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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYm GOP to Inject Vigor of Youth in 1944 Campaign j Dewey Leader Indicates Republicans Will Hit at Machine Politics and Left Wing Elements During Race. By BAUKIIAGE Newt AnidyU and Commentator. WNU Rervlre, Union Truttt Building, Washington, D. C. In a week or so the political cam-paigns will be warming up and al-ready the main lines of attack and counter-attac- k have begun to form. The bombs will explode far from the banks of the Potomac-nepubli-- can headquarters and regional of-fices are already springing up and their activities are far removed from Washington's daily life. But nowhere is the interest in politics and the garnering of votes as great as In this voteless city. Before Candidate Dewey started westward with Pittsburgh and St. Louis station stops. Herbert Brown-ell- , the new chairman of national committee, visited Republican head-quarters here on Connecticut ave-nue to get acquainted. He did and made a very good Impression. As one reporter remarked, "What a change In the genus chairman." Brownell Is quite a contrast to his predecessor, Harrison Spangler. and the accent is on youth. Brownell Is 40, looks younger, although his dusty blonde hair Is sparse. He reminded me of a fraternity brother (he hap-pens to be one, I discovered) who was assistant professor of something not too highbrow the type. He Is a Nebraskan and a Mayflower descendant who won a cholarshlp at his state university which took htm to Yale where he edited the Yale Law Journal, no In-significant distinction. Bring Dewey Closer To General Public He made an excellent law connec-tion In New York, was elected to the state legislature and developed a keen nose for politics which brought him to the position of counsel for the state Republican committee. He was one of the Inner circle of the Dewey group and liked Dewey as those who are closest to him do and unlike those in the middle distances, who don't. A part of Brownell' s job will be to bridge that gap. He or somebody else has already been giv-ing lessons to the governor In the charm school as was evident at his first press conference In Chicago aft-er his nomination where he revealed his training. The cynical Albany press gang were a little taken aback by the governor's showing at that time. lush but powdery thatch doesn't go so well with that. "Control of the Democratic par-ty." said Mr. Brownell, "rests whol-ly with two elements the bosses of the corrupt big city machines and the radical left wingers who ar; closer to communism than any oth-er political philosophy." Right there you have two key notes, the first which the attorney can sound in all Its variations and no doubt he will. The second will fit splendidly into Mr. Bricker's style of oratory and will appeal to the audiences of the Middle West, which were so moved before Chicago that they almost would not let him take a secoi.d place on the ticket they wanted him so badly to top. Expect Dewey to Rip Truman's Connections A Democrat who was a Wallace backer said to me Just after the Tru-nw- n bandwagon began to roll: "I can't figure out what thirf is all about. They nominate a man who got his start from the Pendergast machine because Pendergast swore he could take an unknown and make him a senator and did. What will Mr. District Attorney do to him?" It Is true Pendergast gave Tru-man his start, but whatever you may think of Mr. Pendergast's mo-ralsthey did land him temporarily in jail the one quality that every-body who knows Truman talks about and the thing the senator's record points to, is honesty. But what are facts in a political year anyhow? Erownell hinted that there would be plenty said about "Bosses of cor-rupt political machines." So that's the scent and a fairly noisome one, which you can expect the Republi-cans to follow lustily and In full cry. Brownell was asked if the influ-ence of the CIO on the Democratic party would be exploited. Brownell merely said we could expect some-thing on that subject, too. He would not say, however, whether he thought that nominating Truman in-stead of Wallace, for whom Sydney Hillman's CIO political committee was pulflhg so hard, strengthened the Democratic ticket. He was asked If he expected the support of John Lewis. He didn't answer that directly but he did say that he expected a large proportion of labor support and that party lead- - Dewey Is naturally an Introvert, with a tendency toward egocentrici-ty- . But he Is one of the lucky ones who knows it and from school days he has struggled against the aloof-ness which often grows up around the man who Is always