Southern Oregon News Review
Thursday, December 19, 1946
Traditions of Holiday Are Recalled
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Christmas Abroad Stirs
Memories of Yule at Home
I n a liti and Comm entator.
WNU Service. 1616 Eye Street. N.W..
Washington. D. C.
WASHINGTON—Christmas 1946!
The second one in seven years
when one could really talk about
“ peace on earth“
without shamed
and d o w n c a s t 1
e y e *. W h ile !
armies struggled,
who could think
of the message to
the she p h e rd s
from the angels’
chorus promising
peace on earth for
all men of good
will?
My last Christ­
mas word was
sent to you from
the ruins, where,
Baukhage
one year ago, I
experienced the saddest holy-day
season of m y memory. It was in
shattered
Nuernberg
with
my
thoughts on its rubble and the ruins,
ugly symbols of man's inhumanity
to man. the negation of our Saviour's
teachings. I had plenty of food and
drink and shelter and was clothed
In the uniform which is a reminder
of a career of which I am proud
despite its implications. But I was as
homesick as any young soldier in a
lonely outpost with the threat of bat­
tle about him for I could picture
m y own hearthside and the little
group about the happy tree, my
own tinseled packages unopened,
and my empty hands reaching out
vainly over the oceans too wide to
?pan. And all about me were the
signs cf anguish, cramped souls,
pinched bodies and the wreckage of
the handicraft blossomed in stone
and canvas and parchment which
has enriched the world through the
centuries.
deed to be able to look beneath the
brow adorned with the bristling eye­
brows and thatched with the thick
grey hair that was once so black and
bellicose.
This season in the nation’s capitol
isn't as merry a moment as it is
in most cities, for this is a city of
transplanted folk, most of whose
homes are too far distant to be
reached on a short leave or via the
restricted purse that is the portion
of most government workers. As I
write, the President expects to jour­
ney back to Missouri and his own
fam ily circle. Many of the officials
w ill do likewise.
In other years there have been
more festive Christmases.
The little ceremony which be­
came a custom during the
Roosevelt regime when the Pres­
ident was driven out into the
crowd about the municipal tree
where he touched the button that
illumined it has been discontin­
ued. That event which drew
many a lonely inhabitant to the
crowded square served to bring
a holiday touch to Christmas Eve
and the knowledge that the Pres­
ident later on would be sur­
rounded by children and grand­
children while he read the
“ Christmas Carol” was a rather
cheering thought.
There is on record the time when
two White House children, Charley
and RqJ>ert, one of them now a pres­
idential aspirant himself, cut a
mammoth Christmas pie given to
their father. William Howard Taft,
by the International Bakers' associ­
ation. It was 32 inches in diameter
and weighed 92 pounds.
There was a grand celebration,
too, when Theodore Roosevelt, et
familia, spent his first Christmas in
the White House. The White House
police were not the least of the cele­
brants—the new president distribut­
ed no less than 87 fat turkeys among
them, the messengers, ushers, gar­
deners and stablemen. This was
credited as being the largest lar­
gesse ever distributed by a presi­
dent. President McKinley always
gave turkeys to the married em­
ployees, but not as many or as big
ones; the Franklin Roosevelts al­
ways had some souvenirs for the
White House staff. What President
Truman’s gift w ill be this year has
not been announced at this writing.
Nuernberg! In the shadow of her
Back in 1892 when Benjamin Har­
ancient castle grew a tradition which rison spent bis last Christmas in the
lived on to modem days; a tradition White House there was no prejudice
made eternal by the woodcuts and against things German and the high
engravings of Albrecht Duerer point of the celebration around the
whose 500-year-old house still stood tree in the library was the recita­
but only as a fragile ghost which tion of German poems, taught them
soon must yield to demolition by their governess, by the Harrison
squads, a hollow shell despite the grandchildren, Ben and Mary.
proud persistence of its storied fa­
cade; a tradition made by the
That was a real children's
Meistersinger whose memory was
hour and we have a careful ac­
count in the Washington Star of
enshrined in the home of Hans
Sachs—a house now only a shapeless
that date to authenticate it. (No
pile of rubble.
nylons or mink coats were men­
tioned.) “ There is a complete
For the second time I had occa­
set,” »ays the Star, “ of real
sion to recall the yearning in those
baby furniture, the bed quite big
unhappy Kipling verses. The first
enough for little Mary Lodge
time was more than two wars be­
McKee; a dressing case, with a
fore.
