Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1945 — Page 9

RIL 2, 1945

IN THE - WESTERN PACIFIC (Delayed).—The main thing I never understood about how an aircraft carrier operates is what they did with all the rest of the planes 'while one was landing or taking off. I had thought the flight deck had te ‘be entirely clear of planes. I thought that’ as soon as one -took off, they brought the next one up from the lower deck by elevator and sent it off. . It isn't that way at all.: There are always idlé*planes standing on deck during landings and takeoffs, There have to be, for the hangar deck .down below isn't big enough to thold all the planes. But these idle planes are never along the side of the deck. They are at one end or the other. Here's how ‘it's done: Planes always take off and always.land from stern to bow of the ship—or from rear to forward as you simple landlubbers would say. For the takeoff, al] the planes are parked tightly together at the rear ot the deck. All have folding wings, which has been one of the great contributions to this war, Without them a carrier could hardly carry enough planes to justity itself, These parked planes take up maybe one-eighth of the flight deck—the rear one-eighth. When they get ready to launch planes, all the engines are started and warmed up while the planes are still parked tightly together, The noise is terrific. Angry propellers whirl within inches of the tail of the next ship. “Plane-pushers” by the dozen crawl around, under and among these

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flying propellers adjusting chocks and untying the lines that hold the planes down.

Take-Offs Minute Apart WHEN THEY are ready, the center plane in the front roy is taxied out a few feet. His folded wings

are unfolded. The pilot tests his controls, puts down

his flaps. A ‘signalman standing ahead and to the right of him indicates by motions when he is to start. He holds on his brakes, speeds up his engine until the noise is ear-splitting. Then the signalman leans over and dramatically swings his arm forward, as though personally to give the plane impetus. The plane starts rolling. ‘The deck behind him is packed with planes. But the seven-eighths of deck in front is clear. Not a plane or man on it. No sooner has one plane gone than the next one

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

OPA RED TAPE is keeping a small restaurant operator here from serving chicken dinners, even though he's willing to serve chicken, two vegetables, coffee, bread and butter for only 30 cents. The situa-

tion, in brief, is this: The operator of the restaurant failed to file his schedule of prices by the deadline. Therefore, when he learned he had to:file, he had to comply with an OPA regulation under which he took the ceiling price of a ‘nearest’ competitor. That was all right until he decided to serve chicken. He found his nearest competitor had not filed a schedule for chicken dinners. Therefore, under OPA regulations, there's no way to permit this operator to serve chicken. - He can’t even choose another “nearwho does have a ceiling price ‘for the man probably would go broke,

est competitor” chicken. "Oh, well; anyway, serving chicken dinners for only 30 cents. . Sgt. Bob Schalk, home on furlough after serving on.-the Western front, received letters from his par-

ents which had traveled (the letters, of course) dd 000. miles, The. letters. found him at the very tall

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Faster wéek mall were two Onristmas cards. Bo had gone from Colorado to New York, to England, to France, to Germany, back to England, New York, | Texas, dnd finally to Indianapolis. 'Pesistent, these army mailmen! . . . School children, or at least most of them, will be mighty glad to see this weekend. The reason: - Spring vacation starts at the close of school Friday. Classes will resume a week later, Monday, April 16. There's only one more school holiday, Memoridl day—Wednesday, May 30— before the Close of school for the summer, Tyiay, “Jime 15 a ome .

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World of Science

THERE IS -a psychological reason why the ‘‘perfect erime” is never committed, according te Dr. David Abrahamsen, famous Norwegian scientist who is now a research associate in the department” of psychiatry of Columbia university. An unconscious wish for punishment leads criminals to betray themselves through tell-tale evidence, the famous authority on psychiatric criminology, declares, “The-ecriminal--has-an.-uncon-scious wish for punishment arising from unresolved, strong, unconscious feelings of guilt,” he

explains. “Such wishes for punishment are expressed in all the faulty acts which the culprit performs after the actual crime.

sons why the criminal seeks to revisit the place where he committed the crime. Apparently a subconscious need for detection is present.

Involuntary Clues “A SKILLFUL perpetrator may be caught through 8 trivial piece of evidence because he involuntarily left this trace at the scene of the crime so that he might be apprehended.” Dr. Abrahamsen’s view while novel is based on sound deductions from generally acepted psychological theories and ought to be added reason for second thought on the part of any misguided individual who thinks that he could commit a “perfect crime.”

