Friday, October 18, 1940
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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'CONSCRIPT' DOCTORS
National Guardsmen and the new
draft army are going to have plenty
of medical and dental service.
Army plans call for a corps of 12.000
doctors and 2.287 dentists by July I.
1941, who will be summoned from
the Medical and Dental Reserve as
the expansion of the army pro
gresses.
At present the army has 1,196
physicians on active duty and ex
pects to add another 2.700 from the
mobilized National Guard. The re
maining 8,400 will be secured from
the Reserve Corps, the draft and
volunteers. Dental vacancies will
be filled the same way.
The 7.000 nurses needed for the
Nursing Corps will be obtained chief
ly through Red Cross registers. The
nurses have warrant officer status
and receive $60 a month, plus board,
room and laundry.
They cannot
marry while in the service.
Animal medicine also will not be
neglected, with 1.143 veterinarians
to be added to horse-drawn units.
The army is strict about its med
ical and dental qualifications accept
ing only graduates of Class A col
leges. Under a bill introduced by
Rep. John McCormack of Massachu
setts. the army would be required
to give commissions to graduates of
Class B schools, but this is being
opposed vigorously.
There are only two such schools in
the U. S.: The Middlesex college
at Middlesex. Mass., and the Chi
cago Medical school. Their gradu
ates can practice only in Massa
chusetts and Illinois and the army
refuses to admit them as physicians.
It applies the same rule to chiro
practors. osteopaths, naturopaths,
neuropaths, and podiatrists.
The over-all medical ratio of the
army is: For every 20,000 men a
1,000-bed hospital; with each 1,000-
bed unit manned by 73 doctors. 120
nurses and 500 non-commissioned
officers.
• • •
BALKAN MESS
.
Diplomatic dispatches from the
Balkans indicate that Russia is not
having a very good time in her deal
ings with the Axis.
The Russians are worried over the
troops rushed by Hitler and Musso
lini across her southern border in
Rumania. The Axis has taken over
the Rumanian military system com
pletely and even plans to conscript
Rumanian troops.
This came as a surprise to Mos
cow, which asked Berlin about it.
This was the answer:
1. Nazi troops are needed in Ru
mania. first to protect the oil fields,
since oil is all-important to Ger
many.
2. Italian and German troops may
want to invade Turkey later in the
year, and they want 60,000 men who
could be rushed immediately from
Rumania to Istanbul and the Straits.
The Nazis also explained that they
were not taking any chances with
Stalin’s troops, because after Hitler
had agreed to Russia having Bes
sarabia, Russia also seized Buko
vina without even consulting anyone.
Therefore, the Germans say they
will station their own troops near
the Russian boundary to see that
this does not happen again.
The Nazis also explained that the
Bulgarian and Hungarian armies
still were itching for more territory,
so Nazi troops have come in to pro
tect the sovereignty of these small
Balkan countries.
• • •
ARMY UNIFORMS
Young men who want to be of
ficers in the new army are finding
that the greatest obstacle is the cost
of getting dressed. The army does
not provide uniforms for its officers,
and the cost at a tailor shop is
enough to send them back home as
conscientious objectors.
For an officer called in from Re
serve, here is the list of minimum
requirements. It does not include
the "special evening dress.” which
would add another $105 to the total.
Olive drab blouse (coat) with
"pink" slacks ...................... $ 60.00
Overcoat .................................. 58 00
8 50
Garrison cap ...........................
3 00
Campaign cap.........................
Sam Browne belt.................... 10.50
Puttees ..................................... 10.50
Field boots .............................. 18 50
Mix shirts at $3 00 .................... 18.00
Breeches .................................. 25 00
Total ...................................... $212.00
This does not include a $16 saber,
which has now been made optional.
And it includes only one suit of
blouse-and-slacks, whereas three or
four actually are required.
The Quartermaster corps of the
army estimates that $250 would be
required to purchase a “modest out
lay” for a young officer.
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Rats in America are getting a
break as a result of the war in
Europe. For the war has interfered
with shipment of red squill from the
Mediterranean area, and red squill
is the most effective rat poison ever
discovered.
It is a bulb, like an onion. You
buy it in powdered or liquid form,
and mix it with raw meat. Rats go
for it, but they only go once. De
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Washington, D. C.
PUBLIC OPINION
POLLS
This is a piece about these dope-
ster polls that tell you all about elec
tions before they happen. I don't
believe in them. Their accuracy
depends too much on their timing,
the way they are conducted and the
wording of the questions. They can
have great effect to sway voters. i
The conduct of them is a private en
terprise for profit There is no as
surance of bipartisan or neutral
control of their conduct. As cam
paigns reach climaxes there are few
Americans whose sympathies are
not aroused. It is human nature
for the wish to be father to both con
viction and conduct—among poorly
paid enumerators also.
These polls do not register secret
ballot They do not even register
a sample "yes” or "no.” They are
frequently built up on a series of
more or less technical questions,
sometimes so framed as to persuade
a particular answer which the enu
merator interprets. In view of their
great influence, it seems to me that
all polls require both investigation
A long trainload of "whippet” tanks of World war vintage is here
and regulation in the public interest.
