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BY MALCOLM EPLKY
HERE'S bad news for those who like to make
the holidays a time for over-indulgence In
drinks, food, and sleep-robbing entertainment:
n DutM T?nynrlnl the eountv Dublic health
hief," said today that this is an excellent time
to keep in top physical conai
tion because it is mighty im
portant to maintain the high
est possible resistance to com
mon colds and their serious
partner, influenza.
Influenza has been In epi
demic stage here for several
weeks. It is not the most viru
lent form, and It isn't anything
as serious as the influenza
runs that used to fill the obit
uary columns but it's the flu,
it can become pneumonia, and
It can do a lot 01 damage.
Avoid exposure stay in good shape don't
be careless with your health.
1 Those are the preventive measures advised.
Those who find they've caught the bug should
go immediately to bed, foregoing holiday pleas
ures, and if a fever develops, a physician should
be consulted.
We don't want to spoil any fun, but the good
doctor gave us the undiluted warning this
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EPLEY
UUVHU t -
morning to pass on to those who should know.
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Subsiding
THE cold and flu epidemic, it is pleasing to
report, appears to be subsiding here now.
There is no statistical measurement of the epi
demic, for so many people are accustomed to
handling it as a family problem they do not
report to physicians. But what evidences are
available indicate it is on the decline.
There have been several pneumonia cases,
nd two infant deaths. The influenza has been
worse this year than for several years, and It
has caused a great deal of absenteeism in
schools, industrial and business establishments.
If holiday pleasure-seeking doesn't give it a
new start, it may have run its course.
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Rumors
OUR good friend Charley Stanton, writing
in the Roseburg News-Review, uses the
Klamath dice game story as the foundation for
little editorializing about rumor-spreading. He
touches on an angle that has been mentioned
here and is worth further discussion this time
from Stanton:
"Newspaper men are well aware of the dam
age an unfounded rumor can cause to welfare
and happiness. That Is one reason they invari
ably refuse to suppress news of arrests, trials,
convictions, etc., even though tearfully implored
almost daily by persons in trouble with the law.
Newspaper men know that such news cannot
be entirely suppressed and that more damage
to the individual can be done by rumor than
by publication of the truth. When an item ap
pears in type it generally is accepted as final.
Gossips may clack their tongues for a few days,
but they fall of enjoyment when confronted a
few times with the facts as published. But an
unpublished story, passing from mouth to
mouth, knows no bounds. It grows in the tell
ing until, by its weight it can destroy the spirit,
the body and e.ven the soul of its victim.
The incident at Klamath Falls, fortunately,
becomes more or less humorous to the public
ye. But it is quite- possible that certain irre
parable damage already has been done. There
re many cases in which rumor has no humor
ous ending but reaches finale only in tragedy
nd broken lives.
News Behind The News
Br PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 For some years
it has been the annual custom of this
column to weigh its facts-and-truth account at
this season, measuring debits and credits. Let
us balance the books for 1945:
There were two shabby, if inconsequential
mistakes, which I will leave until last. On the
other side, the ledger shows debits beyond any
previous year. Working back through these
past 12 months, you will find, you read here
the Truman labor mediation solution some
weeks ahead of the event. The solution was
set forth as a Truman objective of the labor
management conference the day it opened, and
earlier (Oct.. 31) the proposal had been advanced
as a logical means of ending the strike chaos.
The General George report, urging unification
of the armed forces into a single department
with the air wing eoual and separate from
army and navy, was exclusively discovered and
published (Oct. 8) in this spot from the com
plete obscurity in which the combined chiefs
of staff had buried it since April. A congres
sional movement was successfully launched to
carry forward the program it presented, and
finally Mr. Truman advocated the plan to con
gress. The MacArthur move to abolish Shinto
ism in Japan was recommended as Indispensable
to conquest of Japan as early as August 15.
The hidden facts about complete destruction
of army property in the China-Burma-India
. theater were first published November 1, bring
ing an immediate reversal of policy by the
surplus property board, and later also by the
army. A hospital slated for destruction was
offered for public sale and other destruction
stopped.
Two days after the October 9 column asked
"Why? WhyT Why?" should we give away the
Knmu nnA uriKvl seitmtific defenses be
eiVUI,! WVII1W " o
sought to the problem first, (advocated original-.
ly August 21;, lur. irurnun aiiiiuuuinu uia
policy against release of the bomb to other
nations. Mr. Truman thus effectively crushed a
fullswing national publicity campaign to give
the bomb to Russia and thereby appease her,
(scientists were almost unanimously shrieking:
"Give it away"), although the campaign has
been resurgent (Attlee visit, Byrnes' promise
to Moscow).
