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vm:: WW •?*? .1 up* MPPJ.P* THE McHXJTRY Thursday, April 9,1942 A Prophecy of 1916 Comes True in 1941 Captain Irving G. McCann, chaplain of the First Illinois Infantry during the Mexican border trouble, in his book, "With the National Guard on the Border," published in 1916, predicted war with Japan within twenty-five year*. Not ony that, the Illinois WPA •Writers' Project finds, but he was so positive he was right that he was Milling to bet "the best Bible published by the American Bible Society" against any and all of his fellow clergymen, "that within twenty-five years the Tfwrted States of America and Japan will clinch in one of the bitterest wars far history." No one appears to have taken his bet. 1942 Auto Fatalities Show Marked Increase A survey last week disclosed thirty^ five persons lost their lives in automobile accidents in thirteen counties of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin during the first three months of this year. The death toll compares with twenty-six for the corresponding three-month period of 1941. Eleven fatalities were recorded during March this year with the highest number, four, oocurring in Winnebago The death toll by counties thus far this year is: Winnebago, fourteen; Rock, six; Stephenson, four; Boone, three; Ogle, two, McHenry, two; Lee one; Whiteside, two; Green, one; DeKalb, CaVrpH, Joe Daviess and La- Fa yet t«, none. (Political Advertisement) On thebasis of his qualification* ROLAND Kesifcctfully solicits your for the office of COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS A teaching and administrative experience in both rural and graded systems. A professional training which jpa administration of Api specificc ally prepares for supervision and schools. A life experience which helps him to understand the problems and to appreciate the values of rural life. A realization of the necessity of obtaining 100 cents worth of service for every dollar expended for educational costs. An appreciation of the fact that the future defense of our democratic way of living will depend upon the kind of edura tion which oar children receive today. Married and has two children. A lifelong resident of McHenry County. Our Washington Letter VatfMMl ldltaftal Washington, April 8--Easter week finds a large percentage of the Congressional membership back home taking political soundings. Unlike school boys who scamper happily during a recess, the lawmakers' brief vacation from official duties is taken in a spirit of inquiry and perturbation as to home sentiment. Many soions remained on the job on the theory their constituents would be more pleased with correspondence than to have them making speeches in their bailiwicks. The executive departments took advantage of their absence to return to routine tasks neglected because of Congressional demands for testimony in the multitude of investigations vfhich have marked the present session. With Congress appropriating approximately seventy - three billion dollars for the military needs, it has bten found that they cannot actually spend more than forty billions a year on the war program. Economists have worked out these figures on the basis of the production capacity after subtracting the necessary productive output that must be retained for minimum civilian requiremens. With the expansion of production facilities through conversion of peace-time factories, it may be possible to push these military and naval expenditures to fifty billions. The rate of expenditure has increased materially but procurement has been slowed up by certain bottle-necks. The cost of feeding the troops has advanced considerably. The increase in food accounts is due largely to transportation charges from point of to place of consumption. The average cost per soldier is about sixty-one cents a dajf, an increase of nearly seventeen cents over early estimates. Tests of emergency rations at Fort Benning showed the dehydrat. ed "grub" kept the troops in splendid condition. The food is considerably different from the old-fashioned "hard-tack" of other wars. Practically evrything the war factories are turning out now is destined for use overseas. Plans calling for expanding the Army strength to 3,- 600,000 men by December 31. This means that the draft boards will be obliged to send men in a constant stream to mobilization centers. Ninety per cent of the troops will be provided by the Selective Service System. Official data discloses that the cost of cantonment construction has increased twenty-five per cent since the declaration of war. Dispatch of expeditionary forces overseas has lessened the strain on housing facilities in army camps. A major problem of the Army is the movement of troops and supplies by rail and water. One of the old controversies whicn flared up in World War Number One has arisen again in