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The Capital Journal, Salem,' Oregon
'Monday, December 21, 1942
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A Good Christmas Sermon
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's dramatic account of his
harrowinK experiences in the South Pacific and in the "hell
hole" of Guadalcanal, of the three weeks he floated with his
companions on a raft near starvation, their final rescue and
the things he saw on the American-Japanese theatre of war
was an inspirational appeal to the people of the home front to
end their selfish quibbling over petty trivialities and get be
hind the war effort 100 per centi He said :
"If only our people' back home could know what those boys
are doing for us and for future generations, I think we would take
this war much more seriously. If only we could get the American
people to realize, that by even a small amount of additional ef
fort, to bring to increase production of planes and equipment, ships,
to get them their supplies, ammunition; guns gasoline, we will
have served a great purpose."
"Rick" took a crack at the cries and objections to being
rationed on rubber, gasoline, food, etc., as being nisignifi-
cant and ridiculous," in comparison with what our boys at
the front experience, and haven t got. He concluded:
"I hope that the trip, what hardships we had to accept or en
dure, might prove to be a lesson to the people back home in the
stimulus to drive them on to greater peaks, because without their
effort and the material they are producing, our boys can't do the
job they are so willing and anxious to do in the four corners of
the world."
We all hope so too and that the coming year will see ev
eryone unselfishly doing his or her part to win the war on
the home front to insure victory on the far-flung battlefields.
Outburst of Spite
About as trivial and malicious thing as the president
has done, since he instigated his attempted purge of the dem
ocratic party of those who differed with his effort to pack
the supreme court was his presentation of a Nazi iron cross.
symbol of distinguished service to Hitler to a Washington
newspaper correspondent, John O'Donnell, of the New York
rimes.
The correspondent quoted two letters from friends, former
wnite House newsmen, George E. Durno and Jack Turcott,
both now in the' army in Australia, telling of their inability
to iorwara news Because ol censorship and, remarked :
"There have' been times when this column has pondered over
tno lacK ol news from some of our energetic colleagues recently
turned war correspondents , . . The boys have turned to flutes
and piccolos just to keep their fingers nimble for the time when
censorship lets them beat the keys of their portable typewriters
10 turn our, a leu-ail story."
fin "
Jap Prisoner Exhausted American soldiers on the Buna
front in New Guinea watch an exhausted Jap prisoner.
This picture was among those made by Edward Widdis
of Los Angeles, Associated Press photographer, who was
encamped with the fighting forces just 100 yards behind
the Buna front. . Associated Press Photo.
for supper
By Don Upjohn
Just how this could be considered a service to Hitler by
nit. cuiiuimiiuci-iii-ciiiei oi American armed service is diffi
cult to see. If it was intended as humor, it was in a very
strained sense. It apparently was merely another outburst
of bad temper often vented in the past by Mr. Roosevelt
BKiwiai, uie press ana its representatives undignified and
uncalled for. Small wonder Mr. O'Donnell is astounded and
amazed.
Wine on the Menu
To further complicate and extend the prospective agenda
of the coming legislative session, the state liquor commission
has at the insistence of Commissioner Ernest Fatland in
structed its staff to make an investigation into the possibil
ities of improving the system under which wines are distrib
uted in Oregon. The move is taken as a preliminary to recom
mendations for amendatory legislation.
It is Fatland's idea that the present schedule of fees sets too
high a price on licenses for the sale of light or table wines, thereby
discouraging their sale and making them available in some sections
of the state only in pool halls and like places. Ho argues that the
license fee should be low enough to enable grocery stores to handle
wines as an accommodation for their women customers, pointing
out that the bulk of this type of wine sold is for home consumption.
There arc others who have advnnrprt thi ... u
fore legislatures in the past, contending that to thus encourage the
wuuia oe 10 automatically curtail the consump
tion of fortified wines and liquors. Perhaps with the weight of the
. .......... iniuiu n mis ume me proposal will succeed.
