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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
G eneral
Friday, Sept. 6, 1940
Shain Battles Give Boys Strenuous Workout
HUGH S.
Pretty Flowers Fill
Crocheted Baskets
$
JOHNSON
WASHINGTON Mr. Hitler hasn’t
1 liquidated England, but be has pret
ty well disposed of the predictions
i of military “experts** as to what
turn the war will take and how soon
, this or that campaign will start or
finish.
It is not Hitler alone who has
i made this war-casting business dan
gerous. It is also the almost com-
I plete lack of dependable facts and
the puzzling conflict of rival war
bulletins from London and Berlin.
Making a prediction carries even
more hazards than sports writers'
dilemmas on the outcome of an
evenly matched football game or a
prizefight There are no hotter spots.
This column has had fair luck in
this dangerous military field of crys
tal gazing. For a special reason, it
is going to shoot the works on an
Patirrn No. 66N1.
other guess with all fingers crossed,
and the desk piled high with rabbits'
L'lXJWEHS in simplest stitchcry
feet.
t-.r.ilv > I ■>< lu ted blis-
Below is shown an infantry group of 400 West Point cadets marching on the new Storm-King by pass, for a e fill
Mr. Hitler is not going to dispose
ket
edgings.
Take your pick of
week
of
sham
battles
in
the
Orange
county
hills.
New
York.
Fifteen
hundred
cadets
with
anti-tank
guns
and
of England this year. He probably
is not even going to try a lightning cavalry scout cars, simulsting tank cars, participated in the sham battles. Upper right: West Point esdets pillow cases, towels or scarfs.
war invasion by land or. if he does, man the guns in a combat car during maneuvers. The combat car is equipped with 5»-ealibre machine guns
and two guns of 30 calibre. Upper left: A well camouflaged scout car of the Twrnty-lirst Reconnaissance com Puttcrn 6681 contains a transfer
it will not succeed.
pany of New York city Is shown near the road in the vicinity of Pyrites, New York, scanning sky and road pattern of 12 motifs ranging from
As Napoleon did, when he stood
5 by IS to 2 by 4 inches; chart
for invading “Black** forces marching down the St. Lawrence valley
on the channel just before Auster
and directions for crochet; illus*
litz, he may suddenly shift the war
trations of stitches; materials
to the south and smash Gibraltar
needed. Send order to:
and the Suez or something else un
pleasant to the British empire, but
I have a strong hunch that the rec
Sewing Cirri« Needlecraft Dept.
ord of 874 years since William the
U KlghlS Av«.
Naw York
Conqueror is not going to be broken
Encloa« IS c«nt« In coins tor Pat
now by whatever name Hitler will
tern No..................
take in history.
Nam« ........... ............................................
It is more than a hunch. To risk
Address .................................................
an army across the great wet ditch
of the channel, the Nazis must have
clear command both of the air and
those narrow seas and beach heads
for a considerable distance inshore.
JOIN THE ARMY
With the biggest ballyhoo in 25 The channel itself might be cleared
years, the war department is en by fixed shore batteries that would
A General Quix
treating young men to join the army. keep naval vessels at a distance,
but British counter-batteries could
By bil’boards, radio, movies, every
make landings in force difficult if
conceivable publicity device, even
The Queattona
not impossible, unless the back coun- '
including paper matches, the depart
try is completely dominated from
1.
Why
is Colorado called the
ment is spending $28 a head to get
the air.
Centennial
state?
recruits for the fighting forces.
It isn’t I don’t know why the
2. To what type of road did a
And this will continue, regardless Germans, with their supposed over
Scotch engineer give his name!
of the new conscription measure. whelming air superiority, didn't use
3. What two great Oriental cities
This recruiting is for the regular it to reduce British air-power to im-
were founded by the British?
army, to bring it up to a strength of potency—since any quick decision
4. What is the most widely used
375,000. Conscription, on the other depended mostly on that
They
word in the world?
hand, aims to get roughly a million didn't Doubtless the reasons were
5. What is the line that follows
men for a one-year training period, good. Most of their reasons have
"Lives of all great men remind
to form a trained reserve.
been good. I'm not guessing about
us”?
The publicity drive is getting re that I'm only guessing that in view
6. What is the name given to th«
sults. It yielded 23,444 in June, a of the rapidly advancing season of
present royal house of Italy?
new record for peacetime. The July fogs and rough weather and all the
7. Which of the United States
figure surpassed the June figure, and other considerations I have men
has the greatest water area, Cali
August, in turn, surpassed July.
tioned. Mr. Hitler is going to eat
Left: Marshall Field, chairman of the committee for the care of European children, grls acquainted with fornia, Minnesota, or Michigan?
The cost of $28 a head for enlist no meals in London, this year.
