TIM ES. WILLAMINA, OREGON
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
By Edward C. Wayne
Steel P laced U nder D efen se Priority;
G overnm ent M oves to Check Inflation
With I n s ta llm e n t - B u y in g R egulations;
T ension Grows in Far E ast Situation
( E D I T O R ’ S N O T E — W h e n o p in io n s a r e e x p r e s s e d in th e s e r o lu m n s , th e y
a r e th o s e o f th e n e w s a n a ly s t a n d n o t n e c e s s a r ily of th is n e w s p a p e r .)
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'R e le a s e d b y W e s te r n N e w s p a p e r U n io n _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Canada's Effort in War
Explained to U. 5. Public
Commissioner McDonald Attempts to Correct
‘ Inaccurate and Unjust Statements'
Regarding Dominion Activities.
By BAUKHAGE
R ation al Farm and H om e Hour C om m entator.
THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1941
P aa Handler
Vera—What are you doing?
Jean—Oh, I’m running a beauty
parlor.
Vera—Running for a beauty p ar
lor? My dear, how sensible you are.
e m u
PRINTING
THROUGH THE
USE. OF MOVABLE
TYPE WAS
DISCOVERED gy
WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N. W.,
C anada, d au g h ter in her m other
Washington, D. C.
E n g lan d ’s house, gives h er sons who
The b rea th less calm of a tropical go of th eir own free w ill; but Can
JOHANN
W ashington Sunday w as disturbed ad a, m istress of her own dom ain,
GUTENBERG
by a unique gath erin g recently. It ■ will not w rite into her law the duty
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took place in the m idst of the period of overseas service.
of d eb ate in the sen ate over the
The will to peace, in spite of pleas
extension of m ilitary service for the and th rea ts, seem s very stro n g in
em erg en cy arm y .
But it was a the h ea rts of the W estern world.
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long w ay off from the Capitol, and
the settin g w as in sh arp co n trast C a n O k la h o m a
w ith th e som ew hat d rab ch am b er
m e better way to treat
w here “ the g rea test deliberative M a tc h T h is T a le ?
CONSTIPATION DUE TO LACK OF
It was hot in W ashington. The
body in th e w orld” convenes.
PROPER "BULK" IN THE DIET IS TO
We m et, a little group of new sm en, sun cam e up over the A nacostia
CORRECT THE CAUSE OF THE
! in a sta te ly room of m arb le pilas hills like a B engal tig e r out of the
TROUBLE WITH A DELICIOUS
te rs and ceiling-high m irro rs, at the jungle. The asp h alt gave gently un
CEREAL, KELLOGGS,
top of a wide staircase upon which der your feet. The cold w ate r ra n
ALL-BRAN... EAT/
" n i . S. Knudsen (2nd from right) OPM director, finds him self in a looked down the erm ined figures of w arm and you ju st d idn’t tu rn on
sea of motors during his inspection of the Curtiss-W right airc ra ft plant I royalty. Through the doors of the the w arm w ate r a t all.
IT EVERY DAY
at P aterson, N. J. The OPM chief on the sam e day also visited the com room itself, th eir m ajesties King
AND DRINK PLENTY
The governm ent w as so so rry for
pany’s Caldwell, N. J., propeller plant w here 300 m achinists went out on G eorge and Queen Elizabeth, had the w orkers th a t it let m ost of them
OF WATER.
strike on the day of his inspection.
passed when they graced th a t fa go hom e by noon—even the folks in
mous g ard en party at the British the w eath er b u reau gave up th eir
em b assy two y ea rs ago.
job as a bad one (too bad to do
S T E T T IN IU S :
B U Y IN G :
Bearing Reproof
Some of us sat in the sum m er- anything about) and quit. The next
Issuing Orders
(■ ii rbi ng / ns tul I meats
F e a r not the a n g e r of th e w ise
covered fu rn itu re, some in gay lawn day I picked up th a t “ m ost widely
The priorities director of the Of
In an action designed to put a ch airs brought in to take c a re of the u n read publication in A m erica,” the to ra is e ; Those b est ca n b ea r re
There C ongressional Record, and read a proof who m e rit p ra ise .—Pope.
fice of Production M anagem ent, check on inflationary tren d s in the added n u m b er of guests.
E. R. Stettinius J r ., moving rap id n atio n ’s defense boom, an executive w as ice-w ater, and cig arettes w ere p lain t from R ep resen tativ e Wick-
ly to get the economic condition of order w as issued by P resident offered.
