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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH Banners for Record-Breakin- g Will Honor Farmers in 'A' Food Processors, Too Will Be Awarded Achievement As Americas leading food producing counties will be awarded "A banners by the army for their exceptional contribution to the years food program, the War Food administration has announced. Presentation of the citations for outstanding effort will be made during Thanksgiving week, with similar awards being given to food processing plants which made good records. Designed by the armys heraldic iivision, the A" banner compares with the army-nav- y E pennants awarded industrial plants. It will carry a blue A surrounded by a wreath composed of a head of wheat and half a gear wheel, all on a green field. Nominations for the county farming awards will be made by state war boards of the U. S. department of agriculture, and regional directors of the Food Distribution administration will suggest deserving processing plants. The final 112 winners will be chosen by the War Food administration from these nominations. Allocations of the banners among the 48 states will be made on the basis of the relative farm population of each state. Some states will receive several county awards, due to the large number of farmers within their boundaries. Factors which will be considered In the selection of the most productive counties, according to WFA, include: (1) extent by which 1943 goals were exceeded, (2) extent of the shifts made in order to produce war crops not previously grown in the county, (3) ingenuity shown in meeting production problems such as labor shortages, (4) record made in increasing yields per acre and per man, and in utilizing potential latent land and labor resources, and (5) extent of with other war programs. Presentation of the A flags, which are to be flown from the courthouse of each winning county, will be made by a representative of the army at special ceremonies . PRODUCE to be arranged by the winning counties. A representative chosen by the farmers will receive the production award. Seasonal food processors those little canning factories, those packers of dried fruit, makers of jelly and so forth, who operate only while the fruit and vegetables are coming in are also eligible for a special award. For outstanding initiative in overcoming the obstacles in the way of producing processed food, or for increasing their output notably, seasonal processing plants will be awarded the Achievement A banner similar to that given to counties for farm production, but with a d white star in the upper corner. These little plants have joined enthusiastically in the nations Food for Freedom program. The fact that they are not operators makes them ineligible for the army-nav- y E award. Standards Are High. The same rigidly high standards must be met for both the A and the E awards. In awarding the A, the War Food administration will consider, first of all, quantity and quality of production in the light of available facilities. Other major factors bearing on their decision will be: 1. Ingenuity and with the government in developing and producing war food products. 2. in carrying out the purposes of the various food purchase programs. 3. Effective management; ability to overcome production obstacles; relasatisfactory management-labo- r tions, including the avoidance of work stoppages. 4. Training additional labor forces, low absentee records. 5. Accident prevention; health and sanitation. left-han- year-roun- d 112 See Here, Private Hargrove! U Marion Hararove Crops Counties of Nation Victory depend t at much on our ability to produce food at on our ability to manufacture gum, planet and ihipt" Franklin D. Roocevelt. ACHIEVEMENT A AWARD THE STORY SO FAR: Private Marion Hargrove, former newspaper employee of a Norm Carolina paper, bat been Inducted Into me army and It receiving bit basic training at Fort Bragg. He bat become well acquainted witb many phases of army life but because of bit claislfieation at a cook and bit KP assignment! be knowt more about me Company kitchen man most rookies. He bat acquired a good understanding of goldbrlcking, "shooting the breeze and all me other soldier acUvltiet. At we pick up me story be it discussing tome of me Interesting traits of bit close friend, Private Sber. It It with Sber mat Hargrove bat shared many of hit adventures. n A presentation ceremony will be held for every honored plant as soon as possible after formal announcement of the award. The ceremonies will be simple but impressive. In appreciation of the essential role being played by seasonal processors in the Food for Freedom program, the army and navy will cooperate with WFA in making the presentations. To protect the prestige of the A and the honor it represents, War Foods administration will exercise extra-curricul- Those fantastic ar There was one Sunday evening when Sher started a letter to his family and found, after a couple of paragraphs, that there was nothing for him to write about. Here,, JunWrite a letter for ior," he said. your old .daddy. Give them the old Hargrovian schmaltz. Since Junior was in a devilish mood, he sat down and wrote a long and inspired letter to the Shers of Columbus, Ohio telling them how their little Maurice was falling behind in his class by goldbricking and hanging out late at the Service Club, entreating them to return him to his true career, the Army. I finished by saying, You see whos writing the letters; you should know where to send the cookies. Forget that bum stretch the available supply. Substitute when the items wanted are on the scarce list, even if it means changing eating habits. Another way to conserve is to buy and store vegetables that will keep well. This is particularly important in the case of