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Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19

and naval stores operators con-
ditioned upon sound forest prac-
tice and sound investment.
Farm Forest COOperatives
Legislation authorizing coopera-
ton with the states in encourage
ing and developing farm forest CO.
operatives, including financial aid
in building and operating forest
industries n d Woodworking in
dustries and plants.
Leases, Cooperative Agreements
Legislation providing for leases
and cooperative agreements with
private forest landowners, commu-
mites, institutions and states.
Purpose of t h / S recommended
measure is (a) furnish technical
experience in carrying out proper
forestry practices; (b) overcome
serious financial handicap; (c) to
help this class of citizen to oper-
ate on a cooperative basis; Id to
provide urgently needed employ
ment, particularly in times of eco
nomic stress, and at the same time
(e) afford an additional means of
building up and managing deteri-
Grated forests.
Forest Products and Forest Man
agement Research
Extension and intensification of
forest products research and for
est management research at the
United States forest products lab
oratory and the United States for
est experiment stations, provided
that provision be made by the sec
rotary of agriculture to get results
of forestry research to the public
at large. Existing state agencies,
agricultural colleges and the pub
lie schools should be used where
possible to accomplish this recon-
mendation.
Important Ways to Utilize Waste
Research is most important, as
finding ways to utilize waste will
create new jobs and more goods.
1t will enable us to use waste now
burned in our forests, and create
new industries for making plastics,
alcohol, rayon, nylon, and many
other modern articles.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19

Until now shallow deposits of
gas have been used and so far as
is known no bit has ever pene-
trated the basaltic flows of the
Rattlesnake Hills area. Present
operators believe conservative
Well No. 1, now down $3.50 feet
and on which work is progressing,
will soon reach the sedimentaries
where oil and gas in great guam
tity is believed to exist,
Paul John Hunt Pool
A pool has been formed offer
ing leases in this area by Paul
John Hunt, at $1,000 the acre in
units of one and one-quarter acres
in accordance with the Statutory
Statement filed with the Seate
Department of Licenses at Olym-
pia, Washington.
Every member of the pool shares
equally in the ratio of his or her
holdings in the proceeds from pro-
Guction over the entire area en-
braced in the pool.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
Military Govt.
Frees Labor
In Sicily

WASHINGTON - The Allied
Military Government has pro-
claimed free labor movement in
Sicily and has abolished all Fas-
cist labor and cooperative organi-
cations in that recently conquered
island.
Italian workers will have as
much freedom as American or
British labor subject temporarily
to military restrictions. All of the
rights taken away from the work
ers more than 20 years ago will
oe restored, the War Department
reports.
Worked out by Captain David
Morse, the AMG labor program
was put into effect Sept. 4, fol-
lowing the abolition of the Fascist
labor organizations. The program
provides for a civilian director of
labor for each province. The di-
rector's office will establish en-
ployment offices, vocational train
ing and make wage and cost-of-
living studies.
Workers will choose their own
delegates to represent them in an
office of Cancellation, mediation
and arbitration. In the event that
this office is unable to come to
agreement, the provincial director
will appoint impartial arbiters.
During the military occupations
it was said, no strikes or lock-
outs would be permitted.
Until the provincial labor Of
fees are able to complete investi-
cations of the existing contracts
between employers and employees,
the provisions covering wages,
hours and working conditions will
be continued in the interest of sta
bility.
AMG is now studying the labor
picture in each province to ad-
Just the pitifully low wages the
workers received. Agricultural
workers, it was said, received
from one to three lire a day Zone
to three cents) plus enough food
to keep alive.
The new plan, it was reported,
was set up after consultation with
the old labor leaders in Sicily, in
GLIDING representatives of all of
the liberal political groups. 1t
makes possible the resumption of
the syndical movement, basis of
the Italian labor movement before
Mussolinis Fascists abolished the
trade uuions.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
Broadway-Edison Public Evening
School Open For Registration Sept. 20

