Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1946 — Page 19

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one short after she was seated. She went up and told the driver, who unquestioningly gave her another token, Then as she reseated herself she spied the token in question on the floor. She again went back to the driver and returned the extra fare.

In College 2 Ways

IT MUST BE dificult for Ray Sears to remember whether he. can exercise a faculty member's prerogative of being a little bit late to class or whether he must be in by the tardy bell, like any other student.” Ray, back at Butler university after serving in the marines, is back at his old job as track coach,’ However, he's a taking several classes, one of the.

few faculty members at any state college who's also '

studying under the G. I. bill of rights. Incidentally, Butler will not have the Butler relays this year but the nationally known track event, directed hy Ray, will be resumed next year, ...Pvts. Margaret White, Susan Schuifz, Lee Slusher and Donna Knaflich, stationed at Stout field; enlisted after V-J day and thus have no point scores. . We note a new twist to the honorable discharge button, Some enterprising person has designed “valor” buttons. They're just like honorable discharge buttons, except that they come in different styles, having decorations below the eagle to show in what theater the wearer served. They &lso are made with a purple heart emblem above the eagle, for wounded yeterans. We don't know whether or not they'ré indorsed by ‘the war department.

Involuntary Gun Moll ROBERT YOUNG, over at Robert Young Photo studios, put one of his employees in an embarrassing position and incidentally scared about half the lunch-~ ers in the Ayres’ tray shop. Mr. Young frequently kidded the girl, Miss Jean Goulette, about having to dig all through a mammoth handbag, extracting half the articles in the process, before she could find any

Modern Mexico

TORREON “old” Mexico? The new and better Mexico that is rising out of the revolution is a significant development of our times. It is nowhere more apparent than in this fastgrowing city of 100,000, where 50 years ago there was nothing but desert. : As short a time as 10 years ago the place was an unpaved mudhole in the rainy season and a dusty, unkempt shopping center the rest of the time. You should see-it now. Torreon is the wave of the future in our sister republie. This center of the extensive Laguna irrigation district, which specializes in cotton and wheat, is in the midst of a phenomenal building program. A fine airport with a beautiful modern passenger station is just being completed. A 10-story hotel with all the latest plumbing and gadgets is going up. The Banco de Mexico has under construction a concrete, steel ‘afid stone headquarters for its interests in the northern states of Coahuila, Durango and Chihuahua.

Farmers Are Happier A CONCRETE baseball stadium with a lighted field for night games is crowded to its 5000 capacity regularly during the playing season. Farmers swarm in to the night games in trucks to root for the home team. There are huge néw grain elevators, flour mills and cotton gins, some of which have been built by the

Aviation

THE RAPID RATE at which the bifterness of railroad people is growing against aviation is astonishing and portends trouble ahead. The only known reason for this anti-airline feeling is that the railroads want to get into the airline business, and the airlines don't want them. Topside in Washington, of course the civil aeronautics board (CAB), has refused this permission to the railroads. The airline people have no desire to get into the railroad business and naturally don't want the railroads in their business. The latest rail move to break this restriction— if restfiction it is—is to urge that the jurisdiction over the airlines be taken from the civil aeronautics board and transferred to the interstate commerce commission (ICC). ’ The canals came first in this country. They fought the early railroads. The railroads naturally won by reason of their wider service to the public and the speed of that service.

Rails Put Up Fight THE RAILS fought the trucking and bus inter-

ests; and“as the last pressure step before amalgamation, the rails went into the bus and trucking busi-

Mexico. Jan. 18.—Did somebody say

ness. Maybe the rails will eventually gobble up the -

airlines directly, or get into the airline business and effect control. In either case the move will be bad for the airlines and for the public. The only people who regard the airline transportation business as a stured industry are those who don’t know the airline business. In fact it still is “in its infanéy and p's & lot of hard pioneering. to be dome, wi No one claims ‘the, rails cannot handle another pioneering spurt. But. inspection of the rail accommodations rolling today readily convinces an impartial observer that something radical will have to happen within the rail groups to pioneer the modemization of the long overdue rail transportation

My Day -

LONDON, Thursday. —Sometimes, in watching the UNO assembly delegates from some of the European countries, I wonder if they are thinking of the days when the league of nations was being set up. Many of them, as young and idealistic assistants to the leading statesmen of those days, played a part. in that first effort to get the nations of the world together in a co-operative organization to keep peace.