There is also strong agitation for legislative action to im
pose more drastic restraints nnnn tii onin f ..i.t:..i
. n n ,"'JW luuiLimi wines,
leading off with the proposal to revive the bill to confine the
sale of this type of wine to state liquor stores under the per
sonal permit system. A measuile to this end, similar to one
jockeyed to death m the senate alcoholic committee last ses-
7 '"s.w,"!' eany introduction. Another bill,
tZ It n7LlfV"f P 10n ,n P?illon circles, would ban
the sale of fortified wines entirely.
nn0,iV!!'SS thfe w,ckne?ses in the Knox law are strength
n h I; awb?un4ut.'i?d momentum to the movement for
a icturn to total prohibition, which is steadily gaining impc-
JSmmS'? ?V0n f miHtal'y exltliecy nd conditions
pei mittcd to exist around army and navy posts.
Santa Needs Volunteers
Santa's heart is just as big and just as ironerous this
CSW' Vth he benefita wartime em
ployment spreading themselves into almost every home there
LtSnAr y relUled need for ownfced Public manifesta
tions of the spirit he represents.
With that and thp fnnf ti.of 1,.. , i m .
turlo nf iu -, - nic icu mis pnea a mum
Canital I Wni ftai,? AeaMI$ P" the community, the
3l3n.r.Jm in 20 years
" """" uusiom or sponsoring a Christmas
men RrT' ?"ju"cti" 'ith the Elks, Salem
r ierw l?dt0lher charitable organizations, to insure
r u .V"'0"""3 lu every cnilcl in the City.
Public response to the appeals of these drives has always
S'r' d open-handed, many generou.s ind vW
ItIJi, ? PyWe the Chroma!
. .......mum timuren ana even whole fam ies With
some It has bwnmo .i.-. Jimmies. Wltn
imiiih-inT tv, " ' " " .V!""'1, u,iu.ln.ls year tney are again
Now we're off on the home
stretch in the race for Christmas
shopping with the good old
Christmas shopping about three
lengths in the lead and still
drawing ahead toward the fin
ish line.
If you could take a squint be
hind the scenes at the Salem
postoffice now where packages
are piled miles high you'd see
Novelties
In the News
(By the Associated Presa)
Imagine That
Chicago Brig. Gen. Leo M.
Boyle, adjutant general of Illi
nois and chief of staff of the
Illinois reserve militia, was ask
ed if there would be a women's
auxiliary of the militia.
'No, there won't," the general
responded firmly. "In the first
place, the state constitution says
only male citizens can belong to
the reserve militia, in the second
place, a women's auxiliary
would have to be called the
WIRMS, and no woman could
tolerate that."
that folk also are a bit behind in
the race in Christmas mailing.
Just the incoming packages look
like enough to fill all the socks
that have been worn In Salem
since Jason Lee first pressed his
wool one on the sacred soil of
Salem.
Out Riverdale way Doe Wil
liam Thompson, the optometrist,
reports ne nas peaches and cher
ries in bud on his ranch, and
that a big flock or robins showed
up there over the week-end.
Ma npower Shortaae
New York A newstand in
the Associated Press building at
Rockefeller center has this sign
over the counter: .
"Please be kind to our em
ployees they're harder to get
than customers."
Breadcaster
Los Angeles The Rev. Wil
liam R. Hessel told his Metho
dist congregation the story of
the Biblical servant who took
five talents of his master's
money and brought back ten.
Then Rev. Hessel put a hun
dred silver dollars into the col
lection plate and the church
goers took them home.
That was several weeks ago,
Today 85 of the dollars came
back, multiplied to 274.
The minister hopes the other
15 will return next Sunday.
