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FITS PROGR..

This dozen a domici!e" project
fits into the national conservation
and home food production program.
H. Lee Landerman assistant farm
advisor, and poultry expert with
a selected group OF All club men,
bers, will take baby chicks to the
various schools SO that the young
sters may purchase them and grow
their own flocks. a dozen chickens
to the home. for egg and meat pro-
duction. Instructions as to rearing
the chicks will be given and the
goal is to have thriving poultry
flock in every home where there
are Junior Red Cross members.
At the present tine. the Juniors
are helping in the publicity for
the chapters war fund campaign.
making posters, distributing others,
and giving three radio programs.
SHOW INITIATIVE
On their own initiative, each
child is taking home a note which
reads. we, the children of the
Junior Red Cross, hope that the
contribution of our parents to the
Red Cross will be commensurate
witt our gratitude for our life in
America.
Other activities of the Junior Red
Cross are: cider girls are helping
the senior Red Cross in making
surgical dressings. rural school chill
dren are sending il knitted afghans
and joke book. high school girls
are knitting af5hans and wristiets,
the boys, through the school shops
are making lap-boards and bedside
tables for use of soldiers in hospi-
tails.
BRING COMFORT
On holidays. Junior Red Cross
members have brought comfort and
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of which $423 has been repaid al
ready. For the year to come the
work will be tripled if not quad
rupled
For the serviceman the Red
Cross also provides entertainment
and recreation. both for the men
i'll camps and the men in hos
pitfalls.
XO%DEkrCL Won
Here. for the FL Centre chapter,
the Red Cross camp an1 hospital
service committee, headed by Mrs.
b. Z. Lemons, has done wonderful
Wcrk. Through the activities of
this committee. the recreation hall
at Camp Seeley was built and fur
nished, many individuals aiding in
the project. Grounds were land
Scaped, programs OF entertain
ment were sent out. and dances
given for the men at camp. Holi
days were remembered. the Junior
Red Cross assisting in this work,
and this committee is also working
for Camp FL Centre now that that
j. established.
As soon as requests are made for
this work from The hospital at
Camp FL Centro, a Gray Ladies'
group will be trained, these women
going out On regular schedule to
camp to read to tie men. write
letters, entertain them
FOR W0y'NDED MEN
Fer the wounded men. the blood
donor service is credited with say
inc thousands and thousands of
lives This service is conducted en-
tnely by the American Red Cross
and for the El Centre chapter DR..
f. B. Godfrey, county health Off
Ger. is in charge OF the work of
typing donors
Through What is termed the
production work, the making of
surgical dressings, of garments and
Of knitted articles by volun e e I
workers, the serVicemen receives
much help through the Red Cross
Here again, the FL Centre chap
ter has a record of achievement:
-
completed 9j4 seWed garments, pa
knitted garments for the United
States Navy and ll9 for the United
States Army.
Four hundred and tWenty-four
women are registered for surgical
dressings and have, from November
l to February l made 52,549 sur
gi2al dressings, representing $4,000
hours of WORK Mrs r. C. ClemonS
is chairman of this branch of VOL
tlteer work and in Holtville, which
recently opened a center, Mrs. j..
\. Yeargin IS chairman.
Two hundred comfort kits. the
most valued possessions of men at
the front were made last year by
the Ell Centro chapter and this
years quota is 800.
VOLUNTEER SERVICE
Mrs. H. r. Anderson heads the
volunteer services, with Mrs. A. R.
Tagg as production chairman; Mrs
H. r. Johnston, Knitting; Mrs. b.
o. Mitchell, sewing.
Work Of the Motor Corps, an
otner volunteer service, Is covered
in special article as is the work
CT TIE Junior Rel Cross. both
groups also aiding the servicemen
stationed in the valley.
Newest services CT the Red Cross
for the serviceman include the
opening Of foreign clubs which op-
crate somewhat in the fashion of
canteens or recreation centers and
where Red Cross workers are on the
JOB for the man in a foreign coun-
try
Another service is that OF send
ing letters to prisoners of war, the
International Red Cross commit
Tee having made this possible
In a notice from A. L. Schafer,
Ea-lIlc area manager, Am 2rlcan
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Continued From Page 3
of the varies pros. ans.
The Price panel is made up or A.
II. Keller, chairman; Mrs Carrie
r. Hanson, Mark w. Washburn and
John M Kerley.
Serving on the tire and gas panel
are Will S. FaWcett, chairman; AL
len p Nutfer, Henry c. Worthing
ton and James E. Brock.
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after which the beard took ON the
rubber boot ration deal.
Then came the mammoth task of
supervising registration Iur gas
books which preceded registration
for the coffee program. Shoes were
frozen next and they are now being
rationed by the board
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| he. ]
Valley Chapters
Arise to Fight

