Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1945 — Page 7

| SATURDAY, JAN. 27, 1945 .

Devastated Areas

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By Jack Bell

; (Ernie Pyle | is now In the Pacific and will resume his_columns from that area in the very near-future),

87, IIR, Belgium, Jan. 25 (Delayed).~This is the story of a town, An admittedly feeble word picture of a community caught under the casual heel of the god of war, who strikes across the world midst iin unholy laughter. “St. Vith, in the: path of the surging fortunes of war is devastated,” writes the official reviewer, Yes, St. Vith is devastated. It was a beautiful town; population, '2453, says the guidebook. It sat on a knoll in a long valley. From here you look down onto gently rolling fields, and upward to forested hillsides and long ridges, the * inevitable “high ground” every military man covets, In St. Vith' today the sun shone serenely ‘on the dead, covered during the night by gently falling snow,‘ In St. Vith today no building remains standing, not one civilian 48 here. There is no sound save the occasional

threatening rattle of the war machine, No longer are '

there streets, for big bombers and guns have torn ~ buildings asunddr and tumbled. them everywhere. Still T stood atop a huge pile of stone looking at a | high carved wall—all that remained of a building— % . and remembered similar ruins in Rome. Time © worked 2000 years on them; bombs did this in one b | terrifying moment,

| Houses Still Burn } THERE WAS a long street in St. Vith coming up [| from the valley through the town and back into the | valley tb the south, I clambered over piles of stone and brick and twisted steel girders on that street, pausing often to view the destruction on either side. Away yonder from the cluster that was the town a . few houses remain upright, but in the town the | bombers and gunners did their work beautifully. The battle was yesterday, Today a few houses | still burn. Up through the snow smoke curls from | occasional cellars where smoulder a few tenacious fires. They are so covered with fallen houses that one cannot get near them. No wind last night, none today. New snow has covered, everything as if seek- | ing te hide man's awful handiwork, but its attempts " seem feeble among the gaunt walls of what had been | tall buildings—the village church, the town hall, the | homes of a few who have accumulated some wealth.

Often we have noticed that bombings of great cities catch the homes of the poor-'‘the poor devil gets the worst of it even in war,” we say. It is true, because they who live along railways and harbors are poor, and bombers go for such places. But seven highways lead into St. Vith; it’s on a knoll where gunners couldn't miss. Rich and poor shared alike here, and as I logked on what had been their homes I hoped—with not too much assurance-— that they who live are more fortunate than they who lie under the stones. I walked out to the edge of the knoll at the south end of town and looked across the white fields, dotted with snowcovered trees to the tall fir forests beyond. Across the ravine a German tank and several vehicles rolled eastward and Capt. Harrison Forrester, Greenville, 8. C., who had come, whiteclad, from the valley, observed: “I'll call a little artillery on 'em, ‘Beside the hedge two doughboy outposts sat in a

‘foxhole beside the grave of a German soldier,

‘You Forgot the C’

“NUTHIN' HAPPENS, might as well of stayed at home,” observed Pvt. Henry Nadaling, New Britain, Conn. I was writing the name of Pvt. Armon Albright, Rockingham, N. C,, when, from highground to the east, came those wild, unearthly shrieks that every soldier knows—Screaming Mimis. They burst the quiet wide open, a dozen shells leaving trails of white smoke across the sky. I hit the snow with all I had and lay until I heard them -explode. As IT arose I was aware that Albright was saying calmly: “You forgot to put the C in Rockingham.” /I made it Rockingham. Soldiers met me as I went back, a reconnaissance company and others. Tanks rumbled into the edge of the town, thence around the ruins to await movement. This morning they attacked—the high ground beyond St. Vith, It was a military maneuver, that's all. The Germans took it from us in December because of the roads and high ground. We took it back for the same reason—took it by destroying every house and cellar so that the German gunners couldn't use them against us. Many little towns over here are caught in the path of war. All resemble St. Vith. That is what war means—devastated ‘areas. No shells have fallen on little towns in America; they live on in happy serenity.

(Copyright, 1045, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Ine.)

