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~~ I DON'T remember her ever felling me I couldn’t -@o something. She always told me what she thought : na right, and what was wrong, and then it was up me. : When I was about 18 I forgot and left my corncob lying on the window-sill one day when I went to school, When I got home that night, she handed me the pipe and said, “I see you're smoking now.” I Said, “Yes,” And that was all there was to that. . She thinks it's awful for women to smoke, but I ‘fmagine if she had a daughter who smoked,’ she'd think it was all right. + My mother is a devout Methodist and a prohibi-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

“A WOMAN who lives in Atlanta, Ga., down where they take their southern traditions seriously and where there seems to be some confusion about who won the Civil war, came to Indianapolis the other day to visit Ber son. On the way to his home, he drove her past

the Soldiers and Sailors’ monu--

ment. “What's that, son?” she asked. He explained that it. was ‘a Civil war monument. “Why, what are they doing with a Civil war monument way up here?” Her son explained: “Well, they were in the war, too, mother. In fact, around here they think they won it.” . . . Miss Lillian Krips of the U. 8. bureau of foreign and domestic trade, was on a S. East trackless trolley the other day. On the : trolley were several boys, one of ' whom, wearing blue denim overalls, remarked several that he smelled smoke and “something’s on fire.” mipute or two later, he yelled and began beating Ms Jeg. It was his’ own pant leg that was on fire. _ Bounds, silly, but it happened.

b ack Marketing

~~ A NORTH SIDE resident found himself a victin of the black market in sutomobile parts yesterday. His

earburetor, and that it needed a thin strip of brass. *In . *. sald - the garageman, “you for 15 cents. But it’s on the priority list now, {tl cost you $4. And it's a bargain, at that.” ... a the Banquet Milk truck pulled up in Sherwood ge, one of our readers noticed a cute blond girl,

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ver they're in for help. And of course get it. is the one the neighbors always call on somebody gets sick, or dies, or needs help of has practically raised a couple of kids, , She has always been the confidant peoplé around here,

mother doesn’t realize it, buf her life has béen/

& real prairie pioneer. You could use her or t her picture, as one of the sturdy of the ages who have always done the carrying the going was tough. * well any more, but she seems to work than ever. We try to get her to rest. But , “Oh, the work has fo be done” We say, “Yes, but you don't have to do it. Supposing you were gone, the work would still be here, but you wouldn't have to do it.” But she doesn’t understand what we mean.

too young for school, riding in it. - Inquify developed that the child's mother is a war worker, the folks who have been keeping the little girl in the daytime were unable to do so longer, and the considerate company had given the father permission to take her along on the milk route until her mother could get changed over to a night shift. The youngster seemed to be enjoying the situation.

Send a Money Order

IF YOU'RE SENDING money to a member of the armed forces overseas, send a postal money order instead of a check. That's the advice of the Indianapolis Red Cross service department, Red Cross workers overseas send word that it's almost impossible for the boys to get checks cashed, but that postal money orders can be cashed at any army postoffice. . » « Frank Bodwell, local traffic manager for American ‘Airlines, is preparing for a 10-day trip to Mexico— by air, of course—starting Friday or Saturday. . . . Lt.

aboard the U. 8. 8. New Mexico. ... . Maj. A. J. Roush, e Oldest resident of Ft. Benjamin Harrison—he's there since Jan. 7, 1937—has been transferred to ‘Ft’ Hayes, Columbus, O., as assistant adjutant general, . . . The appearance of a huge platform built on rollers at the traction termindl yesterday started a lot of questions. Some folks who had read very curious, thinking the platform to do with helicopters. But it isn’t so. orm is for use of painters engaged to paint the terminal shed. . . . Lt. (Jg) Norman home on leave, . He's been on convoy duty-out leaves Saturday for the East coast.

