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8,000 Doctors And
Dentists Needed By
December 31
To pharmacist’s mate 3rd
class, Paul Stanley Fra
ment posthumously went
the silver star with this ci
tation :
. . While serving with
a battalion of marines . . .
Frament, with utter disre
gard of his own personal
safety, worked his way to
a point where he wras dan
gerously exposed to hostile
sniper fire while treating a
wounded comrade. Later
unhesitatingly running in
to heavy barrage, he con
tinued to give aid to the
injuired until rendered un
conscious by an exploding
shell.
“Although evacuated to a hos
pital in a rear, he secured im
mediate release . . . and returned
to his unit. . . While working
fearlessly in another sector which
was under vigorous lire, he was
again evacuated because of ex
treme exhaustion. Returning two
days later he was injured by
naval gurtfire after his unit had
been withdrawn to a reserve areu
His resolute determination and
heroic devotion to duty were in
keeping with the highest tradi
tions of the United States Naval
Service.”
To assist the heroic Framents
of the U. S. army and navy med
ical personnel, the services need
an additional 7,000 doctors and
800 dentists to insure even min
imum care of the wtiunded
through December 31, 1943.
The War Manpower commis
sion pointed out that the army
already has made adjustments of
its requirements to meet civilian
needs. Certain deferments are
being granted to commissioned
internes to allow civilian hospi
tals an adequate supply of resi
dent physicians. The army also
has reduced its ratio of doctors
to troops beyond that originally
set forth in regulations based on
the findings of the Dodge com
mission immediately after the
Spanish American war.
6.6 Per 1,000 Men
^ fenc'd 7Von<C
fyiMt “SiUf
". .. and tell my old gang down
at the Telephone Company that
I’m tbmktng of them. 1 see tons
of telephone materials tvery day
over here— tn the form of tanks,
shells ana field communications
equipment Wt neea a steady
stream of these supplies to win—
and being a telephone man, 1
know that telephone itnes have to
carry many calls affecting produc
tion and transportation of fight
ing equipment. So 1 hope you
homefolks are helping to keep the
wires clear, for war calls which
MUST go through. Lose,
BILL/
Fellows like Bill Jones—on
the fighting front—know what
they’re talking about when
they say that Victory depends
upon an unceasing flow of sup
plies. And at home, those di
recting the war effort rely on
the telephone to keep muni
tions and men moving forward.
These urgent calls pass
through the same local tele
phone equipment you use. Yet
facilities can’t be expanded to
meet demands fully, because
the necessary materials are
being made into planes, tanks
and guns.
By avoiding unnecessary
local calls—and by speaking
briefly whenever you talk—you
help relieve crowded lines and
switchboards for war duty. In
that way you help speed vital
war calls. v
SouiHERn Bell Telephore
I MI TELEGRAPH COmPAAR
The commission recommended
a ratio of 8.5 doctors per thou
sand men, and this proportion
was made a matter of army re
quirement. Since March 18, 1943
however, the army has reduced
its demand to 6.6 doctors per
1,000 men in combat areas, and
4.6 doctors per thousand men in
non-battle areas. The changed
ratio works out to 53,000 civilian
doctors for the army and navy.
Of these, about 46,000 had been
commissioned as of August 15.
The average doctor probably
will face a more severe financial
adjustment than many other ci
vilians entering the armed servi
ces. On an average, he is con
fronted with a reduction of
more than 50 per cent in income.
Doctors of the age group being
commissioned would ordinarily
become first lieutenants in the
army or lieutenants (j.g.) in the
navy, with a base pay of $2,000
plus allowances of $1,404 annu
ally, against probable earnings
of around $8,000.
The navy assigns some re
serve doctors directly to service.
Medical graduates who interne
with the navy may, subject to
competitive examination, become
officers of the regular army and
or be commissioned in the re
Many newly commisisoned med
ical officers are given a nine
weeks indoctrination course in
tropical and naval medicine, sub
jects which are not adequately
covered in civilian medical insti
tutions. The course includes
chemical warfare, atmospheric
lygiene (submarine and uviation
—tropical diseases, particularly
malaria, filariasis, the dysenteri
es, all worm infections, plague, '
cholera—and those diseases that I
are seldom seen in epidemic form
i.n temperate zones. Considera- !
.ion also is given in the diseases
common in war areas, such as ty
phus, relapsing fev'er and nutri
tional disorders. The course in
surgery is restricted to those
casualties seen in combat and on
hoard ship; burns, compound
fractures, gunshot and shell
wounds.
Those doctors who enter the
army also, on a voluntary basis,
train to accompany paratroops;
to go with airborne infantry in
transports and gliders; to land
with troops in combined opera
tion on hostile shores.
