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very anxious to get Ed out of the house.
His mother admonished them as they
left: Don't you take him in that air.
plane OF course, that was the first
thing Dad Dyess did I think Ed must
have begun to have loved flying then
"He went to John Tarleton College at
Stevensville, Tex. He was good athlete
and good student. He was fine half
miller and relay man on the track-he
made two letters and broke his own
record. He played football. He was al
ways leader and head of his class.
John Thomas Davis, dean of Tarleton,
called him an inspiring leader, inaugu-
rating and promoting many student
movements which will prove of benefit
to the college in years to come. On his
last trip across the continent, he paid
tribute to Tarleton by dipping his plane
over the institution as he flew by!
Eds active interest in flying started
when he left Tarleton at 10. He went
Immediately to Randolph Field and from
there to Kelley Field. He had eight years
OF flying service and thousands of flying
hours. He was an especially fine pilot.
When met him he was stationed at
Hamilton Field-the youngest squadron
chief in the service The fate of over
80 fighter planes, 80 officer pilots and
l60 enlisted men rested in his hands.
He liked men and knew how to manage
them.
Il was on my way to Honolulu and
visiting friends at Hamilton Field. Ed
Dyess was blind date When I walked
into the officers Club I didn't know
he was my blind date but the moment
l saw him, I made up my mind he
would be my husband! He was a first
lieutenant at the time. We went into
San Francisco for dinner and dancing
at the Mark Hopkins and my friends
said they might as we'll have gone
home as we danced and talked only
to each other!
Il went on to Honolulu intending to
stay several months, but was only there
three weeks 1 returned to San Fran
cisco and we became engaged. I met
him on September 8 and we were mar
ried on November go 1t was Just a
small wedding-his commanding off,
Ger and wife and about 20 people. We
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an employe counselor, who locates the
young man desperately i'll in a hotel in
an Ohio town. Arrangements are
quickly made for his return to Phila-
delphia and for disqualification until he
is able to return to work.
An efficient young woman employe-
in her teens-begins to lag in her job
the quality and quantity of her work is
decreasing. In friendly interview the
counselor learns that she is carrying an
unbearably heavy burden. A younger
brother, a problem youth at home, has
been sent to live with her. Both the
financial and disciplinary responsibility
are found to be too great for the i'm
mature girl. In addition to worries over
the boy, she is discouraged because OF
her belief that she has failed her family
in not finding solution to the problem.
All phases Of this troublesome domes-
tic situation are discussed between the
counselor and the employe. AS result
the family sends the boy to a school.
successful in handling that sort of case.
The employe is relieved of a too-great
responsibility and valuable employe is
restored to normal efficiency in her war
work
A young man develops a feeling of ILL.,
will towards his supervisor because he
thinks he is being used beneath his
ability. He loses interest in his work
and his production goes down. The
counselor points out to him why he is
not equipped to fill the advanced posi-
tion which was given to some one else
He therefore asks for and is given advice
in mapping out course Of study which
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will qualify him for promotion.

will qualify him for promotion.
There was the case Of capable middle
aged woman who created bad depart
mental situation by outspoken resent
ment over division of her responsibilities
when her reduced efficiency made such
action necessary. 1t was found that be-
cause Of the condition of her teeth she
was unable to eat sufficient nourishing
food her health had become impaired
ana her nerves were at the breaking
point. Arrangements were made for a
sufficient leave and an emergency loan
to permit necessary dental attention. A
Well-trained and formerly valuable en-
ploye was restored to her job.
And here is an illustration of how en-
ployes have been lost because the coun-
selor did not have the case brought to
her attention in time. A young girl had
made all arrangements for a new job
before she indicated dissatisfaction with
the work she had been doing for eight
months. In the exit interview it was
learned that the source of her annoy
ance was such an easily adjustable situa-
ton that she regretted her decision to
leave. An excellent employe, for eight
months valuable to the Army service
forces, was lost because no one had
sensed the trouble.
