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Show the PBnr.BFSSTV OPTNTON """"N -- Latest Movies Shown in Front Line Camps Help Keep Fighters in TouchhJIome , navy, marine corps, the coast guard when their own films are not avail-able in active areas; also members o AUied armed forces operating in these zones. Both the Red Cross and USO are authorized as agents to show these pictures. Movies in Training Camps. , The motion picture industry's gift films should not be con-fused, however, with the showings of the Army Motion Pic-ture service, and a similar system maintained by the navy. Through a commercial arrange-ment with motion picture distribu-tors made 20 years ago, both the army and the navy rent for their own use prints of motion pic-tures which play the commercial movie houses. These films, obtained at low rental, are now shown on a nonprofit basis by the army in all training camp theaters in this coun-try, and at established army post theaters in all territorial posses- - 30,000-mil- e tour of the Pacific thea-ter Maj. Gen. Frederick H. Osborn, U S army, director of the morale services division, army service forces, said that motion pictures have proved an effective antidote to the tension and physical strain of battle, and that they are particular-ly welcome to men just returned from the front. His tour, which included the larg-est circuit in his-tory" motion picture maintained by the overseas motion picture service of army service forces in the Pacific, proved to him, he said, that "the Pacific soldier is the most avid movie-goe- r in the world." i The distribution of first-ru- n films to the various fronts by air is on a par with any similar commercial operation, the general pointed out, and came about "because combat of-ficers want their men to relax after they come out of the lines. The movie has proved to be the solution. J ' - ik Its- "1 f "v " I V-- . . A feyty W.-:'- : x, --'- 1 Army men in the South Pacific watch a movie in an open air theater. Their faces reflect varied reactions. Soldiers often see three or more pictures a week. Picture Industry Donates Films to Army and Navy Combat-wear- y Yanks, re-lieved from front-lin- e duty by replacements and sent to the rear to rest, turn to movies as a means of escape from the mad business of battle, ac-cording to letters received in towns throughout the country by relatives and friends of boys now in foreign service. These letters complained at first that the pictures were old, but recent correspondence ends complaints and indicates that con-ditions are improved. New Hollywood productions fresh from the studios are shipped to all theaters of war by the Army Over-seas Motion Picture service and are shown somewhere every night in every combat zone occupied by American troops. Protected by top priorities, these film programs, printed In the size and known as "Films for Fight-ing Men" are a gift from the motion picture industry which began in Feb-ruary, 1942, with the presentation of 80 prints from four different pic-tures. Since men these free films have gradually increased until now a total of 189 pictures are issued each week, divided into 63 prints each of three different programs. Each program includes a h feature and at least one short sub-ject. To date the grand total of 11,782 programs has been sent over-seas. These programs of new films are shown only to uniformed members of the armed forces in combat zones, and to sick and wounded in over-seas hospitals, and to men on iso-lated outposts where other film en-tertainment cannot be had. When troops are en route to battle-fron- ts on transports, they are shown specially selected film ver-sions of "Hits of the Past." This avoids duplicate showings of new films, so servicemen do not see the same pictures twice. Musical Shows Favorites. Every feature-lengt- h picture and every short subject made by the ma-jor studios in Hollywood is included in this service, offered to our armed forces through a selection board in New York city composed of army and civilian personnel. This board is guided in its choice by expressions from soldier audiences in the various theaters of war. Opinions polled to date show that servicemen's tastes lean toward musicals, comedies and Light drama. War pictures are last on their list, while features and shorts which bring views of the good old U. S. A. are always welcome. Upon reaching the various war theaters, these films less than half the size of those seen" in your local theater are sent to the various combat zones through 19 film exchanges maintained by the Army Overseas Motion Picture serv-ice. Handled in this reduced size, they are easy to ship and can be exhibited on portable equipment readily transported in active re-gions. The showing of these pictures is always subject, of