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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22

guide to garden making, includ-
ing flowers and lawns, trees and
shrubs, fruits and vegetables,
plants in the home and green
house.
Hottess- 1,O01 Garden Cues
tons Answered.
Hottess-My Garden Helper.
HotteSs- Gardening Guide
What to do in your garden each
month and how to do it.
Nissley- How to grow food
for your family. Here is a book
by a plain dirt gardener who
grows food to eat because it
Is a part and parcel of his
daily life. This is no book hast
lily put together for the curr-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22
Lifters. Toppers
and Lodders

The longtime dream of the
mechanical harvester has also
finally come true. During the
past year several types of
"lifters," "toppers" and load
ers" have been proved success
full and worthy of commercial
development. Others are al
ready in production by large
implement firms. These will be
manufactured as fast as priori-
ties will permit, giving definite
hope for the immediate future
=. possibly in a year or two 49,.
that one field worker will be
doing the hand work formerly
performed by two or three.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22
NO RATIO OF
USED VEHICLES

AS long as the present supply
of used cars continue to be
available for essential workers
at fair prices, the office of price
administration does not plan to
ration the autos, state OPA
director A. T. Peterson announ-
ced this week.
"Since mileage rationing will
reduce non-occupational use of
motor cars to a minimum, it
probably will serve to channel
used cars out of the hands of
those who have less need for
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22

One farmer wrote me he'd rather
have grasshoppers than city folks on
his place.
England's Method
The President said to us that in
England they have increased food
production 60 per cent. And they
did it with the help Of a land army,
mostly women with no previous
training. They got the training. A
lot depends on the training.
I talked with a farmer near here
who took on a city boy, green as
grass. The boy probably thought
shorts were something you wore
and probably would have looked in
the toolbox for a boar.
Maybe you heard him talk on the
Farm and Home Hour. Well, 1 met
him and the farmer, too. The kid
is crazy to get back this summer
and the farmer told me he was
sick when he had to let him go back
to school. City folks are dumb in a
lot Of ways. But so are farmers.
It's true you can lead a horse to
water but you can't make him drink.
Also, a lot Of horses have got the
sense to drink if you've got sense to
lead them to the water.
In spite of dumb help or none at
all, in spite Of lack of machines
and a lot Of red tape, the farmers
of the country have signed up to
raise a bigger crop than they've ever
raised. I believe with a little horse
sense and patience, they are going
to pull through.
No team pulled together until they
were in harness.
If they don't, God help us and the
army at meal time.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22

ent emergency, but actually the
results of ten years of careful
gardening and the analysis of
the records of the authors gar
dens through good and bad
years.
Thompson Vegetable Crops.
The library also has a num-
Der of government bulletins
that will prove valuable in max
ing your victory gardens.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22
Mechanical
docking

In most instances, where the
sheared seed is used, one la
borer will be able to do the
work previously done by two.
And where mechanical block
ing can also be employed, the
expense and work of hand la
Dor. with the possible exception
Of hoeing, can be eliminated.
Moreover, beet fields can be
thinned and hoed with greater
speed and with less thinning
shock" to plants than when con-
ventional multiple-seed plant
ing is employed. The new
method should thus produce
more tons of beets per acre.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22
Library Notes

Books to assist in making
Victory Gardens
Blackburn Your Garden This
Week.
Burdett- Victory Garden Man
ual. The official Vivtory Gar
den of the National Garden Blu
reau. Easy to read, easy to un-
derstand, this Informative vol
ume provides all the answers
to home gardening problems.
Everett Victory back yard
garden, how to grow your own
vegetables.
Free Gardening, a complete
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22

Cotton fabrics for women's work
clothing have been cut from IA types
to five.
Government pul chase orders,
specifying that Gamers pack fruits,
vegetables and juices in large No.
10 size cans, instead of smaller
ones, may save as much as 81, 1000
tons Of steel, 1000 tons OF tin, 43 tons
Of rubber and $500, 900 man.hours Of
cannery labor In 1913.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22
B r FS 80. by Baukhage

Governor Ellis Arnall Of Georgia
has joined the ranks of Victory Gar
deners. planning an extensive
garden on the grounds of the execu-
tive mansion. An old barn, once
used to house cows, will be RACED
to provide additional garden space.
The governor indicated that his wife
and son would be the boss garden
ers" and predicted a bumper crop
Of vegetables.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22
Shedred
Seed

Two years ago, almost no one
had heard of this development,
for it was then only in the
laboratory stage, in a California
university. Its first field trials
were not even attempted until
1941 and its first real test did
not occur till a year ago, when
$4,000 acres were planted, with
successful results far beyond
the expectation of the most
hopeful. AS a result, the in
dustry expects to plant more
than 100000 acres to sheared
seed this year. Many growers
will put their entire acreage to
sheared seed.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22
An Excellent Year
to Grow Beets ..

