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Show This, That And The Other BY LES DAVIDSON , No wonder there is a manpower manpow-er shortage. The Federal payrolls are bloated. In California there is 232,5000; in Pennsylvania there is 215,000; in Iowa 12.700. Most of these so-called employees could be turned loose to help solve the man-power question. Paul V. McNutt won't call on any of these, though, he has his orders from his boss to draft others. K Deer, Elk, anl wild-life hunting hunt-ing licences cannot be properly be handled by a bureau in Washington. Wash-ington. Pat McCarran, of Nevada should have sense enough to know this, so why did he introduce Senate Sen-ate Bill, 1152? This is one of the rights of the states where the wild-life flurishes and the hunting, every ial cannot -must-no't be left in the hands of a bureau that would not know whether there was a plethora of deer, elk, or what have you, who have never been further away from their desks than the nearest ball-park. It has always been efficiently handled by the different states and should be in cmpetent hands. Kill bill numbered Senate 1152, don't pay any attention to McCarran. Paul McNutt is - supposed to head the manpower commission. Representative Costello, (Dem.) chairman of the committee from the House, investigating draft deferments, cites the case of a Los Angeles man, attendant in a mental institution, was called up for a preinduction examination but turned down because he was mentally deficient. Then was given a place on McNutt's payroll. If he wag "mentally deficient" for the army he has no right to be on the manpower commission. "I fear that Ed has quite a talent for singing." "Yes, he does have a pretty good voice." "Does he cultivate it?" "I dont' know that he cultivates it, but he irrigates it plenty." Bill So you're raising goats? How are you getting along? George Fine. I haven't gotten much milk, but the goats have butted my mother-in-law several times. |