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The Gazette and Daily, York', Wednesday Morning, February 10, 1943 The Washington Merry-Go-Round News of the Past (By Drew Pearson) (Major Robert S. Allen on actlv duty) The Gazette and Daily Published da.1v except Sunday at 31-35 E. Kina York, by YORK GAZETTE CO. Allen C. Wiest.

President; S. A. Geiselman, Secretary; W. Gitt. Editor and Treaurcr; Charles Gitt.

Assistant Editor; Bernard Elsesser, Managing Editor. The Window Seat By D. Jarnieson AROUND THE TOWN Opinions expressed In this column are those ot the writer and may or may pot reflect the policy ot the newspaper. Eu. Unrest Seethes In California Camp For Japanese Evacuees; Axis-Minded Factions Try To Intimidate Those Loyal To Us; Experimental Beer Cans Plated With Silver Instead Of Tin; Utah Army Fort "Induces" Beavers To Solve Water Problem.

steel is the principal factor in making cans, and none can be spared during the war. Meanwhile, there's great demand for industrial use of silver for war purposes. Radio coils, contact points, brazing alloys, recoil mechanisms there are dozens of vital uses for silver. But stocks of silver are still held Washington, Feb. 10 Not all of the recurrent troubles with interned Japs in Western camps have leaked into the newspapers.

One hot spot has been the Tule Lake camp in Northern California, where there was a near riot several months ago. Jap evacuees, put to work on nearby truck farms, went on strike and threatened bodily harm to any of their comrades who did not join in the walk- m-the-manger obstruction of the "silver sen-out, ators." To prevent possible bloodshed, the War Re- Senator Green of Rhode Island has a bill location Authority told the evacuees that they before Congress to release U. S. silver stocks could return to camp and pick other jobs for for war purposes. He believes growing public their $16-a-month wage plus food and housing, demand will force the silver bloc to retreat.

idle by the Government because of the dog- ARMY INGENUITY Some wondrous tales have been told about the ingenuity of our Army, but the story of how a water shortage was averted at Fort Douglas, Utah, tops anything on the home front and not even the War Department has been let in on the secret. Fort Douglas, located in high, arid country, depends on a reservoir in Red Butte Canyon for its water. Recently the reservoir had receded to a point where a diversion job had to be done, and done quickly. However, an Army engineer sent from Washington refused to approve the project. The engineer took one look at a sprinkling system in operation on a small golf course and decided that if there was water for this, the fort was not in danger.

Other officers argued in vain that the golf course served as a fire break and would dry up unless constantly sprinkled. The engineer took the next train back to Washington, convinced that a diversion job wasn't needed, despite a last-minute frantic plea by the fort's commanding officer that "we'll have to double our water supply or move." It looked for a while as if the c. worst fears might be realized, but then one of his assistants got a bright idea. "There's a law in Utah against hunting beavers," he said. "But the law doesn't say anything about transplanting the beavers." The commanding officer took the tip.

A number of beavers were rounded up and dropped at strategic points in canyon streams, near the reservoir. Now Fort Douglas has no water problem, But what the War Department hasn't been told is that beaver dams provided the solu- tion. Furthermore, you won't get anything but a vacant stare out of officers at the fort if you ask them how those beavers got where they are. MERRY-GO-ROUND Under Secretary of War Patterson is so busy he has to send a messenger out to buy his shce laces Jeeps which have been delivered to Mexico from the United States have earned the nickname "las cucarachas" (the cockroaches) Even Secretary Stim-son struggles over place names on the Russian front. He has a hard time with Rzhev and Voronezh.

(Copyright 1943, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) thank you sincerely for your newspaper. Sincerely yours, PVT. RAY F. JONES, 3349325, Co. A.

F. R. T. Ft. Knox, U.

S. Army. ENJOYS THE PATER Editor The Gazette and Daily: I take this means of thanking tiie staff of The Gazette and Daily for sending me the paper, which I enjoy very much. We boys away from home really do appreciate your fine cooperation in keeping us informed of the news of good old York county. Again I thank you all, and wish you all success during the coming yeaf.

Verv truly yours. PVT. WILBUR EATON. 69th Medical Co. Camp Maxey, Texas.

