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DADE COUNTY
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5,
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Set a watch, O Lord,
my mouth; keep the door
my lips.—Psalm 141:3.
The Scripture for it is:
it came to pass in those
that the word was sent out
the world would be taxed.”
There is an added
now' to drive carefully. A
ed car or a blown out
means you walk.
The federal income tax
have been distributed.
means that March 16, the
line for filing, is just
the corner.
The foresighted filling
operator is going to arrange
put in a stock of corn and
and oats and a horseshoing
fit.
The farmers practiced
light saving long before
else thought about it. The
on the farm during the
season always begins an
before sunrise.
“I have learned more
East geography the past
weeks," a local man was
to remark, “than I ever
before. I have even gotten so
can pronounce some of
names so that others can
what I am talking about.”
When Napoleon lost the
sian campaign and an army
500,000 men, it raised a
as to the invincibility that
poleon was never able to
come. Hitler is going
the initial stages of a
experience.
This is the year to grow a
garden. Every vacant lot
town should be put into
of some kind. Especially
gardens be raised by those
are not regularly employed.
good garden not only
more good food for its
but it also helps contribute
the food surplus for the
The free delivery of
will be stopped by many
throughout the country
of inability to secure tires
grocery delivery trucks.
stores are providing baskets
a small cost in which the
chaser can carry home his
chases. The baskets may be
deemed at any time for
cost.
Enterprising auto repair shops
are taking advantage of the car
situation by advertising expert
repair service. They point out
that it is important now that
old cars be kept in good repair
that their lives may be length¬
ened. They explain that a little
attention at the right time will
add miles of life to the car. An
enterprising business man can,
as a rule, find good points upon
which to profit in most any
situation.
More than in normal times is
it wisdom for the people of a
community to spend their
money at home. Due to the war
conditions and the necessary
taxes to support it, home com¬
munities are going to need ev¬
ery bit of business that their
trade area can provide. Try first
to supply your wants from your
home merchant. It he doesn’t
have the particular item you
want he can get it for you. He
has access to all the markets
and will be glad of the oppor¬
tunity to supply your needs.
Hitler has met his match in
Russia. Not only from the stand
point of fighting but also from
the standpoint of ruthlessness.
The Russians are not going to
have any scruples about exact¬
ing an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth to make for
the artrocities of Hitler’s sol¬
diers when they invaded Russia
and thought they were going to
have everything their own way
The world is going to have a
chance to see if Hitler can take
artrocities in the same liberal
measure with which he admin¬
isters them.
We have no doubt about the
outcome of our war with Japan
if our productive industry steps
into action in earnest all along
the line. The Japanese are not
originators. They are merely
imitators. They are not an in¬
ventive nation. They have no
great inventors or great scien¬
tists. They have no great men
of any kind. They are small of
stature and small of mind. They
think small and act small. Their
concepts are small. They are
treacherous because tlqey have
no concept of honor or integri¬
ty They are still dominated by
provincial, savage, petty, child¬
ish traits. They seek to attain
their ends by treachery, double
dealing, crafty double crossing
methods. Such a people cannot
triumph against superior intel¬
ligence.
We Haven’t Seen
Anything Yet
For the benefit of those who
are inclined to chafe under the
restrictions of the tire ration¬
ing program and other ration¬
ing programs that will be im¬
posed later, it is reported that
these are but the beginning of
rationing programs in this
country. In the words of A1
Jolson as far as regimentation
goes the people of this country
“haven’t seen anything yet.”
The country is never going to
return to the free and easy
lackadasical methods of the
past. The life of everyone is go¬
ing to be more or less regiment¬
ed. Materials are going to be
rationed. Prices are going to be
controlled. The purchasing pow¬
er of money is going to be con¬
trolled. Marketing and produc¬
ing and manufacturing are go¬
ing to be controlled. All of this
is going to be don in the inter¬
est of the individual in an ef¬
fort to prevent panics, depres¬
sions, cornering of markets,
cornering of raw materials and
the exploitation of the mass by
individuals. The country and its
economic processes have more
or less run themselves in the
past, ,but a new program lies
ahead. In adopting the new
program the administration is
.
attempting to bring about
through peaceful means what in
other and older countries has
been accomplished through
revolutions. There is a theory in
the government today that
these things can be accomplish¬
ed through proper management,
and management consists of
looking ahead, foreseeing the
problem and then applying cor¬
rective measures into their own
hands.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1941.
