"Behind The Scenes
In American Business
—By John Craddock—
New York, Feb. 8.—A new
crop of “home front" jobs for
women loomed last week when
Manpower Commissipner Mc
Nutt issued his “work for war or
tight" order for men between 18
and 38. The first list of non
defer^bles included workers en
gaged in selling antiques, liquors,
confectionery, flowers, Jewelry,
novelties and tobacco. While
many such shops throughout the
country are already run entirely
or partly by women, many others
face closing unless they recruit
women to replace male help which
must either switch to war produc
tion or be drafted. On a larger
scale, eventually, there will open
further new vistas for women
workers in industries either now
or later to be listed as “non
deferable.” Personnely directors
in a multitude of factories, large
and'small, throughout the coun-J
try, began last week laying plans
for recruiting and training of
women, even though their plants
have not yet been included in the
iron-deferable list. Small busi
ness men, such as tailors, fur
riers. tobacconists, etc., already
have begun to apply for part
time work at war plants in order
to earn deferable status. For
their own sake and for the ben
efit of consumers dependent up
on them fog supply, they are go
ing to try to retain their busi
nesses, by employing women to
“spell" them while they’re at|
work in war plants.
KEEP EM KULLIMj is as
much a battle-cry of farmers
these days as it is among rail
roaders and truckers, in view of
the war's huge food-production
demands and the manpower
shortage. In Wichita. Kan., the]
other ' day the nation’st farmers]
were told they'd be able to keep
their tractors rolling, as far as
tires are concerned, if they exer
cise reasonable care with the
tires they have and make them
last until such time as they can
be replaced. James J Newman,
vice-president of B. F Goodrich,
said farm tractor tires made
from synthetic rubber—the Anter
ipol first used in auto tires in
U*4U—had' been made and satis-!
factorily tested Though they
won’t be available until the gov
ernment program is turning out
more than just enough rubber
for military needs. Tests indi
cate, Newman said, that "syn
thetic will definitely move into
the arctor field then, and they'll
certainly equal any naturaly rub
ber tires for this service.” A
conversion” plan that makes it
possible to utilize thousands of
tractor tires now in inventory as
replacements, even for worn-out
tires of slightly different sizes,
vs ill help tide the big machines
over the intervening months, he
explained.
THINGS TO COME—Kitchen
units with cooking plates and
refrigerator drawers placed ad
vfuntageously at intervals where
they’ll be used, instead of sepa
rate units .Automobiles weigh
ing a thousand pounds less by
use of 500 pounds of aluminum
produCed~~3Trdow cost because of
new techniques developed for
war .Wood that wont burn,
glass that won't break; window
screens containing no w;re, ma
chine bearings containing no me
tal Ration Book No. 3 with
stamps carrying pictures of
tanks, piares, artibery and air
craft carriers to designate per
iods when they will be valid.
FOOD —Point latioring of all
commercially-canned, bottled and
frozen fruits and vegetables, in
cluding juices, soups and dried
fruits, will begin March 1, the
Office of Price Administration
has announced. Saie of such foods
will be suspended for ieght days
before March 1 during which
time the public will register for
War Ration Book No. 2. Under
point rationing, housewives will
replace many canned items with
fre.-n fruits and vegetables which
require no coupons. This re
placement will not only insure ad
equate supplies of canned food
for our armed forces and allies
but also will result in conserving
enormous amounts of steel and
tin To illustrate the savings of
vital war metals, Earl R. French,
marketing director of the At*
lantic Commission Company, pro
duce-buying affiliate of the A
& P Tea Company, estimates
that if America’s 31,000,000 fam
ilies each replace one can of
commercially-packed foods each
“It Takes Both”
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It takes both . . . two fingers to
give the Victory sign. It takes both
. . War Bonds and Taxes to make
that Victory come true. Continue
your purchase of War Bonds, at
least ten percent of your income.
Pay your Victory Tax and your in
come tax cheerfully and gladly.
Both are In lieu of an Occupation
Tax to Hitler, U. S- Treasury Department
week with fresh fruits and veg
etables, enough steel would bt
conserved annually to make 5,000
medium tanks and enough tin
for 360,000 75 mm howitzers.
And point rationing will result
in replacement of many more
than one can for each family and
thus multiply the total saving in
vital metals.