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

ATTENTION GIRLS! Beware of strangers offier- ‘ ing you bargains in nylon -hoslery. A businessman ' with offices in the Illinois building tells us a phony salesman visited his office the other day during his | absence and attempted to sell “nylons” to the. girls in his office at three pairs for $5.17. The “salesman” breezed in, asked if the boss were in, found he wasn't, then said the boss had pald him for some nylons and he just wanted to .get the size. While he was at it, he’d be willing to take the orders (and cash) of the girls, delivering later. The girls were smart and didn't buy. Later, when the boss arrived, he said he'd never heard of the man, The phony salesman said he was a “truck driver for an oil company.” He was described as rather tall, heavy set, round-faced, speaking with an accent, and wearing glasses, a cap and a windbreaker, So beware girls. Or at least, don't say we didn't warn you. . . . Have you paid your gross income tax yet? If not, you'd better get busy. Wednesday's the last day. And those penalties are a little stiff. . Notes to inquiring readers: Audrey Lee Long, "the little girl who was burned while rescuing others in a fire Jan, 7, was released from the hospital Jan. 113. . . . And to Florence Henderson: Dr. Sevitzky doesn't mind his ‘name being misspelled. He keeps a collection of: the various spellings. And he really wasn't wearing a dressing robe in that picture, It was a sports coat.

Light on the Subject.

NOW THAT THERE'S a movement on t& finish up the world war memorial plaza by adding some new

buildings and removing the two churches, we have’

a suggestion for further improvement. How about removing a couple hundred or so lamp posts from the plaza? A stranger passing the plaza for the first

keeps its spare lamp posts until they're needed. elsewhere, To our notion, the posts every 15 or 20 feet definitely hurt the appearance of the memorial. The lamps seldom are lighted. And. besides, a few properly placed flood lamps would give a lot more light. + + « Sorry, Pfc. H. T, McQuinn (Alamogordo, N. M.) and Doris Day (Greenwood), but we've had to saw off on that 1-23-45 business. The same goes for the fragrance of snow -discussion. That brought letters from as far away as Barstow, Cal—Elsie Bartlett. . . . The story about the State C. of C. getting billed by Block's (accidentally) for “one corset— $10" has gotten wide ciruclation, too. A reader calls in to say her brother, overseas, sent her a clipping about it. from the Paris edition of the Stars and Stripes.

A Persistent Customer

EVERYWHERE THAT Homer goes, McLanny is sure to go. That paraphrasing the .nursery rhyme, is the cituation between Homer Pace, barber, and Charles McLanny, Allison employee. Homer, who barbers in Dick Mohr's shop, 111 E. Michigan, told one of our agents that he has been cutting McLanny's hair 28 years. “It started‘ in Chicago,” he said, “and then I moved to Danville, Ill. Before long, in walked McLanny. He had moved there, too. I moved in succession, to 8}. Louis, Bedford and Indianapolis. In each town, McLanny found the shop where 1 was working. And he’s a tough customer to shave, too.”. . . Some of the wounded veterans at Billings hospital now look a lol less like Biblical characters as a result of the activity rof Snowball, general factotum around the Servicemen’s Centers. Snowball had heard various convalescents mention that one of the annoyances of being in the hospital was being unable to get a haircut. He mentioned this to a barber friend. And as a result, three barbers went|Th out. to Billings last Sunday and gave free haircuts to the boys. They're going to make it a regular monthly proposition, the barbers say. The volunteers were M. B. Williamson ‘and Laddy Volk of the

| time might get the idea that this is where the city ~Brevor barber shop and H. R. Goenus of the I.A.C.

