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War Man Power Problem Is Still Far From Solution National Service Act Held Back; McNutt Hershey Conflict Complicates Situation; Competition Keen as Ever. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-W, Washington, D. C. "Sorry, sir,” said the waiter ort the dining car, "we can only serve you one cup of coffee.” "Sorry, sir,” said a somewhat weary voice of the hotel room serv ice, "we can't serve you ham with your eggs, this is a meatless day." And so a simple, wandering Wash ingtonian, who had stepped outside of the capital for a brief interlude, found out there was a war going on. Back in the shadow of the Capitol dome, I began to wonder whether, before long, when Uncle Sam passed his plate for a second helping the farmer would say: “Sorry, sir, this is helpless day on the farm, we aren't furnishing food any more.” When that happens, perhaps we'U get that national service act Behind the delay in settling the farm-labor problem and the other problems which have arisen because the government hasn't had the nerve to tell anybody but the soldiers where to go, what to do and when to do it is a lot of honest uncertainty, some inter-departmental friction but chiefly plain fear of stepping on the public’s toes. Many believed that the public aren't afraid of their toes and are only waiting to be told what to do and the real solution may be the one offered by Wendell Willkie when he said in his report to the nation that “It is up to us to make our leaders give us more to do.” Distribution Problem We have plenty of people to ‘‘do,’* but we are not distributing them properly, not giving the right people the right Jobs. We are still letting people decide themselves what they are going to do, not telling them what is the thing they must do to win the war. When I reported last on the man-power problem I felt sure that by this time a national service act would be before con gress. Congress has drawn up sev eral of these acts but administra tion spokesmen have told them "not yet"; meanwhile piecemeal meas ures are offered. The story behind the conflict be tween Paul McNutt’s Man-Power commission and Gerteral Hershey's Selective Service system is an ex ample of how sand gets into the gear-box when the President doesn't clamp down the ltd and give orders. Some of the New Dealers began to worry about the danger that Mc Nutt might grow too big politically and it might be a harder job to side track him at the 1944 Democratic national convention than it was last time. And goodness knows it was a painful process then. So they con trived to hand him the hottest po tato, the Job that would make more enemies than any other, head of the Man-Power commission. The pre sumption, according to these not al together nonpartisan friends of Mc Nutt, was that he would either fall down on the job or do it so well no body would like him. Meanwhile the theory was that he was bound to come into conflict with General Hershey. One or the other had to select the men for service: either McNutt would be given the power to tell Hershey whom he couldn’t take for the army or Her shey would be given power to tell his draft boards whom they could take. So the battle was on. No Separate Systems Since then McNutt has come out and stated that he did not believe it was necessary to set up a separate system of selection—one for mili tary, which already exists in the draft boards, and another to classify civilian service. But, under White House orders, he made it plain that he had no bill to submit to congress. His labor-management committee submitted its report directly to the President. While all this has been going on the Selective Service system has been pacing the floor outside the Man-Power commission’s door. The commission is supposed to advise Selective Service but for many months it refused to say aye, yes or no. According to Selective Service of ficials the moment they had the op portunity they submitted a plan to take care of the one sore thumb of the man power problem that threat ens to interfere with our eating, farm labor. The plan would; 1. Tell the farmer boys their pa triotic duty is on the farm, that they must stay there. If they leave they would immediately be drafted. 2. Stop all voluntary recruiting. That, according to General Her shey, would at least stop the drain of farm labor and save the boys from the stigma of remaining in civilian clothes when other boys in non-essential jobs were joining up. According to the Selective Serv ice officials that proposal was sat on for six months while the cries of the farmer rose higher and higher. Complainta to Herahey Most of the complaints were di rected at General Hershey. But his aides point out that Selective Serv ice has taken far less men from the farms than the other two sirens that lure the men away from their pro saic jobs; One is the recruiting ser geant and the other is industry. The recruiting sergeant offers adventure with a patriotic background. Indus try offers big pay and bright lights. And to show how the competition for manpower still goes on among government agencies itself. Selec tive Service officials charge that the United States Employment service, which recruits men and women for industry, has been just as energetic as those handsome army, navy and marine sergeants, in recruiting the boys on the farm. When, just before the elections, both Man-Power Commissioner Mc Nutt and Selective Service Director Hershey