Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1946 — Page 11

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HALF A LOAF may be better than none but half a haircut is something else again. This, or words to the same effect must have popped into, Richard Drejer's mind the other day when he took a raszing. from fellow employees at the William H. Block Co. Mr. Dreier, section manager on the third floor, was in the middle of a trim the other morning when his parber suddenly became ill. There was nothing left for Mr, Dreier to do but to go to work well-trinmmed on one side and sorta shaggy on the other. He's still being ribbed about it. . .. Right about this time were getting so worn out with reports of “first robins” that we almost wish it would stay cold so ‘they'd all go back south. And.we're wondering if there's anyone in Indianapolis who HASN'T seen a robin yet this year! >

The ‘Right Discharge LUCILE REDMAN, clerk in the separation center at Camp Atterbury, has typed so many discharges that she counts discharge emblem ducks instead of "sheep to go to sleep at night, Recently, though, she typed the one she'd been wanting to do for a long time. It was that of hér brother, then 8. Sgt. and now Mr, Kenneth Wayne Redman. He'd been in more than 3 years, serving 18 months in India. Miss Redman and the veteran are the daughter and son of Mrs. Julie Redman, 1206 Herbert st. Now the

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1946

Laws’

Lucile and Kenneth Wayne Redman . . .. This

- was the one she'd been waiting to type. for inflationary prices. Yet

avery three months—if that isn’t a recruiting induce- | graduated from the handcraft stage. It remains in the

ment we've never seen one. And on second thought, hands of small operators, It it'd be just about as quick and simple to join up to|. : is turned to scarcity. get hose, as to sweat it out in one of those hosiery - . v . unes downiwn. . . In one of the department stores| Builders, ‘their material

clerk 1s waiting for someone to type one with the yesterday a tiny woman finally made it up to the|suppliers’ and the organized build-

name of her other brother, Harold Lester Redman, in the navy... . Every once in awhile someone calls in and asks us a question that leaves us puzzled. Not only over the answer, but as to why the dickens anyone would want to know anyway! Latest is two fellows who called in yesterday to settle an argument over what was the highest price paid for Kentucky

hosiery counter and asked for size 8%'s. When told|ing crafts share they had only 10%’s, extra long, she wilted, then the responsibility squared -up her shoulders and took the large size./for the absence Probably was going to cut one sock down to fit both/of technological legs. . . . A ladies’ apparel shop on the Circle is our progress and for candidate for having the most deceptive sigh in town.|a variety of cost= It has big letters in bold black print saying “NYLON.” boosting restraints

(Second of a Series)

By NED BROOKS : . Scripps-Howard Staff Writer . ASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The price 6f a new home is beyond the reach of the average American family because the building industry has never shifted from low gear. ‘Everybody agrees that high production is the remedy

tobacco in 1918! . . , Hmmm. Wonder if there's any truth in the report that a Mr. Holler teaches music at Park school?

Nylons for WAC’s

THE WAC RECRUITING division is right on its toes, putting nylons on the WAC's toes. Starting Feb. 1 each WAC will be issued three pairs of nylons

__ MONTERREY, Mexico, Jan. 16.—The tourist can have some good, clean fun crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo if he keeps his sense of humor. It’s like tax-paying time at the county building back home. There are at least a half-dozen major , domos and a retinue of clerks, baggage . handlers and helpers. Your personal history goes into a fat book and your pesos into the till. (A peso is worth 21 cents.) The fierce looking fellow with the three-day beard

who types with one finger looks like a member of

Pancho Villa's army. But he proves to be as jovial as the boys around city hall, Your baggage is checked, even the tinned soup you've brought along for those side trips off the beaten path. Then after about 40 minutes and general tipping youre on your way, windshield cleaned and ev y But that isn’t all. Sixteen miles beyond Nuevo Laredo your travel card is checked again and the windshield gets another going over for more centavos. Ninety miles south of the border you're checked again, ;

Good Food, Good Service

THEN YOU'RE free. The people you meet are friendly and intelligent. There are good food, courteous service and modern hotels. . Five or six pesos buy a table d’hote dinner, and your host in hotel and restaurant speaks English. * A modern single room with bath, tile floor, French windows looking over mountains, costs 13 pesos ($2.73). Price for a double is 19 ($3.99), Monterrey, with about 250,000 inhabitants, is the industrial capital of Northern Mexico. . The buildings’ vary from ‘thedieval architecture to

modern glass block and brick. Amid and around’

them are big men on little burros, colored-tile sidewalks and tiny parks with tall palms and roses. The Sierra Madres ring the city. Youre 2000 feet up but your car hardly noticed the ascent on the Pan-American highway.

