Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1942 — Page 9

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Hoosier Vagabond

LONDON, Oct. 19, —Today Patricia Hartnett, one of. the recently arrived Red Cross hostesses in London, concludes her “diary” of her first feelings about England— “Did I say something the other. day about the 2 charm of crooked streets? That was an impractical piece of ap- _ preciation, I've decided, after havcircled ‘my hotel for an hour ‘and a half trying to get home in the blackout. “And I mean blackout. Not a : Whisper of light anywhere—and a moon so timid she just wasn’t out. & I walked and walked, and when some lone soul would cross my path I'd pounce on him and ask directions, “Unfortunately, there's someting about night that makes a Britisher’s speech more British, and an American’s more American. “I would repeat the name of my hotel over and over, and the Englishman I'd tackled would repeat after me something: completely incomprehensible. But we'd reach some kind of doubtful understanding, and

off I'd go with a new set of dizections-yand get hape- .

lessly lost again.

Putting 1t Delicately |

: “rm FASCINATED by the different terms the English use for things—a bellboy is a ‘page,’ a liquor store is a ‘wine merchant’ and sells ‘spirits,’ and elevator is a ‘lift, you play ‘draughts,’ not checkers, and men hold up. their socks with ‘suspenders’ but their trousers with ‘braces’. “An undershirt is a ‘vest,’ and a vest a Waisivonl, ! and they call a men’s barber a ‘hairdresser.’ A ‘bras-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

JOE O'HARA, buyer for L. Strauss, thinks the Street Railway ought to give our bus riders a course in bus etiquette. The biggest trouble, he contends, is with the males who stand aside and let the women - get off first. That way they just block the aisles and no one can get out, he adds. The proper way, says Joe, is for the men to get off first, then turn quickly and take the lady’s hand, helping her to alight gently. We just thought you'd be interested. « + «. The U. S. marines stationed here are getting ready to.observe the 167th anniversary of the marine corps—the oldest branch of the armed services. The date is Nov. 10 and: there's pretty sure to be a big civic celebration. . . . ; The board of the General Protes~ tant Orphans’ Home deserves a hand for its patriotism 4n deciding to remove. the heavy iron fence around the home and contribute the metal to the scrap drive. .'By the way, why doesn’t someone do something > about the abandoned bridges around tewn? For instance, there's the one over Fall Creek on Indiana ave. The city owns it. And then there’s the abandoned interurban bridge at 63d and College, and another over Fall creek at 21st st. There's enough scrap in these three alone for quite. a few tanks’ or airplanes or

bombs.

Around the Town

JACK BRANNAN, 16-year-old Tech student, ‘has a flivver that’s almost as old as he is. Se was Jetty much annoyed:when some wag put a sign on the car the other yed-xh “The’ Siew d: “Don’t % take this scrap—I'm still using it.” . Add fo your list of odd and useless facts: You can dial Ri. 944 and get Ayres’, or Ma. 156 and get the federal building. They each have all the numbers from 1 to 10 for the fourth . Gu E. (Gabe) Frand, of the State Auto Insurance association, has been commissioned a captain in the army and will report at the Aberdeen proving grounds in Maryland. +.+.+ A sign on a scrap

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—We are dbout to see an interesting experiment in public leadership in the activities of Wendell Willkie. If it succeeds it will bring something very much needed into American _ political life. Willkie 1s spenfling a few days at Rushville, Ind. - He has indicated that as soon as he gets his breath

he will begin speaking and writing

on subjects connected with the war and what is to follow. Already there is enormous interest in what he will have to say. Many people are prepared: undoubtedly to be influenced by what he says, for they are confused by much; that they have heard from Washington and would welcome an’ effective discussion by such a man as Willkie. He has the opportunity. to exert large influence on : American thinking at this point, and perhaps to do much to shape. the public attitude on postwar policy. The reason I hope he will be successful is a simple one. Willkie is a man without any public office, without any lobby behind him, yes and without any political party behind him, because a lot of Republican organization regulars: hate him, because he was too far-ahead of the party. Something We Have Lost HE PROBABLY HAS as many friends in the , Democratic party as in the Republican party now. In other words, Willkie has nothing but himself, the force of his personality, his character, his courage, and a whole lot more insight into what is going on in this world then many people used to give him credit for: having. He has no platform but his own soapbox. He owns no newspaper, no radio, no means of communication except a good-sized mouth wtih some brains to tell ®t what to say. “He has to work entirely * with his bare aniiseor bare tongue. If a man can get anywhere on that basis as a - force in’ American public affairs, then it brings back -

