Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1945 — Page 10

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THE LEGION HEADQUARTERS ;

THE state administration has quite wisely-been holding back the numerous bills appropriating money for post-war projects so they can all be considered together, perhaps at a later special session of the legislature, and a sound’ program of spending and construction worked out. Since little, if any, of this construction can be started for a year or more anyway, there is fiothing to be lost by the delay, and much to be gained from careful weighing of all these proposals, one against another. Among them, however, up to late last week, was the bill appropriating $2,500,000 for completion of the north end of the memorial plaza, and that one coifldn’t wait. This money will pay for the construction of thrée more buildings, two.to house expanded and still growing activities of the American Legion national headquarters, and the third to provide quarters for other veterans’ organizations. “It had been definitely. promised by both parties before the election.

n . ~ n » n | THE AMERICAN LEGION, especially, has acute need for more room. Its activities here have already outgrown - the building originally erected for a national headquarters - and they may well be doubled or tripled after the war. For some time a strong group within the Legion has been advocating that it move out of Indiana—and definite proposals to that effect are to be acted upon by its executive committee next May. The result hinges, to a great extent, on, whether Indiana takes positive action before then to meet the needs of the Legion here. And not too many of us have realized that in addition to whatever patriotic ‘pride we may take in its presence, the American Legion headquarters has become important business in Indiana, bringing a payroll of more than $450,000 into the state. Governor Gates and his party leaders in the legislature did a good turn for their state and their party, and for the Legion, when they rescued this measure from the mass of less urgent appropriations bills and started it toward enactment by the house and senate. There is every indication today that-the measure will pass without delay at this session, making it possible to continue in orderly fashion the long range plan for development of this great patriotic shrine in the heart of Indianapolis. .

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KWIAT PLEASE!

USIC,” observed Emerson, “is the ‘poor man’s Parnassus.” But what may be one man’s Parnassus is another man’s poison, and Rep. Stanley Kwiat of East Chicago, co-author of a bill to banish juke boxes from' Indiana taverns, is more inclined to agree with George Bernard Shaw that “music is the brandy of the damned.” For Rep. Kwiat informed the Indiana legislature as his hill passed second reading in the house last week that “it’s not the liquor that makes people feel so peculiar, it’s the music that gets 'em.”

AN INTERESTING theory that, and any day now we

Way Back When

By John W. Hillman

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THE OFFICE has been in a reminiscent mood recently, thanks to Floyd Clymer, a Los Angelés automobile dealer who sent us a copy of his recently published “Historical Motor Scrapbook,” a collection "of vintage automobile advertisements, Probably the most nostalgic of all was our fellow columnist, Lowell Nussbaum, who discovered a picture of the 1914 Saxon ($395 f. 0. b. Detroit), ‘the first car he ever drove. The Nussbaum family had purchased one of these when Old Inside still was a stripling, One day, in a family emérgency, Nuss volurfteered to drive it to town though he had only a hazy idea of what an auto was ‘all about. He got it started somehow, pulled the hand throttle wide open and roared off in a cloud of dust and chicken feathers, He was so busy keeping the car in the road, by the time he hit the suburbs, that he had forgotten how to slow down. Finally, however, he cut off the ignition and the mighty Saxon coasted to a stop just short of a catastrophe.” And it's a matter of record that Nuss has been driving With the throttle wide open ever since,

Six Wheels—Count 'Em, Six

ROGER BUDROW already has done a piece for

the business page on some of the Indiana automakers way-back-when—though we're not sure he did | full justice to the Reeves Sextoauto, made in Colum- | bus, Ind. in 1912. This jaunty touring car was dis- | tinguished by an extra pair of wheels at the rear, | making six in all and, if we may believe the ad, it rode “like a Pullman Palace Car. No shock, no jolt, | no bounce, no rebound” and was “bound to revolu- | tionize auto construction.” It didn't—and, consider=ing how difficuit it is right now to get tires for just four-wheels, it's probably a good thing. Not to mention getting a spare ‘tire. And speaking of spares, the Carter Engine Co. of Washington, D. C., in 1808 brought out a twin engine car, equipped with two complete 35-horse power motors. You could hitch them together to get. 70 h. p. performance or, if one balked, you could drive home on the other, The early days supplied plenty of other novelties, too. There was the Horsey Horseless Carriage invented by one Uriah Smith of Battle Creek, Mich. Uriah wasn't too sure that the horse wasn't here to stay, so he mounted a life-sized horse's head where the radiator would have been if cars had had ‘such things in those days. But the car wouldn't run on oats.

