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Show i MAN AT WORK - AND HOW! Mi; ' Here's the Way WPB's "Lord? Nelson LicTis Gigantic Job BY: TOM WOLF NEA Service 'Staff Corerspondent WASHINGTON ? April 2 Ab chairman of the. all -powerful War Production . Board; ' Donald Marr Nelson holds down what, in all probability is the biggest , single Job in the .world: Jlere's how he goes about getting it done: Nelson . gets up at 8 t in. Unless Un-less he had a" breakfast appointment appoint-ment . (which . is not unusual), he goes to his hotel's basement cafeteria, cafe-teria, seats himself at a counter stool and piles a way a hearty breakfast which includes ham and eggs. ... 1 V He drives himself (in the big Cadillac he bought from Lt. Gen. Knudsen last , summer) .to work. Its about 8:30 when tyt gets to his office on the fifth floor of the Social Security Building; yrhich overlooks the Mall. -. (Nelson can see the Capitol from his desk). Constantly Smokes . .. , . Pipes or Cigars-' 4' " ; The office itself 1st large,' sparsely sparse-ly decorated. A. big. conference tab!i, surrounded with chairs, occupies oc-cupies one section of the' room. Nelson's own .desk is -large. He keeps it clear save for a small American flag, a pen set, a desfc blotter and the combination humidor-pipe rack which -his secretaries sec-retaries gave him last Christmas. The first official act of the Nelson Nel-son day is reaching for a smoke. Cigar or pipe, -he -smokes constantly con-stantly all day. . First job is planning his schedule, going' over mail and appointments with Iona Thornton, his secretary., Then, in accordance with a Long-standing habit which he ' acquired during his 10 years as merchandising manager of Sears, ' Roebuck, Nelson Nel-son looks over various reports on the progress of his ' present huge merchandising' Job. At about 9:30, he is ready to start seeing people. '- From here on there is no set routine for his day. There are only a few regular regu-lar meetings which he attends every week a'i Monday luncheon with Milo Perkins and Leon Henderson; Hen-derson; a Tuesday afternoon conference con-ference with the eight-man War Production Board; Friday afternoon after-noon Cabinet meetings at the White House, which , Nelson attends; at-tends; and the weekly-staff conferences con-ferences with WPB division beads. Nelson's -system" of -"working is to advise., his :di vision heads on general" policy, 'but' to leave them strictly'alone from' there on. Their production -reports 'do' -''the rest of the talking for -them. : ... Part of Nelson's, ability to do his tremendous Job is his facility for getting to the ' point directly because of his. mastery of the whole' sltuatiohvRecaitly w)len he made a short speech for the newsreels, he went through his part so perfectly that no retakes were necessary something so rare that one cameraman dubbed him "One-Take Nelson." . Nelson sees between, 20 and 30 people a day. He gives each the impression that he has all the time in the world, but most people find they're out of his office before be-fore they realize it. Visitors take up the bulk of the morning until Uls cne o'clock lunch. He usually rats a light lunch (of buttermilk and salad) at his desk. . After Junch, more Visitors. Nel- -y-y-y.-: ::::. N - ', ' i v t ; v LVvv v.: DONA1X) MARR NELSON "He smokes constantly 1 ; ; son tends to be too soft a touch my more. for handshakes with small town business leaders or people who "knew him when" and too many of his visits are of the three-minute three-minute "I just want to say 'hello " variety. Phone Rings Constantly During his longer conferences (which are interrupted at least once every five minutes with phone calls), NeWfin talks quietly, directly. He seldom loses his temper, tem-per, believing that "the man who loses his temper first loses the argument." When he is nervous or irritated, he tamp3 the tobacco in one of his ever-present pipes and drums the tamper on his desk. He gets most of his work done in iersonjtp-pcrson contacts, has comparatively little paper work. He writes few memos many of them" Ytotes in his wide open ramblfng hand, saying simply: "Pis handle D.M.N." By seven at night he's ready to leave the office. He almost never takes a briefcase home with him, but his evenings arc spent in half social-half business dinners and conferences. Before the war., when he was a division head in the old OPM. Nelson took weekends off to golf and swimT for the exercise he now complains he can't get these days. Now .his only day off is C 9 .. .. ounaay, ana even mat s not sure Burlington Trailways transcontinental bus system with its trained personnel and modern equipment is shouldering its share of the transportation program in defense of this great and glorious country of ours. More and more people each month are using our buses, thereby helping conserve the nation's tires and private automobiles. In addition we are engaged in special wartime assignments transporting troops and their relatives and friends, moving civilian workers work-ers and men on furloughs. Burlington Trailways travel is economical, convenient, comfortable; it offers modern high-way high-way equipment including the famous air-conditioned jINERS DIE SET FINEST BUSES. ON AMERICA'S HIGHWAYS mFfiUmr(MMl BURLINGTON TRAILWAYS DEPOT fflTtt MOKtY SAV1D i D XV. E. RODRIGUE. Agent 05 West Center St. Phone 1272 I Students Gather For Speech Meet, Drama Festival Senior ' high school students from more than 30 schools in five states gathered at Brigham Young university today to participate partici-pate in