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12f THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1944 NOW THEY CAN BE TOLD Stories of American Victories on the Production Line Published by GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY 343 Washington St. Boston 7, Mass. 'Established March 4. 1872. Evening edition first issued March 7.

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Yr. 11.40 Mo. .95 By Dorothy Thompson 6.50 Camera Shows the Way for All Our Invasions Eastman Kodak Makes Vast Quantity of Film for Map-Makers, Ack-Ack Guns and V-Mail I Boston Postal Zone Zones 1. 2. 3.

including all of New England (except North-era Maine and the Boston Postal District). New York City, parts of New York. Pennsylvania. Maryland. Del- aware and all of New Jersey XiMwbere in United States in-cludin Northern Maine) and South America Responsibility of Power Speaking at Albert Hall on Thanksgiving Day, Winston Churchill used these words, "In three or four years the United States has, in sober fact, become the greatest military, naval and air power in the world." Perhaps few Americans have realized this, but even brief reflection establishes its truth.

It stands out in the war news every day. And five years ago we were just beginning to make ready to bear a part in the must stupendous of all wars. That we could arm and build and train was made possible by the stubborn people of Britain and their fleet. That gave us time and now our nation is the most powerful on earth. It is well to realize that heing mighty brings enormous responsibility.

This people is not warlike. Let us hope it never will be. But to be in possession of the greatest forces and still work for peapef ul solutions to the problems of mankind requires a greatness of spirit seldom found on earth. THE most important statements in several weeks have come from Gen Eisen .70 8.40 .50 6.00 tin hower, Henry Kaiser, Paul McNutt 8.40 9.60 m0 1.00 .80 ianaaa CPlease do not aend cash. Use money ovders or checks.

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JONES ROCHESTER, N. Y. When you hear how much of the shooting in this war is done with cameras, it is not surprising The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. '-V- I 4 the terror of our fire power; -they felt a measure of security behind their wall of steel and concrete.

It seems that behind that wall they know they cannot. fight. -Thus, it is here that they are making their most desperate resistance. If are once through the situation will not be identical, but similar to the situation after our breakthrough in Normandy. To put ourselves where we now are has cost the lives of our bravest and best.

The weeks ahead, climaxing the entire action, will bring grief to many, many homes. The failure or retardation of this action would a catastrophe. We are also fighting in the Philippines one of th decisive battles of history. Yet tha battle for Germany cannot be interrupted, and thus we shall have to rob Peter to pay Paul, unless the flow of arms and munitions proceeds in ever mounting crescendo. Now is the moment when th home front should mobilize itself all the intensity which is in Last and First mat it is impossible at times to buy a roll of film at the corner drugstore.

Every square yard of enemy-held territory which our troops capture, has first been tographed from planes perched some 30,000 or 40,000 1 a A' A. B. SIMMONS, Atntstant to Man-liter ot Hawkey Worki. Globe Man's Daily Story Whtn a housewife saw the woman the Lad at $5 a day and meals, doing the ironing badly, she xploded and, forgetting how hard it is to get help, eeelded her severely. At the end ef the day the laundrese left without saying a word, and her employer, repenting ef her wrath, decided that she would never Me the woman again.

But next week the laundress returned. I felt a lot better when you go mad last week," he told the housewife. "It seemed like old times. I'm ick of having women work for scared of me." THE STRAYER SURVEY The report of the Strayer survey of the Boston schools is now fully told. What is to be done about it? Nothing was done about the last previous survey which told much of the same need for basic reform of the structure of the school administration.

But no such comprehensive survey as this has ever been made here and seldom anywhere. It was a distinguished commission and a valuable job. It cannot be allowed to co to waste. The Boston Finance Commis "THE TWO-OCEAN NAVY" is what, Eastman Kodak calls this device for ruling patterns on telescope and camera lenses. It is a floating pantograph machine which permit? 30 markings to be made at once.

and the president to the effect that the tremendous battle for Germany demands unforeseen amounts of munitions and that they were not being delivered in sufficient quantity. Mr. Kaiser stated that "hosts of war workers are quitting essential posts every day" and cited that in his own Richmond, shipyard he had lost some 23,000 men. The President said, with emphasis, "This is costly to lives.H He stated that munitions at the front had to be rationed. This is a terribly grim statement, for what is not done with shells is done with the lives of men.

