Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1943 — Page 9

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I HAD ONE experience on the train I hadn't ‘counted on. I got a haircut. Yep, right on the train, - while crossing Illinois at 70 miles an hour. The Chief has practically everything. - The barber was a slight, grayish man of upper middle age. He never said a word during the whole operation. And then just as he finished he said: “You've just had the distinction, slight as it is, of getting my last haircut in 55 years of barbering!” Now that is a distinction, so I asked for the details. It seems he was retiring from the railroad.forever when we hit Chicago a few minutes later. He

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum ™ vw cor « on se pres

OUR AGENTS report that we've been catéhing some of them myself, pnd it stands to reason that there

heck from many readers over an item we printed “Nov. 15 in which we-said that prior to that time no bona fide (pre-Pearl Harbor) fathers actually had been drafted in Marion county—excluding ‘those who ry volunteered. Even some of our agents reproached us. They all knew. of “lots-of fathers who have been drafted,” but no one of them

“was able “to provide us” with the

name of a single individual so we could check the name with the -- draft-- board. -One reader . whose initials are H. B. 8. writes that he works in a war plant and can ~figine 16 pre-Pear] Harbor fathers from his department now in the service. Send them in, Harry, and 3 we'll have them checked. Maybe they volunteered. Our original information was obtained at a meeting of draft board chairmen. After criticism was voiced, we decided to do a bit of further

checking. . So.we. called the chief clerks of eight of

the 15 draft boards. The boards called were 1, 2, 3, 6, .8, 12, 13 and 14. We started with 1 and skipped those where the phone: line was busy, Every one of the eight chief clerks said the same thing—no bona fide fathers drafted (involuntarily) prior to Nov. 15—but some going now and next month. “We asked about exceptions. Nearly all said that there wash't supporting his family, and clerk said her ‘board, in.the early days of the draft when financial dependency was the only test, had

taken -some--men- whose wives-were financially inde-

‘pendent. Another board ‘said several fathers volunbut asked that they be listed as draftees— | avoid domestic difficulties, Another board said it

had taken some men who had married to avoid the-

draft and subsequently became fathers, well, that gives you an idea of how the situation stacks up.

A Sweet Memory

+ A GOOD MEMORY paid dividends at the meeting of the Salés Executives council Monday night. There were 58 persons present and each arose and identified

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Maybe labor knows what it is doing, but some of the things that happen don’t make sense from anybody's viewpoint so far as IT can see. - For instance, what I saw at Pittsburgh the other SE day wasn't anything criminally vicious like .some of the. affairs that Pegler exposes. What I saw was just dumb. You would think American workmen would be smarter. > It was in the Mesta machine works at Pittsburgh. They make big guns for’ the army and navy, and driveshafts for cruisers and destroyers, and other heavy work that few other plants can do. I went up there with some navy officers to inspect the Mesta works where a new unit built for the navy was to be opened. Whether the workmen knew the navy officers were coming through that morning and wanted to put their worst foot forward, or-whether it was coincidence. I don’t know. But you should have seen the faces of the navy officers when they went into the foundry and found nothing going on.

‘ Like Going Into Giant's Tomb

IT WAS like going into a glant’s tomb.. There was no noise, Workmen were loafing around. Several

. workmen were pitching horseshoes. The clink against

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> naval officers stood there aghast, But it didn't

interfere with the horseshoe game nor with the in~terest of the workmen in watching it. — on

. Those workmen were involuntarily idle. They couldn't work’ because during the night the crane

_operators went on strike. Heavy material could not

came in a trivial dispute over Sunday: operators went out and tied the plant employing 4500 started the walkout. At 2

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—an -absentee.” “don't” want Hitler to win. Yet navy officers

the Point Calava demolition, and how two soldiers especially worked on and on with more fervor and sincerity than anybody need expect ow them? Well, now comes a lettér from a man in Hillsboro,

Ore, wanting to know how he could get in touch

with them so he could send them $100 apiece, just out of gratitude. 3 His letter says, “Such men are not common and I want to show them that I appreciate such actions and perseverance.” = ata eres I'm not giving the man's name, because I haven't time to write and find out whether he would object to being named. But the two boys were Cpl. Gordon

