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SEVENTIES

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IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC (Delayed) —Tire = was nothing dramatic about our start for Japan, © We simply pulled anchor about 8 o'clock one morning and got under way. The ‘whole thing seemed peacetime and routine. . Our ships wete so ‘spread “out they didn’t seem as they actually were. It wasn't like the swarming, pulsing mass of ships that literally blanketed the water when we started to Siclly and to Normandy. Once at sea our force broke u into several prearranged units _ each put some distance hetween itself and the next. Each was self-sufficient. ‘Each could protect itself. © Each had battleships, carriers, cruisers” and destroyers. Each was complete unto itself. The eye could easily encompass the entire formation in which you were ‘sailing.. And very dimly, far off on the horizon, you could see the silhouettes

of the bigger ships on each side of you, although they You really couldn't help but feel safe with such a |

seemed remote, aud not like neighbors. “The rest of the fleet was out of sight, far over the horizon. Altogether, the ships must have covered a hundred miles of ocean.

The Admiral Sends” a Messe se THE FORMATIONS were commanded by admirals and above them all was Adm. Marc Mitscher. All day and -all night the air was full of cdfiversation between our ships. Messages were transmitted in many ways—by signal flag, by light biinker, by destroyers bringing written messages, and “even by planes flying slowly over and dropping messages on the deck. The admiral commanding our unit was a fine, friendly man whom I'd met before we sailed. On the third day out he sent a message over to our captain which said:

“How is Ernie getting along? was back in a foxhole?” We messaged back that I was happy, hadn't been feasick yet, and that I hoped all my future foxholes could be as plush as this one. We kept radio silence to keep the Japs from find-

Does he wish he

constant aerial patrol over our

“or Ernie Pyle

"ing where we were. That is, we didn’t send any long...distance radio messages. We had a long way to go from our starting point, and our route was* a’ devious ohé to boot. We steamed for several days before we“were at our destindtion off Japan. We sailed long enough to ‘have crossed the Atlantic ocean—if we had been in the Atlarttic.. But those days were busy ones. Our planes began operating as soon as we were under way. ‘Three fighters that had been based on the island, flew out and landed aboard an hour after we started, to fill our complement of planes.

Couldn't Help but Feel Safe

WE WERE up before dawn. every morning, and |

our planes were in the air before sunup. We kept a | ships. Some flew" at great height. completely out of sight. Others took | the medium altitude. And still others roamed in | great circles only a few hundred feet above us. And out on the perimeter our little destroyers plowed the ocean, always alert for subs or airplanes. |

guard around you. Living was very comfortable aboard our carrier. I shared a cabin with Lt. Cmdr. Terre Haute, Ind, was born and raised.

CRT WE ee ROORY TTR SE

desks and a lavatory with hot and cold water. We | had a telephone, and a boy to clean up the room.

-Our bunks were double-decked, with good mattresses.

I was in the upper one. Qur food was wonderful, and you could buy a whole carton of cigarets a day if you wanted to (doesn’t that make you Jjealous?). We saw a movie every night except when in battle. The first four nights our movies were “New York Town,” “The Major and the Minor,” “Swing Fever” and “Claudia.” I dont know enough about movies to know whether they were old or not, but it doesn't make any difference to a sailor who hasn't been home I came aboard with a lot of dirty clothes. for I'd had nothing washed since leaving San Francisco about a month before Our cabin boy took my about 9:30 one morning. cabin an hour and a half later,

clothes to the laundry

Al Masters from |{* just a few miles from where I [§

When I came back to the | here was my wash- |

SECOND SECTION

~ FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1945

(One of a Series)

LEYTE, P. 1 The day after Gen, MacArthur had put the finger on Col. Leif

J. Sverdrup and told him to go ahead with his plan of building a series of airstrips across New Guinea, to outflank the Japs at Buna, the Colonel left for Port Moresby. A 5s sembling IRR reset supplies, he set Mr. Miller 0 PP on foot with 297 native Papuans to create those four airstrips—strips that were to prove of enormous strategic value, At this time the Jap drive over the Kokoda trail was within 30odd miles of Moresby, but had | outrun its supply carriers and was soon to be kicked back over the Owen Stanleys MacArthur's Aussies

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THIS TIME Col. Sverdrup had

two white men with him—Flight

Lt. (now squadron leader) Michael James Leahy of the Royal Aus-

ing all clean and dry and ironed, lying on the bed. | i .ajian air force, ‘who had mined

