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PAGE FOUR LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS, LOCK HAVEN, PA. THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Established Much 1. 1882 Published every eveninf except Sunday, the Saturday issue being published at noon, it The Express Building, 9 W. Main St, Lock Haven, by The Lock Haven Express Printing Company. FRANK D.

O'REILLY FRANK D. O'REILLY, JR Viee-Prasident i REBECCA T. GROSS Secretary-Treasurer Managing Editor TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION By per week. By Fennaylvinla per month. 12.20 for three mqctha.

14.26 (or els 18.50 per year. Fenaiylvanla. ae fer the Rocky Moun- 8Se per month. three months. $4.75 for ilx monthi.

19.Ii per year. Entered Lock Haven. Poatofflce as Second Clau Mall Matter. Member ol The Associated Prew Audit Bureau of Circulations Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association American Newspaper Publishers Association The ABC IB a national organization which furnishes newapapen and advertisers with a strictly honest and verified analyala of circulation. Our circulation statistics are based upon their audit This Insuren protection against fraud In newspaper distribution figures to both national and local NATIONAL ADVERTISING Fred Kimball, Representative Th Haven Express assumes no financial responsibility for errors which may appear In advertisements published in Its columns, but tn cases where the paper Is at fault.

It will reprint that part of an adver- ment In which the typographical mistake occurred. WE SHOULD GROW UP MENTALLY AND MORALLY. 'PUT AWAY CHILDISH ATTITUDES AND LAY HOLD OF THE GREAT REALITIES THAT ARE ETERNAL: Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy 119: 37. Stamps The lowly adhesive stamp is going to become an important factor in everyone's life before long. Already the word, stamp, does not mean merely the postage stamp which ferries love-letters, bills, press-agent masterpieces and picture postcards to their destination.

It means defense stamps to help win the war, it includes automobile tax stamps to show federal permission for you to operate your jalopy on the highways, before long it will also cover stamps to allow you to sprinkle sugar on your breakfast cereal. News that food stamps will also be introduced into Clinton County in the near future, as part of a statewide extension of the. food stamp, plan which already has been followed' in a good many counties of the commonwealth, puts another extension on the specific meanings that are being stowed oh the general term, stamp. The stamp, of course, is merely a convenient mechanism for carrying out ideas which must be applied over a wide area with promptness and fairness to everyone, as well as convenience and simplicity. For rationing, tax paying, and postage, the adhesive stamp has long served as the most" effective method for handling the collection of small sums and the application of legal controls on the simple, everyday activities of life.

Use of the stamp in the food distribution machinery has proved to be valuable in more ways than one. Two objectives accomplished by the food stamp plan as it was worked out elsewhere. One was to avoid waste of surplus food stocks which could not be sold at, the market rate, and other was to place necessary nutritional supplies in the hands of people who would not buy them, because of poverty, ignorance of nutritional facts or habitual food prejudices. Now that the -war has introduced a new element, through the campaign to increase food production, the food stamp maybe- come one of the most valuable of the new stamps brought into our routine of living by the defense crisis. We must have great food production and it is inevitable that we shall have too much of some things.

The farmers and gardeners must be protected against the price-collapse that goes with a temporary over-supply. too, it becomes more necessary than ever that our people should be well fed and healthy, in spite of work-dislocations and hardships caused by an economic system in the throes of readjustment. We should welcome the -food stamp into our community as a useful and effective little agency for solving a problem that may grow more serious here and through the nation at large, as the war progresses. More Merry-Go-Round la UM put it has been the definite policy of teme Pan American countries to be just a bit anti-United States because they figured the State Department would then go out of its way to appease them. Thus, when they wanted an Export-Import Bank Loan or some tariff preference, Latin Americans sometimes found it paid to uncork a stiff editorial blast at the U.

S. A. Then the State Department would step in, and, in effect, buy them off. It is doubtful if the Argentine government deliberately played such strategy at the Rio conference, but the effect seemed almost the same. They have got various concessions in the past, while opposing the U.

