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PAGE TWO THE BEAUFORT NEWS, BEAUFORT, N. C. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1942 Released by Western Newspaper Union. NATIONAL HOLIDAY FOB V. S. FARMERS LABOR, the work of hand and brain of we Americans, is a funda mental on which our national wealth and prosperity, our standard of liv ing and freedom are builded. It is a fundamental of democracy and of our way of life. But labor is only one of our two great fundamentals. An even great, pr nnp is thn f.irm. Without the farm and its products, there would j be no place for labor, nothing to keep It alive. Nothing for labor to work with or to work for. The farm was and is our first fundamental. It is the foundation on which the nation was builded and on which it expand ed from ocean to ocean. As a nation, we should pay honor and tribute to the farm and those who sow and reap for us, just as we now do to labor. There should be a national farm day each year. It would be a day especially appropri ate to rural America, a day to be observed and celebrated in every j town and hamlet as Labor day is now observed in our population and industrial centers. Until we have such a day we are overlooking the first of our two fundamentals. We can have that special day if we demand it, as we should. Congress should name some fixed day of each year as Farm day. Congress would do that if we. as a people, asked it. I propose we ask for a national Farm day for each year. 'AMERICAN SYSTEM' IS A SACRED TRUST WHEN WE AS A PEOPLE com pute our national wealth and realize our farm values have multiplied many times within the past 100 years, we should bow in reverence to those who made that increase pos sible. When grandfather cleared another 40 acres and put It to raising crops, he contributed to the living stand ards of the present generation to all of us, not merely his own de scendants. He added to the nation al wealth. When he passed away, he did not take that increased value with him, but left it for posterity to enjoy. Msn who build factories, who cre ate more jobs, who provide a new product that makes life easier or more enjoyable, benefit all of us now and in the future. They do not and cannot take away what they have created. They have added to the national wealth, which all of future generations may enjoy. They have been but custodians for their life time. When they pass away should those to whom the custodianship is entrusted fail, the wealth that was created Is not destroyed. That, briefly, is the American sys tem, which we must preserve. I AN AVERAGE AMERICAN CHANGES HIS OPINIONS AS AN EVIDENCE of how opln Ions change, I cite my own as an average American. In 1919-20 I was strongly In favor of our joining the League of Nations and assuming our place as a world power. In 1930 I would have built a tariff wall around America so high that the squabbling nations of Europe could not climb over It. In 1939 I was strictly isolationist, but favored sell ing Europe any war supplies she might want to buy and for which she had the money to pay. Today I am an ardent supporter of our war effort and demanding complete and utter defeat for all our enemies. As a typical American, I do not be lieve in catering to any minority group. I do believe in. and want to see preserved our American way of life, with equal opportunity for all. I believe I am a good citizen and that other good citizens may not believe as I do. WHEREIN A 'FEMALE FAILED AT BEING A 'LAD'' , SHE WAS A FEMALE, but no lady. She kicked my favorite dog for no reason other than that he was passing her on the sidewalk and she did not like dogs. He is a gentlemanly little "pooch," who meets you with a happy smile on his dog face and a "glad-to-see-you" wag of his bushy tail He is not my dog, but I like him. "Why?" I asked that female. "I do not want any dog on a side walk on which I am walking. I kick all dogs I do not think will bite me. I do not like them," she said. To me that demonstrated that though a skirt-wearing female, she is no lady. I would much prefer that friendly "pooch" as a com panion. .BECAUSE WAR NECESSITIES had stopped the manufacture of their product and they had nothing to sell, a sewing machine salesroom was dosed. But it was more than that It -was the workroom of a church sewing circle. Each week the wom en of the church gathered there and from materials they had bought, made garments for the women and Children of suffering England. Stop ping the manufacture of sewing ma chines In America deprived women and children of England of winter clothing. Dogs of prV; Rift h ,w.:v.-, .vrfS vs m ? .if . . . w k a . jrw : Dogs or war will charge an enemy In the face of gunfire. In this scries of pictures a Great Dane leaps for an armed "enemy" as he crawls over a barrier. The "enemy," using blanks, fires directly into the dog's face, but the dog never falters. In second picture the Great Dane has the "enemy'' by the arm and is pull ing him down, and in picture at the right the enemy is falling. Although the trainer had great layers of elk hide and wool in his sleeve, the dog's teeth marked his arm. High Altitude Tests at Ground Levels Aviation easolincs must mrfnrm , V" , altitude test room r.ght) the h.gh studying instruments outs de the ,: ... . , ... i mc location which must remain a mililirc n . ... . . . , . ,, ------- - mic a muc varuiy 01 swucnes, dial ana gauges assist tech nologists in the constant control of temperatures, pressures