PAGE FOUR THE STAR Publiehed Every Friday at Port St. Joe, Fla, by The Star Publishing Campany W..S. SMITH, Editor Oe ET ‘Entered as second-clasa matter, December 10, 1987, at the - «Postoffice, Port St. Joe, Fla., under Act of March 3, 1879. Ron er ee ee ee SUBSCRIPTION INVARIABLY PAYABLE IN ADVANCE One Year....... Six Months.......$1.00 —# Telephone 51 #e- TO ADVERTISERS—In case of error or omissions in adver- tisements, the publishers do not hold themselves liable for damages further than amount receiqwed for auch advertisement. scant attention; the printed werd The spoken word barely asserts; The spoken word The spoken word is given is thoughtfully weighed. > the printed word thoroughly convinces. is lost; the printed word remains. ee ~ -Right or Wrong ‘THE WEEKLY A heartwearming sign that the civilization we have known so long is still hanging on is the weekly newspaper. It is holding its own. From 1938 to 1943, a very trying time for newspapers as well as people, only 454 of them .~ went out of business. Maybe some of them became dailies. Maybe cthers boarded up for the duration. But there are still nearly 11,000 over the land, doing their bit for the folk in fhe valleys and hills. A few years ago there were those who fore- ccast the death of the weekly. It could not _ withstand radio. The drain to the city, the rush for defense jobs and call to’arms would mean its doom. But the prophet did not know the small community. Neither did he know the ‘love one develops for running a small news- paper. Even though the life is less glamorous . than that of a metropolitan daily, it has its ‘own deeply rooted charms. It is hard to for- get the lic-loc tune of the press on publication day. It is a rare experience to know that she is out again, to remove the forms, redistri- bute the type and mail her out to apprecia- tive customers. It.is a place where the back office is close to the front, and the whole is diffused with an atmosphere that is hard to put behind and leave. The little towns are still our strongholds. There we find devotion and affection for com- munity life. Folks may be complacent at ‘times, but they feel they are a part of their government, not little saplings in a dense _ woodland. It is comforting to know that their “Gnstitutions are still rooted, that they are weathering one of the great crises of history and will live to carry on a great heritage.— Dallas (Texas) News. witty TAKE A STAY-AT-HOME VACATION ‘ODT’s recommendation to “postpone your * ‘travel vacation until after V-J Day” need hold * dittle inconvenience for the people of /Port St. Joe. Beaches, lakes, waterways and fishing camps are all right at our doorstep and with- ‘in easy reach. So we don’t have to feel that we're war-marogned as far as recreational _ facilities are concerned. There’s no need to clutter up the trains and ‘buses when all we have to do is pile the family in the car and go out to the Gulf beaches for the day Or rent a cabin up on the Dead Lakes fora week or so if we feel that we need a longer vacation.: Sure, maybe we’d like to go to sonie of, the nation’s big cities or go and view some of the national parks, but they'll still be there when, “the war is over and we cam visit them at our leisttre and not be forced to further overcrowd _ the already overtaxed transportation facilities. “Spend your’ vacation and your vacation ‘money here. at home —you'll probably get just as much enjoyment out of it. One of the radio comedians told of a family *that had so much trouble settling the father’s estate that there were times when they al- most wished he had not died—Punta Gorda Herald. . 4 A on Keep smiling—and Buy Bonds! reads about the meeting. -itors feel that the average GI can’t help be- | the war against Japan is changing into a war THE STAR; PORT. ST. JOE, GULF COUNTY, FLORIDA THE SERVICE COLUMN: | Newspapers throughout the nation carry! weekly columns similar to The Star’s “Our Boys With the Colors” column. Why and how the column contributes to the morale of the! man in the service and of the folks back home | is told in “The National Publisher,” monthly | trade magazine. Quoting an army sergeant, | it says: a Sr | “A GI can makeheadlines in. his home-town | paper on D-Day, A-Day, $-Day and all the | other days in the invasion alphabet. If he! gets a slug through the chair knuckle, the home-town gazette plants his picture where all the neighbors can see it; if he squeaks | through Without a scratch, the picture Bune anyway because he ‘didn’t’ get shot. The ed- , itor picks up two pieces of copy. from the | army public relations office. One story tells about a new lightweight gas drum that will | save millions of cubic feet of shipping space ;: the other mentions that some. home-town | doggie got himself a pfc stripe. The editor | | plunks the gas-drum story into the waste- basket and runs the pfc promotion. Sam Sampson writes his mother from Tacloban, ; saying he bumped into Joe Gish, who used to | drive the milk truck—and the whole town | ” This news about the local boy at war serves a double purpose in building up the morale! of the soldier and bringing the war closer | to the folks at home, Sgt. Meyers reports. Ed- | ing pleased when somebody mails him a copy of