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Tb CZZGQN STAITC:.L,IIL Ccltal Oregon, Cct-day I-Iamia. Iucry 1. ijll t -1 ;XZtm ----- Tha Associated Press news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited Farewell to a Tough Year A i Sale, soft and easy-is life on the American home front. Little sacrifice is required or asked of civilians and that little, too many, seek to avoid, or endure vvith bad grace. Such is the picture constantly painted by. editors, writers and luncheon club speakers; painted with a mo tive -the best of motives, that of shaming us into greater effort and more willing sacrifice for the common good but nevertheless, com- : paratively speaking, a true picture. True in comparison, that is, to the plight of others whose misfortune is geographic;, who live where the fighting is or has been, or who are actively engaged in it; V" Unavoidably, to our fighting men overseas this same picture has been conveyed, and there i is concern as to how on their' return we will dare lace in em, or answer ior our sum With no thought of undermining this "pep . talk" campaign but rather of k.nir nt annal wnrth to a smldincr a pafc'UIl uic warn v v ; -may we in taking leave of the year 1943 ob Kat it hie not Wn after all. even 'for & W . " ' - y stay-at-home Americans, a bed of roses. They have dodged no bombs, they have not gone hungry some have prospered financially. Yet in numerous unspectacular ways it has been a-year 'of extreme wear and tear. Because un- spectacular, its stresses may be a bit difficult to explain to "the boys over there." It may be necessary to point out that in the matter ; of discomfort, a cinder, in one's . eye is sometimes, more distressing than a broken leg. Or perhaps more tellingly, since of this the fighters them selves are aware, that enforced inaction is hard er on the nerves than the most strenuous action. Right there is one of the items. No matter what war-winning effort the civilian puts forth, he faces the embarrassing knowledge that it scarcely matches the contribution of his rela tive who is fighting or preparing to fight. Reali zation that someone else is literally "fighting one's battle" is never pleasant to; those citizens and they actually are numerous who are conscientious. Mention of relatives introduces another item, for each civilian has a relative, in most cases a close one in the combat forces. Here the comparison actually tips the balance in the op posite direction; for the combatant knows where he is,, how near to danger; the civilianf relative does not, and his worry is augmented, by un certainty. Too, the combatant has been condi tioned physically and mentally to his peril, his civilian relative has noL To get around to more concrete matters, there are civilians tens of thousands of them who have injured their health by overwork. fThis aespite the comparatively short; working hours of American war .industry. There are iulers who put in 40 hours a week doing vir tually nothing; doubtless more numerous are those whose conscientious zeal has led them to over-exert, -to accept jobs which are beyond tneir strength, to worK at two separate jobs; . in the. case ol many a housewife, to work at a lull-time job and carry on her housework as best she can. Combine overwork with inability to obtain medical service when needed it should be clear that for many, even "on the home front'' liie itself is as precarious as it is for the fighters. In point of fact, a considerable number, including at least some j known to each of us,-have actually sacrificed their lives to the "home front war effort. No soldier can ' do more. , ' j After all, there is no exception based on distance to. the truth that this is a "war of ci vilians." Things are upset; families are divided; workers have had to move to strange surround ings and scramble for bare shelter; business K men 