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Show THE BEAVET? PPES. RRAVER. UTAH War Bonds Are Your Safest Investment; Buy All You Can, Hold What You Have I ki 1 t-- -- - mtnm J til,,,,,,, Snapshots of Big Shots: (Thi$ is what comes from reading books!) Edgar Allan Poe was a too. He spent 10 Rumors Whispering Of Repudiation Are Vicious Propaganda dollar-a-year-ma- n ... years writing and rewriting 'The Raven" and got 10 bucks for It. . . . The original manuscript sold the last time for $10,000. . . . Poe paid $3 a month rent for his honeymoon cottage on Grand Concourse (In the Bronx), which is now a New York state historical shrine. If it hadn't been a grand neighborhood for dandelions he and his bride would have starved. By WALTER A. SHE AD WNU Staff Correspondent. Approximately 85,000,000 American citizens have bought war bonds. That num ber is almost twice as many as the total of voters in the last national election. And that, it seems to me, is the best answer to the subversive propaganda that the govern ment might repudiate pay Marconi, son of an Italian father ment of war bonds. and Irish mother, was 27 when he It's the best answer from a prac invented radio, and even then there were people who wanted to kill him. . . . These cranks said electrical waves were passing through their bodies, destroying their nerves and making it impossible for them to sleep. tical standpoint, because repudi ation must be voted by the congress and no congress in its right political mind would vote to nullify the holdings of 85 million Americans who have purchased 750, 389,800 individual and separate war bonds through January 1, 1945. Add to this 41 billion dollars in Barnum, who said "there's one war bonds approximately 137 billion born every minute," was one dollars worth sold in Other governhimself. He lost a fortune on a mental bonds and securities over the bear's grease hair tonic, was same period of time to banks, corilof out swindled another selling insurance companies and porations, lustrated bibles, trimmed again other large investors, and you have on a fire extinguisher that another added and compelling reawonldn't extinguish, went into son why no congress will ever vote bankruptcy for half a million repudiation of these obligations. With. . . clocks. alarm making These war bonds and other governout a dime to his name he wrote ment securities have behind them a lecture on "How to Make the security, the faith and the integMoney," grossing $1,000 a night. rity of the United States government . . . And that's how the famous . . . exactly the same guarantee of Barnumism was born. payment as a dollar bill. And if your war bonds should become worthless, then your dollar bill will become h Alexander Dumas, as worthless. And we have Negro, whose book, "The Three equally behind war bonds a tradition and Musketeers," was a best seller for record of the United States governalmost 100 years, used to boast that ment of never having repudiated an he had more than 500 children and swore he would never marry. . . . obligation in the 165 years of its exHe changed his mind when a smart istence. And right here let's spike the falsweetheart bought up all his debts lacy in the minds of some people and gave him a choice between that war bonds are being cashed in He wrote marriage and Jail. at an alarming rate. They are not novels on blue paper, poetry on yelin being redeemed any such low, articles on red, and nothing amounts. When someone sees a line else would do. . . . He wrote more of people at a postoffice window or than 1,200 volumes of plays, novels a bank counter cashing in war and histories, made over 5 million at the story is immediately bonds, dollars and died broke, living oil the that people are cashing In spread of son. his charity their bonds at an unprecedented figure. Woolworth his started Only 13 Per Cent Cashed. stores on a capital of When the treasury department $300, and his first three failed. publishes its statements, for inThirty years later he was able stance, as last October when sales to pay $14,000,000 cash for the totaled $695,000,000 and redemptions building bearing his name, then totaled $400,000,000, the story was the world's highest office buildImmediately broadcast that people ing. were cashing in their war bonds at a ratio almost equalling sales. As George Gershwin sold his first a matter of fact, the redemptions song for $5; nine years later a last October were only 1.16 per cent Hollywood studio paid $50,000 just to of the total bonds outstanding. use "Rhapsody In Blue," which he In October redemptions were unwrote in bis spare time, in a single usually heavy for the reason that It was the first rnonth in which banks picture. were authorized to redeem bonds over the counter direct, and many Sir Isaac Newton was so t-minded he once rammed his persons had the mistaken idea that the treasury was inviting these reniece's fingers Into his pipe. . . . demptions because it was made so Trying to fix himself a three-minuconvenient. When this impression egg, he boiled his watch was dispelled, redemptions steadily while watching the egg. . . . declined. November redemptions When be went to fetch anything were 1.08 per cent; December, .98, he usually came back without and January redemptions went down It. . . . He was usually last in to .89 per cent. lie was bis class at school. Total cumulative redemptions of