course, to the haz-ards of war. Usually they are dis-played to battle-wear- y troops in rest areas behind the front. The ob-ject, however, is to get them as near the fighting line as possible. In some instances they have been shown so close to the line of battle that prisoners subsequently captured said they heard the sound track. Although planned originally for the army only, recent arrangements made through the war department have thrown these showings open to all combat troops, regardless of their branch of service. This includes the sions. The average admission is 14 cents, and any profit derived there-from goes, toward expanding the service. ' Ever since the declaration of war, as a special favor to servicemen, pictures playing the army circuit have, as a rule, preceded showings in commercial theaters except where these showings conflicted with exhibition contracts of movie thea-ters near the camps. Servicemen unfamiliar with required trade prac-tices, complain at times because they see pictures in these commer-cial theaters before the camp movie houses show them. The navy does not experience this difficulty because, generally speak-ing, its pictures are shown free on shipboard or, in some instances, for a small admission at naval stations, the profits going toward improving and expanding the service. Old Films Shown at First. When the conflict broke suddenly after Pearl Harbor, we were just as unprepared for maintaining a worldwide entertainment program as we were for global combat. The first expeditionary forces that left for the South Pacific took along 1,000 old pictures purchased in the open market, which were the only films of that size available at the time. Later, when the African ex-pedition sailed, a similar war de-partment purchase was made. And further complications were added through the indiscriminate buying of old films and portable equipment by embarking troop units as large as battalions, all striving to meet an entertainment emergency. Although the army has been able to recall all but 300 of these old films, those still in circulation de-spite of efforts to recover them, combined with the unauthorized films remaining overseas, add up to a sizeable headache. Service-men who still sit through these old ' programs complain loudly. Another source of complaint lies in the wartime dislocation abroad of the commercial motion picture in-dustry. In such battle-blaste- d areas as Sicily, films as ancient as are often featured in local theaters for outrageous admission prices. But this is not strange, con-sidering that Mussolini barred American films in Italy in 1938. No new pictures have been shipped into Italian territory since, excepting those supplied through the motion picture industry's gift service. The gift films, however, are now going overseas at the rate of 159 prints of three new programs each week. New combat zone circuits are being added rapidly and projection facilities are improving and increas-ing. This means that film shows in all theaters of war, barring the in-evitable disruptions and annoyances occasioned by battle action, are bound to achieve a state of diminish-ing complaints and rising perfection. In a report to Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell, commanding general of the army service forces, covering a A screen against a jungle backdrop' brings the soldier close to home again." The army service forces has ar-ranged to distribute films in rotation to the combat areas of the Pacific, after which they are routed to sup-porting units farther to the rear. In this way, troops in actual combat are the first to be shown the latest of Hollywood's screen offerings. Also given high priority for early show-ings are the wounded in hospitals. Movies Take Him Home. "The soldier wants to see pictorial views of streets that remind him of his home town, of people he might meet on those streets; of women to remind him of his mother, his wife; his sweetheart; of ordinary happen-ings in which he will again partici-pate. "This tremendous movie chain's value as a good will factor is beyond computation.' In New Guinea, for example, where Australian and American soldiers fight side by side, they sit down to see an American film side by side. Our troops visit Australian camps where the screen fare is predominantly American." Newsreels, comedies, and musical pictures are high on the G.I. hit list. "Soldiers dislike war pictures with glorified heroes," General Os-born said. "They like to see informational films, those that explain war strat- - egy and show real battle scenes. The soldier is anxious to see what his weapons can do. The army's 'Why We Fight' series has immeasurably bettered his understanding of issues at stake. 