connection with the status and treatment of National Guardsmen in our wartime Army. Representations have been made by the National Guard Association to Congressional committees which indicates a feud exists as the result of the streamlining of the Army which absorbed the National Guard units. Legislators have pointed out that the National Gdjard is the source from which the Regular Army obtained a large percentage of their troops. The sore spot is the attempt to abolish the Naional Guard Bureau in the War Department which was a contact center for the state military groups. The lawmakers have told the regular Army "brass-hats" that many legislators resented attempts to shunt high ranking National Guard officers into minor roles during the war. It is difficult for official orders to break down the class antagonism between the professional soldiers, like West Point graduates, and those from civilian life who spend years in training as National Guardsmen. While these inherently bitter quarrels between the professional and temporary soldiers must be kept under wraps for the duration, it is an important subject for all communities. Relatively little publicity has been given to the military effects of the post war era. However, there has been limited discussion in Congressional hearings as to the continuation of universal service in peace-time. It is claimed that the tremendous cost ^ncident to the preparation of war are so staggering that the people who pay these taxes to defer war Expenditures will demand a system of universal training for all youths. The National Guard has provided a short course for civilians but the talk is now directed toward enforced military training for the regular Army for a period of a year or more for all males reaching their twenty-first birthday. Adhering to his traditional aversion to taxes, the American voter rejected two out of every three city tax-levy measures on his 1941 ballot, according to the Census Bureau report. With less aversion to borrowing, on the other hand, seventy-eight per cent of proposed bond issues were approved, interest being centered particularly on airports for national defense, on streets, and on sewer improvements. Twice Told Tales MM fataieet Taken ffltt of tkt PlaiiMv «f Yaan Af» SIXTY YEARS AGO CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS by Congressman Chauncey W. Reed c James Roan, an old resident && torn, died this Wednesday morning. Ds,.P. Southworth, the Kansas sheep man, knowing the Buckeye shearing chair to be a success, purchased a dozen to use on his ranch. , The Steamboat "Mary Griswold" is now making trips almost every day, taking up freight and passengers. The travel to Fox Lake promises to be larger this year than ever before. The Commissioners of Highways of this town will meet at the Town Clerk's office on Saturday next for the purpose «f taking steps toward letting the contract for the building of the Johnsburg bridge. FIFTY YEARS AGO r (Political Advertisement) . IUSSELL ALLEN OF McHENRY COUNTY REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR STATE LEGISLATURE Asks .^ou, lb Plump Three Votes For Him! 0 BOONE and McHENRY COUNTIES together elected and re-elected the late Honorable N. L. Jackson, of Belvidere, Illinois, to represent them in the State legislature. , IE) BOONE and McHENRY COUNTIES together elected and re-elected Honorable William M. Carroll, of Woodstock, Illinois, to represent them in.the State Legislature. \ During the terms of Representatives Jackson and Carroll, the interests of Boone and McHenry Counties were wisely and judiciously handled, and our Representatives knew our problems and were available at Belvidere and Woodstock so that the people of these Counties ^^could consult thera. When you vote your Republican ticket, and wish to give me three votes, you make a cross-mark in the square before my name only for the Legislature. You will then be plumping THREE* votes for me. This is the way we elected the late N. L. JackSon from Boone County and Wm. M. Carroll from McHenry county in past years. V' Since 1936 Boone and McHenry Counties have been without a resident Republican Representative. I believe that our friends in Lake County in fair- Bess, will consider that Boone County, with the highest percentage of Republican votes, and McHenry County, with the next highest percentage of Republilian votes in the State of Illinois, are entitled to a Representative in the General Assembly. For the past six years I^a'ke County has had the State Senator and both Republican Representatives. 