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IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS (Delayed) —"Sack

Time" is one of the most-used expressions in the B-29 outfits. nothing.

It means simply 1ving. on your ‘cot doing

everywhere have lots of spare time, ‘because they are under a terrific nervous strain when they work, and they need. much Yecupersiive rest. But olit here there is a double, even a triple incentive for spending practically all your time, bothwaking and sleeping, in. “The Sack.” These reasons are: ONE—A “14-hour mission is an éxhausting thing. The boys say the reaction is a delayed one, and they really don't feel it so keenly until the afternoon of the next Then they're just plumb worn out. 1t “takes three days to get to feeling

Combat fliers

TWO-~The climate, warm and enervating, seems | to make you sleepy all the time. T've found it doubly

hard to write my columns out here, because I just can't stay awake. THREE—There's really nothing else to do except | lle on your cot.

Combat crews have few duties between missions. And since there's no amusement or out on these islands, except home-made ones, they just lie and talk and lie some more.

. Endless Talk and Arguments

THE RESULT of it all is that you just get lazier As one pilot said: “I've got so lazy I'll

It's one of the phases of isolation. It's what leads “island neurosis,” or to going “pineapple crazy.’

Troop commanders know the importance of keeping their men busy to overcome this, but it's difficult to

do that with combat crewmen

the fliers Thase who

New classes have been organized, and have to go to school part of each day.

are especially good are getting further intensive train-

ing as “lead crews” and they go to school from mornAng till night. Endless talk and arguments go on in every tent

and quonset hut. est things. One afternoon several pilots got into an argument

They can argue about the damned-

over, whether or not you do everything in reverse | when you're flying upside down They were all veteran fliers, and yet “they split about. 50-50“on" whéther you’ do or het. Another day they got to arguing about what causes

planes to .leave yapor trails behind them at high] WHAT'S WRONG? y

altitudes. I had always thought it was the heat | from the exhaust stacks condensing the moisture = certain temperatures. But one pilot said np, it was whirled off the” tips of the propellers. a long discussion in which nobody won. They argue about God, and they re stories of escapades during training, and th why the Japs’ don't de this or that,

Too Old to Jump Up and Down Ha

SOME PLAY solitaire. Some write letters all the time. ; One flier told me he had written to- people “he hadn't thought of in years,not becausé he wanted | letters back, but just to have something to do. Others, with nothing™but—time on their .hahds,! can't make themselves write at all, They read magazines, but very few books. At first they spent weeks making furniture for themselves out of packing crates. But that's all finished now. | Some of them swim daily, and they all take daily| showers. The camps are dotted with concrete floored | baths, which are roofless. Water comes from a tank | set on high stilts nedrby. It is not heated, and although the weather is| always warm, a cold bath in the morning is pretty | nippy. The best time is around 2 in the afternoon when the sun has made the water good and warm, The fliers send some of their laundry to the army laundry units, but it takes about 10 days, so most of them do their own washing. Every ath unit has a .white-porcelained Thor | washing machine and wringer in it. The fliers build | a bonfire of discarded lumber and heat water in big |

moisture - bein

int funny | ey w onder |

cans,-carry it _in to the washing machine, and turn |

her on. Between every quonset hut there is always a clothesline full of wash flying in the wind. Some days they play volley ball, take setting-up exercises, and some days they swim. My friend Capt. Bill Gifford spurns all these things, ! and just lies in bed. . ] Every day they ask if he isn't going to “P. T./ | which means physical training, and he says, “Héll no, I'm too old to get out there and jump up and down | like a goddamned Russian ballet dancer.”

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE main library, there's an unusual Instead of a field of blue, it has a field of purple.: Origin ally’ the flag was as it should be, but the color gradually” changed from blue to purple. It ‘was given testhe: library in 1941 by the Bruce P. KoBison post, American Legion. . . A Terre Haute reader who's a bit bashful about the use of his name —doesn't want to get in trouble with Uncle Sam—has a complaint. He asks: “If Uncle Sam's so insistent that everybody pay his taxes right on the dot, why cari't Uncle Sam more prompt in paying his own debts? I've had a $50 rebate on taxes due for a year now, and I'd like to know- when I'm going to get it.” Hey, Uncle Sam, how about setting us taxpayers an example? Another reader who noticed the “army wife” complaint that she and her friends aren't’ permitted in hote:r drinking places without an escort, writes in to say the answer is simple: “What business,” he asks, “has a woman visiting such places, anyway, especially while her husband is in the servfice?” There seem tc be two schools of thought on the subject. . . . Fred Glover, of the. A. D. T,, wishes the radio announcers would get some system to. their announcing: when ‘theyre giving-<opi< tournament scores. Why not, he suggests, give the scores from the various centers alphabetically so listeners can copy them down easily? Last Saturday, he says, they jumped all over the state map, and he could write down only a few scores,-whereas if they had started with Anderson and ended with Vincennes, it would have been simple,

