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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER After Peace Comes, What? Committee for Economic .mgm ftWiiiio Development Seeks Ways to Maintain Employment DREW 2L. Survey of Communitys They tell you that long before he was elevated to the position he now occupies, Jim Byrnes was always successful in getting FDR to read his memos to the White House. Because his notes were never longer than four lines. Byrnes learned his lesson the first time when he submitted a windy report to the President. Did you read it? he inquired. Head it? said FDR, I couldnt even lift it! Lieut. Comdr Jack Dempsey was He told about Mike reminiscing. admirer who was Trent, a long-tim- e in his group when he was training for his fight with Comdr Gene Tun-neMike was sent over to scout the Tunney training camp to bring Dempsey information of value on Tunneys style and hitting power. Mike returned breathless. Its a set-uI seen him he reported. readin a book! y. The Stork Clubs host, S. Billingsley, is also renowned for sending gifts to customers and others. The cragifts usually are rainbow-hue- d vats. One recipient replied: Many, many thanks for your thoughtfulness. Its the first time, and what a relief, that the Stork ever brought me ties! Eddie Cantor." In Scribners rare book dept, says the Sat. Review of Literature, a customer asked Nick Wredin: "How is this volume bound? Genuine calf, he said. How was that again? Calf genuine calf! What did you say? Nick threw back his head, closed his eyes and roared: Moo! well-groom- The Sunday N. Y. Times radio section reports the reaction of listen0 ers to WJZ's new transmitter of watts . . . One New Hampshire listener is quoted: Its been our pet gripe (in our neck of the woods) that WJZ had such excellent programs, yet was the only major station that simply could not be heard with any degree of ease. Why, Sunday evening we could even hear Winchells tonsils quiver. 50,-00- New York Novelette: This is one that sweep the town now and then, and everybody always knows the woman it is supposed to have happened to. But when you ask them to name names they say they mustnt Because they cannot . . . Anyhow, a woman was talking to a friend on the phone, explaining she couldnt meet her beA strange cause of a cold, etc. third voice broke in and said: Madam, I am a doctor. I suggest you try this prescription for your throat. Whereupon he offered it . . . She asked his name He replied: You will never know that! And So a few nights got off the line later at a party she was amazed to hear a man at the table relate the He was the doctor! incident . . . The woman said nothing . . . She got his phone number from the hostess . . . Next day she called him saying she was the lady with the cold. She thanked him for the prescription . . . Who are you? he asked . . . Youll never know, she cooed, hanging up. of those stories ... ... ... ... Will Mahoney, star American vaudeville headliner (in Australia and England many years), has become a British subject . . . J. Durantes pals A leadcall him "Sweet-nos- e ing male hairdresser threw a Christmas poddy for his swishy friends. They had a Pink tree! . . . Alan Gales thumbnail description of Vice-PreWallace: He takes his job seriously instead of himself . . . Readers Digest credits the One of our cities is missing gag (made famous by the wire services) to a contributor. It credits Thumbnose Watch your hat, coat and Sketch girl friend and Feud administrator to everybody except this where they were born. ... s. col-yu- Quotation Marksmanship: A. A. Milne: There was a full length novel in her sigh . . . M. Buchanan: of her past . . . H. The ash-caSmith: No one should be conceited. 'Talented people do not need it, the H. untalented do not deserve it P.'Estabrook: Some people's voices are hard to extinguish over the phone . . . Joan Eden: If success doesnt give you a big head, it gives you big headaches . . . H. Balson: Nice people always have trouble finding . people- - to be nice to them II. Homer: She didnt catch a husband, she trapped one . . . Rose Macauley: A book to kill time for those who like it better dead . . . Ambrose Bierce: Positive is being mistaken at the top of one's voice. n ... ... Sammy Renick, the jockey, was gagging about George Rafts shadow, Killer Gray, who has never even killed a fly. The Killer attended a swanky Jockey Club affair in Hollywood once, where Mrs. C. V. Whitney was at the same table. He conversed in typical Brooklyn-ese- . Someone at the table asked the Killer why he didnt cash in on his publicity and go into the movies like his pal Raft I dont wanna be like Raft," he aid, I only wanna live like him! By ELLIOTT PINE Released by Western Newspaper Union. Within a year, and perhaps much sooner, the war in Eu- rope will end, according to most experts, both political and military. Immediately the problems of reconverting wartime America to peacetime production will begin. Factories that have been running day and night will slow six-inc- h ;x; x; o Eco-uom- ic ssv. millions of factory people now earning good wages. But bow many will be working when the war orders end? after the war boom. settled upon were: The figures Employed In 1943 Unemployed In 1943 ...5,455 Wartime labor force ...5,655 200 The next step was more difficult. to try to estimate how many persons would want work after the war, when the servicemen had re- - It'was New automobiles: City residents was being conducted among a sen of the citys population to find out their buying intentions, after normal conditions returned. A similar survey was made by mail among the farmers of Freeborn county, asking them what goodi they expected to buy for their farms as well as for their homes and families. Some of the things that people hoped to buy were: lected 1,156 cross-sectio- cars at,$l,0533lverage cost 51,217,268 ' 4Lv' WILD ANIMALS about. A survey among employ- ers gave these figures: Returning from armed forces.. 