Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1943 — Page 8

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Want Grade Labeling Resumed

A dozen consimer groups in Washington have asked to have grade labeling resumed to help the buyer keep the home front to pay no more than ceiling price for purchases Without a congressional order, little can : 1abeling. However, a struggle now is under way in the office of price administration over the compromise system of flat-pricing.: . With flat-pricirig, ‘all manufacturers in a given district are given +—-one-price-for-various grades of commodities. Grade C peas cannot | be sold at Grade A prices because there is one ceiling price for that grade familiar to the housewife. The other type of pricing allows the manufacturer to figure his individual price on the basis of his old prices plus certain mark-ups, which leaves the housewife without a definite price for a given grade,

A small amount ‘of motion picture equipment soon will ‘be

replacement purposes. . . A ering the use of wool for clothing, draperies and upholstery fabrics have been removed. However, the restrictions on the amount of cloth per garment remain in effect. . . . Thousands of pounds of fish formerly discarded from shrimp nets now are being processed for lend-lease shipment.

be done about actual

absolutely necessary for mainte- . All restrictions on manufacs

i On Being a Real Person —— Big Personalities Usually ." Know Torture First Hand

Northeott Named]

“Good Citizen’ in State ~ D. A. R. Contest. across the dinner table and talked

Miss- Nancy Northcott, Speedway high school student, has been}. chosen Speedway's “Good Citizen" | in the Indiana Good Citisenship Pilgrimage contest sponsored by the| Indiana society of the D. A. R. ° She is president of the Business Education club, editor of the school newspaper and literary editor of the Speedette, school yearbook. Other contestants were Alice Powell and Betty Jo Butterworth, _- 2 =» = 2 : “The Hope of the World" a Christmas cantata, will be presented | by the Speedway high school chorus {in Deceniber at. the ..Speedway | Christian ‘church and in the school | tablished fact, but it seemed more |auditoriim. ‘Miss Louise Starkey 1s incongruous that “Mike” should be | choral director. » — doing the talking. — ~~ oles | LA | When the United States came | A “Jeep” dance climaxed the war|info thé war, “Mike” got a transfer {bond and stamp drive at Speedway|from the Canadian commandos and |school last week with enough presently found himself in an in’ {stamps and bonds sold to buy four|{fantry outfit somewhere in front of | jeeps. is. | Students conducting the drive] “Mike,” like most soldiers, talks {were Dorothy Wirey, Margaret of results rather than causes. They | Bratton, Betty Downs, Mary Ann| were assigned a spot in the line | Eisenbart, Joann Scruby, Herschel and were prepared to hold on. The | Atkinson and Byron Downs, machine guns were set on the top ! - {of the slope.

thousand night noises of a town at war was rising from the flat street along the waterfront. ; It seemed in- : congrous to speak Mr, Casey of the post-war world in a spot where the presence of war seemed a permanent and es-

do,” the principal character in this study of local ancient history, sat

If the German Army down on top of them. He would have to dispose of the sentry somehow, without noise, The job became more complicated when he got to the top of the rise.

of course, but “Mike” and a friend Not one lone guard was ahead of

had to conceal theirihim but. two, pistols, which is why this script of The man whose helmet they had Teminiscence can be written. seen, was standing with his rifle, ~“With-a pistol where -he ‘could get jooking toward the American: line at it readily, “Mike” found himself marked by occasional spots of fire next to another lad who also had{si in the distance, = an accessible pistol. They signaled!” Beyond him another German lay the glad news to one another and prone looking into the blackness walked along until they were away through a pair of night glasses. from the main body of the at- “Mike” unarmed save for a mess kit tackers. knife, crouched behind the standing Ther they stepped out of line and rifieman, waiting for something to shot the two ‘sergeants dead. {turn up. He didn’t discuss the tac“Mike” got one; his pal the other. tics of the maneuver, It seems eleThe two privates ran away. The mentary that in such a situation he 26 Americans started for their own {couldn't have improved things by lines with “Mike” automatically in being brassy.

