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DOUGHBOYS OF 1941

In all the hullabaloo over slow ness of national defense production, not much has been said about the good old infantry, which, despite modern warfare, still remains the backbone of the U. s. Army.
 Under the quiet, steady plugging If General George Lynch. the in -antry has been making such head vay that by comparison the infantry )f 1917 looks like an antique.
 For instance, an infantry regiment n 1917 had 2,50O riflemen out of a sotal of $500 men in the regiment. But the modern infantry regiment mas only 900 riflemen, with the rest of the men operating tanks, mortars, heavy machine-guns light machine guns and repeating rifles.
 In other words, the modern in- fantry regiment actually carries its own light artillery. It can operate quite effectively without supporting artillery. And instead of going into
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CAPITAL CHAFF

To ease the sore lot of Defense Housing Commissioner Charles F. Palmer, the President has written a personal letter to each member of the Defense Commission, asking CO., operation with Palmer. Repre- sentative Carl Durhams comment on a Merry Co., Round note that he was a crack golfer: You fellows have fixed me so I won't be able to get a golf bet in North Carolina" <. A foresighted survey by AFL Secretary George Meany and John Coyne, building trades boss, has a lot to do with AFL,s cooperation in the na- tional defense program. Meany and Coyne got up a roster of available workers in the various building crafts, and when men are needed for a defense construction job, the AFL calls them from this directory
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20 YEARS AGO FIFE FIT EMPIRE
FEBRUARY 25, 1921


  Alaska the Alaska Road Commission staton according statement Officer chased for this purpose.
 Max Pscmann returned the Ambassador from Chcago he installed Simplex moving picture machine theatre mining MT. F. Ring daughter on having been in Juneau week MT Ring pulp engineer for the Alaska Pulp and Paper Company Representative Latrop the Third Division resident of Codova souhbound the Northwestern.
 MT. G. Gypsum Mir Moser the Pacific Compan mine and he and Mrs Moer had been spending week in 
 Joe Chchagof registered at the Zynda. Weather: Highest
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HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 bat do not comapeW
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Benefic aspects rule strongly to- day which should be unusually for tunate for men and wonlen. The configuration encourages indepen- dence, which may not be approved by those who exercise dictatorial authority.
 Heart and Home: This is one of the rarely fortunate days for, wom- en of every walk in life. Workers should find recognition in their daily tasks, promotions and in crease of wages. Girls may. expect devotion from just the right young men. It is an suspicious date for social affairs, especially for, home hospitalities This is a promising sway under which to seek new po- sitions It is time for fortunate beginnings.
 Business Affairs: Merchants are under a sway encouraging to am- bilious projects. It is favorable time to launch new branches of stores or offices. Opportunity ap- pears to beckon to men and wom- en of small capital and. large am bitions. This is a time for effort toward self-sustaining policies for communities. Astrologers .recom- mend that the idea be developed of assuring plenty in agricultural and mercantile resources as, safe guards in time of national emer- gency. !os}
 National Issues: AS theo need of vast production becomes more, inn perative interest will increase next month in methods of expanding large manufacturing plants in a way that will cause the smallest loss and the least dislocation, after the war menace ends. Heads of cor porations will cooperate generous ly with the government, making sacrifices of plans and policies for the benefit of the nation. The stars presage fame for men at the head of great business organizations
 International Affairs: Dominions and colonies of the British Empire will meet many obstacles in con- tributing their share to the war forces and war costs. Difficulties due to separations from London by land and sea will be increased by new wartime activities of the ene- my. The United States Navy will perform tremendous service in a crisis, if the stars are rightly in- terpreted
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of ad- vancement and happiness They should push all their interests to the limit.
 Children born on this day have possibilities of supreme success in life. They probably will combine with rare talents stable characters and magnetic personalities. (Copyright, 1941)
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LOOK and LEARN ay asy c. GORDON

Why by  What the date of the following B. C.? a of regulation baseball baD? What piece ANSWERS
  to he 2. 3. it's at 4. 5. The main a
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MERRY-GO-ROUND

