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Show The Cache American. Locran. Cache Countv. lltah Paee Two Stitched Bluebirds In Color on Linens With Food Supply Expected to Be Tighter Than Ever, Women's Land Army Faces Its Greatest Challenge Cooperation for Peace Based on Compromise City Girls and Women Urgently Needed for Nations Must Yield Some Sovereignty to Lend Helping Hand Against Threats To World Security. Every Sort of Farm Job Women have done an outstanding job in this war, and nowhere have their efforts been more important than in helping with the farm harvest. Until complete victory is won, there must be no letup on the home front. In this critical year of war, the high rate of food production must be continued. At the same By BAUKIIAGE Acwl Anal) it and Commrntalor, time, the farm labor shortage will be even more serious in many areas. r ' ' . v i fc i The answer is for town end city people especially women and youth to step Into the breach, as they have done for the past three years. Farm people themselves are working harder end longer hours than ever before. But they need extra helpers, especially during the harvest season. That group of women wartime farm doing emergency work comprise the Womens Land army. Their patriotic efforts have saved farm crops In thousands of cases. The Womens Land army is a movement rather than an organization. It Is mainly a seasonal army. In each state, it is under the direction of the state extension service, with headquarters at the state agricultural college. Most states have a Women Land army supervisor who works closely with the county agricultural agents and their farm labor assistants. In most localiUes, the county agent administers the emergency farm labor program . . . recruiting and placing workers on farms. Last year, these local placement offices . . . 12,000 over the country . . , placed about 350,000 women In farm work, and about as many other women were recruited directly by farmers or found their . . f' L N v M I 4 - "xV iV inter-party- ing, milking, feeding livestock. They handle Just about every farm task, many of which they have never done before, putting in long hours at the double Job of housework and farm . work. Typical Is one mldwestem farm woman who, during com planting time, drove a tractor from 4 to a. m. each day, and then did the farm chores before starting her regular housework, which she does without benefit of electricity and running water. Town Women Prove Capable, Even though town women were at first accepted reluctantly by many farmers, they have now proved them- selves in farm work. Their help Is especially valuable at harvest time, for crops like apples, peaches and other fruit; for beans, tomatoes, potatoes, peanuts and cotton. Teachers and college girls often spend two or three summer months in farm work. Business women work part of their vacation time, evenings and week ends harvesting tomatoes, beans and carrots, detasseling com and picking apples, peaches and grapes. Homemakers also answer the lon cal call for harvesting. For example. In an Oregon county last year, 500 homemakers helped save the bean crop. Each day they boarded the Housewives Special buses leaving for the field at 8:30 a. m. and returning at 3 p. m. This gave them time to do the family breakfast before leaving and to market for supper in the late afternoon. In Washington, as in other states, women Joined groups of twilight pickers . , . working evenings in the big berry crop. And in a California county, women working 7 to 11 p. m. as peach cutters to help save 20,000 tons of peaches by drying were known as the Victory I i t i J i , Her husband is fighting on some Pacifio Island, and she is doing her bit on the home front by working on a Connecticut dairy farm. Her duties include milking, cleaning the barn, and caring for the calves. ? . jt v own jobs. These women received prevailing farm wages for the amount and type of work done. Besides these a great many farm women worked on their own and neighboring farms. Who Are WLA Workers? AH women who help in the wartime production of food, feed, or fiber are a part of the Womens Land army. Women from farms, cities and towns . . . farm women who work longer hours than ever before . . . women from offices, factories and stores . . . women whose husbands are overseas . . . housewives, college girls and teachers. . . They are women of all ages who spend all summer, all year, or only a few hours, a week end or a vacation period helping bring through the farm crops our country must have. North, south, east and west, women do all kinds of farm work. Singly and in groups, they pick beans, tomatoes and other vegetables. They detassel corn, shock grain, pick potatoes, pick and pack berries, apples, peaches, grapes, other fruits and nnts. They work in cotton, grain, tobacco and Sax; drive tractors, farm tracks and combines; milk the cows and care for poultry flocks. In brief, as and where needed, women help plant, cnltivate, and harvest the food and fiber crops and care for the livestock all so necessary in the war effort. Farm wives and daughters hundreds of thousands of them do a magnificent job. helping with hay ning of recreation in camp, Were all friends, and thats a hat we're fighting for, isnt it? Even more interesting than picking cherries was the contact with different people, wrote another camp worker on returning