Milford chronicle., 1943-11-26
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The United States Marines and
members of the Army infantry and
artillery units are driving the
"Nips" into the sea on Tarawa, and
Maxim. Latest reports from this
new theater of action are to the
effect that the last pockets of re-
sistance are being mopped up on
Maxim. But on Tarawa, the Japs
have dug bomb proof shelters and
gun pits in the coral rock and are
putting up a fierce resistance. Our
forces. however, have won a num-
ber of beachheads, and it is only
a matter of hours before the last
monkeys from Nippon will be hang
ing from trees. not by their tails,
which are long enough for the pur-
pose, but by ropes attached to
their stringy necks,
/s/S/
Much thought is being given to
the problem of providing re-em-
ployment for men returning from
military service. So far as possible,
old jobs are being kept available.
But this does not apply to one
group in the service whose jobs
were the result of years of train
ing and individual effort. When a
doctor goes to war his job cannot
be preserved for him. His patients
must go elsewhere. When he re-
turns, he must find new patients,
a slow. tedious task that will not
be made any easier by the fact that
tens of thousands of other doctors
released from the armed forces will
be doing the same thing. However.
the doctors are not kicking. All the
average doctor asks is a chance to
work in the way that he is best
fitted by environment and training
the way of the individual doctor
under the traditional American
medical system. 1t is a reasonable
request.
/s/S/
Our old friend. Bill Feather says:
Not until l read w. NJ. Kip
linger's book, Washington Is Like
That, did l realize what it costs
to live like the President
'As everybody knows, the Pres
ident's salary is $4,000 a year. OF
course he pays no rent and no trav-
cling expenses. nor does he pay for
the upkeep of his premises. The
government pays the servants. and
the bills for heat, light, and tele-
phone. Out of his salary he does |
pay for the food eaten by the fam
lily when they are alone, but when
official guests are entertained the
government pays.
"Outside the Presidents salary,
the cost of running the White
House is about -450,000, divided /
this way: For the Executive Man
sion and grounds. about $l50000; |
for the White House office, approx
imately 100000.
"'FOreign visitors are always |
amazed at the 'smallness' and sim
plicity' of the White House. says |
Kiplinger. BY foreign standards
it is no palace. Even by Ameri
can standards it is not rich man
sion, but, rather comfortable big |
house AS government buildings |
go. it is one of the smallest struc-
lures in Washington
Those of us with modest incomes
often wonder why any man needs
more than $4,000 year. A study
of the White House figures makes
it clear that if a man has a big
house and big grounds to maintain,
S25 900 won't do the job"
/s/s/
Long ago when the Bishop of
Texas was in London he was taken
to swanky balI~ at which the la
dies dresses were cut very low,
and asked if he had ever beheld
such sight.
Not" said the Bishop, "since /
was weaned. So From American
Notes and Queries: A Journal for
he Curious.
/s/s/
The belief that women dress TO
please men is a masculine faulty.
They don't dress to please anybody.
woman dresses to make some
,ther woman burn up; the triumph
S achieved when the other woman
,etrays herself by a certain CLINT
n the eye, certain cattiness of +.
,hasc couched in terms of pois-
nous sweetness Baltimore Eve