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ay, $T. ^ % >V> M f)> £ * W | r ' » ' * P ' - ,4 < "* * ' ! fas MeHfinty PLAiroEALHt ' *JfS«""t : R,^ivrv im**- rP] *£"$- '• .:A Vernon J. Knox, Attorney NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE Bstate of Edward F. Kelter. Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons that Monday, April 6, 1942, is the claim date in the estate of EDWARD F. KELTER, Deceased, pending in the County Court of McHenry County, Illinois, and that claims may be filed against the said estate on or before said date without issuance of summons. LILLIAN M. KELTER, Executrix.' - (Pub. March 5 - 12 - 1»JP T Kathleen Norris Says Women May Have to Be Regimented (Bell Syndicate--WNU Service.) CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS by Congressman Chauncey W. Reed ECONOMIC EQUALITY IS NOT POSSIBLE Win. M. C&rroll, Attorney Woodstock. Illinois NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE Bttate of Henrietta Krepel, Decepsad. Notice is .hereby given to all persons that Monday, April 6, 1942, is the claim date in the estate of HENRIETTA KREPEL, Deceased, pending in the County Court of McHenry County, Illinois, and that claims may be filed against the said estate on or before said date without issuance of summons. GERALD J. CAREY, Executor. (Pub. March 5 - 12 - 19) NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE Estate of Anna Knox, Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons that the 6th day of April, A. D., 1942, it t^e claim date in the estate «f - ANNA KNOX, \ Deceased, pending in the County Court of McHenry County, Illinois, and that claims may be filed against the said estate on or before said date without issuance of summons. ELMER H. WINKELMAN, Administrator. Bckert & Eckert, Attorneys, 207 North Benton Street, ----~ Woodstock, Illinois. , (Pub. March 12 - 19 - 2»| Influenza Cur bet A new anti-influenza vaccine has decreased the influenza epidemic in several California cities, according ' to a recent survey disclosed. Dr. P. L. Horsfall Jr. of the Rockefeller Foundation laboratories and Dr. E. H. Lennette prepared the new vaccine. ' The survey disclosed that among unvaccinated persons 25 to 43 |»er cent developed influenza and > among the vaccinated onos 13 to 15 per cent had the disease. The new vaccine consists of two different types of disease viruses. The virus of influenza of type and the virus of dog- distemper disease were-developed in chick embryo. Accurate Coffee Measuring One well-known coffee company has a convenient device for accurately measuring the amount of coffee recommended for two cups of water. AUCTION L. H. FREEMAN & SON, Hebron, 111. TOM RAFTER, Woodstock, IU. Auctioneers We will sell, without reserve, at our premises, located 1 mile west of Hebron, 111., 8 miles east of Harvard, 111., on Route 173, 12 miles north of Woodstock, 111., and 9 miles south of Lake Geneva, Wis., on-- SATURDAY, MARCH 14 1942. Sale starts at 10:30 a. m. sharp. 150 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK 30 Head of Good Wisconsin Hoi stein Cows T. B. and Bangs tested. Can go anywhere. Consisting of 6 first calf Holstein heifers, 7 second calf Hoistein heifers, balance large Holstein mature cows. All either fresh or elope springers. Also 5 bulls, 1 large Holstein, weight 1,000 lbs., 1 Durham, weight 1,000 lbs., 3 Holstein'bulls of good quality, almost ready for service. These cows all come direct frotn farms. Will have been here two weeks before safe. Inspection is invited prior to sale. These cows also show good production and breeding. Hogs 2 Chester White sows, bred, weight 240 lbs.; 4 Chester White sows, brea, weight 200 lbs. To farrow between April 20 and May 1. Feeder 30 pigs weight 160 ltM.^ 00 pigs, weight 80 to 125 lbs.; 30 are Duroes, balance Chester Whites. Feed * 30 tons of good ear corn, 40 tons of haled alfalfa and red eloper h§y». Chickens '. > 700 White Leghorn hens. Tractor* ' 1 John Deere Model B tractor on rubber, 1941 model, like new; 1 Model A 1937, new rubber, with cultivator; 3 GP John Deere tractors, 1 on new rubber, with cultivator. 