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Ye Smudge Pot
By Arthur Parry
It now appears the Japanese
fleet prowling around the Mid
way Islands had the Hon. Hell
shot out of It. ,
...
The war touches every com
munity In the land, commen
tator observes. For Instance:
Cow country towns will hold
"Victory" rodeos July 4th, and
no orator Is foolhardy enough
In these times to use a local
CofC. slogan of another day,
viz.: "This Is the Italy of Ameri
ca." .
The cheat weed, despite its
name, a farmer avers, is no
worse than any other weed.
There Is no such a tiling as an
"Honest Harold" dog-fennel.
...
One of the Older Girls ad
mires the arrested Portland
gardener who whistled while he
hoed. She boasts a breadwinner
who will neither hoe cr whUtle.
SO SAY WE ALL
(Pendleton East Oregonlan)
"Judge Patterson, assistant
secretary of war, asserts that
the tire shortage will stop
petting parties; we hope the
judge knows more about war
than he does about romance."
...
The London Herald takes a
British diplomat to task for say
ing in a Commencement day
address, "the German people
would be treated harshly after
the war." It is editorially sug
gested the diplomat should re
sign. It's probably the 1918
story all over again: 'The Ger
man people were misled." They
mislead with the greatest of
ease, when tempted with a
world conquering plan, and are
now at the tail-end of their sec
ond try. They did all the shoot
ing and the shouting both times,
and, when licked pose as erring
brothers rushing to the mourn
ers bench to be de-sinned.
...
"WANT WOMEN for hoeing.
You don't have to belong to
a union to work here. Phone
40-F-2." (Corvallis Gazette
Times.) Benefits of a demo
cracy. .
Wlsecrackers report the Nip
ponese In "saving their face, lost
their pants," In the Pacific naval
battle. What they lost was their
kimonas.
...
The John Wilkinson boy, Don,
Is commanding officer of a gal
lant force attacking Fort Back
yard. Nothing happened yes.
except capturing Hitler again,
and Lieut. Jim Murray, S, get
ting burked off a fractious
broomliandla he was using as a
horse instead of his leg-motored
velocipede. A tank charge of
bicycles put a Cecil Brunner
rosebush out of business. The
Co. was awarded a Cross of the
Palm with a Dime for diMingu
ished filling of the wood-box
without specific orders.
...
ORATORICAL NUERITIS
"Lat Friday evening the htiih
school commencement was a big
success until the imported speak
er started In. Then came 43
minutes of dull uninteresting
talk that was evidently about
something or other, and he was
paid $7S for coming up here
Next time 1 believe it would be
advisable to audition the speaker
first and see if he is worth the
time and the money. Of course
if you do not agree with me you
can always say that 1 would not
be expected to be bright enough
to understand such a learned
man and maybe you are right."
'Bill Minch in Red Bluff
(Calif.) News).
Printing, sale or circulation
of maps of a scale of 1 230.000
or larger depictinr: any part of
Egypt has been furbiddcn.
Looks Bad For Jap Fleet
Perhaps the boys at the Army & Navy club were
not so far out of the way after all.
It will be recalled that a few weeks before last
December 7th, at this club in Washington, D. C, the
unanimous sentiment was, confidence that Uncle
Sam's fleet would knock out the Mikado's second
rate flotilla in six weeks or less, the one fear being
Japan wculd somehow be appeased.
That attitude looked a bit foolish when the Japs
made that devastating sneak raid on Honolulu; and
even more silly as week followed week, and month,
month; with nothing heard from the highly-touted
Asiatic fleet except a reverse at Java and a poor
"draw" at Macassar Straits.
.....
DUT since that Coral Sea victory, and particularly
0 since the beating given the Japs at Midway, the
picture has radically altered.
It would still be extremely rash to claim the Jap
anese fleet has been BEATEN. But it would not be
unwarranted, in fact it is unquestionably TRUE,
that to date, where the U. S. navy has met Japan on
anything approaching even terms, the latter has been
given a beating in fact has been pretty generally,
outclassed.
