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Show Home Front Strengthened O By Army of Rural Women Newly Inducted Soldiers Military Routine Gives Boost To Morale; Recruits Are Anxious to Serve Where Best Fitted. Businesslike Help Keep Nation's Larder Full. t - By BAUK1IAGE ,mi Aruihst and Commentator. 1313 H Street, ashinglon, D. C. ot 1 sat the other day in the office General Hershcy, Selective Service aJministi ator, as he leaned back, ore ankle drawn up on his khaki knee and listened to him talk about Not the kind of scarciscarcities. ties we hear about when the old abunargument of scarcity-versu- s dance of farm crops comes up, although it might have been such a talk for General llershcy is very much of a farmer. It was a talk about the scarcity of men of the Ideal age for the army ideal from tlie standpoint of adaptability to military life, physical energy, lack of dependents and other responsibility, lack of training that is needed for agriculture or uidustry. The general did some lightning calculations that I couldn't follow but it started with the total number of men of ideal fighting age. Then came subtractions for the ones with dependents, the ones needed on the farm and in the factory and the 25 per cent more which it might be expected would have physical disabilities. According to plans announced now the United States needs for the army, navy and marine corps (including two million for the air About force) nine million men three million are now in the service. When General Hershey finished with the figuring I found that there are about 18 million men available for military service from which six million must be recruited if the army plans are carried out And out of that 18 million there has to be saved back the ones we can't get elsewhere for agriculture and industry and no one is sure how many that will be In any case it means that about one out of eery three men of military age will eventually be called. WNU Service, W Grave Responsibilities That is why such a heavy responsibility rests on the shoulders of the draft boards, and behind the draft boards on all employers of labor. That is also why congress has made the effort to get a sharp clarification regarding deferments because of dependents or because Meanwhile needs Of employment every man from 18 to 44 is left in a state of indecision, for of course all these men cannot be called at the same time. A lot of them would be glad to hear the call and get it over. Last Sunday I had lunch with a young man who had been moving in a sea of uncertainty for months; it was impossible for him or his wife to make tie necessary plans to arrange their existence in case he went into the army Then out of a clear sky he was called. He had been in the army for one week when I saw him and I never saw such a change. It was largely due to relief He had come home on a furlough granted him to take care of business matters. He was full of praise for army efficiency and had high hopes that he would be able to do just what he had found it impossible to do before; namely, find out the niche lpto which he would fit, where he would not only be doing the best job he could do for the country but a job which was best fitted to his experience and training and therefore his peace of mind. He was a man who was energetic and active and if he had been chained to a paper-worjob he would have-beeHe had worried a misfit. lest, because he was a collrge man and had to wear glasses, he would get some kind of clerical work rather than a more assignment As a rule you will find, I bel.eve, that the average man of military age feels this way. he is willing to do whatever job his country wants him to do. He wants to do the job he can do best He doesnt want to break up his education, his family arrangements, his business career if he is not g ung to be called, yet he wants to plan ahead if he is sure any of these th.rgs are going to be necessary. W len he is called, and the decision is made and he finds himself in the army and finds that army life and army rout.ne are a lot more businessl.ke than he thought, his morale goes up like the That is the mercury in August reason why a lot of soldiers are What's the matter with saying, k . B R ie I E FS civilian morale-instead of it being the other way around as many people thought it would be at first. V,th the launching of more and more Allied offensive action, with more and more American units engaged, the attitude of the 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 armys insistence on drafting the 18 and 19 year group. The chief argument against tailing the younger men is that it breaks But schooling up their schooling can be taken up again. Taking family men disturbs the social and economic life of the nation. Taking skilled workers and men who are already fitted into the economic pattern cf the nation, disturbs the war effort. Although few but the most optimistic say so, it may not be necessary 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 nr. litary 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 poopis of the western world under a European flag, despoiled their wealth, broke their spirit, destroyed their culture and reduced them to vascalage I am speaking of what is now known as Cuidad Trujillo. The fortress built by the first invader still stands n that city-to- day this city is probably as far from the war and the rumors of war as any spot on earth It is the capital city of the Island of