'have worries about merchandise, .labor shortage, difficulty in performing those services to the public which they feel are their respon sibility. There are priorities,' the labor freeze, the wage freeze, all the stresses of a half-socialized economy which would work better either . all-free or all-socialized. Between frozen in- . . comes, the cost of living and extremely heavy taxes, for a great many there are financial wor ries even : in the midst of ; general - prosperity. ? For all, there is the uncertainty of the future, individually and collectively. i ..' T? A L I' M A. At ' .- . : - A. 1 i inei.erat aoxiy-uiree wm a xougn year. -. Judged fairly by all visible signs, a tougher one , is ahead; even ' so farewell with no lingering regrets to the one that's past. Wood Surplus . . . Portland, which . faced! winter-before-last '. with prospect of chills for lack of fuel, now has a wood surplus, with calls from fuel deal ers to "come and get it." Users of fuel oil may be shivering under the strict limitations of oil rationing, but users of wood can have abundant - warmths This is possible because the problem was explored and organization perfected , to bring in wood and coal supplies for; Portland. : . . The federal experts in the late summer of wtA urged convict, camps to cut corawood. The state forester's office, to whom the matter was I referred, found it would be an expensive and uncertain project for the state .to set convicts ' at cutting wood for Portland, but did find great ... - aii.: m a . . . uuanuues 01 siaowooa ana nun enas going to waste in lumber mills of the valley. Thereupon fuel, dealers in. Portland were encouraged to form am organization and work with mills and - vailrnaHa tn star a flow of fuel ;wi ne plan wor sea weu last winter, and appar- sntlv i wnrkin? Almnst tnn well this winter- At least Portland is getting plenty ; of wood for fueL ' f , " . "'"'' -What was being' wasted has saved the situ-: ation not 'only in Portland but in other Cities . end towns. The expansion of lumbering pro vided a by-product' which has taken the place ' of forest wood whose supply is now very short, and furnished plenty of fuel for homes equip pod to use slab or sawdust Local and practical men worked out a very: practical solution to 4v hat once seemed to be a serious problem for Crc cities. . . - "No Favor Sways Us; No fear Shall Awi" v , 4 v - ' , " From rint SUUmun, March 25, 1851 THE. STATESMAN: PUBLISHING COBIPANY j CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . i Member of the Associated Press la exclusively entitled to tha use Old Age Assistance The increase from general There has politics in the with various ham-and-eggs abetting n since vary. This, however, is what is happening. Detour via oline because wedding after time. News Behind The News I By PAUL (Distributed by Reproduction in hlbited.) Psal Mallon ) -VA1.V i - Nowadays, teachers are afraid to touch the . little dears. I know one . . high school classes, only 50 per cent axe up in their work today, the remaining half being delinquent. She cannot make them work. Her hands are tied by modern inisconceptions of science Agamsi just punishment in any effective form, 1 . j. If the restoration of home and school discipline is not enough, the churches are 1 the next power that might be able to use some., - f i r By all means, use oi such power, and in fact all .youth leadership, must be kept away from the state, particularly the federal government. ; j Now is the best time in the world to judge what state discipline will do, with fresh evidence . of what Hitler and Mussolini did in - brutalizing their little nazis and fascists. We will have none of that here. - , I Nor can you get discipline by expansion of social work or ex post facto punishmeht in Juvenile courts. The place to start is in the beginning:' and someone will have to do