TOTAL WAR CALLS FOB MORE MANPOWER Army, Industry And . Farms Claim More Recruits For Growing Ranks DECLARE LONGER WORK WEEK TO CUT LABOR SHORTAGES SEEK FARM HANDS IN TOWNS Four million more men for the [ army! Two' and a half million more men and women for war industry At least a million more hands for farm labor! 1 here you have a brief overall hi. tore of li e ureal problems of manpower which is confronting the United Stales today. The situation will become acute by this summer. Then, the draining of men for the armed ! forces; the beginning of opera j tions, or swing into full produc tion, of new war plants, and ! most important, the cultivation j and harvesting of crops will j create such a demand for help j that some term of positive action ! nitty ho necessary. There have been suggestions from all sides to coj e with the j manpower problem, even down to 1 the suggest i m it prohibitionists | who ask that the tfOO.OOU peo-J pie employed in grape [ roduction I for the wine industry be switch i ed to essential agriculture A bloc of influential senators led by burton Wheeler (Mont.). John II Bankhead (Ala.^ Edwin i C. Johnson (Colo,), and Elmer Thomas (Okla.) arc it favor of! pegging the siv.e of tlie aimed j forces at about P million men bv I the end o| this year instead of I the 1 1 million planned by the j militaiy chieftians. 1 hey have ro< eivod nuliri'Ct support from Donald No Ison, the War Production hoard chairman.; Although Nelson has refused to take a | ositive stand on the question, hi' told ;t senate com I miitee recently: “1 tun deeply! interested t hut no condition! should la- created which would withdraw any larger number of men from the stream of pro duc'iion in I'.U.'I than can he ef fei lively utili s'd in the cmiihat l'ores." Most Able Bodied Men From 18 to 38 May be Drafted Just how deeply the military draft would i ut into manpower serve has Ivon snow n by Maj. Prei.. I.ewis 11. Ilershey. selective seivi'. e director, Because of the :equii ■ ments of the armed serv ices, lie said only 2.500.000 able bodied men ot the nation s 22, 000,000 nude po|iutation between the ages of M and -'is w ill he de ferred for essential ,jol>s in in dustry and agriculture How ever, Ilershey pointed out. about 35 per cent ol the iiliue immuei will have been found until for In a move designated to. in duce labor to till in the gaps in essential industry caused by the departure of men to the armed set Vices, tin War Manpower com mission issued its startling "work or tight" edict. The commission directed that j. dtaft deferment would not be based upon dependency hut ra ther oil essential employment. Therefore, a father of children employed in what has been classified as an unnecessary in- f dustry wm hi he subject to mill- | tary sc'.ice before the single1 men employed in war produc : The commission’s dictate has aroused a considerable storm in congress, and !{■ presentalive Kil nay from Texas and Senator Wheeler l ave introduced bills for continuation of the policy of do j ferment for dependents support ed before Pearl Harbor. 48-Hour Week Amount* to Increasing Manpower Meanwhile. the government has issued an older calling for a 48-hour week for industry in those sect ions throughout the country where there is a labor shortage. Time and a half, how ever, i< to be paid for the extra eight hours over the -10-hour This move to increase produc tion by a lengthening of the work week is equivalent to adding to ike manpower of the nation. It ioilows a line being advocated by t apt. Kihlie Uiekenbaeker, who has been crusading tip amt down the country since his return from the Pacific battle zone, for more and more production on the home front for the sti| ply of our light ing men throughout the world. Speaking before a joint meet ing of the New York legislature recently, Rickenbacker said: “Wiping out the provisions of the wage and hour law . . . would give us an increase 'iof 5,500,000 extra workers among the 16,500. 