Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1942 — Page 17

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1942

Washington

WASHINGTON, June 19.—Newspapers in Boston report a speech which Edward J. Flynn, chairman of the Democratic national committee, made there a few nights ago in which he condemned the press for its recent criticism of congress. In effect, he was echoing the cry of Speaker Rayburn and otaers in congress who say the press is out to destroy congress. Some members are trying to put over the idea that congress will be destroyed if anybody utters a ciitical word about it during these times. It would help some members to be re-elected if the press refrained from all criticism until after next November, and perhaps that is what they are driving at— but it is a question whether that would help strengthen democracy. All who believe in democracy want to preserve congress. They want to see it live up to its opportunities more fully. That's what the criticism is all about. The administration has been trying to get congress to vote more taxes and after six months of effort the bill still is not out of the house ways and means committee. It must go through the house and through the senate finance committee and the senate and then through conference. Every day that passes the government is losing needed revenue.

What a Comparison!

THAT SORT of thing. not the abolition of congress, is what people are talking about. and of course they know it in congress, t0o. The stuff about destroying congress 1s as silly as the talk a few months ago that we were not going to have any more elections. Flynn gets around to supporting his point by comparing the American press with the French press. He probably deesn't know that the French press was notoriously for sale. The only similarity between the

By Raymond Clapper

French prostitute newspapers and independent American newspapers is that both are printed on white paper. Flynn says the people of France lost respect for their democracy because the French press was doing what the American press is doing. French democracy went to pieces because corrupt, incompetent, shortsighted men destroyed it. Institutions destroy themselves. Congress will never be destroyed by criticism, but only if it grows so weak and inadequate that people lose confidence in it. Modern government is demanding more of the executive branch than ever before. It likewise de- | mands more of the legislative branch. |

Good for Brother Flynn, Too

THAT FEELING expressed itself through the protest over the X-card affair because the incident revealed a state of mind that was out of key with what war conditions demand. It expressed itself also in the protest against congress voting itself into the retirement plan, which had a good deal of merit in itself but which was put through at a time and in a way that offended the public state of mind so deeply that congress reversed itself Everybody is constantly subjected to criticism and there is no reason why the newspapers should be excepted. It is good for us to be called to account. It is good for public officials and for the legislative branch. It was good for the supreme court a few vears ago. It has been good for the bankers and the industrialists. None of these institutions has been destroyed by | criticism. Some of them have improved by it. Criticism may even have been a good thing or Ed Flynn himself, because when it came out that a courtyard on his country estate had been paved with 8000 city paving blocks taken from the city of New York in city trucks, the Democratic national chairman returned the paving blocks to the city so that he would not be left in the position of using municipal property for his own private estate.

Ernie Pyle is now in Washington, getting ready to go abroad. He hopes to start within the next few weeks.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THESE HOOSIER Democrats are such dyed-in-the-wool politicians that you just can’t keep ‘em away from conventions—even G. 9. P. conventions. At yesterday's powwow, for instance, Attorney General George N. Beamer spent quite a bit of time on the convention floor with the South Bend boys. He was busy dodging photographers. Highway Commissioner Jap Jones was another. Herbert Kenney, state legislative bureau director, was sporting a sergeant-at-arms badge. Also on the floor were such Democrats as Curt Bennett of Dillsboro and Johnny Noonan. secretary of the state ABC. We'll bet they got some good pointers for the upcoming Democratic session. Heard on: the convention floor " after the nomination of Rue Alexander for secretary of state: “Well, the Democrat slogan will be: ‘Vote for Alexander and Rue the day.”

No Man's Land

DID YOU EVER notice that open space a foot or so wide between the People’s Bank ouilding and the 148 E. Market st. building just east of the bank building? The reason, according to Willis Coval, 1s that no one knows for sure who owns the strip of ground, due to confusion over an old survey. ... Our 30th and Illinois agent reports: An expensive car pulled up to the corner the other day, a woman got out and dropped severai letters in the trash box which happens to be near the mail box. A moment later she realized her misiake and yelled for her husband. Grumbling, he goi cut of the car, removed the box lid, salvaged the letters and personally supervised their deposit in the mail box. Then they drove away. About two minutes later, an elderly woman with a package under her arm stepped up and was about to drop it in the trash box, caught herself, blushed and