AVIATION STUDENTS inet cr es T0 BE ENTERTAINED

_ Aviation students of the Butler [university detachment will be guests] {at ‘a dance and variety show to be 'given Saturday night by the New{man elub at the Catholic social [center, 13th and Pennsylvania sts. | Miss Joan Beebe will be mistress {of ceremonies and the program will include impersonations, a tap dance

By DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK The use of words such as “singleness,” “poise,” “unity,” “compact-

ness” and “serenity” to describe a well-integrated life; may suggest a | Jie, With all conflicts resolved, but such a picture-of powerful and admirable personality is plainly false. The great souls have been

“placid

inwardly tortured.

Wagner was, for the most part; no more serene than a stormy

sea. Carlyle suffered such inner mutiny while trying to finish his history of the French revolution that he sald to his wife: “They may twaddle as they like about the miseries of a bad conscience: But I should like to ‘know whether Judas Iscariot was more mis.erable.than

Thomas Carlyle.

oF SE "who, never did gnything criminal, so far.as he remeinbered!” i ". Florence Nightingale Kad a des- « perate time finding herself, and wrote in her diary, “In my 3ist

year I see nothing desirable but

th.” Dwight L Moddy said, had more trouble. with D..L. Moody than with any other man know.” Beethoven went through perdition with his unruly emotions, and when at last ‘deafness closed in on him his inner struggle is only imperfectly voiced in his exclamation, “If I were only rd of this affliction I could em-

brace the world! ... No! I cannot |

endure it! I will seize fate by the throat; most assuredly it shall not get me wholly down” Understand Paul As for the saints, they all understand Paul, “The good which I

would I do not: but the evil which

I would not, that I practice . . Wretched man that I am!”

If integration is the high good |

we have said it is, it cannot mean mere tranquillity, where. conflict ceases in an equable and steady calm, but must somehow include the range. of fact that such tor‘tured souls reveal. Who of us does not understand the conversation in James M. Barrie's Sentimental Tommy? * ‘But you must decide!” Grizel almost screamed ‘1 needna,’ he stammered: “till we're at: Tilliedrum: Let's speak about some other thing. She rocked her arms, crying, ‘It is so ~-€asy to make up one's mind.’ ‘It's easy to you that has just one mind,’ he retorted with spirit. ‘but if you had as many minds as I have-—!""’ ! The key to the solution of this problem lies in the fact that all integration in hierarchical. It involves the domination of some traits and purposes over others and, like any government, it seldom, ‘if ever, is so consummated as to quiet all dissent. It involves not only the harmonizing of conflicts but also the subjugation of revolts, It involves a scale of 4 Jyalues, with some supreme value, or complex of associated values, 80 orgarizing life that one gladly foregoes lesser aims, and resists

contradictory enticements, rather than sacrifice life's chief aim and highest worth. Moreover, it entails not alone the resolving of

‘conflicts, but, when that is impossible, the toleration of conflicts,

values first; YW -

stage trighi. UNIT AWARDS

the candid, objective, sometimes DUS recognition of them, with steady resolution to

i Some amazing

YANK PILOT DOWNS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Alglers, Nov. 27 (Delayed) (U., P.).— {Second Lt. Francis Clark of Berea, {Ky., ran into an air battle acci{dentally yesterday and shot down {a Heinkel 177, Germany's biggest { bomber. ‘ | Clark was piloting a Beaufighter {on -a. routine trip with two- passen-

1gers When he happened 0 -se6 17

ibig German aly attack on a Med|iterranean convoy. i {chance of getting something.” he {said. “I saw the Heinkel breaking {away and I went after him.” On Clark's first attack, one of 'the Nazi crew members parachuted {from the plane and the pilot jettijsoned his bombs and fuel | “I made two more attacks,” Clark ;sald, “and the Heinkel went down (diving, and plunged into the sea {blazing end to end.” } | A second man had bailed out not long before the bomber hit the sea. Clark has been flying Beaufighters in North Africa for some time but previously had been credited ‘with only a half-plane victory—a triumph shared with another pilot