The Red Cross is an essential
auxiliary of OF" armed forces, and
The key agency in civilian defense
plans
Those words of President Frank
lin D. RooSeyelt's describe the Red
CrcSs work in time Of war, but the
Red Cross also functions in times
Cf peace ard for the civilian popu-
lation in both war and peace
Wherever trouble strikes people en-
maSse. there the Red Cross may
be found When disaster strikes.
the Red Cross comes to the rescue
it was in Brawley after the earth
quake of 1910. it is there if flood,
fire or bombing ocCurS-it was in
Hawaii and the Philippines. ready
for service at the outbreak Of the
war.
Now the Red Cross is asking for
war funds of SIPS 100000 for the
nation as a whole, and S1c,501 for
the Fl Centro chapter. Half of the
RI Centre chapters quota will go
70 the war chest and the other half
Will be used for local work. pri-
ma,ily for servicemen since the
scope Of the chapters activity has
teen greatly increased during ii e
past year as more and more per-
manent camps for the arme 1 forces
ale established.
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FOOD GROUP

The food group is made up of
Guy A. Weakley. chairman; Mrs.
william Costello, Mrs. Ida A. Holmes
and Harold Hunt.
On the heels Of the tire ratiCning
program came the freezing Of type
writer's and the subsequent ration
ing setup which was put into Oper-
alton. Bicycle rationing came next
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MOST RECENT

Most recent is the processed food
nrogram which has just been put
into operation.
In but few instances has the board
been notified in advance on any of
these movements and the job of
overseeing them has in practically
each case fallen into the laps of
the board and office force out of a
clear sky.
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WHAT DOES 1T DO?

What Goes the Red Cross do for
the serviceman?
From the time a man enters the
service the Red Cross is there to
help him and will be on the job
after his term of service is over as
caring for war veterans interests
is cne Of the obiectives of the Red
Cross.
With the Army and Navy. wher-
ever stationed. is a Red Cross field
unit. established to serve the men.
and the Req Cross is the only
agency permitted by the govern
ment TO 90 behind the sentry lines.
The field director is with these
UAits TO give servicemen informa-
tion. counsel and assistance on
personal problems, and by contact
ing the Red Gross chapter in the
mans home town. caring for the
welfare of his family.
HELPS ALL
This branch of the service is par
ticularly vital to the man far from
home. because he knows the Red
Cross is on the job. Only recently
a serviceman stationed in the val
ley, came to the Red Cross head
quarters in deep diStress-his child
was desperately i'll, and with the
mother. was in a strange town
The Serviceman was afraid that
the sick child was not getting the
proper care and was almost beside
himself with anxiety. A telephone
call to the Red Cross chapter in
that town brought immediate in
vaStigatiOn of that case, and within
"a hours the anxious father learned
tNat the child was better and that
the Red Cross would stay on the
job until there was no more dan
ger.
This type of work is called home
service and is by far one of the
mCst important services the Red
Cross Ierforms in a community.
Tie greater part of the El Centre
chapter budget will 60 for the
hcme service work as that program
is increasing daily.
CHAIRMAN
Mrs. p M Mercer is chairman
OF nome service, succeeding Mrs.
william c. Red. who through i'll
ness. has resigned the chairman
ship, but who is helping with the
work as are Mrs. A. L. Dilback
and Mrs. w A. Vie.
During the past year the home
service work of the chapter con-
sisted Of 302 cases for families of
military mn; the chapter made
loans for this work totaling $500,
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BY PETER EDISON

