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Friday -
October 23, 1942
The Paducah Post
Page Three
Roosevelt Lauds War Services
Of Scouts on "Uncle Sam s Team
RITING of the “many evidences of the
I H pKlctical value of Scout training”,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt assures
rch of ,he nation’s 1.570,9G2BoyScouts,
I gijbg and their leaders a 99HHMH
,ace on "Uncle Sam’s team
io help us win the war. ’
Like all Presidents since
Taft he is Honorary Presi-
dent of the Boy Scouts but
he was the first to enter the
White House with a record
as an active Scout leader.
(lrpHE record of Scout ser-
* vice to our country dur-
ing the past critical year,”
he wrote, “fully justifies thu
confidence which I express-
ed in my message to you on
February eighth ol last
vear. Much more will be
asked of the Boy Scout as
we go forward with our pro-
gram to preserve our lib-
erty and to bring peace on
earth through complete vie- President
torv over our enemies, l
have full confidence that the Boy Scouts
will effectively meet every request made of
| them Each and every Scout has reason to
feel proud of the part he has as a member
of Uncle Sam’s team to help us win the war.
one who has been interested in Scout-
ing over many years it has been most
heartening to have so many evidences of
the practical values of Scout training as we
organize our armed forces
for the task ahead of us. We
must remember that next
to active military service it-
self, there is no higher op-
portunity for serving our
country than helping youth
to carry on in their efforts
to make themselves physi-
cally strong, mentally awake
and morally straight, and
prepared to help their coun-
try to the full in time of
war, as well as in time of
peace.
‘‘ALTHOUGH we are at
war and the immediate
emergency situation domi-
nates the life of the nation,
the American people should
continue to be on the alert
to meet their responsibili-
ties to our youth. We must
make sure that those volun-
teer agencies which are sup-
plementing the church, the
home and the school by pro-
viding programs that will help equip the
present generation to cope with life prob-
lems in the difficult days ahead, are main-
tained to their maximum capacity and ef-
fectiveness.”
Roosevelt
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; In World War I. a sergeant
Inlerril a negro soldier to enter
I dugout and clean out any of
|he tnenr. who happened to he
lire, says the Eagle Lake Head-
|ght. Tin- darkey paled a little,
Fallowed ; Adam’s apple and
lien said huskily, “If you secs
fcree or fo’ men come a-runnin’
But dat hole, don't shoot de fust
Ine, please.”
A long-time friend has pre-
lented me with a hat. Maybe he
Flight that, since I talk and
Frite Texas so much, I should
Fear a : .1 that suggests Texas,
fnyhovr. h, gave me a Stetson—
"■W at that. Did you know
liey rate Stetsons by the “Xs”—
liWerem degrees, like the gravity
•f oiil or the richness of the but-
Nat in milk? And a “5X” is
F'.v near the top. Don't know
fhat it c st wouldn’t be polite
1° ask questions. But you’ve
| titt\-dollar saddle on
twenty-del hi r hoss”? Well, I
ln°w how that horse feels!
the old reliable
I If you need a good laxative or catS-
c *° relieve headache, biliousness,
#r that lazy tired feeling when due to
Iwporary constipation, ask for and
sure you get
HERBINE
bigham DRUG. CO.
An editor of a weekly paper,
commenting on the fact that
sometimes errors creep into his
news columns, says that he made
several in the last issue and a
good subscriber told him about
them. The editor goes on to re-
late. then, that about the same
day there was a letter in his post-
office box that didn’t belong to
him; he called for No. 08 on the
'phone and got N'oTIob; he asked
for a spool of No. 40 thread and
was given No. (50; he received his
milk bill and there was a mistake
of 10 cents in his favor; he felt
sick and the doctor told him he
was eating too much meat when
he hadn’t tasted meat in nearly
two weeks; the preacher turned
in the church news items with the
name of the president of the
ladies’ aid society spelled wrong;
the garage man said his jitney
was missing because it needed a
new timer but the editor just
cleaned a spark plug and the
flivver has been running all right
ever since.
Yes, indeed, editors do make
mistakes—and so. every thousand
years or so. do other people.—
(Quoted from the Sanderson
Times).
Memories of a traveler: Mexi-
co City, where men carrying the
heaviest burdens can be seen —
one bearing a desk and three
chairs; another, on a bieyie, ped-
aling down a busy street, balanc-
ing a basket on his head, and the
basket heaped with freshly-baked
rolls—St. Paul, where you can
stand on the north bank of the
Mississippi and look across at the
mysterious caves in which mush-
rooms are grown; folks moving
briskly in the cold, wearing ear-
muffs, bearskin coats, “winter
wonderland" costumes.
What 'Ifou&uy'UfitU
WAR BONDS
Gas masks which came into use
in warfare for the first time when
the Germans used poison and mus-
tard gas in World War I, are much
Improved today over those used
then. The Chemical Warfare Branch
of the War Department issues these
gas masks to every man in the serv-
ice. We are taking no chances.
