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The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

ANU 10 NOW iOOAr OOITN1
ITS PART ON ALL FRONTS IN
DEFENSE PROGRAM SAYS
w. S. CLIFFORD
Talk Given on 1.-THE Telephone
Hour" Radio Program, Monday
Evening, Nov. 10, 1e41, by w.
S. Clifford, Pres, American
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
When I last spoke to you, just
about a year ago, I told you that
the Bell System was ready to do
it's part on all fronts in the nations
defense program.
Now, after twelve months, I
want to tell you how the job has
been going. First of all, it is a
big job. the biggest we have
ever been called upon to perform,
and it has been tackled with the
determination to do the impossible
rather than trying to show why
the possible can't be done.
Everywhere people have been
reaching for the telephone to speed
the defense job. This has meant
a tremendous increase in it's use,
and we now have to handle many
millions more telephone calls a day
than we did a year ago. Army
camps and naval bases, shipyards
airplane factories and munition
plants have had to have new or
greatly expanded telephone fac
ilties. -. most of them with the
word rush" written all over them,
and many of them in areas that
IA year ago were corn fields or
sand dunes.
Yes, it is a big job, because we
must maintain all telephone scr
vice at a high level if calls vital
to national defense are to go thru
quickly. Let me illustrate: Just
the other day we received a letter
from a man in Buffalo. In it lie
thanked us because a long dis
lance call he made to San Fran
cisco had been completed in a mo
ment or SO. He said that in this
case we had done an unusual ser
vice because the call was of a very
great Importance to the defense
b1rogram. Well, naturally, tele-
phone people like to get such
thanks. But the fact of thG1mat-
ter is that no special considerat-
ion was given to that particular
call, for we don't know which call,
of those pouring in upon us, is the
important one to the national de-
Tense. To be sure of serving de-
tense needs all calls should go
&
through swiftly and efficiently.
I hope you will agree that we
have so far successfully met the
demand for telephone service,
| great as it has been. Neverthe-
less. because of conditions beyond
our control such as the shortage
! of copper and other essential mat
erials, it may be as time goes on,
| that we cannot continue to meet
the demands with the same liz
| cess. However, 1 pledge you that
we shall continue to do our very
best.
The telephone and the radio are
essential in very special ways IN
military operations. Fast moving
tanks and airplanes, for instance,
keep in touch with their comm
ands by radiotelephone. The sir
raid warning service relies On
what are called "radio-sentries'
and on civilian observers who tel.
ephone their observations of =
envy aircraft to the proper de.
tense center. These and many
other military needs near new
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

Ans: Don't you think if your
second husband loved you. he
would try to show it other than
buying cold drinks and talking to
you when he sees you out? He is
terribly infatuated with the wom-
an he is with right now and only
treats you nice because you did
mean something to him once My
honest suggestion is that you be
nice to this third husband as he
loves you, is sincere in every re
spect and will make you a good
mate. Stop going out just to
meet this second husband.
L. S.-Please let me know IL
you think I should take the job
that has been offered me about
200 miles away?
Ans: Take it. At the present
time you are badly in need of a
change, especially what happened
the first of October. The new
job will make it possible for you
to meet new high type friends
and that is exactly what you need.
N. B. RI was with a man IL
years and we have two children.
We separate because he likes the
night life and I don't. He is beg
ging me back right now since he
found out a nice, high type man
with plenty of money is going
with me. The new man wants tc
marry me too. Tell me what L
do and which one to marry. The
first man says he will marry me
now.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22
CHURCHILL ASKED TO REPLY
TO NAACP. CHARGES

New York-The NAACP cabled
England's Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, Friday, November II,
asking him for a reply to the AS
sociation's letter sent by Clipper,
September 26. The letter named
instances where Negroes had beer.
disseminated against by British
agencies operating in this country.
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

B. C. TT have married The
third time. My second husband
still pulls after me and I can't
help myself loving him. I love,
him so hard. This man I am mar
ried to is real nice to me in every
way. But everytime I see my
second husband he will buy me
cold drinks and be nice. Does he
love me or just playing?
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

A. E. LII started to write you
before but I was ashamed. I
know that 1 did my wife wrong so
please help me and tell me what
to do to get her back again. I
love my wife but some people are
talking. Write me and I will do
anything that you say.
Ans: Go to your wife and ask
forgiveness. Be sure that you
have money in your pocket e
dress her up for that will go q
long way toward winning her
back after the break she has re-
Gently. Your wife is no fool. I.
if you try any of your monkey
business with her again, she will
throw you down and she will nev-
er change her mind:
Live up to your marriage code.
M. What is wrong with my
feet and my head pains me some
thing terrible. I want to send foi
my reading when it gets ready?
Ans: You must go to a reliable
doctor there in your city for treat
ment. he can diagnose your case
and help you. Yes, the new 1912
Astroology Readings are ready
now. The prices is Csc. Send for
The Omaha guide., 1941-11-22

