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Show THE PAGE TWO Thursday, October 26, 19 H NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- IP Helping Discharged Veterans Get Back to Work i 3 Kaiser Backs Drive for Large Turnout at Polls . In Regaining Old A job for every returning serviceman that is the present goal of the Selective Service System. With the armed forces at their peak authorized strength, the system has now only to induct enough men for replacements. Most of the energies of the huge organization can be directed to obtaining employment for men who are being released from the army or navy at the rate of 50,000 a month. By BAUKHAGE 4naysl and Commentator. Now what about this job business WNTJ Service, Union Trust Building, that voters have so much to do with? Washington, D. C. Mr. Kaiser's views on this subject and Commentators newspaper writers get a lot of free meals. Or will startle a lot of people. But they will not startle many at least they, are offered a lot of from people and organizations who of the members of the fraternity Mr. want something. So when I was in- big businessmen who, like butvited to attend a luncheon given by Kaiser, know that their bread is that for tered with the same spread the Nonpartisan Association Franchise Education, Inc., I won- covers the slice in the working dered. When I learned that Henry man's dinner pail. Mr. Kaiser believes in three prinJ. Kaiser, shipbuilder and entremore ciples: I was would be there, preneur 1. High wages. (This is a hot one Interested. for the tycoon to swalat all I must as I arrived late, low!) off the I luncheons, since don't get 2. Increased (That production. air until 1:15. I slipped quietly into the one vacant chair, for a stocky, isn't so terrifying.) 3. Low prices. (Another bombman in glasses was shell.) resome highly emphatic making These are necessary, he believes, marks accompanied by gestures Which go with what you visualize as to full employment which is in turn vital not only to prosperity but the the big - business - get - things only escape from depression, disdone executive. He was talking about the necessity sension and war. And what, I asked Mr. Kaiser, of "full employment" after the war. which we have to By the time the luncheon was are the things over I was another one of the people have to achieve full employment? who once having seen this human Kaiser Mentions dynamo of mass production in Production Needs action are almost afraid to talk Two essentials which he named about him. It requires just too many immediately were: first, competition superlatives. SecHenry Kaiser has lent his name to (that is, removal of monopoly). this franchise organization which I ond, "credit." ("And," his son, who mentioned because he believes that is one of Kaiser's expert associates, the only hope for democracy is a piped up from the end of the table, Job for everybody, and he believes "guts.") Mr. Kaiser told a number of that there is plenty of chances of a stories of how monopoJob for everybody if the everybody realizes the fact and then gets out lies had fought him, tried to keep and expresses his sentiments with him out of one business after another merely because they had ballots. want to face (Getting out the vote is the pur- monopolies and didn'tman who had competition with a pose of the Nonpartisan Association for Franchise Education, Inc., learned how to make money by pay t, ing high wages, producing efficient a corporation with headquarters at 16 East ly and selling at low costs. As to credit, the stories he tolr 62nd street. New York City.) Because President Roosevelt when would curl your hair. But Kaisei he was making his campaign speech didn't blame the banks or the ?r vestment trusts for refusing to leno to the Teamsters last month mentioned that Henry Kaiser was prescapital to pioneers. B' t le did ofTe' an intr ent, I thought Kaiser was coming a way out. He suggi-sU'out for the Democratic ticket. But mediate credit institution. An ei he is not. He was invited by the ganization which would lend mone-onew ventures, giving them. sa. teamsters to the dinner (with whom he has far more contacts than with a three-yea- r chance; if these ven the New Deal). He has no parti- tures showed a good record thei. san purpose in backing Franchise they would be normal investment foi Education, Inc. Many persons of banks. If private capital wouldn't go both parties are behind it simply because they believe in getting out into intermediate financing, let the the vote. government do it under the same And any thinking person realizes system as the Federal reserve systhe need for such an organization tem, says Mr. Kaiser. when he considers the facts. You But in the end the whole program can't have democracy if people don't comes back to jobs. A survey of his exercise the franchise and that is own workers showed that over 911 exactly what a lot of the people of per cent of them had saved money the United States do NOT do. The for investment and also showed that smaller the vote, the nearer dicta- the thing they wanted to invest in torship. first was what? An automobile'1 what he expected. But, no. That's Expect Less Than the answer was a home. But there Vote