' -rL"b. ",e "ames oi needy and deserving kiddies
assistnnr-o Tfco u" i: .-;1""""."" K'vun some outside
through tL :p3-;C "VCTo1!? ..." a ln.clr need determined
not bp tnPhoH L 6 DOys antl girls whose homes have
&aaJfcJ be visited
ij;;; Vl j " unicss ne is
X:. or the Catholic
untarv nfV " r"'"V'. ' u gracciuiiy appreciate
untarv nffo... r " i". I'"";'"" "PPrcciative of vol-
and goodies. a""ala" ln Providing lood, clothing, toy
It Says Here
Farragut, Idaho Bluejackets
were puzzled by brand new no
smoking signs in the recreation
hall library where they'd nev
er been before.
ihc Farragut News, station
publication, explained:
A new recruit had read the
executive order about no smok
ing near the magazines.
Fire Damages Home
Silverton The country home
of the H. E. Hubbards was dam
aged by a flue fire Thursday
night, which was kept from des
troying the house by' the quick
work of neighbors. The flames
broke through the walls of an
upstairs bedroom and were kept
confined to the one room.
Labish Center Mrs. A. Bar-
nick, primary instructor at the
local grade school is locating in
the small cottage on the Harvcv
Akcr place, where she will make
her home throughout the week.
The week-ends will be suent at
What, No Jingle?
Washington (IP) Don't be
surprised if someone hands you
a wooden 3-cent piece one of
these days. President Roosevelt
approved today an act of con
gress authorizing 'the substitu
Hon of other materials for stra
tegic metals in minor coinaee.
ine measure authorizes the sec
retary of treasury to prescribe
regulations governing the
weight, dimensions and shape of
new pennies and 3-cent pieces.
He could, but probably wnn't
nave them made of wood. The
only specification is that they
must fit. coin-operated machines.
Coincident with our thesis of
Saturday evening on the matter
of v a r i o u s supersitions, what
snouia we ao after writing same
but walk out of the office and
from the sidewalk pick up the
corner of a $2 bill. Same is out
growth of another silly supersti
tion. Some guys not daring to
carry a two-buck bill around in
their pocket unicss one of the
"$2's" is ripped from its corner.
Ordinarily we can't hang onto a
$2 bill long enough to rip the $2
out of same. But we like the
looks of the piece of bill well on.
ough to carry it around as a
pocket piece, superstition or nn
superstition.
Kelly Says
Senators Break Into
RFC Loan Secrecy
Row Precipitated
Behind Closed Doors
Mercury Mines in
West States Neglected
By John W. Kelly
Mrs. George J. Pearce, who
has been claimed by death, was
a woman of remarkable mind,
memory and accomplishment.
Though she was retiring and of
a completely unassuming type,
nevertheless she played a very
distinct and happy part in the
development of Salem and in a
many sided way. Her remem
brances of Salem went back to
the middle of the last century
and she could conjure up pic
tures of such patriarchs as J.
Quinn Thornton, David Leslie,
J. L. Parrish and others who
laid the foundations of the city.
And she had a faculty of making
them come to life when talking
of them. It is .too bad she did
not commit her memoirs to
writing, although she has left a
very vivid impress here bv
mmgs sue has done along edu
cational, religious and cultural
pathways.
Art- Wilson, manager of the
Postal Telegraph, has a letter
from Sgt. Al Friesen who was
nis night operator, but now is
with a bomber squadron under
going intensive training near
London. Al says that nmonc
folk ho has had visit him there
were Martha Ray, Kay Francis,
Carol Landis, and among the
lesser lights, the Kine of Eng
land. Quite a jump from a nisht
trick at the telegraph kev in Sa
lem. But there arc just as good
looking girls in Salem. Al. as
any of the three you mentioned,
and a darned sipht hetinp ir.ni.-
Washington, Dec. 21. To the
president went, dated November
30, a report from Reconstruction
Finance corporation, via Jesse
Jones, stating that RFC has
authorized loans and other com
mitments in connection with the
war amounting to $18,289,576,
761. The president notified his
congressional leaders that he
wanted RFC authorized to sell
another five billion dollars of
seourities to take care of war ac
tivities. Congress balked.
