Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1943 — Page 9

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~~ This country drivin” ain't safe. —

.-._to buy his own cigarets!”

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yhow. when Bill Satterlee was odel-T to a brand new gear- , in a 20-acre open pasture

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“they couldn't even trade it in. It seems he it over and over,

just kept A Joke on Ernie :

THEY'RE TELLING a joke around Dana in which my name figures. : Last spring The Indianapolis Times had a big

state-wide collection going on, to raise money to send

cigarets to our troops throughout the world. The fund was promoted in my name, since I was overseas writing about the boys. 3 _ Newsdealers and drugstores all over the state put up collection boxes so pedple could donate to the fund. In the drugstore at Dana they had a mason jar on the glass counter, with a penciled pasteboard sign saying “Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund.” : One day a woman came in, looked at it in astonishment for a iong time, and finally said to the drug- * gist, “Why, I always supposed he had enough money

_ Iva Jordan, who was. my first schoo} -teacher nearly 40 years ago, had a stroke while I was out . West. Bertha and Iva Jordan live all alone on the

wrecked that new Ford so badly

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gone

She says maybe it

hdl, for she just talks everybody

them get a word in, of having visitors if fiéy won't listen w

neighborhood very much at the young men are left. les TC ‘Farmers set groaning boards almost used :

nary illness. In a vacant lot on Main store burned down hearly 30 years ago and nothing was ever built in its place, they have a huge signboard bearing the names of everybody in our township who is serving with the armed forces. Oddly enough, my name is on it although technieally I'm not in the armed forces at all. But I'm proud that they waived the technicality and included me. And oddly enough again, although I'm a civilian and also older than all the others, I guess I've seen more action so far than anyone else on the list, Here at home I see the veterans of the last war, most of them my contemporaries, and for some strange reason 1 feel more easy and at home with the -boys of this war than with my old cronies, . 1 suprose that’s because some / mysterious fate

my inevitable rheumaties.- Bit I carry my liniment,

-all the time anyhow, just in case. Nobody's pulling

any of this youth-stuff wool over my eyes,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

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“Mr. Chevrolet Owner pe “SOME POOR DEVIL is going to catch the dickens ‘from police for failing to pay a traffic sticker and .

THERE'S BEEN a lot of talk about the drafting of bona fide fathers, but thus far, in. Marion county, "only two bona fide fathers actually have been drafted

Zand both of “these wets rejected at thé inductioti

These

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held order numbers 1 and 4 in

center. fat Board .14. Of course, many fathers

two

draft got close. And probably a lot of others .will go—involuntarily—before long. We just thought you'd be interested. . . . Those new “white” pennies make some folks “see red.” For instance, included in the change handed out by a cashier at the gas comE 4 pany the other day were several A | : of the new pennies. The customer : took one look at them, then let $+ = out a bellow that could be heard over the place. He demanded some “good” money,

“ “pawn off” the new pennies én him. . , . But someone dried, someone—probably one of the workmen—imbedded one of thie new pennies in it. Two days later it was gone and the concrete was chipped where someone had dug out the peny. i

have gone as voluntéers, when the -

Chevrolet and listing big license number 124,602. We don't know how it will come out, . . . Capt. Elliott Peabody, former salés manager for the Gas company, now is assistant staff provost marshal at Raridolph feld, Tex. . . . Lt. Allen Hendren, son of the late William PF, Hendren, the printer, was in town last week,

-en route to Ft. Lewis, Wash. . . .-John (Jack) Klinger

Jr, son of the director of "the state division of correction, has reported at Corpus Christi, Tex., for advanced training as a naval air cadet. He was voted Shortridge’s most valuable football player for 1941. , ,. Add signs of winter: The Columbia-club has erected its winter canopy. It's a sure sign.