The A newer»
Gwendolyn
Kell. 6, of London, and Geoffrey A. Newbold, 6, of Middlesex, as the children arrive on the Samaria.
ments is low compared with other
There are other guesses—maybe
1. It was admitted into the Union
years. In 1930, the department paid better ones. One is that he actually Homes are available for them, and according to all indications, they were happy because of the hospitality
$56 for each recruit; in 1931, the j prefers the fogs as a sort of natural extended to them. Right: Bunks were at a premium, and at times during the voyage some of the Ilk refugee In 1876, the Centennial year.
2. Macadam.
figure was $66 Today recruiting is I smoke-screen for attack. Another children from Great Britain slept in lifeboats. Clyde and Trevor Davies (shown) are so doing. They were
3. Hongkong and Singapore.
on a "mass production" basis, also ; is that with most of Europe in his sent to a home in Boston.
4. "Amen” is believed to be the
a lot of the publicity is obtained | clutch, he is prepared to offer the
most widely used word, being em
free of cost
■ British empire a peace so firmly
ployed by 1,000,000,000 Christians,
For instance, express trucks, rail ’ buttressed and asking so little of
Jews and Mohammedans.
roads and chain stores are carrying Britain that she can't refuse. I just
5. "We can make our lives sub
posters free of charge, while 350 I ' don’t happen to trail along with
lime."
trade associations are making a those guesses.
6. Savoy.
gratis display of preparedness slo
I didn't make my own guess for
7.
Minnesota.
gans. Radio stations are donating the chance of being right at the risk
free time for transcribed “join the of being wholly wrong. I made them
army” programs, and 15,000 bill- because I know the barometic char
boards are pasted with recruiting acter of our public opinion A good
posters at half price.
deal of our almost panic urge to
Most novel device is the mobile prepare is due to our being told that
recruiting station, a truck and trail out national life depends on the Brit
er specially designed to carry a re ish navy; that it is in immediate
cruiting sergeant and staff about the danger of being lost, scuttled or
Do you dread tho«e "trying years'* (M te
42>T Ar» you g»ttlng moody. cranky and
countryside, park in the town transferred to Hitler; and. above
NKRVOUBT Da you l«ar hoi kasha«. wak
square, and sign up youngsters for all, the monstrous absurdity that the
ening dluy spells? Ar» you I m I ous of atte»-
Uou other women g»tf THEN LISTEN —
the army.
Twenty-seven mobile Atlantic ocean is no longer an ob
Than» symploma often r saull from fernato
“stations" are built or building, two stacle.
functional dlsordera. So «tart today and lab«
famous
Lydia E. Hak ham's Vegetable Coat-
I
don
’
t
agree
with
these
extreme
or three for each corps area.
pound. For over M y-ara Pinkham'« Cow
views,
but
I
do
agree
that
our
de
pound
haa
helped hundreds of thousands at
Result is that voluntary enlist-
grateful woman to go "smiling thru" difficult
ments are proceeding at the rate of fenses are deplorably weak, that we
da ya. 1‘lnkham'e has helped calm unstrung
nervee and Inman annoying famala funo-
about 8,000 a week, which should must get into a position to defend
llonal "IrregularlUM." On» of the moN «/ee-
ourselves
with
reliance
on
nobody
mean that the regular army will on
U m "woman'«'* tunica. Try Ul
its quota of 375.000 men before snow else—and that we aren't doing it
My
fear
is
that,
if
the
present
flies
Limited View
popular pressure is greatly relieved,
Who stays in the valley ne'er
by a demonstration that Hitler can't
GETTING TOGETHER
sees over the hill.
Bushy-browed John L. Lewis and hop even the British channel—mush
Artist Jamrs Montgomery Flagg
shrill-voiced William Green still are less the Atlantic ocean—we are like
is shown beside the poster he has
glowering at each other, but the ly to lapse Into a lethargy as dopey
Just completed as a contribution to
A. F. of L and C. I. O. members as our immediate past.
the work of the “Wake Up, Amer
of the Labor Advisory commit
The whole of recent history should
ica" committee, of which he is a
tee, appointed by Defense Commis prove how silly and perhaps fatal
The situation In the nation’s biggest peace-time army maneuvers is member. Alms of the committee are
sioner Sidney Hillman are co-operat that could be. Let's keep on going
explained to President Franklin D. Roosevelt by General Hugh Drum physical and moral preparedness
ing with real harmony.
regardless of the momentary fluctu
May Warn of Disordered
at Norwood, New York. The President, who is seated in Ms car, and the with mightier force, and the pres
Kidney Action
Their weekly Friday afternoon ations of the news from Europe’s general carefully go over a map of the terrain over which the maneuvers
ervation of peace in the Western
meetings with Hillman are like a war.
Modern Ilf« with It« hurry «nd worry;
were
held.
Hemisphere.
