WWII Economy - Unusual Help Wanted Ads

A cousin recently sent me the original obituary of my great Grandmother, dated December 3, 1942. This was greatly appreciated (thanks, Jeff!), but I found an additional bonus on the reverse side, some help-wanted ads from the Salt Lake Tribune, 4 days before Pearl Harbor.



Notice the highlighted text - "Workers in defense industry need not apply"; "Those engaged in war industry need not apply." Now what's all that about, I wonder? I've searched the net extensively and must not be coming up with the right keywords, or else there's not much out there.

It's obviously not discrimination of the same sort as "No Irish need apply" - the war industry is what pulled our nation out of the depression. Perhaps an effort to prevent double-dipping, and thus spread employment around to others who needed it desperately?

I'd love to hear from anyone who knows what this little factoid means.

Rant: Well, what in Mogg's name did you call me for then?

I run a business. Several, actually. I get calls. This morning I was on the phone with a client and another call came through, but I missed it. So when I was done with the current client, I called the number back and indicated who I was, and that I had just received a call from this number.

I was promptly lectured on how strange this "call-back" business was, and how rude it was to intrude on someone's personal life. And on, and on. Etcetera. Oh, and she won't use the internet, either. Yikes.

Well, adopting the conciliatory tone of Mr. DeBakey, I got the order anyway, but Yikes. By the holy skull of Mogg's grandmother, Lady...

Luddites, furrfu!

Writer's Block: All-Nighter

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Not long ago. I was working on this and wanted to get it done before I went to bed. I was tired, but felt good about getting it done.

Yeowtch²

Yesterday my daughter and I went back to the same Thai restaurant we ate at in April. This time I ordered the four-chili tongue twister.



Oh, by the holy skull of Mogg's grandmother, yes.

Glurgh

Hungry. Going into the hospital tomorrow for an EGD, an outpatient procedure - Over years of GERD, I have developed an œsophageal stricture which has on occasion caused me some difficulty when something got stuck and would go neither up nor down without great wretchedness.

So tomorrow doc's gonna snake a balloon down there and stretch it out, as well as check for Barrett's esophagus - which I fervently hope I don't have. But better to know and be safe than let something like that go untreated.

Prilosec miraculously put out the fire - I've not needed Tums (which I used to eat like popcorn) for months. By the holy skull of Mogg's grandmother, that's one effective medication. But now it's time to check for residual damage.

Not looking forward to this at all, but it needs to be done, and I'll be glad to have the stricture out of the way.

Two icons in one day

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, both gone. One was strange and talented, the other beautiful and talented, both left a legacy and both will be missed.

It doesn't make me feel old, but just a bit strange and in touch with my own mortality. We truly never know when the bell will ring for each of us.

"To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being"
-John Lubbock

In spite of my folly, God must still love me.

Felt the desire to go out for a walk tonight, and strolled down to the Utah Arts Festival that kicked off today. Didn't pay to go in, but meandered over to the City Library where they were having a Festival Book Sale.

Coming right on the heels of my discussion with r_caton about the merits of vinyl, finding a dozen excellent-condition LP's of Theatre Organ music, many by people and on organs I am familiar with, was like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, with the two classical albums by Sibelius and a collection of Italian Antiphonal composers being frosting on the gold, as it were. $14.00, w00t!

1) Holiday for Pipes: Ralph Wolf at the Old Town Wurlitzer in El Segundo (Signed)
2) John Duffy at the Mighty Wurlitzer
3) Tonight Only: David Reese Plays the Rodgers Custom Theatre Organ
4) Hammond Hits from Hollywood
5) Bob Ralston: A Theatre Pipe Organ Concert
6) Giant Pipes: Gus Farney at the Magnificent Five-Manual Wurlitzer
7) Gus Farney at the Giant Five-Manual Wurlitzer Pipe Organ
8) Reese goes East
9) The Sound of Conn: At home with George Wright
10) Greg Rister: Contemporary Wurlitzer
11) Tony Wilson at the Organ Loft
12) Lyn Larsen at the Organ Loft