The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, November 20, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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TOE CARROLLTON CHRONICLE. CARROLLTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1042
STRAIGHT . . .
from the Service
By J. E. H.
CAMP WOLTERS, TEXAS, NOV. 13,
1942—After being sworn in last Monday
at the Dallas induction center with
other volunteers, we were late in the I
afternoon sent to the reception center •
here, blowing in after supper with the'
norther which was probably felt in!
Carrollton. Of the first six men 1 met and
came to know, all were married and
had volunteered.
There was quite a group of us, and
the majority were given bunks in
tents. For once in our life, we hit a
lucky streak. Because the supply de-
pot ran out of comforts, about half
a dozen of us were given bunks in
closed in barracks, which were heated
by a hot air furnace with thermostat
control. Our bath was right in the
building.
What we found to be the greatest
handicap was the complete lack of
instructions for the first couple of
days. No one told us what time we
had to arise, go to bed, eat, how to
dress properly, how to meet officers,
etc. We eventually learned to just
observe and pick up what we could.
One thing was certain—when they
wanted all of our company in a form-
ation for any reason, they blew a
whistle. About 7 o’clock Tuesday morn-
ing, the whistle blew and we were
marched to breakfast. (Incidntally we
had to undergo a minor prysical ex-
amination upon our arrival Monday
night.) We don’t remember exactly
what we had for breakfast that first
morning, but some kind of cereal and
fresh fruit was always included. We
do remember distinctly that Wednesday
and Thursday mornings, we found that
fried potatoes for breakfast was no
myth. Some kind of hashed beef was
also served. As for food in general
so far, we venture to say that the food
is more substantial and more abundant
in the army training camps than in
the average American home or cafe.
Plenty of Coal!
We Still Have Coal
Get Your Supply Now
Before Gold Weather
Lyon-Gray Lumber Company
I C. W. RAMSEY, Manager
irtaUkhed I m PHONE 40 CarroHtnn. Tnaa
Trat is one thing the men seldom com-
plain about. Every meal includes meat,
vegetables, salad, milk (where local
conditions are suitable) and dessert.
Now back io Tuesday morning. After
breakfast, we were taken to the supply
room and issued clothes (for this we
were glad, for the wool uniforms were
much warmer in that norther than our
own clothing). We were given almost
enough clothing to keep warm at the
north pole.
In the afternoon, we were given
classification tests which lasted all af-
ternoon. Some of them were almost as
complete as Civil Service exams. The
results of these help the army personnel
department to place the men. Of course,
there were some draftees who couldn’t
read or write and they could not take
any of the tests.
Next morning, Wednesday, we were
given smallpox vaccination and one
shot, probably typhoid. (We were not
told). The remainder of the morning
our group had personal interviews, being
asked the kind of work they had done,
liked best, hobbies, etc. The interviewer
had the record of our tests the day
before. Those who knew trades, such
as radio, auto mechanics, printing, etc.,
were given additional oral questions
on our line of • work. Those who knew
the touch system on the typewriter were
checked for speed and accuracy. After
lunch, we mailed our personal clothes
home and saw three government films—
one on the vital necessity of keeping
military information secret, another on
sex hygiene, and a third on military
courtesy. Right here is where we want
to correct some reports that “the first
thing a boy is taught in the army is
sex hygiene.” We were in 3 days be-
fore the film was shown, and that was
a film which every man, in or out
of the armed forces, should see or
know must of its contents. It dealt
with health protection and disease pre-
vention.
On Thursday we did a few exercises,
drills and took a hike. About the mid-
of tho afternoon, the “shipping list”
d we were glad to hear
“ *or we wanted to get to
an air field. We were instructed to be
ready to leave Friday morning and
to notify no one.
Friday about noon, we went to Ft.
Worth and on down to Hondo, Texas.
American Air Force Navigation School
Hondo. Texas, Nov. 14, 1942—Arrived
here about noon. Were assigned to the
843rd School Squadrin. We saw some of
the gigantic planes and part of the
afternoon and retired.
This Business of Living
I used to love to go to see Hannah
on Friday afternoons. That was her
time to bake, and the house would
be full of spicy, brown fragrance. I’d
sit in the kitchen while she beat
rich-looking batter in a yellowcrock
or rolled soft dough on a well-flour-
ed board, or chopped citron and rais-
ins and nuts in ia little wooden
bowl. When everything was finally
in the oven, she’d take down an old
blue pot and presently we’d have
delicious tea with nut-studded cook-
ies, hot from the oven.
But, alas, last Friday when I went
to Hannah’s for the first time this
fall, there was no warm kitchen aroma
and no flour-smudged Hannah to greet
me. Instead I found her sweater-
wrapped, tight-lipped, going oved a pile
of newspaper clippings in her chilly
living room.
“But isn’t this your baking day?” I
asked shamelessly. “Aren’t there any
brownies or pumpkin pies, or sponge
cake in your oven?”
“Dear me, no! I’ve given up all
unnecessary baking,” she said.
“Because you haven’t enough sugar?”
I suggested. “I could give you some
of mine.”
“Because we’re at war and it’s up
to all of us to serve our country .. and
so I’m getting ready to make a speach
at the ^ir Spotters meeting next
week, and later this afternoon I have
a scrap committee meeting, and then
there’s my First Aid Class.....” She
was breathless with responsibilities.
“But, Hannah,” I began in protest
and then held my tongue, although
I continued to think how much her
days of baking and hospitality had
meant to her family, busy now on
war work.
Isn’t it a mistake for Hannah to let
her home be less welcoming and her
daily life less gracious because of
the war, So much of our life must
be different now with millions of men
already, in uniform and more millions
concentrating on production in our
great industrial plants. Shouldn’t we
keep our home life and everything else
as normal as we possibly can?