" Uttach, Merrill, Wis, and ‘Cpl. Alvin Tolliver, Ala-

mosa, Colo. I hope the samaritan finds them, and that they enjoy their $100. : B While I was on vacation, some of the papers res printed old columns starting back as far as eight years ago. In one month those reprint columns roamed all the way from Alaska to Argentina. Each one carried an editor's note above it, and told what year the column was written in. Yet we've had dozens of remarks indicating that readers hadn't read the editor's notes at all, and thought I was literally jumping from Dutch Harbor to Pearl Harbor to French Guiana overnight. There was even one advertising-agency man in New York who, after reading the reprint of -a 1938 Guatemala column, ealled/up Washington and wanted to know how saon I'd be back from Central America.

himself. Then Ed Dowling of the Dilling Candy Co. offered a 5-pound box of candy to anyone able to give the names of all 58. Several tried and failed. Finally, Miss Lillian Kreps, the council executive secretary, tried. She got all except one person, Then, as she was sitting down, she recalled his name and qualified for the candy. Naming that many people— even if they're all friends—is no easy task. Espe«cially with a memory such as-ours. ..... Harry Sims, general manager of the Victor Furniture Co, is back “off the job after being laid up three weeks withthe

- chickenpox. .-. . Mrs.. Walter Luebking — her. hus-

band’s a veteran advertising representative for The “Times—~is recuperating from injuries received three weeks ago when she fell off a horse. She was riding a show horse and she didn’t know that pulling on the ‘reins was the signal for him to rear and dance on his hind legs. In falling, her head was severely cut and her right elbow fractured. She was able to remove the cast several days ago. . . . That air raid siren (the big one) atop the Merchants Bank Building still| won't work. It just gave a few feeble hoots again last Saturday. }

Meanest People Dept. 0

A PARENT CALLS to nominate for the ‘meanest people” -department those folks who buy up canned baby food although they have no children. At one point a can, it’s fractionally cheaper (in points) than the No, 2 can of the similar vegetable products. And

or even feeding it OR, Tha eats i tes Or] caller—and probably a lot of other parents—pretty| angry; especially when they find the grocer out-of the foods they need for their ‘babies. C'mon folks; have a heart. . . . The city has made a conscientious effort this year to keep chuckholes filled. And on the whole, has done a good job. But we've had some complaints about chuckholes on Fall Creek boulevard between Illinois and Meridian. We're fold there are half a dozen there, three or four of thém bad enough to make motorists swerve and endanger passing cars, .+ + P. 8. That's a dandy resurfacing job on Central north of 38th, Too bad it wasn't done several years ago——back before our teeth were shaken out while riding the Broad Ripple bus.

By Raymond Clapper

Mesta. He got dressed and went to the plant. He waited until nearly 5 a. m. but the C. I. O. spokesmen still had not arrived and the men wouldn't talk so Iversen went back home. That the dispute was trivial was indicated when the men went back to work 24 hours later after government conciliators said there would be no negotiations until the men returned to work. = : Recently, A. F. of L. electricians walked out on the new Mesta navy plant because power lines were brought into the plant by the power company electricians who haye their own union. It was a penalty strike, just to register a protest. ’

Procedure Nothing New

THAT KIND of protest strike has occurred before on navy work in the Pittsburgh area and navy officers have become bitter about it. No wages are involved—only jurisdictional privileges. There is more work than all can do. Time is essential and every hour counts. Doesn't it seem stupid for a handful of workmen in a plant to walk ‘out on the navy or the army just us a petty penalty? The theory is that labor gets even with the company by delaying orders a day or two. : : 1 don’t see how this kind of thing makes sense from anybody's point. of ‘view except perhaps Hitler's. And I don't believe at all that those men are interested in helping Hitler. As I walked through the rest of the plant, where most of the workmen were standing idle by their machines, 1 saw several huge steel columiis, ma

giant steel presses tobe to Russia. On one of the columns was chalked a pa-

triotic pun as follows:-“You can’t spell victory with

They i 80 up from Washington to show their interest and appreciation, and see idle machinery and workmen pitching horseshoes in the plant. : - These labor boys may be clever, but I don’t think 50. They are just dumb. They are making themselves easy meat for the big anti-labor swing that is on the way in this country. ; k

