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Evening star., 1942-10-18

they are not nearly 70 well OF as
they expected to be despite the
fact that their pay is much higher
than It was back home.
Difhculty in obtaining suitable
living conditions is another factor,
inability to adjust to new surround.
ings still another. Night work and
the six-day week, which 60 with a
job in the War Department, leave
little opportunity for recreation.
The War Department just now is
starting the so-called exit inter-
views"-that is, questioning each
employe who is preparing to leave
to get at the reason for the separa-
ton and attempting to persuade him
or her to stay.
Interviews Prove Worth.
The exit interviews" developing
from a suggestion by the Council
of Personnel Administration, have
proven their worth at the War Pro-
duction Board, according to Carl
ton Hayward, personnel chief, who
makes 1t a practice to talk with
every employe seeking a transfer
or proposing to quit the WPB. Mr..
Hayward, who is on leave from the
Pennsylvania Railroad, where he Is
an assistant superintendent of mo-
tive power, thinks that the per-
sonal interest shown in each case
has its effect. At any rate, he says
turnover-which he blames in good
part to home sickness-no longer Is
problem.
Kenneth Warner, personnel chief
at OPA, is another believer in the
"exit interview" but the turnover
there is for the most part beyond
the control of officials. The OPA,
Mr.. Warner explains, loses per-
sonnel to other agencies whose needs
are rated as more important in the
Budget Bureau priority classical
ton, and, due to the large number
of male mployes-economiS and
other specialists-to the armed
services.
The Civil Service Commission has
just directed all agencies to con-
duct these exit interviews" and re-
port monthly on the reason for sep
arations.
Short Of Supervisors.
In an establishment such as the
War Department much Of the work
is routine; In others it is more
specialized. and the training pro-
gram for the clerical force is direct
ed not only at improving mechan-
ical skills but also at familiarizing
employees with the actual function
ing of the agencies. This all re-
quires competent supervision, and
here another stumbling block is en-
countered, for skilled supervisors
are not to be had for the asking.
They also must be trained. All
that can be done, Mr.. Kushnick ex-
plains, is to select those persons
whose records indicate they would
make efficient supervisors and
school them for places of response
bility.
Mr.. Kushnick, who came to the
Government from a large glass
manufacturing concern, has an an
sWer for those who complain that
the war agencies are overstaffed and
that the time and skills of workers
are wasted.
Declaring that it would be a
miracle" If there were not some
lost motion, he says that recruiting
has not been careless and without
regard to actual needs for man
power.
"It's not that we have too many
employees" he explains. "It is that
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Hitler Speech Hitting.
Rulers Of Italy and
Japan Revealed
Speed and Brutality Key
To Strength, Fuehrer Soid
To Have Told Generals
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physical destruction of the enemy.
- Be tough! Be without compass
sion!"
Mr.. Lochner has had this story
in his notebooks for several years.
1t would have been fruitless to have
written it in Germany. Now that
he is back in the United States,
on leave and conducting a lecture
tour, 1t is released a few days in
advance of his book, What About
Germany"
He said the account of the gather
ing of the generals, which was held
nine days before the German
armies poured into Poland, came
from an officer who surreptitiously
took shorthand notes as Hitler
spoke.
Concealed His Notes.
Coming down from the mountain
top, this soldier, apparently only
lukewarm Nazi, turned the notes
over to the Associated Press corre-
spondent and added what other
facts his memory retained.
Mr.. Lochner held only the faint
est hope of getting his material out
of Germany. But he concealed the
notes through his five months in
ternment at Bad Nauheim and then
managed, quite simply, to bring
them back with him.
The complete abstract of the
speech made public by Mr.. Lochner
today follows:
Ever since the autumn of 1898,
and because I realized that Japan
would not join us Internationally
and that Mussolini is threatened by
that nit-wit OF king and the treas
enable scoundrel Of crown prince,
I decided to go with Stain.
I'm the last analysis, there are
only three great statesmen in the
world-Stalin, I and Mussolini.
Mussolini is the weakest, for he has
been unable to break the power of
either the crown or the church.
Speed and Brutality.
"Our strength consists in our
speed and our brutality. Genghis
Khan led millions of women and
children to slaughter-with pre-
meditation and happy heart. His
tory sees in him solely the founder
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Escaped Monkey Pelts
Pussers-bx With Peas

