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The Cincinnati Post Page 13 MONDAY NOV 27 1939 Page 13 Steps in the Precision Work of Building an Airplane Lull in Hate WASHINGTON: If Great Britain and France will accept a Christina truce Germany should Neither side has anything to lose by It and there are some human lives and limbs to gain During the World War any kind of truce or "fraternizing" was forbidden Both sides were so wedded to the fierce doctrine of the offensive that the training of every soldier was to make him He had to learn to hate the men he was fighting This was especially emphasized In training In the use of the bayonet Before the war our bayonet drill at least was a sorr of minute frequently performed to music by the band The Germans taught us realism and we were apt pupils Toward the end men stood In a ring with their bayonets at snarling and growling like hyenas over a carcass taught to do that THE BEST Instructor In my division was an a big bulk of an officer In his carefully simulated frenzy he would stand slavering In the center and tear his shirt apart exposing a hairy chest He had a short crop with a bamboo ring at its end He would select the next soldier from the growling panting circle by welting his face with that crop Then he would hold that ring perilously close to his own Jugular his flank or his loins The soldier thus worked Into an artificial spasm of rage would lunge at It Men got so excited that they wanted to practice on each other with bnre The Idea was to create an actual sadistic yearning to plunge that By Hugh Johnson blade Into somebody's bowels and give It a twist That Idea went through all training The trouble with our boys brought up to hate stabbing and cutting was that It was pretty hard to get them to put any conviction into condemned holds In wrestling Into knifing other Intestines into eye-gouging groin-kneeing and various other forms of animalistic combat that WAS what they had to go up against so that was what they had to be taught In the eighth division the bayoneteers could be keyed to a frenzy The armistice caught them en route to France at a port of embarkation I have never seen such a complete deflation as the bayonet drill the next day The snarls and growls had all faded to sickly half shameful The synthetic ferocity had Instantly become such a farce that It wasn't worth continuing The normal soldier does not truly hate the man In the enemy trench who Is trying to kill him as a matter of duty and by command Only the stay-at-home directors do that The argument against a Christmas truce is that It may make the troops less frightful afterward That Is silly dogma Troops when permitted have always fraternized In lulls There Is a spring on the field of Gettysburg where by common consent and without Injury in the hottest of the fight water carriers from both sides came to fill canteens and rass each other about the progress of the battle Hitler may not care anything about Christinas but the German people do As we know it they Invented most of sparkling trees toys and the gentle generous customs of gifts and goodwill There wouldn't have to be any "fraternizing" for the purpose of a cessation of slaughter In a short season when If ever according to our religion there should be peace on earth and good will toward men By Ernie Pyle Traveling Women upholsterers spend about four hours (above) on each Aeronca preparing It for the final assembly room where wings and motors are mounted Aeronca Plant Breaks All Past Production Records Plane Factory Has Sufficient Orders To Keep It Busy Six Weeks BY WARD MOORE Post Business Reporter The Aeronautical Corp of America plane plant at Lun-ken Airport already has broken all production records and is working on a backlog of orders which will keep it busy for another six weeks The framework of an Aeronca airplane takes shape (above) in the where the fuselage of chrome molybdenum steel tubes Is welded (Poet Photo) Red Cross Pushes Members Drive Needs to Enroll 40000 in 5 Days To complete their campaign by Friday workers for the American Red Cross Monday faced the task of enrolling 40000 members In five days Officials said It could be done Swinging into the last week of the drive they urged workers to increase their efforts and submit reports Immediately Approximately 15000 members have been enrolled The goal Is 55000 Contributions to date total' $38062 and the goal is $113000 Wendel Hanselman and William Woodrow vice chairmen of the roll call will spend Monday and Tuesday contacting divisional chairmen Officials said a three-fold Increase in group enrollment was a bright spot In the campaign Jack Lauer Is head of this division Plans of the Junior Red Cross to co-operate with the senior organization in production of garments lor European war relief were announced Monday Mrs Mendel Sherman acting chairman of the Junior Red Cross said garments produced by high school students would be shipped with clothing supplied by chapter volunteers The sergeant stared at him a long time Finally he started to cuss When he got through cussing he said half-wit I know where you come frum but you're In the United States now and you're gonna leam to talk United Whereupon our Mr Halseth was required to stand at attention before an audience of several score United Statesers and say 50 times with a flat Mr Halseth was In the first aerial observation squadron to go to France He was a sergeant and a mechanic He could fly too but he an officer because he wasn't a citizen Back from the war he brushed up with another year at college and from that day to this he has been In archeological work