Broadway Edison public evening
school win open its doors for fall
term registration on September 20
with a program of studies espe-
cially designed to meet the needs
of wartime Seattle. Glasses will
begin one week later, on Septem-
Der 81.
Service men and women in uni
form Will be admitted without
payment OF tuition this year, ac-
cording to Frank Jones Clark, the
principal Glasses especially de-
signed for such students are being
planned, and military authorities
in local military posts are express
ing pleasure over the idea. Last
spring classes in army and navy
business filing were opened to CT
villains and military people alike,
and large numbers Of uniformed
men and women appeared in eve
ming school.
Tuition For Civilians
Tuition for civilians viii remain
at the customary dollar per month
level, or four dollars for a four
month semester Students under
81 whose attendance record is
good viii receive a full refund at
close of the term. All classes In
school are open to civilians and
military people alike.
Last year saw an enrolment OF
more than eleven thousand in eve
ming classes. Principal Clark this
year looks forward OF consider
able increase in demand for adult
education. Any study for which
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19

More than a decade ago petro-
leum gas was discovered in the
Rattlesnake Hills Dome, Benton
County, Washington, while drill
ing for artesian water. Since then
few wells have been drilled in
this area, numbering from one to
sixteen. OF this number Well No.
z is the most significant.
Log of Well Number Seven
The log of Well No. Z reveals
the existence of oil films, which
are probably the result Of the con-
densation of the oily vapors of wet
gas. This infers that gas found
in the Rattlesnake Hills is assoc
lated with some subterranean oil
pool. The structural conditions of
the Rattlesnake Hills Dome are
such, according to state geolog-
lists and outside biologists who
have been called in consultation,
as would allow the concentration
and accumulation of hydrocarbons
or petroleum oil and gas in large
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
Hoff's Lunch

One of the closest competitors
to those good old home cooked
meals since rationing went into
effect, is Hoff's Lunch, located in
the Security Public Market.
Quality food properly prepared
in a spotlessly clean kitchen to-
gether with courteous friendly
service and moderate prices has
always been Mr.. Harvey Hoffs
guiding policy ever since he first
entered the cafe business.
That he has succeeded in his
efforts to win the good will of
the more discriminate folks can
not be disputed by anyone.
Business men,. office workers
and tradesmen have found by ac-
tual experience that for good food
and coffee the best of service,
Hoff's Lunch is unsurpassed.
SO when shopping downtown,
take the wife or friends to Hoff' s
Lunch, the place where quality.
service and moderate prices are
most outstanding and where park
ing is no problem.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
Lotus Tavern

OF all the taverns in the down
town district, none are more
worthy of extended mention than
that of the Lotus Tavern, located
at 81 Pike.
The Lotus Tavern still main
tajns it's same business ethics that
has won so much favor with folks
in every walk of life since Mr..
Bill Platis first took over.
While beer and wine is scarce
at present, Mr.. Platis like other
fair minded tavern owners and op-
orators has given everyone an
equal share, and in so doing has
won many new friends. So if you
can't get a bottle or two of beer
to take out, remember it's not al
ways the fault of the tavern man
agement, as they too are rationed
So whenever you are down town
and feel as though you want a
cold glass of beer or wine, drop
into the Lotus Tavern, the place
where jolly congenial folks gather
for a sociable drink and pleasant
associations.
SO for the best of beer and
wines, served at the proper tenn
perature, try the Lotus Tavern
when shopping or taking in a
show.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
Our State Park System Grows

