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Sanitation Factor inArmy’s Health Record

Adequate and modern plumbing inU. 8. army camps, bases, hospitals,on ships and in war industries isplaying an important part in main-taining the finest wartime healthrecord in all history.

The decision of military and navalofficials to provide good plumbingfacilities is based on their knowl-edge that war is 75 per cent an en-gineering and sanitary problem andless than 25 per cent a military andnaval one. In his book ‘‘Rats, Liceand History," Hans Zinsser says,‘‘Other things being equal, thatarmy will win which has the bestengineering and sanitary services.”

In President Truman’s recentwar review message he said: ‘‘Sincethe invasion of Africa in November,1942, in all our operations inEurope and in Africa, we have lostabout 1,600 soldiers from sickness.In the Civil War, the Union forces,never more than a third as large asour forces in Europe, had 224,000deaths from sickness. In the threeyears since April, 1942, the armyforces in the disease-infested is-lands of the Pacific lost fewer than1,400 men from sickness.”

Potatoes Grown as FlowersIn South American GardensAll are not vege-

tables. Technically, they are clas-sified as perennial herbs, and aremembers of the Solanum family,closely related to eggplant, tomatoand peppers.

Many of the brothers and sis-ters and cousins of the Solanumfamily have more handsome flow-ers than the humble potato andare cultivated for their blossoms.For instance, there is the fine Sola-num Wendlandii, a plant of Southand Central America. The SolanumWendlandii flourishes in Costa Ricaand has lovely violet blossoms. Andthen there is the Solanum Jas-minoides, a much hardier vine withshowers of small white flowers mostof the year through; and the lesscommon Solanum Seaforthianum,with lavender blooms.

All of these ritzy relatives of thelowly potato have been importedinto the gardens of California, fromSan Francisco southward where theclimate is agreeable to the growthof all kinds of plants originating inthe fertile soil of the Americantropics.

Red Cross Packages for POWsAs an example of what a POW

gets, here’s a typical package:whole powdered milk, processedAmerican cheese, an army spread(butter and cheese), whole spraydried eggs, corned beef, pork lunch-eon meat, peanut butter, salmon,prunes or raisins, jam, biscuits,chocolate bar (ration D), sugar, cof-fee (soluble), salt and pepper,multivitamin tablets, chicken noodlesoup. In addition, each package con-tains four or five packs of ciga-rettes, four ounces of soap, andsometimes chewing gum. The Japa-nese have not been co-operative inproviding the necessary facilitiesfor relief supplies to go regularlyto prison camps throughout the FarEast. But those shipments whichhave reached our prisoners in Japa-nese hands contained a high amountof protein, as many as five tins ofmeat, fish and cheese. The RedCross makes every attempt to giveeach American prisoner one stand-ard food package weekly. For if aPOW gets his package each week,he’s not likely to run into any seri-ous nutritional deficiencies. Besidesthe standard food packages, there’sa special Christmas package, and aspecial invalid package with foodsespecially adapted to the needs ofthe sick.

Learn HomemakingAs always, homemaking was the

Girl Scouts’ favorite field of interestin 1944. Arts and crafts ranked sec-ond, health and safety third. Inter-est in international friendship, whichhad taken a great leap forward in1943, continued to grow faster thaninterest in any other field, showinga 46 per cent increase in 1944.‘‘Homemaking’’ means many things—the 41,000 girls who learned aboutplanning and cooking well-balancedfamily meals, the 21,000 who dem-onstrated, ability to re-make andconserve their clothes, the girls whohelped in day nurseries, wrappedChristmas gifts for soldiers, plannedparties for shut-ins.

DDT With Aerosel BombMakes Efficient Killer

Addition of DDT to the army’s in-secticide dispenser, known amongtroops in the Pacific as the aerosolbomb, has greatly increased the ef-fectiveness of the insecticide mix-ture in that now it kills not onlymosquitoes but also disease-bearingflies.

Composition of the new mixture isas follows: 85 per cent freon; 2 percent of a 20 per cent pyrethrumsolution; 5 per cent cyclehexanone;8 per cent lubricating (hydrocar-bon) oil and 3 per cent DDT.

