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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH tKeiedsed by Western Newspaper Union.) MAR CONDITIONS AND VOIR TOWN THE WAR offers an opportunity to improve conditions in thousands of Americas country towns. Less help causes the farmer to economize on time. Rubber shortage and the inability to replace tires calls for a reduction in automobile mileage. The rationing of gas will stop These any unnecessary travel. things mean opportunity for recapturing business for country town merchants. that busiHolding ness when peace comes depends upon how well country town merchants meet the demands of town and farm people with adequate stocks of merchandise and modern merchandising me thods. To assist country towns in doing a thorough job, the department of commerce at Washington has prepared a book of detailed plans that will be helpful in any town. The title is How to Plan a Better Future for Your Home Town and YourI am sure self in War for Peace. any one interested could get a copy by writing Carrol L. Wilson, Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. It provides details for a survey of the town and its trading area, and suggests that such a survey be made by a senior high school class, to be followed by definite improve- ments in such town conditions as will make it a more attractive cultural, social and trading center. The plans proposed are practical, simple and call for no extensive exMaking the proposed penditure. survey would be excellent training for high school students, directed by a principal or teacher. Revitalizing America's country towns as social and market centers is one of the urgent needs of the nation. It can be done in towns where the people want it done. That department of commerce booklet will show the way to those who ask for it. FORTY MILES AN HOUR IS NOT A HARDSHIP FORTY MILES AN HOUR, says the President, is fast enough during the period of tire shortage, which means the period of the war. To be sure, there are still some speed demons who have not heeded the Presidents warning and who are still traveling at 50, 60 and 70 miles an hour. But they will soon be walking at an ever slower pace than the first automobiles I remember could travel. In the late nineties I have forgotten the exact year II. II. Kohl-satthen one of the editors and ownorers of the Chicago ganized what I believe was the first automobile race. It covered a distance of some 30 miles, from the city hall in Chicago to the city hall t, Inter-Ocea- n, in Elgin. Much preparation was made for the event. There were no gas stan tions in those days, and cans of gas were distributed at frequent intervals along the designated route. There were, I think, six cars entered. All were of the variety, with high buggy bodies, solid tires, steered with a rod, and started with the turn of a crank in front. Streets and roads for the 30 miles were blocked off and at ten oclock of the appointed day, the race was on. It continued to be on for nearly six hours, when the first car arrived at the city hall in Elgin, an average speed of about five miles per hour. As I recall, only three of the six five-gallo- one-cylind- starters ever completed the course, and the third took nearly eight hours to travel the 30 miles. One could easily walk the distance in less time. That was but a little more than 40 years ago. Within that tim'' American ingenuity has produced the refinements and speed we have today. Those gas buggies cost far more than the average new model of today. Our American system of competition brought production up and price down. Today we have a car for every four people in the United States, an average of one for each family. To go back to the Presidents 40 miles an hour during war time should not seem a great hardship. THE LATEST COUNT SHOWS 282 governmental agencies operating in Washington, employing over 225,000 people. At the end of 1932 there were 37 governmental agencies, employing 66,302 workers. A portion, but by no means all, of the increase is occasioned by war activities. WE MIGHT get along with a few less and save some of the taxpayers money, or use it to buy more guns. hard-presse- d CAN THE GERMANS REALLY TAKE ITT I HAVE a German-bor- though naturalized, yard man, who deplores what he says is the reason for this war. To prevent other wars, he hopes this one will not stop until all Germany is occupied by Allied troops. That, he says, will take the war fever out of the German mind. From what he says, I gather that he thinks the Germans are not so good at taking it as they are' at dishing it up for the other fellow. n, WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS PETTICOAT ARMY: To Serve Overseas Soviets Break Nazi Lines at Kharkov To Relieve Pressure on Kerch Front; Enlistment of 150,000 American women between the ages of 21 and 44 for service with the regular army anywhere in the world was authorized when the senate passed a bill creating the wom- U. S. Army Takes Over All Air Lines; Lower Wage Brackets Face Income Tax arc ripre.atd in thrive column, they anatyt and not uecefctnnly of tbi nenbpaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union OK'S KOTF It arc tbohc of the 1 1 When opinion nei i ens auxiliary army corps. The house had