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WORLDWIDE BIBLE BEADISO FOR TODAYl
BeveiaUoa 11:1-7.
And I uf a new heaven nd a new earth: lor the
tint heaven and tht tiret earth wera passed away;
and there ni no more era.
And I John law tha holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared a a
brlda adorned lor her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven My in.
Behold, tha tahemacle of Ood U with men, and Ha
wlU dwell with them, and they ahall be Hit people,
and Ood hlmaelf ahall be with them, and be their
Ood.
And God ahall wipe away alt teara from their
yea; and there ahaU be no more death, neither sor
row,' nor crying, neither ahall there be any more
nam: for tha things are passed away.
And Ha that aat upon the throne said. Behold. I
make all things new. And He said unto me. Write:
for these words are true and faithful
And Ha said unto me. It Is done. I am Alpha
and Omega, tha beginning and the end. I will give
unto him that la a thirst of the fountain of tha
water of life freely.
He that overcome th ahall Inherit all things; and
I will be his Ood, and ha shall be My son.
WORLDWIDE BIBLE READING TEXT FOR
UNDAT: II Timothy t. The path of a "geed soldier"
h tha Urns at apostasy.
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World Today
By DEWTTT MacKENZIE
THE failure of the communist Instigated general
strike In Italy la another forceful Indication that
the Western democracies have contained the Red
Offensive and are gaining In Europe's Cold War.
This was the second serious defeat of Its kind the
fcolshevlsts bad suffered In a week, the other being
the flop of a communist-supported general strike in
I
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Franca. The two setbacks are particularly significant
In that Italy and France have been the chief com
munist strongholds In Western Europe. Moscow has
leaned heavily on the Red organizations of these two
Important countries.
The Italian atrike was called by communist lead
ers ostensibly to protest the death of two peasants
In fights with police growing out of Invasions of
farmlands by squatters. However, the proclaimed
purpose of the move was of small moment.
a a a
THE real Importance rested In the demonstration
that tha Italian public no longer runs for cover
when tha Reds crack the whip. This transforma
tion has taken place under Premier De Qasperl
ainca his christian democrats defeated the commu
nist In tha ma election.
Coincident with this of course has been the de
velopment of the grave conflict between the Kremlin
and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. That fiery Balkan
state had been another stronghold of communism,
and Tito was ons of Moscow's pets.
80 we find the communist oflensive held along a
line from North to South through Central Europe.
But that isn't the whole story by a long shot, for
there Is bitter discontent among the Russian satellite
states. Wholesale purges and liquidations are being
carried out in most of these Eastern European
countries. The situation Is particularly tense in
Poland and Chechoslovakia, but Hungary, Romania
and Bulgaria also are having thr:r troubles with
disaffection.
As a complement to these developments the de
fense ministers and chiefs of staff of the twelve Atlantic-pact
nations have met in Paris and with
out fuss or feathers have agreed to a general de
fense plan Involving Western Europe and America.
This plan still hss to be approved by the Atlantic
council. After that a billion dollars worth of Ameri
can armaments will be released for defensive pur
poses In Europe, provided President Truman certifies
that the plan is acceptable to the United Slates,
a a a a
DEFINITELY the tide has turned in the European
Cold War. However, while that It a nutter of
extreme gratification It needn't encourage complac
ence. One of Moscow's chief alms has been to pro
duce economic chaos among the democratic nations,
and she has succeeded to an extent which likely
far exceeds her expectations.
Still bolsherism hasn't profited politically. For
while the Red Ism theoretically thrives on economic
distress, the peoples of the Western world have
recognised Moscow's scheme with the result that
they have turned even more firmly against commu
. nism In most cases. Possibly bolshevism has gamed
some time which we shall see reflected In the Far
Western offensive.
But democracy is doing well In the West.
Boyle's Column
Youth Is the Time to Be
Homely, Says Rugged Scribe
" r- - fy;
BOYLE
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK OPi The first day I
went to Junior high school Just 35
yean ago there was a pretty girl
sitting In front of me In English
class.
She was blonde. In a shaggy way.
and had cupld bow lips and a little
brown freckle here and there. I
thought to myself, 'boy. If Junior
high's like this I certainly wasted
a lot of time getting through grsm-
( asar school.
About halfway through the lesson.
' my new dream
t r 1 turned
around, grinned
st me and whis
pered: "I wondeV
what you looked
like before tha
mule kicked
you."