However the bulk of the com
missioned army doctors re
ceive only the training at Carl
isle barracks. Pa., where they
spend six weeks on courses de
signed chiefly to orient them to
army life, and to acquaint, them
with the responsibilities and du
ties of army doctors.
Trained in Army School
_The purpose of the school, as
stated in tiie orders if the army,
is, “to instruct and train officers
of the medical department in
the principles and methods of
medical held service in order that
they may perform efficiently
those duties which may reasona
bly be assigned to them. The
course is designed to orient and
give the newly commissioned
medical department officer a gen
eral background of information
comcerning the army as a whole
its organization and function of
the arms. He is then taught the
organization and function of
medical units, their relation to
the arms and services, and how
to apply his professional knowl
edge under conditions peculiar to
the army, lie is made to appre
ciate the additional responsibility
he will have as an army officer.
The medical department of the
army comprises approximately
500.000 enlisted personnel and
117.000 officers, including nurses
of commissioned rank. The offi
cer personnel includes 07,000
on the medical corps 12,000 in
the dental corps, 1,800 in the
veterinary corps, 425 physiothe
rapists, 1 1,500 in medical admin
istratiins, 1,700 sanitary corps
officers and 33,000 nurses as of
August 1, 1943. To this added
a staff of approximately 700
commissioned experts in dietetics
and nutrition.
Navy Hospital Lorpimen
The navy problem does not
wholly coincide with that of the
army except in the instance of
I naval medical ifficers who serv'e
' with the marine fleet force. Army
j doctors find it necessary to han
dle considerable administrative
! work which, in the navy, revol
ves upon the hospital corps,
Whose officers hold temporary
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Governor Broughton Visits
Big Long Island War Plant
0
North Carolina’s chief executive praised industry’s con
tribution to the war effort when he saw vital instruments in mass
production on a tour of the huge new Long Island plant of the Sperry
Gyroscope Company, whose precision products are used by all branches
of the Allied armed forces. Above photo shows Governor Broughton
(center) inspecting one of the factory areas with (left) Sperry Corpora
tion President T. A. Morgan, who is a native of Vance County, North
Carolina, and Sperry Gyroscope Company President R. E. Gillmor.
//
Behind The Scenes
In American Business
—By John Craddock—
//
NEW YORK, Nov. 1. — How
does it happen that, although ev
er since Pearl Harbor showed us
how unprepared for war we real
ly were we have had no produc
tion of a number of important
civilian products, there are still
some of them in the stores? A
question that retailers and their
customers have been asking for
a long time. Soon they’ll ask it
no more. For what we were liv
ing on was what the economists
call “inventory fat" . We had ac
cumulated a lot of refrigerators,
washing machines, toys, bobby
pins and countless other items,
and there was nothing to pre
vent the manufacturers and dis
tributors from selling them off.
These supplies made it possi.
ble for merchants everywhere to
meet at least a part of the de
mand. Also, they made it impos
sible to judge accurately wheth
er the restrictions on civilian
production were justified. By
now we have come to about the
end of the inventory supplies.
Now we will have a chance to
find out whether, for example, we
can actually get alonj* without
making any more washing ma
chines until the war is over—es
pecially since the people are now
working at dirty jobs and since
Jaundries are too busy to take on
new work.
Chances are that the Office of
Civilian supply will begin to per
mit some production of some
needed items soon. Retailers in
small cities would do well to
keep in touch with their distrib
utors to be sure of getting their
share when it comes.
RUBBER REALITIES — A
card holders who have been look
ing hopefully toward the day
when they can reshoe old Betsy
rank as hitch as lieutenant com
mander. Corpsmen also have
their schools and special training
The skill and v'ersatility of corps
men is illustrated by the pharma
cist’s mhte who, on a submarine,
performed an emergency appen
dectomy. Work of this kind is by
no means within the line of their
duty, but the case is cited as a
sample of the calibre of the corps
men in the navy.
HospiVal corpsmen cover a
wide field of activity, clerical
work and correspondence, hospi
tal and case records, hospital
supplies maintenance and ristri
bution, pharmacy, chemistry and
allied duties. They do first-aid
and minor surgery and help in
operations. They embalm and as
sist at autppisies. They fnay be
come assistant public health offi
cers or do work in X-ray. They
also do ward nursing, plan camp
sites and carry on field sanita
tion, do commissary duty in hos
pitals, including purchase and ac
counting.
The army trains enlisted per
sonnel for work similar to that
if the hospital corpsmen at Camp
Grant, 111., and Cbmp Barkley,
Texas. They also have officer
candidate schools for medical ad
ministrative personnel at Carl
isle Barracks. Pa., and at Camp
Barkley.
with new synthetic tires must
curb their impatience "until mid
1044 at least,’’ according; to Geo.
