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GE TWO HOME FRONT DECEMBlj:R, 1944

NationalWar FundLeader PraisesAlabama Chest Continued Heavy Demand Forseen ForWaste Paper Even After V-E DayForest FirePrevention UrgedBy C. D. Director

GOVERNOR URGES(Continued from page 1)"May I suggest that you and al lthose in your s tate interes ted in th eVictory Garden program give fullestcooperation to th e development ofthese committees ~ n of th e program as a whole."The Victory Garden Program inAlabama ha s been very successful,largely through the direction andcooperation of the Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnic In stitute.Director Paterson has contactedoff icials of th e Extension Service

acquainting them with Gove rnorCooper's appeal; also War ServicesOrganizations in urban centers ad vising them to cooperate wholehearte

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"An outstanding accomplishmentin the war effort in th e communityshould be rewarded by a testimonialjust as on th e battle front," de clared Haygood Paterson, Directorof th e State Defense Council in presenting a Service Award to th eMontgomery County High School atRamer at an impressive ceremonyin the school chapel, December 7th.Director Paterson congratulatedth e student body on th e well rounded program outlined by t he RamerStudent Defense Council for th ecurren t year in cooperation an d support of th e war effort through civilia n defense activities. "Such a program," he said, "carried out byevery school in the country woulddo much t oward short en ing th ewar."Dr. Clarence Dannelly, Count ySuperintendent o f Educa ti on ad

dressed th e assemblage briefly onschools at war, point ing with prideto the fact that th e schools ofMontgomery, Alabama, were th efirst in the enti re country to adopt.a comprehensive defense programfea turing home gardens, rationing,salvage, sale of stamps an d bonds,first aid, fire drills, etc.Miss Mildred Smith of t he Mon tgomery Advertiser staff, who i s verymuch interested in the defense ac t ivfties of th e Ramer school assuredth e students of good pUblicity forthe scrap book t hey a re maint ai ning.The speakers were int roduced byMr. Leo Harris, professor of science,and the award accepted by MaryOla Ford, President of th e RamerStudent Council, who expressed ap preciation for th e recognition ac

corded th e Montgomery CountyHigh School.The Ramer Student DefenseCouncil is made up of representatives of each homeroom and thepresident of all classes an d organizations. The officers ar e as follows: President , Mary a la Ford;Vice-Pr es iden t, Haywood Cosby;

Secretary, Margaret Tompkins; Reporter, Mamie Ruth Mills; Treasurer, Tommye Jean Sellers, Parliamentarian, Franklin Mosely; an dsponsor Miss Louise Kelly.

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Service AwardPresented ToRamer School

Buy War Bonds

MONTGOMERY SCHOOLS(Continued from page 2)schools are collecting paper buthave not a s yet r epor te d i t.Forest Avenue Schoo l co ll ect ed1,354 pounds and th e combined Cloverdale Elementary an d JuniorHighSchoo ls coll ec ted a total of 1,288pounds. No other school in th e citycollected as much as a thousandpounds.

ILumber an d pulpwood a re need-

led to manufacture crates and boxesto ship food an d military supplies: - - - - - - - - -_- - - - - to ou r fighting forces.

The Montgomery County High School at Ramer has the distinction of being the first school in th e State to receive a; CivilianDefense Service Award for full c o ~ p e r a t i o n an d support of the wareffort through civilian defense activities. The'student body has developed a fine program, which it is car ry ing out in th e spirit of truepatriotism. Officers of th e Ramer Student Defense Council are shownabove. Reading from left to r ight t hey are: Miss Loui se Kelly ,sponsor; Hayward Cosby, Vice-President; Mamie Ruth Mills, Reporter;P. H. Harri s, P rinc ipal ; Margare t Tompkins, Secretary; FranklinMosely, Parliamentarian; Mary ala Ford, President; an d TommyeJean Sellers, Treasurer.

Benea th the group is pictured the service flag and honor rollmade up o-f all former students of Ramer School, who have enteredth e service. The ent ire school is proud of its record-235 blue starsand 3 gold ones. The service flag an d honor roll are kept up todate by th e Nin th Grade Homeroom und er th e direction of MissKelly, Sponsor of th e Defense Council.

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Officers Of Ramer Student DefenseCouncil And School Service Roll

excepted, commit misdemeanors.Those ent it le d t o drive may be,. '. . .h au le d in to cou rt f or driving alonga. route s erv ed by buses or trains.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Food For Thought I

I h ea rd t he 'bells on Chr is tmasDayTheir old familiar carols p lay,And wild an d sweet th e wordsrepeatOf Peace on ear th , Good Will to

men!

CHRISTMAS BELLS

Till, ringing, singing on its way,The world revolved from night

to day,A voice, a chime, a chant sublime,Of Peace on earth, Good Will tomen!

