Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1942 — Page 17

New Federal Employment Control Laws. Putting Bony

Eligible Worker Into

Can Best Aid War Effiort.

By JAMES MONTAGNES Times Special Writer

OTTAWA, Sept. 24.—Everybody in Canada must now| ‘work, except the very old, the very young and the disabled.| A severe manpower shortage brought job freezing and strict manpower and womanpower employment regulations aimed to provide “the largest armed forces possible, the opti-

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mum of war production, the

and the minimum of agricultural production in keeping with.

the needs of Canada and of Britain,” according to Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell. There is little idle labor left in the Dominion. Only 80,000 men between 16 and 60 are not employed,

and about one quarter of this number are’ unemployable.

Few of the remainder can be used in war work.

"More than 250,000 persons are to

be added to the fighting services and war industries before the end of the year. All men have been registered and complete control is now exercised over labor to place workers in Jobs essential to the war effort.

Women to Register

During September, all women not already employed between the ages of 20 and 24 must register, and gradually other age groups will be registered. pil With its relatively small population, Canada must strike a balance between the needs of the two principal war outlets for manpower and womanpower — the fighting forces and the war factories. The new national selective service regulations. affect practically all Canadians, exceptions being women domestic servants, provincial government employees, clergymen, farmers, fishermen, hunters and trappers, teachers, nurses and probationers, and students. Other Canadians are not allowed to quit their jobs or to be discharged without seven days’ written notice by either employee or employer, No employer may interview or hire any worker unless that worker has a permit from the selective service local office to look for employment. Neither employers of labor nor persons looking for work may advertise for jobs in newspapers without the approval of the selective service officer of the locality.

¥ Suspend Old Privileges

For the duration, the age-old privilege of every Canadian to look for work or quit his job as he pleased, has been suspended. He can still quit his job, but in the seven days which must elapse from the time he gives notice to the day he leaves, his boss can discuss the matter with him, perhaps come to g settlement, though it must be understood the employer cannot force a person to remain at work for him. Nor can a Canadian now look on his own for a job. He must have a permit and when he applies for such a permit, most likely the selective service office will suggest some places in essential industry which can use his services. The job-seeker can still pick and choose his job, with limitations. However, Elliott M. Little, director of national selective service, has considerable power to place Canad--fans where he thinks they will be able to do the most for the war effort. Under the regulations the selective service officers can order any person for an interview at the local

office, can order any person who has]

been unemployed seven days to take any sia full time jobs. Only per placed in jobs by the selective service officers may not quit their jobs without permission of the sel clive service officer.

Job Quitters Listed

‘The various local and regional selective service offices opened throughout Canada receive lists of persons leaving their jobs. They are thus advised as to job openings, can interview persons leaving jobs as to reasons for doing so when they come in for a permit to seek work,

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minimum of" civilian services,

All on the Job

Canada’s population of 11,500,000 (about ene-twelfth that of the United States) has been mobilized for war. More than

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AVERAGE - FOR THE DAY, ase j

- last summer.

‘This graph shows the demand for water in the home dur-

ing a 24-hour period. The unbroken line maps a typical day The dotted line shows the hourly consumption of water on Sept. 4 of this year.

500,000 men and wemen are in | the fighting forces; 800,000, are producing war weapons; 1,350,000 are on farms; 300,000 are employed in essential utilities and ‘mining, and 2,000,000 remain in civilian industries. As quickly as possible all persons who can be shifted from peacetime industry are being placed in the services and inh war jobs.

up when key men in war industries were called up by the draft board. The new manpower regulations have not come to Canadas as a brand new feature of wartime life, but have been gradually evolved ‘over the last two years. Selective service offices were formerly unemployment insurance offiees, before that government employment offices. Restrictions as to occupations in which persons could look for work have been gradually put into force and registrations of all Canadians have been gradually

HOOSIERS RAP FOR ON PRICES

Willis Backs Farm Wage

Provision; Rep. Halleck

Defends Congress. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—With

both the senate and house scheduled to pass anti-inflation legislation, Indiana Republicans are on record today as laying the failure

of present price control legislation directly on the administration.

Senator ymond E. Willis (R.

Ind.) made. that point from the floor in the upper chamber, while Rep. Charles A. Hallegk, the Hoosier Republicans in the

dean of

made.