it, parents, schools, lurches, perhaps gll three. . i tn Prvrt T n rA . for publication of all in this newspaper. in cost of living makes the raise in the average allotment for old age assistance to slightly over $30 timely. In ithese days of prodigal spending that sum wul : seem pitifully small. But it must be remembered that grants are made on a basis of need, andj many tlderly persons require only small grants; from the wel fare commission to supplement their other in comes. Hundreds of persons whose names are on the rolls receive the maximum allowance of $40, and, if necessary, medical aid in addition assistance funds. J been a lot of bunk and a lot of. agitation for old age pensions, fantastic schemes proposed from $200- to the original Townsend a-month-spend-it-all plan. The agitation is lev eling off considerably; but the public is! quite firmly committed to provision for elderly peo ple out of public funds to meet their necessities. It is noted, however, thai while old agi pen sions were advocated as a ' substitute for' the poorhouse, the trend is again toward care of the needy aged in "institutions." What weimeah is that private homes for the, agedj are springing up, where elderly persons are cared for, iisual ly at the maximum of their assistance grant. What . was once a public business, the "poor farm" becomes a private business. There is the formality of a monthly state warrant and! there is not the stigma of utter destitution that! went with the poorhouse label. "Whether the care is better we cannot say, and conditions no idoubt Siding Railroad unions, facing the blockade of the "little steel" formula on the main line of wage increases, are trying to use tne siding of "sover time pay" to get around tha road block. They have for ready reference the portal-to-portal detour which the coal miners worked success fully. The president himself has Waved the red lantern on the "overtime" siding, or at least put in a slow-down flare; so now the controversy is squarely in his lap. Meantime other unions keep hacking away at the road block. They may even drive a tunnel through, leaving the shell of the blockade to stand while the train toot-toots-along the track toward higher wages. . h r -' J Speaking enforcing gas rationing well, we haven't come to this: the ex-mayor of Maid stone, England, was fined $5 'for misusing! gas he drove his 1 car to his son's the taxi failed to show up in MALLON King whole Features Syndicate. Inc. or in .pert strictly pro- ! I I i WASHINGTON. Dec. Jl The incontestable an-j swer to all this juvenile delinquency in the news is one word discipline. . ! i I ! j This is not old-fogeyism, bu ultra -modem psy4 chiatric doctrine. The instinctive tendencies of children must be curbed by dis-i cipline until; they have reached the age where self-restraint en- ables them, tb conform to social customs and to take advantage of social opportunities. Too many parents and children themselves erroneously believe! that modernism permits free ex- pression of their instincts. This leads to the current savage eye-l sores of our Vaunted civilization in which prostitution has been! flaunted conspicuously in cities - by grade school; girls, thefts and crime before the age of reason has been reached, and murder of parents by children, who find them troublesome. j . j N The fault is not with modern principles but that they are not enforced. Toleration of suchs pop- ular misconceptions is the crime of pur age. 1 I have seen, in Times Square, New York,! girls1 barely past puberty with soldiers and sailors, not in small groups, but in droves, while police look on! shaking their heads in apparent helplessness. I could break that up in 15 minutes. S i U Everywhere that soldiers and sailors go, there are MP's. If the military police ,wef ordered to detain and question every service man accompany ing a girl of doubtful