Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1942 — Page 14

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1942

. YOU ARE A STOCKHOLDER! MORROW is election day. We hope YOU cast your vote. YOU are a stockholder in this government. The men who are running for office in city, county, state and federal elections are seeking to represent YOU. It becomes your duty to protect YOUR interests and cast your vote. Every man and woman who works should make an effort to vote in the morning. Housewives and others who will remain in their homes during the day should try to keep from clogging the polls at the two rush-hour periods— early morning and late evening. These individuals, by voting in mid-day, will perhaps ease the burden of election officials and those persons who are unable to vote at any other times. The Indianapolis Times calls to your attention the - fndorsements made by this newspaper last Friday. : 2 2 8 ” 2 ” JOR the benefit of those citizens who perhaps did not see % these indorsements, we repeat some of the high spots: We believe Congressman Louis Ludlow should be reelected. We believe Ralph Watson should be elected superintendent of public instruction. We believe Superior Court Judges Russell Ryan and Henry O. Goett should be re-elected. We believe Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw has earned re-election through his excellent record. And we urge the election of the Citizens’ School Committee candidates, Dr. Harry G. Mayer, Edgar A. Perkins, Mrs. Eldo I. Wagner, Clarence Farrington and Howard S. Young. These school board candidates will not appear on the voting machines, but on paper ballots. If you are not given your ballot, ask for it. : But, above all, VOTE!

WHY WAIT?

ABOR leaders William Green and Philip Murray told President Roosevelt last week they were still opposed fo compulsory labor service as a solution for the wartime manpower problem. Mr. Roosevelt told them, they said

ater, that he would not seek legislation, at least pending

new studies in search of a policy that might avoid “resort to regimentation.” , : ‘The need for new studies is clear. The manpower muddle obviously is going from bad to worse. Paul V. McNutt, who might be supposed to be responsible for de"veloping a policy, has already announced that he considers ~ the problem insoluble without compulsory service. Who, then, should make the new studies and recommend a better policy than Mr. McNutt has been able to evolve? , We believe, as we have said before, that manpower eeds the same sort of treatment that rubber finally got after rubber had been allowed to drift into the same sort of confusion that manpower is in. Why wait? Why not appoint a “Baruch committee” for manpower now?

‘A MERE $369,000,000

. A N administration bill awaiting action by the senate proposes a uniform system of overtime pay, at one and a half time regular scale for all hours worked above 40 a week, for all civilian employees of the federal government. These employees now number about 2,600,000. | 4 Senator Mead of New York, who sponsors the bill, estimates that it will increase costs by $369,000,000 a year. The government compels private employers to pay _time-and-a-half for overtime above 40 hours a week, under laws passed to spread jobs when unemployment was the big problem. If that makes sense in times like the present, it makes sense for the government to pay its own employees overtime. In fact, 52 per cent of them are eligible for overtime now, and Mr. Mead argues that extending the ~ same benefit to the other 48 per cent will so increase effi_giency that the added cost will be largely offset. Maybe so. We believe that if the government really ‘wanted to increase efficiency it would stop hiring so many, mew employees and reduce some of its overcrowded pay rolls. It has taken on about 1,600,000 people in a little more ~ than two years—upwards of a million of them since Pearl . Harbor—and if many federal offices can’t get their work done in 40 hours a week, the congestion and confusion that prevails in them seems to us the probable reason. i However, we have no doubt that the Mead bill will be- ~ eome law, since an extra expense of $369,000,000 a year for overtime is the sort of thing that is thought of in Washington, these days, as a bagatelle.

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM : MACHINE GUN PETE, horned toad mascot of the army =" gunnery school at Las Vegas, Nev., has a new name, Patricia. Reason: Birth of 14 young horned toads. ... A patriotic crow has picked up a small American flag somewhere and is/ flying it from a nest on Kelley’s island, near Cleveland. . . . Porky, a police dog, went A. W. O. L. for . four days from a farm near Elkhart, Ind., after Irene Dahl, aged 12, decorated his front claws with red nail polish. . . . ‘Sachet, a trained skunk, brought in to trace down an obmoxious odor at the Bear Mountain Museum, New York state, found that rats had been stealing meat from the zoo ‘animals and storing it in the walls. . . . The New York conservation department reports that American eagles are creasing rapidly in that state and along the Great Lakes. , + » Cats are becoming scarce in Great Britain, due to the demand for cheap furs, but Sooty, a black kitten which ‘accompanied British navy forces on the Dieppe raid, now wears a miniature Victoria Cross for gallantry in action. ys N. Y., dentist made a plastic bill for a malth

+ «A Peekskill, a: d duck which had been injured in a battle wi

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

And I Do

Fair Encudh

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—There must be some man in the United States, some big man who knows that our sort of freedom can continue only under our kind of cap-

dence of labor and create a working co-operation between . labor and management and have done with strikes and hearings and the constant wrangling and ‘suspicion. To be constructive, I would nominate Henry Kaiser, who seems to be large and loose of mind and a man whom labor could trust.

