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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21

chain of deaths. All three were Sc
apparently what they seemed to be
Ia grudge killing, suicide from
grief, DRINKS accident. Yet there
was that telltale coincidence among
them. All three victims had known
something. There were, too, few
details which just didn't fit. They
haunted Curt.
One was the fact that Montaya's
letter Offering Curt this job was writ
ten before Mitchell's body was dis
covered by trackwalker.
Another, not only was Fora Mitch
ell very definitely not a neurotic
type, but where would she get hold
of-in the Mitchell household for
eign make Of gun?
And, though it was not out Of
character for Bill Henderson to have
taken q drink, it was certainly out
Of character for Bill to forget that
switch even if he'd been rolling
drunk! Bill was railroad man!
Curtis thoughts harked back to
Mitchell. What was it the man had
known? He'd done some mutter-
ing about sitting on q powder key"
He couldn't have meant revolution,
for that wouldn't have upset Mitch
ell. He'd been through them before
in this country. No American who
minded his own business had any
thing to fear on that score.
He'd also done some muttering
about the Canal, about wanting to 60
there or did Curt have that
right? AS near as he could remem-
Der, the Canal business was vague
so-near-and-yet-so-far sort of thing
that had no meaning at all.
Curt had been fiddling absently
with his tobacco pouch. He now
flung it to the desk angrily and
jumped to his feet.
s'I'm an engineer, not sleuth.
Maybe Mitchell did know some
thing, but I don't, and the whole
thing is none of my business!"
But it was, and he knew it. Walk
ing in at that moment, Montaya
raised smoothly clipped brows as he
saw Curtis congested face.
81 was only thinking" said Curt,
in violent explanation, what q
shame it is that liquor can't be out
lawed."
81 quite agree, Mr.. Curtis" said
Montaya gravely. II will not per-
NIT drunkenness among my key
men at any time, on the job or off,
as you know from your contract. o.
course, among construction workers
- He shrugged.
"But let us get to work. You
have not had much time with your
SO charming family since arriving,
You will want the day with them,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-08-21
ON THE SO J
HOME 1E1lsS15s
6FRONTD
WIN RUTH WYETH SPEARS
RUTH WYETH SPEARS

EVERYONE knows that quick
- meals in the kitchen save time,
but 1t was both time and space
that had to be saved in this kitch-
en- where breakfasts were eaten on
the run and the children had but
few minutes for lunch. The
problem was solved by building
16-inch-wide counter under a win
dow and then making simple
stools to be slipped under it when
not in use. The dimensions and
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-20

said their reports covered only about
a third of their membership. If all
the States 4SS Oranges bought
bonds and stamps at this rate, the
Washington Grange members pur
chased an estimated total of $1,464.-
600 of bonds and stamps up to May
Leading the Oranges in the amount
of bonds and stamp purchased was
Benge Grange, Adams county, whose
members bought $17,755.5O worth
of bonds and $46.95 in stamps. Del
rio Grange, Douglas county, was
next with $14,460.S5 in bonds, and
1855 in stamps, and Wheatridge
Grange, Lincoln county, was third
with $13,575 in bonds, and S23.1O
in stamps.
Practically all Oranges reported
their members were studying first
aid and home nursing, and were en-
gagged in other civilian defense ac-
tivities
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-20
that's what older men are for"

To the United States Rubber Co.,
which sponsors this advertisement,
and to the artist and the writer who
prepared it, Campbell-Ewald Coz
our thanks. Through the door of an
empty room they have given us a
glimpse beyond the squabbling and
striving for advantage, the petty ar
guments and futile buck passing that
sometimes seem to be the chief SUBJ
stance Of our war effort here at
home. into the real heart of America
IN. Y. World-Telegram
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-20
MRS. AMERICA MEETS THE WAR

