2 © A WEE in Nr. a : Because they lost twenty minutes Zar E. Schroll, Jno. Subscription Price $1.50 Per Annum Bix Months. .............75 Cents Three Months. ..........40 Cents The subscription lists of three other newspapers, the Mount Joy Stat and News, the Landisville Vigil and the Bulletin, which makes this paper’ of the average weekly. : ESTABLISHED JUNE 1901 "Published Every Thursday at Mount Joy, Pa. Editor and Publisher Single Copies............3 Cents Sample Copies............. FREE the Florin News were merged with s circulation practically double that THE EDITOR’S VOICE WHAT AMERICANS? pay during a blackout at Pontiac, Mich., 11,000 workers in four plants of the yellow Truck & Coach Co. went on an unauthorized strike Their request was granted and all resumed their work. ., « If we had our way we'd put all those chaps in one company, send them to Russia, and let ’em battle it out with Hitler for a short time. That might bring them to their sen- Ses. ® 00 STOP SMEARING Business is making a good record in this war. The public knows it and business executives know it. There is not going to be much charity for a few selfish operators ‘whe spoil that record by seeking to grab what they can out of the war. Government, on its side, when it punishes the malefactors, owes is to the country to avoid serupulous- ly any suggestion of “smearing” all business and industry for the faul of a few. » . ee 0 Our FBI are to be commended for “nipping in the bud” what might have spelled great disaster to our people and property. One group of four German came ashore in a rubber boat on Long Island, another group of four came ashgre by the same method on a Florida beach. All were captured by ‘the authorities. They carried complete equipments of civilian clothes, many kinds of forged credentials, sunit cases with many secret com- partments, and $170,000 in Ameri- can money. Immediate execution will be too good. ® 00 BET THE PROOF In a recent conversation several people admitted that they couldn't prove they had been born if pro- ducing a birth certificate was the mecessary evidence. This is not a rare instance as many of us have found out when due tg government requirements we must show a birth certificate to secure certain posi- tions. Most of us have taken our birth for granted and not consider- ed seeking official proof. We may have the blood of ‘landed gentry’ flowing in our veins, may have come from super deluxe stock whose ancestry has made us proud and boastful, but try and get a na- tional defense job without a birth certificate even if you are a des- cendant of the ‘first families’. May- be you had better get out the fam- ily bible and begin to figure about where to send for the necessary data. It wouldn't hurt to have them thar papers’ on hand. oo 00 STILL AT IT Many folks that you know have surplus sugar stored away. Some have recently purchased cases of tomatoes and when there was the scare of lack of spices and oils peo- ple bought heavily to put these in. There are buyers who have started to hoard coffee, tea and coca be- cause of ‘priorities’ in this line. We heard one woman say that she would be willing to shoulder a gun if it would enable her to keep her coffee pot full. But our restric- tions on sugar were mot so severe that we are going without our sweet. Sugar is still seld across the counter, it still is found on our dining table. We still have our candy and cookies. Perhaps it is time for wus to have a ‘run’ on something else and maybe coffee is the thing. Of course it doesn’t matter perhaps, but coffee loses its flavor when it ages even though it might be vacuum packed. But there always folks who will hoard through fear. It is fear that makes us act this way and fear plays the devil with ‘morale’. Instead of hoarding coffee, why not try hoard- ing war bonds? As we stated at about this time last year. the worldly wise tell us that European countries are facing a terrible famine next winter. That was last winter, and yet they man- aged to pull through and live to fight another day. But of the grief facing Europe for this coming win- ter there can be me doubt. €Con- able to rebel because of the starv- A teacher in a college at Athens, when adked if the populace was li- ing conditions, replied, “the people are too weak to even carry a gun.” So there lies the truth of all oecu- pied countries perhaps. The fact that a Finnish newspaper says that Eurcpean countries are weary of war may be typical of that country in its fight with Russia. To have a cettlement between this country and its fight against Russia would indeed be a victory over Hitler. But we must remember that as to the lowered morale of other na- tions, it is the occupied countries which are the sufferers in to sthrvation. The aggressive na- tions are looking to their lardet and keeping their warriors suppli-' ed in order to continue to fight. Germany is not going to let its army sjarve if it can get food from the occupied lands. England and Russia and our cwn country are keeping stocked shelves and full pantries and farms producing. The voices of the people of occupied lands call in hunger but they are not the ones which will prebably bring the war to an end. CN Tay We are