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Show THE PAGE TWO NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- Thursday, February 22, lfl SEWING Calls 'Hydromania' Threat To U. S. fe By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator, WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. As the prospects of fat public major industries. He estimates that the total expenditure in hunting and fishing, including licenses, equipworks budgets for the postwar area ment and other incidentals, reaches rise on the Washington scene, the a billion dollars a year and therefore planners, big and little, rush up to constitutes a major American indusdrop their pet blueprints into the try and one which should be protected. hopper. Reid also stresses the esthetic and Recently, I witnessed the prelimig naries of a move, recreational values destroyed in the something that might be called a building of great dams and reserprophylactic effort to save some of voirs as well as by the pollution of the beneficiaries of governmental streams. projects from being killed by too Pollution much kindness. This effort is embodied in a bill presented by Rep. Health Peril The security feature which has Karl Mundt of South Dakota, and I heard a sort of informal preview of been emphasized in the present war some of the testimony that will be when the bombing of dams has offered before the committee on riv- caused such destruction, is another ers and harbors in its behalf. argument seized upon by Mr. Reid. The bill is H.R. 519 and it deals His specific example of this phase with protection against pollution of of the argument sent a shudder down the country's waterways. It was in my back when he offered as an Ilthe course of the preview discussion lustration the construction of 14 mathat I heard another affliction, jor dams in the Potomac watershed strongly advocated re"hydromania," a cure for which which was If this project had gone cently. to to find. is be harder said It may result from "overindulgence in dam- through, he told me, my home town the seat of our government ming." It is not mentioned in the and Mundt bill but the connection is ob- would have been made "extremely vulnerable to air attack through vious. The purpose of Mr. Mundt' s meas- breaching of the big dams that would be immediately above Washington." ure is at follows: "The engineer's desire," says Mr. "To prevent pollution of the waters of the United States and to cor- Reid solemnly, "to pour concrete in rect existing water pollution as a prodigious quantities, impound great vital necessity to public health, eco- areas of water behind magnificent nomic welfare, healthful recreation, monuments to engineering, dig navigation, the support of invalu- ditches and canals, bore tunnels and able aquatic life, and as a logical otherwise remake the landscape of and desirable postwar public wbrks America, is quite irrepressible." ' However, what he and his program." As I say, Mr. Mundt doesn't men- colleagues are now most concerned tion hydromania in his bill, but one in eradicating is pollution and that, of his close friends who had much I think, will meet the approval of to do with writing the legislation has. most people even if they won't go He is Kenneth Reid, executive secall the way with Mr. Reid concernretary of the Isaac Walton league. ing hydromania. Since the proposed legislation has Protection against pollution, the also to do with the problem of pro- proponents of the Mundt bill insist, tecting our piscatorial and aquatic "won't cost a thin dime" because life, I want to quote a few of Mr. the money saved by eliminating the Reid's observations on one kind of rneed of purifying polluted water will "lulling with kindness" which fre- more than make up for it quently accompanies Besides destruction of aesthetic government spending. and property values, it is pointed Mr. Reid I should call a "hydrc-phile- ," out that pollution is a growing menfor he ardently pleads the ace to health. The Mundt bill would case for what he refers to as "the give the states every chance to clean orphan stepchild" of our natural re- up their own situations but, it is arsources water. Conservation of the gued, "since streams flow by gravland is pretty well understood but ity without any regard for state water, says Mr. Reid, "has been boundaries pollution is logically and dammed and diverted, drained and constitutionally a matter for federal polluted, stolen and wasted, with ut- control." ter disregard of existing natural Provisions to take care of these values, with bland unconcern for its various angles are included in the biological functions and its public, Mundt bill. Such measures in the aquatic and recreational values." past have been opposed by some "From the early days of our na- communities which thought it was tion down to the present time," he cheaper to dump their sewage in the continues (and this is where hydro-mani- a rivers, and by industrial plants that comes in), "water has run felt the same way. the gantlet of a horde of engineers (whether private or governmental, Although machines compete with makes no difference) who see in a humans and with horses and mules running stream or a sparkling lake in this war, the dog, never before only the material uses to which the used officially by American forces, water can be put." has become the competitor of mechanized devices. Existence of A dog, by his sense of smell, can Fish Menaced detect a strange presence at 500 feet. Reid is an engineer himself and Is Up to October 1 of last year the not unsympathetic with the great army, coast guard and marines had achievements of his profession. But used over 8.000 trained dogs. his colleagues sometimes outrun The first thing a K-as they are n their zeal and he appears perturbed called, learns, is to be a lest postwar public works activities dog. They won't accept food from threaten our lakes and rivers, their any but their masters nor will they natural beauty and all that Is in allow anyone else to pet them. Then them. the training gets more complicated What he is fighting Is the kind of and Includes even parachute jumptngineering activity, stimulated by ing. But there is one thing that grants-in-aifrom the federal gov- these otherwise clever animals cannot be taught, namely, to tell enemy ernment, which will damage the waterways and their inhabitants, flora troops from their own. This has one and fauna. On the other hand, he is advantage, however they don't ill for the encouragement of treat a German wearing an Americonstruction which will can uniform any differently than if work in the opposite direction. he weren't an enemy in disguise. He thinks we have overdone the Soldiers sometimes do. lamming; he questions the economy of reclaiming land at a great capital Demand for farm products is likecost per acre with certain irrigation ly to continue at present wartime projects. These, Reid opines, like- levels throughout most of 1945. Rewise often destroy fish by cutting gardless of the course of the war them off from their spawning the demand for many farm prodgrounds. He mentions the dams in ucts, at ceiling prices, may conthe Columbia river which, he says, tinue to exceed supplies In 1945. threaten a ten million dollar annual Consumers' food costs In large lalmon take. cities In recent months have been That Is the effect of hydromania slightly lower than they were in midand summer. The index for November, resulting from ansclfish but unwise use of the 1944, was 136.5 as compared with art. He points out that any- 137.7 in August and the peak of 143.0 in May, 1943. Nonfood costs have thing which kills fishes and interferes with the nation's wildlife is in- been following a somewhat differterfering with one of the nation's ent trend. counter-balancin- over-genero- one-ma- d engi-aeerit- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and a chain is no longer than the line he has to stand in to get tha links to chain-smoker- Chain-smok- e with. 's by Baukhage The character of the Jap boy, says the Infantry Journal, is patterned after the carp. He is taught to fight his way everlastingly upstream. And waiting to catch him, they might add, is a Yank with a bayo net. Now that there is a shortage of there will be a shortage of grease to turn in to get coupons to with. get fat-bac- k fat-bac- k mm Munitions Schedule Greatly Stepped Up To Meet Demands Expert Charges Disregard for Natural Values In Engineering Projects; Sees Danger To Wild-LiEspecially Acute. The Russians had a chance to get "on to Berlin" before the rest of us In more senses than one. Until they could lick 'em they were smart enough to join 'em. To obtain complete cutting pattern nnmnlrg dlrecusBS lor tha Nebraska Leaf Quilt (Pattern No. 6830). amounts of materials specified, send cents In coin, your name, address and pattern number. Due to an unusually large demand current war cfnainsiu. Bumiuy mm is reqalre4 In filling orders for a few the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: ' Water Resources BARBS CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Army and Navy Turn to Rocket Weapons Nebraska Oak Leaf Heirloom Qui As Answer to Need for More Fire Power 58 30 War rockets are not new. 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The picture shows a ground crewman loading one of the bazookas. Three of the big rockets are standing on Heirloom Quilt. end in front of one of the wheels in the foreground. This plane is also ""THIS handsome quilt belonged to with eight machine armed guns. Rockets, however, were never Mary Gregg McCollum who used before in 20th century warfare. hides. Similar in to the Now standard for all navy amphibi- lived in Kearney, Nebraska, sixty principle In this war these projectiles Fourth of or more years ago. Faded to a July skyrocket, these new ous operations is the rocket weapon have become important and destrucrockets are artillery type weapons, that was used successfully in the soft pink on white, it was doubttive weapons. Their considerable with the rockets equivalent to invasions of North Africa, Sicily, less a bright