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EDITORIAL PAGE DAYTON JOURNAL, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1942. it Happened WE VE 6EH KNOCKING HERE FOR 13 MONTHS IF WE HAVE, IIIBTfH t2m ftlKL As Summer Passes By MARGARET ANN AIILER9 D'AYO-ONJOURNAL round la 1808 Publiihed rvrry wceKimv nv The Jniirnal-Ilrrald Pub-liihing 111 fcait Fourth Street. TELEPIIO.n Aaamt jjil. with private Drancb exchange connecting all department. MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1942.

In Dayton BERT ELOPFER Back in 1924 there was a con TO MOVE, HlTLER'LL DO 1HE KNOCKING 3 to bury it In the ground. This silver buried in the ground is of no use whatsoever for monetary purposes only the silver bloc will not admit it. Time and again there has been agitationsometimes with the approval of the administration to repeal the silver purchase act of 1934 and stop paying subsidies to silver interests. But it has come to nothing since the silver bloc in congress is too powerful. Perhaps someday, when congress finally realizes the seriousness of the war situation, it will put the slacker metal in its place.

cern formed In Dayton called the Dayton Portable Typewriter com pany. It's a long time since anything has been heard of or about As summer passes along the last few weeka of iti unchanging course, there are numerous small signs to tell of the merging of one season into another. Cluster of grapes, heavy with globules of rich Juice, are slowly changing color from green to a deep purple; aoon they will be ripe for eating and for making jelly and jam. Laden with fruit, the branches of the pear tree sweep the ground and promise a good share of aupply for the housewife'- shelves. A few of the leaves on the willow tree hava turned yellow with the heat of summer and in a brisk westerly wind, unloose their moorings and sail away like so many grace viz Jjri AijSiv "I it.

A few days ago, however, the chamber of commerce, which is the receiving station for all aorta of inquiries, received a letter from a St Louis man who la collecting typewriters of all makes. It is a peculiar hobby but that's his affair. He wrote the chamber wishing to obtain a Dayton-made typewriter. So if any one has one that he la willing to sell, please call the chamber. Lawyers have been and yet are the target for a lot of caustic criticism and bitter Invective.

Much of this is, of course, undeserved. But as long as laws are made it rill require lawyers to interpret them and to represent ful ships to find anchorage in an unknown harbor. The early morning's breeze, made cool by rain in the night, has a tinge of autumn in its crispness and reminds one that chilly days are to come and it would be well to consider replenishing the pile of wood for tmm the fireplace. The dew is heavy on the grass and each jeweled drop may be some kin to the crystal anowflake that will take its place one day when autumn and winter have their way. Stricter Rationing The American, upon learning that a new rationing will further simplify the Britisher's diet, sympathizes with his English brother but is not overly anxious since the latter has proved himself capable of ameliorating the situation, up to the moment, by raising his own chickens and by planting vegetable gardens and by making ingenious substitions.

Too, the American is beginning to learn that a rationed diet is not necessarily a diet leading to hunger. He has been having a small tryout himself in the matter. He has been surprised to find that half a pound of sugar a week for an individual supplies his ordinary wants, especially if there is honey to call upon. Many an American has learned this summer that food may be raised in the former flower garden; such quantities that there are green beans and beets to be handed out to the neighbors. And he looks with satisfaction upon filled cans standing on basement shelves which through a decade or more have been Some of the golden petals of sunflowers that nod beside the kitchen door are curling back against their centers which hang down those who are affected by man-wade statutes and prohibitions.

In our democracy, every opportunity Is given the penniless man charged with an offense to be defended on the theory that a person la innocent until proved guilty. Thus, our courts appoint attorney to represent those presumably unable to pay for legal service. In Ohio, the fees are set by the judge conducting criminal trials, within limits fixed by law. I Imagine that comparatively few laymen know, however, that in federal court an attorney is named by the court to defend an like shaggy heads weary with holding a burden or ripening seeds. First to discover the oncoming harvest of good good for himself was a handsome goldfinch who folded his black wings neatly across his yellow bodv and proceeded to die out a Congress' New Trick Early thi9 year, congress was caught iu the act of voting itself pensions.

Later there was the scandal about the cards for gasoline rationing. After that, discomfited congressmen accused the nation of plotting to destroy their influence as legislators. Now, it develops, congress has been responsible for one of the crudeset political tricks of recent years in connection with the payment of subsistence allowances to soldiers' dependents. According to Paul Malloh, Washington news columnist, congress wrote intothe law providing allowances to the dependents of fighting men, a clever little provision that "Any allowances which accrue under this title before Nov. 1, 19-12, shall not be actually paid until after Nov.