Beet contract negotiations have
been successfully concluded.
Prospects for field labor are
definitely brighter than last
year. Moreover, the government
is assuring you an increased
price of $3.50 a ton for your
1943 crop. Under the new pro-
gram, the government will Of
fer, through sugar professors,
to purchase sugar beets of av-
erage quality from farmers at
about $3.50 a ton over the 1912
crop sugar beet price, thus
guaranteeing to growers the
highest prices ever paid in
Montana.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22

transportation into the hands
of those who are most essential
to the war effort" he said.
The OPA has studied the sub
ject and the preliminary con-
illusions are that most Of the
used cars being sold are already
going to persons vino would be
eligible to buy them under any
rationing porgram which might
be devised.
$50, while it IS impossible to
make a flat long-range commit
ment it can be said definitely
that used-cars are not to be ra-
toned at the present time,
added MI. Peterson.
DIV yHTo- DAVID -~I Cka ~,-1
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22
The Weather.
A Dead Topic

AS you know, mention Of the
weather on the radio these days is
forbidden. The newspapers can de-
scribe a snow storm or a hot spell
but the radio commentators cannot.
There is a good reason for this.
A lurking submarine could pick up
a neWscast. and if enough facts con-
corning the weather were revealed
by stations in enough widely sep
arated localities. even an amateur
meteorologist-and the Germans are
no amateurs-could make a pretty
good weather forecast by putting two
and two together.
But being unable to describe the
manifestations of nature that 1 see
on my way to work in the morning.
is a terrible handicap to me. Re-
Gently I've gotten around the diff
Guilty by talking about last weeks
weather. and before going on the
air. reading what I was going to
say to the censorship officials and
getting their o. X. In no case did
they restrict me The other day,
however, I forgot to call up the Cen.
sorship office but the Blue Network
didn't forget. I got this message:
Censorship says you have to cut
out all references to weather from
now on. They say that there was
nothing actually censorable in what
you have said or what you have
written today but so many COM
plants have come in from other
stations that you were violating
the regulations and so many other
stations have been using your COM
ments on the weather as an excuse
for violating the rule, that we will
have to ask you to stop discussing
the subject entirely"
The following is what censorship
didn't let me say but what it has no
objection to my printing:
1T was pretty hard the past week
not to mention the swiftly changing
scene which nature provided Wash
ingtonians-one day, not so long ago
a top coat was far too heavy for
comfort and in the park. the dark
patches were beginning to be studded
with jeweled buds and the sunlight
seemed to turn into solid gold on the
bursting forsythia. On that balmy
day I remarked-'Well. we must be
due for a blizzard
"Twenty-four hours later the fine
snow began to fall and late that aft
ernoon and the following morning,
the tree limbs and trunks were
wrapped in great soft blankets of
down-even the high branches were
wide bands Of white-but when we
went home from work in the eve
ming, the streets were dry and clean
again and only here and there in
the shadow Of a hedge or in the
sheltering cups of the brown ivy
leaves was a dust of snow-like
a meager sprinkling Of precious
sugar on the rim of a doughnut."
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22

Copper from salvaged copper
coated carbons of motion pic
ture projection arc lamps in
$500 U. S. theatres would bring
in 100000 pounds of copper.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22

Free Gardeni
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22
he Revolution IS Here!
grow NOR 9 beers
with less hand labor

Yes, the revolution. in sugar beet agriculture is here! Today, as
American agriculture faces a critical shortage of labor to produce
victory foods, something almost miraculous has occurred in the sugar
beet industry. After years of trial and error, the industry is fl
nany approaching a era of complete mechanizatton -. approaching
it so fast that even those closest to recent developments are hardly
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1943-04-22

able to believe what is happening before their very eyes. Todays
reVouuonary developments are 30 significant that one farm hand
will be able to do the work of two in many sugar beet growing dis
trcts this year where todays methods are fully and intelligent
y applied. The opportunity to grow more sugar beets with less la
Dor comes at a crucial time in our country's history.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-21

