WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
I I
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
NEW YORK —Mrs. Lilian M. Gil
breth of Montclair, N. J., is the
mother of 12 children, holds six col
lege degrees and is a distinguished
engineer. In
Living Proof That the various
Women Can Be moves to
s-> . F . bring women
Greaf Engineers lnt0 war
work engineering, including the
present forum of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers at
Rochester, Mrs. Gilbreth is busy and
prominent Her sixth child was
born when she was getting her Ph.D.
at Brown university. I asked her
a few years ago if it wasn't quite
an engineering problem, running a
house with 12 children. She said
that was proof enough for anybody
that women could be, and were, good
engineers.
Her degrees, in literature and
engineering, are from the Uni
versity of California, Brown,
Michigan, Rutgers and Russell
Sage college. She shared the
study and practice of her hus
band, Dr. Frank B. Gilbreth, an
eminent engineer, and when he
died, in 1924, picked up his work
as well as her own, chiefly in
the field of industrial motion
study, and in combatting drudg
ery, inefficiency and waste in
factories. She believes that tools
are liberating instruments If
used Intelligently and the frank
enstein of modern machinery
can be neatly and nicely domes
ticated. Women, she thinks, can
be a great help in this—as well
as in winning the war.
She is a brisk and personable lady,
B3 years old, born and reared in
Oakland, Calif. As a consultant in
factory processes and organization,
she stresses the fact that her meth
ods involve no “speed-up" plans.
\\7E ONCE knew an illustrious
» » and talkative citizen, ,an au
thority on nearly everything of pub
lic interest, who came to grief when
, his ghost
Kaiser’s Ghost hut suddenly up
Assembles Spare and died on
Parts for Wizard thcre never
really had been any such person as
he was supposed to be. He was a
synthesis of this hired alter ego and
when the ghost died the great public
man became quite inarticulate and
helpless. Before long he was utterly
forgotten.
Henry J. Kaiser, the cargo plane
and ship wizard, has a ghost but
need have no such worries. He can
say his say effectively and it is
merely in the interest of his famous
super-efficiency that he has Philip
H. Parrish, editorial writer of the
Portland Oregonian, writing his
speeches and statements for him. It
might mean a loss of a half dozen
ships if Mr. Kaiser took time out to
write speeches. Mr. Kaiser can lay
the keel of a sentence or a speech
as simply and soundly as the next
man. Mr. Parrish, one of the best
wordsmiths in the business, assem
bles the various parts and brings
through the superstructure, all ship
shape and in iigtime. and it’s all au
thentic Kaiser.
As to transportation, Mr. Par
rish started away back of
scratch, several years ago, with
a book, "Before the Covered
Wagon." He Is a fast worker
and moved on handily into the
cargo plane era, with Mr. Kaiser
and, in charge of the editorial
page of the Portland Oregonian,
made his typewriter crack
steam-riveter blows in the build
up of the master shipbuilder.
Everybody out that way knows
him as Phil Parrish, turning in
a professional talent of high or
der to help win the war. Having
started newspaper work in
Olympia, Ore., on the Morning
Olympian he catches in nicely
the quite uniformly Olympian
stride of Mr. Kaiser.
Mr. Parrish is 46 years old, a
native of Constantine. Mich., educat
ed at the Oregon State college and
the University of Wisconsin. In
Portland, he worked first as a re
porter on the Journal and then
worked on through virtually every
editorial post on the Oregonian. He
takes the long view of Oregon and
the nation, as disclosed in another
successful book of his, "Historic
Oregon." He is married and has
one daughter.
SIR EDWIN L^LUYTENS, ven
erated and distinguished British
architect, takes over the job of put
. ting London together again, under
the mandate of the Royal academy,
of which he was elected president
in 1938. No^f>nly will he restore the
bombed areas, but he will tear up
the old hang-overs of hit-or-miss
development and bring through a
modern city, along that old line of
Roman, Saxon, Norman, modern
growth. He designed the British
embassy at Washington and many
other great government buildings.
