Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1945 — Page 3

WEDNES DAY, ATG. 22, 1945

Day Never Ends in Marikina, hi Near 38th's Luzon Camp

(One of a Series)

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- Radar-Piloted Bombers Would Drive Civilization Under Ground in Next War

By Sclence Service | their targets by “heat, light and | give the same effect.as naturalimines, as the Germans are reported of self-burial might not suffice for jand of -aircraft in war—to neither WASHINGTON, Aug. — The metal reactions.” Isoil and the vegetation growing onto have done to some extent in the prétection against a foe really de-|of which the American delegates |radio-radar robot radi €amouflage will do no good, for it. And the most practicable way'war that has just ended. But most termined to dig out and destroy the would agree. in the shade of a tamarind tree +by Gen. H. ‘H. Arnold will turn! [radar ignores such flimsy conceal- [to do this is to use soil and vege-'of the caves would have to be dug new race of human moles.” Duelling in civilized communities The yard is home and ‘head- men into .moles if we insist on] ments as nets and painted rags as| | tation themselves rather than by the men who would later take up| Even vainer than seeking safety was stopped not by forbidding the |

By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE by | {completely us- it does smoke screens strain after facsimile effects.

settling international arguments

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer MARIKINA, Luzon (Delayed) ,— They used to sing about a certain Colorado mining town that it was

“day all day, in the daytime, and |

there is no night in Creed” And. that is the way i. is here in Marikina — where the GG. I's day has scarcely any beginning or end. Marikiua is the nearest town to the sprawling encampment of the 38th division— popularly f known as the * Avengers of Ba- Mr. Whipple taan, And it was the starting point for conducted excursions into the Sierra Madre mountains where several thousand armed and well-officered Japs continued a struggle—ever since the war's end—to the death against Amer= ican and Filipino guerrilla patrols. Geographieally, Marikina is, to Manila, approximately" what Bronxville Is to Manhattan, Any resemblance between the two towns, however, is not eoincidental, It is non-existant. on o n THIS is a typical market village of a typical province and, in the words of Pfc. Melvin Stottelmeyer, the Muncie sage “leave the Filipinos have it!” The center of activity here is a fairly habitable, two-story, whitewashed adobe structure once owned by a Filipino assemblyman who now, presumably, sleeps on the bamboo floor of a snug, one-room Nipa hut somewhere in the vicinity. Marikina is practically all Nipa huts, thatched cottages on stilts, so well ventilated that they ares open not only to vagrant breezes but to all the stout fragrance of the farmyard below. ” » o IN THE courtyard of the assemblyman’s mansion where we are now quartered, one such Nipa hut squats, like a poor relation,

QUESTION VALUE OF PROPAGANDA

Some U. s Press Agents Fail in Latin America. By ERNIE HILL

Times Foreign Correspondent SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Aug. 22.— The best of the propaganda agents for the United States government

quarters for six pigs, a. dozer hens, two dogs, a dozen brown children in various stages of undress and toothlessness, andagain quoting Pfc. Stottelmeyer—

| “the damndest rooster I ever

saw.” He is the grandfather of all roosters. This conglomeration of fauna has communal fare out of great iron pots in an outdoor kitchen, and stands pleasantly around

| waiting for tidbits when the fam= i ily dines open-air style, which is

| all the time.

2 ” n IF DAY can be said to begin anywhere, it is at a point when great convoys of American trucks,

| supply wagons, heavy equipment, | jeeps and peeps, start rolling «

| Night Ladies,” | to be, but never quite achieves the | effect of,

in Latin America feel that their]

jobs have been completed with the close of the waps They are anxious to get home, Their chore was to spur en-

thusiasm for the United Nations"!

cause and to keep production at a high level for war purposes. With

the end of fighting, their work has |

lost significance. propaganda on a political and economic basis.

Now it becomes!

