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Show LEHI FKEE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH NATIONAL AFFAIRS Rtvitwtd by CARTER FIELD Home Front Strengthened By Army of Rural Women Help Keep Nation's Larder Full Nazi War Losses in Russia Not Surprising ChurchUl ToU.S Expects German $ Collapse by Christmas . . . Bell Syndicate WNU Feature. WASHINGTON. Official Britain has been greatly surprised by what it regards as the lack of interest in the United States in that part of Winston Churchill's recent broadcast, which related to German casualties in the Russian campaign. The men around Mr. Churchill, according to reports just received here, had expected to see headlines six inches high on the front page of every American newspaper on this feature. When the first U. S. papers telling of the broadcast arrived in London you could have knocked them over with the proverbial feather. They even cabled their embassy in Washington to find out what had happened. Had the been all - important paragraphs smothered by static or what? The item ' in question here is Churchill's statement that Nazi losses on the Russian front already had passed the total German losses in World War No. 1. He did not mention the number. A few American writers and commentators dug up the fact that German killed, alone, in World War No. 1, num- bered more than 1,700,000. So that if more than 1,700,000 German soldiers have been killed in Russia since June last it is tremendously important. Officials Disappointed . Now let's look at the background to the tremendous disappointment in British officialdom that the United States newspapers did not run to display on this. Acbig front-pagofficials knew that British the tually a Mr. Churchill was exploding bombshell. Yet so far as America was concerned it was a dud. They probably thought that by this time their own painstaking habit of checking and rechecking before making any claim, and the obvious understatement which this process produces, would have been properly appraised in America. It has been reported here by virtually every returned correspondent. But it hasn't been fully appreciated. So here's a tip to Mr. Churchill for any future statement he may make which he expects to electrify America. This is the way he should have expressed thai point which the U. S. papers played down: "You have not known what to believe about what was happening in Russia. You have been highly skeptical about both Nazi and Soviet claims. But the British government, which toever claims a Nazi plane has been shot down unless somebody BESIDES the flier who did the shooting SAW and REPORTED it, has The British checked the figures. government, through its own sources exclusively; and with triple check ing to see that no dead Nazi sol dier was counted twice, can inform you that more than 1,700,000 Nazi troops have been killed, ana propor and tionate numbers captured wounded, in Russia since the Nazi invasion of that country began last June." That statement would have gotten headlines. Although Mr. Churchill would express it much better, it is an accurate statement of the facts before him at the time. Which, considering how skeptical some of us have been about the Soviet claims, is the best news yet, e, Can Germany Face Another Winter of Fighting? Putting together two of Winston Churchill's statements in recent speeches, it is a rather simple de duction that he really hopes for the war to end by Christmas, so far as Hitler is concerned, THIS Christ mas. Not the end of the war by that timeJapan will remain to be dealt with but the collapse of Hitler. The first of these two statements was in his broadcast, when he said that Nazi losses in Russia alone so far had exceeded total German losses of World War No. 1. He men tioned no figures, but more than 1,700,000 Germans were killed, not counting wounded and captured, in World War No. 1. The second was that while we had not yet reached the crest, we were In sight of it! The "crest" , is when Germany faces another winter of fighting in Russia! That will smash morale behind the German lines, Mr. Church ill believes, when the cold of next November turns into the bitter frigidity of December along that Russian battle line. Mr. Churchill is assuming, in this premise, that we will reach the "crest" now in sight. That means he does not believe there will be such a Nazi victory in the warm weather of this summer as to prevent the collapse of German morale when cold weather sets in. In short, he does not believe the Germans will win through to the oil fields of the Caucasus this sum mer." Otherwise, we would be driven back out of sight of the "crest" in the next few months. this about. In Iowa, a man and a have been sewoman lected for every school district of about 16 families. They get the latest information on victory gardens, the buying of war bonds, legislation, and other war activities, and see that all of the 18 neighbors know and understand. Victory Gardens. idea was carThe victory-garde- n ried to all farm families through these neighborhood leaders. The secretary of agriculture called for 5 million farm home gardens, and this meant a garden on practically every farm. In some states, every farm home was visited and seeds supplied to