Washington, D. C.
GERMAN DEATH RATE
Diplomatic dispatches from Eu
rope report that the German death
rate is going up and the birth rate
is going down.
Also the number of German sol
diers killed or permanently disabled
since the war began now totals
1,900,000. This estimate made be
fore the Russian counter-offensive be
gan, and before the British turned
back Rommel in Egypt. Obviously,
therefore, the total is now well above
2,000,000.
This does not include prisoners nor
men suffering minor wounds. If
these were included, the total casu
alty figure would be, according to
accepted military ratios, more than
twice the basic figure, or approxi
mately ,5,000,000.
Meanwhile, exact figures on the
German birth rate have been re
ceived. These indicate the usual
wartime downward trend of births,
despite Hitler's frantic efforts to
make procreation popular.
The birth rate was 20.5 in 1939
per thousand, 20.4 in 1M0, 12.8 in
1941, but for the first three months
of 1942 took a drop to only 15.8.
Neutral diplomatic sources report
that business men in Germany are
beginning to foresee defeat. But
the people as a whole will not be
aware of approaching defeat, and
their morale will not crack, until
the German army suffers a major
military reverse. The heavy casual
ties, now comparable to the total
suffered in the First World war, are
not enough in themselves to cause
popular revolt, as long as the Ger
man armies successfully dominate
Europe.
But when Rommel is cleaned out
of Africa, and when that news seeps
into the German consciousness, we
can look for popular discontent, plus
burning distrust of the Nazi mili
tary machine.
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ITALIAN UNREST
Those who expect the bombing of
Italy to cause a revolt of the people
are badly mistaken. The bombing
may knock out her industrial pro
ductiveness and cripple her fleet and
shipping, but will not cause a popu
lar revolt.
Reasons for this are two: 1. Nazi
troops have such a stranglehold on
Italy that no revolt could gain head-1
way; 2. There are no leaders left
to head a revolt.
Italo Balbo was an opponent of
collaboration with Germany. He led
a spectacular flight of planes to the
United States, and was an admirer
of this country. But he differed with
Mussolini on African policy, con
tending that Libya could not be
defended. Balbo died in what was
officially reported as an airplane
"accident."
Pietro Badoglio was skeptical
about the Greek campaign, told
Mussolini he wouldn't undertake it
without ten divisions and four
months preparation. Mussolini or
dered him to take one month and
four divisions. Badoglio is popular
among the Italian people, but too
old to lead.
Rodolfo Grazianl was also skep
tical about the defense of Libya,
though largely responsible for pre
paring its defenses. Much younger,
he has broken with Mussolini and
is under surveillance, possibly under
arrest.
People Hate Mussolini.
Yet the sentiment ot the people,
especially in southern Italy, is such
that they would welcome deliverance
from Mussolini and Hitler. U. S.
diplomats, waiting for release from
internment after Pearl Harbor were
told secretly by Italians: "We will
not forget!"
There are many things they will
not forget, including the ludicrous >
behavior of Mussolini, who conceals
his baldness and his wen by never
removing his hat before a camera;
the wild behavior of his daughter,
Edda Ciano; and the lavish enter
taining of Count Ciano, who serves
soup-to-nuts banquets while the peo- 1
pie eat a few ounces of rationed
bread.
As yet there has been no bombing
of Rome, but some indication of
what might happen was given early
in the war when the French sent
planes over Rome for four nights.
The people poured out of the city
on everything that had wheels, in
cluding push carts, bicycles and
baby carriages. Yet the French had
dropped nothing more harmful than
leaflets.
It is reported that when Allied
bombers come over the city, the
people kneel at the altar of their
patron saint, San Cennaro, and with
Mussolini in mind, say: "Dear San
Gennaro, tell them he's not here?
he's in Rome!"
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LET THE NAZIS KNOW
Many an army official is over
cautious about speaking for publica
tion these days, but not Lieut. Gen.
"Hap" Arnold, commander of the
army air forces.
Disclosing that U. S. fliers are
being turned out of preflight schools
at the rate of 40,000 a>year, Arnold
waa asked if the figures could be
quoted.
"Why notT" hp chuckled. "It won't
do any harm. Might do a lot of
goad. It'll show the Germans ivw
many we've gotl"
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Rest in Desert After 60 Hours of Fighting !
An American-made tank, serving with a New Zealand division In
Libya, halts while its erew, exhausted by 60 hoars of continnoas fighting,
rests. This pietare, received by the New Zealand legation in Washing
ton, was taken during the Egypt-Libyan offensive which has driven
General Rommel and his men to El Agheila, Libya.
