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By Arthur Parry
The Soongs. Wangs, Woong,
Chins, Kongs, and Chews, dot
and adorn ths list of Chinese
diplomats and cabinet members.
The Soviet opinion of Chinese
war unity, Indicates Ah Shucks
la mixed in the mess some place.
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A plutocrat reports he pos
sesses two 1949 calendars, four
cartons of popular brand cigar
ettes, a bunch of bananas, ana
six quarts of Kentucky whiskey
on hand for Christmas. The
rest of the people are swigging
Porto Rico rum and smoking
mentholated fags one package
makes them feel like a eucalyp
tus tree. '
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"Why 1 Butch Ferris always
lata with the papers? Must be
woman In the easel" (Klam
ath River News.) Some more of
very body's business. .
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' War pictures now stress the
nuddlnesi of European battle
fields. As far as the eye can see
nothing but knee-deep mud. On
the plains north of Aachen, a
nVfiira reveala It ia SO muddy
an average republican could
compete on even terms in a po-
pltlcal campaign with , Secy.
Ickes.
ABOUT TIME
(Coos Bay Times)
"There Is something about a
train whistle. It is one of the
links that bind a great, sprawl
toe nation together. It is pin
ning in mesa oaya ox gnpam,
polls and things laid end to
and that reach so many times
round the earth, that no sta
tistician has figured out how
asany train whistles a day
there are on our approximate-
' 99.1 Ann mt1a A ntlvnarl
tracks.''
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Now that the football season is
officially ended, the next order
of business Is the selection of
AlVStar teams. The selectees
are generally the best of the
crop, but often a gridiron non
nity finds himself on the first
string while an outstanding ex
ponent of brains and brawn, Is
given honorable mention as a
good prospect, for Commander
of the Water Bucket next year.
A poll shows the following
choices from the fans of the
name of the Black Tornado state
champions:
Most faith In victory John C.
Mann.
Least faith in victory Clar
ence Pankey,
Most ponderous thinker Tod
Porter.
Most lucid thinker Lee
(Dubb) Watson.
Noisiest thinker Peoria Bill
Gates and Bay Reter (tied).
Blow, hot-blow cold Justin
(Up-to-school) Smith.
Best do we win, asker Atty.
Rawlea Moore.
Most rambunctious fan
Claud Miles boy, (3).
Best sideline coach Herb
Strang.
Fear the worst ace Mel Plas-
kett
Need another drive urger
Charles Clay,
The above eleven would pos
sess Faith, Wind, and Jitters.
However, It does not Include
any backbone of victory expon
ents. They are spectators who
pack more blankets to keep
aefapm than If 4V.au nrr n..Uirt In
cross the plains in a covered
wagon. Neither does it Include
stalwarts, who know there Is a
war on, and go home at the end
of the first half to be sure and
bear the 10 o'clock news.
The special Four Star trophy
was awarded to the heroine, who
In the Intermission defied the
night chill and pneumonia by
leading the Intermission much
and kept her drum majorette
hat on straight, Juggled a baton,
executed a streamlined cake
walk, and smilingly repulsed the
efforts ycf a black, dog to bite her
on the shanks or heels, all the
while barking,
Cloainf time (or Sunday Toe Lata
a Claaaify :10 Saturday afternoon
Another Armageddon"
The crossing of the Saar and the capture of Saar
leutern bv U. S. forces is an important advance. But
the Ruhr basin farther north is the spot to watch.
For there is Nazi Germany's HEART her industrial
heart And when that area has been lost it is difficult
to see how German resistance at least effective or
ganized resistance can continue.
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COR there the German steel mills, and munition
plant3 are concentrated, and it is not at all like
ly they have been removed or the munition business
transferred elsewhere, because Germany's only ade
quate coal supply is only a few miles south and coal
has always been the main source of manufacturing
power in the Third Keich.
So we have the two mam allied thrusts: jno. l irom
Aachen by the U. S. 9th army toward Cologne and
the Rhine, and the other by the British first and sec
ond armies toward the Rhine from the north, with
Essen, the home of the famous Krupp works, in be
tween the pinchers.
VES THERE is the spot to watch.
