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Rose Annual
Helpful

Very soon the many garden
clubs in and around Washington
will be sending out fall order
blanks which will submit list OF
roses which may be oEdered in
time for fall planting. Whether
members of a club or not many Of
us will be wanting to order roses
to replace ones we have lost, new
ones we think we can't get along
without and those needed for be-
ginning a fine new bed.
The new American Rose An
nual," prepared and edited by DR..
R. C. Allen and published by the
American Rose Society will prove
helpful to all who grow roses
whether for the first time or
after years of experience.
This issue contains a story Of
the origin of varieties from the
old Chinese roses and of rose
gardens all over the country in
Guiding the interesting story Of
the test gardens at George Wash
ington University sponsored by
the Potomac Rose Society.
The famous Proof of the Pud-
ding" gives the candid comments
of members of the American
Rose Society on new introduce
tionS.
If you would grow the worlds
favorite flower this book will
help you to succeed. L. H.
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ington, and T/3 Mildred R. Quinn
of Takoma Park, Md. This unit was
activated at Fort Oglethorpe on May
/, 1914, and one year later entered
Wiesbaden. This group of WACS
has become the most travelled unit
in the European theater.
T/5 Wolford, who serves with a
medical detachment, occupies her
spare time playing a leading role
in an all GI-WAC review produced
by the 18th Army group headquar-
ters. The show, prepared by the
special service section, played be-
fore 10000 troops in WeiSbaden in
one week
ENGLAND Elizabeth T. Duff
field, 1853 Eighteenth street NV,
and Janet W. Hunter, also of WASH
ington, recently arrived in England,
where they will serve the armed
forces as American Red Cross staff
assistants. Miss Duffleld formerly
worked at the Office of the Quar-
termaSted General and Miss Hunter
was employed at the War Depart
ment.
DAYTONA BEACH.-Capt. Ruth
E. Tregea, ANC, a former employe
of the Veterans Administration at
Washington, recently undertook her
new duties at Welch ConvaleScent
Hospital as assistant principal chief
nurse Capt. Tregea served in PAN
anna and South America for year
and Immediately before coming tc
Welch Hospital was stationed at
Walter Reed Hospital.
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Men Reussiqned

DAGGETT MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. Dag
gett, Calif-Capt. Alexander T: Drysdaie,
Asiatic Pacific area veteran with 40 COM
at 2219 Forty-ninth street NV; Assigned
base Of the 4th Air Force.
1903 S's sa1annah AA f'ayCSfR Street S% s. s:rs William
A. Middleton; 3714 Parkwood street; Cot
tage city. Md; Serst: James Z: Wood. 535
Eleventh street Sc; Pfc; Robert ~ . T1otter.
Reede. 1914 Forty-fourth street NV. and
Corpl. John A. Coleman, 1924 Perry place
NV. have been assigned to the occupa-
''ors fTALYNist y GIse Il. % Hapoid A. Marks. e7oe
Georgia avenue NV, assigned to quarter
master salvage repair company. formerly
wit 9Th ~ AAP. W Philippines.-serst. william
M. Richardson, Kensington, Md, and 1t.
William H. Colsten, 516 A street NE, have
been assigned to the Red Raiders, heavy
3s14 Seventeenth street NV. to I'd Com
0A1 T6RNER GsffS y FIELD. iTIf Ga.-c.pt. James M
Buck. 1923 Third street NE, formerly in
ELLINGTON FIELD. Tex,-1st Il; Paul
E. Willhide, TIA Varnum street NV. for
advanced navigation courses, formerly par
tcpatea II bombing sttisks
w. Brooks, 57O7 Thirty-eighth street NV.
for combat crew duty aboard Super
roF.sfffeoi RANDOLPH FIELD, Tex.-ed 1t. Thomas
A. Rollins, 2503 Fourteenth street NV,
street sire NV. for transition training in
B-29 Super & T1gtressesii Ws IS ,.. r. Will, y,
C. Rice. 101 North Carolina avenue Sc,
for Army Service Forces training IrIs g:s,.,,n
formerly % at Transportation Corps School
in New Orleans.
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Garden
Chores
By A. G.. Mclean.