Music on Busses

TWO GOOD LOOKING young women entertained passengers aboard a Central Broad Ripple bus about 9:30 p.m. Thursday. There weren't many other pas--sengers and the two girls were looking over some song sheets. They started singing some of the songs, quietly, at first, and then gradually in more normal

~ then left loudly, denouncing the cashier’ for trying %0 tones. They had nice voices and sang well. And the

passengers loved it. Even the operator seemed to

ky Siem, =A DEW Sidewalk was Ian at the In-- enjoy it. The girls ;ssemed oblivious pf their, sur-|

roundings. Personally, we think Harry Reid ought to have music on all his busses. . , . Something like 40 or 50 residents of this vicinity, now members of the enemy alien group, will have to wait until next March

-to acquire the coveted American citizenship because

last Thursday-—Armistice day—was a holiday without mail delivery. P. B. McHugh, naturalization exam-

Jiner, explained that it wasnt until last Tuesday that J his office in Cincinnati learned definitely that the

this time it won't be the motorist’s fault. A north hearing was to be held Friday. The office sent out

a ~ achievement in heavy bombers is one of the most least efficient manufacturer a chance to get back into

: war. ~ work is done, produced abundance beyond war requirements. In fact some

going on.

side businessman who drives a Nash had his car parked properly in front of 140 N. Delaware Thursday evening. A Chevrolet just ahead "of his car was ‘ parked partly in a réstricted zone. When the Nash owner returned to his car, he found on the windshield one of Chief Béeker's “calling cards” made out for the

Washington

~ WASHINGTON, Nov. 15~The government Is facing a new kind of manpower problem. Its nature is suggested by the fact that Charles E. Wilson, executive vice chairman of WPB, wants to return 9% _ his business as president of General Electric. : ps His case is one of dozens. Hi-

land B. Batcheller, a steel execu- this is bound to be much more difficult than was con-

: | The Rev. Elliott . . . comes. bac ; : Seventy per cent of industrial production has been. y back order to return to his private urned into war. That was driven by patriotic pres-|

Rev. Elliott Quits College

tive, wants to be relieved as operations vice president of WPB in

business. In the important sec-

ond and third echelons of the yas the single customer. It kriew what it wanted. It'

government agencies are many >. high grade executives, industry the conversion to war production could not have been done so ’ successfully, who feel they must es return to their private businesses. _ This is a most difficult kind of a prospective manpower shortage to deal with. For instance, Charles E. Wilson resigned his posiElectric, and gave up a for .one of $8000 in the government, He a year and has been the sparkairplane production job during

up over 8000 a month. Wilson's

_ gratifying production jobs of the war.

“in 3 _ back, or into other lines of war work is

With General Electric 40 Years © WILSON HAS been with General Electric 40 years.

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whole operation was underwritten

notice to 196 Tuesday and Wednesday, but only 127 persons appeared in Federal court Friday in time for the naturalization proceedings. Some others got there 100 late, explaining they hadn't gotten the notices until Priday morning. Unfortunately, there is no other hearing scheduled until March.

By Raymond Clapper

from retirement. Although Swope is an elderly man, he pitched in and kept up the schedule of visiting,

three General Electric plants a week, the same as the,

bounding younger Wilson had been doing It is a

neavy strain.

Dozens of other big industrial concerns will need

their executives back for the conversion period. For

version to war work.

sure, There was no sales problem. The government helped provide the materials and even the labor. The | 0 WAS Titten, .. . » we But it will be something different to get back into civilian production, to locate materials, to get sales

organizations -develoged to compete in the market ~

successfully, to apply inventions and technical ad vances to civilian goods. : ;

Can’t Do the Job Alone ® BUT IT WILL not be easy for the government to

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Of Leaders in Key Posts “Is Danger.

By E. A EVANS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Név. 15.—-Im-

years of war, the major problems of converting industry to war production sare considered pretty thoroughly licked. But reconversion problems will be as numerous and in many ways tougher. ‘If it takes anything like as long to lick them, many months ol vast unemployment among demobilized service men and war workers can hardly be avoided.

Alarms Industry

So the apparently certain prospect that the exodus of experienced executives from WPB

act too slowly or move fast wrong directions,

ployment, - Favors Baruch a

fined now.

demobilization

ence.

the .committes. .

reconversion subject.

to Indiana. “Presidency for Friends’ ~ Secretary Post.

church here, resigned . yesterday as president.of William Penn col

lose all of its skilled industrial brains. Conversion| lege at Oskaloosa, Iowa, to become

back is a difficult government task also. Will the least efficient war manufacturers be dropped first ahd the efficient ones held on to provide the remaining war equipment? That seems logical from the government’s point of view. But that only gives the peace production and out to the customers while the efficient manufacturer is held to war work. It nalizes the most. efficient producer and —he may, have difficulty in ever regaining his rlace in post-war, competition. - + To whom is the government going to give priorities for materials?. For there probably will’ be need to continue control for a time. But for how long will be

another question. Bernard M. Baruch is staying on to maks policy in

executive secretary of the Pive

mond, Ind. Rev. Elliott also will be editor of the American Friend, magazire of the Society of Friends. He succeeds the late Walter OC.

