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Inrasher Oil fVXLV I i a fOK60TTO6iVE eOSSWtSWATCU I 2 GUNS TRAINED ON INFLATION I LWe TUAT 9 -S Clapper Air Arm Goes On in Face Of Losses TU CUT 0.f KJJ -v FsJfTS w-. tm (Etjf Oallit flantaornjth Central Illinois' HOMK NEWSpaper Since 1816. Thursday, Oct. 21, 1943. COMMENT AND OPINION BY THE EDITORS.

Rural Fire Protection Calls for Joint Action -fit k- e-FVr 3f wi aaaaaaaammssr BLONDIE I Dr. Brady I'PP mann U. Britain, Russia Have Responsibility of World Peace Three Nations Only True World Powers' BY RAYMOND CLAPPER. WASHINGTON, D. We are bound to have bad days in the war, as we did last week when we lost 60 Fortresses on the Schweinf urt mission that destroyed half of Germany's ball bearing capacity.

Fortunately, our air force command is not discouraged by the losses but sees rather the greater damage to Germany. We are going forward with preparations for new and heavier blows. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air forces, says that regardless of losses, he intends to continue to enlarge the Eighth air force.

He will expand the daylight attack on Germany from the west. At the same time, Allied headquarters In Algiers announces preparations for a long range bombin campaign into Germany from bases in Italy which will be 500 miles nearer to Germany than our north African bases. Germany now must try to defend herself from the heaviest kind of air attack from two directions. Nazis Lose Every Day. Thus Germany will soon see that occasional heavy losses, severe as they may sometimes be, will not cause us to relent We expect that occasionally Germany will come at us with some new device, although our Schweinfurt losses were caused not by surprise weapons for the rocket shell had been used on us before, but by new tactics, by a new football play, so to speak.

Such tricks are good once. Now we know the play used over Schweinfurt and how to break it up. Whereas we have an occasional bad day, the Germans are taking defeats every day, everywhere. Where can they turn for the slightest hope? Their daily experience now is defeat in Russia, defeat in Italy, and day and night air attacks inside their heartland. Their Japanese ally is being driven back from island to island.

No Split Seen. The Germans have only one chance to escape. They have not BY JAMES THRASHER. The rank and file of American citizens finally have trained two powerful weapons on the wartime enemy of inflation. They are the local price panel and the home front pledge campaign.

And if those weapons are kept in order and kept firing, they will probably do more than anything else to keep the cost of living close to a sane leveL That isn't meant to infer that Washington's part in the point rationing and price ceiling operation isn't important, or that the setup is anywhere near perfect. Nor does it mean that pouring off loose money into war bonds doesnt serve as a vitally necessary anti-inflationary safety valve. Up to Consumer, Retailer. But it Is obvious that the more you pay for food the less you have left for bonds. And the food price situation, imperfect as it is, has at least been brought to the point where it is largely a matter of Individual responsibility, both to the consumer and the retailer.

Whatever you may hear about slackers and loafers, lawyers and professors, in government bureaus, the fact remains that the oGlee of price administration hasn't got enough workers to do a thorough job. Their field men have to concentrate on the big operators, and can't even scratch the retail field. That's where the price-panel volunteer comes In. Checks Complaints. He works with and backstops the community ration board, checks complaints visits stores (as an identified, unofficial investigator and not a snooper), settles a lot of differences, and does much valuable spade work for OPA.

Home front pledge campaigns are just as valuable, but they're a lot more fun. Many towns have launched them in a fine burst of community spirit. And while statistics are, as always, slow to come in and, in this case, difficult to compile, the campaign has paid oft in at least one city. How It's Done. That was in New Orleans, which served as guinea pigs for the venture last spring.

In four weeks time, 250,000 persons voluntarily signed this pledge: I will pay no more than top legal prices. I will accept no rationed goods without giving up ration stamps. And it worked so well that a survey taken a month later showed that the whole city's average food prices had been reduced 5 percent. In Hammond, a city of EO.OOO, pledge cards and a list of ceiling prices on market-basket foods were distributed to every home. The mayor issued a proclamation asking support for the campaign.

