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IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC (Delayed). — It's easy to get acquainted aboard a naval vessel, The sailors are just as friendly as the soldiers I'd known. on. the other side. Furthermore, they're so’ delighted to see a- stranger and have somebody new to talk to, that they aren't a.bit ‘standoffish, They're all sick to death of the isolation and monotony of the vist Pacific. I believe they talk more about wanting to go home than even the soldiers in Europe. Their lives really are empty lives. They have their work, and their movies, and their mail, and that’s just about all they do have, And nothing to look forward to. They never see anybody “but ~themselves,.and that gets mighty old. They sail and sail, and never arrive anywhere. They've not even seen a native village for a year. Three -times they've been to remote, lifless sandbars in the Pacific, and have been allowed to go ashore for a few hours and sit under palm trees and drink three cans of beer. That's all,
Eat Better Than ot Home YET THEY DO live well, Their food is the best I've run onto in this war. They have. steaks .and ice cream—they probably eat better than they would at home, Thev take baths daily, and the laundry washes their cléthes, Thelr quarters ard crowded, but each man has a bunk with mattress and sheets, and a private locker to keep his stuff in. They work hard, but their hours are regular. The boys ask you a thousand times how this compares with the other side. I can®only answer that this is much better, They seem to expect you to say that, but they are a little disappointed too. They say, “But it's tough to be away from home for more than a year, and never see anything but water and an occasional atoll.” And T say, yes, I know it is, but there are boys who have been in Europe more than three years, and have slept on the ground a good part of that time. And they say, yes, they guess in contrast their lives are pretty good . Seaman Paul Begley looks at his wartime life philosophically. He is a farm boy from Rogersville, Tenn. He talks a lot in a soft voice that is southern clear
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through. He's one of, the pane pushers on the flight deck, «1 can. stand this monotony all right, " he says: “The point with us is that we've got a pretty good chance of living through this, Think of the marines *who have to take the beaches, and the infantry in Ger-
many. I can stand a lot of . monotony‘if I know my
chances are pretty good for coming out of it alive.” But others yell their heads off about their lot, and feel. they're being persécuted by being kept out of America a year. I've heard some boys say, “I'd trade this for a foxhole any day.” You just have to keep your mouth shut to a remark like that. At least 50 per cent of the sailors’ conversation, when talking to a newcomer like myself, is about three things— The terrible typhoon they went through off the Philippines; the times they-were hit by Jap bombs; and their desire to get back to America, The typhoon was awful. "Many thought toy would go the same way as the three destroyers that capsized. This ship is inclined to roll badly anyhow. Today she still has immense dents in her smokestacks where they smacked the water when she rolled that far over. A lot of experienced people were sea~sick during that storm,
Most Are ‘Duration’ Sailors
Very few of the boys have developed any" real love ror the sea—the kind that will draw them back to it for a lifetime. Some, of course, will come back if things get tough after the war. But mostly they are temporary sailors, and the sea is not in their blood. Taking it all in all, they’ re good boys who do what it asked of them, and do it will. They" are very sincere and genuine, and they are almost unanimously proud of their ship. I think I've been asked a. hundred times how I happened to come on this ship, with so many to choose from. “It is always said in that hopeful tone of wondering if I chose it because it has such a noble reputation. So I tell them that I asked to be put -on a light carrier like this, rather than a big one. But that being a newcomer to the Pacific I didn’t know one ship from another, so this was the ship’ the navy put me on. But that satisfies them just as well, for then they assume that the navy itself considers their ship a superior one—which I'm sure it does.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
AN ELEVATOR operator employed in one of the downtown office buildings (name censored) quit his Job yesterday -morning. When the building superin-
_tendent asked him why he was quitting, he explained
that he just couldn't stand the garlic breath of a.cer- ' tain professional ‘man who has offices in the building and uses the elevator frequently. S’truth! Quoth the building manager: “Looks like ‘the tenants are going to have to lay off the garlic. It's easier to get new tenants than to replace an elevator operator. . Bob Stith, who runs the Wake Up System, operating gasoline stations, is one of those fellows who doesn’t believe anything until he sees it himself. Bob tells me he finally has seen a robin. “Of course,” he says, “I realize full well that many of your friends reported having had mirages in Janvary and February at which time they saw robins, snakes, pink elephants and what not, but I actually saw’ a robin today.” For heaven's sake, Bob, take, another look at the name of your company. Where have you been all this time? , . . Note to “Franklin Informer”—How about identifying yourself? I ale ways like to know the source of my information, whether or not the name is used. , . . Speaking of spring, have you noticed how fhe buds on some of the early-leafing trees, such as Chinese elm, have burst open? .-. . The frogs in Bacon swamp, west of Keystone ave. and south of 59th, have started tuning up for the summer. Some of the old familiar bass voices seem 'to be missing, but undoubtedly they'll be heard from before long.
