MODERN WAR MAKES CALL ON WtillLE NATION
Production, Manpower, Food
Harnessed On Home Front
*^By this summer every Ameri
can has begun to realize that
modern wars are a commu
nal, as well as a national under
taking. Whether it's the far
mer in the field, the worker in
the factory or the salesman in
the shoo, all of them are being
directly affected by the demands
of the present conflict.
Production Manpower
Food Oil (las __ Living
Costs Wage Si4''iliz-ation
Americans art taking a lively
interest in these items because
they have afleeted everyone of
them in some fashion or another.
Policies formulated in Washing
ton touch almost oev'rybody,
perhaps even changing the
course of many existences, and
thus impressing the full gravity
of the emergency on the public
Despite America's record
breaking arms output, produc
tion has L.llen behind schedule
and greater effort will have to
be expended throughout the lest
of the year to achieve the goals
set. In a recent statement, Lieut.
(Jen. Brehon Somervell, chief of
the army's services of supply,
declared that equipment was be
ing shipped out of training camps
to meet requirements abroad.
The proposal to cut down on
certain of the services armament
programs and shift material and
manpower to others, gave short
hope that production of civilian
goods would be increased. But
no sooner hail the talk gone
around than Donald Nelson, war
production chief, threw cold wat
er on it, declaring that military
demands were still so great that
they continued to monopolize the
supply of raw material.
In milking his announcement
, Nelson said tl.nt the best that
could be hoped for a while was
the production of civilian goods
most essential to maintain the
health of the nation. In this re
spect, Nelson reported that an
item absolutely necessary for
the civilian welfare would have
first call in any allocation of ma
Small business men unable to
convert to war production recei
ved some .cheer from the plan of
Brig. Gen. R. W. Johnson to use
their plants for the manufacture
of civilian goods. According to
General Johnson, who is in charge
of the government's Smaller
War Plants corporation, thou
sands of ti.ese plants are lying
idle and could be put into the
production of civilian merchan
dise, particularly if more mate
rials were made available,
ft Along with materials, man
power ranks among the basic
factors in production, and re
cently it has drown its share of
attention. In promulgating its
largest Selective Service regula
tions, the War Manpower com
mission sought to attract more
men into essential industry by
broadening the list of lion-defer
able positions and eliminating
dependency as a basis for defer
ment. At the same time, the
WMS drew up a list of "super
critical" j< bs reciuiriug special
skills, the holders of which arc
to be placed at the bottom of the
draft rolls
l’be WMC regulation was
spurred by an effort to till the
holes that will lie left in indus
try as draft calls begin to bite
deeper and deeper. Of particu
lar concern to Washington was
the manpower problem in the air
craft factories in California,
where it was estimated two mil
lion wo ret ks will be needed with
in the next year if schedules are
to be met.
In the lace of a critical*labor
and machinery situation, the far
mre is turning in a bang-up job
in product ion, and even after
military and leud-lease needs
have been met, the civilian will
hav'e ; a sufficient ipiantity of
Latest figures of the Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate
that the crop foi .live leading
grains for l'.i-Ci should approxi
mate over five billion bushels.
700 million less than last year.
Of the total production, corn
should read, 2,874,711.000 bush
els; wheat. 820,000,100 bushels;
barley, 248,000,000 bushels; rye
I 33,’14.000 bushels.
According to the department,
J soy bean production should total
• 200,000,000 'bushels; fruit mar
keting should be abov'e the 10
| year average, although below
| last season; truck gardening reach
j expectations; milk production
j hold at about the same leeel Xts
; last year, and egg laying attain
I peak scales.
A pie crop of approximately
i 117, million head assures Ameri
ca of adequate pork and lard sup
. piies, while meat experts look to
I a 2(1 per ient increase in cattle
prediction during the last half of
| 104.'!. Civilians will receive two
| out of every three pounds of
meat output
Americans in the Midwest and
j Southwest took a 25 per cent
I cut in their gas rations, with A,
j 1!. and (' coupons reduced from
j four to three gallons. Unaffected
by the cut are doctors, ministers
i and others who receive unlimited
supplies for critical occupations.
Contributing to the reduction
was the completion of the big
pipe line to the East. Whereas
this section formerly had depen
ded upon the railroads to carry
oil supplies after the sinking of
ocean-going tankers or their di
version to military traffic had
cut off this form of transporta
tion, the pipe line will now pump
additional od eastward, moving
stocks from the midwestern and
southwestern fields. Oil men
hav'e blamed government quotas
i on production and a reduction in
new drillings for the tight fuel
situation.
Although living costs have re
mained fairly steady recently
they are still well above 21 per
cent of .he January 1941 lev'el.
Under the War Labor Board's
“Little Steel' formlla, wage in
creases have been held to 15 per
cent above the same level, ex
cept in cases of substandardiza
tion As a result, labor has agi
1 tated for a general “roll-back”
of prices to the 15 per cent aver
age or threatened action for
higher wages.
Recently, the WMC relaxed
its regulations forbidding trans
I fer of worker? from one factory
| to another for higher wages.
I Under the new ruling, workers
| may make such transfers, if their
j present employers are paying
'them less than the “going-rate”
j or the general wage rate, for
Third War Loan
Quota Is 145
Million Dollars
Tin- Third War Loan quota
■foi .North Carolina is 145 million
dollars. T. Leinbach, State
Chairman of the War Finance
Committee. fiunoumced today.
