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Memo To Defeat
ists Of America
In the years of th>? depression j
we had defeatists who told us our
industrial plant was overbuilt:
that we could never make use of
all our productive capacity.
In the crisis today we have
defeatists who t‘ 11 us that Am
erican industry can never over
take Germany’s head start in
armaments in time to win the
war.
Let all these gloomy men take
not. of an item in the report of
L-ving Olds, chairman of the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation, to
the company's annual meeting of
shareholders. He remarked that
the steel-making capacity of this
one company is gr ater than that
of all Germany as at present con
stituted.
Yet the steel corporation com
prises only one-third of Ameri
ca's total steel capacity. And the
s corporation, like the who! steel
industry, is working at capacity.
—New York Times.
India-War Factor
India has almost limitless man
power, much of it splendid fight
riiig material. In the last war she
put 1.500.000 men in the field, and
the present Indian Army has al
ready passed a half a million. But
the fact that the colonial author
ities were able to outfit and equip
the strong British forces just land
ed in Iraq without help from the
mother country reveals how far
India has developed as an indus- ‘
trial factor in the war.
We think of India as a land of
peasants scarcely touched by in
dustrialism. Yet India today is
producing 90U of all war sup
plies necessary to her armies and
will soon be self-sufficient. Her
600 states have the potential re
sources to out-produce Japan. A1
ready her ordinance factories are
pouring out all the rifles, ma- (
chine guns and artillery required
by existing troop formations,
with exports to spare for Aus
tralia. Her shipyards are launch- ,
ing torpedo boats as well as arm
ed sloops. Even tanks are rolling
xff the assembly lines, though
engines must still be supplied
from England and the United
States. American machine tools
are expected to remedy this de
ficiency. The annual output of
mechanically propelled vehicles
fits soared to 32,000 and is expect
cd to double. A plane factory in j
Southern India will come into1
production next year. The base
of all this activity is the Indian '
steel industry, with huge ore re-j
sources and one plant alone that i
ranks among the world’s first 16.
Even the political situation i
•eems better. Volunteering has in
creased beyond the capacity to;
absorb it. Nazi victories in Eu- i
cope have not broken the Indian <
home front, but instead have serv :
ed as a cohesive force. As In
dia’s industrial power develops
she will prove a pillar of strength
to Britain.
LEONARD BERLIN HOME
FROM FAR ANTARCTIC LAND
It isn't everybody who can
spend one summer in the South
and then turn right around and
spend another in the North,
without a winter in between.
Leonard Berlin who went from
Juneau to join the Byrd expedi
tion to the Antarctic, is doing it.
Though he says he'll take an Arc
tic winter in preferenc to an
Antarctic summer any year.
The Juneau man returned to
his desk in the Public Survey
Office aft r arriving in Juneau
after having been away just 18
months. 15 of them spent on the
Antarctic continent.
Never Thaws
The coldest it got while he was
there was 76 below zero, though
that was during the winter when
the expedition was holed up at
its base. He was out on the trail
with dogteams in temperatures of
40 below, however. The maxi
mum temperature during the 15
months was 30 degrees. It never
thaws in that part of the Antarc
tic. The country is covered by an
ice cap, from which great moun
tain ranges protrude. Where the
mountains are so steep snow
won’t stay on them under the
buffeting of the Antarctic wind
they are bare rock. Elsewhere
everything is ice. f
The only life encountered in
the Antarctic is an occasional
bird flying overhead in the sum
mer time. On the trail for weeks
at a time Berlin said the only
sound would b from the skis
and the dogs.
1.200 Miles on Skis
Berlin was one of a party of
of three which made the longest
land trip of the expedition, 1,200
miles by dogteam and skis. He
was engaged in laying ground
control for a-rial mapping, which
is large scale trinangulation to
assist aerial photographers in
mapping the coast line and moun
tain ranges. He also did some
geological work, and collected a
number of geological specimens
for himself, Th.sc he plans to
present to some Alaska collec
tion.
Leonard also brought back as
a souven.r a penguin fdead)
which he is having stuffed in
Boston.
During the summer season
here was work and lots of it for
the m n on the expedition, he
said. A c n-tant battle with the
elements added to the labor.
