Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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letters of file law. .. XXX-K For the past sev- X - eral years we have 5 ' been running around A A in an alphabetical ' ' maze. So many new organizations with f 4 lengthy names have X, 1 been created that their sponsors and Q 4 the newspapers have ' M found it not only 'Q convenient, but ab- solutely necessary to identify them, whenever possible, by initials. No doubt the general public is acquainted with many of the abbrevi- ations: AFL - CIO - OCD - WAAC - WPA - OPA and many, many more. For our purpose here, however, we shall touch only on several which are very closely related to the war effort. 0 1' 1111 How many of us really know and understand what the wartime ofiices created by the President are doing? First, let us take the OPA. What does OPA mean? Office of Price Ad- ministration, of course. In charge of this very essential office is Price Admin- istrator Leon Henderson, who has suc- ceeded in placing a ceiling on canned foods, dried foods, clothing, shoes, furni- ture, fuel, new automobiles, and some services. hir. O. D. Wearley is in charge of the Toledo Office of Price Administra- tion and is responsible for the enforce- ment of government regulations in re- gard to ceiling prices in the Toledo area. There are many price regulations, but the most important of these is the Gen- eral Maximum Price Regulation. Un- der this, the ceiling prices on all mer- chandise controlled by it must be posted in all grocery, drug, and department stores. If these prices are not posted, or -CAROLYN KINSEY '44 - PADDY PURCELL '44 the store Hoverchargesf' you, your gov- ernment has requested you to report this violation to the Toledo OPA office. A year ago the OPA had only thirty- four price schedules. Today there are two hundred and thirty-six price re-gu- lations, nine rationing programs, and 1'ent control in one hundred and ninety communities, embracing a population of over fifty million persons. The latter program will soon cover the entire country. Rationing programs ,currently in effect concern sugar, gasoline, fuel oil, automobiles, rubber boots, work shoes, typewriters, tires, farm machinery, and bicycles. ln October 1941, Prime Minister lVIackenzie King of Canada announced the Canadian government's adoption of an overall ceiling on prices, wages, sal- aries, services, and rents, in fact, prac- tically everything. While the Dominion plan differs in many details from ours, we really copied our Ceiling Price Reg- ulations from our Canadian neighbors. Next, let us take the WPB-War Production Board-with Donald lil. Nelson in charge. This office controls the production and distribution of all essential materials needed for winning the war. The WPB has issued an order re- garding the distribution of canned foods by the packers. On October 8 of this year, the WPB ordered the shutdown of 200 to 300 of the nation,s largest gold mines, in order to release man- power for work in copper and other vi- tal war metal pro- ductions. 29' -f 'I 1 . -1 President Roose- .I 1 velt recently created 11 -1 -' the Economic Stab- :H . ilization Office, with -8 THE SCROLL

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As 'No 0t!1er Muff. .. And we drank his health with honours For he done us fvery proud. Forty Singing Seai1zen -Noyes. Yes, proud was I that it fell to my very privileged lot to interview the eminent poet, critic, novelist, and lec- turer, Doctor Alfred Noyes, speaker on the INIary Manse College Alumnae lec- ture series on October 17. Before my meeting with him I imagined the famous man a somewhat formidable personality. Is it any wonder then, that I feared I might, with mean- ingless sputterings, enlarge upon my stupidity at any moment while question- ing so learned a gentleman? What effect do you think this war will have on literature in general?y' I queried, marveling that I still had breath enough to address him. That's a hard question to answer, because it depends largely on what effect it will have on the peopleg but I feel safe in saying that it will do one of two things: Either produce more vile and evil literature, which will in time lead to another war, or it will definitely im- prove. I do not think there will be any middle coursely' My next question was, 'KWhat is your favorite sport, Doctor? 'KWell, I havenlt had too much time to follow any sport, but I used to be quite good on my rowing team, you know. I quickly sensed that I had provoked a secret pleasure and, with that as a cue, I continued to ask about favorites. This led to the inevitable, 'fWho is your favorite American author? HEmerson is by far the best, much better than Edgar Allan Poe,', he stated with a chuckle. Many writers favor a certain one of their works, but it is not necessarily that which the public interprets as the H -- MARY ANN VOLLMAYER '43 author's best. Alfred Noyes is not ex- cepted in thisg for when I asked him what he considered his best work, he said emphatically, The Torch Bearers by far. I took ten years to write this, and only ten hours to write The High- wayrnan and everyone reads the latter. lNIy great wish is that some day students will discover The Torch Bearers, and that it will be read in every classroom. By now my time was running short and my final question was not yet sub- mitted. K'What type of literature',', I asked quickly, would you suggest for students who wish to follow a literary career? I would suggestfl he began, that they read as much as possible of Tenny- son, Stevenson, eve-n some of Chester- ton, and of course, Emerson. And by no means would I have them read any of this 'mucky modern poerty'! Reluctantly I rose to leave. Doctor Noyes shook my hand and I thanked him for his time. Had I been one of the poet's Forty Singing Seamen, I would certainly have drunk his health with honours, for Alfred Noyes 'chad done me very proud! U Alfred Noyes THE SCROLL 7

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James F. Byrnes director. Immediately upon taking office, Director Byrnes is- sued a statement that he would exer- cise even tighter control over the na- tionls wages and salaries than was out- lined in the Presidentls stabilization order. Finally, we have the OCD-Office of Civilian Defense-which has as its slogan- lt is wiser to have a good defense and not need it . . . than to need it and not have it. Klany people ask What can I do?'l Ml-low can l help to win this War?', The answer is the OCD. The OCD lists as being valu- able to the war effort: teachers, clergy- men, doctors, nurses, librarians, lawyers, musicians, artists, architects. entertain- ers, engineers, photographers, and skilled factory workers. When we think of our boys in the armed forces and what a tremendous job they are doing, we naturally wish to do our part also. Even if we think we are too old, or would be in the Way, there is some phase of defense work we can do for the OCD. There are many things that we can do in our everyday living to help crush the Axis. We can save scrap metal, tin cans, and waste kitchen fats. Do QContinued on page 41D Yes You Can . . . Did someone say You canlt read a play and see it, or did I dream that myself? lVIany will disagree with me on that point, but when you get right down to it, itls a fact. When you read a book you create your own pictures of the settings and characters. You be- gin to regard the hero and heroine- of the play as your ideals, and picture them living in a mystical fairyland where nothing that occurs could ever possibly happen in the same way to ordinary us. However, when you see the play, your wonderful characters turn out to be common, everyday people. The mys- tical fairyland you created for them seems to look exactly like- any street in your neighborhood. Furthermore you discover that what happened to them in the book could happen to us. All their troubles will not eventually turn out all right. Oh, the reality of it all! Therefore, if you ever see a movie of a play you once read, forget all the pic- tures you dreamed, or you'll surely be disillusioned. -TERRIE SINION '44 i X AMERICA'S CREED By Willizlln Tyler Page I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the con- sent of the governeclg a democracy in a Republicg a sovereign Nation of many sovereign Statesg a. perfect Union, one and inseparableg established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American pa- triots sacrificed their lives and fortunes, I therefore believe it is my duty to my Country to love itg to support its constitutiong to obey its lawsg to respect its Hagg and to defend it against all enemies. THE SCROLL 9