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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1944
A Thought for Today
And the sea gave up the dead which were
in them: and they were judged every man ac
cording to their works.—Revelation 20:13.
• * «
We shall be judged, not by what we might
have been, but what we have been.—Sewell.
Teamwork
The statement is often made that this
country can look to the future with con
fidence because of its abundant natural
resources. That is only half the story.
Its resources are not only abundant but
have been discovered and developed in a
history making manner.
The story of one of our most valued
resources, coal, is typical. Coal has
helped to provide our military foroes —
and large numbers of those of our allies
— with the finest offensive and defensive
weapons the world has seen. It is the
base for 85 per cent of all warplastics,
while the high explosives—TNT, picric
acid and tetrol — are made from coal, in
whole or in part. It requires a ton of coal
to produce the steel for a 2,000-pound
bomb, 25 tons for a 3-inch anti-aircraft
gun, 50 tons for a medium tank, and
32.000 tons for a super dreadnaught.
The uses for coal in peacetime will be
even broader in the future than in the
past. Coal derivatives have literally revo
lutionized human existence.
In this country, coal is nearly as
ubiquitous, in its occurrence as in its
applications. Found in 37 states, it is
mined commercially in 28 of them. The
value of the coal produced annually in
the United States is greater than that of
all metals combined, and is 5 1-2 times
that of all gold, 22 times that of all silver,
7 times that of all copper and 7 times that
of all iron.
Fortunately, coal exists in practically
unlimited quantities — known reserves
in this country are estimated at 3,000 to
4.000 years at present rates of consump
tion. These figures give an inkling of
what is meant when we speak of our
natural resources, but it should not be
forgotten that without the teamwork of
vast scientific research, plus the ingenu
ity of American coal producers, the fig
ures would still be buried in the ground
along with the coal.
A Lone Patriot
After tying up production of engines
for B-29 Superfortresses for three days,
striking workers at the Wright Aeronau
tical Corporation voted grudgingly 1,000
to 500 in favor of returning to work. In
another case a couple of dozen crane
operators walked off the job, paralyzing
work in one of the world’s largest steel
mills, regardless of the plea from Gen
eral Eisenhower that American workers
turn out ammunition at top speed. He
said the reduction of the city of Aachen
was delayed by a shortage of ammuni
tion. And then came the coldly
deliberate acts of the telephone workers
threatening the war effort. These are
but recent examples, by certain segments
of labor, showing callous lack of concern
for the men on the fighting fronts that
is wholly beyond understanding.
Upon contemplation one wonders what
claim we on the home front have to being
patriotic. The strikers alone are not to
blame for what is happening. We are all
to blame for permitting it to happen. The
extent to which we have drifted away
from true patriotism is brought home by
the woman warworker of Pennsylvania
who sent General Douglas MacArthur
$525 saying that “it was simply partial
payment from one American woman for
letting the boys on Bataan and Corregi
dor down.” The money is being spent on
candy and other gifts for orphaned and
homeless Philippine children.
This lone patriot, forced to quit her
job because of illness, then added: “And
when I looked around me at work and
saw all the loafing on the job I knew that
in spite of the wonderful job we are do
ing, we are still letting the boys down.” (
This Is Dictatorship
Price and rationing control, though
ugly and unAmerican, has been accepted
cheerfully because war itself is ugly and
because every possible effort must be
exerted to insure maximum war produc
tion. But the plea that government con
trol should be continued indefinitely into
the peace, is another matter. Anyone
who doubts the danger that would follow
such an extension, has but to consider the
recent case of an aged retailer in a small
town on the West Coast of the United
States. This man has been a leading
merchant in his community for 45 years.
For over four decades he has been known
and respected by fellow citizens as fair
and reasonable in the conduct of his bus
iness. His store is still a well-stocked go
ing concern furnishing a real service. But
he is elderly, has no help and more work
than he can do. As the mountain of
government decrees grew, he met it to the
fimit of his “physical and mental”
strength. He meticulously collected the
t amount of points on every rationed
His prices were always correct.