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Youth Draff Act Delayed
ur vndtv, draft not whs. not defeated as
urged in this spot for 15 months, but was
delayed, although the war department nas noi
yet come to the point of offering a democratic
av.a4 nf vmitvt trnlnlnr. so vitallv needed
nor has the forecast of Mr. Ickes' resignation
yet come true. The propaganda oi me (.mnrao
communists to lure us away irom our oou
tions to our war-ally in Chunking was exposed
,4ArABf4 fa, tha nrpspnt at least, and the
eutu vc-.-v - f -
army cleverly carried forward its program of
aid, which the communists desired to orean up.
(See column Nov. 13.) The Russian policy
of this government has worked through the
first 11 months of the year away from In
effective appeasement, and toward realistic
application of United Nations principles and
the four freedoms which has been the line
of this column. In the course of the Truman
government generally, I think readers of this
column have been constantly ahead with accur
ate forecasts of coming developments without
exception (cabinet changes, forecasts of policy,
etc.). And congress has held up the unemploy
ment compensation bill and watered down
satisfactorily the full employment bills, as
advocated.
The negotiations of the British loan originally
followed the points made Sept. 17 and Sept. 18
in two columns which resisted the then current
trend of public propaganda and favored a
genuine loan on genuine terms, rather than a
gift to support a socialist experiment. (We got
interest, anyway.) This victory for Justice was,
however, made half-hollow by the final con
cessions. .
ClO-New Dealer Chant
THE CIO-New Dealer hue and cry that peace
would bring depression and great unem
ployment was denied and discredited in half a
dozen columns since spring and we have no
depression yet. Congress joined this thought
against the CIO depressive bills in this infla
tionary era. Communism was objectively an
alyzed and defined in three columns in June to
disprove the popular fallacy that Russia is a
democracy, and proofs of this since then have
been accumulating. The column for May 23
was censored out of the papers because it
reiterated a previous disclosure, made first
February 15, that Stalin had agreed at Yalta
to declare war on Japan. But July 4, a few
days after a government official and a con
. gressman made similar public assertions, I
rewrote the fact again for publication, and it
was published that time.' Events later proved
it true. (No other writer had this original story.)
From the San Francisco conference, this
column carried the only published accounts of
the inner fight of the navy and Senator Byrd
to get island bases in conflict with the Stettinius
"trusteeship" program; it forecast in advance,
the agenda and outcome of the conference and
it published the only account of how Hillman
tried to capture the international labor setup,
and failed. O believe no one else has yet pub-
lished this latter story.)
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Two Mistakes
SKIPPING much more of the same in earlier
months of the year, I come back to two
mistakes. Incidental 'to a September column,
I reported government employees have 30 days
vacation and 30 days sick leave, whereas they
have 28 actual work days of vacation and 15
days sick leave, but are allowed 30 days "In
meritorious cases" and sick leave Is cumulative
up to 90 days. I did not bother about cor
rection because the substance of the point was
accurately presented, but It Is herewith made
for the record, if anyone cares.
As for the other, I erroneously attributed the
redundant poem "A Rose Is a Rose, Is a Rose,
Is a Rose" to Archibald MacLeish, the Roose
velt propagandist laureate, whereas it was writ
ten by Gertrude Stein. The erroneous attribu
tion was written from San Francisco without
my usual office research files. For this I am
sorry either for Miss Stein or Mr. MacLeish,
I do not know which. The point about the re
dundancy of Mr. MacLeish's international pro
paganda still holds firmly.
Thus are the books cleaned for 1948. The
1945 balance indicates you can do much good
in this business If you work at it.
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Break In Pacific Coast
Troop Jam Appears Near
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 (JP)
A break in the. jam which has
held nearly 170,000 servicemen
in Pacific coast ports over the
Christmas holiday appeared near
today.
Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco, principal bottlenecks in
the transportation jam which has
prevented returning veterans
from proceeding to their homes
at eastern points, both reported
far fewer men coming in than
going out.
Two ships are scheduled to
bring 2703 men to Los Angeles
today and 1915 are due at San
Francisco aboard two other ves
sels. These ports have been
clearing close to 15,000 men a
day for eastern points. San
Francisco port officials yesterday
said they anticipated only 18,000
men between then and January
1, allowing an opportunity for
substantial reduction of the more
than 40,000 men already here.
