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? DQyj3QH u Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHEN OUR BO?S COME MARCHING HOME WHEN JOHN marched away to war, he went to fight (or a land he loved?a land that provided (or him freedom of action, opportunity to work, to choose his vocation, to strive, to achieve, to accumulate; a land in which he could found a family with the assurance of an op portunity to provide for a wife and children. His America gave him the chance he craved?the same chance ( it had given his father and his fa ther's father. To prevent the be spoiling of that fair land, John went to war to fight, and if need be, to die for it. There are millions of these young, liberty-loving, opportunity-seeking, ambitious and energetic Johns. They will defeat the armies of the tyrants and some day the greater portion of them will be coming home again. When these Johns of ours come home, they will expect to find that land of freedom and opportunity for which they were fighting; a land in which they can work and build, each according to his ability, his ini tiative and energy; a land in which they can choose their vocation with an unlimited privilege of working at the Job they selected. These Johns will not appreciate being regulated, regimented and told where, at what and under what conditions they can work. They will not relish the necessity of paying tribute to a legalized racketeer be fore they are privileged to work. They will be surprised should they find a super-government from which the government they knew must take orders. They would not under stand a government where the laws were created by edicts instead of by acts of congress. It was such things they fought against. Should they ? find those conditions existing here, they would feel they had de feated an enemy abroad and lost at home. We on the home front must not let down the Johns who are fighting for what they and we have cher ished?"a government of the people, by the people and for the people." That is what our Johns will expect to find when'they march home from the war after defeating the enemies of freedom, the kind of freedom they have understood. ? ? ? ?MUTINY' AND WARTIME STRIKES IN THE SUMMER OF 1918, when the Huns were pounding at the very gates of Paris, a division of the French army went on a strike. The soldiers mutinied, threw down their tools?their guns?and marched out of the place they had occupied in the battle line. They were not given a few days to decide whether they would stay out or go back. A divi sion of American marines being held in reserve was thrown into the space the striking French soldiers had de serted. The marines heroically charged the German line and broke it. That started the retreat of the Huns which ended with the surren- j der on November II. The striking French division was court-martialed. Men selected by lot from each regiment and com- | pany faced firing squads and paid with their lives for the cowardice of that division. The war in which we are now en gaged for the preservation of our freedom is an all-out war. Engaged in it are those employed on two fronts?the battle front and the home front. The home front con- j stitutes the service of supply. The ships, food, planes, tanks and guns which the service of supply is producing are essential to an ulti mate victory. Any stoppage in that supply can be as disastrous as the strike of that French division might have been. Regardless of which front may be involved, the penalty for mutiny should be the same. There should be no exceptions, no "teacher's pets," who could jeopardize our chances of victory without paying the price. ? ? ? TWO GROCERS in the same town and on the same street. One suc ceeds and the other is closed by the sheriff. Two farmers on adjoining farms. One fails and the other pros pers. The difference is not that of opportunity, but is the human ele ment, and the know-how of the game. ? ? ? WHEN INDUSTRY can provide joba for those who will work the freedom from want and fear will have been arranged for the work ers. We do not need to worry about those who will not work and expect to live on a dole. ? ? ? FOOD AND WAR TO A LARGE EXTENT. America is the arsenal of the United Nations, but to an even greater extent, it is the granary of the United Nations. Should the supply of food stop, the flow of munitions would cease and the war would soon be over, with the Huns and the Japa as victors. Production of food is our first es sential wartime industry, but it has not been treated as such. ? ? ? THE ALLIED ARMIES have been ?hocking the Axis shock troops. Sicilian Invaders 'Pass the Ammunition' Allied forces, in one of the greatest combined land, sea and air mili tary operations of all time, swarmed over 100 miles of southeastern Sicilian coasts commencing the long-awaited European Invasion. Men in sound photo above are passing ammunition to attacking forces which rapidly pushed far inland. More than 2,000 Allied ships transported troops and helped pound the enemy. Despite the tremendous sixe of the attacking forces, most units were reported to have arrived at their objectives exactly on time. Machine Recruits for the Army Tanks, Jeeps and other types of military motor conveyances are shown lined np as far as the eye can see in the war department's Rich mond, Calif., tank depot. War equipment is assembled at the Ford Motor company's Richmond plant to which it is sent from eastern plants by rail for a final