UP AT

A Tip on the Finals

WANT A TIP on the state finals ‘of the basketball tournament? Well, I'm for Broad Ripple, but 1 hear some of the young folks, even somge at Broad Ripple, are going around offering to bet ‘that the “final game will be played between Kokomo and Evansville.” They're finding some takers, too. -Before any of you readers bite on the bet, better take a second look at it. And then take a look at the map. You'll see that Indianapolis might be referred to as 3 elng ‘between

America Flies

DEAR AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY: _ Your representatives are all around the country eanvassing-the.market for post-war aircraft, We admire your aggressive energy. Only a few of these representatives express corrcern. ~-about the promised flood of absglutely new types of private planes of superior performance, and the discarding of types: that did yeoman service pre-Pearl Harbor. You built some excellent sturdy planes, ranging in prices from $1400 to $10,000, of satisfactory performance for that period. None of them were fast enough. But don’t let that bother you because no plane will ever be fast enough to satisfy any customer, any more than any auto will ever ‘exceed the latest performance demand. But your pre-war planes represented the end result of many years of careful research in aerodynamics and in meeting the “heeds of the then market, You kept your land speeds down where they belonged. You built strong enough to

withstand the inevitably rough landing shocks to « war private aircraft.

be expected from operators who fly for a hobby, not

| for a livelihood.

You did a fine job in designing aircraft free from air trickiness, and didn’t waltz into a tail spin without almost yeiling at the pilot—'“Wake Up!” These planes represented basic types that were acceptable to the private plane operator. Now don't chuck these planes away and go galloping off in all directions after anything new.

Refine and Improve

JUST TAKE your latest pre-war nett it were & popular model—and place it where your engineers can see it every day. Sell them a reverence for what

WASHINGTON, Thursday —In talking to. my press conference yesterday, the women seemed very much interested in the gifts which had been presented to me in the course of the ‘last few years. ‘This seems to me very natural, since I have always * been interested in gifts which were presented to the wives and children of our former Presidents. In describing the, interesting ‘gift of an old jewelled crown which the President brought back to me after his trip to Casablanca, I was unable to give the exact . title of the gentleman who presented it to my husband. He is his Sherifian Majesty, Sidi Mohammed, the Sultan of Morocco. ". I have always felt a little sorry

per F for any: lady who had to wear a

Kokomo « and played here.

Evansville,” and the finals will be| In other words, it's a sucker bet. Get| it? . . . There must be a housing shortage around | nere. An ad in one of the papers pleaded: “Capt. wife, 16 mo. old housebroken baby and small house-=| broken Beagle hound need two-bedroom furnished! home. Will shoot dog, wife and baby if necessary to live on North Side.” . The mystery of the | overseas call received by Mrs. Harry W. Black has| neen solved. Miss Mary Black, who rooms at 4838] E. 10th st, phoned and said that undoubtedly the ! Spencer E. Black referred to by the overseas phone operator was her brother. She said a sister was seriously ill and her® mother, Mrs. Harry Black, | Atwood, Ill, had asked the Red Cross to try to get| Spencer furloughed home. And the mother has been | staying here. She said the family had not received | the call. When last heard from the son was in| South America.

Purely Orchestral

A WOMAN phoned the Indianapolis Symphony oftices the other day and inquired the name of the] soloist for the week-end pair of concerts. “Purely | orchestral,” replied Miss Emalyn Remmel. And, Believe it or not, the caller inquired: “What instru-| ment does he play?” . . . Blind Lou Palmer, the [former boxer who lost his sight in an accident a | quertériof a century ago,’ is in town looking np some’ of his old friends Lou makes his living selling copies | of his booklet, “Things You Will Always Remem-=-ber” It contains such old favorites as “Casey | Jones,” “Casey at the. Bat,” “Face on the Bar Room | Floor" and others. Lou gives a substantial portion of | his income to orphanages and various other sociéties| for unfortunates. . . . Bad luck overtook a home- | bound China-Burma-India veteran who stopped off here Wednesday night. He lost $200. The veteran, Cpl. Déan Calkins, was en route to his home in Ken- | dallville. He had the money in a packet . of his! blouse and accidentally ‘pulled it out and dropped it. } He thinks he may have lost’ it somewhere between the! Liberty Bell on Illinois and the Hotel English, on the Circle. Cpl. Calkins borrowed enough money from a buddy to get home.. He asks anyone finding the| money to leave it with Lee Phillips of the E. J.|

