Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1945 — Page 17

IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (Delayed) .~—There are still Japs on the thiee islands of the Marianas . chain that we have occypied for more than six months now. The, estimate runs into several hundred. They : ~¢ “hide in the hills and in caves, and come out at night to forage for food. Actually many of their caves were so well-stocked that they could go for months without getting too hungry. Our men don't do anything about the Japs anymore. Oh, troops in training for combat will go out on a Jap-hunt now and then just for practice, and bring in a few. But they are no menace to us, and by and large we just ignore them. A half dozen or so give up every day. The Japs don't try to practice any sabotage on our stuff. It would take another Jap to figure out why. The Japanese are thoroughly inconsistent in what they do, and very often illogical. They do the silliest things.

Some Stories About the Japs

HERE'S A FEW EXAMPLES. One night some of

our seabees left a bulldozer and an earth- Lover sitting .,

alongside the road up in the hills. During the night, the Japs came down. They eouldn’t hurt anybody, but they could have put that machinery out of commission for a while. Even with

: only a rock they could have smashed the spark plugs and ruined the carburetor. They didn't do any of these things. They merely spent the night cutting palm fronds off nearby trees and laying them over the big machinery. = Next morning when the seabees arrived they -found their precious equipment Sombletely “hidden.” ‘Isn't that cute? On another island, there were many acts of sabotage the Japs could have committed. But all they ever did was to come down at night and move the

Hoosier Vagabond

¥ Ernie Pyle is with the navy in the Far Pacific. This article was written on his way,

By Ernie Pyle

wooden stakes the engineers had lined up for the next day's construction of buildings!

Used Officers’ Shower Bath

THERE IS another story of a Jap who didn't take to the hills like the rest, but who stayed for weeks right in the most thickly American-pppulated section of the island, right de¥n by the seashore. He hid in the bushes just a few feet from a path where hundreds of Americans wglked “Yaily. They found out later that he even used the officers’ outdoor shower bath after they got through, and raided thelr kitchens at night. There was a Jap prison enclosure nearby, and for weeks, peering out of the bushes, he ‘studied the treatment his fellow soldiers were getting, watched how they ate, watched to see if they were dwindling away from malnutrition, And then one day he came out and gave himself up. He said he had convinced himself they were being treated all right, so he was ready to surrender.

The Best Way to Surrender AND HERE'S ANOTHER ONE. An American officer was idly sitting on an outdoor ‘box-toilet -one evening after work, philosophically’ studying the ground, as men will do. Suddenly he was startled. Startled is a mild word for it. For here he was, caught with his pants down, so to speak, and in front of him stood a Jap with a rifle. But before anything could happen the Jap laid the rifle on the ground in front of him, and began salaaming up and down like a worshjper before an idol. : The Jap later said that he had been hunting for weeks for somebody without a rifle to give himself up to, and had finally figured out that tHe surest way to find an unarmed prospective captor was to fatch one on the toilet! But don’t let these little aftermath stories mislead you into thinking the Japs are easy after all. For they are a very nasty people while the shootin’s going on.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

IN OAS8 YOU thought Indianapolis was the only sity with a pigeon problem, be disillusioned. William ©. Mabee, retired chief engineer for the water company, thought he was getting away from all such problems whem he went to Florida for the winter. But not so. He sent a clipping from the St. Petersburg Times’ letters to the editor column. In it is a familiar o»laint: “Isn't there something that can be done about the birds in Williams park? . Yes, I love birds and flowers, but you are not safe under a tree or even out in the open as the birds fly over.” Poor Mr, Mabee. Those big seagulls are even worse than our pigeons. . . the house of representatives } bulletin board brought smiles to passersby. It announced: “Legislators’ club reception tonight for wives OR LADIES, at Variety club.” Just wait until some of the wives hear about that! . Lt. Dan Smith of the police traffic department is having trouble finding folks willing to serve as civilian school guards for a few spots around town. He particularly needs someone to take the intersection of 34th and Pennsylvania, and that of 57th and Central, The job pays $50 a month and only requires about an hour and a half's work each school day. Applications should be made at the police traffic department,

Those ‘Unlucky’ Bills

FRANK SKINNER, representative of the Life Saver mint firm, long has “believed” in the old superstition that $2 bills are unlucky. While in St. Louis recently, he mailed a couple of $2 bills to his wife, just for fun. When he got home, she met him at the station and scolded him for sending her those