previously approved the measure. The corps will be uniformed. Pay in the ranks will be $21 the first four months and $30 from then on. Members of the corps must be in good health, unimpeachable character and have no dependents. A WAAC company, according to present plans, will comprise 250 women and four officers It was intimated that the first task of the corps would be in the aircraft warning services. Some of the duties would include jobs as clerks, teletype operators, switchboard, telegraph or telephone operators and messengers. Duties in other branches of the service would include pharmacists, dieticians, hostesses, laboratory assistants, laundry workers and stewardesses. Fresh Warning other French possessions in the Mestern hemisphere. Immobilization of French warships at Martinique followed conferences between American representatives and the resident French high commissioner. Above (center) is shown Laval with M. Catlula, (left) his minister of finance and M. Paul Marion, secretary of state. AIRLINERS: Will Fly for U. S. RUSSIAN FRONT: Nazis Seek Oil With the rich oil fields of the Caucasus as the prize, Nazi and Russian Red army fighters locked forces in a combat which before the summers end may determine the wars outcome. Principal theater of the Nazis newest conquest effort was the Kerch peninsula, gateway to the Soviets farflung oil possessions. While the Russians admitted that a German break into the Kerch defenses had caused a withdrawal to new positions, the Soviet communiques reported that the new line was being held in good order and that a heavy toll was being taken of the The war depaitments action in taking over the $100,000,000 commercial aviation industry emphasized again the United Nations conviction that air power will be the determining factor in winning the war. In a drastic order authorized by President Roosevelt, the army curtailed private aviation, requisitioned 55 of the nations 250 palatial airliners for immediate military service and directed that 70 more be converted by the 17 airlines themselves into cargo carriers. Virtual elimination of night flying was forecast in the new order. A attackers. change in air routes and the closing Balancing this news was a report of many commercial airports for that Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's the wars duration was indicated. armies further north had broken Employees of the airlines includthrough the first German defense ing 2,200 pilots and 18,984 other perlines around the industrial city of sonnel were given their choice of Kharkov and were preparing for an joining up with the air corps or the invasion of the city itself. Success ferry command or remaining with of the Kharkov offense would mean war department-operatelines. that the German move toward the The war departments action folCaucasus would be forestalled. lowed the recent requisitioning of 83 Regarded as a grand dress re- airliners for service in the Near hearsal for the major Nazi spring East and Far East. offensive when drier ground permits greater movement, the present bat- AXIS SUBS: tles offered a test of the best arms Inland Attacks which Axis and the United Nations When an Axis submarine slipped could muster. German air concentrations were reported the heavi- through the net of Canadas coastal est of any used thus far in World defenses to torpedo and sink two War No. 2. Russian mechanical ships in the St. Lawrence river, it marked the first time in history an triple-turrincluded equipment enemy underseas craft had penedethe latest American tanks and North Americas inland watrated sign planes. terways. INCOME TAXES: Increasing boldness of warfare all along the Atlantic More Will seaboard was indicated by the sinking of seven additional UnitProspects that a single person in ed Nations merchantmen making as little as $9 62 weekly American waters. At the same and a childless married couple time an enemy mine was diswhose income is $23 08 a week or covered near the Florida coast. more will have to file income tax atExact location of the returns were seen in the action of tack in the St. Lawrence was not the house ways and means committee in voting to lower the exemp- disclosed in the Canadian communitions for married persons to $1,200 que, nor were the names of the a year from the present $1,500 and freighters sunk. That the same subfor single persons to $500 from $750. marine was responsible for both Allowances for children and oth- sinkings was indicated by the fact er dependents would be left at $400. that they both occurred in the More than 8,000,000 persons, it was same general locality and at the estimated, would be added to the same general time. The St. Lawrence river is navigapresent fold of 17,000,000 Amerible to vessels between cans who file income tax returns. and the mouth its could comfort city of Quebec, take Taxpayers from the fact that the comnvttee 500 miles upstream. The communivoted to retain the present 10 per que noted that both ships were sunk cent earned income credit for in the river and not in the gulf earned income up to $14,000 a year. outside. For example, a person earning TIRES: $1,200 a year is permitted to deduct $120 from the amount which would U. S. If ants Them otherwise be subject to the normal Jesse