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| Inside Indianapolis

MARTHA SCOTTEN had one of those most emparrassing moments the pther day. She had come. downtown after getting off work at Electronics Laboratories, It was one of those afternoons when the town looks as though nb one stayed home. Thc crowd was swarming on the. side- : walk in front of Wasson'’s. Martha started to pass one woman, a very aristocratic-looking shopper. But . ... whoops . ! . she couldn't go any farther, The woman was wearing a lace dress. And Martha got hooked on to her. - There they stood, face to face, just looking at each other. Their arms were full of bundles. They couldn't lay the packages down because ' they couldn't bend over. " And it would ° have been more embarrassing to . . stop a stranger and say, “Would you please unhook In about five minutes, one of Martha's friends came to the rescue. The two “Siamese twins” then parted, each going her way. ..« No words were exchanged, we hear, but we bet their faces were red. . . «» Frank Rummel,’ the popular pharmacist at 52d and College, has the birds around his neighborhood scared to death. He has some good-looking tomato plants in his garden at his home, 4928 College. The birds thought they were good, too. That is, until Frank built a scarecrow in his tomato patch.” He has two cross bars with an old hat on top of them. Now the plants are shooting high into the air . . near the six-foot mark. We hear he feeds them

" potassium sulphate to make them grow tall,

‘Something From Home YOU JUST can’t get away from home without seeing someone or something right from the old home town. Louise Fletcher, Times women’s page editor, attended a fashion institute recently in New York. She and about 90 other fashion writers were given gift boxes with 13 certificates which could be exchanged for gifts made by various firms. One certificate was for a Custom-Bilt pipe. Come to find

out the pipes are made right here in Indianapolis.

Golden ‘Friendship’

BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug, 6.—The huhdreds of millions of “good neighbor” dollars, poured into South America by the United States during the past four years, have failed to produce much permanent

friendship.

This is the opinion of hundreds of persons with whom I have talked in 10 South American coun-

tries during past months.

As a war expedient to counter-

“act German, Italian and-Japanese

propaganda, the costs generally are considered justified. But these sometimes lavish expenditures have produced nothing necessarily

“lasting.

Reactions, of course, . vary. i But generally such expressions as

‘these predominate:

“you can't buy friendship. When the money is cut off, the U. S. will look like any other country in South America. It has been fine but now how. about loans, investments and trade with a favorable balance continuing in this direction?” To the casual observer, this might appear a shade disillusionirig. But South America has been wooed and propagandized for generations by experts.

Dollar Diplomacy THE GERMANS, French, - British, Spanish and Italians worked the field long and hard before the “good neighbor” policy was born. When economic competition was all that the world had to worry about, competitors of the U. 8. lost no

opportunities to fan the flames against Yankee imperialism, dollar diplomacy and the big stick policy of other administrations. Even now it depends upon whdse version you read. In Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the British

Aviation

IT'S A matter of record that none of the advocates of a national network of airports, estimated to cost billions of dollars, have yet-presented an inventory of the army and navy airports that will be turned back-to civilian use when the war ends. They dismiss these airports with, “Oh, they were located to suit military needs and not peacetime economics—too many of them are too far away from sizable cities.” That's a smart, but not a wise answer, ‘ Which came first, the cities of the west, or the covered wagon trails? ° Did the railroads build the cities, or did the cities build the railroads? Did we have the

Pf motor highways before we had ;

the motor cars? Obviously, it's the transportation facilities which always promote the gathering of men and equipment at points which eventually become community centers—later towns, and then cities. . ’

New Towns Possible WE SPEAK glibly about making inland cities ports. of air entry for international air transportation. Has this global stuff gone to our heads so badly that we have quit thinking about the necessity for homework? I ‘have flown over the majority of the war-built airports that must. be turned over to civilian use or abandoned after the shooting stops. If this alr

age is here waiting to burst into full. bloom, why wouldn't it be a good idea to investigate a plan for

