Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1945 — Page 11

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Inside Indianapolis

KARL HARDEY:; Elf Lilly's priorities chief, has the sofution to all laundry problems. That is, if you. know the right person, Mr, Hardey was on his way home from Washington, D. C, Thursday night. On the train he got to talking to 'a navy lieutenant who told * him about one of the many problems of the nation’s capital. For a while it took two to five weeks for servicemen. to get their clothes back from the laundry, the lieutenant said. And then the job was a poor one. But another navy man came to the rescue. He took the laundry and pronto, it was back in eight days. Jeautifully done, too. When asked where he had it done so fast, he replied, “In India,” Mr, Hardey has been telling the story to all his triends, Karl {(ardey A. L. Young, vice president of Lilly's intefnational corporation, used to live in India and knows just how tae laundry is done. He says the women beat the dirt out of the clothes on concrete walls especially provided for laundry purposes. Water taps are at hand for the rinsing. ... The Hardeys, who live out on Berkley rd, used to have a laundress but now, she's gone too. Mr, Hardey’s trying his darndest to find out how to get his washing to India.

Where Layoffs Make Work THE BUSIEST office in town this week has been the one at the southeast corner of W. Washington st. and Senate ave. That's where the U. S. employment service and Indiana unemployment compensation division have their local offices. Thousands of laid-off war workers swarmed in after V-J day looking for new jobs and filling out claims for unemployment, just in case they didn’t get a job. The office, already undermanned, had to borrow more than a dozen helpers from the state war manpower commission office. The ex-war workers had to stand in line quite a while, Three women fainted Monday, In case you want to know any statistics about employment, there's no use trying to get them. One official said, “We're

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dianapolis field is the headquarters for the I Troop Carrier Command. Before the main office is. disbanded, the 13 troop. carrier bases will have to be dofie away with. And that work will take a little time. . . . Radio announcers have changed their Central War time to Central Peace time now. ... Mildred Kapherr, a '43 Butler grad, is fulfilling her ambition to see the world. She's with the office of strategic services in France and is now having “the time of her life” vacationing on the Riviera.

No Gentlemen Present A MOTHER, her daughter and her 4-year-old son were having lunch inh Ayres’ downstairs cafeteria yesterday when we heard this. ‘Mother was telling the little boy to take his elbows fT the table because gentlemen don't do that. The son looked up and replied, “Oh, well, there's no one here but us ladies.” ... Seven-year-old Richard Hager is ready to change his breakfast menu right now. He's been eating PEP cereal for week. But the other day his appetite for PEP stopped. ‘I think I've got enough things tor my hat now,” he told his mother. “Let's have another kind of cereal.” The secret to his‘long liking tor PEP was each box contained a trinket for his beanie hat. . . . Don Bowles, an ex-soldier, almost missed being at his own wedding last Saturday. On the eve of the big event he drove to Illinois to see about a new job. The first thing he did when he got back here was have an automobile accident. His foot slipped off the brake, hit the accelerator and bang-—-the car crashed into a utility pole. Don got several cuts and bruises. Doctors at Methodist took six stitches in his knee. When he and his bride, the former Jean Kercheval, left for their honeymoon, they had to arrange for Don to go up to the train on the freight elevator at Union station, The steps were too much for Don's injured leg. Their planned sight-seeing trip in Chicago | may turn out to be a quiet sit by the lake. , , , Bakers over at Ayres' tell us that State Entomologist Frank Wallace is all wrong when he says there's a pestless paradise when you get more than five stories high.

SECOND SECTION

(Last of Two Articles)

By PHILIP MURRAY

President of the C. IL O.

