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Lrsday. March 28, 1946
■EGIO M TO OBSERVE ARMY DAY BY
|rgi g training LAW ENACTMENT
HL IXDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The American Legion will
H*^ Army Day, Saturday, April 6, as a day on which
K'focus public attention on the necessity of immediate
■doption of universal military training as a safeguard of
R' nation's future security.
■ National Commander John Stelle has called on the
■"goo American Legion Posts to schedule public mass
Heetings on Army Day with programs devoted to its plan
R universal military training for national security.
R Warns Against Weakness
R Hjs ( o n is "speating itself,”
ULmandei Stelle warned. “At
r„ h t,f Woild War 1 in 1918 -
Hmerica was a strong military
■owe We demobilized until we
Rd on Iv a t° ken Arm V- By 1935
Rr prepardness for war was a
■^ Age ''"'W nations took ad-
Rntage of "ir military weakness.
R, upshot was that we were
Rain forced into a bloody world
R, without the necessary pre
tL redness and training.
■ "Today we are again demobi
■zing freniendly. We are doing
R. s in the luce of ominous world
Renditions. And we are tearing
Rwn our Army our Navy and cur
■ir Force without any plan of
Ruilding up a reserve military
Rrce. If this keeps on, we shall
■gain be confronted with another
Rar in another unprepared state,
■hat means another generation
American youths will pay for
■hat neglect with their lives and
■heir blood.”
■ Conimuivur Stelle emphasized
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that America’s only insurance
against war must lie in her own
strength.
“The American Legion plan of
universal training for national se
curity is designed to develop
America’s strength in a demo
cratic and practical manner,” he
said. “This plan has been in
tegrated after much study with
.the education of our young men
and with their plans for business
careers. It has been offered to
Congress through an amendment
to the May-Gurney Bill, H. Ft.
515. It provides for four months
of basic training when the young
man reaches the age of 18 or
when the graduates from high
school, whichever is later. Then
it offers the youth five choices
of how he may complete his ad
vanced training. He can do this
in college, in special schools, in
schools of industry, in the Nation
al Guard, or in the organized re-
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Farm Products In
Southern Stales
”1105 Strong Prices
While seasonally liberal sup
plies of eggs sold steady to weak
at Southern markets during the
week ending March 22, light to
moderate supplies of other farm
products brought mostly steady
to strong prices according to the
serves without disrupting his
own life planning.”
Time To Be Realistic
Past National Commander War
ren H. Atherton of Stockton, Cal.,
executive director of The Ameri
can Legion’s special committee
'on national security, said:
“World conditions today are.
such that it is suicidal folly for
the United States to permit it
self to grow weak. Our people
must be made to see this- If they
let pacifism blind them to real
conditions, they will be helping
to sow the seeds of World War
III.”
Director Atherton called atten
tion to General Eisenhower’s re
cent statement that "we have
3,000,000 men but no Army,” as
the result of our record-breaking
demobilization. He pointed out
that our diplomatic weight and
influence waned in almost direct
proportion to our reduced mili
tary effectiveness.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
Production and Marketing Ad
ministration of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture.
Cotton prices advanced dur
ing the week, although not to
the record high levels of earli
er in March. While spot mar
ket activity was lighter, it was
still seasonally high with ten
market sales for the week total
ing 155,950 bales. Planting of
new crop cotton moved along
at a faster pace in the south
ernmost sections of the belt.
Seasonally light cattle offer
ings were absorbed at steady.
to strong prices at all southern
markets. Slaughter steers and
heifers were scarce at several
points, and spotty sales of Stock
er cattle worked 25 cents higher
in at least one market. A small
supply of Good and Choice
slaughter steers at Southeastern
markets made $15.00 to $16.00.
Most common grades sold at
$ll.OO to $12.50. Fat cattle
shows attracted interest at Val
dosta and Macon, Georgia;
Quicy, Florida; Demopolis, Ala
bama, and other points.
Hog prices were firm as light,
er supplies moved to markets.
Hog supplies in the southeastern
soft hog area were made up of
more and more inshipments from
cornbelt producing sections.
Sales in the remaining late
season tobacco markets were
down $1.50 to $2.50 a hundred
pounds for offerings of Eastern
fire-cured type, and seasonal av
erage is now $32.77 a hundred
Western fire-cured average
through March 20 was $29.43.
