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against the main cause of Bataan's fall, the
food shortage. >. l,5OO patients in the last
three days :. g. beriberi, scurvy and other
forms of malnutrition. Hunger and fatigue
cut away their strength; in the final show
down more were killed by disease and malnu-
triton than by Jap bullets" This composite
report, from trustworthy eyewitness. should
burn upon our hearts and minds lesson we
must not only long remember but act on nos0.
The strategy of starvation shall not rob
us of our birthright. But ignorance and
indifference may. 1t is our patriotic duty,
as individuals and as a united nation, to
conserve the irreplaceable human re-
sources of steady nerves, clear eyes,
strong muscles and alert minds.
If you are worker in war industry or
on any front; if you are business executive
or plant manager; if you are purveyor of
food - across the grocery counter or in lunch
room or cafeteria; if you are doctor, dem
tist, nurse, teacher, home economist or other
scientist; if you are boy or girl in school;
above all, if you are homemaker - enlist
no,ci Even if you are just plain MIR. John Q.
Public, make nutrition must" war job
1t has an AL priority on the health front.
Ben Franklin. with typical American COM
mon sense, once put it this way:
''For want Of nail, the shoe scas lost:
For want Of shoe, the horse ,oas lost;
For wa,i Of horse, the rider Vas lost;
For sOant Of rider, the hattle was lost;
All for the ,0ant of horseshoe nail"
Food - the simple, everyday business Of
eating what you need for health - is the
horseshoe nail of the worlds war challenge to
America. Shall we waste our man power -
and all for want of this horseshoe nail?
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potato) These are all good foods, as far as
they go. 1t is not what people do eat, but
what they don't eat, that counts - counts
against them and against the nation.
At some times and in some places malnu-
triton has always been inescapable, but not
in continental United States.
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In this country we have the
worlds richest food resources.
Even with all the obligations
placed upon us by the food
needs of our own armed forces
and our allies, we can provide
for all our people the basic
foods for buoyant health.
Perhaps our very riches
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"HE one thing Americas war effort cannot
make to order is man power. There are
- no substitutes for human strength and
skill and stamina. We've got what it takes
to win this war - but we need all we've got
in the millions of men and women to be re-
cruited for war activity, and in the health
and alertness and dogged persistence of every
one of them.
Two million men under arms in l941; four
and half million by the end of this year;
at least seven million in l943, and eventually
perhaps 10 million - but this is only the
spearhead of our all-out war mobilization.
More than nine million workers are already
enlisted as soldiers of production; II million
by the end of 1912; at the peak of war indus
try in l943, some 20 million or more, perhaps
fifth of them women - but even this does
not represent wars total demands on our
human resources. Harvesting takes at least
IL million hands, more than fourth of them
wage-workers including women and young
people. Meantime daily life must 60 on
homes, schools, hospitals, the necessary busi-
ness of Main Street and other equally essen
tial activities. Add to these volunteer COM
munity services - from airplane spotting to
entertaining soldiers - in which every citi-
zen must lend hand.
These jobs - our jobs - demand about
mobilization in terms not only of numbers
but also of individual effectiveness
When every hour of work represents blow
at the enemy - Why waste oar n'on boscer?
Yet that is what we are still doing -
thoughtlessly, needlessly. and to our indi-
vidual and national jeopardy. We are not
wasting man power by laxity or laziness. We
are wasting it because, apart from military
service, we pay far too little attention to
maintaining and improving our health - and
thereby our individual working capacity.
The prevention of needless illness would ease
the serious shortage in doctors, nurses and
medical care More than that, in industry
alone it would salvage at least 80 million days
of lost man power enough to build 14,0O0
bombers, or 10 dreadnoughts, or g, 900 tanks.
MAINuTRITIoN - lack of simple, necessary
foods - is not the only cause of this human
waste; but it is certainly the most widespread
and the most unnecessary. A third of the
nation is ill-fed At one time this estimate was
pooh-poohed by some, but even the compla-
cent we're startled when General Hershey re-
ported last May that malnutrition had ac-
counted for third of all reflections for physi-
cal disabilities among selec-
tees
Yet even this is only a frac-
ton of the man power wasted
for want of the right food.
Malnutrition is an insidious
saboteur; it slows down the =
human machine long beforeit 1t
stops it. A mechanic would ss4Sx
never let an engine run with
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tees.
Yet even this is only a frac-
ton of the man power wasted
for want of the right food.
Malnutrition is an insidious
saboteur; it slows down the
human machine long before it
stops it. A mechanic would
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FIGHTING OUR PHANTOM ENEMY

