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(In addition ‘to the Ernie Pyle colunin which appears here today, we will print several others which | we have just received from Okinawa. We helieve Ernie would have wanted us to. He would have wanted
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his stories to go through, despite his tragic death.)
OKINAWA (By Navy Radio).—One morning "after
breakfast about a dozen of us were sitting on the mat-covered floor of a little Okinawan house talking things over while sipping our coffee. Our 1st division marine company had just moved
in the night before and several dags’' accumulation of -grime covered . everybody. Suddenly Lt. “Bones” Carstens stood up and said: “I cleaned my fingernails this morning and it sure does feel good.” :
And then my friend Bird Dog deeply over the handle bars, hit a rut, lost hisbalance The Okinawan, with Oriental inscrutability, returned the bow and never looked back. |
Clayton held his own begrimed hands. out in front of him, looked at them a long time and said: “If I was to go to dinner in Dallas and lay them things up on
a white tablecloth I wonder what would happen?” A good many of the Okinawan civilians, while wandering along the roadside, American they meet. native courtesy I do not know, but anyhow they do it. And the Americans being Americans usually bow right back.
bow low to every Whether this is from fear or
One of the marines I know got mixed up in one of these little bowing incidents: the other day. He is Pfc. Roy Sellers, a machine gunner from Amelia, O,
Bow ond Then a Spill
«% ROY IS MARRIED and has a little girl two years
‘old. “He used_{o be.a_ machinist at the Cincinfiaty Milling Maching Co. He played semifio Gaff; t
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anese bicycle along the bank of a little river where
we camped. The ground was rou
gh and the bicycle
had only one pedal and Roy was having a struggle to
keep his bike upright. Just then an old Okinawan
, bareheaded and
dressed in a black kimono and carrying a dirty sack,
walked through our little camp.
He wasn't sup-
posed to be at large but it was none of our business
and we didn’t molest him.
He was bowing to everybody, right and left, as he; 1 passed. Then he met Machine Gunner Sellers on his | Roy was already having his
yg one-pedaled bicycle troubles.
As he came abreast of the Okinawan, Roy bowed | Roberts, managing editor of
and over he went
Mawldin’s Cartoon
WE ALL LAUGHED our heads off. “Who's bow- that the seat of power shifts from ing to whom around here?” we asked. Roy denied |the Hudson river to the Missouri he had bowed first. But we knew better. After that IiVer . he decided to give his old bicycle away to somebody | Roosevelt, the cabinet and most of
less polite than himself.
As our company was moving forward one day and
I looked down the line of closely
packed marines I
thought for a moment I was back in Italy. There for sure was Bill Mauldin’s cartoon character of G. I. Joe—the solemn, bearded, dirty, drooping weary old man of the infantry,
This character was Pfc. Urban
Vachon of French-
Canadian extraction, who comes from Laconia, N. H.
He has a brother, Willjam, fightin
in a stage play. He is only 27, but looks much older. the States. Maybe you've seen it. In fact he goes by the nickname “Old Man.” z Well one day Old Man was trying to ride a Japs
st. side of the utility offices, arid the woman driver
seemed to be waving at someone in his general direction. Looking around, he saw no one else was near, so decided she was signaling him. Imbued with the utility's “coyrtesy to customers” theme, Dan went out in the rain .to the car. The driver handed him a gas bill and some money, and asked him to pay it. Obediently, Dan went inside, got in line and paid the money. Then he took the receipt out and gave it to the customer. That's deluxe service, . .