000 now employed in manufac turing . . This increase in pro | ductive manpower hours would not only take care of the esti mated 2,100,000 employees that will be needed to take care of increased war production, but would leave free 3,400,000 men now on the payrolls, for farm or other essential services.” It has been pointed out that extension of the 48hour uli< with its time-and-a-half for over rule under the present 40-hour week, works no hardhsip on war contractors, who can pass the extra cost of time-and-a-half on to the government. Hut other forms of industry not engaged in war production object to it be cause they cannot pass the extra cost on to consumers because ol government price ceilings. Soldier* to Help Harvest; Plan Smal Town Help The government has moved in two directions to get badly need ed labor to the farmers who are being called upon to produce the ihe record crops to keep this country and its Allies going. In the most positive and what appears to be the most effective of the moves, permission has been granted for the use of soldiers in lanting and harvesting in areas suffering from labor shortages. The soldiers are to be selected from stations closest to the af iected areas, are to work undci army discipline, and be paid b.\ the government. Whatever the farmer will pay for their use will he remitted to a special fund in Washington. The other step to be taken was announced by &etiytaly \\ ickard and one-lt calls for three anti one-half million older men, wom en and boys and girls of high school awe from the towns, vil lages and small cities of rural counties. They will assist farm ers in their region pressed tor ueh. Kep. Hampton Fluner, from oath Carolina is woring for pro visions to halt Uie induction of tanners ami furlough farmers on army duty in this country for ueld tasks. Old North State’s 4-H Gardeners Set To Help “Feed A Fight er In ’43” North Carolina’s rural youth, | together with those in other) states, are enrolling en masse | id u,e 11140 -National -1-u Victory Carden contest to produce ade quate supplies of essential vege tables and garden fruit on home plots for their entire family’s une million 4-11 victory uaru oils mo the 11)43 goal. Govern ment officials emphasize that the more food each community grows l'or its own use, the easier it will be for the country to meets its military needs for garden fruits and vegetables. They also point out that tile- annual garden pro duct needs of a man in the arm ed forces, which include 114 pounds of tomatoes, 50 pounds of potatoes and 168 pounds of leafy green and yellow vegetables, can be produced on plots of 3-10 to 12, 1 to 1 1-4, and 2 1-2 to 3 acres, respectively. The primary pur) use of the ac licity is to encourage every 4-11 or to utilize as mucii space tor larm family gardening as possible, and to plant early and often, through out the year. As incentive to achieving outstanding garuening records, honor awards are offered by Sears, Roebuck. These recog muons' tor helping to "Feed a tighter in 11)43” include medals to four county winters; $25 in War Savings Bonds to eight champions in each state, and all expense nips to the National 4 11 Club Congress in Chicago to, eight sectional participants who as national winners will each also receive a $100 War Bond. '1 lie contest will be conducted, along with other 4-H wartime projects of production and con servation, under the direction of the U. S. Dapartment of Agri culture, State Agricultural Col leges, and County Extension Agents. A"! CORPS KATE! i..... It’s r!»ne to •«* that Kate gets the I Air Force, and never the air! Rea mui: her chocolate takes are made tti h top-flight RUMFORD the Bak intr Powder that lifts cakes like a pilot lifts a plRiie! 8d years’ service in America's best kitchens. r h t!C: «»• I»«n.to .t'a Timaly R>< tpe Material. Writs touny !•. : : -d Bakin" t'. vc.lcr, Box i:, Xurercrd, ri.oje Island. Noted Artist Paints War Poster Urging .4rnericans to "Keep ’em Flying" through the puichnse of mure War Bondi, the above potter will toon make its appeurunre in terernl hundred thousand stores and ditplay spoil throughout the country. It tins painted by Georges Schreiber, internationally knon n artist, a hose pictures hang in the Metropolitan and Whitney Museums in Xew ) orb and other museums in various cities. \ ,,. ,,, r/ Behind The Scenes In American Business77 —P.v John Craddock— Nrc\v York, Mar. 1 —If you I think you have troubles with j point rationing-, consider the j plight ol' your grocer. During that week when you couldn’t buy any canned foods, he wasn’t relaxing. He was going over his on tire stock of the rationed items, marking the official point values on them—and this cost him a great deal of manpower in these davs when manpower is among our scarcest commodities. Now that you are swapping coupons for canned good.