Jones, secretary of comtax provision, provided his income Reconis derived from wages or salaries. merce, revealed that the struction Finance corporation had made available $150,000,000 for the MARTINIQUE: purchase by the government of new and used tires and tubes now in the Warships Immobilized As French warships at Martinique hands of consumers. County tire ration boards of were being immobilized, the United the Office of Price AdministraStates came closer to its goal of tion and RFC ageneies will be completely neutralizing French posresponsible for administering sessions in the Caribbean sea. the plan, Mr. Jones declared. A While Vichy France had issued a note covering the situation, Amerivoluntary system of tire purcan representatives indicated they chasing wilt be tried out first. Should this fail, commandeering were doing business with Adm. of civilian tires looked like the Georges Robert, high commissioner next step. of the French West Indies. Coincident with the Jones anSHIPBUILDING: nouncement came a pessimistic report on the nation's rubber situaGood News Ahead tion issued by the Office of Emer"All around the clock, seven days gency Management. This report ena week is the rate at which Uncle titled The Truth About Rubber Sam's ship production machine is stated that U. S. production of synbeing utilized, it was disclosed by thetic rubber this may reach War Shipping Administrator Emory 28,000 tons, and year cannot be expectS. Land. ed to be much more than 350,000 Good news for the future was held tons in 1943. forth in the admirals statement that Only by "slapping the Japs back the nations shipyards will turn out in their islands will the American 15,000.000 tons of new vessels annupeople regain all the rubber they ally after 1943 and will continue that need, and return to prewar use, the pace as long as necessary. report concludes. ms nt GAS WARFARE: Pierre Lavals position grew more difficult as the United States in practical effect ceased to recognize Vichy control over Martinique and U0USEH01D Rattlesnake Rattle Axis diplomats have started the groundwork tor a peace offensive. Their peace conditions will be flatly rejected by our Commander-in- Chief. There is no other course because there is no such thing as conditional freedom. A peace offer from a dictator is what a rattle is to a rattlesnake. The American war policy is both clear and final. We will only return to peace when Hitler can never again return to war. Once we were lulled into false security but we shall never be swindled out of victory. We shall never lose with a pen what our men have gained by America remembers the sword. Pearl Harbor and she is determined that Tokyo will never forget. The only Americans who will ever go to Munich will be flying bombers made in Detroit. Our fleet stands between us and Hitlers war but our graves stand between us and Hitlers peace. Me have learned Europes lesson there is do such thing as an honorable treaty with a dishonorable government. The American people will make peace some day but only a peace that will explain to Colin Kellys son why his father died. Following Prime Minister Church-id'- s warning to the Axis on gas warfare came a further assertion that Britain was better equipped than Germany for this type of combat. A report by the chemical expert of the ministry of economic warfare pointed out that gasproof shelter accommodations were available for only 40 per cent of the population Things 1 Never Knew of big German cities. Nazi precauAnd Still Don't Know: tions have concentrated on large-scal- e That the Japs consider four an unindishelters rather than on vidual protection, as in Britain. Only lucky number, just as we feel about a portion of the German people own thirteen over here. (Sho nuff the eagle unloaded his first gas masks, the report stated, while American in April, in Britain all the people possess batch of eggs on Nippon is of the which month fourth the them. The British expert declared that year!) . . . That a new official edict those rows of Italys situation is even worse than in England prohibits at the botkisses, Xs, representing Germanys. tom of letters, because spies can use them as a code . . . How we POPE PIUS: overlooked this for our Literary Pleads for Peace Lace dept: Alimony the high cost The voice of Pope Pius was raised of leaving. in an appeal to the worlds leaders to conclude a peace That the word coined by the R. A. on principles of justice and moderation, even if Fliers for those propaganda pamit does not seem to correspond to phlets they drop on enemy territory The pontiff, however. is Bomphlets . . . That the Chiaspirations. nese regard cockroaches as symbols of wealth. (Their logic being that a family must be pretty poor, if they cant afford to feed a few cockroaches) . . . That the British Medical Journal offers this tip for prevention of colds: Throw your head back and let a few drops of pure medicinal cod liver oil slide into your throat through each nostril. (Id rather have a cold.) d M'hether you know that ice cream manufacturers have concocted a victory sundae, which is made of red, white and blue ice cream. The plan is to charge 25 cents and give the customer a 10 cent defense . . That Mrs. stamp as a rebate Chip Robert, wife of the secretary of the