War of Supply

June 19.— The Combat of the Quarwould be a good name for future hisfor the great battle raging in

LONDON, termasters” torians to consider the Libyan desert. For the decision hinges on reinforcements—new tanks, artillery, planes, infantry and all sorts of sustaining supplies. It might well be said that the victory will go to the side with the better quartermaster. This view of the Libyan campaign is sharply highlighted by Berlin reports of the smashing of allied convoys in the Mediterranean. True, or bloated with exaggeration, they nevertheless underline the fact that sending supplies through the Mediterranean is a highly hazardous project. Britain's Middle East Air Chief, Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, says that axis ships are landing 2000 tons of material every day at Benghazi. This, and the fact that supplies have been flowing to Gen. Rommel, commander of the Nazi troops in Libya, all during the past month, when Malta was being made untenable as a British naval base, give something of an edge to Rommel. His supplies, sent from Italy or Sicily to North Africa, travel a route thousands of miles shorter than do British supplies.

Take Gas as an Exomple

IF THE AXIS troops never capture Tobruk or sweep into Egypt, these reinforcements make them

My Day

NEW YORK, Thursday.—I left Washington yesterday afternoon and reached New York city in time to have a few friends dine with me. They took me fo see a musical comedy called “By Jupiter,” in which Ray Bolger is most amusing. Afterward, we stopped in for a few minutes at the stage door canteen. It is certainly crowded and the boys in all the services seem to have a very good time there. I am on my way to Hyde Park this morning, where I intended to be earlier this week. It is only a short trip and I expect to be back in Washington by Friday evening. Someone wrote me the other day about the Sharon sanatorium in Sharon, Mass., where for more than four years they have been trying the open air treatment for children suffering from rheumatic diseases. Rheumatic fever often causes heart disease and many children die or are crippled for life by this disease, which Dr. Paul de Kruif has so often written about. The Sharon sanatorium does not claim to have found a cure, but hopes it is on the road to con-

stepped over to the mail box. Guess people are getting tired of mailing letters in fire alarm boxes.

Duty Plus Patriotism

MOST ANY DAY now the members of the police force will receive instructions to crack down on houses of ill repute, in the name of patriotism. They'll be told that it’s not only their duty as law officers but also as patriotic citizens, desirous of winning the war, to drive out the disorderly houses. . . . We can't vouch for it, but one of our agents reports there have been some scandalous goings on at a certain far north side fire station. Tsk, tsk. . , . Remember the item the other day about sailors stationed at Butler university putting on an occasional zig-zag march for the neighborhood kids? Well, since the item appeaied, neighbors report, the sailors have been going through some pretty complicated maneuvers and tickling the kids to death.

Around the Town WE SPOTTED a woman on the Circle wearing a

The Black Market—

FEAR DISASTER UNLESS PUBLIC DOES ITS PART

U. S. Officials Say U. S. Has Failed to Put Over

Need to Conserve. (This is the last of three articles.)

By ORLANDO DAVIDSON 1imes Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 19.—The inside critics who are so concerned over the vast Black Markets they see as a grave possibility in the near future, do not by any means regard them as inevitable. But they do say it will take a lot of intelligence on the part of both the government and the people to avert

disaster. Here are some of the things which must be done, according to two independently made government studies on the subject: 1. The people must be convinced of the absolute necessity of the government's program. The most conspicuous example of how not to accomplish that aim has been the tragically bungled job of convincing the public of the grim necessity of conserving, possibly even confiscating, rubber.

Public Must Be Convinced

The fact’ that he can still buy rubber heels doesn’t improve John Citizen's understanding of the problem. Nor do those rubber-tire ashtrays he can still get in drug stores. And so on. 2. The public must be convinced that neither certain persons nor certain classes are getting more than their just share. Which, of course, brings up congress and the X-cards, a stupid case of mismanagement by OPA as well as congressmen. Rationing clerks virtually forced unlimited cards on some of the lawmakers—on many other people, for that matter. The public is properly skeptical of the ability of some men to act dispassionately on matters affecting business fields from which they were drawn and to which theyll return. Donald Nelson has done much to end unsatisfactory situations in some branches of WPB. Some local OPA chairmen have talked in a way that indicated they were thinking of retailers first, the consuming

