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charged Ot the peace Letter ' i. ?v . Washington, July 2 -- Our observof Independence Day will be punctuated by more than ordinary doses of oratorical fireworks. The plans for the celebration show that the portion of the puhtte which loiters around'radios and lood-apeakers in various communities ffll b# twtted to exhortations calculated toarouse them from their indifference akjptttiU trend of national and international Relations. Legislators and high Federal officials have vacated their official posts over the weekend to make speeches throughout the country. There is no question that the present Fourth of July provides an excellent opportunity to draw comparison* about national policies at a time when all bet two major powers -- America and Japan---are at war. The U.S. government operates o» the fiscal yea? basis- Therefore, July 1 was the beginning of the new year and of considerate importance to Federal officials. Vast sums of money recently authorized by Congress became available on this date. A major share of these monies are earmarked for defense needs. However, criticism is leveled in Congress at the tendency to use the crisis as a smoke-screen to establish new agencies and expand older groups on the theory it has a bearing on the crisis. Bad feeling is developing among many of these functionaries as emergency establishments take the cream of Congressional grants of power and raepey. Things" t» expect shortly: a proposal for legislation giving control over prices as a substitute for executive orders which have been ineffective; a new tax bill in the House after the holiday: other officials following Secretary Iekes in demanding entrance into the war; continued opposition of the Army and Navy toward an independent air force; lively stepping around the ticklish Inconsistencies in "giving aid to democracies" and halpbi* a totalitarian foe if same --namely Russia. While the average citizen Is now wide awake to the importance of producing more and better aircraft for military purposes, their interest baa been riveted in the factory situation due to strikes and other handicaps to output. Few have given coibslderatkm to the importance of research conducted by die National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which is a governmental outfit. Testimony a few days ago before a House committee showed that this Federal agency at itf laboratories and field test stations are making distinct contributions to the nation's defense. They have a ' wind tunnel under construction capable of operating at 500 miles an hour instead of the present facilities limited to a speed of 300 miles. They are also reproducing in the tunnel air nressure conditions existing at 50.000 feet in place of previous plans which contemplated only 30,090 feet pres- j sure and temperate conditions. Their program calls for testing larger engines up to 4,000 horsepower instead of being limited to engines of 3 000 horsepower. This engine research is intended to provide the most effective air force in the world which can operate at high speed and great altitudes. Detection of foreign propaganda over the air waves is becoming a major activity of the Federal Communications Commission. They have obtained a large sum of money from Congress for this policing of the ether which became a full-time operation last February. It is a new national defense function which is intended to receive, to record, translate, summarise, analyze, and distribute to the proper Government agencies the results of all short-wave radio propaganda directed to the Western Hemisphere. The government cuts in on those broadcasts by means of monitorteg or engineering stations. When in full operation, it is anticipated that a volume of 100 hours of record material will be received from the field monitoring stations daily. It is estimated that seventy-five per cent of all materia] recorded will be in languages other than English, and consequently will require translation. Fifty per cent of the air detective work is conducted at a station near Laurel, Kd., a few miles outside of Washing ton. These reports on short-wave communications are closely studied by leprious government departments and are sometimes used to check on confidential reports received from Federal