When THAT portion of the German defense
line breaks, then look out! there will be nothing
from there to Berlin to hold up the Hitler house of
cards.1
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ITNLESS, of course, some industrial and geogra-
phical miracle has been performed a heart op
eration as it were. That is if by some legerdermain
or secret process the heart of the German steel and
munition production has been moved from the Rhine
to the central or eastern part of Germany, in anticipa
tion of this allied push in the west.
The Germans are a resourceful and painstaking
people, and one would hesitate to declare such a feat
Impossible. But from what is known of war torn Ger
manyand a great deal is known over here it is
certainly highly improbable.
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CAR more likely Nazi Germany realizes the supreme
1 importance of holding this vital production area,
and intends to throw everything she has, and can
get together, to protect it, to the last gun and the last
man. ,
'Which is the reason one can expect to see some of
the most bitter and relentless fighting this war-torn
world has ever seen, between now and Christmas,
north and south of the River Ruhr I
Saving Face and Losing a War
"Which I wish to remark,
And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark,
And for tricks that are vain.
The heathen Chinee Is peculiar."
We trust that iinele from the far and distant nast
will not be considered unkind to a valiant lonff-Mif.
fering and hard-pressed ally, for it seems peculiarly
"a vtta" n 4-1.
c jyivjjuo an WiO JilUlIieilb.
Brete Harte saw a lot of the Chinese In the nM
gold mining days of California and he never under
stood them, nor is it easy for any Caucasian today, to
do so. ,
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FOR they are "peculiar." At least peculiar from any
Amrvlsi Cnvnw ml .
wioAim vicwpuuiu xney are n.ever direct
or frank. They never or almost never--say what
they mean. It is not dishonesty so much, as a pro
found and wierd sense of pride "saving-face" it is
called. It appears to be the corner stone of all Mon
golian psychology.
TAKE the Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek for ex-
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China today from a militarv standnoint is in some
thing the same position England was in at the time
oi uunKirK. . -
From all sides, within China and without, the Gen-
eralissimo is beincr pleaded with to take drasr..r ac
tion, clean out his government, kick out the defeat-
I'nia t.a.J J J A? t 1 a a. ...
iota aim ueaa umper, go to tne front it need be in
person and rally his scattered forces before it is too
late. ,
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DUT what does he do? He replaces H H. Kung
" with foreign minister T. V. Soong both mem
bers of his official family as acting president of
the Yuan ; and then issues a manifesto declaring the
present situation is not as bad as it looks, difficult
but not alarming, concluding with the following
amazing UNDERSTATEMENT:
"The penetrations by the enemy were within our antlcl
pation and while the present situation is difficult we are
near the stage of final victory. The enemy within Kwei
chow must be given a crushing blow and completely an
nihilated. How nice!
Saving which the Generalissimo no doubt returns
to his headquarters, orders a shot of his most precious
Lea unu a aisn oi picKiea wnip-poor-wiu tongues or
what have you.
COMPARE that typically oriental proclamation
with the call to aims issued by Winston Church
ill under simliar conditions nothing to promise but
blood, sweat, toil and tears.
Compare them their backgrounds and content and
you will see why Kipling was entirely correct when
he remarked, "East is East, and West is West, and
never the twain shall meet."
News Behind
The News
By Paul Malloo
ranlMaJloB
Washington, Dec. 6 There is
no use In trying to deny that
much of business swallowed its
hopes hard
last election
day. A quiet
pessimism In
those ranks
has been evl
dent since
then. One na
tionally known
corpo ration
head expressed
a widespread
viewp oint
when he said:
"We have
accumulated reserves and If
Dewey had won we would have
spent these tn expectation of
postwar expansion; now we will
have them for taxes and even
tualities which may be Imposed
upon us."
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QPENLY the big record-mak-
lng companies (C. B. S. and
R. C. A.) threw up their hands
and granted Petrillo of the
Musicians' union a bounty up
to 5 cents on the sale of every
record for no good reason ex
cept that the government had
failed to bring Petrillo to terms
in' a long strike. The musicians
do not need the money and Pe
trillo has only promised he will
expend it to further the appre
ciation of music. The public, of
course, will pay for it, as usual.
