Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1943 — Page 3
| WMC Neea ¥Grandmothers : To Relieve Labor Shortage
By ANN| STEVICK
: : Times Spi WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.
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graduated standard of mintmum specifications in weight of cloth, strength, .type of stitching, and amount of siz-
Steel Savings
THE AMENDED WPB list for iron and steel conservation Seems to leave the individual home-fronter about where she was. There will be no iron and steel used for such items as clothes hampers, bar accessories, diaper cans, compacts, household ice-cream freezers or reducing ‘machines. However, the office of civilian requirements points
Grandmother Campaign
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: tarting today sheets and pillows not up to minimum standards will not necessarily be labeled “subThe office of price administration will revoke the requirement but will keep a remote control through price ceilings and mark-up regulations, so you can be sure that such linens can be sold only at “substandard” prices. 1 Many manufacturers will continue to print on their labels | the type numbers 180, 410, 128 and 112. ‘These labels indicate a
- out. that the manufacture of none of these items is prohibited if the manufacturer can substitute other material.
THE WAR manpower commission plans an aggressive program to get more older women into the war effort. It is especially important in labor shorfage areas. They have the figures to show that grandmother, aged 50, 60 and even 70, is successfully operating rhachines, assembling and inspecting in war factories. Her higher absenteeism record for sickness is balanced by fewer absences for more flighty reasons.
SUN OR oven-dried corn, on which the armies of the civil war marched, may be the making of some of your next winter's meals : . . WPB is pushing production of simple home dehydraNew manufacturers and increased quotas have been added to replace reductions by some manufacturers . . . turn out later that you will be asked. to help store the all-time record potato crop by buying a bushel or two at the peak season when it is thought storage room may-not be adequate. 4 The limitation order on anti-freeze materials has been amended to allow. motorists in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming to have the “permanent type” which had been entirely banned.
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Self-Care by the Patient Helps Control Diabetes
By DR. THOMAS D. MASTERS Times Special Writer
Diabetes is a disease which much be controlled almost entirely
by the patient himself. The diabetic can be a sickly and useless liability, or he can be a normal, useful member of society—according to how much he is willing to do to help himself. - In the search for manpower to speed victory, the problem of giabetes is prominent.’ There are nearly a million diabetics in this
_ Y eountry. Because their special: management is not adaptable to military life, those in the draft
rmed forces. J (arm restriction does not mean
some industries routinely bar Dr Masters the diabetic. The experience of most industries, however, is that the diabetic is a good and reliable
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worker, as long as he maintains control of the diabetes. This control, of course, means that the diabetic must assume the responsibility of keeping himself well. . Symptoms of Disease
Diabetes is a disease: that can
now be suppressed by the sheer
weight of knowledge available to anyone. It is an hereditary disease, although in a single family, the relationship may be obscure. It is a disease that begins with an inability to utilize sugar by converting this fuel into energy. The sugar accumulates in the blood and tissue until it finally spills out of the body by way of the kidney. The appearance of sugar
in the urine is a simple means of
recognizing diabetes, although occasionally sugar in the urine may occur from other and less important reasons. All the symptoms of diabetes follow in the wake of the disturbance described above. The inability to use sugar means that some food is lost and the body weight: goes down in the presence of an increasing appetite. The sugar is carried out: of the body, dissolved in: the urine and the volume of the urinary output is increased. To compensate for this
increase, there is an increased
thirst to insure the necessary water intake, Diabetes is painless and partial, or inadequate, treatment may be continued for years in some cases with the deceptive appear-
ance of normal health. Years of
experience have shown, however, that the complications that are so well known inevitably follow. The object of the treatment of diabetes is to correct the disturbance entirely so .that the diabetic functions chemically and otherwise in the same manner as the nohdiabetic. Treating Diabetes The basis of this treatment is diet, and the purpose of the diet
is to satisfy all the reasons for .
which anyone eats and at the same time provide less sugar than the diabetic is able to utilize. When the diet fails to do so, the diabetic cannot be controlled by diet alone, and insulin must be employed. Insulin is the substance whose lack results in diabetes, ‘and its replacement makes it possible to utilize additional sugar, The use of insulin does not mean that the diet may be abandomed. - On the contrary, it becomes even more important to ob‘serve the diet when insulin is
2 employed. The diet need not be
uncomfortably restricted. The chief ‘objective of the diet, when used in conjunction with insulin, is to provide a constant intake of ‘sugar each day. Work is not pre- . diabetics. The harder
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Record Production Won't Provide Enough, Says WFA Head.
