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Show Starved Allied Soldiers Fresd I Kachin Hero Home jMiSgTlbln I Kids Govern OPA Office in Brooklyn for i Day All 8oQ tacludb tat fflcultu, Vbf tec;, An Members w ; nutrient. I When J "WAR fnnc ' JMTONKG. BOARDS , "eari colics Br when a araw l ifilllOUtViM Veterans Administration Has Capable Leader General Bradley lias Fatherly Interest in Veterans; Actions Show ills Ability to Administer This Big Job By BAUKHAGE Commentator and Newt Analyst K li"lw a. ' I ',V A? S " w ' i . I 'I i I M , ' .' U L ,' M-A . Iff J I! ? LI II ii L. tm .. h, . -J ' i f I B The physical condition of these two members of the British Royal iiferr i representative of thousands of Allied soldiers freed from "1 ipinfii jrison tamps by American troops. They are shown relaxing I the ksngirdeek of the CSS Black Island, one of the liberation ships iit ku been set aside to sea that former prisoners are rushed home. Dickie Gives Toots a Pedicure $ St ? r i "Dickie," eight-months-old pet parakeet, perches atop her canine yuate, "Toots," six-months-old puppy, as they frolic on the rug in tie home of their owner in Detroit "Dickie" seems to be giving Joots a'pedicure by the simple expedient of pecking at "Toots'" . This is a daily job which the parakeet has taken over for his paL Went Into Business for Himself Ifclf ,lpI,ola Kochek, was given a gun and went into business for him-t him-t ' rH ws Riven eredit for knocking out more tanks and killing le Ju t ndl nnderTrond. h, , iart!.7 , deserted army as he did 'Wialrteared him of charge. Hero Father 'hi t - ywyj4-A!.!ftW. ; " A ? 4x v - - 1 t . r-i Yashin J i?me p- s- Devereux, hero or Wake Island, returned to ' M.- "lnKUn, D. C and ia ahit m-.'4h M. .1a..mmM ann. "Paddv" I r !?? M they ,ef taUon. It was their first meeting in It.. 'cara onrinar whiVh tima t...n. ittannr of the i r m nable to send or reeeire wordte his proud sen. - 8h0wn wearmg the French beret. not like to peel potatoes. Court And Proud Son Capt Charles Coussonle, leader of the famed Kachin rangers, which snaked through swampy Burma jungles to beat the Japs at their own game, is shown upon his arrival in New York City. Musician Hath Farm Paul Whiteman, insert, and entrance en-trance to the farm of the erstwhile erst-while "King of Jazz." Whiteman has made a paying proposition out of his farm, which he has stocked with purebred cattle, horses and poultry. He does much of his own work. Enroute To Husbands ' Some of the hundred and twenty ! brides and twenty brides-to-be of members of Royal Australiar Air j Forces are shown as they arrived I in Seattle enroute to San Francis- i co. The delegation will embark j for Australia to 'oin their hus- ; bands and fiances whom they met in Canada. WMnded U CasterJ 'Skin" Parker, one of the ex perts at the Navy hospital at Seagate, Sea-gate, neaf New York's Coney Island, lends ,a helping hand, and teeth, to "Crip" Groves, ia preparing prepar-ing his tackle. fa -k : a a WNU Service, 1616 Eye St, N. W, Washington, D. C I have, just come back from a visit with the father of 15 million. That isn't such a far-fetched figure to use in describing the tall, rangy Missourian, who is in charge of "the biggest businesi in the world," which is how they describe the Veterans' Administration in Washington. To call Omar Nelson Bradley "father" of the service men and women isn't stretching it Ernie Pyle once said: "If I could pick any two men in the world for my father except my own Dad, I would pick General Omar Bradley or General Ike Eisenhower. If I had a son, I would like him to go to Bradley or See for advice." Ernie was a pretty keen judge of human nature on the hoof. I thought of that when one of Bradley's Brad-ley's co-workers in the Veterans' Administration, who is almost a decade older than the general, said "fatherly" was the way to describe de-scribe the manner in which he was treated the first time they had a problem to straighten out with the boss. And then I met the General. I found a weather-beaten, wiry, long-legged soldier, whose eyes twinkled brighter than the four stars on his collar. Fatherly, yes and 111 have a word about that a little later. But I found out something else. I found out why he ought to be able to run one of the hardest jobs in the government govern-ment And I'll admit, right off, it sounds almost too