SEA SCOUIS USE
TO LEARN TRADE
Active In enlisting boys' In
terest is the Sea Scouts, a nation
al organization, and the oldest
of the special Senior Scout pro
grams. The Medford unit, called
a "Ship", is sponsored by the St.
I ha 1944 War Chest drive
is beginning in your community.
That's hardly news to you. Peo
ple have been telling you about
it for weeks taking time out
from war-busy lives to give you
the whole story.
You're interested of course.
You're chipping in your bit
naturally. And if you're like
most of us when it comes to
moral support you're going all
out "The War Chest?" some
one says, "Great thing, the Vtar
Chest And those volunteer
workers are doing a grand job.
Sure hope they put it over."
Listen, brother. They are not
going to put it over not this
drive. This year we're all volun
teer workers with nobody on
the sidelines. No cheering by
standers no sidewalk posy
tossers. Anyhow, there shouldn't
be.
let' put it this way. Ever
hear of Stalag 1 1 1 B ? It's a Ger
man prison camp. American
soldiers inside maybe a boy
you know and in others like
it in Germany and Japan. The
dollars you put into the War
Chest will help ease their hard
lot
And that's not M. This
minute there's a USO-Camp
Show carrying on behind the
line in France or Italy or
Burma. Your War Chest dollars
are footing the bill
Remember the young fel
low next door who joined the
merchant marine? Tonight he's
enjoying the comforts of a
United Seamen's Service center
In some sweltering Red Sea pott
-compliments of you, via the
' War Chest Ditto for the Greek
kid lined up with his bowl out
side an Athens soup kitchen . . .
a warm coat for the shoulders
of a shivering coolie in soma
village you never heard of . . .
coffee and doughnuts at the can
teen down the street ... a bed
for a refugee in Naples . . .
You don't have to call it the
War Chest. Call it instead the
compassionate heart of America
answering the call of troubled
humanity at home and in the
farthest corners of the earth.
Their job? Well, hardly.
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Medford Boys "Go to Sea" in Hall
Medford Sea Scouts are shown above with the simulated -ship used in their activities at the meet
ing place in St. Mark's parish hall. "Aboard" the ship are: (left to right) Herman O. Purucker,
skipper; Kerb Crain. first mate; Stanley West, first crew leader; Alan Kirschner. second crew
leader; and crew members Bill Hutchinson, Bob Stevens, Don Williams, Kenneth Jones and
Jerry Liebman.
Mark's Episcopal church, and Is
directed by its "skipper" Herman
O. Purucker, who was a chief
petty officer in the navy in
World War I. Assisting him is
Herb Crain, who is first mate.
Crain is navy recruiting officer
for the Medford district.
The Sea Scouts, who are part
of the Boy Scouts, have many ac
tivities, both social and the
studying of sailing and naviga
tion. According to Skipper Pur-j
ucker, the program is clean and
wholesome, and the boys learn
many of the things Uncle Sam
requires of his sailors, and even I
wear a uniform similar to theirs. I
Among the things they arej
taught is to splice rope, keep a
log, and use the sextant, and
they are trained so well that
some of their units have helped
the Coast Guard on sea rescue
missions.
In localities where there is
water, Sea Scouts use real boats
in their scouting activities, but
where there is no water, simu
lated ones are used. The Medford
Sea Scouts, having no water, use
one outlined In canvas, making a
complete replica of a ship, in
cluding the fittings. It is much
like some used by the navy in
its training program.
The Sea Scouts hold a special
ritual, which they call 'Bridge
of Honor". In this ceremony the
boys receive their awards for
requirements that have been
satisfactorily passed. This event
is quite a celebration and the
boys bring their parents and
their girl friends to look on. The
boys also enjoy picnicking,
swimming and hiking, etc.
Each year "Ships" are exam
ined and rated by a national
committee of the Sea Scouts, and
ratings are awarded on the con
structive progress of each
"Ship." The Medford Ship was
recently awarded "Local Flag
ship Squadron". Skipper Pur
ucker says his "crew" will shoot
at the organization's highest
award next year, which Is "Na
tional Flagship."
