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BELPAST, Aug. 27.—I've been surprised to learn, fro my history reading, that in our American Revolution the Irish sent 4000 troops over to help the . British. But we shouldn't hold that against them, * because the Irish government did it while the people themslves sympathized with America. Our Revolution, in fact, caused a great deal of distress in Ireland. For England put an embargo on Irish products, to keep them from reaching America, and it very nearly ruined Irish agriculture. The British are the cause of so many Irishmen being in -Amer-

turies Britain periodically clamped on new trade restrictions that send the Old Sod skidding down to ruin. The most disastrous was around 1700. Britfsh merchants felt that Irish prosperity ' was their

5 loss; so. the British forbade Ireland to export woolens © anywhere in the world except to England. An the

Irish parliament itself imposed a 20 per cent duty on exports. That settled the whole thing. Thousands and thousands of Irish people were fmmediately reduced to poverty, and in that year 20,000 Irishmen left the Emerald Isle for New Engjand. That was the beginning, from lack of employment, of the Ireland-to-America ‘emigration which goes on to this day.

Coming to the Last Phase THE NEXT 200 years of Irish history is a con-

2 tinuation of legal and military brawls with England.

To me it is dull reading. The thing becomes like a Ferns and I fall asleep on it. We can come up to the last phase now. In 1916

L there was an: Irish rebellion, and they proclaimed

“war that something drastic had to be done.

° the Irish republic. But it lasted only a few days, for

British troops came and put it down. Ireland registed conscription for the first world war. Things worked up to such a fever heat after the Cork

i burned and there was fighting everywhere. So

: Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MAJOR -FRANCIS DUNN arrived home Sunday on a 10-day furlough and 24 hours later was recalled

. $o his post, which happens to be Spence Field,

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i: sugar shortage.

Moultrie, Ga. . He says he’s enjoying army life. . . . An anonymous reader sends us clippings from our own column of Monday and that of Eleanor Roosevelt the same day. In our column we take to task the state war savings bond staff for still having posters referring to “defense” bonds. Mrs. Roosevelt, in the same edition, refers to buying “as many DEFENSE bonds and stamps as _ possible.” Well, you never see Pegler riding our coat tails. . . . ' We're told the Indiana National bank is following the current mode by using girl messengers. 80 you can look for a crop of female bank presidents ‘ohe of these days, as most every bank president we aver heard of started out as a bank messenger.

4 Couple of Competitors

‘THE ‘SOLDIERS and Sailors’ monument had bet- + look to its ‘laurels, or the World War memorial

gic] ge be stealing its_place as: the city's favorite spot 4 for snapping pictures.” More and more visitors are

, having themselves snapped while draped over one

! of the big cannons, standing beside the University .

rk fountain or on the memorial steps with Pro ) as a background. . , . The Sigma Chi house ut at Butler shouldn't have any trouble over the The house mother is Mrs. Julia Sweet. . ', . Speaking of sugar, we know of a house- . wife who got mad as the dickens at an E. 21st st. ~ grocer who refused to sell her only two pounds of sugar for the current five pounds coupon. Five : Downes or ‘nothing, said he. Whereupon she retorted : that she thought the object of rationing was to save . sugar. It ended in a draw. «so. Some of the boys

Washington

_ WASHINGTON, Aug, 27—It is difficult to write hie. facts now without. -appearing to be defeatist. But it is better to brace ourselves against some heavy plows which. ate likely to fall unless good fortune uni Sxpectedly intervenes. The strong prop that has sus- : Bish tained allied hopes during the : last few months has been the hope that Russia would able ‘10 . counter-attack and break up the Nazi army in the east. Napoleon broke -himself in Russia _ and all of us have leaned heavily ~upon the hope that Hitler would ‘also break himself there. But any realistic view of what is going on must make that hope very, very remote now. StalinSA ‘grad appears to be going. With 2 “that: the Germans will have ‘the Volga, the life artery of Russian supply

f up from the south. Russian armies in the northern

= ; Caucasus have been cut off. The Germans are going

« through the passes now to the southern Caucasus. A Berlin spokesman says that when the German

