NOVEMBER 1945 No. 11 tat Page 2 . * * * THE WESTERN PACIFIC CLUB * * * November, 194,"( This Is The Place!—Brigham Young Vol. 5 NOVEMBER, 1945 No. 11 EDITORIAL THE HEADLIGHT * To Brigham Young and the other doughty pioneers of the westward trek of Walter Mittelberg Editor 1846-47, present-day citizens of Utah and her sister states owe a great debt of Jack Hyland Associate Editor gratitude. So we think it fitting, in this Thanksgiving Day month, to feature on Bill Stout Business Manager our cover the magnificent Mormon monument, to be dedicated in 1947, and * Tom Brown's discussion of it on page five. Published Monthly by * You've probably run across him—the man who sorrowfully declares he hates The WESTERN PACIFIC CLUB the idea of another war, but his "study" of the world situation "forces" him to Association of Employees of The Western Pacific R. R. Co. conclude we'll have to fight Russia . or Britain . or Sacramento Northern Ry. HOW'S YOUR Argentina . or ad infinitum! If you run across him Tidewater Southern Ry. Co. SCORE? again, ask him for his score. What did his study of the Western Pacific Building world situation "force him to conclude" about Munich, San Francisco 5, California lend-lease, the destroyers-for-bases deal, the intentions of the Japanese selec- Member American Railway Magazine Editors' tive service, and so on? If you find, as you probably will, that he batted Association. Member Northern California Industrial around .00002 on these and the "and so on's," you'll be "forced" to conclude Editors' Association. that as an appraiser of world events he rates with certain radio commentators and a few newspaper columnists. If he's determined to fight Russia, or some- one, suggest he try it on his own! * Under the same caption we're using, THE NEW YORK TIMES, in its lead- NCIE ing editorial on September 27th, said . "Either we have to do away entirely with the old system under which every diplomatic failure JORNADA was followed by a resort to violence or we will enter upon DEL MUERTO a Journey of Death from which there can be no returning. The thing that happened in New Mexico on the morning of last July 16 has changed human destiny. If it has in it the possibilities of WESTERN PACIFIC CLUB infinite good — which it may have — it has also the possibilities of unimagin- able evil." Arch Oboler's fantastic ( ?) radio story one day late last September gave us food for thought. The theme was that of a rocket trip to the moon by Officers a scientist and two others. Close inspection of the moon's craters revealed a Jack Hyland President startling resemblance, though immeasurably larger, to the New Mexico crater. Frank Rauwolf . 1st Vice President On the return trip, the scientist theorized on the possibility of life on the moon Art Petersen . 2nd Vice President George Welch Treasurer and development of atomic power long before us, his ultimate conclusion being Bill Banyard Secretary the moon dwellers had exterminated themselves atomically. Nearing the earth, Beth Deatherage . Assistant Secretary the rocket travelers found the earth dwellers exterminating themselves simi- Directors larly. Don't laugh too hard! Think it over. Mary Genoar Treasury * Chief Executive Officer William Wyer, of The Central Railroad Company of Peggy Smith . Disbursements New Jersey, has advanced a profit-sharing plan contemplating cooperative Spen Lewis Transportation Harold Heagney . Freight Accounts action on the part of labor and management. According to Cliff Norden Engineering PROFIT- Wyer, principal advantage of such a plan would be to trans- Walter Mittelberg Traffic SHARING form traditional position of employes vs. management to em- ployes with management. Other advantages would be steadier employment, lessening of suspicion by showing labor, through consultation, STAFF REPORTERS what really goes on in management of a business, strengthening the credit of the Agnes Welch . Sacramento, Calif. company and utilizing more directly the political power of organized employes L. H. Rodebaugh . (SN) Sacramento, Calif. Marie Libbe Chicago, Ill. to help bring about less legislative discrimination against the railroads and in Irene Schuepbach . St. Louis, Mo. favor of their government-subsidized competitors. We applaud Bill Wyer's Frank Sell Los Angeles, Calif. efforts. We hope the profit-sharing plan will be accepted and broadened to Jessie Morgan Portola include wages so that railroad workers will automatically share the railroads' Floella Jones Wendover, Utah prosperity and tighten their belts a little in the lean years. Bette Elliott Stockton Gene Neri Stockton * With this issue we complete two years of Headlight editing. While we know Peggy Phillips Elko, Nev. our readers have not shared equally with us the pleasure of this work, we,hope they have found some enjoyment in our