the head of his class as Dewey was. He is ready to help the Republi-cans put the accent on youth and underline it heavily. Brownell fits Into that picture naturally and Dew-ey can be counted upon to match his own conduct with his years as far as vigor and energy go and he will probably be able to acquire the "hail-fellow- " flavor for public rela-tions. It is clear when you talk to Brown-ell that he Is all for the " type of electioneering. The Democrats know what to expect. They started a defensive-offensiv- e on the need and wisdom and experi-ence in their convention speeches. They are going to try to prove that when the contestants weigh in. Democratic gray-matt- will e the red corpuscles and vita-mins which their opponents display and of which they will boast. As we waited to interview Brown-ell on that muggy Washington after-noon, a flifure emerged who may have been exhibit A of the Republi-cans' immortal pep. He was the man who nominated Taft for Presi-dent so you can date him. He was former Sen. Jim Watson of Indiana (born 1863), not juvenile, but he hadn't lost his "As Uncle Joe Cannon always used to advise me," Senator Jim allowed to all and sundry, " 'give 'em hell, boys!' " I asked Brownell later if the Re-publicans intended to campaign in "an unusual way," since the Presi-dent had said he wouldn't campaign in the usual way. Brownell smiled and replied with a sentence the bur-den ef which was "energetic." However, a pean to youth will not be the only song in the Dewey-Bricke- r repertoire. Mr. Bricker's ers In Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Ohio and Illinois (where Lewis' United Mine Workers are chiefly lo-cated) were strongly Republican and that editorial writers of the UMW periodicals and union leaders had noticed the trend and were fol-lowing it. The "don't change horses" argu-ment will be met with arguments offered at the Republican conven-tion, that there will be no change in the American high command, no interference with military leaders or their strategy and then, of course, there is the pious hope, too, that should the war in Europe end be-fore the ides of November, the stream will be reduced to such a trickle that nobody will worry about a little leap from one saddle to an-other saddle. How War Maps Are Made "A map is the foundation stone of any operation," says a long and precise document issued by the Brit-ish Information service entitled, "Liberating a Continent Index to Invasion." I have had a little to do with the making of war maps myself and know that information that goes into such maps comes from many sources. Some of the data is as an-cient as the hills that are depicted in the convolutions resulting from painstaking topographical surveys which show every three-foo- t rise. Some of the data, on the other hand, is so fresh from the fighting front itself that the maps upon which it is superimposed and furnished to of-ficers from the mobile lorry-born- e photo-lith- o printing equipment in the fields are hardly dry. These field units can be set up and be ready to begin printing with-in 20 minutes. They can make re-productions of maps with recent corrections on them and produce them in color at the rate of 4.500 copies an hour. Charcoal Gas Is Fair Gasoline Substitute, Tests Show; Could Be Used on Farms y j mum i mm t ;i (---P "T ' - , ' J M - - 1 .i I f '.V n i., u (principally carbon ""Mc ' b"r"-In- g The gaS0Kene generates gas The holds 170 pounds. It is charcoal at high temperatures. hopper best to refuel it every 50 to 76 miles. Advantages, Defects Revealed by 800-Mil- e Trial Journey in Car The present scarcity of gas-oline has turned attention to possible substitutes. One of the most practical is the gas generated from charcoal or wood by a high temperature burner. These devices, which are common in Europe, are rare in the United States, and if the wartime stringency in motor fuel had not developed, they would probably have re-mained curiosities. If gaso-line becomes .expensive and scarce in the postwar years, however, the gas generators will probably come into use, at least for some purposes, such as stationary engines and farm machinery. The charcoal burned in the gen-erator can be made from any kind of wood or dried plant fiber, such as pressed out sugar cane. Here is possible future market for farm products that are now wastes. All this, however, depends on the ade-quacy of our petroleum reserves. If gasoline is once again plentiful and cheap, there is little likelihood that the gas generator will be wide-ly employed, for at its present stage, it does not give as satisfac-tory service as gasoline does. To investigate the possibilities of