Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1942 — Page 9
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SOMEWHERE ‘IN ENGLAND, oct. 10 Probably { the purest strain of Anglo-Saxon blood in America is ' nered.
‘that of the hill people of eastern Tennessee.
They have intermarried little with the “melting a |
keep the customs of olden days.
world. of ‘America. In some places they still: fri
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country where a sort of ShakeSpearean Engish 1s ull jepaken.
they say.
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English Tennesseans are back here in the land of their ancestors, ready to fight for. the country they Ls came from, and the Tountry ‘they went to. i X Lately I've een staying in. camp : with them, ‘and with boys Just like them from the Carolinas. Btn families hove been away from England so long
that, unless you want to romanticize it, I don’t sup-
.' pose it means a thing. And yet maybe it does mean
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Something, back :in their subconsciousness. For it seems t0- me that these boys feel more at home over here than any of the other troops: They like .the look of the country, they like the ‘English people. Their own natural shyness is something akin to the Englishman’s reserve.
+ The Fineness of Character
MY STAY with these Tennessee boys had touched ‘me deeply. Very few of them have ever been far from ‘home before. “A few have been to college, but some of them cannot read or write. "And yet I defy
you to find more real gentlemen among our troops’ i- than in a
amp of these so-called hillbillies. ‘There i§ a simple genuineness about them that shows in every word they speak. They are courte- - ous, frie and trusting—all by instinct. They don’t
have the city man’s smart-aleck ways and suspicious
outlook. They are quiet. They have never had any
20d hat EO as is one of life's lesser virtues,
No Parallel for: Loyalty
I WAS STANDING in ‘the company street one day talking ‘to a el in. the outfit, a North Carolina
man of immense joviality arid wit, who sees all the} ‘laughable, lovable traits of these transplanted moun- 3
taineers. - > A sentry was walking his post nearby: His pace] face wéa leathery and his nose was sharp and: blue,
was only a shade ahead of suspended motion.
His uniform fit like a joke. He looked as though:
from laughing. = “Look at that guy,” said the colonel proudly, “he
looks like a family of sharecroppers had just moved
. out, of the seat of his. pants. He wouldn't look a bit
different if you got a Bond street tailor out here to work on him. “He can’t even sign his own. name. But he’s a damn good soldier, and loyal as hell.” And there’s another boy in the outfit’ who is orderly for a certain colonel. These mountaineers, if they're treated right, have no parallel for blind loyalty od their superiors. They're one-man boys, and no foolin®; This certain boy so hero-worships his own colonel that he won't salute any of the other offi€ers. They bawl hini out continually, but he considers all other offiters unworthy, compared to “his” colonel. He wouldn't even salute the commanding officer of. the regiment until ‘hid own colonel told him it was all right to do sol
x + Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
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PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Irving ‘Ward Lemaux, banker, manufacturer, enthusiastic hunter and fish-
+ erman, gentleman farmer, for many years a Wheel-
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horse in Republican politics, irrepressible ‘spoofer and:
‘District 40 air raid warden. Of all his many jobs, he probably ' takes his wardenship most ‘seriously right now, In fact, ‘ he’s crazy about it and proud of the fact he has so many civilian defense hig shots in his district. Irving Lemaux, at 56, is a tall, rawboned individual, 6 feet in his stocking feet, weighing about 190 or 200. He has lively brown eyes, quite a lot of salt and peppery gray hair, a friendly smile and a : hearty handshake. He's’a nervous : ; type. If he has something to do, .. Mr Lemaux. . po can't rest until he gets it done. His eyes are the key to his mood. When there's a
twinkle in them, look out. He's a great tease, a splen-’
“did ‘mixer’ and usually the life of the party. - He's extremély sympathetic, has a habit of taking
others” troubles on his 6wn shoulders. His memory
‘for names -and ‘faces is’ excellent. Even if he’s only known a person slightly, he’s pretty sure to recognize then years’ latér and call them by name.
¥ Loves the Outdoors
+ Born at Ridgeville, Ind., he moved here when he was 15, went to business college and then started learning the ropes in his- father’s Indianapolis Brush & Broom Co. plant, of ‘which he .now is president. He's been president of the Security :Trust Co. 14 or 15 years; is president of the Standard Paint & Enamel
y+ Co., treasurer of the .Columbia club and a director of
“Sunnyside, the Indianapolis Life Insurance Co. and - Indianapolis Railways. ‘He formerly: was on the board of works and the county council. Always interested ‘in politics,” he’s been ‘dctive ‘behind the scenes for
. years. At one time he entertained the notion to run
for mayor ‘against Lew Shank. , - Outdoor life is his hobby. He has a hunting cabin on the northern peninsula of Michigan, goes there
Washington
"WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—If President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau would come around, congress could adopt some plan by which we could pay income taxes as we earn them.
