Illinois Valley News. Thursday. August 28. 1941 A- 'ÍUSUiingldk MEBW-GO-OOUHD * ! PRWP eái & oh E £N I ™& ROBERT ä l «..«««« .»»."i iu rmUt. 1». (K- (N-- (N- *fL- fv. ft. A- ft. (X. A' A- A- A- A* A-A-f*- ASK ME I ANOTHER'. ? ft. ft- (V. fu fY. fN. fu. (N.. i Sackcloth and Wheat for Destitute Chinese A quiz with answers offering information on various subjects JN.. fx.. 7. The Questions •u -u -U -U U - J - U - U - u Page Two (N-. fu. (N.. (N. (N.. What is Polaris? 8. Who was secretary of state Washington, D. C. in George Washington's first cab­ 1. In navy slang, what is known TANK BUILDING PROGRAM inet? There was a good reason why as an “ash can”? 9. How much of Greenland's Lord Beaverbrook, dynamic min­ 2. Which of the following is not total area (736,518 square miles) ister of supply, listed tanks as the both in Europe and Asia—Russia, is ice-free land? No. 1 objective of his visit to the Turkey and Iran. 10. Where is the world’s largest U. S. He flew over largely to try 3. Which, Plato, Aristotle or organ? to persuade our army chiefs to lend- Socrates first expounded his lease him the major share of our philosophy? growing output. The Answers 4. Where is the original Bridge There is sharp division In the of Sighs? army over this. Armored unit com­ 1. A depth bomb. 5. The projectile called shrap­ manders have been champing at 2. Iran. nel is named after a general who the bit for the tanks now beginning 3. Socrates. served in what country’s army? to roll off assembly lines, They 4. Venice (connecting the pal­ 6. What are Kiushiu, Shikoku need the equipment not only to train ace of the doge with the prison). their men and officers but to keep and Riukiu? 5. Britain (Henry Shrapnel, up morale—which sags when mod- 1761-1842). ern war machines are missing or 6. Islands of Japan. simulated. 7. The North star. | Buck privates to generals have 8. Thomas Jefferson. griped over being forced to “play at 9. Only 31.284 square miles. Every season the white ant or soldiering." This was one of the 10. In Convention hall in Atlantia 1 main causes for the strong senti- termite proudly produces a million ' fnent among citizen soldiers against baby termites to swell the world’s City. It contains seven manuals, . extension of their year's service. ant population. Toads and frogs or keyboards, 487 keys, 933 stops, American lied Cross wheat docs double duty among destitute Chinese children at the Southern Presbyterian ' They could raise no enthusiasm for both have large families, the for­ 32 pedals, 7 blowers, with motors mission at Hashing, Chekiang, as this picture (left) by Enited China Relief shows. The wheat provides food continuing to train without equip- mer in the neighborhood of 6,000 totaling 365 horsepower and 33.056 at a time, and the latter half that pipes, ranging in height from a and the bags make serviceable summer garments. At right, XVendell ttillkie, committee member of the Enited : ment. quarter inch to 64 feet. On the other hand, the general number. <'hina Relief, is shown with Chinese children who thanked him for his co-operation in the $5,000.000 Chinese staff believes that it is far more vi­ Relief drive. Snakes are three to four times tal to the immediate security of the as prolific as rabbits, for whereas U. S. to let our tanks and other the latter rarely produce more armament help hold off the Nazis than a dozen baby rabbits at a 3,000 miles from our shores. birth, a snake often produces 40. The strategists contend that a The king of the jungle, Lord U. S. tank is performing infinitely Lion, is usually the proud father more valuable service knocking out of quads, and his hereditary Nazis on the torrid deserts of North enemy, the tiger, can boast of fhe Africa, or the bloody steppes of Rus­ same number. Finally, the ele­ sia, than using up oil in a training phant, last descendant of the pre­ 1 camp in Texas. They favor send- historic monsters, rarely has more , ing most of our new tanks to Britain »han one baby elephant at a time. for the present, and Beaverbrook’s , mission is to clinch that argument. British Need. U. S. Voters The British need for tanks, par- | ticularly for the latest type, 32-ton The census bureau estimates medium tanks, is extremely urgent. that there are 80,528,000 American It was lack of these that caused citizens eligible to vote. The