Burley, which has ended its sea
son except for a possible few
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Parent Problems
By GARY CLEVELAND MYERS
Central Press Feature Writer
I KNOW a number of wonder- ,
fully successful stepmothers and
I marvel at their achievement. I
To any one, it must be obvious ,
that to be a good stepmother is i
a far harder job than to bring 1
up only your own children.
Thanks to the appalling in
crease in divorce (estimated by
some experts to reach 4 di
vorces for 10 marriages by 1955), |
the number of step parents is'
enormous. A certain elemen
tary school principal told me
recently that one of the big
tasks of her office was to keep
track of the names of the new
fathers of the children.
clean-up sales, averaged $39.45
a hundred on sales of around
[ 605 million pounds through
March 15.
Egg markets varied from stea
dy to weak as liberal supplies
were marketed. Montgomery
quoted current receipts from 25
to 30 cents; Richmond 28 to 30
cents; and Raleigh, 29 to 32
cents a dozen. Live poultry, on
the other hand, was firm and
higher, with offerings light to
moderate. Prices at Raleigh
went to ceiling levels on both
hens and fryers. Richmond’s
closing quotation on fryers was
28 to 30 cents a pound; Mont
gomery, 29 to 31 cents.
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What about these children and
their sense of security? Let us
limit this discussion to the step
child and the stepmother.
Mother Dead
Suppose you become the step
mother of the child whose real
mother has died. It may not be
easy for the child, in case he re
; members his real mother, to ac- i
’ cept you, especially if this child
has reached adolescence. Nor
will it be easy for you to guide
this child as you feel you should.'
It will be hard for you and the
child to forget you are not the
first wife, and for your husband
and his relatives to forget it.
If his relatives, or the child, or
both have refused to accept you,
they may purposely or unawares
conspire to antagonize you. Yet
you may be so skillful and able
as to win all of them. Some
do. Better still, if you had been
able to win their favor before
your marriage.
If you should bring one or
more children of your own into
the new family, jealousies will
easily arise between his children
I and yours. Besides, his child
ren and yours may have had
very different up-bringing. Then,
if new children should issue from
this marriage, “my children,
your children and our children”
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would complicate the matter
further.
Neverthless, you and I know I
some families with such three ;
sets of children who have grown I
up together happily. We must |
admire the self-discipline, skill I
and wisdom these parents must |
have exercised. Observing them,
we parents with a “normal” tarn,
ily should try harder to achieve
a happy family. On the other
hand, we should be very chant- '
able toward any problems in |
such a family or any one with
a stepchild. Besides, the step
mother should not be unduly
discouraged when things don’t
go so well.
A Fine Relationship
Here, I think of a certain
happy family whom I have ob
served admiringly for some
years. When I asked the step
mother to explain the secret of
their fine relationships, she re
! plied: “The privilege* of rear
| ing a little child is great. And
if you believe in the child, love
her, and are always loyal to
her, she will believe in you and
r love you and be loyal to you a
1 thousand-fold.”
It is easy to see how all the
problems in the family of a step,
mother when the real mother
is not alive may be manifoldly
greater if the real mother or the
stepmother were a divorcee, es
pecially to the child over 6 or
8 years old.
Consider all the child’s mem
ories of the divorce and mat
ters leading to it. Think of the
possible tug at the stepchild’s
heartstrings and poisoning of
| his heart and head toward the
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PAGE THIRTEEN
7 Branch Offices
To Speed Sale Os
Surplus Property
Opening of seven branch sales
offices to quicky sell millions of
dollars w’orth of government
owned surplus property “on the
spot’ where it is located was re
cently announced by H. L. Ken
non, regional director of War
Assets Corporation, 699 Ponce de
Leon Avenue, Atlanta.
The Georgia branch sales of
fices are located at Gate 2 Robins
Field, Ga., Building 207, ASF
Depot, Conley, Ga-; Lytle Area,
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.: Engineer
| Warehouse, 916 Ashby Street, At
lanta, and WAC Warehouse, 221
St. Joseph Avenue, East Point,
Ga.
stepmother by the divorcee who
I had to give up the child, and by
' the divorcee’s relatives.
If you put your observations
on the wings of your imagin
ation, you can easily see how
the family problems could pile
up. Again we must marvel
when, despite such difficulties,
there are some rather happy
families, and we should be char
itable when there’s failure. A
selected list of books on “Mar
riage and How to Make a Go
of it,” may be had in a stamp
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