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it, old castle on the-hillacross the canyon;

i! ruins.

Etched in Sorrow

vole Pye is en Toute to the Pacific front and will resume writing in the near

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today. A little he nd protruded from beneath a mass of. stone and beams— a little child’s hand: -A-young Belgian woman with tired eyes said,” “There are many, old and young too, in the houses that are fallen, We were afraid, We hid in the cellars and - the woods, and didnot Bury our dead.” Thought of the fear and hunger in the eyes of the little chitdren at the “refugee camp in Burma, the savage hunger of Cal cutta’s street children, the little boys of Karachi picking through the garbage dump. I remembered the olf woman at mass in"the tiny Italian church, trying to hish three little children whose . voice » punctuated the service; and the ay apolcgetic explanation of the huge sergeant—'tfiey're good people. We found ’em last night starving in a cave between the lines. The kids is hungry, that's all’

E An Old C ouple Stands and Looks

THERE'S A picture ‘too, I never can forget. A po 1 drove ¢ along a mountain trail; and:

there in tha valley lay what wis left of the village of La Roche—the church spire; a feW gate walls; an that was all, caitie carcfully through the stones on stood and looked down upon the silent The old man poi ted to what had been the

feet were frozen took off their shoes {to massage their

An old couple the road,

i! homes of friends, their children, their own cott®ze be-

4 the devastated areas of Europe—etched in sorrow.

side the®river. ‘Their lives hag heen wrapped in the beautiful village that lay in ruins,

They, two old ‘people and a ruined village, were

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And as [ looked at the cold little hand touched with'énow Tiremembered the aged and children who.

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have trudgdd the highways in terror, as the war| surged back land forth acrosg the fields and along the

roads where the flowers grew in the spring. I saw | OUR TOWN . en

hundreds of villages, thousands upon. thousands of hohies on either siffe of the winding highway stretch- | ing around thes world and casting dred into the | hearts of us who 50 fuolishly call ourselves learred | and civilized,

Ruins in the Snow

YES, LONG ROWS of abandoned ruins covered with snow--except in America. The children and

motors in our northern states are not tramping the!3

highways in winters, having only What worldly goods | §&

they can carry. There is no stench of rofting bodies | § along our southern trails, nor does the “tain fail on humans sleeping in the fields. There is not onel: shell torn home in America—thank God. ’ I heard a story today, told by a colonel to a|° general.- K company of the 18th infantry division was ready to attack. Six soldiers who thought their

toes, Their feet were frozen, so swollen they couldn't get their shoes on. The company started to move, ‘They had permission to remain. behind, but cried, “to hell with TIwe re going too and went—shoetess into ~the ‘snowdrifts with their ‘comrades. Yet at home, there are those ‘who complain: about rationing; be ye ashamed. - She does mot know, our rose of Sharon, of the little children in hunger—and I am glad. When the winds blow she is warm. When the rains fall she is sheltered. When comes the day she reaches for the sunbgams and responds to the bright blue laughter in her mother’s eves. I am glad they remain in America. It. is a glorious nation.

\Copyright, 1945, ‘by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Inc.)

| Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

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Nazi fighters ta surprise allied

WE BELIEVE in giving credit where, credits due. Bo here goes. At the conclusion of the C. of C. dinthey “Star-Spangled Banner,”

sang the ‘Being s well known

last stanza of the Jast, it's seldom sung and thus even les than the other verses. So the chamber passed out mimeographed slips giving the . words. When the singing started, our agent who watches such things, discovered two in the big audience who "Were singing lustily without looking at the words, The names .0f these amazing gents: State Senator Albert Ferris (R. Milton), a farmer, and Hassil Schenck, president. of . the Indiana Farm bureau. Orchids to both of them. Robert H., Joseph, special hearing commissioner for OPA, has been out in the state hearing cases of Hoosier motorists whose cars deer hunting territory. Joseph had suspended one Ft, Wayne busirations for 30 days, the luckless motorist handed him a business card and remarked. “I hope to do business with you very soon.” Mr. Joseph looked at the card. It read: “J. G. Birkmier & Sons, ‘mausoleums, monuments and markers.” . Help! -Help! Call off your ice cream dippers. We've got enough, Thanks to all of you. The request of the overseas sergeant brought more than a dozen offers. One reader phoned in to report dippers for sale at the Phoenix Lumber Co.