MONROE, La., Aug. 18 (U. P.).— War Food Administrator Marvin Jones said today that there was no assurance the United States could avoid food shortages and that almost certainly there would be local and periodic shortages as long as the war lasts. Speaking at a meeting of the southern regional training school of the American Farm Bureau Federa~tion, Jones ‘said the United States started the war with the’ largest stock pile of food in history. Although farmers have . continued record production since Pearl Harbor, the demand for American food has so outstripped production that reserve supplies have diminished, he said. “In.-spite of our enormous production record, and in spite of our high level of per capita food consumption, there: will continue to be short supplies of various foods at various times, and there will be continuing short supplies of some foods,” Jones said. :
Pledges “No Dictation”
“The cold fact is that no matter how much we increase production, the requirements for foods by our allies, our soldiers and ourselyes will outrun the supply.” The responsibility of the WFA, he said, is first to encourage maximum production and second to distribute available food supplies as equitably as possible. The farm program for 1944 will call for the greatest production in the history of the nation, he said. The program will be carried out without attempts at dictation from Washington, Jones added.
URGES AUSTRALIA KEEP, BIG FORCE
| SYDNEY, Aug. 18 (U. P.).—Herbert V. Evatt, minister of external affairs, said in a speech yesterday that “after the war Australia must take its part in protecting the security of the Pacific.” “For that purpose, substantial Australian land forces of a anent character will be required,” Evatt sald. “Certainly we must retain a very strong Australian air force, a very strong Australian navy. Anything less than this would be suicidal.” Fa
BARKER DROWNING CALLED ACCIDENTAL
- PHOENIX, Ariz, Aug. 18 (U. P.. —Maricopa county authorities today agreed the drowning Sunday of New York socialite Gloria Gould Barker was accidental and said no inquest would be ordered. Mrs. Barker's nude body was found in the swimming pool of her home at the end of a five-day house party.
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15-Foot Snake Big Enough to Swallow ‘Bucket.
“GOODNESS GRACIOU snakes alive,” what have we here . . . another Munchausen? On his own word, Frank Button, 1157 Reid pl, has been seeing a snake right here in Indiana with a mouth so big. “you could have tossed a half-gallon bucket into the jaws.” ‘ An engineer with the New York Central railroad, Mr. Button was out squirrel hunting the other day-near Palmyra in Harrison county. Suddenly he came" upon a reptile coiled around a tree.
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feet long,” said Mr. Button. Firing four shots at the snake, Mr. Button left to look for help. Returining with aid, the snakeposse trailed the reptile to. a rock cave with no results. Palmyraites credit the snake with various escapades such as frightening a team into running away in a plowed field. * Some local persons advance the theory that it probably escaped
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guess is that it was at least 15
Here’s how Marine Staff Sergt. Bill Coffeen of Chicago looked on arrival at Guadalcanal after 72 days of wandering around isolated South Pacific islands. Forced down on an air mission, he lived
on coconuts, met friendly natives who cared for him, then was
spotted dnd rescued by a Navy patrol plane,
Unsocial Skunk Bites Infant
ROCHESTER, Ind., Aug. 18 (U. P.) —A truly anti-social skunk bit 18-month-old Linda Kay Lukens when she called it “pretty kitty.” It clamped itself on her hand and bit three of her fingers to the bone,
Physicians gave the child antitetanus serum today after the coal
| Ex-Engineering Director of
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WPA Becomes Head of
. Economic Council.
Raymond L. Pike, former director of the engineering division of the state WPA, was appointed director of the new state economic council today by Stephen C. Noland, council
The council was formed by the last legislature to make plans for the post-war period. Mr. Pike's salary will be $5200 annually. Appointment of Mrs. R. K. Zimmerly, formerly secretary of the state planning board, as executive secretary of the economic council, also was announced.
Born at Mulberry Mr. Pike was born at Mulberry, Ipd. He engaged in private engineering business at Cleveland, O., for 17 years before -becoming assistant city engineer at South Bend where he served for eight years. He was with WPA from 1936 until it folded. Col. Richard Lieber, former head of the state conservation department, has been employed as an adviser to the council at a salary of $3600 annually. At present, offices of the council are located in the armory at 711 N. Pennsylvania st.
