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Show Bound SOUTH CACHE COURIER ON THE Australians Much Like Folks HOME FRONTS Back Home, Americans Discover Things Few New Yorkers Know About New York: New York isnt all stone and steel. - Staten Island is dotted with small towns and fertile farm lands, by cracky . . . There are about 600 Indians in our burg . . . The Stock Exchange has its own medical dept, and tailor . . . Most odorable spot in town is Front street, where the citys supply of coffee is roasted . . . You can find almost anything in Manhattan, including a lighthouse at Fort Washington Point . . . New Yorks most expensive real estate is supposed to be Nassau street as much as $825 a square foot has been shelled out for property there. . . . Meals in the citys hoosegows are planned by expert dieticians. No room service, however. Servicemen Mingle With Aussies in Fun, Sports and Worship By ELLIOTT PINE Released by Western Newspaper Union. About the time the Jamestown settlers were setting sail for Virginia, a Spanish navigator was exploring the strait bearing his name that separates New Guinea from Australia. The sea captain was Torres, and the year 1606. This was the beginning of definite knowledge of the great island known as Australia. In 1942 this strange land was rediscovered by men The tiny cemetery on Tenth street those Jamestwas the scene of our towns most stemming from an own colonists expeditionmacabre crime. The bones of a rich New Yorker, buried there, were once ary force of the U. S. army. stolen and held for ransom. The remains were eventually recovered were never but the skeleton-napper- s On Second avenue arrested there is a 3, 9 and 19 cents store. Dont know the reason for the unusual prices . . . The stone fortifications that were used during the Revolutionary war can still be found .near Bway and 190th street . . . Six different streets meet at Sheridan shop is square . . . Oddest-name- d the Chineseatery called Hang Far Low . . . The clock tower at the north end of Battery park sounds the signals for the watches kept on shipboard . . . Wall street is only about seven blocks long, but its the . financial heart of 48 States. ... Until the war with Japan broke, Americans knew little and probably cared less about Australia. As one writer put it, A vast bond of ignorance united Americans and Australians. But war has changed all that. Now many thousands of soldiers from the States have met thousands of Australians, have eaten at their tables, drunk in their public houses, danced and played in their Comforts (USO to us), and worshiped in their churches. The Aussies turned out to be very much like the folks back home. This is not remarkable, after all, for Australians are largely of British stock English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh, with smaller numbers of other peoples represented. They are generally tall, sturdy, independent people much like Americans of the Western states, with much of the same forthrightness and friendliness characteristic of a people close to pioneer days. While most of the 7,000,000 Australians live in cities on the coasts, they are a rugged, outdoorsy folk. For instance, in their army training camps there are no cots provided for enlisted men they sleep on the ground! Roughing it is a sort of fetish partly making a virtue of necessity, partly an inheritance from .tougher days, when survival depended on endurance. For some unknown reason, above 59th street several avenues suddenly change their names. Eighth avenue becomes Central Park West; Ninth avenue becomes Columbus avenue; Tenth avenue becomes Amsterdam avenue; and Eleventh avenue beNo one comes West End avenue need go hungry or homeless on the streets of New York. The Dept, of Welfare is ready to provide food and shelter for all unfortunates. Then how come there are so many panhandlers? . . . Haunted house legends have grown up around the ancient brownstone mansion that Appear adjoins Woodlawn cemetery. No one has lived there for more than a cenWhile Australian cities like Meltury and its completely furnished. bourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide are modem enough, smaller Five stories belov street level sub- places appear a bit to terranean vaults at the Federal Re- American eyes the architecture beserve Bank are barred by doors longs to a generation or more ago. weighing as much as 90 tons. The Such comforts as central heating best air raid shelter in town . .'