London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, London, Middlesex                                64 question go  plans Boyd c 5fli in going to be my own Bossha vent decided what kind of business yet but Ive got the dough saved for i think the Ceil Bill of rights provisions for Small business a Good it but in afraid it May in going to take a hell of an interest in because i think the Only Hope Fiji permanent peace is for the Little people to get together and Robert 3rd 317th 8001 i had a super service station which i have 1 expect to go Back to i want All i can get of govern ment i deserve it after this rat Small Loans Especio ally will be i the i Bill of rights has some thins to do about As for poli the Guy who gets my vote when i get Back will have to offer More than in g9ing take an Active part in National and International i think we ought to have our own vets Milotti 8th 4th i just wanta be the same kind of civilian i was before i got i dont need any government help and 1 dont want if  just let me alone and let me get married ill Europe made me realize How Good Brooklyn in Gonna vote and study my vote from now on that is the Only Way to stay out of Charles radio 5th i was a flow Pressman in a plastics factory before the but i figure i rate a better Job when i get 1 have Learned a lot about machinery since in the army and also about handling if the govern ment will guarantee my seniority rights id like to go Back to the old i think every Veteran should be guaranteed a he should have first i expect to rest for a couple of months if and when i get As for i have Learned a Jot about other people since coming Lover there and in going to pay a lot More attention to International Ben 8th 4th if i stay alive in going get married and go to state College with my wife under the pro visions of the i Bill of i intend to get a civil engineering degree i intend to take an Active interest in i think a new vets Organiza Tion of world War ii men will be better than the old we assumed the role of Soldier we did not Lay aside the role of George 26 Morrow 1 6 1915 manpower action loom labor draft seen less Likely than other solutions by Robert Iglehart tomorrows Bureau new action by Congress on the manpower situation As it affects both the fighting and the production fronts seems Neir at but it appears More Likely that instead of a National service compulsory labor act for Softie Compro Mise measures will be Congress seemed reluctant at once the National service to take up urged by the president in his message of such a proposal was discussed by the Congress of a year but not in recommending such a the chief executive said in part it would assure that we have the right number of workers in the places at the right it would provide supreme proof to All our fighting men that we Are giving them what they Are j entitled which is nothing less than oui total it would be the unequivocal answer to the Hopes of the nazis and the japanese that we May become halfhearted about this and that they can get from us a negotiated whatever the reactions Toj this recon the Congress is intent in the manpower the House military affairs committee hearings last and several proposals designed to assure sufficient labor for War and manpower for the armed Are before these Deal in thle main with proposals to sweep physically deferred nonessential workers and chronic absentees from production into manpower j the committee was giving primary consideration to the May Bailey described As providing for limited National men who did not obtain essential War or who did hot stay in such would placed in special army and Navy work battalions or service j Tough the War and Navy the War production Arad the War manpower commission approve the intent of the but the Airmy and Navy were opposed to the establishment of such service and apparently favored fines and imprisonment j government agencies seemed to look upon the May Bailey Bill As merely a step in the right j chairman May of the House military affairs committee was quoted As saying that committee members Are in a Tough mood and May approve these Steps quickly and then turn to the question of National the National association of manufacturers claimed that National legislation which would immediately control our labor Force of in order to solve a shortage of workers would be like sending a colossal tank out to crush a the associations statement claimed that shortages of j this character can be solved Only through close manage the president of the United states delivers his historic speech on War his message to the present Congress was on the same urged a National service Williams in Detroit free press reception rent Tabor cooperation on the spot in the Given the american federation of through president called a labor draft it would be an easy matter to Supply the needed workers if All of us get together without passing he the con Gress of Industrial organizations Cio is not opposed to National but feels that the May Bailey measure is unworn president Murray of the Cio pro posed an immediate conference of agriculture and govern observers said that both houses of con Gress appeared to be in substantial agree ment in regard to induction of nurses into the armed forces and the placing of 4fs on a work or fight but that Many members at least for the time on the request for a compulsory labor they apparently preferred to adopt a wait and see policy before embarking on such a comments from the press the presidents recommendation that Congress pass National service legislation As the most efficient and democratic Way of insuring full production has brought Forth editorial comment in Many for some against Neil York world Telegram said that although it has Long questioned the Wisdom and necessity for a labor it believes that now in this period of Emer gency Congress should consider earnestly the presidents Call for a National service it also reminded legislators that too much talk wont win the the Dallas morning news claimed that the presidents renewed Appeal for civilian manpower draft was not understandable because the nation now is on a 44hour work week and is held there because of wage bonuses which must be paid for More than 44 the chief said the would have done better to ask Congress to raise the base working with proportionate pay to 48 Detroit free press supported the pro declaring it would let fighting men understand we Are All in we should in hand of expert no politically minded total mobilization would be a tremendous advantage in prosecution of the total mobilization should be an act of it should have nothing to do with social the Chicago