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MAKING WORX
Proper s‘eps taken soon enough
will assure plenty of jobs, after
the war in peaceful pursuits for
men busy today with war work
and for those in uniform as fas4
as they are discharged from the
armed forces. To say these men
will deserve good jobs is saying
far too little. Having saved this
country from foreign foes, they
will deserve to possess and enjoy
their own prosperous land.
It is for the good of the coun
try and every family in it that
plenty of well-paid employment
be provided after the war. It is
patriotism; it is self preservation.
If America is to remain the land
of liberty and opportunity, our
first post-war step must be to
ward firm footing: Work for will
ling workers.
INDUSTRY MUST LEAD
The first move in post-war
prosperity therefore is industry's
move, putting some 25 million
men to work at gainful employ
ment. It is no small matter. The
average investment necessary to
make a job in American industry
is $6,000 which means that indus
try must put up 150 billion dol
lars for equipment to make all
these jobs good, that is, make
them pay wages and interest on
investment.
Soon after V-Day these 25 mil
lion men will start making their
personal adjustments from war to
a peace-time manner of life. A
bout 20 million people are in war
work now but experts estimate
that 25 per cent of them will get !
out of industry after the war;
young people returning to school,
married women resuming their
homemaking, etc. But 15 million
now in war indus4ries will want
to keep working.
OTHERS FROM BATTLE
The United States likely will
keep a large standing Army and
a more powerful Navy than ever
before Probably anybody who j
wants to remain in the armed
forces will have a chance to stay,;
but ten million fighting men at
least will want civilian jobs right
after the war. These two groups
combined make 25 million work
ers and there is not much dis
agreement among 'statisticians
about the figure.
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Putting all these men to work,
of course, is only one side of in
dustry’s big post-war responsibil
ity. The o‘her half of it is pro
viding people the things they
want and need at prices they can
afford to pay. Both undertakings
require some high-powered plan
ning. Popular retail prices have
to start with low production costs
which depend on volume, but
over-production is a calamity in
any plant, a big calamity in any
industry.
COOPERATION NEEDED
This sketchy outline should
show what a stupendous job of
master precision American indus
try must accomplish, or else. It is
staggering but it is possible. It
will require accurate market
forecasting, cautiously balanced
production, economical operation
and good selling. Industrial
leaders understand that ruthless
competition upsets plans, lowers
employment and damages pros
perity. All must plan,
i If Private Enterprise does its
share for national prosp^lty by
investing 150 billion dollars (the
cost of 18 months of war) to cre
ate 25 million jobs, industry will
be obliged to have security of in
vestment and hope of profit — a
j green light and a clear road. Lab
or and government both have a
necessary part to play in post
i war prosperity, and the next two
j chapters of this column will deal
(With them, one at a time. “La
bor’s Lever”, Monday.
GERMANS NOW GET MEDAL
FOR BRAVE RETREATS
MADRID —(AP)— German
decorations formerly conferred for
vic+ories over Allied forces are
now being handed out to generals
and admirals for stiff resistance
before defeat.
Brig. Gen. Fritz Gall, from
leaves went to Maj. Gen. Ernst
received the Knight Cross. Oak
leaves went to Maj. Gn. Ernst
Sieler, “for his direction of the re-!
treat from Odessa.” R. Adm.
Walter von Hennecken, naval
commander at Normandy, receiv
ed the Knight Cross for “his de
fense of Cherbourg and especial
ly his organized destruction of
Cherbourg harbor.”
PERU RATIONS HORSES
WASHINGTON — (AP)— Horse
power is at a premium in Peru.
Exportation of horses which dan
be used in agriculture, industry -
or in Army service has been ban-1
ned, according to the U. S. De
partment of Commerce.
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Droned Duckling
1 young duck
1 orange
Salt
Pepper
Flour
1V1 irgarine
Clean and quarter duck. Wipe
dry, and sprinkle with flour to
which salt and pepper to taste
have been added. Place in a
broiling pan, skin side down, and
dot with a little margarine. Put
the juice of half an orange in the
bot'om of the pan. Place under a
low flame in a broiler that has
been preheated ten minutes at 375
degrees. Broil for twenty-five
minutes, basting once. Then
turn skin side up and baste with
the juice in the bottom of the
pan. Broil another twenty-five
minutes, basting several times. If
the duck is not golden brown in
this length of time, turn flame
up and brown quickly. Squeeze
the remaining half orange over
the duck. Cover the pan and put
into oven for fifteen minutes, at
350 degrees. Test duck wi+h a
fork and, if tender, uncover and
bake another fifteen minutes to
crisp the skin.