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“Bragging won’t scare
to death; ballyhoo
it; boasting of our
production capacity
unless we
for war.”
Voicing those opinions in
speech, Mr. Walter
Executive
of the National
of Manufacturers,
that the successful
of the war will take
organization talent and
that America can
to integrate and speed
When the
newest program
in the form of
specifications, it will
at least 60 per cent of
output.”
The job is so huge that it
complete
everyone charged with
it. Mr. Weisenburger
out, “This is no time to
old domestic battles, ’ or
the traditional issues
capital and labor, or
in any guise the
master the business
is a time for all of us
‘business as
as usual,’ ‘strikes
and ‘reforms as
as truly united and
nation to take up the
job of waging war.”
THIS BUSINESS
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‘Not By Bread Alone”
“Well,” said my neighbor,
in tired from a day at
Red Cross headquarters and
down in my biggest
“have you heard the lat¬
“I don’t know,” I said.
“Now it’s 50% of the wool of
country that has been req-
for the army. A few
ago it was rubber. At this
I don’t see what’s going to
to the homes of the
States. Our standard of
that we’ve always been so
of is certainly going to
a nose dive!”
“Oh, I don’t know.” ... I
to cheer her up.
“Don’t know?” You mean you
concerned about all these
You’re willing to
your children grow up in a
. . well, in a shambles?”
I looked around my pleasant
room, with the late after¬
sun coming in the win¬
“This doesn’t seem to me
a shambles exactly,” I said
defense of my own home,
I think it will still be fair¬
comfortable five years from
whether I get anything
for it, or not. This house
well built and it’s going to
"But, what will you do when
SCHOOL DAYS
Keep ’em rolling—that’s a
slogan for the soldier schools
that many American industries
maintain to teach Uncle Sam’s
new army how to handle and
repair the complicated equip¬
ment of modern warfare.
According to a recent survey
more than 1,000 privates and
non-commissioned officers have
graduated from special four-
week training schools at one
big rubber company alone,
where they learn how to repair
tires, wheels, brakes, spark plugs
and batteries, and how to recap
and retread tires. One large au¬
tomobile outfit trained 4,500
newly enlisted men as skilled
mechanics for the Army and
Navy, and 2,000 more were
taught the various skills re¬
quired for the maintenance of
airplane engines In some cases
classrooms on wheels have been
sent to army camps to instruct
men in the field on motor e-
quipment operations.
For many years leading A-
merican industries have main¬
tained schools for their own
workers to train them and help
them get ahead. Now, besides
making weapons to win the war,
industry is taking extra pre¬
cautions to make sure that new
recruits know how to use those
weapons and keep them in
fighting shape.
your rugs wear out—or a chair
falls to pieces? And what are
you going to do for sheets for
your beds and for pan3 in the
kitchen . . . and oh, for a hun¬
dred things?”
“Get new ones when I need
them. Perhaps I won’t feel that
I need them as soon as I would
in peace time. But there are a
lot of rugs and sheets and pans
in the warehouses of this coun¬
try. It’s going to take quite a
while for us to use up all the
goods American industry has
stored up these past few years.
And when we do—well, we’ll
still get along, I guess, because
our manufacturers aren’t stodgy
old fossils hanging on to the
past. They’re up on their toes
and when one kind of material
can’t be used, they’ll find an¬
other that can be.”
“Synthetics, you mean?”
“Yes, and substitutes. If we
can’t get wool for rugs for a
few years, our manufacturers
will make something else for us
to use on our floors. Some new
kind of linoleum, perhaps, or a
cotton rug. ... I don’t know
what. But you wait and see.
This is a rich country,” I told
her, “and our industrial system
is adaptable. We’re used to a
high standard of living and
we’re going to keep it high ev¬
en if various items in it are dif-
by James Preston
SMALL BUSINESS: What
do about small business
gets a rise at any gathering
round town. There’s sure to
someone present who is
nected with the
Government agencies
have something more or less
do with small business.
B. Odium, small business cham¬
pion, pulls no punches when
sums up the situation by
ing: “I think everybody’s job
nobody’s job.”