Tiiivus t-u vno pinrn Editor Jhf Qazcne tnd DaiIy; As a reaJer the York Gazette anf Daiiy before entering the Navy, I wish to let you khow ana receiving your paper every uay and appreciate it very much by your sending my home town's news to me. Yours truly, ROBERT K. NOSS, CM3.C, Division No. 5, Destroyer Base, San Diego, California. SAYS SPANISH WAR VETERAN'S ARE FORGOTTEN Editor The Gazette and Daily: I read an article in The York Gazette and Daily concerning the different holidays.

I just want to remind you and the reporter that inserted that article about the different holidays in February and the holidays he mentioned are all O. K. The one that I have reference to is no national holiday, but you will remember that he could have said or mentioned a little about it. The one that I arn referring to is the 15th of February, 1898. I think you are old enough to remem ber it, that on the 15th of February the U.

S. Maine was sunk in the Havana harbor 9:40 p. m. and 268 men and officers paid with their lives. The men that served in the Spanish-American war are never given any publicity at all.

They arc all forgotten, like old piece of wood. You must remember that the Spanish-American War veterans are the senior soldier organization, since the Civil War veterans all passed on. And remember this, that every man that served in the Spanish-American war was a volunteer, and the only army that volunteered 100. The only soldier that is recognized now the veteran of World War or the soldier War II. The Spanish-American War Floods were reported in many parts of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.

With warmer weather throughout the Fifty Years Ago East more high water threatened. Railroad tracks were so completely inundated, train passage was impossible. Considerable damage was already reported and more expected. The West Market street bridge was pronounced inadequate to the traffic loads it was expected to bear. The eastern manager of a bridge company was the expert who gave that report.

The commissioners were unable to arrive at a decision regarding action. Philip Small, formerly with P. A. and S. Small company, purchased the grocery store of Fred Kleffman, 211 South George street, where he planned to conduct a grocery business.

H. W. Land, general agent of the Merto-politan Life Insurance company here, was promoted to assistant superintendent. Military activity in the major theatres of the war continued to increase, daily, according to reports from the fronts. Twenty-Five Years Ago Organization of labor is indispensable as a substitute for the personal relationship between employer and empoye, and the government should recognize such a principle as part of its natural labor policy, according to the report of President Wilson's special mediation commission.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who underwent two operations at a New York hospital, was improving steadily and his physicians believed his recovery only a matter of time. State Highway Commissiot.er J. D. O'Neill told York county farmers attending the Farmeis' Institute at Red Lion that his department stood ready to assist them in building good roads in York county.

A terrific wind storm Fifteen mowed a path of havoc in the Los Angeles region of Years Ago Southern California and then departed almost as quickly as it came. The gale tore off the dome of Mt. Lowe observatory, near Pasedena, and and cracked its huge telescope in two. The capture and execution of thirty rebels near Salamaneo was reported in press dispatches. The capture was made by federal troops in pursuit of the band of 200 which had attacked Salamansa.

Robert Lewis assumed his duties as editir-in-chief of the York High Weekly following the graduation of Charles Snyder. veteran went through the same hardship as the present soldier has to go trough. I served 28 months in the Philippine Islands. The Spanish-American War veterans did not get the pay that World War or World War II get, and we didn't get the food and the clothing and all the other good things they are receiving from Uncle Sam today. The Spanish war veteran received $13 per month in the United States and $15.60 per month on foreign soil, so if you don't mind kindly give the Spanish twar veteran som publicity in the future.

Respectfully yours, WILLIAM F. SEIFERT, 335 S. Pine Street, York, Pa. Past Commander of Col. Edwin B.

Watts' Camp No. 68, York, Pa. STATIONED AT CAMP ADAIR Editor The Gazette and Daily: I am sorry for the delay in writing to you and thanking you for the service your paper is doing for the boys in the service, and especially the good it does for me. It sure is swell to be able to read the paper and see what is going on back in York. when you are so far away from home.

The information about my friends in the service and where they are stationed as well as the sports page and the comics which I follow very closely. I sure was surprised to read in the paper and see so many fellows stationed at Camp Adair, which happens to be the camp I am now stationed at. I am a member of the 414th Infantry, Company of Camp Adair. I want to again thank the party or the staff of The Gazette and Daily for the service you give me and the other boys in thp service by sending us boys copies of The Gazette and Daily and hop? you keep up the good work as it boosts the morale of the boys to read the news of the happenings back home. Yours trulv.

