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BOMBER!
| Commentary for the
BOMBERS
One American factory—one of many—
One bomber—thousands on the way.
An angel of death—
Death to those who mock at free peoples,
Death to those who tell the world they are out to >
wreck the American democratic system. i
Hundreds here—thousands—tens of
thousands on the way.
¢
TEST FLIGHT
Every part tested—every
combat conditions.
Off the ground now—for
Power to say,
! ing over
i world!”
Europe.
MEN, MACHINES, AND MATERIALS
Here, you get her insides—aluminum alloy—light and strong—
Steel, copper, brass—a dozen other metals ;
Put together like a fine watch.
Wings made strong to hold her high in the air while she delivers—
pounding a super-powered motor
Each wing built to take all the
can give it.
Here is the fire bath, where the bombers begins to grow.
Born in fire to fight fire with fire.
She is going to. have the guts, wind, stamina, to fight and deliver
death—a bellyful of it—to those who are asking for it.
Made of metals tempered and strong—
Woven together—strong—
American mass production, American knowhow......
Hands with knowhow mind
These workers—these riveters, welders, drillers—
a genuine pride in their share—
{All these craftsmen have pride,
their participation in the titan
Production”.
ASSEMBLY
|Parts—more than twenty-five thousand for each ship.
piece of metal tested— :
Every bolt, rivet and welded seam—tested under the pressure of
the first time as a complete fighting unit.
Power—power to travel far, dump her bombs and return.
«I can outfly and outfight any pursuit ship now fight-
I am the strength of the people of the free
_
THE POST, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1941
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destroyer traveling the sky.
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These precision-built sections roll
Day and night
a wee
Three hundred and sixty-five days a year ....
Body, bones and wings roll and join into the form 4
of a finished breathing bomber.
thousands in the air now ......
Bombers
Tens of thousands on the way.
The motor—raw, naked power—a
She packs guns—so many guns
in air
Here is America strong-hearted—
Keen—aware—alive.
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s with American knowhow...... “You can count on me!”
DAWN FLIGHT
Dawn
America flies into the dawn.
T Bombers for a new day.
“National Defense
ic job we call
(
| ow.” Betty was his wife and the old
THE LISTENING POST |
By THE VETERAN
You wouldn’t know about it; not unless you had snooping proclivities
and then were of the mind to go one floor higher than the elevator
reaches in the marble place which i$ your county court house. Hidden
away in what a naive architect designed as a jury room, a chamber in ks wis 5 cgorous youre win nd
which the panel sitting on a given case was to have conferred for con- | Stark ks
clusion of a verdict, there is a staff
of Federal workers that seems des-
tined to change the entire industrial
picture in Luzerne County.
The hide-away room is at the top
of the walk-up flight of steps reach-
ing the courthouse fourth floor—or
didn’t you know there are that
many floors in the million-dollar
structure? Fact is, there are five
floors: One sub-basement for ma-
chinery and its attendants; one
basement for office workers and
maintenance men; one business
floor; one Orphans Court and law-
office floor; and the top floor given
over to what is described in Bulletin
338, issued by Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Public Instruction, as “Ap-
prentice Education Program and
Plan of Co-Operation With Other
Agencies.”
Four services, two of them State
and two of them Federal, have co-
operated toward the perfection of
an apprentice program. Besides the
State Department of Public Instruc-
tion there are: State Apprenticeship
Council of the Department of Labor,
Federal Committee on Apprentice-
ship in the U. S. Department of La-
bor, and the Office of Education of
the U. S. Department of the Interior.
Both the United States of Amer-
ica and the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, therefore, are responsible
for taking over your county court
house fourth floor and installing
there a French-American, Lester A.
Loiselle, as director of a plan by
which all industries of Luzerne
County and nine neighboring coun-
ties are afforded means of planning
apprentice feeding of their interests.
Lester A. Loiselle is a practical man,
taken from the mechanical depart-
ment of the Washington Times-Her-
ald. With an executive staff housed
at the court house, he himself stud-
jes the industries and meets the
managements of all manufacturers in
Luzerne, Columbia, Union, Snyder,
Northumberland, Montour, Tioga,
Lycoming, Center and Clinton coun-
ties.
