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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH Women Are Not Only Behind America's , ' Defense Program They Are Part of It NATIONAL AFFAIRS . Reviewed by Fighting Ships at Sea, Despite Size, Need Air Protection for Success . . . Soviet Strategy Stamped 0. K . . . (Bell Syndicate WASHINGTON. WJTO By JANET CUTLER (Releaaed Service. The only reason that the Nazis and Italians have not run the Mediterranean fleet of the British out of "Mare Nostrum," destroyed it, according to a very competent British official here, is that the British admirals in that sea simply will not move their ships unless they are accompanied by ample air power. For instance, when the daring raid on Genoa by British war ships thrilled Britain the attacking ships were accompanied by an aircraft carrier. In contrast the destruction of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales occurred because they did not have the protection of fighting planes. In which connection it should be remembered that either a dive tomber or a torpedo plane is a setup for a fast fighter. Most of our reactionary admirals who pooh poohed the notion of battleships being sunk by aircraft-ha- ve now been convinced. They have turned PART of the way. But not enough, if we are to accept the arguments of the air enthusiasts. Men like Major Alexander P. de Seversky are convinced that most of the battleships now under construction, and which are consuming such huge quantities of steel that is badly needed for other things and expert workmanship is even more desperately needed will be obsolete by the time they are finished. "A battleship," says Seversky, "venturing within range of enemy aviation operating from primary bases can hope to survive only if it is escorted by aviation equal to or superior to the total aviation on those bases. It is thus very much like a machine gun being conducted to Its iask by an escort of Big Berthas." . Most of the admirals say that we must have the battleship to "finish This is on the the job." war doctrine that the battleship will be afloat, and some of their guns able to fire, after everything else has been sunk, , ; pre-Wor- ld Airplane Sink Them That was before the admirals conceded that a battleship COULD be sunk by an airplane, though many of us had been convinced of this by n Gen. William Mitchell off the Capes back in 1922. But American, British, and even a Japanese battleship have been sunk by airplanes since dawn of December 7. Most of the sinkings were by torpedoes fired by planes, the weapon which made the Bismarck unable to navigate before she was damaged seriously by shell fire. Another point in this battleship argument is that the Japanese, in their smashing advances in the Southwestern Pacific, have not used battleships to any important extent. Japanese battleships were ' so scarce in these attacks which certainly were intended to "finish the job" that most experts thought the main Japanese fleet was in the Marshall and Caroline islands. This is probably why our fleet made a sur prise attack on the Marshall islands. Nor are U. S. battleships able to do anything about relieving General MacArthur, they being just as helpless to aid him as the Japanese battleships are to join in the attack he has been withstanding. It seems as though the country is entitled to an intelligent defense for .expending so much of our productive capacity on battleships. Vir-gia- FinUh Off Hitter i tun ill Both President Roosevelt and rI Prime Minister Churchill are in - 'tire ; ja. Bridge and Fancy Hats Are Discarded in Favor Of Hard Work. CARTER FIELD en- accord with the Soviet strategy. They do not share the popular impatience with Stalin for not loosing his bombers in attacks on Tokyo, arms factories, oil storage tanks, etc., in Japan. They agree with the Red dictator that the main job is to finish off Hitler that tending to Japan and any other allies of the fuehrer will be just a "mopping-up- " operation. "Stalin may be a dictator," said one high government official to a little dinner group, "but he does have to pay some attention to public opinion even at that Obviously, if public opinion goes against the best strategy in a war, Stalin does not have to bother. He does not have to risk an election as Lincoln did in 1864." There is another line of reasoning which has brought Roosevelt and Churchill into accord with the present Soviet policy of not attacking Japan. Both executives arc profoundly convinced that Hitler is the main enemy. They want him beaten. And they are inclined to agree with Stalin that for him to risk an attack