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AN INinrCNMNT founcua JMH Julr 4. PubllihM IMMPI Batuiilii) SunJmT mornlM Herald Publishing Company Adtmi t. OWINS oeBORN puMUBtt Anoeltud' Audit ol cire (OTA i Au NatlOtll Chteuo. Nrw Vo hm htroln THE BIGGER TASK AHEAD THE FIRST HYSTERIA of jubilation--natural, Inevitable and spontaneous sequence to Japanese surrender--has begun to subside. And returning once rnore to the foremost position in the consciousness of the American and Allied peoples is their solemn realization, which was crowded into the background momentarily, of the responsibilities and problems imposed by the restoration of peace.

The collapse of Japan placed the final official stamp of triumph upon the most difficult and dangerous problem of war ever to be faced by free peoples of the earth. The issue long was in doubt. For months and years it took highest courage even to hope that human liberty could survive the threat to its existence. But it has survived after-the great- ast victory in the greatest war recorded In history. Democratic peoples now have crossed the ihreshold of another era.

And they are confronted with problems and difficulties of peace no less magnitude than the problems of war which have just been mastered. Most thinking people are filled with the realization that to.gain victory in peace likely will be fully as difficult and may prove more difficult--than victory in war. To attempt to enumerate any considerable number of those problems would be an impossible undertaking. But everyone must agree upon the one problem which overshadows all others comprete- ly--which, in very large degree, encompasses all others. That problem finds expression in the termination reiterated times without number that horrors like those visited upon mankind during the past six years must never be allowed to happen again.

If they are allowed to happen, then the very best that can be said will be that sacrifices made during World War II will have been made in vain. Victory in war will be worse than nullified if free men fail to see to it that they win the peace. one can set the pattern which will insure the winning of the peace. No one can know just how it will be done. But common sense must tell us that, just as victory in war required its sacrifices, victory in peace will exact its sacrifices, too.

We don't pretend to know what these may be. But logic should tell everyone that he will have to give, perhaps a great deal, in return for the blessings he expects to receive for himself and his posterity. There still is a job--an enormous job--for individuals as well as for nations. No one knows as yet the specific nature of the job ahead. But there is bright hope in the belief that, if individuals as a whole accept their- part of that job with the same enthusiasm and determination they accepted their duties in war, then free mankind will gain a greater victory in peace than he did in war.

BACK TO SCHOOL "THE NECESSITY that has existed during the past several years for war time labor on the home front has drawn hundreds of youngsters from school to jobs. This situation is now relaxing, and every youngster who has strayed from the classroom to jobs should begin thinking at once of returning to school, to complete their education insofar as it is possible to do so. There are more than 60,000 children of school ago In the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Nearl all of these will be at their studies again in the next two or three weeks. Here in Brownsville there are some 7,000 scholastics.

The attendance at public schools is well over 5,000 with some hundreds more in parochial schools. The Brownsville school board has announced in increase in its budget for the coming school year of $50,000. This means that the school board is widening its scope of work. It is increasing its salary limits so that capable teachers can be induced to join the staff and equally capable teachers may be'retained in the system. With a new gymnasium soon to be built to increase school enthusiasm and spirit, with a program under study for installation of a system of vocational education, it appears that the Brownsville schools are headed for greater activity in the interest of the pupil than in a great many years.

Things are happening in the Brownsville school system. This energetic program will encourage school spirit and school attendance. There is no reason why the coming school year should not be one of the most successful in the history of the system. SMALL ECONOMY REPORTERS assigned to the Treasury Department in Washington have asked for a new press-room adding machine with more figures. The old one only computes in millions.

To taxpayers with a national debt in the billions, the cost of one new adding machine infinitesimal. But we've got to start cutting down somewhere, so why not here? Let the boys keep the old machine and all the three for billions in pencil. That will be occasionally inaccurate, to be sure, but it won't hurt to take the last three figures in round numbers for a while- I'tll be time enough to'worry about expenditures and incomes under a thousand when we get the public debt back Into the By CLARENCE LA EOOHE LJOT AIR tends to destroy vitamin C-- no wonder so many of us are deficient in thia vitamin! CHARLIE CAUMERON1, Jack Meredith, and Oscar Schendel went down to Los to do a little They did plenty of work try- Ing to entice a few of the finny tribe onto their hooks but didn't get a nibble. What they did get, Calderonl said, was a big hunk ol meat. Mr.

