friday, Ian. 24, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
G eneral
Accenting the Width
Of a Narrow Room
JOHNSON
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
ON A Thursday afternoon the
south end of a certain dining
room wns ua ahown here in th«
upper sketch. The following Mon
day it appeared ns ahown below.
Cupbourdu had been ndded to dia-
pluy china and give ntoruge npuce,
yet the room actually seemed wid
er and more apaclnua than before.
The transformation wag mad«
by the handy man with no toot«
HUGH S.
STETTINIUS STOPS DENYING
Washington. D. C.
SHORTAGE OF STEEL
PRESIDENT’S POWER
WASHINGTON.-Edward R. Stet . ' When the blank check, lease-lend
tinius Jr., handsome raw materials i bill has been bunis-rushed titrough
chief of the Defense commission, congress, the United States may not
apparently has become gun-shy. be at war- but the President will be.
Having seen his denials of short
He has announced his peace terms
ages in strategic materials blow up • —freedom of speech and of worship,
in his face, he is resorting to a new social security and the end of wars
technique in the case of steel.
through disarmament—not merely
It took only a few days for his in Europe but “everywhere in the
solemn statement that there was no world” including, of course. Rus
aluminum shortage to be refuted by sia. This is the new world-wide New
Sen. Joe O’Mahoney, chairman of Deal with our taxpayers and work
the monopoly investigating commit ers. as they did for the American
tee.
Even less time elapsed be New Deal, paying as much of the
tween his denial of a zinc and brass whole bill as the President shall de
deficiency and the issuance of a termine. Mr. Roosevelt has also an-
presidential order barring their ex- i nounced the kind of peace in which
he will not "acquiesce." People who
port
The hotly controversial steel is- are not at war don't prescribe either
sue has been a Stettinius worry for the kind of peace that will be accept
months As far back as last sum ed or the kind that won't.
mer he was warned by experts that
The President also asks for ulti
the nation's vast defense program, mate power to dispose all the war
to say nothing of frantic British or strength in America, except man
ders. required an immediate expan power ’maybe?) to fight for whom
sion of steel plant capacity. It was and at any place he decides—all
The new 15.000 tun "*up«-r-bstllr.
pointed out that present U. S. ingot our guns, ships, planes, shells, rifles,
ship," Duke of York, sliding down
capacity is approximately 83.000.000 all our materials and facilities for
These United States army men, specially equipped for cold weather the ways of Clydralde yard, London,
tons, of which normal consumer production and. by the same token,
conditions, are having their equipment inspected on board the 8. 8. after being christened by Queen
needs for 1941 would be around if not all our wealth, then at least
Edmund B. Alexander upon sailing from New York for new army bases Elisabeth. The vessel will mount
60.000.000 tons, leaving only 23.000.- billions of it. He can send as much
in Newfoundland. The Alexander Is the old 8. 6. America, which was ten 14-lnch guns and have a speed
000 tons for armament.
or as little into the battle lines as used as a troop transport In the World war days of 1917.
of over SO knots.
This obviously was far from he decides, and that is nothing less
enough.
The British alone will than the position of international
have to get at least 18.000,000 tons ■ commander-in-chief.
of American steel this year to keep ! what ia re<Jucstc(1 is the complete
their war industries supplied.
! length of the nation in economic
With several notable exceptions. war—an<j ¡n these modern days that
the steel industry balked at build- is
per cent of mihtary war with a
ing new plants. It insisted it could margin over as deadly as military
take care of all requirements with war, if not more so.
out the 15 or 20 per cent expansion
This astonishing bill was prepared
that was urged. In this stand it was
under the direction of Mr. Morgen-
vigorously supported by Walter S.
thau in the treasury and there is
Tower, president of the American
good reason to believe that neither
Iron & Steel Institute, also a dollar-
Secretary Stimson of war. Secretary
a-year adviser on Stettinius* staff.