1, 1942." Also, the record shows that congress failed to include in the bill a proposal to pay allowances two months after passage of the act, although this was acceptable to the congressional leaders In charge of the bill. One excuse offered for failure to put this shorter time limit in the statute was that the War and Navy departments "said they must have reasonable time in which to set up the machinery and the accounting system to carry this act into effect." On the other hand, a study of the bill reveals that no investigation is required for payments to Class A claimants (wives and children) although dependents in Class (fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers) must be investigated. But even here the excuse is faulty in that the bill denies payments until a specific date and does not permit them when the individual cases have been investigated. What makes the matter worse is that this specified lump sum payment comes (after five months' accumulation) on the eve of the November election. What will these needed dependents do during the five months their allowances are accumulating? How will they exist is apparently no concern of a politically-minded congress intent on pre-election tricks expected to reap a sure crop of votes at the polls.

To be sure this is the strategy frequently and successfully employed by the New Deal in the matter of benefit checks to farmers; but the problems of the luscious seed or two. Slowly, almost imperciptably, the days are changing as summer passes. A little shorter they are, measured by time, and a little more subdued in light and coloring. The sun may glare with a brassy brilliance at high noon but the period of its burning heat becames a bit shorter each day and is followed by a softer, more mellow light which precludes indigent defendant in a criminal case and that the attorney receives no fee for his services. The attorney is charged with the earnest effort to adduce all possible testimony and arguments in behalf of the accused and to attempt mastery of his case as much as if he were to be accorded a fat fee.

Several such defense were handled in United States district court here the past few the coming glory of autumn. Vn Zrlm la tlx fhrlntlun Scleac Monitor, As summer passes, the year moves on like a great wheel along the road of time a ANYTHING STIRRING INSIDE? wheel that turns onward, never raitering, toward the bounties of another season. years. FAIR ENOUGH By Westbrook Peger given over to dust and empty cans. The American, upon reading of further war reverses, prepares for more extensive food rationing, but he does not believe he will suffer seriously.

For he is coming to realize that substitutes may be used to hunger-satisfying and palate-pleasing effect. Too, he knows that he can raise through the war years sufficient garden stuff to augment considerably the ration-restricted table. And, knowing that the Britisher is an improvisor, too, the American believes his chief ally can undergo further food restrictions without dire results. St. Henry Catholic cemetery All Things Considered By HOWARD VINCENT O'BRIEN was on Main street opposite the main gate of the fairgrounds.

A able work among the greatest possible number in hard times. NEW YORK, Aug. 2. The 40-hour week may be all right just as an added starter in the table of weights and measures and, as they say in congress, for other purposes. I have been in factories and smelters where, at a glimpse from five-foot board fence inclosed the grounds.

In 1872 Calvary cemetery was formed the graves were transferred to the new burial dren. I cannot but believe that greater faith and less talk Is needed to bring victory for our brave soldiers." 9 That sounds quite pious, but she is probably an un-American, labor-baiting Hitler stooge working outrageous hours to nullify labor" gains. the great outside, you would pic Sunday afternoon I drove north on a highway. I never went faster than 40 ture toilers grinding themselves up ground. But the notion shouldn't be al mile an hour.

I passed only one vehicle in the great industrial machine an ancient jalopy with a blowout I was and have seen men putting forth lowed to jell into a confirmed passed more times than I could count. surprisingly little exertion. It isn't American principle that 40 hours going to kill a man to press a but What does this prove? Well, among other a week, divided into five eight The Human Side of It things, it proves that we are a singularly un ton and watch a machine do the work even if he puts in six full 12-hour days. You would be sur hour days, is the limit beyond which the worker begins to get pale and wan and lose appetite and realistic people. Though the heavens fall, we will keep on dreaming.

We have been the world's champion wasters; and we aren't prised to see how soft some of weight and his efficiency falls off. those jobs are. Not all, but a lot of going to stop for a little thing like a war. War, Art And Music One of the strange and bewildering manifestations of this world-involving war is the attention paid generally to music and art, to the musician and the painter or sculptor. As Seen by GUNNER MUSSELMAX Precious are gasoline and rubber; but we I have worked more days of 12 hours than days of eight in my time in the newspaper business and I believe that nowadays my them.

Always Munching bought ours, didn't we? Who's going to stop us from throwing them away, if that's We took a lesson in "proper ex hourage, as I suppose the statis ercise we otner day from a cap what we feel like dome? This is a free The hokey-pokey cart is always touring the plants and these for ticians would call it, will run even 4 Ohio Women Enter Race For Congress Mrs. Bolton Unopposed COLUMBU'S, Aug. 2. (AP) Ohio's feminine contingent may bo tripled in the next congress If women candidates survive primary and November election bal tain in the police department. He country, isn't it? midable roughnecks may be seen higher.