Nothing of any importance hap pens in the REC without board meeting, with resolutions and de- bate. At a recent meeting, reso- lution was brought forward to pro- vide each board member with a portable radio for use in his office. This time the resolution passed without debate. Add to our earlier list of 20 foreign born mem bers of Congress the name of Harry Sauthoff of Wisconsin. born in the Province of Hanover, Germany. |. j. Farm Security's burly Jonathan Garst bursts from conference room saying, Many people confuse comforting with performing" A Viennese artist named Oskar Stoes- sel is making set of etchings of the Supreme Court Justices. He has completed work on Stone and Doug las. Justice Stone, whose wife is an artist, helps arrange the sittings.
 Copyright, 1941, by United Feature
 Syndicate, Inc)
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AN AGE FOR SOOTHSAYERS

These are great days for the astrologers, sooth- sayese smists numerologists and tealeaf readers, T' 1d's immediate future is so full of horren-
 ihilities that almost nothing anyone could predict would be inconceivable Hitler himself, we are told. depends upon the stars for guidance They have done very well by him up to now, must admit.
 In the horoscope column which The Empire publishes daily for the amusement of readers with time on their hands may read good many things which could quarrel with. It is stated for instance, that mingled good and adverse aspects are discerned the horoscope for today that there will crisis for the United States that merchants should enjoy brisk Spring trade' that articles formerly made in Europe will be manu- factured in this country and soon will appear on the market and that need of becoming ally of Britain in the broadest sense will be heatedy dis cussed in Congress as the Empire reaches most perilous phase in the war" To all of this every man may say
 Reading on down the horoscope find that gravity the conflict will keener realiza- ton of the to the United States in the pos sibity of an Axis victory that days of extreme stress are forecast" that the heart will rule the mind when a sutor is accepted" that skilled em- ployees will be fewer than usual and they will mar1d high salaries that rise in the cost of living will be apparent when this months bills come in, 1" and that "Stalin will play peculiar game in his relation to the Axis powers"
 Of more interest because they daring and time has passed to allow them to be checked against events are set of prognostcations made in 1923 by Professor Raymond described as a Hun- garian living in Paris This seers predictions were set down in the San Francisco Chronicle of De- cember 15 1923. clipping containing them has been sent to The Empire by V. Suffecool, Skagway transfer man.
 The Professor predicted the election of President Coolidge in 1924 and a Republican victory in the Congressional elections. He the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr and a slow diminish ing of Engands power The French franc, he said, would fall to new low level and two Russian Boshevist leaders would be assassinated
 Looking farther into the future the seer saw a
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action, every man abreast, one man to yard, the modern infantry regi- ment is able to spread it's fire over tremendous area.
 In 1917 the U. s. Army did not have one machine-gun at the begin ming of the war and did not have tanks until the war was almost over. So it looks as if the modern dough- boy would be equipped to handle himself even more effectively than the doughboy of 1917-18.
 NOTE: General Lynch, who has headed the infantry for nearly four years, has almost completed his term of duty, but friends are hoping he will stay.
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Honorable Fox Cleans Up
Philadelphia Record)


 An armistice has brought to end the little noticed between Thailand (Siam and French Indo-C China; and little brown and yellow men have stopped killing each other in the jungles of Cam bodia
 Who the war? Japan
 The terms of the peace just announced fulfill the prediction made last week by official of Thailand. He said that his country and Indo-China were couple of rabbits fighting with Japan the fox acting mediator
 Now the fox has announced what he wants as his price of mediation; that price deprives the Indo China authorities of nearly all political and economic control of their country Japan gets virtual mono poly of Indo-Chinas rice, rubber and coal; free hand in exploitation of natural resources; permission to establish bases and to maintain inspectors at all custom houses (Japan, too may give it's puppet, Thaiand, part of Cambodia).
 One of the bases granted Japan is at Cam Ranh Bay 800 miles-or less than four hours the bombers fy-from the British base at Singapore and little nearer Manila in the Philippines. Other bases will enable Japan to increase her attacks on the Burma Road China's lifeline
 The world in the next few months may wish it had paid attention to the in the land of Kmers that strange people who built the mysterious temple of Angkor Vat
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do T didn't do nothing of the kind" affirmative didn't ANY THING of the kind" did NOTHING of the kind" OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED Righteous. ri-chu LIE rit-yus.
 OFTEN N1ISSPEILED: Reticent: CENT Judgment discrimination shrewdneS asuteness, perspcacy
 WORD STUDY: a yours"
  AUSPICIOUS giving prosperity happiness dieting good suspicious beginning"
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FlOULNN LIIuOLliL ROBERTA LEE