a woman hater and never marwar bonds, that is the series E, F He always claimed he ried. and G bonds, as of January 1, 1945, solved many of his mathematiamount to 12.04 per cent of the cal problems In his sleep. total bonds sold. It means that out of the 41 billion Dr. Samuel Johnson continually dollars in war bonds sold, about 36 distorted his face by violent grimaces. . . . When walking in the billion is still in the hands of the them. Or in othstreet he touched every post he people who bought er words about 12 cents out of each alone he he missed if and passed dollar spent for war bonds has been ways returned. He always made a redeemed. point of entering or leaving a door on a certain foot, but his biographMoney for Taxes Needed. Certain months of the year, such er, Boswell, wasn't sure which one. as the taxpaying months, always Lord Byron was so emotional that show a heavier redemption percentonce a theatrical performance put age than other months. The treasIn a fit ury policy from the inception of war him Into convulsions. bond sales has been that the whole of temper he threw his watch into financing program should be vol- the Ore and hammered it to pieces He also fired a with the poker. pistol in the bedroom of his wife, who left him after a year of marSo he went to Venice and riage. BUY BONDS bought a harem. gov-ernme- nt over-boug- TOTAL SALES OF WAR BONDS 41,612 IN BUUON Of DOLLARS 25,423 2,537 1942 1941 MAT- - 1943 1944 DIC me te ... ... ... ... come, since being patriotic, he want ed to do just as much as his fellows. Investigation shows that many men and women in these families forced to redeem their war bonds were, ten years ago, on WPA or the recipient of some community welfare program. They were not on that program willingly, and neither are they at the bank window cash ing in their bonds willingly today. These bonds are their only liquid asset when an emergency comes . . . death, child birth, hospitalization, and temporary unemployment. The treasury also has learned that the redeemer of war bonds does not necessarily cash in all his bonds, nor does he close out his payroll sav he keeps on buying. ings account And this is proved conclusively by the fact that war bonds purchased through payroll savings 6ince the first war loan in 1942 have steadily increased each month from 307 million dollars in December, 1942, to more than $500,000,000 per month today. Every war loan has been marked by a rise In the regular allotment of workers for war bonds, as well as a steadily increasing rise in the national level of payroll savings as against total payroll. Savings Up 56 in Year. During 1944 the withdrawals of de posits in savings accounts in the banks of the nation by individuals amounted to approximately 20 per cent and at the same time these sav- ngs accounts showed a net gain of approximately 56 per cent. War bonds, although showing an 8 per cent gain in redemptions over 1943, at the same time show an 85 per cent increase in sales. While the ... ... Schiller liked to keep his feet He once in ice while working. wrote a full and perfect description alof the Swiss land and people though he knew neither. . . . Coleridge, who wrote "Kubla Khan" under the influence of an opiate, could remember only 54 lines when he sufficiently recovered to write. . . Richelieu at times imagined himself to be a horse and neighed, trotted and Jumped like one. . . . Beau Brummel, the fashion plate (who taught the Prince of Wales how to dress), died in rags in an insane asylum. ... HERE REDEEM BONDS rs HERE . Beethoven had a palon for moving and sometimes was paying rent on two or three places at once, but Mo2art, who died at 35, starved and frozen, never rould pay rent on one. ' ed out on the biggest Chopin love of his iie because she didn't offer him a c.rair before she offered In his one to others I' the room. will he ordered himself buried in white tie, dress shoes and silken knee breeches. ... Value of Bonds cashed in is loss than 12 cent of Bonds sold jh.t month. H-- r lion persons were obtained in the sixth war loan drive alone! People Pay 60 Per Cent of War Cost. How has this voluntary program of war financing been used toward paying the cost of the war? Here are a few figures. From May 1, 1941, the start of the war finance program, through December 31, 1944, the government Of this spent 261 billion dollars. amount 21 billions was used for non-wexpenditures, including the interest on the public debt, leaving 240 billion spent on the cost of the war. Out of this 261 billions, 101 billions, or 38.7 per cent of the total, has been raised through net receipts of taxes, so the excess of spending over tax receipts from May 1, 1941, to January 1, 1945, has been 160 billions of dollars. During this same period the government has borrowed 178 billions of dollars through sale of governmental securities. This equals the 41 billion sold in war bonds and the 137 billion in other securities. Of this 178 billion, 75 billions have been borrowed directly or indirectly from banks. The rest, 103 billions or 57.9 per cent, has come from sources, 42 billions of it from individual citizens. The net of all this is that the American people are buying war bonds and that almost 60 per cent of the amount borrowed for the war cost has been paid by individuals and sources . . . they are buying bonds and holding $88 out of every $100 they buy, and the record Indicates that they will keep on buying them so long as they are offered for sale, or so long as the nation needs their money to help finance this war. It is a pretty safe bet that the treasury department, as a result of its experience with baby bonds before the war, and with war bonds since May 1. 