T7e two lonely Americans
glass just high enough for her to
looked down from the window of
peep into and arrange her front
our little room in a pension on the
hair, and the cutest little wash-
Boulevard Montparnasse in the Lat­
stand, with all the toilet appli­
in Quarter on a snowless, aching
ances, all from Mrs. Harrison,
Christmas in Paris. Below was a
to her tiny granddaughter. A set
deserted convent garden. It only the
of lamb's wool muff and tippet
figure of a single nun had broken
for little Mary was lying near,
the damp stillness curtaining leaf­
and a steam engine, fitted out
less trees and withered flowers! But
with every modern appliance,
no, they were all deep in their devo­
and which w ill chase around In
tions and not even the faint echo of
the liveliest style for little Ben­
the evensong or the moan of the or­
jamin. He has a hook and lad­
gan reached us. Nor was there
der, a complete outfit, a set of
holly or mistletoe (no white or scar­
parlor croquet and a doll baby
let berry), for the Latin Christmas
or two.”
bears little resemblance to ours.
Long months bad stretched to years
After all, It is the children who
since I had seen a lighted Christmas make Christmas, for Christmas was
tree, evergreen festoon or a bright­ made for them and it is by their
ribboned wreath, or listened to the grace that we oldsters can relive
ringing crunch of footfalls in the it over through them.
powdery snow, or sleighbells—no
• • •
novelty then in our northern clime.
Would
you
say
that even an In­
I thought then of Kipling's lament
of the exile and understood him attentive criminal, if the court sen­
when he said, “ faint and forced the tenced him to the gallows, might be
laughter, and if sadness follow aft­ credited with hanging on the judge's
er, we are richer for one mocking words?
Christmas past.”
Today as Yuletide rolls around
once more, despite the shadows that
fa ll across many a hearth, and the
postwar worries that beset us, we
at least can glory in the heritage
of an American Christmas in the
land which the God of our Fathers
has bequeathed us.
WASHINGTON. — Nationwide use
Almost a month before Christmas of a "p a rity” wage formula—pat­
Day, John Lewis had a hint that re­ terned after the farm parity price
assured him, temporarily at least, formula — to maintain industrial
that he would not spend this year’s peace and a high level of income
holiday in ja il. Judge T. Alan Golds- for labor has been urged by the
borough spoke the comforting word. National Farmers union.
Under
He said, in discussing the con­ such a formula, wages would rise
tempt charge against Lewis, that he and fall with sim ilar changes in the
believed "nobody’s comfort would be cost of living.
disturbed whatever the outcome.”
In the case of the agricultural for­
How m erry this season w ill be for mula, parity prices—which are de­
the man who defied the government scribed by law as those equally fair
and brought down the wrath of half to farmers and consumers—rise and
a dozen nations upon his head is a fa ll with sim ilar movements in
question. It would be interesting in- | prices of things farmers bur.
1 stood in the desolate little
sqnare faced by the wreckage
of buildings, thinking of what
Rudyard Kipling called "Christ­
mas past“ You may know the
poem, breathing the nostalgia,of
an Englishman still clinging to
his boyhood memories of Eng­
land. contrasting them with
what he saw about him in India.
“ Oh the white dust on the high­
way! Oh the stenches in the
byway! Oh the clammy fog that
hovers over earth! And at home
they’re making merry 'neath the
white and scarlet berry—what
part have India’s exiles in their
m irth.”
