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Show TIIE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH Alaska 1 i jfli wav to So Ready For Army Use Ahoul Dirember 1 1 1 'British Plan' Advocated To Solve Farm Shortage of Labor in Alcan. Americas .New 1.600 Mile 'IJiirma I!oa Tliroutrli Virgin Wilderne.-s- , an Hninemit l eat of Firt Majrnitmlt. Problem -- Uoii-titut- Agriculture Remedied The engineers expect to finish the H.v I5AUKIIAGE Analyst and Commentator. M-- it e, 1343 11 Street, N. But we have to meet it. And wt will. Before the year is out manpower for civil. an service will be drafted, as manpower for military W.f Mashington, 1). C. is or.e question which the fanner wants answer d but winch a large part of the rest of the population doesn't realize is one of the most important questions of the day. It is: Will tne farmers get enough help to save the crops this year and enough help to produce the food for the Food for Freedom program next year? I have spent the week talking to people who are going to be responsible for the answering of that question. And the composite answer as I get it is this: Generally speaking, yes. However, some of the crops raised this year will go by the boards. But we believe we can handle next years bigger crops. What is Washington going to do to solve this problem? 1. Much talk hut no legislation until after elections. 2. That talk however will develop some unpleasant and important truths. 3. As a result, eventually legislative action, mapped on the British plan. But meanwhile there will be 4. Temporary makeshifts w hich may alleviate but cannot cure the farmer's labor pains. The first, immediate effort will be on a voluntary basis. (Ill go inlo that later.) But It will leave a lot of spoiled tomatoes, among other things. The second thing will be legislation which will be based on the British experience and (we hope) will give the farmer the help he needs to carry out his share of the battle. In Great Britain they tried one measure and another, first voluntary and then gradually tightenTheir experience ing regulations. ended in two things: First, laws that kept the men who were in necessary industries (including farming) in those Industries. Second, it put the men needed in those essential industries into those Industries. What the British did amounts to this, and it is what we have to do, and are going to do eventually decree a rigid priority of jobs. And that means decide where and what a man must do. (Fight, make munitions. hoe corn, etc.) There rock-botto- Essential Farming And, when it comes to farming, subdivide: Say what is essential farming and what isn't. If you are on essential farmer, you farm. Otherwise, you fight. That concept will be framed in a law, a law that is being studied today as you hear the various testimony of experts aired in the hearings before the various a law congressional committees that is being studied today by a subcommittee of the Manpower commission, by the labor department, by department of agriculture experts. It will be considered seriously before election day. It will not be acted upon by then, not merely because it is too hot a political potato but because it is just too complicated to be worked out satisfactorily before that time. That is the analysis given to me in the government by an I who is in a position to know. naturally asked him why such a manpower plan had not been worked out before. He was very frank. He said there were two reasons. First, wh.cn any human being who understands its implications looks at this question he gets such a headache that he simply has to lean back and think it over again. Second, and seriously, the question of manpower in the present war presents a problem that no human being has ever had to meet before in the terms that it lias to be met now. Britain has been aide to deal with it in a measure under the pressure and the easily recognized seriousness of falling bombs As one man who had spent much time in England said to me: "It's easier to regulate fanners when there are shell craters in their fields." How has Germany, the t nation, met it? Only with slave labor, dragooned from conquered countries. old-tim- super-efficien- B R I E F S service is. What, the farmer asks, is to be done in the interim? The Voluntary Method First, the voluntary method, the way the British began. There are a number of things to consider. Secretary Wickard says that the greatest reservoir of farm managerial pioneer road about December 1, 1942. Plans are now being made for winter traffic over the complete route of approximately l,GiO miles between that date and April 1, 1943, the period during which the highway and the rivers of the region it traverses will be frozen. During the months of April and May it is believed the road will be unsuitable for heavy traffic owing to thaws and excessive moisture following tire break-uof winter. Although originally contemplated as a rough "pioneer road, to be p At hast 23 mtrehant vessels have been raved fn.ru being teipcdoed by Axis submarines along the Atlantic coast ty the pcarance over the water of Civil A.r patrol planes, Dean Landis, director of the Office of C.vihan Defer. so. declared Maj. Gen. Eugene Kcybold, chief of