Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1943 — Page 13

Joosier ‘Vagabond

in-his speech. Back home, he says, he and Mrs.

% SOMEWHERE N SICILY (By Wireless) —Lit, n, Omar Nelson Bradley is 50. He is married, and jks a daughter who is the apple of his eye. Mrs. Bradley is living at West Point for the duration, as are the wives of several other generals . in this area. Their daughter, Elizabeth, who is 19, will be a senior at Vassar this fall, It's only 30 miles from Vassar to West Point, so she ‘can be with her mother for week-ends. ; Each of them writes to thé general about three times a week, s0 on the average he gets about one letter a day from home. They usually write him V-letters. Gen. Bradley is a tall man, who seems thin although he No weighs 182 pounds. His legs are ¢ ong and he is a terrific walker. Recently Hanson “Baldwin did a piece about him in the New York Times which Mrs. Bradley wrote her, husband was #an , excellent piece except he called you medium “height, which made me furious.” Actually the general «is just half an inch under 6 feet, in his socks. i The general is deeply tanned. He is getting bald : So top, and the rest of his hair is cut short and : ed with gray. His head flares out above the more than the average man’s, giving him a nes and an air of erudition. He wears faintly - tinted. tortoise- rimmed glasses.

Looks ke School Teacher

. IT WO BE toying with the truth to call him dsome, instead of good-looking. His face shows e- kindness and calmness that lie behind it. “re me Gen. Bradley looks like a schoolteacher rather than a soldier. When I told him that he said Xi wasn't so far wrong, because his father was a : ntry schoolteacher and he himself has taught at "West Point and other places. His. specialty was : “mathematics. . : The general doesn’t: smoke at all. He takes his ~ ¢igaret rations and gives them away. He drinks and swears in great moderation. There is no vulgarity

By Ernie Pyle

Bradley probably took one drink a month before supper. Over here where liquor is hard to get he . drinks hardly ever, but he does pour a dust-cutting libation for visitors who show up at suppertime. He has three bottles of champagne that somebody gave him, and he has been saving them for the capture of Messina. The general's voice is high and clear, but he speaks so gently you don’t hear him very far away. His aids say they have never known him to speak harshly to anyone. He can be firm, terribly firm, but he is never gross, nor rude. His quality of “ordinariness’ puts peuple at their ease. A quaking candidate for a commission in the officers’ school at Ft. Benning, Ga., was once interviewed by Gen. Bradley, and when the soldier came out he said, “Why, he made me feel like a general myself.” He is just the opposite of a “smoothie.” His conversation is not brilliant or unusual but it is packed with sincerity. The general still has the Middle West in his vocabulary—he uses such expressions as “fighting to beat the band” and “‘a horse of another color.”

Hard to Write About

GEN. BRADLEY is a hard man to write about, in a way, just because he is so normal. He laughs at small things and has an ordinary Middle-Western , sense of humor. One day at Sidi Nsir, after Gen. Eisenhower had been visiting there, Gen. Bradley walked into the room where his- chief of staff was working and said: “Bill, Gen. Eisenhower says you're out of uniform - today.” The chief of staff—a colonel and an old friend of Gen, Bradley's—was perturbed. ' He looked at his leggins, his necktie, his shirt—everything seemed all right to him.: And then Gen. Bradley said: “No, no, it isn’t your clothes. You've got on the wrong insignia.” Whereupon he walked over, unpinned the eagle from the colonel’s shirt collar, and pinned on a star. That was his way of informing his friend he had been promoted to brigadier general. More tomorrow,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

TEN STATE policemen who returned Sunday from Camp Lee, Va. where they were learning to conduct pre-induction driving training courses, be- = came the envy of the entire state police force when Ape reported that they had been quartered in a WAC barracks at the camp. Finally, the boys ‘broke down and confessed the WACs hadn’t moved in yet—moved in, in fact, the day the boys left. . . . One of- our agents reports seeing a nice looking sedan on the Pendleton pike at Arlington ave. with a goodsized pony in the back seat. A woman, “looking distraught,” was in the driver’s seat. . . . The Rev. Harry K. Zeller, popular redhaired pastor of the Grace Church of the Brethren, will preach his farewell sermon here Sunday. He and his wife and two childfen are moving to Elgin, Ill, where he has accepted a pastorate. He's been here three years.

Be Gals Are Okay

«# RUSSELL CAMPBELL, OPA public relations spe- © eialist (press agent to you), always has looked askance wri women drivers. The other evening he was in a

rry to get home and climbed cn a Central-70th .

