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Evening star., 1947-08-17

In one season a female may have as
many as 81, ,OOO, 600 descendants - in
only four generations.
OF $50 species in America the only
one capable of injecting you with
malaria is the Anopheles - found par
ticularly in the swampy regions of
hot areas, although it has been report
ed in many other parts of the country.
Buff you don't live where the climate
is moist and warm, there's less than
one chance in two or three hundred
that the mosquito in your back yard is
Evening star., 1947-08-17

an Anopheles. And if it is, it's prob
ably not carrying malaria. So don't
worry too much about it.
The Army uses DOT to spray mos
quito-ridden areas and distributes
ointments and repellents literally.
Pacific veterans will remember
the mixture of white petroleum,
citronclla OIL spirits Of casnpl,os
and oil Of eedarwsod- they used.
The most effective Army repellent.
issued for the first time three years
ago. is called '-6-2-2." The Quarter
Evening star., 1947-08-17

TNHs is the time Of year you usually
can't just lean back comfortably
in cool camp chair in the shade with
out being Jared out of your seat by
the sudden, sharp prick of eHlsx
bibicns or one of her cousins.
If you're wondering how such a
tiny. delicate insect. which one ento-
mologist has described as really a
beautiful little creature" can deal out
50 hefty a jolt. here are some facts
tiht may surprise you.
Tho mosquitoes singer weighs only
one six-millionth of an ounce, but it
helped bring several ancient civiliza-
tions. including Rome, to the dust.
The populace never knew that the
dread malaria" or bad air." was
not spread by the night breezes.
Don't be alarmed if you see male
mosquito hovering about. He's strictly
Evening star., 1947-08-17

a vegetarian and knows from expert
ence that he can't get under your skin.
It's the gal who packs the walIop.
How to recognize the males? They're
bushier around the head.
Itching is caused not by the bite
itself but a secretion of the mos
quito's salivary gland. Acting as an
irritant, the secretion brings the blood
quickly to the surface of your skin,
sparing the insect the trouble of bend
ing over. If you're lucky. you may be
one of a number of people who react
less strongly to the secretion than
others.
81 1ooo. 900 Descendants
MosoUIToEs are found as higf, as
$4,000 feet above sea level. but they
rarely stray more than a few miles
from the spot where they are Matched.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
OUCH! b, ..',. ,...

The season for cuIex pipiens is with us
again. That means mosquitoes - and
here's what you can do about them
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION

Governor Dwight H. Green
of Illinois in his annual pro-
clamation designated Thurs,
November 9th, as Thanksgiv-
ing day, and said, "the years
harvests assure us food for our
own needs and enable us to re-
lieve in some measure the
want of people in less favored
lands"
He added, ''the United Sta
ties still enjoys the civil rights
and the religious liberty which
make our republic the tradi-
tional land of freedom"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
Continued on page 81
DIAL TELEPHONE SERVICE
ADOPTED BY ZION
INDUSTRIES. INC.

On November 18th, Zion In
dustries, Inc. put into service a
Bell Telephone System dial
switchboard.
The dial telephone system is
the newest, fastest and most
accurate type of communica-
ton service used by modern in
dustry. Uniform speed of SER
vice is provided with as much
service available at midnight
Continued on page 81
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
CALLS PARENTS
FROM JAPAN

Pfc. Maurice W. Ball, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Ball of
1929 Elizabeth Avenue, tele-
phoned to his parents last
Wednesday evening at 7 o.
clock (Zion time) from Yoka-
hama, Japan, to advise them
that he was homeward bound,
hoping to sail shortly.
Early Wednesday morning,
the Telephone Company call
ed the Ball residence to ad-
wise them that their son would
put a trans-Pacific call through
at 1920 p. m. The whole fami-
ly gathered at the home for
the eventful moment.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
INDUSTRY NOTES
By George T. Hallacy

This is the week of all weeks
for the youngsters because this
week on Saturday Santa Claus
arrives at your Zion Depart
ment Store to make his head
quarters from now on until
Christmas Eve.
Eleven o'clock in the morn
ing is the time, the Zion De-
partment Store is the place.
We urge all parents to come
with their children, as young
sters left alone may get into
trouble. All safety measures
were taken to avoid crowding,
jostling, and to make this first
Continued on Page 81
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
SANTA CLAUS is COMING
TO TOWN