What a ship! ©

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum,

A. E. MARTIN, manager of the I. A. C., has been reading with interest the stories about Bob Ely, the cleaning-contractor, and the monkey he’s using to clean hot air pipes in the Kansas City courthouse, Mr. Martin recalls that several years ago, Ely cleaned the pipes at the I. A. C. But there was no monkey business on that job. Ely crawled through the pipes himself, beating the monkey out of a job, or maybe making a monkey out of himself. . . . One of my agents reports seeing a Lincoln Zephyr parked in front of the Kahn building yesterday with a small tag just above the license plate, reading: “Constable, Marion County.” There's no such animal as a Marion county constable. Constables are township officers. Their powers lie within their own townships. . . . The G. I. Humor is irrepressible, even when death is hovering in the background. M, Sgt. Howard Bunnell, a Times employee now in the service, writes back from Germany: “We always post the roads up here with signs for a lot of different reasons. The other day, I noticed several spaced along the road at 20-foot The first read: “Keep moving.” The second: “Keep your interval.” The third: “Trucks only > “The fourth: “You are now under enemy obSome wag had placed a fifth sign. In bold letters, it read: “Burma Shave.” :

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"Nothing to It!

TED BUEHLER, identification clerk in the police bertillon department, is taking a ribbing from some of his pals at headquarters. Ted, they say, was at the.-Eagles lodge Tuesday night, proudly displaying a new pair of handcuffs. A trustee of the lodge was “Try em on” suggested Ted. “No the trustee. “Nothing to it,” Ted

thanks,” said

laughed, and proved it by snapping the handcuff -

on his own wrist. Then he reached in his pocket to

World of Science

THE U..S. BUREAU OF MINES has ‘at ‘its dis~ posal an appropriation of $30,000,000 to be expended over the next five years in developing liquid fuels from oil shale, coal, estry products, This will supply one or more answers to the nation's post-war supply of automobile and aviation fuel irrespective of what may happen to the nation's petroleum reserves, As is well known, there is considerable disagreement among experts about the future of these reserves. Yesterday I quoted Dr. F. B. Plummer of the ‘University of I'xas, who thinks it entirely possible that new pools of the east Texas and west Edmond (Okla- © homa) type will be found both in this country and elsewhere, Oil shale is known to occur in quantity in at least 18 states. These are Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Texas and Utah,

Colorado Leads ACCORDING to one story, the presence of oil ghale in. many of these states was discovered through the unfortunate experience of pioneer settlers who used them to build fireplaces or chimneys, only to see the work of their hands go up in flames as soon as a fire was lighted.

My Day

Thursday.—~On Tuesday. after

WASHINGTON,

getting back from visiting the army redistribution

center in Asheville, N. C., I had supper with. the Girl Scout day and permanent camp leaders who- are taking a two-weeks’ training course at Montreat inn. . Immediately afterward, in the lobby of the inn, the Brevard college chorus gave an informal program of mountain songs which was delightful. . At the evening session Arthur M. Bannerman, president of War-ren-Wilson college at Swannanoa, opened the discussion -on education in the mountains. So much talk followed both the summarizing of the morning ses-

sions and Mr. Bannerman'’s speech

on the student who must earn his education through work, that the second speaker of the evening never got a chance £0 make his statement

and had to wait until yesterday morning. - “Education in the Mountains” was the- subject of

| the Wednesday morning. program, and at 11:15 we

went over. to Warren-Wilson college for a chapel rogram and dinner. The afternoon was parfly taken

| up by business meetings and partly by a summing - i up of the two days’ sessions, as well as a continuation

of a discussion on education on the soled level.

lignite and agricultural and for- .

get his keys and remove the cuff. To his horror, he found he had left his keys at home. imagine the ribbing he took there at the lodge.

worst of it was that no one would drive him home, | and he had to make the trip on the streetcar, with |

the. handcuff dangling from his wrist. ®. . Treasurer Frank Millis is a proud grandfather,

State

and Mrs. George M. Johnson. Lt. Johnson, in the South Pacific, hasn't received the good news yet. . .. When Hugh W. Barnhart was legislated out of office

as state conservation director after nine years as a |

public servant, some of his staff members jokingly asked him if he was going on relief. Yesterday, al letter arrived at the commission offices for Mr. Barnhart. Division. the office force until Mr, Barnhart arrived and opened it. He reported it was personal and had nothing to| do with unemployment benefits,

