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Show Soldier Newspapers Are Important Factors In Keeping Up Morale of Our Fighting Men Peace Planners Emphasize Need for Orderly 'D' Day Washington, D. C. CHINESE BLACK MARKET If you think the U. S. Black Market is profitable, take a look at operations in China. A fountain pen costs $10,000 Chinese currency in Chungking. Even with the Chinese dollar worth only five cents this is $500 in U. S. dollars and a lot of dough to pay for a fountain pen. You can also understand why U. S. fliers load up with lipstick before going to China. A lipstick brings $5,000 in Chinese dollars in Chungking. This is about $250 in U. S. currency. has This is also why lend-leas- e sent a certain amount of silk stockings, champagne, perfume and other luxuries to Chinese war lords. They are sent to counteract similar imports by the Japanese which have a very undermining influence on a war lord worried over maintenance of his love-nes- t. Planning Board Report Envisions Reintegration of Men Into Services Where Skill, Ability Are Recognized. By BAUKHAGE A'ews Analyst and Commentator. 5. Veterans credit for old age and survivors insurance on the basis of service in the armed forces. 6. Opportunities for agricultural employment and settlement for a limited number of well qualified men. But no dumping of men on farms simply because industrial employment is not Immediately avail- Next weeks release of Washington Digest will be written from Quebec, where H. R. covered the history- Baukhage conmaking Roosevelt-Churchiference for Western Newspaper Union and its affiliated newspapers. ll able. WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. As the plans which received their final approval at the Quebec conference start turning from Ink and pa- per to moving men and machines, the thoughts of other planners turn D day. toward another zero hour The war is not over by any means d but people who realize that you cant wait until it rains to prepare for a rainy day know that you cant wait until the sun comes out to buy your summer clothes. D day is as Important as M day. Demobilization is as big a problem as mobilization. Various plans have been worked on, none has been perfected. The President has offered one. The Republican party will offer another. Industry The adwill present its program. ministration, whoever is at the helm when peace comes, will have a heavy responsibility. The National Resources Planning board has already made a report expressing its opinions on a plan drawn up by a respecial committee on post-wa- r adjustment which, at least, gives us a point of departure. hard-heade- Plan Needed Now The board points out that victims of the war are already coming back and the time is ripe. Only the other day, I went through Walter Reed hospital here and saw some of those victims. Saw photographs of the conditions in which they come back and others showing what medical skill has done for them. I also saw the workshops where wounded men are being rehabilitated, fitted to take up work which, in spite of their handicaps, they could learn to do. This plan emphasizes the need for an orderly demobilization. It is to get every man who can be spared from the armed forces, the moment he can be spared without threatening the nations security, back into civilian life. I know how glad I was when I got out of uniform into civvies after the last war. But the report emphasizes that still more Important than speed is We not order in demobilization. only want the men out of the armed services; we want to get them into peace services where skills and abilities can be fully recognized, utilized and rewarded. That is the thesis of the planning board. Responsibility for the placement of veterans in industry is acknowldiviedged by the sion of the selective service system under the selective service act. The selective service system is not perfect but considering the job it had to do, it has worked out in a manner that is a triumph of the democratic method. Draft boards are groups of "neighbors who pass upon each registrant, and on that basis, select or reject him. The same system will put the soldier back into his old job if his old job is there, and if he can fill it But many had no jobs. Others for one reason or another will be unable to fill the ones they had before the war. These cases must be taken care of. nt Boards Principles Business has been shuffled and shifted about just as the men themselves have. It may be difficult to get man and job together. The problem is intricate but the committee has tried to lay down certain principles. Here they are: 1. Three months furlough at the end of the war at regular base pay not to exceed $100 a month, plus family allowances. 2. Beyond that time, if necessary, insurance for 26 unemployment weeks for those who register with the government employment service. 3. Special aid and counsel regarding readjustment and compensation. 