the 13th annual B. Y. U. senior high school speech tournament tourna-ment and drama festival, which wil be held through Friday and Saturday. The oldset event of its kind in the intermountain area, the festival festi-val is directed by Dr. T. Earl Par-doe, Par-doe, chairman of the B. Y. U. speech department. "Building National Morale, and the School's Part in the Local War Problems" is the theme selected for the meet this year. The presence of Barrett H. Clark of the national planning committee for soldier entertainment entertain-ment at the festival will add to the color and value of his year's affair. In addition to giving two or three addresses, he will meet with speech and dramatic coaches and high school principals in a special session and plan with them a program to help build morale and further cultural education. edu-cation. Throughout the three days of the festival, students representing Utah,1 Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and California will participate in the following events: One-act plays, oration, puppetry and marionettes, mar-ionettes, choral speech, dramatic readings, extemporaneous speaking, speak-ing, radio broadcasting, re-told etory, pantomime, debate, humorous humor-ous reading end open forum. All- contests except the debate and one-act play, will be conducted con-ducted in -two classifications: Class A, for high schools enrolling enroll-ing 500 students or more; Class B, for schools enrolling less than 500. Only one contestant from each school may enter each event. Question for debate is: "Re solved: That every able-bodied male citizen in the United States should be required to have one year of full-time military training before attaining the present draft age." A number of awards will be offered, including the Samuel French bronze plaque to the school attaining the best general excellence in production of .. a drama. News Of the Dayl -from- Pleasant' Grove Mr. and Mrs. Dale H. West and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Cbbbley of Monroe spent" the . week end visiting relatives here. The Wests were guests of Mrs. Ethel - Cart-son, Cart-son, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Adam-son, Adam-son, Misses Viola and Josle West, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Larsen, while the Cobbleys visited Mr. and Mr. -Charles J. Cobbley w and Air.-rana 'Mrs. Isaac Jacob. - Guests of Mr. and Mrs. H.'.E. Bradley Saturday were Mr. ; and Mrs.' Evan Gunderson of Eureka.' Saying goodbye -to John Fugal when he left'from Salt Lake City for the northern California mission, mis-sion, were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. FugaL Anna Fugal, Mrs.' ATlda, Swenson of Provo and Mrsv , Genevieve Wright of - Salt Lake Clty , Here for several weeks is Mrs. Holly Myers, the former Wilma Green, : who, with . her tiny son, Kenneth Ryan, is visiting her parents, par-ents, Mr, and Mrs. William Green. ( CITY COLLEGE CRIPPLEU New York, April 2 Of City College's starting basketball team, Dave Laub and Harvey Lozman graduate, Sid Hertzberg and BiU Hoizman are going to work In defense de-fense plants and Claude Phillips will join the fire department. HELP LIUER DILE FLOW FASTER Por the nxt 30 Uy follow thin simple re-l to Ur up the flow of thene 1m-lurtnt 1m-lurtnt ritgrBtlon-aldlnj juices and nee If .Voi' too after you've flninhed the flrnt ibttle rannot aay that you "feel ever ra much better." Oft a bottle of Kruachetl Salta (a famous fa-mous blend -tit aix. aalta not Jut one) that act ak, a gentle excitant and take half a level' teaapoonful In a kIbhh of water (hot or oold) half an hour before breakfnat. This rouaes .the flow of btte. wlfh Its aentle bowel action. Keep thia up for 30 days" and you too mny Hhako off that -"all-in." sour feelinc, nick headaches, so-called Billousneaa. Poor niKeatlofi and most probably Constipation. Con-stipation. 3 Kt if You can net Krpschen Salts a famous Engllxn. rormulit at any dru store satisfaction guaranteed or money bad Mrs. Myers arrived Saturday with her. r husband, who returned to their ; home in Twin Falls,' Idaho; Sunday j evening. ; Several interesting inter-esting social functions were being planned in honor of the vistora . Of interest to his Jtrienda here is the news :- that ' Harold M. Wrieht.-ormerlv. of-. tun ntnttA presidency, and recently seriously in ai i - in, is aumcienuy . improved to ride to Pleasant Grove. He and Mrs. Wrieht called on Mr. . and Mrs. Calvin Walker and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Fugal Tuesday. : During . 1939, 2,543,820 animal furs were taken in the state ' of Louisiana. Costume House To Continue Operation Although the WPA workers at the Provo costume house in the Central school building have been laid off, the costume house will continue to operate under the direction di-rection of Provo City, and the City school district, states Mrs. Phyllis R. Long, city recreation director. The oostume house is filling a definite need . and is widely used, according to Mrs. Long. Canada's 1940 cherry crop amounted to 145,400 bushels. MOTHERS TO MEET - I LEHX The ; WPA Play . School mothers will meet in their last session ses-sion of the school year, Friday, in the class - room. ? Miss 7 Hermese Peterson of the Brigham Young imlmnliv imrill tallr tft th A crrnim. Following, the - meeting a social and refreshments ",will be enjoyed. REPORT OPENS SUNDAY ' LEHI Manager - Frank East-mond East-mond of the Saratoga resort will hold the 1942 opening of the resort on Easter Sunday. 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