those who could not afford to buy them. The neighborhood women are also following through with information on care of gardens, control of insects, and preservation of surplus vegetables. Mrs. M. O. Lawrence, a Mississippi leader, tells her neighbors: "If all farm families will grow all they and their city children need to eat, it will release all the factory-cannevegetables for those who cannot grow them and for the countries resisting aggression. So, farm wives, let us join hands and do this and help to win the war to save democracy." Another leader in a Virginia mountain community which has been largely on relief reports her activities: "I tell 'em to plant a garden, and they tell me 'Why, I'm on relief; and I tell 'em, 'Maybe so, but you can't eat what ain't.' " When a survey of the food supply was taken in Summit county, Utah, it was found that in the 500 farm homes 95 per cent had space for a garden,: but only 38 per cent had gardens. Armed with these facts, a garden committee was appointed, and leaders selected to visit every farm home. They . discussed the garden possibilities the size of the garden plot, the water supply, the type of soil, and whether the labor was there to care for the garden. Next, letters were sent out listing recommended varieties, giving amounts of vegetables to plant, the time to plant them, and other garden helps. Women in each neigh- - Wives and Daughters For Future Use a common sight to see women driving tractors, feeding livestock, milking and doing practically all kinds of farm work. Generally, these are the farm wives and daughters who. with the help of the older men and the young boys, are not only keeping up production but actually in- T " NEWS i it' 1 Br LEMUEL F. PARTON a 1 snort-enae- This poultry leader helps the women of her club with their poultry problems. She is shown with a few of her 200 baby chicks which, In the future, will help supply the needed 4 billion dozen eggs for the army, industrial workers, home supply and the number promised to the United Nations. .;! cow-testin- health-givin- - culm-teste- d check-ing-u- co-e- ds closely-relate- d, 30-ho- ur 30-ho- ur Women Students Enroll in 'War Aid. Courses "Yei'm," replied the tir! .),.. XT EW YORK. Anton Adrian Muswno 'Seem tort o' tiUy, though. A m- man little gets A' sert is the the poison ivy garland as the Neth- out o' ten it's for you." erlands Quisling. There has been At Least a Relief . t keen compeVoice over phone "Is this v. Uutcn quisling tition be- t, Sofosgoloposis speaking?" Is a Pint Flask tween Himm-ler- 's jno, it is not." Of Pure Poison 'WelL aren't you glad?" man, a von and Ross Tonningen, protege "There was a time when I of Goering, for the above supreme dishonor. Late dispatches indicate lieved my husband, but that was ueiure wc were married." Wife that Mussert has definitely won. case or "wed and court, ai as they found Clinical historians will, wanting. a examine Mussert's career, find classical pattern of the origins and Same Jean The inHnrpments of Ouislineism. Jones They say brunettes hav. scrubbv little boy of the lovely .vil better than blonds. dispositions Holland in south iaee of Werkendan . . : t uunK! ii has hpP jinx jean r m everyuiuig uc was a both, and I never noticed any dif. a had to that in addition and tried, eift for eettine himself disliked by ierence. his schoolmates. Furthermore, he suffered from a delusion that he was a reincarnation of his father Reus Mussert. Reus was a J. Pep giant who smacked everybody down for miles around and became a sort LINK JERRY By the Low Counof Paul Bunyan-itries. Little Anton made many mis calculations in trying to be like He became like Horace's Reus. man" always mad. His aunt paid for his education in civil engineering at the Univer sity of Delft. His wife wanted to be with a grand lady, perhaps and him of a subjugated-Holland- , she and the aunt were always fan ning up his frustrated power mania He did well enough in the univer sity but when he finished they filed him away in a grubby little civil service job. Talkln' to a f rtlow the other day, I A little dash of printer's ink couldn't help think In' that lots of of his boil lanced the folks claim they have an open suppressed mind when the lact o' the matter hatreds, and headed him toward Is it's only vacant. his great betrayal. In 1929, there Which reminds me that if you was a row on between Holland really think straight about vitaand Belgium over a joint canal mins, you'll see why I keep tellln' folks about KELLOQG'S PEP. An' project, and, tearing loose with that's because this swell cereal is some wild invective, he hit the h In the- two vitamins headlines. He formed a new most olten short in ordinary meals And believe me, PEP D. B, and political party, patterned on cereal. is a mighty Mussolini and Fascism, and bedon't you try it tomorrow? Why gan recruiting the less literate section of the country in public yelling matches against "decadent parliamentarianism" and A delicious anal that ntpplia per lerrint "capitalistic plutocracy." Hitler sent him an "atta boy" mes(I oz.)s the full minimum daily need of titamm D; 111 the daily need of rilamm Bu sage and there was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. His domineering aunt made him divorce