Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1945 — Page 9

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Ernie Pyle's dispatches from the Pacific war

WITH THE 18TH AIRBORNE CORPS IN BELGIUM, Jan. 23 (Delayed). —~"Courthey needs help.” The communications were bad and only those three words were distinguishable—Courtney meeds help. But the staff officers of the 18th grasped their meaning. Courtney, was Lt. Gen, Courtney Hodges, commanding the 1st American army, which stood between Field Marshal Gen. Karl von Rundstedt and Antwerp. Maj. Gen. Ridgeway's corps. was in France, the 82d and 101st airborne divisions were in a rest area,

“on leave, getting over the Holland ‘scramble. = Their «vehieular equipment was in the repair shops.

That was S'inday afternoon. At 9 a. m. Monday,

the 82d division rolled off in 1,010 trucks, each carty=-

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ing 60 men, plus the division's organic vehicles, hur-

riedly taken from the shops. . The men and hundreds ;

of tons of supplies were started for -Bistégne 100 miles away. oct » AJdew miles short of Bastogne the military police switched the rolling army northward. So swiftly was the situation reshaping that plans were changed as the army traveled. It went on to Wevertort, the east end of the northern salient. As the last 82d truck left, at noon, the first elements of the 101st crossed the starting line. In the

trucks were hundreds of men, who had gone to Paris:

on Sunday and got back just in time to. hop into their trucks. Way down at the eross roads an M. P. waved them into Bastogne. 3

Pretty Close Connections

MAJ. GEN. JIM GAVINS was at the front running* the 82d troops, which, after finishing a 180-mile drive, were in contact with the enemy at midnight. In Bastogne the 101st hopped from trucks and as they marched to lines outside the town they picked up rifles, mortar and ammunition along the road, left 30 minutes before—pretty close connections: with the enemy in force just over the hill! They took the two most .difficult sectors In a front so fluid that they who deny that it was virtually a rout, are only kidding themselves. And they stopped the Krauts. How serious? Well, the 82d stopped the Jerries west of St, Vith. Here is a little story that tells how * : 2 *’ .

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel!

A READER dropped in the other day to inquire as » the area of Indianapolis. He wanted to settle an We found the information in the city It gave the area of the city proper at 53.62 Then it added that the census bureau in 1940 established a metropolitan " district having an area of 311.75. That must include practically the entire county. . . .-Someone’s. always asking the Indianapolis population figure, so we'll just mention it here and hope you all remember. The 1940 census gave 386,000 plus. (Round numbers are easier to grasp and remember than the exact figure.) A while back, the census bureau estimated the present city population at 415,000, with ' 491,000 in the metropolitan area. That was based on the number of Ration books 2 issued. The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has few figures—420,000 for the city proper and 460,000 for the “city and immediate suburban area.” , . .. Speaking of the C. of C., we hear the state chamber is getting reverberations from coast to coast on the item about the girdle. We mean the case in which Block's sent the chamber a bill for ‘one girdle—$10.”

directory. square miles.

“Lt. Cmdr. John.W. Ferree, the former state health

board director, sent a clipping of a story about it in a Seattle, Wash. newspaper. A clipping from a Newark, N. J., papér was sent by the president of the National Association of State Chambers of Commerce. He demanded a “full report at the next meeting of state chamber executives.”

Around the Town

A SIX-LINE story in the early edition of The Times the other day read: “WASHINGTON-—Battle-ships are the biggest and toughest warships afloat. Modern ones are about two blocks long, one-third of a block wide, and more of them are under water than above.” Judging from the last eight words, they must be talking about the Japanese navy. .... Lester C. Nagley Sr., the artist, is issuing invitations to attend an exhibit of his Brown county landscapes, at 2415 Park ave., Apt. 1. .... We're told an Indianapolis laundry with rather definite views on ‘the labor. situa-

‘America Flies

THE MEN OF Mars are going to “mine” the atmospheric ocean above us. Fantastic? So was Pasteur’s conception of an unseen germ world, so was Edison's electrically illuminated and driven world, so was Morse and wireless voice communications, as was airpower’s demonstration that could send its machinery to %ar and keep its manpower at home. ” You have been reading of this since the robot planes first started raining on England. And if this writer never, never accomplished anything else but to drive home

the understanding that warfare

has been revolutignized by pilot-

less, winged missiles, he would

cantent himself with. having done a vital job in the interest of the ordinary citizen. : , Indeed this revolution has given a mass destruction and expansion trend to warfare comparable onlyto that effected by the introduction of gunpowder hundreds of years ago.