'Snafu,' the cinema comic of the Army-Nav- y Screen Magazine, is a Pacific favorite." General Osborn included Austra-lia, New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, New Georgia, Bougain-ville, and Fiji in his 30,000-mil- e itin-erary of the Pacific theater. "I have seen tropical ' theaters seating 3,000 soldiers on wooden benches, and 1,000 sitting on crates ' and logs and oil tins in an outdoor excavation," he said. "Soldiers frequently sit in tropical downpours for one and two hours before showtime to enjoy a film made 'silent' when the sound track breaks down, and then return the next night to see it again. "During alarms the men quietly leave the theater and as quietly re- sume their seats afterward to see the rest of the movie. While excava-tions were under way on a New Guinea base, a bulldozer was as-signed the priority detail of hollow-ing out the ground for an open-ai- r amphitheater. "I have seen men watch a picture from such a distance that the screen was the size of a postage stamp and I have, heard men gripe at a P0 S1 tUt Sit throuSh it to the end. several pictures playinc on various bases on an island, men were known to walk nightly many miles around the entire island untU they had seen all the pictures." Members of the army service forces set up their motion picture equipment wherever there is a con-venient spot for a show. Here they have erected the screen on a rocky field on some south sea island. The projector and sound equipment are being hooked up in the foreground. CLASSlFlcr D E P A 8 jM 8HS!BSK. . stock. HVl5;Tl', PPUlarbreedi, n .M"'"M' j Mhome FRONTS Your old household furniture and shabby odds and ends may blos-som with roses. Here, an old rocker of no particular period was painted blue and then stenciled ir. the Boston rocker manner. The ' RECLAIMED iJ" HOSES : WINDOW ," PENCILED SHADE E OH WALL PAINTED S7Tmr 'FURNITURE AMD "( , if I, TRAY STENCILED "J 3, Vi m J V LAMP AMD f f. SHADE ; fO r streaked old window shade and an old tin tray were also painted blue and then stenciled with pink roses. A vine design of pink rambler roses was stenciled on the cream colored walls around the windows. The lamp base shown in the sketch was made from an old milk can. 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PR Released by Western Newspaper Union. 'SMALL PEOPLE' AND 'BIG COP.PORATIONS' WE ARE INCLINED to applaud when congress places extra taxation on the corporations rather than in-crease the tax on individuals. We think it perfectly all right for the government to take all the profits of industry and transportation, leav-ing nothing for reconversion to peacetime production or for re-placements of rails or rolling stock worn out under the terrific pressure of war. We do not stop to consider just who owns these industrial and trans-portation corporations. We do not think of such taxes directly affecting ' ourselves. The fact is the industrial concerns and transportation systems of Amer-ica, directly and indirectly, are owned by the mass of the American people, not by a limited number of wealthy individuals. There are more than 30 million people who own stocks or bonds of industrial or transportation corporations. The tax the government collects comes di-rectly out of the pocVets of that 30 million people and gravely jeopard-izes their investments. That 30 million people represent the workers, the farmers, the doc-tors and school teachers, people in every walk of life. Through thrift and frugality they have saved that they might accumulate. They have invested their savings in the plants and tools of industry and transpor- - tation. Their investments have ated jobs, have made possible the maintenance of the American standard of living. One transpor-tation line, the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, numbers among its stock-holders" 40,496 people, no one of whom owns more than 50 shares. It is such people who are paying the tax on the corporation profits. It is their holdings that will be valueless when there is nothing left to re-convert or rebuild after the war. Indirectly all of us who have in-surance policies or savings accounts in the banks are paying. Through the insurance companies and the banks our money is invested in these industrial and transportation com-panies. The dividends earned on our policies or the interest paid on our savings is determined by the earnings of the corporations our money is financing. Should the government break the corporations, as seems to be the in-tent, it is 30 million of people, a cross section of all America, an av-erage of one for each family, who will suffer. We have a very definite and decided interest in the concerns for which we have provided the plants and tools. . THERE'S AN UNSEEN MORTGAGE ON YOUR HOME THE NATIONAL WEALTH of America is the collateral back of the bonds representing the national