S o u th ern Oregon News Review. Thursday. D ecem ber 16. 1948
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CHRISTMAS
FLORAL DE-SISNÇ
MACHINE CAN
MATCH THE PRECISE
BOWS OF R IB B O N
T IE P B Y NIMBLE -
FIN6PR EP WOMEN .
SATIN INSERTS. RHlHFSTONfS,
A n P o ther ATTACHMENTS
ARE APPLIEP BV HA NO. TOO
Christinas Toys
For Every N eed
Be a careful shopper when you
select Christm as toys.
Just as there are d ifferent types
of toys fo r each age level, so there
are toys that serve d ifferen t pur­
poses in each age group.
There are m anipulative toys, toys
for physical development, balance
and skill, toys fo r dram atic, im ag­
in a tiv e p la y , toys to teach arts and
handicrafts, and toys to encourage
an interest in nature, science, hob­
bies and pets.
A child needs some of each in the
form best adapted to his age level.
Toys fo r babies should be selected
p rim a rily from the standpoint of
safety. They should have no sharp
edges, no loose parts sm all enough
to be swallowed. Anim als w ith eyes
glued or pinned on, toys covered
with poisonous paint or made of
glass or china are taboo. The best
choice is something that can be
washed when it becomes soiled.
Great Royal Feasts
Once M arked Yule
A modern Christm as dinner is a
mere "sn ack’’ compared to the
royal Yule banquets of Kings and
Queens in history.
F o r one of Edw ard I l l 's C hrist­
mas feasts 2,000 oxen were pre­
pared. The guests ate as much as
they could and the vast leftovers
were d istributed to anyone who
happened to come along. Edward
was the firs t English king to em­
ploy French cooks for a Christmas
feast.
When Henry I I I spent Christmas
of 1241 at Gloucester, he ordered
the sheriff to buy 20 large salmon
to put into pies fo r the Christm as
dinner. R ichard I I feasted 10,000
people at a banquet in 1399. He
kept more than 1,000 cooks, each
of whom specialized in one kind
of food.
H a n g Stockings
F or Santa Cl aus
Why have stockings come to be
a trad ition al receptacle for C hrist­
mas gifts?
Although historians can give no
authentic answer, they point out
that children's stockings are usual­
ly hung by the chim ney to keep
w arm or d ry out, so it was natural
that Santa Claus should pick them
ns the place in which to deposit
gifts.
In certain regions o f France it is
the shoe that is put out on C hrist­
mas Eve.
Some authorities say
that shoes and stockings were put
near the fireplace for the same
reason that an old boot was asso­
ciated w ith a wedding—-in order
to b ring good luck and d rive away
e vil spirits.
Good Yule Stories
B y Americans
Probably the most famous A m e ri­
can story is Kate Douglas W iggin’s
"T he
B ird s’ C hristm as C arol.’ ’
Others w orth reading are Louisa
M ay A lcott's "C h ristm as at O r­
chard House" and Vincent Star-
re tt’s "Snow for C hristm as.” C hris­
topher M orley’s "The Worst C hrist­
mas Story” happens to be almost
one of the best.
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KATHLEEN NORRIS
GO-ÖOUHD
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Greatest Mystery
PtAPSON
Hell S ynd icate
W N U F e a tu re s ,
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fly
Wheat Price Argument
''I '' HE blast against the B ritis h by
* Undersecretary of A g ricu ltu re
A lb ert J. Loveland had m ore to It
than meets the eye.
What Loveland was d riv in g at
was not so much B rita in 's wheat
and cotton agreements w ith Canada,
A ustralia et al. hut her backstage
efforts to beat down the price of
A m erican wheat in a proposed new
international wheat agreement. He
also was try in g to atone fo r the
bungling of the 80th congress.
J » j U > 5 & ** T i
Plants, Like Humans,
Are Finicky Eaters
Isoto pes T e ll A m o u n ts
Of F e r tiliz e r U tiliz e d
K A U H U N NOKKIS
I/C H R IS T M A S s ta rte d us u
!
m y stery und it continues
, through the ag es us u mys-
i tery — p erh ap s the w orld’s
g re a te st or even only mys-
j tery .
