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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1944 Editorial We have sinned, and have committeed Iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Thy precepts and from Thy Judgements. Daniel 9:5. Rebellion to tryants is obedience to God Franklin. Population Problems The Baruch-Hancock post-war report contains con-tains some puzzling questions, in addition to its many excellent recommendations. Some of the worst stumpers have to do with population popu-lation shifts to war-industry boom towns. "Will the workers who have moved south return to their homes in the south ?" the report re-port asks. 'What of the irreat aircraft, ship building and munitions centers where will the workers now there go?" If the answer from Henry J. Kaiser's three shipyards in Portland, Ore., is typical, most of them aren't going anywhere. There are 91,036 workers in the Kaiser yards; 90 per cent of them were questioned as to their post-war plans. It was found that 50,000 had migrated from outside the Portland area, and that more than half plan to stay. This is in spite of the fact that 85 per cent of the total force have no prospects of a job when the shipbuilding program is cut down to peacetime size. A check-up on these workers purchases shows that they are not fooling about their desire to stay put. Only 11 per cent have furniture stored "back home," but 53.7 per cent own furniture in the Portland area. And 40.5 of those who plan to continue living there are going to use their War Bonds and other savings to buy real estate. Another post-war question was answered when only 20.5 per cent of the Kaiser women employes (industrial, not white-collar) said they planned to stop working when the war was over. It is unlikely that Portland's case is unique, or that fts workers' thinking ' is radically different from that of workers in other industrial centers. Cities with big shipyards and ordnance and aircraft plants have all grown Portland, 19.2 per cent since 1930; Seattle-Tacoma, 20 per cent; Wichita, Kan., 32.5 per cent ; Norfolk-Newport News, Va., 42.4 per cent. In 1939 there were, roughly, 25,000 workers work-ers in ordnance ; 75,000 in aircraft, and 150,-000 150,-000 in shipbuilding. Today, for the same three industries, the approximate respective figures are 2,250,000, 2,000,000 and 1,600,-000. 1,600,-000. Peacetime employment in ships and aircraft will probably be higher than the 1939 level, but even so, many industrial cities are going to have a tremendous concentration con-centration of surplus labor. Portland has outlined a 75 million-dollar public works program. Other cities are making similar plans. But public works are stop-gaps that do not create wealth. Private Pri-vate industry must absorb this surplus, and quickly. The Washington Merry-Co-Round 'Hey, Adolf! What Do I Do Now?' A Daily Picture of What's Going on in National Affairs Bt Drew Pearaoa (Col. R o b r I S. Allan (! daty) Early Training A Delaware sergeant is given credit for bringing a battered Flying Fortress back from Germany by patching up the shattered rudder control cables with bits of cord from his flying suit. We don't know the early history of this young man, but it's probably a safe bet that he was one of thousands of American youngsters young-sters who learned practical mechanics in his high school days by maintaining a jaloppy on a shoestring budget, with the help of a few pieces of cord, some chewing gum, and the native ability that has made our air forces tops in world combat. They Were Dispensable We doubt that the ranks of those 40,000 key men in war industries will include the sage of WPB who is solving the paper shortage short-age by banishing the three-on-a-match superstition, su-perstition, or the conservation genius who attacked the same problem by putting signs in the washrooms of WPB Washington headquarters head-quarters which read: "ONE towel will dry any pair of AMERICAN hands!" Still No Relief Once again the British government has refused to lift the European blockade and let at attempt be made to take food and supplies sup-plies to occupied Europe's sick and hungry people. Reason, fear that the Germans would obtain the benefit. The United States Senate has passed a resolution favoring this attempt. American opinion undoubtedly supports the Senate stand. European neutrals have agreed to transport and distribute the supplies. The Nazi government has assured them that it will not interfere. In support of this is the fact that neutral distribution of food in Greece has been almost entirely unmolested. As former President Hoover has pointed out, we have a practical as well as a moral responsibility to do whatever we can for these real or potential friends who are victims vic-tims of Nazi cruelty. Failure will surely be remembered. WASHINGTON. With more and more fathers being drafted, the senate military affairs committee com-mittee has dug into some amazing facts regarding loafing in war plants. In a secret quiz, behind closed doors, they have heard witness after witness wit-ness testify how war plants were hoarding labor, how men who