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SECOND SECTION

THE TUNISIAN FRONT (By Wireless).—It must be hard for you folks at home to conceive how our troops right at the front actually live. In fact it is hard to describe it fo you even when I'm among them, living in somewhat the same way they are.

You can scarcely credit the’

fact that human beings—the same

people you’ve known all your life— :

could adjust themselves so ac_ceptingly to a type of living that is only slightly above the cave- - man stage. Some of our troops came directly to the Tunisian front after the original occupation of North and West Africa, and have been here ever since. They have not slept in a bed for months. They've lived through this vicious winter sleeping outdoors on the ground. They haven't been paid in three months. They have been on British rations most of the time, and British rations, though good, get mighty tiresome.

Men Fight Until they Drop

THEY NEVER TAKE off their clothes at night, except their shoes. They don’t get a bath oftener than once a month. One small detachment acquired lice and had to be fumigated, but all the rest have escaped’ so far, They move so frequently they don’t attempt to put in many home touches, as the men do at the more permanent camps toward the rear. Very few of the front-line troops have ever had any leave. They never go to town for an evening's fun. They work all the time, Nobody keeps track of the days or weeks. I'll

+ wager that 90 per cent of our front-line troops never ¢ know when Sunday comes.

Trregularity of sleep becomes normal. One soldier told me he once went three days and nights without sleep. . . You see men sleeping anywhere, any time. The

. other day I saw a soldier asleep in blankets under an olive tree at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. In battle © you just go until you drop.

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By Ernie Pyle

wounded reach the hospital they are often so exhausted they fall asleep without drugs, despite their pain. The war coarsens most people. You live rough and talk rough, and if you didn’t toughen up inside you simply wouldn't be able to take it. An officer friend of mine, Lieut. Lenni Bessman of Milwaukee, was telling me two incidents of a recent battle that touched him deeply.

Indifferent to Life or Death |

ONE EVENING he and another officer came up to a tiny farmhouse, which was apparently empty. To be on the safe side he called out “Who's there?” before going in. The answer came back: * “Capt. Blank, and who the hell wants to know?” They went in and found the captain, his clothes covered with blood, heating a can of rations over a gasoline flame, They asked if they could stay all

- night with him. They started to throw their blankets down, and the captain said:

“Look out for that man over there.” op There was a dead soldier lying in a corner, The captain was cooking his supper and preparing to stay all night alone in that same room. The flood and fury of death about him that day had left him utterly indifferent both to the companionship of the living and the presence of the dead. The other incident was just the opposite. Another captain happened to be standing beside Bessman. It was just at dusk and they were on the desert. The night chill was coming down, The captain looked to the far horizon and said, sort of to himself: “You fight all day here in the desert and what's the end of it all? Night just closes down over you and chokes you.” A little later Bessman got out a partly filled bottle of gin he had with him and asked this same sensitive captain if he'd like a drink. The captain didn’t even reach out his hand. He simply answered: “Have you got enough for my men, too?” He wouldn’t take a drink himself unless the enlisted ‘men under him could have some, All officers are not like that, but the battlefield does produce a brotherhood. The common bond of death draws humans toward each other over the artificial barrier of rank.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WILLIAM C. CHANDLER, 6185 Park ave. tells us that Lieut. Gov. Charley Dawson isn’t the only state official who gets on the job by 8 a. m. or thereabouts. “For a good many years,” says Mr.

Chandler, “I've picked up Otto Jensen, one of my neighbors (and chief examiner of the state accounts board), waiting for a Central ave. bus, and dropped him off at the state house before 7:30 a. m. Of course, this hasn't happened every morning, but he usually catches the 6:55 bus, so you can see Mr. Jensen is getting to work even earlier than Mr. Dawson.” . . . Paul Christian, who has charge of the information and personal service bureau in the Indiana house of representatives, has on his desk a name block reading: “Sgt. Christian.” Capt. Elmer (Doc) Sherwood tells us that it’s the same name block Mr, Christian had on his desk in France in 1917-18 when He’s kept it all these years. Mr. Christian has two sons in the air force, and his farm was taken for Camp Atterbury.

