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Reorganization Jitters
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON — Anyone wanting permanent
work in Washington these days is smart if he
gigns up as a baby-sitter. It used to be that a career
in a government agency was a good thing with a
future in it, but not no more.
Al these firings and resignations of government
people from cabinet members on down has given
the capital one of the worst cases of reorganiza
tion jitters it ever had. Consequently, hiring out
by the hour to watch the neighbors’ kids on parents’
night off offers a lot better chance for advance
ment than passing the Civil Service examination
and trying to work your way up in bureaucracy.
And if, in addition to minding the baby you can
develop a little talent as a cook or a butler and
yard man, old age and possible unemployment
need offer no terrors. l
Why even working as a Western Union mes- ,
senger or as a cub reporter in a newspaper office,
which used to be the most transitory jobs in the
"world, offer steadier employment than the govern
ment these days.
When even Harry Hopkins resigns, then you
know nothing is sure. ° {
Latest of these resignations, of course, is Secre
tary of the Treasury Henry W. Morgenthau's. '
When Fred Vinson moves in, he will no doubt
want to reorganize completely. That’s what they
all do, from President Truman on down.
Truman has asked Congress for authority to
reorganize the whole government set-up, and
though Congress has shown no hurry about grant
ing his request, there just couldn’t be more re
organization than is going on all over town right
now. The place is like a circus grounds after the
big show has struck its tents at midnight to move
on to the next town. You don’t see how they'll
ever get it together again. ¢
Advent of Justice James F. Byrnes as ‘Secretary
of State has started a flock of rumors of forth
coming wholesale reorganization. b
JITTERS FOR JOB-HOLDERS
One department of _government and many job
holders are jumpy, about their future. Generally
forgotten is the fact that the Department of State
_has already been reorganized twice in the last 18
months, one ‘in January, 1944, and again in De
cember when Secretary Edward R. Stettinius took
over with his “team.”
Part of the big scrambie .in State Department
-now is to try to get taken along to London, when
Stettinius goes there to work on the interim United
Nations Organization. Any of the Stettinius team
that gets let out may try to tag along to UNO,
unless such action is vetoed by the President and
Byrnes. |
, Seeretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, who has
been toying with reorganization of his department
since he took office last January, still isn’t ready
to announce his plans and won't be for a month
or two, Shortly after Wallace took over, he asked
every division chief for an outline of projects
then being worked on. These are being studied
as the basis for the Wallace reshuffle.
Department of Agriculture’s absorption of War
Food Administration under the new Secretary
Clinton P. Anderson is having no immediate effects.
People who had been working for’ WFA will in
general go on doing the same things they did
_before only as employes of the Department of
Agri(_:ulture, Not to be overlooked, however, is
the fact that Secretary Anderson “has brought
back to Washington Milton Eisenhower, E. W.
Gaumitz and Jerry Thorne, all former employes
of the department, to work out a complete re
organization of that far-flung bureaucracy.
. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach has
a similar group planning reorganization of the
.Department of Labor. Schwellenbach's passes at
; bringing other labor agencies under his wing have
of course created a certain amount of uncertainty
in National Labor Relations Board, War Board,
War Manpower Commission and Social Scurity
Board. Incidentally, NLRB itself has a new chair
man in Paul M. Herzog.
~ Only Harold Ickes and his Department of the
Interior proceed in unruffled peace and quiet, the
last vestige of the New Deal, the only thing to
cling to in a city of shifting sands where the one
constant is eternal change. ;
T Some men get a reputation for truthfulness: be
cause they can't think quickly enough.
Last year’s geography class can look forward
to beginning all over again when school starts.
A bore is a person who talks when you want to.
WISE LECGISLATION APPROVED
The approval by the Houses Veterans
Committee of a bill giving to the veterans
the right to ‘work in closed shops, without
being forced to become members of any
organization or union, is just and fair leg
islation, to which the servicemen ax‘e:l
entitled.