both testified that there was no immediate need for a man-power bill they were probably glad that they could do so—which meant that it had probably been strongly indi cated from higher up that they had better do so. For neither gentle man would care to make a blanket recommendation for a measure which might give the other the real authority in administering. The measure will probably remain something to do tomorrow until It becomes clear that tomorrow’s ham and eggs may depend on action to day. • • • OWl Proves Boon To Capital Writers A stranger coming to Washington and watching the men and women filing into the White House execu tive offices for the semi-weekly press and radio conference with the President; or visiting the senate or the house of representatives on a day when important news is break ing when the press and radio gal leries above the respective rostrums are filled, would think that Washing ton is pretty well covered for news. There are more than 600 mem bers of the press and radio gal leries. There are many, many more reporters and broadcasters whose duties do not make them eligible for these groups. But in addition to these men and women whose job it is to write about what is happening in your capital, 4,000 people who are spending be tween a million and two million dol lars a month are hired by the gov ernment to disseminate information, i The Office of War Information has 3,500 employees. There are some 200 persons in the army public relations bureau and a hundred or so in the navy public relations. The Office of the Co ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Nelson Rockefeller, has more than a hundred members in its public rela tions department. The persons doing similar work for the War Production board and the Office of Price Ad ministration have a hundred and fifty more. Of course, the old line agencies have their public relations staffs but we are just talking about the war news agencies. As far as my own contact with the Office of War Information goes I must say its members have been a great help to me. If I run into a snarl of official dispatches, question able rumors, I do what other news men do. call up the OWI and I usually get a very straight and sat isfactory story. But nursing us newsmen along is only half their job—the rest is dis seminating information abroad— where it will do the most good—and don’t ask who and when and where —that’s not for publication. BRIEFS . . . by Uauhhage More fires in homes come from de fective flues and stovepipe connec tions than from any other single cause. —Buy War Bonds— Some neighborly Nebraska farm ers pin a note on the gate post list ing the things they want from town. The first neighbor driving to town picks up the note end -kriwgs back the items listed. Through the tenant-purchase pro gram of the department of agricul ture, during the past five years 29,000 small farmers have been able to buy and improve farms big enough to support their families. • • • Ten million surgical dressings are on their way to the defenders of Stalingrad, according to the Amer ican Red Cross. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK I I By LEMUEL F. PARTON Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. MEW YORK.—In this war, it ap ^ pears that newly appointed commanders always look more promising than the men they suc Adm. Halsey Jr. f‘^, The * dossier re Has Both His Sea veals a sea r • .... soned war Legs and Wings rior usually "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 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 pro fessionally informed and disinterest ed appraisal of Admiral HalBey’s qualifications for his critically im portant job. The report is encour aging, for reasons other than those disclosed in mill-run navy 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 do main Is a highly specialized and rapidly evolving new zone of strategy, or perhaps more 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 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 impend ing. He Is one of the most ex perienced men in the navy in operations snch as those in the Solomons today, having been swarded the Distinguished Serv ice medal for planning and car rying through the raids In the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. If It should happen that the des perate need of the hour, or the minute, should be for a brilliant improviser 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 en tered Annapolis in 1900. He rode destroyers for a few years and later was a member of the Annapolis ex ecutive staff. _a_ A BOUT two years ago, the British ** discovered that their industrial tempo was set to the pace of “Auld Lang Syne,” or “Cornin’ Through S,ep, Up Tempo S'*”",?