Around the Town |

{ R. BLAYNE McCURRY of the Rough Notes Co. and president of the Advertising Club of Indianaponaval lieutenant. He reports for duty March 1. ... Pvt. Francis H. Colborn, water company service man, who used to be busy with such things as frozen meters at this time of the year, writes his friends that he hax “experienced many happenings that are almost unbelievable.” He’s somewhere in “northwest Africa,” where there’s little, if any, plumbing to freeze. .-. . Leo Foley of the gas company’s auditing department hugged the radiator all morning last Friday and couldn't seem to get warm. In the middle of the afternoon someone else discovered the heat was turned off. . . . While she was

! helping serve at a kindergarten fhothers’ club meet-

ing Wednesday, Mrs. R. E. Gray’s purse disappeared.

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—When we are tempted by defeatist despair about whether we can make this victory stick, we might take heart from the way our three major allies refused to give up when the fighting went against them. Defeatism about the peace is growing to a disturbing degree in this country. An indication is the vote of the house against allowing the national resources planning board to prepare post-war -plans that would stimulate industry and provide jobs for returning soldiers. : It is to be hoped that committees of congress, in their own planning activities, will not take such ‘a defeatist attitude toward the job. We might better take heart from ‘the struggles that our allies have made against odds that

looked to others almost hopeless. Free China an Inspiration

WE CAN PARTICULARLY take inspiration from the struggle that China has made under Generalissimo C Kai-shek. A is a shadow of the old China. A third of the country has been overrun by the Japs. It is completely blockaded except by air. Seventy-five per cent of China’s industry was caught in Japanese occu-

pation, and her big ports, her financial centers, her:

textile centers, and the best of her transportation system. 3 Free China consists of the material leftovers and the spiritual capital of the Chinese people. She tries to continue a modern industrial war on a pigiron production of 100,000 tons, when all industrial nations

must count it But is China trying to find some way to make a

My Day

= * WASHINGTON, Thursday. —1I am still a little breathless, for for this has been a busy day. At 10 o’clock I went to make a recording, which is to be used on one of the Treasury Star Parade programs. Home again, and a few of the usual complications about tickets for the senate and house galleries were awaiting me at my desk. 5 The speech by Mme. Chiang was not only an interesting occasion, but quite unique.

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in millions—ours being some 60 millions.

It had about $3, some keys, driver’s license and other personal property in it. Mrs. Gray, who lives at 511 N. Gladstone ave, isn’t so interested in the money as in the keys and papers, and wishes anyone finding the purse would either mail it (and its contents) to her or leave it at the kindergarten.

Mizups Aren't New i

SAM FREEMAN of L., Strauss & Co. says he read, without skepticism, the item in Tuesday's column about the couple who went to the Romer Electric Co. and asked to rent a room for their son. (They saw the sign—Romer’s—and thought it said roomers.) Some time ago, and for many years, says Sam, there was a clothing store in town conducted by the late Sam Rubens. In his later years he had a shop on the second floor of Thompson's cafeteria (Washington near Illinois). On an extremely stormy and dull day, an obese customer puffed his way up the stairs to the shop and, almost out of breath, asked for a pair of rubbers. Told no rubbers were available, he indig-

nantly pointed to the big sign out in front—Rubens

—which he had read as “rubbers.” “There was a state of confusion even in those days,” comments Mr. Freeman,

Gone to Hollywood

THOSE FOUR powerful spotlights they use at the Coliseum for the icé shows and similar events have gone to Hollywood. Manager Dick Miller has loaned them to 20th Century-Fox studios for Sonja Henie’s next skating .picture. The cast will include most of the skaters that appeared in her show here. Hollywood doesn’t have lights of the type needed and can’t get any because of the war. ., , Mr. Miller is thinking about double-header basketball games in the Coliseum next year if hockey is suspended for the duration. Several of the local high schools,’ such as Shortridge, Cathedral and Broad Ripple, have inadequate facilities for games and might arrange to use the Coliseum’s vast seating capacity. . . . Sign on a store “Stock up—canned foods toNext week, no go.

By Raymond Clapper

deal with the Japs and give up because it is hard? Instead, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek is here trying to charm us into giving China more to fight with. " We have also the great victories of Russia. An American back from there recently says it is partly a victory of psychology that the Russians could drive back the German army after having lost so much in men, equipment, production and food during the two and a half years that the German invasion has continued. Perhaps it isn’t the one who has the last ounce of strength that wins but the one who has the extra grunt of spirit.

