Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1943 — Page 13

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Note—This Is one of a series of favorite Ernie Pyle columns of the past, wh another

Like dreams came the memories the wind brought. ‘One of those dreams was about snakes, I have a horror of snakes that verges on the irraion: I'm not afraid of being killed by a snake. 16 isn’t that kind of fear. It's a horrible, unnatural nia for getting away, and it is induced ‘in equal tities by a 6-inch garden snake and a 6-foot er, : © Ask my mother about snakes. . She'll tell you the snake story, probably. : 2 : I was a little fellow, maybe 4 or 5. My father was plowing dt the far end of our farm, a half mile from the I was walking along behing the plow, baref, in the fresh soft furow. He had just started the field, and was plowing near i weedy fence-row. Red, wild roses were growing

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel

IN. HIS SERMON Sunday, the Rev. Thomas Chrasher, new rector of the Episcopal Church of the Advent (33d and Meridian) told of his difficulties in garning to conpect names and faces of the congregation. A couple of weeks ago, he said, after a service = in which he baptized a baby, he went to the front door. to shake hands. A man with a hauntingly familiar face stepped up. “Your face ‘looks familiar. Haven't I met you?” he asked. The man grinned: “Yes, you just baptized my baby.” . . . Our “seeing eye dog” picked ‘up the following: A gypsy fortune telling place on 8. West st. has a sign in the window reading: “Under New Management.” , . . Hook's drug stores are j a ~ trying to help solve the help situation with glamour. They advertise for “fountaineers.” +. - And a trombone player in a North side high ool. reportedly has been creating a furor by eating angla worms for a 50-cent side bet.

Around the Town LAST: SPRING while getting ready to plant his

the pioneer floor, he looked at an exhibit of ancient deeds and land grants. “I know what those are,” he knowingly. “What are they?” inquired Mrs,

a ® Washington WASHINGTON, Sept, 21.—The last message of President Roosevelt was such an admirable and helpful report on the war that one hesitates to find any

fault with it. Yet the silence about our relations

still be a most important factor in achieving allied peace and se-

- across --downtown intersections, - John - R.McCallian

mission overseas. His mother,

there, I asked my father for his pocket knife, so I could cut some of the roses to take back to the house. Happened in- a Flash

HE GAVE it to me, and went on plowing. down in the grass and started cutting off the

‘Writer Hits at Illusions That Vast Public Works Program |s Ready,

By E. A. EVANS Times Special Writer

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west side. There all grown up shouted

that a vast public-works program is ready and waiting to create lots of jobs after the war. Truth is that if the war ended yeai it would take as long for «planned public works to pro-

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.--This| is an attempt to destroy the illusion}

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ple, the labor department's statistics, while expressing

knife, and the snake. It was the roses, I think that|/hope for high production

it, for post-war public works. For

: asserts that only a public works proIt has been some 30 years since that happened, Sram can prevent severe unemploybut to this day when I go home my mother sooner or{ ment, possibly affecting seven millater will say, “Do you remember the time I whippedjlion or even 12 million workers, in

you because you wouldn't walk through the weeds?”|the six months or more while in-|

‘and then she will tell me the story, just as I have dustry is reconverting.

and high|

hurt her so. My mother cried for a long time that/®mployment by private enterprise, |: - night after she went to bed.

told it here, and along toward the end she always| A good many people seem to think|

manages to get the hem of her apron up afound her (such a program is all set for someeyes, just in case she should need it, which she/one to push a button and start it always does. into full operation. That just isn't 80. .

oda «1. 8 8 8 Nussbaum Few Blueprints Ready PUBLIC WORKS PLANS, federal, state and local, are for the most part still in the hope stage. Maj. Gen. Fleming, federal works administrator, estimates only about 600 million dollars could be spent on a federal building program in the first post-war year. Congress and the states are providing 120

Grace Golden, museum director. “They're war

bonds,” he replied.

More on Ernie Pyle

WHEN ERNIE PYLE put a note in one of his columns several months ago about not getting any mail over in Africa, he started a big headache for the army mail service. Since then, he's received hundreds and hundreds of letters, he said on his visit here the other day. Some that reached him were addressed ‘merely: “Ernie Pyle, North Africa” He doesn’t know how many others, similarly addressed,|But most of ‘that planning is still are still chasing him around Africa and Sicily, One[to be done, and congress and the correspondent clipped out Ernie’s picture and pasted |legislatures would have to appropri. it on the envelope instead of Ernie's name, wrote the ate more money before the actual words: “North Africa,” and believe it or not, Ernje|Work could begin. . got it. Quite a-few folks addressed him “in care of| A year or so ago nine states and General Eisenhower.” Just as if the general had|some 60 cities reported ‘they had nothing else to do but deliver Ernie's mail. Ernie|completed “six-year plans” for postsays the army treats newspapermen “as if we|War projects. Most of the other amounted to something.” He gids: “If we want|states and several hundred cities, anything—from a meal to a jeep or plane transporta-|towns and counties made a start on tion, all we have to do is to ask for it and we get it.” |such programs before federal ald to . . ..One more note we forgot tv mention Saturday: |this type of planning was stopped Ernie's once red hair now is graying, but still ‘has|in 1942. . streaks of red, or pink, running through it. : However, even those programs said

. to have been “completed” don't Keep to the Right mean that blueprints have been WEARY AND BRUISED from battling his way

highway program that might mean three billion dollars’ worth of construction over a three-year period.

