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Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
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It is but natural that American doctors should oppose
federal Specialization of medicine. They have seen such systems
curb incentive and progress in the medical field in other nations,
and remove the personal relationship between doctor and pa
tient. leaving in it's stead an official system as lmpe1sonal as
medical examinations at army induction centers. If that's what
this nation wants, SociaLzed medicine will fill the bill. But
the people should remember that it is not the doctors, but Mr..
and Mrs. John Jones who will be the losers.
In seeking a practical method for voluntary prepayment
of medical costs to meet prolonged or serious illnesses, the
public should not be msed by anuring promises oil free med
icine" at the hands of the state. There can, however, be the
fullest cooperation between federal and local governments, III
dustry, the people and the medical profession, to extend volun-
tary methods of health insurance without the RECOMMENDATION
and compulsion that inevitably follows socialized medicine.
Government can help solve such problems as malnutrltlon,
bad housing, and the inadequacy of federal, state and munich
pal health programs. One of the legitimate functions of gov
eminent is to seek ways and means to correct social and econo-
mic conditions which cause disease, and which all the health
insurance in the world will not remedy.
Therefore, let us retain the great advantages of private
medicine but add to them the benefits that will accrue from
the cooperation of government and industry IN eliminating
causes of illness, as well as providing easy and economical
methods of paying for it.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
PERpETUATE AMERICAN AIR SUPREMACY

At the close of World War | commercial aviation was IN
its infancy and presented no postwar problems. Today 1t IS
a vital branch of transportation, and its place in domestic and
information trade can only be assured by wise and careful
planning.
The federal government recognized its responsibilities to
aviation when it enacted the Civil AerOnauhcs Act OF 1888.
The wisdom of it's action has been well attested by the praises
of the air transport industry from high military and naval Oh
ficias for it's great contributions to the prosecution of the wal.
Put plans and policies adopted. six years ago, are becoming as
obsolete as the aiTplanes of the pre-war days.
In domestic commerce many questions must be solved IN
volving trunk routes, feeder lines, additional airports, coming
regulations, contract carriers and duplicating state and local
laws. In the international picture, there must be established
new trade routes and international rights and treaties. Still
ether problems are involved in the aircraft manufacturing IN
dustry, and the development of future pilots, technlclans ana
mechanics.
AS a nation, we must solve these problems through leg
islation designed to promote and coordinate the national and
international transportation system. The committee on inter-
state and foreign commerce Of the house of representatives has
been working to prepare practical legislation along these lines.
Congress must act on we'll considered findings in order that
Americas system of anyways may be kept the finest In the
world.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Day by Day in Laurel

The Eastern Star card party
party scheduled for Tuesday was
postponed to Tuesday afternoon,
Aug. % at the Masonic temple.
First Lieut.. David Evert, who had
completed so or more missions over
enemy-occupied Europe, arrived here
last week to spend a leave with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Evert,
and his wife who joined him here.
He has been based i'll Italy, and vas
cited about two months ago for ex-
ceptionally meritorous achievements
in the air corps. Accompanying
the citation were decorations.
Walter Hall, S PC, New London,
Conn, arrived in the city last week
and is spending a few days leave
with his father, DR.. E. c. Hall, and
friends.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16

Wash Your Hands
"Wash your hands always before
VOL come to school," - William
Mather.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
One Man Army Forced to
Give Up to His Wounds

ON THE NORMANDY BEACH.
PVT. Harry w. Roberts of Char
leroi, Pa, finally had to stop fight
ing and let himself be taken IL Eng
land for medical treatment, but his
fellow rangers insisted that he is
another of those lone man army
guys. A shell splinter tore into his
neck and that seemed to annoy him,
because in the next couple of days
he destroyed two machine gun
emplacements with grenades.
manned a Vickers gun, and finally
stole a mortar from the Germans.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Landlord Rewards Stork
In War Bonds for Births

