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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION ZZwmm . U. S. Office of Air Safety Guards Cadets in Training Accident Statistics Prove Value of Regional Safety Officers' Work; Program Has Three Main Divisions. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. j.zf. rc4. - i.,v,.lll,.;vy vVNU Service, Onion Trust Building, Washington, D. C. The army air force has been around the world 134,078 times! That Is what air miles add up to three billion, three hundred and fifty-tw- o million in the fiscal year 1943. Just how safe is the job of a pilot? Not the job where you have to count on the enemy fighters and the ack-ac- but the job of learning to be a pilot "Ninety-fiv- e out of every hundred army air force cadets are going through their flight training program with no personal injury of any kind," says Col. Sam Harris, chief, army air force office of flying safety. The office of air safety Is the In-stitution which has built safety Into training programs as a highly em-phasized part of the whole regime. It has three main principles. Initial Phase The first is "prevention- and In-vestigation," and the keynote here Is experience. The 54 officers who take care of this end of the work have a total air experience of 33 years, 318 days In the air. These men, known as regional safety of-ficers (RSOs) are assigned to each air force and command in the Unit-- . ed States. Here is an example of how the RSO works. He goes to a certain field. He meets some cadets who say they haven't had any breakfast. He puts that down in his notes. He looks the place over, notes a ditch parallel to a runway. He orders the ditch filled, talks with the mess of-ficer and has breakfast served ear-lier. Then he tackles the boys themselves. He gives them a talk on the importance of instruments. Three separate moves and the ac-cidents are cut down there. The second principle is "flight con-trol." Here is where the flight con-trol officer, traffic cop of the air, comes in. For traffic control is as important in the air as o the street. The men of this force offer a Pilot's Advisory Counsel. This serv-ice leads pilots through or around dangerous traffic or weather condi-tions. I Suppose the flight control officer In the Seattle center- knows Lieu-tenant Smith is .headed in that di-rection. He also knows that a "cold front" is moving across his path. So he radios Smith, tells him to make for an alternate airport. No. 3 on the list of safeties is "safety education." Safety Education Most of the accidents In training In the United States are due to per-sonnel error the fault of the human being, not the weather or the ma-chine. This education comes through ipecial movies, through manuals, through cartoons and posters. Here are some of the slogans that help: "Hitler and Hirohlto cheer . . when you forget your maps . . . when you pay no attention to tele-phone wires . . . when you jam on your brakes ... when you don't check your gas ..." Other points are driven home with Hutchings, who is the author or "A psychiatric Word Book" published by the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene and now in its seventh edition. This is not a book for laymen but it is exceedingly interesting to scan its pages just to see how ordinary words can achieve new meanings as new thoughts about new things de-velop. The word book is invaluable to the doctor and many others who will be more and more concerned with this important study of inter-personal relations psychiatry. Let's take a layman's look at the pages of the little pocket volume. Starting at the beginning with "a an." Not the simple articles they lookl The definition is not new in this ease but shows the special meaning the person who reads psy-chiatry must know. The definition reads: "Prefixes derived from the Greek and having the same meaning as the prefix un- - or the suffix --less. Without; absence of; not. Cf. amen-tia, anosmia." That takes us to amentia which means (1) absence of intellect; (2) a state of mind bordering on stupor; (3) feeblemindedness. You have heard of behavior but what is behaviorism? It is "the psychological theory which holds that correct conclusions in psychol-ogy must rest upon objective study and Interpretation of behavior." You have also heard of conver-sion. Here is the psychiatrist's meaning of it. "The process by which an emotional trauma (that is an emotional 'wound') after repres-sion becomes converted into a phys-ical symptom In hysteria." Practical Application If you think that sounds too high-brow, just recall the remark: "He's had that squint ever since he saw that terrible accident" There are a lot more interesting new meanings clear over to the last word "zoopsia" which you know all about if you ever saw "Ten Nights in a Barroom," the great prohibi-tion play. "Zoopsia" is what we (in-correctly) call "D.T.'s." The defini-tion is "a visual hallucination of ani-mals or Insects." The little book also has an appen-dix in