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FAGE SIX THB DAILY COURIER, CONNELLSVILLB, PA. MONDAY, JOLT 2TM. 31)42. Hathj (torfrr THE COURIER COMPANY PubUiheri James J. Driscoll President and Genera) Mgr.

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Entered ai second clan matter at Postofftce, ConiMlUvllle, Pa. MONDAY EVENING, JULY 21, Yellow Fever Echo Apparently It is- one of the fortunes ot war that thousand!) of American soldiers have become afflicted by jaundice, an epidemic of which has swept through the Army in recent months. Unfortunate it that more than 60 persons have died. Development this disease has re- from the efforts of the Army high command to protect the men against a more virulent one yellow fover, which IB nothing much more than. a memory since the discovery In 1934 of a serum which Immunizes human beings against the deadly tropical disease.

The Intimation of Secretary of War Stimson Is that It was somethings In the serum which resulted in the outbreak. The fact that epidemic hag been slowed is taken as evidence the cause is being removed. Stlmsou discloses that 28,585 cases have developed since January 1. Formerly yellow 1 fever was spread by mosquitoes. In addition immunization by use of the serjjm, it is combatted by improved sanitation.

It is 'known to to favored heat, moisture, communal un- cleanliness, and general unhygienic conditions. It is hardly possible lack of sanitation could be responsible in modern army camps. Not the Bast Way "Our (the Wai Production Board's) decision has been made," says Production Czar Donald Nelson. "It It's wrong I'll take the blame." That's one way of disposing of the rubber problom agitation, but not the way Americans would like to have it done. II we're wrong, the logical thing to do is rectify the wrong and start out on the right track.

Nelson's statement referred to adoption by the WPB ot the petroleum process ol making-rubber and In opposition to the Gillette bill which that grain, alcohol advocates be given a chance. The alcohol method Is reputedly cheaper and just as good and the supply of grain la almost inexhaustible. The 'WPB head should revise his words to read: "If we're wrong we'll be honest and admit It and try again." Taking the blame won't help the millions of American motorists. Meanwhile there's so much confusloh over the rubber situation in Washington the public Is righteously Indignant. America Their Hope China, like Britain, Is looking to Atner- Joa to provide tho, sinews of war.

The celestials have the raw materials but not the facilities for turning them Into war munitions. But they are ready to do all in their power to stand off the enemy until such time as planes and guna and gasoline arrive from America. Such is the assurance of General Chu Chinese military attache In "WasbJngton, He holds out this hope: That his people will be able 16 cling onto air bases for the bombing of Tokyo and other Japanese cities until help arrives. A few hundred American planes based within striking distance of the Jap mainland could work wonders In bringing the war to a successful conclusion. Can't Hear Sirens Some South Sldera complain they cannot hear the air raid sirens.

A woman declared that when the, blackout signal was sounded last Wednesday night she and her husband were waiting to hear it. The first intimation the blackout was on was when a iwrdan called sharply to "put out your lights." It is unfortunate we do not have a really loud signal emanating from a place like the Baltimore Ohio yardi. Someone has suggested one ot the mammoth freight engines, with Its heavy steam pressure, be used. It might help to have- several more signals, sounded airaultaiveoualy. Women Better Wardens Major Ctonrral William N.

Haskell, New York state civilian defense director, says we've been going about the task of preparing against loss of life by air raiders in the wrong way. We've out the women. General Haskell says women make better wardens than men. Women, he declares, "bring a peciillatiy feminine zeal and persistence to a public task." There's tlaie yet to give due recognition to their ability. Stewart Says; Agents Letting Federal Contracts Need Educating By STEWART Central Press Columnist.

Capitalizing the war lor individual profit la inexpressibly mean business, ol course. Attorney General Francis Blddle very hns minutely investigated suspected cases of, It. Now has passe'd a law penalizing it severely. a i in a i there undoubtedly has been a class oE brokers protested the. ability to got unduly fnt gnins for seekers after Government contracts, Possibly some of them have been at the game for a long time, but nppears that Uncle Sam's present enormous wartime requirements have stimulated "em in their activities and multiplied 'em numerically.

