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7 b5 t 1 If iy , - .r . If p (Acme Telepholo) READIES NEW CHARGES Senator Joseph R. McCarthy packs his briefcase In Washington with photostatic copies of what he aays are pertinent parts of Government loyalty files that have a bearing on the case of Owen Lattlmore, who is accused by Senator McCarthy of being Russia's top agent in the U. S. He plans to make them public In a speech before a convention of Catholic editors In Rochester, N. Y, and claims they will expose fraud and deception on the part of the State Department. Babson Discusses Jobs For Graduates Oregonians Musi Decide What They Want, Editor Says Friday. May 28. 1950 In addition. By Roger W. Babson Babson Park. Mass., May 26 (Special to Mail Tribune! One and three-quarters million boys and girls will graduate from our schools and col legs this May and June. Their job outlook is bleak. Nearly half their num ber will gradu ate into unem ployment! There is al ready a pool of unemployed es timated rough ly at 5 million. 500,000 college graduates will come onto the job market late this spring. Anoth er 1,200.000 high school gradu ates will receive their diplomas by late June. Of these high school graduates. 240,000 will go on to college. About 200,000 of the girls will marry. The bal ance 760,000 will seek em ployment. School officials say that another 600,000 drop out of school and college each year for one reason or another. They, too, become job hunters. There are six reasons for the gloomy outlook: (1) The war time and post-war shortages have now been mostly filled. (2) In dustries have been making care ful efficiency studies to cut mounting labor costs. (3) Since most industries are no longer expanding, much hiring Is on only a replacement basis. (4) In dividuals are graduating from schools and colleges faster than jobs are becoming available. (5) Present workers are living long er and retaining their efficiency longer. (6) The low wages of skilled foreign labor are becom ing a factor through increasing imports. Even in the best post war years, fewer than a million new jobs a year have developed. Hence, many 1950 graduates probably about 50 per cent of them will graduate into unem ployment. Oversupply of Workers Noted in Some Businesses There is already an oversup ply of accountants, clerks, chem ists, engineers, journalists, law yers, business administration majors, and personnel workers. On the other hand, there are still good opportunities in mer chandising, marketing, business research, architecture, insurance, banking, medicine, nursing phar macy, social work and school teaching. This latter field and salesmanship offer the best op portunities. Big Businesses Blamed For Job-Hopping of Employees Big businesses, in their mad scramble to get college gradu ates when the supply was small, bid against one another for col lege talent. Jobs at fancy salaries were then easy to get. But the college graduate was not always prepared to move as fast as some companies moved men. Others were forgotten and not moved as rapidly as promised. Impa- 10 or 10,000 In Miles It Is EASY When You See ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE Complete, Personalized Service AS SUB-AGENT REPRESENTING AIRLINES . .'. United Air Lines, Inc. Northwest Airlines, Inc. American Airlines, Inc. Trans-World Airline West Coast Airlines, Inc. Southwest Airways Co. Air France Pan American World Airways, Inc. Philippine Air Lines, Inc ' Scandinavian Airlines System, Inc, Canadian Pacific Airlines, Ltd. Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. O and STEAMPSHIP LINES American President Lines Matson Navigation Company The Cunard Steampship Company, Ltd. French Line American Export Lines, Inc. Alaska Steamship Company Swedish American Line Greek Line Italian Line Canadian Pacific Steamships, Lid. Delta Line Pacific Australia Line Direct Pacific Island Transport Line Pacific Orient Express Line Westfal-Larsen Company Line For Information Call Hotel Jackson (This is the last in a series of five articles prepared by prominent Oregon newspaper men giving background infor mation on the tourist industry in Oregon. Some $110 million was brought into the state last year by visitors from other states and countries, and this week has been designated as "Tourist Host week" by Gov. Douglas McKay. It has been pointed out that all residents of the stale benefit from the Industry, and that citisens tience set in and the graduates became Job-hoppers. Many busi nessmen began to feel that "young graduates are in too much of a hurry to become vice presidents." Consequently, many employers now prefer to hire un employed experienced workers because they have at last had some economic sense knocked into their heads the hard way. The implications for the. 1950 job hunters are obvious: (1) He must first of all know himself his abilities, his vocational in terests, his character and his personality traits. (2) He must have some general idea of how he can utilize his interests and abilities to the maximum and thereby develop into an effi cient, highly productive worker for his employer. This means ap proaching his prospective em ployer with an attitude of "What can