. plaijts and electric refrigerators are Juvenile delinquency isnt new. Ac- not so common as in the States. cording to Police Dept, statistics, 50 Because the climate is mild, they per cent of the citys lawbreakers get along without much heating, but have always been under 25 years of the summers are warmer too, so the age . . . Mayor LaGuardia has a absence of refrigeration is surpristiger skin' in his home to sym- ing, considering that the Australians bolize his victory over the Tam- are a mechanically minded and pracmany tiger . . . Among the Weather tical people. At all events, the furbureau's . unusual duties is collect- nishings and equipment of the homes ing pollen to aid in the study of hay look pretty crude to Americans. fever . . . Plenty of amusement But the Australian tells himself, and spots in our town over 700 legit probably the nearest Yank, that theaters and movies. he just cant be bothered with too much comfort. Yon dont have to leave New York The Aussies were amazed, and to enjoy natural scenery. The eye- perhaps a bit envious when they filling sights along the Hudson are taw the army equipment that came as beautiful as anything youll find with the U. S. first contingent all A few in any part of the world New Yorkers who love to go to fires have private fire alarm boxes in their homes . . . Most popular part of the public library is its record booth where you can hear recordings gratis. You must make reservations two weeks in advance . . . For its post office in the RCA building, the govt pays Radio City $1.00 a year rent . . . There is a deserted theatre under Carnegie Hall . . . Swankiest elevators in town are at the New York Central edifice. Decorated with red Chinese lacquer and e ceiling . . . 50,000,000 pounds of food pour into New York every 24 hours. ... ... sky-blu- Broadway is the citys oldest street. It was down early Broadway that a courier dashed shouting the ' : news of the Battle of Lexington . . . More crimes have taken place on the Main Stem (between 47th and 49th streets) than in any other spot in town. No one knows exactly why. . . . There is a huge warehouse in . . . The Radio Citys opulent house at 73rd street and Riverside drive that resembles a castle was erected by Charles M. Schwab and cost two and a half A unique subway stamillion . tion is the one at 190th street. Its carved out of the side of a cliff . . . No trick is missed in an effort to improve radio programs. NBCs studios are coated with a special g glue . . . Inside the Brooklyn Bridge abutments are large catacombs. A department store used to cache its liquor there. sound-insulatin- Exotic East Indian merchants can be found on lower Fifth avenue. They sell priceless gems. One merchant is named Mohammed . The Bowery Diamond marAli ket is one of the burgs picturesque sights. Diamonds worth millions are bought and sold on the sidewalk in the midst of the poverty-stricke- n sector . . . George Washingtons love for the drama, helped make New York a theatrical center. When he lived in the Big Town, Gen. Washington rarely missed a first night." . ' A baby wallaby, which is a small species of kangaroo, is the pet of Pvt. Albert Mlnarik of Milwaukee, Wis. He calls it Jasperoo Dempsey. gadgets from kitchen mixing machines to movie projectors for an army on war duty. If this is what an American army in the field takes along, what must the civilians at home have, reflected the natives. The farms Down under dont measure up so well beside American standards either. Barns and other buildings have a patchy, ramshackle appearance, in sorry contrast to the trim handsome appearance of everything on many American farms. All this is explained, perhaps not too convincingly, by the statement that Australians have had only about half as long to conquer their country die as we have had here. Besides that, the soil and climate are harder to contend with than in most of the United States An Arid Country. Most of the big island is desert and poor scrubby grazing land. Out of 3,000,000 square miles (almost exactly the size of continental United States), over a million miles is real desert stone and sand and salt flat that is entirely out of the question for any purpose at present Another million miles grows scanty vegetation sufficient to support the hardy sheep for which the nation is famous. The really good farm land comprises an area about the size of the three states of the Pacific coast Oregon, Washington and California. Only one region in the south is tropical enough to grow bananas, pineapples and such exotic plants. Early settlers found that their wheat dried out and died in the heavy reddish soil, but a new hard is revariety called Federation sistant to drouth and rust, and is yielding well. The acreage of wheat Roughing it seems to be a lark for these two American army nurses, who are stationed somewhere in Australia. Lieut. Frances Cox is getting a shampoo from a bucket of cold water, with the assistance of Lieut. Lily Fucci. has been almost doubled by the vention of the Stumpjump plow, adapted to the rough bush country. ' The manpower shortage is even more severe on Australian than American farms, since 913,000 