Half to Cast was a condition: some assurance of The Gallup poll indicates that security of a job. there will be a drop of 10 million I suppose Kaiser has built nearh In the vote in the national election e successful businesses (hi 40 mean would this year. That only said his shipyards had built half tht out a of possible million ballots cast f the man liberty ships in 88 million. hours they had been built before) In the Wisconsin primaries where and yet real distress came over his Willkie staked his presidential face when he began to talk about chances, only 33 per cent of the the tremendous possibilities for inpeople bothered to go to the polls. dustry in other lines as yet unIn New Jersey, with the exception touched. of one county (Mayor Hague's baili"Think of it," he said, pounding wick) only 15 per cent of the regis- the table, "58 per cent of the freight tered voters went to the polls in the cars in this country are 25 years recent primaries. In New York state, old. We could ship them all to China the votes dropped from 6,279,000 and build new ones. China would be In 1940 to 3,308.000 in 1943. glad to pay us in raw materials we This year there are 44.043,669 need." Some one asked him about surAmerican men of voting age. Nearly nine million of these are now in the plus property disposal and that lea armed forces and it will be hard to him back to ships. do anything at this late date to "Turn those we don't need I'll over to the countries stimulate them. Therefore, the buy some greater responsibility devolves upon that have lost all their shipping in the members of service families at the war, at a nominal rental if you will with the agreehome who can exercise their franment that these countries will buy chise. Five million families have moved, the type of ship from us they need following war industries. Some of when they can, and pay us in raw these have lost their votes but others materials." can establish new residence or regis"The trouble with us," he said, ter and vote by mail in their home "is that we measure values in doltowns. lars. It isn't dollars at all that matThere are millions of first voters ters, it's labor." (Rack to jobs coming up; this year 600. (VM) more again.) women than men are eligible to vote Finally, he had to nurry away to and women are laggard about car- an appointment. He shook our hands rying out this function. This year and begged each of us to help get there are great issues at stake and out the vote this year. "We ran make this country roll." America's is one of the few free elections going on In the world. he said, and then added with n So much for the bed rock facts smile "of course we'll have to wake bout voting. up some of the Rip van Winkles." Vitt'j -- two-scor- one-hal- Pineapples weighing 20 pounds are common in the New Hebrides islands in the South Pacific, reports the Associated Press. German school children have one or two days a week leave from school in order to collect itraw-berrand raspberry leaves and camomile flowers for the production of a tea substitute. . . along with "Wilson" by some U. Senators (for showing to troops over-seas- ), will be released any day. . . . The new stamp commemorating the defense of Corregidor was crayoned by Logan U. Reavis of Associated Press. . . . The Look publishers have been raiding all other mags for their new picture project to compete directly with Life. FIRST STEP In leaving the army Is this desk, where soldiers turn In their Identification tag and such papers as their service records, special orders, pay and deposit bonks. All men ta be discharged will go through this process, which will no doubt be m Joyous experience to most of them. Forty-eighours later, they will be free civilians again. As soon as they reach home, they report to their Selective Service local boards, where they will be assisted In getting their eld Jobs back, or In obtaining new ones. Judging from the way some gazettes pass over the crimes of the Axis, the only way for Russia to get treated well in the press over here Is to declare war on us. F1sf non-profi- lend-leas- Service System ready to help him. This division determines the overWhen the veteran who wants a new all policies for operation of the Selective Service Veterans Assistance job is discharged, he should report to his local board and explain his Program. The program in the states is un- desires. All of his qualifications will der the direction of the governors, be considered and he will be turned who have generally delegated to the over to one of the board's reemState Directors of Selective Service ployment committeemen. If the job desired is in an industry the duties of administering it. other than railroading, the commiLocal Boards Handle Program. Actual operation of the program, tteeman will take the veteran perhowever, will remain with the Se- sonally, or will arrange an appointThus, the same agency which has lective Service Local Boards some ment for him, with the proper repsent more than 10,000,000 men for 6443 of them in conformity with the resentatives of the Veterans' Em-induction into the Army, Navy, Madecentralized procedure which has ployment Division of the United rine Corps and Coast Guard, also is