loafed more than they worked were being deferred, and how the surplus of labor in some plants only gummed things up and decreased efficiency. The secret testimony is so astounding that some senators, hitherto opposed to a national service ser-vice act, are beginning to wonder whether that is the only solution. Here are samples of the testimony testi-mony which has amazed them: H. R. Gibson, machinist, in the Mobile yard of the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding comp any, said he qurt his job because I wasn t allowed allow-ed to work." On one occasion, Gibson said, he and three other machinists sat for three days doing nothing because a welder wasn't assigned to help repair a motor foundation, though there were a number of unengaged welders in the yard. "Tha't should have been a seven-hour job. Gibson stated. "Loafing like that was going on all the time all over the yard. You would see two or three men standing here, two or three standing over there, and two or three more carrying carry-ing on a conversation and not doing any work The whole yard was on the verge of I don't care.' " WOKKKKS TOLD TO "HIDE" "Does that run down from the foreman to everybody?" asked Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan. "It runs down to the lowest paid employee," re plied Gibson. "In other words, they can see that the management doesn't care, and of course the foreman says, 'Go off somewhere and hide.'" "Is there any talk about the government pay ing the bills 'so why worry?" inquired Ferguson. "Oh, sure, everybody knows that the govern ment is footing the bill," was the reply. Gibson said that maritime commission inspec tors, who were supposed to check on production, "stayed in the office" most of the time. When asked if the inspectors witnessed the loafing, the witness replied: "Sure I have discussed it with lots of them." He told of overhearing a yard superintendent telling a prospective employee, a man about 50 years old: "Now the gang I'm going to put you in, won't do any work at all. All you have to do is go out there and hide." Gibson said that a plan he had submitted to the management, whereby half of the company's J4.000 worKers could complete ship contracts in less time than the present force, had been scoffed at on the ground that speeding up production would "demoralize the whole plant." He said an official told him: "We have to look out for a lot of guys who would lose their jobs." WSA MA TESTIFIES Harry Finck, war shipping administration examiner, ex-aminer, said that time saving could be effected in the Brooklyn yard of the Bethlehem Steel company com-pany and in other shipyards in the New York City area by laying off two-thirds of their employees. He said that, of sixty men assigned to deck work on a dry-docked steamship, "At no time could I find more than five or six working." They spent most of their time drinking coffee in the crow's nest mess hall, he added. One night, about midnight, sixteen riggers walked into the mess hall and sat down, he said When Finck inquired what they were doing, one replied: "We have to haul some lumber up from the dock, but we've got till 7:30 this morning, so we can take it easy." When Finck dropped by the mess hall again at 4 :30 a. m., the sixteen riggers were still there. "When the devil are you fellows going to get to work?" he asked them, only to receive the same reply, "Oh, we've got till 7:30 a. m. The riggers finally left at 6:30, hoisted 180 pieces of lumber to the ship's decks, and lashed it. The whole operation required only 45 minutes. Yet the sixteen workmen wasted about seven hours on it. Finck testified that sixty other workers were assigned to repair some damaged plates on another an-other steamship, but only five worked on the night he checked on this job. Senator Ferguson asked Finck if he actually meant that "forty-five men loafed and five worked." "Yes," said Finck. "The others just hung around under the dock where they couldn t be seen. They not only loafed, but do you realize the cost of keeping a ship in dock for a number of days? I mean there were other vessels waiting out in the stream. The job should have taken three or four days, but the ship was in dock over three weeks." WSA examiner Finck also told the shocked committee that employees of Bethlehem sub-con tractors had worked on two ships at once and billed the Bethlehem company for double pay. This extra expense was, of course, borne entirely .by the government under a cost-plus contract. Finck said he had reported this and the loafing to his superiors and to the management, but nothing came of it. "The management has no respect for us," he declared. "I could stay here from now until Monday and I would not get through half of the things I have found." DEFERMENT FOR IDLERS WAC private Faye M. Goldware, former employee em-ployee of the Kearny, N. J., plant of Western Electric Elec-tric company, told the senate committee she knew of a number of cases of young employees for whom the company obtained deferments "when they had nothing to do." "We had unmarried men in their 20's who got deferment after deferment while they