Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1943 — Page 19
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When all that was done we went to work on the woodshed, which is the catch-all. Every house has 8 catch-all, in some form or other. The woodshed was so stacked with junk you could hardly get the door open. “I'll fix that,” I sald. “We will use the principle of wanton destruction. We will pillage and we will burn.”
Dig Big Hole in Back Yard
80 CAVANAUGH dug a great hole In the back gard. You could have put half a jeep in it. And ~ then we began carrying stuff out of the woodshed and throwing it in that hole, When it was full we set a match to it, and got the garden’ hose ready in fase our pyre should get out of control. All afternoon we carried stuff out of ‘the woodhed and stacked -onto- the-fire.- People up- in themountains thought we-were- Indians; trying to-
" MILES DRAKE, head of the city schools supply epartment, answered the phone the other day and ‘woman's voice asked: “Is it true that in Hungary Ba uses’ only “one reindeer?” Thinking that he ‘was being taken for a sleigh ride, Miles replied: “Heck, yes, lady, «Santa had to "eat the other seven” The woman . laughed, then explained: “But -I really want to know?” It finally dawned on embarrassed Miles that the woman was calling for a library branch in the same building and Had been connected on his line by mistake, . . , Among the applicants for jobs at the U. 8. .employment service, —Market;-Monday- were two.-women whose names, by coincidence, were “McArthur” and “Tojo.” . Also olf pidentaily, they both were sent to the same — publie-office-for-jobs;- Mrs. McArthur; wife-of -a-serv--jceman, was hired. ... . Jerry Cadick, the lawyer, is getting sibbed by. some. of his. friends, over pis orl ~aultugal. activities. Someons. gave him some iris b ulbs,
and in planting them, he dug’ a trench six “inches
. “They'll never grow-—{oo deep” everyone. told - Now he can hardly walt for spring to prove he's right. , . . The big electric sign at the Hotel Har- .
rison is getting dolled up with fresh paint.
«Light on the Subject
THE OTHER DAY we innocently remarked that “the old building at the Central State hospital "was the setond in the city to have electric lights, and we Rdded that the old Park theater was the first. "Tain't
: #0, says Earl McKee, the printer. Earl knows all about the Indianapolis of long ago although he ine -
gists he’s still a young man. Says Earl, the When Clothing store which occupied the whole When
ding on Pennsylvania between Market and Wash«
was the first to have electric lights. That was along about 1882, he says. They were of the old car-
Washington
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 — Apparently we are set $0 be taken for a cynical profiteer’s ride into unccnfrolled price.inflation. . Everything around here points to that, Unorganized consumers, unorganized workers, salaried men and women, millions of them, are for all practical pur poses - unrepresented at Washing ——ton right now. They -are about to . be handed the big gyp.
Congress is surrounded by lob-
byists who know what they want. They. want the lid taken off prices. _. That is what the lawyer representing the Texas cattle growers told © the senaté agriculture committee this week. A senator asked what . he wanted in place of price con3 : {trol He sald he wanted the law ot sapplyand demand. Be That 1s 8 polls way of asking for a profiaers market,
z Comparison; With Last War gq
THE FIGURES show what is being done now to hold down meat prices as against what happened in ithe last war when prices wets uncontrolled, as the cattlemen’s lawyer advocates now. . Here are the bureau of labor statistics retail price increases for the war years July, 1014-18, and the increases in the four years of
this war. In percentages the figures are as follows:
Percentage Increase 1914-18 1939-43 “Round Steak. ida Wess aninsaay 002
w SHIT ALTRI INOIENINRIIES 809
$rshsaresnssrenes 75.3
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don’t-you-try-to-cheat-me-young-man look .and said
condescendingly, “Well, bring it in, we'll look at it.”
