Show Views of the Nations Nation's Press The American Automobile association association association as as- finds that opposition to gasoline rationing in the central central central cen cen- and western parts of the country is is not to rationing In itself but to possible adoption of dried cut-and-dried rules which would create severe handicaps and impair the war effort It points out that distances are longer in those sections than in inthe inthe inthe the east that mass transportation tion facilities are poorer that motor vehicles are of greater ne- ne in the regional economy The A A A therefore urges the authorities to give due consideration consideration consider consider- alion to sectional differences and to individual needs in al allotting allotting allotting al- al motor fuel to o drivers Rubber Administrator Jeffers has made it plain that his ob objective ob- ob is to keep America on wheels so far as is humanly possible rather than to issue arbitrary arbitrary arbitrary ar ar- ar- ar orders for curtailed ing Common sense flexibility in gasoline rationing is sure to serve the country better in this emergency than bureaucratic rigidity St. St. St Louis Post Dis patch Nobody wants or intends to send insufficiently trained American American American Amer Amer- ican troops into combat and the war department least of all To do so would be an indefensible waste of our strength except in a military circumstance circumstance of more gravity than any any ny which can now be foreseen But to tie the hands of the war department in the training of younger troops by fixing a year as the arbitrary period of training would ignore practicalities practicalities practicalities which could as easily work against the interests of the trainees as as in their favor Men can be trained in four months for instance to handle motorized equipment or to be bomber mechanics Some technicians technicians technicians tech tech- may need even less training In other branches men need longer training and conditioning in in some cases longer than thana a year It is the army's job to decide when men are prepared for combat combat combat com com- bat and to make the best use of the men it has The army chiefs right up to the com- com mander-in-chief mander are responsible to the people for doing this and it would be shortsighted and dangerous to put restrictions restrictions' on them which would enable them ever to say that they could not organize an efficient a army y in inthe inthe inthe the fastest possible time tim Because cause of limitations put upon them by legislation Minneapolis l Star Journal I |