They certainly do not deserve to be shown arriving at Canada's Camp Borden. These ancient tanks were
turned over to Canada by the United States government. They are loo
swallowed whole.
I don't dispute their possible value old for actual combat duty in these days of highly mechanised warfare,
(1) as some indication of shifts and and will be used to train Dominion tank corps.
trends in public thinking, and (2) as
an even better indication when actu
al choice closely approaches, and
the simple question is “Do you favor
X or Y?"
But the folly of making conclu
sions on these polls is apparent. Most
people don't have time to study
them. A flat statement such as Dr.
Gallup recently made that his study
showed 499 electoral votes for Roose
velt with 42 states and 32 votes for
Willkie with 6 states, sounds almost
as impressive as the 1936 election
returns when Mr Roosevelt carried
46 states.
But, however inaccurate, except
as to trend, an examination of this
and other polls shows a surprising
reversal of popular opinion. In 1936.
Mr Roosevelt carried 27.4 million
voters to Mr. Landon's 16.6 millions
—almost 66 per cent or a majority
of 10.8 millions. The poll of Amer
ican Forecasts Inc.—a competitor of .
Dr. Gallup's—predicts 23.7 millions
for Mr. Roosevelt and 21.2 millions '
for Mr. Willkie—a 53 per cent ma
jority, or only a 2.5 million majority. 1
Nine school children died here in a fire which destroyed a mission
Both poll conductors insist on a 3 school in Breathitt county, in the hills a little distance from Jackson,
per cent to 4 per cent margin of Ky. The school, known as "Little Mission,” was maintained by the
error as experienced in their own missionaries and was undenominational. The children who died were in
performances.
Both also report their beds on the second floor when the fire started.
very large "undecided" groups and
Dr. Gallup says: "Supplementary-
surveys show that as many as 27 !
per cent of Mr. Roosevelt's current '
supporters are not definitely sure
that they will vote for him.” Con- ,
sider the states shown on the Gallup
poll with less than a 4 per cent ma- j
jority (Dr. Gallup’s claimed margin
of error) for Mr. Roosevelt—all of
which are shown on the Dunn sur
vey as safely for Willkie. Consider
also that the American Opinion
Forecast Inc. poll is 2 per cent less
favorable to Mr. Roosevelt than Dr.
Gallup's. Consider both of these.
I come to no such conclusions. I I
don’t trust these polls either way.
This is going to be a very close elec
tion, The Democrats are dumb if
they are lulled by this sweet news.
The Republicans are quitters if
they become defeatists because of
any such cheap stuff.
• • •
The political practice about these
modern polls is like Shylock with
Portia, to praise them when their
forecast is favorable and curse them
otherwise.
I can escape that
charge. I have long regarded all
these "sampling" polls as a public
evil capable of vicious abuse. They
won't tell their exact method. They
resist investigation that would re
veal more than their "general prin
ciples.” These are not enough to
determine whether in the science of
mathematics they stand even on a
sound formula of probabilities.
They refer to their record of ac-
curacy. Sometimes it has been re-
markable, but since they do not
claim accuracy within 3 or 4 per
A recent picture of Gen. Charles de Gaulle (right), leader of "Free
cent 'and many an election has France,” and Brig. Gen. E. L. Spears, who has been acting as llason
turned on less than that, it is not officer between De Gaulle and the British government. These two men
very convincing—especially since have taken the brunt of the blame for the ill-fated naval expedition
they are very coy in reporting the against Dakar, French colony in Africa.
actual number (not the percentage)
of "undecided” answers by location.
That clouds their whole result.
• • •
There is a survey in this country
based on a different method than
"sampling.” It is called the Dunn
Survey. It has been conducted for
years by a scholarly, retiring sort of
fellow. It is not a poll taken by
part-time agents on a theoretically
selected sampling. It is scientific1
analysis of several factors. There '
has been no attempts to commer
cialize or publicize it. It has been '
far more timely, or at least it has
forecast results far sooner, than
other polls.
Where Nine School Children Died
Bearing Brunt of Dakar Blame
Named Temporary Draft Director
It is too early for this column to
repeat its 1936 stunt "Landon may
carry four states, he is only sure of
two,” but I don’t think we are going
to hear any more of the Gallup poll
after this election than of the Liter
ary Digest poll after 1936. This, of
course, is my own opinion.
If it becomes appropriate to eat
these words, I shall do it as grace
fully as possible, but I didn't have
any literary indigestion last time and
I don't expect to suffer galluping
consumption in 1940.
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President Roosevelt has given Lieut. Col. Lewis B. Hershey power to
carry on administration of the selective service system, pending designa
tion of draft director. Photo shows (L. to R.) Lieutenant Hershey, Major
Ben B. Powell, chief of man power division and Maj. Chauncey Parker,
chief of the finance and supply division.
Ram Bass
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