The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-11-13
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON

| C0nSOuQ0teO HIe1tufCB.-WNU
NEW YORK.-In this war, 1t APP
- pears that newly appointed
commanders always look more
promising than the men they sue
Adm. Haisey Jr. S Sesai I nc
Has Both His Sea veals a sea-
Legs and Wings r rHu USUALLY
friendly and democratic but stiff
disciplinarian." There is note of
his medals and his popularity among
the men. There is not available
any such body Of objective criticism
as In the theater or the arts. The
free-swinging critiques of sports and
politics also are out, so far as mill
tary science is concerned, and the
bleachers take on faith with the new
man in the lineup.
When Vice Admiral William F.
Halsey Jr. replaced Vice Admiral
Robert L. Ghormley in command of
the Solomon Islands action, we took
couple Of days to look for pro-
fessionally informed and disinterest-
ed appraisal of Admiral Halsey's
qualifications for his critically inn
portant job. The report is encour-
aging, for reasons other than those
disclosed in mill-run navy biogra-
plies.
As an officer, his emphasis,
and his proven ability, has been
in adaptiveness and mobility.
With Rear Admirals John ii.
Towers and Arthur B. Cook, he
has combined the skills and
furthered the techniques of men
who, like himself, can both sail
and fly. That, we are assured,
Is what 1t takes in the Solomon
Islands today. This air-sea do
main is highly specialized and
rapidly evolving new zone Of
strategy, or perhaps more pre-
cisely tactics, as the latter word
puts the emphasis on knowing
what to do next, rather than
on what additionally is done.
He once said: 81 believe in vio-
Dc
day. We do the unexpected.
At the age Of 60, he pilots his
own plane and gets close in
where action is real or impend-
ing. He is~one Of the most ex-
perienced men in the navy i'm
operations such as those in the
S0l0m0ns today, having been
awarded the Distinguished Serv-
ice medal for planning and car
rying through the raids in the
Marshall and Gilbert Islands. II
IL should happen that the des-
perate need of the hour, or the
! minute, should be for a brilliant
impr0viser and the text books
forgotten, Admiral Halsey is the
man for the job.
Admiral Halsey was born and
grew up in Elizabeth, N. j., and en-
tered Annapolis in 1900. He rode
destroyers for a few years and later
was a member of the Annapolis ex-
ecutive staff.
A BOUT two years ago, the British
\ discovered that their industrial
tempo was set to the pace of "Auld
Lang Syne," or Comm Through
Steps Up Tempo I'll the t Eye ,e one
OF War Industry ing classical
vx,:.l va, nz: composers,
W 81" ss~s AVA sAos@ long a foe of
ultra-modern music, suddenly re-
formed and started tapping out hot
music for factory hands. It was
played in the factories to step up
the punch-press and sledge-hammer
rhythms. It worked. All reports
were that they thus greatly IN
creased the flow of war goods
Over here, we got the point Of
the experiment. Professor Har-
old Burris-Meyer reports on re-
searches, which he made with
one Of his colleagues, showing
that factory music in eastern
factories has stepped up produc-
tiOn in a range from 1.3 to Ill
per cent. But that is Just q start,
says Professor Burris-Meyer.
He notes that 'the leisure mu-
sic is not the idiom Of the mod
ern industrial plant" They're
setting this war to music and it
IL to be vital music.
In May, 1885. Professor Burris-
Meyer unveiled sound machine
which, working with an audience
would induce hysteria within 80
seconds" For IL years, at Stevens,
he has pioneered the field of sound
stimuli, as an augmentation Of
dramatic effects. Previously, he had
taught at Washington and Jefferson
and C.C.N.Y.
1T is not clear whether Karl Her
mann Frank has decided to ex-
terminate the Czech people, but he
appears to be thinking it over. Herr
Frank is state secretary of the
Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate.
Berne quotes him: 'sThe murder of