A wave of strikes and greatly
increased wage demands are ex
pected by all after victory in
Europe has relieved somewhat
the patriotic pressure upon the
unions, etc., etc.
But there is another side to
the story, not being told. This
country always has run to ex
tremes. Thirty years ago It was
dominated by selfish financial
cliques without any sense of
social responsibility or the good
of the nation or its people.
They got theirs In 1929. They
got it because they became too
big, took In to much territory.
Men never seem to know how
to use power wisely.
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'I'HE Fascist movement In Ger
1 many and Italy would today
be strong had it not taken In
too much territory. Napoleon
committed the same error. His
tory Is unanimous with evident
proofs that those who feed on
power always commit suicide by
their unwise excesses.
The unions are now at the
crossroads. Obviously they must
change from the Petrillo atti
tude (radical czarist leadership)
so prevalent among them or
they will kill themselves. Their
tendency to dominate the whole
policy of the country in the
past few years cannot continue
indefinitely without building up
a public resentment, which will
engulf them, and no doubt lead
to the opposite extreme.
Some wise men I know, give
them another year at most on
their present line. I think the
time depends on how they are
led. But their bankroll Is get
ting too big, the messes on their
hands are Increasing, their pow
er Is growing too great.
-which If as doubt the goal of
communist In their ranks.
So also with the fear of the
great war debt which hangs over
us.. This country has the stuff
with which to make good. It
has manpower, resources, pro
duction and efficiency beyond
any other nation.
If we do not become too soft
after the war, we can become a
great trading nation. If we are
skillful In developing foreign
trade routes and trade compacts
in the wise exchange of our sur
pluses for what we need, we can
find a new International life.
We can pay our heavy taxes,
carry our heavy debt, maintain
our democratic free enterprise
at Its current war superiority if
we do not run to extremes, If
we have a mind to do it, but
particularly If we do just one
thing hold out the hope of suc
cess and soundly maintain that
prospect.
COMMUNICATIONS
Lattara to the Editor mart bear
the name and addreia of tha writer,
altboufb tha use of a pen-name or
inltlala for publication la permla
alble. Tha Mall Trlbuna reservea
tha rliht to adit all letter, with a
view to clarity and eondanaaUon.
' And She Signs Her Mam
To the Editor? Mn V. loi
ter made me pause for a whole.
wim xne question she asks, and
her name on file. Don't worry
about Dewey, he said his say.
And truth Is stranger than fic
tion, any day. It is none of my
business where ever he is at; he
is spending no taxpayer's money
on fireside chats. We must Judge
him not, for he had no show
to prove his theories so we don't
know what he might have done
If put up to bat. The majority
voted for "Falla" and that Is
that. If twelve hours for six
months he Is on bended knee,
think what the wear on his
pants will be. And snooping for,
ah. clothing Is not the fun it was
before nlneteen-forty or forty
one. I'm no crystal gazer, so I
wish I could see some intelligent
person to explain to me when
four years sneak by will the war
still be on. And the presidential
election again will dawn. Will
we have to abide by that old
moth-eaten theme, "You mustn't
change horses In mid stream."
Well I guess I'm so Ignorant I
have no shame, and to nrnva the
point I will sign my name.
Ada Weltz,
. Jacksonville, Ore..
The San Bias Indians of Pana
ma live on islands having no
fresh water 'Other than rain and
water brought from the mainland.
Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson Ua. Kls
tor ftam tha fU oi tha Mail
Tribune 10, 20. and 4 years
ago.
TEN YEARS. AGO TODAY
December 8, 1934
at was Wednesday)
City decisively vote bond for
sewage disposal plant and work
on project to start in January.
Hunt continue for trans-Pacific
plant forced down near Ha
waii .
' Fair, but 'with early ' morning
fog. High 48, low 23 degrees. -
F. D. R. firm for continuance
of acreage control.
Ashland highway underpass
ready for travel soon. -
High school basketball squad
starts practice.
Russia fears agreement be
tweep Germany and France.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
December 8, 1924
(It was Thursday)
Blizzard rages over Middle
Western States.