When people te ll me that they
Atom ic scientists have learned
that some plants, lik e some human rea lly would believe In God. In that
superhuman fount of goodness and
beings, are fin icky eaters.
This new knowledge, im p orta nt fatherhood and power that guides
com m ercially, is the result of ex­ so m any lives, If they could sec a
haustive tests w ith radioactive iso­ m iracle, I am forced to regard
topes of phosphorous in fe rtiliz e rs . them as not p a rtic u la rly bright.
The great m ira cle lives.
It
Radioisotopes, sometimes called
U nfortunately fo r the A m e ri­
thunders
a
ll
about
us.
It
is
In
your
"tra c e rs .’ * are atoms whose nuclei
can fa rm e r, the late lamented
e m it high-energy rays that can be house und in mine this Christmas-
GOP congress refused to ra tify
detected by sensitive instrum ents. tide. It is in the streets and the
the wheat agreement at a lim e
Thus, the m ovem ent o f substances store windows und the fuccs.
when B rita in and other nations
It is the m iracle of the life and
containing such atoms m ay be fo l­
agreed to a top price of $2.00 a
influence
of a carpenter's son who
lowed or traced at a ll times.
bushel for wheat during the next
lived and died in a faraw ay orlen
five years. Since then wheat
Before
radioisotopes were
used, it I , ■
u e io re raaioisoiopos
w ere used
.
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»* tai country some 2,000 years ago,
has dropped and the B ritish
was impossible to te ll how much
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never
wrote a word,
have been p riv a te ly plum ping
fe rtiliz e r a plant would absorb. But ,„u . .
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who
hnd
no
in"
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al
friends. who
fo r a SI.50 m axim um in any
by using radioactive phosphorous
gave us a few rules com pletely op-
new international compact.
in phosphate fe rtiliz e r, fo r instance,
i posed to common sense and human
Loveland's blast was calculated scientists know the amount each usage and who died the shameful
to soften them up fo r bargaining at plant takes.
death of a common c rim in a l.
As a result, a scientist now can
a higher level. U. S. spokesmen at
Yet stop the firs t ragged little
the 57-nation food and a g ric u ltu ra l te ll a fa rm e r who spends $50 to put g irl you meet running along a
organization have been p uttin g out phosphate fe rtiliz e r on his land snowy street this m orning and ask
feelers fo r a m axim um price of whether the plant only "n ib b le s " or her His nam e—and she'll know It.
$1.75 a bushel fo r w orld wheat d u r­ takes a bite big enough to repay Pause by the old. grizzled book­
ing the next five years. This is 25 his expense.
seller down in the subway and
cents above the B ritis h proposal but
D uring these experim ents, scien­ put to h im the same question and
25 cents under the $2.00 which U. S. tists were surprised to discover that j h e 'll give you a puzzled stare, com ­
farm ers were offered last sum m er plants sometimes have d is tin c t likes ing to m y conclusion mentioned
W A Y CHRISTMAS CAROS. PROPUCT
but which the Republican congress and dislikes fo r certa in "m e a ls ."
O F A P O ZE N HANPS A N P
above—that you're not b right.
«»KILLS, CARRY YOUR H o t I PAY
rejected.
F or example, it was learned from
What Makes It Different?
© R E F T IN 5 S TO F R i E n OS
The mechanics of d ra ftin g and tests in N orth C arolina that corn
A N O R E L A T IV E S
Not
long ago I asked a p a rtic ­
E V E R Y W H E R E . AMERICANS
ra tify in g another wheat agreement liked the phosphate from fe rtiliz e r
u la rly lucid und garrulous unbe­
w il l e y c h a n s e O N f A N D
by p a rtic ip a tin g nations would re­ fo r a tim e, then would sw itch to
A H A L F 3 / L L / O N CHRISTMAS
lie ve r how he accounted for the
quire six to eight months, but Love­
,RPS -TWIS yU L E T IP e .
story of C hrist.
What happened
land and his boss. A g ricu ltu re Sec­
that a handful of bewildered fish­
re ta ry Charles Brannan, are hoping
ermen could c a rry that story on
to get a p re lim in a ry com m itm ent
Into the centuries? What made It
from the FAO, so as to get the ball
d
ifferent from the histories of a
rollin g .
hundred young religious fanatics?