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send all letters to Able WALLACE, p. o. Box, II, Atlanta, George
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07
REPRESENTATION

There are many states that have
already elected women to their state
defense councils and this is proof
that men recognize the ability of
women in special work for the ma
tion's need. There are many lines
where woman's help is necessary and
where she is most talented to lead
in community work, which is es-
pecially true of education, health
and community welfare work. The
states are wise to place women on
their councils and those states who
have not done so should realize that
they are overlooking a real contri-
button. Women today are lining up
their forces to assist in the indus
trial end of the present defense pro
gram. They hold important places
in industry. They have their hands
in airplane manufacture, are en-
ployed in mechanical fields that
need precision and dizziness which
they can so ably fill. So as woman
assists in the field of labor, in the
community scene for national de-
fense, she should by rights have her
sex represented on the state coun-
ellis for defense.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07
Southern Guest on
Extended Local Visit

HIGHLANDS Olive Hay
ward of California who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Murray
Brown (nee Louise Simsen) in Yaki-
ma, has returned to the home Of her
mother, Mrs. Bertha Simsen for an
extended visit before leaving for her
home in Los Angeles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Preston and
sons, Wallace Jr. and Billy, made a
business trip to Spokane last week.
While there they were guests at the
H. d. Klum home. Enroute home
they visited the w. d. Moore fam
lily in Ritzville. The Moores are
former Kennewick residents.
MIR. and Mrs. Bert Perkins and
son, Harold, left Saturday evening
for a weeks vacation trip on the
coast. Enroute, they were Satur-
day night guests at The Pearl Per-
kins home in Yakima. They will
also visit their daughter, Mrs. Al
bert knight at Kent and their son,
Kenneth, who has been visiting his
sister, will return home with them.
Mrs. Frank Lampson motored to
Toppenish Saturday to visit her ia
ther, Mr.. Tuttle, who has been quite
i'll. Her sister, Mrs. Lampson, re-
turned home with her for visit.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07
WE DISAGREE

Picked up an editorial the other
day written by big town editor, a
cosmopolite I guess they are called,
in which he writes of the pleasures
of remaining in the city during the
summer instead of seeking country
side, seashore, mountains, lakes and
such hot weather retreats. He re-
marks that in the big city you won
run into a dose Of poison oak and
ivy, that you aren't going to get
a dose of sun-burn, you don't fight
mosquitoes, flies and COWS on every
hand; you won't be swindled in gro
ceries, rents and such by the ma
tives." You can take an air-con-
ditioned movie to a lake breeze. You
can take a stroll i'm city park to
cool off and I'll take my chances on
being refreshed by a morning of
fishing, even If I'm "skunked." May
be the city has something to offer
for summer complaints, but we pre-
fer to get away from town into a
spot of space and a. waiting of wind.
To loll back in the heat after you
let out the line, forget there is any
thing troubling you and that the
future holds snowy driveway,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07
CONSIDER THE DRAFTEE

When you are doing an extra
heavy job of complaining and your
electric fan doesn't stir up enough
breeze for you, the evening meal is
too heavy for summer consumption
and you go to a movie to cool off,
just remember the many thousands
of soldier boys who are in hotter
spots than yours, driving trucks and
drilling, carrying packs and digging
bitches, in the blazing sun. The case
where troops from an eastern camp
marched and waited in the heat OF
a day to he reviewed by a governor
who was over two hours late in
showing up, didn't cool us off any
either when we heard it. There is no
bonus waiting for these lads and al
though they may carry a heavier
coat of tan than you, have a more
thoroughly developed sense of rou-
tine and decidedly better physique
than both of us, they are perhaps
willing to exchange their place in
the army for your place on Ken
neWick porch.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07
SUMMER FIRES

With this month and next being
so popular for camping and picnick-
ing, it is wise to remember, before
leaving on the trip, that just such
a party as yours often causes dam
age in heavy wooded sections where
careless folks have smoked cigar
cites and flung the lighted match
into papers and rubbish. Perhaps
in building the camp fire to prepare
the meals they were not careful in
putting out the blaze before they
left the grounds. So is great dam
age caused in heavy wooded Sec
tons. There is so much needless
waste and havoc that is due to a bit
of thoughtlessness and little spark
becomes a great blaze that spreads
Through the woodside. If any Ken
neWick readers have seen a vast
tract of ground burned to a crisp,
swept barren by fire, the stumps of
trees as monuments to mans care
lessness, then you know the sadness
that fire leaves in its wake.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