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By Raymond Clapper

Nothing can take the place of a pista Hi

each other sufficiently to insure unified € German problem, for instance. What ] allies going to do.when Germany surrenders? Specific plans must be ready, for that one cannot kicked around the way the Italian business was

WE DO NOT KNOW what Stalin wants to do about Germany. Propaganda out of Russia does not square with “Anglo-American talk in all respects, but how much is propaganda and how much is hard policy? Only intimate conversations can be adequate to

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Many Jewish boys lie side by side with those of| be. other faiths. As you read what their buddies have|

written, it brings home forcibly that the important

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Lack of . Information On Students.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-—Lax-ity in present methods of deferring

unpopularity of the deferment pol icy were acknowledged by’ government manpower sources today as congress debated putting fathers into the army. . Inquiry developed that the government very often is “soothing blind” in deferring college-age youths because: 1. It does not know accurately how many technical and professional men are needed. 2. It apparently is without exact information Pon how many have been deferred thus far. Some educators agree that a lack of specific: information has made difficult a sound college deferment policy. ‘They contend that some college training should go on even in wartime, but agree that there has

young men should be in uniform.

said, “there are either too many students being deferred or the wrong ones are being deferred.”

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“No one can tell us how great is the shortage in various technical flelds. If we knew, we could arrange with colleges to turn out just that many and let the rest go into the service.” Students in specialized flelds can be deferred if they are in good standing and will complete their courses in two years. This includes bacteriologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, mathematicians, meteorologists, naval architects and automotive, aeronautical, - chemical, electrical, marine and mechanical engineers. Students in premedical, predental, preveterinary, preosteopathic and pretheological flelds may be deferred likewise if they can finish in 24 months and if they agree to undertake professional study when preparatory work is finished. Now 32 Months The college course has been generally telescoped to 32 months, and some preparatory courses have been cut to 24 months, Thus, in the case of the latter, students might be cligible for deferment virtually upon entry, but officials. bere are opposing ahy such idea. They insist that there should be some reasonable period of study to demonstrate competency in these deferrable fields before students are made exempt from military service. But even in full-course colleges, under the accelerated program, deferment may come after eight months. Consideration 1s being given to tightening up college deferment policies. It might be possible to do this by admitting no more students for deferment but continuing as deferred those now in college. Another possibility is to defer medical ‘but not premedical students needing much longer to finish.

which deferments are granted could be cut. "There is strong feeling that

longer is an adequate control.

Grant Deferments

Deferments being granted are in addition to the 100,000 or so who have been put in uniform by the army and sent to college in its specialized training program. The navy also has its own program. Local draft boards, sensitive

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (U. P. «~The war food administration

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years, the plastics engineers include the ways in which normally deliberate manufacturers have been forced to try something different, and found it better. When the war boom ends, the plastics industry will be ready to g0 to the public with a lot of new merchandise, and if this is well received, there will be no slump of employment in that trade. High on plastics’ . post-war ‘agenda are musical instruments. In switching its bugle from brass to_cellulose acetate butyrate (try that on your bugle), the army got something that weighed only half as much and had a slightly superior tone. Officers of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co, who developed thé new bugle from Tennessee

as saying it will inevitably go mucll farther, Good-by to the

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» EJ ® : IN THE LAST few . weeks Weaver Manufacturing of York, Pa., unveiled its army plano with

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The war substituted plastic for a lot of metal and rubber, But its performances there assure it a number of new markets after the war, plastics industry is asking us to think of its product no

So the

Take musical instruments. Shortage of brass led the army to make its fifes and bugles ‘of molded synthetic, and the result was such that now some musicians suspect - plastic will even take the place of most of the metal in

In:looking over some of these newer industries for -their-prospects-in the years to come, one can’t help noticing how scarcities overcome industrial conservatism. When they say a decade’s progress has been achieved in two

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plastic plywood in place of metal in the “harp,” again with a noticeably sweeter tone. Designers are sketching up large post-war uses of plastics in

furniture, “in “packaged” bath-

rooms and kitchens, in domestic appliances, in lighting fixtures, in such things as window screens, window fittings and hardware, Plastics seem to be secure in their new place in faucets, shower heads and other moldings used by the plumbers. In lighting fixtures alone the ex~ pansion is likely to be spectacular, what with the new array of transparent and translucent plastic plate to doll up the bulbs and fluorescent tubes. These glass tubes are all straight, so far, but after the war they will curve and twist, . The mellow diffusing qualities of plactics and the ability of some of them to “pipe” light around corners will be used to the Plastics appeared on the table some time ago, but designers have their eyes on the silverware next. American Cyanamid’s new mela-mine-formaldehyde plastic is go-

