Pag© 2 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Friday, Nov. 1, 1940 Daisy Hot Dish Mat An Appropriate Gift GENERAL HUCH S. JOHNSON i'alin V 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 • NU ss*'«R 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 ► • ItA V. 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. • • • 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 • • • 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 • • • 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 • • • 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. r■ 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. • • • 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«