Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1942 — Page 11

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s BELFAST] Aug. 95—Soon we will leave North pa and the American troops, and go down for -®& look at a country which is not at war—variously known as Ireland, South Ireland, Eire, or the Irish : Free’ State. “history well enough in mind to * pleture clearly just how or why : the two Irelands are divided. It is hard to understand from 3000 miles ‘away; it is almost as hard to understand when you're on the spot. So, in -these next few columns, I'll try my hand at a little historical and geographical . treatise on Ireland. " It ‘might be well for

‘you to jot down a few notes’

about Eire. : : guesser, I wouldn't be surprised if events force her into the war one day. Ireland, as we will speak of-it in these columns means the entire

For, as a curbstone

island, for the present division into two Irelands came

only 20 years ago. Ireland is roughly oval, and about the of Indiana. At the closest point it is only 35 miles Irom the coast of Great Britain. But by boats Bésweet: £00d harbors Wie shorten Sosging is around

The Irish of today were originally Celts, who.

epparently through thousands of years of migration worked: from Egypt up through western Russia and around through Germany and France and finally across to Ireland. The Celts also went into Scotland, Wales and part of Cornwall in England, Even today, they say, a Welshman can understand ‘an. Irishman speaking Gaelic.

: The Story ie St. Putrick

IN THE BEGINNING the Irish were pagans, worhi pping idols. From all T can gather, they ‘began _ fighting the minute they ‘set foot on shore, and have

been at it ever since. They had kings of their own for many centuries, and a king who died in bed was

‘an odd king indeed. But even though they were brawlers, the pagan

P _ ‘julers went in for learning, too. In the second cen-

Jstyrocliegs of history, literature and niliey’ sci-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbatim

: WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY'S Fellowship Press at Noblesville finally has closed its doors. The emloyees were paid off last Friday and .the printing t left in the hands of two guards. Just thought you might be interested. . .. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Rogan (he’s president of the American National Bank) are vacationing at Lake Leelanau, Mich., near Leland. They won't be back. until after Labor day. Jim’s favorite vacation spot: is the seashore, but Michigan has to do this year. ++ « Major Wilford Brown, who as a national guard lieutenant was Goyernor Townsend’s pilot, is commander of a bomber squadron somewhere in" Africa, or - thereabouts, we hear from his friends. . Making a talk at the dedica$n of the Shakamak park bath house and beach last - “week-end, Conservation Chief Hugh Barnhart re- | marked that someone “ought to be congratulated for : Jetting a . bath - house ' dedication for Saturday.” > . Signs of things to come: +A man attired in a * fopooat was seen walking into the Hotel Harrison {esterday afternoon.

} nknown Destination

THE PHONE RANG one.dsy. last week at the 5 “It was son, Kim, calling

er Greenough residente. from Pt. Harrison where he had been inducted a few Jays earlier. He reported that he was being shipped : ‘unknown destination within two hours. Mr. x . Greenough, sure that his destination must i Chins, at the very least, rushed out to the fort the family car and managed to get five minutes him for a sad farewell. . Then they went home, in lohely silence, and were thinking of re1. Tope} t all. The have 780g Aguin. De-

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v2 WASHINGTON, -Aug. $5 Anzote who has read 5 “the dispatches about ‘the raid on the French coast : Jmust now begin to realize that this war will be long and bloody.” The experience in the Solomon islands “was to ‘the same effect. Neither Germany nor Japan -is ‘likely to crumble except under the impact of hard fighting. These two actions are sufficient to put everything here at home in its proper relationship. When men are. paying with their lives the price of victory, the price of the bare start toward victory, how can e quibble here over doing . whatever will help sustain those men who must carry the real load? This is the time to translate that obvious generality into practice. We are : all concerned about the war but ‘we haven't converted completely to it. - “Last week in New York taxicabs Were Paling arouad streets, making jackrabbit starts and crash stops, Ee sire up gasoline and tires as freely as in the old “days. You feel a ong way from the war around New * ¥ork. .

Is a New Grip Needed?

HENRY J. “KAISER is meeting - considerable re-

\ sistance in his cargo-plane program, as was to be exCP in view of the weak, folded-arms attitude to- _ ward his project in Washington. Bernard M. Faruch and his rubber committee, ap- * poltited months after they should have been put'to * work, find that they must do a good deal of primary research that should have been done long ago. Our government has more than -2,000,000 people

bv ‘on the pay roll and pd Some h “the most obvious in- which alope full Sirengty can fl

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x believe few people at home have their:

- the Irish. For 20 years he studied and prepared hims=

disorganized society. ‘They were finally driven out| .early in the eleventh century, but Ireland's" intellec-

looked very many of them.