Official word from head
quarters today reveals that
Santa Claus is scheduled to ar
rive in Zion by air at approx
imately 1000 A. M. Saturday.
He will fly in from the north
(weather permitting) in a
plane piloted by Bill Pietsch-
man, local aviator, and will
arrive on the open field just
north of the Temple Site,
where he will be greeted by
Jerry Mumford, chairman of
the Retail Division of the Zion
Chamber of Commerce and
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
ZION CHOIR ACTIVITIES

Last Thursday Evening The
newly elected slate of Choir
Officers took charge of the
business session at the regu-
lar rehearsal. The president,
Paul Dreyer, called on the
vice president, Bill Mason, Sec
rotary Lorraine Pennington,
and treasurer Mrs. James
Smelling, for comments and
recognition. The incumbent Of
CONTINUED on Page ~
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
ZION JUNIOR
BAND CONCERT
ZION 100 Piece JUNIOR
BANDS Christmas Concert

will be presented Monday eve
ming, December 9Th, in Zion
Auditorium at s o'clock.
There will also be a Special
Matinee at 800 p. m. with full
scenery, all music and Santa
Claus. The charge for the
Matinee Concert will be 25c
for Adults and Children.
Evening tickets will be sold
at soc for general admission.
This promises to be the Jun
ior Bands outstanding concert
of the year! Surprising even
the Spring Concert which caus-
ed so much favorable COM
ment..
This is Director Dave McEl-
Continued on page ~
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
THANKSGIVING EDITION
OF THE THEOCRAT
WILL BE PUBLISHED ON
MONDAY, NOVEMBER "a

In order to accommodate
our advertisers, The Theocrat
will be published on Monday
of next week.
The cooperation of our ad-
vertisers and correspondents
will be appreciated in this
schedule.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
l. E T T E r
SOUTH AMERICAN
MISSION FIELD
E1J EI~o~ @ Toff~o1y
Elder Edgar S. jeffrey
Dear Overseer Mintern:

OIL NJ COIAAS y
Dear Overseer Mintern:
Greetings in the Name of
Jesus Christ, and peace from
God the Father, to yourself
and loved ones, Overseer Lee
and his loved ones and the
entire fellowship.
Glad to say that we receiv-
ed your letter along with the
check on November LIST, 1947.
Expect to go to Bartica tomor-
row to purchase the Hercules
Bicycle for Samuel Harri-
chand. 1t will be delivered to
him on November 18th by
Bookers General Stores, after
Continued on Page p
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1947-11-19
LIE E RS
FROM OUR MISSIONARIES
IN AFRICA
To Mrs. Beulah Andrews

10 MIS-. bouldn Andrews
Excerpts from three letters dated
Sept. 10, 26, and Oct 10th at Kaimosi
Farms, Kenja, Africa.
Mrs. Robt. (Faith) Lichty
Dearest Mommy:
Cher mother)
We arrived home last night
from three days in Kijabe to
which place we took the chill
dren Mary and Bobby, also
two others to school.
1t is too good to be true that
we have such a lovely COM
Portable car! It really made
the trip so enjoyable and SO
much quicker, four hours less
time than in the old model
To. There was 65 miles of Ma
cadam road which was a treat
and I drove that.
CONTINUED on Page 81
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Excerpts from three letters dated
Sept. 10, 26, and Oct 10th at Kahn osi
Farms, Kenja, Africa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07

early in February to become president
of Columbia University.
This week the Army set up an
office for Bradley beside Eisenhower's
but it probably will be nothing more
than a place to collect the generals
mail. Until he actually takes over,
Bradley intends to tour the nations
Army camps and get acquainted with
the postwar soldiers. He plans, too, to
visit the military schools and staff
colleges and survey teaching at a
time when the whole pattern of COM
bat tactics is being subjected to new
modes of warfare.
One problem the new chief of
staff must cope with is manpower.
When he left, the Army had more
than 100000 men; now it has an
authorized strength of 100000 but
actually only 950000 men in uniform.
Bradley expects his tour will keep
him too busy to make any trips
outside the country before he takes
office as chief of staff. However, he is
expected sometime later to make an
inspection tour of the Pacific, an area
he has not seen since 1923 when he
was stationed at Fort Shafter, Hawaii,
as a captain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
Britain
A Vicious Circle