age, and terms an the guard-, house were provided, the practice would sooh lose its current trend. "' -j j .. ; The experts on this subject' of juvenile delin-! quency, even Including Mrs. Roosevelt, alLthhSk in social grooves apparehtly, proposing only that fmore and more money be spent for boyst clubs, play grounds, social workers, psychiatrists in police courts, etc After they get all those things done, they will still need the answer dsdpiine. - The home is still the' cradle of i our culture. Discipline should be re-established there on modern psychiatric lines. It the home'ig broken up1 by: par ental delinquency (which also is widespread), or by the war, or for whatever cause, discipline will have to be exerted somewhere else, j ! j - we could start by restoring it to the schools poor - i S school teacher in whosi four llmtm. KSUC SATTmOAT 139 K. r ?: Cherry Ctty Neva. '. ' t M Christmas CmroU. ' I T:1S RiM ' JfeUM. t -. ' ! it as News. T-h""-T:4S Morntof Stood.KS':t; -:.rb I SAO Cherry City Mews. I MM n PregTawi Parade. 't i S.-1S Ketoa Boys Texas Jim Lewis, t S:JO .I Tens;e Time. -. . ftO Pastor's CslL " :1S It's the Truth. . i , ; ' Ifao Popular atusie. ... I IS .-00 Cherry Ctty News,-- . -IS.-sa Jeelr reeay. Tenor. . ( isas Alvlao Key. -v l i II 4 Cherry City News. - !' 11 m Campus Freshmea. ' lia-4atts of Yesteryear, j ' ' 1 U300 Orcanaltttea. t ' ! U:15 News U JO Hillbilly Serenade. , - Uas Mid Day Ua tlaee. i 1 OO Henry jdnc's Orchestra. -1:1S Charlie Bernett's Orchestra. las Miiaates Melodies. - 1H Harry Brewer's Novelty Or- i chestra. i - i SaDo Isle of Paradise. - II "J .V..M i 1 S JO Kvelvn TvnM-'a fli rln li I S 5 Broadway Bandwagon. " . )M-Concert Hour. ; 40 Harry s Hor lick's Tango ' Or- chestra. t i 4:1S News, i - I ' 4 JO Tea time Times, -i SAO The Oleanders. : J:lSLefs Reminisce. Sao Bert Hirsch Ac Magic Violin. i :43 J unior Church of tha Air. :00 Tonight's Headlines. ao Evening Serenade. :45 Orchestra. TM News. '. I.. TS Weekend Jamboree. Tao Evangelical Hour. S:00 News. - S:1S Music, i sao USO. ' S0 News. - :1S Old Timer's Orchestra. 9 :45 Galilean Hour. 100 Serenade in SwtngUma. 10 ao News -10:45 RoU Up the Rug. KEXBN SATURDAY UM K. 0 Musical Clock. 1 :1S National Farm and Home Hour. S:4S oairy Dramas. TWO Yankee Doodle Quiz; TJO News. ; 7:4 Top of the Morning. S 0 breakfast Club. :00 Th Blue Playhouse. S as News. Sao Breakfast st Sardl's. 10:15 Edward i Jorgenson. Com men - i t tator. ! I 10 ao Horace Heidt Review. 110 Opera. i 20 Tea and Crumpets. ' 2:45-44usic by White.! 30 Korn Kobblers. ' Sao Music. 3:45 Let s Walts. I 40 What's New. i S:15 Boston Symphony Orchestra. ao Spotlight Bands, j " sas Harry Wlsmer, Sports. f0 John Gunther, Commentator. 7 :1 5 Remember. 730 Red Ryler. . S0 News. ; . S :15 Jorgenson. ao Leon Henderson. News. SS Los Latinos. as News. 0 Cowboy Hit Review. ao News Headlines and High lights :45 Study in Blues. 100 Wings to Victory. 10 ao The Quiet Hour. 110 This Moving World. 11:19 Claremont Hotel Orch, 11 ao War News Roundup.. KGW NBC SATURDAY Ks. 40 Dawn Patrol, f ; ao News Parade. 7:15 News Headlines and Bchts. High. Tao Saturday Showdown. 7:45 Sam Hayes. S0 Follies. sao Lighted Windows.; 0 Pet Parade, as Consumer's Time. :J0 Exchange Program. -190 That They Might Live. 10-20 The Baxters. 10:45 War Telescope.! I 110 Stars of Tomorrow. 120 Tirst Piano Quartet. 10 Rupert Hughes. 1:15 The People s War. 1:20 Music. ' r f 2 ao Story Behind the Headlines. 1:45 Variety Show, i 2:00 Vegetables for Victory. 2:15 Ronnie Mansfield.: Sao Curt Massey a Co. 2:43 Religion in the News. 40 For This We Fight. ao Noah Webster Says. S.-OO-Orchestra. ; ! ao Music. i :45 Louis P. Lochner. : 60 National Barn Dance. ao Can You Top This? 70 Million Doner Band. Tao Grand 01 Opry. i 00 Truth or Consequences. Sao Abie's Irish Rose. 90 News. I ! :1S Oregon in Congress, ao Curtain Call, i 100 News hi i ' I ! 