In tho first place, if a broker collects pay from one of hh customers, for promised services that he cun't perform, he's grafting on the custamer who hasn't any remedy for it, or he'd incriminate himself. Not that I think the greedy contract hunter is entitled to any sympathy. Attorney General Biddle's Investigation and one by Chairman Carl Vinson of the Representatives' Naval Afl'alrc Committee have strongly indicated a good many eae in which crooked a have employed crooked brokers and have had their money's worth from the latter in the form of mighty Juicy contracts, and a good many other cases in which crooked contractors have been swindled by crooked brokers. Many.Need Help. If such discoveries hadn't been made, wouldn't have been necessary for Congress to pass a law to put a.jtop to the system.

Now, 1 don't for a minute intend to suggest that the average contract in, excess ol a fair return on his stuff. He may even consult a broker with no-bad intention, but merely became he's inexperienced in Washington and believes he needs an old hand to advise him. If he gets a bettor deal than he's I presume he generally, under the shock with no-particular lamentation. Suppose, though, that a contractor, either by design or accident, cloMs a dicker on favorable terms to hlnuelf. A contractor nnd broker combined can't dispose of a big order of goods to the Government, at fancy figure, without it bit ot acquiescence on the part of the governmental boya who lu'otcribe to it for Uncle Samuel.

Far be It from me to so much as hint that as many as one in 1,000,000 of our wartime contracting agents are otherwise than 100 per cent on the level. A corking high percentage of. 'em, however, are unsophisticated babies. What, chance does one ot 'em stand. In conference with a slick, sly broker, who could sell an imitation 'gold' brick to the Treasury Department? What the Government needs, to atop grafting, Isn't ao much a law, to punish it after it's been perpetrated, as a lot ot educational courses, for the benefit ol its executive crew, to prevent it in its incipiency.

There are three groups: 1. The contractors. 2. The brokers. 3.

The governmental guys. I think I've given a pretty clean bill ol health to the governmental- itles, except as to intelligence. I've sild that the contractor! are okey, on an average. Broken QuMee, Now I propose to apeak a word for the brokers. Of the big onei I'm suspicious, an everybody ii, Many ol 'cm, however, are perfectly well intentioned.

The fact is that they've not brokers. They're guides around the Capital. Washington now la the cussedcst place ever Invented, to come into, with the best intentions' of promoting our war effort nnd good government miscellaneously, I knovr a big out-of-town supplier summoned In to see a Cabinet member. Arriving, he reported at the proper department. "Got an appointment?" asked the desk clerk.

"Nope," conceded the applicant, who'd neglected to bring his telegram, "but 1 phone his office, He known me." "Nothing doing," said the clerk. "You gotta go outside and phone In for an appointment. Appointments are the only thing! we recognize." Mayor I.aGuardia of New York was the caller I'm referring to. The gal on the phone desk hadn't heard of him. Thus a broker has his utility, if for no more than introductory purposes.

The Sages Say I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to evevy man for the beat; but I will contend, that he who makes tha best use of, it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man. --Cumberland. who came to scoff remained to Two pf toe noblest of things are sweetness and CAN THE ORATOR CONVINCE THE AUDIENCE? NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, 27. -Cheapest political trick of a rather sordid wartime sctison is the strange delay In paying subsistence allowancei to dependents of our fighting men for more than four months, until the day before the coming congressional elections In November. Further Investigation mokes It worse than suggested in this column published June 15.

The official publicity makes no mention of who was responsible lor this calloused political chicanery, saying only that printing, investigations and bookkeeping will prevent mailing out the checks before Sunday, November 1. But it you will prowl back through the several thousand words of the law, you will find, by careful reading, a tingle sentence, which placet the' responsibility for the decision. It says: "Any allowances which acerue under this title before November 1,1943 shall not.be actually paid until cr November 1, 1942." So Congress itself, the very legislators who are to lace the voters on Tuesday, November 1, and not the War Department, or Mr. Roosevelt, or the Democratic National Committee, seems to have been the guidinj force in denying monthly payments owed to women and children for June, July, August, September and October. First-, it was pensions, then X- cardi, and' now delaying allowances to women And children.