check before being sent into battle. Chasing the Japs From the Sea With Old Glory fly inn from ber lee-coated conning tower, a U. 8. submarine enteri an Arctic port after a successful campaign against the enemy in the Pacific. The Jap Hags on her side indicate that she sent three enemy warships and two merchantmen to the bottom. ? General View in the Caribbean Nine generals are photographed together at an air field la Panama. Loft to rifht: Brig. Gen. Barry A. Johnson, MaJ. Gen. Babert R. Har mon, Brif. Gea. Douglas L. Weart, Liont. Gen. Georco B. Brett, MaJ. Gob. William E. Sfaedd, MaJ. Gea. E. P. Herding, Brif. Gea. Joseph E. Mehafley, Brif. Gea. Gordon H. loaag aad Brif. Gea. Ralph B. Woo ten. To the Rear Daring the first five days of the invasion of Sicily, 1.200 prisoners were captured by Allied troops. This soandpboto shows a few of them being guided through mine fields to await embarkation from the battle zone. To Aid U. S. - in o "mr irmnim Henri Hoppenot, who has been ap pointed to snceeed Admiral Georges Robert as high commissioner (or the Antilles. This change was expected to pot the facilities and resources of this area, including the island of Martinique, on the side of the Allies. Two French cruisers and six tank ers which had been demobilized at Martinique may be refitted for Al lied use. Sets New Record Gander Hagg, Swedish runner, is shown as he broke ike tape to set a new official record of 8 minutes and 53.9 seconds for the two mile event in the Los Angeles coliseum. He failed to beat his own unofficial time of 8 minutes and 47.8 seconds. G'By Mom With In at her mn teat ai re July la the armed fereea, Mrs. Joseph MacKay at Jamaica Plata, Mass., bids farewell to her sixth sea, Behert, It, as he leases for amy f/sPECIAL AKTICl?s\ BY THE LEADINO \ k]Mkx WAR COftRESPOHPeJITgggi Children of Mars By Quentin Reynold* (WMU Feature?Through special arrangement with Collier a Weekly) In Russia, they call their Boy Scouts "Pioneers." They have no uniforms, no recreation, no time to play. But they are very proud of the job they are doing to speed vic tory. I stood the other day on the em bankment, looking across the river toward the Kremlin and its towers and mosques. I could feel the warmth of the sun and I knew that summer Anally had come to Mos cow. At home, the kids would be getting out baseball bats and gloves and hurrying to the nearest vacant lot. Here in Moscow, the youngsters just out of school were hurrying to the embankment across the narrow riv er outside the Kremlin. They laughed and yelled, and then a sol I dier gave an order and the laughter stopped. The kids lined up. There were about 60 of them, one-third (iris. Not one was more than 14. The soldier cave crisp orders. The kids marched smartly up and down the embankment. They marched by twos and fours, with their drillmas ter barking out military commands. They drilled for one hour?these children of Mars?and then they were dismissed. When their time came, these youngsters would al | ready have considerable basic mili * tary training. Today they had been in school for five hours and they had drilled for one hour. It's Children's War, Too. The children of Russia are or ganized into a society called Pio neers. It's much like our Boy Scouts, except that girls also are admitted to membership. When school is done and drilling is finished, they go into homes and help. Each housewife now has to run her own home by herself. There's no servant problem in Moscow; there are no servants. If her children are very young, her problem is a difficult one. This is where the Pioneers enter the pic ture. Each group of Pioneers is as signed to a city block. They find out which families need help. They go into homes and do what is needed. The Timur Group. Within the Pioneers there is a secret group, the envy of all the others. These are called the Timur. Some years ago, a moving picture depicted a boy named Timur who had very great powers. He often visited the dirty homes of mortals and merely by waving a wand would make the house immaculate. If there was wood to be chopped, why, that was a cinch. He'd wave his wand again and there would be a neat pile of logs all ready for the stove. When the family eama home to find the house clean and wood piled in the bin, they would know that Timur had been visiting. Timur was a great favorite with Russian youngsters, and the Pioneers adopt ed his name for their secret society. They work much as Timur wuraeu. a iamuy 18 tlnaing the burden of carrying on too heavy. Perhaps the husband is at the front, and his wife works in a factory all day. This is true of thousands and thousands of families in Russia. Nurseries take care of the children while a mother is working, and she picks them up on her way home. Then she has to prepare dinner for them. She has little time for house cleaning or wood chopping. Vigilant yonngsters will report this to the Pioneers. A flying group of Timor lads will descend on the boose, give it a thorough cleaning, scour the pots and pans, beat rugs, wash and dry any dirty dishes, chop enough wood to last a week?and then vanish. The housewife comes home and looks at her now clean and tidy house and thinks that the age of I miracles has come again. Typical of the way in which Timurs operate is the care they take of an aged invalid, father of the well-known Soviet inventor Peter Bostivan. Both Bostivan and his wife enlisted and are at the front. The woman who normally took care of the