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on the production line of other etn-' of American»—and a different-
center« in
ployees caused by individual absen- I special code for the benefit of the
majority of
teeism which, during the past year, privileged few.
aircraft now being used against the
By Capt. Eddie Rickenbaeker
has run well into hundreds of mil­
The demand for real sacrifice is Axis in the Solomons, New Guinea,
The symbol that has made America
lions of man-hours.
from the inarticulate mass uf Aineri- China, ti>e Aleutians and North Afri­
great—in»p|red throughout the gen­
Cut this absenteeism in liaif and . can fathers, mothers and daughter» - ca are modification Jobs, the OWl
erations by our forefathers, and
our fighting forces throughout the ¡while special privileges and licenses announced Saturday. The Japanese
which has woven i|a wa* through
I world will be grateful, as it will add [are granted to the tabor racketeer— at Midway met disaster from modi­
the history of these great United ■
¡sufficient planes and parts and other the labor profiteer—and the labor fied fighters and bombers.
States like a golden thread—is com­
The modification centers are able
, weapons for their use to hasten final ¡loafer. _
prised of imagination, individuality,
I say you cannot have national to take outmodeled American pursuit
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unity unless the' leadership of the planes and adapt the.n for desert
thousands of our boys.
not least, eternal but simple faith'
There is no absenteeism in the fox­ nation sets an example of unity­
warfare in Libya and Eiypt as high­
in the Supreme Being
holes in the jungles of the Pacific or land that leadership should include ly effective strafing and light bomb­
Aa all of you have either heard or
the burning sands or mudholes of Industy, Labor and Government.
ing planas.
read of my Pacific mission, there is
You cannot demand that the mass
Africa, for if attempted there the ab­
little need of my dwelling on that
sentees would get a bayonet in their of common folk shall think only of
subject with the exception of stating
winning the war if the aristocracy of
tallies from their buddies. . . .
that after visiting with General Mac­
Why should not our Congress show labor unionism is thinking only of
Arthur’s boys in New Guinea—Port
the common sense and intestinal for­ more dues and more power—and the
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Moresby—Buna and Gona—I return­
titude now and clarify aur labor laws inner clique of bureaucracy is
The angling season for trout not
ed to Australia, and then through
so that millions of innocent men and thinking only of a fourth term.
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less than six inches in length opens
the Fiji» to Guadalcanal, a veritable
women will have the same protection
Any administration that demands Saturday, April 17, in all counties in
hell-hole—as the rainy season had
from our Government as do the rack­ unity must begin by setting an ex­ the state except ten in eastern Ore­
just started.
eteers’
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ample of unity.
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gon.
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Henderson Field runway is a metal
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Let America come back to the fun­
Any administration that talks of Lt The trout bag limit is 15 fish or 15
strip that has been bombed and
"equality of Sacrifice” must honestly pounds and one fish in any one day
damentals that made it great. •
shelled for months, and is also the
Let us all be realists instead of mean sacrifice by all, not sacrifice but not to exceed 30 fish or 30 pounds
airplane graveyard of the Pacific,
emotionalists, sentimentalists or self­ by the many for the financial and- and two fish in any seven consecutive
not only for enemy planes but our
1
ish, greedy human beings in this pollitcal advantages of the few ■. . ', days or in possession at any one time.
own as well.
”,
1 I speak on behalf of the millions of
hour of our country’s need.
>
Exceptions to the generui season
Dugouts were filled with mud and
Or must we wait until hundreds of honest men and women in unions and limit are to be found listed in
water. Men were working in jump­
thousands of the cream of our youth who want their unions to stand clean the 1843 synopsis of angling regula­
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ers without shoes or socks. Marines
Sons, brothers, husbands and fath­ ami respected before the bar of tions published by the Oregon state
3nd soldiers were in the fox-holes
ers— have been slaughtered and American public opinion
game commission and available now
with millions of mosquitoes. Malaria
I speak on behalf of the future at all agencies.
wrecked — mentally or physically —
was prevalent, as was diarrhea.
leaders of the United States our
before we recognize our duty?
