Show 4 4 III i i i 1 1 H I H i 4 t ol- ol ole e t 1 Dads Dad's i ix x I t Column C lumn I e. e 1 ole 1 to rI OT AM INCOMES IES r ARE AIt E BIGGER lt II I PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT said recently it U was too easy to assume that all consumers have bave surplus purchasing power as ns a result of war prosperity Ho pointed out that this assumption snores 1 Ignores those on l-on fixed incomes Induct Induct- InductIng of salaried white collar millions I Ing ne g workers schoolteachers clergymen clerks whose clerks whose policemen firemen and Salaries salaries have bave remained low but whose slashed living standards are nrc being higher food prices bY bv The same namo assumption a Is too easily made when the for Treasury Is formulating s up sup taxes to op pay for the he war and to take up excess purchasing power The Increases of Income are not distributed evenly throughout the community The rho proposal for a personal excess- excess Income tax or forced savings plan based not merely m rely on rate of Income but buton buton Increase of Individual Income during on war war var years years Is designed to t meet this Christian Science Monitor situation I o o 00 o SOUTH OUTU AFRICAN U CAMP IP I roll FOK TIlE THE WOUNDED D I THERE IS In Natal South Africa I what hat a ft woman dietitian working there I IhU b hU has described as the largest convalescent I depot in to the world It collects empire I convalescents from all tho the Hospitals In South 1 Africa and keeps them until they theyan I I I II I I an CuI be returned to their units or sent to England Englund It can accommodate patients and with staffs of ot all kinds there are arc nearly persons living inthe In 1 I Ithe I the camp The hospital Is well built and andI I splendidly equipped and will be turned i I I Into a a. civilian hospital after atter the war It n is feet above sea level In the mist belt and has a a. wonderful climate I English fruits grow around It The depot I I buildings are mostly made of ot wattle and daub Each cf of the tho two kitchens has messes which seat and they have a astaff i staff of 23 European women and 23 Bulu I boys to do the rough work There Is a a. I picture house and a a. swimming bath I Games Games tennis tennis bowls and football football are are provided I O 0 O O D LOW JJ RATE HATE IN I EVACUATION E HOSPITALS 11 THE SURGEON General of the Army Major Gen Norman T T. Kirk Is reported to have said In New York on July 8 that the death rate In the evacuation hospitals during the African campaign was the lowest rare rae of any army at any anytime time and was between 25 and 35 3 per perI percent j I cent of ot admissions In with witha Ja a mortality rate during the last war In such ouch hospitals hos of 15 per cent General Kirk ascribed the recent low record to the use of plasma surgery excellent and sulfonamide drugs He said that blood plasma given at the front lines saved lives which would have been lost If not available for the treatment of cases In shod ho he added that the cream of sur sur- surgery surgery surgery gery in America the tho middle aged and the younger men who have been teach teach- teaching teaching teaching ing have been at evacuation hospitals at the front O O 00 O GONE HUT lT NOT FORGOTTEN A JUDGE In trying a Case casc of ot a way way- wayward wayward I I ward child chUd lamented the disappearance d I of the wood shed spankings There are I II I homes where spanking Is 13 outmoded l In I fact tact It seems that most homes today use other methods of punishment perhaps m re satisfactorily Maybe spanking went the way of the wood shed The latter has hasteen teen been replaced by a garage and spanking didn't stand still either cither l I But spanking ts one of the oldest Institutions and even m nations nation's use It today as the easiest 7 to gain control of an unruly sub- sub subject It may be bo the reason spanking isn't as popular Is because parents are areto areto too to busy buS to take the time or too negligent negligent negligent gent to go Into the ethics of ot this form of or correction There are two sides to the tho Spanking argument and modern child child educators might win In most cases but even so to there wasn't much wrong with those earlier generations whose folks worked on the tho theory that to spare the therOd therod j rOd was to spoil the child O 00 O O 7 OR I OR GOOD CONDUCT CON YOU HAVE VE been reading of the fine reports Ports given of our boys by certain l foreign military leaders overseas re- re regarding garding their conduct especially their COOperativeness and good manners There has been a recent comment from 5 the e French and British In North I Africa rica and we know that as our boys boya have wo TO carried themselves In the European theatre catre so have they on every other I fighting ung front In Great Britain tho the administrator who has Jurisdiction over 1 law aw w violations by United States troops troop s reports ports I a remarkably low proportion b Continued on Page four t Dads Dad's Column Continued from Page One ot of general martial court cases which bl means the soldiers are confirming the praise ot of good behaviorism The British speak or of the tho law violations ot of our lads as American Justice Is very exacting And so such bUch tribute for good manners rinds finds us saying we knew It all the time Many times In the past we havo bave felt that with the reputation for finesse culture and polish attributed to for for- foreigners eigners might lead to an idea In some minds that Americans were not trained for the minded high graces and tho room drawing arts Maybe Wo we thought the folks over there would md us breezy and Inclined to back back- backWoods backwoods Woods mannerisms Now and then a a. visitor to our shore would return home bomo to write about our peculiar ways We Ican can feel teel complimented that the Amerl- Amerl American can soldier has built up a a. reputation for our civilization It Is probable that through him we are displaying good will willand and understanding with our foreign neighbors that surpass even e the diplo- diplo diplomats diplomat's mats mat's diplomacy TilE TIIE FRIENDLY MONTH TU AUGUST HAS been the month for garnering grain husking corn orn the har- har harvest vest cst humming in much or of rural America This holds true With regard to county fairs in many sections The time Is ripe for rural families visiting calling on farm families to exchange views and cultivate old friendships This year the Visiting wont won't go on so far from homo home but It will still mean that agricultural shoWS will get a a. following What ot of an I America without her ber county There I will wUl still be blue ribbons tendered finest cattle best bat Jelly prettiest quilt Who doesn't get pleasure in viewing the prize tomato largest potato o. o craziest shaped squash Maybe l we all havo o a a. certain amount ot of country In pus us no matter how tar far we go from the farm or how cosmopolitan is our taste |