men are in the armed forces, and drain on the male population equivalent to an American military mobilization of 17,000,000 (ours is actually about now). Another 600,000 men are working in , factories, as are many thousands of women. To make matters worse, Australian farms are not as highly mechanized as are American, so manpower does not go as far. For these reasons food is a bit scanty. Vegetables that require a lot of hand cultivation are scarce. Even potatoes are hard to get, and are largely requisitioned for troops. Oranges are another thing civilians rarely see. Jams and jellies are real luxuries, too. Give Their Steaks to Yanks. As part of the reciprocal "lend-leas- e program, Australia is trying to provide food for American troops, and is doing a successful job at it, but the home folks have to pull in their belts a bit. In meat, for instance, civilians have had to reduce their consumption by two thirds. (They used to eat 124 pounds a year: U. S. consumption is 95 pounds.) Since Australia is a meatexporting country in normal times,-ican be inferred how much of a pinch the war is putting on the livestock industry. Added to their other difficulties was a beef from the Americans that they were getting too much mutton and not enough beef. So the Australian home folks had to forego their steaks almost entirely, and turn them over to the Yanks. The equivalent of Victory gardens are "Austerity gardens in Australia. These are not only small plots in vacant land, but window boxes and tubs. The need for small vegetables is real enough for many truck farms are not in production this year. Canned goods have disapAusteripeared from the markets. ty is the name for getting along without a lot of things, like spices, tea, malted milk, chocolate candy and so on. The gasoline allowance is four gallons a month. Cigarettes are limited to a pack a day (10 in a pack). Matches are very scarce. Laundry and dry cleaning services are available only once in two weeks. Traveling is restricted;, horse-racin- g is closed down; liquor is scarce. Clothes have to be made over, repaired, and made to last With the war right at their back doors, the Australians are taking these privations tin stride without in- t much complaint Theyre a tougt breed, after all. On the social side, the American! and Australians get along' prettj anc well, considering the pugnacity on both sides. After thi Yanks and Aussies had fought to gether a few times, the bond of battles shared united the comrades ir arms. Americans were instructed beforehand in getting along and behaving nicely, and it appears thal most of them are doing so. The Australians, who are grateful for the timely succor, are acting as hosts and allies should. There is of course some grumbling among the Aussies about th Yanks snatching away their girls. The famous American line goes over pretty well too, and the certain awe that most foreigners feel toward Americans helps to make an impression. Then the higher pay scale of the U. S. army gives our men more spending money, and they probably show the girls a better time than the native boys do. Australian girls say that Americans treat them as equals and are more courteous than their own men folks who are following traditional behavior that is out of date in America. In New Zealand, where the situation parallels that in Australia pretty closely, a member of the parliament introduced a resolution asking the U. S. army to reduce the pay of our soldiers, because the local chappies were being put to shame when it came to free spending. Nothing came of it, but it shows how some of them feel. Love Comes to U. S. Soldiers., Many Americans have found romance in the big island. Only lately 900 Australian women, brides and finances of American soldiers, landed in San Francisco, and began to adjust themselves to their new home land. Many other brides are staying over there until the war ends. Some soldiers plan to remain in Australia. Prime Minister Curtin recently stated that he wished that as many as 200,000 Americans would settle in his country. It is not reported how the average Australian fellow feels about this proposition. Until lately Australia, like all frontier countries, had a large preponderance of males. How kindly the Aussies take to additional competition for their women and their jobs is not revealed. Australian girls are rather bigger than American girls, our soldiers say. They are athletic and healthy and interested in sports such as swimming and tennis. Their endurance on the dance floor is a marvel to husky Americans, who are often hard put to keep up. They want to learn the latest American steps. They enjoy American slang. On the other hand, there is British conservatism in social life throughout Australia. Many forms of amusements are closed on Sunday. The churches exert more