which there are careful and more detailed descriptions of the emotions anxiety, fear, pride, van-ity, etc., which we now know are as dangerous to our mental health when they get out of control as a flock of flu germs are to our bodily welfare. I'll give you a definition of the one emotion which Is highly impor-tant because when It gets the upper hand in politics, it can do as much harm to a form of government as to an individual. "Egoism and egotism are not synonyms. Egoism is a desire to gain advantages at the ex-pense of the rights, convenience or possessions of others. It is essen-tially antisocial. Egotism is over-valuation of self, one's opinions, abil-ity or cleverness and corresponding undervaluation of others." a little sardonic humor such as "when a pilot thinks he's pretty hot, he's usually close to burning." "To grow old in the natural way, a pilot has to use his luck sparingly . . ." The first six months of 1943 com-pared with all of 1942, show these percentages of reduction of acci-dents: , In primary schools 2.3 In basic schools 5.5 In advanced schaals ll And just see the table for acci-dents as miles flown go up! 1921-3- 0 Miles flown, 155,818,000 accident rate, 2.11. 1943 Miles flown, 3,351,940,000 accident rate, .716. That's how America is learning lafety in the skyways. War Brings Recognition To Psychiatry There will be so many changes after the war that a lot of words will not even have the same mean-ings. New things and new thinking will appear and people will have to learn the new words in order to think the new thoughts, Already the war has caused psy- - chiatry to be "adequately recog-nized," according to Dr. Richard egoism to blocs, political parties, nations and you'll see why psy-chiatry is important in the new world. The more people who under-stand it the more people will under-stand each other. The words in "A Psychiatric Word Book" are Important words. ($1 postpaid from the Hospitals Press, Mental Hygiene Department, State of New Y.ork, Utica, N. Y.) Popular Questions Here are answers to three ques-tions I was asked most frequently on a recent trip to the Middle West: (1) When will the war be over? I don't know. I wouldn't be sur-prised if Germany cracked inside this winter. At least another year to clean up Japan. (2) What about international co-operation afterward? I don't know. The feeling I get in Washington Is that there will be an honest attempt to form an inter-national league, just as it is suggest-ed in the Moscow conference. (3) Will President Roosevelt run for a Fourth Term? I doubt if even he knows that either. He probably will unless the war is done and over. WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS Nazis Wreck Northern Italian Ports To Hamper Future Allied Operations; United Nations Formulate Relief Plan; U. S. Issues Current Casualty Figures (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they r those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. ' RUSSIA: Attack Last Railroad Russia's last north-sout- h railway came under the attack of Red troops forward on a 7U as they pressed mile front west of recaptured-Kiev- As the Russians drove e railroad, other forces of their army continued attacks on Nevel Jess than 50 miles from border in the north, and on Knvoi Roe in the south. At Krivoi Rog, the Germans con-tinued to hold open an escape cor-ridor of Nazi for the last columns forces pulling out of the huge bend of the Dnieper river, where early Russian attacks had threatened them with encirclement. Crossing into the eastern Crimea from the Caucasus, strong Russian forces drew up for a major attack German troops report-edly on the 75,000 massed in the huge Penf' guarding the Black sea. The Nazis held their ground at the north en. trance to the Crimea. TIRES: Continued Shortage Although production of synthetic rubber expected to total 818,000 tons in 1944 compared with 233,000 tons this year, only about 30 million tires will be manufactured to meet needs of essential users of cars, light delivery trucks, taxis and farm ve-hicles. Ordinarily, 50 million tires are made a year. Tightness in the civilian tire sup-ply will prevail because of military requirements, scarcity of manpower to operate fabricating equipment, reduction in the peace time inven-tory of tires, shortage of rayon cord for heavy duty tires, and the cut in crude rubber imports. To obtain maximum use of pres-ent tires, the rubber manufacturers' committee counseled drivers to pre-serve their tire carcasses, or bodies, for recapping by protecting the waU and not running down treads. Fur-ther, the committee advised low speeds, adequate air for tubes, and proper alignment for wheels and axles. Homemade Penicillin One of medicine's most precious cures, magical penicillin, is being Allied Pact Seated around conference table from left to right, U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull; Russian Foreign Commiisar Vyacheslav MolotoT, and British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, sign