and flow rates which affect the quality and amount or men octane aviation casniini nradiwd With U. S. Fighting .,7 rV' hcre,ls no ln Guinea, and so, when it comes to building, the American soldier, learn trick or two from the natives near Port Moresby Be ore the grass thatch i. put on, the beam, are securely tied with trips of bark whlrh the natives are shown peeling. In the back ground the framework of one house is aU bat completed. Little forks that two of he natives wear In their hair are solely for pleasure-the pleasure of scratching. Chow Between Japs on Guadalcanal ei 17 . I ft )L ' V. S. marines line np at a field kitchen In-between onslaughts against Jap positions on strategic Guadalcanal island in the Solomons group, where the Japs opened up a big push to reclaim the island. War Charge Armed 'Enemy' 14- -T-T lit' . II Uy ., 1 , k;i4 I'M . vvf II Jvv- on m,.ii.nti.. ,t " 7 j .,, up as nicy ao ai sea level, inanks to this higl - flying performance can be judged at ground level. A technologist is shown test ronm rni , .. o..:J . . . Men in New Guinea -Si--2 j. . . nuiu i-aiaiyiic cracKing piani at a ... . " r . . Army's 'Big Boy' Pvt. William Ford of Janesville. Wis., ! 6 feet S inches tall, and weighs 320 pounds. Officers at Fort Sheridan, III., where he was Induct ed, say he Is one of the largest men ever to don a uniform. Photo shows him having uniform trouble. Enemy Photograph t miiiMiiawwaal t 1 This photo was received In Amer ica from an enemy source, with cap tion stating that the two German soldiers were members of a Panzer division in Stalingrad. One mans the machine while the other peers through field glasses. r' IK . 4? .: d A SERIES OF OV- 1 J 1 SPECIAL ARTICLES . TTtf I 7 BY THE LEADING Itl i.wi it Jt: -- i jfWAK LOKKtSWNUtAliaW'r j Yank Fliers in Australia lly U . II. Courtney (WNU feature Thtouih tpecitl trrtnft ment with Collier i Weekly ) I am writing this from Port Dar win in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Darwin area is about as far from Sydney and Mel bourne as Death Valley is from New York. It is probably wilder in na ture and ruder in its white men than anv other part of earth under a United Nations flag. Even the Australians, usually sen sitive about references to whatever section of their country, admit it's hlnnriv Godforsaken." But it's Godforsaken. home, for the time being at least, to manv Vnnk hnmhpT nnd mirsllit kids whose advancorf flying bases, hacked from the desert scrub and the mori- bund red earth by their own engi neers and labor battalions, white and Negro, dot the "bush" here abouts. So very young and lean, habitually wearing only shorts and rubber sneakers, cooked to a partridge brown, raising as much beard as they can, with huge pistols dangling from web belts, these rakish and raffish airmen look, after a couple of weeks, like student pirates. Life Without Women. They have to be tough and in genious to survive down here the flies, the mosquitoes, the snakes, the heat and the eve-snlittine elare that makes the inside of your head raw, the unbearable loneliness of life without women. They eat only Aussie chow and second best at that. When they get lump sugar, they mark it with ink for use as playing cards or domi noes. The difficulties of transpor tation have boEced down most of the commissary, recreational and morale services of our own army. Cigarettes and other amenities are likely to be stolen before they can pass the long overland trek from our base ports. When staff officers fly in for visits, thev usually load their planes with comforts for the Yanks here maga zines, candy, playing cards, ciga rettps and thp like I saw a whole . . . " group jump away from unfinished dinner, with shouts of boyish glee, when Gen. Ralph Royce produced out of his plane a baseball, a bat and some fielders' mitts. American Ingenuity. Their toughness they take out on the Nips. The only superiority we have in the air of the Southwest Pacific is skill and heart Their in genuity is expressed in little ways at once familiar and endearing to an American visitor. Northern territory is the Land of the White Ant. These various ter- mltpe hnllH fitriiptnrpR some low mounds, some 20-foot columns, until the plains around Darwin, seen in the moonlight, give you the impres sion of ruined castles and villages in miniature. The so-called "magnetic" nests are the most famous tall, slabwise, sharply templed pillars, the ends of which always point exactly north and south. Woody substance inside, they are covered with fine clay that hardens into fortresses that repel all the termites' enemies. The Yanks found a use for these. They ax off the tops, chisel out a hollow in the bases and have fine barbecue or picnic stovesl All Kinds of Hunting. The chief unrationed recreation of the Yank airmen here Is hunting Nips in the air, kangaroos, snakes, dingoes or wild dogs, emus, ducks, buffalo, crocodiles on the ground. The kangaroo remains of greatest interest. The boys catch young ones and try to tame them; each plans to take a 'roo home with him. But they find the 'roos dumb and un responsible; "Just misshapen rab bits." One squad tent has a mascot an old 'roo that, on his own, attached himself. He will eat food that's set on the ground. He cornea in at night and sleeps under one of the cots. But if you try to pet him he runs out. At reveille he out about 30 feet from the tent; sits there all day, watching, sidestep ping anyone who goes near him. In four months of