Red Cross Cooperating with
Nat’I Negro Health Week
AT5TLEXE, TEXAS.—C. D. Snell, volunteer Red Cross Instructor and member of the Abilene Fir#
Department, shows members of Girl Scout Troop 30 how to administer artificial respiration in a Junior
Red Cross First Aid course. Edna Earl Parks and Mary Francis Williams act as victims and Gwendolyn
Jordan and Christian Lott apply the pressure.
RED CROSS COOPERATING
WITH NEGRO HEALTH
WEEK
Washington, D. C.—Increasing
Negro participation a*d 1 adership
in the nutrition, home nursing. 1st
aid, water sifety and accident
prevention p ogram of the Ameri
can Red Cro3» was pc'nted out by
Red Cross Chairman Basil O’Con
nor in announcing the cooperation
of that organization with the 32n(|
observance of National Neg"o
Health Week, March 31—April 7,
1946.
Returning recently from a trip
to New Orleans where he confer
red with Negro health workers,
educators, and civic leaders, Mr.
O’Conner said that one of the
principal aims of the Red Cross
is to raise the health standards of
the total population.
To interpret the Red Croe.- Nu
trition Service to various groups,
Mrs. Jane S. Williams, former
nutrition teacher in the depart
ment of home economics at Ho
ward University was added to the
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la't fall. After completing a two
months’ demonstration in Chester
field County, Va., she is now wor
king in the Philadelphia area.
Tae3e rural an-j urban communi
tifs "ere chosen partly because
of the large proportion of Negroes
who live the-ie- chesterfield Coun
ty, spreading over an area of 484
square miles, had a population in
1940 of 31,183, of which 20 percent
was colored. Cooperating with
Virginia State Teachers College,
he state extension department,
.he public health department, and
the county schools, Mrs. Williams
studied the existing nutrition pro
gram and offered assistance to
.ne teachers in menu planning,
buying guides, attractive services j
and methods of vegetable cookery.
She stressed the value of an ade
quate daily lunch in talks to PTAs
and through classes for adults and
rchqol children.
Five husbands, five wives, an
hd grandfather (who came to hear
.he new fangled things his chil
Iren were talking about), and a
eacher attended one of the school
groups, and according to Mrs. Wil
iams, the men displayed more in
erest than the women.
Mrs. Williams observed the type
of lunches served in the various
schools, the price varying from
wo to five cents for menus which
ncluded either beef stew, bread
nd pie: green beans, potatoes and
bread; black eyed peas and breed; j
or potatoes with salt pork and
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cabbage, bread, cole slaw, and ap-1
pies. Some of the schools did not,
serve mil^ because of lack of sto
rage space or difficulty of deliv
ery. Mrs. Williams, however, said!
that she was able to develop in
terest in milk drinkink an^ in the
use of evaporated milk.
HOME VISIT
Among her visits to a variety
of homes, comfortable as well as
poor, was one to an isolated farm,
described as not unusual in its
nutrition needs.
It was necessary to park my car'
at the end of the lane, the ruts
were forbidding—and to proceed
on foot to a house that seemed
held together by hope—hope that
it would not tumble in.
It was not neccary to knock, as
five pairs of eyes had watched my
approach; the door was flung open
as I stepped gingerly on what was
suppose^ to be a porch. The baby
a too fat youngster of 11 months
was on the floor of a room identi
fied as a bedroom only by the fact
that it had a bed in one corner
as balance for the stove in an op
posite one- Otherwise, the room
was bare.
There were 11 ‘heads’ besides
the father and mother, with three
absent ones, 2 children working
out, and a son in the Army. He
talked about the baby, what he
ate and how well he ate, because
I could see that he was a perfect
picture of under nourishment. He
didn’t like oranges or tomatoe jui
ce, and the mother saw no sense
in giving him cod liver oil. Two
sick children had always been
spindly and with good cause, for
one had had rheumatic fever, the,
other a spot on her lung
The only encouragement P found
in the home was the oldest dau
gheter, who eyed me furtively ai d
called me the food lady who came
to her school. The mother relaxed
then, and I saw a ray of hope.
