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THE MIDLAND JOURNAL
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1944
“What should be done with Ger
many?” asks Dr. Ernest Fremont
Tittle, of Evanston, 111., and after re
viewing proposals be says: “We can
chose to believe, despite all the evi
dence to the contrary, that the Ger
man people, one and all, are uniquely
and incurably wicked; and we can
treat them accordingly. But that way
madness lies—madneess and ruin for
all Europe, and not for Europe only
but also for the whole world. Per
haps, after all, we would do well to
base our answer on the insight of
Him who Baid, ‘Ye have heard that
it is said, Thom shalt love thy neigh
bor and hate thine enemy. I say unto
you, Love thine enemies; do good to
them that hate you.’ Perhaps we
would do well to recall and lay to
heart words sipoken to a great gath
ering in Madison Square Garden,
New York City, by Madame Chiang
Kai-Shek, who in the name of Christ,
which she did not hesitate to pro
nounce, declared that hate is not the
way out.”
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"The reason the Chinese could re
sist the Japanese so long and so suc
cessfully is because China’s people
are living on farms,” says the Rev.
John T. S. Mao, former pastor of the
St. Therese Chinese Catholic Mission
in Chicago, and recently appointed
pro-curator of the Vicariate of Nan
king, China. “If China, like so many
other countries had been completely
industrialized, she would have been
destroyed,” adds Father Mao. “In
an industrial nation, when factories
and equipment are destroyed, the
people are destroyed. An enemy can
not destroy farms. Where farms ex
Ist, the farmers exist also. Only land
is indestructible.” When the war is
over, Father Mao expects to go to
Nanking and there establish, under
Bishop Yu-pin, a school of socia,
science.
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G. I. VETS WANT EDUCATION
More than 1,000 veteran G. I. Joes
already have applied to the Veterans
Administration for educational bene
fits offered them under the so-calleo
G. I. Bill of Rights. In addition,
4,000 have written inquiries and
many additional telephone inquiries
about benefits offered under the bill
have been received. To be eligible foi
educational benefits, a veteran must
have had his education interrupted
and must have had 90 days active
service since September 16, 1940.
with separations under conditions
other thain dishonorable. Veterans
who entered service before they were
25 yars old are presumed to have
"had their education interrupted.
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WHERE IS YOUR SHARE?
Of the eight million tons of papei
needed for salvage in 1944, the Wat
Production Board says 38 per cent
is in hiding in American homes and
farms, while the other 62 per cent
is to be found in the files and store
rooms of American industry. If the
Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts don’t
find these home-hidden hoards of
waste paper before next fall, school
children hope to dig them out.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
INDUSTRY
The CIO Political Action Commit
tee, with its instructions to canvas
sers to call on every home in a given
area, should suggest something to
industry.
For instance, what has CIO to sell
the people that emiploying industry
has not? After it is all said and done,
industry provides the jobs for tht
workers. Without private industry,
there would be no need for unions
and thousands of well-paid union
officials. Totalitarian countries do noi
tolerate labor unions. You don’t
strike under a Hitler or a Mussolini
unless you wish to face a firing
squad.
If labor is wise, it will do nothing
to undermine the future of privutt
enterprise. And if industry is wise,
it will be aggressive in seeing that
its story is told in every possible way
to every citizen. Free labor and free
enterprise can only rise or fall to
gether, and it is foolish for either to
do anything that destroys the other.
BALTIMORE SUN BACKS DEWEY
The Baltimore Sun, in a two col
umn editorial Thursday morning an
jiounced that it will support Dewey,
the Republican candidate for Presi
dent, as against Mr. Roosevelt, who
seeks a fourth term.
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Mussolini tried to commit suicide
but failed. He is more deserving than
Hitler who never made the attempt.
Englishman calls Gandhi a bam
boozier. Sounds like the opening gun
BETTER BUCK-UP ON YOUR
POLITICS
Ry J. E. Jones
Washington, D. C., August 7 —The
political campaign is on, and the is
sues are confused, despite the recent
Republican and Democratic conven
tions. The two great political parties
announced their platforms and many
of the issues and pledges were stated.