After five weeks Of playing impish
tricks, a pet monkey owned by J. j
Williams, cafe proprietor of Belmont
England, was lured into a trap by
a dummy egg and a piece of cake
After her escape, Jenny sat on a
telegraph pole at the railway station
and pelted passengers with pea pods
Later she resumed the bombardment
from the roof of the station, using
plum stones.
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Shop Proprietor Gossed
By Own BURGLAR Device

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO.-Edward Liebermann
says he is satisfied with the opera
ton of the burglar alarm in his
store-he learned about its effec-
tiveness the hard way.
When Mr.. Liebermann opened
his store he forgot to disconnect the
alarm mechanism and he was
greeted by a blast of tear gas re-
leased by the device.
Firemen put on gas masks and
aired out the shop.
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We are not getting the job done as
fast as We should"
Routine Hiring Cut.

We are not getting the job done as
fast as We should"
Routine Hiring Cut.
Routine hiring virtually was sus-
pended by the department in June,
he says. Since then, the recruiting
has been for the force to handle
the dependency allotments. The
ceiling for this group, which will
be located in Newark, N. j., will
be 10000, according to present esti-
mates. This was brought out at
the House Rules Committee hear
ing on the Ramspeck personnel in
quiry resolution. At one time, it
was said, officials thought 1000 en-
ployes would be enough for the
task. However, War Department
officials are understood to take the
stand that the public wants the
allotments handled as quickly as
possible and are shaping their plans
accordingly.
Mr.. Kushnick is one of those who
argue that the Government can
make some use of the unskilled or
partlypartly trained worker, but the
War Department has wasted no time
IN pushing an intensive training pro-
gram. Under an arrangement with
the District public schools, approxi-
mately 1900 typists were sent to
night classes for 8 and 10 week
courses this past summer, to improve
their performance. A course for
supervisors, lasting IS weeks, has
been going night and day.
Want More Courses.
A number of other agencies have
carried on similar courses for ste
nographers and typists, but Civil
Service Commission training offic-
ials say that this practice is not as
widespread as it should be. The
commission some time ago sent out
a departmental circular pointing to
the difficulty that was being en-
countered in recruiting trained ste
nographers and typists and urging
that instructors be employed for in
service courses. AS result, it is
said, there have been several in
structors appointed at salaries rang
ing from $4,000 to $4,000, and some
at lower salaries, to supervise this
work.
In some agencies, notably WPB
and OPA, an effort is being made
to spread the supply of stenogra-
pliers as far as possible by work.
ing them out of pools" Under this
system stenographers are assigned
to units just as their services are
needed, instead of being detailed
permanently to Offices where they
might have combined clerical-steno-
graphic duties. In that way stenog-
raphers do only the work for which
they are trained, and routine cler-
ical duties are handled by other
personnel.
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Lecture Series for Adult
Students 10 Beqin Oct. 26

Alexander Meiklejohn of st.
Johns College, Annapolis, Md, will
give the first in a series of three
lectures to be delivered by him in
political and economic problems
when the college opens its extern
sion program for adult students in
the Graduate School Of the De-
partment of Agriculture, starting at
pm. October 26.
The lecture series will be open
to the general public and all of
the courses may be taken regard
less Of the extent of previous school,
ing. Inquiries may be made at
the school offices in Annapolis.
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Commissioner Arthur S. Flem-
ming of the Civil Service Commits
sion has a word for it: "Treadmill."
The War Department has felt
the full brunt OF this turnover.
william H. Kushnick, director OF
civilian personnel, estimated that
It has ranged as high as go per cent,
exclusive of the losses to the armed
forces.
Primarily, Mr.. Kushnick believes,
the trouble lies in the wage situa-
ton, The usual entrance salary IN
the clerical grades Is $1,440, ana
while this is not low, he says, the
value has shrunken under increased
living costs and employees brought
Ia from other localities discover that
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= before a donkey. France receives
an infnitessimal amount of the
food and other products of
Morocco and Algeria, for the
bulk is going to the Reich, but
the French people are told that
as soon as the British blockade is
broken they will be fed from
across the Mediterranean. Hence,
Laval and his bosses believe that
the conjuring up Of an Allied
threat to Morocco may persuade
the French people to accept Nazi
occupation of the. richest part
OF the French empire.
In some quarters it is believed
that the NaZis have already
begun their military infiltra-
ton" of the west coast of Africa.
They are said to have already
considerably strengthened their
forces in Spanish Morocco, some
IS semi-motorized Spanish divi-
sionS composed of Arabs and the
Spanish foreign legion. 1t is not
impossible that when Berlin and
Paris began talking up the
menace to Morocco and West
Africa Nazi planes and ground
forces were already on their way
to those regions.
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Discomforts or Lack Of Luxuries at Home
TrifIes Compared With Battlefield SUFFERING