Should employee office carry long, chaty personal conversations the during office hours?
 asleep person will soon be stopped. Isn't the keep dinner table?
 A. While she of duty this regard the table responsible
 O. When should the cards a wedding reception be maled
 These cards should be enclosed the wedding
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Little known to John Q. JCiti- zen is Stacy May, director Of the Bureau of Research and Statistics, Defense Program. Nevertheless, he's as famous as movie star among economists the world over.
 The bureau is the central agency which provides defense commis- sioners with needed information, quickly, to aid outlining defense policies.
 A Brookings Ph.D,, May has been teacher at Amherst, Broolwood Workers College, Dartmouth, Cor nell and Columbia universities, so- cial sew1sF director of the .Rocke- feller Foundation, on NlsA con-
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REPUBLICANS vS. REPUBLICANS

Republican Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire has been opposed to Roosevelt on almost every New Deal measure before Congress. But on the lend-lease bill, much to the consternation of certain COP col leagues, he is not.
 Hearing this, isolationist Senators Taft and Vandenberg dropped around to see Bridges and convert him.
 Why didn't you go with Willkie on his trip to London?" one of them jibed. You're no good to us here ?
 And your partnership, replied the New Hampshire Senator, "isn't doing the party any good either"
 NOTE: Bridges has told Senate Democratic leaders he will try to convert as many Republicans to the lend-lease bill as he can.
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GRowDEN IS CANDIDATE

Mayor William N. Growden has announcd he is a candidate for re- election at Fairbanks and on his ticket will be Dr. H. G. Hughes, Alden L. Wilbur and John Botro- vich Jr., for Councilmen. Three Councilmen are to be elected.
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sumer's advisory board. He's been at research all his life.
 May was born April 18, 1896, at Philadelphia. Married Katherine Hardness of Florida. has two chill dren.
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MEN AT WORK

ZURICH, SWitZerland-With a population of four million, Swift zerland has only 11,000 registered with the employment offices as out of work. Of these 34 percent are over 60 years of age.
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Illustrative of cooperation be- tween Greek Americans and Italo- Americans, pr. P. s. Constantinople, well-known Capital medioc of Greek descent, greeted his Italian barber with: Lost any customers as re- suit of this war, Tony?" No Greek customers" Tony replied, but a good many Americans" They shouldn't hold you responsible for Mussolini," observed the doctor.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

FEBRUARY 25 Mrs. Carl Floridan Sigurd Wallstedt Mrs. B. H. Manery Jirdes Winther George T. Matheson
 Evelyn Cliff
 James Armstrong Philip T. Sawyer A. F. Cleminger Stanley F. Jones
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The United States army is to be increased to 100000 in 1942.
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Subscribe to the Daily Alaska Empire-the paper with the larges. paid circulation. 4
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The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL aSka newspaper.
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The wave of the future" seems to have received a serious setback from the Wavell of the present
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Empire Classifieds Payl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23
A CONTEST FOR MARRIAGE MINDED YOUNG
AMERICANS

And who isn't Interested In marriarsheir
and else? these questions asked
by RUTH MAY KNELL Of 245-05 slN ave. BEILEROsE LONG
ISLAND. who receives $500 award, Here they
SHOULD THE WORD OBEY" M OMITTED FROM MOD
ERN WEDDING VOWS?
DOES DIFFERENCE or SEVERAL YEARS IN THE AGES
Of BRIDE AND GROOM CONSTITUTE HAZARD TO HAPPY
MARRIED LIFE?
18th ST. ", ATLANTA GEORGIA Roalene receives ~ prize.
SHOULD A GIRL MARRY SIMPLY TO ESCAPE sPINsTER-
HooDf
Three simple direct questions which need explanation
ampeatonbut what storm Of comment they're going 10 rasei
Give lone two hree briefly possible n-
cude full address and mot 5e and send all letters
ishsa. Contest closes April
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

they had TO remove his updsrshirt
with . putty knife.
In the kthies OF Dodging the
Drsll anything secs that you Eet
away with. We had a fellow in
our battery WHO started IN the
army healthier than butcher in
January. Well, he started to fold
Up the fiFkt week like he was a
camp chair a. q Cancelled picnic.
Every DAY that fellow got
weaker and thinner Until he went
from 200 pounds 10 about 90
pounds and a SODA cracker. When
ne vas att bones like picked
shRd they save him MS Rradua-
ton papers and away BE vent Ike
the cat that sat In the tuIpenlins
me- that irHow later tn life and
he tod me nov he did t. Every
morning he kntaked into the in
firmATy snd stole q dose OF castor
oil That's one thinE you would
figure nobody would kWlpe.
There va another fellow wha
had ths Ethies Of Dodging the
Draft down pretty GOOD Ne would
police the parade area and the
battery street when he eoule
have been resting Every tine he
ssWa piece Of paper he would
PICK Il up, COX II oVeT. put II back
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

