Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1943 — Page 9

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oklet is a neat little blue-backet affair of 16 pages. [It was written be- (© fore we came here, and consei¢ quently is prefaced by the admission that “our welcome: by the inhabitants is) not known at this time.” several months situation I sti

of studying the don’t know What

must have writ-

- a piercing, chill, , then I must be

‘occurrence. It generally occurs early 2 It may be there are mirages here me, I don’t. know. But the only mirage seen around here this winter would be

t ‘explains the new issue of American us. It adds that there will be little to

f ; MATL, the gross income tax division received a (tax return from a comedian. The return showed the guy owed 14 cents tax. An accompanying note said: “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 recently 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 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 remarked to the attendant. ry: what do you mean?” . she asked. “Oh, I got in a little dispute with a fellow day before yesterday antg cop hit me on the head with his club and I bled a lot,” the fellow answered. % And then, as an afterthought: “Say, do you still give 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. Wickard. They have ‘in no sense of the word ‘hoarded’ this. merchandise. It's either rusty or dented to the

Washington

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

ininking. ‘Therefore it must be taken as a reflection

of hard-heaced realistic judgment, The surw'y 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 foregoing 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 & 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, ‘are heavily weigh 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 answer, possibly, is that if 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 they Will want all our'sfiort Jus forth in

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday. —1 had a letter the other

day enclosing some clippings from a paper in a city,

- which has become tremendously overcrowded because

5 A The clippings urged that women

3% ot Shi and not ess s to be A them while ep. are still in

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would soon be ordered

Of €he swuntry and that, if it 2, it seemed on

I might add that after’

oy. over. here and they are right), and advises] 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| It warns us never to enter mosques,

and Don'ts.” and never fo 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 Angers, 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 lefthanded and nothing has hap Finally the book says, “Talk Arabic if you can ‘to the people. No matter how badly. you do if, they like it.”

Sneeze, Cough and Whistle

THIS IS 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 ;

impossible language to learn. The army has put.out a few little booklets giving some Arabic words and phrases. few exampies of how easy it is to speak Arabic. For instance if an Arab asiiéd you what that thing is hanging from your belt, you reply “pbundikeeya sug-

hayzara”’—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 to learn. For example, it says that “kh” resembles the sound made when clearing the throat, and that “gh” 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 veil at home.”

point where it is not ncrelantable: Could one of your agends find out 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/c Jimmy Cafouros of the mosquito boat fleet is recovering in a naval hospital 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 al-

. ready.

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 after 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 Gapito} ave. out around Blue Ridge rd

By Rumi 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 Wash= ington 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 opnortunity for

each one of the four big powers, and that opportunity

can be developed more fully’ with peace and order around the world. The sooner the big four definitely organize to take the leadership of the united nations, the better the chance of an orderly arrangement of the victory to

that end, which ‘is the self-interest of each natioft.

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 constantly filled to the limit.

This difficulty is enhanced if the relatives and

friends of the men in training require much assist-|

ance and, in addition, complain of the hardshi Which they Jave 10 andure. Yet, when all is said and

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MORE WOMEN URGED TO TRAIN FOR WAR 10BS

‘We'll Need at L 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 production 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 can draw on two sources Workers still in non-essen dustries and women. We'll least 20,000 women,

Need Is Acute

~ “The meed for workers becomes acute periodically. When ‘it does, our reservoir -of men and women trained in war production training

filled again.

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

p. m. in all the local high schools, A Plea to Women

Registrations are taken during the week at the war production training office on the Tech high school grounds and at the U. S. 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

ther, that war plant work is not really foreign to omen 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 manicuring. one’s nails. Blueprint reading is akin to pattern making and reading; assembling 2 food | 3 chopper has.some things in common with assembly work. Women can go to classes as little

nine. hours, Courses Listed

machine shop practice with training on milling machines, engine lathes, surface grinders, presses, shapers, planers, strew machines and turret lathes. Both $ process and final inspection ‘are offered in parts inspections classes.

-|frcwned upon pastime—me and the

“I park your wad. Now, your fingers “|often run across only one lone "| piece—a sort of monument to the

Glasgés is grained and. has ia bel

- “Right now we are in one of those

for potential war workers will be} : held Thursday. night from .7 to 9}

‘Brokenburr (R. Indianapolis) that

age are good. He explained, fur-}

as three hours a day or as much as! Most classes are about 90]

Courses offered include those tn}

dria|™ a boy

Others include tool and ‘gauge de-| sign, arc welding, Slectrioal main: tenance and assembly of and|

President Roosevelt jokes with President Vargas of ¢ Brazil a as the two Sosth an tspection : tour of army, navy and alr forces of the two countries. :

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

By ROSEMARY BED i

. “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 weeks! Now, I'm one of those people who bring the average 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

guys like Jim Farley, who manages to “chiaw” 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. i 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

days that were. To make matters even worse, 1 sit. across from the writer of “Inside Indianapolis’ who somehow, someway, always has a stick ‘of gum. This morning, I just couldn’t stand it any longer. And after some

