Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1943 — Page 13

_ tiohably many

- nothing else.

. were walking at

An army

monument.

_ arguing furiously,

“War Greater Than Own- Grief —

IT WOULD, of course, please the families of this wasn't a set of young bucks either, but of mature, suffering group if our high command were to direct the mass of American might. immediately at the Philippines and.at Japan's heart, nature that they ‘should feel that way. Yet they realize the war is broader and greater

ing the following:

ALBUQUERQUE N. M—Yéu ou soc VF fot The ‘War so very much here in Albuquerque, There ; of reasons you should feel it; but I think dimes to help send the of the west, and the stoicism of H. V. SSpentley, to Washingwh, magnificence

the

;

received on 113 of them. are dead by now,

80d Starvation Jn the Jap pHsoh camps.

feel .that they - .), anythirig about CTistened at the Albuguerque air base.

an issue of it. association, to-do ~-§t-ig-called theTheir sole purpose is

It is only human

arrange for relief shipments to their boys, and five of us are gone.

A REPRESENTATIVE of the navy inspection of--fice here wasstalking at-lunch-the other day about the * difficulty in getting typists and stenographers. _ said the situation is so bad that he ate every day for “three months in a certain restaurant before he finally

managed to hire one of. the waitresses as a stenographer . . . George Saas of the gas company gradually is getting his voice back.

B For months he was. speaking soAn

prano—a whisper, at that. operation to remove a growth on his vocal cords, and rest are be“ginning to produce résults, but it will ‘be some time before he's

back if his ola speech-making

form. . . . Howard T, Batman, public counselor for the public service commission, reports seeA woman and an army private The

the Circle and W. Market st.

' soldier said something, whereupon the woman grabbed her purse and bopped him one with it. - her, whereupon she took the purse and smacked him

He slapped officer - approaching them swerved

sharply and hurried across the street toward the (We would have,

too.) The cottple, walked west until they came to the

alley beside the Circle motor inn. There the soldier broke and ran down the alley, the woman angrily

pursuing: him. That's the last Howard saw of them.

Such Goings-on-+

i TT HAPPENED IN the fobby of “the Hotel Wash+~ Sg Th ‘ington Monday night.

A. middle-aged ‘man; carrying

8 package walked in and began talking to another

man seated on a davenport.' They sent a bellboy after a third man. gave him the package,’ carcass. .. After. . more conversation, they surreptitiously began skinning the rabbit. They - were ‘huddiing - together-so- no-one would see what

Bai a frozen rabbit.

| Women they were doing,

_ your newspaper. o inflating. One day you

a

is denounced by

~ from. rising.

: “Thus the hacking away at the wage ceiling. goes up a little here and a little there. “Then there:is the hacking at price control, O. P. A,

When the latter arrived, they He peeked nto it, and found

They had trouble with the skinning

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov, 17.—In order to be your own economist these days, all you need to do is to read

You can see inflation in the act

read that “John Bewis chisels more money for ‘his miners. A few days later the office of price administration recommends higher prices for coal. Then C. I. O. workers must havé more money. The coal miners have been given more money, so the C. I. O. wants more. The railroad workers not only want more money, but they are using

| congress to move in and try to";

get it for them. The Truman committee calls upon Judge Fred Vinson, stabilization director,

defend his refusal to give the railroad workers much of a raise as they demanded. The railroad athlon officials said the increase: granted by. Vinson was not enough and they have been taking a strike

It

a special committee of the house

says this agency has stretched its powers to “sentence the citizens of the United States to starvation” Cattlemen are here fighting the food subsidy plan, which is. part of the operation to hold prices

Vicious Circle Widens

“IN OTHER words, many groups are pushing now 0 get higher wages, higher prices, which in turn will higher wages and then still higher prices. s is during a period when there is a severe I labor, and when cohsumption needs al} produce. were not for the war, labor and food proa Taxe enormous gains out of the situt is a situation caused by the war, caused