his wife and marry her. Then she caught him philandering with his pretty stenographer and GIANT jerked him out of the management SALE! of the new party. Holland was vast for g little ly amused by the dictator being owned and operated by his wife, but underestimated his until he gifts as a helped let the Nazis in. Mus-ser- cow-testin- j "You really must answer the the taid in exajotl phone, Clarice," tioru f lit' ff f h WNU Feature!. OmKdldatd Feature 'No, wonder. You've murder Waste of Time Mrt. B tone i had only on 4....I. . find with her maid. She ignored til WEEK --J-1 " lame song? It haunts me." THIS creasing it to meet the national goals for vital foods.' To supply extra farm labor, a women's land army has been organized in Maryland, Connecticut and other places. The University of Maryland trained about 30 women They returned home at twilight, who had enrolled in the land army weary and hungry, to an inadequate in a four weeks' course in poultry, supper. The women got busy. First, Connectiand horticulture, dairy. they had a school canning day when cut's land army furnished help in anyone who had extra fruit and harvesting fruits and vegetables, could bring it to be vegetables cultivating the garden and many canned for the school. They arother chores around the farm. ranged to get surplus commodities The, women are serious about from the department of agriculture their responsibility. Visiting some and a WPA cook. They succeeded farm homes in central Virginia dur in getting a nicely equipped school ing the spring the picture of a lunch building by using the material soldier boy on almost every mantel from two abandoned district schools was noticed a boy who last year and getting NYA boys to build it. was on the farm and this year is in' Now a nutritious hot lunch is served the army. On a big poultry farm, to 150 children each day in an atthe son was in an officer's training tractive, light dining room; and the school while the mother carried on with the same number of chickens, working a little harder and a little longer to send her 150 or 200 dozen eggs to market each day to supply 1 ; Ki eggs for the army, eggs for muni 'W tions workers, eggs for the United Nations more than 4 billion dozen of them needed in 1942. Endeavor. If the Women are going to work on the farm, they have to save time in the house or get extra help there. The women of Marshall county, S. D., have established an employment service for domestic help in the home demonstration agent's office so that women and girls who have some time to spare can help in the farm homes where women are taking more farm responsibility. - In Texas, community sewing centers and canning centers make efficient use of sewing machines and pressure canning equipment and save time and effort for the housewife. Sharing the available equipment is one war measure that farm women's clubs have found very useful. Women are also successfully enThis "hot stove league" helps clarify war aims and needs. Though g field. One these Virginia women like to discuss the situation in tering the general, they have conservative association in Michi- pledged themselves to be careful in avoiding unconfirmed information, gan finally agreed to try out girl Community clubs such as this are focal points in many rural areas. testers because they were very anxg ious to. continue their borhood volunteered as demonstrachildren, according to their teachwork; but, said these gentlemen, she tion gardeners, keeping , accurate ers, are much more alert and in must wear overalls or slacks we records of when the garden was terested in cleaning up their school won't stand for shorts on our cow planted and sprayed, the cost in grounds, collecting salvage, and oth testers. time and money, the amount of pro- er community activities, as well as If the home front is to be a strong duce, used by the family, sold, in their studies. ' bulwark supporting our fighting canned, and stored. Neighbors can School Health Survey. forces, every man, woman- - and visit the demonstration garden and The women of the Potterstown, child must understand and contrib- find out all about the methods used. club, though liv ute. Women in rural districts are Gardens are really flourishing in ft.y., inhomemakers' a community where the av ing taking a leading part in bringing Summit county, and the women are erage income of farmers was less growing and learning to use new than $300, decided that the health of vegetables as their share in keep- all their children was their respon g foods on sibility. Because the school was un ing plenty of the home front. der suspicion of tuberculosis, thev ' Garden Total Doubled. asked the county health department South Dakota's garden goals called to conduct a survey of the school. for just twice as many gardens as The entire student body was tuberhad ever been grown there before. with reactors When all of the gardens are countPublic drinking cups were done ed, it looks as if the goal will have away with and sanitary drinking been reached with 57,500 victory fountains installed. A free hot lunch for all 60 children was established. gardens to supply health-givin- g As the women look about their vegetables for South Dakota's farm xf families. own community to find out just