The old union leaders, including the young or- |

ganizers and agitators of the ear of strife under the New Deal, are disqualified for various reasons, John Lewis, of course, is out, not only because he is oldstyle but because he has shown himself to be a ruthless dictator, as his old associates of the C. I. O., who used to praise his name, now agree. He*“cannot be trusted with power. Bill Green would be less dangerous than Lewis because he is not an adventurer, but he has no imagination and would only be the same old Bill Green who made such a mess of the F. of L. and made the workers distrustful of his kind of unionism which permits racketeering and the exploitation and robbery of both worker and employer. Green can’t change.

No Immunity for the Rich

MURRAY QF THE C. I O. is committed, too. He is a class-conflict man dedicated to the proposition that employer and worker are enemies. Employers as a group| don’t hate workers as a group, although they have reason to distruct many of the union leaders. Most of them, I think, have got religion now and want to be respectablized in the community and get along with the men and women who do the jobs that make the profits that go back into action as taxes and later will go back as new plants making new jobs. In any big plant today the executive in the oakpaneled office will have a son in the Solomons or Britain or Egypt alongside the son of the man or woman at the machine in the works and perhaps serving under him, There is no immunity for the sons of the righ or the well-paid, nor have they been slower to fight than the sons of the employees.

"He Is One Hell of a Man!"

I SUGGEST MR. KAISER with no idea that he would drop all that he is doing to become the leader of a new organization, or take on those duties in addition, but rather as a man whose ideas and influence, if he could win the people’s attention, would point out the waste and futility of strife between the front office and the shop. Much of the strife in the years of the New Deal has been unnecessary and artificial. Management has been harassed by organizers and government agents on the most childish issues, and the government's attitude has been unmistakably hostile to management and has encouraged professional trouble makers to kick up trouble unneccassarily and call out the workers in whipped-up ranges over trivialities. This bad feeling certainly could be abated and might be overcome by some man having the public confidence, as I think Kaiser has. He builds big and he thinks big and he is right when he says that people like to work and are miserable when they are out of work. It would be hard to imagine him tying up any of his great jobs, stopping production and throwing people out of work over a question whether one workman has a right to smoke. What I am getting at is not his own relations with labor and unions in his own jobs but his attitude toward workers, capital, management, the job, opportunity and, right now, the need to forget past attitudes on both sides, to deal fairly on both sides and win the war. He is a big new personality among us who wants to be doing and ain’t sore at nobody and, given a hearing on labor relations, could do great good. He is one hell of a man. ap

War and Ulcers

By David Dietz

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Emotional stresses and strains occasioned by the war can be expected to cause an increase in certain diseases, notably peptic ulcer. For a long time, many medical men were unwilling to believe that emotions influenced health. Their feeling was that ill health came first and that emotional disturbances were a byproduct.

Within recent years, however, there has been the growth of the school of psychosomatic medicine which holds that there is a real infiuence of the mind over the body. Mental states, by inhibiting normal functioning of various organs, can lead to conditions which pave the way for real physical disease. Dramatic evidence of the correctness of this view was presented before the Gtaduate Fortnight of the New York Academy of Medicine by Dr. Harold G. Wolff, associate professor of medicine at Cornell. Dr. Wolff described experiments and observations carried on by himself and his colleagues on normal subjects and on patients suffering from peptic ulcer.

Psychiatrist Used at Michael Reese

“DURING PERIODS of experimentally induced conflict, with anxiety, hostility and resentment, there was observed a rise in acidity and increased contractions in the stomachs of all the patients suffering from ulcer and in many of the normal persons,” Dr. Wolff said. “Moreover, it was possible to reverse this process and cause a decrease in acidity and motility by inducing in the patients a feeling of contentment and well-being.” These findings of Dr. Wolff and his colleagues match the experience of the gastro-intestinzl clinic at Michael Reese hospital, Chicago. The doctors there were curious to know why patients cured of peptic ulcers subsequently returned with recurrences of the ulcers. Investigation proved that these patients were as a rule worried by financial reverses, domestic difficulties or some other sort of emotional disturbance. Consequently Michael Reese hospital instituted the practice of having the staff psychiatrist interview all patients with peptic ulcer.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own, They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

So They Say—

Which do you choose—the free spirit of man and a moral idealism shaped on the values and ideals of our civilization, or. the enemy’s horrid substitute—a foul obsession resuscitated from the underworld of the past?—Prime Minister Jan Smuts of South Africa.

