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It's Good Medicine! Believe HOr Not -By Robert Ripley Our Tightening Bans Side Glances-BY Galbralth Home Front Needs "Crackdowns" A THE world in general, and the U. S. in swung into 1945. The Morning Avalanche forecast that this would be the "toughest of the war years" on both fighting fronts and the home front. From a standpoint of the home front, we said it should be our "toughest year;" that we hoped tightening of war-born regulations would make it SO We and we still believe, that the home front will never be able to get the full weight of the war unless the force of the conflict brought home to us by way of inconveniences and, if necessary, by stark sacrifice.

To too many of us here on our own soil, the war has seemed too far removed; in many cases, with its stepped- up wages and employes market, it has taken on the aspect of a "joy-ride." It has been no joy-ride to those who are fighting it. It should be no joy-ride to anybody else. Recent indications are that official Washington now is thinking along the same line we traced here at the first of the year. The crackdown on horse racing and amusements, the'full-blown campaign to save fuel at the expense of the comfort of a few, have been placed into being not alone for reasons readily apparent, but also for underlying, or "psychological" reasons. Ray Tucker's Whirligig column, appearing on this page today, brings that out.

It has been bruited about, and understandably so, that the men in the withering fire at Manila, on Iwo Jima and in the vicinity of Cologne to name only three of the recent "hot spots" of this global war haven't been made entirely happy by rumors that millions of their fellow countrymen are having fun while they fight, bleed and die. They want to know as it is their right to know perhaps we home fronters couldn't do a better job of backing them up if we stood up to our responsibilities and paid less attention to enjoying ourselves, or "business as usual." Some say it isn't necessary for the government to build up a "crisis psychology" here at home to jar us into carrying more of'the burdens of war. We say it shouln't be necessary but we believe it is necessary. We're glad to see the "crackdowns" made to dite, would like to see others. Let -the government ration travel, spank those elements of both business and labor which selfishly seek to.

contribute to the threat of inflation by demanding more of a On URS 7 reached Fort 3D.Q. StSyGQ. tilErS rGStZOE imu me -nut, CLLL wet ucu. j.j.ij.1^ blood, money, and in every conceiv- for two days. The plain around the The oxen stagger along with their the land.

able way, Shape and form force US all to hew or was white with tents and tongues hanging out. I mean our cheer arose: it rang ai tn line" whenever and however such hew- wagons. The epidemic of cholera six oxen do, but the beasts of some among the mountains. FORTRESS BURNS AS MUCH GAS IN A FUGHT AS AN A-CAfiO PROVIDES FORaViUANSDRMNGWSYEARS. U.

S. Seeks "Crisis Psychology" WASHINGTON By rpHE underlying reason lor James T. Byrnes' curlew law and horse-racing ban, as well as tor more restrictions on nonessential activities, is the belief that the curbs are needed for their effect on the psychology of the civilian and military population. Neither moral nor direct economic factors entered into his decision. Carbaret owners' contentions that the congenial and nonabstemious War mobilizer was influenced by the dry are dismissed as so much nonsense.

Although the prohibitinoists have raised a huge fund for Volsteadian purposes, they are so weak on Capitol Hill that they cannot even obtain a committee hearing on a bill to dry up the nation for the duration. It is also admitted in war-planning circles that the twelve o'clock closing will contribute little to the over-all military effort. Experts do not anticipate that many fighters or industrial workers will be drawn from the kitchen, serving or performing personnel of night clubs, saloons and other places of entertainment. With warm weather approaching, there will be hardly any saving of fuel. The need for maintaining a crisis psychology has become acute because of Allied successes in Europe and American gains in TUCKER the Pacific.

Men like Byrnes, War Secretary Henry Stimson and War Production Chairman J. A. Krug are afraid that when Germany cracks up folks in the factories will head for home, regardless of wrok-or-fight statutes that Congress may enact. 3-3 Why U. S.

Manpower Is Lagging M-8 ROCKET WEIGHING 38 POUNDS AND COSTING FIRE-POWER EQUAL 10 A 105 ARTILLERY GUN WEIGHING 12TONS AND COSTING 8.406SP fiSHINGLED WITH AUTO LICENSE PtATCS Opt V.P. CLEVELAND Fayerte CountyGa. fntuwj tac, tTwU njtas at the spectacle of America on a binge. Comrades "You're both wrong! Tne last overseas have written similar views to their sena- saloon burned or Iht year Doc Brown got uck all tors and representatives. Many vets assigned to the winter! duty at home have asked to be shipped sears in resentment against the seeming indifference to their hardships and sacrifices at the front.