CLEVELAND. - Henry Solomon,
the Cleveland landlord who rewards
all tenants visited by the stork,
raised the ante after the start of the
Fifth War Loan drive and made the
baby bonus a $25 war bond.
Originally he gave each family S.
in gold and when the United States
went off the gold standard payments
were made in silver. Since the war
rewards were in war savings
stamps.
Under Mr.. Solomon's plan a Sec
ond child in the same family would
receive a $50 war bond, a third child
a 500 bond, a fourth child a 5000
bond and so on.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Take MY Word
For 1t!
BY FRANK COLBY
QUESTION BOX

New Orleans: Please, what makes
a "sad from sad?-G. w. W.
Answer: An obsolete meaning of
sad is ''heavy."
Akron: Please pronounce BUTA-
DIENE.-Mrs. j. c. E.
Answer: First choice: BYOO-tuh-
DIE'een. Second choice: BYOO-tuh-
die-EEN'.
Northridge: Please say that it is
all right to pronounce FOYER to
rhyme with the last two syllables
of "destroyer."-M. S. M.
Answer: Some dictionaries show
it as third choice. All list the French
fwah-YAY as first choice. A few
show Foy-yay as second choice, but
at best it is a hybrid pronuncia-
ton, half English, half French.
Oakland: What is the diagonal
mark in "and/or" called?-H. D..
Answer: The proper name of the
stroke is virgule, pronounced:
VUR-gyool. 1t is from the Latin vir-
gula, "a little twig or rod"
Kirkwood: Dorothy Thompson pro-
nounces the last syllable of ARGEN-
TINE to rhyme with wine, fine"
Correct?-A. L. B.
Answer: 1t is the second choice
and the customary British pronunci-
alton. Best American choice is:
AHR-jen-teen.
Little Rock: What in the world is
meant by the silly phrase "by and
large"?-B. M. B.
Answer: 1t is a nautical express
sion that describes the sailing of a
ship by, "close-hauled," and large,
Gree" Figuratively, the phrase
means broadly speaking; in gen.
eral."
Bell Syndicate.-WNU Features.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Princess Tries Her Hand
AS Chief Cock at Palace

NEW YORK.-Princess Margaret
Rose, IA, is working for her Girl
Guides cooking badge. Consequent
ly, the British royal family often
dimes these days on practice meals"
she serves from the family's "a
toned food, Mrs. John Corbett of
Kingston, Ontario, said here. Mrs.
Corbett, q leader of the Girl Guides,
sister organization of the Girl
Scouts, said Queen Elizabeth had
told her the story
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Turtle Dressing

Depending somewhat On the spe-
cies and size, a turtle dresses from
one to two-thirds of its live weight.
The simplest and quickest method
of dressing yields six portions of
good, edible meat-the four quar-
tiers including the legs and surround
ing muscles, the tail, and the neck.
In more careful dressing two strips
of meat under the back shell, called
tenderloins. are also removed.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Rural Libraries

The last year has seen continued
expansion of county rural library
service. Nevada counties now are
spending up to $4,000 a year to
establish county libraries under 1913
legislative provisions which raised
the sum from $1,000. Illinois legis-
lature last year authorized the Gre
alton of public library districts, and
allowed an increase in tax rates
for support of county libraries.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Son Swaps Pet Turtle
For Dads Army Pants

NORTH WOODSTOCK, N. H.
Have Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill's
army pants been snapped for a
turtle? Tommy Merrill, six-year-
old son of the leader of "Merrill's
Marauders' in Burma, is the hap
py owner of "Pokey," a turtle,
for which he gave to a young
friend, Tony Andrews, a pair of
army pants.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Dear Mon

