PAGE SIX | | | | Washington, D. C. BITTER DEFERMENT FIGHT The backstage fight over who is direct the deferment of essential ar workers is approaching white eat. It is being waged between cer- ain of the biggest war chiefs in ashington, having developed into row between the army-navy, B boss Donald Nelson, his vice airman Charley Wilson, and Paul ¢Nutt. Only the White House will be able to straighten out the tangle. | Trouble began when Undersecre- of War Patterson and the army roposed that the question of indus- ial draft deferments be placed in e hands of the Production Execu- ve committee of which WPB Vice hairman Charley Wilson is chief. ae army-navy, which started out by trying to cut Wilson's throat, now doves him, but continues to hate Donald Nelson. So their recom- mendation of Wilson to handle draft {deferments was a slap at Nelson. { Nelson immediately slapped back. [He and War Manpower Commis- sioner Paul McNutt went to the {White House and told the President that industrial deferments were the Job of the War Manpower commis- sioner. In fact, McNutt hinted that, the President didn’t consider the War Manpower commission compe- tent to handle the question, he could get another Manpower Commis- sioner. i Donald Nelson backed him up. Since this meant taking the defer- ment job away from Nelson’s own War Production board, it was a direct slap at Charley Wilson. Nel- | son even went further and indicated | that Wilson and the Production | Executive committee were con- | trolled by the army. More Civilian Goods? This row over essential war- worker deferments also has brought to light another important inside de- bate over reconversion for civilian Production. Chief battlers in this row are Nelson and Wilson, with the &rmy-navy rooting for Wilson. Wilson would like to begin produc- tion of 200,000 automobiles soon, but Nelson flatly opposes. Aside from autos, however, Wilson does not favor getting back into too much elvilian production any time soon. To study the problem, he appointed '& committee to formulate a policy fon reconversion—which brought no enthusiasm at all from his nominal boss, D. Nelson, who disbanded the __tommittee. i Nelson's cancellation, in turn, roused the ire of General Lucius | Clay, General Somervell’s chief pro- duction man, and Clay is now Rhreatening to appoint an army-navy [eommittee to study reconversion | and make Wilson its head. Behind this Nelson-Wilson row | Over reconversion is the basic con- | flict between big business and little | business. Big business doesn’t want &ny reconversion until it is finished | [ with its war orders and, at present, it is chock-a-block with war orders. On the other hand, little business, which didn’t get so many war or- ders, would like to begin right now making alarm clocks, electric irons, bicycles and a lot of small stuff which the public needs. Big busi- ness, however, doesn’t want little business to get a head start. In this row, Nelson sides with little business. His friends also clam that Wilson favors the big business viewpoint and wants to wait until the war is over, so everybody can line up at the starter’s tape and get an equal start. The army sides with Wilson and big business for fear the second front may take more JOB TO DO IN LONDON Those close to Secretary of State Hull say he is not happy over the UNION PRESS-COURIER, So the army has now agreed to ~ How a Pulpwood Shortage the following: 1. No man will be sent overseas mission to London undertaken by | without getting a ten-day furlough. energetic young Undersecretary Ed 2. This furlough provides that he Stettinius. Originally, the trip was Will actually get ten days at home, planned partly to please the British, | Plus time to travel from his base who hinted that we had sent no im- portant emissaries to London since Harry Hopkins’ call on Churchill two years ago. | and back. * * * CAPITAL CHAFF ¢ King Carol of Rumania is re- However, Stettinius is on the way | ported readying himself for a Soviet to turning the mission into some- | call back to Bucharest by way of thing really important. He is sched- | Natal. The diplomatic grapevine has uled to discuss five important sub- | it that he will be reinstated by the jects with the British. They are: 1. Stabilization of the dollar and | € Loyal pound after the war. 2. A world bank. 3. Stabilization of commodities. | Louise Russians. General Jim Ulio, who served as best man to Captain Alf Heiberg when he married Mrs. Atwill, the former Mrs. This would mean the application of | Douglas MacArthur, later was kid- Wallace's ever-normal granary to all basic commodities such as tin, rub- ber, copper, sugar, with a system of buying and selling to keep prices stabilized. 