Prepared for Anything

AND THERE was the 1900 Pennington motor

tricycle, built " in. Coventry; England. This looked | like a cross between a bicycle and a power mower, | and carried four people. The driver rode in the rear, facing front; one passenger, presumably the ! driver's mother-in-law, rode up in the prow, also | facing forward. - The other two passengers were spaced in between, one facing east and the other west—that way you were prepared for anything. Those were the good old days, and no fooling. |

concern autos. On the same page with the announce- | with “double three-point suspension” -in Munsey’s | Magazine for 1906, the New York Tailors, Broadway, present a “high qualitied suit, made to your measure’—all for $1250. And the Hayner Distilling Co. offered in a 1905 ad to ship four full quarts of seven-year-old rye whisky for $3.20 “express charges paid by us.” If you lived west of the Rockies, however, you had to pay $4, but if you were especially thirsty—as many people in those parts were —the company would gladly send 20. quarts for $16, freight prepaid. Mr. Clymer thoughtfully adds this note: “All ads years ago. They are not reproduced for the purpose of selling any merchandise. The ads do, however, show the great progress made by both the automotive industry and the advertising firms of this country.” What does he mean—progress?

WORLD AFFAIRS— 2

may expect some bedraggled penitent to appear in muni- | cipal court and say: : “I'm sorry, Judge. I didn’t mean to get in this condi | tion, but that last record got me. I just can't let the | “Trolley-Song’ alone.” Perhaps when you wake up with a throbbing head and | a mildewed tongue, the proper remark will be: “I just don’t | knew what ails me today. I must have gotten hold of a| bad Sinatra.”

- unsteady client, “Now, chum, that’s enough. You'd better go home and taper off with a little Brahms.” The more effete bar-flies will order Alexanders in rag- | time, while the old sots go stumbling from tavern to tavern, | taking Harry James. straight, eight to the bar.

through the coves looking for lawless mountaineers who are cooking up a fresh batch of that hill-billy corn. "nn 8.8... is REP. KWIAT makes it clear that he has no objection to aged-in-the-woodwinds, bonded music, “if it’s decent.” But this present-day jazz and swing, he thinks, is suggestive—it puts the sin in syncopation—and juke boxes are 100 per cent canned heat. All of which goes to prove that it's mighty risky to |

vending devices, or to tinker with the counterpoint. Greeks had a word for it, and one of them warned: “Musical innovation is full of danger to the state, for when modes of music change, the laws of the state always change with them.” Plato must have known his .legislators.

PRIZE FOR STATESMEN

(COLLIERS MAGAZINE will award $10,000 each to the senator and representative who, in the opinion of a committee of distinguished citizens headed by Owen D. Young, do most for the country this year. The criterion will be statesmanship and national service, not party loyalty or “partisan political activity in behalf of some particular section, group of bloc.” Good idea. And nh shingly different from’ ‘the time- : honored (or dishonored) practice, of threatening to defeat congressmen unless they get Podunk a salt-water port, land Joe Zilch a government job, or do soniething for agriulture, labor, or the Chamber of Commerce. We like our senators and- representatives to be happy, and they should made happy by this chance for one of each to be called besman ‘and win a cash prize equivalent to a year’s y without kmagling down to a pressure group:

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Or you may hear a_public-spirited, bartender tell . | |

And oft in the stilly night the revenooers will prowl |

modernize music with gears and turntables and automatic The |

| Going tr to Russia” re Nowehaser headiine. ;

Himmlers Plan By Paul Ghali yl

BERNE, Feb. 18. — Heinrich Himmler, whose latest title is director of German home defense, has a detailed plan for sabotaging the future peace of Europe and -plunging. Germany | itself into such chaos that it will | take the allies years to get it back into shape. 8: Military’ measures now being taken and publicized by the Nazis are purely in line with a delaying | - action intended to allow: the gestapo chief time to add the finishing touches to the | clandestine organization with which he will carry out this plan, This, as least, is the word of a high German offi- | cial in German Foreign Minister Cpl. Joachim von Ribbentrop’s entourage, as spoken to a friend*here, | Himmler's plan, according to this course falls in three parts: 1. Economic. Before the allies complete their { occupation of Germany the Nazis aim to destroy all [oom production means.