OCD block matrons called on housewives, explaining the campaign and collecting signed pledges. Iodine Drops Disinfect Impure Wafer ItT DR. UIUJAM BRADT. Vher.eer pcv.h the "1 Uf fcrces a the it fcy ehVeiiA'-3 t-i fir the tsra carry a t- cf kd.ne d.t.r.!t tUf ia lhe.r can IcdmVaUy. it werJi that whenever ta wireier cr.e may be la C-tt tu.t V-m safety ef the water dr.r,a.rg.

rfr.p cf two ci cf iot- the mjt a ar in the tvcarl tstX a. 2 k.t a c4 the aaa.ra up a.r.4 la 31 tzjz r--ikr- ar.y water safe Va lf Th. a cs-y tJt ethet net far rrr-Lr baa. M04 Ttoclar BeL Th c4 as iz'u-iod ks la ytAJt ta Ijx w. Ilr Xst Ihai VJre the cf he I the J'hirraii e.a ccu.rrl 7 c-f -i r.e.

Th- -ir lr Ut: r. i t.T ia the VSTm t--t t- iWJ te irtered JhJ -f -S a 2 prr t- t-e p-hr xf t-v. iZ.ll LuU't cf jCh aiM-t petxesa itrer-xva. c.rz.z testa tri that r4 VJ'sm cf ti.r m-j tie cf the tht wa as t-X Uit 'i ia hi Tw "liar Deep. Three fire departments were at the scene of a blaze which destroyed 5,000 bushels of grain, 60 tons of hay and straw, 409 chickens and some tools near El Paso Tuesday.

One fire truck was on hand at a fire which consumed 400 bushels of corn and some tools near Shirley. Buildings were destroyed in both cases of course. Why were the fires not extinguished and the property raved? Lack of water pressure. All the fire fighting equipment in the country cannot control a blaze if there isn't sufficient water available to feed the pumps. While McLean has a rural fire truck, most small town equipment is not designed to fight farm fires.

Few farm areas in Central Illinois have fire districts to provide adequate equipment and foster establishment of water reserves on farms in case of emergency. That is why farm fires are so destructive. A farmer would not think of relying wholly upon his neighbors to plant and harvest his crops or to transport his children to school. Yet the only fire protection most farms have is what little a neighboring fire department can render a department financed by others and designed for urban use. Investment in farm improvements is high.

It gets higher almost year by year. It is far too great to permit the luxury of inadequate fire protection. Yet one farmer cannot correct the situation. One farmer is not to blame if destructive fire hits his property. The problem calls for community co-operative action.

It can and must eventually be solved on that basis. Don't Be a Nazi Or a Jap on Halloween Listen, boys and girls. You want to help the war effort, but you're too young to fly a bomber or join the Wacs or the Waves. You feel discouraged and frustrated. You Just want to raise the dickens to prove to yourself and to others that you do amount to something.

You're probably all set to make a night of it Halloween. Well, we're for you. There will be fewer civic sponsored parades and chances to show off in costume cr win a prize. People are pretty busy, they say, and have no time or money to expend on such things. Perhaps they're right.

But you have your good time just the same. A Halloween party doesn't need to cost much. You can have the type of games or recreation your group likes. You can have a whale of a lot of fun dressing up in any kind of an old costume. Remember, of course, you want to help the war effort.

That means not a single bit of destruction. Use of soap on a window is wasteful Your brother needs the ingredients of that soap, in his job of whipping the Japs and the Germans. A damaged screen is sabotage. Removing a gate or tearing down a fence is work Hitler and Tojo want you to do. And any labor and material used to repair damage you do will be that much less to fight the Axis.

Yes, have a good time. No one would deny you that. But don't be a Nazi or a Jap for a night. That would be no fun. 4-H Club Work OFF THROt BY WALTER HITMAN'S.

A globe with a map of the world on it, and a long view of hUtory are at this time the best introduction to the Moscow conference. For there are great and enduring imperatives which none of the governments represented there can alter, and the measure of their success will be how well they have understood these realities, and have shaped their actions accordingly. Britain. Russia and the United States are the three great sUtes which have the main sources of their power outside of the continent of Europe. Their rrtmary concern about Europe is that the continent should be at peace.

For none of them can be secure, and none of them can live Its national life well unless the continent flourishes and is friendly. Any other kind of European continent must be to them all a continual source of danger and trouble: a Europe sunk in anarchy and There jew breakfast In brd. sk-ar al the bmi rr despair would mean that the an- dent sources of our common civ- Kl nj. illxation were destroyed. INdZI Lsl5cl5T6r Therefore, they have all a para- mount interest in a European set- I tlcmcnt which rests at last upon Oil Faint Serious nV OLD NtAVT rU MM.

I was ttxijr' ia U.e t7T tuther day about a reran tik Eatt mho ra srt l(tr. Krthday. in th rrj aping the slightest source of military hope, except to make the fighting as difficult and as costly as possible for us. They hope we shall become discouraged and unwilling to take losses. They see the possibility that the Allies will be as stupid and bungling as they were before and that we shall fall out among ourselves and that out of a split among the Allies, Berlin can save itself from total defeat.

