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A Harvard Back ground

THE BOOKLET is the ‘product of J. Raymond , director of the C. I. Os department of research and education. Mr. Walsh has a background more academic than political, he having taught at Harvard. He never ran for anything. ‘But the Walsh in practical politics contains sound doctrine. For instance, one may disagree with

the statement that “to the average American, politi-

cians are crooks,” but he probably will concur with the companion assertion that “the truth is that politicians are no more corrupt than the people who elect them. »

. Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

REMEMBER BILLY OWEN, the 17-year-old Howe high school football and basketball star? Billy, you may remember, had his picture in The Times when he

left Nov. § for the Great Lakes naval training station.

The reason for the picture was that a large delegation of beauteous damsels—every one of - them a good looker—lined up at Union station and kissed him goodby. Well, Billy's back home, girls. Seems he had a little trouble _with._one ‘of his ears. (Nothing _ wrong with his eyesight, or at least his eye for beauty, was there!) . Billy says he's terribly disappointed, hut has hopes of getting back

fixed “up. . George Diener of Sidener & van Riper, the advertising agency, has a young son, Bill, who will be 2 next month. Bill was taken to see Santa Claus at Ayres’ the other day and when Santa asked Bill what he would like for Christmas, he lisped: “Pretzels.” ... C. R, (Pink) Gutermuth, _rent control director for the state OPA, was giving a* radio talk on WIRE yesterday and read the portion _ of his script telling about how fine rent control is for "the tenants. Then the intérlocutor asked him: “And how about the landlord?” Just then Pink dropped his seript. “Oh, the landlord!” mumbled Pink, as he stooped and picked up. the manuscript. “Yeah, the landlord,” he muttered, as he sorted through the script to find his place. Then he finally got back on the beam. . . . Byron Taggart, the. WIBC announcer,

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~The Three Musketeers :

FLMER TAFLINGER, the artist, climbed on a Pennsylvania 'trackless trolley downtown, He man-’ aged to find a seat on one of those seats that face sideways and are big enough (almost) for. three, His seatmates were a thin fellow—on the opposite end from Elmer—and & portly gentleman in the middle -seat. The portly one kept beaming and looking over his fellow passengers with a happy air. Finally he’ could contain himself no longer. "Be! you don't

* Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The real fight about subsidies is to wreck price control. OPA is represented ‘as a collection of nitwits and theorists. Net Chester Bowles, head of OPA, in four months Here. bas ‘brought In some 40-odd businesmen. Leon “Henderson, In his day, was de‘nounced by Senator Guffey, and by people around Democratic national committee 3 for loading OPA up with too many Republicans. Probably four out of five of the businessmen “brought in lately voted against - President Roosevelt and. possibly two-thirds of the OPA personnel, both paid and volunteer, are Re- _ publicans, At any rate, the bulk of the key men are, as Chester Bowles Sas, ouly Titers ested: 1n trying to do. dct and thankless job in the most e t way possible “and then to get the hell out Washington and back to somewhat more pleasant tasks.”

Some of Men Who Were Employed

HERE ARE some of the businessmen who have been employed full time since Aug. 10: JAMES F. BROWNLEE, deputy administrator, price department; formerly president, Frankfort Distilleries; vice president, General Foods Corp.; sales-

chain, New York. REAGAN P. CONNALLY, director, consumer » goods price division; formerly president, Interstate Depart-

Co., clothing manufacturers, Brooklyn; Ing manager and asitant to he ics president, R. 5. Macy Co.

- “in-the- navy ‘when he gets his ear

Jobs-—and a fine school system With the faculty stutfed with relatives. “Let's quit blaming the politicians and face the responsibility of full citizenship. Let's go to work where it counts—in the. political party of our choice.” Then follows the C. I. O. angle, or the angle of any other organized group, “Let's be sure our organizations do not waste their votes by splitting it. We are strong, if we vote, and vote together.”

The 10 Fundamentals

DISCUSSING THE way to become a local political |-

leader, the directions say: “1. Know the number of your ward and precinct. “2. Do anything which needs “3. Listen to your neighbor's beef, “but don't argue with him. sense. No cracks about ration points, please.) “5. Make out ‘a list of your friends and acquaintances. ings, introduce them to candidates, make a list of those who attend. “6. Do whatever favors you can for people. “7. Make yourself heard at meetings, especially on

* subjects of policy.