Federal Official
So Cavanaugh lugged the huge thing in, almost breaking his back. The woman gave him the cold Problem After” War to . eye, and never so much as said thank you,
We Get Mad, Reclaim Radio
AFTER WE left, we ‘got mad, As the afternoon
wore om; we got~ madder. - “That guy Will-spend-45/government's - mistakes concerning} {the food industry, had a brighter |
fixing that thing up, and sell it for $75,” I said. ~-*8ure he will” Cavanaugh said. “And they didn't even say thank you. 1813 go and take 1 Away from And by Jiminy we did. We just went back and sald we'd changed our minds, and lugged the thing back to the car. Now we were stuck with it again, On the way home we stopped to see our friend Sister Margaret Jane, who is Mother Superior at St. Joseph's hospital. We told her what we'd done, and Sister almost died laughing at our audacit® Then
* ghe said, “Well, if you don’t know what to do with
it, give it to me, One of the workmen can fix it, and we can sure use it around here.” . So we lugged it into the ambulance entrance of the hospital, heaved a great sigh of relief, and went on home. After a while the phone rang. It was Sister Margaret Jane, She was laughing so hard she could barely talk. “What's the matter?" we asked, “Why,” she said, “we've just plugged the radio In -and -it- started right-off playing. -There wasn't anything. the matter with. it at all!”
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
bon type, and they sputtered and fizzed, but thousands came from other cities to marvel at them. The city council, Earl reports further, was very much impressed with the lights and decided they would be fine to replace the old gas street lamps, which had to be lighted and extinguished every 24 hours. The councilmen figured the higher they put the lights the more territory they would illuminate; so -they built two electric light towers, one in Circle. park, where the monument now stands, and the other at Washington and Pennsylvania. They were 250 feet
high. Several others were added before it was dis-|
covered that the tower system wouldn't work. Now how on earth did we ever get started on history!
Around the Town
OTIS: ROBERTS, the Claypool -political sage and former intimate of ex-Governor Townsend, now is in labor transportation work for the department of agriculture, He's been busy all summer bringing Jamaicans. to the U, 8. to harvest bests, tomntoes; ete. And: now he's just as busy taking them -back:;
When. last heard. from. Otey. was in Palm Beach, Fla.
for. a little. rest... i Incidentally, Tris Coffin who. was secretary ‘to Townsend as governor still is on the €BS staff in Washington and broadcasts” regularly; on the news roundups. The broadcast is not carried locally, but is heard via Chicago, Louisville or Cin
cinnati, .'. . Ken Larrance, for several years local district manager for the Burroughs Adding. Machine ington. believed prices * to . growers
" Corp., has been transferred to the home offices of the company in Detroit as assistant general sales manager. ... The A. W. V. 8. (American Women's Volunteer Services) is considering suggestions that it operate its day nursery for war workers (529 Fletcher ave.) at night as well as in the daytime. If there's enough interest, it will be done, But it will be strictly for the benefit of war workers—not for parents wishing to find a parking place for their offspring long enough to attend a movie or poker game. Dorothy Darling, Block's style director; is the A. W. V. 8. director of nurseries.
By Raymond Clapper
Please look back over those figures and see how much better the housewife has been protected against rising prices this time, Ordinary meat prices went up 70 per cent in many cases in the-last war. This time the increases run from 15 per cent and the highest quoted is 38 per cent. With the scarcity of meat available to consumers, you can well imagine what prices would be charged if we went back to supply and demand as he cattle-
men want,
They are not doing so badly ‘either: tn ‘the last]. war the price of livé cattle went up 58 per cent, but this time they are getting 89 per cent more than at/| the start of the war. Hog prices went up 102 per cent in the last war and this time they are up 150 per cent,
Labor Crowd Running Wild THE CATTLEMEN are not the only ones who
a th x Sided are down here with a blackjack. The labor crowd is ‘Committee reports and election of
‘Be Serious... By JOAN HIXON
Asserts
“Indians canners, who know the|
outlook for the future today In} possible overall revisions of food]
“(controlling regulations. rp
E. A. Meyer of the Food Distri-
bution administration, who spoke yesterday at the annual ‘fall meeting of the Indiana Canners associa-
tion at the Claypool hotel, outlined |
the 1043 program and some prospects for 1944. Mr. Meyer, who called himself a “Washington bureaucrat brave enough to face a bunch of canners,” said a great deal of the future of the food industry depended on what happened to the subsidy bill. Hearings on the Commodity Credit Corp. will begin today,
Hope for Decision A
“We.-hope for an early decision and a clear cut decision,” he sald. Mr. Meyet also listed major mistakes the government has made regarding food. “Wea should have announced the
priées of vegetables before the planting season and the prices of