IT'S COLD—B l'T SCHOOL GOES ON . . . First and second graders
at Cathedral school In Denver are shown getting their assignments
in a frigid classroom. When the coal shortage forced a shutdown of
the City's schools, the parochial institutions asked pupils to report
for lesson assignments.
W /iife H o u ie a
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NEWS REVIEW
Occupation Zones Merged;
Trouble Brews in Greece
GERMANY:
Verge Zones
trol of the country would jeopardize
Britain's Mediterranean Interests.
Merger of the U. S. and British Cognizant of the danger, Britain has
occupation zones in Germany set a afforded Greece's rightist govern­
pattern for the economic recovery of ment strong m ilitary support and
the war-shattered reich and prom­ agreed to help arm new battalions.
ised to relieve the Anglo-American
countries of expensive relief bur­ 4-H:
dens.
Shoiv {Fares
While merger of the two zones fig­
To the 20,000 spectators assem­
ured to cost both powers a billion
bled in the International Amphi­
dollars for administrative and other
theater in Chicago there seemed
expenses over a three year period,
nothing like it.
the price was cheap compared with
Fourteen hundred strong, sturdy
present outlays, chiefly foPfood. Re­ young boys and girls from rural
lief alone has been running the U. S.
America p a ra d e d
200 million dollars annually.
in the arena, the
Among other things, the merger
cream of the 4-H
is expected to speed the economic
crop in the U. S.
recovery of central Europe, which
Having pledged to
depended heavily upon Germany for
give themselves to
materials and finished goods in pre­
th e ir c lu b , c o m ­
war years. U ntil the food-producing
m u n ity and coun-
eastern region of Germany under
y with heart, head, hands and
Russian occupation is included in Health, each of the rosy-cheeked
zonal unification, however, the reich youth came to the annual congress
economy w ill continue out of bal­ a winner in agricultural or home­
ance and remain a drag on the An­ making competition.
glo-American powers.
The 1,400 were representative of
•the. 1,700 000 4-H members the coun­
GREECE:
try over who harvested produce
from 150,000 gardens in 1946; cared
Red Pattern
Even as Premier Tsaldaris left for 11,000,000 chickens and 750,000
Athens for New York to protest head of livestock; canned 33,000,000
quarts of food and froze 10.000,000
against foreign interference in
pounds of products.
Greece there were rumblings that
Greek leftists were collaborating
with Slav elements for self-rule of Grain Champs
Oldsters drew their share of hon­
the northern province of Macedonia.
Development of an autonomous ors during the week-long festivities
movement in Macedonia followed the in the Windy City.
Mrs. Amy Kelsey of Erickson,
pattern established last year in
northern Iran, where leftist elements B. C., Canada, was crowned the
bearing Russian support succeeded first wheat queen of the Grain
in obtaining self-rule in an oil-rich and Hay show, with her sample of
hard red spring wheat. L. E. Peter­
region coveted by the Soviets.
Russian interest in Greece is as son, Victor, Mont., won the reserve
vital as in Iran since Greece stands ] title with hard red winter Kanred.
Another Canadian won top honors
as a Middle-Eastern outpost for B rit­
ain's imperial lifeline and Soviet con- i when Gordon McArthur of Stay-
ner, Ont., was adjudged oats king
with his Beaver variety. Garnet B.
Rickard. Bowmanville, Ont., was
named reserve champion with his
Cartier strain.
Two Americans won first place in
the corn and soybean competition.
Newton L. Halterman of Rushville,
Ind., became the 19th Hoosier to
cop the corn crown while H. E.
’ Stiegelmeir of Normal, 111., capped
20 years of soybean cultivation on
; his farm when his samples were
. adjudged the best among those
| shown.
RADIO:
Clear Petrillo
TEACH AMERICAN PASTIME . . .
Football, America’s rugged pastime
for body-building and fa ir competi­
tion, is introduced to a group of
German youngsters by S/Sgt. Lewis
Karker of Richmondville, N. Y., at a
Bamberg, Germany, recreation cen­
ter.
