Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • Page 18

Tune fn en KRBC THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Wednesday Evening, September 1, Kortt Nati Overlords Must Know War Is Lost IlFE'l DAUUftt MOHKKT ffEMTU Ab'tent, nut i8v tococj Cliil M.tttr Ocl. IMtbffin, AtllMtl, lau, undn- Uu let of Until 3.1 pubUiher. cot relponiibl. (or copy typojnpWcil unintMitionii nmif Ihit may occur oilier than to colttcl In nU Ui ifter It tinulbt lo tbdr oa tbli baiU OBly. All advtrllllni ordtn tcctplK State's Most Populor Pork "Sparks," the house organ of the Texas State Parks Board, reveals that a total of visited the 36 state parks in the month of July, This figure included 78,817 members of the armed forces.

Almost half this State Park at Lubbock, a circumstance that will bear a bit of explanation. Mackenzie is a part of the city df Lubbock itself, being jammed up against the city 'limits. In addition to being a state park, it is also a rjiunicipal park and the site of the' municipal golf say nothing of tlie only large-sized swim- inirig: pool anywhere near. Mackenzie as'being something more 'ihan a state park, we are proud to announce that offi- i cial 'figures reveal Lake Abilene: leading the whole, procession in attendance-in the month "of it happens often. "Lake Abilene State Park is 18 miles from the city Iri July 17,740.

members of the' armed forces 'visited it. Plus the 8,162 civilians who did likewise, Abilene' State Park counted 25,902 noses in July. This is'the greatest number of service men. to'visit any ilate park," by.a margin. It the'fourth largest --bomber rto visit any state park.

All told, Lake. Abilene'led the big parade in. over-all attendance, save only the Mackenzie lay-out at Lubbock, by nearly hope theState.Parks board is Some irnprovements have been made in recent months at Lake Abilene State Parkland the board is pushed for funds, and conditions generally are in ail lines of-endeavor; we do hope more attention is paid in the needs and requirements of the state's most popular recreation spot among all the purely state 'set-ups. Especially do we hope the state highway department does its duty and takes over.the road leading "to the park. It's one 'the most-used highways ih'Texas, thanks to Carnpr.B^r.k.eley, and the ciunty should not bear the burden alone.

And it's going to pieces like nobody's business. Women's Army Corps fKe only thing wrong with the WACc is that there aren't enough of-them. a general complaint aihorig commanding officers at homerand abroad, many of whom snorted the idea of a'woman's army corps, at When you can that you're good, you're good. The WACs and for all, that extra A which made them the date of organization up to recent weeks. The change is more than the'simple elision of a letter; From a mere'auxiliary to the army.

the.ladies--bless 'erri--have become full-fledged members of; the-armed forces, with many additional rights arid privileges they did have originally. For ont thing, the enlistment age has been lowered to 20. For another, they can have /as.much, insurance as any of theifimale The wife of a soldier whb'-becomes a WAC continues to receive, her regular ailptment as-a soldier's, wife! behind the Women's Array Corps makes sense. The WAC is designed to free men from various so-called "housekeeping" duties, so'they, will be free to fight or necessary work of; the army beyond the strength'arid of women: As re- lievers-bf-nien-to-fight, the WACs and their sister services have paid big trouble there isn't enough of them." Strong men must continue to do routine "housekeeping" jobs because the young women of America haven't as they should to the plea for help. They are needed, and needed in great numbers.

Enlistment in the.WACs offers a wide field of service never before open to women. Their country needs themi Texas young women, especially, should seriously' consider service in the WACs. They have so many relatives on the male side of the house in service over the world. Head of the WACs is Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby of Most of us ex-Bell countyites remember her as Ike-Gulp's little girl, with pigtails down her back. Purty as'a pihture'and sharp as a briar.

A Word on Scouting Brendan Bracken, 'Winston Churchill's minister of information, opened his big Gaelic York the other day and put'his brogan in it. In an unthinking moment, he described Rudolf Hess, who took a run-put powder on Hitler, as "an overgrown Boy 'Scout." soon as this work got back to England, you should have heard the uproar. -Wolf Cub and Boy Scout masters rose in arms. "It is an insult to Lord Baden-Powell (founder of the Scouts) and to every Boy Scout in the United Kingdom," one leader cried Another sighed: "I hate to think what the American Boy Scouts will have to say about this." Ex-Boy Scouts now in the houses of parliament spoke darkly-of making an issue. In New York, Bracken disclaimed any intention of belittling the Scouts, said he used the term only "in the loose sense in which it is sometimes used to indicate a'man who has never grown up." He cabled Lord Some'rs, chief Scout in England: "Nothing was further from my intention than to throw any slur." Use of the term "Boy Scout" to emphasize one's adolescent or viewpoint was a product of the smart- aleck era between the wars, when nothing was sacred and profane tongues were laid 1 on nearly all our civilized when debunkers were busy and literary wise guys scoffed at everything.