Knox of navy and Secretary Hull of
But the pooh-poohing of Tower,
state was consulted on its terms
salaried official of the steel indus
i before it was published. Somebody
try. was sharply challenged by Prof.
beside Henry the Morgue ought to
Melvin G. d’Chazeau of the Univer
be consulted before we buy a ticket
sity of Virginia, another Stettinius
to perdition.
steel
adviser.
An
outstanding
We have no effective naval ves
authority without any industrial tie-
ups, D'Chazeau urged immediate sels to send without hurting our
navy.
We can send no modern
plant enlargement.
This inner battle raged for weeks. 1 tanks, planes or guns that wouldn't
withStettiniusVitting blinktog to'the delaXthe training of our army. Aid
middle while deliveries continued to
Britain, yes. but in this momen
tan further and further behind.
I bve hy»‘erical spasm, can't some-
He finally did move after the Pres-
beu linking one little thought
Joaeph P. Kennedy, resigned U. 8.
At the house foreign affairs committee hearing on President Roose
ident took an indirect poke at the about the interest and security of velt's "lease-lend” bill, chairman Sol Bloom and Rep. Hamilton Fish, ambassador to Great Britain, shown
the
United
States.
steel barons in his message to con
both of New York, bandy words as Fish calls the bill "a dictator's a* he talked with members of the
gress. and the "Big Four” defense
bill." This soundphoto shows, left to right. Representative Bloom, Repre press shortly after visiting the White
chiefs followed him up with their
LEASE-LEND BILL
sentative Fish and Representative George E. Tinkham of Massachusetts. House in "lend-leasc" bill hearing.
demand that “industry must subor
What would have happened if two
dinate its
over , possible
fu- -- months ago anybody had proposed
— concern
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ture effects of tremendous expan- the lease-lend bill giving the Presi
sion.”
I dent unlimited authority to engage in
Stettinius acted by passing the economic and possibly military war
buck. He designated Gano Dunn, , "everywhere in the world.” to pro-
♦
head of the J. G. White Engineering > vide a world-wide bill of rights for
company, and a dollar-a-year man i people "anywhere in the world,” and
on his staff, as a “neutral arbiter” ' whether they want it or not?
to decide between Tower and 1
Nobody can say precisely what
D'Chazeau.
would have happened, but the
Dunn is the "impartial” expert t chances certainly are strong that it
who last year slashed a proposed I would even have had a hearing.
TVA power expansion for defense ' Certainly, earlier, nobody could have
purposes nearly 75 per cent, and 1 campaigned for office and such a
was overruled by direct order of ' bill.
I
Roosevelt on the insistence of other
What has happened in the mean
defense heads.
time to incite public sentiment to en
Some insiders are betting that it tertain such a perilous course, such
won't be long before steel is put on a revolution in our system of gov
the priorities list and consumer use ernment, such an all-out totalitarian
sharply curtailed. They base this ism in the United States? Certainly
on the fact that even if new plants not any greater danger to the bel-1
are ordered, it wilf take a year be ligerent nations that have our sym
fore they get into production.
pathy. There have been some ter
rible bombings of cities, but, if any-
: thing, their actual military position
BUY BRITISH MOVEMENT
Behind the flood of "Help Britain has been much improved.
What has happened is the most
—Buy Something British i”
1
window
posters, which have sprung up all effective war-ballyhoo and propa
over the country, is an amazing ganda headed by a few sincere and
story of a nation-wide movement masterful but -certainly very rash
started singlehanded by a young men. Over the air, in the mail, in
Portland, Ore., advertising man only the press, their voices for war have
I
been continuous and many times the
two months ago.
His name is Robert Smith and the volume of any voice for caution.