A smooth-faced, quick- ersh a m of O klahom a. He thought
tlie nation geared into the defense Roosevelt which called on the F ed spoken B riton, his m a jesty ’s high the governm ent clerk s ought not to
production m achine, announced th at eral R eserve sy stem ’s governors to com m issioner to Canada, M alcolm have “ h eat v acatio n s.”
He told
w hat D octors d o f o r i t
Doctors know th a t g as tra p p e d in th e stom ach or
all steel would be placed under full regulate installm ent buying.
M cDonald, faced us with a few about how hot it w as in O klahom a.
gullet m ay act like a h a ir - tr ig g e r on th e he a rt. T hey
set g as fre e with the fa s te s t-a c tin g medicines known
priority for defense.
Said Mr. W ickersham ;
— th e fa s te s t a c t like th e m edicines in Bell-ana
This o rd er gave the F ed eral Re sh eets of m em oranda before him.
Tablets. T ry B e ll-a n s today. I f the FIRST DOSE
P urpose of Visit.
Stettinius announced th a t there serv e virtually com plete control
“ Today is M onday — w ashday
doesn’t prove Bell - a n s b e tte r, re tu rn bottle to u s and
He had com e, he said, to dispel back hom e—and thousands of good
receive DOUBLE money back. 25c. a t all dru g stores.
w as a growing shortage in certain over consum er cred its in the coun
“ in accu rate and unjust housewifes a re bending over ste a m
types of steel products, and said try and will becom e effective in ce rtain
sta te m e n ts” concerning C an ad a’s ing hot tubs, thousands of farm e rs
that his order covered not only steel about a month.
Greatest Fool
w ar efforts.
but also certain alloys.
a re sw eltering in the w heat fields,
It was indicated by M arrin er S.
T h e re ’s no fool like the young
It m eans that the steel com panies, E ccles, F ed eral R eserve board ' T hat, I felt, was only a p a rt of harvesting the grain, hundreds of
alread y operating to capacity and ch airm an , th a t the first steps in the his m ission. I knew th a t m any of lab o rers a re sw inging the pick in fool who trie s to a c t like an old
with growing backlogs of orders, regulation would not be to prohibit th e le tte rs w ritten to A m erican the ditches . . . E ach of these fine fool.—B om bay Chronicle.
are forced to accept all defense o r in stallm en t buying, but m erely to cong ressm en by their constituents citizens in O klahom a are paying the
d ers in the future even if this control it. This m ean t th a t the board w ere p ro testin g the extension of the price and sh arin g the burden of the
m eans the shelving and deferring m ight put through an o rd er reg u la t m ilita ry service period on the defense p ro g ram , rain or shine, hot
grounds th a t the United S tates, a
of non-defense orders.
ing the size of the down p aym ent to nation a t peace, w as asking m ore or cold, and I w ant you to know th a t
The preference given defense or be m ade and the length o f tim e al of its citizens titan Canada, a nation I do not think it is fair to give these
F ed era l em ployees ex tra leave be
ders applies not only to the arm y lowed the consum er for repaym ent a t w ar.
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A | Cranky? R estless?
cau se it is a little w arm h ere in
and navy, hut also to British orders of the credit.
i i S I A » C an 't sle e p ? T ire
The com m issioner spoke.
W ashington.”
■ n i l I V I e a s ily ? B e c a u s e o f
and those of the lcnd-lease p ro g ram .
E ccles also said th at initial regu
The first m isconception which he
d istress o f m o n th ly
All right, Mr. W ickersham , I hate
It goes into effect S eptem ber 1, lation would be issued prom ptly j w ished to co rrect, he said, w as the
fu n c tio n a l distu rb an ces? T h en tr y
to
b
rag
but
look
a
t
this:
Lydia E. P ln k h am ’s V egetable Com
afte r which any order for steel will “ following consultation with repre- 1 freq u en t sta te m en t th a t th e re is no
pound.
Today I arriv e d at m y office 30
have to be accom panied by a spe sen tativ es of the trad e and financial I conscription in C anada, th a t her
m
inutes
before
the
elevator
serv
ice
I
P ln k h am 's C om pound Is fam ous
cial form which will se t forth w hat institutions affected.”
i youth se rv e only a few m onths with sta rte d so th e re w as nothing to dp J
fo r relieving p ain of Irregular periods
purpose the steel is to be used for.
1 th e colors and a re then retu rn ed to but w alk up.
a n d cranky nervousness due to su ch
disturbances. One of th e m o st effec
The priorities control over steel D R A F T :
j civilian life. This is not the case,
6 stories by 10 feet by 170 pounds !
tiv e m edicines you c a n b uy to d ay
rolled the ball a little higher as far Extension Eight
| he said, for every C anadian betw een equals 10,260 foot-pounds—
fo r th is purpose — m ade especially
as governm ental economic action
¡or w om en. WORTH TRYING!
