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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-30

United States service men in all
active theatres of the war-princi-
pally along the Italian fronts and in
the South Pacific Islands-report
great scarcity of matches. These,
of all places, are spots where moth
ing can take the place of a puff on
a cigarette for nerves that have been
stretched to almost breaking point
tautness. Yet these are the men
whose pockets lack matches to light
their cigarettes! Matches are scarce
because they are hard to keep in
disable condition under the difficult
ties of modern mechanical warfare.
The above information has just
been received from reliable sources
by the Washington County Letter
League. Because of their monthly
news publication sent to more than
700 Washington Countians now
serving overseas this organization is
probably in closer touch with our
own men and women than any 9TH
er group in the city. Mr. Thomas
w. Pangborn, President of the
League, believes almost all on the
overseas mailing list would well
come a cigarette lighter So today
the call goes out to the people of
Hagerstown, asking for contribu-
lions of old or new lighters - it
doesn't matter.
All lighters received will be in
spected and put into first class con-
dition. No matter how worn or
used your lighter may be, expert
craftsmen have volunteered to re-
pair them free of charge, and within
a short time your lighter will be
doing military duty on one of the
distant fronts, bringing cheer and
relaxation to the men we depend
upon for approaching victory.
Will you give your lighter to
some fighting G. l.? He's out there
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-30
r E S OIL ITO N

The Mayor and Council of Ha-
gertsown in meetoing assembled on
the 23rd day of December, 1913,
adopted the following resolution:
WHEREAS, in the wisdom of God,
R. Charles Lamar, member of the
council of The Mayor and Council
of Hagerstown, has been called to
the Great Beyond, and
WHEREAS, he ranked high
among the good citizens of this
community, and it is deemed emf
nently fitting and proper that this
body, with whom he was associated,
should pause to pay its respect to
his memory and tribute to his
worth.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE-
SOLVED, by The Mayor and Coun-
Gil of Hagerstown, that in the death
of r. Charles Lamar, the commune
ty at large has lost a good, just, up
right and useful citizen, who, in all
of the relations of his life, ever ex-
hibited himself to be true, faithful
and honest; that by his death the
City of Hagerstown has lost a sim
cere and loyal public servant, who
at all times discharged his duties
in manner which was a credit TO
himself and to the City whose in
terests he always had at heart. He
was faithful and true friend
loved and esteemed by all who
knew him, and most loved and es-
teemed by those who knew him
best.
Resolved further, that these res
olutions on the death of r. Charles
Lamar be spread upon the minutes
of this meeting, and that a copy
thereof be sent to his family.
RICHARD H. SWEENEY,
Mayor.
Clyde R. stouffer, City Clerk.
Adv.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-30

acknowledged twice First by Mr..
Pangborn and later by one OF oar
fighting neighbors.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-30

born, President, the Washington
County Letter League, P o. Box
$50, Hagerstown, Md It will be
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-30

Elmer HI. KeadIe died at his home
near Boonsboro on Saturday, aged
IA years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Mary Keadle; daughters, Mrs. Ed
win Staley, Beaver Creek; Mrs.
Paul Wise, at home; sons, Orville,
Beaver Creek; Russell, Beaver
Creek; two brothers, James and
Harry Keadle, Mapleville.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-30

Saturday, the air will be full of
footballs, so pull up a chair, select
the game you want to hear, and
tune in. But don't get the different
Bowls mixed up and dip too often
in the wrong one.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
S. Burton Heath
Writes:
tell me what it means.

