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‘ A WIDOW living on’ E. Washington was & bit surprised récently when she read a form letter sent to her by the Morris Plan’ people. The ‘letter started out: “Dear Madam: You will have an OLD MAN to take care of some day ... and he will be YOu.” The letter bore the signature of President Bill Schloss. . . . Someone over at the postoffice must be a fan of The Times’ advice to the lovelorn column. A letter ade dressed. merely to; “Jane Jordan, Colum Daily,” ‘was delivered to The Times promptly. ... Larry Rial reports a Beech Grove item in the Perry Township News of July 7 reporting a wedding: “The couple returned from the wedding - trip to the Dunes state park, Chi- : ; cago, and Lake Wawasee last Tuesday and are not at home at 1175 Parkway drive.” A not-so-subtle hint? asks Larry... . Mrs. Lydia

Grider, a school board employee, and her sister, Mrsg.recently by the Pullman Co. in connection with the

Ruth Priest, Evanston,’ Ill, had quite a time on a fishing trip at Lake Tippecanoe last week. The girls were at the lake on vacation and decided to try their fishing luck. No one else was catching anything but fortune smiled on.the feminine anglers. Mrs. Priest caught a good-sized sunfish, 7 or 8 inches long. She squealed for her sister to help get it off the hook. While helping her, Mrs, Grider looked around and saw the bobbin on her own line was under water. Grabbing her own fishing rod, she gave a big heave and pulled in not a sunfish but her own sunglasses. When she had gone to her sister's assistance, the sunglasses had fallen out of Mrs. Grider’s pocket and slid along her fishing line until they reached the bobbin where the weight of the glasses sank the bobbin,

Ultimate in Rationing - RUSSELL HEARLD, 1224 N. Chester st, discovered the ultimate in rationing while patronizing a W. Washington st. eating place Friday night with a group of friends. Hungry after a swim at Westlake, Mr. Hearld looked at the menu, then ordered a grilled che@se sandwich, In due time the sandwich was de-

Rail Heroes

CHABUA, UPPER ASSAM VALLEY, INDIA, July 18.—You've read of courageous pilots battling the Hump of the Himalayas, toweriyg, treacherous mountains jutting out from Tibet. You know about American trucks roaring over the Stilwell road. But totally unpublicized have “1 been the railroad. men who made it possible for America to get . the goods to China, India has the ; fourth largest railway system in Fi the world. Only the United States, Canada and Russia have greater | trackage than India’s more than © 41,000 miles. Unfortunately, how- : ever, India's railway system was not designed for the requirements #9 of military operations in China i pnd Burma. ; India’s railroads have “three gauges—broad, metre and narrow.. The broad gauge lines, best suited for the handlihg of large tofinages, run from the ports of Calcutta, Bombay and Karachi to form a chain stretching toward India’s northwest frontier. China and Burma lie beyond India’s northeast frontier, In that direction, up to the Upper Assam valley, where the allies had to concentrate their efforts, ran only the Bengal and Assam railway. This single-track, metre-gauge line had to bear the brunt of almost all the military traffic making its way toward the front. Designed for nothing more than carrying the peacetime needs of the planters of Assam, one of the world's leading tea-growing and .jute-producing

| centers, the Bengal and Assam railway could not

meet the wartime loads of vital supplies which had ..to pour over its right-of-way when the allied ‘armies

mand began to lift tonnage over the Hump. -

An Old World Miracle

‘THE EQUIPMENT could ‘not handle the large quantity of supplies. Native personnel simply couldn't railroad at required capacity. It-took as long to get the stuff from e€alcutta to the Upper Assam—T750 miles—as it did to ship it frcm the port of Los Angeles at Wilmington, Cal, and around ~Australia, a distance of 15,000 miles. Something had to be done. Again the Old World was to see a miracle of American methods.

Railway operating battalions were recruited in

Aviation

AS A RESULT of their experience In commanding combined units of land, sea and air forces in this war, admirals and generals agree that our entire national defense system must be overhauled.. “Mod-

ernized” is a more appropriate term: Airpower, a dominant factor in this war, leaves our leaders no alternative. The machinery of airpower in the past was crude and limited in performance. In world war I, it was assigned auxiliary jobs such as individual air fighting, sporadic bombing, scouting, and spotting for big guns. But long ago, there were airmen who" foresaw what could be done with perfected machinery of air warfare. Some of these men insisted upon immediate divorcement of all air arms from the parent army and navy organizations. Such a stand was based upon impetuous vision, which telerated no compromise. By shrewder airmen, it was used to attract the attention of the country toward forcing some kind of a compromise under which, unhampered, aviation could work out its ®rue destiny,