(The following is from a clipping
taken from a newspaper by a COM
mand post in India. 1t purports to
be a soldiers letter to his mother.
1t contains some interesting infor-
nation and is reproduced for the
benefit of those who have soldiers
in India.)
You know, Mon, the more 1 see
of India and the Indian people, the
more | realize that this is really A
very difficult country for Americans
to become accustomed to.
The main trouble with getting to
know India is that there 81 many
different languages, religions and
customs that you really know
much about the Indians until you
have seen every part of the>coun-
try. Even the physical appearance
of the inhabitants of one part of
the country differ from those of
another. Perhaps this fact might
not be so strange if we would stop
and realize that one-fifth of all the
people in the world are Indians. In
an area a little more than half as
large as the United States there are
about 3S9, O00, 1000 people - three
times as many as We have.
India is an agricultural country,
Nom. They don't have the big steel
mills, or the great manufacturing
centers which we see at home. Nine
out of ten of the people live off the
land and as the land is poor so are
most of the people.
This country of India has over
100 different languages, but there
are only a few that are widely
spoken. Of these Hindustani is. the
most important, but many people
speak Bengal and Urdu also. The
unit of Indian money which is call
ed a rupee is worth about go cents
by American standards, and on the
back of any Indian bill the word
appears in eight different
languages.
Another thing hard for Ameri-
cans to understand, Nom, is the
great influence which religion has
on the everyday actions of these
Most Americans, while we
have many religions, are not guided
by them in matters of dress and
conduct as these people are. The
religion in India is the Hindu
faith. Hindus believe in the god
Brahma, to be the creator of every
thing in the world; in fact he is
axaulted that they do not worship
him directly but through minor
gods, and they have many of these.
These people don't go to church
ike we do at home. Their worship
is strictly personal and is done in
dividually. When we see a Hindu
with a U-shaped or three-pronged
fork freshly painted on his fore
head, he will have just returned
worshipping at a temple of
the god Vishnu, who is a very i'm
portant god. The Hindus have a
sacred book called the Veda which
is to them as the Bible is to the
Christians.
Many of the fellows joke about
the sacred cows in India, but to
the Hindu it is no joking matter.
There are over 200, 200 900 sacred
lows in India, more cows than there
are people in the U. S., and you
them wandering around the
main streets of town, for nobody
would dare modest them. | can
what a surprise you would
get, Nom, if a cow, sacred or other
wise, would wander in the front
yard and over your highly priced
nasturtiums.
I guess you must be all ready for
your vacation by this time, Nom,
md l suppose Dad has been warm
.shing his golf clubs and printing
up his fishing tackle for weeks now.
rnon ord tnll me all the news
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Hay Seedlings

Best early hay seedlings result if
the seed is either directly OH the
surface or covered no more than
half an inch. One test showed that
alsike clover seed covered one inch
produced less than half as many.
plants as that left on the surface
with no covering.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16
Apple Pie Proves Sure
Cure for Inconsistencies

DENVER. - Old-fashioned apple
pie rates as the No. l cure for the
inconsistencies of United States sol
diers in India. Hortense Addison.
recreational worker at a Red Cross
post in India, said in a letter to her
mother at Denver that a home.
cooked American meal will cure a
case of mass inconsistencies "ir
about one second" especially if it
is topped off with apple pie.
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Inebriate Soon Sized Up
Situation and Lent Hand

A grave digger was hard at
work. AS he shoveled each spade
full of earth he became more and
more absorbed in his thoughts,
and before he knew it he had
dug the grave so deep he couldn't
get out.
Came nightfall and the evening
chill, his. predicament became
more and more uncomfortable. He
shouted for help and at last at
tracted the attention of drunk.
"Get me out of here" ne
shouted, "I'm cold"
The drunk looked into the grave
from which he heard the voice,
and finally distinguished the form
of the uncomfortable grave digger.
s'No wonder" he said, kicking q
little dirt into the. grave, va
haven't got any dirt on va"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08

THERE is a shortage of metal
J. curtain rods, yet for two gen.
erations we have not seen such
elaborate window treatments. The
formal swags, cascades and jabots
SO dear to our grandmothers
seem to be exactly right with the
Victorian furniture that is gaining
in popularity all the time.
Each piece of the draped
valance shown here is cut sepa-
rately. The diagram at the left
gives the dimensions of the end
jabots. The side swags cross In
the middle and a center swag
overlaps them. The measurements
of this center swag are given
here, but these will vary accord
ing to the space the swag Is to
fill. Zach swag is cut bias at the
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ends and pleated and tackled over
the pole, as shown at the lower
left. The method of taking
measurements is shown at the
right. .
NOTE-This is the third of a series of
modern adaptations of period curtain fash
ions. Formal swag valances mounted on
a valance board are illustrated with STEP
by-step directions in BOOK l. The less
formal type draped in one piece is shown
in BOOK 8. Books are Is cents each.
Order directly from:
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BY VIRGINIA VALE

