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Postwar Streamlined Cargo-Handling Plane A streamlined cargo-handling system haa been devised for speeding vitally needed supplies to the Paelllo war front via the 724-ton Mara Transports. It is the flrst ever planned for a fleet of large flying ships op erating on extended overwater routes. The system has proven so successful that its use during postwar era is assured. These and similar planes will be fitted to carry on large operations on future global routes. ; | Jap 'Ersatz' Merchant Fleet Takes a Beating The harbor at Hachlnohe, in the Jap home laland of Honshu, Is no safe harbor for tbese "ersatx" wooden ! loggers of the dwindling Jap merchant fleet. Hastily and crudely built to replace better ships sunk by tbe Americans, these ugly ducklings of the sea soon Join their better predecessors at the bottom of the sea urged on their way by guns and bombs of carrier-based aircraft of the mighty D. S. Third fleet. Light Comes on Again Blacked oat since Pearl Harbor, the 304,040-candlepower beacon at MonUnk Point, Long Island, Is shin bag agr'n with its prewar brilliance. One of America's first lighthouses. H was established in 1799 and Is one of thousand aids to navigation. Tires to Aid Civilian Needs Here is one of the hu(e ihlpmenti of rubber tires which arrived from Europe, where they were used on D, 8. army vehicles throughout the war area. They were unloaded at Fort Totten. N. I., where they were inspected and classified by the army. Some will be kept In army service, I but many turned over for disposal to civilian purchasers. World's Tallest Hit yhe lower of lie Empire State Iding, world'! taOesf, b ohowa OB >ped la fo?, unoko aad two aft i tJ. S. amp Uf bombing no craahcd into tko bolldtng re All-Americans Practice at Yale A brace of All-Amrrieini are pictured as they taraed sat far Tale's feet hall training btsslsn. Left te rifht they are Cielfktee Miner, AD Amerlcaa at Netre Dame la INI, Tale assistant haekAeld eeeeh; and Paul V. Wibil W'Oafc-Farfc. HI., captain ef the IMS Tale feethall whe ssas an All-American selection far cad last year. How These Boys j Do Get Arourjd! . ' - V ' 'x * "? ' Guardians 6f Military Law Cover a Lot of Ground in Travel and Service. CHICAGO. ? For a coupla of mid Westerners with a yen to travel, Sgt. Albert Rose of the military po lice and SP S 1/c Howard B. Whites carver of the shore patrol really get around. They are the moat traveled guard ians of military law the railroads ever have carried ? between them they have covered a distance equiv alent to 29 times around the world. That is why they were selected by the army and navy to receive spe cial commendations from the Pull man company honoring those sol diers and sailors whose duty it la to aid other servicemen riding the nation's railroads. Many civilians ? and servicemen too ? have pictured military gen darmes as fun-killing ogres. But the record shows this is not a true pic ture. For instance, Sergeant Rose, a Blue Hill, Neb., farmer, who has traveled 341,000 miles in his military duties, has not locked up a single nffpnHpr AnH Rnprifllifit Whiteacarv er, a Detroit, Mich., police officer for 14 prewar years with 400,000 miles of SP duty behind him, has had to lock up .just one sailor. Ready for Anything. In the opinion of 130 men who have bad an opportunity to become the closest friends of these troop patrolmen?Pullman service inspec tors who share their trouble? and joys on train trips ? these MPs and SPs are a combination Dick Tracy, Solomon-like judge, nurse maid, fight referee, doctor's as sistant and master of ceremonies. They don't confine all their work to troops, either. E. R. Culley, a Pullman inspector, recalls that an 82-year-old man who was on a Flor ida-bound train became desperate ly ill en route. "It looked as if he would die at any moment," Culley said, "unless he had attention. The MPs couldn't find a doctor on the train, but they administered to the man as well as they could. Then, when we reached Nashville, Tenn., they took him to the hospital, although they were then off duty." The wife of a soldier or sailor who is traveling with children also gets special attention. If she is alone, one of the "diplomats in arm bands" frequently helps to fix the baby's feeding formula. Or he may amuse restless children with tall tales. Presence Curbs Rowdyism. The very presence ol military po lice on trains is enough to curb much ot the rowdyism