The original aerosol, developedearly in 1943 and containing pyreth-rum, sesame oil and freon, killedadult mosquitoes but only knockeddown other insects. With DDT add-ed, the aerosol bomb becomes anexcellent weapon in the light againstmalaria and fly-borne diseases.

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Mixing Drinks Does NotSpeed Up Intoxication

Despite the general belief thatthere is a greater tendency towarddrunkenness if alcoholic beveragesare mixed successively, it Is re-ported in the Journal of the Ameri-can Medical association, that it isprobable that the differences arereally quite small and that anequal amount of alcohol, taken inthe same total volume of liquid,would produce practically equiva-lent effects. The Journal says inanswer to a query:

“The concentration of alcohol inthe blood and brain is determinedchiefly by the amount of alcoholconsumed. However, the rate of ab-sorption also affects the concentra-tion reached, since if it is slowsome of the alcohol may be de-stroyed or excreted before the peakis reached. Absorption may .bedelayed by dilution or by delay Inemptying the stomach, since morerapid absorption occurs below thepylorus. The greater intoxicatingeffect of liquor taken on anempty stomach than that takenafter a meal has been often re-marked. Water or foodstuffs takenwith liquor may be expected, ac-cordingly, to lessen the intoxicat-ing effect. Excitement or activitymay also slow absorption of alcohol.Factors accelerating gastric empty-ing increase the effect of alcoholicbeverages. Individual susceptibili-ties may depend on the previous ex-periences and associations of thedrinkers.

New Instrument MeasuresHeat Reflecting of Colors

An electronic “color detective”that scientifically selects paint whichabsorbs the least amount of sun isgiving the navy a victory over dis-comfort in the tropics, General Elec-tric engineers disclosed recently.

This instrument, more technical-ly known as the photoelectric spec-trophotometer, plots an exact curveof the amount of light reflected bya paint sample. Though it can tracedown any color, the color red, a ma-jor component of all sunlight, is theparticular subject it seeks in thisapplication. Experience has shownthat different shades of the samefundamental color will reflect dif-ferent amounts of red. Two shadesof “battleship” gray, for example,may look the same to the naked eyebut prove to be quite different whenseen by the spectrophotometer.When the G-E “detective” finds thegray which absorbs the least red,it presents this information to tech-nicians, and this is the paint chosento aid in keeping the ship and crewcool whenever intense heat prevails.

Automatic Water SystemThe modern automatic electric

water system brings to the home inthe country and the home on thefringe of the city beyond the watermains the same convenience of run-ning water under pressure enjoyedby city dwellers. •

An electric water system is en-tirely automatic and provides a con-stant supply of fresh water, day andnight. The pump starts and stopsautomatically. The system is auto-matically oiled and even the air sup-ply in the storage tank is automat-ically controlled.

No attention whatever is requiredby the water system except an occa-sional'inspection to check mechanicalcondition and state of lubrication.Thus a modern electric water sys-tem with all these automatic fea-tures provides a water supply thatis as dependable as that receivedfrom any large municipal plant.

Veterans Can’t Get SchoolingFour million servicemen who

have not finished elementary schoolwill be deprived of the education-al benefits of the G.I. bill unlessAmerican communities immediate-ly set about establishing schools orclasses for them, Dr. Paul A. Witty,professor of education at North-western university, stated recently.Dr. Witty said that many formerlyilliterate men, proud of their edu-cational achievement in the army,and many of the others who did notfinish elementary school will wishto resume their schoolwork underthe G.I. bill. However, existingfacilities for adult elementary edu-cation are extremely limited, havehad doubtful success, and are notgeared to the needs of the veter-ans.