One of the hazards that has fol-
lowed in the wake Of an abundance
of rain along the Eastern Seaboard
this summer is a lack of nitrogen
in the soil and in plants. Heavy
rains have encouraged rapid and
luxuriant plant growth which has
made strenuous demands on the
supply of nitrogen in plant tissues.
The rains have also leached con-
siderable nitrogen from the soil or
washed it down below the root area.
A nitrogen deficiency can result
later in the summer if proper steps
are not taken. Fortunately, how
ever, it can be averted fairly easily
by an application Of fertilizer in
liquid form. An all-soluble trans
planting mixture can be used, or
regular fertilizer soaked overnight
so that most of its soluble material
will be in solution. The liquid is ap-
piled around the plants, and the
remaining sludge should be deposit
ed in the middle of the rows.
In making up these liquid fer
tilizer mixtures. use approximately
a half pound of fertilizer Q3-26-13)
to 5 gallons of water. Or a stronger
solution. consisting of a pound of
fertilizer to gallons of water, can
be applied in smaller quantity.
Many old-time gardeners have OBJ
tanned excellent results with liquid
manure, and fertilizer used in solu-
ton can be equally as beneficial to
plants. This method is one of the
most economical means of fertiliz-
ing home gardens and borders.
Do not hesitate to use the solu-
ton fairly literally around each
plant, distributing it in circle ex-
tending a foot or so from the plants
base. Most of the feeding roots ex-
tend out that far.
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DC. WOMEN
IN UNIFORM

With the largest naval force this
country ever has maintained still
busy in the Pacific, the Navy has
announced a need for 10000 more
WAVES to release more men for
combat duty.
The new recruiting program is
aimed at obtaining at least 10000
new enlistmentS for the Hospital
Corps to help rehabilitate the sick
and injured. Others will fill as
signments ibvariouS fields offered by
WAVE enlistment. Young women
between 20 and SO with two years of
high school education may call the
Office of Naval Officer Procurement
1920 G street NV, Executive $3.50
1t. Comdr. H. Barry O'Neill, 2100
Connecticut avenue NV, has been
with the WAVES since the summer
of 1912 when it was organized. A
member of the first class of WAVE
officers, she formerly served on the
staff of the U. S. N. R. Midshlpmen's
School for Women at Northampton
and at Mount Holyoke College, Mass
In January, she was ordered to duty
in the Bureau of Ships and is now
women's reserve representative for
the bureau.
Before entering the Navy Comdr
OyNeill was director of graduate re-
search in the School of Nursing Ed
ucation at Catholic University. She
is a graduate of Trinity College.
GERMANY - From Georgia tC
Germany in one year-that's the
schedule met by WACS of the 18th
Army Group, including three women
from the Washington area. They
are: T/5 Jane L. Wolford, Alex
andria. Va: rs Sara Dolin. Wash
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This Navy photo shows A. S.
Troutman, carpenters mate, nc, U.
s. N. Qeft), Seabee on Guam, visiting
with his brother, Sergt. w. l.. Trout
man, Marine, after separation of
30 months. They reside in Wash
ington with their sisters, Mrs. Clare
Sharp and Mrs. Joyce Kleppish, 314
Second street NE. Sergt. Troutman
landed on Guam with his battalion
during the fight for Guam and hae
no idea of his brothers presence on
the island until he walked into the
Seabees tent.
Samuel E. Baggott, seaman &c
U. S. N. r., 20, and his brother
Pvt. Thomas E. Baggott, engineers
%, met recently in Marseilles
France, after a separation Of more
than two and one-haH years. They
are sons OF Mrs. Grace B. Baggott
1904 Old Bladensburg road, Silver
Spring, Md. Mrs. Baggott has two
other sons in the armed forces.
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two cruisers and bombarded nu-
merous enemy shore installations.
Entering the Pacific fight little
over a year ago, the Miami recently
rounded out long list OF major
engagements with strikes against
Formosa. The local men in the crew
are: 1t. J. p. Hobbs, 1879 Rodman
street NV; 1t. F. J. Stefnak, 6005
New Hampshire avenue NE; Ensign
d. M. Saunders, 206 Maple avenue
NV; Coxswain J. B. Ellis, 604 Tenth
street NV; Seaman 1/c r. F. Gro
shon, 1912 Eleventh street NV; Pfc.
H. ]. Hopkins, USMCR, 1740 Eight
eenth street NV; Printer 1/c A. G.
James, P street NV, and Chief
Steward P. F. Quirante, 1704 Gales
street NE.
Machinist's Mate 2/c Lewis H., Nc
Golerick, 13 v street NV, serves
on a destroyer which took part in
the surprise attack on japanese ship
ping in the Kurile Islands June 26.
This action netted the Americans
complete destruction of 2,000-ton
cargo vessel, a large tug and a
smaller cargo vessel. In addition,
one small ship was probably sunk
and another damaged.
Gordon C. Stafford, 1909 D street
NE, is a member of the cruiser
USS Mobiles gunnery crew which
has accounted for a dozen Jap
planes. Other accomplishments OF
this ship include smashing more
than $50 Jap shore targets as her
contribution to victory on Okinawa
blasting caves where the enemy was
hiding, knocking out Jap mortars
and even picking off enemy supply
trucks on the Okinawa shore.
Working at the Pearl Harbor Navy
Yard, Elmer T. Nash, 7202 Tracy
avenue, Takoma Park, Md, helps
repair battle scars and send ouI
ships back to rejoin the Navy's sue
cessful parade to Toxic.
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Capt. Robey and Son Go Fishing
Durinq Lutter's Short FurIough

