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Show THE LEW SUN, LEW. ITJAII At Barrage Balloon Training Center u nrinc ea dialers 1 r Efficient KQ Mi P"i&& trier : -J ind Army i z r if" t1i1liii'riiiiinUniim If ' ;,. Military Routine Gives Boost kS Where Best Fitted. . n Street, N-W, n D.C. BUW office of iPCtive Service frHe be leaned back, uS on his khaki drawn up on 3 By BAUKIIAGE JVeu Analyst and Commentator. ... when the old " ; orsu9 abun. am m .runs COIIlcS ut, kfl " r, corrn i 7 ;: been such Kersheyis very fer. it was a talk -,S'o men of the the " MPal from , Bdaotabibty to ; hysical energy, lack ?i and other responsibil-J?Uing responsibil-J?Uing that is needed lightning o..t I couldn't follow 5d with the total number Jyeal fighting age. Then factions for the ones wuh fteonesneeurzT ..!- 4 r-ioVlt hd Cff0uld have physical dis- Us., tn Olans aimuuuv United States needs for the navy and marine two million ior w-nine w-nine million men. About Union are now in u a General Hershey finished be figuring I found that there unit 18 million men available bar service from wnicn six , must be recruited u me plans are carried out And that 18 million there has to led back the ones we can't Inhere for agriculture and h and no one is sure now Sat ww be. ij case it means that about : of every three men of mili- fcewl eventually be called. Responsibilities .why such a heavy respon rests on the shoulders of Isft boards, and behind the Vds on all employers of Hat is also why congress kthe effort to get a sharp fcion regarding deferments fc dependents or because feojment needs. Meanwhile man from 18 to 44 is left in of indecision, for of course ;e men cannot be called at pe time. A lot of them would b to hear the call and get it Sunday I had lunch with a man who had been moving )a of uncertainty for months; impossible for him or his make the necessary plans pge their existence in case it into the army Then out of sky he was called. He had the army for one week when pirn and I never saw such a K was largely due to re- pe had come home on a fur- panted him to take care of V matters. He was full of for army efficiency and had ppes that he would h h! tn what he had found it im- p to do before; namely, find mcne into which he would fit. tie would not only he dnine !' Job he could do for the but a job which was best his experience and training ratore his peace of mind. He nan who was enerppti- -ri N if he had been chained f pwork Job he would have snt. He had wnrripd Fuse he was a college man r I glasses, he would pe tad of clerical work rath- "ore active assignment you will find tu;.. ever Inv. m- 5 -uuniry wants He wants to do the job best n a 7 1 . , v--n 1 want ."hisfam- Tr? bls business ca- anu7 g,m8 t0 be called, ami to Dlan ahj . . w nt 7 ne is r1 m the arm. -j - , FIT life .nA f . . routine are we army and finds iaion Ki ' uuune are "Je goes up like the ""SUSl Th-t ; "k:r Alters me the are Matter with civilian morale?' instead of it being be-ing the other way around as many people thought it would be at first With the launching of more and more Allied offensive action, with more and more American units engaged, en-gaged, the attitude of the pre-draftee pre-draftee is expected to change. The need of his help will be brought home. 1942 will see about 2,250,000 new men joining the army, air force and navy. Every effort will be made to defer those with dependents and to take the older men last That is the reason for the army's insistence on drafting the 18 and 19 year group. The chief argument against calling the younger men is that it breaks up their schooling. But schooling can be taken up again. Taking family fam-ily men disturbs the social and economic eco-nomic life of the nation. Taking skilled workers and men who are already fitted into the economic pattern pat-tern of the nation, disturbs the war effort Although few but the most optimistic op-timistic say so, it may not be necessary nec-essary to call any more men after 1942 if the war is still going full tilt then another 2,250,000 will be needed in 1943 but there is no use counting our ugly ducklings before they are hatched. An Old Comrade From Cuidad Trujillo This is the story of the main base for the military forces invading the Western hemisphere the first and highly successful invasion of the American continent It was from here that foreign invaders launched their pitiless attacks which placed the peoples of the western world under a European flag, despoiled their wealth, broke their spirit destroyed de-stroyed their culture and reduced them to vassalage. I am speaking of what is now known as Cuidad Trujillo. The fortress built by the first invader in-vader still stands in that city-today city-today this city is probably as far from the war and the rumors of war as any spot on earth. It is the capi tal city of the island of Santo Domingo Do-mingo where Columbus landed and whence Pizzaro, Cortez, Ponce de Leon, Balboa, and