WHO SAID HANDICAP? —
Current manpower shortage has
brought new attention to what,
for some large industries, is a
long-standing pracitce of employ
ing "handicapped” persons—deaf
mutes, blind persons, dwarfs,
cripples and partially paralyzed
persons. Many plants are now
adopting techniques developed
over the last several years by; a
few leaders. They are finding
many physically handicapped em
ployees much more susceptible |
to training than “normal” per-1
sons. Also, in some cases, the
supposed handiepa is an advan
tage. as in the case of a deaf
mut working at a task where
noise is particularly loud and
disturbing to one with normal
hearing. Returning war casual
ties, some wit harms shot off, oth
ers who have lost sight of one
or both eyes, and several others,
are finding jobs in their old
plants or in new ones. A Detroit
manufacturer is now employing
11,652 disabled persons. Among
them are 687 sightless persons.
66 who are deaf. 101 with organ
ic heart ailments, 80 with om
arm missing, one with no arms.
96 with spine curvatures, 112
epileptics, 42 .partially incapaci
tated by infantile paralysis.
Presbyterian College
Wants Navy V-l
Students
MtAXTON, N. C„ Feb. 3.—
Presbyterian Junior College an
nounces that it still has opening*
in its quota of Navy V-l students.
According to fresent regulations
only boys seventeen years old
may now enter the Navy V-l
plan. Any seventeen ear old stu
dent with 15 high school units
may enter college for the second
semester and be received in the
Navy V-l program. According to
government regulations before
July 1, 1943, Navy V-l students
will be ordered into the status
of active service with pay, uni
forms, and all college expenses
carried by the government. Such
students will be sent to institu
tions selected by the Navy. They
will continue studies under Na
val direction for from five to
seven semesters. Each student
will take three semesters each
year so that the total time in
college at government expense
will be from 2 1-2 to 3 1-2
years. These students will then
be assigned to officer training
classes and at the completion of
their training will be commission
ed as ensigns. Presbyterian
Junior College has openings in its
quota for Navy V-l students.
Young men 17 years of age may
entei college until February 10th
ol' the second semester.
Another way in which Presby
terian Junior College is cooper
ating with the war program is with
speed up business classes. On
as soon thereafter as enrollment
is completed, special classes will
be given in Typing, Stenography
and Accounting. A student
should be able to complete the
course in one month by studying
five nights each week. These
clashes are given at the sug
gestion of the United States Em
ployment Office to help meet
the critical need for typists, steno
graphers, and bookkeepers in the
war program.
Careless Farmers
Are Saboteurs
.Schenectady, N. Y.—Farmers
who are careless in 1943 will be
sabotaging the food production
program, J. E. Long, superin
tendent of safety for the Dela
ware and Hudson Railroad Com
pany, Albany, N. Y., declared in
a General Electric Farm Forum
address here.
One-fourth of all occupational
accidental deaths happen on
farms, according to Mr. Long,
who was president of the Nation
al Safety Council from 1933 to
1935.
"Farm families everywhere
must realize that it is patriotic to
prevent accidents—that they are
really helping win the war every
time they prevent an accident to
a mart or a machine,” Mr. Long
pointed out "Accidents on the
farm not only lead to broken
homes anl loss of production, they
also take doctors and nurses away
from other serious cases at a
time when there is a shortage of
doctors and nurses as well as wa'
and farm workers.
"Thus it becomes immediate
ly apparent why we cannot af
ford 16,500 accidental deaths
among farmers and their families,
| which was the total for 1942.”
Mr. Long, at present a mem
ber of the gationa] executive com
mittee of * the National Safety
Council, also said that splendid
care should be taken at railroad
grade crossings, where nearly
2,000 people were killed last
year.
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Canada's Tanks Roil Oil Production Line And Into Battle
The** Heavy Infantry tanks of
a bilingual battalion from Quebec
are part of the Canadian Army
Tank Brigade, photographed dur
ing intensive manoeuvre* in Eng
land. The outfit has been built
Into a powerful, effective striking
force which will make its strength
felt on some allied offensive front
ONE of the first of the United Na
tions to take up arms against
Axis aggression. Canada, after three
years of war. finds her industries
fully mobilized, peak production be
ing expected early in 1943. Although
her peace-time industrial facilities
are small compared to the manu
facturing might of the United
States, the Dominion nevertheless
has become one of the main weapon
producing countries on the side of
democracy. Canada constitutes the
main source of supply of motorized
equipment for the British Empire.
It has turned out thousands of fight
ing vehicles every week and has de
livered more than 300.000 motorized
units since the start of the war.
