Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1943 — Page 3

‘0 ‘the Time fo Prepare i For a 1944 Victory Garden ||,

1 - By ANN STEVICK ; Times Special Writer. WASHINGTON, Aug. '31.—There is no rest: for die camest ft) victory gardener. Now he is being urged to get a compost pile at guce, i he doesn’t have recourse to time-honored

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: And whet is 2. compost pile, did you ask? It is made of layers of leaves, peelings, vegetable tops, grass cuttings, and alternate layers of garden topsoil. If you have any wood ashes, throw them in; they will add the expensive and valuable potash nutrient. The {pole beans you are pulling up How can go in, too. Almost anything ean be added except greasy or fatty ma . The department of agriculture says | hat if you have room for

8 ‘garden you also have rocm for

. ‘bureau of plant industry at Beltsville, Md., will send you simple instructions for making and using one.

Release. Materials

QUANTITIES OF sturdy materials such as herringbone twills, Pople and sateen, running up into the hundreds of thousands of yards, will be released immediately for the manufacture of such needed articles as work’ clothes, pillow tickings and foundation

garments.

These materials are army rejects which, although perfectly sound, are not of suitable size for military use.

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| More Clams Due

THE NEW maximum prices on canned clams are 2 doing to raise . the price a cent or two a can. However, there is a happy part to it—if you like clams. Members of the canning industry who ‘previously had unusually low ceilings will raise their production, and you will see more clams on ‘grocery shelves.

; Odds 'n' Ends

surer of delivery on time. ...

ALTHOUGH the deadline on Christmas packages which can go to soldiers abroad without the usual written request is Oct. 15, it is best to get them off by the end of September. If you have a chronic catsup addict _4n the house, 10 pounds of currently cheap fomatoes will make two quarts of catsup and save you 40 to 120 blue ration points. . . , In spite of the agitation of manufacturers, civilians are not likely to get more than the recent 10. per cent boost in their allotment of the now comfortable supply ¢ of cocoa on hand.

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THomerort Should Not Be _ Overdone During the Wear

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‘ By THOMAS D. MASTERS Times Special Writer

\ :September, for millions of people, means first of all the opening

day of school.

School means hours spent in study, both on the

spot and at home. This year, the problem of how much study may

| be: done at home takes on a special slant for many youngsters are

“now doing part-time work, turned over to them because of the ‘phortage of manpower occasioned by the war,

~The “pros” and “cons” of home- | work have been balanced against one another for m y ay "Opponents of ; homework claim 4 that it is a ‘waste of time, inducement to cheat and rely. on others, to do slovenly work, . to suffer anxiety and loss of :

sleep, and real

oy . Pare “Dr. Masters - ‘thermore, ‘they say it cuts the child out of his play-time, his

* hours of “loafing and inviting the

soul”. his “activities”—clubs, art, . and music. ‘Home, they believe, is a poor in which to study, and par-

ents bear the burden of both the

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‘work and the worry, as well as

- being deprived of the help and

pleasure available through the child’s companionship. This fine mixture of opinions

and ideas is clearly no solution for

_ the child of 1943, or of any year, ~ for that matter. As always, the

_ factor of individuality enters both

"into the make-up of the problem, and how it is to be worked out. Parents who object most to as-

* signments are likely to have a

child either slow at learning or over-conscientious. Parents of ex

5 umety energetic, able, and ba-

sically carefree children find homework an excellent check-rein of discipline, for conformity to which play is a reward. ‘Since . homework is not given, generally speaking, before the

1 fourth grade, and amounting to

not more than an ‘hour-and-a-half’s study up to the high school age, the matter of how much homework to assign in wartime is chiefly a problem for the staff of the high school. As in everything, quality should "be: striven “after above quan ty, and -principals should control the specialists in departmental work, so that tooelaborate preparation of maps, notebooks, drawings and essays is not demanded by each teacher. If children are also contributing to winning the war by outside work, it is especially ‘important for teachers to make assignments brief as well as clear, and to provide some opportunities for supervised study at school. It is the parents’ duty to ‘see that the child undertakes openly as much outside work and spends. as much time in homework as is consonant with his individual health requirements. He should also be provided at home with quiet, good lighting, ventilation and proper writing facilities. If to clarity and tolerance, the teacher: adds good judgment as

| to quantity of homework, the war

and school may yet progress side by side.

RATIONING DATES

Canned Goods lue stamps R, S and T are good rol Sept. 20. Stamps, U. V and W become good Wednesday and

bos Meat id stamps T, U, V and W expire.

mp 14 is good for five pounds 44 Nov. 1.2 plications may be made now annir sugar. Allotments are

one pound of sugar: for every four quarts of fruit canned with a maximum allotment of 25 pounds per person which includes five pounds for jellies, jams, preserves, etc. Stamps 15 and 16 are each good for five pounds through Oct. 31. As fruit ripens, application may be made at local boards for additional

allotments up to 15 pounds per per- |" {son if needed.

