Imperial Valley press., 1942-12-25
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

A steel man and an cast coast
shipbuilding executive were talking.
What arc you going to do about
Henry j. Kaiser's record of 10 days
from keel-laying to launching
asked the steel man.
That's easy" said the shipbuild-
er. Were going to reduce the
time from keel-laying to launching
to q minutes
When the steel man lookeo
doubtful. the shipbuilder ex-
planned:
We're going to build the entire
lull and superstructure without thu
keel. Then we'll lay the keel ant
fasten it to the hull with zippers
It will take Just 81 minutes
HJLLMEN's HIGHER
EDUCATION
Farm Security Administrations
first experiment in taking Ken
lucky moumtainccrS and scndjnl
them TO Ohio State University
school CT agriculture for three
weeks farmland training has beer
SO successful it will be repeated
and extended to other states.
Idea of the short course was to
train men for dairy farms to re-
lieve the manpOwer shortage and
keep the milk flowing. In all, So
Kentucky hillmen were sent to
college. to learn scientific feed
ing, dairy barn sanitation and
how to run milking machine.
There weren't ally lectures and
there wasn't any classroom work
and there weren't any notes taken
Some of the students couldn't reao
CT write, but they graduated none
theless.
Best test OF the schools success
was that Ohio dairy farmers came
in from miles around to sign w
the men for jobs. Some OF tht
dairymen didn't even wait for the
students to graduate-just per-
suaded them to quit school on the
spot and drove them home imme,
diately so they wouldn't get away
What surprised the dairymer
most was the simple direct honesty
of the Kentuckians. When one en-
ployer was explaining to his mar
that hid be expected to drive q
truck, the Kentuckian didn't want
to take the job Said he hadn't
driven a truck much and couldn',
do any of this fancy stuff. Besides
he couldn't read these northern
road signs. The dairyman hiree
him anyway.
IT'S LOT OF LARD
One of the headaches of Lend
Lease administration has been try
ing to persuade the Soviet govern
ment to take shipments Of oleomar
garinc in place Of butter, which /
now running shore in the mid-Wln
ter off-seaSon The Russians hav
refused to accept margarine, blu
they will take lard. Seems the,
spread it on their bread and love il
AS EASY AS ABC
If government wartime alphabet
ical agencies get you a little con
fused, some time, start diggin
among the alphabets-Within- alpha
bets, the bureaus-Within- depart
mentS, the -Within-bureau
the within offices. the eli
Visions Within-b ranches, the pro
grams within divisions. Here's
sample in the now rcShufflcd Wa
Man Power Commission: VINO ha
BIT, Bureau of Training, and B.
has a TWI, Training Within Indus
try program. T'WI has an alphabe
all it's own.
TWI offers, cooperation with
State Boards for vocational edu-
cation; JIT, Job Instructor
Training; JMT, Job Methods
Training; JRT, Job Relations
Training, and IT'D, Training of
Training Directors.
Also operating as a free job
preparation services are VTWPW,
Vocational Training for War Pro-
ductiOn Workers; formerly known
as VEND, Vocational Education
for National Defense.
ESMWT means Engineering Sci
cnce Management War Training
the II to 16 weeks short course al
universities, TO train scientific per-
sonnet needed by the war indus
tries. ATS is the apprentice train
ing service, and OSYA is the train
ing for Out-of -School-Youth ant
Adults.
Now. can you translate this
USES, the United States Employ
ment Service, also directs industry
and labor to WINGS training serv-
ices, ATS, VTWPW. ESMWT, ATS
and OSYA in order to fill the needs
for training assistance.
YOUR 8 CENTS WORTH
Coinage of new us. Scent
piece is being seriously considered
by the Mint as a metal-saving de-
vice. Yes, metal saving. They fig
ure it this way:
AS most 15-cent cigarettes sell for
l6 cents, unless you have the exact
change you hand over 20 cents and
get back 4 cents in change in the
form of four pennies. With a s.
cent piece in circulation, you could
get two coins in change, a Scent
piece and 1-cent piece, involving
only half as much metal as before.
Or, if you bought 3-cent news
paper, you could make the trans
action with one coin instead Of
three, thereby conserving &c 2-3 per
cent of the metal involved.