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' wnich the writer told of the kind of (EDITQR S NOTE--This is one of a series of articles written for tfus {jobs the men in the armed forces paper by Barrow Eyons, staff correspondent of Western Newspaper i would expect, and should have, l/nion. He has just completed an extended trip through the nation and J when they finish the task of defeatin these reports gives his first-hand impressions of what rural America in8 4-he nation^ enerhies. According jWoodstock. is thinking as we enter the third year of war and the first weeks of a ( to t^iat writer the men who left the j Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fout of Spring Mrs. Glenn Treon of Crystal Lake spent Monday with her mother, Mrs. George Harrison. Mrs. Harry Anderson of Richmond spent Saturday with her grandmother, Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Mrs. Eva Eppell, Mrs. Lloyd Benwell, Mrs. Ed. Denman, Mrs. John Hogan, Mrs. Rose Jepson and Mrs. Dimon spent Wednesday in Chicago. Mrs. Emma Beatty spent several days last week with Mrs. Schneider of Civil War Vet Similar to r Present U. S. Doughboy Johnny Doughboy of 1943 and Johnny Doughboy of 1864 have much in common, according to the diary of Civil War Sergt. Luke Davis, a copy of which was just presented to the Pennsylvania State College library by S. K. Stevens, state historian. Writing and receiving letters and exchanging pictures with friends kept up Davis' morale in 1864, just as they keep up the serviceman's morale today. prekdential election year. Any opinions expressed are the tvriter't and \ f®rms' th® factories, the banks, the !Grove entertained at a chicken dinner j spirits' fine^ende^most dailv hot necessarily those of this newspaper.) j stor« and A al1 the other types of Sunday ln honor of the forty-first ^ eMed m0St ^ e°- J J . . . . . . . . . . . . . I v o c a t i o n s A m e r i c a o f f e r s ! , w o u l d . * » . , » , „ . . , . . . He had his griping moments, too, So easy is it for shops to sell what merchandise they can get that advertising is at a minimum. Nevertheless, Paxton boasts both a daily and weekly newspaper. The Paxton Daily Record, a four-page paper, sells enough advertising space to break about even; but the Paxton Record, a "weekly, makes money in spite of the fact that national automotive advertising has virtually disappeared, and the oil companies buy only about one-teath of the space they used to take. Publisher Luoks Ahead To Postwar Years - Herbert N. Stevens, joint owner with his brother, Harold H. Stevens, of the Paxton newspapers and printing shop, says they are running their plant now with 13 employees instead of the customary 20. But Mn Stevens is certain that after the war good times for the printer will -- 1 CHlCAGol WfPAXTOHj IND. V 1 S T . L O U ) j MO.V U KT. ------ -J UT TENN. - to doth, woairta,r.< iAm a)KObM.thna1t |weMta,s'cak«s. The couple, received 0¥C, GnMl, nt | would provide the necessary funds M ' „ fl p . . for an extensive playtime devoted to „ „ „ ' _ . . ' , ~r j travel, to hunting and fishing and I*1™" Ben Fout and ch,ldren of Wau" , other recreations that are erijoyed-Lfga.n' by "he" men! '^Maxine Large share of farmers' income arotmd Paxton comes from corn. return, because there will be sales . advertising as never seen before. No depression is in sight for the immediate postwar years, Mr. Stevens is sure--so he has just ordered a new press to be delivered when -peace arrives. He also feels confident that the New Deal regime will be a thing of the past then. He explained: "Ford County has had a^out as much of Washington as it can stand. I wouldn't say Paxton was just Republican. There &re some Republicans around here who have voted for Roosevelt, you know. Party designations are losing significance. We are just as anti-Willkie as we are anti-Roosevelt. We think he's nothing but a New Dealer. "When the boys come back from the war you're going to find the greatest bunch of rugged individualists you ever saw. We talk to every boy who comes back on furlough. They can't understand why the government tolerates this strike and slow-down business." Mr. Stevens can't understand why the government should want 35 million dollars to advertise to get people back on the farm,. while the United States Employment Service is advertising in his newspapers for men on the farm to work in war industries. Nor can he see why the soy bean processing factory in Gibson City, 15 miles away, can't get all the soy beans it can handle, because the Commodity Credit corporation directs locally grown beans to cotton ginning mills in Tennessee, despite the fact that the soy bean cake left after pressing out the oil is shipped back to Paxton for cattle feed. These are th|~~thin<gs that have turned Paxton people, against the New Deal. Mr. SteVatfi expresses vocally what many %thers feel. , • Incidentally, it should be noted that there is not a labor union office in Ford county and the farmers are strongly anti-labor. In the last election the Republicans scored about five votes to every two Democratic votes, the latter coming mostly from railway workers, a few craftsmen and some tenant farmers. Carl Shelby, Paxton's grain dealer, gave the clearest summary to Paxton's viewpoint. He is a business man, but * his trade concerns the farmer's welfare most closely. 