Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1943 — Page 11

“in Sicily than in Tunisia. Engineers of the 54th

= Delays Not Too Lengthy

~~ THEY DIDN'T fatally delay us, but they did give themselves time for considerable escaping. The average blown bridge was fairly easy to by-pass and we'd have the mines cleared and a rough trail gouged out by a bulldozer within a couple of hours but, now and then, they'd pick a lulu of a spot which would ~ take anywhere up to 24 hoiirs to get around.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

“AN ATTRACTIVE young blond, a secretary in one of the war plants, went to the Seville the other evening for dinner and, the place being well filled, : yas seatetl by the hostess at a table shared by a = ng lieutenant from Ft. Harrison. He was just : : finishing his meal. “Too bad you didn’t get hére.sooner,” he said, explaining he had had his heart set on a steak, but the only steak “on the menu was for two Rerssns and the waitress wouldn't serve 4t to him alone. So he had ordered something elfe. “Gee, I'd like a steak, too,” the young lady said. “Fine, we'll have one,” he said. The waitress again refused to serve the steak, pointing out that the lieutenant already had 2 eaten his meal. “But,” she sug“if you were to go out, and then come back, J rve you another meal” He did, and the “steak was served. The lieutenant and the secretary celebrated the event by going to a movie together.

Around, the Town

*| CUSTOMERS IN THE Stop & Shop, 56th and © Illinois, snickered the other day when a woman walked in and told a clerk: “Let me have a couple cases of beer.” ~The clerk stared at her unbelievingly, then asked: “Lady, are you kiddin'?”- Then he informed her that there's a beer shortage and she could have six bottles. Gosh, Sherman was

from the war was revealed by Chief Beeker at the safety board meeting yesterday... All the gold braid ~ Is going on the unifo of high-ranking military

Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-Neat justice would be done if the small countries such as Denmark and Bulgaria should prove Hitler's undoing. He always has had contempt for the small nations,

person” and the weaker

“~~ WE HAVE ONE whole bridge the Germans: didn’t

* been fairly heavy, especially among officers. = They

‘dropped “& 50-yard strip of cliff-1élge- coast road,

-—pérsuaded King Christian to appeal f

One Plot That Failed . >

count on. They had it all prepared for blowing and left one man behind to Set off the charge at the last t. But he never got it done. Our adThe Germans were even more prodigal with mines

division - found one mine- fleld, covering six acres, containing 800 mines. Our losses from mines has

scout ahead to survey demolitions, and run into mines before the detecting parties get there, y * The enemy hit two high spots in their demoll- | tion and m'ne planting. One was when they

overhanging tlie sea, with no possible way of by- |.

passing. The other was when they planted mines along the woad that -crosses the lava beds in the foothills north of Mount-Etna. The metal in the lava threw our mine detectors helter-skelter, and we had a terrible time finding the mines.

officers, and there's none left “fof ‘Service stripes on our policemen’s uniforms. . ”. The Columbia club's cigaret fund campaign, waged during the last month, has resulted in sending a half-million cigarets to the boys overseas. . . . F. P. Myers of the Dawson Cheniical Co. chides us for referring to<the forthcoming 4-H club show at the fair grounds #8 a substitute for the suspended state fair, Says he: *In the minds of many, those girls are the whole state fair. You would have come nearer it by mentioning them as the chief feature of the state fair, Now I feel better.”

Juvenile Goings-on

I'T"S ABOUT TIME someone did something about the hordes of youngsters—some of them as young as 6 —who roam the downtown streets, day and night, working various money -fatkeis and--generally getting underfoot. They frequent taverns, peddling such items as hairpins, chewing gum, wilted roses, and what-not. They buy paper- matches at 10 cents for a box of 50 books of matches, selling them to bar patrons at a penny each—a net profit of 40 certs on a dime investment. They salute soldiers and civilians alike, as a sympathy sales gag. Some gather up back fssue magazines and sell them to bar patrons for full price. The buyers seldom look at the magazines and ‘discover ‘the fraud until the kids are gone. Lately, some ‘of the teen-agers have started going around with an empty pocketbook, Whiningly asking people to “put some coins in it so I can buy some war bonds.” - This “patriotic” appeal works in ‘many : the tavernkeepers give the kids the ‘bounce. Sometimes they don't. In either case, the kids are getting a poor start in life and a good start toward serious juvenile delinquency, ;

By Raymond Clapper

18, T wrote about it from Stockholm saying that even! when Nazis are on their best behavior they cannot make subject people accept théir new order. At that time, it was clear the Nazis had failed to’ win [ the people, - So much sabotage had developed tha order,

8 < Ahe Nazis Now he has been interned. - ok ". The Danish pepole, except fof a small minority,

never accepted the idea of collaboration, and & strong underground press fi : Even the censored press was full of a of double-talk that passed the

German oens0rs, Embarrassing for Hitler

pelled to divert troops to pacify and garrison!

