Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 38, Number 6, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 November 1942 — Page 3

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FOOD IS ESSENTIAL IN WINNING THE WAR HERE IS A LITTLE PICTURE of ■wartime as at least two elements in America play the game. A patriotic old citizen of my acquaintance, wishing to do his part but tod old to get into the armed services and with no opportunity for employment in a war industry plant, proposed to help in the production of that first war essential —food. He planted nine acres of tomatoes. With long . hours of labor, he cultivated and cared for them up to the picking stage, but alone, he could not pick the hundred tons of tomatoes, and farm help was not available. He applied to the boy students in •the high school for assistance after school hours. Not one single boy of that school responded. I watched this patriotic individual—-he is nearly 60 years old—as he worked long hours, picking such of' his crop as was possible that it might augment the food supply of the nation at a time when food is desperately needed. Across the road, less than 200 feet distant, I also .watched some 75 of the boy students of the town high school practicing football. They were the boys who had refused to help pick tomatoes, although offered liberal pay for their assistance. Something is wrong with our schools when they fail to impress up®n our young men, those of 16, 17 and 18 years of age, a sense of their ‘Obligation to the nation, especially in time of stress. Defeat for the nation would mean far more to those boys than to the man who was picking the tomatoes. It would mean far more to them than to their grandfathers ,or their fathers.* Defeat to them would mean a lifetime of toil and sweat and tears. They would not devote a few hours of playtime to doing a bit for the nation that gave them birth, that provided education and opportunity, a nation that will be their legacy within but a few .years. Yes, something is wrong, radically wrong, with a school system that produces such conditions among our high school students. If dur teachers cannot or will not instill a sense ■of the obligation of citizenship in the minds of the students, government •should draft the boys of 16 to 19 .years of age for service in the fields where help is needed. * * • -NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING AND A FREE PRESS WHEN THE MERCHANT buys newspaper advertising he buys something more than space and circulation coverage. Along with these tangibles, he pays also for that intangible protection for his business, a free press. A free press is the first essential to the maintenance of a republic; a controlled press the first essential of a dictator. In America we must have a free press if we are to preserve our American system of private enterprise. A free press can, and does, serve as the medium for the distribution of such factual information as will provide a background for sane thinking. It is the distribution of such information that will' preserve the business of each community, and of the nation as a whole, as private enterprise. To adequately serve, the newspaper must be financially successful. Patronage of its. advertising columns is warranted, not alone for the tangible values offered, but also for the intangibles, that it may serve in preserving our American system of free enterprise. That intangible is one of the values the advertiser buys. ~~ * * ♦ FINANCIAL STATEMENT THAT GIVES FACTS THE DU PONT COMPANY issues once each year the most illuminating financial statement I have ever seen. That statement shows the gross total revenue of the company for a year. It shows the distribution of that revenue in totals and percentages going to each element involved in its production. It shows how much and what percentage of the, total goes to factory labor; how much and what percentage goes to office and sales employees; how much and what- proportion to taxes —local, state and federal —to management, to purchases, to capital. If the financial editors of the metropolitan newspapers receiving that statement would but see it, they would find the material for one of the really big news stories of each year—a story that would do much toward eliminating the labor racketeer and one that would be a human-interest document for all America. * * ♦ MEDALS FOR FARMERS A LACK OF FOOD can cause us to lose the war as quickly as a lack of munitions. If we are going to make heroes of those who produce ships, tanks, guns and planes, we must also reserve some medals for the American farmer. The only real hero is the man on the battle front, stopping the enemy. It does not take that of which heroism is made to work 40 hours a week in a munitions plant pt exceptionally high wages. —Bay War Bonds—

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The city of Algiers, important transportation nerve c.enter in French Algeria, North Africa, surrendered to attacking American forces shortly after the long-awaited second front was opened. At top is shown a panorama view of the harbor. Below: A view of the railroad and terminal at Algiers.

Help for U. S. Marines ‘in Solomons

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A U. 8. army task force is shown boarding a transport leaving New Caledonia, in the Coral sea, to reinforce the U. S. marines fighting in the Solomon islands to the north.

Jungle Camp on Caribbean Frontier

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Mother Is sth in Uncle Sam’s Service

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Mrs. Helen E. Barry of Medford, Mass., salutes the photos of her four sons, two of whom are in the Pacific. She, herself, is doing her bit as a nurse in the John Adams hospital of the Chelsea soldiers’ hpme, Boston.—Soundphoto.