Tatum, owner of the ranch, gave them a quarter of beef; and they stuffed meat until It ran out their ears, Without points, too! CPEAKING of Oscar Sohendel, we're reminded that he has pretty hot edition of what might be called a German ver- aion of "Whiz Bang," A OI friend of his sent it from Germany recently. If anybody can read German, please get in touch with me -I wanna see what it says under those pictures i Oscar. COMETTHINQ I N'T KNOW I NOW-Travis Jennings has a nickname. It's a pretty good one, too, pHATTING on some of the recent past ol Brownsville with Arthur (Catre) Neale and Efrem Champion. we discovered that Brownsville once had an election and a clean-up campaign all rolled into one.

Following one of this city's usually notorious elections at that time-- between the Reds and the Blues, of course-- one side was so completely dissatisfied, that they decided to do something drastic. Shouting that the ballots had been stolen, the adherents of one group went around town and toppled every privy they could lay their hands 'on. Next day. the law got high behind the boys and made them restore each outhouse to its former position, It was brief-- but plenty effective. r-LECTIONS and politics are in the air.

it looks like at least three tickets will be in the field, and already much Interest is being shown in Brownsville's Big Circus, So are planning a series of feature articles on famous xiast elections and election THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS Strange Manhunt Opened On Atomic Bomb By Jack Stinnett WASHINOTON-Behind the production of those airborne vol- known as bombs one of the strangest manhunts in history. It was the search for nearly a quarter of a million persons to work in remote areas on a project so secret that thousands of them finished their tasks without ever knowing what they were doing. In a couple of years two "cities" of approximately 80,000 workers each sprang up where only a desert whistle stop and a small town of 4,000 souls bloomed before. Each of these "cities" saw another 50,000 workers, many with their families, come and go. Both were component parts of what was secretly named and now well known as "the Manhattan project." Both produced sentlal parts of the atomic bomb- Monday, August -20, 1941 "SO SORRY!" One it near Clinton, a stone's throw from famous Norris dam on the Clinch river.

There, since the summer of IMS. the payrolls have listed 171,000 workers. There Is some duplication in this figure, since none of the dozen employing contractors made any effort to check off those who had worked previously for others. Peak employment at Clinton was around S5.000. The workers live In Oak Fidge, a brand new city of 15,000 persons--fifth largest In the state.

The other mushroom city popped up near the little town ol Hanford. on the sandblown sagebrush above the Co. lumbia river, with the Saddle Mountains and the Yakima Ridge on its horizons. Here, 81,000 workers have dumped their bedrolls or parked their trailers and gone to work somewhere In the 36-quare-mlle "plant" of the Hanford Engineer Co. (really our old Delaware neighbors, the Duponts) or for the Olympic Commissary which feeds and furnishes the crews.

The manhunt that produced Clinton was relatively simple, for it was in a surplus labor area. But its needs occasionally became acute and sent the manhunt off in full cry. The manhunt that produced Hanford was a labor of Hercules. The agency which was master of hounds at both these hunts was Paul McNutt's War Manpowwer Commission, In two years WMC turned up 38,000 candidates for Jobs at Clinton, of whom 13,000 were hired, and 137.700 for Hanford, of whom 58,000 were hired. WMC did all this without ever knowing Just what it was hiring men for.

All they knew was that President Roosevelt, his imagination fired with the possibilities In something that Just might be the weapon of tomorrow, had written a letter to Maj- Gen. Leslie R. Groves, over-all director of the project. That letter was Gen. Groves' carte blanche to raid the nation's tight labor market if necessary.

Whenever WMC's spirits lagged in that apparently thankless task, the General waved the Roosevelt letter. The hunt was on again. (Tomorrow: WMC Beats the Brush) "Get News Last, And Get It Wrong--OWI Slogan" George Dixon 4-Point Post-War Program Planned; Health-Homes-Roads-Transportation By Henry J. Kaiser (While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation, his column will be written by several distinguished guest columnists--today's by Henry J. Waiscr, the famous West Coast industrialist and shipbuilder.) -For one who has, Yeah, I know-- If I don't series there are that many! watch it I'll never finish the gasoline rationing lifted, Valley motorist? are once more running wild.

Valley highways last night were thronged with all in pre-war driving form. We know a fellow who was forced off the highway several times. You see, he was one of those "War Time extra careful. IVflRS, JAMES -R. VAUGHAN of Weslaco, Thursday will bring a signal honor to the Valley-- she will be the "good neighbor" featured on the American Broadcasting Go's.

top mid-morning program in Hollywood," at 10 o'clock. Every morning the program honors some outs a i American citizen. The reel. pient of the honor is usually nominated by a listener of the program. Mrs.