™ Of War Industry ing classical With Vital Music “"'of ultra-modern music, suddenly 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 in creased the flow of war goods. Over here, we got the point of the experiment. Professor Har old Burris-Meyer reports on re searches, which he made with one of his colleagues, showing that factory music in eastern factories has stepped up 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 mu sic is not the idiom of the mod ern industrial plant.” They’re setting this war to music and it is to be vital music. In May, 1935, Professor 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 Her * mann Frank has decided to ex terminate the Czech people, but he appears to be thinking it over. Herr Frank is state secretary of the Bohemia-Mora via 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 build up. serving **s a diligent inciter of hatred and sa agery Navy Photographers Compile Records of Operations on 7 Seas Compiling a permanent record of tactics and training, photography has assumed new dimensions in the U. S. navy. The camera, still and motion, records test flights, such as shown in the picture below, and accurately shows mistakes and possibilities for improvement. In addition, photography has great value in reconnaissance, and is rapidly becoming one of the most desired mediums for training personnel. U. S. navy photographers are scattered all over the world, compiling this day by day record of operations, training, and battle heroism. Through their skill and bravery the public, too, is getting a graphic first-hand account of front line action in which American fighting men are participating. These photographs are typical of what is be ing done with the camera by U. S. navy photographers. 8SW The sober expression on the faces of these young parachutists indicate that it is the final inspection before going aloft. These students at the Lakehurst (N. J.) naval air station have spent 16 weeks learning how to inspect, pack and maintain 'chutes. They will now jump from the 'chute they have packed. All is O. K. so far icith this student parachute rigger (above, left). Loiv er left: One-man rubber life rafts are standard equipment in all navy single seat fighters. C02 inflates raft in a minute. Circle: Safe! ff ith a small store of concentrat ed food and water, pilot can stay afloat until res cued. Below: A coast guardsman inspects derelict before it is destroyed. PHYSICAL TESTS It will be hard to convince some fathers and mothers that any good thing can come from this war. We who are parents can well under Dr. Barton stand that. How ever, already from the physical stand point, there is oc curring a great sav ing in health and life itself because of the thorough physical examina tion which recruits must undergo. Just one instance —“In a program to re-establish or re habilitate selective service men rejected or deferred on account of tuberculosis, the Illinois state health director. Dr. Roland R. Cross, announces that so far out cf 591 men rejected for tuberculosis since November, 1940, the state health department has found only 21 who previous to this army exam ination had been rer.orted as having tuberculosis.” Just think of this for a minute. Of nearly 600 men rejected for tu berculosis, only 21 knew they had tuberculosis or were known to have tuberculosis. What will be done with this large number of cases? Those with active tuberculosis will be treated by the state board of health in institutions for tuberculo sis and those with inactive tubercu losis will be referred to their own physician for medical supervision. "Dr. Cross states that a man is not acceptable to the army for active military duty if he has five or more calcified spots on his lungs; howev er, such men can safely carry on ordinary civilian activities without undue fear of relapse.” A calcified spot is a healed spot with hard lime tissue around it. Another instance is the psycho logic testing in the British army. It is under the direction of a new army department, the general serv ice corps, in which recruits under go their basic training and the corps for which they are best suited is determined. Recruits for an armored forma tion were tested and a list was made of the men found unsuitable for service with tanks. After three months the list was compared with practical experience and found to agree within 5 per cent of error. • • • Use of Proteins In Reducing Diets Nutrition experts, by measuring the amounts of the different kinds of food eaten—proteins, starches and fats—are able to tell how much heat these foods will manufacture or cre ate in the body. The amount of heat created should equal the amount of food eaten. However, it is found that this amount of heat is actually more than can be accounted for by the amount of food consumed, that is, if, as should be the case, all the food is completely burned. Why is more heat created than the amount of food eaten can cre ate? This extra heat is almost entirely due to the protein in the food and hardly at all to the fat or starch. This means that the protein—meat and Ash—has a special action—spe cial dynamic action—not possessed by the starch and fat foods. Now, as this extra heat does not come from the food it must come from somewhere and that some where is the tissues of the body. In other words the burning of the pro tein foods causes a burning of the body tissues thus creating more heat And the cells or tissues burned are those made up of fat and starch It is for this reason that all re ducing diets do not cut down on the proteins, in fact, some diets allow an increased amount of protein. The protein not only burns up the ex cess fat, but causes the individual to feel more like exercising or work ing, thus burning up more fat tissue. In his L'-iok "Science and Nutri tion," A L. Bacharach, professor of biochemistry in the University of London, says: "This stimulating effect of food prote;n on the burning up of body tissue has an important result. It shows clearly that a high protein j diet should be effective in enabling the body to bum up its existing I stores of fats and starches (carbo | hydrates). 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