The weather has been a little discouraging to those who like summer. But one encouraging sign is the appearance of the dainty man. One of them was spotted the other day on the south side, tinkling his stone marker at the southwest corner of University
bell and exciting all the neighborhood kids and dogs. . « + Bernard Harmon of The Times’ advertising staff became one of the season's first playground casualties. Bernie took his daughter, Judy, over to Christian park to play and, being of a curious turn of mind,
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decided to try out some of the equipment. He started with the slide. He fell off, bruising himself painfully. I didn’t hear whether the youngsters snickered=
Fags vs. Fishing : JIM TRAINER, 1455 N. Pennsylvania; read a recent item about the man who said cigarets were getting him down—that he was “all out of breath chasing around trying to find them.” Writes Mr. Trainer: “The thought occurs to me that if this gentleman has a good steel casting rod which he probably can’t use now due to having ruined his good health chasing
around for cigarets, he might consider exchanging the rod for 30 packages of cigarets. Personally, I'm Just about all in chasing ar6uN® ying 4s Snd # good he says. Never mind: I'll take your word for it. |
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sold to the line eight years ago,~today punctuated opinion¥ of airline representatives that conversion of | army surplus planes is “an uneconomical operation
that wastes manpower and. is exuremely expensive.” The company will have to carry on its books this eight-year-old equipment at about one and a half times the original cost. Another airline was charged $80,000 for the overhauling of one plane and a third company has converted three ships of the C-33 (DC-3) type, each of them cost ing more than $50,000 in overhead. Lowest figures given for con-
versions were $25,000 and $30,000, which one airline spent in converting two of its own ships. interdepartmental surplus aircraft disposal have expressed unanimous opinion that the conversion of army surplus planes presents a very serious problem. :
Manpower Most Important
INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES consider manpower the most important single factor in the conversion problem. Better mechanics are required to
My Day
HYDE PARK, Monday.—We came back to Hyde Park yesterday morning, just one week from the time we all gatheéred her for the committal service in our hedge-surrounded. garden. My. sons and -I went to look at the grave.
working committee on
If+two soldiers’ had not been on guard, and the beautiful orchids flown up from the South had not covered the spot where the sod had been put back so carefully, we would hardly have known that the lawn was not as it had always been. Before very long, the simple stone which my husband described very carefully for us will be in placé. ‘But in the meantime the
children and the dogs will be quite . while, it is physically impossible to do more -than thank you here for your kindness and your real
unconscious that here & short time ago a solemn military funeral was here
And that 18 as my husband would have it. He liked children and dogs and sunshine and flowers,
‘and they are-all arcund him now. :
We drove over the boundaries of the place vester
memorandums meant wh JOLE Su fog ut.
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can prove {o any dissenters that soldiers do too look | # 1 =»
like Mauldin makes thém look.
steel casting rod.” His number, e .. Two Chinese, one a youth
walked into a self-styled Chinese restaurant here | Sunday and threw the place into confusion by asking |
“dief “that -F-asked the regimental HARE a SIR OL Re edt has- beer sent back to
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If you have, you
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
DAN P. O'BRIEN, an accountant for the gas company, spent part of his lunch hour yesterday standing in the utility's lobby, looking out at the drizzling rain. A car pulled up to the curb on the Maryland
venings: TA. 8205. in army uniform,
for some real Chinese dishes. They weren't interested in chop suey or chow mein, both reputedly introduced
to the Chinese by-enterprising Ame
parleying and discussion of recipes, the American | proprietor” retired to the kitchen and, in due time, !
returned with a concoction of rice, not.
The Chinese seemed satisfied.
ricans. After much
chicken and what- + « + Note to the
disillusioned young ian in Lafayette, mentioned in ‘yesterday's column: The name of the “club” you asked about is the “Brush-off Club.” Maxwell Droke was the first with the answer. He says you can get details about joining.by writing to Yank magazine, 205 E. 42d st., New York City. Another reader reports
that Liberty magazine carried a st its March 17 issue.
Site of Seminary
ory on the club in
NOTE TO THE reader who inquired about the
park. The stone marks the site
of the old county
seminary, which flourished in pre-Civil war days. The
seminary was abandoned some time before the war
and the building was razed to provide a drill ground for Civil war troops. Later the drill ground became a park and was cared for by private groups until the park department was created in 1895. , . . Brig. Gen.
Elmer W. (Doc) Sherwood, the Ind
iana adjutant gen- |
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SECOND SECTION THE TRUE TRUMAN . . . (Second of a Series
Midwest Replaces
By IRA McCARTY Of the Kansas City Star | {Written for The Indianapolis Times)
WO days after Harry S. Truman took over the reins of government, Roy A. {the Kansas City Star and long la Washington correspondent, wrote of the change: “Primarily, the biggest thing is
Through the years of
(the controlling department ‘heads
|gradually become New Yorkers or | closely allied to New York and the
East. ... . “That late President probably didn't recognize, himself, how
narrow the circle had become in recent years, with the stress and worry of global war... But slowly
BT ave entorrearty- all a TE TRL a Sod [those ‘in seals’ of Power were eastlern in viewpoint, at least.”
