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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 171941 THE DAILY NOTES, CANONSBURG, PA. WAR PROFITEERING APPARENT fTIIE GOVERNMENT IS PAVING THE WAY is tst xm 5 i JioJ AN ivvJ JJ PAGE FOUR THE DAILY NOTES THE NOTES PUBLISHING PRINTING COMPANY Robert H. Robinson President John T. General Managei Charles E. Ross Secretary John H.

Clutter Treasurei THE DAILY NOTES Georpe A. Anderson George Schenkeln -New KdltoI K. Neil Morris Buslneas Manager Daily Edition founded April 18, 1894. Weekly Edition founded August 1, 1875. Published every afternoon except Sunday at The Notes Building, 28 North Central Avenue, Canonsburg, Penna.

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$1.09 Jersey Brook Salad Dressing qt. 23c Peaches 2 Ige, cans 39c Crackers 2 lb. box 15c Rinso 22c Small pkg. 10c SPRY 3 lb. can 66c JIHnz Baby Foods 6 for 41c Swan Soap 5 for 29c Pumpkin 2 Ig.

cans 19c Olives qt. jar 59c Silver Dust bx. Salad Oil (15 oz. btl.) Raisins Prunes 2 lb. box 24c 25c box 9c 25c AS BAD AS Mrs.

Ruth Ecoff of is also survived by Ralph of McDonald of Cecil. Mrs. J. A. Crajg Leroy Cummins the age of 49, Craig Leroy V'UI lIVl, -1 XX.

V. ory, and Mrs. Grant Cummins died yesterday at 4:30 p. in the Canonsburg General hospital from a heart attack. Obituary Brighton are sisters The funeral will be at 2 p.

m. at the home CHRISTMAS HANDY Chocolates 5 lbs. 89c Filled Candy, 100 lb. 19c SWEET LIFE SLICED BEETS 2 Ige. cans 25c MEAT DEPARTMENT Pork Loin rib end lb.

21c Bacon piece, half or whole lb. 25c Swift Ham lb. 29c or shank half. lbs. 29c Lard Fort Pitt Cooked Salami lb.

27c Whole or Half lb. 17c 2 HITLER! Carnegie. He two brothers, and Clarence L. Smith of Prison Canners Busy LONDON, O. l.P'.

Prisoners at the London prison farm have been busy over hot stoves during the recent canning season. The inmates turned out 147,215 gallon cans of vegetables and fruits, including for other state institutions. The factory employed 40 prisoners and three guards. 1 1 tl 1 i 1 11. I.

Peters of New Nickels Shine in Love ALTUS, Okla. For weeks, Eillie Joe Hatton and Miss Mary White saved every new nickel they could. When they had collected 60 they took them to the Jackson county court clerk's office and purchasedthat's riht, a marriage license. MERCHANT It PAYS! Every make Spiced Ham 3 lb. can 93c Butter 2 lbs.

75c Chickens full dressed lb. 38c Horse Radish pure jar 10c We Carry A 'oinplete Line of Holiday Poultry. PRODUCE DEPARTMENT Texas Grapefruit 5 for 25c Apples bu. $1.29 California Oranges doz. 19c Large Tangerines doz.

25c String Beans quality lb. 15c Get Vour Xmas Tree NOW While Our Selection Is Good who survive. held Sunday of his sister, Mrs. J. A.

L. Smith, 53G Chestnut street, Carnegie, under the direction of the Rev. E. F. Pruden, pastor of the Baptist church.

Funeral director Richard Thomas of Hickory. to call far more men to the colors than was first anticipated. The treasury department is preparing to call for more taxes to meet great er war demands and the public is being asked to do without this and that in the way of what wTas heretofore considered essentials. And the rank and file of the nation will accept all of these and other demands and grin and bear it. The people are not going to stand for profiteering and a camparatively few waxing rich at the government's expense at the people's expense.

Hearings are being held in Washington of men alleged to have been using their influence their "rag" to get national defense contracts for manufacturers and to get huge commissions or "divvies" out of it; of men who have been connected with the govern ment heretofore who "know the ropes" and know just whom to see for what. Some months ago Senator Truman and a commission investigated the huge profits of cantonments all over the country which revealed staggering profits. More cantonments are likely to be erected in the future. Various other indications of huge profits have, are now, and will be revealed in the time that is to come. Now is the time for President Roosevelt and his appointed executives to clamp down.

Now is the time for drastic action. Now is the time to strengthen the confidence of the people in their government and in its prosecution of the war. In time of war treason is a capital crime-This is war, and this kind of cheating could easily be construed as treason treason to the government and treason to the people who set up the government. A CRISIS FOR SMALL INDUSTRY B' EFORE THE ATTACK ON PEARL HAR- bor presented us with questions of greater moment, the future of small iudustry under the defense program was claiming a large share of the nation's attention. Since our entrance into the war, that problem, though less prominent, is all the more pressing.

In a wartime emergency, little industry will find it must root hog or die. small industrial establishments are to survive, they must be integrated into the defense program. Proposals to divert a percentage of scarce materials from defense purposes to little industry, so that it may be kept alive, are sure to meet short shrift now. SPAB had already refused Floyd Odium's request that 2 per cent of all critical metals be reserved for small industries which failed to receive defense contracts. Defense, the board believed, was too important to dprive it of this blanket reduction in vital materials.