It is said that person who is
rendered unconscious in an accident,
as a rule, does not remember the
events that transpired for several
seconds before the accident. The i'm
pressions have not had time to reg
lister upon the brain before uncon-
sciousness comes, hence there is no
record of them, and no memory of
them. For this reason persons in
volved in accidents in which they
are rendered unconscious are often
heard to say, 1'Well, the last thing
I remember was that we were roll
ing along smoothly on a good road
and the next thing I realized I was
in a bed injured"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

the pictures-is there because you want it. 1t
helps you to understand and appreciate the news.
However, make no mistake about this: The
important thing to you is how real the news
underneath is.
When government decides not to give you the
actual news, it piles on camouhage to fool you.
have before me. copy of Moscow paper
containing the story of what was actually hor-
rible piece of government bungling- according to
American observers long trained in reporting the
truth This story is gorgeously "colored." 1t
talks of the great bravery of the Soviet troops,
the cruel treachery and bestality of the enemy"
It claims glorious victory and tells of rejoicing"
that never happened.
| also have here Nazi account of an event
. which witnessed in America. know there's no
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

While the congress is looking
about for sources of revenue to fl
nance the defense program, why
not slap a good round tax On all
gambling, and nickel in the Slot ma
chimes? The suckers who have money
to throw away in this fashion should
be given liberal load of the defense
burden rather than the man who is
making legitimate uses of his money.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

there would be realsugar advertisement along
side which would knock the phony one into the
garbage heap where it belongs.
What makes this difference between our papers
and those of totalitarian Europe so important
TO you?
Just this. Aslong as you have papers free to tell
you the truth, no dictator can seize power, move
without your knowledge, mislead you into buying
shoddy substitutes.
Give up whatever Injuries these times OF crisis
demand. But if you ever hope to stay free, hold
onto your American-style newspapers
4
NOTE: The Newspaper Publisher Committee, composed
Of $50 leading American Newspaper publishes thes
simultaneously each week The force which unite
these Newspaper 10 their recognition Of their responDS
90 you. the reader.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

Whatever Hitler'S reasons were for
invading Russia the months respite
has been most welcome to England
It has also given her an opportun-
ity to catch up with Germany in the
air. The planes that England will
build and receive from the United
States during the period and the
losses sustained by Hitler in the
Russian engagement will come close
to giving England the supremacy of
the air. Once she really gains su-
premacy of the air Hitler is doomed.
German people won't take the STRAIT
fling that England has taken and re-
tain their morale.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07
One Day Huckeberrying
Nets Nearly Two Gallons

KENNEWICK George
and Ward Rupp went huckleberry
picking Monday and returned home
with one and one-half gallons of
berries.
Freddy Thompson is spending this
week in Spokane visiting friends
and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Marsh visit
ed their daughter and son-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Sroufe OF
Ethiopia over the week end. They
motored to Grande Coulee dam.
Cecil Phar of Orofino, Idaho was
Tuesday evening guest at the
H. III. DeHaven home.
George Rupp had a pleasant visit
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

Washington employers are busy
these days returning state question
naires On the new unemployment
compensation act, legally effective
July 1.-The 1911 legislature amend
ed the law to include all employ
ers of one or more, regardless of
duration of employment, instead of
former limitation to employers of
eight or more for at least twenty
weeks. Unemployment compensa-
ton taxes are paid exclusively by
employers, workers not participating.
The change is an outright tax in
crease on small businesses of per-
cent of their payrolls. Added to
other state and federal payroll lev
les, this makes payroll taxes in the
case of many industries the largest
item in their tax bills, often exceed
ing the total of all other taxes paid.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

We believe that the United States
should seize whatever points would
prove advantageous to an enemy in
the event Of war and discuss the
merits of the action afterwards. In
the present world situation the fell
low who stands back for fear he will
step on some one else's toes is going
to find himself crowded out of the
picture. It will be too late to dis
cuss things then. Let's take 'em now
and talk about it afterwards. We can
always Withdraw from them, but
after some one else settles on them
we can't very well go i'm.
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with his son, Boyd, of Chelan Sat
urday.
Mrs. Earl Dimond's brother and
sister-in-law, MIR. and Mrs. Harry
Este of Kensington, Kansas were
week end guests of the Dimonds
They are enroute to Olympia.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wallberg of
Colville are visiting at the home
of Mrs. Wallberg's parents, MIR. and
Mrs. Charles Lum.
Valley prune growers started pick
ing their crop today.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

carrying out the ashes, stoking
furnace or shaking out flannel I'M
derwear. The big city may be all
right in the summer with its re-
freshing enticements, but give us
a few weeks to "get away from it
ALI and we would jump at chance
to act as bait for charging mos
quito or the target for an ambitious
grocery-keeper. We wouldn't plan to
vacation in metropolis if we could
help it!
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

Strange how some people who
never did a newspaper editor favor
in their lives beat it to the office
when they get into jam and ask
the editor to keep mention of it out
of the paper. Such people should
remember that the editor isn't re-
sponsible for the news. He doesn't
make it. He merely prints the news
that other people make.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