every Spanish invader set forth to crush and conquer con-quer the New world. But first a digression to bring you back by way of Paris to Washington Washing-ton where today's story starts: There used to be a saying about Paris that if you sat long enough at a table on the sidewalk in front of the Cafe de la Paix (at that fas cinating corner of the Avenue de I'Opera and the Boulevarde des Italiens) you would be certain to see somebody you knew go by, no matter mat-ter where you came from. Today Pennsylvania avenue in Washington has become the world's boulevard only we have no sidewalk side-walk cafes. We have. only very crowded restaurants. .Perhaps the real world rendezvous is the wide waiting room of the executive offices of-fices of the White House. Today, as I sat waiting for the correspondents to line up and show their passes and be admitted to the oval office for the regular semi-weekly semi-weekly press and radio conference, who should appear but my old com rade Oliver Newman,' major of in- iantry in me lasi war, one-mue commissioner (mayor) of the Dis trict of Columbia, Iowa farm boy and prince of good fellows. You ought to see Ollie. around a horse or a mule. What he doesn t know about these: critters, whether they are pulling a load of hay, yank ing a 75 out of the mud, or stretcn- ing noses toward the finish line, adds up to nearly minus. But that is only a part of the ac-comDlishments ac-comDlishments which have been manv and varied in the field of politics, society, finance, and, shall we say, climatically, journalism. Anyhow. Major Newman came up and extended bis hand. I have met him surprisingly in other less congruous con-gruous places than the White House. This time he had just re turned from his distant post in Santo Domingo where he is advisor to the government for a vacation in the capital which is half his home. (Cuidad Trujillo Santo Domingo is the caDital city of the Domin ican Republic island which is situ ated southeast of Florida, between Cuba and Puerto Rico.) AT J -"k fi T W AO:-.' I r"""l flWW f MIIIMiil.JJ .1 " ' Twites 4Iimg Barrage training center, Camp Tyson, Tenn., where crews are trained to handle, sail and repair re-pair the huge gas bags. Upptr left: Trainees seated around their Instructor. Lower left: Gas filtered through the purification plant being forced through the high pressure manifold to be stored for re-use. Right: Sewtoe a seam In a bar- I&iU ee balloon" stitch in time." Flock for Service on Navy's PT-Boats 'K'"' ; ' ' 1 ' ' S' i . 1 The successes" of our motor torpedo fleet in Philippine waters have brought a flood of applications to the navy from young officers who want to serve aboard the boats. Special schools have been set np for this . J-JL l.--1.a Illltnai-l ttl purpose. At the left a group of officers Is receiving: instructions in we use oi ocpm uou. - right shows a group of them gathered about an Orbkon automatic anti-aircrau cannon. Salvage Work in Desert Battle Zone U4jE-- -Trl'-rBir--- BRIEFS . . . by Baukhage IJtaW fever U Pr forces. tte of the L. debutate. with SA! worker. fPUae. necessary "The WPB has authorized motion picture producers to spend $5,000 per picture for new material for the construction of movie sets. Farm people have more things to think about and talk over and less leisure for thinking and talking, than at any other time I can remember. re-member. Secretary of Agriculture !, -i,n -,-- i nrt of the huee collection of material salv Zm "tl-th. Ubyan desert by the BritWu The saivagcu " . in.i,- brass and copper. In will be useci again, ior ucjr ib - - . win e s . d ammumtion and manv Instances me bibu have nsed them against their former owners -- -; , New War Bonnet 1. v i, , ; ,M-sr To JVIanage All-Star Service Team !H ii ' ' ' l' ' " J Arnold Hcadley, seaman, second class, is a full-blooded Arapahoe Indian In-dian from Ethete, Wyo. Here he la demonstrating with machine gun bullets at the U. S. naval air station at Corpus Christ!, Texas, Just how his ancestors looked with a bead-dmi bead-dmi of war feathers. Beadier is the station boxing champ. Gal in Every Port? . - - .nnnlnted manager of Lieut Gordon ("Mickey") Cochran" of f rmer minor and major the alt-tar service baseball team J.w (left to right) legne players now in the navy. Shown jrtove CoL Comdr. Gene Tunney. In charge of n" puiie relation, (war iota Thomas Taylor, assistant director, bnrea. P department), and "Mickey- Cochrane. fj in (I '4 i? "Just one gal Is enough for me," says aa old song, but this sailor seems to be of a different turn of mind. While his arms are nite full, his wink speaks volumes. Washington, D. C IIEXDERSON'S WARNING Price Administrator Leon Hender son told the house ways and means committee a lot more during his secret testimony than he afterwards disclosed to newsmen. Here are some items which weren't made public: " Henderson predicted that if the current levels of earnings are maintained, main-tained, the total national income this year will approximate 117 billion dollars, or 25 billions more than in 1941. On the other hand, due to the enormous war production demands, the supply of consumer goods will be 26 per cent less than Last year. This wide disparity between pur- charing power and available con sumer goods, Henderson warned, is the great inflationary "explosive" factor. With a lot more money in people's pockets than supplies on which to spend it, a competitive situation develops that may set off catastrophic price runaway un less drastically controlled. 