Aviation to Revolutionize
America's Living Habits
Civil Aeronautics Administration Provides
Necessary Impetus; New Developments to
Have Social as Well as Material Effect.
By BAUKHAGE
Newt Analytt and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1343 H Street N-W,
Washington, D. C.
One thing the war will produce,
upon which there if general agree
ment, is national airmindedness.
And there will be basic changes in
the living habits of the nation, pro
duced by development of the air
plane, as great or greater than were
produced by the automobile.
The automobile and the good
roads which made its use possible
revolutionized small town life. The
airplane, according to the experts
who manage to snatch a moment
to think beyond bombers and fight
ers to passenger and cargo planes,
is going to change big town life and
perhaps something far more impor
tant—small-world life.
Recently 1 had a long chat with
one of the men who heads up a
plant that is turning out planes for
Uncle Sam. That is a fulltime job.
But he is a dreamer, too, and the
moment he gets a chance to lean
back and think out loud about the
future, he paints an epic picture of
Uie skyways of tomorrow.
"What the roads did for the auto
mobile the airfields will do for the
airplane," he said to me watching
imaginary airplanes in a blue cloud
of cigar smoke. "We now have 25
times as many airports as we had
before the war. They are in many
remote places. Those places won’t
be remote any more.”
Neat for War bird a
When he said that I couldn’t help
recalling a trip I made recently on
a special plane across the country.
Because we were going to see a lot
of airplane secrets anyhow, we were
permitted to “look”—I mean by that,
the curtains weren’t drawn as they
are in all ordinary passenger planes
these days. I won’t reveal the de
tails of what I saw, of course, but
I can tell you it was hard to be
lieve. Suddenly in the midst of no
where the runways of a field below
would be visible. A few miles away
I could see automobiles or railway
trains moving along like bugs or
worms. I knew the passengers were
looking at the landscape as they
passed. But plain and hill and riv
er were all they could see. Just out
of their range of vision there
would be a busy airport. Only war
birds nest on it now, but some day
commercial planes will rise from
these thousands of tiny intersections
in the sky routes that will lace the
world together in a tiny ball.
The way these dots on the air map
have increased is incredible. The
Civil Aeronautics administration’s
first airport program got under way
in 1941 with 385 defense landing
areas designated for construction or
repair. There were 282 new air
ports by the end of 1941 as well as
46 new seaplane bases and anchor
ages. The significant increase in
landing fields since then is, of
course, a military secret. At the
beginning of 1942 there were 2,484
airports in the country, of which
1.086 were municipal institutions,
930 were commercial. That in it
self is significant for it shows how
communities themselves pushed for
ward to open their skygates without
waiting for a commercial organiza
tion to do the job. The rest of the
nearly twenty-five hundred fields
were army and navy, emergency or
miscellaneous: 30 were private.
Airport Development
Meanwhile, with the aid of the
CAA laws were drawn up in many
states which in the year 1942 result
ed in the passage of 42 separate
acts by state legislations designed
to provide municipalities or coun
ties or other political divisions with
authority to cure defects in or de
velop airports. Ten states passed
acts to acquire land and construct
facilities and operate them. Some
states built flight strips beside high
ways from unclaimed aviation tax
refund money. All this shows how
aviation was becoming a part of the
national political consciousness.
During this time one of the prob
lems of the air that few people,
even those who constantly use air
travel, realize, increased—the traf
fic problem. As one pilot expressed
it to me. speaking of a field where
he learned most of his flying: “Our
traffic problem there was a lot more
complicated than the one on Times
square in New York city.”
It is easy to see why. Consider
that the block system on the rail
ways is divided into one-mile sec
tions; that is, a train is warned a
mile ahead of the block in which
there is an obstruction to traffic. In
the air a comparable block is now
15 miles. When the cruising speed
of the commercial planes goes up
the block will have to be increased.
Traffic control is regulated by a
federal airways system. In 1941 it
was extended to the point where it
separated and controlled traffic
from 14 centers, established by the
Civil Aeronautics administration.
