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If your organization needs no new tech nologists in 1944, 1945, 1946, and 1947 read no farther. The present blanket draft of men under 2 2 , including technical graduates and technical students, will force you to do without new technical help for at least four years, except For an entirely inadequate number of women and 4-Ps (perhaps). This condition is desperately dangerous for the country and is not good for industry, it can be averted only by immediate and vigorous action—PERSONAL A C T I O N by every intelligent citizen of the United States. It is obvious to the Editors of CHEMICAL AND
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T h e staff a n d o u r readers h a v e suffered a distinct loss t h r o u g h t h e resignation of D . H . Killeffer. H i s keen analytical j u d g m e n t will b e missed in o u r editorial conferences. W e do hope h e will continue to b e a frequent contributor t o t h e pages of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry a n d C H E M I C A L AND E N G I N E E R I N G N E W S .
We are indebted t o the Newark Call (New Jersey) for the information t h a t Sidney Hillman, Vice President of the CIO, and our Dr. Charles L. Parsons share March 23 as a birthday.
There is a growing demand in Congress t h a t a single head be p u t in charge of man power allocation. T h e present situation has been aptly called Confusion, Inc.
flight leaders do not visualize the disastrous consequences to the war effort and the peace that will follow if technical men are placed in the Combat Army. W e must educate our officials to the point where they recognize the Employers should be certain that as far as necessity of holding technologists in the possible outstanding young chemists and Production Army. chemical engineers should be assigned t o Those in Washington who now understand projects listed on the critical list of activities this problem are helpless. The situation has for occupational deferment of men under 26 deteriorated unbelievably in the past three as issued by the WMC Inter-Agency Com weeks. Unless something Is done N O W , it mittee on Occupational Deferments April 11, will be difficult or impossible to hold even 1944. Employers should make a careful a handful of technologists under 26 on war study of the relationship of each individual's work t o determine if it is possible to tie A s a citizen, you can help by giving the such work in with some phase of the critical list of activities. W P B may have suggestions facts emphatically and at once to your con as t o how this should be done. Fight to hold tacts with WPB, Army, Navy, P A W , Office chemists and chemical engineers for the of the Rubber Director, etc., etc. The situa Production Army. tion is serious enough to interest your rep resentative and senators. Our representatives In Congress do not realize the hazards in volved in attempting to prosecute a technical Latest Selective Service war, and even a more technical global recon Data struction without any technical reserves. TELL THEM—by letter or wire; or even Brief and clear directions t o em better still, a telephone call. ployees will be furnished from time to The Editors of CHEMICAL AND ENGI time in CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING N E W S as they become available. T h e NEERING NEWS lack words adequately to latest procedures regarding Selective describe how desperate the situation really is. Service and the deferment of chemists The O N L Y hope is in prompt, vigorous, and and chemical engineers will be found concerted action by the intelligent citizenry on pages 1604, 1719, and 2024 of of the United States. CHEMICAL AND ENGINEEBING N E W S , If you are convinced of the danger that Vol. 21 (1943), on pages 103,131, 258, now confronts this country and our Allies, 337,361,398,626, and 681 of CHEMICAL you should pass the word along to other AND ENGINEERING N E W S , Vol. 22 groups and individuals. Tell them that our (1944), on the insert in the March 25 Allies and our enemies are not squandering issue, facing page 446, and on page 290 of the April issue of Industrial their technical brain power. and Engineering Chemistry. Our war effort will be sabotaged, unless our officiais can be made to see the light
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