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Show I America In Action A Warning to Patriotic Citizens The war department urges families fami-lies and friends of soldiers to exercise exer-cise extreme caution in discussing the military status of an individual soldier lest by consolidation of information in-formation on individuals Axis agents may determine plans of a regiment, a division or even an entire army. The war department has asked and again asks the public to follow three simple rules: If you HEAR it from someone don't repeat it. If you SEE it yourself don't repeat re-peat it. If you READ it in newspapers or magazines or hear it on the radio then it's public property and you may talk about it. Of course you mustn't repeat information you read in personal letters. Army intelligence officers and units report marked success in their efforts to obtain adherence to the first two rules. Rumors are being effectively quieted and there is less and less discussion of those things which are actually witnessed. The war department naturally doesn't concern itself with the first part of the third rule, but it now gives wide attention to the second part the discussion of information revealed by a soldier in a personal per-sonal letter to a relative or friend. "No matter how hard we try to stop it there will be soldiers who feel it incumbent on them to tell their relatives and friends the kind of training they are undergoing, the kind of clothing they are receiving, the type of medicine they are furnished," fur-nished," General Strong said in discussing dis-cussing this phase of the rule. The type of training a soldier is given often indicates the locale in which that training will be used. The kind of clothing he is issued indicates indi-cates the climatic conditions he may encounter when he goes overseas. The medicine also may reveal his destination as different kinds of medicine are known to be used in particular countries. "It is imperative that those persons per-sons receiving this personal mail keep all information contained therein there-in to themselves," General Strong said. "Information gathered from a handful of soldiers' relatives or friends may tip ofT the plan for an entire division. It all seems harmless harm-less and it is natural for a father or a mother to want to tell what their boy is doing. They just fail to realize that in telling they are jeopardizing the boy they love and thousands of other boys." Released by Western Newspaper Union. Builders Ready to Construct Postwar Homes on Day Hostilities Are Ended On the day that an Armistice ends World War II, America's building contractors and building material dealers can start production of new, improved postwar homes, according to an article in the magazine Practical Prac-tical Builder. Thirty billion dollars is expected to be spent for these new homes during the next ten years. For his money the buyer will get "new or greatly improved materials in practically prac-tically every step of construction. Bathrooms, kitchens, laundries and their equipment redesigned with an eye to beauty, utility and color. Heating Heat-ing equipment that will out-perform anything in existence before the war. Methods of construction that outstrip out-strip anything now generally known." The article further predicts "practical "prac-tical application of such things as plastics, aluminum, magnesium, lightweight durables galore to feed the needs and desires of America's postwar progress." But this new home is not expected ex-pected to present a revolutionary change in appearance. "Basically, . the present form of house was all right to begin with. It had to -have a kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedrooms. It still has to have them today." "True, your postwar miracle home will be better designed. More compact. More carefully planned for comfort, health, safety, convenience, conven-ience, labor saving, economy of operation." op-eration." But an extreme futuristic trend in designing is not anticipated, anticipat-ed, according to the article. The $10,000 home of 1920 could be purchased for about $6,000 in 1940; and the homes of the immediate future will inaugurate an even greater downward trend in proportionate propor-tionate cost with a resulting upward trend in value, it is predicted. |