1941, will continue in the bond business after the war is over. People have the habit of buying government bonds and there is no indication now that there will be any concerted rush to the banks to cash in these bonds when the war is over. The very great majority of them will be held to maturity. And today bond buying is on a basis, not only on the home front but on every battle front where Ameri- cans are fighting to maintain the freedom and integrity of a government and a way of life of which these bonds are a symbol. ar fcg. .1'... tSB Washington, D. C. GERMAN UNDERGROUND SEETHES According to uncensored dispatches now reaching Washington, active guerrilla warfare is flaring up on a mounting scale behind the German lines. First real indication of an active Fifth column In Germany came recently with accurate reports ol pitched battles inside Berlin, Bres-laand Bremen. This new guerrilla warfare differs from that of partisan units inside France, Yugoslavia and Greece in that few of the guer rilla troops are Germans. The bulk are Frenchmen and Russians who were captured earlier in the war and have been used as slave labor in the reich. All of these workers were carefully guarded by Hlmmler until recently. Most lived In big cities and worked in large Industrial plants. In Berlin for example, hundreds of thousands of slave laborers have been housed in fenced off temporary barracks In the heart of the city. But recent powerful allied air raids have created such chaos that thousands of foreign workers escaped from their enclosures and have hidden in the bomb ruins. At night, the guerrillas prowl the streets, capture Nazi sentries, steal food and ammunition, commit extensive sabotage. They have been joined by some German army deserters, afraid to return to the front, advices say. Once Berlin is taken it is expected that the several million slave laborers will flare into such revolt that Germany except in the mountainous south will cave like an eggshell. u SERVICEMEN on men in the army probably is with enlisted men over 38, now too old to become officers but who can't resign as officers can. Typical ease of how this hardship works is that of Cpl. Alexander C. Sioris, age 45. who has served in the army three years, most of the time overseas. Corporal Sioris is not only a college graduate, but holds a doctor's degree. Twice he was recommended for officers' training school, but each time his unit moved overseas and he had to sail with his unit. Now he is too old to be commissioned, too old for combat, yet under present army rules must be kept on doing menial jobs. There are thousands of similar cases. What the army needs is a good overhauling of its manpower, especially older men who have been in the army a long time. dollar limit is reached. Considerably more than 19 billion dollars worth of bonds (maturity value) must be s.ild in the seventh loan. In the sixth loan, more than 28 billion dollars worth of bonds were sold figuring them ag;iin at maturity value. Since a part of these were sold on the "three dollars will get you four in ten years" basis, the government realized about 21 billion dollars from the sale. In his budget message on Janu r NEW MANPOWER PROGRAM War Manpower Commission Director Paul McNutt may put a new program Into effect very soon in all light labor areas. This would limit employers in nonessential or less essential industries to a certain percentage of the number of workers they eme ployed last year. This program has already been tried out in Chicago and proven successful. Chicago employers In nonessential and less essential industries will be required to cut the number of employees on the payroll 10 per cent by March 15. The famous "bush tele the African wilds, the IV drums that beat out mysw ' messages, has always been a n ? lem to the white man. a tist stated recently: "i do nott lieve any white man will ever able to understand this drumm' l The drum system is not a sorT1 Morse code, but as natural as tk Negro's instinct. It is a rhyts like the black man's speech wh one word has many meanings ? cording to pronunciation. "There is no thought which Ca, not be expressed with the aid the drums, no message so intricau that it cannot be beaten out b skillful operator. "Warring tribes temporarily f0, get their quarrels in order to rel important tidings across rive and international frontiers. Talking drums' are used to nounce native weddings and othe important local events." ! SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER During at least the first three years following tho end of the war, exports believe that 70 million tires will be need, ed annually in the U. S. a lon. The peak year, 1941, saw a production of 62 million tires in this country. Greater me of mechanical font In post-wyears li expected to make agriculture one of the largest consumers of rubber. I Implements Despite the Far East war, rht Foreign Economic Administration expects that 73,100 tons of natural rubber will be shipped to the U. S. from Ceylon and India during 1944, REGpodrich i Easy way to UNCORK STUffY NOSTRILS lostnls iR cbftej n? Oakl. nt Hrathsitaia. lm jm cm brutal J W MENTHOLATUM ceiling-employe- non-banki- non-banki- Limit on Public Debt Will Have to Be liaised Again for 7th Loan The ceiling on the public debt will have to be raised again, treasury officials say, to make room for the seventh war loan. This next big drive will open in May or June Congress will be asked to push up the limit once more. The boost the treasury wants is from the present 2fi0 billion dollars to 31)0 billi ns. The public debt outstanding now, at maturity value, is $241.0!9.83D.