10:15 Pasadena Auditorium Orch. 10 ao Hotel St. Francis Orch. 10:55 News ' 110 Hotel Biltmore Orchestra. 11 ao War News Roundup. 120-2 A. M. Swing Shift. StALB MBS SATTROAY UM Ke. e:e Dave west:! T0 News. I 7:15 Texas Raneers. 7 ao Memory Timekeeper. S0 Haven of Best. ; sao News. i ,! ' . 1:45 Market Melodies, r 0-Geros of Melody. 1 - :15 The Women's Side of the :; t.i News. - i.,- . j ao HeUo Mom.' " 100 News. 10:15 Stars of Today. lao This That. -, 11. -OS Cotton Bowl Football Game. . 1:45 East-West FoottaU Game, i 4 as Texas Rangers. ' i , - 45 News ' Oseo Kid. ! . i ' Sao Show Time. S:45 Norman NesbitL ; Chicago Theetre of the Air. - 70 Royal Arch Gunnison. ' 7:15 Music. - i 7 as Churchman's Saturday Night. S. -00 George Hamilton Orchestra, SaO Music. h . S:43 Bernie Cummins Orchestra 0 News. : O:! Doctors Courageous. 4 :' . :45 Shep FieWs Orchestra. a faces St Places tn the News. :45 Johnny Messner Orchestra. 100 Jerry Sears. ' 10:15 Henry King Orchestra. 10 ao News. 10:45 Orchestra. 110 Saturday Night Bandwagon, - 11 ao Music . . . i KOD4 -CBS SATURDAY S7 K. ' 60 Northwest Farm Reporter. C:l5 Breakfast Rn lie tin. - Sao Texas Rangers. 4:45 KOIN Klock. . , ' : 7:10 Aunt Jemima, i i . 7:15 News ! i 7ao Bob Greene. News. - 75 Consumer News, t -00 Warren Sweeney, News. -: 5 Let's Pretend. ' ao Fashions in Rations, i r 90 Theatre of Today.: : 9:30 Fantasy, s - , -i 9:45 News. 1 ' f 100 Orange Bowl Game, i 12 ao Sugar Bowl Game. "H ,' i 2e News. 2 US Newspaper of the Air. ! 2:45 World ''oday. " 2:55 Chet HunUey. News.' ; 40 Man Behind the Gun. 4 JO D tana Gayle Sc Dean Fouler. - 5 ad Three-Quarter Tun. ! . -i :45 News. . S as Ned Calmer. News. 0 Musie :! Heath man Melodies. :30 Beauty Talk. -41:45 Saturday Night Serenade. " 7:15 Musie We Remember. Tao Sundown Serenade. 7:45 Deane Dickason. - i 1-00 Thanks to the Yanks. ; saa Inner Sanctum. , Sas Deve Vaile. 1 . Your Hit Parade. ' - M5 Dont You Believe It, " 100 Five Star Final. v : 19:14 Soldiers A th Press. 10 a9 Bare Dance. 1 ll0Diana Gayle St Milton Charles. 1130 Phil Hams Orchestra. 11 5 Air-Flo of the Air. -1125 News. UZi to C) a. m. Uusio K tlvwt.. KOAC SATURDAY 5t Ka. IS: o united Press News. 1:19 The Homemakers I 110 Let There Be Peace. 11 ao Concert HaflL IS .00 United Press News." ' 12:15 Noon Farm Hour. 10 Ridln' the Range. ' ,1:15 UP Chronicle. - ' - la Variety Tune. . - - 20 Books and Authors. 2:15 America Marches. sao Memory Book of Music. ' 20 News. . ' , 2:15 Musie of the Masters. v40 Traffie Safety Quiz. . 4:15 Treasury Star Parade. . 4 ao Studio Party, v 0 On tha Upbeat sao-Jesting With the Jesters. SA5 It's Oregon's War. :15 News. eso Evening rarm Hour. -7 JO-GraiMl Opera, ' . wjo '. ruews. H5 Evening Meditations. 100 Sign Off. Sunday's Radio KSLM SUNDAY 120 Re. 0 Langworth Foursome, ao Gospel. 0 News m Brief, ! 95 Music. iN' ao Popular Salute. 100 World in Review. 10:15. -Moonbeam Trio. lOao Hit Tunes of Tomorrow. 110 American Lutheran Church. 120 Sunset Trio. 12:15 War -Commentary. i 12 ao Golden Melody. 1 0 Fun Valley. 1 ao Young People's Church of Air 2 0 Isle of Paradise. 2:15 Voice of Restoration . ao Vocal Varieties. 20 Wings of Healing. Sao--Four Square Church, 4 ao Bible Quia. 0 Old Fashioned Revival Bout 0 Tonight's Headlines. :1S Anita and Tom Boyer. ao Del Courtney Orchestra. 70 Bob Hamilton's Qu Intones. 7:90 l.sngworth Novelty and Salon Group. S0 First Preshyterian Church. - ao Music. i 0 News Summary. :15 OrganaUttes. ao Back Home Hour. 100 News. 10:15 Dream Tune. KEXBN SUNDAY UM Ks. 80 Soldiers of Production. Sao Dr. Ralph Walker. :45 Seagle and Trinity Choir. 0 The Quiet Hour. ' ao Sammy Kaye Serenade. 100 John B. Kennedy. 10:15 Wake Up. America. 110 Chaplain Jim, USA. 11 ao Sunday Vespers. -120 Sunday Serenade. 12:15 Hanson W. Baldwin. 12 ao Hot Copy. 1 0 Al Pearce's Fun Valley. 1 a Metropolitan Opera Auditions. ao where do we stand? 