historic pact in Moscow, calling for League of Nations to preserre postwar peace. Said Hull: "We agreed upon a broad, basic program of international The program contemplates the hastening of victory . . i the preservation of peace, and the promotion of human welfare . . Ml produced at nve cents a plateful" by Dr. Julius A. Vogel in the kitchen of bis Pittsburgh, Pa., res-idence. Properly equipped, any doctor can grow his own supply. Dr. Vogel says. Plant physician for the Jones and Laugh-- ITALY: Destroy Ports Italy's northern ports of Leghorn and Pescara were blocked by Nazi demolitipn squads to render them useless to the Allies, for future op-erations, or In the event Gen. Dwight Eisenhower attempted landings above Rome to trap elements of five German divisions holding out in the mountainous country to the south. Principal action in Italy centered on the Fifth army front where Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's mixed British and U. S. forces were edg-ing forward at the mountain passes at Mignano, to gain the long, level valley leading to Rome. Once General Clark's warriors burst through at Mignano, they still will have to buck elaborate Nazi mountain fortresses farther up the valley at Cassino, which stands some 60 miles from Rome. Because Al-lied troops must clamber up rugged slopes in the face of entrenched en-emy machine gunners and mortars, and U. S. artillery must rake whole mountain sides to clear out Nazi posts, progress necessarily is slow. Fit Italy Into War To get Italy functioning on the side of the Allies, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower -- established a control commission headed by Maj. Gen. Kenyon Joyce, formerly of the 9th service command. Purpose of the commission will be to fit the country's agriculture and Industry into Allied war plans, and to regulate Italian governmental ad-ministration. To prevent any political party from establishing its hold over the country through military force, the commission will control Italy's re-vived fighting services. Advising the commission will be the U. S., British, Russian and French committee on Mediterranean affairs, and Greece and Jugoslavia will be included later. WORLD RELIEF: Allied Plans Assembling in the east room of the White House, representatives CROPS: Weather Helps Profiting from favorable weather, the 1943 corn crop was estimated at 3 billion, 85 million bushels by the department of agriculture oh the ba-sis of conditions November 1. This compared with last year's record crop of 3 billion, 175 million bush-els. With October weather good and without widespread frosts, the large acreage of late corn reached ma-turity in Iowa, Missouri, northwest-ern Ohio, and parts of Michigan and Indiana. Checking summer drouths, rains perked up late corn in the South Central states. Record yields were In prospect for the Northwest. Other crop estimates for 1943: Wheat, 835,816,000 bushels; oats, barley, 330,212,000; rye, 33,314,000; flaxseed, 51,486,000; soy beans, 206,017,000; rice, 69,019,000; potatoes, 469,092,000; sugar beets, tons, and peanuts, 2,681,955,-00- 0 pounds record highs for rice, potatoes and peanuts. Hogs Crowd Markets Chicago's sprawling stockyards teemed with over 60,000 live hogs after a high three-da- y shipment of 128,500 head, which compared with 85,552 for the previous week and 8 for the same period of 1942. As a result, packers paid the "floor" of $13.75 for only the heavier weights out of the 200 to 275 pound range on which the government has pledged price support. Packers ob-tained many bargains in classes for which no "floor" has been con-structed. So called "floor" prices were high on the flooded market, equalling the lowest tops since last December. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: At Japs' Rear Pursuing his policy of pinching off Japanese strongholds In the South-west Pacific by cutting off their com-munications, Gen. Douglas MacAr-thu- r has established U. S. forces to the rear of the enemy's important forward base of Buin on Bougaln- - trillo Iclonri in tho Qnlnmnni Dr. Vogel m stee, corporation, Vogel has used his penicillin to treat external infections, with complete cures effected in more than a score of cases. CHILD DELINQUENCY: Supervision Needed During the last year, delinquency among 'girls has increased 38 per cent and among boys 11 per cent, Katherine Lenroot, chief of the chil-dren's bureau of the department of labor, declared. With 5 million women with chil-dren under 14 years of age work-ing, and many fathers in service or sleeping days, a general weakening in home supervision is a contribut-ing cause for the delinquency, Miss Lenroot said. More than one million more women will be needed in in-dustry this year, she reported. Other factors of delinquency, Miss Lenroot asserted, are lack of school facilities in commu-nities, and the increase in child la-bor to five million thU year. "There would be little juvenile de-linquency today if children were from 44 United