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WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGERIA. — I don't know whether much has been written at home ahout out African booklet or not. It's on the same principle as the booklet about England that was fuel 10 our izoope there. The African klet is a neat little blue-backed “affair B® of 16 pages. It was written bei fore we came here, and conse- (& quently is prefaced by the admis- & sion that “our welcome: by the : inhabitants ‘is not known at this time.” several months of studying the situation I still don’t know what our welcome is. : The booklet describes. briefly the history and geology of the North African countries. Since it peas makes 4 a good impression for a writer to pick out flaws, I'll take the liberty of pointing out a few

. small errors in our booklet.

For instance, it says “little rainfall is experienced along the coast.” Some Californian must have writ-

ten that. If that stuff that comes down day after

day ‘along ‘the Algerian coast .in a piercing, chill, ‘ ‘England-like downpour isn’t rain, then I must be ‘shell-shocked. ' When you're wet to the skin for three days at a ‘time and shivering with cold in mud halfway to your knees, I'm afraid you'll have a hard time convincing several hundred thousand soldiers that it hasnt been raining,

Some Do’s and Don'ts

THE BOOKLET ALSO says that “mirage is of fairly frequent occurrence. It generally occurs early . in the morning.” It may be there are mirages here

. in-summertime, I don’t. know. But the only mirage

: anybody has seen around here this winter would be

one induced by approximately four bottles of cheap ,

wine. : The booklet’ explains the new issue of American money given us. It adds that there will be little to

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

mn THE MATL; the gross income tax division veseived a tax return from g comedian. The return showed the guy owed 14 cents tax. An accompanying “I am sending you 14 cents in stamps which you will find attached outside the. envelope.” The 14 cents in stamps was on the envelope, all right, thoroughly canceled by the postoffice, Now the "division probably will have to spend many times 14 cents in correspondence with the humorous taxpayer in order to get the 14 cents into the cash register . + . Joe Hawkins, former Tech football player, more reeently salesman for the Harry A. Sharp auto agency, and now on the night shift at Allison, reports that he saw a flock of about six or seven seagulls three separate days last week—Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. The gulls, which might have strayed from Lake Michigan, were seen where Fall creek empties into the White river near City hospital. They're quite unusual here, Joe says,

) A Pint for a Pint!

“#A MAN walked into the Red Cross blood bank last week and said he wanted to donate a pint. “This

. will be the second pint for me this week,” he re-

marked to the attendant. “Why, what do you mean?”

. she asked. “Oh, Igotin a little dispute with a fellow day before yesterday and a cop hit me on the head

. with his club and I bled a lot,” the fellow answered.

J). And then, as an afterthought: “Say, do you still give

" are heavily weigh

whisky to blood donors?” Informed that they did NOT, he hesitated a minute or two, then decided to give the blood anyway. . ., . An employee of a

“canning plant in a small town near here writes that

“many of our employees buy damaged canned goods here at quite a saving to themselves, and many have more than five cans per person allowed by Mr, Wick~ ard. They have in no sense of the word ‘hoarded’ this. merchandise. It's either rusty or dented to the

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—S8ix out of every 10 Amer- _. jcans who have definite opinions believe there will always be big wars. This result can scarcely be put down to wishful

thinking Therefore it must be taken as a reflection

of hard-headed realistic judgment, The survey was made by the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Denver. While sampling surveys of this type have not alway been literally accurate in election tests, the fore going figure probably can be taken as indicating the general drift of public opinion. ' Of those who had opinions, four out of 10 thought wars could be ended. But people who felt that way were found more often in the lower economic levels than in the higher levels. They were more often the less educated persons, with a grammar-school education or less. Geographically, the optimists were more numerous in the South than in other sections. Educated people, and people in the higher brackets, on the side that believes there will always be. big wars,

Different Approach Than ’18

WHAT WILL BE the consequences of such public opinion in sustaining post-war arrangements that the administration may attempt to make in order to give greater promise of preventing another war? The eauswer, possibly, is that ii 60 per cent or more of the people, of those who have opinions, think there is no way of preventing another big war, then they are not going to want to see the United States put forth very much effort in trying to prevent one. Instead AheY WII Want SIL our efforg put forth in

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday. wil had a Totter the other . day enclosing some clippings from a paper in a city, which has become tremendously overcrowded because

no war activities. The clippings urged that women

| whose husbands are in training in that neighborhood should remain at home as a patrigto, duty and not attempt to be : with them while they are still in : ‘The letter accompanying these Sipping stated that when a man in training, the’ probability

country and that, if it

I might add that after’