There have been successful
Sea Scout "Ships" operating for
many years, and thousands of
boys have received worthwhile
special training through Sea
Scouting, which they have found
of great value, especially when
their Interest turned toward
martime vocations and hobbies.
Only a limited number of boys
can be accommodated "aboard
ship1", but right now in the Med
ford unit there are some vacan
cies and Mr Purucker says an in-
I vitation is extended to fill them,
j Boys who are interested can
secure more lniormauon nooui
the Sea Scouts at Boy Scouts
headquarters. 500 East Main
street. Medford. from Mrs. Doro
thy Blickenstaff, secretary. A
special recruiting drive is being
conducted this week.
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Sanitary Hopltinl
British Move to Bolster Births
Is Subject of Satirical Poetry
London (U.R) Britain's com
passionate leave isiue, which in
volves the "posting" of married,
but childless, servicemen so that
they may return home to start a
family, was the subject of the
following satire appearing in the
current "New Statesman and
Nation:"
Where did you come from
baby dear?
Out of the middle east, into
here.
How did you fly through the
pearly gate?
My mum had a doctor's certi
ficate. Why did you not come here
before, sweet tot?
I don't quite know, but I guess
a lot.
Where did you get those won
dering eyes?
My dad's return was a great
surprise.
And where'd you get that ex
As a very young girl I read
a statement which held forth so
rosy a promise I clung to it for
years with a naive faith which
should have been touching but
which I fear was only funny.
Tl)is was the statement: "There
comes a time in every woman's
life when she is beautiful."
As a "woman" of 14, I said to
myself, Though the Time will
come, this surely isn't it! At that
age I was a scrawny girl with a
turned-up nose and no more fig
ure than a snake.
Then I was 18 and again I
knew my period of beauty lay in
the future, Scrawnincss had
gone into reverse. I'd become a
fat girl; my nose still turned up.
And though there were times
when, for a few fleeting hours,
I had curly hair, this was only
after a night made sleepless by
the rag-and-hair knobs of my
potential curls for permanents
hadn't been discovered.
The years came and went and
while good health and a sense of
humor helped make life endur
able, yet it was the Promise
which really sustained me
"There comes a time "
When I was married, I felt so
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pression naive?
It's something to do with com
passionate leave.
Whence comes, baby darling,
that smile of bliss?
The colonel blew me a birth
day kiss.
And why did they want you,
pretty pet?
The war office hasn't inform
ed me yet.
And how did you get here,
little lad?
The army said it was up to
dad.
Whence came dimpled fingers,
toes, sweetheart?
The army said dad must make
a start.
What makes you so rosy, feet
to head?
That's what the king's regula
tion said.
How did all this come to be
you, sweet lamb?
My daddy was posted, and
here I am.
beautiful I had thought that
maybe that was the time. In an
effort to find out I asked, as all
brides do, just why out of all the
multitude of girls I felt must
have longed for the honor, just
why had I been chosen.
My husband's answer let me
know the Time still lay ahead
for he replied, though his grin
eased the blow a bit, "Not be
cause of your fatal beauty, my
love!"
Children came. A mother Is
always beautiful to her chil
dren, I thought. But the Time
was not yet, as I knew when a
10 year old son announced,
"Teacher says I look like you,
Mommie," then with hard won
chivalry, "But I don't mind."
Yet there's the Promise arid
some day folks are going to be
surprised. (I hope!)
Every Daily1 Paper
Carries Same Ad
San Francisco, Oct. 9. (U.R)
The phenomenal success of a
newspaper advertising campaign
started the first of this year in
two newspapers was disclosed
here today with announcement
that Londonderry, an ice cream
powder manufactured by a San
Francisco firm, was now being
advertised in every daily paper
in the United States.
The Pacific coast division of
the bureau of advertising of the
American Newspaper Publishers
Association said the preparation
was the first west coast product
to be advertised in every daily
and the first nationally adver
tised product using sustained
schedules.
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BY REPUDIATION;
STILLFOR F.D.R.
Party Organ Whoops It Up
For President Commun
ist Tune Changes
Washington, Oct. 9. (U.R)
The American Communists' re
ply to President Roosevelt's re
pudiation of their campaign sup
port was a weekend party organ
editorial exhorting the members
to get out the vote to help the
president carry New York, Mich
igan, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
It appears, therefore, that the
Communist vote, which hit a
high of 106.000 in New York
state In 1938, has not been
jarred over the bandwagon tail
board by the shock of another
disavowal.