of his programs. . | WASHINGTON got a foretaste of THEN {the change when Truman's friends " {of the middle west arrived in the Wasn't drawn,” Mrs, Wallace chimed {nation’s capital for the inaugura-|in. “Well, there seemed to be tion. : little prospect of unthawing it com- | At cocktail parties and receptions the Hudson and Missouri rivers) ; met. Henry A. Bundschu, federal/@nd Bess (Mrs. [referee in bankruptcy at Kansas|/know what to - do.
they .iscovered
Truman)
ast. [rescue. ‘Why I'll get the insides] A Republican, Bundschu had out’ he said, T've seen mamma do {gone to Washington with the group|it many times.’ : | {because he was a personal friend of| “And sure enough he and my hus- | | Truman, . {band spent’ the rest of the apeer- | ‘noon pouring boiling water on the
| » rn “IN FACT, when the Bundschu turkey and cleaning it. We had a | family settled in Independence, Mo, [Te Sie was just-a few week] in 1849, they found the Truman pefore Truman was to be sworn in| family already there. Casting him- as vice president of the United | self in the role of an important States. | observer, Bundschu reported: #2" “Those friends of Truman's were .' ENLARGING on his discussion of | a class and type, intelligent, well- the change that may come soon dressed and substantial, the sort in Washington, Bundschu said: | that couldn’t be pushed around, per-| “I think that the nation is in| sons who could take care of them-igood, strong hands and that the selves. [stability and common sense of the | They, were a little different, a lit-| Middle West, from the heart of] tle more independent, than the nor- America, had ‘suddenly gotten in| mal crowd that comes to Washing-| control of the nation.
I hope the!
co REURRIC BRL his best In intimate contére and Sena
that {t!
|pletely. I didn't know what to do didn’t | We were all City, was impressed by the con- Stumped until Harry came to the that he meant just that. The road |the late Jim Reed, a master of the |
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945
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intimate conféretices. kerdike meets with Senator Fer! Zdioti én} tor Joseph H. Ball. As President, Truman is expected.to rely strongly-on congress: for support...
“JUST before the election Truman! THE NEW President should not
again stated that the roads would Pe eXpected to startle the world i .. | with oratory. It never was his| be built under the direction of dis- forte dnd any attempt he might | interested engineers and the con- {have made at it as a senator would | tracts would be awarded to the have been vastly overshadowed lowest bidder. among his constituents by the
“Time again was to demonstrate|memory of the man he succeeded,
program was not influenced in the old school. * slightest degree by political con-| - On the political front lines since | siderations. { 1922, Truman never was what the| “Harry is a good man to work | boys called “a hot campaigner.” His | with and is tactful and aggressive.| Speeches were always well worked
All we had to do was build good Out, meaty. E
roads. The result of all this was| Harnessed to that oratory-killer,| that we built not only every mile | the microphone, he has developed contracted for but an additional 30|0nly one gesture, a single, choppy, miles and then returned to the [forearm stroke, for emphasis. county $200,000 of the money the| He has the rather harsh enunciapeople bad, voted.” : {tion that is typical of the Middle NE | West. Therefore, he turns to, rea-
‘ ok : son, rather than a flow of words SINCE beginning his public ca- to Impress an audience. His
reer about 25 years ago, Truman speeches usually are brief. has had no other source of income | box =» : than his salary as a public official; BOTH AS a county court judge It has been tough sledding. (and a sénator, Truman did his best As a senator the demands upon| Work quietly, in conference with a him became so great that he turned | small group, or by circulating over a large share of the office work | among the voters with a handshake
ton, | » 2 » |
TRUMAN, his wife and their|
daughter, are part and parcel of |
rest of the United States learns to! ¥o his wife and put her on the pay-
: { roll at $4500. appreciate what that means.” i Back in 1928, when Harry Tru-| He made no attempt to cover fit
i up, man was presiding judge of the D
explaining calmly that Mrs.|find it.
and a personal word. If there is any easier way to get a thing done, Truman will
He never has resorted to vicious-
TaskSOR. Don oa he | rruman not only did office work, | {that crowd. They run their homes Ni county cour!, the admin.
