Milford chronicle., 1943-01-22

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These instruments are essential
equipment to every American ship
which comes out of the shipyards.
With the scores of ships now being
completed each month, we need
many of these instruments. Your
purchase of War Bonds and Stamps
will help pay for them. Invest at
least ten percent Of your income ev-
cry payday in these interest bear
ing Government securities.
U. S. Treasury DEPARTMENT
Courtesy Industrial News
Review
Beginning the first of January
with the Victory Tax. and the 18th
OF March with income taxes, mil
lions of Americans will get over
the idea that taxes are something
that just the other guy has To
pay.
This will be one of the best
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country. Millions of citizens who
never took an interest in govern
ment before. will begin to watch
the financial policies of govern
ment to see that public money is
not wasted.
Boondoggling political schemes
will be less popular as vote-get-
ters!
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Under a dictatorship, the cost of
war can be shrugged off with print
ing press money. Under a dem
Ocracy, the cost of war is second
only in Importance to winning the
war. The cost OF war can destroy
democracy just as mercilessly as a
military defeat. Sound money and
a sound credit structure are the
heart of free society.
This war must be financed and
won without undermining the ia
tiOn's credit Every citizen must
realize that taxes and War Bonds
are the only weapons that can win
the war ON the home front. During
the coming year the government
will spend 1.6 billion dollars every
week. This means real hardship.
because this vast outlay will not
be used to create wealth. 1t will
be blasted out of existence in the
smoke of bombs and shells and in
the wreckage of planes and ships.
In the months to come. thou
sands of banks will be pushing the
sale of bonds as never before. The
banker realizes the necessity of
sound finance. He knows that the
value of the money in his keeping
and the individual freedom of the
people who own that money are at
stake. They are the strength of
And he knows that by
his efforts to sell War Bonds di-
rectly to the people he is doing his
part to save both.
R/s/
A brief news item from a West ,
ern city reports an auto accident. +
The driver was burned to a crisp.
In his car were found heat-seared ,
that had held gasoline. /
Before gas rationing these con- {
would not have been there;
that man would not have died.
A five-gallon can of gasoline in '
The home, in the garage or in the 5
back of car can bring almost in ,
slant death to anyone in the vicin- {
ty. Gasoline does not merely burn.
Its fumes in confined space have :
he force of dynamite. They will :
explode without warning, the de- I
Ionator often being an invisible
spark incurred by static electricity. s
AS spring and summer approach. S
The temptation will be strong to I
save" little gas for a trip to the
or the seashOre. A per- t
:entage of those who succumb to 7
his temptation will meet hor- a
'ible death. In all probability there
will be cases where entire homes I
ire destroyed and members of fam |
lies killed or manned. They will
lave learned about gasOline-too
ate. But there are millions of +
,thers who will avoid tragedy by !
leeding the warnings of fire pre- c
'enJlOn experts, experts WHO nave I
studied the dangers facing the gas S
,line hoarder These experts have {
pointed out that no gasoline con- $
amer is really leak-proof. A /
title water in the bottom is suffi- g
.ient to rust through the best can. I
they also point out that gas fumes f
n a basement in which a furnace n
S operating are nothing less than q
time bomb. Even pouring gas v
nto the car tank may prove disas- n
rous, for here again static electric 4
ty flashing from tank to funnel v
ould result in instant oblivion.
These warnings have been is II
ued in an endeavor to save lives n
nd property. They are not appeals Il
D patriotism. Good excuses by the n
as hoarder might avoid the issue !,
f patriotism. But no amount of +,
can avoid the pros a
ect of death. VI
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MATCH THIS RECORD F
More than $4,000 physicians vol C,
their services without pay fs