Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1946 — Page 15
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. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—One of my favarite college professors was in town the other day on business at the agriculture department. He was distressed. He said he'd never in his life seen so many people doing nothing. He said if I were any kind of reporter, I'd . ,
Okay, professor. I have spent this day at the agriculture department, where 10,000 clerks and offi-
clals are in charge of the good earth. Everything
Jooked normal to me. Some of these people were working. Those who had their feet on their desks took ‘em off when I walked in, ° . An-official of the establishment, who somehow didn't want to be quoted, said he believed it fair to say that the department's work could be done efficiently with about one-third the number of employees it has. One of the numerous press agents said he, liked working for the government, all right, if he only had some work to do.
Sits and Waits
HE SAID he writes not more than one handout a week; the rest of the time he just sits, hoping that some newspaperman will phone for hifits on how to grow orchids, roast turkeys, shear sheep, or turn potatoes into whisky. A lady at the department, whom I have known for
’ years, told me it was unfair to write about do-nothing
farm experts. She said would she be drinking coffee with me if she had work to do? She said furthermore
+ that agriculture department people work harder than
clerks in other federal departments she could name. Of this I have no doubt. But I did hoof through the two great buildings of the farm folks and I think I saw what irked the
(Donna Mikels is on vacation,
Favorite Park
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. Aug. 27.—This is the favorite park of American mountain climbers. These great spears of rocks speckled with snow, more than 12,000 feet high, are a challenge to them. They come here from everywhere, risking their necks for the thrill of sitting triumphantly on the peaks and gazing down on conquered cliffs. I asked Allyn F. Hanks, chief ranger, what equipment the climbers need. He said you must have good footwear—hobbed boots or climbing shoes—and warm, durable clothing. Also some stout ropes. Climbers must get permits for the more difficult trips and no solo climbing is permitted. Whether you go in for this sort of sport or not, you must visit the Tetons when you come out this way. You won't find more rugged grandeur anywhere. The jagged peaks seem to shoot up out of Henry and Jackson lakes, great bowls of dark blue water. Grand Teton, for whom the park is named, is the head peak. It rises 13,766 feet above sea level and 7000 feet above the lakes and the surrounding Jackson Hole country. Close by are Mount Owen (12,922), Middle Teton (12,798), Mount Moran (12,594), South Teton (12,505) and Mount Teewinot (12,317).
Higher Mountains in West
THERE ARE higher mountains in the west but none sharper. The national park service wants this park to remain as primitive as possible, so there are no hotels and cabins in it. There are some just outside the park but you get them early in the day. The park operates two camp grounds — one on Jenny lake and one on Jackson lake. We came to the latter and pitched our tent right on the shore. It was rather frigid here last night. Today it is just warm ehough to be comfortable in jackets.
Had to Carry Water T'LL BACKTRACK a bit now and give you a report on a few places. At the Po-Ahtun ranch 50 miles west of Denver we spent two days and three nights in a picturesque
Aviat THE BRITISH, as always, are aware of the advertising value of owning the world’s top speed record. England is running wide open for aircraft export sales. And her salesmen have a great edge in
pointing to the latest speed record of 606 miles an hour established by British jet-prepelled planes. { The British, also aware that our army air forces are grooming a couple of P-80 jet-propelled jobs for a stab at the 606 miles an hour mark, are working feverishly to boost the power of their jet engines. They are making alterations in the speéd planes to top our mark if we do succeed in upping their recdrd. . Think what an advantage a British aircraft salesman has today when he is able to exhibit a picture of the Gloster jet-propelled fighter, called the “Meteor,” under the caption of “the fastest aeroplane in servfce today.” That's a royal flush a competitor cannot argue down.
British Have Head Start IN THEIR speed runs over the course while establishing the world speed record of 606 the British learned a lot of things. For instance, plastic hoods over the cockpits had come to be the accepted thing. The British discovered that the extremely high speed raised the temperature of all the parts of the plane exposed to friction with the air. During the fourth run over the speed course, the air friction had raised the temperature of the plastic hood of the “Meteor” to such an extent that the plastic material softened and finally fractured.