Every citizen should read these plat
forms and check on them, time and
time again, through the coming
weeks to find out how consistently
and honestly the chief spokesmen
and leaders of the two parties are
sticking to the promises made in the
platforms of this campaign.
You can depend upon a platform
,o get on a train; but the big part of
every political platform lets you
down between the planks. The Dem
>cratic platform was boiled down by
President Roosevelt and it represent
ed his own personal views. The Re
ublican platform was a compromise
jf political notions of different fac
ions of the party—intended to
please everybody.
Now that the campaign is taking
shape the Administration is sitting
ight, in the driver’s seat. The Re
publicans are making attacks against
Roosevelt's efforts to capture a
ourth term. The New Deal, its “old,
ired, and quarrelsome men,” are
izzling on the grid.
So, as the weeks roll by, the indi
idual citizen must decide whether
o vote for Roosevelt and Truman,
r for Dew r ey and Bricker. The Re
ublican candidates represent a dif
erent political system from that ol'
he past 12 years. Roosevelt is al
eady on the defensive. Dewey’s man
igers seem confident that he will win
he election —they claim 25 States.
Unfortunately, the trouble with
uost voters is that they fail to un
ierstand, or remember the issues,
jut as crudely as those issues are out
ined in the platforms they, neverthe
ess, state the factual differences be
ween the two parties. When either
party changes its course and goes off
n strange directions it shows a weak
jess that should not be -overlooked—
f the change is too radical, or vio
ent, then the question is up to the
oter as to whether he, or she, should
ie led astray with false representa
ions of the basic issues laid down by
he ipiatform makers, and the del
ates from 48 states, to the party
onv.entions.
This item does not indicate how
he voter should vote —it is, instead,
i sort of red flag to warn the voters
hus early in the day, not to be fool
’d by tricky politicians.
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Labor Leaders In A Hair-Pulling
Match
“Prior to the formation of the CIO
nd the organization of the mass in
liustries, labor’s role in National pol
tics had been a cautious and conser
ative one,” commented the “cau
ious” and conservative Washington
itar, following the Democratic con
tention. The Star laid a foundation
>f facts by referring to the .policies
>f Samuel Gomipers, who concentra
ed on a non-partisan effort to secure
election of public officials.
Union labor leaders are running
he labor unions and apparently the 1
.2 million members haven’t veryj
nuch to say about the orders issued
>y Phillip Murray and, Sidney Hill
nan of the CIO and William Green
•f the AFL. The Weekly News Bul
etin of AFL says that the Hillman
Bureau “is a rather tricky outfit,”
proceeding “in accordance with the
ypical Communist technique” AFL
mys that after summing up the evi
lence, it concludes the double-headed
Murray Hillman organization is “put
ing on an act rather than action —
in act full of sound and fury, signi
fying nothing.” The AFL winds up
ts statement under the heading of
‘Facing the Facts,” by predicting
that “the benison of the CIO in 1944
as in former years, will turn out to
be the kiss of death” to the party it
juipports.
It is hardly necessary to state that
John L. Lewis of the United Mine
Workers is in substantial agreement
with William Green.
Anyone who cannot figure that out
the labor vote will be divided be
tween the different candidates of the
different parties will have to ignore
political history which proves that
when there is a hair-pulling match
between labor leaders that the work
ers will refuse to be led around and
will be found on election day split
wide open, voting according to their
jwn conviction —and American work
men think a great deal clearer than !
the handful of leaders who employ
.vhat the AFL refers to as ‘‘typical
Gommunst technique. ’
Meanwhile, the newly announced
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FORTY NATIONAIi
ORGANIZATIONS JOIN HIGHWAY
SAFETY PROGRAM
A ten-point program for post-war
highway safety is announced by 40
national organizations representing
labor, agriculture, business and in
dustry, war veterans and women’s
groups.
The program, published by the
National Safety Council, called for
action now to meet “the complex
problems that will arise when re
strictions on travel are lifted.”
The proposed action included
building “safety into all new high
way construction”; competent city
and State traffic engineering ser
vices; rebuilding depleted police de
partments and providing adequate
personnel training; expanded facili
ties and regulations for vehicle in
spection.