Whether or not the United
States can escape serious infla-
ton in this war may depend
largely on how successfully the
public, the price administrators
and the rationing boards can pre-
vent development of black
market.
The parallel to that can be OBJ
served in prohibition. No one
ever made any accurate survey
of the number of people who
abided by the prohibition law,
but even if it ran as high as 90
per cent, still it was the 10 per
cent who patronized the boot
logger that made the law unen-
forceable. The same thing goes
for the black market. If 80 per
cent of the people buy only with
in their rationed allowances of
foods, gasoline and fuel oil, price
control and rationing schedules
can still be broken down if 10
per cent start buying bootlegged
supplies.
The black market, rationing
officials believe, doesn't consist
of individual trades between ia
miles over the back fence. Ra-
tioning systems have to be set
up on the principle that every
one consumes pretty much the
same quantities of the rationed
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jumped to three spades that
there was probably slam. But
if North held top hearts instead
Of clubs, the defense might cash
two clubs at once. So Sam bid
four clubs, concealing the dia-
monds, and then went on to six
spades.
There is no knowing what
West would have opened if Sam
had bid the diamonds. Perhaps
he would have been afraid to
lead clubs anyhow. But after the
club bid, such a lead looked
hopeless. He tried a diamond
and Sam of course won all the
tricks.
. GIN RUMMY QUIZ .
@. Non-dealer takes the up
card and knocks. Dealer then
discovers that he dealt himself
only nine cards and claims that
hand is void and must be re-
dealt. Is he right?
A. No, his opponent has the
right to let the deal stand and
to collect the points on the nine
cards.
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THE COST oFLIVING

There does not seem to be much question that
Leon Henderson was removed as prioe-rotonine 3D.
noinistrotor because powerful bloc felt that he
too tough.
This is neither to agree nor to disagree with that
sentiment but merely to point out thot Mr. Hender-
sons successor is walking into on unenvoble spot
from which he, too, may some day be carried owoy
political corpse.
Lost midway, with disastrous initiation begin
nina to build up Mr.. Henderson given the task OF
holding prices down. His authority limited in two
bosics He had no control over wages or over farm
prices.
Since that time the costs Of clothing and house
furnishings have risen onetenth Of per cent the cost
Of miscellaneous items has gone up eieht-tenths OF
Der cent Rent hos fallen one-tenth Of ] per cent.
These thios we're under OPA CONTROL The cost Of food,
uncontrolled in the MAN, rose 8 per cent during the
same period.
These figures come from Secretary Of Labor Per-
kins and can hardly be suspected Of onti-odmnistro
ton bos
The National industrial Conference Board reports
thot between February and November food prices rose
l3 per cent, women's clothing 40 per cent, mems
clothing as per cent, housing GA per cent, sundres
80 per cent.
On different boses for different periods the two
sets Of figures check closely They indicate thot when
Mr. Henderson was given his thonkless task prices
we're rsing that he stopped the increase for items
under his CONTROL while others continued to go up.
Thot is to soy: Mr.. Henderson did exactly what
he was told by the President to do He wos success
So he hos been retired.
Whot, then is it thot want from his successor?
Do we want hord-boiIed results from wishy-woshy
methods? We can't have thot Neither Leon Hender
son nor Prentss Brown Joe Dookes can hold prices
down without deprivne producers and distributors of
income.
If the new price administrator lets prices go up
he will have failed in his trust If he holds them down
he will offend the same interests who we're oggrieved
by Mr. Henderson.
The only question is whose eggs ore going to be
broken in making this intimidation, onti-hoordine
oneIette?
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BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service staff Correspondent