characterized the Selective Service States Employment Service, an serving them when they leave the System since its inception four years agency with some 1500 offices in the armed forces by helping them to ob- ago. At least one "reemployment nation which has been planning this tain reinstatement in their former committeeman" has been attached service for a rcamber of months. The to each of the local boards to assist U S E S, officials will carefully conpeace-tim- e jobs or by aiding in findin the work of veteran reemployeleran's desires and his sider t ing new positions for them. This agency mainqualified, ons. Congress, by law, has provided ment. that veterans discharged after havThese committeemen are individu- tains records of all different types of ing completed successfully their pe- als who are well qualified to know jobs that are open and is in a posi- riod of training and service are entitled under most circumstances to their old jobs back, or to assistance in obtaining new ones if they want them. The duty of carrying out this mandate has been placed upon the Selective Service System, which is cooperating with a number of other agencies such as the United States Employment Service and the Veterans' Administration. Even now, before cessation of hostilities, the program is well under way, for the armed services are discharging an average of some 50,000 men each month men who are anxious to get back into their civilian I -- -l '1 V 11 - A v work which was interrupted for them At war. of the present, by problem placing the men back into their old jobs or into new ones is not a difficult one, since industry still is IT'S GOODBYE TO THE ARMY for these soldiers who are entering geared to wartime standards, and can absorb the returning veterans the Fort Dix, N. J., separation center, where they will spend their last with comparative ease. But the 48 hours of military life. This two day period is needed for the completion of mustering out routine, during which the men receive their disproblem will become infinitely larger and more complex when either charge papers. The "separation center" is the reverse of the induction partial or total demobilization be- center. gins. Can Get Old Job Back. the labor situation within the com- tion to advise the veteran of the By provisions of the Selective munity served by the local board; opportunities available in them. A Job for Every Soldier. Training and Service Act as amend- they are acquainted with industrial The Selective Service Local Board, ed, a veteran is entitled to reinstateexecutives, civic organization leadment in his former position or to a ers, labor ISaders, county agents and even then, will not consider that its position of like seniority, status and others who will be in a position to responsibilities to the veteran have assist in the reemployment pro- ended, but will keep following the pay, if: 1. Such position was in the employ gram. case and using every effort to see of a private employer, the United The program as now set up operthat he is placed in a job. In each state, the United States States Government, Its territories or ates substantially as follows: Upon his discharge the veteran Is Employment Service, under the War possessions, or the District of Coinstructed to contact his local board Manpower Commission, has appointlumbia; 2. Such position was not a temwithin 10 days. Obviously, if he is ed .a veterans' representative who is certain he can return to work at his supervising the employment interporary one; 3. He left the position subsequent old job, no further assistance will ests of the veterans at the local ofto May 1, 1940, to enter npon active be necessary. However, he must re- fices of the U.S.E.S. A local vetermilitary or naval service in the land port to the local board, taking along ans' employment representative has or naval forces of the United States; with him his army papers (or Navy, been designated in each employment 4. He satisfactorily completed his Marine or Coast Guard, as the case office to perform at the local level period of training and service and may be) including the discharge cer- duties similar to those performed received a certificate to that effect; tificate so his new status can be by the state veterans' employment 5. He is still qualified to perform recorded by the board. representative at the state level. the duties of such position; If there is some reason why his Since the United States Employment 6. He makes application for rereinstatement in his former posi- Service maintains contacts with ememployment within 40 days after he tion may present difficulties, bis lo- ployers throughout the country, it is Is relieved from service, and cal board and its reemployment com- in an advantageous position to as7. Such position Is in the employ mitteemen are prepared to assist sist the veteran. of a private employer, the employSome returning veterans doubtless him. er's circumstances have not so After the veteran discusses his will prefer a job with the Federal changed as to make it impossible or problem with the reemployment com- Government. In such instances, the unreasonable to reinstate the vet- mitteeman, the latter will make ev- veteran's Selective