No More Riding Jeep Upstairs

CAIRO, Sept. 24 (U. P.).—The climbing abilities of the jeep got a young American officer here in trouble with his landlord, the civil police and a court martial. He was using it to ride up a flight of stairs to his second floor apartment at 2 o'clock every morning. His landlord bitterly complained. The jeep was waking up all the other tenants. The officer explained that he was only obeying regulations that militaty vehicles must not be parked on streets overnight. After two weeks, the 1andlord

won ‘the battle, remounted his jeep and rode upstairs. Next day, Cairo police took up the cause of the landlord. They put the officer in jail, and he was turned over to United States military authorities. They ordered him court-mar-tialed.

both the jeep and the officer from the apartment house.

- HAY RIDE PLANNED

forcibly intervened. The officer’

Thus upheld, civil police evicted |

A hay ride and wiener roast will be the feature'at 7:30 Saturday of the meeting of Jobs Daughters; Bethel No. 9.0 The hay wagon will start at the temple, Roosevelt ave.

house, did likewise. Senator Willis, member of the senate agriculture committee, spoke on behalf of rewriting- the farm parity price formula to include farm labor costs. Rep. Halleck spoke as a member of the house rules committee. “We need a price control law with a good set of teeth,” Senator Willis said. “But let me insist upon something else which should be equally obvious. There is not an inordinately ‘high cost of living due to increased prices of farm products.

Fears Ruin of Farmers

“If the cost of the labor which the farmer must employ is not included in the computation of parity, then the farmer—in hundreds of thousands of instances—will be

finished.” Rep. Halleck won rounds of ap-

Ma from Democratic as well as Republican colleagues when he took issue with President Roosevelt's blaming congress for the price control failure. “The administration got. exactly the kind of price control bill they asked for a year ago,” Rep. Halleck declared.

Calls the Hour Late “It seems.to me that if the ad-

Malis: asen saw that inflation was dangerous last summer,

the president should have demanded action then and not wait until

this late hour and then come in and tell us to-act by Oct. 1—or else.”

In closing, the second district con-

gressman criticized the administration for

“kicking the farmer

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around.”

Old-Time Saturday Night Bath Ritual

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By ROSEMARY REDDING

Time was when Hoosiers, especially gurdl Hoosiers, like myself, had a regular Saturday ritual, in-

We heated the water in the back of the stove to a tin vanized kind that Re the of the house the rest the ; Those the “good old days.” pails were the three-gallon . If we used two or three, six nine gallons, we really had a

| bath that was a bath in those days.

It was comparable to relaxing today in a full tub of 25 gallons topped by a froth of bubble bath.

How Times Do Change

Yes, the times do change, Now, most of us do it everyday. , At least, the Indianapolis Water company’s figures on water consumption indicate that. It doesn't have to pump any more water on Saturday than any other day in the week. Sometimes, the Saturday consumption is even less. There are between 72,000 and

73,000 bathtubs in the city. If every-

body took a bath on Saturday night, the water company would be the first to suspect it.

91 Gallons a Day Apiece

Those gallons used for a bath are jos a part of what it takes everyy for every resident. | Right now, the water company is pumping 91 gallons every day to supply each of us. That doesn’t mean it all goes into the home. Part of it goes for commercial and

[industrial use, but those goods and

services which those firms supply S|are: part and parcel of our way of living. The Journal of the American Water Works association says that 20 gallons is" the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM an individual uses to carry on properly the various functions of life. That allows one gallon for drinking, six for laundry, five for ablution (but without bathtub or shower) and eight for toilet flushing. : . ’ How the Flow Varies One can almost tell just what Mrs. Indianapolis is doing from watching the daily figures on the gallons the water company is pumping. Take a typical day for example. From one to 5 a. m. she’s sleeping

and the number of gallons pumped is hitting its daily low. A little after five, she starts to get up, bathes, he shaves and then she gets-breakfast. The demand for water starts rising. Between 7 and noon, she’s cleaning the house and doing the laundry and the demand goes higher, Just about noon it drops off a little and then starts up again as she does the luncheon dishes. She relaxes in the afternoon and the supply needed tapers off. Sunday’s Extra Wink Reflected

It wiil gradually keep on decreasing unless the man of the house decides the lawn needs a good soaking. By 11 o'clock it has dropped again to that of 5 o'clock in the morning. If you didn’t know it was Sunday, you could tell by just looking at the figures. Everybody’s getting that extra wink. Instead of the demand starting in about 5 or 6, it doesn’t start until 8 o’clock.

Last year the walter company pumped an average of 37,000,000 gallons every day. That was the highest in its history, Some of it was due to excessive sprinkling of lawns due to the deficiency in rain-

- | fall.

This year, if one reads behind the figures, Indianapolis did less sprinkling, but the ‘average went up to 38,000,000. It didn’t indicate we were wasteful, in fact, if anything, we were more than ever falling in line with the government’s plan for cone servation in everything.