Jap Seamen YoungstersThe average Japanese sailor is

about 20 years old, the youngest be-ing just above the age of 14 andthe oldest now accepted for activesea duty being not above 41. Thisaverage sailor is 5 feet 4% inchestall, weighs 124 pounds, has a chestmeasurement of 33 inches. Sailors,for the most part, derive from sea-side communities. In peacetime,conscripts (40 per cent) served threeyears, volunteers (60 per cent) fiveyears and petty officers six years.Enlisted men were promotedthrough the ranks of petty officersto warrant officers. Since 1942,warrant officers have been eligiblefor advancement to both line andstaff officers' ranks. In peacetime,after three years of active service,the conscript became a member ofthe reserves for 11 years, with five70-day periods of training duringthat interval. All reservists havenow been called to active duty.

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American Food WastedBy Average Cooking

The food we waste in the UnitedStates constitutes the greatest reser-voir of unused food anywhere in theworld. It is vitally needed. Bypreventing all waste, the averagefamily of six can save food enoughto feed adequately a starving Greek,or Pole.

From plow to plate, we waste 20to 30 per cent of all the food weproduce. Two per cent is left unhar-vested on farms we need morevolunteer harvesters! Two per centis lost in transportation—we needmore careful handling I

* In storage and in wholesale mar-kets, the loss runs as high as 7 percent. We need more cleanliness, bet-ter handling, less trimming andsorting!

Three to six per cent wastage oc-curs in retail stores, partly causedby customer carelessness in bruis-ing and sorting the produce. Six tonine per cent of food in restaurantsis wasted. We need to observe thearmy rule, “Take all you want, buteat all you take.”

Finally, 15 per cent of all foodtaken into our homes is wasted-one meal in every seven, $2 fromevery sl4 in the food budget thrownaway.

The greatest causes of waste inthe home are over-buying, and fail-ure to use left-overs. Other causesof food waste in the home are lack 1of meal planning, improper stor-age, wasteful or careless prepara-tion, and serving too much onplates. '

oCAN NO AIR AND SAVE VITAMINS

Home canners are%dvised to fillthe jars of tomato juice right to thetop to prevent sealing in an air spacewhich will cause loss of vitamin C inthe juice during storage, accordingto Miss Margaret McPheeters, nutri-tionist of the University of MarylandExtension Service.

Controversy over tin versus glassor other materials for canning foodsto save their vitamin C content, hasbeen strong, but recent tests at theMassachusetts Experiment Stationshow that air sealed in the containercauses the loss of the vitamin, notthe type of container.

To retain the full vitamin C con-tent of tomato juice in canning, twothings are essential, says Miss Mc-Pheeters, little or no headspace orairspace at the tops of the containers,and the least possible amount of airmixed in with the tomato juice dur-ing canning.

Tests of tomato juice put up in tinand glass containers and stored four,six and eight months, showed littledifference in Vitamin C when proper-ly processed. Among the glass con-tainers those with metal lids provedbest for saving vitamin C because ofthe small headspace required.

The best canning method is to pro-cess the juice in the jars, as thishelps to drive out air that is in thejuice. Heating of the juice in openkettles and pouring it into jars forsealing allows extra air to be cannedwith the juice.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES“Reality” will be the subject of

the Lesson-Sermon in all Churchesof Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Sep-

tember 30.The Golden Text will be from

Lam. 6:19—“Thou, O Lord, remain-est forever; thy throne from genera-tion to generation.”

Among the citations comprisingthe Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-lowing froun the Bible—lsaiah 44:6—“Thus saith the Lord the King ofIsrael, and his redeemer the Lord ofhosts: I am the first; and I am thelast; and beside me tehre is no God.”

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Waiting ContestHard as it may be to get a died-

in - the - wool bureaucrat thinkingabout winter problems in the sum-mer time, unless something unusualhappens, cold weather will comeagain. One of these days a schoolbell will ring, a boy will come downthe street bouncing a football andafter that it won’t be long. More-over winter calls for a lot of thingsthat are scarce now.

Let’s take shoes as a down-to-earth illustration. Which is betterfor keeping a boy’s feet off thefrosty ground, a 1942 price ceilingor a pair of good heavy brogueswith wool socks in them? That’s theproblem before the American peo-ple, with school bells only a fewdays away. Getting into productionon civilian goods is what the OPAis currently bungling.