Compromise Favored AGAINST ALL of this was arrayed army and navy big brass. Between these two extremist fac-

tions were other airmen who saw what was coming in airpower, but who-favored some sort of a compromise until the machinery for air warfare was per-

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday.—Yesterday one of our very finest public servants retired from public life, temporarily at least. It is a little difficult for me to “qyrite objectively about Henry Morgenthau Jr., because for many years he not only was associated with my husband in Albany and Washington, but has also been our friend and neighbor in our horfe county. , I have known many men in public life, none of more integrity. Originally his interests were largely centered on farming and country life, but he also had business _.experience, having made a sutcess of a farm paper. When he came from Albany to Washington with my husband, it was to head-first the federal farm board and then the farm credit.administration, which was a good background for the work which came to him later as secretary of the treasury.

He was head of that department during a time

‘when the decisions that needed to be made and the work that had to be done required statesmanship.

"as he did, and they were loyal not. only to him but to the administra: 1f they weren't, a parting: of the ways came quickly. for loyaity is one-qf Mr. Morgen-

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum|

livered. Imagine his surprise when he bit into it ‘and discovered he had a grilled cheese sandwich—minus the cheese. It was just bread. He was relieved when

the waitress took it back to. have some cheese in-|-

CALL OFF THOSE B-17's (No. 27 of Count Ciano's Diary)

Germany Whines fo |

serted. , . . One of my agents thought he was seeing things yesterday as he walked past a ‘car parked in front of the phone company.’ “Darned if it doesn't look ‘like there's a niotorcycle in that car,” he muttered. He was so curious that he turned around and walked back. Sure enough, there was a regular motorcycle in it—one wheel in the front of the car, the other in the. back. The right front seat had been removed. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. , .

"SECOND SECTION

who died June 26, it was written in longhand on the back of a Christmas greeting card. The card, decorated with a poinsettia, bore the messages: “Greetings of the season,” and “All good wishes for your happiness throughout the coming year.” The principal beneficiary, Paul J, Stidd, was named administrator. . . . Advertisements carried in local papers

reduction of Pullman service revealed that one of the company officials is named appropriately for a transportation firm. He is Executive Vice President Champ Carry. ‘

‘Hollywood Scene HOLLIDAY PARK visitors Sunday found‘ themselves in the midst of-a Hollywood movie lot on a miniature scale. 'Mémbérs of the Indianapolis Amateur Movie club, one of the city’s most exclusive groups, were out there taking scenes for the club's forthcoming annual movie, “Capping the Climax.” An appreciative audience jealously watched the leading man, Joe Sims (of R. C. A), In a love scene with the leading lady, Miss Patricia Gabe. Joe couldn't seem. to perform to suit G. A. DelValle, the director, so he got to go through the scene eight or 10 times. The previous Sunday, some water shots were taken out at the Riviera pool. The club, which is limited to 25 members and has only 15 at present, is composed mostly of professional men—doctors, engineers, etc.— who are movie hobbyists. Paul Bradley, electrical contractor, is president. The club’s movie will be shown at an invitational party next fall,

By Harry Grayson

the United States. Every member was an experienced railroad man. American lend-lease “MacArthur” locomotives .and rolling stock were shipped to augment the limited equipment. American troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Paul Yount took over the operation of the Bengal and Assam Railway, on March 1, 1944. Again the British asked: have the Americans got?” For in the first month of American operation, the tonnage carried over B. and A. increased by more than 40 per cent. The tonnage for March of this year showed a 158 per cent increase over that for February, 1944, the last month of civilian operation.

“What is it? What

July 20-Sept. 25, 1942 IVE weeks after the. first B-17 raids on German-held Europe, the Nazis appealed to the Vatican to intervene and halt the bombing of “open cities,” it-is disclosed in the diary of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law. The information was included in a report by Italy’s ambassador to the Vatican of the visit of Myron Taylor, Rresident Roosevelt's special emissary fo the Holy See. Ciano wryly recalled that the word “coven= trize” had been coined in Berlin for Germany's destructiye raids on British cities. Ciano’s wife, Edda, spent a bitter afternoon with her husband, accusing him of being anti-German. II Duce, himself, worried about external and internal problems alike, suffered a recurrence of stomach trouble that alarmed his family and friends. His mistress was trying to have her marriage annulled. » » » Ciano wrote:

