Show Views of the Nations Nation's Press I Ordinarily we dont don't have much truck with do zealots and reformers But today we weare weare weare are going to propose the organization organization organization of a reform group which might be called the Society for the Prevention of the Debasement Debasement Debasement Debase Debase- ment of Christmas s Music Christmas as a strictly commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial proposition usually gets into the swing the minute Thanksgiving Thanksgiving- day has been disposed disposed disposed dis dis- dis- dis posed of From then on until Christmas eve the downtown air is made hideous with mechanically mechanically mechanically cally produced noises which can be recognized as mangled and carols The general effect is to make shopping still harder on everyone's nerves and to sensitive people especially to those who still occasionally think of Christmas in the traditional and religious sense the he of traditional religious music is Baltimore offensive Baltimore Sun Know any city slicker who has always wanted to be a farm boy 1 Hell He'll have his llis chance next year if it h hes he's s 's around and wants it because Minnesota's shortage of f farm rm workers will be much greater than it was this season And that was bad enough with selective service and defense in industry industry in- in drawing away young people people peo peo- people who normally worked in agri agri- culture This year alone the state di division division dl- dl vision of employment and se security security security se- se placed workers in farm jobs and that wasn't enough In 1942 nearly every worker who can handle a farm job will have a chance at it it The farmer as producer of a avital avital avital vital commodity food has proper cause for concern that he have an assured labor supply He needs and apparently will have consideration both from state officials and from the selective selective se se- se service system Certainly farming must be planned for in the total scheme of allocation of man power to the nations nation's war needs Minne linne Minne Minneapolis apolis apoti Star Peru Wan the Japanese department of Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia university informs us is Japanese for Remember Pearl Harbor We venture to predict that the American soldiers sailors sailors sailors sail sail- ors and marines out there in the Pacific will never learn to say it in Japanese the A E F discovered discovered discovered ered during the first World war that doughboys who didn't know a word of German were able to tomake tomake tomake make themselves clear through a sort of sign language executed by bayonets Perhaps in digging for Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese phrases to tickle American vocal cords the Columbia lingUists linguists linguists lin lin- lin- lin have unearthed a reason for Nippon's current misconduct There are no Japanese words for Yes and No The gentlemen gentlemen gen gen- in Tokyo m may may y yet wish they had been able to say No Noto Noto to Adolf Hitler Ch Chicago Chicago cago Sun |