After Mr,

In the Lineup

A LONG LINE of income taxpayers wound its way through the corridors of the federal building a week ago last Saturday, In one section of the line stood a woman with a sniall boy, ing himself by watching a roach crawl up ard down the marble walls, and he kept calling his mother’s attention to the insect,

about 3, The child was amus-

“Come away from that—it's a she scolded. “Will it bite?” asked.the youngster. “No, but get away from it.” A man standIng a few fee¢ farther back in the line was highiy

| America Flies

SOMETHING MUST have gone haywire with the

~fleld generalship leading up to the recent Nazi break-

through in Belgium, about the France.

In 1940 the French bungled at same place, letting the Nazis loose on And here we are in 1945, with 10 times as much equipment and far better soldiers, letting them through again, Who slipped up on scouting the’ vast Nazi forces and supplies massed for this break-through? Such an offensive is not a matter of a few orders, but rather the congregation over a period of weeks. of both men and supplies. Who slipped up on the G-2 problem? Then, too, who in the air command is responsible for lining up planes wi ing «tip to wing-tip, instead of having them dispersed on fields within range of the Luftwafle? The latter information is ‘contained in a press service dispatch and it must be correct. Dispersal is the rule and-necessity of the war. Was violation of this rule traceable to over-confidence, enabling low, fast«flying. air fields, which were apparently unprotected by anti-aircraft guns? If + 80, who is respoisible?

| Efficient Air Photo Work

THE HEINIES must have done some pretty efliclent air photo! we¥k' because they seemed to know which fields were unprotected by anti-aircraft guns, and took their own sweet time making a thorough Job of destroying row after row of ‘parked allied aircraft. Our air forces got a strong dose of what it means to park aircraft instead of dispersing them. One such instance was at Corsica, where a dozen

My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—-Inauguration activities began the day hefore inauguration, and so on Friday we had & buffet*dutieh at the White House for. the people who worked at campaign headquarters or in some of the olier campaign committees. Then ‘at 3 o'clock I received . wfor,.ans hour, greeting people “who the Democratic national ‘committee thought wotild enjoy fretting a glimpse -of the White House, At 4 o'clock I was at the Women’s National = Democratic “club, which held open house for the women who are here for the inauguration, A little after § o'clock, I stopped for a few minutes at Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ewing’s - reception for the chairman of the Democratic’ national com‘mittee, Robert Hannegan, and Mrs, Hannegan, I went home to gréet some grandchildren who

were coming down from New York City. At 7 o'clock

K went off to the electors’ dinner, leaving the nlder grandchildren at a gala dinner with their grandfather, and very pleased to have him all to théme

. Belves, The electors’ dinner seemed thyme almost a firewar entertainment. I found ‘it difficult to adjust

. myself, , At.the last inauguration clouds hing heavily “over our heads, even though we had not actually Jacq “the realities of war, : New that these. are yar in he back of ones.

<mendous problems that lie ahead of ‘us, one feels the

amused by the child's interest in the bug. When he/| thought the mcther wasn't listening, he told the child: “If you catch that roach and take it home and fatten It up, it will grow big and you can ride it, like a pony.’

Upon hearing that the 3-year-old scrambled around.’ trying to catch the bug. His mother was greatly! annoyed, especially when he asked if she'd carry the | reach home in her purse, “No,” she said, “and if] you don't let that thing alone, I'm going to take you| in hand—and that man back there, too” That settled that—at, least as far as the man was concerned. | In another section of the line, a group of men| was competing to see who could grumble the hardest about the government. Finally, one man came out, with a brand new observation: “I'm smothering in| here. Must be 80, at least. And Uncle Sam tells you| and me to keep our homes and offices down to 68 to! save fuel!”