17-Billlion Excess." Illustrating this problem, Hender son pointed out that about 31 billions of the estimated 117-billion national income will be absorbed by taxes and savings, leaving 86 billions in spendable money. However, there will be only 69 billions of consumer commodities. This 17-billion excess, he declared. is what must be kept In check in order to prevent it from setting in motion an inflationary spiral that wot'ld smash the nation's economic system. Tough as this problem is, Hender son predicted that the situation will be even worse in 1943. He estimated that by next year purchasing power will be three times greater than in 1932 while the supply, of consumer goods will be only the same as In that year, the pit of the depresslon. The price administrator told the committee that the only way disas trous inflation can be averted is by the most stringent government con trols. . He said be fully realised that such measures as rationing and price ceilings might cause bootlegging boot-legging and "blackmarkets." But he expressed the belief that patriotic public opinion would powerfully militate against such lawbreaklng. "In England," Henderson pointed out, "bootlegging of food and other scarce commodities is causing so much public resentment that many are demanding that those who buy or sell on tne oiacK martcer i . taken out and shot." BIG BUSINESS MIRACLES No one ever would have suspected it, but Harold Ickes, the New Deal's most violent baiter of big business, has been performing some quiet miracles in obtaining big business busi-ness co-operation. Not only Is he now on good terms with the moguls of the oil industry, including such bitter political opponents op-ponents as Joe and Howard Pew, leaders of Pennsylvania Republican ism, but he has also been getting cooperation co-operation from the railroads and trucking companies. This is one of the few good things that .has come out of the war. Ever since trucks began hauling freight, the feud between them and the railroads has been the toughest problem faced by the Interstate Commerce commission. But now Petroleum Co-ordlnator Ickes has persuaded the ancient rivals ri-vals to make a friendly division of the tremendous oil transportation business whereby the railroads withdrew with-drew from short hauls, and tun-business tun-business over to trucks, thus releasing releas-ing tank cars for the longer and more economic hauls. For instance, a railroad tank car, with a capacity of 8,000 gallons, operating op-erating between Whiting, Ind., and the west side of Chicago, requires six days to make the "turn around." But a tank truck, capacity 7,500 gal lons, can do the same "turn around" in five hours. Thus, one tank truck, working 24 hours, (and all such equipment is on a 24-hour basis) , would relieve the equivalent of 16 or 20 tank cars. These cars, in turn, are being placed on the longer hauls from the Gulf to the East coast f Result of such economies and overtime operations Is that railroads. which normally move practically no oil to the East coast, are now mov ing 650,000 barrels a day. Tankers (ships) normally supply 05 per cent of the East coast requirement, but with the. withdrawal of tankers, tank cars are being rushed into the breach. WIG WAGS The war department has asked congress for a $10 a month pay raise for West Point cadets. Pres ent rate is $65, the department says it ought to be $75 because the present pres-ent class will be $250,000 in debt when it graduates. The marine corps is urgently in need of Japanese, translators and in terpreters. If you have a working knowledge of Japanese, get in touch with the corps at once, either by writing to Washington or visiting the nearest recruiting station. jrf ii, GET your rug cotton and begin n this rrnrheted Indian rusl It's lovely in any room and, of sourse, you can do it in four strands of string, too. Pattern 727. contains Instructions and eharts lor making th rug: Illustration! of It and stltcheaj materials needed. Send four order to: Sewing Circle Net dlccraft Dept. Ill Minna St. Ban Francisco, Calif. Enclose IS cent (plus one cent to cover cost ot mailing) for Pattern No. , Name........ Address..... conns go fast Pala Roes quick, corni peedilr rainoved when you una thin, soothing, cushioning Dr. BchoU'e Kino-pads, Try them! If You Bake at Borne . . 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