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The Omaha guide., 1945-03-31
Standards of Value
GA Lenten Meditation b

GA Lenten Meditation by Ruth Taylo.y
A great man Of letters once defined a cynic as
someone who knew the price Of everything and the
O value Of nothing,
There comes a time when each Of us must pause
and consider just what we, as individuals and as an
integral part Of a great nation, hold most dear,
If we were asked what is the motto of the United
States, we would surely answer, I'm God we trust. :"
America gives to its citizens freedom of conscience,
not license for uncOnScience; freedom of belief. not
the destroyal Of all belief.
For our standard Of values, we have a vardstick
of common belief in the omnipotence, the omni.
science and the Omnipresence of God, no matter
whether we learned our faith in cathedral, church or
synagogue. 1t is our common denomination. The
Ten Commandments belong to all alike.
We are a GOd-fearing people. We know what
our standards Of value must be. They were laid
down by the Prophet Micah centuries ago when he
said, "What doth the Lord require of thee but to do
justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy Cod
All three geat faiths subscribe to that yardstick.
Inasmuch as all religions are based upon the same
fundamental principles and concepts, religion
should be the means Of bringing about a better I'M
Outstanding between people, and should unite them
IN cOmOn bonds of fellowship. If, however. people
will persist in regarding religion as a source of sep
aratism and a divisive thing, their religion may do
harm rather than good. If it does, it is the fault Of
the followers rather than of the creeds themselves.
They are not following their own faith.
DR.. Bennett in, christianity and Our World,
went still further when he said: "Unethical relig.
ion is a far greater danger to true religion than Sc
cularism. 1t is possible to be closer to God in seek
ing what God wills while denying his existence,
than in defending an unpust order of things while
praising him.
From our own religious teaching we know what
our standard Of values must be. 1t is up to us to
follow them as individuals and as ~anation.
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SHADES OF THE UNITED STATES!

Argentina, that troublesome neighbor to the south
Of us who persistently leans toward the %trappings
of dictatorship in preference to the institutions of
democracy, has now decreed that there shall be no
more chain stores in the Argentine. According to
reports, the organization of new chain store comp
anies is prohibited, pending the drafting Of new
regulations, and present chain stores are forbidden to
sion. Shades of the U. S.! This particular piece
Of tyranny is not a copy Of Germany or Japan. It
probably was imported from the statute books Of
some of our own states. Possibly it came from cur
rently proposed, anti-chain store legislation in Con-
gress itself.
For years, American politicians have harped on
imagined evils of chain stores. Pnitive tax laws in
state after state took a toll Of chains, until gradual
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trust white people, object to heir "meddling'', and
just on general principle rarely tell them the trutf
when questioned about our private affairs. In sub
sanitation Of this, the writer recalls an incident dun
ing the last demonstrating when the mistress OF {
home IN which 13 persons lived, blandly told the in
terrogator that only four persons lived there, turn
ing away to offer hoary advice against telling
white folks our business.
This incident when retold has met with a counter
part many times. Multiply that by thousands Of
UNDERSTANDABLE wary Negroes and you have reason
to doubt the accuracy Of the Census Bureaus esti-
mate.
1t is Unfortunate for the Negro if his numerical
strength is greater than it appears to be that it is not
known. For the measure Of his influence is taken
in the force of his numbers.
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The Common Defense
moral Interdependence"
(by Emerson Hugh Lalone, Associate Editor,
The Christian LEADER

On the eve of the American Revolution, a patriot
wrote the following words on the American cause:
1.-The sun never shined on a cause Of iuster worth.
Ills not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; pos
terity will be affected even to the end of time. by
the proceedings now.''
These words fit our situation to a fearful degree.
Our "~affair'' is Of all continents and Of the whole
world. Ours too is a fateful seed-time. It is dem
cracy's seed-time. In the thousands of communit-
les OF these United States we are now sowing either
the seeds of health and honor or hate and horror.
The fate Of democracy and free religion depends on
how we sow. If the seeding be furtive ideas of dis
trust of other men and other classes, the harvest
will be destructive of both democracy and religion.
AS men and women Of religion and as Americans
fighting for freedom, we are therefore called on to
wage an uremitting and resolute fight here on the
home front against the anti-Jewish. anti-Catholic,
antl-Negro stories that continue to make their des-
tructlve rounds IN spite of our need for greater unity
now than ever before in our history. Eyes, but
aren't the Jews this or that?' NONSENSE! Tragic,
dangerous, irreigiOus, un-American nonsense!
There are bad Jews, Of course. Most Jews are fine
decent men and women. There are bad catholics.
eMost Catholics are fine, decent people. There are
bad Negroes. Most Negroes are fine and decent.
There are bad Protestant Yankee %gentiles. Most
.Protestants are fine and decent.
He Ill serves his country and his God who attrib-
utes the badness Of any man to the entire racial or
religious group to which that man belongs. For in
so doing he sows the seeds of class strife.
AT home and abroad we will get on with the Job
successfully only as we remember and act on the
truth that our continued independence results from
intelligent and moral interdependence.
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sIDELIGHT OF THE CENSUS

