Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1945 — Page 9

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Know Alphabet of Government WILLIAM WARD, 3433 Central ave, probably can name more alphabétical government agencies than you've ever heard of. And, en top of that, he can tell Just. what each of the letters in the alphabetical title

agencies, 85 per cent of them governmental organizations. In addition, he has a list of all the stories and

“| articles in newspapers about the air raid warden setup.

This Hst was given to the Rauh Memorial “library: Mr. Ward was especially- interested in the air raid listing since he himself was a volunteer worker! at the air raid control center at 152 E. 22d st. , . . His alphabetical agency list was obtained by jotting down the letters of the agency every time he read them in & newspaper, pamphlet, book, etc. . , . Now he's at another compiling job. He is making a list of all the sororities and fraternities he can find, So far he has about 155. , . . Mr, Ward worked as a freight agent for the Illinois Central and Nickel Plate railroads for 82 years. He retired just seven years ago last Thursday. ‘

Peron’s Error “BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov, §.~Juan Domingo Peron, the Argentina military boss, had a great idea for becoming a hero to the 100,000 waiters and hotel employees in greater Buenos Aires. - He was sure they considered it undignified and degrading to accept tips from : diners and hotel guests. So by government decree, he made tipping unlawful. , ; Instead, 15 per cent is now

amount goes automatically to the waiters so that they won't have to give the customers too much service or depend upon pleasing them, T In hotels, porters and maids

. ernment decree. An additional 12

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per cent is now added to service charges for them. 4 Great amounts of dignity are now knee-deep in every rundown coffee shop and walkup hotel in the

Dignity Doesn't Pay — BUT MOST of the newly elevated are sore

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William Ward . . . He knows the government ! from A to Z.

Spring Trying to Bow in Early ‘SPRING just won't stop invading fail’s territory. A neighbor of Mrs. George Roessle, 574 N. Temple ave, sent in a violet that she had picked from the Roessle yard. . .. And Mrs. Louise Cavett, 2116 W. Minnesota st., tells us that her lemon lily which is one of the first flowers to bloom in the spring now has six buds. . . . The Red Cross home service department is anxious to contact Harry Philip Bloxsom of the United States army. CalleMis. Eleanor Moore at LI. 1441... . Here's one time Frona Grubbs couldn't complain a bit about her paycheck. She worked only two hours last week at Real Silk and drew a check for $77. She didn't get to keep the check; however: The business office had made a mistake. . . . Mrs. H. W. Oberlies, 1019 N, Kealing, is sure she has a pet

bulldog and part about two weeks

CH. 6740. . . . A couple of marines riding the escalator at Block's the other day were wondering what they's get for Christmas this year. “Well, I don't know what it'll be this year,” one of them said. “But I was just getting ready to go into action last year and she sent me a pair of shower slippers.”

Maids get only a cheery “thanks” for digging up an extra towel or locating a new bar of soap. At the higher-class restaurants, the waiters are frothing at the mouth. “I should run around and see that everything is lovely on a $2 dinner for a lousy 30 cents,” protested Helvio Carrillo, veteran waiter with many special guests at the Cabana steak house. “I'am an artist. I graduated from the 15 per cent tip class 10 years ago. I will start digging ditches or stealing pennies from blind men, “As for dignity—I am humiliated. I am scorched.”

~All Right in Small Spots

THE HEADWAITERS in hotel and restaurant dinirig rooms also are aggrieved. They don’t get anything unless someone slips them .a bill under the table. They have to break the law to get the sort of remuneration they have come to expect in seeing that dinners go off well. ¥ In some of the small eat-and-run houses, the waiters say that the new program hasn't’ made

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.Imonths after V-E day,

I Tientsin War

By 8. SGT.

BILL ROSS

promise, Tientsin and all of North

the more than eight years of war it

| has experienced.

