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CHANGES MADE IN PERSONNEL Camp Davis Red Cross Staff Has Several Varia tions In Complement Hiram W. Person, field director for the American Red Cross at Camp Davis, has announced sev eral changes in the personnel of his s aff Miss Martha Mahan, assistant field director assigned to the sta ll-,) ptal. has been transferred to Fort Belvoir, Va.; Mrs. Eliza beth Frey, social worker, to Fort Bragg, and Miss Angela Whitlock, another staff member, has re signed. •..:h these three women aie leaving, their places will be filled by transferring new workers into Camp Davis. *5iss Rose Lee Henderson, In fiientown Gap. Pa., will be chief recreation worker; Mi's Rosemary Smith, now on duty at Fort Bragg, will be a new medical worker, and Miss Hilda Kirker. of Fort Belvoir. v, II fill the position of assistant field director. hi announcing the changes. Field Director Person complimented the imen leaving Camp Davis fo; their work while stationed there. Among several causes of alfalfa yellowing a e the lack of potash and boron in the soil, alfalfa wilt and leaf hopper injury. New Boat For Fighter Planes Demonstrating a new one-man rubber boat for use in fighter planes is Ralph Douglas. He is shown bailing ing out some of the water that splashed into the rubber lifeboat while he was inflating it in the East river in New York city. The boat can be inflated almost instantly by a pilot forced down in water and weighs only twelve pounds. It is carried in a small pack on the flier’s back. Today and Tomorrow BY WALTER LIPPMANN Mr. Nelson At The Crossroads The center of the trouble about materials and the only place where an effective remedy can be applied is quite clearly in the War Produc tion Board. The United States is not short of materials: as com pared with our enemies’, our re sources are immense. W’hat we are short of is the lucid, orderly and firm command of the flow of ma terials from the mines to the ar senals. That is the business of the W’ar Production Board, and the main reason for its existence. Now that the task of construct or new facilities and of convert ing old ones has been so success fully done, the glaring defect in the"W. P. B.s’ control of materi als is beginning to be felt in all sorts of ways. It is felt in the shut downs and the slow downs. It is felt in the appearance of supposed ly hard choices, as for example be tween bonbers and cargo planes, merchant ships and naval escorts. It is felt in what is undoubtedly the immense waste of precious ma terials by the armed services and by civilians—as, for example, the use until very recently of high oc tane gas in training planes. It is felt in a very considerable amount of inexcusable business as usual Wahl’s Cfrom I low of hro ugh cfhe of all! A large selection of the prettiest things being shown for wear right now and through the fall will be seen at our store today. Come in and lay-away your selection early. A small deposit will hold your choice until wanted. Spun-Rayon DRESSES dros-.c-s that are a ittiidac t u re r's (tj cL.'-o t of dresses A that • ere really in-- do to sell for $2.98 and >;:i.98, together v. i tli many dresses loom our stock that prc/iously sold for n-iu'dj more. Lovely black and whites, l! some paste!, some < dors. Lome in and buy several. Duco-Dol BLACK and WHITE The newest of the -j, ^ _ .black and whites in Sj Qx fine junior and missy ^B styles that are smart - as the better dresses only can be. Large or small dots witli or without lingerie ... _ trim. Ail UOlOrS Cosiyme Ensemble $^98 1 = Y o u’ll wear it straight through fall, winter, too. Smartly simple dress with trapunto trimmed jacket—newest col ors . . . Sizes 12 to 20. 2 Piece DRESSES I Lovely two-piece ro maine crepe dresses in black and black and white. Well fit ting dresses you will find exceedingly fine values at this price. Sizes 14-20. % of all Goat Values ! eS ave TWEEDS. CAMELS FLEECES Several hundred all-wool and some wool and rayon mixture coats th^t are as well done as any you have seen for many seasons. Classic and novelty styles, beautifully lined and interlined with the utmost in details that make you just want to wear them. Camel, black, brown, jrreen, wine tweed mixtures and solid color fleeces. If you will want a coat for this fall, come in now and lay yours away With UP a small deposit. Seersucker PAJAMAS *1 All Colors—All Sizes Full Fashioned HOSE All-Silk Leg Sheer GOWNS 8] Sizes 11-17 All Colors and Prints Multi-Filament SLIPS 89* Tea Rose, White and Klue Sizes 32 to 40 214 NORTH FRONT STREET and of civilian boondoggling—as for example, the purchase for the O. C. D.’s fire wardens of rope made of sisal from Java, Manila and East Africa. Finally, it is felt at the highest level of the military .command where decisions have to be taken without a thoroughly re liable knowledge of the true pro ductive capacity of the country. The central defect in the W. P B. is that it lacks adequate rec ords, and therefore does not really know where all the critical mater ials are and what is being done with them. Lacking this knowledge the W. P. B. cannot and does not control the flow of materials. Lack ing control, it is unable to enforce rigorous economy and cnservatin. Lacking knwledge and control, it canot and does not give the high command a good enough picture of what is happening, what is going to happen, what can be done and what it would mean to do it. Mr. Nelson is in the position of a very rich man who does not really keep books and has let all his cusins and his aunts open charge accounts which he has agreed to meet. The richest man in the world would soon begin to feel poor. Mr. Nelson's cousins and aunts are the armed services, the civil ian services, private business, lend lease, our good nieghbors and the neutrals. The total of what they would all like to have is, of course much greater than the supply. It would seem, then, that the prob lem is to cut the total demand to the size of the supply, and then to assign to each cousin and each aunt his portion. * * * That, of course, is done. And that would be enough if the supply of materials were one pie and the cousins and the aunts were all going to eat it at the same time. But, in fact, the supply is not all finished and ready to use now: it is being produced continuously In fact, also, the consumers do not need all of their portions at the same time: they work schedules which call for the use of materials over a period of