America Flies

WHILE THE HEADLINES are bringing us glorious stories of our nation's victories in the far Pacific, this is an opportune moment for reiterating the fact that our modernized navy, composed of task forces built around the carrier, is America’s national insurance policy. And we should pledge one another that this nation never again be sold down the river by an international agreement. The U. S. navy today is the strongest naval force the: world has ever known. In fact, there is

than a match for all the combined existing navies of the world. Our naval air forces roam the far Pacific with complete freedom, seeking what is left of the Jap navy. * And under this air screen, our surface navy goes where it pleases, tempting the Jap navy for a fight to the finish. ? It 4s almost impossible to do justice by mere words to what this navy means in terms of safety Yo the entire country. On Jan, 1, 1941 (11 months before Pearl Harbor), the total combat strength of the navy was about one and a quarter millionptons. On Jan. 1, 1045, the combat tonnage of the U., 8. navy was 3,803,000 tons—tripled tonnage in four years. These figures are concerned with fighting combat tonnage enly. Four years ago the combined tonnage of all types of craft represented by modern seapower was 1,084,000 tons. On Jan, 1, 1945, the combined tonpage of all naval vessels reached the /staggering totfl of 11,707,000 tons.

Miraculous Increase |

THESE FIGURES crystallize the story of a miraculous increase in this nation’s naval power in the short space of four years—a performance beyond the

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—Yesterday afternoon about 30 men from the naval hospital in Bethesda, Md, came to visit the White House. Afterward I had some people interested: in veterans’ education, _ and agentleman who is shortly going back to Paris, in for tea, Early this morning I left for New York City, where I am going to speak at the children's.unity festival at the Horace Mann school. Last night and tonight I have been free—that is to say, I have been gble to do my mail and catch up on personal letters and even do a little reading. So that I hope, “in the course of the next

about two books which I have enjoyed in my leisure time, Every now and then I am: reminded that even though the need for being a feminist is gradually dis- - appearing in this country, we Baven't quite reached ~ the millenium. {A woman who went. down to testify before one of the congressional committees the other day wrofe Ame an interesting fact on the manpdwer situation. ic that Shesivi service commission’ has a number ae veskt could, be filling higher positions In The qORen. it the toquislions from gov.

. A sign on .

little doubt that this navy is more .

few days, to be able to tell’ you’

“unlucky” bills. She had torn a corner off each, which is supposed to prevent bad luck, but it didn't work. On the way to the station, she lost her purse, including not only the unlucky bills, but $11 besides. Mr. Skinner asked us.to request the finder please to remove and dispose of the $2 bills before returning the purse and the other $11. , . . A reader phones to say -that in view of all the criticism of the city’s garbage and trash collectors a little praise where it’s due might not go amiss. She explained: “My husband forgot to put the trash out in the alley (between College and Carrollton, south of 44th) Monday. Later in the day, I looked out the window as the trash wagon came along and saw one of the collectors come inside the fence, pick up our basket of ashes, empty it and return the Basket. The collectors out this way often go out of their way to be helpful.”

‘Squirrelly Guest:

C. L. BUSCHMANN, president of Lewis-Meier & Co., heaved a sigh of relief yesterday at the departure of a persistent and unwelcome visitor from his home, 4800 N. Meridian. The visitor was a squirrel. The rodent fell down the chimney one night about 10 days ago and lodged in a stovepipe leading to a laundry stove in the basement. Mr. Buschmann, with the best intentions in the world, removed the pipe. All he wanted to do was to get the squirrel out of the house. But the squirrel mistrusted his intentions, and played hard to get. It wouldn't “shoo” out the door, just found places to hide. Mr, Buschmann, recalling the days of his youth, contrived a “figure four” trap, such as he once used to snare rabbits. It worked, but the squirrel gnawed its way out. Mr. Buschmann continued providing food and water. Then he: built another type of trap, using a two by four and some wire screen. Yesterday, while at work, he received word the squirrel was in the trap. He hurried home, carried the fap outdoors, and opened it, At last reports, the squirrel was still runninge

By Maj. Al Williams

wildest fears of the axis naval experts. And mind vou, the totals listed above represent the tonnage “on hand” Jan. 1 1945, and do not include the ships lost to enemy action nor those escort carriers, destroyer escorts and landing craft transferred to allied nations. This performance is the pride of the U. S. navy leadership and to the everlasting credit of home-front Americans who built this fleet and the tens of thousands of special items which go to make up modern air and seapower,