I f the proposed agreement falls
"Oh, I suppose," he said care-
through the a lterna tive is something
| lessly " i t was the miracles. The
nobody wants—a re tu rn to .rig id
There is no m ention o f a C hris­ acreage controls. F o r i f we ca n't
tian observance of December 25 as sell our surpluses abroad we w ill
Christm as before the fifth century. have to lim it production at home.
There is, in fact, no record to in­
dicate w hat date Jesus was bom .
Various researchers have set the Truman and Jesse James
day as January 6, M arch 25. May
H a rry T rum an has a reputation
20, A p ril 19 and Novem ber 17. In fo r speaking out fo r his friends no
order to w in C hristian converts m a tte r who they are. Well known
away from th e ir observance o f the is the fa ct th a t he stood up fo r Bos«
pagan m id -w in te r festival, e arly Pendergast of Kansas C ity, whether
This man works on an e xtra c­
churchmen induced them to ob­ in ja il or out, but not so w ell known
tion apparatus In Oak Itidge,
serve the b irth of C hrist Jesus at is how the President stands up fo r
Tenn., as p a rt of the program (or
that tim e instead. Thus December th a t famous fellow M issourian,
the nationwide d is trib u tio n of ben­
25 came to be established as Christ-1 Jesse James,
eficial radioactive isotopes from
mas.
An a vid reader of M issouri
the uranium chain-reacting atom ic
history, the chief executive has
pile.
studied c a re fu lly the career of
" It ta k ti la th . .
the phosphate which had been pres­
James, including both his rob­
ent before fe rtiliz a tio n . In Maine, blind seeing, the dead brought to
beries and his acts of gener­
the potatoes preferred the fe rtiliz e r life, the loaves and the fishes."
osity.
phosphate a ll the tim e.
The name of Santa Claus Is m ere­
"B u t you are the one who doesn't
M any good - natured arguments
ly s lu rrin g the Dutch San Nicholas,
}n other cases, plants would seem ( believe in m ira c le s !"
which is, of course, St. Nicholas. over the character and m otivation alw ays to prefer the phosphate a l­
"W e ll," he said, “ it takes facts
Am erican children are probably the of the M issouri bandit have taken ready present in the ground, in ­ to convince m e.”
place
between
M
r.
Trum
an
and
only ones who say it exactly that
Whereas the shattering truth is— {
stead of the m eal prepared by the
m em bers of his staff and, on one
way.
fa rm e r.
and here is another m ira cle —that
occasion,
the
President's
defense
Nicholas was an actual person.
One of the w orld's forem ost pro­ If the knowledge of God ever came j
He was Bishop of M yra, in L ycia , w ant like this:
ducers of baby foods, chewing gum, Into any heart through mere con- I
You take Jesse James. He actu­
Asia M inor, in the firs t p a rt of the
coffee and peanut-butter recently vincing facts, it couldn’ t be divine.
fo urth century. He was also the a lly was not a bad m an at heart. became the firs t representative of
But even the facts are stupend­
youngest bishop in the h istory of the I have studied his life carefully, the food ind ustry to become a m em ­ ous. D raw a rin g on your m ap that
and I come from his p a rt of the
church.
ber of the atom ic research program takes in western Russia and n orth ­
F ro m the day of his b irth Nicho­ country. James was a modern-day at the U n iv e rs ity of Chicago.
ern Ita ly , Scotland and the Scandi­
las revealed his piety and grace. Robin Hood. He stole from the rich
navian c o u n t r i e s . In s ig n ific a n t;
He refused on fast days to take and gave to the poor, which, in
against the big other spaces of sea
the n atu ra l nourishm ent of a child. general, is not a bad policy. I am
and continent, yet in that little c ir- !
