Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-15
End Of War
Not in Sight!
It's a Guess
Soldier Dependents Pay
Timed With Elections
BY PAUL MtLL0N

WASHINGTON, July Is. -
W Congressman Andrew jack
son May set the military men
a-muttering when he announced
the war might be over this year,
certainly next.
Mr.. May is an exceptionally
able legislator and chairman of
the House military affairs COM
mittee, but ne is also known as
a teller of tall stories. He has
o long insisted. for instance. that
down in Pike County, Kentucky,
he never shoots at squirrel di-
rcctly. but AT tho limb on which
IT Is perched, so he can kill it by
conclusion.
LIVERY ONE likes to hear good
~ news, and such statements
as these are given prominence in
the press for that reason, al
though they are not worth the
breath il took 10 utter them.
No one in authority knows
when the war will end. No one
can have a good guess. And
such wild stabs as are being
made fluctuate from day TO day
with news from the front.
One official. who knows as
much about it as either Mr.. May
or Mr.. Tydings. says the war
will last five years, if Egypt
falls.
All that can be truthfully and
safely said is this.
Many air-minded authorities
hope for great things from the
second front OF air bombing
which has been opened by the
British. IL has been announced
this Is to be greatly intensified
with our help soon.
Those who think the war can
be won this way naturally ex-
pect an early conclusion. They
are in the minority. The vast
majority of authorities see the
end nowhere in sight.
TT WILL snow gold for de-
l. pendents in the armed serv-
ices next November 2. the day
before election. On that pc
culiarly timed occasion. around
1925, 100000 of held-up allow
ances will be shoveled out of the
clouds here in payments to
wives, children. fathers and
mothers. No payments will be
made until then.
The war department says it
never heard -of-the election
which is 10 occur November 3.
1t says it chose November /,
two days preceding-keep
straight face please-because
bookkeeping and investigation
will delay the preparation of
checks until precisely that mo-
ment from June /. the date from
which the allowances are TO be
made.
A tremendous amount of adj
miniStrative labor and book
keeping is no doubt necessary
10 get such vast system going.
But the most peculiar and still
unexplained phase Of the matter
is, why payments are not 10 be
made as cases are completed in
the coming months, but are TO
be held up for one great lump
sum payment of five months
arrears just before the voters
go to the polls TO elect new
Congress-?
THE inhuman aspect Of the
Il matter is that the depend
entS are assumed to be needy,
else the payment would not be
made. These are not gratuitieS.
but are for subsistence. How
the dependents will live until the
day before election, is not quite
clear.
NOTE-The basic allowance
for a dependent wife is $50, the
government contributes $2S and
the soldier SD. In addition, the
government furnishes $40 for
one child. $40 for each additional
child, So for parents and other
relatives. etc. Maximum possible
payment is SIP.
A NY place you touch the rub
"A Der situation il burns, with
usual resultant aroma. Only
now has the OPA increased the
price offered for guayule from
l712 cents per pound TO % cents
per pound. in order TO get some
of that base rubber product
which Mexico has been selling 10
others.
Our whole Latin American
buying policy is still continuing
along the same old faulty low
priced line. Argentine. Brazilian
and Chilean manufacturers have
been topping our fixed minimum
and getting the rubber we need.
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