Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1943 — Page 21

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1943

Hoosier Vagabond

Ernie Pyle’s columns were delayed two days in transit. They are resumed today.

-IN TUNISIA—The war correspondents over here seldom write about themselves, so it may be interesting. if I try to.tell you how we live. ‘There are more than 75 American and British Sorrespondents and photographers in North™ Africa, Since allied headquarters is in a big city to the rear, that’s where most of the correspondents stay. ‘The number actually in Tunisia at any one time fluctuates between half a dozen and two dozen. Each of the three big press associations has a five-man staff— usually three men back at headquarters and two at the front. They rotate every few weeks. The correspondents in the city live a life that is pretty close to : normal. They live in hotels or ‘apartments, eat at restaurants or officers’ messes, work regular hours, get laundry done, dress in regudation uniforms, keep themselves clean, and get their news from communiques and by talking to staff ‘officers at headquarters, ‘ Since their lives are closely akin to the lives of newspapermen at home, we'll deal here only with the correspondents as they live at the front.

Really the Simple Life

SOME OF US have spent as much as two months in Tunisia without ever returning to the city. When we do it is a great thrill to come back to civilization «for the first day. _\But then a reaction sets in, and almost invariably we get the heebie-jeebies and find ourselves nervous and impatient with all the confusion and regimentation of city life, and wish ourselves back at the front again. © The outstanding thing about life at the front is {its magnificent simplicity. It is a life consisting only of the essentials—food, ' sleep, transportation and f

By Ernie Pyle

what little warmth and shfety.; you can manage to wangle out of it by personal ingenuity. Ordinarily, when life is stripped to the bare necessities it is an empty life and a boring one. But not

at the front. Time for me has never passed so rap-|/

idly. You're never aware of the day of the week, and a whole month is gone before you know it. / Up here the usual responsibilities and obligations are gone, You don’t have appointments to keep. Nobody cares how you look. Red tape is at a mimmum. You have no desk; no designated hours. You don’t wash your hands before you eat, nor afterward either. It would be a heaven for small boys with dirty ears.

Feeling of Accomplishment

. TOO, IT IS a healthy life. During those winter months I was constantly miserable from the cold, yet paradoxically I've never felt better in my life, The cold wind burns your face to a deep tan, and your whole system gets toughened. You eat twice as much as usual. I hadn’t been hungry for nigh onto 40 years, but in Tunisia I eat like‘a horse and am so constantly hungry it has got to be a joke. It is a life that gives you a new sense of accomplishment. In normal life, all the little things are done for us. I make my money by writing, and then use that money to hire people to wash my clothes, shine my shoes, make my bed, clean the bathtub, fill my gas tank, ‘serve my meals, carry my bags; build my fires. But not up here. You do everything yourself. You are suddenly conscious again that you can do things. The fact that another guy can write a better piece than I can is counterbalanced by the fact that I can roll a better bedroll than he can. At last, and probably most important of all, is that you have a feeling of vitality. You are in the heart of everything, and you are a part of it. You don't feel like an onlooker;.you feel that you're a member of the team. You get into the race, and you resent dropping out even long enough to do what you're up here to do— which is write. You'd rather just keep going all day, every day.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH SWEGEL (she’s the eity schools’ nutritionist) started today on their annual eight-day raw vegetable and fruit diet. It’s designed to do the same thing for their systems that our forebears did with sulphur and molasses—only more pleasantly. The object is to avoid starches and fried food. The Swegels help get bulk with cooked whole grain cereals (such as cracked wheat), - cottage cheese, buttermilk and soft-boiled eggs. They use honey for sweetening. . One of the tasty dishes they fix up is a mixture of grated raw turnips, carrots, beets and other vegetables. They even eat raw dandelion greens, tastefully flavored with vegetable oil, salt and lemon juice, For a hot beverage, they brew tea of mint leaves. At the end of the week, Mrs. Swegel says, they feel “like different persons. » And besides, look at all the ration points they have left for the next week.