Service Local eran to such position or a position of ery effort to obtain the veteran's Board will refer him to the nearest like seniority, status and pay. reinstatement. He may contact the United States Civil Service office or Other provisions protect the vet- employer to explain to him proviany first or second-clas- s postofftce eran even after he has been re- sions of the law requiring the vet- where all necessary information stored to his job. When he goes back eran's reinstatement, or he may conmay be obtained. A veteran is enonto the payroll, the law provides tact any number of civic, local or titled to five points preference in an that: labor agencies that will be in a posi- examination for appointment and a 1. He shall be considered as havd tion to help. veteran with disIt is anticipated that in a majority ability is entitled to 10 points. ing been on furlough or leave of absence during his period of service; of cases only minor difficulties will Assistance to Farmers. 2. He shall be restored without be experienced. But it is recognized Whenever a veteran is interested loss of seniority; that some differences of opinion, in establishing himself in an agricul3. He shall be entitled to particisome disputes, are bound to arise in tural activity, he will be referred to pate in insurance or other benefits cases where employer's circum- the County Agricultural Agent who offered by the employer pursuant to stances have changed, or where is qualified to explain the benefits established rules and practices re- there is an honest question whether available to the veteran who delating to employees on furlough or the veteran is now qualified to per- sires to make a career of farming, or leave of absence in effect with the form the job he formerly held. is interested in its associated job In all of these eventualities, the opportunities. employer at the time such person entered military or naval service, local boards and the reemployment The War Food Administration, and committeemen will attempt to work through the cooperative Agricultural 4. He shall not be discharged from out a solution agreeable to both par- Extension Service, has arranged for such position without cause within ties. advisory groups in each agricultural one year after surh restoration. Law on Veteran's Side. county which will give advisory asThe Selective Service local boards If all avenues of approach have sistance to all veterans interested in are to assume the task of been exhausted without success, and agriculture, and who express a need veteran reemployment. In their files it still appears the veteran should be for assistance. Such assistance will include advice they have a complete record of their reinstated under provisions of the experience with the veteran from law, further measures will be taken. as to types of farming, amount of the time he registered until the day The veteran's case then will be tak- capital required, sources of credit, he was forwarded for induction. The en by the local board to the State size of units necessary to maintain record includes details as to his Director of Selective Service, who satisfactory standards of living, sound operating policies and simicapabilities in civilian employment. may forward it on to National HeadHis service records also are turned quarters to be turned over to the lar matters as well as current job over to the board by whichever Department of Justice. information. branch of the armed forces with Or. if the veteran desires, he may In summary, good advice to the which he was connected. employ his own attorney and file veteran, regardless of the nature of These local boards, therefore, are suit in the United States District his problem, is this: Take it up first well acquainted with the veteran. In Court for the district in which the with your Selective Service Local addition, they are familiar with the employer maintains his business. Board. , bald-heade- d BRIEFS. hi Local Boards Find New Jobs and Aid Election of Enterprising Officials Assures Program for Full Productivity, Famed Shipbuilder Tells Countrymen. FLOUNCED curtains are attrac-- 1 tive for any informal room. They are often made all of one material in chintz, swiss or organShould he not wish to employ his die but here four different colors ot employment situation in their own own counsel, the veteran may bring communities. plain glazed chintz are used. Thu The Congress, in the Selective the case to the attention of the Unitcolors suggested - in the sketch Suit Blue From a Lint Serge ed States District Attorney. blend well and also would be pretTraining and Service Act, instructNew Torkers and others planning The discharged veteran who had ed the Director of Selective Service with flowered wallpaper in an ty winter this Beach to visit Miami to set up a personnel division to no job when he entered the service, older girl's room. Red, white and and "will be sleeping in churches flounces with a red valance blue supervise veteran reemployment. and who now wants one, or the vetSuch a division was established, al- eran who bad a job when he was schools," according to the president Ass'n. Hotel Miami the of Greater one new now wants a inducted but though to avoid