The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
By PETER EDsok
Monitor-leoder Washington
CoYYespondenf

News and Observer, come to
Washington lost winter to
toke over what wos left Of the
sodly demoroIized Voluntary
Participation division of OCO,
one of the Presidents possion-
otely anonymous assistants
had occasion to coll him on
the telephone. When their
business was concluded, the
voice at the other end Of the
wire asked, "Con ! tolk off the
record O minute'"
"Sure!" sold Mr.. Daniels.
why noto"
The wire was silent q sec
ond, and then the anonymous
ossistont let him have it.
Hello, suckerP
They both laughed and hung
up.
II was that bod in the be-
ginning, but by dint of q lot
Of sweotine,, bleeding and
crying, the Office Of Civilian
Defense thinks it hos an or
eonizotion It doesn't have to
apologize for, and no one can
coll Mr.. Daniels Sucker"
now and get owoy with it.
In the days when the Civil
ian Mobilization was getting
started. the civilian population
generally was asking, "Whot
can | doo TIT sweep floors,
drive q truck, sit UP nights,
work in q hospital. or any
thing" So 9 or 10 million
people signed cords listing
their abilities, and nothing
happened except thot everyone
got sore at OCD.
The emphasis has changed
since those pre-PeorI Horbo'
days. Today, OCD is question:
ing the volunteer, and the ten,
or Of the questioning is Cor
you do it," There ore specific
Jobs to be done, and it ISM
. the run-of-the.mine dope whe
can do q lot Of them. Conse
quentIy, many Of the incompe'
tents have been weeded out
, and the nine million volun
teers have been reduced to {
: potential working organization
5 Of two or three million QuoIi
} fled defense workers known q,
: the Civilian Service Corps.
( BANS BOOkDOGGLING
Civilian Service Corps wa
created by OCD - it wos reol
, Iy Jonathan Daniels ideo -
!, to provide q useful and not
. boondoeeIine, fan dancing
;. co-ordinoted bowling, or SINH
IorIy silly outlet for the en-
t ereies Of people who wonted t.
do some little something t.
help win the war. The Ok
name Of the Division Of Vol
untory Participation was sim
ply too much of q mouthful Il
: be practical, SO Civilian Serv
= ice Corps was born. 1t STRESSED
/. Service" and it had the semi
/, military character Of on Arm
n corps. s."
A formal order erecting tn
= corps was handed down obou
two months oeo. Members O
the corps ore selected from
their qualifications listed OF
the mobilization cord. They'r
= hond-picked for porticulo
a Jobs. They must agree to tok
r orders and they can be fired
d they don't. They must be fin
Il eerprinted and they must tax
!. an oath to support and defen
the Constitution, swearing oIs
i that they do not and have mol
n since Moy II lo4l odveeot
ed the overthrow Of the Con
&c stitutionoI form Of govern
!. ment Of the U. s. by force c
It violence.
le That wos put there in re
It Spouse to O demand that ther
be on ont-Communist pre-
e vision.
MAKE DEALS FOR JOBS
r Next, OCD made deols wit
other civilian war organize
tons - Office Of Price Ac
ministrotion, Office Of Defens
IT Transportation, the solvog
n and conservation committee
III Of the War Production Boor
TO use Civilian Service Corp
t. people in their work. For ir
1t stance, Schenectady wonted
rent survey. locol Civi'io
;e Service Corps people mode
lie and il didn't cost q cent. %
'r wanted car pooling and eme'
&c qency motor transport orgor
ized. The Job was let to Civi
ion Service Corps. Some OF tn