20 Used Manure Spreaders •2 I.H,C. spreaders, 6 John Deere spreaders, 4 New Idea spreaders. Machinery John Deere single row cultivator; 2 6-ft. I.H.C. mowers; 7-ft. Case disc tandem, like new; 8-ft. cultipacker; John Deere 4 bar side delivery rake, like new; spring tooth harrow; I. H. C. corn planter with fertilizer attachment; John Deere corn planter with fertilizer and soybean attachment; 8- , ft. feeder, shovel type; John Deere corn planter, plain; Van Brunt 8-ft. grain drill with grass seed attachment, Very good condition; two bottom I. H. C. 2-14 in. plow, looks like new, new shoes; two bottom John Deere 2-14 in. plow, 4 years old, good; 2 two bottom John Deere 2-14 in. plows; 3 6-ft. grain binders, one very good, new canvasses; 28-48 Belle City thresher, like new; 32x56 Case thresh* er, all steel; circulating heater, large size and many other items. TERMS -- Regular terms. If you want time it can be arranged, on title retaining note up to 18 months, if your credit is established. If you need a monthly plan, see us before you make your purchase. Everything must be settled for on day of sale. Nntftiryg removed until settled for. , • Lunch Wagon on Grounds. "» LESTER HAWLEY Bcbron State Bank, Oerkk* WAR IS WORK American women are willing, even eager, to volunteer for war service of one kind or another. But after a little time many of them begin to question the authority of those in command, to demand smartly tailored uniforms at the price of efficiency, to find it more convenient to plead a previous engagement when that inevitable emergency call comes and finds th^rn just "too tired" to make the effort. War is work--hard work--for everyone, and Kathleen Norris believes that unless women voluntarily toe the mark, they will have to submit to the draft and to military regimentation. The bombs won't wait for you to finish that "rubberAnd the cry of human suffering will not be stilled by promises. War is work, and that work must be done now! 1 believe that uithin six months every woman mnd girl in the United Slates tcili hmve to register. There will be training camps for officers and no more room for petty squabbles that threaten women's uar work. By KATHLEEN NORRIS LL American women want to help the country now. Thousands are enlisting for service--any service. Nursing, sewing, making bandages, canteen work, entertainment; whatever each one may do she is eager to do. But American women are not drafted. They are not obliged to register, state age and capability, and await the order to serve. That has been the procedure with men for generations. They expect to obey, take orders, work humbly in the lowest ranks until they prove their right to promotion. Women volunteer eagerly enough. But presently they question the right of Mrs. Wilson to give orders; they don't know who ever <t*kU Mary Davis that she was boss. They want a becoming uniform; arid I have heard lately of many who would not report for duty until they got that uniform. When an emergency call came for certain others, who had taken nursing courses and suddenly were needed, several answered that they had engagements or were playing bridge--yes, the latter answer was actually given, to the anxious superintendent who needed vital help to save life. A San Francisco paper had an editorial that is a reproach to ev- $ry woman in the state. It warned women volunteers that they must pull together, that they must stop fighting for places of power or prominence, that they mu$t avoid duplication of service and concentration of help in certain popular areas. May Need Regimentation. Does that same condition exist among the women of your group or neighborhood? i~ If so,-and if it continues, the only answer . is government regimentation of women as well as men. When that comes, every woman will do what she is told to do. The women placed in authority over her may be infinitely less capable than she is herself, but she won't be allowed to question orders or choose her own way of doing her own job. She will report where she is told to Deport, on the minute, and she will endure whatever cohditions meet her without any redress. We are the geatest nation in the world. But we never have been a truculent nation, looking about for excuses to make trouble with our neighbors, and ure have been rich enough to be content with the potentialities of our ovn magnificent land. Now that is changed. We must meet attack from without, and even if it takes us years to get our full fighting power organized there»xan be no turning back now and no halfway measures. And unless our women can do their share without actual military regimentation, they must be prepared to be mobilized. Utmost Is Exacted. In every army there are, temporarily at least, mistakes in command. It would take a superhuman commander-in-chief always to delegate authority to the right person. Fitness for office is a thing of slow growth, and time is the one thing we have not, just^now. Nevertheless, in a few weeks or months the incompetent officer is moved to some less important command; there is a "shake-up," and gradually the utmost is exacted from a well-organized, tightly knit, well-controlled soldiery. Meanwhile the recruit obeys, and keeps his mouth shut. If they draft women, our sex will learn more about discipline and authority in six weeks than most of us experience in a lifetime. Life to some women will seem one long outrageous injustice. How many women would have been silent, as the boys were silent, over the conditions in our first enormous army camps a few months ago? The conditions