“Gorgeous Creature

HOTELS RECEIVE many unusual requests. For instance, the Washington received a letter Saturday from a lieutenant stationed at Ft. Harrison. The lieutenant asked the hotel to give an inclosed note so a tall, slender, gorgeous creature—about 5 feet 8 inches tall,” who would be in the lobby at 10 p.'m. that night. Also inclosed was a quarter to tip the * bellboy delivering the message. The boy was to step up to the “gorgeous creature” and say: “Pardon me, .are you looking for Lieut. So and So?” The bellboy was unable to find her, so you can imagine what she thinks of Lieut. So and So for not meeting her. .. . Mention of the schools’ campaign to collect canes {or convalescent soldiers brought the school board a letter from Cecil H. Brown, Greencastle, who said Dr. J. F. Gillespie is sending the board 100 canes. . . . The army air corps band out at Butler would like to find folks willing to lend 20 band instruments and a drum major’s baton. The bandsmen need six trumpets or cornets (no bugles), two mellophones or altos, two

Washington

. WASHINGTON, April 9.—It is a healthy sign, and not the contrary, that the British and American governments have each made public detailed suggestions eoncerning international machinery for stabilizing eurrency and exchange after the war. Naturally discussion will be concerned with the differences between the two plans. Nevertheless it should be kept in mind that fundamentally the two governments are working toward common ends and, on the whole, with common methods. The objectives and the approach are very much the same in the Morgenthau plan and the Keynes plan. Each government has put forth its outline tentatively, as a basis for discussion. The British propose what they . call .an international clearing union. The Ameri propose what they call an international stabilzgion fund. The British wish to keep the accounts bookkeeping unit called “Bancor.” The Americans’ suggest a bookkeeping unit called “Unitas.”

Agree on Important Principles

IN- OFFERING their proposals the British are governed by several principles to which we subscribe on this side. There should be the least possible interference with internal national policies. The technique of the ‘plan must be capable of application irrespective of the type and principle of government in the prospective: member state. The right to withdraw from the arrangement must be preserved. And, most important, the plan must operate not only to the general advantage, but also to the individual advantage of the participants. It must not requiré a special economic or financial sacrifice from certain countries, No participant must

My Day

SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday.—At 10 o'clock yesterday morning, Gen. Weed called for me. We went ‘directly to Letterman's hospital. This is an old \£ stablishment and one which cannot expand very greatly. Therefore, while they receive a good many patients from overseas- every month, they pass them on as fast as they can to other hospitals in r areas, keeping only those it not be safe to move. This of course, that they have a number of serious cases here. The grounds are attractive and many. flowers are already ‘blooming. There was the same atmosphere of cheerfulness and hope in this hospital as there has been in ‘all the naval hospitals I have ~ visited on this trip. Yet, there boys facing disabilities for

baritones, two trombones, four clarinets, four saxophones. Fact is, because of the shortage of instruments, they're having to use a Ft. Harrison band for a review and retreat ceremony at Bufler this afternoon. Want to help?

Victory Kittens

ROBERTA MARLOWE, 8-year-old cub reporter on the school 32 paper—the Wallace Foster News— writes us in childish script to tell us about her “Victory Kittens.” Says Roberta: “They were all ‘V’ born —March V. Ten days later their eyes were open. And each one has a ‘V’ on its face. One has a big ‘V’ mark so. I named him ‘Victor’ Now when Victor grows up I want him to go to Germany and GET-THAT-RAT-HITLER!” Thanks for' the letter, Roberta. And we hope Victor hurries and grows up and gets that rat. . For the last couple of weeks a couple of streetcars have been equipped with peanut vending machines as an experiment. The reception by passengers has been so cordial that a vending machine is to be placed on every streetcar, we're told. They're being handled by the advertising firm of Reid & Severin, which has the car card concession. . . . Lieut. Charles Long, former assistant manager of the Indiana theater, has been home on leave a few days. He's with the air corps in Texas.

Her Money's Worth

ONE OF OUR AGENTS was in Block’s the-othe day getting a permanent wave and the man giving

it told her of an amusing incident. A woman stopped |:

in for a permanent and, without batting an eyelid, took a $20 permanent. That was on Saturday. When the store opened the following Monday, the woman was on hand asking for what was left of the wave solution used on her hair, “I' paid for it and I want it,” she insisted. . . . A week or so ago, Mrs. Dorothy

Smith received a pair of shoés that doesn’t fit her|

(they're not even mates) from her husband, Capt. Robert S. Smith, who is outside the country. A woman living in Carmel read about Mrs. Smith’s plight and wrote her offering to buy the shoes. The woman said she had a bunion and couldn’t wear shoes that are mates. Mrs. Smith decided not to sell.