During the winter, the camp
retired under the snow to wait
out the long dark night. The
in n passed the time in playing
cards for the Acey-ducey cham
pionhsip of the Antarctic,” listen
mg to the radio and viewing mo
lion pictures. ,
10th Run Movies
Berlin said he saw the expedi
tion's movies over and over again j
Aft r all pictures had been i
shown several times the men
would vote on which one they
wanted to see. He said he saw
“The Joy of Living”' ten times
and believes he knows all the1
dialogue by heart. Irene Dunne
was the expedition's favorite act
ress.
Radio reception was wonderful
at the base, with the expedition
being able to hear all parts of
the world any time of the day or
night. For this reason, Berlin
says he thinks the men of the i
Byrd expedition had a better in- I
sight into the war than any other
group anywhere.
He enjoyed the experience a
great deal he says. Ask' d if he’d
go back on another, he thought
about it quite a while and then
replied, “not right away.”
Chief Cadastral Engineer Geo
rge A. Parks is sending Berlin
out later in the month on a field
survey trip to Anchorage.
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THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROrND
By Dr w Pearson
and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON—I* hasn’t been
announced but the Roosevelt cab
inet( has a new member.
He is Mayor Fmrello LaGuard
ia. Director of Civil Defense. The
dynamic little N-.w Yorker at
tended his first Cabinet meeting
recently and will participate in
all future weekly sessions.
A veteran of 37 years in publ c
office, LaGuardia is ore of the
abf st administrators in the coun
try. With the exception of Presi
dent Roosevelt, LaGuardia knows
more about governmental affairs
that any member of the Cabinet,
also has more drive and capacity.
By all odds he is the motst exp r
ienced and resourceful executive
the President has appointed in a
long time.
Aoparently desirous of taking
full advantage of this, the Pr si
dent directed LaGuardia to at
tend the weekly Cabinet delibera
tions. although he docs not have
titular cabinet status.
Some White Hous advisers
have long advocated that Defense
heads attend Cabinet sessions for
a closer integration of policy
making with the actual execution
of policy. They have in mind
OPM Chiefs Knuds n, Hillman,
Biggers, Stettinius and Nelson,
and Price Regulator Henderson.
NOTE:—On his first day in of
fice LaGuardia floored officials
who conferred with him about
taking over certain offices for his
new agency, by telling them:
"Just 1 ave the old furniture
that’s there. It’s good enough. We
don't need any new stuff.” Such
lack of swank is almost unheard
of in the Defense set-up.
NEWSPAPER DIPLOMATS
Working in cooperation with
the big press associations, the
State Department has evolved an
excellent plan for bettering press
relations in Latin American cap
itals.
From now on, experienced
newspapermen speaking Spanish
and Portuguese, will be attached
to the Buenos Aires. Rio dg Jan
eiro, Santiago, Chile; and sever
al other capitals.
Among the Latin American ex
perts already selected for this
job are William Wieland of the
Associated Press, former editor
of The Havana Post: and AP’s
Charlie Nutter, who has seen ser
vice throughout most of the globe
and now is in New Orleans.
Th Press association will lend
these and other men to the State
Department for the duration.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Carl R. Robbins, president of
the Commodity Credit Corpora
tion, is exiting from his job and
from the Agriculture Departm' nt
because he cannot get along with
Paul Appleby, cantankerous Un
der Secretary of Agriculture. At
lust a use is being found for this
country’s huge gold supply. Un
able to use it for mon y. and with
more and more gold piling up at
Fort Knox, we have Finally sent
some to the British to be used
for buying up Arab leaders in
Iraq and Arabia. Paper money
doesn't talk in those countries,
and gold sptaks much louder
than silver. Senator Pepper of
Florida is having a dispute with
liis good friend Harold Ickes over
"political ticks” and deer in Flor
ida. Pepper wants to kill all the
deer on the Seminole Indian re
servation because they spread cat
tie ticks. But Ickes says the deer
belong to the Indians, and they
have- a right to keep them. Also
he doubts whether they really
do have ticks. Frank Grillo, inter
national secretary-treasurer of the
CIO United Rubber Workers, has
denounced the American F*eace
Mobilization and National Labor
Committee Against War as lefist
controlled. Grillo is the only
prominent CIO leader to raise
his voice against these so-called
isolationist organizations.