Mr. McNutt said a "manpower situation of the utmost seriousness confronts the country, born of the difficulty of recruiting workers In some areas for supercritical war The reason is clear. Foreseeing an end of the war in Europe, workers are beginning to shift themselves out of defense Industries and into plants manufacturing civilian goods, apprehensive that they may suddenly find themselves out of work. 4 Now, of course, this Is a serious condition of affairs. Gen Eisenhower is after a decisive victory in Europe in a matter of weeks or months.

It is his intention to defeat the German Armies now, west of the Rhine. It means fighting without pause through most' terrible weather, worse in some respects than the Russian. Gen Eisenhower is making upon our men the most heroic demands In order to foil the Germans in their last hope the hope of time; time to train men scratcTted from the bottom of the barrel, and time to perfect new and more terrible weapons. We are fighting in the most fortified area of Europe. Confronted with an enormous system of fortresses, pillboxes, tank traps, wire entaglements and the enemy's heaviest fire, the life of every American, French and British boy depends upon the intensity of our fire, which must fight down and level the fortifications before the The de- struction of whole cities ot concrete demands amounts of -munitions surmounting imagination.

The Germans could not Imagine The time is coming when it will not be sufficient to say "filling station" in order to make your meaning clear. Even gasoline filling station will not be enough. It will be necessary to say whether the servicing of an automobile or of an airplane is meant. Several of the major oil companies are now planning postwar, coast-to-coast chains of airports for supplying petroleum products to aviators in somewhat the same way as roadside stations serve motorists. These installations will be rather elaborate.

One county executive near New York city has made specifications in asking for bids that will require construction to cost between $500,000 and $800,000, with the county putting up an additional $500,000. There also will be air maps for flyers. On them Boston will, no doubt, have two designations: "Last Chance" for those heading east and "First Chance" for those bound in the opposite direction. To Buy and Hold Financing the war effort of the United States is the most normous of all monetary endeavors. It was very large in 1917-18, but this time it is so big as to make bond drives in World War I look small.

During the intervening years much has been learned about -the way to go about such an undertaking. The bonds which J. Q. Public, his wife and all their relatives are buying in the war loans, now for the sixth time, are unlike other securities. In the first place they are not transferable.

That is different from the. bonds to support the first great war. But they may be redeemed 60 days or later after issue. It is, however, to the owners' profit to keep them until maturity. If he holds on for 10 years the interest will amount to 2.9 percent.

It is both patriotic and good personal financing to wait for maturity. And that is what about 80,000,000 Americans are doing. Right now they have more than twice as much money, in War Bonds as in all their savings accounts. sion, which secured the survey, will seek ii. mow is not the moment for any American to think about his future, for too many of the most worthy will have no future ex.

cept in Heaven, and in our hearts as the result of this battle for us. Yet, if I should try to find som explanation for this," am sur temporary default, it is that th inspiration of our war on th home front is not equal even to our material production. Why do we fire no great salvos to remind us of the grandeur of our mili-tary achievements? The sinking of the Japanese Fleepff the Philippines was one of the decisive battles of history. It passed all but If the Russians had won that battle they would have fired salvos and hoitd flags, and held great mass celebrations in the streets. If th British had won it they would have rung the church bells" and closed the schools for.

a day. We need to make -visible and audible our victories, won with so much devotion and 1 acrific and blood. Men do not live by bread alone, -and if the bread of the utura comes into, the foreground it 4is only because the inspiration ot the present is lacking. Let none of us abuse our work- ers, but let us call them, together with all of Us, to increased I. sense of the greatness of this mo-ment upon the outcome'of which all the rest depends.

manufactures film and photographic paper, has been operating to its utmost capacity. Kodak Park is one of the cleanest spots in the world. It has to be. Making film is a delicate operation, requiring complicated machinery, exacting conditions of temperature and humidity, and absolute cleanliness. The streets which connect the 08 buildmgs in the Park are all paved and are kept dustless by constant sprinkling.

At one time the Kodak people tried using vacuum cleaners to keep their streets immaculate, but sprinklers proved more practical. Employees who handle the temperamental pho tographic emulsions, have to be unbelievably careful not to contaminate them in any way. If these work- ers have been out sick and have applied certain ointments or medicines they may have" to return to other less exacting work for a long period after their recovery. Lingering traces of certain chemicals on their skin can affect the emulsions which they are handling. Even the steam locomotives which operate in Kodak Park are clean.