XXIILLIAM BENDIX, star
w of the Blue networks
Sunday airshow, "The Life of
Riley" and the movies 1.-THE
Hairy Ape" showed that he
had lost none Of his sales abil-
ity when he operated a booth
recently at the bazaar for the new
Birmingham hospital in San Fernan-
do Valley. Bendix's booth, which
sold unrationed groceries, did more
business than any other. ''Nothin's
strange about that" remarked Will
liam. II sold groceries for a Twin
long before I thought Of becomin'
an actor"
3
The jig-saw puzzle photos which
Ann Miller sent to servicemen fans
had an unexpected aftermath. II
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08

got your photo" one corporal wrote
the star of Columbia's Battle
ship Blues" 'but one Of your parts
is missing
The formation Of Bing Crosby
Productions, Inc, just had to hap.
pen; it was one Of the few fields
left. Bing had made his name in
pictures, radio, sports, photograph
records. He organized, at his own
expense, entertainment units to tour
army camps. He's chosen 'The
Great John L." the story Of John
L. Sullivan, as his first story, Frank
futile as his director, United Art
lists as releasing agent.
y
Like many another star, Gary
Cooper has been bitten by the pro-
Queer bug. He made known his
yearning to produce movies while
filming Casanova Brown; Inter-
national promptly signed him up on
a dual producer-actor contract.
3
The new issue Of the March Of
Time brings to the screen an exclu-
sive story, Underground Report"
which shows how the people of Ger
many and their conquered victims
are living. It is compiled from Nazi
films recently captured in Europe,
as well as from film footage SNUG
gled out by the Underground.
Anne Seymour, who stars as
prudence Dane" in MICS "A
Woman of America" has just re-
ceived her Stage Door Canteen pin
for two years service. She works
in the kitchen, making coffee-and
maintains a production schedule Of
about 400 cups an hour.
Maurice Costello, father Of those
two beauties, Dolores and Helen, is
appearing in Heavenly Days.. the
Fibber MCGEE and Molly picture.
All other movie stars owe him a
lot; screen players were anonymous
till he made Vitagraph star him.
ODDS AND ENDS-Anne Shirley
celebrated the completion of her doth
screen role and the start of her 22nd
year in pictures by giving big party
at the RKO studio, ,0here she started as
baby actress. # the voice of
"Dickie Kimble" in "When a Girl Mar
ries" sounds familiar, it's because you've
been hearing him as "Homer" in "The
Aldrich Family" Wallace Ford,
who's been off the screen too long, gets
his big break from Pat O'Brien in "Se.
cret Command" Pats first producing
venture.
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a new experience
for me, because
most Of the COM
bat m e n I've
been with before.
wanted to I e e l
finished forever
when they went
home.
Every one OF
my crew" has
the distinguished
flying cross and
the air medal.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-08