1,012 125 Returning from farms Returning from other regions., 250 Growth and maturity of popula42S tion (1943-46- ) Total 1,15 This total was then added to the wartime labor force: 5,655 Wartime labor force (1943) Number returning after war..., 1,815 Total .7,470 Subtracted from this, however, was a sizable group who would not be in the labor market after the war. These were: Another question put was, How do you intend to pay for these pur chases? City people with incomes between $1,770 and $3,000 replied that they would pay in this man- ner: From current Income Borrowings War bonds No report 38.2 41.2 8.9 11.7 Farm families with Incomes rang ing from $1,500 to $2,000 a year expected to pay for things thus: Current income Borrowings War bonds 64 4 32 In general, people with large in comes proposed to buy with cash 125 rather than to borrow, as people ot Returning to farms 50 smaller means planned to do. Returning to other regions 1...734 Not seeking postwar jobs How Much Farm Income? 909 The Albert Lea committee realTotal ized fully how dependent the city Taking this number from the 7,470 was on the prosperity of the surprevious total left 6,561, which the rounding farmers. A committee called the net postwar on was farm income working labor force. In other words, between while the other investigasi and seven thousand people would prospects on. Total Income be expecting to find steady work in tions were going was set down Freeborn for county Albert Lea after the war. Obviousas follows: out to find was move next the ly, 5 7,316,000 Farm income, 1939 how many jobs the citys employers 20,164,000 Farm income, 1943 could provide. When returns came Farm income, first postwar in from every employer, from small19,416,006 year est shop to largest factory, the reThe postwar figure was estabsults were: lished after analyzing the possibiliPostwar labor force (as before)6,S61 ties of changes in crops and livebe can Number that employed stock. Aside from maintaining hemp 5,968 estimated as after war, raising, and an increase in soyAlbert teas unemployed in, say, beans and some vegetable crops, 593 1946, on this basis the committee did not anticipate any The members So, about 600 people would be out important changes. of work, or nearly 10 per cent. did recommend establishing a soybean processing plant and a canLocal Business Prospects. nery. The committee then turned to findTo find out how much the city ing out whether business activity could not be stimulated a bit Ev- and county construction projects upon to provide ery business man answered a con- could be depended Tabulated employment, a survey of public fidential questionnaire. works programs was made. When responses gave this salient informareported, it was (his tion: The 11 big industries gave this shown that some $15,000 worth oi work had to be deferred beca.se oi reply, as summarized: war, representing about 14,000 manVolume of business done in hours. New projects might amount 5 9, MO, 000 1933 (gross sales) Volume of business done in to $390,000 of expenditures. The com22,795,000 1940 mittee did not consider the possibilthe war. It took the number Volume of business done in ity of state and federal projects. It 1940 51,443,000 1943 a as this in base, employed exwas the committees conclusion that of business you Volume being the last full year before the little reliance could be placed on pect to do in the first country entered the war. Then it 49,660,000 postwar year public works as a means of relievadded the number unemployed and 442 secondary businesses Then the ing unemployment. seeking work in that year. These were After weighing all the informatold that these 11 major induswere: figures 60 tion gleaned by the to about tries employ expected 4,266 Employed In 1940 721 per cent more workers in the post- the general committee of Albert Lea Unemployed in 1940 war period than in 1940, and 1 per had a sound starting point for its Total prewar labor force........ 4,987 cent mope than in 1943, the peak postwar employment plans. Albert Lea is only one city, but It Then the committee obtained the year to date. With this in mind, the ot employment figures for 1943, recog- secondary business men guessed is representative of thousands of In would United sales communities run the States, volume their were that that abnormally they nizing about 15 per cent higher. In the Its problems are the nations probhigh, with many women and students working who ordi- years Immediately following the lems. It is the Committee for Economic Developments intention tc narily would not be in industry. war, than in 1943. While the survey among business help solve these problems by accuSome people had moved into town too, who were not expected to stay men was being made, a second one rate information. high-scho- Local Investigation May Reveal Opportunities for Sales and Jobs Findings of the community eco- the army, made some startling admissions recently at a senate committee hearing on the utilization of doctors by the war department. Testifying before the Pepper subcommittee on wartime health and education at a hearing in PascaPattern No. Z9594 Sixty-fou- r goula, Miss., Musser was asked if blocks and a border size. The patthe army had too many doctors. make a quilt of tern with accurate cutting guides end There has Yes, he replied. directions may be had as Z9534. been too much indiscriminate re- complete 15 cents. Send your order to: cruiting of medical men without due AUNT MARTHA regard for civilian needs. 