_stantly filled to the limit. This difficulty is enhanced if the relatives’ and|® require much assist-|

‘By Ernie Pye

ns. aver Hors. (and they ave. Tight? Sud avian

soldiers to allot at least 75 per cent of their pay home.|

There is so little to spend money ‘on over here that everybody has more than he knows what to do with. ’ The most interesting part of the book is its “Do's and Don'ts.” It warns us never to enter mosques, and never to loiter, smoke or spit in front of a mosque. It says that bread is holy to the Moslems, and

never to cut it but always break it with the fingers, 2

and not to let any drop on the ground. It says further that you must always eat with your right hand, even if you are a southpaw. I asked a French Algerian about this, and he says he never heard of it before. So I've continued to eat left handed and nothing has happened. ; Finally the book says, “Talk Arabic if you can ‘to the people. No matter’ how badly you do it, they like it.” :

Sneeze, Cough and Whistle

THIS 1S GOOD advice in any country, but how any American is to go about trying to talk Arabic is more than I know. Most of us can’t even learn

enough French to get by, and Arabi¢ is an almost E

impossible language to learn. The army has put.out a few little booklets giving some Arabic words and phrases. few examples of how easy it is to speak Arabic. = | For instance if an Arab asiléd you what that thing is hanging from your belt, you reply “bundikeeya sughayzara”—which means pistol. After you'd talked an hour or two along that line and were ready to call it a day, you'd say to the

Arab, “ Lailtak syeeda ataimsik behair.,” That means

“good night.” The book ends by saying that some Arabic sounds are almost impossible for Americans fo learn. For example, it says that “kh” resembles the sound made when clearing the throat, and that “8 ” is a deep gargling noise. If you were to sneeze, cough, whistle, choke and hiccup all at once, that would mean “I love you baby, meet me in front of Walgreen's right after supper, and leave your yell at home.”

point where it is not merchantable, Could one of your agents find gut what the reaction of Mr, Wickard would be to a situation of this sort?” Our agents haven’t found the answer yet, but it’s probably bad. Because it's food Mr. Wickard is trying to conserve— not just food in good cans,

Scoop at Ft. Bragg

PVT. TED NICHOLAS, late of WIRE, now is a reporter on The Signal, camp paper, at Ft. Bragg, N. 'C., where he's in officer candidate school. He writes he’s been having lots of fun. . .. Ensign Robert Howard was due home today from Washington for a two-week leave. He reports Feb. 15 at a naval school in New York city. ... Seaman 2/¢ Jimmy Cafouros of

.the mosquito boat fleet is recovering in a naval hos-

pital at Newport, R. I, from a leg fracture. He was struck by a car New Year's eve. Jimmy used to work for The Times, later helped operate the Spotlight, a South side neighborhood paper. . . . The Tiny cafe on Massachusetts ave. has its name on the window. In between the first and last half of the name is the word “Meals,” making it read: Tiny Meals Cafe. Sounds like rationing had hit them pretty hard already.

Out for a Bus Ride

A BRAND-NEW reason for busses being packed during the rush hour has been discovered by George Vyverberg of the U., S. employment service. George

‘managed to crowd on the N. Meridian hus about 5 the other evening. He stood beside a , seat occupied |

by a woman, a girl of about 9 and a mischievous appearing boy about 3, the latter standing on the seat. “That your little brother?” the woman asked the 9-year-old girl. “Yes,” the girl replied. “He’s been into one thing afer another today and when he got into my big sister's fingernail polish and got it all over himself, mother said: ‘I can’t stand it any more. Get him out of here. Go take a bus ride.’ So here we are.” About that time the youngster crawled onto

her lap and fell asleep. They got off on Capitol ave:

out around Blue Ridge rd.

By Raymond Clapper

insuring a strong military" position so that when the next war comes our side will be sure to win it. That would mean ‘a quite different approach to the post-war world from what we attempted after

the last war. The League of Nations was built on the expectation that war could be eliminated. + But if we assume that there will be another war, we will not be thinking in terms of another Washington arms conference at which part of our navy would be scuttled. . . We will think in terms of maintaining large military strength, and particularly. of keeping our air superiority up to date, for: the greatest danger with airpower is its rapid. obsolescence.