tell me what it means"
Everybody seems to be reading
something into the rulings. They
apply only to officers, for examples
enlisted men can't run Tor Office,
apparently.
Officers can respond only to the
draft of major parties, presumably
the Democratic and the Republican.
Naval officers can run Tor any
office, but Army officers only Tor
president or vice president, 1t
appears.
If an officer should be nominated
and elected to the presidency next
November, he could resign to take
office only with permission OF
President Roosevelt. But Mr..
Roosevelt ceases to be President
and commander in n-chief-With the
New Year.
The newly elected President,
though he be lieutenant COM
mander in the Navy or, let's
imagine, a major in the Army,
would thereupon be commander
n-chief of all the armed forces.
But would he have to wait until
a lame duck President released him
before he could assume his cosmic
task, or could he issue an order
from the field, as commander-in-
chief elect, releasing himself to re-.
turn to Washington to be inaugu-
rated as President and commander
chief?
One New York county has as dis
trict attorney an Army officer who,
while on active duty, was nominated
by both major. political parties and
elected overwhelmingly, to put
| it conservatively Presumably he
was drafted" for an officer rated
lower than the vice presidency.
without protest from the War De-
partment.
The whole thing is getting in
volved, isn't it? Couldn't we dis
miss it by assuming that both Slim
son and Knox read the newspapers.
know that Senator Vandenberg is
boosting General Macarthur for the
G.. O. p. nomination, ignored the
subterfuge behind his hypothetical
questions, and confined their
answers to what he really wanted
to know?
If that is the case, most of the
mysteries disappear.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Eisenhower Picks
Two British Aids

LONDON, Dec. 30. UP)-Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Allied in
vasion command neared compile
ton today with the announcement
that two BritonS-Admira Sir Ber-
tram Ramsay and Air Chief Mar
shal Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory
had been appointed naval and air
commanderS-in-c chief respectively.
Another in the alternate series
Of announcements in London and
Washington revealed that Eisen-
hoWer's deputies for the naval and
air phases Of the European inva-
sion would be British veterans re-
noWned in their fields and tempered
by long experience.
Ramsay, an amphibious expert
since early in this century, super
vised the landings in Sicily and
the Salerno beaches of Italy, and
took a prominent role in the plan
ming of the entire Mediterranean
operations.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
NEWSPRiNT PAPER
New York Times)

There have been reports that one school
of thought in Washington would solve
the threatened wood pulp shortage by
cutting drastically the size of newspap-
ers. We are told that British publishers
get along very we'll with four-page news
papers and the statement, in one sense,
is true British publishers make plenty
of money producing four-page sheet,
for which they receive the same price as
formerly when they sold real news
papers. Now, however, they are reduced
to presenting brief news bulletins and
little more No British newspaper today
can publish full reports of the war, or of
Parliamentary debates, or OF the acton
of the financial markets. Most of the
opinion-forming articles which help de-
mocracy work out its way OF life are miss
ing. So, too, are the advertisements which
are an indispensable part of the system
of free enterprise.
1t is therefore reassuring to note that
those who advocate this solution of the
newsprint problem in the United States
are making little progress and that, IN
stead, the chief officials of WPB, who
have all along recognized the essential
part that newspapers play in the life OF
a democracy, are now doing their best
to increase the supply of wood pulp from
which newsprint paper is made. This is
particularly necessary since so many
front-line uses of wood pulp are placing
an increasing drain upon diminishing
supply.
A congressional committee, headed by
Rep. Boren, has focused attention on the
Canadian aspect Of the question. 1t is
hoped that as result the Canadian gov
ernment will direct further man power
to the essential task of cutting wood for
an essential industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
invasion Looks
To Air Power

hover. That is understandable,
since the commander-in- chief is an
American, and in view of Britains
leading part i'll the air var against
Germany since its inception.
When the invasion comes, the
strategic air offensive against Ger
many which has been in progress
for the past year in ever-increasing
strength will take second place to
tactical operations in coordination
with the ground forces.
Great swarms of medium and
light bombers and fighters are
destined TO assume command of the
air and play much the same part as
artillery in the past, blasting way
for the advancing troops and ham,
Dering the enemy's mobility by
smashing his front line communica-
tiOns.
The four-engined heavy bombers
also will be brought into play, prob
ably to work havoc on the enemy's
rear lines and prevent the ade-
Quate movement of reinforcementS
of men and material to the front.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Madrid Reports
MussoIini Dead
Of Old AiIment

MADRID, Dec. 80. CUP)-A nom
Spanish diplomatic source said to-
day that Benito Mussolini died in
clinic in Germany 10 days ago
as result of "old stomach ulcers
and mental arrangement"
(The report was received with
caution in London. Mussolini has
been reported dead on several pre-
vious occasions, but each time er-
roneouSlyD
Mussolini was deposed as Italian
premier last July and imprisoned.
Following Italy's surrender, Musso-
lini was rescued by the Germans
and put at the helm of the Nazi-
sponsored Fascist epublican gov-
ernment" of German occupied Italy.
He had not been active, however,
presumably because of a prolonged
illness.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
WE
the Women
By RUTH MILLETT