No cloud of black smoke issues forth from their smokestacks, for they have no smokestacks. They have no fires and they get their steam "ready-made" from a central power plant. They operate until the pressure gets low, then they return to the steam filling station for a new supply of power. Men at the plant call these unusual locomotives "flreless cookers." INCIDENTALLY One of the devices which has enabled Eastman Kodak to make precision instruments in mass production is a machine invented by 35-year-old Arthur Simmons of the Eastman works here A bottleneck in the production of telescopes for the Army was the making of reticles. These are patterns ruled on glass (the simplest is just a cross: others are much more complicated) which are used in focusing the telescope i to obtain information to be used in directing gunfire.

Formerly these patterns had to be marked individually on each reticle, but Simmons devised a pantograph machine which makes it possible to mark the lines on 30 reticles at once. The mechanism which operates 30 needles simultaneously is supported on ordinary tin pans floating In two reservoirs of oil. It has been dubbed "the two-ccean navy." Tomorrow They Made Flanes In Tents. feet in the air. The pictures taken by these aerial cameramen are pieced together to provide information for the detailed maps, which every army must have before it can successfully attack.

When Allied forces stormed the defenses of Hitler's Fortress Europe, they took in with them an amazing total of 125,000,000 maps, the product of carefully organized aerial sorties, extending over a period of many months. In naval warfare, too, cameras have played an important role. On the very day of the night battle of Kula Gulf 1500 aerial photographs of the gulf had been taken and converted into a mosaic chart showing the whole area with its dangerous reefs. During the battle that night this chart en. abled our fleet to win its victory without having a single ship run aground.

The quantities of film required for these map-making undertakings are, of course, enormous. Yet map-making is only one of many wartime activities requiring photographic film, the principal American producer of which is the Eastman Kodak Company of this city. Among other wartime purposes for which Eastman has been making film are the following: Reconnaissance Aerial pictures taken behind enemy lines disclose movements of troops and supplies and reveal targets for artillery and bombers. (The German Gen von Fritsch predicted in -1938 that "the nation with the best photographic reconnaissance will win the next Combat Records Cameras attached to aircraft guns, synchro-nized to operate when the guns are fired, give a pictorial record of what happens to enemy planes in combat. Cameras affixed to the periscopes of submarines, tell, what happens to enemy ships that are attacked.

Training Films It Is estimated that the use of movies, making it possible to demonstrate war technique, has speeded up the training of recruits by about 30 percent. (One of the interesting sound films produced for this purpose shows G. I. Joe each type of gun used by our forces and by the enemy and lets him hear the sound of the missile each fires). V-Mail Photographing of V-mail letters a month provides our service men and their families with speedier mail service and, at the same time, saves valuable cargo space that would have to be used for ordinary letters.

War Production X-ray pictures reveal flaws in castings and weldings that could not otherwise be detected. They also disclose dangerous defects in the loading of bombs and shells. Entertainment Millions of feet of 16 millimeter film have been produced to provide entertainment for men in camps and in combat areas. This is only a partial list, but it is sufficient to explain why Kodak Park, the plant where Eastman ICTORY FORUM What People Talk About' tion nor the Globe can have any EDITORIAL POINTS The children wept because there was no wishbone in the Thanksgiving pot roast, but dried, their eyes when Mother promised to buy them a mackerel today, If all the GIs in action got all the turkey they were promised, the Western Front was considerably expanded between yesterday morning and last night. To an old bench-warmer there is no better proof that something is wrong with the younger generation than to learn that his school took a bad beating in the Thanksgiving Day classic.

Latest photos show Hitler wearing an ear too large for him. It is possible that, in wrestling with a problem, the Fuehrer picked up a cauliflower. "Dammit!" To the Editor Long an admirer of the Globe and an advocate of fair-mindedness even in the presentation of the news, I read with astonishment the front-page article concerning the action of the Glendale, Ministerial Association in making public J. Whitcomb Brougher's letter, taking to task the President for an alleged profane utterance addressed to the voting machine. Surely there is more important front-page news than an inadvertent cuss-word uttered in privacy; and surely such language from the President is no more blameworthy in the circumstances than when uttered by an unknown, even one who has cussed for years, when provocation offered and sometimes without provocation such as thisl And surely neither the associa-.

Was the Mars the largest airplane In the world or are there Russian planes that compare? Were the new 29's the largest bombers uhen they were lirst made and how An they compare with the 11 19? or the benefit of an argument with my 12-year-old eon who knows all about airplanes and mothers who don't know about them, I have to have proof. M. D. North Tembroke. To our knowledge the Mars Is the largest flying boat built so far.

