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Show Friday, workers can obtain extra supplies of ' gasoline to get to employment in mining or smelting areas. Service will i The Employment j make every attempt to place all applicants in other essential Indus- - LOOKING AHEAD GEORGE S. BENSON College FcesiskHt-JfardiH- g Searcy. Jrkansat Noble American wives are husbands' drafted w see their willing to fight to ba; japs for freedom, bayonet d jungles. ' But in rhat wife is willing to chance her d husbands life so some other man can grab a government useless and fat? Not one! job thats Married men will be called to srins by hundreds in the next two months, by thousands if a new men are added to of draft-ag- e government bureaus. It will surely, the American happen, too, unless people do something about it. General Look at these facts: Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service (no less) said recently that 100,000 married men were to fill Novembers draft quota, It is estimated also that delay the teen-ag- e draft law In passing ould bring 200,000 more married men into the service in December. Already there are 2,700,000 civilians and new m Uncle Sams pay-rol- l, oureaus are being organized making thousands of Washington jobs for men of draft age. How Bureaus Grow ' One example will be enough to show how government bureaus mul-SplEarly in 1942 a manufacturer with a war contract got caught paying bis secretary $30,000 a year. The nation was outraged, and an indignant congress devised a remedy in hai.e. It authorized the Army, Navy ;r.d Maritime Commission each to to correct such sr.t up a bureau ouses. Powers delegated to these bureaus are many and monstrous; iuw Frankenstein, only triplets. These bureaus can make their own rules and enforce them arbi Irarlly. They can change the terms of contracts already made. They an allow one company more profit than another, both doing the same work. They can not speed the war effort. Already they have each a ceriu'sl board and are busy setting us branches in various cities, outlined with lawyers, auditors and technical advisors a plenty. Cctly in The purpose of all this organization is called renegotiation, mean,-m- g to figure all war contracts over again and change them if they show loo much' profit for anybody. It is going to lake a lot of help. The Navy had only 1,000 men at such work oh July 1, 1941; a year later 4,000 and the Navy has only 10 per cant of the estimated three million contracts, to be renegotiated. Don't you beYou might ask: lieve in eliminating excessive profits I most cerfrom war contracts? tainly do! I want every dollar of boodle vCrung out of them ina way that will not consume the energies of thousands of men who might better be doing something to help win President Roosevelt, in the war. bis famous September 7th address, He said Recapture told us how. through taxation all war profits not necessary tcy maintain sufficient war And the Presidents production. fever-infeste- able-bodie- y, y. Man-Pow- A ' Faced with a shortage of criti- cal war materials, .produced by western mines and smelters, the Nations War Manpower Commis- is making a direct appeal to persons, but especailly farmers and agricultural workers whose harvest work has now ended, to register with the United States Employment Service for jobs in and smelters. Mr. John R. McCusker of Den- ver, Regional Director of the War Commission, has stated that unless agricultural workers now idle, will accept temporary employment during the winter months, there may be an acute of metals for the American armed forces by spring. must Every loyal American make this war his individual re- Mr. McCusker said, sponsibility, in a communication to Mr. Joseph S. Mayer, State Director of the U. S. Employment Service in Utah, Farm workers can be assured that if they accept other employment at this time they will be given an immediate release to return to ag- riculture as soon as spring arrives, The U. S. Employment Service will issue referral cards so that these tries, as well as mining, but work in and nonferrous mines receive first attention because SUCh wjrk is considered of tremen-sio- n dous importance to the war pro-a- ll gram. American men in the armed forces cannot successfully fight a war Without adequate supplies and adequate help at home. It is the patriotic duty of every person sible to take employment at this time, Every hour lost, every day wasted may mean the tragic, necessary death of an American soldier in a distant land. , "As fall work on the farms and ranches is completed thousands 0f men can turn to other occu-lac- k pations for a few months, with the assurance of the War Man- power Commission that as soon as necessary they may return to do their usual occupation. During slack monuhs no man should sit idle during this most critical time in our national history. Wages are good. Many employers are remov- mg restrictions against age or Old as well as young handicaps. persons can help their Country in this hour of need. Request this work at once at your nearest U. S. Employment Service Office. pos-min- es YOUR GROCER started this war : GREETINGS The office of Price administration has exempted Christmas trees : j from maximum price regulations, I Cache county school , district but has asked timber owners -ho has 23 ffiore students enrolled hold prices at last years level. ; this year as compared with last year, according to the annual census reported figures j school ! today by Superintendent J. W. Kirkbride. A total of 4760 students are enrolled as compared with 4737 j last year. - There was a slight decrease in the districts popu-- j MADE TO ORDER lation of - school age youths. There are 4948 persons between We make the Best Cloth Win' the ages of 6 and 17 in the dis- dow Shades just to fit your trict, as compared with 4956 last Windows. year. j A total of 114 youths, 62 boys NEW CLOTH ON 52 girls, are legally excused ; and and 28 boys and 11 j from school OLD ROLLERS The girls not