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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-27
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y EMEMBER the lovely pink
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nothing more was heard about it.
1t is interesting to learn that an
epidemic of pleurodynia is reported
in Brooklyn, N. Y. Cases of this
disease began to appear in the Red
Hook section of Brooklyn in July,
1912. To date at the Long Island
College hospital, 1866 cases were OBJ
served, of which 40 were admitted
to hospital. Apparently there were
more nose and throat symptoms in
these Brooklyn cases than those re-
ported in England, Norway and
some parts of the United States.
''The prominent symptoms in
adults were fever, severe pain in
upper right side of abdomen or low
er part Of the chest, or both, suf-
ficient to make breathing painful
and difficult. The abdominal symp-
toms were frequently SO severe that
surgeons were called into consulta-
ton. The recoveries were prompt,
often within "a to AZ hours, though
further attacks Of pain and fever
often occurred" In a number of
these adult cases, headache, dizzi-
ness, lack of interest and fear of
light occurred.
In children, in addition to fever
and pain in upper abdomen and
lower chest, there was sometimes
very difficult breathing, vomiting
but no diarrhea, severe inflamma-
ton of the throat and quick and
complete recovery. In most of the
infants violent commissions occurred.
Fortunately for physicians, parents
and child, the commissions quickly
disappeared.
/ am passing this information
along, as the symptoms are so Sc
we're that the patient suffers as much
as if he had heart disease, pleurisy,
gladstone collie, or a surgical con-
dition of the abdomen. That these
symptoms disappear so quickly and
leave no after effect is much for
which no be thankful. 81
However, when these or similar
symptoms appear, the family physi-
clan should first be called, as an
examination will show whether they
are due tD pleurodynia or something
more serious.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-27
How to Avoid
Food Poisoning

In. these days when the need and
value of food is so much on our
minds it is possible that in our eff
forts to get certain foods we may
not watch as closely as we should
the foods offered for sale.
The danger signals of food spoil
age are: l. Cans with bullying sides.
2. Glass containers showing seepage
over the tops. 8. Food discoloration.
Because of canned goods shortage
there has been considerable storing
of canned goods, some of which may
be kept for longer periods than in
former years. It is then doubly
necessary to make sure that the
can has not become damaged, al
lowing entry of disease-producing or
ganisms.
Suspected foods should never be
tasted to discover spoilage, since
even small amounts Of some foods
infested with organisms can cause
illness or death.
Because of the shortage Of cans
and canned foods, there will be more
home-food Gamers and home cam
ners are reminded that canned foods
must be thoroughly sterilized to
safeguard against botulism, high
ly fatal type of food poisoning which
affects the brain. Formerly it was
thought that botulism was caused
entirely by raw or insufficiently
cooked sausage, but lately most
cases that have occurred involved
vegetables; but fruit, meat and fish
were also at times found to be the
cause.
Fatal poisoning from CONNER
cially canned goods, however, is ac-
tually rare.
A further warning is given against
buying illegally prepared or distrib-
uted meats as a disregard Of the
usual sanitary measures goes hand
in hand with the sale Of such prod
ucts. a
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-27

doesn't come UP to standard in drill.
We attend class for two hours and
there's no foolishness there.
After lunch, we report to our
kitchens, where we work until seven
o'clock, taking our trade practical
ly, taking part in the preparation OF
food for over two hundred hungry
and fastidious soldiers. The next
morning finds us in our kitchen at
three or four o'clock and we stay
there until one. We're supposed to
have the afternoon off unless
there's something that has to be
done in the line Of battery duty.
When we leave those kitchens for
the afternoon, we 60 back to our
barracks for rest and sleep, which
we need badly after the twenty-four-
hour shift at huge coal-burning
stoves. Reading is a popular diver
sion during the time, unless you pick
up a magazine which tells you what
slackers you are because you aren't
like the author was in the Real war.
There's different type of article
that Is equally nauseating. 1t tells
of the poor little soldier boys, who
give up everything to 60 into train
ing thousands Of miles from moth
er's lap and who will have to spend
their time leaning against urban
lampposts-because nothing is be-
ing done for their morale.
You're talking about entertain
ment, Gertrude-not morale. In the
matter of entertainment, there's
plenty of that to be found, even If
it isn't like being back home toast
ing marshmallows with Her. There's
so much being done here for enter
tainment that you can't get halfway
to the Service Club without being
drafted for a battery show or a vol
leyball game.
Morale is the spirit that gets you
when you're out on the regimental
parade ground with the whole bat
talon for retreat parade. Every
mothers son there wants to look
as much the soldier as the Old Man
does. Not another sound can be
heard before or after the one-gun
salute to the colors or when the
band crosses the field to a stirring
march in the Display of the Colors.
And when your battery passes in
review before the colonel, you're
firmly convinced that there isn't an
other battery on the field that makes
as good showing as your battery.
It's the enormous feeling you
know when you sit in pitch dark be-
fore pup tent in the field and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-27

