Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1942 — Page 13
posier Vagabond
AND, Nov, 2.— These last few days I've ig’ rapidly from “Somewhere” to “Sometrain, jeep, Austin and bicycle, and run-
) the damndest: people. ce here in this place, smack into Lieut.
Tom Cherry, who hails from that sunny, - blissful, garden spot of the world (adv.)—my town of Albuquerque. Anybody = would know Lieut. Cherry is from New Mexico even without asking him, -for he wears a heavy silver ring with: a big turquoise setting — ie mark of the Southwest. His ents are .there in Albuquerque in -~ one house, and his wife, grand- . mother and 9-year-old son Bobby in another house. He said that on account of New losing so many boys on Bataan, it was getting in Albuquerque were apt to stop you on if you fookay fit, and ask why you weren’t
ie to him over here, and lives in a big comfort ‘room with five other officers. They have family
) “Wh s That Man, Mama?” ¥ : IN THE SAME CAMP I ran onto Lieut. Robert © Rose; also from that part of the.country—El Paso. He was an assayer and chemist for the El Paso . Smelting Works. He has become a father since he went into the army. The offispring is Robert Jr., now
s ‘months old. Lieut, Rose did get one look at his progeny, for he
reports that J. I. Holcomb’s gardener has the name of the Japanese garden, show ) of the Holcomb estate on Cold Spring road. It | pow is Pheieu-—Orienial garden. . Tom Roberts, : better known to "mystery story magazine fans as G. T. Fleming
Roberts, ‘has just sold a magazine novel, “Blackmail With Feathers,” to Warner Brothers, , ... Fom, Hutchinson,’ in charge. ¢ 0 eh i for the public library} _years;. left y-for take a job: wi “stitute of Public Onion ‘train interviewers. . nen = the big mirror at Cotriden’s ae 145 N. Delaware: “Love the U. S. or get out.” . . . Listing on the ‘bulletin board: Bone and Joint Club. (It's a’ doctors). .-. . Speaking of odd combinations” 55 Mose Wolfe's, Cigas, 31d BY; Shop, 30
2 TEST DIPPY ¢ POINGS: ‘Some: people have
n the idea of hoarding shoes. . store’ reportedly sold 18 pairs to one customer. Some ‘people ought to have their heads examined. . . . The tanks ¢ and guns tied up in the several miles neing und: Crown Hill have been. pretty. to some Butler fraternity members partici‘in’ the Bl rer scrap metal drive. The led Friday night. A couple of nights earlier, ttempted to make way with part of the e result: was that the cemetery officials noler to warn the fraternity boys that armed were patrolling the fence at night. THley ’t hire us to be one of those guards. .. . f Clerk Charles Ettinger received a cable-
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One downtown
of preserving the oops syste. i in this but you don’t preserve the ‘tWosparty.. as by just having two parties. We have had in the last 10 years.
party hasn't even served. as ithe. vehicle for effective criticism of k ~.0f:the country to look ‘to the Republicans for.con-|: Tt
the administration, much - “less affecting the course of affairs." has obstructed but has missed its" opportunity to construct. Whereas the Republicans in Washington generally contented themselves with. denouncing the administration, a Republican like
Governor Stassen of Minnesota
devised a system of labor relations that has worked very Vel: is * The New Deal has allowed la get entirely out of hand. After brin 4 -needed changes to insure collective barid to protect the right of employees to hich was long overdue—the administra“labor organizations to abuse the new
‘Republicans had so discredited them-
Ink fact the southern Democrats came bringing about changes in labor legislation ; es.
er of others of equal iersianding, folpolicy of obstruction which, if it had any 1 “hampered the administigtion in taking steps, instead of pushing for the things stobe done and insisting on better execution. Bi tive criticism has come not: Hom REpub:
England, Sunday.—The train left soon day morning“and Mrs:-Chuyrchill was our vas charming as-always and interested ng we saw, but I imagine that so much of amiliar to her that she will be relieved when she does not Teel responsible for me. z ¢ Our first stop was at ‘Canteri © bury, where the mayor met us with the lady mayoress and we drove through the narrow main street,” which I had remembered : : ps ‘well. On every side there were rices: of the: severe bombing. 'e. left the car at the archway. leading: to the cathedral grounds
if3 / oning Hoard.