Even had American losses exceeded Japan losses
the two recent engagements would have been classi
fied as U. S. victories, for in both cases the Nippon
lavy quit and beat it
But certainly at Midway, and probably in the
Coral Sea (the official U. S. account has not yet been
released) Jap losses exceeded American losses by a
wide margin, the net score being somewhere in the
neighborhood of 9 to 2 or 3, a nice trimming for the
loser in any man s league !
CO, we repeat, those "wise guys" may not have been
so wrong after all, who were so confident Nippon
could not stand up against U. S. seapower, and hoped
the showdown would not be delayed.
The unexpected jumping o the gun on December
7th, did upset the dope bucket, did delay the TIME
of the American fleet really getting into action. But
like an opponent who crowned Joe Lewis with the
water bucket before the start of the first round, and
until Joe's head cleared, had him at a tremendous
disadvantage; once the U. S. "champ" regained his
equilibrium, and got back to normalcy, it was just
too bad for the gun-jumper!
. . . .
TPHE present situation appears to be very much like
the above, with the champion U. S. fleet, and the
"dirty ball" Jap, in a maritime ring where the latter
would like to iump out, but can't.
Sooner or later, probably the former, the Jap
fleet would have to quit or hold its ground and fight.
Certainly the last two encounters at least strongly
INDICATE, that when this happens, the result will
be an overwhelming Japanese defeat
Looks Good, But-!
The most cheering news from Europe in today's
report, is after two years since Dunkerque, Marshal
Petain is convinced Germany CAN'T win!
The same dispatch claims Messrs. Laval and Dai
Ian, still cling to their hope that Germany CAN win.
This is a two to one verdict in Hitler's favor,
numerically. But the net result of the judgment mor
ally, is to give very strong confirmation to the grow
ing belief in illied circles, that as far as Germany is
concerned, the worm at last has tinned, and while
the Axis may continue to struggle for several years,
an allied defeat is just no longer in the cards.
.....
DLEASE note that "growing belief in allied circles."
The present writer still is from the great state of
Missouri, where predictions of CERTAIN victory are
concerned.
Not only do we feel there is NOTHING certain
in the picture as yet; but we regard the growing dis
position of counting chickens before they are hatched
an unfortunate one.
With the defeat of Japan at Midway, and the
growing destruetiveness of the RAF air attacks on
Germany's western flank, we do feel the war picture
is more encouraging than it has been at any time since
its start The failure of Germany to make any appre
ciable break-through in either its Russian or North
African offensives, gives added support to such
optimism.
DUT this is a far cry from ordering fireworks for
" any victory celebration.
As we see it Germany can be badly crippled by
air raids but can't be beaten. And while the blitzkrieg
era of German warfare appears to be definitely over
tnere is still no indication that Kussia can more than
hold her own on the eastern front
So all this talk of CERTAIN victory we regard as
both premature and from the standpoint of sustain
ing allied morale, undesirable. Far better from every
standpoint to overestimate, rather than under
estimate the dangers of defeat that still exist
LIOWEVER to return to these war predictions from
Vichy, tho fact that Marshal Fetain has become
convinced Hitler can't win, while Parian and Laval
believe otherwise, does furnish the strongest evidence
we have seen to date, that Per Fuehrer really HAS
shot his bolt.
For l'etain is an authority in such matters anil still
says what he thinks; while his two associates are not,
and must clinu to the hone of a German vietnrv. for
without such a victor,- they
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SMOTHERED IN
Frankly I wasn't hungry In
the first place. If I had been
the boss I would have said "Nah,
I don't want
any dinner."
But I am not
the boss
around here,
and now after
decades of
freedom I
w o u 1 dn't be
the boss again
or yet not
for a black
shell briar
with a six-inch
Dr. Brady stem.
So I raised no obJecUon when
the boss chose the place where
we were to dine. It is an ex
cellent place, clean, cheerful,
efficient service, wholesome
food well cooked (except, of
course, French fries, but then,
what do you expect for a dol
lar?), a place where we have
enjoyed a great many dinners.