Industry’s Demands Increase

In 1940, we were using 50 per cent of the water in our homes, 23 per cent went to commercial firms and 26 per cent to industries. In 1941, the residential corsumption dropped to 38 plus, the commercial to 19.3 and the industrial increased to 27. . So far this year, the home users have pulled their demands down to 37 per cent, the commercial firms have taken 21 per cent and industry’s demands have jumped away

jup to 26 per cent of the total con-

sumption. A little further detective work through a gallon of water, shows that in 1915, Indianapolis was using 79 gallons every day. In the 1920's our minds were far from conservation. We were de-

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manding 90 gallons each. We are just now getting back to that figure, what with the big portion of each allotment directed to our expanding industries.

Now, About Those Bathtubs!

And getting back to those bathtubs, the water company has something serious to say. Over in England, the muchbombed residents were asked to keep bathtubs full of water. In order to conserve ii, they would take a bath and then let the water stand until the alarm sounded. If one didn’t, they took out the plug, then filled up the tub, took another bath and then let the water stand until the next time. Before the office of civilian defense really got underway; that story got around and people in this country got the idea they should fill up the tubs, not for a bath, but just for protection.

The OCD and the local water company ask that in case of an air raid or alarm, you do NOT fill the tub. If everybody in the city started filling bathtubs simultaneously, the water pressure in the mains would be seriously reduced and the volume of water limited, thus causing a dangerous lack of water for fire fighting. They suggest, instead, that you fill two three-gallon buckets—one with sand and two with water.

SCHOOL EDITOR NAMED

Ruth Monical, senior, has been appointed editor of the Warren Central high school newspaper, the Warren Owl. Associate editors appointed are Dorothy Reasner, Martha Screes, Joyce Johnson and Genevieve Kreiger, all seniors. ——————————————— “DOUBLING UP” URGED

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24 (U. P.). —The war-housing shortage reached a crisis in Philadelphia today. Defense Housing Chairman William L, Mudge Jr. urged “friendly families” to double up.

K. OF C. TO ENTERTAIN The Knights ‘of Columbus will hold thé first monthly entertainment of the fall season at 6 p. m. tomorrow when a fish dinner and social will be held in the club house.

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URGES BARRING OF TAX EXPERTS

Boehne Asks Trez Treasury Aids Be Denied Admission to

Secret Sessions.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24/4U. P.). —Rep. John W. Boehne (D, Ind), member of the house ways and means committee, yesterday called on the taxing committees of congress to bar treasury department representatives from future executive sessions on tax legislation. Rep. Boehne said in an address to be read for him at the annual convention of the Controllers’ Institute of America that the constitutional prerogatives of congress to levy taxes was being jeopardized by permitting treasiry representatives to argue before executive tax sessions while the general public is barred. “These executive sessions must remain purely executive,” Rep. Boehne said. “It is only in this way that the American people can retain their representative type. of government as. it relates to tax policies, and’ at'the same time- hold a legislative body to strict accountability for its acts.”

DUCKS WINTER IN MISSOURI Eighty-two thousand wild ducks vintered in Missouri, the U. S. fish

| ‘War Machines React in

Certain Climates.

By DAVID DIETZ | Bcripps-Howard Science Editor.

ibuton to the winning of void war II.

In laboratories in all parts of the 4 country there are special rooms y which the temperature and climate ; of any spot on the earth can mw duplicated. Do the air forces want to know how a motor will behave at 55 des grees below zero and at a.

corps want to know how a certain piece of equipment will react to sea= level conditions in the tropics? The answer is obtained by duplicating the stratosphere of the tropics with the ald of air-conditioning appa ratus. Make Accuracy Possible

Research and testing, however, are only the most spectacular sides of the use of air: conditioning in the war effort. Many manufacture | ing .processes today are carried on in factory rooms where the tempers ature and humidity are carefully controlled at all times. Where measurements have to be accurate to one ten-thousandths of

an inch, sh changes can prove disastrous.

ity, by making workmen’s hands perspire, can result in the deposite ing of infinitesimal.drops of wates on polished metal parts. Thess droplets, by causing corrosion In time, can destroy delicate instru= hy ments.

How Industry Benefits 2 Dr. Willis H. ‘Carrier, pioneer of

control his own weather. Dr. Care

“indoor weather” while walking through a fog one night. His idea was that if nature could put moise ture into the air, man ought to be able to take it out. Out of that idea grew the science of air conditioning. ; Here are a few of the ways in which industry has benefited by air conditioning: Large-scale production of rayon, nylon, and other synthetic fibers was impossible until the develope

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