_bossed on it—for return af a picture. The envelope

' formation about rubber has not been collected. We

~ fusing war news, a torrent of confused talk in Wash-

~country say the / sense of losing contact with the president, who has

in the performance of the job which must be done to free the world, other young people of the: enemy wi

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ence were set up. There stems no ‘doubiti hat the arts and high learning actually floiirished in Ireland above almost any other. place on earth-for several centuries early in the Christian era. St. Patrick was (probably) born jn. Scotland. -He wasiedptuigd When. 4 boyGf. 18.Ly 3 party Of Irish raiders and brought to Ireland. Sold asa slave, he spent six years as a sheepherder. : He escaped affer six years and got back ‘to Scotland. But he brooded over the “pagan ' darkness” in Ireland, and decided to devote his life to converting]

self. for his life mission. . Then he went to Rome, received his. authority |

from the pope, and ohece more—39 years after his .

capture by the Irish raiders—landed again in Ire land. He was about 45 then. St. Patrick had some reverses, and was atten in danger, but apparently on the whole the conversion of the Irish was not difficult. St. Patrick traveled -throughout the island, establishing churches. , He did his work thoroughly and well. He died in the year 465 A. D., when he was 79. Ironically enough, he is buried in what is now Protestant Northern Ireland.

Danes Put an End to Learning

IN THE FOLLOWING three or four centuries, Ireland became the most learned country in Europe. Foreign princes sent their sons to school in Ireland. The great schools were both church and lay. You could - get doctorates in law, medicine, literature, philosophy. Irish learning reached. its peak about the. tenth| century. The invasion by the Danes put an. end to it. The ferocious Danes broke up the schools and

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tual supremacy gradually declined, and a year 1000 she started on a new career of and out—which has not ended to this day ( it has, finally). The various groups fought - constantly: gmong ‘themselves, slaughter. was terrific, everything was chaotic, and the Irish depleted themselves until they|as were in a fine state for the Anglo-Norman mvasion, in ihe middle of the twelfth Seng. :

jectedly, Walter answered. He heard the operator say: “Deposit 35 cents, please,” and then he: heard Kim's voice. “Why, where are you?” asked Walter.” “Oh, I'm at Camp Atterbury,” replied Kim. “Oh, » said Walter. And that was that. ;

History Repeats WE QUOTE: “If there are any Indiana men unprovided with Federal offices they should speak up. The president cannot be expected to remember them all, though he does his best and he cannot have overIndeed from his latest, judicial appointment it looks as though there could hardly be anybody left in Indiana to choose from.” Sound familiar? Well, it’s from the . Philadelphia Times, way back “in. March, 1892, when B. Harrison was president. But it might be ‘said of today, also. Without taking time to draw a breath, we ean think of such examples as Paul V. McNutt, Claude Wickard, Wayne Coy, M. Clifford Townsend, Lowell Mellett, Elmer Davis, ‘et cetera, ad infinitum.

‘Twas Ever Thus

WHILE THEY'RE FIGURING how to cut the tax rate’ a ‘cent ‘or two, state house officials might turn their attention to the little leaks. ‘For instance, a publicity . release from. a certain Republican inthe organization to this office was accompanied. by a Dre) stamped envelope—one of those with the stamp em-

was rubber stamp-addressed to the ward publicity chairman. In the corner was printed: “After 10 days return to Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.” Besides using state property for pdlitical purposes, the employee wasted a 3-cent stamped envelope when '& 2-center would have done. Oh, well; guess the taxpayers and voters are one: and the same: people, after all.

By Raymond Clapper|

knew the week after Pearl Harbor that we probably would be in trouble over rubber. . The" possiblity was; known long before that’ Some in the administration feel strongly that Mr. Roosevelt should take a new grip on the situation. If he could bring himself to talk to the American peo= ple as he used to talk to them, as he talked to them in the dark days of 1933, which were bright sunlight compared with the dangers that surround us now, perhaps we could recapture some of that spirit. |

The Country Needs a Leader

WE NEED AGAIN the voice of leadership. : The American people are reeling under a: torrent of con-|

ington. The confusion is so complete that Mr. Roosevelt has publicly asked his executive officials. to" stop quarreling in public. That he had to give such a public order in itself confesses. the chaos that has spread in Washington. .. Of late President Roosevelt has become a remote, unseen figure. He is no longer heard or seen except as the mysterious hand reaches out to interfere with the New York-Democratic convention or as he occasionally gives some cryptic answer. to a press conference question. He is off the record so much now that the public has ‘a ‘baffled sense of not ‘knowing ‘what he is doing or where he is. . Some a tion officials traveling around the ple feel leaderless and have a

hitherto been so close to them, far more so than: any other president. ‘In ‘war we win not only by fighting and working but by having some one who can call éut from a whole people those I engin can owe rl from

By Eleanor Roosevelt

of the men whom I saw in’ that California camp, which I visited before they left, acquitted themselves equally well. I am deeply grateful that our son! came through alive, but some men did- ‘not, and

nations were killed.

other men and women in our own other countries. all over the “world.

