Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1942 — Page 10

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“Who is this Tom?”

| SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 1942

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LONDON, Nov. 7.—Paul Manning is the London dent for NEA Service, which serves‘so many

papers back home. He has been over here going on

three years, and has a vast acquaintance among fighting men. The other evening in his apartment I was . reading over the carbons of some of the stories he had sent back this year, and came upon a very moving one describing the feelings of men during a commando raid into France. You may have read the piece. It quoted a commando named

Tom, and told how you are sick

with relief when it’s all over, and

how Germans look when you shoot them. “Where did you get the dope for this swell story?” I asked Paul. “Well, that's a funny thing in itself,” he said. “It goes way back. I went to school at Occidental college in Los Angeles. One of my professors there was.a Scotsman—Prof. Thomas Adams. He taught history and government, and was a great scholar. The last time I saw him was there at Occidental college in 1936. : “Well the other day I was making a telephone call from one of those outdoor booths in Leicester Square, and when I stepped out of the booth I bumped right into Prof. Adams. He’s a commando now, and he told me all about it. JAin’t that something?”

He Wrote the Words, Too

THE PROFESSOR is now Capt. Tom Adams. He has been on several raids. It’s his job to see that a

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Theodore Barton Griffith, who next Wednesday—Armistice day—cele< brates his 54th birthday. The president of L. S. Ayres & Co. he is a calm, tolerant, good humored individual who is widely recognized as one of the town’s sanest business men. His birthday will find him in his usual excellent shape. He is about 5 feet, 7, weighs around 150, has bluish gray eyes, thinning iron gray hair and wears glasses. He walks religiously, eats sensibly, always passing up that third helping, and religiously avoids desserts at lunch. Ted Griffith is a quiet, spunky man; a good humored, wrinklyeyed philosopher-type realist. He has a nice command of language —terse and right to the point. He is virtually a genius at bringing irreconcilables to-. gether, showing them they're not really far apart after all. But he shows no hesitancy in telling an individual he’s “off the beam” when the facts are clear. In short, he’s a remarkably well-balanced person. . It's typical of him that any of his employees can call him directly on the store phones—see him, too, if they phone first. He uses no secretarial buffer between himself and the store staff. He loves to “cruise” .through the store and chin with the help. Prompt, you can almost set your watch by his departure from the store on Saturdays to get his hair cut.

‘A Hound for Antiques FOND OF THE outdoors, he likes horses, used to ride quite a bit. His favorite vacation spot is his farm near Little Boar's Head, N. H. He likes to wander through the countryside there. stopping at every “Antiques for Sale” sign he sees and going over every bit ‘of old glass and furniture in the place. This summer, because of gas rationing, he used a horse and buggy to get around. Born here, he attended Shortridge and was graduated from Williams in 1910. With a classmate, ‘he worked his way to Africa as a plumber and steamfitter on a tramp steamer. He toured Europe on a shoestring.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—If the Roosevelt administration tried to run this war by doing only what it thought would make people happy—instead of doing what seemed necessary, no matter how unpleasant— we would go down in a heap. . In a war you can’t go on the rule of anything to please the voters. The same thing must hold for Republicans, now that they are able to exert real power in congress. I wouldn't try to say with any conviction exactly what produced the nation-wide Republican trend. There is little in common between Rep. Ham Fish and Clare Luce, who won in'Connecticut only pr a few miles away, except that both carry the Republican label. Or between Senator Joseph Ball in Minnesota and Senator Wayland Brooks in Illinois, both of whom were re-elected, except that they are Republicans. Democrats explain that city workers were dislocased by the war. But Republican farm boys have gone to war by thousands, and to the cities, so these dislocations cancel out. However thin you slice it, the result is that for a variety of reasons a majority of voters in many states took -to the handiest Republican, whatever he might be like. A wide complex of dissatisfactions with the Roosevelt regime caused the voters to hit at the most accessible target, which was the nearest Democratic

candidate. The New Deal Hasw't Moved

UNDOUBTEDLY ONE factor was a feeling that New Deal measures are less important during the war, and in some respects interfere with the war— short working hours, for instance. But I hope this doesn’t mean that the American people are in a mood

My Day

LONDON, England, Friday—I must go back a little; and tell you I lunched at the ministry of information Tuesday. Afterwards I met women leaders and some of the men interested in various fields such as labor, education and the like. Then I was shown through the houses of parliament by the British-American parliamentary committee. It was most interesting, because I had never previously been there on any of my visits. I was glad, also, to have the opportunity to meet Lord Simon, the lord chancellor, and Lady Simon. Then we stopped at the headquarters of the British war relief,

Mr. Griffith

which is in Lady Ward’s house. -

I saw how supplies are received from America and distributed.

