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'TON SET eld at 8 p. m, kside O. E. 8, Ww. Mrs. Flore y matron and 1y patron,
“airedale des
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IN THE WESTERN PACIFIO— (Delayed) —The men aboard an aircraft carrier could.be divided, for purposes. of clarity, , There : are listed
into three groups, both -officer-pilots and and: gunners, who actually fly mn combat. They do nothing but fly: and- study, and prepare to fly. Then there are the men who maintain the fliers, The air officers, and the mechanics and the myriad’ plane handlers who shilc and push and manhandle the planes a dozen times a day around the deck. . These men are ordinarily known © as . “airedales,” but: the term isn’t much used on our ship, Usually they. just call themselves “plane-pushers.” the ship's, crew—the deck hands, éncooks, plumbers and -barbers just ‘as though it were any ship
the fliers, en-
radiomen
And third is gineers,. signalmen, Thoy run the ship, in tha navy, ‘Airedales’ Deserve Credit THE FLIERS looked upon as gods by the rest, of the crew, but they are respected, Hardly a man on th¢ crew would trade places with them They've seen enough crash-landings on deck to know what the fliers go through, But there is a feeling—a slight one ghip's regular crew and the air maintenance The feeling is on the par{ of the ship's crew, feel that the plane-handlers think they're donnas, They sav to vou “them airedales is the gets all the glory. Nobody ever hears All we do is keep the damn ship going.” But as far as I can see, the airedales had an awful 18t of Aud ‘their a miserable one, Théir hours are in the pinches they work like fierids! I think the erves what little credit he gets, It, is these “plane-pushers” who make the flight deck of an aircraft carrier look as gay and wildly colorful as a Walt Dis sney wartoon. * For they dress in. bright color: They wear helmets and green, red, yellow, white or They make the flight deck look like garden in June.
Colors Ide ntify Workers THIS COLORFUL gear isn't just a whim. Each color identifies a special type of workman, sg they
aren't
between . the crew, They prima
ones that about us
haven't job is often ungodly, and
glory, -
sweaters brown. a flower
that are blue,
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum’
A MAN whose name for ohvious reasons, tions bureau
had better go unmentioned, stepped up to the traffic violawindow at police headquarters Friday and a traffic sticker. He was beaming. “Boy, oh boy,” he remarked to one and all, “that trafic sticker is the best thing that ever happened to my wife.” He didn't explain. , .. An agént who gets around the tate reports ¥hat servicemen get a real break at the Hotel Elkhart, in Elkhart, Ind. Both the hotel and its restaurant have large signs offering: “For the duration, 25 per cent discount to men in uniform.” P.S. There are no large military installations near Elkhart. Dee Nicholas, traffic manager for WIRE, made her first solo flight a week or so Sky Harbor. All week long, she was ecstatic over the thrill of flying alone. She happened to pass Wally Nehrling while he was conducting an interview program. Wally dragged her before the microphone and interviewed her about her solo flight. 8he admitted afterward. that although she had worked for the radio station 2'2 vears, this was her first appearance on the air, frightened on the air than she was in the air on her solo flight. If you've ®ver faced a microphone, you'll probahiy understand;
fairly
ago at
The Wrong Package REBA GENE RISK, stenographer at the Inland Container Corp, wished to exchange a blouse she had at Block's. So, as soon as she was off “work the other day, she hurried to the coat rack, grabbed a saek she thought contained the own to get there before *1d ilke to eXchange this blouse,” 2eaching. into the bag, she found parcel wrapped in bread paper.
