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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22
Urges Sofety First
In Home Conninu

Last summer several billions jars
OF Victory Garden food was home
canned. This year there will prob
ably be even more home canning.
But last summer had its accidents,
even serious damage to persons and
property, and also its story of
wasted food. These mishaps may
be charged to lack of understanding
OF canning techniques, to failure to
follow directions, and to difficult
ties with equipment.
In an effort to reduce accidents
and waste, the U. S. Dept of Agri-
culture advocates a safety first. note
in the food preservation program.
/. Home Gamers should have de-
pendable directions for processing;
and for use of equipment, and
should follow these directions with
patience and precision.
q AS to methods of processing,
for home canning Of meats and all
the common vegetables except to-
matoes, the Dept. of Agriculture rec
ommends only a steam pressure
Gamer. It is important that the
gauge be checked for accuracy. For
tomatoes and fruits, the boiling
water bath method is recommended.
The Dept cautions against oven
canning. Like the boiling-water
bath method, the oven does not give
safe processing to meats and nom
acid vegetables. For fruits and to-
matoes oven processing is slow and
unsatisfactory-juice bubbles out;
fruits such as peaches and pears
are likely to darken. Serious ex-
plosions have been reported in the
past years in oven canning, due to
various conditions difficult to con-
troll.
3. Cold packing Of food caused
some difficulty last year. The Dept
recommends the hot-pack-heatine
the food to boiling and filling it
boiling hot, into hot jars for i'm
mediate processing Pack hot anG
not too much in the jar" is q rule
thot should be more closely fol.
lowed this year. Last. year many
new Gamers had a tendency K
cram jars too full of food. Waste
spoilage, and accident often re
suited.
| 4. The wartime home-canne,
should understand that if her can
ned food is to keep safe and sound
not only must it be processed b,
the right method, but the food t
begin with should be fresh and O.
good quality, handled in q sanitar,
way, packed according to the direc
tons that 60 with the processing
time tables Do not combine in
structions from different source
piecemeal. And store food in cool
dry place.
i 5. A number of different types 0
jars and closures and also of steam
pressure Gamers are available. /
cannot be too strongly emphasize,
that the home Gamer must follow
to the letter the directions that &C
company each kind of equipment
. Failure to follow directions ma
|41ead to serious accidents and
waste of good food
Community canning eenters hav
enabled many inexperienced home
Gamers to work under trained su
pervision.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22
Planting Schedule

In the middle tier Of states-from
Pennsylvania to the Carolinas and
westward to the Mississippi river
potatoes for fall ought to 60 in the
middle of July. Later in the month
second paintings of snap beans,
beets, cabbage, caErots, kale, let
tuce, radishes and turnips can be put
in for fall harvest. The same
crops are suitable for planting too,
in sections further south but should
be put in later. along in August, and
root vegetables such as turnips and
rutabagas can be left in the ground
until fairly late in the winter in
these more southerly sections.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22
Mineral Oil
Protects Sweet Corn

To protect growing sweet corn
from earworm, use an inexpensive
white mineral oil (medicinal oiD,
the Department of Agriculture adj
vises. Wait at least 3 days after the
silk first energies before oiling, and
not later than days. An ordinary
glass medicine dropper when half
full OF mineral oil is enough for a
small ear of corn, and about three
fourths full for a large ear. Insert
the medicine dropper about a quar-
ter of an inch into the silk mass,
just inside the tip of the husk.
Since not all silks mature the same
day, treated ears may be marked
with crayon or strip of cloth. The
oil kills worms in the silk and pre-
vents the entry OF others.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22
Use Tub for Window Screens

Apartment dwellers who want to
give window screens q thorough
cleaning before storing them will
find the bathtub useful. Spread a
discarded sheet or other large cloth
on the bottom Of the tub, covering
al but the drain. Taking one screen
at time, pour pail OF sudsy water
over the screen. Scrub until SCOT
and dirt are removed. Then tilt the
shower at an angle when it will
rinse the screen. Let the screens
dry thoroughly before sending them
to the basement storeroom
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22