JULY 20—“Tamaro (minister to Switzerland) sends news from Switzerland about Anglo-German conversations he says are to take place at Lugano. “He supplies a wealth of particulars. On the part of the Germans, those present are to be SeyssInquart (Reichscommissar for The Netherlands), Rintelen (Nazi military mission chief in Italy), etc, and on the part of the British per-{ sons of more or less equal rank. Tamaro enclosed some snapshots, but I didn't recognize any one. It all has the flavor of a cheap novel.” n » »

,JULY 23—"Il Duce is furious with

Eliminated Bottleneck

" AMERICAN methods increased the efficiency of |

trans-shipment, cut down the turn-around time of freight wagons, as freight cars are known over here: They eliminated the bottle-neck at Armingaon, where the cars are put on barges and ferried across the Brahmaputra. Three months after taking over they had increased the daily average car capacity of the ferry by 88 per cent and by the end of their first year had swelled it by 204 per cent. Assam has a population of 10,000,000 in a 55,000 square mile area. It is a tough, jungle country where the malaria mosquito forces you to sleep protected by a net. It is mountainous and hotter than a furnace. It is flooded by monsoon rains which reach from 200 to 280 inches a year, and this is the monsoon season. About 4,500,000 Hindus, 3,500,000 Moslems and 2,500,000 assorted tribesmen inhabit the province. Slightly less than half speak Bengali, about 25 per cent Shssamese, the rest Hindi, Uriya, Nepali. and -Burman. - Thus ‘in -the language department you are mixed up to a greater extent that you are elsewhere in India, where it 1s bad enough, : In this strange and little-known country Amer"ican railroad men wrote another brilliant chapter in the history of this war. From out-of-the-way Ledo and. Chabua American trucks carry the sinews of war over the Stilwell road and American planes lift them over the Hump to China. It’s the back way. to China—the hard way—but until the allies have a port, opening the door to satisfactory, means of transportation in that warweary country, it is the only way.

the military, who ‘for the second time have made me a fool’ by having him visit the front (in Egypt) at an| unhappy moment. . . , He had given orders to Cavallero (Italian com-mander-in-chief) to send clearly the word ‘Tevere’ (a river in Rome) when Cavallero was certain about the advance of our troops to the (Suez) canal. The password arrived Friday, June 27. II Duce delayed his trip for two days because of a storm. Only when he was on the spot did he realize that things were not going well. “The nomination of Cavallero as | field marshal could not be avoided because Il Duce found himself “be: tween Rommel and Kesselring (Nazi marshals) like Christ between the thieves.” SEER iil aaa S i + JULY .-24—"Prom «many. Sources sthe opening of a -second front in France by the Anglo-Americans is reported to be certain. From what Alfieri (ambassador in Berlin) telegraphs, it is causing less concern than annoyance to the Germans.”

Aug. 1—"“The situation in Sicily gives much worry. The peasants are refusing to turn in the grain, and in many cases shoot at the people who try to collect it. . . . In many working-class quarters, signs

By Maj. Al Williams

fected to the point where it could actually do the things predicted for fit. : These “middle-of-the-road” airmen were beset by the firebrands of the two extremist camps. . The entire period from the end of tle world war I until the fall of Poland and France was sadly beclouded by the passionate convictions of all concerned. Thereafter, each day seemed to move another piece of this jig-saw puzzle nearer its proper place, but a complete panoramic view is not yet available.

We Must Reorganize.- i

WE ARE STRONG for planning, but just as strongly opposed to half-cocked planning. We cannot get at the reorganization of the services now. But 5 Soon as the Jap war ends, we must undertake that Job, . The important thing is that the necessity for reorganizing our national defense system is recognized by military, naval, and air leaders. They all agree that we must modernize to make possible the efficient use not only of airpower’s machinery, but of all the gear of warfare. However, there's one thing we must ‘avoid, and that is any attempt to interpret the lessons of this war as the complete blueprint of the next war. As far as basic knowledge is concerned, we have learned only a few things: That we weren't ready for this war, that the planning which should have | been done before the war was begun only after it was well under way, that we dare not continue the! setup that was responsible for such delinquency, and that we can't make the same mistakes again and survive, much less win.

By Eleanor Roosevelt |

The treasury department has grown under his

leadership. In that department the lend-lease agree-

ments were put through. The financing, first ¢f re-

covery in this country and then of the greatest war|

we have ever seen, was accomplished under Mr. Morgenthau’s direction. : He can look back on his years.of public service with great satisfaction, for he has served his country and his countrymen extremely well over a long period

of time. Now it would be reasonable to wish him the opportunity for personal enjoyment, for relaxation, for the rest which all the men who have carried the burdens

." of the war need so sorely.

