Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1942 — Page 15

Hoosier Vagabond

LONDON, Oct. 8.—To give you an idea what the

famous newspaper Stars and Stripes is like, I'm going."

to use up today’s column giving you samples from its pages. Here is a. paragraph from the column “Hash Marks"— / " “Now that it gets dark early in the evening . , . between the women of the services wearing : slacks and the Scottish regiments wearing kilts . , . we're having one helluva time knowing which is a he and which is a she.” Here's an editorial— “Army postal authorities have been doing a grand job under Severe handicaps to give to every officer and enlisted man a postal service ‘of ‘which he can well be proud, We in turn can help the. postal authorities, and one way has been suggested to us. “Date each letter on the day it is mailed . . . not on the day you start writing the first page. Many letters written by service men to their friends at home are begun one day, and through. interruption, finished a week later. “When the letter is received by the addressee, who has probably destroyed the énvelape, army postal authorities are blamed for. n slow delivery.

The Cartoon Side of It

THE TWO CARTOONS in one issue of Stars and Stripes— Sergt. Dick Wingert’s showed a collision between g tiny American peep and. a big British army lorry. e peep driver was little and confused: the lorry driver was a burly Englishwoman in ATS uniform, dismounting from her wrecked truck with her sleeves rolled- up, a jutting jaw, a mean. eye, and a monkey wrench in her hand. ‘Bruce Bairnsfather’s cartoon from Northern Ireland—one soldier sitting beside’ the sickbed of another

‘Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

GOVERNOR SCHRICKER, we hear, is thinking about arranging to use an airplane for his frequent trips around the state to make speeches—political and nonpolitical. Now that the new 35-mile speed limit is in effect, he can hardly keep up with his traveling schedule by auto without being on the road half the time. . . . Incidentally, whenever he’s driving somewhere to make a political speech, the governor rides\ with friends or drives his own personally-owned car instead of using his state-owned car.

Avoids criticism that way. J. .~

Jack Hatfield, director of the * Civic theater, is having trouble keeping a cast lined up for -the Civic’s season opener, “Eve of St. 3 Mark,” scheduled for Oct. 16. The play calls for 4 lot,of male talent of military age, and they keep going away—to war, Strange, isn’t it!

. That Signals Coming Back

SEVERAL OF OUR South side friends have been ”

cencerned because that super-duper traffic signal at the intersection of Roads 31 and 431 no longer is ated by its mysterious’ magnetic arrangement. trouble is that the magnet in the pavement, the device that turned on the green light when a car passed over the magnet, got out of kelter. es Myers, of the state highway commission, says they've... sent the device back to the factory, hope to have it Ww! back soon. Meanwhile, the signal is operated by a: fixed time device, just like any other. . . . The Innapolis Athletic club is getting a book: in which. to ‘collect the autographs of the great and near great that visit the club. They should have started years ago. .°. . By the way, a-lof of gamblers or the just plain superstitious would like to have had the suite

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—What's the use of playing this appeasement game with Vichy any longer? What does it gain us?Why, for instance, should we allow Vichy to keep on holding the island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean? All Vichy uses it for is to maintain a radio station that ‘broadcasts’ axis propaganda throughout Latin America. We ha there in our most vital defense area a poison center used by our enemies to turn our western hemisphere friends against us. That’s turning the other cheek too far around, to the point where it ceases to be a Christian virtue and becomes idiotic - weakness. The state department has long " proceeded on the theory that we ought to be nice to Vichy, do little favors, and thus

keep them from caving in completely to Hitler:

Perhaps the policy was justified before Lawal took over. . But it pays diminishing dividends now. This outburst is prompted by the latest news from Vichy. French laborers, drafted to work in German war factories, have begun taking their medical examinations, preparatory to being sent into German war factories to make bombs, guns, tanks and planes that will be used against American soldiers and soldiers and civilians of our fighting: allies.