A » t * THERE ARE several pressure groups running around the country stirring up trouble about bigger municipal airports nearer to the city centers.

It's just a promotion scheme. For it is being dem-

onstrated every day that the trend is for building these ports farther away from the city centers, Hundreds of millions of municipal dollars have been squandered on airports so near high buildings that bad weather means scraping roofs with landing gears. The Empire building catastrophe means nothing at all to some people. : Where 8 municipal airport is too near a city, it is necessary to “stack up” arriving airliners in bad weather and keep them circling overhead for long periods . . . each awaiting its turn to make’ its “instrument approach” to the runway.

Airstrip Promoters IF A pilot misjudges his approach angle, or the speed of his plane, he has to go dround again. -And-that-means-those-still-aloft -must wait. longer. The delivery of still bigger airliners means airports farther away from city limits, with waiting airliners kept at greater distances from town. Then there are the “airstrip promoters who: insist that our main highways must be swelled at spots

My Day

LONDON, Tuesday—There is something that gives one a great sense of security in the way in which the British dominions freely express their points of view even when they are in opposition to the United Kingdom. They remind me of some of our own states when they disagree with some measure that the government in Washington is putting through, An instance was the election of Australia as the sixth non-permanent member of the U. N. O. security

council last Saturday after Canada had withdrawn as a candidate. ‘. . The United Kingdom had voted for Canada but, when New. Zealand expressed the firm conviction that Australia should be substituted to gain wider geographical representation, there was no sign of perturbation on the part of the United Kingdom delegates. They evidently thought this was a question for the dominions to settle among themselves without the “slightest interference. This is hopeful, I think, Because it shows a sense of their own security on fundamentals, a willingness to let everyone express his opinions and to trust to the fairness of the whole group in the final decision, I think Canada was strengthened because of her magnanimous action. Similarly, in the vote for the last seat on the economic and social council, New Zealand and Jugoslavia were close contenders. Then, yesterday (Monday), New Zealand withdrew and, in doing so,” I think she strengthened her position for future consideration for some other post. t The security council, now elected, will shortly proceed to meet. It is in connection with thig council § that the allied military and naval stafls wil meet to : isco security problems from a purely military point ‘of view. i a : On, Baturday, the voting on the security council took such & long time that I was obliged to ask Mr. Byrnes for permission to leave early in

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Then underneath in tiny weak letters is the word|on production. We hope the instigator of the sign is] They are haunted nights by visions of wan, bare-legged fe-|abetted males hurling nylon slips at him. , .. Speaking of|antiquity of local signs, anothér woman's shop advertises a “Big Hat/building codes

“Slips.”

Sale!” Don’t they have any small hats! a book shop has “Creepers.”

!... And its mystery books under the label

@ Touring in Mexico By Gearge Thiem

Our Mexican neighbors are easy-going until they get behind the wheel of a car. Then they're in a terrible hurry. I The buses and autos zip in and out of the narrow streets, but you seldom hear of an accident. Horn-tooting is general and the nimble pedestrian Just jumps out of the way. : You have people to see and information to get out on the industrial revolution of 1946,

