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Show I'AHOWAN TI '1 IIS. PAHOWAN. ITA1I MB Red Feather Flown as Symbol In Social Service Fund Drives Itmlge W President of the U. S. Has Biiriresl Job in tlie World h lleaeon lope To Sick , eary, Homeless ri For i niuiifj, the red loath i r has l ot n plod ns n badge t,f courait and generosity. Itobm ilodd au a rded red feath-u- s to 1, s followers for heroic hod generous deeds; outstand in,: Indian braves often were of red feather tini i ijueids feats of valor and B'A.uds to t . of kindness. HAlKIIAGE iniittl and CummrnlnUtr . Hy HM Service. 1616 l ye Street. S.W., Uavbingtun, WASHINGTON. D. C -- once more l. unan- - : - I!'!-- e.ir, in , t'n.icl St.it. , cities throughout the the Itcd Fe.ither will (or the sn k, homeless Community Chests of have a lopte the Ited e nil-trpi.itl-- i to ih situate 'eru. es to or-- j I1.- - iii'. l, the t.li..d, crippled h.,r rhil.in n ..nil the su k. In yents the welfare fund raising organizations from coast to firel have h cn known by n variety "f n;um s and their symbols have In en many and varied In l'Ufl. for the first time, practically nil of them are known as Community Chests nnd all fly the Red Feather. Many Join Movement. Last year, 811) cities in the country raised close to a quarter billion dollars through community fund These cities raising campaigns. each conducted a single campaign to raise funds to support multiple welfare agencies. It was in Cleveland, Ohio, that the Community Chest plan was born In 1913. A group of Cleveland business men, aware of the many fund drives held each year and of the vast sums spent annually to raise money for welfare purposes, evolved a plan to budget the citys welfare needs and to hold one campaign annually to obtain the money to meet these needs. Defore Cleveland held the first Community Chest campaign, 6,000 persons were contributing money for welfare purposes. During the Chest campaign, 1945 Community 506,000 residents of Greater Cleveland made pledges to support 100 home front agencies and 22 units of the national war fund. Support 100 Agencies. This year, the Cleveland Community Chest is campaigning in October for a goal of $4,880,000. Proceeds will be used for the support of 100 Redj Feather agencies, including 21 youth and recreation grouses, .19 organizations aifling dependent children, 17 hospitlls, 14 family welfare services arid other welfare organizations. Throughout the nation, the story of the Red Feather is being told as Community Chests wage their ang nual campaigns in October. Chicago, which has the largest Community Chest fund in the nation, has a goal of $7,939,000 in the current drive. From Community Chest coffers will come 50 per cent hi ti. j .1 md (ri n ii. Hi-s- s in r- - r, s j : 1 r , i it 4 b r w It NO LONGER G. I J "'I'd: S.' Lv . - C pu-viou- fund-raisin- i - 1: IF v!f .V y. I 'ti.Tr - rm minus a.t'ii.n-idrativ- s. e t up. lt.il- f t!.e i xt. nt of in r,.iukhage : ie ; to work jrerps iark & d.strerj sleeps. Often by aoft most distr- -s of the pone. Try iv, Dlseov mostyoot'.. yoneand most Must Keep Close Check on Aides imis pitiful example of the breakdown of the White House machinery was the recent Wallace ruckus. The President never need have been nations in the position he was. placed We are reminded 4 tJ e scope of It is not a Presidents job to read favorite IIkoii-huiiii- i the presidential duties Lv Willard over every document submitted to JNiri 01 nuo. Kiplingcr in his "Washington Is Like him. No head of a business as big That." He points out that the Pres- as the government would dream of ident as leader of his party runs trying to do that. But somebody the party policies through the na- should have read both the Wallace ad l 5 nannies ot dot tional committee. Some times the memorandum on foreign policy and Seller Whea es ew tomsrii reYou line isn't Ih i in working. u. tour party the Wallace speech and apprised the ' nb ftrt tftintf fcaowis hl?J call the stew over meat? A meet- President of what they contained lihifU Nolmtit ing of Democratic party leaders, at and implied. Whether it is the PresJiffy tr y...ir mwej b rate . all c at it ,u. the moment when the President was ident's fault that he didnt have to iu. jtauUf preparing to announce at a news properly experienced hired help, is conference that he opposed removThat his hired another matter. ing the controls on meat prices, help didnt function, caused the passed a resolution asking Chair- damage. man Hanntgan to confer with adAn explanation, if not an excuse, ministrative officials concerning the has been offered in this case. The removal of such controls. job of reading over public state- The President, as the top execumen-be- rs ments of administration and tive, heads the executive set-uto see that they didnt conflict he appoints the men who run the was handled by the OWI during the executive machinery. He cant talk war. Before that the White House to each one every