Already in Hitler's Arms! PRIVATE REPORTS indicate further that German war production in French factories goes on at high efficiency. There may be sabotage, but it doesn’t

amount to: much evidently. French factories are

really working, from what I hear. Now comes this labor draft of Frenchmen to help Germany get over her biggest hump-~her shortage of manpower. Laval tried to get 150,000 French laborers by volun-

My Day,

CHICAGO. IL, Wednésday. —Monday evening in Seattle, I spoke at a meeting sponsored by the

Women’s War Savings league.- In Seattle and

throughout the state they are attempting to obtain a Very latge membership in this league. Every member promises to save all he can and to i put in war savings bonds and stamps at least 10 per cent of the. i: family income. ' Mrs. Langlie, the governor's _ wife, was present and handed me 4 membership in the league. I Jiked Miss Marie Young, who is doing - the organization work. I

hope they ‘will be very successful

in this state, especially since my daughter Tas taken the honorary I often find, and are

is one in which sou ar er

want, to see succeed. Si

, in Seattle, we took my 3- -yearBetis io nurs school. to

‘Miss ‘Ethel Klemm, Reindeer Service,

good ‘at "23d st. in the middle of the’ intersection

ple’ boarded the trolley as a good-looking young bru-

“ing Laval as if these were still the days of the fool's

~ cleverer or wiser than she,

It Brady, called “Children Under Fire.” ‘recounts her

soldier in a Nissen hut, ‘giving him’ medicine and applying hot-water bags. A lieutenant comes along and asks what's the matter. The attending soldier says: “Well you see, sir, he’s been trying to understand the Irish question.” :

Oh, Yes, the Pictures

A FEW OF THE dozen and a half pictures In one issue: Half a dozen fotwy pilofs getting into a Liberator bomber for the trip back home; scenes from a new army kitchen in Northern Ireland; five beautiful English girls in uniform, volunteer drivers for naval head-

By Ernie. PSs ave’

quarters; a soldier on a bicycle carrying belts of{ .

machine-gun bullets to a bomber; a four-column pic-~ ture of Walter Wanger starlets captioned “Six International Virgins”; ‘a picture of Bobby Jones, .the

golfer, reporting for duty at Mitchel field, and one of|

Marvin and Melvin McNickle, twin brothers, both majors, both in the air corps. both in Britain.

The Paper's Real Meat oh

THAT COVERS the features. The real meat of the paper of course is the news columns. One issue has 45 news stories, ranging from the latest in the Caucasus to a corporal in Northern Ireland getting a personal letter from Betty Grable.

There were stories on ship production at home, a jit-| - terbug contest in Ireland, the Japs in the Aleutians, a

sergeant getting excused for returning laté from leave because he stopped to stand at attention for the National Anthem and missed his bus, and dozens of others. The sports-page lead story was three-quarters of a column on baseball back home. There you are. That's the first time I ever tried to summarize a newspaper in one column. I think I'll look around for some other type of ‘work in the future. And I forgot to put in an example of the poetry. Well, just eke one up yourself. . It needn’t scan.

occupied by Lawrence Tibbett while he was here the other day. It was No. 711,

In His Own Back Yard

KENNA M'CORMICK, sales manager for the Wilking Music Co., is a dyed in the wool fisherman. He has fished all over the United States and Canada. This year, to conserve his tires, he has been doing his fishing in Indiana lakes. The other day, he decided to try the fishing even closer to his home, so he stepped from his back yard to the banks of the canal. And, he reports, he caught the limit of nice smallmouth bass. That just goes to show you. . . . The Junior C. of C. is busy working out .a draft problem forum The general idea is to provide a place where draft prospects can go and get questions answered. by selective service leaders. Questions would be written, and unsigned, sparing the questioner embarrassment. Sounds like a good idea. We'll probably be there when they get: it started.

Around the Town

MISS IRENE TILLEY of the state personnel office was going ‘through a. list of persons wishing to be notified of ‘examinations for district welfare representative, "Among them she found the application of Koyuk (via Probably one of Santa’s helpers The Central trackless trolley

Galovin, ‘Alaska. wanting a new job. . . .

- morning and waited about two minutes oman stepped off a porch several doors east ME ee ma up to get aboard. At 13th st., two peo-

net, about 20, fought her way through trafi¢ to get to the trolley. This time the operator just drove on and left her in the middle of the street. . .. J. D." Wright, the attorney, has been commissioned a naval lieutenant (jg). He reports at Ft. Schuyler, N. Y.,- Oct. 20.