tied each of the 14th AAF airflelds
among them three bases recently
recaptured from the Japanese
Kweilin, Hong-Yang and Liuchow,
But before he entered the Army
in 1912, Hugh recalls, he had more
than his share of excitement over
seas as a civilian in war areas. AS
far back as 1885, he went to the
Axis-infested Caribbean Sea as an
operating engineer for the Standard
Oil Co. in Curacao. He went back
again in 1887 as a mechanical SUI
pervisor for an Eastern construction
company under the lease-lend pro-
gram, working on the construction
of American airbases.
He held intermittent jobs in
Georgetown, British Guiana, St
Lucia, Antigua, Trinidad, Aruba
Dutch Guiana and Puerto Rico
none of which could be considered
safe places to be-" in the face of
the Axis menace.
Recalling his sons peacetime
days, Capt. Robey said that almost
20 years ago he and Hugh operated
the first ferry service between Nor
gantown and Colonial Beach, car
rying mail and performing a de-
livery service for The Star. Hugh
was engineer aboard the ferry, and
the pair usually handled 400 to 500
copies of The Star each Sunday. On
one occasion they found themselves
confronted with the problem of de-
livering almost 1900 Stars to sub
scribers at Colonial Beach, but they
did the job, and well, Capt. Robey
will tell you.
When they are away from the
water front, Hugh and his father live
at 1905 sherwood street NE.
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Much-D Decorated Army Medic
Began as Hospital Singer
Escaped From Nozis
After Temporary
Paralysis From Wound