dress—you know, one of those things the feminine sex used to wear before slacks came into style. . . Dr. John G. Benson, Methodist hospital superintendent, is due back today from a business trip to Colorado Springs. . . . Mrs. Florence Stone, the publicist, who underwent an operation at Methodist recently, Is recuperating at home. . . . Wilbur Peat of Herron art museum is in New York putting the finishing touches to the exhibition schedule for next year, The committee in charge of the exhibitions is headed by William G. Sullivan. Harlan Livengood, the C. P. A, is passing around the cigars. It's a girl— Annette Beth, 7’: pounds, born Wednesday. . , . To save tires, the gas company is asking some of its patrons in outlying districts to read their own meters two months out of three. Of the first batch of “read-your-own-meter” cards sent to consumers, 77 per cent were filied out and returned. The bills for the other 23 per cent prcbably will be estimated.

By Paul T. Manning

sufficiently strong to force the British GHQ to send all possitle tanks and planes and supplies to Libya. The supplies which the allies stored. in Egypt and Libya during the quiet months were immense. But each day the battie progresses this reserve is drained. Any convoys laden with needed supplies that attempt the short route across the Mediterranean, must, of course, run the gantlet of German and Italian bombing planes, submarines and surface craft. As an indication of how difficult it is to replace stocks, take as an example the high octane gas needed to send the tough Hurricanes and sleek, fast Kittyhawks screaming down on axis supply columns in the desert. British and American refineries in the Middle East cannot produce enough to meet all requirements. The rest must be shipped from the United States—a long voyage through the U-boat-infested waters of the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

What a Headache!

THE SAME IS TRUE for tanks. guns and men. Detroit and other nearby American cities are currently turning out in great numbers the best medium and heavy tanks of the war. But getting them across the ocean is a problem which is giving American and British generals in the Near East headaches aplenty. It's a matter of guessing as to whether the Germans will try to drive through Turkey into Syria

are down the Caucasian oil fields to Iran. Jittery people there believe that this is what will happen.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

stantly improved treatment. One cannot help being interested in efforts of this kind.

public second. Quick Punishment Urged

3. The government must get over to the average citizen that he, as well as the scum he deals with, is acting criminally when he buys on the Black Market. Punishment, quick and firm, ought to get over the point. Widespread understanding of the net effect of Black Market operations—the rich get more and the poor get less—could build a powerful public weapon of censure —a campaign in which, incidentally, the British have largely failed. One absolute essential is that the bootlegger during this crisis not become the more or less socially acceptable figure that he did in the Twenties. Government agents should aim specifically at destroying the mutual confidence that is the backbone of any illicit market. 4. Public co-operation is infinitely better than mere public acceptance. Give the farmer, the garage me-

Aircraft Carriers

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By THOMAS M. JOHNSON NEA Service Military Writer

WASHINGTON, June 19. —“What we need to win this war is 150 aircraft carriers,” exploded a naval officer back from the Far East. Before Pearl Harbor the battleship admirals would have snorted in derision. But the battles of Midway and the Coral sea have shown that the war in the Pacific is today largely a carrier war. The navy has put air-going sailors on the bridge, and their imaginations soar unfettered even up to drawing-board talk of a flying carrier, a dirigible, towing planes through the air. That may actually come, some day. Meanwhile, Jan. 1 will surely see the navy nearer 150 carriers than seemed possible a few months ago. Congress will soon vote a big new program to free the seagull’'s wings. The navy is quietly undergoing a revolution in tactical doctrine toward air-power which is projected over the high seas by carrier much farther than the big-

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Carriers Less Vulnerable

ALTHOUGH it is now pretty generally considered that the Midway victory was due largely to land-based army bombers, still it clinched the value of the naval bombing plane, as demonstrated in the Coral sea. These air-sea battles of unprecedented nature are vital in naval history. Our fast carriers, with goed warning devices,’ proved less vulnerable than expected to air bombing, certainly less than slow battleships. ,, The first-hand facts, brought back by naval flying officers for the president, Admiral King and key congressmen, are having an effect as explosive as an aerial torpedo. The carrier Is In many ways taking the place of the battleship as spearhead of the fleet. The navy’'s vast ship building program is being reshuffled to bring the new trumps uppermost. Not “battle wagons” but ‘“covered wagons” get the center of the road, if only to catch up with Japan whose carriers are more varied than ours and were twice as numerous before Midway. zn un n