made, lands acquired, funds assured, | all the other things done that must be done béfore men can go to work on public projects. In ‘most cases the programs represent only what states and communities would like to build if they can. There are exceptions—New York State and City, California, Milwaukee and a few others—but it's believed here that the great majority of state and local governments really have done very little; are waiting, perhaps, to see how much of the. required money Uncle Sam

(of Standard Oil) comes forth with a bright idea. His idea is to train pedestrians to walk to the right. “It would take only half as long to get across a busy intersection if everyone kept to the right,” he says. “As it is now, folks line up on opposite curbs like a couple of opposing football teams. Then, when the traffic cop referee blows his whistle, or the traffic signal changes, they charge each other. The confusion when they meet in midstreet and start fighting their way through the mob is indescribablé—and unnecessary.” Mr. McCallian suggests starting the process of education by painting lines—and “keep to the right” signs—on the cross walks.

4 " ANOTHER WPA would be most Russia, where else have we been driving him by our{likely in the event of an early peace scowling attitude? followed by mass unemployment. So This French affair has a long history. And it|few well-planned projects would be

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Snythetic glass in war and post-war uses: Upper left, the nose of a bomber in lucite; one of the new acrylic plastics. Upper right, dining utensils in the same substince. Lower left, insulators for military high-frequency electrical equipment, Lower right, a plane on “invisi legs” made of two sheels of plexiglas, another of the acrylic plastics,

(Second of a serios)

By JOHN W, LOVE Times Special Writer

WILMINGTON, Del, Sept, 21.—The designers of our material world of tomorrow will have at their hand an immense wealth of new substances and technologies. Some of these were flowering just before the war, others have been perfected under its pressures. Among the new substances will be quantities of plas-. tics as transparent as glass, or even more so. If they could be made as hard as glass or as cheaply, they would be

terrific competition.

A few of the newest are very hard, though, and some

will be coming down in price. They are half the weight of glass and they can be sawed and bored like wood and formed in mild heat. In the thousands of jobs which plastics will provide in industry of the future will be those connected with the exploitation of these new clear resins. Where these plastics will be employed, post-war, remains for the swirls of fashion and Interindustry competition to work out, but the needs of aircraft for these materials with the clarity of glass but

The E. 1. du Porit de Nemours Co. recently operied at' Leominster, Mass, a plant which, with its older plant in New Jersey, increased its acrylic production 10 times since the war began and is

still expanding it. Another large acrylic plant is the new one at Knoxville, Tenn, built by the Defense Plant Corp. and operated the Rohm & Haas Co. of Philadelphia. This works turns-out 40 times as much of the product as the company was able to make at its Pennsylvania plant in 1939. The acyrlic resins—or methyl methacrylates—have been avail-

+ Kiss Thief Rough, But She Forgave

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (U P). ~Glenn Shelton, 30, personnel manager for the Du Pont Construction Co, of Wilmington, Del.,. was cleared of a simple asssult charge in sfecial sessions court yesterday after his alleged “kissing victim” testified she did not believe he was “that kind of

niture will be a market, lighting fixtures another, » » »

Resist Strong Acids

THE POLYSTYRENES, old in formula, are almost as new in

-tiiis- country: - They -have-remark-ablé qualities, one of them re«- - sistance to strong acids, another

the ability to conduct light around curves, like quartz. Their ‘main challenge to industry of the future lies in the great expansion of styrene plants for raw material for synthetic rubber. Chief makers of the styrene plastics are the Bakelite Corp., a unit of Union Carbide & Carbon, onsanto Chemical, Chemical the Catalin Corp. Their prod ucts had only brief trials before the war, but their high insulating quality adapted them to places in high-frequency radio and television equipment, When the war is over we shall se them in transparent parts of automobiles and refrigerators, in bottle closures, in such places as dlectric-shaver housings. The Monsanto people think the styrenes- will be most widely -used in small - pieces, probably also In molded tableware, Cellulose compounds, which may be transparent or not, are made by Celanese Celluloid, Tennessee Eastman," du Pont, Monsanto, Bakelite, Catalin and Hercules - Powder. Clear sheets of the material were first employed for en-

—glostires in aircraft and still are

"used in the trainer planes, but the newer acrylics took the play in the larger ships. . . n

Transparent Synthetics

APTER THE WAR all trans parent synthetics will have a large place. Of the cellulose acetates, consumers probably remember their transparent forms most frequently in the boxes used by florists, milliners and confectioners, They were extremely popular until

the war nipped off the material. | The market was never fully ex-

Stylists will go to work on boxes in new shapes and colors,

5 BUTLER FACULTY

MEMBERS PROMOTED, _

Pive Butler university faculty members have been advanced and thiee new staff members appointed.

new gold bands and other deco rations, Both Celanese Celluloid and Monsanto Chemical have been making a point lately on post-war uses of sheets of clear cellulose as

Furniture will be a big field for the transparents. ‘ Bottles which can’t shatter and won't easily break will be another. Precise optical instruments are now using them, Lucite, plexiglas and some others have been going into plastic teeth, One could even have transparent or colored teeth,

- I he insisted.

Lenses for Spectacles

A WARTIME adaptation which forecasts future business is In contact lenses of lucite and plexi glas, These are the lenses which fit the eyeball itself and can't be seen on the wearer, : Ei Most of them have been ground from glass in the past, but trials of the plastic lens have been

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department, have been promoted from associate to full professors. In the history and political science department, Dr. Franklin L. Burdette