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March 3, 1879.
Monday, May 14, 1945
WRONG AGAIN
(Anchorage Daily Times)
Appointment of General MacArthur
and Admiral Nimitz to top command in
the Pacific theater must have come as
quite a blow to several journalists who
specialize in psychic predictions.
These writers had lately been busy
reshuffling the Pacific command in an
ticipation of V-E Day. It was their big
gest reorganization job since they pre
dicted, several months before the Nor
mandy invasion, that General Marshall
would be “kicked upstairs” into supreme
command of the Allied invasion forces,
and that General Somervell would be
come Chief of Staff with the assignment
of organizing “a worldwide WPA.”
This time the psychic prognosticators
again brought in the dignified and dis
tinguished figure of General Marshall as
a sort of political football. He would get
the supreme on-the-spot command of all
Pacific armies, they said, which General
MacArthur would be stranded in the
Philippines.
Most of these predictions seem to
come from people who, for some reason
or other^have carried General MacAr
thur around like a chip on their shoul
ders almost since the day that war be
gan.
These people, including a few mem
bers of Congress, have apparently
sought to give the impression that only
their constant vigilance has prevented
the political appointment of top com
manders in wholesale lots. And since
there is no evidence of any political
consideration in the final appointments,
they may receive some credit among the
gullible.
To that exetent their activities are
harmless. But the oblique aspersions
they have cast upon the President, the
Chiefs of Staff and the field command
ers are neither admirable nor helpful. In
their ultimate implication, these asper
sions charge the Commander in Chief
and the highest military leaders with
putting politics before lives.
The brilliant record of the American
command capably refutes any question
of the proper discernment and use of our
generals’ and admirals’ talents. And
among the most brilliant records are
those of General MacArthur and Ad
miral Nimitz. «
They were the logical men to entrust
with the job of finishing Japan. They got
the job. And we’re extremely doubtful
they the psychic prognosticators’ tears
and eloquence had much to do with the
final decision.
When a midwestern reporter turned in a story
about a farmer’s loss of 2,025 pigs by theft, an alert
copyreader thought the figure was pretty high and
phoned the farmer to check up on it. “Did you
lose 2,025 pigs?” lje asked. And when the distressed
farmer answered “Yeth,” the newspaperman
thanked him and changed the copy to make the
loss two sows and 25 pigs.
BRAVO/.1
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VETERAN’S
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By MAJOR THOMAS M. NIAL
WASHINGTON—At the U. E.
Employment Service office in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Mrs.
Ruth Andreu, the temporary vet
erans renresentative in the office,
told me of a conversation she had
with an ex-service man. The vet
erans representative at a U. S.
Employment Service office is the
person you should see if you seek
a new job when you get out.
i I’ll tell you about the con versa
tion in a minute, but speaking of
new jobs made me recall that
there is enough confusion about
veterans’ employment • floating
around to tax the patience of a
totem pole. Forgive me if I wan
der for a few lines to get some
thing straight.
If a veteran wants his old job
back he should go to his former
i
employer and ask for it. He is al
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| lowed 90 dayp after his discharge
—more, if he’s hopitalized imme
diately after discharge—to decide.
If he’s told to scram or if his
old job doesn’t exist, then he
should go to his Selective Service
Board—the outfit that probably
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i got him into his trouble in the
first place. There, he’ll get help.
But if he had no job before he
entered the service or if he’s look
ing for a new type of work more
suitable to service-acquired expe
riences, he should see the veter
ans’ representative at a U. S. Em
plyoment Service office. The
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USES has been trying ot get that
across to the ex-service men.
True, it’s divided responsibility
and not too satisfactory from a
i veteran’s viewpoint. But that’s the
way it is, and someone is always
( handy to confuse it some more,
j For instance, a Southern news
: paper account recently said that
an official had announced Selec
tive Service Boards were now
ready to handle the task of get
! ting jobs for returning service
I men.
It’s inaccuracies like that tha
make a guy lose his smoke-ring
I calm. Selective Service Boards
| have nothing to do with getting
jobs, except veterans’ old pre-war
jobs. No wonder a veteran some
times feels he’s drowning and
someone is throwing him both
ends of a rope.
i A job-seeking veteran can get
I awfully mad and when someone
tells him he should go to a Serv
| ice Men’s Center, and there he’s
told to go to,.the Red Cross, but on
the way a friend stops him to
send him to the American Legion,
i which says he ’should go to the
! United States Employment Serv
: ice, but then he reads something
; else, so he goes to his Selective
' Service Board, and is told to re
port to the USES. Well, for-.
What is this? Troubles in the
large economy size.
Just keep this in mind: if one
of us wants his old job—Selective
Service Board; If we want an
other job—veterans’ representa
tive at the U. S. Employment
Service.
Oh, yes, the conversation at
Fort Lauderdale. An ex-srevice
man, who had been a seaman 2nd
class, inquired at the USES office
about the free training program
available to ex-service men. He
was in the wrong place—it’s han
dled by the Veterans’ Administra
tion—but he was asked:
“What training do you want?”
“I want to be an actor,” he r
turned. “I can be a good one.’
‘Why do you think that?”
‘Say, have you ever seen Orson
Welles? Hes making plenty. But
I’ve studied his style, and I’m tell
ing you he’s the biggest ham
there it. I wouldn’t have to have
half my brains and looks to be.
better than he is!”
The ex-seaman, 2nd class, got
his information, completed a
blank to file with the Veterans’
A d m i nistration applying for
training in an actors’ school. A
vocational counselor will inter
view him. If he has aptitude, his
application will be approved.
Then,, if an actor’s school is
added to the VA’s approved list,
our boy is in.
If you don’t have the dope on
this educational program, get af
ter the Veteran's Administration,
—or watch for my explanation.
Yo i have until two years after
discharge <or two years after the
end of the war—whichever is
later) to apply.
“Have you a ladies’ waiting
room in this station?”
“No, madam, but we got a room
for ladies that can’t wait.”
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