It's Just 27 Miles

KENNETH LAMBERT, Shelbyville, put us in an embarrassing -situati Hé asked us to settle an! argument between him and a young woman named | Dorothy, While riding- the Southeastern bus to In-| dianapolis, he says, he and Dorothy argued over the distance between Indianapolis and Shelbyville. They weren't far apart, though, She said 28 miles, he said We hate to turn against the fair sex, but it looks| Like Dorothy's wrong and Kenneth's right. The state highway department says the distance is 27 miles. But what's a mile or two among friends; , ., . Fifty years ago, there weren't any lines of motorists waiting to get auto licenses. Instead, folks lined up to get | their bicycle ticense tags. Karl V. Rasfield, 959 8. Alabama, still has one of the tags. It is a nickel-| plated tag. that was wired to the fork of the bicycle. On one side is the year—1896—and on the other, the | license number—8451, It cost $1 and was good for! a year. Mrs. Robert Brown, 1038 S. Keystone, received a letter from her husband, Cpl. Robert | Wayne Brown in England, He said: “The Red Cross! seems to be on the job over here! They gave us paper, pencils, seWing kits, smokes, razor blades, coffee and | donuts, And also a lot of other® much needed things. They also gaye us spme good books. I received ‘The Good Earth Tell everyone the Red: Cross is on its! toes and any little bit given it helps a lot over here.”

By Maj Al Williams

Nazi ground- strafing fighters destroyed scores of| parked American planes. Sometime before the Nazi break-through, I raised the question as to who made the decision that we had to walk into Germany to win this war. Back of that question was the suspicion that the high |: command had been draining air strength away from the strategical bembing program and assigning it to tactical missions with the ground forces. There are very few. rules of war that shouldn't be cunningly broken‘ from time to time tp upset the enemy. But this ‘matter of the use of airpower in strategic operations versus tactical is a hot question on which airmen stand almost solidly on the belief that the main purpose of airpower is strategic bombing, with only | surprise diversions to tactical operations,

Was It Over-Confidence

ABOUT A YEAR ago, allied air forces seemed to have had the Luftwaffe “wetted down.” This was the result of intensive strategic use of airpower, concentrating upon the dislocation of aircraft factories, assembly airports and transportation facilities. The result, of course, was minimized enemy fighter operations on the combat fronts, which in turn accentuated the tactical allied air superiority. Was this superiority so tempting that, first, it gave rise to over-confidence; and second, so alluring that more and more planes were. drawn from strategic bombing missions to further accentuate tactical air superiority over the combat front? If falling for this temptation lightened the allied

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“Gray Hills of Winter,” a timely snowbound landscape by C.

By. ANTON SCHERRER

The Hoosier sabi Coma: of Age :

Curry

Bohm (Brown county) was acclaimed the outstanding work in oil of

the entire Hoosier exhibition. prize ..($300).

'N spite of everything you "may have heard to the contrary, this wobbly old world still. moves in orderly channels and with a certain | Pradiciabiits. In support of which I cite ‘the Art Salon ‘and® Mrs. Smith, The two go together, like Damon a n d Pythias, Potash and Perumutter, R o sencrantz a n d Guildenstern, and ham and eggs. Mrs. Smith is on today’s docket for two reasons: ONE. Because of her extraordinary record for running off successful art shows, and TWO. Because this year marks the 21st anniversary of the Hoosier Salon's foundation. ” n n : FOR THE benefit of you shielded ones.who know nothing of how the other half lives, this parenthetical-note;: —The-grown-up Hoosier Salon goes on view today in the Wm. H. Block auditorium (sixth floor). It is sched= uled to sty until Feb. 3. No appointment necessary. A genealogical examination of the Hoosier Salon reveals the fact that it has its roots in the Hoosier Salon Patrons’ association which, strangely enough, was born in Chicago. Honest. In 1924, in the merry month of May, Mrs. Herbert Griffiths, prasident of the Daughters of Indiana (resident in Chicago) and John T. McCutcheon, president, of the Indiana Society of Chicago, simultaneously conceived the idea that it might improve Chicago to be acquainted with Indiand art. This moralistic version .is the accepted one, Another guess is the inescapable fact that a bunch of Hoosiers, condemned to live in Chicago, had an awful case of homesickness. =” ” 5