Merely Mass Production

IT'S TRITE ENOUGH to say that we are still in the crude early stages of air warfare. But the significance of this statement presses home when we reflect that the greater part of airpower’s current

“machinery is merely the mass production of what

has been in existence for years. In attempting to simulate the pattern of the shotgun shell, we fire many rapid fire cannons at maximum expense and partial dividend. What the

. & WASHINGTON, Sunday.—Yesterday at 12:30 I went down to the Capitol theater to-open the Mile of

Dimes campaign, ‘Two cadet nurses were with me, and Commissioner. Russell Young, as he has done

for so many years, officiated at the opening ceremonies.

It was a gray and intermittently rainy day, clearing up now and then for a few minutes and pouring down upon us in between times. . : However, nothing seems to dampen the ardor of moviegoers. The line outside the Capitol thea~ter began to show the dimes drop ping in as people made their way into the theater. : Afterward I went over to the Lincoln Colonnade theater, where Th there was another opening ceremony for the Mile of Dimes campaign. In the afternoon I had an opportunity to talk for a little while

with a group of union women who are going to Great *

Britain on an.exchange visit. I am very glad that ese representatives are going to have a chance to

- see what their fellow workers in Great Britain are

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front are expéeted to start in the near future.

conditions were there; how American initiative always seems to show up when its gotta, Capt. Don Reed, West’ Rexbury, Mass, chased from two positions with eight 14th battalion tank destroyer guns, was ordgred back to Crombach. He set up his guns amid the wild confusion of the withdrawing troops. Nobody knew - what was--going on. Everybody was on the verge of panic. Came another order to withdraw, his fourth. He wasn't told whefe to go. The donfuséd captain “met Lt. Col, John Wemple, Shreveport, La., with the 7th tank battalion. . : Ji “Colonel, what the hell cooks?” Reed asked angrily. < I don't know,” replied the colonel, “Everybody, 1s gone, We are out of contact. We have orders to pull out too.” > ; “I am damned tired of running,” Reed cried, fight.” “All right, let's fight.”

It was Time to Go

THEY SET up their guns and all‘that night and well into the next day covered our withdrawal, What had been hysteria Became an orderly movement to the rear, Each platoon covered a withdrawal in a different area. We lost six destroyers, ‘but got 20 Jerry tanks, including six Tigers. . When finally they were given more withdrawal orders they trailed the last troops. Lt. Andrew Evans, Abbyville, 8. C., took the cooks and office men into the trenches and they lired, veteran style. There was no question that when Col, Wemple and Capt. Reed finally pulled out, it was time to go. The Jerries, harassed for a whole day by their fire, finally came with their biggest tanks, and waves of infantry. The destroyer .riflemen and reconnaissance troops were but a few hundred yards ahead of the first German elements. : So the boys, who got tired of running, retreated knowing they had stood their ground during the most critical hours in American military history.

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tion has a sign on its counfer reading: “Anyone who has been on strike or threatened to strike during this war, do not bring your laundry here.” . ... Attention Mrs. Yatsko: You asked how much the Mile-O-Dimes raised. The answer: 57,065 dimes, or $5706.50. . Our recent suggestion that Postmoster Seidensticker publicly exhibit his elaborate Christmas tree scene, may bring results. We hear that L. S. Ayres’; officials are interested in the idea, for next Christmas. They're studying to see whether the idea is workable for a public exbibit... . . . Paul R. Stetzel, 1116 N. Pennsylvania, sent us a copy of an ipteresting little booklet he picked up in the Japanese pavilion at the New York World's Fair, in 1939. It's entitled, “The Flame of Friendship.” After several pages of touching blah, the booklet concludes with: “It is the hope of thé people that it (the Flame of Friendship) will burn forever in the hedrts of Americans and Japanese.” Ha ha. And then they gave us the *‘hot| foot” at Pearl Harbor. Great humborists, those Jap-| anesel .