From the north area of Phila
delphia where, she says 90,000
Negroes are living, and a new
house h'w ’'nr- built in 50
years, - :j. V ' -- j writes that
interes" in nclr tio : is graduilly
growing. .me t:l s ex interviewing
a little old man. weighing 79 lbs.
who wouldn’t eat. He had no one
to take care of his food need5, and
Mrs. Williams visited the restau
rants in the vicinity to investigate
the price and quality of foods. She
is preparing material concerning
minimum adequate meals served
in restaurants in- Negro areas
where families on relief, or on
marginal incomes, are living. This
material will be used to establish
standards for minimum food al
lowance for adults eating their
meals in restaurants or living on
exceptionally low incomes. She
gives an example of a man with
ulcers, who lives with his family
wife and 11 children in 3 rooms.
Trying to make nutrition educa
tion practical in situations of this
kind is one of her problems.
NEW HOME NURSING UNIT
Last month in Kansas City, 5
Negro practice classes were well
taught by Red Cross Home Nur
sing instructors in Unit H, Mother
and Baby Care and amily Health,
which is in the process of being
perfected. Suggestions from actu
al class problems have been fol
lowed by the master training su
pervisors at national headquarters
of the Red Cross.
Unit I in Home Nursing, the
i Care of the Sick, is gaining thru
i out the country in the numbers of
Negroes, both men and women,
who are attending classes- In the
city of Greenwich, Conn., recentlv
a group of men from the Crispus
A.ttucks Association received cer
tificates for completing this unit
and requested a class for their,
wives.
A course in home nursing for
colleges is to be ready for u?s
next fall, and it is expected that i ,
will be installed in a large number
of Negro colleges. A high school
course is being widely used, and
effects are seen in community and
2 standards of bedside care
sickness prevention.
A ’.IDENTS ARE HEALTH
ARDS
The Red Cross program in acci
.ent prevention combats the fact
at accidents present one of the
most serious hazards to the health
and safety of the American people
today
Taking the lives of nearly 100,
000 persons every year, accidents
rank fifth as a cause of death in
the United States. And among
persons from 1 to 19 years of age
accidents arethe chief cause of
death.
The accident death rates are
somewhat higher among nonwhite
groups than among white, accor
ding to recent statistica published
DR. CALLOWAY
APPOINTED LECTURER IN
MEDICAL SCHOOL
Breaking all precedents and
aga^n setting a new record, Dr.
^aiioway, with ol'4-ces at 1658
YV’est Roosevelt Road, has been
appointed lecturer in internal Me
—cine at the University of Illinois
.n Chicago.
This is particularly signficant
at a time when many other med
ical schools are denying admiss
ion to colored students because
of allegedly patient objections. Dr.
Calloway says that although he
was forced by the administration
to withdraw from the University
of Chicago Medical School on ac
count of race, he has never had
"’■/ friction with patients or nur
SeS.
—>r. Calloway completed his
^raining at the University of 111
.nois. He then was appointed in
.ern and later resident physician
at the University of Illinois Hos
pital in two record breaking ach
-evements
For the past two years Dr. Cal
loway has directed clinical resear
ch in the Department of Interal
Medicine. He was named a respon.
Sibie Investigator of the Office of
Scientific Research and Develop
ment during the war, and studied
convalescence and special diagno
stic procedures for the armed
forces.
More recently Dr Calloway has
had the responsibility for plan
ning the medical units of the new
University of Illinois Hospitals,
planning a brochure for procedures
on the medical wards and the job
of planning and organizing the
special precision diagnostic me
thos and laboratories.
Dr. Calloway’s specialty is in
ternal medicine and his main in
terest is in Glandular Disorders,
metabolism and diagnostic proce
dures.
He holdg the Ph. D. as well as
the M. D. degree. He was form
erly an instructor in chemistry
at Tuskegee Institute and Fisk
University and taught Pharmaco
logy at the University of Chicago.
He has written many scientific
papers and is a member of sev
eral honorary societies. He be
longs to the Kappa Fraternity.
Dr. Calloway is particularly in
terested in the underpriviliged. He
is conducting a study of the nou
rishment and development of Ne
gro children on Chicago’s West
Side. This is being done through
the cooperation of Randall House
and Father Anderson.
by the Children’s Bureau, U. S.
Department of Labor. For white
population under 20 years of age'
the average accident death rate
in a recent three year period was
56.3 per 100,000 for boys and 25.3
for giris. For the corresponding
nonwhite group, the death rate
was 74.2 for boys an^ 36.3 for
girls.
To combat this loss of life and
injury caused by accidents which
are largely preventable, the Am
erican Red Cross carries on a vast
educational program in first aid,
water safety, and accident pre
vention. Courses are conducted in
schools, at camps, and among
community groups by volunteer
instructors through the facilities
of Red Cross chapters.