Allies Must Stick Together

IS THERE A better example than the England of 1940, when plans were being made to send the British fleet over to this side and carry on the war from Canada if necessary? But Churchill, unlike the French, was determined to play it out and hope for a break. That was when he was saying they would fight on the beaches and in the streets and would never surrender. : As Herbert Morrison, a wise old Laborite, says, that was not the spirit of the defeatist who says we must be prudent; we must face facts; we must avoid Utopian idealism and wishful thinking; arithmetic is too much for us; we must surrender. This time peace is going to take the same qualities that the war demands. Peace will not be the opposite of war but a continuation of it, Peace-this time must consist of disarming the enemy, of keeping him disarmed and our side armed. The allies must stick together after the fighting or they will be defeated one by one as they almost were in the war. Peace will require the same aggressive, confident, realistic collaboration that has meant the self-preservation of each of us in this war.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt |

appear for a fow minutes and deliver an extemporaneous short speech. When I saw her little, slim figure in her straight Chinese gown, coming down the aisle, she seemed overshadowed by the men around her. I could not help a great feeling of pride in her achievements as a woman, but when she spoke it was no longer as a woman that one thought of her. She was a person, a great person, receiving the recognition due her as an individual valiantly fighting in the forefront of the world’s battle. I hurried from the senate to the house gallery to hear her deliver a speech ‘which she: had prepared. Then We went 10-the senate. foreign relations eom-

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WOMEN IN WAR PLANTS URGED.

Compose Larger Pool of Untapped Labor, Harper Tells Parley.

By ROSEMARY REDDING

Women must be given the same wages as men and “must not be discouraged from entering legitimate labor unions,” Fowler W. Harper, deputy chairman of the war manpower commission, declared here last night. He spoke before industrialists from seven states attending a conference at the Claypool hotel designed to aid employers in meeting the manpower shortage with a womanpower. “By far the larger pool of untapped labor resources are women,” he said. “And the war manpower commission is convinced that it is possible for women, given. the proper training, to perform as high as 80 per cent of all war jobs and to perform them as efficiently as men.” He stressed that until womanpower had been fully utilized “we have not presented the united front that makes for victory.” At least half of the address made by the WMC's second in command was devoted to advising executives on the use of this “untapped labor pool.” A Community Problem

“The matter of getting women in industry is a community problem. as well as one for industry,” he said. “And it will be solved when the whole community brings forth its resources; where the schools lengthen their hours so that children can be taken care of in the late afternoons; where day nurseries are established on a community basis; where stores will adjust their schedules so that women can both work and shop and where transportation has been planned se that women can with a minimum of difficulty and fatigue get to their place of work.” He approached the need for women workers by citing facts and figures to prove that “America for the first time in its history faces a manpower problem.” :

9 Million Workers Needed

ore than four million men must be added to the army, the navy, the marine corps and coast guard before the end of the year,” he said. “This means that approximately 12,000 men’ must join the armed forces every single day. It is more than the population of Elwood, Ind. . . . In addition to the requirements for the armed forces, over 2,000,000 workers must. be brought into the munitions industries and essential non-agricultural industries. The total net additional manpower requirements for 1943 will be roughtly 6,400,000. When we add to this replacements, the gross manpower requirements will approach 9,000,000. “Already unemployment has been reduced until we scarcely hope to salvage more than 300,000 or 400,000 workers from that source. That leaves ‘us with a requirement of 6,000,000 people. . . . In general we expect to bring between two and a half to three million people in the labor market who have never worked before. We expect to transfer from non-essential to essential work a corresponding number. We expect to make some gains from the initial and gradual extension of the 48-hour week.”

Speaks for War Mothers

He asked the men at the conference sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers, not to forget the older woman whose son is in the war when it came to the selection of women. “No one has a higher incentive for quality work and with her there is least chance of absenteeism,” he said. “Yet the record of younger women who have entered industry has been amazingly good where absenteeism is involved.” He advocated the upgrading of women now employed in industry to positions of greater responsibility and said “this especially applies to the Negro women who have all too frequently been trained for a position far beyond that for which they have been permitted to work.”

Must Be Given Voice

In line with his statement that women should be paid the same wages as men when they meet the same work conditions and that they shoild no% be discouraged from joining labor unions; he advocated that they be represented on labormanagement committees and given equal opportunity to express views on increasing production. Some gains in the labor pool, Mr. Fowler said, could be expected from the reduction of labor turnover and pointed out: that there were war plants with a labor turnover running from 15 to 20. per cent a month, or in .some instances 100 per cent turnover in a period of six months. He spoke straight from the shoulder on the gains to be made in the reduction of absenteeism and told the management officials that they must accept their share of responsibility for it.