Need to Organize Early

PUBLIC SENTIMENT that believes another war is inevitable will be less interested in a broad international organization, in the united nations, say, and more interested in alliances with powerful nations. We have never favored alliances. But we must have learned enough to know that if there is going to be another big war we will be caught in it and therefore we ought to have strong allies in advance. There are strong reasons, based on our national self-interest and Russia’s national self-interest, why we, together with the British, should all three be allies, and include the Chinese. The four-<nations have much to gain by joining together to establish a new state of affairs and then playing together to

maintain it.

There will be a sufficient sphere of opportunity for each one of the four big powers, ani that opportunily

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As FDR.

NORE WOMEN URGED TOTRAIN FOR WAR JOBS

‘We'll Need at Least 20,000,’ Says. Greene, Head ~ Of Special Courses.

Edward E. Greene has said it before and - he's ‘saying it again: “Women are needed in war producs tion industries.” He reiterates it because indications are that some women have turned a deaf ear to his plea. Mr. Greene is director of the war production classes of the public schools and he believes a lot of women have yet to “wake up” to the need for them in .vital war industries. “Forty thousand workers will be needed right here in Indianapolis in 1943,” he said today-in making a special plea for additional enrollees in war -production training classes. . : “The need for workers in war industries is actually acute. We can draw on two sources for them: Workers still in non-essential industries and women. We'll need at least 20,000 women,

Need Is Acute

“The need for workers becomes acute periodically. When ‘it does, our reservoir of men and women trained in war production training classes is drained .and. has .1a. be filled again. t “Right now we are in one of those depleted phases. “The situation is such now that! | in ‘one class the people enrolled are hired and put to work before they can complete their ‘training.” In order to give enrollment in the classes a boost, a special registration

held Thursday night from 7 to: 9 Pp. m. in all the local high schools.

A Plea to Women

the week at the war production training office on the Tech ' high school grounds and at the U. 8S. employment office, 138 E. Market st. And, as Mr. Greene has said. before, a special plea is being made to women, “There is no- arbitrary age limit,” he points out. “The qualifications are that the woman has the physical ability to do the job and the capability to absorb the training. “The success of women in war training classes is outstanding. Those who are shy should understand that the classes are designed for the purpose of orienting them.

{We give the enrolles -an 18-hour}

probation period in classes and then are quite frank in telling them if they are not capable of doing the job. ; “The trouble with most, ‘women: 1s that they give up before even going to the trouble of enrolling’ and tryng. ”» Working Conditions Good

Mr. Greene. stressed the point that women should understand that working conditions in this day and age are good. He explained, further, that war plant work is not really foreign to women at all and drew parallels between the jobs they do in the home and could do in the office. Burring, he said, is similar to

ca be developed more fully with peace and order]

around the world.

The sooner the big four definitely organize to take an the leadership of the united nations, the better the |,

Women can:go to classes as little!

chance of an orderly arrangement of the victory to

that end, which is the self-interest of each naUoA,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

have found a place. Every agency is overburdened. When a city becomes overcrowded, it is not just the lack of housing which is felt by all the residents. It is harder to get laundry work done and to buy food, transportation facilities are overtaxed, schools are overcrowded, places of entertainment are cone

friends of the men in training ance and, in addition, complain of the which they have to endure. Yet, when all is said and done, if the man is going to leave this ¢ foreign service, and if his 3

as three hours a day or as much as nine. Most classes are about 90

Courses offered include those In}

for potential ‘war workers will be :

Registrations are taken _during|

President, Roosevelt Jokes with President Vasias of Brasil a5 the two begin an Inspection * tour of army, navy aud air forces of the two countries.

By ROSEMARY REDDING

. “Joe sent me.” I said it out of the corner of my mouth just the ‘way you read in books, The clerk just stared. Obviously. it wasn’t the password. He just stared some more, I guess I looked pretty desperate, : No:gum for three whole web) Now, I'm one of those people who bring the ayerage consumption of gum up to 109 sticks per year. I help .chew the gum that takes up the slack for the unaverage Americans who don’t indulge in that

-| frcwned upon pastime—me and the

guys like Jim Farley, who manages to “chaw” 9125 sticks a year. “Parking Places” - Lonesome And nobody knows better than we one-time 109-stickers what the war has done to chewing gum. It’s mighty scarce. Daily the fact becomes plainer and you walk a few extra blocks and drop in a few extra ‘drugstores before you can buy. You know how it is. You sit in a restaurant and get a certain nostalgic twinge when you feel under the table. Time was when you had to explore for a spot in which to park your wad. ‘Now, your fingers often run across only one lone piece—a sort of monument to the days that were. To make matters even worse, I sit across from the writer of “Inside Indianapolis” someway, always has a stick of gum. This morning; I just couldn’t stand it any longer. And after some

who somehow,,

A crack detachment of Negro troops; first American soldiers to land in ‘Africa, ‘are

reviewed by President Roosevelt and President Edwin Barclay of Liberia from a

Chewing Gum Almost as Scarce as Coffee, Sugar and Other Necessities!

i |cajolling, Inside gave forth with

What he ‘would have me believe was a “hot tip.” Eon "The instructions, given in a whisper, of course, were to go over to a certain cigar store, wait until there was no one around and then say: “Did you save me any gum this week?”