Pointing out that the United States as a whole.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—I had some very pleasant guests at lunch yesterday. One of them, just hack from Europe and stationed here for a short time, was able to tell me news ef our son in that area. In addition, one of my cousins has brought his. little boy to spend Easter. I know nothing nice that the undisguised enthusiasm of a little child. He walked out in the White House grounds Saturday morning, looked all about .and said to his father: “Isn't this a beautiful place?” The rest of us may think it, but we so rarely say it. As I walked along ‘the street Saturday morning, I saw something which amused me greatly. A sailor and his wife, or perhaps it’ may have been his girl, were walking down the street. ‘She handed him her bag, . the better to play with a very lovely new fur jacket. as, 5q evidently showing it off. In spite of the fact that I knew she must be very warm, I could not

# help feeling pleased for her that she,had on some- * There are 250 ‘member clubs, which provide places

_which gave her so much pleasure, Tt is’ wonRn e. Joung when ; “things” ‘can give you

een inted minister of Syria, Dr. Nazem on me in the afternoon. A Little hier I had

Hoosier. Vagabond

WALTER FRISBIE of the C. I. O. sends in the

" ence should have taught the human race that locking up lawbreakers is futile as a means of preventing

“This wish is one of the rea-.

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is ready, has his, wings unfolded and - running up his engine. They take off one right after the other, less than a minute a part, until the whole eight is in the air. ” The moment the last plane of the flight is off a klaxon signals the fact, and the great flight deck instantly becomes a swarm of men. Usually there are several planes left on deck which weren't scheduled to go. All these are immediately] towed to the forward end of the deck and reparked there. For, when the planes come back to land, they must. use that rear end of the deck. While they are landing the whole front end of the deck is full of } parked planes. A barrier of steel cables, stretched head-high across the deck, stops any wild-landing plane from crashing into the bunch of tightly parked ships ahead,

Like Electric Carnival Cars AS SOON as a plane lands the barrier is dropped, the plane taxies over it and the barrier is raised again for the next guy coming in. The plane that has just landed is parked among the other inert ones up front, and the pilot shuts off his engine. When the last plane is down, the klaxon squawks. All the men rush out, and all the planes are towed

back to the rear of the deck ready for the next|,

takeoff. Almost never, during actual] landing of the planes, is the elevator let down.

up fresh ones. This moving of planes from one end of the flight deck to the other is called “re-spotting.” It goes on all day long—back and forth, back and forth. The. planes are pulled by tiny Fordson tractors. As they runaround they look like those little electric cars you bump each other with at carnivals. At night, probably” two-thirds of the planes are ‘spotted” on deck. They ‘are parked tightly together and tie#le down to gratings in the flight deck by heavy rope. If we're sailing into a storm, they're tied additionally with steel cable. All night long men are posted among them to see that notigng breaks or goes Wrong. Despite all this, there have been times when the| ocean was so rough and the d&ck careening at such a steep’ angle, that planes would break all their moorings and go screeching over the side. That would be when I was down in my cabin, very seasick.

cigarets were Pinehursts)™ On ‘the wrapper was printed: “Ging-scng extract used exclusively by this company as.a hygroscopic agent MAY (my capitalization) also provide a mollifying feature which MAY re:ieve dry throat, cigaret cough and other irritations due to smoking and MAY be far more pleasant and safe for those with ordinary colds or other respiratory difficulties such as hay fever, asthma, etc. Also nicotine in the smoke MAY be less fthan In. many of the other popular brands as indicated by scientific test.” It was signed by R. L. Swain, president. Comments Mr. Frisbie: “Mr. Swain certainly doesn't | believe in ‘accentuating .the positive’.” , , , A lawyer reports finidng on the sidewalk of Washington st. east of Pennsylvania a Landon-Knox sunflower campaign button. It seemed brand new. “Guess Rip Van Winkle must have come to town,” comments the finder, . . Tom Heffernan, 340 S. LaSalle, walked in to Baker's | restaurant, on 30th st. the other day and sat down at a table. He was out of breath. “These cigarets are getting me,” he told his table companions. “I've been smoking ‘em for 25 years.” An express deliveryman seated at the table asked why he didn't quit smoking. “Oh;A explained Tom, “it isn't the smoking that gets my breath; it's the running around after them.”