Small
Turkey
Talk
But Nicholas was not a barefoot convinced th a t James would have
cle was form ed w hat we call j
recluse vowed to poverty. His fa ­ been an asset to his com m unity, if
"C h ris tia n ity .”
ther was a w ealthy m erchant, and he had not been diverted into the
F or centuries, u n til our new
his riches enabled him to be a dis­ lawless life.
w orld was opened, here was the
•
•
•
penser of the good things of life.
very nucleus of a ll th a t makes our
The feast of St. Nicholas was
c iv iliz a tio n today. We called it
No
‘Peanuts'
for
China
o rig in a lly celebrated on December
"C h ris tia n ," and we put all our
General A l Wedemeyer, chief of
6. L ater, when church people in the
dealings, m arriage, law, real es­
a
rm
y
w
ar
plans,
held
a
significant
late M iddle Ages trie d to suppress
tate, b irth and death under our
the fe stivities which grew up secret session w ith the jo in t chiefs
dedicatory promises to an eternal
of staff recently on the m uch-kicked-
around the Boy Saint’ s day, his
Father.
around question of w hat the U. S. A.
festival came to be associated w ith
C hristian Way of L ife
can do about China.
Christm as day.
Wedemeyer, a fo rm e r Nebraska
Oh, but much m ore than this!
fa rm boy who had a great record
We planted charities — countless
as a w ar strategist, was firs t sent
and inexhaustible—hospitals, a lm s­
to China la rg e ly because Winston
houses, hospices, homes, free clin ­
C hu rch ill wanted h im out of the Eu­
ics and schools and libraries. We
ropean theater where the Am erican
established laws that struggled
general was too persistent in op­
to keep life fa ir fo r the unfor­
posing the long and grueling cam ­
tunate, the underprivileged, the
paign through the allegedly "so ft
friendless, blind, poor, sick, In­
underbelly of the A x is .’ ’
sane, helpless, orphaned, enslaved.
Look fo r any of these activities
So suddenly Wedemeyer found
in the o riental countries. You look
h im self appointed aide to Lord
in vain. Beggars starve in India
The young lady pose« a close­
M ountbatten
in
In dia
and
and China; superfluous babies are
up on a ve ry young tu rk e y —one
China, despite the fa ct that all
of the stream lined v a rie ty crea t­
allowed to die; wounded men by
his tra in in g bad been in Ger­
ed to m eet modern demands fo r
the wayside evoke only smiles
m any.
from passers-by; anything free in
sm a ll birds to su it sm all fa m ilie s
Because of this q u irk of fate
and to fit kitchenette ovens. Each
the way of food, shelter, medicine,
Wedemeyer has now become the
of several of the older varieties
hospitalization or generosity evokes
a rm y ’s chief expert on China, and
contributed one or more of the de­
only a puzzled contempt.
as such he is vigorously opposed
sired characteristics to this sm all
This isn’ t exactly a Christm as
by his old chief. General M arshall.
w hite v a rie ty, characterized by a
letter, though I am wishing every
Chicago Museum of Science and In dustry
com pact body, short legs, long
one who reads these lines the joy
R eporting to the jo in t chiefs of
keel and plenty of breast meat.
of knowing in his own heart the
Mr«. Rose Masclauskes, of staff, General Wedemeyer predict­
C areful records on thousands of
secret of C hrist's power and His
Chicago, makes b ird cages and ed th a t the Chinese Communists
b irds from ca re fu lly selected stock
love. But the tim es are too seri­
geometric figures of straw to could capture Suchow, N anking and
were necessary before the “ a p a rt­
ous fo r ta lk of m e rrim e n t and
even Shanghai, p re tty m uch when
trim the Lithuanian C hristm as
m ent size” tu rke y was developed.
gladness.
tree,
they w ant to.
Wedemeyer believes the Commu­
What I am asking you instead Is
nists are deliberately holding off un­
to notice the shocking omission of
Santa’s Enemies
til economic conditions in China be­
God's name from a ll these in te r­
In Newark, N. J., Santa is re ­ come even worse. Then they can
national conferences we are so
quired to pass a s tiff physical ex­ move in alm ost at w ill. Despite
"S um m er slum p” in m ilk produc­ anxiously watching. Three years
am ination before he can serve in this, however, Wedemeyer s till be­ tion costs fa rm e rs plenty in good, ago, in San Francisco, when the
a departm ent store. And even then lieves China can be saved by p u ll­ hard cash. On the average fa rm first one took place, we were told
it is verboten fo r h im to kiss any ing Chiang Kai-Shek’ s battered there is about a 30 per cent drop that it was because one single na­
of the children who perch upon his arm ies south and defending a new fro m M ay u n til e a rly fa ll.
tion objected to our invocation that
knee.
capital at Canton.