But we are not likely to permit any diplomatic split among ourselves that would save Germany. Private citizens like Wendell Willkie and Sumner Welles are commanding the respect and approval of a large body of American public opinion by their cour Negro Eloquence BY DR. EDGAR DEWTT JONES. John Randolph of Roanoke, eccentric and brilliant orator of the Golden Age of Oratory, was once asked who was the greatest orator he had ever heard. The questioner expected him to Makes Winners trriif ordered ".3 I-fcen o-t ef 1 house She reckorvrd that prefers remember hT-elf as she ar-t tul at -IS." W.rr-rr-cr..

a ru. are ta.n creatures and when the ef jtxrt la tne eVrrt that U-ey are a t.at i.i.iT. rem the willing consent of the European nations. Only 3 "World Powers. literally, and not rhetorically only.

Britain. Russia ami the United States are world powers tn that all of them fare both the great oceans and have vital interests which, consequently, encircle the globe. This is the reason why the Initial agreement has to be arrived at by them. There are many other great nations, and no sense of moral or other superiority Is Implied when we recognize the very plain fact that these three alone are in the full sense of the words, world powers. China Is a great nation, but her interests are in Asia, not In Europe, or in the Atlantic world.

Germany Is a powerful state, but solely a European state. Japan is an Asiatic state. There are no other great states capable of waging a great war, and therefore so Indispensable to the making and maintenance ef peace, as the three states at the Moscow conference. Have Responsibility. Therefore, Britain.

Russia and the United SUtes have the pri There are many reasons for the granting of honors. It may be to win future favors, in appreciation of favors already given or a general W-ea I ihVvitel the ilh cn )a. tey t.r".:e L' i. cr. r4.t theq ia the I drt? tie a ik 4 Kf iA eua Uu4 cr.4iUa ef t-'-e year, c-f ce' a wc cat t.ri.

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1 "The greatest orator I ever heard," said Randolph, "was a woman. She was a slave. She was a mother, and her rostrum was the auctioneer's block." Having said this, Randolph rose and imitated Along Dnieper by kirki: i. swrsoN. Events along the length of the Hitler's "blood wall defense front of the Dnseper are moving at a pace that marks possible within dayt or even hours a greater Nazi military catastrophe than Stalingrad.

As Mocow pictures the s.taa-lion in the south, and It ur.ie-nied by Berlin, a powerful segment of the Nazi army is virtually trapped in the upper elbow of the Dnieper bend. The principal westward escape route was cut by Russian capture of Pyat.khaka Junction, TO miles west ef Dnepropetrovsk. The single remaining rail connection for roundabout supply or flight from the closg trap is In deadly danger. rermlt Gloemy Report. There was no attempt in Berlin to minimize the extreme of the s.tuation.

On the contrary, Naxi centers permitted correspondents tn Berl.n to describe Tuesday far their papers at the blackest day the war started for Germany. The Stockholm advices adJed that there was growing srecula-tion there as to whether there might not be "more behind the latest conferences between Hitler and the Nari leaders than det.re to d.Kar A and can gjt that Uey are get- Un ta loo party raar.ry. Af'rr they their b.rVwlar. U-ejr pat dinQ Iruo far tut-Vtay are eo-eerred. and froen then tn are cf that dread i.

known as amr.etia t.er trh-day rviU ar.rS. when v--t regain the.r trT.ul and reeatl that V-ty were gU wren the famti were be Ued. Ye i.r. rvxt mucmn are a.n. hae r.o!.

that it fr-Ae rr.h rf.fTcrer.ee whether V-T are 15 or II. thee all tVV mary wougn by no means the exclusive responsibility for a settlement which will prevent another World war. Those who do not wish Britain, Russia, and the United States to come together to come together to maintain the peace which will follow the war, they have combined to win should explain how else they pro- ageous and intelligent addresses emphasizing the need and the way to achieve effective Allied cooperation. Crank Policy Makers. Politicians are likely to -find it unprofitable business to continue the trouble making that some of the senate isolationists are trying to stir up again.

When they find they are supported only by cranks and crackpots and morbid persons whose only foreign policy is their own grudges, there will be no danger of an Allied split so far as America is concerned. If trouble making politicians do not succeed in opening the door to a crackup among the Allies, the Germans cannot ease out of complete defeat, because the military is completely boxing them in. Can't Stand Losses. Germany can't stand the losses In planes that the Allies are inflicting on her. When her air force is wrecked, the army is left exposed.