. This is badly needed, as seems to be recognized in
most quarters around Washington except at the White House and the treasury. With taxes as high as they must be now, it doesn’t make sense to wait until next year to pay taxes on what we earn this year. It is dangerous. Everybody knows .it. But the White House and the treasury don’t seem ready to do anything about it.
The common sense of paying
as you earn is recognized by men like Vice Pregident Wallace, by
: ‘Leon Hehderion and by Chairman Eccles and his
associates at the federal ‘reserve board. ‘Those are competent New Deal authorities. A congressional joint committee is being set up
: “to considef a pay-as-you-go plan for prompt adop-
“tion after the pending tax bill is passed. This com‘mittee can do a real service by driving some schema Shrough, that will end the ridiculous system of wait snl nest your to pay om what is eatned hi
What ¥ Would a Slump Mean?
-IT 1S 'ONLY THEORY thal says people can save
: up ‘theéir tax. money in advance so they will have
| ernment jobs, or who are shifted under manpower
it on hand to pay in the following year. When you -
try to pay this year's taxes and save up for next year's at ‘the same time—when you try to double foun andi effet yay {wo years taxes in one year
be eit doesn’t work-out for most people.
Men who ‘go’ into the army or navy or into gov-
each year with a group. of : pals for the: deer Hunbidg,
And he never comes back without his deer, whether| ‘or not he has shot one. He starts getting ready for
a month before going onthe trip, has everything from toothpicks ‘to tents laying around the house.
Likes a Bouttonniere
He greatly enjoys trout fishing. His favorite spots are in. Crooked and Burt lakes and the Sturgeon river, in Michigan. Each winter he goes to Daytona, Fla., and fishes in Ponce de Leon inlet. Several years ago he caught a 7-foot shark there. He likes baseball fairly well, but doesn’t play golf. He quit a few years ago when he slipped and fell, breaking his hip, while standing on a bunker at the Country club. He goes to the movies when the family talks him into it, seldom listens to anything on the radio except Gilbert Forbes’ newscast. Fond of flowers, he gets a fresh one out of the garden every day for his buttonhole. He likes dogs, especially hunting dogs, and is in the process of acquiring one now. The ‘last pet was a traffic victim.
Swings His Glasses
He reads quite a bit, especially on current affairs and economic conditions; smokes cigars and always has a box of his favorite Columbians handy; plays a good game of bridge, and euchre, too, and has a flair for telling ‘stories well. When thinking or talking or, in faet, most any time when he-isn'¥ swing-
Fyowik find him “ing his glasses, Breaks them that way once in a while, too.
He has threé farms, two. near Ridgeville, and a 240-acre- place near Mooresville. The latter is his favorite. He visits it each Saturday and looks over his large herd of purebred Guernseys and his hogs. He's pretty well informed on farming. . An idedl bdarder, he'llyeat anything, and particularly enjoys Hoosier apple pie. He gets pretty annoyed with people who are fussy over their food. In the present war situation, jhe feels, they should “eat sawdust and like it.”
By Raymond Clapper
allocation to jobs that mean sharp reductions in salaries, just won't be able to pay their taxes on high earnings this year. Nor will garage owners and others whose businesses have disappeared. The theory that people can save up taxes in advance will break down on the rock of widespread non-payment of ‘taxes. {And you can’t put a man in jail for being unable to pay his taxes. The government will just go without the revenue. If we ever take a sudden slump, such as might occur at the end of the war, the government would have a pretty time trying to collect its year-late taxes earned in: the big war years.
What We Need Is Stabilization
ABOVE ALL, the compelling argument for getting rid of this archaic year-late tax collection is the fact that the income tax has now become a mass tax. Treasury experts expect 30,000,000 persons will
~ be filing income-tax returns. “Present plans for collecting 5 or 10 per cent at|
the source are totally inadequate as a pay-as-you-go method because that only forces a partial doubling up of tax payments by small wage-earners who are gd able to double up than the higher-bracket peo o What we need is some stabilization in taxes. We have ‘had to come to it in prices, to prevent tne economy o sountry being wrecked by violent fluctua-
\ Now when we: start’ the income tax at 19 per cent and apply it to reach practically every working person in the country, we simply cannot continue the old system of new hit-and-miss income-tax laws every ‘year. Taxes have become too ‘large an item in ‘the family budget to be subjected to such con-
.tinuous ‘whimsy.