World of Science

APPLICATION of the latest discoveries in elec- | tronics to the field of chemistry promises yet greater | wonders for the post-war world in the opinion. of Dr. J. A. Hutcheson of the Westinghouse Research ' laboratories. His views are highly interesting because two of the fields in which the greatest advances have taken place during world war II have been synthetic chemistry and electronics. ; ? I have written on numerous occasions of the advances in chemistry—synthetic rubber, new plastics, high-octane aviation fuel, toluene from petroleum for the production of TNT, etc. Y The most recent advance I § % have described is. the new ] process for making industrial f alcohol from sawdust and wood ‘wastes.

| Almost Anything Possible

SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY has now reached the | point where you can start with almost any organic | substance you please and wind up with almost any | product you want. For example, petroleum, coal, imestone, alcohol, and cornstalks are all possible | starting points for the manufacture of Synthetic | rubber, ) The advances in electronics have been equally | exciting although wartime restrictions have made it

| impossible to write much about them, But everyone °

| has heard of the radar, the walkie-talkie, the electrical gun-pointer and it can be assumed that the

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday.—In the last two days 1 | spent ‘a longer time reading the newspapers than I | usually spend, and that is because I have done what | I hope every other interested person is doing.

I have read the full statements made by Jesse H. Jones and Henry Wallace, and as much of the questioning as was reported in the papers. The reason I hope that other citizens thoughout this nation have taken the time to do this , same thing is that I think they will find the two statements, with the questions and answers, a great help in clarifying their own thinking. £, Mr, Jones has been for years a gentlemen well known in business circles. «Mr, Wallace was primarily a farmer, and the one

business he was engaged in grew out of his scientific

farming knowledge, Wz are frequently told that farming is nat an occupation where people accumulate vast incomes, ‘but that we are a nation where a great many e

Stl go tn fof farming because they; like it as a way

of life.

By David Dietz

army and navy has equally vital electronic devices which are still deep secrets. :

Dr. Hutcheson foresees a vast development as the!

result of the application of electronic devices to chemical procedures, This, of course, is already under way.

Induction Heating

A GOOD EXAMPLE is the use of induction heating for both metals and plastics. The so-called casehardening of crankshafts and -other steel parts is carried on by this method. The object passes through the center of a coil of wire where it is heated by the electromagnetic field. Many new devices use electronic tubes not greatly different from those in your radio or those that will appear one of these days in your television set, to control all sorts of chemical reactions. , Electronic tubes, Dr. Hutcheson tells, are making possible accurate measuring devices, methods of controlling temperatures, pressures, the’ levels . of liquids, ete. Chemistry also benefits from the use of huge elec tronic tubes, known as ignitrons; which convert powerful alternating currents into direct currents. Such direct currents are required for the production of many metals, particularly aluminums and magnesium. The increased demands for these light metals in the wartime airplane program has vastly increased the need for these types of electronic tubes. One of the important uses of induction heating has been in a new method of making tin plate which requires only one-third as much tin as was formerly needed.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

ful; but much of his time has been given to government work, and some of his most successful experience in business has come through government work Directing the commodity credit corporation, the farm security administration, the farm credit administration and the -rural electrification administration, and making some $6,000,000,000 worth of loans is proof of vast experience, however. We are at a period, it seem to me, where this attitude of mind is not something which you can judge by physical age. Some old ‘men, like Albert Einstein, are always looking forward. I do not think it-is time wasted to read carefully what these two men have to say and to decide where one stands oneself, because it is a fundamental decision which is going to face many of us, and not Just in any one field,

Who. is 10 be the secretary of commerce and who. [

is to have the powers of the RFC are perhaps the immediate questions before congress, and the rest of the country is deeply interested. But the interest of the rest of the country is even

deeper than this particular decision, ‘We know, we|

people in the United States, that the world is facing new and unpredictable conditions. We know that to meet these conditions we will have to have realists

leading us, Who face what the conditions are, J HG Sie lave, We RuOw Sha, achervioe Jo od}

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7/FOR SALVAGE—

Deming Urges Housewives fo| Save Tin Cans

SHERLIE DEMING, works board president, today appealed to Injlanapolis housewives to- save tin sans for the next salvage drive, vhich will be held during March, instead of throwing them in their ash or garbage collections. “We are very short.of help and the men are way hehind in their regular ash. and garbage collections,” Mr. Deming said. “It just makes the situation all the worse when unco-operating persons toss tins cans in. It takes time and manpower to sort them out—and we just don't have enough of either as it is. “Anyway,” Mr. Deming continued, “it’s simply unpatriotic. We are falling down on our tin salvage contributions in Indianapolis. At the same time, the government is having to restrict the use of tin even more because the tin-pro-ducing areas in the East Indies still are in Jap hands.