_ niary aid directly granted by a government to an individual or

of the sky—

ppines, the Albuquerque boys go he death notices

.as “missing.” Unques-

CT om

He’

American Sacplé of ans

community

Spanishalone reoontly collie $90 In pennies, nigkely ANG organization’

Around three-fourths of the

state- wide “MacArthur Day." week war

's president, Dr.

state were Raised $600,000 in Week —

THE RELIEF organization holds meetings, gives neces, and is very active. In January it fostered a - It conducted a .opebond and stamp drive, with a quota of

$300,000, and raised over $600,000. The government gave it the right to name a Tye ing Fortress, so in July the “Spirit of Bataan”

The Bataan Relief Organization lists as its pur-| pose—“To obtain immediate relief for all American soldiers held as Japanese prisoners of war, their re-

lease as quickly "us possible; and" home.”

‘their-safe ‘delivery| : And as one of the officers adds—‘trying “40-try to-get- little-reliet- shipments -to- their giating desperately to keep the heroic deeds of these almost - ghildren in the Jap camps.

“forgotten heroes - kindled" n the hearts, of their

trymen.”

SECOND SECTION

COOPERATION |* OF EMPLOYER, WORKER CITED

~ Committees Will Have Been Set Up.

By E. A. EVANS Sccipps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—By|

predict, nearly 4000 labor-manage-

My old_set in Albuquerque has

some of them middle-aged, men. Earl Mount, the

big-hearted,

ceased to exist. Tt

~hard-bitten con-

tractor, is in the Aleutians; Arthur McCollum, always

sad because he never got overseas

in the last war, has

made it in this one: Barney Livingstone, the news- : than their own grief, so they do not attempt to paperman, is serving the navy in Washington; Doc | lobby the war department in any way. They do send Connor has been freed from delivering babies and an’ occasional delegate to Washington, but it’s to gone into the navy. There were five of us—and all

But when Albuquerque, look out! :

arm. He seemed oblivious of the

quarters of the rabbit were sticking out of the back ". T. 8gt. Charles W. (Pat) Geile, the former information director for the state welfare department and later for the state selective service

of the package. . . .

office, is home from Tennessee on

home on furlough is Kim Greenough, son of the Wal- . Lou Young, advertising manager of The Times, is getting back into eircujation gradually after being on the sick list.

ter. Greenoughs. .

Miniature: Santa

SANTA CLAUS has arrived at Sears’ basement

and along with. him one. of This The helper, also a Sarita, inches tall. Of course; it’s all a tric one guessing how it's done,

at work repairing broken toys in h

shop. There's a two-way phone connection with the workshop and the children can talk with old Santa

when the crowd isii't too large,

with the idea is that the little children have trouble getting up to look at the miniature St. Nicholas be-

cause SO many grown-ups want

.- The General Motors organization doesn’t like to

hive its Allison division referred gineering.”

wed pass along the info... Riverview dr. and his" syear-old

visiting out in Sylvan Estates Sunday. Little Michael

played: out in the yard while his

house. - Pretty soon . they heard Michael calling: “Come see the rabbit I caught.” They went out and there they found the youngster holding a live rat by its hind legs. They shouted at him and finally he

dropped the rodent, which put

--fight-before the men-managed to dispatch it: the child escaped without being bitten; -

ously,

By Raymond Clapper

Therefore it is not prac-

come from the war itself. tical, nor would it be fair, to allow

of supply and demand to set thé prices of goods and

labor.

Nobody wants to deny wage increases or to hold

down prices. That is unpopular,

on the side of lifting the lid. Those few courageous officials who try to hold the line—like the war labor

board, Judge Vinson and Chester

administrator, find themselves under fire from all

directions. They are “kill joys.”

people a chance for big-money during the war,

Fight Delaying Action

who led their men to hold out at are heroes. The civilian officer the line or fight a delaying action deed, he is apt. to be thrown out Henderson was,

Perhaps the Chinese are right. year and a haif ago, I called on Dr. H.L H, Kung, minister of finance, to ask him about the inflation

in China which was so bad that

being flown into China by the bale, instead of spare|

parts for Chennault’s airplanes.