People are ready to pay high taxes. They know it must be done. But in such an uncertain future
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LABOR FREEZE IS GIVEN TEST
Order Keeping Loggers on Job Is Most Drastic Yet Attempted.
This is the last of six articles on the manpower problem.
By BEN WILLIAMSON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—The manpower problem is. at the point of breaking down production in 35 critically labor-short areas. It is approaching that point in 81 other areas. In only 44 labor-market areas is the manpower pool adequate for present and predictable demands. Logging and lumbering, particularly in the northwest but increasingly. in the. south, dre in the war manpower commission’s book as the most hard-pressed of all industries. You can't replace forest rangers and high climbers with women. You can't replace sure-footed boom men, who ride and guide the logs ta the mills, with clerks or taxi drivers.
Logging Is Test Point
Logging in the northwest (along with non-ferrous mining in the West). is the test point for the most drastic labor-freezing ective yet issued by the war manpower commission. The . directive provides that men cannot leave these industries for other employment without certification by the U. S. employment service. But it is only a voluntary control. . The. WMC reports that it is working; that more than 80 per cent of applications to leave :the logging country, for work in shipyards and elsewhere are denied. But there remains the fact that 20 per cent are still getting away. And the fact tha} there’s no voluntary way. to unfreeze those highskilled sawyers, fallers, buckers and trimmers from the shipyards and
aircraft plants and get them back|
into the forests. ' Labor. Turnover Terrific
Until that freezing order, Pacific coast logging labor was down 25 per cent and labor mover in the lumber industry was c. The result—an anticipated shortage of 6,000,000,000 board feet of wood to meet the 1942 requirements of 37 billion feet. What's six billion board feet of lumber? It's exactly what cur last war took in all 19.7 and 1918, In this year we will use six billion board feet for packaging military, naval and lend-lease supplies alone.
8s everybody faces, most, people would be better|ag
Of paying as they earn instead of » year later.
By Eleanor Roasevelt . Xs
SEES A DROP IN
DRAFT EVASIONS
Cases Caused by Morale,’ Says Chandler; Predicts ‘Sharp Decrease.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—American morale is the key to’ draft violations, - Harry _P. Chandler; administrative: director in the U.:8. district court. office at Washington; said yesterday, and as morale improves, ‘the number of
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1. Fourteen tons of metal fence for the scrap metal drive was torn down this week at the Advance Paint Co. under the supervision of R. E. Kelly, president. The metal was donated to“Wie
dustries.
pile of scrap metal. parade.
94 Out of 100 Know. Scrap Needed; Many Haven't Given
By DR. GEORGE fl
Director, American In te of _ "public 0 Opin Bay fu
PRINCETON J. Oct. 10 (U. P.).—If the present national scrap metal drive doesn’t go hurtling over
the top, it won't be because the
newspapers have failed to wii the people about it." From Maine to Florida, from New York to San Francisco, the newspapers have taken the story of the scrap metal drive into the American home with such effectiveness: that 94 per cent out of any 100 persons will tell you they have read about it. This would indicate that practically the entire literate population has read about the scrap drive. As part of their contribution to the scrap campaign, the newspaper members of the American Institute of Public Opinion asked that the Gallup poll put the following question to a cross-section of the population in every state in the nation: “Have you read about the present drive to ‘collect scrap metal?” The purpose of the survey was to provide newspapers with some indication of the job still to be done. The results: of the study completed early this week are eloquent testimony to. the effectiveness of the free American press in its sponsor-ship-of -the scrap. campaign. : Here are the results of the survey: Yes (have reat): nsinieias 94% No .(have not read). ....i...s 6% - While the survey by the institute |
neither been taken to scrap depots
or collected.