Na-tions signed an agreement for the relief and rehabili-tation of Europe, with each country providing supplies to the limit of its capacity. Of the 46 million tons of food, seed, fuel, clothing, raw materials, machin-ery and medical supplies that will be needed for Euro-- s A, J With U. S. marines and dough-boys standing astride the Japs' com-munication lines leading to Buin, they were in position to strike against the enemy supplies, and his main body from the rear. Bougainville is the Japs' last im-portant holding in the Solomons, and apparently they were determined to take advantage of the wild nature of the humid, tropical isle for another long, delaying action. U. S. CASUALTIES: Total 120,967 U. S. casualties totaled 120,967 for almost two years of war, with the army reporting 89,648, and the navy 31,317. Of the army casualties, 12,841 were killed, 30,263 wounded, 23,952 missing and 22,592 prisoners. Since the landing at Salerno, September 9, the U. S. suffered 8,556 casualties in Italy, with 1,295 killed, 4,764 wound-ed and 2,497 missing. Of the navy casualties, 12,548 are dead, 5,542 wounded, 8,999 missing, and 4,228 prisoners. Of the nearly 7,700,000 men in the army, about 2,500,000 men will be serving abroad by the end of the year. pean relief during Herbert the six months fol- - Lehman lowing the war, the U. S. will furnish nearly 9 million tons, Great Britain 3 million tons, Europe 29 million tons, and other regions 4 million tons. Congress will appropriate the funds for American participation. Slated for appointment as direc-tor general of the relief and rehabili-tation administration was former Governor Herbert Lehman of New York. Purpose of the administration is to tide over distressed people of reconquered areas until they can put their factories and land back into production. treated as as much of an emergency as armament production," Miss Lenroot concluded. LEND-LEAS-British Aid Up to last June 30, British lend-leas- e assistance to the U. S. totaled 871 million dollars, of which the ma-jor share consisted in supplying base facilities, barracks and hos-pitals for American land and air forces In the United Kingdom. figures indicated assist-ance to date has topped one billion dollars. Not included in the accounting the British said, was the cost of food furnished on the fighting fronts where no adequate records could be kept, and the value of information and experience gained in battle and relayed to the U. S. army and The British assistance does not in-clude lend-leas- e granted the U S by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India, who operate under separate agreements. On August 25 President Roosevelt reported U. s' lend-leas- e assistance to Britain alone totaled nearly 4 billion dol-lar- BUILDING In the first 12 months after the final armistice there will be five and a quarter billion dollars spent on private construction, according to a survey of the nation's building needs. About 84 billion will be ex-pended annually between 1947 and 1951, the report estimates. Residential building will reach its high point before 1950, and din to a low in the middle 1950s. Commer cial, industrial and community build ings will total over a billion dollars' a year between 1947 and '51. CIVILIAN GOODS More "transportation equipment farm machinery, tools, washing ma chines, refrigerators and other household essentials" will be forth coming as rapidly as decreasing mil itary needs permit return of fao tones to production for civilian use' Donald Nelson, chairman of WPB gave this assurance recently ' Bernard Baruch is beginning cedure to put factories back pro. on peace-fam- e work as fast as war ts can be terminated, Mr son said. OFFICE EQUIPmt '; WE BUY AND8KuTlmir Files. Typewriters. Addin, SALT. LAKE DESK IS West Broad..,. 8.1, Uk, J i .j.j II u.i irr ill!' White Fawn Flour Leads Them All Ask your Friendly Grocer FOB FREE CATALOG StMpeTTT for embroidery write ' WQBK CO.. Box 1M, M.0,.,1," When armored knights met it was customary for each knig'-- t raise the visor, of his helmet as a means of identification. This s. ture has come down through i armies in the form of the sa'ute" Traditional, too, is the Army mV;, preference for Camel cigars"'. With men in the Army, Navy, ''. rines, and Coast Guard, a'e'-'-j sales records in their serS stores show that Camel is favorite. It's one of the s with service men. And the i there are Post Office restrict on packages to overseas Arr men, you can still send Camels-'- soldiers in. the U. S., and to r: in the Navy, Marines, and Cj Guard wherever they are.-- A.; Just 2 drops Prat-r;- Vgssssw Nose Drops la sL nostril help yIJU ODDHDIllins,antireer a' f IIHU'tJI I headacoll 'g'tsr'. much for 60c. Csu-- y Use only as dirrct a f Penetro Nose liiuv WHO SUFFT" V few he: from hot nervous, cranky feelings, t a bit blue at times due to i functional "middle-age- " pr peculiar to women try Lviiu ; Plnkham's Vegetable Coni?" to relieve such symptoms. 1. Pinkham's Compc-- helps build up resistance ae such distress. It helps nav..