Show ga eur U H D C ENDING absent absenteeism E isla undersecretary a of war var patterson s labor advisers have a one point program for ending absenteeism in war plants here is the one point communities jom unities should adjust themselves to the hours of the factories stores banks doctors lawyers lawyer plus phu other services service should hould be ava available 13 able not merely for or ore shift ot at workers worker I 1 but for all shifts at present workers on the swing 5 shift hill beginning at midnight ht find fd themselves a out of gear w with the life if of 1 the community the greatest absenteeism is among workers on the odd shuts shifts and can ca be attributed not to indifference to winning the war but to the inconvenience of trying irving to live and buy in uy food and get johnny to the doctor while the swing shift turns night into day absenteeism is a higher sya among mig women than men which may yo mean ca nothing more than trouble with the ration board A woman w will ill tal take a day off from the factory I 1 because a she has to register for canned foods or because a enild is sic sick k in in the a family or b because acim she hn I 1 had t time I 1 to buy a now new dress at if the store are remedy for or this is nothing less than two or three shifts on the part of thou t the h e services that serve the workers the ran ration board it is suggested should come to the factory in many cases war department advisers say absenteeism is u caused not by loafing but by overwork in certain machine tool areas such as new england men have been working 50 and 56 hours is a week for years they are simply exhausted exhaust 11 d I 1 incidentally m 1 Y this h I 1 factor t or is s th the I 1 e adal ta pr principal m c cause a e ol of absenteeism in III germany wh where re workers are worn down by unremitting unremitting labor and long hours note there is little sympathy in undersecretary patters patterson a office for far the crusade age against labor it is regarded as useless and it unsound to try to appeal to workers over their leaders HURRAHS NO RUSSIAN RUSIA HURRAHS american observers in russia report that the public P u alic c is not throwing its red cap to in the air over current military successes the reaction is not much different in tact fact from the reaction to t losses the mood of the russian p people P 11 davs a one ne report he chasn at t c changed h nd much since lat last sturt summer me when h a they were bei being a g driven back to the volga nor has it changed much from the years of peace 1 I it is explained that ross russians have become accustomed to tumult and personal danger for 25 years they have lived in an atmosphere of revo i lution purges a and starvation war has brought no no sudden shock to the them as to t us ei E en in the face of 1 the lembic te fic losses russia has suffered in this war the losses I 1 forced arced upon u p on russia by her own government ten years year ago go remain almost unsurpassed surpassed no when the soviet government was a imposing on the people the unwelcome B system of collective farming farmers were denied seed for PI planting and a vast number of people estimated between two and five mii million milhim starved to death the russians are stolid taking defeet defeat or victory in in their air stride illde SPANISH S H D DAGGER AGGER AT U 8 BACK here is the lowdown on the visit of franco a special specia I 1 representative ex spanish foreign F minister M tet beigbeder Boi to this country franco a regular representative ambassador juan cardenas I 1 has a b been en sending him what he wanted to hear har rather than the truth fir u th about the way the american people dople e have put their hearts heart joh into the war cardenas has he emphasized the clash of p personalities rs tonalities donali ties and meffie inefficiency Ocy of war pro production action which get into the head 11 lines pro but is not the general rule when U S officials leme learned it of this the they conceived the idea of Y bring bringing I 1 ng a special franco envoy to I 1 the U S A to 10 get gel the real pie picture ure actually it was the war department department not the at state a te department which hatched he te hed I 1 the he inspiration and which is taking tak ing him on a tour of war plants and ad army posts to drink i m the real 1 spirit of the war effort note many high up officials official here believe b elle franco is an opportunist who regardless r of pledges pledge will nuns jump w whichever h chever way he sees the nar at I 1 is going m the spring he c could ou id rf 9 he wished plunge a do dagger g g er to the back of U S forces force in n north africa beigbeder has a background of friendship for the united states state naff fl L it is said of woodrow woodrow wilson that he was a professor surrounded urr crded by politicians and that FUR is a politician surrounded by professors C L it 1 is said of madame chi chiang kai K socks shek a huge reception that ang it I 1 out cavi caviar ared a d the baruch party for mrs harry hopkins 41 L captain capt in i eddie is making king it I 1 t clear to friends that he has no presidential ambitions despite aln the 1 h hf fact t that st gerald G S id K smith is hur hurrahing r r tor him ine incidentally most people don I 1 k know it I 1 b but at en saw th the hand it arl writing long on the wall as a far as IS isolation lotion is concerned on and ad resigned from the arneri ameri ca first r committee mom tee on ca J january ancee sty Is if hai 1941 arbor nearly 1 I Y one year before pearl peari |