I dashed over, stood around and

looked at the post cards until the

clerk and I were alone and ‘then gave what was supposed to be the “open Sesame” that would bring a package of gum out from under the counter. But it didn’t work. Maybe I wasn’t suave enough. Or maybe he really didn’t have any. Six downtown drugstores didn’t. Most of them weren't giving out information either on when they did get deliveries. At one where I am a regular customer, the clerk did confide that gum came in on Saturdays but usually there were a lot of people hanging around to get -it and it didn’t last long. “And we can't be sure about

which Saturdays we will have chew-

ing gum, either,” she confided, ob= viously not wanting to - ‘build me up too much. . .. . Gah ind

Try the Dime Stores *

1 drank a cup of coffee “while mapping further strategy. I got to thinking about Grandma and the way she used to seal up those jelly glasses with paraffin. A pinch of that wasn’t so palatable but it could be chewed. And then there was congealed sap off cherry trees

_|of ‘ever faster ‘work. The govern- | ment is ordering hiige quantities for | men in the service.

and the sun-warmed tar off the old mill roof. Those were the days when such substitutes were preferable to the “store-boughten” kind which fond parents claimed were made of horse's hooves in order to discourage the chewing habit. And the longer I reminisced, he more yearning I got for gum. really began a survey in Noid And what, I found, I'd like to keep to myself, but here’s the secret just out of the goodness of my heart. The dime stores seem to be supplied with gum. Sometimes you have to fight your way through the mob’ to get to it, but it's there. If you start at one store in the downtown district and visit them all, you may be able to end up with four packages by walking three or four ‘blocks. Four's all, though, for there is a limit of one package to a customer at each of the stores. The crux of the whole matter is that gum is made from chicle which comes from Central America. Ships that once. carried it to the United States are now being used to carry war materials. That has cut the production of gum. In addition, the demand is higher. Workers on production lines are urged tp chew it to ease the strain

And here's, a ‘tip to boys in uniform. Time was when a box of candy or flowers was “the thing” to take when calling on the best girl friend. But times do change.

Today you can make a hit with a stick of gum.

WOMEN'S HOUR BILL ADVANCES

Senate Approves Lifting Ban on Employment Be“tween 10 P.M.-6 A.M.

By vote of 39 to 10, the state senate ‘passed a bill suspending the law which prohibited the employment of women in industrial plants from 10 p.m. to 6 a. m. The measure is to be in effect only until six months after the war or’ not later than March 15, 1945. Senator Charles Beardsley (R. ) told: the senators that the measure was broader than a similar bill in the house since the senate bill pertained to all plants while the house bill pertained only to plants having war contracts. Enforcement of the law prohibiting the employment of women at late night hours was suspended by ‘State Labor Commissioner Thomas Hutson and Governor Schricker ‘shortly after Pearl Harbor. ‘A’bill was introduced in the senate today. by Senator Robert Lee| Brokenburr (R. Indianapolis) that would require the city board of safety to employ Negro members on the police force in the proportion of ‘tthe Negro population to the total population in the city of Indianap0 Senator Brokenburr and Senator ‘John Gonas (D. South Bend) also introduced a resolution to ask congress to pass the bill, now pending providing for direct payment of $40

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{a month to all persons over 60 years

of age whose income is insufficient for Bling net income tax returns.

Chutes fo Safety

In Sheep Flock

SERGT. ROBERT H. SMITH of Indianapolis landed among a flock of sheep in England after being. ordered to parachute to safety in returning from ga flying fortress

bombing mission over Brest where the plane was riddled by antiaircraft fire. The pilot, Lieut. George J. Ox~ rider of Dayton, O., brought the fortress down safely in a tiny English. garden. ' Only one of its four motors was operating at the time. Crew members balked at parachuting to safety. Lieut. Donald L. Grant of Sullivan, Ind, had to push out Sergt. Theodore C. Heaps of Duquesne, Pa., who insisted on remaining.” The garden plot was so small that mechanics had to dismantle the fortress to remove it.