Built Around Carrier

WE HAVE virtually scrapped our pre-war seapower and built what we have today from the keel on up. Before Pearl Harbor our seapower was built around the battleship, while the new seapower is built around the aircraft carrier. “The nation that rules the sea must rule it from the air.” And today the U. 8. navy meets that specification. If we ever needed such a national life insurance policy, this is the time because a world shorn of all that men learned the hard way in 2000 years is not going to be a quiet place to live for some years to come. With our present navy maintained at full strength and kept up to snuff by the provision of adequate research funds, no nation or group of nations would dare to invade the United States or any portion of the Western Hemisphere. From what we have seen of invasions to date, security against such menace wili convince every man, woman and child in this land that such a policy is worth any yearly premium. Despite startling engineering advances, this U. 8S. fleet will be impregnable as long as we maintain the supremacy of the war birds. Long-range bombers may attack us in the near future, but not until they run the gantlet of our farflung fleets stationed thousands of miles off our coasts.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

ernment, agencies did not usually specify “men only. Perhaps this is another hurdle which we must jump in this period when women are really needed to replace men. We must accept qualified women for positions which in the past have been offered to men, even through civil service, It looks to me also as though some special consideration should be given to women with husbandg in military service, particularly to those whose husbands are missing. It is, of course, not necessary to give them any special preference—they should be capable of doing the jobs which they hold. But they need the jobs very badly, and where they could be appointed without lowering the standards of the civil service for those jobs it seems they might be given some extra consideration. It is interesting to find so often the little ways in which women are discriminated against, but with the passage of the years one does find a great Im= provement, . One must not let this improvement, Ravevit, lull one to complete oblivion, for when the war is over there will be new situations to meet and they must be met with open minds and with fairness to both men and women,

The Indianapolis

Times

SECOND SECTION

HENRY J. TAYLOR:

By HENRY J. TAYLOR Scripps-Howard Special Correspondent

QUPREME ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Mediterranean Theater, Feb. 23.—“The men in the allied forces have fought hard and long to get here,” Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, ranking American officer in the Mediterranean

theater told me today. “And they are deployed now in Italy at the right place for the knockout punch. “These are the payoff days for our entire assault on the southern side of Hitler's Europe. It began with our North Africa landings 26 months ago. i 8 8 «8 : “OUR MEN are stretched back through this immense terrdin in the Mediterranean area. Théy are fiying in the air against the enemy. They are battling in the windswept mountains. And many others are working day after day for a victory in which it is hard to see their individual part. “Surely they are entitled to realize that this is the payoff time for all that has gone before.” This was the deputy supreme commander's way of saying that this may be a forgotten front among headline readers at home —but it is not a forgotten front among America's foremost military leaders. » » » THE ITALIAN battle line is an integral part of the ..allied drive eastward from Belgium and France. It ties into the Russian drive westward. It completes the European front as one solid ring of steel—the culmination of the long planning and desperately, hard fighting that has made this final formation possible. Looking af the war map from this angle, it is apparent that any idea that American forces here are simply pinning down some German divisions misses the picture entirely. “ » "

WHY ARE the Germans making such a bitter fight in northern Italy when they need troops so badly elsewhere? Hitler has transferred troops from the Siegfried area to the Red army front. He has called up men 18 to 60 into the volKssturm, or home army. : He has tossed together a hayfoot, strawfoot conglomeration of decrepit seamen from the German navy, ground crews from the luftwaffe and anyone else available. And he has sacrificed them ‘mercilessly as volksgrenadier regiments on other fronts to give his regular units time to reform.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1945

Lt. Gen. Joseph T, McNarney .

YET, WHAT have the Germans done about bringing home their troops in Italy? Even in the past month or so while they are rushing troops

“from the Western front to the

Berlin area to try to check the

Russian advances the Germans .

took no chances on weakening this front: From the day Gen. McNarney arrived they have strengthened it. When they took out one division cautiously and under great difficulties, they replaced it here by another division sent from Norway. » . » FURTHER, ' German troops here are better than is genererally supposed. Therefore, they are highly tempting to the Germand command for transfer. Their battle ranks include one of Hitler's best SS divisions and powerful mobilized grenagier divisions. They also include at least two strong divisions of tanks and mobile artillery—and a high quotient of other crack troops. In addition Germans have de‘ployed several other seasoned di~ visions to guard the Adriatic coast against our possible land-

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"THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THE KNOCKOUT PUNCH'—

Payoff Days for the Yanks ‘in Italy’

pauxite for aluminum and there are important mercury deposits in this area.