Many instructors in all three
phases of this safety program are
trained at national aquatic schools
which are conducted at camp cites
throughout the nation during the
summer months. Plans for the
1946 season indicate that 3 Negro
aquatic schools will be conducted
this year—in Midwestern, East
ern, and Southeastern areas.
Last year more than 100 Ne
groes from eastern and southea
stern states were qualified as in
structors in first aid. water safety
or accident prevention at t"o aq
uatic schools. Negroes are inclu
ded on the faculty at these sch
ools.
The Red Cross course taught by
these instructors and others are
used to great extent in the sch
ools and colleges. For example, a
recent course for seniors at Prai
rie University, Texas, resulted in
qualification of 55 first aid and
53 accident prevention instructors.
Individuals attending this school
will go to all parts of the US, and
principally as teachers in Negro
schools
In addition to offering these
courses the Red Cross contributes
to the safety program through its
vast network of highway first aid
stations and mobile first aid units
and the increasing need for these
stations and units is indicated by
the fact that from VJ Day to the
end of 1945, traffic deaths in
creased 36 percent over the cor
responding period of 1944. The
1945 total death toll of 28,500 re
presented a 17 percent increase
over 1944.
Deaths from accidents of all
types totalled about 96,000 in 1945
a one percent increase over the
1944 total, according to prelim
inary figures of the National Saf
ety Council.
MEDICAD AND HEALTH WORK
To increase the efficiency of
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Red Cross medical and health
work, Chairman O’Connor has ap
pointed Dr. G. Foard McGinnes,
medical director of the American
Red Cross, as vice chairman in
charge of a newly established Of
fice for Health Services.
The new office groups together
all Red Cross services relating to
health and medical activities: the
Office of the Medical Director, the
Nursing, Nutrition and Distaster
Medical Services ,and irst Aid,
Water Safety and Accident Pre
IkeJlome
H&pjosit&i
in WASHINGTON
By Walter Shead
WNU Correspondent
WNl) Washington Bureau.
1616 Eve St.. N. W.
Short-Sighted Greed
Imperils Our Future
uTN OUR relations abroad and in
I our economy at home, forces
of selfishness and greed and intol
erance are again at work ... If
certain interests were not so
greedy for gold, there would be less
I pressure and lobbying to induce con
I gress to allow the price control act
to expire, or to keep down mini
mum wages or to permit further
concentration of economic power
... as among men, so among
nations.”—President Truman.
If you folks, who live in the home
towns and the. rural areas of the
nation, could but sit in on one ses
sion of congress considering ar im
portant piece of legislation ... if
you could but watch briefly the op
erations of these lobbies . . . these
interests “greedy for gold,” here
in Washington, you would under
stand fully the reason for the Presi
dent's recent speech at Columbus,
Ohio, and why he called for a
“moral and spiritual awakening in
the life of the individual and in the
councils of the world” . . . why he
declared that if we really believed
in the brotherhood of man there
would be no necessity for considera
tion of a fair employment practices
act.
Unified During War
As a nation during the war, we
were unified in a common cause
against a common enemy to protect
and preserve our liberty. Industry
and labor and agriculture, indeed
at tremendous profit, worked hand
in hand for the common cause.
But the moment the shooting
stopped, what happened? Although
we are still at war, although no
peace treaty has been signed, al
though we as a nation have made
tremendous commitments to keep
the world peace and police the con
quered nations . . . although we
emerged as the greatest humani
tarian and political and military
■force in the world ... we imme
diately started to throw our unity,
our self-discipline, our humanita
rianism, our military force, our
political prestige to the winds . . .
for what?
The greed for gold is the answer.
Here in Washington, the answer is
self-evident. The halls of congress
are overflowing with lobbyists but
tonholing members . . . money is
pouring in by the thousands of dol
lars from power lobbies, business
lobbies, agricultural lobbies, labor
lobbies . . . congressmen are pulled
and hauled one way or another,
some willingly, some unwillingly,
and the fact is there is not suffi
cient stamina in congress to with
stand this pressure for special priv
ileges.
Reactionaries in Saddle
Measures instituted for the com
mon good are emasculated, ripped
to pieces by amendment, rendered
ineffective and meaningless. Oth
er measures are pigeon-holed be
cause there is a lack of moral cour
age even to bring them into the
open for debate and a vote: with
congressional elections in the offing
this fall an unholy coalition of south
ern Democrats and northern Repub
licans, who have no natural affin
ity, but wTho do have the common
purpose of batting down every lib
eral and progressive movement
which rears its head into their re
actionary vision . . . this coalition
controls legislation.
