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WKl far4m / RETURNING SOLDIER "What a country to get back to I . . . Boy, I could make love to ita mud puddles, not to mention its rock and rills! . . . The first peep at that statue of Lib. . . . The first look at the homefront skyline! . . . The sky scrapers! . . . The shops, the stores, the houses, even the hotdog stands! . . . The first eyeful of signs a guy can read, of windows with American clothes in 'em, and the names of beers, cigars and people he heard of before! ? "Sure I seen 'em all before, but now they're in technicolor! ? "No kiddin', even a 'No Smoking' sign in English is something beauti ful. . . . The words 'Hamburger and Onions' on a lunchwagon become full of poetry. . . . And every dame 1 see becomes Hedv Lamar! - ? "See all them tenements out the car window? . . . Okay, to me they're palaces! . . . See them bill boards boostin' tooth pastes, stogies, motor grease, the circus and some body's brewery? . . . Baby, to me they become the world's ten thou sand greatest masterpieces of art and literature! . . . Steve's Wayside Lunch! . . . I'll take it over the Rue de la Whoziss! ? "Yeah, there's too many guys around that still got double chins and deadpans. . . . Too many foul balls that don't pay no attention to uniforms, service ribbons and deco rations. . . . Too many creeps that give more attention to a loose dime in a train aisle than to a DSC on a marine's chest. . . . Too many punks don't even know what your division insignia means. . . . Yeah, and all that, but forget 'em! . . . And get a load of all the faces and smiles and voices and wisecracks and things that spell America, and 1 don't mean backwards! ? "All that counts is being back where the papers carry full accounts of the ban games, where nobody wrecks houses except house-wreck ers. where you can grab any door knob without thinking It could be a booby trap. ? "Look at that taxi driver beating hie jaws out in a argument with that laundry truck driver! . . . Boy, it's like long forgotten sweet music! . . . See that old number in baggy slacks setting out lettuce and tomato plants in that two-by-four backyard! . . . Kid to me it's the Queen of Sheba in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon! ? "America! Of thee I sing, and every rattle, flivver horn and every yell of 'Sock it out, kid' makes swell accompaniment! . . . Thy woods and templed hills! . . . Yowsir, even all fouled up with beaneries, tourist camps and liver pill signs, they make the best scenery on earth! ? , "The home-town garbage truck seems like Cinderella's coach and four. . . . The cry 'One up, with mus tard!' gives me a greater thrill than 'Lafayette, We are here!' . . . The white picket fence around my house is a greater sight than all the.shrubs and statues around the gardens of Versailles. . . . And I'll swap the Rhine, the Po and the Thames for the water running off my sunporch roof after a June rain. ? "You can have the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Mediterranean and the English channel for the brook that runs through Mulligan's Grove. . . . I'll trade all the words of Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Stalin and Tony Eden and all the music of London and Paris for the sound of a certain party's voice. . . . Yon take the Four Freedoms, IH take her one smile. . . . There ain't ac much me*nil]' in the text of the Charters of Quebec, Bret ton Woods, Yalta, Cairo and San Francisco as there Is In seven little words from my mom, 'I've (ot a homemade pie for TOO.' ? "Well, the train is pullin' in now. Home again! Pardon me if I hug a couple of troes and kiss a few buildings. Gangway! Hey, mom! Hey, pop! Hey, honey!" ? We expect to visit the place any day now and be introduced to ? Vice Commodoress in Charge of Fancier Cocktail Glasses and a Chairlady of the Committee to Tie Ribbons on Moorings. Skipper, an old-fashioned cuspidor, if you please! ? ? ? The Japs now threaten to launch an all-out stratosphere balloon at tack on the United States. Person ally we think it is a lot of "ba looney." ? ? ? What! No Roller SkatesT "LIVING room, bedroom, baby and misc. furniture. Thermos lunch set, power mower; 4 eyl. 14 hp. out board with 16 ft. boat. 8elmer saxo phone and clarinet and 8aprool. 12* accordion. 274 Sunset avenue, Englewood."