efforts. Five Presi- NOVEMBER dents were born in November . .. Warren Gamaliel Harding BUY DATES (28th) and James Knox Polk (11th) on the 2nd; James Iwo Abram Garfield (20th) on the 19th; Franklin Pierce VICTORY (14th) on the 23rd; and Zachary Taylor (12th) on the 24th. Local elections will be held throughout the country on the 6th; World War I Armistice Day is BONDS PAcifiC the 11th and Thanksgiving Day is the 22nd . we think! We can be devoutly thankful for the end of the war. Nilovember, 1945 * * * THE HEADLIGHT * * * Page 3 WILLIAM EVERETTE DENNY W. P. PENSION PLAN NUERNBERG MEMORANDUM WILMER RYLAND ANDERSEN * President Elsey has announced that Gunnar Wikander the moratorium previously placed on * Sacramento Northern's "Bill" Denny the Provisional Retirement Plan, and retired August 31st after more than 29 The Nazis have reaped their harvest expiring December 31, 1945, will not be of dead— years of service with that road. extended and, therefore, any employe By faster means than gun or rope; who may be eligible may now make Bill was born April 24th, 1885, at And now of their victims' bodies— application for retirement, the com- Soldier, Kansas, and from 1907 through behold! mencement date to be subsequent to 1915 was agent for the Butte County The Master Race is making soap. December 31, 1945. However, the com- They boil down the fat of foe and of Railroad. On January 3rd, 1916, he be- pulsory provision of the plan has been friend, relaxed permitting those employes 65 gan with the SN as a clerk in the ac- Of Russians and Poles—and Ger- years or over to remain in the service c o u n t i n g department, subsequently mans, too, until June 30, 1946. The action was serving as cashier and paymaster, Of Greeks and Italians and English- taken to encourage our workers to stay men, bookkeeper, chief clerk to auditor, act- on the job until conditions are more But mostly they use the tallow nearly normal. ing auditor, assistant treasurer and called Jew. Vice-President and General Manager chief clerk to general manager, the post Their product is rich in courage and Mason states that unless there is an he held at retirement. tears, improvement in the manpower situation Our very best wishes go to Bill in his But little it has, if any, of hope; between now and July 1, 1946, he will request another six months' extension retirement and we know his many For few can believe, and few have permitting such employes to continue friends on the SN and the Western Pa- faith, When a Master Race is making to work up to January 1, 1947. cific join us in wishing him well. soap If you are physically able to do so, Wilmer R. Andersen succeeded Bill Of innocent children, mothers and take advantage of this extension and delay your retirement. You are needed! as chief clerk to the general manager. men; Wilmer was born at Waynesville, When God is at most—in many a * * * nation— Missouri, March 2nd, 1910. He started Only a name that signals the close CALIFORNIA ZEPHYRS ON WAYI with the SN as a general clerk on April Of a speaker's attempt at the art * The Western Pacific, Burlington and 9th, 1930, and later saw service as road- of oration! Rio Grande announced last month that master's clerk, T&E timekeeper, division orders had been placed with the Ed- In the quiet hush of an autumn day, ward G. Budd Mfg. Co., of Philadelphia, accountant and chief clerk to superin- In a sheltered spot on a hilly slope, for six stainless steel streamlined trains tendent of transportation, the spot he Close to a prison and charnel house, to be operated daily between San was holding when promoted on Sep- The Master Race is making soap— Francisco and Chicago starting late A soap to cleanse their bodies and tember 1st. next summer. clothes, President Charles Elsey stated the Congratulations and good luck to Made in the hush of autumn time. trains, with Diesel locomotives, would you, Wilmer. LHR and WCM But where is the soap to cleanse cost ten and a half million dollars; that * * their hearts, the new cars will embody all recent And wash away their awful crime? developments in design and construc- THE TRAIN BOOK Gunnar (G. W.) Wikander is on our tion for the comfort and convenience * Jeffrey Victor, an outstanding creator general auditor's staff at GO. He's a of the traveling public, including cars with the "Vista Dome" features afford- of toy books, has engineered a new native Californian, born at Crockett a little more than 31 years ago, and has been ing sleeping car and coach passengers one for children, THE TRAIN BOOK. with us since 1934. This is by no means full enjoyment of the scenic wonders The pictures are by John English, fa- his first attempt at metrical composition; of the Rockies and the Feather River mous children's artist; the Madison nor is it the first time a work of his Canyon in the Sierra Nevada.