ER en ies. tha Wak diate Hokght 40. Wiig oy It will not have been worth the

. By Erie Pyle DS

Capital's Big Shots’

Still Quivering From ‘Miracle Man Invasion

WASHINGTON,

By THOMAS L. STORES ; Times Special Writer Peon] 25.—This city Tspetny. went

through a minor earthquake.

"The air still quivers. The gold braid still shivers. The usually well-creased britches of authority were left a bit limp. High WPB officials were shaken in their chairs. s+ ~~ Hemry J. hi can be done) Kaiser came blowing in with He’s the big Pacific Coast| ‘builder of giant dams, ships, steel. plants,

another idea.

magnesium plants, bridges, ‘aqueducts and

what-not. This time it was to build a fleet of . cargo airplanes, freight cars of the ether, so that the United States could just skip the ‘ocean, move supplies and men to the far fronts of] the world by air. He proposed to build these

where Nazi submarines lurk, and

huge planes in existing shipbuilding yards.

|shacks as “the run-around.” He got enmeshed in red tape

: fin here with a bid to furnish every

Somehow, I cannot free myself of a heavy heart,| ist keep sampanionsiip witn tne neats;of hic

Mr. ‘Stokes

and, official timidity. | They gave him. a letter signed with the name of Donald Nelson, WPB chairman,’ net the letter of} intent he expected and had virtually been promised, but a measly, mealymouthed letter saying he would have to go out and find his mate-

So, he left here on his mission—| went out to confer with aviation industry officials to see if he could get them together. Washington sighed in relief as he went away.

This is the first of a series of articles on Henry J. Kaiser, whose proposal. to mass-produce giant airplanes is still very much alive.

of that. He was not discouraged. He had

fore. His feet had been tangled in red tape before. But he always came back, and in the end he had always got what he ‘wanted—the “inipossible” J obs.

I could never get the six companies together which built Boulder dam.” He did, and that marvel of engi-

rials and .show how he could do it.|-

But he'll be back. You can be sure|

been given the runaround, the] ‘| brush-off, here in Washington be-

ov told The neat, wnat] B

He came loaded, as usual, with blueprints and specifications, and chock-full of infectious enthusiasm. He got a nice hand at the start, kind statements that included oply an “if” or two and then almost postive| as his idea fired the public imagination. Then gradually, for this is still’ Washington, he was given what is known among these cold white buildings and temporary beaverboard war

Admiral Emory S. Land believes Mr. Kaisér has something.

"| got it done.’ Grand Coulee dam in

Y [average building time. It was esti-

- |veloped he said he could build his

of the terrific Colorado stands as one of his memorials.. It was finished 18 months ahead of contract schedule. They were aghast. win. he came

drop of cement for Shasta dam in California, 8,000,000 barrels of it, at

ARMS FOR INDIA "WORRY BRITISH

Civil ‘Revolt Cuts Down on Supplies. From Factories Vital to Defense.

By A. T. STEELE

BOMBAY, Aug. 25 —Keeping factory wheels turning continues to worry the British asthe civil disobedience campaign continues in its third week in India. ‘With shipping and supply. difficulties as ‘they are, it’ is vitally important to the British to maintain industrial output at the. highest tempo. -A large part of the equipment and supplies for the Indian army "comes from Indian factories. Even when running at its maximum capacity, the Indian industrial system was not able to keep up with the enormous demand for tools of war. . Celebrate ‘Mousoon’s End Although the general : situation is. somewhat quieter than it was a week ago, . nobdy ‘can’ be sure - whether ‘this {mprovement Is temporary or lasting. Today the people of ‘Bombay west down to the sea and amid. cele-| brations - and feasting threw coconuts to the waves. This ‘annual propitiation to the|

the petering “out

and the suffering Which Goute to youn ahd ol

roar rivaling the screech of whistles will come from the throats of, worklers in Henry J. Kaiser's shipyards at Richmond, across the bay from here, down the ways.

later than Friday—only 24 days after the keel of Liberty : cargo ship was laid—will shatter shipbuilding records. The best previous time, Kaiser men say, was 35 days.

ers, and to millions of Americans who look upon Mr. Kaiser as a bold industrial matching his imagination, the splash made when “Hull No. 72” hits the water will be something . | that: should be heard and felt in Washington.

back there that Kaiser is big enough to carry out his program of building ‘500 or more 70-ton cargo planes,” Californians believe,

‘|ployed in the record-smashing | building of “Hull No. 72”"—Nothing but. the same system Mr. Kaise?

neering which impounds the waters| ——= : Siig a price $1,500,000 below other offers, | The railroad rates were too high. with the cement trust bucking him.|So, he built a ten mils conveyor He built a plant in six months and belt, right over the mountains—in supplied the cement.

