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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH uso M im coiirnnE nmooGin 1047 Personal Mail Exerts Big Influence on Congressman t Demobilization Set for 31st December, 1947 'THE ' WNU Features. USO will continue through 1946 and until the last day in 1947, when it will complete its wartime, demobilization and reconversion services December 31, 1947. Official announcement that USO will conduct its own g campaign next September and October with a goal to cover minimum service requirements through 1947 was made by President Lindsley F. Kimball at USO New York headquarters. USO came into being on February 4, 1941, when six member agencies joined hands to create one organization to care for the needs of the men and women of the armed forces. So far the American public has contributed 200 million dollars to the organization. Still Needed, Says Ike. In a message to President Kimball, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stated: May I earnestly count on your organization and your host of volunteers to stay with us through the dangerous and difficult period of transition to final peace? We still have a pressing need for the services of USO and will be deeply grateful for your continued help in the future as in the past." Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval operations, also sent a message of congratulation. For Wounded Veterans. The need for raising a terminal fund in the fall of 1946 is due to the fact that the National War fund will finance USO only through 1946. Tentative, purely tentative, plans for 1947 call for the operation of some 350 to 400 USO clubs in the continental United States, largely in connection with hospitalized but convalescent veterans. Operation of station lounges for men on leave, and families of service people must continue. Overseas clubs will carry on in Alaska, Canal zone, Hawaii, Philippines, etc. Camp shows will still be seen and heard in 1947 by men in hospitals and men overseas. Coincident with the announcement of the USO fall . campaign. President Kimball made public his annual report, in which he says: USO finds that at its peak of activity, it was serving 1,000,000 people a day in one capacity or another, running up to more than the total served since the organization was created. 3,035 Units at Peak. The number of operations, such as clubs, lounges and similar activities, reached a high point back in March of 1944, a total of 3,035. As training camps closed and the men went overseas this number declined but the over-a- ll volume of work increased. The peak of activity and cost came after peace in Europe and before the surrender of Japan. Redeployment of troops reopened many camps, doubled or vastly increased loads of various seaport cities. . . . Expenditures climbed to $5,800,000 a month." New Postwar Problems. Referring to the future of USO, Mr. Kimball says in his report: The successful conclusion of the war does not, cannot, and will not return the United States to its preIt is clear even war status. now that our armed forces in the postwar period must be numbered in the millions. USO will complete its' wartime, demobilization and v reconversion services December 31, 1947. ByBAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator, Eye Street, N.W., displease some of his constituency because of its indifference, than to Washington, D. C. the pressure brought upon disregard in There is a great mail mystery forces in or out of other him by reaction Washington which public congress. sleuths are try- This particular inquiry by the ing to solve. Reshowed legislators rated Quarterly of cent reactions the various influences on them, as WNU Service, 1616 fund-raisin- troops-in-trans- it, 1,100,-000,0- five-ye- congress AT CHOW . . . Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran and Clifton Fadiman of "Information Please," went G.I. and washed their own mess kits p while on a Shows tonr overseas. USO-Cam- HOPE OF TOMORROW Future Ilomcmakers of America Membership lion over 200,000 are the Future Homemakers of America. face the future with warm courage, And high hope. For we are the builders of homes, Homes for Americas future. Homes where living will be the expression of everything That is good and fair. $ XT RITTEN by pupil delegates at limited possibilities offered for a meeting of the national learning and teaching. executive council of the Future Designed to stimulate interest in Homemakers of America in Chi- home economics and integrate high cago in the summer of 1945,, the school activities with organization the work, the Future Homemakers foregoing creed dramatizes broad objectives of a booming high movement evolved from plans school home economics club al- drawn by the American home ecoready numbering over 200,000 mem- nomics association and the home bers in 45 states and Hawaii and economics service of the U. S. office of education