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e - » - , X FADE t, SHERMAN tCOUNTY JOURNAL, MORO, OREOOÑ £ that was the reason given tor the «I pointment. Little, if anything, was said about the qualification.) ef Published Every Friday at Henry. • Mera. Orer«e Perhaps FDR will be as well Editor Giles L. French pleased that Henry is defeated a.- D°t. He has done his politically Toatofftc* grounden duty toward his follower t Con««'« « and ghren him the nod for th ys.^ * <• aetaryahip. Now If ^the senate, where he has rat Your years, turn«- him down the burden is on thj heads of' the senator?, who come from the*people, not on the^bead of Roosevelt. Henry has been paid, OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER whether he fa confirmed or not. It SUBSCRIPTION RATE8 may be that it will be fnore difficult to mollify the CIO-PAC by mak- • Payable la Advance |2Z 0 appointments 4Jmt bounce, but ONE YEAk E - - ----- - ~ ____ Henry has little room for com- FEBRUARY », l»45 ; plaint. SHRMAN COUNTY JOURNAL S IZ E OF H IG H S C H O O LS There is s bill m the house that BACK TO MANILA S lig h tly under faff** years after w<g introduced by the house edu- the Americans were forced to leave e ^ ^ te e that places a Manila they marched back in again on gjxe of high schools in to expel the ¿ape from th e* last Oregon. The bill has so f a r not re held large city taken fro m ua. if ©eived consideration, but no doubt we had been told at that time wo committee will get'around lo it would expend eo many thousands k e fore ^ n g . of lives and so many billions of Aa the bill came to the com- dolfara and nearly three years to jt would have restricted the accompBrii that purpose we would rtund>er of pupils in high school have bee«|^pppalUdt.n'’1 ■ ■* to 25, but the committee cut this H will Stitt take many months to 16 the bill was in. do the entire job of ¡licking toe troduced. Provision fa made that if Japs for they etill control the conditions warrant the supermen Dutch East lades, the beet part of dent public instruction can per- Chfaa and the southern peninsula mit <mall schools to continue, crowned by Singapore. ,tV % Comment on the bill has been Our capture of Luson and the ^ neray y favorable. Governor superiority of our easy and our Sprw ue, who him eelf sponsored air feres have about out the Japa- ^ ^ ,,«1 educational bills when in reso otf from their eoufchern po»- wrote in l a w of the bill m •eaeions. The oil of the Iadea, the Oregon Statesman. Others rubber from faalayan peninsula, b*ve criticised the bill because it the food of these possessions ear. tbe figure too low and nave be brought to Japan only at graat- ^commended that the limit below eat risk. That io to ou r’ distinct which a high school < should ?o advantage. :iy w # . » 5 > - «bould be 40 or even 50. The argu- r'be Jape are so used to doing ment is that fche sm aller schools without that starring them to are not doing much o f a job o f death, either physically cr econo- educational advantages io mically will take a long time, the pupils. Within a short time It flbould bo * The argument is especially pc^- poosiblo to , move stone of our tto e n t when i t is considered that bomhotu to., Iamon and begin there may be much more vocation- •bombfag the mala islands of Japan <J education available after the easier than we have beea able to war. We have learned th a t our do heretofore. Our navy’s head- young men did not have train in g quarters are now closer than ever on wwne v e ry im portant things before to Japan. fa fact, there to talk o f making That actual occupation o f Manila training in mechanics, radar, en- muot fartfa efa to tba Jape i that gineering and allied subjects avad- they art on the faring aide aad are «hie to boys in high school. The in th e, process o f being crushed, courses would he elementary, of MacArtfaar h a s rarity same back, eourte. **I shall return* had bean.shown ta ‘ Jf the government does make be no idle boast aa is often indulg- such training available it would do ed In by army cnmmsndera. ’ *1 so in the school« large enough to Thera will ba months of fighting aoaporate wth It as it now does to expel the agamy Aram the with the Smith-Hughe« courses mountains of the PbffUppbrae but wUeh teach agriculture in schools the natoraa can ba depended upon Urge enough to provide instruc- to help when we equip them fo< txm. Elementary training for the job. Wa ware yearn taking the nurses and first sid practitioners entire Island o f Luaon after wu had m ay be given for girls In the post- taken the naafa points Aram the war era. Spaniard* „ The M m fought for ¡. As long as ed’ication, grad 4 or years-.. Now they she expected to high, means only the simple thro«* fight tor us aa vaUently as tl*ey Rg .the small school to as good as did against us 40 years aad more any; even better perhaps. Ae long ago. fU • 1 • j »-»1?