The Chinese finance minister hitched up his long

black silk robe. and sipped his tea ignorance.”

for ‘the first time in his life.

Dr. Kung-said the big rolls of the coolies happy.

nature, It seems to be about the

By Eleanor Roosevelt

+

cause the price of feed went up, If these prices went up, it would be natural for people who worked for wages to ask for higher wages, because their would not buy as much as it bought in the past.

Then all manufactured articles in

volved would go up and the farmer would be paying a higher price for the things he bought. he would really be no better off than he was before he was paid more for his own products.

is only three and a half

You look through the window of a dollhouse and there you see Santa busy

The latter is a hangover from the past. And the boys also prefer to have the plant referred to as “Allison” rather than “Allisoii's.”. Just thought . George Louck, 6317

“THEY ARE fighting a delaying rearguard action to- check the advance -of inflation. general who fights a delaying action, the officers

He said that inflation in China meant that every goolie had enormous rolls of paper money : I had seen that—and had paid coolies two dollars, Chinese money, for an errand that normally would rate 10 cents.

They felt prosperous. Therefore they were in favor of the war. They were just as poor as they would have been under deflation. Yet they had rolls of paper money to handle. deflation they would have felt poor, and would have blamed it on the war and would have wanted peace. It sounded very silly to me at the time. But now I am not so sure. The wise old Chinese know human

we all get back—

Inside | Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum)

process, so finally the third man:wrapped the carcass jobs, better processes, improved hurriedly and started out the door with it. under his

fact that the hind

furlough. . . , Also

miniature. helpers,

Kk, but it has every-

is north pole work-

The only trouble

to see him, too.

to as “Allison En-

son; -Michael: went

father ‘was ‘in the

up a pretty good Miracu+

the usual practices

The pressure is all

Bowles, the price

They are denying

In the war, the

Wake and Bataan who tries to hold is denounced. Inof office, as Leon

In Chungking a

paper money was

and smiled at my

paper money kept

Under

same over here.

which labor is in-

“

‘sales for thie women’s ‘chapter; re-

in war industries. There are more than 3000 now, in companies with over 6,000,000 employees, The idea of employer-worker cooperation through such. committees to speed production got a rather discouraging start in early 1942. It met suspicion on both sides. Some managements, especially, feared it was a government move toward control by labor. But where there have been sincere mutual efforts to mgke the plan work remarkable results are ‘laimed—higher output per worker,

| less absenteeism, fewer unnecessary

weapons, Production Show Opens This week, in. Boston, the WP3 opened its. first. .war production drive show, exhibiting over 1000 ingenious new techniques for which New England war workers have won awards, There is much interest here in

peacetime. Many observers believe they can if management generally and mbor generally recognize and act together on the principle that only high production at low unit cost can make possible continuing high employment at high wages,

Criticizes ‘Scarcity’

-But a return to the “scarcity psychology” of the long depression, when industry was.afraid...of.-pro-ducing itself out of profits and "labor of working itself out of jobs, probably would be fatal to hopes for post-war co-operation along the lines of this war development, If industries, workers,

on production, most labor-manage-ment commitiees may be among the earliest casualties of peace,

WOMEN OF MOOSE

Robert Adams, chairman of the county war finance committee speakers’ bureau, will address the Women of the Moose at a chapter

night program dt 8 p. m, tomorrow at the Moose hall. The college of regents will conduct an initiation ceremony for candidates, and a musical program will be given. Mrs, Dorville Padgett, chairman of the regents, will conduct the initiation, to be assisted. by Mesdames Anna Cornell, graduate re= gent; Beulah Murray, senior regent; Kathryn Hansford, junior regent; Bitsa Wilner, chaplain; Phoebe art, recorder; Anna Hill, - guide; Dorothy Johnson, assistant guide, and Frances Weibke, argus. A musical program will be given by Mrs. Edna Mershon, Mrs. Jean Stine, Mrs, Hart and Mrs. Alva Faucett, The “regents, sponsors of bond

cently joined the Moose order to promate the $1,000,000 drive honoring Mark R. Gray, supreme gove ernor,

