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Show LEHI FHEE PRESS. LEHL UTAH Boom Towns NATIONAL AFFAIRS Straggle With Labor Influx RevitwtJ by CARTER FIELD Worried By Public Attitude Congressmen f , if Tt . r "V U. S. Gties. vj. it - evidence of popular resentment sentment not leveled at the conduct of the war itself, but what so many people think is amateurish bungling. As H comes to individual (always remembering that your average congressman is the best listener at the key hole for what his own constituents are thinking; that he is a professional at this business, not an amateur) the irritation is not over the fact that sacrifices are imposed, but at what individual citizens regard as lack of Intel- ligence in imposing them. Your average voter is likely to be a little unreasonable as well as not too strictly confined, in his mental process, to logic. For example irritation on the part of many Easterners on the gasoline rationing because the folks close to the oil wells can have more despite the fact that the only trouble about gasoline is not production, but transportation. So the only valid reason for restricting gas consumption close to the wells is to save rubber, not fuel. But, the mail to congressmen shows, too many people are getting sore over too many details of government administration for the good of candidates this year, so the boys on Capitol Hill are worried. en New York Battle Has National Aspects Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie are beyond doubt the two men most interested In New York's gubernatorial battle this year who are not themselves candidates for the office.' Yet each of them, desperately anxious for HIS party to win that contest, is putting obstacles in the way of that , development. President Roosevelt would regard the election of a Republican governor Jr( New York this fall as little short of a calamity. It would distress him not only as a sort of midterm repudiation of his national administration by his own state, which happens to be the most important state from the standpoint of eleo toral votes, but because such a "repudiation" might be misconstrued abroad. Not only in Germany, Japan and Italy but in Britain. The British learned a lesson about American politics from that League of Nations experience, when they paid no atten tion to the Republican off year vic tory in 1918, and then saw what happened to the Versailles treaty So it could be that they would err in the other direction by overesti mating the importance of a "repudi ation of the President in New York this year. With this very sound premise in mind, one would figure that the President, if he took any active part in the selection of the Democratic candidate to succeed Governor Leah- map, would be interested only in choosing the strongest candidate possible the man MOST likely to be elected, almost regardless of everything else.But that is precisely what the President Is NOT doing. He IS tak ing a very active interest, and he is thumbs down on the two men most New York political leaders think would be the strongest candidates. These two are James A. Farley, right bower politically of FDR right up to the third-terepisode, and btates Attorney General John J Bennett. The President is realiably reported to prefer Owen D. Young, former head of General Electric, and, failing there, Sen. James A. Mead. it Bv LEMUEL F. PARTON .1tl1 it YORK. A veteran of sea lanes assumes com-n-f thi vast South Pacific, area for the Allied Nations, just at a time Ghormley pan's t.mnnmm ShU- - .,,,. : " ' ut In a Pennsylvania town, jammed with war workers, a pumper and fire fighting equipment were required immediately to reduce the hazard of a possible general conflagration; a Kentucky hamlet had to arrange for an extension of its sewerage facilities or suffer the consequences; a Colorado town, a Wisconsin city, and a Texas county were confronted with the need for new schools at once. The patriotism and morale of these workers are high, but so are their American standards of living. For their families, these war work- - G J- part-tim- 1 Balrd Snyder, assistant administrator of the Federal Works ageney. ers ask for livable quarters, good water and sanitary facilities; there must be classrooms for their children, recreation, beds in hospitals for them when they fall sick. Congress has recognized both the needs of the mobile armies engaged in war production, and the problems of the localities affected through the enactment of the Amended Lanham act. In the hands of the Federal Works agency .the legislators have placed a great part of the job of keeping ahead of the ast community requirements of these industrial legions of Joneses, Cohens, Murphys and Kozlowskis. Title 2 of the Amended Lanham act provides that in any area or locality where an acute shortage - LZ wmmmMmmmmmm 6 ':h n 'fi7Jy " 1 . All-o- ut ' eight-wee- "top-kick- s" , , public works necessary to the health, safety or welfare of per sons engaged in national defense ex ists or impends, FWA is authorized, with the approval of the President, to relieve such shortage. This au thorization is conditioned on evidence that the necessary works or services could not "otherwise be ol tained when needed, or could not be provided without the imposition oi an increased excessive tax burden, or an unusual or excessive increase in the debt limit of the taxing or ' borrowing authority." Need for Construction. FWA " Administrator' Assistant Baird Snyder, acting for Administrator Philip B. Fleming, has point-- 1 ed out that: "Inseparable from the lives of modern industrial workers and their families for transportation, education, health and recreationare prosaic roads, sewers, schools, hospitals and many other types of public construction." War as an industrial process, says Mr. Snyder, means that community facilities have to be built not only to armed accommodate expanded forces, but to take care of the mobile and increasingly numerous armies of war workers. Without such construction, those who have studied the problem declare, the efficiency of industry would be seriously impaired and labor would float from one town to another in fruitless search for decent living conditions. In the last four months, FWA has quickened the pace of work in response to imperative war