PVT. WILBUR H. HOOVER. APPROVES HAINES TRIP Editor The Gazette and Daily: In answering the letter from the "Static Philosopher" about Haines using that little bit of gas to get the last toll ticket to cross the Wrightsville bridge, there is nothing wrong with that, there is no gas shortagge there is plenty of gas the only thing is that we are not to use it; they want you to feel the effect of the brought on war. You know over two months ago you drive or I must drive 18 miles to get my book of stamps.

I use more than one stamp to get the rest of the stamps. Yes, it's only a racket. Yes--to let the railroads make a cleaning up, and they are doing that right now. How do you housewives like to slice your own bread? Did you have to get a knife at the store, too, to cut yvur bread? Well, you will have to soon use some more gas to go to the rationing board for some more coupons to get a can of baked beans. Now look at the law the money men want to collect the income tax.

Pay-as-you-go; drop the '42 tax. Sure, in '42 they received several hundred thousand dollars, now they receive not more than the little bit of 25,000 dollars They do not want to pay their taxes for the last year's big salary out of this year's 525,000 do you see it But the old saying is, "You get what you ask for." "DISGUSTED." It is accepted by most authorities that deer came to this continent by way of a land bridge from Asia to Alaska. thoughts approach beauty; a place not only of learning, but of happiness and laughter, a shining spot in their drab existence. Wonderful visions of future picnics in the meadows surrounding the school; of classes taught outdoors in the sunshine with the warm smells and sounds of the summer life around them; of nature study in the woods, passed through my mind. My eagerness to help them must their work.

my oui-sireiineu nanus in turiu-dence and I led them into the rcom, no longer a foreboding and terrifying challenge, but a place which would be a fairyland to many children. Boston Post. i Member of Thb Associated Press The Associated Press exclusively entitled to the use for publication of any newi dispatchei credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper, and also trie local news published herein. Subscription Ratfs By City a. id Surburban Carriers Per Week We Vearly.

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Wfitncsday, Ffbniary 10, 194:1. NOW IS THE TIME Not for many more than one hundred years have the Germans suffered military defeat like that now being administered to them by the Russians. In the last world war they quit in time to avoid anything similar Napoleon Bonaparte's armies last gave them a real beating. Since that time the Germans have either won speedy decisive victories or quit before they suffered great losses. It remains to be seen how they will react to what has been happening to them for the past two months and rr.ore.

It certainly docs not fit into any plan they worked out foi their Russian campaign and without a plan to fall back on it is altogether likely they will be confused and disorganized to a very considerable extent. We have no right, any of us of the United Nations, however, to assume that the Germans will not be able to take their defeats. The only safe theory upon which we can proceed is to assume that they can take it and will continue to fight to the last man who is willing to die for Hitler and his gang or the German militarists, who are just as responsible for the present European upheaval as arc the Nan's themselves. We must all of us continue to fight to the very best of our ability so that the end may come just as quickly as possible. Any little let up on the part of any.

of us enures to the Nazis-advantage. Indeed if we arc wise we will throw a lot more into the fray than we have heretofore. We will find some way of establishing another front against the Germans so that they will be utterly unable to bolster their defenses against the Russians and the road to Berlin can be appreciably shortened. Now is the time for us to strike and to strike hard. The opening has presented itself.

If we pass it up this time it is possible that the Germans may be able to reorganize their defenses and escape defeat for a considerable time. Right now the Germans are groggy. They arc more or less in the same situation in which a prize fighter finds himself when he is partly "out" on his feet and his only chance is to hang on until the bell rings and he gets a breathing spell. If his opponent is wise he will close in and dispose of him before he gets a chance to rest. If we will close in on the Germans and keep them too busy to get a chance to get their breath, the Russians may well be able to deliver the knockout blow.

Indeed they may be able to do so without much help from us. But then again they may not and if we exercise ordinary common sense we will not take that chance. Now is the time to do our bit. Goodness knows we have waited long Remember all this is not to help Russia. It is to help ourselves.