have been changed; they are being steadily bettered, but at first they meant almost constant discomfort for the draftees. Cold, boredom, mud, poor food, uncertainties of every sort were their life. But they were in the army, and they took it as a matter of course. .. Are you ready, as a woman, for that sort of thing? Or can't we women do our full share of war work without being hammered into line? I am afraid it will have to come to that. I believe that Within six months or a year every woman and girl will have to register; there will be training camps for officers, and there will be no more room for the petty squabbles and jealousies that threaten women's war work today. Qnarreled for Power. I say this because of my own.experience in an enormous organization of women a few years ago. These women were first of all for peace, and, secondly, almost all mothers of sons. But from the beginning they quarreled for place, power and title. They wrote me endless letters complaining of each other. On several occasions they took petty cases to court, once trying to prove that one of their leaders hadn't really been the first one to think of the ideals of the league, and at another time to challenge the citizenship of a valued charter member. Months were wasted while they argued and threatened; on the occasion of our first annual convention certain disaffected members threatened the delegates wim warrants, and warned us all by wire that our meeting would be broken up by the police. The millions--they were actual millions--of peace-loving members faded away. Men can't get along and take orders without definite, unquestionable authority. When the top-sergeant, or the pip-squeak lieutenant, or the unreasonable captain speaks, they obey. In the ranks of our armies today, humbly taking orders, are some of the boys who, if they live, will be our great men tomorrow. The President of 1962 probably is doing K.P. duty, turning out early and gulping his camp coffee and beans- with the rest of them. Secretary Wads worth? Reports are current that Secretary of War Stimson will soon tender his resignation and that the President will nominate Representative James W. Wadsworth, (Rep.) of New York his successor. Representative Wadsworth is one of the most able legislators on Capitol Hill. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, he was elected in 1904 to the General Assembly of the State of New York. One year later he was chosen as Speaker of that body, a position he held for five years. He served two terms (twelve years) as United States Senator from New York during which time he became Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1933. Although a frequent critic of most of domestic policies of the New Deal, he has, in the main, supported its foreign policy. A keen student of military affairs, he would in the judgment of the write*, make one of the most able Secretaries of War, this nation ever had. His nomination by the President would be as popular on the Democratic side of the House as on the Republican. The Dies Committee The usual opposition to the further continuance of the Committee to Investigate un-American Activities is again developing1. We predict, how. ever, that the usual majority of the House will vote to continue its existence and provide the necessary funds for its activities. The Censorship Bill It looks as if the bill designed to provide fines and imprisonment to persons who disclose in the press, by radio or by word of mouth any documents or files or official information that the Congress "or any department head or his assistants" might declare to be confidential, is due for rathei hard sledding. It is pointed out that such a law would permit any department head to declare each and all of the documents and files ' confidential" and thereafter exclude the public, and even the Congress, from examining them. Freedom of speech and of the press are liberties that cost too much in human sacrifice# and are too sacred to the preservation of a people's government to be entrusted to the tender mercies of any government officials.. False Statements from the KEA In the winter of 1941 Representative Dirksen, Republican of Illinois, demonstrated that the Rural Electrification Administration was grossly falsifying reports to Congress on salary increases of its employees. It now has been brought out in the hearings on the Agricultural Appropriation Bill for 1943 that the budget officer of the REA has stated to his superiors that he saw no reason for giving accurate information to Representative Dirksen although he was a member of the Congress, because the said official believed that Representative Dirksen waB no friend of the Administration. It is at least gratifying to note that the Secretary of Agriculture, although belatedly, has taken disciplinary action ajtfainst this budget officer of the REA. 