Generals Meet for Attack on Japs in Buna
At an undisclosed base. General Blarney confers with Brie. Gen.
Hanford MacNider (with pipe) durini preparations for an attack on
Jap-held Buna, in New Guinea. General MacNider received eifht wounds
in this attack when a Jap rifle frenade exploded.
Yum, Yum, 30,000 Pounds of Horsemeat!
Bostonians who never ate horae meat before win now have a chance
to try ont this delicacy. The first shipment of M.Mfi pounds of horse
meat has arrived, and the whole town is talking a boat It. Shown above
Boston batchers are inspecting the new shipment A taste for horse meat,
like a taste for oUves, has to be cultivated.
Praise the Lord and Pass the Nutrition
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These reislu gays from East Side, New Twk, are getting some I
practical Instruction la nutrition (important daring wartime rationing) 1
In the Janice chefs' class at Jadson Health center. The instructor sits i
with her hack te the camera. |
For Shipyard Girls
You may like the costume worn
by Dorothy Dahl (left) the better,
but it's incorrect for factory work
ers, while that at the right, worn
by Michele Magnin, is recommend
ed by male members of a joint
committee on health and safety,
representing the navy and maritime
commission, lingerie was consid
ered, bnt dispensed with, as were
cuffs. But long underwear?the old
red flannel kind?will be utilised.
Ice 'Ain't So Hot'
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Sable Susie Mapes is unimpressed
with her first set of ice skates. Her
mother is the former Evelyn Chan
dler, lee Follies star. Here we see
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mapes putting
on Susie's skates.
New Threat to Japs
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At top the new aircraft carrier,
Bellean Wood, takes to the waves at
Camden, N. J. The ship was named
after the famous battle in France
daring World War I. Below: An
sther freat carrier, the Banker Hill,
Is launched ataFore River, Mass.,
U months after laying of the keel.
Not So Sanitary
A British Tommy is shown wiping
lishes with a swastika flag captured
rom General Rommel's Afrika
Korps. Not so good, we say, as the
wastika contaminates everything it
anches.
Dilapidated Barn
Easily Rejuvenated 4
Agriculture Engineer
Tells How to Repair It '
Even if the floor does sag, the
walls bulge and the roof leak, think
twice before making arrangements
to build a new barn?maybe the old
one can be fixed.
As pointed out by E. R. Gross,
professor of agricultural engi
neering at Rutgers university,
the vulnerable point of most old
barns is the grade line where
eave drip and ground moisture
' have rotted the sills and the
lower ends of the studdings.
The remaining portion of the
Duilding is often structurally sound,
although it may be wracked out of
shape and have a leaky roof.
"The first step in repairing such
a barn is to jack it up, raising one
side of the building at a time,"
Professor Gross says. "This may
be done by placing a temporary
girder under the mow floor joist a
short distance from the wall. Leave
just room enough to work on the
foundation and wall. Support the
temporary girder, six by six inches
or larger, according to the size of
the building, by posts set upon jack
screws so that the side of the barn
may be lifted a few inches above
its normal level. While this is be
ing done, it may be necessary to
cross brace the structure to bring
it back to normal shape and align
ment.
"Now the bottom of the stud
dings may be sawed off at a
point just high enough to re
move most of the rotted lum
ber. Most of the studs will be
sound to the point which will
now rest on the new sill and a
few that may have rotted high
er up may be pieced out. Next,
the foundation may be repaired
or renewed.
"If a new foundation is needed,
place a footing of concrete 16 to 18
inches wide in a trench which has
been dug deep enough to be below
the normal freezing line which is
two to three feet below the grade
line, depending on the section of the
land. On the footing place an
eight-inch wall of concrete blocks,
bricks or stones. Fasten a new sill
to the top of the foundation using
bolts at eight or ten-foot intervals.
The foundation will be made just
Pork products may become
scarcer on the nation's dining tables
during the war, bat there'll be plen
ty of steaks, lamb chops, fowl, and
other meats for Americans to enjoy.
Here a lot of delicious steaks are
en route to some Ineky persons'
dinner tables.
high enough to meet the point where
the studdings have been cut off.
Lower the wall onto the new sill
and foundation, spiking each stud
ding in place. The other side of
the building may be treated in the
same way."
The job is completed when the
roof, walls, windows and doors have
been repaired. For protection,
painting should follow. And for all
practical purposes. Gross concludes,
a barn thus remodeled is as good
as a new one.
Federal regulations permit
farmers to spend np to fl.Mt
a year for repairing or remodel
ing farm buildings exclusive of
residences.