, 21 and 24 is su b ject to conscription
The passage by the senate of a , ! for defense and for the duration of
10,260 foot-pounds by 13,560,000ergs
w as concerned. Already in August
pig iron had been placed on the list, bill providing for an 18-month ex- j ' th e w ar. A fter four m onths of in equals—oh, I do n 't know, but an
and the recent order concerning the tension of the term s of service of all tensive train in g these m en are as erg is a unit of work and th e re are
Close R elative
m anufacture of silk hosiery, and m en in the arm y and navy did not signed to m ilita ry service within 13,560,000 in one foot-pound. I lifted
Indecision is a v ery n e a r r e la
placing of the entire national output end the b attle by any m eans, nor j C anada, thus relieving units of the 170 pounds 60 feet before 7 a. m.
tive to unhappiness. — S tanley
of silk at governm ent and defense did it have the effect of quieting re g u la r a rm y and navy and air Then X settled down to work.
Can you b eat th a t in O klahom a? * Mill«.
disposal sent women chasing pell- opposition in the house.
force for serv ice abroad.
mell to d epartm ent store counters.
F irst intim ation th at this was so
The conscripts cannot, by law’, be
Also the Stettinius office w as or cam e from adm inistration circles sen t outside of C anada, MacDonald ‘T h e G r e a t D e lu s io n ’
dering other goods out of produc them selves, with the apparently au explained, but so m any have volun A n d th e U. S. A r m y
tion to conserve m aterials.
How thorized statem en t th a t any exten teered for foreign service th a t con
Before the la st w ar a generation
far-reaching this was could be no sion at all from the house would be scription for this purpose is unnec had grown up in th e United States,
ticed in the order outlawing ’‘white- acceptable.
essary . C anada h as m ore m en un- m ost of whom had never seen a
w all” autom obile tires.
When the bill w ent into the senate, ' d e r a rm s today than she had at m an in federal uniform except the
S tettinius' order stated th a t 8,000 the first goal of the adm inistration any tim e during" the la st w ar.
postm an. T here w as a very popu
F o rty p e r cen t of C a n ad a’s n a la r book in those days called “ The
tons of rubber per y ear could be leaders w as for an unlim ited exten
T A L E to dietary indiscre-
saved in this way, and th at q u an ti sion. The opposition bloc countered tional incom e is devoted to her w ar G reat D elusion.” It w as w ritten by
tions, change o f drink
T hat am ount would be an E nglishm an, and it incontrovert-
ties of zinc, in the form of zinc ox with the Taft bill, calling for six effort.
ing water or sudden changes
M acDonald said, to lbly proved (as fa r as m ost people
id e , also went into the m anufacture m onths; la te r a vote w as taken on equivalent,
in weather can be quickly
of these tires.
a y ear, and the 18-month provision $40,000,000,000 reckoned in te rm s of in th is country believed) th a t w ar
re lie v e d b y W a k efie ld ’s
was finally passed, by a fairly United S tates income. For the sup was an econom ic im possibility_
Blackberry Balsam. For 94
JAPAN:
plies she sends to B ritain, Canada th at any g rea t nation which a t
strong, though lessened m ajority.
years a household remedy.
is
not
paid.
The
com
m
issioner
of
It
w
as
considered
significant
that
‘Crisis’
tem pted w ar on a la rg e scale would
Sold a t a ll d ru g sto res.
on the eve of the first test of fered other detailed inform ation, go broke in a few m onths.
Increasingly “ tough” m e asu res stren g th , house adm inistration lead I som e of which w as confidential.
Be sure to ask for genuine
About
th
at
tim
e
a
boy
w
as
grow
against Japan by the British-Amer- ers w ere adm itting th at a "down the
T rem endous Effort.
ing
up
and,
like
m
ost
of
his
fel
icun front w ere predicted by Lon lin e'' fight for the senate 18-month
C anada has not been draw n will
;
Wakefield’s
don as the crisis grew m ore acute extension m ight risk a com plete de ingly into this w ar. It is tru e, as lows, he believed th a t w ar w as a
g re a t delusion.
But he w as to
in the Indo-Chinese a re a ; with the feat for the bill.
the B ritish high com m issioner said,
Dutch E ast Indies. M alaya and the
i th a t h er p resen t effort, in proportion find it very re a l to him for by 1918
Philippines regarded as equally B A T T L E :
to her population and w ealth, is he w as knee-deep in one him self.
