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Evening star., 1941-11-27
Navy Wants Knitters
To Stick to Directions

If you want to knit for the boys
in the United States Navy, Uncle
Sam would like to have the sweaters
somewhat uniform. 1t was an
nounced yesterday that specifica-
tions for hand-knitted articles have
been drawn up and may be secured
from any local Navy commanding
officer.
If you knit for any individual
personally. send the completed ar
ticle directly to him at his ad-
dress. If group or an individual
knits for the Navy at large the
clothing may be sent either to
Evening star., 1941-11-27
Gorgos Institute Picks
Col. SiIer as Head

Col. j. F. Siler was elected presi-
dent of the Gorgas Memorial Insti-
tute of Tropical and Preventative
Medicine, Inc, at the organization's S
recent annual meeting.
Other officers elected included DR..
Bowman C. Crowell, Chicago, vice
president; Gen. M. w. Ireland, sec
retary, and A. M. Nevius, treasurer.
DR.. Herbert C. Clark, director of
the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory In
Panama, told the group a large part
of next years activities would be
directed at problems pertaining to
national defense.
Evening star., 1941-11-27

Committee and John Locker, Sec
retary.
Mr.. Walker is a former secretary
treasurer Of the Columbia Typo
graphical Union No. l0l, Of Wash
ington, and a trustee of the Print
ers' Home at Colorado Springs, Colo
He was active. in securing passage
of the accident prevention law for
Washington.
Sponsors for the dinner, headed
by John B. Colpoys, United States
Marshal for the District. include A
A. Giegengack, public printer; Alvin
w. Hall, director of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, and Daniel
w. Tracy, first assistant secretary of
labor.
Evening star., 1941-11-27
F. ). Walker 10 Be Fefed
Al Dinner Here Toniqhf

A testimonial dinner will be given
at the Mayf1ower Hotel tonight for
Fred S. Walker, labor member of the
District Minimum Wage and Indus
trial Safety Board and news editor
of The Trades Unionist
A veteran printer, John B. Dick
man, will make the principal address
in honor of Mr.. Walker. John
Deviny, deputy public printer, will
preside over the dinner which will
begin at 7 o'clock Louis A. Lopez
is chairman of the Arrangements
Evening star., 1941-11-27

the Naval Clothing Depot, Twenty
ninth street and Third avenue, New
York, or Naval Supply Depot, Oak
land, Calf.
Evening star., 1941-11-27
Methodists Plan Buzuur

The annual bazaar of the Wom-
ems Society of Christian Service of
the Hamline Methodist Church will
be held under the direction of Mrs.
G.. R. Wilhelm, president, in the
social hall of the church at Six
teenth and Allison streets NV. De-
cember 34. Turkey dinners will be
served each evening.
The Netherlands Indies will spend
$8 600 600 for torpedo bOmberS.
Evening star., 1941-11-27
What This Training
will Do for You

c PROVIDES A PRACTICAL
SETTING in which to prac-
tice effective speaking, in
the company of other peo-
pie who have the courage to
admit a handicap and the
vision to do something
about it.
. EQU1Ps YOU WITH SELF
ASSURANCE; anishes
audience fear. Address any
group or individual without
embarrassment.
. SHARPENS YOUR THINK
ING when under pressure
of platform speaking or
conference room discussion.
sSMOOTHES OUT THE
ROUGH SPOTS" in die
ton and posture. Corrects
nervous habits. awkward
ness and "hand-conscious-
ness"
q GIVES YOU A WORKABLE
SYSTEM FOR REMEMBER
ING names, faces and what
you intend to say.
oENABLES YOU TO FOR
GET" YOUR STENOG-
RAPHER and dictate effec-
tive letters with spontane-
Gus ease.
DEVELOPS YOUR POWER
TO SPEAK EXTEMPORA-
NEOUSLY.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
The Voice of Youth