But the. Republic: an.
. policies. :. . have not: ‘been taken up by the Republican national
By Ernie Pyle
had Mrs. Rose come east just before he sailed. He : says two men in his company have children® they've
never seen.
There must be thousands of them over here like|
that. ‘And they all make the same crack about the kid saying “Mama, whos that man?” when they finally get home. “You know,” Lieut. Rose says, “we used to go over to Juarez so much we'd get tired of it and not go for long stretches. But what wouldn't I.give to be walking across that bridge right now.”
Youve Got Some Time!
I STOPPED AT.another camp today just long|
enough to have lunch in the officers’ mess. The men on either side of me were Capt. Edward B. Kime, of Huntington, W. Va., and Capt. George E. Schuette, of St. Louis. Capt. Schuette has two children and Capt. Kime three. Capt. Schuette says he had to promise his wife ne’d be home from the army in 10 months before she'd let him go. He's got only four months left. It looks to me as -though somebody’s gonna have to
fight awfully fast to keep Brother Schuette out of |’
the doghouse. Capt. Kime writes to his wife all the time, of course, but he thought it would be fun to send her a surprise message through this column. “What do - you want to say?” I asked him. He thought a while, and then said, bought a new house and she’s been trying to get a lawn started, so you might tell hgr in the column
that I hope she has some grass for me to cut when
L get home.” Got it, Mrs, Kime? Surprised? But I wouldn't coax that grass along too fast on the strength of this, if I were you. I've an idea you can just take your time with it. .
reporter and more recently secretary to U. S. Senator VanNuys. From faraway Bombay, where. he is serving with.the marines, Ben cabled: “Please record my vote as straight Democratic.” that way, Ben.
Ersatz Coffee
IF THE COFFEE situation has you all upset, 3 you may berintérestedtin 4 letter received: by the state ra-| It’s from Mrs; Wyatt McCaslin, R. 1, xX: 38; Brownsburg, ° ‘Ind., who, writes that she has card “you ave it ' to get @ substitute for ‘coffee Ad Here is. one I “have tried" out. Wash. and clean .;parsnips, cut: them into thin: slices, bake till well +-browned, grind or crush, and use'in the same manner ‘as coffee, from which it is scarcely distinguishable. Likewise, it is good for asthma. If you like, put a tea- . spoon of coffee with it. You will find it fine.” - A «postscript adds’: ef want to do.my part and I:figure this will ‘be‘a great help. All out for: victory.” Anyae ; want to éxperiment? 'f
What? ‘No Bo; ys: in Navy?
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY'S weekly bulletin, Ad Lib, reports the adventures of a member of the library
staff. - (Ad Lib doesn’t say so, but she was Miss Lucille Dichmann.) Walking downtown from a staff meeting, she noticed a sailor lad, slightly under the weather, a few feet-alyead-of her. He turned and said-|-“Pardon me, lady; do you have a cigaret?” Rather -apologetically, she replied: “No, I'm sorry, I haven't.”
“Do you have a match?” the sailor persisted.” Still’
mdre apologetically, she replied she had no matches. They walked on a few yards in silence. Then, in one last desperate appeal, he asked: “Lady, are you sure you haven't any sons in the navy?” Overcome by the thought she had no sons in the navy, Miss Dichmann!
turned down another street.
By Raymond Clapper
licans "as a minority group, ‘but from committees headed by Democrats—the Truman committee of the “senate and the ‘Tolan committee of the house. The Republicans as a party group have had no effect. . That does not go for individual members. * Re‘publicans can be cited whose attitude, if adopted as a Repuyblicar®sarty. policy, would have led the people
structive, criticism as they have looked to- these: two : investigating * committees. When you have enough of these men in congress, then you will have a Republican: party that means something in fact as well as in name.
