| Show n- n By Ray Tucker W Wa as s h h- h i n JJ Y n WY Wh- Wh I I r g I g Telegrams Telegram's Correspondent Washington WASHINGTON The prospect prospect prospect pros pros- that the rubber famine may ease up before the average family's family's family's fam fam- ilys ily's rolling stock wears out is brightening slowly Offic i a 1 I s caution against piling up excessive excessive excessive sive mileage right now but several several several sev sev- eral un unpublicized publicized ventures offer hope that American ingenuity can strike a solution On his recent western trip Secretary Claude R. R paid an unadvertised visit to the federal agricultural station at Peoria Ill and inspected the manufacture of a substitute rubber from grains The development development development devel devel- had reached the test- test tube stage and he wanted to ascertain whether the discovery would soon be ready for a commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial tryout Another method using corn wheat and oil as basic ingredients ingredients ingredients ingre ingre- has impressed certain federal federal federal fed fed- eral agencies so favorably that funds for small-scale small production I have been allocated If either experiment pans out it may be possible to turn out sufficient volume for restricted civilian use by 1914 or 1945 at the lat lat- lat lat- est The first large wave of American American American Amer Amer- ican air and naval officers to have engaged in actual combat with the Japanese has reached Washington and more home- home comers are en route The arrivals arrivals arrivals ar ar- ar- ar rivals have been describing their experiences at strategic councils councils councils coun coun- and soon they will wilI be assigned assigned assigned as as- signed as lecturers at camps schools and stations Generally they report that the boys are tough fight fight- ers A participant in the Marcus Marcus Mar Mar- larcus cus island foray who had won wona a reputation by his outspokenly contemptuous opinion of the Nips now numbers them among I L the worlds world's finest fighting men In weapons tactics and logistics they have shown evidence of long and tedious preparations for conflict with the U. U S. S Every defensive and offensive blue blueprint blueprint blue plue- print has been drawn with that objective in mind Nor have they proved themselves themselves themselves them them- selves to be mere machine-like machine imitators Their staff work excels excels excels ex ex- cels that of the nazis They exhibit exhibit exhibit ex ex- hibit amazing originality in adapting plans and devices for fora a particular problem or terrain So long as they operate in accord accord accord ac ac- ac- ac cord with prearranged orders and under direction of trained leaders they make a formidable outfit President Roosevelt has probably probably probably ably killed the possibility of any legislation for this tion together with senate committee committee committee com com- revelations of questionable question question- able practices by big business has side tracked some ary measures which his closest aids desired But the background of the narrow to 13 vote for tabling the Vinson hour 48 week bill demonstrated that Capitol Hill HilI Hillis Hillis is still in a mean mood The Georgia congre s s m a n who heads the house naval affairs committee tried to cover too much territory He wanted the longer work week registration of unions filing of financial statements by the A F L Land and C CIO I 0 and also a sharp limitation limitation limitation limi limi- tation on corporate profits Wherever he turned he found that he had made an enemy Perhaps his most unfortunate mistake was in linking his program program program pro pro- gram with that sponsored by Representative H How Howard o w a r d W. W Smith of Virginia The latter is branded as a labor baiter in every piece of Lewis Green-Lewis lit lit- Lawmakers from the large cities would have committed committed commit commit- ted political suicide in tying up with a Virginian and a Georgian in a movement to curtail or criticize criticize criticize crit crit- the wage earners I W Anti-W A A C legislators r or their wives have wives have cooked up a spicy argument against creation of the ladies' ladies army It is one of those suggestions which cannot cannot cannot can can- I not be advanced on the floor but which falls faUs on sympathetic ears in the cloakrooms If we open up this woman organization to everybody everybody every every- body they ask each other where will our wives get domestic domestic domestic do do- help Its It's bad enough as it is is but it will be worse under this bill bilI No sir a woman's womans womans woman's womans woman's wom wom- ans an's place is in the kitchen not the camp |