WHATEVER the reason, the Hoosier Salon Patrons’ association got off to a good start. A substantial wad of prize mchey enable the homesick Hoosiers to stage -their first salon" in the sumptious gailery of Mr, Marshall Field's vast emporium. The crowds that turned out to see it were enormous. Even more surprising was the number of sales. The crowds may be accounted for by the fact that the condemned Hoosiers were hungry for a sight of Indiana art. Except for Mr. McCutcheon's cartoons in The Tribune, Chicago hadn't seen a comprehensive showing of Indiana art since 1894. ‘ That was the year Hamlin Gar-

Hoosier Leonidas

land stopped off in Indianapolis

te give. a lecture: in the course of his stay he visited the Denison "hotel to see a show staged by the Art-association. It represented the work .of Theodore C. Steele, ' William #orsyth, Otto

It received

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the William HM. Block

“Rip Van Winkle Countty,” depicting the hide-out of Washington Irving kobolds, was painted by Clifton Wheeler (Shortridge high It received the William H. Block prize ($100) for the outstanding painting in oil by a teacher in the Indiana public schools.

school),

“Parade,” an exciting prediction of things to come, was painted by

Donald M. Mattison, director of the Herron Art School. the best picture for figure character study. sented by Mr, and Mrs. Dudley Williston,

Stark, Richard Gruelle and Ottis Adams. “It marks era in western art,” said: Mr. Garland.’ He meant it, teo, for when he returned home he, rightaway, made arrangements to have the show brought to Chicago. Mr. Garland billed his 1894 show as the work of the “Hoosier Group.” The name stuck. 4 = 8 AS FOR the phenomenal sales of the first salon, they may be raced .to the fact that the Hoosier. Salon Patrons’ associa= tion had the luck to start in the fabuious days of Samuel Insull. Which doesn't necessarily mean that Mr. Insull was a patron. Mr. Insull's amazing ability to provide Chicago--citizens - with folding money also was reflected in , the sales of subsequent salons. To such a degree, ‘indeed; that somefime in 1928 the associa= tion started the Hoosier Art Gale lery (sure, in Chicago), ‘This was the result of somebody’s bright idea that it was kind of silly to limit the sales to a fortnight (the period of salon) when with just a little more trouble -one could have a year-round sal esroom It was a revival of

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the tech-

nique practiced by old-time In- * dianapolis peddlers

who had a way of working bcth sides of Washington st. at the sanie time. + 8 = THE ARRANGEMENT of an annual salon in conjunctién with a’ year-round and salesroom, both in charge of Mrs. Clarence Bruce King, lasted until 1941, a métter of 13 years. By that time, Mrs. King just. that much older, too. She wanted to retire (lise as not, California), “Mr. Insull had been in retfiement for some time

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pressure on the Nazi aircraft industry, is this the reason for the comeback of a strong Luftwaffe fighter force? These are questions to be answered probably after the war. But they are to the poin{. And if the answers are known to the high comnpiand, they are answers learned the hard way—and/ let's hope | in avoidance of repetition.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