ENGLISH TEACHERS WILL HEAR DEBOER

Dr. John J. DeBoer, instructor at the Chicago Teachers’ college and assistant editor of the English Journal, will speak on war-time curriculum revisions at a meeting of the Indianapolis English Teachers’ club-at 4 p. m. Friday at the world war memorial building. He also will report on the annual Thanksgiving meeting of the

National Council of Teachers of:

English board of directors held in New York city. Miss Helen Thornton, president of the loeal club, will preside. The program coemniiftee is composed of Miss Margaret Burnside, Mrs. Josephine Caldwell and Miss Nora Thomas.

JOB'S DAUGHTERS TO MEET

Job's Daughters, Bethel Lodge 1,

will hold 8 special meeting at 7:30 |p. m. tomorrow at Castle Hall. -

| NAZI BY ACCIDENT

“I hung around on the outside. -

routine, a jitterbug contest, songs by Miss Rose Houk, and a skit by Miss Patricia Fitzpatrick. Miss Mary Ellen Kirk is program chairman, to he assisted by Misses! . _ ..z Marjorie Cain, Mary Lou Stefly jand Mary Jane McCarthy. Miss {Joan Greene is in charge of re- | freshments.

Navy PBY Dares

| . Japs in Rescue ADMIRAL HALSEY'S HEADQUARTERS, South Pacific, Nov. 1 29 (U., P).—A. navy PBY rescue plane known as “Dumbo” dared crossfire from Japanese batteries Wednesday to rescue the crew of "a Mitchell bomber forced down - on an island just off Bougainville.- -. Those whe figured in the rescue were not-named EE The Mitchell, hit by ground fire during a raid on Kahili girdrome on southern Bouganville, came down off Nusave island, be- | tween Ballale and Shortland islands and only four miles from Ballale - The crew reached the island. Four fighters stayed above for three hours to protéct them, calling for the PBY boat. As the rescue ship came down a crossfire was directed at it from Kahili and the nearby. island enemy bases } h Every man of the crew came off | safely |

BOMBER ON 46 RAIDS GIVEN TOP -CITATION,

| WITH THE RCAF BOMBER SQUADRON, IN TUNISIA, Nov. 201 (U. P). — The first distinguished | flying cross ever awarded to an aircraft has gone to ‘““The Turtle” a Wellington bomber with the Royal Canadian air force in Tunisia, for having completed 46 successful raids on enemy bases . The award, unofficial, was made by the ground crew when it painted the DFC ribbon on the fuselage just under -the painted row of 45 bombs, one for each mission. It was in recognition of the fact that the aircraft always came back and never missed a sortie while on| operations . I |

CHRISTMAS PAKi: ... NED |

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command. “I guess we all just stayed put for

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walked another couple of steps and brought the rifie down on the back of his head; so he, too, died without knowing what had happened. The platoon had to lie out in front of an American outpost un-

“Mike” and one or two others for identification. The next day all of them were fighting again. Mike didn't get any medal nor so far as can be determined, was

{he mentioned in dispatches. Every-

body was too busy for that sort of stuff,-hé thinks, “It's going t8 be a tough life for a lot of young men after this war, “Mike” said, when he could be heard over a lot of the local noises of Alglers. “We've missed our schooling and we're not prepared for the bumps. We've all been coddled in comfortable homes and we've been softened up, see what

I mean?”

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til a. skeptical sentry admitted |

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R. Hartley Sherwood is chairman I

of the United Church Emphasis

committee and the Rev. F. A,

Pfleiderer, secretary. Members in< clude Edward Dirks, Eugene C. Fos-

Fred D. Leete, Arthur D. Pratt, Dr,

Herbert ¥. Thurston, Mrs. Virgil A, Sly and Mrs. John A. Towns,

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