Outsprints Men At Bougainville’

BOUGAINVILLE, Nov. 7 (U. P.)~Lt. Milton F. Thompson of Montclair, N. J, who landed at Bougainville, turns pink when he thinks about it. Thompson, a former St. Louis newspaperman, ran across the beach to catch up with the first wave of troops which he assumed would be fanning out toward a - native village. He sprinted valjantly, but slowed down when he heard firing behind him. He looked around, there were the marines. : He yelled at the top of his voice to stop firing lest they shoot into the first wave ahead of them, “Well,” came the reply, “WE are the first wave.”

SCHRICKER RESCINDS EXTRADITION ACTION

Br End of Year, 4000 Joint]

year's end, war production officials] =~

whether the benefit of this war-|" born program can be preserved in

or both I begin -elamping artificial -pestraints |”

TO HEAR BONDS TALK

Tent committees will be functioning

They Detect

1000 feet a minute— : Every bit of “it needed fighting forces—

~thin nor too thick. tive jobs in industry. -

electronic * ‘pin hole detector” 1-64th of an inch.

The trip continues on that detects any thickness thousandths of an inch over or under specification. But again nothing is done

about it at the moment. ‘Now the strip enters a shear and is cut into sheets that stream away on a conveyor, And at this point things begin to happen— An electronic control remembers some pin holes that were spotted way back. A trap opens and the defective sheets drop from the conveyor. The control gets a signal from the thickness gauge, another trap opens and down goes a sheet that is too thin, A little farther on a third trap drops and an overly thick piece disappears. But the steel is not yet free of its electronic master, At the end of the conveyor a phototube counts the surviving sheets and registers the number. cho gp x 3

THEN, EVERY time 10 shéefs leave the conveyor, the frame on ich they are stacked automatically: moves an inch. After the next 10, the frame moves back an inch. This makes a pile in which ‘each stack of 10 sheets is offset, s0 they may be picked up easily for head-treating in packs of 10. No human hands have helped in the entire operation. Without - electronics, war production would be months behind schedule. Thousands of additional tons of steel, copper and other critical materials would be needed. Use of elecironics in the aluminum and magnesium industries alone saved the nation at least 20,000 tons of steel and 3,790,000 pounds of copper. Mechanical equipment replaced by electronic apparatus to convert

f= Slestrle power for these industries

from ‘50 to. 100 per cent a steel and 25 to 75 per cent more copper, . - .

WAR 18 making electronics a “big business,” overcoming resistance of industrialists who feared its cost and distrusted fragile electronic tubes in heavy

In 1543 about 25 billion kilowatt hours of electrical energy, 10 per cent of all the from “all sources for all purposes in the United States, will pass through electronic devices, . Excluding ‘radio’ and radar, "it

| 1s probable that more than 500 to| million dollars worth of elec-

tronic equipment has been in-

Tiny Flaws In- Strip Steel, Dispose Of Defective ‘Sheets’

(Third of a series)

By DALE McFEATTERS Times Special Writer

Thin strip steel flashing through the rolls of a mill at

Stacked Simultaneously .

immediately by Uncle Sam's And it must be exactly right—no pin holes, neither too Here's where electronics does: one of its ‘many superia-

Squeezed from the rolls, the steel strip slides under an. §

that spots holes smaller than

But the detector does nothing about it then."

through an electronic gauge

=

‘or thinness that is threesten

large amounts of power needed for mechanical and electro-chem-ical operations. » . »

» Spotless Laboratories

THESE TUBES are produced in hospital-like laboratories, for not a tiny particle of dirt or moisture

must enter them. At the assembly laboratory of Westinghouse Electric, for ine

stance, floors, walls, ceilings and work benches are a spotless white, White linoleum floors are swept daily and scrubbed and waxed twice a week. Walls are washed continuously by an electric washing apparatus. The air is cleaned by electronic dust-catchers. » White cotton gloves are issued daily to workers, some 10,000 gloves a month being consumed. Engineers have said: that no single kind of industrial electronic equipment has contributed more -to the production of war machines than fesistance: welding control, Unlike arc welding, resistance welding requires no welding rod. Two pieces of metal are fused together by an intense application of electric heat.

