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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
WPB ASKS SUBSTITUTES
For METAL CONTAINERS

Users of metal containers were
warned by the War Production Board
that an urgently critical situation ex-
lists in steel and that immediate and
extensive use of substitutes for steel
containers, particularly drums, must
be undertaken. The containers branch
of WPB points out 1t is quite possible
steel container users may seen be
forced to suspend operations until
they are able to develop suitable con-
tainers which do not use STEEL
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29

In Louisiana, Rationing Administra-
tor U. S. Goodman had to supply in
terpreters for some French-speaking
communities during the sugar regis
tration,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29

Salvage figures: rs feet of garden
hose could supply rubber for gas
masks.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29

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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29

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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

stake in insisting that all customers, who can, shall convert from oil to coal at once and shall order their new fuel in advance, so as to utilize available transportation facilities most efficiently.
 Heating experts suggest other expedi- ents to keep house warmer with less fuel. An added advantage of these is that they will help to save money after the emer- gency situation has passed. Here are a few ideas worth acting upon at once. For them the Federal Reserve System will be extra lenient about necessary credit. In- stall storm doors and windows, if you do not have them yet. InSulate ceilings and walls. This helps to keep the house cool in summer, so it is appropriate to dog days. Install weather stripping around doors and windows if they are not thor oughly tight.
 Put coat of ordinary oil paint on your radiators. It will improve their efficiency. Remove any dirt collections from radiator pockets. Place galvanized shield unless you have a piece of aluminium hidden away somewhere - behind the radiator, to reflect out into the room heat that otherwise you'll soak into the wall.
 Have the combustion efficiency of your furnace checked, also the chimney draft; have any Soot removed from inside the boiler. Have the boiler insulated, if it is not or the insulation checked, if it already is on - and also any pipes that are not designed to give off heat at an un- needed point.
 See that pipes are properly pitched; have air valves and raditor traps cleaned and repaired, if necessary, and air purged from radiators. If you use hot air, see that filters are clean, that air supply and return grillS are unobstructed, and that no outside air gets in # not intended by the engineers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12
"I Make War"

Some time ago, w. Randolph Burgess, chairman of the American Bankers Asso- ciation's Economic Policy Commission, said: "Clemenceau, the great French war premier, had one response when he was asked to dedicate building or make an unnecessary speech. His refusal was, 'Je fais la guerre,' I make war That is what we are doing"
 AS high Treasury officials, no less than private experts, have pointed out, bank ing is making war" with extreme ef- fectiveness. Quietly and with complete efficiency it has expanded it's facilities to meet enormous financial demands. It is serving industries, farmers and indi- viduals with maximum speed and a min- imum of red tape. In every field of financial activity, it is the ally of the government. It is helping people to get out of debt - even as it is helping people to adapt their business to necessary war work
 It should not be forgotten that money itself is an instrument of war - and an essential instrument. Our kind of eco- homie system would slow and stall to- morrow without the work done by the banks. Luckily, we have no financial bottleneck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

War bond sales are popped up in many ways. AS has been stated in a war activ- itieS report one phase of the motion pie ture industry's war bond drive has proved a big success, and this is the much in- creased number of factories and war pro- duction plants that have fallen in with the ten per cent pay savings plan. Holly wood stars visit cities and stir up the enthusiasm tremendously. The payroll plan of a straight ten per cent is the vital concern of the Treasury Depart ment, and their idea is that if deductions of ten per cent from payrolls is made in all types of industries the present volun- tary system of bond selling can be con- tinued This is where the movie stars come in, and at the present time film stars are visiting over three hundred cities throughout the country. In many places there are plant rallies. Jimmy Cagney has been appearing personally in midwest towns. Right now, it might be said, his performance in the stirring and excellently filmed story of the career of George M. Conan is doing great deal to stir up patriotism. Scene after scene in that picture brings applause from young and old. The important thing right now is to buy bonds to the limit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12
Preserve Retail Competition