Over a million and a half aircraft
operations were recorded in that
year.
The increase in speed which mili
tary developments in airplane man
ufacture have brought about will
have a social as well as a material
effect.
Cruising—At 400
"Think back,” my air-minded
friend said, "to World War I. Our
maximum speed of war planes was
about 180 miles. Today, 180 miles
is the cruising speed of our commer
cial planes. Today our fast war
planes make much more than 400
miles an hour. Let’s be conserva
tive and say that in 1965 our com
mercial planes will be cruising at
at least 400 miles.
"In my opinion we will race the
sun from New York to Los Angeles
and not do a bad job; leave New
York at noon and be in Los Angeles
at 4 p. m.—their time.
"Going in the other direction,
leave New York at 5 p. m., get to
London for breakfast. Leave Lon
don at eight in the evening and get
to New York in the morning.”
It is easy to see that when London,
New York and Los Angeles are that
near together in terms of time, they
will be that much nearer together in
terms of thought—in habits, cus
toms and understanding. There can
be no distant places, in the natural
course of existence, Americans on
business or recreation will move
through Singapore, Tokyo, Buenos
Aires, Rio, Moscow and their citi
zens will be a part of our cities.
When it comes to the makeup of
our own towns, large and small, it
is easy to see what will happen when
a normal daily commuting distance
to work will be stretched to a hun
dred miles. The residential area of
cities will fan out in monstrous cir
cles. There will be a much more
general admixture of viewpoint and
attitude of city and country, of com
munity and community. The melt
ing pot of America will produce a
much more homogeneous broth of
humanity. And it will temper the
world.
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‘Austerity* Luncheon
Makes Lasting Impression
My friend from Australia dropped
in suddenly in an army bomber the
other day, as friends have a way
of doing these days. His business
has kept him in Australia many
years. He likes the folks “down un
der" and he’s doing a good job for
our soldiers there and for Uncle
Sam now.
“Australia is not fighting a total
war yet," he said, “but she’s a darn
site farther along than America. We
haven’t started,” he told me.
"Because," I suggested, "we
didn't get the scare they got and
are still getting."
“Yes,” he said. “Nobody expect
ed the Japs to try to get and hold
Australia, but they did fear that if
there wasn’t adequate protection the
Japs could bomb Australian cities
and the big war plants all along the
coast and put them out of business."
The thing he seemed to feel that
had made a great impression on the
“austerity."
“Take the austerity luncheons and
dinners—that is what they are
called,” he said. “I invited an
American Big Shot to lunch. I gave
him the menu. He said: ’I’ll take
a dozen oysters.’ ’All right,’ I told
him, ’that will amount to three shill
ings and will leave you sixpence,
which is enough for a cup of coflee.' "
It seems that you can buy just
so much, no more. You can spend
65 cents for lunch and 85 cents for
dinner. You can have your luxuries,
but it doesn't leave anything over.
And instead of a limit on income
of $25,000 a year which has been
suggested here: after taxes are de
ducted, $10,000 is all that is left.
BRIEFS • . . by Baukhage
More than 7.000 workers of Japa
nese descent from the Pacific coast
are harvesting the sugar beets and
i other crops of eight western states
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Formation of a young people’s vol
unteer aviation corps has been an
nounced by the Civil Air patrol. To
be known as the Civil Air Patrol
Cadets, this organization will paral
lel that of the senior CAP
The U. S. department of agricul
ture is preparing for Russian use,
quick-cooking mixture of rolled oats,
soybean flakes, dry skim milk and
sugar.
• • •
The mason jar. fixture of home
canning since frontier days, will
come forth shortly in new war dress.
No zinc means that the old mason
i jar will have to wear a new cap.
Best Food Storage in
Outdoor Cellar or Cave
Storeroom Style Depends
On Contour of the Land
The most nearly ideal food storage
space on the farm is the outdoor,
underground cellar or cave.