Of these billions of dollars
there was no consulting 'of con
gress. Unless a congressman
learned accidentally of some op
eration the legislative branch
was in total ignorance. Senators
Danaher and McNary decided
something should be done about
it to let the white light of pub
licity stream in on RFC opera
tions. They discovered that one
way of circumventing congress
had been to have the president
issue a directive order to Jesse
Jones for him to furnish bureau
of economic warfare, for exam
ple, so many hundreds of mil
lions of dollars. And Jones had
to produce, without consulting
other members of RFC board.
Danaher and McNary proposed
that executive orders be ignored
and when a request came for
loan it should be acted upon by
the RFC board and based on
"Satisfactory security".
Wallace Flays Jones
Immediately certain column
ists friendly to the administra
tion charged Jones with having
inspired the resistance of the
senators Jones wished to have
final decision on all loans. Then
in an executive committee hear
ing, with doors closed and no re
porters allowed, Vice-President
Wallace of bureau of economic
warfare panned, roasted and
flayed Jones; asserted the war
effort is so very confidential
that it can not be told to Jones
or congress all Jones has to do
is turn over the money and the
Wallace organization will do the
rest. So the committee reported
out the bill favorably, but it
struck a snag on the floor when
the committee declined to "re
veal the testimony at the hear
ings and was held up on the
contention that this was legisla
tion by committee and not by
the senate.
Congress has a notion that
these, war agencies should come
to it and request such appropri
ations as they need, the same
as the army, navy, interior de
partment, etc. There is anoth
er congressional group which
suspects that Herbert H. Leh
man, in his capacity of director
of relief and rehabilitation for
all the world, would be financed
through executive order on RFC
and congress would be kept in
the dark as to what Lehman was
doing or how mu.'h money he
was spending. No one has yet
announced where Lehman will
obtain money for his global re
lief and reconstruction: that the
project will require several bil
lion dollars is acknowledged.
(Vice-President Wallace now
explains that when he said the
United States would provide a
quart of milk to everyone in the
world, in a speech last May.
he was using a figure of speech
and that this off-hand observa
tion has been misinterpreted. At
the time it was supposed that
Wallace was an administration
spokesman).
To Eliminate Axis Lines
Despite the secrecy, of RFC
funds, it is possible to show
where some of the money is go
ing. For instance, the United
States has paid $1,488,600 to
train several hundred young
men from Latin-America as fli
ers and technicians. Of these 40
percent have completed training
and returned home or are await
ing transportation. None of this
expense will be recovered. To
eliminate axis-controlled air
lines in South America $8,000,
000 was earmarked These lines
were in Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
and Brazil and the Italian line
from Brazil to Italy. To Russia
$100,000,000 has been given for
which hictals are to be received.
This is in addition to all the
planes, tanks, guns, ammunition
and shiploads of food which are
being sent, gratis, to the Soviets,
Canada has been given $10,000,-
000 to develop copper, lead
zinc and other ones, and as the
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SOME WERE REP, SOME WERE GREEN. SOME WERE YELLOW
By Lucrece Hudgins
The story no far: Rni-lr In nnnnn.nnn .
Michael Worflnaton Bartholomew trip., to
tell his friends that there Is a Santa Claus
but none will believe htm. '-Why.' they
w. naven ine streets been decorated
then?"
Chapter Thirteen
Michael Decorates the Streets
When Michael saw that no one
believed him he was terribly sad,
"Santa was right," he thought.
"I never shall be able to con
vince anyone by Christmas Day
ana by that time it will be too
late for Santa will have died."
As he walked slowly away
from the school house he noticed
how bare and ugly the streets
were and he thought, "It is all
my fault that there are no rib
bons and colored paper decor
ating the streets this year." And
then he stopped for a wonderful
plan had come to him.
"I will decorate the streets!
he cried to himself. "I will
string colored paper from every
lamp post and when the child
ren see it they will think that
Santa did it and then they will
believe!"