2ao Musical Steelmakers. 20 Radio HaR of Fame. 40 Know Your Allies. 4:30 Be Alert. 50 Christian Science Program S:1S Land of the Lost. 5 Drew Pearson. ga Walter WinchcIL :15 Basin St Chamber Music C:45 Jimmie -Tidier. 70 Gertrude Lawrence. 7ao Look at the Future.' . 7:45 Musie . 0 News. :15 Music, 'ao Qui Kids 90 Deadline Drama. ao News Headlines snd Highlights :4S For All Humanity. 100 University Explorer. 10:15 The Master Singers, ltao The Quiet Hour. 110 Concert Hour. ROW NBC SUNDAY 424 Ks. 40 Dawn PstroL 0 World News Roundup. :1S Commando Mary. :20 The Melody's the Thing. 70 National Radio Pulpit. Tao Words and Musie. :00 The- Church in Your Bom. ao Visiting Nurse of the Air. S:45 The Carol Sisters. 0 Carvetb Wells. Commentator. 9:15 News in Advertising. 9 ao Stradivari 100 A Layman Views the News. 10:15 Labor for Victory. 10:30 Chicago Round Table. 110 Those We Love.' I 11-30 John Charles Thomas. 12 .-OO Washington Reports on Ra s tioning. 12:15 Upton Close, Commentator, i 12:30 The Army Hour. J : 1 as News 20 NBC Symphony Orchestra. ' 20 News Headlines and Highlights 1:15 Catholic Hour. 2:45 Newsmakers. ' - 40 Jack Benny. j 430 Band Wagon. 4-55 Tom Reddy, News. I 1 10 Charlie McCarthy. ! 1 ao One Man's Family. I 00 Manhattan Merry-Co-Round, i ao American Album of Familial --'i Music. - ' I T0 Hour of Charm. ' Tao Bob Crosby St Co. v 10 The Great Gildersleeve. i ao Symphony Hour. i, ao Francis cralg Orchestra, ao Musical Interlude. , 100 News Flashes. 10:15 Walter . WtncheO. 1 4 ao S ym phooette. f 110 St. Francis Hotel Orchestra liao War News Roundup. 11 .45 News. 120-20 a jo. Swiag Shift. KALK MBS SCNDAT 1334 Ke. ' . 00 Wesley Radio League. . ao Voice of Prophecy. 0 Detroit Bible CI sat s. ao Early Morning News.': :45 Al Williams. 140 News. . . 1S:15 Romance of the Hi-Ways. 14 ao Hookey HaR. 110 Pilgrim Hour. 120 News. ' - 12:15 Voice of the Dairy Faraaee. 12 as Dr. Ftovd Jonaeon. , 10 Lutheran 'Hour. " lao Abe Lincoln's Story. , 20 Fireside Party. - Sas Portland BiWe Classesv 20 First Nighter. . Sao Upton Close; - - , 3:45 Little Shew. 4:00 Old Fashioned Revival How. 50 Mediation Board, - 5 Gabriel Heatter. 0 Cleveland Symphony Orch. 10 Cedrie Foster. 7:15 Music of the Masters. -7ao Hinson Memorial Church, ao Jack Benny. 0 News. ' :15 Rex Miner. Sao Sunday Serenade. -" . " 0 :45 National Laundry Time. 100 Old Fashioned Revival Hour. 110 Young People's Church. -11 ao Wings Over the- West Coast, KOrN CBS SUNDAY Ka. t 0 News of the World. I S:1S Music. :45 New Voices in Song. ' : ' '70 Church of the Air. 7 :30 Wings Over Jordan. 1 0 Warren Sweeney. News. S; as Blue Jackets Choir. ao Invitation to Learning. 9.-00 Salt Lake Tabernacle, - 9:45 News. .. -1 ' i'- 100 Church of the Air. 10ao Trsns-AUsntie Call. ' -110 Ceiling Unlimited. Ml JO World News Today. 11:5 onfS ox America, 120 Philharmonic Orch. Concert, i 1 ao The Pause That Refreshes, - 10 The Family Hour. - 1:45 Dear John. .20 Silver Theatre. 3:30 America in the Air. 40 William Shirer. News. . " 4:15 Perry Conn, Songs. .4:30 The Whistler. I .-00 News. . :15 Sones. - - - :30 William Winter. News. 5:45 Stars of Today. 5:55 Ned Calmer. ' 0 Radio Readers Digest. :30 Fred Allen. 7:00 Take It or Leave It 7 ao Adventures of the Thin, Man l S.V9 Crone Doctor.. ... ! 