(Written for the Scripps-Howard ewspapers)

ESTERDAY in this newspaper 1 told of my objections to the Ball-Burton-Hatch bill on the grounds of (1) bias, (2) tampering with established and approved collective bargaining principles and (3) a resort to anti-demo-cratic devices and concepts. Today I list additional objections:

(4) DISREGARD OF FUNDAMENTAL ORGANIZATIONAL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN WORKERS. THE ANTI-LABOR thrust of this bill is demonstrated not only by | what is in the bill, but also by contrasting it with the Wagner act, labor's Magna Carta. By virtue of two sections of the

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1945 WHY PHILIP MURRAY OPPOSES PROPOSED LABOR LAW —

‘Against Ball-Burton-Hatch Bill’

mutual trust and confidence, which ployers’ representatives for whom exclusion of about ore million can-

is indispensable in sound labor relations, cannot thrive in an atmosphere of settlements imposed from without. If the serious and delicate issues involved in labor disputes are to depend for their ultimate wesolu-

tion on a government handout, we ment, the parties would have no upon as an excuse for protraéted must face the fact that we are to|incentive for disposing of even their | litigation and delay.

that extent substituting for a sys-

tem of industrial freedom and de- |

mocracy a wholly novel and dan-

gerous method of adjusting labor (without would lead both sides into | applauded by experts as a major

lisputes under which the government usurps the right of free men and women to fix the terms and conditions of their employment.

‘System of Compulsion’

A system’ of government compulsion such as the present bill proposes robs both labor and management of the opportunity to develop in their organizaions and in their members the discipline, responsibility and maturity which free collective bargaining alone can develop. So The United Steelworkers of Amer-

J custrial democracy is an every(das reality. | Under the Ball-Burton-Hatch {bill such a program would be im{possible. Aware of the fact that [their labor difficulties would ulti-

imately be resolved by the govern-

[trivial differences. The knowledge that an ultimate {disposition would be made from

‘arbitrary, irreconcilable positions and foster a lasting antagonism. - | "8 = (7) CONFUSION

AFTER A LAW has been in effect {10 years and has been construed in {over 70 volumes of administrative |decisons and 600 court decisions, one would suppose that its meaning and application have been pret{ty well established. At any rate that is the view of | experts in the field, namely, that the national labor relations act has reached the point where its inter-

They say they have a few flies up around the bakery

new bill, millions of employees who

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{nery and food-processing workers {through construction of this lan(guage by the courts. In the second place it substitutes for something {which is already settled and clear {a phrase which unclear and {which many employers will seize

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We have today a clear and well | {established law. This law has oplerated for 10 years and .has been

‘contribution of the Roosevelt administration to the solution of la-| bor relations problems. This law the sponsors of the bill now propose to scrap and in its place substitute a measure which will not only provoke industrial disputes but which will create confusion in an area where certainty and clarity are imperative,

‘Labor Straitjacket’ It is fair to say and recent history has shown that the measure

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5th Tire Issue Is Delaying Work on Autos

of the democratic strength of any

By FRED W, PERKINS: Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Aug. 22 — Brother, can you spare a spare? That is the question holding up the final go-head signal from the war production board to. the automobile industry, so it can get in there and start pitching out new cars,

It's the quese tion of whether auto mobile producers shall be allowed to put out new cars with only the indispens« able four, or be permitted to equip with the fifth or spare, which often comes in handy. The problem is expected to be resolved tomorrow on the foure tire basis, leaving purchasers to worry about the spare. Maybe they will not have to worry much, pecause new tires are pretty de.

pendable. Moreover the rubber industry looks as if it is going to be pouring out tires aplenty 500M.

made quite clear, |its democratic premises is reflected | |contract with the U, S. Steel Corp. | The new tricky terminology sub- |1n its treatment of labor, in l land its subsidiaries covering 160,000 Stituted in the Ball-Burton-Hatch| I refuse to believe that while the lof workers bill for the settled language of the |b2‘tlefields of Europe are still wet i i y / {with the blood of those who have Under this agreement, . existing statute can only have the wi i ent, the union {died for freedom, patriotic Ameri~|

on the 11th floor. goodies, either,

trying to get everybody back at work again. We'll

| just negotiated a comprehensive catch up with our bookkeeping afterward.” .., Stout

Maybe the flies can't resist the work for employers who are now ! [unquestionably subject to the Wag{ner act are to be denied federal protection.