I know, however, that as long as his own sons and the other young men. of the nation are in the

armed services, he is going to want to be of service|

to his country, either as a private citizen or in some public capacity. : "I know of no oné with a greater devotion to duty and to his country’s interests above any personal consideration. I wish him well, and I hope that Mr,

"| Morgenthau, who has contributed so much in the past, The people who worked with him worked as hard

will ‘continue to be as active and as useful in whatever he does in the future. : : : * And I know that he will be wishing, as I do, the best of Juck to his successor in the treasury, Mr. Fred

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‘why Edda should be so excited, or

‘| son with chickens and pears.’”

| especially among the Germans | themselves. I cannot understand!

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent | BREMEN, July 19. — When it comes to beating swords into plowshares, the Bremen enclave points with pride to Pvt. Robert (the Wiz) Willing. He poured, cider into one end of a batch of captured German radar equipment, and out of the other end came high-tension Calvados-type brandy.

THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1945

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Myron Taylor . .

calls on me first, invites me to lunch, steps back at every doorway. “Ribbentrop's tone is moderate, although he continues to be an opti= mist. The ‘war is already won’ of earlier days has now become ‘we . cannot lose this war’ , .. He says Russia is tough, very tough, and thinks that not even a Japanese attack- would finish her.”

Aug. 30—"Ghigi (Italian representative in Athens) sends an SOS from Greece. The Germans are insisting on immense indemnities, the

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crash). His courtesy is unusual. He|

* of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,

. the German ambassador proposed that Taylor be given a “hooing” when he visited the Vatican. Ciano says he unable to hide his suffering today.”

couldn’t decide whether the proposal was “ridiculous or disgusting.”

who talked to her about it. “Usually when she does this she has been influenced by someone. I| said little or nothing in reply.”

Aug. 4—“Ambrosio, chief of the| general staff . . . does not believe | in a victory that will liquidate the] enemies. He thinks, however, that Russia may. be detached from the allied camp, after which Great] Britain and America will be obliged | to come to terms.” " ” ” |

AUG: 6="Arpinati—¢Buffarini's predecessor in the ministry of interior) asks a favor for some of] his friends. | “He describes the situation in Ro- |

mania as dull and gray, because too

many women of the Mussolini family are sticking their noses in| local affairs. “To these now is added Petacci| (Mussolini's mistress), who ex-| presses judgment, sends messages, | and intrigues in Rimini, where she is staying for the baths. “Her spokesman is .a certain Spisani, a third-rate dancing teacher. . .. It appears that Petacci recently went to Budapest. It is likely, because she is trying to have her, 5

marriage annulled.” 8 on ”

AUG. "—“At Forli to attend the placing of Bruno's remains (Mussolini’s son) in a vault. . , . Il Duce was outwardly impassive, but inwardly tormented. He kissed-Bruno’s. tomb after the ceremony and, indicating the space between Bruno and the altar, he said a number of times that that was to be his. “He was angry with the servants who accepted a basket of foodstuffs from some peasants. ‘I do not intend to return from the tomb of my

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Aug. 8—"“Cases -of malnutrition run through the provinces. Mussolini thinks more about it than he says, and more than he would have others believe. His stomach cramps

|as a person, is despised by. everyone,

couldn't be

.good, and the spirit of the people

AUG. 10—“The taking of Maikop, (oilfield in the Rusisan” Caucasus) and agitation in India. . .. The first will have the -effect of relieving, though not immediately nor altogether, the pressing oil problem of the axis. The second, in the judgment of Il Duce, may precipitate an Asiatic crisis.”

Ang. 12—“An air-naval battle is in progress (as the British tried to get a convoy through to beleaguered Malta). . . . We are in an inferior position. Our heavy vessels cannot leave port for lack of oil and of light escorts.” -

sn » AUG. 15—“A long conversation with Buti (ambassador to Paris).

