The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-17

"ol tiy Ol Cile ever Deautltul Texas girls.
 A Dallas advertising man said he's fighting this war "so that I can have the privilege of calling the President whatever I like" In Texas, diners bet quarter against the waitress that she will not bring the ordered food it's a safe bet so the trick is to get your quarter down first, then etiquette demands that someone else at the table match 1t The personnel director of a factor was introduced to me as a man who can speak for 10th the employer and the worker" Since when? But the wheat smells good in the fields, and the sun Is burning hot, and the banks are bulging with savings of farmers the constant headline in the papers over the state is: Local Bank Reaches Record Deposits.
 A Kansas industrialist, sitting in tn middle of these United States far from the Atlantic, equally far from the Pacific, says: We're fight ing all out war, all right. But there's a great deal of difference between making gun and being happy about it, with all this inter- ference in free enterprise" (Hls company is making more money than ever beforeD
 The Pacific coast feels the hot breath of Japan . the war in Eu- rope for the Coaster is a prelimin- ary barrier to getting on with the real job against the Nips A two-fEted Congressional investigat- ing committee could do a bang-up job on the West Coast shipping situation . that is, if ships are built to be used for the purposes ships are made San Francisco has women trolley, truck, taxi and motorcycle drivers Treasure Island is now a naval base. the buildings are camouflaged and the oandstand where Benny Goodman played for Fairgoers is just a handy resting spot for sailors wait ing for a San Francisco bound bus.
 Standard dress for women ship yard and aircraft workers is man. nish pair of slacks, bright colored shirt and bandanna :. but whereas Portland's women ship yard workers wear multi-colored bandanas Seattle's women workers in the Boeing Fortress factory wear bright, solid colors .. It has noth- ing to do with the old school tie At Kaiser's Oregon yard you watch them drive rivets, turn your back, turn again and the ship iS going down the ways.
 The gold rush is on in the north west .. high school kids are mak- ing fifty and sixty dollars a week At midnight the streets of Portland and Seattle are crowded with youngsters, but many of them are going home from work Montana's ranges are damned with cattle, yearlings which ordinarily would have been slaughtered Montana's copper miners are fum- ing they want more than a pound and half of meat per week in their lunchboxes that's what the shipyard workers in New Or leans want, too <. the copper min- CTS are now trying to get special meat rations "to give us the strength to dig copper"
 Each group you talk to, from coast to coast and border to border, wants something The most touching was this: Soldiers at Seattle's Fort Lawton, just returned after sixteen months in Alaska, pleaded: Cant you get someone, maybe the Presi- dent or Congress or someone, to send some films, books and play ing cards to the boys in Alaska. These USO commandos in the States don't need them as much as the forgotten men in Alaska" |"