‘By Raymond Clapper

teer methods. That failed, so Hitler forced him to draft labor. Of course, Laval has an explanation that it really isn’t a draft. Men won't be forced to go, he says. Vichy will designate them to go, and if they refuse they will not be forced to. Oh, no! Vichy says the names of the recaloitrant workers will merely be placed on. a government list of disobedient people. So if they know what's good for them, French workers will go to Germany to work when they are drafted. Our government has taken the position that if we broke with Vichy we would force it Into the arms of Hitler. Well, Hitler is doing a good job of that as 1 is.

Let's Get Rough!

- WE SAY IF WE speak crossly to Vichy the French fleet will be turned over to Hitler, \I hear one good answer to that argument. It is that Vichy’s big bargaining point with Hitler is the French fleet. So long as Laval can hold the French fleet he can bargain with Hitler. When he loses it, then he has no more bargaining leverage. So.as a horse-trading politician Laval will hold on to the French fleet as long as he can. So the surrender of the French fleet will be determined by bargaining between Hitler and Laval. The wily Frenchman isn’t going to give it away just because he gets mad at Washington—only when he gets his price from er, Our state department makes one good argument against breaking relations. It is that our embassy at Vichy is .a useful listening post. Maybe we are wise to keep an embassy in Vichy. But ‘here is no reason why we can’t be rough in every other respect. Take their radio station over here., Take Dakar if we can get it. The British have taken Madagascar and we have approved it. . Why not do the same ourselves? = This is war, so we hear. If so, why go on treat-

paradise before Munich? °

By Eleanor Roosevelt

. I'left Seattle in the afternoon and was: seen off by the entire family. TI felt sad, as I always do, to say goodby, but was very grateful for the happy days we had together. These are times in which one feels one must cherish every opportunity to see those one

loves. ‘On this trip I have managed, while traveling, to do quite a little reading. A very charming book caine to me just before I left, called “Little Sister Su,” a Chinese folk tale translated by Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Folk tales, I suppose, always have a moral. This one ‘ends when the prospective bridegroom i§ challenged by his lady fair to write the second line of a couplet. The first line she wrote as “closing door, shut out moon from windows.” Aided by his father in-law, the young man finally wrote,

“Throwing stone, | open up sky in waters” Thereby he wing his wife,| - perhaps because it is better to open up the sky than usually to shut out the moon.

Perhaps, the underlying moral is that every woman likes to prove that her husband is a little better or Ar ely i sy

she were, st

By DR. MORTON MOTT-SMITH.

Science Service Writer FUEL THAT heats your home could drive machinery of war. ' An overheated house this winter may re-

sult in one less gun or tank

for our fighting men. By patriotism or government order, every citizen will have to conserve all the fuel possible.

Warnings re-echo back and forth

across the nation clear from the eastern Atlantic state to the Pacific northwest—shortages may develop, whether it be from war needs or lack of transportation. Here are tips on how the. home owner can put steam behind the victory drive by making more fuel available for war production. Most houses, are proverbially too hot and dry in winter, except in the Southwest where the win-' ters are wet. Less heat and more moisture would indeed | be more healthy and it should not be difficult for us to economize fuel and accustom “ourselves to a more healthful temperature. The most modern heating ap-

paratus does make provision. for °

moistening the air. Where ‘this is not : supplied, shallow pans’: of water may be placed on ‘stoves or radiators. This will- help some but a boiling kettle is much better. Humid air at 65 degrees is more somfartable than dry. air at 70. In European countries, 60: degrees Fahrenheit: is regarded as a comfortable winter - temperature, as compared to the 68-72 degrees

demanded here. This is partly due -

to the more humid climate abroad; but it is mostly due to the fact that Europeans have merely accustomed themselves to lower temperatures. Poorer classes get along with still. less heat, or

even with totally unheated rooms -

while. the . temperature may. be freezing outside.

Maximums. Reduced *%

GOVERNMENT officials say that we must accustom ourselves to a maximum of 65 degrees by day and 55 degrees by night. How can’ we do it? Let's take a. few tips from the Europeans.