Whether the administration pro
gram of President Truman is for the
good of the people or not, whether
it would have brought about early
reconversion, prevented inflation
and made for the common welfare |
or not ... we will probably never |
know, for it has not, nor will it be
permitted to become the law of the
land ... so long as there is reac
tionary control of congress.
We are living under make-shift
legislation, under the salvage sys
tem — with a part of one measure
salvaged here, another there and
with most of the core and heart
chopped out.
And this writer pointed out once
before, in my humble opinion, the j
people in the hometowns and rural j
areas are largely to blame. We have
not lifted our voice in protest . . .
we are too busy “getting ours” . . .
too concerned with our individual
and personal lives to bother about
government here in Washingion.
but which if we stopped to consider,
has more bearing and more influ
ence on our personal lives than any
other one factor.
Shall our national life be shaped
by the powerful minority lobby and
pressure groups, or will it be deter
mined by the rank and file of the
American people? Will our foreign
policy be returned to power politics
and trade wars by this strong under
tow which is pulling us back to
ward isolationism and nationalism?
Or will we follow the chart of the
United Nations charter, the re
ciprocal trade agreements, the Bret
ton Woods agreement? Will we make
a credit loan to Britain, to France,
to Russia or shall we return to
isolationism?
vsntion. '''
The need for expanding Rtd
Cross health and mediuai projects
provided in cooperation with other
public agencies, has become in
creasingly important, Mr. O’Con
nor Said. (Establishment of the
Office for Health Services will in
sure a closely knit program will
conserve Jx>th funds and effort
(and at the same time provide
maxium benefit.
In addition to being responsible
for Red Cross Health and Medical
activities, Dr. McGinnes will main
tain liaison with the Offices of the
Surgeon General of the Army, Na
vy and Public Health Service, and
with other medical and health
agencies.
JOB BIAS COMPLAINT
DISMISSED
New York—(C)—Thirty year
old Isaac Ross, filed a complaint
that he, a Negro had been discri
minated against the City Home on
Welfare Island since it offered him
a kitchen worker’s job instead of
the night watchman's post which
he applied for Henry C. Turner,
Chairman of the State Commission
against Discrimination dismissed
the complaint for he had found it
was the Home’s practice not to
hire persons under 45 as watch
men.
I-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Conservative Bloc Fights OPA;
G. M. Strike Settlement Spur to
All-Out Automobile Production
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
CONGRESS:
Conservative Coalition
Having first shown its strength in
passage of the Case anti-strike bill,
a coalition of southern Democrats
and Republicans is being organized
in congress to loosen government
regulation over the nation’s econ
omy.
Led by Representative Hartley
(Rep., N. J.). 100 congressmen al
ready have joined the coalition, with
a strategy committee composed of
Hartley himself, Crawford (Rep.,
Mich.), Smith (Dem., Va.), Barden
(Dem., N. C ). Camp (Dem., Ga ),
Roe (Dem., Md ), Jenkins (Rep.,
Ohio), Buffet 'Rep.. Neb.), Pace
(Dem., Ga.) and Sundstrom (Rep.,
N. J.).
Though the coalition strategy calls
for an attack on OPA pricing regu
lations such as requiring sellers to
absorb part of increased costs of
production and distribution, the
group will seek modification rather
than outright abolition of the
agency. Support would be given to
a one year extension of OPA.
Senator Wherry (Rep., Neb.) was
to head the coalition in the senate,
where support may be slower in de
veloping because of the need for
members to canvass their positions
more accurately in view of their
wider constituencies. Reflecting
this more cautious approach, the
senate greatly watered the strin
gent Case bill which restricted la
bor activities.
WAR CRIMES:
Hermann Brags
Attired in a baggy uniform with
a red scarf tied around his neck,
Hermann Goering showed all of his
aid cockiness in being the first of j
the Nazi war criminals to testify in
his behalf in the historic Nuernberg
trials.
With a noose staring him in the
face, the rumpled former Reich air
Marshall proudly boasted that he
aad been Hitler's right-hand man
and striven mightily to strengthen
the national Socialist party rule “to
Hermann Goering on stand.
nake Germany free.” Though the
'Jazis had come into power through
ree elections, he said, every effort
vas made to retain their leadership
:ven to the elimination of all politi
:al opposition.
In recounting the notorious blood
>urge of 1933, Goering claimed that
Jen. Kurt von Schleicher and Gen.