Once a man decides to keep his
ear to the ground and never take a
stand on matters of public interest
until he discovers what the senti-
ment Of the public is, he heals his
fate. Such a man may continue in
office for some time, but he will
never go down in history as lead
er. History will merely mention him
as one of those who "also served"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

Every community should have at
least one community project each
year in the doing OF which the peo-
pie of the community could unite in
a single effort. Such a project is
good for the community and the
people who make it up.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07
NEWS
COLOR
By NORMAN CHANDLER
choirmos
Newspaper Publishers Committee

kswzpopsr Publishers Committee
A DIRTY, rusty car may run as
"A well and last as long as a clean
and shiny one. But it isn't worth"
as much to most of us.
Imention this because I've heard
people criticize the brightness and
"color" which goes into your news
papers. The which is to say
the sidelights, the descriptive stories,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

Chungking gunboa, Tuua" which
socaled safety zone" when she hit The Jap
Washington their apologies The Tuua
1927 She 37Oon craft with length of 1872 foot
10 machine carried
compliment of So officers and men.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

TO prove that We are mors 49,,
minded as we grow nlSa .e sorcad,
Judge Huntington, you isISs. , saN
low by what he is than NV ~ s., 3 ~
used to be-" W Wiat .,
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Living long enough to ca. -,
trouble between nation ose al To
81 ISI says makes us more OOu rru
alone" s o. Nan
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PICK ED up
TOWN

According to Rueben GeSt, Job
is the only person who would con-
sistently wait for the lights to
change.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-08-07

Women are so busy these days"
AYERS Clyde Higley THAT they have
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ationS." Nler oDe,
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grain of truth in It. The story is designed deliber
ately to nlisIead. 81.
American newspapers, thank goodness, are de-
signed to inform. True, an imaginative reporter
may describe tenement-doorstep romance as a
beautiful and touching scene. He may describe
corner brawl as threatened riot. But you can bet
your last dollar that there was a love scene and
that there was a brawl.
The reason is simple. There is no force to make
American newspapers describe something which
doesn't happen. There is a great force which
makes them report what does happen. 1t is the
force of free public opinion, which in America
has the power of life and death over newspaper.
Consider newspaper advertising also. have
German newspaper advertisement in my hands
which tells readers, very colorfully, that chem
ical substitute for sugar is oh-sogood. In America
|N -
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R. E. REED, Editor and Publishe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-26
| US. } ]. Army 1! T Boxers to Show at New Haven
 Monday Evening

New Haven, Sept. 26.-A five-rnan team of United States Army boxers from Aberdeen, Md, will headline Monday nights amateur boxing show at the New Haven Arena, Pro- moter Dick Gray has announced, and the change to Monday has been made in order that the army fight ters could make the trip.
 Bernie Sandson, q former faenn- Der of the Penn State College box Ing team, now a member of Uncle Sam's college, will box Pat Ven- drillo, Manchester welterweight, in the main event of the l0-bout card
 Irish Jimmy Carr, another Of the soldier boys, will take on Tommy CHI, hard-hitting West Haven well terweight.
 Herman Badger, local lisht-heavy- weight, meets Irish Ted Cole, an- other of the group from Maryland, and Irish Frankie Clarke, soldier featherweight, faces Bobby OBrien of Hartford. The fifth U. s. Army man on the card will be Irving Simonsvitz, who will box Tim Renick,, Hartford lightweight.
 Teams from Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Meriden, Naugatuck and New Haven will be on hand to make up the remaining bouts on the card.
 Gray has arranged for & radio ringside blow-by -blow description of the Joe Louis-Lou Nova fight to be heard ct the Arena.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-26
Cadets Name O'Brien
 l94l Hoop Captain

The Cadets A. c. held their first basketball meeting for this season last night at the Central Y. M. Q. A. lobby. Hill Knightly, who led the Cadets last season, gave way 70 Gene O'Brien who will hold the reins for the coming season, as cap- tain of the 194l-42 team. George Colby was named manager. while Bill Knightly was reappointed to the office of treasurer.
 The basketball team will hold its initial practice Monday under the direction of Coach Rudy Marano. The practice will be held with the following boys ready to go into ac. tion: Guy Deihl, John Kelly. Ed Fagin, John Egan, c. Armour, Mark Scott, Rudy Marano, Gene O'Brien' Billy Knightly, John True, Jack Scott, Vinny De Lucia, Joe Cetta, Joe Culotta, Guy Sadnlh, John Ci- priano, Lucian Helaire.
 At the confab last night the Cadets voted to get jackets and new suits which they hope to have be- fore there first game.
 The officers this year are: Ed ward Fagin, president; Gene O'Brien, vice president; Bill Knightly, treasure; John Scott, sec retary. Rudy Marano was chosen as head of the social activities.