Don’t worry about the Japs. If they come here, we shoot them: like the wolf—right between’ the eyes. —Eskimo chief of Alaska tribe. : iP » “® 5 Our job now is to win the war. Let’s quit talking about what's going to happen after the war.~Rubber Administrator William M. Jeffers. =

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The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

“PM SO DARN MAD I'M SEEING RED, MRS. SEE!” By Carroll Collins, Indianapolis. To Abbie L. See: I'm so darn mad I'm seeing red. If your attitude is the opinion of a million Americans, I want to apologize to America. This is the day of youth, let him put some of his ideas into fighting for freedom. Any 18-year-old can give you all the right answers. You certainly have

modern ideas, if you can’t run the world, tear it down. Nothing matters but you or your family. If your grandfather was a real American he probably ran away from home at 12 or 13 to fight or drum in one of our country’s fights for freedom. Yes, and lived to tell the story. : You speak of youth’s God-given right to live. When did they ever think of life? They get.in a car and drive like mad, kill many people and forget it. They take many chances with life every day. Mrs. Jackson and you both have a poor opinion of our armed forces. Well I'll tell you this if they don’t make a man out of your son he would never be one anyway. I have three sons and a daughter, put I still love my country. I'm no better than my ancestors who came to America in 1608 and have fought her battles ever since. Remember, Mrs. See, some mother lost her son to give you the righ to vote in wars long past. . I wish some of you bellyachers would go to our enemies to live and pelieve me, well, you would not last long for the bad man would get you.

2 8 2 By N. C., Indianapolis. : Well, Mrs. Abbie L. See, Risin Sun, I wouldn't be afraid to bet that you have a son in the 18 or 19-year-old class, which is the reason for your attitude. You had better wake up to the fact that in time of war

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there is more at stake than anyone’s personal feelings.

The average boy of 18 or 19 is through high school, and is not, or should not, be a baby, unless his mother has made him so. With such organizations as the boy scouts, which sponsors trips and other activities to make better men of our boys, there is no reason why any boy of 18 or 19 should not have had some experience away from home, and be fairly self-reliant. T am told by boys in service that boys of 18 or 19 make better soldiers than the older men, which seems logical. They are stronger physically than men of 30 or 35, do not as a rule, have the responsibilities that usually come with age, and adjust themselves better. They are old enough to appreciate the liberties and privileges that every one else enjoys in this country, and they are old enough to fight for same.

One life is as good as another, regardless of age, and a mother who is not willing for her son to help protect his country at 18 or 19, probably would not be willing for this same son to enter service at 25 or 30. 1, too, have a son, whom I adore, and who is an only child. He has been in service for a year and a half, and while it is true, he was 21 instead of 18 or 19 when he enlisted (our country was not at war then) I am sure that he would have enlisted just as readily at 18 or 19, if our country had been at war, and needed him. So in my opinion,

it 1s selfish to

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Japs would give to the matter of

ages. 2 2 2

«CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST FOR REPUBLICANS” By Amused Bystander, Shelbyville I am not an active participant in the political game, but I enjoy watching from the sidelines. . . Lately my Democratic friends seem to be perking up. If there is a definite shift in sentiment, as they claim, it interests me to try to analyze the reason. To put it bluntly, I guess it is a case of “chickens coming home to roost.” It was quite evident at the beginning of the campaign that the Democrats had the blues and that the Republicans were cocky. The latter were foolish enough to tell the public why they thought they would win, and it wasn’t a very pretty picture. They were counting on all the petty grudges, and annoyances of war and rationing to turn the voters against the party in power. They even compared it to 1918. I am beginning to believe that that was a tactical error, because it seems evident that the voters are doing some thinking of their own.

The petty annoyances of rationing, of taxes and all the eivilian inconveniences of war fade into insignifiance when compared to the sacrifice our young men are making. While the president’s policy is not perfect, it is so much better than anything that the opposition offers that their complaints sound downright silly. Perhaps the voters sense that, and this may explain the shift. . . . : # 8 = “G. 0. P. WOULD HAVE A FAT CHANCE, HOUSE DEALING!” By Gene Cole,” Morristown. Ever since the New Deal displaced

{the Democratic party by using its

platform for stove wood and substituting their own misguided, ‘so-

_ |cialistic one, I have wondered how

long it would be before the New Deal would make it compulsory ‘o vote. Now the blow has fallen. Not that I am surprised, oh no, for compulsion is one of the New Deals principles; our way or no way at

‘lall. That Sam C. Hadden suggested

it is no surprise. ; You call’ him a political philosopher. He certainly is a most proadminded and deep thinking one. His 10-dollar penalty plan is great; I wonder if he ever heard of the mutilated ballot? Does Mr. Hadden ever stop to think about the lame brains he and others of his ilk nominate for the voters to support. . . . Your Sreisls said it would require be for

that would be Mr. Roosevelt

a success. . . . think, too, the Re‘would have a fat chance

DAILY THOUGHT

For the wrath of God is re- : vealed from heaven against all ungodliness unrigh

hold the truth in

look at this matter in a personal}$ way, for if (God forbid) we should | £ lose this war, I wonder just how |3 much consideration Hitler and the |§

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|By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Nov. of price administration care of maximum prices on meat, plum pudding, app and other Christmas de . « + Winter coats are 14 per cent higher than cember, according to de of labor cost of living . « . From May to Septem ; of living rose 1.6 per cent. , & Kitchen enameled ware tion has been cut from 450 items to 25. . . « are not required to give allowances for tr of old rubbers when buying new. . . . No one operate a taxicab after Nov. 15 without a certifi of war necessity.