home. Her fellow campers included an Italian teacher, a woman who had fled from Germany, college students, librarian, a magazine writer, governess, and a mother of 12 children. In some cases, women live right on the farm for the summer. They do such work as taking care of the garden, planting, hoeing and harvesting onions, carrots or other vegetables, or helping do a hired mans Job. Typical of such workers are a servicemans wife who has full care of the poultry flock on a large general farm, and a woman who has charge of the milk room on a dairy farm. Some women serve as "hired hands." They milk, take care of the poultry flock, feed livestock, and work in the field. Of the approximately 9,000 women placed for year-roun- d work in 1944, many of them were wives of men employed on the same farm. How to Gel a Farm Job. A woman who can work for the entire summer or for several weeks, should consult her county extension agent or local farm employment office Immediately. These offices usu- - Shift. Womens underlying motive for doing farm work is, for the most part, patriotism a deep desire to to have a part in feeding help our soldiers and our allies and an intense conviction that no food should go to waste. As a woman said, after picking 3 tons of beans, Im glad to do it . . . you see, I have a son in the air corps. Of women who do farm work, by far the greatest number live at home and work by the day, or part-timon farms nearby. Spend Vacations on Farms. Some women, especially college girls, teachers and business women, spend part of their vacation time in labor supply camps, working on surrounding farms. For one week, two weeks, or the entire summer, they cultivate and pick vegetables or harvest fruit. Many Smith college students, as a part of their colleges summer plan of work or study formed groups which lived as one household in the farming area where they worked. Camps for women workers are operated in many states. Last year. New York state's WLA camps included about 3,000 New York City women and girls on their vacation time. Life in camp is not all work. Women find it interesting and broadening, with the companionship of women from many different places. As one worker said, after an eve ... Peace More Natural Than War read a very trenchant article by Emery Reves, authority and writer on International in the current Mercury affair You may have magazine, which confutes the argument that since war is a part of human nature, it can never be prevented. Mr. Reves goes about his task of disproving this convent bromide of the pessimist in a highly scientific manner. Why," he asks, "did cities once wage war against each other and why do they no longer fight each other with weapons today? Why, at certain times did great landowner barons war with each other and why have they ceased the practice? Why did the various churches plunge their adherents into armed warfare and why today, are they able to worship side by side without shooting each other? Why did Scotland and England, the author continues, and other parts of what are now single nations, once fight and now live together peacefully? Reves points out that these and other groups, presumably because it was the nature of the beast to once consider It natural to decide their differences with tooth, claw, powder and shot, or bow and arrow and yet that kind of legal murder no longer exists and would horrify modern man. This is his answer to these provocative questions: Wars between these social units cease to exist the moment sovereign power is transferred to a larger or higher unit. That is worth pondering. Yield Sovereignty To Higher Community e, A student from William and Mary college spends part of her summer vacation picking, grading and packing peaches in a Virginia orchard. ally are located In the county courthouse or federal (post office) build-inIf she cannot find this local office, she may write to the Womens Land army supervisor at her state agricultural college, or to Women's Land army, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington 25 g. D. C. A woman who can work for only short periods of time should stand by for the call in her community. It will come through her local newspapers and over the radio. She will then be told when and where to apply. The sovereign power of the cities yielded to the power of the nation; England and Scotland yielded their separate sovereignty to the sovereignty of the British crown. This occurred as a part of the due process of civilization which began when the Individual cave man agreed to abide by the rules of the tribe, tha tribe submitted to the will of the community and so on until the process produced the United States. Bare is a vast area occupying a huge sector of a great continent, which, after a bloody war where state rights versus federal authority was the issue, became a unified whole. Hates, rivalries, competition, religious and economic difference continue (as a part of human nature) but internecine strife is unthinkable. Where the rub, then? Just, sovereignty which is a fighting word, still today. The United States is willing, anxious to participate in the United Nations organization the people have given that mandate to both parties. But will she yield her sovereignty? If so, how much? will not, it is largely a mat- ter of ignorance as to what that and th shouting dies, the captains and tha kings depart, still