EL From there I proceeded to the headquarters of the

American Red Cross. + Miss Thompson and I dined with Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Eden and had a very, pleasant and interesting evening. es Early Wednesday morning, we left for Cambridge

and I was delighted to have an opportunity to meet

By Ernie Pyle

few German prisoners are brought back for questioning. The only weapon he carries is a swagger-stick loaded with lead. It makes a terrible sound on a head. Capt. Adams was in London on a couple of days’ leave, and he and Paul had lunch. “It was funny sitting there at the table talking to him,” Paul says. “He kept remembering boys in my class, and asking about them, and recalling anecdotes about them. “And when I started putting down some notes he saw my spelling was wrong and took the papers and wrote the words himself. He told me I never could spell. He was the old pedagog of Occidental college.

“But he says he lives only for the day when he can help burn down a German town!”

Here Is a Real Officer

IN ONE AMERICAN camp recently, where the troops are living, for the present at least, under pretty miserable conditions, the boys got to telling me about their company commander. He has ‘been with them since the company was formed, and the soldiers are devoted to him. He is Capt. Henry H. Doherty. The boys say he’s one who really carries out the officers’ tradition of not resting himself until his men are cared for. They told of one camp where the food was “terrible. They went to work on a breakfast of one slice of brown bread, one boiled potato, and coffee. That was all. They said Capt. Doherty told them, “I know the food stinks, but we can’t do anything about it right now. So just make the best of it and don’t squawk and I'll fix it just as soon as it can be fixed.” And he did, too, the boys say.

Back home, he traveled for a wholesale millinery firm (Griffith Bros.) and went to Ayres’ research department in 1920. He became president a couple of years ago.

Likes to Trim His Hedge

TED GRIFFITH'S favorite relaxation is to get on a bright blue slack suit and trim the yew hedge around his garden. That hedge gets the best of care the year ‘round. He's also fond of the huge white oak at his nine-acre home on W. 42d st. It’s one of the largest and best cared for in this section of the state. He has a picture of it on his station wagon. Aside from trimming the hedge, he doesn’t care for working around the yard, would rather putter around the house and read. He enjoys biographies and history. About the only time he goes to the movies is when there's a Thin Man episode. He dabbles half heartedly in color photography, doesn’t like to carry a camera, though. He plays a mediocre game of golf —about twice a year, and used to be pretty fair at tennis. Fond of music, he particularly likes the piano and symphonies. In his younger days he could play the piano after a fashion—all the popular tunes. Sour notes didn’t bother him much. He especially enjoyed playing a one-time favorite, “Dearie,” and drummed it out on the piano for years.

Likes Old Hats

HE'S BEEN ACTIVE in many civic organizations, but in the last few years has been forced to reduce his activities because of business demands. He is active in the Literary club and writes some corking papers for it. . Conservative in his clothing tastes, he usually wears gray suits, sometimes a plain blue; almost always wears a blue tie; always wears the same kind of gray felt hat—and hates to break in a new one. He enjoys going out into the kitchen, putting on an apron and demonstrating his prowess as a cook. He's willing to tackle anything, and reportedly is a good coffee maker. He never eats anything with marshmallow on {it, though. That's his pet food peeve—that and tea. -Ugh!

By Raymond Clapper

to kiss goodby forever the prewar work of the Roosevelt administration. I don’t believe that this country is preparing to turn its back on -social security, on collective bargaining, on restrictions against stock-market and holding-company abuses, or on the principle that if men can’t get work the government must provide for them until they can. The war has made other questions more important for the time being. When conditions permit, the people of this country will again be interested in the kind of social justice that Roosevelt has fought for. Most of the complaint must have arisen out of things that have happened in the last two years, since the 1940 election.