I did make a few tentative al
lusions to this and that special
item available at another place,
but my heart wasn't In it, for, I
say, I wasn't really hungry and
could work up no particular
enthusiasm for food.
Not being hungry ii in itself
a rather serious symptom for
me to have. I must make a
note of it and mention it next
time I interview my doctor. Of
course I have a doctor don't
make that stereotyped crack.
Anyone who tries to diagnose
or treat his own ailments or test
his own health has a fool for a
doctor, and that goes double if
he is a doctor himself.
On the menu the boss found
something that evidently pleased
her. You see, I was dawdling,
indifferent, no appetite Juice, no
outpouring of HCL in my stom
ach, no tonic contraction of the
muscle coat to produce that sen
sation which says: "Wow! When
do we eat?"
The proper treatment for me
would have been for the boss to
say: "Here, take your marbles
and go play on the sidewalk
I'll collect you when I've fin
ished here." As it was I just
dawdled while the boss ordered
her dinner, and then I added
"Ditto."
What had pleased the boss
was beefsteak smothered in
onions.
Oh, well, I asked for it
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
(Conunued froco rage One)
some of our money. But she
never thought enough of her
own debt-treaty with us to pay
her war debt, thereby showing
again even our friends do not
keep treaties against their own
interests.
Again, she could have stopped
Hitler when he made his first
belligerent move by marching
Into the Rhineland. Her mili
tary superiority was even then
sufficient to have crushed them.
But she tnought her treaties
guaranteed her security and she
did not want to fight. Her treat
ies engendered pacifism among
her statesmen and people, and
kept them as easy marks for
Hitler's tricks.
Is not the path of history
strewn back for 6000 years with
scraps of paper?
"INTERNATIONAL police
"force?" But who Is going to
run it? The Uni.ed States, Bri
tain ar Russia?
I ratner suspect the British
empire is a thing of the past,
which would mean that the in
ternational rxilice force would
be fed mainly by the United I
States and Russia. How long
would that last amicably?
Any realistic consideration of
that prospect must lead you
straight to the same point of our
experience with Japan and Cer
many.
e e e
IF you choose, make a bigger
Leaffiie) of Nations, a erreater
world court, but don't trust it
to keep your own peace any,
more than an International po-j
lice force. Fortune said about
one-third think this war would!
not have occurred if we had
been members of the League of
Nations. I do not believe that. I
To accept that conclusion Is
to assume that our statesmen
would have been smarter than;
the British and French, that they'
would have stopped Mussolini
when he went Into Ethiopia and
destroyed the last vestiges of
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ONIONS. EHT
It is a long time since I suf
fered the wound which left me
with a violent aversion for
mashed potato. I was an honest
little boy and I had waited long
for the great Thanksgiving
eome-ell-ye, and I wanted only
turkey, but I was sternly in
formed that I must eat a blob
of mashed potato along with it
A crime, as I know now. though
the poor benighted folk who per
petrated it believed, of course,
that it was good for me.
What the boss found on the
menu now Joins mashed potato
in my anathema, and what's
more, I warn all parents, aunts
and gran'mas that I'm here to
defend the right of any child to
refuse to eat anything he or she
doesn't like, all on sound physi
ological ground, too.
Jl ESTIONS A ANSWER
Boy Inattantliw
Thlrtwa yw old boy get. ten
hours sleep t nlghft but hu tr.ch
r mar his report card "Inatten
tin.' wonder u tu nmu rlu
mlna. R. dorant get px grades in
chool alther. (Mra. J. f . c.)
Anawer Perhap. his bearing la not
normal. Better have your phyalclan
tiamln. th. boy and find what, U
anything, h nexls.
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Driven to Operation
A talk you gav. on "Indigestion"
some time ago was a Oodsend to me.
I went ta a hospital, had my gall
bladder and appendix removed, and
hav. had no -Indigestion- since.
(Mrs. W. D )
Answer Truth la that whenever aj.
leged "Indigestion' la sever, enough
to call for medical relief the chances
ara that It la something mora than
mere digestive difficulty, especially If
attack, recur or continue. Readers
who hav. "Indirection" wilt nnd
helpful InformaUon In the booklet
"So Tou Have Indigestion?" for
copy send ten cenu and stamped
envelope bearing your address.
