The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-04-30
Straight From
Washington
BY STEPHEN NJ. YOUNG
Congressman at Large, Ohio

Washington. Congressman are
chuckling over Speaker Rayburn's at
tention to details. An anti-administra-
tion newspaper in his district COM
mented editorially on the letter of an
indignant grandmother, Mrs. J. Nj. Is
belle. She wrote, "My % year old
grandson has been in camp Is months
or more, and never gun yet. Shall
they fight with bare fiStSw Speaker
Rayburn secured and made public the
War Department record of Mrs. Is
bellies grandson, Private Lewis Stall.
Private Stall is a crack rifle shOt-an
Army Marksman.
Victory
| War Production Board officials
state there has been an amazing in
crease in tank production; and Presi-
dent Roosevelt has doubled the goal
for this year Donald Nelson says that
our tanks, after exhaustive tests of
both guns and tanks, are proved the
most powerful in the world In Libya
American made tanks performed mag
nificently. In 1913 after twenty-one
months of war we We're producing
fewer than two thousand planes per
month and those planes were mere
kites compared with the complicated
mechanism which constitutes today S
bombers, fighters intercepter and
training planes.
GObs and GObs
Young women will very shortly be
offered an opportunity to enroll in the
United States Navy. No, they will not
go to sea in ships to combat the sub
marine menace in the North Atlantic
and far Pacific Nor is the enlistment
of young women in the Navy with the
same pay and rating as sailors ant
wariant-officers silly business as one
Congressman suggested. These young
women will perform essential clerica
duties at our Navy Yards and recruit
l ing stations. Thousands of young mel
now in the Navy and engaged in cleri
cal and office work will thereby b'
5 released for active combat service OF
: passed in the House of Representa-
: tiveS and very soon the Senate viii
concur. Young women interested shOul'
consult with the local Naval recruitin:
officer.
-, RumOr
Many, if not Il majority of Demo
., Gratis in Congress consider Mrs Fran
ces Perkins Il misfit as Secretary .
l. Labor. 1t is certain most Republican
members hold similar opinions. Recent
:. ly there have been rumOrs that JOIN
|. Winant, Ambassador to Great Britain
:, will be given this post and Mrs PEI
kins will be eased out.
:, Rural ElectrificatiOn
Nothing that the Roosevelt Admin
7, iStratiOn has accomplished for tn
farmers of this nation has meant NOR
=, than supplying their homes with chea
;. electricity under the Rural Electrifc;
ton program Rural Electrification ha
e, added immeasureably to the value G
" every farm it touches and has con
:, tributed more to the comfort and COZ
venience of farm life and lifted moi
:, drudgery from the shoulders of peopl
i'm the rural districts, and especial
l., from the shoulders of farm womel
than anything else this Administr;
j., ton has done.
The iva which was bitterly ol
ii, posed is not only now Il mighty ar
'e in our war effort, but it has produce
electrical power at low rates II
homes and businesses throughout II
ID entire Tennessee Valley and as f;
north as the Ohio River. tongreSsm
Is Rankin said II am glad to announ'
1 that while the moon still shines hriGl
IN ON the old kentucky home the li%h
IS now shine bright in the old Kentuch
y. home
i'll Cost of Living
rs Congressional gossip has it that ii
ditional steps to curb initiation will