The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-05-21
New York
Listening Post
tesr Gas 10 Be Used
Prompts U. S. Expansion
Chemical Warfare Comps
Set More Men; Cut Study
Aris VIII Find Allies
Ready for eveniusliiies
r, ALBERT y. IEMAN

NEW YORK; somberly sig
nificant trend. unknown to the
public but extremely important
In connection with Winston
Churchilfs warning about gas.
s that the number Of men in
our chemical warfare camps has
been stepped up tremendously
and that the training period has
been shortened. Officers fore
cast that as an immediate re-
suit of the prime minister's rev.
citations, we can move up TO our
fighting fronts supplies OF the
deadly vapors and that posses
sion OF them in strategic thea
ters will not be subject TO crit
icism by historians. since now
the transfer becomes a precau-
tionary defensive measure.
Army chemists predict that
when the horror Is unleashed by
any nations, the action will be
on a huge scale. No power on
earth would risk certain retalia-
ton for a small advantage. They
say that until now only three
opportunities have been present.
cd for the safe use OF the awful
fogs:
First and greatest WAS after
Dunkirk when, IL the Nszis had
dropped the poison on England.
the conflicts outcome might
have been decided.
Second, the culmination OF the
axis drive against the Soviet
and both Moscow and Leningrad
were under seige.
Third, the recent air domins-
tion Of western Europe by the
Raj.
The specialists visualize an
other chance IL the Reds are
driven back in widespread re-
treats. Also remote possibility
exists that a reckless Japan,
strongly based, would hurl the
terror upon Australia or Siberia.
The latter two contingencies
would be only a climax to opera
tons and not opening blows.
The army has passed the buck
10 the local draft boards. II in
sists that these agencies are to
blame for failure to warn pros
pective soldiers not TO quit their
Jobs until they have been sworn
into the ranks. Whoever is the
blunderer. the senseless scandals
OF the early days of CONSUMPTION
continue to punish thousands OF
green kids, who think that they
are going to fight for Uncle Sam
because they passed their neigh
borhood physical tests and then
are knocked off by unsentimen-
tai medicos in the big camps.
The confusion is 80 bad in the
New York metropolitan area
that complaints are pouring in
n the war department. Young
sters have been known 10 re-
sign from fine positions: make
forced sales Of farms, tools and
jalopies; accept gifts of foun-
tain pens from fellow workers
and knitted sweaters from Aunt
Sallies; strut brief moments as
hometown heroes; and then
come sinking back to the family
roosts embittered by what they
think public disgrace because
they did not say "Ah-h-h" well
enough to suit the final hard
boiled caduceus corps chest
thumpers.
The more sensitive officers
are disturbed by a condition
which applies 10 approximately
. per cent Of the striplings.
They advise everyone to wait
before kissing the girls good-by.
Don't give up work. II personal
matters require settlement. let
each selectee secure an affidavit
IN this effect and take 1t with
him to the induction center. II
he makes the last health hurdle.
this document, presented at the
reception headquarters. will en-
title him to a Today furlough in
which to wind up his civilian az
fairs.