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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- JVIAY 22, 1942 Washington, D. C. RRs VS. SHIPS It hasn’t made headlines, but a battle royal has been raging be tween WPB Czar Donald Nelson and Transportation Czar Joe Eastman over the freezing of steel for the construction of railroad cars. With less and less shipping mov ing along the coast, and more and more traffic by rail, the question is one of the most important facing the country. What happened was that the War Production board froze all construc tion materials already on hand in railroad construction shops. The in tention was to transfer these materi als for use in building other types of cars. However, Joe Eastman claims that these materials, chiefly steel, already had been bought and cut out for certain cars, in certain shapes, so the order merely will make the materials go unused, with car shops closing down. Already, Eastman argues, certain plants of Pullman Standard are idle, at a time when all plants should be used to capacity. Meanwhile railroads are groaning with traffic. Sugar is now being hauled by rail as much as possible from Florida to avoid submarines. Oil is clogged up in the producing fields for lack of railroad transpor tation. And with the sinkings of several Chilean ore ships, more iron ore has to be hauled from in terior U. S. iron mines. In view of all this, Eastman com plains bitterly that Nelson won’t re lease the steel and let the car foundries do the job. • • • INFLUENCING EUROPEAN LABOR Here is one inside reason why Roosevelt leans toward labor. Basically, the President always has been pro-labor, and continues to be, even though he has become fed up with some labor activities in the past year. But in addition, U. S. war strate gists „ are convinced that the chief hope of revolution in Europe comes from labor. And most of the psy chological warfare strategy being devised here is aimed at influencing labor in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria and the occupied countries. Although not generally known, the nucleus of the old Social Democrat ic party which tried to create a real republic in Germany is still intact. When Hitler came into power, they moved to Czechoslovakia. After the Sudetenland seizure, they moved to Paris. After the downfall of Paris, they moved to the U. S. A. Fifty Social Democrats from the old Reichstag are now in this coun try co-operating with U. S. officials. Furthermore, it is labor in the European occupied countries which is able to assemble or make radios. German labor listens to the radio far more than other classes. Some labor groups even have published very small "underground” newspa pers on hand presses and these are distributed by hand. German labor resents the long hours in munitions factories, the small pay and the lack of food, more than any other group. Also labor is about the only group which was not taken over completely by Hitler. The Communists, his chief oppo nents, now have long been under ground, but secretly active. To European labor Roosevelt always has been one of the world’s greatest leaders. And one thought in the minds of war strategists is to show Europe that the rights of labor here will not be thrown completely over board during war. * • • WALLACE’S FAVORITES The men who came to Washington with Henry Wallace in the early days of the New Deal realize now that they picked a winning horse. Almost to a man, they have moved up to important posts in the gov ernment. Claude Wickard was head of the corn-hog section in Wallace’s AAA. Now he is secretary of agriculture. Milo Perkins was a lowly assistant to Wallace, holding down a desk in the outer office. Today, he runs the Board of Economic Warfare, as im portant as a cabinet post. Paul Appleby was an assistant in the inner office. Now he is under secretary of agriculture at $10,000 a year. Chester Davis was head of the AAA. Now he is director of the Federal Reserve bank in St. Louis. R. M. (“Spike”) Evans was an aide to Wallace; now head of AAA. Sam Bledsoe, Roy Hendrickson, and Whitney Tharin were newsmen covering agriculture. Bledsoe is now an assistant to the secretary. MERRY-GO-ROUND Secretary of War Stimson is held in the warmest personal esteem by army commanders. Hard-working and open-minded, he never meddles in military operations and backs up his subordinates 100 per cent. Stina- son is always at his desk by 8 a. m., and rarely leaves until evening, when he always takes home with him a big bundle of papers that he works over after dinner. Good explanation of “Your Army” and how the draft works, has been written by George H. Jiler of the Bridgeport Post. COSMETICS AND WAR Now we know the government is over extending itself. It is trying to make women give up powder, rouge, perfume and other cosmetics for the duration. It has the notion that a woman will abandon her makeup, war or no war. • ♦ * Alcohol and other products need ed to win the war are being used in toilet preparations and the WPB an nounces that the girls must choose between their complexions and the all out war effort. Only a