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Show 1 wr i Y ; fi f xrj WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON Consolidated Features. WNU Release. NEW YORK. In this war, it appears ap-pears that newly appointed commanders always look more promising than the men they suc- a j it i ceed. The Adm. Halsey Jr. dossier re. Has Both His Sea veals a sea-. sea-. , .... soned war- Legs and Wtngs rior usuaUy "friendly and democratic but a stiff disciplinarian." There is note of his medals and his popularity 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 mili-tary 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 L. Ghormley in command of the Solomon Islands action, we took a couple of days to look for a professionally pro-fessionally informed and disinterested disinterest-ed appraisal of Admiral Halsey's qualifications for his critically important im-portant job. The report is encouraging, encour-aging, for reasons other than those disclosed in mill-run navy biographies. biogra-phies. As an officer, his emphasis, and his proven ability, has been in adaptiveness 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, is what It takes in the Solomon Islands today. This air-sea domain do-main Is a highly specialized and rapidly evolving new zone of strategy, or perhaps more precisely pre-cisely tactics, as the latter word puts the emphasis on knowing what to do next, rather than on what traditionally is done. He once said: "I believe in violating vio-lating rules. We violate them every day. We do the unexpected." At the age of 60, he pilots his own plane and gets close in where action is real or impending. impend-ing. He is one of the most experienced ex-perienced men in the navy in operations such as those in the Solomons today, having been awarded the Distinguished Service Serv-ice medal for planning and carrying car-rying through the raids in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. If it should happen that the desperate des-perate need of the hour, or the minute, should be for a brilliant improvlser and the text books forgotten, Admiral Halsey is the man for the job. Admiral Halsey was born and grew up in Elizabeth, N. J., and entered en-tered Annapolis In 1900. He rode destroyers for a few years and later was a member of the Annapolis executive ex-ecutive staff. O A DniTT him ven-re nan the "Rn'ttcVl discovered that their industrial tempo was set to the pace of "Auld Lang Syne," or "Comin' Through 0. it t the Rye." One Steps Up Tempo o lad. Of War Industry ing classical .... . . composers, WithVttal Music long a foe o ultra-modern music, suddenly reformed re-formed and started tapping out hot music for factory hands. It was played in the factories to step up the punch-press and sledge-hammer rhythms. It worked. All reports were that they thus greatly increased in-creased the flow of war goods. Over here, we got the point of the experiment. Professor Harold Har-old Burris-Meyer reports on researches, re-searches, which he made with one of his colleagues, showing that factory music in eastern factories has stepped up production produc-tion in a range from 1.3 to 11.1 per cent. But that is just a start, says Professor Burris-Meyer. He notes that "the leisure music mu-sic is not the Idiom of the modern mod-ern industrial plant." They're setting this war to music and it is to be vital music. In May, 1935, Professor Burris-Meyer Burris-Meyer unveiled a sound machine which, working with an audience "would induce hysteria within 30 seconds." For 12 years, at Stevens, he has pioneered the field of sound stimuli, as an augmentation of dramatic effects. Previously, he had taught at Washington and Jefferson and C.C.N. Y. IT IS not clear whether Karl Hermann Her-mann Frank has decided to exterminate ex-terminate the Czech people, but he appears to be thinking it over. Herr Frank is state secretary of the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate. Berne quotes him: "The murder of Heydrich has not yet been expiated and it still constitutes a blood guilt that incriminates the Czech people in its entirety." Herr Frank was active in the early stages of the Sudeten gangster buildup, build-up, serving as a diligent inciter of hatred and savagery. |