Britons, with belts already tightened
under austerity rations, showed in
creasing concern this week over pos
sibility that they may become even
more hungry before next summers
food crops are harvested.
Doctors and clergymen speculated
that the food shortage may bring on
diseases and cut workers energy
enough to set up vicious circle of less
food, lower production, fewer exports
and still less food.
The government III n e d this
week a six-month ban on tory
building as part of a program to divert
men and m t e r i a Is into industries
making dollar-fetching exports. At the
same time the British Treasury dis
closed it had sold another $l92, 100000
of it's gold reserves during November
and bought $6O,000,000 from the Inter
national Monetary Fund.
The November sales increased to
S412O00,00 the amount of gold Britain
has sold from the sterling area re-
serves in three m h S of economic
crisis.
Sales of gold began after much of
the S3,75O,000,000 American loan was
exhausted. The S400, 100000 balance of
the loan was frozen and Britain ceased
to draw upon it in mid-August.
Meantime, next years crops already
are threatened.
Drought delayed plowing in many
of Britain's richest agricultural areas
and now, with much of the work un-
finished, freezing weather has set in to
prevent catching up.
The drought and last springs floods
the worst in so years-cut this years
crops so heavily that potatoes staple
in the British diet, were rationed for
the first time in history-three pounds
weekly per person.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
Trials
Wheels of Justice Grind {.

War Crimes trials still are in prog
ress IN Germany and Japan more than
two years after the close of hostllltles.
In Nuremberg this week the Amerl-
can prosecution closed its case against
% officials of the IG. Farben chemical
trust 1t had offered 1884 documents
and extensive testimony in an effort
to prove that IG. Farben collaborated
with Nazi leaders in building an ag-
gressive war machine.
1t furthe r sought to prove that
Farben used its international connec-
tions in the United S tes, Britain
France and neighboring countries as
an economic weapon for the Nazis, that
the trust plundered private and public
property in occupied countries, ex-
plotted slave | a bor and conducted
medical experiments on concentration
camp inmates.
The defense will make its opening
arguments December 18, after which
the court will adjourn until January
IL when the defense will begin presen-
tatlon OF its case.
In other trials at Nuremberg the de-
fense has required from two to three
times as long as the prosecution. If
this situation prevails again, it would
carry the Farben case into next May
or June.
In Tokyo, Hiroshi Oshima, former
Japanese ambassador to Berlin, told
the International War Cri m e S Tri-
bunal that Japan refused to join the
German war on Russia in 1943 because
she feared the dangers of a two-front
war.
Oshima, one of Is defendants, testi-
fed that the refusal was by high Japa-
nese Army officers disguised as en-
bassy clerks and couriers who went to
Berlin to discuss military operations.
On cross-examination, he admitted
that German leaders limited at Ber-
lin conference in March, 1941, and that
the Japanese knew then that the Ger
mans were gathering on the Russian
border. Nazi Germany declared war
on Russia on June %, 1941.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
Historic Decision tor U.N

DARTITIONING of Palestine is
[ an historic decision for the
United Nations.
The Arab-Jewish dispute in the
Iolv Land has been world prob
lem increasing in intensity since
World War |. The number OF Jewish
refugees in Europe who sought to
make it their home have made Pales-
tine one of the paramount postwar Is
sues.
The U.N. decision to divide Palestine
INTO independent Arab and J w h
states obviously will not dispose OF the
problem immediately Time may even
prove it no solution at all. But par
tition is, at least, fresh approach TO
an old controversy that seemed lnsol-
uble.
If the U.N. can make it stick, 1t Will
be a milestone in the comparatively
short career of the international peace
organization If not, it may prove
r1illstone.
Arabs Riot
This week Arabs throughout the
middle east massed in revolt against
partition. Premiers and foreign min
isters of seven Arab states will meet
in Cairo next Friday to plan concerted
opposition to carrying out of the U.N.
plan.
Arab mobs stormed through Jerusa-
lem and a score of other Palestine
cities wrecking shops, smashing win
COWS. looting and killing.
British authorities broke up the riots
with armored cars and Bren gun car
riers. They were assisted by thousands
Of khaki-clad young Jews-apparently
members of Hagana, the self-styled
Jewish Defense Army.
Alden Rahman Azzam Pasha sec
retary of the Arab L que, swore
Arabs would never submit to partition.
Zionists Confident
In Philadelphia, however, DR.. Chain
e.zmann, American Zionist leader,
mized long-term threats 2gainst
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
YuIe VIII
HangHigh