The game commission again urges
Here you will find a Catholic
Yes, I am opposed to overtime pay boys in Africa—in Australia—in anglers to cooperate by reporting the
priest, Protestant preacher or a Jew-
for forty-eight hour week during Guadalcanal — New Guinea — the results of each fishing trip on the
rabbi—all preaching the simple faith
Aleutians — Iceland — England — especial orange colored “Catch Re­
this life and death struggle.
to Catholics, Protestants and Jaws
In times like these, I do not ap­ China and India.
port Cards” that are being distribut­
alike.
I say that this bloody war can be ed by license agencies, sporting goods
prove of overtime pay for a forty-
Oh, men and women of America, if
eiglit hour week with present high won only If we at home show that we stores, fishing lodges and boat con­
you could only understand what our 1
wages, except for those men in the deserve to have it won. Only if we cessions. For each fishing trip made
ooys—your boys and mine—are do-
_ig in those hell-holes throughout 1 fox-holes, swamps, jungles, deserts, have the Intestinal fortitude to throw a card should ba filled out and mailed
out the profiteers—punish the shirk­ to the game commision even if no
the Pacific and the burning sands of 1 and the frozen north of ths Aleu­
Africa, that your way of life may be [ tians, and Iceland, for they are ths ers—and demand that there shall be fish are caught. Information gather­
a single—not a double—standard of ed from these cards will help de­
men making the supreme sacrifices.
preserved, and the character that has
For there is little reason why those justice in the United 8tates—an even termine
the
results
of
past
made this nation great may be car­
of us back home should not expend distribution of sacrifice on the home planting programs as well as the fu­
ried on, you would not worry about
every effort and energy—If not for front imposed with a degree of poli­ ture policy.
eight horus a day — overtime — or
our boys in uniform then—at’ least— tical courage M home—comparable
double time for Sundays and holi-
to the moral and physical courage ‘See our large dismay « choice, pot
to save our own skins.
Give the milljflm oC banest men * being: s K mto by' our men abroad . ,
plants at Berjsen’a, across highway
struggle for the welfare of this na­ and women ta this country an op- I
For what price social security from from telephone office.
Not the
tion I
portunity to do their beat—they ask j from the cradle to the grave—if we
cheapest but the best. Phone 64.
Without victory — social security,
no more.
dig our own graves in advance’
old age pensions, wage and hour bills
And to the labor leaders who are!--------------------------
will mean nothing.
prone to criticize so feebly, I say AA^Ivifl K ami WritAC
France had her slow-down and sit- so
petition your Government for the I “Civ 111 Ike 111 vT FlICS
down strikes—had her social legisla­
of'flying to the hell-holes ■ E
Alrek/imA
tion, which I am not against—but privileges
Pacific and the battlefields at
AWUUWmM
they failed in the realization that
Africa, and
, see
, ' for yourselves
________
_______________
Following
h a letter from _______
Melvin
without work and without produc­ N
ing something of value, they could as I have then, and then alone will Kern who left here about nine years
I 1 listen to you for I havi earned ago arKj j, now looted
Birming
not last.
ham Alabama:
Today, they are serfs and slaves of my right to citizenship.
And to those few scUmmistlc, syn­
Hitler's hordes.
Millions of man,
women and children are starving. thetic communists in labor, com­
That goes for Holland, Belgium, the merce and Government, who are so
prone to smear 1 say__go back to “** "•**
»uuacripuoo « j jwr
Scandinavian countries, Bataan, Cor- Russia where you will find millions ?aPer 1 d™’‘ know wh«‘ we wou,d
regidor, Hong Kong, Singapore and I '
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..