{istration body of the count v= | { without servants, not necessarily be- | ernment, he decided to in oo
{cause they can't afford it, but be- county out of the mud.” He be-| {cause they prefer the extra free-|{gan by telephoning two civil en-|
it offers. People “do” for them-|8ineers at 11 o'clock in the morning
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eral, treasures a series of photographs which were selves, {to arrange a meeting in their office |
snapped at a social gathering on one of his visits to| Washington. The pictures are of Doc and President in Independence and as has long | Truman—then the vice president... , Overheard at| been the custom, the various family | Illinois and Washington—two women conversing: “Oh | groups got together.
there goes John!” “Why, he has a car. I wonder why
he’s walking?”
overseas.
Nowland as being in Irvington. “Check
By Max
production-line basis, they say.
+ + « . Mrs. Marston Beeler reports she ® 30-pound frozen turkey. NBS lil said Tw : found the Boy Scout knife she sought for a soldier | Slated to be the center of the din-|3Nd sald ‘1 want you two men .'+ + A reader writes in to say that I was| ner : wrong in referring to the intersection of Wallace and man’s brother, and his wife, will|System that will serve and deyour plots | long remember thefdigdi. x,
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B. Cook
A CLAIM THAT one airline was charged $110,- convert planes than to manufacture new ones on a 000 for bverhaul oi a plane which cost less when
And at the same
time skilled mechanics are urgently needed for other
work,
Mechanics Badly Needed
ONE OPERATOR pointed out’ that mechanics are Here on the spot, it seems incredible |180 when they were captured in | badly needed for overhaul of planes now in service. that there should be any doubt at In his company planes average 14 hours and 42 min- Ome about the truth of, the Nazis’
utes per day in the air and require quicker and more |
frequent overhaul than in the past. As the converted! Z planes are put into operation, the problem will be- |
come more acute, if is said,
One airline estimates that production of a new! 7 plane, including all components, require, about 16,000 |
A report from seven airline operators|i an airline makes Es its own conversion ranged from 15,000 to 23,000 man- | ty
man-hours. on the man-hours required when
hours and from 22,000 to 23,000 man-hours when the
manufacturer makes the conversion.
It required
27,000 man-hours for the manufacturer to make one
early conversion. It will not be too long before
airline passengers,
will be flying across country in: brand new planes, | Airlines will begin redeiving their first new planes!
this year by order of the aircraft
production board, |
in the form of the standard Douglas DC-3's and!
Curtiss C-46's, the famed Comniandos of the type now
flying the CBI Hump.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
If you have ever tried to reconc
actual roads through the woods with the descriptions
in a memorandum, no matter how
will understand how difficult. we found it.
Many a time we stopped where each other and wondered just e road really was on the map.
It was a wonderful day, but very windy and much colder than when we were here two weeks ago. have had open fires in our living rooms all the after-
noon and evening. But the house
cold, and I den't dare turn up our heat because we
have a very limited amount of oil. Miss Thompson looks with d
clothes-baskets filled with mail, and so, dear readers, if you don't get any answers to your letters, you will
know that eventually they will all
understanding and sympathy.
Today our. heavier tasks begin, as trucks arrive - from Washington and things are unpacked and made available for the further business of settling an estate. I foresee that we have many long days of work in| | the big house before it is presentable for government. - visitors, and many long evenings/ahead of us just opening and reading this incoming mail: : Some day, however, we will_actually find ourselves | trying to ascertain; from the maps. we: sitting down to ‘read a book without that guilty.
“what ‘the which feeling which weighs upon one when the’ job you 50 : Eo L a” na
be doing is_igriored.
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ile a map and the
accurate it is, you
two trails ran into xactly where this
We
as a whole is very espair on three
be ready. Mean-
Last Christmas the Trumans were at 3 o'clock. ” ” ” BUT LET one of those engineers, (Maj. Gen, Edward M. Stayton, | Truman had received as a present ‘ell it. : It was! Truman just started out abruptly
George Wallace, Mrs. Tru-|{!0 make me a plan for a road
hey SpendXelop Jackson county, It will be “It was a beautiful turkey,” Mr. entirely outside politics and I want Wallace recalled recently, “but hard|it on an absolute merit basis inA as a rock. We naturally assumed|every respect. Time was to demonit was all dressed. Well, we all as-|strate that he meant just that. |sembled in the kitchen trying to| “We made the surveys and | unfreeze the bird so we could cook|the plans and the people voted it. We soaked it and finally poured|$10,000000 in bonds for the con-
{but also served as his adviser on’| ness in his campaigns.
| said. |
hoiling water on it.” struction of the road system.