The personnel counseling service has
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the pioneer unit in developing COUNSEL
ing activities-who suggested to this
writer that the operations of the coun-
selling system are In effect an attempt
to introduce the Golden Rule" in the
handling of business and industrial per-
sonnel
''You cannot produce material without
efficient personnel" he said. Personnel
relations means human relations. The
human problems come first. In such
matters the Golden Rule seems to work
pretty well. Of course, we do not al
ways succeed but at least this represents
a conscious effort to apply it in the field
of mass employment and mass pro-
duction. Human reactions are apt to
get cold when put into big numbers.
We must remember at all times that we
are not playing checkers or chess with
inanimate Objects
In taking a leaf from the book Of
private industrial experience by insti-
tuting these services, it is apparent that
owing to the great size of the Army
Service Forces, both in numbers and
geographical distribution, the ASF is
applying them on a scale never before
attempted in American industry and
management. Private enterprise, in
turn may find many useful lessons from
the results of this activity in the post
war period.
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spent our honeymoon at lodge up in
the snow in Northern California. We
were together II months before he went
overseas. We had been married three
years and % days when he had his ac-
cident
i was with him II weeks when he
came home. We lived a lifetime in
those weeks. He seemed to be in retro
spect. When he would come away from
some of the phone calls from parents
wanting to know whether their sons
were dead or alive, he would break out
in sweat, and I could tell the strain
he was under.
The thousands of letters We re-
ceived have been answered in the ma
jority but I saved many out for him to
answer. He went to Washington to
tell his story when he first came back
in august. His reports were confden-
tlal. He knew that as soon as his story
was released it might help those boys
left behind.
AT least it couldn't hurt them. He
understood Jap psychology. He claimed
that the Japs would turn around and
give them ice cream just to make liars
out of u.s.
when the War Department gave him
permission to release the story, he had
four days to do it in. He gave it to
the Chicago Tribune. They paid him
personally, but he never drew on that
money. He wanted to help the boys
that came out and their families. He
also wanted to give a percentage of
anything he might make to the Air
Corps Relief and to the Red Gross to
whom he felt he owed his life. The
Red Cross finally got in, and he said
he gained courage just by their being
there"
Mrs. Dyess has no plans for the fu-
ture. Before her marriage she was
Marajen Stevick. Her father, who
owned string of newspapers, was pub
Usher Of the News Gazette in Cham
paign, Ill. She and her mother now
continue the management of this news
paper. They will probably 60 back
there. However, Mrs. Dyess says she will
spend very little time in the newspaper
office but will devote most of her hours
doing Gray Lady work at a Chanute
Field nearby.
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She started going to the National SYM
phony concerts but she felt that she
couldn't understand" the music. She
wanted to know more about the music
itself, the instruments, the composers.
They Wanted Good Music.
That's the story the recreation off,
cials told the National Symphony
Government workers wanted music at
a price they could afford to pay and
they wanted to understand the music.
Government workers, they explained,
would help support the orchestra If it
met their own particular needs
Actually, this interest in music has
been an individual thing, spreading from
desk to desk and division to division
Finally, in recreation poll of some
Government agencies, music was placed
at the top of the several lists.
Robert M. Holmes, jr, president OF
the Federal Employees Recreation Coun-
Gil and one of the vice chairmen OF the
new Government committee co-operat-
ing with the symphony, gave few ex-
amp3cs Of the kind Of Government
workers who want music
He told Of Navy Department en-
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things as rooms, housing, food, trans
portation, proper associates, recreation,
etc.-and in thousands of cases delicate,
personal problems, and 90 to provide a
direct shortcut channel of relationship
and mutual cooperation between the
personnel office and the worker
From the very start the counseling
staff in Washington eliminated at the
source thousands Of petty grievances
that would have mushroomed into per-
sonal problems requiring hearings, ap-
peals and reviews. Nevertheless, 1t was
never intended to be and never has been
a grievance mechanism.
Above all else, the counsels have been
preserved as sacredly private. Each in
dividual who has talked problem over
with counselor knows that secret con-
fldence will be kept.
Monotony is one problem which an
Army Service Forces employe counselor
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emphatic in their enthusiasm over the
noticeable Improvement in worker
morale, with resultant lowered absentee
ism ana turnover, and marked increase
in output. In one department of the
Army Service Forces exit interviews
have been effective in inducing so per
cent of the employees contemplating
most interesting that In the analysis of
job difficulties, rs per cent of them have
proved to be personal problems.