small nation was also no luxury.
Today these are luxuries for
Goth century Americans--as they
were also luxuries for most 18TH
century Americans. Our ances-
tors knew that the road to wealth
was long and hard: for the we'll
to-do Of our generation it has
been short. Yet we know that the
interruption is merely an inter
ruption; If we win, hardships will
be over soon.
All these things we think as
We pay our taxes.
Now, our taxes are not only
created for the financing of this
war. They are a hedge against
runaway imitation. With every
one working the turnover of
money is immense, while con-
sumers' goods are scarce.
Under such conditions-plen-
tiful money and scarcity of
goods spending becomes a crime
against the economy. The ad-
ministration is obliged to curtail
our purchasing power. 1t would
be remiss in chief duty if it
failed to do so.
Government Gives Choice.
But to certain degree the
Government gives us a choice.
We can either have the entire
surplus taken away by taxes,
giving up money which we will
never see again, or we can save
1t, and get it back after the war.
But let us make no mistake.
If we miss this opportunity of
saving our surplus by buying
War bonds, the Government must
take the money away-in our
own interests, in the interests
of the whole society to which
each of us belongs, and to the
welfare of which the welfare OF
each is tied. tt
So buying War bonds can
hardly be counted among the
discomfortS. 1t is the allowed,
and even recommended. in
divioual escape from more tax
alton. If 1t is a discomfort to
save instead of to spend-a dis
comfort which Benjamin Frank
lin would not have regarded as
such-then it is discomfort
with future, in the place of
discomfort with no future.
1t involves changes of habits.
One doesn't really need that new
dress or suit. It's smart to be
shabby. One doesn't need to
begin collecting now, in hossy
kitchen ware, the scrap of the
future. In fact, there is GER
tain relief in not having to buy
what one doesn't really need,
in order to keep the industries
OF the Nation going.
AT present everybody has a
job. But there is still an ele-
ment OF insecurity in life. Will
everybody have one after the
war is f1nished-especially in the
transition period? How about a
personal and collective e-insur-
.ance? The investment of mil
lions and millions in War bonds
is nothing but canned purchas-
ing power for a canned pros
perity to follow the, war.
1t oughtn't to take Hedy La
marr's kisses to convince an
American that today's savings
in the stocking will be tomor-
rows bread and butter.
released by the Bell Syndicate. IncA
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forces in areas all over the world
where they must fight; we need
meat for our British allies, who
can produce only half their home
supply of food, and we need
meat for the Russians, who, by
their gigantic sacrifice are being
cruiclled for mankind.
regret that Mr.. Wickard does
not suggest 'meatless days" I
would like to see two meatless
days per week, one for our
armed forces and one for our
Allies. I like the idea that twice
a week everybody. together, re-
members, at all our tables, our
sons and husbands and brothers
who are fighting for us; that on
another day we remember, all
toge cher, those who have Suf-
fered as we have not-those
who nave bought with their ter
rible bath of fire and blood our
relative immunity The thought
of them would sweeten a mess
of lintels.
These are discomforts. And
there will be others. -
Wage ceilings and price CELL
ings are discomforts; the "freez-
ing" and moving of labor, is an
other, and great one.
But none of them are the dis
comforts Of the African desert, or
OF conveys at sea, or of menace
from the air over ones home, or
OF the prisoner of war, or of
Bataan or Corregidor, or of hos
tages shot against a wall, or of
millions of refugees, driven like
leaves before the wind.
Definition of Luxury Changes.
And there is the discomfort of
taxes. They have been high and
will be higher. Today every one
receiving his salary, or wage, or
income, must say. Only so much
belongs to me-and the rest is
taxes. This now concerns millions
OF people for whom the regular
deduction of part of their income
is new and strange.
The idea that for certain
period every one has to work to
earn merely his living, without
any surplus for luxury, is new in
this country. The definition of
luxury is new. Having car was
no luxury; buying a new radio :
set or mechanical refrigerator
: was no luxury-to millions. Hav-
ing more clothes than any other
people in the world think they
need was no luxury. And throw
ing away into the garbage cans
enough food to feed another
Evening star., 1942-09-28
The Great Game of Politics
Republicans and CIO Leoder Denounced
For Hypocrisy in Anti -InfIotion Fiqht