In 1915 the Pacific Realty Com
pany, representing the Larrabee
estate of Bellingham, Washington,
donated an area of twenty acres
for park purposes. Thus was born
the great system of State Parks
now enjoyed by the citizens of
Washington state. II is now the
privilege of our citizens to pos
sess the outstanding beauty spots
of the state, the tide washed
shores of the Pacific ocean and
Puget Sound, remnants of pri-
meval forest, mountain highlands,
petrified forest, the Grand Coulee,
the wild beauty of mountain lakes,
parts of the great Columbia river,
all are preserved in their natural
beauty for this state and its peo-
pie and for the enjoyment of WISH
tors.
Sixty Parks
There are now sixty state parks
comprising an area of slightly
more than forty-five thousand
acres. Many of these areas are
small, some are timber museums,
some historical monuments, which
have not been developed. CCC
camps have been responsible for
many improvements in our parks,
but the greater part have been
made possible through the coop
Grafton of the State Parks Com
mittee as sponsoring agency and
the various federal agencies set
up to handle work reliefs during
the pre-war years.
Developed Parks
The developed parks include the
Mt. Spokane and Riverside State
Parks near Spokane, the Fields
Springs and Lewis and Clark Trail
in Southwest Washington. Cen
trail Washington boasts the Dry
Falls, Ginko, Sacajawea, Lake
Chelan and Wenatchee Lake.
Near Bellingham are Moran,
Larrabee, Deception Pass, and
Peach Arch. Sequim Bay and
Twanoh, are west of Puget Sound
while ten miles south of Olympia
is Millersylvania, Twin Harbors is
on the Pacific south of Aberdeen.
Southwestern Washington boasts
the historic Lewis and Clarke,
Barnes, and Rainbow Falls and
the Columbia River has Beacon
Rock Park. All these delightful
and dramatic spots have camping
and picnic facilities with trails
leading around and through them.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
RattIesnake Hills Oil & Gas Discoveries

tlesnake Hills gas fields and the
same formations should be en-
countered. An alternate location in
this area would be in the north
west quarter of section 10, town
ship 10 north, range 26 east, which
would be a southeastern extension
of the gas field"
Horseshoe Well Brings Luck
Horseshoe Well No. / was the
first we'll drilled following this rec
ommendation of Mr.. Holdredge.
AS the drilling machine was rig
ged and placed in condition to
start drilling, a hole was dug with
a shovel at the exact spot where
the drilling bit would drop, and at
depth of about two feet, four
.horseshoes were found, all lying
close together. This omen of good
luck was hailed with delight and
the fate of the project assured in
the minds of the men working on
the well.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
STATE-THE LAND OF PROMISE
Highlights, State Forestry Program

Some of the last great forests
to be tapped by civilized man are
here in the state of Washington
People everywhere are demanding
that action be taken to conserve
our remaining timber in the Paci-
fic Northwest. They demand that
federal government n d the re-
spective state governments coop
crate in a plan to accomplish con-
servation detectives.
Resolution of WOmens Clubs
The General Federation of Wom-
ems G lu b s and the Washington
State Federation of Wome S
Clubs have expressed their wishes
in this matter in the followingres-
olution:
Whereas, forest lands should
be kept producing continual crops
and services to help relieve rural
poverty and unemployment, to in
crease national wealth and secur-
ity, to strengthen our national de-
Tense and to better social and eco
nomic conditions generally, there
fore be it
Resolved that the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs go on
record as desiring: That federal,
state and local governments make
the forest lands in public owner
ship excellent examples of good
administration; that cut-over, de-
wasted and tax delinquent lands
and some highly important for wa
tershed protection or to preserve
other public values be acquired by
the public; that greater federal as
sistance through state, local, gov
eminent, and existing agencies be
given private timberland-owners in
such things as technical advice, re-
search, speedy completion of the
forest survey, marketing, protec-
ton against fire, insects and dis
ease, developing new uses for wood
products and so forth; and that as
a guaranty these aids will not be
wasted, the government shall APP
ply sufficient supervision to stop
devastation and destruction of the
forest resources, in order to keep
the lands reasonably productive
and to protect the public inter
ests."
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19

Purpose of State Park TwO-fold
A state park system has a two
fold purpose. The first is to pre-
serve lands of distinct, scenic,
scientific and historical value, not
large enough for inclusion into
the National Park system. The
second is to provide publicly
owned land for the recreational
purposes of the people of the state.
Many persons unable to do so
otherwise may avail themselves of
our state parks for vacation pur-
poses, using camp kitchens, fire
places and shelters which they
could not otherwise afford.
Washington State Parks
Committee
The Washington State Parks
Committee, with the aid of citi-
zens' advisory committees, is
working out one of the finest park
systems in the United States. both
adding to present parks and ac-
quiring new ones as our popula-
ton grows.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
Men Are Funny,
Aren't They?