More than 1000000 Japanese troops were in the area when the marines moved in, but they are rapidly being demobilized and shipped back to Japan. Signs of their occupation remain, however, and are in evidence almost everywhere one looks. . ¥ » MARINES landing here were, in any cases, surprised at their first ght of the local Chinese. Instead of small “Charlie Chan-like” characters, they found tall, handsome men of approximately the same size as-Americans, The women usually are tiny but some are definitely ‘of the “slim, trim and beautiful” category. However, the years of war and hard. ship under the Japanese has left virtually all of the Chinese underfed and {li-clothed. Marines, many of them for the first time in more than two years’ duty in the Pacific, are finding

By TOM WOLF ~~ ° . NEA Staff Writer \ AMSTERDAM, Nov. 5-8ix this 1s

Flowers

China has been changed vastly byl

“liberty sport” here. It is nothing

By Ernie Hill|

. |and ne food. During the last few

"|The meat and butter shortage is

Marines maintaining order in

Here 8S. Sgt. Bill Ross, marine corps correspondent, presents a leatherneck’s view of life’ and services in Tientsin, marine corps base in North China and historic trouble spot.

like the States—but it has the ring" of a pleasure paradise compared to Guadalcanal, Peleliuy, Guam and Okinawa where these men of the 1st marine division and the 3rd tamphibious corps have trained and fought during the past 2¢ months, wes = ame x z FOR DESPITE the war, the Chinese have maintained restaurants and places of Amusement. Many of the so-called Chinese food delicacies—such as fried beetles, live shrimp and the like— are not in too great demand by the Americans.” But the Leathernecks are consuming their share of noodles, Chinese scrambled eggs, rice, green cabbage, bean curd, brown fish and

CHINA A PLEASURE AFTER GUADALCANAL AND OKINAWA —

ms Up fo Marines

Marine Corps Cerfespondent ; : TENTSIN, China.—This is the “cradle” of the late Pacific war—the birthplace of the epic conflict which ranged - the reaches of the world’s mightiest ocean. * And Marines in ‘this area, where in 1937 the Ja nese commenced their ill-starred march of conquest through Asia and the Pacific, are finding a land of ageless history, deep ol |fascination—and a future of

by marines assigned to Tientsin as him “The Beard.”

The ‘marines are finding Chinese women much to their liking in

dress in an alluring manner, There are no rules preventing “fraternization,” but the ancient, time-honored aspects of the Chinese male-female viewpoint has kept intermingling of marines and Chinese women to a minimum, However, many Marines are being invited to Chinese homes for dine ner and other festive occurrences.

the various wines,

marine in Tientsin is piloted through the streets by a grinning whe happily furnishes rickshaw transpertstion,

Ruined Amsterdam

day were, again excepting Poland, the worst in allied Europe. All last winter Amsterdam’ had no coal, no gus, no eledtricity, no transportation

weeks before the liberation most people lived exclusively on frozen potatoes and decayed cattle fodder. Thousands died of starvation. Life was at ebb tide, | Today, on She verge of another winter of want, the Dutch have accomplished wonders... There is a subsistence diet—high in bread and vegetables, low In fats ahd meats.

[another study in contrasts, for here on the marshy plains surrounding the city. But they are last spring's calves, too young for milking or slaughtering, “Holland's two greatest shortages this winter will be clothes and transportation. You see plenty of clothes in the windows of the fash lonable shops lining the city's state-

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. POOR posture wastes energy and , besides cresting: an un-

allies nirched in right after V-E|

forvable personal appearance. Greatest waste of energy results

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from poor walking form, as proper calls for relatively little power and __ ge of motion,” © We average 1900 Steps every day!

