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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1945
PREPARING FOR PEACE
The gas utility companies of the United States will spend
11,400,000 a year for three years on an expanded program of
industry research, national advertising and general promotion,
and manufacturers of gas appliances will add $200,000 to this
program.
Aside from war activity, this nation has been almost
standing still for the past decade. Household equipment,
stores and office buildings, farm dwellings and machinery, not
to mention our whole industrial structure, are worn down to
the quick. Needed replacements and repairs are beyond cal
culation. Therefore, industry that plans now to be ready to
step into peacetime harness to handle the domestic load, is ren
dering a real public service in maintaining jobs and filling the
accumulated demands of millions of customers.
SAVE YOUR MACHINES
Most farm machinery has seen better days. But unless
farmers can keep their old machines running, it either means
that factories will be diverted from war work to make new farm
machines, or food production will suffer.
When we realize that the length of the war will depend, to
a large extent, on the amount of war machinery industry can
produce, none of us want to see the production held up to pro
duce farm machines, household equipment or automobiles.
The only answer is to keep the old machinery working.
To do this, J. A. Krug, chairman of the War Production Board,
urges us to observe these six rules:
1,
2.
3.
4.
5,
6,
Keep your machines and motors working.
Protect from weather and rust.
Repaii and care for homeappliances.
Lubricate ball and roller bearings.
Share the ride and share the equipment.
Sell equipment not being used.
SURPLUS PLANES
The fact that the government now has almost a Million
dollars worth of airplanes which have been declared “surplus”,
and which are to be sold to civilians, might appear to indicate
great waste in war production. But actually this large surplus
of planes indicates the insistence of the government and indus
try on supplying our aviators with the tinest types of planes
available.
Throughout the war there have been constant im
provement* in airplane manufacture. When inventions
were worked out . which might result in saving lives or in
flicting greater punishment on our enemies, new planes
have been substituted, as rapidly a* possible, for the mod
els which lacked these improvement*.
Our tremendous airpower at the present time can be part
ly credited to the willingness of our war production leaders to
admit when they had something better and to revise produc
tion as speedily as possible, to produce the planes of the very
latest designs.
WHEN GASOLINE MADE HISTORY!
When a handful of British pilots held the whole German
airforce at bay in the battle of Britain, the course of world his
tory was determined for centuries to come. However, the battle
of Britain was actually decided long before those fateful days
when machine guns crackled thousands of feet above the city
of London. It was decided in laboratories many years before.
It was decided when the planes and the fuel were designed
which proved superior to the best that the Germans had in the
crucial test of combat.
A dozen years ago, scientists in the oil industry had man
aged to bring the production cost of the new 100-octane gaso
line down to a dollar a gallon. Military authorities, feeling
that its value outweighed its cost, ordered a whole tank car to
be painstakingly produced with small scale apparatus. So
promising were results and the progress of petroleum labora
tories in making synthetic fuels at lower cost, that well before
this war began, our Army and Navy decided to build their en
gines to operate on 100-octane fuel. When the battle of Britain
occurred it was fought and won with 100-octane gasoline.
As a prominent chemist remarked: “Ten to thirteen octane
numbers may well have shaped the history of the world in
that battle!’’
A TOUGH JOB WELL DONE
Tales of wasted manpower and loafing on the job in essen
^ktio) war industries, while at the same time farm producers are
^Pasked to raise bigger crops with less men and less machinery,
are irritating to farmers. They are wasting neither material
nor inanpower and they never heard of the word “loafing.”
Their objective is to get every tillable acre planted and har
vested.
The nation is lucky that slowdowns, strikes, jurisdictional
and wage disputes, have not reached agriculture. If they had,
this country would be well on the way to starving. When the
war is over, farmers will have the satisfaction of having done a
■ tough job f ell.
t
The \Thite Hope
.ETTERS FROM
SOLDIERS
The Hills of Bastogne
By
1st Lt. Bernard J. McKearney
The soil should be fertile
In Belgium next year.
The crops should he full
But the price has l>ti n dear,
The wheat should ue red
On the hills of Bastogne.
For its roots have iK.cn drenched
By the Blood of our own.
Battered and reeling
We stand in then way,
It’s here we are
And here we will stay.
