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Askov American., 1943-12-16
(From Another Correspondent

Pvt. Gene P. Severson of the ma
rine corps is confined in the naval
hospital in Hawaii recuperating from
bullet wound in his thigh, accord
ing to word received here recently by
relatives. He said that he got Jap
for all the family
Askov American., 1943-12-16
CATHOLIC CHURCH NOTES
FIR. Stanley A. Libold, pastor.
St Maru,s Church Jx1;II. Dir:

FIR. Stanley A. Libold, pastor.
st. Mary's Church, Willow River
Mass Schedule.
1st and 3rd Sunday of each month
at $3.50 a. m.
End, 4th and 5th Sunday of each
month at 10 a. m.
Holy Days of Obligation at $50
a. m.
Daily Mass at a. m.
st. Joseph's Church, Split Rock
Mass Schedule.
1st and 3rd Sunday of each month
at 10 a. m.
End, 4th and 5th Sunday of eacf,
month at $3.50 a. m.
Holy Days of Obligation at 10 a. m.
Askov American., 1943-12-16
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES
Bruno PRESBYTERIAN Church

Sunday school, 10 a. m; morning
worship, 11:15 a. m.
Kerrick Presbyterian Church
Sunday school, 80 p. M; worship,
2:30 p. m.
LLOYD L. McROSTIE, Pastor.
Askov American., 1943-12-16
weeks includes the following people:
Eighth grade, "B" honor roll-Philip
Krantz and Darwin Miltersen; sew
enth grade "A"-Dorla Clark, "B"-
Charlotte Calvin.
PHILIP X.
Grades and 6.
Grades 5 and 6.

The fifth and sixth grades have
formed club. We decided that every
pupil in the room should bring a
penny each week to pay our expenses
for our parties.
The fifth graders are studying
about the South Atlantic states in
geography. In history they are study
ing about the first settlers in these
states.
The sixth grade is studying Greece,
both in history and geography. They
also have been reading stories about
the Greeks.
Our art work has to do with Christ
mas now
We started to practice our Christ
mas play last week.
The pupils of the fifth and sixth
grades with a "B" average or bet
ter for the first six weeks are
Franklin Madsen, Richard Nielsen,
Carol Sebald, Gwendolyn Clegg,
Gladys Olesen, Janice Parsons and
Ebba Sandahl.
EBBA SANDAHL.
Grades and 4.
The pupils having an "a" in SPELL
ing every Friday for the past four
weeks are Audrey Johnson, Gordon
Madsen, Darlene Nielsen, Laverne
Sparks, Dean Strandskov, and Helen
Schatvet in the third grade, and Joan
Krantz and Eric Nielsen in the fourth
grade.
We are busy practicing two short
plays and some songs for the Christ
mas program.
Those having perfect attendance
the last six weeks were George Clegg,
Henry Larsen, Gordon Madsen, Donna
Parsons, Lille Rasmussen and Helen
Schatvet in the third grade; and
Beverly Breuninger, Edith Hansen,
Joan Krantz, Lorraine Lund, Marie
Molgaard and Byron Olsen in the
fourth grade.
Grades 1 and 2.
Before long we shall all be shout
ing the jolly cry, Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year!" However,
let us be grateful that with few ex-
ceptions, the year 1943 has been a
good one, at least so far as we are
concerned.
Several of our pupils have been
absent the past few weeks because of
chickenpox but there seem to be no
new cases among our number. The
following have not been absent at
all this school year: Betty Jane
Brueninger, Carol Christensen, Rom
aid Clark, Leroy Clausen, Sonia
Nielsen, Marvin Olesen, Ronald Chris
tensen, Patrick Calvin, Howard Mad
sen, and Beverly Sebald.
BY November 80, our room had
purchased S49.30 in defense stamps.
We are getting ready for Christ
mas by making presents and decora-
tions. A brief play "The Littlest
Star" and several other numbers are
being practiced for the annual grade
school program which will be held
Wednesday afternoon, December %.
We invite all parents and friends and
hope all can be present.
Askov American., 1943-12-16

A radio operator is called sparks
in the navy. A carpenter gets the
nickname Chips.
Askov American., 1943-12-16
Midway Full Gospel Assembly.

