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...State. Of Detroit's 546,000 passenger car owners, nearly all of them war workers, 166,000 neglected to register, and OPA had a choice of extending the Dec. 1 date or risking lowered war production. Some Oklahomans refused to register for gas books. Texas was maddest...
What makes mild Mr. Anderson maddest is to compare the U.S. use of raw materials with Germany's. The U.S. copper supply this year is ten times what Germany has been winning the war with, he points out; yet the U.S. war plant is now slowing down for "lack" of copper! Germany is using one-quarter as much copper ammunition, though both nations are producing about the same quantity of shells...
They gave their pots & pans willingly to the aluminum drive, but resent the fact that the scrap has not yet found its way to smelters. They get maddest, not at the total Government, but at the palladium of democracy and inefficiency, Congress...
...McDonald had really always wanted to go back to farming. At 62 he made up his mind to do it. He hated towns. "Jefferson was right when he said that cities were evil [population of Sallisaw: 1,500]." But the two things that made Old McDonald maddest were the way Oklahoma farmers refused to plant anything but cotton, and the way they let their fields erode. He detested cotton worse than sin, and erosion more than murder. He said so in church and out. "All of this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies...
...Mayor asked all pastors, priests and rabbis to preach on religious freedom and democracy next Sunday, enclosed a pretty fair 1,500-word "outline" of the sort of sermon he hoped for. In a nation where Church and State are constitutionally separate, the mere suggestion made numerous ministers mad. Maddest was Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the arch-isolationist Christian Century...