this, no one has suc ceeded in touching him. The Yanks try to build up auxil iary air-raid warning services with their wild-pet friends. Coannas, a type of monitor lizard, are plentiful in all the camps roam about all day on their business nf pa-hir.a in sects, not allowing the advent of " ""uwing me aavent of J """"6 njemuer 01 con thousands of men to disturb their Bres to receive the Congressional lives. They are not dangerous ex cept that if you stand motionless, one may think you are a tree and run up you, with unfortunate results to your clothes and skin from its knife-like claws. The goannas stand on their hind legs and turn their heads when planes go over. mm mm DREW A VEARSOH Washington, D. C. DEMOCRACY STREAMLINING If the President and thp rmtntrv want to get a full realization of how democracy is streamlining for ac tion they should think hack to the , summer of 1941, just one year ago. , wnen, lor wnat seemed like unend- ing weeks, the congress stewed over extension of the selective service act. Senate and house isolationists wer haranguing the galleries on the iniq uities of keeping the boys more than one j ear in camp; telling the public how the navy was already convoy, ing ships; revealing in advance that Roosevelt had sent troops to Ice land. Finally by the thin vote, 203 to 202, and thanks to the sage generalship of Speaker Sam Rayburn, the felective service act was extended. Had it not been for that narrow victory, we should have had no army to rush to Australia, and the whole war effort u-nniH received a tragic set-back. But last week, a war-penrerf h.,.. of representatives passed the 18-19 ! 'ear draft extension act in three j dWs and Jt should be passed by me senaie ana signed by the Presi dent inside the week Politically and personally, nobody wanted the 18-19 year draft exten sion. It was the worst time to pass it, just before elections. But con gress is doing a much better job than most people realize for stream- iinea democracy. ATROCITY PICTURES A strong debate is raging among propaganda chiefs over the question of atrocity stories and pictures. The government has received a lot of such material from Allied sources, especially the Chinese nnrt PnW ' eluding such horrible scenes as Jap anese attacking Chinese women, and pouring oil on live bodies before setting the torch to them. Opponents of publication argue that the atrocity stories of the last war were largely invented, and when so exposed left the public dis lllusioned; thus the people might now react unfavorably and charge the government with milliner same tricks. Other officials argue, however, that the material is authentic, that it is not posters and rumors, but ac tual photographs, and the public should know what sort of enemies we are fighting. It is apparently a part of the Ger man psychological warfare to treat nhlo hi, . n" uwiiMi ana Americans with reason- ; , , , "-"""t".s in oraer to keep us lulled in a state of moderate war ! fare. They save their worst trick " ; for the conquered nations and the , Russians. The Poles and use of the material as a necessary means of fully arousing the Ameri can pudiic to the menace. Elmer Davis' Office of War Infor mation is set to go, once the debate is settled. DAIRY MANPOWER Forthright Sen. Berkeley Bunker of Nevada had a long talk with the President the other day on the war manpower problem, In which he em phasized the need of swift action to meet the labor shortage on dairy farms. "I'm from a farm area myself and I know what these dairy people are up against," said Bunker. "Un less we move fast we will have a serious snortage next year. Already -drmers are beginning to slaughter their dairy herds because tney can t get help to tend them." The President admitted the prob lem was serious, and assured Bunk er that the War Manpower commis sion was aware of it. He added. however, that he doubted finv Kfpne the government mieht tak tn r.. lieve the farm labor shortage would oe a complete answer. "The government can't solve this alone," said Roosevelt "We are going to have to depend on the farm ers themselves for individual initia tive. I'll give you an example of wnai 1 mean. ' r-resiaenx tnen told how a neighbor of his in New York state, owning a large dairv farm hari partly solved his labor shortage by employing students from a near-by high school to milk the cows. "Boys did the milking in the morn ing and a group of girls from the same school took over in the after noons," he said. "That sounds like a good idea, Mr. President," observed Senator Bunk er, "but it isn't exactly a new one. When I was a boy on a Nevada farm, I used to milk 10 cows every morning before school and 10 at night. And I had to ride eight miles to school on a bus." MERRY-GO-ROUND Congressman Ed Izac of Califor nia, who is crusading against army and navy "cellophane commissions," is ine oniy sitting member of con Medal of Honor in the last war. Tak en prisoner after his ship was gunk by a U-boat, Izac four times tried to escape, once jumping from a 40-miles-an-hour train. He still bears the scars of German prison camp beatings. Buy War Bonds Gems of Thought A ND the patience to wait f, 1 the coming of these thina with the wisdom to know them when they come. W. R. Hunt A light! A light! A light! A li.hl It grew, a starlit flag unfurled' ' It grew to be Times bunt of ' daun. He gamed a world; he gait thl world Its grandest lesson: "On! Sni; onm -miller.' 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