Hold That PriceThe OPA’s war job was to keep

prices of needful things from sky-rocketing —a noble work requiringsome stiff Vules. But today, with thewar won and war business slack,OPA is still making rules. One ofthem says: Manufacturers maymake things for civilians providedthey sell at 1942 prices. There’s therub, for factory owners now readyto start reconverting, making jobssafe for their employees.

The 1942 price rule stops them;nothing else. Workers want theirjobs to last. Most civilians havesaved some money and want to buynew things. Industry is anxious toserve them but very few factoriescan operate at 1942 prices. Mate-rials cost more now and labor costsmore also. There is only one thing amanufacturer can do, namely, begOPA for special permission to price-up and go to work.

Mail Bags FullThe OPA, if you remember, is fa-

mous for leaving no stone unturned,and all that sort of thing. It is ru-mored that some men in the bureauhave their own private opinionsabout business people anyhow. Be-fore they grant any firm specialleave to change a price, they in-vestigate. That’s all right, but appli-cations to reconvert are coming infast, more than 500 a day.

The bureau will never wind up itsred tape in time. The only possi-ble way out of trouble is to make areasonable rule for all industry tofollow, let whistles blow at 6:00a. m. and ask questions later. Willthey do it? Who knows? Employeesand customers would probably cheerloudly for any employer who kept hispayroll alive and said "Ph-f-v-v-ut”to the OPA, but its dangerous.

Formula for PanicMost business men are conserva-

tive. They are likely to wait exact-ly as long as the OPA says wait. Un-able to do business on 1942 prices,they may pull fires from under theirboners and lay off the crew. Thenthe waiting contest starts. Bureauswill wait on investigations; employ-ers will wait on bureaus; workerswill wait on employers and you andI will wait for everything.

Idle workers in the soup-line;farmers without markets let cropsrot in the field. An ugly picture.The way to avoid it is to let indus-try convert, sell its products to peo-ple with money and pay the menwho work. Inflation can be pre-vented without starting a panic, ifOPA will adopt a workable rule soonenough. But bureaus are usuallymore interested in rules than inreasons—warts on the nose of prog-ress; bunions on the toe of time.

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To save extra dollars for War Bondsmake your own accessories. Thisperky cap is knitted of flame redwool, cuffed with navy felt. Thematching shoulder-strap bag is forschoolroom paraphernalia. Patternsat local stores. V. S. Treasury Department

Traffic Safety Slogan: Hardly adriver is still alive who passed onhills at 65. Drive carefully.

oWoolen worsted fabrics recently

released to the civilian trade are notexpected to appear in the form ofjgqn’s suits before late December,

TOWNER NAMED TO NATURAL

RESOURCES BOARD BY THE

GOVERNOR

Merle E. Towner, long associatedwith the organization and develop-ment of conservation activities in theState, has been named by GovernorHerbert It. O’Conor to the vacancyon the Board of Natural Resourcescaused by the death of Edwin G.Baetjer.

In making the announcement, Gov.ernor O’Conor stressed the Influen-tial part Mr. Towner had played overa period of many years In the protec-tion and conservation of the State’snatural resources and expressed thehighest confidence that he would bea valuable addition to tile Board.

“Mr. Towner was highly recom-mended for membership on theHoard of Natural Resources,” Gov-ernor O’Conor said, “by leaders Intonservatlon and by civic groups in-terested in this Held. He Is past Pres-ident of the Maryland State Gameand Fish Protective Association andis now a member of its Board; hewas one of the organizers of and IsImmediate Past President of theMaryland Sportsmen’s LuncheonClub, and his other civic acttvitels in-clude membership of the BaltimoreAssociation of Commerce, MarylandDevelopment Bureau, and member-ship on the Board of AutomobileClub of Maryland. He Is also a mem-ber of the Maryland Outdoor LifeFederation, past District Governorof the Capital District of Kiwanls In-ternational, and a member of theBoard of the Salvation Army.