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“ Upper left, a motor bearing made of plastic nylon, Below it, a chair designed by Sundberg & Ferar of Detroit for Kurz-Kasch of Dayton, O., to he molded in Upper right, the’ army’s bugle made of tenite. Bottom, more pictures of nylon as a plastic, showing film, strips, rattan, machinery packing and coiled tubing.

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By JORN W. LOVE Times Special Writer

ing into an almost unbreakable tableware for the navy's patrol bombers and destroyers,

Bearings of Nylon

ANOTHER SUBSTANCE the desighers of the future will have at their command is nylon, The same nylon which recently went into hoslery, and temporarily out again, Just as the cellulose

acetate of rayon is equally useful as a plastic, so Is nylon, but its ‘applications have been few so far, At Wilmington the writer saw a

small bearing made of it for elec.

tric motors in aircraft. There are two or three other military applications which are not being mentioned. Plastic nylon has the appearance and feel of most any other plastic, but its high melting point (about 450 .degrees) ia something others can't equal. In achieving nylon the du Ponts broke into a whols new family of synthetics and various formulas are being

worked on, Window screening has

been forecast. Nylon is being used for insulating electrical wire and in its processing the wire runs through the nylon solution a mile a minute, A new process is coming along in the plastics industry, of which much is expected. This is the “heatronic” method of melting thermosetting powders in the molding machinery. On stopping off at Pittsfield, Mass., where General Electric's big plastics and molding plant is located, the writer found the execu-

tives looking for this process to

Jet them speed up the molding operations’ greatly. It cuts the

sure 75 per cent, It requires, however, critical metals in the machinery and the rearrangement of the plant.

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waves as a new source of heat in melting. It is similar to the application of diathermy in genera= ting artificial fevers in the Plastic

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Overseas Forces.

By NED BROOKS Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.~Legislation creating a V-mall s9stem of

forces overseas will start its journey through congress next month, sponsors said today. Bills pending in both houses pro-

which servicemen and members of women’s auxiliary services may express their choices for president,

Provision also is made for V-mail

if the various staté laws conform. The proposed system, under which ballots would be micro-filmed in the same manner as V-mail letters, is created under the Ramsay-Green Act of 1942.

Prepare for Hearings

law is retained for servicemen in the continental United States with the addition of privileges for pars ticipation in primary elections, Elections committees of both. houses are preparing for hearings on the measures after they have res ceived reports from the war and navy departments. Departmental officials have informed the legisia« tors that they plan to recommend certain administrative amendments, The committees also are awaiting recommendations - from state sec retaries of state who are scheduled to meet in St, Louis next month. The V-voting system is provided in bills introduced by Chairman Theodore Green (D. R. 1) of the senate privileges and elections coms mittee, Chairman Eugene Worley

committee, Senator Scott Lucas (D, 11.) and House Rules Commitee Chairman Adolph Sabath (D, IL).

Provideg Simple Ballot

The measures call for a simple ballot: printed on a V-mail form on which the overseas voter would write In his choices for president, vice president, senator, district representatives and representatives-at= large, : A vote for president and vice president would be construed under the bills to be a vote for the elec. tors of the candidates parties. If the voter wislied to cust his

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in their choices. Commanding officers of the various units overseas would be directed to designate a voting day and res turning ballots would go to the sec-

the proper election districts precincts. :

Later Hours Asked

Civilians abroad would have vots ing rights similar to those provided for the service forces. : Meanwhile, the senate elections committee is awaiting recommenda~ tions of secretaries of state before proceeding further with action on another bill by Senator Lucas to keep the polls open

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give war workers a full opportunity to vote on federal offices.

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voting “for members of “the armed

vice president, senators and representatives, :

voting for state and local officials |

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