in 1944. ' Within Puerto Rico. High school home economics clubs a few months, it was accepted by are not a new idea but the Future the state departments of education Homemakers movement represents and vocational education and the state home economics associations of a majority of states, including Puerto. Rico, Hawaii and the DisWe We trict of Columbia. Toward New Horizons. When the pupil delegates of the Future Homemakers met in Chi- cago last summer they were. fully prepared for formal organization of their club. Besides writing their creed and constitution, they developed policies and procedures, drew a work program for the year; de- 00 cided upon red and white for their colors, the red rose for their flower, and an octagonal emblem. FitToward New tingly, they chose Horizons" for their motto. National in scope, the Future Homemakers are broken down into regional districts, with state and lo- ' cal chapters. , Presently, Myrtle Hilton of Term., is president; Anita Lehman of Baton Rouge, La., is vice president; Emma Jo Lewis of De Land, Fla., is recreation chairman; Joan Du Plessis of Swamps-cot- t. Mass., is secretary; Barbara Ann Boggs of Sutton, W. Va., is vice president and Marie Bresnan of East Haven, Conn., is national project chairman. Other officers include Irene Trout Tip-tonvil- le. is national adviser of the Future Homemakers of America. j the first effort to all such activity in a central organization. Under the stimulus provided by home economics sections in state departments of education, the American Home Economics associ- of Milwaukie, Ore., treasurer; Baration, and home economics schools bara Parker of Carson City, Nev., and departments in colleges, in- vice president; Margaret Worlton dependent units have thrived for 15 of Lehi, Utah, public relations; years, with recognition of the un Phyllis Marshall of Vermont, 111., parliamentarian; Deania Burnworth of Independence, Kans., vice president, and Lois K. Mueller of Seymour, Wis., historian. Wide Latitude Allowed. While the pupil members of the Future Homemakers are permitted the widest latitude in the formulation and development of their programs, they are assisted by experienced advisers, including Edna Amidon, chief of the home economics service of the U. S. office of education; Mrs. Dora S. Lewis of the executive board of the Ameri- THOSE WHO SERVED . . . The USO continues to aid wounded veterans. Above is Junior Hostess Lucille Massa playing checkers with a wounded vet at a Battle Creek, Mich., club outside Percy Jones army general hospital. follows: (1) personal mail; (2) visits TO the public; (3) newspapers; (4) visits FROM the public; and (5) pubGradually, one lic opinion polls. by one, like a The bearing which these figures maiden pluckhave on the importance of writing ing daisy petals your congressman, in my opinion, to leam her fate is this: they show that mail IS imand fortune, conportant, and that when letters at gress has been one end of the spectrum of imporstripping the tance jibe with the poll (at the poor office of other end), it certainly puts a burr price administsaid under the legislators vote. ration of its powers, until over control agency has little more More People in prices than man over a skidding car on an icy pavement. Baying Market And yet, according to recent polls, Recently, I said over the air that 82 per cent of the public is in favor was eating better, and America March The of holding the line. more than it had ever eaten eating survey by that reliable poller; before. Immediately I received a Research NORC (National Opinion letters, vehementCenter of Denver university) among squall of stormy statement. my denying ly out. other similar groups, points this h All of the writers regaled When the house virtually stripped which my wife same tale the OPA of is powers late in April, letthat the home each day ters poured in supporting the agen- brings and shelves the butchers grocers cy, since then its head, Paul Por- are almost bare. ter, using the publicity machine Nevertheless, America is eating built up by his predecessor, Stabili- better and more food. Americans zation Director Bowles, has omit- who ate a yearly average of 127 ted no word or act to keep his side pounds of meat before the war are g of the arguments against now it at the rate of 150 gobbling before the consumer. Alstatement is This pounds apiece. though congress is not now being from Fortune magazine, a periodineedled as heavily as it was at the cal not noted for making false statepeak of the house debate, plenty of ments. people are still asking for OPA conYou and I cannot get everything tinuation. we want, but we arent all of AmerantiAt the same time, of course, ica by a long way. You and I have control forces are keeping up their always had meat virtually every pressure, both through lobbyists of day in the week. the interested groups, and through But millions of people in this the paid advertising