-853- . Thus there is margin of only 18W!0. 169.147 before the 2C0 billion JUkl&Lxs OVER-AG- E 1),694 k curies - Greatest hardship ... r" o--- cumulative rate of redemption to the amount of bonds outstanding is 12.04 per cent, the average redemption rate over the four-yea- r period, 1941 through 1944, amounts to slightly less than 10 per cent per year. Let's take one year of war bond redemptions and compare them to insurance policy lapses. In 1943, for instance, total redemptions of war bonds to amount of bonds outstanding at the end of the year was 6.3 and that untary persons wishing per cent. In 1840 for all legal reto buy war bonds should be able to serve life insurance companies the buy them conveniently. Hence war dollar amount of policy surrenders bonds may be purchased at banks, and lapses was 6 per cent of the inpost offices, theaters, retail stores, surance in force at the end of the and at scores of other places. year In 1942 the ratio was 4 per Then, the treasury reasoned, it cent This tremendous voluntary proshould be equally convenient to redeem war bonds for emergency pur- gram of war financing, so vast in poses, so all banks who desired, its ramifications, is not only the were authorized to redeem the greatest financing record in all hisbonds over the counter, instead of tory, It has brought about the greatest pool of savings in liquid assets the former longer, more complicated method of sending the bond to in the history of any people. the nearest Federal Reserve bank. The six war loan drives in themWho are the war bond redeemers selves produced more than 109 bil. . . the men and women who cash lions of dollars from the sale of all in these 12 cents out of the dollar? government securities offered, 28 Almost invariably they are families billions more than the combined whose only saving has been the war goals set for these drives. The sixth bonds they bought, and, thus, when war loan, in itself, exceeded the enan emergency arose their war bonds tire finance program of World War were their only recourse. The war I. Four Liberty loa drives and one bond redeemer is in the low income Victory drive in World War I grossed bracket, has an income probably less $21,432,924,700. There were an estithan $3,000 per year, and a larger mated 66 million subscribers but than average family. The chances most of this sum was raised by inare he buys his war bonds through a dividuals, banks and business firms payroll savings plan at his place of able to buy $10,000 and upwards in employment Chances are, too, that Liberty bonds. In this war more he according to his in- - than 21 billion dollars, from 66 mil- - Remember this . . . anyone who tells you that your is likely to repudiate one dollar s worth of these bonds, or that the American people are cashing them in faster than they are buying them, is passing along propaganda inspired in Berlin or Tokyo! one-fourt- absen- 'Bnsli Telporanli aii Still Mystery to ary 3. President Roosevelt statiri that further increase in the debt limit would be necessary hPfnr. the end of the next fiscal year which would be on June 30. I94fl" Financial commentators expect that two boosts will be required before that date, since the President estimated thut the public debt would stand at 292 billion dollars by the middle of 1916. At maturity valuation, this would moan considerably more than 3L0 billion dollars. SECRET RED WEAPONS The Russians are way ahead of both the United States and Great Britain in the use of rocket guns, have employed them with devas tating effect in the lightning drive through Poland, and particularly in the offensive against the Nazis in East Prussia. One new and very important weapon which Stalin unveiled in the new drive is the tank named after himself. The Stalin tank is superior to the German royal tiger tank, and our own Sherman heavy h tank. It carries a gun as gun carried on our against the Sherman. So long as the ground re mains hard, the Stalin tank is capable of resisting any but the largest point-blanGerman shells. On the other hand, the mobile gun on the Stalin tank can pierce most of the German secondary fortifications so far encountered by the Russians, it is said. 100-to- n POSTS GOlDA FIAKES Of WffAr WAR NOTES C Germans are already trying to escape from the threatened Nazi homeland. Reports from Lisbon, Madrid, Stockholm and Berne reveal hundreds of Germans trying to crash the frontier to get out of Germany before the Allies take over. CFDR still hasn't decided who he will name as high commissioner of the Philippines. WMC Director Paul McNutt and Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy both are ready to go. If Murphy takes it, Roosevelt will nominate Judge Sam Rosen-ma- n to the Supreme court C A significant new Slav treaty is now being negotiated. 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