using gas generators on their de-livery cars, as well as to obtain material for an informative article, Newsweek magazine had one of its small station wagons fitted with a generator, and driven on an 800 mile test trip. The journey began in Kalamazoo, Mich., where the charcoal burning r, known commercially as the "Gaso-gene- " was attached at the manufac-turer's plant, and ended in New York city. The route traversed the Allegheny mountains, where steep grades forced the car to give its best possible performance. Milton Van Slyck, associate editor, super-vised the experiment. On the June morning when the trip was to start, Mr. Van Slyck poured 170 pounds of charcoal into the hopper of the gasogene. He then started the motor of the car with gasoline. Next he stepped around to the rear, opened the small fire door, and lit the burner with a twist of paper. The suction of the motor drew the flame right in and in a few seconds the fire was nearly jvhite hot. In one minute fifteen sec-onds after he poured the charcoal they rolled out of the shop down the highway. Within a couple of min-utes they turned off the gasoline completely. In about eight minutes, all told, the gasogene was delivering its full power, which is about 65 per cent of that obtained from gasoline. This did not mean that the station wagon could go only 65 per cent of miles). Curiosity appeal was high. Motorists seeing the device as they approached from the rear would pull up and sometimes tail them for miles. In towns small crowds gathered to look and ask questions. Though the fuel hopper holds 170 pounds, it was found best to refuel every 50 to 75 miles. Fresh fuel is put in through the hatch on trip of the generator, a dusty, dirty, two-t- o three-minut- e job. Usually at the same time, Mr. Van Slyck took a couple more minutes out to look at the security filter, a small screen which is the last cleaning stage. Twenty Cents for 15 Miles. They averaged close to 30 miles an hour for the 800 miles and burned 600 pounds of charcoal. Put into its gasoline equivalent (15 miles to the gallon) this stacked up to about HVi pounds which, at the rate of $35 a ton for charcoal, meant nearly 20 cents for 15 miles, or within a penny or two of gasoline cost. , The whole system is entirely ra-tional; there is nothing mysterious about it. The regular carburetor is used when the motor operates on gasoline. A carbo-charge- r feeds gas into the cylinders in the gasogene operation. The main difference is that the gasogene gas (principally carbon monoxide) must be manufactured in the generator before it can be burned: gasoline in the tank is ready for use. With a gasogene it is neces-sary to ketip ilie engftie turning over a little faster than usual in or-der to manufacture gas. If the en-gine is run too slowly on a hill, where power is needed, the fire may die down, reducing speed. The fire requires relighting only after long intervals of parking. After only two or three hours of disuse the motor will start on gaso-gene direct. After three or four hours it is necessary to use a little Mote than 1,000.000 passenger cars and trucks throughout the world use various fftrms of gas generators. Recently reports have come that the Nazis are operating war machines, includ-ing training tanks on gasogenes. In this country the army and other gov-ernment branches (Bureau of stand-ards, Forest service of the depart-ment of agriculture, Tennessee Val-ley authority) have made or still are conducting exhaustive tests. When the German submarine campaign threatened to cut the sea lanes to our fronts the army stepped up the gasogene experiments it had started three years ago. Seek-ing a satisfactory gasoline sub-stitute, nearly every conceivable fuel was subjected to tests, even dried camel dung, which worked O.K. Now, with shipping lanes opened, the army is not so interested. But it did find that the gasogene gas was a satisfactory substitute for gasoline under certain conditions, al-though it gave less power and the mechanism was harder to main-tain. The possibility of using the gasogene when the Burma road is reopened is not yet definitely ruled out. Army and other experiments, plus some Canadian research, produced reports of varying degrees of ap-proval and disapproval. Some held the horsepower loss was too great, gasogenes were too dirty, and so on. Numerous In Sweden. Under the wartime gas shortage there are several thousand gaso-genes now operating on wood, espe-cially in countries such as Sweden where lumber is plentiful. Un-doubtedly most will go back to gaso-- ! line after the war. Wood does not give as good a performance as charcoal; it is dirtier in its gas con-tent