He Is (me of the southwest's Authorities on early Indians He Is married and has a son in high school Mrs Halseth Is a sculptress and their son Eddie Is going to be a doctor MR HALSETH WENT BACK to Norway for the first time In 1938 His family is on speaking terms with royalty and he swapped a lot of Joke with the king of Norway He told me one joke the king told on himself The king especially likes this joke because he made It up himself One day the king had to attend some Important function like laying a cornerstone or something The car drew up to the appointed place and the king's aide-de-camp leaped out ahead But the king kept rummaging around In the seat of the car They were already late and the aide grew Impatient are you looking for Your he asked said the king let It go" said the aide lend you mine" I must find my the king said Is And he kept mi looking Finally the aide became excited at the delay and wanted to know why on earth finding the king's handkerchief was so Important And that gave the king the cue for his joke dear he said is Important as you should know because it Is the only thing In this whole country that I am entitled to stick my nose Into" Mr Halseth thinks the king is swell folk as we would say In our Oxford English PHOENIX ARIZ: It seems as If no matter where I go nor how hard I shy away from the subject I always wind up writing about Indians Not only Indians but old dead Indians and -sometimes even disappearing Indians Bo here In Phoenix I turned around three times and took the blindfold off my eyes and where do you suppose I was? Why In the middle of the Pueblo Grande Ancient Ruins of course So I will write about this business but I did find out enough non-Indian matter to hold your attention for a few minutes please I hope thank ypu The first non-Indian thing at the Pueblo Grande Monument Is the director I know he an Indian because he la a Norwegian His names Is Odd Halseth and he says Odd Is a common name In Norway He says Odd McIntyre must have had Norwegian blood In him On second thought I believe I'll write the whole column today about Mr Halseth Mr Halseth came to this country In IB16 when he was 25 As soon as he got here he went to Panama As soon as he got there he went to the Belgian Congo in West Africa As soon as he got there he came back to the 8 That was In 1917 In a few shakes we were In the World and so was Mr Halseth LIKE MOST EDUCATED EUROPEANS Mr Halseth spoke several languages certainly must have spoken English before you came here" I said for his speech today has no trace of an accent did" he said fact I spoke perfect English Oxford English -I'll never forget one experience I had with It It was his second or third day in the army at North Island in San Diego He was walking across the parade ground A tough sergeant stopped him do you think to?" the sergeant wanted to know going to take a bahth" said Mr Halseth gonna take a said the sergeant said our hero of need for larger quarters and necessity far getting adequate airport facilities free of flood danger on terms which the company could afford Mr Friedlander said For the first nine and a half months of 1940 408 Aroncas have rolled off the plant's assembly line three short of being 100 more than the previous full year's record Carl Friedlander president We risk another 193T said Monday i flood- because of the tremendous The 1938 production of 311 planes 1 108 it would mean to he ex-valued at $472887 was the previous plained high for the company which now The Middletown plan will have holds second place among a capacity of 150 planes a month manufacturers of light planes The while the top acapaclty of the pres-value of this year's output for the i ent quarters Is 65 plan a month In Washington By Raymond Clapper first nine and one-half months was $654822 The heavy backlog of orders is keeping production going at a high rate In months when there ordinarily is a sharp drop Mr Friedlander said Workers Getting Bonus As a result 150 workers are steadily on the job and they are getting 25 per cent bonus over the base pay rate Aeronca la moving rapidly ahead with Its production to prevent a lapse of deliveries early next year when It moves to a new factory In Middletown on which bids have been asked Construction on the Middletown plant Mr Friedlander announced probably will begin about Dec 1 and It is expected to be ready for occupancy by Feb 15 The move Is being made because With greater facilities Aeronca expects to bring out a tandem-seated two-place plane soon in addition to Its familiar two-place ship with the side-by-side seating arrangement 150 Employes to Move we hope to get cm the market soon is a plane selling far less than Mr Friedlander asserted tandem model can be produced at lower cost and we think we can reach that goal In a couple of years with such a The 150 skilled workers of the Aeronca plant and their families will move to Middletown with the factory mechanics are hard to find and we're going to keep all of Mr Friedlander said A mechanic mounts the motor (middle above) as one of the last touches At bottom Carl Friedlander right president of Aeronautical Corp of America discusses some special equipment en one plane with William Burke final assembly foreman who Friedlander says has never made a mistake en 2500 planes $250000 in Pearls On Display Here Most Valuable Air Cargo to Reach City Pearl culturlsts In the South Seas went nature one better to bring Cincinnatians a $250000 collection of pearls on display at the As Pogue Co The gems known to the trade as Imperial Cultured Pearls arrived Saturday by Air Express They were the most valuable pearl