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Thursday, Moy 24, 1945 Cbitorial $age of Cije lialicrsftclb ALFRED HARMELL B01TOR Californiaa Entered in post office Bahersfifld. California, ns second tlasa mail under the act of Congress Jtan.li 3. 1879 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press exclusively entitled tn the line for rnbliin- tlon of all news dispatches credited to it or nut otherwise credited In this paper, and atao the local news published therein. Bakersfield Californian Is also a client of the United Tress and receives its complete wire service. REPRESENTATIVES West-Holliday Inc.

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per month. 85c; six months, J5.10. By mull in postal zones four to eight, per month, 11.05. CHURCHILL'S TENURE AILY we arc reminded of Hie iniporlancc of making speed in connection with the problems that must be faced in the European area. It does not encourage us to learn that tlje Churchill administration is being endangered at this critical time.

Certainly no one lias contributed more to protecting (ircat Britain and its future that have Mr. Churchill and his administration. To make his continuance in office dependent upon the result of a popular election just now, it would seem, might invite disaster in the future. The election, it is said, will be held some time early in July. The hope is that the conservatives have sufficient strength in government to insure the retention of the Prime Minister in office, at least during the remainder of the period that the Allies are at war with the Fascist enemy in Japan.

But delay is emphasized by some other developments. Justice of the Supreme Court Jackson will direct the trials of war criminals in Germany. Some weeks have elapsed since his appointment but he has not been able to make a first hand study of the situation until now. We are told that he has gone to Europe and will return, then will make a second trip to Europe before proceedings can be inaugurated that will bring the accused war criminals to trial. It is unfortunate, too, that the proposed meeting of the Big Three will have to be postponed until a later day.

Certainly there are some issues that need to be clarified at this immediate time and delay only accentuates the complex situation that is developing. But returning to Prime Minister Churchill, if the English people realize the value of his services in the critical five years that have gone by they will devote themselves to so deciding the election as to insure his retention in office until some of the vexed problems of today have been solved. MISSING THE ISSUE OME newspapers in California and sonic members of the House of Representatives from this state appear to be still imbued with the idea that the main purpose of the Central Valley Project is to provide for additional power in the interior valleys. One member of the House is quoted as saying in a shocked tone that there are hundreds of farmers that are still using coal oil lamps and that power should be made available to them without further loss of time. We are wondering if those farmers would not, instead, be very strongly in favor of the construction of a canal, in proximity to their lands, and brim full of water for irrigation purposes as they strive to do their best in meeting California's obligations to the nation and to the world in the matter of increasing the food supply.

Many of us recall the day when the farmers and their wives depended upon coal oil lamps and doubtless they can still manage to get along rather comfortably in the absence of a transmission line within reach of their doors. But irrigation! That is something else again. To enable the farmers to take advantage of a great natural resource by the utilization of water was the line purpose of the Central Valley Water Project. The creation of more power is essential, too, but not now comparable in importance to increasing the water supply. Those who are disregarding the value of water in connection with the Central Valley Project and who have seemingly in mind only the creation of power (with Federal control) are certainly not advised as to the prime issue which must be met and solved in connection with this enterprise.

If it be, as is reported, that no measure will be enacted in favor of state control at tin's session of the Legislature, the hope is that does not mean that the thought is abandoned as to the future. Always we have before us what the TVA has done for the Tennessee area but there is a wide difference of opinion as between the people who are served in that locality and officialdom which always emphasizes that the main issue is a war against those who develop and distribute power. In California the building of power lines is far less right now than construction of canals. Some newspaper well ascertain the sentiment of the farmers as to that, and so might some of our 'rjepresentatfves in Congress who seem to know more about alleged issues than the kgricultural interests of the state. And among other things, these misguided critics might learn tiiat their plea for more power in order that the small fanners may pump water is not timely in view of the fact that there is less and less water available for pumping as the years go by.

The water level is declining with each succeeding year and that will continue until the water that now runs to waste into the ocean is utilized. So that argument is not really more sound than that which urges the building of transmission lines in order to relieve the farmers' wives of the burden of daily cleaning their coal oil lamps. CABINET CHANGES IEWED only from the standpoint of service rendered, the American public will welcome the resignation from the Cabinet of Miss Perkins as Secretary of Labor and that of Attorney-General Biddle. We have the right to believe that qualification is the chief factor in determining the new appointees. Federal Judge and former Senator Louis B.