My Day
HYDE PARK, Monday. —As I've watched the rise of the polio epidemic during the summer, I've realized how much must still be done if we are going to find the cause of this dread disease and learn how to
prevent it. Sister Kenny's method has improved the treatment, and there is no question that today we know a great deal more than we did about how to help people to recover from the disease if it is discovered
I time,
Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, told me that my husband wanted them to put all they possibly could into research in the hope of finding something that would prevent children and adults from getting this disease, and to stick to it until they were successful. I think the foundation has heen doing this, but since the progress seems so. slow, I am wondering if the medical profession should not attempt research along new lines in the hope that allied research may help the main stream that one is trying to elucidate.
Greater Toll Than Polio FOR INSTANCE, more children in this country die from the effects of rheumatic fever than from polio. One of my acquaintances has been writing to me about his work in a hospital which has brought him in contact with these children. For him it is a new discovery and therefore a shocking and horrible fact. He cannot understand why it is not constantly emphasized. For many of
By Frederick C. Othman
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professor, The time was 11 a. m. and an elderly secretary was strolling down the corridor to one of the lunch rooms with her coffee cup’ in her hand. She stopped to talk to a man coming the other way with a box of sandwiches. 1 didn't look in all the offices, but I stuck my] head into two or three dozen and I should say that more than half the people I saw seemed to be typing, reading reports, or doing some sort of work for the taxpayers. The teletype room was going great guns.
Tell Funny Stories
SECOND SECTION
THE BOYS in thie mail room were dawdling over coffee. A man and his secretary on the fourth floor of the south building were looking out the window. Nex! door two men were doing the same thing. One floor down three gents had their feet on one desk. | Around the corner five agriculture experts were telling
TUESDAY* AUGUST 27, 1946 DAUGHTERS, GRANDDAUGHTERS JOIN G. A. R. VETERANS—
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funny stories, which the typist didn't find amusing. S&
She pounded away grimly. The 50 automatic duplicating machines in the cellar were shuffling out pronunciamentos on white, ! pink, green, yellow, orange, lavender and brown paper.. Bulletin boards all over the place were littered with cards advertising rooms for rent, six sterling silver nutpicks for sale at $3, rides to Wilkes- | Barre and a crib mattress, good as new, $5. Each board carried the handbill of “a government writer” | who offered to teacH stenographers how to produce short stories, radio scripts and magazine articles. | That's all right, too, but the professor and I are taxpayers. We're hoping that none of the authoresses turn out literature on our time. Ah, well. Maybe time will bring a change; even now a special committee is trying to decide how many helpers Secretary | Clint Anderson henceforth can do without.
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Inside Indianapolis will be resumed on her return.) |
By Eldon Roark
cabin on the side of the mountain. We looked down on a clear, cold stream roaring over the rocks, with the water backed up at several points by beaver dams. We had no plumbing or electric lights, had to tote weiter from the stream and cook on a wood stove, but the cabin was so roomy and the setting so ideal that we didn't mind. The price was $5 a day. The swankiest place at which we have stopped so far was Eddie Behn's Motor hotel in Denver. We had a little apartment there—a tastefully furnished living room with carpeted floor, double in-a-door bed and radio, bedroom, bath with tub and shower, kitchenette with electrical refrigeration—8§7 a day.. The proprietor is a former prizefighter who is now chairman of the Colorado Boxing commission and vice chairman of the National Boxing association. In Rocky Mountain National park we camped in Glacier Basin. We nearly froze the first night. When you sleep on cots, don’t make the mistake of putting all of your covers on top of you. You need just as many, or more, underneath you. Newspapers spread on the cots also help. When camping we sleep in our clothes. We dress for bed instead of undressing—put on twice as much as we wear during the day.