| Next seasons fur coat won't be
skyWard in price thanks to the Of
flee OF Price Administration. Fur
! jackets, capes, strollers, muffs,
| scarfs and stolls also are under a
new price regulation on fur gar
ments. That means furs for the com.
Ing season will be no more than they
were last. And incidentally, you
should be able to get almost any
kind of fur coat you wish. That is,
unless your tastes run to the exotic
types of furs from Asia and Africa
they'll be scarce. Otherwise skins
are coming into the country In sat.
isfactory quantities.
Il Il
Tea for two in wartime means ex-
actly that. If you're making tea for
one other besides yourself, don't pre-
pare whole pot. Make only as much
as you need. War time measures on
the tea pot are necessary because all
the tea that America drinks must be
imported. The OPA Consumer Divi-
sion advises that the tea hour won't
suffer because of decreased supplies
if we eliminate waste in brewing
and using tea. Experts say careful
measuring is important. That extra
teaspoon for the pot can be done
away with for the duration to make
what we have go farther. You'll be
drinking tea from India, Ceylon and
East Africa instead of from the Ne
therland East Indies, China and ia
pan. Britain's food ministry will be
the purchasing agent for the United
Nations. and it will be allocated so
there'll be a fair ALLEGATION among
the tea drinking nations.
Have you lost your War Ration
Book? If so, don't worry, for the Of
flee of Price Administration has re-
vised the provisions for replacing
lost ration books by altering the two
months waiting rule. Hereafter local
War Price and Ration Boards are
authorized to issue new books in de-
serving cases where the boards are
convinced beyond a reasonable doubt
that a book was lost, stolen or de-
stroyed. The new amendment also
permits the boards to issue replace
ment certificates to consumers Whose
sugar purchase certificates nave peen
lost or destroyed.
Those shiny household articles
made with nickel will soon be sing
ing a swan song as present supplies
are exhausted. That means there
will be no more tie racks, shoe trees,
fireplace equipment or towel bar
racks of nickel finished metal. Nor
can toothbrush holders, dish drain
ers or soap dishes be made of this
material any longer. Perhaps towel
racks. toothbrush holders and soap
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-20
CHANGERS HEAVY BUYERS
OF WAR BONDS, STAMPS

A total of $153,151.33 in War
Savings Bonds and Stamps were pur-
chased by members of S of the 4S8
Washington Oranges up to May /,
according to compilation made by
Anna Slavin, home economics chair
man of Washington State Grange,
from reports of 81 subordinate
Grange home economics chairmen of
the State.
This represents an average of 49,
600 per Grange for the Oranges re-
porting, although several chairmen
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-20
STATE GRANGE MASTER
URGES FIRE PREVENTION

Extra precautions to prevent farm
fires are urged by Henry P Carsten-
sen, Master of the Washington State
Grange, who points out an alarm
ing number of fires have occurred
in this State, particularly in wheat
areas. Many of these resulted from
carelessness, sparks from leaky muf-
flers on combines and grain trucks,
and the operation of equipment
which has not been fitted with spark
arrestors.
with so many women and chill
dren working in the fields this year,
serious accidents are more likely
than ever to occur in case of fire, -
Christensen declared. Confusion or
actual inability to find road to es-
cape could result in real tragedies
to these helpers"
Farm fires will also destroy nat
ural resources needed to speed up
production of meat, he pointed out
With fourth of the meat produc-
ton needed for the armed forces and
allied nations, and with prospects of
less meat for civilian use, the battle
of production must not be slowed up
because of carelessness, he declared.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-20
COULEE CITY DISPATCH
I. w. tBGA) HIISON- Editoe
@1teted at the 2OatOffice at COu1es
City. Wash, as setond-class matter.
In the Interest Of Coules City and
the NeixhbOrtn9 Vicinity.
1.-THE EMPTY ROOM"

That is the caption Of an adver-
tisement-One OF the most inspiring
advertisements we have ever seen
The illustration shows a middIe-agea
man, standing alone and looking INTO
boys bedroom. The text has him
saying:
This is my boys room.
This is where he slept.
This is where he dreamed a
child's dreams.
This is where he saw a mans vi
sions.
Here, in this empty room, are
faded pictures Of teammates and he
roes . f. books scrubbed over with
notes and EXPLANATIONS :. the glow
es and spike shoes he hung up for
good before he went to war /. the
silver cup he won at Sea Bright
bright pennants =. and all the care
less memoranda, the echoes of his
days.
IF fathers could only pour their
hate through the not barrels of
smoking guns and write the records
Of their grief with bayonet steel!
'"They said l was too old to fight,
though I'm only SO.
But, if I'm too old to fight and
drop stick of bombs, I'm not too
old to lay my money on the line for
War Stamps and Bonds!
Maybe l am too stiff and slow to
fly, but I've got control enough tn
keep my car speed under 4O--so uney
can keep their fighting planes above
400!
And if I can't march 80 miles a
day with a full pack, l can walk two
miles TO work and back to help save
gas and rubber!
mo I'm not bitter any more be-
cause l wont win this war behind a
gun or on ship or in the sky
I've come around to thinking
that here at home we've got the Job
of passing the ammunition along, of
sacrificing little things. of giving up
and going without, of looking ahead
to less instead of more. Some
body's got to do the necessary, UNI
dramatic things . and I guess
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-20