A pair of identical bills which were recently introduced into both House and Senate would make possible the destruc-- tion of free and equal competition in retailing. These particular bills deal specifically with the allotment of quan- tity of rubber to be used for tires for civil ian consumption. Buried down in those bills, however, is a section stipulating that the retail sale of all new, rebuilt, retread- ed and recapped tires, castings, tubes and comeback would be restricted solely to individual retailers!
 The importance of this bill lies in the precedent it seeks to establish. One ot it's basic purposes is obviously to ham, string and to eventually destroy the chain store systems of this country. For, If the sale of tires can be restricted to "one- store" operators, the sale of food, turnl- ture, clothes, drugs and anything ana everything else can be restricted to cer- tain favored kind of store. And i'll that event, competition, which is the greatest protection the consuming public pos sesSes, would be largely destroyed.
 The statistics prove that chain stores do not drive independent stores out of business = instead the proportion of retail business done by independents is greater now than it was some years ago. In every American community, you see chains and independents operating side by side and each does well. Both kinds of stores are basic part of the retail system.
 At this time, any law that lesSens con- petition is a crime against the consumer. The consumer goods situation is serious enough without putting artificial and unnecessary barriers in the way of maxi mum service to the public by retail stores of any kind. Congress should realize that and vote accordingly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12
HeatIess Days

There may be heatless days this winter, householders are warned. Presumably that applies mostly to our own eastern seaboard, where an extended oil shortage ls threatened because of transportation difficulties. But, concelvably, 1t could affect all sections which do not have fuel supplies In their own back yards
 ff customers are slow about converting from oil to coal, where they can do so then there will be 6 railroad and barge bottIeneck when an effort is made to F,iah coal to them next winter. To relieve khat bottleneck and prevent dangerous exposure, coal ears will be diverted from hheir runs elsewhere, and the normal flow al fuel ln more westerly areas may pe 6iurupted.
 6e ths entire country has a personal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12
Current Comment

The problem of demobilization is going to be far more difficult than that of mobilization. It is at this point that we may get a great pos litical eruption if we are not care- ful. -Ernrest Beyin. British labor mln-
 ister.
 Tim IA, and if they want me as a person and a body, and they think ! can do better service as . soldier, the responsibility Is theirs. William saroyan, author and laywTight.
 If we possessed the crushing su. peFi0Ftty ln air power which en. ahled us 10 protect c landing 0g our military forces, we need no longer think iil terms Of invasion. Tie war l6 then ali bat over,
 William zlff publisher of "Piy.
 lng Magazine.
 AlFDasle lranspoTlallen offers cur olgy posslbis chance Of winning this WaF,
 -ssnAloE Josh Lee. Oklahoma.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

Thomas Aquinas; of Shakespeare, and Milton.
 At last Lamb spoke up and said |: After this there is only one name left, and that name is the greatest of all. If Shakespeare were to come into this room we should all rise to greet him; but if Jesus of Nazareth were to come in. we should fall down and try to touch the hem of His garment"
 "Hf Jesus Christ is a Man,
 And only . Man, I say,
 That all Of mankind, I will
 cleeve to him
 And to him I'll cleaye Riway. "If Jesus Christ Is . God,
 And the only God. [ swear.
 I will follow him through
 heaven and hell
 The earth and the sea and the eomsslmss tt seems as f the world today were in the grasp of the devil. We wonder what can be Co mems minds. Then we ask ourselves what would happen fl hn unfnisiakable vision ef Jesus weTe suddenly to ke made clear before the eyes ef sll men.
 (All Flights nnsevod-Da
 AeWspapeE nTnoieateD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

feSseS to an officer that he has heard his wife Is unfaithful. The officer recognizes one of the com- monest rumors in army camps, 8 rumor which the Germans used systematically to undermine the morale of French soldiers. He qCashes the rumor and starts the correspondence again between Sol- dier and wife.
 Skill in detecting maladjust- ment, and correcting it, is not part of the average officers equip ment. It cannot be learned from a manual. It requires the sort of clinical procedures taught at the Adjutant Generals school.
 To some extent it is a parental influence, and some Army old timers call it coddIing. But Col. Holdridge believes it's the only way to meet the manpower shortage. The shortage requires something far more intelligent than increasing the number of draftees-it requires the effi- clent use Of every man within the age limits.
 The Air Corps, for example, is using men trained as pilots to do administrative jobs in the Air Corps. But the Adjutant Gen. erals School will pick up a job- lot of "B-1" men, the men with missing teeth, deafness. or lame ness, and find that, though they are far from pilot material, they are quick at mastering admins tration. Thus the flyer is freed to fly.
 The American army is 20 years behind in this business. The more efficient Germans have mas tered 1t long ago. But there is hope for improvement, as result of the school at the bend of the Potomac.
 Copyright, 1942. by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12
A Thought for Today
Your Storekeeper and the War