You can put your heel on the additional territory. His lines are bending Hke a’

hairpin in Russia.” The allies are threatening Italy. Now he must throw the weight of armed force to hold down the lid in Denmark. Hd He must put out the fire that seems to have blazed up in Bulgaria. Finland is weary of tending his

several bi

That's: What People

for After

The Victory Is Won

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer

ro.

_ “WHEN THE war ends at least 56 millio are going to want jobs. That is 10 million more than had

jobs in 1940, our last peacetime year.

Private industry

must make enough jobs available so that the government will not have to take over too much of the load.”

The speaker is Paul G.

. Hoffman, president of the

Studebaker Corp. The words are part of the message he -is carrying to businessmen -and industrialists up and _ down and across the country jin his capacity as chairman of the committee for economic development.

And the C. E. D. -Well,

American. scene,

it is something new on the

It is a sales organization with nothing to sell except

a big idea. It is an agency to promote post-war planning but which refuses to make. post-war plans./ It is largely - a creation of big business, but one of jts fundamental tenets is that the hope of the future depénds on the birth and the growth of small businesses,

i. . Frankly out to prevent,

by making unnecessary, the

continuing expansion of government, it is receiving very considerable encouragement and support from within the.

government.

It hopes to have great influence on the policies of government, but it vehemently disclaims intention of becom-

ing merely another lobby for organized business. Mr. Hoffman, as its spokesman, insists that it must consider governmental ‘policies only from the standpoint of the general public interest—the test being whether they promote or impede expanding production and expanding employment, The C. E;D.’s program has developed from the simple premise that some day the war is going to end in victory for America and. her allies. : Then the 10 million or more men -and women in the armed forces will begin to come home, and they Will want jobs. And

most of the 20 million now em- -

ployed in direct war production will want peacetime jobs. And most of thé more than 30 million now - employed in ¢ivilian businesses .and industries, in agriculture and by government will want to keep their jobs or find others,

By the end of this year total -

employment of Americans -—count= ing “all those employed at all-important job of fighting or preparing to fight-—wil more’ than 62 million. It may be necessary to keep twe million or so men in the y and navy for after the war,

e » » .

_Some Back to School

~ A GOOD many young soldiers and sailors probably will’ return to school or college for a while, Quite a few citizens who have taken jobs, undér pressure of the wartime need for manpower and

DOCTORS PLAN

ossing Jor BE wee» ANNUAL PARLEY

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Navy Medical Problems ~ Will Be-Presented at

Conclave. Medical problems, especially

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those pertaining to the navy, will be discussed by the 1500 physicians

session of the Indiana State Medi-

junction with the 9th naval district in Indianapolis Sept. 28 ‘to 30. Navel medical officers and officials of medical societies from the 13 states of the 9th naval district

will be present. f

The meeting will open Sept. 28

MA NU ELECTS _ BIDDLE PR

and their guests at the 94th annual |

cal association to be held in con-|

ridden countries to overthrow their

womanpower, are likely to with draw from the labor market. ~ But the C. E. D. with help. from ‘the department of commerce, has made a shrewd guess that at least 56 million people will want to work and be able to work when peace returns, And it recognizes that if enough jobs are not available—"if millions of men and women start tramping the street, looking in vain Jor a chance to earn wages—peace will be hell in this country, . Government Problem

THERE ARE only two possible job creators. One is private# enter- - prise—business, industry, agricul ture. ‘The other i5 government, If private. enterprise does not provide engugh jobs, government certainly will undertake to pro vide thiem. The C. E. D. accepts a8 a political reality, “But,” says Chairman Hoffman, “it is not a political issue in the sense of being a party issue. Any candidate who hopes to be elected in 1944 will have to profivise that there will be no return. of mass unemployment, And the successful candidate will

. have to try to keep his promise,

for I am convinced that no one can stay in office if he coun‘tenances mass unemployment.” Government, to be sure, will

“continue to be a major employer.

It needs a lot of people for its own operation and for necessary public works. But to quote Mn Hoffman again: .

Ludlow Would State Peace Aims to Avoid ~ Repetition of OWI 'Moronic King’ Blunder

y Louis Ludlow, home

committee on foreign affairs for hearing on his resolution which,

statement of the altruistic more than battalions and

in persuading axis-

rulers and thus bring the war to a successful conclusion,”

aims of the allies would be|

wie Paul G, Hoftman-

“History shows clearly that, time and again, civilizations have {allen because governments had to<ecarry too much of the employment load or to carry it too long. On the other hand, if we do not haye enough employment in private industry there may not be any private industry five years after the war ehds.” So-the C. E. D's fitst goal is to see that there shall be enough jobs in private “iridustry, - But they

- must be productive jobs, ‘which

means-that the national output-of g and services must be vastly - greater than in 1940, that last and

"record-breaking peacetime year.