Cure for Absenteeism.

tion, inadequate facilities for recrea~ tion, lack of day-care facilities for the children of working mothers are

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There are WAACS, WAVES and SPARS . . . and then there are WOWS. Now a WOW is a woman ordnance worker and one of‘the 20 contestants of the Lukas-Har-old Corp. will be chosen “Miss WOW?” of the plant at a dance tomorrow night in: the Murat temple. And it will be “Tommy Tucker Time,” for the big time band has been chosen to play and

the maestro himself will be the final judge for the title of Miss WOW.” The contestants will be judged in their plant uniforms as shown here. Entrants are (top picture, left to right) Mary Rabourn, Doris Kautsky, Mary Whitlow, Hildreth Davis, Margaret Rains, Roberta Carlin, Barbara Price,

at the Lukas-Harold Plant

Gertrude McGlynn, and Pauline Morgan. - In the bottom picture are (left to right) Dorothy Renihan, Rowena Dugger, Marjorie Stutesman, Thelma Whitaker, Dorothy Breeden, Mary Lamoureaux, Eleanor Wilson and Sarah Wallace. The 20th entrant, Mary Wolfe, is on the night shift and was not present for the picture.

The dance is sponsored by the

Lukas-Harold Ex-Servicemen’s association and the contest by the plant. Officials point out that although the jacket is part of the uniform it is not worn by machine workers on the job as a safety ‘measure. First prize winner will receive a $50 war bond, second prize, a $25 bond, third prize, $10 in, war stamps and all others one dollar in stamps.

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This is the fifth of a series of 12 articles of expert advice for victory gardeners this year. If is suggested that you clip and save each installment for future reference,

VEGETABLES are important foods because they contain vitamins and minerals that protect health and promote growth. For this reason, victory gardens are of vital nutritional importance to the nation. The vegetables that will be grown by millions of U. S. citizens in back-yard plots, vacant lots. and community and school gardens—as well as in millions of farm gardens—will be of great strategic value in keeping the people on the home front healthy and strong. The U. S. department of agriculture points out that vegetables differ greatly in their vitamin and and mineral content—an important -point for an- individual to consider in planning his garden and selecting the kinds of vegetables to plant. It is fortunate,

Victory Garden—No. 5

however, that some of .the commonest and the easiest to grow in nearly all areas have the greatest nutritional value.

Table Shows Values THE ACCOMPANYING table, prepared by the bureau of home economics, shows in a general way the value of various common vegetables as sources of vitamin A, thiamin, ascorbic acid, riboflavin, calcium and iron, and also their energy value in terms of calories. ‘Other vegetables, such as onions and beets, are valued highly in meals because of flavor and color, even though they are not important for good nutrition. Deciding what vegetables to grow in the victory garden is a matter largely of family taste plus a knowledge of food values. Selections should include kinds that all members of the family like and should be of a sufficient range to give adequte representation to the important vitamins and minerals. Primarily, of course, those vegetables should be selected that will

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Greens Are Important

THE G N leafy vegetables— chard, kale and turnip greens—are of greatest importance, and one or another of these should be available in «well-planned and cared-for ga «from early spring to freezing sather in the fall. They shou -b8 ‘in every garden and should "be eaten frequently. Tomatoes, and beans are so widely adapted that they should be grown by nearly all gardeners in the country, sgomatoes produce abundantly andare easily canned —they should be produced for canning as well as fresh use. Beets, carross and onions can be stored for some time as well as used fresh, gnd gardens may well be. planned to include supplies _ sufficient to last long after harvest.

NEXT: Preparation of soil for victory garden.

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SEYMOUR GYM LIKE JULIETTA

Building Long Delayed, Cost - Nearly Doubled, WPA Records Show.