James C. Petrillo, whose middle
initial stands for Caesar, won his
test of the Lea b ill in the federal
district court of Chicago, but the
government promptly revealed it
would appeal the decision to the
U. S. Supreme court.
Under the Lea bill, radio stations
cannot be forced into hiring more
employees than are actually need­
ed for conducting operations. The
measure was passed after Petril-
lo’ s American Federation of Mu­
sicians sought to have broadcast­
ers employ stand-by musicians
where records were being used on
programs.
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EXTEND FARM FORMULA
‘P a r i t y ’ P a y f o r L a b o r U r g e d
“ We are inclined,” the farm or­
ganization said, “ to question very
seriously the attempts to revise the
Wagner labor relations act, to im­
pose arbitration and otherwise to
change the present basis of labor-
management relations."
The organization made Its recom­
mendation in a statement submit­
ted to the National Economic coun­
cil, a government planning agency
created by the employment act of
1946.
Expressing sharp opposition to a
return to production control meas­
ures for agriculture, the union said
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CONTINUED FOOD SHORTAGES
WASHINGTON. — Speaking ol
holiday food, here is a prediction
on various items on the housewife's
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shopping list and how long they w ill
MOST MOTHIRS DO THIS
remain ditficult to buy.
CANNED TOMATOES—Will con­
tinue to be short at least until next
July. In the crop year ended w ltjj
July, 1946, supplies were so short
that we consumed 16 million cases
of canned tomatoes, nbout half the
normal demand In the current crop
year, ending July, 1947, there will
be a slight increase to approximate­
ly 21 m illion cases, but this will
still be far short of demands.
CHOCOLATE - Slight shortages
AT *(011111 rub m is roa nom
of chocolate w ill continue for the
throat, chad, back while child sleeps
next two or three years, due chiefly
with VapoRub. Ka- to rollava coughs,
llsfbrlnglng
action muscular soranasi
to shipping difficulties In trade lanes
starts instantly. . . and tightnass.
from Brazil and West Africa.
SALMON — The very unpredic­
est-known home remedy
you can use to relieve
table salmon continues to run lute
distress of children's colds Is
and short in the wuterways of Alas­
comforting Vicks Vapoltub.
ka and our northwestern states. Nor­
Even while you rub It on,
mal salmon production in prewar
VapoRub
starts to work to
years ranged between five million
case distress. . . and It keeps
and eight m illion cases, but in the
on working during the night.
season which ended in September of
No wonder m ost m others
this year, less than four million
a lw a y s d ot
, cases were packed for the Ameri-
tills when a ’
coldstrlkes. W V a p o R u »
I can market.
TUNA — Fanciers of tuna flsh
: salad w ill get all they want, due to
a record-breaking production this
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year of over four million cases, 35
per cent above the 1945 tuna pack.
BANANAS — Shipments o.* ba­
nanas from Guatemala, Costa Rica
and other Latin American sources r
\
w ill continue below normal for at
least another year.
• • •
ATOMIC ENERGY VS. COAL
One thing the striking miners
don't realize is that they are work­
ing for an industry which soon w ill
be as out of date as the old stern­
wheeler of Mark Twain's Mississip­ from CH/MMSS, H U T C H
pi river days. Unfortunately, what
they especially don't seem to realize
ooH CURHACCS
is that their present strike is has­
tening the end of the coal Industry.
A brief news Item from the little
town of Louisville. N. Y., tells port
of the story. Its 150 families have
converted to oil, making It the first
completely oil-heated town In the
USA. Others are bound to follow.
Some Industries hod started con­
verting to oil even before the strike.
Natural gas piped east w ill further
cut down consumption — especially
as coal becomes more expensive
and more uncertain.