.And here, again with help from he départment of commerce,

war, at aNcate of at least 140 bilol “a. year—at least 40 per cent more than the 1940. out~ put. of goods and services and within shouting -distance of. the present astronomical wartime output, which includes scores of billions’ worth of war materials for which the government is the customer, » ‘|. Big Undertaking IT'S A BIG undertaking, but there are many factors thalaugur well for success in it, For instance, after the war the American people will want huge numbers of things they have been

unable to buy during the war. They will want to replace other

. things — homes, automobiles, ' ra~

{ it needs and that it has been calling for, it is reasonable to suppose that its approach to the Italian

people would have been different,| class

and that it would not have made

the terrible mistake of broadcastingicedure in reverse and reducing ex-

to Italians the message that they have a “moronic little king” as a ruler. ’ “The Italian people are a sensitive people. They revere their king and there is no way of telling how much that faux pas cost the united nations in treasure and unnecessary loss of -lives--by prolonging Italy's exit from the war.” On home-front issues, the veteran Indianapolis congressman sald that taxation is ‘looming as the subject of immediate interest when congress reconvenes.

Urges Spending Cut ‘He sald there were two ways of

financing the government, by in-j..

creasing revenues and taxation and

planning

: [ And so'the ©. E. D. is within the states and

‘now 800 community each working to see industry and business

plans now to. have 140 billion dollars’

“and services a year ~ ploy all the people

Affected

“Ing C. E D

on such a scale would ! By December theré will be a thous sand such local-commiittees, . ® 8.0 » by Politics THE “CLIMATE” in which pris vate enterprise must live and try to thrive is a subject of increase attention. Thad

_ climate, it 1s recognized, will be

greatly

“policies and attitudes, 80 the OC. ED, like the gove

statisticians studying many quess : ky.

ernment, has researchers and

“thona: What shall be done with

overnment-owned war plants

‘and the surplus war stocks? How

~ minated? bi | portant from the long viewpoint, -

“Until we ha that otters. prong,

Bp dios, refrigerators<nhow - wearing out. -And- barring the disaster of price inflation; théy will have stored up vastly .more buying power than they have ever had before ‘with which to satisfy their wants, Further, a few years of war will have brought progress in science, inivention and technology which otherwise might have required a quarter-century or more, Aviation, electronics, plastics, chemicals, light -metals—these barely suggest the endless possibilities of new markets at home. And ‘beyond, waiting exploration, are other possibilities of expanding foreign markets. The C.E.D. does not profess to have & magic formula for swinging America’s. forges and foundries; its lathes and milling machines and drill presses promptly back inte: production. of civilian goods, That will take planning. And the C. B.D. declines to do the

td ha » Wy . ~

Chairman Quoted -

As its chairman says: ns “No national dommittee, To government agency, can plan suc

~pessfully for three million Ameri-

can businesses: It wil] have to be done at the grass roots, by. communities, by individual indus~ tries and: business enterprises, The trade associations. can help. The C. E. D. can help with in“formation and advice. But our major efforf is to get each community to- accept responsibility

he believed an increase In taxes would kill many businesses as well a8 wiping out the great middle

“By putting the accustomed pro-

penditures rather than trying to squeeze more dollars out of the taxpayers, we may be able to avoid heavy additional taxation,” he said. “This will require rigid economy in all non-defense expenditures and the complete abandonment of every form of boon-doggling.”

Proposes Payroll Slash

He sald he proposed ah over-all cut of 15 per cent in govérnmental employees, which would remove about 460,000 persons from the rolls,

by- 30 per cent-or more. . “Such thrift projects as the St. Lawrence seaway and the scheme to harness

and that some agencies could be cut’

should the 75 billion dollars or more of war contracts be ters And. even more ims"

how can taxation “produce the. government's essential revenues

and at the same time encourage

an expanding witionial economy? a: tax systed gr reward for risk-taking,” says Mr, Hoffman, fo are not going to have the

impetus we should have. America A

was never made great by those who invested their money mortgages and sat around and collected the interest. America was made great by those who gambled their last dimes on an idea or a product, and the wills ingness to do this is what we.

have to bring back.” :

| Encourged by Jones

ORGANIZATIONOFthe C.E D, was encouraged by Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones ‘and ofhef

building at “Washington. ever, it is privately financed and staffed, and it is. neither an offi cial nor a semi-official agency of government, Chairman Hoffman is a 52

year-old native of Chicago whe -

_becime a Studebaker salesman -

in June, 1043, wh to head the C. E. D. are. But he believes wat plannnig now is industrialist’'s war addition to urging he is planning for

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affected by government 4

niin wri Gh NEXT~A C. E. D. lender plans

his own company’s

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