Sure now that all would be
well, Michael hunted in the dirty
gutters until he found a scrap
of old paper and a stub of a pen
cil. He wrote on the paper. "I
am the rag man." Then he went
from door to door along the
streets and showed what he had
written to the people who ans
wered his knock. '
It wasn't any time at all be
fore he had stuffed his pockets
and shirt and loaded down both
arms with scraps of paper and
bits of rags for housewives were
glad to be able to throw away
the trash that had gathered in
their closets and attics. And be
sides, they were amused at the
little Rag Man who couldn't talk
but who looked at them so hope
fully when she showed them his
note.
Before long Michael had such
a load he had to run down and
hide it behind an old paint and
dye factory. There were large
tubs of paint and dye which
stood outside the factory day and
night and it was by these tubs
that he hid his paper and rags.
All the afternoon and late into
the evening he collected trash.
As each load became too heavy
to carry he took it to the paint
factory. Finally it was past mid-
keep his eyes open, so he went
down to the paint factory and
climzed into an empty barrel
and fell asleep.
When he awoke it was paij;
noon. Quickly he ran through
the streets to see what had hap
pened. How gay everything look
ed! The colored streamers flut
tered in the breeze and looked
very Christmasy indeed. And
the people in the streets really
seemed happier and more cheer
ful than they, had in weeks.
, Michael, his heart beating with
oy, ran to the school house
where he found all his school
mates discussing what had hap
pened. Some were saying it
must prove after all that there
was a Santa for who else could
have done such a wonderfu
thing. But most of them stK
shook their heads and wouldn't
believe.
'For," said Roderick Benmow.
"it is three days until Christmas
and always before the Kingdom
has been filled with candies and
fruits by this time. This year
there are no goodies of any kind.
Surely if there were a Santa he
would have brought us sweets
by now." t
The children listened and
agreed and Michael turned away
in disappointment. . ,
Michael walked through the
gaily decorated streets without
seeing any of the wonderfuL.
work he had done the night b&J
jie was minKing, "i
worked until my fineers were
stiff with tiredness but it wasn't
enougn. wow it is just three days
u i-nristmas and still no one
oeueves that there is truly
Santa Claus',
Then he remembered how sad
and tired looking Santa had been
when he had seen him in Santa
Land. And the thought,: "He
mustn't die! I myself will fill
the Kingdoni with goodies and
then surely everyone will! think
that Santa did it and they will
believe in him again."
Quickly he ran towards his
own home. When he arrived he
found both his mother arid fath-
night and Michael decided thai-
he must have collected every icr sittin8 hi the living room.
rag and paper in Poopo-Poona
ore is mined the United States
will buy it at cost of production
plus transportation. (A better
arrangement than any western
state has been able to make with
the government).
Wool Brought In
Wool has been bought from
Australia, New Zealand, South
Africa to the tune of $167,500,-
0U0. A small jag of 5,000,000
pounds has been bought from
South America, China, Mexico
Central and South America are
furnishing antimony. Ten coun
tries are providing manganese,
which will cost $150,000,000.
Mexico, Canada and South
America are sending mercury,
while little attention is given
to expanding mercury mines .of
Washington, Oregon .and Ne
vada. Through assistance of RFC
there are 100,000 tons of fine
tin in stockpile; yet tin is so
scarce that canneries, milk con
denseries and packers are being
rationed. The entire sugar crop
of Cuba has already been pur
chased and only awaits cargo
space to be brought into the I
United. States.
so huge was the pile he had ga
thered.
By the light of the moon he
set about tearing into strips all
the rags and papers. He dumped
these strips into the different
tubs of paint and dye and when
he had finished he had a beauti
ful assortment of gaily colored
ribbons and paper streamers.
Some were red, some green.
some yellow, and some were just
nice spun silver.
He took the streamers into the
streets and fastened them to lamp
posts and stretched them from
tree to tree. He strung them
from shop windows and flung
them across porches. When
everything that could be decor
ated had been , he tore the rest
of the streamers into bits and
scattered them in the streets like
confetti.
The sun had begun to come up
before he finished. By that time
he was so weary he could hardly ,
Neither parent had been able to
wuin. since iviicnaei naa gont
away, for their grief had beeS9
i. .. i ,
Tomorrow! Michael Finds
Goodies. :'
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