Our press agentry setup was at

best clumsy and poorly organized, it is generally averred. comings were tolerated to help achieve the goal. Job Different Now

But from here on, those with

Short- |

the most integrity believe that the job will be in selling something |

entirely different—toothpaste, re-

frigerators and a form of govern-|

ment which Latin Americans already know all about, In spots the office of the co-ordi-nator of inter-American -affairs has done good work. In others, how-

through, raising ° a Kansas dust storm behind them, From that moment the only noiseless thing in Marikina is the uncomplaining water buffalo, waddling out of the rice paddies above the town. Even the lizards chirp to each other in a language resembling the opening of a beer bottle, ” o os

THE CLATTER really goes into. a crescendo at night, however, when these cheerful Filipinos gratify their addiction to loud music and light dancing. A gentleman named Deogracias dela Paz formed a syndicate with six other entrepreneurs recently

| and opened the Nipa Nite club for

tired business men, a few doors away from our headquarters. His musicians had never played together before and they knew only five tunes, among them “Roll Out the Barrel,” “Good and what purports

“The Star Spangled Banner.” ” ” ” ALL THROUGH the evening the guitarists roll out the barrel over the hamboo dance floor, until the M. P.’s show up, at 10 o'clock, when thev strike valiantly into “Good Night, Ladles” and play

| that until your ears are ready to

drop off. A period of quiet at 11 o'clock, when nearly overyone goes to bed id only a brief respite. At 2 a. m. the Grandfather of All Roosters, who has learned to roost high in the tamarind tree with his harem, since. the coming of the Japs, mistakes the moon for the sun. He is nearly blind anyway, and his voice is as deepthroated as a howitzer, # nu =u HE BLASTS the air with a challenge and tn.oughout the neighborhood there is instant response from a hundred of his fellows. This awakens all the dogs in the vicinity, who immediately shout “epithets at the hens and each other, ; When peace nas been restored, an hour later, “he guerillas open fire on what they imagine to. be a Jap prowler. This awakens the rooster and the vicious circle negins again. At 4 a. m. the faithful sexton of a nearby chapel rubs the sleep out of his eyes and realizes that it is time for matins. His bell sounds as though it came from a Lackawana switch engine and he is a man of great vigor and piety. Before he is done the whole town is, or should be, awake. ” n ” ON SATURDAY nights, Consuelo Cruz, general manager Of the barnyard, conducts a pig= sticking ceremony. The unhappy animal protests almost to the point of the roasting oven, out of

| which he emerges, Sunday morn-

ever, it has antagonized people. As|

Latins explain it, the main difficulty | has Been that our press agents have | attempted to become “embassy attaches” instead of concentrating on. propaganda work. After “three cocktail parties,” it is complained, |

| |

ing, so enticingly brown and aromatic that all the children come up to pat his sides. Consuelo’s pig goes to market and brings 90 pesos, which means $45 in our money The Sunday market is a tightly jammed street by .the side of the church of Our Lady of Hope, which boasts a bomb hit in the

they have assumed positions as state| belfry and several cannon shots

department career men and social! lions. In scattered countries such as Chile and Peru, professional jobs have been done, local newspapermen admit. But in other spots, notably Brazil and Argentina, the work of the co-ordinator's offiice has aroused intense local animosity.

Resented by Some

The general theory of press]

agenting the United States down south has irked some of the most intelligent of these nations. Many U. S. citizens living in Latin America favor closing out “propaganda mills” there.

The entire issue probably will be

fought out during the next session of congress. There are lots of arguments on both sides.

You Will Probably Wait for New Car

NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U. P.).— Owners of automobiles now fast wearing out need take no real comfort from predictions

limited within the next 60 days. Brig. Gen. Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co., warned today that “at first, and for a long time” new car distribution will be tightly rat'onhed to meet the priority demands of doctors, nurses, police forces throughout the country, operators- of taxicabs and both state and municipal governments. “The ordinary citizén with no better claim for a new car than his desire to get it, and his ability to pay for it,” Gen. Ayres stated,