Embarrassing Moment

YOU HAVE TO KNOW J. Frank Miller fo get the fullest enjoyment out of this item. Mr. Miller, resident manager of the Maryland. Casualty Co., is a most dignified individual. Just before Christmas, Mrs. Miller took him shopping. One of the first things they bought was a silver Christmas tree, which he carried with him. Then Mrs. Miller wanted something in the City market. : “I'm not going to drag this thing in there,” grumbled her husband. “I'l] just wait outside.” He did. Pretty soon, along came a woman. Stepping up to where he was patiently hold- | ing the tree, she asked: “How much for the tree?” Embarrassed, Mr. Miller replied: “Well, I paid $4 for it.” She replied: “I didn't ask you how much you paid for it. How much are you charging for it?” Very much embarrassed by ‘this time Mr. Miller managed to persuade the woman the tree wasn’t for sale. . .. Everett L. Gardner, Indiana unemployment | compensation director, received a novel Christmas| greeting (a bit belatedly) from his brother, Col. H. Al Gardner, who is in New Guinea. The greeting was| scratched on a piece of very light metal “skin” cut from a wrecked Jap Zero plane. There were two bullet holes in the metal, probably accounting for the plane's crash.

By Maj. Al Williams

world is really waiting for, whether it knows it or not, is the advent of a single missile, winged or otherwise, which will be launched anywhere in the vicinity of the bomber and from there on-will guide itself to collision with the. enemy bomber. That will mean one nfissile eypended for one bomber destroyed, and then the bomber as we Know it will becomé a thing of the past.

Are Fireballs Mines?

IN THE BEGINNING, men fought in contrivances that floated on the surface of the sea. Then they developed the undersea boats. Not content with the

certain portions of the sea impossible to surface or | sub-sea craft. This we know as “mining” the sea. Then came the magnetic mine of this war, which exploded through magnetic acfiiation when: anything passed close by. . Lately, press reports indicate that the Germans are. floating some sort of fireballs, which linger in the sky. This looks like the first attempt to “mine” the air. . There's no telling how.elective mining of the air might become, but it is a foregone conclusion that it will represent a compendium of all that is known about “mining the sea, magnetic and otherwise. The engineering problems involved, however, are obvious. First, the air mine must maintain altitude position without earth anchoring. Second, it will have to be invisible or difficult to ‘discern. Third, the “air mine” may be designed to attract itself to the bomber.

Just the same, mining of the alr is coming,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

for women workers, is more alert than we are in providing” the services, which are essential for the family when the woman goes to work - outside the home. For example, there 1s still very little done in providing adequate eating facilities at our plants, shipyards and factories. In fact, when there is a cafeteria where the workers get hot meals, it is always shown with great pride as though it were a tremendous achievement. Actually it is essential. - Incidentally, I was recently told that women woul’ ers.in the textile mills in some parts of our country are expected to work a full eight hours with no time off for lunch. In such cases, there is not even a question of providing them with an opportunity for a hot meal, They are simply given no time to eat .at all " Many excuses and reasons are given for this, but the basic reason must be that many of us have not yet learned that human beings are not machines, Saturday evening I had a buffet supper for the executive committee members of a group of world war II veterans meeting here in Washington. This group is in the process of geiting organized. It represents only one small segment of our veterans, who are gradually joining: together in small tions throughout the country. Their problems many, and I doubt if they are very well able to cope with them as yet © ol |

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POLAND DVIDED— Peasants Are Contented on Small Farms

- By LEIGH WHITE

Times Foreign Service

UBLIN, Poland. — Peasant day. laberers were threshing oats in a snowcovered field when visiting foreign correspondents’ inspected Kasimer Rejowski's farm near Sobianowice village, seven miles outside Lublin. : .. We were told that the former owner had fled with the Germans two days before the arrival of the Russian army last July. ‘vo. The Rejowskl © farm appears to . %: be fairly typi- : cal of the agricultural proper- . ties near Lublin which have . been expropri- + ated in accordance with the agrarian program of the new Polish provisjonal government. Its 581 acres of arable land have been divided up among 122 peasant families. Fourteen families of farm laborers have received 105 acres and 16 families of landless peasants 128 acres. Ninety-two “dwarf” peasant families. have received 358 acres, in order-to increase the holdings of each to the minimum 712 acres provided by the land reform decree for the peasants of overcrowded eastern Poland. ” o o PEASANTS to whom we talked are now passessors in perpetuity of plots of land at least this large, Some even have a little more or will have, when their fathers die. Pending the organization of farm co-operatives, however, Rajowski’'s peasants are still working as day laborers for their old wages under. the direction of August Jurjewicz, their former overseer. Jurjewicz stayed . behind when the Red army came and is now an employee of the new Polish state.