Embittered, wrathful
VVe watch our pals fall
God where’s the end
The end of it all.
Confident and powerful
They strike at our lines
But we beat them back
Fighting for time. .
Berserk with fury they
Are hitting us now.
Flesh against steel
Well hold but how?
For each day that we stay
More mothers must grieve
For each hill that we hold
More men must we leave
Yes, honor the men
Who will some day come home
But pray for the man ,
Beneath the hills of Bastogne.
things like that are hard to get
over here. That fruit cake really
| hit the spot. I had just been wish
ing the day before that I had a
good fruit cake. The boys and 1
went to town on it and the pea
nuts. Well thanks a lot fellows.
MILFORD L. M1TCHEM
Thanks for everything. i re
ceived mine on February 11, 1945.
VICTORY HUFFSTELLER
I want to thank you very much
for the package.
JOHN ALLEN, JK
I really enjoyed the package x
received from you. There is not
very much that I can say except
that I would like to be back with
my family and friends.
HEMAN B. DEVINE
Words cannot express the thanks
to that sponsor who sent me the
package. I imagine all you legion
naires know how it makes me
feel to receive that package m
France.
WILLARD A. BESS
I want to thank you Americar
Legion No. 100. Keep up the good
RAY JENKINS
Many thanks to the American
Legion and Mr. Cliff Stroup.
JACK R. DUFFY
My words will not express my
appreciation f the gift you sent
me
JOHN W. BEAM
I will drop you a few lines to
thank you for the package that
you sent me. It was really nice
of you and I did appreciate it
very much. Everything really
came in handy. I received it Jan
uary 30, 1945. I must close for
now.
CLAYTON COSTNLK
I w*nt to express my thenke
ft! P-ftH* !W4 ttl . *
appreciate it very much.
ELDEN L. EAKER !
I received the package before 1 i
left the States, and enjoyed it I
very much as well as my buddies
that I shared it with. Thanks a lot '
for it. The weather here is cold,
plenty of snow. The French peo
ple were sure glatl to see the Am
erican soldiers.
JOHN E. HUNSUCKER
Thanks for the nice Christmas
package, I enjoyed it very much.
J. C. DELLINGER
Thank you very much for the
very nice package, I can tell it
was packed by someone who knew
what I would need. In spite of the
many times that my address has
changed it has finally gotten to
me in good condition.
ROMOTH M. CARPENTER
Thanks a lot for the package.
The boys here say they wish then
Legion Post wrould do the same
as your 100.
CHARLES T. VV AC ASTER
I received your package and
was very glad to get it. It was n.
J good shape and 1 really enjoye
JOYCE LINGERKEL1
1 received the package and u
ally enjoyed everything that was
in it.
GEORGE DUNCAN
1 wish to take this opportunity
to express my appreciation and
thanks to your Post sponsors for
my X-mas box. It was given by
the Nu-way Mill. We enjoyed it
very much.
ROY C. EAKER
Just a few lines to let you know
that 1 received your package, it
was in good condition when it ar
rived. It is not otten that such a
nice cake comes aboard and when
it does everyone heips to eat it.
It is good to be remembered this
time ol the year by those back at
home. I am hoping that one of
these days in the coming year 1
as well as the others may be
coming back. I wish to thank all
you from the Post 100 for the fine
package. Your work or theyserv
lce men will never be forgotten
RAY SC ISM
I sure thank all of you for the
package. Tell all I said Hello and
hope to see you soon.
JOHN ANTHONY
This leaves me getting along
swell but wishing 1 could come
back to the States. 1 want to talk
to you in person when 1 get hack
° >0U LUCIUS A. JENKINS
I wish to express to all of you
the many many thanks for the
package you sent me.
RALPH WISE
Thanks very much for the pack
age. I appreciated it very much.
NORMAN P. BEATTIE
Received your package on Feb.
8, 1945. Sure do appreciate you I
sending' the package and 1 enjoy- j
ed it very much. Every thing was |
so nice and several of tire boys in
the tent enjoyed it with me. it is
the first thing 1 have had to re
mind me of home in such a long
time and 1 am looking forward to
visiting you and tell you how
much 1 really did appreciate it.