4. Oil and the Near East. The | United States wants to avoid a cut- throat battle for oil such as occurred with Britain after the last war and which is already threatened as a re- sult of the Arabian pipe-line wrangling. 5. The future boundaries of Ger- many. German boundaries were tenta- tively discussed at Teheran, but now Dr. Isaiah Bowman, famed geographer, has accompanied Stetti- nius to London to talk details. Bow- man was Woodrow Wilson's geo- graphic expert at Versailles, and some officials are critical of his choppirg-up of Europe. This imposing agenda has irked Secretary Hull. Apparently, it was pretty well arranged while he was in Florida. Also, Hull was always jealous of the trips Sumner Welles took to Rio, Rome, London and Ber- lin, and now it looks as if his new undersecretary might also be crowd- ing him for the limelight. * * Ed MORE HORSE LEATHER Representative Calvin Johnson of Illinois has been badgering the war department and the War Production board to get more harness for farm horses. With leather short, and har- ness buckle metal diverted to war production, harness is scarce. Also, the army has bought up tremendous supplies of harness. In campaigning for more harness, Representative Johnson suddenly bumped into the fact that the army was only just now releasing from its Jeffersonville, Ind., quartermaster depot a total of 30,000 sets of har- ness — carefully stored away since the last war. * * * FREE RADIO TIME Broadcasters are wondering how many other congressmen will follow the example recently set by Mary- land’s Senator Millard Tydings, At the close of his: regular weekly broadcast, he announced that he would discontinue the series because he did not wish to subject the radio station, WBAL, to charges of unfair- ness during the coming senatorial campaign. * * OIL SUBSIDY The OPA has now recommended a system of oil subsidies to Eco- nomic Stabilizer Vinson ranging from 25 cents to 75 cents a barrel for all low-producing wells, namely those oil wells averaging nine bar- rels per day or less. This would give a subsidy to about 80 per cent of the nation’s wells and would cost the government about $60,000,000 a year. ded about his wedding duties. He replied: ‘‘If Louise can come down from four stars to two bars, I can.” @ The United States is cutting off its nose to spite its face in regard to De Gaulle and the Free French. We are still freezing French funds in order to hamstring De Gaulle, which means that we will have to dig down into our own U. S. treasury to pay France’s share of the UNRRA fund. Each nation is supposed to contrib- ute a share to this world relief fund, and since we are tying up French funds, we will have to find the money some place. @ In Recife, thousands of cheering Brazilians welcomed Mrs. Roosevelt by singing ‘‘God Bless America’’ in Portuguese. ¢ A conspiracy is on to euchre another sizable hunk of the man- power problem out from under Paul McNutt. Undersecretary of War Pat- terson, rubber czar Bradley Dewey and WPB’s production wizard, Charles E. Wilson, want to take the deferment of skilled industrial work- ers away from McNutt and put it under a special committee headed by Wilson. ¢ Reason for sparse publicity on the First Lady’s Latin-American tour was the war department’s refusal to let the newswomen who usually cover Mrs. Roosevelt go along. WEEKLY HEALTH TALK As Compiled by the Medical So- ciety of Pennsylvania. Many persons seem amazed that Senora Diligenti, mother of the nine | | | 1 | | raonths-old Argentina quintuplets, is forty-two years old. FERER The health of a mother, rather than her age, is the important factor in childbearing. *kkEkx About two per cent of first babies are barn when their mothers are ov- er thirty-five years of age. HERES Thursday, April 27th, 1944. a Handicaps the Farmer... MILLIONS OF EGGS WOULD NEVER REACH THE