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Show Civilian Habits Change Under Impact of Total War This is total war. Today is on trial that tomorrow's outlook out-look may be brighter. Born of wartime necessity, startling changes have come over this fair land of ours. Our old way of life has been tossed into the discard for the duration so we may devote every ounce of energy towards crushing the Axis. These pictures mark a few of the changes total war has wrought on the home front. ! These two girls take farm jobs, thus do-Sti do-Sti . ing their bit on the food production line. - i HvWl - ; ; Ml The "boys," shown at the right, are from 45 to 83 years old. They are pinch-hitting as telegraph messengers messen-gers in Chicago, as all youthful messengers mes-sengers have either gone to war or have been absorbed ab-sorbed by war industries. in-dustries. Girls, too, are now being used for messenger work. I this Tariff ff I r 7 k In summer it's "twenty degrees de-grees cooler inside," but look at what theaters are bragging about in these days of fuel oil shortage. The fact that a theater is heated by coal seems to be even more important than the show. On leave of absence from Brainerd, Minn., where she is city court judge, Miss Eleanor Nolan is shown doing kitchen police duty at the WAAC army training center at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. 1 V ; t V . j v. -v s tilt 34:u M Who was it that said that grass would some day grow in our streets? Gas and tire rationing has just about made that prediction come true. Photo, made at mid-day in the heart of a Boston doivn-town doivn-town shopping district, shows an impromptu baseball game. Plenty of windows open to lake your bets, but there are no races today. Pleasure driving restrictions resulted in suspension of racing at Tropical Park, Miami. A few employess stand at a window win-dow discussing the situation. - - - A class of American Worn- y ensVoluntaryServicclcarns s V-.f" t i how to saw wood lengthwise. -..ww....--. . i r. fl nfyi : . -t , " - , , ; . " ! t " v- P M' v : - .-?-. t:-- ' Tc-i- -v ' -,- ; ' .--0'' I i - 1 ffr . -.. JiiSS-iiiiVil..:-k. |