that might be expected. "They're plenty rugged in the clutch," said J. M. Lee, another Pullman inspector. "I saw one heave-to recently, just as a row was getting under way. Drawing himself to his full 6 feet 4, an MP addressed the belligerents: 'Okeh, buddies. You're soldiers. But there's just one thing I want you to under stand. I'm the only fighting man here.' Hostilities ceased at once." The military policemen are on duty 24 hours a day. Berths are pro vided for them, but it's seldom they obtain more than 20 of their 40 winks. Often they have to get up to help some GI find a wallet he has misplaced, or to quiet some ex uberant lads. "Sometimes they sit in club cars with troops," said Lee, "and act kind of like a master of ceremonies. They pass from one table to an other, cheering up a downhearted youngster or calming one who might be getting boisterous. They're able to keep an eye over the throng and, with a few well-chosen words, pre vent trouble from brewing. Most of them are very tactful." Busy Mayor It One-Man 'Friend of the People' WISCONSIN DELLS, WIS. ? Few individuals are more active in be half of a city's welfare than one T. J. ("Tom") Howley of this village. He's virtually a one-man "friend | of the people" ? being mayor, chief of police, president of the chamber of commerce, special delivery mall man, ration board member and j chairman of Kiwants club activities ?in this little city which is unique among the rural communities of | America. Ninety per cent of its 1,700 population directly earn their living by serving needs of vacationists who for 70 years have been coming ! to see the fantastic Dells of the Wis consin river. Remaining 10 per cent of the citizens are farmers and tradesmen, who are also indirectly dependent on tourists. In normal times 100,000 to 100,000 people visit here each summer. . J ?? Rayon Situation Looking Better, WPB Announces WASHINGTON. ? There'll be more rayon for hosiery and other feminine apparel in the latter half of this year. WPB has annouaced that the July September supply of broad-woven i rayon fabric suitable for women's wear will total 314,000,000 yards, up 11,000,000 from the current quarter. In the last three men the at IMS there will be 339,000,000 yards available, it was said. Heavy Loss Caused By Common Colds 2 Billion a Year, Physician Says, After Study. CHICAGO. ? The common cold effects more women than men end costs 100,000,000 working days and $2,000,000,000 a year, a physician re ported here after a two-year study. Smoking apparently has little ef fect on colds, but posture is an important factor, stated the report of Dr. Joseph H. Kler at New Bruns wick, N. J., published in the Archives of Otolaryngology. Other high spots of the research findings were: There is a definite pattern to the incidence of colds, with the highest peak in December and the lowest in July. Incidence was consistently higher in Chicago than in the East, espe cially during the summer. There is a definite correlation be tween temperature and the onset at colds. Every sudden drop in temper ature was followed in a day or two by a rise in the number of colds. The highest incidence was in the 28 to 29 years age group and the lowest in the group above 50 years. a# 4tma-1nctn0 aaHa X lie nagL IM uiiiv-iviiuig wwavwf however, increased with age. There were more colds among women than men. In New Jersey there were more among women throughout the year, while in Chi cago, women had more only in the winter months, although the total for the year still was higher for the women. There were consistently more colds among office personnel than among factory workers. Fewer colds occurred in air-con ditioned plants. More colds start on Monday than on any other day of the week, especially those among men. Posture is important. The in cidence and severity was lowest among those whose work necessi tates walking about most of the time. Battered Warsaw Trying Hard to Make Comeback WARSAty, POLAND. ? A party 01 western miiea correspondents ar rived here recently and spent three hours visiting the indescribably wrecked Polish capital. There are no more than a dozen intact build ings in the entire city. Workers have cleared most areas except dis tricts where patriots staged their abortive uprising against the Ger mans before the city fell to the Red army. The people of Warsaw, however, are cheerful, energetic and fairly well dressed. They are reopening the smaller shops as rapidly as pos