“8. Start discussions of local politics at social gatherings—bridge parties, afternoon teas, stag affairs. “9. Distribute literature of sympathetic organiza. tions—labor unions, P.-T. A's, religious and liberal groups, “10. Get control of more votes than anyone else in the precinct—and the job's yours. id

know what I've got in this sack?” he asked. Elmer grunted a little. “I've just been to Sears Roebuck and I got. a box of Oxydol,” the portly man said triumphantly. He continued talking about this and that. Elmer warmed up a little and confided that he, too, had made a find. “I was in the Van Sickle Radio shop,” said Elmer, “and found a hard-to-get radio tube for my mother’s radio.” Not to be outdone, the thin man chimed in: “You guys have nothing on me. You'd never guess what I've got in this package. . . , Well, sir... I was in a delicatessen and way back in a corner, behind some other stuff, I found these two tins of smoked oysters. I just love ‘em.”

Half and Half

© SONJA HENIE'S troupe finally “got out of ‘town, but. it took {wo days to do it. Because of the crowded railroad trains, the troupe had to be split up, half leaving for Detroit Monday evening and the other half last night. The same arrangements had to be made with the baggage, 48 trunks being shipped out Monday and "about 55 yesterday. As for Sonja, she went to Detroit via Chicago where it's reported she was to have a brief reunion with hubby Dan Topping, who is (or was) on furlough. . . . The big Coca-Cola sign on the point of Kentucky ave. and Illinois (at Washington) is getting refinished in the Christmas spirit. We've always been interested in watching the workmen repaint it periodically (six times a year) and frequently have wondered how it was done. So we phoned Ernie Niebrand, advertising -manager of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. - Ernie explained that his company furnishes’ General Outdoor Advertising - Co. gpa geeutac pistuce tg in repradesed “makes a life size reproduction on paper, with the design perforated. The pattern is. cut into blocks one foot square—2200 of them. The painters hold one of the pattern blocks against the big board, then trace out the pattern with charcoal dust, later tracing it with-indelible pencil. After that they start painting; judging the colors from'the miniature picture originally provided. It's a pretty neat job they do, too. Incidentally, the No. 1 painter on the job, Harry A. Krichbaum, is one of the best in the country. He learned his business in the navy in the last war. Helping him currently is Bill Northern.

By Raymond Clapper!

branch: formerly president and managing director, Golden Rule department store, St. Paul. RUSSELL A. WALKEY, price analyst, primary products -branch; formerly office manager, H. OC: Godman Co., shoe manufacturers, Columbus, O. JEAN F. CARROLL, director food price division; formerly branch manager, Kroger Grovery and Baking Co., Cincinnati. - GEOFFREY BAKER, assistant to director, food price division; formerly assistant national manager in charge of government sales, General Foods Sales Co., New York. MAX A. CHRISTOPHER, chief, distribution branch; formerly president, Symms-Shafér Merchandise Co., Colby, Kas, RAYMOND A, MESERVE, head, distribution price section; formerly manager and meat buyer, George C. Shaw Co. retail grocery, Portland, Me. THOMAS R. BRADLEY, price analyst, meats, fish, fats and oils branch; formerly manager, Rath Packing. Co., Waterloo, Ia. . COLIN 8. GORDON, chief, cereals, feeds and ag ricultural chemicals price brinch; formerly vice president, Quaker Oats Co., Chicago. JALPH E._DE ONG, price analy, cereals, eeds and agricultural chemicals branch; fermerly secretary-treasurer, Pacific Insecticides Insti- | tute, San Francisco, Insecticide Manufacturers fg sociation. ACARL N. LOVEGRAN, head, processed fruits and vegetables price section; formerly president, Canners’

fruits and vegetables price branch; formerly general’ ‘manager, Watsonville (Cal) Apple Growers and Packers asosciation,

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“SECOND SECTION _

Tomorrow's Job—

GROUP SAYS UNITY VITAL

Drawn Up Plans for

Progress.

By E. A. EVANS - Serippa-Howsrd Stat Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.— The National Planning association, first private research organization of its kind in this country, will observe here next week the start of its 10th year of endeavor to serve

.!ment- of points upon’ which they:

DATE, W we shall hs “host th

1“to make the American government

| the Atherican people by charting | the road to high production, em- | ployment and security. Like other agencies, the N. P, A.| | sees opportunity and challenge in! the post-war period. It emphasizes |

opportunity grasped, only through the joint efforts of agriculture, business, labor and government, The association, head by William L. Batt, vice chairman of the war production board, has enlisted committees of nationally-known businessmen, labor * leaders and farm leaders to consider post-war programs and proposals. The committee members serve as individuals, not as spokesmen. for their companies or organizations.