debt. A considerable portion of that national wealth is the homes in which we live. There is an unseen mortgage on each and every home in the land and regardless of who owns them, the people living in those homes must pay those mortgages. Because there are but two of- us, there is charged up against our home something over $4,200 as the share of the national mortgage we must pay. Across the 6treet is a modest cottage occupied by a fam-ily of five. The share of those five people, father, mother and three children, is over $7,000. Regardless of who owns that cottage, that family must pay. The payment comes in the form of taxes, either direct or in-direct or both. In interest alone, that family of five must pay as much as $130 each year. That is what the national debt means to us as individuals. It demonstrates our in-terest in economy in government. We must pay for the waste, whatever it may be. ... RUSSIA HAS HER OWN TERMS FOR NAZIS WHEN GERMANY HAS BEEN LICKED, as she will be before long, Joseph Stalin will demand that Ger-man labor rebuild the Russia Ger-man armies have destroyed. Wi-lliam Green, president of AFL, says American labor will not permit the exploitation of German labor. Mr. Green has another guess coming. He will find American labor leaders will not be consulted as to what Rus-sian policies shall be, or what Rus-sia shall do. Stalin will boss the Russian show and German labor will do what he decides it is to do including hours and other conditions. Stalin is not accepting dictation from American labor leaders re-gardless of what they may be able to do in America. They will have nothing to say about Russia's terms to Germany. . THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER ap-plauds the army for that 27 billior, it cut from estimated costs and re-turned to the treasury. Now if th civilian departments would cut but a billion or two it would seem like Democracy cou.ld.b.e practical. THE SUN SHINES FOR SOME oi us evsry day. If this is not your day tomorrow.m.ay.be. IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER that no one of us possesses all ol the virtues ... IT WAS IN LATE DECEMBER, just before Christmas. While I was in the store a consignment of frest tomatoes arrived. "How much?" asked. "The price will be high," said the merchant. "As much as ! cents a pound." Then he looked ai the new "ceiling" list he had re-ceived that morning and it said 2c cents a pound for fresh tomatoes. A government order had pushed the price up by eight cents a pound. That is how it works. Why blame the grower or the merchant? Buy War Bonds theNews) Released by Western Newspaper Unioi. CURRENT STATUS DF NAZI AIR ARM WASHINGTON. The Germans ,ave been able to get togethei to stage a mough bombing planes iew campaign against London. The number of planes at theii 3ases back in from the French coast ndicates they may be able to send ,ver 50 to 100 planes three or foul lights a week. That is all there seems to be their heavy scale (150 to 20C oomber) attacks on the British capi-at in Our best check ends confidence to the conviction liat they cannot sustain even such a moderate scale offensive as that 3ne, and have no facilities to expand their newly opened air front. Stories have been circulated thai the bombings of London have beer nore severe than officially report-;d- . There may be some truth in this general suspicion since it is sot considered good military cus-tom to divulge bombing damage. But the more significant truths oi the situation are simply these: About six weeks ago the Germans renewed small scale night air at-tacks using about 50 planes one oi two nights a week (one week five attacks). They hit some south Eng-land cities but concentrated mainly upon London. Their raids necessarily were pot-shot bombings on large area targets. No accurate attack sn a war industry center has been made. They may have hit some nilitary objectives, but their main abjective plainly was to offset psy-chologically the effect of British-America-raids on Germany with some show of encouraging retaliat-ion. If they could get the planes, thej might make it hurt, because their bases are closer to their objective than ours are. But great stores and replacements are needed for sus-tained air campaigns and these the Germans obviously do not have. The most they can do, therefore, Is to knock down some buildings, start fires and cause suffering anc death to the British civilian popula-tion. They cannot impede concen-trations for the second front by pre cision bombings, or bring decisive consequences of any military na-ture. 5 WHERE EDUCATION HAS FALLEN DOWN If anyone tries to tell you the American schools have not broker down in both scholarships and disci-pline, cite to them these followinf facts: The navy found incoming fresh men at