sible. Shelves are loaded with food such as dried eggs, cakes, break fast rolls, pastry, butter, cheese, cream, milk and flour, but all at very high prices. Tobacco also is available but expensive. The government buildings are supplied with electric power and running water but the rest of War saw is dependent on the wells for water. A few Red army troops re main in the city, which is mainly garrisoned and policed by Poles. Meanwhile, the underground, once loyal to the London exile govern ment, is gradually coming out of hiding and showing willingness to collaborate with the new regime. Before American and British cor respondents left Moscow for War saw, Wladyslaw Gomolka, vice pre mier of the new government, said he expected Allied recognition would eliminate the "sick" atmos pbere in this country which he ascribed to lack of acknowledgment of the government. MPs Are Guarding Army's Melon Patch on Guam KANSAS CITY, MO. ? The United States now has MPs guarding its watermelon patch in Guam, and for the same reason as at home?to keep out pilferers. War Correspondent Alvin S. Mc Coy of the Kansas City Star recently reported from Guam that the flrsl 10 acre patch of watermelon! planted there by the army was a failure because of pilferage. B. E. Lundholm, Salinas, Calif., foreign economic administration representa tive, told McCoy: "These city boys don't know how to thump a melon, and they'd plug all the green ones, causing them tc rot in the field. We lost every melor we tried to grow. Now we're plant ing 40 acres more, and we'll havi MPs around them all night." McCoy reported the army had taken about 50 milk cows, 900 hogs, and much seed to Guam, and now was producing fresh milk, meal and vegetables for soldiers stationed there. More than 100 former farm boys have been recruited from the army to handle the army farms. 2 Dozen Just Snack For a Real Eater MEMPHIS. ? E. L. Terry walked into a cafe, announced he was Memphis' egg-eating champ and ordered a dozen. Sgt. Gilbert Harris challenged, put down two dozen and topped them off with three cups of coffee. "I'm still hungry," Harris said. "Want to bet for M more?" Terry had enough. Kathleen Norris Says: The Way to Peace Ml Syndicate.?WNU fMtUM. "Our meals should bo reduced to faro that can be universally grown and uni versally distributed. Bread, of course, cereals and milk, fruits and vegetables." By KATHLEEN NORR1S WHAT is happening to the world just now is not a mere war. It is not going to be, in a little while, the mere aftermath of a war. It is not go ing to be like anything that has ever happened in the world be fore. Make up your mind to that. Make up your mind that the immediate future is going to be filled with confusion, problems, demands. No generation of women has ever been faced with such a responsibility. Once our nmro nnnPOrnpH JJC1 piCAllitO n Vi 6 VWMVV*? merely with America. Now they are world-wide. Take my lovely southern grand mother for example. She came across the plains in 1850 with a handsome Irish husband and a baby daughter. She was destined to pi oneer in California's mountains; a town was named for her; she bore 12 more children without benefit of doctor, hospital, professional nurse, electric light, piped water, milk-bot tle sterilizer, telephone ? no use list ing what she didn't have. What she did have was a farm house, fruit trees, cattle, two fruit wood chests "from home," some quilts, and her grandmother's spin ning wheel. She never saw her mother again; she never left the golden state to which fate had taken her, but she lived a magnificent, full and happy life. Far From Europe's Troubles. What was it to her that Europe was boiling with wars? She had only a dim and scrappy visualiza tion of our own Civil war. She knew nothing of New York's politics, Bos ton's culture; the troubles ol the Balkans and China were as remote as the stars. With us, today, it is different. We are facing the results of the most hideous catastrophe that ever shook the old earth. We are sharing it. One third of the earth's habited sur face has been scarred and flattened and blasted by war; countries as big as some of our states aTe still heaped with dead; children's eyes have been accustomed to sights that would shatter the nerves of hardened criminals; mothers of children have had to hear their pleas for food, for rest, unheard, have had to see them die. ? "What we OUGHT to do, all of us everywhere, in the nations that have not been invaded," writes