleased because this is an ‘undertaking which is based on the work of a joint committee on which labor and management are equally represented. n" Cominittees representing. both the trade associations and the union branches will be assigned to bring ‘to every mill owner and worker the ‘war savings “message.”

SE a ATR a MEETS ATH & 8

The monthly meeting of ‘district

‘and _ Mrs, | ogi edo

Lieut. Gen. McNaughton of Canada may lead second front,

J Infantry of Australian divisional units in the battle of the western desert advance ki ;

dunes,

BRITISH WAGE ISSUE REVIVED

Inequalities Are Reduced 0 But Continue to Rise Under Present Policy.

op By HELEN KIRKPATRICK | | Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Tinie

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LONDON, Aug. 5—The necessity

‘I for a new government approach to

the wage control problem is again under discussion—revived to a cere tain extent by the seniroversy in the United States.

The government's plea to . the trades unions to prevent wages from rising is admitted’ to have been successful, up to a point. That point is now regarded as have risen to a level where ine equalities are now reduced but they are still continuing to rise. Some advocate that the governs ment imvose a general wage check, Others believe that such a policy would be undesirable in the extreme

split in labor quarters. Urge Direct Approach * These latter advise the governe ment: to make a direct approach to the trades unions to secure a hard and fast agreement from them on a national wages policy. ‘The London Times devotes its leading editorial to the subject tos day pointing out the great similari . ties between the situation here and “that in“The United States. Reviewing the government policy, it admits that time has proved that price fixing subsidies, rations ing and taxation have controlled inflationary tendencies. Wage ins creases have béen made on the basis of adjusting unduly low rates and compensating for greatly ine creased output. : Rise Not Steep AE “Wages have shown a steadily upward trend,” the Times writes of ‘the chancellor of the exchequer's last budget speech in which .he sought to Justify the government policy. Since the budget speech, howe ever, the Times states that wages have continued to move upward and cités the miners’ increase and the claims now being made by. elie gineers, railwaymen, building ope eratives (workers) and otheP groups. This necessitates a recone sideration of polies, the Times lieves.

HOLD EVERYTHING

and would cause an even greater ;