It's malnutrition. One out of every three Americans
suffers from it, Let's do something about il!
by Paul v. McNu1t
Director hs hieeofD DsfenseHe bond ehure,
Chohmo Of AtunPower Commhaon
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For menus and recipes to help you rosst
the "Phantons Enemy" see page Is.
, 1942-10-28

eliminating the present quadru-
plication of effort.
A re-routing of lines under a
City-owned consolidated system
could be effected upon short no
tice. Regard for the riding public
would then be the only consider
alton. At the present time such
re-routing must be considered by
four separate companies, each con-
cerned with the profit or loss at
tendant herewith.
The figures for the operation of
the present companies have been
reviewed. They indicate that If
the City Of Dayton had owned
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Our transportation system 10
now operated by four separate
companies with four sets of di-
rectors, managers, auditors, legal
stats, claims departments, etc.
Each company must provide re-
serve equipment and personnel
which can now be used only upon
their own lines. IL the City &C
quires the entire system, all equip
ment and manpower can be pool
ed and used at any time on any
line. The result: Conservation Of
and materials and better SER
vice to the riding public. You can
readily understand the immense
savings which an be gained by
, 1942-10-28

these systems during the five
year period, 1887 -1941, there would
have been approximately $4,000
available each year for the pur-
chase of the systems, an improve
ment in service and a payment of
a substantial sum to the City as
franchise tax. franchise tax funds
can be used by the City for police,
fire, health and other regular SER
vices) The figures also indicate
that in the year of 1912, because
there would have been available
for the items enumerated above
more than 100000. THESE Fl
Continued ON Page LIZ
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has established that they attempt
ed and at times succeeded in
undermining the democratic pro-
cess through its Congressional
lobby, the American people are
not generally ware of these
things. Always the NAM has been
anti-labor; it engaged in union
busting activities; it has used it's
power in Congress to smash the
labor movement in America.
The Mulhall Investigation, con-
Quoted by Rep. FINS J. Garrett,
filled so bound volumes with
testimony and laid bare an almost
incredible record of intrigue, in
timidation, bribery and solicita-
ton by the MANS high pressure
lobbyists in the capital. Recently
the NAM has switched their tao
tics, to some extent, from corrupt
ing Congressman to corrupting the
press.
However, these disclosures and
many more equally sensational
opened the eyes of some of us.
1t was plain to be seen that
the real offenders and berayers
of the nations interests were
in the ranks of industry's most
powerful anti-labor forces.
In the light of recent develop
ments, where labor has been given
a voice with management pro-
duction began skyrocketing.
Workers submitted brilliant ideas
for improvement of efficiency, and
output, in some instances, is 500
higher than it ever was in the
past. Where management has
given labor a square DEAL they
have found that such a policy pays
big dividends. IL the workers are
treated right they will recipro-
cate. Organized labor has also
made outstanding sacrifices in
many other ways.
If these facts were generally
known, it might create a different
attitude in the minds of the public,
and perhaps stop some of the
agitation in the press, and the
pressure on Congressman to re-
peal this or that privilege which
labor has acquired through long
years of effort. Since Boards of
Arbitration, State and National,
for settlement of labor disputes
have been established, labor has
gained the right of collective bar
gaining and l. now using this
right in the promotion of collective
patriotism.
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population.
Let us state here, an instance
of Just how this wealth is dis
tributed. Senator Bunker, of
Nevada, recently charged on the
floor of the Senate that the Basic
Magnesium, Inc, deal "is SO cor
rupt as to make profiteering in
the last war look like petty lar
ceny by comparison" He castigat-
ed the Defense Plant Corporation.
The government put up a
500, OO0, 900 plant for refining
magnesite at Los Vegas, Nevada.
The was paid 100000 for
supervising its construction. Its
officers receive $4OO, 900 in salaries.
1t is annually to receive 100000
for management and operation;
also it is to receive a dollar a ton
royalty on all the ore that Is
mined, milled, and hauled by the
government.
The patents are owned half by
the Aluminium Co. of America and
half by the I. G. Farben crowd.
The operation company Is $50
owned by the Hanna interests of
Cleveland, Ohio, and 45% by the
Magnesium Elektron, It'd, OF
England. The contract is supposed
to run for thirty years at 4,2SO%
profit q year. This should put the
Hanna crowd among the top
notchers in the way of newspaper
patriotism.
We wonder why this Aluminium
Co. hasn't exhausted every pos
sible avenu of Cancellation and
arbitration to prevent a possible
tie-up of vital aluminium SO neces-
sary to our war effort. Then again
we wonder, why so-called critics
of labor's strikes do not speak out
boldly against the senatorial silver
bloc "sitdown." With copper,
nickle, and other base metals rem
dered scarce by the war, there
are many places where silver can
be used as a substitute. There are
other blocs In the senate, some
of them, like Senator Conna1ly's
income tax lodging bloc, also on
a strike.
So it has become apparent that
the vicious, slanderous drive
against labor was launched In an
effort to head off exposures by
Congressional committees of prac-
tees by Big Business that amount
ed to plain corruption and treason.
Even after two of the three great
Congressional exposes Of the NAM
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The most important elections In American
history take place on November 3.
The results of these elections will determine
the kind of Congress that will run the legislative
branch OF our government in our cOuntry's
toughest wharf.-the war for survival
Every American citizen has a Number l job
to do for his country on election day-to go
to the polls and vote. It is a job just as i'm
portant as making-and even ~firing-bullets at
the Axis.
If we do this job thoroughly, w will fire
one of the biggest bullets in the arsenal of
democracy-the bullet forged long ago in the
fires of our first war of liberation.
Germans and Japanese and Italians and their
conquered subjects do not vote. That is the
difference between us and the enemy. We vote
because we are a free people. We must vote
this election day to keep ourselves a free people.
The kind of Congress we have for the next
two years will determine to a great extent the
kind of war we fight. If we have a Congress
that backs our Commander-in chief in all the
offensive war measures that are necessary for
victory, the war will be over that much quicker
and fewer Americans will die. If we have the
kind of Congress that holds back, that refuses
to pass laws to uphold the fighting fronts and
to strengthen the home front, victory will be
that much further away and that much more
costly in lives and treasure.
, 1942-10-28
Congress And The War