There on each table In the mess
hall was shiny container filed with
paper napkins.
ter, was shiny container filed
with paper napkins!
Until something is done about the
thing, this mess sergeant will go
hog-wild. At his present rate. we'll
find toothpicks on the table next
week, salad forks the week after
that, finger bowls before November.
This will 60 on indefinitely until
his brain is completely destroyed by
this madness. Then he'll start plan
ming to surprise us with mattresses
dressed in field-artillery red.
When this happens, shall try to
volunteer for the parachute troops.
No matter how honey they make
the Service Clubs, no matter how
carefully they plan the movie pro-
grams, no matter how hard they
work on athletic schedules, they'll
never be able to compete with sol
dier's favorite evening recreation
sitting on the back steps. shooting
the breeze. s.
(To BE CoNTINuED)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-27
CHAPTER VIII

For once I have gone on sick call
for purposes other than goldbrick-
ing. This time it was for sympa-
thy, tenderness, and sunburn lotion.
/ got the sunburn lotion. Since then
/ have been confined to quarters-a
pathetic, lorn creature wandering
about the squadroom in minimum
Of clothing and a glow of brilliant
red light.
Things are getting fairly comfort
able for while. The poet Droschni-
op and the happy warrior Menza ap-
piled the ointment with tender care.
Private Sher was asked to snaffle q
sandwich from the mess hall and re-
turned with laden tray, replete
with iced tea and a double portion of
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UVOSs
watch the Forts searchlight cut the
sky. It's the feeling you know when
you can look across a great space
and see long lines of Army trucks
moving along every road you can
see.
That's morale. Just a matter Of
pride.
The good earth on which Fort
Bragg is situated is laden with ira
dition, ghosts of the glorious past,
the old culture - and little else.
Beautiful as it may be for purposes
Of military training, it has little in
terest in helping the little green
things to grow. Grass and flowers,
planted with loving care in the Sand
hills dust, fade but too soon if left to
shift for themselves. To nourish
such vegetation, the cavalry units
furnish the more aesthetic batteries
with certain surplus commodities.
Private McGlauf1in, Rolf, and I
had spent the better part of the
morning with Corporal Cleveland
James Farmer, heaving and hauling
coal in preparation for the long
hard winter, when the top sergeant
decided that the borders around the
barracks should be given their au-
tumn tonic. We piled back into our
truck and sped away to the haunts
Of the boss cavalry.
We knew, after a few miles Of
riding, that we were nearing the
cavalry territory. There was a GER
tain unmistakable quality about the
atmosphere. Something New Had
Been Added.
The boss cavalry, it must be said,
takes great pains with the care and
distribution Of its vitamin deposits.
As far as the eye can see the eye
can see orderly, cubical mounds COW
cred with straw and earth. None
but the most deserving criminal Of
fenders-men who have earned their
letter ("P" for ''prisoner'') are per-
mitted to serve in the maintenance
division of this essential agricultur-
al enterprise.
We three-McG laufiin, Rolf, and I
stood high on the crest of a hill,
loading the truck with its precious
cargo, commenting on the invigorat-
ing quality Of the air, and pausing
ever and anon to lean on our pitch
forks and listen to the conversation
Of other workers about US.
Some there were who could not
see the importance Of the service
they were rendering; others spoke
disparagingly Of the place and Bit
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-27