‘for ) X will look forward! | -* to some special thing to eat. Bn E With rationing, this is rather a dificult problem,| but it is a good thing to focus children's interest on what they can have in war time. I find they rather enjoy adding up points and trying fo find some-| I have jo confess that ‘@t takes perhaps a litte Lo _ more

Businessmen Feaf Exodus

pending departures from the war production board of Charles E. Wilson and other business executives}

Nobody from our neighborhood has been killed in|indicate that, after nearly «two z ~ action yet, although two have died in

has merely. delayed for a year or two the arrival of| uo agencies will eT ae the war's last ‘stages; and become general immediately after victory, alarms Industry. The fear is that inexperienced men taking important government policy-making jobs will in

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‘see, hear, taste, feel and smell.

inghouse Electric,

in either case playing hob with business plans for high peacetime production and em-

““Fhiat's one reason fof the prevail ing anxiety that, so far as possible, broad reconversion policies be de-

Senator George says his post-war committee appears unanimops that congress should write the major policies, and favors a new industrial agency headed by! Bernard M. Baruch. Some members| want to give Mr. Baruch wide statu. tory powers. At present he must depend for getting results on administration backing and his own prestige, not on definite authority to give orders and require obedi-|

Senator George will seek — Mr. Baruch's own opinion this week, and

public heatings.on the whole

Coming Back -

‘I ‘tronically g

Year meeting of Friends at Rich-

ment for tomorrow,

part of everyday life.

Hundreds of thousands

| tain electronic tubes. Along

distance telephone call is

| .made through an electronic

tube. : Go to your kitchen and remove the printed wrapper from almost

| wrapper; near one edge. If so, the tronically.

gheet of postage stamps watch for a heavy dash of color on the margin. This means the stamps were printed, perforated ahd cut with guidance of an electronic tube's “magic eye. . A similar tube opens doors as you approuch. The bottle of soft drink or beer in your refrigerator probably was sterilized and filled to the proper level by electronics. The color of the fabric of the “elothes you are wearing likely was determined and controlled elec-

Sound. Movies, Too! SOUND MOVIES are electron-

ies. The familiar fluorescent light is an electronic tube.

neither new nor mysterious. This is not to say that the seience is a prosaic affair. Its applications, you will find, are practical and matter-of-fact. but the elteronic tube truly is a mirac-

uct of its age Jt& future is limited only by thé boundaries 61 your.imagination. It has duplicated and. refined to unbelievable extremes four of the five human senses—sight, hearing, | touch and smell. The fifth, taste,

{ has been simulated in the labora-

tory but must await the war's end to find a practical outlet, The electronic tube has seen what human eyes have never seen, has heard what human ears have never heard. It has peered deep into solid metal, has visually explored the inner recesses of the human body. It has magnified the image of the windpipe of a mosquitoe’s

larva 100,000 times.

Distinguish Many Colors

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any package of food. Observe if there's a heavy black stripe on the -

wrapper was printed and cut elec-

"The next time you purchase a-

So, you see, electronics can be

ulous device, the wonder prod-

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Electronics can match human senses, as depleted by five girl work«— ~~ ers-of General Electric. - Left do right, they show. that electronics can. Ail but taste, which has been simulated in thé laboratory, have been put to practical use. Heart of electronics is the vacuum tube, such as the one shown here, a product of West-

Modern Science Adopts ; ‘Old Gadget to Produce - A New World for Future

“Electronies”—you hear of it every day; it's one of the old gadgets of modern science, and it may become one of the greatest factors In post-war industry, It offers hundreds of thousands of possibilities for Tomorrow's Jobs, when the developments discovered under wartime pressure are turned te peaceful uses, . This is the first of six stories which explain, in the simplest terms, what electronics is and what it promises in the way of jobs and employ