white potatoes this year. The crop has been exceptionally large. Including both early and late potatoes, it is estimated that it will total more than 460 million bushels. Of this, 360 million bushels are late potatoes and are now being harvested. The late potato crop is 73 million bushels larger than the late crop of 1942, and the overall 1943 crop is 33 million bushels larger than the previMaury.. ous record crop of 1928, which toSeveral days later after I had extreme caution in making the taled 427 million bushels. So it is swapped in skillet for a typewriter award. The procedure for plant plain that the farmers response to and had moved to Headquarters Batthe governments plea for increased tery I came by Battery A to see if nomination, however, is simple. production has been splendid. It i3 I had any mail from my nonwriting Any employee of the Food Distribution administration in Washington a great national asset to have this friends in Charlotte. There werent or in the field may propose a plant record crop of potatoes. It also any letters, but there was a package for consideration. Likewise, the presents problems of distribution which looked about the size of a nomination may be made by one of which, if not efficiently handled, may steamer trunk. There were enough FDAs regional directors, or through result in the waste of, or the diver- cookies inside to feed a small regithe Washington branches of the sion from human consumption of a ment for three days. WFA. An Awards board will conThe card inside read: Dear Harsider every nomination and recomgrove We think your idea about the mend final action to the director of cookies is superb. Give Maury one food distribution. or two; hes a good boy when he Because of the short period of wants to be. Why dont you come up time many operators are in producto Columbus on your furlough? tion, prompt attention will be given It seemed that this beautiful to every nomination. friendship with all its fragrant The Consumers Part. memories, its happy hours and hellMuch as the breasts of farmers or raising, its beautiful cigarettes, cookies, and Samaritan relatives factory workers will swell with pride when they see that A banner flutwas destined to end with the clostering in the autumn breeze, they ing of the basic training cycle here. Rs know it is but a symbol of the mighty effort that every American is makThe old gang, which has lived and worked and played together for over ing to win the war. Not only producers of food, but consumers too, three months and has grown into a close and sympathetic brotherhood, have their part to play. is dissolving now. The training cyAmericas mighty home front forces are mobilizing during Novemof this bumper crop. Al- cle is being finished and already the ber in a nationwide campaign to large part the War Food administra- old ties are loosing. though The student cooks whom I grew help food fight for freedom. Ranking tion, during the past summer, set in importance with bonds, machin- aside 15 million dollars for the erec- to know and feel a fondness, for ery, rubber, guns, tanks, ships and tion of additional storage for Irish during those months are not so forplanes, food is a weapon of war that potatoes and sweet potatoes, the tunate as some of the other soldiers. every civilian can turn against the 1913 crop will exceed by more than The Charlotte boys who were inenemy. ducted with me and who went 50 million bushels, available apRallying cry of the food army is proved farm and commercial storthe slogan: Produce, Conserve, age. Share and Play Square! consumer who has space Citizens groups in every com- in Every his cellar or other suitable place munity will advise the public of the is urged to buy and store as many meaning of these words, and of how potatoes as he conveniently can, so each person can contribute to mak- that none of this supply of food food coning the whole nation to waste. Other vegetables, will scious. Four government agencies, like go onions and that keep the War Food administration, OPA, well, should also turnips be put away in OWI and OCD, are to storage places. Apples and any tell the food story. Briefly they other fruits that can be kept over explain each part of the program: the winter should also be stored. Produce and Conserve. Share Fairly. All Americans share the food with American farmers have done a remarkable Job this year in again the men in uniform in camps at breaking food production records, home and on foreign battlefields, and they plan to continue the good with the peoples of the other United work in 1944 with the planting of Nations helping to win the war, and 380 million acres. Helping them with the countries liberated from plant and harvest is something oth- Axis oppression. Farmers help each Ive spent too much time flirting er civilians can do on the production other to grow as much as they can with that cute little waitress at the line. Home gardens also aid in by sharing seed, machinery, fertimaking more food, as does work. in lizer and manpower in order to delicatessen in Fayetteville. processing plants during the rush make short supplies go farther. through their antitank training toseason. Cheerful, willing acceptance of ra- gether will go together to Fort Farmers themselves can help pre- tioning rules results in fair shares Knox will continue to be with and vent waste of food before it goes to for all, and plenty of food for fit- each other for at least a while longmarket, along with transportation ness and health. er. On the other hand, these stuFood is critical war material. The companies and other handlers. The dent cooks of Battery A will not go homemakers job is to save food in government asks each citizen to out together. No Fort is going to be the kitchen, and to can and preserve pledge himself to accept no rationed sent