Just Addition Won't Do It
SENATOR BALL .of sMinnesota has in his ‘short service won. ‘the” respect of his. ‘colleagues for his effort: to. keep the nation’s interest in’ mind ‘ahead of everything else. Senator Gurney of South Dakota | is a other one. Many. others could be named in both ‘houses. The Republican party has an opportunity - that it has ‘not had in the last 10. years. But it will miss the boat again itt. continues the same kind of policies ghat the present Repliblican. national committee trumpets. | Rgcently a group ‘of: Republicans in the house, led by Rep. Hope of Kansas and a few others, . drew up a set of principles that could well becdime the" party’s But. they have been largely forgotten, and
committee and made the ‘basis of the party’s ges, . éral campaign. ¢ The re-election’ of ‘men like those, and" the in- * theduction of new: Republicans like Mrs. Clare Luce of Conpecticut, wotld enable the Republican party again to:.b a force in congress. Just the addition of new members, of more. of the type that has gone before, won produce an effective minority sparty. They will only be votes for the present futile % pian rf
pers: was: at ipailer, which can; be Hooked" fon ito als ordig: Ht. consisted’ of three tanks of water, which ntust be ‘si godsend When ‘an area is blitzed and the: ‘sewers and ‘water mains. are affected. The drivers end worksts Bf. these. canteens are volunteers and many: of are worked. at: least: five. days a week, and somet iti Mogg, fora full eight-hour day. They take sche Lh 8. to children and food to ont‘posts where won po work. in lonely;piaces. *'- { We met the Dean gt; Canterbury and. ‘made’ a ‘Brief visit to the cathedral, Which: Was very: t from what it. was when. I Saw it -several years: ‘ago. .Qur next ;stop was, at Barbgii:=to: visit the Women’s institute. Lady Denman isshead of the national arganizstion, 1Ttie. women piaudly showed’ me 8 ma-
abl e With vegetables grown dom . pe Qur last stop was 3 ne gus and showed us civilian mi Bir Henry Pridham-Wippell a work and we saw the work of
“Well, we
It can’t be done}
Badge should be worn above in-plain view.
Washington is equally clear —though less readily exacted. He requires evidence « + » that Washington's in‘structions are supported by a quality of government conduct that will stir the “citizen to do as he is told. with everything hie has. The extent to” which the gov= ernment ‘measures up -to -those requirements - makes the differ-:
ence; between: a people. who, are
uneasy, and a militant people who march unitedly ‘with ‘banners. “Washington has failed to do many of ‘the things-it asks us to dos. It’ is much of what it asks ‘us not tobe. We have been more often irritated than inspired; have had forebodings at-least as’ frequently as. hope; -have seen’ much to be concerned about and much too little to cheer for. -
# ” 2 : FOR THE UNITY which it expectes from this country, ‘'Washington sets a ‘poor example. Most
hesitant and "uncertain
THE RIGHT WAY to’ display a company badge is displayed by Miss Alice Pinnick, an employee of the International Machine Tool Corp. to Guard Ross E. Meek. Company officials are asking employees to wear their ‘badges in conspicuous places.
It’s wrong, too, for employees. tor CITY: aoe Jadses oe Binet in |
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Following are excerpts from a November Reader's Digest article
by Stanley High, once very active in the New Deal. tionist, was one of the organizers of the Fight for Freedom committee. ‘The excerpts are published by permission of the Reader’s Digest.