Jcajollig, Inside gave forth with

|1ooked at the post caitls until the

which Saturdays we will have chew-

what he ‘would have me believe was : a “hot ip. ays ct x ® he 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

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 1 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

ing gum, either,” she confided, obviously not Wanting to ‘build me up toomuch. . .., . ah

Try. the Dime Stores © '-

I 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

Pah

A crack detachment of Negro troops; first American soldiers to land in Atria, “reviewed by President Roosevelt and President Edwin Barclay of ‘Liberia fram ; aj

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, the more yearning ‘I got for gum. I really began a survey in earnest. 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 to c chew it to ease the strain

lof ever faster ‘work. The govern- ] ment is ordering’ hiige quantities for

men in the service. And here's. a ‘tip to boys in uniform. Time was when a box of candy or flowers was “the thing”

girl friend. But times do’ change. Today you can make a hit with

was congealed sap off cherry trees

a stick of gum.

MEN'S HOUR BILL ADVANCES

Senate - Approves Lifting Ban on Employment Between 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 prohibit-| ing 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

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 Populgtion in ‘the city of Indianapo 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 1a month to all persons over 60 years of age whose income is insufiicient for filing net income tax returns.

‘was worth 200, under a new, official

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 g 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. i 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

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 You Baker, national turer for the Townsend national recovery plan, will speak on “Woman's Responsibility to Her County at War” at 7.30 p. m. Ioday at 1337 prospect st.

Today’

this, position was

Turkey held firm, however, An}

‘By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst Prime Minister Churchill's conference with President 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

was within striking distance of Alexandria and Cairo. The German menace from the north through the Caucasus was real. If Turkey at that juncture had not held to her alliance with Great Britain, in spite of heavy German pressure and veiled threats, fhe Sousse of the WAT might have leon changed,

s War Moves

gravely menaced. The axis army

Russian military victor-

STATE FAIR BILL

| Committee Asks Opinion

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 gowernor to turn that

: ‘management over to a board that

is not really appointed by him.” . Mr. Dawson also contended that ‘the measure, in taking jurisdiction over the fair away from the commissioner of agriculture, who is appointed by the governor, was turnmg it over to a “closed corporation,” a board on which it is 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 fair has been more of a political football than ever before. It should be returned to the! management of a .board that Is wholly interested in agriculture.”

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to take when calling on the best|

WAIT RULING ON

A number of livestock exhibitors| ; fe and officials of breeders’ ssdociations e

$25,000 ASKED FOR VENEREA : PROGRAM HE

Social Disease Rate isi ‘Morgan Says; Seeks. To Expand: Clinic.

An appropriation of $25,000 r expanding facilities of the city ves nereal disease: clinic was asked a health board ordinance ini ; duced last night in city council. Another ordinance submitted ; the’ council ‘would appropriate $20 000 to.augment health depart: personnel with three additional f 0 inspectors and four Hore sanita r inspectors. : «Dr, Herman G. Morgan, alt board secretary, : told councilmen the community’s venereal : rate had climbed during the Ins few weeks an that his d is “without adequate facilities ' for isolation and quarantining of thess cases.”. He cited the fact that bes tween five and six thousand sele tees here had been rejected becau of venereal ailments as evidence: the need for expanded accommonag

Some Restaurants Careless

“Deplorable conditions found in" the kitchens of some restauran and taverns,” necessitate assigns ment ‘of additional food -and’ sanie

tary inspectors, Dr. Morgan ported. : s maintain despite thet

ent shortage a help, " he said, “hu others use the manpower short £ as an excuse for unwarranted lessness.” In outlining the city’s vene

said, the sum, along with appro mately $150,000 previously requeste from the federal government, would enable ‘the venereal isolation at Fletcher sanitarium to in 8 accommodations from 50 to 200 beds, The government grant, said Dr, Morgan, will not be: available : the city acquires a full lease on he ? sanitarium. The city presently paying for hospitalization of w tients there on a per diem basis. *

Favor Police Increase Both appropriation ordinance were - referred - to . the counc

finance committee. The council adopted a resoluti

‘advocating minimum pay raises. |

police and firemen through 1 tive action. A bill calling for s ary boosts for police and in many Indiana cities id pending. Sidney Miller, corporation cous is sel, asked the. council to an ordinance providing for and fire department pay inc He said both he and Mayor Tyis dall. approved: the increases, I 1 added they believed that provisi for them through a legislative a rather” than through a city nance “will be another case of state usurping local powersR ie

sr B AND C GAS CARD: RENEWABLE BY. MAI

WASHINGTON, ‘Feb. 2 (U.P OPA today announced’ that oto ists: holding . supplemental “B” | “C” gasoline ration books may ¢ 0 tain renewals by mail rather thai by personal appearances before 1¢ rationing boards. “a The new method will apply al to renewals for non-highway tions, such as gasoline-powered fs equipment and industrial m ery. %! :

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testified in favor. of the bill.