This country owes debt of gratitude to the retail industry. For no industry has shown a more aggressive and cooper ative spirit in dealing with the tremend- ouS problems imposed by our war econ- ony. That goes for chain stores, inde- pendent stores, department stores and all other accepted forms of retail dis tribution.
 Long before Federal price control was adopted, retailing in general went to work to hold prices down. Whenever possible, 1t lowered it's operating costs and passed the savings on to the consumer. In many instances, it voluntarily reduced its own modest margins of profit in order to control prices. It is significant fact that, over long period of time, wholesale prices increased to a far greater extent than retail prices. In other words, had retailers increased their mark-up on the basis of the wholesale price index, the cost of living would have been SubStan- tially higher than it actually was.
 As shortages and priorities became more severe, retailers took the lead in advising consumers on how to select and use suitable substitutes. They issued factual information which showed the consumer how to make many kinds of articles last longer And in the food field, retailers are an important factor in ad- vancing the National Nutrition Cam paign, which is designed to guide the housewife in preparing healthful, appe- tiMng meals at minimum cost.
 Today, retailers are proving, their abil- ities as salesmen of War Stamps. A short time ago, Retailers for Victory drive was started, in which all kinds and sizes of stores participated. The object is to sell $1,00O, 100000 worth of War Stamps and Bonds each month for the duration. Reports on the early weeks of the cam paign show that, as usual, Americas re- tailers are doing the job with complete and spectacular success. r.<. .g..,ss.. Y
 Your store, in short, is more than just a place where goods are bought and sold in routine fashion. Retailing is working to protect the consumer to the ultimate of its abilities on the one hand - and to give maximum service to the war effort on the other.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12
Press Comment
RED FLANNELs AGAIN?

(The Christian Science Monitor)
 Remember when the Monday washing had color and substance? Modern washings are reasonably col orful, but for some years they have lacked that authority and stability that draped the clotheslineS when suits of long, red woolens Tapped in the winter winds.
 A speaker at the recent conven- ton of American Heating and Ven- tilating Engineers said that long ones would counteract 8 l0-to-l5- degree drop in room temperatures. There are those, of the more con- servative school. who have insisted during recent years that the modern methods and styles of-er. well. win- ter sub-surface protection. were en- tirely inadequate for the cline of the north temperate belt.
 Has 1t never been technically ex- plained why the red color was Q fa-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

Before Pearl Harbor Senators and Representatives in Congress were free to give their opinions about the part that that United States was going to take in the war. In those days earnest, honest men expressed their views without re- straint. After United States declared war the whole country apparently demanded that full power be granted the President to carry out his politics. The President has done just exactly what he wanted to do, and what he had right to do. Con- gress obeyed instructions from the people not to oppose the President.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

There's bumper crop of apples, so they say. Aiding in their harvest in Massachu- setts will be Wellesley College girls. One hundred girls week will be supplied by the college. This will help out tremend- ously in the labor shortage and will, TO doubt, be lots of fun for the girls Also in Massachusetts high school boys are helping out in harvesting bumper crop of the various species of apples.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

That army represents manpower from every conceivable walk of life - the sidewalks of New York, the swank beaches of Miami, the lumber camps of the Northwest, the greatest organization of men ever engaged in any interprise in history. And the problem is to get those men placed in the right place, where they will be most ef- ficient.
 Only ten per cent of this army will fight. The other ninety per cent will support the fight ing men behind the lines. And the big job Is to make sure they are not just potato peeleds, pa- per shufflers or coffee coolers, but are put at the job they can do best.
 For long time, not many of the brass hats cared very much about this So-called administra- tive efficiency. They dubbed it paper york;. Modern business, however, calls it personnel man. agement" and hires high-salaried experts to do the job. But the army, hitherto, has been too busy with bayonet drill and rifle prac- tice.
 Now, however, new system is being worked out to increase ad- ministrative efficiency, and cut down the so-called paper work. Under this new procedure the morning report" of the company commander will be curtailed from four pages to one; while the A forms now required to cover the career of each of the 5000, 900 men will be cut at least in half.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12
Whats Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
 1. Elliott Roosevelt is a Major, Lieutenant Colonel or Captain in the U. s. Army Air Forces?
 2. In what part of the Soviet Union is the Kuban River?
 3. How much territory did Manuel Quezon say that the Atlantic char ter covered?
 4. What Is the term of U. s. Sena- tors?
 5. Headquarters of the All India Congress Party are at Calcutta, New Delhi, Allahaba6 or Bombay? 6. A cyclotron is type of bicycle, a terms of years, or an atom smashing machine?
 T. According to famous pro- verb, what is the Mother of Ira- vention"?
 8. New York City is administered by a city manager: true or false?
 9. From what word is the title of the book "Erewhon" derived?
 10. Which naturalist wrote Wake Robin?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12
ARMY'S SCHOOL
 OF ADMINISTRATION