needs. Today, throughout the nation, this federal agency is building or ready to build all the war works that , can be provided with $300,000,000 worth of federal funds plus whatever local contribu; tions are available. A great deal of red tape has been cut in FWA since war was declared. The Man wjth the shears in the Great Lakes region and Middle West, for instance, is Markley Shaw, former assistant to the director of the old FWA defense housing divi sion, who casts as personal repre sentative of the administrator. e Wartime Basis. , "Publiq works are now being handled on a wartime basis," explained Mr. Shaw, whose headquarters are in Chicago. "My instructions are to let nothing stand in the way of prompt, efficient development of war projects. Under new regulations no federal funds will be allotted for the construction of a permanent building under the war public works program, if a one temporary or This applies even will suffice. though vthe applicant proposes to contribute the full amount of the difference. "Except where a structure is an addition to an existing facility, negotiations will be opened on the basis of simplified standard plans of the Federal Works agency. Elimination of all building material beyond absolute necessity in war public works construction recently has been ordered throughout the nation, and this step is expected materially to reduce the use of critical war materials as well as to free of labor for other war production." Assistant Administrator Snyder has listed the following types of projects directly attributable to war activities as eligible for federal allotment of funds: Schools, hospitals, health centers, detention hospitals, lire department buildings and certain equipment except radio equipment, recreation buildings, water and sewer facilities, and maintenance and operation of schools and hospitals where necessary. In recent months, the Federal Works agency has built or contracted to build scores of community facilities in every section ' of the nation where production wheels turn. The U. S. Public Health Servwith the state ice, in departments of health, is intensifying the application of general health plans In strategic localities. in the general plan to assist individual1 localities and provide living facilities for war workers is the National Housing agency, which is building thousands f houses and dormitories. . s , . Fall-Scal- full-sca- le . "tenthw far-flun- of public works .or equipment for man-hou- The big advantage of Mead's candidacy is that, not being up for re election as senator this year, he need not risk his chair at the Capi tol, while, if elected, he could be counted on to appoint a 100 per cent administration supporter as his suc cessor. .'. 0SitvlHMm The President is by no means cer tain that Farley, if elected, would war production has brought bving conditions such as these be so compliant should a vacancy occur in the senate. Nor could there In a midwestern town to hundreds of communities from coast to coast. be any such sureness as to what Many trailer communities kick proper sanitary facilities and a large the state administration in New number of them try to accommodate too many trailers for the space. York might do with respect to the Democratic national convention of 'Top-Kick- s' Trained in Eight-Wee- k School 1944. WASHINGTON.- -A school which field. Its first graduates are now All of which would seem to indi with soldiers for the corps units. serving Signal prepares' exacting cate that FDR is very sure the For approximately six weeks, the Democrats can carry New York this job of top sergeant in the American are trained In Fort Monmouth fall even if they do not nominate the army has won its chevrons at the men classrooms and drill fields. Besides best vote getter' available. Senator Signal Corps Replacement Training company administration, they study Mead has no illusions that HE is. center at Fort Monmouth, N. J. infantry drill and physical training, He has confided to many that he k Within an period, this defense against chemical and air is glad he is not running for re school transforms soldiers into attacks, sanitation and hygiene, election this year, figuring that his able to copt .with the end- first aid,' training methods, basic vote for a pension for congressmen lessly varied problems of adminis- signal communications, map readwould make him 'a rather vulner tration, supply, and company lead- ing and sketching, and morale and able target. : . ership which will fact! them In the suDMvisad athletics. ImM ward medal. g area At 58, he takes on a of land and sea, including many vital hases. fiffhtins not only for sea-wa- y for the U.S.A. but for New semi-permane- nt lilii a J south-i-- m lunge Loose End About the crucial issue of the Pacific war. Pnr his success in keeping men and goods moving across the Atlantic in the World war, Vice Admiral nor rt Lep Ghormlev was rewarded with the Distinguished Service Because of insufficient living accommodations, these weary workers in a small Virginia town are forced to sleep around the stove of a general store. This condition exists in many other crowded defense areas. ut m WNO Features. NEW I J pital beds, school desks or fire en gines. But their solution is very im portant indeed in the nation's fight to smash the Axis. Populations Doubled. Things aren't the way they were before Pearl Harbor in these thousand towns. war production has turned scofes of them literally overnight into 1942 versions of boom areas. Crossroads hamlets have had their populations doubled between one sunup and the next. war boom towns in Illinois, Michi gan, Alabama, Washington, Ohio, California, have had to figure and plan as they never did before to provide the most meager housing, transportation, health and educaneed tional facilities for ed to man the new machines of war. Even large industrial cen ters have felt the. pinch of provid ing decent accommodations on the home front for the new legions who are taking their places behind the men behind u. S. guns. From 5,000,000 workers directly employed on war production as of last December ?, the number has risen t more than 8,500,000 today and minimum requirements by the end of 1942 are expected by federal officials to exceed 15,000,000. American towns and villages are daily demonstrating that