That 50. many people still “have
i 2. At the Garfield park kindergarten, the youngsters pitched in their toys, wagons and scooters. Miss Jorita Kernel is the teacher. 3. The pupils at Wayne township school 13 accumulated quite a They observed their accomplishment with a
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canvassing by local scrap committees will uncover many more tons of scrap. WEB estimates that there are on the average about 657 pounds of scrap per farm in the United States, about 35 pounds per home: in the large - cities, an .overall average ‘of about = 229 pounds per family throughout the country. On this basis the 41 per cent who still have available scrap in their homes represent nearly 1,750,000 tons of scrap which are awaiting a trip to scrap depots. As of yesterday when the final tabulation figures were made at the institute’s offices, here is the way the nation stands on the scrap drive: : Have already turned in scrap or have none, 59 per cent. Have scrap, can take it to a depot, and know where to take ‘it, 19 per cent. % Have scrap, can tak it to a depot, but do not know where to take it, 8 per cent. Have scrap, but cannot take it to a depot, 14 per cent. = Again using WPB’s estimates, the 22 per cent who have scrap and who either cannot take it to a depot or do not know where to take it represent 900,000 tons of scrap, about which nothing may be done unless the local committees make more complete arrangements . for £ pickup service.
; Since : practically everyone in the country . knows metal drive, the task of the news-|: _| papers is amazingly
about the scrap
successful so far. The principal job now lies in seeing that every available pound of scrap gets to the scrap depots.
RADIO CLUB TO HEAR KRYTER The" Indianapolis Radio club will hear R. J. Kryter of the EsterlineAngus Co. speak at 8 p..m. Friday on “Figures Don’t Lie!” The meeting will be in:the clubrooms; Olney
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selective service prosecutions will dwindle. The 3356 selective service act violators prosecuted .or. “dealt with" in the nation’s 85 federal district courts during the fiscal year which ended last June 30 indicate that our morale already is in good condition, Chandler said, and there seems to be no indication that that number will be increased this year.” * Decrease Daily
“Dratt prosecutions - in - federal courts throughout the country are decreasing. . daily,” Chandler said, “due at least.in part to the understanding and fairness. with. which the courts are trying to handle these cases and partly to steady improvement of* morale.” The" type of cdse most: common in- federal: district “courts since the beginning - of the war has been land eondemnation, - he said, ‘estimating that the amount of land condemned . for government use since that time would equal the
Wartime ‘trends in .the. run of cases indicates, Chandler said, that criminal prosecutions are on the upswing over ‘the country while civil cases in general are decreasing in number. -He anticipated sharp increases. in the number of cases dealing with sabotage, espionage, sedition, price Sonu! and priors ities. :
GARY MAN HEADS STATE LIBRARIANS
Officers elected yesterday at the closing -session of the state convention of the Indiana Library assogiation were: , Paul Howard of Gary, president; Wilma Reeve of Indianapolis; vice president; Rachel K. Schenk of Purdue university, secretary, and Marcelle K. Foote,
Woman Watches Railroad Crossing
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 10 (U. P.).~—Nattily dressed in a neat pair of overalls, and carrying & black and white stop sign, ‘the city’s first woman railroad crossing “watchman,” Miss Effie M.
Higgins of Logansport, reported for . work today. Proving that when it comes to “watching,” women are as good as men, she took over. at the Ewing ave. crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad track. Questioned on what she would do with her spare time, Miss Higgins said: “Nothing. There won't be any time for knitting.”
LONG DISTANCE CALLS CURBED
Messages Relating to War Given Priority Starting Nov. 1.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (U. B.) — The board of war communications yesterday ordered that long ‘dis
tance telephone calls relating to the war effort and public safety be given priority over all other calls effective Nov. 1. ; The order provided that when persons entitled to priqrity ratings place long distance ‘calls, they should inform the: operator of the call’s priority status. On such calls, the operator would not he permitted to cut into the conversation except to put through a call with a higher rating. : Operators would be allowed, hows i ever, to cut off any non-priority call at any time. First priority will: be given to calls concerning: 1. Arrangements for moving armed forces during combat operations, 3. Extremely urgent orders to armed forces. 3. Immediate dangers due to the presence of the enemy. 4. Hurricane, flood, earthquake or other disasters affecting the War x effort or public security. oh 4 Any other calls requiring immediate completion for the national defense and security, the successful & conduct of the war, or to how, rc life and property but not cally described under priority 1 shall be
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By M.S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent |
MOSCOW, Oct. 10. —Russia’s new “secret” weapon which has terror-
the Stalingrad front ‘was revealed today to be a 15-ycar-old canvascovered biplane tramner whose top speed is 70 miles an hour. Letters found on the enemy on
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even a fragment of German flak reach wh cabin he has no chance for escape. When he reaches the target sre and the Germans turn on all searchlights, the Russian pilot pushes ‘his “motorcycle” as high-as it will go, cuts off the motor and glides silently to the target through:
on the objective. The Russians:
that their -aerial “motorcycles
dropping tons of bombs nightly an -acouracy no type of h powered bomber: yet has chi
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