"In addition to his sound under-standing of conservation problemsand his many years of experience inthis field, he has also had wide busi-ness experience, having served asGeneral Purchasing Agent of theWestern Maryland Railway Companysince 1920.

“Among the many conservation-minded citizens of our State, Mr.Towner’s judgment is highly regard-ed, anti he has the personal friend-ship and confidence of a wide circleof conservatloinsts.”

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The new appointee will fill out theunexpired term of Mr. Baetjer, whichwas for six years, from the Ist ofJune, 1944. He will be one of the sixappointive members of the Board,the others being President IsaiahBowman of Johns Hopkins Hospital;George S. Miles, Norman E. Carr,Ellsworth Leary and Nelson Col-bourne. Ex-Officio members of theBoard include Edwin Warfield, Jr.,Chairman, Commission of TidewaterFisheries; Joseph F. Kaylor, StateForester; Ernest A. Vaughn, StateGame Warden; Dr. Joseph T. Singe-wald, Director, Dept, of Geology,Mines and Water Resources; E. Les-ter Muller, Chairman, Maryland Pub-licity Commission, and R. V. Truitt,Director, Pfipt. of Research and Ed-ucation, University of Maryland.

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THE AUTO USE TAX

One of the most welcome state-ments millions of American motor-ists could hear was uttered the otherday when Congressman Doughton,chairman of the House Ways andMeans Committee, said: “As for theautomobile use tax, as far as I’mconcerned, we have paid for that thelast time. That’s a real nuisancetax.” That’s exactly what KeystoneAutomobile Club has been saying fora long time. No other tax has causedmore protest during war time. WhenMr. Doughton, as chairman of theCommittee which initiates tax legis-lation, comes out against a tax, it'susually a death warrant.

Far less welcome is the latest of-ficial comment on the nation’sgloomy tire situation. According to.a joint statement by WPB and OPA,the end of gas rationing has so in-creased the demand for tires that itwill be “many months” before mo-torists get all they need. Right now,more than a half-million unfilled tireapplications are backed up in rationboards waiting for replenishment ofquotas.

Traffic engineering faces its se-verest tests and greatest opportuni-ties in the post-war period now uponus, in the opinion of J. MaxwellSmith, President of Keystone Auto-mobile Club, expressed at the annualmeeting of the Institute of TrafficEngineers.

“It is unnecessary for me to telltraffic engineers the nature of theproblems just ahead,” he said. “Youare ready with post-war planningthat will insure expeditious move-ment of traffic with a maximum ofsafety to those who drive and thosewho walk. There is only one thingthat can prevent you from givingthis country the finest system oftraffic controls in the world—andthat is insufficient funds for person-nel and equipment. The public mustbe ‘sold’ on the absolute need foradequate appropriations.

“If we are to meet the challengeof post-war traffic, States and Citiesmust revise their traffic engineeringbudgets upward. There must be more'generous treatment of this phase ofthe over-all traffic problem than hasbeen shown in the past. No matterhow efficient a traffic department,may be, it cannot translate its goodintentions into accomplishments un-less funds are provided for the planson the blueprints.”

Foreign nations do not look uponUnited States as the key to peace asmuch as to the larder.

Dropping of the normal Income taxis urged, apparently as away of re-turning to normalcy.

E. KIRK BROWN, SOLICITORORDER OP PUBLICATION

James Irving O’Neal, Complainantvs.

Frances Virginia O'Neal, Defendant1 In the Circuit Court for Cecil County

Equity No. 04X0i The object of this Bill Is to secure

■ a decree divorcing the Complainant’ a vinculo matrimonii from the De-

i fendant.The Bill states that the Complain-

ant was married to the Defendant onthe 22nd day of July, 1939, in Clay-ton, Kent County, Delaware, with

1 whom he resided until the 19th duyof August, 1943; that, though theconduct of the Complainant towardsthe said Frances Virginia O’Neal hasalways been kind, affectionate andabove reproach, the said Frances Vir-ginia O’Neal has, without any justcause or reason, abandoned and de-serted him and has declared her In-tention to live with him no longer,and that such abandonment has con-tinued uninterruptedly for at leastelgtheen months, and is deliberateand linal, and the separation beyondany reasonable expectation of recon-ciliation; that two children wereborn to said marriage, a daughter,Nancy Lee O’Neal, who Is five yearsof age, and a son, James D. O'Neal,who is three years of age; that theComplainant has resided in CediCounty for more than one year pastbefore the filing of this Bill, and theDefendant resides at Middletown,Delaware. The Bill then prays for adecree divorcing the Complainantfrom the Defendant a vinculo matri-monii, and for such other and fur-ther relief as his case may require.