engineers. The work is being performed by engineer officers and enlisted personnel of the United States army. Northwest Service Command. On September 10, 1942, the war department announced the establishment of the Northwest Service command, in charge of army highway and railroad building activities, and supply maintenance services in western Canada and Alaska, with headquarters at Wtrtehorse, Yukon D E P A R T r ww '' ' HONEY WANT! UIGUfcST PKI( i s my quantity ' i Lima , are behind Mestbrook Peg-ler- s drive to take the bumpers off all cars and give them to the government to be converted Into war weapons. But what are we going to do the next time some stalled fellow says, Buddy, can you give my car a push or so? for a half-mil- e J US Me 6Sf V Hi Tvpical engineer working for Uncle Sam in the Yukon territories. The first of these was the procedure of initiating construction at various points along the route at the same time, by transporting crews and equipment to strategic locations in March, before the spring breakup of ice and snow made trails and rivers impassable. The second was the employment of aerial surveys, folluwed by stereoscopic analysis of aerial photoand tragraphs and the ditional engineer method of ground reconnaissance on foot, with pack-hors- e patriots a fellow who Without a sign of yelping Ignores for the red, white and blue A third, or second, helping. A All gambling in New York must be wiped out. Mayor LaGuardia. Wanna bet? 4 Jnst That How does Fred make k Well, Id call it ui.sk' bor. Jack e ,ch itively awful. Ed Thats nothing. Mj. to me awfully positive. General Issue lie (sentimentally J ff here get those large, beautiful ey She ( bored) I dunno-- fa with the face. Could Be Right You know all about ou say. Do you know Cj cows should be milked? fa.-y- Secretary Stimson must be a real fighting secretary of war. He is the only one ever to knock out a heavyweight champion and the contender with one d Same as short pose. ones Jia e punch. vs COLDS' MISERIES M'endell Willkie is for a second front as soon as possible, even if some army and navy men have to be prodded. He knows what one would have meant to him in the last ;Jc ia IES For colds coughs, nasal congestion acheeget Penetro modem medic mutton suet base. 25 1, double sup- - r wa ham and eggs may be all right, says R. Roelofs, Jr., but wait till the boys try to decide which is sunny side Canned 100-fo- well-draine- d ra - l- Worse Yet My wife talks to dog-trai- two-wa- D further details. siorC '"Oil vJS bioux City, Iowa. UO.NEy'j Elmer Twitchell is heart and soul in the move to get along on less he anMv only regret, meat. nounced today, is that I have only one chin to give fur my country. jjydrfflp'' time-teste- well-grade- Ui One of the really great songs of this war is This Is Worth Fighting For. It is being heard on the radio, but not half enough. and labor power lies in the people already with farm experience, who are not farming efficiently. There are two million farm families (he says) working land which won't produce enough to keep them decently, much less help the food for freedom program. Wickard says we have the money and the machinery to move them. The Farm Security administration has been doing it to some degree. They can do more. I know that about 123 and men from Kentucky recently were sent to New York state to pick apThe third was the use of bullples. The government paid their dozers, tractors and other types of way. heavy equipment, without which the Another factor is women more record for speed and women are coming into the field. construction could not have Tiie old tradition that women been achieved. The primary road shouldnt work in the fields is breakwas actually established by the powing down. One farmer said to me: erful bulldozers, which plowed "A lot of women can run tractors. through the forests of native spruce, rather have a woman who knows Id jackpme and aspen as if through how to run my tractor than a man cornfields, uprooting and pushing I dont know. These women are trees literally off a cut. careful and they are just bustin Timbers for the construction of themselves to make good. bridges, trestles and other structures Secretary Wickard hates drafted were felled by the troops and proTiie men behind the wheel at the Mhitchose sector, Alcan labor and any farmer knows why. highway. cessed by sawmills on the site. FerAs one farmer put it: "I don't want I.eft to right, Major Trank A. Petit, (C. E.) topographic officer; Brig. ries for crossing the many turbuV. H. Hoge, Gen. (C. E.) commanding officer, and Major Eugene J. lent creeks a man on my farm who doesn't and streams were imwant to work on a farm. Hell break Stann; (C. E.) executive officer. provised of rafts and pontoons. At up more than hes worth. one major crossing a large scow completed in one year, the Alcan James A. OConnor, formerly In was built from forest lumber capaPotential Farm Labor as it is now being conhighway charge of construction on the southBut the secretary says that there structed by the corps of engineers ern sector of the road, has been ble of transporting equipment weigh40 tons. is another reservoir of potential is a truck assigned to head the new service ing of Heat and Cold. Extremes farm labor