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waiters during

» » » THERE ARE hundreds of theaters in the city, but few are movie houses. Motion - pictures that are shown were made long before the war, Although most come from

.. Hollywood, Chinese sound has been

dubbed-in or Chinese titles superimposed on the films, Americans attend the native theaters usually as a matter of cu riosity and what they find is something vastly different than the Oec«<cidental concept of such amusements, People eat hot food brought by the performance, They ‘crack sunflower seeds between their teeth, drink pots and pots of tea, talk, play with their

Disguises Its Poverty

ly canals, But if you look closely, you: also see a sign “decoration,

‘ Need Permits To buy clothes or shoes requires 4 governmental permit for each purchase, A friend of mine has had his application in, for one shirt for four months. He still has had no reply. It's going to be a hard, cold winter—even if everyone gets the half ton of coal that is promised, The transportation situation is frightful,’ “The ‘Germans * literally stripped the country, They took

cars but the equipment and tools from the railroad shops, They even took down the copper wire from the overhead electrification which was the pride of the Dutch railroads.

Only the fact that Liberty ships

This grinning Chinese patriarch was promptly adopted as mascot

many instances. These Chinese cai | dirty

occupation forces. They. christened

characterize the plumbing - facilities and the streets are narrow and

Prior to the war, this was a cosmopolitan center with Britfsh, Japanese, French, Iglan, Italian, Russian, German and Americah concessions, These still remain in effect, but all have suffered serious effects wrought by the war—all, that is, save the Japanese concession which was used as the headquarters of the military. Ford, General Motors and the Chrysler Corp, maintained plants here before the war and the Standard Oil Co. and other American petroleum interests had large holdings. The city boasted of two Eng-lish-language newspapers, » » . TIENTSIN is the gateway to potential and vast mineral riches

Loess highlands of Northwest China can be found gold, silver, tin, iron, coal and virtually every type of mineral. These resources have not

a new birth for their great and glorious country.

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can have is: : “Chan ehu—I am an American.”

the lower reaches of the Rhine which multi-sect the ‘country. Hope to Squeeze Through . There are some cars and trucks but no tires. Most of the thousands of bicycles on Amsterdam's cobbled streets are tire-less, or have tires nade of thin strips of solid, tube-| less rubber. = The girls’ bicycles, too; for the Gérmans] took men’s bicycles for the Wehrmacht, The Dutch think they will just ‘manage to squeeze through the win

carry their own heavy eranes has

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Good Posture Can Save Energy

Stand Tall, Throw Out Chest

most as much time sitting as he does in any other position, and

good sitting posture is important.)

yourself back on the chair As far as possible, as this permits your body weight to be

at frequent intervals during sleep. Poor posture usually starts in the

followed by hollowing of the lower back, protrusion of the abdomen and bulging of the hips. First rule in good posture is to]

which are, as yet, untapped. In the]

They are simost all] |

haben Wichita Labor, “Management Pull as Team

papers, in connection with the convention here of the Interna tional Association of Machinists, disclose a new kind of activity for: Tabor. =i unions,

Despite all the talk about labor « mane agement trou. ble, the ads in- § dicate that employers and % organized ems ployees ¢c an work” together f o rs mutual benefig,

And that is what is going on in |

Wichita, Kas., ‘according to C. R. Richards, district representative there for, the Machinists Union, apd J. T. Higgins, secretarye

treagirer of the district organiza. ._ tiong’ which Includes 14 Ideals of

the ‘hack

Richards and Higgins are take

ing advantage of their New York visit to entice new industries to Wichita, to replace large aircraft Manufacturing and some other ‘war production. . . ” » ”

And with no strikes. That's what T mean—no work stoppages, period, ® 8 =»

None of the machinist unions has a closed shop or a union shop, but Mr, ds said that in every plant the union has signed uf a majority of the. employees:

Should Take - A Back Seat

By RUTH MILLETT

A CAMPAIGN to prevent mothe ne

ers~in-law from meds marriages is under way in Engthe “Society for _the Prevention

ferference.™ If such a movement is ever to in America,

the time. For parents and parents. in-law have a had a nfeld Foea day while huse bands have been away fighting. » » » I¥ A war wife didn't move in with her own or her husband's family—where they could” advise her on ‘everything from how to

. discipline junior to how to spend

her allotment check—she at least,

start '

now would be