purchased
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downt
Shathe-olerk.... ht thie blouse bat a
THE PG SIBIL ITY of ne w dru gs that will’ {hibit thie deadly as well as is sugges:
wth of many disease germs including: the
strept oconk and‘ the widespread staphylococci
the microbes of diptheria and pneumonia, Prof. Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell university medical college, New York. Strangely enough, compounds, now under laboratory test, are derivatives of. biotin, a menmber-of-the vitamin B-complex and one of the most important growth-promoting substances in nature. Life is impossible. without biotin, The new studies were revealed by Prof. Vigneaud as he accepted the William H. Nichols medal of the New York section of the American “Chemical Society. He has been one of the world's leading students of biotin and announced its chemical structure in October, 1942,
ted by
the new
Counteracting Substance
AN INTERESTING situation exists gggnhatiire with regard to biotin because its growth-promoting abilities appear to be automatically controlled by a counter=acting or “antibiotic” substance, Thus egg yolk contains an abundant supply of biotin but egg white contains a protein known as avidin which counteracts the action of biotin, Certain micro-organisms, wmeluding both the diphtheria bacteria and some types of yeast, have the
My Day
WASHINGTON, Sunday—On Thursday in Washngton 1 went at 4 o'clock th"the inter-departmerital auditorium to attend a meeting of personnel officers attached to various government departments, and I got home at 5:30 to find that our guest, Mrs. GPenville Emmot, had already arrived. In the evening the East-West association. had a meeting in the East room of.the White House. We saw some of their Chinese plays, “and heard a number of speakers tell . of the dssociation's work throughout the country in developing an interest in other peoples. It was a stimulating evening, and I particularly enjoyed seeing the paintings made in China by an American army sergeant. bad heard about the East-West association and had sent the paintings back in a desire to help. They were really well done; the artist had caught the bony structure in the faces and had made some character studies which are unforgettable. A, Friday morning I went to New York City. Miss _Helen Ferris of the Junior Literary guild lunched
_ with me and told me of some of the books which
they are preparing for submission to us on ‘the board. In the afternoon I went with Arthur C. Gillette
to Madison, N. Ju. to Spenk at the senennial cele-
And she was more
He’
‘
~and is folded up against the wgll' in the daytime.
World of Science
"McKim Garrison .of Llewellyn Park, who is an old
By ie id
can hé picked out quickly and sent on hurried ~$A8KS, - x s
Indianapolis
Red is the gasoline and fire- fighting detail, Blue is for the guys who just push the planes. around. Brown is for plane captains and mechanics. White stands for radiomen -and ‘the. engineering bosses. Yellow .is for thé plane directors, Yellow is what a pilot looks for the moment he gels on deck. For ‘the plane directors. guide him as though they were’ leading a blind man. They use a sign language with their hands that is the same all over the navy, and by obeying their signs | ex xplititly, the pilot can *axi his plané within two! inches of another one without ever looking at it.| All the pilots and ship's officers live in “officers eduntry” in the forward. part of the ship. They live in comfortable cabins, housing’ from one to four men. . The crew lives in compartments, They are of | all shapes and sizes. Some hold as little as half/| a dozen men. Others are big and house a hundred men, 8 The navy doesn't use hammccks any more. Every | mai has a bed. It is called a “rack.” It's merely | a tubular framework, with wire “springs stretched across it. It is attached to the walls by hinges,
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than $600 each, for that entire year, from building trade Jobs; some £8,000 others earned less tha h $1000 each, and only 14,702 reported earnings of $2000 or more, n n n MEN employed on contract construction and maintenance work did a little better, Of 90,099 whose earnings were reported, 44,168 listed 1940 incomes of $1000 each or more, and of these 2024 earned $2000 or more. : .