Meetings held in Jackson school.
Sunday school, 10 a. M; morning
worship, II a. m.
Wednesday, prayer meeting 8 D. m.
DARRELL PHELPS, Pastor.
Askov American., 1943-12-16

ORDER FOR HEARING ON PETITION
FOR ADMINISTRATION LIMITING TIME
TO FILE CLAIMS AND FOR HEARING
THEREON
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07

Thus the OPA has betrayed the in
terests of the American people and
has injured the nations war effort.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
FACING
THE -
FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

The Government of the United
States is using its strong right arm
to prevent imitation while its left hand
is busily engaged in creating imitation.
This is the bitter and paradoxical
truth which faces the workers of our
country today.
It's time we quit pulling our
punches and exposed the facts. Not
out of desire to be critical, but in an
effort to be practical we must speak
out.
The harsh truth is that the Office
of Price Administration has failed
dismally in it's duty to control prices
and has never made the slightest eff
fort to roll back prices in accordance
with the instructions given by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his executive order.
The blame for this failure rests in
the first place on Prentiss NJ. Brown,
OPA Administrator. Mr.. Brown, how
ever, may not be entirely at fault.
Let's look at the record.
Mr.. Brown, former Senator from
Michigan, was appointed to head the
OPA after Leon Henderson had re-
signed under pressure. We did not
consider Mr.. Henderson an effective
price administrator but the record
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07

Labor has been patient thus far but
it is now deeply aroused over the far
cial performances of the OPA.
The workers of America find them
selves caught in fatal squeeze. The
Government has placed rigid ceilings
on wage increases, even where the in
crease in the cost of living makes pay
adjustments n essary to enable
workers to get along. At the same
time the Government has by devious
and hypocritical methods lifted the lid
on prices, especially food prices.
Many basic articles of food are now
away out of the reach of the Ameri-
can workers pocketbook.
This situation calls for action. 1t
calls for a complete overhauling of
OPA policies. 1t calls for a stern di-
rective from President Roosevelt to
arrest the runaway cost of living and
to roll back prices to where they be-
long.
1t is doubtful whether Brown is the
man to do this job. 1t is doubtful
whether he can accomplish a complete
about-face and save face. The people
of this country have lost confidence in
the OPA during his administration.
Labor's position is clear. 1t wishes
to avert and prevent initiation by any
and every possible means, even if it
hurts. Labor is willing and has been
willing to accept strict wage stabili-
zation. But it insists that wage stabi-
lization be accompanied by strict price
stabilization. Otherwise, the workers
of this country will consider them
selves double-crossed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
MANPOWER WASTE
THROUGH ACCIDENTS
DEPLORED BY WPB

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-The
1943 production program is so big
that no man-power should be wasted
by avoidable illness or accident. That
is the theme carried in last weeks
"Soldiers of Production" radio pro-
gram, broadcast over Blue network
stations in the IL A. NJ, EWT, Sun
day program sponsored by WPB's La
Dor Production Division.
Declaring that it is the duty of all
of us to keep our soldiers of produc-
tion on the job, LPD Director Wendell
Lund cited examples of human suf
fering which can be avoided if care
lessness in the plant is avoided.
"In many places there simply is no
substitute for the skilled worker, if he
gets laid up from any cause. In fact,
even semi-skilled or unskilled workers
are very hard to find in those labor
tight areas where many of our most
important war industries are located,
Mr.. Lund said.
AS an example to show that some
thing can be done to reduce accidents
and illness through "plant housekeep-
ing" he referred to 33 percent re-
duction in accidents in January, 1943,
as compared with January, 1912,
which was accomplished at the Rey-
nolds Metal Company, in Louisville,
KY, through a Labor Management
Health and Safety Committee in
which members of AFL craft unions
are represented.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Mayor To Pick Group
To Air Delinquency

