The Shackelford County Leader (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1943 Page: 3 of 12
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CURRENT COMMENT
The American Red Cross
ODAY the American Red Cross
faces the greatest task in its long
history to furnish aid and comfort
our fighting men in the four corners
f the world. As they guard the out-
jsts of civilization, the American Red
Iross serves silently at their side.
With the recent rapid increase in our
_rmy and Navy, as the war grows in
icope and intensity, the Red Cross must
ixpand its services at an equal rate. As
m example, the Army and Navy have
isked the Red Cross to collect 4,000,000
lints of blood this year compared with
ihe 1,300,000 pints procured through
[1942.
These services are our legal duty, and
our glorious privilege. We have never
failed our fighting men, and with the
'continued assistance of the American
people we never shall.
The peacetime service of the Red
Cross is well known. Practically every
town and hamlet in America has its lo-
cal chapter. With fire and flood,
drouth and disaster, the resulting suf-
fering was made less acute by organiz-
ed relief of Red Cross workers. The in-
jured were treated, the hungry fed and
the refugees aided.
Today a man-made plague is raging
around the entire globe. As Americans
moved into positions to check its spread,
the Red Cross went with them into the
depths of jungles, over towering moun-
tains and across vast oceans to maintain
a vital link with the folks back home,
which is so essential to the morale on
both fronts. In addition to providing
recreational facilities and hospital serv-
ices, the Red Cross has been rendering
many new services unknown to the aver-
age American.
No one knows for sure how long this
war may last, how many Americans
must be called to the colors, or exactly
where they will be sent before final
victory. However, we can feel sure that
regardless of time required, manpower
needed or distance traveled, the Ameri-
can Red Cross will be on the job doing
everything possible to render every
service available to our men. The task
is reaching staggering proportions, but
this humane work must continue
throughout the war and into the peace
which will follow.
* * *
First Industrial Guayule Rubber
Several hundred tons of guayule rub-
ber-- tihe first natural rubber to be pro-
F duced ontn industrial scale in the Unit-
ed States sirice Pearl Harbor—has been
extracted for w&r needs by the Forest
Service. The rubber was processed
chiefly from an old plantation of gua-
yule purchased by the government in
the Salinas Valley of California. About
550 acres were harvested and are ex-
pected to yield about 4,000 tons of
shrub. Digging, baling and trucking
began in mid-January, and was complet-
ed before the winter season, when the
rubber content of the plants is highest.
On the basis of small samples already
processed, the total yield this year is
expected to be about 600 tons of rub-
ber, which will be turned over to the
Rubber Reserve Company for allocation
^to ypr uses.
I
Britain's War Bond Purchases
Money is less apt to cause inflation if
it is not spent, and dollars that go into
war bonds and savings stamps lose their
inflationary virus. Despite the heavy
British taxation, people are investing
$11 a month on the average in govern-
ment securities—a rate which works out
at something better than a third of the
government's total expenditure. The
same average rate in America would
equal about 1.4 billion ^ollars a month.
Britain is plastered with war savings
posters and the collection machinery
goes into every shop and school. The
citizen is rarely out of sight of some re-
minder of his duty to save.
Mr. Morgepthau is asking the "little
man" in America to put about-six billion
dollars a year into war savings. But
the British "little man," despite his low-
er income, his much higher taxation and
the fact that this is his third and not
his first war year,- is doing better than
that. If the present British rate for
small bond purchases were applied to
America, Morgenthau could raise the
quota from six billion dollars to about
6.3 billion dollars annually.
* * *
An Experts Opinion On the Tire
Situation
Paul W. Litchfield, chairman of the
board of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Co., recently completed an inspection
tour of the Southwest and the following
is his opinion of the tire situation as re-
ported by the daily press:
"Progress of synthetic rubber pro-
duction," he said, "steadily is gaining
momentum. The bugs in the process
are being eliminated by chemists and
engineers, many of whom were trained
in rubber technology by the rubber com-
panies several years before the war.
"Jeffers is the right man to speed up
our rubber production program. He is
well liked by the industry and is doing
a splendid job under difficulties.
Goodyear is building four large syn-
thetic rubber plants, two in the South-
west, and in these plants', with a capa-
city of 30,000 to 120,000 tons of Buna
S rubber annually per plant, only syn-
thetic rubber will be made from buta-
diene supplied by the government from
other plants. The butadiene in the
Southwest will be derived from petro-
leum gases, as will the styrene, which
represents one-fourth of the synthetic
basic mixture. •
"The finished Buna S rubber from
the Southwest and other plants will be
shipped to the tire and other rubber
goods factories at Akron, Ohio, or wher-
ever they may be located." , _ .