day. When there machinery had always taken care often develops, of such matters. is friction a hot-boThat machinThere are plenty of examples in ery had not beert again set in mohistory from Ickes and Wallace, tion when OWI ceased to function, back to Lincoln and Seward, and The fault was not that the PresiCALOX before. dent didnt prevent the Wallace-Byme- s change to was not but that he clash, Chief Executives prevented from preventing it. for the tonic ect Task Never Ends I can think of only one similar bad The President issues executive mistake made by President Roose on your smile has to velt which parallels the Wallace which someone orders Efficient C nlox tritrki hcn tnrn: write for him but which have the mix-u- p and it was due to a similar X Helps remove film... brinj out and the President but not the same cause. It involved force of law (he natural lustre o f inmust see that they are properly the highly technical question of the smile. terpreted. Again there is trouble if public debt. An assistant, sup2 A special ingredieat in Calm these decrees tread on congression- posed to be an expert, furnished the encourages rtfular ms stage... which has a tonic effect on pun al prerogatives. figures on which the President based ... helps make them Ins snd He has to get bills which he fa- an important public statement. The rosy. Tone up your smJe...i4 writes he eagle-eye- d vors, passed. Frequently Caloxl financial writers caught the first drafts of such bills with the it. The expert was called to ac Mad its Jamout McKm m fsksrsMn a 113 ftan 1 pbarmacnlital 6tv4as help of his legal advisors. He is count; he furnished new figures, expected, if necessary, to put the was wrong again and caught again. heat on to get them through con- The President was forced to make gress. This means a lot of work a second public correction. in conference with congressional The duties of a President are simFor Your Future Buy leaders on the phone and through ply too great for any one man. So U. S. Savings Bonds A tactless Presidents have his personal agents. had personalways agent can easily upset the apple-- I al advisors, some times they were cart. Remember how Tommy Cor-- ! given an office, some times they coran used to get under the skin of had no official title like Colonel inten-1 well FORA House others, in Many congress? the Wilson Totioned and otherwise, who came and day we hear little aboutregime. presidential went, might be named, administrative assistants but we The President has to make up the hear a great deal about a group of budget, with the help of the budget advisors who have failed to funcdirector. If the director makes mis- tion properly in spite of the fact that takes or asks for too much or too unlike the executive assistants little, it is the White House that takes lack authority. These advisors they are the rap. This involves billions. too close to the President. And He appoints the Justices of the Su- they have been criticized by other preme court and federal judges. A members of the administration for bad choice may be fatal, and yet standing between department heads, one person cant know the personal the congressional and party leaders. history of every likely candidate. In They are all old, close, personal 1 FROM this sense the President forms the friends of the President. They are legal thinking of his era. inexperienced in government. He is not only his own and his Whether President Trumans little heating partys but also the nations chief circle of cronies has helped or UNITS A publicity man. slip of the tongue hindered him is beside the question. not only can lose an election, but No one can dispute the fact that also could start a war. If war they were chosen because of comes, he has to run it, for the loyalty rather than because of their their strategy in the field is based on experience. The question is whethbroad objectives decided at home. er presidential duties, as they exist It was by no means merely mili- today, can be delegated even to a tary opinion which decided when highly capable staff. and where the invasion of Europe They can, is the answer, IF such a took place. staff is not blocked by higher auThese are only a few of the things thorities who, from motives of love, a President has to think about. We hate, politics, religion, temperahave omitted mention of many mi- ment, taste or previous condition of nor but matters servitude, use such authority, othsuch as whether the architectural er than in the public good. beauty of the White House shall be altered with a new wing, or where When some visiting potentate shall sit at forma uscai, pet Science the Cali Academy of died the table All full of dynamite. was found that he had swallowed It was the death of Woodrow Wil $7.54 in pennies, nickels and dimes, son which brought the presidential plus a Canadian penny and an workload to public attention. He amusement token. But it was the died, as much from overwork as which