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The midland journal., 1942-11-20
RATION CARDS AND RATIONING

The coffee rationing scheduled to
20 into effect November 2S, will
mean every person is entitled to
one pound every five weeks The
ssugar rationing book will do duty
for coffee also.
This is Just one more step in the
restriction and elimination of civil
ian goods in a war economy. 1t fol-
lows nationwide gas rationing with
new rules barring statesmen and
others from extra mileage cards;
the surrender of tires exceeding live
to a car; the limit of two and one
half pounds of meat per week; the
cut in fuel oil and lowering OF tenn
perature, and the absence from the
stores of many things the people are
accustomed to eat or wear.
The Office of Price Administration
let it be known that further ration
ing programs will be started as fast
as the War Price and Rationing
Board can absorb them. In Is
months the OPA has increased it's
employees from IS to 100000, and
also has $4,000 volunteers working
on part time. 1t plans to establish
a district Office in every city of
100000 or more. Its "all-purposes"
rationing books will be ready for
distribution about Christmas.
AS goods become scarcer and
pricefxing is extended complaints of
over buying and boarding of unra-
toned goods have been heard To
remedy this the War Production
Board has announced plan for the
control of inventories to keep them
normal and to achieve more equit-
able distribution. Rationing, it has
been observed, both here and abroad
results in the poor getting more
and the rich getting less--outside
the "black markets" The first con-
siderable "black market" we'll
known result of rationing in Eng
land, was uncovered in Massa-
chusetts where coffee adulterated
with cereals was sold at high price.
Another company found guilty of
delivering coffee and tea in excess
of its quota, and of falsifying re-
ports to the WPB, was suspended
from business for the duration of
rationing.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
RABBIT PELTs VALUABLE

Rabbit pelts are in demand by
hatmakers for felt.
The Fish and Wildlife Service
and the War Production Board have
come to the rescue with call to
American farmers and hunters to go
out for a little rabbit skin-but
preferably for the skins of the big
jack-rabbits of the West. American
hunters and trappers never before
found rabbit skins worth bothering
with. Supplies for hatters and fur
riers (cony to them) came from
Australia and certain European
countries, and that fur was longer
and whittier and better suited to
their purpose.
But now the native rabbit has
come into his own. He is in demand
in style, in fact. Landowners and
farmers are asked to hunt and trap,
and they are assured that price cell
ings on furs will remove the element
of speculation from the rabbit fur
business. 1t was pointed out that
these animals do damage on farms,
gardens and orchards Gas If every
farmer didn't know it).
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
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A Lecture on
Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science: The Revela.
tion of the Kingdom
of Heaven
by
Gavin w. Allan, C.s.B.
of Toronto, Canada

OF Toronto, Canada
Member of the Board of Lectureship OF
The Mother Church. The First Church Of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts,
"The kingdom of heaven" is New
Testament phrase. It's earliest use
seems to have been by John the
Baptist, who came proclaiming, ere
pent ye: for the kingdom of heaven
is at hand" Repent means change
your mind, change your way of think
ing, change the very basis of your
thinking from the material to the
spiritual. Human beings have been
educated to think of themselves and
all that pertains to them as material
in origin and existence. They have
been taught that they are mortals,
that they live in a material universe,
and are subject to laws of matter.
This is not the real truth about man.
The Bible reveals that God, Spirit, is
the only creator, and that man is His
expression, spiritual being, living in
a spiritual universe, and it urges us
to awaken to this truth. AS we do we
shall find that "the kingdom of heaven
is at hand"
Our Master frequently spoke of
"the kingdom of heaven" and on one
occasion as recorded in the thirteenth
chapter of Matthew he endeavored to
explain this phrase by number of
parallels or stories. Possibly one OF
Jesus earliest utterances may throw
some light on this subject. You will
remember that, as we are told in the
fourth chapter of Luke, Jesus "came
to Nazareth, where he had been
brought up: and, as his custom was,
he went into the synagogue on the
sabbath day, and stood up for to
read.' And this is the passage he
read, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, hccause he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor; he hath
sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set
at liberty them that are bruised"
When he had finished reading Jesus
announced, "This day is this scripture
fulfilled in your ears"
1t was to be Jesus mission to meet
the needs of the poor, the broken
hearted, the captives, the blind, and
the bruised. In other words, Jesus
came to prove that, as Mary Baker
Eddy has expressed it in "Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
(p. 494), "Divine Love always has met
and always will meet every human
need" Economic needs, mental needs,
social needs, physical needs, spiritual
needs, all were to be met. Jesus came
to reveal by his words and works not
only what God is but what He does for
men. He proved that the kingdom OF
heaven is here and is available to men
now.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
AIR MAIL FOR ARM
ED FORCES OVERSEAS