?Bergen Record. I F Getting Really High A proposal to operate bars In air linen is disturbing legislators, as well It may. We wince at the Invi tation "See what the boys in the bach-draft will have!" Gayly Colored Cottons Favored For Sunback Dresses, Swim Suits By CHERIE NICHOLAS \\THAT a sun-worshiper fashion I * * has come to be! The big idea 1 this year seems to center about the 1 theme of brief and beautiful clothes ? that bare you to the beneficent and health-giving rays of the sun. The tactful feature of this sun-exposure | vogue is that a bolero or jacket is , always added, thus providing a roost clever coverage when you j want to go stepping, here or there, for your bareback play-frock trans- j forms into a charming double-duty costume. The bare-back frock to the left is j a perfect example of the new trend to sun - exposure fashions. Quaker gray broadcloth makes this sunback | dress that is far from demure with ( its back cut to the waist, but as t you will note, she has her bolero , in hand ready to slip on at will. j The dress has a large soft bow at : the neck in front. White fiuting adds a pretty trimming touch. Worn with its matching bolero, this dress is as modest as modest can be. Not only does the costume de scribed go sunning on the beach, but it will be fun to wear to barbecue parties and all sorts of get-together outdoor playtime occasions. When it comes to the fabrics used for the new sun-frocks, it's gay colored cottons that turn on the glamour full force. The best of it is that in these modern times one need have no misgivings as to whether the gorgeous prints or monotones will fade. One of the miracles of the age is the achievement of everfast cottons that you can buy as bright as you like and launder as often as you wish without danger of color deterioration or shrinkage. Among outstanding favorites, spun crash registers as something new and smart. This "classy" cotton tailors beautifully and the separate bolero made of it is chic to wear with slacks and shorts and bare-back dresses of contrast cottons, such as the modish eyeleted fabrics and the bright ginghams and the gorgeous printed piques. Now that you can get seersucker in gay plaids, ev erybody's calling for it. Not only ioes it make up stunningly in the lew bare midriff, sleeveless and lareback fashions, but it is "the atest" for swim suits with sarong skirts and bra tops. Checked ging lams and striped chambrays are ilso high fashion for sun frocks with x>leros and for swim suits with Hatching beach coats. Yes indeed, t's the soap 'n' water cottons that lold fashion's spotlight this sum mer. Beach cottons for sports and Oeach fashions, especially rate top [ashion. Speaking of black, the swim suit that is creating the big sensa tion is a sleek form-fitting one piece made of black elasticized water-repellent velvet that is light as a feather in weight. Or you may choose models of black satin. Practical and ever so good-looking too, is the swim suit of black wool jersey. The girl centered in the il lustration is wearing a handsome black swim suit. That this fair swimmer throws a white wool sweater about her shoulders is im portant news for a new fad is going the rounds which calls upon the sweater to play the role of a smart beach coat or wrap. Fashion-wise girls are taking up the idea with enthusiasm. Much ado is being made over handsome accessory ensembles In cluding bra and headdress made of brilliantly colorful striped or plaid taffeta. As you see pictured in the inset to the right the bra is formed of an artfully arranged scarf of woven taffeta in gay stripes teamed with which is a draped headdress of the same beautiful taffeta. To add to the colorful scene on the beach, huge bags cleverly designed of fab rics to match the sun-exposure cos tumes together with wide self fringed scarfs of the same material form a most fascinating twosome. These sets are ever so smart, made of gay gingham. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Checks for Summer This New York style in navy and white crepe artfully designs the now-so-voguish dressmaker checks for a woman's figure. The styling given this daytime dress is unusu ally attractive. Self fabric ruching, a flat bow at the neckline, and a subtly arranged fullness in the skirt contribute smart details. The large white pearl buttons adds greatly to their charm. Jacquard Sweaters Are Gay, Colorful No wonder enthusiasm for the so-colorful, so-designful jacquard sweater is soaring to a new high! The advance models now arriving are beauties. Fancy seems to run to deep yoke effects. These some times extend over the shoulders in the new cap sleeve effect forming an epaulet embroidery for the wrist length sleeves. If you are going va cationing they are nice to take along. They look striking wort with the teen-age bright plaid skirt. Another practical sweater that is I welcome newcomer this summer ii made of soap 'n' water white cot ton jersey. It is grand to wear witl the shorter shorts on the play ground. Worn with slacks it makei the ideal garb for ambitious Vic tory gardeners. The cardigan-blouse type is attractively worn with smar pleated skirts or with the now-so popular narrow wool skirt. Dressmaker Apron Lends Clamor to Basic Dresf Something new in the way of I striking novelty has happened. It h the dressmaker apron or "fashior apron" as it is sometimes called designed to glamorize the bask black dress. Made of fine colorfu taffeta or faille and other dress-ui fabric, and ruffled all around witi lace, it is far removed from th< humble kitchen type. It ties arounr the waist like any apron and hai sash-wide "apron strings" for a bustle bow at the back. One fetch ing style is fashioned of apple greet faille trimmed with a wide ruffle o; black Chantilly-type lace. Find Germany Now Country of Women Survey Shows Ratio Is About Five Women to Two Men. WIESBADEN, GERMANY.? American officers coming to grips with the task ot governing Germany I are somewhat startled by the real ization they have on their hands a , nation which is largely feminine. , Preliminary surveys show that at , the moment there are five women for j every two German men in the adult productive years and this was | expected to weigh heavily in the postwar behavior of the country, in- , volving psychological considerations with which veteran officers admit they are unfamiliar. Even the return of German pris oners will not balance the situation until today's children grow up. As a consequence hundreds of thou sands of maturing German women face the DrosDect of a husbandless life if the nation is going to stick to monogamy. The Nazi slave labor system re leased an extraordinarily high pro portion of German men for the fronts where they became casualties or prisoners. Now the burdens of reconstruction and reparations sac rifices are to fall most heavily on women and if, in addition, it is to be a loveless life, it may lead, in the opinion of some officers, to a spiritual smash up which could have repercussions far beyond the Ger man frontiers. Lt. U. C. Biel of New York City, military government officer making a study of this factor, said if even one frustrated woman was unpre dictable the mass of feminine frus tration which seems in store for Ger many was completely outside the bounds of calculation and could bring strange unprecedented slants to the postwar mentality. Find Europe's Health Better Than Expected PARIS.?Health conditions in Ger many and in European countries liberated by the western allies are generally better than expected and in France and Belgium are ap proaching normal, Maj. Gen. War ren F. Draper, chief of the public health branch of the civil affairs di vision, reported. Draper said, however, that the food situation was grim throughout Europe and estimated it would be come serious in Germany within 60 days. "There isn't enough food in sight to keep some people of Europe from going hungry, but up to the present the lack of food hasn't harmed the mass of people to any great extent," he said. In the recently liberated areas of iiuuauu uu cAvtciuc tajta ui otai ?o tion were found and the genera] sit uation was not as acute as expected, although there were many cases of malnutrition. Draper indicated that throughout Europe there had been food available to those who had mon ey to pay for it. Three Japs Patch Plane For Yanks Doing It Wrong A FIGHTER FIELD IN THE PHILIPPINES ?Half a dozen 5th air force ground crewmen were patching up a wrecked Japanese fighter plane. From the brush behind the revetment there emerged three furtive figures who approached, watched, shook their heads in dis approval. Finally the engrossed Americans looked up, stood aghast. The onlookers were Japanese. The Yanks called an interpreter. "They say you're not doing It right," explained the interpreter. "They want you to take them pris oners so they can help." This formality was attended to and the Japanese?heads clipped and garbed in "PW" coats?went to work . on the plane, soon had it airworthy. The three were Japanese ground 1 I crew