were standing stand-ing around in the plant," she said. "There was one boy 24 years old who became disgusted with loafing and tried to get into the Army as a flier. He passed all the tests and was accepted, but the company refused to give him a release." Engineers at the Kearny plant had nothing to do for two and three months at a stretch, WAC Goldware said. "They sat around day after day. Finally they took up drawing as a hobby They would just sit there and sketch and talk to people." "I gather that main business at that plant was to increase the cost of production to the government," gov-ernment," observed Senator Muray of Montana "It seems to me they could have accomplished that by merely raising wages." "No," replied the WAC. "The policy of the company seemed to be to hire two people for a job rather than make one person s salary twice as high. My own impression was that the company com-pany wanted to set a precedent so it would have lower salaries after the war." "You mean they wanted to keep wages down for the post-war years," suggested Murray. (Copyright, 144 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) By Kobert L). Lush nea service, ibc. water into a basin. With a moistened towel she began cleansing cleans-ing his forehead around the wound, washing the blood from his face. Behind the woman stood George, his left arm resting on his pudgy front, the thumb and forefinger of his right hand tug ging nervously at the lobe of his left car. The little boy had backed ov-r to the wall near tne stove. Anne stood wringing her hands. staring. fall made him a bit balmy. Notn- Quit doing that, Ann," George Permanent you Know, juna ordered. "Get out the car and go PHOIOGlEi A Colorado farmer, looklnir for aome trnyrd calves on a September evening In 1919. romes upon a sick stranger who burdens him with an Important written meaaace. Seeklna: help, the ianner fallsv and knocks himself oat. When h revives both stranger and messace are tone. lie runs frantically home. SHOCK III THHERE was a loud pounding on the kitchen door. The woman, who had been peering into the oven of the huge range, looked up. "Hey! Who is it?" she shouted above the banging. "Are you trying try-ing to break the house down?" "It's me," came a voice from the outside. "Well, open the door," was the reply. "We've been waiting supper sup-per for you for hours." Then the door catch gave, and her husband stumbled into the lighted room. "My God," screamed the woman. wom-an. "Jan, Jan, what's happened to you? Anna! George! Papa's hurt." A younger man and woman came running into the kitchen. They were followed closely by a small boy. All stopped abruptly at the sight of the man. He was standing a few feet inside the door, staring at them, blood from the gash in his forehead covering the side of his face. "Grandpa, Grandpa," the little boy screamed, tears filling his eyes and running down his cheeks. The action of the child aroused them all. George was the first to speak. "Jeez," he exclaimed, "do some thing. Don't stand around like this. Mother, get some hot water and a cloth." TUT the older woman had not waited for orders. She had stepped up to the farmer and, facing him with both hands on his arms, was guiding him to a chair. Then she Doured warm I anyone was there or if there were any sign that anyone had been there. """EORGE returned from his " horseback trip at the same time that Anna drove into the yard with Doctor Morton. "I guess," he started as the doctor doc-tor was stepping down from the running board, "Ann has told you about the cut on her dad's head, and how he looked like a ghost." "She said he hurt himself on a fence," Dr. Morton said. "But," George broke in, assuming assum-ing a professional tone of voice, "Ann had gone after you before Jan started talking. Looks like his after Doc Morton. Your father looks bad hurt." During this time and until after Anna had started for the doctor, the farmer said nothing. But now the woman, much calmer, asked him again in a quiet voice in her native tongue what had happened. Then it was as though the sluice gates of a dam had been opened. "It was awful, the farmer burst forth. "The man, he was dying. He gave me the message. He had seen the kings and queens. He was a great man, a big man. I started for help. I fell on the fence. Then he was gone, and I've lost the message the man gave me." "The man?" asked George. "What man? Where?" "The man, the stranger," the farmer babbled. "Down by the south fence, it was. But now he's gone. I've lost the message." George studied the older man's face. Then he whispered to the woman, "Shell shock kind of," he informed her. "Like we had in the army. Lucky I had presence of mind enough to send for the doctor. Morton'll know." But the farmer overheard him. "No, no!" he protested. "It was true. He was dying and he wrote the message out on envelopes." Calling the woman into the other room, George told her that he would ride to the south fence with a flashlight to see whether The Mayor of Washington of shell shock like we had in the army. He just jabbers on about kings and queens and messages to the people. Pretty nutty. I