The “racks” aren't let down till about 7 in the |" , .onohile manufacturing is con-
evening (except for men standing regular watch 2 a “high-pay” industry, But must sleep in the daytime). Hence a sailor has no [few employed in it worked full time regular place to sit or lie down during the day before the war; those who did not he does nab a few spare minutes. had to try to save enough, in
Narrowest Flight Deck in Navy | “good” weeks, to tide them over A LIGHT CARRIER, such as mine, has only about jay on periods, 1028. ac a third as many planes as the big carriers, and less| ” x ae alle rE than half the crew, but it does exactly the same kind |cor¢:n8 0 U Ma of work ' facturers' association, the average : : ‘ ¢ rker ear $1716. AverOf the three types of carriers in the navy, ours Au0 vo Ree Sagned Sai Aver has the narrowest flight deck of ail age pay Croppec $997 in 1349,
It's so narrow | t 19 and to $1627 that when planes take off they use the left side of | {rose to $1576 in 37, an 0 $1623 in 1939, helped up by better busi-
the “deck in ‘order that their right wingtip won't i “i Hea ness and a strong C. 1. O. union, come too clese to the “island” as they pass. Our pilots ‘and crew are quite proud 7 " a have the narrowest flight deck in existence. proud they can even hit the damn thing. joy telling this story, as’ in illustration : 38 to 45 weeks in fairly One day one of our planes had- engine trouble or something and couldn't make it“back to our ship, | but and had-to land on the nearest carrier, which hap- often was only one-third or onepened to be a hig one. {half as mi uch as in peak seasons. The pilot circled around it and radioed in, asking | The C. 1. O. packinghouse workers’ permission to land. When the permission came back, union, using its own figures and he sent another message, facetiously inquiring: those of the government, says aver“Which runway?” age 1939 pay of that industry's em{ployees was $27 a-week—when they | worked—but t} that their average in[come for the yvear was only $1080. Several hundred companies have tried plans for stabilizing employment and pay. Some plans were abandoned because employers found them impractical, others because workers didn’t like them Still others were dropped when the war changed conditions. But some, well tested, are still operating.
year as
that we They're PRE-WAR They en- meat-packing plant
workers ‘in many s weie employed good years, weekly slack
pay in seasons
Fuither investigation disclosed it was a’ lunch, presumably the janitor’s. She stammered apologies and | slunk out, wondering what the owner of the lunch was going to think when he opened: the other package, . George Joslin, formerly. with Tanner & Co, now. works for the Whittington Pump Co. He wernt hcme the other day and remarked to the 1 8.1 family that the company makes “every kind of pump| PROCTER & GAMBLE of Cinimaginable.” His 13-year-old daughter, Lois, who was cinnati, makers of Ivory soap, began listening, floored him with her first questionl “Doin 1923 to guarantee regular hourlythey make bicycle pumps?” George had to admit that was the “only exception.” . Rita Ann White, | east 4 3501 N. Sherman dr, has received notice she was| ‘of work a year. awarded fourth prize in a nation-wide Christmas| Its plan, changed coloring contest conducted by the Noma Electric Co, time, is still in effect. The prize was a check for $10. Geo. A. Hormel & Co. of Austin, fMinn.,, meat packers, have a 10Another Lament [years zold plan that guarantees each IT SEEMS NOBODY really appreciated the Monon plant employe 52 weekly pay checks passenger service until service was cut to a single |f equal size, plus bonuses for high tound trip a day. The latest lament comes from Production dnd a share of profiis Austin H. Davidson, the sign painter, who left|When business is good. here and now lives in Rockford, Ill. In a note to SEE vs John Hillman, who wrote a column recently on the| SIMILAR in its benefits is the Monon's curtailment, Mr.-Davidson said: “Gosh, ain't |share-the-production plan of the you glad us ‘Hoosiers’ can find romance out of a|Nunn-Bush Shoe Cd, Milwaukee. railroad, a.river boat, a covered bridge or swimmin’'|This company puts 20 per hole and things like these? I guess that's why they |its total sales income into a fund call us ‘Hoosiers’ ‘I can see old 441 proudly. sticking |from which production employees her nose out of the Union station sheds, ‘her air |are paid, so that annfial pay is decompressor purring like a ‘kitten, occasionally blowing termined by the amount ok business a ring of smoke’ out ef her stackK.to”show off in done. front of a 'small child. She wasn't bedecked with al These three plans, and others lot of frills nor even streamlined. And not a bit|aiming at stable employment and ashamed of her. old clothes; -not her, for she|pay, differ widely in operation. They was the envy of all the other -gals; -especially that |are being studied by those who ask trim Pennsylvania number, and that saucy New York that question: Central ‘Riley’ gal. I left Indianapolis physically,| “What kind of jobs?” but not in spirit. And I hope in the near future I _and the 5 o'clock Monon can return to our Stations,
rate employees at weeks
from time to
NEXT: The “Hormel Plan.
MONDAY, HOW ABOUT: THOSE 60,000, 000 JOBS AFTER THE WAR?
C.1.O. Seeks Guarantee
MARCH 19, 1945
d Annual Wage
WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE AFTER THE WAR?-—Will smoke pour steadily from the smokestacks of
America’s industrial centers?