Gausepon) Co., over on the east side of the circle. |

| By Maj. Al Williams

l has been accomplished and for the public acceptance of that model, and tell them to refine and im- | prove that model, using all they learned during the | intensive war period in which aerodynamic and struc- | tural knowledge made a 10-year leap forward. The war has taught aircraft structure experts a | great deal about weight saving. Your engineers! today know far more than they ever dreamed of knowing about reducing wing areas while maintaining safe landing speed. ‘They have learned a lot, too, about how to get mor: miles per hour out of a given number of horsepower. Flight stability and ease of ground handling are two vital items about which the war taught them a lot. refuse a single item of structure unless it served more than two purposes. i

More Room Needed

YOU WILL have to revise a lot of your war knowledge on fuselage shape, first, because you have learned that mere reduction in the size of the fuselage cannot be justified by a small increase in speed. In the second place, the civilian pilot will demand more room in the fuselage than was provided in preYou will have to exercise a lot of horsesense on the instrument style. You don’t need expensive gadgeis—and even less of the inexpensive kind: An oil pressure gauge, for instance, doesn’t need to be marked in pounds all the way from five to a hundred. Scrap that idea and install a simple pressure gauge marked “Too Low,” “Normal,” “Too High.” It's a foregone conclusion that your post-war private airplane must not drag its feet. Nature taught the birds that trick. Provide, a retractable landing gear, operated by a hand crank, a couple of gears and a bicycle chain. And just for once, to break an old evil habit, put enough horsepower in that plane at the outset to comfortably and adequately handle | the payload you advertise.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a beautiful and interesting piece of decorative work, however, and always attracts a great deal of attention when young people visit the library at Hyde Park. . ‘At noon yesterday Mrs. Hugh Butler's two publicspeaking. classes came in to demonstrate what they are going to do in speaking for the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. There are a number of wives of congressmen and army and navy officers, as well as a good many members of the League of Women Voters among them, I think it is grand of’ these young women to take the tite for these courses in order to do a constructive. piece of work, and I was much impressed by the very effective way in: which they spoke, If they are any sample of the young women of thé present day, irour-ladies are going to be a great addition in the world of public speakers,

gi En 4s | " By Ernie Pyle|

e Indianapolis Times

That started Need of Cash,

| clals say the agency hasn't any

| and the Middle East.

some days they |- |

| for which $11,500,000 is provided

The war also taught them to|-

SECOND SECTION

UNRRA in

Ships, Goods

: (Third of a Series)

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 9.-—In the 16 months during which the united” nations relief and rehabilitation administration has been operating, allied armies have lib erated one land after another. Millions in these dands suffer for lack of food and clothing. You might think UNRRA, at last, had a lot of relief supplies stockpiled and ready to sail for destitute nations. But that's not so. UNRRA offi-

big stockpiles. It has a few ships promised, but so far has done little ,n its four chief areas— Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. It has sent small supplies into Italy, North Africa

u n 1d

UNRRA HAS been pledged about $1,300,000,000 by its 44 member nations. Its officials decline to make | public the amount actually spent for supplies for the impoverished —though the U. S. public, providing $1,350,000,000 of these funds, would seem to: have an | interest. Some of its officials think the figures would be * ‘misinterpreted.” Many of the 44 nations have been slow in laying cash or supplies on the UNRRA barrelhead. Some of these countries are so poor they themselves need help. Aside from the U. 8S. the real load is being carried by Great Britain, Canada, Australia and one or two others. But there are some small nations which have come through bravely in relation te their resources— Iceland, for example.