Popular polls have asked hypothet
idea came to him when he took out
his wallet for a bill to donate to the ical military questions on which no
British relief fund. He noticed that mere layman would be likely to have
his wallet was tattered, and it struck the facts and professional knowl-
him that by buying a new one of edge to express any valuable opin-
Pictured here Is Guy J. Swope,
British make he would be making a ion—such as, “Do you think Britain
auditor of Puerto Rico, who has
definite contribution to England's will lose the war, if we do not give
Wild with Joy over their country’s successes against the Italians, the been nominated by President Roose
war resources.
her all aid?" Lacking access to any populace of Athens, Greece, gives a rousing reception to Greek and velt to succeed Admiral William D.
Young Smith figured there must guiding facts, except the incessant British soldiers home from the battlefront. The British fighters have Leahy as governor of Puerto Rico.
be thousands of others who felt the haranguing of the war-crier», who British and Greek flags. The Greeks are grateful to the British for the The appointment Is subject to con
same way, and decided then and 1 themselves are not much more com aid they have given them in Albania, where II Duce Is still In reverse. firmation by the senate.
there to call it to their attention. petent to give an opinion, these
The first thing he did was to team "sample” voters say "yes" in sub
up with a close friend, David Rob stantial majorities to the question:
inson, an attorney and leader in "Shall we go to war?”
Portland
welfare
organizations.
It is mostly fantastical nonsense,
With Robinson handling organization this government by harangue and
M-
.fr
"7,
and Smith promotion the move-1 unofficial plebiscite, but the result is
ment gathered strength like a roll- not nonsense. It is the stark nation-
J
ing snowball.
J al tragedy of the lease-lend bill; sub
a
In the two months the movement ' jecting the wealth, the peace and
?
has been under way it has prairie- the welfare of our country in war
fired to 28 states with more than 150 to the discretion of a single man,
local branches. Dazed by the phe who, with almost unlimited war pow
nomenal success of his idea, young ers in the past for preparation and
Smith attributes it entirely to the defense, has not used them wisely
strong feelings of the "average man or well. If he had, we should be in
in the street.”
no such panic as we are today.
• • •
THINGS DIPLOMATIC
Just as the public has been war-
■a
A career in the U. S. Foreign danced and tom-tomed by equivocal
Service begins at $2,500, plus an av propaganda into even considering
erage of $1,000 for rent. Top pay such a bill, so that bill itself is not
is $10,000 and rent . . . While there candid. It would be far better and
Is no requirement that candidates more honest to appropriate $3,000,-
be college graduates, one third of 000,000 to lend or give Britain,
the U. S. foreign service officers Greece or China to be spent here
are graduates of Harvard, Yale and for munitions, than to authorize the 0
Princeton . . . About 500 young President to engage our entire
Miss Craig McGeachy at her desk
Assisted by Capt. J. J. Rroshek (left), Rear Admiral Clark H. Wood
hopefuls try to get into the service strength in arms and resource*
each year; about ?0 are chosen . . . in economic war "everywhere in the ward is shown setting in motion the machine that drove the first rivet in In Washington, D. C„ the first wom
A total of 155 foreign service officers world” and to guarantee freedom of the keel of the 45,000-ton battleship Missouri at the Brooklyn navy yard. an ever attached to the British em
are listed in Who’s Who. In the for speech and worship and from want The Missouri, expected tn be completed in 1944, will be a sister ship of bassy here. Hhe represents the mln.
Istry of economio warfare.
eign service there are but 2 women. and war "anywhere in the w«rld.”
the Iowa. They will be the largest ships in the V. 8. navy.
W >rds Fly at ‘Lease-Lend’ Bill Hearing
Warriors Hailed by Greeks
Visits Vi hite House
To Puerto Rico
X
»
Start Whittling on 45,000-Ton ‘Big Stick’ With British Embassy
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but a hammer, saw und screw
driver plus the aid of his willing
helper with needle, thread and
The new curtain
paint brush.
treatment, shown in the sketch,
made the window seem wider and
the strong horizontal lines of the
cupboards also helped to create un
illusion of width. The cupboards
were eight Inches deep and made
of one-inch lumber with doors of
plywood for the lower part.
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