The Russians are doing well by themselves, although of course it will be much easier for them if we can hit the common foe from the other end, but after all the defeat of Hitler and his gang is just as important to the other United Nations as it is to Russia and when we attack the Germans we arc certainly doing it for our own sake Sooner or later the right moment to distract the Germans attention from the Russian front was bound to come, assuming that Russia did the wholly unexpected of holding out against the Germans. Russia did far more. She not only held out, she began a real counter offensive which has already netted her greater military victories than have been won over the Germans since the early eighteen hundreds. The Russians have the Germans much on the run something that the most optimistic of us hardly even hoped for when the Germans attacked the Russians in the summer of nineteen hundred forty-one. Now is the time to cash in on the unexpected Russian strength.

Now is the time to make the most of the "miracle" which has happened. The time may never be so auspicious again. We are going to defeat the Germans of course, but the price that we must pay cannot but be higher if we give them a chance to reorganize their disrupted armies. There will be plenty of persons who will have plenty of good reasons why it cannot be done. There are always such persons and guch reasons.

It is always easier to End reasons why something cannot be done than to find reasons why it can be done. What we arc in dire need of now, we British and Americans, is someone who can find a way to do the thing that so badly needs to be done, someone who will do what a Russian General is said to have done sometime ago, when he declared that the thing looks impossible but for that very reason it must be done. And he did it. There are a lot of soldiers in Britain waiting for action. Somehow or other they mut be given the opportunity to see action soon if we are to take advantage of the situation We have no right to stand by and wish the Russians success.

We dare not injure our cause to that extent. Ways and means can be found if the spirit is here. Now isihe time to strike. How is the job of those in command. Let them find a way.

It is their rcpoiuib hty. If they are not equal to it we should find someone who it and promptly. WASHINGTON, D. Feb. 9 To My Million and More Readers and Friends: HORSE MEAT.

As I came home on the street car for supper tonight, we passed the one store that put horse meat on sale here. Such meat sale started just this morning. I revolted. What, eating man's most Useful animal friend, faithful, patient! It connot be, for me, unless to save life. Thought of my boyhood ponies Camanche and Nellie.

I loved them. Instead of eating them, would have gone hungry to feed them. No, even in war, we must not lose those finest sentiments that are the best of us. We are men, aren't we, not cannibals RUBBING THE FUR. Senator Prentiss Brown, who took Leon Henderson's place as price boss, is getting on a lot smoother with the public than Leon.

Three reasons: (1) When Leon went in, people didn't think the place as annoying for the public as it really was. So they yelled. (2) When the Senator went in, people thought the place was much tougher than it really is. So they are more sympathetic. (3) The Senator rubs the fur the right way.

And what a difference this makes! Traffic Officer (stopping car with lady at the wheel): "Say, Where's the fire?" Lady Driver (smiling): "In your eyes, you great big gorgeous patrolman." CZECH STAR. For some time past a skating carnival has been going on here. What those youngsters can do on skates is beyond belief. The star of the group is an attractive 22-year-old Czech girl, Vera Hruba. She has recently taken out her first papers, to become a citizen with us, and she is about the proudest girl in the 'country.

As I have said before, these Czechs are a wonderful people what they do, they do well, and how they love their freedom. What a glorious day it will be when they can have their country and their own government restored to them. No wonder those overrun peoples love us aren't we fighting for their freedom, all of them? rpOWNSEND PLAN. Here's something that keeps bobbing up right along. Congressman Pat Cannon, Democrat of Florida, introduced it in the House again yesterday, to replace Social Security.

It provides for a 3 per cent tax on salaries, wages, business and corporate incomes. This would be distributed, pro rata, to those over 60, after expenses are taken out. It is estimated each person would get from 60 to $70 a month under the plan. Something attractive about this scheme, whether "experts" say it is sound or not. Nothing sadder in life than to see age and want both overtake men and women.

I don't believe it has a chance to pass this session. I'm making a mistake to say this, for now I'll get hopped onto from all parts of the country. But it's what I honestly think, hoppin' or no hoppin'. BAD OFF This Townsend plan has been knocked down and run over so much that it's like the butcher's boy who had been hit by an auto as he was delivering goods. Motorist: "I'm sorry, my lad.

Are you all right?" Boy (picking up contents of his basket): "Dunno. Here's me liver and me ribs, but Where's me kidney?" REWARD FOR WELL DOING. On Wednesday, Feb. 3, it was 19 years since Woodrow Wilson passed through death's open door of opportunity. He had lived on earth six days more than 67 years.