ALL UNITED NATIONS are supposed to make administrative contributions to UNRRA, and except for those invaded, all are sup-¢ posed to make the larger and more important operating contributions. The contributions are based on 1 per cent of national income for the year ending July 1, 1943. Great Britain is paying $320,000,000 for UNRRA operating expenses. Canada is contributing’ $70,000,000. Australia, $38,000,000 and Brazil, $30,000,000. Add these to this country's $1,350,000,000 and the obvious answer is that the rest of the 44 aren't paying much. Numerous smaller countries have contributed modest amounts to #NRRA administrative overhead,

this vear, but*have made no definite commitments toward vastly heavier operating expenses. - Cuba, the Dominican republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Hondura, India, Nicaragua and Panama, for example. Iran and Iraq have contributed nothing. * 8%

APPROPRIATIONS don’t mean cash: Only 10 per cent is in hard money; the rest ifi eredits for goods available within the varioug countries. Yet appropriations don’t mean supplies either. UNRRA has big U. 8. credits, but it is competing against military and others in tight markets and often gets only part of its needs. The allies’ combined boards here haven't been willing to let UNRRA buy tight supplies - when it didn’t have ships—and it hasn't had them. And so, today, it doesn’t have much in the bin, There's criticism of UNRRA by some for a too-cautious approach to procurement and for failing to buy certain supplies when they were .available. This UNRRA denies. UNRRA officials say they've done a major job of aiding and expediting purchasing being done independently by some of the foreign governments in the country for relief abroad. sy ® . THEY'VE INITIATED procurement for about $30,000,000 of supplies, including $10,500,000 for France, $7,500,000 for the Netherlands. and the same amoupt for Belgium-Luxembourg. Also, UNRRA has supplied them with 2,500,000 pounds of used clothing, and has provided considerable in the way of technical services. Director-general Herbert H. Lehman confesses the futility of UNRRA's position if it doesn’t get supplies and shipping. The nations which put it together

have been slow in giving in the |

tools with which to work and some - have blocked it politically. Many believe that a better organized UNRRA might have overcome some of the difficulties. The fact is ‘that it has been stymied by many of them.

TOMORROW-—UNRRA faces a showdown.

ALUMNI OF INDIANA

CENTRAL MEET TUES.

The Indianapolis Area Alumni association of Indiana Central college will have a dinner meeting in the college dining room at 6:30 P. m. Tuesday. Special guests will include student counsellors of Indianapolis and Marion county high schools and

high school seniors who are antlci- |

pating. college entrance,

On the arrangements committee are Justin Marshall, chairman; A.

FRIDAY, MARCH J, 1945

river started its spring rampage.

“Angels of Mercy Work On Home Erort Too

When disaster strikes on the home front; the Red Cross is in there pitching—so pitch in with your dollars to support this friend in need ‘of all the people. flood area being fed by Red Cross workers in a mobile canteen which was on the job as soon as the Ohio

Photo above shows refugees from the Cincinnati

| Mr. Weller

where in Palestine but Jerusalem —I found myself obliged to work my way through loops of newly

gaining ! Palestine. supply |

HAIFA SIDEWALKS BARRED WITH BARBED WIRE—

By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent HAIFA, March 9.—There may be towns so small that the police take in the sidewalks at curfew.

from the Mosul oil fields empties into tankers—is a place where the police at curfew

walks with barbed wire. Emerging from an attempt t0:-per-suade the cable authorities faccept a press message — overseas news dispatches cannot be accepted any-

strung barbed wire. And the Palestine policemen were industriously unwinding more. : ® ® n THESE localized barricades are strung at key places and. offer discouragement to terrorist factions on the Jewish or Arab side. When morning comes they are rolled up and throughout the Business day sidewalks are normal in appearance. It is by such precautions as these that the British are able to preserve the two securities which most cangern it in the eastern Mediterranean: ONE: Security in a general

upper. hand in all areas strategically connected with the route to India. : : TWO: - Security in the intraborder sense, which against either the. Arabs or Jews internal mastery over

EJ » n THESE demountable barricades,

_ however, represent security as the |and the resistance movements. This

British conceive it, only on a tactical or localized level. Much more important in a country where a mountain-range divides the cities of the coastal plain from the Jordan valley, is the system whereby road and rail communication is held. For any dissidents, whether from the Stern gang of Jewish terrorists, or their momentarily quiet Arab counterparts, to attempt to challenge the British hold would involve mainly the cutting of these roads. 6 Britain's answer to this is that specialized fortress called, in Palestine, “police station.” d # (Note: Sternists are members of a group formed by the late Abraham Stern who sought to achieVe a Jewish national home by use of force as against negotiation favored by Zionists.—Ed.)

But Haifa—where the pipeline:

bar certain side--

ineffectual

“$0

sense, which insures Britain the .

insures’

ane

In the afternoon Miss Ruth A Wichet came in to Glenn O'Dell, Edith Stahl Bailey, crown, but the ene who wore this one carry” play her accordion for a group n from the naval | Evan R. Kek and Virgil e. Dr.| IN : heavy weight on her head as well as in heart. hagpital, and we ad & very time together. ‘|W. Earl Stoneburner presi.