The program further called for ex
panded accident reporting; more
specialization in handling traffic cases
in court; improved driver licensing;
resumption of accident reporting and
analysis; expansion of safety instruc
tion in schools; programs of safety
education for adult drivers and pe
destrians; revision of laws necessary
to effect improvements.
Kenneth Coleman, of Seattle,
chairman of the committee respon
sible for dirafting the program, said
there were -39,969 traffic deaths in
1941, the last year and that high
way accidents have taken 750,000
lives in this country since 1900.
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200,000 BOY SCOUTS START
WASTE PAPER DRIVE
Thousands of Boy Scouts and Cubs
throughout the country opened the
intensive two-month nation-wide
waste paper collection drive August
1, the War Production Board an
nounces.
Included' in this group are 216,677
members of the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica from rural communities with a
population of less than 2,500. These
rural communities have a- total of
10,430 Boy Scout troops and 1,419
Cutb Packs.
Each Scout troop or Cub Pack col
lecting an average of 1,000 pounds
of waste paper per boy during the
drive will receive a War Production
Board Certificate of Merit, signed by
WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson.
In addition, a lapel badge will be pre
sented individually to all Scouts and
Cubs who succeed in collecting 1,000
pounds or more of'waste paper in
the two-month period ending Septem
ber 30.
The proceeds from sales of the
waiste paper collected will go into
Boy Scout troop funds to purchase
camping and other equipment.
The new drive was organized by
National Boy Scout Headquarters
and the WPB Salvage Division in
order to offset a decline expected in
waste paper collections during the
late summer months. Boy Scouts can
strike a real blow for victory by par
ticipating as fully and effectively as
possible in the collection of waste
paper, which, Chairman Nelson says,
is still the No. 1 war material short
age in the United States.
An average of 667,000 tons of
waste paper a month must be collect
ed 1 and moved to paper mills in order
to meet the paper requirements for
military and essential civilian needs.
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SOME NEW SCHOOL BUSES AT
LAST
After almost total lack of new
school buses for two years, WPB
approved a 1944 production quota of
5,000, of which more than 2,400 al
ready have been released to schools
1 where new buses are needed to pre
] vent absences and replace unsafe
equipment, the Office of Defense
Transportation reports.
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Because of the acute paper short
age in England, both the British and
Foreign Bible Society and the Amer
ican Bible Society, which usually
print in England, are having large
editions of French, Czechoslovakian,
Rumanian and Serbian scriptures
printed in Sweden. This is part of a
program of SBOO,OOO worth of Bible
printing which the British Society
has earmarked for ,postwar Europe.
Meanwhile the Netherlands Bible So
ciety reports the largest sales in its
30 years of Bible publication. It is
reported that 75,000 Bibles, 90,000
New Testaments, and 40,000 portions
of the scriptures were printed and
circulated in the Netherlands last
year.
War Labor Board procedural rules
have been tighteend to resist attacks
on the Little Steel Formula and to
insure against snarling u<p decisions
of WLB, which are intended to pre
vent “labor leaders" from throwing
the National industrial and econo
mic conditions out of balance.
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Confusion
Nine tenths of the items about the
| failures of war production appearing
lin metropolitan newspapers are un
supported by facts that are furnish
ed by officials of the Government.
There have been some slumps—but
bo major failures.
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TAX REFUND DUE HOME
OWNERS UNDER PROPOSED
AMENDMENT
More than 15,000,000 home own
ers who dwell in the homes they own
would receive over $317,000,000 in
income tax allowances each year un
der the terms of a bill which has
been introduced by representative
Fred A. Hartley of New Jersey.
Because of a hitherto overlooked
inequity in the Federal tax laws, a
home owner who rents his dwelling
may deduct from his gross income
on his Federal income tax return a
sum equal to three per cent of the
value of his house for depreciation,
while the resident home owner is al
lowed no such deduction.
Thus the home owner whose fam
ily occupies the premises, and who
'Plans on giving his family roots in
a neighborhood is unfairly penalized,
Representative Hartley points out in
the August issue of House Beautiful
magazine.