Schwclenbach will succeed Miss Perkins, and Tom Clark of Texas, assistant attorney- general, will take Mr. Biddle's place in the Cabinet. Representative Clinton Anderson, member of the House from New Mexico, will succeed Mr. Wickard as Secretary of Agriculture and he will not only serve in that capacity but will become War Food Administrator as well. There are one or two other cabinet changes that would meet with popular approval but it may not be the policy of the new President to suggest resignations at this time.

We think the public will approve the President's decision that no change is contemplated in the State Department and that Secretary Stettinius will continue to serve in his present position. NO WEREWOLVES YET ow we are advised that there arc really no "werewolves" in Germany. It is definitely given out that the reports that have had world-wide publicity were propaganda by Joseph Goebbels and he did that before he went on the radio with intent to end his existence, but with (he thought that he would create some breach in the ranks of the Allied forces. Nothing happened as the result of his effort except that a few signs made their appearance reading: "Traitors werewolf watches." But developments in Germany in the period of something more than two weeks since the close of the war fail to confirm the earlier reports that were publicized far and wide. Allied, forces are authorized to execute werewolves.

But as yet there have been no executions except the self-inflicted one which removed Mr. Goebbels from his field of disturbance. JOBS FOR VETERANS A the return of veterans from the European area is under way and the number, according to plans outlined by the government, will be greatly increased from month to month. That emphasizes the need for employment for all these soldiers who offered their lives in aid of the war effort. Employers generally have obligated themselves to make the jobs available for those who were formerly in their service but it happens that many of the jobs which were satisfactory to youngsters in the days when they were drafted for war are not so attractive now.

The world has changed since then, both as to the nature of employment and as to compensation. Business, industry, agriculture and many other activities must give substantial aid to solving the problem of work for these boys who are now returning to their homes. RANDOM NOTES TLe To ay By HAROLD STREETER By AffHociated Press the Pacific war, the tremendous distances put such a strain on movements of men and supplies that the good old American trait of resourcefulness plays a vital part. Illustrative In a small but meaningful way are the queer little windmill contraptions you see everywhere at the naval air base. Naturally things like laundries take time.

A man has to be his own washwoman. At the navy air base, Americans who In their youth fashioned scooters and foot-pedaling automobiles out of bits of this and that have sed the same ingenuity to utilize lie wind in washing their clothes, 'he crude windmills are attached to netal plungers; the clothes put in tox type tubs; and the washing goes while the airman is on duty. You can multiply that resource- illness on a larger scale. It made ossible the bustling base of the air ransport command of the army air- orce on Guam. Last November, a jure five months ago, a group of round 150 men looked upon an area lloted to them which was barren xcept for coconut palms.

There was construction to be done, 'hey were not essentially construe- ionists. They were bakers, median's and all the varied types of trade be expected among any similar roup of Americans. Today the ATC is a village unto tself with an administration bulking, a depot, quonset huts, storage acuities and a hangar. The men uilt everything but the hangar, 'hey were their own "seabees" (con- truction battalions). The base they built, doing IPSS as the central Pacific wing of ATC, helped evacuate wounded from Marianas hospitals to Hawaii in jrder to make room for the wounded it Iwo, helped evacuate Iwo's vounded and presently are figuring the evacuation from Okinawa.

During March, the last month for which complete figures are available, ATC planes evacuated 2G48 patients hrough the base that resourcefulness built. This resourcefulness is a spon- aneous thing. Over on Tinian, back vhen those first B-29 incendjary were started against Japan, he small gap between raids taxed he ability of ground crews to load he planes with bombs. The seabees noted this. Unasked, and after a till day of work on their own projects, they pitched in and helped the ground crews.

Today many Super- 'ortresses bear the names of seabee inits, a mark of appreciation for he voluntary efforts. "I love to live in Bakersfield," said a comparatively newcomer recently, as she stressed the uniform courtesy of the people here, those engaged in rendering service to the public as well as in social contacts. And that is the impression that San Francisco has made upon its hundreds of visitors during the Conference. A newspaper writer, in commenting upon the San Francisco way, says: "What a contrast between San Francisco and Washington! A visitor from the nation's capital would scarcely believe he was in America as service people smile at him. That visitor was accustomed to being shoved around, reminded that he was a visitor and told if he did not like the service he could go elsewhere.