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esting program With messages from various’ women in differept parts of the world. Most of {pem, “however, were not available to speak

‘geat,” you don’t ride in a sedan but in a ‘saloon,’ and

‘made an agreement with the bank not to cash checks.

pounds of ice a year to cool the water used in grinding

By Ernie Pyle

aorie’ ia a inden beer garden. and-a brassiere is a ‘bust bodice.’ You get ‘ladders’ in your hose, not runs; candy is ‘boiled sweets,’ and our kind of pie is a ‘tart’ You send a ‘wireless,’ not a radio; a ‘radio-|-gram’ is a combination victrola and radio, a gramophone’ is a victrola, a ground wire an ‘earth Wire,’ radio tubes are ‘valves, and ‘tubes’ are subways. “The first floor is on the second floor, sodd pop is. referred fo as minerals, a car top is a ‘hood,” what we call hood is the ‘bonnet,’ a rumble seat a ‘dickey

a saloon is a ‘pub.’ “They put some things a bit more delicately than we're inclined to. Instead of signs such as in America saying ‘In God we trust, all others pay cash, there is a sign in many pubs which says, “We have

They, on their part, have agreed not to sell liquors.’ They Prefer Our Movies “WELL, I LIKE it here. Ii's different, to be sure,

and so are the people, but there is no ‘doubting their warmth and sincerity.

“I like thelr ways—they are gracious and eotteons, gun.

and too much can’t be said for their spirit, and humor. They are forever surprising me with the extent of their knowledge about America and its customs. “F guess they've ‘learned a lot ‘about us from our movies, and incidentally they prefer ours to theirs. They like our music too, and whenever you go dancing they play almost all American tunes. “They are very fond of Southern songs—and when the orchesira plays-them, they all start singing. You should hear ‘Dinah’ and ‘Chattanooga Choo-Choo’ sung with a British accent. “Well, maybe you will, when I get back!”

box at the Gaseteria filling station on Delaware at St. Clair advises passersby: “Future bombs dropped here.” . . . And one of our agents comes in with the breathless information that a certain woman who has four dozen pairs of silk hose to last her through the duration has “canned” them in sterilized fruit jars, to protect them.

Rose Colored Glasses?

NOTE TO THE LADIES: If your husbands tell you you use too much rouge, just tell them about the Continental Optical Co., and maybe they (the hubbies) . will shut up. Continental, we're advised by Katherine Cleaver, uses about 5000 pounds of rouge a month—grinds most of it right there at the plant. It's used in the polishing of lenses. From the same source we learn that Continental uses a half-million

Another interesting bit of data is that inspection of lenses at Continental costs three times as much as the actual abor in grinding them. . . . Joe Markey, seeking re-election as superior court judge, is putting out campaign cards with the hames and addresses of army and navy training camps on the back. . . . Prosecutor Sherwood Blue's campaign posters are printed in blue ink, appropriately enough.

Proud ‘to Be a Warden

ONE OF THE CITY’S most enthusiastic air raid wardens .died last week, a traffic victim. He was Benjamin A. Trout, 72, of 1441 Hiatt st. Mr. Trout hadn't finished his training as a warden whén he died, but because of his enthusiasm and pride in his _wardenship, his superiors gave the family the arm ‘band “he” would ‘hive Teveived: upon graduation, and| he wore it when he was buried Friday. . . . Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, the national head of the WAAC, wrote to a local insurance company with which she has a couple of policies to find if they were affected by her work with the WAACs. She found that the double, indemnity clauses in her policies are canceled Aor the duration, just as if she were in one of the ‘more hazardous Drgiiches of the army.