Pfc. Ernest B. Rider, jr., began
his overseas career singing for hos
pitalized veterans in England, but
rows of decorations on his blouse
spell a story of battle action for
the 20-year-old medic who returned
home aboard the Queen Elizabeth
with other members of the famed
44th Division.
PVT. .sRider spent just three months
of his overseas assignment enter
tanning. In September, 1914, he
joined the 44th's II Regiment as a
combat medic.
Il was assigned to a front-line
infantry outfit-L Company" he
explained, and as medic he carried
no weapons. Those red crosses on
our helmets may have made us
better targets for the Germans" 3"
he said.
Pvt. Rider wasn't hit by sniper
or machine-gun fire, but 1945 was
only a few minutes old when shell
fragments from mortar shell hit
him in the back.
You can't hear those mortars
coming-they don't whine like the
$685." he said MY legs were para
lyzed and I lay there while the
fighting continued back and forth
across the area. When it was over
i was lying behind the enemy's
lines
The Germans found him and be-
gan moving him to the rear along
with seven others captured from
the regiment.
Much to his relief, Pvt. Rider
found the paralysis of his legs was
only temporary and three days after
capture he and his buddies jumped
their German guards and escaped.
we had no trouble getting back
through the German lines-but it
was pretty hard getting through the
American lines" he said. They as
sumed We were Germans and fired
on us. Finally, we convinced them
We we're Americans"
Three months later, near Welz-
helm, Germany, Pvt. Riders heroism
won him the Silver Star. When
lead tank carrying part of his in
fantry company was hit in sur
prise German attack, the young
medic ran out and pulled one of the
survivors from the burning vehicle.
Ammunition was going off all
around" so he was not able to stand
up and carry the injured man to
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Two Local Men Pushing
SUPPLIES on 'Teu' Railway

A soldier from Washington and
one from Hyattsville are working
on the railroad" in India getting
supplies through to China.
Sergt. Fred B. Carman, whose
wife lives at 1713 M street NV,
and Pvt. John F.. Duffey, whose wife
lives at 4730 Baltimore avenue, are
serving with units of the Military
Railway Service on the Bengal and
Assam line.
A large part of war material
destined for China goes over this
railroad from Calcutta to depots in
Assam, where it is dispatched over
the Stilwell road or flown over the
hump" by transport planes. The
road, built originally to fulfill the
peacetime requirements of the As
sam tea planters, now is one of
the most important supply arteries.
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safety Instead, he had to drag MIN
20 yards until they reached tree.
Then I put him on my back and
really started running. In all, I
guess I carried him about $50 yards" "
he said.
But Pvt. Rider is sure he didn't
come as close TO death that time as
he did in action that won him the
Bronze Star.
In this action, his company had
been surprised by counterattack
and forced to retreat. 1t was dis
covered that one man had been left
behind so Pvt. Rider ran back to
find him. He recovered the man, who
had been wounded, but as he was
carrying the casualty back to join
the company "at least 20 shells ex-
ploded within so yards of me-" Pvt.
Rider said.
OF all his decorations, the foot
4 inch veteran is proudest of the
Combat Medic Badge.
You don't see many of these
around" he said. After the war,
he wants to continue his work in
medicine and plans to study to be
doctor.
On August Is Pvt. Rider will re-
port for further assignment at Fort
Meade land I'll probably be sent to
the Pacific, that's where the 44th is
headed, you know" he added. But
for the next couple of weeks or SO
I'm just going to do all the things
I've dreamed about"
Pvt. Rider is the son of Maj. and
Mrs. Ernest B. Rider. 4725 Rodman
street NV. Maj. Rider is doctor
in the Army Medical Corps.
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Arlington Map Maker
Overseas 18 Months

FIFTH AIR FORCE, PHILIP
PINES.-Pfc. Robert P. Clapper, "A,
of Arlington, Va, has completed 18
months of overseas service with
the 5th Air Force. His wife, Mrs.
Jane Clapper, lives at 1912 North
Nash street.
Before enlisting in April, 1943,
Pvt. Clapper worked for the Army
map service as senior topographic
craftsman. He is now making maps
for the 5th Bomber Command.
His father, Mr.. r. B. Clapper,
is a plant geneticist in the De-
partment of Agriculture, and his
mother is employed in the Bureau
of Ships. They live at 1405 North
Oak street, Arlington. Another son,
Pvt. r. B. Clapper, is with the
Signal Corps on the BONN Islands.
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in Hospitals