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“THE WAY it seems to me,” he said, “is that it takes only a few thinutes to wash out a tin can, cut out both ends, take the paper label off and squash it flat. That is the way they should be prepared; it saves us time and saves the tin cans for the war effort.” Mr. Deming sald “we have had to throw out a good many unflattened ones—they're just a complete waste because we don't have the manpower to salvage them.” He explained that some persons had called his department at City hall. to complain that their ashes hadn't been picked up. “We just had to tell them we couldn't take them if they had tin cans in them,” Mr. Deming said.

“APARTMENT houses generally are the worst offenders at throwing away cans, tossing them in the incinérator where they are ruined before the custodian knows it.” - Frank G. Thompson, war production board “executive secretary of the Indiana general salvage program, cited figures to show how Indianapolis’ “apathy” is slowing the tin drive. In February, 1944, the city and a few adjoining counties saved 208 tons of tin. This fell to 205 tons in April, 198 tons in June, 134 tons in August, 109 tons in October and 104 tons in December. “When you stop to think that it takes tin to send food to our armed services, tin to keep their powder dry, tin for hundreds of war needs, it seems that everyone ought to be. willing to help save the tin that we do: have.”

STOKER UNIT HERE SOLD TO CHRYSLER

The Schwitzer- Cummins Co. today announced it has sold it§ stoker division to Chrysler Corp. Chrysler, which is already in the air-conditioning business through its Air- -Temp division at Dayton, O., will take over Monday. The wholly-owned subsidiary will be known as the Stokol Stoker: Co., Inc. It plans to retain all personnel. s The sale included patents, tools, dies and inventory, but SchwitzerCummins will retain the stoker plant at 1145 E. 22d st, Which Chrysler will lease for ‘at least a year. Chrysler intends to continue making Stokol ‘stokers. In peacetime, stoker sales amounted to between 35 and 40 | per cent of the Schwitzer-Cummins sales volume, but the proportion is much less now, bécause of war <on= ditions. The main Schwitzer-Cum-mins production is devoted to water and oil pumps, fans, superchargers and aircraft engine parts.

FUND TO BE REVIEWED

“Barly Years of the Fund” will be the subject of a talk by" Fred Hoke at the 25th anniversary meeting of the Indianapolis community fund to be held Monday night in the Indianapolis Athletic club. Mr. Hoke was a member of the first hoard of directors of the organization.

FRIENDS’ NIGHT SLATED

Irvington O. E. 8S. chapter will hold friends’ night at 8 'p. m. Monday in the Irvington Masonic temple, 5515 E. Washington st.” Mrs. Pearl M. Buchholz, worthy matron, and Harry J. Buchholz, worthy patron, will preside.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS “TIMES OLD-TIMERS GET TOGETHER FOR AULD LANG SYNE—.

Atkins Pioneers Mark 39th Year|

- THREE HUNDRED SIX, TY-ONE old-timers will get

Claypool hotel to celebrate: the 39th anniversary of the Atkins Pioneers. The club is composed of em.ployees of the local saw company who have been with Atkins 20 years or more, Of the total mem-

50 years or more, Local and out-of-town resi dents, including prominent rep-

and air forces, will be present at tonight's banquet and entertainment. Charles M. Dawson, former lieutenant governor, will speak on “Government Pioneering.” : ’ ~ » ” ‘HEADING the list of pioneers will be Albert J. Hert, who began work in 1885 and retired last September, rounding out 60 years of service. Mr. Hert is the oldest living member since the death last year of Henry C. Atkins Sr.

He joined the Pioneers in 1911 after completing 20 years at Atkins. As a sawsmith, he followed in the footsteps of his father, Albert J. Hert Sr, who also served in that capacity for 35 years. ® 8 & RIGHT BEHIND Mr. Hert is C. A. Newport, club secretary, who will complete his 60 years at Atkins in April, 1946. Leading the club's activities in its 40th year will be Elias C. Atkins, honorary president; Clarence Fay Miller, president; Marshall Halslup, vice president; Lloyd ‘Z. Beskwith, treasurer; Mr, Newport, . secretary, and William A. Weaver, visitor, The late Mr. Henry Atkins is honorary president in memoriam.

together tonight at the

bership 18 have been employed

resentatives of the army, navy’?