5. To his dismay, he discovered it -was being operby one of the women drivers. “Now I'll never get e,” he grumbled to himself. And then he had ‘ the surprise of his life. The gal driver had a heavy - foot. Russ swears she drove at least 45 all the way * from 38th to the canal and got him home faster than She'd ever made it before, Now he thinks the women ‘drivers—at least women bus drivers—are all right. 4. . A sign on Keystone ave. tavern, just north of "Fall creek, reads:. “No children alloud.” . . . One of our agents comes In with the breathless news that, victory gardening being the popular sport that it is, ome company is going to sell seeds by the foot next

Washington

~¥ WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—In such discussions ‘as ‘those at Quebec and in the many others that must : follow, President Roosevelt's influence would be stronger if clear American public sentiment indicated ae main broad lines this nation desired to follow. When congress returns after its current vacation among the people, it will be in a position to indicate where the American people stand. A most welcome and constructive reform is being worked out now under the leadership of Senator Vandenberg so that many questions relating to foreign policy may be decided by a majority vote of both houses. In these times it is inviting disaster to make our decisions depéndent upon a veto ipower exercised by one-third of the senate. That requirement has forced the executive to resort to devius methods of avoiding reference to congress at all. + Foreign policy not based on national self-interest on weak ground. It loses strength also if based me on presidential edict, arrived at in dead secret | nd reported by newspaper men working under miliary restrietions as at the battlefront, A wise presidential policy will have more force at Pome and abroad if buttressed by clear evidence of active ‘public support. We do not realize that in oY } countries people remember what happened to and wonder if it will happen again.

] Bu Back Foreign Policy

UNDER SUCH conditions ‘America cannot exert influence that it should exert, It is not alone that we wight want to do. We also want to t others from making decisions that might be = our interests. For self-protection, we need to ve our full strength behind our foreign policy.

My Day

HYDE PARK, Thuicsday. —1 have been to a numhe of exhibitions at’ which there have been paintings and drawings doue by men in the services. I Mb not know whi . these men are all artists of me reputation, or whether they have been inspired paint because of the new r nes which surround them.

have . wondered, however, there might not be some

vear, putting the seeds in strips of paper, properly

- spaced for growing. Tho gardener then wculd merely

dig a trench and put a strip of seeds in it. Sounds fine to us.

Around the Town

GEORGE A. SAAS, perennial victim of laryngitis, got back yesterday from a three-week rest at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and today he’s having his tonsils out in‘'a hospital ‘at Cincinnati. . . . Capt. Ray Wheeler, the former local photographer, was home yesterday on leave from his duties with the civilian air patrol. He’s been flying his own plane on the east coast... . James Hubert (Babe) Pierce, star center on the I. U. grid team in the early twenties, is home calling on friends. He was in the movies for a while, then formed his own ‘aviation training school which he recently turred over to the government. ., . . Bennett Wolfe, Indiana manager of the Associated Press ths last seven years, is’ being transferred to the Washington bureau Aug. 31. . . . John Bookwalter, secretary-treasurer of the Bookwalter-Ball-Great-house Printing Co., is worrying aboui his hair falling out. Reminded that it’s been falling out for a long time, he explains that the rate of fall has accelerated recently.

Sweet Reading

ADD SIGNS of the times: One side ofthe candy counter in Woolworth’s five and ten has bobks in it instead of candy. ... Cpl, Vaughn E. Fitzwater, water company eniployee, wrote back from Hunter. field, Ga., recently and asked Harry May, assistant chief meter reader, to make him a “hunting” knife to

“use on one cof the so and sos that started this war.”

Harry, who makes the knives as a hobby, got to work, and now one is on its way. So, look out, Hitler! , . . John A. Mueiler, who has been on leave from his school board job. while working for the war production board, is back in town visiting friends. He was director cf special youth services for the schools.

By Raymond Clapper

One of the first questions to be answered is whether we want to use force to make the victory stick. In other words, do we want to compel Germany to disarm and stay disarmed? Do we want to force her from making tanks and airplanes, for instance? Do we want to use force in keeping Italy on the safe track? That is.a fairly immediate question. How much force we shall use after the armistice is the central question to be decided before we can move on with peace and reconstruction. Our side has been. confident that might makes right. We have: believed that he is thrice armed whose cause is just. We had high ethics. Yet while we disarmed, Japan fortified the Pacific islands. Britain went blissfully to sleep while Hitler built airplanes. Just a year ago the axis almost broke through at Suez which might have made victory impossible for us. Our vast resources are being turned into military force - that will win, but our indifference to force almost proved our downfall.