It took days to comprehend the change in surroundings." It may be added that what the newcomer to Bakersfield finds in this area and what the visitor finds in San Francisco are typical of the people of California. There is a wide difference between the attitude of the residents of sections. We do not have people here inquire "Don't you know there is a war on?" At least, not many of them. On the contrary, courteous treatment is the rule and there is no thought that it can be violated not even if there "is a war on." Courtesy is a most valued asset, valuable to the individual, to business, and to the community. And no investment is required other than a little patience and a little consideration.

I By BONNIE WILEY HONOLULU. patrol- nen like duty in a 10 o'clock town. With Honolulu's curfew forcing everyone without a pass off the streets at the stroke of 10, the navy's shore patrol has little business, for the rest of the night. "We pick up a few stragglers, but that's about all," Commander Rus sell A. Havens, 232 North Oak Park avenue.

Oak Park, declared. Commander, Havens has charge of all activities of the shore patrol lie re. As far as most of the men go, business for the patrol really is over here by P- hour at which the nonrated men without special passes must be back at their bases. Rated men have a half-hour extra leeway to roam around and chiefs have a whole hour. Officers must be back at their bases at 10 p.

rn. "Duty of our shore patrol," pointed out Lieutenant Charles R. Kane, 209 South Detroit street, Los Angeles, executive officer and a former assistant motion picture director, "is more to keep the men out of trouble than to arrest them once they're in it." Chief offense, Commander Havens declared, is not drunkenness, but an overstay of liberty. "If a man is slightly drunk," Chief Boatswain. Frank Eyman, former captain of the Tucson, police department, added, we take him into protective custody so nothing can happen to him.

He's taken to his ship and if he repeats the offense likely his commanding officer will put an end to his liberty passes." Men with police experience top the roster of shore patrolmen here. Like Boatswain John Golden, £000 South May street, Chicago, 111., who has spent 23 years with the Chicago police department, or Boatswain Glen Dahl, 3904 Yosemite avenue, St. Louis Park, 17 -years with the Minnesota State Highway Patrol; or Lieutenant Clement Kester, 1316 Westover avenue, Norfolk, a former F. B. I.

man. One of the busiest spots in Honolulu is the downtown railroad sta tion where 7000 men daily board six trains for a 15-minute, 15-cent ride from the city out to Pearl Harbor. Herding them on with assembly-line activity is Earl Bennett, specialist, first class, from Oskaloose, Iowa, who shouts sailors himself hoarse telling the to "Ride inside that train Buddy, and don't try to hang on the back end, either." "We have trouble only with a very one per cent of the men on liberty," Commander Havens said, "but we have to hold 'a tight rein here because of the high per centage of military to civilians, and too, because transportation sys tern is pressed to the utmost to handle the wartime crowds. "Our job is to eliminate the causes of trouble. We keep a sharp eye on the taverns, making sure are not violating any liquor laws Houses of prostitution were closec to eliminate another source of trou ble.

Too, we went after concessions charging exhorbitant prices, putting, the over-chargers 'out of bounds'." A tour with the shore patrol, ever on a busy Saturday night, bears out Commander Havens' statement that "We have little trouble with the men on liberty in this port." "Business" on this typical Satur day night included calls for a hand fill of drunks; one call to straighten 'out a slight argument, with fists over the ownership of a bottle of whisky, participated In by about six navy men and a group of civilians a traffic violation and a check taxi dance halls and dine-and-danc( spots, all of which are going theii peaceful ways. Hollywood! CoIuimxiL -(By ERSKIXE JOHNSONS- HOLLYWOOD, May once wanted to know the difference between a psychological nurder drama and a horror At Universal studio they say a psychological drama Is a horror story with an A budget and without Boris Karloff. Universal ought to know because it is the home of horror pictures. Recently they've been-going In for psychological themes, too. Robert Siodmak, who directed "The Suspect," has now been turned loose on another psychological opus titled "Uncle Harry." Siodmak likes to work with small sets, dark corners and abnormal characters.

In this story, based on a Broadway play, a brother puts poison in his sister's cup of cocoa. George Sanders, who talked Kurd Hatfield nto a life of sin in of Dorian Gray," is "The Picture the brother. Geraldine Fitzgerald, the President's wife in "Wilson," is the sister. Miss Fitzgerald, and the producer that the actress has been playing lady roles long enough. Now, Miss Fitzgerald told us, they're going to turn her into a with sexy negligee, leg stuff and other items supposed to make you notice a lady is a woman.

