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Show U. S. It Mav Be 90 Degrees in the Shade j But Your Coal Bin Rates a Check-U- p Dirigibles Found Successful Unnecessary Delay May Bring Hardships This Coining Winter Beginning to Realize Value of 'Blimp Armada' in Warfare; One Man Given Credit For Stepped-U- p You cant say that you havent been warned. You cant say, when the Production. By BAUKIIAGE ,pus Analyst and Commentator. or depth charges, then throttles down, fi,es low and keeps the sub un- WNU Service. 1313 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Until two navy tramirg blimps" bumped into each other some days ago, most people had almost forgotten if they ever knew what those airships lazy looking, were doing in the war. The dirigible has been unlucky that way its mishaps get into the papers, its achievements are forgotten. But today a prediction made in March of 1941 is being borne out the blimp is coming into its at. own as a vital factor in warfare. It was in March a year ago that I wandered into the Press club one afternoon and a friend beckoned me to join him at a table where he was sitting with a bronzed gentleman with a very square jaw and a mouth taut as a halyard and the look of the sea and wind in his eyes. It was Capt. C. E. Rosendahl and he was saying, in less formal language: "Believe it or not, as far as the navy is concerned, more fearful than even the swashbuckling airplane are the slinking submarine and the mine . . . our continental coastal sea lanes of nearly 5,000 miles and the approaches to many of our important seaports would be a tempting feasting ground for enemy subs Actually that sentence was quoted from a manuscript that he had just written and had with him in his portfolio. A leading weekly had just refused it because it was considered what nonsense to think "untimely" that enemy submarines would ever reach our coastal waters! Later, in September of the same year, the article appeared but to most people the subject was still purely academic. It is no longer academic. After one of the most determined and for a long time futile battles in the history of naval achievement. Captain Rosendahl, now in charge of the naactivities, has vys won his point. He got the 48 blimps he begged for and most of them are In service. Their record has been so good that there is little doubt that congress will approve the building of 72 more and perhaps some of the big ones. The story of Captain Rosendahl is the story of another man in our naval history who "wouldnt give up the ship. cigar-shape- d 1 ... lighter-than-a- ir Abiding Faith He started that program when he , aboard found himself in of the dirigible Shenandoah, the other half torn loose and hurtling to the earth. He landed his half safely. The accident that shocked s the world didn't even jolt faith. It simply gave him some tips about strengthening the construction of dirigibles. Later the dirigibles Akron and the Macon were lost, and public sentiment was such that the ideas of dirigibles as practical craft was shelved. There was a renewed interest when the Hinden-burmade its successful flights from Germany but when its hydrogen-filled bag exploded a damper was cast on efforts to build an Amerfleet. Experts ican lighter-thrr-aknew that what happened to the could never happen to an American dirigible because America had what Germany didnt have helium gas. plenty of But Captain Rosendahl kept everlasting at it Too late to help combat the submarine menace when it struck he had managed at least to start his program. Now it is well under way and he is one of. the busiest men in Washington. He won't leave his office for lunch to go farther than the navy cafeteria in the same building. He works Saturdays and Sundays and merely talks wistfully about "gottfng in some golf." I visited him in his sacrosanct domain where I hardly dared look at tire maps on the walls for fear 1 would sneak a military secret. An observer in an airplane, said has to go at Captain Rosendahl. such speed that if he turns his head for a moment he may miss an object below him. The blimp can hover and carefully observe air bubperibles, oil slicks, and the scope feather' in the wake of an enemy submarine. When the blimp approaches a sub it gives it a burst of machine gun fire, drops bombs mid-air- one-ha- lf Rosen-dahl'- g ir tell-tal- e BRIEFS A . . battleship requires 42,000 acres of land to lajnch it That's just the amount of land required to feed the workmen who built it. Buy War Bonds The United States marine corps It has a word for its parachut.sts. calls them paramarines." The men are armed with knives, pistols and sacks of hand grenades. 