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THE WILLAMINA TIMES
THURSDAY. SEPT. IS.
wept over those who were hun­
gry. even those under her domi­
nance. She was practically un­
perturbed by millions of people
m India who died of starvation
in wholesale numbers and an '
still dying. Not many years
E n te r e d a t th e P o s t o ffic e a t W illa m in a . O re g o n aa seco n d -c la ss m a tte r .
ago, still currying favor with
A u g u st 24. 1909, u n d e r A ct o f C o n g re ss o f M arch 3. 1ST».
¡Japan in her deviltry in China,
& M JO H N S O N . E d ito r
! she closed the Burma road, to
I help the Nips carry out their
I blood lust and help "preserve
P u b lis h e d E v e ry T h u rs d a y . S u b s c rip tio n P r ic e $2.00 P e r Y e a r In
(the Em pire.” Hilariously too,
A d v a n c e in Y a m h ill a n d P o lk C o u n ties. O u tsid e o f C o u n tie s $ - •'0.
she cancelled her W ar 1 debt to
A d v e rtis in g K a te s G iv en U p o n A p p licatio n .
us. We’re not an anglophobe, but
wt don’t want that kind of
would not be entirely out of •’goodwill.”
Pearl Harbor Investigation
place
to have that group inves­
The American people ought to
Should Reach Appeasers Too
tigated. They ought to be tell- "get tired" of the constant drain
During World W ar I there ing some committee or group of “ billion" dollar thinkers in
were a number of so-called, flag- why they were so smug efore congress and the bureaus tha
kissing incidents. In fact they Pearl Harbor. If they were not have unlimited power to spend
were quite numerous. If there the active agents: in the Pearl money. Taking almost one-
were a citizen in the community Harbor catastrophv they should fourth of the average persons
who failed to buy bonds and fail- b\ all the rules be tried as p ar­ income away from him, may lie
ed fo donate to w ar charities, ties to the crime.
in order when war is on but it
etc., he would run the chance of
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is hard to believe th a t sane, sen­
being looked up by the “holier” w i„ peop’e Continue To
sible people are going to con­
element who proceeded to take
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tinue to offer up their wages ai d
him out and smear him with yel- * a -v Taxes And Luy Bonds,
incomes in ordvr to “buy’’ good­
low paint, march him down the
Various com m entators and will th a t is never obtained by
street and tinally have him kneel proponents of “good will” pro- such means and always results
and kiss the flag.
pose th a t the United S tates can- disastrously to saps who try it.
Now. of course the thing th at cel all debts incurred by Great If the policy is continued as it
was not apparent to the average Britain for war supplies in this j stem s is possible. since most con­
unthinking observer, was th a t ¡country prior to Pearl Harbor, gressmen revelling in 20 to I )
nc first class citizen would be in- and th a t we fu rth er extend her thousand dollar salaries, accord­
volved in such a proceeding to food and other supplies without ing to how many of their rela­
enforce such mob rule against making any charge. We are feed- tives are on the payroll, know
another. We thought oT it gen- ¡¡ng the “bloody” ( th a t’s a real nothing of skimping to pay the
erally as patriotism run ram- description, not a figure of tax collector on an income that
pant. However, we found on c lo speech» Italians now and we are is not as great as the years prior
ser inspection th at many o f ’d ik in g about sending coal to * to the war. Unless the tendency
those who took leading parts in keep the “ poor" Germans warm to spend unlimited s u m s ,
such escapades, were generally this w inter. There will also be ceases; then war bonds and
ju st as guilty and often more so ( food doubt it not at all. both to oth er small savings will go, not
than the culprit. They were dis- Germany and Japan,
for "refrig erato rs" as the bond
tractm g attention from them-
confe-s th a t we are often salesmen have told the folks but
selves by a iruady show of p at­ dizzy w ith it all. A few years to feed a constantly hungry
riotism against someone who ago when China needed help, treasury. Already there is talk
could not kick back.
food, clothing a rd especially and call it loose or otherw ise;
There is some of this class of arms and ammunition, we could th a t unless the orgy of spending
stu ff now going on ;n W ashing­ act think of sending it to them ,
ton in the clamouring for p!ace< even though, mind you, China ceases in W ashington, bond hol­
to sit on the belatedly ordered not only offered to pay. but owed ders plan to cash their war bonds
Pearl
H arbor
investigation. us nothing and a ’ways did pay.
Many of these congressmen anc* j c h in a w ith a little help in th e j
senators. .* th Democrats and way
w ar raaterial could have
Republicans, aid everything m wi^
thp ..bloodv- (same ex.
th eir power to bluff the presi- p!anation) j aps o’f f the face of
dent and the w ar departm ent out , he earth bu, it seems we couW.
of any definite action against n-
do sach an *-unlaw-
elti v S V F T ’ 7 J? ra n ‘ Tkey ful act" nor tolerate it. But arm s
watched like hawks for any - - and am m unition to J a p a n ’ W ell,
tion by the president; so th a t th
ofl and pa<oHne and ,
they could accuse him of being
apd airpIanes and airplane J
a war-monger.
tl ir classes of raw
Long a fte r it had become glar- ^ a teria , th a t was the verv b ^ e
ingly apparent to every Amen- and sin ew . of the war they were
c? n
a r d . / a Pa r waging on China and out of
planned w ith deadly enm ity the whj h 8 thev made the w ar
destruction of this nation, our machine th ; v used on us
congress was not lacking in men
who thw arted every effort of . We are sorry to see the folks '
the president and the w ar de- *" England and th e occupied
partm ent to arm and prepare countries hungry and think per-
th e countrv for the inevitable h*ps th «re shC",ld ** something
conflict. During those days, done to keep them , especially the
those very men kept up such a c^bdr®n -rom acute J?un?^r, . ° r
barrage of fault-finding in con- So d’ Uut a- ta r as the Italian
gross and on the radio, telling oack-stabbers, the G e t m a n
the nation th a t we were being ghouls and the Jap m onstrosities
pushed into a w ar by th e presi- are concerned they can jolly we.I
dent and the war departm ent;
to a crisp in the mess they
th a t one can almost excuse them themselves have cooxd up bef<re
for not being on th eir toes when a sinR‘e dollar oi American tax-
Japan struck.
Pa-v er money could go with the |
Now there is a clamor to get consent of this scribe. Buying
on this committee and punish “ goodwill has twice cost us
those who were derelict. As a blood and treasure m such mea-
m a tte r of fact, no congressman sure th a t America will feel the
or senator who voted against the effect of it for centuries,
war measure, should have any
England, the great humaru-
plaee on the committee. And it tcrian nation, has not always
a b r S it (lamina atu trs
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loan campaigns, already project­ Clyde L. Kiddle, crop insurance
ed by the treasury.
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which Oregon farm ers may ob- ty AAA offices or with authiri-
, tain all-risk federal crop insur­ zed sales agents named by coun­
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