Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1943 — Page 10

de AXD ID EISENHOWER ed three-power military agreement at Moscow egen regarding an

nar 3 will be the western front, all Europe, or global. Nor is it yet known whether he will cease to be U. S. |.

for him in Washington. -

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h the Auglo-American Mediterranean command— bly to his present ground deputy, the British Gen. lexand der—and take over, in 8 Washington,

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F so, the president has found-a way to use Gen. Marshall for the major Anglo-American field command, as desibed & by the British, while meeting some American service objecD! to the transfer - of Marshall from Washington to i dbiections sprang from diverse Loris, all atfesting the extreme popularity of Marshall, All the ices feared that a new army ‘chief of staff tht be less free from political control than Marshall, and carry less weight with congress and the country. The air service feared his successor might reduce its

army chief might be less eo-operatiy e with the sea command

ISENHOWER'S choice would eliminate most of those “ fears. Apart from being a highly successful and popu- | lar field commander, he has pioneered in the combat use of alrpower as the leader in the closely co-ordinated adrD! a team. : “He has shown oitstanding capacity to enoperate with te U.S. navy and. with.all the British armed services. His forte is strategy And organization. And to his ative 3 “experience in England, Africa and Italy; he ; is precise knowledge of: the Pacific—he served under his

* But perhaps the TE commending this shift st is that it would maintain the Marshall-Eisenhower

ality ¥ with rare unity and efficiency. Whether Marshall were { the field generalissimo and Eisenhower in Washington, or i the other way around, the results probably would be excellent.

chief of staff, or will retain that title while another |

), officials now expect Gen. Eisenhower to

‘one ‘afternoon, when all way at: ‘the sound of a SPproahing still. It just lay there, As a tothe touch, and Dan Merritt die and there was no use doing

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_very good pig man but there was still ie so we wrapped it in an old shirt in" a t and gave it a dropper of rye and pretty soon | t was lurching all over the cellar and singing “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.” 'Néxt morning we gave it some milk and the next day a little gruel and, in

hie has outsmarted an expert, I remarked: “Dan, that

1 pig 1s getting along fine” | Sure Enough, It Did Die

“BUT IT is going to die,” he said. “They always do.” And sure enough, the next morning it was cold ‘in death. It was the same with a a iittle duck, The duck man sald they sometimes got pneumonia and there was no

we bound it ih flannel and stuck it in the oven with a very low flame fo heat it up and touched it up with a few drops. of whisky, which we keep in the medicine locker for emergencies, and in just a few minutes it came to life, staggered off the open door |

“of the oven and with—= beautiful one-and-one-half

gainer, reminiscent of some of our historic Olympic wack-wa-a-ck, I'm Harold Ickes” ° It lived for three days roaring drunk and. earTying on: about columnists and Wall street's barefoot boy but getting wilder and more incoherent all the time until finally it dozed off and just didn't wake up. I can understand Mr, Astor's feeling that while there is life there is hope, but I am afraid it is just a delusion although, of course, you like to feel that you have not left undone anything that you could do.

Tries It on Humming Bird DOWN IN Washington, Mrs. Lyle ‘Wilson, the mother of noted child prodigy, Miss Sally Wilson,

y-and-priority:—And-the navy feared-the-nex{ | author.of the super-Saroyan play Grandmother Has |

Gone to the Bar," even tried it with a humming bird. Mrs. Wilson and Miss Sally had taken a winter cruise “to Havana where Miss Sally absorbed the atmosphere for her play and a peddler sold them a pair of humming birds alive. One got seasick on the way to Miami by boat and was D. O, A, as they say in the police reports, but the other, though very peaked, was still fluttering when they got on the train. So Mrs. Wilson and her daughter obtained a pre: scription from a humming bird doetor and put a drop