stand an bumble Thin ancient sacrifice ! end a contrite heart . . . o Kipling in describing the end of our navies melt war (far-calleaway.") As I review this chapter of current history her at San Francisco where the world security or1 am ganization is in the making. impressed with one thing: what bat already been achieved containing merit and the teeds of hope for peaceful world baa been achieved by the sacrifice offered by the humble and contrite hearts. That sound somewhat Idealistic perhaps but let me explain. I think it la not an exaggeration to aay that compromlae Is the keystone of harmony whether it is i question of interpersonal, interstate or international relations. And what is compromise but sacrifice? Applied to the United Nations conference on International organization, sacrifice of national aspira tion, end compromise which meant yielding actual selfish advantage of the moment in the hope of gaining potential advantage for tha general good, have at least given evidence of good will Good will. Implemented by popular endorsement, means practical progress toward peace. d peak-seaso- f If she UNO Service, Union Treat Building, Washington, D. C. Th tumult SAN FRANCISCO. sacrifice involves. And who makes th sacrifice? The people themselves or some abstraction known as th government? At this point let me quote that other student of international relations, who, it is true, does not raise his sight to the point of world federation but who has urged it on a more limited basis. I refer to Clarence Streit who has long campaigned for a federal union of the north Atlantic democracies. He lays that the only loss of sovereignty involved la the subordination of the ruling bodies to the ruling body of the union, that a citizen (till has the right of franchise and all the rest of hia rights. Does the citizen of Richmond, Va., who, after the secession of the southern states owed his allegiance to the Confederacy, enjoy any less rights today when the seat of his federal government Is the capital of all the United States. Is the Scotsman in Edinburgh deprived of any privileges which he held when he was a subject of chieftain, laird or Scottish king? On the contrary. Learnt to Give and Take U. S. The American representative who sits in the assembly or is chosen to the council of the proposed United Nations organization is no less the servant of John Q. Citizen of Bing-viU- e than the man he elects. In proportion to their size, there are no less rivalries between San Francisco and Los Angeles than there are between any two nations of the earth. But cities and states of our federal union would no more think of attempting armed warfare with each other than any decent citizen would think of shooting up his neighbor to get his radio, his wife or his parking privr leges. We are that civilized. We accept the sacrifice of sovereignty of our home state to sovereignty under the United States. When we advance to the point where we can sacrifice the degree of sovereignty of our nation neces sary in order to guarantee world order we will be civilized enough to be sure that our sons wont run the chance of killing and being killed as part of a spectacle of mass murder which even the horrors of this war will pale. The San Francisco conference can present a blue print of the ma chinery for peace. Only civilization itself can Implement It. It Is easier to understand things we can see and touch than ideas. DLUEBIRDS the symbol of happiness what more appropriate motif for a prospective brides linens? Do them in natural color. 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He served in the last war in the artillery, later became interested in aviation. He had a small aircraft factory, and then a small leather factory in New York state. He watched the League of Nations rise and fall. He saw the United Nations start. He became convinced that unless there was some outward symbol, some outward appeal which would stir the imagination and the emotions of the people, the second attempt at world harmony would fail as did the first. And so he literally left all he had with the sole purpose of making his contribution in the form of a United Nations flag. That flag has not been officially adopted but it flew in Washington and it flew in San Francisco a plain white field with four vertical red bars symbolizing, he says, victory, equality, unity and freedom. It is sponsored by the United Nations Honor Flag committee supported by such contributions which he could make or which he could solicit In travels about the coun- a vs rubber-tire- d I Hawaii is currently producing very small amounts of natural rubber. It it the only tree rubber being grown under th American flag except for experimental plantings in Florida. Undamaged tire plants In Belgium and Franca that have fallen into the hands of the Allies are to be put to work retreading truck tires for Army vehicles which would otherwise have to be discarded. BIGootlricIi hT4 overnnienVs h0W)T-PtWttfi- td operation. of samtaVion.y...! oji ftMesYad try. He hopes for its official sanction. He feels that this banner may some day become the rallying insignia for tiie people of all peace-lovin- g nations, who without slackening their loyalty to their own country will respect and support the forces for international good will which this emblem represents. 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