Secretary of Treasury Mellon
predicts "an extended era of
prosperity for land".
President C o o 1 1 d g e urges
more pay for farm help, and aid
to Europe.
German minister of defense
scores "sabre rattling against
rranee."
Rain. High 80, low 40 de
grees; precip .33 of an Inch
Los Angeles school authorities
Insist 16 year old bride of Char
lie Chaplain, movie comedian,
attend school regularly.
Oregon has 191,580 automi
biles state records.
Christmas trees attached
lamp posts on Main street.
to
December 8, 1910
at Was Monday)
Teddy Roosevelt no longer
serious factor in national poll'
tics. ,
Train conductors seek higher
wages.
Government to protect Siskl
you (Oregon) Caves.
U.S.W.V. ELECT
Grants Pass, Dec. S (U.R) P.
M. Case was elected commander
of Rogue River camp No. 22 of
tne united Spanish War Veter
ans when they met following a
turkey dinner held with mem'
bers of the auxiliary on Sunday.
Camp White Marking the
third anniversary of the bomb
ing of Pearl Harbor, civilian
personnel of Camp White will
attend "War Bond" dance at
Service Club 'No. 2 Thursday
night. 1st Lt. 'John B. Cowan,
post bond officer, announced to
day. 1
The dance, conducted as part
of the prograri for the Sixth
War Loan drive, will be for all
civilian employes of he camp.
There will be a small admission
charge, receipts being converted
to war bonds which in turn will
be given away to dancers.
A similar dance was held for.
enlisted men of the post last
Thursday at which four war
bonds were given.
Enlisted men also will be able
to attend the dance.
College Women's
Club Will Enjoy
Christmas Party
The Rogue River Valley Col
lege Women's Club will have a
Christmas party at the home of
Mrs. G. S. Jennings on Saginaw
Drive, Saturday, December 9 at
2:45 p. m. "Old St. Nick," says
the announcement, will be pres
ent and has asked each member
to bring a gift for the exchange.
"Mrs. .Jennings, Mrs. Koyle,
Mrs. Campbell and other com
mittee members have planrisd a
fine old fashioned Christmas
party", the announcement con
cludes. -
Uaa Mall Tribune Want Ada.
FACT ...OR FANCy?
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OUR LONG-HAIR. ARTIST PAINTS THE LITTLE
FLOWERS ON EACH SavlsSSu CANDY . . .
Fancy, of course, but it IS a FACT that Sodete
hard candies are decoratively and delightfully
essential" to your holiday pleasure ...
"Cdtidy is Food
jorWorkf
SodeM supports mis National
Council on Candy program...
Sodete candy goes to war, too,
but remember
"Sodete is Worth
Waiting Forr
I THINK therefore there Is
more than an even chance
that events will mitigate cur
rent fears In this respect, a far
better chance than the obvious
one indicating they will increase
wages continuously to the point
of devastating Inflation, ruin
business and cause socialism,
PLANE WRECKAGE FOUND
IN BAKERSFIELD AREA
Kakersfleld, Cal., Dec. 8 (U.R)
The wreckage of a plane be
lieved to be a C-60 army cargo
transport plane carrying nine
persons, and last heard from at
7:30 p. m. Friday night, was
spotted today by a searching
plana near Bear mountain, 22
miles southwest of Bakersfleld,
Cal.
Ma, Jay Montgomery, com
manding officer of Kern county
air base, who found the wreck
age, said there appeared to be no
sign of life at tha scene of the
crash or the surrounding area.
A rescue party was reported en
route to the mountain with the
hop of discovering survivor.
New
Cream Deodorant
Sdtly btlpi
Stop Perspiration
1. Den not Irritate akin. Does
not rot dream of men I ahuta.
2. Prerentf ander-erra odor.
Help, nop penpiradon olelr.
3. Apart. whttt.ennarptic.ltaia
lesa Tanithm aeam.
4. No waiting to dry. Can be
used right aim ,hir.
B. Aaratded Approval Seal of
American Icmituteot Launder
ing hannlesa to fabric Uf
Acrid rrf ulatir.
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Excellent lunches are served for the conven
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