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PAGE FOUR THE GREENVILLE DAILY ADVOCATE, GREENVILLE, OHIO THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1942 Greenville Baily Adunrate Establishec: 1883 By W. A Browne, St W. A BROWNE, Jr. Managing Editor WALTER BROWNE NE Business Manager DAVID DEARDOURFP City Editor Publisheo every afternoon except Sunday by The Greenville Advocate Company, 309-311 Broadway. Greenville.

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Two Telephones: Business 223 Editorial 344 EDITORIALS By S. Burton Heath AIR TRANSPORT Inspired by the enormously the airplane has played in this bit -enthusiastic about Already, in a casual way, we time not far distant when family planes will be as common As family flivvers are today. We take for granted the prophecies that after the war huge aircraft will largely supplant trains on land and ships at sea in the business. of trasnporting both passengers and freight. Though probably we don't really argue that far, we envision hazily the day, soon after we have pounded the axis out of existence, when we shall fly to the unmourned funerals of the auto- effective part which war, we are getting a -war probabilities.

are talking about a Heath mobile and the railroad and the steamship. Such a dream could come true, of course. In speed, in carrying capacity, in ease of control and in fundamental safety, the' airplane has made unbelievable strides. Without doubt, 'after this war airline's passenger, express and freight businesses will be multiplied many fold. We shall have thousands of huge planes, built as bombers and transports and war freighters; plus the capacity to turn out more thousands every year.

The railroads and steamship lines will face in tense competition. Efficient plants, which have been ing fighters and trainers, undoubtedly do their best to sell us family planes in place of automobiles. But that is only one side of the picture. The men who design and manufacture planes tell us, truly, such de clopments are mechanically feasible. The men who will have to find the income to pay the expenses want to know about some other phases.

Huge bombers are built to give superspeed, to fly at extreme altitudes, regardless of the cost of construction or operation. Governments at war can't worry unduly about economy. But experts say these big planes will need a whale of a lot of revamping before anybody can use them to haul payloads in a selfsupporting business venture. Moreover, there 1s a question how much freight and how many passengers are in sufficient hurry to pay the premiums to finance air transport. As for family planes, did you ever stop to think how much more extensive terminal facilities, involving how much greater tax cost.

are required for a plane than for an automobile? Do you know how your community could finance such costly improvements. at the same time maintaining streets and highwaysfor, of course, the plane owner must have a car to travel from home to airport. None of these problems is insoluble. Some aren't even relatively difficult. The point is that such problems, and dozens more, exist and at best.

will require time for their solution, Don't sell the railroads, steamship lines and automobile manufacturers too short right away. Let's keep our shirts on. ROMANCE LINGERS ON Even in the drabness of mechanized warfare, traces of romance are not absent. To those who want to abolish wars at any price this is unfortunate. But for the soldiers a touch of old-fashioned melodrama sometimes is a lifesaver.

The Commandos have a glamor of their own which is akin--because it emphasizes individual courage and initiative--to the glory of General Mihailovitch's Serbian Chetniks. General Chennault's Flying Tigers, in the Far East, are demonstrating the superiority of democratic man over totalitarian mass. And Cossack cavalrymen, cutting Nazi parachutists to pieces with old-fashioned sabers bring back memories of the days before war became Big Business. -0 MONEY SAVER It required a terrible war to bring about the reform, but now there is talk that milk companies plan to cut out much wasteful duplication of distribution facilities. We have long felt--and been laughed out of face that the consumer cost of milk in cities could be reduced materially by such a co-operative venture.

Now we shall see. Want to bet? TAX COURAGE An old axiom of practical politics is that the polltical party that writes a new tax law is sure to lose votes and may lose control. The axiom developed out of experience. It grew from the fact that most tax laws are written to try to satisfy special groups, but satisfy any group. One group tries seldom to unload its share of tax payments on though it another, and even.

may have some success, it is never content. This fear of the consequences of a new: tax law seems to the commanding influence on the current struggle of the treasury department and congress to do their plain and inescapable duty about taxes. They know that more war money must be raised by taxation and that they must tax lower more people and people of incomes in order to raise it. They know that a general sales tax may be forced upon the country by the war demand. Yet they duck and retreat and quibble.

