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Crusader Ball had just one week to tell his constituents what he thought about the war, before heading back to Washington. He started his campaign on July 3 at Cannon Falls, in the rich, rolling farmland of southeastern Minnesota. The crowd at the fair grounds, mostly slow-spoken, slow-thinking Scandinavian farmers, was stolid and quiet, but attentive. It was the same story next afternoon at Elbow Lake, when Joe Ball went on right after the hog-calling contest...
...give the Fourth bigger fists and nimbler feet, while its fire power will be upped its man power will be cut-from 15,550 to 14,000. Machine-gun equipment will go up from 282 to 465, cannon (75s, 105s and 155s) from 48 to 66. Ten armored scout cars will be added to the 16 now in the reconnaissance troop. Fifty-two light and 54 medium tanks will be added to blast a way for the Fourth's infantrymen, who will ride to battle in halftrack caterpillar troop carriers...
...planes, admitted in general "moderate losses" - instead of, as in all previous campaigns, "light" or "surprisingly small" losses. But it claimed to have put 4,107 Russian planes out of action, to have destroyed or captured 2,233 tanks, to have captured 40,000 men, to have taken 600 cannon and mountains of uncounted anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, rifles, various vehicles. The Russians admitted losing 850 planes, claimed 1,500 German planes...
...that realism, not theory, should be the basis of a sound education. So dissatisfied was he with the history texts used in schools that he wrote one of his own. (No school has yet adopted it.) Joe's version of the Revolution: "The people who were here took cannon, powder and shot, and buried them in King George. . . . And King George went up in the air in a million pieces and came down in flakes called dollar bills. And the people went out and grabbed the dollar bills, and then they began to act like kings...
With one more victory to their credit, U.S. chain-store owners this week were loading the cannon for a fresh barrage against the 19 other States having such taxes...