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FRIDAY, MARCH 2.1945.
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MANPOWER NEEDS
GROW
(Business Action)
The effect of the man
power shortage on the war
effort continues to hold
the attention of Washing
ton.
It becomes more appar
nnt daily that in view of
the critical situation some
kind of legislation is like
ly to be passed.
- The issue at present is
whether control of man
power is to go over large
ly to the miltary author
ities or remain for the
most part in cVilian hands
as at present.
War production and mil
itary officials point to the
crying need during the
first six months of the year
for 1,600,000 men—900,
000 for military service,
and 700,000 for war work.
The President, in his
state of the nation message
to Congress, asked the en
actment of a national ser
vice law to mobilize work
ers to produce the greatly
increased amounts of war
materials demanded by the
turn of military operations
on two world battlefronts.
Pending action for total
manpower mobilization
he asked for legislation for
utilization of the services
of 4,000,000 4-F’s in what
ever capacity is best for
the war effort.
The draft calls will be
stepped up immediately.
Deferments have beena
granted to nearly a million
men of fighting age now
engaged in war work.
MiTtary authorities be
lieve that at least a fourth
of these workers may be
called into the armed for
cesh.
With or without legis
lation, the situation is one
that calls for balancing re
quirements for fighters
and workers. Decisions
must be made as to where
men are the most needed
for the war effort. Small
consideration will be giv
en to ordinary civilian
wants. Many conserva
tion measures are in the
making.
The President’s budget
message revealed a drop
in expected war expendi
tures. The explanation
is that although war pro
duction will be increased
most of the heavy cost of
plant construction and in
stallations is behind instead
of ahead.
In the Senate during
the week foreign policy
was under scrutiny. Sen
ator Vandenberg touched
off the debate with a de
mand for early multilater
al agreements between the
Allies to check unilateral
action that has been going
on in Europe with its con
sequent frictions.
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BUILD UP ALASKA’S
ECONOMY
By Gov. Ernest Gruening
Let us live up, at home,
to the principles which
American boys of every
race, creed and color are
giving all they have. Let
us get rid of the soul-sear
ing race discrminations in
our midst to the extent
that we can do it by legis
lative action.
We all know that the
federal government had
passed a G. I. Bill and that
under it the returning ser
vicemen will be entitled to
certain financial benefits.
I venture that such legis
lation in itself will not suf
fice.
(I might say parenthet
ically that we are still
struggling, and have been
for nearly a year, to make
certain that we shall have
a regional office of the
Veterans Administration
in Alaska rather than in
Seattle. The matter is
still under investigation.
To me, and to all others, I
think, who understand our
problems, it is more than
evident that you cannot
run that office, or any oth
er important office dealing
w^h Alaska matters, from
a thousand miles or more
away.
So I repeat my belief
that the G. I. legislation,
even if supplemented with
other legislation of similar
character, will not in it
self be adequate. I ask
you to visualize, to imag
ine in all its aspects, the
return to civilian life of
our young men, many of
whom have served under
conditions of unparalelled
hardship for long years—
already four years or more
for some — undoubtedly
five, six or seven, before
V’Day. Their readapt
ion to civilian life will not
be easy. Many precious
years of their youth and
early manhood will be
gone.
Some of them will need
long months to readjust
themselves; some, longer.
Their discharge pay, their
legally established bor
rowing capacity, whatever
else the federal govern
ment, under the law, hands
them, may, despite all ef
forts to the contrary, be
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soon dissipated. Is our ob- j
ligation to them thereby
discharged? I think not
Our obligation is to pre
pare our part of America
so that, as far as we can
make it so, it will be for
them a land of continuing
opportunity, of growing
ing vistas.
That challengng object
ive will not be attained for
them merely by legislat
ing benefits, however be
sirable and deserved in
themselves such benefits
may be. It will be attain
ed only by building up our
economy, by enriching the
American way of life to
which they will return, by
making the American
dream a living reality for
all of them. In preparing
for them well, we shall be
preparing for future gen
erations of Alaskans, for
--
the sons and daughters of
the sons. That, it seems
to me, is the great goal to
ward which we should
jointly strive.
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