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Show I n Dm DMr t i . Nawt l las UU A I City. Utat -- t Jl JL. fwllueyser: Merryle - By The late Stanley Rukeyser Henry R. Seager, eminent . Columbia University j savant, used to envisage an economist as n social interpreter. The need for auch classless . scholarship is now greater than ever. j M ' With a' number of corporations January 3, 1946 We stand for the constitution of the United States with- Its three departments of government as therein set forth, each one fully independent in its pjyn field.. - A Little Coordination Would Help . "THERE came into our office the other day a Salt Lake attorney who had been to the eoatt and just 'returned from a "port Jammed with men anxious to get home. They had been anxious ' for weeks, but when jthey reached port and discovered that they could not get home for Christmas, they were really angry and let their feelings be known. Loud. were their oomplalnts over the inability of transportation companies to handle the traffic and get those returning veterans with their loved ones for the ' holiday season. But this attorney arrived in Salt Lake firmly convinced that the railroad companies were not to blame for the. traffic Jam which made it impossible for thousands of veterans to reach their destinations as early as they had anticipated. In fact, he laid the blame squarely on the military officials, .and said lie could see no reason for delay in moving the men from the coast ports. On the train bringing thls man home,' .he declared, there must have beea 230 empty Seats that might have been occupied by anxious veterans if it had not been for military red tape. Many' berths also were empty, it was declared. Now if this condition is customary on the trains traveling east from the coast, and if there are . many empty seats on those trains, something is , S fd i radically wrong with the manner In which the military officials are handling the transportation problem for the returning men. And if something is wrong, it should be corrected as' soon as possible. To a layman, such carelessness and inef- ficiency seem inexcusable. ' The men who are"' coming home are men who have won, the .right-t- o return to their homeland after .serving their country well on foreign soil. They .did their Job efficiently, and those who sent them over found plenty oL ways of taking care of traffic Jams at that time. Now that the war is over and these young men have been found eligible to return to this country, they should be moved Juft expeditiously as thejf were when headed in the other direction. If there are transportation facilities available which the military failed to use, this should not be permitted to happen .. again. - Coordination and cooperation are needed in a time like this,' and if all concerned are not ing the best they can to get the boys home; the weak spots should be strengthened. ' Trains should not be traveling with scores of empty seats and berths, while thousands of servicemen wait on the coast for transportation facilities to move them. The military officials charged with the duty of moving the men as rapidly as possible should try to discover what is wrong and correct it : er SoHolsky: ed Revolt of the Masses ation! of the law of nature by pulling down. It Is not a comBy George E. Sokolsky As we begin a new year, let petition for a higher life bat .the biologist the geologist the us pause In our recital of events, a demand for n life at level, chemist the physicist and all the deeds, quarrels, propaganda this . . vpon such a level where even other workers in the vineyards of science. Facts come upon us way and that Let ua pause in the crudest, the least compeour attempt to understand litUa tent, the least efficient, the too quickly. We cannot absorb them. We fail to fit them into things while we face the revolt - least educated and well-bre- d . our moral system. They overawe of the masses. Perhaps it Is become the equal of all. America introduced the idea ua. They reduce man to the equal more exciting to watch a strike, animalcule. If really we are just as a railroad wreck is more of equality of all before the law, of an molecule and atoms, withbut there could be no assump- only shocking than the motion along millions of miles tion that all human beings are out what used to be called soul, of railroad of thousands upon equal in ability, in character, in' heart tha holy spirit; If man la biologic but not a moral being thousands f trains. It Is the sur- genius. It recognized equality of life is Indeed a futility. - Why prise that makes the first page opportunity but not equality of strain at every strew if we are of newspapers, that the radio auch advantages ts come from broadcaster, shrieks In staccato achievement. Even the