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Natal Timetable

NATAL, Brazil.—Tensely, all peoples of the world waited for official surrender of the Japanese. But ‘way down here on the sands of Brazil's eastern shore the roar of motors and steady shuffling of American troops toward home never ceased. Men who operate the vast Green Project (which takes them home) listened with one ear for radio news and went on with their job. Every 38 minutes a C-47 glides into the sky and heads toward Miami. Every 90 minutes a giant C-54 drops in from Casablanca with 40 men homeward bound, All day and all night planes land and take off. The mess hall never cloges. Neither does a movie house that's showing light shorts and features. Nor do the men who run the show ever close the operations office, the maintenance shops and the transportation facilities. Any time day or night plane crews walk out onto planes waiting on the ramp. As they go, a sergeant yells, “O« K., let's go,” and 20 men who fought at Anzio, the Vosges, the Ardennes, Bastogne or Bologna, clamber aboard and engines turn. From here it's 27 hours to Miami, including hour stops at Belem, British Guiana and Puerto Rico for food and fuel.

Reasons for Natal Route SOME WONDER why virtually half of the air transport command's allotted 50,000-per-month are brought back the long route—through Natal. The answers are: Planes and safety. The troop transit marvel of this war have been the C-47 and the C-54. The latter, a four-engine ship, isn't as numerous as its older and smaller sister, the C-47. We hadn't enough four-engine ships to fly the men home over the North Atlantic route or the central Azores, Bermuda and Miami or Washington. Way down here is the route used to ferry shells and ammunition Gen. Montgomery had to have to peat Rommel in Africa, and to keep our armies In ‘Burma and China going. It has dozens of fine airfields, many emergency landing strips. Its weather

Aviation

WITH PEACE here, no time is being lost by pilots, manufacturers and the Civil Aeronautics board to reach agreement on future safety regulations for personal aircraft, A poll on five specific proposed provisions of CAA regulations, just completed, shows over 1500 members of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots association—74 per cent of them aircraft owners residing in’ all 48 states—giving opinions. Questions covered five specific safety regulations, as follows: 1. Extent of government regulation needed. Fifty-three per cent favored the manufacturers’ opinion that “the proper purpose of regulation is only to prohibit manufacture of aircraft that have inherently dangerous character istics over which a pilot would not have any control regardless of any instructions he might be given.” Forty-six per cent favored the CAA act adopted by congress in 1938 directing the CAA to prescribe minimum standards governing design, materials, workmanship, construction and performance of aircraft and components as may be required in interest of safety and in such a manner as to promote development, One per cent was undecided,

Favor Slower Landing Speed 2. LANDING speed restriction. A total of 58.7 per cent favored CAA's opinion for retaining the present 65 miles per hour landing speed limitation for all single-engined aircraft, indicating that any speed above that is dangerous. A total of 41.3 per cent favored the manufacturers’ opinion that the 65 mile per hour restriction should be removed and higher landing speed allowed, 3. Rate of climb, A total of 60.5 percent favored

My Day

NEW YORK, Tuesday.—In last Sunday's papers [ saw a picture which rang a bell in my mind. It was the picture of a woman somewhere in France Joking around the ruins of her home. In January after the last world war, I drove with ny husband over the northern art of the: line which had been eld by the British and the Amercans between Paris and the chanel. I remember the heaps of tones along the roadside with ticks set in ‘and rudely painted hoards, nailed to the sticks, giving he name of what once had been e village. I remember St. Quentin and jnany other small towns that were hore or less in ruins, with no , ign of life except some black-clad omen with shawls Over their heads, flitting like hosts from cellar to cellar. Now and then, at the d of a Vista, were a few children playing. They ould run into a cellar and hide when .the cars ith soldiers came driving down the streets. Those ghostlike women were raking over the bris of their homes, and here they are doing it gain—in France, in the Soviet Union, in innumerable

buntries ot Europe. Indeed, for some of these women .

is twice in one generation. man heart can bear! fe I wonder how many people read Raymond Daniell's cle -about the conditions confronting these women

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is known In every detail from. Miami to Key West, insofar as pilots are concerned. So, we had a. safe route setup, and we had (in Europe) hundreds of these trusty C-47 planes that had been carrying ammunition, food, paratroopers, wounded Americans, Also we had the seasoned crews of those planes, aloft and on the maintenance as well.