Japs’ Loss Serious

IF THEY lost three sunk, or even one sunk and two damaged, this was a highly important result for the tactics of the American task force—to knock out their carriers. For all their carrier casualties save one were big carriers, and even though one of ours

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Symbol of naval revolution is the aircraft carrier—looming as the new spearhead of the fleet.

was damaged, the balance is tilted our way. ’ Officially, we hiave with the fleet seven big 78-120 plane carriers. plus the first few of an ultimate thirty-odd cargoilships now being converted to 15-80 plane carriers. The navy confesses nearly a score more big ones im the works. Big carriers «are needed for striking forces to bomb Japanese invasion fleets threatening Australia or other coasts, and later Japanese battleships and cities. Smaller cael are needed for convoying ships fbearing the cargoes now piling jup, especially in Caribbean ports. Means of mass producing small ‘carriers are now being studied. We are learning how better to protect carriers, but they still need to be screened by other ships, so we are building more cruisers and destroyers fast anki nimble enough to dodge bombs amd torpedoes. = » u

Battleship Has Place

OLD SALTS are astounded at how naval construction and planning are swerving toward airpower. Keels that were laid for some of the 15 battleships now building, will cut the water as keels of carriers. But not all. We must have ;surface warships so long as there are surface merchant ships to jprotect or sink; we must have surface battleships so long as the ememy have them. And today Japan has built or building 14, including some new giants, The American battleship now looming through the spindrift of" the near futune will be powerful but very fast, carrying many antiaircraft guns and some Ilongrange rifles, and not three planes,

Rush Action 8-Billio

on Navy's n-Dollar Bill

WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P.).—Senator Ralph O. Brewster (R. Me.), asserting that aircraft carriers have become “the key to naval supremacy,” today predicted that the senate would pass quickly the $8,550,000,000

naval expansion bill which includes authorization for 500,000 tons of

new carriers.

The bill carries no authorization for new battleships which Senator

Brewster and chairman Carl Vinson

affairs committee agree have been bone” of the fleet.

(D. Ga.) of the house naval replaced by carriers as the “backe

“The lessons taught the nation by Midway and Coral sea prove

conclusively that aircraft carriers

Senator Brewster said in an interview.

are the key to naval supremacy,” “The effectiveness of planes

launched from the decks of carriers is second only to that of land

based planes.”

The giant naval expansion bill—largest ever proposed—was passed unanimously by the house yesterday.

but perhaps 30. It really will be a carrier-battleship. To evolve the new air-sea power means changes unequalled since not only the Dreadnaught and the Monitor, but even the momentous naval revolution caused by the introduction of steam. As in their day, change has been resisted by a few swivel-chair brasshats. They have lost. The navy will soon announce full details of a reorganization in which its patient, veteran Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Rear Admiral John H. Towers, rises from a post technically rather subordinate, to Vice Admiral, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Air).

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2 GROUPS PLAN SUNDAY PICNIC

Central And Jewish Veterans Arrange Outing.

An all-day picnic will be sponsored at Columbia park Sunday by

chanic, the mailman, places on local boards. Let them help make the rules and theyll obey them.

Too Many Extra Dollars

5. Getting into the field of larger policy, widespread undercover chiseling is almost inevitable unless something more than nibbling at the fringes is done about that 17 billion extra dollars economists say will be kicking around wild in the next 12 months. No mere legal dam can stop that kind of torrent. 6. The government must show consideration in some concrete way for the businessmen forced to the wall by rationing and priorities. There are already signs of a bitterness which in some cases affords a rich sounding board for the siren song of the Black Bourse. The sinister possibilities of that evil day of business cannot be exaggerated. Profits are so high— rum runners used to come out comfortably ahead if they got one load in five through—that desperadoes and gangsters who will stop at nothing are soon calling the tune. Attempted corruption of government officials is their specialty. Corruption of the soul of a nation is their ultimate end product. Americans still haven't really been deprived of a great deal. The price ceilings are holding firm, principally because they were fixed very high. But before long the heat will be on.