influence there than many American communities. Only a few months ago, for instance, clergymen of all denominations were protesting against hasty marriages between Americans and Australian girls. The remonstrance carried considerable weight. While Australians play our brand of baseball, they do so only to keep in condition for football in the offseason. And football to them is a special game of their own, unlike American football or English rugby, It is a fast game with much kicking, leaping and running. Eighteen men play on each side. Cricket is the national game as in other British countries. Americans found it is not as slow as they had been led to believe. Tennis and golf are popular. Horse racing used to be a national passion, but wartime stringencies have closed most tracks. The Future. How much greater Australia can become depends on many factors. RUTH WYETH Washington, D. C. LITTLE FARMERS Forty years have elapsed between the battles of Teddy Roosevelt and Cousin FDR, but one Issue which plagued the former is also plaguing the latter and is now before congress. It is the question whether government irrigation, government water, and government reclamation shall benefit the big land-ownor the small. The issue is now one of the hottest fights both in California and in congress, where Secretary of the Interior Ickes has been called to testify on a rider which Congressmen Elliott and Carter of California have skilfully smuggled into the rivers and harbors bill a rider permitting big landowners in Californias central valley to benefit from government low-coirrigation. The question in Teddy Roosevelts day was whether any farmer holding more than 160 acres should benefit from government irrigation. The issue arose when the land kings of the Far West wanted to develop their ranches and speculative holdings through irrigation at government expense. The West was for it, but the East objected. Eastern states claimed they would be footing the tax bill and that Western irrigation would come out of their pockets. The West replied that the irrigation projects of that day would provide benefits for small Eastern farmers who migrated westward tomorrow. After a terrific battle, Teddy Roosevelt won out. Congress ruled that government - irrigated land tracts must be limited to 160 acres. That law still stands. But Republican Congressman Carter of Oakland, Calif., and Democratic Congressman Elliott of Tulare, Calif., have ganged up to change it with a rider exempting the central valley Irrigation project. Their amendment, already passed by the house, would mean that big ranchers in the central valley could benefit from the new irrigation project no matter how extensive their holdings. Even more important, it would mean that a lot of new land, not extensively cultivated at present, would be subjected to speculation. Ickes for Small Farms. Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who has supervised the expenditure of $150,000,000 on central valley irrigation, is determined that the benefits shall not go to land speculators and big ranchers, plus some of the big liquor companies which have bought up California wineries. The issue, according to Secretary Ickes, is whether the U.S.A. is going to become a nation of large hiring Okies and tenant farmers, or whether the nation will feature medium-size- d farmers' operating their own land. NOTE Business men in the central valley are split over the issue. Many merchants believe that medium-sized farms rather than poorer farm labor make for better business In neighboring towns. The Fresno Chamber of Commerce calls 60 to 80 acres of figs an economic unit for a family, or 80 to 120 acres of alfalfa. The Chamber has sent out booklets urging settlers to take up small land tracts. BIG VS. eight inches high. You her and the babies out of s,1 wood for toys, weather vane? add aivamusing touch to y0l? or garden. Happy and the er 'on st cut-thro- at land-owne- rs WHEEl8M;3 J lings also make a jolly wall ration for kitchen, bathroom! childrens room. Anyone who likes needle! will immediately see the possi; ties for a quick and effective! plique design for a childs cl with white or yellow ducks sph ing on a blue background, br orange bills and feet and a ered border all around the poni 1 NOTE Mrs. Spears has prepare 1 pattern of this gay duck J her ducklings with full directions aniej guide for cutting, painting, stencisJ using for applique work. Complete iJ tions and dimensions for making thewbj barrow shown in this sketch are 1 eluded with pattern. The number i J and price is 15 cents. Address: actual-siz- e also MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEAKS New Yrt Bedford Hills Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Pattern Hi 258. Name Address THROW AWAY HARSH LAXATIVES! Millions Have Ended Constt pation with Simple Fresh Fruit Drink Dont form the habit of depenon harsh, griping laxatives healt- ding until youve tried this easy, way millions now use hful to keep regular. Its fresh lemon juice and watet taken first thing in the morning-ju- st as soon as you get up. The juice of one Sunkist Lemon in glass of water. Taken thus, on empty stomach;, it stimulates normal bowel action, day after day, for most people. And lemons are actively god for you. Theyre among the richest coan sources of Vitamin C, which and fatigue,' helps resist colds infections.