In addition to a large output of
Bren gun carriers, in service in
every theatre of war. Canada is pro
ducing two types of tanks. One is
the British Valentine, a rugged in
fantry tank which has been sent to
Russia in large numbers. It is pro
duced by the Canadian Pacific Rail
Part of the production line in the Ram tank factory, second largest
arsenal for tank production in the world. Heavily armed with
machine guns and cannon, the Ram is powered with a Wright Whirl
wind engine, a versatile war machine.
way Company in its Montreal An,mis
shops. The Soviets regard it highly.
The other is the Ram. a cruiser
tank designed by Canada’s famed
tank man. Major General F. F.
Worthington. A crack medium tank.
Canada's Ram is said to have con
tributed largely to new Bnti h and
American designs for cruisei Inn
ships. Indicative of the progress a
complished in Canada in the prodin
tion of war equipment is the fai
that in 1942 Canada is turning on
10 tanks and armoured fightin;
vehicles for every unit it produced
in 1941.
Dale1
Carnegie
Author of 4
"How to Win Friends and
Influence People"
GO TO THE BOTTOM OF IT
One day in 1886 a farm boy came home from school;
/try much discouraged. His mother saw there was
jomething the matter, but said nothing about it tor aj
time. , .
The town where the country boy went to school was
Angola, New- York. The boy was ten years old.
The farm was a dairy farm, and the boy hail to help
milk. His mother milked with him; and as she did, -hej
watched him. She prepared his supper for him, and 'r.en
asked him to come into the kitchen where they could be
alone. Then she inquired as to what was the matter.
The boy told her that he had been called dumb at school.
The mother asked why, and he said it was because in
the arithmetic class he didn't understand fractions. His
mother had been a school teacher, so she asked the boy to
define fractions. The boy said they were figures, one
above the other, with a line between them.
The mother thought for a moment, then got an apple
and cut it in halves. “There’s fractions without any line,”
she said.
The boy was interested. Here was something that
touched his life. It meant something to him.
Then his mother cut the apple into quarters, sixteen
ths; as she did so, she said something that changed the
boy’s life.
“Think to the bottom of things,” she said. “Try to
understand whv a thing is. Most people are surface
thinkers. Be a bottom-thinker. It's better to learn ‘why
of one thing than to see the surface ot a dozen things.
It made an impression on this boy—whose name was
Willis H. Carrier. He wasn’t able to do at once the pro
found thing his mother had outlined, but he did begin to
think things through. In a month he was no longer the
“dumb” student in the class! He was the smart one.
He had become so interested in fractions and mathe
matics that he decided to go to Cornell university, and
take an engineering course. He pursued the same method
of thinking to the bottom of things. Graduated with
honors. , , , ,
He took up engineering. At the age of -t he thought
to the bottom of a problem which has made him rich and
famous. A firm in brooklyn wanted him to cool the air in
their printing plant. He began to think into the idea, and
worked out the Carrier air-conditioning idea.
What a splendid thing his mother did for him! She
showed him he wasn’t dumb at all, and taught him to look
into the bottom of everything he went into.
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By
R. J. SEITZ
O P. SOUTHERLAND
A. M. Kiser, Runic n. l.i:.. oln
Lon, in the Lander's Chapel com
munity, has . improved sevi ral
acres of Ids pasture by sowing ad
dilional seed on tin- old sod. He
has a good stand and prospects of
a good pasture. 'which will give I
more grazing for his livestock.
c. M. Farris, Route :i, Gastonia,
in the Robinson community, has
several kinds of meadow strips
and waterways established on his
farm. Of his grass and clover
mixtures, kudzu and scneea, Mr.
Farris says. "1 believe 1 like- my
sericea best for waterways, be
cause it has greeter root systems
for use m these places.'
C Avery Wallace, Route 1.
Dallas, has a small patch of
kudzu that he has been using for
grazing. Mr Wallace says, “My
cow gives a half gallon more
milk per day when she grazes on
kudzo than when she grazes on
lespedeza.” He plans to set out
three acres of kudu this spring.
He will dig crowns from an old
patch on the farm.
Fred J. Rash, Route 4. Lincon
ton, in the Lander’s Chapel com
munity, received 500 loblolly
pine seedlings from the Lower
Catawbe soil conservation district,
which lie plans to set out this
week. He bought 50 pounds of
sacrified sericea seed to sow in
the spring, which will be used for
hay.
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