* ' as no equipment is needed the few- ..... /»' a , v * ' W <,-<_• j f o r pupils per teacher the * I t to in the teaching o f better. modem I t has been said often the past things that require more equip- week or ao that the administration ment and bigger schools are to trying to retain Henry Wallace needed. in office to seder that h e mdy ba J‘ W h a t m ay happen to the b ill U more e e e iy available for norofaa- problematical. Nothing has been tion for the preeldeocp fa 1948. We done so far. I t m ay be amended t> think the case has not been proven, the first figure or dropped entirely. Firstly, there seem s to be uo in- I f It is felt that education to to re- dioatkm that the present holder of main a matter of read in’, ritin', the office o f president has any in- and rithmatic there is no need for tent to rathe. Ha has never given change; if H is thought, that we assurance that he^^to anxious to need to learn new things, the bill build up a foBowur to sooeeed him will become law. at any time. Until there is definite ■ ■ — » ■ ------ «Utemeot, pay, actual abandon- i When the righteous are, in su- ment of the office «in fufot of tbority the people rejoice: but Henry, the eontonBon that Henry when the wicked beareth rule, the is the choeen ene am et b e taken people mourn. — Proverbs 29:2 with a grain of aafa. U h.tt’L . -7 t * Northing more impairs authority Secondly, R cannot .be shnwa that than a too frequent or indiscreet the prasideptlal OK would hlr?jivf nee of it. —Shakeapeare FRIDAY. FEBRUARY », 1»45 ■Ok Grass V alley M ajor Joppolo said: “Your au C H APTER ▼ thority to do what, Gargano?” •Carm eiina shouted: ‘T o push his A l ♦bto angry moment. Gargano. Chief of ihe Carabinieri, camo up way to the head of the line in front * to the line. This man was called of Za pulla *s bread shop.” Gargano said: " It is a privilege * by the people The Man With Two Hands, because of his continuous the officials of the town have al* -« r i* • and dramatic gesturing. He was. way« enjoyed.” M ajor Joppolo said: "la that ao?” / I S seemed to think, an actor, sod Gargano said: *T charge this could not say two words without gesturing with both hands. He pos woman with disturbing the p a * c e ^ sessed and exorcised all the essen ahd questioning authority.” Gargano tially Italian gestures: the two fore was shrewd in say fag this, for be fingers laid aide by side, the circle saw that things were going against of thumb end forefinger, the hands him, and riSw he had put the m atter up in stop position, the salute to the on an official rather than a personal b y forehead with palm forward, the basis. The M ajor would have to fingertips of the two hands placed decide the case officially. W NU Servie«. r- tip to Up. the fingers linked, the The M ajor decided with a speed hands flat antj M w nw ard Ss If pat which dazzled Gargano. He decid ting sand, the hands up heel lo heel ed that the woman was. right but SYNOPSIS and pulled toward the chest, the that be could not say so, because if attitude of prayer, the pointing fore be did the Chief would fiever regain C H A l’ T K Il 1: The A m erican troop« a r finger of accusation, the V as .If for his authority, and the M ajor wanted rived at Adano, a seaport in Staty. w ith M a jo r Victor Joppolo. the A m got officer victory or sronktfig cigarettes, the to keep him to office Therefore he In charge Sergeant Leonard B arth, an forefinger on thfc ehin. the rolling of said: *T sentence this woman to one M P . wcb to be In charge of security. the hands- f All. be uged them all day to ja il, suspended sentence Let The M aior set out Im m e d ia tely to win 'When he approached the line, ev her go. Gargano, and gather