Show li r i t t Dads Dad's s J I II If f I Column I id o o b w SAYS TIlE THE TITE leaders leader's Digest The Thai Th I epitome of Lincoln warship Is reported by Prof Professor Helen White of the University University Uni Uni- I of Wisconsin Abraham Lincoln Lin Lin- coln cola wrote ota one of her freshmen was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands O 0 O O 0 CIVILIANS WHO b believe lIeve the artificial rubber program will provide the na nation lon with tires lrea are Probably victims of wishful wishful wish wish- ful thinking Best guess Is 1 that that there will trill be be no ho Civilian rubber whatsoever the war all all that for the duration or pf war ca cap can be bo made pr produced wilt be needed jot for military purposes ur s 8 It Is 18 forecast that that- 35 per rc cent nt of Americas America's car cars cars will ibe be oft off the r ads In a year year and and that two two- thirds will VillI be through la ld two or three years s I 0 WASTE PAPER IS ISNor NOT Nor OT WASTE THE GENUINE Importance of collectIng collecting collect collect- ing jug waste paper is illustrated by this bit of mathematics One hundred pounds of waste wastepaper paper will make thirty five average containers containers' of solid fiber Uber arm far for shipping tinned tinned foods to the army m or fifty lUty average sized corrugated containers for food shell cases and other necessary use or it will make eighty shell containers O O O It II MAY COME COllIE WE MAY be going back to the horse and buggy yet if this production ban gas and rubber shortage keeps the autos off olf the road They inform us that there there- would be plenty of horses and mules to toI serve the public needs however In fact fac there are of these draft animals animals ani ant I mals awaiting the peoples people's pleasure But the people are not pleased to return to the age of horses and carriages They aro are satisfied with keeping the garage for the power buggy and besides the garage Is too genteel looking for a horse In these years the horse has been maintained for fashionable riding and costing a bit to own It has almost been that Just the smarter set could afford to keep keep riding horses and the poorer fellow stuck to his auto Would It costus cost costus us so much more to buy oats Instead of gas more work to harness the creature or to shine up a cars car's fenders Your prestige wouldn't be measured by the wheel base bas of your horse as it might be beby beby beby by the make and years year's model of automobile auto auto- mobile O O FEAR It I IA I IA A. A FOUR letter A word but one that can bring collapse to a country if It once started and it Is 18 FEAR It Is well to toI I remember what starts runs on banks shakes financial markets and upsets upsets' our ourI I national system of exchange closes up insurance companies makes women rush to buy silk Bilk hose lay in sugar and probably probably probably pro pro- bably soap Fear will overcome reason and make housewives buy and store supplies that they dont don't need but want to be sure they wont won't be without Let Letus Letus us iia take this sugar shortage as an ex ex- ample Folks started out to ask for sugar from their when they didn't need it lt Sped Seed the rumor from the attack on the Philippines that there would be a sugar shortage and off oft to I the store the tha shopper rushed to really lay in a a supply In quantities There we were In the clutches of fear with thee the I government having to ration sugar to I keep us ua from hoarding it They tell us usI that there is enough sugar in this country country country coun coun- try to keep each of us supplied with a a I pound a week and surely that is enough from the he standpoint of health and hips Americans lead the world in the number of diabetics so we have evidently con con- more of the product than Is good r for us Every time a Inch 16 gun Is fired a fifth of an acre of sugar cane Is consumed in the form of ethyl alcohol alcohol alcohol alco alco- hol of which sugar is ill the major source Here is an emergency need for sugar but by using our heads and not falling a victim to fear we can keep the tho Inch 16 guns supplied as well as our own tables O 00 O KEEP IT CLEAN WEVE WE'VE GOT OOT to fight more than the tho Axis today We must even fight a part of ot ourselves the ourselves tha part that believes rumors rumors ru ru- mors for example and passes them on 01 onto onto to others For unfounded stories can sometime be be as destructive as fifth filth columns says the National Press Ser Bar vice I Recently we weve we've a lot about shortages Aluminum rubber sugar sugar- the list is growing and I same Home me of us see shortages all around us Like the traditional traditional old maid we even look under the bed a at night to see see- what isn't there We Ve must remember that we wa still have more than enough of many products And we must stop believing and spreadIng spreadIng spread- spread Ing log rumors about imagined scarcities Heros Hero's a case In point A short time ago many women began to believe bellev th t American SOaR companies companies com com- I wouldn't be able to supply us with enough soap Some Borne who live in rural areas began egan hunting up the old Iron soap buckets their mothers had used years ago They started to make their own s soap ap In doing so eo they began to hamper Americas America's war effort and the War Production Board Board Js le now now asking them t td stop because valuable glycerine Is lost when soap is made at home Glycerine It seems Is a product by-product of commercial soa soap manufacturing and today it is badly needed to make ex ex- ex plosives Like other Industries doing war var work the soap companies are stepping up P their production They're working so hard to make glycerine that the tables are turned and soap p Is almost a b by byproduct byproduct by- by product of their efforts now Stow The cart carts cart's Before the he borso borBe this time tUne and It Its It's even helping to pull I Winning t the o war Is Is- going to be a IL huge Job job and we must all do our part As this ator story shows show we we can sometimes d dd dO that in simple ways Just ways Just by not making malting soap for example and by saying no soap to rumors Allied victory t or for lor tribute to o dictators There 1 is only one OIHI Bur U U Defense Bondi Bond Bonde 8 g j i t Bondi |