There wat home excuse for Congress voting Itself penaions, although when the secrecy of Its action wat exposed, It ihame- fecedly repealed the law. There wns also some excuse for X-cards to give congressmen extra (although they are Lot justly entitled to unlimited) gat to do public business, If they will do public business. Now that their X-cards have expired and stronger fas rationing It in force, they and all politicians granted in the Xaat all the gas they want to conduct their political business an- usual, while all other business men mutt istand In line at rationing stations and appeal for meager allowances. The of politic), has been officially placed on the same basis as ambulances, police and doctors. Only excuse for delaying food and livelihood to the dependents of our fighters wos brought up in a few sentences of the M'juse debate on tbe bill.

The record of that debate talns page after page of bleeding rhetorical sympathy for the soldier and his family, but at only one point did a congressman arise to queetion the four months' delay In admlnistotinii this justice. Representative Robfton, Republican of Kentucky, arose in protest nd offered au amendment cutting the time to two months. The lenders In charge the bill, accepted the proposal, but somehow later on in the various congressional machinations before the bill reached Mr. Roosevelt's bunds, election eve became payment time. Representative a Democrat, of Texas, handling the bill, told Robslon (the congressional record shows) that he thought the'payments could be made in two montlu, but the War nnd Navy departments "said they must have a reasonable time in which to set up the machinery nnd the accounting system to carry this action Inlo effect." At the War Department later, a further sxeuae h'as been offered that investigations of the validity of claimants must be made.

How thin these excuses are is evident from close inspection of the act itself. No investigation is required for the wives and children of soldiers, sailors and marines. The law flatly says these Class A claimants must be paid if they produce a marriage license or other proof. Only the claims of Class B. dependents (father, mother, brothers, sisters) art subject to Investigation, or must prove dependency.

Anyway, the excuse falls flat when you consider that payments are not.to be made as cases are verified, but are to be delayed for one big bulk lump distribution after five months accumulation-on Election Eve, No one hei even tried yet to offer an excuse for this. It Congress does not repeal this clumsy effort to influence voters nnd the facts begin to get round, Congress had better not pass the i legislation allowing soldiers to vote, and might do well to exclude their wives from voting also. have always thought the re- ciidt generalized attacks on Con- fesi were dangerous and unjustified during a period of centralized executive controls. Congress is supposed to be the direct representative of the people, closer to their wishes than the executive branch, which Si largely appointive. The House it elected each two years, the President only every four.

them are good, bad and indifferent congressmen, and It is unwise not to distinguish between their various consciences, abilities and acts. But this latest example of maw legislative stupidity it jutt a little too much for me. In tills case perhaps half the congressmen, or more, may not have known the single delaying sentence was in the act, No une, however, can escape the responsibility--or the reaction. Just Folks By BDGAH A. QUEST SUMMER COTTAGE I do not ask for plastered walls With pictures hanging here and there, I'm (utisOed If rooms and halls The summer through are wholly bare.

Content on shaky chairs I'll be And think a leaky roof all right, If only they'll provide for me An up-to-date electric light, I want no cottage citified, I much prefer one plain instead, With Just this touch of city pride; And modern, comfortable bed. Pass paper napkins round again, The table sut with dishes old. I'll rough it there and not eom- plain, With running water, hot and cold. What it the doorways bnng nnd groan? What if the floors, when trodden, squeak, And Windows there are never known To shut or open week by week? I'll be content the summer through, Nor once for what is lacking plead, If on the shell one volume new Is stored away for me to read. I think a summer cottage nice, I'm fond of eggs just off the farm; But forced to go seven miles for ice Destroys a little of the charm.

StlH quite contented I could slny I were granted one more boon. I'd like my newspaper today And not tomorrow afternoon. Oysier spawning takes place at water temperatures ol 88 to 70 degrees during the warmer months, but over more protrsct- I ed period in the Gull Mexico. Strength for Your Daily Task By Earl Douglass, D. D.