Recently, this merchant was suspended
iys from handling rationed
1 mM srtisi.
goods. He was directed to hang the sus
pension order in his window for the world
to see — all because he was physically
unable to change hundreds of point value
tags as rapidly as the OPA could issue
them. The OPA hearing commissioner
noted that the respondent was “sincere
and conscientious” and "thoroughly ac
quainted with . . . point values.” But,
“We cannot question the wisdom of those
who framed the regualtions. ... A period
of time (suspension from business) is
necessary to enable respondent to be
come thoroughly indoctrinated with the
regulations and to conduct his business
according to the rules and regulations as
laid down by his government.” This mer
chant is no longer a free man. He is liv
ing under a dictatorship and is given ten
days in which to become “indoctrinated”
with the idea!
Read again the foregoing statement,
“We cannot question . . .” It is difficult
to realize those ominous words are an
official utterance of a public servant in
the United States, to a free people. It has
the true ring of the dictator. And these
bureaucrats now seek to perpetuate their
I powers after peace comes!
Won’t Mix In Same Pot
The government of the United States
is launched on a great experiment. It
has undertaken to guarantee minimum
living standards for all. It will endeavor
to furnish jobs when needed, the social
security system is to be expanded, farm
prices are to be maintained by subsidies,
and an almost unlimited program of pub
lic works has been proposed. The experi
ment will cost untold unlimited program
of public works has been proposed. The
experiment will cost untold billions, and
will come on top of a war that promises
to run the public debt up to three hun
di'ed billion dollars or more.
There is only one way in whish this
experiment can be carried through suc
cessfully, and that is by stimulating to
the geratest possible extent the produc
tivity and the initiative of the people. For,
noth withstanding the clear propaganda of
patronage dispensers that government
grants are gifts, every dollar distributed
by government must first be taken from
the people in taxes on their earnings and
their businesses.
Basic industries, including electric
power, mining, and transportation, should
be encouraged to progress and develop
as private enterprises if for no other rea
son than that the efficiency of private
management has made these industries
a primary source of government revenue'.
The current campaign to socialize the
electric industry, thereby creating a vast
tax-exempt political power monopoly,
should be abandoned at once. The private
electric industry pays hundreds of mil
lions of dollars annually in Federal taxes.
The government is getting a much larger
share of the power industry’s earnings
than are the millions of investors who
own it, without having to share any of. the
risks of operation.
Plans such as the proposal to establish
seven more taxsubsidized TVA Federal
electric power projects in direct competi
tion with the taxpaying private electric
industry, strike at the vitals of the great
experiment to eliminate human want.
Obviously the country cannot kill its tax
paying industries with tax-exempt gov
ernment monopolies, and have its taxes
too. A government spending program
requiring maximum taxes and maximum
production, cannot be mixed in the same
pot with socialism.
We Will Pay For Carelessness
Laconically, the National Board of Fire
Underwriters reports that estimated Are
losses in the United States in October,
1944, are up 2 per cent over September,
1944, and $2,500,000, or 8 per cent over
October, 1943. This is the highest Oc
tober loss since October, 1931. Losses in
the twelve months ended with October 31,
1944, are estimated at more than $420,
000,000 as compared with $361,485,000
mnafor the year ended October, 1943.
Not only is the total fire loss rising, but
the rate of fire losses has reversed its long
downward trend, with the result, as re
ported in Business Week, that sorr.e fire
insurance companies now report that
their combined losses and expenses are
running around $1.05 for each premium
dollar they are collecting.
If the present adverse trend in fire
losses throughout the country is not
brought to a halt by a greater public con
sciousness of the menace of fire, people
must eventually pay more for the pro
tection of fire insurance. They will un
avoidably be assessed for gross careless
ness.
Selected Poem
AUTUMN’S LOST HERITAGE
(Leslie Nelson Jennings In The Cliristian Science
Monitor)
Now that the heraldry of earth has grown
Dim on these tatrnished banners, left at last
To vaulted silence, and we walk alone
Through halls where regal retinues were massed,
Nothing survives of this old dynasty.