The general consensus of
inion in administration
business circles is that
business has to have a
appointed for it. These
circles are looking to Produc¬
tion Chief Donald M. Nelson
tackle the problem. Sources
to Mr. Nelson anticipate that
one of his first acts will be
coordinate the scattered
to aid small business and work
out a plan to insure its survival.
Mr. Odium’s proposal is a new
and separate agency devoted
exclusively to the care of small
business. This plus a modified
plan, under which one percent
of available raw materials would
be set aside for small manufac¬
turers, make up his prescription
for keeping small factories op¬
erating on a reduced basis.
LABOR: “We’ll wait and see”
is the present reaction here to
John L. Lewis’ proposal for
merger of the A.F. of L. and the
j C.I.O.
It is felt that the proposal
should have come a long time
ago. The fact that it came from
the chief protagonist of the
inter-union warfare accounts
for the wary reception, for it
is clear that everyone here from
high Government officials down
to the taxi drivers on the streets
welcome the idea in principle.
Business men are pointing out
the irony of the situation. Fac¬
ed with answering charges of
conducting “business as usual
in 1942,” they have pointed out
that a good deal of valuable
time was lost in jurisdictional
strikes between the C.I.O. and
the A.F. of L., in which business
was the unwalling victim.
A nation-wide poll of public
opinion indicates that a single
national labor organization
would be welcome to an over¬
whelming majority of the lead¬
ers and the rank and file of
both unions.
CENSORSHIP: Byron Price,
director of censorship, is putting
the American public to the test
by cracking down on a favorite
evening’s entertainment.
A national columnist recently
suggested, in reply to state¬
ments that civilians were pay¬
ing no attention to air raid in¬
structions, that such instruc¬
tions be broadcast on a quiz
program which hands out cash
prizes, in order to insure a
maximum audience.
Much fun has been poked a-
broad at our interest in radio
quiz programs. The Office of
Censorship was quick to recog¬
nize the danger of having ene¬
my agents take advantage of
the situation. Accordingly, is is¬
sued an order designed to pre¬
vent enemy from broadcasting
military information in seem¬
ingly harmless quiz and musical
request numbers. If filled, the
censors think, they might be
part of a code.
Government spokesmen point
out that this is only one phase
of the use of radio in the mod¬
ern “war of nerves.” They are
disturbed by the propaganda
value of stories about German
weakness. Reports of Nazi army
purges, iner-party conflicts, sol¬
dier and civilian discontent,
shortages, etc., are, many peo¬
ple here feel, originated by
agents in an effort to inspire
overconfidence in America.
ferent.
“Besides . . . our material
comforts aren’t everything, you
know. There’s an old
from a very ancient
‘man does not live by bread a-
lone.’ Maybe it’s time we found
out about some of those other
things he lives by!”
THE ORIGINAL “STATE OF DADE”
ONE OF NATURE'S MASTERPIECES
Historic Lookout Mountain
Sitton’s Gulch—“The Little Grand Canyon”
.Coal and Ore Mines
An Abundance of Water
<*•" Speaking of
Health
by Dr. Victor G. H riser
j :} Medical Consultant
National Association of Manufacturers
of J
The
Do you “sleep like a log?” Are
you one who can turn the key
on your problems and lock them
in your desk drawer or locker
when the “5 o’clock whistle”
blows or when the supper dishes
are done?
Can you ptit down your read¬
ing or your sewing when it’s
time to go to bed, knowing that
the instant your head hits the
oillow you’ll be peacefully and
blissfully in the Land of Nod?
If nothing conspires to keep
you av/ake, and if you can go
to sleep and stay asleep in spite
of the War and high water
then don’t spend any more time
reading this article!
* * *
In these days when every one
of us plays a part, directly or
j indirectly, in the nation’s War
Program, it is important that
i we keep ourselves in tip-top
physical condition. That means
eating the right foods, exercis¬
ing, breathing fresh air—and—
getting plenty of sleep.
It has been found that peo¬
ple who don’t feel just “up to
scratch” can often correct that
condition by following simple
rules of health. In England, for
instance, 87 per cent of the men
who had to be rejected by the
army for reasons of physical
unfitness such as underweight
were made fit again for the
army by a program of regular
rations and long hours of sleep.
Plenty of sleep is important to
good health. If you don’t sleep
as well, or as much as you
should, then it’s time to cor¬
rect that situation.