turkey red "oak leaf use in combat is one of the principal shells and the being devices Italy, and France, in the landings when as a bride she went from launching weapon innovations of this war. to guns. Fired from tubes on Arawe and subsequent landings Berea, Kentucky, to Nebraska. equivalent The twenty-inc- h block is put toAmazing expansion of use and pro- that vary in length and diameter in the Pacific. duction of American rockets, since according to the gether in four separate sections of rocket, the Blast Shore Installations. type the bazooka was invented in 1941, weapons have warheads carrying exLCIs (landing craft, infantry) at- the leaf itself is 7 inches. has been reported by the army, the plosives, or smoke, or incendiary tacked with rockets at Kwajalein, navy and the Office of Scientific Re- chemicals. The tube that extends to Eniwetok, Guam. Several thousand search and Development. the rear of the warhead contains rockets were hurled at Japanese The increase in rocket production, the propellent, a material that, after shore installations by LCIs on Guam. of course, based on increased rebeing electrically ignited, generates These rockets were fired by elecquirements for rockets to use in expanding gas. The gas, pushing trical control from multiple banks combat, is shown by these facts: against the head, forces the rocket of launchers that had been welded In November, 1944, the navy's bu- forward. to forward well decks. reau of ordnance reported that by M-Operational and tactical reports of develwas that The rocket, Telling All the end of the first quarter or early a 4.5 rocket successes from field comMother (opening refrigerator) in the second quarter of 1945, the oped after the bazooka, is When Inch projectile that equals in fire- manders and in various theaters of Sonny, did you pick all the white war navy would be, spending approxihave increased over meat medium oft markedly this chicken? the artillery 1942. mately $100,000,000 per month on power After analyzing the wide deM-- 8 cut like weighs only 38 Sonny Well, mother, to make a rocket ammunition alone, which Is gun. TheThe rocket struction of enemy ground targets clean s launcher, of did. pounds. I breast it, as much as is now being spent per by rocket-firin- g of the Ninth weighs 35 to 40 pounds, while a month on all types of naval ammu12 air force, the operational research Kick-Bac- k approximately gun weighs nition. 2 The launcher costs only section of the force recommended Buffer How can you smoke a rank In December, 1944, however, the tons. a while gun complete more extensive use of airborne rock- cigar like this? $104, ets. navy's bureau of ordnance said that costs $8,406. Puffer I can't. Thafs the one you in a few months navy rocket producSince 1941 American rocket re- gave me yesterday. s Clear the Way. tion would be stepped up by nearly search and have been SOOTHED QUICKLY! S00 per cent. The navy put M-- 8 rockets to their forwarded bydevelopment the war and navy deFigures Count The army, which placed its first first real test in the Pacific amphibiIf I'm going to be a partments, working with scientists Cracked lips so cruel, and painful! Jasper of the Office of Scientific Research lawyer, why should I bother to Caused when raw, bitter weather dries skin cells, leaves them "thirsty." and Development The latter is re- study mathematics? Skin may crack, bleed. Mentholatum sponsible, among other things, for acta medicinally: (1) Stimulates local Joan You'll need it to sum up initiating and supporting scientific your cases. blood supply. (2) Helps revive research on weapons of war. The thirsty cells so they can retain needed moisture. For sore hands, lips air technical service command techA junk yard near a railroad Mentholatum. In jars or tubes, 804. nicians, the army ordnance depart- crossing displays this sign: "Go ment, and civilian scientists of the ahead, take a chance. We'll buy N.D.R.C. group, developed airborne tha car!" rockets for tactical use in the war after only two years of research at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, and other proving grounds. While rockets have great fire power and mobility, and may be fired without recoil, which increases their adaptability for use where guns cannot be employed, only when fired from high speed aircraft are they of " ' w. pinpoint accuracy. Ground forces action . . rockets have great possibilities as a barrage weapon. Rocket launchers, in th or Two men with a bazooka can blast a hole in a medium tank. This as compared with guns, are relastrange weapon, nevertheless. Is light to carry and easy to handle. The tively simple and cheap to manufacfor gratify- mixing bowl forward man holds the tube and alms It, while the rear man loads the ture in mass production, according rocket missile. There is no recoil, since the tube Is open at both ends. to the National Defense Research in ing The rocket pushes against the air instead of a breech block. council and the army and navy. rocket orders of this war in 1941, ous operations. By the time the Euin ropean theater invasion began, $1,000,000 had approximately craft had become esrocket contracts during 1942. Dur- rocket-firin- g sential equipment for landings on ing 1943, the expanding rocket prox mm m MOua duction program had abot op by hostile beaches. On the WITH WMO POWft GUMS ITtAflNG UAGfl theater M-- rockets, fired S.400 per cent over that of 1942. 