Will jobs and pay be steady?
Will there be full employment?
Will in-
dustry be able to furnish enough good jobs to provide workers with the purchasing power necessary to
keep factories going full blast?
These are the questions our post-war planners are asking.
" = a
‘Laws Encourage
|
LIKE THIS?—Will post-war jobs be so seasonal that workers will line up like this frequently to apply for unemployment compensation? Or will business and industry be able to work out plans to stabilize
employment and regularize pay?
cent of °
THIS AGAIN?—Will men be forced to line up like this before factory employment offices and relief stations in post-war America?
Does the guaranteed annual wage point the way away
Some leaders say. it does.
from this?
“where we 86 Pgwifully belong.”
By David Dietz | write 6
MANILA—(By Air
ajility to synthesize biotin from their enyironment and this. may account’in part for their rapid growth | under favorable ‘conditions.
Biotin Sulfone Most Effective
THE DERIVATIVE of biotin® which Prof. du pains, Vigneaud has found most effective in inhibiting the| A 35-ton tank ‘was waiting. To growth of bacteria is biotin sulfone. Strangely enough, test the bridge, a bulldozer was however, this particular compound stimul ated the | qriven over it without mishap. Then growth of yeast. came the tank, its crew skeptical However, another derivative with the complex | As it got onto the span there was name of imidazolidone caproic acid, inhibits both (a sickening creak of timbers and the growth of yeast and a number of bacteria |the center of the bridge sank a good {e péinted out that it was too early to translate 10 feet, the tank with it. But. it these laboratory studies into clinical trials and that|didn't collapse. only time will tell their values. Apparently it is t00| The tank was. able to climb acro early to say that a rival of the sulfa drugs or front the bottom of the ewayhack penicillin is in the offing. land proceed to the support of our One can, however, hope for the best, and Prof, Du | | troops. Vigneaud himself urges that the reséarches be prose- The swayback is still cuted with vigor. [the bridge is in use. The basis of the action of these derivatives like | a z's that of avidin is sometimes classified as “antivitamin.’ " OY tes Sade i This whole field, he thinks, deserves extended study | THE ENGINEERS in the post-war world. | clallx proud of shat one A great deal of work remains to be done on the biotin-avidin relationship. He finds that under certain circumstances, biotin breaks, down into pimelic
This wasaseuih of the jour troops below the Pasig | Hurry. Men of ihe 37th | battalion, threw a Trough They didn't have time to
spah
take
there but
aren't one,
espeeven
Up Front With Mauldin
MILLER, Scripps- Howard Staff Writer Mail) £During 2 a jeep took me across the w eirde st bridge I'd ever traversed. Pasig yiver, , wi anid division's
the final mopping up of Japs in It seems that seme days eaplier some tank assistance. in -a enginedrs, the -117th -engineer across the little. Paco
worked after a fashion. was the 63rd bridge they had built or restored during their progress from Lingayen to and through Manila—and the were all right,
though it But- this
Sometimes they put in bridges under fire. One pontoon job across the Pasig was the target of a hun{dred Jap mortar shells and never got ‘a direet hit. This engineer battalion has some tough assignments. It must _ get out in front of the build bridges that will let the troops advance, ” » ” IT MUST clear out Jap mines--at Ft Stottsenburg it lifted 1350
acid which stimulates the growth of bacteria. This acid is not inhibited by avidin, | No doubt the layman finds these themical names | and their relationships complex and somewhat -con- | fusing but out of them may come important discoveries for the future of man's health,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
hration of the New Jersey Consumer Co-operative, Inc. They have. had a co- operative _ organizatibn- for 12 years in Madison, and evidently have a very successful consumer co-operative store, o I visited two small war plants, both of which’ are making vital war materiel] and working very well. They are already employing some returned veterans, and I was glad to have had a chance to congratulate the management and the workers. I had a chance alo to look ‘at their municipal building, which is the gift of “Mrs. Marcellus Hartley Dodge, and a very beautiful structure. After a buffet dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Gillette and some of their friends—including Mrs. Philip
friend of my aunt, Mrs. Douglas Robinson—we weit to the meeting in the school auditorium. Before a capacity audience, Judge Thurman Arnold gave an extremely interesting and illuminating address about the place of co-operatives in the economy of the future. At the end of the meeting I had a tow minutes te shake hands with some 30 people. Then I caught a train back to Néw York City, which gave me time to change and pack and take the midnight train back to Washington. I had three appointments Saturday morning, and did a recording for a broadcast, which will take place next week in connection with the united national clothing collection,
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“Sergeant, go requisition that fire.”