Moreover, if this "shot in the arm" does not have the desired effect, and if a letdown follows a Nazi surrender, new as nation- wi Inr-'tAant Di wide prohibition of travel, professional baseball and N6W beatOrd Incident UUtl IHCO even further shortening of hours for amusement By THOMAS L. STOKES be imposed. Special Correspondent EW BEDFORD, Mass. The ARMS: War Production Chairman Krug was re- experience of government sponsible for the anonymous announcement that agenc es trying to corral about American forces transferred from Europe to the 30Q skilled textile-workers to in- Japanese sector would be equipped with new wea- crease tire cord production here pons manufactured here, and that billions of dot- drania tj zes the difficulties of vol- lars' worth of planes, artillery, tanks etc. would untary met hods at this stage of be warehoused on the continent.

He will be asked. the war with manpower demands to justify this program when the House Appropna- SQ heavy. f. HP This is true particularly where tions committee starts hearings on the War depart ment's budget. there are local tensions and fric- The Way Our People Lived By W.

E. Woodward (Copyright. 1911. NBA Service. Inc.) FOUR YOUNG M5N IN THE GOLD RUSH er I i mere are local tensions iiiu- Henry Stimson rusned a major general to the intensify the native Amer- office of Rep.

Albert J. Engel of Michigan who had antipathy to being told where written a letter asking the-Secretary of War for an explanation, and details. After pish-pishing the newspaper article, which was originally distributed nc tiJ. or dead. All aay in a for many miles and the whole by a reputable press association, the emis- blazing heat, with the air so hot green world of California lay be- gary adlm tted that 'an extremely secret memoran- to the line whenever and however such hewing will contribute, even i Victory.

California, 3 nt Krug anof Robert P. Patterson," Under Secretary of dnu ecnoeo. fnr his simpr- -j. itains. that had begun" along the Missis- of the other wagons have simply here we come!" tr, die.

In such cases we (To Be Continued) pp durin thg year had reached this point la down in cannot wait; we cut them from "The medicine may not taste so good going Wyoming. About a dozen cases their traces and leave them lying but we've a hunch we'll all feel better were reported at Laramie when there. VJUimb eventually for having swallowed it. 11 Ppp And Postwar Elegance the CuUen train arrived. John our barrel of water helps.

The Qn Canned FruitS Cullen set up his camp for the 15 iver water can be drunk when it March 2 wagons about half a mile from the is small Canned mixed fruits War, who handles production matiers icr ms suyei- mim jtj ior. It is understood on Capitol Hill that they cook- conced ing ed up the scheme without consulting the Secretary B( of War. White House aides are supposed to be in proDlem is not a favor of it because it will stave off an industrial grea j. jeal differ- slump and maintain employment. nt tn an others.

STOKES Congressional people in close touch with the lt ig a typical mill town. WPB and War department regard the tentative decision as evidence that Russia will fight Japan after against transfer. They claim the work is heavier at the tire cord plants, that there is a "stretch-out," though the average rate of pay is about five cents an hour higher. Also they would lose insurance against disability, sickness, which the fine goods plants provide workers at company expense, but which the other two plants have refused to install. Also, they say, vacation and seniority rights might be jeopardized.

They circulate a report that the Firestone plant is going to move out after the war. HE CIO Textile Workers union. has issues against both plants. Nineteen months ago it compiled a list of grievances at the Fisk plant which has had a union contract since before the fine goods plants. The list included the insurance feature.

These have been tossed back and forth by the War Labor board at Washington, with decisions on some points, but not the insurance. "Tony" England is exasperated at WLB and asks, The conflicts here exist in some wit some justification, why the communities delay? Last December, CIO won the liquidation of Moscow's continental enemy. Am- degree, in other uie ui iiuai-u nlafmpri with manoow the diversions of the hour having De orumcuntu naa oeen oouea, to pour to do with additions to household affairs and all food of every description cattle when they show signs of until being alkalied; it does helf It is difficult to make after" the war is over are details of an improved bathroom made public by Egmont its its who i an 'industrial fn- WHO IS an industrial en- rfplr Gordon records the re- dee P' soft sand is ij ke fine dust. The cattle are in te- 2 matoes wil1 take 30 points, increase of 10. ver a No 2 can Un it ed I ahdhs opened toe an military traffic.