The 1884 report Of the Bureau of the Census
out sometime ago, was somewhat disappointing. Re
veaimg a substantial rise in the portion Of the pop
ulation classified as n%onwhite, it nevertheless failed
to indicate that the Negro population has risen much
above the rough reckoning Of 10 percent of the
whole attributed to it in recent years.
NOnwhite includes, in addition to Negroes, Orien-
tails and Red Indians, and those groups cut quite a
swath into the IA and more million members Of the
colored minority. Those persons who had ventured
to reckon the Negroes numerical strength in the nei-
ghborhood Of Is million have either got to back
down or to question the efficacy Of the Census Bur-
eau,s methods of arriving at its estimates.
We are in the latter category and although our
contention has no basis in proven fact, we make it
nevertheless. We believe the Negro population in
TINS country is closer to Is million than it is to IA.
Our reason for saying so may have something Of
ante-bellum flavor, but distasteful as it is. the fact
remains that we are not in all things entirely remov-
ed from ne Influence of our previous condition. 1t
is a regrettable truism that too many of us still dis
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" it dawned on the consumer that such demagogu-
cry was undermining mass distribution at minimum
prices. Malicious attacks on chains today get a
cold reception. The public cannot be kidded any
longer into believing that chains are destructive
monopolies. They have been in existence many
years and anybody with eyes can see that the
not destroyed the independent merchant Chains
have increased competition in distribution, and have
been a major factor in holding down and stabilizing
prices.
The people Of Argentina are not as lucky as the
people of the United States. They will probably
be forced to sit by while the WITNESSES Of their polit-
ical masters decide by whom, how, and at what
price the necessities Of life will be edistributed t.
them.
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Randolph, Webster Visit
New Orleans for FEPC.

New York, n. Y. March Is 1945
A. Philip Randolph and Milton p.
Webster, International Officers Of
the Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car
Porters will speak at a great
public mass meeting in hte Booker
7. Washington Auditorium in New
Orleans, Sunday afternoon March25
in the interest Of Bills S 101 and Fl.
r. 1922 for a permanent FEPC.
The meeting is being arranged by
the New Orleans Council for a
Permanent FERC.
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GOOD AND BAD "CO-OPS"

A United States senator says Of marketing CO.
operatives: Through cooperative effort a thousand
small farms can pool their interests and thereby
perform the services that might otherwise be done
by a single corporation, while at the same time they
preserve their sense Of ownership and full RESPONSE
bility upon which sound and stable government it.
self depends"
The senator's comment illustrates the basic pur-
pose of the marketing cooperative which seeks to
build individual enterprise that operates for a reas-
enable profit.
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Candidate: "How did you like my speech on the
agricultural situation and problems last night?''
Farmer: wasn't bad, but a good days rain
would do a lot more oOd.'-Metuchen, N. ]. Dairy
Farmers Digest.
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A Since 1920. Great Britain has
collected and distributed $50 mil
lion through a royalty tax for well
fare purposes first, at &c a ton,
then dropped to 1c; now back to
2c). But this fund IL administered
by tripartite body; employers, nm
ion. and government.
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trail to marital servitude and oth- CTS will be listed as they become added to the casualty roster.
 Plans have been approved for a squadron party, to be held in Hart ford sometime during the last week of the month. Elaborate prepara- tions are being made to give the 93d EM hang-up fiesta. M/Sgt. Heck, S/Sgt. Jack Neck, and SSgt. Carl Naughton are the members of the committee in charge.
 The contest for the best pro- posed insignia for the 93d has closed. The winning entry was sub- mitted by S/Sgt. Forrest H. Smith. Other members of the Squadron who turned their hand to designing a suitable insignia for the outfit included S/Sgt. Forrest c. Ames, S/Sgt. Charles E. Turner, Cpl Arthur A. Alborano, Cpl. Myron E.. Levine, Pfc. William F. Freitag Pfc. Harold B. Henthorne, and Pfc Oliver D. Mature. Judges of the contest were Captain Frederick Stahuber Commanding Officer) Captain Hugh V. Watson (Chie1 Communications Officer), Lieu tenant Jack c. Anderson (Adju tant), Lieutenant Willis V. Elliott and Lieutenant Clarence k. Myers
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WINDSOR LOCKS