Of course, this bill will be met with op
position from labor sympathizers, in both
House and Senate. It also provides for the
veterans the right to obtain mandatory
injunctions to require enforcement of the
proposed law . In speaking of the biil
Chairman Rankin, Democratic, Mississip
pi, said “it is to give our veterans the first
freedom—that is, the freedom to work for
their daily bread.” :
With the return of the veterans to the
states, it is high time for Congress to
enact legislation for their benefit and to
protect them from the greedy whims and
desire of those whomake up tyrant labor
unions. :
When this bill reaches the floor of the
Rouse and the Senate there will be «
fierce fight over its adoption, but such op
position should not discourage those who
believe in giving the veterans a fair deal
to make a living, and to once more take
their places in civilian life. |
CHURCHES INLUENCE IN CHINA
The influence of the churches in China
has proved of great help in America’s re
lationship with that country. According
to an article on the work of our churches
and their missioneries which says: “one of
the most fortunate and important points
about thesituationis that this relationship
can’be built on a basis of Christian under
standing, since many if China’s foremost
contemporary leaders are Christian. For
this, Americans of today have to thank
their missionary forefathers who braved
a long rough voyage and lived for years
in lonely isolation, in cities where a for
eigner was hardly tolerated and often
despised. They did this because they be
lieved that the Church must be buily in
China. i
“Ag a result of their efforts—mnot of
Americans alone but of men and women
from many lands—Christianity is today a
growing, living power in China. There are
still millions who have not been reached
by it, the, work yet to be done is vast, but
the Church in China is a reality and has
taken root there.”
With the war picture turning more and
more towards the Orient, and China, now
one of our great allies, relationships will
grow closer and the two hations will no
longer look at each other like hostile
strangers. For through friendship and un
derstanding, they are preparing to worh
ltogether for a better and brighter future
and the churches of America have playec
lan important part.
PIMPERNELS OF WORLD WAR I!
Unnumbered millions have read and
been thrilled by the pseudo-historical nov
el, “The Scarlet Pimpernel.” As will be
recalled, the plot was laid during the
French Revolutionary period and related
to efforts let by the “Pimpernel” to smug
gle out of France those intended for the
guillotine. .
Doubly interesting to everyone familial
with the story is the recent disclosure that
the recent war in Europe had its extreme
ly modernized version of the Pimernals
They were the members of two secret
special mission airbone squadrons, operat
ing out of a small village in England.
" They carried arms, ammunition, food
medical supplies, radio setsand an almos!
endless list of materials to undergrounc
fighters in all occupied countries. They
\carried skis and sleighs to Norwegians and
"bicycles bearing the stamps of Frenct
‘manufacturers to French patriots. They
‘dropped underground agents in all occu
pied countries and returned others by
‘hundreds to England for sabotage train.
ing. They took extreme risks, and man)
paid for their daring with their lives.
They have provided one of the most
thrilling, most heroic chapters ol the war.
They rendered a service of importance
all out of proportion to their numbers
‘Not even_the Scarlet Pimpernel himself
}could have asked or done more. He would
have been proud to have numbered
himself among them.
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This is a true story of the
men who fly the “hump”—
carrying passengers and car
go over the high Himalayas
between India and China. Pi
lots call it 'the toughest air
line route in the world.
FLYING THE BURMA ROAD
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In the summer of 1942 the Japs
‘nvaded Burma, cutting off Chi
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na Road. The cutting of the ro%g
{idn’t, perhaps, mean much
nost Americans, including “Hys
self: but it meant a great deal“tb
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difference between keeping China
in the war as an active and val
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Tapan, and losing her, a starved
nd wornout victim,.to our com
non enemy.
China had endured a blockade
»f its western coast for years, but
lad been able to do so only be
ause its back door was open.
Suns, machinery, trucks, food ang
nunitions had been flowing in a
onstant—although thin—stream
up through Burma and Rangoon
m the Bay of Bengal, along the
tortuous route of the Burma
Road, and thus into the interior
»f China. ;
Now, with the Japanese seizure
f French Indo-China and the
utting off of the Burma Road at
its uppermost point in Burma,
hat back door was virtually
~losed. It would have béen com-
Sletely so had it not :beén for
Pan-American Airways. and the
far-seeing, indomitable Chinese
‘eader, vhiang Kai-Shek.’ : |
Between these two—Chiang on
the one hand and William Bond,
Pan-American’s representative in
Burma and China—the loss of the
Burma Road was quickly mini=
mized.
In Upper Assam, almost due
aorth of Rangoon and within an
even shorter distance of Calcutta,
they had established the eastern
sase of Chiang Kai-Shek’s newly
founded, personally owned, but
Pan-American - operated, China
National Airways Corporation.
From Dinjan, in Assam, China
National’s air route led directly
sast over the most difficult flying
terrain in the world, across Up
per Burma and the Jap-held ter
ritory surrounding the . captured
Burma Road, and terminating 700
miles inside China at Kumming,
in Yunnan Province. |
The only problem facing Bond
and Chiang Kai-Shek after they
jad laid out that route was find
‘ng men who would be willing
o fly it.
In August, 1942, 1 decided to
approcah Pan-American Airways
about a job. I knew they had
seen ferrying planes to England,
Russia and China under contract
with the government.. So I went
Jown to their New York office in
the Chrysler Building and talked
to Captain Hal Sweet. .