U. S. Public Health Service reports
that approximately 10000 patients
have been treated for syphilis and
gonorrhea and new intcr.s;ye meth
DDS in more than so rapid treatment
centers and that penicillin is being
used on a large scale in the treat
ment of early syphilis Home
Gamers who have the use of pres
sure Gamer this summer will d
well to put up chicken when farm
ers are selling large numbers OF
hens that are not laying enough to
be worth their keep, the Depart
ment of Agriculture advises.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22
Ancient Suectacle Makers

King Charles ! Of England in 1923
granted charter to the guild OF
spectacle makers. The charter grant
ed wide powers to master, two
wardens and eight assistants for the
maintenance Of standards Of service
to the public.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22
ENLARGE Trucks

At Camp Stonemen, Calf, 10
trucks enlarged with scrap lumber
do the work of 30 factory size We
hicles, saving annually %, 785 gallons
Of gasoline and 1880 man-hours Of
truck drivers.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22
Non-Transpiants

Flowers which do not like to be
transplanted include annual peoples,
salpiglossis. mignonette and annual
phlox. II necessary to transplant
them. the seedlings should be grown
in small pots so they can be re-
moved without disturbing the roots.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22

The nations second largest naval
training center Farragut, Idaho,
was named in honor of David Glas-
gov FaTagut, first full admiral Of
the II. S. Navy.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22

What is the Mason-Dixon liner
It's the division between 'you-all'
and ."youse guys.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-06-22
Bargains for you! Lots OF them In
the advertisements In this news
paper. You are losing money II you
do not read them. Il
POINTERS ON
Health Giving
Foods

Jessie Alice Cline, home econo-
mist, says that to insure good rich
blood and sound health people
should eat heartily of nourishing
foods to help their systems rebuild
the blood supply. Foods rich in
protein are most important in re-
building the hemoglobin Of the
blood. Iron rich foods are helpful
too and at least two Of the B vita
minis appear to be necessary for the
production and regeneration Of
blood.
Most of the protein foods are. also
good sources of the B vitamins SO
that both may be obtained by eat
ing the best food sources of pro-
TEN. They are. variety meats, meat,
fowl, fish, soybeans, milk, eggs and
cheese.
Besides extra amounts of the
above foods, Miss Cline says that
everyone should also eat extra
amounts of the best foods sources of
iron such as variety meats, oysters,
meat. green vegetables, legumes,
fowl, potatoes, dried fruits, eggs,
fish and whole grain or enriched
cereal products.
SNO.- white
MARKET
We Deliver Daily
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
Daily Prayer
FOR COMRADESHJp

We mediate upon Christ as
comrade, who walked the con,n,os
ways in company with the cona
mon people. Divinely remote in II,
own spirit, He yet craved associa
ton with ordinary men and women
Their FELLOWSHIP was precious :,
Him. At wedding feast, at bano,1o,
board, in synagogue and homes =,
w eli as in his waysids
walks through Galilee, Jesus wa.
ever companionable man Iihs
Him, we, too, would walk rno~s
constantly and closely win our fell
lows. Save us, Lord, from solitari
ness and seclusion. Like our servic,
men, may we find new comrades.
ships in the exigencies Of this war
Teach us the art of fellowship Nav
we minister by our personality ,e
the children and wives and parent,
of those whose loved ones are afar
in service. Let us walk through
this world of lonely hearts onot
to be ministered unto, but to min
ister." And may we ever maintair
fellowship with the friendly Christ
Amen.-W.T.E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
Graduation Near