There are ,435 Congressional candidates up for
election this year, plus 80 Senators, and numbers
of State and local officials.
Most of these candidates or incumbents want
to win the war as earnestly as we do. Many Of
them back our Commander in Chief to bring
an early victory and to end economic inequal-
tiles that hamper our About war.
, 1942-10-28
I Believe The Citizens
OF Dayton Should Own the
Local Transportation System

EDITORS NoTE-me following is duplicate of the pamphlet issued by Harry j.
Munger City Commissioner of Dayton Paes send all communications regarding the
proposed MumcpA Owned transportation plan to the Dayton Union News or Mr. Munger
Tn EDITORIAL board of the Dayton Unnn News ues very Unnn mar and woman to
support this plan
By Harry J. Munger, Member of the City Commission of
The City of Dayton, Ohio
TO THE CITIZENS OF DAYTON:
After a thorough study extending over a period of seal monusI have cached the conclusion
the City of Dayton should take mmedae steps to acquire the local transportation ssn I
bee the following advantages can be yd without increasingly the present car fare
FIRST:
An Improvement in the Transportation Service to the Riding Public.
SECOND: t..
An Improvement in Traffic Condihons-Partcularly in the Downtown Area.
THIRD:
Aid the City Financially by the Payment of a Substantial Amount
AS a Franchise Tax.
Crec City now receives only $aaO per year for the use of streets which must be kept in constant rpau)
, 1942-10-28
Clio Presidents Call:
Q VICTORY!
By Philip Murray, President of Congress of Industrial Organizations

These representatives Of the people should re-
ceive our vote and be returned to office.
There are a number of candidates who, by
their actions in Congress and outside il, do not
show up as supporters of the victory drive.
These individuals have a sorry record of dis
ruption and delay on war measures. They have
sabotaged the Presidents seven-point victory
program. They have sponsored and fought for
viciously repressive laws aimed at labor.
Frequently they have been found associated
with outright defeatist and appeaser elements.
These misrepresentation of the people must
be retired from public life by our votes against
them and for their opponents.
The Task For All
To aid our country and ourselves in this time
of crisis, We must:
Go to the polls and vote on election day.
See that our wives and shopmates and our
neighbors vote. Rally our fellow-workers to
their duty at the polls through our unions, our
auxiliaries, our civic and fraternal groups,
through every means of communication we
possess.
- Vote for candidates recorded in full sup
port of our Chief and
our country's total war. Look to the record of
each candidate before voting. You will find
this record through your local, State and
national Go organizations.
. Vote early, and return to our war pro-
duction jobs as quickly as possible. We will
work better with the knowledge or our duty
done as free workers and as Americans.
On Tuesday, November 3, the polls will be
open for the most crucial election i'm American
history.
Our duty and our own interests are plain -
VOTE FOR VICTORY !
, 1942-10-28
Looking At he Scoreboord
By T.. S. Richeson, Local Sol