Posies for Bill
DIRECTORS of the Indianapolis C. of C. adopted resolution the other day tossing lots of verbal posies at-Bill-Book, the chamber's executive vice president, for his hard work along civic improvement lines. They especially praised his work in the recent legis-
' America Flies
MAXWELL FIELD, Ala., March 17.—Flying lessons were Heing given here by the Wright brothers, in a 902-pound plane RAH 475 HOTER ‘power engine, ‘some 35 years ago "Today huge Boeing .B-29 Superfortresses, are taking off and landing on the wide concrete. Janding strips, some of them only 20 seconds apart—exactly in the same manner as the light training. planes: on fields the. nation over. Maxwell fleld now is a B-29 transition training center and the amazing part of the entire setup is that the big “Super” planes that were to be so difficult to handle by average pilots have proved just no problem at all to the clear-eyed young Americans who have been selected to fly them. Maxwell was the first field in the training command to undertake this job ang its success caused .the opening of similar. training in February in Boswell, N. M. Randolph Field, Tex., will take on B-29 transition training next September, it was announced.
700 Landings a Day : TRANSITION crews here handle the B-20 as smoothly and easily as though they were ordinary airliners. There is an average of 12 planes in the air at one time, usually making about 48 landings per hour, Each plane averages about three or four landings every 15 minutes and Alabama is getting used to seeing what Tokyo fears—squadrons of Superfortresses flying overhead at all times. The day's average is about 700 landings for a 15hour day. They make them at dusk and in the dark of night, runway lights flashing on only at about the NEW YORK, Friday —Yesterday in Washington I lunched with a group of women who appeared on a panel arranged by Mrs, Charles Tillett, vice-chair-man of the Democratic national committee, and a number of other women interested in the meeting’ This was the first time that I have heard the women speak together who represented us on each .. of the international groups which : have already considered special subjects. Miss Josephine Schain covered the food and: agriculture ¢ conference; Mrs. Ellen Woodward, ; © the relief and rehabilitation; Dr. Mabel Newcomer, the international monetary conference at Bretton " ‘Woods; Deah Mildred Thompson, the international education conference in London; secretary of labor, Miss Perkins, the. International labor organization; Mrs. Thomas McAllister, the aviation conference, and Dr. Harriet Elliott, the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. The summing up was made by Charles P. Taft of the state department, who told some. humorous stories” apropos of.-his facing a group largely made up of Democrats, since this particular effort was one
r -of education for Democratic women. + I imagine the women's division of the Republican '
national committee is carrying on much the same i ytd of educational grograi, 3ad,
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lative assembly. ing Bill to take an “extended and unlimited” vacation. Go anywhere and stay as long as you like, they told him. One director even offered to place a fivepassenger plane at his disposal. Bill, professing fears his job would be abolished while he was out of town, isn't sure what he'll do. But he'll probably wind up by spending a few days puttering around his country home south of town. It's a good ®hance to get his garden started... . If Broad Ripple wins today, it will be Indianapolis’ second basketball championship in recent weeks, Wally Lee remairids me that the Park school quintet just recently won the Midwest prep school championship. . . . W. H. McKittrick, superintendent of the Indianapolis Union Railway Co, is confined to his home by illness. Confidentially, It’s the mumps. . Announcement that the movie, “Going My Way,” has hogged the academy awards, Is of especial interest to Charles D. Cavett, copy writer for Spencer W. Curtiss,” Inc. His brother, Frank Cavett, was co-author of the story.