Jurt von Hammerstein-Equord had
iought to overthrow Hitler shortly
>efore the installation of his first
:abinet. In a quick Nazi counter
nove, the putsch was crushed and
mn Schleicher murdered.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
Russ on Spot
Russia was put on her honor by
ligh American and British officials
n the midst of reports that re
nforced Red armies were fanning
wer northern and western Iran and
hreatening Turkey and Iraq.
In Washington, D. C., President
Truman openly expressed confl
ience that the U. S. and Russia
:ould resolve their difficulties aris
ng over Iran and the Reds strip
ling of Manchurian industry through
liplomatic procedure. At the time
dr. Truman spoke, Russia's only
inswer to the state department’s
irotest over continued Red occupa
ion of Iran in violation of a tri-par
ite agreement was an unofficial
doscow radio broadcast that re
lorts of Russian troop movements
n Iran were inaccurate.
Coincident with President Tru
nan’s expression of belief in Rus
:ia. Foreign Minister Bevin of Great
Britain stressed premier Stalin had
World Hog Numbers Show Big Drop
Showing a sharp decrease of
,000,000 head, world hog numbers
Topped to 244,000,000 at the start
f 1946 in comparison with the year
•revious. Reductions in central Eu
ope, Canada and Argentina were
•ffset only partially by moderate in
reases in the U. S., France and the
oviet Union, and small increases
1 other countries.
Because of the critical world
hortage of grains, further decline
in hog numbers outside the U. S.
is forecast in 1946 despite a de
mand for meat well above the sup
ply.
Canadian hog numbers continue
to decline and at the beginning of
1946 showed a drop of 1.8 million
head below the year before, or 38 per
cent below 1944, while in the U. S.
they rose 4 per cent, thus recuperat
ing part of the loss shown on Janu
ary 1, 1945, compared with 1944.
unequivocally assured his major war
allies that the Reds would respect
Iranian territorial integrity in ac
cordance with tri-partite agree
ments. Foreign Commissar Molotov
reiterated Russia's intention to pull
out of Iran during the London con
ference of foreign ministers, Bevin
added.
Behind the political tension, re
ports persisted that the Reds were
exerting the strongest pressure on
Iran for oil concessions in the north.
The British have extensive petro
leum holdings in the south as well
as in neighboring Iraq, where a na
tive movement for self-rule backed
by the Reds is feared.
LABOR:
Auto Wages
Emerging haggard and bewhisk
ered from the conference room after
17 hours of continuous negotiation
between CIO-United Automobile
Workers and General Motors offi
cials, UAW Pres. R. J. Thomas
muttered: “Considering everything,
I think we’ve got a pretty good
contract.”
Settled after a bitter 113-day
strike, the pact did provide substan
tial wage and other concessions to
the union, though falling short of
UAW goals. Despite the long-drawn
bickering, the company granted
only 1814 cents an hour instead of
the 1914 cents demanded, and the
average G. M. wage was set at from
$1.12 to S1.30V4 cents an hour, still
below the Ford and Chrysler pay
rates.
By obtaining important conces
sions from the company, however,
UAW officials claimed that the total
financial gain would exceed the 19*4
cents an hour sought. Gains in
cluded adjustment of inequalities in
wage rates in certain plants, im
proved vacation pay up to 414 per
cent of gross income of employees
of five years or more, double time
for the seventh consecutive day on
the job, and equal compensation for
women.
In winning substantial pay con
cessions for the future, the strikers
paid a heavy price in lost wages
of between 138 million and 150 mil
lion dollars. The company was
estimated to have dropped 600 mil
lion dollars in unfilled orders while
distributors lost 150 million dollars
in sales commissions.
Production Prospects
With the settlement of the G. M
strike, the auto industry hoped to
clear the decks for all-out produc
tion to meet the tremendous pent
up dfemand for new cars. Because
many parts suppliers still have to
negotiate wage demands, however,
the threat to full-scale output re
mained.
In any event, the auto industry
will be unable to meet the goal
of six million cars set for 1946. With
reasonably clear sailing, it is ex
pected that three million passenger
vehicles will be turned out during
the remainder of the year.
Indicative of the high gear into
which the industry must be thrown
to meet production goals. Ford has
assembled only 76.000 cars thus far:
Chryslq*-. 53,000: General Motors,
under 100,000; Willys-Overland, 62,
000; Studebaker, 38.000; Nash, 11,
000, and Hudson, 4,000.