the home-town paper with his name in it, and the average civilian may have no idea whatever of what the front is like, but he’s bound to feel a bit closer to the war when he reads that the guy across the street had a rough time at St. Lo or Mindanao. THE ‘ARITHMETIC’ OF GEOGRAPHY As the Japanese retreat from their earlier conquests into “inner” defense zone of Korea, Manchuria and the. Japanese Islands, an of distance and geography. Geographically, of course, Japan is vulner- able both to blockade and bombardment., Yet, because of the immense distances of the Pa- cific, Japan’s ever shortening lines of com- munication give her an advantage over the United States in “supply” differential that Nazi Germany never enjoyed. \ In other words, the problem confronting our army and navy chiefs is to equalize the enormous differential in distance between our supply sources and our fighting lines, to bal- ance the incomparably shorter communication lines of the Japanese. That means, first and foremost,: more ships, since it takés almost three cargo vessels in the Pacific to do the work of one in the At- lantic. It also means more bases,. airfields, staging areas, and construction of new ports. And,. finally, it means gigantic additional quantities of paper to double and ‘triple-wrap materiel for protection against the long 15,- 000-mile journey from Europe to the Pacific, | and for protection against tropic-rot atiers the materiel gets there. : | Pulpwood cutters in Gulf county are urged to step up their production just a little in or- der to provide that “extra” paper so necessary to equalize the present “supply” differential. Top quality pulpwood, cut now, can divide the distances that separate supplies from our fighting men, even as they multiply the effec- tiveness of our Pacific forces. a Let’s keep the St. Joe Paper Company well supplied with pulpwood, for it is a vital tac- tor in the “arithmetic” of geography. At three in the morning the wife awoke her husband and said she heard someone creep- ing up the stairs. He rolled over and growled, “Well. thank goodness it ain’t me.” Sa Women are women, and so help us, we |] wouldn’t change the preongcuente Tee || 7 per News. Taee daw nt a sf a ee | eas FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1945 "MISS PARKER, THIS IS WAR - NOT CHRISTMAS 1” * The Low Down | frem Willis Swamp Editor The Star: . ; More and more of them prodi- gals up there in’congress is tm need of a tap on the shoulder, The lavest. outbust is where 2 of the bays ig cookin’ up a “guaranteed | adequate diet.” With their new scheme, if you’ve got a family of 4 you gits 60 dotlars worth of food coupons fer 40 per cent of-your wages. ; But if some tired sort of guy chooses to work only 1 day a week and mebbe make 40 bucks monthly then his 60 dollarsiin coupons would only cost 16 dollars. Sounds good. But since he won’t know in advance how much, if any, he wilt | sure ‘nuf: work; it looks ‘like he’ll wait til! the end of the month fer ,- his coupons, and won’t eat nothine’ a-tall for 30 days. And if a diet is to be “adequate” | +he Director of the Diet Dept. wilt tell us. all whut to eat, And if you happen to sorta’ like carrots and don’t give a hoot for- spinach ana the Director dioes like spinach aes is vice versy on carrots—then you eats spinach, too. Fer growed up guys in congress to cook up such a concoction shows that more folks should start writin’ posteards. Most al! of them boys up there in Washinton kin read pretty good as fur as I know. Telt ‘em to act their age—or come on back home. They'll savvy. Yours with the Towdown, JO SERRA. poets SS The navy’s newest 45,000-ton ‘ carrier, launched recently at New! York, was named USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. wi It’s partly our _ Fine Commercial Printing We don’t know who invented the lape! buttonhole; in fact, we don’t even know who invented the lapel. But we do kmow that there is a new button appearing, these days, on the lapels of a great number of Gulf county boys who left their homes and their jobs to join the armed forces. Now they have been honorably discharged for various reasons, and we hope it won’t de long before all those boys who joined up will be home and. wear- ing this button. . The button we speak of is the one above. More and more it is be- coming known as the United! States Service Discharge Pin, but it was not so long ago that it was known’ as “The Emblem That Nobody Knows.” We ought to become thor- ough!y familiar with that button because it isa badge of honor. The wearers of the emblem were ready and willing to give their all, it necessary, for the preservation of ‘their coumtry. Let’s get familiar with that em- blem so that we don't have to say, “what's that button you’re Wear- ing?” Let’s know that it’s an em- blem of distinction—that button! <—__—— ‘ : Smugegled Seeds In 1876 an Englishman managed to smuggle to his homeland some seeds of the Hevea species of rub- ber tree from South America. From these seeds, by way of gardens in London, emerged the great British plantations in the Far East. Our Customers Are Spoiled a te fault. We helped to spoil ’em. They’ve learned to depend on us for good printing because we never fail them. THE STAR Phone’ 51