It is set all or part way into
the ground, banked over with
earth, floored and lined with
masonry, and fitted with one or
more ventilators for air move
ment. This type of storage pro
vides the best natural conditions
for canned fruit, pails or other
tightly covered containers, as
well as for whole fruits and
vegetables. It also serves as a
storm cellar for the farm family.
In some areas the bank cellar may
be the best solution to the storage
problem this fall. The bank cellar
belongs on rolling ground. The low- !
er part is masonry construction and
is set back into the sloping ground.
The upper part may be made of
lumber, insulated in the upper walls
and roof with sawdust or commer
cial insulation.
Another useful storeroom—
and usually the simplest and
best for the home with finished
basement—is the special stor
age room in the basement.
A small roonf space, five or six i
feet wide and as long as may be
Hundreds of grain elevators simi
lar to this one at Grafton, Ohio, are
holding grain from thousands of
farms across the nation.
needed, is separated from the rest
of the basement by a tight wall. A
door is fitted into one of the parti
tion walls. At least one outside win
dow is needed so air circulation can
be maintained and the temperature
controlled to some extent. It is im
portant that the basement room be
insulated overhead and in the par
tition walls to cut off all possible
heat transfer from the basement or
from the room above.
Agriculture
in
Industry
By FLORENCE C. WEED
Wormseed
In one corner of Carroll county in
the state of Maryland, farmers have
been growing Wormseed for more
than 100 years. Western farmers
would likely not even recognize the
plant if they saw it growing, al
though in its uncultivated state, it
can be found in weedy areas over
the entire country.
From Wormseed is distilled “Bal
timore oil” or wormseed oil which
is used in the manufacture of disin
fectants and sprays, in paints and
lubricating oils, in the treatment of
hookworm, and as a vermifuge for
cattle.
The plant is an annual which is
sown in seedbeds in the early
spring. In June, when the plants are
six to eight inches high, they are
set out in the fields, either by hand
or with a mechanical planter which
digs a small trench, drops the plant
and waters it, then covers it with
soil, all in one operation. The usual
rate of planting is 3 feet by 14
inches, making about 2,400 plants to
the acre.
Frequent cultivation keeps the
weeds down until the plants ripen
and the seeds turn brown and black.
The plants must be harvested at
just the right time, when not too
green to have a high content of
ascaridole, and not ripe enaugh to
shatter. After curing several days,
the plants are hauled to the still
and made into o.i.
Farm Lease Essentials
In farm leases, essential points
are the date when the lease is
drawn, the beginning and ending of
the farm lease term, method of re
newal or extension, accurate de
scription of the real estate and oth
er property affected by the lease,
reservations such as right of land
lord to enter to inspect the property
and make improvements, and, final
ly. a definite and agreed price of |
rental and the time and manner of
payment.
By VIRGINIA VALE
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
FRED ALLEN and Portland
Hoffa aren’t going to have
to worry about meat ration
ing if the public does as well
by them this year as it did
last. The star of the Sunday
night oil program received
gifts of meat from two gover
nors—a smoked ham from the
governor of Tennessee, a tur
key from Governor Johnson of
Kentucky, another ham from the
University of Missouri, a roast pig
from Iowa State college, a barrel of
oysters from Johns Hopkins, and
hundreds of other gifts, ranging from
a bucket of West Virginia coal to
• bottle of laughing gas!
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Joel McCrea’s a life member of
the Officers’ Club of Gardner Field,
Calif. Recently, when buying cattle
in that vicinity, with the thermom
eter at 110, he visited the camp and
learned that the men were trying
to raise money for a swimming pool.
A Bing Crosby golf match had
JOEL McCREA
raised part of it, a Victory Commit
tee show had helped, but they still
lacked $2,000. McCrea said he
couldn’t sing, dance or play golf to
raise money, but he could write a
check—and did. You’ll be seeing
him soon in “Great Without Glory."