Case Histories
Now for few illustrations of how
individual cases are handled:
On her way to Washington to fill a
wartime job, a young woman from a
Western State loses her purse. She is
referred to an employe counselor. The
girl has never been away from home
before and the unfortunate experience
has shattered her self-confidence and
she has mind" to return home.
Money is advanced to her The coun-
selor helps her work out budget which
will permit repayment of the loan within
reasonable time. She is referred to q
dormitory where she will be able to live
well within her means and have the
companionship of other young women
engaged in Government work Thus
provided for she settles down with con-
tented mind and gives undivided atten-
ton to her job.
A young man is sent on an official
trip to a Chicago office of the Army
Service Forces. Chicago reports he has
not appeared. His case is referred to
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War Department Coo Iron Out Personal Problems Speed Produc
BY Will P. Kennedy.

The War Department has put the
golden rule" to work to expedite win
ming the war and restoring peace on
earth"
Mass production of essential war
materials has been geared to the facts
OF industrial life, through the medium
of the Army Service Forces Employee
Counseling Service, to obtain the best
use Of the dwindling supply OF man
power by developing and insuring the
largest possible body OF well-adjusted
and enthusiastic civilian war workers.
With between 100000 and 100000
civilian employees, the Army Service
Forces, under 1t. Gen. Brehon .Somer-
veil, commanding general. is the largest
single employer of civilian labor in the
Nation. BY the same token, it has the
greatest variety of business activity
ever directed by single management
IN the United States-procurement, pro-
duction, storage, training, transporta-
ton and the delivery to all parts of
the globe of everything our fighting
forces and those of our Allies need
This is large order, dependent to
a great degree upon continuity of serv-
ice by competent and experienced per-
sonnel. For the purpose. therefore, of
establishing personnel program which
would, first, promote the recruitment
of manpower; second, contribute to the
reduction of turnover and absenteeism
and, third, increase efficiency and out
put, the ASF has set up an employee
counseling service with a staff of we'll
trained men and women drawn from
industry. education, social agencies and
Government.
For Maximum Efficiency
1t was early appreciated that no ele-
ment in the major task of the ASF mis-
ion-production-is more acute or vital
than the point of view Of the people
doing the work; their personal attitude
toward the job-their will to work. their
interest in their work and their re-
liability at work. And War Department
management has recognized that there
are three main factors necessary to
bring about satisfactory adjustment
OF the individual to his job in order to
obtain maximum efficiency. These are:
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ED was born in Albany, Tex, where
he spent his young life It's town of
about 2,500-the home of the Hereford
The last direct words his parents had
from him before Bataan were: Save me
a Hereford, Shackleford County steak"
He was brought up in a very religious
home, but he wasn't sissy in any sense
Of the word. He was as close to being
good as any man could be- He has
one sister, Elizabeth Nell Denham, who
had baby boy just few days before
Eds accident. She named him William
Edwin Denham Eds father, Richard
t. Dyess, was a county judge up until
few years ago. He's now head of the
local draft board. He's the kind of man
people depend upon, and Ed inherited
that dependability.
He developed his love of flying
through his father His first airplane
ride was taken when he was years old
sitting on his fathers lap. There was
circus in town and Dad Dyess was
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Cd Security Of basic needs-a place to
live, right foods. clothing, health and
money to meet obligations. CD Security
Of the job-and in the job-recognition
for individual contributions; equitable
status in terms of promotion and pay in
ratio to capacity and the work to be
done; understanding of policies, regu-
lations and relationship to them; assur-
ance OF sound and fair practice in the
job; and their inclusion as a significant
part OF the war program. 90 Security
within self-normal, off-the-job inter-
ests, friends and reasonable time for per-
sonal affairs
These counselors have been success
fully applying for the past two years
activities of such nature to fit the
needs of some 10000 War Department
civilian employees in Washington and ex-
tending them as rapidly as possible over
100000 employees in far-flung camps,
posts and stations in continental United
States where the war demands have
placed them in widely diversified Jobs.