of the National never had meat more than Manufacturers association, and country once or twice a week. These mil- other industrial organizations. But as far as any one can gauge, PUEIICS SFEHDAILE niCCTJJ the people themselves still want price control. Nevertheless, congress has managed to whittle it down, and many observers, at this 1939 writing, consider it as among the dead already. That is one mystery. Another was provided in the recent move on the part of the President, with his emergency strike bill, and on the part of congress, with the reinforced Case bill. 1946 Up until the unions threatened to tie up the railroads and ignored gov- Estimate based ernment orders, there was no on 1st quarter chance . to get any labor control measure through congress. But the people wanted something, and when the President offered it, he received a response in the way of letters and Ftyrrai from Dcp&rtmcii it Consneroi telegrams such as the White House has not known in the memory of its lions of people have more money present staff, some of whom have today than they have ever had, but served there since the days of Wood-ro- you, if you are one of the people Wilson. whoj wrote me, probably never were Now I know that some of my conscious of that fact. The little graph shows the facts. readers, like many of my listeners, will see nothing strange in this ap- These figures on which it is based parent indifference to the popular are compiled by the department of will on the part of congress. commerce, and the most banker you know wont A lot of letters I receive indicate that a great many people think con- doubt them. They show, as you see, that in gress pays no attention to the voter. This is laughably inaccurate. The 1939, the publics spendable income voice of the voter is the one thing was 68 billion dollars. The estimate a congressman obeys. In spite of for 1946 is 139 billion. Now your common sense will tell this fact, 51 per cent of the people, if our old friend, NORC, is right, you that the people who ate meat as it has proved to be on .many oc- every day didnt get all of that 71 casions, believe that congress de- billion dollar increase in their pends .more on its own judgment spending money. The groups got a large part of .it. In than on public opinion. Of course, the reason for this im- other words, America (as a whole) pression is that the- - organized is eating more meat (and other voters, the ones which some organ- things) than it ever did before, and ization controls, form the congres- because so many MORE people are smans judgment because they are eating so much MORE meat, there the most vocal. They make them- isnt as muclT left for the people selves heard in person, through who ate all they 'wanted before. their membership, and the people The discussion of how much whom they influence. America is eating arose in connecIn the two recent questions I tion with the question as to our abilhave mentioned: labor control and ity to help feed starving Europe and price control, you have two power- Asia. Some people believed that beful lobbies at work the unions and cause they couldnt buy as many the industrial organizations, but things at the store as they were accustomed to buying, America pulling in opposite directions. I am not saying that either .is didnt have enough to spare. But the people (you and I) who right or wrong in the views they express and the causes they advo- cant get all of what we want are cate. I am saying that they are in no danger of starving. We can active and powerful. And also that get things we may not like, but they naturally promulgate ideas in which will be just as good for us. their own interest. If these inter- And also, we can be assured that ests happen to be the publics, as the people, who, in Americas past,, well, fine. If not, have been near the danger lines,, Mpst of the congressional sec- are getting a lot more than they retaries I know well enough to talk ever had before. And they werent with frankly support this view. Ex- starving then, either. , So dont think that we havent cept, of course, when some strange political deal is involved, whereby enough to spare for the invisible the congressman feels it safer to guest. - ar ... pre- sents a paradox. In fact, a pair of paradoxes. can Homemakers association; Emily Haydock of the National Education association, and Dr. Hazel Frost. Successful in developing a home economics club in Oklahoma several years ago, Dr. Frost, as national adviser of the Future Homemakers, has been largely credited with the phenomenal growth of the new movement. In assuming her position with the Future Homemakers in 1944, Dr. Frost applied the same principles she employed in Oklahoma in making the new organization a close working partner of home economics classes. Though mostly composed of girls, the Future Homemakers also admit boys to membership. me-wit- ceiling-smashin- -- w on low-inco- . . ... . x . .. . |