the leading universities s( far below its educational standards it had to institute the V program In a test to 4,200 freshmen at 2' leading universities, 68 per cen' were unable to pass the arithmetic test, and 62 per cent failed the whole test. Among the same candi dates for naval reserve officer; training, only 10 per cent had taker elementary trigonometry in higl schools, only 23 per cent had more than a year and a half of math. But, in order to enroll the numbei of men needed by the navy, Ad-miral Nimitz wrote in-- a letter t Professor Bredvold of the Univer sity of Michigan, November 21, 1941 that "it was found necessary at one of the training stations to lower th standards in 50 per cent of the ad missions ..." Not half the graduates' of the ele mentary schools in Tennessee toda; can read and write well. The con dition.is exposed in an article in th Tennessee Teacher by School Super intendent H. I. Callahan, who says: "The testimony of high schoo principals and teachers bears wit ness to the fact that more than hal the children finishing the eightl grade in Tennessee schools are un able to read with ease, comprehen sion, and pleasure; that they an very poor in the elementary me chanics of written English." It is impossible to teach the prod ucts of lax elementary schools i foreign language in college, as Dr T. Braxton Woody, University o Virginia School of Romance Lan guages, says: "As the sorry products of pro gressive education filter into ou' classrooms, the problem of what t( do with them becomes more anc more acute. It is really unreason able to expect them to learn a for eign language since our modern edu cators have failed lamentably ii their efforts to sugar-coa- t the pi) (of learning) ..." WHAT CHILDREN MISS If the parent will sit down will his high school child one night, h. will find the average cannot figun the area of a floor if the sides ar, given in feet and inches; canno name three countries in every con t nent; they would not know the cap ttVJ cUteS' or five riv-- s ii r an? (A Philadelphia teacher, namcetry with Teachers are required to and TV' they d KOt d0 e"ori create(J a gener lazy, spineless boys. (A teacher). The situation is due to "the edu cational trust, or racket, for thi traror:ttthe,rbiic scho1 WUh teachs col lege, add up to," testifies Dr. J. H Rittenhouse, Haverford college The leading educators are inter ested m enrollments, surveys, teach ers credits, new fangled subject an, textbooks, publishers, palaces of eri "cation" (XXX) "to the neglect sound o disciplinary training " Restrictions are necess'a'ry SdentT8 rad t0 ed"caUon!' S Gergia coUe MUita Ants a Delicacy Ants, native delicacy in Africa, are sold in packages Earth Shrinking: The earth is shrinking at the rate of 5 inches every 1,000 years. Soldiers on Pacific Islands See More Pictures Per Week' Than They Did as Civilians in T7. S Entertainment reels from 19 army overseas film exchanges are trans carried to the camp sites. Mobile miered by thi i V 1 pre' RadioCity, nL York born commented e"eral 0s' An average of more than 40 prints of three first-ru- n productions, more than a soldier saw in an average civilian week, are turned over to the army every week, in addition to "G.I. Movies," "Screen Magazine." "Fighting Men," and other informa-tional and educational features pro-duced and distributed by army serv-ice forces. "Changes in station, con-- stant shifting of the tides of battle, make it impossible for all soldiers to see every picture at the same time, but they will eventually see them," Maj. Gen. Frederick Osborn, director of morale services, states. On Guadalcanal, for instance, 104 shows were in progress one night. When the general was making a tour on Finschhafen, New Guinea, a jeep conveyed the general's party to a unit headquarters where three films were being shown to several thousand soldiers. Bugler in Italy Awakens Camp With 'Stardust' Instead of Reveille, and Even the 'C. O.' Likes It thelTunratn- - 1 en one ZnZT &tSt gan shouting: 'Why Z , be" Accustomed to listening to the drab morning melody that usually fills the air at reveille, doughboys of the 36th "Texas" division on the Fifth army front in Italy were sur-prised one morning recently by the melodic strains of "Stardust." "More," they shouted as the last note began to fade. Then another swing tune filled the air. The source was the trumpet of Corp. Rudolf Heppel, whose band had bivouacked the night before close to the Texans. Corporal Heppel began experienc-ing a popularity unusual for a bugler as requests poured into the orderly tent from all units within hearing distance. The requests were filled promptly by the obliging corporal. "It all started back in Africa, " he explained. "We had a e band which played reveille each morning. At night we played odd |