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Show tvm&sis Waddys Wagon Comes to Life at Saipan Kathleen Norris Maldistribution Factor"' Before You Write to Him In Europe's Food Crisis Says: Think I n Shattered Communication Lines Hamper 71 ' II Market Movements; . Civil Strife Further Restricts Deliveries. t w By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analytt and Commentator Here we begin to see how the twin demons of destruction work out. As indicated, the direct destruction of food supplies either by bombing, or battle, or German sabotage so far has not been a major factor. Of course, the more rapidly the Allies remove the Germans, the less chance they have to steal the food or the crops and transport them. They had considerable time in Italy. On the other hand, on their hurried trip from Normandy to the Rhine the Nazis were far too busy moving to beg, borrow, steal or destroy. Where they have had a chance to squat as in the Netherlands, Poland and the situation is Czechoslovakia, worse. But until they knew they were going to have to get out of a country they did not wish to destroy productivity and the natives were fed. They had to keep the people alive to support their own military and economic activity and they expected they would have plenty of time to exploit later when they set up their own new order in Europe. The factors in food production Number one is: Low calories may which suffered most were those inbe a symptom and not u disease. In volved in food processing. It is easreother words, disorganization and and quicker to wreck a flour mill ier volt affect the food supply as well or a milk plant than a farm. Some as being affected by it fertilizer factories suffered, and of Number two: Destruction and dis- course in Holland there was wholeorganization are the chief causes of sale obliteration of arable land when famine and the type of destruction the dykes were blown. This is alwhich affects the food supply is not most permanent damage since the .the destruction of food. It is the salt from the aea water will sour smashing of railways and rolling the soil for years to come. stock and blowing up of bridges and doing other things that Interrupt Complex Economies transportation. This haa done more Cause Trouble to create areas of starvation than But there were other forces which any planned destruction of the crops began to work earlier. themselves by the enemy. Eurppe, before the war, produced Number three: Conditions are fre- most of what its own people ate. quently worse after countries are The things imported were tea and liberated. coffee, spices, and fata and oils. One common misconception which They also bad to import much of needs to be corrected is the total amount and distribution of the food their cattle food and fertilizer. Gerto be shortage. Since Europes food prob- many, striving built for the production many plants lems are of vital concern to Amerof seed oils and raised many oilwell to clear up ica it might be seed crops. This was true elsewhere some of these erroneous ideas. In Europe and because more food value can be produced from the Problem Varies in same resources directly than indiDifferent Countries rectly through raising food for liveIn the first place, in the early the livestock was reduced. stock, years of the war the situation waa Under these conditions. In order painted too black. There were various reasons for this. Among them to get the greatest value out of food the fact that many countries exag- products, strictest regimentation gerated their plight, asking for more wasjnecessary,,When.the Germans than they expected for fear of get- left a country and controls vanished, became Immediately ting less than they really needed. conditions Later the picture was painted far worse unless, under liberation, a statoo rosily. Through all this time the ble government could step In imexperts were not fooled but the pub- mediately and reorganize. This reorganization was impeded lic was. "It is wrong to say that Europe is by the destruction of transportation, starving. It is wrong to say that the disrupted economy and. in the nobody is starving or will starve, I case of countries like Italy, by the was Informed by a person who is in effect of fascist rule which has made the people lethargic, dependent and a position to know if anyone Is. The point is that the situation in Impotent and, departing, left them various places varies greatly and leaderless. And so we see the vicious circle here we come back to the question of transportation. We might use in operation disorganization hamGreece as an example of a place pering the food supply, hunger and where revolt has increased the se- unrest preventing reorganization. riousness of the food situs tlon. One For their own sake, the haves of the chief concerns of persons who must feed the "have-nots.