35.000-to- der observation until the destroyers or planes which it has summoned appear. In World War I. Allied blimps spotted 49 submarines and dropped bombs on 27. European waters are now covered with too many enemy planes for a blimp to surBut the absence of enemy vive. plane along our coasts, our unbounded monopoly of helium gas. our geographical situation make the blimp an ideal weapon for American defense. Blimp Capabilities As a warship, the dirigibles proponents say, it can be an effective aircraft carrier. A rigid airship can carry ten attack bombers and has a range of Its 10,0X1 miles without planes would not need the heavy landing gear required of planes that land on the ground and therefore their speed could be greatly increased. Furthermore they could be launched at high speed for the airship itself has a top speed of 84 nautical miles per hour. In answer to the charge of vulnerability, the airships friends say that surface are highly vulnerable, too. (Japan found that out at Midway.) That the airship is vulnerable to only one enemy weapon planes. The surface carrier can be attacked by the guns of other ships and submarines i s well as planes. The airship keeps out of range of gun fire. And the loss of an airship carrier would not be as costly in money, replacement time or personnel as a surface carrier. In peacetime, with America's mohelium gas nopoly of to carry it, the dirigible could do all that the Cermans proved could be done with the successful flights of the Hindenburg and more. Captain Rosendahl has a light in his eye when he talks about that Buy War Bonds Amphibious America America is going amphibious. It is That sounds professorial. really just a natural deduction of what happened at Midway. A deduction that I made in the light of a conversation I had before the battle of Midway with a with a lot of salt bitten sailor-mastripes on his sleeve. He was kin of the men who made the Yankee clipper queen of the seas, weatherbeaten as a piece of driftwood, mellow as old port. Here is the way he sized up the war in the Pacific, as he saw it before Midway through the calm eyes of experience, tempered by the proofing of memories before a crackling fire that warmed his snug harbor and in whose dancing shadows he reread a long life with his face bared against salt spray. "As I see it," he said, "our navy has nothing to be ashamed of. He had read, he said, the books about naval warfare, most of them. He reeled off the titles I couldnt follow. But, he said, none of them And ever talked about airplanes. there was very little about submarines. And not much about landing parties, when soldiers on the sea, leave their ships under war conditions and become land fighters amphibians. This the Japs worked to perfection in their fight on Singapore. The Japs have written several new chapters for the war books. "I dont know where they learned what they did. Some of our fellows preached it. Nobody listened. You don't always have to be bigger and stronger than the other fellow. he said, but you've got to know what he's going to do next. As I read the reports and the newspaper accounts, the Japs had eyes that we didn't They had planes that we didn't. They knew what we were going to do. What we wanted wind-tanne- n to do. In the battle of the Macassar straits they didn't know, and we licked 'em. And when the history of this war is written you'll find out that there would have been a lot more Macassar straits if the Japs hadn't learned what we were doing before we did it. You'll find that more than once, when they did find out, they ran sway." At Midway, we "found out" and they had to run away. by Baukhaoe During World War I, airp.ane engines d to be overhauled every 50 hours Today, because the.r vital parts are machined to within a of an inch, they few can go 600 hours wi lout repair. h-- Charges for funeral services must conform to ceilings established by the general maximum price leaves begin to fall, that you didn't have enough time to order your coal. In another two months at the most it is going to be almost too late to get your coal supply. Then you wont be ready when the temperature begins to drop. During the summer months, when homeowners formerly paid but little attention to their coal bins, there had always been a definite slump in coal production. The producers called the months the normal off season period. This year, though, because of the high rate of production despite the lack of fuel purchasing by the home war-tim- e and apartment owners, large stores, and other commercial centers the mines are now working at 90 per cent of capacity. What lies ahead for those who have not purchased their coal duris easy to see. At ing the the present time American industry has not, as yet. reached its full e capacity of production for Victory. Fall and early winter will see the nation at this peak period. Theyll Be Out of Luck. Then, when industry is humming its song of death for Hitler and his stooges, if Mr. Jones, or Mr. or Mrs. Andy Tardie have not ordered their coal to keep the home fires burning, it is very probable that they are going to be out of luck. They'll probably have to spend some very miserable da. s until the coal they order LATE arrives. n Why so? Here's why: Increased production to peak records in U. S. factories is going to require more coal. It stands to reason that if the mines are now working at 90 per cent of capacity (and industry has not yet reached its peak of production nor coal consumption), when the peak does arrive Uncle Sam is going to see to it that 'hose industries get all the coal they want, as often as they want it, and no questions asked. It is true that all will have to forego some former necessities and comforts until this universal war is won. But there is little reason to take on a hardship which is doing no one even the nation's