Cabin camps at Rocky Mountain park have been §
It is easier to get a cabin for one or two nights than it is for a week. Stanley hotel, the largest at Estes park, has been booked far in advance. It operates on the European plan (meals not included) and the minimum rates are $12 a day, double. : We spent last night at Rock Springs, Wyb., a coal-mining city. We couldn't get a cabin in a motor court but found an apartment in a private home— two bedrooms, bath, kitchen. The price was $5.50. The drive from Laramie, where the state university is located, west to Rock Springs, was through some desolate country, including the Red desert. At Rock Springs we turned northward toward the Tetons and passed through the little town of Pinedale. | 1t, brags that it is “The town farthest from a railroad | in thé United States.” :
By Maj. Al Williams
The new “Meteors” will be fitted with metal cockpit hoods provided with two glass windows. There's no question about the superiority of British jet engines. They've got a head start on us and mean to capitalize on it. Still, not advertised, the British have some giant jet engines capable of producing the equivalent of be-| tween 8000 and 15,000 horsepower. If they can per-
full all season.
fect these power plants, they can offer us the fiercest”.
kind of competition. |
R. A. F. Going to Get Jobs | AS MATTERS stand today, the British cannot compete in volume or quality with our giant air transport planes. If they attempt such competition, they haven't got a chance. So they can start with a clean slate and go to work building jet-propelled or turbo-jet-driven passenger planes of any size and outstrip our speed performance by a wide margin. | Jet-propelled airliners should be able to halve transoceanic time. Such performance would permit them to offer a quality air service we would have a hard time combating. : There are several huge transports budding in this country which could use jet or turbo-jet power plants to good advantage. And the British jet representa- | tives are over here now trying to sell our aircraft manufacturers on buying their turbo-jet patent or distributing rights. According to excellent advice, the British R. A. F is permitting its existing contracts for reciprocating gas engines to run out and is going to jet engines exclusively as standard military equipment, |
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By Eleanor Roosevelt
us, it is a well-known ailment which has taken its toll for many, many years. The other day, I read an article about it by Albert Deutsch. I began to wonder again if all these] diseases—rheumatic heart, spastic children, polio— might not have some conneetion, and if research could not be carried out on all three simultaneously.
Some Particularly Unfortunate SPASTIC children I have written about before. But I want to emphasize again that these children are particularly unfortunate because their minds are often unaffected and yet their bodies are badly crip-| pled. training if they are going to be happy and useful in their lives. If the parents of a child so afflicted are poor,| there is often no way to give him the training which | would make life endurable. “Even for a moderately | well-to-do family, the cost of the care is so great that one child becomes a handicap to the living standards of the whole family. | It seems to me that the government—as well as private foundations—has an obligation to do research in all three of these diseases which take such a heavy toll among children. Science has found the answer to so many things in the past, but it always seems as though, when one answer is found, new diseases develop. | Perhaps that is the challenge nature presents to us, but we certainly should not limit our research just because we feel we are on a never-ending quest.
91,000,000 Eligible
Voters Anticipated
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27' (U. P.). number of persons reaching thes io44. The reason given was that |
~The census buream reported today there will be an all-time record of more than 91,000,000 po- gg 000,000 voters. tential - voters this year. Women,| The bureau the bureau. added seem destined greater to- be “increasingly influential” in future elections.’ The figures were . based on ' the
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age of 21 as of last July 1. In the 1944 elections, the bureau non-presidential years. said, there were slightly more than
exercise privilege, but said the number of (171,000, compared to an excess of | votes ‘this year probably will be|females totaling 730,000 in 1944 and less than. the 47,000,000 cast in only 73,000 in 1940,
there is “far lighter” balloting in
As for the increasing influence of women, it noted that as of last noted a trend to July 1, women reaching 21 out-
of the voting numbered men of that age by 1,-
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Fighting the Civfl War all over again are G. A. R. Veterant Theodore A, Penland, 98, of Portland, Ore, (left) and William H. Osborn,
103, of Joplin, Mo.
Former G. A. R. Commander Robert M. Rownd, 102, of Ripley, N. Y,, helps Women’s Relief Corps Member Cora E. Gillis keep the record straight on the 80th national encampment.
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sea frontiers. Monitors describe the signal as equal in volume to that of a plane pre-
paring to land, indicating the!