I waited until
t h e teaeb er
looked the other
way, and then
whispered Into
the fan- ear be
fore me:
"I never was
kicked by a mule.
She turned around and gave me
that heartbreak smile again, and
whispered:
"Oh. was it a horse then?"
Dswnlng
For a moment I didnt understand
what she meant. And then I blushed
clear down to my new S2J5 tennis
shoes. What this darling doll was
trying to tell me was that my face
LOOKED like It bad taken a boot
massage.
This wasn't the first time I had
been disappointed In love. Only
three months before the girl I had
wanted to take to our graduating
exercises at the Ltnwood grammar
echool had turned me down with,
"I'd love to, Harold, but really you
are too small for me."
But no one before had ever told
me I was homely. I went right borne
from Junior high snd spent a half
hour grimacing at the bathroom
mirror.
That blonde was right I No doubt
of it No nose needed to spread that
wide Just to fill one pair of lungs
with air. Were those really ears or
coat hangers? That hair or was It
moss? Why did anyone need a
mouth that big unless he wanted to
swallow crackerjack boxes?
Desperate
I came out of that bathroom a
desperate man. Women were out of
my life forever. I was going to stsy
a bachelor and win all the merit
badges In the Boy Scout book. What
else could a love-frustrated fellow
do at 13?
For the next ten years I hated
that face that looked out at me
from the mirror. The fact that Abra
ham Lincoln and Socrates must
hsve had tha same trouble was no
consolation at all. .
But at 23 I made an astonishing
discovery I was still pretty ugly,
but I wasn't getting any worse. My
ears hadnt grown an Inch.
In the years since then I have
learned the fine consolation that
time brings to tha homely. There Is
only one way for them to grow
and that Is better. On tha other
hand, those who are beautiful or
handsome when young can only fade
with age. And It fret them Into
melancholy.
Why?
Often I used to wonder whatever
Induced my lovely wife to marry
such a plain thing as her husband.
One day I found out. We were look
ing through her family album, and
there was a picture of her as a
child with her pet, Major, a fins
old bulldog. -.
"Do you ever get lonesome for
Major? I asked.
"Not any mora,'' Frances said.
looking at me fondly.
All along such Is the loyalty of
wives she hss stoutly Insisted I'm
not reslly exactly homely. .When I
asked her what I was. she searched
through the English language for an
adjective and aald:
Ragged
-Well, you're the. . . er. . . er
. . . Well, the rugged type"
Anyway It's better to be homely
young, realize It young, and go on
to other things.
Dr.Fishbein .
Ends Stormy
AMA Career
CHICAGO. Dec. J MV-Dr. Morris
Fishbein, stormy petrel of American
medicine, stepped down yesterday
from his Job with the American
Medical association.
"It wss Impossible for me to con'
tinue under the circumstances," he
said.
His retirement as editor of The
AMA Journal and the AMA health
magazine, Hygeia. had been ex
pected since the AMA trustees dras
tically clipped his powers last June.
They limited his writing and
speaking activities strictly to scien
tific subjects.
They also announced Dr. Austin
Smith was being groomed to suc
ceed Dr. Fishbein when he retired
as Journal editor. Dr. W. W. Bower,
associate editor of Hygeia. will be
come editor of that magazine.
Dr. Fishbein ssid: "I could not
produce the type of medical journal
I was accustomed to. I could not
speak freely and vigorously on Is
sues which I felt were Important."
He was with the AMA Journal
for 37 years, 25 of them as editor.
Roiarians
Salute City,
Merchants
The Klamath Falls Rotary club
today saluted the city administra
tion and the Merchant's association
upon completion of the street light
ing system and the installation of
some of the most beautiful Christ
mas street decorations to be seen In
any city on the Pacific coast, with a
special program congratulating all
local citizens who had a part In
these developments.
The program was conducted by
Allied Collier, Rotary past presi
dent, who complimented Mayor
Thompson and Councilman Condrey
of the city administration. Art Rick
B'el, Rudy Jacobs, Clay Belllsle and
Sid Elliot of the Merchant's asso
ciation, Sam Ritchey of Copco and
Garry Robertson of the city schools
for their respective parts In arrang
ing the basin-wide celebration.
Ritchey related the engineering
details involved in the new street
lighting Installation and Rlckbiel
described the problems involved In
obtaining and Installing the street
decorations.
