Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-27
GENIAL PERSONALITIES
IN HIGH UP JOBS

- - 1t is pleasing to know, of course. that
many of the men now occupying key and
: vital places in the government respond
to the Characterization of being congen-
/. la which inevitably are reported by call
-ers. either individuals, writer's or con-
eressmen Now that's Just fine, but such
reports smack of patronizing and are in
lieu of being able to announce satisfac
tory results from such interviews. 1t
would be good news for someone to en-
-erge from a conference at the White
House, or the offices of the secretaries of
state, war and navy right now with boy,
are they tough customers, but are they
getting things DONE.
- All of which is to say that genial per-
sonaities will not win the war; passing
the buck along with a CHEEKY smile and
good joke is passe. Well and good if
The leaders responsible for the conduct
of the nations hazardous affairs can
do the trick and keep on smiling, but they
have got to have something more as stock
s,in trade.
- Typical of these soft-spoken reports
are those broadcast after visits with Sec
~retary Hull. And he is congenlal per-
son. In fact, one of the outstanding news
paper correspondents, describes Hull as
s1ovable of character" This writer is
how many hundreds of times do we read
that "the president was in the best Of
humor" during our visit. And that com
prised the sum and substance of what
such visitors carried away.
All this reminds us of the answer of
an old-time band leader when a pros
pective player was described by a friend
who wanted his pal on the band, as ''he is
fine chap and everybody likes him and
his cCnganial manner Said the band
leader. chat is fine but what | want is
2 so-and-so who can play the clarinet
= Secretary Hull turned group of law
makers away the other day, after con
penial," but fruitless session in which
the group wanted something definite on
world policies. And this group, if no
other, was entitled to the information.
Then when members of the visiting deleg-
alton ignored the old stereotyped report
Of mice time was had by alf' and be-
gan telling about the emptyness OF the
meeting. the genial secretary fell back
on the old crack "that the report was
garbled."
Well. it is mighty hard to garble moth
ing and it is to be hoped the congress
men will not be bluffed out and will go
ahead telling the real story.
Things have gone on long enough as
-ene-man or closed-shop proposition.
For a long time the enemy has known
far more than the American people
about the vital aspects of fighting and
their is no longer need to veil facts and
policies from the public.
From now on no one will care now
tough or hard-boiled the top officials ap-
pear if they will get to the business IN
hand.
: Hollywood is in one of its periodical
upheavals. You are welcome to it, Holly
wood
~s
.. More power to Ell Centro officials in
their crusade to clean up the city's alleys.
: The condition has been nothing less than
criminal carelessness. Plain disease
breeding And when once clean, for Pete,s
sake let's keep them clean.
~
ga A high up British general in India,
commenting on skirmishes with the IN
= vading Japs said, ''We are bloodying their
nose" That's penny-ante stuff
- The main trouble with Vesuvius help
: ing the allies in its recent eruptlons, Is
: that it's activities are like the slow run
: hing baseball player who did all his run
= nj, in n1acp