offensive for victory any good. By waiting until it ia practically too late to order coal, most of which is then going to the factories, the home owner is deliberately harnessing himself with hardship besides gelling In the way of the nations wartime progress. Like a Slow Freight. Those who delay ordering coal now for this coming winter may be compared to a slow freight train heading towards its terminal with a fast freight right behind it The latter is delayed from reaching its destination on schedule. Your nation's victory efforts are all being carried on that fast freight train. The dillyhome owner dallying, is the slow freight But dont forget: Uncle Sam is the dispatcher on that railroad. He's g Fuel User These three miners are typically representative of those thousands responsible for the continuous Bow of coal for the nation. There has been practically no slack" season for them this year. The usual period (summer months) for them was omitted because of industrys need for coal to carry on for the coming victory. a good one, too. What he's going to do is shove the slow freight on to a siding and let the fast freight come on through. In other words, those home owners and other consumers who haven't as yet ordered their coal supplies, may have to be sidetraeked later this year in favor of Uncle Sams more important business of winning the war. Cold feet now may result in even colder pedal extremities this winter. The fact that peak production of American industry will be reached during the coming winter months isnt the only reason why you should be now getting your coal. Even today the railroad yards, the river shipping docks and terminals not done your full bit to Insure warmth for your borne, or final victory for your country. Check Heating System. This Is the time of the year if ever to see to it that the home's heating system is cleaned, inspected, and repaired if necessary. Neglect now, during the summer months, can damage your home heating apparatus more than a winter season of hard activity. Lack of ventilation in the basement, high humidity, condensation, or corrosion can soon play havoc with a heating plant. More than often it does, as shown by the short life of most smoke pipes which last only two or three years. Improper operation, lack of maintenance, excessive stack losses. Oil Burner Conversion The War Production board has acted to speed the conversion of equipment to coal by permitting the assemhiy of small stokers from materials which were in manufacturers' hands on May SI. At the same time, W. W. chief of the plumbing and heating braneh, announced the creation of an operations section which will continue an over-al- l study. This study of the various problems ii volved in the conversion of oil burners to other fuels has been under way for some time. are jammed to capacity. Railroaders will tell you, with a touch of the Paul Bunyan spirit, that the rails just can't cool off. Rivermen will tell you that no sooner lo the waves from one river vessel ease off on the beach, before another swell starts rolling in. When the peak is reached in production you can imagine what the thousands of home owners who wait "until later to order their coal are doing to add to the groaning weight of traffic on the railroads, rivers and highways. You owe it to your own comfort this coming winter, but especially to your natn n out to win the gigantic struggle with Hitler and his partners, to make necessary provisions in advance. Get It Now. Despite tiie fact that bituminous coal production is now running over 11,000.000 tons a week, there is plenty of coal for all. The Idea is to get it when it is now readily available. During 1 942, from 550 million tons to 570 million tons of bi- tuminous coal and 60 million tons of anthracite coal are required. The smaller portion of this amount is for home consumption. Even if you have already ordered your roal, or intend getting it in during the next two weeks at the latest, you have Pledge home owner might well suhserihe to the following: 1. To conserve heat and fuel. 2. To see that the heating plant is clean and kept clean. 3. To have the heating system inspected by a competent healing man or fuel dealer. To or have 4, such repairs alterations as are essential to efficient operation of the beating equipment made at once. 5. To do everything practical to reduce beat losses. 6. To learn how to operate the heating system properly. 7. To prevent smoke, because smoke means waste and inefficiency. 8. To avoid over, or under heating because either is dangerous lo health. 