Los Angeles has a similar back
log. Seattle and Tacoma, Washing
ton state staging areas, anticipate
949 men today while several
thousand are being cleared via
train, bus and plane. Portland,
Ore., reported no arrivals.
Christmas Day programs in
the port cities gave the waiting
army, navy and marine veterans
plenty to do and eat as civilian
homes, clubs and lodges from
Seattle to San Diego were
thrown open to them. At Seat
tle, a Christmas party planned
for 10,000 men with presents
for all was attended by not near
ly that number.
SHORT IMPROVED
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (JP)
Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, U. S.
A., retired, who was army com
mander of the Hawaiian theater
when the Japanese attacked
Pearl Harbor, was reported bet
ter today at Walter Reed hospital.
Sailor Dies When
Auto Overturns
ELLENSBURG, Dec. 26 Mc
Donald C. Kornbau, 19, of Los
Angeles, a sailor, died at the
Ellensburg General hospital yes
terday of injuries suffered
Christmas Eve when an automo
bile in which he was a passen
ger overturned on the Yakima
highway 14 miles south of here.
The state patrol said Kornbau
was thrown out of a vehicle
driven by William Ross, 19, of
Yakima and was fatally hurt
when the car rolled over him.
The patrol said Ross was unhurt,
DEATH SENTENCE
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Dec.
24 (Delayed) VP) Seven
teen persons including some
Chetniks, were condemned to
death today at Liubliana. on
charges of having collaborated
with the nazis. Thirteen others,
also convicted of treason, re'
ceived sentences of from eight to
20 years imprisonment. One de
fendant was freed.
A non-ferrous metal is one
not derived from iron.
SIDE GLANCES
"When Pop heard you were coming, lie said it was too
bad the hotels were all crowded, but you weren't the kind
of Deoole who'd stay at a hotel anyway I"
The World
Today
Br Dewrrr Mackenzie
AP World Traveler
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MacKENZIE
LONDON. Dec. 26 This is
Britain's annual "Boxing Day."
It always follows immediate
ly after Christmas and is a na
tional holiday, jv
uu which hue ;
hniiohnlrtni nrn. t
vides gift boxes!
for postmen.
milkmen, er- r
l-nnH Knve nnri V
others who have
rendered serv
ice during the
past year.
It is a tradi
tion that runs
back through
many aenera-
tions and is as much a part of
the Yuletide spirit as a wagging
tail is of a friendly pup. Actual
ly the gift generally takes the
form of money, which is placed
in a box carried by the recip
ient. In the case of postmen
and other organized services
this money is pooled and then
is divided equally among tne
workers.
. Strange Development
Today for the first time one
notes a strange development in
connection with this ancient
custom. Many postmen decided
that they no longer would so
licit boxing day gifts, on the
ground that it is beneath their
dignity. They would accept pres
ents only if they were voluntar
ily preferred.
now mat s an interesting ana
significant phenomenon. It is a
corollary, as I see it, to the ad
vent of the labor (socialist) gov
ernment. It's a further sign that
the "working class" in England
is reaching for a new place in
the sun something one sees in
evidence everywhere through
changing attitudes toward those
for whom service is being ren
dered. Sometimes this change
is marked by increased dignity
of bearing, and sometimes by
less pleasant characteristics.
There follows tne very nat
ural question of what this first
Boxing Day of Britain's new
politico-economic eria is likely
to bring the nation and let
none doubt that this is the par
amount Droblem in all minds.
The answer, of course, depends
mainly on whether the govern
ment s daring experiment witn
socialist nationalization pro
duces the Utopia that laborites
seek.
Authority On Card
Games Passes Away
EASTHAM. Mass.. Dec. 26 UP)
Robert Frederick Foster, 92, an
international authority on card
games and author of more than
50 books on tne subject, died
yesterday at his home here.
He edited "roster rioyie," a
modern version of the card game
rule book.
He was a native of Edinburgh.
Scotland. His only survivor is a
daughter, Mrs. Walter Hopkin-
son of uiear water, Jt ia.
Around Oregon
By The Associated Press
The Hennner hotel has been
sold by Defl M. Ward to a Port
land Investor who will lease the
hotel to Cochot Therkelsen of
Portland. . . . The Interstate
Theatres, operating in Medford,
Ashland and Grants Pass, will
build a theatre at Central Point,
. . . Mrs. Fred Rankin, execu
tive secretary of Jackson county
Red Cross since establishment of
Camp White, has resigned to
join her husband, , Col. Fred
Rankin, at Fort Sill, Okla. .