a whole of cooks. One battery as much as possible. Everyone can foods without giving up ration cook will be needed to no to more than there, and the old thirdhere, another eat the right foods, those that stamps, and pay try will are nutritious and plentiful, so as to top legal prices. When rationing be scattered from hell toplatoon breakfast. rules and price ceilings are not obAn old thirty-yea- r man, with five black marserved, kets appear. Do without, if what or six hash marks on his sleeve, will tell you that no matter how you want cant be purchased fairly. Record food production has been long you stay in the Army, youll achieved for the past seven years, never find a battery that quite stacks to the first battery in which you yet America still doesnt have up served, no group of buddies quite enough to answer all the demands like the old gang you knew first. of war and also to fulfill the unTheres a reason for it. In your usual wants of civilians with trefirst organization, you learn for the mendously increased purchasing first time all the regulations and the power. For the duration of the war and for several years after it customs and the traditions of the ends, the farmers problem is not Army. When you first face them, going to be whether he can find a they're tough or theyre uninterestmarket for what he produces, but ing, and when you finally get to unwhether he can produce as much as derstand and agree with them, they're identified in your memory he can sell. dewill mands continue to exceed the with the battery where you learned them. supply. With the men who serve with you the-eyou grow closer through hardship and privation than you can posy sibly grow to any other group. After more efficient vehicles at lower ini- none of the advantages of steel, you get out into a line organization tial cost. This will mean lighter while the plastic glass as now de- a real tactical unit, such as these cars, but not necessarily smaller. veloped presents a dangerous han- boys are entering any hardship or misery is just a part of the routine. (2) Radical changes will be slow dicap to clear vision. The sufferers are men rather than in coming. (5) The next great mechanical ad(3) Auto manufacturers are not vance in the industry will probably boys. But in this first training cycle, this willing to gamble their reputation on be the perfection of futuristic models which cant and automatic transmissions in a rookie stage, you havent been hardmeet the hard test of public use. simple and inexpensive form. How- ened. You and the new soldiers (4) Plastic bodies and curved ever, it is not expected to entirely about you are sensitive, delicate glass surfaces, in their present form, replace the conventional hand shift boys, newly yanked from home or school, accustomed to an are unsatisfactory; the bodies have system for several years. and usually painless life. You share CONSERVE life-lon- g f PLAY SQUARE SHARE Ever-increasin- g Autos Will Be Better, but Not Fantastic dreams of tear- cars made of drop, per materials with curved glass tops and plastic bodies, belong to the next decade. Thats the opinion of Delmar G. Roos, a vice president of d Motors. Roos, who is credited with designing the Jeep, cited these points as an engineer's approach r to automobile design: (1) There will be a demand for rear-engin- e Willys-Overlan- herd-hittin- g post-wa- su- Private Carney picks up the bait. Hart says about me or about what anybody else says about starts a wistful reminiscing about me is entirely fictitious, and any the lakes and forests of Minnesota, resemblance to persons living or you are homesick for them rather dead is coincidental and not intendthan for yourself. You are compan- ed. ions tested in misery. Private Sager sits up suddenly in Dont talk like that about Friday night was probably the last bed. evening the boys of my old crowd Hart, he says in a quiet, serious, would be together. At least, it was and menacing voice. Anything you the last evening they were sure of say about Hart is a personal insult being together. The following day to me. If youre inclined to insult they were to go home for a weeks me, kindly take off your stripe and step outside with me." furlough. On their return, next MonDont you go talking like that to day, they will be assigned to their permanent stations to enter the field the ranking first-claprivate of this as soldiers. So they arranged to section, rasps Private Hart. I hold a party Friday night on the dont like your manner at all. Kindriver beyond Fayetteville. ly step outside with me while I beat When we rode to the river in our your brains out. chartered bus, we rang the welkin If you want peace and quiet on with the old songs the faintly frathese nights, the best grant songs you pick up through solution is to go to the second barthe years and the Caisson Song racks down the line. Theres noand Old King Cole that you learn body down there except in the Army. They were boisterous, members of the band, who are althose songs, but a melancholy strain ways rehearsing at this time of ran under all of them. night. At the party we ate barbecue and wTe drank beer and we recalled the Slang runs wild in the Army. Its best anecdotes of the training cycle. like a disease or the liquor habit. We sang and we shouted. Two or Among the boys who sit around on three of the boys dipped a little too deep into the keg and became slightAnd although the ly sentimental. food and the beer were the best, the songs were the songs we loved and the anecdotes were the cream of the season, it was empty joy. It had a dull undercurrent of sorrow. It was the sort of feeling that you know in the last hour before the New Years bells, the feeling that reaches its fullest when Auld Lang Syne is heard. Since we left our homes last July weve learned a lot. Drills and