The wifes divorce petition SAD
that as long as her husoano
financial status made it necessary
for the two of them to work and
plan together on limited earnings
they got along very happily. Trouble
came when his income was more
than they knew what to do With
That isn't an uncommon story in
America today. For suddenly in
creased incomes are hard for some
families to handle.
People who once had to watch
pennies, and to save and plan ana
scheme, now suddenly start throw
ing money around. And before they
know it they are in a mess. what
should have been their good for
tune is the very thing that throws
them for a loss.
There isn't any need for a sud-
den increase in family income TO
have that effect on a family, OF
course. But to be sure it doesn't, a
couple should have a business con-
ference-iust as though they were
managing an expanding business
concern-and do some long-term
planning.
As soon as their income increases
they should figure out what the in
crease is going to mean to them
not in sudden luXuries or silly
spending, but in savings for future
wants and needs
1t isn't enough to say "Well put
the money into war bonds and some
day it will come in pretty handy
Most people need to work toward a
goal, toward the fulfillment oi
definite ambitions.
AND il is important that botf
marriage partners are agreed on
what the goals should be. Other
wise there won't be any real CO.
! operation.
Whether or not increased income
ruins a marriage or serves to smooth
out difficulties and make the couple
feel they are at last getting some
where depends largely on whether
or not they go right on planning
together what they want for tomor-
row, just as they did when money
was painfully scarce.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Official Views
Rent Control

B. Kenneth Goodman, chief at
torney for the Enforcement Divi-
sion of the district Office of Price
Administration, San Diego, told the
Post-Press recently that rent con-
troll is definitely in prospect for
this area, Although Mr. Good
man is not connected with the
rent control division, he stated
that he understood that the appli-
cation to make this an area under
rent control jurisdiction had been
forwarded to Washington. He did
not know the date it would become
effective, but it would likely be in
the near future, he said. Many
similar areas are now being con-
sidered for rent control over the
nation, he added.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
BOARD TO RECLASSIFY
ITALIAN REGISTRANTS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90. up
Selective Service headquarters said
today that local boards have been
directed to reconsider the classifi-
cations of italian registrants who
heretofore have been found not
acceptable because they were enemy
aliens.
If the registrant is placed in IA
the case however will be forwarded
to the war department for a review
of the registrants acceptability, Sc
lective Service said
The change follows Italy's accept
ed position as a co-belligerent. The
number of Italians involved was
not given but Selective Service said
there were $4,000 men in the enemy
alien classification exclusive of Jap
aneSe.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
WE'RE NOT SURE,
MISS LAMOUR

Not for The first time, and we
surely hope not for the last, Miss
Dorothy Lamour of Hollywood has
intrigued our vagrant fancy with
out more than half trying.
Announcing that after having
pictured the roads to Singapore,
Zanzibar, Morocco and Utopia, the
screen team of Iamour Crosby and
Hope is being broken up, Miss
Lamour says: I'm glad. What
would you do if you had to kiss
both Crosby and Hope in the same
picture?"
We give up. What would we do?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Chinese Drive
Near CIlangteh

CHUNGKING, Dec. 29. UP)-
Chinese troops have cleared the
last japanese remnants from the
west bank of the Hutu river near
Kungan, so miles north of Changteh.
and have crossed the stream at q
number of points to attack the re-
treating enemy, communique said
today.
Chinese forces also were reported
attacking japanese units at a
number Of other points in the Rice
Bowl" area of central China.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
TWO AVIATION CADETS
MEET DEATH IN CRASH

BAKERSFIELD, Calf, Dec. %
CUP)-Aviation Cadets Dewey j
Wilson, 81, and Don Shook, 20
were killed Monday when theii
Vultee training planes crashed nea,
Shafter, Cal, Minter Field public
relations officers announced today
Wilson was the son of Mr.. anc
Mrs. Elbrett Wilson, Rabun, Ga
Shook is survived by his parents
Mr., and Mrs. Lawrence Shook, In
dianapoliS, Ind.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
SECOND THOUGHTS