The producer should know about necessary details, since she's a lady Harrison. Miss Harrison is young and attractive. She reversed the old order of show business. Instead of the producer examining the actresses' legs to see whether she gets the part, the actor now takes a peek at the producer's gams to see whether he wants the part. Ella Raines is the only sympathe tic character in the picture.

She is In love with Sanders. But Directoi Siodmak is a guy with no Cinder ella complexes. In "Christmas Holiday," lie left Deanna Durbin without her man. Ir "The Suspect," Ella is left at the end waiting on a ship, minus Hus band Charles Laugh ton. In "Uncle Harry," Ella is left be hind again, in a railroad station.

Ella From the Files of The Californian TEN YEARS AGO (The Californian, thin date, 1533) Headlines: Assembly Passes 3' Per Cent Sales Tax With Food Exempt. Plan Two-Year NRA. Continuation. The Reverend Frank O. Beldcn has been elected a member of the 5oard of directors for Southern California Baptist Convention.

Mrs. J. Bruce Payne will be succeeded as president of Kern County Federation of AVomen's Clubs by Mrs. George Osner. Lee Boyd, new master councilor of Bakersfield Chapter of DeMolay, has set June 14 as the date for installation, Emmett E.

Wilson, manager of Bakersfield branch, Title Insurance and Trust Company, is attending a convention of his company in Del Monte. TWENTY YEARS AGO (The Callfornian, this date, 1925) A current events section will be an Innovation for Woman's Club next year, according to Mrs. Thomas F. Burke, who was installed as president today. James Parker of Bakersfield was the speaker when Kiwanis Club held a zone meeting in Hanford yesterday.

Ray Powlowski, 15-year-old boy, was able to speak today after 11 years with paralyzed nerves. first words were "Father Mother, I can talk." Lawrence Tibbett, His anil Bakersfield baritone, will be honored at a lunch' eon here Monday. Miss Helen K. and her brother, Phelps Dodge Jewett, both of New brother, week. York, Hugh are visiting their Jewett, here this THIRTY YEARS AGO (The Californian, this date.

1915) Charles D. Marvin, grocer, was badly injured when his auto turned over on the road to California Hot Springs yesterday. Dr. W. H.

Kedian has opened a branch office for the practice of den tistry in Los Angeles. A. Purson, colored plasterer, was fined $25 today for shooting cotton tails. Henry Schaffnit has been reappointed fire chief by City Manager Morgan. Fire destroyed the home of E.

T. Edwards in Taft early Sunday morning. At the request of James Egan of the board of education, several teachers will help with playground activities during the summer. ews in (By PAUL MALLON) ike News WASHINGTON, May complete cabinet shake-down is coming and already changes affecting state, treasury, justice, agriculture and labor have been made. For the present, the 23-man cabinet mushroorh, which Mr.

Truman Inherited from Mr. Roosevelt, is being slowly trimmed to a wieldy 10. Heads of various indepedent war and administrative agencies had been invited to cabinet discussions by the late President, and as a result the meetings lately have resembled a mob of stockholders rather than a decorous assembly of a board of directors. In this 23-man cabinet, furthermore, Mr. Roosevelt had a coterie of they had him.

After each session, those who fancied themselves as favorites would come up and whisper In his ear the real business of their departments. He actually had a receiving line of ear- whisperers after each cabinet session, each waiting his turn for the ear. This evidence of mutual distrust in the cabinet had reached such proportions near the end that Mr. Roosevelt, on one occasion, informed an official: "I cannot take your subject up at a cabinet meeting because I know at least two would tell a and I cannot afford to have it leak." Mr. favors table-talking over ear-whispering, and is picking men not only that he can trust but who may trust each other.

But this is not the biggest change being worked up inside. A personnel dynasty had been built up within the government. It was headed by Mr. Roosevelt's administrative assistant, William H. Me- Reynolds.

He chose the heads of all the important bureaus, and the bureau chiefs whom he selected, in turn, carried out his will in selecting their subordinates. These were not political appointees (Democratic party) as much as per sonal choices of various people around Mr. Roosevelt. He himself did not have much time for the mat ter, and left everything to Me Reynolds, who allowed himself full leeway in setting up a super-regime reaching into every government bureau. Mr.