legally' excused. both width and length Measure greatest number of those legally to insure fit. excused are the 21 married persons. Nineteen are excused as being mentally unable to beneVENETIAN fit by instruction. Others are BLINDS excused for necessary employGet away from the crowd when ment to meet while agreeing ' Are Still Available . . . We you can. Keep yourself to your- - school requirements during the Make the Best There Is. f W hUrS year, working on jobs where ade. LOGAN, UTAH da !iArthur Brisbane is , quate educational opportunity reasons. and for other j available, By Williajn Marion Reedy Merry Christmas to you all. Let yourself surrender to the season. Dont be afraid or ashamed to be a bit soft toward everybody. Obey that Throw impulse to kindness. off that inhibition on spontaneous friendliness. Note how it gets you more than you give. Reflect how splendid it would be to carry the feeling on beyond Christmas always. Dont let the horror and misery of the great war oppress you. In the conflict men are giving all they have and are for ideals. They are making and shaping a new world and a better one, building it with the supreme sacrifice of self. This world is what we make it. The love habit will beautify and sweeten it. Every little bit helps to make a mighty fire of love eventually to burn all hate away. (Merry Christmas. ' . ) ' - . - , i . - except , . except trying less gasoline i ' Even so your grocer isnt crying for sympathy. . to satisfy you with a smaller variety J foods than of youre.'1 used to -- ! except wondering why he doesnt shut up his store and take a good job elsewhere that will pay him more money and let him sleep at night. ,H except trying x7 ! except or did be? . . BLINDS - - And he hadnt a worry in the world Vv WINDOW trying to keep his business going with higher expenses, less profits, fewer products, and more taxes or did he? f e I j A man who gives his child- -' Worfc at ren habits of industry provides Hemstitching the ,C. A. Nielsen home. Mrs. for them better than by giving I Mervin N. them a fortune. Whately: He took the cans away from the canners, the labor away from the farmers, the tires away from the draymen or did he? t Tv, - ' Leave t, " ! I er He sank the ships that carried your coffee Christmas Trees Exempt From Price Control Cache Schools .Show Increase In Population CHRISTMAS , BY Page Five SOUTH CACHE COURIER December 18, 1942 " T" to serve you with less help, less goods, ' f i He knows you have your own problems, too. But he is Saying, if you will cooperate with him he can make life easier for you. For instance well, let Mrs. Smith give you a few tips: plan will work. Excessive Profits Rare It is a known fact that the Excess Profits Tax already in force drains 90 per cent of excessive profits out of war contracts. But these new boards pay no attention to that. all contracts. Here They is a fair example: If a farmer had tract turned 90 acres of a and found ten with a gang-ploacres of odd patches unbroken, he might resort to smaller tools, but he would not hire men to spade the whole 100 acres. The Presidents plan to recapture excessive war profits would not because it squander would utilize the Bureau of Internal Revenue instead of organizing three new bureaus, one each in the Army, the Navy and the Maritime Commission. Congressman Wesley E. Disney, who long has been a leader in seeking to eliminate waste in government, recently tried to amend the law to conserve but with little visible success. The Disney Plan The Disney amendment provided that whenever a firm, working on government contracts, showed a profit, after taxes, lower than 2 per cent of the contract price, such contracts could not be renegotiated. He said this would get around 95 per cent of the figuring, and heres why: There is already a 90 per cent Excess Profits Tax in force, and hardly one firm in 20 can pay it and have 2 per cent profit left. For my part, I believe it would have saved thousands of men and millions of dollars. But the boards were busy organizing when Mr. Disneys amendment was offered; they fought it and killed it. Now, while married men take up arms and leave their wives to run their farms, other men of like age will be getting soft bureaucratic well paid jobs. Urging your congressman to do something about it can still help. The Disney amendment would have helped greatly. This article is being published in about 1,000 county newspapers. It is my sincere opinion that congress pays more attention to readers of rural papers than to any other group. Congress recognizes that people who live on farms and in small towns are the sanest, most conservative and most dependable segment of the nation. I appeal to rural America to make its voice heard to 100-ac- man-pow- man-powe- save man-powe- r. r, I Four easy steps to HELP YOURSELF by helping YOUR SRGOER of a century, our advertising has been telling FOR over a quarter about Del Monte Products and Del Monte Quality. We felt that this was the biggest service we, as a company, could that the opportunity to buy a wide variety of give consumers fruits, vegetables, juices, dried fruits, coffee and other foods, all under one dependable label, meant greater satisfaction for all with less guesswork, less waste, less lost time for everybody. Plan for a Week No two meals the same, no Buy for a Week That way, you make one trip do the work of several. one dish too often! Thats the great advantage of planning ahead. To help you do it, weve prepared a handy little folder "The Del Monte Wartime Meal Planner. Gives you a simple form for writing out a whole weeks menus. See if your own grocer cant give you a copy. If not, use coupon below. Today, you cant choose as freely as you have in the past. Many of these foods are going to the army and navy. But we feel that Del Monte advertising can be of- even greater service today to you, to your grocer, to the whole country. To win the war we must all work together. 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