“This Is War and War Is Hard”

THE WAR REQUIRES measures in conflict with peacetime New Deal objectives, and the Roosevelt administration was slow to change pace as necessity dictated. Nostalgia for the happier days of the past is natural. Perhaps some grasped vaguely at Republicans, hoping to fend off the growing harshness of wartime restrictions, as men sometimes go back to prayer when everything they love is being snatched from them. But this is war and war is hard. Republicans won’t help toward victory if they act like a fond mother who won't let the dentist hurt little junior when he has a tooth that ought to come out. The farsighted Republicans see that. . But we have had a lot of nearsighted Republicans around congress who couldn’t see it. The new Republican strength will be used for helpful ends or for

harmful ones, depending on whether Republican, leaders like Dewey, Willkie and Hoover can prevail’ when they say the war must be fought harder and!

more efficiently.

That means more unpleasant restrictions, not try-|{

ing to baby the country.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Dr. Ja Venn, vice chancellor of the university and presidént of Queens college, and to see one of the old halls, Then we proceeded to the new American

Red Cross center, which was being opened there

that day.

Then we were shown how the industrial billeting. I talked to two girls, who had come

system works. over from Ireland, and to a man who had been moved from London, where his family still lived. I also spoke to a woman who had had people billeted with her for a long time and been particularly successful in making them happy. The system depends very greatly on the ability of the administrative people to take a real interest in bringing together people who can live in harmony. We then saw several exhibitions of work done by the women’s voluntary services, and went with the regional director to the village. Here we were given lunch and shown how food is prepared under emergency conditions. a On the way back to London, I stopped to sée a British fighter command station, where some of our

American aviators are also at work. Our last stop was at one of the houses run by Foster Parents, Inc., ‘where they had brought together three children to

whose support I have been contributing,

They are all nice children, ;

Bedford Basketballers Campaign for Jim Armstrong

‘And 25.

By EARL RICHERT ONE NIGHT last spring after he had been rejected by the army, a friend asked James Armstrong, 25-year-old statistician at the Burns City ammunition depot, what he was going to do. “Oh,” Jim quipped, “I guess I'll run for the state senate. Although Jim, who comes from a stanch Springville Republican family, had been interested in politics ever since he could remember he really hadn't given any thought to running for office. ’ But that spur-of-the-moment ° remark started him thinking and the more he thought the inore convinced he became that that was what he wanted to do. So he announced for office,. much to the delight of all his friends who thought that was about the funniest thing they had ever heard of. :

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‘Funnier and Funnier’

AND THEY THOUGHT it much funnier a few days later when the veteran Republican Rep. E. Y., Guernsey who had served eight straight terms in the state house of representatives announced for the same senate seat, the seat vacated by -William E. Jenner, majority floor leader during the ’41 session. Even Jim’s father, W. E. Armstrong, a retired grocer, told Jim then that there was no use campaigning. But Jim went to work. He figured he could win the senate seat, which covers Lawrence, Martin and Orange counties, if he could carry the city of Bedford, Rep. Guernsey’s home town. So he enlisted the aid of some personal friends of his, the 10

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Senator-elect Jim Armstrong, 25... expects to “keep mouth shut” and “study up” on proposed legis-

members of the Bedford basketball

THE BOYS put on their basket-

And Jim carried the city of

team that went into the state . ball sweaters and went to work Bedford by 45 votes in the pri-

semi-finals with the Washington Hatchets last spring.

for Jim, dividing each of Bedford’s 10 precincts among them.

mary and won the district by

1186.

ear-Old Candidate Is Elected to State Senate

There was no Democratic oppo= sition until a few weeks before the general election when the county committees nominated Curtis Ralston of Orleans. But Jim had no trouble beating Mr, Ralston. Jim has been in politics a long time for one his age. An ardent debater in high school, he was placed on the state G. O. P, speakers bureau at the age of 18 and made 45 speecnes for the party's ticket during the 1932 campaign. :

Started at 18

WHEN HE was 18, he wag named chairman of the young Republican organization of Lawe rence counfy and in 1938, at the age of 20, he was the youngest delegate to the state convention. During all this time he was go ing to Indiana university. But he quit in January, 1940, to come to Indianapolis to head the young Republican organization for Glen Hillis and he stayed here until after the general election when Mr. Hillis was defeated by Gover nor Schricker. He then got a job as a statise tician at the Burns City depot and held it until this fall when he went to work in the secretary of state's office handling absent voters’ ballots. #

8 2 0» ‘I Like Politics’ AS THE YOUNGEST member of the state senate, Jim expects to follow one major principle~e keeping his mouth shut on eve erything he don’t know about and trying to learn as much as pose sible about everything on which he will have to vote. : “However,” he says, “there is one thing upon which I will be very outspoken. That is on anye thing tainted with bi-partisanism, I don’t like it.” As for the future? ’ “Well, I like politics,” says the 25-year-old senator-elect.