2 “troops reach the Volga they will have possessed the © Datural frontier between Europe and Asia and will

‘no further drive‘beyond for the present. That

" may or may not prove to be the case but it is the

: est that is likely to happen. _ Here s Where It Leaves Us—

SUPPOSE THE GERMANS rest on the Volga, where will that leave our side? ~<Pirst, it: will leave the Germans in conirol of the a Russian munitions artery up the river from the

& Caspian, through which most united nations supplies. woud have been sent this winter

WASHINGTON, Wednesday—I don’t know how

many of you read a magazine called “Travel,” but ; those. who. are familiar with the Hudson river like it, I think the article called “The ~Home Town,” by Herbert Saltford, will

oosier r Vagabond

Prime Minister Lloyd-George invited the Irish to}

ica today. All through the cen- ie : Yes It's Thoroughly Muddled

pendent nation of Irishmen.

‘Eire unless England absolutely forced her to do it.

"out of town on a rail

' stabilized part of these divisions can be released for

‘month, will be rendering real service to our side by

By Ern ie Pyle

‘London to discuss a permanent status for Ireland that would be satisfactory to Irishmen. In December, 1921, a treaty was signed. It put Ireland in the same status as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and gave her the name “Irish Free State.” The treaty specified, however, that the parliament, of Northern Ireland might separate themselves from the Free State if they desired, and remain & part of the United Kingdom. They did desire. And thus things were set up as they are today. Eire is part of the British Commonwealth of Nations according to the treaty. But Eire says she is completely and 100 per cent free, with no allegiance whatever. And she is staying neutral in the present war on that basis. ;

ALTHOUGH Northern Ireland, with compulsion, voted to stay with the United Kingdom, still Eire. has now made that the bone of contention between herself and Britain. “partition” iS what they call it. The Irish say Britain couldn’ go the whole hog while she was at it, and make all Ireland one complete, inde-

But, as far as I can learn, Northern Ireland would not leave the Uniled Kingdom and become a part of

Northeast Ireland is somewhat industrial and more prosperous than the rest, so she would have to carry the burden of taxation for all Ireland. Further, there is the religious angle. It is all helplessly confusing. It is simple to say that Northern Ireland is Protestant and Southern Ireland is Catholic, but it is so much deeper and more involved than that, that the religious angle is hardly worth mentioning. So now that were through with the troops, and have you thoroughly muddled up on the Irish question, we'll go’down .into the main part of Ireland— known variously as the real Ireland, as Eire, as the Irish Free State, or: what not—and take a swing with our shillelagh. It is only 100 miles from Belfast to Dublin, and it takes three and a half hours by train. Dublin next.

who ‘drove down_to Seymour the other day want to know why somebody doesn’t salvage those big metal signal towers on the abandoned interurban line and shoot them to the Japs. We'll bite. Why not?

Mustn’t Cheat, Boys

SOME STATE EMPLOYEES driving state-owned cars have been cheating a bit by bolting other type plates in such a manner as to obscure the words “state owned car.” As a result, N. F. Schafer, state highway department superintendent of maintenance, has been asked by the director of the budget to have his garage men remove all such obstructions, regardless of the rank of individual or department involved. . « Irving W. Lemaux who attends to his banking and manufacturing interests when he isn’t busy as air raid warden for District 40, boasts he has more high civilian defense figures in his district. than any other in town. In his district—34th to 46th sts. between Keystone and Capitol aves.—live Clarence Jackson and Harvey Bradley, state and county. civilian defense directors; Leroy J. Keach, safety board president and city-county civilian defense co-ordi-nator; Mrs. William Logan, district chairman of women’s defense activities, and Mrs. Brandt C. Downey, county chairman of women’s defense activities.

Those Derned Little Seats

THE REAL REASON more people aren't riding bicycles and saving their auto tires, a bicycling businessman confides in us, is those awful little seats they're putting on the bicycles nowadays. Theyre too reminiscent of a razorback horse. Our friend, who started riding a bike a couple of weeks ago when his car was slolen, insists those little seats are hard on the basic morale. It’s just like being ridden The most annoying part of it, he says, is to see some motorcyclist luxuriating past on a comfortable sheepskin-lined seat about a foot and a half square. ’Tain’t fair.