McReynolds was dropped by Mr. Truman soon after taking office. He may have pondered a while about leaving, but then departed silently. His departure signified the end of this method of choice for promotion and pay in government service. Bureau heads hereafter will be chosen by Mr.

Truman himself and in turn will.be allowed to choose men with whom they can work. I suspect the new Postmaster eneral Bob Hannegan will keep an eye on this matter lor the- Demo- cratic party. There was another clique which had long tenure and amazing growth Mr. Frank- 'utter machine. Each government bureau, no matter how small or simple, generally has a legal counsel or staff, ann Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter was instrumental In choosing the key men for nearly all of these.

In his time at Harvard law school he had amassed personal connections with an army of young lawye: of his school of legal thought. Contrary to general public suspicion, I do not believe Mr. Frankfurter was the mentor of the late President in the sense that he sat over his shoulder for this and other purposes. He seldom came to the White House. I think most of his appointment! were the results of notes he was accustomed to.

send to Mr. Roosevelt, notes not confined to recommending his "fine young men" for the guiding and directing legal staffs of all the government departments, but sometimes on matters of. policy also. At any rate, during the Roosevelt years, the White House accumulated. a mass of notes from 'Frankfurter and Frankfurter accumulated control of legal interpretation the government in behalf of his opinions on practically all subjects, for his young men generally worshipped'or at least granted superior respect to his viewpoint.

The Frankfurter dynasty also broke like a plate which falls to the floor. When Mr. Truman came in, he simply pushed it off the table. FORTY YEARS AGO (The Californian. this date, 1905) Maurice Rprphuro has received through the mail a letter which has been seeking him for 11 years.

A cooks' and waiters' alliance has been formed with N. B. Sells as the president. J. M.

Daw, employe of Union Oil Company in the Kern River Field, was struck by a street car in San Francisco. Bachelor of arts degrees were delivered to 21 students at Stanford University today. Fireman Russell and Engineer Lockhart, who were injured in a wreck yesterday, satisfactorily. are convalescing told us: "After 'Uncle IT be known as 'the girl they leave be hind'." Ella plays a New York fashion ex pert and dresses the part. In between scenes she strutted around the set in a classy Travis Banton mannish suit, saying: "Don't I remind you of Gable?" Moyna Macgill plays George Sanders' older sister.

She is the mother of Angela Lansbury and this is her first role in a Hollywood film although she has done a few bits. Everybody on the set calls her "Merna." They thought Moyna was the Brooklyn pronunciation of Merna at first. Now the name has stuck. We wonder what they'll call Moyna in Brooklyn. "Uncle Harry" has a very Interesting prop, a nine-inch telescope built by George Sanders which he rented to Universal for the picture.

Sanders, indifferent to how the cameraman lights him. fussed for 20 minutes with Cameraman Paul Ivano on lighting for the telescope. He explained that this was the telescope's film debut and he wanted it to show off to advantage. (Copyright, 1945. NBA Service.

Inc.) 1 TTT) 1 1 he Keaders' Viewpoint KWTOll'S Blioulil he limited to 100 words; may attack Ideas hut not persons: must not abuslvi! and should lie wrilttn legibly and on one side of the napei. Tin- Calllornlan Is not i-fspniislhlti for the sentiments contained therein and reserves the rlRht to reject any Idlers. Letters muM hear an authentic address and signature, altbouith these will be withheld If desired. CANINE SAMARITAN Editor The Californian: I wish to ask a favon of you, which there is a possibility that you may graciously grant this humble Between the years of 1922 and 1927 there was a miner who lived in your fair city, who owned shepherd dog whom he had trained to go to his butcher with a note to his collar which the butcher would read and send the dog back with the meat the miner had ordered. This miner owned a mining claim on the Mojave desert 60 miles from Bakersfield with ho roads but uncertain trails to it.

One time during the period which I mentioned above, he went out to that claim and took this dog with him. While there he fractured his leg and managed to drag himself to bed in his cabin and 24 hours after this unfortunate occurence his leg was swollen, and combined with the pain it gave him, it left him absolutely helpless so that he could not even get out of bed. The dog kept guard at his bedside, moaning low, knowing that his master was in serious trouble. The master began, to. realize that if he did not ret surgical mid soon ho would perish, no he -hit oil the only expedient that was left to him to try.