Expressing his own and the opinion
of long-experienced rubber manufactur-
ers, Litchfield said that after the war
there will be a return to natural rubber,
even though synthetic rubber is better
for many purposes.
* # *
Absenteeism
Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane,
chief of the Bureau of Ships of the Navy
Department, said recently that absen-
teeism and job shifting has been grow-
ing worse instead of better.
"Speaking only of those shipyards
which are engaged in work for the
Navy," the Admiral said, "during the
single month of last December, there
was a total of nearly 13,000,000 man-
hours lost through workers failing to
report on the job. This loss would have
been more than sufficient to have com-
pleted from the keel up two cruisers of
the proportions of one we are launching.
"An even more'appalling loss of man-
power resulted from the numbers of
workers who quit their jobs outright.
As a national average for last Decem-
ber the Shipyards lost eight out of every
100 workers employed. We cannot be
too charitable about the matter when
we find that absentees fall off almost to
the zero point on pay days and then take
a phenomenal rise on Mondays when
hundreds of cases of twenty-four-hour
pneumonia are reported."
* * *
Predicts Clothes Made of Plastics
N,
Cheap clothing made from plastics,
cheaper, better automobile tires and in-
sulating sheathing for buildings, all
made from a base of synthetic or nat-
ural rubber, were listed by Dr. Waclaw
Szukiewicz, refugee Polish chemist-in-
ventor, as possible major factors in a
sweeping post-war change in American
economy.
Szukiewicz, who discoveered what
chemist says is one of the most econom-
ical processes for converting grain alco-
hol to butadiene, basis for synthetic
rubber, told an interviewer science is
barely at the threshold of rubber de-
velopment. He said there will be am-
ple use for both synthetic and natural
types.
But he added rubber from alcohol—a
basic raw material produced from part
of the nation's great grain surplus—is
destined to be an important stablizer of
American economy.
"Who can say that progressive ad-
vances by science and the rubber indus-
try may not make rubber the founda-
tion of a new wave of prosperity that
will surpass the automobile boom," he
When the Nazis overran Poland in
1939, Szukiewicz was manufacturing
1,000 tons of rubber a year at a plant
near Warsaw. He never has told how
he escaped to America. Last March he
became head of the rubber-alcohoT plant
of Publicker Commercial Alcohol Com-
pany in Philadelphia.
» * »
"Health Bombs"
America's fighting men in tropical
jungles are now armed against malaria
and yellow fever with "health bombs."
The bombs discharge, m tents, barracks
and planes, a mist which is fatal to dis-
eases-spreading flies and mosquitoes,
but harmless to human beings. Each
dispenser is loaded with one pound of a
liquid insecticide developed by Dr. Lyle
D. Goodhue, a young Department of
Agriculture chemist. In twelve to four-
teen minutes one dispenser will fumi-
gate 150,000 cubic feet of space, the
equivalent of 240 Army pup tents or
50 giant bombers. The dispensers are
now being made by Westinghouse.
Grass Root Reveries
i >i i • Knf o iyiq1
By JOE GANDY >
Winnsboro, Texas.
(Copyright. 1943. by the Southwest Magazine Co.)
WINTER waited until Spring and
then cut loose with everything it _
had. During the February thaw, , six-bits,
when sap began to rise, I became sus- Uncle S
nicious of Winter. The weather was
too mild. I knew a freeze would follow,
so I stayed with my long-handled under-
wear and sawed wood for the fiicplace.
When the norther hit, my fruit trees
were in bloom, but should have known
better, for Old Man February, always a
gay deceiver, has
ruifted many an in-
nocent and unsus-
pecting fruit tree. I
can replant the Vic-
tory Garden, but the
plum and peach trees,
which promised a
bumper crop, are a
tragic loss.
Most of my neigh-
bors caught cold dur-
ing the March freeze
and for two weeks
thereafter the only
e o n v e r sation was^
about colds and how
to cure them. Every
edd-catcher ha a en coughg and
dead-shot remeoy & cdd
Kodv cures a common cold; it just
withTou until you get well or die.
Radio announcers tell us 'a an(J
^KAebit in theworld. Wife
positively th ra(jio cold cures and
If'made heVworeeinstead of better.
clwtts have been investigating com-
SS for 50 years and so far admit
K know little about the cause and less
about the cure.
"Between coughs and sneezes they told
me how to cure a cold."