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REMEMEER.- THE old gag t6 the effect “that “Yoii can fake the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out’'of the boy?” Well, the same thing applies to basketball. Wherever our Hoosier boys go, there also goes a basketball fever. Cpl. Arthur R. Clark writes Old Inside a note confirming this,” He's in the old 11th regiment, which used to be at Pt. Harrison. And the regiment's basketball team has just won the chantbionship down there. The players included such Hoosiers as Cpl. Clarke, of course; Sgt, Fred Krampe, Shortridge and Pur-]

_ due; Jim Rosenthal, of Zionsville; Hiese, of La Porte; 3 Dresser of Bedford, Martin of Rearille; and several] J

others. He winds up his letter with a nostalgic note: “I am company clerk and ‘have been here a year. I think the best thing that could happen to me is to be back in Indianapolis again. I know that is how all, the fellows training down here feel.”

By David Dietz

averages about one murder every hour, Dr. Abra-| hamsen says that an unconscious motive is always] the driving 1orce and that the culprit usually does. not have the slightest idea of what this motive really is. 4 He gets forth his views on the psychiatric basis of crime in 8 book. just published by the Columbia University Press titled “Crime and thé Human Mind.”

Basic Human Tendencies

THE ROOTS of crime, he believes, extend into basic human tendencies present in all men, and crime may be considered a product of a person's teridencies and the situation of the moment interacting with his mental resistance. Dr. Abrahamsen believes that centuries of experi-

crime, He holds Hkewise that the theory of retaliatioh has failed as a basis for punishment and that the fear of punishment has proved insufficient to prevent criminal acts. He believes that the law must take into account the personality of the ‘offender-as well as the nature of the crime and that what is needed are methods for curing and rehabilitating the anti-social individual. He urges the establishment of clinics where mal-! adjusted persons in conflict with society and with themselves would be examined and treated. He admits, however, the need for more research | in this field, saying, “As yet, we do not know any- | thing about the delicate mental processes that take! plate when the criminal impulse is transformed into action.”

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Carter Collins, Pt. Ben- | ning, Ga. Miss Katherine Lenroot of the Children’s bureau has been telling me about her for some time. She has done a great deal of work with army wives there. At 5 o'clock Miss Gertrude Warren, of the department of agriculture, brought Sgt. Lester Schlup to tell me of Edison college in Florida. This is Easter Sunday. Miss Thompson and I as usual went to the early service at the unknown soldier's tomb, conducted by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar. At 11 o'clock, with some of my other guests, I went to the services at St. Thomas church: : A few friends came to lunch. My two nieces from

school and college .are here for their short Easter |’

vacation. . So we have quite a family party, to which my old friend, Mrs. Charles Fayerweather, New Lebanon, N. Y,, is added. I have just received word that April 2 through 7 will: be observed by_a quarter of a million boys throughout the country as National Boys week. This yout will mark the 39th anniversary of the founding of Boys' Clubs of America, a philanthropic organization headed by the Hon. Herbert Hoover,

for wholesome recreation under constructive leaderht Si th r: This your tie’ voys

this ‘outfit of army amphibious engiheers that I've beeh writing about is a slight, soft-voiced, easy-smiling + | west Pointer.

school teacher or a country editor

combat veterans.

2d engineer special brigade is Brig.

It is used only between 1 flights to take planes down to the “garage” or bring

contains no Milquetoast personality.

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SECOND SECTION

MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1945

THE- STORY. OF THE VU. S. ARMY ENGINEERS ... (Last of a Series)

We Never Turn Back From a Mission’

By LEE’ G. MILLER Frames

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer LEYTE, P. I.—The head man of

He looks ang talks more like a

than the head of a big and tough and Infinitely versatile brigade of

.The commanding officer of the

Gen, William F. Heavey. He has been its boss since its inception back on Cape Cod in August, 1942, He nursed it through months of inadequate equipment and sometimes. luke-, warm interest in higher echelons and Be weaned it

Mr. Miller

on a‘diet of blood and sweat. Gen. Heavey's 5-foot 6's exterior

Men who have served under him say he can be magnificently stubrn. And thousands of his men prob-

Here's How the Americans Transformed Tacloban Beach, Leyte.