Santo Domingo where Columbus landed and whence Pizzaro, Cortez, Ponce de Leon, Balboa, and every Spanish invader set forth to crush and conquer the New world. But first a digression to bring you bad by way of Paris to Washington 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 fascinating 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 where you came from. avenue in Today Pennsylvania Washington has become lire world's boulevard only we have no sideWe have only very walk cafes crowded restaurants. Perhaps the real world rendezvous is the wide waiting room of the executive offices 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 semiweekly press and radio conference, who should appear but my old comrade Oliver Newman, major of e in the last war, commissioner (mayor) of the District of Columbia, Iowa farm boy and prince of good fellows You ought to see Oliie around a horse or a mule What he doesnt know about these critters, whether they are pulling a load of hay, yanking a 75 out of the mud, or stretching noses towaid the finish line, adds up to nearly minus But that is only a part of the accomplishments which have been many and v. ritd in the fm'd of politics, society, finance, and shall e say, climatically, journal sm Anyhow, Major Newman came up and extended his hand I have met him surprisingly m o er less congruous plac s than the White House This time he had just returned from his distant post in Santo Domingo where he is advisor to the government, for a vacation in the capital which is half h,s horr e (Cuidad Trujillo Santo Domingo is the capital city of he Dominican Kepubl c island which is situ-a- t d southeast of Florida, between Cuba and Puerto Rico ) . . almost any part of the country, it is a common sight to see women drivm.lk-ining tractors, feeding livestock, and doing practically all kinds of farm work Generally, these are the farm wives and daughters who, with the help of the older men and the young boys, are not only keeping up production but actually increasing it to meet the national goals for vital foods. To supply extra farm labor, a women's land army has been organized in Maryland, Connecticut and other places The University of Maryland trained about 30 Women who had enrolled in the land army m a four weeks course in poultry, horticulture, and dairy. Connecticuts land army furnished help in harvesting fruits and vegetables, cutivating the garden and many other chores around the farm. The women are serious about their responsibility. Visiting some farm homes in central Virginia during the spring the picture of a soldier boy on almost every mantel was noticed a boy who last year w is on the farm and tins year is in the army. On a big poultry farm, the son was in an officer's training school while the mother carried on with the same number of chickens, working a little harder and a little longer to send her 150 or 200 dozen eggs to market each day to supply eggs for the army, eggs for munitions workers, eggs for the United Nations more than 4 billion dozen of them needed in 1942. F.ndeavor. If the women are going to work on the faun, they have to save time in the house or get extra help there. The women of Marshall county, S. D , have established an employment service for domestic help m the home demonstration agents office so that women and girls W'ho have some time to spare can help m the faim homes where women are takIn ing more farm responsibility Texas, community sewing centers and canning centers make efficient use of sewing machines and 'pressure canning equipment and save time and effort for the housewife Sharing the available equipment is one war measure that farm women's clubs have found very usefi 1. Women are also successfully enOne field. tering the conservative association in Michigan finally agreed to try out girl testers because they were very anxious to continue their work; but, said these gentlemen, she must wear overalls or slacks we wont stand for shorts on our cow . fi S The WPB has authorized motion picture producers to spend $5.0 9 per picture for new material for the construction of movie sets Hojsewives and debutantes w.th the best of intentions are not mak-irgood on civilian defense j' bs Tbe working girl Is the best worker. The others havent the necessary Farm people have more things to think about and talk over and less leisure for thmk.ng and talking, than at any ilher time I can remember Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard- - Ju tfcMBtv This poultry leader helps the women of her club with their poultry problems. She is shown with a few of her 200 bsby chicks which. In the future, will help supply the needed 4 billion dozen eggs for the army, industrial workers, home supply and the number promised to the United Nations, They returned home at twilight, weary and hungry, to an inadequate supper. The women got busy. First, they had a school canning day when anyone who had extra fruit and vegetables could bring it to be canned for the school. They arranged to get surplus commodities from the department of agriculture and a WPA cook. They succeeded in getting a nicely equipped school lunch building by using the material from two abandoned district schools and gettmg NY.A boys to build it Now a nutritious hot lunch is served to 150 chidren each day in an attractive, light dining room; and the tin WWi'BgtaWWW dxfj 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 purchasing power and available consumer