It is true that no industry in all
that territory has ever had a suf-
ficient program by which its ranks
could be supplied from labor pre-
pared to enter upon duties essetnial
to success. It has been a hit-and-
miss affair with all the industrial
magnates, training employees from
the ground up when they needed
them, delayed for unconscionable
times when a sudden ‘spurt was]
needed in production and the slow |
system of getting the qualified men
stood as a handicap. If Loiselle and
his staff succeed, there will be an
apprentice program from which all
the indutsries may draw.
Universities, colleges, public
schools and libraries are tied into
the preparations, and the plan is to
enroll young men at the age of six-
teen years. Vocational training pre-
pares them for crafts, skills, trades
and business. The Federal-State
‘Rebel did win the battle.
' Back in 1918, when Franklin
' Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of
the United States Navy, he commis-
| sioned a war vessel to a junket in
| the waters off the Coast of Maine.
| Roosevelt, an inveterate sailor,
knew the Maine coast-line. He sails
it often on his way to Campo Bello,
[one of his summer retreats. Roose-
a Lieutenant-Com-
| mander. It ‘happened that Stark
planners offer the means, set up| was head officer of that war vessel.
the systems, bring about co-ordina- As they approached a port men-
tion of resources and co-operation |aced by the rocky coast, Roosevelt
of facilities; then the industries go suggested that he take over com-
ahead to make their future secure, | mand and get the ship in. To which
at the same time affording a rea- | Stark replied: “You may be one of
sonable opportunity for the popula- | my Navy bosses; but I am in com-
tions contiguous to their plants. | mand of this ship. You tell me
All is brought about by an Act | where you want to go, Sir, but I am
of Congress in 1937, dividing the | the man who will take you there.”
United States into five regions over | Strangely enough, it was in remem-
Hoh are 1% field Joi In pe | brance of that rebuff that Roosevelt
istrict ' embracing io, Pennsyl-|as President went down fifty-five
vania, West Virginia, Delaware, Vir- names on the seniority and promo-
eo oe ora
tae agents ¥ith Sie similar of miral William Leahy had been sent
those o r. Loiselle. to Free France as Ambassador.
It is apparent that an Act of Con- | : 3
gress adopted in 1937 was far in ad- | Wide-Open Primary
vance of the actual emergency that| Democrats of P ennsylvania may
at present faces the United States, | find themselves helpless to nominate
because it was two years earlier |a candidate for Governor next year,
than the first step toward aggression unless they go along with United
and war in Europe, So, a mead of States Senator Joseph F. Guffey.
commendation is due the people’s | The third and concluding act of a
law-makers. They foresaw a need of | drama by which Guffey seeks to
an apprentice supply and they pro- | make himself all-powerful is ex-
ceeded to have the need fulfilled. | pected to be out in full glare of the
Along came the war. And then it | political footlights long before the
was discovered that even with the time when the G. O. P. and New
foresight of the planners the start, Deal will square off for the guber-
had been made too late. With plant | natorial set-to.
development tremendous shortages| In nominating of Governor candi-
soon became apparent. For instance, : date, the people have most to say
there are jobs for 17,000 trained | when they entrust their desires to
men in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh | their State committees. In local con-
alone; but there are no trained men | tests the Primary election gives the
to a a : The Syfen Si | peopl? Dow chance to exercise their
ments of National Defense swamped | will. e reason for the difference
all business and industrial manage-|in favor of State conventions and
ments Svan site an Plgense 2 iy | committee nominations is that if
per cent had been made in the fix- | the Primary alone were trusted,
ation of standards by which employ- with all factions entering candi-
jens cold Be gauged, . | dates, the certainty would be on the
n Luzerne County, three develop- | side of the man with most money
ments have taken place in conform- | and influence.