PENSIONERS HOLD PICNIC
Indiana old-age pension group 11 will have a picnic at Brookside park Friday from 2:30 p. m. until dark. Members of other pension groups are invited to attend, and the social is being planned by Gail Ewing and
black animal was killed.
The Boys Over
The fighting men in the far-flung battlefields certainly appreciate those cigarets provided by The
The of thanks keep pouring in. Here are some -of them: “Thanks for the smokes. They certainly were appreciated by our men. Being a Hoosier myself makes me proud of The Times Smoke Fund.” “We received cigarets when they were not available elsewhere. I assure you there was an equitable distribution to all men of this organization.” “Thanks for the swell gift of something a fellow really appreciates. I know that you did this to make a soldier happy and you did. We know how the folks back home remember us and won't let you down.”
Enjoying Those Smokes
William Rhodes.
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were they welcome! American cigarets are scarce over here.” “After being in the jungles of India and Burma for two months without American cigarets one realizes the true value of a good cigaret.” The Times Overseas Cigaret Fund, in co-operation with major cigaret companies, sends the smokes to fighting fronts for only 5 cents a package. The name of any individual, group, firm or club contributing $50 or more is placed on the container so that the recipients know just who is saying: “Have a smoke on me.” The goal of the August drive is one million cigarets.. Any donation of any amount will help provide them. Send or bring contributions to The Times Overseas Cigarety
“They got here O. K." and boy
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TOTAL to Dall. ve verses inser ssniicnnssvins
Fund, 214 W. Maryland st.
CIGARETS, 680,136 33,600 20,000 800
ssssecransssaes $1,700.34 84.00 - 50.00 2.00 1.50 600
.$1,837.84
Canned Goods Blue stamps R, 8 aud T are good through Sept. 20. Stamps U, V and W become good Sept. 1 and expire Oct. 20.
Meat Red Stamp T, U, V and W are good through Aug. 31. X becomes valid Sunday; ¥Y, Aug. 29, and Z, Sept. 5. Brown stamps A and B in Book 3 become good Sept. 12.
Shoes Stamp 18, good for one pair through Oct. 31. : Sugar” Stamp 14 is good for five pounds through Nov. 1. Applications may be made now for canning sugar. Allotments are one pound of sugar for every four quarts of fruit canned with a maxi-
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EVENTS TODAY
Kiwanis club, Lions club ‘and State Fair board, joint meeting, noon luncheon, Columbia club ballroom. Kiwanis club, luncheon meeting, Columbia club, noon.
EVENTS TOMORROW
“Action Overboard,” chemical warfare demonstration sponsored by office of Sivllian defense and army, . Victory
field, 8 p. National Association of Negro Musicians, regional - conference; Mt. Zion Baptist church, all day.
' MARRIAGE LICENSES
These lists are from official records in the county court house. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors
— . gene David, 30, Gem e Hunter, 28, English hotel.
Dellous hotel;
Bertha Twente, 23, of 315 N.
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more; Denny.
Eftsabetit Warnes,
Brin Emmit Bastin, 2 Alabama; ama; Maty BE a Ain on 20, 5
19, Pt 7, of 526
OPA SETS CEILING ON |: HOPE CHEST CEDAR |e
Sterling R. Anderson, 27, of 1636 8. Bilt- Ae Betty Marie
Vegi Irvin a 36, of - us 8, Tiinots:| Diamond Smith Routon, 8.
mum ‘allotment of 25 pounds per
RATIONING DATES
| made at local boards for additional
for Jellies, jams, preserves, ete. Stamps 15 and 16 are each good for five pounds through Oct. 31. As fruit ripens, application may be
allotments up to 15 pounds per person if needed. ye Gasoline
Stamp 7 in A book good through Sept. 21.
person which includes five pounds
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Charles Burdette Munson, 28, S. piah ool rd.; Yanna Christensen, 26, 8 High School rd.
Albert Drags, 34 of 181 Dre rs ‘Xi 1430 Roosevelt, = oY
Rodgers, Adolph Paul Walker, 23, City ho ital; Patricia Louise Olmstead, 19, In
Central college. Wilbur 8. Coon, of 0s N. Meridian; 22, of 1512 N.
Harriet Jane Dliiman,
Meri 2. William Parker Pe 21, U. 8. navy; Doro Elaine Buster, I pi
urchman dr., Sn BIRTHS
: Joseph Hedrick, .| La Haprison, baciuary’ Saliahat, 1, at St. Vincent,
lorenzo Lucille rena organ, 5, 5. 3 City. Sremia.