He wrote a note to his butcher, placed it in a chamois bag around the dog's collar and commanded the dog to run to the butcher. The dog actually did understand the command and ran all the way to the butcher in Bakersfield from where a doctor and three or four deputies were immediately sent, and from there he actually guided them to- the miner. If the doctor had arrived 24 hours later the master would have been beyond human help. This was published in your paper with the pictures and names and principals of this incident. If you will kindly substantiate the above incident as a true version I shall recompense you for your valuable time, whatever your charge may be for It.

Thanking you in advance for this favor, respectfully your humble servant. J. L. KAUFMANN. 2114 Branden Street, Los Angeles 26, California.

FREMONT P. T. A. Editor The Californian: Fremont P. T.

A. thanks you for your co-operation during this school yeitr MU8. M. C. McBRYDB, President.

MRS. OSCAR MAKOFF. Publicity. FIFTY YEARS AGO (The Californian, this date. 1895) First apricots from Kern county were brought to market yesterday by W.

J. Gamidge from his place north of town across Kern river. The man who robbed the station house at Delano and decamped has been caught in Tulare. Mrs. D.

A. Healy is selling out her entire stock of shoes and boot's. Fifty men may obtain steady employment at good wages by applying to P. J. Coverdale at Delano or at the wbrkfi on Poso creek.

E. A. Thurlow has left for his home in England. W. C.

Baker, who planted 3 acres of alUali land to sugar beets, April 1, reports beets four inches in diameter. SO THEY SAY It's a damned outrage when foreigners are permitted to come into this country as war refugees, take advantage of a rising market, and pile up huge profits without contributing to the liberation of the government. Representative Harold Knutson, Minnesota. We will never solve it (manufacture of long-life, heavy duty tires), however, if we scrap our war plants and depend again largely on imported crude rubber for our supply. J.

N. Street, Firestone Tire Rubber Company. A wholesome respect for the police uniform would be developed if we had officers to walk into every neighborhood and cultivate friendship of J. O'Malley, Grand Rapids, police chief. Unless the American pepple can be brought to see that the threat of inflation did not end when the shoot ing stopped In Europe, we are in for mighty rough Bowles, OPA director.

Oh, by the way, do any of you fellows think you could do anything to help me remain in this country? lieutenant on arriving in New York as prisoner. I am aware my people have not been living well, but they look better than I dared Prince Olaf of Norway. A different result could hardljf been expected. When one opinion on and policy prevails throughout matter how good or bad that opinion scales of Jus have been permanently tipped to one side, and one side only. It is therefore no.

longer justice. It does'not weigh and It orders what has already beenv.de.- cided. It Is autocratic and Hitler- esque. A long time may be required before' the full effect of the new change In legal appointments ma? be apparent, but it is already beginning to be evident within various bureau legal divisions. (World copyrlnht, 1945, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

All rights rewifed. In full or In part atrlctly prohibited.) -(By PETER EDSON)NEA Staff Correspondent SACRAMENTO, May a state which goes in for the bigger things of life, the capltol office of California's Republican Earl Warren is typically tremendous. The governor himself is big, with a big smile and big blue eyes, and he its behind one of the biggest desks ever built. To his right are big windows letting the California no-adjective sunshine. Behind him is a huge mural map of the world.

Facing him is a large scale map of California and to his left, hanging high to overlook the lush office is a as life and twice as natural as he used to look 30 years Hiram Warren Johnson. That portrait is significant. The term of United States Senator Hiram Johnson, now 79 years old, expires in January, 1947, and there is a scramble on for the senatorial seat he has held lo, these last 29 years. Governor Warren rose in politics through the Johnson machine and is almost reverent in his praise for the record Hi Johnson made from 1910 to 1916 as one of the most progressive, reform governors this or any other state ever had. Today Governor Earl Warren faces problems that would probably baffle Hi Johnson at his prime.

Accurately speaking they are not so much the problems of reform as they are the problems of a postwar reconversion amounting almost to revolution. And Earl Warren, whose present term in office will expire in January, 1947, would obviously like to be remembered as a great governor in this difficult period. Governor Warren admits frankly that his no other state for that a complete plan of reconversion. But its main outlines he sketches clearly in this fashion: California will have to continue in the war effort until Japan two years or more. In spite of this continued all-out war production, Governor Warren believes California industry should be permitted to make partial reconversion, beginning right now so that the industrial east doesn't gain an unfair advantage.