The cure of sleeplessness or
insomnia is more a matter of
the mind than of medicine—
unless, of course, there is an
organic reason for it, a question
which only your physician can
answer.
Since the cure of sleeplessness
is a mental process it is entire¬
ly up to you whether you go to
sleep promptly. There are sev¬
eral ways to assure sleep.
No rules prove successful for
everybody. But among the fol¬
lowing suggestions you are sure
to find several that will help
you. Try them until you find
the one that floats you off most
quickly.
* * *
First, make up your mind that
you are going to sleep. Get
yourself comfortably fixed be¬
tween cool, clean sheets and
under just the right amount of
covering to suit yourself. Then
think yourself to sleep.
Relax your body completely—
your scalp, your face, your neck,
Old Lizzie
Did you ever see my car passing
by—
It’s back on the ground
And it’s front in the sky?
It’s an old Ford and made of tin,
I It’s a good old car—for the
shape it’s in.
One night I was out knocking
about.
She got steaming at the spout.
The radiator didn’t have any
bottom in it,
So when she got hot, she would
have a fit.
She would hit a little bump
And buck up and down.
I’d hang to the steering wheel
And go to town.
It didn’t have any hood
And the lights were dim;
There wasn’t any tires,
So I ran on the rim.
Oh! the motor? It was a bang.
It w r ould rattle and roar,
And spatter and spang.
A nice quite car
I’m sure you’re convinced;
She was minus the fenders
And the body was all dents.
The heater was a whiz—
And so was the horn!
They both quit working
Before I was born.
The seats were missing,
So we sat on the floor.
There wasn’t any top—
When it rained it would pour.
The rats had nests
your shoulders. By the time y ou
reach your fingertips you mav
well be sound asleep.
Many people use the ancient
method of the Chinese the
“pleasant-thought” technique
After you’ve made yourself com¬
fortable and relaxed, think
pleasant thoughts.
Many times a warm bath-
not a hot one—just before re¬
tiring does wonders to y 0Ur
mental attitude and your abili¬
ty to go right off to sleep. Soak
in it for ten or fifteen minutes
till your body is relaxed, a real
hot bath an hour or two be¬
fore retiring is good if your
muscles are over-fatigued, but
otherwise a warm bath is far
more effective.
A hot drink often puts one
in a sleepy mood.
There are also certain mech¬
anical helpers such as ear plugs
if there is a noise that bothers
you, or eye-shades (you can buy
them, or use a black sock or
cloth) if the light creeps in
through the shutters. Eye-
shades are especially helpful if
a bright street lamp is in front
of your house, if automobile
lights flash in your window, or
if the early morning light is
prone to awake you as the cock
crows.
To set your mind at ease, a
good book—not too thought-
provoking, but on the enter¬
tainment side—often works
wonders. And, of ourse, exercise
to tone your muscles and make
them just a little fatigued by
bedtime is elementarv.
... I
Just a few “don’ts.” Don’t
worry about not sleeping. Even
if you lie awake all night your
body will have refreshed itself
immensely by morning. Know¬
ing this, and not worrying, you
will most likely go to sleep.
Don’t dose, drug or drink your¬
self into a stupor and call it
sleep. Much harm can be done
to the body this way. An ounce
of willing yourself to sleep is far
better than a ton of artificial
means.
Don’t drink stimulating hot
drinks after dinnertime if you
have a suspicion that they keep
you awake.The suspicion is e-
nough to keep you awake.
• • •
Remember, this business of
going to sleep involves a men¬
tal attitude. You can develop it
to the point where you drop off
to sleep every night, immediate¬
ly—if you want to.
Good advice for all of us these
trying days is: Get plenty of
sleep and keep healthy.
And the birds did too.
It really did look like
A wild animal zoo!
The chickens would roost
In it at night—
You should have seen it;
It was really a sight.
The war got raging,
Uncle Sam wanted iron,
So I rolled old Lizzie
Out of the barn.
I tore it to scraps
And sold them to Sam.
I guess some day I will
Carry a gun made of them!
So old Lizzie’s gone—
It makes me sad;
For it was a gift to me
From my dad.
Dad raised cain
And mom wasn’t for—
For it was her pillows
And Daddy’s cigars. GUFFEY.
—HAROLD,
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