4. Special provision, Including tuition and allowance, for the continuation of education interrupted by the war or to follow a special course of training. f - !;j B RIE FS In Britain, about 150,000 tons of timber, salvaged from bombed buildings, have been refinished and made into crates and boxes for important war uses. war nerves somewhat frayed at the edges, the Nazis are conducting a politeness campaign to ease the irritation and get Germans to be nicer to each other. With German '3 Program Similar provisions must be made tor war workers as war industries close or change over. Meanwhile, the government will maintain centers where assistance and retraining for civilian jobs can be arranged. In order to prevent a too rapid atof industry, a tempt at change-ove- r moderate policy of continuation of war contracts some of which can be continued in the national good. Of course, nothing can be done permanently to stabilize the labor situation without a rapid expansion of peace-tim- e industry toward a goal of full employment. It is well understood even by the most fervent of government planners that private industry and not the government must eventually furnish the employment. Already industry is offering plans of its own but it cannot be expected to do the whole job. One suggestion is that government loans be made to Industries turning to peace-tim- e production in proportion to the number of men such industries employ. Business cannot take over the burden alone. In 1939, we were at peace although we were making a lot of war supplies for the Allies. Then 4.1 million workers were employed in munitions making. Eight and millions were working on farms or agricultural pursuits. At the end of last year, the workers in war plants had more than doubled. They were 10.5 millions. In agriculture, unemployment has not greatly changed, comparafarm workers tively speaking; amount to 8.9 millions. But the men in the armed forces more than doubled. In the same period the unemployed had decreased from 8.7 millions to 1 million. (Some of these we shall always have with us the lame, the halt and, of course, the lazy.) But it is estimated there were 900,000 persons jobless and deserving work in July of this year. There may be points to the committees plan to which objections will be raised. It is not offered as a working drawing, merely as a basis of discussion, but how much better such a procedure is than the policy after the last war when the soldier was a football and where each congress tried to vote more dollars out of the treasury without rhyme or reason; money which didnt provide jobs, which in many cases, pitifully faikd of its purpose, and in others simply fillCd the coffers of the bootlegger and the shark and left the recipient nothing. six-tent- Diary of a Broadcaster Over the land, the Victory gardens in their rich yields to many a person who probably never worked as hard physically for his supper before. And probably never had more fresh, sweet and luscious vegetables. But I wandered over a farm recently that was crying for rain. I couldnt help thinking, as I pushed through a wood lot beside a shrunken stream, stained brown from the yellow leaves that carpeted it, how all the living things were anguishing with thirst. Twigs snapped under one's feet like dry bones, there was an ugly growl instead of a happy hum from the insects it seemed s that only the tough could survive. Not far from the stream where the earth in the bed of a spring was still damp, one cricket was singing gratefully but there were few of his fellows about. Leaves on tall weeds hung to the stem like a flag at half-staon a day when no breeze stirs, one -headed flower stood out in a spot of color, it looked like a very sleepy little girl, her damp locks glued to her face almost concealing her tired smile. I thought: I wish I could stay here until the rain comes singing through the leaves, wetting cracked lips of the peeling furrows I believe I would hear a real hymn of rejoicing go up. are bringing blue-bottle- ff yellow- . . by Baukhage The French Academy of Arts and Sciences has decided not to nominate any new members for membership until the war is over. A private citizen recently was paid $400 when she brought a triple damage suit against a retailer for overcharging her two cents on each of four dozen eggs. The settlement was made out of court. ,newfrrf use ive ent, labor- - no it that a u t , workers pas the ing problems h At. aJroTgett the right in Abersatthe; be put largely fro ti the same raining 'v( to the produ wared; our lost their ski jnployment a Many othei and t time i RUBBER DELUGE - them skills Officials in the office of the rubber administrator are beginning to wonmeeting the der what they can do with the hunE ted States dreds of thousands of tons of synW ces of the thetic rubber which will come from r ision placed the new plants next year. It seems rkers frm a little late, but they are now facing of whom 7, ' the elementary question of whether istries and or not the tire companies can hanth During dle the