W. Vaught, vice-president of the
B. P. Goodrich company. Al
though there is now plenty of
synthetic rubber pouring from tin
large military tires, especially
of GR-S plants, the building of
those for airplanes, takes so
many more man-hours and mach
ine-hours that the industry will
be hard put to exceed the goal
of 50,000,000 ’‘essential’' civil
ian tires needed in 1044, Vaught
reported in a speech at Dallas.
As an example, he pointed out
that the same personnel and the
same equipment can turn out 40
of the 8.25 by 20 civilian tire3
in the same time that only six
and one hall' of the 50-inch air
plane tires can be made. Even
the mid-year date is just an es
timate and by no means a prom
ise.” he added, so you’d better
keep babying the tires you have.
THINGS TO COME— News
print made from de-inked news
print . Quick-frozen codfish cakes
.-Machinery for eviscerating of
fowl by mechanical means.,-Lug
gage material made from blotting
paper impregnated with synthe
tic rubber--Apparatus for stim
ulating plant growth by artificial
light.
■ftCID TEST—Busy as it is with
the problems of meeting war re
quirements. American industry
finds time and methods for test
ing ideas for postwar develop
ment. Tiny aluminum ‘‘guinea
i pigs” are being used to determine
i whether nitric acid can safely be
carried in giant railway tank
cars of the same material. The
“guinea pigs" are tiny cans made
of aluminum alloys identical to
those which might be used in tank
cars. Tests show that it would
take 50 years to corrode alumi
num, according to A. R. Woolen
of the Development Division of
the Aluminum Company of
America.
Other tests have proved that
aluminum lined coal hoppers will
stand the wear and tear of coal
and the elements for a minimum
of 20 years. In the company’s
research laboratories at New
Kensington, Pa., aluminum coal
hoppers have been filled with coal
and exposed to the elements for
the past 11 vears. Microscopic
inspection reVeals the jtlatea in
ends and sides have not changed
appreciably from the original
thickness, according to Woolan.
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ELVIa
GRAHAM
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NEW YORK, N. Y.—Scarcely
a yveett govs by without news dis
patches or pictures showing us
sive pripuRauda campaign along
how ivussiu carries on Her inten
the Russo-Gernxan baUlefront.
Rut, oddly eonugh, little is
heard or published about our
own If. S. word-warfare; our
leaflets which coordinate the use
of psychology with troops, planes
ships and guns to break, down
the enemy.
In this column last week I re
printed parts of two of our leaf
lets and gave you the text in
German (as it appears) along
with the translation in English.
These two examples showed how
we propagandize the German
front-line soldiers.
In passing it is interesting to
note that in contrast to Russian
methods (which may or may not
be more effective) we seem to
use the direct approach, giving
facts and figures or making an
appeal to logic and reason.
The Russians on the other
hand, do not use analyses. Nor
do they use anything faintly re
sembling pre-war ideological or
intellectual persuasions. Instead
then concentrate on sentiment—
using appeals to the most basic
of human emotions: love— of
sweetheart, home and family;
fear—of death, discomfort, in
jury and defeat.
Personally, 1 imagine that the
Russian propaganda is more ef
fective than either the British
or .American variety. Neverthe
less, we are in there pitching,
and some of our stuff is bound
to have results also. No doubt we
shall have to wait till long after
the war to realy ascertain the
actual Value and comparative re
VIRUS IK MATERIALS—For
a generation or more, medical
researchers have been handicap
ped because the finest misco
scopes tnev could buy could not
enlarge germs and viruses sutfi
cientlv to see what they were
really like. Even the shortest
waves of visible light are far too
long to permit seeing anything
so small. Nothing so infinitesimal
was ever seen. Then the electron
miseoscope was invented—a de
vice which literally lifts small
particles into sizes that can be
seen and studied.
Medical research was thus giv
en a tremendous boost forward.
But so was industry. For the
same device now makes it possi
ble to see what makes wool act
like wool, metal like metal, leath
er like leather, and oil like oil.
For under the stimulus of war
time needs, it is imperative to
learn now, why one kind of wool,
metal, leather or oil is stronger,
more elastic, tougher, more use
ful than another.
In the peacetime world to
come, research will continue, and
the electron microscope, accord
ing to engineers of Radio Corpo
ration of America, will play a
large part in the further devel
opment of countless new prod
ucts, because more will be known
about the properties of virtually
eVery material man uses.
BITJS O’ BUSINESS—Reflec
tion of greater prosperity is seen
in the fact that outstanding loans
on life insurance policies have
now shrunk, to around 2 1-3 billi
ons, compared with nearly 4 bil
lions at depression’s depth The
railroads last year spent 16.1
cents out of each revenue dollar
in 1942 fo taxres, compared with
4.6 cents during last year.