WALL STREET BULLS AGAIN
Wall Street insiders apparently
never learn and never forget.
They can always be depended on
to do the wrong thing at the
right time.
After years of public distrust
and Washington hostility, the rul
ers of the New York Exchange
recently announced the selection
of Emil Schram, former Mid
west farmer and RFC chairman,
ss president of the exchange.
Ttiis was hailed with great fan
fi re as the dswn of a new day
n the "Street.” A: long last a
man f the people would run the
Exchange.
Exactly two weeks later, but
carefully not publicized. these
same insiders elected as chair
man and vice-president of .he
Beard of Governcrs. the real
.rasters of the Exchang , two
leedi"g floor “specialists.”
Floor specialists are traders
who deal chiefly for themselves
against the public. They do not
de al d r ctly with the public as
the commission houses do. The
Securities and Exchange Com
mission long has charged that
specialists are basically ins.de
sp cuiators, interested only in
the .r own profit and executing
outsid orders only on terms
1 beneficial to themselves.
For Schram if he inttends to be
b< ss in practice as well as in
name, this undercover ha'.chet
ing by the "floor crowd" bodes
ill. But for the SEC it is a break.
It can now show Congr-ss that
far from being reformed, the
stock exchange is in the hands of
the "same old gang.”
Remarkable Youth Record
B hind the President’s request
f r anoth r S60.030.000 for the
National Youth Administration to
train skilled workers for defense
industries is a remarkable record
of results.
Bet .veen lad December and
M y first, 149.904 NYA students
secur d jobs in factories and
shops. This month another 45.000
will step into defense jobs, and
NYA officials estimate that by
, June .30 more than 250,000 train
! ed workers will have been turn
: ed out. The new budg-t is for
I continuing this program in the
| next fiscal year.
The NYA has 5.307 shops thru
out the country training workers
in drafting, plumbing, carpenter
, ing, welding, foundry, radio, el
■ eotrical, aviation, machine tools,
automotive and many other vital
crafts. At pres nt 153,294 stu
dents are receiving shop school
! ing while another 110,075 are
j working on construction projects
and 139,758 in clerical and pro
fessional projects.
To keep in close touch with
' the needs of industry, NYA ad
' ministrator Aubr y Williams has
an advisory council made up of
I the operating heads of a number
! of the biggest plants in the coun
. try.
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PAGE PAUL BUNYAN
Many fabulous tales are relat
ed in the cloakrooms when mem
bers of Congress reminice, but
Representative Warren Magnu
! son,brainy young Washingtonion,
I can top them all. He claims he is
the only man in the world who
ever went to the Arctic Circle
in a Palm Beach suit.
The strange odysssey occurr d
in July, 1938, when plans for the
super-highway that is to be built
between the U. S. and Alaska
were in the embryo stage. Mag
nuson was chairman of the com
mission pick:d by the State De
partment to meet with Canadian
engineers to determine the best
route through British Columbia.
One day Magnuson got an ur
gent wire from the Canadians
asking if he could com. immed
iately for a conference at Prince
1 George, B. C. Not waiting to
change a Palm Beach suit he
was wearing, Magnuson grabbed
the first plane, planning to stop
off at his home in Seattle and
pick up some heavier clothes.
However, the plane reached
Seattle several hours late and,
still in summer togs, he had to
grab another plane immediately
for Prince George in order to ar
rive on time. There, to his great
amazement, Magnuson learned
that an air trip over the frigid
Yukon territory, with stops as
far north as Old Crow on the Arc
tic Circle had been planned by
his hosts.
“I had no choice but to go,
clad as I was,” recalls Magnuson.
“It was warm enough in the
plane and I wore a heavy lea
ther jacket when w.e landed. But
by the time we reached Dawson
in the Yukon my Palm Beach
suit was so torn and dirty that I
bought a pair of khaki pants for
$1.98.”
Magnuson jokingly put in a
claim for the pants with the
State Department, but is still
waiting for his $1.98.
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