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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, Nov. 1, 1940
Daisy Hot Dish Mat
An Appropriate Gift
GENERAL
HUCH S.
JOHNSON
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By RUTII WYETII SI’EARS
IT WAS the flower handle of the
• tee-pot lid that Kuggcutcd thia
daisy mat. I had been thinking
of milking a hot dish out of firmly
braided strips of cotton cloth. I
wanted it to be thick and sewn
firmly like a rug rug, no thut it
would stand frequent scrubbings.
The design had to be novel and
guy *o that it would bo appropri
ate for a Christmas gift or would
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Washington. D. C.
Washington. D. C.
GERMAN MORALE SUFFERING
WRITER'S FEUD
U. S. observers acquainted with
t think there is a new voice among
the morale of the German people political commentators in our coun-
are getting bullish about Britain, in i try. It has not been silent in other
view of the heavy R.A.F. bombings [ fields. Clare Boothe has made her
of Germany.
self felt important
These officials point out that Ger
ly in drama, litera
man conquests on land, even if they
ture and as a pub
should be extended beyond the Bal
licist. Only in her
kans into Egypt or even to India,
indignation about the
do not relieve the problem of the
war hysteria of re
80,000.00(1 Germans who must con.
cent political out
tinue to take punishment from Brit.
bursts has she taken
ish bombing
to the hustings. She
It has been proved already that
hasn't just taken to
the military genius of the Germans
them. She has them.
is in land movements. They have
Her book. “Eu
no strength at sea. and they have
rope in Spring,” is
failed to gain complete mastery in
Gen. Hugh the most revealing
the air. though at times they have
Johnson
on the fall of France.
come close to it This leaves the | It wasn't political. It was poignant,
British with an air force growing but the terrible experiences from
daily stronger by arrival of Cana i which it was derived didn't suggest
dian and American planes, to bomb to the poised Miss Boothe that she
the great German cities in an at drag her own country unnecessarily
tempt to break civilian morale.
into that bloody shambles. When
German conquests abroad do not she got back to this country, to find
relieve the distress of people in such that another foremost American
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heavily populated centers as Berlin, woman writer of great heart and
One man was killed and at least 30 men were injured in a labor battle
Dresden. Leipzig. Hamburg, and mind. Miss Dorothy Thompson, had
when non-union construction workers stormed an American Federation of
Munich. So long as these people completely blown up emotionally.
must spend cold winter nights in Miss Boothe began analyzing psy Labor picket line in Velda Village Hills, a subdivision of St. Louis. This
photograph shows some of the rioters in the act of stoning the automobiles
the cellars, with no rest, there can chology.
be no real victory for Germany.
She showed from her correspond which were in the vicinity, during the battle.
ence in France that Miss Thompson
ROOSEVELT BORROWS
had actually wangled permission
The other day Postmaster General from a French artillery battery to
Frank Walker called at the White fire three shells at the Germans.
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House with William Knudsen and
other defense commissioners to sell
Miss Boothe was indignant. By
the President the first '00 new “Na all the laws of war. Miss Thompson
tional Defense” stamps, which come was a non-belligerent, an American,
in one. two and three-cent denomi a sniper in uniform—perfectly pro
nations.
tected against reprisal. If any one
“This is a strictly cash on the was killed, it was murder, no less
line proposition. Mr. President,” —such a deed as the intellectual
said Walker. “Have you got six Dorothy would never dream of in
dollars’”
her normal mind.
Roosevelt reached for his billfold,
That aroused Miss Boothe to make
It contained one five-dollar bill, no one of the most effective speeches
more. "Hmmm—short a dollar,” yet delivered on our war hysteria.
he mused.
With no persona) feeling whatever,
Borrowing, as Shakespeare said, she used this incident as an exam
may “dull the edge of husbandry.” ple of the mass madness into which
but on the other hand not everyone we are being whipped.
gets the chance to lend the Presi
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dent of the United States a buck.
ELLIOTT RESIGNATION”
Everyone in the room grabbed for
As this column said, in criticizing
But
his wallet simultaneously.
Elliott Roosevelt’s appointment, it is
the
first
to
produce
the
Walker was
inconceivable to me that Elliott gave
dollar.
a thought to its destructive implica
Grinning. Roosevelt promised to
tions. Elliott resigned in order to
repay Walker on “my next pay-
Flying Officer L. G. Fuller of the Royal Australian air force in a big
register for the draft, giving as
day.”
reconnaissance plane collided with another plane of the same type 1,000
his reason the injurious effect of his
feet above Brocklesby, New South Wales. Everybody bailed out except
appointment on the selective service
Fuller, who brought both ships down to a perfect landing and stepped
NEW ARMY TANKS
program. In my opinion, that was
The United States army is now a courageous and proper thing to do. out unhurt. The planes were only slightly damaged.
building a tank which will be the It is harder to acknowledge an at
equal of any which the Nazis sent tempt to retrieve an error than it
against France with their famous is to bull it through.
panzer divisions.
But it is much manlier and, in this
These new war monsters each will case, more patriotic. I believe that
carry one 75-mm. gun. This is the the resignation was in good faith and
famous field artillery piece which that it relieves Elliott from any criti
the French army used during the cism except his original misin
World war, and which the Ameri formed judgment.
can Expeditionary force later adopt
Not so much can be said of Gen
ed. It has now become the standard eral Echols’ “refusal to accept” the
field artillery for more than half the
resignation.
armies of the world.
