Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1942 — Page 9

MONDAY, NOV. 9,

1942

‘SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

LONDON, Nov. 9. —Chaplain Kenneth Ames. writes from North Ireland that since my column about him appeared some’ weeks ago he has been hearing from friends all over America, chiding him about the low church attendance of the soldiers in his regiment. So he sends me some figures ~ to show that religion is picking up, and I gladly reprint them. Lieut. Ames is one of three chaplains in his regiment, and the attendance at his services alone averaged 259 in July and 344 in August. The first Sunday in September, 780 attended. The second Sunday it jumped to 1015, A regiment is normally about 3000 troops. If the other chaplains did as well, everybody in that remarkable regiment must have gone to church that Sunday. As Chaplain Ames says, such information- should “give a definite boost to the morale of the home folks.”

He Doesn't Mind thé Army

THE OTHER DAY, riding on a cross-country bus

with a couple of American friends, we got into con-

versation with a soldier from Boston—Corp. Gerald ‘Carroll.

It happened we were going to the town where he -

was billeted, so he invited us to see his little camp. There were only a couple of dozen soldiers in his detachment. The day was Sunday, and nobody was working. After we'd looked through the camp, Corp. Carroll walked us all over town, seeing the sights. He knew all about the old churches and castles and the history of everything. } We all had lunch together, and then sat around in the sun just loafing and enjoying the warm quietness of the place. Corp. Carroll has lived in Panama, and wishes he were there now, although he does like the English. He doesn’t mind being in the army at all.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

IF YOU'LL PROMISE not to start hoarding parsnips, we’ll let you in on a little secret. The secret is that the coffee substitute recipe we printed last week wasn’t as silly as it might have sounded. Our Mrs. Inside tried it out and surprised us. We didn’t even know she ever read our column. Without saying a word, she just made it and put a cup beside our plate. And if she hadn't aroused our suspicion by standing around and eyeing us covertly, as wives have a habit of doing when trying something on “the dog,” we might never have noticed that it wasn’t Sanka (or is it Maxwell House). At that, we had to admit it looked like coffee and, by golly, it tasted better than a lot of restaurant coffee, The recipe, as submitted to the rationing board by Mrs, Wyatt McCaslin, R. 1, Box 18, Brownsburg, Ind. is: “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.” Mrs. McCaslin suggested that some folks might like it with a teaspoon of coffee added. And she said it likewise is good for asthma. We haven't tried it for that yet. The only trouble is the high price of parsnips.

Co-Operate? Sure!

MRS. RALPH FLOOBD*is telling friends about

walking into Block's shirt department the other day and finding the clerks .and even a couple of customers laughing uproariously. A clerk explained, between laughs: An elderly man, very dignified and a longtime customer, walked in a short time before and ordered a couple of shirts, asking to have them sent out. The clerk explained that people were being asked to carry their own packages, where possible, as a patriotic saving of tires. “Oh,” said the elderly man, “I'd be delighted to co-operate. I can carry one of them, I guess. Just send the other one out.” And that's what happened. . . A man shoved past a whitehaired woman and grabbed a vacant seat on a College

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Fortunately, no winter will intervene to prevent our side from following up the important events in Egypt and Africa. During the next two or three months we can put an entirely ' different face on the war. Europe is fenced tightly around in the north. The English channel will be hard to cross—harder perhaps for us than it was for Hitler. The French coast is heavily barricaded. But the African invasion opens up the possibility of getting at Europe from the south, where it is more exposed. To, capitalize fully on the defeat of the axis in Egypt, our side has had to move in from the western Mediterranean and take over the whole north coast of Africa. The means riding roughshod over Vichy and counting on the co-operation of French colonies in North Africa. Our theory of sending supplies to French North Africa has been that although it might . be helping Vichy, it was a friendly move to sustain the French North African colonies until our side could come to their assistance.

