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Marshall, than he permitted to be repeated by newsmen. The President cannot be blamed for i eing perturbed about the situation. Some of the stories told in Washington, aired over the radio and written for newspapers, are highly disruptive. If they are true, they reflect an almost disastrous situation in the War Department, from Commander-in-Chief down. If they are false, they easily provoke troubles as unfortunate as those they purport to reflect.

The President infers that those reports are the work of irresponsible journalists. But he concedes that their scope and menace aggravated by wartime secrecy which goes beyond the proper requirements of national security. The rank and file of American citlsens finally have trained two powerful weapons on the wartime enemy of inflation. They are the local price panel and the Home Front Pledge campaign. And If those weapons are kept In order and kept flrinf, they will probably do more than anything else to keep the cost of living close to a sane level.

That Isn't meant to Infer that Washington's part in the point rationing and price celling operation Isn't Important, or that the setup Is anywhere near perfect. Nor does it mean that pouring off loose money Into war bonds doesn't serve as a vitally necessary antl-flatlonary safety valve. But it Is obvious that the more you pay for food the lesa you have left for bonds. And the food price situation imperfect aa it has at least been brought to the point where It is largely a matter of Individual responsibility, both to the consumer and the retailer. Price panels are not nearly so exciting as campaigns.

They don't stir up a lot of community enthusiasm. They mean extra hours of hard work for the volunteers who are already hard wo-klnr as well aa public spirited. But' the job these volunteers are doing Is highly necessary. Some -f the rumors to which the President takes exception appear, an their faces, too absurd to bear repetition. Such, an as an excellent example, is that which would make Brehon Somervell a candidate for General Marshall's job.

Those who know General Somervell best do not doubt that, if General Marshall were moved and the position of chief of staff were offered to him, he would accept it with pride. But nobody who knows him in the least could conceive of him as conspiring for the job of his superior. He is not that kind of officer. It is obviously impossible, with wartime secrecy what it is, to prove or disprove all such rumors. The fact that the President acoffs at them and excoriates their sponsors has no bearing at all on their truth or falsity.

One can be said with moderate certainty. There has been discussion of moving General Marshall into an active command. The President's refusal to discuss the matter indicates that the proposal is not dead. So long as it remains alive, Washington will be h'llrd with rumors, many of them highly detrimental to Army morale and with repercussions against Navy and civilian morale. Whatever you may hear about slackers and loafers, lawyers and professors, in government bureaus, the fact remains that the Office of Price Administration hasn't got enough workers to do s.

thorough job. Their field men have to concentrate on the big operators, and can't even scratch So They Say the retail field. That's where the price-panel volunteer comes in. works with the backstops the community ration board, checks complaints, stores (as an identified, unofficial and not a snooper), settles a lot of differences, and does much valuable spade work for OPA. CITY CAMPAIGNS Home Front Pledge are just as valuable, campaigns but they're The quicker it prows feasible to settle ihis in the open, on the record, without the false secrecy which Mr.

Roosevelt now exists, the better it will be for the Allied cause. THE AMERICAN WAY Levin H. Campbell, chief of ordnance, has achieved extraordinary results because, among other reasons, he has worked as friends and equals with private industry, instead of seeking to kick industrialists around as some in Washington do. a lot more fun. Many towns have launched them II a fine burst of community spirit.

And while statistics are, as always, slow to come in and. In this case, difficult to compile, the campaign has paid off in at least one city. That was in New Orleans, which served as guinea pig for th venture last spring. In four weeks time, 250,000 persons voluntarily signed this pledge: I will pay no more than top legal prices. I will accept no rationed goods without giving up ration stamps.

And it worked' so well that a survey taken a month later showed that the whole pity's average food prices had been reduced per cent. Maybe you would like to know how some other cities worked it. In Hammond, a city of 80,000, pledge cards and list of ceiling; prices on market-basket foods were distributed to every home. The mayor issued a proclamation asking support for the campaign. OCI) block mat- I runs called housewives, plaining; the campaign and collecting signed pledges.