and therefore more apt to foul an engine. Since coke or hard coal This is the small station wagon equipped with a gasogene that made the 800 mile experimental run from Kalamazoo, Mich., to New York city. The trip was a rigorous test for the efficiency of gas fuel, for the route led over the steep grades of the Allegheny mountains. operate satisfactorily, in hard-coa- l regions where fuel is cheap, g gasogene trucks might be feasible. A group of farmers, too, might band together to make char-coal for use on their machinery and trucks. All in all, any widespread postwar use in the United States is unlikely and what there is probably will be local and mainly in agricul-ture, industry, and business not private driving. Gasogene's proponents point out that the history of the use of sub-stitutes is replete with stories of im-provements and lower costs, such as in synthetic nitrates, rubber and fibers. For this reason they antici-pate further improvements. But be-cause of the gasogene's limitations, the oil companies, though highly interested in watching experiments, do not expect any serious competi' tion. The results thus far in these tests confirm that the gasogene is a satisfactory substitute for gasoline where the standard fuel is un-- i available or where transportation or other factors make its price pro--j hibitive. The relationship between the cost of gasoline and the cost of the substitute fuel is the main fac-- l tor which will control the gasogene's future. For instance, gasoline at 25 to 50 cents a gallon in remote sections of South America could make it feasible to use charcoal which is plentiful and cheap, as it is a home product sold everywhere for cooking. In the United States gaso-gene- s may be used in the lumber industry. With plenty of waste lumber-es-pecially in the far north where transportation makes gaso-lin- e costs high, it might be feasible to turn waste into charcoal (a simple process requiring two or three days) or even burn the wood as it is the speed it would be capable of with gasoline. In speed tests, given time to work up momentum (about three times that ordinarily needed for gasoline), it reached 70 miles an hour for a brief run. There was no rip in pickup. On the hills the lack of horsepower showed up more, al-though they encountered none that could not be made in low. Ar a rule of thumb a hill on which a gasoline engine would balk a little in high required second speed with the gasogene; one that made a gasoline car use second, required low. Shaking Down the Ashes. The cross-countr- y run was made without mishap. One night a truck driver d his big van to a stop and tore over with a fire ex-tinguisher when they paused at the roadside to shake down the ashes (this was done twice in the 800 gasoline in the motor to get the draft going through the firebox and build up a good fire. The gasogene used less than 2 quarts of gasoline for 800 miles, better than 1,600 miles to the gal-lon. What It Costa. Thi cost of the gasogene varies: For this experi-mental unit was about $700; on trucks with a simpler installation job the cost would be perhaps $100 lower. In South America they are somewhat less. Mass production na-turally would bring economies. At present gasogenes are not made in this country for unrestricted civilian use, though no priorities for the pur-chaser would be required if a manu-facturer were able to get clearance on materials from the War Produc-tion board and on manpower from the War Manpower commission. liOThiffntmaiiiw-ti- iif ft - ' "' '"" The gasogene outfit requires some attention that machines operating on gasoline do not, since the gaso-gene burns charcoal or other solid fuel. It is necessary to shake out the ashes perhaps once a week. Then there are two filters that must be taken out and cleaned peri-odically. One is the radical-finne- d filter, (right). This was serviced once on the trip. The other is the security filter, (left). It was thought best to look at this every time they 6Iled the charcoal hTprTr. ' 4 te-- 'l : ill; . ?A General q . ' 1- - What is rvT" n 1D 2. What !.pJt3 Land" was yL 1 irJ" i ortl in r .n1 .Anient? lM a por what y 5- - What is rll1: len's real he Great CommJ wi 1. An obelisk " 2. Mrs. John Q,. born in London of - 'lPl father. ' ' 3. Malachi. was 4. To bore a tide 5. John P. Sullivail. :tft o. Henry Clay ' S"1 r-- f. Washington, D. C. ADMIRAL KINO SLAPS Insiders now admit that friction between Secretary of the Navy For-rest- al and Chief of Naval Opera-tion- s Admiral Ernie King is just as bad as it was between King and the late Frank Knox-- or worse. Knox and Admiral King rubbed oach other raw. King used to go over the