Spring Comes Earlier PAUL RICHEY'S eagle eye caught old Inside in a most serious error yesterday. The error involved

delaying the arrival of spring, -and nobody would |

want that to happen.. The column referred to March 21 as the first day of spring. Actually, Paul pointed out and the weather bureau confirmed, spring arrives at 6:38° p. m. (CWT) March 20, which happens to be next ‘Tuesday. Just for the sake of the record, the weather bureau furnishes the official dates for the: other seasonal changes. mer arrives at 1:52 p. m. (CWT) June 21, Autumn at 4:50 a. m. (CWT) Sept. 23, and Winter at 12:04 a. m, (CWT). Dec. 21. . . . Moses Katler, proprietor of the Victory Grill, 125 W. Walnut st., was peeling potatoes the other day and found a potato shaped like-a V. He wondgrs if -this could be a V for Vic-|, tory, and indicate that the war in Germany will be | over “sooner than we think?” A V-potato in the VGrill? Sounds mighty promising!

You can] The |

AT pound, 13 ounce daughter was born at Coleman hos- | pital Wednesday to his’ daughter and son-in-law, Lt. |

It was from the Indiana Employment Security | The letter created much merriment among | |

Sum- [¢

| gold in Guinea and knew how to | get along with the natives, and Sgt. (now captain) Zumwalt, a strapping Oregonian of the 808th engineer battalion who had been | working in the colonel’s office. They called their 297 blacks the “Papuan aviation battalion.” “That's the only command I've ever had,” Maj. Gen. Sverdrup | says today—and that is literally

| true, since his present high post is not one of command, but of counsel. ’ » » »

| THE . PAPUANS

| white-and-blue |

wore redarmbands, and were plenty proud. In addition, | groups of natives in the regions around the four airstrip sites were hired. and a competitive | spirit inculcated by offering prizes of tobacco for the hardest-work-ing crews. “White - men couldn't have { stood up the way these fellows did,” Gen. Sverdrup says. The “Papuan aviation battalfon” traveled lightly, relying on | rations and other supplies dropped by B-24s, » » tJ

- “WIP pasack irs, J suppose?” , I asked the gerrera). v= #

(One of By NED

Census officials say their canva

public relations.

By David - “Dietz |

Colorado leads in known oil shales and it has been estimated that 47,625,600,000 barrels of oil could be recovered in that state alone. The oil shales of the | entire nation are believed to contain 150,162, 100,000 barrels of oil, of which 91,944,900,000 barrels are believed to be recoverable. /

More Shale Than Oil

THE FULL SIGNIFICANCE of these figures is not realized until we recall that the known petroleum reserves of the United States are estimated at 20,000,~ 000,000 barrels. In other words, oil shales could be

relied on to yield almost five times as much oi] as| the known reserves. Dr. Plummer, who is chairman of the committee on production geology of the petroleum division of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, points out that oil is being recovered from shale in many countries at the present time, including Scotland, Estcniag; Germany, Russia, France, Australia, Sweden, Manchuria and Japan.

widely used by the. participating |

| wi: AgERCles. in, planning and executing| port von ‘the. nation’s Jabor. force and requirds only a fraction of the( 20d €0 settle policies.”

their publicity programs, a survey |

oy Scripps-Howard newspapers re-|

veals. The census bureau, moreover, has

[become the. brain center of poll-| power (taking procedure within the gov-| service use the statistics as a guide |

ernment. Sampling methods, picneered and developed by the bureau, have been adopted as standard practice by other agencies.

Began as WPA Project Office of war mobilization, war manpower commission, office of price administration, national hous{ing agency, war production board and labor department are among the federal branches which make extensive use of census polls. The division of special surveys, originated as a WPA project and absorbed by the census bureau in

(By Air Maill).— |

$400,000 a Year Spent by U . S. Census Bureau on Polls

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 16.—The census Bureau is spending $400,000| Sampling technique. developed by|used in the forthcoming census. of a year ua periodic” polling of 30,000 families on & variety of subjects ies Philip M.. Hauser. assistant. di-| business. which heretofore has been | of interest to war agencies and old-line departments.

factual information, as distinguished from the opinion polls which have nent pollers. been gaining favor among. aqther federal agencies as an experiment in| The method—the so-called “pin- recently that the government is

The cerisus studies, however, are Primary function of the division ~-prBduces results accurate within| Pending millions annually “to de-|

( ture, age, sex, color and other char- |

{ dustrial establishments, not indi-

HORATIO ALGER GENERAL OF THE PACIFIC... A Series by Lee G. Miller

How: Sverdrup Built Airstrips 1 in Jungle

Sverdrup was back at Moresby The strips weren't much to brag about, and there were no buildings of any kind until later. But pilots were coming in on each of them as seon as it was finished.