Inflation Has Toe-Hold

YOU START out in typical Yankee style to sew everything up quickly. But after a couple of days of bucking siestas, “closed” signs and an alien way of life you give up and wait for tomorrow. America’s wartime spending has spilled over into Mexico, raising the cost of living for the little guy. Inflation has a toe-hold on the country. Food and clothing are up 250 to-300 per cent over the 1936 base, There is no rationing and little price control. The black market flourishes and enforcement has been all but abandoned. Keeping the .lid on prices is difficult at best but impossible when illiteracy is as widespread as here. . Tourist travel is at an all-time high and gaining. Advance reservations are necessary in the larger cities. Free spending by Americans “who don’t care what they pay” is blamed by permanent residents for much of the price rise. But Monterrey bankers say heavy shipments of metal, hennequin, sisal, cattie, leather and other goods to feed the U. 8S. war machine are chiefly responsible for the flow of dollars into Mexico. * Despite the evident wealth, industrial leaders are not satis the Mexican economy. Agricultural production is lagging because reforms have been carried out to get votes rather than to increase much needed wheat, corn, beans, cotton, rice, dairy and livestock products. :

By Major Al Williams

to offer emergency landing, comfort and refueling facilities to the private pilot. This should be a gov-ernment-finance job, they say. ' Sure, let the government do it. Public money is nobody's money. These fellows cannot for the life of them see the airstrip scheme develop on the strength of privately financed landing strips—virtually little airports—Ilocated near main highways. Then we come to the great. national airport building program ‘which proposed to build thousands of private -and- fnunicipal landing. fields all over the country. This by-all"means must’be done with government money.

Let Plane Come First

OF COURSE the more of these .projects there are the more employees there must be on the federal payroll. Just a cool billion dollars' for this national airport program. Its sponsors openly have convicted themselves in speeches on the floor of congress by admitting that “if we are going to spend money for unemployment relief, let us put it into something such as airports, which will be a permanent asset to the country as a whole.” There's the real lowdown. This airport program really is an unemployment relief project—an aviation We don't want this gigantic aviation WPA hung around aviation’s neck at this time, because neither the country nor the industry can carry the load. The motor car came before the highways. And the private plane should come before more airports.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tend a committee meeting of members of my own delegation. I had asked an old family friend, Lady ArcherShee,.to coue in for tea and, as I could not get back, I was very glad that my aunt, Mrs. Gray, who had come over from Ireland with her husband to stay with me for a few days, was able to look after my guest. I had just a few minutes to talk with her before my meeting started. ; At- a little before 7, when I went in to see Mrs Byrnes, I founa@ that her husband and Senators Connally and Vanderberg were still sitting:in Westminster hall watching the ballots cast. On Sunday, as there were no meetings, I had arranged to lunch with my old friends, Mr. and Mrs: Leonard Elmhirst, and to dine with Sir Arthur and Lady Salter. I kept both these engagements but, in both cases, had to leave to drive down to the B.B.C. studios. First I had*fo make a record to be transmitted to Washington for the opening of the March of Dimes in connection with the annual infantile paralysis campaign. This campaign has been conducted ever since my husband went to Washington. - Funds havé been raised in these campaigns in many different ways, but the March of Dimes is one of the chief methods. Outside every motion-picture theater, there is a table on which are receptaclés into whic people put their contributions of dimes. I have always felt that this was one of the best ways of making it possible for almost everyone to contribute in a great national effort. Even children save their pennies until they can put a dime down on the table outside a movie theater. 1 My little talk on Sunday was made in recollection of the many years that I have gone with one of the District of Columbia commissioners to speak at the

“opening céremonies of the March of the Dimes. I was particularly grateful that Mrs. Truman and her ceremonies

—=4' i .er were able to take part in these cere

by the

{many of which operate to prohibit the use of improved processes and materials.

Mr, Brooks

~ - ” HERBERT U. NELSON, executive vice president of the National .Association of Real Estate ds, es timates that modern building codes and removal of labor restraints could chop as much as 30 per cent from home costs. To this could be added savings in improved methods by builders themselves. The department of justice set out in 1939 to clean up monopolistic practices among housing suppliers and labor organizations. Trustbuster Thurman Arnold, then head of the anti-trust division, ‘asserted his determination to “reduce the cost of building substantially” and thereby stimulate industrial activity and employment. The time was appropriate; material costs had doubled in about four years. " » ¥ NINETY indictments were returned in 11 key cities against more than 1500 defendants but the results fell far short of Mr. Arnold's hopes. Some convictions resulted, consent