observers located la foreign countries. Helping entertain the soldiers and ssalors while off duty raises delicate geestkms for communities and Fefl» eial ageneies. The Armj^ Navy and a civilian agency under PUwl McNutt have asked for large appropriations for recreational purposes. Congressional inquiry reveals that the Army and the Navy have barred the Y. M. C. A. and similar organisations from operating within military and naval reservations. Some of these groups are highly criticsl of the new policy. Hie government groups claim, how- . ever, that the facilities available to the private social agencies are now so heavily burdened by the unprecedented expansion of the Army and the . Ijayy that they cannot meet the demutd and, therefore, the government Itself must orovide the recreation for the men while off duty. To give lemon gelatin a deep red color, add cranberry juice tfik the liquid mixture. • • -e To hasten the setting ef a jelly place the mold in a basin containing cold water in which salt has been dissolved. Save all scraps of toilet soap, brea^ into small pieces and put through food chopper, using the medium cutter, then the fine cutter. Boil with a littie water and- you will have an excellent soap jelly. • • • Pour over a lump of unslaked lime, the size of an egf( in* quart of cold water that lias bfli Iwftti and cooled Let stand several hours, strain through cheesecloth mid you will have a quart of lfane water (AancMri you come to cause this at your own fireside?" the magistrate. "WeH, it was like this," replied thr old woman. "John and I were sitting at the fire. John was reading his newspaper and I was thinking. Then I turned to him and said, 'John, sheep sore awfu' stupid, aren't they?' And John said, 'Yea, Wf lamb.* ** QABBY QERTIE "A Ml charges a red a its wearer dees.** DAINTY PARTY DRESS MWSENCB OF MIND "I vu on a yacht thai sprung a leak and, my presence of mind was all that saved us.** "What was year presence of mind?" "As the awful water poured into the hold I suddenly remembered I was wearing a pair of pumps." They Never Change average female is just now eraMf over hate. If she hasn't got a soft felt with a rakish crown and a thievish-looking brim, she is crazy to get one." When do you think this waa first printed? On October 16, MM, in the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Little Betty and Junior had attended a talk by a returned missionary. "What did he tell you about the heathen?" asked their grandma. *XJh, he said* that they were often very hungry, and when they beat on their tom-tonis, it could be heard for miles." Hail Brittanla Ureter--Good morning, Brown, I hear you have a son and heir? Brown--Yes, sir. Our household now represents the British kingdom. Rector--How is that? Brown--I am English, my wife's Scottish, the nurse is Irish, baby wails! Cause aad Effect : ; - ' The list of prize winners at a recent picnic was announced aa follows: "Mrs. Smith won the ladies' rolling pin throwing contest by hurling a pin 75 feet. "Mr. Smith M the 100-yard dash." Shirley and Marion Hawley spent Tuesday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. George Young and Alfred spent TUeeday evening in the John R. Smith bome at McHenry. Mrs. Win. Wurtatager, Nancy and Roxy Ann and Pearl Smith of Woodstock spent Tuesday in the Lonnie Smith home. Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and Mary Ann, Helen Johnson and Janet and Mrs. Jack Leonard spent Tuesday in the Smart home at Waukegan. Mrs. Roy Neal called on friends in Hebron and Williams Bay on Tuesday. Mrs. Frank Yopng and daughter and Mrs. Nick Young called on Mrs. S. W. Smith Tuesday evening. Mrs. Kenneth Cristy was hostess to the Scotch Bridge Club on Tuesday afternoon. Prises went to Mary Muzzy and Viola Low. Rev. and Mis. Collins sttended a golden wedding anniversary at Clinton, Wis., on WedneidB». Mrs. Louis H*w!ey was a Chicago visitor on Wednesday. Mr, and Mrs. E. W Smith and John visited in Woodstqck Tuesday evening. Mrs. Emma Merchant of Woodstock spent the week in the Wm. McCannon home. Helen Johnson spent from Wednesday until Friday 1n the P. E. Saunders home at Fontana. Mrs. Roy Neal attended the funeral of a friend at Hebron on Thursday afternoon. Lieutenant It. H; Smith of Camp McCoy, Sparta, Wis., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. F. Hiichens entertained the five hundredMab at the B. T. Butler home on Thursday evening. Mildred Munchshaw of Elgin and Mrs Walter Worth and daughter, Joan, of Elm Claire, Wis., spent last Thursday in the Wm. McCannon home. Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Sr., and May visited relatives in Crystal Lake on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Lyle Hopper and Eleanor Jane of Chicago visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith on Thursday. Ltftoy Neal of Chaaute Field spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neal. Mrs. Wm. Hoffman of Crystal Lake. Mrs. Wm. Wuitainffer, Nancy and Roxy Ann of Woodstock visited in the Will Smith home Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Viola Low and Mrs. Minnie Coates spent Friday in the Fred Gibbs home at Woodstock. Mr. and Mia. Andrew Hawley enter tained Mr. and Mrs. Saylor Smith and Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith at a six o'clock dinner Saturday evening. . Mrs. Phelps Sanders of Fontana visited her mother, Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., Friday evening. Mrs. Ben Justen and Mrs. Joseph J us ten spent Friday afternoon in Elgin. Frank Hawley of Crystal Lake was a visitor in Ringwood Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hawley were Thursday supper guests in the Will Smith home. Mrs. Ed Peet and granddaughters, Maxine and Pattie Clay, and Mrs. Ben Fout and sons of Spring Grove spent Friday at Twin Lakes. Audrey Merchant spent two days in the Charles Coles home at McCuIlom Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Saylor Smith of Portland, Ore., were visitors in the B. T. Butler home recently, Mrs. Roy Harrison and Edyth visited in Woodstock Saturday evening. Rita Mae Merchant spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bay Merchant. The Home Circle will meet at the Ray Peters home at Harvard on July 9. This is a pot-Suck dinner. Mae Wiedrich, Charles and Jo Carr attended the carnival at Woodstock on Saturday jevening. Mrs. Georjr? R. Harrison is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Glenn Treon, at Crystal Lake. Mrs. Georgia Wiedrich, Mrs. Betty Leonard and Helen Johnson visited with friends in Lake Geneva on Saturday afternoon. Marion Peet of Elgin is spending several days at her home here. Mrs. Emily Beattv attended a family reunion at the Harry Peet home at Woodstock Sunday. Georgia Thomas and daughter and Mrs. Mann of Woodstock were callers in the Wm. McCannon home on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Hanford of Chicago spent Sunday afternoon in the Will Smith home. Mr. and Mrs. James Bell and Mr. and Mrs. George Young and Alfred spent Sunday in the Jake Rauen home at Kenosha. Mr. and "Mrs. Peterson of McCuIlom Lake visited Rev. and Mrs. Collins on Sundsy. Mr. snd Mrs. Clarence Pearson and sons visited In Greenwood Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Kathleen Stelte snd Janet Donahue of Seattle, Wash., and Mr. snd Mrs. Ed Dirksen of Chicago were Sunday dinner guests in the Ben Justen home. Floyd Howe was a Sunday evening caller in the S. W. Smith home. Fred Wiedrich, Sr. and Roy Wiedrich attended the harness races at Milwaukee Sunday. The Ringwood Blue Devils defeated For Firit Tim* Sine* Army filers at Randolph Field, Texas, are daily milk drinkers. .f^fcEW YORK--U. 6 soldiers in the vast army maneuvers now under way will fight their peacetime battles wlt& ftmh milk in tfeelr daily diet. More than 160,000 quarts of fresh •aid milk per day will be eonstueed by the maaeuver foroes, pins the aow trainees in c&otonmsuts. Fresh 8uid milk has been sdded to the daily ration to provide America's Soldiers with the best possible diet, according to the Milk Industry foundation. In addition to fluid milk requirements, over 20 tons of batter, more than 10 tons of cheese and large quantities of other dairy products are consumed dally. This means that more than 1,000,000 quarts of milk from American farms are required every day for pasteurisation aad distribution or processing into dairy products for the army. The milk industry has beea la dose touch with army requirements to see that soldiers rseeive f>4sh ailk of the same high quality as thft delivered dally to consumers' doorsteps. This milk distribution