were fatal the zinc v? hlflin pennies ney. XZIT SOOT from his disappointment over repuones developed poison. your home from the For only - bjlf cent pi diation of the League of Nations. by removing .11 oot. day yeu can keep Zolirs00'- TtabloP1? Serious study of the problem of furA Russian or firep heating unit free from the lr engineer claims he has of XZIT sprinkled in Get vH nishing a means to lighten the presionce a week it all it takes.I ronnenCted ?albearings so small that dential burden began shortly there- 50,000 today your favorite store can be in a match box. An8' 5800 So. Hoover St., Lo after, but it was not until 1939 that But will that placed make it any easier to specific plan was drawn up and roll your own? f.,: i , A in of wlii.il au-n'- t luii suggested laws de- tin- - const. tut on. and fine them. Ti.rv LiU' giuwn l.ke f.-- i V . THEY NEED HELPING HAND . . . Typical of the millions of children throughout the I'nited States who receive aid through Red Feather agencies supported by Community chests are these youngsters from Cleveland. Top left, a poignant appeal for aid is mirrored in the face of Virginia at Goodrich house; top right, Jimmie, patient at Home for Crippled Children, is overcoming the crippling effects of spastic paralysis; bottom: Lillian, resident at Cleveland Christian home orphanage, gives dolly the kind of care the home Jerry is going to walk some day, thanks gives her; right: to treatment he Is receiving at Cleveland rehabilitation center. Kose-Mar- y of the operating costs of Feather agencies. $906,000 is sought An 192 al capacity; their dispensaries annually give approximately 200,000 free or low cost, treatments; all of the maternity homes for unwed mothers are chest supported; institutional care of 1,125 Cleveland orphans is given only by chest agencies, and 672 children are under foster home care through chest aus- Red additional to continue USO activities for the final year. One of the main objectives of Community Chests is to assure a good start in life for all chil- dren. Red Feather youth agencies universally strive to prepare the boys and girls of today for their responsibilities as citi- pices. A high degree of is essential to success of the Community Chest drive. That sort of is characteristic of Cleveland's annual fund raising event. Solicitation of chest pledges is carried out by a corps of 25,000 volunteer workers. City officials authorize decoration of downtown zens of tomorrow. To carry out this objective, Philadelphia, for example, will allot the largest percentage of its campaign funds, more than 20 per cent, to its Red Feather youth recreation services and another 11 per cent to its child care agencies. Last year, the citys 39 Red Feather youth agencies served mve thin 189,714 boys and girls andovided 183,593 days thoroughfares; the transit system and railroads permit campaign advertising; stnres feature window in camps. displays stir .- ,g the work of chest Returns Near Peak. stations, newspaagencies; iAs the birthplace of the Commupers and tht'.i.ers tell the story of nity Chest idea, Cleveland has at- the Red Feather organizations. tained one of the best records in the For the sick and troubled of Clevenation for its annual fund drive. land, as well as those of 849 other Total goal of the past 27 Community cities in the United States, the Red Chest campaigns there was Feather this year means hope. For of which $113,243,489, or 97.7 the greater number of persons who wear the Red Feather as Commuper cent, actually was raised. In Cleveland Community Chest nity Chest contributors, the brighter of all the outlook for those who need a hospitals contain the citys public and private hospit helping hand. i $115,-888,54- 5, two-thir- Gas on Stomach lomAf-t- ,,,.1 i p y, .g.- x 11 HHf Vet Students Replace Navy Boots' an atFARRAGUT, IDAHO.-- In bottlethe national to crack tempt neck in educational facilities, pareducation-hungr- y ticularly for veterans have opened their own college here. At the site of the sprawling naval training station here, the veterans opened a privately operated, noncollege and profit, technical institute this month. When the navy declared the huge s, The school was chartered by the state of Idaho and acceptable credits were assured. Federal problems of acquiring the property were hur- is on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille a picturesque spot in the heart of north Idahos timber and lake country. It has ample facilities for 15,000 students, including housing for single students, married students and faculty. Courses in the liberal arts and in the technical and trade fields will be taught by streamlined methods. dled. In Picturesque Country. Farragut, where hundreds of thousands of United States naval men were trained during the war, training station surplus, veterans organizations went into immediate action. They saw the stations vast classapartments, dormitories, Erosion's raids on