Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1950 — Page 15

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from a buyer. Good story. -

The hoarding yarn, true or not, does reflect, to some extent, the way some women are th Which makes you wonder what the hoarders and profiteers would say if our soldiers in Korea sud- © denly insisted on cuff links, manicures, shoe shines and convertibles before they would do any more

fighting. - Can't Understand It

MR. FURGE was most frank about answering questions concerning nylon hosiery. He doesn't see why women are getting excited and beginning

to make a run on nylons.

Production of nylons exceeds consumer demand. In fact, a few months back, production was so high and demand so low that the company had to reduce wages, The situation was such that something drastic had to be done. Real Silk reduced wages with the approval of the union. The official admitted the slight cut in nylon thread by DuPont. But production has kept pace

“Why, to protect myself against the hoarders, course,” . :

The conversation was supposed to have taken place in one of our department stores. Raymond G. Furge, merchandising manager qf Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc, isn’t sure of its origin. He heard it from a salesman. The salesman heard it

Still rolling . . . Nylons are plentiful as yet. be the proper shade right off the bat. The machine begins to knit the top of the stocking and works down .to the toe. A pattern chain with a series of buttons guides the needles so they knit the thread into the proper shape. When we were leaving, Mr. Furge said the ma-

with normal demand, The excited, misguided Chines were the most complicated in the manu-| wearer of nylon hosiery can throw everything out facturing industry. I didn’t doubt him a minute.

of kilter., If everyone gets a notion to be safe _ from the effects of hoarding, we're off to the races for the future nylons is the looping department. again. Playing right into the hands

enemies,

“Have you seen how stockings are made?”

asked Mr. Furge.

I told him about a girl who started to knit a pair of argyles for me, That was three years ago

From the knitting department, the next stop

Here the toe of the stocking is sewed. Guide lines

in the material, formed by a different type of weave, give the girls .a starting point from which

to work for uniformity. Seaming comes next. The girls flip the stock-| ings through at an amazing rate of speed con-!

but I do remember how she was doing it. She'd sidering how closely they have to match. The re-

work awhile with a couple of needies, rip the yarn out, start over and on occasion burst into tears.

Yes, I've seen socks made.

’ Mr. Furge coughed and sald what I had seen He'll Take Grable was a far cry from what he had in mind. An hour ‘later I was coughing. Boy, I didn't know beans

inforced heel has to be on the nose when it's! joined, .

THE STOCKINGS are inspected, This is done! by placing each over a leg form that fills with air.|

about how nylons are made. Imagine, a guy like Not as shapely as Betty Grable's legs but it does! me, expert in ogling nylons, all fouled up about the job.

their manufacture,

The white stockings are given a steam bath

We went first to the knitting room. There are and put on metal forms to dry in special ovens.

32 machines, each capable of making one stock-

The shape of the nylon is set for the life of the

ing, In a unit. Every 40 minutes, 16 pairs of material.

nylons roll out.

Stockings are washed and dyed next. Again

Mr. Furge sald there were 476 needles in each they are placed on metal forms and steam and

machine. Try to imagine the needle in your sewing machine having 475 others next to it in a straight line. Also imagine the whole business

heat are applied. At this point you begin to imagine legs in the nylons. After a final inspection, at which time stockings are paired, the final opera-

going up and down and another gimmick running tion is packaging.

across like you would draw a pin across a metal

eomb,

The nylon thread is white. I thought it would yourself against hoarders. Think.

Who's Tough?

Miss and Mrs. America, there are plenty of nylons to go around if you don’t start protecting

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, July 22—I do not quarrel with the men behind him wept, too. The word had!

Mr, Hanson Baldwin's recent opinions in the Saturday Evening Post that the average American is 8 somewhat unenthusiastic warrior, in that he evinced no particular relish for dying to preserve an ideal. But I resent Mr. Baldwin's dismissal of the Yank as a sort of Ferdinand the Bull, while praising the stoic qualities of the Japs and Germans and Russians as fatalistic fighting men. Mr. Baldwin says: “The Japs fought to the death—no matter how hopeless the struggle, The Germans,” he says, “gave repeated demonstrations of their will to fight, even against great

odds

Some Japs did. Bome Germans did. So did some Yanks. Mr. Baldwin, whose logic is often bewildering, seems to think that this Axis brand of heroism comes from a rearing which glorifies death for the individual soldier, and thereby

