Show Ie f w ROBE eN Washington D C MOBILE HOUSING Harried by the national criticism of failure to provide housing for tor de defense tense workers Defense Housing Co Coordinator Coordinator Charles F Palmer finally has proposed to Roosevelt that the government buy fleets of trailers and rush them to the most congest congest- congested congested congested ed industrial spots as temporary liv bv living big ing quarters In submitting his plan Palmer carefully avoided the term trail trailers trailers trailers staff to ers an and has cautioned his refer to them as mobile units runts But never mind the fancy terminology Plain ordinary auto trailers are what he be proposes to use Palmer contemplates the pur purchase purchase purchase chase of thousands of these homes on wheels but where he is going to get them remains to be seen A AI I check of trailer manufacturers d s closed two interesting facts First available at present are not more than 2 tra trailers ers a drop in inthe inthe the bucket compared to the tens of thousands of housing units needed Second the plants are working day and night on urgent orders for the army and unless they suspend such operatIons can t make trailers Meanwhile with a vast army ot of migrated workers jammed into makesh makeshift t quarters the defense housing problem daily dally becomes more alarming Public health au thorl thorn es are scared st stiff f over the danger of epidemics ALIENS IN CONGRESS Amid all the breast thump ng on Capitol Hill about alIens abens it is m in to note that 20 members of the new congress are foreign born bom Three are veteran senators Rob senators Robert ert F Wagner New York New Deal Dealer Dealer Dealer er author of the Labor Relations and Social Security acts born bom In Germany James J Davis Pennsyl van a can former secretary ot of labor born in Wales and James JamesE E Murray Montana Democrat born m in Canada The 17 m in the house came from all parts of the world and some of them st II 11 have strong fore tore ac accents accents accents cents B J Gehrmann of Wisconsin and Leonard W of Illinois were born in Germany Karl Stefan Stetan of Nebraska and Rudolph of M ch oh gan were born bom in m Austria Incidentally when Stefan Stetan gives a arad arad arad rad o a talk for tor the folks back home he says good by in four d languages including German Two were born bom m in Samuel Russia Russia n of New York and Herman Kopplemann of ot Connecticut Rep Samuel Weiss of Pennsylvania was born in m Poland and Adolph Sabath of Illinois the genial gemal popular dean of the house in Czechoslovakia There are t vo va Canad an born members of the house Charles house Eaton of New Jersey and Albert Rutherford of Pennsylvania Wil WilLiam Wilham Liam ham Barry of at New York was born m Ireland and Frank Crowther of New York and Robert Ramsay of West Virg n a m in England Robert Crosser Grosser of at Oleo Ohio and nd George GillIe Gilbe of Ind ana were ere born m in Scotland Noah Mason of Illinois m Wales and Pehr Holmes of Mas Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts in Sweden Outside of congress a number of high placed officials are foreign born prominent among them De Dc Defense Defense fence Commissioners Knudsen and H But the delegate from Alaska Anthony J D mond was born in New York PRINTERS FINGER Most Mast sought after jobs in the gOV gOVernment government eminent recently are finger printers m the Federal Bureau of Invest ga tion gation gatlOn One reason for tor this is that finger printers often are promoted to tomen a toG toa men There was an inundation of applications applications for these jobs after enact enact- enactment enactment enactment ment of the Alien Allen Reg law many from young lawyers The starting pay is 1 and being a finger printer is no sinecure For one thing it is hard on the eyes Finger printers are reqUired to classify an average of 90 SO prints a day and after a t me the optical strain becomes serious The average aver average average age life span of a finger printer IS tour four our years and most of them seek promotions or transfers to other po positions positions the ablest becoming G menG menG men menG G men have a new method of at tak taking taking mg ing finger prints The old ink mk pad With smears is out Instead they use a nice clean pad saturated WIth an invisible iron salt solution The fingers are pressed on the pad then the Imprint is made mode on a acard acard acard card which Is la sensitized with an another another another other chemical responsive to the Iron solution This produces a perfect Impression of the finger s loops and whirls without soiling the skin MERRY ROUND GO-ROUND According to the congressional anti monopoly committee there are 5 uninhabitable homes now theU be b S ng occupied by tenants in the U S For its ultra modern army the quartermaster corps actually is buy buying buying mg ing tomahawks This is the proper catalogue term for lor a certain type of small hatchet used in m the army Wendell Willkie is signed up to write a book on the campaign and his British experiences Bobby Bobbs Mer Merrill Merrill rill rIB has the shing contract |