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THIS
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(ConioUdated Feature*—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK.—The army could
use a few top-flight Broadway
playwrights, particularly those who
have had war experience. But it
. , . already has
Army Impresario its own Da .
Injects Realism vid Belasco.
. . U, War games,
Into War Games | 0 condition
our new army of 1,400,000 men for
real combat now provide the ut
most in dramatic realism. There
are machines to simulate faithfully
the screaming of Stuka bombers;
there will be the roar of gunfire—
with blank cartridges, of course;
there will be parachute attacks, ma
chine gunning from airplanes, and
every possible device to keep the
boys from forgetting that “they’re
in the army now.”
Gen. Lesley James McNair,
chief of staff of general head
quarters, a small, keen, alert
man who seems omnipresent in
the army camps, is the impre
sario in this the army’s biggest
and most serious venture in ap
plied theatricals. He has had
long experience in war games
and has convincingly portrayed
them as invaluable rehearsals
for the real thing, not only for
the instruction imparted but for
the unconscious, reflex condi
tioning of nerves and sensitivity
to the now heightened tumult of
war.
When the nucleus of a general
headquarters staff was formed July
25, 1940, General McNair was put
at the head of it. That subsequently
placed in his hands the intensified
and expanded war-training maneu
vers, far exceeding anything ever
before attempted, and last Septem
ber he took over the entire training
program of the rapidly increasing
army.
It is regarded as an undertak
ing of the utmost importance
and President Roosevelt recent
ly promoted the army Belasco
from major general to the rank
of temporary lieutenant general.
His knowledge of war is by no
means confined to make-believe.
He fought with the field artil
lery in France and won the U. S.
Distinguished Service medal and
the French Legion of Honor. He
i is a native of Minnesota and was
' graduated from West Point in
! 1904 ’ -y
THIS writer went to the wedding
of a young woman friend a few
weeks ago. The bridegroom was
n tall, loose-geared, bespectacled
„ . n .. young man
Perchance Radio an en .
Beam Led Inventor chanting grin
/ — . n and a thick
| To Comely Bride thatch of
brownish hair. The bride told us
ihe was a scientist. We should have
known that he was Russell Varian,
^he inventor, with his brother Sigurd
and several other associates, of the
Klystron radio generator which
American technicians say is better
than anything the British have in
their new plane-spotting system and
which has made blind-flying, in fog
or night, like a trip around the block
in a baby-carriage.
Russell Varian worked his way
through Stanford, odd-jobbing for the
professors. His brother Sigurd was
a flight captain with the Pan-Ameri
can Airways on Mexican and Cen
tral American routes. One day Rus
sell got a letter from Sigurd in
which Sigurd said he was tired of
ramming around in fog and night
and they ought to get together and
work out a radio beam which hom
ing planes could really follow. Rus
sell thought that was a good idea,
so Sigurd brought him his savings
of $4,000 and the boys set up a
workshop at Halcyon.
Their facilities just wouldn’t
do. Dr. David L. Webster, head
of the department of physics, at
Stanford, provided a laboratory,
gave them effective aid in every
possible way and made them
research associates of the uni
versity, but the university could
provide no funds. Sigurd’s $4,000
dwindled to $47. The young men
were living sketchily when the
Klystron came through. A rep
resentative of the Bureau of Civ
il Aesonautics put them in toueh
with the Sperry Gyroscope Co.
Sperry hurriedly plunked down
a cheek for $25,000 and built a
laboratory for Russell In Garden
City, Long Island.
Russell came to New York. His
radio beam had guided him straight
to Miss Jane Martinson, a comely
research worker in biochemistry,
niece of Miss Bessie Beatty of the
current radio team of “Betty and
Bill." It was a case of love at first
sight on the part of both. Hence the
wedding, just a fortnight later, in
the East Nineteenth street residence
of Adolph Berle, now occupied by
Miss Beatty. Bride and bridegroom,
both tireless hikers, had their out
door togs ready for a long vaca
tion and honeymoon tramp through
New England.
Russian Help Welcomed
Despite Communist Bogy
Problem of Defeating Hitler Held Paramount; 1
Dykstra Returns to Wisconsin University; B
Train 1,520,000 Defense Workers.
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator,
WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—It was one of
those Washington mornings when
the clouded sky above lets in the
damp, heavy heat and an aching
glare on wall and pavement even
though it shuts out the sun itself.
The German armies were smash
ing through Poland and into the
Ukraine. With the Luftwaffe roar
ing eastward for a change, British
bombers were blackening skies and
shaking the earth of northern
France and industrial Germany.
A British military and economic
mission, we knew, was sitting down
with the Soviet leaders in Moscow,
offering them utmost aid in their
fight against Germany.
The papers were crying over a
drop in American airplane produc
tion, still reporting strikes in defense
industries and, very casually, at his
press conference, the President had
announced that the United States
would aid the Soviets as much as
possible.
Later, I sat in the office of a per
turbed government official.
“How,” I asked, “can you recon
cile to the American people the anti
communist feeling in this country
and aid to Russia?”
He paused and looked out over
streets, black with staggered shift
of government workers on their way
home—in another hour there would
be another echelon of hurrying men
and women, in another hour, an
other—recruits in the army of de
fense.
Americans Dislike Communism.
Finally, he spoke:
“Os course,” he answered, “that
Is the problem we have to face. We
know that most Americans feel as
unsympathetic towards Communism
as they do toward Naziism. And the
subversive activities of the Commu
nists in this country have aroused
strong hatred against Moscow. Our
attitude on that score has been
plainly stated.”
Then my friend quoted the state
ment made by Undersecretary of
State Sumner Welles, shortly after
Hitler’s speech declaring war against
Russia.