vast quantities of synthetic gave trail 7573 rubber. enroll The greatest amount of rubber COME of favor your garden have noW ever processed by the nations rubinitial will br isons unempl your framing ber companies in one year was decoration and color to your this is thouj 540,000 tons. But next year we shall ens. A pair of pillow cases minimum, have nearly one million tons to deal towels done this colorful i horn of the r with. Obviously, the present facili- guest would make an ideal shower mpower prc ties will be inadequate. all simplest stitchery. Its ange in char But the problem is aggravated by the fact that tire manufacturing Workers Pattern 7573 contains a transfer pat machinery has been knocked down of six 4 by 5 inch frames and two in Are Aval Inch alphabets; stitches; materials nee, and stored away so that rubber comt),ough Due to an unusually large demand panies could convert to production men join th( for the war. Instead of tires, they current war conditions, slightly more in filling orders for a fev July of nex have been making rubber boats, bal- istherequired most popular pattern numbers. ms of youth, loons, tank treads and life rafts. Send your order to: set workers, findThus we have the problem of ilj of next y ing new plant space in which to kers is so Circle Needlecraft Sewing Dept. bring that machinery back into pro117 Minna St. San Francisco, Calil J1 be many duction, and the further problem of Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent t avail cover cost of mailing) for Patterf jnare creating entirely new productive faConsequent!; cilities to take care of the increased No my careful ir quantities of rubber which will be to places w Name available for manufacture. ;t d By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. poser of The Isle of Capri, saw old story saying that if two men meet THERES an wrote some additional verses the world and one of them is an Englishman, it, and set it to music. Since that time the chances are hell suggest they start a club. other soldiers have added verses of If thats true, then its equally true that when any units of their own (most of which can NOT the American army, larger than a squad, arrives at a new be printed) and now it seems likely Dirty Gertie From Bizerte post, be it on home or foreign soil, one of the first things the that will be the World War II counterpart to seems soldiers do is to start their own newspaper! This of Mademoiselle From Armenti-ere- s of World War I fame. apply to the fighting fronts as well, for soon after the American forces in Sicily had captured the town of Vittoria, a one-paAnother soldier newspaper which won considerable fame for its sheet, called the Doughboy News, made its appearance. has verse is the Kodiak Bear, published As a matter of fact, the" and for the soldiers, sailors and News is a transplanted sol- dad, Australia and Hawaii. Other by contractors workmen stationed at for are editions Panama, planned dier newspaper. It is pubGreely and the naval air sta and the Persian Gulf Com- Fort on tion Kodiak island in the Gulf of lished by and for the men of Alaska mand, the reason for all these edi- Alaska. It started the same week the 45th division of the United tions being to speed up distributhat Pearl Harbor was bombed and States Seventh army and it tion. one of its most famous poems was ge was started while the 45th was in training at Pine camp near Carthage, N, Y., where the paper was printed in the shop of the Carthage Republican-Tribuna weekly. Its editor is Sgt. Don Robinson, formerly a reporter on the Oklahoma City (Okla.) Daily Times. On April 18, 1942, a new version of the Stars and Stripes, famous soldier newspaper of World War I, made its appearance in London. Un- like Yank, which began publication later, the Stars and Stripes was not to be for the whole army but for the AEF in the British Isles. It started as a weekly but in November, in response to a demand from its soldier readers who wanted more news The Doughboy News, however, is from home than they were getting only one of more than 1,000 such pub- in the English newspapers, it belications 820 camp newspapers in gan publishing daily.. Since that this country, 72 navy papers and 110 time it has given birth to several service papers abroad. The num- lusty offspring in Africa. Soon aftber of these papers reflect two er the great invasion of November, 1942, the Stars and Stripes was things: 1. The fact that Americans are hauled up on an editorial masthead in Algiers and began publication as the greatest newspaper-readin- g people in the world, so when an Amer- a weekly. Later it began issuing a ican marches away to war a news- daily edition as well as a weekly; paper seems to be an essential part and daily editions are also issued in of his equipment. Oran, Casablanca and other African 2. Although the home town newscities. The African edition of the Stars paper is one of the most welcome pieces of mail that a soldier, sailor and Stripes is typical of