they are more than willing to do their part in the effort to produce the tools for victory for the United Na tions. But the doing often is beyond the means of an individual locality, and the problems are complex and many. Serious Medical Problems. In a Michigan town, medical au thorities recently warned that an epidemic of tuberculosis was breed ing in the very heart of the subur ban factory district, 10 miles from a huge bomber plant. A report on overcrowding in the area stated that "more than 4,000 patients, 450 of them tubercular, are jammed into hospital space designed for 2,500 Officials pointed out that added to the danger from this source is a lack of suitable sanitary facilities for the mushroom community. The authorities of an Illinois vil lage suddenly awoke to the fact that many of their wells no longer reached the water table in that area, due to the emergency drilling of numerous other wells by war produc tion plants surrounding the village site on three sides: a village in Minnesota found that the increased number of war workers and their families moving into the community necessitated the hiring of another e teacher, a janitor and the purchasing of new supplies of books and other equipment. all-o- WEEK when workers. There isn't anything spec tacular about these problems that are keeping village presidents up nights and putting furrows in the brows of town councils and boards. They're as commonplace as dishwater, hos- All-o- THIS - Consolidated Feature t 3. NEWS M . IM if fi Released by Western Newspaper Union. re- WHO'S i Facilities in Smaller s .. 'I - ;f i In the turbulent economic of conversion and war wake BeO Syndicate WNU Feature. production, a thousand patriotic towns and villages anxiously WASHINGTON. There Is much uneasiness among members of the seek answers today to a multi bouse, and among the senators fac- tude of new problems concerned ing renomination and with accommodating Uncle this year. It is due to increasing Sam's mobile armies of war Mead's Advantage '! 4 . War Industries Tax Normal Toward Necessary . . . FDR end Willhie Both Interested In Netv York's Election. Win-Measure- 'Grand HoteV1942 Emergency Model Distinctive Doilies And Edging as Gifts rs , Zealand,, Australia and the Free French. His command covers all land, sea and air forces of the four He will be responsible to nations. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commana er in chief of the United States Pa cine fleet. Admiral Ghormley is known to navy officers as "thoroughly dependable," rather than picturesque or showy. One of his shipmates of the first World war, recently said to this writer: "He is a good tactician, .and a hard plugger, with a patient mastery of detail. He's always wide awake and if he were a hockey player he'd be a crack goal keeper. He had a tough, lonesome job, guarding overseas transport in the first World war, and carried it through perfectly, with big results and little glory. He keeps bis mind strictly on his work." Admiral Ghormley was born ift Portland, Ore., and took an academic degree at the University of Idaho. He was graduated from Annapolis in 1906. He commanded the Nicaraguan naval operations and his decorations include the Nicaraguan Campaign badge and the Victory medal. He was made assistant chief of naval operations in 1936 and held that post until relieved of this duty on August 9, 1940, when he was sent to London as a special naval observer for the American embassy. On April 22, 1942, he was ordered to Auckland to organize joint naval operations with New Zealand. He became a vice admiral on September . , 20, 1941. NDUSTRY and government, it would appear, have been keen competitors for the services of Mrs. Anna Rosenberg. Industry, for the T Dexterously She Juggles Federal moment, is m the lead, paying her mn lr,.iiiii il i in l& wlr m Varied Crochet. '"PHE famous pineapple design to these gives distinction doilies and edging; They're gifts you'll love to give. The edgin-git can be used on a straight or round edge lends itself to countless accessories. Pattern 7138 contains Illustrations for ; illustrations making doilies of them and stitches; photograph of doily; materials needed. Send your order to: 117 Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. Minna St. San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern No. ...... Name.... 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As regional director for the social security board, she receives $7,500 a year and her salary as a consultant on Try Lydia E. Pinltbam's Vegetable the staff of Nelson Rockefeller, co Compound to help relieve monthly ordinator of American affairs, nets pain, backache, headache, with its due to weak, nervous feelings her $5,000 a year. monthly functional disturbances. In 1914, the girl from BudaTaken regularly thruout the Pinkham's Compound month pest, here with her parents at helps build up resistance against the age of 14, settled a strike. such distress off "difficult days. Thousands upon thousands of girls In the Wadleigh high school, and women havo reported gratifywhich she attended, students ing benefits. Follow label directions. Well worth tryingl struck against compulsory military training. She called a student meeting and made an im21- -42 WNU W passioned speech which ended the strike and got her considerable newspaper attention. She was Anna Lederer ihen. When HOTEL BEN LOMOND we entered the war, she left to school sell Liberty bonds high and Thrift stamps. In 1919, she OQDEN, UTAH married Julius Rosenberg, now , a rug merchant. Even then she was plagued by demands for her services. She studied practical nolitics with Bell Mnc kowitz, political ally and mentor of Aiirea bmitti. This association led to g and organizing " - 1 work for philanthropies, widening into a broad field of g in industrial and social welfare is AndPrivateJobs FEMALE WEAKNESS fund-raisin- trouble-shootin- sues. "Yes, Phil, John was on the phone a few minutes ago and he said you were a He is, too? Listen, I'll get up a nice little dinner and get you two together." That is a fair sample of her y She ha3 telephone talk. worked almost entirely in the land between the warring forces of industry and labor, and between one or both and government. 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