By Raymond Clapper

be asked to do or offer anything which is not to his own long-term interests. Those principles noted in the British document are implicit in our own thinking here. One big difference between us is that the British plan requires no assets and na contributions. It is purely a clearing house, much in the sense of a bank clearing house. On the other hand, the American plan requires hard assets—at least five billion dollars in gold which member countries would subscribe to constitute the stabilization fund.

Differ on Veto Power

THE QUOTA of international exchange allowed each country out of the stabilization fund would be based on a combination of such factors as its holdings of gold and foreign exchange, its national income, and changes in its balance-of-payments position. In other words, the needs of member countries for foreign exchange would be met on a basis of assets. Under the British plan there would be a virtual allocation of trade quotas, determined by the size of a member's ‘international trade relative to total world trade. time to time so that the plan would not suffer from inflexibility as conditions As can be seen from. this, the American plan does, as the: British point out, assign a greater role to gold. The British plan in turn assigns a larger role to world trade and places less emphasis on gold assets. One important difference in principle also concerns the power of veto. The British say:-that the management of the institution must be generally international, with no country or group having a pre. ponderant power of veto or of enforcement. In the American plan important decisions require a four-fifths vote. But it is possible for one government to have 25 per cent of the vote—and the United States and one or two other countries might have such a yoiz, which would constitute a veto power.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Losing an arm or a leg seems to be a minor calamity nowadays, as one boy said to me with a grin: “It might have been much worse.”

Adjustments of quotas would be made from |.

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Down in Old Irvington. Are Homey Folk Who Like Each Other and Do Their-Bit for War Whenever They Can. By VICTOR PETERSON =

Down in the heart of old Irvington, centering about the 200 block

S. Audubon, the men come to “Doc” Hicks’ barber shop, the women to

Mrs. Flora Sibbach’s

chic beauty shop, the familiés trade with Arthur

Levy at the -Regal ‘store and Morgan’s. drug store is a ‘haven for all. The men look tired and fall asleep in the barber's chair, the women knit under the driers, they smile at the meat counters and the kids philosophically and war-wise bargain for candy or gum, which-

ever might be available.

Fourteen fatiner delivery - boys, fountain clerks and curb service

But there isn’t: much talk -of ‘war|boys-have gone to service.

.-. actions speak for themselves|.

as do service flags han windows and’ churches.

in many

Served Overseas

Pierre Morgan, owner of the drug |F. E.: Shick,

“Maybe more,” said. Mr. Morgan ‘as he made out a list. “They are scattered around the world, but

they ‘write me.” Gone from the store are Capt. pt. “Thomas -May,

(1): Members of the Ladies’ Bible class and Quilters of the Downey Avenue Christian church work : for the Red Cross and the men in service. Here (left to right) are Mrs. W. H. Baker, 95 N. Hawthorne lane; Mrs. Edward F. Keller; Miss Ida Kenady, both of 67 N. Irvington ave. and Mrs. A. L, Green, 115

Good Ave.

@) The Irvington Homemakers are working hard to organize the area for victory gardens, Looking “over the prospects for a garden at the Albert Gray home, 824 Ellenberger pkwy., are (left to right) Mrs. Gray, Mrs. August Jacob, 283 S. Arlington ave. and Miss Jatice Berlin of the county agriculture agency.

2X8) Pierre. Morgan, owner of the Marian Hy-Pure pharmacy, 201 S. Audubon rd, has seen 14 of his former employees go off to war.

® Women knit helmets for the men in service and war workers relax in the Chic beauty: shop, 202 S. Audubon rd. Under the driers are Miss Zula Virt, 5711 Rawls ave. (left) and Mrs, Max Kercher, 363

S. Audubon rd. (right).

In the center is the shop owner, Mrs, Flora Sibbach.

(5) H. W. “Doc” Hicks, barber at 210 S. Audubon rd., takes war off the mind of Harold Curry, exIrvingtonite, with a rehash of ‘the Calder cup playoffs. :

(6) Arthur Levy, grocer-butcher at 203 S. Audubon rd

., (left). knows everybody in evinglon ne

timer Emmett Rumple, 203 “Good ave., comes back of the meat counter to talk.