In Omaha, a poster on the court house lawn showed a huge black cow, 15 by 25 feet, which was whitewashed an signed were returned. The goal WHS the complete "whlteout" of the symbolical bossy, who repre- mix Hi HI, It is quite in character, then, that he should have turned five the black market. Army ordnance depots over to private operation under contract. Jr, no instance has this been because of Army lailure. Jn each case thr private operator has been given a pertormance goal at which tr.

shoot. But General Campbell ahviously believes in the American of private enlprpri and has no desiie to keep the government 7 business which can be done equally uell in the American way. SUGAR GOAT IT, PLEASE Don't try to kid anybody that are going to like the new tax hill that Congress hopes to write soon. It will lie a bitter pill, p.u- ticularly if it involves 30 per cent tax. Strong medicine is needed to raise the 10 or 12 additional billions a year that are sought.

We won't like it. But we'll take it. because of what is going to be bought with tiie peace, liber- We'll take but please, Air. Morgenthau and IT'S II' TO YOU The campaign was chic, labor planned by aiiii women's Seventeen OCD liunrd lea ilc I'M planned the trlbullun of pledgew, which wan can led out by 2300 block lead- orx. At a Labor Day picnic, labor union and thoir famlllpH took Home Front pledge en masse.

Of course, It's easy for any of us to lake thin pledge, just MM It's eawy to go on 1ho wason or get religion at a revival. The toujsh part sticking with It. The Home Kroni pledge campaign lot more than week of enthusiasm and hoopla. Your town ran launch the campaign any time It wants to. But pretty please, will )ou suyar coat it lor tli ol the complications that are driving us crazy? Hand but let U8 have it without so many estimates ont ta ken, is going clauses.

to hav lot do llh lh the campaign will last duration and probably How well all abide for the beyond. by the Here I am and here I shall remain. The Stalingrad psychosis must be banished. After this the Dnieper line will be the natural frontier between the ramies. Hitler, on recent visit to the Russian front.

Whatever duties Marshall may hereafter be called upon to perform will be decided upon by the president in a spirit of entire confidence in General Marshall and with the sole purpose of placing this supremely able officer of the United States Army In the position where he can render the best service toward a successful conclusion of this war. of War Stlmson. Certainly no one is more Interested than the parents of our American boys In the success of the Russian army over Germany. But le also true that the whole character of the Pacific war change if the United States had access to the Pacific coastal area of Russia. Henry Cabot Lodge.

The CTerman High Command abandoned hope of victory several months ago, and since then has concentrated on an attempt to stave off defeat and emerge with what at best could be only a stalemate. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, deputy chief of staff. u.j.

WASHIHGTOH MERRY-GO- ROUND With autumn here, we know way the last straw blows back up into the attic. ly DRIW PIARSON (Continued From Page One) The lawyers confessed that the idea, though novel, was worth trying. So they employed two lip- readers, brought them into court early and made sure that they had front seats. One lip-reader was detailed to watch one side of the bench, the other kept his eyes glued on the other side. The session on Friday was long and a bit dreary.

Except for Justice Felix Frankfurter. who habitually fires a long series of questions at the attorneys, the justices kept solemn silent faces. Felix, as usual, kept up a barrage of cross-examination. Finally, Justice Douglas leaned over and made a remark to Justice Stanley Reed. After It was all over, the Medical Association attorneys gathered round the two lip-readers.

As Justice Douglas tells the story, the lip-readers were quite discouraging. "There is very little to they said. "But what did Justice Douglas say to Justice Reed?" asked the lawyers. "We're afraid ft won't be: much help to you," replied one lip- reader, "but anyway here it i.s: Justice Douglas leaned over to Side Glances now been looking forward to thia aleak for week, and 1 not going to enjoy bite of il with Brownie wtting ben Justice Reed and said: 'When is I cllx going to keep shut!" ARMY ADVISES HOUSEWIVES Quartermaster Corps feeds so many thousands of mothers' sons that it now dares to tell those mothers how to prepare a roast of beef. Here is the advice: Experiments in Army camps show that if you cook a roast at relatively low temperatures, you will have 20 per cent more roast at the end.