If you want to know what youth
thinks about this crazy world, at
tend some graduation or class-day
program. Many graduating essay
lists used to utter lofty ideals, of
how youth was going out to lift
the world to a higher plane. The
graduates often got laughed at for
telling the world so many things,
so they have seemed of late less
confident of their powers.
Some graduates have said that
the troubles of the world were all
due to the older generation, which
had made a mess of human rela-
tions. AS this mess is created
mostly by selfishness, and youth as
a whole is probably as selfish as its
predecessors, this idea does not
seem to solve world problems.
Youth is charming and hopeful,
whatever its point of view. At
least the modern graduate indi-
Gates desire to be practical and
realistic. The graduates may have
given up hope of reforming the
world, but they have seen the re-
suits of the mistakes their prede-
cessors made. so they should be
able to avoid some of these costly
errors.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Air Power

The science of war changes with
every new conflict. The great
change of the present war is the
tremendous power which airplane
fighting has developed. 1t used to
be said that sea power ruled the
world. England has had supreme
sea power, yet Germany has con-
quered or reduced to subsection
most of Europe. and without hav-
ing any great sea power, except
its submarines.
Those fighting and bombing air.
planes have rolled over Europe
like an avalanche sliding down a
mountain, and crushing out what
ever lay in its path.
Many. prophets have said that
this war would be decided mainly
in the air. British sea power has
obstructed Germany's ability to get
war materials and food from out
side Europe, but, German air power
has crushed Europei and given it
control OF all the resources Of that
continent. so that Britain's sea
power has been partly ineffective.
The lesson for America is to build
up mighty force of airplanes that
can be sent to help any country
that resists the Nazi menace.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Defense Strikes

Uncle Sam is a very tolerant old
gentleman, and he waits long
time before cracking down on any
body. The strike situation at a
great aviation plant at Inglewood,
California, had gone too far, and
he has put his army men in control
of the plant. and he asked for CO.
operation by all the workers who
went out.
The country urgently needs air
planes, and many more things, to
save US from aggressors roaring
over the earth like raging lions,
dropping their bombs on harmless
people who have never done injury
to anybody. Workers in defense
plants may think they have their
grievances. and are entitled to
protest. The government asks
them to make their protests with
out stopping the work so urgently
needed, and submit their griev-
ances to fairly constituted boards
of arbitration or mediation.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Age Limit For Draftees

A top age of 81 years for men
drafted for military service is
asked by the director of selective
service. Military service calls for
the highest physical vigor. Some
of the elasticity of early youth has
gone out of many men when they
reach 81 years. This does not
mean that man of 27 years neces-
sarily enters any physical decline.
If he has kept up the active pur-
suits of early youth he may be just
as vigorous as ever.
The average man Of % has gone
to work on some job that does not
give him an all-round physical de-
velopment. Through lack of ath-
letic exercises, good part of
these men are not so we'll qualified
for strenuous duties. Also whole
lot of them are married or about to
be. They can't take a years stop
page of their work so we'll as the
average younger fellow.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Curbine The AirpIane

Ex-President Herbert Hoover, in
college commencement address,
called upon the research scientists
to find an answer TO the work the
airplane is doing in attacking civil
ians and running cities. He pointed
out how airplane bombing has
made an aggressor far more pow
erful, so the cruel rain of hate can
descend upon innocent people, and
help enslave the world.
The noble and glorious pioneers
who discovered and perfected air
fight never dreamed their superb
invention would be used to terror
ize peace-loving populations, and
turn the works of man into dust
and ashes, and whole cities into
slaughter-houses.
If the scientists could find some
kind of rays that would spot hos
tile plane. and bring 1t down to
earth, the miserable people Of Lon
don and many half ruined cities
could sleep peacefully again in
their own beds, and not fear that
their lives would end before morn
ing.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
FouIing Ones Own Nest

