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Ernie’s vacation,
PARIS, September, 1044 —This is the last of these columns from Europe. By the time you read this, the old man will be cn his way back to America, After that will come a long, long rest, And after the rest—
- well, you never can tell, Undoubtedly this seems
to you to be a funny time for a fellow to be quitting the war, It is a funny time. But I'm not leaving because of a whim, or even especially because I'm homesick. ° I'm leaving for one reason only ~because I have just got to stop. “I've had it,” as they say in the army. I have had all I can take for a while. I've been 29 months overseas since this war started; have written around 700,000 words about it; have totalled nearly a year in the frontlines. I do hate terribly to leave right now, but I have given out. I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has finally become too great. All of a sudden it seemed to me that if I heard one more shot or saw one more dead man, I would go off my nut. And if I had to write one more column I'd collapse, So I'm on my way. It may be that a few months of peace will restore some vim to my spirit, and I can go warhorsing off to the Pacific. We'll see what a little New Mexico sunshine does along that line,
Army Is Just Too Big
EVAN AFTER two and a half years of war writing there still is a lot I would like to tell. I wish right now that I could tell you about our gigantic and staggering supply system that keeps these great armies moving. I'm sorry I haven’t been able to get around to many branches of service that so often are neglected. I would like to have written about the transportation corps and the airport engineers and the wire-stringers and the chemical mortars and the port battalions, To all of those that I have missed,
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
DR. M. O. ROSS, president of Butler university, has been confined to his home since Monday with a high fever. . . . Hilton U. Brown, a director of Butler, is visiting in Louisiana, and is en route to Florida. es « » Also headed for Florida—to visit his son—is Roy y ho
Sahm, of Bessire & Co. . .. The Y. M. C. A, is making plans for a dinner Dec, 11 celebrating its 90th anniversary. The “Y” was founded here Dec. 12, 1854. For many years the “Y” was located on the site now occupied by the Three Sisters store, on Illinois south of Market, . , . When the Nature Study club meets Sunday night, Donald G. Klopp, of the Shortridge staff, is scheduled to speak on. “Insects in Present Day Advertising.” Shucks, Don; that's no way to talk about those in the advertising business. « « «» Marcellus Pohlmeyer, of the OPA rent control section, is one of the busiest men in town. He hears rent complaints all day long. The other day, his office was full of folks waiting to talk ta him, and he had been kept busy with phone calls. The phone rang again. It was a woman who gave a lengthy recitgl of her grievances. Then, she suddenly halted, and said: “Oh, wait while I go out to the kitchen, I've got a chicken cooking on the stove.” “Lady, call me back; I can’t wait,” said Marcellus. “Oh,” ejacu-~ lated the caller, “so you don’t want to serve the public. All right; I'l just report this to Mayor Tyndall.”
A Thoughtful Act
CHARLES STEPHEN, 2121 Sugar Grove ave. Is one of those fellows who likes to do things for other people. Mr. Stephen, who works for the state printing board, is the Republican precinct committeeman for Precinct 10, Ward 6. On election day, Mr. Stephen sa¥ed the envelopes containing the ballots mailed here by about 45 service men — Republicans and Democrats alike, And then, the next day he delivered
World of Science
AWARD of the 1944 Nobel prize in medicine to Dr. Alexander Fleming, the British bacteriologist, for his discovery of penicillin, has occasioned no surprise in American medical circles. Discoveries like penicillin are obvious candidates for Nobel recognition. With few exceptions, the Nobel prize in medicine has been awarded for specific cures or treatments of disease, for example, insulin for diabetes or the liver treatment for pernicious anemia. There is some surprise, however, that the prize was not divided between Fleming and Dr. H. W. Florey, professor of pathology at Oxford, who directed the developmental work on penicillin. Noble prizes have been divided on numerous occasions, as for example, the 1923 prize for insulin, which went to Dr. F. G. Banting and Dr. J. J. R. McLeod. Dr. McLeod had done the pioneer studies of the pancreas ‘gland. Banting did the final work. And incidentally, these two split the prize with two of their associates who had worked on the final phase
of the project,
Outlawed By H itler
IT 18 INTERESTING to note that the first wartime Nobel award goes for penicillin, whereas last pre-war prize in medicine went for the sulfa drugs. The 1939 prize in medicine was offered to Dr. Gerhard Domagk for the development of sulfanilimide, but Hitler would not permit him to accept it. The Nobel prizes first met with Hitler's disfavor when the peace prize was awarded in 1936 to Carl
Von Ossietzky.