The chronicle Is written, the page turned
Autumn's lost lineage leaves r.o panoply
Of splendid conclaves where the torches burned.
Snow seals that abdication. We embark
On stricter times, more native to our need—
New England winters can be long and dark.
Yet something Ungers that the eye can read
In early twilight, something rich that stains
Even bare trees—this purple that remains.
I
Daily Almanac
Moon sets at 11:00 p. m. (war time)
Sun rises at 8:14 a. m , sets at 5:37 p. m.
(war time)
Sun rises at 8:14 a. m., sets at 5:27 p.
m. (war time)
Vehicles must be Ughted thirty minutes
after sunset.
Dry moon or no dry moon Hie horn must
have tiped because snow came down in
abundance Monday night and Tuesday.
i.
• NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Congress Has
A Jobs Plan
By PETER EDSON
Waterbary Democrat Washington
Correspondent
Establishment of what might be
called an "ever-normal economy”
as one approach to solving the post
war problem of full employment and
providing 60 million jobs is put for
ward in a year-end report Just is
sued by the Senate's Military Af
fairs Sub-committee on War Con
tracts, chairmaned by Senator
James E. Murray of Montana.
Other members of the sub-corn
mittee are vice
President - elect
Harry S. Truman
of Missouri and
Chapman Rever
comt) of West Vir
ginia. The report
Is {he work of the
committees staff,
headed by Bert
ram B. Gross.
While the pro
posal Is presented
In the form of a
bill entitled "The
Pull Employment
Act of 1946,” It
has not vet been
formally introduced to Congress as
new legislation. Instead, has been
merely transmitted to Congress with
out recommendation or commit
ment, to stimulate discussion. It
should do that, for the bill is revo
lutionary in character and goes far
beyond anything yet presented.
Its first objective is to provide full
employment. Say that is 60 million
Jobs, the goal set by the President
in his Chicago campaign speech.
To provide 60 million Jobs, sup
pose it Is determined that the "gross
national product" as the economists
call it—meaning the total national
production of goods and services—
must be 200 billion dollars a year.
A “NATIONAL BUDGET”
With these two basic figures es
tablished. the bill would require the
President to transmit to Congress
on the first day of each regular ses
sion a "national budget." This na
tional budget is not the regular
budget of the federal government
but a budget of the total national
economy of private business plus
state, local and federal governments.
Now suppose the President’s na
tional budget message for a com
ing year should show the prospec
tive total gross national product at
170 billion dollars, made up of 120
billion dollars’ consumers’ expendi
tures, 20 billion dollars business cap
ital investments, 10 billion dollars
state and local government expendi
tures and 20 billion dollars federal
budget for war and navy depart
ments, debt retirement and other
governmental expenditures.
This 170 billion dollar total would
still be 30 billion dollars short of the
200 billions necessary to provide the
60 million jobs. The President would
therefore be required to submit a
plan for increasing the gross nation
al product 30 billion dollars’ worth.
He might propose that consumer
expenditures be raised 15 billion dol
lars a year by increasing minimum
wages to 60 cents an hour; or that
business capital investments be in
creased by 10 billion dollars by re
organizing and modernizing rail
roads; or that federal government
outlays be increased by five billion
dolalrs, three billions in the form of
a Missouri Valley Authority, two
billions in the form of federally fin
anced housing development for
which the government eventually
would be reimbursed.
IT WOULD GUIDE OUR
FISCAL POLICY
Whatever the President’s pro
posals, this would be a budget for
the national economy which would
be transmitted to Congress as a
fiscal policy for the ensuing year.
Congress might change it all around,
pooh-poohing the idea of 10 bil
lions for the railroads and putting
it all in public works or another
WPA. But Congress action would be
the federal government’s decision on
what the nationr.l economy should
be to kep the oitiznry employed and
if possible, happy.
It can be argued that this is the
old idea of the 1930’s for a “com
pensatory economy’’ in which the
federal government was supposed to
borrow and spend whatever sums
were necessary to make up for bus
iness depressions. It's a little more
than that.
