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I A j ' ' ' ' ' ' " l ' 4 i L . ' ' " "" v ' Nv - 1 I - , j BAD SKIDS AElEflD! Don't risk driving on snowy, slip-pery roads without the protection ffH of Weed Chains it's too hard to A get a new car. If you need new Qf tire chains buy Weed Chains now I rt for the supply is limited. If you llSSV (Vi own old Weed Chains have them I oX. repaired and reconditioned at pU once. Forbestbuyintirechains, ISftl ask for Weed American Bar-Re- - j$r W j inforced. Made by American - ,'A( Chain Division of American S Chain 8s Cable. "In Business for WEED AMERICAN . Your Safety." Best Value in Tire Cba 1k GET WEED CHAINS EARLY s2 Keep Your Car and Truck Moving rOTEOOft Do You Hate HOT FLASHES? If you suffer from hot flashes, feel weak, nervous, a bit blue at times all due to the functional "middle-age- " period peculiar to women try Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Com-pound to relieve such symptoms. Taken regularly Plnkham's Com-pound helps build up resistance against such annoying symptoms. Plnkham's Compound Is made especially for women it helps na-ture and that's the kind of medl-- ; cine to buyl Follow label directions. IJ.YDIA E. PINKHAM'S S&wuw, Keep the Battls Rolling With War Bonds and Sera; r-- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS , Big Allied Winter Push Aims At Heart of German Industry; WFA Sets Food Goals for 1945 Released by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) czecho - FRANCE X .UNUHEMBilOt ' w "-- -x SLOVAKIA. "N, I J yt si. CHURCH LOANS: Aid Homesteading As a result of a homesteading pro-gram financed by the board o na-tional missions of the Presbyterian church, farm families are settling on property purchased on extended terms of 30 years, with down pay-ments deferred from one to three years, if practicable. In addition to homesteading, funds may be used for the acqui-sition of forest lands for the benefit of the whole community, or for loans to improve home and farm equipment. Funds also have been utilized for awaken-ing interest in farm ownership through the provisions of general education in proper farming methods and advice in selecting suitable crops. Under the homesteading pro-gram, an application is approved by the pastor and three elders of the church, with the prospective owner agreeing to cultivate the land and raise crops. Starting modestly, the program has grown steadily. Farm Values Despite increases in the value of farm land since the outbreak of the war, the over-al- l situation remains spotty, with prices reaching infla-tionary proportions in some sec-tions while rising to fair figures in others unduly depreciated during de-pression years. Considered in all its aspects, farming has risen from a 49 to a 70 billion dollar industry since the war began, with value of land and buildings totalling over 45 billion dollars, crop and livestock inven-tories over 15 billion dollars, and liquid capital about 12 billion dol-lars. Making good use of wartime pros-perity, farmers have whittled mort-gage debts down nearly a billion dol-lars since 1939, with the figure now standing at about 5 billion dollars. With President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin scheduled to meet soon, there again has been a resumption of discussion as to the future disposition of Germany. On the basis of the latest infor-mation, the Reich might well be reduced to half of its 1938 size, with (1) France claiming the area west of the Rhine river; (2) a restored Austria obtaining Bavaria; (3) Holland being compensated for flooded land; (4) the Russians and Poles dividing East Prussia; (5) Poland receiving Pomerania and part of Silesia, and the Brcslau area going to Czecho-slovakia. EUROPE: Big Push Using their superior forces to pre-vent the Germans from building up strength for next year, the Allies launched an all-o- drive against the enemy's west wall, moving forward toward the vital industrial Ruhr and Rhineland despite wintry weather. Although they had anticipated a general offensive, the Germans con-ceded the Allies' superiority, stat-ing that until their vaunted new weapons could be delivered to the front, their troops would have to rely on their spirit to stay in the fight. v . As the Allied attack got underway, the British 2nd army' striking in southeastern Holland stood only 37 miles from Duisberg; the U. S. 9th hitting to the Tommies' south was 31 miles from Dusseldorf; the U. S. 1st swinging below Aachen was 28 miles from Cologne; the U. S. 3rd working past Metz was 13 miles from the Saar, and the U. S. 7th and French 1st were 40 miles from Bavaria. Focal points of the attack cen-tered in the U. S. 9th and 1st army fronts, where swarms of Allied heavy bombers supported by fighter-plane- s dropped thousands of tons of PACIFIC: Bloody Science Bloody business, Var is also a sci-ence, and as U. S. troops plodded forward on Leyte island in the Philippines, Gen. Douglas strategy unfolded. With the enemy's main forces compressed on the northwest cor-ner of Leyte, General MacArthur's tactics pointed to their annihilation by the prized military maneuver of engaging them from the front while sending other units to cut them off in the rear. Thus did the 24th division move to press the enemy frontally, while the 1st cavalry and 96th divisions pierced the mountain ranges to the southeast in a drive to entrap the Japanese from the rear. Meanwhile, U. S. airmen kept a close eye on the important port of Ormoc, through which the Japanese had previously sent reinforcements to help their troops holding out against the American advance. x Manila Bay also came under the bombsights of U. S. airmen, with carrier-base- d craft hitting at this important nerve center of enemy shipping for the entire Philippine area. In one strike alone, 11 Jap cargo vessels and oilers