mind, I find it very hard to get away from them. Saturday morning all the grandchildren—even the youngest, Nina, 2—came to the religious services in the East room, I think this service more néarly met the needs of the day thah anything else that followed, This Is | certainly a time when any human being must long| for strength beyond his own, and for vision and .cour-| age which one can only pray for, - Ab noon we were all‘ on the south portico, .the Jiachiiaren down on the steps and the audience t on the lawn surrounded by snow. The ceremonies were short—shortel than ever before, I think—but very solemn and impressive, At 1 o'clock we had a simple buffet lunch for many guests ‘and at 4:30 the electors were received by the President and myself, . At 5 o'clock I hada tea which lasted into late afternoon, At all of these occasions, Mrs, Truman received with m We had a family dinner in the evening, including the older grandchildren, and that was the end of a busy day. * # Even during the purely social features, one carries a constant sense of the solemnity of an occasion such as this, occurring as it does while we are in the midst of war, - ‘Knowi people are” ng through day" by day, and the “treneed for dedication to his task on the part of avery ‘elected or appointed servant of the people e seving Sovepnmen dove this period,

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It was rated The prize ($150) was pre-

(Greece). It looked like the.,end of the Hoosier Salon. At this critical stage, a diagnostician' guessed that, maybe, the salon needed a change of climate, too. It was a good guess. The Hoosier Salon was moved to Indianapolis. Wm. H. Block's enfporium replaced that of Marshall Field's and Mrs, Leoridas Smith supplanted Mrs. King. Mrs. Smith was well equipped for the job. Her love for Indiana art was of long standing and involved an infected tooth, the Monon railroad, Simon Baus ahd Scribner's magazine, a combination strangely resembling the elements of a Salvadore Dali picture. I know it sounds preposterous to’ say that a woman of Mrs. Smith's poise and sanity shared Mr. Dali's surrealistic errations, but facts are facts. ” n 2 THE INFECTED tooth calls for attention first. As you probably “know, Mrs. Smith's husband is a "D. D. 8. Well, some 40 years ago a boy “with an infected tooth looked him up. He introduced himself as a counterman at the Baltimore Dairy Lunch room. Under cross-exdmination, he admitted that he spent his nights at the Herron Art school, : The kid didn't look any too good as a business proposition, but Dr. Smith took the case anyway. He said he'd take a chance on getting his honorarium when and if, the kid sold a picture. Believe it or not, right after that the kid sold a picture and ever since that day the Smiths and Wayman Adams have been he best of friends. As a matter of fact, they ee came inseparable. Every Sunday afternoon the three went to the Herron Art museum and once a year they spent a week-end in

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took the Monon Hoosier Salon Special, ‘the. one with a dining car. They ordered their dinners from bills of fare depicting Indiana landscapes painted by the “Hoosier Group.” To this day Mrs. Smith gratefully remembers the eloquent debates of the Monon waiters, the one side pleading for the cool calm style of Theodore Steele and the other side holding

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whether" he would accept the presidency of the Indiana Artists club if they would thange their to permit laymen - to function. Seems the artists had had another quarrel,

absut their private lives.

“Echoes in Glass” by Jane Mes-

sick (Shortridge) was chosen as the outstanding water color by an Indiana public school teacher,

Dr, Smith Sued he would

with the result that during his

Labor , Employers Gain Stature | With WLB By JOHN. W, LOVE

WASHINGTON, Jan, 22.—Employers’ standingz.with the war

* labor board has been improving

but in a way probably

over the years, which - ‘management

. least expected.

administration he not only got i to know every Hoosier artist but |

everything there was to know

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which he imparted to Mrs. Smith. |

- Today Mrs. Smith knows so much |

inside stuff that no Indiana art- | {

ist dares to cross her.

Came the day that Mrs. Smith |

achieved national fame by way of Scribner's magazine. It was a literary contest for the best essay on American art; more specifically, an. essay suggesting the kind of pictures to buy for American homes. Mrs. Smith pounded out her contribution in the serenity room of her husband's laboratories. Tt won second prize with the result

that the Woman's Department |.

club (Fine Arts division) made Mrs. Smith chairman of the Exhibitions committee. As such she ran string of creditable one-man shows. After which there wasn't anything to do but make her boss of the Hoosier Salon.