Tony, who operated a little
stand, was much annoyed by per-
sons making a practice of hand-
ling and pinching the fruit, there-
by leaving it softened and easier
to spoil. So he put up a sign,
“If you musta pincha de fruit—
pincha de cocoanut!”
The type pictured here is the
“can" and “elephant nose” mask
and costs about $9.25 each. The
headgear is transparent, made of
material resembling cellophane and
does not cloud with the breath. You
can buy two of these gas masks with
the purchase of an $18.75 War Bond.
We need thousands of them. Don’t
fail to give at least ten percent of
your income every pay day for War
Bonds. Buy them at your bank or
postoffice, regularly.
V. S. Treasury Department
SCRAP IS SEIZED
DETROIT — Acting under a
requisition order of the War Pro-
duction Board, salvage officers
recently seized about 50 tons of
scrap from the farm of Ora Ben
jamin, near Walled Lake, Mich,
northwest of Detroit. WPB offi
rials said it was the first time
such action had been taken
against a farmer, although ma-
terial has been seized from
scrap yard.
A local woman says they have
eaten so many fried chickens that
they’ve taken the mattresses off
their beds and started roosting on
the slats.
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DRUG STORE
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includes the famous
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I'1 times like this you should keep a stock of good medicines, gauze tape,
ood other accessories necessary for emergency sickness. Our clerks wi
take pleasure in helping you make such a selection.
have also school supplies of all kinds . . . Appropriate gifts
soldier boys over seas . . . The very best line of Cosmetics .
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for the
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are always glad to see you in our place of bus
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place of business. Make it your
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DON ROBINSON
FRONTS .
. second
Maybe, before this column goes
to press, a second front will have
been launched in Europe.
On the other hand, maybe it will
be another year before an honest-
to-goodness second front is under
way.
But whether it begins this week
or next year, it’s about time the
parlor - generals stopped talking
about it and let the generals in
uniform make the decisions.
The greatest catastrophe which
could happen in this war—and one
that would probably mean the loss
of the war—would be to open a
second front without having the
men, equipment and plans neces-
sary to assure ultimate victory.
To the masses of us who don’t
know anything about it, it would
seem wise to open a second front
while the Germans are concentrat-
ing their forces in Russia. But it
would seem probable that our gen-
erals and the English generals
have heard about this affair in Rus-
sia and realize, without our telling
them, that it would seem easier to
attack when millions of Germans
are in Russia than it would be if
they were at home.
So if our leaders still consider it
unwise to launch a second front at
this time, they must have very good
reasons for arriving at that deci-
sion. It would be a tragedy if they
were to be influenced by public
opinion instead of acting entirely
on the basis of their knowledge of
conditions as they exist.
WILLKIE , . . dissention
This fighting among ourselves
over the second front issue must
be very comforting to Adolf Hitler.
After reading all of the various
statements on the subject—such
things as Willkie telling a press
conference that he would say “what
I damn please,” and Representa-
tive Rankin of Mississippi telling
the house that "Marco Polo Will-
kie has already caused more em-
barrassment to the Allies than any
other man abroad”—it appeared
as if Hitler’s prayers for unrest
would come true.
But although these flareups are
harmful to morale and unity while
they are flaring, they are apt to
result in more unity rather than
less after the fireworks are over.
For such goings-on accentuate the
need for cautious statements and
lead everyone concerned to speak
with even greater care in the fu-
ture.
COMMUNISTS . . . danger
In New York city recently I
watched a group of communists
parade down the street shouting
“Open a Second Front Now!” They
were the same group of people
whom I saw, before Russia was
invaded, parading through New
York carrying signs demanding
that the United States keep out of
the war and shouting, "The Yanks
Aren’t Coming!”
It is apparent—and I suppose the
communists would admit it—that
they are thinking more about the
immediate fate of Russia than they
are the fate of America or any of
our other Allies. That is, their lead-
ers are thinking in those terms—
while the rest are just joining the
parade and taking orders in their
usual sheeplike fashion.
But it is among such groups that
mass psychology is ignited and
gradually spread to other groups.
Even though everyone in this
country is cheering the Russian
stand and hoping that Russia can
destroy a bit part of the German
strength, even the communists
ought to realize that the eventual
salvation of Russia will depend on
an Allied victory—and that an Al-
lied victory means opening a sec-
ond front only when our leaders
know we are ready for it.
DELAY .... strength
It is probably time we stopped
thinking in terms of a second front
and anticipate, instead a “FIRST”
front of the United Nations.
The war as a whole will not be
won or lost in Russia. If Russia
should be defeated—which seems
more and more unlikely—the war
would continue until the other Al-
lies had destroyed Germany, and
then Russia would share in that
Allied victory.
On the other hand, if Russia
should succeed in driving out the
German hordes, victory for neither
Russia nor our nation would come
until Europe was invaded and Ger-
many conquered.
So, as far as the victory over
Germany is concerned, the "first”
front—the major front—will be on
the continent of Europe. It is there
only that the war can be won or
lost. From the consideration of the
Allies as a whole, therefore, the
Russian front is secondary and
even the Russians themselves
would be acting contrary to their
best ultimate interests if they tried
to force on invasion of Europe be-
fore we know that we will have
both land and air superiority.