8 23 Bob Greene. i Sao In Time lo Come. (Continued on p22 S) t . r . .. . -. - -. (Continued from ' Page 1). '. In the Pacific "combined op k erationsf will be pushed ' along ' the island line toward the PhO T ippines,! with the Japanese navy I avoiding ah all-out battle with the American fleet. Lord Mount- batten 3to begin operations in -' strength-on Burma - Malay pen- ; insula lis laist' tpieer;;V,t-T"t,;'"i' - POTJTtTCS: Roosevelt r0il be the democratic noixunee. Conser vative democrats - will force a ' . substitute for Wallace for vice president. Jf German i war ap-,! , pears to be I in the bag by fan ': prospect Is' that a republican, ' either tiewey or WiUkle .wiU be . ! elected in November. - l 1 BUSINESS: Overall produc- tion wfit continue at very high ' levels though with cutbacks and ! contract! cancellations in many ; lines. Some expansion of pre- duction Sof civilian goods, espe cially essential durable goods,, during toe ; year. Construction i work at low ebb. Retail trade -continuiiig in heavy volume. RATIONING: Relaxation ra ther th4n tightening of ration reoiirements, as government re duces its) demand and as politics " , dictates 'easing strain to appease voters. i ' j ". INFLATION: Continued rise in wages and small Increase in prices, without explosive infla tion. Politics will again tip the i scales In favor of big voting blocs.. l .;-v:y- i-;:vr:v,! -! EMPLOYMENT: Some unem- . " ploymen will develop through the year; but it will be local and temporary. Peak of acute ' labor j shortage is passed. 'Farm - labor situation may be a little ; improved -as more machinery is made available and workers ! shift from slackening war in dustry. : j ;:.--;?' , - ' j TRANSPORTATION: Very difficult n the west, as load of -'Pacific war grows. Less gaso- , line, fewer seats in stages and trains 1 for civilians. Moderation in tire s tua tion by last quar ter. v : . j-:- - ; ! ' LABOR: Fewer, strikes or , threats of strikes in major In- ' dustries, but probably a greater . number of strikes. Settlements wfll hold) for coal-railroad-steel workers through 1944. Other la bor disputes; less critical. j. PEACE!: Problems of peace win loom! larger as the war cli max is reached. Increasing con4 cern : over details of peace set tlement. More discussion of sta tus of private business in post war period. Decision' on dispo . si tion of 1 government' - owned war planU and machinery will be 'postponed till after election, but : subject I wfll be agitated it the year. VITAL STATISTICS: Mar-i riage and birth rates down in 1944 to many men overseas; Death rate for civilians slightly higher. . - j-.... : That's what I see in the for-? tune-teller's jdeck of cards for 1944. It might be well however Dn-Soirps'pviiinG fan Poivi By KLRKE L. dTTLTPSON . Russian guns and Anglo American bombs rang out the old year for nari Germany with ever widening portent that be fore "end of the new. year the last citadel of HiUerism In Eu rope wfll have faUen. r -j r V There was lmost an admis sion of that , in Hitler's own bleak New Year's greeting to the German people. He sounded a whimpering, hopeless note to replace the blustering bombast . that j- has bttn missing for months from .his now rarsTpub lic utterances. And however tie meant it to be taken, he told-pis. AmerieaRnssian war feUow - hin loaders had already toloVi them in the "uTSConditional sur render" slogan: that -annihila tion,' note negotiated peace, awaits them..- ;! ; - - , Justrhow Imminent that Russian-allied pledged l annihilation of nazlsm In Europe may be yet remains in doubt. But In Russia, as Hitter's gloom-laden message was broadcast from Berlin, K moved an ominous step nearer with German surrender ; of Zhi tomir, to soviet troops smashing their way westward in the fast expanding Kiev bulge. . With Korosten .to the north also gobbled up m xne nuaun rush, Kazatin engulfed in the south ; and Berdichev, between Zhitomir and Kazatin, all but surrounded, the scope' of the massive red offensive is expand ing by leaps and bounds. It is driving forward toward the last vital supply anil escape arteries for all nazi ; forces south and east of the Kiev, bulge on an at tack - front reaching from the southern rim i tf the t Pinsk marshes virtually to the head waters of the Russian Bug riv er, a distance of nearly 300 miles. " There is no parallel In this or any other war for such a width of front attack. The breadth of" front, coupled with the protection