We often wonder what kind OF
blood is in the veins of big bust
ness. Some of those men fight the
government in regulating profits,
taxes and production in their zeal
to protect their property and So
called freedom of enterprise. Yet
they proudly give their sons to
the countrys service. Is 1t pos
sible that these men think more
of their personal property than
they do of their sons or human
property? History will explain
many things.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19

there is sufficient demand win be
taught.
Fine and Industrial Arts
Courses in all branches OF fire
and industrial arts win be offered
as well as the regular high school
classes in general education. Home
economics subjects include, among
others; Home decorating. home
gardening. home upholstering,
cooking, sewing. millinery, and
home furniture repair.
Commercial Boom Courses
Commercial courses which expe-
rienced boom last year, due to
the war, are planned for even
greater demand this fall. Selling
wartime textiles" is a new course
which with other such sales sys-
TENS joins the old standbys; Typ
ing. shorthand, bookkeeping, ac-
counting. and office machines.
Journeymen and Apprentices
Under the direction of Harry
Shimmin, daytime principal of the
Edison Vocational School, an ex-
tensive program Of trade extension
classes for journeymen and APP
prentices in a score of trades has
been set up.
All adults and anyone 10 or over
not enrolled in regular high school
are urged TO phone or call at the
Broadway high school office for
information or guidance. The tele-
phone number is East 1908. Infor-
nation will be mailed upon re-
quest.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19

Rubber is famous as a non-con-
ductor of electricity. 1t is used as
an insulating layer on electric wiz
ing of many types; your home is
lighted, your food is cooked, your
automobile engine is driven by
means of electric current carried
through wire guarded against
leakage and dangerous short cir
cult by a covering of rubber.
Yet this reporter has seen rub
Der buckets, shovels and other inn
plements, gloves, nd shoes,
moulded from a special rubber
compound expressly for its cleo
trical conductive quality!
Rubber Now Electrical Conductor
Yes, it has happened. Rubber,
the famous non-conductor, has
been made to forego its normal
behavior and actually lead an ell
ectrical current from its source to
safe ground" point, And by so
doing, it has greatly reduced the
hazards entailed in one of the
most dangerous occupations-the
mix and pouring of explosives.
Powder plant workers, using
tools and clothing made from the
newly developed compound, are
completely protected from static
electricity generated by the move
ments of their bodies in friction
with their garments, as the stored
up static charges are grounded
harmlessly to the floor through
equipment made of this amazing
synthetic rubber.
New Asbestos
This was only one of the many
phenomena witnessed by visitors
to the United States Rubber Com
pany's display of it's wartime prod
ucts held at the Washington Ho-
tel in early September Lesser
wonders was a new asbestos; re-
inforced and made more flexible
by the ditiOn of a certain
amount of rubber usually consid-
cred a highly inflammable mate
rial-which resists heat to de-
gree heretofore unheard of!
Rubber In Linen Substitute
Another is a linen substitute,
developed in the face of serious
flax shortage which consists of do
nestle short fiber cotton strands
coated with a light but greatly
strengthening film of rubber.
Thread spun from the resultant
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
Neav Discoveries in Rubber