S. A. Knowing this, Foreign Minister Aranha of Brazil took Undersecretary Sumner Welles aside during the period when Argentine was so vigorously kicking over the traces against breaking diplomatic relations with the Axis. "I suppose when all this is over," said blunt spoken Aranha to soft spoken Welles, "the United States will try to win over Argentina by giving her destroyers and more military at the expense of your good friend Brazil." "Excellency," replied Welles, "even if we wanted to appease Argentina, we couldn't. The tide of newspaper opinion in the United States has been so critical of Argentina's "isolationist position, that it would not stand for Note: This, while true, is unfortunate.

It has been the inability of the U. S. A. to buy much Argentine goods in the past, plus the anti- Argentine speeches of our cow-senators, which had a lot to do with Argentina's isolationist stand at Rio de Janeko. By PEARSON And ALLEN Washington Merry-Go-Round U.

S. Determination To Help Those Who Help Her Shown In Rio Conference THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1941 RIO DE JANEIRO It was 2 o'clock in the morning. The Pan American Conference was winding up its last tough day. The Foreign Ministers of the Western Hemisphere had -knocked the heads of Peru and Ecuador together until at long last they promised to settle their century-old boundary dispute, thus ending aggression in the Americas. Moonlight played on the palm trees outside.

White swans glided in the ancient reflecting pool of the Foreign Office. But Pan American diplomats, dog-tired, cared naught about moon swans or palm as they waited for the translators to whip the Peruvian-Ecuadorian treaty into Spanish, English and Portugese. Only -man still exuding vivaciousness was Brazil's indefatigable Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha. While waiting, he expounded to his colleagues on the evils of Hitler. "Hitler," said Aranha, "has started two things which he will live to regret.

One is his persecution of the Jews. That will come back to haunt German, for years. "The other is forcing the United States to become a great military nation. Before Hitler, the United States was one of the least militaristic countries in the world. It did not want to arm.

But now that it is armed, its people will not permit it to be caught napping again. So it will suffer all the evils of militarism." "But, Dr. Aranha," interrupted Sumner Welles with a twinkle in his eye, "Brazil will suffer from the same evils; for all that we have in the way of military supplies Brazil will have also. We intend to send you tanks, airplanes, artillery until we have made you the strongest nation in Sputh America." "That interrupted Argentina's Foreign Minister Ruiz Ginazu, who had refused to break relations with the Axis, "has all the earmarks of a dig at the Argentine Foreign Minister." Replied Welles: "Yes, it certainly was, Mr. Foreign Minister." ARGENTINA VS.

BRAZIL Thus, vividly, was illustrated the most important thing that developed behind the scenes at Rio de determination of the United States to help those who help her. And because Brazil battled every minute for American policy at Rio, another important result of the conference was that in the century- old see-saw between Brazil and Argentina Brazil definitely took the lead in Pan American power politics. On the surface, Argentina, once the recognized leader of Latin-America, forced the Rio conference to "recommend" instead ot "decreeing" a break in Axis relations. But behind the scenes, Argentina suffered a defeat from which it will not soon recover. VTVA MEXICO! Cleverest strategy to shove Argentina into the background was evolved by Brazil's Aranha when he actually made Foreign Minister Padilla of Mexico the hero of the conference.

Aranha knew the traditional rivalry between Mexico and Argentina for the Spanish-speaking leadership of the Western Hemisphere. Located at opposite ends of the continent, both consider themselves dominant among Spanish- Americans. So "of a non-Spanish, Portuguese speaking, country, planted'a claque in the galleries which, on the first day cheered Mexico's Padilla to the skies, Brazilian newspapers did rest, untii Padillo, with his demands that all nations cut their Axis ties immediately, became the most famous personage in Rio. Then, at the last session of the conference after all the set speeches were concluded, suddenly the galleries shouted: "We want Mexico!" And they kept it up untii Foreign Minister Padilla went to the There, he delivered the most eloquent speech of the entire conference, pointing his finger at the Argentine and Chilean delegates and calling upon them to break with the Axis. It was beautiful prepared well in Mexico was cheered to the echo.

The entire conference rose and applauded. But Argentine Foreign Minister Ruiz Ginazu slumped in his seat; his hands clenched, not clapping. Among the Spanish speaking countries, Mexico had stolen the show from Argentina. And in hemisphere politics, Portuguese-speaking Brazil had taken a long lead over its traditional rival. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS-BY JOHN HIX OP ILU, KEPT A PAIUV PIARV FOR.