The fact that we Americans were not there does

make us bring a fresher outlook to this present effort. In addition, in neither world war I or world war II, have we seen our country invaded, our factories rendered useless, our .flelds pockmarked with shell holes and domb craters, our woods destroyed, our civilian population starved and terrified. This has left us with more vitality and strength than the other nations involved. Without minimizing in any way the anxiety, strain

and sorrow which we lived through during the war, .

1 sometimes think that the fact that we have been spared 80 much must mean that our nation is destined for a very high service of some kind.

Job Already Cut Out IT PUTS a rather appalling amount of responsibility upon us—upon our citizens and Gpon our statesmen, who must lead us well if we are to fulfill our world obligations in this period of crisis. We are not accustomed to thinking of ourselves in such a role. It is one we hardly relish; and yet it is one, I think, ‘which it 1s going to, be Enpossible ‘to escape.

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Ray Sears... Faculty member alias student.

of the purse’s contents. She was going through this pkdcedyre after finishing lunch, trying to find her wallet. When groping around in the dark failed, she began to take articles out and pile them on the table in Ayres, all the time wondering where the wallet was. Imagine her surprise when she dug to the bottom and pulled out a revolver. And she was no more surprised. than the people around her, who all began staring and whispering as she stared stupified at the gun. She'd never seen it before and couldn't figure ‘out how dt got there. Red-faced, she finally saw the stares, found the wallet hidden in a side compartment, and replaced the gun. After she’d gotten back to work she found Mr. Young and same fellow workers had tucked the wallet away and put a very real looking Gene Autrey gun in her bag, figuring that she might pull it out looking for her money.

By George Thiem

government for the agrarians since the land was divided up 10 years ago. A new dam and power plant is under construction 60 miles up the Nazas river that promises to give farmers a more secure and steadier flow of water plus lower electric rates, New homes are rising in the extensive subdivision at the edge of the ctiy. Nearby there is the new Casa Del Campesino—home of the peasant—a cooperative hotel and clubhouse where the farm workers stay when they come to town to do business with the federal* credit bank.

Own Country Club

THE CITY has its own country club with a ‘sporty, 18-<hole golf course, tennis courts and swimmiznig. pool. There is a commodious new clubhouse for dances and dinner parties. Anybody can belong for. 15% SPegos, about $3, a month. Ignorance and illiteracy are on the run in Mexico, fleeing ‘before the extensive federal school system which is being supplemented by privately endowed classes for adult education. There is a national slogan, “Everyone teach one” which the educated middle and upper classes are supporting with their pesos, time and effort. Mexico is going places, make no mistake about that, Its agricultural reforms may be bogging down, its railroads running behind schédiile, but there's a new spirit abroad here that promises better things for the people.

By Major Al Williams

and have enough pioneering drive left to take care of the airline development. The drive required to speed the development of any major industry is all that any one group can supply. Industrial history proves that. In the same records is found more than convincing proof that the control of all the ways and means of accomplishing any industrial job—transportation in this case—means a slowing down all around.

Not in Same Category

THE AIRLINES, despite the fact that they are pleading for autonomy, make sense with their claim that surface and air transportation are radically different specialties and do not belong under the same management. The proof is in the record that the rails could have had full and complete control of all the airlines today had they been willing to do the pioneering and underwrite the venture in the early stages. They didn't, and now they want control. As I see it, there are three distinct methods of transportation—raill, sea and air. And they should be kept under separate controls for the simple reason that the more they compete, the better the service to the public. Adm, W. A. Moffett became disturbed at the fierceness with which the various aircraft companies were competing for navy aircraft contracts. He asked one day, “Don't you think the fight is getting too hot?” “No. sir, the more and the harder they compete, He better and safer engines and planes we get to The future holds promise of radical developments in engines, planes, operation technique and in service to the public. Such a future demands freedom from unfriendly control. Keep the rails, the steamships and the airlines free—each doing its own job and the whole country will benefit. Consolidation of control eventually means monopoly. And the end result of monopoly is stagnation,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