Truth of German Atrocities Undeniable; Part of System
0 By HENRY J. TAYLOR [liberated a few hours earlier from Scripps-Howard Special Writer {the Nazi compound here at Hanau. HANAU, Germany, April 24— Mer who had weighed from 160 to
to 120. wholesale atrocities. I have come into places such as eigenhain and Wurtzburg at the ™ «a moment they|they would have died. were liberated.| The Russians imprisoned ‘with I' have seen|them received no Red Cross food American soldiers | packages and the majority did die. hardly able to| The daily food allowance given walk from hunger |the Americans by the Germans was and exhaustion.|less than half the amount necesThey would put sary to sustain life. Gen. Patch their arms around |has the German army's official me and hang onto |schedule for feeding ‘American the belt of my prisoners on such a basis. army overcoat,| In the last war, only a few of the trying to hold fast | German atrocity stories were true, to something that |yet nearly all were believed. In this meant they were free. war the atrocity stories are true, With Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch [yet few seem to be believed. at Darmstadt, I met a group of | Apparently the incredulity comes | American officers who had been {from the variations among the
" German camps, for the Germans * HANNAH «
have many grades of camps, and MeChure Newspeper Syndicate
Mr. Taylor
the treatment by the commandants varies from place to place within the same grade.
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MIDLAND PARK, N. J. April 2%, (U.P) —Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ack- ‘ . erman tried to figure out today how all n" they could send a bale of newspaper clippings to their marine sgn. Pfc. Wilson Ackerman wrote them that he had taken part in the invasion of an island called Okinawa. He said if the newspapers mentioned the campaign he would like to see the clippings.
AMERICANS READY TO SEE HORROR CAMPS|
+» PARIS, April 24 (U. P.).—American legislators and- editors who will visit German horror camps at Gen. Dwight. D. Eisenhower's ' request were ready to leave for Germany | today. ? :
~{Barkley, arriveti in Pirls yesterday, less than 72 hours after Eisenhower
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Normandy last June now weigh 115 |
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These men told us that, if it had | tween which men’s heads would be ersonalities {not been for occasional American |pressed, and blood-draining tables | {CUSON oe. f the Amel Red Cross packages they received, jon which men and women were | « 3alfman son o e Ameri.
| slowly cut to pieces.
The group, led by Senator Alber |’
| sent his request to President Tru- A ww man 4 : i i, Lo ia Tun?
speeches, doing much of the edit-| Even his senate investigation was ing and rewriting. jan attempt to accomplish an end It was money she had earned, he Without injuring anyone. A lawyer with his committee once *» x = {told a reporter that the idea was NO WASTER of public funds, he| Dot to Toll out an impressive string even went so far as to order that Of War fraud prosecutions, but to no telephone. be installed in hjs| ®XPOse bad practices, expose glaroffice at the United States court-| NEI evil cases, to serve as a warnhouse in Karsas City. He was there | ing to all that they must walk the only intermittently, he explained,| Straight and narrow. : and it just wasn’t worth it. As President, Truman, within the For years his calls were han-| first few hours that he held the ofdled through the next-door office | fice, demonstrated that he will use of Judge John Caskie ‘Collet. 1It| is personal contacts to get along was the rule that’ Judge Collet’s| With cangress, rather than trying to secretary would walk down the hall, | Whip them into line with surprise unceremoniously stick her head in|SPeeches Jashed out over a nationthe door and announce, “Telephone, | Wide radio network. : : Senator!” Truman called congressional leadTruman would excuse himself|€'S together at lunch for a conferfrom his visitor, for there was al-|C¢ Over the immediate problems ways a visitor, apd hurry to take| that lie ahead of him.