Laval No Longer a Menace

LAVAL HAS OPENLY expressed hope of a German victory and he is playing Hitler's game, bargainIng of course to get what he can out of it. Whatever fears we may have had of the effect of Vichy turning over its fleet to the axis were on the way out anyway. Our strength is reaching the point where it was no

My Day

LONDON, England, Sunday.—I spent part of Saturday at Leeds, seeing industries of various kinds. One airplane factory employs about 23 per cent of women’workers and seems ii many ways ‘very like our factories at home, where women workers are gradually taking over a great variety of departments. One factory connected with war industries employs 80 per cent. of women. They showed me a hostel for women workers, which is tne first I have ever seen. At present, they satisfy the needs of the single woman worker, or man worker, where they use both sexes.

One woman answered my ques-

tion as to why she had gone to

work, as follows: “We have got to get on with the war and get it over with quickly. I imagine there are a tremendous number of women, especially those whose husbands are in the services, who have just that feeling. They want the money they are making to give a little better chance to the child or children they have at home, but the main purpose in going to work 1s to get on with the war. Practically every factory in England runs a can-.

- painful story short, I'm still alive.

By Ernie Pyle So Hitler Failed, After All

AS A FAREWELL GIFT he gave us one of the pamphlets -the Germans dropped on South England, picturing the results of the Dieppe raid. An English girl had given it to him, and he said he could get lots more. Corp, Carroll thought the Germans did a lousy job of propagandizing in the pamphlet, and you could tell he and his fellow-soldiers weren't the least impressed by it. Later my friends and I looked the pamphlet over carefully, and we three felt the Germans had done an excellent job on it. But it doesn’t make any difference what we thought of it. It’s what the soldiers and the English people thought of it that counts. And to them the pamphlet was just a laugh. So Hitler failed, after all.

Not Complaining, Are You, Ernie?

IN ONE CAMP which I visited recently the officers are billeted in private homes in a nearby city, and the army issues them bicycles to ride back and forth on, So when I showed up they issued me one too, a brand-new one. They are British bicycles, without coaster brakes. Instead there is a little squeeze-handle under each handlebar grip. One brakes the hind wheel, one the front wheel. You soon get used to it. On my first day there my army friend and I rode into town after work, parked our bikes at the Red Cross, went to a show, and then had to make a threemile ride home clear across the city about 10 o'clock at’ night. Of course I'm an expert at bicycle-riding, as at practically everything else. But wait a minute—have you ever tried the fine combination of riding an English bicycle for the first time in your life, in lefthanded traffic, in the dead of blockout? And with a rucksack cutting your shoulder in two to boot? You haven't, of course. But to make a long and!

streetcar the other evening during the rush hour. “Well, of all things!” she remarked acidly. As she spotted another vacant seat and scurried for it, he replied in kind: “Well, is yer name on this seat?” Women's rights—with a vengeance.

That Soprano Voice

THAT NICE SOPRANO voice you hear in the Winter apartments might be Mrs. Fabien Sevitzky. former operatic star in Europe and later soloist with the Philadelphia symphony. And again, it might be Mrs. Roma Henry, who presides over the culinary department of the Sevitzky apartment. Roma, who has a nice but untrained soprano voice is scheduled to be soloist at an afternoon program soon at the Mt. Carmel Baptist church. So Mrs. Sevitzky is giving her instructions. In between instructions in the music room, Roma sings as she works. . . . Bob Souchon, whose dad is chef at the I. A. C., has quit Purdue and enlisted in the marine corps. He reports for duty in a week. . . Seen reclining luxuriously in an overstuffed chair in the Chamber of Commerce reception

IT'S A ‘PICNIC’ FOR RAF CREW IN CARIBBEAN

U-Boats; It’s Like A Vacation.’

By NAT A. BARROWS

SOMEWHERE IN THE CARIBBEAN, Nov. 9.—Until we- began to rake his deck and conning tower with machine-gun fire, the German

U-boat scurried along under the noonday sun at 12 to 15 knots, apparently unaware that an R. A. F., bomber plane was diving at him with terrific spead. He had hung on so long, fully surfaced, that we all expected a burst of German bullets in our faces as the big Lockheed Hudson straightened out for the dive and roared in at a 40-foot altitude to plant her depth charges. Amid the crackle of hundreds of rounds of heavy-caliber bullets pouring out forward and a cloud of gun-powder filling the Hudson, I clung to a perch beside the pilot studying the submarine through powerful glasses and watching the amazingly calm precision of his four R. A. F. companions as they went into battle.