strand weaves a webbing used for
parachute harness and the like,
much lighter in weight but consid-
erably stronger tn an the lines
which it replaces.
Included in the display was
sample of new insulating mate
rial, lighter and more resistant TO
heat and cold than most others
known, which embodied the added
feature of non-absorption of mois-
ture, he greatest drawback OF
most previous general purpose in
sulators. This board, as easy to
install as any other, is merely a
foam rubber, in each minute cell
of which is trapped small amount
of nitrogen. Incidently, each cell
is sealed off from all the Others
as a separate unit, which is not
true of the very absorbent natural
sponge Of cork or of sponge rub
Der.
Self Healing Hose
Such now common place mir
acles as bullet proof gas tanks
and self-sealing hose passed al
most unnoticed among such indus
trial marvels. One reaction, how
ever, impressed itself strongly on
the visitors that the public, after
this war, will have to discard its
old conception of rubber and its
properties and uses. New applica-
ton of this great industrial me-
dunn vary so far from the lay
mans understanding of the mate
rial that the only remaining re-
semblance is the name itself.
Developments Seen In Post War
World
OF course with military needs
demanding the vast bulk of both
natural and synthetic rubber pro-
duction, the country must wait
until the war is over to see the
effect of these developments on
peace time living. But that indus
trial horizons are being vastly
broadened through this and other
war time research is an inesca-
pable fact.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
Roosevelt Appoints Joint Com
mittee OH Forestry

mlttee OH Forestry
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
appointed a joint committee on
Forestry in Congress to study and
draw up appropriate legislation to
meet this need. Hearings were
held in Portland, Oregon, Sun Val
ley, Idaho, San Francisco and
other places and a report pub
lished in 1871. This report included
a number of recommendations
worthy of note.
Extension and intensification of
cooperative protection against fire
on private and state-owned lands
by increasing the authorization of
the Clarke McNary act for this
purpose from $2,5O0,OOO to $10,-
100000, increasing the present APP
preparation by S2,5OO,O0O annually
until the total authorization has
been reached, provided the respec-
tive states pass legislation provid-
ing for proper state, county and
district fire protection and regula-
tions governing minimum forestry
practices to be administered as ap-
proved by the secretary of agri-
culture.
RefOrestatiOn of Private Lands
Extension of the Clarke-Mallory
Act to authorize the furnishing of
tree seed and seedlings to all land
owners, and authorization of such
amounts as are necessary for this
purpose.
Forest Extension
We recommend that the provi-
sions of the Cooperative F a m
Forestry Act, approved May 18th,
1887, be continued and expanded
and that sufficient annual appro-
priations be made to carry out the
purposes of this act.
Cooperative Sustained Units
Recommendation five is needed
to control operations on all land in
a given area, regardless of owner
ship. 1t is important because, in
side the boundaries of our national
forests are thousands of acres OF
privately owned land, the cutting
of which endangers the publicly
owned land around it. Private
holdings should be controlled I'M
der the same cutting practices as
the public land to conserve our re-
sources consistently.
Legislation authorizing the es-
Enlistment of cooperative sus-
tanned units to enable sustained
Weld management of intermingied
public and private holdings condl-
tional upon management and for
est practices approved by the sec
rotary of agriculture.
The purpose of this legislation
is to authorize the secretary oil
agriculture: (a) To declare joint
private timber and national forest
timber sustained-yield units
(b) To make agreements with
land owners for cooperative man
agement which will give the secre-
tary control of the rate and meth
ODDS of cutting private lands.
(c) Pursuant to III agree
ments, permit the secretary to sen
national forest timber to a coop
orator at not less than its ap-
praised value without competitive
bids and under such practices as
will maintain fair price and safe
guard public interest
Forest Credits
Provision for a forest credit sys-
tenn to make long-term, low inter-
est rate loans to private forest
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19

A doctors prescription will get
you rubbing alcohol. But without
a prescription you can get isiS
proply alcohol which is tNsSssai
good although it doesn,tal 4,
good. ,s!s SseSS
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19

quantities. There exists in the
area a low dome of large extent,
probably ten sections, which en-
closes the gas in large commercial
quantities in tn basalt series which
underlie it. Thus the boring Of
Well No. Z proving the fact that
gas collected in the underground
reservoirs was wet gas originally
having condensed on the walls of
the reservoirs is very significant.
Gas and oil could be expected at
any depth under the basalt con-
tact from the nature of the last
cores taken from Well No. Z and
from other physical considerations.
Reports show that the bottom of
the basalt series at about $500
feet in Well No. Z if the hole is
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-09-19
Forest Credits

Provision for a forest credit sys-
tenn to make long-term, low inter-
at rate loans to private forest