In a former edition of this column it was mentioned that 500
of the wealth of the world is found Oh this continent and only 400
of the population. Now, to be more specific 400 of this wealth is
right here in the United States, though we have only TO of its
, 1942-10-28

EDITORS NOTE:-The following is a d
Munger, City Commissioner of Dayton.
proposed Municipal Owned Transportation
The editorial board of the Dayton Union
support this plan.
, 1942-10-28
TO THE CITIZENS OF DAYTON:

CThe City now receives only $4,000 per year for the use of streets which
Evening star., 1942-10-30

War bonds are an investment in
Americas future. Nothing in the
world Is safer today. Buy!
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job by day. Some Of them Inn.
portant jobs, too. And II you
work from . am. until 8 pm.
every day in the week, it's no
small sacrifice to give up nve
nights . week for volunteer war
work. And we mean work!
Average age Of the women In
the class is about IS, although
Mrs. Warburton Ward, head Of
the Night Motor Corps Is just 20.
For five years she has been with
the same well-known book firm
as their branch store manager.
She supervises the personnel and
the stocking Of all branch stores
and does an excellent job Of it.
She feels that she's q native
Washingtonian although she was
born In California, because her
family, the Warburtons. origin
ally came from Washington and
returned here when daughter
Marjorie was q small child. She
went to school here and finished
her education with three years
at George Washington Univer-
sity. She likes tennis and rid
ing but she's too busy now to find
time for either, and has to con-
tent herself with the exercise
she gets as part Of her motor
corps training.
She's petite and pretty with
brown eyes and naturally curly
chestnut brown hair. She adores
this work in the motor corps.
Says that all the women in it
are quite wonderful, especially
the two asistants-Miss Wini-
fred Thompson, who is second
in command and is employed by
day at the National Training
School for Girls, 50 doesn't need
any advice on how to success
fully handle young women, and
Miss Mae Davis who works at
the War Department by day.
Favorite Of all the class, says
Mrs. Ward, is the instruction In
heavy vehicle driving. The girls
are learning to handle buses and
milk trucks and even, beginning
this week, dump trucks!
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Mrs. ]. A. Edwards
Is Entertained

Mrs. John w. Edwards of 1900
Oliver street was hostess to a few
young women last evening in honor
of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. John
A. Edwards, formerly Miss Mary
Portia johnson, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Porter B. johnson of West
Pawlet, vt. The wedding took place
July 18 at Upper Marlboro. Md,
with Mr. and Mrs. Herrick Thomas
as attendants.
Mrs. Edwards was graduated from
the Granville, New York, High
School; received the degree of bach
elor of science in June, 1941, from
the Russell Sage College at Troy,
N. Y, and now is employed at the
Once Of War Information.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwards will reside
temporarily at the home OF the
bridegroom's parents.
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Elizabeth Kean
Wed Yesterday
In New Jersey
Representatives
Daughter Marries
Ensign Hicks