AND A RECdrtp OP EACH HE- FOR 35 MEAVVWElGiUT, Twe want GI sv FIREFLIES IMILAR TO THE- X-EAV, AND WILL EEKIPER. CERTA1M OPAQ.UB- Ctrt. 194! by L'nlUrf Symlitale, 1 tm. V. S.

Ateka Defense Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts ornbined add up to only 21,325 -niies! Due for the Book In the Fall of 1890 Frank Willey, len 13. saw a storekeeper writing in a book and learned the man was keeping a daily diary. Inspired to do the same, Willey has jotted down day to day events ever since, including not only personal experiences but local and world affairs. He now uses back copies of his diary to settle arguments among his friends. A few years after starting his diary he began to keep a complete record of his farm business and, since abou 1906, a record of all sheep raised by him! YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX Computation of Tax on Individuals The normal tax and the surtax individuals for 1941 are com- uled on their normal tax net in- ome and surtax net income, re- DccUvely.

The following example will how how to compute the normal ax and surtax on a net income of 8,500. all of which represents arned net income, the taxpayer eing single and without dependnts: et income $8,500 00 ess personal exemption 750 00 Balance (surtax net income 7.750 00 arned income 850 00 DON'T PEEVE REUTHER WASHINGTON Ernest Kanzler, brother- in-law of Edsel Ford and chief of the automotive division of the War Production Board, has obtained some interesting lowdown on who's who in the war production setup. Kanzler's job is to speed up the conversion of the auto industry to full war production. Conferring with War Production Chief Donald Nelson, complained of "meddling" by Ferdinand Eberstadt, civilian chairman of the Army-Navy Munitions Board. The Army-Navy Munitions Board, composed of military brass-hats, was a key agency in the old defense organization.

Jealous of their bureaucratic perogatives, the brasshats now are endeavoring to continue as big shots. Thus Eberstadt and Kanzler have crossed swords several times. This was Nelson's significant advice to "Don't worry about Eberstadt. We can handle him. If you make him mad it won't matter.

What you want (o watch is not to get Walter Reuther mad. If you make him mad then we will be in hot water and you'll be in trouble with me." Note: Two-fisted young vice president of the United Auto Workers, Reuther is highly regarded as a crack industrial expert by Nelson and Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson After former OPM Director General Knudsen had repeatedly disregarded proposals by Reuther for increasing war production in the auto industry, Patterson went over Knudsen's head and appointed Reuther as his personal representative to make a survey of several auto plants preparatory to converting them to armament production. KANZLER TAKES HINT Kanzler lost no time in taking his boss' hint A few hours later he started action on one of Reuthcr's chief proposals. Kanzler sent telegrams to all auto, truck and parts manufacturers ordering them to submit by Feb. 5 a list of machine tools in their possession, plus information on what these tools are being used for and the amount of war goods the plants are now making.

Reuther long urged the compilation of such data as a preliminary step for pooling the machine tools of the auto industry for greater war output. He was vigorously opposed by C. E. Wilson, head of General Motors, who fought tool pooling with the backing of Knudsen. Kanzler's move is the first attempt to ascertain exactly the tool resources of the auto-makers.

Net income subject to normal tax 6,900 00 Surtax upon the surtax net income of 56,000 560 0( Surtax at 17 percent upon amount of surtax net income in excess of 56.000 but not over S8.000, 17 per cent on 51,750 297 50 Total surtax 857 50 Normal tax, 4 per cent on $6.900 276 00 Total normal tax and surtax 1,133 50 Taxpayers are urged to read carefully and understandingly all the instructions accompanying the income-tax forms before their returns. If they need any help they can get it without cost by consulting the nearest collector of internal revenue, deputy collector, agent or internal revenue Manville Engaged NEW YORK, for the record: Tommy Manville announced last night his engagement to blonde Madge Lowe, 23. of Toronto, and saic the marriage would take place April 48th birthday would be 95 entire days after the madcap millionaire's fifth marriage, to Bonita Edwards, and 78 whole days after his fifth divorce. Double Italian Germans Eating Well, Better Than Rest Of Europe BERN, SWITZERLAND, Announcement of German food allowances for the period Feb. 8 to March 9 showed that the Germans still are maintaining a wartime diet more than twice that of some Nazi-occupied territory and al- Tiost double the Italian rations.