in the Far East might result in failure on both fronts. It is pretty much the same logic which Churchill expounded in his address in the U. S. senate chamber. He. said the question was asked why there were not more men and more planes in Malaya. His answer was Libya.' To have divided his forces, he said, would have been to risk failure on both fronts. fry Wectera Ntviptptr Union.) You have probably heard it said with great enthusiasm that the American women are doing their part in the nation's war effort. And, by way of explanation, you have probably heard it said that "morale is a woman's business" and that there is something called the "home front" on which women are best qualified to wage their own particular kind of battle. But there seems to be some doubt as to just what part women are actually playing in this war. There is doubt, too, as to what "morale" and the "home front" have to do with it. Most of us are aware that the Am) VS .' i i . staff workers are stationed in many parts of the world. While not exclusively a woman s organization, the British American Ambulance corps has many women volunteers. The work of the corps has, until the present emergency, been largely overseas, but New York eitv. Philadelphia and San Francisco have already been pro vided with ambulances, ana units will be sent to other cities as they are needed. The activities of the American Women's Voluntary Services group is chiefly localized in the eastern etatM. although the work of the A.W.V.Swis similar to that being done by other volunteer organizations in teaching air raid precau tions and other defense activities. Above all, each of these organizations is doing its part in the national defense program, and each is The Camp Fire the - others. helping . .... T uie n.cuJ Girls have been Knitting ior lL. filled Christmas at and they Cross, hundreds of comfort kits for Bun dles for Bluejackets. The Girl Scouts senior service program includes training in defense activities and in aiding the U.S.O. and the Red Cross. The Red Cross first aid courses are offered as a defense measure. And the "Victory Program" stresses the practice of democratic principles as well as the need for giving assistance to uie rvea Cross and the U.S.O. There is some duplication, of effort, of course, especially by the various motor corps. But on the whole the effort of all groups is directed to the same end national defense. A discussion as brief as this cannot possibly include all the work . - "home front" involves battles of production, of food, clothing and housing, of protection from attack, of the constructive and determined courage we refer to as "morale." Morale is, of course, not exclusively a woman's business any more than the opportunity to fire a gun at the enemy is a man's exclusive right. But behind every shot fired on the battlefield lies a series of duties that make that shot possible. And it is those duties that women have been performing, willingly and with admirable skill. Without the proper food a nation, a3 well as its armed forces, cannot survive. Therefore, a large part of the national defense program and the work of women's organizations is being devoted to food. The Office of Civilian Defense offers consumers' information and classes in nutrition, and all who can are urged to plant gardens. The "Victory Proclubs helps memgram" of the bers to grow and preserve food and teaches them how to prepare foods having a high vitamin content. Learn to Repair Clothes. The Senior Service Scouts, Girl Scouts of high school age, are learning the principles of nutrition, emergency outdoor cooking and gardening. The Camp Fire Girls' defense project, called "Fortifying the Family," is a three-paprogram of which the most important part is "family food." The girls prepare a "dinner for a dollar" which serves four. , On the "home front" clothing and housing are, next in importance to food. Shortage of materials makes it increasingly necessary to care for what we already have. In the "family service" program of "Fortifying the Family" Camp Fire Girls are urged to repair furniture and other articles and help keep the house clean. The senior Girl Scouts are learning to clean, repair and . 