Expressing confidence his measure
will be enacted into law, Hartley de
clared thalt every Congressman with
whom he had discussed the matter
has agreed the discrimination against
the resident home owner is unfair.
"Most students of real estate tax
ation believe the regulation is an
oversight, pure and simple, in the
original law,” he said. “It Just never
has been corrected because nobody
thought enough about it.”
“Our government encourage s
home ownership as a means to bet
ter citizenship, and has set uip some
fine agencies to help increase the
number of citizens who have a stake
in their communities, their counties,
their states, and, indeed, the whole
nation.
“Every added burden put upon
home owners is a discouragement
to home-owning.”
In order to right the wrong, Hart
ley urged home owners throughout
the country to write their Congress
man, urging enactment of the mea
sure (H.R. 3886) which is now be
fore the House Ways and Means
Committee.
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STATE’S YOUTH ENROLL IN
VEGETABLE CONTEST
Young vegetable growers from
four communities in Maryland have
enrolled in the fourth annual Nation
al Junior Vegetable Growers’ Associ
ation production and marketing con
test, Prof. Grant B. Snyder, of Mass
achusetts State College, advisory
chairman of the organization, an
nounces.
The state’s contestants are compet
ing for a SSOO national champion
ship, a S2OO regional award, ten
SIOO sectional scholarships and two
$25 war bonds provided the associa
tion by the Great Atlantic and Paci
fic Tea Company, Prof. Snyder said.
The winners will be decided on the
basis of the efforts made by contest
ants on studies of vegetable produc
tion and marketing methods, on their
vegetable projects and in community
activities.
“The importance of more efficient
vegetable production and marketing
’ is gaining substantial interest among
our coming generation of farmers,’
Prof. Snyder said. “This is clearly
indicated by the increased enroll
ment in our contest which this year
includes boys and girls from 44
fitates.”
Among those enrolled in the con
test are boys and girls from Oldtown,
Street, Darlington and Walkersville.
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PLENTIFUL FOODS DURING
AUGUST
Foods espiected to be plentiful
throughout most of the country dur
ing August, according to the War
Food Administration, are fresh toma
toes, fresh peaches, peanut butter,
citrus marmalade, canned green and
wax beans, frozen vegetablees, fro
zen baked beans, dry-mix. and dehy
drated soups, oatmeal, wheat flour
and bread, macaroni, spaghetti,
noodles, and soya flour, grits and
; ilakes.
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STORIES OF TWO HARVESTS
; Many of the German prisoners of
. war captured in Normandy have vol
i unteered to help with the harvest in
! Great Britain, according to a BBC
broadcast reported to the Office of
War Information. Inexperie need
workers are paid six pence a day and
experienced workers, one shilling.
The broadcast also reported a story
about the harvest in northern Italy,
where the facts were quite different.
Italian patriots drove the German
occupation troops from one village
and captured the entire harvest,
which was already for shipment to
Germany.
SHAW APPOINTED MILKWEED
CHAIRMAN
Edward M. Davis, chairman of the
Maryland Milkweed Collection Com
mittee, has named S. B. Shaw, Col
lege Park, State supervisor for the
campaign to collect milkweed pods
for life jackets for the nation’s arm
ed forces. Shaw recently retired from
the position of chief of the State.
Bureau of Markets.
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DRIVE TO DEVELOP CAR POOLS
A new drive opened August Ist,
to insure maximum development of
car pools, as an important aid to
conservation of automobiles, gaso
line and tires. The War Price and
Rationing Boards are instructed to
issue only temporary 30-day rations
to applicants who have no car pool
ing or ride-sharing agreement, and
if no such plan is worked out, unless
a; plicant proves it to be Impossible
in bis case, no further gasoline ra
tions are to Uelffued,
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I Do War Work I
I In Your Ov/n Kitchen 1
i minrn
Food is a weapon of war. The more food we
grow and preserve at home, the more food
we shall have for war needs. So do your
patriotic duty . . . CAN!
To help you with your canning program, we
have prepared a complete canning guide
with instructions on how to sterilize jars . . .
types of lids and rubbers to use . . . methods
of packing and processing . . . and rules for
successful canning. This book contains also
tried and tested recipes for preserves and
relishes.