Tribune viewed the proposals with declaring that the president Aims to make a slave of every american in the nations the Washington Star said National service legislation would present a real test of the intention of Congress and the people to give fullest measure of support to the men they have sent to i capital Roundup committees to study this and that Are nothing new in but we have nov a joint group of senators and representatives to study the Best Means of streamlining Congress formed at the last the committee will make recommendations along the Ines of paring Down committees where eliminating and there Are 33 standing commit tees i the Senate and 47 in the Well As special numerous investigating groups in each a regions freshman senator Wayne Morse arrived in Washington with a Cross country Eye View and an earful of what citizens Are thinking about time Magazine to move his two Arize he drove the Miles from bus Oregon ranch in a 1941 towing a besides the it contained an ironing boxes of Jelly and and an electric gossiping along the Way with service station hotel clerks and he found them discussing the recent German offensive with sober their Faith in Allied military leaders a Senate subcommittee on headed by senator has recommended a vast National health program entered about postwar Federal state construction of hospitals and health no estimate of costs was and the committee said it was not prepared to pass judgment on the question of fees for As against tax supported the Philadelphia inquirer said editorially that in its timely report on the wartime health of the senator peppers subcommittee takes a Long look ahead the com Mittee concerns itself More practically with measures for a coordinated network of medical facilities throughout the with Heath centers in every Community to afford preventive diagnostic and curative services to All groups at reasonable Cost sound principle of a minimum of Federal control a Good beginning to his annual budget message to con Gress the president said that Large scale demobilization can hardly be expected to begin during the fiscal year of the fiscal year of 1946 starts next july he that As we continue to mobilize for a hard War we must under no circumstances be caught unprepared for under the Impact of a huge War program we Are employing 52 million men and either in War production or production and service for civilian while another 12 million Are serving in armed after the War Many workers will retire or resume schooling or devote them selves to Homes and but such reduction in civilian labor Force will be More than offset by demobilization of the armed forces and by natural growth of population of working thus before Long there May be 60 million men and women to be the chief executive said in his message that employment for these millions must be and that the government must keep open the door to business Opp Ortu but private Enterprise must accept responsibility of translating consumer demand into t Liaison officer with Congress for the state department is assistant Secre tar of state Dean who also will be in charge of International conferences for the department relations with Latina Erica Are under super vision of assistant Secretary Nelson former coordinator of inter american cultural relations with other countries Are in Field of assistant Secretary Archibald through an office of Public undersecretary of Joseph former ambassador to assists Secretary of state Stettinius in All important department problems and the new York times comments that As a practical business Man Secretary Stettinius has acted promptly to streamline the department Structure in the interests of perhaps because of this business Back ground All economic affairs have for the first time been put under a single veterans problem a Mali group Best Pach month an estimated servicemen Are being returned to Civi after each War veterans organizations have formed to promote the ideas and express the desires opinions of one generation of the grand army of the Republic and the Spanish american War veterans of die with their but the legion the and the disabled american veterans remain and have opened their Rolls to Homecoming fighting men of this the open to any world War ii and the which invites All men and women who have seen Over seas service with the armed represent the largest bloc of both of this War and the the with a world War i membership of posts throughout the and in is the largest veterans group in thus far legion member snip has grown with the addition of new members from this the which had a prewar Roem be ship of about reports that it is expanded by accepting memberships both from discharged soldiers and from men still in uniform among the new groups which have Ficen or Janizek to represent the returning soldiers of this Are student veterans of world War veterans world american Federal american american veterans and american veterans there Are 75 or 100 new veterans groups scattered throughout 30 in most respects their platforms differ Only slightly their in All is to look after i Joe and see that he gets his benefits when he returns to the chief Selling Point offered for joining one of the embryonic veterans groups is that their plans apply exclusively to veterans of this the american legion and the vow list As an asset the fact that they Are already and going they have prestige and Large memberships and Are old hands at fighting the peacetime War for the american legionnaires on the March in downtown Milwaukee in recent 23rd annual right National commander Robert a menu addresses 44th National Encampment held recently in new York both organizations have extended membership invitations to veterans of this Here Are opinions of two soldiers a Large number of diverse views on veterans organizations have been among the letters received by tomorrows i two Are reprinted Here for observation and Why Start a new vow Arent oui fathers Good enough they fought and tried their they didst quite Suc they need new ideas and you have your ideas and so lets get when we go lets go into the vow and show some real we can Benefit by their mistakes the old vow has the Back lets give them the we heard that a Post commander of the american legion thinks it would be Fine if we throw our chips in with them after this War is As we would be too inexperienced to organize an outfit of our who is he trying to kid weve spent More time overseas than most of them did in the Arent we As smart As they were 25 years ago we can be a very formidable Why listen to these old fogies there Are ten million of surely there must be a helmet Ful of brains there some inexperienced