went to the bottom. WAR WOUNDS: Greater Recovery Because of better organized and equipped medical service, sulfa drugs, penicillin, plasma and whole blood available for use in forward areas, less than 4 per cent of Ameri-cans wounded in this war die as compared with 7 per cent in the first world conflict. The full picture of medical ad-vance, however, is best told in the fact that from 50 to 60 per cent of the soldiers wounded in the present war are incapaci-tated by heavy guns, artillery or mortars, which inflict more seri-ous injury, compared with only about 20 per cent in 1917-'1- Comparisons between the two world wars show 80 per cent of the wounded now returning to duty as against 70 per cent, and number of infections kept down to 10 per cent as against the old figure of 60 per cent. Wonder Show With America's learned scientists behind the test tubes looking more and more into the substance of mat-ter, wonders may never cease. Already the list of accomplish-ments runs high, as evidenced at the National Chemical exposition in the turreted Coliseum in Chicago, III., where lightweight and weather re-sistant plastic magnesium furniture, lawn sprays which kill weeds but spare grass, and women's synthetic clothes were on display. Spectators milling about the great hall also could see a new method for producing a high mileage gasoline; artificial aromatics for use in soap, cosmetics and perfumes, and a spray for the painless treatment of severe burns. Scientists explained the processes of electronics the magical little electric atoms of which 30 billion, billion, billion make an ounce in the drying of plywood to the weld- - ing of thermoplastic materials. ' I LAND REFORM: Split Polish Estates Carrying out its policy of agricul-tural reform, the Moscow sponsored Polish committee of national libera-tion divided up 5,000 acres of land owned by Count Alfred Potocki among 1,050 families. At the same time, the liberation committee announced that it had taken over the Potocki family's Lan cut castle, which would be converted into a museum. All together, Count Alfred Potocki, a prominent indus-trialist said to have fled to Vienna With the Germans, owns 75,000 acres. In dividing up the Count's estates, the liberation committee was follow-ing its avowed policy of redistribut-ing lands operated by great fam-lie-with the owners dominating the entire social structure within their districts. POLITICAL ACTION: CIO Surrpss f ' -- 1 f v Prom debris eaased br war, Dutch ?unfsters in s'Hertogenboscb. build their fragmentation explosives on the en-emy's forward positions to smooth-e- n the way for the Yanks' advanc-ing forces. Heavy concentrations of artillery joined in the bor?fcardment of the German positions, then the Yanks moved forward, with members of the infantry slogging alongside of mud-cake- d tanks to score gains. Prior to the general offensive, the British in Holland, the Yanks around Metz and the mixed Allied force in the foothills of the Vosges mountains had improved their positions in hard fighting. The Yanks around Metz engaged in some of the toughest fighting as Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton edged closer to the vital Saar basin, famed for. its coal and chemical industry. In slashing forward, U. S. forces ringed the formidable fortress city of Metz. In writing off Metz, the Germans loudly broadcast that the bastion had largely served its purpose of holding up the U. S. drive' to give them time to build up their fortifica-tions farther to the rear. The Allied attack came off in the midst of a welter of rumors that Heinricb Himmler had taken over absolute charge of the Reich from an ailing Adolf Hitler. Appointed com-mander of the Reich's home army by Hitler himself, Himmler busied him-self trying to shove up German mor-ale for the mighty blows that fell about that nation's unhappy head. MISCELLANY The untimely death of Quarter-back Allen Shafer of Wisconsin in a game against Iowa was the first col-legiate fatality due directly to foot-ball since 1940. Reflecting high business activity, money in circulation jumped up nearly $600,000,000 dollars in Octo-ber to a total of $24,386,247,083. Broken down into simple figures, that adds up to $176.10 per person. FOOD PRODUCTION: Bumper Harvests .Even as the U. S. department of agriculture forecast bumper grain crops for 1944, the War Food ad-ministration announced that its 1945 food production program would re-main substantially the same as this year's. Boosting its estimates of com pro-duction 61,000,000 bushels, the USDA predicted a record 1944 crop of bushels, while standing pat on its previous forecast of an e wheat harvest of 1,108.000,-00- 0 bushels. Coupled with a record sorghum crop of 160,000,000 bush-els, overall grain production, in-cluding oats, barley and rye, was set at a top of 157,500,000 tons. In addition, bumper crops were forecast for cotton, tobacco, - pota-toes, sweet potatoes, soybeans, apples, peaches, pears and pecans. Alterations in the WFA's 1945 food program call for an increase in pig, cattle and milk production, but a 16 per cent decrease in egg output closer to the 1935-'3- 9 average. VETS According to an interpretation of the War Labor board, veterans returning to their old positions are entitled to any automatic promotions and pay increases on the job. In considering the selective serv-ice act of 1940, requiring employers to take back former employees re-turning from the armed forces, WLB ruled that the vet must be re-hired "at the level to which he would have been entitled if there had been no break in his service with the company. ..." With 110 congressional members elected with the support of the poli-tical action committee, the CIO de-clared that the victory demonstrated the effectiveness of labor's first big organized effort in a campaign. Whether the PAC