SUNDAY, January 14th.
 3:30 P. M. Movies. Recreation Hall, Elm Plains.
 8:15 P. M. "March of Dimes Con Cert. 596th Army Air Forces Band and Bradley Field Orches- tra. General Public is invited. MONDAY, January 18th.
 7 P. M. to II P. M. Games and Informal Dancing. Service Per sonnel and Junior Hostesses in vited. TUESDAY, January 18th.
 8 P. M. to II P. M. Regular Dance. Bradley Field Orchestra. WEDNESDAY, January t7th. 8 P. M. to II P. M. Arts and Crafts Night. Service Personnel and Junior Hostesses invited. THU RSDAY, January 18th.
 8 P. M. to II P. M. Modern and Square Dancing. Service Person mel and Junior Hostesses invited. FRIDAY, January 18th.
 8 P. M. to II P. M. "Letter Max ing on a Record". Service Per sonnel and Junior Hostesses in- vited.
 SATURDAY, January 20th.
 10 A. M. to 12 A. M. Playtime with USO. Housing Unit.
 8 P. M. Movies. "Great Guy". Selected Short Subjects.
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Civvy Training Administrator Plans Classes in GI Correspondence

Walter Brakey was appointed Civilian Training Administrator at Bradley Field last October. Per- haps you read about him in the October 7th issue of the BEAM as the Civilian Personality of the week. He has been doing an excep- tionally fine job in training. You will be interested in the following pertinent observations MT. Brakey makes:
 Relieve it or not, but your rec ord is showing. The Air Force is vitally interested in how well you. are doing your job, and what's more they want to help you i'm prove. When there is big job to, do and a small unit to do it, then that unit must be trained and skilled for the job, and make no mistake about it. YOUR JOB IS A BIG ONE.
 s'Those of you who have had training-USE IT-that's what it was for, remember? Those of you who haven't had training, get it NOW. Strangely enough Cor IS it so strange ) those who seem to feel no need for help are the very ones whose record shows a. definite need for training.
 "A class in Military Correspon7 dence in which every department on the Base will be represented will start on February 1st. Done in close cooperation with Base Head quarters, this class will help stand ardize the correspondence here at Bradley. Your filing system may need a brush-up and this will be accomplished at classes on filing.
 "The Supervisor Training Course has reached almost mid-mark, and the Procedure Training is con stantly growing thing for it en- braces the many phases and sys- tems of grading and rating em' ployees and imparting, en masse any pertinent information. The Safety School, supervised by the Safety Engineers Office, is going concern.
 "So, now is the time to bring
 yourself up to date. Any sugges
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CONTROL BOARD
Ry PVT. JOHN VIM. HALL

Number One topic of conversa- tion around the 93d area this week was the rugged bivouacking to which a large part of the outfit was sub iected on Tuesday night. In the words of one of the Officers on the bivouac, twas rough, to which every man agrees with an Amen" , hoping the "Amen" will close the issue once and for all. M/Sgt. Ray Heck has applied for patent on his ''furlined fox-hole for frigid fighters, which he had completely equipped with hot and cold run ming water, heater and lights. It. Reeves has signed up for the first one to come off the assembly line; at 1880 he hit the sack and after about an hour came in to the com mand post complaining about cold feet, only to discover that his boots were snow-ined. No other serious casualties resulted, except for the fact that the command post tent was sort of "gone with the wind'' the night before the 5ivouac started.
 With Leap Year over, many a stalwart 93d man mas gone "on the prowl", and several weddings 1T the outfit have taken place, witf many more in the immediate offing Sgt. Henry Ewaniec, Sgt. lrvir Abramson, and Pfc. Albert Huber are among few to have hit the
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OFFICE OF THE FINANCE OFFICER
 ARMY AIR BASE BRADLEY FIELD, CONNECTICUT
Cpl. Ira Askin, Pvt. Max Greer, Pvt. Phillip Benevento, Camp Gordon, Ga.
l3 January l945