bene- to be counted as - the census and in the Hashes. But the long process of ficiaries of a prior generation of counts -- end to be reduced to not rebellion accomplishment-coul- d nothingness a changing society,-o- f themselves against the by an atomic bomb or D.D.T.? among the generations is not rethis concept of man Against corded with current regularity, competition of those who push- ' Such moving event as the strug- ed up from what used to be we straggle. And the battle takes on thousand phases. gle between science and relig- celled "nothing" to position and Hitler needed population and ion, which act off the chain of wealth. For three centuries ao he told hie women to pro- -, change that marks our age, la America had lived that way. Today that pattern has become duee as the manager of an auhardly noted as each day some tomobile factory require his facade of our ancient structure, unsatisfactory to millions of our workers to make more can. called western civilization, is people, as it la to most of the Love, marriage, the joint obll- has new apdoctrine A world. chipped off and la reduced to ' rubble. gallon before God of parent- in nearly every country. peared - The hood, respect for parent these very word, masses, is The new doctrine is thit mere not of ear world. It Is perhaps birth is a sufficient reason for are ancient forma which frigid acienee in its Nail stag reject-- Asiatic; it is not Christian. the total satisfaction of personal For western elvlllastiua, which -- needs. Productivity does mot -- ed. But net the Nasir alone, -tome call Christian, eannot count.' Work does not count risked this confusion. We all risk It, because we have beknow of masses; It deals only Achievement does not count with a soul, with one individOnly existence counts. For we come overwhelmed and eon- are no longer individuals. We fused by what we call facts, ual creature of God, one per' which while true are not the son, one human being. The are parts of n mass. not objective, total truth mast is an amalram in which This has nothing to do with . the lowest eommon denomCommunism or Fascism. It is a ' truth. The revolt of the masses is a symotom of the science inator pulls everything down deeper struggle. It is the result to its lowest level. It repre- of a prolonged accumulation of of sociology functioning without the guldane of moral law. sent not a pulling up but a,. detailed knowledge of the oper , day-by-d- sy pine-bore- long-defen- rs, d - --- pLIo Roses in the Old DovIs The old annual Rose Bowl cCntest is over,' let the petals fall where they may. It has always been my argument that a Student was a tackle with a sprained ankle. There has Been plenty of tough football this last hori- -' season. zontal But I claim you V dont know I s Lulu like know Lulu unless you ere old enough to have been in the Flying Wedge. ; 4 The i Flying Wedge was Bugs" Baer really rough stuff with pepper sauce. That play was good only on the- kick- f. It was the original v facsimile gave the receiver plenty of time to pack the ball under hit arm, lower his head and bristle bis shoulder blades. And .also enough time for the other ten thugroids to line up in front of him with five men on a aide. They formed the Flying Wedge, which should have been labeled the Galloping Chisel. Off they went down the field holding on to each other's belts like elephants in a parade. The turnip with the ball ankled along In the middle. He was held there by capillary attraction, the force of circumstance and a morbid - . curiosity. It required but one chalk line -jore for the wedge to gather momentum like a fire In a mattress factory. Any player whO got in front of that twenty-tw- o legged monster was rolled up like a magazine in the parcel . . post. The Flying Wedge was Impervious to editorial and killed a. Lets say the boot arched to lot of men before it was legisten-yafi"J or line. That lated loos from sport by public -- -- '.A , - V-f- or L-re- of. li rd . By Arthur 'Bugs' Baer It was ruled off the trampled turf just when the opinion. progressive coaches were figuring on putting portable cowcatcher on the man In front When you figure the combined weight of the Flying Wedge as a long ton, add the impetus of toss in aggregated a jigger of oblivion, sprinkle a dash of concentrated homicide and bring it to a fast boil, you can readily gander that the information was no minority report of disgruntled shareholders. When the Flying Wedge - got to the fifty-yaline it was no place to exchange fraternity pins. By that time it was rolling like house dice. When the other side worked it I never was silly enough to toy and stop it Many is the time I tipped my hat to the Flying Wedge as it thundered by on the high iron. - Now the play is outlawed. Well, It isnt the first time that a historic battlefield was turned into a picnic grounds. rd -- by' disagree- -- . . able-bodi- itaUed" ne-sid- ed How Pig Is A Handicap? tlnues to say: "You .can take even an fnslgnifi-- 1 cant one (handicap) and let your imagination play with it until it scares you into hysterics. Or you can take a really serious handicap and almost make yourself forget that it exists. It Isnt the handicap that should cause you concern its your imagination. That is the monster you have to conquer and tame. This is something that no wounded veteran should lose sight of, for to do so is to bring almost certain failure. 