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THE STATESAIAN PUBLISEnNG CO. .
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher j
' - Member of The Associated Press
The Associated Press la exclusively enUUed to the use for publication of all
news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this newspaper.
Stepping Stones to Tokyo
- Japan- haS .already won Its war in the Pacific:
such U the dismal picture painted by Clark Lee
in a recent article in Collier's. Lee was an AP
correspondent with the American forces in the j
Philippines left before the surrender, and has ,
since written a book. Lately he has signed on
as an mS war correspondent Lee's theory is
that Japan has built a naval and aerial wall :
about its conquered empire , and has settled
down to the task of developing its ill-gotten
gains. iTime is on Japan's side. ' I ; ? j
All this has some color of truth, as The States- ;
man has previously pointed out. There is a t
flaw in Lee's reasoning, however, which was
demonstrated in the action of the Solomons and ?
another' flaw being disclosed at Attu. Accord
ing to Lee, our encroachment in- the Solomons
was not a serious matter to Japan.: It was just;
the beginning of an "island by Island recon
quest which would take years, and would never
succeed because Japan's strength would grow
with time. - h ' - r. i 'Uj:. r
But what happened? Whether because Guad
alcanal was a serious threat to Japan or for
face-saving reasons, the enemy expended a-;
huge naval and air force in an unsuccessful ef
fort to recover it. The attempt was clear loss,
and one which the enemy could ill afford, inso
far as. ships. and planes go. ,i
The other flaw in the Aleutians is that in
holding an island empire the Japs' cannot bring
up reenforcements to meet attack unless they
control sea or air or both, which they do not.
The Oregonian had an original and valuable
comment on this phase of Pacific strategy:
"Out; point has been that the Japanese island po
. si tions,, which looked so redoubtable when the Japs
first accomplished their sweeping expansion, actu
ally have a fatal weakness. This weakness lies in
immnhilitv of the reserves, once the United
States has established absolute superiority in the
air. In other words, the Japs will become like a
football team which cannot move its secondary for
purposes :.of defense. The players who have the
duty of backing up the line will not be able to move
to raeeji the off -tackle buck or the end-around run.
That wouid.be fatal in football and no less fatal
In battle,., ,' -
In.,thebaitle for. Attu, for example, there ap
pears., to be no possibility of Japanese reinforce
ments! ut: navy, but particularly our air force,
holds control- and sees to that. And anywhere In
the Pacific that we can establish these conditions,
out forces should be able to move virtually at will.
A defensive force that cannot move its reserves
to the point threatened is as good as beaten."
By this control of sea and air, so far as it can
be preserved the United States can advance by
stepping stones or even by direct move on some
. Island closer to the home islands of Japan. The
task would be to isolate the island from sea or air '
reinforcement, and then speedily overwhelm, it,
With ample air power based on China- the job
would be greatly simplified, anil eventually that
combination ought to be worked out:. - land
planes from China and surface,' submarine and
naval air force coming in by sea. '
Japan has not won its war in the Pacific any
more than Hitler has won his . war in Europe,
though he has not been ejected from a single
country in Europe where his armies marched.
Blockade and pressure and attack will ultimate
ly crush him. The same thing is true in the case
of Japan. Once the chore in Europe is done, the
concentration of ships and planes and army on
rthe; far-flung Japanese territories will cut and
slash them to ribbons.
We cannot say what our strategy is, but there
" are numerous indications that pur army , and
navy are building the foundations in bases and.
supplies, in ships and men, so that when the
signal comes the attack on Japan can be launch
ed in full vigor. .
Sheep or Wolves ?. ,
And now the country has the spectacle of
John Lewis getting in bed again with Bill Green.
And after all the mean things John said about
Bill and Bill said about John! .
What about the burning issue of the indus
trial union, the vertical type of organization
that Lewis favored as against the craft unions,
or horizontal form of organization of industry?'
And what about Lewis's feud with Bill Hutch
eson of the carpenters union? Remember the
fist fight at one national convention between
the pair. Now it is reported that John L.' and
Bill are buddies again.