There is an old saying that ITS
a poor bird that fouls its own nest. :"
1t is applied to human life, by say
ing that people who speak dis
paragingly of their own families
obtain nothing for themselves, and
they give poor impression Of the
conditions under which they have
developed. Whatever you may
think about your family, better not
speak any adverse thoughts about
that family in public.
1t is the same in regard to the
home town. Harsh remarks about
the place in which you live are too
like the bird that fouls its own
nest. Even If the town does not
provide everything you would like,
don't make it seem still more lack
ing by speaking unfavorably of it.
Too many people just see the dis
advantages of q community, and
fail to realize how small these
slight blemishes are, compared
with the fine advantages which it
offers.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
This Seething World

according to some observers
the worlds wars, the internal so.
cial troubles, the spread OF Com
munism. ETC., are not due primarily
to racial hates or the ambitions of
any one man, but to the general
condition Of discomfort In the
world. Many countries are fight
ing wars. There is conflict be-
tween class and class. between sec
ton and section. The orderly pro-
cesses of industry are torn to
pieces by these struggles.
The state Of the world is as IL
the sea was torn into great en-
quilting pillows by tornadoes, while
the earth is being shaken by
mighty commissions which threaten
to level all the works of man into
the dust.
These tremendous upheavals are
shaking human society to its very
foundations. Many people say they
are due to social discomfort, the
unhappy feelings of multitude Of
miserable people. This may ac-,
count in part for the war which
Germany is making. The people Of
that country we're reduced to such
despair following the World War
that they were ready to take up
with any violent leaders who
should promise them happiness
and recovery.
The troubles of mahy countries
and of many people are not due to
any despotic and unjust govern
ment, but just to their own plain
lack of sense. Democratic govern
ments failed in some, countries be-
cause their people did not have the
sense and the Judgment to choose
wise and competent rulers.
There has been a vast amount
of misery and unhappiness in most
countries. including our own. If
that misery is due to peoples own
faults, little can be done about 1t,
except to educate the children up
to a point where they can provide
for themselves. In so far as 1t is
due to failure of government to
give people a fair chance, it is
fault that has to be remedied, IL
we expect TO have unity and peace
and progress.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Slow-Poke Drivers

The State Of Delaware is trying
out regulation by which it is a
misdemeanor to drive cars slowly
enough to impede traffic. 1t is
claimed that "slow-poke" drivers
tempt the faster ones to get out
of line, so that accidents result.
If all the drivers poked along
slowly, there would be few smash
es. With most of them wishing to
drive fast, and a few wanting to go
slow. some people get into trouble.
The slow driver does well to keep
to the back roads on crowded days.
The fast driver should realize that
1t is more important for him to
keep his car and himself safe than
to save a few minutes at the end
of his journey.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Americans Best Fighters

Lieut.. Gen. Ben Lear, soldier
for 4S years, says the new United
States soldier has the qualifica-
tions to become the worlds great
est fighting man, if he can have the
necessary equipment.
The Germans, in 1918, when the
American soldiers in France push
ed through the most terrific diff
culties of rugged country, found
out then that he was the greatest
fighting man the world had known.
That experience with its tough
qualities is one reason why Mr..
Hitler has been slow to stir up our
country. He has taken things
from us that he would nnot take
from any neutral country else
where. He has reason to fear the
indignation of every patriotic
American at the things he is trying
to put over on the world.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Against The Hatless Fad

The hatters are taking active
steps to counteract the fashion
under which many men, particu-
larly the younger fellows. go with
out hats. The attractive new lids
make the masculine head so fasci-
mating, that the hatless boys may
not be able to resist them.
There seems good reason for
wearing hats, even in summer. The
boy who weeds the garden likes to
get under the shade of thick tree
on hot day. The shade of a good
wide-brimmed straw hat should
seem equally refreshing. There
are cool days. when the chill air
may give one cold. What does
a man at the ball grounds do
when the home team makes the
winning run, if he has no hat to
throw into the air?
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Science And Education

The graduates OF schools and
colleges have been hearing wise ad-
vice from baccalaureate sermons,
commencement orators, etc. While
some of these young people feel
they have had more advice than
they can absorb. the time when
they start their journey into undis-
covered country is one when even a
sophisticated youth is apt to listen.
One suggestion frequently given
is that education in science is not
enough by itself. The youth and
the country need to know what
that science is TO be used for. Ger
many has done wonders in giving
scientific education. but that
science is being used to reduce
whole countries to servitude, to
terrorise innocent people. to send
women and children to premature
graves, and to frighten the whole
world.
Science is a wonderful instru-
ment. It offers the young man of
today perhaps the best chance for
material success. The scientific
man is surer of job than anybody
else. The world simply has to have
his technique.
If that science simply supplies
material things, it may not supply
that sentiment of fraternity and
kindness and justice which the
world so terribly needs. Young
people need training that shall de-
velop moral standards, and also
show the nations how they can
live together in peace.
The world is being torn to pieces
by conflict between nations and be-
tween classes and elements in So
ciety. The human race has made
advances in technical
but in the great science of
human relations, in justice, hu-
nanity and generosity, it makes
slow progress. 1t is not easy to
change young peoples ideals. You
ian teach them science out of
books and lectures; but it takes
more than books to per-
suade them to be generous and un-
selfish and fair.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Milford, Friday, June 20, ls4I
Cupid's June Harvest