This more than doubles the t>2
million dollar quota for the Sec
ond War Loan held last April,
and is a real challenge to the
i people of North Carolina, Chair
man Leinbach stated.
In most counties over the state
\ the quotas have been proporti
onately nu t eased based on local
I conditions, the amount of sales
|m the Second War Loan,and the
I harvesting of crops in the agri
cultural centers. In all counties
| it will oe ntcessary for them to
| do a much bigger selling job in
j this drive than they did in April
when tin states quota of tid
million dollars was pushed over
the top with a total of 109 mil
lion dollars.
Leinbach stated in his challenge
to all workers in this drive, “that
to reach oui quota it will call for
the exertion of every effort to
reach all sources of income,
from the large industrial and
business buyers to the smallest
wage earlier, with a door-to-door
contact. The Treasury Depart
ment has as a part of its goal in
this drive a desire to have 50
million customers buy bonds
from September 9 through 30.
On the basis of the Treasury
Department’s expectations, North
Ctarolina will be expected to hav’e
approximately 1 ..'i.fO.OOO purch
asers of bonds, and it will take
<i giant door-knocking campaign
to accomplish this.
All counties have been orga
From where I sit...
r
/y Joe Marsh,
Sam Abernethy’s the Chief
Rumor-Spiker in our town.
If a stranger gets off some
thing like-"I hear they’ve sunk
the S. S. Bumblebee,” Sam starts
pinning him down. Did he really
see if? Where’s the evidence?
Because Sam ' nows, like the
rest of us, that nine-tenths of the
"inside news" passed around by
careless folk isn’t rumor-it’s lies
planted by the Axis to destroy
American morale.
Take those rumors about
drinking iu our Army Camps.
Actual, official (acts from the
government's own Office of War
Information showed there
wasn’t a shred of truth in ’em.
The boys enjoy a glass of beer
occasionally—same as a lot of
us do!
And from where I sit, they're
proving themselves the health
iest, best-disciplined bunch of
fighting men in history, like the
OWI report stated. That’s good
enough for me.
OtCva£
© 1943, BREWING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION. North Carolina Committee
Edgui H. Ouin, State Director. 606-60/ Inwtance Udg, Raleigh, K C. '
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NBW YORK, Aug. J-l.- -.Most
of us can remember when four,
billions of dollars was an amount
of money so large as to be be
yond imagination. Now it r-epre
isents the reduction the govern
ment has obtained on its war
purchases. It has just been an
nounced that this amount oi
funds has been returned to the
War. Navy and Treasury lie
partments and the Maritime Com
mission on war contracts thiough
renegotiation and voluntary,
price reductions. The bald state
ment would imply that compa
nies had sought to overcharge
the government. by huge sums.
Actually, the change in prices
have resulted from a number oi'
coises. Not thy least of these has
beet? a constaTil improvement in
manufacturing techniques. in
troduction of cost-saving meth
ods in line with industry's tra
ditional policy of reducing prices
as it increases its Volume and
reduces its costs. So great has
'been industry's emit11mtion to
the physical job of war produc
tion,- many of us have lost sight
of its even greater mope try con
tribution. For the four billion
dollars in reductions from con
tract prices, is, of course, in ad
dition to the heavy share of tin
total tax burden winch industry
is bearing.
SYNTHETIC To STAY Tim
deeper we get into production of
synthetic rubber, the better ap
pear the chances that this w..
stimulated industry for becoming
a permanent par of our p.
war industrial picture. \i the
opening of a new -la-hOO-foi:
plant his company built and is
operating for"-the government at
Borger, exas, the other day. -1
J. Newman, vice-president of l>.
F. Goodrich, brought out the
point. Over and heyoiid the need
for keeping synthetic plants op
erating oil at least a "standby
basis as defense insurance aftei
the war, he said, there is grow
ing likelihood tluiT synthetic will
some day give natural rubber a
real competition on ccoiiomh
grounds. Continuing application
of American ingenuity and re
search will probably accomplish
the same marveluous result in
cost reduction and (piality im
provements in this material that
we have seen take place in otliei
commodities and predicts.
THINGS TO COM K All iron
electrotypes itfnf iront-surfaced
stereotypes, to save Vital copper
and zinc -.Gaskets made from
reclaimed njhber instead of
scarce cork All-plastic bathroom
fixtures, ready after the war
including tumbler and tooth
brush holders, soap dishes, fau
icet handles, shower heads and
tank floats A “searrhray”. an
electronic device made by North
American Philips Co., to exam
ine contents of lunchhoxes,
briefcases and other packages
diorught into war plants by war
nized, Leinbach fii»ther stated
and in each organization the vol
untary workers mijrht well coin
pare their job with the job of
our fighting men in Sicily, Mun
da, and other theatres of action,
they have to light ev'ery inch of
the way in' man to man combat,
and they’re doing the job mag
nificently. The workers will
have to fight every minute of the
drive and I am sure they will do
it, for, as long as men are dying
we can't stop buying, or selling,
is the challenge that faces us,
and I feel confident of success
Inn meeting this challenge,”
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