Exclusively yours: Strangest
billing ever put on Hollywood
movie will be seen on the main
title of Preston Sturges new
film, The Miracle of Morgan S
Creek, in which Brian Donlevy
and Akin Tamiroff play bit
roles.
The title reads: THE Miracle
of Morgan's Creek, starring Ed
die Bracken and Betty Hutton,
with-and then, after listing of
the featured players in the cast,
flashes on card with the words
land McGinty and The Boss.
Donlevy and Tamiroff played
their parts as favor 10 Sturges,
who had characters of a state
governor and a political boss
similar to those in The Great
McGinty," his first picture, N
this story. Donlevy and Tamil
rolf specified, however, that
they receive no billing. So
they're billed as characters. -
Overheard at Hollywood bar
by Victor McLaglen-First Ma
rine: III take anything with
punch Second Marine: III
take Manila "
BIRD "SEED"
Neatest trick of the month:
For one of the dream sequences
in Paramount's Lady in the
Dark" in which Ginger Rogers
imagines she is about TO marry
Jon Hall, the flower girl will
scatter canaries from a bird cage
instead of rose petals.
Coincidence of the month:
While Bing Crosby is enacting
the rule of Dan Emmett, origin
ator OF the minstrel show, in
Dixie, singer Dan Emmett Ca
sey, distant relative Of the orig
inal Emmett, is recording the
tenor part TO Bing's baritone for
the song numbers in the picture.
AS expected, Metro was quick
to change the title Of Lana Tur-
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UNDlGEsTED

From many sources come ooroborotine evidences
thot the Nozis bit off much than they could d.
eest when they conquered most Of Europe. In spite
OF the most sodistie repressve measures, sabotage
and riotne common throughout Belgium France,
Poland, Czechosovoko, Yugosovio and Greece.
Under modern conditions, civilian populations
cannot rise and overpower their masters. But they
can contribute greatly to the eventual defect Of the
invaders by tying up troops and equipment by SLOW
ing down production, by nteruptine critical trons-
port lines.
Whot Hitler is learning in the small states he
knocked off SO costly in l94O-4l may we'll save Spain
and Turkey from Nozi ottock
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. BARBS

If boards start to become pop
ular maybe we can blame il on
Christmas ties.
An Irish stew on a real cold
night is a great antidote for di-
vorce.
Today's work that Is put off
till tomorrow is usually still left
undone yesterday.
Lots Of folks these days are
discovering that all work and
no play makes jack.
Just so you can keep up on
what's going on-Winter Off
cially began on Dec. %.
A dancing master says many
modern dancers are too heavy
on their feet. And not only
theirs!
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. SO THEY SAY

/ do not think you ever can
really dominate sea until you
destroy all the enemy's forces.
Our enemy still is strong. The
Italian fleet, for example, is as
strong as it ever was except for
cruisers. - Adml. Sir Andrew
Browne Cunningham, allied ma
val commander in North Africa.
The closer we come to vic
tory and the INSTALLATION of the
kind of peace we all hope for,
the more essential 1t is to have
a united country.-Senator Al
ben Barkley Of Kentucky.
The allies can look forward
to even bigger things next year.
Premier Jan SHUTS of South
Africa.
II was Just like movie scene
except there was not as much
confusion. Capt. Fred Smith,
survivor of troopship President
Coolidge, sunk by mine.
Those GU. S. forces in AfricO
are getting a chance to get over
their buck fever at being up
against the strongest nation in
the world on land and have had
a chance to make show OF
themselves which has been very
gratifying to them and disheart-
ening to the enemy. - Secretary
of War Henry l.. Stimson.
One of the temptations OF the
aged is to feel that they no long
or amount to much because they
can no longer do the things they
once could, to feel that they are
on the shelf. - DR.. Frank H.
Ferris, Cleveland pastor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-16
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Pvt. Simon Rossant, who had
recently enlisted in the Army,
was given time off to come up
to the national tournament at
Syracuse to defend his title.
Sam" and his teammates came
very close TO taking the cup
back to the Headquarters Com
pany of the 30th Infantry Divi-
sion. Many of the boys in the
last war will remember the old
30th Division, which broke the
Hindenburg line in World War
/.
Sam" did all he could on
this board to retain the cham
pionship. With the South hand,
he realized as soon as Mort h
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MRS. TAYLoR's INSURANCE