Russians are directly overhead in the fog. Unofficially, Russia says these are weather patrol flights. is impossible at Attu, since there are no Russian language officers there. The army has several at Ancherage, 1700 miles east. Until this week, Navy had one at Kodiak, 1200 miles east. He has since returned home for discharge and has not been replaced.
n Md ” AT THE same time, American patrols cannot fly closer than 200 miles to Russian territory. The Komandorskie islands are 210 miles west” of Attu. On the Siberian mainland, across
Verification
the Sea of Okhoisk from Kam-|
chatka, the U. 8. S. R. has under=-
taken a series of scientific experi-|
ments by which they apparently hope to modify Siberia’s harsh win-
"ters and set up permanent military
ases, . Siberia, like much of Alaska, is covered by layer after laver of perma-irost, the accumulation of centuries of sub-zero weather in which one winter's frost is frozen on top another's, The Russians are using bulldozers and snow plows to clear large perma-frost areas, ~ n »
only infinitesimally—the resulting| national date line.
OUR DEFENSES IN ALASKA . . . By Jim Lucas
Russ Build Big War Base Off Aleutians
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Meeting concurrently with the gowned niembers of the Women's
| Going Tough
By FRED W, PERKINS ia Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 27~The 150. men and women who are here to get full government recognition | for independent unions, not a part
of the A. F. of L. or the C. I. O,
' | are getting more proof today of | the accuracy of an official opinion £ [that they are “swimming upstream.” They have learned also that many. lures, in the form of a banquet in- | vitation, may be thrown into the stream of official Washington, and
{few if any big fish will be caught
G. A. R. at the Claypool are whiteRellet Corps, comprising daughters
and ‘granddaughters of. Union army veterans.
A replica of signs posted along of which runs through northern Indiana, is examined by Commander-In-Chief Hiram R. Gale, 98 (right), and his son, Edgar Gale, both of
Seattle.
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The | constituents of the department of
This map illustrates why U. S.-owned Alaska is assuming major strategic importance.
Only 57 miles
iil homcentls affects~at fist] of the Bering strait separates Alaska from Soviet Russia. Midway in the strait are the Diomede islands, 5S apparently 8—a '5L1 one owned by Russia, the other by the U. 8. Through the three-mile strait between them runs the inter-
Strung out from the lower Alaskan peninsula are the Aleutian islands, which the Japs
weather, which in turn affects the| jnyaded in 1942 and which now form a vital link in the Alaskan defense. soil, which exerts still a more pro-|
found influence on the weather, of American and Russian popula-|was not touched by the war. Even Results “statistically but not yet tion. [when the war department, fearing physically noticeable” have been ye {Japan would seize or neutralize achieved. Succeeding frosts have! OF MORE
been progressively less severe,
If the Russian experiments are convert a score or more secondary | showed They have to have great care and careful successful, large areas of Siberian|landing fields—built to ferry lendfor {lease planes during world war II— military and commercial expansion. into permanent installations.
wastelands will be available It may mean over a period of years that both Alaska and Siberia can
accommodate heavy concentrations
however, it may enable Russia to
Most of these fields are on the Siberian peninsula facing Alaska. Petropavlovsk, a city of 91,000,
This map shows the location and size (about 35,000 square miles) of oil reserve which the navy began developing in 1944. North of the Arctic Circle, the Barrow reserve is 1100 miles from the North Pole and is accessible by ship convoy for only 15 days a year, .
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immediate concern, | Vladivostok, urged Petropaviovsk as|tion of shipping is there.
lan alternate harbor, the Russians little interest. They ‘refused to discuss dredging Avancha bay. ~ ~ » SHORTLY before V-J day and continuing until today, they have worked overtime making Petropavlovsk a Siberian base, with what can be described as considerable success. The highway from Bol
first all-weather road on the peninsula. There is no indication of a letup. The same heavy concentraAlthough the highway will allow the Russians to land supplies on the Sea of Okhotsk and transport them overland, the bulk apparently comes around Cape Lopatka to Petropavlovsk, where docks, wharves and cranes are available for unloading. Petropavlovsk's ice-free harbor is on of the best in the far north,
(TOMORROW: We could have
| sheretsk to Petropaviovsk is thelanother “Pearl Harbor.”)
look for Park, Find Cemetery
Times Foreign Service CALGARY, Alta, Aug. '27— | American tourists are not the type {to miss a trick—even if it leads to the graveyard. A few of them, embarged on taking a look at Calgary's beauty spots, hit upon some signs pointing to Queen's park. They followed them for several blocks, practically out into the prairie. When they stopped to check on their direction, they were told that |they really were on their way to Queen's park, They finally arrived at a plot filled with tombstones.