good to be true. We had been talking about the details of the reorganization of the agency which is now going on and -with which General Bradley is minutely familiar. Then I asked him what it was, if anything, in his military training and experience experi-ence that he could use in his present pres-ent positioft. He said that he thought it was the same with all jobs such as this. And here is the theory on which he works:, "First, build your organization on functional lines. Second, get the right man to head op each function. Third, give him full responsibility re-sponsibility to act on his own authority." au-thority." How, I inquired, does this tt in with your military experience, having had some of that branch of adventure myself although running a platoon isn't running an army. "It's a good deal like the army," he answered. "You have your staff. You have say 20 sections, each with a special function, working work-ing under your chief of staff. Sometimes, of course, you group some of the functions, but the organization or-ganization is along functional lines." And how, I asked, do you choose the men to head up these various activities? His answer came back without the slightest hesitation. "I choose a man, first for his ability, second for his loyalty and I count heavily on the loyalty. Get loyal men of ability and you've gone a long way toward solving your problems in any organization." organiza-tion." That sounded pretty good to me, but what about the present situation where, after all, there is always a Congress on Capitol Hill, a Congress with constituents who have votes and some of whom want jobs. I asked the General, what about politics T He didn't seem worried. He said that he hadn't had any trouble. "Fm not a politician," he said. "I never intend to run for office." That waa all he would say, but here ia a story I picked up later at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. A certain Congressman got a hot letter from a constituent who had been fired from the Veterans' Administration. No doubt with due cause. He hot-footed it up to the General and spoke, as legislators legis-lators often do to officials, with considerable vigor. "I want the man re-hired at once," the Congressman demanded. The General was polite but sorry. BARBS. ..6 Baukhage Mahomet went to the mountain. The Mikado went to MacArthur. This, it seems only fair to say, merely demonstrates the excellent judgment of all parties concerned. As I look back ever a few decades dec-ades I have enjoyed on this mundane mun-dane sphere, the only things I regret seem to be the things I missed. Ho stood by his decision. "If yon don't, I'll attack yon on the floor." "Go ahead," said Bradley, faintly recalling, I imagine, some of the attacks in Normandy. "Ill block your bills," said the irate Congressman. i That waa a horse of a different color. I "You willt" aaid the General "All right, and if you do that, Fll go to the President with my resignation. Hell get that or find a means to stop you." (Period.) We all knew about the General's Gen-eral's war record in Tunisia, on the Normandy beachhead, among the hedgerows, where he smashed a gateway at St Lo which made Patton's lightning drive possible. But we didn't know much about the man. Most of us didn't know he was from Missouri and later some of us might have suspected that that waa the reason why he was picked, although the President Presi-dent said it waa because he wanted a World War II soldier to take care of the wants of World War II veterans. Now we have some other reasons for believing that the choice was predicated on wise advice And is going to prove itself a fortunate one. On the horse-sense side, it is because Bradley has established a record as an administrator. He proved that in the army and had the acumen to see the chief fault in the veterans' organization and has set out to remedy it. On the emotional side well, Ernie Er-nie Pyle was right The trouble with the Veterans' Administration was that it grew so rapidly that it didn't have time to delegate authority. And there was another reason for this. It was built on what seemed a very sound theory. Let's take its services to the veteran. For instance, email hospitals were scattered all over the country, many Id little communities commu-nities where the veteran could get to them easily. But that didn't work out It