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fruits before the canning season he said. “And we were not realistic in .the prices set on some of the fruits and vegetables, which resulted in black markets." “We put a ceiling on canned goods, but none on fresh which created ‘a bad A " re continued, “But. to. put a.workable ceiling on raw goods is a really tough job.” Cites Delay
understanding between government and industry,” he said. “It is dificult for the people to keep up with the programs, and it is hard for the government to make them clear There also was inexcusable delay | and a change in the govérnment| viewpoint on labor costs of civilian merchandise,” “he sald. The solutions to other" ‘problems
of incentive’ payments and. support, stéel wire that will hold his natural voice indefinitely, formula -. versus-..regional|,
prices, -
prices, manpower, deferments,
wages, priorities, snd others, were
more or less “off the record,” Mr. Meyer said. Howeyer, he did say that Wash-
generally were high enough and ‘had not as yet worked out a policy to set individual regional prices on foods instead of formula prices,
‘More’ Prisoners
Concerning manpower, Mr. Meyer said “We hope we have lots more prisoners to work for. you next year.” “The deferment problem has not been settled, but the manpower problem {is increasingly alarming.” he said. He also said the general trend was to hold wage levels where they are now. The food problem after the war will be great, he said. He quoted ex-President Herbert Hoover as saying that “At the close of the war in 1918, the food trouble was with housewives who had put food away, This doesn't compare with the amount put away today. ‘The food
hoard is the greatest this country
has ever known.” > Mr, Meyer concluded his talk with the statement, “We cannot overproduce if stocks are properly man- " tr
Other: speakers. included Dr. M. 0. -Ross, president of Butler university; Sherman Haxton,
canning factory, snd Cpl. William L. ‘Martin of Billings General hoe.
Pa, A, E. Coddington, Indianapolis,
president of the state group, pre-
officers will be on today's program,
“| AMERICAN SUICIDE
RATE IS IN DECLINE!
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (U. P). ~—Fewer Americans are committing suicide since the war started, ac-
vice president of the National Canners association and head of a New York|.
There is also a great deal of mis- 1
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Page and You May Cook “Food by Radio Waves
(This is the fourth of a oo "ries of stories on electionics)
By DALE MeFEATTERS
Times Special Writer Electronics at war promises peacetime miracles. A husband driving from work may chat with his wife
at home.
Food may ‘be placed raw on the table and cooked in
seconds with radio waves.
The blind may read the printed page. The executive may dictate his letters on a hair-thin-
Physicians: may: ‘study the ‘bones and organs: of «the
body’ in motion.
nM RA YL EAE
As adaptations or extensions of electronic panipment —
now in use, all are possible,
The device that would permit a man to talk with his ‘wife at home is the soldier's “walkie-talkie.” =
High frequency heating with shortwave radio, now
used in mills and plants to heat-treat metal parts, glue plywood and mold plastics, could grill steaks, roast hot dogs and toast bread. Heat would be generated only in the food itself and the food would be cooked from the inside out, Photoelectric methods ef. converting light to electrical impulses, and impulses to sound, may provide “talking” books for the blind, Now in use on the fighting fronts, for recording reconnais+ sance observations, accounts of combat operations and verbal instructions, is a “magnetic-wire” recorder that records 66 minutes of continuous speech and sound on ja spool of hair-like wire no bigger than a doughnut. To dictate with this self-con-tained instrument, no larger than a suitcase, you speak into a small microphone, snap a switch and it immediately reproduces the voice. Sound is converted to magnetic impulses that are Tegisareq on the wire. When a recording no onger is needed, sound: and speech are
“wiped” from the wire with a de-
magnetizer. Ca New X-Ray Tube ELECTRON “lenses” already are doing the job of glass lenses in the electron microscope. A new high-speed X-ray tube
has been developed .that can re-
cord a picture in a millionth of a
sions fyi
don
ful that it does not move so fast
that we will be swept off our feet Fach ap-
in making use of it, plication must be appraised for merit and be compared with timetried mechanical methods.” But for all their caution, electronic engineers expect something “big” to come out of this war. What it will be they cannot say at this time—the field is so big and the horizon so wide that even those in the midst of the growing science can not visualize its possibilities, But whatever new “thing” or new industry develops from elec tronics at war, they expect it to concern ultra high frequency radio waves. For here is a world of many unexplored regions, although it already has given us television, short-wave communica~ tion, - infra-red and ultra-violet rays and the X-ray. All electric effects are made by
waves, varying in length from
very long waves carried by the light wires in your house to the ‘vary-short waves of the X-ray. An electric wave is an undulating motion, like two curves, that is called a cycle, . . .