federal bureau could doubt the answer to that. • * • Milady will cut down on sugar, take out a ration card for soups, give up pastries and even, if necessary, patch her girdle, but give up her facial cream and rouge . . . never! • • • She will put the car in storage, shop by bicycle, carry home her bundles, cut out meat and take or ders on skirt lengths, but toss away that skin lotion , . . don’t be a goon! * • • She will forget luxuries, econo mize on her groceries, give up the country house, go barelegged and even scrap the electric refrigera tor, but leave her cheeks as nature made ’em . . . awahhhhh! • • • Not even for na tional unity will she go around with a shiny nose and not all the coordinators in the world can make her forsake her beauty creams. > • “If this be treason, make the most of it,” she says as she applies her cleansing cream, follows it up with a powder base and adds a final coat of calsomine. • • • Uncle Sam may apply priorities to steel, rubber, coal, oil and what have you; he can tell the country how far it can go with ships, shoes and sealing wax, but he is shouting up a drainpipe when it starts bear ing down on mascara. » • • Our Inquiring Reporter questioned a number of ladies on the matter. Of Miss Phoebe Goober, stenogra pher, he asked: “Have you read the WPB orders on cosmetic??” “No, and don’t tell me about ’em,” she replied. “I want to ignore ’em with a clear con science.” • • • Mrs. Chester Zink, a modiste, was asked: “Are you aware that every time you rouge your cheeks you are cramping the war effort?” “Mister, the government is going to have some awful cramps in this war then,” she declared. * * * “Do you think your face is more important than a bomber?” the re porter asked a woman who did not give her name. “No,” she replied candidly, “but if I ever came out without any makeup on you couldn’t tell me from a bomber.” • • • WAR Jack Huff could wear no cuff. His wife could wear no frills; And so between them both, you see, They saved on clothing bills. • » • Metal swivel chairs, waste bas kets and ash trays are on the list of things banned by the WPB and possibly this is the first move to eliminate arm chair generals and bureaucrats in general. » # • OUTLINE FOR LIVING Elmer Twitchell says he is driving to town in the car he hasn’t got, on the tires he can’t obtain to shop for the things he can’t get. If he gets time he is going to see his architect about the alterations that can’t be made on the house the WPB won’t let him build. • • • YOU SAID IT There’s no other torture like it. And your blood with anger stews At the length of the commercial When you’re waiting for THE NEWS! —Clayton Spicer. * • • “The Goldrush” was a silent film. For the revival Charlie has put in a little talk. Not much, but enough for most any movie. It’s a de light to watch this film, with just a little talk where talk is helpful. It convinces us that if 70 per cent of the talk in the modern talkies could be cut out, the improvement would be terrific. And the writers, actors and directors would be forced to provide action. “Carelessness Seen In Normandie Fire.”—Headline. Not really! New Pictures of India’s National Leaders As the clouds of war gather ever more densely over vast India, greater attention is focused on its lead ers. At the right is Mahatma Gandhi, spiritual head of the Indian national congress party, who was instru mental in thwarting Sir Stafford Cripps’ efforts at war unity. This new picture shows Gandhi walking with his secretaries and aides. At the left is Pandit Nehru, active and more belligerent leader of the same na tional congress party. (Picture from March of Time’s “India in Crisis.”) Haiwaii on Its Toes, Ready to Dish It Out to Japs U. S. soldiers are now encamped throughout the Hawaiian islands, ready to meet any onslaught of the Japs. The gun at the left has been installed on what was once a huge private estate. It points toward the Pacific, and its crew keep guard day and night. The soldiers have erected showers at whatever part of the island they are encamped. Here amidst the gumbo-like mud of the hills they are primping up (right) for a hard day’s work. Mobile Optical Shops for U. S. Soldiers A Dizzy Job Overseas soldiets who break or lose their spectacles on the battlefield will have them repaired or replaced in the field by mobile optical shops, the first of their kind to be attached to U. S. field armies. In this unit a total of 120 single lenses can be edged and mounted daily. This with other equipment make it possible to take care of the requirements of a field army of 300,000 men. Approximately 15 per cent of the men in the armed forces wear glasses. Men who work to increase our sup ply of electric energy are soldiers, too. Photo shows a jackhammer operator drilling a hole for a dyna mite blast on an abutment of Shasta dam, near Sacramento, Calif. For Latin-American Expeditionary Force Hugo Fernandez Atucio (left), Uruguayan professor and director of the Latin-American branch of the Free World Movement, is shown with J. Alvarez del Vayo, former Spanish foreign minister, at New York head quarters of the Free World Movement. Atucio calls for a Latin-American expeditionary force to fight under United Nations command. Love Leads Way Mrs. Henry Fecht of Chicago re fused to believe that her son, James, was lost at sea, as she had been informed. Aided by the USO, she found him in a San Francisco hos pital recovering from a shrapnel wound in the hack. Eleanor Roosevelt ANOTHER FULL DAY NEW YORK CITY.