was hard to get expert ex-pert medical men, good service and the latest equipment in the smaller communities and because the regional re-gional organization was spread so thin, it was necessary to have a strong hand in Washington. The result waa that the grip of that hand was so tight that the whole system was cramped. Bradley put his finger on the' situation (with the help of well-chosen well-chosen counsel) and reversed the former policy. Now it's "bring the veteran to the hospital." Bring him by rail or plane in an emergency, emer-gency, but bring him to a well-manned, well-manned, well-equipped center whose size and importance will attract at-tract the best there is in 'medical skill, when he needs specialized care. Hand in hand with this regional centralization of the medical facilities, facili-ties, the new organization has decentralized de-centralized the authority. As soon as Bradley looked over the set-up he said: "This is like having a 150 regiments regi-ments under one man. In the army that would be unthinkable. We'd break it down into corps and divisions at least" And so that is what was done. But first he made a sharp cleavage cleav-age between the medical organization organiza-tion and the rest of the activities. He created a new office, "Acting Surgeon General of the Veterans' Administration." And he appointed ap-pointed the best man he knew, Major General Paul Ramsey Haw-ley, Haw-ley, who had been chief surgeon for the European theater and did an outstanding job. And here I wonder if there wasn't one of those important unconscious un-conscious childhood impressions which helped. Bradley's middle name, Nelson, is for a well-loved family physician. And Bradley's fatherliness is attested to in his interest in the physical welfare of his men. Again and again war correspondents mentioned the fact that he planned engagements so that his troops would suffer the fewest casualties possible. He has an instinctive understanding of the afflicted. A lot of New Yorkers who had forgotten there were such things had to use stairs during the elevator ele-vator men's strike. And this did more for the calves than if they'd taken the ceiling price off of veal. Production of rulber heels is still behind demand But there are still more, of the other kind of heels than we need, I - H vWWiweJ IM.Vii.W i." I Photo shows the price panel in session, when the students of Midwoo4 High school took over the operation of the Office of Price Administration's local rationing board In Brooklyn's Flatbush section for a: day. For twelve hburs the enterprising youngsters ran the rationing and price control machinery, with, of course a little expert supervision by a regular aide to interpreting some of the knottier problems -. f ii , mi Customers crowd around the sidewalk atands In the Ginza District la Tokyo, which Is similar to New York's Fifth Avenue, Shopkeepers, their stores destroyed by bombs, set np their wares in the street, and ; carry on their 'business outside the wrecked buildings. In the background is the famous Jap Department Store, Takashimaya, where only two floors are now in use. ; ' ' , Wants to Cross j 1 4T tlksvl zvx,AZ j,ut'M& ' 't.?&4"k.'&'4liw '''a,, &4msAUA m& Because "It is inevitable that some day, someone will cross the Atlantic in a barrel," Mark Charlton, discharged Canadian army vet-ran, vet-ran, .wants to do it first He is shown with the barrel in which he plans to make the attempt Women's U. S. Softball Champions m. y w ' Si The Jai Maids of New Orleans drove to the World Softball Cham plonsbip to make It their third year in the last four that they have won the title. They wpn in 1942 and 1943. The bevy of beauties hammered out a win over the Toronto Crofton Club lassies by a score of 5 to 0, as Nina K organ of the Jax allowed but two hits. Photo , shows the Jax with their trophy. 7 Japanese Sidewalk Salesmen "k t Atlantic in Barrell L I 1 1 a ' j Mill fill' f ? 1 N t- ,1 ' ft J I 1 S 4' f 5 Had Kenny Treatment Mrs. John Rybolt, at home in Loa Angeles, after a year of the Kenny Treatment for Polio, ia shown as she greeted her children, Brian, 3, and Johnny, 6, while her husband looks on. Physicians say Mrs. Rybolt will be able to walk eventually with the aid of crutches. Opens Trade Parley r el Erie' Johnston. President of the IT. 8. 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