Other Strikes
Despite settlement of the Gener
al Tutors strike and the agree
ment between General Electric and
the CIO-United Electrical Work
ers, strikes continued Jo cloud the
postwar economic picture, with the
dispute between International Har
vester and the CIO-Farm Equip
ment Workers the most serious.
With International Harvester and
the union deadlocked over the com
pany’s proposal that an 18 cent
wage raise be conditioned upon gov
ernment grant of an offsetting price
increase. c". ->f Agriculture
Ander'- management
and ’ -e in the pro
dur' eded equipment
to rop goals. Unless
fari, .<• to step up the out
put, ht this country will be un
able to furnish sufficient food to
avert mass starvation abroad.
Termination of the General Elec
tric strike, with an 18% cent an
hour wage raise bringing average
weekly earnings to approximately
$42, opened the way toward large
scale production of home appli
ances. Previously. General Motors'
electrical division had made peace
with the CIO union on tne same
terms.
POLITICS: '
Bad Mixture
Though stubbornly fighting to the
last. Big Ed Pauley finally conceded
that oil and politics don't mix. ask*
ing for withdrawal of his nomina
tion as undersecretary of the navy
despite President Truman's deter
mined support in the face of strong
congressional opposition.
A millionaire California oil-man
and former treasurer of the Demo
cratic party. Pauley faced rough go
ing from the start, with astute politi
cal observers terming the nomina
tion of any petroleum operator for
a navy job a blunder in view of
past scandals over navy oil.
Edwin W. Pauley (seated) reads
missive from President as broth
er Harold looks on.
Whatever hopes Pauley nourished
for confirmation were rudely
shaken with former Interior Secre
tary Ickes’ testimony that he had
told him that $300,000 could be raised
from oil men for the 1944 Demo
cratic campaign if the government
would withdraw its suit for title over
underwater petroleum deposits in
California.
In asking the President to with
draw his nomination, which was
done, Pauley declared that he had
been cleared of all charges against
him. Commending him for retiring
from the fight. Democratic mem
bers of the senate naval affairs com
mittee upheld his personal integ
rity.
CONSCRIPTION:
Prospects Brighten
Because of the precarious inter
national situation aggravated by
Russian moves in the east, congres
sional support grew for extension of
the selective service act beyond
May 15.
With war department officials
calling for maintenance of military
strength in the face of unsettled
world conditions, it was revealed
that plans called for an army of
1.500.000 officers and men by July,
1948, and 1,000,000 by July, 1947.
Pending determination of the aims,
policies and programs of other na
tions, and the efficiency of the UNO
in resolving disputes, no decision
can be made about the permanent
size of the armed forces, it was
said.
General Eisenhower declared that
one of the principal arguments for
the retention of selective service
was that it acts as a spur for volun
tary enlistments. With volunteers
permitted to specify what branch
of service they prefer, many young
men act to pick their spots before
being drafted and made subject to
compulsory placement. In five
months, 600,017 volunteers enlist
ed, with 67.07 per cent being World
War II vets, 18.7 per cent recruits
and 14.23 per cent pre-Pearl Harbor
enrollees.
WORLD RELIEF:
Sharing Burden
Assuming the honorary chairman
ship of the government’s emergency
famine committee, former Pres.
Herbert Hoover called upon South
American nations to join with their
Big Brother of the north in con
serving cereals for feeding of the
hungry in war stricken Europe and
Asia.
Prior to leaving for a first-hand
survey of overseas conditions.
Hoover told a news conference that
he believed both North and South
America could save upwards of 7
million tons of cereals during the
next 120 days to help fill a need for
about 9 million tons. The year’s re
quirements will total 21 million tons,
he said, but only 12 million tons
will be available without the under
taking of broad conservation meas
ures.
Of the total of 7 million tons that
the western hemisphere could fur
nish within the next four months.
South America could contribute 5
million tons. Hoover said. This
amount could be made available by
cutting down purchases of foreign
goods requiring payment in grain;
reducing consumption, and turning
over all surpluses to famine threat
ened areas.
MTLK:
Per capita consumption of milk
and cream jumped to 442 pounds in
1945, the highest total ever reached,
and 102 pounds more than the per
capita consumption in the five year
period from 1935-39, government fig
ures show.
Translated into housewife’s terms,
these figures meant that an aver
age of about 206 quarts of milk In
1945, almost four quarts a week,
was consumed for each man. wom
an and child in the nation, in th«
form of milk and cream.