By Raymond Clapper

Second, it will leave the Germans in control of Russia’s principal food-growing regions. It will deprive Russia of numerous manufacturing centers. Third, whether Germany gets Russia's oil or not, the Nazis will be able to choke off most of the supply from going north to Russia's remaining armies. Fourth, Germany has been using about 300 divisions on the Russian front, and if that front is

other service.

The Hour Is Critical

THERE IS THE danger. Russia may not be knocked out of the war. But we must face the possibility, even the probability, that our strongest and most active ally will become paralyzed in the near future, except for*minor resistance. We face the possibility of Rommel, who is being rapidly reinforced, opening anew his drive. to Alexandria and Suez and closing the circle with the German forces working down through the Caucasus. We face the possibility that the Japanese may move into India in a few weeks, after the rainy season ends. No one who thinks soberly about these possibilities can find any security in the prospect that next year ‘our war production will be far greater than it is now. We face the possibility of havihg to fight desperately to stave off defeat with the men, the weapons, the ships that are in existence now or which will be available for war abroad in the next 90 days. Anybody who knows of any obstacle to mustering force now, this week and next week and next

helping now to remove it. We may be facing an hour as critical as the battle of Britain in 1940.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Great crises Bring out great. qualities and the

young slave.

descendants of the young- plantation owner are to- : day distinguishing themselves all over the world; and] » change has come over ihe: dessendants ofthe

sponsor of the proposal to build

state. He was only 11 when he

Them: Ha Met Girl ond

She Was ET " For His New Vocation.

Editor’s Note—This is the third of six articles on Henry 3 Kaiser,

a great fleet of cargo airplanes.

By THOMAS | ‘L. STOKES Times Spedial Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Henry J. Kaiser started out = in life as a commercial Phoopraphee s helper in New York = |

cut loose from his books and

the playground—the family, was very poor—and took the first step in a business career that has catapulted him to the

very top among America’s ‘builders. He was born 60 years

ago in Canajoharie, N. Y.' Like a Horatio Alger hero he worked hard, saved ‘his money, and in time bought

out the photographic business. | It was a beautiful girl who was responsible for: a shift in his /vocation— the woman now known as : “Mother Kaiser.” Today she is al-

and lively Kaiser troupe — father,

group of young : associates — as : they dash “about : the country lookTE ing after their > ‘manifold enter- _ Mr. Stokes prises.

Mother Is Key Figure

Mother Kaiser is a wery important part of the Kaiser system and has been from the start. She came to sit for a picture one day at Lake Placid. Young Henry Kaiser then was commuting between Florida and Lake Placid— Florida for the winter tourist business, Lake Placid in the summer. He knew at once that she was what he wanted. She approved, too. But her guardian, an uncle, thought photography was a , precarious business. : So the two young people eloped, and off they went to ‘Spokane, Wash. There Henry got a job as salesman for a sand and gravel company. “I've been in the sand and gravel business for 40 years,” he says proudly today. It was: the beginning. He took to it as if born to.it. Sand and gravel, too, are really the foundation of

mest he has done since—~the big}

dams he helped‘ to build, Boulder, Bonneville, Grand Coulee; the highways he has laid in the west, in Cuba; excavation for a third set of locks at the Panama canal; the boring of a water aqueduct for New York City; the largest cement plant in the world at Permanente, Cal.; the huge naval air training=station at Corpus Christi, an estimated three-to-four-year job which he finished in less than a year.