personnel. Surrender of this f type of soldier has been fairly com \ mon in Luzon. i Fatalities Are Slashed On Wounds in Chest ! | WASHINGTON.?The rate of sur suffered by American soldiers in this war is three times as (rest as in the last war. Army Surgeon Genera] Norman T. Kirk said. Asserting that chest wounds, along with head and abdominal wounds, are the most commonly fatal types of battle injuries. General Kirk de clared that whereas the death rate 1 of chest-wounded men who lived i long enough to reach surgery was 24 per cent in the last war, it is now | eight per cent. "And this low rate has been achieved," said a war department statement, "in spite of the fact that chest wounds are more serious in this war because of the increase in bomb fragments." Allies Warn Germans On Scuttling Ships LONDON. ? Declaring there "will be no Allied shipping avail able for German needs," Allied supreme headquarters has called on merchant seamen in north German ports by radio to prevent Nazi fanatics from trying "to cre . ate starvation and chaos by or i dering ships to be scuttled." Yanks Welcome Precious Cargo Livestock Arrives at Guam To Assure Soldiers of Fresh Food. Br SGT. STANLEY FINK, C8BIC GUAM.?A precious cargo that Rill assure fresh milk, meat and eggs for the wounded soldiers, sail ors and marines in hospitals on this island arrived here recently. Seventy-five cows, eight bulls, six heifers, 1,043 hogs, 600 chickens, 100 ducks and 50 turkeys?the first cargo of livestock to be shipped from the United States to a forward area in the Pacific?were brought by two Victory ships. Arrangements for the shipment were made after a conference called by Marine Maj. Gen. Henry L. Lar sen, Island Commander. Represen tatives of the Foreign Economic ad ministration and the Military Gov ernment section of the Island Com mand attended. Seventy-live cows ? 70 Holsteins and five Brown Swiss from Califor nia?have been assigned to the FEA dairy. The dairy, which will fur nish fresh milk for the thousands of wounded troops recuperating in hos pitals, is supervised by Paul Gantt of Honolulu, principal livestock spe cialist of the Central Pacific area for FEA. To Fatten on Garbage One thousand feeder hogs also have been assigned to FEA. These will be fattened on garbage collected from various army, navy and ma rine corps camps. Later they win be slaughtered and the fresh pork distributed to hospitals and military establishments. Some of the hogs wUl be sold to natives. Six Brahman bulls and six heifers from Texas, two Holstein bulls and 43 breeder boars and sows have been assigned to the military government for breeding purposes. They win be used to bolster the depleted livestock of the island. Before the war there was approximately 8,900 head of cat tle here. Today there are less than 4,000. The 600 chickens, including 200 White Leghorns, 200 Bar Plymouth Rocks and 200 New Hampshire Reds, 100 Muscovy ducks and 60 tur keys wUl go to Military Government. Pooltry Welcome. The w&r brought a depletion of 98 per cent in poultry on the island, ac cording to Lt. William V. Saussotte, USNR, formerly of San Francisco and Singapore, officer in charge of the military government agricultu ral section. "There were 130,000 fowl on the island before the war and today there are only a handful," he said. "With this new shipment we expect to increase greatly the poultry flock and eventuaUy bring it to normal." Most of the eggs will be used for hatching to increase the flock. Some will be sent to hospitals for wounded troops. The cattle were unloaded from the ships to LSTs in crates lowered over the side. The LSTs then pulled to shore where the cattle were loaded on trucks through specially con structed loading chutes. The shipment not only will be of aid to the wounded but is expected to do much toward assisting the na tive economy. Blueprint* Go by V-Mail To Speed Warship Repair WASHINGTON, D. C. ? A new technique?sending blueprints by V mail?speeded up by weeks the re turn of the escort carrier Kalinin Bay to the fleet. The vessel took 29 shell holes in her hull during the battle for Leyte gulf and was brought back to Ter minal Island, Calif., for repairs. The bureau of ship* had had under way for some time a program of photographic reproduction of all plans of combat ships. The Kalinin Bay plans were recorded on four reels of film and flown to the ship yard several weeks before the ship's arrival. Meanwhile photographs of battle damage had