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MONDAY, JULY 31,1944.
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WAR PRODUCTION PLANS
According to Maury Maverick, the
WPB Smaller War Plants Chairman,
Alaska need not worry about post-war
re-conversion, as the industries of Alas
ka have not been altered to mak way
for war effort, but merely set aside for
the duration, or until released by the
board.
For one thing, Alaska must keep in:
mind the prospect of a much greater]
population following the war, and the'
fact that present industrial set-ups do not!
allow for the increase.
Alaska is blessed with a few natural
industries such as mining, fishing, lum
ber, agriculture and furs, and with an
abundance of natural scenery and last ]
frontier spots, to the satisfaction of any]
and all who like out-of-doors work and^
play.
A small industry, confined to the Na
tive population of the Territory, is ivory
carving, and fur sewing, to a great extent
controlled by the Interior Department’s
Bureau of Indian Affairs, and which is
supervised by the government teachers
in the various villages of Alaska.
Mr. Maverick seems to think that the
industry as a whole could be increased
by mass production methods, and that
the prices of the finished product be low
ered. in order to encourage more tourist
trade to Alaska. It might be possible but
would the art die out for want of origi
nality or individuality in Native carv
ings.
An artist portraying his interpreta
tions on canvas could not be sold on the
idea of mass production in original paint
ings.
A model or an original work neces
sarily has a greater cost, therefore it
should be termed in the art class, and
• classified and priced accordingly.
Plans between different branches of
the government and business bureaus and
chambers of commerce should at all
cost be co ordinated, in order to make
the post-war change-over as smooth and
as quick as possible.
With the War Production Board plan
ning the industrial angle, and the War
Laboi Board plamriuig the labor pro
gram, there should be complete co-op
eration and co-ordination of effort to
ward the goal, that must eventually be
attained, to preserve the right of men to
woi k, that his family be free from want.
The development of Alaska is a pri
mary thought in the minds of many who
are interested in the future of the Ter
ritory and plans for Alaskan projects and
industries, must necessarily depend on
transportation as a great item in the ex
penditure of funds necessary for devel
opment.
Alaska is by nature of its geographic
locality, air-minded, and as such, will
take over quickly, when transportation
by air becomes better and cheaper.
WAR LABOR SURVEY
With another important survey under
way our labor is getting its just atten
tion.
The War Labor Board is planning to
cooperate fully with both the laborer
and the employer, inasmuch as they will
bring about the system whereby the men
who wish to work will be notified of the
location of jobs, and the employer no
tified of available help.
Much can be saved in this way in time
and money, both to the employer and
employee, as there will not be the time
lost in searching for work, particularly
where the type of service is not required.
The type of laborer who follows the
mining industry, will find the work in
Alaska seasonal, and most of the labor
ers will necessarily be transient.
A limited number of the employees of
the various mining concerns in the Ter
ritory will be of a permanent nature.
Thus if the plan works, laborers will
not have to take a chance with a “last
dollar” to go to some strange area to
apply for work.
The War Labor Board agency near
his home will be able to tell him just
where he can find the kind of work he
is best able to do.
That last thought is quite important.
A man should try to find the type of
work he is best able to do, as there will
be necessarily more workers than in
dustry can use, and those best fitted for
the work will get the jobs, and be able
to keep them.
Naturally, each and every one wants
to have sufficient to keep body and soul
together, and to be free to work and play,
| md to enjoy life, and to help others do
likewise, in our post-war era.
There is only one way in which strife
and terrible struggle for existence can
be avoided, and that is through 100 per
cent cooperation, between labor, capital
and government agencies.
The government agencies which now
control labor and industry, hold the re
sponsibility for the change-over to peace
time operation, and can, to a great extent
alleviate the hardships which followed
World War I. Planning for a coopera
tive and definitely workable system of
changeover, must be the primary objec
tive today, so we will not find ourselves
in a boat on' the sea of uncertainty, with
the oars leaking. >
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LITERARY
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By JOHN SELBY
"PETAIN: THE OLD MAN OF
FRANCE," by Janet Flanner
(Simon it Schuster; $1).
) For fifteen years Janet Flan
ner’s worldly letters from France
appeared in the New Yorker over
the signature of “Genet”. This sig
nature amused a great many peo
, pie; written without the circon
flex over the last “E” it means
! a barnyard animal usually known
; in America as a “jenny”. With
I the marking, it means the plant
, we call “broom”. It seemed,
i throughout the 15 years one of
the leait Sensible signatures it
would have been possible for a
girl from Indianapolis to have hit
upon. But it was chosen in the ob
scure days of expatriation, when
j boys from Chicago, West Hacken
sack and other places were still
infesting the Lft Bank writing
fiddle-de-dee about how stupid
evrybody else was, from their own,
families up to the United States
of America.
Miss Flanner was never a
wholehearted subscriber to the
expatriate doctrine. She was
pretty sensible, in the ma n and1
in any case the New Yorker’s ha
bit of chewing over the copy its;
contributors send was a kind of;
protective barrier lor her. And
Miss Flanner did get about.
Then she got out. She came to
America again, since America was
preferable to France under the
Germans. She did a book called
•‘An American in Paris” four
years ago and after that no ma
jor opus until recently, when a
four-part profile in the New York-;
er made quite a success Its sub
ject was Henri Philippe Benon^
Omer Petain. When Miss Flanner,
got through with the Marshal he
was no longer either great or an,
enigma. He was just a vicious old;
man in his terrible dotage, an old
man with a clever physician who;
dopes his patient so that mornings
he can function with surprising
vigor. When the dope wears off,
Miss Flanner says, he merely site
and mumbles.
Miss Flanner h^s republished
the profiles as “Petain: the Old
Man of France.” She does not pre
tend to have hidden sources, but
she does use all of the quotations
from Petain’s biographers and
other writers, instead of only part
thereof. Her picture is brief,
sound, not distressingly bright,
well written.
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the Arrival of the New Ice Cream Machine.
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LADIES AID TO MEET
IN DEXTL'R FRIDAY
The Federated Ladies Aid are
to be entertained at Dexter by
Mrs. Ole Hay and Mrs. Bud Leh
man this ccming Friday The la
dies are to meet at the parsonage
at 11:30 a. m., from where trans
portation will be available. We
hope as many as possibly can will
come.—Helen Olsen, secretary.
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