4-- H This young member of an NYA center is one of many skilled machinists. dom" program is designed to train girls as well as boys to assume a larger responsibility for the management of farms where there is a shortage of labor. Both the Camp Fire Girls and the Girl Scouts are learning to care for younger children and to do routine household work to leave their mothers and mhwiimm mm mmtmmmnmn i,iui.jmiium .. older sisters free to work in factories or at other defense tasks. If we have not yet had to face the test of a real "war of nerves," we have at least had ample proof of the need for maintaining a high national morale. Health, recreation, congenial working conditions and a courageous outlook all contribute to the maintenance of a high morale. Health and Recreation. The OCD offers a national health and recreation program for women. The Red Cross voluntary services for women include recreation work with convalescents. The Camp Fire Girls "Fortify the Family" project offers a plan for "family fun," and the Girl Scouts and the clubs also emphasize the importance to national defense of health and recrea' tion. v Such organizations as the U.S.O. and Bundles for Bluejackets are concerned chiefly with the comfort and recreation of service men. The U.S.O. operates canteens in railroad Stevens college students learning stations, furnishes recreation cen- how airplane engines are made. beters, and acts as tween private families and the serv- being done by women in their ice men invited to their homes for homes, local communities, churches dinner or entertainment. The Red and clubs. But the work of the orCross also operates canteens wher- ganizations already discussed is repWhether they . knit, resentative. ever and whenever needed. The Camp Fire Girls have been serve overseas, work in factories, drive ambulances or just do their sending cookies, cake and candy to service men through their public re- everyday jobs cheerfully and well, lations officers. The Service Scouts the American women are not only work in canteens operated by such behind the war effort but definitely a efficient and indispensarecognized agencies as the U.S.O. bletangible, part of it. And Bundles for Bluejackets i$ planBridge, fancy hats and even petty ning a recreation program for men squabbles have been discarded in in the naval services. favor of hard work. Those who still When the United States entered look the war as an inconthe war, the Bundles for Britain or- venientupon of their otherinterruption ganization "adopted" the navy, the wise comfortable complacency are marines and the coast guard under the exception rather than the rule. ' the name "Bundles for BluejackBuy Defense Bonds ets." As such it provides comfort kits (containing razors, pencils and other small items) and knitted garGoing to Washington? : ments for men in those branches Then Read This First of the service and was probably the first organization to do knitting planned especially for the navy. So you're going to Washington? One of the major problems of the Good girl! You probably have a Agnes Roseie, the first Red Cross national defense program has been job, or you wouldn't have that deaurse called to active army duty. that of 'fitting the right person to a termined look in your eye that says so clearly "I'm going, and nothing job. Recognizing that need, anothremodel clothing for emergency dis- er women's the Ameriyou can say will stop me." organization, tribution and to assist at housing in- can Association of Not for anything would anyone University Womformation centers and air raid shelis devoting its efforts to helping (not even the oldest and wisest of en, ters. The Red Cross "home serv- its members find the kind of defense us!) want to stop you, but there are ice" helps families of enlisted men work for which they are best suited. a few minor details you might like and is prepared to care for the vic- Since many members of the A.A.U. to know about before you step blithetims of disaster. The "Victory W. are teachers, they have been suc- ly off the train, run up against them Program" also includes helping to furnishing libraries for yourself, and then wish when it's too make and repair clothing. And the cessfully service who are apparently late that someone had told you. men, OCD has an "emergency food and more interested in text books To begin with, 80 per cent of the division. . housing" especially in mathematics, history new arrivals in Washington are This has at various times been and Spanish than in fiction. girls, and 70 per cent of the availcalled a "war of production" and a is the splendid work able rooming space is listed "for there Finally, "war of nerves." It is certainly at being done in overseas, hospital, am- men only." And then, there are the all times a war of production. On bulance and other special services, lines you'll find them everywhere, the farm and in the factory,, women the of which cannot be at the movies, at the theaters, at the importance are taking the place of men called overestimated. The Red Cross