A Session With Old Sol THE SUNBATHING season is here at last. The season “officially” was opened. at the Indianapolis Athletic club yesterday when J. Frank Holmes and Henry Calloway went .up to the roof and let the sun tint them a rosy pink for 50. minutes. The season opening wouldn't have been official if Mr. Holmes hadn't been there. . . . A bit belatedly, Old Inside finds ‘a couple of press agents of the shrinking violet type. Roy W. Steele has resigned from the Indianapolis C. of C. public relations job and taking a similar one with the McCullough Printing Co.. Newt Goudy has resigned as editor of the Hoosier Sentinel and taken Steele's old job with the C. of C. It happened two or three weeks ago and neither one of them publicized the change. Will wonders never cease! . .. You'd never guess what week next week is! From the OPA, I learn that it's to be “Check your tires week.” The idea is to make your present tires run as-far as possible; because it. may be. a long, long
time before you get amy more. A recap in time saves many a bunion, : -
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By Max B. Cook
instant of contact of fanding gear with the surface. The "school opened in December, 1944. It already has graduated three: classes and Tokyo has heard from them-—plenty. have been made thus far, nary big city airport size. . In charge of the field is the short, peppy, experienced Col. E. R.. L.. Choate, who enlisted in the army air corps in. 1919 and has served in Hawaii and at various bases throughout the country. ‘A Honey to Fly ~“FHEY TOLD US we might have to follow a certain pattern in B-29 training on account of the size of the ship,” said Col. Choate today. “It took little time, however, for our student fliers to acquaint themselves with the fact that, if ‘handled properly, the B-29 is a honey to fly. So we now are taking them off and landing them just as fast and easily as any other heavy bomber.” Before the créws step -aboard the B-29 to begin actual flight training, they niust pass a ground course which comprises: operation details of every part of the big bomiber, In each. classroom are individual setups of the big propellers, brake system, fue] system, controls, de-icers, landing gears, etc. Thus, before boarding the plane, every member of the crew knows exactly where to look for the controlling switches and what to do in case of emergency. Instead of book learning, crew, members are given practical demonstrations with actual equipment available on which to practice. In charge of the training is Col. Calvin E. Peeler, director of training and operations. Col. Peeler formerly was deputy for training and operations at Hendricks Field, Fla. He entered cadet training in October, 1932.
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
partisan organizations of women are doing a splendid job along these lines. It was particularly appropriate that Mrs. Woodrow Wilson could be with us. She must feel “a great sense of hope in these days, when “her husband's prediction that some day his ideas would be accepted ‘and carried to fruition seems about to comes true. That does not" mean, of course, that there will not be much discussion on every step of a final international organization, nor do I fail to realize the pitfalls. and possibilities of defeat. But so many more people seem to be aware of the seriousness of the alternative, that I cannot help but hope for some kind of foundation being organized in San Francisco. I hope that all communities throughout the country are meeting to organize and appoint local chairmen to solicit contributions of clothing from every family during united national clothing collection in April. The big organizations—Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions ~are hoping for the help not only of national organiaztions but also of local groups. We all know it takes time to collect, sort, pack and ship the amount of clothing ‘which is going to be needed for the people in wartorn countries, Next winter will-be uphn us before we know it, and the heed will then be very great. In rural areas, county extension agents can .be a great help in. getting local people to do the , work. I hope in the corse of the next few days| that Dan West, executive secretary of the drive,
will hear that the organization of communities practically complete.