The night before ! marched
away ! called on my beat sal, ana
theirs Ghs Vas psfehsd on thls
guys lap where .hs VA about
as mit A. a fan on 8 sesla naAe
That want 30 bad but he was
tanning her With his exemption
blank.
Well, / got huhky dory with that
bird. He married her 10 keep
cut Of the army and that was
tvsnty-four years sgo and the
var aln't over for him yet.
One fellow with uppfIA and
lovers like a Pullman slseping car
knew he couldn't set into The army
vithsut teeth. so he SINKS hia
uppers and lowers down an GDan-
ooned veil and reports for duty
With a smile that looked like to-
matoes hallway threvgh q kstehup
factory
Ne expected 10 be sent TiEht
back hnms. Ike q Pup tellexins
. boz 70 school, bit the sergeant
said. "fut hiH In the paymsstsF's
Department. licking the flaps On
pay envelopes. Yeu dsH't need
teeth for that"
ssfnfs the var NAt aver hat
ieAeSt tyfttm sat se iull o. clue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

him as nutty as a pecan grove
and handed him his discharge
from the Army. He locked st the
final paper and said. That's II. /"
In discussing the Ethics OF
IDodging the Draft, would say IL
Is easier 10 beat II after you are
tagged. Don't waste your time
writing TO Congressman because
that means you need q plurality
Of thirty-Six States.
I'm just dishlng up q few of the
ethics for the officers as we'll as
the men because figure both
sides should know the different
raekets. An officer should realize
that the LATEST guys aren't the
toughest goldbrickers.
Here's a real story on a gold
brieker who was the busiest man
in the army and volunteered for
the hardest work. He figured out
all the ways q man could iniure
himself, including shooting off his
biz toe from a standing start.
One day careful survey of per-
msnent dissblementS he picked
hts way out. saw him in the
battery park lifting a breech block
that ! know weighed one hundred
and fifty pounds. He pulled and
tugged until his eyes popped like
corn. There was no reason 10
move the breeeh block because
there was no place 10 put It. /
asked him what he was doing and
he said. "Sh-hb--Irh hernia min
Ing"
% you know that bird made ~
Well. In the Ethics Of Draft Dods-
Ing you stop a. nothing, like
Thermometer in Alaska.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

up, laugh. hare fun aud share dis
appointments - things could
Bepsr do NTH the other too.
"Loue Is not a matter Of holding
hands, parties aud kisses. ITS
HHdsFsiandiag and sharing things
o. importance Nth each other
rs eipe ana take.
At last I'm convinced that
mothers know best and all who
leys madly are blind. Nest people
leok different TO you after = year
than they did after a month Of fast
and furious romance.
DON'T MARRY IN HASTE
AND REGRET AT LEISURE.
WAIT AND nv SURE"
Shirley Il. MeFaden (age III
1901 Kenmore.
Chicago Ill.
$1,000 prize)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

The "In-law Problem" seems to
be the aspect OF this question
which bOthers STEPHEN II.
HAYES. OF sEWIcKLEY. Pa.
most.
In sanetiOninE parental advice
on the selection Of . mate" warns
steve. I'VE would only be enesuF-
aging the biggest Of all marital
bogies-the in-law problem. II
the success Of the pFopesed mar
rlage FeVOlved on the parents or
anyone other than the tw0 indi
Viduals themselves, l would say
Yes, b. all means, fellow their
advice. But II does moi and can
net The outcome will be based
entirely on what the husband and
wife themselves bring 10 the
union,
"Ths matrimonial union IS per-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

haps the most complicated and
certainly one Of the most personal
OF all human relatioHshipS. From
the time young people reach the
age OF emotional maturity they are
no longer IN need OF parental ad-
vice. Forced 10 look ahead and
work out their ol0H liUss, the
young couple has q much better
chance for success.
Faith, love, respect and . sense
Of responsibility are the factors
which make . happy and intslli-
gent marriage. No advice from
outsiders can SupeTseds them"
stephen II. Hayes (aee 49,
500 Locust place,
Sewickley, Pa.
$3.50 Prl1e)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