The president of Atkins Saws,

D. Collins presents him with thé scroll.

NEW CLUB MEMBERS include Fred Anderson, Roland Schmitt and George Bass, all of the Portland branch; R. H. Farrington, Seattle branch; Erven Smith, New York branch, and Emerson Baker, Herschell Barrett, Fred Cadby, Brownlee Chambers, Lawrence Denzio, Frank Ellis, A. J. Hoss, George Haug, Joseph Kinnard, Louis Kinnard. Other new members are Theodore Lawson, Roy McCain, Lyman Leslie May, Frank Reid, Charles Riggsbee, Mack Scarbrough, Jeff Tucker, Arthur Valeske, Everett Watson, Charles White and Irs White. ~ ” 8 ’ NEWLY ELECTED officers of the Ladies’ club at Atkins are Miss Edna Prater, president; Mrs. Oda Snyder, vice president; and Miss Ruth Reckley, secre-tary-treasurer. Six new members, boosting the club’s roster to 57, are Fannie Calvin, Christine Limpus, Kathryn Zoe Butler, Charlotte Mendenhall, Jewell Littrell Harris and Ruth Thompson.

. branch of the Y. M."C. A.

-things of life.”

Elias C. Atkins, beams as Maurice

‘Albert J. Hert

ELIAS C. ATKINS, company president, has been presented a parchment scroll in appreciation of his help and interest in the welfare of club members. Holding their banquet at the same time tonight will be the members of the Colored Men's club. The 19 members, who have served from 20 to 51 years, will meet at the Senate Avenue

The city’s first week-day classes in religion for pupils on release time from the public schools will be conducted during the new public - school semester beginning Monday. The classes are being organized in accordance with a- state law passed in 1943. Instruction will be given for a period of 50 minutes with 10 minutes allowed for the trip to and from the school to nearby churches where the classes are held. Ever since the law was passed, a central committee has been planning for the classes and meeting with public school authorities and Virgil Stinebaugh, superintendent. The central committee was interdenominational and sponsored by the Indianapolis Council of Churchwomen, the Church federation and the Marion County Council of Christian- education, ~~

Miss Young Serving .

Recently the Marion County Council was absorbed by the church Jederation becoming its department of religious education. Miss Nellie C. Young, chairman of the central commitfee, is now serving as temporary =chairman of the new department which will cooperate with the schools in the 2 week-day classes. Mrs. Asa Hoy, who was president of the Marion |County council, is co-chairman with |Miss Young.

| worked with’ the aforementioned]

groups to promote the week-day religion classes are the East Side and Tuxedo Councils of churches.

SCHOOL 18 PUPILS ACGEPT TWO FLAGS

A service flag bearing 150 blue stars and two gold ones waved over School No. 18 today. The banner was presented to the school yesterday by Mrs, Harvey Cassady of the P.-T. A in a “schools at war” program. Miss

cepted the flag in behalf of the student body, ‘Another flag, commemorating the “schools at war” event was presented by Mrs. Werner OC. Susemichael, P.-T. A, president. Miss PafSy Sutton and Carl Emerich, CA pupils, accepted, .The entire student body of 650 marchéd beneath a canopy of united nations flags to the school’s flag pole. Privilege of flying the treasury flag wa swon in December by school 18 when 96 per cént of the pupils participated in the war stamp purchase plan, Miss Ida Helphenstine is acting principal.

BAPTISTS WILL GREET NEW ACTON PASTOR

The Rev. James G. Casner will assume the pastorate of the Acton Baptist church in special Services tomorrow at 2 p. m. Dr. Clive McGuire, Baptist city executive, will give an address at the installation and the Rev. Mr. Casner will preach the sermon. Music will be in’ charge of Mrs, Mildred Bridgford. The new Acton pastor is a ‘student in the Southern Baptist Theological seminary, Louisville, Ky. He will continue residence there until his graduation in June, He succeeds the Rev. Jack E. Jones who reSlened to become pastor of the Baptist Ehirch at Woodstock, Ill

CARD PARTY ARRANGED The Pifth Sunday committee of

in: Mongay 3 ihe Mrs. W, F. Noelle chair-

Classes in Religion ‘Start “Monday With 350 Enrolled

The two agencies which have!