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By Raymond Clapper

something that we have lost’ in America. People say you have to get high public office to be a force, or you have to be head of some big lobby, or own newspapers or radio stations. They think you must have a lot of tools to work with to influence American public opinion, some kind of sounding board, some kind of organization that will do the sewer work for you. I hope Willkie is able to demonstrate that this is all bunk. I hope he is able to demonstrate that a man who has. the vigor and brains and understanding needs ncthing more in the United States to be an influential! leader in democracy.

Something Good for the U. S.

I HAVE BEEN drifting into dead waters in this country. Except for Roosevelt, we: have had little leadership of national stature. We have had some synthetic personalities, some who have tried to get there by hiring press agents, But mostly it has been secondstring stuff, Perhaps the real talent has been stunted. Men who might have grown, as Willkie has grown, may have’ become discouraged and given up when they actually had: the possibilities of full growth had they felt the struggle worth going through. Nobody can know. | If we ever needed not one big man but many big men in America it is now. We are moving into a new world. © It will’ be vastly ‘different. We can’t know what it will .be like. All we know is that we will have to deal with problems such as have never before existed for us. Intelligence, understanding, and above all the courage of great convictions will be needed. It can’t be a one-man’ job. Ii will require not a big leader but big: leaders, and behind them a people that responds to them. If Willkie can. step up now into this vacuum, and start the yeast ‘working, it will be something very good for the couniry. I have a hunch He maybe can do it. At least I don’t discount the man who ceuld step up and kiss that Russian ballerina with a smack that was heard round the world.

By Eleanor Roosevelt 1

me and each time I try to speak a little differently, inthe hope that eventually & Will all Sum ous Better

‘watched them circle, steady’ and imperturable — Boeing flying for-

friends who had been through the

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Fears of Britist British Allayed Due to Yank Airmen’s

Faith in Guns.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor ~~ UNITED STATES BOMBER BASE, Somewhere in Britain. Oct. 19.—There was a brazen beat from the motors across Britain's green hills and flying out of the sun came the American aircraft that did the impossible—because of faith in a

From the broad hilltop ‘we

tresses 1n picture formation. They are the ships that defied the most - pessimistic warnings of EQrope’s most experienced airmen’ in order to make a reality out of daylight bombing of the axis. “We don’t mind saying now ‘that only a few months ago most of our

war from ‘the start said it couldn't be done,” said a U. S, air force officer. “They said we faced at least 40 per cent losses and perhaps 100 per cent. But it is possible. Naturally we are going to lose planes—perhaps many planes. The Americans must expect that. “But we have only begun our

Guns Provide Answer

The big ships were drifting down the runways and taxiing toward the waiting ground crews. Why had we been able to do this thing — conduct daylight bombing operations—when nobody else had? A tired, grinning boy climbing from the tail ‘of one fortress had one answer. “These guns are the stuff,” said Jay Muse, a rough and ready kid who used to live in St. Louis and who isn’t soft about anything except the picture of his girl friend, Lee Drywick, Ludlow, Mass. He carries the photograph in his gun compartment. “See what's painted across the tail of the ship just above the guns,” he.said. There in gleaming letters six inches high was the crap shooter’s: battlecry: “You're faded.” “That’s - just how the fortress gunners feel. Waiting Is Worst Feature “When you're sitting up there Jay explained. “But once they start coming and the guns are going you don’t think about anything else. You have just got the feeling you can get the other 2: ‘Obviously thes te cadena is much more complicated but

is something that had never been

How U. S. marines may have met the landing of Jap troops on Guadalcanal with machine gun and artillery fire is dramatically shown in in this artist's sketch. The Japs, supported by warships, are seen coming ashore from their transports on landing barges, bringing along tanks and artillery. Overhead, American planes are attacking the transports and warships in an attempt to slow the landings. ¥

Vi. The Battle of Rzhev, a Battle of Attrition

By LELAND STOWE Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc:

WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE RZHEV FRONT. —The battle of Rzhev, which has been going on for more than six weeks now, is a battle of attrition. The Russians hold ‘the initiative almost everywhere and the Germans hold very strongly fortified positions in the city itself. The Nazis are being compelled frequently to bring in new reserves in order to cling to their incessantly hammered

positions ATE We 7 A Xe Ne riewiy captured ' prisoners

th Ip a ach with whom I have talked,

seen before in this sector which has been tops for air war. “It’s a matter of mathematics,” said an air officer. “If you have 100 fortresses in formation there are 1100 half-inch guns firing" 600 rounds per minute which can be turned against enemy planes in any direction. When that much lead is in the air somebody is going to get hurt — especially -any Nazi: planes trying to come into range.”