SIDE GLANCES
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Business
Pepper Price
Continues
To Skyrocket
Notion Todoy
Strange Chapter Ends In
The Deadly Chess Game
By JAMM MAKI.OW
WASHINGTON. Dec. J on-One
of the strange chapters In Uie his
tory of the United Nations now has
come to an end
On Seplrmlier 33, President Tru
man announced there was evidence
of sn atomic blast In Russia.
And on that day Ruwla's foreign
minister, Andrei Y. Vlshlnsky. gut
up and made a peare proposal in
the U N . which had been set UP
Bv RADF.K WINfiKT
I for Nam Dawson)
NEW YORK. Dro. 3 (.41 Tlie
wholesale prices of most foods are
more than double prewar, but black
pepper has gone up 41 times.
The retail price lias jumped too, 1 tour years ago In keen peare.
but lesa spertucularly. The house-1 It was a two-edued proposal:
wife at her grocery now pays about , 1. lie auiiiiesied a peace part
0 rents for the prewar dime ran of i among the big five nation' (lulled
black pepper, the common kind you I males, Ituuia, Britain, France,
use at home. I China.
Peak I 1. He smgested the U.N. condemn
In 1930 the lowe.it price tor blacX i preparations for a new war which
pepper was three cents a pound he said were being marts In the
wholesale. It hit an all-time peak of , United mates and Britain
"The boss certainly booted one. making that radio speech
about how little a dollar will buy three people have
asked for raises today!"
Forming And You
Nervy Stock Farmers Can't
Be Timid About Investments
Bv OVID A. MARTIN
AP Farm Reporter
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 U" Much
Is heard these days sbout Inves
tors' being fearful of taking finan
cial risks. Economic conditions. It
Is said, are too uncertain.
There la one place in America
where there's no such timidity.
That's down on the farm.
The farmer Is going right ahead
expanding one of the most hazard
ous of all enterprises the produc
tion and feeding of livestock for
meat. This Is a business In which
a drop of three or four cents a
pound In cattle prices can bring on
bankruptcy.
Ne Pause
Yet, In face of a general decline
In farm prices, a gradual reduc
tion in national Income, and some
forecasts of recessions and depres
sions, the farmer Is going right
ahead building un beef rattle herds,
pioducing more hogs and maintain
ing a high level of milk production.
Regardless of whether all this re
sults in profit or loss for the
farmer. It promises larger supplies
of animal products for the con
sumer, if"
To get an Idea of the risky char
acter of livestock farming, let's take
the case of a hypothetical cattle
feeder In the Midwest corn belt.
For the most part, such feeders
go Into the market and buy thin
cattle and place them on a heavy
ration of corn, other grains and for
age to fatten them to slaughter
weights. This fattening process
takes from a few months to a
year or longer, depending on the
weights and quality to which the
feeder desires to bring the animals.
At current nrtces a feeder would
pay about 30 rents a pound for
such animals. A herd of 100 head
averaging 500 pounds would cost
110.000.
I'ntertain
When tne reeder buys cattle he
has no assurance what the price
will be when he gets them ready
for the slaughter market. Suppose
he feed. them long enough to In
crease the weight to 600 pounds.
The total tonnage would be 60 000
pounds or lO.uoo more than when
he bought them.
The feeder would make a little
money only If he were able to sell
the cattle for more than 30 cents
a pound. It would take the revenue
from the increased weight to cover
cost of his feed. labor and other
outlays.
Dsnger
But suppose prices dropped four
cents a pound. A price of 16 cents
a pound on 60.000 pounds of cat
tle would bring only SB600. or 5400
short of the Investment. There
would be nothing to cover feed, la
bor and other costs.
Former Merrill
Resident Dies
MERRILL Word was received
here Friday that a former Merrill
resident, Mrs. John Taylor, passed
away at her home in San Francisco
late Thursday following a lingering
illness.
Mrs. Taylor was formerly Ruth
Hill, a graduate of Merrill high
school.
She leaves her husband, two
brothers. Louis and Will Hill of
Merrill, five sisters and her mother,
Mrs. Laura A. Hill of Longvlew,
Wash.
MAYOR FLEES
BERLIN, Dec. I UP) The mayor
of Aue, uranium mining center in
the Soviet zone, has fled to the
West after refusing to move people
out of their homes to make room
for newly-drafted miners, the British-license
Telegraf said today.
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"JACK" JACKSON, manoger of Piggly Wiggly, samples the
first slice of the huge birthday cake which was baked to
celebrate Piggly Wiggly s 25th anniversary in Klamath Falls.