Draft Objectives They began by drafting a state-

founyl- themselves = itv - agreement. | The result, a striking declaration of interdependence, will be quoted] in this and two succeeding articles. “We are unwilling,” the three committees agreed, “to see the idea of post-war planning made a political football, a grindstone for the axes of special-interest groups, or a bone of contention between, those who want to go back to the past end those who want to blueprint the ‘perfect world.’ “If, when the fighting is over, we have ex-goldiers selling- apples, or masses ‘of workers idle in present war production centers, or people starving in one part of the country Jagd. surpluses. rot in other pe ther

I¢ will be too late to ‘plan’.”

Next. Planning's First Goal.

CLAIM TOKYO BEGAN RIOTS AT TULE LAKE

WASHINGTON, Dee. 1 (U. P)— Rep. John M. Costello (D. Cal.) said today there was evidence to suggest that recent disturbances in the Tule Lake, Cal, Japanese relocation

center ‘were “inspired” by the Japanese government and touched off by short-wave radio messages from Tokyo to~ pro-Japanese internees. Costello, chairman of a Dies subcommittee investigating the disorders, said the inquiry had indicated the riots were inspired in Tokyo

look bad,” and that the committee had received reports that leaders of the outbreaks were in radio contact with Tokyo.

He -said residents in the camp area reported that Japanese-lan-guage broadcasts had interfered with their reception of long-wave radio programs during - the period - immediately preceding the disturbances, and that explanations of-fered-by the spokesmen for the internees were “unsatisfactory.”

Claims Longer

Wear for Shoes

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (U, P.). —The war production board said yesterday it thinks it really has something that will increase the wear of women's shoes by 15 to 40 per cent. An interdepartmental commit tee which has been conducting. ‘experiments on shoé leather reported satisfactory results with soles dipped in an oil and wax solution. The committee believes the processed sole can be used on socalled “cement constructed shoes,” a process used in manufacturlig about 150,000,000 Jars of women’s

FIRE CAUSES RCA TO FIND NEW SPACE

10 SECURITY

' Private Organization Has!

that the challenge can be met, the|

exclusive United - Press dispatch

ing to “get lots more hours so I can

_ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER y 1948

Hat Size: %

Times Special Writer

Henry Wallace to throw in the

upon which we are glad to report. "= »

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hat. He just carries it, He chuckled over your letter

sort of man. He didn't know wha what to answer, or whether he After all, question.

table at the side of his office. “I wear a 7%,” I said, trying t But he didn't fall for that, so 1 table, picked it up, and put it on. I looked inside.

“lI never wear a hat,” he explai trouble about it back in NRA days. I used to walk to work

_bare-headed and the hat manufacturers heard about it, and they raised a lot of fuss. So I bought

a hat. Now I carry it in" my hand.” ) . . » 80, MRS. NEWTON, if you

just want to give the vice president a hat, he has one, and it looks as though it still can stand a lot of carrying around. If you want to throw one in the presidential ring, that's another mat- | ter, and you'll have, to use your ‘own judgment.

By GEORGE WELLER

and the Chicago Daily News, Inc.

SOMEWHERE. IN AUSTRALIA, Dec. 1.—The husky natives of Makin island will give the Americans there

them. America

the Boston misAER FEA 2 . were. the first. 10. + land there in 1842, exactly - 100 years] ago. America then did not discern its - future naval re s ponsibility in the Pacific and no political claims were put forth. But the Boston clergymen simplfied the native language—never written before their arrival--and gave it 13 alphabetical letters, American “Gilbertese” went along all right until 1899 when the French Sacred Heart fathers arrived. They gave the natives a 17-letter alphabet. Ever since, the Gilbertese have been doubtful whether foreigners know their own language.