Nothing lifts the heart like the
right sort of letter, and nothing
creates such permanent ache of
discomfort as the wrong sort. Even
at home here, in our protected lives,
we all know the little prick we carry
about with us all morning when we
have heard from poor Carrie, who
says that Mama is very blue The
beef and coffee shortages are some
thing awful; George wasn't accepted
because of his deafness and the
weather has been something awful.
And on the other hand, letter
with cheerful news in it, a letter
with laugh here and there, full of
affection and confidence and cour-
age, will buoy one for days, even
though it comes thousands of miles
from across the world, from a writer
one may not hope to see for a long,
long time.
"D'you mind running through
those DIS again." a young soldier
said in my hearing years ago. We
were standing in the camp post
Office and he was watching the mail
sergeant going through a bunch of
letters. The man shook his head;
nothing for Private Davis.
Little Niece Had Right Idea.
Gee, that's funny" the boy NUT
tered, going away with little droop-
ing of his khaki-clad shoulders. He
was right here in America; his peo-
pie at home knew where he was.
Another man showed me more than
once-showed all of us more than
once, the letter written by his r.
year-old niece. Kate hadn't forgot
ten him, anyway! Kate had included
two snapshots of his Airedale and
had informed him that she was
learning to cook. She would make
an ice-box cake for him as soon as
he came home. ''Kate's the only one
who's written" he said.
The mother of an 18-year-old SOL
der sent him a box this Christmas
with the usual cigarettes and cookies,
razor from Dad, fountain pen from
Mother. In this box she put II small
inexpensive gifts so that Tom, if he
asked few pals in for little
Christmas celebration, would have
something to give them as souvenirs
of the occasion. She remembered
that a boy of Is hasn't outgrown all
his small-boy characteristics, and
would immensely enjoy the excite
ment that distribution of pencils,
pens, wallets, pocket-knives, hand
kerchiefs and garters would create.
Collect Interesting Items.
We want them to believe that we
are thinking of them all the time,
and the best way to do that is actu.
ally to think of them constantly, save
up bits of good or amusing news for
them as we used to surreptitiously
carry home to them the small cakes
and candy from a party. War to
every one of them is a desperate
and thrilling adventure, but even the
most extraordinary experiences have
their long dull stretches.
And during those long stretches he
longs to be at home for a while, free
to wander into the kitchen and tall
with Nom; free to sprawl on the
iving-room couch with 1.-THE Seventh
Cross" or ''The Just and the Unjust"
completely absorbing him; free to
roam downtown after dinner.
He's given up his liberty, with his
home Life, just now. That sacrifice
IS being made as easy as poss,bls
for him by his superiors. He has
warm shelter, adequate clothing,
good food. But he needs constar.
reminders that we all appreciate
what he is doing
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-21
LITTLE THINGS

A frequently quoted definition
of morale is that it is "a lot of
little things" So is good let
ter, and good letter from home
goes long ,oay torOard helping
morale. Kathleen Norris tells of
the disappointed Private tUho
asked his nraiI-sergeant to run
through the pile of mail just
once more in the hope that the
expected letter ,0as there after
all. Then he tUaIked atUay, say
ing, See, that's funny" 1t is
funny, too; funny that TOE don't
take more time to urite, tUhen
q letter from, home means so
much to our boys.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-21
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Released by Western Newspaper Union.

JOHN DOES
BIG JOB
WE, THE JOHN DOES OF
AMERICA, are out to beat the Huns,
the Wops and the Japs-to give them
such thorough beating that they
will never again endanger our hber-
ties. We propose to see the job
through to a victorious end, come
what may.
We are proud of the job we are
doing; proud of the number of and
the speed at which we are producing
planes, ships, guns and tanks. We
are proud of our American industry,
which has surpassed the world in
changing from a peacetime to a war
time production. We are proud of
the stamina and patriotism of the
American farmer.
Yes, we have much to be proud
of, much for which we can pat our
selves on the back. We extend full
credit to those who have made our
accomplishments possible, and we
will meet any and all calls they may
make until the job is done.
But there are some things we, the
John Does of America, do not I'm
derstand. We do not understand
the reason for any confusion or de-
lay in doing what we have rather
cumbersomely accomplished. Some
one or more persons were respon-
sible for the disaster at Pearl Har-
Dor. What has been done about
that?
Today we are short of food. Men
must go to work in n1unition plants
without proper nourishment. When
war was threatening, when much
of the world was ablaze, why did
we continue to restrict food produc-
ton?
We understood that in event of
war, all contingencies had been pro-
vided for; that plan was all pre-
pared, ready for immediate execu-
ton, which would assign every in
dustry, every individual, every re-
source, to a designated place. We
read the details of that plan in books,
and in newspapers and periodicals.
1t was called the IN" bill and we
were told it would be in operation
within a day after war started. It
sounded like practical plan-a plan
which would prevent loss of time
and resources, and prevent argu-
ments as to who was to do things.
But what came of it?
Under that plan each of us John
Does would have been assigned to
a job. No one could have told US
we must pay tribute for doing our
assigned job. We could not have
walked off the job because we OBJ
jected to the color of the necktie the
boss wore. No one could have told
us what union we must belong to
before being permitted to do our as
signed job. Yes, that was a good
plan and we regret it was not used.
It would have made soldiers of all
of us, and that is what we must be,
either by direction or by choice, if
we are to finish the job we are work
ing at and will complete-the job of
beating the Huns, the Wops and the
Japs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-21
Lumber Produced in q. S.