My Day

NEW YORK, Sunday.—~When the communique finally came from the Big Three meeting, it partially satisfied many curious people. I have listened over the radio and watched in the press the groans and lamentations of correspondents who “felt they were wasting their time and the money : w of those who.employed them, since | N no news was reaching this -country from Potsdam. I have taken these wails quite calmly, however, for any sensible person knows that until the final decisions are reached there is bound to be constant shifting of position &mong individuals repre senting great interests; and if each shift were reported, it would minimize the chance of ultimate agreement. We chooge the best people we have to go to these meetings, and we ought to be willing to wait until they are ready to report on what they have accomplished. In no other way can we hope to get the most favorable atmosphere for their negotiations.” ~~ Te I have seen some adverse comment because this first communique does not state whether the Soviet Union is joining with Great Britain, China and the .

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The hothe factory is at 546 8. Meridian st. . . , Since she doesn't indulge in pipe smoking, Louise gave the gift away. Wonder what became of the other 90 pipes? Our trolley-riding agents seem to be hard at work again. One of them reports that operator No.’ 511 on the Pennsylvania st. line: sets arf example in kindness. At Pennsylvania and Ohio sts. the -other night a badly crippled woman was waiting for the trolley. The stop light turned green and she thought, the driver wouldn't wait for her. But this one did. He even asked her if he could help. When she answered that she could get on by herself but it took time, he replied, “Well,- there's no hurry. Just take your time.” The light turned green, red

and green again before she got on and was seated.|

Everyone in the trolley was beaming about the good deed. , . . And to make it even better, the driver waited until’ she got off the trolley at St. Clair st and was safe onthe sidewalk before he closed the door and pulled away.

Once in a Lifetime . ONE OF the bearing grinders at Allison's now has two sons and, a- daughter, : But: he still gets excited about being a new papa, Tuesday his wife gave birth to a second son. In the wee hours of the morning she tried to wake her husband so he could take her to the hospital. He just wouldn't wake up. So she went down the street a few houses and got his brother. When the two came back, the papa-to-be finally realized that he had to get up. He jumped into his trousers and then hopped into the automobile. . . . In the waiting room at Methodist he was the center of attraction. Everyone snickered when they saw him pacing the floor barefooted. He had dressed so fast that he forgot his shoes and his shirt. . . . After baby arrived, there was nothing for him to do but go home. He tried to get a cab. No luck. Even the streetcars weren't running at that time of the morning. So at 4 a. m. he started to walk home . .. about two .miles from the hospital , . . barefooted. One police officer stopped him near the statehouse. After a careful study, though, he decided he was walking too straight to have had ope too many.

By Ernie Hill

dominate the field. If they have any allies in the war, it is difficult to find any mention of them. Here in Colombia, the Russians publish a slick propaganda magazine. From it readers get the idea that there never was a second front. South Americans read these productions, along with those of the U. 8. office of co-ordinator of interAmerican affairs and take a pretty jaundiced view of the obvious propaganda. Now that business competition is about to be fesumed, the South American countries—ate looking

for -favorable trade relations and less. propaganda.|

Money Piled Up

THE GERMANS probably will not be in the field for awhile, but the Russians are getting started, along with the British, French, Spanish and a scattering of Italians and Dutch. Everybody is wooing South America because of

the tremendous amounts of money it piled up ‘during the war. Even Ecuador had a favorable trade balance last year. Every country needs a lot of everything. Most countries want foreign investments and distributing agencies, and contracts that will permit them to dispose of their products. They want the cheapest and best in refrigerators, automobiles, tires, irons, clothing, radios, chewing gum, toothpaste, bath tubs, steel products and on down the line. . The U. 8. through the good neighbor program, is in a favorable position to supply many of these products and thereby boost production at home. But the supplying of products will, in the final analysis, depend upon quality and price and ability to deliver. If industry meets the test, the good neighbor era will continue. If other countries steal the markets, all of the advantages, gained during the past few years, will quickly vanish. It all boils down to these fundamentals, according to the people of South America.