Jumping-Off Spot NATAL WAS the jumping-off spot for all that early-war traffic because we made no lines through the Azores and in winter the North Atlantic was tough flying. When the Krauts quit, Nata] was ready to fold' too because shorter routes were faster. Then came the Green Project, the job of getting our men home fast, The personnel here ‘was increased some 300 per cent in early June. Nearly 300 C-47 planes were flown back via Ascension and to Waller

section of the bill which exempts It's as familiar as the road employers of 20 or less, and another

| which limits the types of controver-

[sies to be processed under the new

bill much more narrowly than those subject to the Wagner act. These two sections are directly [contrary to the purpose of the bill lof encouraging industrial .. peace and. would create new. areas in which industrial disputes would lack adequate remedy through the denial of proper collective bargaining protection. Why Narrow the Power?

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ha. been so mutilated and amended by the new bill that scores of activities of employers now condemned by the Wagner act would

Moreover, the Wagner act itself

field,- Trinidad, for overhaul. Their crews went to Fortaleza, just north of here, for refresher courses in be made legal. cross-nation flying. ‘ | There is a sharp contrast between Green Project troops started in June. and by mid- the present bill with the Wagner month 300 men per day were going through. This act which indicates clearly the inwas stepped up to 500 daily in July and it's slightly tent of the sponsors of the present over 700 daily through early August. Figures through |bill both to shrivel the scope of the Aug. 11 were 32,214. [coverage of the Wagner act and Assimilation of veteran troop carrier personnel 0 rectrict the broad existing prointo the A. T. C. has been marvelous. It's not easy | lee Ons of that act. to break up fighter outfits and scatter them through | ertainly if, as is claimed by an outfit so vast as the A. T. C. There has been the sponsors, the national interest grumbling. of course, and perhaps the A. T. C. hasn't | requires that the federal power told well enough the fact that these combat veterans over labor relagions be extended are doing the actual work on this job. But nothing |to regulate labor unions, why should could click better. Only a hurricane stopped the!that power be narrowed so that steady flow from Natal. Not a, plane has had the [existing protections for labor are slightest mishap. You couldn't do that well on a |removed from the federal power? bus line, 8 #2 =n Now, with the Japs quitting it's probable that more (5) DELAY surface craft can be diverted to help bring men home| [ABOR relations is a field wherefrom Europe. Or ’tis possible they'll be needed t0 in it is peculiarly true that justice bring ‘em back from the Pacific and China-India. delayed is justice denied. The bill Nobody around here Knows. iat almost every point makes posAll they say is, “Let's get em back from Europe, | sihle tremendous “delays which then save enough planes to get home ourselves.” gould make a farce of the entire Copyright, 1945, by The Ineianapolis Times and bargaining process.

The Chicago Daily News, Inc Thus it adds to the Wagner act

and the corporation have entered into an adventure in industrial democracy. All disputes between the parties, of whatever nature, whether arising under the contract or outside of it, are made the subject of a carefully elaborated grievance procedure. Final disposition of all unresolved grievan Is committed to a board of conc ion and arbitration, voluntarily set up by the union and the corporation and jointly financed by them. To this body is given final authority to adjust all surviving differences between the parties.