confusion as to its film, . . . The Fibber McGee specific functions, it was named the rather than to return to his former Personnel Division." position, also will find the Selective "Heavenly Days." briefly outlawed "Veterans' S. Part of Selective Service System's Duties Is service-connecte- e well-fitte- d ! Uauhhnzc One of the grcit Mayan crops ir Middle America is manihnt, or tapi oca, made from the starchy run' yucca. Centuries ago the M.iyat learned how to Krate the mot anc squeeze the pulp in a basketry ires; and thus remove the toxic juice how to press the pulp into c.ikos anr beat them until all the remaining volatile poison was driven out Tht end product was cassava bread. t , M h i '' ' vim. v,CK r Gay Windows for Children's Room t 1. jL - r t m ,i t, it Gerald L. K. Smith, testifying before a congressional committee, said and between Dewey choosing Roosevelt is like choosing between a thug and a robber. If Smith isn't careful, Herr Goebbels will sue him for plagiarism. . . . Editor and Publisher's survey revealed that only 20 per cent of the papers are for FDR and that 10 states haven't a single Roosevelt gazette. When a Nazi war prisoner died on an American ship returning here it was decided to bury him at sea when' an hour after the black-ou- t the garbage was dumped too. Several of the accounts in the papers about the "Under Cover" author being ejected from Gerald L. K. Smith's press conference by the frightened Smith, exposed by the author, appeared to overlook the big point in the story. Instead of belittling author John Roy Carlson for being kicked out, why didn't they emphasize his heroism in going unescorted right into the enemy's booby trap? Love Letter: "Dear W. W." writes correspondent Ray Josephs, who covered South America and put it in a new click called "Argentine Diary," "Buenos Aires has a new newspaper an underground paper. In which its big feature is a col'm titled: 'El Wnchel de la Argentina.' The name was suggested when they learned you uncovered many a raw deal in the U. S. A. "Practically all the dailies there have been gagged and d by the gov't, so that underground papers have sprung up everywhere. 'Winchel' gives out with the inside stuff in back of every move made by the Fascist chiefs at the Casa Rosada (Argentina's pink White House). He prints documents suppressed by officialdom, tells the facts deleted by censors and exsecrets of Juan poses the Peron, Mussolini imitator, and No. 1 man in Argentina. The are going loco trying to learn where this new 'Winchel' gets his stuff. Caught reading him means the concentration camp at Patagonia. This is your monument in Argentina." i WIDTH OF Fl nilNPFS 3ft DEPTH tSLENGTH OF WINDOW 5"- CUT VALANCE 4 DEPTH OF FLOUNCES would be good looking for a boy's room. All the directions needed for making are given in the sketch. The lattice screen painted in the curtain colors is a precaution against broken glass in a play room and is also very decorative. A wide shelf with scalloped edge nailed over the window sill gives extra space. NOTE The folding play table in this sketch forms the top of the toy chest when the legs are folded back. The chest and table are made with pattern No. 252 which also gives a full size stencil pattern for the decorations. The curtains in this sketch book MAKE are from the new which Mrs. YOUR OWN CURTAINS for readers. Pattern Spears has prepared and booklet are IS cents each. Address: e MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford Hills Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for book "Make Your Own Curtains" and 15 cents for Pattern 252. Name Address strait-jackete- la big-sho- How Sluggish Folks Get Happy Relief Our best unreliable source from Berlin Just airmailed the following flarsh. It seems that Adolf and Goer-in- g had a tiff, again. Adolf spotted a new medal on Hermann's uniform and said: "How many times, Hermann, I told you dot you must not vare more mettles dan me? Vy you varing von extra mettle, hah?" mein Fuehrer," whined "Oh, Goering, "diss is not a new mettle diss iss my America First button!" Add tough breaks: Dean Hudson, band leader, lost out on a sponsored auto program. Because his name was the same as another car . . . Dinah Shore is the victim of a wild rumor which has made her miserable, despite the acclaim of overseas troops she entertains. She is happy with her marriage . . . Former AP correspondent Mark Barron who was stricken in Ethiopia and couldn't recover over there is fully mended since he was inducted. He is now a commando! There will be no fanfare about it, but the British military is about to hold its first in the U. S. . . . A British officer is the defendant. The case will be heard in New York and, for security reasons, in camera. . . . But the verdict, when approved by the British War Office, will be made public in makes yon feel punk as the dickens, brings on stomach sour taste, gassy discomfort, tako upset, Dr. Caldwell's famous medicine to quickly and Eull the trigger on lazy "innards", yon feel bright and chipper again. DR. CALDWELL'S is the wonderful senna luanve contained in good old Syrup Pepsin to make it so easy to take. 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