By Eleanor Roosevelt

.-T use the word “tolerance” with some hesitation,

These: men want to keep their freedom,

with them and to enjoy them. Pl That is, of course, what we ought to mean

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"I'VE SEEN some-of the post-war products other

are thousands of others who will want to buy also,” declared Mark Honeywell, chairman of Minneapolis« Honeywell Regulator Co. of Wabash and Minneapolis, “But we must solve this problem of terminating war contracts so business will have enough capital to swing into civilian production quickly.

“Just what our employment will be would be hard to-

‘say. But we will want to employ all we can use. We're

-noé against labor. ‘Labor should have responsible-leaders--

and so should industry. Neither house is in perfect order. “Business ought to be good after the war. Now, we

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“WE WOULD be-fla} broke if congress--passed the Areasury’s. proposal. for.-higher corporation . taxes,” said -. . -W. B. Stephenson, president of . Delta FElectfic Co. at

Marion, “and ‘we will be ina mighty bad way unless congress lets us set up post-war reserves, “Thirty years ago I started the company with three persons and not much money. We grew and expanded, developed new products and never missed a dividend. Along came the war. Our taxes have soared. We had a large part of eur profit taken away by renegotiation of our war contract. We had $83,000 in post-war refund

coming to us but renegotiation cut that down to $40,000.

wee VWe. Bre not. like a big refrigerator firm that can reconvert and scll refrigerators like sixty. We make lights and supplies for the automobile, bicycle and radio

NOVEMBER 24, 1943

In ustrial Men Look to the Future

A. J. McALLISTER, president of Fairfield Manuface

‘turlng:-Co. of. Lafayette, gear. manufacturers, sald “war

contracts must. be settled. quickly, contractors paid off, so they can resume regular production as fast as possible, If someone is going. to squabble over every penny, we will lose more money in the long run, that is the country will, in relief and unemployment compensation pay ments than we would gain by a minute scrutiny of every claim by every war contractor, : “Post-war business ought .to be good, especially for the consumer goods manufacturers, Refrigerator, auto mobile and similar industries will have a good demand for their products. But I'm not so sure about durable goods manufacturers like ourselves, That remains to be seen.” } Mr. McAllister, who is president of the Indiana Manus

highly point-conscious folks have been buy-

Industries. and we. will have to wait for them. i “What we will have to do, I don't know. I just can’t ~gtand aside-and see 30-years' -work-go by the board, What. . will we do for money during the changeover? Just trust in God, I guess.” .

make.heating control devices for homes; offices and so on. During the war, such things have had to be neglected, We will have 16 recover frem-mush-deterioration, replace the old, and get on with the new developments, We've gota lot of ground. to cover.”

facturers Association, believes “Indiana will get its fair ~.share of post-war business. Our location “is & great “asset. We have some consumers goods industries and many. automotive parts concerns included in that

Rep. Harness Advocates

Quick Payment on War | Jobs to Rescue Plants

he government cancels war contracts it should ave Oi UTrORe miteaste guitkly ound That Ga and credit ha according to Rep. Forest|™

the compani to return-to peacetime production,

{A. Harness (R. Ind.), who addressed the Indiana Manufac-

turers association annual meeting at the Columbia club last night. : : a “Not more than one industry in five can survive its extraordinary wartime expansion and return to normal operation if its

volved in federal red tape and con-} troversy,” he said. The problem is serious, he said, because about one American in} three is employed in war produce tion. Actually, in Indiana every other person now gainfully employed is working on a war production job. : . “We want war contractors to survive and we want to get them back into peacetime production with minimum delay. On the other | hand we want to protect the gov-| {ernment or the taxpayers in wash-. 4ing out this war business, Ni < Mr. Harness, who is a member of ; y the house military affairs commitRep. Forest Harness tee: which has been holding hear-

es | {NGS preparatory to framing a bill Tomorrow’s Job—

PUBLIC WORKS 5s: ERA PLANE

ideas of the general accounting office, as expressed recently by CompCongress Asked to Seek Federal Post-War

troller General ‘Linsay Warren, and the army and navy, both of which Projects. By E. A. EVANS Wri

