Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1943 — Page 7

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U.S to "City Youths, Including Girls for Work.

‘By DICK THORNBURG . Times Special Writer

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mine which farmers will want help, how many youths they will what for, and when. This information will be gathered by the agriculture department’s county agents, by the county war boards and farm organizations. -

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cheap vacation, nor is it a program to. furnish the farmers with cheap help,” said M. C. Wilson of the extension service. “It is a program to increase fcod production this year to : our military victory and to ‘ease the shortages at home.”

In counties where 27 to 75 students}.

" are working on farms, part-time advisers will be hired by the agriculture department to oversee the program, investigate the-living conditions of the students, and in general to see that the city boys and the farms get along harmoniously. : Retired Farmers to Advise In counties where more than 75 students are working, full-time advisers will be hired—preferably retired farmers and teachers and others with experience in handling youths ulus a knowledge of farming and farmers. Mr. Wilson estimated that about 200,000 of the youths would work on the farms all summer, the others for short periods only. The program will start in June and continue for about five months. In some states it is planned to have split vacations this year, schools letting out early during the planting season, then resuming for a month or so and scheduling the st of the school vacation during time. Cite Educational Advantages

will be arranged in schools to condition the students mentally and physically for farm life and to teach them some of the ~ gudiments of farming—so that students won't ask farmers where the succotash is planted. In a bulletin to high schools, the . office of education pointed out that have a high educational value for a “summer’s work on the farm will town and city youth. Farm life is especially suited to develop such qualities as ready acceptance of responsibility, initiative, reliability and a healthy attitude toward wor ” v . The victory farm volunteers will be organized in private and parochial schools as well as public schools. Girls to Pick Fruit and Garden

Wherever possible students will make tentative arrangements early to work on a specific farm, and spend a couple of week-ends there to become adjusted to farm life. Girls will be employed in speeialized jobs such as picking fruit, canning, vegetable gardening and the like. : The extension service through its paid advisers will keep in touch .with the youths and the farmers to adjust misunderstandings, assist in on-the-job training, help the young people adjust thethselves to farm life, assure their participation in community social and recreational fctivities, and arrange for shifting workers where a change is desirable. : RL ES Sa CA en PLAN YOUNG PEOPLE'S PARTY Townsend club 25 will have a party for young people following a business meeting at 7:30 p. m. orrow at McClain's hall, State gnd Hoyt aves. :

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Congressmen Seek Way to Ease Burden for Non-

War Firms.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Members of congress are afraid that application of the 48-hour week wil lwork hardship on some non-war industries and businesses, because of the additional pay-roll expense, and that some may be squeezed to the wall. It appears certain that a movement will develop for legislation to cope with the situation. Some of the impetus will come from sources friendly to labor, some from hostile interests anxious to capitalize the .emergency to break down the 40-hour-week principle with its premium pay for overtime. The strength of the legislative movement will depend somewhat on the nature of relief proposed by the war manpower commission for distress cases. Consequently the tendency at the capitol is to await clarification by the commission.

Smith Offers Measure -

An exception was Rep. Smith (D. Va.), whom labor regards as distinctly unfriendly, He rushed forward with a bill which would permit extension from the 40 to the 48-hour week without additional pay, if agreed to by employer and employees, or with such overtime rates as they might agree. to below the time and a half fixed in the 40-hour-week law, He borrowed his idea from Rep. Ramspeck (D. Ga.), recognized as friendly to labor. But Mr. Ramspeck’s bill, introduced in the last congress, would restrict such negotiation on substandard overtime pay to employers who had union contracts. Mr. Ramspeck said the Smith bill did not sufficiently pro=tect the interests of labor. Proposals Are Varied Mr. Rampseck pointed out, as did others canvassed on the subject, that there are only three ways to meet the 48-hour-week hardship cases—by raising price ceilings, by subsidies, or by some legislation for adjustment of overtime rates. : That some relief will be necessary is demonstrated, he said, by the cold fact that wages rates will go up 30. per cent and production only 20 per cent. There is a wide range of proin congress, including one by Senator Reed (R. Kas.) for extension from a 40-hour basis to & 48-hour basis before application of overtime—in effect repealing the 40-hour-week law and substituting a 48-hour-weék law. Ball Offers Plan Senator Ball (R. Minn.), who is regarded as friendly fo labor, said he was considering two alternatives. One is to provide a flat time-and-one-tenth for overtime after 40 hours. This would retain the principle of the 40-hour week, which he is very anxious shall not be disturbed. The other is to write into law the “little steel” formula devised by the war labor board, which permits a 15 per cent increase in wages for all who have not had a wage increase since Jan. 1, 1941. The serator failed in an attempt to write this formula into the price stabilization act when it was be-

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By JOHN L. CUTTER “ United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U. P). —As a newcomer to Washington, this correspondent had his first chance today to attend one of President Roosevelt's press conferences— and learned about the trials and tribulations - of being a shortsnorter, Mr. Roosevelt became a shortsnorter on his recent flight to Casablanca. A short-snorter is one who has crossed an ocean by air. At the time of his first crossing each member of the air party autographs a dollar bill. : The new shoort-snorter must never be caught without it. If challenged by another member and unable to produce his bill, the victim must pay $1 to each other member present at the time. The president told his press conference that he gets about eight to 10 challenges a day. Although he didn’t say so specifically, some of them probably come from his wife, a member by virtue of her war time flight to London. She has promised

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that she is going to fry to catch him. The president assured his audience, however, that he hasn’t been caught yet, and doesn’t intend to be either. Otherwise, the president was without news. He took up the rest of his brief conference telling reporters about a new one-cent “four freedoms” postage stamp on the desk before him. The stamp shows Liberty holding the lighted torch of freedom and enlightenment. Below . are the words “Freedom of Speech and Religion From Want and Fear. Mr. Roosevelt, who used these wor when he outlined the objectives o the war remarked that naturally he had had something to say about the design of the stamp. The stamp was issued for the first time today on the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.

0. E. 8. UNIT PLANS RECEPTION Southport chapter 422, O. E. S., will hold a stated meeting and reception for new members at 8 p. m. Wednesday at the Southport Masonic temple. Mrs. Opal Swords is worthy matron and Howard Smith, worthy

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LONDON, Feb. 12 (U. P.) Allied | commandos and infantry were reported to have driven axis troops

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while the eighth army, pushing ahead in lower Tunisia, neared the town of Ben Gardane, 20 miles from

west of Maknassy, yesterday, an allied headquarters communique announced. : (Sencd has been the objective of “jitter raids” by American land forces ir recent days. The Americans occupied the town, driving German troops out, and retired according to plan, the purpose being to demoralize the enemy defenses.)

Fight Close to Bizerte

Fighting flared up In the long quiet northern sector of Tunisia: when a British Midlands battalion (1000 men) advanced from the south and British and French commandos advanced from the west to sweep axis forces from three or four strong points between the road west of Mateur and the sea. Mateur is 18 miles southwest of Bizerte, the only naval base the axis has in Africa. J Ward Price, the London Daily Mail’s correspondent, said each strong point was held by a garrison of about 100 Italian bersaglierl. The eighth army was in contact with the Afrika Korps east of Ben Gardane two days ago, but today’s Middle Eastern command communique indicated that storms again were making action almost impossible, .

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