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Although we have learned to think in terms of our
duty of defending Latin America from foreign aggres
sion, it remained for the closing of our trade routes to
the Far East to show us how dependent we are on the
Hispanic nations to the south. Actually, we need them
quite as much as they need us, or a bit more.
Our greatest war effort, for a long while to come
certainly, will be in the realm of industrial production.
But we are not self-sufficient. Cut off from the rubber,
tin, tungsten, chromite, hemp, and other vital strategic,
commodities usually bought from the Southwest Pacific
we are obliged to turn to Latin America for all of
these or substitute materials.
We are lending vast sums of monev and a wealth
of technical skills for the development of highways,
railroads, steel mills, packing plants, and power pro
jects in all parts of Latin America. And we are obliged
to continue exports to the Hispanic nations of those
military and civilian necessities which they must have
* to carry on their own productive efforts.
While political negotations stole the headlines at Rio
de Janiero, the fact remains that the solid work of
that meeting was chiefly in the realm of economic bar
gaining. American exporters will not only find it
advantageous to meet all the demands of Latin-Am
erican buyers, so far as American policy permits, but
have a chance to do a patriotic job in helping build an
enduring economic partnership between the United
States and its neighbors. — Cincinnati Enquirer.
Fire's Destruction
Here is a set of figures which is a disgrace to the
United States. During the month of December, the na
tional fire loss totaled $31,361,000 — $77,439,000 more
than the November figure. During all of 1941 the total
fire loss was $322,357,000, as compared with less than
$306,500,000 in the preceding twelvemonth. And these
figures cover only direct loss. They do not cove" in
direct loss—loss of business, loss of erhplovment. loss
of taxes, etc.—which runs into countless millions more.
It would be a grave mistake to think of fire only in
terms of the money values destroyed. That is serious,
certainly, in normal times, when there is an abun
dance of labor and supplies and time. In these war
times, the money destruction of fire is dwarfed to in
significance by other aspects.
Fire makes ash and rubble of essential materials—
materials which in many cases are dangerously scarce.
Fire takes the labor of men and women—labor which
should be used for productive military purposes. Fire
drains the nation, consumes human energies, and
wastes irreplaceable time. Every person in this coun
try can do something to help prevent fire. And every
one must, if it is to be licked. Every setback for fire
is a battle won in the great production war which
underlies the military service to the nation. War will
leave little enough for civilian consumption as it is.
We simply can’t afford destructive fire.
HE FOOLED ’EM
Hagerstown, Md., — A
plant official approached a
laborer during a defense
stamp drive but the labor
er turned a cold shoulder
to requests that he buy a
•stamp.
"But I’ll take a bond,"
the workman added.
"What denomination?"1
he was asked.
"A $5000 one will be
about right," he replied.
He got it.
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Transportation Will Soon Be
Touffh Issue: 4Y ievved with Alarm*
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WASHINGTON — While some folks are fiddling
around making jokes about tire and automobile ration
ing and the prospective shortage of motor fuel along
the northeastern seaboard, a lot of federal officials
and leaders in the transportation industries are really
“viewing with alarm.” There are, they say, several
phases of national defense that the priorities boys
seemed to ^have overlooked when they knocked auto
production*down to zero and made tires more precious
than diamonds. It’s only a question of days when re
treads and recaps will also drop into the ration box,
and it’s only a question of months before these short
! ages are going to be hammered home with a ven
, geanee. What is going to happen then in some vital
defense centers is not pure conjecture, but a matter
! of facts and figures that on the surface seem almost
undeniable.
For example, a preliminary survey by one national
1 organization discloses that:
Access to one of the larger tank plants is ENTIRELY
by passenger cars. Here, 1.800 workers drive an av
era e of 20 miles a day now and by midsummer 3,500
additional workers will be employed.
At one of the navy yards, 3,000 workers travel more
than 00 miles round trip daily to get to and from work.
At one of the largest aircaft engine plants, 84 ner
cent of employees commute by automobile and under
no circumstances could more than half of these get
there by other means.
This same survey reports that there are 2.320 cities
and towns in the country, with 12,500.000 persons
without any form of mass transportation and solely
dependent upon passenger automobiles for getting
about. ;
As for defense plants serviced bv buses, one that
now is receiving 231 regular bus trips and 89 special
ones at peak hours daily, is typical.
To go into the vast increases in truck and trailer
use because of the big stepup in farm production, coal,:
wood pulp, lumber, etc., and because of the increased
trucking of materials, is merely to enlarge the picture
almost beyond comprehension.
Passenger car production has practically ceased;!
truck production for civilian purposes may stop in
March or April; civilian bus production is well below
normal in spite of the huge orders backed up for
months; the rubber situation is well known; and the!
threat of a parts shortage may become a reality at any
moment.
The situation isn’t hopeless. What is worrying gov
ernment and transportation company officials is that
the public is taking it with such complacency and that
the response to pleas for conservation have been al- j
most nil. Several of the auto and transportation or
ganizations are now.battling to get Joseph B. Eastman,
director of defense transportation, made a member of
the war production board, with authority to correlate
and have a definite say in highway, railway, waterway,
airway, pipeline and commuter transportation; in de
fense plant housing, staggered working hours, elim
inat’on of traffic bottlenecks, in pooling private and
public transportation for both passengers and freight,
and in allocation of priority materials for transporta
tion. — By Jack Stinnett.
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Seamen go about making repairs to the deck of a U. S. warship hit by a Jap bomb
during the attack on the Japanese bases on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
Note marks of bomb fragmentation at extreme right. This ship did serious dam
age to the Jap base on Taroa island in the Marshall and Gilbert group.
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Raids on islands in the Marshall and Gilbert groups by
the U. S. Navy resulted in the sinking of five Japan
ese warships and 11 auxiliary ships; the destruction
of 41 Japanese planes; and the smashing of shore in
stallations.
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NENANA ICE POOL
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The Nenana Ice Pool organiza
tion has started functioning in
prepaartion for the great annual
spring event. Tickets can be had
at the Nome Drug Store, Polar
Bar, the Navada saloon and at
Jack Solomon’s.
Rules governing the 1942 Ice
Pool contest are:
Nenana Ice Pool closes April 4,
1942, midnight.
No refunds for rejected tickets.
No silent partners will be re
cognized as winners.
Key ticket—Name of combinn- i
tion signed on front of ticket, i
placing as many names as con
venient on back; making your
combination list as follows:
Key ticket Serial No.
Name of Combination
Names
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