Two women were under dtiers when we dropped in the Chic beauty shop . .'. one, ‘Mrs. Max Kercher,

store, knows war. He spent 18|Russell Harley, . Earl Fox, George|3gs S. Audubon rd., was knitting a months overseas. a quarter of a|Curry, Robert Fitzpatrick, Joseph helmet for a: man in. the service, century ago with the Lily base hospital: As we opened the door to his| James and William Webb, Ray Hol-| Rawls ave. is a war worker al the

shop in the building

which” once’

Pedigo, John Belcher, Jack ‘Trager, lett, David Dilley and Thomas Lam-

housed the original general store of | son. Irvington, he was mopping the floor, “No help,” he said looking up. The people are easy to “talk to.

The spirit of friendliness found in

a country village prevails.

“Got. an alarm clock today,” he said. “The first in" a year . . . called the “Victory” clock. See, it has a paper fibre body, plastic winders] :

and I think some wood parts.” Must ‘Stick Together’ -

.{ wind.

long as you are alive, it might have been worse,

He had|sounded like paper rusting in

the | 89,

Out to Lunew “And T used to chase these kids

the other, Miss Zula Virt, 5711

U.S. Rubber Co. “More. women than ever are coming in,” commented Mrs. Sibbach, the proprietor. “They say it is a

and their dates out when they got wonderful means of relaxation these

too noisy or I wanted to close up.” he laughed. “Now "they are: there giving their lives so we ‘can| keep things like they are "back home. » d - The door to “Doc” Hicks’ barber shop was open but he wasn’t there. “He's out to ‘lunch, » a tiny mite

another war veteran at plant six months’ ago. good friend at: Pear] - Harbor,” she

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forearm. This seems to be the general attitude—as| “This is the time for neighborhood people to stick together. Today

in one’ week. “I hate to. see them “but 16" has, hurt business

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disease. This may be of great value to a great many

“Why I'm seeing some

they pele und he ors tov cheer guise ig 414 co tae uke”

seem most grateful for the relie/ which has come to

days. © Then too, there is more money -around.” ‘Mrs. Kerclter, a busy wartime housewife holding down two varttitne jobs, always brings her knitting. She has made 10 helmets, several sweaters ‘and innumerable other articles ‘for’ men in’ service. Miss Virt went to- work :in ‘a war “I ‘have a

~ Arthur Levy, 81-year-old owner of .the Regal store, claims people are moying in and out of Irvingion like chickens TOy-4-da3s. “Everyone

call{ has ‘given three: performances for|

as he tossed a bundle over the meat counter. “What did you give me today?” she asked, - “Pork chops.” “That’s fine. Thanks alot,” said Mrs. Thomasma. War has hit the churches, too. “Attendance is good at regular

service,” said the Rev. John B. Fer

guson of the Irvington Presbyterian church, “but. the Sunday school has fallen off. It has happenefi to young people’s groups, too. Older Youths Unsettled “The older youths are unsettled and looking forward to going to war. With the more eligible boys in: service, the girls don’t feel’ at home with the younger ones. Thea, parents are Working hard and sieep later Sunday morning . .. that’s what: has hurt Sunday school.” But most. church organizations are going full blast. The Irvington Mummers, drama society of the

Presbyterian church headed by J.|

Harold Wright, ‘233 Downey ave,

ppy | the men at Ft. Harrison,

ve it. leat counter was as bare as : Hubbard's cupboard until

~ one - seemed: to afghans have been sent ; . | through the Red Cross. An average

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tle of food is the Irvington Homemakers club. While operating over a larger area than is encompassed in this. article," women of old Irvington play an integral part in the organization. Heading up the victory garden committee of the club is Mrs. August Jacob, 283 8. Arlington ave. A recent meeting was held at the home of ‘Mrs, Albert Gray, a “refugee” of old Irvington, 824 HEilenberger pkwy. Reports were ‘made and plans laid for. concentrated efforts to raise gardens. Mrs. Jacob reports that enthusiasm, is high.

mpact by war. People are know ° their a is, %

made ¢

coming And they know that today is day of ‘war before peace.

Your Blood : Is’ Needed

April quota for Red Cross Blood Plasma Center’ 8400

Christian church meets every|

afghans ‘for the Red Cross.

Wednesday to make quilts to soldiers

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TS avait: Woes: dOnat thal. J

lime Wednesdays from 9 a.