In this respect, Washington still tags along far behind the country. The people that congress is afraid to tax are not afraid of being taxed. If they have misgivings it is about theis congressmen. They expect their congressmen to draw a fair tax law and to accord them the credit for being willing share to promote the war effort. The to do their notion that all NEW YORK DAY BY DAY 1-: BY CHARLES B.

DRISCOLL (Title Reg. U. S. Patent Office) New York, June 4-It's no original thought with me, but I agree with the poets and seamen of many generations that, next to a beautiful woman, there is nothing more lovely than a ship. And, while a ship in a storm is a thrilling sight, and a ship in calm water in moonlight may bring tears to the eyes of one who loves the ocean, there few moments in life that give one such a choking feeling exaltation as those that are experienced when you see a ship sliding down the ways into the water, at the launching.

My wife and I were in a train, passing a certain shipyard a train, passing, a certain shipyard in New York the other day. The train had to slow down for something ahead, and, as it did so, we heard whistles blowing. Looking out the window, we saw a ship, just starting to move toward the water. She was long and lean, with beautiful lines, prow and yachtlined stern. Painted a bright Caribbean blue, her racing lines showed brilliantly in the mid-afternoon sun.

On the afterdeck stood a group of men and women, The men were in naval uniform, and the women in gay summer clothes. Flowers and bunting and banners were strung acress the well of the ship, and over all floated our flag. A band was playing "The Star Spangled Banner," and the navy men were at salute. Down the easy incline the ship moved, and we' saw her bow splash the water as her body still slid along. the land.

Lines I learned in the old Fifth Reader came to They are from Longfellow's "The She starts, she moves; she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel She floated gracefully on the water as the last strains of the anthem died and the train began to creep forward. We realized that we had, by chance, witnessed inspiring moment in history. I tried to remember other lines from Longfellows' long poem. I picked up something from near close: Thou too sail on, Ship of State! Sail on, 1 Union, strong and great! Humanity, with all its fears, And all its hopes of future years. Is hanging breathless on thy fate! Is hanging breathless on thy fate! It did seem rather timely, though it was written many years ago.

Suburban parties, which used to fiourish in the spring, are almost impossible since gas rationing hit metropolitan area. Those lucky New Yorkers who have homes tucked away in the woods in Connecticut. Long Island, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, find that their friends can't drive out for a friendly evening or weekend. Trains? Yes, but how are you to get from the station to the house? The distance is often greater than can be covered daily by the ration, and the strain of meeting guests and transporting them would ruin the whole scheme. However, my wife and I were lucky enough to guests at a final (for the period until victory) party at the unique, forest-bound home of the DunRosses, near the town of Stamford, Conn.

Mr. and Mrs. Ross saved up gasoline for a week, walking and hitchhiking and riding buses when they could be had, in order to be able to transport their New York guests from the station to the home, miles away. It was worth it all for the 14 of who gathered for a friendly evening and grand Norwegian food, but I don't know how the tired hosts about it next day. Social life in the suburbs is settling down to closer and friendlier relations with neighbors who close enough for walking.

(Released by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) POETRY FOR TODAY WAITING What wait I for, you With anxious heart, I've And think you all these Shall they be meted 'Tis many moons since, So stalwart he, my hope, For cruel war has asked And he has sailed far think there's no returning? suffered much of pain; pangs within me burning, out, but all in vain? last mine eyes beheld him, my joy, my pride; that I should give him, out. beyond the tide. I'm longing day and night for that glad tiding, When peace her flag on every breeze shall sway, But not at any price, nay-Heaven forbid it The tyrant must be crushed: God speed the day. God knows, I've done by best unheeding, To stifle, quench, these oft fast falling tears: A crushed and broken body comes back bleeding, To the home nest, there fo while away the years. And yet, ye mothers who know much of sorrows, With aching breast ye wait amid the fray, Who knows? perchance that on the morrow, Your boy--your sacrifice shall lay.