Vaughan. for example, was nominated by Mrs, H. C. Van Meter, Bedminster, New Jersey. The Weslaco woman is being honored for her work in raising in 84 hours for the purchase of a double iron lung for Weslaco.

She went into action to 'raise the money, after a high school boy died suddenly of polio in Weslaco last spring. DEMEMBER WHEN kids around town would put soap on the trolley tracks and the and spin wheels? Please can't we spare just one and drop 'it on the Office of War information? If it all went up in gas no one would know the. difference. The OWI has been the most scooped thing since the Invention of the steam-shovel. Its motto seems to have been: "Get the news last, but be sure you It wrong.

Looking back over OWI's proud record, I am amazed we ever learned we had gone to war. The only explanation I can offer 1, that it must have leaked out despite Elmer Davis. OWI's stock excuse, every time it leaves, the American press and public holding the bag, is always that somebody else done dTrt. it invariably geU very hurt and ethical; complains that it is being hlghminded while news-dispensing agencies of foreign countries are unprincipled and unethical. OWI always reminds me of an old newspaper gag devised by low minds in the business.

According to these scalawags, the, definl- tion of an ethical Journalist is a reporter who has Just had the pants scooped off'n him. He'hasn't got the story, but-by golly-he has ethics? OWI has never faltered. It continued to keep the faith with President Truman's report to the nation. It sent the text to, Lon- don-wlth the result, that the British press had copies available an hour and a half reporters were given it in hln ton News services with offices in London got the presidents report and transmitted it back to this country before OWI "leased It here. Do you suppose OWI will ever find out about Pearl Harbor? Business opportunities l-Earn while you learn-Big money I- Take our thirty-day free trial course and become an atom editor.

I'll bet we develop more atom experts in the next lew months than you could hit with a potted uranium. So get in on the ground floor- Amaze all your friends by explaining the atom. Senator Dennis Chavez, of New Mexico, has Just come through with an interesting item of Information, The only lives lost when the atom bomb was first tested at Alamogordo, N.M. at 5:30 a.m. -on July 17, were two cows.

Like the untiring servant of his electorate that he Is, Senator Chavez Intends to Introduce private relief bills next session to indemnify the bereft cow ownwers. That's the only way the cowman can obtain redress. He can't sue the government. Uncle Sam being non-sue-able. Of course, the cow owner might attack the thing from another angle.

He might charge the army with violating OPA slaughtering regulations I Mr. Dave Sentner, the' eminent political writer, happened to drift into the chamber at the capltol where the senate foreign relations committee holds its meetings. Workmen were busy Installing new lightning fixtures. Mr. Sentner asked the committee clerk why.

"The senators have been there Is not enough light." said the clerk. "They feel they will need plenty of Illumination--to read the peace treaties Merry-Go-Round. it is difficult to refuse a free ride when it Is offered. During the war. I have come to know something of the Washington that is covered in this What understanding of its problems I have acquired stems from my discovery that the War Department, Navy, and War Production Board consist of a lot of individual men, each and everyone doing his best.

Criticism of their performance -hould be tempered by comprehension of the fact teat in our free society, the initiative in domestic affairs should originate elsewhere, outside of the government, in the ranks of management, labor, and agriculture in which the real responsibility for the progress of our nation resides. After all, if the government were too efficient when it takes over the functions of business, it would be difficult to compete with it, and perhaps make it impossible for Drew Pearson to work. The chorus of complaint arises largely from those citizens who have lost their taste for competition. It was thrilling, during the United Nations Conference on international Organization at San Francisco to watch our nation's new friends from the world abroad climax their discovery of America by discovering the secret of America's great power. For many of them it was at first difficult to understand how such coordinated industrial might could flow from a system of economic freedom motivated by self interest.

The secret, of course, is the force of competition. inevitably, when men compete to reduce the price, improve the quality, and increase the volume of production, they achieve benefits for the whole nation. In the resulting expansion of earning power, labor participates to the extent of at least 7B per cent America will go on growing just as long as we enlarge the scope and widen the opportunities ol competition. Little Mayo Cllnici Let me again talk about health--competitive health- At the invitation of the Pepper committee of the senate, 1 have drafted a bill for federal legislation to achieve competitive health. This bill has in mind the future and the hopes of the half miljion veterans of war who are going doctors, but nurses.

id men, It would empower the Federal Apcncy, which financed the ownership of nearly a million American homes, to guarantee 90 per cent of local bank loans to build and equip hospitals. This financing would be made available to groups that undertake to provide prepaid medical care. Here is an opportunity! In the armed forces. doctors have learned to work and live together In group practice. Under the bill, they could invest the funds set up' for them by the O.

