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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1942.
Kelly's
Comment
. rrom Washington. O. C
Merchant Marine
Will Train Many
Blow At Fairs
Irk Congressmen
Henderson Plan
Invokes Wrangle
By John W. Kelly .
Washington, D. C, July 10.
At present 4000 men are being
trained annually for Jobs in the
merchant marine. Plan is that
within a few months there will
fee training schools in the north
west and elsewhere "graduat
ing" 10.000 men for the sea
every 90 days. While these stu
dents will not be top-notch
sailors they will have enough
savvy to get around on ship
board and, with a sprinkling of
seasoned seamen, will quickly
be converted into A.B.s. Train
ing will be given also for deck
officers and those in the engine
room. The many hundreds of
merchant., vessels uow being
constructed on Columbia river
and Puget sound must have
crews, and these must be sup
plied by the quicky courses in
seamanship. There 'la rapid ad
vancement in sight for third
officers, who will receive papers
as master as soon as they are
qualified, and for grease mon
keys in the boiler room to work
up to chief engineer. "" '
With congress last week
authorizing 800,000 tons of air
craft carriers, 500,000 tons of
cruisers, and 900,000 tons of de
stroyers, plus contracts already
let for merchant vessels, there
is a prospective shortage of
steel. Navy has already been re
quested by the big steel com
panies to use bessemer steel, but
bessemer is an old-fashioned
steel, brittle and fragile and
would be little use in warships,
carriers and tanks. Maritime
has been unable to receive from
WPB all the steel needed for
merchant vessels in any one
month. The deficit at present
for maritime commission re
quirements Is 189,000 tons or
sufficient to construct 60 freigh
ters, according to Admiral Jerry
Land. Ordnance department has
advised a senate committee that
they foresaw inability to obtain
all the steel required for their
program. The railroads have ap
plied for 6,300,000 tons but be
cause of the shortage they may
not be able to obtain 52J loco
motives. e e
. TO assist in making up this
shortage it has been proposed
bv several senators that soonae
iron be undertaken by the gov
ernment. Representatives or Dig
steel companies decry the idea,
asserting that sponge Iron
should be disregarded. There
are several mountains of hema
tite ore available for sponge
iron. One of these Iron moun
tains is in Idaho, barely outside
Oregon, 25 miles northeast of
Huntington and about 100 miles
from Asotin, Wash. It is abso
intotv undeveloped. Wyoming
also has an Iron mountain with
in SO miles of Casper (on the old
Oregon trail). If the spronge
Irnn nroceas Is feasible there
hnulii be a nlant at every de
posit in the northwest. Bureau
of mines says Its tests have Deen
satisfactory, but steel men dis
count it.
THE more congressmen think
of James P. Eastman's sugges
tion (it was not an order) that
state and county fairs be discon
tinued for the duration the mad
der they become. No attempt
has been made anywhere to
crack down upon horse races or
football, and selecting farmers
to sacrifice a day or two of
relaxation once a year is held
as beyond reason. It is urged
that the fair association hold
their events as they have for
many years and continue en
couraging the 4-H clubs and
Future Farmers, and that the
fairs be admission free to all
uniformed armed services.
Further suggestion is that on
the fair program demonstra
tions and exhibitions be gives
on home defense and prepared
ness with local defense civilians
showing how to combat incendi
ary bombs and gas attacks.
HERE Is what made the house
of representatives see red and
begin its wrangle with Leon
Henderson, price administrator.
The set-up which Henderson in
vited congress to approve by
giving him a large sum em
braced a total of 91,230 individ
uals. Of these 68,230 were to be
on the government payroll and
23,000 to serve as volunteers.
Mr. Henderson asked for a staff
of 1253, each of whose salary
would be a minimum of $5600
a year. He asked for a legal
staff of 4418, with the prospect
of 4418 different legal opinions;
he asked for 1084 business spe
cialists, whatever that might
mean, and 647 economists. The
total payroll would give about
123 to Washington and Oregon.
He asked for one federal officer,
nine regional officers and 31
state officeis. Then there would
be 230 district offices, 323 of
fices in defense areas, five terri
torial offices (Alaska, Puerto
Rico, Hawaii, etc.) and 3200
local boards. Rent of the offices
was itemized at $8,000,000. For
the moving around of officers,
spotters, inspectors $10,000,000
was asked for transportation,
and for wiring and phoning the
request was $4,750,000.
All the employes (Henderson
now has 17,000) are picked by
Leon himself, as he saya ha
wants the most efficient men he
can find. (He found the WPA
state administrator In Kentucky.
who was denounced by a senate estate and made him regional
committee for forcing relief administrator over several
workers to vote for Senator ! states). Politieos in Washington
"Dear Alben" Barkley, and for
rent control boss he picked out
in the south a department store
clerk with no experience in real 1 rent administrator.
and Oregon engaged In faction
al disputes over who would
make the recommendation for
The military tank Is a British
development inspired by the
American farm tractor. .
Cuba has an area of 44,000
square miles about the size of
Pennsylvania.
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fckr Ji the maker to the buyer, but the most :. ." f jSSSsg!.
important part of the whole trip is the t224y: I
last two feet' across this- counter, where
the sale is made. Want to know how I N-1: - lr2Sw.,
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a manufacturer can help me most in 7!',,,2!
moving his goods' these last two feet?" fik-
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"Funny hew torn manufacturer go to all the trouble of
making and shipping good products... without bothering to tell
people how good they are or where to buy them. There are
goods on my shelves from all over the country, but they'd have
wasted the trip, if people didn't come in here and ask for them."
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"Now that we're at war, with big new breaking every day,
people are reading newspapers more carefully than ever. The
ads, too. ..mine and my manufacturers'. They read the ads
in the local paper, they come in here asking for product
Sy name, and it scoots across these last two feet of space."
"Look at sailing the way I do, two feet away trom the shoppers,
' and you soon learn what kind of advertising does the best job
of telling the public about a manufacturer's product. I mean
newspaper advertising, of course... the medium that reaches
. everybody in town...the medium use most regularly myself."
"Thera's heavy, two-way traffic across this counter these
days, with dollars and dimes headed for mv cash register and
good products headed for the customers. The more I sell, the
better off my manufacturers are; so the smart ones boost their
goods across the counter by consistent newspaper advertising.
There, In the words of a iuccettful retailer, $ the itory of how to help a product
ecro$t the retail counter. ..the mosf Important part of tho trip from manufacturer to
consumer. t't especially true under wartime conditions thai manufacturer! produce
more sales for their retailers.and themselves...when they advertise In local newspapers
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