The New Hanover High school graduating
class, numbering 200, is already giving
thought to commencement exercises to take
place on June 2. The program has been an
nounced 1t will be held at Legion stadium,
weather permitting, and with such large
class attendance obviously will be large.
Parents and relatives Of the graduates will
turn out inforce and an event Of such i'm
portance naturally will draw largely from the
general public.
But that, of course, is merely the external
aspect Of graduation. The fundamental aspect
is that 900 young people have completed the
first major course in education, and for many
probably the last 50 far as class room train
ing is concerned Henceforth for those who
leave school for good this year education will
come through contacts in the business world
and the relationships they establish there.
It is worth emphasizing that these contacts
and relationships have greater educational
value even than the years spent in school, If
the individual applies himself or herself to alb
sorbing the lessons thus made available and
also is capable Of applying in real life the
practical and theoretical training that went be-
fore.
This graduating class will face a future
fraught with perplexity and uncertainty Life
for its members will hold many problems that
will call for the most careful study if the
solution is to be right. The world is under
going such an upheaval as it has never before
experienced. How it emerges whether to be
the victim Of chaos or rise to new levels
of order, whether to lay the foundation for
more wars or achieve lasting peace, whether
to reach new spiritual and sociological heights
or be crushed by anarchy, will in large
measure depend upon the manner in which
this Wilmington graduating class and similar
classes throughout this and other countries
apply the lessons that lie ahead for them
Graduation is not an ending, but begin
ming. Heaven give all graduates clear vision
OF the road ahead and strength to travel. it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
What's New?

| When newspaper men leave their desks and
70 out upon the street they are assailed with
questions, the chief being. whats new" And
lust now, with everybody's mind focused on
the invasion, the invariable reply, in substance,
is, Nothing
It's cockeyed answer. There is something
new in the news all the time The trouble is
that events which would have stirred whole
communities a short time ago to 1usty out
cries Of indignation or praise, or brought
nations into action Of one kind or another,
are blanketed by our concentration upon the
one subject. We've lost our perspective. For
example, the Allied Air Forces have been
pounding Hitler's Europe continuously Tor
twenty-six days with two, three, four thousands
planes aloft simultaneously, pouring down such
a deluge Of destruction as no previous war
has witnesses by any combination Of weapons.
Every day an Allied bombing raid Of such
proportions is conducted is something new. It
is tremendous news. But because it has
been going on so long and is in one way only
a curtain raiser to the invasion drama, and
perhaps because we are so stated with war
news, we can't see anything new in it.
There's nothing materially new. when Rus
STA recaptures Sevastopol. There's nothing new
when the scene changes in INDIA and Burma.
There's nothing new when Macarthur cuts off
additional Japanese armies from sources Of
supply, when Nirnitz sends his task forces into
previously mexplored Japanese waters.
There'n be nothing new until Eisenhower
sends his forces into Europe That's what we
are all anticipating what we have focused
our eyes upon-the only thing we can think
about.
AS victory hinges upon successful invasion
our attitude is understandable. But the question
10 whether, when the war is over, will we be
able to readjust our sights? Will we be capable
Of restoring normal perspectives? Or will we
be so used to watching for extraordinary
things to happen that we can't place current
events in the proper proportion?
Waiting for something new in the news is
not without peril for the future.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
Leveling Off Needed

Heavy fines for speeders have the approval
OF persons who realize that both rubber and
gasoline must be conserved in these war days.
The speed limit fixed by President Roosevelt
at thrity-five miles an hour and enacted into
law as a necessary war measure by many
state legislatures is in the interest OF con-
servation Drivers who refuse to obey it de-
serve severe treatment when brought into
court.
AS the same time, readers of court news
are puzzled to understand why other offenders
against the law often get off with trivial fines
and even in some cases with merely the costs
of arrest. They cannot comprehend why it is
that one class of violators seem to be singled
our for heavy punishment and others go almost
scot free. They feel that if balance were
struck, not be lowering fines for speeders but
raising the level Of fines for other law
breakers, there would be some reduction in
violations generally.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
Possible Dilemma

The British government may be facing
another dilemma, similar to the Anglo Russian
disagreement on Polish recognition, in the
newly formed Hungarian Council headed by
Count Michael Karolyi. Except for the council
Of German officers in Moscow, this is the only
organized group Of Axis or Axis-satellite
nationals working for the Allied cause in an
Allied capital.
It is likely that the Hungarian Council may
be able to aid Britain with its program for
overthrowing the present puppet government
and encouraging the underground in local re-
sistance, sabotage and cooperation with Mar
shall Tito's Partisans and other anti.Nazi forces
near Hungary. But the council will need
Britain's help And in giving the help Britain
will doubtless be Strengthening the ties Of
Central Europe with Russia which the British
government is baking in Poland's case and
only belatedly recognized in Yugoslavia. x
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
The Recreation Program