9. To order fuel early, to anticipate needs, to keep a slock of fuel on hand, so as to equalize and conserve transportation and delivery and shortages. facilities, and to prevent tie-u- the variations developed m this country Similarly, the lighting fixtures are arranged in chronological sequence, demonstrating the transformation tn des.gn that came with changing needs and the commercial development of illuminating oils New pieces in Cooper Union' extensive collection of malipapcrs. textiles, antique jeeelry, buttons, show GASOLINE CZAR The dynamo who runs the gas rationing system of the U. S. A. is a preachers son and a former professor of economics. Though one of the most harassed men in Washington, he ii constantly on the verge of breaking into a broad smile. Only 35 years old, he has gray hair about the ears, thin hair on top, works so late into the night that his wife, mother of a boy, seldom sees him. "I generalhe ly make the 2 a. m. feeding, says. Joel Dean was bom in Vermont, schooled in California, and has a doctors degree from Harvard, where he wrote a thesis on small loans. He spent a year as European manager of a travel bureau, two years as traveling salesman for International Business Machine, and seven years as teacher and research expert. As a fellow economist, he always admired Leon Henderson, but never met him until he came to Washington less than a year ago. To effect his own economy in gasoline, he formed a "Drive-IClub" with four other OPA officials. They take turns dnzing to the office from Arlington, Va., across the one-ma- n n T with extraordinary demands on transportation such waste is intolerable. Coupled with the effect on health, lost time due to colds, absenteeism, etc., such neglect of proper maintenance and operation of the heating fystem becomes almost criminal. Just as you check over your automobile periodically, or have some one do it, so too is it a good idea to have competent heating man inspect your furnace or boiler. If the average household gave its heating plant half the care it bestows upon the family car, the national fuel bill would be reduced many millions a year. n river. When brickbats fly in the OPA office, Dean recalls that his father, a wanted minister, Congregational him to be a missionary on a South Sea island. "Many people," says Dean, wish that I had fulfilled that miss.on, ... Coal mining is one of the nation's major industries. The last available reports on the amount of coal mined show that over 51.887,885 tons of coal were prepared for consumption. Chief soft coal producing states are Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, and Kentucky. Anthracite (hard) coal is produced principally in Pennsylvania, around Wilkes-Barr- e and Scranton. Coal Exports. Coal exports amount to a sizeable In 1910 (latest data figure, too. available) over 16,456,928 tons were exported. The majority of the anthracite exported went to Canada. Coke production, a coal also assumed gigantic proportions. Data shows that over tons were produced in 1940. The gas from coke production is also used for fuel purposes. Employment in the coal mining industry has declined ever since 1920. That year there were 784.621 persons employed. Ten years later (1930) there were 644,006 at work. In 1940 the number had further decreased to 543.200. Crude Oil Production Increase. Crude oil production in the United Stales, also, has steadily increased according to statistics. In 1910 there were 442.929.000 barrels (42 gallons to a barrel) of oil drawn from the earth. Its value was $1,360,745,000 But the figures in 1940 were 1,331,847,000 barrels, valued at $1.352.000,000 a decrease in price. The United States produced in 1940 over half of the oil marketed. Russia was next in line with just of the slightly more than United States total. tv'e-ftfl- AMERICAN LIFE DEPICTED BY OLD LIGHTS English, Mexican, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, and Italian needlecraft is displayed beside outstanding American sampders to Washington, D. C. CUTTING NAVY TAPE Behind Admiral King's forthright order slashing navy red tape 50 per cent and ordering more navy officers out of Washington, was an with the interesting comparison e Japanese navy, conducted by some of the President's advisers. Americans, recently familiar with Japan, have reported that the Japanese navy is staffed by only about In con1,000 personnel in Tokyo. trast, the navy department in Washington has more than 30,000 not including the navy yard. The Japanese navy also Is reported to have cut red tape and government reports to the bone and it gives widest latitude to commanders at sea. The U. S. navy also gives wide latitude to commanders in distant posts, such as Admiral Leary in New Zealand, Admiral Nimitz at Pearl Harbor. But in home waters, especially in antisubmarine warfare along the East coast, insiders say the navy has suffered from a constant stream of reports and orders to and from Washington requiring a tremendous staff for the paper work alone. Now Admiral King offers promotions to officers who will decrease their Washington bureaus rather than increase them. new-bor- Tim-mi- Every Two hundred years of Amer.car. life are represented by nearly 100 Eighteenth and Nineteenth century l.ghtmg appliances and more than 250 samplers at a public exhibit in the Cooper Union Muse' m for the Arts of Decoration. By JLRR Y LINK back-stag- war-tim- Slo-pol- J. Fuller Pep metal work, and pottery are shown fur the many visitors. There are architectural sketches by the late Wb yiey Warren, internationally known architect, and designs for tiles by William Morris, F.rglish poet and crafsman for whom the Morris chair was named. A rare pair of glazed pottery figurines of Belgian origin is also ARMY HOUR PROGRAM Jamming radio programs is one of the recognized weapons of modem warfare. But it is a sword, and the war department radio branch is ready to swing on the Axis if the prize Army Hour, on