(Copyright 1943. John T. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note: persona wlthtng to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should aend letter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. D. tea El
Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif.
confidence In a league of which
he had been a member.
Our memory tells us we were
not smarter. Nor would we have
done anything different about
the .Tans thumhinff their nnu nt
the league and moving into!
Manchuria.
I don't think any Internation
al police force would have done
any different, either, because
the people of this country and
its leaders were of the same
opinion as Britain and France
and the league at that time
namely that they did not want
to fight. They had been lulled
Into a fake sense of security
through treaties.
The fabric of our future world
policy, wherever it is to be,
must be woven from the thread
of these events upon the loom of
realism. I hope it is backed by
the best possible army, navy and
air force.
PIONEER FREIGHTER
Lewisto.i. Idaho. June 10 (1
Winston John McKenna. 83. one
of the pioneer freighters of the
northwest, died at a hospital
here last night after a long
illness. McKenna was born in
Ireland and came to the United
States when he was 16 years
old.
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Kelly's
Comment
rrons Washington, O. C
Alaska Defense
Long; on Alert
Air Base Chain
Links Aleuthisuu
Latest Nary Bill
Northwest Chance
. By J aha W. Kelly
Washington, D. C, June 10
Five months to the day before
Pearl Harbor (July 7) the mili
tary forces were and have since
been on a 24-hour alert at the
air bases on the La ska mainland
and on the string of islands
reaching toward Japan the
Aleutian group. So, when the
Japs flew there a few days ago
they caught no one napping. The
July, 1941, alert was to watch
the Nazi army, which was then
sweeping Into Russia so rapidly
that prediction was made it
would reach Siberia and head
for Alaska. Only a few planes
and troops were then in the ter
ritory for bases were under con
struction (some still are), but
the air patrol flew across Bering
strait and several hundred miles
inland over Siberia, For almost
a year the patrol has continued
while the navy and army built
bases and cantonments and fill
ed the territory with thousands
of troops and sailors.
A few days before the attack
on Dutch Harbor the high com
mand ordered all boats to clear
out of all waters except south
ern Alaska. Commercial planes
were restricted. Nothing was
permitted to interfere with the
listening devices for planes or
submarines. There will be a
short pack of Alaska salmon
this year for the navy has for
bidden any fishing operations in
Bristol bay. Packers of the Co
lumbia river and Puget sound,
who fish In Alaskan waters, ask
ed for a convoy last spring. The
navy not only refused to convoy
but prohibited fishing.
... THERE are now tinder con
struction in Alaska and the
Aleutians a chain of air bases,
which is no military secret, for
the Japanese know as much
about Alaska as any sourdough.
Until this year the defense plans
were discussed by military com
manders with the appropriations
committee and these hearings
were printed in the government
printing office and available to
anyone. The Japanese embassy
had copies of these bearings, to
the Japs knew the amount of
money appropriated each year
for each base and the character
and description of the buildings.
The program calls for a great
base at Kodiak island, at An
chorage, at Seward, at Dutch
Harbor, at Attu and at Kiska.
Last month congress appropriat
ed funds for additional airports
and landing fields in Alaska.
Generally, the Alaska fields are
provided with bomb shelters.
Importance of Alaska as a de
fender of the Pacific northwest
against Japan was stressed eight
years ago by the late Billy
Mitchell. Five years ago the
Admiral Helburn commission
recommended dev elopment;
nothing was done until a start
was made in 1940. The one thing
the navy and army have been
praying for was for the Japs to
withhold attack until the de
fenses could be measurably com
pleted.
. ..
IT is the opinion In the na
tional capital that the Japs will
raid the Pribiloff islands, the
breeding place of the seals.
These islands, in Alaskan waters
have been managed by the fish
and wildlife service of the inter
ior department. Under a com
pact, Japan received 23 percent
of the profits but withdrew
from the agreement one month
before Pearl Harbor which
BAKTHEIEMY THlMM&ilOt.