By Maj. Al Williams

using these airports as the hubs of new towns and cities? . Military airpower has Sounded a warning against concentration of population and industry. Our big cities are too big. And on the count of bigness alone they demonstrate their inability to take care of themselves just as plainly as the dionsaur did thousands of years ago. Nature corrected her mistake and permitted the dinosaur to pass out of the picture.

Feeder Airlines Workable

CAN'T WE or won't we change anything? Must we keep on piling on top of what we are dissatisfied

with? What are we going to do with our unhealthy deficit financing big cities? These army and navy airports are not hopelessly isolated. There are good roads ‘and railroads nearby. And if these transportation facilities do not suffice, then why not attempt a constructive program of feeder airlines? Is this’ fantastic? Well I don’t know, but I do know that this kind of national planning takes a lot more moral ;courage and mental homework than passing resolutions to raise tax rates.- Building bigger and more airports on high-priced land around big cities will saddle our so-called air age with such impossible tax burdens that we’ll bgeak its back before it gets off the road. The naked truth of the matter is that municipal leaders all over the country are just as far behind the eight ball in the economics of commercial aviation as the “expert strategists” were in the logistics of military airpower at the outbreak of this war. The last thing an airline buys is airplanes, and then only when it knows what it is going to do with them and’ how. The same observation goes for the proposed new airports until we know what we're going to do with what we've, got. ‘ ;

By Eleanor Roosevelt |

tary affairs, the element of surprise has great advantages, If you announce everything through the press beforehand to the world, you remove all opportunity to use surprise as a military asset. The decisions on Poland were, of course, to be expected. ¥ ‘ The way reparations -are- planned seems to be sensible; and the breaking up of German cartels is a great safeguard. The setting up of a new council which will meget in London by Sept. 1 and continue

tries would seem to be very wise. . I hope very much that our ambassador to Great Britain, John G. Winant, will be of use to this council. He has always seemed to me to have not only wisdom begause of his long service abroad, great experience and background for this work. I am glad we are out in the open as opposed to

governments which collaborated with the Axis. It is|

a relief to know where we stand as regards to Franco

becomes the Big Five. But I think it is a wise decisions that representatives of the Big Three may continue to meet and discuss questions of primary interest to them, . 3

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~ SECOND SECTION

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high in his engine cab, section hands out tamping the ties. They are all squaring away for a brand-new kind of railroading in peacetime years ahead. * They think they've done a good war job. But they know ‘it will be forgotten quickly if they don't come up with finer rail service than ever before.

” » ” THEY'VE heard the talk that the railroads have seen their best day. Stuff and nonsense, say they; we'll give America what she wants: Faster. flossier, more comfortable trains, " New roadbed ; with the strength « to take those | faster trains, with | curves eased and grades reduced. Ff Faster freight service. Lower fares in some classes of travel. Smarter ‘mers Mr. Lucey chandising of what the rails have to sell. New emphasis on courtesy and all relations with the public. « ‘5 8 8 THE INDUSTRY has spent billions and must spend billions- more to reconstitute American railroading. : Some railroads have been slow to progress in point of public service and technology. - But they're coming out of the war with new savvy. Top -railfoadmen believe their industry has what it takes to meet tomorrow's challenge. For a long time, U. 8. railroads had things largely their own way. Weter transport was slow; 'autos and trucks ‘hadn't arrived or were too untried to lift the mass of passenger and freight traffic from the rails. » » » A SHIFT began with world war Americans turned- to travel by auto. Shippers looked increasingly to fast highway freight. Then came commercial air transport. It was a puny thing at first. Yet by 1940 railroads found this new competitor taking a lusty bite out of their passenger traffic. The airplane comes out of the

| MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1945

A heavy-duty Southern Pacific locomotive hauling an overnight merchandizer train. HICAGO—A smarter, stronger, more versatile U. S. railroad industry is rolling up its sleeves for the fight { of its life. It is going up against the stoutest competition it

Ride the high iron of America across prairie and mountain and you find railroaders—top officials, Casey Jones

war with a tremendous hold on public imagination. everywhere—fast. Airmen talk of superliners to be the transport of tomorrow. They're shooting at lower mile or less.