No preliminary build-up for reunion, no pro
tracted negotiations or anything of the sort.
John L. merely brings his 500,000 United Mine
Workers back to the gates of A. F. of L. and
asks that they be let in.
They are not coming as sheep, for John L.
walks wide these days. If they are not coming
as sheep they may be coming as wolves. Lit-
tie Red Riding Hood better be careful.
Shrive His Soul
The report that Mussolini has gone to the
pope for counsel suggests the old verse;
"When the devil was ill,
The devil a monk would be; '
' When the devil was well, j
'' ; - The devil a monk was he." t r
In other days Mussolini was independent,
free-thinking anti-cleric His concordat . with
the pope was a marriage of convenience on his
part. So there is bitter irony in the "picture of
this sawdust Caesar hitting the sawdust traiL
Perhaps the best deal would be not to invade
Italy. If we did we would: have to feed the 45,
009,000 inhabitants. They'd like nothing better
than juicy lend-lease "meat, some fresh vege
tables and flour for macaroni. Better clear away
the island barriers and get food to the 'Greeks
who have been loyal to our side and suffered
more than almost any country. Let Italians wait
for the free food baskets. :f .
The mountain of beryllium north of Gold Hill
turned out the same as the mountain of tin over
near Burns. Oregon continues the richest state
ia phony metals. - " - : '
. JVo Tflror Sumys 17; Wo Tear Shall Ai"
From. First SUtesman, March 28, 1831
Tax Stalemate -
: The defeat of the senate tax bill in the house,
throws the two tax bills into conference com
mittee. One was the house abortioni the Rob-ertson-Forahd
bin, theother the senate version
of the Ruml plan.! It's anybody's guess what will
come out Of the committee, if anything. Tax
legislation has been so encumbered with the
barnacles of politics that there is little hope for
anything constructive to emerge. -
Why not, then, forget the skip-a-year plan
for the present, and turn to the real problem:
raising more money by taxation? That is tha
main issue, not forgiveness of taxes for 1942,
1943 or any other year.
Since the desire is not only to raise revenue
but to mop up spending power about the quick
est and easiest way of doing both would be to
enact a sales tax. A tax of from five to ten per
cent on sales would roll in the money, dry up a
portion of the excess spending power which can
not find outlet in available merchandise, and
reach many people now in the big money who
are paying little or no tax.
This paper has not seen the need for any state
sales tax, because our revenues are ample.: But
the federal treasury needs money, lots of mon
ey; and a general sales tax would provide It
without any complicated system of rebates, sur-.
taxes, or payroll deductions.
"Let's go."
pression "by gum" so often. However, as presi
dent of his false teeth association that's prob
ably as strong as
The "poison gas" the Japs refer to in their
bulletins about Attu must be their ownpropa
ganda blowing back in their faces. ? .
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
tDtctr (button by King Feature Syndicate, toe. Repro
duction la wool or in part trteUy prohibited.) ,
WASHINGTON, May 20 Churchill's broad ex
planation of allied strategy did not entirely satisfy
complainants In congress.
What the fairly wide group behind Senator
Chandler's viewpoint has been trying to do is to
We have wondered why "Sips" uses the ex
:
he can go.
induce the British to pur a for
midable army In against Japan
on the Burma line. They also .
wanted to draw out officially a '
British promise of full coopers-
tion in running down the Mi
kado. Official quarters here have
been disturbed for some months ;
by Mr; Churchill's promise to
demobilize some of the British
military forces after we get Hit-
Faml Malloa ler, a speech which Anthony
Eden tried to explain away unsuccessfully when
he was In Washington. "
The new firm Churchill pronouncements stilled
these fears successfully, but left the Burma line
proposal unsettled. He is up against a difficult
proposition there.
The Australian parliament recently extended the
limit to which their draftee could fight It now runs
up almost to the equator in some areas where hith
erto draftees could not even be sent off the Aus
tralian mainland (their volunteers go anywhere.).
The Indian army runs nearly a million men, but
most of these have been kept at home for protection
against the Indians embarked on anti-British cru
sades, passive but occasionally bloody.