dishes of glass or plastic will be
making their appearance in the bath
room to replace the nickel-plated
articles.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-08-20

FOR SALE-Tables, chairs, bed
stead, linoleum, flamo gas range,
other articles.-B Eheler. adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02

\ MEXICAN citizenship
"A is priceless.
1t stands in the fore
front of all earthly titles.
It is our national inheri-
lance forged in the fires of
the centuries.
It is ours to preserve,
to maintain, to transmit to
future generations.
In our American citizen
ship is written the thrilling
and enthralling story of
the struggles, hardships
and privation of our revo-
lutionary patriots.
1t throbs with the spirit
of the ringing declaration
that circled the globe and
was "heard round the
world"
In it you may catch the
echo of the drumbeat and
hear the tramp of marching
feet-majestically moving
through the pages of
our history.
TODAY our American
i heritage is menaced
by the din, of battles, the
cry of the vanquished and
the crash of democracies.
A Hitler-Mussolini-or
a Stain follows in the wake
of an indolent and indiffer-
ent citizenry.
Our vern m e n is
strength or weakness-its
vice or vigor-is the citi-
zen's personal responsible.
ity.
Patriotism is the soul of
citizenship.
Service to country is the
road to contentment.
A good American is a
good citizen.
A GOOD A m eri C a n
n votes.
His country's w el If a r e
transcends party lines.
He supports candidates
for public office best fitted
by character and ability.
He is ever mindful of his
country's tradition and Sc
curity.
He upholds a proper re-
spect for constituted au-
thority and aids in the
preservation and advance
ment of the integrity of his
government.
Voting is our manifest
obligation to our nation; to
our institutions; to our he
roic tradition of a grand
and glorious past; to those
whose blood and treasure
established our republic; to
our martyred dead.
Vote if you are interested
in the republics prosperity
and future.
Vote if you are spprecia-
tive of the privileges of
| your citizenship.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02

EMPLOYERS as a group don't
IL hate workers as group,
although they have reason 10
distrust many OF the union
leaders.
Most OF them. / think, have
got religion now and want 10
be respectabiiized in the commu-
nifty and get along with the men
and women who do the jobs that
make the profits that go back
into action as taxes and later
Will go back as new plants maxi
ing new jobs.
In any big plant today the
executive in the oak-paneled Of
flee will have a son in the Solo
mons or Britain or Egypt along
side the son of the man or
woman at the machine in the
works and perhaps serving under
him.
There is no immunity for the
sons of the rich or the well-paid.
nor have they been slower 10
fight than the sons OF the en-
ployes.
l suggest Mr.. Kaiser with no
idea that he would drop all that
he is doing TO become the leader
of a new labor organization. or
take on those duties in addition,
but rather as a man whose ideas
and influence, If he could win
the peoples attention, would
point out the waste and futility
of strife between the front office
and the shop.
Much, and l should say most.
of the strife in the years OF the
New Deal has been unnecessary
and artificial.
NJ anag cement has been
harassed by organizers and gov
eminent agents on the most
childish issues. and the govern
ment's attitude has been unmis-
takably hostile 10 management
and has encouraged professional
trouble makers, called organizers
and stewards, TO kick up trouble
unnecessarily and call out the
workers in whipped-up RACES
over trivialities.
CULKERS OF the guardhouse
~ lawyer type. who know their
rights. run TO the law over petty
grievances that should be settled
with few words between men
of good will on both sides, with
out the Intervention of some
government Official who should
have better things 10 do with
his time.
Many OF the strikes. and some
OF the most violent ones, Of the
Dos, which left labor and man.
agement both sulien and dis
trustful, were organizational
strikes called by minorities
planted by union agents, which
refused TO be counted in any
election and raised hell until the
workers, who wanted no part of
the union, were terrorized into
joining.
But this bad feeling certainly
could be abated and might be
overcome by some man having
the public confidence, as I think
Henry Kaiser has.
He builds big and he thinks
big and he is right when he saws
that people like to work and are
miserable when they are out of
work.
1t would be hard to imagine
him tieing up any of his great
jobs, stopping production and
throwing people out of work
over a question whether one
workman had right to smoke.
OF course, he Is no less SUBJ
ject to a jurisdictional strike
than the meanest and most
legalistic employer, but what /
am getting at is not his own
relations with labor and unions
in his own jobs but his attitude
toward workers, capital, man.
agement, the job. opportunity
and, right now. the need to for
get past attitudes on both sides
to deal fairly on both sides and
win the war.
He is a big new personality
among us who wants to be doing
and amt sore at nobody and.
given a hearing on labor rela.
tions, could do great good. He
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02