I landed here in the Philippines
on Invasion Day. It has been
plenty tough but have made out
O.K. so far. The rain and mud
makes it very tough going. But
our Doughboys can take it.
Here’s thanking each of you
for the nice package. Hoping to
see all of you by this time next
year.
JAY C. ALEXANDER
Just want to thank all of our
friends that made it possible to
send the package to us. it makes
us feel much better to know that
you have not forgotten us. 1
would like to be there with all thy
friends.
_^ ttOTWS
I wish to thank Mr. Rudisill
and the American Ix-gion tor the
nice box that you sent me. L wish
you luck in the New Year.
BLAINE EAKER
I wish to thank you all for the
package, and I sure enjoyed ev
erything.
TOM BAXTER
I want to thank you for the
nice package; also I wish you all
a merry Christmas. A*hd much
success in the coming year.
FRANK BYRD
Thanks for the package. 1 en
joyed the fruit cake and nuts ve
ry much. A lot of the boys helped
me eat them. But it’s always like
that when a package arrives,
•’’hanks again and a Happy New
ear to all of you.
L. GLENN RUDISILL
lust wish I hadn t heen on the
| me it would have been enjoyed
i more there. It’s hard to enjoy
1 things like that and all the time
catching for some Jerrie to show
herself. I am wounded now but
im getting along line.
BILL COSTNER
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Smtnwi
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Pioneer* of Faith.
Lesson fcr April 15: Genesis
12:1-2; Acts 7: 4-7, 12-17.
Memory Verse: Hebrews 11:8.
Following' tile history of the
race through which Got! chose to
reveal himself to the world, we
think today of four founders of
that race.
Abraham was a man of great
faith and called the “Friend ot
God.'’ Name of Ur of the Chal
dees, he obeyed God and went out
from ilaran into Canaan, where
he became the father of the He
brew race.
Isaac was a man of peace who
held his family together in a
strange land—an important link
between Abraham and Jacob.
Shrewd and even dishonest Ja
cob lobbed Esau of the birthright
deceived his father, and outwitted
l.aban, but in the darkest hours
of his course he found God, closed
his long life in Egypt and left his
sons to become the founders ol
the 12 tribes.
Josepn s career was remai'Kaoie
in an aye when few but those
born in kind's houses attained ex
alted position. Pampered and fa
vorite son vain as a lad, paying
bitterly for vaunting himself
among his brothers, he "had moral
stamina and great ability, turned
slavery to account, found oppor
tunity in a dungeon and, raised to
high place, cornered the wheat of
a nation, rationed fool and saved
Egypt in famine. Better still, he
b: ought his tribe of nomads into
settlement in an old civilization.
After 400 years in a land of anci
ent culture, grown into the num
ber of a nation, they were ready
for the Exodus and the conquest
of Canaan.
May we look to God in faith
that, like Israel, we may journey
in strength and hope toward our
own land of promise.
At first
SION OF A
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PROVED IT COULD BE DONE
The Mahoning National Bank, Youngstown, Ohio,
has a large and beautiful banking room with high ceiling.
In this room are several bookkeeping machines. 1 he noise
from these machines was disturbing to the oilicers, em
ployees and customers.
Experts were called in to solve the noise problem.
The experts said that because of the glass, hard wooden
surfaces and high ceilings that it would not be possible to
lessen the noise of the machines. Then the learned experts
went away.
But E. R. Watkins, the cashier of the bank, thought
the experts gave up too easily. His idea was that it takes
a little time to crack a hard nut. So he decided to see what
he could do. He was not an engineer, and knew nothing
about the intricacies of engineering. Still he had an idea.
He would give the noise problem a whirl and see what
happened.
During his spare time he Unxerea witn tne iaea.
Everybody said He was foolish to waste his time, be
cause if the experts could not solve the noise problem,
then it was pretty foolish for a cashier to get excited
over it.
He went to his nephew who hail some tools and a
workshop in the basement of his home, and here Mr. W at
kins began experimenting with his device to lessen the
noise in the bookkeeping machines. At last he had a de
sign, and he and his nephew turned in and made some
machines that Mr. Watkins hoped would squash some of
i he noise.
lie kept on experimenting, during his spare time, tor
.18 months. Then at last Mr. Watkins had a device which
hi called the “Acouslor,” a name he himseli made up.