I had a major headache while trying
to make out my income tax report. After
charging off everything I could think
of, including an old debt hoary with
age, I was in the red four dollars and
That was a close shave for
m's whiskers. Next year I
hope to do better, hope I can make
enough to help pay interest on the na-
tional d bt. How much that interest
will be no one knows, because when you
pass the $150,000,000,000 mark you run
out of figures..' Making out an income
tax report four feet long is a whale of
a job, but it s a pa-
triotic duty and you
feel better after sign-
ing on the dotted line
and wiping off the
perspiration.
•
This 130-day ses-
sion of the Texas
Legislature is about
three-fourths over,
and it is still deluged
with bills. There
has been every kind
of bill intr o d u c e d
from pay-as-you-go
bills to duck bills.
Most bills will die on
fh e calendar. A
few important bills that should pass
will bog down with lesser important
bills. Nothing much can be done ^bout
it. All Legislatures have the same sad
experience. I have a peach of a bill that
would save tax-payer money, but it's no
use to introduce it. Any kind of bill to
reduce taxes is pigeon-holed, where it
stays up til adjournment. This is a
spending age and it's great fun to spend
the Other fellow's money.
It is not a matter of dollars and cents
Russians Praise Our P-39 Fighter
Planes
Captain James M. Ingham of the
United States Army Air Corps, who has
been attached to a P-39 squadron op-
erating on the Aleutians, told of meet-
ing, during his absence from the States,
a group of Russians who likewise flew
this type of single-seater fighter mono-
plane. An immediate camaraderie de-
veloped between the Americans and
Russians because of the plane they used.
"When they found out that I was a
P-39 pilot they thought that was very
fine and I must be all right," Captain
Ingham said in an interview. "They
got out a little dictionary and managed
to get across to us, with its help, an idea
of the relative performances of the P-39
and the Messerschmitt. They said with
enthusiasm that the P-39 was superior.
"One of these pilots had thirty-seven
German planes to his credit. His fa-
ther and mother had been taken as hos-
tages and hanged, his sister had been
attacked and put in a house of ill repute.
He told us that he would get more Ger-
mans if it was the last thing he did. It
was he who told of great feats being ac-
complished by Soviet pilots with P-39
fighter planes." ,
♦ * *
Steel Pennies
Distribution by the United States
Treasury of steel pennies is not a new
idea, said Thomas T. Read of Colum-
bia University. According to him
the first iron coins were issued in China
nearly two thousand years ago. Then,
as now, they were introduced because of
a shortage of copper. These Chinese
coins were not made of steel, as our
new pennies will be, but of cast iron.
The cast-iron coins used in ancient
China were so brittle that they were
easily fractured. But that will not be
true of ours. Their zinc coating will
give them a silvery look, which will soon
turn gray with use.
* ♦ *
Freezing Food
After the last war the surplus mili-
tary planes were used for many pur-
poses and the sales of training planes at
bargain prices to barnstormers and
embryo airlines really gave aviation
great impetus.
This time the planes are of a type
which cannot be readily converted to
peace-time use, save, perhaps, some
bombers which will make cargo carriers.
One enterprising firm has evolved a
scheme for the use of war surplus high
altitude bombers, which has interesting
possibilities.
This firm has been freezing vege-
tables and fruits and it appears that the
only way to do it economically is to
carry bulky, fast-freezing appartus to
the crop being picked and to freeze it.
The real job is to freeze fast and this
requires a lot of power, but to maintain
the stuff in a frozen condition is easy.
The new plan is to fit cargo planes
with racks which can be loaded with
fruits and vegetables which will then be
flown in a fast climb to about 15,000
feet altitude, where it is usually colder
than the coldest of freezers, and open
the air ducts to the compartment. The
stuff will be frozen almost instantly
and then the openings will be closed and
the plane glided in and the frozen pro-
duce transferred to the warehouses.—
Automotive and Aviation Industries.
any more, but a matter of points. If
you don't have points these days you
don't eat. Well, its a good thing that
something has greater value than
money. We have been worshiping
money since Adam and Eve ate the ap-
ple. A $10 dollar bill will not buy a
can of beans, but a few points and a
dime will buy it. Moral—plant your own
beans.
•
Recently a preacher tried to borrow
a mourner's bench. Half of the people
living 'today never saw a mourner's
bench, for it is now obsolete. However,
there was a time when the old-fashion-
ed mourner's bench in church got more
folks to heaven than all the theology in
the world. An honest confession is good
for the soul, and it was at the mourner's
bench that sinners repented and pray-
ed to God to make them better men and
women.
We have sap in the spring and saps
throughout the year. In fact, saps are
with us always. They are everywhere,
not only in America but in Europe, Asia
and Africa. Some saps are harmless,
some dangerous—for instance, Hitler,
Mussolini and Hirohito. . Strangely
some saps have a large following,
enough to make up a mighty army that
starts out to conquer the world and
misses by an eyelash. Saps get into
high places and stay there by sheer
effrontery. They make laws for the
people that are hurtful and get away
with it. Saps are a mystery, yet a pain-
ful reality. The people could get rid
of saps in high places but don't do it.