~. French hatred for the Germans is growing by leaps and bounds, but not against us. But nothing will happen beyond demonstrations, killing, sabotage. “The (French) government bes lieves in an axis victory. The people in victory of the allies. De Gaulle.

but the country at heart is De Gaullist. . . . “The feeling is identical with that of Italians for .the Germans. At least for once, Buti more explicit.” .- nT ’ “AVG. 18 Resistance on the Russian front seems to stiffen. . ... From a Turkish telegram, intercepted by our services, it would seem that the standard of life in Russia is quite hopeful. TE “Ambassador Zobrini telepraphs, ‘T have seen emaciated faces orly in Vienna and Munich. In Kuibyshev (Soviet temporary capital after Moscow was exacuated) everyone lives well and eats abundantly.’ “For the diplomats he said the real enemy is boredom, and to defeat it everyone has given himself to drink with great deliberation.” n - n AUG. 27—"Long conversation with Ribbentrop (in Budapest, where Ciano went to attend the funeral of

have returned, and the old ulcer has come to life again. He is worrying.”

end and the brandy end is known’ Cal.

only to Willing. “TI won't tell you how I did it, except that I supplemented the radar system with two cocoa tins,” he ex-

plained. “From the way it works, this might be another secret weapon.”

His friends say that the more pride the German high command took in a weapon, the more menial the job this 21-year-old gadgeteer finds for it.

What went on between the cider |’

Willing comes from Bellflower,

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“Go on «x gbiouse tell me there's a War on!”

Stephen Horthy, son of Hungary's

govelnment threatens, to resign, trouble can, begin any minute.” s 8.8 AUG. 31—"At 8 o'clock last night Rommel attacked in Libya. He chose the hour and the day well, at a time when no one-was expecting it, and whisky had begun to appear on British tables.”

Sept. 2—“Rommel is stationary in Egypt because of lack of fuel.’Three of our tankers have been sunk in two days. Cavallero (Italian com-mander-in-chief) says other means will be found. . . . Instead of oil tankers we can use ordinary vessels and hospital ships.” »

SEPT, 3—“Mussolini is in a black! humor. . . , He suffers stomach pains again. Yesterday. he had himself examined by a radiologist. There is nothing serious the matter with him except gastritis, but it is painful and debilitating. He was

Sept. 9—"“The idea of an offensive (in Libya) is now given up, at least] for some time. . . . “As always victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ‘They are quarreling in Libya, and Kesselring ran to Berlin to accuse Rommel. They are talking of Rommel’s recall.” = ” » SEPT. 22—"“Fougier paints our airplane production in dark colors. Between us and Germany, we produce barely one-fifth or one-sixth as much as the allies. The recruiting of pilots is falling off. Control

the allies by the summer of 1943. “D'Ajeta (Ciano's secretary, now in Lisbon) refers to me a confidential conversation with Bismarck (Nazi minister), who now is certain’ Germany will be defeated and that Germany will go on to the ‘bitter end.’ Italy will find a way out. “Bottai (minister of national education) stayed with me two days (in Leghorn). . , . He says the war is illegal; because the Grand Council was not consulted. As usual, he is hostile to Mussolini. He calls him a ‘self-made man who had a poor teacher and was a worse student.’ ”

— vows 2 SEPT. 23—"Guariglia’ ‘ambassa:

new about Myron Taylor's (U. S. special ‘envoy to the Holy See) trip. It is clear that they tell us at the Vatican only what they want jus_to Know. ies “The only Interesting thing is-that the Germans have asked the Pope to intervene to stop the bombing of German open cities. The word ‘coventrize’ was coined in Gérmany, as I recall!”

SEPT. 25— “Alfieri (ambassador to Berlin), who approves it, sends a proposal from Berlin that we give Myron Taylor a ‘solemn booing’. An insane thing to do. I {tant say whether it is more ridiculous or gisgusting.”

(Tomorrow: North African

regent, who died in- an airplane

"The Wiz' Finds New Uses for Nazi Gadgets—And All Menial

I sought him out in barracks where he has his own revgille sys-tem--rigged up. for. unappreciative G.1s. The 20th division at nearby Vegesack has an entire brass band parade at 6:30 a.m. daily in lieu of the traditional bugler. But Willing has an even more effective method. He dismantled a sea horn from a wrecked ‘German warship and rigged it up at the barracks. By pressing a button he can send a stunning gush of sound rolling across the ground. His bitter mates complain that he has the horn so situated that the noise is deflected from his own quarters and thus he [can go right back to sleep

Nazi Flags: Blown Up

The Germans in Bremen still talk {of what Willing did on the 4th of L July. Taking a small dump of Ger- | man panzerfaust (bazooka), he conlverted them into rockets. Then he made the panzerfaust guns into rocket platforms and shot the fireworks into the sky. Somebody found some metal spheres about the size of a basketball containing German flags which 8.8. troops had ordered for the “yictory” celebration that never came. Willing took the smokestack

Landings Fooled Germans)

from a little German boat and made a mortar out of it. He rigged fuses into the metal spheres and fired them inte the air, wheré they burst and showered the tattered relics of a broken Nazi dream. “Other uses to which Willing has put captured German equipment: include a distillery for converting wine from the fuel condenser of a Focke-Wulf - 190; remote control steering and directional apparatus for outboard motor, from the automatic pilot of a Heinkel.