goods, Henderson warned, is the great inflationary explosive factor. With a lot more money in people's pockets than supplies on which to spend t, a competitive situation develops that may set oft a catastrophic price runaway unless drastically controlled. Excess, Illustrating this problem, Henderson pointed out that about 31 billions of the estimated national income will be absorbed by taxes and savings, leaving 86 billions in spendable money. However, there will be only 69 billions cf consumer commodities. This excess, he declared. Is what must be kept m check in order to prevent it from setting in motion an inflationary spiral that would smash the nation's economic system. Tough as this problem is, Henderson 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 depression. The price administrator told the committee that the only way disastrous inflation can be averted is by the most stringent government controls He said he fully realized that sue h measures as rationing and price ceilings miglit cause bootblaikmarkets." legging and But he expressed the belief that patriotic public opinion would powerfully militate against such law breaking. 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 the black market' taken out and shot. 1 U V - w This hot stove league" helps clarify war aims and needs. Though these Virginia women like to discuss the situation in general, they have pledged themselves to be careful in avoiding unconfirmed information. Community clubs such as this are focal points In many rural areas. borhood volunteered as demonstration gardeners, keeping .accurate records of when the garden was planted and sprayed, the cost in time and money, the amount of produce used by the family, sold, canned, and stored Neighbors can visit the demonstration garden and find out all about the methods used. Gardens are really flourishing in Summit county, and the women are growing and learning to use sew vegetables as their share in keepfoods on ing plenty of the home front Garden Total Doubled. South Dakota s garden goals called for just twice as many gardens as had ever been grown there before When all of he gardens are counted, it looks as if the goal will have been reached with 57 500 victory to supply gardens vegetables for South Dakota's farm famil es In times of war it is even more essential that the heal'h and safety of children be insured, and this is The gieat increase woman's Job in hot school lunches ard In clinics for school children and preschool children is an indication of a on tills sector of the home front When the women of Mountain View community, Va , began to check up, they found that some children were coming Rom isolated farms high up on the mountains and walking several miles to meet the school bus fortified by a very slender breakfast and bringing no lunch g testers If the home front is to be a strong bulwark supporting our fighting forces, every man, woman and chffd must understand and contribute Women in rural districts are taking a leading part in bringing health-givin- v 'V g children, according to their teachers, are much more alert and interested in cleaning up their school grounds, collecting salvage, and other community activities, as well as in their studies. School Health Survey. The women of the PotterstowTi, Ky . homemakers' club, though living m a community where the average income of farmers was less than $300, decided that the health of all their children was their responsibility Because the school was under suspicion of tuberculosis, they asked the county health department to conduct a survey of the school. The entire student body was tuberculiwith n-tested reactors Public drinking cups were done away with and sanitary drmking fountains installed. A free hot lunch for all 60 children was established. As the women look about their own community to find out just how strong that sector if the home front is, they feel the need of more training in nutrition, first aid, and home nursing In practically every rural community in many states, rural women have conscientiously come into town to take a 20- - or class In Brazos county, Texas, 120 women enrolled in a Red Cross course in home nursirg, one woman living m a community 23 miles from the nearest doctor This effuient dairy maid is helpof measles and mumps in ing farm women meet war producBrazos county recently gave these tion goals. The use of dairy prodwomen an opportunity to put their ucts has been stepped up commennew knowledge into practice. surate with the war effort. New Use for Feed Bags. Women's clubs have found many other ways to help the war along. After an extensive survey of the al engineering psychology, physical For example, tie home demonstranation s need for trained women in education, home economics. tion clul s of Wicomico courly, Md , These courses are designed to prevarious occupations, the Pennsyl-vareceived a request for 100 emers a Stale college has made availfor such occtq aliors as gency stretchers to be place'd at pare womable nearly 100 courses for its abstracts 3, accmint,u t clerks, strap gc points tnrougl out the en students, all closely-reateto tl e statistical countv. assistants, war effort clerks, translators, typists, stenogAs the stretchers were to be made Among the elective courses rec- raphers m research institutes, fruit cf three feed bags, letters were sent and veD( table growing specialists, ommended lor women are to local feed deu ers and farm famicommerce, mathematics, rear- lies