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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-04
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

SAN FRANCISCO,-Soon l ex-
pect to be out in the Pacific, re-
porting on what American men
are doing to defeat our Japanese
enemy and to make us secure
from the west.
In some ways the war in Europe
is closer. 1t is being fought in
places that Americans have visit
ed or at least know about. 1t is
coming more quickly to a climax
and is the more tempting assign
ment for war correspondents.
Very frankly I would rather go
back to Europe for the big cross
channel show than to be starting
out into this somewhat neglected
war in the godforsaken wastes of
the Pacific which is being fought
over islands that no American will
ever want to see again
But some people in Washington
felt that there was not sufficient
awareness at home of how much
our men are doing and in what a
living hell they must sometimes do
it. So somebody says why do1t
I go out and get a taste of it and
so here l go, dragging these aging
bones, when it would be much
nicer to be in London living at the
Savoy Or the Dorchester and hav-
ing quiet, luxurious weekend &C.
caSionally with the TONY Biddles
in the country.
Somebody no doubt will com
plain again that l am using up
gasoline, but l have been riding
the overheated, crowded, jerky
Washington BUSES for two years
so I figure I have saved up my
quota and l have no guilty con-
science about hitchhiking my way
around.
1t may not seem to make much
sense to be doing this kind of
travelling. Yet I find that I al
ways return from these excursions
to the war zones or into other
parts of the world with better
appreciation of what we have and
what men are going through to
insure that we do not lose it.
When you get out around the
seamy side of war, and away from
the well pressed uniforms of
Washington out where they wear
CT shoes and go without neckties,
your scale of values changes.
Home front selfishness, the mink
coat psychology of wartime, and
traditional. politics and it's cheap
tricks all sink to their natural lev
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-04
Raymond Clapper Says:
War In Pacific 7heater
Placed In BACKGROUND

i ell. One misses family and friends
and the comforts of home.
But more simple sense of reali-
ty is restored. When you see men
fighting and dying so that we
can be safe back here in our
homes, you get different sense
of proportion than you do watch
ing this obscene scramble in
Washington for the profit and the
loot Of war.
And most Of all, when you go
into a combat area, you come out
feeling more deeply than ever
about the awful waste of war.
You get ambitions, the waste of
the fine spirit as men are forced
to become cold-blooded killers, the
waste of the labor and resources
of whole nations-waste of every
thing
Your come back from that with
new conviction that the supreme
task ahead is to make this VIC
tory stick, to see that it cannot
happen again.
This is like going out to cover
a vast trainwreck. The mangled
bodies scattered over the ground
are victims of somebody's failure,
of the failure to take measures
that could have been taken to en-
force law and order on agrees
sors.
The other side of it is the sacri-
flee and heroism that are to be
found everywhere. Men have CIV
en- up everything to defeat these
aggressors. The ingenuity that
goes into the enormously compli-
Gated business of war, and the de-
termination, and individual cour-
age one sees everywhere at the
front deserve to be put to some
more constructive use than this re-
curing bloody business of fighting
OUT the mistakes of the world S
politicians.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-04
Labor Turnover Costly