”n - » ALL THIS is challenging stuff to the raikoads—and that's where railroad brains come in. To millions the streamlined train means modern railroading.. For $1,500,000 or so you can buy a very nice one. But the assignment isn't that easy. The railroads must go far beyond mere train streamlining. They must spend billions remaking the very face of U. 8. rail transport. : » ” » THEY'VE got to supply greater speed in both freight and passenger trains. : 5 This demands finer locomotives. It means lighter cars, straighter tracks, fewer steep grades. There must be heavier rails, improved track ballast, stronger bridges. They must find ways to get trains through yards and terminals faster. They must seek increased fuel efficiency, better train dispatching, fewer car and engine failures, v » ” » A HUGE order. It demands research on a scale never known before in railroading. * Top railroadmen believe their industry has the.brains for the job— and they're already tackling it. But it takes money. too—big money. Assets of all domestic airlines, competing with the rails, are listed at $191 millions. This excludes the value. of public airports and similar facilities. The U: S. railroad plant is on the books for about $26 billions. "A single railroad, the Union Pacific, paid $141 millions in taxes last year. , » ” » UNITED AIRLINES, biggest kitty in U. 8. air transport, is rated at slightly over $50 millions of assets, A single railroad, the Pennsylvania, lists assets at “nearly $3 billions. ; The railrbads, with high wartime

earnings. have shaken off about $3

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billions in debt. Thus the amount they must dig up annually to pay interest has been cut $120 millions. They have nearly $2 billions “of cash in the till. Rail dividends have increased--but not as much as net earnings. Railroads aren’t being milked by the financiers as some were once. More of the passenger’s or shipper’s dollar is being plowed back into plants. More is used for paying off debt or is being put aside for postwar improvements. They're coming out of the war with some financial elbow room. . : » » % HERE'S a quick look at finances of a few of the roads: The New York Central since 1932 has pared $261 millions from its funded debt, has $848 millions. outstanding, It has cut annual debt charges by $14 millions. The \Southern railway paid $6 millions in dividends last year but paid off $8 millions in funded debt; in five years it has put $46 millions into funded debt and reduced longterm debt, aside from special equipment obligations, by $74 millions. . The Southern Pacific since 1940 has“cut outstanding debt by .onefourth, :

” » » ERIE railroad’s annual debt charges have been whackéd down from $14 millions in 1941 to $8 millions. The Great Northern's funded debt has been reduced by nearly $20 millions, and annual fixed charges of $20 millions a decade ago have been cut almost in half. * ‘The Illinois Central has pared $83 millions from it funded debt since 1940 to save $3 millions a year in interest, The Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad (the “Katy”) reports the best financial condition in its history. » ” . THAT'S the bullish side. But, as many railmen see it, there's a bearish side, too. >

The tax bill has never been so

| heavy, The wage bill rose last year (and many expect it to climb further | after the war, The federal govern-

ment is suing the railroads in antitrust actions aimed at upsetting present rate-making practices. The airlines, railroaders charge, are getting heavy government subsidies which give them an unfair advantage over the rails. » ” » NOTWITHSTANDING all this, the railroads are full of plans for the coming fight for transportation leadership. They know they can’t match the airplanes in speed... But they're going to cut a lot of time off their schedules in the knowledge that all the speed that is gained will have revenue value, The railroads can build faster trains than their track and roadbed now can handle. Grades and curves are the stumbling blocks. to speed. The railroads are changing the face of the landscape all over the country to reduce them,