The more I hear of children in Europe and in other parts of the world, the more I fear that for a| generation we shall see many of the diseases brought on by privation, hunger and strain, crippling children all over the world. | How magnificent is the courage of people in all; of these countries! In Carl Sandburg's column the | other day, he quoted a letter smuggled out of Nor- | way, written by a man just out after three and a half months in prison to a former cellmate. The letter reads: “I wish you could see us today—outwardly gray, poor, stripped to the skin, so it seems. But it is only a seeming. only on the outside. Never has life behind and inside us been less gray, never has blood been more red. He's trying to kid himself, you say. | “Well, just consider yourself when you were here. | Even though it was strenuous, you nevertheless lived, | felt the pulse of life even in the grayest of gray, | which you lived through the final months. “You expressed this yourself the last time I talked with you. And today it is still more clear. . . , Seen from the outside it may appear grayer than ever, marked with hunger and distress, loss and suffering. But inwardly, life presses forward irresistibly.”

That's when Berlin will watch

with interest.

FPC WILL BE SHORT ONE MEMBER MONDAY

Times Special WASHINGTON, June 19.—Failure of the senate interstate commerce committee to act on the reappointment of Commissioner John W. Scott to the federal power commission will leave the FPC minus one member on Monday. Mr. Scott's term expires on that day, and under the FPC law no provision is made for an interim holdover. President Roosevelt sent the nomination to the senate May 12. Senator Clark (D. Ida.), subcommittee chairman, said he would start the hearings Tuesday. Mr. Scott is a lawyer from Gary, Ind. %

the Central Hebrew congregation and the Jewish War Veterans, post 114. Food and refreshments will be served and games and contests will be played.

Joseph Albert of the Central Hebrew congregation and Lester Greengard of the Jewish War Veterans will be co-chairmen for the picnic. They will be assisted by:

Rabbi and Mrs. Nandor Fruchter, B. E. Sagalowsky, Cantor Edelman, Max Sacks, L. Frankowitz, Albert Baumohl, L. Sakowitz, M. Sapirie, Joseph Fleischman, S. Dorfman, M. Kestenbaum, Samuel Bunes, Phil Fox, W. Rosenbloom, I. Marcus, Abe Borinstein, Sam Kaplan, Max Gellman and Mrs. Gabe Slutzky, chairman of the ladies auxiliary, all of the Central Hebrew congregation. Others are George Freeman, Paul Scharffin, George Michaels, Julius Witoff, Sam Coraz, Saul Koby, Max Rutenberg, Ben Blieden, Leo Scharffin, Harry Shalansky, Sam Sofnas, Morris Strauss, Eugene Schwartz, Morris Perk, H. S. Teitel and Mrs. Jennie Barnett, chairman of the ladies’ auxiliary, all of the Jewish War Veterans post.

METHODIST WOMEN TO MEET AT PARLEY

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 19

{ “Tough Tony”

Hebrew Members!

Cripple for Life, ‘Tough Tony'

Sobs He Had It

NEW YORK, June 19 (U. P.).— Tichon, who has spent most of {his 28 years in conflict with thellaw, wasn’t so tough as he wept in Kings county court today for a chance to change his life. Tichon was brought into court on a stretcher, paralyzed for life by a policeman’s bullet after a Brooklyn popblroom robbery. He faced 10 to 20 years imprisonment for third degree robbery. He sobbed' to Judge Samuel L. Liebowitz: “Your honor, I thought I was able to outsmart |the cops. They called me ‘Tough Tony’ and I was tough all right. I got what was coming to me and I rate this punishment. It’s too badl, judge, that the kids in Brooklym, especially those who were brought up with me, are not here to see what's left of me.

Coming to Hir “I was a big shot, at least I thought so—now look at me.” Then he asked Judge Leibowitz to

reduce his sentence, send him some

place for medical attention and give him a chance to do something for his mother. “I broke her heart, and I'd like to make up to her somehow,” Tichon said. Judge Liebowitz allowed him to plead guilty to a lesser crime, sentenced him to five to 10 years imprisonment and told court officers: “Take him away, officers, and treat him with kindness. He needs it now.” Tony smiled and replied: “They told me you were tough, judge. They were all wrong, dead wrong. I wish I could use good language so I could thank you. So long, judge.”