Employe Counselors
The employe counselor acts as the eyes
and ears of the personnel officer who is
the liaison officer between management
and employees. He-or, for the most
part, she-works out a plan with the
employe to adjust difficulties which
stand in the way of satisfactory job per-
formance, and indicates the presence
and location of factors detrimental to
worker efficiency and productivity, which
the personnel officer calls to the atten-
tion of management
The use of these "counselors" to help
speed up the war effort was first de-
scribed at hearings last June before the
Ramspeck Civil Service Committee by
James P. Mitchell, director, industrial
personnel division headquarters.
In May, 1912, Gen. Somervell de-
cided a special staff was required to
cope with the problem, and counselors
were recruited.
1t was emphasized that-"the coun-
selor's responsibility is to help the work.
er to help himself; not to solve the en-
ploye's personal problems for him."
Wedding Out Waste
While humanitarian toward the work.
ers, the entire program has been
adopted strictly on business basis. The
counselor service is in no sense a PAM
pering, coddling agency to baby" ado
lescent employes-in fact, some of its
conferences have resulted in saving the
services OF veteran and valued expert
enced workers.
It is a commonsense way of wedding
out the causes Of waste-waste Of time
and manpower materiel-and, ultimately,
the lives Of fighting men. 1t is working
effectively in building morale, reducing
costly turnover and absenteeism, and
achieving marked increase in output
Of essential and desperately needed war
munitions.
The counselors had new threefold
Job: Q) To help orient employees (many
Of them very young and away from
home for the first time) to their re-
sponsibility in an all-out consolidated
effort to end the war as soon as possible;
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Bv Mayme Ober Peak.

BY Mayrne Ober Peak.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif-They were CIV
ing dinner party that night-De-
cember %. Col. Dyess, before going to
the airfield, had visited the florist and
personally chosen flowers for the table
and the entire apartment. Walking
down Crescent Heights boulevard with
his arms filled with the flowers he loved,
he must have felt how wonderful it was
to be alive-and back home again.
His lovely young wife had million
things to do. They had been back and
forth across the continent several times
during the II weeks since his miraculous
return. 1t was three days before Christ
mas . her mother was visiting her
from Champaign, Ill. Her time had
been so occupied she had put off going
to the beauty parlor until the afternoon
Of the party.
She never kept the appointment.
While she was dressing, her mother was
who said he was in the lobby and
wanted to see her privately. When Mrs.
Stevick went down, the old friend, ac-
companied by two Army officers and
chaplain, broke the news that 1t. Col.
William Edwin Dyess-air ace, hero of
Bataan, who last summer escaped after
many months from Japanese prison
camp, had crashed within few miles
of his Hollywood home. When Mrs.
Stevick had sufficiently recovered from
the shock, she led the little group to
the Dyess' apartment. Mrs. Dyess had
just put the finishing touches to her
fowerladen dinner table and was in
her room putting on her hat when her
mother entered. "Marajen," she said.
Lou wants to see you.
There are two Army officers with
him and" she hesitated, "a chaplain.
"Marajen, they have something to tell
you"
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Star Stan Photo.

CD to provide a place where the indi-
vidual employe could bring his, or her,
problem-concerning, for instance, such
Is certain never to face in her own Job.
In one critical housing area, counselors
have organized corps of community
leaders to make house toulouse plea
for rooms to be rented. Where recrea-
inadequate, they have dickered with
bowling alley owners and moving picture
house managers for change in business
hours to accommodates workers. Great
care is always taken to avoid duplication
of existing community facilities.
Establishing Day Nurseries
Counselors often work through man
agement or through the community to
bring about the establishment of day
nurseries, or extended transportation
and restaurant facilities. Or they work
with employees themselves in the i'm
provement Of dormitories or rest rooms,
or in the establishment of recreational
programs. In highly congested areas
much emphasis is given to nutritional
and general health programs to keep at
a minimum the danger of epidemics. To
all these problems, in addition to the
ever-present personal matters of child
care, debt, family troubles, need for legal
aid, personality adjustment and job
grievances, the employe counselor gives
critical attention.
Departmental supervisors in Army
Service Forces installations where en-
ploye counseling is we'll established are
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workers and of the Government girl
sent to the Federal Recreation Commit
tee by her employe counsellor.