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By LEE G. MILLER
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES HORATIO ALGER GENERAL. OF THE PACIFIC .
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It All Worked Out To a Gnaf's Eyebrow’
: Scripps-Howard Staff Writer LEYTE, P. I—(By Air Mail) ,— .. For his months of feverish work in finding airstrip sites in New Guined, and putting the strips in, Col. (now major -genéral) Leif va J. Sverdrup had first the silver star and then the distinguished serv=ice medal pinned on him.
The DSM ecitation said: . . + His success in completion of these essen= Mr, Miller ti] advance air fields, accomplished under severe physical hardship and at great personal risk, made possible the effective co-ordination of land and air forces and contributed materially to the success of the Papuan campaign.” Sverdrup's own praise, and he gives it with obvious enthusiasm, is for those engineer troops whose sweat and Ingenuity played so great a part in the whole Guinea offensive. " » » “THERE were guys from city streets and from the farms who had never seen a bulldozer,” he says. “But they learned in no time. Americans are born tinkerers. And a lot of those boys have learned a hell of a good trade—construction.
“A funny thing is, the harder you work them, and the oftener you move them, and the closer they are to the Japs, the higher their morale is. “If you find a rear-echelon outfit griping too much, you can cure it overnight by sending the outfit forward with a tough assignment, y 8 2 ” “WHEN we got to Luzon it was a picnic by comparison with Guinea—we found concrete highways, and the first railroads ‘many of our men had seen in years, and all kinds of installations. “In Guinea they started from less than scratch. They had to beat the jungle to put in strips
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Maj, Gen. Leif J. Sverdrup at one of his New Guinea airstrips.
and roads and harbors, and they had to put in electric plants and waterworks—everything—as they went along. They worked around the clock, seven days a week. Those fellows are wonderful.” n=. 5 LATE in 1843 Col. Sverdrup flew-to the interior of Dutch New Guinea to look into the possibilities for arr airstrip along the Fly river that might be used to support the eventual assault on Hollandia: But the country was all hillocks and swamps, and the project was given up. After Hollandia was taken, in the spring of -’44, Col. Sverdrup was promoted to brigadier general and shifted to Hollandia to
help plan the Philippines ihvasion. “Everything has got to be worked out to a gnat's evebrow far in advance,” he says. “Everybody has got to know exactly what he is to do when the time comes—exactly where to put a road, a warehouse, a light plant, and so on, and where the .materials will be. Of course we're working now on plans for operations that you won't hear of for months.” ” 4 2 HAVING helped to plan the assault, Gen. Sverdrup arrived on Leyte eight days after D-day and opened his headquarters here. It was a little different on Luzon. There, last Jan. 9, the general
Army Polls Help Find Answers to What Our
By NED BROOKS, Scripps-Howard: Staff Writer
‘WASHINGTON, March
17.—Like
many other government
branches, the army has gone in for poll-taking on:-a major scale. Unlike the other branches, the. army polls only its own members,
not the public.
It has found the answers to such questions as what G. I.’s want to do after the war, what entertainment they like best, how they feel
about affairs on the home front. The method of determining who stays in and who gets out of the army after V-E day—a system based on length of service,
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combat experience and family of extensive polls among the status—was Gevised on the basis G. 1s, ‘* Because the army doesn’t quiz the public, it is not accountable to the budget bureau for its questionnaires. But nobody in or out
LUDLOW URGES 2 Dead, 33 Hurt in Crash Of Bus, Truck at South Bend
PEACE COUNCIL
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Advise on Settlement.
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WASHINGTON, March 17.—Rep. Louis Ludlow, Indianapolis Democrat who previously polled religious
leaders regarding a just and lasting peace, today proposed establishment of a religious council to advise on the peace making. It would be supported voluntarily and have headquarters here with membership composed of outstanding leaders of. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths. “The quality and permanency of world peace depend upon how closely the peace settlement is made to conform to the Christian’ pattérn of the fatherhood of God
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and the brotherhood of man,” Mr, Ludlow declared in the house. Two conclusions, I think, are! perfectly justified.