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Put '42 Income At 108 Billion

WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P.).—Natfional income for 1942 will be approximately $108,800,000.000 if] it continues at the rec-ord-breaking pace set in the first quarter, {the department of commerce revealed today in its publication, “Survey of Current Business.” The ‘“@nnual rate” of national income veached in the first three moenths of this year was some $5,800,000,000 above that of the last quarter of 1941, and $22,800,v00,000 more than that of the first quarter of last year.

(U. P.).—More than 1000 women are expected to attend the mid-year | meeting of the Women’s Society of | Christian Service this afternoon as| {pait of the Indiana Methodist con- | |ference. | Dr. J. M. M. Gray, pastor of the| | Bleckley Memorial church of ColumI bus, told the conference last jhight that “we need not be afraid {for the future of religion, but only that we will not be enough like Christ that others will know our Lord.” “War, communism and economic pressure,” Dr. Gray said, “may have oppressed men, but nothing eradicates the need of men or changes their experiences out of which] comes the authority of religion.” | Dr. Gray will address the con-| ference again tonight on “our religious rights.” Bishop Titus Lowe of Indianapolis will speak before the conference tomorrow and on Sunday will deliver the conference sermon in Indiana university auditori-

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DEMANDS FOR ARMY CHAPLAINS INCREASE

LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 19 (U. P.).—Demand for chaplains in the

armed services will necessitate | y must not forget that the great-

doubling up by home churches in services, J. Quinter Miller, associated general secretary, Federal Council Churches of Christ, said at the state Sunday school convention yesterday. “We have noticed widespread increase in church attendance throughout the south and east, although the churches have been cramped by the demand for chaplains,” Mr. Miller said. He indicated that there is as yet no real demand for national prohibition, although the high consumption of liquor is “alarming.” Indianapolis probably will be host

to next year’s convention, since it was the only city to offer a bid.

‘SUBS SINK DUTCH,

NORWEGIAN SHIPS

By UNITED PRESS A small Norwegian freighter and a Dutch cargo vessel were added today to the toll of allied shipping that axis submarines have taken in the western Atlantic area. Twenty survivors of the Norwegian freighter rowed into a gulf port and revealed that their ship sank June 1%, three minutes after one “powerful” torpedo crashed into the port side. Two men were killed by the explosion; four were injured. The Dutch vessel was the Flora, of 1400 tons, sunk Wednesday night 30 miles off Riohacha, Colombia. There was ond casualty.

training centers for an increasing influx of air cadets. For the moment, this so-called “air conditioning” of the navy catches it at something of a dise advantage, which was lessened, but by no means canceled by the Japanese losses at Midway. It has too few carriers, especially too few smaller ones; too few of some types of planes, too many of others; far too many battleships that, because of age, slowness or other defects, are vulnerable to air attack. But this country has the youth, the brains and the industry to adjust quickly. We can do it—yet we must hurry, for never in our history has time been so precious.

LANDIS WARS ON ‘BUREAUCRACY

Congressman Scoffs at

Talk of ‘New World

Order’ Plans.

DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 19.—With his G. O. P. colleagues assembled at the state convention in Indiane apolis, Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R, Ind.) yesterday put into the Cone gressional Record his own ideas of the things which the minority party should stand up for or oppose in the November election. “Bureaucratic tyranny” and any “new world order” based on a sacrifice of American standards of living are the two principal things which the Republicans should ope pose, the seventh district congress | man maintained. | “No elected official or appointed | bureaucrat has the right to abolish 'that for which millions of Amerie |cans are fighting. The war blinds {us to our own internal difficulties,

est defense any nation can have ig strong internal economy,” he declared.

* * What You Buy With

WAR BONDS

When the marines get their service pack, there is included therein a bright shiny new shovel cased in a muslin carrier. The shovel costs 68 cents and the care rier 39 cents, or $1.07 for the ene semble.

These intrenching shovels are used by the marines around camp, digging trenches, setting up barbed wire entanglements and in many other ways. Your purchase of war bonds and stamps every pay day can readily equip our forces with these necessary ime plements for warfare. Invest at least 10 per cent of your income every pay day. Buy war bonds and stamps from your bank, your

postoffice and at retail stores.

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