Little Cupid gathers in great
crop of brides and bridegrooms
during the month of June. He has
been shooting arrows continuously.
The heart is more sophisticated
than formerly. A good deal of. its
fiber is tough. When the owner
thereof hears some suggestion of
love and marriage. the answer is
apt to be 20, yeah
Still Cupid represents the great
est power on earth. Few men can
resist him indefinitely. More of
the women folks seem able to hold
him on. They probably say Cupid
does not produce the standard
goods he used to.
Anyway, Cupid turns up every
June with the usual number Of
weddings. and not many bride
grooms get so panicky that they
run for the door. The wedding fes-
tivitles go of in blaze of glory.
the bride is invariably the loveliest
ever, and the bridesmaids are so
bewitching that the ushers go
home with Cupid darts already
landed in their hearts. The pic
ture ofTthe June wedding scene
grows more colorful every year. as
the decorator and dressmakers
think up new schemes for making
a brilliant spectacle out of the
affair.
For all true lovers, and there are
a multitude of them. the wedding
day is the high point of life. 1t
opens the door to the best happi-
ness. The great majority of we'd
ded couples are able to live
peacefully and quietly, and obtain
the great benefits of married life.
So marriage is in the main a sue
cess, in spite of all the dismal
separations and occasional bicker-
ing.
The newlyweds should realize
that they all can find happiness, if
they will make concessions and
treat their welded partners as
they would like to be treated
themselves. So to all the newly
married, or those contemplating
marriage, there go the best wishes
of the community for prosperous
voyage through the sunshine and
the stoEms of life.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Conservation of Resources

Conservation has been one OF
the watchwords Of America. We
are rightly told to conserve our
forests, our soils, our water pow
ers, our mineral resources, etc. II
we fail to do so, our country will
eventually become poor.
Every town has to learn to con-
serve its own resources, If it is to
keep up with the rest Of the coun-
try. One of those resources con-
sists of its buying power. When
the people of a town spend their
money away from home. they are
wasting the resources Of the COM
munity. That money If spent at
home, would help build up the
home town. If scattered around
elsewhere. the power that might
help build up the town is thrown
away.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Johnny Get Your Gun

In the little village of Meddy-
bemps, Maine, where only 81 per-
sons live, every man, woman, or
child has arranged to be the owner
of one of the new defense bonds.
If the whole country would come
across with equal proptness, many
of the worries of the country would
be provided for. Uncle Sam needs
that money. The old song ran
Johnny get your gun, for there's
going to be a war" Uncle Sam has
not yet asked Johnny to use that
gun in any war, and he hopes he
won't have to. But he believes, in
this warning world, that it is de-
sirable for Johnny to have a gun,
and it will take billions of money
to buy all those firearms and the
elaborate stun that goes with
them.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
School Population Declining

School classes in many cities are
declining because the number of
children is reduced. A few years
ago many cities were almost break
ing the backs of the taxpayers by
the money required for new
schools. The great armies Of i'm
migrants that used to come in and
produce big families are not COM
ing now, and after they get here
they tend in time to follow the Am
erican small family habit.
The country will not need to
spend such great sums for new
schoolhouses. 1t does need to
spend enough for teaching to see
that every child gets enough edu-
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
New Group To Register