'Menla wheelchairs have become leaders in business and the professions, while their comrades in perfect health and without a physical blemish have gone down to ignominious failure. .. As an example of what' may be accom- plished by a person seriously handicapped from a physical standpoint the writer told of a man who was about as complete a physical wreck as he had ever seen.HU limbs were so gnarled and twisted .that he practically bad no use of them. He could hardly write his name, he was moved about in a wheelchair km. he had tohave ha wai a omeone dress and undresa hlm.'-Xe- t insurance salesman and far outdistanced man in that business. many an These are things that the disabled veterans should keep In mind when they are inclined tox. became melancholy. . No handicap la any bigger than a person permits it to be, and thousands hava made their handicaps stepping stones to a . - notable success. Union has convinced me' mere than ever of a need for the appro-- elation of the importance of good personnel management at all levels.. I have for several yean felt that management at all levels should have a concept of their job, whereby each level of management tries to prove Itself to the next lower level of . management or workers. This respect should he sought by each level of management as a ternary objective, rather than the reaPct the next higher level. If each level earned the respect of the next lower strata in management and worker groups, it should gain the respect of the level above itaolf almost automatically, because of the outstanding results obtained in its own operation. The workman would thus be assured that his interest is truly represented in all levels of management from his foremen up to the board of directors. This application' of such a philosophy would be a aura way to achieve a harmonious working of management and worker. It should thereby be the goal of all staff personnel people to inculcate this spirit in all line supervisors. , It is unfortunately common experience that more supervisors do more to court favor of their own superior than they do' to cultivate end earn the respect of the people they supervise. . . . The finest compliment I have eyer had was from an employe who said that she (and others in the same position) felt .that I had always been the employes men first, and the corporations man i ment, there is too much tendency at this time to cater to the prejudices and preconcep- tions of one group or the other. Henry Carey, of the Phila- delphia School of Economists, wisely preached that national prosperity hinges on the harmony of interests of aU producing groups. That is the very antithesis of 'the destructive Marxian doctrine of class war. fare. Management, when facing trouble, should tint look for the mote In It own eye. -- -, ; - It should reexamine its personnel policy, and determine whether It is psychologically, as well a economically, sound. meets both If it tests; then in the spirit of management ahonld wherein It failed to merchandise a good policy to -- -its employes. . For a number of years, management was handicapped by a interpretation of the agner act which precluded fiee communication of ideas to employes. Lawyers now interpret prevailing decisions to give management. the right to communicate to their employes. An Illinois reader of this second. Boiled down, it can be column, who is now in business for himself but who was reasonably f stated that neither formerly an executive of a management nor labor has pracwell-knonational- - corpora' ticed the golden rule, or realized that personnel management is tion, writes about the impasse from the management" viewpoint - of an insider. - He points out that levels of man. agement make the mistake of ruc trying to please those above-- 1 . them Instead of attempting to . ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) er His timing was oft but deal constructively with groups them. David Hansen played year-ol- d From a slightly different view the role of. Young 1946 with point, L. P. St. Clair, former glee early Jan. 2 in e department chief executive of the Union store display window. The baby, garbed only ln hi . Oil Company of California, once told me that management errs sleeping clothes, pranced and In delegating personnel dlrec- - smiled at a awitfly gathering tion to a glorified clerk. Mr. crowd until his mother, whose St Clair expressed the view apartment adjoin, the store, and trailing him through that handling otmen .should be-, awoke the responsibility of top man- an unlocked door, snatched him from the window. agement. I have read your column in Take Home the Bacon n, the Chicago HASTINGS, Nebr. (AP) the Illinoia reader writes, off and on for the., past several All during the war a customer at meat market joshyears, and your comments on one Hastings labor relations have always ed his butcher by walking into-t- he shop and calling out loudly, been interesting, and challenging. May I offer congratula- - ' 10 pounds of bacon, please. The other day after he mad tions on the enlightened viewpoint you have shown and ad-a- his customary request, the butch- -; slab of er produced a vocated. . . My recent work with the j bacon. . Then the customer was -- War Department in the top forced to talk his way out of level of personnel management making the $4 purchase. - - I "THE other day we were thinking of the thou- sands hundreds of thousands of young Americans who were maimed and crippled in World War Et, and we thought of the disadvantages which might be theirs in the years ahead. Then came the recollection that many men and women who have made outstanding successes in literature, the arts, or in the business and professional worlds, have suffered from physical handicaps that might deter persons made of weaker stuff. Finally there came to our attention an article in a recent issue of "Your Life" magazine, written by Ross L, Holman, in which the statement was jnade. that "a .handicap - is as big or as little as you make' it." Consider those words for a moment and see how true they are. A handicap is as big or as little as you make it" How frequently we feel sorry for ourselves because of some drawback that is ours. We envy someone else who seems to be in a more favorable position from a financial or social standpoint than ourselves, or we think how fortunate someone is whose physical than ours, condition appear to be much-bettand thgn one day we get into conversation with that person. In a half hour wa .have decided, after hearing his problems, that we are the ones to be envied, end we begin to have a more rational outlook on life. In the article referred to, Mr. Holman con- - Managem.nt, Policies il Flashes of Life two-und- YAere Some of fhe Dirt Went tgnlQI; The Story of the Refugees By Westbrook Fegler capital to plead for this power daubers and fiddlers, and Rusthe ground' that unless it sia, that land with no prejuNEW YORK There seems on were granted, foreign dignitar-- 1 dice! and plenty of work and to be no legal nhicctinn to Mr. Molotov and Mr. .living room,forlL-unde- ra ident Truman -- decision Churchill, - for- example, would - cerULaeoncept of freedom, c immigration ahali bo resumed b vexed nd discomfited going cepts no immigrants whatever Pri. that - under the quota system, but he through the regular routine at r our immigration stations and we would .have would have to pay ourselves a made a better f head tax of $8 on each prisoner impresaion and of war brought here for keephonesty would ing, All this was sheer fakery Rave-be- en intended to legitimize the acserved if he tion which, as to the 981, Mr. had resorted to Roosevelt later took arbitrarily the same hypoi' and without a shred of legal critical imposijustification. tion on our This is no discussion of the a y m p a t h iei desirability of these persons that was emas immigrants.' Their desirabilployed by hi ity, according to the usual late predecesstandards, has not even been sor when he considered and the adults, men decided to ad and women both, for all . we mit the Osweknow, may be Communists, so 1944. go party in June, many of whom in Europe were Mr. Roosevelt said That a traitors to every land but Rusgroup of 1000, whom be had arsia and so many of whom art bitrarily decided to Wvlawyers, doctors, musicians, would be predominantly worn- - writer and artists. For that an and children. They were, in matter,' we have no way of fact, predominantly adult males protecting ourselves if a Comend not predominantly toilers, munist does manage to put his name on a list and has friends but lawyers, doctors, musicians, writers,' artists, shopkeeper and here er in our consular servnumThe ice who will use their influbusiness men. party bered 981, only 200 of whom ence to advance him, a often were women and children, and, happened in the years Just after the other war. A little graft on the basis of past perform- -' is helpful too. ; ance, it may ba assumed that