For longer than it IS comfortable 10 con-
template the labor turnover in the aircraft
industry on the Pacific coast has retarded
production. After working on cure the Man.
power Commission finally announces that the
"strictest labor controls eval applied in Amer
lea have worked successfully
Accepted literally, this ould mean that the
turnover had been reduced TO so small a
percentage that production had been raised
to normal. Yet, according t. survey re-
corded by the Journal Of Commerce, the in
dustry on the West coast IS still losing $1,000
workers month through turnover.
This survey shows that in eight of the lead
ing plants 3.95 per cent OF tie women and
1858 per cent of the men quitting their jobs
in any one month had worked only fifteen
days or less, and 6.19 per cent ct the women
and 6 IS per cent of the men worked less than
a full month.
At the end of three months 4.99 per cent
of the women and 5.45 per cent of the men
were through Furthermore: 45.51 per cent
of the women and 3949 r@r cent of the men
left their jobs without working a full year.
AS a result the score after year was
shown to be that approximately IS per cent
of the total number hired for that year left
the production lines. Inquiry developed that
they didn't go to other airplane plants in any
apprecable number, as Ct the new hiring in
all plants less than per CT lad ever had
previous airplane building experience, so it
has not been simply case of changing from
one plant to another
For this reason mana cement executives con-
slider that War Manpowe1 Commission figures
do not 60 far enough in summarizing the West
Coast manpower situation. Although Regional
Director William K Hopkins asserted that in
the past eight months 1G9,0 DOC workers had
been transferred from non-essentlal to more
critical war jobs, personnel executives believe
there is much more to De done by Govern
ment agencies in getting manpower into the
right places and keeping it thele.
The loss in man-hours can be computed,
but the actual cost in production cannot for,
as the Journal says: mot only do those who
leave take away their own talent, skill and
effort but take the time and energy of
scores of trained persons who are chained to
classroom, constantly teaching new employees
how to do jobs that have been filled again
and again.
The best the ManpoWer and other agencies
have been able to suggest as q remedy is
an incentive plan whereby workers would
be compensated after the war. This sounds
good deal like promising an ailing child
nickel for taking its nedicine-when it gets
well.
American aircraft cannot perform it's full
duty in destroying the enemy if men and
women needed for plane construction have to
be lured into sticking on the JOB with promises
Of a bonus.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-04
NICE PEARL-lT "WAS'

The pearl of great price IS
available only to him who has for
tltude and a strong stomach ard
can swallow an oyster raw as
Charles Hall, learned Hall, en-
ployed in the physica, testing labor
atory at Tube Turns No. 2 plant,
clamped down on Il jaw-breaker
size pearl while eating scalloped
oysters at the Fairgrounds cafe
terra. Analysed in IT,: laboratory.
the pearl. about the size of a large
grape, was estimated to be worth
about ST, 000-before it was cooked.
The Louisville Ky) Courie
Journal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-04
AsOthers Say 1t
OUR RED CROSS MOTHER

OUR RED CROSS MOTHER
l saw you last night-our Moth
er in white.
1 saw that red cross reflect in
the night.
The vagueness, so sheen and so
mistily unmarried
So fimy and cloud-like was en-.
couragingly unbarred.
Blood clothed our figure and I'M
dressed our wounds.
Hate cried from our mouths as
we looked at the mounds.
Terror gripped our threats and
clenched at our wrists.
Hate surged and rose in our
souls, in our fists.
Encouraged by the cross, we
rose, but We fell.
Deep in our hearts to be tor
tured by he'll.
The things we would do to the
enemy, we say,
Come back to us. We can and we
may.
,, The shrapnel shells bursting in
the night made a glow.
The cannons report and the ma
chine-guns row.
Of bullets spelled death and de-
struction so near
Of nights so lonely for those that
are dear.
"A thing of beauty is joy for
ever"
Said John Keats once. but he
will never
Know how those words express
ed thoughts of mine
AS lay watching from the
fiery front line.
AS we lay there on the bloody
earth's crust,
Many thoughts, some horrible
we can and We must
Came seeping and roaring like
the sea through CUR minds
Came crashing, colliding in
form of all kinds.
The pain, unceasing and with
ing. and drawn,
Ransacked our bodies from
| darkness to dawn.
But that one red cross-so dim.
and yet clear
Brought forth and encoura ged
all thoughts that were dear.
Our mothers, our brothers. our
sWeethearts and friends
All home with much comfort. but
making amends.
They're making changes and
sacrificing pure pleasure
In order that their sons and
that we might measure
Up to the standards of God and
so meant
That we climb the steps of
our ideals unbent
To higher, to loftier, to uncow-
ardly rise
To the immortal throne in the
Heavenly skies.
So out on the battlefield, I now
take leave
To white soft sheets that l shall
receive
From the white-clad lady, out
the dlmness and rain
Who came to comfort the wound
ed and slain.
That's why we call thee our
Red Cross Mother.
We boys who've experienced
your consoling hover.
We'll never forget thee NOT
ever or ever.
Or how American citizens are
pulling together.
Wen pull and we'll fight. we'll
stumble and rise
I'LL dark thunderclaps depart
from the skies.
Then all will be plain and pure
and white.
No dimness, no darkness. no
pain, and no fright.
Long live Democracy for we'll
have no other!
And We'll still have thee, "Our
Red Cross Mother"
Doris Frink
V
Bees have a life span of an.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-04
GERMANY APPEALS