'Electric Telegraph System,' New Frances Ronalds, an English inventor born in 1788, invented an electric telegraph system and offered it to the British government which at that time was using a system of wooden signals, worked by hand and telescope, for speedy longdistance intercommunication. The system was rejected because "telegraphs are wholly unnecessary," decided the British government experts, "and no other than the one now in use win be employed." Cbrwrult the, , City Council Proceeding* Council Room, March 2, 1942. The City Council met in regulai monthly meeting with Mayor Overton presiding. Aldermen present: Bolger, Buss, Ferwerda; Freund, Nye. Regner. Absent: None. Motion by Ferwerda, seconded by Nye, that the minutes of the last regular meeting be approved as read. Motion carried. Motion by Regner, seconded by Freund, that the treasurer's report b« approved as read. Motion carried. Motion by Freund, seconded by Ferwerda, that the collector's report be approved as read. Motion carried. Motion by Bolger, seconded by Nye that the clerk's report be approved as read. Motion carried. Motion by Buss, seconded by Reg ner, to pay I3QO.OO semi-annual inter* est due on sewer bonds. Motion car* ried. Motion by Ferwerda, seconded by Nye, that the following bills be paid as approved by the finance committee Motion carried. Howard Cairns, Police service $125.00 Peter Wirfs, Police service 110.00 Earl R. Walsh, Office expense 25.00 W. C. Feltz, Supt. streets and alleys 105.00 M. M. Niesen, Waterworks superintendent 50.00 Mayme Buss, Clerical salary and commissions Alexander Lumber Co., Coal .... Freund Oil Company, Fuel oil McHenry Plaindealer, Printing and publications Buss-Page Motor Sales, Repairs, police car Blake Motor Sales, Gas and oil, police car .. McHenry Co. Farmers Co-op., Salt -..., .. Carey Electric Shop, Repairs, street lights Public Service Co., Power and light Illinois Bell Tel. Co., Telephone service ........... Special Sewer Fred C. Feltz, Salary Public Service Co., Power and light Mayme Buss, Clerical 30.00 Superior Oil Company, Distillate T - 17.79 Motion w Ferwerda, seconded by Regner, to engage Engineer V. H. Kasser to proceed with plans and specifications for street widening and construction of new bridge (50 foot width) crossing Boone Creek at Green Street, payment of $750.00 to be paid through Motor Fuel Tax Fund upon acceptance of completed plans by the State Highway Department, total cost of plans and specifications not to exceed three per cent of total coBt oi plans and specifications. Voting yes! Bolgjer, Buss, Ferwerda, Freund, Regner. Voting no: Nye. Motion carried. Motion by Ferwerda, seconded by Buss, to adjourn. Motion carried, ft. 1. OVERTON, Mayor. EARL R. WALSH, Clerk 50.34 12.06 30.30 6.0# 80.80 1.0Q 23.31 246.lt 2.36 105.00 55.41 by Georgte Peck Man never has been able, despite manjr attempts, to set up and maintain a civilization in which there was absolute equality of incomes. The drastic failures of the past would seem to indicate it 'is doubtful that he eveT will be able to do so. The various religious faiths teach of heavens where ull will share alike, but they teach that this ideal state will come after man's death, not while he trods the earth. There never has been and never can be on his earth, a civilization in which each individual has made or will make an equal contribution to the needs of society. Granting the truth of the aforegoing statement, (we cannot see how it can be controverted), it becomes apparent that rewards cannot be equal and that, therefore, there must always be a disparity of incomes. We have come closer to equality of incomes in this country than has any other nation in all history. This is because we have operated on a sound theory under a stystem which gives a greater reward for a job better done, if it were possible to have every man born with equal intelligence, with equal ambition, with equal skill and witii equal energy, then all could be paid the same rewards. One has but to catalogue and index one's own circle of friends and acquaintances to realize the absolute disparity of these virtues or talents or whatever you may care to call them, existing among them. Some will be found to be contributing much, others not so much, while still others little or nothing to the needs of society and its general welfare. No sane, right-think, ing man would prescribe equality of rewards for his friends making such unequal donations to the public weal. It would be the height of absurdity to cut the reward of the biggest down to the level of that going to the smallest contributor. Not only would it be unjust but sooner or laer would adversely affect every individual because the aggregate contribution to society would be smaller, and all from the highest to the lowest would be the losers