This isn’t a new economy that is
proposed, but a new politics. It pro
poses to raise private investments to
the highest possible levels, figuring
things out in advance to maintain
on ever-normal economy.
If a proposal of this kind were
made by the executive department
of the government it would probably
be damned as “more New Beal plan
ning’’ state socialism, or worse. But
as the idea originates in Congress,
it has to be given more considera
tion than a long-haired braintrust
ers’ pipe dream gets.
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.
PREDESTINATION
Many people are baffled by the
Christian doctrine of election, also
known as predestination.
There are many who believe that
Ood has elected, or predestined, cer
saved and other
men to be damn
ed. Notable
church figures In
the past have ad
vocated this doc
trine, and it Is
incorporated 1 n
certain of our
creeds. But the
most superficial
reading of Scrip
ture reveals that
such s beller has no basis in tne
teachings of the Bible. We are as
sured that whosoever sincerely seeks
after God will find Him. There Is
a way in which God elects us for
salvation, and salvation never oc
curs apart from the power of God.
We do not save ourselves simply by
desiring to be saved. It is true that
we are elected. But everyone is
elected who believes. Bveryon who
has truthfully said Tee la the face
of Christ’s offer of himself is saved.
The word "whosoever” rings
through many a pasage of Scripture.
Now Then, Sail On, Oh Ship Of State
JMVft&WteNroFei
Washington Merry-Go-Round drew pearson
(Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen Now on Active Service With the Army.)
WASHINGTON, December 20. — At long last the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion is about to remove one of the gripes of the south and change most of the freight
rate differentials which have hampered industrial development in the southern states.
This has Been under stuoy in
side the ICC for many weeks and
a decision favorable to the south
is due any minute.
Simultaneously, President Roose
velt will not reappoint one In
terstate Commerce commissioner
who has consistently favored
freight rate differentials against
the South. He is Charles D.
Mahaffie whose term expires on
January 1. Another commissioner,
J. Haden Alldredge, also reaches
the end of his term on that date
but he hails from Alabama and
will be reappointed.
The White House is also look- |
ing around for another fair-mind- I
ed ICC commissioner for appoint
ment around the first of the year.
STASSEN BOOM STARTS
The ’’Stassen in ’48" boom is
slated to get started shortly af
ter the first of the year. It
will be launched by an unusual
group and by surprise tactics.
Dan Tobin's Teamsters Union,
very powerful in Minnesota, will
start the Stassen drive by urging
“Stassen for Senator in ’46”.
The Teamsters Union always
ha( had good relations with Stas
sen, is also anxious to knock off
Minnesota's senior Republican
Senator Henrik Shlpstead. The
teamsters also figure it is smart
strategy to put Stassen in the
senate, thus give him a sound
talking point for the presidential
nomination over Tom Dewey even
if Dewey should get himself re
elected governor in 1946.
This does not mean that Dan
Tobin is deserting his old friend
FDR, for he, personally, won’t
be connected with hte Minne
sota move of his union. Many
labor leaders, however, figure
that a Democrat will be almost
impossible to elect in 1948 and it
is smart strategy to begin
building up a liberal Republican. I
JAP-AMERICAN HERO
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post “General William Starke
Kosecrans’’ at Gardina, California,
has banned the names of Jap
anese-American soldiers from its
service plaque. This means that
a soldier receiving the second
highest military medal in the
USA will be barred from recog
nition by the VFW at Gardina.
He is Kiyoshi Muranaga of
Gardinia, killed in action fight
ing with the American army in
Italy . Muranaga was posthum
ously awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross, for heroism. Sin
gle-handed, Private Muranaga
manned a mortar in front of
his own lines, and ruled with
the German 88 field piece which
was imperiling the American
forces.
So heroically did Private Mur
anaga fight with his one mortar
against the big German gun that
the enemy was forced to retreat.
Private Muranaga stuck by his
gun until he was killed. Now the
Veterans of Foreign Wars in his
home town will not include his
name on their list of local heroes.