You can get your free copy
of VICTORY CANNING at I VictoryCanninjl
our office. Just ask for it. I |
Conowingo I I
Power Company I
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GREATER FIRE PROTECTION
ON NATION’S FARMS
The war has helped point up the
value of greater fire protection on
the nation’s farms.
Every year millions of dollars of
necessary machinery, buildings and
stock go uip in smoke, offering a
serious threat to full food produc
tion.
According to the Gypsum Associa
tion, which has enlisted alongside
the government to help prevent fire
destructiveness in agricultural areas,
failure to utilize existing fireproofing
safeguards is among the causes of
quite a number of the country s farm
fires.
The average farm dwelling has
only a minimum of fire prevention
features, association officials assert
ed. A few comparatively inexpensive
preventive measures at the time of
building, or installed later, and cau
tion in the use and care of inflam
mable materials should greatly re
duce the loss of property and life,
they explained.
“Information gathered by the gov
ernment shows that a clear apace of
150 feet between important struc
tures is goodi insurance against ig
nition by heat radiated from large
fires. Heat* from a barn filled with
hay, for example, will fire a building
at a distance of less than 50 feet, and
may even occur at 100 feet or more.”
Laying the cause of cluttered farm
structures to a desire to save time
in daily chores, the association cited
that the increased fire hazards often
wipe ouit the accumulated profits of
years.
Brush or grass fires may be guard
ed against by a strip of clean sod or
a few freshly plowed furrows at the
season when these fires usually oc
cur.
PICTORIAL. REVIEW IN STREAM
LINED DRESS
The Pictorial Review section of
the Baltimore Sunday American now
comes to you in new streamlined
dress, with more features, more pic
tures in COLOR, than ever before.
See the bright new Pictorial Review,
distributed every week with the
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Pacific ground gains are called im
pressive, but they don’t begin to com
pare with all the water we’ve cap
tured.
Norway has paid her debt to the
Baited States, Bttt she’s still waiting
to do the same to the'NaSis.
COUNTY AGENTS ASSIST BOTH
FARMERS AND NON-FARMERS
The annual reports of county ag
ents and home demonstration agents
indicate the extent to which they are
serving the people of the state in
helping them to meet their food pro
duction goals and with other war
.ime problems, says Dr. T. B. Symons
director of the University of Mary
land extension service.
One significant change as compar
ed with former years, he points out,
is the large increase in number of
aon-farm people that have been serv
ed. This is largely the result of help
given to people in urban distriot and
small towns who had victory gardens
and in the canning and preserving
of farm and garden products. The
gents have helped also in many war
time programs affecting all the peo
ple, such as salvage campaigns, war
bond sales, and the like.
The extension agents made 22,04 5
visits to 11,650 different farms and
homes in connection with their work
in 1943. A total of 115,273 people
called at their offices and 106,461
made telephone calls regarding farm
and home problems on which they
sougt the aid of the agents. The num
ber of telephone calls is considerably
larger than in former years, indicat
ing that limitations on travel have
caused greater use of the telephone.
Local newspapers have -always
bee<n of great help in disseminating
information quickly and at times
when it was most useful. In 1943,
the local papers published 4,841 ar
ticles by the extension agents.
Extension teaching has always
been based to a large extent upon
demonstrations, in which the meth
ods advocatedi are shown in actual
practice. Wartime conditions cur
tailed this method of teaching to
some extent, but the agents conduct
ed 5,789 demonstrations in 1943,
with a total attendance of 108,396.
They participated in 4,197 other
meetings of an extension nature,
which were attended by 135,448.
Dr. Symons makes particular ref
erence to the valuable work of local
leaders throughout the state. They
multiply the effectiveness of the ag
ents and have been of untold assist
ance during the wartime emergency.
CUT FIRE WOOD TO SAVE COAL
Every extra cord of fire wood
American farmers supply for fuel can
save from one-half to a ton of coal,
WPB advises. Coal supplies this year
will be short.and vitally needed by
essential war Industries.
From ttlrantte the German revolt
HHMTt look‘too revolting.