Milford chronicle., 1946-07-26

as they were during the war. All q man has
to be is a journalist, pubic relations man,
an editor, a printer, a machlnlSt, a reporter
and an office clerk. Among things that We
understand are not taught IN schools OF
journalism are how to get needed paper and
supplies when there aren't amy, how To adj
minister to the emergency ills of plant ma
chinerv when you're already behind with
vour other work, how to get a tardy Gus
toners 10 inch ad into Il page that 5 already
ON the press, how to eXplaln to 4 caller that
a column long obituary Of 4 distant relative
who is unknown in this community Is not
SPOT news, how to convey gently to ineXpcri-
enced customers that job printing isn't
something that can be sliced off like a piece
of beef and wrapped up while they wait and
how to show deepl y-telt appreciation to the
many people who are considerable.
At that we think that running news
paper is more fun than anything else We can
think of and that our customers ar" the
finest people in the world
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FOR SEVERAL. YEARS We We're told
that initiation WAS ON the way 1t reached
the American shores long before our VIC
torious soldiers and sailers began to come
back. Those men who have saved the World
found that the prices OF foods We're way up,
while clothing rent, manufactured goods ;tld
real estate We're putfed up and Inflated. In
fact initiation was the new ghost that Nuun-
ger men had never seen before. Older people
remembered the old fraud after World War
l. Now he has been turning our economies
upside down after World War II.
The trouble ballooned because there Was
an epidmec of labor strikes of unhtard pro-
portions that brought prices Of I'LL the ne
cessitieS of life to higher levels than ever
known before. That was Initiation ON tn"
higher levels and peaks. The higher WaPr
levels forced higher costs and higher prices.
OPA i'm its efforts to check Initiation WAS
forced to make 10000 separate increases
even though they did most Of it by guessing.
When OPA "foded up It's little tent and 81
Iently passed away" on July |, the initiation
was marching gaily upward.
Don't forget that the strikes closed down
factories all over the country and the rca-
son that initiation is still going is because
there has not been enough production in the
United States of everything that IS needed
by purchasers.
Take Milford for example. Today, read
estate in Milford is ut least three times A.
high as it was in 1871, and that is 4 boom
boom that is bound to bust
Just look at your farm lands, Your Will
age, town or city properties within radius
of 100 miles from where YOU live Just give
little attention to this thing we cal
the shelves of your merchants
Can YOU figure out how 4 lot Of polltl
clans operating price control IN far away
Washington ID. c., can do half the job III
to them and prevent initiation?
The law of supply and demand, and com
: petition will eventually bring prices to
normal level. Just watch the old American
+ system work. 1t has never failed since Jul,
4, 1876.
DURING THE WAR, because Of tn
manpoWer shortage, the disabled WOrke
, found for the first time a welcome sign o.
the employment office doors throughout tn
o nation Over eight of ten industries employ
ed impaired workers. Their record stand
: for itself and has disproved the old concel
n ton that they could not produce on Il pa
h with the normal worker, that they were
}, liability from an accident standpoint. In
Il disabled persons as Il group had less turn
. over less absenteeiSm, fewer accidents, an
s equal or higher production rates than tn
J., normal workers in the same plants, Whe
q SelectiVey placed, by matching their phys
c cal capacities to the demands of the job. Il
: key to their excellent record lies, in the quail
q flying phrase "When selectlVely placed.
F. Seective placement Of the impaired Wo
It ker was first started ON large scale /
# Henry Ford following the first World Wa
IS The vide applcaIlOll ol ulc pllHClp'
j. throughout industry however, is q dire
IF result of the necessities brought about |
.e World War IL and the organization with
N the United States Employment Service
n special divisions for job placement of II
Is physically handicapped. This program no
n has. in the majority of their offices, high
,d trained specialists who have placed near
a million handicapped workers ON Jobs du
ing the past six years. One of the create
obstacles to finding suitable Jobs for the phi
le sically impaired has been negative attitu
le on the part of industry, due to lack
- knowledge both of the pOtentalltieS of 4
!" handicapped as workers and of technlqu
Is of their placement. An attempt is being ma
le TO break down these attitudes by giving t.
al management, personnel directors mduStri
physicians and placement specialists obit
III tive information about the common diSabi
eH ties of workers, their effects upon WOrkil
&C ability, and the precautions necessary
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