THE Bureau of Internal
i Revenue, which is some
thing of court unto itself,
which taketh away first and
then allows you to try to get
it back, will not allow tax de-
auctions for violations.
Any one who wants to pay a
salary above $4,000 can pay
the taxes on the excess. and
risk fines imposed in the doubt
full regulations. thereby backing
the matter of the validity of
the regulations into the court
that way.
The professedly true liberals
and the administration have al
ways eagerly pursued high
salaries, as if they were
social menace, but I have al
ways thought their drives in
that direction carried more
political weight than dollars and
sense.
Every one who makes SIS a
week looks enviously at the man
who makes $50, and no doubt
the one who makes 100000 is
open to argument on the in
Justice of any one making $780,
600. 1t is good politics, there
fore, to keep pushing this mat
ter of salaries up front.
EIRST. the administration did
i it by making public the lists
of high salaries, and now by
actual regulations proposes to
cut them, ostensibily for anti
inflationary purposes, although
only $3.50, 100000 of tax revenue
is supposed to be involved.
For this amount of revenue
and the inspiring of a lot of
envy and some efficient politics,
the true liberals, it seems to me,
are playing with the primary
American ideal.
The guiding star of this ma
ton. taught us first in all the
schools, is that any man can
become president. The accom-
panying and most important
doctrine which affects all of us
who do not expect to be presi-
dent is that we may become
rich.
If this ideal is destroyed by
doubtful regulation or otherwise
we may become a listless nation
of billiards and sloths, certainly
a less energetic driving one. If
liberals question this, let them
mark that this is the direction
in which they are taking us.
If the government can regu-
late salaries of $4,000 it can
ont them to $4,000 or S.. 900.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02
| ers TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:


IN ANSWER TO C. +, Nc
L Arthuf's letter of October Is.
Irony. indeed That elbow
sounds like one of those So
called politicians himself.
Certainly it's a shame that
the cream of our ranpower
crop has to die. I have four
brothers who will al be in the
army within four months. If
any one should kick, let it be
our soldier boys, and / can say
you don't hear very much of IT.
1 say 10 you again, let our
boys do the haranguing if there
is any.
MRS. f.. DEXTER,
1881 Eighteenth street,
WyandOtte, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02
Buys Space to Spur Voters

Mr.. Wineman feels his duties of citi-
zenship so strongly that he bought large
sized advertisements in all Sunday news
papers to impress on others the privilege
and necessity Of voting.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02

lature shall go into enect or Whether IL snail
be nuififed.
The act calls for the formation of state
milk board which would control the milk in
dustry IN the state.
Supporters of the act-among them the
Michigan MIX Producers Association-state
that the act would stabilize the milk industry
In the state and would end chaotic conditions
In the industry
Proponents also contend that state board
Is needed so that an adequate supply of milk
can always be assured the consumers.
They contend that some 20 states now
have boards controlling the price of milk and
that one is needed in Michigan.
Opponents of the act state fatty that it
will result in two things:
An increase in the price of milk in Detroit.
Elimination of some independent diaries,
particularly those which sell milk at stores
instead Of delivering TO homes.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT proposition Con
the county ballot calls for the institution of
civil service for Wayne County employees.
This amendment should be approved.
Even though civil service is alse called for
In the Home Rule amendment, it is advisable
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02