THE average American will
L spend more this Carigtn,1.,
than ever before but, the gava~" ,~'
ment believes, the Yule socs on ~,
the mantel may not be as fun =,
it was last year. Wy
Surveys by the Department =,
Commerce indicate boomins Gor;.,
mas shopping season in which cs,b
register records will be se,. otsti,r
clans think November and D,c,.r5o,
buying will match the gain shown ~
October when merchants took in ,
record breaking S10,025000000
At the Federal Reserve Boara
which watches department store brs;
ness, officials forecast the Christina,
trade will run from 5 to 10 pef cent
higher than last year.
Less Turnover
But such gain, experts aote
would mean an actual drop in tbs
number of items sold because prjc.
rises have more than absorbed III,
higher rate of buying.
Total sales for the three-nontb
holiday season will top 80 billion dol.
lars, federal experts predict. Last
years total for the same period added
up to % and quarter billion.
Other unofficial government report,
on the third peacetime Christmas in.
dicate:
Household appliance sales will ex.
ceed last year both in numbers sold
and in dollar value. More refrigers-
tors, ironers, vacuum cleaners and
radios will be offered and bought
Toys are abundant, varied and OF
good quality Some department stores
didn't buy enough last spring because
of fear of reported recession this
fall but when business kept booming
a rush of re-ordering began in Sep
tember
Pick and Choose
Cheaper goods, which disappeared
during the war, are back at higher
prices, but the buyer has a choice.
Suits and shirts, even the white, are
available.
Nylon stockings, scarce last Christ
mas, apparently will be offered freely
despite difficulties arising from new
style trend to darker shades, In fact,
stocking sales have been down in
recent months.
Expensive jewelry and luxury goods
won't sell as well as last year. with
food prices high as they are.
There still will be shortages, Of
course, but the real pinch is over,
There are waiting lists for automo-
biles; some brands of washing ma
chimes and high grade cabinet radios
are in short supply.
The Commerce Department says the
personal income of Americans has hit
a 210 billion dollar annual rate-s
record. Personal savings, as the hoh-
day season opened, were at better
than II and one-haf billion annual
rate-another record.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
In Short

Sought: By the National Lapl 'I 5.
lations Board, for the first time Cl',, .
the Taft-Hartley Act, court acl.'" ~
prevent an AFL TeamSters / j. 'e- ~.
from forcing an employer to pa' '0'
services not performed.
Passed: By the Senate, on an ''.o .
vote, S597, 100000 in stop-gap az
France, Italy and Austria; the a'u'
is to debate it next week.
Succeeded: Army engineeis ia >.- .
ing mice and small insects VII '-'
sound waves, development t'@- l s,t
be of prime Importance in lnsel- t''
control.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
Education
Missing the Goal?

The nations schools fail to prepare
American youth adeo uately for demo-
cratic citizenship, declared John w.
Studebaker, U. S. Commissioner Of
Education, urging revamping of the
entire study program and curriculum
in high schools
II don't believe we can leave it to
chance" al d Studebaker, whether
pupils in our schools learn about how
modern man is Influenced by his geo.
graphic environment, and how he in
turn shapes this environment to his
needs.
4 don't believe we can leave TO
chance whether or not pupils learn
about supply and demand, initiation
and recession, the relation of economic
freedom to civil liberties, and what
stake each of us has in the economic
well-being of all"
Americas No. One public educator
revealed most high schools require
only one year of social studies and that
pupils on an average elect an addition
al year. Actually, he said, 1--WE shall
do well if necessary instruction is COM
passed satisfactorily in four years"
Addressing the National Council for
Social Studies on ''Communisms Chal-
lenge to American Education" Stude-
baker declared it is imperative for
youth to understand and cherish the
principles of American democracy and
understand It's responsibilities under
them.
Speaking in New York before the
National Council on Family Relations,
DR.. Homer P. Rainey, president of
Stephens College, Columbia Mo.
sounded almost the same warning.
He declared that because youth in
better circles is being ENCOURAGED ia
avoid politics this country's political
leadership has fallen into the hands of
Submerged intellects" He advocated
that students be given "an educational
program to show the need for our ner-
sonal share of political responsibjhtJ
Meanwhile "The Teachers in Amrri-
ca" group of the Citizens Federal
Committee on Education reported q
reversal in the previous "ominous de-
terioration" of the American school
system.
1t found the drift of teachers to other
fields has been slowed and that in some
instances former teachers are return
ing to their profession.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
Bright Bits