Germany can't stand the destruction of productive facilities. When a German fighter factory at Bremen was destroyed, the Germans set up a substitute at more remote Regensburg. It made 40 percent of Germany's Me-109's. That plant was knocked out Aug. 17.

We lost 23 Fortresses. Germany lost production which was the equivalent of 500 fighter planes. It is as if our big airplane factories were being blasted from the air. The army air forces have photographs of damage in Germany that they will be glad to show any skeptic. The Allies have the ascendancy in the air.

It is where we have Germany at the greatest disadvantage. To waver now in driving home our advantage would be a blunder that would cost us thousands of lives on the ground. announced. That seems post? io rnaxe a lasting peace. pnr Tnawsm vsaksw iiu a a.aa "w-w.

www a a va Ma-i cr ta a ran r.F a aa-i iiian Ti I Zm VL. I as. a with thrilling pathos the Dr. Jones tones with which this slave woman had appealed to the sympathy and justice of the bystanders. "There was eloquence," he said.

"I have heard no man speak like that It was overpowering." The eloquence of Frederick Douglass, renowned antislavcry orator and journalist (1817-1895), is described as powerful and convincing. Douglass was of impressive presence and hit voice was mellow and far-carrying. At the close of his notable eulogy on Wendell Phillips, Douglass said: "He was the Wilberforce of America; and as Lamar tine once said of that great English philanthropist, so may we say of Wendell Phillips, that he went up to heaven with a million broken fetters in his arms, as evidence of a life well spent." Booker T. Washington's heaven sent gift of eloquence has been attested to by many competent judges. I myself heard him in a half hour's speech which for reasoned judgment, keen analysis and sprightly humor, I regard as beyond praise.

This all too inadequate tribute to Negro eloquence was prompted by a letter from an unsigned correspondent who wanted to know why I left out of my list of famous contemporary preachers the gifted Dr. Howard Thurman. My answer is, for the same reason I left off a score of names which merited listing, the eloquent Dr. Thurman among others lack of space. another World War at featf te'line of lhs rnml rerrfit vent for as lone a time at anv iivin mefrrmrs at wrhi-H frs When I ret'ed e-t ef the rjtf No said it had been ea'exl to meet thu an 1 try man can now foresee clearly v- ct ywiT rr.

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If yoa caa Jr-sae yW ly to get ia lrt Ac4vcet Aaceyees Ue l.c? sAi eex tmi a fcaj wl get tun s-i a en--? car e-ate t- q--t ta Axhwx AMeystoA tS tit, SVeet Arex. Nrw Ycek C.ty. N. ask tsf aS-dre ef a gTf--? in CT tear JifJt reewst, ar rca-ptH eeaJ WTl geHit gesture of good wilL Any honor granted in 4-H club work, however, is earned. The winner must produce the records and the results.

There is no short cut That is why the eight McLean county 4-H candidates and those from other Central Illinois counties selected for consideration for state awards can be proud of their achievements. Every one has been in club work for several years. E-ery one has shown stability, initiative and ability. In winning this recognition each has proved his standing as the highest type of citizen. Those who did not win also have gained.

There can be no loss in a sincerely conducted 4-H project. Knowledge and experience gained cannot be removed or improved by any award. The only one who loses is the one who doesn't enroll in' 4-H work) or who fails to complete a project. One Bureaucratic Rule Out, but System Stays It was once the law of the land that a person could nst express himself on the subject of unions within the hearing of workers if he happened to be their employer. Congress never passed a law of this kind.

It was a ruling of the national labor relations board. The board decided that if an employer made a speech or sent a letter to workers or put up a note on the company bulletin board giving arguments against unionization, the workers were being coerced. While the employer was thus silenced, union organizers were allowed complete freedom of expression. Thus a "fair" and "impartial' atmosphere was to be created in which the NLRB could hold its union elections. This plain violation of basic American rights to free speech was the law of the land until it reached the second United States Circuit court.

Judge Learned Hand ruled that the NLRB was WTong and that employers had the same right as anyone else to express themselves on unionization. That ruling has now been upheld by the supreme court. Thus one bureaucratic rule goes into the discard, but many others remain to be tested in the courts. More important, the "blank check" powers of bureaus to formulate their own regulations remains unchecked. Before the social legislation of the past 10 years is truly incorporated into American life, it must be phrased in coherent, all inclusive laws and not left to the shifting opinions of bureaucrats.