would be continued was considered at the CIO convention in Chicago, 111., where union leaders called for support of their fight for higher wages and demands for indus-trial, labor and government planning for provision of 60,000,-00- 0 postwar jobs. Declaring that the election of the 110 candidates backed by it assured the presence of an "improved con-gress" for the next session, the CIO said that its PAC "proved to be the decisive factor because it did the organized, door-to-do- work that brings success in a campaign." The 110 men and women backed by the PAC comprise 96 repre-sentatives and 14 senators, coming from 28 states in every section of the country. Quotes . . . " full employment w not mchieved under our free enterprise system (after the war) then the people will demand something different, . . . It is clear, I believe, that if we fail we shall pass to some form of planned and regimented economy. We shall lose our economu freedom. We shall become dependen upon government and government penditures, with continuous dpfici financing to support the economy, ex pand employment and thus sytenutti cally increase national income. . . Chairman Alfred P. Sloan oj Centra Motors- - Behini THEMi BvPaulMallohJ" Released by Western Newspaper Union. "FULL WEEK" HIGHER OUR TOWN. This is Our Town, U.S.A., the one in which the plumber must hire 12 helpers to keep 6 on the job as the rest earn enough to live satisfactorily laying off half the time, where the bricklayer has giv-en up trying to handle his crew and gone to blacksmithjng, where the unskilled laborer wanted $8 a day for washing windows. It is much like your town I suspect, developing curious phenomena as a backwash of war, that need attention. While progress is thus being made in some lines toward a four and three day week, the local druggist has not been able to hire a helper for three years or more and has had no vacation in that time. His wife is his helper and they open up about 9 a. m. and keep open until 10 or 11 p. m. every day, seven days a week unless tiredness causes them to oversleep and open up late, or weariness at the end of the day sends them home earlier. They are conscientious people who would rather go out of business than offer an inferior or unsafe product, and a fairly general example of the trap in which small business is caught. They cannot get enough products to fill the demand and swell their incomes, as some other war incomes have been swollen in this neighbor-hood. They are patient victims of a new kind of inflation which is not much discussed and not thoroughly understood. The patience of all the people, in fact, is impressive. In the nearby city more than here, people will stand in sidewalk lines, quietly, for a half hour or more to get to a ticket window or into a restaurant. Hurried Ameri-cans would not do that before the war, or would not take it well if they found it necessary. Patiently also they accept inferior cigarettes, food and service at the prices of the best or more. They even stand, without a murmur the g prices of the gouging merchant, one of whom told me: "You know I can charge anything I want and get it." He was nearly right because in many lines, by cutting quality and service or creating new infe-rior brands or by any one of a hun-dred devices difficult or impossible for the customer to detect, he ean "charge anything." The one who told me this was a restaurant proprietor but I can see the same thing is true in other lines. The list prices on the wall concern items that are sold out most of the time. Evade Ceiling Price. Then there is the roofer. I called one I do not know, who had an ad-vertisement in the paper, to fix two leaks which are ruining the plaster. He questioned me closely about the nature of the job and then told me: "If we do not get out next week, you will know we could not handle your job." In the end he made it rather clear that he selected only work from which he could make the most money. If I wanted a roof put on he could do it, but he would not fix small leaks. I guess it will leak all winter un-less I fix it myself. I finally contracted for some paint-ing. The painter did half the job, then as it was Saturday he said he needed money to pay his men, so I paid him up to date. He never returned to finish the other half of the job. I thought he might be wait-ing for a rainy day to do the inte-rior work, but we had a week of rain thereafter and he never showed up. I reached the conclusion he must also have chosen another job in the middle of mine. Now these are not amusing symptoms from a single community but striking and common examples of a new kind of national inflation which does not show in price or manpower statistics or problems as handled in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt, in his campaign, recognized one of the points in-volved. He promised high wages for a "full" work week, the first time I can recall he mentioned the word "full." This may mean some action is coming to promote full national production by available manpower. But if he contemplates only an- other national wage increase as it will complicate the prob-lem, the essence of which is that the people have two or three times as much money as the goods they can buy. and a seller's market is de-moralizing war economics. The proper time economically for a wage increase is when lay-off- s start in war production, after defeat Df Germany so as to take up that slack in purchasing power and main-tain the existing level of national in-come. Otherwise more irresistible impetus will be added to the infla-tionary impulses already noticeable Everywhere except in the statistics The president said something in ais Boston speech about having cured inflation. I think he still has 3 lot of work to do on it. No defi-nite plan has come from the White House or even hint. |