The crowd looks on anxiously, but there's reolly no need for
worry. The coke is big enough to give some 1200 customers
a slice!
(I 43 a pound early lust August, and
It Isn't very far front that now.
The situation Is potentially ex
plosive, pepiier men say. Il'a some
thing like a man screwing up Ins
lace to sneese. He wrinkles his nose,
takes a deep breath and everybody
waits.
Back In 1039, we Imported some
30.000 tons of pepper, mostly from
India and Indonesia. Pepper that
year averaged four cents a pound.
The war upset all that. Imports
were erratic. In 1043 we Imported
only eight tons. The next year not
even a shaker full ran the blockade
to get In.
reillnt
Such shortages boted the prtre
until OPA put a ceiling of ten cents
a pound on black pepper. That last
ed until early 1946 when the lid was
lifted. Pepper Jumped from an aver
age of ten rents In 1045 to an an
nual average of 30 cents, to 43 cents,
and to an average of 63 rents last
year. This year it has moved steadily
The U. 0. ambassador to the
U.N., Warren R. Austin, callrd the
Travel Is difficult throughout the
country and Information Is restrict
ed. Some believe there may be large
storks u'i pepiier there harvested
from gardens that escaped notice.
Others think there may be some
storks concentrated from harvests
of wild pepper plants or from aban
doned Hardens.
If large storks were uncovered, or
If shipments from Indonesia should
start suddenly. It would have a dra
matic ellrrt on the pepiier situation.
All of these uncertainties have
nimle pepper buyers here cautious.
They are described as being on a
hand-to-mouth basis.
Windfall
There Is ons penier trsdrr who
msde a quirk windfall profit from
the rise r lit lit in his own office. All
traders keep samples of shipments.
fo he gathered up a tew old samples
of shipments made when pepper was
Vlshlnsky proposal propaganda.
Later he aald:
If Vlshiiisky wanted to eooparata
with the rest of the world, the
Russian peace proposal was una
necessary; but It Russia didn't In
tend to cooperate, such a peace paol
would be a mockery.
Still, the Vlshliuky proposal left
the U. S. In a kind of box. How
could the Western Powers counter
the Russian move with some move
of their own
On November 14, Austin got up
and proposed an American-British
resolution. .This resolution was
hardly more than what already la
contained 111 the UN charter or
things the U. 8. and Britain had
said before:
It called on UN members In lake
part III the work ol the UN; to
restrain the use of the veto In tha
securing council where Russia haa
vetoed majority decisions 41 tlmra;
In settle disputes by peaceful means;
and so on.
So now the UN was going to have
to vole on the Russian pmpnaal and
on the IT. S -British proposal.
This would give both sides a
rhanre to showh how many sup
porters they hsd In the UN-at least
nr. this Issue.
From the start It seemed certain
that the V. 8. and Britain would
win. Russia's proposal was swamped
and the Weslern proposal waa ap
proved Thursday by a vole of S3 to I,
Chile said the Soviet Union was
a auper-capltallst, Imperialist, to
telltarlan police state Yugoslavia
accused Russia of monstrous hypoc
iisv In talking peace before the UN
while carrying on a campaign
against Mashal Tito
Smell nations begged Die United
Htatea and Russia to end their cold
war, rather than risk total war And
upward to Ita current high plateau. ' around a dime, and sold the lot tori the Philippines called Uie UN man-
The end of the wnr and hlgnrr
prices didn't Increase the pepper
supply. In prewar days Indones's
produced 00 per cent ot the world s
pepper. But the Japanese wrecked
tre pepper gardens during their
occupation. After they were thrown
rat. the Indonesians started rebuild
ing their Industry. That's slow work
It takes about seven years for a
domestic pepper plant to mature.
And Uie work waa delayed or halt
ed from time to time by civil strife.
India, Leader
As a result, India took pepper
leadership and turned out SO per
rent of world production.
Adding to the uncertainty was he
A m e r Ic a n government's decision
tl'st. pepper Is a strategic war ma
terial In critical supply. It was
marked for stockpiling. Such opera
tions are top secret, but government
buying alwnys Li a potential market
factor to keep the price from sag
ging. The big uncertainly Is Indonesia,
once the world's biggest producer.
Scene of New York's most Important
pepper traders hsve their agents In
Indonesian porta where thay gather
all the Information they can on
ptpper for their companies.
Uncertain
But they don't knows, they say,
what the situation Is In Uie Interior.
11315.
I etiverlng a "deadly game of chess
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