Instead, the board proposed to rescue individual industries when a stoppage in production would work undue hardships on their communities. It is not inconceivable that even this stopgap may be abandoned in time of war. The only satisfactory way to keep small industry 85 oR alive is' to make it a useful part of our defense machinery. Yesterday, Senator Murray of Montana called for such a step. It has been too long delayed- The Army and Navy contract-letting board and SPAB should give this problem renewed attention.

"FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA rpiIERE -ALWAYS WAS SOMETHING about the crashing martial music and the stirring words of "The Marines' Hymn" that quickened the emotions and made a man proud lie was an American. The song begins with those proud words, "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we nght our country's battles on the land as on the and carries on with the information that "We have fought i every clime and place where We could take a gun in the snow of far-off Northern lands and in sunny tropic scenes you will find us always on the job." Yes those are bragging words, sung by swash-buckling men. But "leathernecks" are living up to them just as they always have. On the same day that the Japs raided Hawaii, they raided Wake Island, the tiny unfortified atoll lying between Hawaii and Japan, and reported that they had "smashed" it with an air attack and later made a landing. Since then, Jap aid and navy forees have made more attacks, but the "leathernecks" are still holding on.

President Roosevelt said the other day that he was proud of this small group of fighting men. So are we all. We're filled with admiration for these cocky "leathernecks" who were on the job at Wake's sunny tropic scenes" and with nothing much more than their own rifles. When it's all over, they'll be able to add a verse to their glorious hymn. Turkey as an ally is a little late, and we've already had two Thanksgivings, but a third is welcome just the same.

At m. ill and Mr. was church He Leroy as i Private Phone Exchange 706 or 707 Entered at the Postorflce of Canonsburg, Penna. as secona-ciuMa iimnci. Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association Friday, December 19 1941 'Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always he In the right; but, our country, right or wrong." DAY'S PAY FOR BONDS ONE OP THE FINEST GESTURES WE have seen in the matter of national defense, comes from Kankakee, 111., where several thousand workmen oh national defense commitments announce that they will work one extra day this week on national defense production and will give the entire day's pay-that of every man in 37 unions for national defense.

It is understood that the money will go back to the government via National Defense Bonds. Here is one group of American working men who see the picture in the light their government would like to have every Amriean see it. In the first place the money paid to them will go right back into the treasury and in the second place they will be investing in something that will bear interest both in cents and dollars and also in American patriotism. The government treasury is not drained perhaps never will be it is well able to pay the men for their hire, yet the gesture is as appreciated as it is unique. It might be a tip to many of those who have tied up governmental work by strikes the past year.

If all of the men who have been on strike this year would set one day's wages apart to buy Defense Bonds, the sales of bonds would jump and American tribute to work would rise correspondingly. OVER-BOLD DRIVING milE DEATH RATE FOR MOTOR TRAFFIC in. this. country is appalling. It is also -shameful.

In a time of ejrfgrgf ncy we are wasting our greatest resource, which is American lives. The National Safety Council reports that during the first ten months of this year our traffic deaths numbered 31,620, an increase of nearly one-sixth over the corresponding period of last year. This rate, if continued, would make a year's total of nearly 38,000 street and highway deaths. The destruction of that many people in one city or state would be regarded as an overwhelming catastrophe. But we become so used to traaffic fatalities that we pay little attention to them except when the strike close to our own homes.

And even then we have a fatalistic tendency to accept the slaughter. Kipling, noting our apparent disregard of human life a generation ago, wrote bitterly of the typical American: "His hands are red with blood; his heart leaps, like a child's, at little things." It is time we learned to be more concerned about the big things. Most of this slaughter comes from our inveterate tendency to "take chances." It was a Wise man who gave these three rules for living: bold, be bold, but be not too bold. Boldness is a virtue in an army but a fallacy on the highway. YOUNG READERS CHILDREN WERE INVITED TO THE book exhibit of the Child Study Association of New Yory recently.

The young critics ranged in age from eight to 15 years, and came from private and public schools in the metropolis- They gave good account of themselves and their reading tastes in the discussions that followed the talks. Most of them were agreed that 'career stories "made everything seem too rosy," which suggests that they would not have cared for the Alger and Renty books of a generation ago. They disliked unhappy endings, too, in which they were like a good many adults. The youngsters defended their enthusiasm for the so-called comics by saying they were entitled to a little relaxation between a day at school and an evening of homework. "Parents do light reading when they want to relax," said one boy.

A 12-year-old said he loved sea stories and had read "practically all of them." Another said he liked mystery stories but they had to be good ones, "not just bang-bang stuff without a decent thread of a story in it." Kids' tastes, apparently, are as varied as other people's. Such an event as this critical session shows that they rend more than their school texts and comics. Born in Woodrow, Cummins was for approximately five weeks lived with relatives in Washington county. He is the son of and Mrs. Craig Cummins and a member of the Episcopal of Woodville.

is survived by two sons, and Henry and a daughter, PATRONIZE THE WHO ADVERTISES Christmas Is Almost pr CHRISTMAS TOYS GALORE AT- Si SJ SJ 58 as as Don't Disappoint That Child! Make this Christmas the biggest and best ever. Shop here, where the selection is biggest and prices the lowest. toy guaranteed by Santa himself to some little girl or boy happy. Phone 906 Large Mama Dolls $2.98 Bead Craft 85c 20c up Cars and Trucks 23c up Printing Sets 23c up Children's Books 7 for 50c Model Airplanes 6 kits 50c El Jumperino 85c Lotto and Bingo 23c up Paint Sets 19c up 224 Murdock St. 323 W.

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