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send cash OF stamps. All checks, drafts
and money orders should be made payable
10 THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY.
International News Service has the exclu-
sve rights 20 use for reproduction In any
form all news dispatches credited 10 II or
not otherwise credited In this paper
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02

Z NGAGED in its own campaign to in
l. crease the vote in Tuesdays election,
the Times pauses 10 commend Henry
Wineman, president Of the Peoples Out
fitting Company.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02

THE AMENDMENT SHOULD BE De
FEATED.
If 1000 or 1000 special police are to be
paid SIS day, then 1900 auxiliary firemer
will demand pay-and so will $4,000 air raid
wardens.
The whole OCD will either go on paio
basis-at a tremendous cost to the city-or II
will collapse.
The police department probably meant vel
when it drafted the amendment.
II simply did not view the problems in al
its aspects.
The special police might very easily bt
turned into a vicious abuse of power in the
wrong hands. The amendment should bc
defeated
VOTE mo" ON THE PROPOSAL TIC
AUTHORIZE THE APPOINTMENT OF
SPECIAL POLICE, PROPOSAL d ON THF
CITY BALLOT.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02

the republic on to your chill
dren stronger and nobler,
for your having lived and
served and sacrificed.
COLEMNLY pledge here
- and now that:
In humility and with
gratitude, l acknowledge
my undying debt to the
Founding Fathers who left
me a priceless heritage
which is now my response
bility.
I will treasure my birth
right of American ideals: l
will place moral integrity
above worldly possessions.
Problems of interest to my
country snail be OF interest
to me.
I will count my right Of
suffrage to be a sacred
trust and l will diligently
strive to prove worthy of
that trust.
1 will give my full sup
port to upright public serv-
ants, but those with un-
clean hands / will firmly
oppose.
Each obligation t h a t
comes to me as a true
American, l will discharge
with honor, for my heart
is in America, America is
in my heart.
(Written Exclusively for the Hearst
Newspapers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02

PERSONALLY, / have never
L been envious of a rich man.
/ never met one l thought was
happy. Most of them carry
their riches as a burden.
The movie stars, who m X e
those fabulous salaries in Holly
wood, never tell how much they
pay their agent, how much
comes out for taxes.
The tax on 100000 this year
will be S6S,803, which seems to
limit that salary very effectively
to S31,197, or less than a third
of what the man earned land
others correspondingly).
1t is popular now to say, espe-
cially of the movie stars, that
whatever is left is too much.
That is a matter of your opinion
as 10 the worth of individual
movie stars or individual bust
ness executives.
But what we are doing here in
cutting down these salaries now
for war, and possibly later for
peace. is to abandon the prin-
ciple that man is worth what
he can get for his services in a
competitive market.
Personally, / think the coun-
try would be lot better off and
democracy will be fostere d
longer. if we followed the prin-
ciple that a man has a right to
his earnings latter taxes) il he
lives by the laws Of the country
and earns his money in an
honest way.
Distributed by King Features synd., Inc
Reproduction In whole or 10 Part
Strictly Prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-02
Kaiser Called
Man Who Can
End Job Woes
He Merits Trust Of Both
Labor and Capital
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER


THERE must be some man in
the United States, some big
man who knows that our sort OF
freedom can continue only under
our kind of capitalism, who can
win the confidence of labor and
create a working cooperation
between labor and management
and have done with strikes and
hearings and the constant wran-
Cling and suspicion.
To be constructive, I would
nominate Henry Kaiser, who
seems to be large and loose OF
mind and a man whom labor
could trust.
The old union leaders, includ-
ing the young organizers and
agitators Of the era of strife
under the New Deal, are dis
qualified for various reasons.
John Lewis, of course. is but.
not only because he is old-style
but because he has shown him
self 10 be a ruthless dictator.
as his old associates of the clio.
who used to praise his name,
now agree.
He cannot be trusted with
power.
Will Green would be less dam
gerous than Lewis because he
is not an adventurer, but he has
no imagination and would only
be the same old Bill Green.
Murray oft the Go is COM
mitted. too. He is class-conflict
man dedicated to the proposition
that employer and worker are
enemies.