A large volume of air mail pre-
paid at the rate of cents an ounce
instead of 6 cents a half ounce, the
proper rate, is being dispatched from
post Offices in the continental United
States addressed to the personnel of
the armed forces overseas. The rat
ing and collection of postage due on
this mail places an unnecessary
burden on the service and consider
ably delays the receipt of the mail
by the addresses.
All postmasters are requested to
give the widest publicity to the fact
that the rate of postage on air mail
sent to and by members of the arm
ed forces outside the continental
United States is cents for each half
ounce. Every effort should be made
to have such mail fully prepaid be-
fore dispatch from the mailing office.
Letters weighing between one half
ounce and one ounce but prepaid
only 6 cents should be returned to
the senders, if they are known and
it can be done within a reasonable
time, for the deficient postage. How
ever. when this cannot be done
without undue delay, such letters
prepaid cents may be rated with
the deficient postage and dispatched.
Air mail addressed to member
of the armed forces in care of the
postmaster at New York, N. Y, San
Francisco, Calf. New Orleans. La,
Miami, Fla, or Presque Isle, Maine,
should be prepaid at the rate of 6
cents for each half ounce. Air mail
addressed to member of the arm
ed forces in care Of the postmaster
at Seattle, Wash, should be prepaid
at the rate of cents an ounce.
T. R. giles. Postmaster.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
SILVER Innings

1t is funny thing, but from every
direction we hear of good results
rather than suffering resulting from
wartime deprivationss. 1t is regu-
lar thing for war to bring increased
physical stamina and decreased
mental depression, resulting in a
falling off of fatal accidents and
suicides. 1t also generally brings
neighbors and countrymen closer
together, strengthens human rela-
tionships and improves teamwork.
But in the present war there are
frequent and unexpected reports OF
good resulting from our "hardships'
Many a mother has been delighted
at the physical improvement of her
son after he has spent some time in
the Army. Others are further pleas
ed to find the boys learning skills
and develping proficiencies which
will enable them to make good liv-
ing after the war. And both men and
women helping on the home front
have learned useful things, have de-
yeloped comradeship and have found
the happiness that comes from being
useful to their country and their
fellow-man.
In England where there is short
age of all kinds of foods and an
abundance of hardships and depriva-
tion, the people are healthier than
before the war. So stated Mrs. Wal
ter Lippman, Red Cross official,
after a visit to that country. Food
rationing, she reported, is so fair
and successful that the very poor
are actually getting more to eat
than before the war, and she OBJ
served a determination to continue
the fair distribution after the war
is over. 1t will be better for the over
fed as well as the under-fed.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20