We are fighting this war for the
sake of the preservation of. the Amer-
ican way of life which finds its fount-
ainhead in the hojnes of our country.
We are fighting to preserve the peace
and security of our homes so that any
threatened new orders may not come
into our lives to change us as they
llih man is not doad. He is just sleeping.
And sleeping a little more soundly, per*
haps, because there are still many Ameri-
cans who are not putting at least 10% of
, their pay into War Bonds on a regular Pay-
roll Savings Plan. How about you joining a
lot of other fellows in giving the little
paperhanger a rude awakening? How
about you signing up with a Payroll Savings
Plan today ... to the tune of not 6%, or 7%
or 8%, but 10%, and more if you can?
LET’S TOP THAT 10% BY NEW
YEAR’S.
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO:
If you are ...
1. Already investing 10% of your pay in
War Bonds through the Payroll Savings
Plan—boost that 10% if you can.
2. Working in a plant where the Plan is in-
stalled, but haven’t signed up yet—sign
up tomorrow.
3. Working in a plant where the Payroll
Savings Plan hasn’t been installed, talk
to your union head, foreman, or plant
manager—and see if it can’t be installed
right away. The local bank will be glad
to help.
4. Unable to get in on the Payroll Savings
Plan for any reason, go to your local
bank, or wherever Bonds are said. They
will be glad to help you start a Plan of
your own.
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE x
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A MODERN DESTRCVER. COSTS ABOUT $7,500,000 .
(Keep Buy ms those war stamps and bonds) l
All ELECTRO-MAGNET \
DEVICE AUTOMATICALLY \
(INDICATES THE CONDITION '
OR RIPENESS OF ANV
FRUIT WITHOUT PENETRATING
THe SKIN
_ StfCep. uuieopMS....
THE American pye iNcusmy
HAS PERFECTED -THE CVES USED
IN LIGHT-KHAKI SUMMER UNIFORMS
OF SERVICE MEN SO THAT THEV
NO LONGER LOOK WASHED-OUT
\ AS THEy DIDIN WORLD WAR 1
m
have tjie millions of people who cringe
under the lash of the dictators. What
irony it would be to win the war
but through neglect of our homes and
our ideals to lose precious humble
joys that underlie Americanism
Post War Outlook
According to a special report which
is now being completed for The Twen-
tieth Century Fund, an endowed in-
stitute for research in economic prob-
lems, “Postwar America will easily
be able enough to provide every man,
woman, and child in the country with i
a decent minimum standard in the
‘Big Five;’ food, clothing, housing, edu-
cation, and health care.”
In tile matter of food supply, the
report says that while we have been
growing enough food to meet the
more dairy products and vegetable
The American clothing industry, th
report says further, from cotton i
the fields to garment shops; has bee
entirely capable, for more than thirl
een years, of turning out more thai
we can conveniently wear.
The housin gubdget will call fa
somewhere between a million and twi
million dwelling units over the coim
try, every year for at least ten year
after the war ends, and this will maki
the biggest single demand upon man
power of any project cn the horizon
fitUf \ Wm
WAR BOHDS \ f
n
TOP THAT Y0%\
-«d
Ev’rybody Ev’ry Pay Day
6,000,000 Women Enrolled in War Savings
Payroll Plan.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Women At War Week, opening Nov. 22. during which
women will seek to sell the greatest single week’s volume of War Bonds and;
Stamps will serve to put the spotlight on the mighty contribution women generally j
are making toward financing the war.
Six million women are on War Savings payroll plans. Their monthly deduc-
tions total $70,000,000.
The customers of 300,000 newspaper
boys who have sold more than $50,000,-
000 in War Bonds and Stamps are
mostly women.
Volunteer saleswomen run nearly all
he Bond booths in theatres from Maine
o California. They also are sparking
he War Bond sales in retail stores.
Ralph G. Engelsman, Associate Field I
irector of the payroll savings section
f the War Savings Staff, readily ad-
its that without the support of women
•c phenomenal record of payroll sav*
gs enrollments would not have been i
thieved. Payroll savings plans are i
>w in operation in 148,000 businesses .
id factories. Employees of twenty-
ve thousand of these firms are con-
erting at least 10 percent of gross pay-
jlls into War Bonds every payday. j
Associate Field Director Engelsman
tyg that women have contributed di* I
sctly and indirectly toward this rec-
.d. When a man devoted 10 or more
ercent of his pay envelope to War
onds, the woman at home has had a
owerful voice in the decision. Her
lanning, her economies and her chcer-
ulness play their part in the success
it payroll savings.
The Treasury Department is counting
upon this woman influence in its cur-
rent campaign to "top that 10 percent
by New Year’s.” By the first of the
year the Treasury hopes to enroll at
least 3,000.000 women workers in ag>ay*
Proud of her Investment in the Americas
way of life and equally proud of the grimr
of war production on her face and arras, the
young lady in this “Women At War Week”
poster symbolizes two of the chief activities
of women at war.
roll savings plan and 5,000,000 more
men with total deductions for War
Bonds over the 10 percent mark.
'TOP THAT 107k BY
fc NEW YEAR’S!"
a.. ._i_i_
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BUY U. S. WAR BONDS
THROUGH THE
PAYROLL SAVINGS PLAN
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The Carrollton Chronicle
We Have It!
Meat Salt
and
Ribbon Cane Syrup
Perry Grocery & Market
IHONE 30
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Harvey, J. Edwin. The Carrollton Chronicle (Carrollton, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, November 20, 1942, newspaper, November 20, 1942; Carrollton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729012/m1/3/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carrollton Public Library.