Gasoline Stamp Tin A book good through |pen

for 10 gallons per unit in through Jan. 1, =

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| HIGHEST POINT | SINCE SEPT. ‘20,

Survey Shows Hold: Line! £

Effort Not Completely .. Successful.

vey revealed of prices received by farmers for

.{their products has reached the|

highest point = since September, 1920, and that the effort to “hold-

| the-line” .on food prices has not

been. completely successful. . Sharp increases between July 15

chickens, eggs, cotton and cottonseed raised the general level of farm product prices

the decline in the preceding month. It was 30 points higher than a year ago. At the same time prices paid to farmers for commodities, intérest and taxes failed to advance—the first time since August, 1942. The prices paid index for mid-August was 169 per cent of the 1910-14 average—16 points higher than the August, 1942, level.

Slightly Less Favorable

The survey was made by the agriculture department’s bureau of agricultural economics and also re‘vealed that: 1. The general supply situation for farm products is “slightly less favorable” ‘than a month ago because of the decline in egg and milk output, but “still looks far better than average.” 2. Domestic demand for farm products continues strong. Ins creased average weekly éarnings per worker more than offsets a slight decline in employment, and non-agricultural income payments

{are now at record levels,

Fruit and truck crops were the only groups which showed price declines during the month ending Aug. 15, with truck crops down 7 points and fruit down 26 points.

Meat Average Same

Meat animal prices averaged the same as or: July 15. Chicken. and égg prices jumped 10 points. cotton and cottonseed. were up 4 points; Dairy products, up 3 points; grain prices, up one point. , Compared with a year ago, however, fruit prices are up 78 points; truck crops, 52; grain, 40; chickens and eggs, 37; dairy products, 30, cotton and cottonseed, 16, and meat animals, 6. Senator George D. Aiken, (R. Vt) a leader ‘in the farm bloc opposing | food subsidies, today expected the administration to offer a new farm program embodying support prices| to guarantee cost of ‘Production on most basic commodities. = Aiken said he anticipated such a proposal, in connection with ex\tension of the commodity crédit corporation, beyond the Dec. 31 deadline, shortly after congress reconvenes Sept. 14. ;

BRITISH VETERANS . VISITING IN U.S. A.

FORT TOTTEN, N. Y., Aug. 31 (U. P).—Members of a British aircraft battery today began a long tour of the city that will include a

Broadway parade tomorrow, a night club visit and “free cigarets, candy

of their visit. The ‘Tommies selected from units which have battled the Luftwaffe in the battle of London, in Africa, and in the middle east, are the guests of American anti-aircraft troops.

OFFICIAL ‘WEATHER:

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TEMPERATURE Aug. 31, 1942

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7:30 a. m. .00 Total precipitation Sine Jan, 1 25. Deficiency since Jan. :

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the first Hornet, which was the Shangri-La of Tokyo bombing fame.

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STATE SEEKING 268 FOR JOBS

52 Positions Are Open in Or Near Indianapolis, . Smith Says.

More than 52 jobs in state hospitals and schools in the vicinity of Indianapolis are open to trained and untrained men and women. In announcing the openings, Dudley ‘A. Smith, state personnel director, said {pat 268 positions are titutions throughout the state. proximately 200 of the vacancies in state hospitals are for men and women hospital atténdants and practical nurses,

Doctors Needed

Hospitals also need physicians, head nurses: and graduate nurses; penal institutions need between 20 and 30 guards and industrial fore‘men, and school teachers, trade in- | structors and recreational superVisors are required in several schools for‘handicapped and underprivileged children, ‘Mr. Smith said that ‘many of the jobs are suited to training received by returning military service veterans, those over-age for military service and those in 4-F.

"Positions Listed 5

The positions open in the state institutions in and near Indianapolis are: ' : Central State hospital—Seven men attendants, 13 women attendants, three laundry workers, four cooks, two farmers, three women custodial helpers. ts State School for the Blind—Five

and soft drinks” for the remainder, women custodial helpers, one mgle

auto driver and yardman. State School for the Deaf—One male teacher to be in charge of boys’ activities, three cooks, two women kitchen helpers, one watchman and one laundryman, Indiana Boys’ school, . Plainfield —One physician, two child welfare workers (men), one plumbing trade instructor, two junior high school teachers: (mathematics and general); several single men and couples as home supervisors,

MARY "CHURCHILL

VISITS WAC UNITS

FT. OGLETHORPE, Ga., Aug. 31 (U. P.) —Subaltern Mary Churchill, daughter of Britain's prime minister and a member of that country’s auxiliary territorial service, today began an of women’s army corps ts stationed here.

The 20-year-old officer arrived|!

here last night from Quebec, where the prime minister and I t Roosevelf last week con other of their conferences regardthe war. After leaving here, she will tour