He was much impressed with
the flying experience I had had,
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which included a year ferrying
ships for the Air Transport Aux
iliary of the R. A. F. in England,
but he gloomily informed me that
the Pan-American ferrying job
was soon to be taken over by the
Army.
“You’d probably get a good
commission if you applied for
one,” he said. “The Army needs
fellows like you who are already
trained in this kind of work.”
“You’re ‘probably right,” I said,
“put the Army and I parted com
pany some time ago.” '~
‘I told him about going to Ran
dolph Field and being washed
out as a “dangerous ‘flyer.” Be
fore going to Randolph, I told
him, I had spent several thous
- dollars over a period of years
giving myself the training that
would make me a top-rank pilot.
Later, when I put in some time
with Lockheed in California and
with Brewster Aircraft in New
York, I had spent most of my
earnings on Jessons in instrument
flying and nav:sation.
Before' I left¥Sweet asked me
to call him again in a few days;
Pan-Amreican was adding some
more planes to the airline it op
erated for General Chiang Kai-
Shek between India and China,
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pilots.
“You mean for that trans-
Himalaya run?” I asked.
“That’s the one,” Sweet replied,
“It’s the toughest air route in the
world, but flying it pays real
dough ~ .”
They were reported to pay
pilots from SI,OOO to $1,500 per
month, requiring them to work
only three weeks aut of evrey
four, but pilots still were not
swarming in.
No doubt that is why, when
Gingiss, Al Privensal, Skippy
Lane and I-were being interview
ed in New York, we heard more
about the beautiful Chinese girls
who clustered around American
flyers in droves, pleading to
share their affections, than we did
about the ‘hazards of flying
freight and personnel across the
snow-capped Himalaya moun
tains..
Thexe were a lot of factors that
entered into my decision to fly
for C. N. A. C, but I can’t deny
that the rosy picture painted by
Hal Sweet had considerable to do
with the outcome. On the other
hand, the hazards of the route
didn’t seem too serious, because I
was confident now of my instru
ment flying; the work was an
important contribution to the Al
lied war effort; it paid better than
any other flying job in the world;
and it would be far more inter
esting and provide much more
valuable experience than flying
in the States.
If I could® combine all *the
things I-liked—instrument flying,
difficult flying, playing an impor-
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By HUGH ROWS
Items for this column are
written approximately, a
week in advance of publica
tion. b
Lick Skillet, an important
section of old Athens, {ms
passed from its pages and the
title is seldom heard in con- .
nection with this city. i
Lick Skillet took up at the in
tersection of Thomas and Dough
erty streets and ran out Dough
erty street to Foundry street, to
the edge of the river. Thence out
Thomas to Hoyt street, down
‘Hoyt to the upper bridge; from
the brideg out Berry, Foundry to
Barber street. This section was
exclusive and known as the Lick
Skillet district, the majority of
the residents being members of
the colered population. However,
there were a numbre of white
families living in this section,
who were as good people as those
living in other parts of the city.
The boys and young men
who resided in Lick Skillet
district did not like to be
designated as residents of
that section and when they
were, it always brought on a
fight. :
On the streets of Athens, when
tant part in the war, and making
money—if I could do all that and
have beautiful Chinese girls
fighting for my affections at the
same time—hell, I had no alter
native!
(To Be Continued).
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the uptown boys met with the
Lick Skillet boys, it meant a war
of not only words but’ of fisti
cuffs. Such were common occur
rences and no more than what
was expected from the boys that
had been jeered as being from
Lick Skillet. We do not recall a
single one of the boys that took
part in the escapades of those
days, they have either died or
moved away, and among them
were as fine boys as ever grew
up in this city. Their residence
had no effect on their character
and moral standing in the com
munity.
We ran across a little story
which appeals to us as being
worthwhile and deserving of
reproduction, it is told as fol
lows: ;
Years ago a minister” put up
for the night with a man who
lived in a lonely cabin and was
not supposed to have much of
what people call “common:sense.”
As he was about to lie down to
rest, his host asked: “Can you tell
me what three words in.the Eng
lish language are theé most diffi
cult to pronounce?”
“I don’t know that I can,” re
sponded the clergyman.
“Well, I'll give you until mor
.ning to get the answer.”
The minisetr considered this
question only an odd turn of the
poor fellow’s mind and thought
no more about it. But next morn
ing the old man proposed the
question again, and, when the
answer was not forthcoming,
said: “Very well, I shall tell you.
The three hardest words to pro
nounce in the English language
are these: ‘I am wrong'.”