Show J I oi j I c i r It Dads Dad s I I t t Column t I rt Ho H I LEFT LE for Alhambra DJ DAD schedule last Friday morning AS per there thero Saturday morning In arriving shape and Is i now comfortably located good at the home ot of Dr and Mrs n. n 0 0 ViD liE MAY wear last years ears straw hatS hat fingernails may need manicuring his vest ma may hang loose and hiS pants his his face may bag ba at the knees r naY signs of n a second days day's growth show boW dinner bucket may be full of the thO d nd and doughnuts but dont don't call him dents old man HeSs Hes your father I the ibe and he has been ars years r around to get things together rustling once has ho he failed to do the right righting thing ing by you lie thinks that you arc I tho greatest boy on earth bar none though you plaster your our hair back even enn smart clothes smoke cigarettes garettes I vear and ad fall to bring home a cent lie Is man zan who won the love and life the partnershiP of the greatest woman on mother He is some man our euth your h-your It If win as and not the old man you a wife as he did you will have to toEO togo go EO some Desert Dusto Dust Charlotte C I GIS TIME TI TIMES TIME'S S 'S I n tE TURNING back and forth of o onal clocks with time pieces tuned 6 and waking hours might have us a number of times In erent places But nature has her way managing the day and night of our day a lives and as th sun moves she Mm the tho north to the muth mindS us by shadows the days are t orter and nights longer Man can do 1 nothing about it for nature Is no clock vatcher We have heard from boys over over- If or of their surprise in the decided fall cr cf night In the tropical countrIes They write or of how they miss the twilight the dusk ba back home This is perhaps one of the many things we have taken II for granted this spell of twilight As it stew steals quietly sour path as after after- coon roon fades Into soft dusk we think ox of It more In the light of hours than i tI I the pleasing closing of each d o not think or of it but accept It until someone lI e our soldier tells tella home borne of how he m misses s theIr We don t stop to consider the music of I the season the sounds that nature of- of fers The sunrise is lost because we late sti chirp of morning bird calls ien dew d th the sky e u ts Lar bL ks bec bechas the IC has has' 1 th t t t i f action The change of time or of mans man's movIng maying those hands an hour this or that way is not the tempo of living It is way of changing the clock that thatIs Is appealing and Impresses us that is remembered by boys in fox holes In the who hall hail from Terre Haute Ann Arbor and Park City U II ST m THERE CONTI iJES the criticism In regard to drafting the fathers By Janu- Janu JanUary I ary our Government expects to draft about men from 18 to 37 who l were ere fathers before the Pearl Harbor incident There have been a a. number of others taken already who were In the Pearl Harbor grouping There have been many fathers who have volunteered k long before the fathers father's draft Issue arose Still comes the roar but amidst L the tle walling look around you and see from from whence it comes From those men to ho are now called upon upon to leave No It 11 mes prIncipally from politicians and folks who speak anti of all war policies I sod and hardships No one wants fathers to tobe r be drafted No one is desiring the break break- breakIng I log Ing up ot of ho hoes es of lining up sonS and andt t fathers under shell fire But we have a aar lr ar to t light fight and we are not at the goal gosts as yet We have taken many men ant and since we continue to battle we must mustI take more more so our military Judges tell us Who should hould know how many men are arc I necessary to carry on successfully the complainer or the man versed in military So as hateful as It is 1 if It is 18 necessary to drau dra fathers then the ther r lathers fathers will go Tl They ey will tell you that 11 they arent aren't taken our country is taking faking a chance on winning the war Rather than take a on losIng the thear ar by reducing our armed forces they WOUld rather go 1 if only just for tor the aake aai of their children These are Ameri- Ameri American can ca fathers who arent aren't playing Vt or hide and seek but playing a more deadly game and they are aro goIng to win wini I 0 TilE CIC THE MEASURE of the landing in Italy Is Ii not to be taken simply by counting the tho mo ng against the enemy there ere the Christian Science Moni- Moni br r. r The area covered and the numbers Ol ed tell only a a. fraction of the stor story It QUo one looks at this front and then at the he front stretching through Russian from the Baltic to the Black sea One ne may wonder at the amount of oft salon this attack has aroused But t the dhe comparison leaves out s same me I do Us Physical factors as a well as vital T PSYchological ones factors are arc distance pro pro- proon VI V isbn on of shippIng space on a scale that Quit make U Helen len of Troys Troy's cheeks checks blanch a the overcoming of what Hitler hoped r fligh ht t prove to be his decIsive weapon the U boat The psychological factor tu on the tho physical factors It was I long beng be lIttler's boast that the war would Won Wo by the Nazis before American t I al cOUld reach the Continent and many manya r mUst have wondered whether a an i t Allied attack could uld be launched over In such force as to breach the theor or of the European prison rue attack on represents a achievement ement not readily Ian land If It Is compared with other engage without regard for the fare onal pro problems lems of amphibian war war- warfare 0 I or ARE asked to ici th tl podS go m Weed and sell the harvest to the who will wUl s send nd it to a pla plant t the e Ita noss fiot for ills he becomes a Think kapok Little did we nun ut a a. few Years ago that the fuzz and the lowly milkweed would be of our war program or of today It Continued on Page pase u Dads Dad's Column Continued from Page One has found its place since e kapok is not reaching us any longer from the Netherlands Neth Neth- Netherlands Netherlands erlands East Indies A manufacturing plant in Petoskey Michigan has been under way for over o a 0 year working up the tho pods of milkweed effectively In n life lUe preservers