This girl didn't seem to be interested
in anything, but she wanted something
to do after working hours. None of the
suggestions seemed to appeal to her.
Finally, she was asked what she had
done in her spare time back home, She
said she had her own orchestra.
Form Own Orchestras.
A notice was promptly inserted in her
agency's news letter Musicians volun-
teered and she formed an orchestra, sent
home for her music and now plays In
her orchestra at servicemen's clubs
Dozens of orchestras and choral
groups have grown with even less sup
port in the Government departments
as the most tangible evidence of the
musical interests of Uncle Sans boys
and girls.
One symphony orchestra in a Gov
ernment agency grew out of a choral
group organized for q Christmas play.
A Government worker, now retired,
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Form Own Orchestras.

Continued on Page C-5)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
British BoInbers
Blast Stettin
In Sweeping Raid

LONDON, Jan. 6. (UP)-British
oombers, hundreds strong rocked
Stettin, Germany's main Baltic
supply port for the northern Rus
sian front, with block busters in a
heavy moonlight raid early Thurs
day while twin-engined Mosquitoes
dropped explosives across Axis Eur
ope from Berlin to the French in
VaSion coast.
Daylight bombers sent the almost
nonstop assault on the Pas de
Calais area of the French second
front" through its 36th hour with
new attacks this morning.
Resuming their role in the Allied
pre-invaSion aerial offensive after
tWo-night rest, the RATS four
engined heavyWeights scattered a
great weight of fire and demolition
bombs t~1r the docks, warehouses,
shipyards, arms works and aviation
gasoline refinerieS of Stettin only a
few hours before dawn.
"a Berlin broadcast heard by the
United Press in New York said
North American" bombers again
attacked Kiel and Dusseldorf under
heavy cloud cover this morning,
but the broadcaster was believed to
have intended to refer to yester-
days American attacks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06
County Organizes
For Bond Drives

Imperial county rapidly is being
organized for the big Fourth War
Loan drive, Ben Herring, county
secretary said Thursday
In company with Herb FaWcett,
county chairman, he has attended
meetings in most of the towns in
the county where chairmen have
been chosen and drive plans organ
lied. At Calipatria Frank Rubel
has been named to head the local
drive.
Ell Centro's drive leaders met in
the Chamber of Commerce build
ing Wednesday night and laid
plans for the big drive. John Nc
Neese is manager, M. o. King,
chairman of the Third Retailers
Army, Bill Outlook, publicity chair
man and Arno Yaeckle, city chair
man.
A great deal of effort and results
are to be expected of the third
army which comprises some 100 re-
tailers and 600 Ell Centre employees.
Secretary Herring told the group
Wednesday night that there has
been a lot of loose talk about people
having cashed in bonds to buy at
drive campaigns. The national fig
ures show that in more than 2l2
years to August 1913, only $50 per
cent of the bonds were caShed, not
81 per cent as some reports indi-
cate.
He read a letter from L. A. Nor
gan, vice-chairman of the Banking
ind Investment Division which was
directed to Herb Fawcett, county
chairman. The letter stated, THE
treasury is not alarmed Our
observation is that people are hold
ing on to bonds as savings more
carefully new than ever before
Approximately 94.48 per cent of
the approximately twenty billion
dollar war bonds taken in on Series
E, F. and G are still in force"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-06

WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.
(UP)-The U. S. government
Thursday accused the huge
British Imperial Chemical Indus
tries, Ltd, two American firms and
six individuals, including two men,
bers of the British nobility, with
violating the Sherman antitrust act
in the manufacture of chemica
products, firearms, and ammunition
Attorney General Francis Biddle
announced that a civil complaint
has been filed in U. S. district court
in New York charging a continuous
conspiracy since before 1920
Named as defendants were:
E. 1. Du Pont De Nemours and
Co., Inc, Wilmington, Del; Lammot
Du Pont, chairman Of the board
and Walter S. Carpenter jr., presi-
dent.
Remington Arms Co., Inc, Bridge
port, Conn; Charles +. Davis, pres
ident and general manager.
Imperial Chemical Industries. Ltd,
London, Eng; Harry Duncan Nc.