Only one B-19 has ever been built. It is an experimental four-engine aircraft 'approximately the same size as the B-29 (Superfortress). My son is an instructor in sighting with the Air Forces. He is over 34. What are his chances of remaining in the States? If he should be sent overseas will he be an instructor or a gunner? He graduated from Gunnery School.

II. D. Eoxbury. I received a letter from my husband who has been overseas for 26 months telling me. that he was broken from Master Sergeant to rrivate.

He said he was not notified in advance that was going to happen because if he was he could have requested a trial by general court-martial, and they Designs of our larger aircraft now in use have been modified by experience obtained from the B-19. The n-29 is faster and more powerful than the B-19. Your son can tell you that the first time Superfortresses were used In planned attack was June 15, 1944. when B-29 Superfortresses of the USAAF 20th Bomber Command bombed Japan. Books available at most bookstores are "Aircraft Spotters Guide," published by National Aeronautics Council, N.

"Aircraft Spotter," by Lester Ott, Harcourt Brace, N. and Plane Packet (package of 50 cards of official photographs) published by Plane Facts N. Y. i He will be sent overseas if his ability and skill are needed there. If they are needed in this country he will be kept here.

The Army will make good use of the training given this soldier. We cannot predict what work will be given to him. had nothing that would stand before a court. Could I write to Washington and get any further particulars on it? Mrs. E.

F. Arlington. Army headquarters here advises that you do not write to Washington, but leave the matter up to your husband. He may seek the advice of his commanding officer. The United War Fund went over the top with thousands to spare.

When New England weather permits a native to take his hand out of his pocket, it seldom comes out empty. A booby trap is good for any number of years, as anyone may discover by putting a cup of hot coffee on a collapsible bridge table. The class in punning, knowing the damage-done to Cologne by air raids; figures that the Allies want the city only for its scentimental value. from the Legislature correction of the major organizational faults. This will.

require strong public support and sharp public awareness of the need. The survey found many things the matter too many. Some of the oldest, least-efficient schools can be closed. Some are fire risks. This involves realistic redistricting to make fuller use of schools not now used to anything like capacity.

Physical facilities are deplorably insufficient. Some schools lack auditoriums, libraries, gymnasiums. Playground space is sorely lacking. Physical education lacks plant, staff and a program. The school curriculum needs vitalizing, modernizing, at all levels.

Much in the school programs is old-fashioned, static, ineffective. Commercial courses are found failing to prepare for modern office work. The bulk of the vocational work little relation to fitting students for jobs. The separation of school building and repairs from the School Department leaves the school plant insufficiently related to the school work. Maintenance and repairs were found costly and inefficient.

The salary schedule looks confused and illogical, a patchwork. Janitors fare distinctly better than teachers. The individuality of the school child seems to have been lost sight of in the absence of adequate individual records, achievement tests, modern eye and ear examinations and remedial instruction. Even soap and towels are lacking for hand washing in the toilets. Chief lacks emphasized throughout are not in the body of the school staff, but in an absence of vigorous leadership arid administrative planning for meeting the modern demands of education.

The survey comes down hardest on the confused and chaotic setup which fails to fix responsibility upon a chief executive and provide him with an organization responsible under him for the functional operation of a great sehool system. The need to reorganize at the top is devastatingly shown. Instead of 10 different school authorities, all responsible to the School committee, the survey would have a streamlined administration, with authority stemming from the superintendent. To achieve this reform should be a duty of the School committee. But the survey's chief indictment is of the situation in which School committee positions have become springbrards to politics.

It has no faith that the School committee will do the job. Its principal recommendation is that a different kind of School committee, must be obtained by a different method. Legislation is going to be sought to encf the election of School committees in Boston. A good many people will wish that another answer could be found. But one thing is certain.

A thorough overhaul of the school administration is essential. The other needed correctives will follow from that. That is basic. Nothing short of that will be more than piecemeal patching up and certainly futile. We must insist upon such a reform of the school organization as will permit it to fulfill its whole function for the children cf Boston.

UNCLE DUDLEY. purpose oiner than to report the news, for now that election i over are we not all in conscience bound not to hold up to public view those shortcomings of our President which in no wis affect anyone other than himself. The incident. and ill-advised publicity given it. la far more apt to cause the spread of profanity than to suppress it.