Mr. White

» ” n THE PEASANTS were threshing oats with a combine powered by a 1903 Hungarian steam engine in the midst of winter in

order to provide the ministry of

agriculture with sufficient seed to carry out its spring planting program. Most of the planting will have to be done by hand. The livestock population has been so reduced as a result of the war that there are too few horses, oxen and cows .to do more than a fraction of the plowing that must be done to feed 7.000,000 civilian inhabitants of liberated Poland. . n » » THE NEW peasant proprietors seemed happy with their lot and hopeful of their future under the new regime. Their only complaint was that too little land exists for them to be given more than the minimum 7% acres which everyone here admits is too little for either efficient © farming’ or abundant living. Asked if they hope to acquire | land in East Prussif@ or Silesia after the war, most of the peasants said that they would prefer to continue living on -the land where they were born. » 2 »

" INDEED, .they are so attached to their land that they are unwilling as yet to change their feudal methods of farming. As in Hungary, the rich black earth of eastern Poland has been traditionally divided into long narrow” strips — the maximum amount of land which one peasant is capable of tending by hand with the aid of oxen. These strips have now been replaced, at least on paper, by small 7%-acre squares. Obviously, neither type of field is adaptable to the mechanized type of agriculture which the provisional government wants to introduce. ? z Whatever happens, collective farming is out of the question as far as the new Lublin regime is concerned until and unless in the distant future the peasants come to believe that collective farming is what they need. Meanwhile, land is being divided up among the peasants in small holdings, which they will own in perpetuity, on which they can fully borrow money, .and which they can bequeath to descendants, ” " o IN ORDER to avoid the pitfalls of land reform in Romania, following the first world war, however, the ministry of agriculture intends to provide the Polish farmer with seed and tools on a subsidy basis in order to prévent his property from falling into the hands of money lenders. As an additional precaution, all loans to farmers will be guaranteed to the state. Mortgage foretlosures will, thus, become a thing of the past. . : a rg

“W.R.C. UNIT TO MEET

Maj. Robert Anderson Woman's Relief corps 44, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, will meet-at 1 p.m, tomorrow in Ft. Friend ;

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By DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent _ “WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Rep.Adolph J. Sabath (D. Ill), dean of congfessmen, removed the napkin from beneath his chin, wiped his white-moustache edged lip, shoved back from his table in the house of representatives restaurand and declared himself: The office of price administration should do something about defining a standard-sized portion of steak and potatoes. And, while they're about it, they should lay down a rule on cigar sizes, too; and try to enforce these regulations along with..price ceilings. , ” » » “I'VE BEEN noticing particular-. ly the portions they serve to servicemen on railroad dining cars,” Sabath said. “They are half the size of the portions we used to get. “It's the same way in restaurants, too. They brag that they are observing ceiling prices, but they don’t mention the servings are smaller.” --Sabath made clear that he has no quarrel with the house restaurant unless it is on the, basis of the now razor-thin steak sandwiches.

**By- FRANCIS L. McCARTHY - United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH THE U. S. INVASION FORCES ON LUZON, Jan. 12 (Delayed) — Japanese abuse and oppression reached such unimaginable proportions in the last three years that the Filipinos never again- will permit any Japanese to live anywhere in the Philippines. That is what the only surviving American resident of San Fabian on the Lingayen beachhead told me today. It was a big day in the life of Irving W. Hammond, fermerly of Middleboro, Mass, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur's liberation forces;. stormed ashore near his home. ” #” » A SHORT, gaunt figure, Hammond presented a pathetic picture in his tattered blue shirt and ragged shorts made of gunnysack.