WOODROW WILSON GENERAL HosPI-
1913 Hdio Euclid Street NV. wounded in &C.
tion in Europe. Pfc. Lee ]. Bond. wounded
in Italy. Corpl. Gerald M. Creegan, 624
Ninth street NE, served overseas in
Burma. TIA JOAQUIN Tristanix, 531O Con-
necticut avenue NV. served in Europe
with the 29th Division. Raymond M.
months months overseas l with the Engineers. Pc.
joseph B. Jordan, 702 North Vermont
street, Arlington, nine months in Europe
with The ths 7sih anEp piyisioni niospu., m.rf,r.-
burg, W. va.-Pvt. Abe Davis, "a X
street s.W.; served in Europe with Guar quar-
1909 South Twenty eighth street, .Arling-
ton, seven months In Europe With 18th
street NV, 20 months with the ED Dr.
vision in Italy, also service in Africa and
AAf REGIONAL AND CoNvALEscENT
HOSPITAL. Miami Beach. F1a.-Pfc. Rich
ard L. Archie, 1712 Ninth street NV,
Pvt. Marshall Fridley, 103 Twelfth street
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and Hugh have been looking for
ward to an extended fishing trip
since Hugh left home to join the
Army three years ago. Now Hugh,
on his first real" vacation, can fish
with his father, and possibly, some
time in the next four weeks, ''tie one
on" as they did together in the oD
days.
Hugh returned to Washington
early this week from Fort Meade,
after transport to Newcastle, Del,
from Liang Shang, China, in a
C-54 transport plane. Now home,
he is seeing for the first time in
nearly two years his six motherless
children. Mrs. Robey died in jan
uary, 1914, while he was overseas.
In China with the 18th Service
Group, Hugh helped build air strips
for the Fighting Tigers and has Wis
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1t. Hufty Completes
Missions Aqainst Japs

HEADQUARTERS 73D BOMB
BARDMENT WING, SAIPAN.-1st.
1t. Richard M. Hufty of 3743 Mill
tary road NV, Washington, D. c.,
navigator on a Saipan-based Super
Fortress has completed the required
number of missions against the
japanese homeland in the BIS
campaign to bomb enemy war-pro-
duction facilities out of the war.
1t. Hufty participated in strikes
against vital japanese war centers
in the early days of the B-29s'
offensive when the 73d Bombard-
ment Wing pioneered the very long
range bombardment program from
the Marianas Islands.
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t h e fish a r e
bitin' down in
the reaches of
the lower Po-
t ON &C a n d
c h e S a p e a k e
B a y, if hi S
father, Capt. E.
B ! a n C h a r d
Robey, has his
say about it.
Capt. Robey,
known to WASH
ingtonians for
many years as
"the grand old
m an of t h e
y,
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Victory Gardening, 1945
Consider Habit Of Gro1Vtb
when Choosing Evergreems
By Louise Hendey.

Fortunately tendency toward choosing
suited practice for
shall forests planted around
founda in small yard.
plant material with these
things ultimate the natural habit
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Back From the Wars

TIA Hugh T. Robey, 38, veteran
of 10 months service in China now
here on furlough, will have nothing
to worry about for 80 days but how
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A Date To Come Home

Of all thes difficult programs which
have had to be worked out during this
war, we know of none which has been done
in such widely approved fashion as the one
for demobilizing the army.
It is a simple, easily understandable
plan which seems to take all major situa-
tons into consideration. It gives break
to those men who have children by making
each dependent child worth years serv-
ice in the army-but we think everyone
will agree that the men with children to
support should be brought home sooner
than those who have none.
The thing we like best about the plan
is that every soldier in the field can now,
by a little simple arithmetic, figure out
just how long it will be before he can 60
home. Even though he may not have suf-
ficient points now, he can figure out that
in three months, or five months, or year
he will be eligible for discharge. To the
man who is discouraged and tired of war,
this definite plan for future dismissal will
give him renewed spirit-a chance to make
plans for the future-and something to
which he can look forward with keen an
ticipation.
We think this plan will do much to Off
set the encouragement which many SOL
diers in Europe must feel over having to
take on the Japs after having licked the
Germans.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-06-14
Improving Secondary
Roads