Not an Order Given

They, too, expected the submarine to start firing at them any second but they gave no sign of it. In fact, the whole attack was so evenly carried out that not one order was given by the pilot, Wing Commander James R. Leggate, of Hoylake, Cheshire, England. These R. A. F. men here in the Caribbean, working with anti-submarine patrols under the United States navy, have survived too many attacks over the English channel to need any rehearsals nowadays. The submarine began her dive as we came smashing at her like some fearsome meteor spattering hot metal. She was down by the bow, running hard and turning to port as commander Leggate came in for the kill, his left thumb ready to

room: One slightly dingy mongrel pup who apparently had wandered up the stairway and spotted the chair as offering solid comfort.

A Hunting They Go

IT SEEMS THAT when real estate men aren't hunting prospects, they're out hunting game. Anyway, Ben Claypool of Union Trust expects.to spend a good part of next week hunting—on his own farm near Laurel, Ind. . . . And Jack Dyer (Fieber & Reilly) and T. N. Meredith (the mortgage man) are just back from a duck hunting expedition to Lake Webster. . . . Crawford Mott is back from pheasant hunting at Bay City, Mich. . . . R. E, Peckham, president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, also is hunting—for realtors to join the delegation going to the realtors’ war conference at St. Louis Nov.-17 to 20. About a dozen have signed up thus far. . . . There's at least one very young North side girl who is impressed with Sergt. A. C. Magenheimer’s safety program. Says she: “I must always cross the street carefully and not start to school until a certain time because Sergt. Magenheimer says so and he's so handsome and so-0-o0 nice.” . . . P. S. Realtor Tom Grinslade is polishing up his shotgun, too.

By Raymond Clapper

longer necessary to fear the final move of Laval to turn his force over to Hitler, i If the Mediterranean can be opened, we are going to cui our cargo-ship time to the Middle East from 60 days down to about 20, by eliminating the long trip around the South Cape of Africa. While our air supply line across the middle belt of Africa, over which planes and light supplies are flown, is a short cut over the sea route around Africa, it is 2500 miles or more longer than would be necessary if We can move up and go directly along the north coast of Africa.

“Nothing Succeeds Like Success”

WITH LAND-BASED aircraft along the North African coast, we can cover our shipping through the Mediterranean, drive the axis out of it, and begin giving Italy something to think about. It will also give Spain and Portugal something to, think about. We will find fair-weather friends where we have had neutrals who have been thinking. the axis would win and who have been playing their cards that way

If the western end also is cleared, we are in a position to make our ships count for much more than if they have to continue around South Africa. Turkey caught in the squeeze, but undoubtedly friendly to our side, will be safe from any threat. Iran, Iraq and the Levant, where people have been counting on an axis victory, will begin betting on us, and countless difficulties would melt away. For in that part of the world, even more than elsewhere, nothing suceeds like success. If we use this opportunity and this time to full advantage, Germany will come out of winter quarters next spring facing trouble all around, any way she ooks.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

teen for its workers, where a hot midday meal is obtainable, as well as food for the night shift, when one is working. It costs somewhere around 1 shilling 3 pence, which in our money is equivalent to 27 cents, and it is a good meal. The news from Africa has given the British people a tremendous lift. For months they have met disappointment and disaster, with grim determination to do their best till the change came. Now that the change is here, I can feel the exhilaration and intensification of their willingness to push on with this success. In the past two days we have visited two industrial cities. The destruction in many casesgis pitiful, for it breaks the homes of people who are not always even workers in factories. I talked with a great many of the civilian defense workers and people who have been bombed out and rehoused again. Even in the case of people who have been injured, the spirit of cheerfulness is extraordinary. ‘We spent the night in what was once a very large pleasant country house, with a large garden for pleasure only. We went to one of the houses, which now is one of the country’s nurseries. There were 35. children under 5 years of age. The lady of the house has ‘worked hard in helping to run the nursery. She and ber family live in the smallest pary.of the house,

switch from the control wheel key, marked F for guns, to B for bombs.