.or two of fine 16-year-old in the syrup in a tiny glass “one which *hung In thé cage, and sure enough the humming hird came to life and started zooming. and lit is pretty unpleasant to sit in a! few of them -have saved anything. trotiey - where some. inconsiderate They have: spent it as fast as they] "gob 1f ‘Havifig a good 'finte, never that there are people who are so ‘thinking of what it will be when

pling vastly inthe confines of a very small -worki: It lasted all the way home to Washington and for

quite a while after that, and people came in from all

"around to see-the little humming. bird fly upside down,

No Sense in Curing Pig

‘SOME OF them would take drams of the same prescription to see if ft down, and some nade pretty .fair attempts but nene could equal the humming bird. Mrs, Wilson would be out visiting and suddenly whip on her coat and say: “I have goi to hurry home and pour a drink for my humming bird,” and everyone will agree that she did her best and has. notiting to Teprouch herself with. But then one night. on silent ins, death flew in and claimed the-little humming bird. That just seems to be the way things have to be. Once they start going they go, and anyway even though Mr. Astor is a very rich man there would be no sense |

in curing ‘that pig because even. with. this terrible

meat shortage and with restaurants serving all kinds

tim “the United States means preaching the jor paghettl cakes and bread Ferny Sronuetiet you you

girls, landed on the kitchen floor squawking * "‘Wack- | iN

jd make them fly upside

‘the slightly leering manner of a layman who thinks} °

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The Hoosier Torim-

l wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

HA, mended: crested In wnt. the guished chyirman of the rules commitets He referred a moment ago to some vindrdl been stated at times about people in the federal serve ice in Washington avoiding the draft

Cites Better Result “OF COURSE, many such things have been sald

‘that undoubtedly the saying of those things hag done much to accomplish the better result that today exists? galing “Does not the gentleman agree with me that thers were many people who were deferred who since have gone into the service, and but for some of the things that were said here and at other places might yet be deferred?” The Democratic dean of the house then paid this tribute to the Republican dean of Indiana: : “The gentleman from Indiana knows that I love te agree with him at all times, especially ‘when he is right. And, referring to the members on ‘that side, I think he is right more often than most of them and

“THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT ‘GRIPES’ THAN SMOKING* By H. D. 0., Indianapolis

the Hoosier Forum and expressed

an urgent desire to do so, . I think it is about time the Beéople who are] for and against Mr, woody quit) arguing back and forth. Of. course, I realize that this is a free country]

mocracy have the privilege of saying what they think. But I wonder

Lave’ this privilege. I am not the one who shall tell them if they dol not know. It is not hard to sderstand that) these” people cannot pass ip thé ity to exercise this right to- the fullest extent, just .because' men are dying and fighting to preserve "it. important Ans to gripe about than smoking on’ stréetears. I admit’

person is smoking. It is surprising

selfish that they even consider, smoking in such a place...

possible thievery? Who is not in

|100se in the city? Well, think it over, anyway! ® 8 =» po “WE HAVE GOT TO WAKE UP THE FARMER" By Mrs. Peter Broberk; Rertyvilie,

Never before have I written to!

an opinion publicly, but now I feel:

and the citizens of this great de-| iB

how many of them realize why they

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have sold off everything, left their I think there are more farms to. grow up in weeds and;

snd raised here and it's the first time I ever knew people could be so low that they take a cat or dog before a child. Weren't they ever one? I know that my little girl couldn't make any more noise or be any more destructive than just a couple living in an apartment or ” : .» “THANK YOU FOR THE WRITE-UP” By Pui. Virgit H-Conway, U5 army I want to thank you for the write- | up in The Times. I was not only

were glad to get the front page of The Times. Of course, all the boys wanted one. But as that was the only copy, I gave it to. Chaplain Grotefend Sunday morning at the

{South Sea island chapel. The front

page of The Times is now posted on the service commarid headquarters

bushes ‘ because they can earn big! pyjjetin board where everyone can

{money ih defense - plants. and®vegy/

this war is over.

CY RroH one whodis- 10 Let's, consider something more "acre farm and is working in one of | vital such as robbery, murder, kid- the defense plants and leaving ther 4haping, etc, Just how safe is It for {arm to his young son to carry on. 'a young, shapely (or otherwise) girl! He doesn't raise what they need for DORE i, walk down the street at night? themselves. They buy grain. and How many people are not bothered even the vegetables they eat: You at one time or another (when away ‘can't expect a boy 15 years old to be from home) with the thought of a man and besides, he ‘goes to

school.

our allies,

An Sversdons missionary impulse, politically. is as d to peace as it was when wars were fought over religion. It finally was. discovered after centuries of bloodsh and iquisitions and witch-burning that various. religions could exist on the globe in amity. We hope that out of the tragedy through which the fd is now moving the same discovery will come, as itical ideologies relate to each other.