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suits of the varying techniques.
But to get back to U. S. efforts
—this week 1 have another of
our leaflets (sent from overseas)
and this time it is the type yhich
is being dropped behind the
German lines. This one is de
signed primarily for German ci
vilians rather than the soldiery.
It is too long to give both the ac
tual German text and the English
translation, but here is what it
says:
“For many years frenzied ap
peals have been made to you by
your leaders. Never before were
such tasks imposed on a genera
tion. You have performed great
tasks; enormous, superhuman
And impossible ones still remain !
to be performed if the politics of I
megalomania of your insatiable
leaders is to he defended to the
last against a world in aims
which now demands justice.
“You have performed immense
tasks,, and your generation has
suffered enormously.
"The whole world, in arms, is
standing against you. Hitler's
cause is lost. Should Germany
and all your generation perish?
“The inevitable end of irre
sponsible and adventurous un
dertakings of your leaders drays
near. It is close at hand. Should
it not come as soon as possible?
“Would you because of your
nesitancy become accomplices
and bring about further sacrifi
ces
“When the end shall come de
pends on you! If you want to
help delay the end further. Ger
many—-your generation and your
selves will perish completely.
“Now German youth must act
:o save itself, its country, its
people from doom! PUT AN END
TO THE SLAUGHTER OF
YOUR PEOPLE. LAY DOWN
YOUR ARMS."
On the reverse side of this
U. S. leaflet, printed in German,
s this propaganda message.
oireams or German Dlooa:
“Streams of German blood have
Towed out into the world. Since
June 1941. every minute, day
and night, young Germans have
died.
“At tiie beginning of the war
there were ten million male Ger
mans between l.r) end 30. The
.oungest of these have been
drafted for a long time.
“And of these 10,000,000
2.500.000 are dead
2.500.000 are crippled
“If you do not believe these
figures you have only to think
of whole ranks of your comrades
of pro war days blown to pieces
—and to remember the last ca
tastrophe at Stalingrad and in
the Caucasus
“HALF OF YOUR GKN Id RA
TION IS ALREADY WIRED
OUT. IT HAS BECOME THE
DUTY OF EVERY YOUNG
G E R M A X T O S A V E
HIS LIFE. ONLY THEREBY
CAN HIS NATION SURVIVE.
“Meantime the old gang of
leaders—who have become your
executioners— are sitting com
fortably at home, and are even
now spurring you on to light.
“This fight is not yours! It
is the tight of desperation of
those who have seduced the Ger- j
man Nation; who now seek to
put off the final reckoning by j
continuing the war.
“Germany has done enough !
fighting. Germany needs peace. ]
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Conservation
NEWS
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T. L. Rhyne, R 1, Dallas,
plans 10 cut a canoau ol puip
wood this winter by thinning out
his thick pine stands. Thinning
out the crowded and poor quali
ty trees will not only produce
good pulpwood but will also
leave the woods in better condi
tion for growing a future crop
of saw timber. Timber is also a
crop, and responds to thinning
and working as much as cotton
and corn.
Dr. W. A. Anthony, on his
farm in the Pisgah church section
has a fine crop of Volstate soy
beans which he planted for oil.
They were planted in rows and
worked and. judging from a re
cent inspection, an excellent crop
will be harvested. He plans to
combine them in a few days.
Terrace lines were staked re
cently in the following forms:
K. E. Friday, W. D. Plonk, Sid
ilov'is, M. A. Plonk, J. P. Eum
iney and Frank Friday, ail Rt. 1
Oailas, and the county terracing
unit will complete these farms
as weather permits.
Several ucres ol' pines were
marked f<\ thinning: recently on
Mrs. J. C. Robinsons farm, lo
cated in Robinson community.
The trees marked for removal
will be cut for fuel wood by the
tenants this winter as wood is
needed. This practice will pro
vide the usual supply of winter
Wood for the farm by cutting
out the crooked, crowded and
otherwise. undesirable trees,
leaving the remaining better
trees with more room to grow.
In cooperation with the Fish
and wildlife service, fish for
farm ponds will be made avail
able this full, through the Soil
Conservation District program
to the following co-operators:
f. C. Danieron, K 1, Bessemer
City: It, E. Friday, R-l, Dallas,
L. A. Thornburg, near High
Shoals: and A. H. Black, Rt„ 1,
CherryVillc. These fish ponds will
he rst.oeked and managed in ac
cordance with the recommenda
tions for the maximum produc
tion of fish for food and provid
ing recreation at home.
Bring it to pass. Germany has
bled enough. Must the war go
on and on?”
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