" By, STANLEY HIGH
IN TOTAL WAR Washington's reach properly extends directly to every citizen—to change his manner of living, draw upon his resources, call, if necessary, for his .life: To save his freedom the citizen temporarily surrenders it. The state is, and of necessity must be, allpowerful, -Of that power, the White House is the symbol ‘and the president’the executor. . That loan of power is what Washington requires of the citizen. :What, consciously or not, the citizen requires of
High, an interven-
of the president's war measures get non-partisan support in congress. But: that is because congress wants to win the war. It is. not because,- in ‘his relations . with . congress, the president's conduct of the war is nonpartisan. It is essentially as partisan as his conduct of the New Deal. ‘The president does not’ serious-
"ly consult with non-Democratic
‘members or, any oftener-than he can. help, with non-New Dealers. ‘The: political opposition is .not taken. into. his. confidence. All "the divisions that. prevailed before ‘the ' war ‘are scrupulously - preserved in its prosecution. : And a new division ‘has been added— the sheep being separated. from the goats in this instance on the _ issue of ‘whether they.were “For or Against Roosevelt Before Pearl Harbor.” - This is ‘not: a Demo- - cratic. war. The ‘administration should not act das though it were a . Roosevelt. war. “While the country. is besought to give single-minded attention to winning - -the war, ‘Washington gives milti-minded attention to
ftfent and |
Miss ‘Wanita Rominger shows another wrong way of carrying her badge. time is lost while searching for the badge, holding up not only. herself but other employees behind
THE WRONG WAY fo wear a company badge is demonstrated by Merrill Suiter, another employee, to Officer Meek. Mr. Suiter has his badge pinned to his shirt-where it would be hidden by his sweater most of the time,
She demonstrates how ;
her. War factory officials have asked "nflovsed to shaleiigs everyone inside’ the pant ‘unless they are
wearing a badge.’
‘Capitol Fails to i ltself to the
the furthering of its own private’ feuds ‘and ' ambitions. Americans a long way from New Jersey were incensed when the administration pushed a Frank Hague protege in-
to a federal judgeship. They did’
not relish such 1944-fence-build-ing support for an American sample of the totalitarianism they were being spurred to destroy. 2 #8 =
irked by Farley Issue
RATHER THAN get along with Jim Farley, the White House, nursing its 1940 grievances, preferred to try to get even with him. ‘Americans who cared nothing about New York politics acclaimed _Big Jim, because in this kind of war they did not relish a president taking time out for that kind of fight. Americans who detest the editorial policies of the Chicago Tribune cheered when Washington's vendetta against it collapsed, because they did not relish in their government, any more than they would tolerate in their neighbors, an attempt to use this crisis to settle old scores. Many of us, with no knowledge of whether the Associated Press is or. is not a monopoly, wonder how much the government's war-time-consuming move against it is due to the AP’s sins and how much it is aimed at getting a franchise for close-friend Marshall. Field's Chicago :Sun. In nothing and toward no one .... has a feud been forgotten, a hate relaxed, or an ambition shelved . .. Some 30 different government - agencies are busily at work: planning our postwar world. But what it’ will be like, how it will be brought about,
Q Emergencies where it will affect us—these are carefully guarded secrets.
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Propaganda Shielded
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EVERY DAY, in some 25 lan--
guages, the government , lays down a barrage of short-wave propaganda directed to our enemies, our conquered and eun-
conquered allies, and to neutrals. What hopes, rewards and promises these nations ‘are being. offered in our name the American people are not allowed to know. With the notable exception of the propaganda to Latin America, the texts of these broadcasts to the rest of the world are forbidden reading to Americans. .. It is not far from the administration’s policy of concealment to the conclusion that the reason we are not allowed to see what is being cooked up is that, if we saw, we would not: like it; to the conviction that, rather than take the people into its confidence, Washington prefers to bring in its
Kingdom of Heaven by: stealth; :
and to the uneasy feeling that; whether we like it or not, the shape of things to come will one day turn up—signed, packaged and sealed—in our laps. Washington does not practice the toughness that it preaches. Early in September, the president . spoke sharply -to congress on the
subject of inflation. But the ex- ;
emplary benefit’ of that crackdown was largely lost’ because it was so long delayed, because ac-: tion was not initiated by Wash-