Must Use Force

THE SUREST way to make the victory mean nothing would be to fight and have our men killed in order to disarm fhe enemy and force him to

surrender—and then permit him to begin rearming. But you will never prevent Germany or Japan from rearming by sitting at the wishing well with little Snow White. We will have to use force to prevent it. Are we ready to face that? We ought to say. In such an argument I would strongly favor the side of force. We can disarm a nation and still allow economic and political freedom within the restrictions. Germany ‘could be disarmed and - still have her elections, free speech and the right to trade everywhere. That is the kind of a broad question that congress, = spokesman for the American people, could decide now.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I would‘like tu see the same thing brought about in this war. Perhaps these competitions should not be solely among the service men, we might include the service women and even the defense workers. Thomas Hood ounce wrote “The Song of the Shirt.” A man or woman today might write “The Song of the Riveter,” or the welder. Someone might write

PRESS GES TO

But Mum, Reporters Wait in Vain.

By KARL A. BICKEL Times Special Writer QUEBEC, Aug. 20—There is an amiable and rather:

cavern-like entrance to the Chateau Frontenac that has become a center of journalistic interest here of late and where in consequence practically a continuous press conference is held. “Everything that I say,” observed

the record and based upon careful

"| study of the best trends, military, | naval and economic, as-I have ob- |i

served them drift in and out of

Thereupon the lamppost expounds the situation. It is out of material no deeper than that the reports on plots and plans and intrigues developing out

the long rooms inside the old citadel on the hill emanate. To date, Messrs. Roosevelt, Churchill and

this writing not one tiny splinter

of the fortress for the illumination of the press.

Minor Incidents Observed

But little incidents do escape Mr. Churchill, it develops, does his best thinking after midnight and loves to roam about his suite mulling over his plans, checking up on maps and papers, comfortably enwrapped in a big dressing gown and smoking one of those terrific cigars that alone would lay most men out. If it is at all possible he loves to break into the Roosevelt bedroom some hour after 1 a. m. and try out a sudden inspiration on the presidential mind. The grapevine has it that if there is any one thing that could cause a rift of irritation between the two great men it’s occasioned by these early morning impulses on the part of the prime minister, On the other hand, Mr. Roosevelt, it is said, works best in the early morning hours and thus when thé prime minister emerges from his quarters in the later hours of the morning the president is all set for him. And so between the two and with the active support of Mr.

axis is maintained. Procession Starts Early

Early in the day a procession of generals, admirals, political and economic experts and others file out of the chateau for Mr. Roosevelt's headquarters. Before 8 o'clock, the president is receiving them, getting the compact memorandums that he is so insistent upon, checking up points that arouse his interest, indicating new lines for further investigation. Newcomers appear as the earlier groups are disposed of and until noon the president is busy receiving and absorbing the information he needs for his later conferences with Messrs. Churchill, King and Eden. There is no set time for the conferences between Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt. The two are housed together in the citadel and their apartments open into the same general living quarters. They do their work as they like and then wander into the general quarters and meet. Whenever they meet the conference is on. May Cover Whole War There is a feeling here that. the conference is developing into a much bigger thing than was originally planned. The earlier thought that it was primarily fo cover the Pacific area must be dis-| carded because it is o covering the whole field of conflict

flict tomorrow. And there is every reason to believe that before this meeting Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill will have produced another of those declarations which have so lighted up the history of their meetings. As the Atlantic Charter, written months before American participation in the war, set the spiritual note for the conflict so the new declaration will possibly cast -illumination upon the two men’s thoughts

upon the details of the peace to]

come. Keep Russia in Mind It is obvious too that Russia is|py much in the minds of the two men, ahd while Joséf Stalin is not in the comfortable living rooms of the citadel in person he is there in fact every moment of the day. Stalin is the little man that was not there but he looms over the conference at

lamppost just to the left of the |}

the lamppost today, “is entirely on |

the Chateau over the past 48 hours.” |

of the three-man conversations in

King have been at it, off and on, for || something over 50 hours and up to |;

of fact has escaped the sally ports

King and Mr. Eden an around-the-| clock psychological attack upon the}

today and the evolution of that con-: %

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Tepors states.

WEE EHS

FDR, Churchill Keep Busy!

located just behind the front lines in Sicily.

