Evening star., 1942-04-01

posedly at work,
Henry MeLemore. than all Of the
other beIligerents combined.
Name it and we have it. No mat
ter how you juggle the alphabet,
the chances are we have an organi-
zation with Offices, officers and
stationery, tool operating under the
abbreviation.
We are not hurrying. We are
building soundly-tiny things first,
slightly larger things next, and so
on. Not until all the loose ends.
the small ends, have been tied and
bound together, are We going TO
consider fitting into place the major
blocks of our war effort.
This must be obvious to any one
who keeps only slightly abreast of
the United States at war. While
labor and government toss and
wrestle on the mat over wages and
hours, while production heaves and
sighs, the minor, unimportant bits
of the war framework are being
slipped neatly into place.
Let us consider one or two OF
these, starting with the suggestion
of the Office of Price Administration
that bakers stop slicing bread as a
means of saving time, labor and
paper.
A totalitarian state would not be
likely to pause to consider such:
problem. Foolishly, perhaps, it
would be much too occupied seeing
to it that its war machine was
amply supplied with guns, men,
tanks and planes to fret over wheth-
er or not housewives got their loaves
of bread ready to serve or had to get
out their kitchen knives and slice it
themselves.
But not a democracy, not ours,
anyway. Nothing must be over
looked, even if more important mat
ters have to wait. Some one in au-
thority feels that ready-sliced bread
or solid-loaf bread has a part to
play in recapturing the Pacific from
the enemy, and a decision must be
reached. Better to get the bakers
of the Nation lined up and in tune
with the war effort than to get of
batch Of stuff for the A. V. G. flyers
along the Burma road.
The standard slice of modern
bread is three-eights Of an inch
thick-no moreno less. I meas
ured it with calipers- on three types:
Graham, DR.. Whupper's Vitamin
B-3 and Mrs. Topper's Yum Yum
bread. Not a hairbreadth, vitamin
breadth variation in any of them.
Aside from showing that the bread
sicers are in the worst kind of a
rut-have lost all of their imagina-
t1on-1 can't see what the measure
ments prove. For the life of me I
can't figure out sliced breads i'm
portance to the man in the trenches,
the man IN bomber, the man on a
tanker. But it is being given serious
consideration.
So are rabbits. Uh, huh, rabbits,
AT about the same time the Japa-
nese started moving toward India,
a House appropriations subcomniit-
tee found time to listen to DR.. I. N.
Gabrlelson, director of the fish and
wild life service Of the Interior De-
partment, on that charming little
animal.
Rabbits" DR.. Gabrielson said
and it is a shame our fighting men
all over the world could not have
heard his every word-"rabbits are
the most economical meat producers
and can be raised in suburban back
yards and in the country with a
very small investment. 1t is one
sure way of reducing the family
meat bill"
You would be hard pressed to
think OF any word that could be sent
to Gen. Macarthur in Australia
That would cheer him as much as
word that those of us back home
had given up pre-sliced bread and
had a back yard full of plump bun
nies.
1t would encourage the general
ana his men no end to know that
this country was going about war in
new and novel manner, and that
the old cut and dried formula,
which places fighting equipment
ABOVE everything else, was not for us.
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