Cooking at high temperatures shrinks the meat, and dries up the juices. According to QMC, the desirable range of temperature is 315 to 310 degrees Fahrenheit. Cook- Ing an eight pound roast at this temperature will require 4 hours and 10 minutes. In other words, it takes more time than at a higher temperature, (at 400 degrees, it takes only three hours), but you save the juices, save vitamins, and will have more roast to slice. BRITAIN VS.

RUSSIA One thing which distressed the Flying Senators on their round- the-world Inspection was the intense rivalry between the British and Russians In the Near East. The Senators reported that around the Gulf of Persia, where the Russians take delivery on U. S. lend-lease airplanes, the British local commander at first refused to let the Russians set up a local lend-lease receiving agency. The Gulf of Persia long has been coveted by land-locked Russia as a means of reaching the sea.

British opposition presumably wa.s based on this. Finally the British Government in London ruled that the Russians could send an airplane mission to the Gulf of Persia, but even then, the local British commander, according to the Senators, delayed and tried to block the plan. Now, however, the Russians are established at the head of the Gulf and work in close cooperation with U. S. 'officials.

To save manpower, the U. S. Army uses skirted natives to assemble airplanes under the supervision of sergeants and doughboys. Then the planes are turned over to the Russians for Inspection. In test flights, the Russians cruise all over the Gulf of Persia area, obviously have ample opportunity to map out the terrain.

The Russian base Is command-' by a live-wire young general who gets along well with the Americans but Is eyed with some suspicion by the Hrltlsh. i The Benntors also reported that when the British were bit starchy about letting the Rus- Mlitns use the airport at Teheran, capital of Iran, further north, the Russian Army sent In a regiment one night and, without further argument, took over the airport, since the the British have hud to ask the Russians for permission to use It These are a few of the delicate problems facing the Allies In this suspicious, balance-of- power section of the Near East, where, according 0 the Senators the chief topic of conversation In the tug-of-war between and Britain. Hess flew to England to try to bring about peace. Wa'll takt ear.e of that just as soon as we've Hitler a. Mafetat.

Italy After Month Of Invasion A month after the Invasion of Italy the Allies have seised key cities' of Naples and Koggla and advanced up the boot two- thirds of the way to Rome. Solid Black denotes Allied-held area and broken arrows point out possible routes which may be taken as the campaign continues. YANKS ANQ CARDS PLEASE NOTE ALGIERS (U.R) It may happen in the United States, but the Yankees have won.the World Series of North Africa. The North hailing from Casablanca, ed the Algiers Streetwalkers, to 6, scoring three runs in thej last half of the ninth Inning. That made it two straight victories in the two out of three The Casablanca Yankees won 1 the opening: game, 9 to 0 yesterday.

The New York Yankees and the Saint Louis Cardinals will please note. 'I Is the meaning of tfee name Copenhagen? haven. was the ban on at- acking "open" cities first insti- uted? 1907, at the second lague Peace Conference. of the followfcig tates is closest in size to Burma? Maryland, Tennessee, Texas. is about the size of exas.

was chewing gum Irst introduced in the United States? 1855, when the Mexican general, Santa Ana, came to the U. S. for refuge. He and his secretary chewed the gummy latex of the zapota tree, and passed the practice on. do our soldiers, use for currency in Sicily? notes printed in Washington.

BOTTLES MARKED GRAVES LARGEST STATE Arkansas is the twenty-sixth state in the Union. 'It has nn area of 53,335 square H'-; 1,949,387 people give it of twenty-fourth in population. The bigger the War Bond, the more interest you will have in During World War wine bo ties were used to mark the graves) of many French soldiers- Thej name and other information placed Inside the bottle, which was tightly corked and half-buried beside the grave. LET US DO YOUR MOVING! Phone 78 OR LOITC DISTANCE HAUUNG! Holland Brothers Transfer -f Curious World CACTUS ACTS' AS A TO PERSONS LOOT IN THE IT ALWAYS SOM. 1M1 BV MA MRVICI.

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