0 \ Each voter in Boone and McHenry counties can give me three votes by marking a cross in the square before my name, and making no marks in the other squares for legislature. Your ballot would then appear thus: j | NICK SELLER HAROLD D. KELSEY G. RUSSELL ALLEU WILLIAM J. SMITH J. C. PIERCE BRUNO W. STANZA* The problems of Boone and McHenry County have always been considered similar in nature. Boonfc County has no Candidate for this office at this time, and I am asking the voters of Boone and McHenry County to plump three votes for me so that our Counties may again have a voice in the management of our State. • • • -€3 I pledge to you that I shall not be content Jo merely sit by and vote ujxm matters submitted by others affecting our interests; but I shall be aggressive and shall formulate and present matters to the Assembly which I believe should be considered an<^ passed for our benefit. rJu Russell Allen, Republican Candidate, Illinois State Representative * PRIMARIES: TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1942 j Barry and Harold Taxman of Chi* cago spent the weekend visiting in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Taxman. Superintendent of schools, Wire, has been dangerously sick the past few weeks, of pneumonia, but is now reported much better. Marengo has secured the great Collins & Burgie stove works from Chicago. The citizens put up $50,000 and the works will be commenced at once. The institution will employ 250 hands to start with. Kev. Mrs. Gibb, of Janesville, will preach in the Universalist church next Sunday, and her subject will be--"The End of the World and Then What?" The Elgin Brick and Tile company's yards in this village are being put in readiness for the season's work. Superintendent Wentworth informs us that they will be pushed to the fullest capacity the coming season. FORTY YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hanly will move into their own home, recently vacated by D. G. Wells. Jos. Heimer will move into the McHenry House soon and conduct the hotel for th-j coming summer. Mrs. E. M. Owen is having a new sidewalk built from her residence near the pond to Waukegan street. It has been learned from good authority that the purchase of land on the east side of Fox river for military use is declared off. Land is not just what is wanted for military purposes and too much expense attached. Taxes War means taxes and more taxes. { Most of us grumble and fume and tear | our hair when we are called upon to I pay them, but, after all, we always j did grumble and fume and tear our J hair even when they were low. Then,' ] too, we must consider that high taxes | are better than slavery or even subj serviency to our would-be dictators. ! But how to raise additional revenue is a problem that has caused Congressmen (and especially those on the Ways 4nd Means Committee) to scratcn their heads. Many are inclined to favor a retail sales tax of from five to ten per cent which they contend will raise from two to three billions of dollars. The writer has never favored the imposition of sales taxes, because in his judgment, they are inequitable and violate the principle that taxes should be apportioned most heavily among those who can best afford to pay them. At the present time almost every scheme of deriving additional revenue through taxation has been applied. To go much further would amount to confiscation. A distinguished statesman recently remarked, "You can confiscate only one eg*' you can tax forever." If there se^fes no alternative, the writer wm Support a sales tax but he will do/so reluctantly. Sugar The sugar situation seems much improved. The distilleries of the nation will soon be engaged in the sole manufacture of industrial alcohol instead of whiskey, and it will be made from surplus grain and blackstrap molasses rather than sugar. And They're Not Hard To Look At Eith«r! , Washington is fast becoming a City of Girls. Long before Pearl Harbor, the rapid expansion of defense pro- (Political Advertisement) Ernest C.Swanson Republican Candidate for SHERIFF of McHenry County THlltTY Y1SA 1(8 AGO Charles Keller, who until two weeks ago has occupied the John Justen cottage on Elm street, has moved his family to Lake Villa, where he has secured employment. Miss Anna Miller haa given up her position in the store of F. A. Bohlander bidding adieu to the place at the close of work Saturday evening. Charles G. Frett, who during the past thirteen years has been in the meat business in McHenry, and wfco since April, 1908, has conducted a first class meat market and grocery in the Central opera house block, laid aside his knife, saw and cleaver the first of the month when he dTsposed of his business here to J. W. Aebischer of Chicago. TWENTY YEAlt8 AiiO On account of the very bad condtion of the roads auto travel between this village and Ringwood as well as between McHenry and Volo has been ordered stopped. Carpenters are now engaged in putting on the finishing touches at Wm. Pries' new home on the corner oI Green and Pearl streets. It will bo one of the finest homes in BMHenry when completed. Farmers throughout this section will receive $1.70 per hundred pounds for April milk delivered to the various milk bottling plants of the district. Fred Ferwerda took over the business of the Riverside Dairy last Saturday and since then has been serving the patrons very satisfactorily. HARTLAND REJOICES AS THE DECISION TO KEEP DEPOT IS MADE 30 years a, resident of McHenry County. 