MADRID, Jan. 3.-R-The Ger.
man air ministry on Dec. 81 pub
lished an appeal to youths born in
1927 and 1928 to present them.
selves for training as commission
ed and non-commissioned officers
in the Nazi air force and army,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-04
Highway $500 Feet High

Austria has a highway across
Grossglockner range, where it
rises to an elevation of 5000 feet,
which connects the provinces of
Carintha and Salzburg.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-04

Sponges may vary in weight
from one ounce to 100 pounds. J.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-04

Bees have a life span Of ap-
proximately eight years.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13
Widely Travelled
Chinese Girl 10
Fill Lecture Date
Continued From Page u

SCOnClnOeQ from rage ~
which she began at an American
Methodist school in Shanghai
From Walnut Hill she went or
to Smith College for two years an6
graduated at Yale in China. Hel
third trip was a world study
tour of child welfare work In
Asia, Europe and America. Now
for the fourth time she is here
to tell the tale of her adventurou:
escape from enemy territory tt
Free China. From Free China
she has flown all the way to oul
shores to give us her great con.
viction and to demonstrate in hel
charming person the fine product
of combined Eastern and Western
education.
Miss Yen has travelled extern.
sively, having gone around the
world twice by boat, and flown
over all five continents by plane
She lived in Europe two years
in Russia one and in the United
States eight during which she at
tended many international con.
ferences. While in Europe, Miss
Yen visited every country there
except Finland, Spain and Portu-
gal. She went from Vladivostock
across Siberia to France, from the
Scandinavian countries thru the
Battles and Ukraine to the Caspian
Sea. In the far east, Miss Yen
attended another one of her nu-
merous international conferences
in Java, thus enabling her to
travel thru the Philippine Islands,
Bali, Java, Malay and India.
Miss Yen was a member Of the
Diplomatic Corps and a delegate
to the League Of Nations in Ge-
neva to which delegates from all
over the world gathered. She
attended the Court Ball in Copen-
hagen and the Coronation Ball in
Buckingham Palace. Now she
has flown from China over the
Himalayan mountains, across AZ
RIGA. to attend the Institute Of
Pacific Relations conference in
Canada as one of China's dele
gates. Besides, she is an aviatrix
herself, having received her solo
license in Italy and her advanced
license here in the United States
in 1888.
So with Miss Yen's personal
suffering, her oriental-occidental
education, international acquain-
lance and pilots point of view,
she has a message to give US that
is worth listening to. She will
appear here January 26 at the
high school auditorium.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13
News Behind
The News
IHos,f4,a,anxl &sos,a Dana IA

ting himself elected to a county
board Of supervisors.
At once, however, he raised
the tax levy on all real estate in
the county, caused an increase in
the valuations and just about
doubled the tax bill on all the
people. I thought that would nip
his political carer practically in
embryo. But, Immediately he ran
for the state. legislature, and was
elected almost unanimously.
Both he and I found that not
a single taxpayer resented or re-
membered his permanent doubling
of their cost of living in his COM
munity, but q small group Of indi-
viduals whose lands were benefit
ed by building a sewer through
their property, thereby increasing
its value, and certain farmers who
obtained county roads through
their property, clearly remembered
his work in their interests-"de.
velopment of the count" I sup
pose they would call it-and they
whooped up almost unanimous
sentiment for him. His actions
paid off.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13
P.-T.A. to Sponsor
Exchange Department