Mayor Leo Welsh, Chairman of an
organization formed Monday night to
study juvenile delinquency problems
and recommend a program to correct
the situation, will appoint a Fact
Finding Committe this week to obtain
data on the causes for an unpre-
cendented increase in thefts, vandal-
ism, and morals offenses.
After the committee reports it's
findings a program will be evoled and
reported to City Council.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07

shows he was active enough in his
job to incur the displeasure of power
full business interests who resented
any Government interference with
their determination to charge what
ever the traffic would bear for food
and other necessities of life.
The Appeasement Policy
Much of the criticism of Henderson
emanated from a group in Congress
who are the self-appointed spokesman
for business interests. This Congress
sional bloc made Henderson's life mis-
cradle with constant caterwaulings
against the shortcomings of OPA.
The newspapers, always alert in the
defense of their advertisers, played
up the attacks on Henderson and
helped to run him out of office.
AS his successor, the President
chose a lame duck Senator who had
Loyalty supported Administration pol
icies. Thus the appointment was con-
sidered political. But the real political
nature of the appointment was the
fact that it was intended to appease
the Congressional critics Of Hender-
sons price control policies.
Naturally, when Brown took Office
he felt he had a mandate to butter up
to the high-pressure opponents of
price control. He made the rafters
ring with denunciations of imitation
and assailed wage increases with all
the vigor of a Texas Congressman to
the delight of the tory press. At the
same time he proceeded to relax cell
ings on prices wherever and when
ever the business interests involved
howled loudly enough.
In other words, Brown sought to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07

become popular with the profteers. In
that way he thought he could take the
heat off the OPA.
To carry out his objective, Brown
appointed assistants who represented
private business interests and ignored
the protests Of the labor members Of
his advisory council.
The result has been a continuous
procession of price increases accompa-
MED by an equally serious deteriora-
tion in the quality of the products
sold.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
100000 Women Workers
VisiOned In Shipyards

Washington, d. c. - Four hundred
thousand women will be working in
American shipyards by the end of
1943, according to Mary Elizabeth
Pidgeon, chief of the Research Divi-
sion, Women's Bureau, U. S. Depart
ment of Labor. They are doing the
jobs that men have done and they are
receiving the same rates of pay.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Need 900 Blood Donors

Middletown, Ohio. Nine hundred
blood donors will be needed to meet
Middletown's quota for the visit of
the Red Cross mobile unit next week.
Volunteers may register with the Red
Cross any day this week between 9
and 5 o'clock. The unit will be in op-
GRAFTON here Friday and Saturday
from HAS until 4:30 o'clock and un-
til on Saturday
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
More Pools Urged
For Sharing Rides

Oxford, Ohio. - War workers liv-
ing within the Oxford Rationing
Boards jurisdiction were advised by
Richard Serviss, Chairman, to begin
planning share-the-r clubs.
DRIVERS who do not make every
effort to form pools will risk losing
their B and C cards when renewals
are made on June l." Serviss said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Health-McC CullOugh Sale

Oxford, Ohio. Household goods
and furniture of the Heath-Mc Cul-
Tough estates will be sold here May
and 8, Mayor R. j. Todd said. The
estates, whose value is estimated at
100000, will be used after the war
in erecting hospital here
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Roster Of ORGANIZATIONS

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07
Politics With Prices

AS we indicated before, however,
the blame does not fall entirely upon
Brown. His superiors share the re-
sponsibility. They should have made it
clear to Brown that his function was
not to play politics with prices but to
hold prices down and keep them down,
regardless of the squawks of prof.
teers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-05-07