Bring Valuable Experience

Her deck was already under water as the Hudson gave a shudder with the release of her explosives from the bamb bay. When we made a second pass, the water was still churning from the effects of our depth charges. The U-boat’s wake ended in a large boil, and a film of oil. ‘The R. A. F., now operating with the United States navy in the Caribbean and the Atlantic under the unification setup, brings valuable experience to this side of the Atlantic, “Just A Vacation”

Before they came over several months ago, this particular unit of the R. A. F. was losing six crews weekly in attacks of Nazi convoys and naval bases. They call this duty a vacation. The united nations have control of the air and they have little worry about fighter-plane attacks while flying a mission. These R. A. F. flyers are old men of 20 and 22. They are doing their job down here with everything they have got, and they know from experience what to expect from the enemy. That is why 30-year-old Commander Leggate, an R. A. PF. pilot for 10 years, was able to spot that submarine out there in the Caribbean. We had been out for many weary hours in the aircraft but Leggate still was as alert as when we took off. Leggate had just apologized to me for the dull trip he was providing when I saw him give a little start and squint his eyes.

“Only A Tiny Streak” Quickly he brushed off his sun

‘| glasses and jammed his binoculars

in their place. I saw only a tiny streak in the water that looked like any other streak. Leggate, however, had identified that streak as the wake from a submarine. Destroyers, - PC boats, submarines and freighters all have their own kind of waka.’ The whole thing was so smooth, so even, so casual almost, that I found the reactions of thesz four R. A. PF. veterans to be as if the whole thing was just practice and not a life-and-death reality.

A Breathless Dive

In the breathless dive, I remember thinking how bright the tropical sun was and how dark it soon would be inside that submarine. And then we were over and the bombs were splashing down and the sea was in turmoil. . “What did you say about a dull trip?” 1 asked Commander Leggate later. He returned my wide grin and said, “You never know, do you?”

NEWEST PENCIL CLIP IS SHARPENER ALSO

By Science Service WASHINGTON.—Pencil clip and pencil sharpener are combined in a single device that has been recently patented. When the clip is slid off the pencil, a little blade springs out at the proper angle to sharpen the pencil by the usual twisting motion. Then the device can be closed up and replaced on the pencil as a

Seasoned Airmen Knock Out}

clip occupying little nore 2 space than| | s regular clip.

4 Women Legislators Elected in Marion County

‘Have Progressive Outlook on Public Affairs

By ROSEMARY REDDING

IT WASN'T only a Re-.

publican landslide but a women’s landslide as well. Granted that three: seats in the house and one in the senate aren’t a lot but it's the first time in the state's history that many have been captured by Indianapolis women. The four are truly representative as our representatives. Just take a look at the varied interests and classes they represent. Mrs. Nelle B. Downey—already a ‘seasoned member of the lower house and the 1942 honored mem-

ber of the community fund. Mrs. Elizabeth Dcwning—a housewife, a mother and at the moment a war worker. Mrs. Mabel L. Lowe—a labor leader and the business representative of the local United Gatrment Workers of America. Mrs. Arcada Balz—a former president of the Indiana Federation of Clubs and for several years a member of the women’s legislative council. She's the first woman to win a seat in the state senate. And what do they think about this business. of government? What are they going to do now that they are up there in the drivers’ seat?

Took Husband's Place

MRS. DOWNING admits, frankly, that she doesn’t know a lot about this husiness of government. But she hasn’t promised anybody anything! Her husband was named in the primary. Then in July, he had to leave for the navy and she took his place on the ballot. The comely young woman thinks the most important thing is to be “honest” and to vote that way. That’s something, in her opinion, that you don’t have to have politi--cal background to have. What's more she will know well the reaction that an average family like her own would have to certain legislation. She represents the kind of a family that’s going to win the war. She lives at 1246 Holmes ave. with her three sons, Richard 14, Donald, 13, and George, 8. She fills the role of mother and housewife in the day time. At night, she helps make shells out at Link Belt. While she works on ammunition, her husband is on conyey duty. - She knows what members of groups like the parent-teacher

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U. S. Flier Lost

(This is one of a series of articles on the Aleutians).