“would better resolve to be pa-

tient and to take care of his present car.” wy another thing potential ow rs. of new cars would do well *

that | new car production will be un- |

through its four -foot stone walls. : ” n ” INSIDE the church a brass band holds forth in the choir loft. Outside, in the plaza, a second band is in competition, matching its “Rol! Out the Barrel” against the somber Gregorian music inside. One basketball game in front of the edifice and a football game not far away add to the turbuence, and over all rises the incense of roast pig, slightly fresh fish, steaming cakes of some mysterious substance, ripe bananas, mangoes, and contributing spices,

8 9 8 AND THE eyes, as well as the ears, are smitten by the dazzling white, pink, checkered, plaid, purple and red Sunday pants and shirts of the male participants in the fiesta. And so, happy in ‘its innocent merrymaking, we say farewell to lovely, noisy Marikina, where the comparative calm of war has given way to the hurly-burly of peace.

Ration Calendar

MEAT—Red stamps Q2 through U2 valid through Aug. 31. V2 through Z2 good through ‘Sept. 30. Stamps: Al through E1 are valid through Oct. 31. F1 through Kl will be good through Nov, 30, Meat dealers will pay two red points and 4 cents for each pourd of waste fat.

SUGAR~—Stamp 36 good for five pounds through Aug. 31, Canning sugar forms are available at ration boards. Spare Stamp 13 in Book 4 must be submitted with

All applicants must establish eligi“bility for canning sugar.

SHOES—No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and

"No city or fortress or factory on|- It no convoy or even ship at sea, can count on safety if | their |unmanned planes or now or in the near

kamikaze dives,

jor natural tog.

pin-pointed into “soft” covering,

| This would mean putting under-| “sees” the hard surfaces be- ground industrial plants and waresingle | neath the concealment and reports |nouses, whereabouts with the ruth- | tions, rockets can less accuracy of the machine that | | brief the whole . enormous comfuture be, lit is. If vital military installations are | plex of | guided py radio to the vicinity of to be concealea from the radar’s basis. then finish in pitiless eye they must be given a

hangars and railway stabarracks and hospitals,

a civilization’s material’ 'far-ranging robot bombers would

Some advantage might be taken

tolof natural caves and abandoned

theif troglodyte existence in them. | from the terrors of the newer war-|use of pistols in dfels but by the

Deep burial would probably be the safest in the end, no matter how

‘much more it might cost. For plenty of earth overhead would be

the only chance of safety against atomic explosives which the future

doubtless carry. In the end, even hundreds of feet

fare by digging in the bowels of the earth are the proposals to “forbid” use of such weapons in war. Historical records abound in such efforts—all ending in failure. One needs only recall the tentioned proposal: put forward at

Hague, to ban the use of poison gas

well-in- | Ihutual slaughter, it must be by the earlier peace conferences at the,

pressure of public opinion against the practice itselt and by the use of police force against bellicose gentlemen who insisted on waging little private wars. If nations are to . be similarly restrained from

larger-scale application of one of both of these principles.

application for each person listed. |

Strauss Says:

“WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME”

We shall not attempt to editorialize on the Home Coming of those boys who (as one of our top generals expressed it—) are "simply and automatically wonderful." We should just like to take the case of a typical Gl Joe. We see him picking.up a phone—and hear him say into it so loveably, so beautifully, “Hello, Mom, I'm back.” And shortly thereafter—{it seems ages) he comes leaping up the stairs—takes 2 or 3 steps at a time—swings the door wide open. He pauses for the briefest of a flash—looking this way and that—and then from the depths or his heart and from those grinning lips— there comes the little word “Hi.” Possibly being a rather vocal sort—he might add— “from now on call me MISTER.” There he stands, alert, and fine, with his ribbons and stripes, his patches and stars and bars and medals. Perhaps also he lugs a bag of souvenirs. You feel pressed to say something splendid—something appropriate to this moment— of which you dreamed and for which you prayed—a flashing moment of a lifetime that will never re-occur—! You feel a little uneasy in the knees—your throat fills up—

and you hear yourself mumble—

“HI——are you all right?”

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And — always in these transactions there is something deeper than mere mercantile considerations — there

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surrounding them — there is friendliness and sentiment interwoven into them — not because it's "good business’ — but because we like to conduct storekeeping that way!

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