Dear Fellows (now members of the fighting infantry,
 Needless say, all hate go and wish the best of luck We be joining but don't give em hell for Remember we'll be cheering for and doing whatever to make your task easier and shorter
 We all recall memories of association with Ira and his faithful duty reporting the of Finance the Beam ob only hope that the articles the will be half good Pm that he will be bered as just plain Ira. To The Kd Greer that though his with his beaming and Monday morning review the will of luck Kid and don't let them take your macknaw away from you.
 To Phil whom have known for shorter time than The Kid wish the best of everything and that didn't know You leave old telephone The Boeke I'm he will be only too glad carry for you.
 The the bidding farewell friends Monday night time had by al especially Bags Holmes who suddenly appeared with beautiful bgone under each Silent" Gayesk wasn't silent when Miller pulled out Hoye him. "The Kd in form and talked himself for while telephone boOth How was he to other up? Jim Ky made friends with "Pappy" Flangan the party entertain with his usual card tricks. Cleopatra) encounter? We'll he thanked her for the buggy ride anyway.
 Welcome to Lawso and Hunt from Chatham Field Ga They often from Chatham Bradley the Transportation Officer finally decided issue them book of transportation requests We fellows guess this is about all the news for By the way again. ask him if he has checked the AS recently He told officer that he didn't have S but asked if late model A would do-
 again wish all of the best of luck wherever line when have time in between 2Omie hikes.
 The Kd ne Ia take yourself and help Phil with his telephone numbers
 Fondes regards from all the gang,
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ADS AND LADS

Two lads that cause pulses to flutter are Pvt. Mike Budich and Sgt. "Flintheart" Crosthwaite. A delft dancer with polished patois doesn't need Kreml.
 Two popular hostesses returned to the fold the other evening in the persons of Helen Anderson and Vyrling Phelps. By the manner in which the stag line relinquished the status quo, this observer would say, Come often, gals"
 SSgt. "Radar" Fiordo and the Lil Missus seen performing intri- cate maneuvers on the waxed sur face. Nice going.
 People we'd like to see more of: Pfc. Tobias Mathe, the Minnesota Mystery Man. Whisper has it that his heart is far away, but you could provide atmosphere, Toby. Pvt. James Maloof, for his resplendent smile and that golden tenor voice. Mrs. Malcolm Hernandez, so Editor Nal will be very, very lone ly no more. . Paul St. Mauro,
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pictures I saw
 in 1914 I liked "SOng of Berna- dette'' best. It as a beautiful ly. done picture and had every thing. religion, plot and humor. As. best tune of the year Pm in fayor=*...o How would you like
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l go LOT IHdI new actor, Dana Clark, so even if the picture "The Very Thought of You" wasn't so well known, I call it tops because he was starred in it. l also like the song by the
 same name best, although, T'nl not
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Indianapolis. When Police Sgt. Forrest Allison spotted young couple necking in a park, he hauled them to the pokey. There he learned the young couple were married. Now Sgt. Allison is pounding a beat-as a buck patrolman.
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money the best
 picture of. the
 year. was Casa. Z: nova. B TO ':. w n":' with Gary Coop er.. It had plenty of >hum.or and. :. was very ,...hu- ]. man and inter-. esting. The best. tune was "I'll
 Be Seeing You' ,
 which I first
 heard while I
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l ukcu UOlHS My Way" as we'll as any Oth- CT movie I've seen in the past year. As a mat ter of fact it was one of the b e st pictures I've ever seen. Bing Crosby is a l W a y S good and he did a, fine i0h aS the
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GALS AND PALS