Comment ON the Knox Stimson
rulings, that service officers can
legally accept drafts to run for Of
flee. are reminiscent of reactions
TO amateur attempts to be artistic.
Ordinarily, after looking over the
results first inquisitively and then
skeptically, friends remark:
Its lovely, but I am not much
up on modern art. You'll have 10
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
MODERN Menus

LUNCHEON: Vegetable chowder,
crackers, orange cup cakes, tea,
milk.
DINNER: Chill steak, carrots
julianne, scalloped potatoes and
onions (bake on Friday, radish
salad Russian dressing, rye bread
butter or fortified margarine, whip
ped gelatin, coffee, milk for children.
Fish is one of the Basic Seven
Foods.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
PAPA SLAP

The National War Labor Board,
apparently driven beyond en-
durance, warned strikers at two
Pennsylvania power plants that if
they did not return to work by o
given deadline, their case would be
referred to President Roosevelt" for
such action as he deems ap-
propriate."
This being one of our days for
asking rhetorical questions, to which
we expect no answer and would be
surprised if one should drift in, we
are moved to inquire boldly and un-
equivocally:
Then what?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
SHIP HONORS LOMBARD

WILMINGTON, Calf, Dec. 29.
(UP)-A Liberty ship bearing the
name of Carole Lombard, movie
star killed in a plane crash during
a war bond tour, will slide down the
California Shipbuilding Corp. ways
next month, the Maritime Commits
sion announced today. The actress,
wife of Air Force Capt. Clark Gable,
was killed with 81 other passengers
and crew members when luxury
airliner crashed into a 9O00-foot
mountain peak on the desert north
of Las Vegas, New, on January 16,
1912. ,..
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
DIRECTOR. SENTENCED

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 20 (UP)-
John William Gunkle, conscientious
objector and self styled preacher for
Jehovahs Witnesses, has oeen SEN
fenced by Judge David w. Ling
in U. S. District Court to three
years imprisonment on charges of
failing to report to work camp as
ordered by his draft board. Gunkle
protested that because of his work
he should not be called to work of
national Importance.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
BY GAYNOR MADDOX
NEa Staff Writer

You can avoid the mCnotony OF
wartime menus if you experiment
with new recipes. Here are three
worthy of your attention.
Chill Steak (Serves d.
One and one-third pounds round
steak az inches thick, i2 tea
spoon salt, 1I16 teaspoon pepper, 'a
cup enriched flour, 2 cups hot water,
q tablespoon chilli powder, 3 table
spoons cold water, 3 tablespoons
vitaminized margarine, Y cup sliced
ripe olives (if desireO.
Cut steak into four pieces.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
slowly in vitaminized margarine
Dredge with flour. Brown meat
over low heat. Add hot water and
cover. Cook slowly l hour. Blend
chilli powder with cold water and
add to steak. Add olives, if desired.
Continue cooking Y hour, or until
meat is tender.
ScallOped Potatoes and Onions
(Serves a.
Four potatoes, pared and sliced,
2 large onions, sliced, salt, pepper,
4 tablespoons fortified margarine,
flour for dredging, milk.
Arrange alternate layers OF po-
tatoes and onions in creased baking
dish. Sprinkle with salt, pepper.
flour, and dot with vitaminized
margarine. Repeat until all pota-
toes and onions are used. Add milk
until it can be seen through the
top layer. Bake in moderately hot
oven 400 degrees F. y hour, or
until done.
Here's a new spread, for crackers
or as a sandwich filling.
LiederkranZ Cheese and Water
cress Sandwich Spread
One package Liederkranz cheese,
2 tablespoons beer, if desired, 2
tablespoons finely minced water
creSs.
Mash LiederkranZ cheese with a
fork until soft and smooth. Add
beer gradually and blend into
smooth paste. Fold in watercress.
Keep in tightly covered jar in
refrigerator. Use as a sandwich
spread on rye bread, on crisp crack
ers as an appetizer, or as a stuffing
| for celery.
MONDAYS MENU
Eat the Basic Z Every Day
BREAKFAST: Prune juice, oat-
meal, fried eggs, enriched toast,
butter or fortified margarine, cof-
Goo MILL for children
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foil0ICing edit
oriais are presented as interesting Opin-
ions Uoiced by editors eisetchere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
FREE ENTERPRISE
AND ITS MEANING