.s “There will be heavy action in Italy when the time comes.”

ings. And to seal the passes in the Alps between Switzerland and the Mediterranean. Our men under Lt. Gen. Mark Clark are still fighting Germany's best. Certainly this is no forgotten front to the Germans. » » ” I ASKED Gen. McNarney why the Germans are sacrificing so much to stay in North Italy. “The three most important reasons,” he said, “are food, war supplies and prestige. “The tighter the allied ring closes in on Germany the more important it is for them to protect these resources—and the more ‘valuable it is for us to capture them. “The Germans are hauling out wheat at an average of about a thousand tons a day to help feed Germans at home. Herds of cattle and sheep are being driven back to Germiany on the hoof. ‘ » » ” “NORTH ITALIAN factories are supplying Germany around a million and a half tons of sul‘phuric acid. “In the Trieste area Germany is getting half a million tons of

only major source for silk.

Germany hemp and beet sugar.

Siegfried zone on the Ruhr and Saar—and the loss to the Red army of the Silesian industrial center which represented nearly

greatly increased economic im-

forward and as the Siegfried po-

‘steel through the nafural defenses

«keeping him busy picking up the

magnesium and

“Northern - Italy is Europe's

“Then, too, the area is giving

. » » “THE ALLIES’ pressure in the

30 per cent of all Germany's heavy industry — have given

portance to Germany's hold. on North Italy. “Lastly, Germany, has more than 700,000 Italians working inside Germany under forced draft. Hitler is using northern, Italy as & ‘manpower pool. » » . “AS FOR the straight tegic importance, the homeland is wherever the Nazis make their last stand. “As German defenses crack, Hitler's problem is to keep from having large armies cut off and destroyed. “The Germans have no bastion area in the north into which they can retire as the Red army comes

straNazis’

sitions break. ® “Central Germany is an equally poor reception center for the final holdout. “Their ultimate fortress area may be a line flanked by ‘the Swiss border and extending in a circular band of mountains and.

of south Germany, the Czech areas, Austria and North Italy. {This is an inviting hard central ‘core for Hitler's last resistance zone. The valuable troops he has on the Italian battle line can be fighting to keep us from denying him his Valhalla. “Realizing this, Marshall Kesselring keeps probing our positions regularly at widely separated points along the battle line in an effort to make it hard for us’ to concentrate strength for a break-through, = » .

“WHILE he is doing this we are

dead Germans. “Beyond such occupations, the weather conditions which are such a terrible trial to our men put allied air power and .mechanized equipment at a discount. But this restraint is temporary. “There will be heavy action here when the time comes to synchronize this battle line with the activity on the French front. “The American fighting men in Italy are definitely scheduled to be in on the knockout punch.”

Copyright, 1945, by Scripps-Howard Newspapers.

By LEE G. MII LER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

54TH GENERAL HOSPITAL, U. S. ARMY, Netherlands, New Guinea (By Air Mail) —This is a story about a preacher’s son who believed—and believes. even more, today—in the efficacy of prayer. Pvt. Norman Temple comes from Winston-Salem, N. C. where he used to be a clothing salesman in. department store. His parents are the Rev. and Mrs, D. L. Temple, the father being a Baptist minister. Temple went into the army almost two years ago, and has been in the Pacific nine months. He got his baptism of fire in our assault on Aitape, New Guinea. But it was on Leyte that the¥ gave him up for dead. First, However, he had another hair-raising experience, when he and six other men, ‘equipped with nothing but rifles, wiped out 93 Japs in a suicidal daybreak assault on a little hill held by the Ameri cans. Jap Plays "Possum

“The sun broke just in time to show us their shadows moving up the hill,” said Temple. “We shot them down like ducks. I pfcked off 14 myself. Only one of them survived, and we found him playing ‘possum later when we were out souvenir-hunting. One of our guys lost a finger tip—that was our only

casualty.” ® Pvt. Temple will never forget that one. , And he will certainly

never forget the day his company— a unit of the 32d division—was assigned to take a little ridge a thou-

, |sand yards above Limon, on Leyte.