British Check Terrorist Gangs |

IN THE United States, police station as a term, carries a picture of a morose three-storied brownstone building’ with battered corridors, cuspidors, unwashed windows and pudgy de-

tectives, with a sidewalk in front cluttered by “no parking” signs. In Palestine, police station

means something quite different. There is plenjy of parking space around the Palestine station, because it is almost always located in wide-open country, with no buildings whatever. nearby. It is usually placed near where the mountain highway crosses a crucial pass and above some curb . “where all vehicles must slow down. It is close enough. to the highway to dominate it, but far enough away so that surprise attack is excluded. " » ” THE STATION itself looks like something from Beau Geste, or a flash-back from India’s northwest frontier, Pale yellow in color, it is a long building with narrow exterior windows. The walls gre thick. The tower, which sweeps all the-near valley roads, stands above the body. Below, at the corners, are specialized embrasures just big encugh for muzzles. Climbing from Lake Galilee toward Nazereth, descending into Haifa’s great oil dumps, follow-

"however troublesome, rarely have

sare without effect on the general

ing the coast to Tel Aviv, and then turning into the mountains for Jerusalem, you .see everywhere these formidable guardians | of Britain's Geneva-authorized mandate. There are about 60 in all Palestine, which has about 2,000,000 Arabs and Jews. They make Palestine virtually | invulnerable to any force not possessing artillery or bombers. = » s ” . SINCE __insurrectionist~" armies, access to either of these weapons, the British blue-clad police force —whose lower ranks include both Jews and Arabs—remains unqualified to master the situation. Isolated acts of ‘terrorism like the murder of British Middle Eastern resident, Minister Lord Moyne—whether deplored or approved by the Arabs and Jews—

strategy evolved in Palestine. The police—which is actually the constabulary like the American state troopers—has. now adopted prowl cars and possesses, its own motorized “striking force,” But it is the station houses like medieval castles topping strategic look-outs, that make Britain's mastery ie from within.

and The Chicago Daily News,

Numerous Blocs in France = Vie for Political Control

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK |ment), the Front National, the Times Foreign Correspondent ° Franc-Tireur, Combat, Liberation PARIS (Via Clipper). —The com=-|Sud, Defense de la France, Lorraine,

| ing months will see ’an increas{ingly sharp struggle in France between conservative and radical

forces; between the government

struggle will determine whether France is to witness the revival of many parties or is to have Its political life dominated by movements. __ Unlike that of the United ‘States and Britain, French prewar political life was

Miss Kirkpatrick varying sizes and influences. have seen the formation of leagues, for the Rights of Man.

nature sprang up, de Feu (Fiery Cross) of Col. Fran-|

| shirted Francistes of Marcel Bu-

and Resistance—have representatives in the Consultative assembly. The two largest and most important are the M. L. N. and the Front National, both of which have recently held congresses.

[two and at their congresses hotly debated whether they would all} | federate, | certain |separate and take on the functions | of political parties. Advocates of a:federation met op-| | position from the political parties; from the Socialists. | {The Communists were inclined to| support the federation in the belief | dominated by many parties ofthat their doctrines were sufficiently | In| dynamic to carry the assembled | France's history troublesome times| membership.

| particularly

Oppose Federation

| Several of the smaller movements {have become affiliated with these

autoriomy, or remain]

Despite outward

Each has

{Catholics and Protestants, moderate From 1932 to 1940 leagues and Republicans and Communists, rad- | | paramilitary groups of a fascist | {icals and Socialists, as well as those | like the Croix| who favor free teaching as opposed |

| to state-controlled education, Their

cois de la Rocque, and the blue-|only unity today derives from a

resolution to see the war finished as

|card. These, subsequently, became quickly as possible, to see traitors | parties—the notorious P. P. F. Or punished and France reconstructed.

| popular French party, and "the |P. 8. F., or the French Social Party. | Under, and working with the Germans, was the Rassemblement Populaire, constituted by Vichy. old Parties Revived Today France has a number of movements originally formed dur- | ing the’ German occupation,

vived though so far not as many as

and movements claim to have the | greater membership. There are those who believe that movements may supersede ‘parties, and some movements are ambitious in this direction. The consultative assembly has representatives both of parties and of movements: ‘The movements are composed -of a great variety of political views and originally drew their-member-ship either from the localities of their origin or from one or more affiliated professions.