the call. (To Be Continued)
In the concentration camps I] have
At present the Nazi prison proseen, all but seven had gram Has swung to the hostage atrocity equipment such as- wall|technique. American prisoners are hooks where prisoners could be held being marched toward the rear as
up for beatings, stone blocks be- | Our forces advance. Especially is, this true of special Among them John
{can ambassador to Great Britain: { Capt. Lord Hopetoun, son of Lord { Linlithgow, formerly viceroy of4 India; the two sisters of Prince Umberto of Italy, Lt. Lord Lascelles, nephew of King George of England: Capt. the Master of Elphinstone, nephew of the British queen; Capt. Lord Haig, son of the late Field
I have seen all these things and so have countless others. We have seen the corpses, too. The Nazi method” was, and is, to maintain discipling through the existence of these atrocity departments. Testimony of reasonable treatment of some prisoners does not alter the
fact that atrocities beyond descrip- Margin) Sut Dougie Se, and tion were. a part of the German . ‘ gm, system. Copyright, 1945,
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
= Surplus Leaders Differ ‘On Disposal of U.S. War Plants
By ROGER W. STUART Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 24 —The magnitude of the surplus property disposal problem, particular ly the sale or leasing of war plants, is indicated in a report by two senate subcommittees. The problems so far attending surplus property disposal — and they have been many-—are smal! compared to the headaches whick
_ await the end of the war,
The report notes that the Defense Plant Corp. has begun negotiations for disposal of the $196,000,000° government - owned steel plant at Geneva, Utah, and points out that “what is done at Geneva may well be the pattern for what. will be done with other vast war plants built at governe ment expense.” » » » THIS PARTICULAR plant which both U. 8. Steel and Henry
Kaiser have: indicated they woung =
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is Rak Property yet. Nor _s it li ‘Becone “so-for a -long-ti output is entirely for war pur-
poses, and indications are that full
production will continue at least through 1945.
Nevertheless, observes the ree port, prepared by:subcommittees of the senate military affairs committee and the special committee on economic policy and planning, it is essential that the problem ‘be explored soon, But to whom should plants such as the one at Geneva ‘be sold? Or, if leased, under what terms and for how long? To ascertain how business concerns, labor and other groups feit about it, the committees invited suggestions. More than 100 cone cerns replied. The variety of ane swers, illustrates the cofiplexity of the surplus problem which con-
gress and the surplus property
board will face at war's end. n » .
ALTHOUGH MANY favored
‘ sale or lease-of the plants before
they have, ceased war production, some took the opposite view. The latter suggested that major cone panies now operating governmente owned plants cannot, at this stage, decide even whether they want to continue operations after the war. :
Radical differences of opinion also exist between companies who replied to a question on whether plants should be sold or leased. Inland Steel Co., believes they should be sold only. Copperweld Steel Co. says they should not be sold “because the government would have to dispose of them at a sacrifice.” Copperweld prefers a 20-year lease. And . what should ths. government do with the money it ree ceives from selling surpluses? American Rolling Mill Co. said it should be used to carry on national defense research. Inland
Steel said the proceeds should be’
used to reduce the national debt,
~sWe, the Women
Let French Girls Find
Love at Home
By RUTH MILLETT
INTERVIEWED in Paris for the army newspaper, The Stars and Stripes, the petite star of the Follies-Bergere said of American men; “They treat love too lightly, Love seems to be a little thing with them.” It could be x» that the girls of France just don’t, u n derstand the young men of America as well as their girls back home understand them. Maybe they ‘don’t realize that when a soldier whips oul a well-worn picture of his girl back home and says, “Not bad, huh,” he is as earnest in singing her praises as though he had spoken in the language of poets, = » » AND MAYBE they don't know that the American soldier's light= hearted, irresponsible admiration for the girls in other countries isn't the same attitude he has for that certain girl back home. Or that American men express the seriousness of their love in the luxuries they give their wives and) eile and in the provision they nmiake for their future—even if they aren't always adept af making pretty speeches about un dying love. And maybe the women of other countries don't see that the cone stant stream of gifts American men are sending to the girls back home is evidence of their deepe rooted desire to share the experi ences they are having with the girls who are waiting for them, ” LJ » NOT THAT American women care whether or not the women in other countries understand their men. It's perfectly all right with
them if nobody, but American
women ever understand them. And the French entertainer's statement that “It is hard for French girls to have a big, seri«
plas on A