Compound
m enaced.
E arl C. E w ert is now a lieutenant-
trem endous. But it w as not until
O
f
Propaganda
The Japanese dem and on Portugal
last May th a t by orders in council, colonel of field a rtillery and the last
Without Beginning
for an air base at Delhi, town on
The rival claim s of Russians and m ilitary service for the duration of I h eard of him he w as in com m and
F e a r not th a t thy life shall com e
the P ortuguese half of the little- G erm ans to successes on the east the w ar w as established. At first i of the reception cen ter at F o rt to an end, but ra th e r fe a r th a t it
known Dutch P ortuguese island of front continued to feature the w ar only 30 days of intensive training B ragg. Now he h as w ritten a book. shall n ev er have a beginning.—
Tim or in the Malay archipelago, news to the despair of the read er w as required. But now, indefinite It is not about w ars, th eir causes C ard in al N ew m an.
was the latest move of the Nippon and observer, and the beclouding of service is retro ac tiv e and all those i or th eir cures. It is about one thing
ese to raise tension in the South any clea r understanding of the ac boys who did th eir 30 days and were I w ars m ake n ecessary , specifically
Pacific.
tion.
disch arg ed a re called back to the the United S tates arm y.
London stated that the granting
Official London, usually ignoring colors.
You m ay not believe in w ar. You
of such a base would enable the such m a tte rs, w arned the public to
I could not help thinking of a line m ay think it is a g reat delusion.
Ja p an e se planes to fly right over the "tak e the G erm an claim s with re from Kipling as I sat there m ’he By the grace of god, you m ay never
center of the Dutch E ast Indies, and se rv e ,” but to realize that a serious tran sp lan te d Queen Anne palace live to see your country in another
to throw a loop of m ilitary a ir and dangerous th reat to the Black which is the B ritish em b assy and one. But you cannot escape the
planes around the Philippines.
sea port of Odessa was shaping up.
h eard th a t very ea rn e st Scotsm an arm y.
It is all over the place, i
It did not m ake the tension any
T h at w as one direction in which pleading the cau se of C anada. The Quite aside from its m ilitary im
easier when it w as learned that the G erm ans were claim ing rela- v erse I thought of is from "O ur portance it has becom e one of the
^DUETOCASTRIC HYPtR- ACIWTYJ
Nazi G erm any was putting p res tively little
They did claim the L ady of the Snow s” and C anada | chief econom ic facto rs in the coun- i
su re on the Portuguese governm ent capture of an arm y g eneral in the sp eak s:
"D a u g h ter am I in my try and it certainly is having an ef
asking air and subm arine bases on south, and thousands of prisoners, m o th er's house but m istress in my fect on our social stru ctu re. The
L isbon's colonial territories in re but m ost o f the claim s w ere in the ow n,” she says.
m ore you and I as sim ple civilians
tu rn for a Nazi guaran tee of P o rtu territory closer to Kiev, Smolensk,
The British com m issioner was not know about it the b etter for us. and
obtained by thousand»
guese te rrito ria l integrity.
asking th a t the United S tates do for for the nation.
and Leningrad.
th ro u g h m e o f V o n 'a R ink
T a b le t s — w ith o u t r ig id
A G erm an base in the Azores,
Colonel E w ert has m ade the job
Stories cam e out of Berlin with E ngland w hat C anada is doing for
liq u id d ie t! S unple h o a x
London pointed out, would largely an undercu rren t of dissatisfaction her. But I could well im agine that of knowing about the arm y easy in
treatm ent. L earn e ll a bout
nullify the A m erican aid to B ritain with conditions, however, one dis he w as talking o ver our heads to T2 pages in “ The United S tates
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it. W r ite todav — bo o b li
ga tion. 5 0 0 ,0 0 0 neen.
on the Atlantic. Also a base on patch statin g that the Russians, de the m en who would be in heated Army
W r i t t e n G u a r a n t e e ee to
(Little. Brown and Com
Portuguese territory m West Africa spite huge losses, w ere still hurling d eb ate in the sen ate ch a m b e r the pany) illustrated in color by E v erett
M o n e g B ack. R ead e a r
g u a r a n t e e , s e n t w i t h fr e e
would do the British no good in the "m illions ” of fresh troops into the next day, deciding w hat the m ili Shinn and Ja m e s H utoie w ith a
booklet. W r ite to —
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M editerranean battle.
ta
ry
duties
of
a
citizen
of
the
United
i fray with no count of the cost.
foreword by the fam ous m ilitary '
S tates are to be.
w riter, Hanson Baldwin.
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