RANCHES ARE NOT
DOGGIE WAREHOUSES
HELENA, Mont. —(AP)—West
ern ranches are not “warehouses”
for cattle, as one Montana ranch
sought to have its pastures desig
nated.
The suit arose when Big Horn
county taxed 3,973 cattle import
ed from Mexico. It was contended
the ranch merely was a “class
four bonded warehouse,” housing
the cattle temporarily. |
If the ranch contention had
been upheld the cattle would have
been tax free but the federal
court ruled they were subject to
levy.
SOLDIERS WEAR
PARACHUTE CRAVATS
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE —
(AP)—Hundreds of American of
ficers and enlisted men are fight
ing with silken bands of mottled
green wound round their necks.'
Some beyond reach of German
rifles prefer white or orange
starves but tree camouflage de- j
sign is the overwhelming favorite1
even with the Frenchmen.
The scarves are cut from Amer
ican parachutes found abandoned
in trees, and hedges and fields
after the descent of airborne
troops and supplies. j
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WHAT MAKES
A HITCH-HIKER
AUSTIN, Tex.—(AP)—In Min
eral Wells an applicant failed his
nihth examination for a driver’s
license.1
’ “Did y6u ever read the book
of instructions?” the examiner
asked; ' ‘ ‘ , ;
*‘No,’f he said,; U1 thought you
Would get tired of my coming
back and > finally give me a license
without examination.”
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LITERARY
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By JOHN SELBY
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"A GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION
POLLS," by George Gallup
(Princeton University; $1.50).
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Al'hottgh if is designed rather
like a child’s testbook, with ques
tions in large type and answers in
smaller type, George Gallup’s “A
Guide to Public Opinion Polls”
happens to be one -of the early
summer’s most interesting books.
It is interesting whether the read
er thinks, as does this one, that
the poll-takers have overdone
4heir job fantastically, or wheth
er he believes trustingly in their
use and efficacy.
In the first place, Mr. Gallup
(who ought to know!) tells just
' what a modern poll is. The fam
ous Literary Digest fiasco was no
true poll, he says, because its bal
lots went to the upper economic
stratum at a time when politics
was divided economically rather
than on the point of ancient pre
judice and such like. And also
because it was a postcard affair,
and Mr. Gallup has found that
relatively spaking the upper crust
returns more of such affairs than
the rest of us.
Poll results cover a huge field,
he declares, but unfortunately
their accuracy is most likely to
be judged by their election pre
dictions. In a way, Mr. Gallup
thinks this is too bad, for he feels
that their service is far broader
and more important than mere
ly to pick a candidate who will be
picked anyway at election time.i
Perhaps, too, the fact that any
poll is practically useless in a1
very close election may have
something to do with the matter.
The possible margin of error is,
he declares, around 3 per Cem
Therefore, when the candidates
divide the vote 47-53. or any other
way inside the six-point'*'limit ->
even the industrious pollsters may
be off base.
Polling me* hods are quite care-*
fully detailed, and they are be
coming more and more rigidly
controlled. Basically, there seem
to be two general systems, one
being the barometer area system,
the other a plan of country wide
sampling. The former must be
wa'ched carefully, since barome
ter areas have a habit of losing
their representative quality. In
either system the poll may be ta
ken by random sampling or by
stratified samplipg in which citi
zens are divided in+o major
groups such as farmers, factory
workers and so on.
TEACHERS PAN
"CRY-BABY" GIRLS
BOULDER, Colo. — <AP)— Thf
National Association of College
Women in Physical Education has
decided something must be done
to correct what they call the "cry
baby atititud<P*!£o$ modern girls.
Instead of fighting problems
through, the adolescent girl often
is moody and too frequently re
sort to tears, the educators said.
They blamed the one-child fam
ily, lack of home discipline and
the small apartment life in larger
cities as causes of the situation.
FISH DON'T EAT IVY;
THEY EAT PLANKTON
WILMINGTON, Del. — (AP)—
Plankton, microscopic plant and
animal life that serves as food for
fish, thrives on chemical plant
food applied to lakes and ponds
as commercial fertilizer, accord
ing to Du Pont officials.
Fish that consume fertilized
plankton are said to be bigger,
tastier, more abundant, and gam
er than those that eat only the
usual plankton found in ordinary
unfertilized waters.
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