Much has been said and is being said
on the subject of Free Enterprise" The
term is connected with the current dis
cussion, widely sustained, on postwar
planning as it affects the Industrial in
sttutions of the United States.
1t is pointed out by national publi-
cation directly interested in the indus
trial world that few people really under
stand the meaning of the term To sup
port this contention the publication re-
fers to a recent national poll in which
it was set out that only about 80 per
cent of the "cross section" people have
clear conception OF the expression and
that of the remaining 20 per cent, many
have definite antagonism toward it.
1t might be we'll to give Webster's def
milton of the word Free" And here it is:
mot subject to an arbitrary external
power or authority; not held in state of
bondage nor compelled to render obed
ience or service on unequal or unreason-
able terms"
Similarly the dictionary definition of
'''enterprise" helps to clear the term. 1t
says:
s'That which is, or is to be undertak-
.en."
= Using the term enterprise literally
1T applies to business, to production, to
ahe means for providing pay rolls, to
ahe guarantee of a livelihood for the peo-
lple and to make people independent in a
.7naterial way.
: Therefore, the definition of free"
Should go a long way toward the en-
sightenment of the people. The exercise
OF free enterprise" very nearly affcts
1he entire population. In fact it does
80. either directly or indirectly.
: As applied in connection with post
war planning, it means simply this: that
Industry and business can not go ahead
9f they are to be surrounded by and sub
merged in a maze of arbitrarily-con-
structed regulations, enforced by auto
cratic bureaus whose personnel has no
practical knowledge of the very activities
ahey would supervise.
Z It goes even further. Free enterprise
Sneans retention of initiative; the preserv-
alton of the will to progress and better
1naself and, in the end, to keep alive the
very fundamentals upon which this ma
zion was founded and upon which it has
4lourished and become the land of plenty,
Sf freedom and happiness.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

The one redeemable feature of war
is that it drives you down beneath the
material things; it produces loneliness
and a yearning for god.-Dr. ]. Warren
Hastings. Washington pastor.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

Our challenge is whether or not we
Can make American society effective in
an industrial age by voluntary. process.
Wendell L. Willkie.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

Every community has the juvenile de,
linquency that it deserves. = Rowland
Shaw, State Department.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

/. 1t (the war; is Italy's worst catastro-
phe in centuries, and now truth and truth
alone will bring her to the light again.
-Count Carlo Sforza, former Italian
Foreign Minister.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE,
United Press War ANALYST

The vital part which air power is
destined 10 play in the invasion of
Europe from tlfe west is clearly in
dicatod in the set-up of the Allied
high command, now virtually COM
pleted
AT the top is Cen Dwight d.
Eisenhower, whose prime military
tenet is the complete coordination
of land, sea and air power in q
unified striking force. Eisenhower
never has entertained the theory
that Germany could be brought to
terms by strategic bombing alone,
but he has made clear his ability to
utilize it for victory to an extent
fully satisfactory to the most air
minded.
SELECTION OF CHIEFS
The selection CT his invasion staff
bears this out. His deputy supreme
commander is an air man, thereby
implicitly emphasizing the impor-
tance attached to that arm in the
invasion plans The post has fallen
to Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur
Tedder, recognized as Britain's
greatest air tactician. Tedder is
credited with making possible the
Allied land victories in the Mediter
ranean which began at El Alamein
and led to Sicily and Italy.
COMMUNICATIVE chief of all air
forces under Eisenhower is another
outstanding Britisher in that field,
Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford
Leigh-Mallory. In charge Of the
American air forces in Britain and
over Europe are 1t. Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz and Maj. Gen. James H.
Doolittle, who distinguished them
selves in the strategic and tactical
air supremacy attained by the Allies
in North Africa and the Mediter-
ranean.
TOP RANKING POSTS
Two British airmen thus get the
top ranking posts under Eisen-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

If you attempt to win the war first
and the peace afterward, you will win
naither.-Archibald MacLeish, librarian
of Congress.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-29

He who holds Rome holds the heart
of the Italian people.-Britlsh Gen. Dir
Harold R. L. G. Alexander