Some o f the loss In production it was om itted. God's name was not
In Charleston, S. C., cn a rity
No one who knows Secretary M ar­ arises because a higher percentage mentioned in servile deference to
Santas have been forbidden to make shall, however, thinks the Wede- of cows are d ry o r approaching the this outrageous request and it has
a pitch on public streets on the nicye r plan has the slightest chance end of th e ir lactation period, but been om itted since. There w ill be
grounds that children flocking to of approval. M arshall thinks pour- m any d a iry specialists believe that no resulting peace from a ll these
see them m ay create a tra ffic haz- ing aid into China is like throw ing much of the loss could be prevented conferences u n til the name of God
ard.
by better management.
?eanuts at an elephant in the zoo.
is brought back.
Yule R ecord Begins
In Fifth C entury
R ea l Santa Claus
A Youthful Saint
Summer Milk Slump
Costs Farmer Plenty
5
I t ig P r o g r a m
R e fre s h m e n ts , u th in su n d w ich
und tw o o liv e s , had ju s t been
serve d n t the to w n dunce In the
h ill c o u n try .
“ Is y o u r p ro g rn n i fille d ? " risked
a lo c u l R om eo o f n h illb illy belle
w hen the d a n c in g w iis resu m e d.
“ F i l l e d ! " g la re d th e g ir l "L<>nk
here, young fe lle r, it ta kes m o re
th a n u s k in n y s a n d w ich and tw o
green p lu m s to t ill m y p ro g r a m ."
T ric k s of the T ra d e
T he n ig h t w as d a rk und the
, h ou r w as la te ns u s o lita ry w uy-
fu re r passed along the dese rte d
s tre e t. S uddenly th re e s lin k in g
fig u re s e m e rg ed fro m tiie slia-
; dows, m a rk e d their p re y , und
then u ttu e k e d h im .
T h re e to one is p o w e rfu l odds,
b ut the w u y fu re r held h is own.
One by one his a s s a ila n ts landed
w ith a th ud on the g ro u n d , b u t­
te re d und b ru is e d , th e ir c lo th in g
to rn .
A p o lic e m a n h u rrie d up and
su rv e y e d the w re c ka g e .
“ F in e w o rk I " he sa id , a ddress­
ing tlie hero, w ho was c a lm ly
lig h tin g u c ig a re tte . " J u j it s u ? ”
" N o ,” answ ered the hero. "Hail-
w a y p o rte r.”
You can breeze th rough n good
p a rt o r y o u r C h ris tm a s shopping
by s im p lify in g y o u r g ift lis t. It's
p ro b a b ly a fa c t th a t a good m any
o f y o u r frie n d s e njoy c ig a re tte o r
pipe sm oking.
You can e a sily
please these frie n d s by o rd e rin g
se veral curton9 o f m ild , m e llo w
C am els and pound tin s o f r ic h ­
ta s tin g P rin c e A lb e rt fro m a local
d ea le r. Both these p op ular g ifts
com e re a dy-w ra pp ed in gay h o li­
d ay dress. No o th e r g ift w ra p ­
p in g is necessary. T h e re 's even
space fo r y o u r personal g re e tin g .
Save tim e and energy th is C h ris t­
m as season by g iv in g cool, m ild
C am els and m e llo w P rin ce A lb e rt
Sm oking Tobacco. (A d v .)
Beware Coughs
From Common Colds
That HANG ON
Crcomuhion relieve* prompt ly b « :suM
it goc* right to the sent of the trouble
to help looven and expel germ laden
phlegm and aid nature io soothe and
heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial
m uiout membrane*. T e l l , our druggiit
to sell you a bodle of Crcomuhion
with the undemanding you mu*t like
the way it quiikly allay* the cough
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