My Day
WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—~When shopping in New York, the other day, I went in to. America house, where I saw Mrs, Vanderbilt Webb. She told me of a very interesting plan which is being developed by Dartmouth college in co-operation with the American Craftsmen’s Educational Council, Inc, of 485 Madison Ave, New York City. They are working out with the
advantage of this plan may do so. The plan is designed to give
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my apologies. But the &rmiy over here is just too big to cover it all. : I know’ the first question everyone will ask when I get home is: . “When will the war be over?” So I'll answer even before you ask me, and the answer is: “I don't know.” ¢ We all hope and most of us think it won't be’ too long now. And yet there's a possibility of it going on and on, even after we are deep in Germany.
The Germans are desperate and their leaders have |f nothing to. quit for. At
Another Hideous Black Mark
EVERY DAY the war contintes is another hideous black mark against the German nation. They are beaten and yet they haven't quit. Every life lost from here on is a life lost to no purpose. If Germany does deliberately drag this war on and on she will so infuriate the world by her in-
human bullheadedness that she is apt to be com- |}
mitting national suicide, In our other campaigns we felt we were fighting, on the whole, a pretty good people. But we don't feel that way now. A change has occurred. On the western front the Germans have shown their real cruelty of mind. We didn't use to hate them, but we do now, : The outstanding figure on this western front is Lt. Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley. He is so modest and sincere that he probably will not get his proper credit, except in military textbooks. But he has proved himself a great general in every sense of the word. And as a human being, he is just as great, Having him in command has been a blessed good fortune for America. I cannot help but feel bad about leaving. Even hating.the whole business as much as I do, you come to be a part of it. And you leave some of yourself here when you depart. Being with the American soldier has been a rich experience, To the thousands of them that I know personally and the other hundreds of thousands for who I have had the humble privilege of being a sort of mouthpiece, this then is to say goodby—and good luck.
the envelopes to the families of the soldiers, as souvenirs. Most of the parents and wives really appreciated his thoughtfulness. , , , Nearly 15,000 packages of cigarets were shipped out of Indianapolis this week. They were in kit bags which have been packed
SECOND SECTION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1944 . PAGE 17 PHOTOS DRAMATICALLY PORTRAY THE FLIGHT FROM LIUCHOW— Labor—— Resignations
with gifts for service men going overseas. There were | FH
10,368 of the kit bags, each containing at least one]: package of cigarets, and some having two. We didn’t|
report this until the kits got out of town for fear the shipment would be hijacked. The kits, which contain .such items as soap, plying cards, razors, writing paper, etc., are handed to service men as they
go aboard ship for overseas assignments, (P. 8. This|$
has nothing to do with creating the local cigaret shortage. The cigarets were furnished by the national Red Cross headquarters.)
The Helping Hand
WE'VE FALLEN behind recently with our public assistance work. For instance, we've been meaning to tell you that the youngsters of Swing Haven, the teen canteen on 38th and Keystone, are: trying to find an “angel” who will donate a juke box. They have one but it costs them $20 a month to rent it, with them furnishing the records, and with rent on their room at $55, they can’t raise enough money for expenses. If there's a donor, the person to contact is Mrs. Mott, BR. 1218. ... And the boys out at Stout field wish someone would donate a pair of andirons for the newly decorated dayroom for Squadron N. If the andirons don’t cost too much, the boys could raise the money. They'd like a gift even better. Donors—contact Mrs. Strickland at the Red Cross—LI, 1441. ,.. We don’t ordinarily turn this
get started, there'd be no ending. But we just can’t turn down the request of Mrs. Hugh M. Snider for help. On the night of Nov. 10 she lost a coin bracelet downtown, Market, and Illinois and Ohio. The reason we break our rule in this case is that it was a gift from her husband, Capt. Hugh M. Snider, serving in New Guinea. He made it himself out of seven Australian coins. Mrs. Snider lives at 3437 Hillside ave.