rifles, pup tents and gas masks, all of that. This, though the scattering of our first fraternity is another thing we have learned, now and for the first A new and gullible man is sent for time. It is our first lesson in a new kind of homesickness, bred only in the cannon report, or the rubber the Army. flag which is used on rainy days. Anything ss CHAPTER X , Post-W- each others illness, fatigue, despair. When Happy Menza grows homesick for Buffalo and McGlauflin semi-automat- ic easy-goin- g stay-at-ho- fifty-eig- Private Hargrove, I said to myself, you have been doing quite too much gallivanting lately. There have been too many movies, too many bull sessions, too many hours spent at the Service Club and too much time spent flirting with that cute little waitress at the delicatessen in Fayetteville. Tonight, Private Hargrove, you will take this interesting and improving book, read it until Lights Out and go to bed promptly at nine oclock. There was a little back talk, a little argument, a little entreaty. However, the forces of Truth and Progress prevailed. Immediately after supper I adjourned to the squadroom, arranged myself comfortably on my bunk and dug into the interesting book. Peace and quiet held sway about me. Private Wesley Sager, late of Amsterdam, New York, grew weary of the quiet. Yawning widely, he rolled over in bed and with a sudden swoop yanked the pillow from beneath the head of Private Melvin Hart. Yippee, screamed Private Sager, tossing the pillow across the squadroom to a willing accomplice. screamed the willing acYippee, complice, tossing the pillow back to Private Sager. Private Hart rose and retrieved his pillow with dignity and formality. He placed it on his bunk, smoothed it and laid his head upon it. Three privates sighed in resignation. The incorrigibles were at it again. Private Sager lay quiet for a while. Then he broke into a loud, regular, but unconvincing snore. The three sighing privates did not return to their occupations; but lay in philosophic expectation. Once the boys in that corner got started, nothing but physical exhaustion could stop them. Private Sager turned as if tossing in his sleep.. Private Hart noted the move and held his book ready to strike if a hand came toward his pillow. Private Sager turned again, facing away from Private Hart, and Private Hart relaxed his vigil. When he did, the hand shot out once more and the pillow sailed across the room and into waiting arms. Again Private Hart retrieved the pillow and again he lay down. Why," he asked, must you behave like a infant? Cant you act like a normal adult? Sure I can, Private Sager replied. Kindly step outside with me and put up your fists. Private Hart gave vent to a quiet and gentlemanly oath. Please do me the honor to shut your mouth, I should like to read he requests. without the clamor of your big yap roaring in my ears. This is but the opening gun. Almost daily it marks the beginning of r a session of blusters, threats, extravagantly insulting remarks, and repeated invitations from each side for the other to step outside and settle it. Nothing ever comes of it and soon the contending parties tire of the play. Silence reigns again, but its throne is shaky. Private Hart tires of his book and turns to Private Sager. Were you at the dance last night when the redhead got started telling what she thought of Jim Carneys dancing? two-year-o- ld half-hou- ht the back steps after Lights Out and bat the breeze far into the night, no simple and understandable English word is used where a weird and outlandish concoction can be substituted. Water is GI lemonade. Salt is sand or Lots wife; pepper is specks; sugar is sweetening compound. Milk is cat beer; butter, dogfat. Ketchup is blood. In the untiring imagination of the soldier, green peas become China berries; hominy grits are glamorized into Georgia ice cream; rice is swamp seed. Potatoes become Irish grapes; prunes change to strawberries; hot cakes become blankets. Bread is punk and creamed beef on toast is punk and salve. Meat loaf and hash are kennel rations. It is strictly against the code of the Army to say a complimentary word about the food or the cook, no matter how good the food is or how hard the cook labors to make it so. Oscar of the Waldorf in the Army, would still be either a or a Back at the News, the boys in the composing room and the mailing department used to send greenhorns searching all over the building for erasing ink, striped or dotted ink, paper stretchers, and other non existent items. Here, a new and gullible man is sent for the cannon report, or for the biscuit gun, the flagpole key, or the rubber flag which is used on rainy days. Here are some of the most popular figures of speech: Army Bible the Articles of War; regulations. Barrage a party, especially where the Demon Rum rears its ugly head. Blanket drill sleep. Butchershop a dispensary or hospital. By the numbers like clockwork; with precision and efficiency. Chili bowl regulation haircut. Chest hardware medals. Didie pins the gold bars of a second lieutenant. Dog robber an orderly. The eagle money. On payday, the eagle flies. slum-burn- belly-robbe- er r. Front and center come for- ward. Flying time sleep. Gashouse a beer joint. Glue honey. Goof off to make a mistake. - Handshaking playing up to superiors. the higher Higher brass ranks of officers. Hollywood corporal an acting corporal. Holy Joe the chaplain. the garbage Honey wagon truck. Housewife a soldiers sewing kit. Jubilee reveille, which is too revelee. often pronounced y Mother Machree a alibi. Pocket lettuce paper money. canteen checks Pontoon checks, good for credit at the post exchange. k Ride the sickbook to the easy way by pretending to be ill. Shoulder hardware the shoulder insignia of a commissioned officer. sob-stor- gold-bric- (TO BE CONTINUED) |