urg ng them to contribute their inspection work at shortFrench, German, Spanish, ing and marketing chickens, farm Three hundred and empty bags hand, typing, horticulture, poultry and household mechanics, aides in twenty-fivbags were left at the husbandry, bacteriology, agricultur- - nutrition and chemical laboratories. home demonstration agents office. health-givin- g check-ing-u- p n d jour-ralu- e has been performing some quiet miracles in obtaining big business Not only is he now on good terms with the moguls of the oil industry, including such bitter political opponents as Joe and Howard Pew, leaders of Pennsylvania Republicanism, but he has also been getting cooperation 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 Ickes has persuaded the ancient rivals to make a friendly division of the tremendous oil transportation business whereby the railroads withdrew from short hauls, and turn business over to trucks, thus releasing tank cars for the longer and more economic hauls. For instance, a railroad tank car, with a capacity of 8 000 gallons, operating between Whiting, Ind , and the west side of Chicago, requires six days to make the "turn around. But a tank truck, capacity 7,500 gallons, 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 Result of such economies and overtime operations is that railroads, which normally move practically no oil to thp East coast, are now moving 650,000 barrels a day. Tankers (ships) normally supply 95 per cent of the East ceast requirement, but with the withdrawal of tankers, tank cars are being rushed Into the breach. BIG BAGS war department has asked congress for a $10 a month pay raise for West Point cadets. Present rate is $C5, the department says It ought to be $75 because the present clas will be $250,000 m debt when it graduates The marine corps is urgently in need of Japanese translators and interpreters If you have a working knowledge of Japanese, get in touch with the corps at once, either by writirg to Bashington or vis, Ur g the nearest recruiting station The u 4 bout n People: Pearson and Allen like to tt-- this . When he story about F. D R. was a young lawyer he was retained to handle a difficult civil case. The rival attorney was an effective jury pleader and he completely outshone his youtldul rival in the argument to the jury. However, he made one fatal mistake. He orated for several hours. As he thundered on, Roosevelt noticed the jury wasn't So when paying much attention. his turn came he rose and said: Gentlemen, you have heard the evidence. You also have listened to my distinguished colleague, a brilliant orator. If you believe him and disbelieve the evidence, you will decide m his favor. That's all I have to say. The jury was out only five minutes and brought in a verdict for F. D, R.'s client r it. Waste of Time Mrs. It jones had only one fault to find uuh her maid. She ignored the telephone uhen it rang. 1 ou really must unsuer the telephone, Clarice , she said in exasperation. "1 esm," replied the girl glumly. "Seems sort o' silly , though. Sine times out o ten it's for you." At Least a Relief Is this Mr, Voice over phone Sofosgoloposis speaking? No, it is not. Well, aren't you glad? There was a time when I believed my husband, but that was Wife before we were married. at court. A ease of wed and found wanting. Same Jean Jones They say brunettes have better dispositions than blonds. Jinx Bunk! Jean has been both, and I never noticed any difference. This is the reason for the H. L. that goes befor Menckens name. As a youth he had a little printing business and used to print cards with his name on for advertising purposes. But his father smashed all his black letter lower case T's so he had to punt his name H. L Mencken instead of Henry L., and thats the way it has remained. J. Fuller Pep Tears ago In Wisconsin, a young man was chopping wood and accidentally hit himself in the foot with the axe. He moaned and greaned and his face was contorted in pain while his shoe was slowly being removed so the wound could be treated. However, when the shoe was taken off it was revealed that he wasnt even scratched. One of the onlookers commented that he had a wonderful imagination and would make a great actor. His name Alfred Lunt When the piano Beethoven composed his music on was exhibited in a European museum, visitors were given the thrill of sitting down and playing it Everybody took advantage of that honor except Paderew ski. When the museum guard asked him why he didr 't sit down and I do not feel play, he replied. worthy enough to touch it." to a fellow the other day, I couldnt help thlnkln that lota of folk claim they have an open mind when the fact o' th matter Talkin is Its only vacant. Which remind me that If you really think straight about vitamins, you 11 see wbv I keep tellln folks about KELLOGG 8 PEP. An that s because this swell cereal Is extra-ric- h In the two vitamins most ofted short In ordinary meals B, and D And believe me, PEP la a mighty slick-tasticerea). Why d in t you try It tomorrow? Henry Clay, the eminent statesman, knew how to say the right thing at the right timA. A pretty youi g thing once reproached him tor failing to remembefc her name . . . But Clay was equaflo the occasion, replying gallantly recall your name, because wheik we last met I was sure your beauty and talent would soon compel sou to change tt. :jdldnt A delicious Cereal that eupphet per $errtn (I or.) I the full minimum daily