“FIRST—If the mighty forces of |Yéar-old grandson of Mrs, Mary olitics dominate the |Mayo, 1450 Brookside ave., was impeace settlement there will be no | proving from leg lacerations at City
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permanent’ peace, but the seeds will] be sown for another world war: “SECOND-—Only upon principles of religious faith-—a recognition of the dignity of the human being and mutual respect among nations for the rights of each other—is it possible to build a peace of the ages.” ; Recommends Committee All the great religious groups rec ognize this and have embraced peace-making as one of their mis sions in the world,” Mr. Ludlow asserted. Mr. Ludlow recommended an executive committee made up of Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches of America; Archbishop Micha#®l J. Curley and Rabbi Stephen Wise. :
On Oct. 7, 1943, a “pattern for peace”. was released by the Federal -Council of the Churches of Christ in America, thé social action department of ‘the National Catholic Welfare conference and the Synagog Council of America. It ‘was printed and distributed by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
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will meet at 7:45 p. m. Monday. ‘Annual reports of committees will
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of the armed services is permitted to poll servicemen on, political questions. The 1944 soldier vote act prevides a $1000 fine and a year iz Jak 26r anyone who might * try. ; 2 2 2 QPINION pulse-taking within the army is one of the functions of the morale services division headed by Maj. Gen. Frederick H. Osborn. The poll-takers are known officially as “expediters.”
SOUTH BEND, ‘Ind, ‘March 17
collision seven miles: west of South Bend early. today killed two women and injured 33 other persons, one critically. The dead were Mrs. Hanna Sadler, 46, Flint, Mich.,, and Miss Margaret Mougin, 20, of Owosso and Byron, Mich, Herman Oscar Pommer, 20, South Branch, Mich., a student at Michigan State college at East Lansing, was hurt critically. The bus crashed into the stalled truck on Indiana state road 2 about 3:30 a. m. Daniel A. Everhart, 24,
The navy is less organized for poll-taking and one of its early . ventures misfired. A poll purporting to show the proportion of officers who want to remain in the service after the war was challenged by some offi cers as showing too high a ratio. Poll experts in other branches said the navy methods had been “unscientific.” 2 2 2 THE STATE DEPARTMENT conducts«no polls of its own but in common with most other executive ‘branches it receives reports of canvasses by government and private operators. It also keeps a watchful eye on the trend of its fan mail, which has .now reached 1000 letters a day, but officials point out that €xtreme care’ must be exercised
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truck driver, employed by the Long Transportation .Co. of Detroit, said
ds had stopped on the two-lane]
highway because of tire trouble. Half of the right rear side of the bus was sheared off in the collision. Gail Bliss, 29, Owosso, Mich., bus driver, said that no flares were burning at the truck and he saw the parked vehicle too late to avoid the crash. Most of the victims had boarded the. bus at Owosso, Lansing, Belle Vue and Kalamazoo, Mich. The bus, operated by the Owosso-Flint bus lines, ‘was en route ‘to Chicago. Five persons, all from Michigan, were hurt seriously.
OWNER HELD AFTER D0G ATTACKS BOY
Severely injured when he was attacked by a German shepherd dog yesterday, Christopher Mayo, five-
hospital today. The boy told police he was walking through the alley near his home when the dog leaped a wire fence and attacked him, Police also said the dog had attacked Mrs. Virginia DeVine, 1236 Roosevelt ave.,. earlier yesterday. ; Floyd Hill, 1419 Massachusetts to appear in municipal court this afternoon on charges of failure to have a dog license and haronng a
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vicious dog.
ELROD TO ADDRESS ALUMNI ON TAXES
Milton Elrod Jr., will speak on
tion Standpoint” at the March luncheon meeting Monday of the Indianapolis Alumni chapter of Sigma Delta Kappa fraternity, in the Claypool hotel. A memorial service will be conducted by Bayard Marsh for Warren S. Riffey who was killed in a truck accident in Australia Jan. 11. William H. McKitrick, president, will preside and Edward O. Snethen is program chairman.