Our boys: they've lain their all upon the altar, To back them up, let's you and I be true, Let's pledge our prayers, an earnest consecration, That they may come unsullied back to you. I'm looking for one glorious returning. E'en though his body sleeps beneath the sod, For him I'll ever keep the homefire burning, He'll come to claim his mother and his God. Respectfully dedicated to the mothers who have boys defending OLD GLORY the home flag. -Robert Fansler.

Correspondents who finally got out of Italy and Germany tre not even giving their typewriters time to cool. Under the most recent black-out orders, New York's Broadway will become the Great Dark Way. the financial sacrifice in this war must be made by limited group is abborrent to the principles of democracy for which the country is fighting. There is no reason whatever, except lack of courage, why congress should not strip the appropriation bill of wasteful spending for nonessentials, adopt a tax bill that calls for some sacrifice by everyone, and trust the voters to do the right thing. 2 2 2 FLIVVER SAM The fellow hod just got back from Hollywood.

He had been dazzled by the display of glamor, and bigness in the movie colony. "Everything is done on a tremendous scale," he related to friends. "I attended dinner at movie producer's home one evening and, instead of using finger bowls at the end of the meal, all the guests took showers!" Ruth How is. your bachelor friend? Harriet When I saw him last he was mending slowly. Ruth Why, I didn't know he had been ill.

Harriet He hasn't been. He was sewing buttons on his clothes. Greenville Man And to think I mortgaged the house to send my boy to college. All he does is go out with girls, drink and smoke Friend Do you regret it? Greenville Man Sure. I should have gone myself.

No man can think beyond his vocabulary. Minister-You know. Sambo, it's. no disgrace to work for a living. Sambo- -Yassah! Dat's what Ah always tells mah wife.

POLLYANNA Ethel Do you think he will love me even more after we are married? Mabel Oh, sure. Why he's just crazy about married women, my dear. "You shouldn't curse, you shouldn't cry, If grapefruit squirts you in the eye, In fairness, now, you must admit, It's pure defense--you started it." Greenville Barber You want your hair, parted exactly in the middle, Greenville Man That's what I said, didn't Barber--Then I'll have to pull one out, sir. You have five hairs Uncle 'Epigrins' A girl with too many rings, isn't square. Yes.

sir, sometimes lover's lane ends up in clover. And hot necking will often lead to a cold shoulder. A tight game sure makes the fans break loose, A bumper crop always pushes the market down. well done steak is rare in a A restaurant. The boss never raises thunder with the chap that goes like lightning.

Collector Of Pitchers Finds Them Everywhere Shanut, Kan. (UP) Mrs. E. L. Caldwell's hobby is assuming the proportions of a white elephant.

Four years ago she began collecting pitchers. Now she has more than 700, some of which she has purchased but most of which have been gifts of her family, friends and interested persons. The collection has filled six china cabinets, several tables, a couple of book cases and now is overflowing onto the piano, mantle and window sills. And the pitchers still arfive at the Caldwell home at the rate of three a week. She has insured the collection for $1,000 but has no idea of its actual value.

What You Buy With WAR BONDS Aside from the sixty-mile an hour Mosquito Torpedo the Sub Chasers are the speedsters of our Navy. Light and fast, they are the eyes of the Fleet on the water. They displace approximately 1,500 tons and cost about $2,400,000 each, We need many of these powerful, fast little boats to cope with the treacherous submarine type of val warfare fostered by our mies. Everybody can help pay for more Sub Chasers by putting at least ten percent of his income into War Bonds. Buy Bonds or Stamps every pay day.

Buy them from your bank, your post office, or your office or factory through the Payroll Savings Plan. U. S. 4'reasury Department PETER EDSON IN WASHINGTON June 4 The heat sugar beet growers west to import 000 to. 100,000 BY PETER EDSON take off this gear's crop, and thereby hangs 8 tale of woe.

The shortage of farm labor is given as the excuse for the need of this wholesale mass migration, but the question follows naturally whether the United States would not be Edson making the same mistake it made Edson is on from the of the southanywhere from Mexican peons to in the last war if it permits a new migration of cheap Mexican labor. You'll recall what happened then. Mexican labor was import-4 ed by the tens of thousands. Then the war boom collapsed and the Mexicans were stranded. From 10 to 50 per cent were repatriatedno one knows for sure just what the figure is and the rest went on relief, giving the entire southwest a rural slum population that has been nothing short of an international scandal.