By B. J. McQUAID Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. ABOARD A U, S. WARSHIP IN THE BERING SEA, Sept. 30 (Delayed) .— Now, once again, Lieut, L - - -, through excellent judgment, calmness, resourcefulness and endurance, has saved his plane and perhaps the lives of himself and his radioman. The commanding officer believes that these two performances of Lieut. L = = = are worthy of a letter of commendation from the commander-in-chief.” — From ga memorandum to the commander-in-chief of the fleet by the skipper of this cruiser. Lieut. L. is “Lucky,” the young North Dakotan previously celebrated in dispatches for his almost unbelievable feat of getting his plane back to the ship after he had become lost, at night, in impenetrable fog. This story starts out the same way: Lucky got lost when the fog

‘lelosed in on him on a communica-

tions mission to the place where Ux S. troops, under the protection of this naval task force, are establishing an advance base to carry the Aleutian war to the Japs.

Plane Went Off Beam Lucky’s plane encountered strong beam winds, which carried him considerably west of his destination. When, finally, he sighted a few land elevations muzzling up through

Though she works at night, Mrs. Elizabeth Downing is on hand during the day to cook for her three sons.

Mrs. Arcada Balz is interested in the restoration of New Harmony as a memorial. She’s our first woman senator.

associations are thinking about. Her children go to school 75. Although her days and nights are too crowded now, she has worked in the outpatient department of the Riley hospital as a volunteer aid from the Riley Cheer guild, She probably won't be jumping up to make speeches, Instead, she will just sit quietly on the sidelines and vote, as she puts it, “as honestly as I know how.” ” 2 ”

. Backs Child Welfare

MRS. DOWNEY'S record in the ee legislature stands pretty much an indication of what her contribution: will be. She worked for

child | welfare Tegislation, the pas-

the fog, he could recognize none of the contofrs. “Flew around island,” says Lucky’s written report. “It was getting dark. I landed in first bay I could find, with 30 gallons of gasoline.” (Enough for about an hour of flight.) “Dropped anchor 100 yards off shore.” “Sat in plane all night, getting wet every 15 minutes, In the morning S. (the radioman) took the liferaft and went ashore and investigated trapper’s cabin. “He found two names written on wall: North End bay and Hot Springs. I checked all navigation, studied the ‘charts, and concluded that this must be Tanaga island. “Weather was closed in all day, raining frequently. S. went back to the cabin, built a fire and stayed all night. During the night the weather cleared. “He came out early in the morning and, since his liferaft had exploded, he inflated his lifebelt and started to swim to the plane. He was exhausted half way out. I started plane and picked him up. I could not pull up anchor (free machine gun), so cut line. Took off immediately on course. Landed at base with 10 gallons of gasoline.”

Gun Used As Anchor Note that Lucky’s anchor was his “free machine gun.” Cruiser planes are, of course, equipped with an-

chors, and Lucky put down his when he first landed, but it proved inadequate to the job of holding the plane against the heavy swell.

FUNNY BUSINESS

wice in Aleutian Fogs Manages to Save a Life and Return to Base

Noland, Capt. Leon Altman ‘and

Mrs. Mabel Lowe directs activities of the United Garment Workers local from her office in the People’s Bank building.

Mrs. Nelle Downey is already a familiar figure at the statehouse. She served during the last legislature.

sage of the personnel law for state employees and for bipartisan administration of the state police and the alcoholic beverages commission. She worked: actively for passage of bills to aid the aged and children and sponsored legislation for improvement of the state's school system.

The community fund has long been her interest and she has served as head of its women's division and built herself a reputation as a good administrator. She is an active churchwoman and served twice as head of the Y. W. C. A. She headed the building committee for the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. and has worked for the Indianapolis Home for the Aged and the Alpha Home for the Aged Colored People.