meed of riftfimn D; 14 the daily need af vitamin Bu This is one of the best squelches we have ever come across. A friend once told Voltaire: It is good ot you to sayv such pleasant things about an enemy when he always says such nasty things about you. To which Voltaire replied: Perhaps we are both mistak- - it, but Harold Ickes, the New Deals most violent baiter of big business, 'A- -- d Why do you always sirg tho same song? It haunts me. No, wonder. Youve murdered Lit tip Stories BIG BUSINESS MIRACLES No one ever would have suspected 1 'Y Eerie DREvrpeA 1941. Women Students Enroll in War Aid Course; by Baukhape Wj'wVjiijK ROBERT ALLEN eUiilie, tin Washington, D. C. HENDIRSOVS W'tRMVG Price Administrator Leon Henderson told the house wavs and means committee a lot more during his secret testimony than he afterwaros disclosed to newsmen. Here are some items which werent made public; Henderson predicted that if the current levels of earnings are maintained, the total national income this year will approximate 117 billion dollars, or 25 billions more than in d g one-tim- The Rockefeller foundation is proto viding yellow fever vaccine fr the g ivernrncnt for tl e use of five armed 'orcos e. If victory begins at home, it is up to the women to start it. So you will find rural w omen today, individually, in small groups and in large groups, figuring out what needs to be done to strengthen the home front and doing it. First and foremost, the production of food must not be interrupted, even if husbands, brothers, sons and hired men are all called to the army or accept positions in war industry. Food must be produced and plenty of it. Traveling in y 5 M this about In Iowa, a man and a woman have been selected fur every schoul district of about 16 families They get the latest ii formation on vietuiy gardens, the buying of war bonds, anti lnia-t.n- n legislation, and other war activities, and see that all of the 16 ne ghbors know and understand. Victory Gardens. idea was car-- r The victory-gardeed to all farm fam.lies through The these neighboi hood leaders secretary of agriculture called for 5 million farm horrte gardens, and this meant a garden on practically every farm. In some states, every farm home was visited and seeds suj jilied to those who could not afford to buy them. The neighborhood women are also following through with information on care of gardens, control of insects, and preservation of surplus vegetables Mrs M, O Lawrence, a Mississippi If all leader, tells her neighbors: farm families will grow all they and their city children need to eat, it will release all the factory-cannevegetables for those who cannot grow them and for the countries resisting aggression. So, farm wives, let us join hands and do this and help to win the war to save democracy. Another leader in a Virginia mountain community which has been largely on relief reports I tell em to plant her activities: a garder, and they tell me Why, Im on relief; and I tell em, Maybe so, but you cant eat what aint. When a survey of the food supply was taken in Summit county, Utah, it was found that in the 500 farm homes 95 per cent had space for a garden, but only 38 per cent had Armed with these facts, gardens a garden committee was appointed, and leaders selected to visit every farm home. They disc ssed the garden possibilities the size of the garden plot, the water supply, the type of soil, and whether the labor was there to care for the garden. Next, letters were sent out listing recommended varieties, giving amounts of vegetables to plant, the to time plant them, and other garden helps. Women in each neigh- - Wies and Daughters Find Army Is Efficient For Future Use IP04HIH9SCIANT SALE! omr JO for big it size JR i Bhen Marshal Foeh visited America he went to see the Grand CanAs he stood looking dow'n into yon the depths of the amazing natural wonder, reporters all around him waited b uathlessly for a comment hiat would go down in history. After a few minutes of dramatic silence, the Marshal observed. What a beautiful place to drop ones mother-in-- law! Among other things, Oliver Wen- dell Holmes was a doctor, but he wasn't very successful in that profession. Seems that people were a bit doubtful about the flippant medi-t- o who posted this sign above his ihingle. vived. mall fevers gratefully I GOODS labs 4 Flak Among the better tales Coolidge's brevity is porter was interviewing yon wish to say anything he asked. No. About No. About No. re- about this: A rehim. "Ho about Cal-fi- n the farm bloc? the World Court? The reporter turned to go. By said Coolidge, "don't Jie way, yuote me. Albert Einstein once had the to be a guest at a very dull the evening party. Thioughout . At the end of yawns ran wild . he affair, the host remarked sympathetically to him: I'm afraid you . . Einstein sere terribly bored No On occaimiled and replied: sions like this I retire to the back of my mind, and there I am happy. e . For the last five months of her life Marie Drew ers iilress let her he up for a few days, then down tga n getting worse all the time. Each week, no matter how busy he w 83, Louis B. Mayer used to take a brief case full of scenarios to her home. Her illness was never mentioned Mayer merely discussed sto ries and plans for the future, exactly as if she were still work ng Righ through the last week of her Lfe, Miss Dressier remaired cheerful and hapry because of Mayer's though tfulnr ss CCNTEgtJj Products Corw.BlooiaflslS, N J. , |