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{ably don’t even suspect how much {them underwent the many sleep-i{Maj. Leonard A. Leclair from Ban-|He was born in Atlanta in 1896, but lof a fight he had to put up—before| {less .nights béfore our air power | gor, Me, always give the new men got his high schoolyeducation at| the brigade was proved in action | knocked out the Jap bombers and{a little talking-to. They tell them something of the| West Point from Wyong:

on the beaches—to prevent its be- |strafers for keeps.

ing broken up or subordinated or left to wither of malnutrition. But | Gen. MacArthur believed in him and in the unit. ” ” ”

THE BRIGADE numbers 7000 or 30 in & night.

A fragment from our {wounded him slightly in the arm, in a foxhole one night, but that was | {have landed 2,000,000 troops without | lis in Baltimore just now, nothing compared to the insomnia | | drowning a man. [imposed by those alerts—as many as | {that the brigade, has never turned open ‘an apartment in downtown |

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8000 officers and men—shore bat- | talions,- boat battalions, shop battalions, medics, signalmen, rocket- |

ducks and buffaloes, scouts skilled at probing hostile beaches before! an assault, chaplains and cooks and! shipfitters, hard-handed machinists, and the Lord knows what all.| It is a big family and the general {keeps his fingers on the whole of it. Gen. Heavey came onto the Leyte beaches last Oct. 20 along with his|as much as many

his purple heart,

THE GENERAL was wounded! {once before, a long time ago—at| Chateau Thierry, in 1918. So he is| firers, ack-ack gunners, drivers of entitled to an oak leaf cluster on| which is appro-| priate for the leader of a ‘brigade that counts nearly 600 purple hearts | among its personnel. The general says he has been told him later that those words of | fortunate in having a fairly low his came to their minds in the thick [is an Annapolis graduate, now a| turnover in the brigade. Of course!of the fight and helped them keep | lieutenant in command of a de[there have been deaths and other |on through the toughest going. casualties, but he hasn't been raided | 2 = =»

outfits,

men—as he had done at Arawe,| ¥ # 8

Lae, Biak, Humboldt Bay and half |

| | | history of the brigade. They tell | {them - that the boats of the unit)

They tell them

| back from a mission, no matter how | {heavy the seas or the hostile gun-| fire. “We're glad to have you,” general will say. member, always, that this brigade never turns back from a job until | it has been accomplished.” Some of Heavey's coxswains in| {that rugged operation at Wakde |

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“But you.must re- |

| THE GENERAL'S father was the |late / Brig. Gen. John W. Heavey, |

WHEN replacements are required ! so when you ask him where he is | {vate in an air force ground crew 'a dozen other places—and with'the general and his chief chaplain,’ froni he is hard put for an answer. lin England.

| West Point in 1917 and after the

server escort and has seen service

[Cheyenne ahd was nominated to!

And today he considers Washihg- | ton, D. C;; his honie. Mrs. Heavey | but is

| returning’ to Washington soon to)

| 18th st. - Gen. Heavey was graduated from |

war the army sent him to the Massachusetts Institute ‘of Technology where he graduated in 1922 He has served in the Canal Zone land in Puerto Rico, but this is his| first experience in the Philippines. | 8 ” ” HE HAS two sons. William F. Jr.

{in the Mediterranean, around Iceland and on the run to Archangel. The other son, John M,, is a pri-

WASHINGTON, April 2.—The|

pe emeLgency. WAL. ARENGILS ate dig tration, ging 1m for ‘Pervatine:

armies, rationed goods and controlled prices, fought inflation, en-

grabbed up strategic materials over- runaway inflation. seas.

‘a superior job; |service after the

good. : Nearly all seem ~ to like their work. |

THE OFFICE of price adminis. which has fouched u. 5. mission is ready to elbow selective tion which must be continued in

“For ‘tour; CIVETIATTS renee Sa ae Hs a i years they've helped raise and equip? wartime agencies, apparently “has | sower people, the a must be Iw notion of staying in business. {found jobs through the U. S. empermanently—but it's not going to|ployment service, which is under couraged bigger crops, propagan- | fold up the day the war ends, either. |the manpower commission. And dized the U. S. cause abroad, sent|Its economists say continued con- | they’ re readying a sizeable budget billions in supplies to our allies,|trols may be necessary to check increase to provide for just that.