FOR VICTORY: BUY BONDS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

by John Ross, commissary of the
Pennsylvania militia, to Alexander
Hamilton. Others are: A letter from
the British general, Thomas Gage,
to Samuel Ward, Governor of Rhode
Island; letter from the American
general, Lord Stirling, to General
Hanks, and letter to Patrick Henry
from S. Huntington, president of the
Continental Congress.
Mr.. Towers collection embraces
covers of the French Revolution, the
Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1872,
the War with Mexico, the War Be-
tween the States, the Crimean War,
the Franco-Prussian War, the Span
Sh-American War, the Boxer Rebel
lion, the Russo-Japanese War, the
Balkan Wars, the First World War
and many other conflicts.
Not every person could bring to-
gether so fascinating an assembly of
military mail, but any individual
might gather at least a few pieces
Of durable Importance. There are
many reasons for saving soldiers
letters, not the least of which is that
to which Mr.. Tower and other
philatelists are devoted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
Finish the Fairgrounds

The fact that Commissioner Mason
has been successful in obtaining a
third hearing before the Facilities
Review Committee of the War Pro-
duction Board on completion of ten
playground projects for the District
should mean more than a mere
opportunity to reargue the need rep
resented In these recreational areas.
The committees willingness to re-
open the case would seem to indicate
a receptive frame of mind.
The first hearing, in December of
last year, resulted from stop orders
issued from WPB at time when the
District was barely getting started
on construction of twenty-four rec
reation projects, made possible by
Lanham Act funds of about 100000.
The Facilities Review Committee
contended that the equipment used
in preparing the areas could better
be used in something more directly
concerned with the war effort. The
committee did not say how or where,
however, and much of the equipment
and labor remained idle.
7. In January of this year Commits
sioner Mason was able to obtain a
second hearing and the committee
: decided, a month later, that fourteen
of the twenty-four recreational areas
could be completed. These areas,
about 81 per cent complete, were to
replace comparable facilities lost
through new Government construc-
ton, parking areas, storage and anti
aircraft installations. The ten areas
which remained uncompleted were
to accommodate new dormitory
projects, defense home construc-
ton, population increases and new
schools.
With a greatly increased popula-
ton, the District is still behind in
the provision of recreational facil-
tiles, having lost more than it has
gained. Work to be done on the
Fairgrounds requires no essential
material. 1t is mainly drainage,
grading, sodding and hard surfacing
Unless the Facilities Review Com
mittee is in position to show that
equipment and labor used in such
work are needed Immediately and
can be used somewhere else-which
was not the case when the work was
stopped-permission should be given
to complete the work now. No one
wants to hold up essential war work.
But it never has been shown that
completion of these areas would
do so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
THE ODDS NOT OVERWHELMING
By the Very Rev. Laurence J. Shehan, S. r. D..
Pastor OF st. Patrick's Church.

His srsse in me has not BEEN n' fra an sha
day, Ausust 90. XII after Pentecost.
What was it in Paul that rendered
him such an effective instrument of the
grace of God? If we study his person.
atty, I believe we shall find two things
in particular which must have rendered
him acceptable as Gods chosen vessel:
his deep answering conviction concern
ing the central truths of christianity and
his unshakable determination to fulfill
those truths in himself and to carry
them to his fellowmen For Paul knew
no halfway measures. His soul could not
rest until his inner convictions found
their full expression in action.
One of the basic reasons for the APP
parent failure of christianity in the
world today is the fact that SO many who
claim the name of Christians are want
ing in those deep convictions which are
essential to Christian faith The whole
trend of the modern world has been to-
ward the undermining of those convic-
tons. 1t has been increasingly dinned
into the ears Of the present-day world
that man is but material animal, that
spiritual truths and moral principles are
but Pigments of his imagination, that
the distinction between good and evil
really does not exist. With all the elab-
crate apparatus and impressive argu-
ment of modern science the spiritual
truths verifiable in every human life have
been obscured and denied and explained
away. Often subtly and sometimes with
crude but telling boldness, the historic
facts on which the Christian faith is
founded have been attacked. The result
has been that in many minds Christian
faith, when not completely destroyed,
has been weakened and blurred. And now
we are asked why it is that the Christian
faith and the grace of God have re-
manned so comparatively fruitless in our
time
1t has required the presence of moral
evil, In its most obvious form of cruelty
and injustice aimed at the destruction
OF nations and the enslavement of the
human race, to bring many of us back
to the realization of the distinction be-
tween good and evil, of the essential
dignity of the human individual. of the
existence of spiritual and moral principles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
City Growth