IT IS THEHEUPON, this 18th dayof September, 1945, by the CIRCUITCOURT FOR CECIL COUNTY, INEQUITY, ORDERED that the Com-plainant cause a copy of this Order,with the object and substance of theBill, to be inserted in some newspa-per published in Cecil County once aweek for four successive weeks, be-fore teh 22nd day of October, 1945,giving notice to the Defenadnt, Fran-ces Virginia O’Neal, who is a non-resident of the State of Maryland; toappear in this Court, either in per-son or by solicitor, on or before the7th day of November, 1945, to an-swer the premises and abide by andperform such decree as may be pass-ed therein.

Ralph R. Crothers,Clerk.

True Copy-—Teste—Ralph R. Crothers,

Clerk.

DDT KILLS BEDHUOSDDT, the new Insecticide, is the

perfect answer to the bedbug prob-lem, says the U. S. Department ofAgriculture in a statement positivelyrecommending DDT for this purpose.

If DDT is applied properly as a 5percent spray or a 10 per cent pow-der to mattresses, beds and chickenhouses, these places will remain freeof bedbugs for 6 months or more.

Wettable DDT may be used in wa-ter as a spray, but leaves an unsight-ly residue.

When a 5 percent DDT solution—--7 ounces technical grade DDT and 1gallon kerosene is used, about 3 liq-uid ounces of this spray is needed to

. each full size bed. This is enoughmaterial for a thorough and careful

i treatment of the mattress, pillows,. sprigns and joints in the bed frame.

> The spray should be forced into each• joint of the bed and both sides of the

i mattress should be lightly treated,i After a few hours of drying the bed! may be made up and used without

. fear of injury to the occupant.; One and onehalf ounces of 10 per

cent DDT powder is sufficient fortreatment of a full size beef. It is ap-

i plied to the same location as recom-i mended for the spray. It is not nec-

essary to treat walls, because bedbugs must come to the beds formeals of blood and are killed when

. they come in contact with the resi-, due of DDT on the bed.■ It is advisable. Federal entomolo-

gists say, to wear a mask when ap-: plying the spray to avoid irritation

due to kerosene or to excessive inha-. lation of DDT. The risk is not great.. Some ventilation is necessary during

treatment, and, of course, one mustbe careful not to use an oil spray

. near a fire. They emphasize that gas-oline must never be used.

oA number of the principal Christ-

ian churches in Rangoon, Burma,; were badly damaged by occupying

Japanese forces, according to word; received from the Rev. Clarence E.

Olmstead, an American Methodist- missionary now carrying on relief

: work under the British military gov-: eminent. The Bible Society building

; at the Immanuel Baptist Church, he1 reports, received direct bomb hits;

the Baptist Press was looted of its. contents; the Anglican Cathedral

was ‘‘polluted from end to end” by• the making of rice beer there; the

Roman Catholic Cathedral was injur-. ed, but is still usable; the Anglican

i “Iron Church” was used as a store; room, and the Diocesan Girls School

; as a hospital; the Teachers Train-■ ing College was wrecked; the Metho-

i dist English Girls School suffered a• direct bomb hit. It is expected that

all these properties will soon be re-[ turned to the former owners.

! With more coal and longer shirttails, the dread of the coming winterdiminishes.

1 Truman asks for a $17,000,000,-i 000 cut for the Navy. Boys, shall we

let him have it?

i British representatives want loans- without interest. It’s lucky they nev-

though oI negative interest.