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Show 4 Tuesday, October The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah f -- J . f i JpTVV--V- V'' . Buy U.S. a :i In a magazine article, Stanley A. Frankel, Dayton, Ohio, writer and official 37th division historian who served with Young in the South Pacific, discloses the remarkable story behind this infantryman whose quiet heroism started three weeks before his death on New Georgia. What kind of a man was this Rodger Young who sacrificed his own life that 15 comrades might live? Neither his congressional medal of honor citation nor the h y ' . X X.) Jfcy X wC- Savings Bonds! ,j X A 44 W il Will MlOfc ii m stirring Frank Loesser ballad Rodger Young tells the whole story. While still on Guadalcanal preparing for the attack. Staff Ser- geant Rodger Young went to his W, fm" - yZx company commander and requested that he be reduced to a private because his hearing was going , v' . bad. I dont want any of my men jy sty,, . A vv " ,, killed In New Georgia because of t : ' me, he said. A medical check confirmed that his hearing really was bad. Still, Young insisted that TANKS UNLOADED AT CHERBOURG . . . Twenty-on- e tanks, he be allowed to make the inthe first to be delivered on French soil under the mutual assistance vasion. Three weeks lated Private pact, were unloaded from the U. S. ship 'America Miller" in CherYoung was on bloody New Georare soldiers French shown the bourg. watching unloading operagia, Solomon Islands. The rest is M-- 4 tion of the Sherman tanks. This is just one Indication history. of the work now underway to arm western Europe against Rodger Youngs heroic act has been told and sung across the world. How, when his platoon was GRASSROOTS pinned down by a Japanese machine gun, Young ignored his platoon commanders order to get back by saying simply, Sorry, sir, you know I dont hear very well. It has been recorded how, his left arm shattered and his left he crawled to leg By Wright A. Patterson the Jap of Should his judgment be that gov within five yards SOME YEARS AGO Harry S. ernment operation of American innow President of the United States, was engaged in the dustry is essential, it could be that It is known how he reared back, operation of a men's furnishing congress, inspired by ulterior mo- exposing himself, to toss a hand has created 'a gargantua How a burst of fire goods store in Kansas City. In tives, monster who can destroy American grenade. that small business venture, he was caught Young full in the face benot successful, but he did not have Industry, free enterprise system and fore the grenade destroyed the back of him the billions now being the chance for employment f jr our machine gun nest. How the men workers. This Is possible, but not whose lives he saved carried Rodproduced by government printing probable. presses. , ger Young back to the American What is more probable is that lines in a bloody shelter half. All Since the days of that unsucthose who have wished for the this is history. cessful business, venture. PresiPresidents political destruction dent Truman has demonstrated have made it possible for him to Rodger Young is now one of that he can be successful In succeed himself, or to select his Americas great heroes. They politics, that he has acquired school successor. The President is fully wrote a song about him that the !how"-o- f garnering votes. hisBut armies and children sing. acquainted with the effect on na Despite that experience in busi- tional ironic the not recorded elections of the votes of tory has ness, congress has placed in his fact that Rodger Younwas'the hands the opportunity of heading an army of bureaucrats. Under the man who did ngt Want to be a the greatest business institutions authority that has been given him sergeant because his bad hearing of the nation, backed by, billions of he can add whole new divisions might endanger other mens lives. to the present bureaucratic army government money, should he wish The President is given a ration card to use it Under the authority that cashable at the federal treasury has been given him, he could head that each bureaucrat, his relatives United States Steel, , General Mowill vote for these who and friends, tors, General Electric, and all oththe" provide job. That increased er American industries, large and of is the graves' bureaucrats small. He has been provided with army has created by con more authority over the American danger congress upon the President authoripeople than has ever been granted ferring ties which he did not ask. for any other Americanr President Harry S. Truman may still be It includes authority for which a novice in business. He may he had not asked. But many not & j i The real facts about Rodger Young, one of World War IIs most immortal heroes, have been p ' Planning for the Future? Crochet Beret Tells True Story Of Rodger "Young WCI '" AW3 , -- 2 "- - fiSv gf f .mV c rn r v., ' 3, 1950 l!t; f ifirjiv ft. a Vi X.XxXfc intf fi?! ! din ( r5y-- WWMm ,' tHidwnaah 35-t- on We May.Be Giving Truman Rope ITS popcorn stitch trim. Use knitting worsted, chenile or straw ma- Republicans and southern Democrats were anxious to give him all the rope possible, .with the . expectation, and possibly the .with it he would hope, that hang his political career. And with the authority he has,' he could dothat if be attempted to ise it indiscreetly, as they believe he will. They did not Consider him big enough for the job they had conferred. The leaders of his own party are convinced .that he fully measures up to the job, and are not fearful of any mistakes he might make. What he may do with the powers he has will depend on circumstances and his ability to judge conditions He may use the authority to seize and operate industry if he consid ers it essential to our preparation for war, or In the conduct of total war, if that should come. It is his judgment that is the noose in the rope he has been handed. v prove a capable head for American Industry, but as President he Is not a novice in politics, he overlooks no political ' opportunities. It is not to be expected that he will overlook , the advantages to be found in additional divisions in the bureaucratic army. Congress in its anxiety to ge back home, and look after politica fences has repudiated its respon sibilities, the job for which it was elected, and In passing the economic control bill, has placed the burden of decision upon the President and given him power through which he could for a time make o us a Fabian socialistic state by the nationalizing of all of our Industry that could be considered essentia to our war effort. But even a bu reaucratic socialistic dictatorship could not be worse than an always con- wrangling, gress. Are you going Make a set for now, a set for spring tool Pattern 82 has crochet directions for hat and bag. Send 20 cents in coin, your name, ad. dress and pattern number to women (38.-5-2 years) ? Does this make you suffer from hot flashes, feel so g, tired? Then do nervous, try Lydia E. 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