Quite early in his ministry "Jesas
went about all Galilee, teaching in
their synagogues, and preaching the
gospel of the kingdom, and healing all
manner of sickness and all manner OF
disease among the people" With our
Master, preaching and practicing went
together He practiced what he
preached. He came not only to pro-
claim but to do the will of the Father.
He proved by his healings that it is
Gods will that men should be happy,
whole, and free.
The kingdom Jesus referred to was
not some territory in Palestine, or
some place in the clouds, under the
rulership of a personal king. This
was no material or local kingdom. In
deed it is entirely separate from mat
ter or things material. This is how
Mrs. Eddy defines it in Miscellaneous
Writing" Up. 174): "The kingdom OF
heaven is the reign of divine Science:
it is a mental state. Jesus said it is
within you, and taught us to pray,
THY kingdom come; but he did not
teach us to pray for death whereby to
gain heaven. We do not look into
darkness for light. Death can never
usher in the dawn Of Science that re-
veals the spiritual facts of mans Life
here and now."
Many people believe that the king
dom of heaven has little to do with
"here" and "now." They believe that
if there is such condition it belongs
to some distant future and can be en-
tered only through the experience OF
death. They believe that death is a
gateway to paradise, stepping-stone
to life. Whence came such a concep-
ton? Does the Bible teach any such
doctrine? Did Jesus speak of death
in this way? The Bible speaks OF
death, not as a friend, not as pro-
gressive step, but as an enemy, some
thing to be overcome.
The entrance to the kingdom OF
heaven is, as the Bible points out,
through repentance, new birth, or
as Paul puts it, "the renewing Of your
HnlLlu. 0uCH SIcpS SdlA DC eeShCh hOVs
If the kingdom of heaven is to be
found at all, it is to be found where
we are, and the advice of the. wisest
and most scientific man the world has
even seen is that we make the seeking
of this kingdom our first considera-
tion. Where may we be informed
about it? How shall we seek it? The
Bible tells us what it is, and the
Christian Science textbook outlines
practical steps to be taken toward
finding it. With these books as our
guiles, and their directions faithfully
fell )wed, we cannot miss the way.
go preach the gospel to the poor"
is the phase of the Messianic mis-
sion of Christ Jesus mentioned first in
the passage we quoted few moments
ago. What sort of news do you think
would be good news to the poor?
Would they consider it good news to
be told taat they were born to pow
erty, ard that there was no way Of
escape from it? If such statements
were true they would undoubtedly be
helpful.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
WE'RE DOING PRETTY WELL
BY j. E. Jones

Normal ways of life are upset and
the problems of manpower involve
boys of teen age and all military
naval and air officials, and admin
istrative authorities; plus millions
of men and their families through
out all parts of the nation. The situe
alton applies to all of us--and most
of us usually have motions of our
own" whenever our routine is upset,
or our plans changed.
Nevertheless, American shipyards
have of late been turning out three
ships a day, and 1873 automobile
companies are operating 396 plants
in which efficiency is reported as
over $50 in war production.
The number of labor strikes and
disputes have fallen off, perhaps
because there are jobs and good
wages for all who want to work.
The conrol of civilian prices and
goods at the source has been gener-
ally accepted by the public, notwith-
standing a good deal of criticism of
the system.
But there is no lodging the fact
that rubber, gasoline, and restric-
tions on the use of private automo-
biles isn't popular--even though the
public is playing the game in hopes
that the war effort is being helped.
The recent tax law is held in SUI
sended animation, as a puzzle defer
red for next year.
There are difficulties on the farms
and in the towns and villages as well
as in crowded war centers like
Washington, Detroit and elsewhere.
There is confusion in the States
where iron, silver, copper, and other
metals are brought to the surface;
trouble in the East about heating
of homes under rationing.
OF course everyone wonders how
the Government can ever balance
the books" with war spending in the
present fiscal year taking 92.4
cents of every dollar that it spends.
But there is one thing the coun-
try is agreed upon, and that is a
determination to win the war and let
the peace take care Of itself until
the time comes to get back to
normally.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20

On November 23rd, the annual
Christmas Seal Sale opens and will
continue until Christmas. The money
raised from this Sale enables us tc
fight tuberculosis in Maryland thru
Clinics, X-rays, Medical Research
Tuberculin Testing, Health Educa.
ton, Negro Program, and the Mir
acle House.
The repercussion of world on
fire reaches all of our homes. 1t is
unfortunate that in times such as
these our protective public health
wall is menaced. tuberculosis is al
ready rampant in occupied Europe,
the death rate in Great Britain has
increased alarmingly, and already
signs point toward an increase here.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20

