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Show !i ': - 1 l " 1 I Vit WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) "MEW YORK. Encouraging news is that we may keep our rubber rub-ber heels, and if we have to travel on them, instead of on rubber tires. c cn i it won't be Small, Still Voice the fault of Of Scientists Now Dr. Elmer n j fi W. Brandes, more Audible . , . j head of the bureau of plant industry of the department de-partment of agriculture. ! For many years, Dr. Brandes has been exploring rubber jungles, wherever wher-ever he can find them, studying rubber-yielding plants and staking out for the government useful data and techniques. Currently, he tells the house agriculture committee about the urgency of planting large areas of the guayule shrub. This time, the committee is listening more intently. in-tently. Germany is far ahead of us in synthetic rubber production. On occasion, Dr. Brandes has worked up a pleasant friendship with head-hunters, and should be able to get on friendly terms with congressmen. It was in August, 1928, that he landed his hydroplane in a jungle river in New Guinea. It scared the wits out of the pygmy head-hunters. But the genial and conspicuously conspicuous-ly unarmed Dr. Brandes lured them into his camp by friendly gestures and they became friends and co-operators. He has flown many thousands of lone jungle air leagues on many research re-search expeditions to Central and South America, Asia and the Pacific islands. In July, 1940, congress provided 500,000 for a study of crude rubber in the Western hemisphere. Dr. Brandes Bran-des flew to Brazil and is now offering to congress the result of his researches there. He was born in Washington in 1891, was educated in science at Michigan State college, Cornell and the University of Michigan, taught at Michigan State and entered the government service as a plant pathologist pa-thologist at the Puerto Rico agricultural agricul-tural experiment station in 1914. He served in the World war, as a second sec-ond lieutenant, in France. THERE is one section of the populace popu-lace which won't be bothered much by all this rationing of food, clothes, automobile tires and house-A house-A Toot for One of is group Oar Indispensable which is. or 'Morale Builders' pJt.tin. ger to such luxuries. One of them asked me for a dime today. "We gotta work fast," he said, "before the government gets all the loose dimes." If, as reported, morale is good among people who are hungry and cold, the Salvation Army has helped, and will help, greatly to this end. And rating many new stars in his crown, or cap, is Col. John J. Allan, just now becoming the Army's lieutenant lieu-tenant commissioner for 11 central states, with headquarters at Chicago. Chi-cago. When, as a young man, getting get-ting a start as a jeweler, John James Allan decided to give his life to the Salvation Army, he disguised himself as a derelict, when he went down into New York's Bowery. He shared their flop-houses, wore ragged clothes and took his hand-out where he found it. "Condescending to men of low estate," in the scriptural phrase, he found reciprocal un- derstandrng when he shared their troubles. That was the start of his career of kindly and aggressive friendliness as an evangelist, and champion of the down-but-never-outs, and as a cornetist for the Bowery and for King George of England at a command performance in 1904. He was for three years a soloist with Reeves American band of Providence, R. I. He is the father of the United Service Organizations. It was on October 11, 1940, that he met with executives of the Y.M.C.A., the Knights of Columbus and the Jewish Jew-ish Welfare organization for united effort among the soldiers, and out of this meeting came the U.S.O. He is married, the father of five children. He was born in Hazelton, Pa., in 1887, his mother having been born near Nottingham, England, a stone's throw from the home of General Gen-eral Booth. In the World war, he was senior chaplain of the Seventy-seventh division di-vision in France, the first Salvation Salva-tion Army chaplain in the American Ameri-can armed forces. He won the French Croix de Guerre and later received the rank of major chaplain of the U. S. army. In 1925, he entered en-tered the army reserve corps, and his "Colonel" is a military title. He was in Salvation Army work ir. Newark from 1923 to 1925 and there-after there-after in Columbus, Ohio, for eighi years, managing the Greenwood Lake Camp for Children. He never trumpets himself, but the Army does. |