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wrong and it is not. Russia's to proselyte in our coun hips, democracies and near-democracies. e people of each land are entitled to work out what] ‘want without interference from outside—up to the where they start treading on the toes of people

So we hope also that the Moscow conference will give on to that idea of tolerance, so desperately needed, A joint statement. by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, Italy declared war on the Nazis expressed that idea en ‘emphasized the Italian government's pledge to i to the will of the Italian people after the Germans driven from Italy.

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t that from Moscow a repetition of that princiSome, applicable to every nation in n this war-

man’s meat is another man’s poison so one is another man's blasphemy, and one man's

e of the whole world could operate on the |

‘might at least achieve that long- | 8 philosophy, 80 vital to the solution problems.

Ss not our duty to sell the Russians that communisin F

. The same thing goes for kingdoms, empires, dictator- | ;

at it wasn't infended that we all should eat; |

put in. them. I say that pig isn’t going to make it am Mr. Astor is going to get a stop-loss.

We the Pocrle By Ruth Millett

LOOK GIRLS, let's not lose our sense of humor. / Sure, men are scarce—so scarce Spends her Saturday nights going to movies with another girl—so scarce that in many towns and & cities hostesses have given up trying to have an equal division of men and women at their” ‘parties and figure the “lone. women” in__vited will have a big evening just being included in a party where there are MEN, even though there aren't enough to ’g0 around. The situation 1s bad, of course, when an occasional V-mail letter is many a girl's biggest romantic thrill. But still we doen't have to get grim over the shortage of men. - We've séen one “necessity” after another snatched from our grasp for the duration. And it basn't made us lose our sense of proportion, or our sense of humor. |

| Take It: Gracefully

SG WET), beter Saks up our minds to take the eligible man shortage just as as gracefully. - There's not much we can do about it, without making ourselves lock pretty silly. The way some girls are already competing for the attention of men they wouldn't have looked at twice, before the present shortage is a ludicrous

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the case of the two California girls who fought aknife duel over a man—and not an eligible man | either, but one with a wife and two kids. That. is just a horrible example of how grim some

you find yourself practically using to get a man away from smother girl at a pany.

To shia. Poini—

_ _FINALLY. a train had reason to stop, look and listen. 2 Seay on ie yutk driared 4 Bugs ny CLEVELANDERS filled up | now they have ream to throw

spectacle. * But what really brings this warning to print is

n_for men | |

war ak and] } i thelr own. 3 3

eight “years and have always been

I am going to say something to the farmers:

ed us to sell off our stock and go’ had written them sbout what we!

well as guns.

Someone has got to stay - on the country to feed but have got to by us in this awful war

Last spring we had several tet. ters from some friends that want.

to work in the defense plants. We

if ie has nothing fo sell.”

do our very best, oo. » : {*THEY TAKE CAT OR DOG AHEAD OF A CHILD” By D. EK. Indianapolis

{ Indianapolis is sure getting bad had planted and told:ghem we con- when the landlords will not rent to| sidered that what we could raise |children, I have run an ad in the on the farm was as much for de. paper for two and one-hal! weeks fense as’ though we worked in a but what good has it done me? plant making Planes or guns, for They call you up and as soon as you the men have to lave food as sav you have a little girl they cut

constant dread when a murderer is We have got to do something to |wake the farmer up or the people are going to suffer for even the necessities of life, for we must help

Every farmer "that raises vegetables for his own family and grain to feed his stock is helping the gov——1 have had The Times Tor a about ernment of the United States, even “We have interested in the Forum. ‘I have had a hard year through 1043, but written a few times for it and naw Wwe can try again in 1044. Let us all

{you short and hang up right now

"Have you,

place to move and as soon as

farms for we not only have our own walked the streets looking for some

feed those countries that have stood ask you ‘if you héve any dren | they shut the door in your face? It |v

1 “Know of several farniers that! just makes me see red 1 was born

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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erijoy “seeing that the people at home. and also The Indianapolis Times. is still backing us up... -Sunday--morning, { chapel was full. ‘We boys do enjoy

1 the chapel very much, for we do

know oné year ago we were fighting hard for the islané. ‘Today the island -which we all fought for is ours. So, therefore, as we sit in the chapel and knowing that it is built in hanor of the boys who gave their lives for us all, that we can always have the freedom of rights of what

‘chapel we all thank God for the strength which He gave us to make it possible for this memorial chapel which stands in the army-navy-marine cemetery where the flag will always wave in the breeze over the chapel and cemetery on the South Sea island which we boys here will long remember, : | We only wish it were. ‘possibile for tour dear old mothers to see this |ehapel, “for it is none other than the gates of heaven for their sons." We boys are thankful that the

‘I mothers got to see the picture of the

chapel. We boys of the South Sea island thank The Indiandpolis Times for it.