Is SOmetlmeS Caueu
false pleurisy-pain
in lower part of
chest and upper part
Of abdomen, pain
on breathing and
with any movement
of chest muscles. At
that time 1t was con-
sidered an infectious
dis e a S e, but a s
sy m p t o m s were
light, lasted but a
short time and no
had effects followed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-27
QUESTION BOX

Q.-What is the cause Of husky
throat?
A.-You should mot permit hoarse-
ness to exist 50 long. See your ply
stefan first, then q throat specialist
II necessary.
Q.-What would cause constant
pains in the head for several years?
A.-There are more than 100
causes for head pains. Ask your
physician about X-rays to discover
cause II eyes, nose, throat, digestive
and gcnerative organs are normal.
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glow of brilliant red light"
dessert. BY sitting on the floor on
my heels, l was even able to start
reading the novel that has been
taking up space in my foot locker
for weeks.
But night must fall. In a case
like this, where you're packed in
grease like a boxed rifle, it's best
to place one layer of newspaper be-
tween sheet and blanket. After ly-
ing there for a while, listening to
the newspapers crackle exactly like
burnt flesh every time you twist in
agony, you feel the urge to sit up
and look at some real stars.
They're drafting honest, respecta-
BILE, Woodworking soldiers back into
civilian life now, as you probably
read in the papers. Has-beens at
twenty-eight, these good boys are
turned into the pasture under a Sc
1ective retirement system. It's in
teresting to watch the way they
take it.
Our big loss in Battery A came
Tuesday when Joe Can't went back
to Liberty, South Carolina, after five
months in the citizen army. Joe is
the nice corporal who looked like the
soldier pictures in the magazines,
used an" instructive psychology in
handling his men, and knew every
man in the battery as friend.
He was on furlough last week
when he was ordered to return at
once to the battery. He came back,
started through the discharge rou-
tine and went about hugging every
body with what looked like unbound
ed joy.
Then he started getting quieter
and less demonstrative. He had
been relieved from active duty for
the remainder of his stay here-a
matter of four or five days-and
when the men fell out for calisthen-
les or drill, Corporal CAN'T didn't
have to 60 out with them. Every
time the whistle blew, you could see
a lonesome look creeping into his
eyes.
The last time I saw him was Mon
day at noon. when we fell out for
chow. Military procedure was over
thrown in spontaneous revolu-
ton and Joe was drafted to march
us to the mess hall. It was his last
detail. Hallway to the mess hall,
he gave us 'sTo the rear-march!
To the right flank-march! To the
right fiank-march! I'd I'll of the
marching commands he had taught
US.
He's returning to Liberty now,
where he'll fall back easily into the
life he left five months ago. But you
could have seen from a casual
glance that he was going to miss
the Army.
I'm a student cook in the Army.
Cooks are supposed to have the cas-
lest work and the most comfortable
positions the Army affords. Com
pared to the boys in the gun bat
teries, the signal corps, the anti
tank units, we're almost white-col-
Var men.
We student cooks = the future
Happiness" boys Of the Army
have to get up for reveille at the
usual hour, beating the sun to the
rise every morning. We get an
hour Of calisthenics, directed by a
noncom who's in good physical
shape and expects us to be the
same way. Then we drill for an
hour, and hell hath no fury like
that unleashed on the recreant who
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-27
N sMkv1s' 4
PLEURODYNIA--FALSE
PLEURISY
released by western Newspaper Union.