Democrats Embarrassed
But the fact that Mr. Roose
velt did repudiate American
Communists suggests that their
loud and unwelcome support has
become embarrassing to the ad
ministration.. The newspaper
"PM," always loyal to Mr.
Roosevelt, last March cited dan
gers ahead in a Washington dis
patch reporting that "high ad
ministration figures" were
alarmed by the developing pro
minence of Communists and left
wingers in the campaign to re
nominate Mr. Roosevelt.
The Communist press, how
ever, still is whooping it up for
the Roosevelt-Truman ticket.
The exhortation to get out the
vote was in yesterday's "Sunday
Worker," Communist weekly,
along with articles approving
the Democratic ticket and oppos
ing the Republican presidential
entry.
The "Daily Worker," on Sat
urday, however, editorially de
plored tne fact that Mr. Roose
velt repudiated Communist and
Fascist support all in one breath
"in re-stating" his opposition to
both systems. The editorial ex
plained that "the two are dia
metrically opposite."
Repudiated in 1938
The record will show that Mr.
Roosevelt repudiated Commun
ism In 1938 in language similar
to that used last week and, fur
ther, that-ln the 1940 campaign
and until Hitler turned suddenly
on the Soviet Union in June,
1941, the bitterest attacks of all
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Playing Today
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Now showing nt the Cratermn,
Is Dfanna Durbui and Gene
Kelly in "Christmas Holiday,"
with Richard Whorf, Dean Har
ens and Gladys George.
made on the president and his
administration were by Earl
Browder and other Communists.
Browder is president of the
Communist organization. A
Communist front organization,
in fact, was picketing the White
House against national defense,
aid to Great Britain and war
when the Germans hit Russia in
June of 1941.
The marching picketeers
paused, in effect, with one foot
In the air, considered the new
situation for a moment and
dispersed. The immediate flip
flop of the Communist party
from opposition to support of
all national defense measures.
aid to the British and ballyhoo
for war was one of the miracles j
of modern politics. What Brow- j
der used to say about Mr. Roose-1
velt might even astonish Brow-'
der if he would read over some !
of the old passages, as your cor- i
respondent has just done. '
When Mr. Roosevelt got around
to the Communists last Thurs
day night, he said this:
"I have not sought, and I do
not welcome, the support of any
person or group committed to
Communism, or Fascism, or any
other foreign ideology which
would undermine tho American
system of government or the
American system of free compet
itive enterprise and private pro-,
pcrty." j
Browder Changes Tun
Eight years and about one
weclc earlier Sept. 30, 1936 1
Mr. Roosevelt told the Demo-'
cratic state convention In Syra- j
use, N. Y.: ,
"I-have not sought, I do not
seek, I repudiate the support of
any advocate of Communist or
any other alien 'ism' which
would by fair means or foul
change our American democ-i
racy." I
What Mr. Browder used to
say about Mr. Roosevelt be
fore he became an advocate of
his re-election Is easiest found
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in his book "The Way Out," pub-the
lished in 1941 four months be
fore Hitler attacked Russia and
covering the period when Brow
der wa sin process of being toss
der was in process of being toss
of a fraudulent passport.
Browder was stung by the
prosecution and goaded by
American foreign policy in
which, he said, Mr. Roosevelt
was "taking the country step by
step Into the war with a speed
unexampled In all history, and
with a boldness and cynicism
that , are quite breathtaking,
worthy of Hitler himself." That
was on May 30, 1940, in his re
port to the Communist national
convention in New York.
And almost a year later be
fore the party line changed
Browder on February 24, 1941,
said in a New York speech: j
"If my kind of a crime (pass
port fraud) rates four years in
prison, I wonder what should
be the punishment for a man
who got a false passport by de
ceiving the whole American
people? I refer to Franklin D.
Roosevelt, who got his passport
for a third term by promising to
keep America out of this Imper
ialist war, and then violating
that promise. The supreme pun
Ishmeit will be written by his
tory which will write down that
name as the man who betrayed
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