I can't be sure what it is, gave us a couple of tips on simple exercises that will help develop being my own boss and having no chewing and sucking away on coco-walnutto cruncho creemee The land is full of writer and speakers, me pnysicai body against the kisses and scratching their shoul writing and speaking to an ideal and wholly imaginary American. This American is pru rigors of old age. time clock, but it seems to me I am always reading something, going to see, somebody or calling up somebody about a story or writing der blades against a post until a One pet theory the captain has dent, energetic, and aflame with unselfish patriotism. He knows what he should do, bell rings, indicating that the machine is through that particular is that people should develop the and conscientiously does it. This paragon of job.

The hero of the assembly line muscles of the arm muscles that are not used much in the av then comes to and presses the but the democratic virtues is prompt to turn In his scrap rubber. He saves grease and buys one. My health, nevertheless, I am sure Brother Will Green of the AFL will be glad to hear, remains fine and my severest critic will admit that these essays continue to erage work day. ton to stop the power and that is the extent of his all-out effort for bonds. He thinks of nothing but the public lot battles.

One nuiHcle is that which con welfare. the four freedoms everywhere in Four Buckeye women are seek- set new standards of excellence. trols a man's grip and his lifting Undoubtedly, there are people like that. the world. nig office but two would oppose In London, when I was a cub with the UP, I alternated first power, it seems that this particular little bit of the arm is one of In a big smelter I saw more men And perhaps a majority of the nation are like that part of the time.

But most of the sitting around doing nothing than the last to receive proper attention with Hal O'Flaherty and then with Bob Getty on a night trick which time, most Americans (like most humans) each other In November if successful at the primary. The others are from separate districts. men really working. The idea was There have been other wars in which efforts were made to hide ait treasures but, no other war in which such vast efforts have been taken to place art objects in safe places. Somewhere the treasures of the Louvre have been stored.

Somewhere, those of the National Gallery of London; somewhere, the chief pieces owned by the New York Metropnlitan. Nor" has any other war been the occasion of so much attention paid to the artist. He has been given jobs here and there by the government. He has been ordered to devote his attention to camouflage. Notable among the camou-flagists in England is L.

M. Glasson who has put his picture painting to one side and is designing patches of color to obliterate factories and munition works. The Society of Independent Artists invited men in the service to show art along with the members, last spring, in New York city. The magazine Life recently held a contest which resulted in a show of soldier art now hanging at the and the captain is of the belief are lazy, selfish and unimaginative. As far ran from 9 p.

m. until 7 in the that they had to be there for particular duties which occurred only as the general welfare is considered, they morning, with no time out for Ohio's first and only congress- will do only what they are made to do. that if this particular muscle is not developed, a man will find difficulty in even picking up his hat in the days after his four score and ten. a few times and for a few minutes each time in the course of a shift lunch because there was no place open for lunch, and seven days a It is forgotten now, but a generation ago, Under the feather-bedding prac week for four weeks at a stretch. woman is Mrs.

Frances rayna Bolton of Cleveland. She succeeded her late husband, Chester C. Bolton, at a special election tn At the end of a trick we got a tices of railway labor nowadays a man could put in 9a hours a week when a conscript army was proposed, many people objected. They said it was "un-American." Their preference was for "a couple of days off to get plas To properly develop thin muscle, tered and adjust ourselves to day the officer says that he always, on the twenty-second district Feb. 27, on the job and never suffer from anything worse than boredom.

Railroad workers are paid almost his way to headquarters takes a. million men springing to arms." And so, when we did go in for conscription, we tried, in characteristic American fashion, to hide 1940, and was elected to a full page of a newspaper and grasps light. Muttering Done There was a lot of muttering it by calling it "Selective Service." term the following November. A Republican, she is unopposed for renomination. as much money for loafing as they earn by working and railroad labor relations are one great fake put over on the people at large.

You it by the corner with his finger tips. Then comes the process of gathering the paper into a wad in the hand, using but the one hand Now we are faced with the necessity of done and I could turn in a fair job of sulking, but we were short-handed and the work had to be drafting money. But this is even more "un-American" than drafting men. So we fight are alwa3's hearing about the mar- One of three Democratic candi dates at the primary in the same velously fine labor relations of the railroads, but the reason la that it off. We appeal to individual patriotism.

We call for voluntary contributions. We during the while. When the paper is finally rolled into a wad. the captain suggests continuing the kneeding of the wad until it is done, and anyone who breaks down and dies from such hours at such work is Just delicate. The hang district is Mrs.