Selective service ran the" draft. Some have done | But if there's a universal military will | probably ~some; by generat] have to. be_an_agency to run it.| Maverick, its director. agreement, ret Even if there's not, draft officials : |say the law plainly gives. selective tion has been the vigorous advocate | | service a responsibility -to see to itlof rights for small business in the for a that war yigtans get jobs.

war; there

< EMERGENCY FEDERAL PAY ROLL DIGS IN... By Charles T. Lucey

Big Wartime Agencies Seek Perpetual Life

BUT THE war manpower .com-|

FARRIS tg Sa ry EELTIRMHMIGE. BA. Wn ab we bs | proposition, obviously, “Mai

The man or the congress seeking {to wipe out tie smaller war plants | corporation at the end of the :war will have to fight. Maury

The smaller war plants corpora-|

| big war production job and its sup-

porters believe it has a: vital ‘func-

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istration, which includes lend-lease, was set up for war, but top officials say its functions must be saved in peace-time if the U. S. is not to be caught off base again. The office of war information will fold after the war, according to Director Elmer Davis, but some

of its functions will go under the

state department tent. There probably will be chores for the war food administration at least a time afver thie war, its people say.

Uncle’ Sam pays | regularly, It's an # ancient belief here that few agencies ever id up completely. When bureaus oo

Times Foreign

Mr. Lucey

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

Correspondent

GERMANY, April 2.—~Nonfrater-| their functions slide in somewhere "ization threatens increasingly to |

else—and the pay roll gets bigger become the biggest problem of the

by the year. There seems a general allied forces occupying Germany.

willingness to accept the tradition | now,

® = 8 {one can already OFFICIALS of some new bureaus see how difficult

believe their functions should be it will be to pre- PF

contihued for a while, at least, may- vent normally be six monthssor two or thirée years amiable Ameri after the war. [cans, In particu= Heads of others say their func- [laf from making tions should -be continued perma- friends with Gernently and they argue earnest, elo- | MAan civilians. quent cases. Many -of their reasons | have validity. {showed ant agoBut it all adds up to a surety that nism or hostility, the federal government will not|the shrink back to anything like pre-| would “not be war size. It means increasingly more | [nearly 50 great. government for Americans. For

example: ingratiating natu

If the civilians’

In German towns and villages already occupied for several months,

problem

H. Kirkpatrick But' ‘they don't. German attitudes range from the

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‘Occupation’ Difficult for Friendly Yorks

children, through the obsequious- | ness of young people who grew up under the Nazi regime, to the sim{ple friendliness. of older people. | Only among the teen-agers and a | few old confirmed Nazi believers, does one -find aloofness and resentment, ” ” ” THE GERMANS all seem to hope that they will be under American military government. They fear most the Russians, and they vaguethat. Hitler often spoke of what the Iluftwaffe, and then the V weapons, were doing to British cities. But the Americans, they feel certain, will be nice and gentle. “And, darn it, they're right,” said one military government official, For us, the role of occupation is difficult. It puts an almost inhuman strain on the sociable Americans who—unlike the British, French and other Europeans—have not seen their own homes destroyed or their wives and children | killa, maimed or tortured by the | | Germans. | ” ” ” ONE MILITARY government de- ! tachment—now in occupation for some months—already show signs of strain. Its members all live together in one house. They make | their own social life as best they| can. They welcome visitors as men on a desert island would welcome | the sight of a ship. They work daily, side “by side, with the Germans and find it in-| creasingly difficult not to like some | of them. A' few military govern- | ment officials trying to run a com- | petent town administration, even | begin to show signs of resentment if food, equipment or other materials are removed to feed or clothe Belgians, French or displaced perpsons.