the Ameror marine receives, even this isnt ican soldier newspaper breezy and informal in the style of its writing, Amerenough for these icans. They want to read news of reflecting 'the humor without which their own "outfits, their own activi- democracy would die. Like most ties and have the thrill of seeing service newspapers it prints much their own names in print Hence, soldier verse and one of its poems the service newspaper. promises to become immortaL In These service newspapers have one of the early issues appeared an poem by Private William every imaginable variety of format, eight-lin- e size and frequency of issue. There L. Russell under the title of Tune which told about are dailies, and week- From Tunis lies. Most of thm are printed but Dirty Gertie From Bizerte. many of them, issued where print"Tune From Tunis was reprinting facilities are not available, are ed in Yank where Paul Reif, com- But they all have mimeographed. one thing in common they are primarily for the enlisted man and produced by enlisted men. Outstanding among these publications are two which are international in their scope Yank . and the F1R.A7HYVE FIGHT Stars and Stripes. When Yank was established last year it was intended to be a newspaper for men in the armed forces overseas soldiers, sailors, marines, members of the coast guard and the merchant marine. However, six weeks after it started it was distributed to men in the carries at home as well as those overseas. Now it has eight editions two in New York (one for the United States, the other for general overseas distribution), a British edition in London, a Caribbean edition in Puerto Rico, and others in Trini e, news-hungr- y ' semi-weekli- hand-presse- American, published a North American in Mexico City during the occupation . . . During the Civil war various army and navy papers were issued, usually for brief periods, in both the Northern and Southern forces. Opportunities for such papers came when printer-soldier- s were able to secure presses and to use them during intervals between the requirements of active service. Among the camp papers were the Swamp Angel, published on Morris sployed wor' me is not w . used to It BACKACHE ing and the fact that the steamships let, let us s the emp and fir Sow the W officials I not these is, i out o called Valentine Verses to a Leviathan, Mount Vernon and to in were laid rust there up Geisha Girl which was an invitadeference to private shipowners. tion to lei Since the war, however, Solomons of Geisha Girl far Japan Using the Island has become an important Get aboard an old sampan; its they Paddle to some isle Pacific . . . naval installation, and the navy deKodiak, to be specific. for fast diuretic ai( i very partment recently arranged for the skilled v The poem went on to assure the shipment of some airplanes to SoloWHEN KIDNEY FUNCTIOI being f geisha girl of the warmth of the mons Island on an aircraft carrier LAGS from this need . . welcome awaiting her, but ended built for the British in a West coast iose co with this abrupt warning: Ther While was the carrier yard. going Functional kidney disturbance due to nc Come straight to us. my rsons w: of diuretic aid bat Panama the cause canal may locks, through subbing Come to our bower; ache! May cause urinary flow to be t be pi London radioed asking its whereBring your sisters, brothers, too . . quent, yet scanty and smarting! You mi In other abouts. Bring your whole damn fleet of lose sleep from getting up nights ofte subs. availat Were on our way to Solomons may feel dizzy, nervous, headachy. But be ready for one heluva battle pyard s In such cases, yon want to ttimul Island, replied the carriers comwhen you get here I more w kidney action fast. So if there is noihir Although army regulations forbid manding officer. systemically or organically wrong. to imaking Solomons are out you going Why weather data, the Kodiak giving Gold Medal Capsules. Theyve been worker Bear has its own method of getting Island and where is it? London mous for prompt action for 30 years. Ti care to use them only as directed. Acct; That is around that. For instance, there was queried in amazement. resents Get in touch with the embassy in no substitutes. 35 i at your drug stoi this prediction: radioed back the ipower Washington, The Weather: officer. lanpower of Line commanding ships Convoys Long Chungking: Belly cold. After some anxious moments, LonThe sea lanes traveled regular P of Bi Courtesy KODK Weather Bureau don learned in code that the cartoday by Allied convoys have a npowe It is such things as these bits of riers commanding officer had not al of 80,000 miles. length The Bu humor, typical American gags, mutinied, nor was he going to the to, thai wisecracks," jokes at the expense Solomon Islands, but to the U. S. Sective of themselves as well as their of- naval base at Solomons Island, DONT LET of th ficers, both commissioned and Maryland. non-coloi bi (especially the latter!) argely I which help relieve the monotony