total the rout in Greece and prevents the number of persons 21 years of age British from taking the offensive in or over, however, is 84,178,000, but Libya and on the continent. Also, without medium tanks the British 3,200,000 are aliens and 450,000 maintain their residence in the would be Ln desperate straits should voteless District of Columbia. Hitler make his feared overland 35—41 move into Spain and Portugal. I Counted in the voting eligibility WNU—13 across the Strait of Gibraltar and figure, but who are non-voters be­ Coward and Hero down the Atlantic coast of French cause of illness and because they have forfeited their voting priv­ This creature man, who in his West Africa to Dakar. ilege are the 563,321 occupants of own selfish affairs is a coward to Thanks to the U. S., the British our mental institutions, and the the backbone, will fight for an are well supplied with light 12-ton 161,000 members of America’s idea like a hero.—George Bernard tanks. So far they have received Shaw. about 500. together with spare parts. prison population. These light tanks have given a At left a farmer of Middlewest corn belt shovels corn from one of the bins of the department of agrl- good account of themselves. They ’ < ulturc’s “ever normal granary.” Th«* department are superior to similar Qcrman and But mounting only took over this surplus corn in payment of loans to Italian types farmers ill ‘38 and *311. Now farmers are buying it 50-caliber guns and lightly armored, back to feed their stock. Right: A farmer shoveling they are no match, as Greece and Libya have proved, for medium Axis corn from “granary” to bis hogs. tanks. • • • STEEL SHOWDOWN The OPM and the steel industry finally have taken drastic steps to regulate supplies arid increase ca­ pacity, but it took all kinds of nag­ ging by the government to get them to do it. One of the most spectacular of these nagging sessions took place in the OPM board room recently and was attended by Eugene Grace of As One Heart | with divine love in it beats with the Bethlehem Steel; Tom Girdler of Men are tattooed with their spe- same glow under all the patterns Republic; Ernest Weir of Weir­ cial beliefs like so many South Sea of all earth’s thousand tribes.— ton; Irving Olds, new head of U. S. Islanders; but a real human heart | Oliver Wendell Holmes. Steel, together with Ed Stettinius, the old head; Leon Henderson; Knudsen; and representatives from the army, navy and maritime com­ mission. The steel manufacturers immedi­ ately put the government represent­ atives on the defensive with the ques­ tion: “Well, what do you want us to do? Cut off all steel to the con­ sumer?” Price Administrator Henderson re­ TROTTING RACES plied that such a curtailment would be disastrous, that steel to the con­ art distinctly Am trican. Thty sumer could not be cut off right btgan tarty in the 19 th Century away Other government represent- and since IS50 havt bttn tht atives hemmed and hawed. So did most popular sport at county the ship-builders The meeting got fairs. Suikies art unknown in nowhere Suropt. Finally Admiral Emory Land, rei- According to the Moscow censor- ative of ex-Colonel Lindbergh, but approved caplion for this radiophoto no believer in his views, got up. received in New York from the So­ Land, chairman of the maritime S S Solace, first hospital ship commission, is a close friend of war, as the «raft was cunimis- viet capital. Soviet sailors are shown Bethlehem’s Eugene Grace. But to th«' navy was formerly the inspecting the remains of a German looking at Grace and the other steel plane. It was not stated where the has 400 beds and vs ill carry 13 manufacturers, the admiral gave plane was brought to earth. them a dressing down he might have given to his own sailors. “I've been listening to you for two hours.” he said, "and I'm fed up with it I don’t know what the fault is. or whose fault it is. But I do know that the shipyards are four to six weeks behind because they haven’t got steel. And I also know that if you fellows want to, you can correct that shortage. “You’ve been talking about ponding your plants. Now if mean business, instead of tai about it—expand.” Next day the steel manufacturers announced their plan to build new factories and expand production. Prolific Insects lapping “Ever Normal Granary At Collimi»i()!lin