ington ‘but by the mounting pres- |- sure ‘of public opinion; and be- |
cause the necessity: for servirig an’ ultimatum on. congress was: due. less to congressional shortcomings
of Wa r than to the administration’s disinclination to let congress in on
the war’ and make ‘it’ the equal fo
partner in ‘government which ‘it constitutionally is. . ” ” . Assails Leadership . . THE ADMINISTRATION has now—at long last—done some-. thing about the rubber scandal. The results are due to be salutary. But here, again, the: administration refused to be drastic until well past ‘the eleventh hour. It had hemmed and hawed its way through months of indecision, far behind the ‘wake of public opinion. ; : Not Washington but public opinion first got tough in regard to the facts of the Pearl Harbor disaster; the reorganization and one-man control of war production; the establishment, under Admiral William D. Leahy, of what passes for a unified war - command; - the. erasure. of the office of facts: and figures. and the consolidation: of numerous agencies in the ‘office of war information; getting the promise that, if farm prices are stabilized, wages will be. There is nothing in this record of pressure-induced toughness: to persuade the American ' people that the war requires them to take - the . fighting-mad prescriptions which - Washington ‘advises, but loathes to use itself . :
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If ‘we are only -ankle-deep in. 2
the war, as Elmer Davis recently said, it is because in Washington .we have: only. siiklgeléep leadership. Ld EARTH TREMOR FELT ' CRESTON, B. C. Nov. 2 (U. P.). ‘—A slight earthquake shook Creston
We're at War, Ladies, So Please Watch Those Hairpins
plies of permanent waving pads, because: ‘of :the strategic: tinfoil. and flannel which go into .them,. most
pins are: thoroughly sterilized afterwards. : ; N; Beauty shops actually “guard” their pins. First of all, they aren’t so ‘easy to buy and what's. more they’re.. more expensive. Some establishments ask milady to bring her own pins and then she can take them home ‘ with her—in her hair. She brings: them back In a box. at her next appointment. - Of course, the beauticians are busy at work using their: ingenuity to devise- substitutes. One is called a “stitch-a-curl.” That's right, the operator uses a:needle and thread, 'sews in the curl, and then clips. off the: thread. Some even are considering using toothpicks : if worse comes: to worse. : But. rest assured, ladies, you. are still: going to get those permanents. We Dave that on the BUThOMEY § of ne
. - The ma# was methodically covering every, inch «ef the beauty parlor floor. : x In her hand she carried a strange gadget—a - magnet attached to- a stick. With it she ‘was luring that small but extremely important item the
they. have to come to setting hair with rags, they figure women will still patronize them. Keeping pretty seems to do for. a woman’s morale the same ‘thing a new hat does for her spirit.
Even’ the government has ¢ome around to that. This week it listed beauty © shops among “essential hairpin, needs of Federal women employees.” On the wall hung a sign, “Be 1 pas some shops had ample stocks: of triotic,- bring your own hairp: s on hand: when the shortYes, that lowly and once plentitul ee be Sa ale Ti item is really coming ‘into its own.iand all are concentrating now" ona If a woman starts to, leave the conserving them. © The government beauty salon with hairpins in her|needs: steel for battleships, tanks hair, she is practically searched asiand guns: and even ‘hairpins - help if she were concealing hidden treas- make them. ure.
For a long time, many operators That's just one of the many jtems have used the magnet. to draw pins that: ; £0 ‘into shaping milady’s coif-
{from a hair-do. Now. they use it as ure, fingernails and figure, which
points out, there’ are now so many [types ‘of pérmanént waves that certainly some of them will not be cut out by war priorities. ~ * As for the trend in wartime -coif-
ward . the shorter hair- do. It's been that way ‘for ‘sometime among ‘some éiviligns. but. . the : shorter _coiffure
WAVES . ‘will probably influence women more and more to adopt it. Women in industry are demanding .the “shorter : hairdress- because long hair often is a hazard on the
style is just a little hard to keep attractive on an assembly line job.
have’ supplies. Further, Miss Zook|[®
fures, Miss Zook: believes: it is: to- |}
worn: by. women in the WAACs and |
and- the surrounding area for half
{a minute yesterday. Residents re-
ported the temblor shook houses and ! ‘caused dishes to rattle, but np dam- i age was reported. 50
HOLD EVERYTHING
job. It can’ be caught in machines : and besides that, a Veronica Lake ;
“These pickles f shortages and A
‘well to pick: up the pins from the are needed for war purposes: instead
floor. Some ‘maids stoop over to jor iie creation’ of beauty. ;