- They supply vitamins Bi and P, aid digestion and help alkalinize the system. mbats Try this grand dnni wake-u- p if it doesnt help out Use California Sunkist 10 mornings. See Le; mons.. FOUR-F- s. Despite all the army howls for to get into war plants, it remains a fact that physical examination in many plants is so stiff that they cant get in. In fact, the physical in some plants is stiffef than in the army. Many a patriotic F has worn out shoeleather making the rounds of war plants, only to find that he cant get in. A punctured for instance, is considered just as important in a war plant as in the The great areas of desert and semi-ari- d army. land is unfavorable to extenIn recent weeks, belated steps sion of agriculture without great ir- have been taken to relax some of rigation projects. Forest resources these physical restrictions, but much are inadequate for much lumber- still remains to be done. So you The mineral cant blame a lot of the ing or paper-makinif resources have not been exploited they arent in war plants. Another difficulty which the War very much yet, and offer considerable promise. There is a good deal of Manpower commission might well manufacturing, but the heavy indus- dig into is the fact that anyone can tries need further development. quit work in a vital war plant but, Unless the population increases without a certificate of availability, considerably, the commonwealth cannot transfer to another war plant cannot expect to become a great naat least, not until after a tion. Postwar years may see con- period. siderable migration to this country, In other words, you can step out still a frontier land with real oppor- of an aircraft factory or a synthetic tunities. Perhaps many Europeans rubber plant and go to work in a will try their luck there. Enough barber shop or at a bootblack stand, American soldiers may decide to or just loaf at home. They are not ' settle there to set the pace, and to essential industries. But if you want attract other Americans in years to to switch to a munitions plant, you come. On the other hand, Australia ' can't without a certificate of availmay not be much more interesting ability (which you probably cant to most people after the war than it get), or without waiting the required was before. cooling-of- f period of 60 days. 4-- ear-dru- Theres good reason why PAZO has been used by so many mimen FirsL of sufferers from simple Piles-PAZO ointment soothes inflamed area relieves pain and itching. Second PAZO ointment lubricates hardened dried parts helps prevent cracking a soreness. Third, PAZO ointment tends to reduce swelling and check bleeding. Fourth, its easy to use. PAZO omi ap ments perforated Pile Pipe makesdoctor plication simple, thorough. Your can tell you about PAZO ointment. tEeUAZOlIoftyttLTriM 'To relieve distress of MONTHLY g. 60-d- As might be expected, many American servicemen found their hearts desire in Australia. One soldier was married two weeks after he landed to a girl he met on the MERRY-GO-ROUN- CoLydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable mpound Is made especially lor tsomjm to help relieve periodic pain with weak, tired, nervous, blue due to functional monthly . Taken regularly Plnkham s Com pound helps build up distance Here u against such symptoms. n product that helps Inature that's the kind to buy almost a century. Thousands UP thousands of women have report benefits. Follow label directions Worth trying I .LYDIA E. PINKHAMS COMWHINP D C Busy as he is, President Roosevelt will soon be called upon to settle the problem of whether a rail workers vacation week is six days or seven. Railroad workers were docks. Somewhat more formal was this wedding in Our Lady of Lourdes church in Armadale, Australia, in which Chief Petty Officer Lowell Rudy and Miss Alice Drew were united. Attendants are Petty Offi- cer Waldo Gustafson, also of the U. S. navy, and Miss Lila Drew, bridesmaid granted a weeks vacation as part of the wage compromise last year, but the railroad executives now contend that FDR meant the vacation should be six days, not seven. If the railroad workers get seven days, they can stay away Sunday, which is a holiday anyway, plus Monday, or an tctual total of eight days. 4 i Get Into Action ' For Full Victory! |