. ; IT IS he by copper jaws that bite down. to hold together the two pieces of metal, Then electricity zips through the jaws and into the metal,’ creating enough heat to join the inner surfaces. It is possible to weld two eightinch strips of steel by shooting a current of nearly 50,000 amperes through the metal in 1/60 of a second. On some jobs the jaws are replaced by copper wheels that roll over the metal, making a continuous seam ween two pieces. Welding light aircraft metals is possible only with electric control, Split-second timing is required to keep from burning the metal and spoiling a weld. Some metals used in planes are so difficult to weld that a fingerprint oh their surface will affect their resistance to electric current, create more heat and weaken the strength of a welded area. Dirt, dust, fumes and smoke are saboteurs of war material, One speck of dust in the lens

Fumes, Dirt "Enemies

FUMES IN the lungs of workers, gritty dirt in precision in-

Spotting pin holes In steel that no human eye can detect Is one of. electronics’ many Industrial servicks. Above you see tin plate passing

through an electronic detector produced by Westinghouse Eleetrie,

Below, a steel ag it Is coiled. electric cells to do their jobs.

inch, creates an electrified “field” through which air is drawn. As incoming air passes through to a collector chamber where they are attracted to and deposited on negatively-charged plates,

This is another practical application of the electrical law: Like charges of electricity repel, unlike charges attract, Mighty industrial X-ray tubes are spotting otherwise undetectable flaws in armor plate, aircraft parts, gun castings, welded metal seams and other war material, War plant inspectors can X-ray steel castings eight inches thick in a few minutes. Yor ifispéction of thin metal parts there-is a fluoroscope, almost like the one doctors use, to examine as many as 800 plecék of metal an hour. Another marvel of industrial electronics is the electron microscope,

It can see things 50 to. 100.

times smaller than those. visible to the light microscope and can magnify 50 times better. The best light microscope is good for about 2000 diameters, but the electron instrument will magnify up to 100,000 diameters. With it, the chemical, biological; physical and metallurgical branches of science are opening ‘up unseen worlds, Viruses have been seen for the first time. Industrial chemists are observing shapes and structures of chemical particles never before visible. As electron “lenses” are improved it is Possible that the atom will become visible.

A ‘Luxury’ Gadget

TO THE public, the electronic

phototube, or “electric eye,” has. .

been a luxury gadget—but to HOLD EVERYTHING +

General Electric photo-electric control accurately aligns strip Both devices use light beams and photo

industry it represents eyes, ears and fingers of unmatched keene ness and nimbleness. . This is the electronic tube that controls the strip steel operations, and it is performing hundreds of other practical services in industry, It is impossible to estimate how . many lives have been saved and accidents avoided through its use on dangerous machines. On modern cutting: machines, a beam of light is directed to a phototube at a safe distance from the cutting blade, When a work. er's hands move too close to the blade, they interrupt the light bean and the: phototube shuts off’ the machine. _ Sensitive to reflected light as well as direct beams, the photo =tube is providing a continuous automatic check: on the color of products coming off an assembly line, It insures uniformity of color of fabrics from a loom, ‘sorts cigars for unifortnity, accurately checks the color register in color printing processes and controls the printing and cutting of wrapping paper, The colors of the American flag have been standardized with elece tronics. Everybody - knows that the United States flag is red, white and blue—but there are hundreds of varying shades of the red and blue and nobody knew the proper shades. Betsy Ross' flag had faded far from its original colors. With the aid of an instrument, called the photo-elec= tric , the Gove - ernment set standard colors, measured them and recorded the sults for general use by manufacturers, :

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