Some years ago wrote about an
epidemic of pleurodynia in England.
Pleurodynia is an Inflammation with
pain in muscles Of the chest. 1t
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-08-27

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts &C.
lected and copyrighted by international
Council Of Religious Education; used ny
permission.
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~ IlAPRO OWED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SSgs sDoy lesson

BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIsT. D.. D.
OF The Moody Bible Institute Of Chicago.
(Reieased by Western Newspaper Union.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
TOTO:
Real War Starts

Bland-visaged Gen. Hideki TOTO,
war minister, had no bland words
for the Japanese people when he APP
peared before the Nipponese diet to
report on the state of the war. In
stead, he warned grinly that the
Allies were preparing to deliver
counter blows of great impor-
lance" and added that signs indi-
Gated :'the real war is starting from
now" y
TOTO admitted that Jap forces in
Burma, New Guinea and the Solo
mons were on the defensive and
pointed out that the phase of sur
prise Jap attacks and lightning sue
cess was over. He said, however,
that his armies in these areas were
successfully frustrating enemy at
tacks by counter-blows."
Before ending on a somber note
that Japan is engaged day and
night in providing against air raids"
TOTO listed some of the plumbers of
war his forces have acquired, add
ing that transports had brought
home 100000 tons of material.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
CASUALTY LISTS:
Full Publicity ahead

Confident that the American pub
lie can ''take bad news govern
ment officials revealed that the ban
on nationwide publication Of war
casualty and prisoner lists had been
lifted.
The new policy, officials said,
would permit publication anywhere
and in their entirety, lists Of men
killed, wounded, missing or taken
prisoner. Previously newspapers had
been restricted to publishing the
names of men whose next Of kin
lived in their particular circulation
area.
Explaining the new ruling, one
spokesman declared it had been de-
terrnined that the publication of cas-
ualty lists would not jeopardize ma
tional security and moreover, "the
public has enough stamina and forti-
tude to take the bad news of long
casualty lists if the papers care to
publish Them" A
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
AWAY OFFENSIVE:
By Russ Armies

The Russians continued to prove
that while the summer might have
belonged to the invading Nazi hosts,
the winter was the, season for Red
revival.
-Four strong Soviet armies were
proving this in four separate drives
against the cold and weary Ger
mans. These offensives sprung with
the purpose of destroying Nazi man
power and equipment and weaken
ing Hitler's hold on the Eastern
front were centered on the Rzhev
sector, in the Stalingrad area, IN
the reaches of the Middle Don and
in the central Caucasus.
The central Caucasus drive was
the, newest on the Red schedule and
was started south of Nalchik, where
Nazi armored mountain units had
been trying unsuccessfully for weeks
to break through to the Georgian
military highway in Transcaucasia.
Most significant news came from
the Stalingrad area, however, TOR
Russian communicates reported the
capture of Kotelnikovski, key trans
portation town anchoring 2O0-mile
stretch of the Stalingrad- Caucasus
railroad and a supply depot for the
Nazis' eastern operations. Here big
stores of Axis supplies were taken
oyer by the Reds. From Kotelnikov-
ski the Russians began spearhead
drive toward Rostov.
Meanwhile the Red enlightenment
of 22 German divisions trapped be-
fore Stalingrad was frightened by
Russ advances of from 81 to So miles
from the southwest
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
WORLD FEDERATION:
asked bv Wallace

Ever since his quart of milk
day" speech forecasting bettereo
conditions for the worlds uaderpriv'
LEGGED, Vice President Henry A.
Wallace has been regarded as No
administration spokesman on post.
war reconstruction.
Thus his latest address proposing
a world council to preserve peace
and promote the general welfare aft.
er the war received close inspection
in world chancellories, for it was
taken as major administration
statement Of future plans.
Wallace's recipe for international
organization after the war: "The
maximum of home rule that can be
maintained along with the minimum
of centralized authority that must
come into existence to give the nee
essary protection"
The vice president outlined a four
fold objective for future peace: "To
preserve the liberty, equality, Sc
curity and unity of the United Ma
tions-liberty in the political sense
equality of opportunity in interna-
tional trade; security against war
and business depression due to in
ternational causes; and unity of pur-
pose in promoting the general vel
fare of the world"
Concerning the treatment of de-
feated nations he advocated not only
military but psychological dis
armament"
For the American people, Wallace
said, "the war is entering its grim
NEST phase" where we will learn
for the first time the meaning of war
privations. But, he added, Hitler's
desperate bid for a Nazi world
order has reached and passed its
highest point. -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
CANNED RATIONINC.
Little Panic Buying