How much he did in so short a time! I saw him a few days before he was taken, sitting in his chair, hardly able to raise his arm as he shook hands, saying, "How are you, The solid strength of character was in those fearless eyes, but how weak that over-worked body was. He was truly a brave martyr to a holy cause. As I left I thought of his strength not of his weakness. This is a fine way to think, always, about everybody. He had been faithful to world peace to the end.

As I now look back on that never-fading scene, this verse is recalled: Galatians 6:9: "Let us not be weary in well doing: for In due season we shall reap, if we faint not." He never grew weary in fighting for the League of Nations. He gave his all. On his Western trip, when he was stricken, he fore- luiu tins nal ii vc Aiiiiivcu. here is the awful war. How well he knew! We refused to carry our share of the load, because of hate for Wilson, partisan poison, and selfishness.

Had we joined, isn't it generally believed the world would not now have this fury of destruction? Just before Wilson left the White House my intimate friend, Ed Meredith, Secretary of Agriculture, called on him. The President said he thought the League was a plan of the Almighty. Ed flashed this qquestion: "If that's so, why didn't God give Lodge a cold or strike him down, to keep him away from the Senate, where he killed the League?" To which this great Christian President answered: "If I knew all about why God does things, I would be God." He did not quit. He kept on, undaunted, to the end. The harvest is in sight.

The world is getting ready for a Wilson peace. Friends, let us never be weary in doing right. We know what it is. God is responsible for results. We're only responsible for the effort, and keeping on.

Your Health Sneak punches are not the exclusive property of Japs. Smallpox, that scourge of diseases, struck unheralded and unexpected in a central Pennsylvania district. As at Pear Harbor, the victims of the attack were not prepared for it. Death is a high price to pay for carelessness. Carelessness and ignorance are the only reasons for anyone dying from smallpox today.

Vaccination will completely and definitely protect against smallpox. Look at the facts. New Jersey, with a population of 4,400,000 and a compulsory vaccination law, had no cases of smallpox between 1931 and 1939. In the same period, with a combined population less than that of New Jersey, the states of North Dakota. South Dakota, Montana, Idaho.

Oregon, Wyoming and Utah reported 12.666 cases of smallpox. None of the latter states have compulsory vaccination laws. Wherever laws requiring vaccination before school attendance have been in force for a period of years, the loathsome disease, smallpox, has practically disappeared. The smallpox in Pennsylvania broke out in a section of the state where most of the children do not attend public schools. That section is now quarantined and everyone is being vaccinated.

Any community that adopts compulsory vaccination can eradicate smallpox. Two pilot training schools will soon be established in Mexico, similar to the 600 now operated in the United States by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, WE EXTEND our congratulations to C'ty Councilman Herbert F. Anderson for getting behind the Victory Garden program. We hope he loses no time in presenting the situation to his colleagues in City Council in the form of resolutions which will put the whole City Council, behind the program. What is done about Victory gardens between now and April 1 is going to have a very important bearing on our food supply for next fall and winter.

Yet up to the time Councilman Anderson took up the idea, there was no move on the part of any of our community leaders to sponsor the program. ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, we called attention to the fact that our Federal officials were admitting that this year would present a serious food problem. We calied upon the Defense Councils to take leadership in this matter of Victory Gardens. What we heard following that from the local Defense Council was a slurring remark that we might keep our nose out of things of no concern to us and that we were using Victory Gardens only as something to write about. WE SUGGEST to the worthy members of the Defense Council that they eat this statistic from Spring Grove.

"The Lion's Club Victory Garden CommiU tee visited 170 families up to the present time and 157 of those families have signed up for participation in the Victory Garden program." We suggest also that they go look in the mirror. COUNCILMAN ANDERSON proposes to have the City Council sponsor the program with wide participation in the program by various community agencies. He proposes, if possible, to turn all the vacant lots which last year constituted a weed nuisance into food production for this year. He might even propose that some of the money appropriated for parks and playgrounds be used to promote Victory Gardens. This thing might turn out to be a really big project before the summer is over.

If that should be the case, he's going to need the help and cooperation of a lot of different community agencies. We hope that when these agencies come to offer their assistance, they won't have to walk around or step over a Defense Council slumbering in their path. We suggest that the Defense Council quietly step aside in this matter. There are other spots on which it might slumber. We want to see cabbages and tomatoes and beans and turnips growing in the vacant lots, instead of the weeds that grew there last year.