Innovations Revealed

The Germans now have had a chance to examine our fortresses— some have been shot down, of course —and innovations which no longer are a secret from the enemy can be mentioned.

There was a time when the introduction of cannon-armed fighter planes appeared to doom daylight bombers. The British bombers were armed with .303 caliber machine guns which enabled the Nazi fighters to stay out of range and still knock off the bombers with their cannon. The Nazi fighters such as the Focke-Wulf 190 are well armored defensively, too. © The .303 bullet might easily bounce off the enemy plane. Thus the R. A. F. believed

cannon for bomber protection and few of the British experts had faith in the fortress machine guns.

Far From a Peashooter

They tried to discourage the army from using the machine guns but the half-inch gun is no peashooter. 'It is four times heavier than the bullet of the .303 gun and has 10 times the striking power at operational ranges. It can penetrate 'dlmost half an inch of steel. Its range is about the same as that of the average fighter cannon. The Americans believed their gun would do the job. Today when the . Focke-Wulf tangles with 4 formation of fortresses it must pit four cannon and two machine guns against the combined fire of an indefinite number of fortresses.

HOLD EVERYTHING

are existing on extremely poor food. In some respects Rzhev is another and smaller Stalingrad in reverse. The Germans do not have to’ take even a fraction of the terrific daily bombings which the Russians ave withstanding so amazingly in ‘Stalingrad. But here again ‘the buildings of the city have been transformed into minor fortresses and here, too, the cefenders ‘control only part of the city, although more than half of it and all ¢n one bank of the Volga. The Volga line, which splits Rzhev into two

parts, gives the Nazis a very con- .

siderable defensive advantage. Nevertheless, Rzhev is almost unique thus far in this war because this is one place on the 2000-mile Russian front where the Red army dictates the strategy and - imposes: the - terms - of battle most of the time. Because they are attacking highly fortified positions with Rzhev itself in the heart of the.line, the Russians are not rushing head-on like a bull. They are simply continually gnashing and gnawing at German positions around Rzhev, biting off a piece here and then biting off another piece there | perhaps many miles farther along " on the arc of this front.

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Smash Nazis Unit

When the Germans have another full - division ' knocked out, it hurts them at this stage of the war. The. end of September,

Germans ‘lost nearly 6000 men in -

casualties and a large ‘number

ons and their troops, according to the testimony of

ever.

tle for Rzhev and the Russians’ treatment of the problem. In Rzhev and along this front, the Germans still enjoy numerical superiority in both planes and tanks and that greatly complicates the problem for the Russian offensive. Probably it makes an all-out, sustained general offensive impossible at present. But the Red army generals know their terrain and their forces and give every indication of knowing exactly what they can or cannot do with the forces at their disposal. So the Germans’ positions are being bitten off systematically and the steel ring closes slowly but ever tighter around Rzhev. On Oct. 2, the Germans {tried

“to recapture the offensive in one

sector of this front at the moment we were visiting it. Théy had used their bombers repeatedly and attacked with great vigor. But in one sector alone this cost them the loss of 700 men and 20 tanks

and their troops were driven back without gain. Because Rzhev is a vital railroad junction, the Germans have fortified it intensively during their months of occupation. This fact also explains the protracted nature of the Rzhev battle. The Nazis have laid mine fields around all their positions. They have built tank traps everywhere and beside their 105 and 205 artillery batteries, they keep large numbers of mortars in action constantly. Defense of this qual-

tity ‘and ‘density naturally make"

Rzhev a very hard nut to crack yet the Russians keep wearing down the Germans ‘bit by bit in one sector and then another. In a baftle of attrition, it is very convenient to possess firstclass artillery and the Red army around Rzhev boasts of artillery of this caliber.. In every sector of this front you hear Russian guns booming regularly and the Germans, even with their advantage in planes, cannot seem to locate or silence these big Soviet guns. So this is’ one place where Fritz has to take it and where things get hotter and hotter for him as time goes on.