Now, thank goodness, the debunkers have themselves been debunked, and we are getting back to real values once more--and not a confounded bit ashamed of it. Now that the Scouts' annual campaign for funds it'pn, let iis pause to pay respectful tribute to one of the greatest forces in the U. S. and Britain in the making of real men. They are taught decency, honesty, purposefulness and.

personal responsibility, in sharp contrast to the various Youth Movements of'the axis countries. Scouting is one of our finest influences and should che'rished supported as a builder of the Ken of TotoofTow, By HAVMOND CtAPFER WASHINGTON, Sept 1. The eliici war fnded just tirte months niter the Germaii command decided It could won. The Germans wasted very liuln time In a hopeless fight. This Is almost as old as Ihe preuous world war.

begins IU Jiilh year thb week. In thres BumllU'inore will liavc lasted as l(oif as the other war. How long will Hitler's' regime hole out it- realizes that tin' wai has been last? By thts thr.o it must sum; clear Inside the German high coiii- inaiid that the war has been lost. They must know that Russia will continue to enlarge the bleeding wound that Is ebbing the life blood out the Germaii army in the East. They know 'the submarine scarcely scratches Allied convoys now.

They had to confess It publicly when they permitted iis to mount the Sicilian offensive for which suplles nnd 3000 craft had to be sent through the narrow gates ot the Mediterranean. They admitted then that (hey wert powerless to slop Allied ships I i the ocean at will. In Berlin itself, the evidence of Allied air strength must be sufficient to evidence of Allied plg-hcaded Nazi that the Clapper been lost in the ikies as it has on Ihe ocean and on the land. Hitler seems to fear Internal trouble because he has made Himmler his minister ot interior, giving that thug complete police control inside Germany. WHEN FEOFLE WANT TO QUIT Is Hitler preparing'to hold out? Possibly that explains the Himmler move.

But when people want to quit, no of loice and terror can hold tl'C-m to tlie war. In the last -var, I he collapse lie- hind the lines and then the Allies broke (hroug.i ilie dust. Geruuiy was sofItnc'i. the blockade. This tune air attack Is softening Germany behind the lines, reducing war production, and making- continuation of the war aiV'lcrable to German civilians.

Germany might have defeated England in 1940, and won the war. Rommel might have bi-'-ken througlJ to Suez a year ago. Mussolini Kent over to Africa rcadv to tide into Cairo with the conquering troops. That would not have lost thi.war for us, but we might have teen unable to win It. Uussla VouU have.

been cut off, and have had to accept a stalemate. the last "'e cwirss the war has reversed, and It is vn.v.only a question of how long the wish to endure the punishment. NO HOPE FOR HITLER Nazi? may hope-that they can force a separate, peace with cither Russia or, the that is a lunatic's hope so as Hitlej is concerned. Stalin' mid have no reason to spare tlie Hitler regime now, and render the sacrifice of Russian men meaningless, by prolonging the war on the bAfls of such hopes, Hitler is only suo-, jecting his country to turthet vutatlon and loss of life for; no posibk lain. He will go and I hope right down under six leet of sod from a well-aimed Ills regime will go with It.

The German people will be dealt with separately. And Oiere it la Important to note the prospect U'at President Roosevelt holds out fa his latest lend-lease report to Congress. The president says that the Fascist leaders, people Axis need not fear unconditional surrender. Until the day of unconditional surrender, we will hit hsid- er. But when they agree to uncon- dltonal surrender, Mr.

Roosevelt says they will not be trading Axis despotism for'ruin under the United 1 Nations, but Instead for relief and economic assistance, sucti as the people of Sicily are enjoying, and the opportunity to create a free political life of their own ctixxsinf. and to attain economic Tlie most senseless slaughter and destruction of the whole war that which the Germans now bringing upon themselves by to recognize the disaster that is so plainly advancing to their door. There are no posible gains in it for Germany, Plenty to Eat This Winter Is Assured B.i- JAMES THRASHER Staff CorrtspoBttat WASHINGTON, Sept. you been cbout vvlwre your threi square- meals a day are coming from this winter? Well, take heart--the-War Food Admin, fstratfon says llwre is going to be plenty to eat. Tliis confident assumption is a challenge to the direful predictions of the drouth, the shortage of farm labor and machinery, and the report "of Secretary of Agriculture Wickard's food investigating committee.