—Another full day began at 10:30 with the opening of the campaign for selling war sav ings stamps in retail stores. The campaign is to encourage careful buying and to induce customers to take part of their change in Defense Stamps. After that was over, I went to the annual meeting of the board of di rectors 6t the United States Com mittee for the Care of European Children. This lasted a long while. One or two people came to lunch. In the afternoon I attended a meet ing of the committee of the Wash ington bureau of the Internationa] Student service. • • • REGISTRATION OF WOMEN Connecticut’:: voluntary registra tion of women to fill its labor needs in the agricultural and industrial fields is under way. They were a little troubled because they thought the decision not to hold a compul sory registration of women at the present time might make women feel their work was not needed. As a matter of fact it is because locali ties have met their needs through such voluntary participation as this, that a national compulsory registra tion is at present postponed. The decision was made by the various bureaus concerned with the Federal Security agency. I was interested to find they felt that if the need arose, compul sory registration of woman pow er could be put through very quickly. Classification of skills and of needs for the various parts of the country could be ac complished within three weeks. This speaks well for the efficien cy which has been developed in the employment service and in the Bureau of Women in Indus try. • • • COMMUNAL FEEDING KITCHENS I wonder if, in some of our more crowded industrial areas, we have not been a little slew in developing communal feeding kitchens where the workers and their families may obtain good meals at reasonable prices. We have talked a good deal about the development of day nurs eries, nursery schools and recrea tional facilities for older children, but I do not know how far this has been actually accomplished through out the country. Probably this information will be coming to us shortly in reports from the Office of Civilian Defense. I hope that where exceptionally good jobs are being done they will be written up in some detail for the benefit of other parts of the country. Unemployment still seems to ex ist, particularly among older men and women. I am sorry to say that our minority groups are still finding that they are not always given jobs according to their abilities. Some times the employer is afraid to be impartial, sometimes the workers are prejudiced. The people who could do a great deal to bring about a change in attitude are the buying public, and they seem apathetic. • • • GIRL SCOUTS AND SALVAGE HYDE PARK.—One day in New York city started bright and early, for at 9:15 I was due at 120 East 86th street to meet with a group of Girl Scouts. The owner of an empty store has donated its use to them and they are busy gathering salvage of many kinds. Where they can make useful arti cles, they are setting up work tables and doing so. The other things they are turning over to the proper sal vage agencies. They gave me a charming May basket, which one of the little girls kindly offered to take down to my apartment, since I could not quite see how I could manage the rest of the morning carrying a basket of flowers. At 10 o’clock I faced an audience of high school and young college students at the Ethical Culture so ciety. It was the last of a series of lectures during which these young people had considered the obliga tions of democracy from many as pects. On leaving there, I had time to run into Holland House to see Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s original drawings for the new edition of Erasmus’ book: "The Praise of Folly.” I enjoyed them, but liked particularly the painting of Mr. Van Loon himself. If no one had been looking, I might have walked away with it. Then I did a recording for the use of the Children’s bureau and reached home in time to have a few guests for lunch. Late in the afternoon, Miss Thompson and I reached Hyde Park by train. • • • RACIAL DISCRIMINATION A committee has been formed among certain members of the Phi Delta Kappa to eliminate racial dis crimination. I am very happy to find that my own feelings that racial discrimination should be re moved from an organization of this kind is shared by such people as Mr. Raymond A. Kent, president of the University of Louisville; Mr. John Dale Russell, secretary of the department of education of the Uni versity of Chicago; Mr. George & Counts of Columbia university. Gay Vanity Table Is Easy to Make TABLE 29' Underneath It’s a Packing Box. T HIS is what your bedroom needs—a Southern-belle van ity! 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