I thought how, as th e day ha dcome,The belfries of all ChristendomHad rol led along th e unbrokensongOf Peace on earth, Good Will to

men!And in despair I bowed my head;"There is no Peace on ea rth ,"I said;"Fo r h at e is strong, an d mocksthe songOf Peace on earth, Good Will to

men."Then pealed th e bells more loud

an d deep;"God is no t dead, nor d oth hesleep!The wrong shall fail, th e rightprevail,With Peace on earth, Good Willto men!"

ER, 1944

Under the head .of "Food Fo rthe following editorialth e New York Times appearedn the November 200th issue of th eDefense Council News.are passing it on as food for

for Alabamians:"Most Americans are resigned, ift cheerful, under th e restrictionsby t he war upon their purof happiness . Some complaing is heard, nevertheless. There isat th e scarcity of such

as cigarettes, whisky, chewg gum, nylon hosiery and touringYet these "sufferings"uld be worse. I f we lived in Greatthey would be a whole lo t"Consider some of the wartimethe British endu re , a sby The Outpost, Amer.icanover there. A ci tize nthat land can be prosecuted forout' milk bot tles that ha;vet been washed; for throwing away.crap of paper even a s small asbus ticket; for to ss ing a crust ofinto the garbage bin, forthat food costs sailors' l ives."Able -bod ied c ivi li ans who drivework, doctors an d clergymen only

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Ev:en with t he P ap er -Holidaybeing practiced in a large number of cities, towns an d villages,there s ti ll wi ll be huge quantitiesof paper used to wrap purchases .I t is hoped that this Christmas,people wi ll find some way tocarry their packages unwrapped.Sure, it may be inconvenient, bu tthis is war! Paper is needed tofight the war and when Victoryis ours we will no t have t o s uf fe rth e inconvenience we now experience. .Whether the quantity is largeor small ,every scrap of paper iswanted. It may be wrappingpaper, boxes, cartons, tissue orfancy papers; wha tever it is, itshould be SALVAGED and notBURNED.

I t is unpatriotic to burn paper.. . .. . it is unpatriotic to throwpaper in th e garbage, or in th eashcan . . . . it is unpatriotic touse paper extravagantly andwastefully!

INSCRIPTION ON THE STATUTEOF LIBERTY

Give me Y O ~ i r e d ' your poor,Your huddle masses yearning tobe free,The wretchedyefuse of your teemingshore,Send these, th e homeless, th e tempest-tossed, to me:I lift my lamp beside th e goldendoor.

\. Salvage-YourXmas-WrappingsWe will have considerably lessmeat an d about seven percent lessbutter during th e remainder of 1944and t he first three months of 1945,according to the Alabama StateNutrition Council. The supply ofstandard and sub-standard gradesof canned vegetables is larger thannormal.Supplies o f f re sh and frozen fishin the next three months will bemore plent iful than in th e corresponding period of 1943-44.The Nat iona l Nut ri tion programhas f or its t heme in November andDecember "Share and Play Square."The Alabama Nutrit ion Councilin its November Newsletter stated,"Because about forty percent of theaverage family's expenditures goesfor food, food p rices wi ll be a keyfactor in deciding whether we areable to return to a prosperous postwar economy. At this critical time,only s light addi tional increases infood p rices wou ld te needed to setof f a d is as tr ous upward sp ir al o fwages and prices."The theme of the campaign is'Let's all team up to keep p ricesdown for th e sake of America's future. " Organizat ions may cont ri bute by as king their membe rs t ocompare th e prices of their regulargrocery purchases with th e pricesof th e official ceiling price l is ts d isplayed in grocery stores."

Nutrition _CouncilDiscusses FoodOutlook For 1945JUDGE CARTER-CitIzen of lVlonth

Leads MontgomeryCounty To VictoryIn Bond Drives

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CONSERVE FUEL(Continued from page 1)

People are too inclined, accordingto Mr. Paterson to assume thatnothing can be done to reduc e theircoal bills, whereas com\?ustion en gineers know that householders canprofit by professional advice inheating problems just as sur el y a sthey can profit by th e advi ce oflawyers or doctors when confrontedby legal or medical problems.There are great differences between ways in which coal should beburned: T!:Ie nature of th e burningequipment must also be . taken intoconsideration. Coal dealers in a d vising their customers no t onlyspeak f rom many years experiencebu t they have th e benefit of advicefrom the producers of th e fuels theyhandle.