made up of men and road for practically its entire length command, with Col. Kenneth B. traffic over Bush, adjutant generals departMarch boys with farm experience who are and will afford the troops battled During work now. many long stretches. bitter winds and temperatures as doing ment, as chief of staff. Now wtiy, the farmer The highway begins asks, Complete arrangements have low as 35 degrees below zero, when havent the smart people in the been made by the army for winter il was impossible to drive a tent-pe- g foreseen all this and preinto the frozen ground. During maintenance of the road. These pared fur it? Why did they ask us include the construction of July and August they sweltered unplans to raise all these tomatoes when rest camps for the operators of der a heat of more than 90 degrees they ought to have kliown that we truck convoys, barracks for engi- and were forced to wear gloves and couldnt get the help to pick them? neer maintenance troops and ade- net helmets to protect themselves Well, nobody in America has had quate weather observation and tele- from the swarms of mosquitoes, flies and insect pests. In wet weaththe experience of total war. We phone installations to serve the enhave as big an army now as we had tire length of the highway. All nec- er they slogged through bottomless at the time of the Armistice. The essary facilities, equipment and mud; in dry weather portions of the army is way ahead of the schedule supplies to service tiie road and road were shrouded in clouds of alwe thought they could make. And keep traffic moving are being pro- luvial dust so fine that no mesh it takes a lot more men in industry could exclude it. vided. and on the farm to run an army, a Through it all, however, accordThe construction of the pioneer modern army, than it did an army route through the virgin wilderness ing to official reports from the field, that size in 1018. in such a short space of time conthe morale of the men remained We never believed that this counstitutes an engineering feat by the high and the job has gone forward try could house and equip an army army of first magnitude. It was at a rate which will bring the road as fast as the job has been done. not accomplished without to completion well in advance of the physical The calls of the draft wore heavier hardship and privation on the part most optimistic estimate. The enand more rapid than any expert exof the officers and men, but no gineers report that the threats of pected. But don't blame the Selechandicaps of weather or terrain muskeg proved wholly unfounded. tive Service system for robbing the were sufficient to dampen the en- Muskeg, a bog moss studded with labor market. They did what the thusiasm of the troops or retard sedge, has proved to be a minor doctor ordered. Some of the others progress. Aside from the endurance problem. Most of it has been sucin didn't fall line. and efficiency of the force, among cessfully skirted and that which was whom a large detachment of Negro unavoidable has been War Man Power overcome with troops acquitted themselves with corduroy roads. In one I talked with a member of Genparticular special distinction, three main fac- section of 60 miles in length, reporteral Hersheys staff. I can't quote tors contributed to the with to ed him officially but this is what he speed consist principally of muskeg, which construction has been carried said to me privately and what he only four miles of it were on. would say to you: "Listen to these In some of the middle figures: western states for every one man Manpower gets busv as these U- - S. who has been drafted, 11 have gone army engineers build bridges that into industry or enlisted in the army, conneet up with the Alcan highway. navy or marines. The figures over the country as a whole show that Creek, British Columbia, just north out of every hundred men who have of Edmonton, pursues a northwestleft the farm only 15 were taken bv erly course to Whitehorse, in local draft boards. In the dairy kon Territory, then swings west industry in California, it was shown across (1P Alaskan boundary and 37 per cent left their jobs to take thence to Fairbanks. higher paid ones in the same indusA Military Supply Route. try and 39 per cent went into other The Alcan highway will function industries or enlisted. as an important military supply Hint is a of the manroute. Connecting with the railway power problem. America has voand highway systems of the United lunteered nobly. But. alas, volunStates and southern Canada at Dawtary service is not the wisest in war son Creek, its southern terminus, time. We have one goal; we must the pioneer route not only provides reach that with balanced action. To an motor highway to uninterrupted obtain that, a most careful and comAlaska, but serves as a feeder road plicated plan must he worked out. to several important military airIt hasn't been worked out yet befields in Canada that have hitherto cause there is no man in Washinghad to depend upon air transport ton from the highest to the lowest for all their .supplies. The latter mav who can do it alone, it takes a lot now be trucked in overland. of study, and then unfit d action. The construction of the pioneer 1 a. it is coming. And it will come road is a militarized project auSlowly, ns they told me when I was thorized by joint between a ,.v. hke sucking sugar through a Canada and the agreement United States and Heavy construction equipment proves its rag. weight in gold when called carried out under the direction of upon to break tlirough virgin territory. up. Union Square Demands Second Front. Headline. 