CHURCHILL DEMANDS PROBE
Prime Minister Churchill has
been raising cain with the White
House and the State Department
over publication int his column
of his order to General Ronald
Scobie to clean out the ELAS
Greeks and treat Athens as a
“conquered city.”.
Churchill demanded that future
leaks in the State Department or
around the White House be
plugged and that his orders not
be published in Washington col
ums, or else he would give no
more information to U. 8. diplo
mats abroad.
As a result the State Depart
ment has been conducting a
third degree investigation of its
employes. Secretary Stettinius
has unleashed his house de
tectives and told them to go the
limit. He says he is determined
to find the leak.
However, certain high officials
inside the administration who
don’t like to see American Lend
lease tanks turned against our
Greek iAllies point ou that Chur
chill is in no position to withhold
future information from U. S.
To believe that God has appointed
certain men to salvation and others
to condemnation quite apart from
anything they may do, is to take the
whole meaning out of the Christian
gospel, whteh bids everyone repent
and com* ib a saving knowledge of
Christ.
We are elected to salvation, but
that election depends upon our
willingness to say Wes to God’s offer
and to abide by its consequences.
All Rights Reserved—
Babeon Newspaper Syndicate
diplomats. British officials claim
that General Eisephower OK’d
the Churchill plan to clean up
Greece. Which, if true, makes
it pretty hard to withhold infor
mation from the United States.
These high officials also inti
mate that ir Secretary Stettinius
spent as much time cleanig up
Allied policy toward Greece, as in
tracking down State Department
leaks, Allied relations would be
a lot happier.
NOTE—Churchill's orders to
Scobie were “not to hesitate to
open fire on any armed male
in the Greek capital who as
sails the authority of the Bri
tish .... To hand ELAS a les
son that would make it im
possible for others to behave the
same way . . . will back up Sco
bie in whatever action Scobie
takes along these lines.
The British must keep and
dominate Athens.”
BIGGEST WAR
PRIZE—SURPLUSES
It takes more than a magician
to follow some of the sleight-of
hand moves being made in
juggling war jobs from one agency
to another. Last week for in
stance, War Mobilizer Jimmy
Byrnes, issued a secret order
which stripped the Foreign Econ
omic Administration of its previ
ous job of disposing of surplus war
property abroad.
Instead Byrnes gave surplus war
property abroad to Army-Navy
brass hats.
Simultaneoushly. Secretary of
State Stettinius was on Capitol
Hill reassuring senators that his
State Department did not plan to
rob the Foreign Economic Ad
ministration of its functions. Pre
vioupsly Stettinius was reporited
to have worked out a plan with
Will Clayton and Jesse Jones to
bring many FEA jobs over to
the State Department.
Meanwhile surplus war prop
erty remains the biggest plum
in the entire government. Wash
ington is full of lobbyists want
ing to get their hands on the
trucks, the war plants, the
machine tools, the airplane
parts, the raw materials which
the Army-Navy have accumu
lated at home and abroad. And
neither Jesse Jones nor Will
Clayton wants this vast wealth
distributed by Leo Crowley’s
liberal Foreign Economic Ad
ministration.
Now Jimmy Byrnes, by his se
cret order, appears to side with
them. Army-Navy brass hats,
who under his secret order, will
now wistribute war surpluses
abroad, fit into the Clayton
Jones scheme of things.
(Copyright, 1944, by
the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Views Of The Press
TWINKLE, TWINKLE .
'Christian Science Monitor)
Americans will view the prospect
of three five-star officers in the
Navy and four in the Army with
somewhat mixed emotions. They
want their military and naval
leaders to rank with any in the
world, but at the same time they
are reluctant to see an increase oJ
brass on the hats.
Traditionally Americans have dis
liked resounding military titles.
They have been almost penurious
in actually granting ranks which
they have already created. The
Navy, for Instance, had no officer
with permanent rank above Captain
until the Civil War.