+ The majority of these movements

united under the National Council of Resistance presided over by.Louls Saillant, an official of the C. G. T. (Confederation Generale du Travail) the eight leading niovements—the

The movements, thus, still seem | more _ patriotic than political, thougtt* they favor immediate struc- | tural reform, such as thé-fixtional=| | ization of key industries.

De. Gaulle Losing Support

Until recently the

papers,

though maintaining> a

appearances, | like the League of the French Na-| there is not necessarily unity within| tional, in 1900, and the League of | either big movement.

movements | old | [have been solidly behind Gen. De political parties have also been re- | Gaulle. Only lately have the newswhich are 90 per cent conexisted before the war. Both parties | trolled’ by the movements, directed

their criticisms of the government gpecifically at the chief of the pro-

visional government and that very

lightly and carefully.

Charles de Gaulle is still their man, but he is rapidly losing their They are dizquieted by his failure to push more aggressive internal reforms. They are beginning to sense’ that the government is impatient with]

wholehearted support.

their continued existence.

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Labor en

Wage Control Even More

Confused Now

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 9.-—

“Government control of wartime

wages was in more confusion to-

day as

a result of. President

Roosevelt's shift of the two top

men in charge

of . the program. Judge Fred W. Vinson, just before he took his new post as federal loan a d ministrator, issued an order in his old capagity as director. of economic stabilization. Spokesmen for the war labor board said the order left their agency more restricted than ever in “fringe” wage awards, outside of the Little Steel formula, to labor unions. » » .

WILLIAM H. DAVIS, who as chairman of WLB has been representing that agency in arguments with Judge Vinson, moves up to the latter's post. Coneicvably he could reverse his predecessor.

But he is not expected to do so, particularly because the Vinson precedents would hardly he overturned without an O. K. from two other officials—the President and James F. Byrnes, director of war mobilization.

The Vinson order was important because it affects wages. It was to have been accompanied by-an explanatory statement, What finally was turned out was the text of the order, so technical that it was immediately interpreted in several ways. The explanatory statement never did show up, apparently because

- the phrasing could not be agreed

al- |

The government, 6n the other | hand, is inclined ‘to say: “All right. | You did a magnificent job during

the occupation and in assisting in

France's liberation. The country is

now freed and you may disperse.

_ They are disinclined to disperse.

M. L N. (National liberty move-

yright, 1048, by The Indianapolis 8 Eline cl The Chicago Daily News, Ine |

upon, between the Vinson office and the WLB,

THE VINSON statement was said to have amounted to an assertion that the former Kentucky congressman was not giving up any ground in his fight against wage increases that might up prices and thus encourage inflation. Unofficial statements from the war labor board were that the judge was right on that point—he wasn't receding.

The single concession in the Vinson order was that from now on wage boosts that might cause price increases “shall become effective only if approved by the director of economic stabilization.”

~~ This changes a policy under’

which the director of the office of price administration, Chester Bowles, had to be consulted.

But the new director of the office of economic stabilization, Mr. Davis, has said that he has high regard for the official acts as well as the personality of OPA Director Bowles, and also for the | precedents’ established by the Hormer stabilizer, Judge Vinson. . ws

We, the Women —

Gifts Show Conditions of

Your Romance

By RUTH MILLETT

IN A RECENT newspaper interview the owner of one of New York's exclusive shops specializing in glamorous “at home” wear for women, said that when a man shops for his wife he {is interested in “glamour” only— even though she might need | galoshes much worse than a filmy gown. To point up her statement : "y the shop own- : er told about a +388 man who spent 3 hours sefecting a filmy robe for his wife and then said sheepishly as he started out with it under his arm: “I guess it's kind of silly of me, because at our house she’s-the one who has to get up in the night to take care of the furnace and look affer the baby.”

WELL, IT probably is foolish, but’ it is a foolishness of which ° most women highly approve.

Because when a man starts buying a woman nothing but practical gifts she can be sure the romance in their relationship is gone.

That is why war wives whose husbands are sending them exquisite bits of feminine luxuries from all over the worid are thrilled with the gifts—impractical as many of them are, and though many of the wives actual"ly.need the money spent on sentimental gifts for real necessities, ~ » " THE ‘STORE owner’s observa“tion' about men ought to teach women a& couplé of lessons, too.

One: If you want your hus-

band to like to buy presents for.

you, never try to steer him away from the (frivolous and toward ‘the purely practical. ; And two: Don't slight samian however hard it is to achieve, what with all the work and worry that pile up when a bride be- . comes & Botcwily add} sth,