This Indian army could be put into the field if
Gandhi, et al, would quiet down at home, and if
adequate British officer leadership was furnished
them. However, a large sea expeditionary, force
would have to be organized. ;
The driblet army which the British , pushed
through the high mountains on the Burma border
and into the Jungle has been driven back almost
to the border and is too weak to do anything.
The congressional critics really believe China
will collapse and fall out of the war unless the Bur
ma road is opened. A more general and equally,
authentic opinion in Washington still is that the
Chinese may remain too weak to do anything under
existing circumstances, but will be able to plod
along until toe Roosevelt-Churchill strategy con
templates crushing ' the Japs (increased aviation
help is apparently forthcoming, -as Churchill im
plied). '.. . " f
Politics beat the Ruml plan administration pol
itics. Mr. Roosevelt's threat of 'a veto may have
carried some weight, but the house democrats were
simply determined not to let the republicans get
any more credit man necessary for having pushed
tax easement. : r !J;;
; Leader Joe Martin, who made the Ruml plan re
publican by adoption, picked up plenty of political
hay on the proposition. One worker constituent In
bis district wrote significantly that he would save
$58 of back debt to the government, and did not
care what Henry Ford saved. A leading democrat
came up to Martin and told him the local demo
cratic club in bis city had been discussing the Ruml,
plan, and one of the local leaders said:
"This fellow Martin is like the Roosevelt of ten
years ago. He wants to give us something. "
The democrats tried to make out that the plan
favored the rich, and succeeded in smearing any
common intelligent understanding of the complex
situation.
The truth is the plan would have raised less" tax
es than now from the man whose income is declin
ing (not many of them); more taxes from the man
whose Income is increasing (the bulk of war' sal
aries); and do nothing for the man whose income
has been the same the past two years until be dies
or his Income does increase or decline. .Then his
back tax debt would be wiped out.
In some few isolated Instances, a rich man would
have been helped (Senator Byrd mentioned these
In the debate) above the poor man but not In any
general way. ; -i-Ai r.i:'f' ...v
The truth remains that the Ruml plan was the
only one proposed to put the country on pay-as-you-go
without requiring some measure of double
taxation for the current year. - '
Any compromise, therefore,. Is not liksly to be
effective. The man with an income of S1C0.O0O (cit
ed by the president) now pays around $70,CS3 in
federal income tax, and a state tax, in addition, . He
obviously cannot pay much if any additional taxes
en his earnings. To him, any compromise would be
a capital levy.
'Ghost Goes West9
Today's ffiadeo Programm
K8LM ntin AT ISM Kc
10 New ta SrleC
T5 JOam Shin.
T JO News.
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80 Rhythm Five.
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8:35 Tango Time.
8:00 Pastor's Call.
8:15 Uncle Sam.
8 JO Lest We Forget.
8:45 Round-up Time.
100 World to Review.
10. -OS A Song and A Dance.
10 JO Langworth String Quartet.
110 Maxine Burea.
11:30 Hits of Yesteryear.
IS 0 Organallties.
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10 Lum "n" Abner. t
1:1S Rollo Hudson's Orchestra. -
1 J3Q Miladies Melodise.
1:45 Spotlight on Rhythm.
20 Isle of Paradise.
1:1 US Navy.
i 30 State Safety Prorram, v
X: as Broadway Band Waco.
30 KSLM Concert Hour.
40 Charles Maxnante.
4:13 News. -
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. 80 Merrick's Vocal Croup.
8:13 Records of Reminiscence,
830 Gypsy Orchestra.
80 Tonight's Headlines.
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830 Evening Serenade.
' 8:48 Popular Music
T0 News in Brief. .
T8 Clyde Lucas' Orchestra.
130 Keystone-Kara van.
80 War Fronts in Review. :
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8:45 Modern Choir.
80 News.
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10 JO News.
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8:45 Uncle Sam.
70 Around the Clock.
7:15 Texas Rangers.
730 Memory Timekeeper.
80 Cheer Up Gang.
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80 Boake Carter. -
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830 Edgewater Arsenal Band.