how In times of war it is even more strong that sector of the home front essential that the health and safety is, they feel the need of more train of children be insured, and this is ing in nutrition, first aid, and home woman's job. The great increase nursing. In practically every rural in hot school lunches and in clinics community in many states, rural for school children and preschool women have conscientiously come children is an indication of a p into town to take a 20- - or on this sector of the home class. In Brazos county, Texas, 120 front. When the women of Mountain women enrblled in a Red View community, Va., began to Cross course in home one nursing, check up, they found that some chil- woman living in a 23 This efficient dairy maid is help- dren were coming from isolated rmies irom the nearestcommunity doctor. Epi ing farm women meet war produc- farms high up on the mountains and demics oi measles and mumps in tion goals. The use of dairy prodwalking several miles to meet the Brazos county recently gave these ucts has been stepped op commenschool bus fortified by a very slen- women an opportunity to put their surate with the war effort. der breakfast and bringing no lunch. new Knowledge into practice. New Use for Feed Bars. Women's clubs have found many omer After an extensive survey of the al engineering, psychology, physical For ways to neip the war alone. example, the home demonstra nation's need for trained women in education, home economics. tion clubs oi Wicomico county, Md., various occupations, the PennsylThese courses are designed to pre--' receivea a request lor 100 emer vania State college has made avail- pare for such occupations as gency stretchers to be placed at able nearly 100 courses for its womaccountant meabstractors, clerks, strategic points throughout the en students, all d to the teorological assistants, statistical county. war effort. clerks, translators, typists, stenogAs the stretchers were to be made Among the elective courses rec- raphers in research institutes, fruit of three feed bags, letters were sent ommended for women are jour- and vegetable growing specialists, to local feed dealers and farm fami. nalism, commerce, mathematics, inspection work at canneries, Tear- lies urging them to contribute their French, German, Spanish, short-ban- ing and marketing chickens, farm empty Three hundred and typing, horticulture, poultry and household mechanics, aides In twenty-nv- e bags. bags were left at the husbandry, bacteriology, agricultur nutrition and chemical laboratories. nome demonstration agent a office. - Eerie "Why do you always sine d . w&a&Sa . " anti-inflati- If victory begins at home, it is up to the women to start it. So you will find rural women today, individually, in small groups and in large groups, figuring out what needs to be done to strengthen the home front and doing it. First and foremost, the pro duction of food must not be in terrupted, even if husbands, brothers, sons and hired men are all called to the army or accept positions in war industry. Food must be produced and plenty of it. Traveling in almost any part of the country, it is A WHO'S great-gran- d Fuller 'even-temper- ed co-rul- er extra-ric- - slick-tasti- (pOf(flHJ$ oNir$ tough-talkin- er germ-carri- JOHN MASEFIELD'S cargoes of "nierirrm and rAA tin rove qta apt to take wings before this war is over. A friend of this writer, a When We Reap, designer of aircraft, just We Find Another told us about J great airs Has Done Sowing freighter coming through soon, built quickly and stoutly of plywood, capable of long nights with a heavy load, and with production costs so low in man power and materials that quantity production will be swift and easy. it wouldn't take many of them to do d the work of a ship, said my friend, taking into account their greater speed. He is lit up with the idea that here is the answer to the submarine problem, and he says it is, right now, a lot more than a blueprint. Back in March, 1932, Walter H. Beech resigned as vice president of the Curtiss-Wrigcor poration, to design and build commercial planes. He has had some tough going, but his dec ade of chance-takin- g in the commercial has blossomed into a whale of a plant at Wichita, Kan., making wooden planes, trainer nlanes to be sure, but right in line with coming air argosies of plywood and mahoeanv. The side of a plane is slammed together and attached to the iuseiage in only a few minutes. xne plant business, in dollar ac- vuuuuug, lias risen ,uuu per cent in the last 18 months. All fears of a financial forced land ing are past. Mr. Beech has never hesitated to taice a sharp turn off the main road. icaigueu uom me army air corps, in 1921, eager to try out some new ideas, and organized the Swni. low Aeroplane company. Then rnm his Travel Air Manufacturing- com- vuy, uunamg xne iamous Mystery S" in which Capt. Frank Hawks . tt oumew me crack army ships. His Beech Aircraft corporation tnmod out the plane which won the Mao iaouen irophy race from St. Louis to Miami last January. He is always experimenting, with the sky as ma uiugraiory. IS.; -- fair-size- . coops wu",;,gr Ldm A rink Product Corp.. Bloomfleld, N. J. ht free-for-a- ll, H 1 ed E5-?-T JJ l ; 111 HEW 550.000 1 """SSL - 1 y,H. 'nj J |