Fears that nationwide scramble
Of housewives to buy canned food
stuffs would develop following off,
cial disclosure that a point ration
ing system would be inaugurated in
February failed to materialize as re-
ports from retail grocers indicated
only isolated instances of panic buy
ing.
Announcement Of the ration plan
which covers more than 200 canned
food items made by Secretary of
Agriculture Claude r. Wickard had
been attacked by trade representa-
tives as premature" and almost
certain to result in public boarding
and unfair distribution of available
supplies.
Federal authorities defended the
advance announcement on the
ground that complicated controls
were necessary to administer the
program. They commended, too, that
If the public were not notified, ru-
mors might circulate and cause hys-
terical purchasing.
Grocers attributed the absence Of
panic buying to two major reasons.
One was the governments require
ment that before a rationing book
could be issued, any boarded goods
had to be declared and the equiva-
lent number of rationing coupons
surrendered at the time of registra-
ton. The other was that any case
of boarding where false representa-
ton was made, might be punishable
by maximum fine of $4,000 or one
year in prison or both.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
HIGHLIcHTs in the ~esk'' news

MOSCOW: As reward for lead
ing the recent successful break
through the German lines on the
Middle Don, VASTLY Mikhailovich
Badanov was elevated to the rank of
lieutenant general of tank forces and
awarded the highest Russian mill
tary decoration, the order of Suvo-
row. General Badanov's feat was
described as, unprecedented in
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08

Edgar Hoover, were Roger Touhy,
Basil (''The Owl'') Banghart and
three minor criminal members Of the
band of seven that had escaped from
the Joliet, ILL.,, penitentiary last Octo-
Der. Dead from Oman gunfire
were James O'Connor and st. Clair
McInerney, bank bandits and safe
crackers.
The capture and killing of the des-
peradoes climaxed one of the most
neatly laid traps in FBI history. The
gang. living in separate hideouts on
Chicago's North side, had been
Swallowed for weeks. Hoover's men
moved swiftly when they sprung the
trap.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-08
T:EIs!!sy:]5 Dig:
importance Of World Trade
Turns Spotlight on Sec. Hull
Postwar Rebuilding of International Structure
Will Get Consideration Before
Armistice.
BY BAUKHAGE
Netps Analyst and Commentator.

lations between them and the better
ment of worldwide economic rela-
tons. To that end, they shall include
provision for agreed action by the
United States of America and. :,
open to participation by all other
countries of like mind, directed to
the expansion, by appropriate inter-
national and domestic measures, of
production, employment, and the ex-
change and consumption of goods,
which are the material foundations
OF the liberty and welfare of all
peoples; to the elimination of all
forms of discriminatory treatment in
international commerce; to the re-
duction of tariffs and other trade
barriers; and, in general, to the at
tainment of economic detectives
identical with those set forth in the
Joint Declaration made on August
IA, 1941, by the President of the
United States of America and the
Prime Minister of the United King
dom.
eat an early convenient date, con-
versations shall be begun between
the two governments with a view
to determining, in the light of gov
erning economic conditions, the best
means of attaining the above-stated
detectives by their own agreed ac-
ton and of seeking the agreed ac-
ton of other like-minded govern
ments."
The chronology of Americas ap-
proach to peace founded on the
principles of free economic inter-
course is:
Autumn of 1910: The Atlantic
Charter.
March, 1871: Lend-Lease law.
February, 1912: Master Lend
Lease agreement with Britain.
June, 1912: Presidents clari-
fication of Article VII.
Secretary Hull believes that a
sound and equitable international
economic policy must be laid down
before we can hope for International
political stability. He will be, as he
always has been, the champion of
that view.
That is the internationalist view.
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a The first packing center for pris-
oners of war parcels, which will
have an initial capacity of 100000
packages a month, will be opened
in January by the American Red
Cross in Philadelphia. The parcels,
containing II pounds of food. tobacco
and soap, will be for distribution to
American and other United Nations
prisoners of war and civilians held
by the enemy.