-- ' Also a fine stomachic tonic. I low label directions. I LYDIAE. PINT'S 7 ssMsMssssssMMHIliSllllMsnssssssssN Don't Just Iftnor cold! " tr each eroni tricky. Ret poaure. And for prompt, d relief from oaual cold miseries. CroTe's Cold Tablets. Tbey co eight aotire Ingredients a urn medicine. Work on all the v toma of a cold at the tame time headache body achea fever n stuffiness. Take GroTe'a Cold - exactly aa directed. Accept no s, stitutes. Get Grove's Cold fifty years known to miln ns "Bromo Quinine" Cold Tablet. Sare Monsy Get Lor it Ecorwn Acid Indi::'" Relieved in 5 minutes or double more When excess stomach acid caused pir.rn hilt rbs, sour stomach and heartburn, do.v prescribe the fas tea a r tin? nWi'"ir,',j symptomatic relief medicines lik thfW Tablets. No laxative. s bnncs jiffy or double yoar money back on retux- - -- to ns. 25c at all druggists. ' avest in Liberty ft ft Buy War WNU--W ngriN'iiH-- - And Your Strength and Energy Is Below Far ft may be caused by dlaordc ey (unction that permits P' , waste to accumulate. For tnw people feel tired, weak and & ; , when the kidneys tail to reno;' ' , acids and other waste matter blood. t,,pV"- You may suffer na(ndnf B.. . rheumatic pains, headaches, - ;. getting up nights, leg a'M-- ' 'K bometimea frequent and iy tion with smarting and bununn ljS other sign that something i """ the kidneys or bladder. .,r-- t There should be no doubt tbP treatment is wiser than ant'' , Conn's Pills. It is better to ni ir medicine that has won eountrv,VPM: 1 proval than on something Im" d known. Conn's have been tneo ' ed many years. Are at all ant Get Doan today. "..IfcdbyWelt'eTHNewspaperTnlon. GOVERNMENT ,CNTm UNITED STATES FORSOME 150 YEARS we havr thought of government St of our town, our .county r interests lay m the race orluch sheriff and board offices as an! coun- - Supervisors, for mayor members of e state cilmen, for We elect-- d legislature and governor. congressmen and senators to rep us in Washington at what eTmed much like a side show o government In which we were not each four greatly interested. Once thrill out of the con-test years we got a for President but it did not make much difference to any of us which candidate won. It was the local and state govern-ments, not Washington, that enacted and enforced the laws that affected us as individuals. That it should be thus was decided In that historic controversy between Jefferson and Hamilton during the two terms Washington served as the nation s first President. Jefferson demanded the right of the people to local self government. Hamilton would cen-tralize government at the nation's" capital. So bitter, was the contest it almost resulted in a small civil war before Jefferson was successful and the people had settled down to those self governing rights their champion Tiad won for them. That was for the first 150 years only. Today Washington is no long-er a governmental side show. It has become the "big top" with Ham-iltonia- n policies dominating. Our state, county and town governments have largely become useless append-ages. We are directed and regulat-ed by the federal government. Wash-ington tells us what to do, what to eat, what to raise on our farms, what we may buy and at what price, how we will heat our homes, how much" wages we may have and how many hours we may work in a week, for what we may use gasoline and hundreds of other things that affect each of us as individuals. While some of these are a result of the wartime emergency many were in effect before Pearl Harbor and will continue when the war is over. They represent a new con-ception of government to which we have not become accustomed. To get us back to those days of Jeffersonian local self government, to get us away from the Hamiltonian policies, to the place of the state, the county and the town, depends, not upon whom we elect as governor of the state, as sheriff of the county or mayor of the town, but upon the men we Americans col-lectively send to Washington as con-gressmen and senators. They are today the important cogs in our gov-ernmental machinery. SELFISHNESS AND THE WAR EFFORT THE WAR has not cured us of what has become a dominant Amer-ican trait, selfishness. We are, each of us, for an all-o- war effort on the part of the other fellow. When it comes to government handouts we are opposed to all except those that benefit us as individuals, our group or our section. Legislation that will benefit us, regardless of its effect on others or on the nation generally, should be enacted by congress. Each of us wishes to be' the white-haire- d favorite child. The merits of a con-gressman are judged by the amount of federal bacon he brings home to the people of his district. State gov-ernors meet to determine the needs ol the nation and each "views with alarm" all activities other than those favorable to his state. It may have always been thus in some degree but never before to the extent of today. The government, including