been flown in from the Pacific and advance fabri cation of damaged portions of the ?hip was made possible. A-I? Cnl 1m V/IUCI VIMUV vu? ua Aviation Cadet Program WASHINGTON.?The war depart ment announced that the army avi ation cadet program la being re duced drastically in view of tha European war situation. Affwrted are preaviation cadets and preair crew trainees and mem bers of the air corps enlisted re serve who are on inactive status as civilians until eligible for active duty following their 18th birthdays. The army said cadets and students already in flying training will be sufficient to meet future needs for pilots, bombardiers, and navigators. Charging Jap Officer Sees Yanks; Changes Mind OKINAWA.?This is one about a Jap officer on one of the hills of the southwestern Okinawa front. He appeared suddenly with drawn saber. With an ear-splitting shriek ? "Banzai" ? he came charging down, flaying the air with his sword. Halfway down toward U. S. troops, the officer suddenly stopped and looked around. But there were no Jape following him. He quickly sheathed his swocd and disappeared! mi Ib^^Bbbbei WHAT 'BIG BUSINESS' MEANS TO AMERICA MOST OF US are prone to take a kick at big business, just because it is big, and without knowing much about the details of its operation; who owns it, what it provides in the way of jobs, what it does and what becomes of the money it takes fas. United States Steel is big business, the third largest industrial organiza tion in the nation, its $2,100,062,448 of assets is exceeded only slightly by Standard Oil of New Jersey and General Motors. Its assets are more than twice that of the Ford Motor company, and Ford is no "small potatoes" in the industrial field. United States Steel does many things in the way of producing goods and services for the people of the nation. It operates mines, owns and operates three or more railroads, owns and operates both lake ana ocean steamships, builds ships and bridges, and does a number ot other things in addition to producing steel of various kinds. In 1944 the sales of United States Steel amounted to $2,082,200,000. Of that sum it paid as wages $987,200,000 to its monthly average of 314,888 em ployees, a weekly average of $54.37 per worker. It paid $818,400,000 for materials and services, such as transportation. Uncle Sam and state and local taxing units took $105,800, 000 as taxes. To its 225,414 stock holders, holding its 12,306,063 shares of stock, an average of 55 shares per stockholder, preferred and common, it paid as dividends $60,000,000 for supplying the money that provided the plants and tools that meant the 314,888 jobs. These stockholders re ceived as compensation for the use of their money $45,800,000 less than was paid in taxes. There were oth er smaller items of expense, includ ing $33,074,988 paid out as pensions to retired workers. When all the bills were paid there was left $758,506 with which to keep the fires burning, and men working, through such times as orders might stop coming. That represents a lot of big figures on a big business, but a bit of consideration of them may give us an idea of the place big business really occupies in the economic life of a big nation. I found them instructive and in teresting. ? ? ? TWO PARTY SYSTEM AND BUSINESS OPERATION A TWO PASTY SYSTEM of gov ernment, such as ours now is, and government operation of industry will not function together. One or the other must fail. For example: Should the railroads be nationalized every employee would be on a gov ernment payroll. So long as wages, hours, working conditions were sat isfactory those government railroad employees would vote to retain in power whatever party was respon sible for that condition. Should any demand made by those government employees be refused those em ployees would vote to oust that par ty. Under such conditions the de mand would be met regardless of its merit or its effect on the general public. The same conditions would apply to all other lines of industry. Government control would be in the hands of government employees. It would be a one, rather than our present two party system. A one party system inevitably leads to dic tatorship. ? ? * REGULATION DOESN'T FIT AMERICAN CITIZENS IN ENGLAND, some 300 or more years ago, the king's decree was the only law of the land. He told each one what he could do and not do; where he could go and not go. The shoemaker's son must be a shoe maker, the farmer's son must also