| ment in which he said, among other
things, that the anti-inflation bill
should be passed without the
threatened amendments from the
farm bloc leaders, who are not real
ly thinking of the best interests of
the farmers or of the people, but
rather are prompted by selfish mo-
tives."
He went on to deplore the "sabo-
taging' of the Presidents economic
program, which he said lis the heart
of our war effort"
Now, what Mr.. Murray says about
the selfishness of the farm leaders
is entirely true, but Mr.. Murray is
the last man who should make the
charge. 1t could be made with
equal truth against the labor lead
ers, one of whom Mr.. Murray is.
Endorsed Coal Strike.
For this is the same Mr.. Murray
who, despite his personal feud with
John L. Lewis, last year indorsed
the threatened coal strike which
would have terribly crippled our
production industry and given
great aid and comfort to the enemy.
He is also the same Mr.. Murray
who, after having highly praised
the Presidents National Mediation
Board of which he was member,
resigned, taking his labor colleagues
with him, because ma ajority of the
board rendered a decision not to
his taste BY that action he scuttled
the board
And he is the same Mr.. Murray
who, up to now. successfully OPP
posed every effort to legislate
against strikes, to stabilize wages
and to enact really comprehensive
and adequate tax program which
would absorb the vast purchasing
power which the war billions have
put in the hands of the mass of the
workers, and which the President
and every economic authority agree
is the basic cause of the imitation
danger.
One Encouraging Aspect.
Considering all these things it
would seem to take an unusual de-
gree of effrontery for Mr.. Murray
to denounce the farm lobbyists and
leaders for selfshness or to accuse
anyone of standing in the way of
the Presidents economic program.
In the midst of their fight for
special consideration the farm lob
byists can hardly take time out to
resent this attack from Mr.. Muir
ray, But, no doubt, they do re-
sent it.
From the public standpoint there
is but one encouraging aspect.
Usually, the farm lobby and the
labor lobby act together. They
regularly scratch each others backs
and 1t has been frequently charged
that they swap votes and play each
others games in legislative matters.
When they thus join forces there
isn't much of a chance of beating
the combined lobbies. 1t is only
when the big lobbyists fall out that
the right may prevail.
Distributed by Mcknight syndicate)
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the minority which fought the out
rageous demands of the farm lobby,
but it does reflect on the majority
which, in the face of an acute ma
tlonal crisis, cravenly yielded to
pressure from a special interest and,
| disregarding the most solemn warn
ing, greatly enhanced the peril of a
ruinous and uncontrolled imitation.
1t is tough break for the coun-
try that when finally, after a years
costly delay, the President reversed
his position and took the sound
stand, Congress should then block
the doing of the essential things.
Revolving Political Hypocrisy.
Whatever the outcome now
whether the President vetoes the
shockingly distorted INTIMIDATION
bill or whether compromise is
effected, it was a rotten weeks
work and words should not be
minced in characterizing it. Nor
should the incident be dismissed
without noting two of the most re-
voting pieces of political hypocrisy
which have been perpetrated in
long time.
For one of these the Republican
party was responsible. Less than a
week before the vote was taken,
the Republicans had a conference
in Washington out of which a state
ment came pledging Republican
support to the President for every
proposal designed to win the war
and declaring that "our national
peril must not be exploited by any
individual or group for special gains
or advancement"
That sounded very noble, indeed,
but it only served to make the action
OF the House Republicans in knifing
the Presidents price control bill, by
a majority of nearly to l, the more
despicable. Without the Republican
vote the farm lobby would have
failed in the House.
"* CIO@ Chief Attacked.
The other exhibit which deserves
high rank in any hypocrisy contest
was clothed in the inspiring words
OF the CIO labor leader, Philip Muir
ray. Right after the House vote,
Mr. Murray made public a state
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of Guinea, south of Dakar, is
considered to be an additional
indication that we intend to do
something in that area.
The war plans of the United
Nations are, of course, secret, and
any speculation on that matter
would be highly improper and
likely to jeopardize Allied STRAIT
egy, to say nothing about thou
sands of lives.
Two-Fold Purpose.
The Nazi-French broadcasts
are believed in Washington to
have two-fold purpose: First,
the usual one of attempting to
draw us out in order to discover
by some indiscretion what we
intend to do in the Atlantic
area. if we intend to do anything
at all; second, to give the Nazis
and their Vichy associates a
plausible excuse in the eyes of
the French people for an even
tual infiltration of Nazi forces
into North Africa, which, accord
ing to the terms of the 1910
armistice, was bound to remain
an exclusively French possession.
Berlin knows that large num-
Der of fully equipped American
troops are leaving this country.
The actual destinations of these
forces is, however, something of
a mystery. Communicates an
nounce the arrival of important
detachments in England and
North Ireland, but no one knows
whether they remain there.
Nazi scouts get scant informa-
ton about the ultimate destina-
tion of American forces overseas.
Whether our troops remain in
the United Kingdom or whether
they 60 somewhere else is un-
known to the enemy. 1t is diff
cult to keep secret the departure
of our transports, but it is rela-
lively easy to conceal their
further movements.
Stronger Foothold Needed.
The Nazis are most anxious to
obtain a stronger foothold in
North Africa than they now
have. They have managed to
obtain almost complete control
over the French bases in Tunisia,
whence important reinforce
ments are being sent to Marshal
Rommel. This was obtained
through a combination of pres
sure and blackmail. The French
were told that the Italians in
tended to occupy the Tunisia
protectorate and that Berlin
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VierIine to Direct
PEA Maintenance