at beginning to feel! the colossal changes war has forced on the economic and social life of the nation. And, in fle next six months or so, changes in a far greater degree than anything we have yet experienced will imevita- bly take place. ¥t should be clear to everysme by now that the American standard of living, which has been infinitely luxurious by cemparison with that of most tHe rect of the world, will be largely abandoned for the dara- tion. This year, our national in- ccme will be hae largest in our his- teay. But the amount of money which the people will have to spend for gesds and services will be down tc the lowest depression levels and perhaps lower. There are three principal reasons for that. First, and most important, is the tax burden, whieh will be felt in the lowest income groups, and will reach staggering proportions in the middle and ‘Thigh income greups. Secend, War Bond pur- chases, whether voluntary or in- forced, will take a substantial part of everyone's remaining income. Third, the price level is far above that of 1932 and 1933. For the most part, we have not vet felt any particular lack of “luxury goods.” While manufact- ure of such goods was stopped some time ago in most lines, stocks on hand have Kept store inven- tories adequate. Soon it will be impossible to buy a refrigerator, an automatic heating plant, a radio, an cfficc machine, and ten thousand and one other items, unless you have a first-class priority rating, and the item is necded for a pur- pose directly ecnmected with the wer. Rationing of public tran sportation services may make plea- sure travel impossible. And it is generally expected that a card- rationing system, similar to that row in effect for sugar, will be ex- tended to other foeds, te clothes and to many additional necessities. Whele professions are being virtually wiped out. For example, there is the plight of the salesman. Taere is ng need for his services if his industry is engaged in war work. If his industry is mot in war work, its preduction is swiftly de- clining and ke has less and less to sell. These people are being ab- sorbed by war industry, for the most part. After the war they will face ancother difficult problem of readjustment. Whole indusiries are mr the same pecition. The mortality, fer in- stance, in the businesses which Evangelist, LONG 20 Years Ago B: F: Gochnauer purchased the Central Hotel at Elizabethtown. Sixty children were registered at the child health center here. 23 members: of the Camp Fire Girls ‘hiked to Elizabethtown. J. Arthur Schlichter, = the great spcke at ‘the U. Bi Church here.. i a Mr. Frank Stoll, retired section’ foreman: cof P.R.R. moved to etta with his sister, Mrs. Geo. Lindsay. oo aS ‘John A. Mouk, Florinel, apiarist baving 35 hives of bees, ‘secured 132 Ibs. of honey from one hive. Landisville and pienie was held at Hershey Park. The color scheme for the 1923 auto tags was Blue and Gold. Forty boys were arrested for swimming in the Conewago Creek at Beverly. Mr. and Mis. Cyrus Evans. of Maytown are on an auto trip to California. | x The Mumma family reunion was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Abram Mumma at Newtown. Several members of the Preshy- terian Church here, visited Rev. and Mrs. Bossart at Roxborough., Howard H. Marietta, narrowly escaped injury when he fell from a tree. Lightning struck and demolished a wall erected for o new house by A. G. Walters, Florin. : a ‘Needle Guild of Lutheran Church, held a festival in the Park. The County Farm Bureau are Canvassing the county on a mem- bership drive. T. B. Chief Death Cause Among Younger People Although medicine and allied sci- ences have forged ahead in methods of treatment, tuberculosis remains the chief contributor to the death rate among persons 21 to 35 in the United States, Dr. Dean A. Clark, National Institute of Health surgeon, told members of the health division, Council of Social Agencies. Washington has the highest tuber- culosis death rate in the country, Dr. Clark said, and is alse the highest in venereal infections among cities of 500,000 population or more. Throughout the country, 40 per- sons out of every 100,000 white and 200 from the same number in the Negro population died from the disease. But in Washington 89 deaths for every 100,000 white population were reported, Dr. Clark declared. In the District of Columbia there is also an urgent need for the addi- tion of a mental hygiene branch to the Health department, he said. “There is no branch of medicine in the district which is so inaccessible to the low income group.” Speaking of accidental blindness, Dr. Clark said mishaps that occur in the home are the largest single cause of blindness. Poor housing conditions were present in 32 per cent of the cases reported. little industry ~ before. In many defense areas, population growth— unprecedented in its rapidity—has created an exceedingly severe housing and _ transportation prob lem. These preblems have not been adequately solved, and they will grew worse. They constituate a major headache to governmental authorities. The population trend from coun- try to city is intense. Agricultural workers aftracted by the big wages paid by war industry, are