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" n ” “ON THE first landing I just had to turn my head,” Gen. Sver- | drup recalls, “but he made it all | right. These young kids were fresh from the States, and used | to landing on concrete strips, but | they were magnificent. “I remember when a rosy- | cheeked second lieutenant named Church—he was a captain when | 1 saw him a few months ago— { “brought the first plane down on Pongani, the last of our strips— on the coast east of Buna. { “The strip was soft as hell at | one end, and his ship got stuck on that first landing. The natives dragged it out, and I got in with Church to fly back to Moresby.

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“I WAS a little apologetic about ‘the condition of the strip, and expected -him to beef about it. But ‘Hell, Church said, ‘it looked better than LaGuardia field to me when I spotted it. He'd been flying over tough terrain to get there, and the air was | mostly Jap country at that time.” Once the rough strips were in, | dozers and other equipment and | supplies were flown in to improve them. - | Meantime Sverdrup got to work | on a couple of additional strips at Dobadura, which were finished on Thanksgiving day, 1942, and | hence christened “Pilgrim field.” » n » |

This tough-looking customer is a native chief from Garoka, in the Was a& sod “sub strip” laid “out highlands about 100 miles from Nadzab, New Guinea, where Gen. Years earlier by Leahy, in his

Sverdrup located one of the four irsirips that helped us rid the mining days. This, Sverdrup decountry of Japs. cided, was the place for a major

airdrome. So parachulists were flown in |! as protection against the Japs, and then engineers were landed on the strip with dozers and carry-alls. and presently Nadzab was a big and busy airdrome. Lt. Col, Harry G. Woodbury was commanding officer of that airborne battalion, the 871st engi- ! neers. | After Nadzab “I became a peaceful citizen for a little while,” Gen. Sverdrup says, but it didn't sound -sQ peaceful to me,

Next: Tr

puans—fatally, His mates showed --.no sign of resentment. They just said, “Oh well, he no look out." lot of 2-8 8 THE AIRSTRIP jobs were fairly simple once the party reached the level sites that Sverdrup had picked earlier. It was mostly just a matter of cutting the tall kunai grass with machetes and hauling it out of the way. Each strip was about 3000 feet long. *. The job was done in a matter ot“a few weeks, and on Oct, 27

“No. Just dropped the stuff cold. I remember one time when we were running short of food and they dropped us a bully beef. Many of the cans were broken open in the drop, and since the beef was sure to spoil I told the natives to eat all they could that night. “They put away six pounds apiece: They would eat so much they would throw up, and then they'd eat some more.” Once an airborne can of bully beef landed on one of the Py-

ore exploits and honors.

a Series) BROOKS

| able to merchants from

| sources.

other) method cf selecting a representative cross-section of individuals. The sampling technique is to be

Census officials say use of the

: ector, has resulted in large savipgs|conducted on a door-to-door basis. sses are directed solely at gathering] by the bureau and other govern-| Dr..George Gallup told the house campaign investigating committee

{far behind”

[point” or. area sampling procedure (7 business, which 1s

is the preparation of a-monthly re-. lan almost negligible range of error| terngine what products people want |

“The effectiveness has proved many times or business |

{would not spend the -foney,” he! It relies for accuracy on the cor-| | added:

The man-|rect selection of typical areas as and selective | contrasted to the “quota sampling”

| showing * employment and “unem-| { {time and. labor of a nation-wide! ployment in industry and agricul- | canvass.: :

acteristics of workers.

commission NEXT—How the a Army Polls Gls. 1

to labor recruitment and draft poli- |

| on statistics also are used Liberation Was Too Painful | supplement ‘other polls of employ- . ° To Win Le Havre Friends!

ment” conducted by the bureau of labor statistics which canvasses in- : By EDWARD P. MORGAN viduals. < Times Foreign Correspondent