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Leaders of AEF

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Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,supreme commander of the forces directing the first great American blow at Italian-German military might in Vichy-controlled North Africa, is shown above at the left. Saluting with him is Gen. Mark W. Clark, who was named second in command to General Eisenhower. General Eisenhower made a proclamation in French to the people of North Africa immediately before the invasion.

Air Commander Ml Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle, who led the smashing American bombing raid on Tokyo last April, is in command of the U. S. air forces that support our doughboys in the thrust against North Africa. General Doolittle is shown above. —Soundphoto.

‘War Cinderella’

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Pleasure radiates from Catherine Hunzinga, 21, “war Cinderella,” who overnight took her brother’s place helping to produce Cyclone and Whirlwind aircraft engines in Paterson, N. J., when he left to enter the army. For three days before he left sister Catherine stood at the shoulder of brother George, and watched him work a high speed pneumatic grinder, finishing gears and shafts on powerful engines.

Out of the Mud

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Mrs. Jean McMullen of Perryville, Md., is ready to hook up winch of army half truck, purposely grounded in the mud of the automotive test course at Aberdeen, Md., proving grounds. Mrs. McMullen never had a job before, except that of bringing up her son of five.

Released by Western Newspaper Union. ' Financier of Victory '“jT'ODAY our newspapers are filled ■I with patriotic appeals—through news stories, editorials, cartoons and display advertisements—urging us to “Buy Bonds! Buy War Bonds! Buy Victory Bonds!” All of which is nothing new. Financing a war by direct appeal to the individual citizen goes back even farther than 1917-18. Back in the days of the Civil war, newspapers carried such items as these: ■ ■ • ” , ■ A soldier in the Army of the Potomac sends to the subscription agent h : s surplus earniflgs with the remark, “If I fight hard enough, my bonds will be gopJ.” Another soldier said, '“I am willing to trust Uncle Sam; if he is not good, nobody else is.” Besides such “readers” as the above, there were also display ads in the newspapers urging the public to buy bonds. The same message was carried to them in booklets, handbills and posters. - And all of this was due mainly to the efforts of a patriotic banker, Jay Cooke. Cooke began work a few hours after he read about the disaster which had befallen General MacDowell’s army at Manassas in July, 1861. He sat down, scribbled a few lines on a piece of paper and set out to visit some of his fellow bankers in Philadelphia. Within two hours he had collected more than $2,000,000 to be advanced to the federal government in the form of a short term loan. Although most people in the North, when the war began, thought it would be a short one, they were soon disillusioned. They soon realized, too, that it would be a costly one. During its first summer, expenditures rose to $1,000,000 a day. By the end of the year they had mounted to a million and a half a day. Upon Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the treasury, fell the burden of providing the money. Congress authorized the treasury to issue three-year notes, bearing 7.3 per cent interest. Accompanied by Cooke, Chase went to New York to raise money upon the security of these notes. But the bankers there were timid about providing the money until Chase threatened to flood the country with unsecured paper. Then they agreed to enter a syndicate with bankers in Boston and Philadelphia to advance $50,000,000 to the treasury on the secretary’s notes if he would appeal to the public to subscribe to them. Cooke was named as one of a corps of 148 agents appointed to handle the issue of “seven-thirties” (socalled because they paid $7.30 interest yearly on $100). The Philadelphia banker went at it on a big scale. He bought a large amount of advertising space in the newspapers ancKkept the editors liberally supplied with “promotional copy.” The treasury had allowed him $l5O for advertising purposes but he spent many times that amount and paid for it out of his own pocket. When the selling campaign ended it was found that he had sold more than one-fifth of the entire bond issue. The next year the treasury found that it was becoming increasingly difficult to finance the war. Military reverses suffered by the Union armies had shaken the public’s faith in the government. Again Cooke was called in. He was placed in charge of a $513,000,000 issue of “five-twenties” (bonds bearing 6 per cent interest and payable after five and in not more than 20 years). It was then that Cooke’s genius for publicizing the bond selling campaign proved itself even more than before. This campaign was a success, as were his later campaigns—a “tenforty” loan of $200,000,000 and a “seven-thirty” loan of $830,000,000. All in all, Cooke was responsible for raising more than $2,000,000,000 to finance the Union victory. As one historian has well said “these were the most remarkable feats of financiering known to history.” Methods of selling bonds which may be considered new and original today were used by Cooke in his operations. He devised a “pay roll deduction” plan and more than 1,000 employees of a Philadelphia railroad company subscribed to the bond issue under this plan. Cooke.also persuaded many companies which had government contracts to accept bonds in part payment for their services and supplies. He enlisted the aid of stage stars to help publicize the bonds and encouraged newspa pers to carry “box scores” show ng the progress of the campaigns.

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