AS a purely business matter the
war bonds issued by the Govern
ment are absolutely secure invest
ments. They will not earn fat in
terest, but when the years roll by,
and whenever you want to use your
money the bonds can be converted
into cash.
Other kinds of investments may
yield bigger profits--or let you down
fiat.
Should there be millennium in
which everything goes to pot the
Government will be last of all to
fall. If the unbelievable should
happen to impair the safety Of the
Government then everything else
would go down with it. This isn't
pep talk--this is Just common ordin-
ary horse-sense.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
Building Air Superiority

Reassuring, indeed, is the news
that more than half the war mater
al manufacturing undertaken by
the largest automobile manufacturer
n the world in peacetime is for the
dying forces of the United Nations,
especially. when it is realized that
his company's current rate of war
production is more than $7,000,000
day.
In response to the urgent need
Tor attaining air superiority in to-
days war, General Motors is devot-
ing more and more of its wartime
energies and facilities to the manu-
facture of wide variety of avia-
ton products ranging from tiny in
strument parts, through both liq-
uid-cooled and air-cooled engines,
| to completed airplanes", the en-
ploye magazine G M Folks reports.
OF 80 GIN. manufacturing divi-
sions, two-thirds are engaged in air.
craft work. In some cases entire
plants are devoted to aviation con-
tracts. In others this work is carried
ON along with production of tanks,
gums, shells and other war products.
Distributed to 328,00O employees
largest pay roll in the history of the
Corporation--GM Folks emphasizes
the important contribution these
workers are making to winning the
war, particularly the war in the air.
Featuring the slogan "Vicotry is
Our Business, Folks says: ''In
China, Australia, Alaska, Iceland,
Russia, Africa, Neutrality-suspicious.
that men are fighting for liberty
aviation products made by the men
and women of General Motors are
serving the fighters of the United
Nations WE'LL When you hear of
Jap planes being shot down, when
you hear of an air fight above any
one of a score of battle areas, it is
more than likely that you or some
one else of the great General Motors
production army helped make the
accomplishments of our men in uni
form possible.
Because the airplane is going to
be perhaps the important factor in
winning the war, it is doubly i'm
lportant that every man and woman
in every aviation plant should con-
tribute his or her best to maintain
ling the quality and quantity of the
vital material so necessary to that
success.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
Tex IS rune

As fal as one soldier at Camp
Blanding, Fla, is concerned, there
must be two national anthems. Pri-
vate Norman Apking, native Of
Ohio. was eating supper in a res
taurant near camp one evening
when the juke box started blaring
a currently popular tune. Deep in
the Heart of Texas" The song had
proceeded only a few measures
when Apking was confronted by a
six-foot soldier, obviously from
Texas, who drawled: Buddy. when
you hear that piece-stand upl"
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES
Soul and Body" will be the sub
ject of the Lesson-Sermon in all
Churches of Christ, Scientist, on
Sunday, November %.
The Golden Text will be from
Co. 3:16, Know ye not that ye are
the temple of God, and that the
Spirit of God dwelleth in your"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible, Rev. 21:1:
And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the
first earth had passed away: and
there was no more sea-"
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
A shortage OF Teachers

There is shortage of school
teachers in nearly every part of the
country. The public schools in the
large cities, and in war producing
areas. are most affected.
In many places the public schools
have been called upon to take over
courses of training with technical
and industrial divisions as well as
the supervision Of practical projects
for the Army, Navy, and Aviation
technology.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20

ssHamburg Pounded by R. A. f."
headline. Just an old-fashioned
poftening-up process.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20

Wen get even for the gas ration
ing. Wen make our tires last longer.
The midland journal., 1942-11-20