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P: hams Compound Is worth try Alfred G. Vanderbilt, in the navy as a boatswain, came into another five million dollars the other day. It is a break to be in the navy when you get five million. In the army, unless you had your own dice, you would lose it in no time. SKLSSSJWMSl Is the SURE New York city is going to tear down numerous big buildings for scrap metal. Among them is a 22 story skyscraper at West End avenue and 72nd street, built 18 years ago and never occupied by anything but pigeons. Thousands of visitors, passing on the Fifth avenue buses, just before the turn onto Riverside drive, have noticed this gaunt structure and asked about it. Once we heard a tired busman reply, Thats Grants tomb, lady. I thought Grants tomb was further up? she said. That's just his summer This is his wintomb, he replied. ter one. VICT T Effort on Your Pc Kill Rats, Mice and Coclcrcci and Conserve Health and Fooc AT AIL DRUG 35c and M.00 ALL-OU- Cheerful Beginning Everything beginning is ful. Goethe. , And Your Strength n Energy Is Below Par Ima Dodo has written a movie. It is about a girl and a boy on a desert island. The boy disapThe girl is alone for pears. months, reduced to starvation. Finally a ship loaded with steaks is wrecked on the island, just in time to save her life. Ima says the big thing about it is her title: Meat Buoys Girl. It may be canaed by disorder function that permits waste to accumulate. For tpeople feel tired, weak and when the kidneys fail to remote acids and other waste matter (rt blood. You may suffer nagrng b''1 rheumatic pains, headaches, di; getting up nights, leg pains, Sometimes frequent ana scanty tion with smarting and burning other sign that something is wrot; the kidneys or bladder. There should be no doubt that p treatment Is wiser than neglM' Loan's Filin. It Is better to rd medicine that has won country" than on something luff r proval known. Loan's have been tried ed many vears. Are at all drag Get Doant today. Bey in THOSE OIL ZONES "A stands for fuel oil more C! EXTERM1NATOK copi- ously Than youll ever get it in homes in Zone B." cross-sectio- ! by Uauk'hnse Alcan Highway AYill Help Oust Japs From Aleutians -- Alaska "Mathematics Enthusiasm Smith" is the name recorded by a registrant at Birmingham. Ala. es n Essential Farming Gets Preference. MM J&msi nl.Phillipr r Several months ahead of schedule, the Canadian-AlaskaMilitary highway, which lias been under construction by the United States army engineers since last March, will be ready for army use early this winter, it was announced the war department recently. By England Through Job Priority Decree; classifi Rough and Ready Leon Henderson. CPA administrator, is investigating charges that certain manufactuia rs of scarce con modifies have bien allot. ug the big stores as much merchandise as they want, while the small stores are given lev than they need n 'ling at nil. Often, rt seen small ritadeis are being forced the rranufachiti rs to buy g vds th dont wan: nr can t s !1. is our first line of defense uir war with Japan, and its strategic impnrtarce to the safety of continental I n.ted States can tiard.y be overestimated. I'p to this time this vast uider-ruv- s ompost has been reached by omy luo main routes, a.r and u runaway w banks in 80 hi urs from Edmonton Alberto. This trip at present bv ocean from Seattle takes eight days to Anchorage and another day to Fairbanks. The Jap occupation of Kiska, Attu and Aggatu the Aleutian chain brought into Tong focus the -- importa-c- e pro-r- arid pebbly the most n ute to th,s strategic wdi enable seldiers and equipment to reach Fair- - 10.000 Jars mi!:-to.r- of Alaska. y About wore landed. T..e ( t.emy has been repeatedly bombed in their main stronghold on tne island of Kiska by heavy U. S. bombers and has been blasted by the fleet. More recently the navy landed Yank troops in tiie Andreanof islands, only 125 miles east of Kiska, without the loss of a single man. This operation of blasting the Japs from the Aleutians is one of the biggest and most important of the war, and the Alcan highway will play a major role in keeping our forces supplied with reinforcements It will be a grand supplies. for America and the world the first brown army truck roll; Fairbanks over the Alcan. is for heat which will keep you quite hot Compared to the homes in the zones where you're not. B Indian Summer: That time of year when you want to scalp the fellow who says: This is the best time of the whole year. Ima Dodo is going all out in the She has asked her scrap drive. sweetheart to give the iron from his blood. And she personally is going to abandon her determination of steel. For Sale Two pianos, $4.98 each: cash and carry; no fooling. E. J. Anderson. Pleasantville Journal. Thats what you think! 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