builds a tougher type of tomeat, Hitlerism Died Fast

I HAVE had a small personal experience with German and Japanese troops, during the recent garden party. I never, for instance, saw the spirit of ingrained Hitlerism die faster in an individual than in the case of Feldwebel Klaus Schmidt, a member of the vaunted Rommel's defeated Afrika Korps. Schmidt was 6 feet 2 and blonde and stuffed to the eyes with Nazi indoctrination. He once made the mistake of upbraiding a kindly captor for what he called “decadence.” The captor was a country boy who did not understand racial ideologies. He fchmidt in the mush with the flat of a .45. He

then kicked Schmidt in the

then chained Schmidt to the wheel of a captured command car and left him in the sun for a day. By nightfall he had converted a Nazi to ardent democracy. This particular American was fighting for the “right to go home,” as Baldwin somewhat

sneeringly calls it.

Somewhere In the rout of the German forces in Africa, supermanism died, and a great many vaunted Kraut fatalists quit cold. for instance, a colonel of the Afrika Korps throw himself on the dock and hysterically refuse to enter a prison ship, bound for the States, and

passed that Hitler's Unterseehooten sank every-

‘thing we floated, and the Nazis were having no

part of the voyage.

I have seen whole trains of captured Krauts—| once a whole convoy of captured Krauts—who! broke into “God Save America” as they neared! the United States. Somebody must have captured | them. I mean, I wonder why they did not stand! fast and fight to the end? The Japs yelled “banzi” and “so-and-so Babe! Ruth!” and “Yankee die” as they suicided, and,| all of a sudden, when the word went out that they were washed up they made the meekest, most

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May Land Success

_ rom mopman apoLs Tove, n Are Blessed, Cursed, or Forgotten In Their Work, Many Half-Die in Toil

Job to Job Jumping

Thousands of Americans, says Dr. Steincrohn, are ununconsciously killing themselves, This article, the third of a series, may describe one of these subtle ways of slow suicide. These articles are a condensation of the book, “How to Stop Killing Yourself,” just published by Wilfred Funk, Ine. The author is a specialist in internal medicine, a former chief of staff of Mount Sinai

| Hospital in Hartford, Conn., a | former vice president of the | Connecticut State Medical So-

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By PETER J. STEINCROHN CHAPTER THREE THERE are three classes of men, Those “who enjoy their work, those’ who tolerate it as A means of survival, and those who die every day in working. Heaven has blessed the first; the devil has cursed the iast lot. As for the middle group, they are the forgotten men. You either live whole hog or not at all. Probably you have known people you might fit in-

to any one of the three classes,’

THE OTHER day I discharged a 70-year-old man from the hospital. He had had pneumonia, The most difficult part of my job was convincing him to stay in bed for a few days. He had never been ill before, Bed was anathema. Not =o much because he didn't like the hospital d4tself but because he was restless while away from his work. He is a grocery store keeper. He and his wife have served their neighbood for 35 years. This man fully believed he is

| fulfilling his destiny in running

his little store. All those years he and his wife have worked side by side counting out eggs, passing out bread across the counter, measuring vegetables, and handing over tins of soup and fish, He is at his store at 6:30 in the morning and turns out the lights at 10 at night. ~ o ”

“ISN'T IT tiresome?” his friends ask. “Don’t you wish you were doing something more creative or constructive? Don't you long to make enough money to be able to sell the store and take a well-earned rest?

co-operative prisoners I ever saw. At the end the! Wouldn't you at least like

dodged the ships they aimed at, splashing into the sea, and allowing themselves to be rescued. Japan, from all reports, quit faster and in better order than any other combatant in mpdern history, and the Japs reformed their insane valor

to expediency ‘like a flock of kindergarten kids. .

At ‘least we did not have to invade Japan, the land in which we were supposed to dig every last Girl Scout out of a foxhole with a pair of warm spoons, These fatalistic candidates for a Shinto Valhalla quit cold.

Life Is a Good Aim

1Kamikaze suicide planes lost their guts and| shorter hours?”

| His answer is “No.” As it happens, he has enough money to retire-——at least for the few years he and his wife have remaining. No he won't give

it up because it is his life—and his wife's. But his, especiaily, He loves people, He wanted to get out of the hospital so J+<hat he could be with the people who came in every day. “1 like to talk to people and to listen to them,” he told me. “I want them to bring me their troubles and problems. Some people have an ear and heart for music. God gave me an ear and heart for people's troubles. And they {feel it. That's why they come in to talk to me, They. know I'll .listen and advise and try to cheer them up.” I said to him, “The world lost what might have been one of its finest doctors, one of its more outstanding psychiatrists, when you went into the grocery business.” He smiled. I could imagine what he was thinking. In his lifetime he had done as much for human beings as he might have if he had been a professional adviser, : - ~ » USUALLY we see this love of work in those of creative bent; Inventors, artists, musicians, They must be torn away from their work to ct, rest and gleep. Yet I have seen the happy workman as plumber, carpenter, or gardener, The largest group might be called the neutral workers, They are the massive body of drones who leave their little

Ask Mrs. Manners—

Pair Should Consider

~ Just Waiting May

- gathers no moss.”