Mr. Welles had stated:
“. . . doctrines of Communistic
dictatorship are as intolerable and
as alien to our own beliefs as are
the principles of the Nazi dictator
ship . . . but the immediate issue
that presents itself to the people
of the United States is whether the
plan for universal conquest . . .
which Hitler is now desperately try
ing to carry out, is to be success
fully halted or defeated.”
Then the man across the desk from
me said: “In other words, when
your wagon gets stuck in the mud,
you don’t look too closely at the man
who helps pull you out.”
What the government would like,
I suggested, would be to have the
Nazi gingham dog and the red calico
cat eat each other up.
“Perhaps,” he laughed, “that
would be the best solution. But it
isn’t as simple as that. The pup
seems to have so much stronger
jaws, in this case, that we believe it
might be wise to furnish the cat with
an extra claw or two.”
The trouble, I suggested, is selling
that idea to the American people.
He agreed; but he added that there
were certain things which ought to
be understood in regard to subver
sive Communist activities in this
country.
Subversive Activities Overestimated.
“Let’s take for granted,” he said,
“that we would have nothing to do,
if we could help it, with the fellow
who is helping us pull our wagon
out of the mud. But we do want
to get the wagon out, so there isn’t
much choice.
“Now, as things are today, a Com
munist is not likely to do as much
harm as we may fear,” the official
went on. “There are three reasons
for this statement: In the first place
the government has subversive ac
tivities under much better control
.than is generally known.
“In the second place, pressure is
now being brought to bear effective
ly on the labor unions to promptly
remove all members of any subver
sive organizations from their mem
berships.
“Thirdly, in all probability, now
that Russia needs our help, the
Party line will probably order any
BRIEFS - - - by Baukhage
When Mayor LaGuardia of New
York city forgot about the farmer
in drawing up the plans for civilian
defense, department of agriculture
officials immediately protested. As
a result the farmer will have a
chance with the rest of the civilians.
Just remember the city folks had
to get a cow for the Bronx zoo, just
to prove to Gothamites milk doesn’t
nnme nut of a tree like rubber.
obstruction of the American de
fense program to cease. Commu
nist leaders here have already in
dicated that this is their new pro
gram.
“And then, it can be definitely
stated that the Communist situation
in this country has never been as
bad as certain publicity-seeking gen
tlemen have painted it,” the gov
ernment officials seated across the
desk concluded.
• • •
Dykstra Returns
To Wisconsin University
C. A. Dykstra, president of the
University of Wisconsin, has gone
back to his campus and his clois
tered halls beside that shining lake
in the Middle West. He did a
historic job here in Washington, as
director of the Selective Service sys
tem and first head of the Na
tional Defense Mediation board, two
great jobs that required all, as Ste
venson put it, that a man has of
fortitude and delicacy.
Mr. Dykstra, as readers of this
column know, did not get his knowl
edge of men and government solely
from books. He was a successful
city manager of Cincinnati, he held
positions of civic responsibility in
Cleveland, Chicago, and Los An
geles. But he was chosen to head
the draft because of his deep and
sympathetic understanding of Amer
ican youth. When he left Washing
ton, I asked Mr. Dykstra for an ex
clusive two-paragraph valedictory,
just for the Western Newspaper
Union readers. This is what he said
about his experience as head of
selective service:
“My experience with selective
service convinced me that the young
men of America are neither soft nor
indifferent. They can be counted
upon to give a good account of them
selves. Moreover, public accept
ance of selective service has proved
to be much more favorable than
was anticipated.”
Dykstra is an optimist, but not
one who can’t see the hole as well
as the doughnut.
“My experience on the Mediation
board,” he told me, “makes me
optimistic that labor and manage
ment are developing a better under
standing and a more co-operative
approach to a developing industrial
jurisprudence. On the whole there
has been a minimum of recalci
trancy on both sides. The appoint
ment of Davis is absolutely right.”
• • *
Train Workers
For Defense Industry
One record of achievement in the
defense program has come out
over a hundred per cent better than
promised, and you hear very little
about it. Much of the credit goes
to a little, dynamic man, from out
where the tall corn grows.
He is John Studebaker of lowa,
commissioner of education, and he
is the drive behind the federal pro
gram of training for defense indus
tries.
Commissioner Studebaker prom
ised congress last October that the
vocational training groups of the na
tion would produce 700,000 workers
trained for service at lathe or bench
by June 30, 1941. He now reports
that 1,520,000 have actually been
trained. Moreover, although the
one-third more than the regular pro
gram was undertaken, the cost of
the Washington end was only about
1 per cent, and less money was used
for the entire project than con
gress had originally appropriated—
an achievement in these days!
The average cost of training, per
man hour, was 21 cents, and 97 per
cent of the total amount of money
spent in the training was spent in
the local community. That was part
of the Studebaker idea—keeping the
training decentralized —using the lo
cal schools, shops, equipment and
teaching force—leaving the running
of the program to labor, industry,
and the local school officials. This
not only proved efficient but it
served to bring labor and industry
together on a thousand advisory
committees which were formed all
over the country. Labor and indus
try each furnished 3,500 members of
these committees. The rest were
made up of consultants. Five hun
dred systems provided the machin
ery to carry out this task, and they
worked 24 hours a day to do it.
All the tall tales don't come out of
Washington. It is reported that in
Montezuma, Ga.. Mrs. Christine
Baldwin planted some Paul Neyron
roses last fall which bloomed
heartily in the early spring. A short
while later, according to the Hosch.
ton (Ga.) News, she found the rose
bushes were covered with black
berries.
Can you beat that?
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Although no more than four or
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Paying Debt
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