Representative Robert Winthrop
Kean gave his daughter, Miss Eliza
beth Stuyvesant Kean, in marriage
yesterday afternoon to Ensign Ed
ward Livingston Hicks III, U. S.
N. R., son Of Mrs. Edward L. Hicks,
jr., of Winnetka, Ill. The ceremony
took place in st. Marks Church
in West Orange, N. J., the Rev. j.
g. Seacord Of st. Peters Chapel in
Livingston, N. j., otnciating.
There was q simple arrangement
of white flowers on the altar and
an organ recital was given as the
guests assembled.
The bride wore an ivory satin
wedding dress trimmed with lace
from her mothers wedding gown.
She wore the veil which has been
worn by brides in her family for
four generations and carried con-
ventional bridal bouquet.
Miss Elizabeth Fish was the maid
of honor and the other attendants
for the bride were Miss Anne Sperry
of this city: Miss Nancy Sloane of
Fall Hills, N. j.; Miss Elizabeth Co.
riell OF Plainfield, N j.; Mrs. Bruce
Sterling of Huntington, Long Is
land; the Misses Joan Tucker,
Frances Stone, Nancy Perkins all
of New York City, and Miss Jeanne
Marie de Villiers Terrage of Paris.
The attendants wore dresses in
shades of blue and salmon and
carried flowers to blend with these
two colors.
Mr. &ilbert LOREN Watson II,
of Glencoe, ILL.,, was the best man
and the ushers selected were Mr..
Robert w. Kean, jr., and Mr.. Ham
ilton F.. Kean, brothers of the bride;
Ensign John J. Hainey of Lynn,
Mass; Mr.. Thomas Hardart of For
rest Hills, N. Y; Mr.. Edmund Booth
Tobin of Albany, N. Y; Mr.. John
A. lie Van of Kokomo, Ind; Mr.. John
Finch Of Rumson, N. j.; Mr.. William
h Fairhurst of Dayton, Ohio, and
Mr.. David Doves Munsell of Bal
timore. e
Following reception at the home
OF tne pfloeS parents IN Livingston
the couple left on a wedding trip.
Ensign Hicks has been ordered to
serve as an instructor on the naval
training ship, Prairie State, in New
York Harbor, so the couple will re-
side in New York City.
The bride was graduated from
Chaplin School in New York. She
made her debut in New Jersey in
1889 and Is a member of the Junior
League. She is Gray Lady, TAX
ing her course in Washington, where
she also took nutrition course of
the Red Cross. Ensign Hicks was
graduated from Yale in 1912 and
received his commission after study
ing on the Prairie State.
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and for an hour or two OF work for
the Montgomery County General
Hospital. AS a result of these few
hours of work these women have
turned over to the hospital 900 sur
gical dressings.
Club members present at yester-
days luncheon were Mrs. Vernon
E. Lohr, Mrs. E. Jay Hogan, Mrs.
William Gordon Allen, Mrs. John
p. Bressler and Mrs. M. E. OHarra.
Mrs. Edna Chester, who has been
In Bethesda only few months and
who lives with her son, Maj. Stan
ford Chester, also was guest at
the luncheon.
Evening star., 1942-10-30
BY the Way
Beth Blaine

II you should happen to 60 to
one Of the few gasoline stations
which still are open after Z pm.
and have your car serviced by a
young woman wearing overalls
and an American Women's Vol
untary Service cap, you can be
sure she's a member OF the AWVS,
Night Motor Corps, and that she's
getting practical training in serv-
icing q car as part Of her motor
corps course. At least three times
q week these girls are sent, in
pairs, to a gasoline station until
each of the class of 60 young
women has had her turn. Then
the whole thing is repeated, start
ing at the beginning with the
same girls, over and over again,
until every member Of the class
is an expert.
Before men mechanics became
50 scarce, the girls used to have
their practical training in motor
mechanics taught to them in one
Of Washington's big garages. Now
they learn about the intricacies
Of a motor from an instructor
qualified under the OCD right in
the AWVS headquarters on
Florida avenue. Other subjects
that are part of the course
include District map reading,
stretcher drill and standard and
advanced and refresher first aid
the latter three taught by quail
1fied Red Cross instructors.
The main objective of this class
Of go women is to build up an in
struction corps, which will branch
out and teach other classes these
subjects with the exception of
the standard and advanced and
refresher first aid, which is linn
tied to Red Cross Instructors,
The Night Motor Corps is always
on call for any transportation for
qualified agencies or for emer-
gency. They report for duty five
nights week between the hours
OF Z and II pm. Every member
Of the Night Motor Corps is a
working woman with a full-time
Evening star., 1942-10-30
Engagement Of Marion Shouse
To 1t. Reeve Lewis Announced

Mrs. D. Lawrence Groner an
nounces the engagement of her
daughter, Miss Marion Edwards
Shouse, to 1t. Reeve Lewis, U. S.
N. R., on active duty in Washing
ton. 1t. Lewis is the son of Mrs.
Reeve Lewis of this city.
Miss Shouse attended Miss
Wright's School at Bryn Mawr, Dana
Hall in Wellesley, Mass, and studied
for a year at Wellesley College. She
is a member of the Junior League
and made her debut in the Capital
a few years ago. She has been prom
nent in the Frontier Nursing Serv-
Ice and has been active in other
philanthropic organizations. Her
father is Mr.. Jouett Shouse.