si) the friendship of the ciUsens. and to ins* prove ‘ he r living conditions. eryone thought that he was cofotag the officials of Adano for me .at to restore order There wps s ques once.” (T 1 A P T & K 11: The first duties of M l tion in some people's nifhdi -wheth When Carmeiina got outside, she jo r Joppo.o. after posting the c iv il I bjrnc! o' s was to find out w hat the cM er he still had authority, but they ran straight back to the bread shop. zens needed the most. H e soon det« did not feel QRt this was « good The bread was not ready y e t and mined to re p lrc e th e ir bell, which tl time to flout thexjuestion ft would the people gave her back her place G erm ans had l.-ken The bell, he fouig was the «•-rv r ” mbo| of th e ir life. 1 be better to see first whether he at the head of the Une and shouted C H A P T E R I I I : The M a jo r sent fo r made any arrests - to her: “What happened. Carm eii F a th e r PeQsaveychlo. the tow n’s leading . He did not make any arrests. He na? What did they do to you?” priest He explained to the priest w hat he hoped to aocompliah for the people of m erely went up to CarmelinS. wife Carmeiina told what had happened Adano. and secured the promise of the ffhd she said: "Did you ever hear of of the lazy Fatts. and squeezed be priest to call attention, a t mass, to the posted civ I instructions... M a jo r JoppoH tween hdr and the drfor of Zspulla’s such a light sentence in Adano? I called in M e iru K o Salvatore, the lo é I ip. and stood there. The people believe in my heart that the M ister surtce _e>>uld see that he was merely tslu c rie r, and Instructed him to annou M ajo r thought I was right And what the new regulations ing his place at the head of the line was the meaning of assembling the officials? I believe that he was for C H A P T E R IV : The M a jo r, durjng the to wait for breed. rush of his w ork, forgot he had prem ised \ >- Carmeiina, who «res annoyed by m a.” ‘ '■ . . the priest that he would a tte n d • mass. In the M ajo r’s office, the officials The late .ringing of the bell rem inded having had wood-coke thrown at her, said* truculently: ’’Mister Gargano, gradually assembled. Some were t him . and he ran off to the services beld-over Fascists, some were new After services, fhe town c rie r told those you were Chief of the Carabinieri waiting in the bakerjr line that the M a jo r under the old ^regime, and that en appointments to take the place at had told him he might listen to the Fascists who had fled to the hills. 4 titled you to stand at the heed of Radio Roma if desired. In whispers, and »with ample ges the line I am not sure that you tures. G a nr« no nescrix>ed tq them are stiU Chief of the C arabinieri.” zapulla the baiser, black wltff the the humiliation he ha<f suffered, un wood coke of his oven, came outdo Gargano raid? ’T am the C hief.” the front of the shop and roared: and he made a kind of Fascist sa til M ajor Joppdio said: “Silence. p fa * * e ” „ ,r r . "Zapulla the baker has been up lute with both hands. > The officials drew, up in a circle since four in the morning. I t Zapul *■ CarntOlins ra id : ”1 doubt I t around the M ajor's desk. The M a la the baker hears rem arks, he Is W here is the proof?” jor Stood Up. • , r . . n , : . ’ liable to go u - 'k to b « l l t d let - o , ^ , ^ my “ I want you to be my friends.” the bread burn up and he ran his two foreflngerrfrom be said. "As my friends. I w ill, "Do you re m e m b er.” said M a * his shoulders to hie kneps consider it my duty to tell you ev gherita the fat C ra x i’s fo rm id able erything I think, for we do not want u C arm eiina said.“ ’ “T h a t is no proof. wife, “ do you rem em b er how the M ayor N asta used to hold office The Americans do not care how.we Adano to be a town of mysteries and hours from noon until one. each day, dress . I could dress as a ra b b it a place of suspicion. A BELL fo r A D A Ñ O - 10 John Hersey , the hour when we were all busy with our children? And how we had to apply in w riting to see him? And how we had to wait ten days? And how he would treat us when we did see him? Now it is d iffe re n t You can walk in any tim e all d ay.” -She paused. “ He stands up when you en te r.” she said im pressively. “ Is that so?” said L aura Sofia, who was