'Too Much Regulation' From Washington "The thing that bothers us most is that there is too much regulation. The farm program has a tendency to tell the farmer exactly what he can do--and that applies pretty much to the business man too. These regulations were put on when times were hard and prices low, and conditions were behefited by regulation. There seems to be no tendency to drop them when times show improvement. The men in Washington made their program so that a ; man was penalized if he didn't go along with it. He was almost forced to follow to be in good standing i with his neighbors. "In the grain business we were ! forced to take whatever the Com- \ modity Credit corporation allowed j us to handle, do what they ordered us to do and wait until they got good and ready to pay us for that service. When a fellow is used to doing what he likes, and then someone comes along and tells him what he has to do--well, that gets under the skin. "What we liked about the old frep competition system was that foresight and intelligence were worth something. You might lose money in hard times, but you Were allowed to make it in good times, and if you didn't waste it you generally came out all right in the long run. Now they don't let us make money when times are good, and they can't give us any assurance that times will always be good. If they fcould do that we wouldn't mind giving up some freedom. "When you ohce start trying to control economic conditions you have to slap on more and more controls to cover the situations you couldn't foresee, and the thing grows and grows. That's the direction the New Deal seems to be headed in now, and most of us around here think it's time to call a halt and go in the other direction for a while." Of such jobs as he pictured there may be half a million in all America, and there will be nine or ten million of those returning soldiers, sailors and marines. Not jobs enough to even start with. 'That writer does not know the American type. He has no conception of the class of men who are fighting the Nation's battles. To be sure they will want jobs when they come back and most certainly they should have them. They will want to go back to the things they were doing before the war called them. They want to go back to the farm, the factory, the desk. That is what they expect. They , want to come back to a land that offers opportunity to develop the ability each possesses, where they can reap the rewards of that ability in whatever measure they may individually display it. <^They want a chance to earn that fine home in spacious grounds if they have the ability to do so. It is the maintenance of such opportunity for which they have been fighting. Those who may expect the comforts or life to be" handed to them because they carried the burden of the battlefronts are t&R v£ry, very Tare exceptions,, /: • * * PEACETIME TRAINING OF U. S. YOUNG MEN OVER THE YEARS from 1916 to Clay, EJdna PAXTON, ILL.--Dislike of Washington and all its works could ; XL'te, reSr^xpe^Uo'steTwo IjEg hardly be found in more concentrated form than in Paxton, Illi- [jobs that would support good homes, jthfc tenth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. : nois, a town of 3,200 persons in the heart of the corn belt. Only a ; sit.uated 111 spacious grounds, elabo- Raiph Clay of Romford. The table \ few citizens will admit there is anything the New Deal *has done 1 "J*® ? furnished, with one or more ]was decorated with two beautiful ^ : . TT v ^ rars in thp cramcr* a varn man arm i ' that has helped this county seat. ^ But Ford county holds one of the^ . most prosperous rural communities v in Midwestern United. States. ,Before the war, in January, 1939, the „> deposits in Paxton's two banks tostaled $1,631,000; but today they sum Sup to $4,532,000, ah increase of 178 •' per cent in four years. Paxton is •; one of the mb,st conservative places in conservative Illinois, W'hich Wen- ,dell Willkie has called "the blackest spot oh my map." Paxton spurns Willkie as "nothing but "a New Dealer." ' j Clothing merchants in Paxton are making more money than at any time since the boom days of the '20s. A farmer recently calculating his income tax fig' ured he had made a clear profit before taxes of more than $20,- 000 in this crop year on a gross income of $27,000-- and he hadn't sold his 1943 corn crop yet. Most of his income was realized on last year's eern he had held. