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AUTOMOBILE ‘IN TRUST’
“If I am willing to take the
chance of wearing out my tires
quickly or of driving my car to
an tearly graveyard, isn’t that my
business?”
There are many people who are
asking that question—at least
asking it «f themselves. They
realize that when their tires are
gone they probably won’t get new
ones and that when .their ca rs
wear out they will have to get
along with a bicycle or on foot.
But they are willing to do their
own worrying about that and
can’t see why it i$ of any con
cern to the government.
'That may seem to be a logical
attitude to take—but actually it
is dead wrong. The government
wants every one of us to preserve
our tires because they offer the
greatest potential source of rub
ber available in our country to
day. The government wants us
to take care of our automobiles
because they are one of our
greatest means of national trans
portation.
It may be that the government
will eventually have to con
fiscate our tires or our cars. That
fact might tempt some thought
less people to drive their cars
to death, thinking that they are
going to lose them anyway, but
such an attitude is just as un
patriotic as would be .the actions
of a young man who ruined his
own health in order that he
would be rejected by the army. '
If we had to give up our cars
it would create hardship for some
of us—but that hardship wouldn’t
compare with the sacrifice made
by the millions of young men who
are offering to give their lives,
if necessary.
We should think of our cars
today as potential aids to the
war effort which we are being
permitted to hold in trust. We
are being trusted to guard this
motive power and this supply
of rubber, which may be needed
later on. But if we demonstrate
that we are’ not preserving them
and are wasting them, we will
simply be speeding the day when
we will no longer be trusted to
hold them in our keeping.
In the interest of our country
it is essential that the 30,000,000
automobiles we people hold today
are kept in condition to go to
war when they are drafted.
of Defense Transportation, and
Leon Henderson, chairman of the
Office of Price Administration and
Civilian Supply.
There are many others who
have been assigned difficult tasks,
but I pick these three as outstand
ing because they have been com
manded to conduct a three-man
revolution which all the king’s
horses and all the king’s men
wouldn’t, in ordinary times, put
over in a generation.
These men may do things which
make us fear the future — which
turn our country temporarily away
from democracy into paths which
have always been foreign to our
way of life. But they are ignoring
our fears and our caution in order
to accomplish things which are
necessary to save Ajnerica today—
and that is all which really counts
right now.
Donald Nelson, most anyone in
Washington or in industry will ad
mit; deserves the credit for al
ready having thrown, war industry
into high gear.
NELSON .... genius
When the President asked for
such fantastic increases in pro
duction that the Germans laughed
at them as being a madman’s
dream, Donald Nelson went to
work to make that dream come
true.
Last year the wiseacres were
smirking over the billions of dol
lars worth of war goods which
were “on order” and the trickling
amount of goods which were be
ing completed. This year, under
the genius of Mr. Nelson, that “on
order” crack has been dropped
from our language. There is still
plenty of war equipment on order,
but there is also a tremendous a-
mount “on board”—on ships going
to every corner of the world.
Production figures are being
kept quiet, but even the Germans
admit, today, that the United
States has got into stride in pro
duction and is out-distancing ev
ery other nation. The Germans
admit we are now turning out
more planes per month than they
are, and we have only begun.
When this war is won, there is
no doubt that one of the men who
will go down in history for his
genius as a general will be Donald
Nelson—a general w ho wears a
business suit without a single
brass button.
Next to Mr. Nelson’s job, the
most complicated and over-awing
tasks in this country today are
those being worked out by Mr.
Henderson and Mr. Eastman.
Poppy Day,
Saturday, May 23
TODAY and
Don Robinson
CHEERING sneering
I think it’s time a lot of us
started cheering instead of sneer
ing at the job some of those big
wigs in Washington are doing a-
bout winning this war.
It isn’t helping much to save pur
democracy when we sit around
the parlor and pick apart the war
program. But it might do a lot
of good if, instead, we began fig
uring out how we can best work
witii the men who, whether we like
them or not, are going to decide
the outcome of this war.
We can, if we like, find plenty
of things to criticize in Washing
ton today. There is a lot of mon
ey being wasted, there is plenty of
unnecessary confusion and there
are many jobs which are not being
handled in a way that merits our
applause.
But we shouldn’t let those
things blind us to the miracles
which are being performed by key
men in our government.
For there are plenty of miracles
being accomplished.
MIRACLES .... fear
Perhaps the three men who
have been ordered by the Presi
dent to perform the greatest mir
acles are: Donald Nelson, chief of
the War Production board; Jo
seph Eastman, head of the Office
OPERATION .... wheels
Leon Henderson has been so
much in the limelight with his
program to freeze prices, ration
sugar and gasoline, and to keep
our economy from falling to
pieces, that he is now known to
every schoolboy. But there are
few people who can comprehend
how any man can suddenly turn
our whole complicated economic
system upside down and still keep
it running.