estuary,
others|
| together
infantry to]
lers from
(and,
A Tough Job, Building a ' Bridge Under Fire
of them, mostly contact fuses. must make a as when .they
When tht infantry watérborne assauit, went over the Pasig
[gress
Stability in Jobs
|
Annual Pay Base
By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, March -19.has sought, in at least
Contwo
| federal laws, to encourage employers
to. stabilize jobs and pay on
lannual basis.
{states to grant
The social security act pe
reduced
rmis unemploy- |
{ment compensation tax rates to em-|
{ ployers™
who maintain
guaranteed |
employment accounts that assure all
iment of
employees 30 hou each of 40 weeks in a vear The fair labor
rs of
wages for
standards act
(wage-hour law) exempts from pay-
time-and-a-half overtime, |
[up to 12 hours a day and 56 hours | a week, emplovers who sign union! [contracts guaranteeing . employment lon an annual basis—provided em- | ployees aren't required to work more than 2080 hours a year.
| ‘house at 424 N. | weeks ago,
aerial bombs with
| {
to stqrm the Walled oily. ere, en-}
gineers man the tiny These wooden craft are about 14
feet long. Twé engineers comprise carries |
the crew, ‘and each boat about 10 infantrymeén, equipped with paddles. for a quiet. approach. Once a beachhead is established, eight or 10 boats with two wide treads crossing them, at right gles—and then you have a for conveying ‘vehicles as well as personnel. An outboard
time, yu 2 EVENTUALLY a
ferry may be
make be linked | wooden | an- | ferry |
assault boats.
|
motor or |= two will replace paddle power this [~~
lengthened to form a footbridge, as|
was done across the Pasig. Over of Filipinos trudging with their belongings, or. being carried in stretchthe Walled City they had survived Jap treatment and our own treemndous shelling, And after such a position as the Walled City has been the infantry is pulled out for =a rest, and their TNT of clearing streets and blowing up
this bridge I saw
obstacles and possible Jap lairs.
The engineers take their share of casualties. I talked the other night
taken, and |
hundreds |
|
|
where |
{
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|
the engineers with their dozers | take aver the Job}
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with a couple of them who had just
come -out. of the Walled City with
| wounds from shell or grenade frag-
ments, but they were walking cases if a little high-strung from a | rough experience, still they seemed |
to be feeling .pretty
good about it.
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Squirrels Keep Worker Awake
“SQUIRRELY"” things are hap- | pening to War Worker William H. Burchett.
A gnawing in his attic has kept | Q | him from. sleeping, he told police |
today. Ever since he bought a Riley ave: a few squirrels have raced around between the walls.