If folks but knew the words which so shocked the voting machine no doubt some would be tempted to apply them to the publicity as well. Surely there are even greater evils besetting us all which require more immediate attention, Let us not throw stones, even at the President dammit! Lets get on with the war. Quincy. BYSTANDER. Puerto Rico and India To the Edtor It does not seem to be generally known, but on Nov.

7 there was also an election in Puerto Rico. Contending parties were the Popular Democrats against a coalition led by Union Republicans and Socialists. The Democrats won all but one or two of the seats In both Senate and House. They also elected Jesus T. Pinere as Resident Commissioner in Washington by more than 200,000 majority.

This overwhelming victory of the Popular Democrats undoubtedly means that progressive legislation so badly needed by th island's crowded population wl be forthcoming; that Gov. Tug-well's efforts to improve economic conditions will have less opposition, and that Tuerto Rico's representative in Washington will more truly reflect the sentiment of the people at home. In other words, the Little India of America is on its way to better things. By way of contrast. England's guilty conscience concerning the great India of Asia is displayed by the fact that Nehru, leader of his people, world figure and anti-Fascist, is still in prison.

ALEXANDER E. WIGHT. Wellesley Hills. Dates for Mailing Christmas Gifts Inov.I "I Quick Pick Up By Gluyas Williams gwvbs (Released by Tb Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The Jtr General who cut China in half is removed from his command, possibly because he couldn't think up a suitable encore. 1 Before Himmler is actually in our clutches, let's amend the rules.

In this war, it is fair to hit a man who is wearing glasses. Until the' fighting is done, says WPB, anglers must get along with whatever tackle they have. Anybody know any good frozen fish stories? The National Grange has condemned the Bretton Woods decisions, showing the farmers' scorn of men who sit around talking about money in the season when there's hay to be made. CARRIES If DOWN A6A1N 50 Ae lb SAVE "fME BY "fAKiM vTO-rHlH6 IN ONE LDftD tASORlOUSW J.0RD5 UP, trom under arm 6 Told fo Pick up his ito SCARRED OVER LlV)K6 ROOM, CONPAWS C0MIK6. DOCK If Sheffield's alumni plan to fight the Yale decision which seems to doom their school as a separate institution, they would be wise to hire a coach from Sargent.

The long struggle for the Po River will be easily understood by any landlord and tenant who have quarreled over a leaky faucet. The Hot Stove League started activities this week, with a story about an umpire who lived in a blind alley. News comes from Switzerland that Goering has definitely been put on the shelf, and a tinkerer wants to know the German method of reinforcing shelves. Wartime Wife HOME FRONT CALENDAR Nov. 24, 1944 AUTOS Gasoline A-13 coupons good 'or four gallons each through Dec.

21. B-4, C-4, B-5 and C-5 coupons good for five gallons each until further notice. FOOD Red Stamps A-8 through Z-8 In Book 4, and A-5 through P-5 in Book 4, worth 10 points each, good indefinitely. No additional red stamps will be validated for use before Dec. 3.

Blue Stamps A-8 through Z-8 and A-5 through W-5 in Book 4 worth 10 points each for processed foods, good indefinitely. No additional blue stamps will be validated for use before Dec. 1. Sugar Stamps 30. 31, 32, 33 and 34 In Book 4 each good for 5 pounds.

Stamp 40 in Book 4 good for 5 pounds for home canning through Feb. 28, 1945. The new program for home canning will be announced Jan. 1, 1945. FUEL OIL Sticks to Her Hunch "Let the wife be boss," says a husband with a recipe for 50 years of happy marriage.

That was not only chivalrous of him, but also guarantees him a pleasant home life until the clipping wears out. A friend chlded me today on saying that this win be our last wartime Thanksgiving. She says incorrect statements always catch up with columnists. I can't think of anything more heavenly than having someone, months later, remember what I said and calling me on it. Actually this IS the last wartime Thanksgiving.

This is more than a hunch. You see I am psychic. Why once I said I had a hunch I was going to have a baby, and the very next day I did. Everyone was terribly surprised. This reminds me that every Saturday when I go to the hospital both children beg me to please bring home a baby.

You can see I am a very modern mother. None of this bees and flowers stuff for me. My children know where babies coma from; you find them in hospitals, of course. POLLY WEBSTER. Query: When the Army sits down to Thanksgiving turkey who gets the neck? If raking the lawn is a tough job, think how much tougher it will be when Hitler turns over a new leaf.

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