The aliens couldn't be hired by WPA, so the full relief burden fell on local and state governments. The Mexican government was angry and has stayed that way. Mexico today is therefore reluctant to permit its citizens to cross the border to take war jobs in the U.S., a position strengthened by Mexico's declaration of war on Germany. The Mexicans may decide they need all their manpower at home and refuse to permit any labor migration, which would be a good thing for all concerned. The importation of Mexican labor simply does not make sense.

A recent WPA sampling survey indicated a reserve: labor supply of 13 -million people willing to do. farm labor. There are still four million unemployed in the country. The WPA rolls have 900,000 and the law is that if anyone on WPA Is offered a job, he must take it or be dropped. STILL SCREAMING Early this year, WPA employment men went through every agricultural.

county in the country, explaining to farmers that all they had to do was make known their requirements for farm labor. That stopped the usual summer complaints that farmers couldn't get help because everyone preferred to work for WPA, but the big employ-. ers of migrant farm labor screaming. As far as the sugar beet states are concerned, WPA rolls as of May 19 were as follows: Illinois 52,000, Colorado 6200, New Mexico 6400, Idaho 2900 ond southern CalIfornia 13,000. Michigan alone seems to have solved its sugar, beet problem, by bringing in surplus labor from Texas, which has 000 on WPA.

It therefore appears that the big farm companies employing most of the migrant labor don't just want an adequate labor supply. What they want is a labor surplus so that wages can be knocked down to the old depression levels. And there is a hope that Mexican peon labor, which will work for 20 cents an hour, can be imported to (keep these wages down. The U. S.

Employment Service was recently handed a hoe when it was federalized by Presidential order and told to do something about this threatened farm labor. shortage, but it got on the job a little late. May 15 the USES therefore certified to the Immigration Service that unless some of the Japanese farm labor force could be released, it would be necessary to bring into the country to handle the sugar beet crop 3000 workers for California, 1500 for Montana and 1500 for Idaho. The buck was then passed to the new War Manpower Commission, which asked the State Department if it would not approach the Mexican government on the subject of furnishing these 6000 workers. A BIG TEST The Tolan committee of the House of Representatives, investigating national defense labor migration, has held one closed hearing on this subject of Mexican labor, the Rt.

Rev. Msgr. John O'Grady, secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Charities, making the principal statement. Monsignor O'Grady has been interested in the welfare of the three million Mexicans and Spanish-Americans of the southwest for a number of years. It is his' studied opinion that there is ample farm labor in the southwest to take off all the crops of the western states and that further immigration of Mexican, labor -is totally unnecessary.

The Tolan committee, in a preliminary report, has put this whole farm labor problem right up to the Manpower Commission and the Employment Service, recommending a complete overhauling of the federal farm labor problem immediately is the Manpower Commission's first big test. Bicycle Riders Offered Free White Paint Job Kansas City, Mo. (UP) Most of the 40,000 bicycles in Kansas City will be painted white, if citizens cooperate with the police department. In making tests police found that bicycles painted white were much safer for night use, as they could be TERRITORIAL AMBITIONS CORSICAN PST, ITALY ASK BOSS FOR TOO! Heegu HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD Hollywood The lights went on, and languid extras straightened up and began to look like night club customers having a big time. Someone started playing a piano, and on the stage a girl in a long, frothy white gown whirled into a dance.

After about a minute, Director Irving Reis called "Cut." Then he and the dancer, Lucille Ball, looked questioningly at a tall, husky man on the sidelines. "Thats' it, Irving; that's fine, Lucille," said Chester Hale. This veteran showman has put more dancers on the stage than Flo Ziegfeld, George White and Earl Carroll together. During his busiest season he had 22 panies and 32 girls each hoofing in theaters and night spots scattered over half the world. A graduate of the Ballet Russe, with Pavlowa and Nijinsky, Hale has conducted a school in New York while staging revues and, currently, the big.