MARKET FRUIT AND VEGETABLES WOULD ROT IN THE FIELDS FEED STOCK AND FERTILIZER WOULD SELL IN BULK ONLY VINCENT A. HUBER Pulpwood helps the farmer both in the marketing and the planting of his field crops. Feed, fertilizer, seeds and other farm essentials come to the farmer in containers made of pulpwood. Fruits, vegetables, dairy products and other Peel Your Pulpwood for Highest Prices! VICTORY PULPWOOD COMMITTEE S. P. DIETRICK, CHAIRMAN, PATTON, PA, CHARLES J, CORDELL K. C. RHODY ... WITHOUT PULPWOOD TO MAKE CONTAINERS farm produce are packed in pulpwood wraps, liners, and paperboard boxes before they reach the consumer. And most important, pulpwood containers help the farmer feed our armed forces overseas. xX hy ¥ *, » EXIIE Xx % ont’ @ne third of 1 per.cent i ) bies are born when their mothers are more than forty years old. EHEEFE The risk to mothers is greatest with the first child and with the last of several children. dkkkE Every year in Pennsylvania there are more than 5,000 babies born to women more than forty years of age. FERRER Between 400 and 500 babies are born in Pennsylvania every year to women who are between the ages of ferty-five and fifty. EET ES An average of about 10 babies are born in this state every year to wo- men who have passed their fiftieth The plan was secretly worked out | birthday. by some of the independents but, when the big companies heard about it, they raised such a howl that the little fellows backed out, stating pub- licly that they had not been cooper- ating with the government in devis- ing the subsidy scheme. However, it looks as if the plan would go through. Pennsylvania wells, which are the deepest, will EEE EES Eighty per cent of women give birth to their first babies when be- tween the ages of fifteen and thirty- five. HERE Half of the first babies born have mothers between twenty and twen- ty-five years of age. HERE That it is better for both mothers stands an adult. Eve criminal negligence. of right or wrong. the child. The kind to the schools. n't any bad children WHO IS DELINQUENT? [*** BY RUTH TAYLOR. Today, wherever we turn, we find SS Drobiem of juvenile delinquency led the other day by the federal-state |; southeast than northern counties. crop reporting service for vegetable | staring us in the face. We are all | growers’ delay in signing contracts |, i, farms April 1 were 9,000,000 deeply stirred by the attacks of hood- lums in our big citiies. But—we can't | with canneries for 1944 production. pass off hoodlumism as just the acts | of children. Behind every child there | employes subject delinquency convicts some adult of | oe neglect or indifference amounting to | their spring work by low tempera- | vos farmed last year by & per cent ; | tures and rains, the report said. : ° Children are not born with a sense | In its first weekly summary of It is the family | conditions, the service that has the first chance to civilize | crop prospects: Strawberries, below average; child displays depends upon the kind | paragus, better than average and a of adults after whom he has pattern- ed himself. And the adults connot|coming fast and prospects quite pro- | dodge their responsibility or shift it | mising in the southeastern counties. | great many bad parents. They are: } lazy or neglectful. They don’t realize §& that sending a child to school isn’t TE VEGETABLE GROWERS DOUBTFUL OF THE LABOR AID pared to 83 per cent a year ago; pas- A doubtful labor supply was blam- The growers, with many of their] | bushels because of 20 per cent incre- |ase in seeded acreage. Rye, 77 per cent of normal, com- ture 80 per cent of normal, compared to 84 per cent in 1943; hay, better Corn, wheat and oats on Pennsyl- | bushels below last year’s holdings. The Farm Security Administration to the military | 4iqc1osed, meanwhile, that the 3,470 ~y act of juvenile | recruiting Hncerto ry act of juvenile | graft, and labor recruiting uncertain | toy iieq participating in its program success, have of behavior a | | been hindered in} expect first cutting due soon; to increase their 406,541 ac- [in 1944. Carson F. Mertz, FSA director, said efforts were being made to sur- | pas: all of last year’s higher pro- a8-| duction, which ranged from a 5 per © | cent gain for soy beans to 91 per fruit buds, | cent in the amount of beef sold. listed these —Buy a bond each pay day and Winter wheat crop may exceed last [help crush the tottering Axis just a The other day I was talking to a| year’s 13,277,000 bushels by 3,500,000! 