Show V OA T ON released by western newspaper union AMERICAN SOLDIERS A CROSS SECTION THE CORPORAL was italian a son of the new york city ghetto he had practically no education his father was a pushcart fruit peddler but the son was intensely american the private first class was a fine looking upstanding youth from a minnesota norwegian farm home he was a graduate of a northfield minn college the two were practically inseparable they were buddies for four months while their outfit was stationed in my town I 1 had seen them at frequent intervals to me t they h ey t typify y pi fy th the e A american me r i c a n a army r my of today 0 d ay a an n ar army m y of c clean 1 e a n cu cut t courteous young youna men they represent all the nationalities of which the american people are c composed posed while they represent all social classes they recognize no cl class ass other than merit as a soldier undoubtedly there are men in the army who in civilian life eife would show a vicious turn but such a turn is not often displayed in the army men of the type of my young norwegian friend predominate ours is an army of high standards of dauntless youth embarked on a great adventure we of our town had learned to love the boys of that army unit during the four months they were with us they had been welcome visitors at our homes we came to think of them as sons brothers or nephews they had a real place in our hearts then came the orders that took them away to where or to what we did not know nor did they all the people of the town assembled at the station to bid them goodby good by we watched those boys with happy smiling faces with no evidence of a care in the world climb aboard the cars there was a lump in the throat of each of the towns town s people a tear in each eye to the boys it was but another step on the road to great adventure a chance to see what lay beyond the next hill of a fear of to where or to what there was not a single trace give such an army the needed equipment and it cannot be defeated it will bring victory for america it is our part to provide the equipment they will not fail us we must not fail them nonessential NON ESSENTIAL activities OF FEDERAL government AS indicative of the attitude of the american people congress is being deluged with protests against unnecessary expenditures for the civil activities of the federal government ern ment these protests come from I 1 such organizations as service clubs farmers and stock raisers small business men patriotic societies churches and many others as well as from hundreds of thousands of individuals they demand the stopping of appropriations for AAA NYA all aesthetic and cultural programs river and harbor work not needed as a war measure and all other activities not essential to a continuance of the absolutely necessary operation of civil government opposed to these demands are the lobbyists hobbyists of minority groups and so far congress has largely listened to those lobbyists hobbyists the american voter will answer in in november LABOR BOSSES AND U S RURAL FOLK LABOR organization bosses have found rural america people of the towns and farms a stumbling block in their efforts to achieve many of their nefarious purposes in california they propose an amendment to the state constitution as a means of overcoming this rural opposition under the present constitution ution each county in the state elects one state senator that gives the rural counties at least a veto power the state federation of labor a is proposing an amendment that would place the election of state senators on a population basis that would mean control of the senate in the cities and organized labor bosses feel they can control the cities the purpose back of it all is to obtain legislation that will force the farmer to employ union labor in the production and marketing of his crops if it can be done in california it will be tried in other states THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY for hitler to win this war and that is through lack of equipment of our armed forces if that should happen our social advances would go for au all time not for the duration only ORANGE JUI JUICE E FOR OUR SOLDIERS uncle sam attempts to give oui soldier boys orange juice for breakfast every morning to do that it takes a lot of oranges and for these he pays 25 a ton delivered at army juicing plants that means the elonet grower ot of the oranges ages receives about 10 a ton for the fruit he raises the 15 goes for picking sorting and transportation citrus raisers got a better average per orange for my christmas orange when I 1 was a buy boy |