207W Westport Rd., Kansas City, Mo. Do you think that the army has Enclose 15 cents for each pattern utilized its doctors properly? he was asked. desired. Pattern No. Definitely no, replied the TuName lane professor. The present sysAddress tem of medical service in the army is based on a procedure that dates war back to the Spanish-America- n and calls for the recruiting of a disproportionate number of physicians from civilian life. MISERIES OF To illustrate his point. Doctor Musser pointed out that Tulane universitys unit of doc'tors in the army medical corps had spent more than a year twiddling their thumbs at Camp Benning, Georgia, while awaiting a call for overseas duty. At this time, Doctor Musser said, there was a crying need for doctors by civilians. Dr. Musser said he realized that the need for doctors was far greater than in the last war, but that the army medical corps wasnt making the fullest use of its personneL ft h down and perhaps close. Many thousands of men will be released from the armed I , forces. Labor shortages will Lift fe Jinnirrfi1... disappear, and before long, the specter of unemployment HAPPY STEEL WORKERS, lined up before the pay windows of a huge will be back. Pittsburgh plant now operating at capacity, are representative of the for the to It was to try devise ways orderly return to peacetime production, and to try to avoid the mass unemployment that usually follows war, that the Committee for Development was organized, a little more than a year ago. This committee is a group of the nations foremost business executives, bankers, economists, and other technical experts. Chairman is Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Studebak-e- r corporation. The vice chairman Is the vice president of the University of Chicago. Presidents of several nationally known corporations serve on the committee. The committee is not connected with the federal government in any way, although its office is in Washington, D. C. Its activities are split Into two major branches: Research division, and Field Development division. The research division has the task of investigating all policies of business, labor and government that retard expanding employment and production. After finding out what Bnd where the trouble is, the research division presents recommendations for suitable changes. The field development division has the responsibility of stimulating and helping individual enterprises to plan now for high levels of productive employment and profitable distribution in the postwar period. There are 12 regional chairmen, 1 tor each Federal Reserve district, who supervise the field development divisions work in their sections. Under the regional chairmen are state chairmen, who in turn appoint chairmen of county committees. Finally, the county committees supervise the survey work of the community committees. How Albert Lea, Minn., Does It. A typical survey by a community committee is one conducted in Albert Lea, a city of 12,200 in Freeborn county, Minnesota. Freeborn county is on the southern edge of the state, adjoining Iowa, so the trading radius of Albert Lea includes part of three northern Iowa counties. Nearly 50,000 people in the agricultural region about the municipality trade at Albert Leas stores. There are 11 major industries in Albert Lea, and 442 businesses classed as secondary employers. There is a stove factory, a gas machine factory, a creamery, a meat packing plant, a food products maker, and several specialty products manufacturers in the city. The electric power company is located there. Being a county seat, there is considerable legal and clerical activity. Keeping all these matters In mind, the local economic development committee began its survey of postwar business and employment possibilities. Its first step was to set up two questions, the answers to which were to be the solution of its problem. Beginning with the premise that Somehow there would be a job paying a living wage for every worker who wanted one after the war. First thing, said the committee, is to find out how many workers would want jobs, and how many jobs business thought it could provide after xzz Washington, D. C. ARMY DOCTORS It was lost in the news shuffle, but Dr. John H. Musser of the Tulane university medical school, a member of a special committee named by Secretary of War Henry Stim-so- n to study medical conditions in Postwar Business Prospects Is Urged NTERESTING patchwork is here for your doing. Arrowheads of color and white are held together by diamond bouquets appliqued over the joinings. Its new its different its the Indian Arrowhead pieced quilt. T Bill Bopp, a contractor, may the ' buying have underestimated not realized and of the people nomic develop- power ment survey may that 592 families in the city and very possibly rural areas expect to have new stimulate post- homes in the first two years after war business and the war. He may decide he can employment, use four more men after the war to handle this construction. EmbiTm of the merely by Thus each employer will be chiplor