"Icecapades." Yet Hollywood isn't well acquainted with Chester He could have worked out here steadily, bossing -dooper musicals, But he hasn't, In 1934 he accepted a contract but soon went back east vowing he had seen the last of meddling executives, futile extravagance and the movies' unrivaled procrastination and wild disorder. His present brief job of helping with the dancing in RKO's "The Big Street" is the result of a personal friend's persuasion, and Hale will return to Manhattan right away to whip together new ice revue. He's glad he came, though, because he has found that Hollywood and its methods have improved a lot. SPECTACLE SPECIALIST Best known as a spectacle cialist, Hale's work here has been mostly with individuals. He taught Greta Garbo.

the mazurka she danced in "Anna Karenina." Found her an apt and eager pupil--and he still shudders at the mismanagement that gave her on utterly unsuitable modern rhumba to do in her most recent picture. In "The Big Street." Lucille Ball plays a chorus girl who becomes a prominent dancer and then is crippled. Because she had no training in modern ballet, the studio planned to show her to the peak of her success in a fairly pretentious number with a flock of chorus girls. Then, between flashes of the star in action, the camera could cut to the line of cuties. A SMART SISTER "But after her first rehearsal," said Chester Hale, "I went to the front office and told 'em I was absolutely confident she could hold the spotlight all through the dance.

She's smart. I believe she's the smartest, most persistent and most utterly tireless person I've ever worked with. With a littie more confidence, she could learn to do anything." The bombing of Tokyo was just an advance sample of what all the air crews training in the United States will be able to do. -Major Gen. Robert Olds, Army Air Corps.

seen more easily by motorists. The police agreed to paint the bicycles free of charge if riders would bring them in. NEA Service, lac GIVE YOUR PARTY "OOMPH" BY INVITING GLAMOR GIRL BY RUTH MILLETT If you want husbands to attend your parties without grumbling to their wives, follow these rules: Have a stray man' to keep the women on their toes building up the men instead of banding together and turning the conservation into a "wives Vs. contest Have a pretty, unattached girl to make the men witty and eloquent. Pay more attention to the food you serve than to how your table looks.

Don't invite guests to dinner at seven if they aren't going to get near the table until nine. Don't let the women turn the conversation toward things domestic such as children, schools, the price of food, etc. Let the guests look after themselves a bit. It will keep you from being a hovering hostess, always interrupting to see if they are comfortable, or if they want this or that. HELP THE MEN TO "SHOW OFF" Laugh at the men's jokes and listen while they talk, instead of taking an opportunity while the conversation is moving along at a good to take the women in to "ooh" and "aah" over Junior, who is asleep.

Manage somehow during the evening to show off each man as an expert in some line. Don't pick on your husband if only because it will make all the other men uncomfortable. And 'let the guests leave whenever they- say, "We really should be going." They probably should. SO THEY SAY The plain people know what they want after the war. They want to be wanted; they want a chance to work and be useful.

-Milo Perkins, executive secretary of Board of Economic Warfare, The only time business men seem interested in elections is when the President is running. -Fred W. Evers, chairman of St. Louis city Republican committee, attempting to get business leaders to run for office. The only way to feed Europe 16 to get starvation out of Europe.

That starvation is spelled H-1-t1-e-r. -Dr. Daniel A. Poling, president of World's Christian Endeavor Union, In 1940, the accidental death rate of the United States was 73.2 per 100,000 of the population. THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HORATIO NELSON WOULD HAVE BEEN REJECTED BY A MODERN DRAFT WASHINGTON.

HAD FALSE TEETH, WHILE NELSON HAD. AN ARM AND AN EYE MISSING. T. M. REC.

U. S. PAT. OFF. (302 ER, WEATHER, MEN MOST FOGS DISAPPEAR BETWEEN AND 10 IN THE MORNING.

TAN ITINERANT PREACHER IS ONE WHO GOES FROM TOWN TO TOWN WANDERS OFF THE SUBJECT IS POORLY EDUCATED COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. ANSWER: One who goes from town to town..