thereby. It would be idle to maintain that under our American Sysem, rewards always are fair and equitable. Americans have made contributions to art, science, medicine, literature, etc., and have not received commensurate compensation. We do claim, however, thai they are the exceptions and not the rule, and that' in the great majority of cases rewards are meted out in keeping with the service rendered. Every decent American, and most of us are decent, has an underlying desire not only to improve his own condition but of others as well. But by the same taken, every clear-headed American knows that society as a whole cannot be improved except fpr a transitory period by arbitrarily redistributing wealth as we are doing now or through the adoption of State Socialism or Collectivism or any of the manifold others Isms which differ in name only and have the same unsound theories underlying them. Economic equality is not possible-- it is a fantastic delusion. Our Ar erican System of Free Enterprise, with all its faults, has demonstrated it is the best ever devised--AND IT IS A SYSTEM BASED ON DISPARITY OF INCOMES. Six to One For every six years of a man's life we can approximate one year of a dog's life. Thus, a dog five years old would be about as old as a man 30 years old. The average life of a dog has been placed at about 10 years, which coincides with man's average of approximately 60 or more odd years. However, the first two years of a dog's life might be compared to the first 20 year# of a person's life, as far as training, education, etc., are concerned. P»fi What Should You Serve To Help? ; | ^ WASHINGTON, D. C.--The following table issued by the Treasure Department is intended as a savings yardstick for the average inroraeearner. It suggests how everyone of the 48,000,000 employed persons in the United States may partldpate m the war effort through the systematic purchase of Defense Savings Bonds. "The job ahead of us is far bigger than most'ofm realize," Secretary Morgenthau declared in making the table public. "I know that the American people are ready to do their part to win the war. One of the ways we can do much more is by intensifying out effort in the purchase of Defense Bonds." While persons without dependents may be able set aside more than the suggested figures, persooi with several dependents, or with other heavy family obligations, may be unable to save at the so rate* the Treasury Department pointed out. 5»»,» •: fl/V sil»" S20i $so»- $40" If Wwkly SuBinsa ApM $4 to $10 »10 to SIS to $20 to ISO to $40 to $60 to *60 U0 to f 70' $70 to $80' $80 to StOO 400 to SI 50 ; US* to $200 Over $200 i And OMBMM In Om YearH. MWok: Will 8m: (Mi . < •' .50 $13.00 20.00 -- •. ;\ro 89.00 v1 $0 05.00 In 104.00 -4oo 208.00 too 312.00 8.00 410.00 10.00 620.00 524.00 / M.I* 1.040.00 ' .flMS' • 1JB0.0S Number of Persons in Each Income Group; S,324,000 4.975,000 6.470,000 10.747.000 7.774.000 6.794,000 S, 007,000 2.231.0(H) I.$04,000 1.488,000 1.069.000 moo# 095,000 Astnai Savings j* S4U11.M 129.SS0.000 21S.SS0.M0 <698,666.000 . S03.06.fwa 1^05.152.000 \ . SA8.184^00 fVj678.08e.0Si .£&».1S0.00S -I.101.tt0.000 V£42^«0.000 Xooo,ooo.ooo 910^15.311,00S, No. DS8-3SI % , ^ "t! •t •A . y•- ::% & * • TOE THE COLUMNS FQK QUICK. &E8UL19 THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS The Distinguished Flying Cross li Awarded to any person, who, while serving in any capacity with the Army Air Corps of the United States, including the National Guard and the Organised Reserves, subsequent to April 6, 1917, has distinguished himself or shall distinguish himself by heroism or extraordinary achi*"^ ment, while participating in an aerial flight. On a bronze patee a four-bladed propeller; in the re-entrant angles, rays forming a 1-inch square. On the reverse, are engraved the grade, name, and organisation of the recipient. The cross is suspended by a plain straight link from a silk moirs ribbon compoeed of alternate red, white, and Una stripes, blue predominating* SILVER STAR * The Silver Star is awarded f* each person who, while an officer or enlisted man in the Army of the United States is cited for gallantry in action and the citation was published In orders issued from the headquarters of a force commanded by, or which is the appropriate command of a general officer or issued by the War Department, which citation does not warrant the award of the Medal of Honor or Distinguished Service Cross. A bronze star in the center thereof a raised silver star, the center lines of all rays of both stars coinciding. The reverse to have the inscription "For gallantry in action" and a space for the name of the recipient. It Is suspended by a silk moire ribbon in stripe*. <$tblu$, white and red. ' - f A 0% : * Order your Bobber Stamps at Tm Plaindealer. wm iinlTTp 0 c save time trouble •Js 1 ,..v^ 4 '