- " Time is had no political interest whatever In of the essence, and casting bread whether Greece became a purple upon these unhappy waters will be monarchy or a bright red spot of as profitable an Investment as it is communism, but who were inter- a gesture of mercy. ested in seeing that the Athenians didn't starve, was the fact that When General MacArthur rides up of the of the streets'of Manila some dayrwe food lay untouched in the harbor of hope not far off. he may have a Piraeus. mounted cavalry escort and if he Athens, Rome. Marseille are all does, three of the In spots far distant from areas members may be veterans of the where surplus food exists. Normanbattle of Bataan. The First cavalry fought for dy, tor instance, could share some of her products with the south of months overseas as foot soldiers. A France if there were any way to part of their, Job happened to be the get the stuff across the country. The capture of the racetrack at Taclo-ba-n on Leyte. Naturally every man grain in the holds of ships in the - harbor is no good to the people of cast envious eyes on some of the Greece unless there is unrestricted horses left there. Later the horses were rounded up. passage to and from the docks and men who can unload and transport and lo and behold, among them It to safety, were three which were identified as This question of proximity to sup- having belonged to the 26th cavalry ply explains why all over Europe which had fought at Bataan. They the average consumption level of the were repatriated with acclaim and farm population is 40 per cent high- formed the nucleus of a mounted er than that of the people in urban unit which has been doing excellent or manufacturing communities. reconnaissance on the island. One of the paradoxes of Europe's So history repeats. In the war of 1898 dismounted eating troubles is that in most countries the situation often grows worse U. S. cavalry were sent to the instead of better after liberation Later a few horses were takes place. Italy is an example of obtained and they proved so valuwhat mixed blessings liberation can able that the whole regiment was bring. mounted. Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Recently I saw a list of 12 European countries with an estimate ol the number of calories consumed In each now, as compared with their inhabitants prewar diet It was Just at the' time when the Greek revolt was wellunder way and only a tight lid was keeping the Belgian pot from boiling over. The calorie consumption in those two countries was the lowest on the list 67 and 63 per cent respectively, of their prewar diet About that time Myron Taylor, the Presidents representative at the Vatican, was warning the Allies that If communism came to Italy, It would come over empty stomachs. Adding up this data the natural assumption is that hunger is the chief cause of unrest In Europe. But it Isnt as simple as that. I made some investigations and came upon a number of interesting facts which prove the dangers of WNU Service, Union i ' i ! ! "T-- - 1 1 I 1 u be-cau- se flghUng.-shiploa- -- ds high-steppin- 4 xv The crew ef "Waddys Wagon, fifth 9 to take off on the Initial Tokyo mission from Saipan, and first to land, pose to duplicate their caricatures on the plane. Upper left shows Brig. Gen. Haywood 8. Han-se- ll of San Antonio, Texas., who commands the 21st bomber command of the 20th air force. Upper right. Col. Byron E. Braggs, left, of Tampa, Fla., and Brig. Gen. Emmett ODonnell of Jamaica, L. I., N. T, as they were launching the 9 raids on Tokyo. B-2- The production of safety razor blades is sufficient for the current quarter, the WPB assures us. No excuse for the five oclock shadow. by Burning Navy Plane Save3 AboardTIarrier '' , i , 4 " ft' A ' , m i I By KATHLEEN NORRIS Y FOLKS 'write me so much about trouble that Ill be il I want to go home dar-gonn- ed S V five years of war privo LETTERS FROM HOME Fighting men have enough to endure idthout having to read about the mhardshiptn back home. They depend great deal on letters from home to keep up their morale. When these are merely a constant recital of complaints about shortages and rationing, writes Private Tom Willoughby, from a post someWK' ' '' where, in northern England. Its got so bad, the letter -- sigoes on, "that I kind of hate to open the letters! My mother, my father, my sisters, all difficulties of travel, and the write me as if theyd be glad scarcity of interesting young to change places with me. I II men,-the-y may be worse than wish they could, for a few no letters at all. weeks. I wasin the hospital To the man at the front, tired four weeks, I didn't write and homesick, and living in them anything about that unconstant peril, these sort of lettil I was almost well. Ive ters are just one more burden. been over German towns in a Hs would be better off withbomber seventeen times. Ive out them. been wet and cold and scared and hungry more than once, ter have three small farms, and homesick all the time. one each bought absent boys. Still their for JL But my letters arent half as another devoted family Is going te Quick action by navy fire fighters saves flaming plane and pilot. Like a meteor, a aavy F6F burst Into depressing as theirs are. present their boy when he comes flames (as shown at left) as It approached Its carrier, the USS Cowpens, In the Pacific. Upper right, "Ita all rising prices and short- home with a substantial bank , again, n rtf shows the plane as tt landed. Center, shows pilot leaving the burning plane.' Lower right, the fire Is out, with no damage to carrier. Newand .QldLTransportation ages and manpower acarcity and enough to give him a tha town la in wartima, on tha career he has alno and with no men to dance with ways dreamed of as an architect to go anywhere. They tell me When on of our boys came home that the feUowa who aren't In the suffering from a nervous complaint service ere getting e long head start a few months ago, his parents lent on ma In business, and that Roger him, his brother, a hound dog and and Bat hava Just bought darling two horses up Into the Sierras for a homes out In the new development long summer. He went thin snd and that both their wives are hav- trembling and nervous, he