However, this only tellg part
of (he'story. The rest of the
story began on August 5, 1945,
when a bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima. Scientists have been
working ever since on the prob­
lem of harnessing atomic en­
ergy. Already Poland Is con­
structing an atomic energy
power plant. In the United
States the first atomic power
r takes so little. Just two table.
plants should be completed in
spoons of X Z IT sprinkled in the
two years.
fire once a week keeps your chimney,
stove, and heating unit cleared of
Naturally the coal, steel and oil
soot. Soot can be dangerous, for soot
interests are not anxious to encour­
often causes costly chimney fires.
age this. Nor are the big power
Don't take chances. Use X Z IT regu­
companies, whose water power in­
larly. X Z IT sprinkled freely in the
stallations would be scrapped.
fireplace or firebox quickly and effec.
These incidentally are the same in­
tively extinguishes chimney fires.
terests which have blocked the use
Keep a supply of X Z IT on hand.
Ask for X Z IT SOOT E R A D IC A -
of natural gas in the Big Inch and
TO R at your grocery, hardware,
Little Inch pipelines.
drug or fuel supply store.
Science, however, can be retard­
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ed. but not stopped. And when atom-
is energy is used on a wide scale,
scientists estimate it w ill be much
cheaper than coal or oil. When that
happens, coal mining w ill be just
as obsolete as the journeymen wag­
on builders of 1800. And unfor­
tunately for the coal miners, the
more uncertain they make the sup­
B e a u tify
ply of coal, the more they spur the
development of atomic energy.
• • •
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS FIGHT
Despite all the talk you hear
about a "dog fight” in house Demo­
cratic ranks over the election of
a v a ila b le a t a ll stores
m inority leader, you can write it
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down that John McCormack of Mas­
sachusetts, m ajority leader since
1940, w ill win out.
Inside fact is that Sam Rayburn
of Texas, outgoing speaker, not only
has informed McCormack by tele­
always relieve sore throat
gram that he intends to stick to his
coughs — aching muscles of
decision against running for the
m inority leadership, but also has as­
sured McCormack he w ill back him
to the lim it for the post.
However, don't be surprised if
Congressman Francis Walter of
Pennsylvania is put in the field as
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a candidate against McCorm ack-
even though Walter made the un­
popular move of opposing use of
natural gas in the government-
owned pipelines. Some southern
congressmen have been proposing
Walter as a “ compromise” choice
A nd Y our S tr en g th a n d
to avoid a party “ split.”
Energy Ie Below Par
Another m inority leader prospect
It may ba caused by disorder of kid­
is statesmanlike Ewing Thomason
ney function that permits poisonous
of El Paso, Tex.
waste to accumulate. For truly many
people feel tired, weak and miserable
• • •
when the kidneys fell to remove excess
acids and other waste matter from the
FROM THE DIPLOMATIC POUCH
blood.
U.S.-British m ilita ry officials in
You may suffer nagging backache,
rheumatic paint, headaches, dizziness.
Rome, learning of a plan to scuttle
itting up nights, leg pains, swelling.
the Italian fleet, have tried to de­
S ometimes frequent and scanty urina­
tion with smarting and burning la an­
commission it — without success
other sign that something Is wrong with
Intelligence reports are that Italian
the kidneys or bladder.
There should be no doubt that prompt
officers are awaiting the British and
treatment Is wiser than neglect. Uss
French attempt to take over thp
Uoan't Pills. It Is better to rely on a
medicine that has won countrywide ap-
fleet—then w ill sink it. . , . The
than on something less favorably
Portuguese government has vetoed
t roval
nown. Uoan't have been tried and test­
ed
many
years. Are at all drug store*.
a new American proposal for per
Get Doan's today.
manent m ilita ry bases in the
Azores. The U. S. government con
aiders the Azores even more im ­
portant than Iceland.
full industrial employment at good
wages would provide a market for
practically all that farmers can pro­
duce.
It said future farm programs
should provide for the establish­
ment, through bargaining, of m axi­
mum and minimum prices in ad-
vance of the growing season, the
permanent use and expansion of the
production goal system now in ef­
fect; extension of the minimum
wage law to agriculture, the pur­
chase of large-scale farms as they
come on the market and subdivision
of these farms into family-type units.
D oans P ills