But is based on the Bureau of Agricultural Economies' usually reliable August crop report, and on the proposed allocation of the 1M3, crop among civilians, armed sen-ices, nnd food-shy citizens of other nations. The WPA's facts and figures add up to this outlook: This year's crop, barring some, unforeseen calamity, will be.31 percent greater, than tlie average'crop'for 1935-39, and 5 percent above the record-breaking 194J crop. It will be distributed as lows: 15 pe'rcehf to civilians, 13 percent to the armed forces, 10 percent': to lend-lease, and 2 percent to United territories, America, the'American Red and allocations to the Office ol Relief and Rehabilitation Organization r.ot covered by lend-lease. VICTORY GARDENS SWELL SUPPLY This greatest potential crop in history' does not meet our full needs, or assure civilians that they will have their favorite foods. But it removes the possibility -noticeable shortages; at least as far as supply Is concerned.

For, If you multiply our 131 percent crop for 1943 by the 75 percent which is the civilian share, you get 98.25, 'percent of the per capita consumpion In 1935-39. Iti fact, the per-capita picture Is even rosier than that 98.25' For the crop does not take into account the victory gardens that more than 10 percent of American families have grown this summer, nor the fact that, with some 8,000,000 men and women 'in uni- form, there are fewer civilians to be fed.than in the well-nourished years of the Even we eat nearly as much as we Bid in peacetime, the balance of our diet this year be We shall find less meat and and other dairy products, and less processed fruits and vege- tables, unless we have-home-canned them. But we shall have a more abundant supply of fats and oils, and of cereal grains. Nowhere, however, are these Each of us, WPA eat from two to six less pounds of meat In the year ending June 30, than we did in the average pre-war year; four pounds less butter, and 32 pound! of other dairy products. In fact the civilian seems pretty view of the fact that both military Icnd-lease allocations have: been increased last In.

3942 the armed services got "IS percent of the total crop, while lease-lend'exports were 6 percent in 1942 and 2 percent in 1941. But 19H lease-lend allocation of 10 percent stipulates that it will be furnished only if the demands of civilians and the armed force's can first be met. As for'liberated or occupied' ehe- niy countries, their 1943 allocations are only for the bare necessities, with grains predominating. FARM PRICES FAR ABOVE COSTS How much civilians will pay for their 1943 food--or, if you want to be pessimistic, how they will pay for it--is liot explained by WFA. Rationing and price control are the business of OPA, not of this semi- independent branch of the Agriculture Department.

But WFA does provide figures to show that food costs rose 53 percent from August, 1939, to May of 'this year, and that they are up 13 percent from Sept. 15, 1942, the starting line of the Stabilization Act. WFA figures also include the information that farmers this June were receiving il3 percent more for their crops than they were four ago, while their living production costs, and taxes, have gone up only 34 per-' But anyway, there Is going, to be plenty of food this-winter. Maybe you will ask for a head of lettuce and gel cabbage Instead, but that Isn't shortage. You will get squares a day, of one sort or an-' 1 other'.

And maybe it won't be so hard to pay for It, either. For Chester Bowles, OPA's new general manager, says he Is going to have the cost of living back to September, 1942, levels "faster than most people think." Mete Wightrnare-Dreawpf School Days I Hid V'dream the other It came Iclos'e'. toVbelng'a -night-' mare. I dreamed--and I suppose it was because September is so near and papers are fUl2d with advertisements mentioning the opening of school--that I was a schoolchild again and had to enter.t the fifth grade the next' morning. Let-others' grow gently nostalgic of their dear old school days, but not brother.

I came out of that dream with a lump In my chest the size of Mount Whitney, and with plans all laid to play hookey the first day. a minister's son I moved from town to town and went to a new grammar school nearly each There are fewer worse forms of punishment for a child than to have to face a nw clasETOomful of children, of whom have known each other for years and who the to give a newcomer the, juvenile form of the third degree. The first week in any new school CALENDAR OF RATION DATES AUG. 31--Deadline for second tire Inspection for gasoline book holders. 31--Esplratlon date for four red food stamps: 'T'lvalld Julj 251; (valid Aus I valid (valid Aug Blue stamp U.

V. and w. good for processed foods, become valid, Exphe Oct 20. Brown stamps'in war ration book 3 valid for ot meats, fats, oils, butter and cheese. i date lor bluet ood stamps Valid from Aug.

1. SEPT. 21--Explrattnn date for No. 7 gasoline.ration coupons. 14 in war ration book 1 valid until tnls.date for five pounds ol sugar.