German rations of such staples as bread, flour, meat and sugar are not changed by the orders, while a few other items, including Dtitter, cheese and eggs, ai increased slightly. During th month Germans will be allowe 62'j grams (2.2 ounces) of butte and the same amount of very little, yet an improvcmen nver their January allowance. They will get two eggs each compared to none at all in the pa month. These increases are due to con tinued imports from the occupiet countries, which must deliver cer tain amounts to the reich regardles of their own needs. Travelers re turning from France report tha German purchasing commissioner both in the occupied and unoccu pied zones are buying food at mucl higher prices than the French can afford to pay.

A good harvest year also has en ablcd Germany to export wheat Finland. But while she still has ample grain to feed he own people and those fighting will her. increasing demands are being made on the occupied countries to keep the Nazi reserves fron diminishing. Temperatures And River Stages For The Month Temperature Precipi- Rivet Max. Min.

tation Stage January 26 7 Below 8.4. (River frozen over) 7 15 below 2 below 12 1 below 10 11 12 12 20 4 5 WPA To Expand For War Upsets HARH1SBURG, Preparing for possible widespread unemploy- ncnt following on the heels of industrial dislocations caused by the war, the WPA in Pennsylvania setting up a Lock Haven Sketches reservoir of job; 1 "Nun- OHCC more, fellows. What I'm truing to get is iinrnwiiij like Norm Small; Stick mid Dale Martin get at the Play makers!" 12 15 12 20 19 24 37 38 45 36 30 31 40 44 41 36 42 52 54 41 36 40 32 32 27 27 35 31 32 33 31 Traces of snow .03 snow 3.00 7.6 7.60 7.5: 8.3 8.4 8.4 8.3 8.4 8.39 8.30 8.10 8.10 8.1 8.60 8.89 8.D 9.00 8.9: 8.8; 8.79 8.72 38 33 33 February One inch snow 14 8.56 14 8.38 18 i- 8.11 28 .31 8.51 (Rain and sleet 16 8.49 4 8.37 16 8.07 15 .34 7.90 (4.05 in. snow) These readings ire taken each morning at 7 o'clock by Weatherman W. R.

Kelley and indicate the report for the 24 hours preceding that time. 38 32 28 27 29 for "two 6r three times the number of persons now on the rolls." Col. O. K. Yeager, acting state administrator of the Works Projects Administration, said surveys are being made tck--provide projects.

"If a large number of persons aecome unemployed and Congress sees fit to appropriate sufficient money to provide projects, there no doubt we could take care ol wo or three times the number of persons now on the rolls," Yeager said. The state are down to a low of 63,400 at present. HOW TO LIVE FOR LESS Heatinr System AT Feature Service Stoke your furnace to cut down bills by making a good fire, it well and not shaking too often. (Once or twice a day enough to dislodge the ash.) To rim the cost of replacing parts, onsult your local furnace man an care of equipment. To keep rom "heating all outdoors" veatherstrip your windows with materials you can get at the five nd ten cent store; stop up holes ar chinks in the roof and outside vails.

Warm air rises and will scape through chinks in a roof vhich is rainproof and every bit heat that escapes costs youi money. Shoe Leather Replaces Rubber Leg Power For Gdsoline And Steam During War Crisis CHICAGO, (f) Shoe leather will have to take the place of rubber to a considerable extent, amid the nation's wartime transportation emergency, Joseph B. Eastman director of defense transportation! declares. "The civilian population will find it necessary to substitute leg power, afoot or on bicycles, for much gas power," he said in an address prepared for the national transit industry's war emergency conference. Eastman said such steps as the following would have to be taken to relieve the local transportation difficulties: Travel for mere pleasure or sight seeing and the insatiable appetite of the public for all manner of conventions must bo curbed.

Staggered hours for industrial, and educational purposes relieve the morning evening peaks, especially in large cities. Some school buses buld be used for defense plant transportation if school hours did ot coincide: with industrial New buses must be constructec with simplified, standardized deign and planned for carriage maximum loads, "even if it adds leayily to the number of strap- bangers." Referring to the fact the gov- rnment deemed it necessary in the First World War to take over nd operate the railroads, Eastman aid: "Because the carriers have thus ar done so well, such action has ot yet been deemed necessary in he present World War." 20 Years- Ago I Cardinal Ratti Named New Pope; To Be Pius XI ocial Security Wage Records Not Available or Several Months Prompted by many requests for omplete 1941 wage records for ncome tax reporting purposes, Veiland J. Michael, manager of le Williamsport office of the ocial Security Board, announced lat the board's records for all of he past year will not be avail- ale for several months. "The wage reports for the last uarter of -1941 were not ue until Jan. 31.

