Tb CZZGQN STAITC:.L,IIL Ccltal Oregon, Cct-day I-Iamia. Iucry 1. ijll
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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
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wedding after
time.
News Behind
The News I
By PAUL
(Distributed by
Reproduction in
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Psal Mallon
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- 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.
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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
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King
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Features Syndicate. Inc.
or in .pert strictly pro-
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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
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school teacher in whosi four llmtm.
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4 JO Tea time Times, -i
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TS Weekend Jamboree.
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9 :45 Galilean Hour.
100 Serenade in SwtngUma.
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TWO Yankee Doodle Quiz;
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10:15 Edward i Jorgenson. Com men -
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10 ao Horace Heidt Review.
110 Opera. i
20 Tea and Crumpets. '
2:45-44usic by White.!
30 Korn Kobblers. '
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3:45 Let s Walts. I
40 What's New. i
S:15 Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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f0 John Gunther, Commentator.
7 :1 5 Remember.
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SS Los Latinos.
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ao News Headlines and High
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100 Wings to Victory.
10 ao The Quiet Hour.
110 This Moving World.
11:19 Claremont Hotel Orch,
11 ao War News Roundup..
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40 Dawn Patrol, f ;
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7:15 News Headlines and
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7:45 Sam Hayes.
S0 Follies.
sao Lighted Windows.;
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: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.
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60 National Barn Dance.
ao Can You Top This?
70 Million Doner Band.
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00 Truth or Consequences.
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90 News. I !
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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.
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7:15 Texas Raneers.
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" 100 News.
10:15 Stars of Today.
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11. -OS Cotton Bowl Football Game.
. 1:45 East-West FoottaU Game,
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Chicago Theetre of the Air.
- 70 Royal Arch Gunnison.
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S:43 Bernie Cummins Orchestra
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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.
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i 7ao Bob Greene. News.
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5 Let's Pretend. '
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100 Orange Bowl Game,
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2:55 Chet HunUey. News.'
; 40 Man Behind the Gun.
4 JO D tana Gayle Sc Dean Fouler.
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-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
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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.
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11 5 Air-Flo of the Air. -1125
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110 Let There Be Peace.
11 ao Concert HaflL
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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
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sao-Jesting With the Jesters.
SA5 It's Oregon's War.
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eso Evening rarm Hour. -7
JO-GraiMl Opera, '
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100 Sign Off.
Sunday's Radio
KSLM SUNDAY 120 Re.
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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 .
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20 Wings of Healing.
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4 ao Bible Quia.
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70 Bob Hamilton's Qu Intones.
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100 News.
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80 Soldiers of Production.
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100 John B. Kennedy.
10:15 Wake Up. America.
110 Chaplain Jim, USA.
11 ao Sunday Vespers. -120
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12:15 Hanson W. Baldwin.
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1 0 Al Pearce's Fun Valley.
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20 Radio HaR of Fame.
40 Know Your Allies.
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90 Deadline Drama.
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100 University Explorer.
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110 Concert Hour.
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70 National Radio Pulpit.
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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
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12:15 Upton Close, Commentator, i
12:30 The Army Hour. J
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20 NBC Symphony Orchestra. '
20 News Headlines and Highlights
1:15 Catholic Hour.
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40 Jack Benny. j
430 Band Wagon.
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100 News Flashes.
10:15 Walter . WtncheO.
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120 News. ' -
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50 Mediation Board,
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100 Old Fashioned Revival Hour.
110 Young People's Church. -11
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'. 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.
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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.
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