afforded - by the marsh lands to the north, tends to insure the Russian Ad vance against flanking attack or diversion from its obvious prime strategic objective, the center stretch of the Tarnopol-Odessa railroad. That Is the only supply of escape trunk route nortn- westward still open for all Ger man forces below the y Kiev Zhmerinka rail connection. ; Traced, out on the maps, the x width of the Russian drive un ed at the Tarnopol-Odessa es cape route for the enemy indi ' cates it is designed to. ripopen a gap 100 miles: or more wide In that line. It suggests, too, an ul timate Russian strategic purpose of walling off the northern half of the enemy line west of the Pinsk marshes while the main attack goes through to Tarnopol and swing gate-wise to ' the south and southwest before huge to add a "saving clause," some thing like 'prices subject to change without' notice.? -Happy NeW Year ' t : Wex feel like climbing up on the nearest housetop and ringing out "Happy New Year," so loudly that each and every one of you will be able to hear it ! In that dynamic way - you'd be able to ! discern all the undertones of our greeting . because we're saying a lot in those three words. We're saying thanks for your kind cooperation in the past . i . 1 1 we'll be proud to serve you in the future . ! and, above all, let's all work together even harder to ' make this new year i go down in history as the year of i Am erica's Victorv. 0 . ; ' Copyright i9 oy enemr forcet still deep in the Dnieper bend can fall bacs ror a short line defense front. In effect, the Russian west ward drive from the Kiev bulge: la already taking on the charac teristics" of a preliminary assault on the center of the often men tioned - main German: defense front In the esst the Riga-Odes- , sa line. V"" v S) ' - - The threat to that supposed nazi prepared east-walL behind which to stand agsinst the Rus- sians when the allied cross chan- 1 nel lunge comes from, the west, i Is growing nouriy as we .u slans deepen and widen the Kiev ) ouig: Dealers Need Hardwoods Oak, ash and maple timber growing on farms in the Willam ette vaUey is in particular de mand by dealers engaged in the manufacture of hardwood lumber for flooring and small dimension stock for tool handles and farm implements, according to Dan D. ; Robinson, project forester of the Oregon state board of forestry. Robinson pointed out that hard wood stumpage Is now bringing between 6 and $7 per thousand board feet, Scribner log scale. This Is slightly higher than stumpage sold for cord wood and is consid-1 erably greater than previous hard- wood stumpage prices for: such timber two or three years ago. . Farmers who contemplate sell ing their hardwood timber may obtain a more accurate scaled vol-; ume by , using - the Scribner log rule rather than the Doyle log rule which is sometimes used In scal ing hardwood logs. The Doyle rule gives low results for logs less than r 28 Inches in diameter, according to statements by the project.,: for-, ester. . -'. V V- Hobart Bosworth, Movie Dean, DieaJ GLENDALE, Cslif Dec 31- Silver-thatched Hobart Bosworth, 76-year-old dean of the Hollywood movie colony, succumbed In a hos pital. Friday to pneumonia. - Once Broadway idol, Bosworth. had to forsake the stage and come west to Arizona; where he over came' tuberculosis. This victory won, he cast his lot with the struggling movie business and be came one of its very best char acter actors..: .i-;- . - PliiUips-Wakefield ; Companv. Plant Burns PORTLAND, Ore Dec. SH Fire of undetermined " origin; Thursday destroyed the Phillips-' Wakefield Manufacturing compa- nys . plant : which manufactured furniture for Portland war hous- i ing units. ! ; : ' The owners, ' Norman A. Phil- ; lips, Portland, and Marvin Wake- ! field, jr-Vancouver, wash- es timated loss at $31,000. 7 : ' ' ' yf (V) iLr-i ' : - - : ' ' - :- . ( . : . -