100 News.
10:15 Curtain Calls.
1030 This and That.
110 Buyer's Parade.
11:15 Bill Hay Reads the Bible
11:30 Concert Gems.
110 Music
11 JO News.
12:45 On the Farm Front.
1 0 News.
130 Music.
10 Sheelah Carter. '
2:15 Texas Rangers.
1 -JO All Star Dance Parade.
2:45 Pat Neal and the .News.
30 Phillip Keyne-Gordon.
3:15 Wartime Women.
320 Hello Again.
3:45 Stars of Today.
40 Fulton Lewis.
430 Johnson Family.
4:45 News.
80 Sunny Days. . ,
8:15 Superman.
530 Hi-way Patrol.
8:45 Norman Nesbitt.
80 Gabriel Heatter.
8:15 News. -830
Movie Parade.
70 Montgomery vs. Jack.
8:15 Lone Ranger.
8:45 Musia Without Words.
Dnterpreting
The War Neivs
. j By GLENN BABB
AP War Analytst tor The Statesman
In spite of all the conjecture -as
to where and when the west
ern allies will invade Hitler's
Europe the likelihood remains
that this year, as in 1941 and
1942, the greatest land battles
will be fought in Russia. , -
Prime Minister Churchill, in
his speech to congress Wednes
day, threw out a timely remind-
- er that i the eastern front re
mains the primary land front.
Any other that the British and
v Americans may establish wfll be ,
second in size of forces involved
as well as in tune. Putting these
factors' in their proper perspec
tive, Churchill said there Is lit-
1 tie doubt that Hitler "is reserv
ing bis supreme gambler's throw
for 'atlurdl.ttempVto:bte8Jc
the red army.. V-v
, The evidence increases that In
spite of the Invasion threat the
fuehrer Is marshalling all;pos
: sible resources for-, another
smash - at Russia. Major opera
tions liave been postponed this
spring; later than last when the
Germans attacked in the Cri
mea on May 8 but it appears
impossible that . the first real
- blow can be delay ed - much
longer. ? .
appear
80 News.
8:15 Speaking of Sports.
830 General Barrows.
- 8 :45 Fulton Lewis.
100 Soldiers of the Press.
1030 News.
110 Shady Valley Folks.
KKX BN FRIDAY UN Ke. .
80 We're Up Too.
8:15 National Farm and Bom. .
8.-45 Western Agriculture.
7.-00 Smilin" Ed McCoanelL
7 5 Home Demonstration Agent.
7 US Music of Vienna,
7:45 News.
80 Breakfast Club.
80 Meet Your Neighbor. .
830 Breakfast at SarCu's.
100 Baukhage Talking.
10:15 The Gospel Singer.
1030 Andy and Virginia.
10:45 Funny Money Man.
110 Woman's World. :
11:15 Current Events.
1130 Lawson's Knights.
11:45 Your Hollywood News,
12:15 New Headlines. ....
1230-Organ Concert.
-12:45 News Headlines.
10 Blue Newsroom Review.
20 Whafs Doing. Ladies?
2.-30 Uncle Sam.
2:55 Labor News.
3:15 Kneass with the . New. 1
330 Chra Mathnee ;f , ' j
40 My True Story.
430 News. .. ,
4:45 Three Rome..- "
90 The Sea Hound.
8:15 Dick Tracy.
5 JO Jack Armstrong. & -
5:45 Captain Midnight.
80 Hop Harrigan. '
8:l-ews.
830 Spotlight Bands.
8:55 Little Known Facts.
70 John Gunther.
7:15 Grade Fields.
730 Close Your Eyes.
80 Earl Godwin. News. -:
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830 Gang Buster. -
80 Meet Your Navy.
830 News Headlines.
8:45 Down Memory Lane,
1030 Deep River Boys.
1030 Eye Witness News.
10:45 Modern Music Box.
110 This Moving World.
11:15 Organ Concert.
1130 War News Jtoundup.
KOIN CBS FRIDAY t7t Ke.
80 Northwest Farm Reporter.
8 -J5 Breakfast Bulletin.