Mildred R. Jaster, the management never wins a contest, and management can't strike. rational committeewoman and wife of John J. Jaster former solid or until fatigue is felt. over from the Brannigans that followed a month on the night side hurt more than the work.

f-tate highway director. If she Farmer's Wife And don't forget that you have defeats Earl Haffley and James I have a letter from a woman Forty hours of pick-and-shovel two arms to develop. Most people are right-handed and 90 per cent In Liberal, who outlines her Metzenbaum, she will oppose Mrs. Bolton in November. day as a farmer' wife.

It runs from 4:30 a. in. until 10:30 at of these people have left arms that are weaker than boarding- Another feminine aspirant congress is Bess Willis Criswell, farmer differ from those of the city dweller when it comes to living from day to day without ready cash. But why should dependents of our soldiers wait for their money until the day before election Can they be expected to vote for the congressman Who sought to withhold their rightful allowance in order to make an impressive showing just before election day? The trouble with this latest trick is that it is likely to backfire. Needy dependents, their relatives and friends, may not prove grateful to a congress which has prolonged their suffering in order to make political capital out of payments deserved at an earlier date.

Who said that politics has been adjourned at Washington? The Slacker Metal As the War Production board clamps down on the amount of silver available for industrial purposes the American people should realize that in the all-out war effort silver is the slacker metal. And it is made so by act of congress the result of bloc pressure. That imports of foreign silver should be reduced on account of the war was only to be expected. Therefore the WPB is rationing the silver used in industry and saving some for friendly nations whose currency is based on the white metal. Naturally this rationing works hardships on industries using silver unless they have priority ratings because of being engaged in defense work.

"It is going to mean," asserts the New York Herald Tribune, "closing down many plants and it is going to mean throwing many workers out of their jobs." Yet this takes place while there is no real shortage of silver in the country. The explanation is simple. Were domestic-mined silver available for industrial use there would be no such shortage; it would be more than enough to make up the loss in imports. But because of the fantastic policies of the silver bloc in congress, which resulted in the silver purchase act of 1934, domestically mined silver can be sold to the government for 71 cents an ounce while the price of any other silver on the open market is around 35 cents an ounce. The difference in price of course virtually amounts to a subsidy for the silver interests and is guarded jealously by a group of congressmen and senators.

Furthermore even if domestic users of silver were killing to pay 71 rents instead of 35 cents for silver they could not do so now because of the price ceiling law. Consequently the government continues to buy thousands upon thousands of ounces of silver at the artificial house coffee, i work, or even four hour probably, would put me in a hospital, and so great is my personal abhorrence to such toll that I think 40 hours is a bargain In this sphere of work, if the fellow really works. The same goes for coal mining and I think a truck driver shouldn't night, including three big meals for a lot of farmhands and doing around the house and caring for the pigs and fowl. shrink from taxation. Soft-hearted, soft-muscled, soft-headed; probably the most thoroughly spoiled people this old globe has ever seen; we keep on nibbling at war.

We know that our national existence i at stake. We know or ought to by this time that thus far we have taken a sound beating. But we go right on trying to live as usual. We still think the Germans must crack from internal stresses. We still secretly despise the Japanese.

We still tell one another fairy tales about the military worth-lessness of the Italians. We are still good-natured about the rivalry between our army and our navy. We are, in short, still fast asleep. The curious thing Is that we would like to awake. We aren't enjoying our doze.

We would like to be saddled and bridled and ridden. But congress is afraid to mount. (Copyright. by The Chicago Dtily Ne, Inc.) "As Harry and I set on the porch each evening," she writes. we give thanks as we talk over have to push one of those big double-jointed boxcars over the road more than 56 hours a week.

But I never did believe in the five-day week for anyone, except as a means of distributing the avail the day's work, its worries and its Joys. We are laboring for victory now and for the world of today and for our children and their chil Columbus housewife and president of the National Prison Art association which she founded. A graduate of Ohio State univer-Pity's journalism school, she has been editor of the Van Wert Time and "Bachelor," international men's magazine, under the pen name of Fanchon Devoe. She opposes five men for the twelfth district Democratic nomination. The third district's feminine aspirant is Frances M.

Behr of Dayton, a Democrat. Her primary opposition is Greg Holbrock of Hamilton. Describing herself as a conservative progressive, she has not held public office. She proposes, if elected, to seek to assure every member of the armed You'll find that muscle in question just back of the elbow on the hind side. It feels like a little hard rod.