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Patti and David and Peet of Rockford. The W. S. C. S. will |neet with Mrs. L. E. Hawley on Friday instead ot with Mrs. Ben Walkington as announced last week, Virginia Jepson of Evahston spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. j Rose Jepsen. Mrs. Charles Brennan is spending the week with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Blackman of Zion. Rev. Dickson of Greenwood and Will Austin of Woodstock were callers in the Fred Wiedrich, Sr., home Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stephenson attended memorial , services for Rollo Chamberlin at MeHenry Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Kattner of Spring GroVe were callers in the Ed. Bauer home Monday evening. • Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Harrison and Loren were callers in Woodstock Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Roland McCannon and children of Woodstock were guests of Mrs. Rose Jepson, for dinner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Saunders of Sycamore and Mrs. Bertha Saunders of Harvard spent Sunday in the Fred Wiearich, Jr., home. Mrs. L. E. Hawley and Mrs. John Woodward returned home on Wednesday evening from Macon, Georgia. The W. S. C." S. will serve a £past pork dinner at the community hall on however. For example, instead of being able to celebrate the day he was made a sergeant--March 10, 1864--he was on guard duty that evening. " In common with American doughboys of (very war, he was generous, lending considerable sums of money to his friends and the captain ; and he practiced American salesmanship, often selling an article of clothing, such as a pair of boots, one day and buying new ones <th* next. -.irt-v 1920 a group of well-intentioned men Thursday Feb 24 attempted to secure the enactment m;; u'mry ^ of Cry8tal ^ of a universal military training law. t Thursday and FriJ in the I was one of that group. At a meet- Harrison-Peet home. ing in the Union League club, in i ., „ ... . „ . Chicago in 1918, I made the state- I Mrs" "Henry Stephenson called on Should Be MaturcP Sweet potatoes should be well matured before harvesting. This can be determined by breaking a potato and exposing it to the air. If the sap hardens quickly and the surface remains bright in color digging time has arrived. On the other hand if the sap remains sticky and the surface turns dark green the potatoes are not ready for harvesting. Immature potatoes rot quickly la storage. • ! Pan-American Highway Within a year or two after the end of the wqr, motorists from this country in large numbers probably will be driving as far south as the Panama Canal Zone, according *to progress reported in road-building. Although gaps exist on the Pan American highway beyond Oaxaca in Mexico, these are being eliminated rapidly by Mexico's accelerated construction program. Other gaps in the S^O^-mile lon» artery to Panama are chiefly in Co?ta Rica. How- ?ver. the highway was to*Se oper this fall from tte south -harder of Mexico t^rou^h Guatemala. Fonduas and Nicaragua to within. CpsU • tica.'" :;;'v Liars Club The Liars club started as a Joke 15 years ago, when, just before the mmeennti wwee ccoouulida 'nnooti aaccccoommppluisshn Ymhee i Mrs- B- T" Butter and Mrs. Glen^ Benoy I NReuwrl nYcretnanr, 1W92 9«, newspaper men of desired purpose so long as we an^ son Woodstock hospital classed it as a military training law, I Wednesday afternoon. that the mass of American people I Fre(i Wiedrich, Sr., and Rtfy Wiedwere opposed to compulsory mili- ,r'ch spent Monday in Milwaukee, tary service for their sons during ' Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kattner of peace times. I proposed we change Spring Grove and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred the title to citizenship training. The Kattner of Solon Mills were callers in real purpose was more that of mak- the Ed. Bauer home Wednesday eveing citizens than making soldiers, ning. Burlington, Wis., published stories that the police chief and his cronies ;ot together at the station each New ear's day and told lies for the championship of Burlington. Wire services picked up the story, and the next year asked whether the contest would be held p.gain. It has been going on ever since. In . | though under such a law as was | Mrs. George Shepard and Howard j JSb ^d gJow a"'^S'champion proposed, and regardless of the title, ;called on Woodstock friends Monday liar" is picked each year about New military dnll and discipline in the afternoon. camps would be an essential fea- *ure- 'and Eliza were Sunday dinner guests of farmers, bankers, workmen, industrial executives, men of wealth and of poverty, into camp together, all living under exactly the same conditions, would destroy that At that time there were early in-.'of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Harrison ofi dications of the sprouting of class Greenwood * distinctions in the nation. To put I Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and Mrs. ^e,y0ung Arnenca,' the sons Charles Brennan spent Wednesday with Mrs. Ed Volkert and Mrs. Milton Breb of Kenosha. Alice Mae Low spent tlfe weekend in tjie Charles Frey home at Blue sprouting class distinctionv . When 'i I fi„lfln d ... w these boys knew each other, when | a Mrs. George Bacon of Anthey became camp buddies, there j"0*1*1 spent Sunday afternoon .with could be no such thing as class an- Mrs. Jennie Bacon. tagonisms among them. The sug-| AHce and Marion Beet of Elgin gested change in title was not made. , sPent Sunday with their parents, Mr. Public opinion and partisan friction and Mrs. Chas. Peet. prevented the passage of the bill. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bauer, Marvin and Another effort will be made to Joan, were Sunday dinner guests of pass a universal military traihing |Mr. and Mrs. Russell Nordmeyer of law. If the sponsors of the new MeHenry. bill will but take a lesson from the past and call it a*citizenship training law, they can succeed and America will be better for having such a law. ' Year's day. The winner holds his Mr^and Mrs. R. C. Harrison, Loren | title and has custody of the "diamond studded medal" for one year. As Paxton, Illinois, Views It . . . L®t T. M. Brady, manager, explain Paxton's REA cooperative: "We have paid all interest and principal when due, and have made advance payments on "principal. Our kilowatt-hour consumption is growing steadily with increased use of electricity on the farm. War has given an additional impetus to the introduction of electrical labor-saving devices. Farmers are now installing batteries of chick broodefs i and pig brooders, and poultry lighting is increasing. Farmers around • here saj^ this is the greatest service they have received through the government, although they organized this co-operative themselves, provide the control of management and pay for all the service they get. There is not a subsidy of any kind in it. - GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES DOES THE RAISE IN WAGES given the civilian employees of the federal government, between August <>f 1941 and August of 1943, conform to the Little Steel formula? In August of 1941 the then 1,444,985 civilian employees received a total of $217,- 772,054, an average of $151 per employee. In August of 1943 the 3,063,- 379 present employees received a total of $646,372,969, an average of $211 per employee. The difference represents a 40 per cent increase in wages given to the civilian employees of the federal government. In November of 1918 the government had only 917,760 civilian employees. It would seem there might be an opportunity for some economies at Washington, that it might be possible to get along with a lesser num> ber of bureaucrats. . • • • A MINNESOTA READER sent me the figures of the number of federal government civilian employees in World War I and at the present time, with the personnel cost of the two periods, a difference ot some two and a quarter billions a year. He did not know that there are now more federal civilian employees in his Own state than the total employees of the cities, towns, counties and stat 3, including all the police forces, in Minnesota. That state is not an exception, the same thing is true in the greater number of states.! Edyth Harrison of Chicago was home for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brennan, Helen Johnson and Bob Brennan spent Saturday afternoon at Elkhorn* Mae Wiedricfi, Mrs. Lester Carr, Joe and Charles, were callers in MeHenry Monday evening. Mrs. Joe E. Miller and Sons of Changed Names Saint Petersburg was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, but after Russia entered the First World war the name was changed to Petrograd, as the Russians thought the form "Petersburg" sounded too German. In 1924, when Nikolai Lenin died, the city was renamed Leningrad in his honor, and the Soviet government announced that mail addressed to Petrograd would not be delivered in the future. Leningrad has been the target for German bombs and shells for about two years and the outer sections have suffered great damage but observers relate that less destruction than might be expected is apparent in the central part of the city which has elaborate defenses in antitank barriers, pillboxes and blockhouses. Buckwheat Shattering Buckwheat shatters less in cutting if the binder is operated when the crop is wet with dew. Use Sudsy Water ' Don't waste the sudsy water that Is left in the washer. Use it for scrubbing the porch, or washing down the cellar floor. Oldest University Harvard university is the oldest Diversity in the United States, Seaweed a Fertilizer ' Valuable as seaweed has befett as a food for both primitive and modern man, it has not always served in Small Wonder! that Capacity. It has been used as a According to Swiss Patent lfo. fertilizer and as a fuel. In Iceland 210973, the sodium salt of N N' it has been buried in deep trenches, -bis(2-(4-chloro-2-isopropyl-5-methyltamped into almost solid cakes, and phencJ*y)-5-sulfophenyl) urea is said later chopped into chunks for cat- to afford protection against moths tie fodder, I No wonder! Produce Spices Middle America--Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic --produces practically every one of the mpre commonly used spices: 'ginger, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, allspice, pepper, mace, paprika, etc. In addition, some lesser-known oneg; such as cardamon and capsicum, flourish in those countries. • . . - Need Rubber. Stamps! Order at The Plaindealer. 