ity with the apprentice program:| That is why Guffey wants a Prim-
One at Vulcan Iron Works inary to replace the committee selec-
Wilkes-Barre, one at West Pittston | tion of a Governor candidate. He
¥iiegs, and pe unis guidance of | tried the plan out when the State
the unionized workers who are | Committee voted him down in 1938;
chartered with the Wyoming Valley he tried it again, without success,
Carpenters. Inclusion of a program | last year, when he opposed the
in any industry or business is en- | State committee selection of Wag-
tirely up to voluntary action by the | ner and Ross. But, in his third ef-
plant and business managements.) fort it appears that Guffey may
But, if they are interested, for them- | win, thanks to war and his Number
selves and for the public, the new | One position with the Roosewelt Ad-
service will furnish the means to the | ministration. If his plans carry there
end. will be a wide-open nomination of
the Democratic Governor candidate,
How Stark Got Command with the State wide balloting to de-
Fan-followers of Admiral Harold | termine the choice. That choice just
Sa Eons of them since the naturally would be the man Senator
ilkes-Barre native was name
Guffey picked for the job.
Chief of Operations for the United 2
States Navy, thrill to the story of
how he was chosen by President
Roosevelt against fifty-four senior
naval officers higher up on the pro-
motion list. Admiral Stark carries
the nickname of “Betty” among
navy men; and that is because his
Revolutionary ancestor, fighting
against the British, went into battle
Excitement In Harrisburg
With election over, a real break
for the citizens of Pennsylvania may
be expected, provided Governor
James was sincere in his pre-elec-
tion statements about inquiry into
the forgery case stemming out of
the State Treasurer’s office, and the
scandal in the Department of Unem-
“By Carl Sandburg
Defense Film, “Bomber,” Produced by the Office for Emergency Management oo
: Parts stacked up, waiting to be assembled and woven into a living
We are taking these parts—weaving
them into a thing that
breathes and lives....
Breathes with the Spirit of America
That says, “Don’t tread on me.”
Made to stand heavy toil and struggle—
5) Made to stand shock and storm
and heavy travel. 2
Ready to flank and outflank the ener y
Packing enough power to climb over
the highest anti-aircraft barrage.
Everything under control.
From hundreds of sub-assemblies—
From scores of major assemblies—
Twenty-four hours a day ..... Seven days
John Henry on one wing—Paul Bunyan on the other!
Wires—miles of wires link the nerve centers of the ship.
A giant wing spar protects the cables from enemy gun fire.
the Army won't let us tell about it—
A flying arsenal—she’s the toughest, fightinest ship of her size
Massive—honest—this wing seems to say,
daylight. Over Europe, over Asia—night, black night.
: YJumanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years,
is hanging breathless on thy fate!” ; |
(Courtesy Council For Democracy
|
into final Assembly.
4
Niagara of horse powi~=
Director Kelly. The man who was
Harold Wagner's first choice as an
assistant, at present under hospital
treatment, was named in a warrant
which the Governor's attorney gen-
eral was prepared to serve.
Governor James said there was |
more back of the $13,000 alleged |
forgery of the Deputy Treasurer |
than had been presented and he]
was determined to find all the truth.
Ernest Kelly at th same time said
that the million-dollar fraud in un-
employment compensation also will
require considerably more exposure
than has been given up to this time.
Let James and Kelly do as both
promised to do and the post-election
period ought to make interesting
reading. The only regret then would
be that Colonel Philip Mathews,
West Pointer, seems to be contented
in being ousted as State Director of
WPA. Friends of Mathews, who ran
WPA without political interference,
are sure his release is merely pre-
liminary to appointment of Senator
Joe Guffey’s friend, Ralph Bashore,
to prepare for the Governor fight
next year in behalf of Guffey’s
choice. Bashore, it is remembered,
even though he was Secretary of
Labor, went along with Guffey in
opposing Governor Earle, his boss,
and the Guffey-Mundy ticket back
in 1938. i
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When he takes office on Janu-
ary 1, Warden Kunkle, high man in
Tuesday’s election, will start his
fifth term as a councilman in Dal-
las Borough. Mr, Kunkle served con-
tinuously on Borough Council from
1923 until August 1939 when he re-
signed to make his home in Florida.
Had he continued to serve until
January 1940, he would have com-
pleted sixteen years of continuous
service to the Borough, twelve of
those years as president of Council.
During his tenure a program of
street improvements was inaugu-
rated that gave Dallas one of the
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