Competition in the postwar
world will be the most intense
in our history. For nearly every
need or use. there will be many
materials. This means the buyer
will aeain be king.
John D. Biggers, president,
Libbey-Owens-Ford company.
More than 100,000 miles of
territory were explored from
the air by Byrd's last Antarctic
expedition.
Floods Feared
For Western ,
Part Of State
SALEM, Dee. 26 (JP) Oregon
highways were normal today ex
cept at higher elevations, al
though heavy western Oregon
rains gave the state highway
commission cause to fear floods.
The commission said that at 9
a. m. the rivers had not started
rising, but it feared they would
start to rise during the day.
Rains and higher temperatures
cleared the ice from all roads
at lower elevations.
The daily rood report:
Government Camp Snowing,
temperature 30. One inch of new
snow, 39 Inches total snow.
Packed snow on road from mile
post 53 on Mt. Hood loop to
milcpost 25 on Wapinitia cutoff.
Santiam Junction Snowing
lightly, temperature 30. Four
inches new snow at summit, total
snow 72 inches. Pocked snow
and slush on road. Chains ad
vised. Odell Lake Snowing hard, 27
degrees. Packed snow cast of
milcpost 57. Total snow at sum
mit 80 inches, new snow three
inches. Chains advised.
Siskiyou Mountains Snow
ing. Klamath Falls Two Inches
new snow in city, four inches
on Quartz mountain, eight inches
at Havden mountain on Green.
springs highway. Snowng on Sun
mountain on me Danes-California
highway. Roads in good
shape and plowed.
Meacham Some snow last
night. Packed snow through
Blue mountains on U. S. 30.
Bend Snowing very lightly.
Columbia River Hiehwav
Pavement free of snow nnd ice
at Portland, The Dalles. Pendle
ton, La Grande and Baker.
Christmas Dinner
Held At WRA Center
TULELAKE. Dec. 26 Christ-
mas dinner was served to 400
guests, WRA personnel and their
families, in the recreation room
at the center here Christmas
Day.
A number of the nroiect em-
ployes were away for the holidays.
Children of the Caucasian per
sonnel were treated to a visit
from Santa Claus. Tom Dunn
Jr., in the recreation room.
Wednesday. Deo. 18. 1848
HERALD AND MEWS TOV1
President Refuses To Let Wintry
Weather Spoil His Christmas Day
Mother Of
Mine
A Christmas-time Rovorlo
KAY mother's homo wns fur bo
T yond the Rockies, beyond
the plains and the pruirlcs, At
Yuletide, I'm thinking of un old
fashioned southern homestead,
snugly tucked nwuy in u Utile
green valley on a sunny slope
of tho Ozark mountains. 1 in
thinking of tin old, and yet oozy,
farm house, with tail cedars on
one side, a big persimmon tree
on tho other and u grand old oak
in front. In fancy, tonight I'm
Kitting on that lung, wide porch,
watching the moonbeams play
ing hide and seek among Ihc
brunches of that groat oak, lis
tening to the kuty-dids in their
ages-old argument, "Kuty did
Kuty didn't." and absorbing the
dreamy notes coming from a
thousand throats from tho little
frogs in the pool in tho momlow.
Not many years ago, it was
my prlvilcgo to go buck to the
old home, Mother wns still there,
feeble and old and gray, but still
beautiful to inc. Her life hud
been rich In service. Sho knew
full-well tho mcttnlng of the Dl
vino mandate to 'feed tho hun
gry, clothe tho nuked and bind
up tho wounds of the afflicted."
When new life came Into the
homes of the hill folks, mother
was there to help in tho care of
tho now-born bubo. When sick
ness entered tho homes of her
neighbors, mother wns there
with words of cheer and hands
to cool the fevered brow. And
when tho Grim Reaper came to
the little valley and took away
the loved ones, mother was there
to carry purt of tho burden nnd
point the wny to tho Lnmb of
God, and nil the time keeping
tho homo fires burning nnd ten
derly caring for her own.
