Show LI g WR 40 1 A S a ta A fRe halcard leased by western newspaper union CIVILIAN expenditures SHOULD DE BE CAREFUL WHILE WE must spend many billions tor for war senator byrd la is insistent that civilian operations ol 01 rf thee the goberni government nent be reduced to effect a saving roving of two billion dollars a year secretary whose job it Is to find and the money to pay for or ships planes tanks guns and all the equipment I 1 arn ent needed to detent defeat the th e axis powers ts Is also insisting on less expense for or the civilian activities of 0 the government lie ile would b be e fairly well satisfied with a saving 0 f one billion dollars it was not so many years ago when america experienced experienc eq its first billion dollar congress As I 1 remember it it was shortly after the th turn of 0 the present century it created a roar especially from rom the rural sections people believed we were headed straight for or the rocks of national bankruptcy even before we were spend spending ing as much as all a billion dollars any peacetime peace pence time year we seemed to have nil all the governmental activities we needed while we must and will approve of 0 every needed war expenditure we might try a bit 0 of the simple lle ot of yesteryear yetter year as it pertains to civilian activities of government aside from rom some of the minority groups people Lin undoubtedly would approve s COMMUNISM THE WORLD thinks ot of russia as communistic but wig it Is not communism in russia died with lenin and the liquidation by stalin 0 of thousands of lenin followers big and little today russia is more totalitarian fascist than is italy the soviets do not rule russia stalin alone Is the ruler ile he Is more die dic than hitler or mussolini hitler did not attack russia because of a fear of communism but because he did fear stalin as a powerful european rival who was not providing sufficient support for or the tha hitler cause it was a case of the falling out of two of a kind and the allied nations can well accept the result as gin an aid to democracy in time of need we can do that without approving totalitarianism in russia any more than we of it in germany italy or japan we are but the beneficiaries of a fight between rivals constructive CRITICISM IN TIME OF WAR there Is no place or no excuse tor for the carping fault finder then of all times there is need for sane colstr constructive uc criticism in the spring of 1918 george creel told me that president wilson had instructed him to encourage constructive criticism as out of it much good could come to the american cause president wll wil son then had as president roosevelt has now the unified support of the american people TOURISTS WARY WART THE WAR interfered with ameri sas as winter vacation plans vacation spots are largely on the east west and south coasts and tourists visualize any of these points open to a possible german or jap blitz early tourists jammed transportation facilities in their efforts to get back home but neither the germans nor the japs have as yet arrived and our army and navy are on guard JOBS AND investment TO PROVIDE tor for the average job in america an investment of more mor than in factories and tools i is necessary the job is not pois possible sible without the investment and the investment is worthless without the worker on an average the investment receives less than a year and the average worker receives some three times that amount 11 0 MONTHS AT A TIME ALONE WITH BIRDS WHEN AT HOME duke trempe lives at sault ste marle marie mich but he is seldom at home usually he is off somewhere following his hobby and that hobby Is birds I 1 first met duke in honolulu he had just returned there after it a three month stay on a small uninhabited h a b lt ed c coral 0 r al re reef e 1 se several v er al h hundred un d r e d m miles il e s no north r t h of f hawaii 1 aw 1 i for fo r t those h 0 s e three months his only companions were the birds of which there were millions duke wished to know where they come rom and where they go to get that information he catches birds when young places bands on their legs and in time some of them may be picked up in some tar far corner of the pacific and duke may hear of it duke wanted to go with admiral byrd to little america to study penguins but the admiral did not think penguins of sufficient importance to warrant such a study 0 0 0 LABOR RACKETEER WANTED professional WRITERS ol oi america should form an A F of L or CIO union and force those connected with the to pay dues for the privilege of competing compe in the writing field from the president and his family and cabinet on down employees of the government are filling the pages of magazines and periodicals and causing professional writers children to go without shoes the professionals need a labor racketeer to properly organize yie the profession |