been down to where he said it all happened. There's nothing there. There was a couple of pieces of cloth on the fence, That's where he fell, all right. But he'll probably get over it, won't he, Doc?" The physician was in the farmer's farm-er's bedroom about 20 minutes. When he came out he reported that the injured man had suffered a severe shock, that he had a temperature, and that he must not be disturbed unduly until he had recovered. Jan Mesrik was In bed three weeks. His wife took full charge of nursing him to recovery. Dr. Morton called several times. "The only thing to do is humor him when he starts talking crazy," he reported to the family. "But try to steer the subject around to something else." Within a couple of weeks he informed in-formed the family that his patient was apparently getting over his wild imaginings. Complete recov ery might be expected. It was reassuring news. When he had left his bed and resumed the work of the farm, Jan Mesrik never mentioned his illness nor the events leading up to it. Nor did any of the family. It was several years before even George mentioned it again. (To Be Continued) By PETER EDSON Dally Herald Washington Correspondent Senator Theodore Gilmore Bil bo's amazing appearance this week before the state legislature of his native Mississippi to address it on the present condition of the world, the nation, and the sins of Washington has a pretty political tie-in. Politics in Mississippi being only one degree less strenuous than in neighboring Louisiana, it's not without national interest. Bilbo's invitation to address the state legislature came on an of ficial joint resolution of the Mis- sisippi House and Senate, which are winding up their sessions this month. There was a reason. Stories Stor-ies have been circulated in the state recently that "The Man" Bilbo was a sick man. That would be the work of his political enemies, en-emies, of course. These stories seem to have as a basis the fact that Bilbo has had to have his teeth pulled, but to that has been added the base slander that he had cancer. The idea behind the invitation to come to Jackson was simply to put "The Man" on public exhibition under the capitol gold dome and let all the state politicians see that he was not really half-dead, as had been reported. Also, it would give him an excellent excel-lent opportunity to try out his new store teeth in preparation for a possible filibuster against the antipoll tax bill which is to be brought up again in the Senate sometime soon. District of Columbia residents have called the gentleman from Mississippi half- a lot of other things, but they know for a cer tainty that he is not half -dead. He is, in fact, very much alive and kicking. He's the Mayor of Washington By right of a flimsy seniority, Bilbo has just assumed the position posi-tion of chairman of the Senate District Committee, a post which carries with it the honor of being mayor of Washington. Already, in the few short weeks he has been in this post, he has shown promise of giving the District the worst administration it has ever had. For instance, the solution on slums has been to move all the people out of the slums, and let them go someplace else. What happens to the people of the District is, however, of small moment to Senator Bilbo when stacked alongside his own politi cal destiny. And the Poplarville prohibitionist must run for re election in 1946. If that seems re mote, remember that in Mississippi the breath of steaming political enemies always blows hot on the back of the red neck of any man in office. That is why Bilbo drove from Washington to Jackson to show himself to his people. Yes, he went by automobile What about gas rations? Think nothing of it. This is a U. S. senator sena-tor on government business. It's done all the time. All they have to do is certify that they can't get train reservations, or that they'll need their cars to inspect some government project along the way. With An Eye On 1846 The story that Bilbo had gone by automobile from Washington to Jackson, a good 1000 miles, is attributed to Rep. Ross A. Collins, Col-lins, also of Mississippi. Collins and Bilbo are both honor graduates gradu-ates of Mississippi's school of po- Desk Chat Ordinarily, Police Judge W. A. Richmond of Tacoma, Wash, takes back-talk from no one. But the other day he took a blunt bit of impudence and decided to dismiss the charge, regardless of the merits mer-its of the case. A traffic ticket was long over- ue and the clerk of the police court sent a warning to the errant mot orist to come in and settle the matter or they'd come and get him. The motorist replied: "Roses are red, Violets are blue; I'm in the Army To hell with you." The only people who enjoy hearing hear-ing your troubles are lawyers . . and they get paid for it. All you've got to do, Do with all you've got. And then there was the woman wo-man who complained to the psychoanalyst: psy-choanalyst: "My family thinks there's something wrong with me, and it's all because I like buckwheat cpkes." "But there's nothing wrong about liking buckwheat cakes . . . I like them myself." "Oh, do you," gushed the