and SMALL BUSINESS BLOW-U- P SLOW YOU UP hey art drudgery of the military routine and The governments program for the When bowels are sluggish and you leers an which make the service man of small business is headed relief feel irritable, headachy, do as millions! This s do chew newspaper such an important part for trouble when congress recon-- , the modern chewing-guof his everyday life. Military of venes next month. laxative Simply chew America before you go to bed, Castries ficials testify to the fact that there At secret sessions of the senate taking only in accordance with package Icials. I is nothing like these newspapers small business committee, headed directions sleep without being dis- land assi boost the morale of our men in the by Senator James Murray of Monturbed. Next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again. Try hest pos armed forces, maintain his interest tana, small business men comTastes good, is handy Thefii in the job before him. So whether plained about their inability to get and economical. A generous family supply led by : hes stationed in Alaska, Iceland, government loans for war contracts r.ginee Trinidad, Australia or Iran, he looks and while billions of FEEN-A-MIN- T The r forward each publication day to the dollars of government money is beIrious r arrival of HIS newspaper. ing shelled out to big corporations, Iftese ir And as the African and Sicilian The senate committee heard comof Planes Many Types they ti loan campaigns have demonstrated, he plaints about the tight-fiste- d The Allied and Axis air ford solving sees to it that his newspaper goes policies of the Smaller War Plants use today about 400 types of w: I Worker right along with him to the firing corporation. planes. ie cor line. The Doughboy News, pubOne example given the senate by the lished in Vittoria, Sicily, may be the committee was that of the Riverlatest example of such a paper pub- side Boatyard company of Miami, X To nBen distress of MONTHLY ' Ttiliza' lished deep in what was recently which tried to get a loan of only tie enemy territory but its certain $10,000 from the Smaller War Plants that il wont he the last. corporation to complete a war conI If hr Lydia E. Plnkham'a Vegetable Com The other day a staff sergeant who tract. After being turned down, the pound la made especially for women I Job: to help relieve periodic pain with Its is the managing editor of one of the company got the $10,000 loan from weak, tired, nervous, blue feelings I ervi daily editions of the Stars and a private bank within 24 hours. due to functional monthly disturbances. in Africa wrote As to a back Senator his MurStripes James result. Taken regularly Plnkhama Com- - I editor-fathe- r in the States: ray of Montana, chairman of the pound helps build up resistance Tm waiting for the day when we senate small business committee, is against such symptoms. Hers is s carr product that helps nature and publish either a Rome Daily or a planning some close scrutiny of the that's the kind to buy! Famous for tkeii almost a century. Thousands upon Berlin Daily. Some fun, hey?l Smaller War Plants corporation. thousands of women have reported dt benefits. Follow label directions. Worth trying I 1816-- 7 1861-- 5 VLYDIA E. PINKHAMS iOMWNO ft Just before Frank Tinsley, former in Charleston Harbor during press aide of the British Supply Island, the siege; the Red River Rover, Council, left to Join the Royal Cana, printed on ruled foolscap on board dian Air force, he wrote the the steamer Des Moines; the Yazoo As a British railroad: Daily Yankee, issued subject who has lived in the United c; during the siege of VicksStates for 14 years, mostly as a war burg; and the Camp Kettle, pub- newspaper man with Reuters, will lished at every opportunity by the you grant me one favor on leaving tion o field and staff officers of the Round-hea- d this grand country? Will you let houn Regiment, which was the 100th me ride in a locomotive cab of one Hants, From "American of your trains to New York, on my Pennsylvania. h Journalism by Frank L. Mott way to Canada? . . . Tinsley left Keep the Battle Rolling (Macmillan). Washington in the cab. With War Bonds U. S. Soldiers Issued Papers During Wars in A new Mexof the development ican war was the camp newspaper, nearly a score of which were published by soldier-printer- s on small s to serve the various army camps. The most important of these was the American Flag, of Scotts army, which was first published at Matamoras; after the war it was continued at Brownsville, Texas. William C. Toby, a correspondent of the Philadelphia North and in i Address SOLOMONS ISLAND Few maps of the world show the location of Solomons Island, Maryland, a pinprick in Chesapeake bay. Locally it is famous only for its fishMon-ticell- )m ay . Lotus-Flowe- bear-infeste- d two-gi- rl CONSTIPATION FEEN-A-MIN- m FEEN-A-MIN- T FEEN-A-MIN- lo 1 Female Weakness i and MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Penn-sylvan- ia ly and Scrap |