Capt. Atkinson _PIe-ads For Effo-rt- In 6thWar LoanCapt. John H. Atk inson, Commander of th e Jef fe rson CountyCitizen's Defense COl"PS appealed tovolunteer civilian defense workersto pu t forth th e supreme effort inorder to secure Jefferson County'squota -of "E" Bonds in the 6th Wa rLoan. He warned against fallaciousoptimism regarding the war situation, declaring that we know th etrue facts:. Churchill in a speech before Parliament revises hi s earlier statemen t, to th e "summer of 1945" in stead of "early summer".Gen. Eisenhower states munitionsare being used at a rate fa r aboveplans and calls for increased production.War workers are leaving vital warplants for perma;nen t peace timejobs, thus creating a manpowershortage at th e worst possible. time.With the adven t of winter in Europe our effort is handicapped byweather cQnditions which affect mo'bility of transport and th e ai r support possible in favorable weather.In th e Pacific theatre of oper ations t he J ap s on th e offensive havenegated th e work of months by ou rai r force by capturing our ai r bases Alabama is p roud o f he r distincfrom th e Chinese, which were to tion of being one of th e few Stateshave been used in bombing the ter- to achieve her quota in e ac h of th er it ory o f Japan p r o p e ~ . Our Phil-I five War Loan Drives. The Sixthippine invasion although brilliantly War Loan Campaign is no t yet over,conceived and executed is almost bu t Alabamians can be counted on Broadcasting' Stations, while th estalemated by weather, and t he de- to repeat their splendid efforts of Fire and Police Departments havecis ion of t he J ap s to fight a major previous campaigns in strengthen- cooperated act ively. Cit izens Ser-campaign on Leyte. ing America to win th e Peace as vice Block Leaders again ident if ied at ten di ng t he pub lic schools ofWe are entering our fourth year well as the War through the pur- themselves with the war e ffor t on Montgomery and Starke's Universityo f t hi s war. I t is evident i f we are chase of U. S. War Bonds. the Home Front through th e active School. Graduating in Law at th eto keep up th e tempo of our effort Montgomery County ha s played sale of War Bonds. . University of Alabama in 1916, hewe must continue to supply billions an impor ta nt role in every State U. S. Anuy posts at Maxwell and served as County Solicitor of Chamfor munitions and manpower. Com. War Loan Campaign. Under t he Gun te r Fields played major roles in bel'S County, Alab ama in 1921-22.pare our casualty l is ts with a year able leadership of Judge Eugene W. each campaign. Th e negroes , too In 1925 th e young lawyer removedago. Over all to d ate more than Carter, Executive Chairman of th e organized and made a valuable c'n- to Montgomery to practise raw;half a mil lion men have been killed Montgomery County War Finance Itribution. served in th e Legislature fromwounded, reported as missing in a c Committee s ince Decembe r 1942, According to th e Official Record Montgomery Coun ty f rom 1927-31.tion and taken prisoners of war. Montgomery County no t only at - of th e Montgomery County War F i- In July of 1931 he married Miss

tained its quota in th e five p re- n an ce Office, thi s County has over Mary Virginia Wilson.vious bond drives, bu t ~ a exceeded subscribed to each of th e previous Judge Carter is interested inthe amoun t assigned in each cam- five War Bond drives: every civic movement designed topaign. F ir st War Loan quo ta $5,000,000; upbuild Montgomery having servedJudge Carter' s organization is for over $6,000,000 subscribed. Second a s: P re si dent of t he Jun io r Chamthe most part a volunteer g r o ~ p War ~ o a l 1 quota $4,203,375;. amount Ibel' of Commerce, Monarch of Hindamade up of men, women, and chil- subscnbed, $7,571,000. ThIrd War Grotto, President of th e Montgomdren from every walk of life. Father Loan quota, $9,970,000; amount sub ery Lions Club, President o f th eparticipates through his civic 01'- scribed $15,655,000. Fourth War General Gorgas 'Chapter of th eganization, mothe r through her wo- Loan quota $7,382,000; amount sub- National Sojourners, and Potenta teman's c lub, whi le Junior is doing scribed $10,842,000. Fif th War Loan of Alcazar Temple.his share at school. Big tus iness , quota $9,489,000; amount sulscribed Judge Carter is reminding Mont-too ha s been prominently repre- $20,291,000. gomery County Citizens that theysented. The Montgomery banks I Judge Eugene Carter to whom must "keep on keeping on"unti lmaintain a special department at much of the credit is due for th e they have achieved their goal fortheir own expense to handle War success of the War Bond Drives in th e Sixth War Loan Drive, th e mostBond Sales, alone. The merchant s Montgomery' County is well known important to date fo'r th e successfulhave marshalled their store person.- as an outstanding jurist,. having cont inuance of our wa r effort:nel in true Army f ashion w ith ,served as one of th e Judges of t heamazing results. 15th Judicial Circuit since 1935.Valuable publicity contributions to A native Montgomerian, Judge Iall War Loan Drives have been Carter w born in th e Capital City Buy War Bondsmade by th e Motion Picture Thea-! October 18, 1894, th e son of Eugene I tr es , dai ly newspaper s, and Radio S. Carter and Emma Stovall Carter, =----------------