1 And in 1944 the program was further by army air force Mustang Increased by another. 400 per cent fighter planes, carrying six rockets over 1943 production, according to each, destroyed in 290 rounds of firthe army ordnance department. MM nut KMTt ing six large warehouses, 12 medium-weiMG cnm civu f , t warehouses, one foundry, oooo ftHfttonoM During 1945 the army will be sized spending approximately $12,000,000 four locomotives, 10 Japanese airI satno cno per month on rocket ammunition craft, two river boats and four nawrfn alone, while the navy will produce tive shacks; and damaged two mediwarehouses. Ova medium-rockets for all branches of the um-sized cnMe sized armed forces and will be responsibuildings, one locomotive, 13 aircraft. and ble for loading and testing the proJapanese Airacobras. Lightnings, jectiles. The army will be responsible for the manufacture of a rocket Thunderbolts, Warhawks, propellent charge that will not dis- as well as the Mustangs, are the solve in ordinary solvents, such as fighter planes equipped with rockwater, and of rockets of sizes not ets by the army air forces. Grumman Avenger torpedo planes and produced by the navy. such lighter navy fighter planes as New Types More Powerful. Rockets used by the American Hellcats have been armed with rockarmed forces today. Including the ets. Navy carrier task forces are navy's latest type airplane rocket using rockets in and the latest plane type used by quantity. the army air forces, are even more Army air force fighter planes, potent weapons than the bazooka, carrying rockets slung in underwlng mounts, have combined rocket firs which was the army's anti-tanrocket first put into production in with bombing to destroy concentra1941, and first used in combat in the tions of armored vehicles, rail lines, urn mm North African invasions. According rolling stock, trucks and troop conto the National Defense Research voys, light field fortifications such as For greater 'penetration, as well committee, rockets are accurate bunkers, pillboxes, artillery emweapons when fired from high speed placements, radio installations, and as more accuracy, a rocket bomb aircraft. And the navy reports that light naval and cargo craft, both In has been developed. A propelling rockets fired from planes can be pin- Europe and in the charge Is set off hist as the bomb leaves th dive bomber. This added theater of war. pointed on the target. ,. . ,.v.... ,, ...fc ..MfcA.. For more than two years the navy Impulse speeds op the missile's deIn this war American rockets are 1griltj scent and consequently Its Impact fired from naval craft, aircraft, and has been using a type of rocket with the target Is more forceful. from the ground or from ground ve- - weapon against Axis submarines. P-4- 7 er well-kno- 8 winter 105-m- M-1- 2, M-8'- P-4- 7s 105-m- a knife. M-1- 195-m- CHAPPED LIPS M-8- Birdb!o mtll llJ fJIIj U''! P$''ve mPnrlfbM Rocket Bombs resu,t action ... jf!tf2fr DTVf 8 P-5- 1 rw P-3- 8 P-4- 0 ... t- MaBaaaMB-BMikMHMBHISMMMaMM-.-- MB J' P-3- 9 P-4- 7 I Wtt g k Y' Air Corps Will Use Jet - Propelled Fighters on Japanese Front of the of United States air the wide its short The fighter plane, now constituting a rapidly growing segment of the aircraft production in this country, will displace "to great degree" the standard type of fighter-escor- t craft in the war against Japan, according to war production officials. Scheduled increases In the output for this year are described as "terrific" and by 1!M6, it was stated, production of the new plane may -Hke It the largest single Item in range craft types. The Germans are using a plane on the western front in combat 8R;iinst Allied bombers and their flghtrr escorts. It Is acknowledged to have as principal advantage the speed with which it can attack and thi n elude conventional American fighter planes. American aircraft designers and engineers are trying to eliminato what appears to be the chief dis advantage rang. Because of its prodigious consumption of fuel. It Is necessary that the plane be close to Its base for frequent refueling. Until the range Is lengthened, its use as a bomber escort will be confined to raids against targets reasonably close to sources of fuel supply, experts point out. They add confidently, however, that the short range will not always be an obstacle to extensive use of the plane. QUICK Yes, Ben-Ga- y gives t&pt, welcome relief from pain and discomfort due to stiff neck. That's because it contains up to 2 Vi times more methyl salicylate and menthol famous agents that every doctor knows than five other widely offered For soothing relief, make sure you get genuine, Bon Gay I pain-relievi- rub-in- s. quick-actin- g -- |