Yes, mother wns still tltcro.
but she was nearlng the end of
her Journey. Her face wns turn
ed toward the hind of the setting
sun, but I know that her heart
was light with tho hope that, be
yond the toiling and the striving,
lay tho plains of pence nnd
light and life eternal. Tonight,
she's sleeping the long, Inst sleep
beside father, grandfather, and
her own children, In a little coun
try graveyard, on a knoll cov
ered with fragrant cednrs, nbovo
the bottomlands nnd the cotton
fields of the Oznrk range; nnd
when my days shall bo number
ed, I should like nothing better
than to be laid away in that
same little country graveyard
with my own folks, where my
body might rest In peace and my
spirit might mingle with the
breezes that rustle tho needles
of those tall cednrs, on a hill top,
overlooking the little green val
leys and the gently rolling
ridges of the beautiful, blue
Ozarks.
EDMUND MONROE.
Power Pole
Sheared Off
MALIN, Dec. 26 Mr. nnd
Mrs. Charles Edwurds, Mnlin, en
route to Merrill on a snow-covered
highway, escaped serious In
jury when their light coupe left
the pavement at the Mnlin city
limits and struck a power pole.
Mrs. Edwards sustnlncd a cut
hand.
The pole was sheared off, dis
rupting electric service hero for
a short time,
Edwards is a potato Inspector
in this district.
The question before the world
now is whether this Is peace or
an armistice a temporary lull
between wars.
Beaumont, Tex., Journal.
Their Son Burned To Death
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f
Mrs. Harry Bishop weeps beside her husband and their
4-month-old son, Garvin, after their ascape from a fire which took
the life of their son. Gene, 4, and sent their other son, Wayne,
2)4. to the hospital with serious burns. Three other children died
in the flames that rased a housing court building near Pinole,
Calif. (AP wirephoto).
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
INDEPENDENCE. Mo Doc
26 (l'l President Trunuin went
merrily about celebrating the
uni'iKlimis Holidays today us his
homo folk showed every dispo
sition to allow him to do it in
his own wny.
His round of Yuletide ends
spread to Kansas City whore
friends wore Invited to tlron Into
his office in tho federal build
ing for an exchange of season
greetings.
Mr. Truman eoverod plonty
of territory upon his arrival hero
yesterday uy piano from Wash'
Ington through sleet and storm
Ho went iimnodlntoly by auto
mobile over Icy puvomonu for a
2n-mluuto visit with his mothor,
93-ycur-old Mrs, Mnrtlm E, Tru-
man, nt nearby Grundvlow.
Muyur Roger T, Sermon of
Independence made it clour that
there will bo no official obsorv
a nee of tho president's visit.
Home Town Cltisen
"Ho enmo homo to spend the
noiinnys witn ins lainiiy and
closo friends." Sermon told re
porters. "I expect to drop by for
a handshake, that Is all. Wo
want tho presldont to feel free
to coma and go as he pleases,
Just like any other home town
citizen coining home for Christ
mas." After his visit to tha federal
building, aides said, tho presi
dent probably will droo by sev
eral places in Kun.uw City for
iniiKisnuKcs wiui oia friends.
However, they snld, no definite
program has been nrruiiKcd,
leaving tho chief exccutlvo free
to follow his whims.
His delayed departure from
Washington, putting him In Kan
sas City at 2:55 p. m. (i'ST) pre
vented his customary appear
ance at three Christmas dinners.
Upon his return to Independence
from Grandvlew, he nte turkey
and trimmings with Mrs. Tru
man, his daughter, Margaret,
and Mrs. Trumnn's family.
To Visit Mother
He hopes to cat with his
mother at Grandvlew, and his
iiimt, 90-year-old Mrs. Joseph
T. Nolnnd, who lives across the
street from him in Independ
ence, before ho leaves here for
Washington Friday.
His arrival at his Independ
ence homo at 5 p. m. (PST) last
night was the signal for a hearty
"Merry Christmas" from more
than 100 townspeople gathered
outside tho "Little Whlto
House."
As he entered his homo enrol
crs serenaded him, concluding
with tho familiar "Silent Night."
After dinner, he went by the
home of Mlze Peters, treasury
department representative from
western Missouri, for a few min
utes, beforo returning to his
home at 9:30 p. m., tlrod, but
happy, and ready for bed.
He had had a full day. Ex
pecting to leave Washington at
8:30 a. m he had to wait until
12:00 before weather conditions
permitted a takeoff. Sleet was
inning as tho "Sacred Cow," his
big C-54 plane, took to the air.
Coming-Home Record
The president had told friends
that he did not want tn mis
Christmas with the homcfolks
and break a coming-home rec
ord of 27 years.