If you have a shallow place back of and just below your elbow, you'll know that very probably this muscle is underdeveloped and needs that wad of paper. It may sound a little screwy to think about walking down the street to the car line, all the while gathering a sheet of newspaper into a wad in one hand. But, that muscle must be developed. And, no kidding, it'll be embarrassing not to be able to pick up your hat in your old ag. Another idea the captain ban la that this idea of walking-for-ex-ercise- isn't worth two whoops if Test Your Horse Sense National Gallery.

Here in Dayton men at Wright and Patterson Fields have contributed to a striking show. Earlier the local institute placed on view work by British firefighter artists. As for music, disc recordings are in urgent demand at the camps. This need is being met in two ways, one by solicitation for excellent and new records to be delivered intact to the camps, and the other by the assembly of old records which are to be sold as scrap and the returns devoted to the purchase of new ones. Musicians are used in bands and orchestras of army camps.

Outstanding musicians are giving their services to the men in the camps. So great is the demand for music of high quality that USO Camp-Shows has established a separate concert division devoted to the arranging of concerts in military and naval camps. Among the musicians for which the boys ask are Jaacha Heifetz, Albert Spalding, the Lheviimes, Yehudi Menuhin, and Egon Petri. Why all this attention to music and ait? The dweller in these present days can have no clear concept as to why he believes the two to be necessities. But the future historian may say that the man of World War II was attempting to divest himself of old standards and in so doing hazily toward better values.

And thinking that music and art might aid him in procuring these values, sought their services and devoted time and attention to musician and artist Dayton9 Yesterdays By DR. GEORGE W. CRANE Select the answer which you consider best. The last problem rount five points. Then look for the correct answers on page 10.

1. The color on the outer edge of our primary rainbow is Red Orange Blue Green. 2. Which one of these magazines is inappropriate in this grouping? MrCall's American Good Housekeeping Saturday Evening Pot. S.

We sometimes see the spray of which of these vegetables in floral From The Journal File 23 Year Ago The Warner Spinner company was incorporated by Dr. John H. Warner and Charles M. Kelso. Dayton 13 Tears Ago China is fighting the same kind of battle that the colonists did in 177S, said Dr.

Arthur Reea in the first of a series of addresses at the Miami Valley Chautauqua. The Van Buren township school board decided that henceforth school books shall be sold through the principal and not by tores handling them on a commission basis. it isn't done right You just can't expect to get any good out of walking if you stroll around the block in your usual manner, the officer points out If you expect walking to give you actual exercise, you must walk briskly, and walk so that all of your body is in motion. You must square your shoulders, swing your arms, step high, walk on your toe occasionally, and put a little action into your prancing. Then you will be getting exercise from walking.

forces a job upon his return from the war. A Dayton resident 40 years, she has been in the retail food business for 15 years. Simpson, 2 Others To Receive Medals NEW YORK, Aug. 2. (API-Theodore Roosevelt distinguished service medals for 1942 will be conferred on Secretary of Waf Henry Stimpson, Author Booth Tarkington and Dr.

Rufus M. Jones, founder of the American Friends Rerv'ce committee, James R. Garfield, president of the Roosevelt Memorial association, announced tonight. The awards will be made at banquet at Theodore Roosevelt house. Manhattan, Oct 27, the eighty-fourth anniversary of the late president's birth.

4 bouquets? Carrots Parsnips Potatoes Asparagus. 4. Which pne of the following distinguishes an angel food cake from other varieties Butter Sugar Eggs Flour. 5. A person traveling through the Sudan would probably be characterized by Shorts Furs Overcoat Snow-shoes.

6. The weather has become one of the practical fields for scientific investigation and study. The weather man is an important aid in time of war and also a vital ally of shippers and farmers during peace days. In this true-false test encircle the letter if you consider the statement true or the letter if you deem it false. () A water gauge placed near the ground shows a greater rainfall than one placed atop a 300-foot building.

tb) Five inches of snowfall equal one inch of rainfall (c) There can be rainbows by moonlight. (d) The higher the sun in the sky, the lower the rainbow. it) The lower the barometric reading, the greater the likelihood of clear weather. Score yourself as follows: 0-2, poor; -6. average; superior; 9-10, very superior.

(Note The last question counts five points). Rf. U. 8. Iat Of.i CoiJjrrirht, 1SMJ, by Tht ChiCTfo Tribuiw Anil Iha rmitain isn't far urnnr F.

Rench, 64, real estate dealer, I on the idea of walking and of Edwin died. wadding paper. Both are cheap ways of buying a little more healtn health you'll need when you're The county commissioner appointed Mrs. Mary Bookwalter county recorder to succeed her husband, Thomas, who died. reverse Another ign of progres In they've stopped making stoves past the era when you can go up vtair step two at a time.

rate (about twice the realirate) in order.