Show P WHO'S NEWS i THIS WEEK I IBy II i II I I By LEMUEL F. F PARTON I Consolidated Features Feature Service NEW YORK Encouraging Encouraging news newl I is that we may keep our rubber rubber rub rub- rubber ber heels and if it we have to travel on them instead of on rubber tires it wont won't be bema bethe c it n.-if n. S Small II Still Voice ma the fault lault of Of Scientists Now Dr Elmer W. W Bromides Brandes More more ore Audible head ot of the bureau of plant industry of the Ule department department department de de- de- de of ot agriculture For many years Dr Brandes has been exploring rubber jungles wherever wherever I ever he can cnn find them studying rubber rubI rub rub- ber yielding ber-yielding plants and staking out I for the government useful data and techniques Currently he tells the house agriculture committee about the Ule urgency of at planting large areas arens of at the Ule guayule shrub This time the committee is listening more In in- in Germany is far tar ahead of at us In synthetic rubber production On occasion Dr Brandes has worked up a pleasant friendship with hunters head-hunters and should be able to get on friendly terms with congressmen It was in August 1928 that he landed his hydroplane in a jungle river in New Guinea It scared the wits out of the pygmy head But the genial and conspicuously conspicuous conspicuous- 1 ly unarmed Dr Brandes lured them into his camp by friendly gestures and they became friends and co lIe He has flown many thousands of lone lODe jungle air leagues on many research research research re re- search expeditions to Central and South America Asia and aDd the Pacific islands In July 1940 congress provided for a study of crude rubber In the Western hemisphere Dr Brandes Brandes Bran Bran- des flew fiew to Brazil and is now offering to congress the time result of his researches there He was born in Washington In 1891 was educated in science at Michigan State Stute college Cornell and the University of Michigan taught at Michigan State and entered the government service as a plant pathologist pathologist pa pa- at the Puerto Rico agricultural agricultural agricultural tural experiment station in 1914 He served in the Ule World war as a secand second second sec sec- ond and lieutenant in France THERE is one section of ot the Ule populace populace populace lace which wont won't be bothered much by all ull this rationing of food clothes automobile tires and houseA household household house- house hold goods It A T n A Toot for One of is y the Ule group Our Indispensable which is for forM form the m most o s t m M Morale I t B Builders Builders' D it d t ora e Ut ers part astran stran- a stranger ger to such luxuries One of them Ulem asked me for tor a dime today We gotta work fast he said before the government gets all aU the Ule loose dimes If It as reported morale is good among people who are hungry and cold the Salvation Army has helped and und will help greatly to this end And rating many new stars in his crown or cap is Col John J. J Allan just now becoming the Army's lieutenant lieutenant lieu lieu- tenant commissioner for or 11 central states with headquarters at Chi Chi- cago When as a young man getting getting getting get get- ting a start as a jeweler John James Allan decided to give his life to the time Salvation Army he disguised himself as a derelict when he went down Into New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's flowery owen He lIe shared their houses flophouses w wore e ragged clothes and took his out hand-out where he be found it Condescending to men of low estate in the scriptural phrase he lie found reciprocal understanding understanding un un- un- un when he shared their troubles That was the start of his career of kindly and aggressive friendliness as an evangelist and champion of the outs down and as a for the Bowery flowery and for King George Glorge of England England England-at at ata a command performance in hi 1904 lie He was vas for far three years a soloist with Villi Reeves American band of ot Providence It H. H I. I He lie is the Ule father faUler of at the Ule United Service Organizations It was on October 11 1940 that t he met with executives of the Ule YMCA the Knights of Columbus and the Jewish Jewish Jew Jew- ish ash Welfare organization for tor united effort among the Ule soldiers and out of ot this meeting came the Ule USO lie He is married the father of ot five children He lie was born bosh in hi Hazelton Pa in 1887 his mother having been born near Nottingham England a astone's astone's astone's stones stone's throw from tram the home of at General General Gen Gen- General eral Booth In the World war he was senior chaplain of ot tile the Seventy-seventh Seventy division division division di di- vision In France the first Salvation Salva Salve tion Army chaplain in hi the Ameri Amer American can armed forces lie He won the Ule French Croix de Guerre and later received the Ule rank of major chaplain of the U. U S S. S arm army In 1925 he entered entered en en- the Ule army reserve corps and his Colonel is a military title lie He was in Salvation Arm Army work ir in Newark from 1923 to 1925 and thereafter there after otter In Columbus Ohio for tor eight years managing the Greenwood Lake Camp for Children lie He never trumpets himself but the Army does |