The best bit of understatement is Lucky's description of his rescue on the radioman. “He was exhausted. . . . I started plane and picked him up.” Maybe you think that’s a simple matter, in a small biplane tossed about by a raging surf. Lucky, by this time, had sat out in an open cockpit, drenched by rain and spray from the cold Bering sea, for two nights and a day. Towhead Reports

What that rescue cost Lucky in physical effort is suggested more, plainly by the radioman’s report. (This radioman is a 20-year-old towhead). Reports the radioman: “About halfway to plane I started getting cramps and hollered to Mr. L = = ~ to come to my assistance. As the plane neared he cut the engine, climbed out of the cockpit and pulled me aboard the wing. Mr. L - - - attempted to raise anchor

line. “Shortly thereafter we took off, soon we sighted our base. After securing plane we went aboard ship, where we were given food, a shower and a bed. Thank God. Respectfully.” Neither report makes mention of the big pack of wolves, or foxes, or wild dogs, or whatever they were, which greeted the radioman when he first went ashore. There were 20 or 30 of them, and, instead of eating the radioman, as he ‘confidently expected, they just followed him about wherever he went, yapping and rubbing against his legs like kittens. Nobody has a convincing theory to explain this phenomenon.

ELECTION RESULTS

“The Election—And What's to Come” will be the topic of the Butler Forum at its fortnightly session tomorrow night "at the. .university. The Forum will begin at 7:45 p. m. Among those who will participate in the discussion are Judges Russell J. Ryan and Henry O. Goett, william H. Boook, Virgil" Martin, Rowland Allen, Cleo Blackburn, Easley Blackwood, Dr. Louis Segar, Dr. A. C. Corcoran, Charles W. Janes, Cleo Blackburn, William R. Hacker, Lionel Artis, Stephen C.

Norman E. Isaacs, chairman. The forums are open to the publc without ‘charge. °

Dub Wes 100 Weak, £0. he-qup ihe labor, particularly the C. I. O., he

TO BE FORUM TOPIC|

HER INTEREST in education legislation is based on a background as a one-time school teacher and work in the P.T. A. She's whitehaired and about 60. When she spedks it is simply and directly with no oratorical flour=, ishes. She’s proud of being a Republican and’ some New Deal policies’ are her pet peeves. She. lives in an apartment at 3435 N. Pennsylvania st. “Schools, child welfare, marriage and better housing” will be the legislation on which Mrs. Arcada Balz will be the most likely to speak. And she can speak effectively too. And as clubwomen throughout . the state already know, when

she considers a cause worth a fight, she wades right in. She not only headed the state's clubwomen but has served as a director of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. She helped write the history of the organization.

In fact, history is one of her

biggest interests. She served on the advisory committee to the Indiana Commission for the Northwest Territory celebration and her work to restore New Harmony as a memorial has won statewide recognition. She worked on the recodification of Indiana’s marriage laws with a state committee and also was a member of the governor's committee on public safety. She is a member of the citizen’s committee of the Indianapolis Public library,

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Long Active in G. 0. P.

‘MRS. MABEL LOWE needs no introduction to labor circles. She is a. statistician for the Central Labor union, president of the garment workers local and a teller for the State Federation of Labor. She long has been active in G. O. P. activities and is an executive - of the Republican Wage Earners league. She was a nominee for county recorder in 1938. In addition to her interest in labor legislation, she will work for better housing. In answer to a questionnaire of the League of Women Voters, she indicated support of such items as the personnel law, the city manager plan, the establishment of a legislative council and the strengthening of the present marriage license law. Mrs. Lowe lives at 5405 Madison ave. And there you have them—our

representatives with the view feminine,

DEMANDS SEEN

FOR LABOR RULE

Senator Predicts Bills to Tighten Control Over Unions Are Likely.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. — New

Deal losses in last week’s elections will be followed in the new congress

by revival of proposals for laws to regulate labor unions, and they may succeed, Senator James J. Davis (R. Pa.) predicts. The senator, himself the holder of a union card, was secretary of

labor under three presidents, and in his 12 years in the senate he has been a supporter of organized

labor. . They Change Sides

Important segments of organized

said today, made the mistake of “placing all their eggs in one basket,” of giving all their support to one political party. “With -labor taking only the one pro-Roosevelt view,” he said, “some of labor’s friends may be found lining up on the other side.” He predicted that stringent antiunion legislation, which the house has passed by big majorities, but which has been sidetracked in the senate education and labor commit-

tee, will be reintroduced early in §

the next congress. Wins Despite Union

Rep. Howard W. Smith (D. Va.)

sponsor of some of the most drastic proposals, has been easily re-elected despite union efforts to defeat him.

HOLD EVERYTHING