I. Bill of Bights in their own group practice clinics at home. Together, ten of them could make up a pool of $25,000 and get a loan of $250.0000 to set up needed medical facilities. I can see little Mayo Clinics springing up all over the nation. Founded on the sound eeonomica of prepaid medicine, these clinics -would operate going business enterprises, competing to reduce their cost, Improve the quality and expand the scope of their service to the public.

Medicine has a vast market awaiting It to half of our population that today receives inadequate medical care or no medical care at all. Prepaid competitive medicine, backed by adequate facilities, can reach that market Construction and operation of the facilities would provide employment--let me be specific--for three million men and women, Postwar Employment Health is the first project of the four-point postwar program that has been on my- mind since the war began--health, homes, highways, and transportation. Competition will speed them all forward for the creation of employment- For the sake of stirring up some competition, we made full disclosure of our plans in the home building field two days after V-E day. We are going to build whole communities homes. Highways are also a good subject for competition.

The states that have the best highways will (See KAISER on Page 5) i I The a Past From the Files of The Brownsville Herald VFARS AGO TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO A Dos iSSL Pay car AugU5 20. bubonle August 20. 189o-The 8 ta vesterdRV uternoon. and plague is being reported present In publicas promise- to publish came 11 Hon'G Pi rce nSrl. here, left this Md South America need oc- this cltj TM TM do auern oon for a trip up the branch, no alarm, provided such re- the republican leader of Lareao within a short time.

The soldier's belonging to The furn of the recently the closed American restaurant were appropr ate actlvltle oj the dlwase unless up by cake by Mrs- J. Stucke in honor ol their sweeping victory over the citizen nine of Sunday afternoon. total disregard seci the Parkersburg, JjL: There used, to be a gentleman named Percy Douglas with Nelson Rockefeller's old office of Inter-American Affairs. He In charge of transportation. wicn oomeum: secretary 01 uie One time a aisgruntled official questioned whether Mr.

Douglas' citizen nine of Sunday afternoon. foj tne hM gtarted report Ve chambe of Commerce, whrti had had any previous experience in transportation. It is needless to add that this ihat a case of yeUow Iever aevel- hg addrcssed mem of A anVwiginff (rift was done zulj justice -f The health ro chamber at the hpn munity house last night. had any previous experience in transportation. a case JC "He certainly has." stoutly defended the other.

"His family appetizing gift was done full Justice oped pomt Isabel The tMBitnrc who return rtntj-rtHHns huntinc ii owons stock in an elevator company!" So They Say Slap-dash legislation is a poor way for Congress to, show its appreciation of the veterans of this war. --Houston, Texas, Press Both Britain and the United States realize- that in the case of Japan, as in the case of Germany, half measures would be fatal. --IXtndoa Our State Department, always up to the minute and alert to every new for mof efficiency, has evolved a wonderful devlne known the "speedletter." The "speedletter" Is used for replying to urgent inquiries which can be given a "yes" or "no" answer. The body of the letter Is a set form, at the end of which either a negative or a positive may be added. This, the State Department points-out proudly, saves much dictating by Itc high-powered und heavy-thinking officials.

The idea works out splendidly. A "speedletter" from the State Department, dated July 25, arrived at the National press distance of three August ope( a by the happy visitors, who return authorities are; hunU ng for many thank, to the generous onpnawr donor. ln manne calculated to make more eyeful for th future Anyone who would plant board sto ck from Archie Vet, known caUle owner of San Diego arrived here comln8 over the M. railroad. quarantine lor ten kinds of trees and nursery With the 'aid perpetual plants and IB due to recent devel- streams, artesian wells and water If you know J(1ac rs opments in the state of Texas in tanks.

Texas can always secure to or leaving city TM connection with the citrus canker enough water for Irrigation pur- er campaign which le be- ose the reason we can neither read nf conducted in Florida. The Some people are" so stuck on your mind nor be In several dif- lant bofir( pro ses to protect silver they will not observe ferem parts ol the city at the noj'Ucultuii. "Oolden.