The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-07

The idea is that physical fighters
or prospective fighters need scien-
fists to dope out gadgets and
methods TO enable EN- to do their
fighting at a maximum Of eff
cheney.
DR.. Carmichael is registering the
scientists. and fitting 'em exactly
into the brackets that they belong
in. When an army or a navy or an
aviation or a federal production
agency encounters problem
which a super-eXpert is required to
solve, it applies to DR.. Carmichael
and he promptly designates pre-
:isely the right kind Of scientist
to I'LL the bill. Thereupon said SCI
enlist automatically becomes a
selectee.
I don't mean TO say that scien-
fists literally are conscripted-
that they're penalized if they balk.
They don't balk, though. They're
willing conseripts. They're darned
Hattered to be picked as corking
wise men.
For instance, DR.. Einstein Is on
the list. He was born in Germany,
it's true, but he's an exile from
there. and perfectly ready to cere-
brate, to Nazi disadvantage. Any
time Herr Hitler can be given a
fatal shot of relatively. Prof. Elm
STEMS only too glad to furnish the
democracies' armed forces with the
necessary ammunition
100000 Scientists
An ordinary Selective Service
selectee has to be of military age
and healthy, too. A scientific Sc
lectee can be as sick as horse or
100 years old. 1t doesn't matter if
he's got the scientific qualifications.
DR.. Carmichael hasn't yet compiled
his full roster Of EN-, but he reck-
ons that it'll total around half
million before he gets through.
Besides supplies for actual COM
bat, it's up to science to hit on
substitutes for lot Of raw mate.
rails that there's a shortage Of.
nlustratively, it's been widely
advertised that aluminium isn't
adequately available. Aviation, in
,articular, wants all there is of 1t
l creation and more, too. 1t not
My is gobbling up all the raw
stuff it can get; it's trying to con-
hscate housewives aluminium pots
and pans. So the demand Is fol-
science to produce some sort OF
"ersatz" aluminium, both to supple
ment aviation's shortage and to
provide civil pots and pans.
Various other metals are men,
toned that there's an inadequacy
Of. We never before thought Of EN-
dixie zinc, nickel and TIM as
scarce, but this is an abnormal era.
There's an cutlery for ersatz Of
such stuff also. Inventing IL is an
other stunt for our scientific Sc
hctees.
And rubber!
Why there should be such yowl
over raw rubber l can't see.
The story is that all our Ameri-
can rubber has to come from the
Dutch East Indies and Malaga and
II Japan grabs those two areas,
the Mikado will shut of our I'M
ports Of II and that we'll have to
depend on ersatz for tires, hot wa.
ter bags, ct cetera.
Well, what's the matter with
rubber from the Belgian Congo? II
used TO be shipped out from there
ad lib. Heaven knows there was
row enough about It back in the
days Of the late King Leopold Of
Belgium. He was accused OF per-
hitting the African collectors Of
the Juice to be scandalously mis-
treated by the Belgians, but there
wasn't any question that the coun.
try simply etfervesced rubber trees.
Amazon Rubber
And there's rubber TO burn up
the Amazon. Henry Ford started
TO exploit II in the early 1920's.
It's a mean jungle-unpleasant for
Yankee bosses Of the Job TO live In,
which suppose is why Henry
abandoned 1t. Nevertheless, the
rubber's there.
Only the other day ! saw dis
patch saying that the German
freighter Norderney. witt 500 tons
Of rubber on board, was planning
q dash for home from the Amazon
mouths harbor Of Belem (also
known as Para. That the Nor
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