vol- cafeterias, at the employment buinto the service. Schools and col- unteer services include the motor, reausblocks and blocks of them. leges are offering many types of de- nurse's aide and recreation And there's the question of dates. corps, fense study. , The University of Chi- all You may like to stay at home night to serve either at hnm prepared for is cago, example, training wom- or in the field and throughout the after night. But if you have a sneaken in business administration. At country hundreds of thousands of ing suspicion that you will inevitaStevens college, in Missouri, the women are bandages, sewing bly meet an admiral or a general girls are studying mechanics. And and knittinerolling for the Red Pmoa who will, of course, take you to the the NYA is training young women Army nurses have already been Mayflower every night, better bring for work in defense factories. sent overseas with our armed along a good supply of mystery stoThe clubs' "Food for Free- - forces, and Red Cross nurses and ries, because the answer is "no." Of course, Washington has its Dried Products Help Solve Food Rationing Problem brighter side. You will, if you're make a little more money WASHINGTON. The next few In addition to th fnrt tv, uiicu lucky, . than you made back home. You months will undoubtedly bring some soup, fruits, vegetables, eggs and may meet some very interesting changes in our menus, but govern- Other DroductS Brtt a people. And, because you are workment experts agree there is no cause satisfactory substitute for those for the government, you will for alarm. bought fresh from the market, they ing have the satisfaction of knowing that Whether or not we will be able to have the additional advantage of be-- you are doing your small part for obtain the same kinds of food is a uig ana "in weight. compact ugnt victory. But you'll enjoy it all question that is not so easy to an- ' If tightening of transportation swer, but the bureau of home eco- cilities continues, and if tin cans are much more if you agree before you nomics of the U. S. department of Scarce or linavnilM that ..ni w. go to take all the inconveniences in WU4 UC stride. agriculture has several suggestions an important factor in determining your And salaries and wages are not . nr. to offer. One of them is the use of tU. me vuiumercibu use 01 SUCn prod as high as all that! Some girls start dried or dehydrated products. ucts. at JU60, most at $1,440. ' 4-- H 4-- H rt 7 -- Y. ,. 4-- H 4-- H aa 1 WHO'S . &g NEWS Nj' THIS VU' WEEK A. well seasoned stuffing may be used as a filial between lver - nt fieb uu oieax. Slices of rraDefrnit lettuce topped with cubes of era? berry jelly make a tangy salads serve with meat or fish. F. PARTON By LEMUEL reature-W5ervic.i NU (Consolidated N EW YORK. Ktirrin The cost-plu- is-c,- ,o s Bun a an apple oven to the skin ing. knife around the core at before putting it into th bake. This will prevent from bursting while bat aeain. makes this World war seem a bit more like the Rabins, dates, figs, curraati first one. Maj. Gen. Eugene should be soaked five minutes in chief of water before usmg tjs Gen. Reybold,Top the United boiling two tablespoons of water to each Flood Battler, for States army half cup of fruit. engineers, defends s system in wartime construction. He tells the Associated Contractors, meeting at Indianapfrom cemmea colds olis, that the big idea when there is a war on is to g things done, and that the contractors "have fulfilled their responsibilities satisfacCreomulslon relieves promptly betorily " cause it goes right to the seat of the General Reybold is the famous trouble to help loosen and exod flood battler, who has won more germ laden phlegm, and aid nature rivover to soothe and heal raw, tender, in. decisions rampaging of flamed bronchial mucous mem. out ers than any man in or branes. Tell your druggist to sell yon n uniform. Getting a bottle of Creomulslon with the una he in 1937, on the Mississippi, you must like the war it derstanding didn't figure the cost, plus or quickly allays the cough or you art to have your money back. minus, but he licked the flood. His system always has been to beat the river to the punch, by for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis a spillway, blowing up a dam, flooding lowlands or by any possible device or stratagem in his More Raleigh Jingles He knows lore of Raleigh Cigarettes are again them all. liberal prizes in a bij In these encounters, particularly offeringcontest jingle running in this pa. in 1937, he met difficulties compaOne hundred and per. rable to those of the "scorched prizes will be