War Changed Work

With the war, he branched off into shipbuilding, into steel and magnesium production, and now he

STEP UP OUTPUT OF DRIED FOODS

U. Ss. Officials to Qpen| Two Schools to Teach Better Processes.

By Science Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—To insure production of the highest quality of dehydrated foods for the armed forces of the united nations, the . U. S. department of agriculture announces the opening within the next few weeks of the first school to train commercial manufacturers in improved methods of processing developed in government research laboratories. = The school is located at Albany, Cal. Because of the urgent need to conserve shipping space and fo prepare . foods in a form which will keep indefinitely in any climate, the training program will be expanded sometime. this fall to in-

The training program is being jointly conducted by the agricultural research administration and

istration, which is the lend-lease

will be selection of vegetable: varletles, storage problems, processing,

No slave today needs to cree! hehind his master's meat

clude a school at Rochester, N. Y.|

the agricultural marketing .admin-

Subjects ‘included in the courses

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is sesking to materialize one of the boldest of all his dreams, a vast fleet of huge cargo-carrying planes to be constructed at existing ship= ‘yards. In those early days in'-Spokane he developed into a hustling salesman. He brought in all sorts of new business. He did so well that

self. He rounded up some secondhand equipment and went into the street-paving business on his own. This took him from place to place in Washington state. The automobile came along. The northwest pioneered in levying gasoline taxes to build highways, and Henry Kaiser gravitated into the roadbuilding business. His first big ‘contract was a half-million dollar highway construction job from Red Bluff to Redding, Cal, 30 miles. Against stiff competition, a few

pave 350 miles of highway in Maricopa county, Ariz., an $8,000, 000 job. He was expanding.

Gets 25 Million Job

His biggest road job was a $25,000,000 project for the Cuban government. There he built 200 miles of concrete highway and 400 small bridges, finishing a scheduled fiveyear job in three years. ‘ The story, in rapid sequence, makes it all look simple. But success in such construction work ison not easy. The competition is always lively and tough. The poorhouses have their quota of ex-con-tractors who went bankrupt because they didn't figure everything just right. Henry Kaiser was searching constantly for simpler and cheaper ways to do the job at hand. He began to experiment with all sorts of machines, and his tendency conEe was toward bigger oa ger ones. He. an they say, for he fring Buf out of it all he learned and learned rapidly. He keeps his large staff of engineers busy at new devices to do old jobs.

the highway job. that he heard about Boulder dam. He itched to get a share in that. It boiled around in his mind. Eventually he sat in with other contractors, headed by the late W. H. Wattis of the Utah Construction Co., dean of western contractors, in conferences looking to a pooling of resources. Six companies finally joined in that enterprise, including the Henry, J. Kaiser company.

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By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer

CHICAGO, Aug. 27.—Engines can be built for Henry Kaiser’s fleet of cargo planes without slowing production of bombers and fighters if sufficient materials are made available, production men in at least one important engine-building plant say. This is*ithe Buick Motor Cos Melrose park .plant, which is op-

pacity yet claims fo be a year ahead of its production schedule.

planes or any other purpose—always provided materials could be

more efficient plant ‘operation, officials believe. Workers are dis-| satisfied now, they say, at having employment only 40 hours a week, and there has been some evidence of an organized slowdown to make the work last as long as possible in| pilots.

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Here's a Factory fo Build Engines for Kaiser Planes;

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Increased production, for cargo|

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he decided to branch out for him=-

Henry J. Kaiser with a model of a 12-motored, 200-ton seaplane. designed by Kaiser gagineers, 1¢s this

plane which the one-time photographer's a assistant wants America. to upus nw the air.

The six comipariics: so-called, completed that venture ‘with. a joint profit of $18,000,000. They profited so handsomely because, for; one thing, the job of putting tunrels underneath for outlets for the river proved easier than had been anticipated. . _ Henry Kaiser came out of ‘that job with some money and the prestige that attached naturally to: anyone who had participated. His next job. was: much tougher, and some of his Boulder dam associates passed it up. This was Bonneville dam in Oregon. . For ‘success there much credit must go to two youngsters—Kaiser’s elder son, Edgar, then 27, and Clay Bedford, .a couple of years older— and to an amy engineer . officer, now Maj. Gen. T. M. Robins. The Columbia is a much wilder animal than the Colorado. One army. “engineer commented about; the two. boys: “Kaiser wom the Bonneville ‘because the kids were too green fo know when they were licked.” When he. built. Grand . Coulee, Kaiser put up a trestle, of four tracks, ‘at a height of 1180 feet above the bedrock of the Columbia, instead of the temporary trestles ordinarily used in such a job. That trestle cost $1,400,000, but it was a saving in the long run.