830 Texas Rangers.
8:45 Koin Klock.
7:15 Wake Up News. -
730 Dick Joy. News.
7:45 Nelson Pringle. News.
L 80 Consumer News,
8:15 Valiant Lady.
830 Stories America Loves.
. 8:45 Aunt Jenny. -
80 Kate Smith Speaks.
8:15 Big Sister. ' . i
830 Romance of Helen Trent
8:45 Our Gal Sunday.
100 Life Can Be. Beautiful.
10:15 Ma Perkins.
1030 Vic and Sade ,
10:45 The Goldbergs. ' s
110 Young Dr Ma lone. ...
11:15 Joyce Jordan.
11 JO We Lev and Learn.
11 .-45 News
12:15 Bob Anderson. News.
1230 Wm, Winter, New.
12:45 Bachelor's Children.
0 Home Front Reporter. '
We still are without any trust
worthy indications as to wheth
er the Germans or Russians will
attack first, but it i likely to be
Hitler, since a greater need
drives him. -
He can not afford to wait; Sta
lin can. '
The German leader's best
hope of survival is to knock out
the red army now. On the other
band the Russians may decide
that the best defense would be
to attack first, as they did in the
Kharkov area last May.: ' V: --,v
" The British prime mimster,
whose information doubtless' is
of the best, estimated that axis,
forces held on the Russian front
.were 190 German and 28 satel
lite divisions,: 21S in alL That,
allowing - for corps and army
troops, air forces, other auxil
iaries, would mean some 4,003,
000 men or more, probably stilt
the most formidable agjresa
tion of land forces In the world.
Confronting them probably ere
Russian armies of at least equal
size. ' ' - .
' There Is no "chance that the
western allies will land anything
comparable in Europe this year
or- be able to divert anything
like such a J,?tal of the enemy..
Next day's
comics page.
130 Uncle
20 Newspaper of the Air..
2 J& This Life la Mine. .
20 Music
" 2:15 Today at the Duncan1.
X 38 Keep Working, Keep Singing,
America.. .
2:45 News.
40 Raffles.
4:15 Sam Hayes.
430 Easy Aces.
45 Tracer of Lost Persons.
80 Music -
830 Harry FUnnery.
8:48 News.
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8:18 Oregon at War.
830 That Brewster Boy.
70 Caravan. ;
7.-45 Elmer Davis.
801 Love A Mystery.
8:15 Secret Weapon.
. 830 Playhouse.
80 Kate Smith Hour.
830 Adventures of the Thin Man.
100 Five Star Final.
10:15 Wartime Women. -1030
The World Today.
1830 Mews.
1835 Air-Flo of tn Air.
18 45 Orchestra.
11 30-Manny Strand Orchestra. --1135-News.
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7:45 Sam Hayes.
80 Stars of Today.
8 as James Abb Cover the News.
830 Rose .Room. .
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80 The O'Neills.
8:15 Louis P. Lochner. .
830 Music
8:45 News.
180 Benny Walker Kitchen.
10:15 Women and Warpower.
10:45 Homekeeper'a Calendar.
110 Light of the World,
lias Lonely Women.
1130 The Guiding Light.
1145 Betty Crocker.
120 Story of Mary Martin.
12:15 Ma Perkins.
12 30 Pepper Young's Family.
12:45 Right to Happiness.
10 Backstage Wife.
1 :15 Stella Dallas.
130 Lorenzo Jones.
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20 When a Girl Marries.
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5:15 H. V. Kaltenborn.
' 530 Allan Sheppard Commentator
5:45 By the Way.
80 Waltz Time.
830 People are Funny.
70 Tommy Riggs and Betty Loo.
7 JO OWI Reports.
' 745 Talk.
80 Fred Waring m Pleasure Time.
8:15 Let's Be Frank.
830 Your All-Time mt Parade.
80 Furlough Fun.
830 Hollywood Theatre.
"100 News Flashes.
10:15 Your Home Town New.
1035 Labor New.
1030 Gardening for Food.
110 Uncle Sam.
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1130 War News Roundup.