literally leaving the farms in droves. The farm operator can’t get enough la- bor, and even when he can, he must offer wages that in many cases are beyond his ability to pay. This has offset a good part of the benefits of inereased farm income. The foregoing simply illustrates a few of the almost revolutionary changes that are occurring in this country. And they illustrate, by inference, what our post-war problems will be. Authorities in both business and government seem ccnvinced that none of the problems are insoluble. They know that there will be many mistakes, have been built up about the auto- mebile—service stations, repair | etc—is great, and before long it! will be tremendous. All their pro- prietors and employes can do is te close ‘shop and get a war job. There is no place for their businesses in the war picture. : The face of American communi- ties of all sizes is changing swiftly. many errors in judgement. But they believe that, after the war, this nation’s incredible industrial plant will be able to provide jobs shops, roadside restaurants, resorts, |for all employables, and will in time bring the general standard of living te a level well. beyond any- thing we ‘have * known. © Itiis” a ‘healthy sign that, even as. we grap- ple the immense problems of war, we are also thinking ahead to peace to come. mn sr AG AIS sider the plight of poor Greece at the present time and be conyinced. Giganic war plants are being de- voped in sections where there was Stimulate your business by adver tising in the Bulletin. GS AGO 30 Years Ago The large new brick baking es- tablishment of C. S. Musser in near- ly completed. —of — resignation as teacher of the Milton Grove school. Young Men's League of the Luth- eran Church held a pienic in Eby's Grove along the Chieques Creek. Markets: Eggs, 18c; Butter, 28c Lard, 11%c. 3 The Seeman family reunion was held at the home of Adam Lenard, south of town. A public meeting to organize a baseball team was held in Mount Joy Hall. 200 men are enlarging the power house at McCall's Ferry. E. Wilson Riddell, of Sunderland, England, drowned in the Susque-' hanna river, opposite Marietta. Prof I. R. Kraybill moved to Mil- 4} lerstown,. Howard Longenecker was elected secretary of the school board. Mount Joy Boro’ Council paid off $1,500 of its: bonded water debt. Geo. Endslow, East Donegal Twp. experimented .on raising tobacco at his Perry County farm. a Miss Rebecca Hartman of non Co., was crushed to death a- gainst a brick wall by a mule. * The fifth annual picnic of our Sunday Schools, was held at Rocky Springs. Milton Miller, Salunga was hon- ored with a birthday surprise at his home. ~ Air Rai ir Raid (From Page 1) earth, chalk, shingle, clinkers, coal or cinders. If the farmer has not the requisite materials on hand he can use sheep hurdles laced with gorse or straw or, to contain the necessary earth, chalk or wire net- ting supported on posts. ; Stock may be protected from fly- ihg splinters of glass by ‘ covering the inside of windows with fine wire nctting, cellophane or strips of gummed paper about 2 in. wide. Incendiary Bombs . Cemmon types weigh from 2 to 5 lbs. Heavier ones cen weigh up to 60 lbs. The common bomb does not explode, but for the first 50 secends it looks very formidable for jets of flame are omitted’ and pieces of molten magnesium may be thrown as far as 50 f:et. A large bomber carries 1000 or 2,000 which are dropped in con- tainers cf 10 to 20. As they drop they become distributed. Flying 200 miles per hour at 5,000 feet and releasing 20 bombs per second the bomber would drop its 1,000 bombs in a little under three miles and would stort a fire every 50 of 70 yards. Flying 100 miles per hour, and dropping 100 bombs every two seconds it would drop all in 1,000 yards snd start a fire every 12 to 13 yards. These facts are of great significance to rural areas on ac- count of the danger to livestock, buildings, forage stock and stand- ing crops. The small bombs have poor penetration, they can, however, pierce an ordinary roof but remain in the upper story, hence stable lofts should be as far as possible kept empty. Incendiary bombs can be dealt with by covering them with sand and collecting and removing them with the rake, scoop and container provided for that purpose cr by spraying with water in the form of a “mist” spray. Stirrup pumps with hose and spray nozzle, costing $2.40 will project a powerful spray of water 30 ft. A heavy volume of makes the bomb splutter and throw molten magnesium around. Never attempt to extinguish incendiary bombs with any form of fire ex- tinguishzr. The base of “fire ex- tinguisher” is a chemical which generates dangerous gases if spray- ed on a bomb. In stakles, byres and other places where stock is housed, all door- ways and exits must be kept clear of all obstacles so that animals be- ing freed from buring buildings will have free access to yard or field. Slacks should not be built around steadings, but preferably in open fields, 100 yards apart where possible. Forage, bedding or other inflammabl> materials, should not be stored in lofts but should be placed in separate buildings away from as a precaution against the risk of fire. Treatment of Burns The e