Escaped Death

It was these same Sacred Heart fathers who received the Japanese on the beach when they landed af{ter Pearl Harbor, It is not known whether they suffered the fate of priests butchered: by the Japanese in the .islands of the Arafura sea. Apparently they escaped death. The

Mr. Weller

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Mrs. Loren D. Newton, of Pittsburgh, writes to inquire, “What size hat does Vice President Henry Wallace wear? : “The reason is this, my husband, who is an ensign in the navy, and I want to buy a hat for

election. We are both great admirers of him. “So if you would please send the hat size and

style he usually wears, we would both appreciate it.” Mrs. Newton, your inquiry took some research,

“MR: WALLACE has ‘a hat, dark brown felt, size Just a regular hat, nothing fancy. : “Hat” I use advisedly, for he does not wear a

pleased, but somewhat embarrassed. He is a shy

you raised a rather delicate political

“There it is,” he finally sald, pointing over to a

Yes, it was the same, 7%

Henry Wallace Hardly Ever Wears It: New Fedora Offered to Hi m for '44 Race

By THOMAS L. STOKES

next presidential

A evidently very

t to say at first, should answer,

0 draw him out, went over to the It fitted exactly.

ned. “1 got into

“I have no comment on polities,” Mr. Wallace said. He said he is just going to go on “sawing wood” and making speeches. He held up his hand, revealing a blister. “I was out sawing down trees yesterday,” he said, He didn't’ say anything about the efforts of conservative party leaders to dump him from the ticket in 1944, nor what President Roosevelt might think about that. Labor groups are active in his behalf as a vice. presidential candidate again. with Mr. Roosevelt in 1944. !

,Japanese attitude in different places

peraments.

Makin island, which is correctly know these waters almost as well lof other creatures of the forest. pronounced Maggin, has the ffhest|as the “British, and "until the war|Almost every night wild animals and- strongest natives of the whole {ar better than did the Americans. | every facility provided we omit the q,y0rt group. The men have been From their possessions in the Marusual procedure of trying to educate/g oN Taco -pound barrels shalls the Germans came to these missionaries frome. shindeck to bulkhead and to|lslands to trade,

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{sioner : Se In pushing northward from the Ellices ‘into the Gilberts, the Amerjcans have crossed an important racial line from Polynesia to Micronesia. The tongue of the Ellices is! akin to Samoan, which many navy | men and marines speak from servfice in our base at Pago Pago on the island of Tutulla in American Samoa. But “Gilbertese” is different. These Micronesians have a polyglot of Oriental, Malayan and Polynesian words, Some Gilbertese are slightly slant-eyed.

Linguistic Twist By a linguistic twist which remains unexplained, the people of Niu, a tiny island inthe middle Ellices, north of Funafuti, speak “Gilbertese.” It is, therefore, possible that some members of marine fight. er units at Funafutl have learned a few words. of Gilbertese. Natives of Tarawa, just won by the U. 8. marines are less friendly to the whites and less . sound physically and morally than the Makin villagers. Americans will find a rudimentary coral system of roads there however.. They were

Brother Joe Ke By Wiping y Wipi ROSELLE, N, J, Dec. 1 (U, P.).— Fourteen-year-old Helene Lis ¢was happy today, happier than in atl her life, because her brother, Joe, kept his promise. There are & lot of Brother Joes inthis world, but hér Joe was an exception. He was Joe Henry Lis, the machine-gunner for the five marines who mowed down all but one of a T75-man Japanese patrol on Bougainville, The tall, lanky youth of 20 told his sister before he went over that the first 10 Japanese he got would be for her. “He kept his promise all right,

didn’t he?” Helene shouted as she waved a newspaper’ carrying the

telling how Joe and four other marines valiantly fought the Japanese for two and a half hours. While she was talking of her brother, Helen hugged a pink pil-

pt Promise Out Jap Patrol

was the United States marine corps emblem and an: embroidered poem, which she thought was the most beautiful she ever: read. It said: “Sister, someone 1 love I know - loves me, Sister of mine, true as can "vet Ever I think of happy days flown, Remembering you always, sister my own.” ; Joe's mother, Mrs. Josephine Novak Lis, -had suspected he was on Bougainville because she thought one of the men in a picture of the marinés in ‘the South Pacific island was him. “The marine hero was born at West Scranton, Pa. After attending high school there he come to Reselle with his family. While work- | ing for a type foundry, Joe enlisted in the marines in September, 1042, and went to the. South Pacific in December. He has a brother in the navy and another training for the

low which he-had sent her. On’ it

U. 8. amy air forge,

Flier on 'Dauntless-Dottie’ - Is Sgt. Morgan, Hoosier Hero

8. Sgt. James Moigan, who has one air medal to his credit, is hurry-

The hat is size 7% it into the presidential race?