When he got the bid, they still]

said he couldn't deliver his sand|dam in Oregon. Some of his associand gravel to the dam site andiates on the Boulder dam venture make any profi from | his contract. Sropped out, on his oe. They were

Times Special SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.—A

when “Hull No. 72” slides

The launching, scheduled for not the 10,000-ton

To the thousands of Kaiser: ‘work-

wizard with ability

“It might wash away the doubts

No secret: method has been em-

SOLDIER VOTE BILL FACES SENATE FIGHT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U. rll —Southern senators prepared today = for a strong fight against leglsla- ¢

60 days. He got the job to build Bonneville

Hemty J. Kaiser explaining his fr

gency ships. He recently launched

afraid. “They said it couldnt be

done. Engineering problems were complex ‘and looked impossible. ‘He

Washington posed engineering difticulties that seemed insurmountable. He got that done, too, and today that 550-fcot wall reaches threequarters of a mile across the chasm of the mighty Columbia. :

building ships.’ “Pd never seen a ship launched until 1940,” he ‘said. Today his : shipyards along - the

performance—the most ships, the most ships per way, the: shortest

mated originally that it would : take 105 days to: build ‘one of the emer-

one after 46 days, and says he'll get it down to 30.

When a shoriage of engines de-

own. They said he couldn't. Today he is building them. : He wanted turbines. He: couldn't get any. “Guess where I found them—in England.” . . He grinned triumphantly.

‘|He made a ‘dent here with -his|

cargo plane proposal. He certainly made a dent with the people. Few things, since the war. started, have so stirred the imagination of a public which was getting a bit dazed over: submarine sigkings; a bit disturbed by slow progress of the war, by what seemed a long time: getting things going in Washington. The. people found a symbol -of

Kaiser Shifyo rd fo Sef Record This Week As ‘Hull 72' Takes Ways After 24 Days|

has followed in other big jobs of construction: - Get busy and keep busy. Oldtime shipbuidess say that a great deal of credit is due modern -assembly-line methods, that if Mr. Kaiser were following orthodox shipbuilding procedure he couldn’t turn out a 10,000-ton freighter in anyWhere near 24 days. “Sure — that’s why Kaiser gets things done,” say the shipyard workers. “He goes in for action and speed, not tradition.” Instead of being put together piece by piece, “Hull No. 72” was built in = prefabricated sections. Some weighed up to 65 tons. Each section came along the-assembly line as it was needed. There was no waiting for parts, no puttering around. Every shipfitter, rigger, shipwright, flanger, welder, riveter, pipe-fitter, joiner worker, electrician and craftsman was on the job when his tal-| ents) were needed. eve got. perfect timing,” said one welder. “We know exactly what we have to do, and when we'll have to do it. No ifs and’ maybes. . No The idea seems. to be that if the

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: fumbling or stalling ariywhere along : the line. The stuf’s sight; drive wien |

hope in the giant cargo plane. They

other fellow can get his’ Job: done}: ahead of time, so can you. :

it should be.

damnedest ‘to keep in. step with a setup like that would be a bum. And,

finding a bum in this yard. . There was no intention of setting a record on “Hull No. 72.” That is,

this-as-fast-as-we-can spirit. Only a few days after the keel was laid,

ers might have resulted in a shutdown for failure of inaterials to arrive ahead of schedule. But at the Kaiser plant the men in the prefabrication departi “Hey

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‘Not to. notice, whem you see’ the big: fellow bustling: about his suite in a New York hotel, just before he. leaves on his. mission, reaching for folders and blueprints and spec= ifications showing ‘carefully. drawn models of the big planes, schedules of production, : and “then hauling down another ‘portfolio, with: ; “See that dairy farm.”

plant, complete, where ships are put together on an assembly line. “That’s the same spot ‘where the dairy farm ‘used to be,” he said, and with’ pardonable pride.

‘Tomorrow: How Henry Kaiser

breaks precedents to get things done,

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