An appeal to the conservation
department Saturday “brought - no |
results. Police told him to’ shoot the squirrels, but. Burchett reminded them it would be out of season. He nailed up ah attic hole he found. The situation: One squirrel corriered outside the holg, one ‘side’ trying 10. Jeach its mate, Mr, Burchett trying to get" his seep: He is employed at the LukasHarold Corp. naval .ordnance plant. i
Loot Taken Frém Two Truck Firms
TWO TRUCK companies were the losers today of four cases of whisky, -four large boxes of cigarets, $60 in cash and gasoline coupons worth 33000 gallons. Last night, the cash and coupons were taken from the Hancock Truck Lines, Inc, 924 E. Ohio st A truck operated by the La-fayette-Indianapolis Transit Co, 430 Kentucky ave, was pilfered at Frankfort, police here were informed. 'A lock was ked off sometime Saturday night and whisky and cigarets taken, company officials told authorities
knoc
* HANNAH ¢
Writes Parents From a Foxhole
Cpl. Wiliam F, Sosbey Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sosbey, R. R. 5, recently wrote his parents from. a foxhole in lwo Jima,
He. said ‘he had not shaved -or | washed for two weeks and that | { ‘the
soldiers were sleeping with their clothes on. ‘While he wrote the letter, he said big guns. from
their ships were firing over their ;
heads. The letter dated Feb. 26 & . A member of the 5th marine division, Cpl. Soshey is a veteran of the Saipan and Tinian cam_paigns. . He has been in the Pacific about a year and a half
and pens 13 months in Cuba,
was
-
nto
Labor Union Leaders “Back Lewis Royalty Plan
By FRED W. PERKINS WASHINGTON, March 19, — Most labor John L .4 union
leaders are backing Lewis in his demand for royalty "of 10 cents a production, for a
help establish a
ton on coal victory would principle of tremendous Importance in all industrial fields, and one already begin-
that has a ning The rovalty demand is one on ‘which the coal operators and United Mine Workers
Saturday to do
spokesmen started some high-pow-Two weeks rereach an agree-
ered negotia main in which t ment, and a strike threat is more han a gesture The operato
ty proposal ‘an. ent
alled the rovalirely new 1estoin that nationally and by public legis bodies. One said informally that the coal industry ‘getting tired of being used as a guines Ed n OTHER unions are interested in the Lewis proposal because if the plan were successfully established the same advantage would be sought in other industries. The ¢ +O. United Automobile Work ers, for example, a few dollars on every car, and the rubber workers’ union could think of a few cents on every tire. All such charges, Pe: would be added to the price of the ‘product
The Lewis proposal sets out that the royalty, which in a 600,-000-ton year would amount to 60,000, would be “available to the union for modern medical and surgical service, hospitalization, insurance, rehabilitation and economic protection.” ” ” » NO suggestion is made in the union , proposal that - the fund should bé jointly administered by employer and employee representatives, The operators undoubtedly would insist upon that plan of operation if they could be inducted to agree to the general idea, which is unlikely. The union royalty system in this . country has had its most striking example in the demand won by James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians (A. F. of L.) from manufacturers of phonograph records and electrical transcriptions. * This victory ‘was achieved* partly through negotiation and partly through pressure. The war labor board refrained from ruling whether or not the demand was a proper qQne.
social theory’-—a qt
should be decided only
lative
was
ES
— We, the Women Homemakers Need Special Training, Too
By RUTH MILLETT ALUMNAE OF Smith College ‘have been polled on the -ques- © tions ~“Shati Si¥ithy offers speerfic courses to prepare a girl for marriage, . such as °home-making, child training, etc.?” Only 49 per cent - of those : answering the q ue stionnaire said “Yes.” ‘he reasoning of the others probably was expressed in the words of one alimna who said flatly “Any intelli gent person shotild be able to duties in her stride.” Nobody would expect a young woman to hold down any other important job but home-making without some special training of previous experience. but It is & common assumption that any woman ought to be able to he a good home-maker if she just follows her feminine intuition and her common sense,
‘take wifely
That. is. probably why. both men nd women have such little funiamental respect for the job of a ‘hgme-maker and why women who fare devoting their lives to that job say apologetically when asked what they do: “Oh, I'm just a housewife.” ‘ : n = » / IT 18 probably also why so many women muddle through the job of home-making—the same women who, with some training, can capably fill jobs in business and industry or make a career for themselves in one of the professions. But “the Smith alumna who answered “Any intelligent person should be able to take wifely duties in her stride” at least didn't belittle homemaking to the extent “that most people do.
might demand ’
@
=
‘What the average person actu- .
ally thinks is: to be ablé to run a home.” Maybe housewives ought to be appreciative of that word “intelligent.”
PROTECTIVE GROUP TO MEET
Degree of Honor Protective asso-
| ciation will hold a’ meeting at 8 p. m,
| Thursday at the hall.
Mrs, Frieda
| Gepel and Mrs. Thelma Dear will
be hostesses and Mrs. Mary Hicks, prsidsst, will be ‘in’ charge.
¥
“Any nitwit ought