congress, has listened to groups until these groups dominate us as a nation. Such actions have fed and enlarged our American trait of selfishness until we are in danger of being consumed by it. SIMPLIFY TAX REPORTS ONE WAY to make possible tht collection of larger income taxes is for congress, the treasury depart-men- t or whoever prepares what are called instructions for filling out in- come tax reports, to make them suf-ficiently intelligible for the average mortal to understand. The instruc- tions I received early in September about reporting probable income for 1943 were about as clear as mud. for me taTX expert t0 decipher them would more cheerfully have paid the cost of that expert ad vice as additional income Washington seems to think a simple understandaUe statement would noi be in keeping with the ernment and so makes fhe emp! ment of tax experts necessary. . aMrmed Services civility e" wrePPno?ed to the uniform ttey cred" . WE HEAR MUPH but the averae interested in is mosl PwonC oi . . E AMERICAN FARMFR mg h s best to ls do' world, despite fd fr by government C 0IS imposeii m"t by decree 'Thai15'. gVern-- America does not Wha1 want ' FROM JANUARY Tn tttt Sress cut $266,100 000 n-sirbius- - A -r-eioir;e 35 miles'an hour back a t en the Ure ' "0t Cntinue over? saving war need is Largest and Smallest The world's largest living cr ? ture, the whale, is many be-times as heavy as the wo:.. smallest, a tiny kind of germ. Lizards Drop Tails Many species of lizards are : to detach their tails when pur; '., in order to distract the foe. Mourning Koreans Natives in mourning in K wear a hat which covers heads to their shoulders. B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage About 90 per cent of Maine's po-tatoes are grown in a single county Aroostook in the northernmost part of the state. When Maxwell Anderson's play, "The Eve of St. Mark," opened in Stockholm recently, it received the best Swedish reviews for years, ac-cording to an article in the Afton-blade- t, as reported to the OWI. . The Bangkok radio, in a domestic broadcast, revealed that tough-talkin- g cabbies are the latest target of the national culture campaign. The broadcast warned all cab drivers. As a direct result of Allied bomb-ing of German synthetic rubber plants, Germany has failed to deliv-s- r to Sweden the previously prom-ised number of Buna rubber tires, ihus necessitating withdrawal from service of a number of Stockholm notor buses, according to a recent Swedish press dispatch. The A. F. Davis Welding Library has been established at Ohio State university, Columb.us, Ohio. One of the favorite jokes of Ger-mans in regions is: "During last night's raid on west-ern Germany, 69 bombers were shot down. One of our fighters failed to return. One of our towns is miss-ing." The Japanese cabinet has ordered a sweeping adjustment of the pub-lishing industry and established a literary production examination council to see that future publica-tions' are aimed at the lifting of the people's fighting spirit and the in-crease of fighting power, as well as the strengthening of propaganda for overseas. The Tokyo radio, an-nouncing the new order, in broad-casts to the Japanese empire, said that the drastic action was based upon the ideal for the establishment of public morale. HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news TIGERS: The Detroit Tigers baseball club will go to Evansville, Ind., for their spring training period. COAL: The emergency regula-tions on delivery of soft coal have been relaxed, Secretary Ickes an-nounced. AS modified, the rules state that a dealer cannot sell coal to a customer who has 30 days sup-ply on hand. POSTWAR CARS: Only 1942 mod-el automobiles will be made for at least a year and a half after peace comes, automotive engineers be-lieve. This is because manufactur-ers must use their old dies and tools. It will take time to design and con-struct new equipment. Production of cars will be resumed four to six months after receiving the signal from the gov-ernment, but some manufacturing may be done before the European war ends. There may be fewer mod-els in the post-wa- r era, the engi-neers think. RAISE: With the 'new increase allowed by the War Labor board, test pilot inspectors will earn about $410 a month. A $4 an hour bonus was allowed for this extremely haz-ardous work. DIAMOND: A 530 carat diamond, "probably the eighth largest ever found," has been dug up in Sierre Leone, British colony on the west coast of Africa. FORMS: The War Production board is making every effort to re-duce the paper work under which business is laboring, Donald Nelson, chairman, stated, adding that the whole controlled materials plan is being reviewed. COLD: The common cold has caused greater loss of manpower hours than any other illness, said Charles Kettering, vice president of General Motors. He told medical directors of industrial plants that the promotion of "health consciousness" should be a part of their effort to reduce lost production time. |