A telescope from lenses ground from the bulletproof glass of a Messerschmitt; a vacuum system for purifying glycerine and other chemicals from the motor parts of a Focke-Wulf; a welding outfit from German radio equipment,

*HANNAH ¢

State Park Inns

HOOSIERLAND'S stdy-at-home vacationers ‘are flooding state park ins and hotels with requests for reservations, Milton Matter, director of the depart= | ment of conservation, said today. He pointed out that the hotels, whose total capacity is less than that of the Claypool hotel, are vacationers for lodged. - : Because of the deluge of 'requests, hotels are ‘taking reser- - vations only 30 days in advance,

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Tomorrow's ‘Jo

“For Veterans Aimof V.F.W..

‘By FRED W. PERKINS - WASHINGTON, July 19.~This war's veterans insist’ they .must get a fair deal for civilian jobs

when they come home, says Jean A Brunner, national commander

“

He reported here on inter views under army auspices with American soldiers in the. European and: Mediterranean theaters. Mr. Bruns= ner's report means that the V. FP. W. will step tip its efforts to get a favore able report from the house mili tary affairs committee on a bill by Rep. Knutson (R. Minn). Its aim is to give soldiers credit for time in service to enable them to get jobs in competition with civil= Jans protected by union seniority systems.

" ” » : THE KNUTSON bill ‘is one of séores in congress intended ‘9 “do something for the boys.” Bus it is more important than most because it is backed by the V. P, W. and probably will win Ameri« can-Legion support. Moreover, the Knutson bill represents the legislative answer, on the part’ of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to a disagreement with the American Federatioh of Labor and the C. I. QO. over job chances for soldiers who never had permanent jobs before they entered service. The labor organizations have . made a number of concessions, but according to Omar Ketchum, of the V. F. W's legislative department, they balked at seniority credit, which would . enable the veteran to get a job. The A. FP. of L. and C. 1. O. were willing to grant seniority credits for use after the veteran got employment, but not to be used in getting a job. — = . n » THE KNUTSON bill would give each serviceman discharged from the present war a certificate of seniority credit for the time he spent in military or naval service since 1940. The seniarity credit would equal the number of days service except that every sixth day ‘would count a day and onehalf and every holiday would count as two days. : "This premium credit for sixth days and holidays would be more* than the civilian worker gets in seniority credits. Mr. Ketchum says, “That isn’t unfair, because mium pay for these days and the * soldiers didn’t.” The V. FP. W. proposal, says Carl J. Schoeninger, of Detroit, chairman of the V. F. W. labor relations committee, “is designed to place the returning serviceman on an equal footing with the nine million workers who have been added to the industrial labor force since 1939, despite the demands for fighting men.” :

We, the Women i Vacation Fun Possible Even |

In Wartime

By RUTH MILLETT

SUMMER vacations aren't what they used to be for the nation's teen-agers. With the rest of civile fan America they are asked to stay off trains—so there aren't those happy weeks away from home they used to : Sp have to highlight the summer. a There isn't even gas enough so that city kids, can have the car for picnics in the country. A large number of them have el jobs—but they need some fun, too. And some American cities are seeing that it is provided for them. In New York, for instance, teen-agers this month will gather from all five boroughs for a Sev» enteen Summer Barn Dance on the Mall in Central park. r » » AND IN Cleveland a "Showag= on"—a traveling outdoor enters . tainment unit on wheels—will travel from one neighborhood ‘to another to. provide evenings of music, community singing, street dancing,” and entertainment by local talent. Both of. these ideas are prac tical and simple enough so that they could be used in any town aor city. Teen-agers rightly claim that it isn't much fun to be young in wartime, They don't have the same kind of good times that -kids have in peacetime. iv » ” ”. BUT THEIR young years needn't he quite as drab as many schools and communities have let them become. 3 There is no. reason why the young folks still at home can't benefit from' the same kind of planned recreation given their older brothers and sisters in All it takes is some thought and planning on the part of schools,