11 years of institutional experience and supervision of (juveniles. 20 years on one farm in Dorr Township during which time I have served as chairman of the local unit of the Milk Producers Association and member of the McHenry County Committee of the Agricultural Adjustment Association. I am not a politician and 1 am not obligated to any organization or individual. If elected Sheriff I shall administer the duties of this office in the interests of all the voters of McHenry county. As a long tijqne resident of McHenry Countv%and your neighbor, I respectfully solicit your vote and support at the Primaries April 14. ERNEST C. SWANSON Last week the Illinois Commerce Commission handed down a decision ordering Charles N. Thomson, as trustee of the Chicago and North Western railroad company, to continue the existence intact of the depot building at Hartland. ' The decision followed a hearing on a petition filed by Thomson with the commission asking permission to remove the depot building at Hartland. The petition was filed June 17, 1941. The hearing on the petition was held in Hartland on Oct. 6, 1941, before an authorized examiner for the commission. A large number of objectors attended the hearing. At the hearing it was brought out that the unincorporated community oj Hartland has a population of about j one hundred persons and is surround- I ed by an agricultural district, and that i the station at Hartland serves this territory as a shipping center, and for j handling U. S. mail and freight in less , than carload lots; that the station , also serves as a storage place for - materials used in the operation of petitioner's railway; that there are an j increasing number of residents in and about Hartland whose business or ocj cupation requires them to travel to j and from the city of Chicago daily j upon the railway line of the petitioner. I Hartland is one of the oldest comj munities in the northern part of the j state and the depot building is now and has been so identified and associ- I ated with the existence of Hartland | that the removal would result in irre^ j parable loss and damage to the civic | pride and prestige of that community, objectors pointed out at the hearing; jects called for a tremendous increase of female help. Since the declaration' of war, members of the fair sex have been pouring into the Capital City> daily, in fact so rapidly that a serious housing problem has been created. Some observers say that they now outnumber the men about 7 to 1 (but we think that is somewhat exaggerated). If they ever start a militant campaign for women's righs or something of that sort the poor males would find themselves outnumbered as badly as General MacArthur's troops were (and still are) in the Philippines. But the Washington men would never hold out as long. It would be too much of a pleasure to surrender to their fair captors. e' I,.HI Straight iMffcta Whiskey. U fml. ItH Whisk*/ is 5 "/earc 0M. Tht 014 Quaktr (tatpaqr, lnm*c«b«rj, Indiana ^ ^ M ~ •i*t.*'liMy"ii-uWAAAA (Political Advertising) Here are some of the bids and resolutions sponsored and enacted into law ii the last session of tht legislator* . • by NICK KELLER ^ Guarantee to men la anaed service that their jobs to them when they ret am •ate Hfe. etara **!-»*" f Payment of prevailingi wy rates for each leeaUty en •I HdMlog prefects 9 Memorialising *f the name at Brie. Om. Wta Mitchell, coart-aaarttaled fer sadlnf for pewerfal U. 8. Air t< which reqwst sakaefaeatly been meted apoa by % He has voted consistently for every dairy farm, school and argileei tare measure to the and thai there Is no finer reeerd la the aey. RE-ELECT NICK KELLER Rcpubtkaa CoadMafe Your State Representative YOUR 8UPPOBT WILL BU , ?TOTCUKLY APPRECIATED Eye- Examined Dr. Paul A. Schwabe Phone: McHenry 123-J Woodstock 674 A. R Nye Udg. West McHenry OPTOMETRIST d THURSDAY MORN4NG8 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY McHENRY TOWN CLUB Riverside Drive and Pearl Street Mixed Drinks of All Kinds OUR SPECIAL BARBECUED RIBS -- 50e Chicken and Steak Dinners Served --- o Orders to take home! Phone 112 Good Brakes Save Tour Tires "KEEP 'EH ROLLING" If you are having brake trouble, bring your car or truck to our trained mechanics for expert Brake Service. Remember, good brakes give your tires the chance to give you the maximum service at minimum cost. Come in today for a checkup on our State Approved Safety Lane. These services will lengthen the life of your car. Motor Tuning Lubrication Tire Repairing Willard Fast Battery Charging CENTRAL GARAGE FRED J. SMITH, Prop. Phone 200-J Towing Johnsburg