2. DR.. Harold D. Meyer, executive director OF
the North Carolina Recreation Committee, has
paid well deserved tribute to the Wilmington
recreation program as organized and put in
motion by Jesse A. Reynolds.
= Directed recreation here has indeed gone
ahead to unprecedented heights under Mr..
Reynolds But he would have found his task
too much even for his organizational skill with
out the hearty cooperation he has had from
the city administration and civic and welfare
groups. Everyone in any way connected with
the program deserves full share of praise
with Mr.. Reynolds.
Much remains to be done to bring our public
recreation program up to the highest standard
but with so fine a start and continued unity
in the effort, Wilmington may well count on
Tivaling the best accomplishments in any city
OF the South before another year has passed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
TheLiterary
Guidepost
nv John SELBY

"BOOT," by Cpl. Gilbert P.
Bailey, U.s.M.C.R. Macmisan;
$3.50.
In a supposedly paper short
country I fail to see how the
publishers of Boot" got away with
the waste of glazed stock they got
away with - but I'm rather glad
they did. This handsome book is
the most amusing, and at the same
time most Informative, book on
military training I have read, not
excepting Pvt. Hargoove's remark
able contribution.
The author is Cpl. Gilbert P.
Bailey, U.s.M.C.R. Cpl. Bailey
was editing weekly newspaper
in Delphi, Ind, when he saw a
film about Wake Island. He joined
the Marines in Indianapolis, nine
of the ten men in his detail were
sent for boot training to San Diego,
and Bailey (not his to wonder why)
went to Paris Island. The girl he
met on the train said he didn't
look like the Marines she had seen
on the posters, the conductor on
the jerkwater local to Yemassee
told him to boiler all he pleased
now but keep his mouth shut on
the Island. The fledglings were met
by trucks, and toted into the camp
to a chant - you'll be sorry!"
Cpl. Bailey was never sorry, nor
were the boys who shouted at him.
It's just the way the Marines work.
They had told him that the
Marine Corps would rub out the
last trace of individuality, and
Bailey believed it when he looked
in his glass after his first haircut.
They told him every Marine, what
ever his detail, must be fighting
man: Sgt. Roun+ree expressed it
this way when 1ecturing' on the
use of rifle, 'Let the other
bastard die for his country. You
live for yours.
Bailey's life S, Fright -
KAYH! Laf-FAYH! LAT - don't
lean forward! How many times do
I have to tell you people? Ri-yight
-FAYH. Well, I'll be sad sack!"
for weeks on end. He learned every
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
With Ernie Pyle

two years. Even the best soldier
can't have too much discourage
ment and establishment heaped
upon him.
The other day l took a trip out
to mid-England to see man from
Albuquerque. He is in fact the man
who built our little white house
out there on the mesa, and who
subsequently became one of our
best friends.
His name is Arthur McCollum.
He was a lieutenant in the last
war and he is a captain in this
one. He spent 20 years regretting
that he never got overseas the
other time, and he is ve-y happy
that he made it this time. He is
attached to a big general hospital
out in the country.
In January Captain McCollum
had reunion with his son. Lieut.
Ross McCollum. Ross was chief
pilot of Flying Fortress. Father
and son had two wonderful week
ends together. And then on his
second mission over Germany Ross
didn't come back. Nothing has
been heard from him since. That
was nearly four months ago.
Captain Mac and Ross were real
companions-they played together
and dreamed and planned together.
After the war they were going to
fish lot and then start an air
plane sales agency together.
Captain Mac says he kind OF
went to the bottom of the barrel
over Ross. For two months he was
so low he felt he couldn't take it.
And then he said to himself. Look
here, you damn fool. You can't do
this. Get yourself together" And
having given himself that abrupt
command, he carried it out. And
today he is all right.
I found him the same kind of
life-loving, gay friend I had known
in Albuquerque. We rode bicycles
around the countryside, celebrated
here and there, made fools of our
selves and had a wonderful time.
Captain Mac talked lot about
Ross, and felt better for the talk
ing, but he didn't do any crying on
my shoulder. He feels firmly that
Ross will come back, but he knows
now that if he never does he car
take it.
Even though he is an intimate
friend of mine, I consider him one
of the finest examples I know O.
what people can and must do wher
the tragedy of war falls fully upor
| them,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
CLIO CONDEMNS IT'S OWN
WOUNDED SONS.