household went into a muni tions plant, and the old man, quite helpless, was alone. The Timurs heard of it and today they are in the house getting his hot tea and black toast ready for breakfast. They take turns giving up their lunch hours to prepare his food. In the afternoon they do his marketing and housecleaning. In recognition of this, Bostivan recent ly wrote a glowing letter of thanks. Although discouraged by military authority, the children have actual ly done ? Job in combat at the front Sometimes mOlthry leaders cannot help themselves. I met 19-year-old Vassia, who eras Just back from the front. He eras a baby-faced kid. i Shelters for Turkeys On Range Easily Built Dead Birds Mean Large Loss of Scarce Grain Range shelters for growing tur keys protect them against the weather, marauding animals, and to some extent from thieves, says the department of agriculture. By pro viding protection for their birds, tur key growers can make a two-way saving?the turkeys themselves and the feed they have consumed. Whenever a turkey dies, there Is a loss of a substantial quan tity of feed, including protein feed, which is now more difficult to obtain than in normal times. A 10-week-old turkey weighing four pounds usually has eaten about nine pounds of feed; a bird 18 weeks old and weighing 12 pounds represents about 33 pounds of feed; and a turkey 30 weeks old and ready for market weighs about 20 pounds and has eaten about 85 pounds of feed. All these quantities of feed are in addition to what the turkeys get by foraging. To help conserve investments of this kind, the department's engi neers have designed several shelters that are both substantial and inex pensive. Some of the structures are readily portable; other heavier ones are intended for only occasional moving. They are adapted to the needs of flocks of various sizes, and all of them have proved satisfactory in actual use. The plans include detailed draw ings for the construction of feeders and roosts and the arrangement of yards. The general design of the shelters calls for tight roofs, with ! wire netting or slats on one or more sides, depending upon the climate. The capacity of each shelter is readily calculated from the roosting space by allowing 10 to 18 inches per bird, depending upon their size. The shelters are described and illus trated in Circular A.H.D. No. 48, "Plans for Turkey Range Shelters," available from the Department of 1 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Turkeys on range may not develop Into such handsome specimens un less protected when young. Agriculture in Industry Br FLORENCE C. WEED Uses of Rye "The grain of poverty" is the name given to rye because it can be produced on poor soils which would not be suitable for wheat or corn. In this country, it is considered a minor grain because only one bushel of rye is grown for every ten of wheat. But in the northern covjn tries of Europe where wheat does not grow well, rye fills the bread basket. No one need pity the people who live on this bread since black bread and pumpernickel is much richer in protein than that made from refined white wheat flour. Industrially, rye grain is impor tant in the manufacture of distilled alcoholic beverages and ethyl alco hol. Ground rye and rye bran are marketed in stock feed. Rye straw I is used somewhat in strawboard and straw hats. The north central part of the Unit ed States and Pennsylvania produces most of the rye crop. From two to four million acres are grown annual ly. The price has varied from 81 cents to 35 cents a bushel, so that the annual farm income from rye also varies from 13 to 34 million dollars. Potato Sprays Apply either dust or spray when potatoes are 3 to 5 Inches high. Re peat at 7- to 10-day intervals as long as the foliage remains green. Ap ply so leaves and stems are thor oughly covered throughout the grow ing season. For dusting: Use copper-lime dust (1 part monohydrated copper sul phate, 1 part lead or calcium ar senate, 3 parts hydra ted lime). For spraying: Use 4-4-00 bordeaux mixture with lead arsenate. ? lumber with jig, coping or key hole saw, painted according to di rections and placed outdoors to add their bit to the surroundings of your home. ? * e The price of the pattern is 15 cents. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: AUNT MARTHA 207W West port Rd., Kansas City, Me. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address ^ ? ?TUJM&Sv ^TRANSPLANT a bit of the fop est to your garden?wood cut outs of this trio do the trick. 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Good for children who suffer occasional constipation ?and for all the family when a reliable, pleasingly-acting laxative is needed. Pack age of 16 easy-to-take powders. 35c. Be stare to ask for Mother Cray's Smart PemJers. At all drug stores. ? D SNAPPY FACTS / 1 ABOUT fe/ RUBBER m? The annual consumption of gasoline on highways, which has a hearing aa rubber consumption, lumped from 1,500,000,000 gallons in 1929 to 22400,000,000 gallons in 1940. Some figures to hoop In mind when gasoline short age Is tnnnflonad today. In general, guayvfe rubber has the same qualities and characteristics os plantation tree rubber, except that It has a high resin content, about 20 per cent, compared will 4 per cent In tree rubber. ^hs Srst manufacture sf rirfh ^tor fe^stsre^sr ^r^rtsi^i^r tts^r UilM Statu *?k ,lac* la IBM la ScatiaiNl. lALUUkliinTTTfl * in
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