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{led us up a jungle path today to

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With Spikes

NL By A. T. STEELE

- and The Chicago Dally Ne Ine. ~ ON THE AKRON FRONT, Bu ma, Dec. 1.~The British oy >

the hilltop position where the British and Indian outpost over

Bengal, On The forest through which we

«+ + but will Henry Wallace toss

FOR YOUR further information, Mrs. Newton, Mr. Wallace doesn’t think President Roosevelt has made up his mind about whether to try for a fourth term. He does not, however, feel so gloomy about Democratic prospects, on the basis of recent. © BVérits, as do some others, It was from Pennsylvania, you may recall, Mrs, Newton, that the movement for Mr. Wallace for vice presidential candidate started in the 1940 convention, . You might start something: by | Hiriwirig that hat inthe ring.

Makin Island Natives Co- operative, but They're Allergic to Our 'Education’

built by the second governor, Tel-

| The Germans, Japs and. Chinese

At Versailles, {they ‘went to. Japan and Aierica’s he. PRR while ‘our diplomats produced (whité paper of protest seeking to ‘explain their political defeat.

British Won

The BRritish pushed out the old German trading company--Jaluit {Gesselsc ~0f the Gilberts and [the last inese company, Ong {Chung, which had a high reputation, was swallowed up by the Australian W. Rs -Carpenter-Copra company. For trading rights in the Gilberts, two Australian companies, the Carpenter and the Burns Philp, used to pay the government fees varying. from 100 pounds annually upward. ~The Gilbertese are masterly fisher men. In addition to selling the usual copra, they specialize in selling sharks’ fins, In encountering the Gilberts, the navy, marines and army are meet ing their peers in seamanship. While less robust than those barrelchester Ellice islanders whom 1

futi, the Gilbertese have an even bolder history of Micronesian sailmanship than their cousins of Samoa or the Ellices. Tn the British museum, what is possibly the only! leaf-- map of canoe navigation in existence comes from the Gilberts, It is marked with’ stars lecause canoe navigation uses stars alone steering points.

- Courageous

Besides being courageous in their own right, the Gilbertese, especially the Makin islanders, contributed generously in the past war to the Prince of Wales fund, the popnlation of 34,000 offering about $40f;000. It is unlikely that they would willingly - allow—even under Japanese domination—Nazi commerce raiders to hide in their atolls as aid the Marshall islanders in the early days of this war when these were roaming the Pacific and Indian oceans from Nauru to western Aus

Before the war the Japs caused

trading schooners into islands, such as Abemama, and unloaded goods

clandestine trading, they paying the regular fees for landing

- | treetops.

a 5 * your mind whether it is an animal

described in dispatches from Funa-|

| plodded was full of sound. Cecadas ‘and tree frogs {kept up an in-* |cessant din, Monkeys shook the: Overs: | {head airplanes Ithrobbed but | they could not ™ seen through the mass verdure about us, with its warp and woof of twisted vines. Here, under the’

Mr. Steele deep green canopy, the alr was motionless. The noise of our artil-

lery, bouncing around the sound box of tree trunks and mountain sides, provided exaggerated sound effects.

.. J Jungle warfare, noise. Jaan. important psychological ~wespoii. Some Jap guns are designed as much for the nolse they make as for the damage they do. The mas jor had great respect for Jungle sounds. .

“Jap or Animal?

“What makes it aggravating.” he [said, “is that it is so difficult to {distinguish Jap noises: from those

come in close to our outpost and letve us a serénade, We hear mon= {keys barking, and deer, jackals, {panthers su even elephants. Buety

lor a damned Jap.”

At the top of the rim, we called upon the British strong point. Ine dian soldiers lounged about on the mountain slopes, at every point of of possible attack, were aligned vicious barriers of 00 spikes, all pointe ing outward. At other points on the defense perimeter, martraps had ‘been laid. Deep holes, studded at the bottom with bamboo points, awaited the unwary intruder,

. Take Extreme Precautions

. Extreme precautions like these are necessary to forestall surprise attacks in the black hours of the jungle night. : The Japs penetrate the gaps bes tween outposts to reéconnoiter our positions, They - rarely attack but sometimes throw stones in an .ef« fort to draw British fire and thus discover the location of our posis tions. Our troops hurl stones in return, often coating’ them with mud so that the spatter will make a bigger noise in the jungle confines. - Under a big tree’ #it“a” table of rough saplings, I met and talked with the British officers of this forward unit. Bronzed and bare to the waist, they were a young and keen lot, eager to get really going

{British camp), and opened a can of bully beef. ; The commanding officer produced | a jar of real English mustard—pre--war stuff, he said. It made bully beef almost paltable,

Hard, Dangerous Life

It is a hard and these fellows live but they seem to mind it. It is the