be a farmer. No one could move from place to place without the king's permission. The world does move but it may be in circles. We, the progeny of those English men of olden days, are also being told what we can do, and where we can go. We arc being regulated much aa were thoae ancestor*. In sofar as that is in actual support of the war effort we do not object. That part of it, and there would seem to be a part, that serves only the purpose of satisfying the ego oif a bureaucrat in demonstrating he can tell us where to head in, we object to with good reason. It savors too much of those old days of absolute monarchy. ? ? ? IN GERMANY the Allied armies completed the job of destruction that was started by Hitler. ^ ? ? ? HE WHO MEETS the calls of to day worries but little of the tomor rows. ? ? ? ' ALONG WITH the always es sential food the most valuable crop produced on oar American family farms Is good ettisens. Of the students to oar universities and colleges, b proportion to poputotion, more of them are from rural than from urban America. Check any list of those who make America tick and a targe proportion of them are products of rural eommanlties aad the farms. The family farm the as Wen great. . - ? .. - ?m Need for Legume and Graw Seed Increa?ee Good Profit Seen For Seed Growers Harvesting legume and graw see# win bring a three-fold retort fm farmers: additional income, eeena ance of feed for livestock and pdip tection for their soil, says na U.S.D.A. An Increase of 67 per cent eve! last year's harvested acreage at at sike clover seed is sought in IMS, si total of 179,000 acres. One n asfea for the larger acreage is the argent caU for this seed from liberate# areas of Europe, in addition to in creasing home requirements few hay and soil protection. Half again as much alfalfa see# is needed as was harvested in 1M4. -q about 100,000,000 pounds. About 120,000,000 pounds of rot clover seed are needed, some B per cent more than was produce# last year. Hay and pasture account fear more than three-quarters of the fee# consumed by dairy cows and flw nish a major share of the feed few other livestock. In addition, farmers depend can legumes and grasses to check nd erosion and maintain fertility. Far example, legumes used- as green manure add nitrogen to the aaO an# when grown bi mixtures, they fur nish this essential element te few grasses in the mixture. When nee# in crop rotations, legumes maintain and increase the acre yield W Gathering Cash Seed Crop. other crops. Both graases and' legumes are valuable as permano* cover for the land, holding the ndL against erosion by wind and watox. Good prices and a ready masha* are indicated for legume and gran* seed in 1945-46, pointing to addrtiws al income for farmers from prop erly managed fields. The first crap of many of these plants may be csi for hay or used as pasture, and the second harvested for seed. Killing Bean Beetles 7 Mexican bean beetle, left, wm0 bean leaf beetle, right, can be gattass rid of by spray or dost with cryo lite every It days aatil pads feagte to form, then astng rotenaoe. For cryolite spray nse 1 ounce to X gallon of water. For dast, S pounds to 1 P??nd el Ulc. tor iiliwe spray, aw Derrto or Mto root powder, I per cent ntoae eootent, H ounce to I III* mtn. For dost, nee rood; prepared tost mixture contain lag at least 1 pa* seat at roteaeae. Save the Tractor and Conserve Time and Life Time, money, injuries and deaths resulting from tractor accidente may be largely prevented by [sip er operation. Avoid holes or ditches that may cause tractors to over turn. Drive slowly, reduce speed <as turn or when applying brakes. Ncv ?r ride on draw bar. Don't inuiiB riders. Make all adjustments wbfla tractor is idle. Stop power tuli tM before dismounting. Be sure that aS power line shielding is in place. Do not operate tractor in a dosed building. Refuel only when motor is cool and dead. Be sure the gear shift lever is in neutral before cranking the engine. Effect of Pregnancy ' The severe price discrimmaftkn* practiced by market buyers agaJnst pregnant yearling heifers are not Justified when such heifers are mar keted by the end of the fifth month of gestation, according to the Illinois agricultural experiment station. Slaughtered tests and carcass show that pregnant heifers take ? a higher degree of finish and that at this stage of pregnancy neither the dressing percentage DOT tip m*r^*t ^ ? ?
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