GOOD OVERWHELMS EVIL One ot the outstanding teachings of the Bible is that we must overcome evil with good. If we try overcoming evil with evil, we soon Jnd ourselves in a descending spiral which takes lit to depths of evil and suffering. Evil frequently has to be suppressed by force, but we should always remember that it still remains evil. It may be deprived of its power of action, but it still exists. We are toid that in our blood there nre white corpuscles which wander about through the body and pursue, devour, and dispose of.

all disease-producing i which they encounter. They are indeed the guardian angels of our bodies. But alone they do not produce health. They overcome evil. After it is overcome, the normal functioning ot our different organs health.

They overcome evil. After il la overcome, the normal functioning of our different organs produces health. Our armies are now eniiaged in the task of suppressing evil and restoring order amonj; tbe nations. This is absolutely necessary before anything constructive can be achieved internationally. But war is ahvays negative In Its effects, It may suppress evil but it does not destroy it.

There is only one way to destroy evil, and th.it is to overwhelm it with good. When the war is over, we nhall have to substitute new for outworn systems, justice for injustice. Great as is the struggle to win the war, the greatest struggle -will be to win the peace. GRApJAG Test. 1.

Can you name in order the jl three vice-presidents of the Jnited States previous to Vice- president Wallace? 2. In what two small Amcrlciin colonlei arc Hollanders (till free? 3. According to the Bible, which Is the oldest clly in the Jerusalem, Bethlehem or Curthnge? on Etiquette. When, luncheon is icrved before a bridge party, the meal mny be served on bridle tables, using small luncheon clothi. Today'i Horowopc.

You possess a strong will and powerful feelings, If you have a ilrlhday todny. You are zeiilous effort, and well lilted and admired by your You are careful and deliberate fn action, and capable of unuiual concentration In every tusk you undertake. Tho year just starling will be most propitious for you. Fortune and happiness will on you, and all your affairs will prosper nnd your ambitions bid fair 'to be realized. The child who born on this dale will be exceptionally fortunate, happy nnd popular.

Relatives, friends and strangers will be particularly helpful. Successful travel also Is indicated. Facfographs Soft aheH crnbs nre known us as they are caught Juit before the moulting stage as they are about to shed their soft shells for hurt! ones and become hnrd shelled crabs. Maoris, natives yt New Zealand, nre Polynesians, of high intelligence, their forbears hnvinjf migrated from the eastern P'icifle several centuries ago. In March, 1940, they numbered 90,980.

The Cathedral at Cologne, Germany, is said to have had its origin in a structure erected at the beginning of 1248, and the present cathedral begun in the aame year. The fat-tailed sheep Is a native of. Afghanistan, and furnishes the people with their chief meat diet, The fat ot its Immense tall is a substitute for bulter. Forty miles an houv Is the best wartime driving speed: il saves gas, tires and lives. One-Minute Test Aniwen.

1. John Nance Garner, Charles Curtis, Charles G. Dtiwes. 2. Surinam or Dutch Guiana and Curncno.

3. Damascus. Capital Whirl By JntcrnaUon.il Neui Service. HAHRISBUHG, July 27 Civilian Defense officials of the Third Corps Area, in which Pennsylvania Is situated, hope to increase gradually the frequency ot blackout until one is staged every 10 days. At present the schedule calls for one monthly.

It ta anticipated that more "dlmouu" will be held also and with greater frequency. The exigencies of war mny yet make it necessary for most of the State to dim lights every night, as it being done now In New York and other communities along the Atlantic seaboard. Pennsylvania Civilian Defense officials at Hnrrieburg are planning to hold a "surprise" blackout in August. If the First Fighter Command at Mltchel Field, Long Island, raises no objections, the State Defense Council will make public only the in which the August blackout in to be held. The day and the actual time of the bkckout will come as a surprise to the public.

The August blackout will be held Jointly with New Jersey. Principal purpose ot hold- Ing a joint blackout to to protect the Philadelphia area. Colonel Benjamin F. Evans, acting State director of Selective Service, hau received word from his con, Benjamin F. Evans, Hawaii, that he has been promoted from captain to major in the U.