not the wife of anyone and at her age was not likely to be ever. " I think I shall go and see him .” “ On what p retext?" Jibed M a ria Carolina, wife of the noisy cart- man Afronti. “To m ake eyes at him ?” “ O h." said Laura Sofia, "I have my complaints, just like the rest of you—even if I haven’t litters of chil dren grunting like pigs on m y floor.” C arm eiin a. wife of the lazy F a tta , said: “ My children are hungry. It w o u ld be nice If they could get their bread on tim e .” From the depths of his shop Za pulla the baker shouted: T h e chil dren of certain people may stay hungry if certain people do not hold their tongues “ M ercurio Salvatore, crier of the town of Adano. was near the end of, the line, but even though he toned his voice down to his conversational whisper, the whole line could hear him when he said: " I wish to tell you something. I asked S im if I and tlig Am ericans would not a r rest -me.” Gargano said: “ Woman, stop your shouting, or I witl arrest you,” and he gripped his own left wrist with his own right hand, signifying ar rest. C arm eiina said: “W here is your authority?” M argherita the form idable wife of C raxi said: ” 1 befieve that thia m an is still Chief, since the M ister M a jo r is keeping many Fascist scoun drels in office until thdy prove them selves bad But 1 do not believe that under A m erican law he has the right to go to the head of the line. T h a t is where I think you are right. C arm eiina " r ' Gargano said: “I ihavs alw ays come to the head of the line, shall continue to do so.” and he ran his forefinger along the length of the line until he came to the head, where he stood, then he pointed the finger at the ground..>• -> In the city of Vtcinamare threw back three vicious Allied attacks. Wa aU knew that Victnamare was to~lhe bands of the Americana late on the ___ diet day of the disembarkation.” Carmeiina the wife of the lazy Fatta said: Tt will be le u on the fifth day before we get bread from this baker Zapulla.” Zapulla was impolite to Carmeiina because of what she said. Ha came forward and threw a piece of «rood- coke at bar head and roared: "Si lence!” The woodcoke missed Carmeiina*« head, but hit the stomach of the formidable M argherita. She ad vanced. shaking her large fists. Za- pulla went back to his ovens, as U he had not noticed where, his wood* binieri. Out with Two-Hands. Out with men who push themselves to the head of a Une ahead of women who have been waiting three hours.” ■“ Adano has been a Fascist town. That Is natural, because the country was Fascist, therefore the town was also. But now that the Americans have come, we are going to run the town as a democracy "Perhaps you do not know what a democracy is. 1 w ill tell you “ Democracy is this: democracy is that the men of the governm ent are no longer the masters of the people. They are the servants of tba people. What makes « mae map- tor of another faan? i t Is that be pays him for h it work Who o«v« C ontinued on Page Gargano stepped out of the line. "Who questions my right?” he roared, »nd he pounded one clenched could listen to my radio. fist on the other clenched flat. "H e said: ‘Why not, c rie r? ’ C arm eiina. wife of the lazy F a tta . ” 1 asked him what station I would be permitted to listen to. 1 asked: standing right beside him, startled *Shduld It be the Radio of Algiers, him by whispering In his e a r: “ 1 or should It be the Radio of London question It. Two-Hands.” Up to this tim e Zapulla the baker, which is called B B C ?” "H e said - 'Reception here is best standing in the front of his «hop. for. Radio Roma Why don't you had been tom between the tvro au listen to the one you c u n heat the thorities. the old and the new. But he was so annoyed with Cermellna best?' “ I said Can m » i i men i f ’ Radio for having prodded him that he now said: “ Arrest her Mister Chief, if R o m a i- a n il A n p h;«. n you have any courage ” .. ns ilig b u t s ta n d i *• >i I' m A ' •• Up to this tim e Gargano the Chief, ‘ A n d hi- x n id '« •• - ' -i e i I u id I • n ''i vm , io •iort'ewh»«' n’umre < 1 his ground, had love Vi. • r i | l h n in k of a way of re- love it to-. Y o u !!'< •••' to R a d io b e iu . > - • - •} u But m»«f his m in - R u lli» Y o u w i l l l.c-.» t h . it H is three t ; t • z yrM • ru t v fourths lies I v» ant you to judge hoorf r'- • .