There is a tradition in southern Europe that if the. feet can be:

kept warm, the whole body will be warm. In railway carriages, often the only heat provided is by a long flattened metal cylinder filled with hot water and laid on the floor for your feet. You'd be surprised at-the comfort: it provides. In a completely unheated room in southern Europe, you come upon the lady of the house seated with a charcoal brazier under her feet and holding another, made of earthenware and . shaped like a basket,. in her lap to keep her hands * warm—and looking quite contented. Of course she will hive a shawl about her shoulders, and ‘be wearing much warmer indoor clothing than has been the custom here. "This principle of keeping "the feet warm is at last becoming recognized - in the Unifed® States. Some builders recently have em-

bedded steam pipes or electric

cables in the floors. A warm cellar will also keep the floor above warm, Many heating engineers regard any heat ‘dissipated in the cellar as wasted and,

by heavily insulating the furnace |

and all hot pipes, seek to prevent it. But this heat is not wasted if 16 doesn’t escape to the ogtslde or, Regie canessive. ;

Heat Source Near Floor

+1. Don’t waste heat this winter is the plea of the government. You're not eight feet tall so why heat the ceiling? By placing deflectors over registers and radiators the warm air is thrown along the floor and

Whitey will like it, too.

2.-A house well insulated to keep the warmth in and the cold out makes a scene like this possible, Mrs, Carl Born, 42 N. Kitley ave., bathes Dickie in a bathinette before an airtight window. 3. In conference with the government’s request to conserve vital fuels and open transportation lanes for: other gopds, Mrs. Lawrence Dalton, 24 N. Kitley ave. throws a shawl across her shoulders and sits be-

fore a wood fire rather than turn up the thermostat.

Because of cheap -and abun= dant fuel, our heating arrangements usually have not been made as efficient as they could be. Many homes are heat sieves, especially wooden frame houses. We'like plenty of fresh air. We want open windows, especially at night. But the European home: is tightly closed. = Great felt blankets even stretch across windows ‘that gre never opened. + Although the sweeping gusts of wind from upflung windows may be desirable, physiologists tell us that. much less ventilation is adequate as far as the life-giving - oxygen: supply is concerned. - Let's forego the luxury of unlimited fresh air. Windows open only a crack at night, and closed most of the rest of the time! If the house must be aired, do it be-:

tween two and four in the after-

noon when the day is warmest. " Obviously, all leaks should be

stopped as far as possible. This means | weather ‘stripping’ on all

doors and windows, perhaps double windows, and pads on doublehung windows over the crack be“twéen the two sashes. » » ‘® a 45 HEAT ESCAPING to the attic

is the most- important leak. The ’

attic should be sealed airtight. A. layer of heat insulating material spread over the ceiling on the \ top floor is also advisable, especially if there is no attic floor. You can. buy the insulation in bags and spread it yourself. "Insulation between the outside walls ‘is helpful but not as necessary. Only 2 per cent to 3 per cent of the heat escapes through plaster and wooden walls. Brick and stone houses are already well insulated. Windows are ‘the chief avenues of escape. Even closed, sealed windows lose much heat. Glass is a poor conductor of heat, but there is only %-inch or less of it between the inside and the outside temperatures, as against 6 inches or more of walls.

Double . windows and storm doors are thus worth several times their weight in fuel. But doubling the thickness of : tle eff by bis the layer of air bet le windows that provides the‘insulation. For windows that will be ‘seldom opened, the storm window may ‘be a single sash ‘fastened to the outside window frame, so it can be taken down in summer. Some persons use an. inexpensive double window of ‘cellophane to hold an insulating cushion of air. ° Le THE STORM DOOR ‘will be more effective if there is a little vestibule so that the outer door may be opened and closed before the inner door is opened. The vestibule can be made of wood and fastened to the house. In summer it is removed, Such devices are standard equipment in the colder parts of the country, Their use could well be extended. After the house has been made

Social Agencies Face Child Care Problem ‘As More Mothers Accept Wartime Jobs

By ROSEMARY REDDING

“What is ‘Indianapolis going to-do about the children of working mothers?” Are. the . .children to be left to their own devices to play until mother gets home from ‘work? Will mothers be forced. to leave their ‘pre-school age youngsters in unsupervised, unlicensed nurseries? That is the problem the Indianapolis. Council of Secial Agencies tackled today. The council disclosed that an extensive program designed to: provide day care for the children of working mothers is being considered ‘here right now.