“POST-WAR BUSINESS for the construction in< _dustry should be very good,” sald Roy E. Adams, chairman and president of the J. Ds Adams Manu facturing Co. of Indianapolis, bujlders of road mae chinery and other equipment, “This country started the war with-a big deficit in construction and since the war construction of most types has been weaned to practically. nothing, After the lean days of the 30's and the drought of the war, I can't see anything but considerable’ ace tivity for the Industry as a whole after the war,

-G. HAMILTON BEASLEY, president of CaswellRunyan Co. of Huntington and chairman of Utah Radio Products Co. of Chicago, was very bptimistic. “We had a good business before the war, we have a big business now and we will have even more after the war. We expect to employ around 15 per cent more workers than we have now, “Right now we are in meta] work, final assembly of metal products which is almost a complete conversion from our peacetime manufacturing of cedar chests, furniture, juke buxes and radio cabinets.”

(Indiana industrialists who will guide the state in the pest-war reconstruction days assembled ab the Celumbis club yesterday and were interviewed by The Times’ business editor, Roger Budrow, Here is a cross section of post-war Indiana as gathered in Mr. Budrow’s interviews.)

nted complete control over contract termination. A contract termination board should be established by congress, ’ re . Mr. Harness shall set up rules of procedure for|proval by the central board. In| A. J. McAllister, president of members appointed by the president the negotiation of termination [other words, the central board shall| Fairfield Manufacturing Co. of Las subject to senate approval. It ‘would agreements, which in turn shall be|sit &s a court of review.” fayette, was re-elected president; I, be independent both of the war followed by the contracting officers| Mr. Harness said war contracts R. Wagner, president of Electrie procurement agencies and of the|of the different federal procurement totaling $8.000,000,000 have been ter-| Steel Castings Co. of Indianapolis, war contractors, “so that they may agencies responsible in each con-|minated thus far and that many | first vice president; ©. A. Keller, be depended upon to function fairly|tract settlement claim, The con- billions more will be terminated as president of the Keller Manufacture and impartially. in all claims and tractor officer in each case shallithe war draws to a close. [Ing Co: of Corydon, second vice settlements. ~~. |have sufficient authority to negoti-| Rep. Wesley E, Disney (D, Okla,),| president, and I. W. Lemaux, presie “This board, with the advice and |ate with each contractor a termina-|who was scheduled to speak also,/dent of Indianapolis. Brush and and sities ae assistance of the procurement tion agreement, such agreement to was unable to attend because of the Broom Manufacturing Co. Indiane behind - ‘plan- cles and {he war contrac e final upon review A0= dies, lis, treasurer, = ning postwar public improvements agencies and {he war contractors, become final upon review and Au-|vote on-subsidies a i inspired the appeal just made to congress hy Federal Works Admin.

How Long Can Japan Last? Victims Cringe as ‘Peace’ i] Turns Into a Farce and They Suffer More Than Ever Before

: 0 aa tn ee Ansition, By A. T. STEELE our none-too-adept propagands|Asia which is nearly as well off|fited are a few Chinese quislings that projects shall be genuinely Copyright 1043 by The Indiavapolis Times| than to the blunderinig, bullying economically as before the war.|Who have stepped .into high titles useful, shall not compete with pri-| the Chicago Daily News, Ine. |igctics of the Japanese army and|How mueh of this is attributable with fat salaries. It is too patently vate enterprise and shall, as far as| AT A BASE IN INDIA —Japan's|s, the dire economic straits into the war, how much to Japanese obvious to the general "ve An by state or Jo- recent attempts to conciliate the "say, but what-|thé~Japanese arm; Possible, be Snane q people of conquered Asia with fine- TM “tha In contrast to the federal debt's [Souris oF Kunomy. of enormous wartime growth, states independence have. failed, thus far, : ‘lof their purpose. The gesturé has erity. q .

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