‘Antagonism Fostered’

The existence of such a board, which serves as a supreme court for the union and the corporation in the adjustment of all differences between them, is a tribute to a joint determination that allg disputes shall enjoy an amicable solution, Both the representatives of the corporation and the union's grievance committeemen are to be trained under this system in the prompt and efficient disposition of differences. Under this system there can and will arise an intelligent co-opera-tive corps of workers and em-

flect of inaugurating a period of {uncertainty and destructive litigation. ‘Why Change Phrases? Thus, for the settled and well {established term “interstate commerce” the new bill proposes the {term “national or international

commerce.” But it will take years

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“national or international merce” will be settled in the courts. There is absolutely no justification for setting aside a phrase which has an established meaning and substituting one which will prove to be a gold mine for lawyers. Along the same lines the proposed statute removes from scope of any controversy “employment of agricultural labor by farmers or co-operative associations.” Now this is a change in the terminology which is used in the Wagner act. Even if the framers of the ®proposed bill did not actually intend to broaden the meaning of “agricultural labor” as that term is defined in the Wagner act it will nevertheless have a very destructive effect.

‘We Have a Clear Law’

In the first place it invites renewed attempts to bring about an

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{cans will take seriously the Ball-

Burton-Hatch proposal to straitdemocracy—the labor movement, This bill mounts a reactionary offensive against the bulwark of democracy—the labor movemnt. By launching such an offensive at this crucial point it is the hope of reactionary groups in our society to divert the attention of workers and .- other. progressive Americans from the real issues that confront the nation.

‘Disputes Can Disappear’

Today the real problem is not industrial disputes which are so

luridly held up in this bill as a threat to our economy. If concrete immediate steps are taken to insure.an expanding economy, full employment and full production for our reconversion and post-war period, the so-called “problem” of industrial disputes will disappear. If the voice of organized labor is stilled in pressing for such measures, and this bill will surely achieve that result, these grave problems will be left to the tender mercies of those reactionary groups who even now are pressing for a program of unemployment and low wages.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Muscle Re-Education Is Aim for Victims.

Infantile Paralysis Facts—No. 3

(Last of a Series)

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. TREATMENT of infantile paralysis by the Sister Kenny method has been widely adopted in this country.

. {a novel provision that employers By Max B. Coo

the manufacturers’ contention that angle of climb sufficient to clear obstacles at the end of the field and not the 500 per minute rate of climb now proposed at sea level should be placed in effect. Otherwise, they add, all low-powered airplanes, under 65 HP, would be ruled out. A total of 39.5 per cent'indorse the CAA opinion of 500 feet per minute rate of climb. 4.. One-engine-out climb requirements for twinengine airplanes. A total of 83.3 per cent favor the CAA opinion recommending requirements that would guarantee ability of multi-engine airplanes to continue flight with one engine out.” And 154 per cent favored the manufacturers’ opinfon that “twin-engine airplanes not having sufficient power (with one engine inoperative) to climb nor even maintain level flight should be permitted provided that the airplane is controllable with one engine out.” One and three-tenths per cent were undecided.

Differ on Private Craft 5. SAFETY regulation of personal type aircraft. Pilot opinions, with 52.1 for the manufacturers’ opin-

ion and 479 per cent for CAA’'s opinion, almost split the voters evenly,

may petition the courts to re{view certifications of labor organiizations. At present both under the |national labor relations act and the {railvay labor act a certification {is not reviewable in court until [there has been a refusal to bar(gain. | By opening up court review, to jemployers the bill offers the op{portunity for defeating the bargaining rights of any union. | Similarly the bill prescribes {lengthy periods during which a |union must accept unilateral em{ployer - action without the right of resort to any collective activity. to (redress it. The arbitration features [likewise would further condemn the {union to acceptance of arbitrary

{employer conduct for a period of

{years and forbid any attempt By [the labor organization to. resist {during the interim, ” ” ”

(6) COMPULSION

THE BILL provides for compul{sory solution of labor disputes in

[two areas: (1)

_ we in the United States can hardly understand, be-

Manufacturers contend that too much bureaucratic it legislates the regulation is going to stifle development. CAA con- | compulsory adjustment of grievtends that regulations to provide safe airplanes are ances through .government machinvitally necessary if aviation is not going to be hurtiery and (2) it provides for comthrough increased accidents in the future. It points | pulsory arbitration over an area of out that these regulations “should not be written un-|considerable breadth.

less experience has indicated their need in the in-| It has been my experience that terests of reasonable safety.”

