Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1942 — Page 15
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~The City of ‘Minneapolis gave a hospital yesterday to an Ausfalian nurse who. has given the rld a new conception of infantile { To. the white-haired nurse, the Qty formally dedicated the Elizaith Kenny Institute for the care
‘poliomyelitis victims and instruc-
“fon in her revolutionary treatment.
§ The dedication was brief.. The payor spoke, and a former Kenny atient: unveiled a plaque on the guilding which formerly was the ty’s public health center. The geremony took only a few minutes, at to Sister Kenny it represented ‘30-year campaign to convince the pedical world that its treatment of lantile paralysis should be revised.
3 "~ She Fought Alone #¥or many years she was almost Horie’ in her belief that poliomyelctims should be given gentle se and hot applications rather 1 immobilization. In her own
Fusade with doubt. It was only Br she came to Minneapolis about ve p years ago—with the help of the 8y0 clinic—that she got the : e to prove her method. Today her ‘treatment has the tion of the American Medical iation and the National Fountion for Infantile Paralysis.
+ Sister Kenny has said that what © has given the world is net a tment” but rather a new conpption -of the disease.
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side the home was being enlarged ‘land staked down by the “development of the typewriter. In agriculture, those were the pre-plow-under days, and the two ' |decades before the turn of the ceno
‘Unlocking of ination
book.
‘Beyond Victo ry
farm lands .that equaled : the combined areas ‘of England, Wales, Germany and France. ‘And épitomizing ithe astounding sweep of progress and prosperity, here arose the skyscraper city—huge, utilitarian, frantic in aspect. and application, but often beautiful, inspiring, and alYeether América t J
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WILL IT BE “HELL,” then, when this war is ‘over? Not in my; Nor, I think, does the old cowhand believe it either, or he would be moving heaven and earth to get the herd he tends sold while beef prices are in the stratosphere and the selling is good. :
Is there good ground for the conviction he disclaims? ‘Look about you. The unlocking of the world imagination is under way.
All the
fruits of science are just beginning to ~ripen. In terms of ‘factories; machines, transportation, almost anything material you can name, we have means and opportunities in such measure and variety as the past could scarcely have dared imagine, Under the pressures of the war there are developing in this country the makings of an era of prosperity and expansion so widespread and dazzling as to make anything in our earlier experience seem puny potatoes indeed. When the war is won—and it is only too plain now it will take a lot of winning—will the people be energized by the vision’ of the phenomenal possibilities before them, as once they were energized by “the American dream”?
Let us examine a very few of the things that foreshadow what may be. The normal monthly output of new locomotive horsepower in peacetime in this. country is about 40,000. In another year we should be producing in air horsepower per month something like 20,000,000. After the war this immense bank
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of engine power will have to be dispersed. Progress in manufacture will force it. The dispersal will be made at absurdly low cost. At the close of the last war I saw OX-5 engines costing thousands of dollars to build sell at $90. The dispersal of this vast amount of air horsepower will work a revolution in business, transportation, and communication. Spell out its implications for vourself as you prefer, whether in terms of tree-ripened oranges picked tonight in California, which will be on the New York market at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, or of :franscontinental shipping generally, or more important, transcontinental thinking, accelerating from, so to speak, eight days from coast to coast, to eight hours. The whole velocity of . trade, travel, living, will speed up proportionately, and marketwise this can be made to mean at least the equivalent of doubling the population. The railroads and airlines alike know all this well, and already
are studying their potentials. #2 8 =
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THE NEW INDUSTRIES that are incubating now are almost uncountable and unimaginable in their eventual effect. I think it entirely
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possible: that: in five ‘years a rubber as a ‘wild strawberry. .
you: putter around with the milk of a rubber tree? A tire ‘tread needs a different material from a garden hose, ‘an oil pipe from a shoe sole, an airplane connection’ to serve at 30 below zero: from a kitchen ‘floor | covering. . Why handicap yourself by starting with the. same material for. all these different applications and services? Progress on synthetic rubbers will in the next few years answer that one with what is. known in the popular idiom ds the ‘bird—especially when the accidental discoveries bound to come out of present activity have made their contribution. Even Charles Goodyear had to thank an accident for the vulcanization of rubber, and we haven't begun yet to. be able to audit our accidents on the asset side in the matter of synthetics. Even so, we are much farther ahead on artificial rubbers than most people think, except in point of physical capacity. Any one of perhaps a dozen synthetics today will beat the result we got out of natural rubber in tires 30 years ago at a comparable stage of the art,
lead, copper, and nickel combined.
