The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-28

Maybe in time the arithmetic books will have to be rewritten, using problems that tie in with rationing, price-fixing and conservation. Here, for instance, is a question posed by Leon Henderson's OPA
 CA dress manufacturer during March sold and delivered nine style numbers at $14.50 per dozen. Later in March he raised the prices on the three most popular style num- bers to $15.50, but actually sold and delivered only two of three three numbers at the higher price. What would be his maximum price on the three numbers raised?
 A.-Only the two style numbers actually sold and delivered in March can be sold at $15.50. The third number raised and the other six must be sold at $14.50.
 Clark Gable is now an officer with desk job in Washington. And one of the common noon hour sights in the Army-Navy area out near the Lincoln Memorial is the number of new civil service stenographers taking their lunch or the noon hour stroll in the vicinity of Gables cfflce, just to try to catch glimpse of the ex-movie star.
 LETTERING THE BARD
 Lieut.-Gen. Brehon Somervell wrote 8 spsech recently in which he quoted several passages from Shakespeare. He showed copies of the speech to four of his staff col- onels for check, and the only re- visions they made were to correct the English of Shakespeare.
 If you get a wedding invitation from your pal, Lieut.. Joe Doakes, saying the bride is to be married to plain MT" Joe Doakes, don't conclude that Joe has been kicked out of the service. It's just a mat ter of military or naval etiquette. supported by regulation, which decrees that below a captaincy in the Army and below the grade of commander in the Navy, officers shall be addressed both in writ ing and orally, as ''Mr."
 Lieut.. -Gen. William s. Knudsen, as production chief for the War Department, has inspected some 300 plants since he gave up his post as director of OPM. To some production men, it has seemed he has gone through these plants too fast to be effective. As long as things look all right, he does go fast. But when the old master mechanics eye catches something wrong, there's trouble. In one tank plant inspection, General Knudsen found lot of aluminium castings that could just as well havG been made of steel. He ordered a change made, by noon.
 BALLYBOO BUREAU
 Next new department needed in Washington is an administrator of activation, a bureau of ballyhoo, a co-ordinator of campaigns, a di- rector of drives or something like that. For the war has reached the organizing stage ard the let-do- something -about-it-boys are be- ginning to step on each others toes.
 War savings stamp and bond drives are here for the duration. On top of that is the war produc- ton drive of WIPE. The vase paper drive has gone over. Com ing up are more scrap rubber and junk collections. There may be a campaign to get people to sell their extra tires to the government. Not the fifth tires. but the sixth, seventh and eighth tires. believed to be hiding in many cellars. There will be a summer's-end cam paign to save electric power. And a manpower campaign or two to get farm workers.
 Whats missing, of course, is a boss for all those to schedule the campaigns, run each of them for two weeks or so. then saw it off leaving the public with only one goal and new enthusiasm every couple of weeks.