11; truant officer. He said, “There are- bit sooner. , but there are a oSoeselecloctocteete Loco ote foto lo Be Be 8. 0. 0. fe she sie o . . . jo . bo . fo fo . . e . fo o lo jo A re o o fo . . lo le RA Ps tl i A a a AA GG i enough. They have to condition his attitude towards the school and tow- ards other chidrn. And they have to] see to it that he has spiritual food _ as well as material. In most of the cases I have to investigate, I find that the parents are unwilling to turn | out on Sunday to go to Church with their children, They don’t seem to see Production than we realize. Those are the issues. Meanwhile, some insiders, especially the army, &re out again to get Nelson’s scalp. get the highest subsidy. ? » 2 and babies if the first babies are born to women under forty years of age is generally accepted by medical au- thorities. ARMY FURLOUGHS Young Congressman Henry (‘Scoop’) Jackson of Washington has just been mustered out of the army to go back to congress. One of his first acts after getting into Fxkkk Some physicians claim all babies should be born before the mother is forty years old. Balsinger & Luther civilian clothes was to call on Lieu- tenant General McNair, head of army ground forces, and effect a eokok ok ok Senora Diligenti is an exception, as that religion is one of the biggest ne- cessities in a child's life. It’s the stick IT TTT TT ATT TTTTTPTTITVITTTPTTPPeP GREENHOUSES major change in handling men about | regards age. a, on which the vine has to grow.” af ? 4 to go overseas. oT iad Lack of religious and ethical train- wi ' § [7 Flowers for All Occasions He told McNair that one big gripe A mother of quintuplets is incom- ing is one of the greatest factors in od 4 .» Stores At se of the boys was that they often got | Parable at any Bee juvenile delinquency If a child has a no chance to visit their homes REET no standards by which to grow, he . EBENSBURG, . . Phone 298 before being shipped abroad. All When to Plant Garden. is groping in the dark. If he learns it| §& . BARNESBORO, 878 men were given seven-day furloughs The time to plant the garden is|js smart to dodge the law, that the ; CRESSON, . .. ” 6681 regardless of where they lived — | determined by local conditions as well only sin is getting caught, he is on IF YO U NEED M ONE Y the road to crime. If he hears his parents lying, he sees no reason for the truth, If at home he hears vio- lent diatribes against any group, whether it be of religion, color, na- tionality or class, his first impulse is | ti attack them. The parents may be only careless or thoughtless—but a child believes | 4 what he hears and takes it seriously. It is from the home that hoodlumism | ¢ springs and it is in the home that it can be and must be stopped. It isnt the child alone that is de- |} linquent. It is the parents who stand | convicted before the bar of public op- inion. It isn’t just a wave of delinquency amceng children that is sweeping the country and causing so much trou- ble. It is a wave of delinquency am- | | ong parents. Let's do something ab- | % out the delinquent parents—and ju-|& venile delinquency will take care of itself. as the kind of vegetable to be plant- ed, Penn State vegetable specialists remind. even if their homes were on the West Coast and they were in camp on the East Coast. — DON'T DISTURB WAR STAMPS AND BONDS! SEE US FOR A LOAN. RE. PAY US MONTHLY. Keep your Wan Stamps and LRonds! Flowers Telegraphed Anywhere PROTECT YOUR WAR BONDS FROM FIRE AND LOSS Hours: 9 to 5:00 Daily, Except Wednesday Afternoon 1 BARNESBORO BUDGET PLAN, INC. BARNESBORO BBD BDDPVDDPTRTPd hadi J dh hh hh hh hh hh hh hh bh a a dk a 2 a) PPT TTPTY Use Our SAFEKEEPING Department First National Bank, Carrolltown Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Telephone 467 Buy War Bonds and Stamps! tiem Nf ermine: —The chap who cashes in his war bonds without necessity is the same as the soldier who quits in battle, BooBoote Reels ole sede ole este oe de sledkerte de oats clots ciate stock, nr DS —— —— a
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