OCT. IS end In war ration book 1 good until tr.is date for 5 pounds.each ol sugar tor home canning. Persons needing additional sugar mas to ration boards for supplemental allotments. OCT. Slr-rShoe stamp No 18 expires.

Taylot County War price and Rationing Boa-e located on third Hoot Federal building in Abilene. was spent Half people of 'South "and Florida today must'have taken a punch at rile at one other. Being a minister's son automatically branded me as a sissy until I proved with my Jfcts that -I wasn't. SAVED BY THE BELL The recess gong was Just like the ringing of a prize fight gong. I would so out swinging and usually come back battered and bruised.

Rainy days were even worse. The children alias's were kept inside by teacher and given bean bags to play with. The South Georgia bean bag cams close to being a lethal weapon. As I remember it, it was about 'a foot square and filled with seven or eight pounds of dried beans. '-It was always my misfortune to be in a class where there vvas a backward bay who have graduated from college long ago, but who was still in grade.

These backward boys- always ran to size and muscle and what they could do a bean bag! I still bear bean bag and the only consolation I have is thai there undoubtedly are "'some grown women running around who were bopped with bags by me when they young and defenseless. 'School wouldn't have been so bad had I been allowed to sit in BEGINNING TO SAG IN THE MIDDLE thj back of class, or' even in the middle of it. But I. was always assigned the front desl, directly in front. -of teacher.

I saw a lot of my only during school' but after McLemore school. My school hours ran from nine until about five. I was forever being kept after school to bsat erasers, wash the blackboards water the gera-' niums which were standard equipment, of every school I ever went to. PEACH TREE SWITCHES They whipped school cnlldren in my Kiiool days. Tha principal attended to that.

Ypur teacher would send you to him with instructions to tell him of your crime. He would men send'you out in tn'e yard to pick your own switch off a peach tree, trees being ceieorated for the line calibre switches they produce. Then the principal would give you a note to take to your parents, telling them you had been punished. Inis meant a second whipping at always took those notes "home aim battles me. Wny didn't-1-throw them away; But I didn't.

I clutched them as if they were an award of merit until delivered to my father. Whenever I played hookey I would write a note to my and sign my father's name. I never once got by with forgery due, perhaps, to the fact that the 'teachers could not bring themselves around to believing that a minister would use a stub pencil and a 'scrap of (ablet paper. Forgery was a wnlpping offense, so was back to the peach trees for me whenever I arrived with one ot these illegible requests that I be excused for my absence. All, golden, happy school daysl Sweet memories 01 the Palmer Method of penmanship, laughing, carefree playmates whacking you over the head with a bockstrap lull of books.

The joy ol called on to stand up before the class and slug a song during singing.lessons when you knew that-you couldn't carry a tune. Boy am I glad that was just dream I (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) Unfriendly Cuss I LOS ASQELES, Sept. --Robert Carosanti's house not only was looted, but the robber "stole the wheelbarrow to haul off the take-eight suits, two rifles, f. couple of pistols, it radio, and Carosanti's tooth- inrush. Then, for no apparent 1011, he pounded dozens of nails into the walls.

Comfortable Now KANSAS CITY, Sept. Contractor Campbell wrote his wife from Alaska, that he was unable to sleep comfortably because of the cold. Mrs. Campbell, mailed him a feather bed. "nttaee waj M.17.

FOR ifie t'O Hope SHE'D WITH AW ACCIDENT; (it- ee IF A oers GACK THE WAR Today ly DEWITT MACKINZIE AP Fmifi Attain AiMlpi MacKENZiE RITAIN'S i Minister Churchill in his spetch at Quebec yesterday -'that would' riot, haye' been for Russia to Rented at the-'re- I cent Anglo Am- 1 conf erenc' I which I largely if not 1 mainly be con- I cerned with heat- I ing and Inflarh- I Ing the war a-' I a i Jap'au, I with whom 1 Soviet I ment has five I year treaty of non aggression. That- gives us one answer to the interminable query as to why Russia doesn't make war on Japan, or at least grant' Britain and America the use of Sibeerian airfields, so that we can get at the Japanese mainland. If.cynics sniff at this, there's a much more realistic explanation attitude. UITE apart-from the non-aggression 'pact, it's unlikely "that there's tlie Allieb councils.who bf'ask- ing an already, overburdened' So- take the added task of My under. standing "is that high Allied cir- feel; it would be positively brutal to suggest any such thing, Were; trie Soviet at war with 'Japan, Moscow today wouldn't be celebrating Its third major 'victory in three days.