The Virginia C. I. O. convention
invited three Purple Heart soldiers,
themselves C. I. o. adherents, to
make addresses to emphasize the
about effort of this labor organiza-
ton in the winning of the war.
They were three national heroes.
One of them sailor whose ship
was mined in the Mediterranean,
another a sailor who was rescued
after his warship had been torpe-
doed, and the other a soldier who
had survived machine gun and
mortar shell fire at Salerno.
It was to be an impressive de-
monstration for the C. I. o. workers
on the home front as they heard
these three of their own boys whoop
it up for their industry and patrio-
tism.
The convention adjourned to the
city auditorium and the public
was invited.
But the three servicemen, scared
and SCARED by the wounds of the
war at the front, dropped bomb
shell into the ranks of the C. I. O.
members instead of rhapsodizing
their loyalty.
In effect they said, according to
Danville correspondence to The
Greensboro News, that foxhole
soldiers never worry about time
and a half over time, that there is
no absenteeism when they are cali
ed to the front when cross barrages
of lethal death are laid aginst them.
Nor, they said, is the war post
poned when somebody has head
ache. Other structures they uttered
these c. I. o. boys to their home
front C. I. o. workers in safe,
secure and highly paid places
with a yelled sarcasm and sharp
ness of tongue that produced a
general squirm in the audience.
Were they applauded?
Did the C. 1. o. working delegates
rise to their feet and make the
rafters shake with their ap2recia-
ton of the patriotism of these
broken, wounded lads from the
home-these boys from their own
ranks? Not at all!
Instead resolution was present
ed to and adopted by the convention
condemning the three purple Heart
men who have poured out their
life blood for their country for hav-
ing made such 'antilabor" re-
marks.
One can only ask if the attitude
of the c. I. o. in Virginia., as typi-
fled by its delegates to the Dan
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-12
By ERNIE PYLE

LONDON, -(by wireless) The
American contingent in London has
many new terms since I left here
in 1912. The newest and most fire.
quently heard is "sHAEF.' This
is the initials of Supreme Head
quarters Allied Expeditionary
Force. 1t is SHAEF that is plan
ming and will direct the invasion.
General Eisenhower is head man
of SHAEF.
I mention it only to show how
initials grow into words over here
just as they do back in Washington.
The word ETOUSA still exists.
That stands for European Theater
of Operation United States Army.
That is, headquarters of the Ameri-
can Army as distinct from Allied
Headquarters. 1t is two years old
now and still functioning.
When we were here in 1912
ETOUSA was always pronounced
"eetoosa." For some unexplainable
reason the pronunciation has now
changed to "eetowza. Being old
fashioned and set in my ways,
like the first one best.
I had quick V-letter the other
day from the Mediterranean. II
was from one of the frozen boys
in Casablanca that I wrote about
the American-bound soldiers who
had hit dead-end street and had
been hung up in Casa for six weeks
when ran into them.
Well, they got decision on their
fate. But it was the wrong one.
Their schooling program was call
ed off, their transfer home was
cancelled, and they were ordered
back to their original outfits. The
letter says:
1T was great dream while it
lasted, but it's over now. We have
been riding the Forty-and-Eigh
and hitting the replacement depots
and you know what that means.
''The only thing that really hurts
is that we didn't catch the many
boats We might have caught if we
had seen somebody sooner. But
enough of this crying in your
Scotch, Ernie. We will see you
again some day. And again, thanks
million from all of us.
1t was cruel and disappointing
thing, but that is the way rea.
soldiers take it. The Army is sc
big that things like that are bounc
to happen. But they shouldn't hap.
pen too often.
Such a thing had happened tt
one of those boys four times il