New Slate Clean | One

MR. BALDWIN says our lads had a negative, DEAR MRS. MANNERS: a TE EE SF-ns me puthand and 1 have lived as. giangscs regard the desire to live and get home as a very In the same home. We seldom argued. Rather, we withdrew into positive aim, apt to keep the aimer alive longer our shells, with dignity, quietly covering up hecause of our children, | than his adversary Martyrs grow few. to ‘a After our children grew up and left home our indifference had! hill over here, but the posthumous decoration lists Pecome such a habit we continued as before . We went on going| were fairly extensive, giving evidence that a non- ion the gestures of marriage, hollowly living each day ra a re Nrtioaly This week my husband came anew. It will be a hard job but | people. {to me asking that we talk things | hasn't your past way of lfe | ‘over. I'd e ct- y ? I am quite sure that I do not know who are i Told e2pect: bes even Rarder? the best, or the worst, spidiers in the world. But years. I thought Let Mrs. Manners and read | I know who won all the wars we have engaged in, it meant divorce Alias and, as they used to say about Richmond when Instead: he the outcome of the Civil War was being debated: (1a ro vot pe “They paid off on Grant.” 5

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Poetic Souls

|" GREENWICH, Conn., July 15 (UP)--Directors of Citizens Util-| ities Co. have boosted the an-|

WASHINGTON, July 22—In every soul, includIng that of a bureaucrat, there dwells a poem, however costly it may turn out to be. So there was John J. Hagerty last January in the Boston. office of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation trying to figure out how government millions could put the Waltham Watch Co. back in

business.

Tha firm would have to start making watches that kept time, he wrote to headquarters here in Washington, and then it needed a first-class advertising campaign to sell em. For one thing, said he, the concern needed a slogan,

Theme Song to Sell Watches

HE ADDED that it might be wise to spend part of the money for the rights to Rudy Vallee's old theme song,. “Your Time Is My Time,” and then he'd add to this sonnet another line of his own composition, like this: “And My Time Is

Waltham Time.”

Soon thereafter this oldest of American watch factories got $4 million of taxpayers’ money and Poet Hagerty moved over as its $30,000-a-year president. Six months later the firm went blooie anyhow without Mr. Hagerty's poem ever hitting print, and the RFC hired him back as special assistant to the board of directors. Now Sen. J. Willlam Fulbright (D. Ark.) and Co., ix asking; How come? The situation is complicated and the testimony is confused, but Mr. Hagerty—who wears a Waltham watch with a sweep second hand on his left wrist—insists that the granting of the loan had nothing whatever to do with his becoming a boss watchmaker. He also says it was a good thing the government did make that loan because the watch factory is intact, with machines oiled, and could be

The Quiz Master

hummed with 2300 workers, are $2 million worth

pany's common stock to 80 cents | and also voted a 3-per cent stock dividend, it was announced today. cm nt m————1

with the fresh Celery taste ~~ yh NR IT GOES TO WORK ww AT ONCE

{ways loved me, used, as It was before, to turn out precision fuses|'00 late to mend with receiverships, lawsuity trustees and court mend it for years, I didn't know D s 0 yi E uring the last two years of its operations, | Dare I tell him there has been! MIVIIA 1: out wouldn't keep time. ‘All over the country this first heard about. the other wom- ’ vescent, ®® quick, pleasant an stock of watches from the factory went on sale I think I'd consider a new SAFE relief with f ; , y : wouldn't make you forget those “Te VER ooe | there was Waltham under Mr, Hagerty's manage- h |) K- [ NS NY 44 LET Sen, Fulbright charges the firm had ne very good Bring up the ather man and | u s i of watches, ifcluding 53,600 ready to be strapped] foro nor Wounded by the on America’s wrists and 132000 jeweled move-| w looks a man's cavorting, he |