. A New York hanson cab driver,
worried over the European food
shortage, slaughtered his horse in
riding academy, dropped the dismem-
bered parts in brine for shipment
overseas. The city gave him sum-
mons for unlicensed butchering, de-
stroyed the meat.
. To combat fog, British trains now
have magnetic brake controlled by
signal lights along the track.
. More than 1000 secretaries, polled
on what they don't like about bosses,
listed: last minute tipping jobs at
quitting time, mumbling dictlon,
cigar smokers, the wolf in executive
clothes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
Petite
dnqe e. -

~ Cn9e G. ,.--..'
In May, 1916, Wien President Tru-
man broke the national railway strike,
A. 2. Whitney, head of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen, called him
"a political accident and swore his
union wou'd o"cose his candidacy in
1948.
This week Mr. Whitney had a
change of heart. If the President is
renominated, he said, he will support
him.
MY good Christian parents taught
me it is a good thing to forgive and
forget" said the 74-year-old leader Of
the independent union.
He said the Republican Party has
no one in sight he could support.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07
Unified Command

Secretary of Defense Forrestal this
week announced establishment OF
unified command in the Atlantic area
under Adm w. H. P. Blandy, Atlantic
fleet commander.
Blandy's new title will be com
mander in chief, Atlantic and he will
operate directly under the joint chiefs
of staff. His new post at first will be
largely paper one but in time of war
he would be responsible for coordinat-
ing Army, air and naval forces.
Def tense Department officials ex-
planned that the sea area extends
roughly from Greenland and Iceland
to the West Indies. Creation of the uni
fed command places responsibility on
Blandy for all major planning for the
area.
New Atomic Proving Grounds
Meanwhile the Atomic Energy Com
mission disclosed that Eniwetok Atoll
in the Pacific had been selected as
permanent atomic proving ground.
EniWetok, 1900 miles from the near
est large land mass, will be shut off
from the world and the United Nations
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07

the west ...
France and Italy are key stratel''
areas in this struggle for control OF the
continent Their economic recovery is
vital for without stable France and
Italv the Marshall plan for Europe can
not succeed. Both c countr IS nave
larger Communist parties than any
nation in Europe outside OF Russia
These parties. with their str e t \
largely centered in labor unions, are
pledged to wreck the Marsnall plan.
France in Crisis
In France the new government
Premier Robert S c h am met the
threat of continued strikes with de-.
cisive action. He called up 100000
Army reservists, placed troop guards
about all railways and proposed dras-
tic anti-strike legislation to break the
Communist hold on labor. His program
gave the state added police power
changed union rules to make the secret
ballot mandatory in all strike votes
and prescribed prison terms for sabo-
te.rs of the right to work.
When Premier Schuman went to
the National Assembly to secure erect
n,ent Of his bill. Communist deputies
staged so uproarious a session. the sS
serbly had to be recessed.
Nearly 50 were killed or injured N
.~a.n wreck near Arras which
son3a French officials attributed 10
sabotage.
Despite Communist flbustering
the assembly passed provisions OF
Schuman's control bill,
IN Italy Premier Alcide de Gasperi':
government STAYED, off nationwide
strike of municipal workers by fur
nisring local governments enough
nonev to pay promis SEE q "aee i-
cre2ses.
Meanwhile in London. Prospects fo4
a Big Four agreement on treaty for
Austria faded in disagreement over
the amount of German assets in that
country. Russia demanded all assets
even those taken by force by the Nazis
from American owned oil firms.
In their first private meeting Of the
Inference US. Secretary of State
,Iarshall conferred at luncheon Fri
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-07

more tn an t w o
years ago to head
the Veterans Ad-
ministration.
The tall, balding
general, form er
commander Of the
18th Army Group
in Europe and one
of the wars ablest
tacticians, is to be
the next Army
chief of staff. Gen.
Dwight D. Eisen-
hover plans to
leave that post