THE DEAN OF CONGRESS—

His Steaks Much Too Tiny

It shouldn't be difficult”to set forth the number of spoonsful of ‘peas in a portion or How many | ounces of filet mignon should approximate, he argued. And there are only. 40 or 50 common dishes which would have to be regulated as to portion size, Sabath reckoned. 8 " " ho SUCH standardization also would prove a boon, he added, to “our white collar people and to probably 2,000,000 .of our people who live on fixed incomes and

. who have to spend 60 per cent of

‘Rep. Adolph J. Sabath

“UNDERSTAND, it doesn't make any difference to me personally. I'm. watching: my weight,” the spruce 78-year-old Chicagoan said. ; “But I remember how hungry I I got when I was the age of these young men and women in service. “The OPA. ought to be able td get some restaurant authority to establish * standard-sized portions and see that dining rooms serve them.”

AMERICAN GREETS MacARTHUR—

Filipinos Won't Forgive Nips’

He was unshaven, wore a na-tive-made “straw hat and apparently had gone barefoot for many months. The Japanese abuse was an old story to the 63-year-old mining engineer who - is married to a Filipino and has a family of half caste children. . 2 o ” SEVEN TIMES he was arrested by the Japs and charged ‘with harboring or aiding former members of the U. S. armed forces in the Philippines. Twice he was threatened with execution. Once the Japanese beat him severely. - But for more than a year Hammond had been permitted to wan-

as “he said, “The Japs thought I was too old to do them any damage.”

Plan Convention

Late This Month

APPROXIMATELY 250 optometrists from all sections of In-

diana will attend the 48th annual convention of their state association Jan. 21 and 22 at the Hotel Severin, Headline speakers will be Dr. Mortimer Mann, Indianapolis opt halmologist; Dr. Glenn A. Fry, director of Ohio : State university : school of opDr. FrY tometry, and Dr. Henry Hoflstetter of Ohio State, : The women's "auxiliary, headed by Mrs. R. A. Major of Shelbyville, will meet Jan. 21 and will have a dinner that evening in the Columbia club.

OF MONEY, . WATCH

Two veterans were among four hold-up victims early yesterday ‘morning... > Cpl. James Wilcox, Billings General hospital, was robbed of $60 at

at New York st. and Senate ave, . Frank Coonfield, 1741 Laure] st. was slugged at Laurel and Orange an

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Pumps Hang On In the Big City

NEW YORK, Jan. 15 (U.P.).— New York City, home of the skyscrapers, had 837 homes today in which the women got their dishwater from out door hand pumps. This back-country-in-the-big-city fact turned up in the current issue of Social Forces, the University of North Carolina's social science quarterly. The author is M. Margaret Kchl of the Municipal Reference Library. A sequel statistic is that 1007 occupied homes in New York have no water supply within 50 feet of the kitchenssink. But there are 78,000 fire hydrants on the sidewalks and 300 miles of improved” waterfront. There are more Italians than Russians, more . Russians than Irish and More Irish and Germans. There are more married women, 1,751,830, than married men, 1,749,957.

G.1.’S IN UNIFORMS OF NAZIS IS CHARGE

LONDON, Jan. 15 (U. P.).—The German radio charged last night that American troops had violated international law by entering Ger-man-held territory in German uniforms. A company of American shock troops, wearing German uniforms and carrying German weapons, broke into the Nazis’ main fight ing line east of La Roche, the broadcast said.

their income on food.” Personally, Sabath, who now often tugs on a pipe as a.ssubstitute for his’ former-six to eight daily cigars, says he is harder hit by ‘the .cigar size shrinkage he has encountered. He is convinced ‘the shortage i8 reaping rich profits for manufacturers of stogies. ” » 2 “I WONDER,” mused the veteran of 38 years in congress, “what Vice President Thomas Marshall’ (what - this - country - need s-is-a-good-five-cent-cigar) would say if he were alive today“Why, the cigars that used to be three for a quarter are three | for 50 cents now and theyre | smaller ‘and of poorer tobacco, too.” > : *

