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 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 A • • • * >1 S«Mt ROAM WITH CURTAINS OVIR WALL ANO WINDOW SPACI TRAMkO WITH CUPOOARM J r SlNGLi wwoow WITH LONG CURTAM MAKES SMALL ROOM L ook I nahrow I —— 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. 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