By David Dietz
Ossietaky was then suffering from tuberculosis and had just been released from a Nazi concentration camp. He had crusaded for disarmament ever since the end of world war I and had opposed the rearming of Germany. The Nazi government termed the award to him “an impudent challenge and insult to the new Germany” and subsequently a law was passed forbidding any German to accept the Nobel prize. - Ossietzky died in a hospital in 1938.
Three More Awarded
DESPITE the Nazi reaction, three more Nobel prizes were awarded to Germans and in each case declined. The chemistry prize was awarded to Dr. Richard Kuhn in 1938 ‘and to Dr. Adolph Butenandt in 1939 and, as already told, the medicine prize in 1939 was offered to Domagk. As is well known, the Nobel prizes are awarded from the fortune of Dr. Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and high explosives, in accordance with his will. A common belief is that a Nobel prize is $100,~ 000, but actually the prizes have fluctuated between $33,000 and $42,000. ? Dec. 10 is the date on which the Swedish government annually held the ceremonies at which recipients of the prizes were awarded them by the Swedish king and on Dec. 10, 1942, the 28 Nobel prize winners now living in the United States attended a Nobel anniversary dinner in New York arranged by the Commoh Council for American Unity. It is nice to think of the decision of the Swedish government to resume the awarding of the prizes as one more evidence that the Hitler barbarism is soon to disappear from the earth forever.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
My mail recently brought a letter from a mother who lives in Maine, inclosing a poem which she says she “just found.” Since it has been a consolation to her, she felt that many other mothers working in war industries, vas she is doing, would like to know it. When their load of .anxiety seems almost more than they can carry, it may bring them strength and
consolation. And so I quote it here, hoping that her wish may come true: A PARENT'S SILENT PRAYER “Dear Lord— 3 You gave Your Son to save the world. You. didn’t count the cost -
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For the most part, the stois Chinese suffered silently. This heartbroken, slobbering mother
could no longer restrain the flow of her bitter tears.
, Fh Pek 4 ; He's hungry, but this little tyke manages to say “Thumbs up” with a grin that typifies indomtable spirit.
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Bowing under the yoke of his heavy burden, a footsore son with a box containing all his worldly goods. r him so he plods alongside the rails, with other thousands who race they how lack of food has ravished the bodies, and lack of sleep has wrinkled the faces of the refugees,
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Chinese Civilians in the Path of War
For weary thousands of Chinese‘ caught in the path of the Jap drive on Liuchow, no transportation could be provided. A lucky few, shown in these remarkable photos by NEA-Acme cameraman Frank Cancellare, crammed every inch of space on a freight train loaded with human cargo. They clung to their babies, to a few scraps of food, to such pathetic luxuries as the parasol shading the youngster huddled close to the _ smokestack, From the locomotive to the caboose; wherever they could hang on, refugees clung to the train. : :
Living quarters are cramped, but this family has managed to make the rods of a freight car livable, Wherever he turned, Cancellare could
Wills Body to Aid Glandular Victims
LOS ANGELES, Nov, 16 (U. P.). ~The body of the late Miss Edith Clawson, daughter of a Hamilton, O., banking family, will be used for medical research into the strange glandular malady which took her life, her will ordered to-
day. Miss . Clawson ected that $250000 of her $850, estate be
used for the research and named Dr. E. ¥. F, Copp of the Scripps Metabolic Clinic, La Jolla, Cal, to conduct the study. Suffering from the. unknown disorder for several years, Miss Clawson in 1940 drew up the will providing -. for the study in the hope of saving others from the
C. OF C. NOMINATES SEVEN AS DIRECTORS
Seven Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce members have been nominated for election, Dec. 12, to three-year terms as directors, They are Dr. Norman M. Beatty, J. F. Carroll, E. 8. Dowling, H. T. Griffith, Henry Holt, Harry Reid and C. E. Whitehill.