Ho drove about Independence,
Kansas City and Grandvlew over
icy pavements. A severe winter
storm had made tho trees hcuvy
with ice along the route.
His elderly mother greeted
tho president with a kiss at tho
doorway of her home. She and
her daughter, Miss Mary Jano
Truman, were surprised and de
lighted at his making the drive
to Grandvlew Christinas night,
in view of his late arrival.
From tha Klamath Republican
December 26, 1905
John Yodcn returned today
from Bonanza where he took
the suits for the masquerade ball
Christmas. He will have the
suits available for tho ball at
Merrill Friday.
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The Bonanza ball was a tre
mendous success. Ross Sutton
of Yonna valley won the prize
as tho most original character,
Among those attending from Bly
were Mr. and Mrs. Alex Ander
son, Mr. and Mrs. William Fin
ley, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hqmaker.
James Boyd Jr., and Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Garrett.
From the Evening Herald
December 26, 1935
Ice-slick highways in this vi
cinity caused scores of accidents,
but no serious injuries today.
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The Klamath Temple's new
home, at Pine and Tenth street,
has been complete and occupied.
The work of the scientist Is of
little value unless society Is so
organized that the masses may
share in the results of discover
ies. Reuben G. Gustavson, vice
president, University of Chi
cago. HIGHWAY CLOSED
RENO, Nov.. Dec. 26 (P) Tho
Sierra Nevada's Donner Summit
highway was closed to automo
biles today because of a heavy
snow storm. Trucks and buses
wore being convoyed by the
California highway patrol, while
snow plows worked to keep the
7000-fcct-hlgh pass open.
Classified Ads Bring Results
Telling
. The Editor
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than IM waraVIn lanilh, mutt bl wrll
laa iMlbl an ONI not af lha aaaar
Mr, and mat ka tlsna, oanlrlbullana
faHoln IhaM filial, art ararmlf an
SICKENING
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (To
tho Editor) With Chriatmus
season hero and everyone with
his thoughts on soma form of
kindness ho may be able to do,
I wonder how many think of
tha suffering that Is forced by
man on his dumb animal friends
who can not oven plead for
kindness,
I was prompted to write this
by the picture that uppeured on
tho front page of December 18
Herald and News of F, G. Bauor
of Los Angeles signing tha
denth warrant for his pet dog,
Buster.
What If Buator did bite somo-.
nun? II,, ,.,,iill Iwiv. i liitrl n nitif. I
zlo placed on him which should
hove boon done the first time
ho showed a tendency to bite, ,
It Is sickening to hear of such
things and seo such pictures, as
a dumb animal has not been
given the knowledge we hu
mans have between right and
wrong, so why take the llfo of
a poor dumb animal simply bo
cause it does something it
shouldn't.'
I hope that everyone who
looked at this picture has a foel.
ing of repulsu toward man's
brutality und stops nnd thinks
"llnve I been guilty of brutali
ty to my dumb friends and
Isn't tliero something I can do
to make llfo mora pleasant for
them?"
Yours truly.
PAUL E. PFEFFERLB,
Gl Romance
Ends Happily
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26 (JP)
Tho "missing" diamond engage
ment ring today was on tha
third finger, loft hand of tha
girl it wus destined for and a
Chlcngo GI had a Merry, Merry
Christmas.
Pvt. Wllllnm Sykuckl, sta
tioned at the Frunkford arsonal
here, had a novel idea Inst week
end. He was going to "pop tha
question" by putting the ring In
the center of a box of candy.
And when his fiancee, Miss Mil
dred Opcrman of Philadelphia,
opened It "wham."
But tho salesgirl accidentally
dropped tho ring while wrapping
the cundy. It wasn't noticed un
til the soldier had left the store.
Locul newspapers and radio
stations let tho public In on tha
Gt's secret In an effort to locuta
him. But ha didn't find out un
til his girl opened the box of
candy at midnight Christmas
Eve.
"Oh Bill," she said seeing tha
empty ring box, "Is this a Joke7"
Then a phone call to the stora:
"Did I leavo a ring there?"
and tho owner's reply: "I've
been searching for you for four
days."
Into the candy box went tho
ring. It wns rewrupped with now
cclophuno and pink ribbon. Miss
Operman opened it then sha
said "Yes."
Having had a prolonged taste
in wartinia of what it would be
llko to be managed and mis
managed by burcuuerats, Amer
icans are better conditioned than
ever to coll the bluff that gov
ernment should be given rc
snonslbillty for managing every-
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