Washington and the country is
being thrilled by grand galaxy of
movie stars, selling war bonds
The midland journal., 1942-11-20
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Evening star., 1942-06-05

dustry in order to preserve the sys-
tenn Of free enterprise"
I'VE may be broke ourselves at
the end Of the war" she said. But,
for time, we are going to have to
police the world. We are going to
have to feed whole starving nations
until the world emerges from the
darkness Of war. But we have the
resources. And we must have the
plans ready"
The House Labor Committee al
ready has, approved a bill intro
duced by Representative Voorhis,
Democrat, of California, to form a
34-man commission made up of
members Of the legislative and ex-
ecutive branches of the Government,
together with representatives of
labor; industry, agriculture, re-
hgious, social and consumer groups.
Mr.. Voorhis said the commission
could coordinate the activities of
various postwar planning agencies
already set up, among them one
In the Board of Economic Warfare.
There were So at the last count
Ing" he said.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Fire Chief Warm Against
Illegal Gasoline Storage

Fire Chief Stephen T. Porter to-
day issued a stern warning against
illegal storage of gasoline, declar-
ing that injury or loss Of life may
result from the practice.
The storage of gasoline in i'm
provised containers, often without
proper caps, and in glass bottles and
jugs is dangerous, he said.
These makeshift methods of
storage are particularly hazardous
in dwellings and Easements" he
said THE fact that such con-
tainers are seldom vapor tight and
that they are easily broken intro
duces the danger of an accumula-
ton of vapor which can be ignited
by even as remote a source as a
pilot light on hot-water heater.
The greatest hazard of this at
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Quezon Takes 6-Month Lease
On Belmont, Virginia Estate

President Manuel Quezon of the
Philippines has leased Belmont, his
toric estate of Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
Patrick J. Hurley, near Leesburg,
Va, and he and his family will stay
there during their visit to this coun-
try, it was learned today.
They will occupy the mansion,
situated on the Leesburg pike, only
few miles from Leesburg, on June
10, Gen. Hurley's Office said. They
have leased the estate. for six
months.
Gen. Hurley is now serving as
this country's first Minister to New
Zealand. Mrs. Hurley will leave next
week for Santa Fe, N. Mex, her
bone, where she has spent several
summers.
Belmont is one of the show places
Of Loudoun County. 1t was built in
1900 by Ludwen Lee, son of Richard
Henry Lee, signer of the Declaration
OF Independence, and is a long
rambling brick mansion set on a hill.
Edward B. Mclean owned the
property during the period when he
Evening star., 1942-06-05

out considerable spilling, even with
the aid Of a conventional funnel.
Many persons have been seriously
and sometimes fatally burned by
this practice.
THE storage and handling OF
gasoline in improper containers Is
not only unlawful, but is prohibited
by many standard fire insurance
policies"
Evening star., 1942-06-05

tempt to store gasoline in various
types OF containers is the danger to
life resulting when the gasoline is
poured from an open container into
the tank of an automobile. The
tank inlets are designed to permit
the ready delivery OF gasoline
through a hose and nozzle attached
to a pump. 1t is practically i'm
possible to pour gasoline into these
outlets from cans or bottles with
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Postwar Planning
Legislation Forecast
Al This Session
Sentiment Growing in
Congress for Creation
Of Brood Commission
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Creation of a broad representative
commission to plan for postwar re-
construction and employment and
to blueprint this Nations place in
world economy found mounting sup
port today in congressional quarters.
One influential administration
leader said Congress would tackle
postwar planning "just as soon as
the tide has turned definitely in the
war and just as soon as we have
solved the problem of shipping and
transportation"
Even more definite was Chairman
Norton of the House Labor Com
mittee,. who expressed conviction
that Congress would write legisla-
ton on the subject this session.
Studies should be made and plans
formulated now" Mrs. Norton said,
Ito offset the mass unemployment
which may rightfully be expected to
confront our Nation at the con-
clusion of the war and for the
achievement and maintenance of a
just and equitable relationship as to
wages between agriculture and in