WINNING THE WAR By Albert Leraan but v. i H6f th they got it up to their knees and we are saue willeque orl0 pote, pERHAPS your man ofheou is one of those room will be larger than tnose found away from Laramie. They had constantly called on to put our a dec re a se of 20. hearty eaters who throws down his newspaper laj-ed. islanders" here (people and corpor- Both labor and management ac- ations with roots and headquarters cuse one another of trying to cap- elsewhere); weariness with regi- italize on the war to "advance itl mentation of living required by own interests, total war: antagonism toward federal bureaus in Washington.

in recently-built-homes 12 by 14 feet Ji SboUlderS to the eonf ormance to the wishes of women who like to make a bathroom also a dressing room, fuH length three-way mirrors will be placed in three closet doors, with a counter-to-ceil- j. 1 IUC11 AUCLUC. ing mirror over the wash basin, with floure- of scenes of abandoned prop- scent, no-shadow face illumination. erty: stoves, blacksmith tools, mat- be a closet for storing a hair tresses, cooking utensils, and pro- hir in i it i got ou the esert a11 ht Wlth theriloss of only ne S1X Ox an a dryer and 'built-in-ash trays Similar to those he 0 There vvS al aban- out; towel cupboard that may be reached from the first day, but today we from either side, conveniently placed at the saw dead mules and an ox foot of the tub, and shelves over the tub on BRITON VISITS SOVIET explanation of the current dinner ROME, March 2. (U.R)—Marshal table crisis is presented by spokes- Sir Harold R.L.G.

Alexander, su- men of the big national food or- The train ran through Carson prerne Allied commander in the ganizations in New York: id south of Lake Tahoe. After Mediterranean, has visited the The country as a whole will get litc illc two da rest at Ragtown on the headquarters of Marshal Feodor I. as much protein and as many cal- automoblles. Also Will appear a towel- do ned wagon with broken axles. Carson River they began the Tolbukhin, commander of Russia's ries as in peacetimes.

Statistici- drying closet with pull-Out racks and a pull- We have been seeing dead animals mountainous ascent leading to the Third Ukrainian Army, it was ans base their estimates on what Pass across the Sierra Nevada, announced today. the average consumer will receive. There was a feeling of gaiety in Unfortunately that rare bird is al- tne expedition, witn-a great deal SOLDIER DIES never found except in re- of shouting and laughter. They CAMP WOLTERS, March 2. (U.R) and estimates Tost people ot of a spirit of malice those Which to park towels, powders and other bath who had to abandon provisions were neanng the end of their long services were planned continue to find shortages in seem to be always LEMAN the new bathroom will make possi- hie installation of two wash basins and two nieces.

Here and there, as an ex- showers to take care of the rush hour in the ception, foodstuffs were left in modern household during which members on the pUe are forever clashing some using the bath to help himself. before retiring at the same time others want "iness. Old Antagonisms Remain In other mill town, too, there is feeling about "the company" which stems from the days when hours were long and wages low and strikes frequent and often bloody. (The hours are long again, of course.) There are now, too, much higher wages in war plants in this vicinity than in the textile plants. The war plants lured many workers away long ago, including textile workers.

Always, too, incessantly there is the clack-clack-clack of the machines and the mist of lint in the air. Social Problem Involved Also complicating the situation here is the fact that half or more of the textile workers are women, some with children, some old women, so that a social problem is involved. Wage rates average from 50 to 70 cents an hour, and living costs are high. Most of the workers have sons, brothers, relatives in service. It would seem that some solution could have been reached.