All men who have become 81
years of age since the last regis
tration day, October 16, are re-
quired to register on July 1. This
requirement is part of the price
they pay for being citizens of such
a wonderful country. They have
received blessings and benefits
such as the youth of no country
ever experienced before. These
benefits are not to be had for moth
ing. The best blessings of life
come tagged with a price, which
has to be paid.
In no foreign lands are there
schools which compare with those
of the United States. In no foreign
land is the chance so good for a
youth from an obscure home to
rise in the world. In the old coun-
tries, If a boy was born of an OBJ
scure family, he almost invariably
had to remain in obscurity all his
days. Save in a few exceptional
instances, there has been no chance
to rise.
The United States, with its free
dom and opportunity, gives large
chances to rise to every boy and
girl. Countless numbers of them
have risen from conditions of ex-
treme poverty to high places.
These chances came because our
country is land of freedom. But
that freedom has to be preserved.
The young men are the only ones
who have the strength to do it.
They will be proud that they have
the strength to give that protec-
tion.
The requirement of registration,
the chance that these young men
will be called to spend a year in
training, is a disturbing thought to
many young men. To many it looks
like an interruption of their plans
for work, business, further educa-
ton, or possibly marriage.
These storms of danger and
duty and more or less arduous SER
vice will pass, as they always have.
Any young man to whom this mill
tary service seems an onerous task
should reflect that 1t will make him
stronger physically, more alert
mentally, and constitute one of the
most valuable experiences of his
life.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20
Flirting With The Help

A certain joker tells about the
boy who was told to get acquainted
with the nurse and kiss her nicely.
The kid replied that if he did. he
might get his face slapped, same
as his father did.
The husband who fiirts with the
nice secretary, nurse, or house.
maid, is a traditional joke. There
are some seductive charmers
among these workers. Father is
permitted to look at them and
maintain pleasant social relations.
But hands off" is the only safe
rule for him. Many homes have
been disrupted because father
could not stand the strain of a
pretty face or fascinating man
ner.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20

THE HORSES do not pull the
load by kicking, nor do the motors
pull the automobile by stalling.
Men. animals, and machines have
to keep pulling and pushing to get
the home town ahead.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20

DOES SUCCESS come by reach
ing out for things, or by standing
and waiting until they come? The
people who advertise their goods
believe it comes by reaching out
for things
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20

cation so he can find his way
around in country that wants
people able to support themselves.
Milford chronicle., 1941-06-20

All things come to the other fell
low, if you only sit down and wait.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-30
ALL-STARS p.C.LEAGUE
 TEAMED UP
South, Cdptdined by Lefty 0DouI, Beats North.
 Led by Martin

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 30. The South defeated the North last night 3 to 1, in the first an- nual Pacific Coast League All-Star game before a crowd of 1l,000 fans.
 The game was played as bene- fit for the Association of Profess sional Baseball Players of America.
 Harry Lowrey. Los Angeles An gels leftfielder, scored two of the South's runs Each time he was brought home by Clidd Dapper, Hollywood catcher.
 Pepper Martin managed tn e North and Lefty O'Doul the South.
 The Norths were held to three hits while. the South got six hits.
 The South All-Stars were repre- sented by San Diego. Hollywood, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
 The North All-Stars were com posed of Seattle, Portland, Sacra- mento and Oakland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-07-30
By RAY BLOSSER AP Feature Service

CLEVELAND, July 30 - Jeff Heath, who lets things get under my skin more than lot of other people," is back on the warpath for the American League batting crown now that the Cleveland In- dian tepee is under Roger Peckin- paughs care.
 With a booming 343 in his fresh man year, the 25-year-old outfield- CT finished a close second to Jim my FORK for the 1888 hitting title. Then he fell into a two-campaign slump of .292 and .219 before snap ping out of it this season.
 Jeff, frequently described as one of the best natural hitters in the ball banging business, is nervous and unusually sensitive to factors which while they annoy other play CTS, do not seriously impair their efficiency.
 He feels that conditions leading to the Indian rebellion of 1940 af- fected his play "a great deal"
 Didn't Give Up"
 Tt wasn't that I gave up-I didn't. It ate my heart out to sit on the bench, and not to be al- lowed to stay in the lineup long enough to get started. This year I just started hitting the ball again and got back into stride"
 Jeff's average was soaring around .370 as he spoke, but he declared