S. Army. Evaiu, a graduate of West Point, was in Oahu with hii family i'inu the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but all neaped unscathed. Mrs, Evans and their children are now at Wllkea-Barre. Undergraduate students at Lc- high University will be surprised to learn that their is a coeducational institution, according to the new Pennsylvania Manual, repository of facts about the State, which has just been issued.

The Bethlehem instituttlon it Often only to male undergraduates, although women are admitted to Ite graduate schools and summer ieme(- iurs. The manual nleo the error of spelling the surname of James F. Torrance, Secretary ol Property and Cuppliw, under whose direction woj prepared, as The State Capitol today is a hnven for soldiers as It wu during the first World War. Twenty-five years ago the soldlewi came to tbe Capital from Mount G-rolna, Now they are stationed at Indlanlown Gap, miles from Harrisburg. One ol the things which attracts them to Hnrrlsburg in tho USD b.iat on the Uusquchanna River, where dancini; is held.

la to be the only USO headquarters of Ik kind in the country. One Man's Opinion By WALTER KIERNAN Wonder Hitler feels that hot breath his neek yet? It's tht breath of young Americans. They're getting closer. They're not across the Atlantic. Thoy'rc just across the chinnel.

Bible Thought YOU WOULD STOP YO1JB OWN CHILD FROM BURNING DOWN A HOUSE OR KILLING HIS PLAYMATKS, BUT HAVING RESTRAINED THE HAD CHILD YOU WOULD ACT ONLY IN LOVK AND FOR HIS OWN GOOD AS WELL AS THU PROTECTION OF OTHERS. SO WILL YOU BE GOD'S CHILD: Pray for them that deepitefully use you, and persecute you, thnt ye msy children ol your Father which in 5:44, The French can almost see them from their coast they're so close, Cnn almost see them and wave to lliem from "occupied France." "Occupied France." But not for The younc Americans are breathing hard and taking a grip on their guns. Perhaps Hitler can th.nl hot breath. Perhaps he can see the glint of steel. They're jetting closer.

Thought lor the day: Greet day coming! Human Interest Angle nnd Comment on Happenings Hero and Tbejo. Star Junction Nervier Man Kanki Klfh In Chlcaca Naval School. Two Perry township youths, snns it veteran of Uic tlriil World War, arc in their Government'! service nnri they have a few kin in the armed forces. Daniel Gonild Gimmcl. 21.

who October ID, lull, is third clnss pefly nfllrer, lie Is at Norfolk, linei-luluing in navigator, after having been in tin iivlntirm machinists' school. In clans of 257 in the naval krhonl In Chicago, he finished with wicond He attended Dunbtir High School md graduated with the Class of 11)37, Terry Township High School. Dan's brother, Kermit it in HIP Anny Intelligence Department in WiiBhlngton at a ken lor draftsman. Kermit, 10, look competitive examination last February 13. He gwiiualed from Perry Township High School hi IM9.

The young men are cons of Mr, anct Mrs. Daniel Gimmel ot Star Junction. They formerly resided nl Trotter, moving imo Perry township in 1834. The elder Gimmcl was in the lirst World Wnr. Donas Ross, brother of Mrs.

Glmmell nnd a ton of Mr. and Mrs. Prank ROBS of Wandel, W. i a private flral clnts in the Army at Fort Jackson, and Ilia brother, Roy it at Camp Plcketl, Va. Another brother, frank Rots, who had been an X-rny technician in United Suites Naval Hospital in New York City, hiis arrived in South America, along with Bight others, to establish a hospital.

The actual location is not revealed. James Keith Slauter, xon of Mr. and Mrs. William of Lelsenrmg No, 1, who the Marines, is a nephew of Mrs. Gimmrl.

"Jimmy" won a kharp-hhooting medal sinca joining tlit LoathorncckK. Metorort Veteran of World War I GfU Bjr Draft Board After Being Often Refutrd. Homer Shaffer, 42, of Mclcroft, who ttrvfi with tho Americun Kxperliliannry Force In Ihe first World Wnr, is back In the armed forrcs ot his Uncle Sam. Snuffer, who married a French nurw in France oftur the flrhl World War nnd who if also tht father of a boy, tried in almost desperation get into tlio military service, anil after being rejected by every branch volunleerevi in Fayctte County Local Drufl Hoard No. 1 and sent to Uie Greemburg Recruiting nnd Induction Station, along with group of local K'leffcof.