Patriacia Smith, an 8A pupil, ac-|-

Dr. U. 8S. Clutton is president of the Tuxedo council and the Rev. Charles Haney is chairman of the week-day religious education committee of the East Side council. About 350 children have registered for the classes with the writ= ten consent of their parents. Pupils from schools 58, 62 and 78 will be taught by Mrs. William O. Breedlove, a former public school teacher, wife of a minister and trained for work in religious education.

Limited to 4th Grade

REMY EYED FOR CITY ATTORNEY

Yockey May Get Safety Job If Police Head Agrees To Replace Bobbitt.

Crusading safety board chairman Will H. Remy was being pushed today to take over Arch Bobbitt's former job as city attorney. Mr. - Bobbitt was appointed yes-

Children from schools 3, 15, and 54 will attend classes taught by Mrs. Gladys Sharp, who holds a degree in religious education from Indiana Central college and does substitute teaching in the public schools. Only fourth grade children are being enrolled from each school for these classes since they are still-in- the experimental stage, the authorities said. Children from school 62 will be instructed pn Tuesday at the Wallace Street Presbyterian church; those from school 58, also Tuesday mornings in the Linwood Christian . church; and those. from school 78, Tuesday afternoons in the Grace Methodist church, Classes for school 3 pupils will be held Tuesday mornings in the Englewood Christian church; for school 15 pupils, Tuesday afternoons in the Beville Avenue Evangelical and Reformed church; from school 33, Thursday mornings in ‘the Heath Memorial Methodist church; and from school 54, Wednesday mornings in the First Evarigelical and Reformed church,

Col. Burbridge Is Given Award

LT. COL. CHARLES C. BURBRIDGE, ~, Who directed completion of Stout field as headquarters for the I troop carrier command, has been awarded the bronze star for hazardous engineering work in Holland. A p pointed command engineer upon completion of Stout field, Col. Burbridge went | overseas last Lt Col. Charles March as a ma- Burbridge « jor with the IX troop carrier command. He was cited for the construction of a glider runway in a for ward sector of Holland which was started while the area was under gunfire. His wife lives at 3790 E. Westfield blvd.” A daughter, Frances, is a student at Butler, and another daughter, Patsy, is in grammar school.

AUTO PARK PROPOSED UNDER WAR MEMORIAL

Post-war construction of a huge subterranean parking lot under the World War . Memorial plaza and University park is being envisioned today by the ‘Indianapolis Federation of Community civic leagues. Edward O. Snethen, director of the Meridian Heights civic league, asked the federation to consider the parking proposal at a meeting last night in the Washington ‘hotel.

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‘JOINS MUSIC FRATERNITY Harold Berman, son. of Mr. and

st, was among the 25 new members of Phi Mu Alpha, national honorary

3 terday by Mayor Tyndall to the

‘I Prom 1937 through 1940 Mr. Bob-

Mrs. Harry Berman, 14 W. Wilkins |

men's music fraternity, recently or iaten as Centra oulegs, Payette]

city corporation counsel post vacated by the resignation of Sidney Miller, Harry Yockey, OCD director, was prominently mentioned as the likely safety board choice, if this reported deal goes through. ‘Whether the flery center of city hall-police department GLickerings would consent to leave his impertant safety board post to the rela tively obscure city attorney job remained to be seen.

Remy Unavailable

Mr. Remy was unavailable for comment as news of the big city hall shakeup bubbled to the surface. Meanwhile Mr. Bobbitt, still on the outside as far as big-time city hall and' state Republican politics are concerned, edged into a $4500 a year job, compared to $3600 he received as city attorney. A diplomatic political “conciliator” with .friends on both sides of the Republican fence here, Mr. Bobbitt is understood to have been “geceptable” to the regular G.O.P.