The Japs were crouching behind a big log at the top of the ridge and when the assaulting company got within 50 ydeds of the log all hell let loose—knee mortars, machine guns, K grenades, rifles. Let Pvt, Temple carry on from here: “We fell back to some cover, and reorganized by calling out to each other. A pincer attack was decided on. I had a B. A. R. (Browning automatie rifle), and I was assigned: with a detachment to attack the left flank of the position.

Grenade Warns Gunner “We crept up until I could see a Jap machine gunner at the log. I halted my_men, figuring I could sneak up ha throw a grenade. I got within 15° yards, knd he hadn't seen me, Then I saw another Ja e, and threw the grenade at ap mon guess I got him. But that drew the ma-

con=tchine gunner’s attention. I saw him

“Even the children Will have to come infor sideration, so we will have to keep a broad and toler-

‘ant aititude and be willing to discuss new situatiohs

and reach conclusions which will’ be bentuml « to all those involved. oh

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raise up over the sage grass, and I got out six or seven rounds with the B. A. R. I'm pretty sure I killed fled

“Just then I felt a sting in the left side of my throat, and the blood began spurting out of it. I thought an artery had been hit. “I guess it was. a sniper on the next ridge. If it had been a .30caliber bullet I'd have been a goner, but it was a .25. “The blood scared me, and I threw down my B.A.R. and my rifie belt and everything and ran to the rear, hollering, ‘Medic’! But first I told the other guys, ‘Well, fellows, take it over, This is my number.’ “I ran back to our main group. But so many of them had been hit that our one medic was busy in all directions. So I lay down behind a

Prayer Saved Pastor's Son After Wound, He Declares

and I]

log, holding” my throat, started praying. “After a few minutes the medic— he was a friend of mine—came along and put a sulfadiazine bandage on my throat. About then my eyes started going off and on—as if I was blinking, only I wasn’t. “The aid man said, ‘Well, Temple, I've got to go.” Other fellows were crying in pain. I looked up and asked him was I going to die, He said, ‘I hope not.’ “1 still insisted on knowing, and he said, ‘Temple, I've got to go. There's not much hope.” “So he left me, and I started praying again. And all of a sudden it seemed as if some Almighty

How Japs Lured Guam Natives To Mass Execution Revealed

By LISLE SHOEMAKER United Press Staff Correspondent GUAM, Feb. 21 (Delayed). —The little village of grass huts and smiling native chamarros is named Merizo. If you searched the world you probably wouldn't find a place as quiet and peaceful. But six months ago it was the scene of two mass executions performed by the Japanese who knew

by then the Americans were about

to land and free Guam. The story came today from the

village commisisoner, ' quiet-spoken Jesus Barcinas, born and reared on

Guam and who still dislikes to re-

call the brutal mass slayings of his

people.

“On July 15 the Japs called all] the former government employees together along with all those who had sons in the American navy,” “The Japs told the people—29 in all—that they were going to ‘be hidden in caves to protect them from the American

Barcinas said.

planes’ which would be coming.”

The Japaneses marched the unsuspecting natives to a cave in the

hills.

“Then they stood outside laughing and threw hand grenades into

the cave,” Barcinas said.

Of the 29. people, 15 were killed.

Somehow the rest were saved.

Barcinas sald a sudden rain} squall spared the lives of those who escaped the explosions. Just as the Japanese were preparing to enter the cave and bayonet to death thdse who were living it startea to rain, and the Japanese left to seek shelter. The uninjured ae natives 3

Toe lolowing doy he Japanese

chose 30 of the healthiest men from the concentration camp. They marched them to the hills and gave them tools to dig a pit 12 feet deep. Then the men were ordered to jump into the pit and again the Japanese stood up above then, lobbing in hand grenades. All were Killed.

*HANNAH¢

hand picked me up. was all back. running to the battalion aid station —it was about 300 yards back.

and then my eyes went out again and I couldn’t see at all. there for half an hour, about halfconscious, but I kept praying. And my eyes suddenly came back again. I got up and ran again, and got to the station just before going blind again.”