INVENTED THE
SEWING-MACHINE IN 1850.
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better, my,
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may not have been coinci
dence. Tk n,it-K Harbor attack is
recognized as the first of other
efforts of the enemy to break
through into the northwest,
e e e
LATEST navy bill Is the op
portunity of the northwest to
obtain some of the work which
is to be scattered around the
coastline. This measure will fur
nish funds for many mine
sweepers, patrol boats and es
cort vessels, many of them to be
made of wood. These are to ex
pand the size of the two-ocean
navy, and the escort vessels,
mine sweepers and patrol
boats are planned for the Pacific
theater of war as weU as the
battle of the Atlantic. Navy de
partment has not attempted as
sembly line production, but
with the urgent need for this
class of small-fry shipping it
may attempt some of the inno
vations in ship building now be
ing applied by the Kaiser Co.
Airplane carriers are also on the
list and some of these may come
to northwest yards.
e .
FARMERS are trying to find
a solution for warehousing their
wheat, and office of defense
transportation is in a similar
boat War materials consigned
to the United Nations are piling
up at ports waiting for ships to
take the cargo away. War de
partment is reaching out for
warehouse space and ODT is
creating warehouse pools in the
northwest. War materials
tanks, planes and guns are be
ing produced faster than ships,
notwithstanding some yards can
turn out a cargo carrier in 60
days. Despite records made in
the shipyards, submarines are
sending so many merchantmen
to the bottom that the maritime
commission is scarcely duplicat
ing the tonnage lost.
Flight o' Time
Mrdfurd and Jackson County
HUturv from til. files of the Mall
Trthun. to and to veara &gu.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
June 10. 1932
(It was Friday)
Maid In home of Col. Lind
bergh when son was kidnaped
commits suicide.
Jackson county Republican
central committee endorses work
of President Hoover.
Above normal temperature
prevails. High 90, low 54 de
grees. Ninety girls and 82 boys to
graduate from high school In
exercises to be held tonight.
Police comb radicals from
ranks of veterans at Washing
ton, D. C, seeking bonus.
School election set for June 20.
National guard company leaves
for Camp Clatsop.
Democrats re-elect Frank De
Souza county chairman.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
June 10, 1922
(It was Saturday)
Sams Valley farmers jubilant
over recent rains.
Prosperity week to be cele
brated with completion of lrri-
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gation system, opening of new
sawmill, and Copco expansion
at Prospect and Copco plants.
Ashland raises over $2,000 for
Fourth of July blowout
Generally cloudy. High 68.
low 42 degrees. Rain, .43 inches.
Fifty-two students receive di
plomas at annual graduation
exercises of the senior class at
the high school. Alta Knips
was salutarian, Muriel Sehu
hard, valedictorian.
Circuit Judge Calkins receives
threatening letter from Klan,
telling him "to BEWARE."
Oregon Siale Prexy
Selection Delayed
Portland, June 10 (P) De
lay In selection of a president
for Oregon State college is
caused by inability of one of
the men under consideration to
come to Oregon for an Interview
as yet, but it is hoped that he
can come soon and that a selec
tion can be made In time for theJ)
new administrator lo take over
this fall.
President Wlllard L. Marks
of Albany, president of the
board, made this explanation
following adjournment of the
June meeting yesterday which
set a near record for brevity,
being completed in less than an
hour.
NAZIS SHOOT 41 MORE
TO AVENGE HEYDRICH
London, June 10 'P) The
Germans executed 41 more
Czechs today, the Prague radio
announced, making a total of
273 vengeance killings since
the fatal wounding of Gestapo
Hangman Reinhard Heydrich.
Store operators can minimize
the labor shortage by cooperay.
tive effort says a small town-V
manual Just issued by the de
partment of commerce. The
manual is free.
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Upper or lower berth, drawing room, corn
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restful sleep which brinm you to your des
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Empire Builder accommodations, including
dining cer service with good food moderately
priced, ia being maintained aa usual.
Lo"' 9n' or writ. C. L. Bischoff,
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