The United States produced 49,
AS, 586, 900 board feet of lumber in
1871, or an increase of 155 per
cent over 1910 production. Oregon
was the chief lumber-producing
state, and yellow pine furnished
more lumber than any other tree,
or 1881 ,693, 600 feet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-21

Commanding this gallant
group of daredevils is the fight
ing son of a famous father,
Lieut.. Col. John Chennault, who
is following in the footsteps of
Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault,
leader of the U. S. air forces in
China. When these pictures
were taken Col. Chennault
(shown above) had just knocked
off a Jap Zero himself.
Left: The Navigator of bomber
gets light from a member of the
ground creto after returning from a
raid on the Japs at Kiska.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-21
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lMERRfGO-QouND |
! Nj S OF w PEARSaN
Washington, ID. C.
THE GENERALS TWO WIVES


There was much more than meets
the eye behind the departure Of
Gen Hsiung Shih-fei, head of the
Chinese military mission to Wash
ingten. 1t had its intriguing per-
sonA side, but also it went deep
into the vitals of our most difficult
war problem.
On the personal side, it happened
that General Hsiung had two wives,
which in China is a criterion OF
power and prestige. But it also
happened that Madame Chang Kali
shek, educated in the United States,
does not approve of two wives.
When in China, Madame Chang
does not interfere with the military
appointments of her husband. But
In the United States, General Hsiung
is reported to believe that the situa-
ton might have been otherwise, and
that the U. S. A., big as it is, might
have been too small for both Of
them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-21

w THEN you write to the
w uniformed boy you love
W don't feel that the let
ter need necessarily be long.
Write regularly and briefly. If
he is on foreign service send the
letter by ''V-mail," which is to
say by air. Don't let your boy
feel himself forgotten.
These letters to our boys
are not too easy to write. On
one side, we don't want them
to think we are lonely and
gloomy and on the other, moth
ing is so desolating to those far
away from home as to believe that
they aren't loved and missed. It is
for you to be ingenious enough to
steer path between these pitfalls.
Many years ago my father told
me that when writing to a regular
correspondent it was good idea to
mention time and place I still find
it helps letter. You give him the
whole picture. Tell him that sit is
just before dinner; Dad is giving
Bingo a walk around the block and
Sis is setting the table. I cut lot
of gold and bronze chrysanthemums
today, and with the fire and the
lamps they make the room look
lovely. I'm wearing my old blue
jersey, but Sis is going to the movies
with Roger-who may be called any
day now, by the way-and looks
lovely in her black velvet. I can
smell cornbread baking and hear
the Watsons' baby rebelling against
bed time, as usual" That sort of
thing takes him back home.
What Not to Write.
On the other hand, what does he
get from pages and pages of stuff
like this? well, I suppose you are
surely having an interesting time,
it is all but winter here, we listened
to the Presidents speech and sin
cerely hope this dreadful war will
soon be over. Winter is upon US !;
you will probably have no snow
where you are, as climatic condi-
tons differ. There is no news, town
as dull as ever, everything is just
the same, I am going to work with
the Red Cross as usual tomorrow. "
Make your letter a little home
magazine. Watch the papers for
items that concern the friends he
loved or the sports that interested
him, and paste the actual clippings,
which are much more interesting
than your mere quotations of them,
in the letter. If there is a good IL
lustrated joke, or a picture in one
of the Illustrated weeklies that is
striking or amusing, put those in,
too.
One mother In our town takes the
80 pages Of the Sunday comic Sec
tions every week and binds them
with gunmed paper so that they have
some body, and mails them to an
adopted soldier in Alaska. Grown
persons follow comics with avid en-
lOylllC1ILy CSC1y 1Id41 Ii Tie 1dI1lllJ
has his favorite series, and the sol
der to whom these bound pages are
sent reports that they circulate I'M
til they are reduced to rags.
Family Record Great Treat.
Another large family made a rec
ord few months ago and shipped
it to the adored son of the house,
who is far away. Grandfather and
grandmothers, cousins, aunts, broth
er, sisters, brothers-in-law and few
intimate friends brought the partici-
pants to 81; one of the girls in the
group wrote jingles appropriate to
every personality, and the faraway
boy, acknowledging this birthday
gift, said that not only he himself
but every one of his pals liked to
listen to it, over and over again.