time. The real problem, therefore, is to see that what is needed at each plant gets there when it is neded, not too late, of course, but also not so soon that the materials stand idle while some other plant which needs them at once has to shut down. This control of the flow of mate rials is one of the essential secrets of great industrial organizers like Ford, Sorenson, Keller, Girdler, Kaiser—to name only a few of the best known. It is the function of W. P. B. to apply a similar con trol of the flow of materials to the war industries as a whole. It is a Herculean task. But it has to be accomplished and it can be accom plished. A great deal of time has been lost, which is now going to be paid for in lost production, because Mr. Nelson has not yet begun to lay the foundations of a system of control which in fact gives him command over the flow of materi als. He has relied almost entirely on persuasion, patience and prior ities, when what is needed is a tough regimentation by which he knows each day where all his ma terials are and can order them sent where they ought to be. The loose, chaotic and undisci-' plined system of W. P. B. is so un satisfactory that it has caused a reaction which takes the form of a demand for the military control of production. No doubt this would be a mistake. Nevertheless, the de mand throws a strong light on what is wrong and how it needs to be remedied. Mr. Nelson, it is now quite evi dent, is by his experience a great procurer of supplies that already exist. He is the great purchasing agent, 'the great quartermaster, but he is not an organizer of pro duction. So he needs under him an industrial organizer, invested with all his authority, and probably some more besides, to direct the movement of material from the mine to the finishing shop. Such men are available. Yet the appointment of such a man would not in itself cure the trouble. The reason is that the War Production Board is much too civilian in its procedure and mentality. Since the task is to regulate and control war industry, it is necessary to have a discipline and a chain of command akin to the military in the men who regulate and control. Otherwise, Mr. Nelson’s directives or the commands of his deputy for production, will tend to dry up like a river that ends in the desert. That is the real trouble with the dollar -a - year- man system— not that these men are not devoted and disinterested, not that they are not highly competent — but that they are volunteers who lack the necessary discipline and command to operate coherently under war conditions. Putting all of them in uniform is probably not the right solution But nevertheless the proposal in WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE Without Calomel—And You’ll jump Out oi Bed in the Morning Rarin’ to Go The Uver should pour 2 pints of bile juice into your bowels every day. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food may not di gest. It may just decay in the bowels Then gas bloats up your stomach. You get con, stipated. You feel sour, sunk and the world looks punk. It takes those good, old Carter’s Little Liver Pills to get these 2 pints of bile fW mg freely to make you feel "up and on ’• Get a package today. Take as directed Effective in making bile flow freelv s.v for Carter's Little Liver Pills. lOCand 26? USE OUR BUDGET PLAN CAUSEY'S Corner Market and 12th dicates what is missing in the pres ent system, and we may conceiv ably, if no alternative can be de vised, be driven to the militari zation of most if not all of this es sential war service. There are grave objections to it. But in the case of the Army’s Air Transport Command we can also see the great advantages of recruiting civ ilians and militarizing them. The immensly complicated business of air transport is being operated su perbly by the privatf airlines of the country;the operation is direc ted by airline officials who have been given army commissions. There are in the organization, so I have been told, only three regu lar army officers. Thus the high est civilian talent has been put un der discipline and the hierarchy of command, and in this service the thing works admirabley. * * * Mr. Nelson will have to find some effective equivalent if the W. P. P. is to do what it must do. -V One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.—Wil liam Hazlitt. I WANTS TO GO BACK 1 TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 5.— (IP) — Governor Spessard Holland had a letter from P. R. Brown in Texas. Brown wanted the state to pay his expenses back to the Florida prison from which he escaped 201 years ago. “I’ve been going from better to worse and can hardly get along now,” said the letter. -V SKILL IS GREATEST Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.— Propertius. HOW WELL It matters not h . but how well.—Pubi^r^J5" Next time vou ne Calotabs, the imr-'... 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Sturdy standing . . . compact fold ing. Bargain! LIGHT BULBS Reg. 10c 2 FOR 15c High quality . . American made “100"-hr. bulbs. 15, 25, 40, 50, 60. and 75 - watt sizes! OCCASIONAL CHAIR $Y*88 Comfortable, well made, and smart! Note the heavy turned front posts and fluted arms. Sturdy hardwood frame. Soft, padded seat and back. Uphols tered in rich rayon-and-cotton velour. Assorted colors. Rocker d»Q QQ To Match «PO OO EXTENSION TYPE TABLE on OO o.\ sale: Save several dollars In the 3,,.,. on this convenient extens table: Strong Douglas fir. smooth ly sanded, re for fini Big ... inches: Sale jriced for At:,: STURDY CHAIR Combine thrift and fun in T a i nt i n * it: .Sturdy Dous las fir. Bijr seat. Reeded Sees. Easily assembled. 3x6 FOOT BORDERLESS RUGS Bargain! Soft, buoyant pillow Df 50 per cent select chicken featl ■ ' 3d with 50 per :ent firm turkey i leather?. Dirra- I ble cover. I BORDERED 9 x 12 FELT BASE RUGS • Durable Hard Surface Enamel. $«J29 Beauty at a Bargain! ! able service is built inch of the smooth, g face of these rugs ..." them as practical as Bright, distinctive pal l: '; will look good and v.« u most any room of 11’ Check your floor cove:!' and Buy Now at An Savings. Master Mixed HOUSE PAINT Gives Your House That Lasting Beauty ■ $3*19 S^.88- y JnL50ts Little „!?0u1?e. dePreciate in value by painting “Too , 00 Paint this season. Use top-quality Master IlXeath,ra tPain ' set lasting production, added beauty too . . . at lowest cost per year of wear.
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