Eco-in- g merchants aomic Development, and contractors ping away at the total of potential A new job may be how large a market is waiting for unemployed. found for one man here, another their products. there, three more there, and more there. IS Whether the total is whittled down to zero will depend entirely upon the cooperation of each individual employer and of all other groups in society, both local and national. In short, the survey figures, based in part on fact and part on estimate, only indicate possible postwar conditions. Subsequent developments and further investigations may alter the results. HOLIDAY Since the army has a priority on Now . . . heres wonderful home-prov- ed guns and shells, there hasnt been medication that works 2 ways at once torelievedistressof much hunting for two years, with cold even while he sleeps I childs the result that wild animals are Rub chest and back throat, on Both civilization. creeping up with Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. farmers and state officials are deInstantly VapoRub starts to relieve coughing spasms, muscular manding cartridges to drive off this soreness or tightness, and invite invasion. restful sleep. Often by morning, War production board has remost of the misery is gone. ,, ceived urgent messages from state For sake, try babys VapoRub in officials every part of the country. when colds strike. It must be good, because when colds Pennsylvania Is alarmed at the boldstrike It is ness of bears and deer. New York most mothers use. V VavoRus says rabbits eat Victory gardens. Louisiana needs shotguns to drive off the flocks of rice birds. This explosive situation was the Mechanical Christener last task handled bj Maury MavOne of the shipbuilding firms on erick before he left WPBs govern- the eastern seaboard now uses a ment division, to become WPB vice bottle-swingimachine which chairman in charge of the small has been nicknamed Christine in the christening of its smaller plants division. He tried to raise the civilian car- vessels. tridge quota from 12 per cent of normal to 50 per cent At first the army was willing. But that was beAfter the Big fore Three powwow the army hinted that it would need everything for the invasion, and declined to pass the ammunition. When the news reached the says Maverick, the deer did a dance, and bears celebrated with big bear hugs. When KIDNEYS need diuretic aid whatCKS ng Cairo-Tehera- n. back-wood- s, K5D COSMOPOLITAN CONGRESS When overstrain or other cause slows down kidney function, the back may ache painfully. Naturally, urinary flow may be lessened frequent but scanty often smarting. "Getting up nights may ruin sleep. To relieve such' symptoms, you want quick stimulation oi kidney action. To help attain this, try Gold Medal Capsules. This diuretic has been famous for over 30 years for such prompt action. Take care to use only as directed on package. Only 35 at drug stores. Accept no substitute. Get the genuine Gold Medal Capsules today. They act jasti The farm bloc is In the house of representatives, but youd never guess it to judge by the number of members who are real, active farmers. There are only 30. Lawyers, because of their natural bent for politics, continue to dominate the house membership by an overwhelming majority. Out of a total 435 members, 234 are lawyers. Business men rank next, with a delegation of 60. There are 27 teachers and professors, 23 writers and newspaper men, 9 former government officials, 9 insurance agents, 4 doctors, 2 engineers, 2 dentists, and 2 certified public accountants. Only one minister holds a congressional seat. Rep. Charles A. Eaton of New Jersey, former recter of the Madison Avenue Baptist church in New York city, although Rep. Walter H, Judd of Minnesota was a medical missionary in China for several years. The sports world Is represented chiefly by Congressmen Joseph OBrien of New York, former professional wrestler and football player; Samuel Weiss of Pennsylvania, a football referee who still officiates in National Pro league games; and La Vern R. Dilweg of Wisconsin, former footballer at Marquette university. The rest of the membership hails from a miscellany of trades and professions, including a number of laboring men, miners and mill workers, two druggists Representatives Carl Durham of North Carolina and Harve Tibbott of Pennsylvania and a veterinarian, Congressman George W. Gillie of Indiana. CAPITAL crm.fr e SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER ( truck driver recently received a tribute from the Office of the Rubber Director because he risked his life to save the tires on the trailer of a tractor-trailunit he was driving. The trailer caught fire, but the driver lacked it up and removed the tires while it was ablaze. A Wisconsin er The Influence of the rubber situation will be appreciated when It Is known that doss to 40 of the motor vehicles ever made in this country were still In service in December, 1941. More than half of them were owned by families with Incomes of less than $30 a week. CHAFF C. D. B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firedenounces Bill men, privately Greens statement that the railroad strike would never have been pulled. Robertson says he and his men meant ever word of it. C. Because of his interest in Com- munism, singer Paul Robeson has been prevented from making USO concert tours of U. S. army camps. The state department even denies him a passport to go to England, where he is immensely popular. at fe j lEGoottli ni |