LEGION DINNER .TONIGHT H. F. McClain is entertainment chairman for a birthday dinner tonight of the Big Four Railway post No, 116 of the American Legion and "auxiliary at. the post home, 960 S. Keystone ave,
Legal Gro Is Formed Here To Aid Returning Veterans
One of 11 Indiana district organi- | particularly in connection with legal
zations to assist returning war veterans, with their post-war readjustment problems has been. formed here. Heading the program will be Judge Emsley W. Johnson Jr, of Superigr court 3, as chairman, and Robert E. Jones "and Walter Myers Jr., as co-directors. They will conduct a public information program for war vet-
-|erans under the auspices of the
Junior Bar conference of the American Bar association.
Ibe given and initiation will be held.
Judge ‘Johnson said the informaSag geigrua wil il waa htesaine
problems incident to- their return to civilian life. The committee's activities will be co-ordinated with the new state veterans’ affairs division created by the legislature to handle rehabilitation problems for war veterans and thei? families. “The primary purpose of the program is to explain to service personnel and their dependents the general provisions of the laws that
and the means by which they can Sota legal assistance and advice
have been passed for their benefit
landing under sniper {ire on: the beach just 300 yards from the
.Lingayen airstrip.
Two ~days later, on .a cruiser lying “off Luzon, Gen: MacArthur observed Gen. Sverdrup’s birthday by pinning on- him a distinguished service cross for “extraor-, heroism” and “invaluable assistance” in the seizure of the Lingayen air field. un ” EJ AFTER the sandy, shell-pocked air field had been dressed up with steel matting for a length of 6000 feet, Gen, Svedrup returne for a while to his old love—building ‘bridges. The’ Japs had knocked out a lot of them. “It's a sad sight for a conhe says, “to see
blown up by some little_Jap with a few sticks of dynanfite “I'd like to spend 4 night in the Imperial hotelat Tokyo, but you can be suré it won't be there when the time comes. The Nips think they're good at demolition, but” they'll know tHey're : rank through with them.” ” o
” MAJ. GEN. SVEDRUP has a |
wife and 18-year-old son in St. Louis.
Mrs. Svedrup was born in Nor- |
way, too; he met her in Minnesota. He also has a distinguished brother in the states—Harold U. Sverdrup, director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at La Jolla, Cal, and former chief scientist for Roald Amundsen during years of polar exploration, as well as a colleague of Sir Hubert Wilkins on the famous under-ice expedition by submarine. His other brother escaped from Norway to England, entered the Norwegian army and was Killed by a German bomb while aboard a ship lying off Spitzbergen. So Gen, Sverdrup has personal as well as patriotic reasons for
- hating the enemies of America.
He has already worked wonders avenging Pearl Harbor, and the admiring men of his staff are quite sure he will work a lot more.
THE END.
Soldiers Want
in inferpreting the mail statis= tically because it comes only from a minority and sometymes-—is “loaded” by pressuré groups. Most departments and agencies are subscribers to the James S. Twohey newspaper analysis servs
ice, which charts press opinion }
percentage wise on support or opposition toward administration policies. Many use the service to check their own opinion findings. > 2 = o THE OPA has a variety of methods for measuring reaction to its policies. In addition to direct polls conducted for OPA by the bureau of agricultural economics and census bureau, the price agency gets periodic reports from field personnel on consumer
© comments.