Contrary to popular belief, the treatment is hot packs and muscle re - education, and not hot packs and massage. The scientific controversy . is not concerned _ with the method of treatment, but rather with ideas about the nature of the disease and its effect on the body, and the results of the various methods of Dr. O'Brien treatment, The National Foundation for "Infantile Paralysis has assisted over 1000 physicians, nurses and physical therapy technicians to learn the method - first hand at the University of Minnesota during the last few years, and has contributed substantial sums of money to several universities to study the nature of the disease. ” ” ” IN INFANTILE paralysis irregular movements result when the patient -attethpts to use the affected muscles, Purpose of - muscle-re-education is to strengthen each muscle as much as possible and to teach proper muscle use. Many observers believe that with this method there is less deformity

The close vote might have been due, it is pointed

out, to the fact that the opiniogs of CAA and te WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

industry overlapped on many particulars,

Some pilots pointed out that corhpetition will force] the industry to incorporate all possible safety devices and qualities in their personal planes, simply as a matter of insuring continued successful business.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt | and children. If it were just for this winter, that | wouldn't be so bad. But it is this winter on top of all the other winters of the war, and it is children | growing up with one year of cold and malnutrition | piled on another year, over and over again, It must | mean a warping of body and mind. Even in Great! Britain which never was actually conquered, the! food level has béen only a subsistence level, To be sure, the sad commentary on our civilization is the fact that many people in the British Isles were actually better off in health during” these years ot restrictions, because poor and rich shared alike. The government saw to it. that every child and every prospective mother had a quota of milk daily. Even with the end of the war, I see that the British gov-| ernment is going to continue this and other similar measures which have meant better health for the whole population, At best, however, there will be In Great Britain results from these years of strain and hardship which

cause we have not experienced them. Yet help for all the countries that need help must come through our leadership. There are many other countries which can contribute largely, but unless we make them see their opportunity and lead the way, who will take the leadership? 3 Are the women. of this country going to speak to the women of the .other fortunate countries and. with them, are they going to speak through practical aid in the language of good will which must guide our future peace? \ ; :

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and less inability to get around and do things afterward. When paralysis develops, patients are probably best cared for in a hospital where special treatments can be given. They receive regular medical and nursing care in addi-

special bed is prepared by removing the springs and replacing them with boards. A firm mattress is covered with blankets instead of sheets, » ” » THE ROOM is kept quiet and free from drafts. The patient is handled as little as possible, since touching and moving may aggravate pain and spasm. Nothing cold is allowed to touch the skin. In the beginning, any position which is comfortable is recommended. Later the body is straightened out if possible.

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Pieces of woolen cloth are wrung very dry after soaking in boiling water and applied directly to the skin over the entire body, If the wool is dry, no burn results. An oilsilk covering and dry clothes are placed on the outside to conserve heat. » = ” PACKS are changed as often as every 15 minutes in the beginning, and later at longer intervals, Apparently the alternate heating and cooling has a greater beneficial effect than the continuous application of heat. As soon as possible, the patient is urged to try to use his muscles in the proper way. This may not result in movement, but later on certain of the affected muscles return to usefulness. The patient is assisted in these movements by the physical therapy technician.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent FELDAFING, Germany, Aug. 22. |—Six thous stood strong and straight in Feldafing’s camp today—victors over their {brutal past at Dachau or Buchenwald. | It was a victory for the United Nations relief and administration which brought them to -Fegldafing as ‘living dead” almost 10 weeks ago. Today they were almost ready to be pronounced normal, healthy human beings. Correspondents who had * seen these people in the beginning, when they were first freed from their German captors,. could hardly believe their eyes. » Lt. Irving Smith, former Notre {Dame university student, who ors | ganized the camp, is proud of the results his work has accomplished. Despite the fact that most of the 6000 now stand erect with a new sparkle in their eyes, Smith cautioned against calling it anything more than- “advanced convalescence.” Emotional Outbursts The camp is situated in a former Hitler youth school overlooking Wurmsee lake and was opened originally when American troops found a train with 1700 displaced persons on a nearby rail siding, stalled on its way to an extermination depot at Auschwitz, in" Upper Silesia. ; During the first twa, weeks most of ‘the patients suffered from adIn most cases they