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frreyular habit«. Improper eating and
happy family. The labor chiefs ad
drinking—Ila risk of saposuni and Infeo-
REGISTER MEN NOW
dress one another by first names
tlon—throw« heavy «train on tha work
of th« kldnay«. They ara apt to boeoma
The
basis
of
any
successful
sys
•nd lean over backward to iron out
over-te«ed and fall to Alter eanaaa arid
differences between their organ tem of equitable selection is the uni
and olbar Impurllla« from tha life-giving
blood.
izations. Illustrative of the good feel versal registration and classification
You may «offer nagging barkaehe,
ing is their sly jesting about A. F. of our whole manpower into about
headache, dlaaincM, getting up night«,
leg paina, (welling—feel ronatantly
seven groups in accordance with
of L.-C. I. O. peace
tired, nervoua, all worn out. Other algna
of kidm-y or bladder disorder are aom«>
At last Friday’s conference, R. J. their relative ability for military
llmea burning, «canty or loo frequenS
Thomas, head of the C. I. O. United training and service with the least
urination.
Try I loan'> Pillt. Doan'o help th«
Auto Workers, happened to take a possible interference with desirable
kidney« to paaa off harmful e«ceaa body
seat on the A. F. of L. side of the domestic, educational, industrial and
waste.
They have had mor« than half a
century of public approval. Are recom
table. Wisecracked Dan Tracy, en agricultural relations.
mended
by grateful users everywhere.
You can’t do anything intelligently
ergetic A. F. of L. electrical work
Ask your Mtgkbor/
and
scientifically
in
the
way
of
de
ers* chief, “Aha, pulling a little
termining quotas, exemption and
peace stuff on us, eh!”
All th? laborites joined in the deferments or final selection until
you have that information.
laughter
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*To debate further steps before we
MERRY-GO-ROUND
have it is ignorant and futile.
Friends of Henry Wallace think he
I don’t know how long it will take
may come back into the job as sec this fumbling, blundering generation
retary of agriculture between elec to do that preliminary job. In 1917,
tion day, November 5, and inaugu we did all that it requires in 90
ration day, January 20. This means days. I doubt if that record can be
Claude Wickard would step down beaten or even approached. In any
ADVERTISING is a great vigi
again.
event, that essential process if start
lance
committee, established
ed
now
will
overlap
the
election
and
In the senate conscription debate
Sen. Alex Wiley, Wisconsin, isola- leave us infinitely better prepared
Put through a test by its two inventors, William Hale and Durand
Claude K. Wickard, who has been
and maintained in your inter
tionist, gave this thought:
*'We to decide.
Beam, this rifle fired 10,000 shots per minute—with absolutely no noise. nominated by President Roosevelt to
The solution is easy. Quickly pass The rifle operates with compressed air. It reduced three-inch oak planks succeed Henry Wallace as secretary
est, to see that the men who
don't have to take any ideas from
the Nazis. They may have their a simple bill authorizing the regis to kindling and turned airplane armor plate into steel mosquito netting. It of agriculture. A nomination by the
aspire to sell to you will
blitzkrieg, but we have our intuì- tration and classification of all men resembles a sub-machine gun, and when it starts firing the barrel gets President Is tantamount to appoint
between 18 and 60.
always
be worthy of your trade;
lion.**
cooler instead of heating up.
ment.
WASHINGTON.-It is interesting
to note the manner in which certain
congressmen
have
consistently
squelched attempts to investigate
the state department’s co-operation
with the British tin trust and certain
U. S. business firms to prevent the
United States from acquiring suf
ficient supplies of tin.
With Japan now able to seize the
Dutch East Indies and the Malays,
the United States may have her
tin supply cut off in a few weeks'
time.
Yet up until recently, the
state department played in with the
British tin monopoly, did nothing
about the situation.
Now Sol Bloom, energetic chair
man of the house foreign affairs
committee, has introduced a resolu
tion to investigate the tin situation.
But he faces the vigorous opposi
tion of Representatives Cochran of
Missouri and Faddis of Pennsyl
vania, both Democrats.
Interesting fact is that Congress
man Faddis comes from Pennsyl
in
vania's twenty-fifth district,
which is located the Standard Tin
Plate company, which is tied up
with Continental Can and long has
done business with the British
monopoly.
Also
Representative
Cochran
comes from St. Louis, where the
National Lead company operates the
St Louis Smelting and Refining com
pany. National Lead owns part of
Patino Mines, which is the keystane
of the British tin monopoly
Until
recently National Lead has lobbied
against all efforts to establish tin
smelters in the United States, thus
making this country independent of
the British tin trust.
Child Refugees Met by Marshall Field
Jlsk Me Jlnolher
President Roosevelt at Maneuvers
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To Arouse America
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Nadtfins
Backache
Fires 10,000 Shots a Minute, Silently
Succeeds Wallace
DOAN SPILLS
VIGILANCE
COMMITTEE
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