If, in stating these social purposes in specific laws, a lot extraneous rulings are dropped, we will be so much the better for it. heaJ arl saw l.v-r ef rr.y r. tht-e tn le I kj? C.aM. I gt d-c tat that K3 year c4J Graf away tack Elt. lake her appearance too serially.

If 1 was a gal gut e--t In life. I wo.l:r."l let rr.y p-rral arpeararee wctry rre i ure as I reetr.v U-etn ternf.e wax rvi's ere sees tn the djpliy w.nJoaj. oiner powers can do that. Without these three a erred to otxerve and maintain the peace of the world ajrainst ureal war. It Is absolutely certain that the conclusion of this war will mark the beginning of the preparations for another war.

MU Seek Conflict. Therefore, the crucial question Is whether there is among Dritam. Russia, and America, any conflict of vital interest, which compels them to prefer the risks of another rreat war to an accommodation of Hitler, not by Hitler. It Inc.udcd leading German civilians as well as military: but it was summoned, the semicrTlc.al DNB announcement said, -by the chief oX the high cornirund." Preparing rabtie. It seems fantastic that Germany has yet reached that point.

As the record stands, however, it seems that German pubUc opinion is being prepared for something on the basis of bad news from the Russian front. Just what that some thing la remains to be seen but JeM. fwrra fs Tak-t5 a toi. F-tZir sa-vS be i 'S Tire wear cut tae as faat la temperature of 93 degrees aa at tJ degrees. oiixerences.

VThen we examine thin question, we fuid at once that none wants from either of the anrthin SO THEY SAY The unconditional surrender of the Italian 11hat fn to them. There Is no government has brought a great repercussion "i VifrTv ar.r on hvi ea, a k. rr J. a of lh three claims what belongs within Spain. As the German divisions soon as it might prove an attempt to make a separate peace with Russia If she could be satis 3rd by removal of HiUer and his whole regime and a German retirement li borders on the east.

Hull, Mr. Molotov and Mr. Eden get on with one another. New Working Teg ether. The conference will have been successful If it produces, in addi The Pantagraph Telephone, All Departments, 6900-5 Published dallT and Bundny br THB DAILY PANTAGRAPH 301 W.

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Member of the Associated Press, which Is exclusively entitled to all news not ether wise credited, also to local news herein. withdraw from the Interior of France, a revolt of great consequences will spring up within my country. Diego MarUnei Barrio, last president Spanish Republican Parliament. We will win in the end. and it will be a legal victory.

There will be no rain checks, and we won't have to play the game over. Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, Eighth Air Force commander In tag land.

Selective service has resulted in some curious phenomena. It has made boys think of parents long forgotten. It has caused husbands to hunt for wives for years ignored. MaJ. Gen.

Lewis B. Ilershey. io euner or xne other two. Our differencen. then, can arise only over our relations with other states that is to say, with the enemy states, and with our allies.

The question Is whether we can agree to conduct these relations so as to unite rather than divide us for the establishment of lasting peace. Don't Expect Blueprint, We should, however, be naive if we supposed that Messrs. Eden. Molotov and Hull or Mensrs. Churchill.

Stalin and Roosevelt can foresee, define and settle once and for all the whole complex of l.vue over which differences can and will arise in Europe and Asia. To do that is beyond the wit of man. It follows inexorably that the principal task of the Moscow conference is to reach an agreement on ways and means of reaching further agreements. Certain practical and immediately urgent decisions bearing upon the conduct of the war must be taken. But It would be a mistake to expect or to wish fr a completed blueprint cf the settlement and constitution of the postwar world.

In fact, we should avoid taking an ovcrdramatir. overanxious view of the meeting in Moscow, and cease to imagine that the fate of the world turns on how Mr. tion to immediate decisions en which we art In wag.r.g war. organs of ce-i ard combine action. The best news we ha had is that this Is preciiely how the Rum tans, the BnUsh and the most clear headed Americans think about the coming conference.

For it is by working together, not by promulgating generalities, that nations arrive at the principles on which they can agree. Until we establish regular and continuing means of exploring and settling the problems that concern us, we cannot really know what these problems are and whether we differ about them, and how much and in what way we d.f fer. Therefore, TYavda." quite right in saving, as it did Ju-t the other day. that extensive economic attanre given by the United SUtes a well as Great Britain to the Allied countries, the unanimity reached during the armistice talks with Italy, the formation of the iliary political command of the Allied states these can serve as examples of the developing co-operation of the Allied countries. NOW WE KNOW THERE'S SOMt pardon ME.SIR.BUtV 60O0! VOU SA.V yOUVf.

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