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100 News. -
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110 School of the Air.
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110 News.
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10 Artist in Recital.
1 as Today's War Commentary.
120 Variety- Time.
20 Club Women's Half Hour.
230 Music.
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40 Treasury Star Parade.
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439 Stoties (or Boys and Girls
80 On the Upbeat. -
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m 8:15 New.
830 Evening Farm Hour.
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80 Science News of Week.
830 Higher Education in Wartime.
80 Eyes Aloft.
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Today's Gordon
By IJLLIE Lv MADSEN .
1 Mrs; G. A. S, Lebanon, re
ports that a cotoneaster disease
v is bothering her shrub. Reports
that It is. covered with webs and
; that the ends are turning black
- and dying.
f r ANSWER: Probably web
' worm is bothering the shrub ra
ther than a disease. I have noti-
' ced web worm on some of the
local cotoneaster in recent days.
This, pest can do much harm to
the cotoneaster or any shrub it
attacks. In short order. The con-
. trol, is arsenate of lead. .This
may be dissolved, in water and
sprayed on, or it may be dusted
cn In dry form. If used in the
She wondered about this Mr.
Christopher Wain. The " small
pieces Of the jig-saw personality
didn't fit, and didn't make a
clear picture. He raised dogs and
didn't look as if he was very suc
cessful at it; lie liked Worces
tershire on an, egg; he knew how
to figure like an adding machine,
and he wore crepe-soled shoes
which ' she detested. Withal,
however, he, was charming. Bis
voice was that of, a gentleman,
and bis hands were really fine,
with strong rounded nails and
no signet ring. Paul Freund wore
a signet ring. Somehow it seemed
a part of dog business. '?:.'
She folded the check, m be
back in a minute." : -"Let
me take it over for you.
He might want to argue the
matter or be nasty." - C '
TTou tend to the eggs, and
HI take care of Mr. Tompkins,"
she replied grimly. "And I like
my bacon crisp." . ,
Christopher stirred the eggs,
m conflict." On the table beside
him lay the cjn checkbook, and
within him. was consuming cur
iosity.' Or was if curiosity T Part
of nii business In life was mak
ing sense oufof people. Her gen
eralship the night before in the
Preund j crisis was grotesquely
at odds with the picture of a
young wonian violating ten trafi
fie laws at one and the same
time, and her mental arithme
tic , was in direct opposition to
the clear thinking which enabled
her to j fire an ugly-tempered
farmhand and take over his not
Inconsequential duties without
batting; an eye.
His Indecision resolved into ig
nominious surrender. He moved
to the table, and gave a smug
grunt at what he saw. Very ob
viously; Miss Ann Rivers was a
young woman who bogged down
in the mysteries of a checkbook,
for eighty dollars and sixty-seven
cents subtracted from one
hundred and eleven dollars and
five cents did not leave forty
dollars and forty-eight cents. Un
doubtedly there ' would come a
day when the bank would in
form her that things were wrong
OTP
UCDODDS
(Continued from Page 1)
. the .turn of events theyremain
unreconciled. Privately they
blame Roosevelt with "getting
us into the war," they criticise
the conduct of the war, with
very doubtful sincerity.
The latest exhibition of course
was the bumptious, discourte
ous and trouble-making address:
of Senator Chandler of Ken
tucky, ; which was almost a
studied; attempt to sow apples
of discord among the United
Nations.. It was in effect an ap
peal that we should desert our
allies In Europe because they
might desert us later on. Right
when the victory Is rolling over
Hitler, Chandler purposes the
diversion of our strength to deal
with Japan. -
Now : Chandler is one of the
more, mouthy and less respon
sible senators, but I have a
hunch that he did not. sound off
alone, that he was encouraged
by ; the isolationists, the Ameri
can flrsters, the bitter-enders.
Churchill of course took care
of him and his ilk so far as
their accusations or insinuations
were concerned.