Democratic Committee, recently gave a Washington luncheon for some femme friends. One of the women invited, phoned and asked: What shall I wear to your To which Mrs. Robluncheon?" ert replied: Come in an open throat and a back suitable for knifing! ... et at Iiy at ocean-goin- g POPE PIUS Peace with Justice acknowledged that there is no immediate hope of peace. Addressing the world by radio on the 25th anniversary of his consecration as a bishop, the pope said: We well know how in the state of things today there would be little probability of success in formulating detailed proposals for a just and honorable peace. But we make this appeal today with greater insistence in view of the menace of greater destructive weapons. The pope then urged statesmen to miss no opportunity to make a peace of justice and moderation. AUSTRALIA: Planes Strafe Japs New Allied blows against Amboi-n- a, former Dutch naval base, and Rabaul, New Britain, gave strength to warnings by United Nations leaders that the battle of the Coral sea has not brought an end to the peril facing Australia. The assaults upon Japanese bases to the north were intended as at least partial insurance invasion. against Warships and transports were reported a these bases, waiting the arrival 0!"" plane reenforcements before moving into the Coral sea area for a rendezvous with the invasion ships scattered by recent American sea victories. Harassing air attacks by Allied bombers on both the east and west flanks of the Jap invasion bases sank and damaged enemy merchantmen, set fire to docks and deairstroyed planes in Jap-heldromes. all-o- ut sea-bor- d MISCELLANY: New York: Uncle Sam is searching for scenic pictures taken abroad by amateurs, according to the Amateur Cinema league, which announced that it had been authorized to distribute through camera deal- ers and clubs 60,000 questionnaires throughout the nation, requesting that all personally made motion pictures and transparencies be made available to the government. it will depress you to learn that you have only one chance in 20,000 to be questioned in a Gallup poll. (Thats the capitalistic . That in system for you) . Australia there are lizards that bark . . . Whether, after all these years, Jimmy Cagney wont finally win the Academy Award for his Geo. M. Cohan portrayal in Yankee Doodle the film dandy . . . That Dandy, the recruitmg slogan of the Marine Corps at Amarillo, Texas, is: Join the Marmes and see Tokyo. M'hether M'hether you know that cats are employed by the U. S. Government with the Post Office Department footing the bill for their keep. (Their job is to keep rats and mice from making a meal of the mail) . . . That on a highway in Venezuela theres a monument to a wrecked automobile with the inscription: . That the Slowly one goes far tag of Ann Sheridans oomphlicker, Juke Girl, is the funniest fun. Annie says to Ronald Reagan: Let settle down on a farm and raise tomatoes . . . Reagan, ogling her Whos interested chassis, retorts: in raising tomatoes?. That if you feel cold in bed because you havent enough blankets, just cover your head with a scarf, and your whole body, feet and all, will warm up in a jiffy. (In these days that alone is worth the price you paid for the paper!) . . . That when Louis XIV was King of France, for a nominal fee people could come to the palace and watch him eat. (That must have been scads of fun I) M'hether you know that in ancient Gaul there were laws making it taboo to get too stout. (If a guy got stouter than the law permitted he was fined) . . . That a psychologist has figured out that a person who lives seventy years has spent 2,100 hours looking in mirrors. (Who, me?) . . . That the latest wrinkle is a cosmetic for women to put on their teeth, like nail polish, to give them that toothpaste-a- d smile . . . That in China the nicest gift you can give a man on his 41st and 51st (Because birthdays is its a symbol of longevity there). chow-mei- n. Cinnamon toast may be made without sugar by blending 2,k tablespoons of honey with two-thirds tablespoon butter. Increase amounts as desired. Keep butter covered in the refrigerator lest it pick up flavors from other foods. Also keep butter in the coldest part of the refrigerator. Eggs should be stored in the refrigerator but they do not need the coldest spot. level teaspoon of bakIf ing powder is added to every four eggs used in making a souffle, it will not fall after it has been removed from the oven. one-ha- lf Individual service table mats save lots of laundering. Use them in place of luncheon or tablecloths. For outdoor or porch serving try the prettily decorated oilcloth mats; they only need a daily wiping with a dampened cloth. as mm & IN 63 B.C. MAUDS TULLIUS TIRO INVENTED A SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND USED IN THE ROMAN SENATE - THE BETTER WAY TO TREAT CONSTIPATION proper'bulk CORRECT DUE TO LACK OF in the diet is to THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE WITH A DELICIOUS CEREAL, KELLOGG'S EAT AU-BRA- IT EVERY DAY AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER.. Do You Bake at Home? If you do, send for a grand cook book crammed with recipes for all kinds of breads and cakes. Its absolutely free. 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