Not unlike the familiar circus “big top” is the receiving tent of an -evacuation hospital that was Und er its big red cross, Army surgeons and nurses handied emergency operations and blood plasma transfusions before sending the seriously wounded farther to the rear. Typical of the personnel who operate { hese field hospitals are Maj. Lynn Wilson of Forest Hills, N. Y., upper right, washing up after a busy day of patching up wounded Yanks, and smiling nurse Lt. Peggy Smith of Austin, Tex. digging into a can of C ration as she takes time out for mess. (Photos by Michael J. Ackerman, NEA-Acme war correspondent.)

Bracken’s Statement Dispels. Any Doubt of Quitting After Hitler Defeat. By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

Any doubt that concrete plans. for total British - American war

§| against Japan had figured as a ma-

{This is the fifth of six articles on pending social security legislation.)

By FRED W. ) W. PERKINS : Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — Many Americans subscribe to private insurance policies under which, if disabled temporarily or permanently, they receive regular payments from the insurance

Dingell bill, for expansion of the ‘social security - system, calls for payments by the federal government to‘the temporarily and: per_manently cdisabled—payments out “of funds. collected partly from ‘employers and partly from workers. The . potential: beneficiaries would be much more numerous than those who now - deal with the insuraiice companies, : This proposal is backed by the social security board, as well as by the labor and other groups that are advocafing immediate extension: of social security. supporters argue that a disabled worker needs money more than a worker who is simply - unemployed, since: not only is his income cut off but his expenses are increased ‘by disability. the present system a man may contribute for years toward oldage and survivors’ insurance, but may lose all rights to any bene-. fits if he becomes permanently disabled. » " 8 THE SOCIAL SECURITY board's position is that perma‘nent disability: should be handled ‘ag: if “it ‘were premature old age, while Semporary disshiy should

companies. - ; “The. [pending Wagner-Murray- |

Its

Under -

Coming Up: A Fight for More Security—No. 5

Job Loss Through Disability Would

Be Covered by New Security Provision

be handled like temporary unemployment. Says the SSB: “With . only one exception (Spain), the United States is the only country which provides in--surance against old age without also providing against the risks of chronic of permanent disability. There is no comprehensive system in the United States providing protection against wage Jusses es temporary disability.

bility. “The American Federation of Labor says: “When a man is permanently disabled. his wife and children need help as much as if he had died. No wage earner can afford to buy enough insurance from private insurance companies to give his family the help they require if he becomes permanently ‘disabled. Only social insurance can make it possible for all of us to buy this kind of protection at a price we can afford.” : 2 8 = . SOME . COMPLICATIONS in benefits for temporary disability are pointed out by the A. F. of L.: “People who are out of work because they are sick need an in“come to make up for their loss of earnings just as much as well people need their unemployment ben - ‘efits, Workers who are sick have to pay the rent and the grocery bills, and also have to buy medi“cines ‘and pay the doctor. Long experience has shown, however, that it is better for a .worker. to

get he. same cash benefits

whether his unemployment is due to. lack of work or to sickness; for there are always some people who would feel sick if a sick unemployed person got higher benefits. “Much of our experience with insurance against temporary disability,” the A. PF. of L. continues, “has come from the'trade union or ‘fraternal sickness-benefit- socleties and from other local sickness funds. “In these small employe societies where people were ‘acqua with each .other the trustees of the benefit - funds knew’ when one of the members was .Jaid up or too sick to go to work, and also when. he was well again and ‘able to go ‘back to his Job. “When we ‘exchange the personal relationships of the little

the greater strength and security of a national social-insurance system, we have to substitute records for the members’ knowledge of each other’s affairs, In sickness insurance we have to know that the worker is sick, and not just taking a vacation or plain lazy. . . . For this reason a doctor’s certificate of illness is needed, with periodic reports if the sickness continues.” The A. PF. of L. also recommends = maternity benefits for working women, a. proposal on which the social security board has taken no stand. The A. F. of L. proposal is for cash: benefits six weeks before and six weeks after the baby 1s hor is born. j