Sundays, is jammed again. Jamming by manufactured static or other interference is feasible in the United States only on short-wav- e broadcasts. The Arpiy Hour feae tures talks from all over the world, made by such noted personages as Mme. Chiang General MacArthur, General 'Wav-el- l, and others. The most recent case of jamming was during a talk by a high ranking army officer from the Dutch island of Curacao. A piano banged loudly all the time he spoke. Winston Churchills latest speech, which came on the radio immediately before the army hour, was jammed by a gutteral Teutonic voice carefully observing Churchill's own pauses in an effort to escape detection. These two cases of jamming were traced by triangulation to Axis broadcasting stations. The army proposes to retaliate if this deliberate interference doesn stop. two-edge- d short-wav- Kai-she- . WAR FLASHES If you are a busmess executive, and uncertain about tax deductions for advertising and pay increases, you can get "informal" advice by applying to the Internal revenue bureau under a new treasury ruling. OPA agents are checking up on private airports on tips that they are bootlegging fiigh octane gas to car drivers. High octane won't run a car by itself, but makes a very fuel if mixed with lower grade gas. C. Guerrilla warfare in Russia has become so highly organized that every tnird guerrilla now is armed with an automatic rifle. C The war department soon will break still more precedents. It will start accepting women doctors in the army medical corps. They will be ass gned chiefly to the WAAC, and also for general eye, ear, nose and throat work, C The army's new I helmet, that comes far over the cheeks, neck and forehead and is much stronger than is now being the old raky d.stributed to all soldiers. smooth-runnin- g M-- "tin-hat,- " Full Accounting Admiral Nimilx pronounced Midway a partial accounting tor what But happened at Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was more than an attack on the American navy. It was also an attack on the American home. The navy can settle in full as an ocean force, but the American people must settle in full as a fighting nation. The Pearl Harbor account will be settled when the last concentration camp is a public park. And when a worker in Europe has the dignity of a human being, instead of the standing of a driven slave. It la America duty to demand full payment. The question of our future depends oa bow much the enemy Is made to answer for Its past. The liberties won on the freesing slopes at Valley Forge were almost lost in a dirty beer cellar in Munich. While France is bound, while Norway is in prison, and while Belgium is in chains, America will never be fully free. Our monument to Pearl Harbor must be a milestone in world Uhat can only begin to progress. happen when all men realize that the peace cannot be kept while criminal leaders remain in power to start a war. Aew York Aeusrccl: The lads from the theatrical pub- licity cages, who leaned on the (and vice versa) in the uniforms of the armed forces , . . The bigshot from the Capitol, who explains why he weekends in N. Y.: In Washington the war stops on Fridays and starts on Mondays" . . . The blacked-ou- t Pennsy Station, a heaven for the soldiers (returning to camp) and their sweeties . . . The pool of silence that floods the Plaza after midnight. So still yoa can hear whispers of nothing . . . Headliners sitting on their thrones of fame and burdened wit crowns of worry . . . Actresses enin Summer tering joynts ermine, collecting stares. chin-dee- The art studios in Greenwich Village which once were stables . . . The big clock on the building at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, where during the wee hours of the ayems you s can hear the dropping Into Infinity . . . The tots who used to now playing play Commandos, in the west side streets . . . The huge searchlights interrupting the dimouts by stabbing the planes roaring over Central Park . . . Loafers standing on street corners staring at the passersby and tossing away precious hours like cigarette butts . . . Wrinkled charwomen entering million-dolia- r skyscrapers every evening to give them beauty treatments . . . The rains decorating the street puddles. tick-tock- The Most Quoted Observation of the Month: Raymond Clapper, who has looked at Congressmen as a reporter most of his life, let go with both barrels at their didoes. Said he: People are looking to editori als, radio commentators and newspaper columnists for the discussion of public affairs they ought to get from Congress . . . The people don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says . . . They know what you hear in Congress is 99 per cent tripe, ignorance and and not to be redemagoguery lied on. The Story Tellers: Fortune pro files John Wesley Dafoe, editor of the Montreal Free Press, calling him Canada's greatest man. For a long tu .e Dafoe screamed warnings against Hitler and prodded his gov't to action. In short, another warmonger who happened to be making sense when his hecklers weren't . . . Free World smacks the bulls-ey- e with a piece on Reinhard who was presented with a skinful of slugs by Czech patriots. 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