I do for you?," instead of "What can you do for me?" (3) He should expend the energy necessary before a job interview to learn something about a com pany, its products, and where he might best fit into the scheme of things. Job seekers of 1950 who are too lazy to do these things may find themselves graduating into unemployment. As one who em ployes many hundreds myself. I can tell you that on the other hand, there will alwrays be good opportunities for trained men of charpcter. energy and fighting qualities. I always employ all the "red-heads" I can find when they do not think too much of salary. who are informed regarding the scenic beauties and history ventage in dealing with tourists of the state, will have an vantage in dealing with tour isti. Editor's note.) By W. M. Tugman Eugene Register-Guard From time to time over the years we have suggested fac tiously that perhaps the best way to attract more tourists to Oregon would be to build a high fence entirely around the state and set up immigration quotas, especially on southern Califor nians. We have long thought that there were a few ideas which were overlooked by Dale Carne gie when he wrote his famous book on "How To Win Friends and Influence People". He over looked, for instance, the peculiar trait of human curiosity which is manifested by the people who compete for knot-hole space to watch a steam shovel excavating for a new building. Oregon has done well In the tourist trades. In 1949, income from out-of-state visitors was estimated at $110 million and that is no small item in the state's economy. Our tourist trades are rated next to agri culture and lumber as a source of wealth. We are now spending $250,000 a year of state highway revenues to attract more of this business.. This is money well spent. It can be demonstrated that the advertising more than pays for itself in terms of in creased gas taxes and other re ceipts. Nevertheless, we feel that sometimes we err in the dirction of being too eager to attract the stranger. We do not quite think through on what we are doing. Can't Make Up Mind Oregon has never been quite able to make up its mind wheth er it wants to go industrial or to what extent it wants to become industrial, or to what extent it wants to set some rather rigid and specific limiations on ran dom development in order to preserve those areas which are our greatest assets for the attrac tion of tourists. In spite of all I that has been done to establish ' national parks, forest reserves, state parks and wayside resting places, there is a conflict In' nearly every part of the state between what might be called industrial and tourist trade determinism. Every little community seems to think it can have its cake and eat is too. lit seems to think that it can bring in mills and fac tories and invite them to turn their wastes into its streams or strip its forests down to the road side and at the same time main tain its appeal to the spending traveler. This conflict is no where more evident than in many sections of western Lane county and along the historic and incomparable McKenzie riv er. It is not our contention that all industrial and commercial development can or should be prohibited. Our timber and oth er resources must be harvested, industrial workers must be hous ed and serviced, but It is reason able to ask: "Can we invite these devel opments without any dis crimination and without some reasonable attempts at regulation which will con serve our greatest assets for public entertainment and recreation?" Lane County First Lane county is the first and only county in Oregon so far to attempt county zoning and com mendable progress has been made by the Lane county plan ing commission, but their ef forts to set intelligent develop ment patterns are often impeded by what might almost be called community schizophrenia. The local chamber of commerce or booster's club wants payrolls; it also wants tourists with open pocketbooks. It is seldom able to make up its co-called mind as to what it really wants. It is predicted in the next hun dred years Oregon may house five or ten times its present population. We have always doubted the blessings of mere numbers. We have always quar reled with those who accept Pittsburgh as the ideal of growth and prosperity. We like to think that Oregon, a slate which is only two shirt tails removed from pioneers, has a unique op portunity to preserve the quali- MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE IEVEH ties of good living with which we have been so richly endowed by the Creator. Perhaps we should state it in more practical terms: "Are we doing all we should to preserve the assets which are indispensible to our third industry?" The roadside trades have been incredibly stupod in fighting nearly every protectice measure that has been proposed, and they have not been far behind indus try in the promotion of develop ments which are unsightly, un sanitary and a detriment to con servation. Perhaps the Ad clubs in their valuable works of edu cating the tourist trades on how to welcome the traveler should include some idea along the line of systematic planning and con servation. 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