“U. S. SOLDIER A WELL
PAID WORKER,” SAYS
•BUSINESS WEEK’
In a recent s ue of B isinass
Week, a publication with wide cir
culation among business men and
industrial leaders these terse com
ments were made, "Have you ever
thought ol the enlisted man in the
armed forces of the United States
as an extraordinarily well paid
worker?”, the editorial asks. ‘‘Even
if the enlisted man does not elect
to serve the 20 years required to
get the retirement benefits pro
vided, his minimum pay check as
a buck private if single is about
$150.00 per month, and if married
$210.00.
"If you compare this with the
monthly pay of $204.00 being paid
to the average worker in industry,
who usually had many years of
experience, it becomes entirely
clear that Congress has made it
entirely possible for the enlisted
man in the army to do well finan
cially.”
The magazine comments fur
ther . . . "Army pay, plus allow
ances and benefits could boost a
soldier’s actual compensation to
the equivalent of $342.00 a month
in the case af a married private
with one child, and as $449.00 for
a master sergeant with wife and
child.”
Still discussing the high pay
standings, the writer continues . . .
"This as we see it, is all to the
good, if provides the first essen
tial step toward putting our armed
forces on a proper basis of peace
time standards. That basis is vol
unteer enlistment by first rate
people for service of which they
have a right to be proud in all par
ticulars. The present day army is
i-v- cry from the “Drill Ye Ter
riers Drill” outfit of the sort which
Kipling said.
The above comments came from
a periodical whose surveys, ob
servations and final analysis are
noted for their impartiality and
realistic viewpoint.
Tiie Business Week, believe that
a soldier is a well paid worker,
that he is well worth his hire and
that his profession is a worthy
one. They believe that the govern
ment did right when the pay in
crease went through and that the
members of the armed forces are
on a financial par with their civil
ian brother.
There are many openings and
many opportunities in the armed
forces today, for young men be
tween 17 and 35. There are
chances to further your education,
to learn a trade or a skill, for
travel and self improvement, you
can find stability and life time se
curity. Go to your nearest military
installation and get all the facts
from the recruiting officer.
CIRCULATION BUILDER
DILLON, S. C. i/P>—1The Dillon
Herald claims a record for its No.
1 newsboy. Hugh G. Jackson, 56,
averages street sales of 600 copies
an issue, about 20 percent of the
paper’s total circulation in this i
county seat town of 5,000.
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Georgia Has
Two Governors
__
ATLANTA, Ga. (>P) — Rival
claimants to the governorship if
Georgia established offices in the
state capitol today and each imme
diately set up his own military de
partment.
The claimants were Ellis Arnall,
who has held the office for the
past four years, and Herman Tal- ■
madge, who was named by the
legislature early today to the of
fice which his late father, Eugene,
Talmadge, won in last November’s j
general election. The elder Tal- j
madge died last month.
Arnall refused to heed the ac
tion of the legislature and in a!
dramatic early-morning encounter!
with Talmadge and in the face of I
a yelling mob of Talmadge sup
porters refused to turn the office
over to him.
As his first act upon arrival at
his office today, Arnall named
Col. R. W. Collins, commander of
the state guard, as adjutant gen
eral to succeed Marvin Griffin,
who last night was sworn in by
Talmadge as his adjutant general.
Griffin formerly served under Ar
nall.
Then Arnall communicated witfi
secretary of war Patterson by tel - \
ephone and asked federal recogni-!
tion of Collins as a brigadier gen-!
eral and the state’s adjutant gen-;
eral. Arnall declined to say what
Patterson answered, but when he ^
hung up, he turned to newsmen
and said “This is the adjutant
general,” pointing toward Collins.
(The state guard was set up dur
ing the war to function in place of
the national guard. Its demobiliza
tion has awaited full reorganiza
tion of the national guard).
Truman Against
Ku Klux Klan
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman spoke out today against
“burned crosses” and men who
“worked behind sheets” in his own
home state of Missouri in assert
ing that “I don’t want to see any
race discrimination.”
Charging his new civil rights
committee with responsibility for
finding means for strengthening
protection of minorities, the Pres
ident said the country could very
easily be faced with a situation
like one he recalled in 1922 when
he was running for his first elec
tive office—county judge of Jack
son County, Missouri.
There was an organization in
that county, he said, that met on
hills and burned the crosses and
worked behind sheets.
Mr. Truman added: “There is a
tendency in this country for that
situation to develop again, unless
we do something tangible to pre
vent it.
“I don’t want to see any race
discrimination. I don’t want to see
any religious bigotry break out in
this country as I did then.”
The President named no organ
ization by name today in referring
to burned crosses and white
sheets. However, his statement re
called his previous criticism of the
Ku Klux Klan, some of whose
members have used the burning
cross and the white robe in public
demonstrations.
During his 1944 vice presidential
campaign, Mr. Truman made heat
ed denials when political oppon
ents attempted to link him with
the Klan. At that time he declared
he had fought the (Organization in
Missouri.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
BOOBY-TRAP SOUVENIR ?—A souvenir German
semi-automatic rifle (Gewehr 41M) with a faulty “interrupter” is
aimed by Lovell Pace. Winchester cun encineer, to show how the
weapon’s bolt, if fired, could kill or maim the user. Experts be
lieve faulty parts may have been weakened Intentionally by Ger
mans to transform abandoned funs Into booby traps*
Would Rebuild
Trade With Siberia
Efforts to rebuild Alaska’s trade
with Siberia, which in some years
amounted to more than S100.000,
have been instituted by the Alas
ka Development Board as the re- j
suit of session at Juneau last week.
The Board suggested to the
United States Department of Com
merce, which shortly is to open a
district office in Juneau, that re
newing the trade with Russia
would be a good enterprise on
which the two agencies could co-1
operate.
Information on the history and
prospects of Alaska-Siberia trade
were brought to the Development
Board session by Antonio Polet,
member from the Second Division.!
Dozens of small vessels once plied
JUST CAN'T DANCE
NEW YORK <£>> — The pretty
debutantes at the debutante cotil
lion and Christmas dance at the
Waldorf-Astoria crowded eagerly
about the smiling man and asked
him to dance.
“I’m awfully sorry,” he said,
•‘but I just can’t remember all the
intricacies of the fox-trot.”
With that, the Duke of Windsor,
who was acocmpanied by his
Duchess, turned back to his con
versation with friends.
regularly between Nome and Si
berian ports, Polet recalled. The
profitable trade was cut off sud
denly after the Soviet government
came into power.
Negotiations will be made
through the Federal government at
Washington for a renewal of com
merce on this historic trade route.
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