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~ " They believe these will hold millions on the rails. They're ready to sell the idea that you can see America from a train window, as you can't see it from the air. 4 o - - «NOR WILL modernization stop at fine trains or more serviceable roadbeds. Many railroads have plans: for slicking up railway stations. They admit they've been lamentably antiquated.: They are no match for the modern, clean terminals of the airlines, > Smart railmen say there must be true transcontinental rail passenger service as there has not been -in thé past. That is, if a good share of. this class of travel is to be kept on rails—no stop-overs or changes at Chicago or St. Louis, as heretofore. ® =u PRESIDENT Carl E. Newton of the Chesapeake and Ohio.is making this a definite postwar - objective. He wants premium trains leaving New York or Washington or San Francisco or Los Angeles for the opposite coast. On these, the passenger can get aboard, unpack his bags, typewriters or business papers —and not have to pack them for 3000 miles. The rails think they're fairly safe from the airlines on freight. And that's where the great bulk of revenue comes on most railroads. Rail officials estimate that air freight would have to cost many times the 1 cent per ton mile on the railroads. .. But, there’s no complacency among smart railroaders. They know the competitive fight ahead will be the toughest of their lives.

(To Be Continued) 4

THE DOCTOR SAYS— “When the Wounded Return,” they worry about what SHE will think. Read Dr. Wiliam A. O'Brien's column, Page 16.

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By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer 8 GTON, Aug. 6. — “In ‘view of the Socialistic tendencies showing up in various parts of the world, private enterprise in the United States must see to it that the individual worker is ase sured of more ! security.” a This didn't come from a labor leader or a leftist member of congress but from a representative of big business, He is Frank Ww. Pierce, a director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey in charge of that cone cern’s employee relations, Mr. Pierce was in Washington ~ to describe before the Council of Personnel Administration the Jere sey company's thrift and retiree ment pension plans for its 50,000 employees. - » nr OTHER BIG American employe ers have thrift and retirement plans, and Mr, Pierce made no comparison with them. But it was evident that he thinks his firm has made a long step toward the goal of assure ing, economic security for its ems ployees from top to bottom. Mr. Pierce's remarks about the ° challenge of Socialistic tendencies to the American system of private enterprise resulted from discussion of the Labor party's triumph in Great Britain, and of the more radical movements “noted in Europe. » » 2 EXPLAINING his company’s employment-benefit plans, Mr; —Plerce said: “All of us realize that of late there has been an ine crease of serious, productive thinking on economic security, nos only . for the worker, but for the family he supports. “It involves not only a satise factory standard of living but alse assurance that sickness or injury or old age or death will not bring want. Government and business Sat be concerned with such mate The Standard Oil social-secure ity plan for its own employees is in addition to protection offered by the federal social security syse m.

We, the Wome ! Wife to Curb : Appetite of |

‘The Stomach’

By RUTR MILLETT

THE WIFE of the Pfc. who eats so much he has been dubbed “The Stomach” isn't about how she'll feed him if the army decides it can't cope with a soldier who has been known to eat a light breakfast consisting of 40 eggs, 20 pieces of toast, sev eral quarts of milk, eight pieces of bacon, a quart of coffee, and a large box of cereal. How does she propose to cut his appetite down to normal if army psychiatrists fail? They're trying to taper him off gradu ally. Well, her plan is very simple. She says she will first have a talk with him and show him the fame ily’s allotment of ration points, Then she will feed him a good family meal, with emphasis on no seconds. And third she'll show him a price table she has come piled on the increase in the cost of living.

w - » SHE THINKS those three steps will curb his unrationed appetite, even if army doctors fail to figure out the cause for it. And she's probably right. Look at the way thousands of other wives have changed the eating habits of their husbands by the very same three steps. Time was when the average wife catered to all her husband's food whims. If he liked roast beef rare, and could pay for it, that was what he got. If his favorite meal included thick steaks and apple pie—it was served to him as least twice a week. He didn’t like those fancy dishes women were always getting out of magazines, where a man couldn's be sure he was eating, so he rarely got such a dish a second time,

» » ” BUT TIMES have changed, and now the average man is grateful to have a meal that includes meat two or three times a week. Meekly he accepts all kinds of crazy dishes, that the food writers trot out as meat-stretchers. If he gets a tough old round steak for