patient pa-tient enthusiastically, "you must come up some day. I have seven trunks full." A word to the wives: A little praise every day will make a man work his fool head off. oOo Let us hope Churchill will not delay the allied invasion of West ern Europe until we will run the danger of shooting Russians com ing from the other direction . . . by mistake. Miss Ophelia, our dependable receptionist, and Nettie, our natty nat-ty typist, were discussing the new bov-fnend of one of their aDsent co-workers: "He looks like some thing she picked up in the Black Market." Our office boy, Sammy, went over to see his girl the other night. They decided to dance so put on a jiwy record and proceeded proceed-ed to 'cut a rug' . . . and as Sam my tells it, 'just as we was gittm in the groove, her old man came in, didn't say a word but grabbed me by the nape of the neck and gives me the bum's rush. I couldn't figure it so I called her up the next day and asked her what the big idea was, and she answered "Oh, Father is deaf and he couldn't hear the1 music." litical hard knocks. Way back in 1911, when Bilbo was running for governor and Collins was a candidate candi-date for attorney general, they stumped the state from the same budget. But, you ask, if they are such old associates, why should Collins be interested in seeing Bilbo exposed ex-posed as a gas burner? Simple. Collins would like to run for Bilbo's Bil-bo's seat in the Senate in 1946. What Collins probably doesn't want bandied about is that he himself him-self has gone by automobile from Washington to Mississippi several times in the past year. He has mentioned it openly to friends in Washington, and has even offered them rides if they were going that way. A profit is without honor in the black market. Women fainted in a rush to buy alarm clocks in Chicago. Without one of the clocks, we can tell that it's time for such women to wake up. We are now producing enough to provide every family in the United States with an income of $5000 a vear. We have demonstrated beyond doubt that we have it within our power to abolish poverty. Prof. Clair Wilcox of Swarthmore coi lege. New Site Sought For Postoffice At Pleasant Grove PLEASANT GROVE New and more commodious quarters to house the Pleasant Grove post-office post-office are eing sought by the postoffice department, following the inspection of the local office by Postal Inspector John M. Knudsen, Gheyenne, Wyo. Mr. Knudsen will receive bids from owners whewish to furnish quar ters until April 10. The government will take a 10-year leajre on property that is found to tj acceptable from the standpoint; Of location, accessibil ity, according to Postmaster Arn old Richlria. Bids may be sub mitted w(ih or without equip ment. The present postoffice has been badly inadequate for several years. The cramped quarters have not permitted efficient handling of the mail to give the patrons the service to which they are entitled. en-titled. The volume of mail handled by the local postoffice has nearly doubled in the last two years, it is pointed out. CHILD BORN ABOARD TRAIN CHICAGO, Macrh 28 (U.E) A sailor's ; wife and her one-day-old daughter, born aboard a transcon tinental tram, arrived here today and were taken to a hospital by the Red Cross. The mother is Mrs. E. W. Andrews An-drews Of 144 St., Napa, Cal. The baby was born Sunday somewhere in southwestern Wyoming and was attended by an army medicai officer and two nurses who were passengers on the train. America and capitalism are synonymous, and the individual kev to accomplishment in this land Both must be preserved, for freedom of enterprise is not a goal but merely a means of improving tne American way of life. Eric A. Johnston, president U. S. C. of C. Q's and A'sY'neyard A family dinner honored Lt. and Q What is tung oil? Mrs- Lewis F- VVeUs and a"Shter A Oil from the tune tree; used i aye, wno came Dy piane oaiur as a substitute for linseed oil. Q What is Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey's military mili-tary rank? A Major-General. Q WTiat are England's three major poltical parties? A Conservative, Liberal, Labor. Q What is the name and nationality na-tionality of the war exchange ship? A Gripsholm, Swedish. Q What is Harold L. middle name? A LeClair. Ickes' In 1943, 187 highway-railroad grade crossings were eliminated in the U. S. day from Roswell Field, New Mexico where Lt. Wells has been training at a B-17 transition advanced ad-vanced flying school for two months. He reported to Salt LaKe 18th air command Monday. The dinner was held at his parents home. Covers were laid for Mr and Mrs. Harold Bailey, and children chil-dren Corinne and Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Henrichsen and son Keith, Mr. and Mrs. Leland J. Wells, William and Wilda Wells, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Wells and the honor guests. Mr. and Mrs. Orvtl O. Stone and daughter Myrle and son Kay o: Lehi and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fenn of Provo were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joy O. Clegg Sunday. 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