Eaclhi OPA ration board has a “community service” member who
* keeps the board informed on pub-
lic reactions. Bureau of labor statistics canvassers who collect cost-of-living data from merchants also relay consumer reactions to OPA. The agriculture departments crop estimate board, ofest of the Samplers, picks up farm opinion of value.to the war food administration, n a n OWI INTERVIEWED 448 housewives on their feelings about the putter shortage. Another poll was aimed at discovering the origin of organized opposition to gasoline rationing in Indiana.
polled thousands of plant” operators on their labor needs to enable WMC to fix employment ceilings and prevent labor hoarding. The bureau of Jabor statistics conducted extensive consumer surveys keyed to the anti-inflation campaign. The now-defunct national resources planning board polled thousands of consumers on
money. It's not surprising that people everywhere are
their elbows,
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Unions’ Role At Conference Made Issue
By FRED W. PERKINS
WASHINGTON, March 17. -'
American delegates to the San ™ Francisco huddle of united na- , tions will have, to ehoose for labo: advice between" spokesmen for the American: Federation of Labor
and theC.I, O The A. F.
L. announced ed it wants to be advisory rather than ruling 4 peace decisions The C.1. O. has
given the im-
pression it wants to sit in with the brass hats who will come out with the pronunciamentoes. Said the A:F.of L, with an obvious dig at the C.1.0.: “We emphatically do not beHeve that any international trade union gathering should undertake to dictate to the United States government and workers on the conduot of our foreign relations This is a duty constitutignally entrusted to the President with the consent of the senate.”
In plain language, this’ said to the C.1.O. that the A.F.of L. thinks the C. IL O. is not big enough to. wear the pants it put on at the London meeting of the world trade union conference and displayed last Monday in a mass meeting in New ¥ork.
“As citizens,” the A.F.ofL spokesman said, “we have a dut: to express our views to our President, but to negotiate with the citizens of other nations on terms of international political and economic commitments goes far beyond the legitimate functions of trade unions or the rivileges of citizenship.” ¥ » » LABOR BODIES will have a ‘voice in peace settlements. The question is: How much? The C.1.0, participating with Russia and other left-wing delegations in the February meeting in London, subscribed to a program which was directive rather than advisory to officials who will make the peace plan.
According to Secretary of State Stettinius, American labor organizations will be given-advisory status in the San Francisco meeting. This apparently will satisfy the A.F.of L., but . whether it will satisfy the C.I.O. depends on the outcome of a meeting scheduled for Washington April 10 of the continuing committee of the world trade union, conference.
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We, the Women Women Want Fun During
‘Best Years’ By RUTH MILLETT
. AS ONE STEP in a new cam‘paign to increase the population in France the government 1s go=
—ing-to try to see’ to+it that the
‘typical young Frenchman of the post-war world is “a healthy father
rather than an /
absinthe - sip”
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die? Also ¥nmarried men may
find tietnsetves
paying. ..hand- / somely for the right of single blessedness
through the’
levying of a i drastic bachélord tax. Maybe such measures will help somewhat to increase
“the birth rate in France—which . has fallen off to the point where
the country has a 12,000, odo baby shortage for the last 10-year period. But isn't it women who have to be sold on . motherhood, rather than men on fathethood? And won't that take the most elaborate sales campaign that has ever been devised? 2 ” »
" MODERN WOMEN have a pas-
sionate belief in the 20th century creed that 'a woman has two obligations in life—to hold man and to have fun during “the best years of her life"—which happen 'to be the child-bearing years. They are scared to death that if they tie themselves down to large families they won't be able to be the gay companions to their husbands that men have been led
to expect their wives to be, and become drudges-
that they will instead of “individuals.”
Once women their “Best years” swould be -devoted to having children and looking after them, to sacrifice and hard work—and that during those years a rgan and a woman could build up security for their middle years, which would be the easy ones. iy 5 8 un, Bb 4 BUT NOW young wives want to have their fun, to travel and have their homes just right while they are young.
They have been sold on the idea that those things are their ‘wight. And that if they sacrifice them to sit. at home and bring up a large family they stand a chance of losing everything. Until that notion is replaced by the old-fashioned idea that a woman's ‘young. years ‘belong to
expected that
the having and rearing of a good- .
sized family, it doesn't seem as
though it Will do any nation much ~
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