It will equire several months for col- ctors of internal revenue to udit these reports and reconcile iem with tax (remittances; Then ley will be (urned- to the ocial Security Board. With O.OOO.OOO.persons receiving wages covered employment, it re- uires several months for the oard to post the wages to each mployee's individual ledger ac- ount." At the same time, the board's lanager urged workers of the irilliamsport area to continue sking for a statement of their umulative wage records at least nee a year, and to report any rrors to him for correction. The United States Navy was the rst in the world to experiment ith flying fields. Submarines can stay at sea as ng and travel as far as battle- lips. Cardinal Achille Ratti, archbishop of Milan, was elected pope in succession to the late Benedict XV.

He will take the name of Pius XI. Twin girls were born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins, living near Swissdale, making the third set of twins in this family, two sets of which were born withir- year. Mr.

and Mrs. Walking lave 11 children, Paul Benson has scariet fever. rle is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Nelson P.

Benson. There are 56 patients in tht Lock Haven Hospital, a larger number than for some time past Miss Eva- Pearl Henderson of his city, teacher in the Henow" Junior High School, was enter." ained at a birthday party. Typewriting awards were pre- ented to a number of students at he Lock Haven High School. vere Abe. Golumbic, Jeanette Un- ierwood, Roberta Seltzer, Harriet iVhite, Lloyd.

Blanche Smart, Eleanor Widmann, Venita Kyler, Earl Ritter, Laura Elliott, Ellen Englert, Meriam Brown Clair Wentz, Velma Nichols ant Grace Ridge. FORTY TEARS AGO Joseph Candor died suddenly at his home, 232 W. Church St. He is survived by his wife, three sontl Austin, Howard three daughters, and Florence. and John, and Helen, Martha Mrs.

Annie Herr, wife of George W. Here of Salona, died at the at'- of 54. The senior class of the Lock Haven High School enjoyed sleigh ride to Jersey Shore. The waterback of a range in the kitchen at the home of N. D.

Hamlin on S. High exploded thil morning, blowing the to pieces. Charles S. Harris, agent for thU- Adams Express Company at Ht- lovo, has been transferred to Oil City, He is the son of Alderman J. Harris of this city.

Davis Willing To Accept Nomination HARRISBURG, S. Senator James J. Davis says he'll accept the Republican nominatio, for goverrfb'r, if it is tendered him. In response to a direct query by Thomas A. Stephenson of Altoona.

president of the Pennsylvania Home Rule Association, the convention of second class ship supervisors in Easton day, Davis asserted ht "would consider it an honor to accept" the nomination. BIRTHDAY CLUB James Alvin Carif, I Harry Maraud Kunti, CM- tanea, John Stuart Romif, 11 Richard Barnard, 12 Harvey Allan Herman, Mill Hall, 15 CROSSWORD PUZZLE icmon aptttlul vomu Wllloir trie Itont on trttir -Wlsteup IN5WZE TO rimors rczzti IfinUlititf Cmtiker ItilliDUkt 1-Act Wrap T.1«t AdultlantVto Wlli-llkt part lMnlai ompaia point ooth nwhctl Bout iron mtdlum Eitst 41-DMilt ExclamatloB oi duiust Adara'a tardra Uan'a Bfeknama Tlnr lattet Cbllltd HKO of Trafalgar eonBttllatlon Imlwli W-Gruk lettir App Into Tall trail By mtana ef card It-Chrlitmti eanli Comb, fom: aar ChdOli Sun cod Llibt bruihlnia BMiold Il-Vowri Gtraal tltr Boakln ppaalacT lartr.l Lock ot hull I3-8H (till pan OD macblEo (Latin) Toward Wlnt neanin Public notlea Lone am Deitrttd plpt cannvctlou Material rattil (atbr.l Rflifffouf vofflaa 99 concarnlni 8.