the iron age. Think back to a time much later -than that, and recall how steel ushered in an era of unprecedented progress and wealth that changed the face of the earth and refashioned the social and political ideologies of mankind. And already steel’'s day is passing the meridian. Around the corner ‘is coming a new and iabulous time in the po. tential of light metals and plastics. The papermakers are exploding the fibers of wood pulp and recompressing them into gears ,and gadgets which they ‘say will outwear steel, The coffee planters in Brazil are casting their excess into plastics in'an amazing variety of shapes and forms. The chemists and chemurgists and capitalizers of plentitude and waste everywhere are at their epoch’s great chance like a bear at a bee tree, so that in the lifetime of most of us the average American family will enjoy ampler and more satisfying living standards—in terms of cheaper and better housing, more conveniences. and leisure, better
Inventions Burn in 10, 000 Minds.
THIS IS MERE HIGHLIGHTING, a ‘meager. sample of ‘what will
tree will be as foolish ‘economically
When you can determine at the outset the characteristics in a raw material that will exactly fit i to its ultimate function, why should
and’ in 1938 Goodyear built synthetic tires with longer tread wear than could be had then from the t- of natural rubber. : ‘A few weeks ago I talked of this with the erstwhile manager of one of -the leading : rubber plantations of the Far East. “I have been doing some figuring,” he said, “and on-the basis of what we know even-now.I can produce more rubber with 350 men in a factory than I can produce with 10,000 me on a plantation. Or, to put it another way, I can get more rubber from 40 acres of factory space than I can get: from 50,000 acres of plantation.” On the new industries side, we are just about to enter the plastics and light metals age. Our capacity in aluminum is on the way up from 300 million pounds a year to somewhere near a scheduled three -billion pounds a year, and in its.raw state aluminum is twice as plentiful as iron. Our magnesium output
increase also is up by 1000 per cent |
or more.
Remember What Happened in Steel? . \
What this can mean as a contributor to a new economy can be visualized from the fact that magnesium is available by oceanfuls; it is many times more abundant than such old and useful stand-bys as zine,
It is not visionary to say that before we are through, this Shift to light metals may be as consequential as the shift from the bronze age to
education and health+—than ever before. You know what is happening in fuels and in the utilization of them. The compact and efficient diesels of ‘the type that power the streamliners are, in smaller editions, driving - tanks, submarines, tugboats, auxiliaries, trucks and busses in such quantities to meet war needs that production this coming year will reAch a rate more than 25 times that originally projected in peacetime for two years hence; and with the absorption of engineering and tooling costs ‘involved in such production you can guess how much more widely available this low-cost power will be, when peace comes, than was originally contemplated. Again, . the 100-octane gasoline capacity we are getting means, with the lighter metals, a world of smaller motorcar engines of higher power and lower costs—and the gasoline technicians already say they have in their laboratories fuels three or four times as powerful as our present 100-octane gas.
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‘be. ' Consider, in addition, the possibilities of ‘centrifugal casting, pow-
dered metallurgy, heat toughened and flexible glass, the new and astons ishing developments in black light, electronics, radio and television, the interesting advances being made in demountable and prefabricated
dwellings, ‘in dehydrated foods, ‘in foretaste of which is had in the
striking contrast between . the army’s field ration in this war and in the last one. - In medicine, the advance is reflected in ‘an able surgeon’s remark
that “in the light of our present
knowledge every wound we treated in the last war was: mistreated.” Add to these the long ‘list yet unrevealed of original and exciting ideas and inventions and devices being worked upon’ in a thousand places and ten thousand minds. Pile_on top the banked-up needs that will require to be filled after the war, ranging all the way from civilian housing and conversion facilities and mercantile stocks to elastic girdles and canned beer. Now you: begin to see the prospect, but. you do not see it adequately until you have added at least a _ glimpse of ‘the possibilities outside our own country. By lifting the living standards of the backward peoples. everywhere even a little, we should he able, in collaborative progress, to run our factories on the. backward peoples’ raw. maaterials perhaps ‘for longer ‘than any of us shall live. . After ‘the last: war there was mo 8 n=
the whole science of nutrition—a
such thing in America as a factory parking lot or a broadcasting station. That is not so long ago. Nor was there a foot of goncrete pavement in a state like Indiana. Nor was there such a thing as a highway truck as late as 1919.