Is it because the people are indifferent
or just dumb? Saps come and go and
some saps pose as big shots and draw
big salaries. My guess is we will have
saps with us even unto the end of the
world.
—PAGE 3—
nan. 6 m
Coming Air Age
Frederick Graham, science editor for
New York Times Magazine, wrote this
about .the coming air age:
Under war conditions the airplane
has been able to prove dramatically
what its advocates had long preached:
the airplane as a means of commercial
transport knows no frontiers, boundries
or insurmountable obstacles to travel.
Giant military transport planes of the
United Nations *■
have given . the
world a new idea of
geography and a
fresh set of space-
and-time specifica-
tions that are bound
to influence the fu-
ture plans of all na-
tions, for peace and
war alike.
North Africa is as
close to New York
by air today as New
York is to San
Francisco by rail; it
takes no longer now
to fly from New
York to Moscow
than it does to go
from New York to
New Orleans by
train. France is no
farther from New
York by wings than
New York is from
Miami by the fast-
est trains; Alaska
is closer to Wash-
ington by air than
New York is to Chi-
cago by crack trains.
And if those things
are true for mili-
By A STAFF EDITOR
(Copyright, 1943. by the Southwest Magazine Co.*
tary transport planes, then they are no
less true for the peace-time commercial
transports of the post-war period.
New and better airplanes will certain-
ly take the place of the aircraft we con-
sider so fine today. They will be larg-
er and with greater range, speed apd
pay-load capacity. Some designers be-
lieve they will weigh 250,000 pounds pr
more, and will carry 100 passengers and
several tons of express and mail 5y000
miles non-stop at an ^Verage speed of
250 to 300 miles an hour.
* * *
Save Those Precious Tires
Under-inflation is one of the most
common causes of excessive tire wear,
says. General Motors Corporation. More-
over, soft tires waste gasoline because
more power is required to Move the car.
Check inflation pressures regularly at
least every week. Excessive over-in-
flation is just about as bad because it
causes more wear at the center of the
tread. Mileage is greatly reduced-"-
non-skid safety impaired and tires ride
hard and bruise more easily.
Don't make tires squeal when turning
—it literally "burns" the rubber. If
your tires should squeal when making
a slow turn, check their pressure im-
mediately."
Don't make jack habbit starts—your
tires will last much longer if you accel-
erate slowly. A sudden start puts a
tremendous strain on tires and causes
wheel slippage, scuffing off rubber. ,
Don't drive your car if your wheel
alignment is not correct, as this can re-
duce tire life 25%. Have your wheels
checked for alignment every three to
five thousand miles. • i .:
Don't stop too fast-^-try to anticipate
stops and roll up to them—every time
the driver or passengers are thrown
forward, when slowing down or stop-
ping, tire life is shortened.
* * *
i. . ' .
The Giant Grows
FWA statistics show that as of De-
cember 31, the government was occupy-
ing 406 buildings in Washington—165
of them government-owned and 241 of
them leased. Last year sixty-five build-
ings were bought and fourteen leased.
It's hardly possible that this trend will
halt until the war is ended.
* * *
Sunflower-Seed Oil
Sunflower-seed oil, which may be ob-
tained in large quantities from the com-
mon sunflower, may help fill the short-
age in edible oils.
Imported olive oil, which came from
Spain, France, Italy and French North
Africa in pre-war days, is now available
only in small quantities. Peanut oil and
cottonseed oil are demanded in great
volume for war purposes. Russian sun-
sunflower-seed oil is no longer obtain-
able. Argentine oils are filling only
part of the need. Sunflower-seed oil
produced at home would save shipping
and develop a new source of income for
the American farmer.
American sunflowers grow luxuriant-
ly in much of the country. Much of the
seed finds its way into commerce, bjit
largely as bird and poultry feed. Mis-
souri raises the largest commercial
crop. California is also raising the seed
for market.
Oil from sunflower seed was produced
commercially in the United States a
generation ago but was discontinued be-
cause of the high labor costs when com-
pared to labor costs in the other coun-
tries.
Argentina is now producing large
quantities of sunflower-seed oil and
shipping much of it to the United
States. In 1932 it produced only about
5,000 tons. Now it is nearly 500,000
tons a year.
The Southwest is well adapted to sun-
flower-seed production because of clim-
ate and soil and because it grows pro-
lificallv here in a wild state. , v
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