There’s A Great
Day Coming
Jlying Chaplain Expects Ser
vicemen to Institute
Religious Revival
By JOHN FRYE
CINCINNATI — The “Flying
Chaplain’’ wouldn’t be surprised
if America’s sky pilots, soldiers
and sailors helped give the na
tion a new and lasting religious
nature, based on personal re
lations rather than organization
after the war.
Major James C. Crosson, su
pervising chaplain of the Army
Air Forces’ ferrying division, who
is responsible for the spiritual
welfare of the thousands of
men delivering battle planes to
battle fronts, puts It this way:
“Our chaplains are trying to
make their relations with the
men personal. It’s part of the
education of the chaplain, all of
whom expect to return to the
ministry after the war, to em
phasize the personal side rather
than denominational and corpo
rate side.
Deeper Religious Feeling
“When they all come back, the
men. as a result of their battle
trials, will have a deeper relig
ious feeling. The chaplains will
help invigorate the ministry be
cause they’ll know the value of
personal contact — of pastoral
calls—and they’ll know what the i
servicemen went through and,
sre thinking about.”
Major Crosson, former rector
cf St. Mary’s Episcopal church in
Buffalo, has been chaplain of the
ferrying division from the start.
They call him the “Flying Chap
lain” because he travels from di
vision headquarters here to posts
scattered over the country.
Although chaplains aren’t sup
posed to pilot a plane, he man
ages to hitch a ride wherever he
has to go and admits he watched
everything the pilot did so he’d
know something about keeping
the ship in the air “just in case.’’
Personal Attention
Throughout his work, Major
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Chaplain James €. Crosson Gives
Orientation Lecture
Crosson drums the theme of per
sonal attention into group chap
lains under his supervision, whom
he calls the ‘‘greatest bunch in
the world.’’ The manuals pre
pared for their use say practi
cally nothing of ritual or theolo
gy. Instead they ask the chap
lains questions like these. ,
“Have you ever visited mar
ried enlisted men at their quar
ters ’’
“Do you manifest interest in
the couples you marry, It’s a
serious step. Keep in touch with
them afterward!’’ »
“Are you chaplain to both of
ficers and enlisted men
“Do you help the soldier at
night? Or is spiritual ministra
tion for daylight only?
“Do the soles of your shoes out
last the seat of your trousers?’’
Although ferry pilots are not
supposed to get into combat wifh
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at an altar to pray somewhere in
the southwest Pacific.
the enemy, their need for chap
lains is as great as that of the
combat men, Major Crosson says.
“They meet hazards, flying
over unknown territory, running
into storms, having engine trou
I ble, and the like, almost as great
as the combat flyers,’’ he says.
Major Crosson says that among
the Ferrying Division men, few
, if any resisted the efforts of the
| chaplains. They look upon chap
lains as their best friends.
Surprise For Folks Home
j “They all learn that there are
I some things beyond the reach of
’man alone,” he declares, "and
(they come to us. There are few
| irreligious men.’*
Major Crosson concedes that
possibly many of the younger
;men, whose parents were part of
j the so-called “lost generation’’ of
| the early 1920’s, might come home
and surprise their elders on Sun
days by saying “Let’s go to
church.’’
He cites as an example of the
close relationships between fer
ry pilots and chaplains one pilot
who got hopelessly lost on a
flight.
The pilot went through no
ritual in his prayer. He simply
said, “Lord, give me a bearing
and I won’t forget You.”
He arrived at his destination
at last. Now. he goes to church
! before a mission and wont start
! his flight unless the crew goes
too.
RUBBER SHORTAGE
HITS CYCLING HUSH
DUBLIN —(AP)— Nowadays
the quickest way to an Irish
girl’s heart is not via a pair of
silk stockings, but via a set of
cycle tires and tubes, or even one
tire.
Rubber shortage has driven
most of the tires into the Irish
black market. Cycle dealers are
supposed to get a percentage of
their normal purchases, but in
12 months only a few have been
j able to buy a tire from a retail
er.
Dublin was once described as
“the cyclingest city in Europe
after Copenhagen.’’
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Civilian
Gripes Get
An Airing
By JACK STTNNET
WASHINGTON — One of the
frequently unhappiest, often
scrappiest, divisions of the War
Production Board is the Office of
| Civilian Requirements, headed
by Arthur L. Whiteside.
His primary abjective is to see
that the war effort isn’t ham
pered by bottlenecks in civilian
necessities. There is no intention
on the part of government to
fix things up so that civilians
in wartime can rock in the
lap of luxury, but It does recog
nize that there is a civilian sup
ply minimum below which
health, morale and efficiency
might break down and cause
home-front setbacks just as vi
tal as the loss of important bat
tles on the fighting front.
That’s why OCR is going di
rectly to the source within the
next few weeks with one of the
most extensive “public opinion
polls’’ that the government has
yet conducted. It’s going to be a
cross-section sampling of the na
tion’s housewives to find out
just what war economy has done
to homelife and home manage
ment; to list all the civilian
gripes as well as the sacrifices
which are being made cheerfully
and might even be extended: and
to check up on those things, both
| national and sectional, which are
I causing the greatest civilian
grief.
• • •
I have never been a pole ad
dict. I have always felt that a
poll is much bke a lie-detector.
The answer is there, all right,
but it takes a scientific genius
to interpret it correctly. However,
I have seen the 20-odd page gjjes
tionnaire which OCR plans to
circulate under the direction of
the University of Denver’s Na
tional Opinion Research Center
and I have a hunch that the
government is going to learn a lot
from this one
Present plans call for present
ing it to some 10.000 housewives.
OCR is planning to base 1944 civ
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ilian requirements on this poll,
which makes it about the most
important quiz program the gov
ernment has launched since
World War II started.
The questionnaire will cover
everything from diaper pins to
| automobiles and in the kitchen
i division will range from pots
and pans to garbage cans.
Sectional and national short
ages, price ceiling punctures,
black markets and surpluses will
be ferreted out.
Investigators are being school
ed now in test surveys. OCR will
want to know if your bus or
trolley service is adequate; if
you can get a doctor when you
need one; how long it takes you
to get a pair of shoes half-soled;
if your radio is working and if
l not, why not; and if you are a
j farmer’s wife, how are you doing
on everything from skinning
knives to tractors.
At long last (it’s on the fTnal
pages) the investigators will get
around to a few personal ques- .
I tions. They won’t be tough. A
fair example is that delicate
question which so many women
shy away from. OCR framed it
this way: “What is your approx
imate age?’’ If the lady with gray
in her hair still hesitates, all
the investigator has to do is bow
courteously, smile sweetly and
say: “May I put down over SO;’'
To me, the really important
thing is that a civilian govern
ment agency charged with much
responsibility is at last keen on
finding out what its charges real
ly need and how much they are
suffering or thriving on the
present wartime civilian econom
ic diet.
Tell them you saw it adver
tised in The Nugget.
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