Maria Pendleton Smith, a minis 1 ter's wife, "is turn to God. And not only in prayer, every hour, every 1 minute. "But also in simplifying our lives so that we can give?give?give. Our meals should be reduced to fare ; that can be universally grown and i universally distributed. Bread, of i course, cereals and milk, fruits and , vegetables. Clothing plain and i easily cared for. Flowers on our ta . bles if you like, singing always, j books, friendship, walks, study. But , all the superficialities swept away? , | all the extravagances that really | cost the money. Our children , should be dedicated to the great . task of sharing, of giving away the , extra coat, of asking the hungry stranger in to our board. 1 Keeping Christ's Law. "If we could do this in the name ' of Our Lord and Master," this bold 1 and beautiful letter goes on, "we I would build a nationality under our > own nationalities. We who followed ' this law?and after all it Is THE i i ? ? | I Omr duUrtu >hwU ik? ... I SHARING OUR PLENTY We in America have only a dim understanding of the havoc of war. This country has been spared most of the horror, dev astation and misery of this global conflagration. The lot of many of us has improved during these war years, in fact, thanks to plenti ful employment at high wages, and high prices for products. A reader of Miss Norris' col umn writes that she believes we could and should be more gen erous with the good things we have. We ought to share our clothes and food and fuel and medicine with the suffering peo pie oj Europe ana Ana, sne says. We should trim down our living standard to a plain, solid level, and then give the surplus to the poor in the devastated countries. All this skimping and sharing would be motivated by a combi nation of religious fervor and long range practical statecraft. This writer thinks that war, and the strife and jealousy that leads to war, could be abolished, in time, if there were sufficient gen erosity and goodwill in the wealthy and powerful nations. law, would be known in all countries as the disciples of Jesus Christ. We would never form a military group or ask allegiance to any one flag. But gradually, like the leaven hid in the measures of meal, we would join hands, we would come to know each other, and people?the great underground army of Christ, who deliberately abandoned all thoughts of superior wealth or position, of useless multiplied possessions, of power through violence and coer cion. The people who kept Christ's law. "We would have everything beau tiful that He has given us in this world to make us happy. We would' have love, homes, children, enough simple food and clothing, friendship, gardens, books, walks ? but more than all, we would have that interior peace, that ineffable joy that the . world, as it is now, cannot give. Our rule would be Christ's; blessed are the meek, blessed are the merciful. He that hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none. Overcome not evil with evil, but overcome evil with good. By this shall all men know ye are my disciples, that ye love one an other." Well, I don't know what sort of sermons the Reverend Smith preaches, but I suggest that he some time give his dauntless wife the pulpit. It is a long time since any thing I have read or heard has opened to me the vision I received , from this letter. For I know in my heart that if the tortured world is to be saved at all, this is the path. SEW FOR SOLDIERS The Beverly Hills branch of the American Women's Voluntary serv ices of Southern California has or ganized a unique group aptly re ferred to as the Button Bngade. Twice a week these ambitious wom en, complete with four sewing ma chines, ironing boards, electric iron, reams of thread and, of course, countless buttons, visit nefir-by camps. Their work includes just about everything from sewing on buttons and service stripes to the more intricate task of a complete alteration. Argentine Population Of a population of more than 13, 000,000, there are only 53,000 Indians in Argentina. The population from 1858 to 1907 was increased by 6,000, 000 immigrated people. Argentina was explored and set tled by the Spaniards in the 16th century, and it was a Spanish pos session until 1816, when the Span ish viceroy was deposed. Until 1853 civil war and dictatorships made conditions unsettled, after which a constitution patterned after the U. S. constitution was set up.
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