But American is fighting a war
as one of the United Nations, and
its allies do have their Marshals
and Admiral of the Fleet. It i?
doubtful whether actual lines of re
sponsibility and authority have been
clouded by the lower relative rank
of American commanders. For in
stance, General Eisenhower func
tions smoothly as the Supreme
Commander over several officers of
higher rank than his. But rank and
protocol count heavily with the
professional soldier and sailor in
his routine official and social con
tacts. For better or worse, this has
been true for centuries and such a
tradition cannot be dissolved over
night. Nor can Americans expect
their allies to demote their fleet ad
mirals and field marshals or abolish
ranks which have mellow histor
ies. So they will just have to add
the stars and put up with the blit
ter.
THE MARSHES OF LOUISIANA
(New York Herald-Tribune)
The people of Louisiana, especial
ly those prominent in post-war
planning circles, are reported sharp
ly divided (people in Louisiana are
always "sharply divided" about
some tilting) over the issue of whe
ther to drain enormous areas of
swamp and marshland to be turn
ed into farms for returning veterans
or to leave it more or less as it is
—one of the richest game, fur and
fish sections in the country. Gover
nor Jimmie Davis, the old song
writer, Is said to be in favor of a
drainage project, and a great many
influential persons are on his side.
Included in the opposition, however,
are a great many conservationists as
well as many persons who have long
made a living from the marshes. All
the facts in this argument are not
yet available, but the offhand reac
tion would be to advise Louisiana to
go slow before embarking on any
large-scale drainage program which
would destroy one of the most fas
cinating and important areas left
relatively unspoiled. Dr. Thomas
Barbour, the naturalist, in a recent
book complains eloquently and con
vincingly of what the meddling
hand of man has done to Florida.
Such spoliation should not happen
in Louisiana. Surely land is not so
. - ... -a- >
scarce that the domain of the
Cajuns must have its entire charac
ter changed.
■'•LEASE, SANTA CLAUS!
(New York Herald-Tribune)
In their letters to Santa Claus this
year it appears that our youngsters
are supremely conscious that a war
is in progress, but, paradoxically,
they seem blissfully unconscious of
shortages. There was one exception
to this rule among the letters read
to reporters Thursday morning by
Postmaster Albert Goldman. “Dear
Santa,” wrote a young gentleman of
five years, “I want a bicycle, but
I know there is a war on, so maybe
you can bring me one and I would
like any toy you can spare.” Here
is a very civic-minded citizen in i
the making. |
But the general run of requests
were as covetous as in the theoretic- J
ally piping days of peace. The dif- j
ference was in the categories of I
presents sought; applications for j
military weapons—not always toy j
vieapons by any means—led all the ,
re Santa Claus is being impohtun- j
ed for rifles, cannon, machine guns.
One boy’s letter r:ad: “Please bring |
me all the guns you can find in the j
stores and 1,200 bombs to shoot the
Japs and Germans, so my daddy can
come horn eto stay.”
We think Santa should'and will
take cognizance of the object of this
wholesale order and deliver It not
to j nior but to his daddy. Please, .
Santa Claus!
CAN HE DO BETTER?
(Boston Post)
According to a survey made re- j
cently in New York there has been a j
surprising increase in the number |
of men who do the family market- |
ing. Some butchers and groceers |
place it as high as 25 per cent. The !
reason? It’s somewhat obscure. May
be the nominal head of the house
hold thinks he can do better in the
wartime food marts. Maybe women
shoppers of normal days, now en
gaged in war work, haven’t the time
Your Health
By Dr. William Brady
Signed letters pertaining to per
sonal health and hygiene, not to
disease, diagnosis of treatment,
will be answered by Or. Brady it
a stamped self-addressed envelope
Is enclosed. Letters should oe brief
and written In ink. . o reply can
be made 'to queries not conform
ing to Instructions. Address Dr.
William Brady, National News
paper Service, 320 West Madison
Strset, Chicago. Ill
WHERE DID IOC GET THAT
MORBID NOTION?
Typical Wisacre in a letter to the
editor of a popular magazine utters
half a column of what purports to
be sarcasm on the subject of the
President’s ride around New York
in the rain, deliberately running
the risk of catching cold, the Wise
acre explains, in order to prove
that his health was good. It irked
the letter writer, evidently, to ob
serve that the President was ap
plauded for doing what little boys
get spankled for, and so on.