"Although in the formulative stage,

it would eventually provide: 1. A “system of approved private homes. ;

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2. Additional centers of congregate care. It is the council’s understanding that between 35,000 and 50,000 local women will go into Indianapolis industrial and business establishments within the next year. Many of these women will have to board their children while they work. From the growing pressure and demand on its own agencies, especially those equipped to give day care, the council is cognizant of the

growing ‘problem. From reports of

ite schools, it has added evidence that facilities ~~ day care must be expanded. In order fo meet all this in an orderly fashion, it is establishing a clearing house on the problem, headed by Willis Johnson of the council staff. This is the first step.

It 1s not the council's plan to take upon itself the care of children of the majority of the mothers. The best source of care for the child, both Floyd Hunter, the executive director, and Mr. Johnson point out, is with a grandmother, aunt or older sister where the home atmosphere can ‘be maintained. It is in cases where such family help is not available or where private housekeeping service cannot be arranged the council will serve,

Home Help Scarce

- The problem: has been considered by various groups: ever since the first of the year. Industries: were eonscious of it—at least one even going so far as to toy with: the ideafof setting up a nursery itself. «It really came to a head with the opening of school. Many mothers had hired high school girls to care for their children. When school opened, they. could not locate help for the home. Personnel department heads began to hear about it —and women . were considering quitting. : In‘a letter addressed to key persons in industries, business firms and civic groups, the council points out that although its present facilities are actually , it is

willing to expand them to. help}

meet the need.

For thin: the" council will msed|] the co-operation of other organ-| izations - and volunteer workers. |'

Though still in the planning stage, Mr. Johnson would train this volunteer help to man a clearing house office. Here. the working mother would make a contact to either

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center, like a nursery, community

Seng: volunteer workers likewise would be trained to help investigate these homes which would be licensed. If the. program . could be carried out as visioned by Mr. John50, Some of these voluntaers. would

ie glass has lit--

etc, or in an approved home. | |!

as nearly heat-tight as possible, | let's use the most economical and | efficient methods of heat proe

duction, Stoves, grates, burners, plies |

_ and chimneys should be cleaned, |

heaters. should ‘be replaced by | . new ones, if possible, or at least !

be repaired.

Unused rooms should be shut :.

off, and the other rooms heated only while in use. As far as pos sible the family should live in one room. : Thermostatic control is recome

mended. If that is not installed,

a few inexpensive thermometers

may be scattered about—then '

watched. When the temperature is higher than necessary, turn off

the heat.

Low Night Fires

AT NIGHT, FIRES should be banked or burners turned down

as low as possible. To bank a fire, |

it should first have been burning brightly for some time with drafts open until all the coals are glow= ing. Push the live coals to one side of the furnace. Then place

the fresh coal in the depression on the opposite side. Drafts and

damper are closed unfil there is

only just enough air to keep, the fire going. : In the abiing, the drafts and dampers are opened wide and the house is soon heated. Two feed ings per day should sate the ape petite of a good coal furnace.

If all the family goes away for .

the day, the fire may again be banked. Putting on ashes to bank the fire is not recommended since this is likely to generate harmful gas. Regulation should be entirely by drafts and damper. For the cold nights, put an ex« tra blanket on the bed. If that

isn’t enough, pile on blankets,

coats or whatever else may be available. Socks and flannel pas jamas may not be fashionable night attire, but they're surely warm. Increased ‘warmth may often be obtained by putting heavy paper or other insulation beneath the bed mattress rather than ware scarce wool blankets on top. Don't

think that living in a cold house ~ will cause you to feel the cold less hGH

outdoors. Just the opposite. you are already chilly when you start out, you will be really cold just that much sooner. So before going out, warm yourself well by getting close to the source of heat, It is also a good idea to warm your overcoat on the inside by hanging it in front of fhe fire. Electric stoves as auxiliary heaters are ‘an expensive way: of producing heat, but the fact that they can deliver a small amount just where needed often makes it possible to dispense with a much larger amount from : the main source. An electric stove under the feet will work wonders. But electricity is also one of the driving forces of the war industries and must be ‘used sparingly. Where wodd is cheap anc plen= tiful, the open fireplace-is a useful auxiliary that saves: other fuel and adds cheerfulness to the home. And speaking of psychoe logical effects, note how warm colors, bright yellows, orariges and red, add to the cheerfulness of drab winter days and give a feel ing of warmth. With spirits high and fuel saved, we're helping to lick both old man winter and the Japs. . (Copyright, 1942, by Science Service).

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