» * By DALE McFEATTERS Times Special Writer Co

Electronics, science’s’ mystifying marvel, signpost to 1-an.age.of miracles, has heen, working for you for years... ... "Look around your home, your office, your city and you will find aniple evidence that electronics long has been a

The tubes in your radio set are electronic tubes,

of party-line telephones con-

soy

so than any human or machine, It can heat one end of a paper clip to a glowing red so rapidly that the other end remains cold. Nn

Can Cook Food

IT CAN thoroughly cook foad in the t.mie it would take you to lift a forkful from plate to mouth, You can begin to understand why electronics sometimes is called the “science of extremes.” Now comes the question, “What {s electronics?” To find the answer, it Is necessary to make the acquaintance of a busybody called the “electron,” the smallest thing inthe world yet discovered. The electron is a particle ol electricity that is everywhere, a part of everything-—the chair in which you're sitting, the food you

eat, the paper ofi which this is

printed. Aes But don't go looking for one,

for nobody ever saw an electron -

and probably nobody ever will, However, scientists suspect that if — 25 trillion (25,000,000,000,000) electrons were laid. side by side they'd make a row one inch long. The electron is a negatively charged bit of electricity and its home is the atom, where it lives in loving company with a positively charged particle called the proton. These electrical charges come

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A aBout SIX MILLION SQUARE

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OF THE EARTHS SURFACE ARE |

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prise all matter, To show you

“moved from all the atoms that make the Chrysler building in New York, the amount of solid stuff left could be pressed into a mass smaller than a pin head.

: CI EE - a i eg LA Obeys Natural Law THE TINY but iiighty electron can be controlled because of a prime law of the electric world that Tike charges of electricity repel eaoh other, and unlike charges attract, ; Get an electron on the loose, set up. a positively.charged at- - traction nearby, and like a furloughed soldier flying to his girl, "the negative electron will travel straight to the bait. Freeing electrons from their atoms is the essence of elec tronics. a It's also the difference between _ electronics and electricity. 3 Send a stream of electrons through a wire or other conductor and you have electricity. Shoot 'em through an airless tube and you've got electronics. So what's the difference, you say? They get to the same place “in the end. : Electrons moving through a wire, it is true, are electric current just as ih a tube. But the electrons—in the wire aren't free. they leap from atom to atom to form a flow of current, but they don't depart from the path of atoms. They're still tied to the satomic apron strings by the positive attraction of the atom’s protons. In an electronic tube, however,

“HoW oniNIpreRent ey wre; 1 wit Hie“ FIPRITICAT CHATS = were res

‘electrons ‘are knocked completely

Tree of “their atoms Thely can = “Aravet wimost-at the spb of ight = 55

and in - tremendous volume, There's nothing to hold them

back, as “does the resistance of

the metal and area of a wire,

~The electronic tube can funce

tion at millions of cycles—which -

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is--something - when. you: consider. that ordinary electric current is =

about 25 to 60 cycles. J ”

Can Control -Currents

IT HAS THE ability to control currents with extraordinary smoothness and versatility. Clouds of electrons streaming through the tube may be started, stopped, - speeded up, slowed down and de. flected with a speed and precise. ness impossible with an electrio device ; That's why we've been able to weld aluminum and other light metals, and thereby turn out

_ fighting planes at a record-breake 5

ing pace : ; To weld thin sections of light metals that have very low res

sistance to electric current, you

must have a split-second of - powerful current, The electronic tube can provide 20,000 to. 80.000 amperes. of electricity and apply

if in ‘as “short time as one-sixe

tieth of a second. x The ability of electronic tubes to control current has found wide application ' in industry; particu farly in machine tool operations. On a milling machine, for exe ample, electronic motor control

_ feeds the cutter into the work at the proper speed, automatically

switches to another speed when

the load changes, then at the end of the cutting operation, res

verses the cutter rapidly to the

starting position. Amplify Weak Current

ANOTHER FEATURE ‘of the electronic tube is its power to

pick up a very weak current or

electrical impulse and, by increas. ing the volume and speed of its

electrons, to amplify the weak

ourrent to a strong one.