ARSON

; 2S To The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

For proof, we can cite two ads that are reproduced. | “IT MAY SAVE in the scrapbook, although they don’t necessarily | nv pwmms yrppn

ment of KMarmon's new “mechanical masterpiece” |By Mrs. William L. Kell, Darlington

Are you to be a hostess to a club

729-731 jor any type organization during

{the current’ “Red Cross-drive” in

| the month of March? And do you

think your guests would object to

|your entertaining with a sacrificial imeeting, donating what you ordi-

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{narily- put into refreshments into {the Red Cross fund?

Also if you're

!in thé habit of giving prizes, give

|cash prizes and let the recipients!

in this scrapbook are of course void, having appeared |

donate them, also. Put your™ donation into an envelope with your name and the name of your organization on it, then hand to your local Red Cross

| chajrman,

The sponsor of this idea would appreciate a postal from any hostess | co-operating. The donation may not be large, but since it's to be exclusive of all other gifts, it may be the means of saving an extra life. a 2 a

“DEMOCRACY WAS THEIR. BIRTHRIGHT” By C. bp. OC, America, it is time to wake up.

Indianapolis

{| Our casualties have already reached {800,000 and it seems likely two

million American boys lives are likely to be sacrificed - before this|

fawful carnage is ended in a war

which seems likely to last three | years more, We are fighting a desperate] {enemy which has heen goaded into | further desperation by a policy of unconditional surrender, whatever that means. 1 ask you in all fairness, are the minds of three men big enough to!

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in .no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

hungry and sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. . The people became hungry under the Hoover regime. Democracy was their birthright and what have they done with it? s F J = | “WE WANT EQUALITY {FOR THE FOOT SOLDIER” By Army Infantry Wives, Shelbyville This is a copy of a letter sent to {the President of the United States: | We are infantry wives—we are ithe wives of the men who have {walked over Sicily, Italy, North Af(rica, the beaches of Normandy, {Prance, Belgium and Germany. We lare the wives who read every article, | | hear every broadcast, in hopes that |we might find our husband's name {mentioned, or the name of his di-

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the wives of the men who know {the enemy and come face to face {with them in battle every hour. | They know, and we know, that [they fight till the very end. It is [not just a mission, it’s a continuous |struggle for life. | We are not wives of a ‘soldier who {does a mission and that night can

RFC Beneficiaries

By Peter Edson a WASHINGTON, Feb, 19.~Ine teresting sidelight on the activie ties of Industrialists Henry J, Kaiser, Andrew Jackson Higgins and R. 8. Reynolds, the big three of New Deal businessmen who . have come out openly for Henry Wallace as secretary of commerce, is that they have benefited from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. under Jesse Jones to the tune of government. loans and authoriza. tions aggregating over 400 million dollars, Kaiser is the big beneficiary. Into the Fone tana, Cal, steel works which both Kaiser and U, 8,

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Steel are trying to buy for post-war private opera tion, and into the Permanente Magnesium plant,

Defense Plant Corp. has put 141 million dollars, Kalser has paid back five millions on the Fontana operation and on the Permanente he has paid back four million, Through the maritime commission, into Kaiser operated shipyards, the government has put over 130 million, In addition to these larger sums, Kaiser has ree received a. subsidy on the manufacture of magnesium powder produced at Permanente, amounting to near= ly three million dollars, This subsidy payment came about through the inability of the Permanente plant to produce magnesium for sale to the government at the OPA ceiling price of 22%; cents a pound.

Loss Charged to War

IT WAS, of course, a new process untried on a big scale. It made magnesium all right, and, Kaiser has produced over 11 million pounds. But to permit the plant to operate at cost and still sell at the govern~ ment ceiling price, RFC was forced to buy the output, first at 50 cents a pound, then 40 cents, then 30 cents, RFC subsidiaries then sell the product to processors at the OPA price and charge the loss up to the war, Maritime commission authorized expenditures of 39 million dollars for the Higgins dream of an assems bly line to produce Liberty ships, The contract was cancelled after these expenditures were made, and not a single Liberty ship was launched from this yard. Next, Higgins got a contract to go into the proe duction of plywood planes. After 30 million dollars worth of Defense Plant Corp. money had gone inte this project, the plywood contract wag cancelled and a decision was made to produce metal planes,

Pet New Deal Project

. RFC ADVANCES to Reynolds Metals have been far the best investments of the lot. The idea of breaking the Aluminum Company of America moe nopoly on the production of aluminum was a pet New Deal project in the early days of the national defense effort. When R. 8. Reynolds showed interest in this project—as a first step in making wrappers for Reyonlds Tobacco cigarets—his company got the coutract.. Reynolds Metals was advanced 43 million of governmenf money and to date has paid back eight million. Friendliness of the big~three for the administra tion is easy to understand in the light of all this high financing on government money. Without belittling their actual accomplishments in the least, it will‘ be possible for the historians to