Use Sampling Technique | LE HAVRE — The soldier was|for Germans. At the request of the office of cl-| puzzled. | But although the first winter was | vilian requirements of WEB, the di- | “These Frenchmen do not have hard they managed to adjust them[the right attitude,” he said. “They selves, while they waited and vision recently asked 5000 house-|g.,q pe grateful that the Ger- counted the long days until the in-| holders whether they had tried '0| mans are gone, but theyre not|vasion which the allies promised. | buy certain articles, whether they friendly. I don't get it.” Meanwhile, B. B. C. and American |

Four years of Nazi occupation] - have not left them with any love |

1939, has expanded into an organi-|

“Scotland,” he says, “now has six oil- stile plants handling 5000 tons of shale daily, yielding 18 to 45! per cent crude oil. The quality of the refined prod- |

zation of six regional and 68 local field offices.

| It employs from 200 to 300 part-|

| Anouher poll, conducted for OPA, | That the dividends of “Iibera- | But by the time the allies did|

ucts obtained from shale oil is lower and the costs| time enumerators on ‘each of its|showed that grocers were making tion” aren't always friendliness and |get here most of Le Havre lay in! of production are higher than are the costs of light|polls and the 30,000 families selected | little use of a retail food guide on| {gratitude—particularly when liber~|shambles—largely as the result of

fractions produced from petroleum,

“In. Sweden a new method has been devised for| months, The division is now modi-| a year. 1t was discontinued, OPA! the people of Le Havre. the direct extraction of oil from the shale beds by | fying its sysfem so that one-sixth says. Still another was conducted to |

electrical heating. The process requires large amounts | of electricity, but it increased the yield of oil from ! shale in Sweden to over 500,000 barrels in 1943."

By Eleanor Roosevelt

We made the afternoon train quite enslly, and this morning found us back in Washington. . I feel that I"learned a great deal in these two days and am very grateful that I was asked to take part in the discussions of the Council of Southern Mountain Workers. I find that in giving you the rule for mailing letters and parcels to priscners of war in Germany, a few mistakes were made; so I want to note the changes here: > When regular correspondence blanks are not used, the writer should address his letter just the same as he does on the regular form, but the letter should then be put into a second envelope. Leave this second envelope unsealed, and address it: “Postmaster, Prisoner of War Mail.” All of these go to New York. When a person has been notified that » man is a prisoner of war, but there is still no address as to what camp he is in, the mail should be addressed in care of the International Red Cross, Directory Seryice, Geneva, Switzerland. I was deeply grieved to read the other day of the

death of Mrs, Fraser, the wife of the prime minister!

of New Zealand. She was so kind to me in New

“Zealand, and so thoughtful ors and interested in our

boys in hospitals there. Her death must be a grief - the whole people of New Zealand, and to her husband and family an

[for sampling are changed every six|

of the panel of 30,000 will be changed every six months.

| which OPA was spending $60,000 ation is as painful as it was for attacks by the British and Ameriican air forces. A plague of inflation had developed and food and clothing had | become dangerously scarce

determine whether OPA * bulletins were duplicating information avail-

450,000 Japs Killed Since Pacific War Tide Turned

| WASHINGTON, March 16 (U.P).

—With the conquest of Iwo Jima, U. 8. fighting men have killed more than 450,000 Japanese in the Pacific since the enemy tide was turned. In the fighting comeback which has carried them almost to Japan's doorstep, U. 8, forces also have’ bypassed and marooned 240,000 enemy troops in .the south and southwest Pacific, and 200,000 more in the East Indies. ‘With the destruction of more than 20,000 Japanese on bloody Iwo, American warriors have killed at least 467,590 Japanese in' bitter island campaigns from 1942 to now. This estimate is based on figures obtained at the war and navy departments. It does not, however, include Japanése losses in most of {the great naval battles, The only sea fight for which the nayy had data on enemy casualties was the battle of Midway, the historic en-

never to Jesus it. 5 Nor ous

gagement ‘in which the Japanese lost their. initiative in the Pacific|

- this compiiion in-

’ HANNAH ¢ From a purely personal stand-|

| Q | point the people of Le Havre have | had a much tougher time since liberation than before it. Le Havre's biggest tragedy was the bembing by the royal air. force (it could just as well have been by the U. 8. army air force) one Sep-| tember afternoon just before the) city fell. One thousand tons of high ex-| | plosives and incendiaries rained| dowh on the heart of the city in| about an hour. According to the] best estimates, some 4000 civilians and only a handful of Germans | were killed. Therein lies the core] of Le Havre's bitterness, which! only now is beginning to drain | away. if] Shelter * and clothing are Le| Havre's greatest problems. Civilian | authorities estimate that more than |