It would not yet occur to this
person or a hundred million others
who think they know all there is to
know, that the President may not
share the notion that getting wet
affects the health or Immunity to
disease.
Getting soaked in the rain is un
pleasant, perhaps, but it has noth
ing to do with health or suscepti
bility to illness.
This fact applies to standing,
walking, sitting, working or playing
outdoors in the coldest weather
with your head bare or with insuf
ficient clothing. The experience
has no effect upon health or sus
ceotibility to disease or illness of
any kind—except frostlble or freez
ing.
You could hardly be expected to
know any better, considering the
source of education in physiology,
hygiene, pathology, sanitation and
all that nasty business. You learn
ed what you think you know about
such things from the almanac,
from the old woman of the neigh
borhood, from the testimonials
(genuine and fake) published by
the nostrum monogers. from the
screaming, illustrated announce
ments of the manufacturers of
overshoes and underwear and in
sulating material and heating
equipment, and from such ponder
ous utterances as that letter to the
editor cited above. In short you
picked up your fund of knowl
edge about these subjects whereever
you happened upon it, like a street
urchin collecting snipes. You had
to get it that way if at all. for
such things are simply not taugh'
in school, not if the commercial
interests concerned are aware of it.
This harangue will make no im
pression whatever upon the mindr
of readers whose minds have set
like plaster of Paris and can no
longer take a new impression. 1
have no illusions about that. But
who knows? It may interest a few
younger folk, and they're my meat.
Catch 'em young and get ’em think
ing for themselves, before the cold
phobia becomes fixed and incurable,
that's my purpose.
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
Courage
Please give the address of the
magazine “Courage” which you
recommended so highly for peoplt
who have lost a limb.
(Mrs. R. L. M.)
Answer—Courage, a buck a year,
published by Paul J. Campbell. 240
Arcade Bldg., East St. Louis, Ill
inois. Mr. Campbell founded The
Fraternity of the Wooden Leg. This
little monthly magazine is well
named. Every one who has lost a
limg read it. In Canada it is $1.20
a year.
The Hypochondriac
I will be grateful for any sugges
tion you may give me to stop or
prevent premature graying of my
hair. Our doctor pooh - poohed
when I asked him—he said it is a
vain idea, hypochondriac.
(Mrs. C. L.)
Answer — Send pre-addressed
stamped envelope, ask for pam
phlet "Care of the Hair and Scalp.'
It contains information on pre
vention of premature graying. Too
few physicians practice preventive
medicine. Formerly they neglected
it because they didn’t know enough
about it. At present they neglect it
because they haven't time for it—
perhaps when the war is over and
the best doctors get back home
more attention will be paid to pre
ventive medicine, geriatrics and
personal hygiene.
Problem Child
Daughter, 23, allergic to citrus
fruits, primes, spinach, potatoes anc
chocolate. She can eat celery, bu’
no carrots, olives, onions, toma
toes. peas, navy beans—gets severe
itching back of ears and in throat
when she takes even a wee bit oi
any of these, then has an intense
coryza and a prolonged incessant
sneezing. Her diet Is a problem, yet
she passes physicial tests with high
standard. (Mrs. G. L.)
Answer—You say she was brought
up on “citrus fruits, vegetables,
milk, eggs and meat.’’ Yet you say
she is allergic to citrus fruits. Add
wheat to what she was brought up
on, and she’ll get along oke. Send
ten cents and pre-addressed stamp
ed envelope for pamphlets “Relief
for Allergy” and “The Calcium
Shortage.’’
(Copyright 1944. John F. Dille Co.)
Current Comment
Through learning to produce for
war, China will learn to produce
for peace and will begin to travel
the road that leads to industrial
greatness.
—Donald M. Nelson at Chungking.
to get the family mat and vegetabls.
Whatever the cause may be, mere
man will have to go pretty far and
do pretty well to prove he’s a betier
buyr for the family larder than mi'
lady.
BUY WAR
REYM0ND5