“I'M TICKLED to death to see you boys,” he told the first American doughboys to reach San Fabian. “But I'm not half so tickled as these boys here,” he added motioning to a crowd of Filipino youngsters surrounding the troops. “They've waited for you for a long time and never lost faith in the Americans.” It was a big day for Hammond in another way, too. Among the liberation forces was a tall, handsome naval officer—Lt. (j.g.) Jack Russell, 29, of Glendale, Cal.— who in 1936 was. Himmond’s partner in a mining venture in the Caraballo Mountains. ® » n RUSSELL, a mining engineer in Manild, Baguio and Mindanao before the war, observed with a grin that there was little change in his. former partner “except that he's gone more native.” According to Hammond, the Japanese captain of the San Fabian garrison actually cried when he was forced to flee to the hills. “He told me that he didn’t very comfortable here,” Hammond said with a big toothless smile. s » » HAMMOND and Paulino V. Llamas, a Filipino schoolteacher at Dagupan, agreed that the “troops used By the Japanese for garrison duty in “the Lingayen area were poor physical specimens,. underfed and shabbily clothed, vial “They even ate raw camotes (sweet potatoes) and raw egg plant,” Llamas said. “Contributions, as they called them, of palay (unpolished rice) were often sought from the townspeople, and what the Japs could not get this’ way they ‘bought’ but never paid for.”

GATES AND ELLIOTT

WILL HONOR BISHOP

GARRETT, Jan. 15 (U.P).— Governor Ralph Gates and E. C. Elliott, president of Purdue university, will be the speakers at a civic.reception to be given in honor of Bishop John G. Bennett, recently consecrated head of the Lafayette diocese of the Catholic church, on Jan. 24 or 25 at Purdue university, the bishop’s parish members announced today.

He will be installed in his new church Wednesday.

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New Hope In Wage Letter

By FRED W. PERKINS . WASHINGTON, Jan, 15.&Four words in a letter from President Roosevelt to Philip Murray, head of the C.'I. O,-inspire hope among labor ledders that they may be getting somewhere in their long fight to getan upward re." vision in the Little Steel formula of wage control. The words _are the four in the following quotation from Mr. Roosevelt's letter. “As you know, the war labor board has almost completed a comprehensive wage study, with special reference to ‘the cost of living and to the employment situation which we shall face after V-E day. Naturally, any" proposals for a change in our present policy must be considered in relation to their probable effect upon the price structure and upon our general anti-inflation program,

n ” n “THE BOARD, therefore, will submit. its report to Judge Vinson, whom I then expect to advise me in light of the board's findings, as well as all other relevant information.”

The other relevant information might include a cost-of-living study sponsored by Mr. Murray and also by George Meany, sec-retary-treasurer of the American Fedération of Labor, which attempted to prove that the wartime increase has been almost twice as much as that shown by the U. 8. bureau of labor statistics.

Up to date, Chairman William H. Davis and other public members of the war labor board have

' supported the bureau of labor

statistics and there is no indication that Fred M. Vinson, director of economic stabilization, would not do likewise in preference to overturning the official findings with some that were unofficial.

RESUMING the wage offensive, which went into a lull two weeks before the election, a statement by Mr. Murray and his associates centered its criticism of present policies on Judge Vinson. .

Mr. Murray said in a press conference he did not care to answer a question as to whether he had any evidence that Judge Vinson was not working in complete harmony with presidential policies.

In the recent convention of the A. F. of L., Mr. Meany discarded the practice of eriticizing the war labor board and the President's subordinates for the “wage freeze” and in a spirited address placed the responsibility squarely

-.on._ Mr. Roosevejt. Mr. Murray-

uses the more diplomatic approach.

We, The Womén— Housewives

Suffer Most From Shortages

By RUTH MILLETT

THE NATIONAL AUTHORITY for the Ladies’ Handbag Industry 1§ trying to get the 20 per cent federal excise tax taken off womens handbags, on the grounds that the levy is discriminatory against women, Almost everything has been d i scriminatqry against women during this war: . Packages the departm en t stores can’t deliver mean that women ‘have to tote the bundles. Curtailed delivery of grocery concerns means -that women have to walk to market and walk home loaded down. = . n \

THERE WAS even a hospital that decided to cut. down on the confusion “around the place by refusing to let husbands stand by while their wives had babies.

And when manufacture of such things as gas stoves, electric ice boxes and vacuum cleaners was stopped, women were hit, not the It isn't even the baby who suffers because of a diaper shortage, the scarcity of baby clothes the near impossibility of getting his name on-a diaper service, It's hig mother who has to wash every day and trudge from store to store looking for his needs, 2 ” » AND WHAT luxury: have men

given up ‘during wartime that

means as much to them as lack