. He asked my By Frederick C. Othman [pve Te SN ; said it wasn't pORECAS™" and other weapons of war, : ol marriage. Only trouble is that the firm is so messed up ye ‘wan orders that nobody knows just when it could go : i ) ; to work turning out stuff to beat the Koreans. a Jou. think Its possible tof STOMACH SOU R the evidence indicates, the Waltham management was 80 lax that about half of the tickers it turned Another man in my life singe 1 » | alkslizing a sour caused people to be late for dates. an in hiss jae Decwes sseomtad 4 granulat efferSoon after the loan was granted, the entire HEAVY HEART, NORTH SIDE. sd acid xOmé LS ie d | late a clean slate. Deciding who y in 24 department stores across the : country at . PETRI half price. This made the jewelers sore. And Was the first or greater offender - ment making newly designed watches at the rate Years of unfaithiuinee snd. ot of 1500 per day. There were good timepieces, but | rod i * ideas about how to sell ‘em. i . Now on the shelves of the factory which ance! ey pat ! fact you were unfaithful, and ments, which only need cases, backed by sotiety which over A } i Your Money | Correct to Split Second | might not forgive. Resides, he | Regular © Refunded If P 0 may know ahout the other man, | 75¢ Bise : I i

I TOOK a long look at Mr. Hagerty's watch, | ° a solid gold beauty which was correct to the split 0 Why Sell Him, second, and if all the others are as good ad I 01 course I¥'s possible Ls art - be proud to own one. The only trouble is that it} all these timekeepers aiso are dumped at bargain| prices, rival manufacturers fear the entire watch business will go bloofe. So they're doing their dead-levelest to keep Waltham in business. The RFC wants its money! back, its chieftains are arguing with the judge in Massachusgtts, and if I, too, were a poet, I'd say the taxpayer is the goat.

92? Test Your Skill 77?

Does the Korean language have an alphabet?

The written Korean language, which in struefare and grammar is similar to J

14 consonants). But the spoken

from the book form and cannot be exaetly. resorded, : :

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What President was the first to celebrate his silver ‘wedding anniversary at the White House? - President and Mra. Hayes were the first te wedding anniversary the

emigre Exeputive Mansion. ; : ! * * 9

What is the lowest point reached by a rafiroad In the United States? - | Jt Is near Raltom, Cal, where a raliroad, In| crossing the Salton “sink” and the Imperial Valley, reaches a depth of 199.2 feet below sea level. * +» How large a crew has the President's yacht the U. 8. 8. Williamsburg? Ia Fachk

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and leave their work on time at evening-—happy at the conclusion of annrther workday. They ‘lo not resent the clatter of the alarm in the morn-

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alacrity and keen expectation of the day's labor, but neither do they pull the covers over their heads and berate themselves as fools in continuing in their present job. | Work, for them, is but a means *» an end "That they may raise a family and enjoy themselves ‘vay from work. They are not to be pitied or envied. In a way, they are the human robots of modern civilization.. » » ~

WE COME at last to the group which is perhaps larger than we realize, Un’ ss these persons do something about it, they go about partially killing themselves, Their daily lives have none of the satisfaction that comes from good work; their existences are never seasoned with pleasant sauce concocted from the mixture of gratifying work and contributions to the community in which they live. There is only one antidote for the poison of hateful work: Other work. . » »

FOR YEARS I knew a pharmaeist who worked only to make enough to retire. He was a horticulturist by preference,

When he was 55, I said, “Now {x the time, Sell your store. Your family is grown and married. Live.” He said he would do something about ft goon, *

Ten years later this smiling man came into my office,

“It’s done at last)” he said. I had never seen him smile in all the years I had known him. Yes, at last he was happy. Unfortunately, he did not live long enough to feel the earth run through his fingers. He had waited too long-—-as many of us do. . ” »

IT IS not.advisable to walt until something better comes along. Unfortunately, most of us have been affected bv the saying that “a rolling stone

Yet a study of the lives of successful men shows that many of them went from job to job until they found one which they suited, and that suited them. Only when they found what they really liked was their road to professional, business, or creative success assured.

A man unhappy in his job should allow no other consideration to undermine “his resolve to change. Granted, it is easier to find a square hole for A square peg when one is younger. It ig often a nerveshattering, back-' ‘aking ex-

| perience for the man in his | late 50s or 60s.

n » ~ IF YOU are young, if vou dislike your job and feel that you are not getting anywhere, cast off and away to snmething you may like, Only the rolling stone, provided it does not roll forever, can find a mors suitable resting place to conform with its dim:nsions. I have seen unhappy doctors who became happy businessmen; unhappy businessmen who

| began the study of medicine

at 30. There is a place for everyone. Each place takes finding and a certain amount of philosophy and courage in the seeker. Too many half-die in their living. For many the remedy is change of work,

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