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, Feb 23 At Gaulke's Sale Barn--Route 47--Woodstock, Illinois Charles Leonard, Auctioneer 300 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK 50 HEAD OF CHOICE HOLSTEIN AND GUERNSEY COWS Either Close Springers or Fresh I 200 HEAD OF FEEDER PIGS ALSO tTSJtJAL RUN OF DAIRY HEIx xjRS, BUI,LS, STEERS, BEEF COW3. HORSES, VEAL CALVES AND HOGS x t . ' Call Woodstock 572 of 499 if you have livestock to consign All consignors make arrangements to get your livestock Ln, either the day before the sale or bring same morning of sale. Terms: T25 per cent down, balance in monthly installments. .1 to 16 months time at x/% of 1 J>er cent interest. Woodstock Commission Sales Company WILLIAM E. OAULKE, Owner thone 572 P«st Bouses Hospitals as late as 1865 were pest houses, where patients died needlessly las doctors went from one bed to another without washing their hands, transmitting disease; contagious diseases wepe not isolated. Semmelweiss Was aghast at these conditions, especially at the appal- %ig mortality of mothers at childbirth from puerperal or childbed fever. He noticed that it was customary in the city hospital of Vienna for nr«dical students who attended these new mothers to go directly to them from the dissecting room of the hospital. Hand washing in that interim was ignored. However, through the efforts of Semmelweiss, it was found that the washing of hands with soap and water, and other cleanliness precautions, caused a startling decline in the number of deaths among the mothers. This was significant because it was the beginning of the modern hospitals' greatest weapon--supreme cleanliness. JOHNSBURG food Reserve To make sure that the right food is always available at the right time, the armed forces need a 90-day reserve for men quartered in thif country--and a nine-month supply for men overseas. The Small Electron ^ Electrons, parts of the atom and about the smallest particles of platter known to science, require 30, followed by. 27 ciphers, to weigh an ounce. They are so small that three million can rest on the point of a pin. Six, followed by 18 ciphers, electrons flow each second through the filament of a 100-watt incandescent lamp to keep it burning. (By Mr a. Arthur Elfin) The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thiel was christened. Sharon Catherine, with Rev. A. J. Neidert officiating at the ceremony. Mrs. Margaret Zarnstorf and Robert Thiel act. ed as sponsors. Mrs. John Weingart and infant daughter, Janet Kay, returned hone Wednesday afternoon. John Schmitt underwent eye gery in Chicago last week Monday. Sgt. Norbert Smith returned to his station in California Tuesday, after enjoying a furlough among friends and relatives. \ . Rev. A. J. Neidert and Anton 1L Schmitt returned home from the Sacred Heart Sanitarium, Milwaukee^ Saturday. Seamkn Edward Frett is enjoying; a furlough following his boot training at Great Lakes. Sunday callers in the Arthur Klein hpme were Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Brits and family of Rpck Island, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Britz of Rockford, Seaman and Mrs. Hank Britz and daughter, Mrs. Paul Lewis of Fox Lake, Miss Shirley Britz of Chicago and Mr. Mrs. Albert Britz and sons of Spring Grove. The Lady Fbresters will hold their regular monthly meeting Tuesday* Feb. 22. Ail members are urged to attend. j The party held at the school hall I Sunday afternoon and evening was • huge success. * Britain Wants Oil Hie-British governmfent's petroleum act of 1934 is highly favorable to authorized prospectors. American equipment for detecting underground reservoirs from the surface and American machinery capable of drilling to two-mile depths are being used. The present, war-stimulated hunt for oil in Britain had its counterpart in 1618, when war pressure created an urgent need for a domestic supply. Stocking Stitches Gauge of stockings refers to tha number of stitches to one and onahalf inches of knit fabric. The higher the gauge, the finer the stocking. KEEP ON J, WAR BONDS DON'T NEGLECT s. r YOUR MOTOR Tour car or truck is going to be driven for some time on account of the war. Therefore, the better care you give it, the longer you can keep going. Drive in and let us make a checkup. Our truck safety lane awaits your visit. CENTRAL GARAGE FRED J. SMITH, Prop. Phone 200-J Towinf Johnsburg REPUBLICAN RALLY! Meet Your Republican Candidates. Their Outstanding Administrative Record For Illinois And Their Leadership In The War Effort Is Their Pledge That They Will Lead Our State To Even fireater Heights Of Achievement And Pr0greS8 ynjte<j States Senator: RICHARD J. LYONS For Governor: DWIGHT H. GREEN » For Lieutenant Governor: - HUGH W.CROSS For Secretary of State: -ARNOLD P. BENSON For Auditor of Public Account*: ARTHUR C. LUEDER For State Treasurer: CONRAD F. BECKER Far Attorney General: GEORGE F. BARRETT For £lerk of the Supreme Court: EARLE BENJAMIN SEARCY For Representative in Congress, State at Large: STEPHEN A. DAY Will be at Woodstock on , . WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 7:30 P.M. W • ... at the OPERA HOUSE l "IV-' rlW'sW'Wysv* o