clude the price which Japan paid for her conquest of the Philippines at the war's beginning. U. 8. sources have estimated Japanese dead in the first Philippines cams paign at 100,000. However, Brig.| Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, Philippines resident commissioner, believes the figure should be around 240,000. No official source has attempted to estimate Japanese ounded. Japanese prisoners of war, however, total about 5,500, according to the office. of war information. They include 2800 in continental U. 8. prison camps and a slightly smaller Humber in the field, “The ~467,590 total of Japanese 5 dead includes: South and Southwest Pacific— 155,000. Second Philippines cuipaigh. in- | | cluding some 50,000 Japanese killed in convoyt bound for Leyte — | 200,000.

Central Pacific-78, 190,” Iwo Jima—20,000. Battle of Midway—4800, .

aged in that one raid. 3 Some civilian supplies from Britain and the United States are be-| ginning to trickle . into port for! French consumption, Things are looking a little better. But in the rehabilitation of Le Havre psychological problems will continue to be as important and Jn a way harder to solve than physical problems of supply. Copyright: 1945, ,by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. -

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“their places.

been !

Labor Management, Labor Disagree On Vet Rights

By CHARLES I. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer DETROIT, March 16. — Labor peace in the mass production ine

dustries may be threatened by a

conflict over jobs involving management, unjons and returning veterans. An extreme view held by some labor leaders is that management may Wy to use. the war veteran ‘to smash the unions.

They think there may be an attempt to exploit resentment supposed to have developed among men in the armed forces against wartime strikes, Management says this is nonsense. n ” » HUNDREDS of thousands of men have gone out of the automotive industry into military service. An even larger number has gone into industry to take

Short of something like Henry Wallace's 60,000,000 job’ program, there's likely to be difficulty finding work for all of them. So who gets what jobs there are?

There's a considerable gap between what management and unions think’ about it.

The question hangs on seniority. The worker with the least seniority is first to be let out when work slackens and the last to be rehired when it picks up. Seniority is almost money in the bank out here. » » 2

THE difficulty is not so much related to the worker who left a job .in the big auto plants to go into military service. The selective service law guarantees return of his job, and he'd probably have enough seniority anyway. Management, insofar as sentiment has jelled, wants seniority for the young veteran to be dated

_from the day he went into serv-

ice. If he served 30 months, it would be the same as if- he had been building up seniority in a war plant. Thus he could “bump” any worker who had taken a job during the war but had less than 30 months’ seniority. - : 2 =, = THE unions resist this idea. THeéy do not want military serve ice of these young veterans to be counted as seniority until after they have been hired. However, if jobs should be available otherwise for young veterahs, « according to leaders of the Urtited { Automobile Workers, it would be all right to allow service as plant

: seniority.

Some union teaders say that it there are only jobscfor a certain number, then it might as well be the veteran as the man now in the plant who is unemployed. The economic result is the same. = ® = But managefnent”: spokesmen. say the soldier 'wiio has: served

“his. country deserves ‘a "job.

If anyone must be unemployed’ they insist the war plant worker, who may have been making

| $100 a week, should be better able

to absorb the economic shock than the low-paid buck private.

6000" houses were destroyed or darpe} -

We, the Wome Black Market

Patrons Set Bad Example

By RUTH MILLETT

A RECENT cartoon” expressed the average citizen's reaction to the black market better than a thousand words could tell it. The cartoon showed both the black marketeer and. the buyers as fat pigs. What can parents who cheat on rationing and who patronize black markets expect of their children, if they themselves set such bad examples? For anyone. who selfishly than his share of goods made scarce by war is a cheater. x 8 =

PARENTS should teach their children the sound principles of thrift and the obvious necessity for co-operation.

Children should learn to make small personal sacrifices gracefully, especially when those sac rifices are necessary for the nation's good.

Parents should give their children reasons to be proud of them -not reasons to be med. Children should "be able to feel pride inthe part’ they and their parénts are playing to help -winthe war. ; ” . " INSTEAD, youngsters too often

. hear dad boast about his succéss

‘a beading the Sas ation Diam mother telling her ; Bd she bought ER black: market.