After Raymond Taylor Of Chester, Po, went to his
deoth in q torpedoed tonker, his widow received
S. so war risk insurance.
From it she paid the fomy's bills and toxes.
Then she bought $50 war bond That left So
2O8.8l from which she sent check for $1,000 to the
War Shipping Administration as on outright Gift to
help finance the war against the oxis
Nov don't worry about my son and me-" she
wrote, "for have been working ever since July and
my son is working too"
The gift, Of course, was declined, with the sua.
oestion that il be invested in more war bonds What
cosnnent could be made thot would not be onticIi-,
moctc?
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High|ights from
the Latest Books
WHODUNITS

1.-The UNLIMITED" Doubleday
Doran: $3.50 was the surprise
hit of the year, and chiller-
thriller Of exceptional quality.
Mother Finds Body" (Simon
and Schuster: So brought Clip
sy Rose Lee back into the lit
erary spotlight.
FINEST FICTION
Franz Werfel's Song OF Ber-
nadette" Viking: So, "Drivin'
Woman" Macmillan: S2.75,
The Robe" (Houghton Mifflin:
s2.75) and Hostages" put
mans Sons: S2.50) jumped to
best selling lists and held that
status. The fiction yield catered
to every taste and trying to
name the top choice of the year
will only lead to argument.
Many of the best known au-
thors returned with new works.
The First Lady, Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt wrote the text for
Frances Cooke Macgregor's pic
lures in This Is America"
(Putnam's: So. Carl Sandburg
continued his Civil War writings
with Storm Over the Land"
(Harcourt Brace $500. Doug
las Southall Freeman copied the
biography honors with Lees
Lieutenants" (Scribners: So
and c. S. Forester left off
swashbuckling heroes to write
the best child's book POO Poo
and the Dragon" Little Brown:
S175).
All in all, 1912 was a busy and
profitable year for publishers
and readers.
Charles Addam's Drawn and
Chartered" (Random House:
$3.50 and THE New Yorker
Album" (Random House: So
were in class by themselves,
just what the doctor ordered for
laughs in wartime.
BRITISH CAN LAUGH
Other notable additions to the
Treasury" field include The
Treasury of British Humor"
Coward Mccain: so which
proves that the Britisher has a
sense of humor. But il still does
mt arouse the chuckles Ameri-
can wit can stir.
John Kieran's Poems I Re-
member doubleday Doran:
so will send you back TO school
reminding you of the verses you
once recited. There are others,
to- those love songs you liked
TO whisper in moonlight, and the
great poems whose thought and
beauty keep them always alive.
WORDS OF THE GREAT
Voices of History" (Franklin
Watts: $500 is the first of a
series of annual volumes cover
ing the important speeches and
papers of l941. Here are all Of
President Roosevelt's addresses,
with Churchills, Stains, Chi
ang Kai-shek and other world
leaders.
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A STORY TO TELL

CHICAGO - There's pa
tient at Mt. Sinai Hospital who
will have 10 wait a few years
or longer to tell about his OPP
Grafton.
The patient - the unnamed
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Magnus was only three days
old when he underwent a sue
cessful appendectomy, DR.. Ste
phen Mannheimer, hospital di-
rector, disclosed.
DR.. Mannheimer said such an
operation on three day old
infant was a medical rarity.
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OLD HAND

OLD HAND
AN ALASKAN OUTPOST -
When Army volunteers wer e
called for an emergency long
shore crew to unload snip,
Chaplain Joseph M. Apologize
took the winch drivers seat.
The former pastor Of the FL
geuroa boulevard c hris i n
Church in Los Angeles did a
good job, too.
He helped pay his expenses
through the University of Ore
gon by working as a longshore-
man.