A goal is what anyone over
seas needs-a definite time limit
to shoot for. Naturally it isn't
possible right at this moment to
send many people home, and the
fiiers appreciate and accept
that fact.
/ Lieut.. Bill Collins, who goes by
the name of Chief, is what is known
as ''hot pilot"
He used to be a fighter pilot, and
he handles his Marauder bomber as
though it were fighter. He is dar-
ing, and everybody calls him a
character" but his crew has
fanatical faith in him.
Chief is addicted to violent
evasive action when they're in fax,
and the boys like that because 1t
makes them harder to hit. They've
had fax through the plane and with
in a foot of them, but none Of them
has been wounded.
When they finished their allotted
number Of missions-which used to
give them an automatic trip to
America, but doesn't any more -
Chief buzzed the home field in cele-
bration Of their achievement.
He got that old B-26 wound UP in
q. steep glide, came booming down
at the runway, leveled off foot
above the ground and went scream
ing across the field at $50 miles an
hour-only foot above the ground
all the way. And at the same time
he had to shoot out all the red
fares he had in the plane. They say
It looked like Christmas tree flying
down the runway.
Chief used to be clerk with the
Aetna Life Insurance company
back In his home town Of Hartford,
Conn. He is rs now and doesn't know
whether he will co. back to the in
surance job or not after the war. He
says it depends on how much they
offer him.
Lieut.. Jack Arnold is the one they
call Red Dog. He Is only "a, al
though he seems much older to me.
He enlisted in the army almost four
years ago, when he was just out Of
high school. He was an infantryman
for q year and a half before he
finally went to bonbardier school
and got wings for his chest and
bars for his shoulders.
He figures that as o lombard
Ter he has killed thousands of
Germans, and he thinks 1T is an
excellent profession.
Red Dog il friendly and gay
and yet he is q fundamentally
serious man who takes the war
TO heart. The enlisted men Of
his crew say that he isn't
afraid Of anything, and that the
same is true of Chief Collins.
They are o cool pair, yet both
are a. hospitable and friendly as
you could imagine.
The planes engineer-gunner Is
Sgt. Eugene Gaines Of New Orleans.
He is distinct from the rest because
he married a British girl last De-
cenber.-
They have a little apartment in a
town eight miles from the field. Ev-
cry evening Gaines rides his bicycle
home, stays till about midnight, then
rides back to the airdrome. For you
never know when you may be routed
out at 2 a. m. on an early mission,
and you must be on hand.
Gaines is a quiet and sincere
young man of "a. He was a carpen-
ter before the war, and he figures
that will be a pretty good trade to
stick to after the war,
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kuG u 4AASA8Ae
with clusters. They have had flax
through their plane numerous
times, but none Of them has ever
been hit. They expect 1t to be rough
when the invasion starts, but they're
anxious to get it over with.
In the past they have usually flown
one mission day over France, with
occasionally two as the tempo OF
the spring bombings increased. But
during the invasion they will prob
ably be flying three and sometimes
four missions q day.
They will be In the air before
daylight and they will come
home from their last mission
after dark. They will go for days
and maybe weeks In frenzied
routine, eating hurriedly be-
tween missions, snatching a few
hours of weary sleep at night,
and being up and at It again
hours before daylight to shuttle
back and forth across the Chan
mel. They and thousands Of 9th
ers like them.
Fighting purely an air war-as
this one here has been up to now
is in some ways so routine that 1t Is
like running big business.
Usually a Bog crewman works.
only about two hours day. He re-
turns to a life that is pretty close to
q normal one. There Is no ground
war to confuse him or disturb him
or even inspire him with its horror.
His war is highly technical, highly
organized, and in way somewhat
academic.
Because Of this 1t is easy to get
bored. An air crewman has lots Of
spare time on his hands. Neither the
officers nor the enlisted fiers have
any duties whatever other than fly
ing.
When not flying they either loaf
around their own huts, writing let
tiers or playing poker or just sitting
In front Of the fire talking, or else
they take leave for few hours and
20 to the nearby villages. They can
60 to dances or sit In the local pubs
and talk.
And every two weeks they get two
days leave. That again is something
new to us who have been In the
Mediterranean. Down there, fiers
do get leave to so to rest camps,
and even to town once in a while.
After a certain number Of mis-
sions a crew is usually given two
weeks leave. Most Of them spend it
travelling. Our fliers often tour Scot
land on these leaves. It's amazing
the number of men who have been
to Edinburgh and who love the
place. They have visited Wales and
North Ireland and the rugged south
western coast, and they know the
Midlands and the little towns OF Eng
land.
These two-week leaves don't
substitute In the fliers' mind for
o trip back to America. That's
all they live for. That's what
they talk abOut most of the time.
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How a BIO Bombing Grew
Spends Its Working Hours
Fighting an Air War Means Routine;
Men Work about T1UO Hours Day
BY Ernie Pyle

ENGLAND.-H1y and three
enlisted been flying together their BIG bomber
since leaving America than
beyond his allotted
bat missions.
Every perfectly willing through another
be month believe
the same hngis true Of
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the same thing 10 tue OF aInost
everybody at this station. And It's