' record that they made mistakes just like everybody

else, and the taxpayers of the future will foot the bill,

IN WASHINGTON—

{eat warm food and sleep on a soft] (bed, sometimes many miles. from | | the point of danger. If our letter colild bear a title, | we perhaps would call it equality. | We do realize that every branch

Qil for Chia

By. Marshall McNeil

{of our armed force is very defihitely |

a necessity, but why must some be paid for bravery when others must {be brave for the right to live? | We write to ask why our gov-! {ernment feels that the bravery of one branch is more valuable to our cause than any other?

more. It is well known by all that they | are deserving and it is our part as Mwives here at home to instigate such a’ plan and to see ‘that it is carried through. We, as infantry wives, have one| [true friend, our well known corre-| {spondent, Ernie Pyle, who worked | {and lived with our boys. He has {tried numerous times to get equality | for the foot soldier, but with the

results of an infantry combat badge, |

which has to be awarded. Do you | think that this five or ten dollars | could possibly compensate for the amount of flight pay which is fpaid | to the air corps.” We want equality for our foot soldier, more rest for those who

have been on the front, and fight

pay. Fs »

pa in the future far enough to|Vision. We are the wives who wait. «pp SEEMS NO

This will leave a mini- |

mum industrial potential for the reconstruction: of |

. | the country. The Nazis hope by systematic destruction,

{ plus allied bombardments to empty the country as a whole of its substance.

Food Stocks Rapidly Diminishing

IN MANY regions peasants incorporated into the Volkssturmers people’s army can no longer cultivate their land; predicted that by. spring a considerable part of od. many will suffer famine. Numerous 8S. S. (elite detachments) formerly stationed in central Germany have been transferred to industrial towns behind the front assigned the task of destroying all means of production and transport, 2. Ethical. The Nazis are trying to dig a bloodpit between the German people and the allies. They | are constantly insinuating that (he British, French, | Russians, and so forth, can never pardon Germany | for. atrocities commitied by its nationals, The Gier-

instructions not to deny any information about brutal crimes committed by the 8. 8. or Wehrmacht, occupied countries, or in Germany itself. In many towns tracts are being printed and distributed by Nazi party members teliing of German atrocities and warning, “You will pay for this.”

Secret Army Being Organized .

3. MILITARY. The organization of a secret army is being pursued methodically, centefs being created throughout the country. The first contingent of 200,000 men and women, from.17 to 35, have just completed = five-month course ‘at tuition centers for clandestine resistance. They have precise ihstructions. At the end of the course they receive phony iden-.

of the army's resistance.

opinion will xise against prolonged occupation “by American troops of a country overrun by disorder and { suerrilia me = Coppin, Io 1 The Indianapolis Tote and The Chase. Dally News, Ins, =

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stocks are rapidly diminishing, and it is].

man press and propaginda bureau has received strict

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tity cards and are told to disappear until the end |

Himmler is convinced that United States public |

|map out a plan which will provide {peace for all time to come?

|for weeks for mail, when only aj | short rest period would mean more |

{MORE THAN RIGHT”

Can imperialistic Tory England | | mail and consequently less worry. | {By A. N. Noone, 213 N. Seriate ave.

|and Communist Russia live together

side by side in peace? If we ex-|to wait if we were assured that | pect peace why are England and they were reading our letters from |

the U. 8. both wanting universal military conscription? There is a story in the Scripture|

We are the wives who are. willing!

home. They live by our letters and | {we know it! | We are the infantry wives, we are

Side Glances = By Galbraith

“Mos and bitter are petting Yarden oi harder to finde guess £0 wallhave Sistah our belts again Ben

The holders of United States war bonds at some time or another won{der how the government will re|deem their outstanding billions of | dollars worth of bonds.