The Nad military giant facing the ReS wouldnt be rocking on his hobnailed heels, The. Allies likely would be- viewing the ''through a glass, darkly." Moscow has told us that there ate more than 3,000,000 troops apart from satellite forces, on the'eastern front. From start Hitler massed the bulk of his terrifying striking power against trie Reds In what probably has been the bloodiest lighting of all time. VEN if you-look on-the non- aggression pact as a scrap of paper, it'would bo sheer Riilitary for Stalin to open hostilities against Japan while still ejfc gaged with Hitler. True, RuP sia is supposed to have between 750,000 arid 1,000,000 troopi close, to Manchukuo the Soviet Is said to have a strong air force In Siberia, nnd a large fleet of submarines at Vladivostok.

The sians could hold their own, but the Japs also have perhaps million men available In Man- chukuo and Northern China and 'are set for contingencies. Will Russia Join the Allies against'Japan after the EuropeV conflict to page Marshal Stalin for that one. Unless Japan gives just cause, Russia can't without breaking her her to do that? If j-pu walr the. Reds to fight againit Japan you'd mighty hard that the Japs commit some hostile act--and stranger things than hostile acts have happened. HOME FRONT JAMB MARLOW (EDITOR'S Taipb earning more than tr.lngle, or 93,500 lor married couple, or who aren't subject to pi "roll deductions (or federal Income tax, or who have income eimlKg thin they did tast rear, must file new tax return by Sepu IS.

a i the second or tnree dally a- plaining tat qew requirements.) ASHINGTON, Sept. For taxpayers, with Incojfce up to $10,000, the. government has provided a 'method of working out the declaration of estimated tax which one taxpayer in every three must file before Sept. 15. many of taxpayers will find it advisable to 'get longer, detailed work sheet, along the lines of the regular, annual income tax return, from'internal revenue offices.

The short work sheet, which is on the back of instruction sheet being sent to taxpayers, includes a tabulation of which may be used as estimated 1 tax. This is worked out on a bash of eight percent of income being deductible. So if you use this 'form your deductions are smaller than that percentage, you'll find next March-- when all taxpayers must submit a -final tax report for 1943-- that you'll still owe money. Or, if your deductions are larger, youll find j-ou've overpaid. To make a choice whether lo use the short form or get the longer one, jot down your estimated 1943 income and figure eight percent ot It.

Then calculate your deductions to atehow close that figure Tould come. Principal deductible items arc contributions to church, charity and sen-Ice welfare organizations; taxes paid (not includlifc: federal income Uses or social security); Interest paid; losses from fire, norm and theft (over above amount of Insurance recovered); and unusual medical expenses (only the amount of siich expenses over five percent of your net income as figured without benefit of such ETTS work out a sample declaration from short form X. Y. Smith's Is 183 a That's $4420 a year. He Is married and has one child.

Re finds that on the short form he can take as his 'personal exemption plus J3SO for hlj child uhese aren't -the regular GEORCI ZIEUf they're figures thTf experts doped out to cover average deductions in connection with the tax tabulation.) These add up Subtracting that from leaves $2690. 'So Y. Smith runs his fingJl 1 tabulation on the form and lirids his estimated Income tax next 'to the 1 2650-2700 brack- 'et. Now he to figure his victory tax. From his $420 incotpo he deducts the victory tax eruption of That leaves $3T96.

The short form has hurt tats- three percent of that-or hb net victory tax. Adding and 13.84, finds his total estimated taxtj taxes are J580.88. Last March, X. Y. figured -his 1MJ taxes (ho earned less that year) at He paid a insUUment on'- it in March ar anothta- In June-- making he had paid before pay-as-you- go was installed.

Also, 'during the first half ol this year, 13.60 a week was taken out his pay for taj. For weks, that made' a toti of I93.SO. Starting in July, a week has been withheld from his pay for taxes. For 26 weeks-- counting to the end of this year-" that'll add up to $286. ft So he's entitled to subtract from his estimated taxes all payments he's made and is mik- ing-- $13250 plus $93.60 plus $2M.

That adds up to $511.90. Subtracting this figure the total estimated taxes 5610.88 leaves a balance of M. Y. has to pay this balance in equal installments of $3449 each Sept. 15 and Dec.

15. IF the taxpayer finds that hj estimated taxes total less than his.lM2 tax, as figured last March, the 1942 tax becomes, in effect, this year's tax. The pay- as-you-go law provided for cancellation of 75 percent (or $50 il the tax less than $66.67) the lower year's taxes. Now it's cfulte possible that you use the short form, you may find it appears that the govern- ypt owes YOU money. But If works out that way, you'd befl ter the longer form of wort Of course, that even then, because of tft BONK FKOKT, 1 1.