B. j. Vierling has been appointed
superintendent of maintenance OF
Pennsylvania Central Airlines.
He IS a native OF Bakersfield
Cant, a graduate of Stanford Uni
versity and was associated with the
Douglas Aircraft Co, as service
engineer, before joining the mainte-
nance department of Pea.
He will make his headquarters
" the National Airport here.
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paign of the war, a frontal attack bv
prayers and sacrifices and by lives
heroically lived and offered to God
In time and for eternity" he said.
The New York archbishop de-
clared America must be on Gods
side" in this prelude to Armaged-
don"
The prelate who represents all
Catholics in the armed forces Of
tered a pledge to President Roose-
Velt of total devotion to the cause
OF America and "a free nation in a
free world" in the name of Catholic
clergy and laity within his jurisdic-
ton.
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Archbishop Spe||man Asks
Second Front Of PRAYER

r! The Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-Those at
home must establish a second front
OF prayer Archbishop Francis j..
Spellman, military vicar of Amer
lean Catholics in the armed services.
told $4,000 attending patriotic serv-
ices OF the Archdiocesan Union of
the Holy Name Society at the
Yankee Stadium yesterday.
Ours is. the most important cam
Evening star., 1942-09-28
Balkan Nations Reported
Planning New Hitler Aid
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Sept. %
Rumania and Croatia, hoping for
political favors in return, have
agreed to try to raise more troops to
fight for Germany against Russia,
reliable Balkan sources said today.
These sources said that was the
result of conferences last week in
volving Adolf Hitler, German For
eign Minister Joachim Won Rib
bentrop, DR.. Ante Pavelic, Croatian
chief Of state. and Mihai Antonesco,
acting Premier of Rumania.
The meetings of these men were
said to have taken the place of a
conference scheduled for the middle
of the month which would have in
cluded Hungary.
Balkan sources said the inference
Evening star., 1942-09-28

was that Rumania had gained favor
in the dispute with Hungary over
the Pennsylvania territory the Ger
mans required Rumania to turn
over to Hungary.
Germany was said to have called
on Rumania and Croatia for more
OF their manpower as a consequence
OF the Russian resistance of Stalin-
grad.