.
rl/A
tasiihressf
aoaw
i of men and woman willing to die and do .without the paper every week
the Philippines.
from liome. We get very lonesome
Accept your responsibilities with starve for their country in turning here for the Pacific Coast, and read
Hitler
’
s
hordes
from
their
land
—
THUMBS UP FOR
the privileges that you are enjoyingr
the paper from cover to cover, even
Remember patriotism without ser­ there you will find bow transparent | the want ads, and houses for rent. I
BITTtR TOAST
you are. ...
vice is a hollow .word........
always enjoy Lans’ Sports Review
We
bear
a
lot
nowadays,
that
in
Do not let these boys come back
each and every week, although I
Mrs. Brown is using me
from their graves in these hell- this war there must be “equality of
don’t always agree with him on ev­
sacrifice.
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more efficiently for the
holes scattered throughout the Pa-
Tlie phrase is false and demagogic erything.
cific, and other parts of the world.
duration.
When she treats
The fishing here is not very good.
—hollow mockery With wliat bit­
and from the depths of the seven
me
right
I give perfect
We have very few streams and lakes
sea»—do not let them come beck and ter laughter it must have been greet­
perfect
toast,
to
fish
in,
and
generally
these
are
plague you for having failed In your ed at Guadalcanal—-in New Guinea
located so far away that with ration­
obligation on the home front to give —and Tunisia.
ing, etc., we are unable to take ad­
What
sacrifice
can
you
or
I,
or
MOUNTAIN STATES
them mor« and more of everything
vantage of them.
any
man
or
qioman
in
America,
that is needed to hasten a final vic­
I
am
enclosing
a
few
clippings
from
POWER COMPANY
make that deserves to be mentioned
tory.
our local newspapers which will
For we have the need to conduct in the same breath with the sacrifice
give you an idea of the work we are
ourselves now so that we can look of the boys in the hell-holes of the
doing in thia part of the country, and
Solomons?
those others in the face when they
Who dares to talk of sacrifice when th* company I am working for, the
come home again—those who live to
he
reads of the bodies of our young Bechtel - McCone -Parsons Corpora­
come home.
tion, is one of the largest contracting
I know you realize that I have men being crushed under the weight
companies in the world, and I am
of
German
tanks
into
the
mud
of
said—and I say again—we have in
very proud U> be able to contribute a
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the past several years spent billions Africa?
small part to the tremendous effort
Yes
—
sacrifice
—
by
putting
a
little
of dollars to destroy self-reliance, ini­
that they are putting forth here. I
tiative, imagination and individual­ of your swollen pay into the safest
am the construction superintendent
ity, trying to plan —
the
of 130,-
• , lives
lrc> vi
itj<j _ | investment in the world.
000,006 people by a superior few.
Sacrifice—by not taking your fam- of this big project, and at present we
000,000
Now we are spending billions tn *** 01,1 ,or * rtde ™ Sunda* aiUfr are working between four and five
thousand men.
recreate self-reliance, initiative, im­ noon.
1 have seen two or three boys from
Sacrifice—by keeping your home
agination and individuality. . . .
As I have said before, if'necessary!™**
**fln*r than thr home who ore stationed at Jackson­
ville, Florida, and I have received
to make us appreciate our duties, homes of England.
letters from several who are station­
Sdcrifici
»
—
by
agreeing
not
to
«trike
bring back the troops from the hell­
ed in and near this vicinity.
holes of the world, place them in the —but, of course, you can stay away
Our family is somewhat split up
from
the
job
as
many
days
as
you
factories—take the war workers, par­
Mary is in Seattle; Lucille is in
ticularly those single men without want.
Thie is what you read in your Nurses Training School at St. Louis;
dependents from' eighteen to thirty-
and Betty is here working for Bech­
* eight years of age, and place them daily newspapers, and hear on the
tel-McCone-Parsons on this project.
in the fox-holes with the filth, ver­ radio which will have its day of
We expect to leave here about the
reckoning
when
the
war
is
over
min, diarrhea, malaria and the Jap­
.irst of June to go on another big job.
anese, and I will guarantee you that and the boys come home.
We are fighting to distribute the
our production will be incresed, and
Following are extracts from the
much of it doubled—within thirty blessings of freedom to everyone—
newspaper
clippings
mentioned
¡everywhere
—
all
over
the
world.
days.
