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FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1944 _
FIGURES AND PERCENTAGES
During 1943, the lend-lease aid furn
ished to other allied powers, was valued
at very- nearly 12 billion dollars, of which
total, more than half was accounted for
in military equipment such as ships,
tanks, planes, guns, ammunition, bombs
and military vehicles.
The British Empire received, out of
the 1943 total, over 40 percent, Rurria
nearly 30 percent, and China little over
10 percent.
Of the total Ignited States expend-1
itures for war effort in 1943, slightly
more than 14 percent was used for lend
lease, the balance being used by our own.
armed forces, at home and abroad.
AIR POWER—COMING UP!
U. S. production rates have hit a
new high!
Messages to Berlin and Tokyo are
coming off the production line every!
hour of the day, every day of the year,
in American air craft factories.
February hit a new high with 350
planes for one day, and a record of 8,760,
lor the entire month
According to War Production Board;
reports, 43 plants have met or exceeded j
their production schedules~an excel-1
lent achievement.
According to recently released.figures
on Lend-Lease, America has sent near-j
ly 30,000 planes to build up the air
forces of our Allies, with almost $2,000,
000,000 in aircraft engines and parts, in
the three years of Lend-Lease.
During the three years of Lend-Lease
the United States has built more than
150,000 planes, which means over 120.
000 for American military use.
Also in the production stage are new
super gliders, the largest, motorless,
heavier-than-air craft, ever built in the
United States.
The gross carring capacity of these
slips has not been disclosed, but it can
be said that the capacity is considerably
greater than that of previous models de
signed for the Army.
The new mammoth glider, as was
with previous designs, is slated for use
as an all purpose carrier, from general
cargo, rolling stock, mechanized equip'
ment, and possibly as a troop carrier.
On the bottom of the glider are two
specially designed landing skids for use
in difficult landing areas, while a pair
of wheels and a tail skid (or wheel) is
used in regular landings.
The nose section is specially designed
to permit easy loading, and unloading of
the cargo.
KEEP IT A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
The trend toward regimentation dur
ing the last several years and persistent
governmental interference with our
plan of living, together with mounting
taxation may make this country any
thing but a land of opportunity.
Of course there are always more sheep
than shepherds. Large numbers will
stand for any amount of shoving around
but the majority of American people
have progressed to a point whereat they
will not tolerate constant restriction and
back-breaking taxation burdens.
Throughout the world America has
long "been rightfully considered the land
of opportunity. Let us do everything pos
sible to see that this country continues
to offer something other than monoto
nous, treadmill existence to its people
in the years to come
Certainly there have been great
changes since those days before income
taxes were thought of but insofar as
the average person can see he is not
getting anything in particular in return.
And with the national debt at its pres
ent total only an incurable optimist can
see any possibility of lighter tax burdens
in the future. We talk so much about
high living standards and, at the same
time, seem to be doing everything possi
ble to put higher standards beyond
reach. We got along fairly well back
in the “nineties” and during the first
ten years of this century when income
taxes, sales taxes and a great many
other taxes were not considered neces
sary. Most people will maintain that
there is no alternative to increased tax
men but it is just that attitude of mind
*hat makes it easier for those to accom
plish their purpose who would boost
"xns beyond all reason.
LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
A Miscellany—
Thomas B. Morgan is not a
Catholic, yet for 18 years he was
very close to the Vatican, and
today is in a position to discuss
that much discussed little State
with as complete authoriy as any
Protestant could muster. ‘‘The
Listening Post” is that discussion
•—it includes something about the
background that produces the
Vatican State, much about the
way in which it is administered,
much about many of the people
who live and labor there, and a
thorough discussion of the Holy
Father’s sources of information
and the ways in which he can
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evaluate these and use them. Mr.
Morgan’s acquainianceship with
the present Pope in the days
when he was the Holy See’s most
effective diplomatic agent has
proved valuable to him in this
book. (Putnam; $3).
The campaign biographies have
begun to appear. Karl B. Pauly
has done a better than usual job
on his man in “Bricker of Ohio.”
As is usual in such books, he does
not give much space to his can
didate’s mistakes, and he does
bear down pretty heavily on hi:
virtues—especially Bricker’s rec
ord of astute financial adminis
tration in Ohio. The book is
cleverly designed to presem
Bricker to his best audience ir
the finest possible light, the aud
ience being of course the business
world. (Putnam; $2).
The peculiar delusion that all
pioneering was done by illiterate
stalwarts in fringed buckskin
worn at the shoulder and side
from lugging a blunderbuss, dies
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hard in these United States. Ade
laide L. Fries deals it another
clout, however, in “The Road to
Salem,” which is the story of the
Moravians who about 1753 mi
grated from Pennsylvania to west
ern North Carolina, taking with
them their culture almost intact.
Daniel Boone was then living on
the Yadkin; yet a few miles away
these Moravians were making
music (importing a pipe organ, in
cidentally) and were expertly ad
ministering many fields. (Chap
el Hill; $4).
And Michael Evlanoff has pro
duced a careful and often very
interesting biography of the dyna
mite king who went in for peace
prizes. There is not much excite
ment in “Nobel—Prize Donor,”
but there is a good picture of a
great industrialist. (Revell; $2.50)
FORMER NOME GIRL
TO VISIT HERE
Miss Sarah Chapman arrived
from Fairbanks, where she and
her mother, Mrs. E. Chapman,
formerly of Nome, have been liv
ing, to spend the summer vaca
tion with her aunt, Mrs. Charles
Yeager.
NOME GIRL RETURNS
TO HER HQME
Miss Grace O’Connor, daughter
of Duffy O’Connor, and graduate
of Nome High School, returned to
Nome recently. She has been
teaching at Council.
PRIEST PRAYED
FOR U. S. CITIZENSHIP
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. —
<AP>—Father Cyril Johann Fisch
er, a Franciscan monk, once on
the Gestapo death list, saw his
prayers answered in naturaliza
tion court recently when he be
came a U. S. citizen.
Austrian-born, Father Fischer
was ordered in 1927 by his supe
riors to travel in Germany and
study Nazism. For three years he
gathered data for the first of a i
series of anti-Nazi books which^
were published in Vienna begin-!
njng in 1932. He was the object
of death threats over the Munich
propaganda radio station.
In 1938 Innsbruck headquarters
of the order bade him flee for his
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life. When Austria fell, he fled to
Hungary and finally by devious
routes made his way to America.
NOTICEI
A Republican Club meeting
will be held on Monday, June „
5, at 8:00 p. m., in the court
room of the Federal building.
IRMA TAYLOR.
Secretary
ATTENTION. ODD FELLOWS!
The regular meeting of the
Odd Fellows will be held Fri
day. June 2nd. at 8:00 p. n»„
at the home of Brother Stan
ley Morgan.
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