Time for a word about some of our faithful junior hostesses whom neither snow, nor sleet, nor storm can stay from the faithful dis charge of their duties: Norma Lorentsen and Muriel Petersen of Windsor, Jeanette Larson and Louise Aldrich from Bloomfield, Laura Tenero and the Vallides sis ters from Suffield, and from Wind sor Locks such stalwart supports as Barbara Oates, Marge Columbi, Ann Matroni, Mary Buckley, Ann King, Mary Conroy, Kathie Mo linari, Tess Botasso, Ann Durin, Dottie Jenkins, Mary Rose Falls, Justine Ferrari and Loretta Hardy. All names to conjure with! Caesar conquered his thousands, but these their tens of thousands!
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y0n said tt
 Girls .
(Windsor Locks USO)

just because he's a great guy . :. and Tom Conroy for his efferves- cence and quaint humor. Tommie's quips are reminiscent of the Gay Nineties, when the men were gay and the women looked ninety.
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Harmon Sees Japs Fighting in 1946

Pearl Harbor (CNS)-Japan will still "be on her feet and fighting in 1946" in the opinion of LGeA. Willard F. Harmon, commander of US. Air Forces in the Pacific area,
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JACK

tions ANY ONE OF YOU have for improving your job, through training, will be welcomed here in the Training Administrators Of flee, located at Civilian Personnel, Building 234."
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w lIlSSu v l U tory", W h i c h was at the Base Theatre e a Fl y last week, was the best picture
 I've seen this year. It was sad in many spots but very true to life, particu- larly as things are nowadays. The best song ]
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was based in England. It has plen- ty of sentiment and swell melody.
 T/SGT. WAYNE FREDERICK, G Squadron; home, Rocky Mount,
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heard last year was Lionel Hamp- toms Flying Home." A honey of tune if I ever heard one and in real Hampton style.
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sure what year it came out. Meet Me in St. Louis" is my next
 CPL. GEORGE MERLIN, G Squadron; home, Chelsea, Mass. !:
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POESY DEPARTMENT

POESY DEPARTMENT
 Credit Line Medals have been hung guys galore: The lad from Brooklyn, the friend next door; For valorous acts in Timbuctoo, Italy, France Kalamazoo They've earned their medals, and justly so Yet to my way of thinking, there's more to go. nice gold medal with diamonds lined, For the little woman left behind!
 RUTH SMITH. Thus Conscience Doth Make COwards of Us All When departed did promise to be true And, boy, am feeling ashamed But hold nothing back and leave it to you: Am I entirely to be blamed? With lovely Angelina I slipped wine in Napoi- Darling, cannot tell you any lies Why did that hour speed by so happily? I YOU in the depths of her eyes. An, and little Nita whom met in Rome! She gay, with wnsome guile. Yet my thoughts elsewhere back there at home: I YOU in her smile Rosa in Leghorn had your starlit hair, And I stood transfxed; Realizing full well how I did For One back home my heart had picked So sweet love, don't scorn that roam, For my conscience doth make shver Remember we'll my mind goes home, To my Love who dwels the Connecticut River
 Transcribed from lines by PVT. VIM. SEELICKE).
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to kiss me in the mOonlight?" Long title, what? Romantical, what?
 PVT. GLORIA WEINSTEIN, A Squadron; home, Providence, R.I.:
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CPL. CARLYLE w. BARRON; nome, Mclean, Virginia: For my
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PFC GEORGE H. MARTIN, F home, Louisville. Ky:
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QUESTION: What motion pic fnre and sOhat bobuiar song did you like best in 1944?
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1 liked "GOing
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-11-01
Casualties of War Rise
To Total of 1,O7O,819

WASHINGTON. - With reports
still to come in, combat casualties
of the war announced by the armed
forces have now reached 1,070, 819.
The army recently reported it's
casualties, as received here through
August 81, as 923, 481. The latest
navy report was 1888.
The aggregate represented an in
crease of 681 since the last report.
Navy casualties actually declined
by 43 as result of revisions and
shifts in the wounded, missing and
prisoner of war classifications.
The services will continue to an
nounce casualty figures until the
final reports have been received.
A breakdown on army casualties
and corresponding figures for the
last report follow:
Killed 199,656 and 1879, 1873; wound
ed ST., 179 and 570,997; missing 49,
SAB and 1858; prisoners 119, 1O3 and
1924.
The decline in the number of
missing resulted from transfers to
other categories. The war depart
ment said that 357,414 of the
wounded have returned to duty and
96,521 of the prisoners have been
exchanged or returned to military
control
Similar figures for the navy:
Killed 1920 and 52,963; wounded
80,039 and 80,171; missing 10, 426 and
lO,553; prisoners 1914 and 1884.