! WAS positive II was love, because
when either Of them called me ap
my heart beat faster and I had q
funny feeling In the pit Of my
stomach. When I sat beside them
or held hands with them at = movie
! got a thrill.
That's what II usually IL when
you think you sAR't live without
someone-juSt q thrill. My family
talked and pleaded with me, and ]
let them have their way. gave
up my supposed loved snes. \
thought when grew up they would
be waiting for me. They weren't.
81 am really in lore NTH an
other young man. This time my
family approves Of my choice. /
have kn6iDH him three years. so
this can't BE- q passing fancy.
RrerVtiIiHe il dllJsFeBt. win him
! can tax, argue, get angry. make
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

ARE RUTH cHArTERTON and Barry Thompson. the actor
secretly stitched He Lady chattsronk lover whsn they
Tonight We Dance ITS femmsar pack
Austin Of United Ditto for Hos
he the New Yorker csroonis FIFTH Avenue Hosp JACQUES
thss the playwright separated She
Boudo which he auth The between Count Count
Wiaume will She's the staff Vogue
that Hughes lovely Wilson
who the Paradise chorus before Hollywood thed her Aside
The credit Fbber MCGEE for Il Came Saw Congad
appreciated the editor Sounds Night Vernon
Duke dedicang his dt 70 Amarillo Morris OF Pal joey
the Woodwards7 Castlsross
Pantzs decoration Their chums call
them long and Pocket biography OF Geo Jean Natsn
Prom dish 10 Gesha
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23
Parents
Know Best
About Mates

PARENTAL ADVICE HOW
VALUABLE rs IT WHEN cnoos-
mo 4 MATE
coneetts FRANKIE. OF Milwaukee,
Wa, asked that question we
handed Il to you--ano here are
the results
DONALD BREskAEAN. Of
CHICAGO. MI, wins the boyS $40
prize With this eorking GOOD argu-
nent--
Dear MIS- RobiHsoN' Parsats
should haze little 70 say IN regard
20 choosing q spouse for thew
daughter or son. By the time
Their child has reached the age
srhas he IS thinking o. marriage
he should be able to make I'M
portant decisions such as this ioT
hinsslt. II he ant. then ne 70
not yet readE7o take on the I'M
porfaHt sob OF marriage.
II agree that 1t h q fine thing
n the sons fiaBces Is received
sraeiousiy, II not eagerly, By the
sons mother, but wheiehssrted
approval 10 not absolutely neees-
AIRY 10 the future happiness Of
the young couple.
PARENTS FIRST DUTY.
THE PARENTS FIRST DUTY
Is TO SEE THAT THEIE CHILD
Is REARED PR0PERLY-THAT
HE RECEIVES PROPER FOOD.
CLOTHING. SHELTER. EDUCA-
TON. RELIGIOUS TRAINING
AND SOCIAL CONTACTS THAT
WILL ENABLE HIM TO BECOME
A GOOD, HEALTHY, NORMAL
INTELLIGENT AND RESPoNs-
EBLE ADULT. II THEY HAVE
DONE THIS, THEY CAN BIZ
CERTAIN THAT IN WILL MAKE
A WISE CHOICE WHEN HE ST.
ILCTs A LIFE PARTNER.
"ssmetimes II b difficult fer
narents, mothers especially, TO
reaiixs that their children have at
last srewn Mp. They still Ieek
upen their offspring as little boys
and giris. This 10 Why they feel
impelIed TO offer advice and guild
anee.
But when the moment arrives
when the youngsters are children
no lsnFer, wise parents will rec
oEniEe the fact and will let them
make their swn decisions. They
will realize that while . sensible
son or daughter will welcome and
appreciate sound advice, the final
decision must rest with the young
people themselves. They know
that . marriage based on any
Ing but genuine love cannot
survive. and the youngsters must
follow the dictates Of their own
hearts"
DONALD BREsNAHAN age 49,
6S06 South Peoria at,
Chicago. III.
$1,000 prize)
CONVINCING REPLY.
That's plenty sound reasoning
Don. but here's SHIRLEY Nc
FADEN OF your own city. with o
mighty convincing come back.
Dear Miss Robinson and Young
People Of America: Twice my
family has stopped me from mar
rytng the wronE man. Zach time