came ing bablea. Ma writea ma about her home last week as hard a iron, arthritis, and Dad about his busi- and brown as an Indian. He slreidy ness troubles; the girls dont write haa a good Job. often, but when they do its one long All that costa money, protest yelp about not having anything to do, the whining voices. Of course II nor any fun, and wishing tha rotten costs moneyt But surely saving for old war was overt My sisters are tha boys return, and if possible 17 and IS; I am 19. a definite plan for that return, is "You dont know how it makes us the least we can do. A thousand dofeel, out here, to know that therea llars, flv hundred even one huso much trouble at home. Every felndred dollars ought to be awaiting low I know wants to get home, him, to save his pride, to give him dreams of baked beans and Main time to look about him for his work street, the local newspaper and the In tha new world. familiar faces. To have the lucky Three Time a Dayl ones, who can stay there, knocking An engaged girl, Dean Davis, it all tha time, is about the limit! writes me the other side of th Sometimes I think Til make a fresh picture.-Sh- e la so deeply ln k)vt start on my own, 'when I get home, that ah write her Georgie two snd and live in some other place. I know three time a day. Georgie U out all newt can't be good, but I should somewhere In the Phillipines. think they could pick out enough Three times a day, I think, I too that was decent to sort of buck us much. Especially as Georgie probbunches up over here. ably get these letters In know to Is dt 30 or 40. Glad as he Tom, I think so too. And I know that he la so constantly in 7 many mothers and wives who do thoughts, there la a certain amount manage to keep their letters cheerof boredom Involved In opening 30 or With his "seeing eye" dog, "Deck-- , ful and inspiring. How eagerly and 40 letters that all gay the samt eta, supervising the proceedings, with what passionate delight those thing. Three times a week Is better blind John Crick, of Washington, j letters are revived by our lonely, than three times a day, and a good makes his 19th blood donation al those boys, only Inclusion of clippings from boys the Red Cross blood donor centd know. Your mother and father and healthy the newspaper and from msgike, la Washington, D. C, sisters not only should select for will th give him mora pleasure you whatever pleasant newt there too much love making. One girl is. but they should do something to whom I heard wrote such lncesszn build it up. and poetical letter to her yml I mean they should definitely plan man that he answered by a something for your homecoming her not to expect him to mstca that will mean a real welcome for quotation from Coventry you. One mother who wrote me or to tell her which of Mill had taken the room over the family poems he liked best. He alse garage and turned it into a study for ried an English girl, whose her son, where he can some day after five year ef war privation ask 'hit friends to drop in for talk- were prebably Mildly ea theIs to 7 ing and smoking; his own especial we all have to do part of the house, not to be used to put ourselves In the P11 . by anyone else. Before he went these homesick, lonely, away he shared a room with a boys, and contribute the younger brother. we can to their comfort, with Another mother and father and sis- in vie- needs, rather than our own, Blind Gives Blood three-years-sta-rt how dull ri TKrU rt r Kyn i I 'R VW t V . .v&- .j r At ' ' . refill $ v .j.ass ' t; - - atosc ; Y A-s r? v ivtaaww. . An oxen wagon loaded with supplies for the U. 8. array rolls slowly a modern war plane comes In for a landing on a newly constructed runway, somewhere In China. Many of the landing fields were constructed with the aid of Chinese labor, and their ever faithful and hard working teams of oxen. by as ' - Congressmen Aboard Carrier NV : YYSYYl . i S'J . far-awa- y GI Show in Belgium SPOT grB-Wh- haro-presse- f d Bathtnh Made ef China The plumbing industry announce on that a china bathtub will be problem main market soon. The to find a combination of non-cre ceramic material which could to hot sudden changes from water. The result is a thtub,.,l, looka like fine china, i easy to cid and is resistant to the on I fiat It the JJJ and not nearly to deep research iar bih Extensive ri - land-boo- ' s - A Tokyo broadcast tells of the decline in Jap revenue from excises not the only government that has a yen for taxes. Stuart Chase says that once big Another farm is on, business, big unions and big farmers according to the secretary of agrimoved In on the scene, it took big culture, like the one in the last war. government to cope with them. Now Well, there is nothing that brightens if only John Qj Public grows big up a room in the poorbouse like paenough, he may get a show, too. pering it with mortgages. Be aUo married an Englith girl, whom feet, after tiotu, ware probably talidly on the ground. ' V g Baukhage J B-2- Phil-ipplne- s. BARBS V. v L xY.1 U. 8. servicemen are shewn enter a show te tag From the deck of a carrier, members of congress visiting the Pacific ta a section tee "Saratoga Trunk. , recently taken from the area observe the accuracy of navy gunners. In the center of the front Germans. The USO has been able row, peering through binoculars. Is Adm. G.rW Nlmlts. At his right te the thews keep moving te the Is Congressman J. J. Heffermaa of New York, and at his left is Confront, as the troops advance Ink gresswoman Margaret C. Smith of Maine. Germany. J" T ekaar him up. . .. . |