» » »

‘Getting a Mouthful’

Most of Razhev itself must be a shambles of bombed and

burned buildings by now. The night we saw fires which Rus‘'sians bombers had started, it

looked as if the entire city must °

be ablaze and this fire burned like a torch for most of one night.

This means that the Germans in Rzhev are getting a big mouthful of what they have administered to other cities and with their only railroad feedline from Vyas= ma now severed, the Nazis are ' certain to have an increasingly unhappy time trying to hold on to what they have still got of Rzhev. Today the war along the Rzhev front impresses you as remarkably like what the war on the western front in the first world war was for several years. This “too is ‘a front where the defends-. ers are strongly entrenched, where every natural positi is fortified to the utmost and where the opposing forces still are so nearly equal in strength that a major break-through can hardly be expected. But the at-. trition of the next few weeks or months will be the bitterest kind of medicine for the Germans to take. On this one sector of the entire Russo-German front, it: is the Red army that is picking its own time for each operation. And even though there are ao sensational news reports being issued about the Rzhev front it is, nonetheless, true that the Rus sians here are neither wasting time nor standing still. Here the Red army is giving an exhibition of what it can do to Germans everywhere in Russia once it gets . a chance to battle on something halfway approaching even terms —what it will certainly do every where if and when the allies open: up a second front in Western, Europe. y

Does Popsy Love 'is Liddle Dumplin'? Stop That Baby Talk, Asks Speech Expert

By ROSEMARY REDDING

Dan’t talk baby talk to your child. He imitates you and so learns to talk only baby talk. Then when he starts : to, school, the teacher has to break that habit. Yes, mother and daddy, it ‘would be a big help to teachers if you talked to your baby or small child

.|more as you talk to other adults.

That's. the advice of Miss Nila Hornaday, who teaches speech correction in theepublic schools.Even worse than talking baby talk to the child is repeating his baby language to ‘him. Repetition only

the child repeat it correctly after

He should not be scolded, howScolding, Miss Hornaday ad-

works with a

(like the “s” for “th"),

been supplied without his speaking;

home, or he is mentally retarded. . Patience Is Necessary

ents should realize that

‘Inot all learn to do things at the

should give the child the idea. that/hearing test when the she or he is eharing with the{to school.) : youngster in his difficulty but at the same time not sheltering him. |have it done before he starts If certain words are .not enun-|school. ciated correctly, the parent should| 9. Develop in the child the d not keep “drumming” at the young-|to read. When told a story, ster but come back ‘to the word|child should understand it later. The first requisite, not only|from a book: for the teacher but the parent as

model tor PROGRAM TO HONOR

Sometimes, Miss Hornaday has to go to great lengths with that. She; ° If she| The first Men's “400” club 1 ly stubborn ing of the fall season will be I child, she may bring out the mirror{at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow at th and let the child look at himself. chy

well, is to provide a good |the child to imitate.’

carries a mirror with her.

delayed speech - and real oral inactivity.|varied experiences. The more ex= There may be any of six reasons|periences he has the more interbehirid these defects: The child |ested he will become in learning to does not know how to make the|read and find out about other peo= correct sound; he has not heard the|ple's experiences. sound correctly; he may be retarded because of illness; his wants have|simple tasks alone.

Miss Hornaday does not advise any intensive activity on the part|words. of parents to have the child speak{in this.) perfectly. If the child is behind] 6. Train him to say words please others of his age in his speech, par-|ingiy and clearly. do|baby talk.)

immediately tries

1. Provide the child with rich and

% Permit the child to work out 3. Train him to follow directions.

two languages are spoken in the 4. Teach him to use simple Eng-

lish sentences. Picture Books Helpful

5. Teach the meaning of new (Picture books are helpful

(That. rules’ out 7. Test and develop the child's

8. Test the child's eyesight

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