When ihc doctors told him lhat he hud pusned the physical examinations nnd tlml could get 14-day furlough after boinji assigned to tne reKcrvcii, he said "nothing dcing," He wanted to begin training right itway. lie was thjn to an Army Rccentinn Center. SJisffcr afrnld (hi! oincers midht change minds about letiftiit him into the military service. Shatter told local draft board oftk-uU Uncle Sam didn't Mart this war and lhat we probnbly have done a more thorough job of it two decades igo. "We ROI in finish up th.it job.

Tt seems like we didn't do as thorough job we dhould've In Uwt other war," he )niMeri, ndding he wanted to put in an exlTM lick for vhe true Frenchmen, keeping in mind hit wile. HM PranonJtlon ot Death? For a long time before hi" nKkten denth the olternoon of 2, Jatnes O'Donnell, retired Baltimore ft Ohio conductor, was among the habitues ol ihe V. M. C. A.

corner. Much of the time he sat on the "los," on Hie Fnirv.cw aevnue side ot the building. Or he might be seeen standing on the opposite corner. They tell this story of his Intl viMl to railroaders' rendezvous: That morning lie had received hie pension check. As he away to the bank to have il cashed he reportedly culled out to W.

U. Sellers, ex-engineer, and others: "I'm leaving ihc corner to you I'm through it." A few minutes later, while homeward bound, he collapsed in South Plttrtmrc street, not fur above Brimstone Corner. He WAS dead when carried to State Hospital. Wfti, it a Mr. O'Donnell hnd been an employe of tihe Baltimore it Ohio for nearly c.

h.iK a century, He Jost a leg In an accident 40 yonrs ago. Out of the Past Today hi Local Hislory From Courier THIRTY YEARS AGO Andrew D'jrci of Limestone Hill, West Pcan Railways Company employe, iuffcrs a broken foot when a heavy log on il while it at work. Muteio two and a haK old, son of Riehar.i DcAmjolIf, wjswilni a. aevere bruise to his forehead when he fflHe from chair on which he is playing hie home In Baldwin avenue. Thomas Jones.

88, of Adelaide, Is admitted to Cottage Stele Hospital tor trcnfenrri of injured to his Iiot received when he mapped on a rusty nail. Ernei.1 Murnc, assistant to CbW J. L. Frilsch of the West Penn Hanwnys Company, becomes 111 with typhoid lever on the Sourli Sido. TWHrmr YIAHS AGO Thomnn Duccl of this city narrowly escapes Injury when ihc in which he In riding is wrecked in a dltrh Out ac he swerves o(T the rond to avoid a eolllt-lofl wrrh another Mrs.

Kathct'lnc Adams and daughter, Witt Evangelist, go 1 1 Afhcviilc, N. to vWt Mr. and R. V. Moore.

They plan to corrtKiue to Chattanooga, to vMt rclallvcF. Dr. nnd Mrn, H. C. Hoffman and Dr.

Don D. Bvooks reljrn from where Dr. Hoffman attended a meeting of the board ot of Gelt.vsburR College. TKN YEARS AGO George Wall is made superintendent of the Whitsott plant ot the Pittsburgh Coul Company, near Perryopolis. He William who will devote his timo to the Arnold City workings.

Mrs. C. E. Rc.idi'i of KochcMer, formerly Miss Thelmu Stcadiunn of Unii my, to her home after visiting her Mi. l.ctlic P.

Miller of South Connellsville. Miss Florence Warden mid Uukc both of Strnsburs, Ohio, arrive a vim with Miss Catherine Zimmerman of this Mils Wardell and i Zlmmerm.in nrc former schoolmates at BiJUc, Ohio. Hull School. Seeking relief from the heat. John Ge'intky, 18, of Calumet, if drowned while swimming in the reservoir at Mammoth x-hen he Mixed with cramps..