PLEDGES SLAVS TO FINISH FIGHT

General Wants America to Know How Its Help Is Appreciated.

EDITOR'S NOTE—From his mountain headquarters in Jugo-Slavia, Gen. Draja Mihailovitch has addressed the following

massage to John A. Parris of the United Press London staff. The means em-

ployed by Mihailovitch to transmit his message are secret but it is known that regular reports emanate from the Jugoslav guerilla headquarters. ’

By GEN. DRAJA MIHAILOVITCH ||

Leader of the Free Jugoslav Army

SOMEWHERE IN THE FREE

MOUNTAINS OF JUGO-SLAVIA.—| §

I welcome the idea of presenting to the American public the struggle which our Chetniks and other patriots are waging for national independence and human freedom. Our mountains are unconquerable strongholds of democracy. The torches which are being lit in these mountains during the nights on the eve of any historical national event represent the symbol of our indomitable spirit. . They are also a symbol of our fierce fighting against the slavery of fascism. With our struggle we confirm our resolute will to live in freedom. The great American democracy is the hope which inspires all our fighters in the free mountain fastnesses here. It is also an inspiration to all the oppressed peoples of Europe. We are fully aware that the United States is forging arms for victory. Let these arms be forged solidly and as quickly as possible in order that the ruthless enemy shall be brought to his knees before he destroys new millions of human lives.

Gains Surprise Republicans Themselves;

Gallup's Forecast Was ‘Way, Way Off’

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Republicans themselves were surprised at the extent of their gains in Tuesday’s election, and Democrats were

startled, but one of the biggest shocks of all must have been experienced by Dr. George Gallup, director of the American Institute of Public Opinion. His forecast was way, way off. In his final pre-election analysis, published i %® last Sunday, he FE said: Mr. Stokes “The chief surprise in next Tuesday’s election will be continued strength of the Democrats nationally as shown in the congressional races. “The Democratic party will have virtually the same majority of seats in the house for the next two years as they have had since 1938. The election result will come much closer to Democratic expectations than to the hopes of Republicans who have been counting on a minimum gain of 30 seats in the house.” Democrats clipped out Dr. Gal-

breasts, just as Republicans clung so hopefully in 1936 to the Literary Digest poll forecasting Alfred M. Landon’s election as president. Coming down to figures, Dr. Gallup said the approximate division by parties in the next house would be: Democrats, 256 to 276 seats; Republicans, 158 to 178. In the present house are 257 Democrats, 165 Republicans, 5 members of other parties, and 7 vacant seats formerly held by Democrats, : Thus, he meant that the Democratic shift would range from one loss in actual present seats, or a loss of eight counting the Democratic vacancies, to a Democratic gain of 19 seats over present Democratic strength, or 12 counting the vacancies. ’ For the Republicans, Dr. Gallup’s forecast would have meant a range between a loss of seven seats and a gain of 13. Actually, Republicans are now sure of 44 gains, for a total of 209 seats in the next house, according to late tabulations with two house contests still undecided. That is 31 more seats than Dr. Gallup's maximum forecast for them, and 51 more than his minimum forecast. With two contests still undecided, Democrats are sure of 220 seats, one over a majority, which is 56 seats

lup’s forecast and hugged it to theirless than Dr. Gallup's ‘maximum

Movie Lull Feared as Stars Reach Top Pay Brackets

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 7 (U, P.).— Film studios are worried over the prospect of general layoffs by stars and workers in high salary brackets who already have reached the gov-

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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A WIKIUP is A BRO [AN INOIAN FOUSE A FISHER - MAN'S LAMP.

By William Ferguson

WHILE WE'RE WISHING FOR BLUEBIRDS OVER THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER, LET'S

The U.S. HAS MORE THAN ONE MILLION PEOPLE WHO S7TVITER,

jermengs new wage ceiling in their 1 1942 earnings. Paulette Goddard, who has passed the limit, cancelled a scheduled radio appearance set for next Monday when she learned she would not be paid. Franchot Tone earlier had notified