The other evening, the very few women who are delegates, assistant delegates or advisers to thé assembly met with me in a conference room at our office. Among the few women who are full delegates, is Miss Ellen Wilkinson, British minister of education. She had just come back from Malta, where she had been inspecting schools. ‘That island, which was one of the most fought-over spots in the Mediterranean, is slowly coming back to normal life,

Knows Invasion’s Fury /ON TUESDAY, I had the pleasure of lunching with Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, who ‘18 here with some of her children. I remember so well when a number of them came to the White House, while I was away, and lunched with my husband, He loved children so much that this rather ‘large familf, which had just landed in a strange country as refugees from their own, appealed to him greatly. This family knows well what invasion of & country means, Pamilies who have, been separated and cannot rejoin each other, people who have been in concentration camps, others who have been reduced to poverty in exile—all are now struggling to rehabilitate themselves. People who have been caught away from home, and are not yet able to get transporta“tion back, cannot understand why travelling is not yet normal, since the war is over.

By HENRY BUTLER LOT of Indiana's current literary output is going into children’s books.

supervisor of work with children at the Indianapolis Central Public library.

» » ” A STATE which, in its literary golden age, probably led the nation in quality and quantity of books produced, now finds a number of its most energetic and successful authors writing juveniles. Almost alone among the survivors of the great Hoosier era, Booth Tarkington is still writing. Not many current writers seem likely to achieve eminence comparable to his, or Meredith Nicholson's or the late

George Ade’s.

” - » BUT DON'T get the idea that writing for children is mere child's play. Herself a writer (“The Pet Parade,” 1935, and “The School Bell Rings,” 1942—both juveniles), Miss Sickels says writing children’s books is hard work. “Children’s books nowadays are quite different from the nambypamby things some of them used to be,” says. Miss Sickels, “Inthe last few years, the trefid in juveniles has been towards facing big issues, such as religious and racial toleranoce, . » . “THAT'S something new. Not so long ago, no writer of children’s books would have dared to touch controversial subjects,” Miss Sickels adds. ! Since the war, there's been a great demand among children for books jdealing with countries their fathers ‘have seen in military service. England, France, Italy, Germany—even faraway India and Burma—{fascinate your sters whose fathers write home ab experience overseas. Juvenile 1on-fiction, such as the Childhood of Famous Americans series, published by Bobbs-Merrill, includes a number of Indiana writers.

1oosiers

So says Miss Evelyn Ray Sickels,

Augusta Stevenson of Patriot, Ind..

HOUSE PRODUCTION COULD PROVIDE MILLIONS OF JOBS—

Home Building Technique Lags

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STATE'S LITERARY TALENT FINDS NEW PRODUCTION OUTLET— bdo

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and Indianapolis, has written nine of that iin ‘

AMONG contributors to the Bobbs series are two other Indianapolis writers: Helen Boyd Higgins (Mrs. William Robert Higgins) and Jean Brown Wagoner (Mrs. Clifford Wagoner). Juvenile non-fiction works have served one purpose for which they

were not primarily intended, says

Miss Sickels. They have been most

helpful in getting retarded, slow-

reading pupils in the higher grammar grades interested in books. : ss 8 =» “MANY a child of 12 years or so will pretend indifference or hos tility to reading when his real trouble is that he's ashamed of being a

slow reader. In our work with chil-»

dren we find these simply written, clearly printed books a great aid to slightly backward youngsters,” she says. “Library Occurrent,” a quarterly

publication of the Indiana state li- -

brary, lists in its October-Decem-ber, 1645, issue some 20 Indiana writters specializing in children’s books. One of the most industrious has been Jeannette Covert Nolan (Mrs. Val Nolan) of Indianapolis and

By NED BROOKS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

ASHINGTON, Jan, 18.—A sustained program of home

building

more than $6 billion annually into trade and wage chan-

nels. It would provide four to five million jobs in building and related: industries. How can high production be maintained after the “flash” market created by wartime savings has run out? Only by measures which will get prices down to to the level which the average family can afford, the national housing agency answers. Unless: this happens, NHA adds, housing cannot assume its rightful place in the creation of post-war employment.

w " . “FUNDAMENTALLY,” says an NHA survey, “housing costs are high because the industry has not kept

pace with others in the development of new and more efficient techniques of organization, production and distribution.” Foremost among measures now being suggested for cost-cutting are: 1. Year-round operation of the industry. 2. Removal of restraints imposed by management and labor individ ually and in ¢combination. 3. Modernization of city codes. 4. Introduction of more mass production techniques. : 5. More public and private re-

| possible,

search in both technical and economic fields.

women are entitled to refunds on federal government,

First, are those mentioned in own income, could not or did not

pendent. By substituting a .new return, these can get the benefit of the husband's full $500 personal exemption—or, in the case of the 1943 return (due in March of 1944), can

$1200 to best advantage.