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SMOKES, HITLER DOESN'T" ©

By Positively Despondent; Indianapolis

1 smoke cigarets——and” until recently I was blissfully happy in my [ignora nee.

“Now 1 worry because I'm un-| |

One woman wrote me that she One even had the nerve to tell me reasonable and I have bleary eyes could earn enough in two days to that a five-room house just wouldn't and a pale, sickly complexion—due buy all the potatoes her family be large enough with a child... The | would use, That is all right but if next one wants both of you to ‘be | every farmer felt that way, who is! {employed - W_il, the wife's place 1siof this “nasty scourge” have been going to raise potatoes for them toto make a home for the husband sent to our fighting men, jeopardizbuy? Who is going to raise the hogs | and child, not to work; ‘although | {ing our chances of winning; 1 wor= and beef and other farm produce? Iam a fornier empliyee of Allison's. | ry because Roosevelt, Churchill and whoever reads this, Stalin smoke, further queering our|

{to the furfural in the wrapper of a. |cigaret; 1 worry because millions

hope of a decent civilization; Ii!

surprised but all the boys were. We! .

Oct... 10, the}

we fought for, as we sit in the}

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nearly all of the time-is fair which, I regret; I cannot ~S

say about most of the Republicans, Congratulates Halleck

- *I CONGRATULATE him upon the iremengdous amount of constructive work he has dorie to aid in solving the conditions that confront us. “1 agree that criticism, fair, just criticism, 18 healthy and beneficial. I am atways pleased when a gentleman who has the facts carefully criticizes any wrongful act, but I do dislike and resent unfair, unejust and untrue statements being made from time to time, statements that are net based on the facts and are without any evidence “whatever behind them.”

In Washington

By. Peter Edson WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The tires on your family jalopy are now indubitably pretty well shot

of a shortage of 6% million

.In spite of this génuinely alarme ing outlook, the tire rationing exe -_perts think that the country. may be able io keep ‘em rolling and

restrictions and tight ‘rubber cone

mile of unnecEssary ‘driving while using every tube

and casing that can be patched up, even if for only =

one -180-mile_ month ‘on an A card. . First step in tightening up.on the Telioning of available tires was the order of Oct. 1, limiting the

have gas ration permitting them fo drive 601 or more miles per month. Previously, B book holders had been able to get new casings, but now a B card -entitles the holder ‘only to a used tire, the same as an A card holder gets in the West. In the Batty A’s will get none, J Operators of retail light delivery trucks which carry

passenger car sized tires will get a break after Nov. I,

For the last 20 months these 800,000 groceries, drug . stores and cleaning establishments haven't’ been -abjs to get any kind of fire. Now they will be

And you're wondering how you ean possibly get by in the face

passenger car-tires by Jan. 1, 1044, .. .

_ get “by under tightened rationing - servation that. will cut out every

(27) MUS! were $2 |

(12) MUSE were 1.60

(4) FLAN were 4.0(

- (36) SP 3.5

47) sp 22

(67) BRO . PAJA

(136) SHO were

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(35) MEN'S were 2

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(100) LEAT COMFY

(5,000 Rolls - 650 sh

to buy used tires because the tires they had inservice

are all worn out, rationing restriction is being tightened,

REASON for this necessary tightening up is simply that the production of new tires does not meet the demand.” In July, new passenger car tires made numbered only about 650,000; in, August, 735,000; in

September, 915,000. For the thres months, the total

has been about 2.3 million, or a little better than 700,000 a month, Against that, the demand has been

But _aside from. this, every. Hire

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at the rate of 12 million a month, so the country

has been runni ‘half a million tires » month behind . r SHANE cl

of the year, “aa To i The quality of these new synthetic tires is ‘sidered ‘good=-almost as good as the old ber tires.” And the retail price of the

four-ply tire is fixed at-a ceiling’ of $17.11 without

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