cargo ever received here by air express company officials said Thirty years ago a native Polynesian of the Celebes Island Dutch East Indies perfected a-process for artificially culturing pearls In the living oyster An expert surgeon makes Incisions and Impregnates oysters with a seed pearl or mother of pearl bell The Impregnated oysters are placed In closed wire baskets suspended In sea water From seven to 15 years later the oysters are raised and the grown pearls extracted The result is Imperial Cultured Pearls The collection at Includes the largest single cultural pearl in the world It Is valued at $35000 A strand of 86 pearls Is valued at $5000 A rope of 99 smaller pearls Is valued at $2000 The collection includes many others Seen and Heard About Town Catholic Community House Marks 20th Year of Work Reception Held for Archbishop Center Fosters Neighborliness The National Catholic Community House 118 Findlay street was observing its 20th anniversary of service expenditures to be ordered In the coming session He has taken so much pounding over his uninterrupted deficits that It Is natural he should want to throw out a hint as to tax Increases and call his critics' TALK ABOUT taxes and budgets always recurs in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas and It always Is subject to considerable revision after Congress meets This Is the period when there is big talk about economies Senators and representatives are always going to make drastic reductions In the budget They were going to do It last year They were going to cut everything 25 per cent They were going to be tough they were But when the appropriation bills were finished the figures showed up a quarter of a billion dollars higher than budget requests It Is easier to talk economy than to vote it as was shown when Congress flinched on the agriculture bill and let It ride through with a fat Increase which was supported by some Republican and Democratic economizers THE TALK about a special national-defense tax Is that a special flat percentage tax should be added to the existing taxes Including some suggest even the excise taxes This has a plausible sound Just a simple 10 per cent calculation But as a means of financing national-defense expenses it will be seriously questioned Before any such tax is voted the point will be made that the tax should fall principally upon those particular industries which derive the principal profits out of war preparations Yet that Is difficult of application Three years ago when the British rearmament program was reaching a burdensome point the British government adopted a flat 5 per cent tax on profits superimposed on the regular corporation Income tax This met with relatively little complaint from business men A reception at which Archbishop John MCNicholas was the guest of honor was given Sunday afternoon and special programs also were planned for Monday and Tuesday Since 1919 when the Community House was started by the National Catholic War Council the workers have gone ahead quietly with pro- Michael Hoffman giving George Melville two recipes for llmburger I cheese in a City Hall corridor William Dressman who trains the Susie revealing that the gorilla has a pet It's a mouse 1 Du Bois vying with his boss A Lelbold treasurer of Frederick A Schmidt Inc as a speech-maker at a Nether land Plaza banquet Mrs Mary Lee Sullivan counting up reservations for the Mount St Joseph College ball set for Friday EF Schneider of the Board of a 1 1 organizing a hunt for typhus bacillus Phil Gross the McMillan street bartender displaying a letter In which Ben Turpin the cross-eyed comedian addresses him as First Remarkable remark by Patrolman Lloyd Mackay: careless driver is more dangerous than 10 public VLADIMIR POSVAR Banker to Speak Lazar managing director of 'the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland will speak before the Lions Club at 12:30 Wednesday at the Metropole His subject will be Money From a Numismatic HOLD EVERYTHING By Lewis WASHINGTON: If you will look carefully under the headlines from Warm Springs you will find that the which President Roosevelt threw out about Increasing taxes to finance additional expenditures for national defense was exceedingly vague He approached the subject gingerly Perhaps if the public reaction Is favorable Mr Roosevelt will become more aggressive If not then he can leave the baby cm the doorstep of Congress rf where it will be most unwelcome and embarrassing If he mpkes a few vague remarks about' Increasing taxes and leaves the Initiative to Congress nothing Is likely to happen If he wants a new tax he will have to get In and pitch for several Innings to force It through For whatever Sen Vandenberg says about favoring a special national-defense tax most of the senators and representative who face primary and election campaigns next year do not rise enthusiastically to the prospect of going into their campaigns on a record of freshly voted tax Increases even for national defense THE TWO responsible chairmen of the House 4 and Senate committees which steer tax legislation have Indicated coolness toward new taxes Treasury Department officials say they are recommending no new taxes although of course they are prepared to produce briefs for any tax policy insisted upon by the President Mr Roosevelt evoked the tax-increase headlines by suggesting that a question of policy was Involved which the country should decide namely whether to borrow or tax for the additional national-defense Fair Enough BY AN INTERESTING coincidence the Treasury Intelligence unit the men who comb the Income tax returns stumbled on the clew