required banding up the supply system in thinly settled areas where fluid milk demand has been slight, property forecasting requirements for thickly populated areas. Without the w«ll organised IT. 3. milk distributing system It Is doubtful if fresh milk eoUld have been se readily supplied. The army ration, wfcieh means food provided for one man for ens day specifies among other thing* 8 os. of fresh milk, S os. of butter, 1 os. of evaporated milk and % oa. of cheese. In the Revolutionary War the ration called for a pint of milk per soldier per day -- the only tlsse fresh milk even appeared^oa the ration until the present. It Is doubtful, however, If Washington's soldiers ever got milk unless they surreptitiously milked sows aear the blvouals. Army officials believe fresh milk provides health-firing and bodybuilding values of the highest order. Lt. Col. Paul P. Logan, Subsistence Office, War Department, reesntly said: "All of us in subsistence work are acutely aware of the value of milk and dairy products in the ration. We knewv that milk solids are indispensable and that milk Is the nearest perfect food." Greenwood by a score of 2 -1 en Sunday. The next game will be at Pleasant Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Peet and daughter, Alice, left on Monday for a trip to Nebraska. They expect to be gone two weeks. Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., Mrs. Jack Leonard and Helen Johnson spent Monday afternoon in Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nordgrea "21 Nancy of Libertyville were Monday evening callers fh the Fred Wiedrich jr. Borne. - y BUILDING NEW HOltil Ground has been broken for a home which is being erected by Da R. G. Chamberiin in the Wattles sufe division. A For important party dates, a little girl needs frilly dresses aad here la eae la eraehetfe make her heart go pitter-patter. The loose, laey stitch is easy to do--and cool and fragile looking. Yon eaa eaaily .crochet a dress like khia eae, using lustrous ereertsed crochet cotton. Viry the dress with ribbea changes or eel- ENGAGED AT LMtv . / "Congratulate me, Annie. I'm engaged." "No: Honest? Who's left you money?" An unusual request was made the laSher day by Congressman Clare E Hofman of Michigan, who asked that tile Congressional Record be corrected. He said: "On page 5027 at the mid of the talk I made yesterday appears the word 'applause.' There was applause, and I ask that the word stricken out." Every day for two years Callie M. Fatker of Meridian, Miss., memorised a poem, a Bible verse, a joke, and learned the deAmtiea of a new word WOMEN SERVE ie Moved The battleship was In p£it and visitors were being shown around. The guide was exhibiting a bronze tablet set in the deck. "Here la where our gallant captain fell," said the guide. A nervous old lady interrupted him. "WeH, no wonder--I nearly tripped over II myself." : ' Auntie--Tommy, won't yon have another piece of shortcake? Tommy--No, thank you. Auntie--You seem to be suffering from loaa of appetite. Tommy--it ain't loaa of appetite. What I'm suffering from la politeness. Has No Idea lira. Gee--William, how do you suppose those dozens and doaena ef empty bottles got into the cellar? Mr. Gee--I'm sure I don't know. I never bought an empty httpi M my lift*. Never Fafls Roberta--Did you count daisy to see if Jack loves you? Rath--No, indeed; it might have turned out wrong. I used s threeleafed clover. v ^» <as Sii M •a' i "j* ,% - * wiur, hands TJ£ By John Hsrrey Fmrkmy, Hi). niwm w m *rew wvsw ; The popular idea ia that fast rac-» ing cars have 12 to 16 cylinders, but this is far from being the usual case. Four-cylinder cars are used more in racing than are engine! of more cylinders. The four-cylinder cars are said to be more reliable and simpler. Six and eight cylinder* are sometimes used, bin not as quently as four cylinders. Matter ef Opinio* Chubb--Huh, wise guy, eh? you're just like a whip in the of an expert. Duff--Smart, you mean? CMU^-Naw, crackedl - |f • What's His Name? " ' -iL. Daughter--Oh, father, how grand it is tu be alive. The world is too good for anything. Why isn't every one happy? • Father--Who ia he thia timet Who Was It? "I waa outspoken at the meeting of the Woman's Club today," remarked Mrs. Sayit. 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