Show I 1 D ni I 1 6 W Q wal atop irton D 0 NEW FAR FAB EASTERN DRIVE it now seems certain that we will now concen concentrate r ra t a on the far east to a much greater degree fr than a most pe people alel expected U S naval officials flici als had been privately skeptical kepto t of british co peca opera tion in the for far east and never expected churchill to come through ht however io owe wever ver 11 he a an and it R roosevelt both agreed that h at the I 1 time me ou had sevelt a arrived I 1 for or vigorous r 0 u s operations to top stop the J a aps before 0 r e they dug in so deeply on the pacific islands that it would take years year to dislodge them the british how have now given van definite dog commitments regarding ce tam am operations operation this is important it t so happens that the british do not promise easily our own top s strategists ista are inclined to make pro promises m be quickly illicitly hint but sometimes have to explain them away when conditions conditions change rod and it us is obvious I 1 they cannot be ie kept but the british though awfully hard to pm pin down have absolutely sol kept their agreements when wee once made what these commitments are remain a military seem secret t Ho however weve certain mows moves which are a known to all including inc including ludin r the japs should give tokyo plenty plent y to worry about for it 1 is no accident that admiral nimitz I 1 ta commander in the pacific has hem jeen recalled for conferences or that t ah the e insatiable australian pr prime minister it j a t or h has as now said he w waa a set satisfied or that attu aatu was taken take n all ali these straws in the wind point to hitting japan from many different direct directions a alaska australia burma and the central pacific this offensive in the far east may be one an substitute bs statute tor for a second front in western europe it may not knock hitler out of the war quite quita so soon but it may make the two europe ind and asia A finish fh f h it at more nearly the same time SAYING SAVING UNCLE SAMS SHEKELS here is a simple suggestion which wool would d save the government millions As the law stands a in man coming mg lot into the government cannot be hired for the figure of or 6 but must get one or another of the fixed government ratings such as 4 or 5 or 6 many a man has come to washington from the business world in the last few years yeam willing to work for or 5 but there is no government rating at that figure so he is offered 4 ind and if he won wont t t take alre that he must be paid 5 likewise if he is a 7 man willing to work for that figure but not for less he must be g given i van 8 literally hundreds of men have come into the war production Product le at t salaries or 1 goo more than a n they would have accepted simply because the reclassification act of establishes the ff figures gm of ti 4 6 00 5 and 6 with no ala elasticity ty the same waste results in the field of promotion to keep good men these days government agencies are obliged to give promotions without waiting for the wt 2 year period required by civil service so the agencies resort to evasion they reclassify rec lassuy the employed by writing up a new job for him at a higher salary airy 1 level 11 1 he 1 might be satisfied with mtr a out raise a but reclassification means that he gets at least more or even 1500 met more A simple change in the law would save hundreds of don dollars in thousands of cases AMERICAN AMERICA TAXI al DRIVERS some political prognosticators say you can predict the outcome W of ill U S elections election b by Y the reaction of taxi drivers however the character of tion taxi drivers may go even further be an index of the gene general 1 hand honesty and temperament of th the am american people s kather Ka therme me C blackburn struck mck t a hopping mad ad to taxi I 1 dri driver er in new york the oth other day lie he had lust found 1200 in war savings v go stamps which somebody had left in his cab b when he traced the fare and returned the stamps all 11 he got was a congratulations on his honesty and it a 25 cent up tip I 1 IU ill never r b be a honest again he declared declare dor do grimly this brought him and miss blackburn to the le 1 ritz t CR carlton she got toi out p paid her f fare ta end and tripped into the hotel while a she he was still in th the a lobby A somebody bo body tapped her on th the e elbow eduse c u s me miss is said aid 8 im voice but y you 0 u left your furs s in say my I 1 L on the average of once a day somebody with a screw 1 loose no tries to in 1 see I secretary 0 of f state hull one tuch ih called to explain IN to hull built his method allied ol 01 1 stopping t torpedoes kin he we was stopped by by a secretary CO COLLEGES AND congressmen harvard arvard H yale so and d princeton roby may be well represented d m th the a state department P part arne ment but wh when it oom comes as to congress a grab bag selection of names turns turn A up such cc colleges ll 11 ages as john carroll cro university ity boug congressman michael ch A feighan of ohio 0 baldwin a in wallace ua college tl C congressman gre saman H henderson ande n H C carson raw of C oh ohio C creighton on university y congressman g r arran frank fin A barrett of wyoming marsh marshall a il college Congress congressman mw hubert S ellis of west virginia Virg mid |