<
We are in a great and bloody cru­ above:
Wo would have no more feather-
The
mighty
arm
of
Vulcan,
Bir
­
sade
to
export
four
freedoms
—
one
bedding—no more «low-downs—no
of which is the freedom of speech. mingham’s man ~ of steel, will be
‘more restrictions on effort.
Yet freedom of speech at home is ready to reach out across the country
The perpetual slow-down in war
industry caused by absenteeism— rapidly diminishing. It is not being Thursday afternoon when the first
particularly in the aircraft industry, forbidden by law, It is not being B-24 Consolidated bomber modified
in Birmingham’s new alrplaine cen­
where it exceeds an average of ten crushed out by the Gestapo.
ter is given his name.
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No,
it
is
being
subjected
to
much
per cent—is probably the most fla­
This bomber, first of hundreds of
grant abuse of our obligation since mere* subtle restraints and pressures.
The Nazis and the Fascists long giants of the air which will rain
Pearl Harbor.
In the Boeing factory alone, the ago showed us the way to discourage I destruction upon the Axis after they
have been modified at the Bechtel-
unwelcome free
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'Equality' of Sacrifice'^
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Woman’s Club Annual May Dey
I Large Rand-McNally maps of The
Danae.
Saturday, May 1, in Coquille
World and of the United States, on
i heavy paper at Norton's, only 25c Community Building. Come and nee
the queen crowned at 8:00 p. m.
J each.
Admission 55 cents per person. 13t3
Trout Season To
Open Saturday
absentees, and our aviators in those
hrll-hoiM are crying their eyes out
for only a few more Flying For­
tresses.
In the Douglas plant there was an
absenteeism of eleven thousand em­
ployees the day after Christmas—a
¿hocking and deplorable condition.
It is not the loss of individual man­
hours that is so deadly, but the ac-
cumulated loss of thousands of hours
J
Mor«9r»OMng
I ms gassing!
n»v»r have realised that regular
transmission and differential lubrication, can improve your
gas mileage aa well as protect your car. Much of the gasoline
you use is only to overcome friction inside your car. Proper
and frequent lubrication can keep that friction down to a
minimum. Manufacturers* specifications for most oars can ft»
greasing at each 1000-mile period. And you know
experts at lubrication.
•AlSitttt — Coupon 5, A
¥»••»All«» At*» VlHHM
Ration Book, good through
May 21.
SURAR— Coupon 12, Book
One, good for 5 lbs. through
May SI.
coma Coupon 26, Book
One, good through April 25,
(SroseMsd) — Blue Stamps
D, E A F, Book Two, good
through April 90.
6MO(6— Coupon 17, Book
One, good through June 15.
M6ATS, SATS, BTC. — Red
Stamps, A, B, C, Book
Two, good through April 30.
SUSI 0118 -r Coupon 6,
Zones A, B, and C, good
through September 30.
Make Every Coupon Count!
Qne of the things that we’re mighty proud
of la the way our refineries, with all their
heavy wartime burden, have been able to
maintain rigid control of Standard Gaeo-
line’s quality. Whenever you buy Standard
Gasoline, you get quality even higher than
the specifications Unde Sam sets for mili­
tary motor fuel. Standard Gasoline—■'
Unsurpassed,
every, coupon count.
STANDARD
TAKES BETTER CARE
OF YOUR CAR
ficatlon center in Birmingham, will
be called "Vulcan of Birmingham.”
Before long "Vulcan of Birming­
ham” may be accompanying the
Birmingham Blit«,' a Flying For-
trees that already has caused the
Axis some headaches, even more
misery.
I am not attacking unions. I am
The OWI revealed that plane«
attacking a cancerous condition in used by Maj. Gen. James H. Doo-
our body politic—the attempt to im- little in his raid on Tokyo were
poet one code of conduct on the
bombers equipped for their special
Smear it to depth by crying aloud
that it is an attack on the Fuehrer—
that it gives aid and comfort to the
enemy—that it promotes disunity.
That is the modern technique for
getting rid of troublesome free
speech.
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