We are building equipment and
training men faster than the Ger-
mans Each day of delay tips the
scales further in our favor. Let’s
leave it up to the men who are
planning the invasion to decide
when it is time to strike.
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THE STORY OF A FARM BOY
A few years ago a farm boy near Rigby, Utah, rode on
horseback to high school. Your life will be touched, and
you will be a bit different, because of that farm boy.
He was so interested in electricity that he bought a ten-
volume encyclopedia and paid a dollar a month for it from
the money he made doing chores.
The name of that boy was Philo T. Farnsworth.
Did I say he was interested in electricity? He was ab-
sorbed. He was overwhelmed. He was swept off his feet.
One day he shyly approached the chemistry teacher in the
Rigby high school and asked for a few minutes to talk about
electricity. The teacher said, yes, of course, and the two
stayed after class. The lad began talking about electrons,
the tiny corpuscles of electricity that whirl at an incred-
ible speed around the central core of an atom, the flow
which makes electricity. The teacher didn’t know what the
boy was talking about. Some teachers would have politely
told the boy to work hard in his regular school studies, and
forget about electricity. But this teacher had sense enough
to ask questions, to draw the boy out, and to inspire him
to further research. That day the school boy told the teach-
er his theory of television. The boy was sixteen. He had
worked out a theory that all the savants of the world had
not been able to solve.
When he told the townspeople that some day pictures
would be projected through the air, they thought—no, they
didn’t think, they knew—he was crazy. But he went right
ahead with his experiments. He entered Brigham Young
university, at Provo, Utah. By the time he was eighteen
he had worked out the fundamental concepts of a television
system, essentially as we have it today.
He married Pern Gardner, who lived next door, and they
drifted out to Los Angeles, to a four-room apartment at
1399 North New Hampshire avenue. They turned their
dining room into a laboratory and kept the blinds down
night and day so there would be no possibility that their
secret would leak out. Mysterious packages arrived and
departed. It was the prohibition era; neighbors became
suspicious and told the police. There was a raid with drawn
pistols. The neighbors wanted to see the still. Farnsworth
showed them his electrical devices and started to explain
the complicated machinery. They thought he had been
drinking! But finally they left him alone.
What an inspiration this farm boy is to other boys, to
every person young or old! And he isn’t yet fortv!
MEXICO’S ALIENS WARNED
MEXICO CITY — Axis aliens
living: in the coastal and petro-
leum zone were given an addi-
tional month yesterday to move
to the center of the country, but
were warned this third extension
of a month would be the last.
Interior Ministry sources said the
extension was made to permit the
aliens to dispose of their prop-
erty.
Drive for Women
Is Launched
AUSTIN — The WAVES and
the WAACS aren’t the only
places in which women may help
to win the war—an army of them
is needed in war industries.
To raise such an army of wo-
men workers to help make planes,
ships and tanks and guns for
fighting men at the front, J. C.
Kellam, regional director of the
National Youth Administration,
this week will launch a civilian
woman-power drive.
Where 25 per cent of its train-
ees in war work shops previously
nave been women, soon 80 per
cent of those trained by NYA for
war industry jobs will lie women.
Kellam said.
“If we are to meet the serious
manpower shortage in our war
production industries,” he de-
clared, “we must have a great
increase in the number of women
workers in our war factories, tor
all are agreed that production is
one of the essential jobs in the
war effort.”
He pointed out that all over
the country women workers in
plane factories, shipyards. and
other war plants have made out-
standing records in announcing
an intensified program to fit
more thousands of them to take
over war industry jobs.
The NYA program not only
irovides work-training for unem-
nloyed women between the ages
if 17 and 24 inclusive, to fit
them to step into well-paying war
industry jobs, but it also pays
them while they are in this pro-
gram. The work-training period
lasts from six weeks to three
months, depending upon the type
of work that the woman wishes
to enter. In NYA resident cen-
ters, where room and board is
furnished, the women receive
$10.80 per month; on local pro-
file 10 million or more pounds
of mi. in la rope frozen in dealers’
hands by WPB order soon will
begin to move to the production
and fighting fronts. Inventory re-
port forms will be mailed to more
than 57,000 dealers holding ma-
nila rope, and owners will be ad-
vised that Metals Reserve Co.,
New York, is prepared to pay ll)
per cent more than the net price
prevailing in the market when the
rope was bought for such rope as
is required.
jeets, where they do not live in a
resident center, pay is $24.60 per
month.
This opportunity to qualify for
a job in war production industry
is open to unemployed women
between the ages of 17 and 24
inclusive, and application should
be made through the U. S. Em-
ployment Service, or may be made
at the NYA shops. Applications
for jobs in war production indus-
tries at the prevailing wage are
also made through the offices of
the U. S. Employment Service.
The NYA war production train-
ing program aiready has sent
many young women into jobs, and
Kellam saiid, many thousands
more must be placed to keep up
the nation's war production pro-
gram and to relieve the acute
manpower shortage.
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