[BUILDING INDUSTRY STILL IN LOW GEAR

home construction has never

when the war curtailed anti-trust actions. : But what really wrecked the Arnold campaign was a supreme court decision holding that unions are immune from anti-trust actions unless their activities are tied with illegal offenses by business organi-

zations. Thus the government is|

powerless to deal with union jurisdictional rules requiring extra labor and adding unnecessarily to the cost of a building job. ” ~ ” SINCE 1941 Rep. Monrohey (D. Okla.) has been sponsoring bills making anti-trust laws applicable to unions. His newest measure has been pending before the house judiciar:..commitiqe— for. almost ..a. year without action. It would outlaw “unreasonable” restrictions on the use of materials, allocation of labor markets and “featherbedding” —the requirement that an employer hire more workmen than he needs. Varied and complex are the practices by which material manufacturers attempt to protect their markets. . The justice department charged that 80 per cent of all plumbing supplies are marketed through approved jobbers who resell them only through approved master plumbers —all at pre-agreed prices. ” # ” TWENTY-FOUR of the department’s sulfs were directed against sub-contractor and dealer-contractor groups for maintaining “bid depositories” under which bidders learn thefr competitors’ prices be-

ferns af Bauling chimes. Producers decrees were entered in a spore of |Of other items may refuse civil cases and material prices | to contractors who patronize mail

its complaints against the unions’ own restrictive practices.

. . ¥ SOME of the latter, however are quite familiar--the limitation on the number of bricks a bricklayer may handle in a day, the banning of paintbrushes of mere than a certain width, bans against sprayguns and power tools, rigidly defined rules separating craft operations, long periods of apprenticeship and limitations on the size of apprentice forces. : Since such work rules cannot be dealt ‘with effectively: by the federal government, they remain a local problem. Some communities report recent concessions by the unions as a result of the skilled labor shortage.

- ” » THE effect of both industry and labor practices, says a survey by the Twentieth Century fund, is to “freeze the pattern of the housebuilding industry in its local mold

fore contract awards are made,

Keep Homes Cost Hig

merce Alfred Schindler, are “jus plain ridiculous.”

adopted throughout the country with minor local variations. Suc-

» . FHA, through it regulations gov-

(Third of a Series)

By S. BURTON HEATH NEA Stiff Writer

EW YORK, Jan. 16.—Be- | cause the serviceman gets no withholding receipt from Uncle Sam, he must use Formpn 1040, if he has to file a return, unless he has a Form W-2 in connection with off-hour civilian work or payments from his pre-service employer. But he has the same option as a civilian, of computing his own deductions or using the tax table for | any income under $5000. If he has more than $4809.99 of income he can use the standard $500 deduction, if he chooses. x PE WHETHER or not the serviceman uses - the table (or the standard deduction) he is entitled to deduct, against income reported in Item 2,| expenses of official travel for which! he was not reimbursed. Expenses of furlough trips are not deductible. Some service variations of these include: Actual expenses of travel paid out of mileage allowance (the allowance

having been included in income); or, where a per diem allowance was

above the amount of the allowance. Also the ¢xcess of a naval officer's mess Mills while afloat, or an army officer’s in the field, above his subsistence allowance—provided the officer has a home from which such duty is keeping him away; if he has no such home, he cannot stake this deduction.

OTHER deductions cannot be taken by servicemen if ‘they are ‘using the tax table or the standard deduction. Anyone who is trying the long way can take the ‘following, if he has them, on page 3. The value of personal effects lost in action, to the extent that he is not reimbursed. This would include effects en to the services for storage or transportation, and never recovered. Disbursing officers can'deduct the amount of shortages not due to their own negligence, that they have had to replace, In addition to those mentioned for civilians, there are the cost of

SOLDIER KILLED IN GUNPOWDER BLAST

FORT DIX, N. J, Jan, 16 (U P.).—~Army authbrities today investigated the ‘cause of an explosion which killed one soldier and injured -three others at the Forf