The governor points to the case of Detroit. Detroit made autos before the war and will return to this manufacture after the war. No great- problem there, says Governor Warren, in comparison to finding what California's war Industries can produce in peace time. The answer to that one the governor says honestly he does not know and he shows no inclination to be a sucket for a lot of the gaudy' gold and- green, fine feathered bait dangled on the hooks of the fancy Dans who blindly wade hip deep into the streams of the future and tell their fish stories before the catch is in the creel. Can the west produce' steel as cheap as It can be produced in the east? If it can, then there may be a big future for west coast manufacturer of civilian goods which can be sold to old and new customers.

California's in-migration is still greater than its out-migration, in spite of the fact that the war-born west coast shipbuilding industry has started the down.hill parade of layoffs. The state now has an 000 population as against 6,000,000 before the war. About one-third of the war veterans discharged in California were born in other states but want to settle here if they can find, jobs. Governor Warren's Democratic opposition in the state legislating has introduced a full employment bill modeled on-the Murray bill Introduced in the United Cagily, the has not committed himself on his highly revolutionary piece of state legislation. But he points out that all debate so far has been on minor detail.

Entirely neglected has beeri the key question of "How can any full employment to Its citizens under any and all periods of reconversion?" A west coast textile industry based on California's new production of long staple cotton is a hopeful but uncertain possibility for future employment. California's big new magnegium industry, as represented by Kaiser's Permanente Metals development, offers more hope but un- certainty, as does the plastics dustry. California has the-oil and other natural resources, though they have been consumed at spendthrift rates during the war. Governor Warren faces squarely what too many of the ballyhoo boys have been inclined to gloss California is primarily an arid state which won't have enough water to go rbund or to Irrigate acreage unless it saves -every drop that falls from the skies. California should have 'single water, "authority" of, its own, says' the governor flatly.

He points to the American river project and others which have been' considered separately for flood control but should have been planned to include integrated irrigation and power development. The fact that the.federal government has done most of the spade work on conservation complicates the state problem. If Governor Warren can find the answer to that one he -is a made man and will unquestionably go down-In history as the great governor he wants to be. PEN SHAFTS Slowly, but surely, the Yanks are driving the Japs out of their positions on Okinawa. Out-foxholing them.

Dad can It's paper cleaning time by the handwriting on the wall. And little Willie knows who put it there. Peacetime is going to make things different for some people-jthey'H really have to work hard to hold their Jobs. Evening gowns have Jumped three sulks and two crying spells higher than prewar days. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Becauaa they unto them before their idols, and canted the house of Israel to fall into iniquity: therefore hove I lifted up wine hand against them, taith the Lord Go6, and they shall bear their When tliou art preparing to commit a sin, think not that thou will conceal it; there is a God that forbids crimes to be aaestions ana A nswers -(By THE HASKIN SERVICE)Q.

Do paratroopers receive extra T. W. A. No. each Jump they The pay readjustment act of 1942 provides that officers and warrant of fleers, of the armed forces will receive additional at the rate of $100 per -nonth while en-- gaged upon duty designated by the head of the detriment concerned as parachute duty.

Enlisted men will receive additional pay at the rate of $50 per month while engaged upon parachute duty. Q. Is the San Francisco-Oakland bridge the most expensive In the United G. A. The cost of this bridge was $77,200,000 but the Triborough bridge of New York was still more expensive.

The main structure cost and the approaches $17,800,000. Q. What is the frequency with' which patients are admitted to hospitals in the United States D. A. The rate at which patients entered hospitals last year may be represented as one person approximately every 3 seconds, according Medical AssoaclaUoB.

Q. What Is the distinction between Class 2-A and 2-B draft classl- B. B. Class 2-A under selective service includes men supporting the national health, safety or interest, and Class 2-B Includes men in war production. To Illustrate the distinction' between the two classes, a physician could, be in class 2-A.

Q. Do the flowers last longer when a corsage is worn with the stems H. M. A. The statement that the sap wlH drain down the and keep tht flowers fresh longer has not been proved.

Roma 'and orchids last when worn upright, while gardenias stem to be Q. the government make any provision for moving a man's family and household (odds to his town when they induct him Into the E. O. A. The government makes no such provision.

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