awarded each week. earth" tactics of modern warfare. -Adv. Farmers and planters frequently opposed his drastic measures, but he carried on tactfully and won their Rey-bol- d, Coit-PluBinW- ar Beware Coughs cost-plu- That Hang On half-nelso- CREOMULSION flood-fightin- g. thirty-thre- He became chief of the engineers in September of last year, succeeding Maj. Gen. Julian L. Schley. He knows rivers and river towns like an old time steamboat captain, also lakes and harbors, and any old settlers in Memphis, Little Rock or Buf falo is apt to know all about him. From 1927 to 1932, he was stationed in Buffalo as assistant and district engineer on river, harbor and dredge operations. He was the U. S. representative on the International Niagara River Control board from 1925 to 1932, later district engineer at Wilmington, N. C, and was engaged in river control work at Memphis when he was chosen to lead the e GAS ON STOMACH What many Doctors do lot it tonMchaefd or heartburn, doctor prttacribo tfa tutMtvxag BMdieineB known for lymtoowtie Tiblea. No Unan. If rear bka thoM In Bell-u- x better, retara WT first trial doesn't prove BeU-abottst to oa and gat doable soar moosj bus. Be. Imperfect Copies Our human laws are but the cop ies, more or less imperfect, of tht eternal laws, so far as we can read them. Froude. engineers. A S AN air force tfficer, sounding sharp warnings against a day of doom and begging for bigger and better planes, Maj. Gen. Frank . M . Andrews His Urging Now gained dis- Commonplace in tinction as man who Sphere of Plane never was , , ,,is on tht air afraid to stick out his neck. There THIS SUNDAY NIGHT is a hopeful augury in the fact that Lieutenant General Andrews, whieh he has since become, is supreme EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT commander of the Caribbean defenses. with KENNY BAKER The Caribbean command, one Portland Hoffa Al Goodman' Ordintra' of the most critical of defense areas because of the Panama -7- P.M.M.W.T. , canal, was assigned to General .T. Andrews last July. Two months nil ofliar C.B.S. atatoM later, the general made a surPnfMitJ bv Texan Deoron vey of the entire area and thereafter there were reports that he had insisted on a completely DIG DEEP FOR VICTORY consolidated army and navy auDig Into Your Pocket ant thority. This authority was established late last month, as a Buy U. S. Defense Bondt result of the Roberts report on Pearl Harbor, according to guarded reports from WashingDON'T LET ton. It might have been asCONSTIPATION sumed, la the light of past performance, that the general SLOW YOU UP would not accept divided authorare iluggiah and you feat boweli When ity. and everything JM irritable, headachy The general did not fly with the do if an effort, do at milliont do chew A.E.F. in the First World war, but the modern chewrnf was in the air over Germany, from gum laxative. Simply chew before you go to 1920 to 1923, and in the succeeding morning genua, being diiturbed-oe- xt tw years gained army fame by a series thorough relief, helping you feel of brilliant aerial exploits. In 1934, again, full of your normal pep. Taste good, u W riding a Martin 2 bombardment and economical. A generous family he .established a world recplane, ord for 1,000 kilometers. FEEH-A-HlliTBecoming commander of the general headquarters air force in 1935, he vehemently urged a technological shakeup in plane HOTEL BEN LOMOND design and equipment and campaigned for many innovations which later came through. He OGDEN, UTAH was one of the first to urge airplane cannons and also one of the first to prophesy that planes soon would be useless without armor plate, and to demand this protection. He also was out early demanding large scale civilian training for the air forces. He 7 1 was born in Nashville, Tenn., and graduated from West Point in 1908. He threw away canned speeches which had been prepared for him and said his own say so that he became known as effectively one of the best talkers in the army always II Kaenu IH Bath . $tM jJ"JJ talking up intelligent and rwAr Keen far 4 defense. He fought with the cavAir Coeiei Leant an alry on the Mexican border before IHnlaiSeesa CefesShea TaF he found his wines in iqit tt Hetaaef quently has been called "the hand- awas-lUtarr n. " me tinny irnismi Caaamkec el CesBaMre aaJ be is a bit on the army," although side and his somewhat Hotel Ben Lomond ea nair is never slicked down. If OGDKN. UTAH mere is a swivei-cnaofficer in the Babert B. VUcfc. W-army, he isn't the man. H5L-6P.M.P.W- FEEN-A-MIN- FEEN-A-MIN- bed-Ie- ep FEEN-A-MIN- B-1- Tw j 1 W2 'u rough-and-rea- unco-ordina- ir t- T Witt-o- ut |