Ma Catrine Bur dibs. 57, at 431 Forest, carcinom
Anton ey at 562 Ww. card tat at ; Jones, acute Frank Alison Vance, a iS 1, at 617 Virginia, Bgna M. Heath, 58, at 100 8, Bradley, Walter Hiatt, enry, cereBites 81, at 511 W. H
at City, coronary oc-
Bhefield. w Cemadey, 1, at 1148 N.
whooping : Lillian B. Wheatley, 28, at City, peri-
Twins Balentis, Elizabeth De at st. Francis,
Everett, Frida Da at Prancis. age at hag Francis. Coleman,
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Plan i fo Eviend Social Security To 20 Million Workers Now Exclude
This is the third of six articles on proposed social security legislation. By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. —If you are one of about 40 million American earners of wages or salaries, you have a social security card that promises you an oldage pension after you are 65 and retired—not enough to maintain you in country-club style, to be sure, but enough to avoid the drab necessity of going “on the county.” But if you are one of about 20 million other Americans, also working, you do not have such a card or promise, because when Congress enacted the social security act in 1935 it excepted a number of large classes of employment. In the present effort to extend the social security system, one objective is to bring the missing 20 million under the.old-age insurance plan, which not only guarantees payments to the retired worker himself but provides for payments to his family after his death. | : Under the present law, the oldage and survivors’ insurance plan covers business and industrial jobs—that is, those in factories, shops, mines, mills, stores, offices, banks, hotels, restaurants, laundries telephone and telegraph offices, and other places of business or industry operated by private firms, corporations or individuals. s ” ” THE BROAD classes at present excluded from these benefits, and
‘which social security advocates
hope to bring in without unnecessary delay, are agricultural labor, domestic service, public employment, service for nonprofit and government institutions, and self-employment. Today a printer who works for a commercial publishing company is covered. Also a janitor
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Who sweeps out a grocery store, and a stenographer employed by
an industrial concern. But =a
printer for a religious organization- is not covered. Neither is a janitor in an educational institution, nor a stenographer for a charitable group. Agricultural and domestic workers were left out largely because the periodic and sometimes itinerant character of their employment was believed to make it too difficult to report their wages and
‘collect taxes on them. It is now
believed that this problem can be met successfully through the stamp-book plan adopted in Great Britain and other . countries. ‘The employer buys wage stamps, and when he pays off his help he deducts for the proper amount of stamps. The stamps are placed in the sworker's stamp book, and when the book is full it is deposited with the social security office and credited to his social security account.
2 8 = AN APPARENT injustice to farm and domestic workers is that they frequently shift over for short periods into employ=
ment that is covered by the oldage insurance system. They are required to pay into the system, but.in many cases they return .to the non-covered occupations without having built up enough credits to entitle them to benefits. A main reason for exclusion of employes of non-profit institutions (including religious, charitable, educational, scientific, literary and humane organizations, and students and student nurses) was the belief that many were already covered by private pension plans. But the social security board has now found that this is true only with respect to onethird of workers in these classes. It says that “a fourth of the regular clergy are without retirement protection; retirement plans of at least 15 religious organizations do not cover their
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lay employes: janitors,
fessional staff members are titled.” It is pointed out also that pri |’ } vate pension plans usually pros vide only retirement benefits { the employe, with no further proe |’ vision of benefits for his family ff ” ” 8 MANY NON-PROFIT Institue tions and their employes ha changed their views on this sube ject, says the board, which rece ommends that social insurance protection be extended to them but with a protection agains loss of other kinds of protece tion they now hold. § The self-employed group in the United States, estimated at 11 million, is made up mostly of ine dependent farmers or business men, but includes also such exe | tremes in economic status as pros | fessional men, on the one hand, and persons who make a living by renting rooms, dressmaking, selling magazine subscriptions, | taking in washing, and selling newspapers. at street corners. Many low incomes are included, |: and the social security board has i found other reasons why they need social insurance as much as pecrile attached to a regular pay | roll. As to governmental employes, the social security board reports that only about half of those in
covered by public retirement SyS~ tems, and that in the federal |! service large numbers of civilian war workers may lose the proe tection they earned in priva employment without ac 1 comparable protection government jobs. The board recommendation is that full co
._erage be extended to these grou
without harm to. any Protection they now may have. NEXT: State Medicine?
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