WPA records disclosed today that the Seymour, Ind, gymnasium building paralleled the Julietta infirmary and Fortville high school projects in delays and additional money required for completion. The Everitt I. Brown Co., architects, prepared the plans, calling for an original estimate of $95,000 for the Seymour gymnasium and work was started on that basis in June, 1937. : The schogl city of Seymour appropriated and WPA allotted $52,500 on the original estimate. Before the building was half finished, the appropriations were exhausted and a new project was started, requiring $78,000 additional funds, $56,000 more from WPA and $21,000 more by Seymour school city. The ' project, normally requiring less than a year to finish, was not completed until December, 1941, more than four years after it was started. Brown Firm Relieved Mr. Brown was the architect on the Julietta project which was started five years ago on his

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federal bureau of investigation to

arrests of minor girls increased 55.7

Hoover reported, “increased 64.8 per cent, while those arrested for- other sex offenses increased 104.7 per cent. Increases of 39.9 per cent and 69.6 per cent, respectively, were registered for drunkenness and disorderly conduct among minor girls.” That situation becomes “all the more startling,” Mr. Hoover said, when it is realized that some juvenilé authorities do not fingerprint delinquent minors. Mr. Hoover attributed the sharp increase in delinquencies to: - 1. A deplorable lack of parental guidance and discipline in many homes. 2, Boom conditions and easy money in the ‘hands of youth, accompanied by a “sense of wartime, abandon.” ‘One official warned that - unless the conditions are corrected this country faces the worst wave of crime in history within four years.

SOLDIERS WILL MEET COEDS IN CAMP QUIZ

Four coeds from Butler university and four soldiers will take. part inj a quiz program at 8 p. m. Monday

{at Camp Atterbury.

The Misses Jane Lewis, Winnie] Lee Selick, ‘Ruth 'Recktenwall and Jane Whipple, all members of Delta ta men oS participate,

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Perilously, FBI Head Warns

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. P.).—Director J. Edgar Hoover of the

day disclosed an “alarming break-

down” in the moral standard of ‘juveniles, especially among minor girls. Fingerprint records of persons under 21 years of age showed that

per cent in 1942 over 1941.

“Prostitution and commercialized vice among minor girls,” Mr

Symphony fo Play For R. C. A. Here

INDUSTRIAL Indianapolis set a nation-wide precedent today with. the announcement that the fourth industrial concert of the ‘Indianapolis symphony orchestra will be played for employees of the RCA Victor division, Radio Corporation of America, Feb. 28, at Cadle tabernacie. The industrial concert idea, whereby local industries “purchase” performances of the orchestra for employees, originated here with the P. R. Mallory concert several months ago. If has attracted nation-wide attention. Since then, Indianapolis Rail ways, Inc., and L. S. Ayres & Co: have provided concerts for their entire personnel. The RCA concert will include a soloist, Virginia Haskins, 23-year-‘old Chicago coloratura soprano, who made her debut recently with the Chicago Civic opers company.

‘BOMBS, . CHEMICALS

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FORM PLAN FOR ENLISTMENTS

Army and Navy to Accept Volunteers in Some

‘Branches.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. P). —The war and navy departments today announced a new plan under which men may volunteer. for certain special branches of the armed services. : Volunteers may go to army or navy recruiting stations and offer their services. If they meet prescribed qualifications and come within quotas assigned to the branch they are interested in, they will be given letters to com=manders of induction stations. If local selective service boards then classify them as available for induction, they will be assigned to the branch for whizh they volunteered. : Applications . for enrollment as aviation cadets and premeteorological and meteor logical trainirsz in the army will} accepted rafter March :1, 5 z

"Details Promised 7 applications will Tere:

officer candidates, for 5 ical units of the army, navy construction battalions and other specialized services. Details :of the procedure and the categories affected will be announced ter. Volunteqrs who do 'not obtain letters fram army and navy recruiting st#afions cannot be given assurance that they will be assigned to the branches they desire, However, their requested assignments wilhgggeive prior consideration within ue alloted quotas over those who do not volunteer for induction. ; Since voluntary enlistments in the army and navy were suspended by President Roosevelt’s executive order, the services have had no choice other than to accept or reject the material assigned to them by selective service.

LIST FAMILY NIGHT ‘AT RHODIUS CENTER

Neighborhood talent, will make up the family night program .of the Rhodius park community center at 7:45 p. m. Wednesday at the community center. The Rhodius orchestra will play and the program will include specialty numbers, selections by a girls’ chorus and an exhibition of folk dancing. Members of the boys’ tumbling team, Boy Scout troop 103 and civilian defense groups will give demonstrations, Miss Frances Whitcraft is director of the center.

YOUTH, 18, DRAFTED DECATUR, Feb. 19 -(U. P).— Maurice Colcigin, 18, senior in the Decatur Cathdlic high school, today was the first Adams county school