Cigaret Production Going Up

ONE MAN OUT of every two of military age New Zealand is in the armed services. . . Fam! with menfolk in the merchant marine may fly flags. . . . The number of courses in any m in a restaurant may be limited to three. . . liver, tongue, sweetbreads, kidneg, brains, knuckles and fish are not included in the 2% Di per person per week meat ration. . . . Cigaret duction has been increased every month for past 22 months, is now 22 million per month. Few leaves will be granted to soldiers for giving and Christmas.

Short-term Debts Drop

SCIENCE IS NOW making artificial pig bri of tapered nylon, said to be better for brushes the long-legged Oriental swine were ever a grow. . . . Consumers’ short-term debts I dropped from a peak of 9.7 billion dollars in tember to 7 billion dollars as of July 31. . . of vacuum cleaners have been frozen till to supply the army. . . . Second-hand may still be sold. . . . Production of tire eh been cut 50 per cent for the coming winter.

Defense Housing—$4000 a Unit

ik COST OF NEW housing for half a million workers has been approximately $4000 a unit. Three-fourths of this housing has been bull private industry. . . . A 37-mm. anti-aircraft uses a ton of copper every 20 minutes it is in tion. House trailers may now be. produced on order of National Housing Agency. . « « and Navy will get 70 million pounds of fro tables next year. . » « Manufacture of tele has been limited.

A Woman's Viewpoin By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

land, says that American there want more warm Socks. more letters. I think they warm letters, too, At least . be sure they would - like crammed with incons little details of life over: And there's one place © diers will be let down, Tm because the art of letter : ne . went out with the horse and ‘Now, when so many of our bcys are doomie abide in far off places, and when homesick attack them with the virulence of a pla blessed will be those letters which reconstruct fe scenes and evoke the sounds, the ‘smells, 1 feel of beloved places. For words have: 1 quality, in the hands of those who know. hg them. rf a One doesn’t need to write. like a college

thoughts and a recital of small impressions can bring the person of the writer very, Very the reader. - :

They Want Bread, Not Stones

MODERN EDUCATION has heen dreadfully in this matter. With the telephone handy it We necessary . to spend much time on letters, an average university student’s messages sound compilation of unrelated “facts. «I've been so busy”—so they go—but th follow up of what is doing. “This is ak place,” but no descriptive phrase to awaken imagination. “We went dancing the other but no additional information about who what they wore, what was said, Whether it ing or the weather was fine. Following 8 tern, the writer is merely saying hello and It’s better than nothing, of course, but tod: so many people have to live on letters, comes through the postman’s hands, we fel those old timers who took pride in turning: that carried with it a great chunk of the sonality. a Let's work at this business. When a hoi gets a stingy little note, brief and cool as circular, he’s bound to feel like a hungry longs for bread and is offered a stone.

Questions and Ans uestions and An: (The Indianapolis Times Service Bureau will question of fact or information, mot involving search. Write your question clearly, sign name inclose a three-cent postage stamp. Medical or’ legal cannot be given. Address The Times Washington Bureau, 1018 Thirteenth St. Washington, D. C.)

‘@—Are American Indians subject to the df A—Yes. They are subject to the same 8 service regulations as all other American citi

s+ Q-—Please explain what the terms “man-day,” and “man-hour” mean. : A—The term “man-year” refers to a unit year’s work by one man; .“‘man-day” is one work by one man; “man-hour” is one hour’s one man. In reports of labor disputes, the 8 that so many “man-days” or so many © have been lost means that the total m found by multiplying the number of men §Joskad out by the number ‘of days or out. ! ; : Q—What were Italy's casualties in Ethiopia? ; A—The figures given out by the Its | ment were 4359 lives lost, of whom 2313 we soldiers, 1593 native soldiers, and 453 j

Q—Please describe the kite used by Franklin in his lightning experiment. A—It was made of a piece of silk pocket handkerchief, stre crossed pieces of thin wood. A piece projected above the frame for about a f

was held by a long piece of twine; n the key to his

of a large

used a silk cord. Q—How many persons attended. world’s fair of 1939 and 1940? A—Paid attendance was 449328 ‘mentaries,~ working permits, fod 0

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