Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-05-24
Dear Joe
By JAMES L. HICKS

Dear Joe:
CRYSTAL BALL: You may
know by this time that Joe AL
bright, former Minnesotan, ex-
master sergeant in the Army's
Special Services, is slated TO get
that top spot in the Veterans Ad-
ministratiOn as executive assistant
to General Omar n. Bradley, ad-
ministrator Of Veterans Affairs,
but what you probably don't know
is that when Joe takes over, George
Holland, ace contact man in the
local VA regional office, will be
brought in TO take over Joe's old
job as liaisOn man for the General.
+. Il. King, senior training Off
Ger in the VA regional office here,
also is due to be upped in the
shuttle following Joe's promotion.
But that's not all-General Brad
ley is slated to take over General
Dwight d. Eisenhower job as
Army Chief of Staff, and General
Bradley's VA spot will be filled by
Brigadier General II. b. Lewis
Now, don't ask what is going to
happen to General Eisenhower
can't learn everything in one day,
Joe.
Incidentally, Colonel Campbell C..
Johnson, executive assistant to
General Lewis b. Hershey. director
Of Selective Service, will get the
YMCA post from which Claiming
II. Tobias recently retired.
SAY 1T AGAIN.! 1T is diff
cult for a man who has no home
through no fault Of his own to
appreciate the beauty Of park or
to become concerned over the paper
value of someone else's home"
The speaker was Wilson Wyatt.
national housing expediter; the oc-
caSion was the American Society
of Planning Officials dinner in
New York, and, in the veterans
estimation, Mr.. Wyatt was saying a
mOuthful to the citizens who are
complaining that temporary vet
eran houses in the city parks will
spoil the landscape scenery and
lower the value of surrounding
property.
These very grateful" citizens
say it's all right for the veterans
to sleep in the park-just as long
as they don't have a roof over their
heads. (How do you spell graft
tude, Joe?
EYE CATCHING: Our nomina-
ton for the slogan of the week:
Homes for the brave-in the land
of the free" The American Vet
Grams Committee used it here last
week in a campaign to get homes
for veterans. You know what's
wrong with that? Nothing!
CTS ON PARADE: Attention
war correspondents Charlie Loeb
Of the Cleveland Call-Post and
Fletcher Martin Of the Louisville
Defender: Major Robert h. McBane
Of the Washington Post, who
shared the same foxhOles with you
guys on different islands of the
Pacific, now writing veteran arti-
cles for the twO-fisted Post and
says he often thinks Of the good
old rip-roaring war days with you
guys in New Guinea.
Benedict College in South Caro-
lima got new VA Amusement CEN
ter last week Howard University
and Meharry Medical College were
ignored when the VA asked thirty
one Class A medical schools 20 CO.
operate in the most comprehensive
residency program ever undertak-
en- to train psychiatristS." The
program involves twenty-one VA
hospital and six mental hygiene
clinics.
Wen be looking TO see if any
colored veterans attend that first
postwar garden party being given
by the President at the White
House. The Army Air Trans
port Command has just graduated
seventy-fve Wacs who will be used
as airline hostesses on the ATC's
planes from coast to coast. None
Of the hostesses are cOlored-or
did you already guess that?