Dix military, post. A premature explosion of obsolete gunpowder while it was being destroyed killed Pvt. Edward J. Rohrig, the Bronx, N.-Y, and injured. Pvt. Nathan “Kaplan, the Bronx; Pvt. Francisco Valdez, San Fe, N. M., ind Pvt. Valentine Mass Arelli, New York City. Maj. Gen. Leland 8. Hobbs, commanding officer, said the blast cecurred in the vicinity of the magazine area while the men were

THE SEVICEMAN'S INCOME TAX—NO. 3

G. |. Can Make Several Deductions

insignia of rank and of corps, intluding officers’ lace and devices sewed onto coats; collar devices, shoulder marks, chin straps, cap devices; the excess bo gold decoration on general rs’ caps; the tost ‘of campaign bats," swords, full-dress belts, epaulets and aiguillets; the expense of altering uniforms because of changes in rank. When a serviceman is out of the country and his filing is deferred, his wife need not file unless her own income (including her share of her husband’s in community property states) amounts to at least $1200. - » » » IF THE wife must file by March 15, her return can be considered

and deprive it of the flexibility and| veloped a sort of super-code oh ¥ He sald he growing space that an aggressively| standards of safety and sanitation.| -the strikes bir ami expanding industry must have”) ne costs added by industrial and| strikes by the city folks. If a Moreover, the organization adds, the| japor restraints and ancient codes| pound of bacon from ome of his practices result in home prices be-| oter 5 partial explanation of why| «hogs costs 42 cents in’ the city yond the reach of a majority of the| ne government _has been under| that is a sign he got too much DO ding codes also add to] CONSA0E pressuré tg. use :publici ‘money for the hog. He'd rather Local i balding es [funds “10 surse housebuilding by| get less. a Se a, roar Drogvem. Newt) subsidy and easy finance programs.| “What I mean is that if these overhauled for 20 years or longer] NEXT: High Costs Raise Danger feos In ihe factories pay thess and most cities enter the post-war! Signals for Homebuilding. S : Shi¥ve got “That's the cause of these strikes, » " » Ge “NOW IF I didn't get quite so much money for my corn and my oats and my pork, the prices in the cities wouldn't be so high and the people could get by on as tentative. When her husband VICEMEN In this country are| their old wages. Maybe save return if they wish. a an, Ms. Doser will. wall at thh If the absent husband has no|iayaple income. For: those abroad, White but- dot get he taxable income his wife, filing onthe filing of estimates is deferred| | SOME to say all this her income, can claim a $500 pers ; to President Truman. If .prices - i lon the same basis as the making are high, that 's sont exemption PL fof Telirns. 70 © hase ey There are eight community prop-|" when » man dies in the service, | °0kOU and ob le erty states’ in which the wife is not complaining personally. all his tax obligations are cancelled liable for reporting half of her hus-|aytomatically. His estate owes no Only he, Mrs. Oeser and their band’s taxable salary. They are tax on his earnings during the year eight children don't need all this Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisi- i, which he died, and any obliga- cash, . It is nice to have, but ana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas | jon: for previous years are termi- they don't need it. Also it is & and Washington. Under optional|..ieq4 If such obligations have| kind of nuisance. community property laws in Okla- heen pajd on behalf of a man for That's that. Itll be a long homa and Oregon the wife's taX|in, year in which he died in service,| time before anything like this

status is undetermined; she should claim that which is most favorable to her state the facts, and let the bureau and the courts decide.

VACCINES have been widely used for years with the hope of preventing colds. Studies conducted at the

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Vaccine Tests Disappointing

Cold Virus Not Yet Trapped

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. |persons suffering with colds.