The public understands ‘war bonds will be fully redeemed through the same procedure as the last world war, and we all know our war bonds are as good as any other legal tender in existence. On redeeming these war bgnds, it would be a good plan for the government, by an act of congresgional law, to make it optional ‘for the possessors -of war bonds to ob-

| tain either cash or the privilege of |

buying salvage war material direct from the government themselves,

the actual value of the war bond. This could be done by having nation-wide salvage war material depots under supervision of the federal ‘government, where holders of war bonds could go to their nearest salvage depot and select personal property such as land erdft, water craft, air craft, wearing apparel and other goods deemed necessary . for the government to dispose of. “It seems no more than right for the government to obtain additional revenue by this plan than to sell to jobbers, who ‘in turn would resell to the public at a nice profit.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Now we, exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support | « the weak, be patient toward all” men.—I Thessalonians 8: I.

communities, but it 1s “institutions

| We merely | 3 : {which told of a man who became ask equality for them, nothifg a

paying the prices of articles with A

INDIVIDUALITIES may fos]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — A first-hand story of one of the ene gineering wonders of the world the Burma oil and gas pipeline— has been given to the house by Rep. Mike Mansfield (D. Mont.),

Burma- India’ theater of opera tions, It is the story of the almost une believable job Gen. Somervell's army service forces. have dong in stringing the oil pipeline from Cal-

| | cutta deep into Burma, and how this year they will

complete building the line into China hanging in on high mountain sides along the. way—nearly 2000 miles altogether, “It was designed,” Rep. Mansfield said, “as a con-

| tinuous system starting with a tanker. unloading |

terminal at Calcutta, following the Brahmaputra vale ley through Bengal and ‘Assam, across the Patkal range into northern’ Burma, on into China with the eastern terminus at Kunming in Yunnan province. The line parallels the Ledo road from Assam to its + junction with the Burma road, then it will follow the latter into Kunming. .

Vital Factor for Airfields

“AS THE LINE progressed,” Rep. Mansfield went on, “completed portions furnished gasoline and diesel fuel to the fighting and constriction forces driving south. Later it was a vital factor in supplying avia= tion gasoline to the numerous newly constructed aire fields along its route. “The line was divided into two sections. One section was a six-inch line from Calcutta to Tine sukia, in northern Assam, approximately 750 miles, where it emptied into a large storage terminal. The other section consisted of two four-inch lines start ing at Tinsukia and ending at Kunming, China, ap= proximately 1000 miles.” There were no trained pipeline men available when construction started in the fall of 1043, so engineer general service troops were used. ‘Work started at Digbol, Assam, Mr. Mansfield said, and at first the untrained personnel made slow progress, But after a few weeks the men were constructing pipeline like veterans. By December the pipeline

delivered its first gasoline to Ledo, greatly easing the :

burden of moving motor gasoline by truck or rail, he . said. Many difficulties confronted the crews. In one ine stance, a’ whole pump station was dismantled and carried by porters piece by piece four miles through the jungle and reassembled on’ location. Cable SUS« pensions were constructed over chasms. “But by April, 1944, the pipeline was supplying gasoline for the first 50 miles, by the end of March, as far as Shingbwiyang, 102 miles.”

Monsoon Hindered Transportation

CONSTRUCTION of the line moved on south toe ward Tingkawk Sakan. The monsoon season began, hindering transportation of materials, However, by mid-summer diesel oil arid aviation gas were pouring through the line to Tingkawk. Past Tingkawk the line was pushed on toward Warazup. Simultaneously work began at Warazup on a line to’ Myitkyina, and from there another crew began a “meeting” line. On the section south of Warazup, the old native roads became impassable,

as far as the roads permitted or dragged by tractors. Then rafts and pontoons with outboard motors were called into play to float the pipe where needed. Many

the pipe strurig. Thay worked all day to waley to seb. it coupled. But by Oct. 1 the pipeline released many . Cargo planes for other work, Mr. Mansfield told the house. The. ciakismun output of the two, tour-inch linet, ‘he said, is nearly ‘equal to ‘the carrying capacity of 400 cdrgo. trucks.

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Water was four or five feet deep along some of the. proposed right-of-way. Material was hauled by truck.

times men had to wade waist. deep in water to get

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MAP-MA GIVEN

The senate y house today $150,000 a year to the state cor for a topogr survey of the The maps we in connection posed flood co the next 10 ye: The senate 2 would create mental health struction of a pital to be op with the I. U here. Advanced th in the senate the state welfa to license chil with the apr board of healt © The senate sg debate on secc troversial stat. which would boards to han tions,

G.0.P. W ON LiQt

Republican caucus tonight - the way for r state administ: bill. Administratic will decide whi the house- floor tothe G. O. F legislation is second reading A torrid de over the bill's morals” provisi putedly are a the local opti of the measure publican contr erage commissi Democratic 1 vhisky and be oss,

EAL SIL PLEA DE

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KANSAS CI1 The American - anticipated post arourid 8,000,00 force in cont States, Edward bany, N. Y. I . said today, : Scheiberling for a series of ~ that the legion 350,000 member