But many of voluntary effort have failed to produce it. There's a strange sort of psychology at work, typically American and with much to recommend it in normal times, which seems to impede a solution in the spirit' of voluntary co-operation under the stress rt r- I Sirfdfr OOKinn At I llP DV FrifH the finder LUUIMIiy Ml LIIC Uy LllV.ll Announced to use it in preparation for going somewhere, times All this is very intriguing, of course. But read: Th water here is nei hbor ce ii a and was lice, youngster hadn't done News for the' public was some- A H-YEAR-OLD Jersey City ewnere 11165 attached to boards and set boy shot and killed himself up in a ttrominent place. One such because he had been found in a "The water here is neighbors cellar and was farin? it will pleasantly interest Mom and the kids po ison, and we have lost six cat- a police hearing. much rnore than it will the Old Man.

tie. Do not let your cattle drink According to the chief of po- Since he is fully aware that he would from forever be shunted away from bathroom At PocateUo in Idaho on even the size of a haybarn, he isn't thinking i trail turned to the of such rooms in size as much as he is in southwest and 10 days later the neighbors son and went numbers. When he builds his dream home caravan entered Nevada. Besides ce ar to play with it. he'll be perfectly willing for the house to be trtKu as well sprinkled with large, ornate bath- together, or 47 wagons in all.

In rooms to the extent of his ability to pay if Gordon's dairy we read of the only he can have one of his verv own. death of a littl r1 of the He'U settle, too, for a small one without the modern gadgets just so long as it will Gordon wrote, "A grave was dug on ly about some- be his to use when and how he wants to by the side of the trail and Tommy thing that, to us Plunkett painted her name and the grown-ups, seems of her death on a board very trivial, such which was set up at her grave. She as an examina- "Books are very poor ornaments for a was buried with no more cere- tion flunked, a Thev get mor.y than a prayer by Mr. Cullen. scolding or some BRANDEIS shall never forget her mother's simple, little misdeed.

interested in an archery set of the to the aD ages that offer so much adventure to childish curiosity. Blessed is the child who is guided through these passages by a wise and understanding parent. It is a most peculiar phenomenon that nothing is so quickly forgotten as our childhood. The very things we did ourselves we now condemn or belittle in our children. We are so busy with the things we call important but which mean nothing to a child.

snarled by snow, floods, dearth of freight cars, loss who started life as a lawyer, and of manpower and other handicaps. with bluff, rotund, outspoken jnitt And when everything seems to be going smooth- Seraphim P. Jason, local AFL boss; ly the Army quartermasters walkiinto the market with plant managers, with town- and announce. "We've got some hungry doughboys folk and with Mayor Harriman, on our hands." and they strip the warehouses. a former leader who tells you he has run for office 30 times and CANNED: The American Institute of Food Distri- got beaten 27.

button reports that for the last seven weeks pur- Manpower Commissioner Paul chases of canned goods have so reduced xvholesal- V. McNutt is trying to force some area, for Texas A. and M. college ers' stocks that jobbers and retailers are limiting 25 skilled workers from nine fine extension service March 16. yales in many places.

goods mills here to transfer to the Her appointment to fill a va- Cnain stores have not as much on hand as have two tire cord plants, one operated cancy left when Miss Zetha Mc- the independents. But as most of the latter are Firestone, the other a Fisk plant Innis resigned to become associ- giving customers everything they ask for, trade of cor- ate home demonstrator ior Lake oracles predict that.local grocers will run out of porations, though they have been Charles, was announced yes- supplies in a couple of months. Then there xvill be Jere for some years. The trans- terday. i lerees would work a niffht.

Mae oeile omitn has Deen as- COLLEGE. STATION, March 2. (5 Miss Leta Bennett, McClennan county home demonstration agent, will become district agent of District 10, the San Antonio Loss Of Benefits Union leaders and workers cite a number- of reasons home." says Mayor LaGuardia. dusty." Then why not return the- The One Minute Sermon face as shg back from the next rise and saw the lonely little grave on the prairie." Whenever I read about those case my heart goes out to those ence with contests of that kind, and at the same time I al- warned the management. a real famine until the new packs arrive this Sum- rees uld work a 'g ht shift mer 11 p.

m. to a. m. The long-range future for canned vegetables appears good; this year's ample amount of moisture in the soil should help make a bounteous harvest. Grapefruit and orange juice inventories already REMEMBER a few years ago are low; they will be even more so.