Recently enacted Federal legislation
has authorized funds for extension and
improvement of secondary roads in the i'm
mediate postwar era. This Federal aid
fund must be matched dollar for dollar
by the states. If state laws do not permit
such participation, they must be amended
before the states can share in the Federal
funds. The spread between the cost of op-
Grating over good roads and over bad is far
greater than the average person realizes
For an idea of just how much difference
there is in the cost, the National Rural Let
ter Carriers Association has made avail
able some remarkable figures. Thirty-two
thousand rural carriers drive daily 1,500,-
600 miles. Most of this tremendous mile
age is on secondary or farm-to-market
roads. Records kept by carriers in Indiana
and Iowa show the operating cost per mile
for earth roads to be 7.8; gravel roads, SIS;
pavement, 38.
Bad roads are an impressive economic
waste and are an unanswerable argument
for practical postwar road construction.
You can hardly blame the rural letter car
riers for being unanimous in favor of inn
proving the highways they have to travel.
There are still AZ per cent of Americas
farms on dirt roads, Better rural roads
will speed up shipment from farm to city
and help hold down food costs.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-06-14
WARRENSVILLE HID o% H..
CLUB HAS MEETING

The Warrensville Home Dem
onstration Club met at the, home
of Mrs. Harvey Osborne on June
6, at which time three new mem
bers, Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Arnold,
and Miss Irene Jones were taken
into the club. .,f:5 ff7sG
The program started with a
song, after which the members
repeated the club collect follow
ed by individual prayers! T.
A short business meeting was
held in which the members gave
and discussed suggestions for
1916.
After the business session, Mrs.
E. J. Weaver took charge of the
program and discussed Disease
and Insect Control in the Gar
den."
Delicious refreshments were
served by the hostess during the
social hour.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. C. C. Howell. J.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-06-14
WORLD CHARTER is
ADOPTED BY NATIONS

Continued from Page One)
council of II members to take
over for all the united nations the
responsibility for stepping into
any situation or dispute which
threatened to embroil the world
in conflict in the future. Coun-
Gil membership is restricted to
the United States, Russia, Bri-
tain, France and China perman-
emily, plus six smaller powers on
a rotating basis.
The council could take what
ever measures it considers neces-
sary to erase the threat of war.
It could make recommendations,
draft terms for peaceful concilia-
ton of quarrels and apply mill
tary and economic sanctions.
If it takes military persuasion
to prevent war, the council will
have at it's call some of the air,
sea and land forces of great and
small powers. Directing them
will be great power chiefs of staff
the experts who engineered the
defeat of Germany.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-06-14
Beauty Runs Deep

They say beauty is only skin deep and
perhaps that is so, but much of it comes
from mines hundreds of feet deep in the
earth. Fashion models and American
women generally, would be surprised to
learn of some of the weird chemical tricks
that contribute to their breathtaking ap-
pearance. Most of these chemical tricks
use COAL Nearly all textile dyes are de-
rived from coal. Dozens of chemicals and
resins obtained from coal are needed to
process or finish fabrics. From coal come
plastics for dress buttons, ornaments, shoe
heels. Nylons are made of coal, air and
water! accessories to match" also owe
much to coal; colors for ipsticks and nail
polish; scents for perfumes; plastics for
costume jewelry, handbag frames, COM
pacts-altogether, more than 100000 useful
products depend on coal-and many of
them are used to glorify American women
Here is an example of how the standard
of existence which we accept as normal is
actually miracle, miracle supported by
an intricate industrial system requiring
nl1ll1OlS VI peISOHS 10 Keep IL IuH11Hg rev
of us realize that the slightest unbalance
in this system does far more than deprive
people of jobs. When vital industries such
as coal are unable to operate smoothly and
efficiently, the miracle begins to evapor-
ate.
This is why every one of us has so great
a stake in helping to do what we can to
keep industry running smoothly. Every
one of us wants to see the miracle of
American existence perpetuated forever.