The machine was tried nut in the big noisy room. I o
the astonishment ot everybody il actually lessened the
volume of the noise. The device was not pert eel, but Mi.
Watkins was working down the right road.
lie made an advanced model; this put the quietus nil
more noise.
A manufacturing company heard of the work the
cashier was dull g, sent a man to see him, and an arrange
ment was entered into and the “Acouslor” put on the
I market. The machine has won approval and is being sold
in 36 states,
The experts who said it couldn’t be done just don t
know what to think about it. Mr. Watkins says, ”1 just
didn’t know enough to know it couldn't be done, so 1 went
ahead and did it. 1 guess that is the way lots of things
in this world are done."
And I guess so, too. In tact, most ol the things 1hat
have been accomplished have been done alter experts
said they couldn't be done.
WASHINGTON, D. G.—Shockeit
by the results of the poll union}
coal miners in which tne vast ma
jority approved a strike in vvai
time, congress is expected it.
throw out or revise tne&nvith
Gonnally law which made sued i.
vote possible. By expending $dt)0
OUU o'l' the tax pay ei s money to
conduct the poll, the government
learned that 208,707 miners voted
yes’ and only llo.lod voted no
on this question: "bu you wish to
permit an intei ruption ol war
production ir, wartime as a result
ol tins dispute?
Amazed over the willingness ol
such a large percentage ol min
ers to put a small increase in then
wages above tne continuation o,
war production, the public is dc
itiging congress with leltters ann
teiegrams urging a staler control
over manpower. .way letters
from families with boys in the
seivice are highly indignant over
the fact that congress permits ol
civilians to vote on wnetner thej
want to sabotage war production,
while millions of soldiers are be
nig drafted, without any choice
,.0 risk then lives on foreign bat
tletielils.
Although this crucial situation
may lead to the discarding ol the
Smith-Connally law, it is doubt
ful if congress actually will take
any action to replace this measure
with stronger control over strikes.
The senate's unwillingness to
dralt labor, after being urged to
no so by the President and the
heads of all branches of the arm
ed services, indicates that little
can be expected along the line ol
congress unless they are lorced to
act by united public demand.
And while the war news is so good
the public will probably not he as
insistent on action as it might
nave been six months ago.
Although the vote ol the coal
miners is one of the darkest spots
in Hie war picture to uare, and n
will be used by our enemies to
demonstrate the lack oi morale in
the United States, many people in
our country nave come to mink
ol the miners unions, under tue
dictatorship ol John L. Lewis, as
no longer representative ol Amer
ican laoor. There is a brighter
spot in the labor picture in tlie
new charier tor labor and man
agement worked out by V\ iiliam
Ureeii, president of me Ar L,
Philip Murray, presuleiu of the
CIO and Erie Johnson, president
oi the chamber ol commerce oi
the United States. Hlmough the
new charter deals only wunuroad
generalities, it does snow Lie wil
lingness oi labor leaders to sit ]
down with business management
and attempt to woik out policies
winch will stimulate production ;
(and prosperity front both sides ol
the lence. The new business-labor
code is concerned primarily with
relationships which will follow the
war and is aimed at cooperation
between Uic two groups.
War !eade> here are greatly
unearned ovci the "all over but
the shouting" attitude toward the
war which is sweeping the coun
i ij . They tear that tin: end ofllie
i,ei man phase* of the v. ar will le
.lit- signal loi a geneial lelaxa
eleiii m vvai work - and that the
• upunesc war may he pi olohged
unless that, altitude can lie mp
ped in tile hud.
1'redictmns that the Japanese
will give tip sotni alter ueimunys
.uriender are cohsideied to be
witnouL ally foundation wliaisoev
ei. Ao one, in oil lead eireles, is
making any predictions on Irow
mng me i acme Wat tvm .... .. nut
all of the planning is being mired
tin Us taking a long tune to m mg
about Japans surrender. Japan
ese statements that it may ra. t it)
to lot) years are nut taxon . ori
usly, but they indicate the ..ups
will Itold out as long as possible.
Any attetmpi by longiess to re
lax war control measures w.n be
tought. tooth and nail by military
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