[EXCHANGE RATES FOR

NORTH AFRICA FIXED

ALLIED NORTH AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS, Feb. 2 (U. P.). —An American dollar was worth 50 francs today and & British pound was worth 200, under a’ new, official rate of exchange. The dollar formerly was worth 75 francs, and the pound 300. American military dollars and British military pounds may be exchanged at the old rate until Feb. ‘8.

TOWNSENDITES TO SPEAK

Marion Lou Baker, national lecturer for the Townsend national recovery plan, will speak on “Woman’s Responsibility to. Her County at Wav” at 7:30 \v m. today at 1331 | Brospect st.

Today s War Moves

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst -

~ Prime Minister Churchill's conference with Presi-

{Committee Asks Opinion

: management. over to a board that

dent Ismet Inonu of Turkey puts/the final seal on ' the security’ of the allied ‘position in the Middle East. There was a time, less than a year ago, when this position was gravely menaced. The axis army was within striking distance of Alexandria and Cairo. The German menace from the north throug h the

Ctncasis. was veub If Turkey at that juncture had not held to her

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| veiled threats, he Sopse of the Wan might have Neen changed.

STATE FAIR BILL

After Hearing Dawson Oppose Change.

The house bill to return the state fair to the fair board under the pre1933 setup went on the delayed list today as the house agriculture committee awaited an attorney general's opinion on its legality. Members of the committee voted yestérday to seek the opinion after a public hearing in which Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson, an opponent of the measure, raised the question of the bill’s constitutionality. Mr. Dawson held that the provision in the bill mandating the governor to appoint members to: the board who were nominated by various breeders’ associations and other agricultural groups would not stand a court test.

‘Recalls Court Opinion “The fair grounds is state property,” Mr. Dawson told the committee. “The state supreme court has ruled that management of state property is purely an executive

function. I don’t believe you can order the governor to turn that

is not really appointed by him.” Mr. Dawson also. contended that the measure, in taking jurisdiction over the fair away from the com-

pointed by the governor, was turning it over to a “closed corporation,’ a board on which it iy extremely difficult to get new members. Among the proponents of the measure at yesterday's hearing was E. J. Barker, former secretary of the old board of agriculture before the commissioner setup was established in 1933 under the McNutt regime.

- Favored by Breeders

“Since 1933,” Mr. Barker ‘told the committee, “the state falr has been more of a political fo . than ever before. It should be returned to the

wholly interested in agriculture.”

tastined 1a fever of Sho Hil

missioner of agriculture, who is ap-|

management of a .board that 1s

A number of livestock exhibitors i and officials of breeders’ associations

525,000 AS 08 VO

Social Disease etse Rate Ris Morgan Says: ‘Seeks : To Expand Clinic. An appropriation of $25,000 expanding facilities of the city nereal’ disease clinic was asked a health board ordinance intros duced last night in city council. Another ordinance submitted the council ‘would appropriate $20 000 to augment health departn personnel with three additional inspectors and four more san inspectors. - Dr. Herman G. ‘Morgan, he board secretary, told council the community's venereal dis rate had climbed during the few weeks an that his departs is “without adequate facilities isolation and quarantining of t cases.” He cited the fact that tween five and six thousand sel tees here had been rejected. bec of venereal ailments as eviden the need for expanded accommodas tions at the clinic,

Some Restaurants Careless

“Deplorable conditions found the kitchens of some restauran and taverns,” necessitate ment “of additional food and s tary inspectors, Dr. Morgan,

ent shortage of help,” he sald, others use the manpower shor as an excuse for unwarranted | lessness.” In outlining the city's ven: control program should the $25,000 ordinance be passed, Dr, Morga said, the sum, along with approxi mately $150,000 previously requested from the federal government, woul enable ‘the venereal isolation w at Fletcher sanitarium to in accommodations from 50 to 200 b The government grant, said Morgan, will not be available un! the city acquires a full lease on sanitarium. The city presently paying for hospitalization of p tients there on a per diem

Favor Police Increase

Both appropriation ord were referred | to the counci finance committee. ! The ‘council adopted a resolu advocating minimum pay raises police and firemen through leg tive action. A bill calling for ary hoosts for police and f in many Indiana cities is.

WAIT RULING ON ==

an ordinance providing for ‘poli and fire department pay He said both he and Mayor dall approved the increases, added they believed that provi for them through uh legislative

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rather than through a city nance “will be another case of t state eaiplus local powers.”

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