Since the common cold is due to | a filterable virus, the germs included in the vaccine are not responsible

usually had four or more colds per

given injections of the cold vaccine; Group B was given injections

codes, says Undersecretary of Com-|

cess of such an undertaking, how-| Who raises 200 hogs a year and ever, can be measured only in years.| grows 100 bushels of cord per . acre on most of his 160 acres, said

there is OTHER codes, adopted under Mich & man. His » political influence, provide effective name is John monopolies for given products—and| Oeser- He comes from Westside, keep prices up. Many favor local] Ia and he is the typical Mids . materials even though costs are west farmer, ' higher. Some even specify products| That's why he and Mrs. Oeser by name, Others require exeessive| 8re in Washington. The trip was amounts of materials and unreason-| the prize they won from Yankton, able strength tests—again raising] S. D. tadio station WNAX for costs. running a better farm than anyThe government has sought to| body else in North Dakota, South standardize building codes but prog-| Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and: ress has been slow. Since 1935 the| Towa. 2 American Standards association, the} + So:-ihers were the ~Oesers iy bureau of standards, the federal the Statler hotel, leaning’ on the housing administration and indus-| cushions and being quietly flabs trial groups have been working on| bergasted at the way their hosts ¢ model code which could be| Were spending money. a

HER GRAY-HAIRED husband,

he was earning so much money that it worried him a little.

year were selected. Group A was.

We, the Women— rs

War Experience - Shows Value of

Older Workers

By RUTH MILLETT

“CHANGE the attitude of eme ployers toward older women looking for work and we won't

made, any excess of actual expense i

University - of Mi

Dr. O’Brien

nnesota by H. 8.|for the infection.

vaccines are developed from mixtures of the germs most commonly [vided into four groups of from 300 found in the nose and threat of to 400 each and only those who

Therefore it is Diehl, M. O,, and [not surprising that these vaccines associates indicate have proved disappointing. that vaccines are a.0.8 8 not of value ini AS THE virus of the common such prevention.) cold promotes the growth of other The idea that they germs in the respiratory passages, were of value it was hoped that a vaccine made came from indi-|from these germs might reduce the vidual experiences number of complications. But again rather than from the investigators were disappointed group studies in|in their results. The same number which controls of complications were observed in were used. {the vaccinated patients and the Ordinary cold|controls. The university students were ai-

BILL MAULDIN

TARGA Cob 1946 by United Foature Syndicate, Ine, “That ‘was the capitol in 1951, Congress was debating a salary raise

for itself when the bomb struck”

.|blesome injections. Group C stu- |

of sterile water in the same number of injections; Group C was given oral vaccine which they took throughout the winter according to instruction; Group D was given capsules with the same general appearance, but they only contained milk sugar. / None of the students knew what they were given and none of’ the physicians who saw them with their colds knew what they had received. ” . » ¥ STUDENTS reported to the Stuident Health Service whenever a cold developed apd a record was kept of each cold which lasted more than 24 hours. Studies continued over three years. Group A students who recelyed injections. of vaccines reported that in the previous year they had averaged 4.7 colds, but during the year they were taking vaccine they averaged only 21 colds, which is a reduction of 55 per cent, and apparently an excellent result. y Control Group B who received water injections had an average of 49 colds the previous year and 19 colds during the experiment, “or a reduction of 61 per cent, proving that injection of vaccine did not prevent colds. erm Oral vaccination against colds was proposed in order to avoid the trou-|

criticizing ‘women for refusing to admit their age and running around in circles fighting a lose ing battle to stay young indefie nitely. . : The writer says that when she and went job hunting she Was told everywhere that she was toe old. : Whereupon she decided thay atleast one group of WOmEN-= those . working for a couldn't afford to be frank about their ages. ; . 8 = IF THE WAR didn’t teach ems ployers & new respect for their older women older to see their superior qualities. - During the war these workers stood out markedly. Walk into a store and the clerks were usually very : young girls or gray-haired women. Some of the young courteous, willing and but all too often they

dents who received oral vaccine capsules reported approximately 70 per cent reduction in colds.. Group D students who received the milk sugar capsules also reported the same reduction. The average number of days lost per person from school was exactly the same in both groups. :

FOUR JOIN STAFF OF | BUTLER UNIVERSITY

Dr, M: O. Ross, Butler university president, today announced the appointment of Dr. Roland Green Usher and Prof. William F, 8hors to the university faculty for the second semester, Luk a He also announced the return of Maj. Merwyn G. army{

portant to- you, you found yours self looking for an older woman,

She had grown up in an age where “thank you” was an ime