THE FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION hangs up another record for itself. Last year it had 463,941 clients. That is 7.6 per cent of the Nation's farm operators. Those 463,941 farm families came from among the lowest income farmers. They were the farmers who, up to the time of their being assisted by the Farm Security Administration, were least able to contribute to the food needs of the country.

But they were responsible for 27 per cent of the increase in production of dried beans; 10 per cent of the increase in egg production; 10 per cent of the increase in chicken production; 10 per cent of the increase in peanut production; 9 per cent of the increase in pork production; and 7 per cent of the increase in beef production. In other words, they did far better than anyone had a right to expect of them. AFTEP. SUCH A FINE RECORD cr.e would think that the Department of Agriculture, in the interest of helping to meet the 1913 war food program, would expand the services of the Farm Security Administration. But reports out of Washington indicate that the contrary is the case.

The Department of Agriculture is reported to be uninterested in the fate of the Farm Security Administration. The reason: Reactionaries all over the country, and the corporation farms that is, the farms operated as big business enterprises have opposed the Farm Security Administration. Their opposition i easily understood. Every farm tenant or farm worker helped to independence by the Farm Security Administration shrinks the supply of poorly paid labor for the corporate farms which are more interested in profits for Jhemselves rather than in producing the nation's food. So the big business farmers get their lobbyists in Washington to work against the Farm Security Administration, and the big business farmers and the corporation lawyers of the House and Senate discover that the Farm Security Administration has some radicals in it.

And they probably are radicals because they can show results. If getting results makes an organization radical, then one of the things we need most in connection with the war effort is some radical organizations. PERHAPS the Farm Security Administration could be prevailed upon to participate in the Victory Garden program in York City and County. We are sure the people who put in the labor on the Victory Gardens aren't going to care what the stuffed shirts of reaction call the organization which helps them to make a contribution to our food supply. A CONCLUDING.

NOTE to prove a point. Earl Alexander, project manager of the trailer village which was established here by the Farm Security Administration, has just told us that he already has started canvassing his tenants for Victory Gardens and is getting a good response from them in spite of the fact that they put in long hours in the war plants. Of course, the trailer village has been turned over to the Federal Public Housing Authority, but the spirit of the Farm Security Administration carries on. Mr. Alexander says there will be about 100 Victory Garden plots available for non-residents of the trailer village and he will be glad to cooperate with the City or County or North York authorities to promote the use of these plots.

Since then, WRA officials have been keep ing a weather eye on the Lake Tule camp, for it includes some bad agitators among both the "Lssei" (Japanese-born) and the "Kibei" (American-born Japs educated in Japan). A favorite method of spreading dissension and unrest among loyal Jap evacuees, chiefly the "Nesei" (American-born and U. S. citi zens), is to tell them that they get the same treatment in detention camps as the "lssei" and "Kibei" evacuees, despite their loyalty to the United States. There have been several cases where "Nesei" evacuees who refused to renounce the United States and cooperated wholeheartedly with camp supervisors were beaten by the "Kibei." Another device of the agitators is to put up signs during the night proclaiming such Axis catch-phrases as: "Anybody who remains loyal to the United States is a fool Don't work for an Allied victory Japan will win." At Granada, a sit-down strike of evacuees, who refused to haul coal in WRA trucks from Lamar, was broken up when camp officials, unable to get outside labor, served notice that the evacuees either would haul the coal or freeze.

However, the government doesn't always have to get tough. Sometimes loyal Jap evacuees take matters into their own hands. A "Nesei" cook in the Heart Mountain, detention camn became so infuriated at a young pro-Axis agitator, who refused to work in the camp mess hall, that he went after him with a meat cleayer. The cleaver sliced a board, which the agi- tator used as a shield, as neatly as a piece of kindling. The would-be victim apparently was in disfavor with the majority of his comrades in the camp, for an evacuee council voted un- animously to clear the cook of assault charges, SILVER BEER CANS Shortage of tin has given rise to experiments in substitutes, of which the most unusual, made in the laboratories of the Bureau of Standards, is the use of silver in making cans.