THE FREQUENCY with which
a wave is transmitted is measured ‘in cycles. A cycle is 1000 cycles
a second and a megacycle equals
one million cycles. . : - = * The length of an électric’ wave is measured in meters and frdctions of meters. A mile is about 1500 meters.
1t will help to picture the range -
ot frequencies and wavelengths by thinking of a plano keyboard. The base octaves to the left represent low frequencies. Here,
* in the range of 10 to 100 cycles,
‘ you have transmissiort and dis-
tribution of electric power, such as lights your home. Here also, in the vicinity of 1000 cycles, are the frequencies and wavelengths that carry the sound ot Your Voli ad ring syndy v0 your own ears. Move up a couple of octaves and
you come to the frequencies of: . al
ordinary broadcasting —from 550 to 1600 kilocycles;
Few Unknown Octaves IN THE UPPER part of the keyboard are a few octaves about
Dictatling on a thin wire Is a new development in electronies. Fred Ray, General Electric official, hére demonstrates the magnetic wire recorder that can record and play back immediately 68 minules of continuous speech’ and sound, To transmit the high (requencles of short wave radio you need an electronic tube such as the one held by Rita Carlin, 21-year-old engineer of Westinghouse Electric,
dreds of millionths of a centlmeter, Long waves, like those used in standard broadcasting radiate from a sending antenna like rip-
ples when a pebble is dropped in
4 pool of water, They travel in all directions and tends to follow the earth's surface in a slightly curved path, Ultra short waves, on the other hand, travel through the air ina straight line,
In the field of medicine sick~ nesses are being treated by. apply- -
ing heart-generating radio waves to the body. The waves can be
focused at sharply defined places °
on the body to penetrate to kidneys, lungs, stomach and other areas. » » "
No Waste of Heat OR THE ENTIRE body can be treated—and some day you may
be kept warm. in your home by this means. It has its practical
5 Side—there would be no-watse of
“heat, for only you would be heated and not the walls, furniture and other inanimate objects in your home, In industry high frequency heating is surface-hardening gears, maintaining the depth. of heating to a small fraction of an
wear while the inner metal ree mains resilient. Electronic heat ing does the job just as you'd cook a medium steak--well done on-the outside, rare inside. : ~ Bhort wave heating—or induc tion heating, as it's called— may be too expensive for the home, but restaurants may use it for large~ scale cooking. Once it was necessary for the manufacturer of plywood to keep - sheets of finished material under
pressure for
glue dried. Now, with slectronis heating, the glue dries in two or. three minutes, .. It used to require several hours to braze a shell, but with induce tion heating the job has been re~ duced to seconds, But of all the many develop-_-ments in high frequencies and ultra short waves the one that lkely will win most public atten tion after the war is television,
Next: Television and frequency : modulation radio, (Copyright, * OT Harper & other,
G. 0. P. WOMEN T0 MEET The Lawrence Township Club of -
Republican Women will hold an all day business meeting and election of officers tomorrow at the home
inch. The teeth of gears must be of Mrs. L. O. Lakin, 048 Pendleton
hard to resist friction and surface
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