Page 2 Friday, May 2, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Warriors Meet U. S. Civil Service Job« Offer Chance* for Many G Eleanor Roosevelt Wxxhington. D. C. NAZIS SHY OF MAGNESIUM Rural Electrification I have been doing so many things tlie last few days, that I keep re­ membering happenings which I for­ got to tell you. One recent afternoon, in Washing­ ton. there was a meeting of the workers in the rural electrification program from all over the country. I had the pleasure of being with them for a few minutes and I mention it here because, from the beginning, this program has seemed to me be of such general importance the rural people of our nation. Every time electricity is taken some remote spot, it brings new opportunity to the farmer to lighten his labors. It allows him to accom­ plish more and. therefore, increases his buying power. To the woman of the house it brings relief from back-breaking toil, a better standard in home life, more time to spend with the chil­ dren, and less weariness at the end of the day. The men and women Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau (indicated by working in this program are funda­ mentally changing our life for the arrow) appearing before the house ways and means committee re­ garding the treasury's $3.500,000.000 revenue program, said: tte face better. •• Examination by U. S. experts of the captured Messerschmitt sent here by the British has uncovered one highly significant fact: The Nazis are now using only 1 to 200 pounds of magnesium in the con­ struction of these famous tighter planes. This low Nazi magnesium content is compared to the 400 500 pounds used in similar U. S. planes made of this featherweight metal, one-third light­ er than aluminum. Our big bomb­ ers use as much as 1.000 pounds of magnesium. The more magnesium used, the lighter the over-all weight of the planes. This is considered evidence that German magnesium production is not keeping pace with Luftwaffe re­ quirements. If it were, the Nazis would certainly be using more mag­ nesium in their planes, because of its extreme lightness and strength. Heavier metals increase the dead weight, reducing the ship's lifting power, speed and cruising range, all vital factors in aerial combat. If. as the experts believe. German a greater challenge than at any time In the history of the republic.1 magnesium production is falling be­ •COVERING GROUND' He warned that all classes “shall bear their fair share of the burden.” hind war needs, it is highly im­ It seems as though I were cover ­ portant. Under the Nazis. Germany took the world lead in the output of ing a good deal of ground these days. One day I had the pleasure this strategic metal. of meeting for a few minutes Mr. For years the United States lagged Darrell Brown, the young artist who behind because of cartel agreements won a prize offered by Mr. Isaac between magnesium and aluminum Liberman, president of Arnold Con­ manufacturers, which kept down stable company, for painting a por­ production. In 1939, U. S magne­ trait of me in the dress I wore on sium production barely totaled 7,000.- Inauguration night. I thought I had 900 pounds. By 1940, as a result of never seen him and. since I am not frantic defense efforts, this was particularly interested in portraits stepped up to 12.500,000 pounds, still myself, I think I must have seemed far short of army, navy and aid- a rather unsatisfactbry subject Britain requirements. This, however, is a portrait of the Large scale output of certain dress. I was interested to learn that types of aircraft is being held up I had met Mr. Brown some years until several new magnesium plants ago in Iowa, and was glad to be get into operation. OPM plans call able to show him the Lincoln por­ for an output of 75,000.000 pounds in trait in the State dining room, which 1942. If no hitches develop, the he liked as much as we do. 50,000,000-pound mark may be We had a number of friends with reached by the end of this year. us for lunch in the afternoon. I re­ • • • ceived Señora Najera, wife of the TEXTILE PROFITS Mexican ambassador, and Señora When OPM Purchasing Chief Don­ Avila Camacho, whose husband is ald Nelson remarked at his press brother of the president of Mexico. conference that textile prices were After that I received the high school under scrutiny, his words went un­ senior class from Staatsburgh, N. Y. noticed in the press. But to textile which is the village next to Hyde insiders they sent cold shivers up Park. They have been very fortu­ Under guard of Constable T. J. Johnston (left) of the Koyal Canadian the spine. nate in having such good weather mounted police and Lance Corporal Henderson of the Canadian army, What Nelson did not reveaL but and I am sure enjoyed their trip. two of the ?8 German prisoners of war who fled from an internment which they knew, was that his ar- The crowds in Washington are camp at Peninsula, Ontario, are shown on the railroad car in which cociate, Leon Henderson, defense great. I do not remember seeing they were returned. Twenty of the fugitives have been roundrd up. price regulator, had quietly com­ so much traffic. I am particularly pleted a survey showing that the glad that the cherry blossoms are mill margins (profits) are the high­ out so that no one who came hoping est in history. Henderson's figures to see them will go away disap­ show a jump in mill margins from pointed. 