1 | Warner Brothers studios that he had reached his limit and would|"

not accept an offered part unless his salary went to charity, The studio said the law prohibited such an arrangement. “When Tone wants to work for nothing,” Agent Mike Levy said, “he’ll work for the government.” Tone has been rejected for military service because of a kidney ailment. . Judy Canova sought advice from the screen actors guild before accepting, a part in a new Joe E. Brown picture. The screen writers and directors guild reported they were’ swamped with similar requests. Many actors and technicians said they would be willing to continue working if their earnings could be given to charity, but they objected to boosting the income of stockholders or radio sponsors. Actress Annabella, French-born wife of Tyrone Power, urged them to continue making as many pictures as they can “without compensation, if necessary,” to preserve the industry. She said widespread layoffs would cause the public to lose interest in screen entertainment. ; While seeking to determine hether they could hold actors to

— [contracts despite the $25,000 limit

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estimate for them, and 36 less than his minimum. If Dr. Gallup had written a note to most any one of 50 Washington

correspondents who participated in a poll by the magazine Newsweek, he would have got closer to the actual result. The average of the correspondents’ forecast was 29 Republican gains in the house and five in the senate. Dr. Gallup uses a scientific sampling method, weighted according to economic groups, and through a staff of pollers throughout the country has machinery for testing: public opinion that is not available to the Washington correspondent. ’ In 1940 Dr. Gallup gave Wendell L. Willkie the ten states that he carried, plus eight states which actually went for President Roosevelt—New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Idaho—thus going wrong on the four biggest states. He did, however, come close in estimating Mr. Roosevelt's total popular vote, assessing it at 52 per cent. If turned out to be 541% per

Most accurate in 1940 was the Fortune magazine poll conducted by Elmo Roper, which came within one-half of one per cent estimating the Roosevelt vote. James A. Farley, then Democratic national chairman, was better than all the professional polling organizations in 1936. He called the election exactly, specifying cnly Maine and Vermont for Governor Landon—a forecast also made by the late George Morris, politi-

NEED YOUNGER

ARMY DOCTORS

Dr. Fishbein Says Those Over 50 ‘Fall to

Pieces.’

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (U. P.).—~ Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Jour nal, yesterday told a congressional committee that the armed forces

must have younger doctors because :

physicians over 50 “fall to pieces” under the strain of battle. Dr. Fishbein appeared before 8 senate education and labor sube committee which has been investie gating the nation’s manpower probe lems, including maintenance of sufe ficient doctors on the home front te safeguard the health of the civilian population. He said there are now more than 40,000 doctors in the armed forces, and that more will be required as the strength of the army rises. He admitted, under close quese tioning by Chairman Claude Pepper, (D. Fla.), that in approximately 43 of the 48 states doctors appointed to the procurement and assignmeng committee, set up to obtain doctors for the armed services, are members of the American Medical Associa tion. He denied, however, that the A. M. A. had any voice in determin ing the number of doctors ordered into the army or navy. The procurement and assignmens committee was created by presie dential decree. Individual members of the subcommittee have charged that the agency and the A. M. A, used “coercion” to force some doce tors in the services. Dr. Fishbein dee

cal writer of the New York WorldTelegram. .

nied the charge.

Menjou to Radio Ex-Friends To Turn Against Dictators

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (U. P.).— Adolphe Menjou, the man in the double-breasted vest, fixed himself up today to put some Nazis on the spot by asking them embarrassing questions. ‘The movie actor, who is known to millions of Europeans and has a personal acquaintance with many in high places there is preparing to broadcast in nine or more languages personal exhortations to former friends, uring them to turn against Hitler and Mussolini. He also wants to let his screen fans abroad know what Americans think of the axis. The talks will be short-waved by the office of war information, he said. Menjou hastened to New York from Hollywood for the premier of “You Never Were Lovelier,” bub-/ ling over with his idea to make war use of his wide range of acquaintanceships abroad. He will address, for instance, Dr. Herbert Schultz, one of the 1000 members of Hitler's honorary “life guard,” and recall their various meetings aboard the Bremen, at the Adlon in Berlin, and in America, where Schultz was an embassy attache. “The FBI arrested him in Boston and deported him,” Menjou said. “I learned later he was the chief gestapo agent here.

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“Well, when I talk to him I'll say: ‘When I knew you, Schultz, I didn’t

know you were one. of Himmler's men.’ Is it true that he goes inte concentration camps and beats up

Germans there for his personal |

pleasure?” Menjou will recall to Emil Jane nings that when the German actor was making his fortune in the . United States there was always plenty of soap, “I'll tell him there’s plenty of soap here now,” he continued.

HOLD EVERYTHING

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