- .HULL GETS ALONG WELL WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (U, P.). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who entered the naval medical center in nearby Bethesda, Md., four weeks ago for a physical checkup, is getting along well, according to re-
same ailment.
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ports at the state department.
Ice Cream Coming Back in England
LONDON, Nov. 18 (U, P.).~ After four years of “famine” Britain will have ice cream again. The ministry of food broke the good news this morning in a state~ ment to commons announcing that supplies of raw material for pro« ducing ice cream would be allo-
cated to the industry the next ration period, which begins Dec. 10,
The ministry warned, however, that it may be some time before the cream becomes generally available, because the manpower shortage and transportation difficulties ‘will make it impracticable for manufacturers to resume production on a pre-war scale,
2 YOUTHS INJURED AS 4 CARS PILE UP
Two youths were injured. last night when four automobiles piled up following a collision on the narrow White river bridge at 73d st. and Highway 431. Albert Nachtried, 17, of R. R. 14, Box 703, and Joseph Bordenkecker, 17, of 1610 E. 72d st., were
[driving north in separate cars,
Approaching the bridge from the opposite .. direction was Robert Manion, 26, of 7616 Guilford ave, who was towing a car driven by Victor Van Cavenbergh, 24, of Carmel, Ind. Nachtried received several broken ribs and a concusion of the brain, Bordenkecker was cut about the face and chest. The two other drivers were not Injured.
By Crockett Johnson
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Unlikely to Change WLB
WASHINGTON, Nov, 16—~No great change in the national
to result from the resignations . offered to the President by three JB of the principal public members of + oll the national war labor board— Chairman William H. Davis, Vice Chairman George W, Taylor, and Dr. Frank P. Graham, The offers were made at different times during the last three months and
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reasons. Only Dr. Graham is under compelling necessity to leave, because the board of truse tees of the University of North Carolina has called on him to return to full-time duty as presie 4 dent of that institution. Chair=
man Davis and Vice Chairman il Taylor are expected to remain a indefinitely if the President so ree hy quests, : w » »
THAT seems likely despite the fact that the three resignations give Mr, Roosevelt a chance to 3 organize an agency that has been E frequently criticized since it ase sumed the job of stabilizing ware time wages and: labor relations, At present the American Federation of Labor members of WLB are participating only partially in the board’s work. They withdrew from the big wage cases until a decision is made in the long row over junking the Little Steel formiula, The board could be broken up through a complete withdrawa® of the labor members, of which there is no hint. s x = CRITICS of the war labor y board have advocated that it be
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to state their attitudes on the : WLB, We, the Wo
Wife Chooses To Live With
Her In-Laws
By RUTH MILLETT / THE YOUNG war wife who took y herself and her baby to her husband’s parents to live instead of i going home to her own people gave this explanation for ‘her choice. Her reasons may explain why so many young wives gn are living with in-laws for the
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with, my family = : would be too . Wi sympathetic. “They'd feel & _ so sorry for me, Td soon start feeling sorry ATE 1 for myself, Miss Millett 3 she says. | “Also, 1 knew how easy it would be to slip back into the role of ‘protected daughter’'—even though I'm now a wife and mother and ought to be making my own de cisions and shouldernig my own responsibilities, NM » » “I HAVE a very close bond with © my in-laws. They look for the same handwriting on envelopes that I look for. And good news from my husband means as much ; to them as it does to me. MThere’s another reason, too. 1 have too much pride to give way to tears “4nd moping around my E husband's people when I go for weeks without a letter, “If 1 were living with my pare ents, I'm afraid I'd give way to L my fear and loneliness, knowing they would baby me through the bad times. L » ” ” # “THEN there is the comforting knowledge that my being with his peoplé means a lot to Dick. “Several times he has written such things as ‘It means so much 0 to me to have my family all together while I am away’ And I'm glad dad and mother can ge$ acquainted with the kid.” Some or all of these reasons have probably influenced many of the girls who have chosen to live with their h 's people for "the duration.
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