The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-04

Is and how many things there are about which somebody thinks some thing should be done.
 The list runs all the way from curbing sin, providing soldiers in camp with place where they can stomp and heller, running morning movies for war industry laborers who work at night, putting in ad- ditional schools and sewers in War industry boom towns, keeping to- gether the family of an alien moved from defense area to the interior, and on up to seeing that there are enough doctors and nurses to go round.
 MEDICAL
 MIGRATION
 Shifting the doctors and dentists around is just getting started. Doc tors can't be assigned to areas in which they don't want to settle, but with the population moving hither and wonder as these new defense I centers spring up, a parallel migra- ton of medical strength must be made. pr. Frank Lahey, president of the American Medical Association has therefore been named to head up procurement and assignment service to spot these situations and then persuade enough doctors to move to new practices.
 Medical and dental students have l been exempted from Selective service to insure an adequate supply of doc tors for the future. And the third and fourth year students have been urged to join the Army or Navy medical reserve, which Will be need ing thousands of doctors for field service.
 Supplying trained nurses has proved a bigger and more imme- diate headache because the expand ing military forces brought heavy demands on the normal supply of 30,000 new nurses yearly. There de- veloped an actual shortage of nurses The estimated requirements were for 50,000 new nurses this year Con- greSs had to step in with an, ap- propriation of more than a million dollars to expand training institu- tions giving the recognized three year course and to give refresher courses to nurses no longer working at the profession.
 HELP FOR
 HOSPITALS
 Providing the hospitals, schools, i WaterWorks and sewers for expand ing defense communities is some thing that runs into money. Since many of these expansions were tenn porary, it was not felt that the To- cal communities could be asked to finance these public works com pletely, so the federal government has stepped in to help. Presidential approval is required for each of thees projects after investigation and the issuance of certificate of necessity by ODHWS. Then the Federal Works agency steps in to do the job. So far, more than 1000 of these projects after investigation for a cost of $170 million. Included in the list are some 300 hospitals, 286 schools and 250 recreation cen- ters. All these are for civilian needs. In separate class are the 250 rec reation centers being built under the ODHWS Recreataion section, head ed by Mark A. McCloSkey, at camps and bases for the armed services One hundred and ten of these have already been dedicated and 54 are under construction. The United Service Organizations takes over the job of operating these centers, once they're built.
 Newest assignment of ODHWS is this job of caring for the aliens who may be moved around. Department Of Justice asked ODHWS to take it over and the assignment was given to a Family Security Committee al- ready set up under Godfrey May Taft's deputy assistant and also an 1 associate director of the Bureau of Public Assistance of the Social Se- curity Board. The problem hasn't been worked out yet, but 1t is stated as being one of keeping off the pub lie relief rolls and making self-sup- porting the evacuated people who haven't done anything reasonable and who can't be put in concentra- tion camps.
 Ex-G-man Eliot Ness, Cleveland's public safety director on loan to ODHWS. heads up the Social Pro- lection Section, known as the sin section, designed to safeguard the armed forces from commercialized vice and about which the less said the better, except that the need for it is evident when you consider that of the first million seiectees called up, 6O,OOO were rejected because of 1 venereal disease.