-, there isn’t a I good deal of work for the grocer to move those stamps hack to where they’ll get him more can ned goods. The stamps must be attach'd to gummed cards, and generally deposited in a special banking account in the grocer’s bank—unless he lias a small store. You have already noticed how trading in point-ration goods' slows up service, since the grocer must add points as well as money—and he can’t make change in points. One chain ha employed J00 additional ware •iou.se workers whose job it is to -tick stamps on gummed cards, ■ore buyers have to compute tile amount of stamps they have—to budget their own buyilig. And since the stamps are inter changeable for use in buying any of the foods on the list, just as are those of the customer, he has the additional job of correctly estimating how his customers are going to do their budgeting, in order to be sure that he has the particular items you have decided W A K C a A T S—Nearly three quarters of all this nation’s world record output of aluminum is going into military aircraft and all ol' it into war effort one way or another. With the recent an-i nouncement „ by Toy A. Hunt, president of Aluminum Co. of America, that Alcoa was turning over to the government, many millions of dollars in whut he termed “reasonable" renegotiat ed contracts for 1942 and was reducing prices on many fabri cated products effective March 1, the economic effort of new ma chinery and new techniques de veloped by aluminum for the war becomes clearer. In the last few months America has been reading about and seeing pictures of new rolling mills that turn out air craft sheets two city blocks long, rolling them fifty times faster than before; new plants in wh*h 60 football games could be played at one time; banks of great forging hammers more powerful than any others in the vvvvvvvv vvvvvvw ME? 1&A Yes, you! You can help pro vide the depth charge that will sink a Nazi st good as the gain made ny major lines, but the short ’lies’ had not so sharp a dip in business in the pre-war years. BITS ((’BUSINESS — A spun rayon and cotton cloth developed tor diapers is being used by U. S. N’aVy plants for lens polishing . . . Several companies are aooiu to market creamed dentrifices, to be sold as toothpaste in a bottle’’ —«\rinstrong Cork Company has developed a new coating that forms a ready bond with steel or wood, for weather-proof, non skid surfacing of warship decks . . There arc enough United States Steel employees in the armed forces to make foui Army divisions^—o.i.dud men. — BUY WAR BONDS — j Subscribe To The Chcrrxvillc 1 Schools Open Drive To Buy 10,COO Jeeps , I 'HE little jeep which is serving s" nobly from Guadalcanal io Africa has become the symbol of the gigantic efforts of'.'millions of American school Chi Wren in their War Savings program. Thoii'-mucs of public, private and parochial > soon v. ill lit* dis playing a certificate of honor from Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthaii. Jr., signifying tiiat they have paid for at least one jeon by buying S90d in War Stamps and Bonds. Countless others will be (tying *ho Schools At War banner awardt;.! b schools with (Id percent piipit par ticipation in War Sayings. Ion thpu-nn i jeens :m ! a hun dred bombers! This is t e • .■ . goal of America's schools as ,'M 1 1 1 .uni) children continue their ..is At War program in lor the auspices of tbe Treasury Department and the V. S. Olliee of Kdue.ition. Results so far in the prograin re ported by Dr. Homer W. Anderson. Associate Field Director in charge Battle Flags of the Schools nf the education section of the War Savings Stall, are: More than 7.000.000 elementary and high school students from 30,ooii schools have prepared special bi hoo's At War scrapbooks for state and local exhibits. War Stamp er.d War Bond pur chases may reach a grand total ol $300,000,000 for trie school year. From where I sit... / / Joe Marsh Rig families? I think of !>••! and Ma Ho.-kit s and f: teen children ! I'hiric.en s . youn . - c: s to control I!:; found a way to keep cm n... , mischiet by sell regulation. "'ton Ui is ran rti, i k up on yilirselic*. lie s;:-s. ”\' |\rn soillchody I- (.ill in order. v oil rail a merlin:' and di-h out I hr pun! Imient \ou know ihe i And I r.-.er., An p reminds me of \ h Tifv'vr *■ 1 with the beer !i • < 1 ’• -Vit ;> in a srlI'regulation i'i: r.ttn to, h Ip the authori ses clean up or close up" offending 1.i verns that bring (I : ■ lit In a decent industry. 1 ii)i:i i here I sit. that's a tine ti.-OS fe: tile hirv.rrs In do— to see I •! l -er is sold in dean, • if. , jit. iVieinitv pla