Show W NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated feature Fea turia release NEW YORK in this war it ap 11 pears that newly appointed commanders always look more promising than the men they suc adm halsey jr aeed the dossier doss re has both his sea a sea j T war legs and wings bior usually friendly and democratic but a stiff disciplinarian there is note of his medals and his popularity larit among the men there is not available any such body of objective criticism as in the theater or the arts the free swinging critiques of sports and politics also are out so far as military science is concerned and the bleachers take on faith with the new man in the lineup when vice admiral william F halsey jr replaced vice admiral robert obert L ghormley in command of the solomon islands action we took a couple of days to look for a professionally fessio nally informed and disinterested appraisal of admiral halseys Hal qualifications for his critically important job the report is encouraging for reasons other than those disclosed in mill run navy biographies As an officer his emphasis and his proven ability has been in and mobility with rear admirals john H towers and arthur B cook he has combined the skills and furthered the techniques of men who like himself can both sail and fly that we are assured 9 is what it takes in the solomon islands today this air sea domain is a highly specialized and rapidly evolving new zone of 0 strategy or perhaps more precisely tactics as the latter word puts the emphasis on knowing what to do next rather than on what traditionally is done he once said 1 I believe in in vio violating rules we violate them e every day we do the unexpected at the age of 60 he pilots his own plane and gets close in in where action is real or impending ile he is one of the most experienced perien ced men in the navy in operations such as those in the solomons today having been awarded the distinguished service medal for planning and carrying through the raids in the marshall arsha 11 and gilbert islands if it should happen that the desperate need of the hour or the minute should be for a brilliant improviser and the text b books 0 forgotten admiral halsey is the man for the job admiral halsey was born and grew up in elizabeth N J and entered annapolis in 1900 he rode destroyers for a few years and later was a member of the annapolis executive staff A A BOUT two years ago the brit british ish A discovered that their indest industrial ial tempo anpo was set to the pace of auld lang syne or comin through steps up tempo of S the their rye lead une of war indest industry ry ing classical with vital music masic bof com posers long a foe of ultramodern ultra modern music suddenly reformed and started tapping out hot music for factory hands it was played in the factories to step up the punch press and sledgehammer sledge h hammer a rhythms it worked all reports were that they thus greatly increased the flow of war goods over here we got the point of the experiment professor harold burris meyer reports on researches which he made with one of his colleagues showing that factory music in eastern factories has stepped up production in a range from 13 to per cent but that is just a start says professor burris meyer ile he notes that the leisure music Is not the idiom of the modern industrial plant setting this war to music and it is is to be vital music in may 1935 professor unveiled a sound machine which working with an audience would induce hysteria within 30 seconds for 12 years at ste stevens vens he has pioneered the field of souna sound stimuli as an augmentation of dramatic effects previously he had taught at washington and jefferson and |