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Show Town and Farm in Wartime . , A Tribute from Moscow Will Review Deferments If a radio quiz expert asked for Local Selective Service Boards the name of the man who made have been directed to review cases the statement that "without Amor- of all registrants 18 through 37 ican production the United States years old and deferred in classes could never have won the war," a 2A, 2B, 2C and 3C Particular at-good at-good guesser might logically pick tention will be given registrants some prominent American official under 26 years of age in view of and be sent to the foot of the tn President's statement that ag-class ag-class for his error. The man who "culture and industry should remade re-made that statement was Premier 'ease the younger men for mill-Stalin, mill-Stalin, the head of a nation his- tary service. torically opposed to the principles of capitalism which made Ameri- Single Book for Food can production possible. Xr , r, Our own political leaders have After Y and Z Expires yet to acknowledge the accom- plishments of private industry in After food shoppers have used this war. This may be due to the their Brown Y and Z stamps, they fact that more than a few of our do all their food shopping with Ra- public servants are too busy using tion Book Four. The ration token the war emergency as an excuse plan now in effect eliminates use for socializing private enterprise, of stamps of four denominations to notice that it has wrought an (8, 5, 2, and 1 points) and uses armament production miracle stamps of one denomination (10- which has saved the world from points) with one-point ration tok- disaster. Moreover, the ironical ens for change. fact is that they are concentrating their wrecking tools on the main- Care for 2(10 0(10 Rahifx spring of the war effort the na- "re Ior uuuu" CODieS tural resources industries, includ- . , , ... . , ing mining, oil, and electric pow- Ntf arlv 200'000 bjles a"d ?er er. Behind a screen of labor strife mothes were "ed for up to Feb-largely Feb-largely of the government's own ruar(y 1 u"deF the emergency matin mat-in a king, dictatorial domination f,rmtvt ?nd nf ant care program, over the coal industry has steadily HsP.'ta' a"d medical care are grown more oppressive to both the Provlded without cost to wives of public and to mine owners. There serv.lce m.en.m tne four lowest pay is no indication that it will be re- fades- du"nS . Pregnancy child-laxed. child-laxed. The oil industry is becoming th, and for six weeks after the enveloped in a maze of "govern- baby born and for the infant ment planning" with but one ulti- dunng lts Ilrst vear- mate objective, government in the . oil business. And the electric pow- Serial Numbers er industry is living in the shad- Qn Gas Coupons ow of tax subsidized government ownership and competition. . . . . ... , , The foolish notion that such at- A strl?' of sj"ally. ,n"mbered tempts to socialize our basic in- eouPns ln a cardboard folder will dustries have no bearing on the now, be, ,1,ed ' ,r,enewal aPP''-welfare aPP''-welfare of the rest of us, should cants of "B" and "C" supplemental be abandoned at once. The natur- .?af,ohnte ratlns' and,new and al resource industries, privately R . ratlons 'or . gasoline - powered owned and operated, are not only comprint. Serial numbering of the foundation of the "American cuPns is one of OPA's strong-production" strong-production" of which Mr. Stalin f weapons against the gasoline speaks so highly, but they are the black Moto"sts must stl" foundation of American freedom. endorse tnelr coupons. That is why each and every one of us should awaken to the threat Women Farm Workers of state socialism that is being ac- lonr rrtJcfnr-tnT-ir tively promoted under various v erY oanMOCrory guises in our country today. . . , The 94 per cent of non-farm women, including teachers, college RFWARF TMVflCSTn'M students, stenographers and pro-ocvvrtnc pro-ocvvrtnc UNVIOIWIN fessionals, on farms in the United FROM WITHIN States during 1943 satisfied farm- . ers, who have indicated willing- (Following by George Washing- ness to employ them more exten-ton, exten-ton, guest editor. West Virginia sively this year. Recruiting is nan-Republican), nan-Republican), died by the extension service of "All obstructions to the execu- tne Department of Agriculture and tion of the laws, all combinations tne U. S. Employment Service. and associations, (could he have foreseen OPA?) under whatever FREEDOM plausible character, with the real wt-.i. . t design to direct, control, counter- Without InmmingS act, or awe the regular delibera- tion and action of the constituted The wish that seems to be ex-authorities, ex-authorities, are destructive of this pressed most often by American fundamental principle, and of fatal service men throughout the world tendency. They serve to organize is that after this war they want faction, to give it an artificial and t0 come home to the same kind of extraordinary force, to put in the a country they left. They don't place of the delegated will of the want a streamlined, regimented so-nation, so-nation, the will of a party, often ciety. Before the war there was a small, but artful and enterpris- freedom, and this is what our men ing minority of the community. hope, above everything else, to "However, combinations or asso- find when they return, ciations of the above description At present the feeling that free-may free-may now and then answer popular dom is in deadly peril hangs heavy ends, they are likely, in the course over the land. Seldom, if ever, in of time and things, to become po- the history of the country, have tent engines, by which cunning, the people talked so much of free-ambitious, free-ambitious, and unprincipled men dom, while never has their freedom will be enabled to subvert the been so restricted. Today the ener-power ener-power of the people, and to usurp gies of every thinking person are for themselves the reins of govern- devoted to preserving liberty. ment; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted LIGHT-ROBBER them to unjust dominion. A dark-colored lining in a lamp "Toward the preservation of shade brands it as a "light-rob- your government and the prema- ber." Miss Myrtle Fahsbender, di-nency di-nency of your present happy state, rector of Home Lighting for West-it West-it is requisite that you resist inghouse, explains that a dark lin-with lin-with care the spirit of innoviation ing soaks up light as a sponge upon its principles, however spaci- soaks up water, whereas white or ous the pretexts." Farewell Ad- ivory linings reflect the light in-dress, in-dress, September 17, 1796. stead of absorbing it and thus give about 50 per cent more light. |