- He's Ever Curious Constantly ‘curious, poking into what goes on wherever lie happens

to be; asking - questions, Henry Kaiser often stumbles into husiness

developed ins production of war goods once’ conversion had been accomplished. His. company had 6000 machine tools - in. operation ‘when it was turning out 1500 Buicks a day. Now

that it is producing: the Pratt &|

Whitney airplane engine: and a va-

siety of -oiher war products it has) ~The office of civilian ‘defense . to-

found uses ‘for 3500 of these machines - ‘and + added 9000 new ones. - Buick, at is Flint. and Melrose plants, “has re-employed as many worker as it hired for peace-

MARINES ELIGIBLE AS: GLIDER PILOT S WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. P.. —The- Marine corps, announced today that its enlisted men may

apply for flight training leading to designation ‘as naval aviation glider

Pe ‘naval aviation: "pilots have been eligible up to’ now. The marine ops 4 sald spplicanta

opportunities—because he’s’ always ready. for opportunity to: knock. Thus. he strikes off in new directions.

Portland, the fot Colonia. Ship-

Thus it was he got into the cement 3 i

‘business, to become today the’ biggest cement operator in. the world. . In providing for expansion of his cement business to other parts of

‘the world, he stumbled into the ‘shipbuilding business.

He had bought a couple of old boats to transport . cement to ‘Pearl Harbor and Guam, and took them to the

Todd drydocks in Seattle for repairs.

: There he met John Reilly, head of Todd, and they got to talking. Mr. Reilly saw a shipping boom coming, but. he was short of manpower. Mr. Kaiser offered him some of his men. It was not:long before the dam builder: got. interested In shipbuilding and he and the Todd company’ teamed up and -got..a contract to build 60 freighters

for the British. That was before y;

the United States entered the war. Get Government Jobs

Later, the combination of Todd and Kaiser interests moved in to get contracts for American ships in: the maritime commission’s ‘expanding program. ‘ In time they had about 40 per cent of the government emergency shipping program in the

| several yards they controlled along

the Pacific and Gulf coasts. A few months ago this partnership was dissolved and Mr. Kaiser retained four ‘Pacific coast yards— the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., at

quicker sh of . ‘bullding so that today ‘his yards hol

ships built, ships per fad An short-test time. ) 3 He builds ships on an a line, and in prefabricated The hulls and superstructures are built separately. The superstrue= ture, for example, is put together in ‘three sections along. an assembly line; with, all furnishings. and fix

tures, including plumbing, by the time the en re tions réach the end of ‘the rr

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ine near the dock. -The superstructure sections are then lifted cranes and superimposed. the finished hull. : A For. 24 hours, day and night; his yards are. busy, with three shifts of workmen. : The 60-year-old builder: can stand and look at all this, and at all his other enterprises, and think ‘perhaps it's just as well he gave up that photography business—all beTanise of a girl—and set out. for the es

NEXT: Kaiser 3 as a, . one-man trust-buster.

SET UP SERVICE

ON EVACUATION

Arrange for’ Withdrawal of Civilians in Some Areas Af Necessary. : WASHINGTON, Aug. a1 (U.P). day issued -an administrative order | establishing - a civilian evacuation service ‘for removing civilians’ from.

certain areas if e0RSSarY during the war.

The evacuation service was" es.

‘|tablished under a joint committee

JAPAN EDUCATING’ MEN OF NORTH: CHINA

CHUNGKING, Aug. 27, ported that. Japan was transporting women to Japan Jor military train-

ing and “thought.” The. newspaper's ‘North China

from these ‘Chinese. ported. that. marly ‘mote

on. evacuation; which ‘includes rep-| 2a72. resentatives of OCD, the office of] #75

defense health and welfare services,

; Ready for, Emérgency

‘OCD Director James: M. Handih ng Yankee

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said in the . administrative . order{, that pemiiers-of the service. “shall