that was to wrebk Tom Pendergast's machine and send him to prison just about the time he was receiving the greatest single chunk of graft that he collected In all his career In March 1936 Pendergast got $250000 In currency for ordering his state superintendent of Insurance to compromise in favor of a number of fire Insurance companies and to the detriment of the policy-holders a rate case Involving the distribution of more than' $9000000 in sequestered premiums Within a month the income tax men Inquiring about an Item In the accounts of a Chicago Jaw firm and with no Interest whatever in affairs picked up a lead that ruined him Up to this time the -only Interest -In Pendergast apart from the political and personal Interest of the administration In a very effective producer was that concerning the vote frauds In Kansas City MAURICE MILLIGAN the district attorney was nagging away at Pendergast's gang but the boys were unconcerned because they had been assured that these offenses were not the business of the federal government and that any convictions there- fore would surely be reversed In the state courts they could pack the juries so they felt safe But as Milligan crowded them around" obtaining Meeting to Start Seal Campaign Anti-TB League Official to Speak The annual meeting of the Hamilton County Christmas Seal Committee at noon Wednesday at the Slnton will serve as the starting signal In the 1939 Christmas seal campaign Dr Kennon Dunham chairman said Monday Dr Herman Nlmltz co-ordinator of the Anti-Tuberculosis League will be a speaker The memory of the late Dr Frank Nelson former rector of Christ Church will be honored at the meeting He was an active member of the committee for many years A statement was Issued Monday by John Sebastian president of the Cincinnati Life Association indorsing the Christmas seal sale for physicians" he said group Is mare familiar with the disaster wrought by tuberculosis than the men and women in the life Insurance field We will support the sale in every way we Guild Sponsors Antique Exhibit Dealers Co-operate With Church Greup Dealers from Cincinnati and surrounding communities will co-operate with members of the Maricmont Church Guild Saturday In a combined antique Show and sale in the auditorium of the Recreation' Building Marlemont Proceeds will be used by the guild for child welfare work The show will last from 1 to 10 It will be free grams for the welfare of men women and children In the neighborhood There were several objects In establishing the Community House according to Mrs Charlotte Udry executive secretary first Mrs Udry said "was to maintain a social center where classes In American citizenship could be held and recreational facilities could be maintained for the surrounding district want to keep the children from running the streets after school: to Inspire a tense of neighborly sympathy and mutual helpfulness and to Increase civic re sponslblllty and pride In addition to the citizenship classes the seeretsry explained there are many other classes for children and adults Women come with their mending and darning to meetings of the Social Club As they sew the group leader reads short stories aloud and after the meeting they have refreshments There Is a Boy Scout TYoop Free music lessons vocal and Instrumental an given at the Community HMise and Mrs Udry and her help-e plan and ''supervise parties and dances and other entertainments Author to Speak On Civilization Dr John Haynes Holmes noted minister and author will be the lecturer at 8 Monday at the Wise Temple Forum His subject will be Our Civilization Worth Saving?" Dr Holms' latest book is Tiethinking and By Westbrook Pegler convictions that did stick the Treasury men were quietly tracing payments of Mg money and reconstructing the conspiracy by which Pendergast robbed hundreds of thousands of little people in Missouri The Income tax Indictment was the one on which he was finally sent to prison and although it Is possible that he would have been nailed in the vote frauds a guilty connection with that phase of his criminal life would have been very hard to prove Moreover the people of Kansas City were not very angry about the vote frauds The insurance deal however showed them what a rascal he was by contrast with his popular reputation for open-handed generosity and kindness to the streetcar type of citizen HE NOT ONLY took all told $315000 of their money in bribes from the Insurance companies as his share of their millions but he Initiated a crime that ruined a subordinate polltclan a mere punk in the political scale named Robert OTbdley th insurance' superintendent O'Malley got Only one year in prison plus the disgrace and all so he deserves no sympathy but the operation goes to show that Pendergast had no thought of anybody but himself He was horse-crazy and money -crazy he robbed his own cops and ward and precinct workers of their paltry little pay While little people were paying their $640 or $2260 tg the internal revenue as income tax he was holding out a tax of $432170 most of it due on money stolen from the little people and raising their taxes boosting their water Mils and handing them traffic tickets as the penalty for voting against him Do You WANT WORK? If you are looking for work or ii you went a better job watch the many am ployment opportunities listed dolly in the Wanted" columns of- Post Want Ads Employers looking for office workers beauty operators stenographers maids cooks aid other domestic help us- udlly advertise their wants in thb Wanted" columns oi POST' WANT ADS Tort eleven el the mosistubbom people Pve ever seen in my life!".