and airplane insulation and other ways The milkweed Is the only plant grown in our country which fibre Is like liko kapok with its hollowness and air cells The Tho government t hopes for a 0 harvest of or one million pounds of milk milk- milkweed milkweed milkweed weed floss Doss for tor and and r-and and three times as much for next x xO O O O OJUST JUST IMAGINE I TO SUBSTITUTE eggs soybeans and peanuts for leg of lamb and T-bone T steaks to use bicycles instead of gaso gaso- gasoline gasoline line leg up make-up for stockings is not i too much for us u to take It is agreeable that women substitute sub for men In I branches of the service that makes a aman I Iman man free to fight train women to work I In n factories which Is 15 necessary in order I Ito to release men for fighting But when I Ithe they the put a woman in the tho position of umpire and call her a we raise raise our hands in n horror of things that might i iHo ilie lie Ho ahead if Ife we e dont don't get this war bust busi business bustness ness o er pretty soon If It nothing else will spur our boys on to victory It might be the thought of women back homo home home taking over the baseball diamond in n its entirety Think of it throwing a pop bottle at a lady Imagine yelling kill tho umpire or and not feeling feel- feel feelIng Ing like a cad afterwards when our emotions die down I This is a change brought on by war that is almost too hot hotto hotto hotto to handle I ANOTHER N n. n SCOUT RD FROM FROMA RO I IA A RETURNING soldier a 0 wounded wound d Marine tells his story of how he saved his outfit on Guadalcanal from what would have been disaster if his presence of mind and early training had not equipped him for the situation We have before this praised the tile training re received re- re received received by our Boy Scouts of how they I build character and teach many branches to our boys This boy became a n man and carried c nied with him to a mans man's war warhis warhis warhis his remembrance of signaling that he I learned as a 0 Boy Scout S His platoon became separated from another and no signal man was with this group and the Japs were all over the place Ho I offered his knowledge and taking two two bayonets and tying handkerchiefs on them for semaphore flags nags he sent his message successfully This former Boy BoyScout Scout was decorated for tor extraordinary I heroism with our Navy Cross Again we salute and thank tho Boy Doy Scout I O O O OA A MILLION DOLLARS A DAY FOR HITLER FIRE LOSSES in the United States averaged more than a day for forthe tho the first six months of this year ac ac- according according cording to preliminary reports Fires most Fires most of them are preventable and are therefore Inexcusable 4 A fire in ina interruptions inter Inter- interruptions Interruptions a key plant means production all along the line Managements and should do everything in I their power to erase fire hazards A single pile of waste that would have taken but a moment to remove may to to- to- to toI I morrow wipe out a million dollar arma arma- armament armament armament ment concern The man mal marj who failed to remove the danger will suddenly realize that that his his claims 16 tE patriotic citizenship ring a little hollow Somewhere thanks to his negligence a man In uniform will suffer for the tho lack of a a needed bit of equipment The Imagined chain of or events as so often orten pictured in advertise advertise- advertisements advertisements ments wherein a soldier dies because of the failure of a n worker to produce to capacity is doubly applicable to those who are careless with fire tire Every community has its fire tire prevention prevention tion authorities They The work night and day to t curb loss of life and property from this menace Far too often oUen their task is s made mado unduly difficult through want of o public cooperation They re repeatedly re- re repeatedly I the truth seek seck to drive home homo that Piro prevention to be bo really effective effective tive must begin with the individual I It Is time timo that we as ns individuals real real- realized realIzed real real- realized that i iO I O O 0 O 0 1 DONT DON'T TAKE T. WHOLE POUND lOU D OP 01 FLESH EVERYONE KNOWS that this nation nation r I must collect taxes taxes heavier heavier taxes than any individual ever dreamed of But an increasing number of public officials are awakening to the tho fact that the tax load on business can be made so heavy that it will actually kill that source of tax revenue and in so doing destroy the Jobs which provide the wages and salaries sal sal- salaries salarIes aries that in IIi turn pay the billions in personal person l income taxes Representative A. A Willis Robertson Democrat Virginia member of or the tax framing House Ways and Means Com Com- Committee CommIttee Committee says The best incentive thru- thru out the ages to to increased production is the profit incentive Tho The best assurance for tor employment for returning soldiers will be In private Industry and in to continuing tho the priVate enterprise system That factor cannot bo be safely overlooked in n the framing of In Income In- In Income income come tax rates for corporations because b use the government has no present plans to finance the conversion from war pro pro- production production production to peacetime production Secretary of the tho Treasury has indicated that military authorities have interested themselves In the new tax tax program program because o they they want wont tax levies ies kept low enough to preserve production Incentives That the reasoning of Representative authorities and the tho military Robertson 1 is I. sound can be proved by every Indi Indi- Individual Individual by asking satisfaction his own vidual to Would I 1 himself the tho simple question on under s a carry on or could I 1 carry little that I leaves me taxation program at the end nothing but a tax receipt r lpt or Work That Is a poInt that of a years year's to every member of congress will have considers nb connection In connection with indiVidual consider In the future be be and cause causo corporate the tho two te taxation are aro inseparable ins for the tho earnings of each are the basis b of pro pro- production production employ employ- expansion and steady ment |