. NEXT: Some Points of Controversy. J

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY ©: Times Staff Writer ° WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—That) self-styled curmucgeon — Interior: Secretary Ickes {oday revealed that his. department and the navy are about to teach submarine sailors how to understand fish talk. It is to be done with recordindgs and not with mirrors. According to, Ickes’ report sailors who have. mastered: the fish-talk course never will be fooled ' gupples going around grunting. a us. hand ' the difference between a guppy grunt and the ‘sound of enemy “Fish actually grunt, purr, drum, grind their teeth and make a medley of other sounds that create strong underwater vibrations even| when inaudible on the surface,” the

imiouty Now They’ re Going to Teach Sailors How to Understand Talk of Fishes

I. Basso and tenor croaks-were taken

{from the croaker family and scooped up on the recording platters. “They also recorded what weakfishes, sea frouts, the black drum, channel

bass and the red drum had to say. Just for a plug the report . points

most when they get hooked. But in ‘another way they are different. “Although both male and female crodkers are equipped with sound organs, only the male has the drumming muscles and the female is

tinues, boom away with ‘a noise that sounds like heavy thumping on the bottom of a boat. When ‘they eat clams and oysters they grind S€a|their teeth in great glee. Nothing; was recorded about what happens {if they strike a pearl. The report closes. with this romantic note: “Fishes capable of making drumming, grating or grunting noises are found both in fresh and salt water in all ‘parts of the world. Whether fishes . use their voices to attract the opposite sex, as a feeding call or to express general contentment, like a cat’s purr, is not known.” So it may be that Mr. Tokes'- serve icemen will have to tun-in again—

same station, but different time.

APPEAL FOR TROOPS T0 SAVE TOMATOES

So Secretary Ickes sent a “sound”.

CAMDEN, Nu Jy Aug. 20 (U.P) ~

Dental Exam Is Simplified LINCOLN, Neb, Aug. 20 (U, P.).—Sgt. Frank Lefevre didn't

show up for dental examination. |

The other soldiers at the Lin-

‘master sergeant a box and a note .signed by Lefeyre. The note said: “I'll not be ‘needed, anyhow.”

group sickness benefit plans for 9

jor point in the Quebec discussions. would seem to be dispelled by the einphasis placed on the subject by Brendan Bracken, British minister of information, in his meeting with the press. i Bracken confirmed Prime Minister Churchill's promise of six weeks ago that British ships, planes and men would be loosed in full force against Japan, along with the United States, when théy are made available by the defeat of Hitler. Beyond that, he was naturally unable to contribute anything specific about tactical or strategic plans, but it can be assumed that such plans have been overhauled by the conference, and their timetable made subject to revision a8 developments warrant.

Russia an Enigma : One important factor which th

| conferees must have conside

would be the status of Russia when the main assault on Japan comes; Unfortunately, it is a subject on which no definite decisions could bé made at this time. The military program for dealing with Hitler is already clear-cut and complete. Only political uncertain tiles remain. The program for Japan is equally clear-cut but far from complete because it must tem= porarily be based on the premise that Russia will have no active part in it. If, after Hitler's defeat, Russia consents to join Britain and the United States in the same coalition against Japan, the program in the Far East would be greatly altered, simplified, and shortened by many months—maybe years. Britain and the United States are prepared to do the job alone and are confident of being able to do it. However, if Russia came in, air bases close to the heart of Japan would be available immediately. The Russian far eastern army, augs= mented from the west, could deal with the formidable land armies which Japan has massed in Mane churia and Korea.

Golng Wilk be. Tough

Those armies are going to be difficult to ‘handle, even if the allies break through Burma and free the rest of China. Their strength is not definitely known, but according to Chinese sources quoted by the foreign policy association, they constitute the larger part of Japan's land strength in Asia. Japanese strength In China is placed at about 30 divisions, perhaps 450,000 ‘men. In China and Korea it is put at 39 of the best divisions, or perhaps 650,000 men. That is quite possibly the potent factor that has impelled Russia to steer strictly away from war with Japan. The defeat of Hitler and a combined British-American descent in full force on Japan may put a different facé on the matter for Russia. After all, she has interests of paramount Umportanee in that area.

FIRMS NEAR GOAL IN WAR BOND CONTEST

. Four Indianapolis firms are nears ing the “Figure It Out Yourself” war bond goal, making thousands

‘| of employees and their families ele

igible to attend the “Double or | Nothing” radio show next Friday night at the Coliseum. Three plants already have reached their payroll savings quotas —Eli Lilly & Co. Curtiss-Wright Corp., and the Quality Tool & Dye Co. Those who are expected to reach the goal by the deadline, Aug. 26, are the Lukas-Harold Corp, the McQuay-Norris Co., the John J. Madden Co., and the U. 8, Buber Co., sponsors of the quiz

Co-chairmen of ‘treasury department workers held a breakfast meeting today at the Columbia club to complete plans for the campaign, Carl F. Maetschke, head of the pay« roll savings war finance committee said.

HOLD EVERYTHING