Tyndall's city hall faction. Led Bricker Forces

bitt was Republican state chairman. He entered actively into the 1044 state campaign as a zealous supporter of Sehator Homer E. Capeheart, his close personal friend. He also headed the Bricker-for-President move in Indiana. He likewise was among Mayor Tyndall's earliest backers, having served as his campaign secretary when the mayor made his primary bid in 1942. During the Tyndall regime, Mr, Bobbitt has been identified with the “Republican Victory committee,” city hall faction fund-

battle with the regular county organization. He has been a member of the Babbitt, Martz and Beattey law firm. A naval veteran’ of world war I, Mr. Bobbitt is a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Columbia club, Scottish Rite, Shrine and various legal societies. A graduate of the Benjamin Harrison Law school, he is married and lives at 615 E. 49th st.

Panic Reported

"Rising in Berlin

LONDON, Jan. 27 (U. ‘P).— Mounting signs of panic in Berlin were reported today in Swedish and Swiss dispatches as the Red army pounded closer to the German capital. The Stockholm Dagens Nyheter | quoted its Berlin correspondent as reporting

raising group engaged in a running]

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What a Pity That Idea | Won't Work

"By WALKER STONE WASHINGTON, Jan, 21 Henry Wallace testifies for a post-war America of more houses, clothing, cars, education, recre= ation and all the other “good He's for higher wages, fewer

As who isn't?

.you get down | to the core of how Mr. Wal« lace would have our coun= try go about * attaining that abundance and prosperity and Jeisure you come to a formula as old as that dream of heaven on earth. Which formula is that all-+«

. we need is a goverhment gener-

ous enough in its spending and lending. Spend and lend, spend and lend, spend and lend—and

. bootstrap ourselves to an ever

richer life. And wouldn't it be nice if the government's credit only were a bottomless barrel,

EJ » ” OF COURSE Mr.*Wallace does not say he thinks the barrel bote tomless. He just ignores that question.

His idea seems to be that if the government will go about spending on good causes and projects, and lending on what he, a government official, thinks are good business enterprises, taking the risks that private lenders are afraid to take, we will automatically move te such high levels of employment and. production. and. business volume that the revenues obtained (from lower taxes) will pay all the bills and cut.down the publie debt,

Believing in such perpetual mo= tion economics, Mr. Wallace

ideal man to be secretary of com= merce and custodian of the.gove ernment’s lending power. iL j APPARENTLY he can't under= stand why the businessmen of the country don’t welcome his ideas and his leadership. Isn't he ‘promising virtually to change the profit-and-loss system into a profit system without losses, and make it easy for them to borrow money by government-guaranteed loans?

But somehow most businessmen think it won't work. And mest members of congress think it won't work. It has been tried before, and there plenty instances in history to prove it won't work. And, what a pity, really, that it won't.

Which is why the job of running the business and lending" depart-

turned over to somebody else, not Henry. —=We, The Women ’ .- 1 Me Firsts . Would Ruin . Cigaret Plan By RUTH MILLETT CIGARET SMOKERS have a right to be apprehensive of the cigaret manufacturer’s plan to ration. cigarets. For their system hinges on the consumer's honesty in having only one cigaret ration card. And every time that honesty and fair play have been counted on for the equal distribution of Re arce coms modities, the honest guy has been gypped: % Look at the hoarders who filled their basements with canned goods, and then, even if they declared it all, never had to pay for it in full

with ration stamps. . Most of it was just “forgiven.”

” 8 » SO THE “me first” people had 8 nice supply of food while others did not. And every time an article is rumored scarce, the “me firsts” run-down and stock up, and a real » Shortage exists whether or not one did before the rumors started, Give the people the slightest chance for hoarding or getting ahead of their neighbors and the “m» firsts” grab ft. > ss a a}-Y\ SO THEY'LL surely beat the rationing plan, which admittedly hinges op the honesty of the whole American public.

If cigarets are to be rationed at all, then the government should do it, just as they ration other “necessary” items. y

There's no point in reasoning that - cigarets aren't “necessary.” They are more necessary than butter or new shoes to a good percen of. the adult population—and if the “me toos” will cheat to get food, they) certainly cheat to smoke:

POLICE DEPARTMENT | MECHANIC SENTENCED

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