city’s north -side cemetery, 3
‘DYEING OF GRAIN | SAVES BIRD'S LIVES
By Science Service DENVER, Aug. 27. — Dyeing
| poisoned grain bright green or yel-
{low has been found an effective {means for preventing birds from {eating lethal baits for rodent pests |by E. R. Kalmbach and J. F. Welch of the U. 8. fish and wildlife service, with headquarters here. The birds seem to be repelled by {the colors, while the rodents, apparently color-blind, eat dyed grain as readily as natural-colored grain. | Details of the field tests made by the two Wildlife management workers will be given in-the October
They were at Queen's park, the|issue of the Journal of ‘Wildlife
Management.
unless the inviting organization has proved political potency. independent unionists are
labor, and to their social evening they invited Secretary Louis B. Schwellenbach and other top officlals of his agency. It was repre-
{sented by Edward L. Cushman, an
| assistant to the secretary, and {Charles T. Estes, a special assistant
in the conciliation service.
n..8 | NEITHER SECRETARY Schwel{lenbach, nor Undersecretary Keen {Johnson, nor Assistant Secretaries John ‘W, Gibson, Philip Hanna and David A. Morse, appeared. Mr. Cushman sald he understood the secretary “wasn't feeling any too chipper.” The independent unionists, who have formed a loose organization called the Confederated Unions of America claiming to represent two million American workers, are in
‘| direct competition with the A. F. of
L. and the ©. I. O.—powerful groups that have a monopoly of labor rep« resentation in government agencies, The “swimming upstream” diagnosis was delivered by W. Willard Wirtz, chairman of the national wage stabilization board, who said also: “I admire the spirit of your group. You must be a little discouraged about some of the rebuffs you get.”
» . ” MR. WIRTZ'S speech was the
ficial guests that touched on the {subject the visiting trade unionists {were thinking about. The other speakers, subordinates in various agencies with more or less relation to labor problems, recited the virtues of collective bargaining in general, or told humorous stories. Paul M. Herzog, chairman of the national labor relations board, dropped In for a few minutes, but escaped to another gathering before he could be called on. ” r » | BECRETARY OF COMMERCE Henry A, Wallace appeared at a {closed meeting of the independents, {begged off from the banquet, and | made a speech in which he said {he had not had opportunity to learn the purpose of the gathering, but that “I am a strong believer in independence.” “It is the American way of life.” he added. “I am also a believer in unity of purpose—unity of purpose running through all the ranks of labor, whether it be C. I. O. or A. F. of L, the railway brotherhoods, the independents—unity of purpose in fundamentals.”
» » ~ DON MAHON of Des Moines, Iowa, president of the C. U. A., told the banquet, “It is inconsistent that the largest classification of labor in the .United States, some six and a half million strong, should not be represented in government offices dealing with labor, on a basis equal to that of other organized labor. We intend to correct that inconsistency.” He outlined a “two-year pro= gram,” apparently leading up to the presidential election of 1948, when the independents forecast they may try to throw their weight around politically.
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Vacationists Undaunted By Warnings
By RUTH MILLETT
AMERICANS are vacation-hdppy. And what a tourist season this first post-war one has turned out to be. To get an idea of the number {of American families who have al- | ready piled into their automobiles— |nest of them pre-war models—and struck out for that long-dreamed-of vacation, you have to take to the road yourself ~ ~ » IT LOOKS as if all that “stay home” advice the vacation-minded were given early in the season fell on deaf ears. Tourists who used to drive until dark are stopping by 2 o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes even then only to find a “no vacancy” sign on every tourist court they pass and to be told by the hotels in even the smallest towns, “Sorry, but we're taking nothing but reservations.” r » » SOME who are turned away drive many miles astray in order to find lodging off the beaten path. Others pull off the highways and sleep in their cars. * » The more cautious travelers, of course, have their trips planned weeks in advance, with reservations all along the way. ”
ye 8 : INFLATION hasn't daunted the vacation-minded, either,
kind of amusement offered. The philosophy of : happy ‘America seems to be, “We waited a long time for this kind of vacation, and we're going to do it up right." ay diddy
only one of half a dozen from of-'
vacations
They are tossing money around with reckless abandon to enjoy any