In that year, a leading rubber
company wanted .to. make a dent in the truck tire business. A competitor held the market. in tight grip on solig rubber truck tires. So the ambitious challenger brought out a pneumatic truck tire. Everyone scoffed at it. The truck makers refused to redesign trucks;on which pneumatics could be mounted. Finally, as a
demonstration, the challenger built
its own trucks and started a high-
way transport line from Akron to]
Boston. The roads were so bad, the venture such rough-and-ready pioneering, it took 10 days to make the trip, and the trucks could not carry anything else but the extra tires needed on the way. But hardship. and blowouts and bad roads and tough going be damned, the trucks got through and the foundations were laid for our Buge highway transport industry. 8 &' 8
They're ‘Striving for Perfection
' BY THE. CLOSE OF THIS war we shall have as many aviation:
trained people in America as were familiar with automobiles at the time of the last war. You can spin ‘out -ang embroider the possibilities in- that to suit your mest buoyant mood, remembering that when you have designed: a plane to land at 20 miles an hour you will have made landing it in bad weather or Smergency virtually as easy as bringing a
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motor car to the curb. To speed and to insure the coming of these things, we are recruiting, developing and maturing under the‘forced draft of war necessity the greatest source of new wealth which any country can have—our. stock of young -managerial- ‘and executive talent. It is always this group which spurs and. quickens ‘progress and
which, to have sweep, must penetrate up through and beyond entrenched conservatism or fearful and. reactionary management. For a dozen years this group has been cramped, frustrate, unproductive, under the paralysis of the depression. Now ‘it has suddenly
sprung to action, its faculties chal-
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lenged, its energies released and" expanded. The process is something like this, to be specific: Normally 15,000 men work at Buick, say, on one type of product. Today the men who directed and managed that personnel are ‘being swiftly spread thin over a personne] calculated to reach 40,000, making a whole variety of new and
And these new things are unprecedentedly and inexorably fine in design, quality, precision, materials. basis| No: barriers of cost or competition stand between them and perfection.
‘New piant layouts, new machines, new: alloys, new tolerances, new techniques, new products, new training requirements—all these are crowding the heads and aspirations of these managers. They are in an educative hothouse, and they are burgeoning like nobody’s business. I have talked with dozens of
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them. They are y explosive with new
ideas, new standards, new ambitions. Pifty years of peacetime would not
offset the training for bigger ‘things
they are getting now. By the same token; the rank-dnd-file .of industry is -experiencing a
similar regeneration. .
I suppose, before our enemies are beaten down, 10,000,000 or more men and women, above and beyond the normal industrial personnel, will have learned a trade, most of them a machine trade. They. will never be the same. J - From the dread and uncertain state of being ‘a person lacking method and capacity, frightened and adrift because he has no internal reliances or assets, each becomes sustained and aspiring by pride of craft, dignified by the consciousness of being a producer, and will never again be content until he has found an outlet for his skill,
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SORT of growth will be found in
most of the young men who enter the army. The six or eight ‘millions of them who came back will not be the inept young gaffers who went
They will have learned some truths serviceable and grave—how to handle themselves, how to handle other people, how to handle the spe-
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u:8. Officers Furnish Gifts For Families of British ‘Buddies.’
U. 8. ARMY CAMP ' SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Déc. 18 (U. P).—Santa Claus swapped his sleigh and reindeer for a Gen.
Grant tank here to spread Christmas cheer among 150 children of British servicemen fighting abroad. Santa, or Father Christmas, as he is known in Britain, was impersonated by Capt. Raymond Jensen of, Hopkinsville, Ky., who rode up in his tank Tuesday to distribute toys, candy, peanuts and chewing gum. His gifts were provided ‘by officers and enlisted men of this American armored unit, ' Officers paid for the dolls, rubber balls, jig-saw puzzles and building blocks they managed to round up from the almost bare toy counters. of London stores. The candy and gum—rare delicacies in séverely ra. tioned Britain—were contributed by enlisted men from their normal ra-
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