10.68 in June. 1940, to 16 in Febru­ The White House has been filled ary, 1941, and still going up. to capacity with sight-seers during If the price paid growers for cot­ the visiting hours, and I am sure ton had kept pace with that of tex­ this is so with all the public build­ tiles, it would be selling today at ings. Our own young people went around 20 cents a pound instead of out to Mt. Vernon one day and could 10.71—its present figure. Informal­ not even get inside the house. ly, Henderson has warned textile leaders to watch their step, indi­ SPRINGTIME Starting for a speaking engage­ cating willingness to allow them to ment in Charlotte. N. C., we arrived put on the brakes themselves. in Greensboro, N. C., on time. A plane sent over by the Charlotte TB PROTECTION At cost of less than a penny News Publishing company, which aniece. the navy is taking pictures was sponsoring my lecture, was of the lungs of all new recruits, to waiting on the field. The College weed out the unfit before they be­ for Women at Greensboro had sent come government charges for life. a few representatives to greet me Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, with a box of flowers, and the local surgeon general of the navy, esti­ radio man was also there with a mates that the pennies will save microphone so I could say a few taxpayers many millions. Veterans' words of greeting before starting on hospitals are full of TB cases from the other plane for Charlotte. the last war—many of whom prob­ All this was done very rapidly, ably had the disease before they and then we climbed into the small­ entered the service. er plane with a delightful young pi­ The new device takes a photograph lot and reporter from the News, on a 35-mm. film of a fluoroscope, who acted as one of our hostesses replacing the larger and far more during the day. We were soon look­ expensive X-ray picture. So revo­ ing down on the fields and woods lutionary is the change that manu­ of North Carolina. facturers of X-ray equipment op­ It seemed more like summer than posed it for fear of losing business. spring. The flowers were all out The navy did the pioneering in and the dogwood was in full bloom. "mass chest surveys,” but gives Somehow or other, this "little” trip credit as the original pioneer to a to southern California and then to Brazilian named D'Abreu. North Carolina, seems to have • • • This picture Is typical of the way the national defense program Is robbed me of that first feeling of NO GLITTER spring creeping over the landscape. progressing. Here two hooded welders at the plant of the American Car No phase of modern defensive There was no sign of spring the and Foundry company in Berwick, Pa., are shown at work on some of warfare, in which attacking planes last time I was in Hyde Park and the armor plate that goes on the fighting tanks being turned out by the must be checked, is considered more suddenly, when I was back in Wash­ hundred. Tanks roll off the assembly line at a rapid rate. vital than the art of camouflage. ington, everything was out—magno­ The British long ago learned that lias, forsythias, daffodils; every­ one effective protection against day­ thing seemed in full bloom over­ time bombing of an army in the night! Perhaps, when I get back to field was to make sure no equip­ Hyde Park in early May, I shall get The U. S. that first sense of life awakening ment reflects the sun. army is following this same sound again in the trees, fields and rule. marshes. All glitter has been ordered re­ As we came through Virginia in moved from military equipment. the morning, one hillside seemed to Even bayonets are being dipped in a special blue finish to prevent shine. me particularly beautiful. The The dull olive surface of staff cars, leaves on the trees were pale green troop transport trucks and other ve­ and a soft reddish brown. In be­ hicles was designed to this end. It tween, some kind of white blossom blends with the landscape and is a glistened and the purple of the Judas safeguard against air attacks. tree was everywhere in sight Nazi Prisoners Recaptured After Break you been thinking ubout H AVE the United State* Civil Serv­ ice, wondering if there's n S|x>t you con fill, un opportunity for you? There may be, for Uncle Sum needs clerks, typists, nurses,