The worst hen my newspaper wanted shortage will be in canned fish. The government is to run some kind of a contest for requisitioning 75 per cent of the pack, which means rlinftV children. Magnanimously and that consumers will be cut at'least 30 per cent. umJlltVrJJ with an eye on business they The tightest market will be in sardines and wanted to give away prizes up to mackerel; sardines are standard diet for liberated Filipinos. Late deliveries of the 1944 salmon and But a wise old circulation man- tuna fish packs have eased the situation in those ager, who had had much experi- two items for the moment.

signed to District 9 covering thf Beaumont-Nacogdoches area, to replace Miss Mclnnis. I "Buy A War Bond TODAY." BEEF: There will be slightly less meat than last Occasionally they encountered ways wonder how much the par- "If you make the prizes ton year but more than in prewar years. Such an au' 1 i (-, i i Keep yourselves in Tne love oi uoa, iOOK- bands of friendly. Indians who seemed Sometimes they ex- ents are to blame. Sometimes I think that youth is the kids.

big" he said, "you'll never interest thoritative statement may seem ridiculous to ur- ing for the mercy of our Lord Jesus unto changed small articles for "Indian terribly" lonesome and, with all "'Five hundred dollars eternal 1:21. trinkets. Every night they took happiness and precautions, however, against an SO mewhat tragic. ban dwellers who haven't polished teeth on a means T-bone in months, but it's a fact. opportunity, nothing to a child.

He knows that Many butchers have heard that the armed serv- his parents will take it away from ices have demanded an enormous "set-aside" and Indian attack by forming a square How many children really con- him and either save it or buy have about given up hope of ever wielding a cleav- II IAA A I MJ JU1.1U1116 a HOW many children really con- mm ana euner save or ouy nave aooi LUDDOCK Morning AValanChe a lhe wagons, more than 40 fide Jn their paren How many something that is 'good' for him. er again. of them, witn the neoole in the "Starts tie Day on the South except only itith Lnbbock Evenins Journal as Lubbock Aca- of then 1 th People the th can go to with But 50 cents or a do a or But Uncle Sam rarely ever takes all that he has center. In this enclosure there was their worri and troub i es which aybe two or five, that means a earmarked and what is left over from military re- adults call little but which to lot. That means candy or a doll quirements is released immediately into civilian thpv iney by AviUnche-Journa! publisbtoz IB.C..

square in a corral formed of ropes. 1JI1-13 Texas Lubbock, Tesas. full Leased Wire Member of Associated Press Nilional represenutives: Texas Daily Press Let'iuf. A mf PARKER F. PROOTY WIto Md Pubteher General' Mwaeer CHAS.

W. RATLIPF. Mtnailne Editor ts Second Class Mail Matter at the at Texas, accordine to Congressional provisions. them are so big? Most youngsters know that all of skates. or some toy to play with or a pair channels.

Six men were detailed each night VIU51 youngsters K.IUXV to guard the wagons and the cat- the vll! 6 et from their parent tie The cattle were in some dan- ls ther ndlcule or and ger from wolves, but when they neith er is constructive. appeared the guards always drove More high quality beef will be available in them off by firing a few shots. of I nil rim OUR PLEDGE fl of th Stain cf lo for whtefc it ITstion. indiritiblt. for -M.

Ljbbock, 3, 194S with The outfit, by following the Wyoming-Idaho route, avoided most of the desert lands, but there was no wey to get around the Humboldt Desert of Nevada, which runs from Winnemucca southwest nearly to Carson City, They reached the northern edge of it on August 12. August 20.1 hardly know wheth- If people would only realize that youth is extremely sensitive and easily hurt. Youth is in its formative state, it is like sculptor's clay that taker, the form which he gives to it. Youth is not yet hardened to experience. Before it is a great unknown and terrifying world.

There are many dark pass- "Never forget that little things many localities. City people will continue to be the are big to children." worst off. This is because the government obtains They followed his advice and its meat from the large federal-inspected packers, the contest was a big success. which are also the chief source of urban supplies. What a wonderful world this Rural butchers buy from local slaughterhouses, would be if we could all be chil- As these outlets are not tapped by Army-Navy pur- dren all our with chasing agents, the folks in the wide open spaces the innate goodness and decency have more steaks and roasts than do those in the of the child, with the zest and penthouses and tenements.

vigor of the child and with his Farmers are earning so rriuch that they character unspoiled by experience, can afford to eat their own cattle rather than sell As you go through life with all them all. its disappointments and all its pettiness, you wonder sometimes A man who rolls fnnngh cigarettes each evening whether many of the people you to last him next day says his vacuum cleaner has meet were ever children at developed a tobacco cough. "Put on iprinkling io.

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