The experiment was made at the request of a beer company, which hoped to prove that silver could be used instead of tin, and without greater cost. The experiment was successful. Thus U. S. beer drinkers may buy their beer in silver-plated cans after the war.

For LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Lcl Note Letters from anyone upon any ub-Jett arc welcomed by this newspaper and will be prii.ti.l so lung as they are nut libelous and do not contain purely personal attacks upon individuals as such and provided that the writer us with his correct name and address an.i provided that the letter does not contain more tlmr. lour hundred words.) TRANSFERRED TO MASS. Editor The Gazette and Daily-Just a few lines. I've been transferred to Mass. Your paper has been such a pleaurc, I'd be grateful if it could be forwarded to me here at my new address.

Needless to say it affords me very interesting leisure hours. Knowing just what a swell job you are doing I can only say 'Thanks and may your sue- cess continue. Its lolks like you mat mane As ever, PVT. JEAN WINTER, 322nd Fighter Chicopce Falls, Mass. HIS ADDRESS CHANGED Editor The Gazette and Daily: Just a line to inform you my address has again been changed.

I have been sent to Philadelphia, Pa. It is a grand feeling to be back east again. The temperature of Des Moines, Iowa, was to low for comfort. I want to thank you for your consideration in sending me The Gazette and Daily. It helped keep me in constant contact with the home town.

My address is: AUX. DOROTHY V. SIPE, Walton Hotel. WAAC Philadelphia, Pa. GETS PAPER AT FORT KNOX Editor The Gazette and Daily: Thank you for sending your newspaper to me.

As a civilian I have read your paper daily and as a soldier I will continue to do the same, To my friends back home in Pennsylvania I wish to express my thanks for all their kind- nesses and their letters. I hope this letter will answer many of the unanswered letters I am hardly able to answer and that to other boys, whom I have known who are now in the sen-ice it will serve as a memory of the days we were together. I'm in good health and do- ing fine here at Ft. Knox. I hope to hear the same from all the folks back home and again The When I received a letter an- room? nouncing that I had been given It did not the position of teacher in the tiny make up my iown oi oreenrieia, was over-joved at my good fortune.

Jobs of this type were rare in the latter part of the 19th century, and I was indeed lucky to obtain one so quickly. And yet, as I approached the school-house, I felt a pang of dismay. It looked so bleak and forlorn in the early coldness of the November morning no welcome sign of smoke, telling of a warm room inside, only a heavy lock on the door to proclaim that I was the first one to arrive. I dominated drafty room. children were it would be start the fire meager supplies unmatched I of S.

at it an is of this. I decided children and had been made, teach them X. Ml uuxii benches and more closely. the Morning Story could not reach, a family of bats Suddenly a desire to help them take me long to or mice had probably made their overcame me a desire to show mind. Better no job home.

them that I was here to teach to wait for the What kind of an education could them those wonderful things that tell them a mistake they expect their children to re- their bare little lives had missed that I could not ctive where eight or ten benches s0 far. I would stay. I would make after all. had to hold as many different this schooI a of Warmth, 0f un uue vi me iiaiu examined the room As I sat there, my A big, iron stove were interrupted by the front end of the of a group of children shouting outside. I walked to the open door and saw them running breathlessly No doubt, if the to study in warmth, the teacher's job to each morning.

The for writing, the chairs and benches. toward me, all overcome with one desire to see what the new teacher was like. When they realized that I was watching them, they slowed down and advanced. the few remaining pathetic little flag to children undoubtedly found the key hanging on a partly and tht invisible nail, and with a heavy which the hoart niKhurl nnpn thp rinnr rhantpd their allppianrp parh stpns shvlv and pvneetantlv. Their I stood there a little while in morning, all added to the dismal varied expressions jnetrayea tneir nae Miuweu my idie.

iur me amazement, and then a wave of appearance of the shabby room, eagerness to be inside the warm children smiled timidly. They took aneer and resentment swept over The corners of the room were room and started at me. How dare they treat a new only half swept and giant cob- which was at the same time, the teacher with such inattention! hung on the uncovered only playing they did. How did they expect me to teach beams overhead. Somewhere, in My heart sank.

How sould I dis- the children anything in this the dark, dingy corners near the appoint them? How could I dash crowded pretense cf a school- roof, where the dim morning light such eager hopes to.