London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1945, London, Middlesex                                11 tomorrow 1945 National r 12madwtionai workers sough Orleans t Robert a or and Jelwood of working in air plane Reading v v riveting last year 7 out of every two boys and girls in the 1419 age either in the armed forces or at in Only one out of four was so of the 14 to 17 year about one million and a half Are working and attending while another million and a half bold Down full time since 1940 there was an 18 per cent increase in the number of kids who Are working after school and 20 per cent of them pm in an Are age of 20 boors per week in War those who work full time average 47 hours per a majority of the 18 Ami 19 year Olds Are even closer to the and Many of them Are in the armed their civilian classmates at Home Are also pulling their men a this age group Are averaging a 51hour the girls about age 1417 66x of the kids 14 to 66 per cent Are in full time 14 per cent work Par time after 15 per cent work frill 5 per cent Arent Able to work or go to age 1819 39 35 Hie 1819 year ten per cent in full time four per cent in school and 39 per cent full time 35 per cent in aimed 12 per cent not in school or wide world photos instructors and students at Massachusets Plant making Aviata goggles work Side by by Robert Iglehart tomorrows Bureau slowed away tinker toys and erector sets there making p51s and ships and shells Ever Stripe big brother packed a Rod and we Toff to creating a Man shortage in Industry and Junior got on the a pair of and took the kids Aie kicking boys and girls of High school 14 to Manning the the plows there punching the Tim clock a Short while Back two 17year old lads tacked up new record for making plastic hatches for Shat Jering a previous Mark set by three the High school Victory sponsored by the office of Educa romped away on Salvage turning up with stores of kit ban sweaters and about anything else they could Latch on Many have infiltrated the retail or the service such As restau filling stations and of this age to the and despite the fact that during 1943 there were one million less workers on american the Harvest figures showed a 25percent increase Over much of the credit was showered on one out of every ten of the teenagers found his Way into a War where employer criticism has been especially in aircraft said the manager of Vega boy Power has Given us some of our outstanding workers and fewest employee from Lockheed Cornes the claim that kids Advance 25 per cent faster than the average adult and Many production records have been set by but not All the Story is Blue and ice the lure of Independence and attractive wages has drawn Many children into jobs and unfortunate the wartime increase in juvenile delinquency is partly attribute to the ease in which youngsters find work away from Many have bade Farewell to classrooms Long before acquiring sufficient training so that they might hold jobs in Normal National and local government and numerous employers have done All but the impossible to provide housing and which rank As two of the Lead ing formerly headed for Are now wielding screwdrivers and educators voice the fear that these teenagers May feel that school will be too tame for is the feeling that postwar jobs wont absorb the thus giving them an easy Chance to shift into unskilled due to Lack of fight War first what to do various youth programs have been or Are now in pro Cess of to care for american not much can be done until after the the office of education fights hard to convince High school students that they Are of greater usefulness by first finishing their training with the result that a million and one half remain study or on part time vocational schools Are combining actual with educators Are anxious that the largest possible percentage of Young workers re turn to schools after the because Many of them would be older and More experienced than their they May steer Clear of the return school part of the answer put Forth for this lies in the establishment of special made up of returning students what do she kids think most of them feel that these problems will be ironed out just now they Are at and As one put it Well fight the War first the Home problems life prob i by Joseph Wechsberg r tomorrow correspondent lieutenant Joihn Mason onetime new York dramatic watched the first minutes of Day from the signal Bridge of the uss heavy Cruiser Augusta on three years Roosevelt and Churchill discussed the Atlantic standing Vic Admiral Kirk and Browns assignment was to give to the hundreds of seamen Down in the flagship Over the ships Public address system the Story of the blow by a terrifying assignment and Oneco the moments when history holds its in his new Many a watchful night Whittlesey Brown gives the Story As he saw not the whole Battle but an inspiring account of courage and sweat and egg in Ytter a show written by gis recovering from Battle is now touring Hie at Camps and the first i show which was produced overseas and later brought to the War pictures Are still Poison at the Box a Philadelphia movie House last week featured abroad wih two yanks and found it necessary to advertise that it was not a War Arturo Toscanini will conduct the los Angeles Phi Harmony in a single concert on this is the first appearance of the 77yearold Maestro West of music Sheet sales have topped All previous this year Over sheets have been leaders Are dont Fence me White Christmas again and i dream of dance with a in making there goes that biggest record seller of All times is Bing Crosby recording of White first done in it has sold Over discs for up to now Gene austins Blue heaven was the top and Gertrude steins wars i have seen is at the printers and will hit the stands come the last week in reduction of 4f toll is health plan goal by Jack Cald Well tomorrow staff writer nationwide network of health which would bring benefits of medical science within reach of every one is advocated by the Senate sub committee on wartime health and education As the first step toward curbing the country High 4f advocates of the including the United states Public health de dare that future Security lies in the health of the nation and that the current trend bodes anything but is estimated that Between and men of draft age Are unfit for military suffering ills that timely treat ment easily would have it took a War for us to realize the unhealthy state of our declared one proponent of the now its High time something was done so we wont be faced with the same problem should an emergency Ever arise the National health Center system would consist of four Basic types of medical Center Small neighbourhood or Community health Cen the Rural the District hos Pital the Large base Federal Grants in Aid and a Large Post War Hospital building program would be necessary to setting up such a the As Well As presenting health would be a source of employment for thousands of military medical Aid men and technicians now getting their training on the worlds the Senate in its labelled the present Payas Yugo of payment for medical services As unsatisfactory for most people and for the widest possible distribution of High Quality medical it tends to keep patients from doctors until illness is so severe that medical ills Are out of it is the committee favors some form of group financing which would offer com plete medical reasonable but not and which would permit free Choice of a selective service Survey on More than men Given physical examinations from through shows High rejections among those Over 29 the rejections soars from picture Story of a Shell from Ore to bore from original Western Ore to sem finished shells is process carried out at new Kaiser Plant in managers say it soon will be largest single producer of shells in the steel is stacked ready for Shell is in nosing press after Dorothy Eckstrom checks Load of shells before leaving Fontana for the Denver Plant and final machining per cent for men called up at the age of 28 to Slighly Over the 50 Mark at the age of and climbs to per cent for men of registrants 44 years per cent were turned the Best record is held by majority of whom Are in the lower age Only per cent were turned away from the armed mental ailments and deficiencies led the causes for other principal reasons were heart owl Thau healthy future healthy a healthy ear and Eye ailments and with proper treatment in the Eair said one draft most of these men would have been in to Aid their country in its greatest a draft study covering seven 1943 showed Washington and Idaho with the turndown rates in the rejections ranged from to per compared with the National average off North Carolina was highest into per cent of its registrants have another drag As civilians at Home searched in Side Street tobacco shops trying t a few stray k a Railroad Pullman into a store in for a and received a dec Cua Dukes bearing the actress Lillian the Date tax stamp was March in reporting the Lucky to give directions for finding the Stow