As a matter of law. Echols has no
However, not until the German
more to do with that than I have.
divisions rolled into Flanders, did
A resignation goes to the appointing
modern armies conceive of mount authority, wlio alone can accept or
ing guns as heavy as this in tanks.
reject it. That autt irity is the Pres
But from now on. even the medium
ident, here represented by the war
tanks built for the U. S. army will
department, not Echols.
carry one French 75, plus a 37-mm.
The success of the draft depends
gun. plus four machine guns. This
absolutely
on popular confidence in
tank will weigh between 25 and 30
its administration. In this respect
tons.
Note—It is impossible to estimate it differs from any other department
the cost of the mobile fortress carry of the war effort.
Experience has proved over and
ing a 75-mm. gun. and the war de
over
again that you can't get away
partment is not even troubling to
ask for estimates. At least three of with conscription in an Anglo-Saxon
the companies will proceed with pro country without an almost religious
duction on a “cost plus fixed fee” popular and patriotic faith and zeal.
I believe more blame is due to
basis, and when the tanks begin to
come off the assembly lines (which regular air corps officers in not
will not be before next May) Uncle properly advising Elliott in the first
instance than to Elliott himself. That
Sam will pay the bill.
blame still continues in General
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Echols’ rejection of the resignation
JEFF DAVIS VS. LINCOLN
"on my own responsibility.” He has
Of all his predecessors. Secretary no responsibility. This rejection is
of War Henry L. Stimson has chosen pure bunk. It will fool nobody.
the portraits of Jefferson Davis,
If these regular officers had a pur- '
These submarines, shown tied up at Charlestown, Mass., said tlu-ir
president of the Confederacy, and pose either to serve or please the
Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the President in the original appoint farewell to arms after the World war armistice in 1918. Now they are
martyred President, to adorn the ment or in this false move, they are getting ready to stage a comeback. These eight, and many others, will
be recommissioned and returned to duty with the planned Atlantic fleet
wall facing his desk, Both Lincoln doing the reverse of both.
which will give the United States a two-ocean navy. The navy expects to
and Davis served as secretary of
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have 36 of these submarines ready for duty by January 1. In addition,
war.
Washington Highlights:
Mr. Stimson sits at a great» flat
“Price chiseling” on materials for I it has 104 first-line submarines, and 81 more which are now in the process
of building.
carved red mahogany desk, which the defense program is under a
has been in the war department broad investigation at the present
more years than anyone can remem time, according to word from Chair
ber, and which is ornamented by man Burton K. Wheeler (Dem.,
two round globe lights on either side, Mont.) of a senate interstate com
designed to burn kerosene in the merce subcommittee. The commit
days before gas and electricity. tee is co-operating with the national i
These have now been revamped for defense commission arid the depart
incandescent bulbs.
ment of justice. The investigators
A grim note is Stimson’s side would scrutinize the entire price '
table, a somber black piece used by field carefully and also check into
Gen. Phil Sheridan as a court mar the reasons for industrial bottle-*|
tial desk. This supports a huge necks that might eventually hamper
silver cup. a tenn.s trophy won in the defense program.
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previous years by Mr. Stimson, and
Senator Wheeler says that there
a mantel clock, which is wound by “isn’t going to be any witch hunt
a key, and strikes the hours and half though, and nobody who is co-op-
hours in deep sonorous tones.
erating need be afraid of it.
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M E RR Y-GO-ROUN I)
Renewed efforts to bolster Amer
Proudest boast of Sen. Homer T. ica’s defenses in the Far East were
Bone of Washington is a bet he won revealed by Secretary of the Navy
over a Civil war maneuver during Frank Knox recently. He stated that
the Union army's siege of Vicks the army has ordered substantial
burg. Though his opponent was a reinforcements, including two air
participant in the action. Bone was plane pursuit squadrons, to the Phil-
right and won the wager.
: ippine islands.
attract attention if u« <l to sell nt
n church bazaar. All the direc
tions you need to make one are
right here in the sketch.
Cotton flannel or heavy cotton
knitted material urc good to usa
This scene was made when a Bul for the braided strips. Cut the
garian soldier, entering a Rumanian strips two inches wide if the goods
province ceded to Bulgaria, was is heavy or wider if light weight.
greeted by nis sister, a peasant Braid tightly and then use No. 8
woman, whom hr had not seen In IS white cotton thread to New, aa
shown. A set of these mats are
years.—International Soundphoto.
pretty on the tuble; and mats for
oval dishes may be made by sew
ing two daisies together.
Succeeds Togo
Happy. Ending of Near-Tragic Sky Drama
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MHS. KITH WYETH HPrAKS
Meanwhile,
preparations have
been made to start work on the Unit
ed States military base at New
foundland. The base will be located
somewhere on the southern coast,
but its actual position will remain a
military secret.
Here’s a new wrinkle, from Hollywood, designed by Max Factor Jr.,
for a red-hot political campaign. Starlets Joan Barclay and Muriel Zaler
wear their choice for President in the form of an old-fashioned beauty
patch, with the initials cut out of court plaster.
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year by rolling his own cigarettes.
His job includes entertaining visit
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Creomuislon relieves promptly be
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The human mind always runs
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