- The real danger lies in the
presence of this bloc In congress,
who will be. ready to duck at .
the first opportunity, who will .
want to pull out of Europe and
out of the Pacific too Just as
soon as they feel it safe to agi
tate in that direction. They are
not of so much danger now;
but -they 'are a threat to the
future security of this nation
and a ' positive threat to any
rational peace settlement which
must include a continuing par
ticipation by the United States
in world affairs. . i-
These "little Americans" salve
their conscience by leading the
pack in denouncing Japan, but
they, still regard Hitler and
Europe as none of our business,
and are the more bitter because
they guessed wrong in fighting
measures to assist our allies.
They need to be watched, and
from time to time, -exposed as
false prophets and dangerous
guides.
latter way, it Is best put on early,
in the morning' while there Is
still dew on the plaht !
There is a disease which at
tacks cotoneaster occasionally,
but is much more apt to attack
the Pyracantha. This , is called
flreblighL But : usually, there
will be no webs and the bran
ches will turn black and die
. back. In this case you should
cut off the diseased portions
well below the point of injury
and burn the removed part.
Spray the other with bordeaux.
Spraying the plant during the
winter will also help check this
disease. But from your, descrip
tion, I am quite convinced -that
the web worm Is attacking
yours. (Thank you very much
for your nice letter. X am glad
that you were able to save your
lines.)
to the extent of ten dollars and
. ten cents. .
' He felt like a very unpleas
ant person sticking his nose into
other people's business, but as
he couldn't feel any more un
pleasant about it, he turned over,
the preceding stub and glanced
at that too. It wasn't a very dif
ficult calculation. If she had;
her dates right, she had drawn
twenty dollars to cash, sixteen
days before. Not a very active
account, he noted. The pictures
made just a little too much sense
to be ignored. lie let his gaze
run out across the lawns to the
meadows which . filed away in
neatly fenced squares tothe dis
tant woods. This was a pretty
big show for a girl without cap
ital to swing, he decided som
berly, and she was coming up
against a wall which was too
high a Jump for her to take.
- Chapter' IS J
The sharp Insistent borking of
a dog broke in on his thoughts.
He knew his dog barks, and this
(one wasn't the idle vocalizing
of a pup who hasn't anything
else to do, nor was it the guard
ed welcome that a dog gives to
a stranger. No. ; This was the
deep throated announcement of
displeasure that a Dane delivers
, himself of before he goes into
action, and Christopher remem
bered with an anxious frown, .
that Rowena had trotted out af-
. tor Ann. .
He left the eggs to care for ;
. themselves, and started for the
farmer's cottage. The door was
open. He heard a man's hoarse
: shout of panic, and Ann's voice
rising in importunate entreaty.
"Down, Rowena! Down, Row
ena!" .
The dog had -Tompkins cow
ering in a corner and was snar-
: ling at him with bared teeth.
"Come here!" Christopher com-
manded. Rowena - trotted to his
side, meek as a lamb, and so
did Ann. He had to smile, and
then he could see the realization
in Ann's eyes of her automatic
response.
She flushed angrily. "Rowena
slipped her collar, that was all.
' You needn't have bothered." She
adjusted the chain around the
dog's neck, and Christopher
could see that' her hands were
trembling. .
"How did all this get start
ed?" he asked sternly.
"The dog attacked me!" Tomp- ;
kins burst out In a thick voice.
-And I'm going to fill her full
of lead!"
- : Christopher regarded the swol
len, ugly face with contempt.
"Get out of here or 101 finish
what the "dog began," Wordered
' in terms which even an enraged
ruffian had to respect. The man's
bluster wilted to a snivelling
fear. It was plain that the dog.
might be the lesser of two evils.
"Did he get nasty?" Christo
pher demanded, as Tompkins
beat a hasty departure, with his .
bags knocking against very un- .
steady legs. ,
"Very," Ann admitted. She felt
a catch in her throat. There was
something about a man and a
dog when they became protec
tive that was hard to resist. It
had been so long since she had
anyone to lean on, so long since
anyone had offered to fight her
battles for her. There was Tom,
of course. But Tom didn't fight
battles, he smoothed things over
so that there'd be no battles. He'd
(To be continued)
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