Show r I Dads Dad's Column t g 3 T Jr t L 3 3 A BOUQUET to those New York electrical electrical electrical elec elec- workers of Local who gave up special overtime pay for assembling bombsights and asked that their employer employer employer em em- turn tho the money over to Uncle Sam That's the spirit of Christian Science Monitor yOO V O 9 TOAST ST TO TilE THE FLAG HERES HERE'S TO the Red of it it- it Theres There's not a thread of It it No nor a of It In all the spread of it From foot to head But heroes bled for it Faced steel and lead for It Precious blood shed for it Bathing It Red Heres Here's to the white of It Thrilled by the sight of it Who knows the right of It But Dut feels the might of it Through day and night Womanhood's care for it Made manhood dare for it prayer for it Keeps It White Heres Here's to the Blue of it it- it Heavenly view of It Star hue of it due of it Constant and true Heres Here's to the whole of it Star stripes and pale of it it- it Heres Here's to the soul of It it- it Red White and Blue John John J. J Daly A O OO O IN IS TilE THE ROUGH THERE MIGHT be some moaning by bythe bythe bythe I the male gentry because of the war production production pro pro- boards board's order to cut the sale of razor blades to about the rate of one I blade de per man a week There are perhaps per per- peri i haps a few males who wont won't thing so badly of this loss as they then can have havea a legitimate excuse for going around I with a heavy growth of whiskers The wives who poor souls argues about the carelessness of the husband who would even think of showing his face In public so rough shod will now have to use her husbands husband's rationing as an alibi and hope other husbands wont won't look any better A subscriber suggests there Is a note of unfairness in this leveling off oft of razor blades He knows of fellows who need sand paper to get off oft their beards and others who can almost take a towel and wipe them of oft off I Certainly we might name a few local men who if they would go unshaven for three days would be unrecognizable un un- recognizable and completely disguised under the brush Give an on extra blade to these fellows and their wives a break O Ocr OG O f INDICATING THAT violations of or orders orders or- or or-I or ders Issued by the war production hoard board ard and the office of price administration are not going to be tolerated several severe compliance actions were taken in the thelast thelast thelast last few days The Mills Novelty company of Chicago manufacturers of op coin amusement machines and Talon Inc of Pennsylvania worlds world's largest manufacturers of zippers were penalIzed penalized penalized penal penal- for misuse of critical materials Officials Officials Officials Of Of- of an Indiana tire the company pleaded pleaded plead plead- ed guilty to criminal indictments chargIng charging ing them with violations of tire rationing rationIng rationing ration ration- ing regulations O 00 O or O I One BOYS noys AND ANn GIRLS TIlE THE LAST week of April has been I named as Boys Doys and Girls Week and we I today write of our national youth a youth being rallied raised midst the damages I wrought by war War Is hard on all ages on In the national ec economic systems homes fighting equipment In metal meta and men I in morals So far our own children have not been touched as deeply by war as those of England and perhaps we should look at the English childs child's reaction when It comes to the standpoint of Judging JudgIng judging Judg Judg- ing what happens to children living in inthe inthe I the direct shadow of war We learn that i I there is an Increase of 50 60 per cent in childhood crime in England since the tha beginning of war The reasons given are I many the crowding of Juvenile courts and reform schools come from many I sources The blame is placed upon the I I fact that families have been broken up and children living among strange surroundings surroundings sur sur- living in a up broken-up family with parents absorbed in war work of bomb raid shelters being the substitutes for homes of the partial destruction and abandonment of buildings plus the covering covering covering cov cov- ering up of blackouts conducive to makIng making making mak mak- ing crimes more easy to perform of the police police- being kept busy with war duties of children being paid higher wages and associated with older people who might be of questionable character of war pre-war clubs and recreation centers and whole whole- some school life disrupted because of the war all being reasons given for the I played We might learn a lesson leeson of what we lose in war when we lose the Innocent and simplicity of our boys and nd I girls They are arit the ones to lead a ana ana- na nation nation na- na tion on on the ones to lead it up May 1 England's youth problems not reach our ourI I shore during this crisis and let us not neglect to further the moral welfare of our young n no PRESIDENT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT foresees two or three years war Heads of the Russian government are insisting on full cooperation cooperation coopers coopers- tion and suggest that it will be possible to finish Hitler and Mussolini in 1942 English statesmen appear to to- take a a. middle ground between the United States and R Russian spokesmen The only point Pf Pr agreement between between Roosevelt ChurchIll Church- Church Ill III and Stalin Is that when when is licked Japan will be bo unable to continue which will bring all wars to a speedy end I I 00 O cA c c. A STATEMENT Issued by the United states Bureau Dureau of Mines shows that the value of minerals produced in the United United United Uni Uni- ted States last year totaled representing presenting an Increase of 18 per cent over 1940 These minerals Include al aluminum aluminum aluminum al- al magnesium zinc iron ore na na- natural tural gas petroleum and coke and due to the requirements for war these theae particular particular par par- metals were produced in quantities quantities ties never nevek before equaled The precious metal showed slight declines in prod lc tion less IMS than 1 per cent for gold and andor for tor or silver |