~ » » SECOND, are those enlisted men who, in any year from 1941 to now, included service pay in their tax income. Until last fal enlisted men, like officers, were exempted only on the

Shortages of every kind—in ‘houses, food, cloth ing—add to they Migeries, >

first $1390 of service pay. Some of the higher grades, With spats)

use the full family exemption of|

can contribute mightily to a high level of employment and od Pbusihiess activity. In this, all authorities agree. Housing production at the rate required to meet future needs—some 1,200,000 new dwellings a year—would pour

6. Encouragement of large investors to develop large-scale projects. - ® . YEAR-ROUND operation, which government authorities insist is now might open the way to guaranteed annual wages in the industry, which A. F. of L. leaders say is desirable but not now feasible. “In this age of tremendous scientific advancement,” says the commerce department, “there is no rea-

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son why construction of all kinds, especially that of houses, cannot be carried on in all kinds of weather.” Use of heated tenting, says the department, permits initial carpentry and brick work to be carried on, while plastering, plumbing, electrical work and advanced carpentry can be completed, in heated interiors by boarding windows after the roof is in place, » . » FORMATION of co - operatives composed of small contractors would assist in spreading the work more evenly, says the department. Central fabricating operations could reduce costs for the members of such ‘co-operatives. . An assured annual wage for building workers, says the department, would mean lower construction costs, more sales, more jobs and higher annual incomes for the building crafts. The C. I. O., which has attempted to challenge A. F. of L. dominance in the building industry, has emphasized high production and low cost of housing as opposed to practices geared to scarcity. It does not share its rival's opposition to many forms of prefabrication,

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By S. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer NEW YORK, Jan, 18.—A great many demobilized servicemen and

income taxes already paid to the

There are three major classifications of these. the previous article, who had less|: than $500 of reportable income and those whose wives, filing on their

claim the service husband as a de- service increments, had more than

that. The complete exemption of enlisted men’s service pay was made retroactive. Those who included such pay in returns on 1941, 1043, 1943 or 1944 income should -

out all service pay, and claim Tefupds.

APPLICATIONS tor such refunds on tax on 1041 or 1942 income must {be filed. by Jan. 1, 1047, on Form|. 843, obtainable from your Collector's office.” Claims on tax paid on 1043 or 1944 income must be made

Teturn was filed.

pute the tax for those years, } ving ph

within three years of the time. the

in juvenile books . .

THE SENATE committee on post- | war economic policy and planning, which conducted a seven-months e- into housing, urged a re-

and anti-racketeering laws and the federal trade commission act as a means of eliminating “monopolistic practices, combinations and restraints designed to maintain prices or restrict productivity.” The justice department Is now considering whether to renew the wartime anti<trust campaign. Other activities in combatting restraints and overhauling building codes were discussed in a previous article. Mass production techniques suggest prefabrication, which is still an infant industry, although 10 years old. . . » ABOUT 350 companies have been in the business at one time or another or have demonstrated an interest in it. But a recent survey by the National Association of Real Estate boards indicated that ndt more than 100 prefab firms will be in operation. The size of their output is uncertain. Some will offer completely - prefabricated homes, others will. merely produce prefabricated parts

Qut of 60 firms which answered a questionnaire, 41 said they would be active, 18 were undecided, 10 said they had decided against it. Several manufacturers in the latter group said they saw much opportunity for gains but large possibilities of loss. The prospective manufacturers indicated their main emphasis would be on homes in the $2000-$4000 range, although 16 said they would produce units costing $6000 and more, » . ’ CONVENTIONAL builders scoff at the more radical ideas of prefabrication. “Buck Rogers houses” and “igloos” are names applied by the National Association of Home Builders to the dwellings proposed in a bill recently introduced by