It is perhaps too early to even
guess how the Henderson anti
inflation program, or the Hender
son rationing programs are going
to work out—but we are lucky to
have a man in charge of that tre
mendous job who has the courage
to act quickly and to take a firm
grip on the reins when emergency
action can’t be delayed. There is
little doubt that uncertainty and
postponements would have oeen
fatal. But Mr. Henderson’s emer
gency operation may pull the pa
tient through.
The newest task, demanding the
genius of an Einstein, is that put
in the hands of Mr. Eastman—the
job of controlling everything on
wheels and making every wheel
.evolve toward victory.
Mr. Eastman has already accel
erated rail transportation to an
amazing degree, he has destroyed
barriers which interfere with
maximum use of trucks and he is
rapidly getting our whole trans
portation equipment streamlined
for war.
It looks as though the team of
Nelson, Henderson and Eastman
has become just as strong a triple
threat to our enemies as that un-
defeatable combination of the
army, the navy and the marines.
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“Wearing a poppy is a pledge
that we will not break faith with
those who have died defending
America.”
“The poppy comes to us from
the fields of France where Ameri
cans first gave their lives in bat
tle against the dictator powers.
We wear this little red flower in
honor of the men who fell at
Belleau Woods, Chateau Thierry,
St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne
and other battles of the first
World War. We wear it also in honor
of the brave boys of Pearl Harbor,
Wake, the Philippines, the East
Indies and all those who have
sacrificed life elsewhere in this
renewal of the conflict.
“The poppy, as you know, was
inspired by the poem, Tn Flan
ders’ Fields’ with its immortal
lines: Tn Flanders’ fields the
poppies blow, Between the crosses,
row on row.’ The poppies were
the only touch of beauty that
survived amid the desolation of
the battle front in France. They
formed the only floral tribute
on the graves of the dead and
became for the men fighting
there a symbol of heroic sacri
fice.
“This they remain today. The
poem ends with the words: Tf
ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though pop
pies grow in ‘Flanders’ Fields.’
That is their message for us to
day. We will wear poppies Sat
urday to show that we are keep
ing faith.”
Paper poppies, made by disabled
veterans of the first World War,
will be distributed throughout
the city on Saturday by the wom
en of the Auxiliary. In exchange
for them the Auxiliary will re
ceive contributions for its welfare
work among the disabled, their
families of the dead of both wars.
Dimes, quarters and dollars
dropped into the coin boxes of
the “Poppy Girls” this year will
aid the victims of the present
war, as well as those of the first
World War, according to Miss
Willie Young and Mrs. Mildred
Nave, Poppy Day Chairmen of
the T. J. Lyon, Jr., Unit of the
American Legion Auxiliary.
i Author of Sister Mary’s Kitchen
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It’s several generations since
tiny children were exploited as
chimney-sweeps but soot is as
inflammable today as 'of yore and
all wise house-holders see to its
removal. Clean flues from fur
nace reduce the hazard of chim
ney blazes to a minimum and with
fires out for the season there’s
no time like the present for clean
ing pipes as well as chimneys.
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It’s a good idea to plan to have
a continuous supply of quick ma
turing crops such as peas and
green beans and spinach and the
like. The rule is to sow each
successive batch of seed as soon as
the last comes through the
ground. This arrangement pre
vents a lack of fresh vegetables
throughout the season and pre
cludes an oversupply at any one
time.
As soon as the early peas finish
bearing pull up the vines and
plant sweet corn in the rows.
Remember that the thinning
out of crops is one of the most
important duties of the successful
gardener. Plants allowed to
crowd become soft and spindly
and never reach perfection. Fre-
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quently more than one thinning is
necessary because the first one
should be done when the plants
are very small. It seldom pays
to try to transplant the seedlings
of vegetables removed by the pro
cess of thinning although if you
have vacant spaces in the rows
it’s a good idea to fill them up
with the thinnings.
The second thinning of beets
usually provides greens for the
table and baby carrots need never
go to waste.
ally, hedges of all kinds should
be given the first shearing of the
season now.
To go back to the early flower
ing shrubs and trees. Lilacs, as
a rule, should have only the
flower heads removed without
much actual pruning of the wood.
The cherries, dogwoods, almonds
and magnolias are better left un
pruned at all times.
The shrubs and trees need
plenty of water at this time, too,
to invigorate them after their
blooming period. Turn the hose
Just as soon as the early flower- ' on the evergreens, too. Junipers
ing shrubs have finished bloom- and spruces especially that look
ing they should be pruned. This dull may be afflicted with “ret
is especially true when they are spader.” A mild case of these
growing in hedge form. Incident- mites can be washed off with a
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strong stream from the hose. A
more effective treatment is to
spray the trees occasionally with
lime-sulphur or oil sprays at
mild strength.
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