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Harry Carey’s been in dozens of
range wars in the movies; now he’d
like to take part in one. Cattle
thieves have been butchering beef
belonging to a neighboring rancher
and selling it to the black market;
the neighbor, like Carey, raises cat
tle for the government. So, though
Harry is busy in “Air Force” at
Warner Bros., he’s been oiling a
couple of six shooters and planning
action.
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Fred MacMurray’s added himself
to the list of Hollywood farmers;
he’s the owner of 800 acres in north
ern California, which will be used
for farming and cattle raising. He’s
slated to do “Above Suspicion” with
Joan Crawford, for Metro, as the
one outside picture Paramount lets
him make each year. The story of
a professor and his wife who act as
British agents on the continent, it
had been intended for Powell and
Loy.
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Director Richard Wallace just
doesn’t like plane crashes, since he
was a near-victim in one in 1935
that cost five lives. So you won’t
be seeing the crackup scenes in "A
Night to Remember," with Brian
Aherne and Loretta Young, that the
author put in.
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One of the best of our radio shows
Isn’t heard in this country except
by the studio audience. It's “Mail
Call.” the war department’s service
show which is recorded and sbort
waved from CBS’ Hollywood studios
to service men in all parts of the
world. A recent program, staged
before an audience of service men,
included Amos ’n’ Andy, Claudette
Colbert, Joel McCrea and Betty Jane
Rhodes. /
In 1918 Leo McCarey wrote a song
entitled “Keep Up Your Chin,” but
the Armistice was signed the day
it was accepted for publication, and
war songs were out. Now along
comes another war, and the song’s
part of the musical score of "Once
Upon a Honeymoon.”
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It sounds almost too pat. Dick
Davis, playing a Norwegian in War
ner's “Edge of Darkness.” heaved a
Nazi storm trooper over his head,
cracked the heads of two others to
gether, fought through a mob of
them, raced 50 yards and dove off
a pier. When he swam back to the
beach Director Lewis Milestone
called to him: “Your wife phoned
that your draft board has classified
you; you're 4-F—physically unfit!"
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ODDS AND ENDS—Deanna Durbin
will sing “Rockabye Baby” with Chi
nese lyrics in “Forever Yours” . . .
Brenda Marshall and her husband. Wil
liam Holden, are giving their Rhodes
ian Lion dog to the government for
army service . . . Jane Wyatt spent two
days in a Los Angeles hospital learn
ing nursing technique for her role in
RKO’s “Army Surgeon” . . . We hear
that Melvyn Douglas, turned down
twice by the army, will try again when
he’s finished “Three Hearts for Julia"
. . . Gregory Ratoff is bringing Mae
Busch back to pictured; she has been
east in “Something to Shout About."
PATT“RNS
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IT IS the military air—in the
* double row of buttons down the
front — which gives this young
frock its glamour! The same fea
ture makes the dress a practical
one, for little girls can get in and
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The Questions
1. A harp usually has how many
strings?
2. Regular army khaki is made
of what?
3. The combining form “xylo,”
as in xylophone, means what?
4. How old was Ludwig van
Beethoven when he started to lose
his hearing?
5. What are the most widely
used given names in the world?
6. In which ocean is the inter
national date line established?
The Answers
1. Forty-six.
2. Cotton.
3. Wood.
4. Twenty-eight.
5. Mohammed and Mary.
6. Pacific.
out of it unaided. Clever piecing
gives the frock a full swinging
skirt.
• • •
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Warship Had Stained Glasp
HMS Repulse, which was ton
pedoed and sunk by the Japanese
in the South China sea in Decern
ber, 194i, is believed to have beel
the only warship in history that,
had a stained-glass window in it*
chapel.
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Identifying Wood
A number of species of wood,
under microscopic examination,
are easier to identify in the form
of paper than in the form of saw*
dust.
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When a cold start*, nose feels I
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inside each nostril. I
Instantly it releases vapor |
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In the Army—Navy—Marines
— and Coast Guard—
the Favorite Cigarette is CameL
(Based on actual sales records in
Post Exchanges and Canteens.)
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