Temple in a litter to a portable surgery, where he was given some blood, and he was presently taken to a clearing station.

he says, “and said, ‘Temple, how in the hell are you alive?’ ”

able to eat regular chow, though ‘he could talk only with difficulty, and in a few more days he was sent back to his company.

ghost,” he says.

knee-deep in water—this was during the heavy Leyte rains—and next day he ceuld neither speak nor swallow. 80 he was sent back to a field hospital, and eventually here. Soon he will go home.

the bullet wound is constricting his throat, and he still takes only liquid food. His tongue is still a little askew, but he speaks fast and well. He thinks they will fix up his throat eventually with an operation. eyes are all right.

Winistdn-Salem, is a sermon for you from your own son, who you may be sure did-not take your Bible teach- | ings lightly.

Hei ~ After a ‘certain age no ol * 0 dni”

My strength I got up and started

“I made about a hundred yards

So I lay

Filipino boys, voluhteers, carried

“The officers there looked at me,”

After a week or so Temple was

‘The whole outfit thought I was a

That night he slept in a foxhole

It appears that scar tissue from

And there, Reverend Temple of |

Lady Astor Urges

Tea for Saloons

LONDON, Feb. 23 (U. P).— Lady Astor said yesterday she hopes to see the day when tea, » coffee and cocoa are served” in saloons.

His |

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PAGE J7 Tomorrow's JobWe're All in 1 Boat—Don't Let It Sink

By FRANK FORD Editor, Evansville Press AN ODD and ‘irrational tone runs through comment on. the necessity for jobs after the war. It appears even in the remarks of so enlightened a labor leader as James B. Carey, secretarytreasurer of the C. 1. O.

The full-employment program, Mr. Carey told a soldiers’ forum in Britain, should be written “by the common people and not by some investment bankers in New York.”

What matter who writes program, so long as it works?

the

» . * WE AREN'T urging the qualifications of investment bankers to draft an employment program.

But we imagine they are as eager as other people to prevent unemployment, from self-interest if for no better reason.

Presumably they'd like to keep on eating and maybe stay in the investment banking business. Their chances won't be good if depression and unemployment follow this war. » w en

MR. CAREY and the C. 1. O. do a fine service by keeping public attention focused on this problem, but they have no patent on the idea.

The ‘National Association of Manufacturers and the United States Chamber of Commerce have shown comparable concern, thus proving their good sense if nothing else.

We are all in the same boat. If it sinks we all drown, regardless of our political or economic persuasions. . = =» THE PROBLEM will not be solved by oratory, editorials or name-calling. It challenges the best combined efforts- of everybody.

Differences of opinion as to method are natural and inevitable, but practically all of us agree on the need for plenty of jobs. If we remember that, we may be able to settle our differences as to method more easily and to better effect.

Parliament's most vocal dry, speaking in commons on a | licensing and plannifig bill, said: |

“They (pub owners) have had. a chance to sell tea, coffee and cocoa and show they "are interested in the public, hut they don't care tuppence for the public. “We will not get reform so long as drink is in the hands of private entegprise. : “It is the young I am thinking

We, the Women

Thanks, We'll Subsidize Our Own Babies

By RUTH MILLETT WOMEN “able and willing” to bear children should be subsidized, leading authorities on gynecology and obstetrics who point out that infertility among both sexes is on the increase in the United States. But American women may not be in favor of having motherhood subsidized. It hasn't worked out so well for the women of other countries, " . s

IT SEEMS

when the state subsidizes babies it often has plans for them and begins to feel that they belong to the state. So far, the American way has been for a husband and wife to face parenthood as their own pri-. vate responsibility. Maybe if they wete subsidized the Joneses, who are good, substantial citizens and adequate parents, could have four children instead of the two they have figurged are all they can support, educate and give medical care, 5 » » BUT THE TWO belong absolutely to the Joneses. Their hard work, their sacrifices, and their conviction that children are worth both work and sacrifice are a pretty good heritage, so far as children are concerned, and a pretty good foundation for the right kind of parenthood. Nobody has any priority interests in the Joneses’ children

. except Mr. and Mrs. Jones. And

maybe that is the way women will want to keep the baby business. Uncle Sam might turn out to be a nosey, bossy relative if he subsidized babies. It has happenéd in other countries—and it just might happen here,

SYMPHONY DINNER

SLATED TOMORROW

Fabien Sevitzky and members of

the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra will be in the audience tomor= row night‘at the annual dinner given by the ‘society's ‘board, of directors.’ Their entertainers will be’ season

Je) cares wiieities Yolk ary drunp

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