THE SERVICEMAN'S INCOME TAX—No. 5

Refunds Are Due Many Former Gls

The third classification includes those who paid tax on 1942 income, who earned less in 1943, and who have not -recomputed their 1942 taxes to take advantage of a money-saving privilege available to them. The tax law covering 1943 income, on which returns were filed in March of 1944, was by far the most complicated ever inflicted upon the American public. One of its intricacies involved what was called 'the “forgiveness” feature, For service men, this was further complicated by a well-intentioned’ provision for “recomputation.” -

» yo THIS WAS designed to help those

Ir{ who left civilian jobs for = the

smaller pay of the services. It provided that if the service man's tax on 1043 income (after eliminating the first $1500 of service pay) was

smaller than his tax on 1942 income, he was entitled to :(a) Eliminate from his 1942 inlcome the earned , as de-

by. congress ‘into’ anti-trust houses for veterans out of alumi-

Specialist Evelyn Ray Sickels, Bloomington, with 18 books listed. Visor of work with children in the Indinnnpeiis Public Hurary

+ Miss supersystem,

Senators Mitchell (D. Wash.) and Kilgore (D. W. Va). It proposes a $500 million program for using airplane plants to build

num and magnesium. Similarly unconventional is the dymaxion house, for which a Wichita aircraft factory has been retooled. Also made of metal, it is circular, built around a central column which contains all, machinery and will sell for $4800 erected—if a production rate of 10,000 can be reached. Its inventors say it can be heated for $1 a month.

» . . BECAUSE building is largely in the hands of small, loosely affiliated operators, it has suffered from a lack of the co-ordinated research conducted by other industries. The commerce department has recently established a new construction division under John L. Haynes, former chief of the war production board construction bureau, to encourage improved building methods, collect and distribute information to the industry and serve as it economic adviser. It has 30 employees now, hopes to have 100,

# ” ” THE SENATE post-war committee found building research “fragmentary” and urged expanded activ-

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they'll fight Sau pay. . » THE red-haired union lawyer Daniel Carmell of Chicago, said

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over the water, nor does he cons

sider the work especially dans gerous. Flying a four-motor aire plane calls for a man who knows his stuff, but it is not particu larly arduous. But — and here seems to be the nubbin of the case—these big, beautiful new liners fly at 300 miles an hour. two-engine jobs

the fundamentals sound familiar,

ities by the census bureau and NHA. The pending Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill provides $12,500,000 for a five-year study of production methads, materials, zoning laws and building codes and $25 million for grants op a matching basis to public bodies for other research and planning. Several universities have recently entered the building research field. An approach to large-scale financing also is made in the .Wagner bill. It provides for a new “yield insurance” system under which such institutions as life insurance companies would be assured of a 2% per cent return on investment if they agreed to put funds into housing projects on a 50-year basis at an annual return of 3% to 4 per cent.

fined in the previous article for “pre-service earned income”; and (b) Recompute the 1942 tax on the basis of what was left after elimination of earned income. In a vast majority of cases this would completely wipe out the 19042 tax. The exclusion of . $1500 of service pay would eliminate most 1043 taxes. So the service man would be entitled to a refund of most—or all—of ‘what he already had paid on. 1942 income.

" n ” SOME service men failed to take advantage of this provision be-| cause they were out of the country. More, probably, ignored it because their 1043 income <{above the exemption). was too small “to require filing, and they did not understand that they could re-{ claim their - previously paid 1042

We, the Women——

Here's Easy Way To Settle All Polite Clashes

By RUTH MILLETT “TWO STREET car passengers found a new solution to the old Alphonse and Gaston stymie. Each politely insisted that the other take a vacant seat. Final

ly they flipped a coin for the

space and the winner sat down.” Why couldn't we make good use of that technique in other etiquet procedure that all too often reaches a stalemate, with neither of the persons involved knowing how to get out gracefully.

“I really must go” and. the hostess says, “But you've just arrived,” a heads-I-stay, tails." go-home agreement would end the matter quickly. : A host could even have & coin handy to make a decision for the dinner guest who won't say whether he wants light meat x

there are always some who say, “Let's do have a game” and some who want to go on talking. A a aa, Tom we af y be quickly ended by coin.