WILLKIE MEMORIAL: BUILDING PLANNED

NEW YORK, April 2 (U. P).— The Willkie Memorial building will be formally taken over April 24 as a “one-world salute” to the San Francisco world security conference which opens the next day» George Field, ‘executive’ director of the Willkie Memorial fund of freedom house, said the fund had taken up an option on a building. Field said remodeling would be-

building would be dedicated next

“WE KNOW these people undoubtedly cheered every German | victory,” explained our military government man. “We know that half of this stuff hefe was looted | from Belgium, France and Holland. But it is awfully hard to remember that; when you are trying to get schools started, or homes repaired, and food supplies distributed. “Of course, if it is hard to remember. today, only a few weeks after we have taken a town, what is

it. going to be like after months and!"

even years?” Those are the things that thoughtful military government officials are pondering. ” ” »

“EFFECTIVE Military govern-

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ment by people with such short:

memories as ours really would re-| quire that we be flown in each morning and flown out each night,” | said gone official. All agree that the technique of

{occupation is the greatest problem |

[facing us in Europe's reconstruc- |

[tion and affecting the world's

search for security,

|SoPiniEnL 1945, by The Indianapolis Ti mes | and The Chicago Di Daily News, Inc

* HANNAH ¢ zd

Oct. 8, the first anniversary of the ldeath of Wendell L. Willkle,

Lewis Sticks To His Demand For Back Pay

By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, April 2. = A familiar spectable is on view to-day-—the coal operators over a barrel, with John L. Lewis apply~ ing the “back pay” paddle to them. That is the result of a week -end of maneuvering in the . biennial row over how much the United Mine Worker leader is. going to get for his halfmillion clients, The public, including -our armed forces, will be most ‘interested in the fact that no coal strike looms .in April. There might be one in in May or later, but it looks as if we will get by the present crucial period of the war without & further crippling of fuel stocks. This year is. different from 1043, when Mr. Lewis permitted four wartime coal strikes to occur, with damaging results still seen in the coal reserve. = = ” THIS YEAR Mr. Lewis, in. a telegram sent to all miner locals which last Wednesday voted 8 to 1. for a strike authorization, tells them of “the imperative necessity -of continuing coal produc tion.” Before he sent this telegram Mr. Lewis made sure he was all right with the government and that he had the operators over the back-pay barrel. The operators accepted without conditions the war labor board's order for an indefinite extension of the old wage-hour contract, but they refused to sign a guarantee of retroactive or back pay. = ” » MR. LEWIS met this by ine forming the war labor board, in a special meeting Easter morning, that he would agree to a 30-day extension, which » pushes any drastic development up to May 1, On that date hangs the possibility of -a coal strike. The Lewis 30-day extension wasn't what the WLB ordered, : but it was accepted. A beard spokesman said the main jdea is to see that coal production isn't stopped. The back-pay paddle means that every day is con-

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¥ hirer 8 hrs: Co ay operators figure the Nanri ; $15,000,000. a month, but there is much question about this estimate, - It might be considerably Jess’ it Mr. Lewis is willing to settle for a part of his original demands. gs = = : - WHATEVER:¢ h e settlement, “the coal operators will have to

fork up some Jewis. says followers “got gypped” te se when the amount was, d at $40 per man, Rn

There were reports that some _ operators might break up the wage conference through demanding a statement to the WLB that no agreement is possible,

We, the Women Questionnaire Reuhionls Satisfactory

By RUTH MILLETT * ~ THE - CLASS - of 335, Vassar, postponed what would have been it's 10th reunion and substituted for the clan's gathering a ques< tionnaire sent to all members with such to-the-point queries as “Weight?” “Color of hair?® “Wrinkles?” That's a patriotic solution in these times when the girls shouldn't be encouraged to take train trips, buy a lot of new clothes to impress each other, and shoot the works at beauty salons getting themselves in shape for a sharp inspection by their old classmates.

» » nn AND IT ought to be just as satisfactory as a real reunion, For the reason women really go to them is to look each other over, and then go home feeling _ satisfied because they haven'tlet themselves * go “like Ethel": or “become dull - like Mabel,” or “crisply efficient like Doris,” who

' has a high-powered career,

Théy can do just as much com. paring by sitting down and studying the answers to the question. naire. Of course, they'll discount some of the answers with “If Susie ‘doesn’t - have a single gray hair, Tl] ‘bet’ she is having it ‘touched up.” Or, “Liz puts on a good “front, but I'l "bet she isn't as happy as she lets on—~married to that Jim Smith, who always had

a roving eye.” But then they would do that if they saw ‘each ~ other in pessan, to "9

‘OF COURSE, it should have compulsory for i