The Importance of intelligent
planning for the postwar period is
indicated by the recent estimate of
the Bureau of the Census that on
March l last the population of Met
ropolitan Washington was 1,181,347.
That means that the size of the Ma
TONS Capital-not in geography but
in the number of human beings in
volved-is doubling. BY the end of
the year, it is probable that several
hundred thousand additional new
corners will have arrived, and there
is every reason to believe that many
of them intend to stay permanently.
The prevailing drift" is toward the
District Of Columbia, and it is likely
to continue to run in that direction
for long time. A similar observa-
ton doubtless should be made with
regard to Chicago, Detroit, Los An.
geles and perhaps Philadelphia. New
York seems to be the only population
center above the million mark cur
rently decreasing-and the military
visitors to Manhattan compensate
for most If not all of that loss.
Many questions are raised by what
the Census Bureau describes as IAN
extensive migration" to Norfolk,
Portsmouth and Newport News,
where increases of 422 per cent are
reported, and Charleston, S. c.; Co.
lumbus, Ga; Corpus Christi, Tex;
Galveston, Tex; Mobile, Ala; San
Antonio, Tex; San Diego, Calf, and
Wichita, Kans., in each of which
large gains have occurred. A clue
to the nature of these developments
is furnished by the fact that declines
are recorded for Atlantic City, N j.;
Lancaster, Pa; Scranton and Wilkes
Barre. Pa, and Sioux City, Iowa.
Emergency activity dating back to
the start of the war in September,
1889, obviously is magnet drawing
together vast crowds of citizens who
in normal times are scattered over
the country on farms and in villages
and little towns.
Problems of transportation, hous-
Ing, clothing, feeding and civic adj
ninistration, created by mass move
ments, generally come into being
much more rapidly than solutions
for them can be provided. But it
does not help to imagine that the
eventual restoration of peace in the
world will result In the prompt re-
turn OF all the 'transients" to their
former homes and conditions of life.
The statesmanlike point of view In
the circumstances is expressed by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
War Covers

Literally thousands of American
families now are receiving from
members serving overseas letters con-
tanned in what philatelists call "war
covers" All of these envelopes are
interesting because of the markings
which they bear. Some of them I'M
doubtedly will have considerable
intrinsic value in years to come.
None should be discarded for want
of appreciation of their significance.
The Reverend Mr. William H. Tower
of Montclair, New Jersey, discusses
the subject in monograph recently
published by Harry L. Lindquist. $50
wide and varied is the possible range
of war covers" he says, that it would
take large album to hold even
small part of them. A single war may
be productive of SO many as to make
it well-nigh impossible to form truly
representative showing for even that
one. He who starts OUT to collect
along this line must be prepared to
have many gaps in his collection, but
the interest of those he has will more
than compensate for those he lacks"
A letter of the Thirty Years War,
dated 1884 and addressed to 1.-THE
Right Honorable my singular good
Lord Thomas Lord Fairfax" is the
earliest item" in Mr.. Towers accu-
mutation. The second is an associ-
ated cover, 1913, inscribed to Lord
Fairfax as commander of the parlia-
mentary forces in the North of Eng
land-a souvenir of the struggle be-
tween Cromwell and Charles I. Re-
lating to the Seven Years War, a
communication from a soldier in the
French Army of the Lower Rhine
with headquarters at Halberstadt
was written in 1757. Two years
earlier Robert H. Morris, Governor
of Pennsylvania, sent to Benjamin
Franklin a request to secure forage
and wagons for the use of General
Braddock in his expedition against
Fort Duquesne-a document which
Poor Richard" Endorsed with a
signature precious to any collector.
Additional war covers described by
Mr.. Tower illustrate the development
and progress of the American Revolt
| ton. First Of the group Is one penned