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But after*two weeks of treatment, they began to realize they were going to live and be fed. There were many emotional out-

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sprees, among the patients as they began the long road back to finding their normal selves, but each d saw them improving. iho,

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" Soon they began doing simple things for themselves, lacing shoes, | or fixing ties.

d men and womern| Then tailor shops, shoe shops, and

hat shops were set up and those who were experienced in these trades began to work again. Some who had been doctors or dentists helped out in the dispensaries, and the camp set up its own court to try infrequent infractions of the rules. Most of the patients are Poles, with many others from the Baltic |states, and Hungary or Rumania.

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layed is important to millions of workers in the automobile and allied industries, It 1s generally agreed among industrialists that the most important industry in the reconVersion picture is autoe mobiles. In peacetime it employed half a million people in the main manufacturing plants, about 800 large and small, and about as many more in small accessory plants not “figured in the main industry. In addition, automobile manu facturing is peacetime’s largest outlet for steel, which is important in view of the recession steel production has experienced since the Japanese surrender. It also is a large consumer of iron, aluminum, copper, tin, lead, zine and nickel; and of rubber, plate glass, leather, cotton, lumber and upholstery cloth. The total of . workers with a direct interest in this is estimated at several millions, and all of them affect the prosperity of others. And up to today, the recent WPB argument revolves around that spare tire.

» » = THE DEBATE officially cone cerns revocations in whole or in part of WLB's general limita« tion order L-2-G, as amended June 28, 1945. This told how automobile production could be authorized, Actually, according to men in close touch with the automotive industry, the spare-tire delay has not caused as much reconvers sion lag as might be thought, The big companies are going ahead with reconversion on the assumption that it won't be long now. Another question is prices for the new automobiles. This comes under the office of price admine istration, which reached its final decision last Saturday, but kept it confidential.

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We, the Women—— Here's Lesson For Prattlers On Telephone

By RUTH MILLETT IN KANSAS CITY a family who had been waiting for a tele phone for three years, finally got one—and on a private line, too, or so they thought.

Imagine their ¢ o nsternation when they discovered. that the lineman had connected their phone to an airway’ line and all the family's telephone conversations went on the air over the airline's radio transmitter, to planes and stations everywhere, “How perfectly awful,” murmurs the woman with telephone. itis, who spends her mornings gossiping with first one friend and- then another, Yet, like the unsuspecting Kane sas City family, her calls are probably being broadcast. too, even though not quite so exten= sively.

” ” ” FOR THE woman she {eles phones to tell a bit of gossip bes cause “I know vou won't repeat it, my dear.” in all likelihood passes it ‘on by telephone to three others, who in turn pass it on to Just those they are sure they can trust, and so on. In a way that round-about method of broadcasting i€lephone conversations is likely to prove even more embarrassing than if they had gone out over a radio transmitter. « For stories get changed and enlarged with the telling. - And the feminine mind often reads meanings ‘into words that weren't actually there. “She didn't actu ally say so, but I'm sure that is what she meant.” . :

* in SO THE woman with telephone itis needn't feel too sorry for the family , whose private cofiversa« tions were accidentally broadcast, Pretty much the same thing is happening every day to her own

‘confidences. For no telephone ling

fa be regarded as private so as | is someone on the other end of the connection.