Increase Milk Sales
One of the measures dairymen
can use to increase milk sales is to
substitute meal wholly or in part for
the skim milk ordinarily used to feed
calves. Dairy husbandry specialists
at Ohio State university say calves
can be raised successfully on meal,
and the choice between meal and
skim milk for feeding should depend
upon comparative costs.
General Stores Going
Approximately 40,000 country gen
eral stores still remain in the Unit
ed States, as compared with 104,000
only 10 years ago, fast travel and
specialization cutting down the num
ber.
Chlorine Is Provided
Necessary amounts of chlorine for
water purification will be provided
throughout the nation despite the
general chlorine shortage, according
to the War Production board.
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Red Tape ...
Enemy
By Lieut.-Gen. Brehon Somervell
(WNU Feature?Through special arrangement
with American Magazine)
Red Tape is slowing down our war
I effort, and if we don't cut and burn
every shred of it, we may yet lose
this war.
Men and women sit smugly at
home and are shocked by newspaper
reports that red tape is delaying
deliveries of vital war material. But
in their own homes, and in millions
of similar homes, red tape is getting
in its dastardly work.
The housewife's red tape may be
in her housekeeping methods. She
finds it "impossible" to alter her
menus to fit food shortages, so she
becomes a hoarder. She must dust
the guest room every Wednesday,
so if the Red Cross meets on Wed
nesday, she can't possibly go.
Habit binds her husband to golf
or poker dates, so he continues to
buy luxuries he thinks are neces
sities and can't spare money for war
bonds.
In nearly every store and office
old methods of procedure are wast
ing man hours. Many a business
could release men and women for
war work, if unnecessary forms, re
ports, letters and conferences were
eliminated.
There is too much paper work in
government, but government isn't
the only horrible example.
No matter where you live, you
would hotly resent it if you were
told that your state, and perhaps
your city, was holding up the war
effort. Yet dozens of states and
hundreds of cities, are tangled in red
tape that prevents them from chang
ing peacetime laws to fit wartime
conditions.
siate Lavs Hamper.
State taxes on war contracts def
initely cramp our war effort. Dif
ferent sets of state laws on truck
loads, length of trucks, drivers li
censes, weight and gasoline taxe&
delay truck shipments. Truck dri*
ers have been sent to jail for tech
nical violations, and munitions of
war have been held up because local
authorities weren't big enough to cut
red tape.
There are state and local regula
tions on building, excellent in nor
mal times, but hindrances in war.
Building codes force extravagant
use of strategic materials. State
laws require long-drawn hearings by
public utility commissions before
new bus lines can start hauling work
ers to plants.
Most states boast food public
health laws applying to milk, but
they were written before hundreds
of thousands of soldiers moved into
these states. In some of them, all
the milk legally obtainable is not
j enough for the army.
Few persons who are tangled in
red tape realize their dilemma even
when their best friends tell them.
They protest: "You've got to do It
this way. We've got a system. We
have to use it."
i to sucn persons, l like to relate
an old story about a man who sold
an elaborate system of forms and
files to a "manufacturer. After a
few months the salesman returned
and asked: "How's the system
working?"
"Wonderful," said the manufac
turer. -
"How's business?" asked the
salesman.
"Business?" the manufacturer re
peated. "Oh, there isn't any. We've
all been too busy running the sys
tem to bother with business."
Red tape generally is defined as
customs, rules, and procedures that
cause unnecessary delay. It is ev
erywhere?for it is a state of mind
as well as a method of procedure.
Red tape is the act of postponing de
cisions, taking your time, playing
safe, following routine, stifling initi
ative, quitting when the whistle
blows, business as usual, politics,
picnics and golf as usual.
This war is total war. That means
that every ounce of muscle and <
brain in every able-bodied man and ]
woman must be used. It means that
we must discard. everything that
doesn't help win the war.
We have only one objective, and
we must evade, ignore, erase and
knock out all rules, restrictions and
habits that get in our way.
pie army's Service of Supply this
year will spend approximately 33
billion dollars.
Sometimes we have bungled de
tails, sometimes we've been too slow
to make up our minds, sometimes
red tape has bound us so tight that
we've found ourselves running as
though we were in a three-legged
race. But we're doing a job. We're
delivering machinery, food and
weapons in ever-mounting quantities.
The other government depart
ments are doing a job, too. So are .
labor, management and industry.
But all of us have more red tape
to cut When It no longer binds
America's hands, the speed of our
war production will be increased.
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How To Relieve
Bronchitis
CreomuMon relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat at the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender. In
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell yoa
a bottle of Creomulslon with the tat
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
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