To inaugurate this new system, the Army has set up its own School of Administration, which in way might be cc'',22-21 to the Harvard Business school which trains management ex- perts for big business. This school is training officers who will go out and train more of- ficers, and it is located at Fort Washington, Is miles down the Potomas from the Capital, not far from Mount Vernon.
 Its headmaster is quick -witted,
 far sighted Colonel Herbert c.
 Holdridge, all his life a regu-
 lar army officer, who even in the
 last war saw the need of an
 army administration to fit men
 into the right groove, and who
 in this war finally carried his
 point at the War Department.
 The school stands on that bend of the lazy Potomac, where Sec- retary of Navy Frank Knox comes ashore from his yatcht every morning for a perspirational walk up the hillside before going to his desk in Washington. It nestles among the old oaks and naples which George Washington could see from his lawns on the Virginia side.
 Starting with 200 students last
 Januatry, the enrolIment today
 is 2,O0O. Other schools are about
 to open in other parts of the
 country, run by graduates of
 this cshO0l.
 There are many courses, all on how to make the Army more ef- ficient. Take the Chinese boy who was serving as waiter in the mess hall, because some officer thought restaurants were Chinese Specialties. A personnal officer discovered the boy qualified as an interpreter, and he was trans ferred to G-2 (Military Intelli- gence). He doesn't wait on tables any more.
 Personnel problems are only one angle of the business of in- creasing Army efficiency-but perhaps the most important angle. At Fort Washington, Major Yale Nathanson, former University of Pennsylvania psychology profes- sor, is now teaching officers how to spot the square pegs.
 PERSONNEL PROBLEMS
 Take the Nebraskan who enlists in the Army because he love horses. He is shipped to an eastern post, and finds nothing but machines in this Army. He makes a morose and difficult sol- dier. An interview discloses the cause, and he is shipped to a unit which still has some horses.
 The little East Side New Yorker is a bad actor, making trouble in his unit. An officer suggests he take some time off and go home on leave. "I can't SO hOme," he says. "Why not?" He points to his arm. "N0 stripes" He won't be seen by the gang at home un- til he is at least a corporal.
 Somebody discovers that he is a professional entertainer, and he is asked to be master Of ceremonies aL the posts next show. He eats it up. His mood changes. His soldering improves. He wins the chevrons of a corporal, and af- ter that you can't hold him.
 One young fellow. the son of an Army officer, tries to drink him- self to death. 4 friendly officer discovers that he and his father have auaFFeled, and the boy is in despair. A note is sent to the father, wlo comes to visit him, and q reconciliation resulsA. The yOung man changes immediately t0 q good soldier,
 NICK MAxT nuM0RB
 A wile back home writes 70 the company eommanGeF complaining that her soldier hutband doesn't MEile Co heE. Tho soldier eons
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12
Selected Poem
OLD NED

lBy Grace x. Pratt In the New York TimsO Half asleep, with his head bent low, old Ned stood at the pasture gate, one ear back, and one forward 90, He'd catch any sound meant Tor him Under his nose hts llp hung down, AS tho too tired % hide hls teeth, The wind stirred the struggling gray brown of hls manf, whiie the hind foot raised Prom itA h0of edge Q brush at fly, Then suddenly up came the head Eyes alert, and hs ears forward Ned" tho beloved v0lee had sald,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

which h a v c made their per- iod famous in the history o1 literature. They W e r e talking about the quali- ties of certain great men. They spoke of Soc- rates, Plato, Arr istotle; of St. Paul, of Augus- tine, Erasmus,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

vorite for winter? Perhaps it was just a style. And styles are one of the more profound mysteries Of mankind's mores. One doesn't logi- cally question a style: one may pcn. der, but he accepts. Long red ones swinging in wintry blasts will remind us of the friendly parlor burner and flannel-wrapped bricks and smooth stones that warmed the feather bed in that-br-r-r chilly room upstairs.