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WHEN MRS. SMITH isn't busy {

wrestling with the Hoosier Salon

she spends her time running the Hoosier Gallery in the beautifully appointed rooms. in State Life building ¢610). Hoosier Gallery, the successor of Hoosier Art Gallery,

the. | The | it turns out, is | the Chicago |

She has no kick: The sales are |

quite good, she says, standing the fact Insull is no longer around help. In November, for instance, Mrs.

notwith-

Smith with the assistance of Mrs. |

that Samuel | to |

Marie Dawson Morrell sold $1400 |

worth. of Hoosier art. In Decem-

ber the sales jumped to $1800 | and thus far this month they're |

well above a thousand dollars. “Art objects, says Mrs. Smith, investment in riods.” It's a thought for this year.

“are safest for inflationary pe-

Mugger Is Foiled By Chic Welder

NEW YORK, Jan, 22 (U. P).— Mrs, Ella Bonifay, 27, looking very chie in her tight-fitting black dress, black coat and white tur ban, appeared in magistrate's

Pon ed court recently and told the

feer| | a New York police department

judge to never mind, that she could take care of. herself. She.was- testifying against Fred Gilbert, 31, charged with attempting to “mug” her. That's

term for strong-arm bandits,

Gilbert was arrested ‘after he

found himself loser in a bout with - Mrs. Bonifay, a native of Chicago, Mr, Bowitay is a_welder,

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like real estate,” |

Industry's represen ta tives have been growing in knowledge of labor rela- . tions, much as the labor union dele - gates had to

Yo : earlier vearsin

the labor movement. But the greatest bet terment in industry's position be= fore the board in the three years of its.existence has resulted from the work of the seven or eight “substitute” { members, These, like the labor men, are professionals in labor relations, but from the employer side. They hate come up to the board from personnel management or secre-tarial--positions . in trade associations. They can recognize curves when they are pitched. Perhaps they pitch some of their own. on 2 n THE WLB. consists of four public members, four expected to represent the employees (all union officers) and four to represent the employers, all of them officers of corporations, In addition to these, there are four alternates for each of the three groups, and those of the employer group are likewise officers of corporations, The substitute members, the seven or eight on the employer side, are what might be called the professionals, Because the regular and alternate members don't work at it too hard, the substitutes have plenty of ‘room for their talents on the board. . 88 A NUMBER of industrial men have complained that the socalled employer representatives are men who have had little or no experience in labor relations, They are chairmen, vice presidents and treasurers, and appear

to have been selected for promi-

nence, integrity and such qualities, rather than for expertness in getting along with union leaders. Many employers favor abolish= Ing the industry and labor representation and leaving the board

to consist solely of public mem-.

bers.

We, The Women Volunteer

Nursing Is Good Idea

By RUTH MILLETT

IN NEW YORK 175 employees of a cosmetics and millinery house have been offered one day off each week with full pay, if they will use the day to do volunteer nursing duty. The firm "hopes the movement will spread - throughout the § fashion = beauty industry. It would be a fine thing if it spread throughout the country, ? taking in all business firms that are not absolutely essen= tial to the war effort, 2 » THE SAME idea might be adopted by families in which there are no small children, to give the woman of the house a chance to put in a day a week at a local hospital If the other members of the family assumed the responsibility for running the house one day a week, they would be “paying” for

the homemaker’s day of volunteer

nursing. Many a woman could do nurses’ aide work if she could have one day a week free of home responsibilities. . o » » WHO aren't nurses agree that -the right to draft

WOMEN are quick to country has a, nurses. But if pressure Is brought to bear on one group of women to serve their country—that group has a right to expect that other women will pitch in and help out, The “day off for nursing duty” idea will, if widely adopted, make it possible for women to do just that.

Live Bomb, Perils

M ditions Ship

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. -22 (U.- P).—A substantial depthcharge, accidentally knocked overboard from an allied ship moored in a New Zealand port, lies unexploded beneath a heavily

- laden munitions yes, ih.has been revealed ~

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