head of the secretary of the navy, even overruled him regarding the navy's new gray summer uni-form, which Knox and most navy men opposed. When Forrestal became secretary of the navy, it was hoped that rela-tions would be harmonious. Last week, however, Admiral King pub-licly gave his chief an adroit slap-dow- n. Forrestal, Admiral King and flght- - ing Admiral Halsey were holding a Joint press conference. The secre-- i tary of the navy was asked if he had any comment on the fall of the ' Tojo cabinet. He replied that navy personnel, including himself, were not supposed to comment on politics. Whereupon Admiral King inter-- I rupted and, almost as If the secre- -' tary of the navy were a little boy, corrected him. "I will comment on that," he an-nounced, despite Forrestal's state-- j ment that political matters were not for comment by navy personnel. ("Obviously, the cabinet would not have fallen unless there wasdissatis-- j faction on the part of military lead-- i ers with the conduct of the war. The Japanese can be expected to con-tinue to wage war with all the pow-ers they possess." Secretary Forrestal took the ad-miral's remarks interpreted by those present as an Indirect slap-tow-without saying a word. VETERAN STRUGGLE One of the most important behind-3ie-scen-struggles for postwar power is now being waged between the American Legion and the Veter-ans of Foreign Wars. Actually, the Veterans of For-eign Wars are in a better position than the Legion to get a head start m recruiting veterans of World War (I. The VFW charter from congress permits recruiting men before they ire discharged, while the Legion Tiust wait until a man leaves the service before recruiting him. Fact is the VFW has picked up more than 400,000 new members since Pearl Harbor, while the Le- -' gion's gains have been relatively paltry. At the start of the war, the Legion had more than one million members, the VFW only a quarter million. But today the VFW maga-zine has the largest overseas cir-culation of any publication, is now read by 300,000 men monthly. As a result, VFW is picking up members at the rate of 5,000 a week, while Legion officials fret, plan their own recruiting drive later. One reason for VFW success has been a policy of tacitly bucking the American Legion on key policy matters. VFW helped paint the Le-gion as "anti-labor,- " then turned around and attempted to arrange a deal whereby all CIO and AFL mem-- bers in the service would join the VFW instead of the Legion when they left the service. More than two million union men are in the service However, labor has not fallen for the bait. Instead, trade-unio- n chap-- i ters of the American Legion are be-ing rapidly built up to help com-bat any anti-unio- feelings of re-turning servicemen. The Veterans of Foreign Wars also made "hay" with a speech delivered by national Legion Commander Wau-re- n Atherton in the South Pacific area recently. Atherton debunked the idea that men in the front lines fighting the Japs want furloughs home- The VFW immediately took advantage of this statement, set up a terrific howl for overseas fur-loughs, soon found membership pour.ing..in. SITUATION IN GERMANY Uncensored military and political dispatches reaching the diplomatic corps reveal that the German army is defeated and that fat Hermann Goering, father of the Luftwaffe, may soon rise as the German "man on horseback" to try to make peace with the Allies. This dramatic turn of events catches Franklin Roosevelt plotting Pacific strategy while the biggest break of the war is coming 5,000 miles away jn Europe. Whether Roosevelt does anything more alout it or not, however, you can write t down that Hitler and company are through. It's just a question of how much Germany can salvage be-'or- e the last .sho.t.is fired. MERRY-GO-ROUN-C The Berlin radio beamed to uZlTT 3 nPW Peanda other night. An announcer introducing a newscaster, said The views of this commentator do not necessarily reflect the views of this station." C. Army air corps officials sav that Jacquelin Cochran, head o'f the a,ps. into their offices oounds on their desks, says. "I used to work in a factory. 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At present, most impres give immediate program calls for improving 34,000 miles of highways recommended by the National Inter regional Highway committee Farm operating loans have been made to several hundred honorably discharged servicemen who had no other source of credit to finance food pioductiun. ... Farms, ranches and other non institutu nal employers of seasonal workers may now apply for allot meets of rationed foods to feec4 vk err. hireJ for til) days or less |