We cant legally examine the new quotas will be made up politics any more than we o, about the same elements. The their basis for individual selection can question them, on religious never was made known to the subjects, although we might ara- - Nazi or Fascist public and the reasonable as- bitrarily reject undesirable for having sumption was that pull was the. as being while flat feet accepting a Commost important qualification. munist with tuberculosis or Within .three months after worse,- Tha important point her these refugees had arrived for is that they were admitted on ' in at Ft. Ontario, segregation fraudulent representations backsafe and comfortable quarters ed by fraudulent promises which and living conditions Incomare now admitted to have been those than parably better no more sincere than Wendell which they had escaped, agiWillkies memorable campaign to their tation began advertise talk, in all a very bad example American misery because the of their first dealings with the nation, who had saved them government of their adopted land from horrors and possible and not a very good example for death in postwar Europe, us natives, either. The government should not merely insisted on observance of a minor portion of. tha lie to us as did Mr. Roosevelt bargain which they had. joy- -- and Mr. Truman shouldnt have aid that it is hoped that, the ously accepted. ' It was agreed that they ahonld stay at their majority of the new immigrants eamp and they accepted our will be orphaned children," when asylum on those terms, but he knows it simply isnt so and the harsh Americans seen knows we knew it when he said heard that they were In someit. Mr. Truman suggests that the thing like a Nasi concentraUnited States will not be in n tion camp, lacking, of course, . very good position to urge oththe gaa chambers, the. medical experimental laboratories, the er countries to admit refugees if brown shirts with dog whips we admit none ourselves. In that and the deliberate program of however, he Ignores the hordes starvation, and wero pining of refugees who were admitted illegally as visitors who never for freedom. be sent back and whose Now, Mr. Truman announces will that it would be inhumane and number has deliberately been wasteful to require . these peo- concealed from the native resihave dent citizens who ple to go back to Europe to an interest In thncertainly matter and apply for immigration visas and should have some voice, too. that the immigration status of Moreover, this countrys need ie those who wish-- to stay here will not mufor mor writers, artists, h. f.' ician and the like, these being occupations of the Com-th- at Mr. Roosevelt not only said favorite munista everywhere, but for these 981 would be predomi- - more worker and, meanwhile, nantly women and children. a we import and export, by season, it never was intended that they thousands of Mexicans and be, but added upon tor- - Damians with no thought of of the war they will , them aettie. be setback to their homelands" tingstill, moreover, Australia ' fcgain, as It never was so In- and Africa could absorb liter- tended. ally millions of new settlers. So the American peoples part not necessarily pamphleteers, of the bargain waa kept faith- fully, but the parties of the othe- rpart, were not required to live up to a single article of the deal. Prior to this, Mr. Roosebewas The velt had tried to persuade Con- cause turkey it was thought to have gress to abandon immigration come from Turkey. It is an restrictions absolutely by giving American bird, and was not inhim executive power to admit troduced into Europe before 1530. all applicants. This; too, was masked With false pretenses, for The new Academy was a school Mr. Biddle, hi attorney general of Greek philosophers, the sue of the time, was sent up to the aeessors and exporters of Plato. '' but only takes captives. The United States has less need of immigration, particularly of these callings, than any other land on earth and our own experience, although sopiewhat lesa painful than that of France, which was similarly careless, shows that too many of the ap- plicanta rather disapprove of our way and would move quickly energetically to make us over into a dictatorship of one kind or another. This kind would be happier in Russia, anyway. Herald-America- nd -- uthf1 idnl OIMrs wanli ski o o i if; - . - but... BUY THEM OUT OF INCOME Holdyour Bonds until maturity When you buy borne appliances, ask your dealer for Walker. Bank plan financing. Then yon can. pay monthly out of income and hold your savings account and war bonds for future use, Theres no red tape, no delay when you use this bank loan plan. Your dealer handles all the do tails, and costs are moderate. 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