-II n ‘ t i i - authority, was o - l i e moved tow ard C ar- for yourself and to want the truth. e ju .';ie -T h e n perhaps you w ill want to -tw-'H.-, .»««j « •id- “ Woman, you are it- le i m .W Hl listen to the other broadcasts which < a i •i.i-Jma shouted: • ‘Keep your you cannot beer quite so clearly.’ ” ouh No. ork M a rg h e rita , the form idable wife iv.. a> live hands »fT me. Gargano.” 7 u * u lia s a id - "W ill you let thia m B « r y Second »nd of Craxi. said. "Have you listened, w o n a n «hriek down your courage?” Fourth Thursdays <n e.o?h crier?” > . Gargano clapped his hands 0» - Mercurio *>alvatore said: * * I have Meaihe Month. Visiting Mesiher« She screamed-A AB up - Orekon listened. I could detect'only one C aim elin a and down the line woifcen shouted: M. lie yesterday, but It was a big one. w* Radio Roma said that Italian forces “Out with the Faselet.C hief of Cara-* Ruth Sporting, Secretary by JE A N 5 U U IV A N 4 .U C IL E W A T S O N • Raoul W al»h $ c »« m Hay by tattto Vednay m an»:»: tamutaaianuHuam a a i 4 M ok Bre*d how oe OdobMl S*xy by Jo« May o«d Lauto Vedas« — N ext W e e k — T u e « , W ed., Thur«., . “Northern Pursuit” T h re e ’ GRASS V-MTEY M a ria Carolina, the wife of the noisy cartm an A frontl. who had once been arrested .by Gargano. shouted "You have no right, Two- Hands The Am ericans would not perm it IL ” This was the first tim e Gargano had ever been called Two- Hands to his face. -He did not un derstand the reference. « w+»o uww tu« Ura ond k>*«d kt« «wat SEE StyALL AD ON THIS PAGE FOR DETAILS r|day> Saturday, Sunday, 16-17-18 THEATRE T u e sd a y W e d n e sd a y T h u rsd a y FEBRUARY 13 - 1 4 - 1 5 f feato«. 1#48. b a ; crown o f «oceesrnon op the Wallace M *. » n. thatch m ight do Henry as. much ham u „ ,o- - v i a - ■ In fact M agpeane to h e a rausxS able eoocluston that tba o. 11« h .idrato» Rebeksh felt that Henry find and 4th tiring and kind °f •d ao fato V to it soft berth last . Hcsuy raw bees welcome. H a lt With Clara Houston, N.G. really nine a naught but the brief period of ffaranea Jobnatoo. S lllS ■ - ■ —— heart braal^ h e “ ha Ural Fnraka Ledge Na. 121 A.FJfc A.5L and rode Meets on the 1st s^d bearing the news g f the praaident’s 3rd Thnraday evenings htoispenafaiUtf. Ha aided fa bring- o f each month Visitinq mamhars are cordially ng the CJO-PAC toto «poke nvited to meet with ui feelingly to <ha negraee and Aid kF i T ir r : « ;- » & **» *“ • w - M that be might to - r f l _ Wx I D - VaJtai. Sw nUnr v«lt. •fttc’o B h r nines’“ ll» , I .0 .0 > That JO B frale that bo a 1st and 3rd Henry an .appofatorant fa fato .wat- •days in I.O.O.F. oral for FDR efays far tofaririamfa -Urate tom. M M-. end ceke went ng brothers are Five things ara raqulmte to a cordially favitto to meet with US. good officer—ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impar Ernest Houston N. G. tia lity . —Fenn Ferep Thompeon, flraradnj . * T ransien t toil to stand bahfad the n at i— fa th e btttor end- The anatodent said <rf ponderi fa t o r i z XsdÜ Gargano dragged Cflrmelfaa off •creamfng and kicking, and the antl- C « r t>no. a n tifa s c is t screams fa the line grew louder and louder. Even Mercurio Salvatore, although as c ri er he was more or lees an official and should have remained neutral or even taken the side of Gargano, raised his huge voice fa a careful shout: "Down with injustice!” When Oargano pulled Carmeiina into M ajor Joppolo’s office, she was still screaming. But the M ajor Jumped to his feet and said sharply: “Silence, shrew,'* and she fell quiet J ■<t oncc "What Is this at] about?” the Ma jor asked. Gargano said: "This «roman ques tioned my authority,” and he point ed at'h e r with both forefingers. Carmeiina said: "There is more to it than that.” « s « iftbebaMd« « See by Ado««« O m M STAM PS MnrifTTEHg*.^ W ith N ew s R eel a n d C a rto o n r o n « * * ' ’1 irtO s t - i »»to- DENNIS IRENE MORGAN - MAN DOORS OPEN AT 7:15 F. M. Snfing Oaritag ol ‘Tank«« Otodb DaMf il 8H0W STARTS AT 8.*t0 P. M. Doors Open 7:15; Show S tarts 8 :00 ADMISSION ADULTS «to.; CHILDREN tec. ADULTS toe; CHILDREN toe. MATWEE SUNDAYS, 2 t o P«,. M. < 4ad3 gnrwoni f l i b u d <^fj ¡¿ vifa<railcv7 viJ* .raaS tttvífp V-
