The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-25

males outnumber the females, tc
an old nation in which the females
will outnumber the males In 1916
the u. S. had nearly million more
males than females, but the ad-
vantage has been dropping at the
rate of about 100000 year.
The weaker sex is living longer
and the stronger sex is kicking the
bucket younger. This in spite of the
fact that Mother Nature, in her
mysterious way, still sees to it that
106 males are born for every 100
females, make of it what you will.
War ManpoWer Commission has a
pretty new paster out, showing a
magazine cover girl with her hair
done up in a kerchief and her pow
She's using small power drill to
bore holes in what is obviously a
piece of plane.
The poster says, "She has the
job HE left behind him.
If the WMPC boys had it to do
over, they wouldn't do the poster
just that way. They want more and
still more women to take mems jobs
in industry, but experience is prov
ing that too many of the lady rive
tiers are f1ocking to the airplane
plants. Making planes has become
the glamor girl occupation, whereas
what the employers of womanpower
particularly want today are gals who
will take not just the glamor jobs,
but some of the tougher ones-man-
curing locomotives, shampooing
floors, chauileuring street cars.
The new Share the Truck" pro-
gram which Office of Defense
Transportation is cooking up is sup
posed to be voluntary cooperation
affair, aimed at getting truck oper-
atorS to pool loads, work up joint
route trips for deliveries and things
like that.
ODT has, however, some very nice
little controls to persuade the truck
erS to play ball. Gasoline for truck
ers is allocated on quarterly basis.
Certificates of Necessity are being
reviewed all the time. Appeals for
more gas may be approved, or dis
approved, depending on whether the
| ODT field offices think the appli-
cants for renewals have been "shar-
ing the truck as much as they
could under existing circumstances.
1t develops that if a man going
into the Navy has nude woman
tatooed on his arm, he must have
! a skirt tatooed on the image before
they'll take him in.
No one knows how much of the
lend-lease aid will ever be paid for,
but if it's any consolation to you, all
these supplies furnished by the
United States to the United Nations
are carried on the books at U. S.
costs, and there is no haggling over
the price. Even when the items in
volve subsidies or incentives, as with
foodstuffs, the foreign countries
take the goods at the gross cost, not
the lower market price, or the price
of similar goods produced in their
own countries. OF course, it works
both ways. When the United States
take reverse lend-lease aid for
American troops stationed overseas,
it's credited at whatever prices they
fix on their goods.
War Food Administration may
have been persuaded to drop its pro-
gram for governing the U. S. or edu-
eating U. S. people into taking theil
proteins in the most convenient
form during wartime-whole milk
instead of cheese or butter, cereals
and vegetables instead of meats.
The meat packers got scared about
this idea, fearing that eating habits
might change and stay that way
But if the war should go on for a
couple of years and food shortages
should get worse, the real test OF
what you'll be eating then will be
chemists determination of which
crops and foods have the highest
protein yield pc racre. The answer
comes out the same, any way you
figure it. Soybeans.
Better start learning to like them
now, in soup, in bread, in sausage,
as margarine.