The Parent Teachers Associa-
ton held the regular meeting in
the high school building last We'd
nesday night. It was decided to
have an exchange chairman. Any
one having an article they wish
to dispose of and that someone
else might use is asked to call
Mrs. Milton Libby (268D; and
give her your name, address and
the name of the article, then if
she has a call for such an article
she will give the caller the name
of the person who wishes to sell
and the two negotiate their own
transaction. AS next month is
P-TA birthday month two spe-
cial committees were appointed
one for refreshments consisting
Of chairman, Mrs. Winterschied,
Mrs. j. w. Graves, Mrs. Chester
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13

the second, have two new men,
bers and Sister Bolon spoke dur
ing the lecture hour.
Finley-Held pot luck dinner
December 31st before grange for
members and visitors, have re-
ceived the new sashes, at a pot
luck dinner the master conferred
with the other officers and plan
ned committees for the year and
they were appointed at the last
meeting, men put on the program
at the last meeting, ladies' drill
team will put on first and second
at the next meeting, four took
first and second and there is one
new application. The Juveniles
had one meeting. The Auxiliary
met January 5th with an all day
meeting, added two new members,
gave $500 to the community
church, plan to visit the USO
in Pasco and help entertain the
boys in service, are beginning
work on quilt to be sold later,
assisted refreshment committee
! in making out refreshment cal
endar for the year, and had Sis
ter Bolon to speak on her work.
! The financial balance is $154.
William Num- of Finley was
elected Gate Keeper in place of
Brother Harry Scott who resigned
Brother Mum and Brother Walter
Travaile as steward were installed
by Brother Hartman.
Brother w. B. Trice thanked
the Pomona for the kindness
shown him during his sudden and
severe illness at our last meeting.
ing.
Brother Carl Williams gave a
report on the work of the State
executive committee.
The lecturer reported the lectur-
er's library at every meeting and
urged the lecturers to make use
Of the material there.
The chaplain reported the
desth Of Brother w. w. Rice of
Finley.
Brother NJ. G. Clark was ap-
pointed chairman Of the postwar
committee.
The following, all Of Buena
Vista grange were initiated in the
fifth degree: Lyle and Gena Ingra-
ham, Phyllis Baker, Paul Nordby,
A. p. Thornben, Geo. Wolfe, Milda
Foisy, Henry and Dovia Doroutte,
Ed and Maud Anderson, Lois
Wheeler, Gilbert Thompson, Ber-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13

nittees appointed and are organ
izing for a lot of work, bought
a $500 tuberculosis bond, 16 of
the II officers present and re-
port 118 members as the largest
membership their grange has ever
had.
Locust Grove-Held two regular
meetings.
Vale-Have almost ceased to
meet. Held one meeting and others
are subject to call.
Kennewick Valley-Held two
regular meetings with few at the
first, but attendance better al
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13

nice Orbeck, Ruth A. Randall and
A. w. Hayes.
A rising vote of thanks was ex-
tended Buena Vista for its hospi-
tally. :
Visitors were present from Col
umbia Valley and Star in Frank
lin county, Colville Valley in Ste
vens county and Grandview in
Yakima county.
The next meeting will be Feb
18th at 200 pm. at Finley. The
HEC will hold cherry pie con-
test and asks the ladies to bring
or send a pie.
Alice B. Ayers, reporter
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13
Baptist Church Reports
Best Year in History

At the annual meeting of the
Baptist church held last week in
connection with the annual din
ner served by the Women's Cir
Gle, reports were made that show
ed the best year of the church's
history. There are no solicitation
for funds made, no collections
taken and nothing sold by any
department of the church yet the
offerings for the year showed a
balance in each department treas
ury and a larger amount than
ever given for missions and other
good causes such as the Gideons,
American Bible Society, Work for
Lepers, etc. The church has no
outstanding obligations as all bills
are paid when due. -.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13
Pomona Granqe
Opposes Plan Of
Farm Subsidies
Continued From Page y

bought $1,000 tuberculosis bond.
Horse Heaven-Held two regu-
lar meetings. drilling new assist
ant steward and LAS in their
work, had a card party.
Kiona-Benton-Have new COM
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13
THE KENNEw1cK WASHINGTON COURIER REPORTER