CHICAGO. rooms, laboratories, machine shops and recreational facilities as the an- soil fertility are costing the United swer to two major veterans prob- States nearly four billion dollars anlems: Lack of educational facili- nually, according to the Middle West ties and housing accommodations Soil Improvement committee. while attending school. "The extent of this yearly dam- vigilance is a must if our greatest farm asset soil fertility is to be preserved, Dr. Bennett insists. The recent wartime burden on farm land to produce record yields to speed victory has been Raise $250,000 Fund. age is indicated by recent U. S. succeeded by an equally heavy Soil Conservation service estimates peacetime load to produce crops to enbusiness local men, Backed by wind and water erosion re- meet the food crisis, couraged by the United States de- that 21 times as much plant food the soil improvement group demoves and of education other partment federal agencies, veterans organi- from the nations farm soil each clares, adding that the only rem-- , zations in north Idaho and eastern year as is taken out by crops edy that will rescue overworked the committee farm land from eventual fertility off that land, Washington formed a private non- sold exhaustion is a program of effeccalled it reports. They profit corporation. world-wid- e ' Farragut College and Technical to In- raise an stitute, Inc., and set out initial operating fund of $250,000. Veterans groups plunked down sums like $10,000 and $15,000 to start the ball rolling. Private clubs and individual citizens came across. The veterans hired a college president, Dr. Joseph H. Kusner, formerly of Florida, who is a veteran. He rounded up a faculty. Water Brings $1 TEXAS. Fall rains have alleviated a drouth which turned up many eccentricities late summer months At Aspermont in the high plains area drinking water sold for a dollar a barrel. Also near Aspermont, the Salt AUSTIN, dur-gin- states g might- iest river, became a dry channel one day, then was running 25,000 cubic feet a second When j o ir child chest and b.irk & ? with warn. Wij : cold, rub i.w dent himself. I. fork of the Brazos, the submitted M congress. Among other suggestions for various departmental reorganizatu ns, the plan created a presidential staff of executive assistants." About all the public knows about this corps of assistants is that they are supposed to possess a passion The other thing for anonymity. about them, which isnt usually admitted, is that they have never functioned propel ly. That, at least, is the private opinion of one insider who has watched them come and go The reason is from the beginning. a deciwho expect sin. pie; people sion on an important matter won t take it from anjone but the Presi- the following Dr. H. H. Bennett, chief of the conservation service, places the annual loss as a result of uncontrolled erosion and water runoff at He estimates that nearly one billion acres of the nations farm lands need soil conservation treatment to protect them from erosion and to maintain their productivity. It is clearly evident that eternal $3,844,-000,00- 0. Barrel in Drouth day. large reservoirs of the Lower Colorado river system had evaporation in excess of inflow. Wichita Falls, busy wheat and industrial city, prepared for a drouth Two tive soil rebuilding. Pointing out that any soil rehabilitating plan should be the committee says it should include the raising of legumes to improve soil tilth and to increase its resources of organic matter, regular crop rotation, steady use of mixed fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, and pasture well-rounde- improvement. Every Day Is July 4 At Ordnance Depot TOOELE, UTAH. Not mmissm S5SS well-trame- time-consumi- BARBS once by Baukhage a year but every day its Fourth of July at the Tooele ordnance depot, at least insofar as fireworks are concerned. Unserviceable exploby completing an additional reser- sives American, German and Japvoir capable of holding 100,000 anese which have accumulated at acre-feof water. But the branch the depot must be destroyed. Depot of the Little Wichita river, which officers do the task scientifically, was expected to fill the reser- placing about 50 tons of explosive in a crater to detonate them. voir, failed to respond. et uzn A liner departed recently with more than three and a half million eggs aboard first egg cargo of its size since shells ceased bursting. Holland-Amenca- n Government statisticians are leav- in hordes, Washington says Business Week. Maybe the political situation is so hot they think there ing isnt safety in numbers. Plenty of meat after the says Chester Bowles. Will elections, there be any gravy? And if so, for whom7 Discords come from Russia, where ntics claim Shostakovich's ninth d0eSn' fll0W the PartF lmea Th toe cou- Plnt U erooint is y nd some of the i aver with reactionary overtones. counter-revolutionar- 4s SOOT ERADICAT0& Beautify XZIT available at NOVElWHU B EIUTIFUL |