Durdle, Mrs. Victor Rogers and
Miss Kathleen Stinchfield, and
one for the program.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13

FOR SALE-32x14x16 aquarium
on steel stand IS inches high.
An excellent buy. Mrs. Ida Cox,
1872 Fourth Avenue East. q
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-01-13

FOR SALE-New two bedroom
house, full basement, electric
water heater, furnace, laundry
trays, hardwood floors. Down pay
ment $815, rest on contract. d. A..
Williams. Please contact Mrs.
Roger Records, Phone 1902, 1922
Kennewick avenue, Kenn. Aft
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FOR RENT - Two room house
with screened sleeping porch.
Some furniture. Come east on 9th
street to cabins at end of wood
flume. Morgan. APP
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WANTED Stenographer, teller,
or bookkeeper. Kennewick
Branch, Natl. Bank of Commerce.
Aft
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-04
JuN|EAAu'5 uS0 NEWS
Interesting Items for Everybody

fear.
And a final word of caution
Don't any of you fall for that early
GALLON Saturday-morning business
In the first place. none of YOU
daughters will learn until late thai
night who has been selected a.
Queen; in the second place, we viii
have corsage for her to wear ane
she needn't go walking all ovel
Southeast Alaska looking for wilt
flowers; and most important O.
all-in the midst of all the com.
petition to be furnished by thu
scores of lovely ESQ girls the win.
ner certainly is going to require
every minute of beauty sleep sht
can get between now and then il
order to come out on top on Sat.
urday night!
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-04
SUNDAY BICYCLE PARTY

Next Sunday afternoon (May 7th)
the USO will inaugurate its BIZ
cycling season. The party will leave
the club at 2 o'clock.
Several of the ESQ girls will be
in charge, so a good time socially
as well as athletically is assured
The destination will be Douglas, a
round-trip OF about six miles. Cor
anyone who is inclined to doubt his
ability to peddle up the hills after
an enforced absence from the sport
it should be pointed out that be-
tween here and Douglas. there is
nothing that even remotely resem-
bles a hill.)
The charge will be so cents per
man. The bicycles are being rented
by the club. If the trip lasts more
than two hours this amount will
not fully pay for the use of the
wheels; but the club will take care
|of the excess.
There is only one catch to the
announcement of the party. 1t is
weather permitting! We don't
want to acquire the reputation Of
being a pessimist, but we confess to
"a sneaking suspicion that there is
IA slight possibility that just by
chance it may rain a bit sometime
during the next several months
and it wouldn't absolutely astonish
us If drop or two of this pre-
cipitation should happen to find
Its way earthward on Sunday after
noon. Our, recollection may be
something less than perfectly ac-
curate on the subject, but we do
seem to recall possessing IN our
memory's album picture or two
OF several week-ends during the
past year-long drought when a
Sundays otherwise blazing brilli-
ance was momentarily marred by
flsecy cloud or perhaps even the
tihtest suggestion Of shower.
please, you meteoroligists at the
Weather Bureau, correct us if we
inadvertently do the local climate
an injustice, won't your
What we started out to say, try
ing not to be too blunt about it,
was IF by some miracle we hap
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-04
DELIGHTFUL EVENING

Last weeks column announced
that the Forum Club meeting on
Monday would be held at the Tx
ecutive Mansion. We referred at
that time to the keen anticipation
CT our fellows over the chance tc
meet Governor and Mrs. Gruening
in their home
1t is pleasure today to report
that the occasion proved even more
to their liking than had been ex-
pected. About sixty servicemen and
girls were there. 1t Is hard to say
whether the guests most enjoyed
the striking kodactlrolne slides pre-
scented by the Governor and his in
teresting accompanying comments
together with his discussion OF
Alaska's future, or his and Mrs
Gruening's delightful hospitality
including the serving of delicious
refreshments and doing everything
to make us feel comfortable Every
enc, we believe, was about equally
impressed by both these features
Certainly it would be hard to inn
agine anyone more gracious ane
thoughtful toward their guests than
were Governor and Mrs. Gruenine
that evening. The USO is deeply
grateful to them.