Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1945 — Page 18

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Pvt. Carl W . —— : ‘ A x ! -of the mect ROY W. HOWARD ~~ WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ | rl go : Killed In actio President - Editor ; * Business Manager | By Harry Hansen By Thomas L. Stokes ; as, (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) ; Sey So : y : Son of Mr ; : n : . SINCE 1 HAVE never been WASHINGTON: Teh: Dintoms 4510 on ° Owned and published Price in Magon Coun- | completely sold on the' Thurber gress has had its attention called 1 and had daily (except Sunday) by ty, 5 cents a copy; delive humor and the Thiirber drawings, —and very effectively—to one of months. He } Indianapolis Times Pub- ered by carrier, 20 cents I have a guilty feeling when 1 the most serious problems of the since Feb. 6. lishing Co: 314 W. Mary- a week. catch myself chuckling at some- war, the increasing number of in England. land st, Postal Zone 9. Mail rates in Indiaha. thing he writes or draws. . But I veterans suffering ’ from' nervous i : rs 8 ! kl : and mental disorders, neuro-psy~ Born in Ind : i $5 a year; all other states, do chuckle, and then I say: a i . made his: hor Member of United Press, U. S. possessions, Canada “What are you laughing at? Can Rep. Priest 0 SE he was a chil Scripps-Howard Newspa- nd Mexico, 87 cents a you explain it? No.” Well, I can’t Pp. Priest (D. Tenn), in a there Tet ! : ) house speech; called it “one of ere before g liance, NEA Serve i explain the humor in the collec- : per Alliance, ¥ . our most pressing problems” and Survivors be ice, and Audit Bureau of R 5884 _- gs Tube Son warned thas until congress proe two sisters, M: Circulations. * RILEY a . pion vides facilities and trained anapolis, and 3 i (Harper, $2.75), which is getting : . 2 ned: pere Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way national billing today with the help of the Book of Sone] omen x we are Jenvicg a egieally dane Hamp fined = the Month club. 1 know it's individual and rather It should be the Br Donn on of Ea : brothers, Harl : cheerfully ironic, but now and then it gets under he advised, “to find a way for specialized training apolis, and R MacARTHUR my skin meu Hal iT Ekiy maker ons tevin of from 10,000 to 20,000 medical graduates in {he or i . ; iy : 13 : : fleld of neuro-psychiatric treat ANILA is MacArthur's victory. Americans and Fili-| a bit, it has something of the universal in it. The ODI AN brie | Sal ment. an = o Prove o ir Rik : :. iin : Ki humorist doesn’t pick out your own particular quirks, men so trained shall go inte veterans ho 1s oT pinos personalize it. That does not detract 2 Bit flom | 5 Tine 6n those that you share with tie human BED 8 eine oa) Je ospitals for bry N. 2. Li the glory due his officers and men. But his departure race. This might apply to the work of James He is preparing a bill for governinent, assistance in he Berrie De f the Philippi had been the symbol of our defeat Thurber, but hardly to that of 8. J. Perelman. such a program. ‘military merit rom e 11ppines na Nn, S) . Mr. Thurber, even when taking pleasure in “the . " . . 2s ceived in acti His promise to return was the symbol of our hope. His wi! 8 coniuse ke the ShaTaster Seursey, Jha Tike Less Than 4000 Trained Psychiatrists his death ne . = : a habit of faking telephone calls, still remains cal; 4 arrival back in Manila has all the glamour, compensation | {0% %C SEE ToC hor his world. | But Mr. * THE TENNESSEE CONGRESSMAN, who has yi yecent and justice which we yearn for in life but usually find only | Perelman, a trickster in wards as well as in nonsense, studied the problem, sketched its outlines to the ellen, me in fiction. His instinctive ability to dramatize a situation | Ries yo Np Swap ids 3 Di p Yersel Jegobatiss house. Already between 130,000 and 140,000 men Sgt. Drager w . | just when you think yo e the hang o ought. h been discharged from th rvice b £ ml Fort makes it about perfect. \ ave charged fro e service because -o ying rt Not that his colorful personality carried him back to| Humor Has Its Limits neurotic maladjustments, and the number ‘is increase sadder sna si ’ as i : ilitary geni : ing daily. There are today less than 4000 trained hg myssion to J g the Philippines from Australia. That was military genius. CLIFTON FADIMAN says that appreciation of nlateiots. toc” tiie] : a vbr and crashed ir 1 : . F er have doubted that, and | James Thurber’s humor is not limited to readers of psychiatrists: lor whe whole eoun'ry ang. many of sea. ! He is a great general. Few ever have doubte at, an ik d with almost every i the New Yorker, the principal vehicle for both these are now in the service where they are needed Sgt. Drager i none lately. He had to conten wit A a mot 2 ev ery concetv- | Thurber and Perelman sketches. He feels that any- +4 badly. . « bomber group » able obstacle—including, in the beginning, divided authority | one moderately sensitive to fine English and: to. the Neither the veterans administration nor any othese which took | i : weapons. Onlv a superb coms | tragic ridiculousness of human beings is equipped to agency of government today is able to cope with this Fortress raid E+ and grossly inadequate £ap litt] ¥ admire the Thurber writings. growing problem, Mr. Priest.said, He explained that “theater. Higl % mander could have gone so far on so little. James Thurber, says he, should be the property the veterams administration has its hands full with ‘record were i Though the enemy knew his objective to be the Philip-| of all of us, like Ring Lardner, Mark Twain and the tremendous amount of Setall. imposed oh 3 by first raid on ne ; ; Mr. Dooley. I don’t believe he ever can be. His the G. I. bill of rights, and at the present e. allied troops 1 § pines and though the route he had to take was clear to all, NO ry seriously handicapped by personnel problems, These, beachhead. ~ nevertheless he managed repeatedly to: surprise the Japs. _ There are intelligent readers who can't stand he added, will no doubt be cleared up in most lines Previously a He did that ‘all the way from New Guinea to Manila. + | Mr. Dooley because so much of his humor is an of SCUYRY When ie wad 3 puss : Fa with five oak 3 . ; obvious wisecrack, and his real vogue was based on “But,” he said, “whether-the veterans administrae listed in the a =’ his distortion of “events that were the talk of the tion shall be able to give the heuro- psychiatric Srepte 1041, and flew 4 x m a : : : that must be given as the number of such pas May, 1043 ANOTHER CHARACTERISTIC of the superior com-{ town when Finley Peter Dunne wrote. The other ment t y, : is ability t { e} sults with a minimum | 98v 1 heard several of Mark Twain's stories were tients increases will depend primarily upon whether Surviving be mander is ability to get maximum results 1 3 mmm rejected for republication by a certain organization the congress takes the necessary steps to augment his grandfath expenditure of lives. ‘We cannot recall any major cAmMpPAIgN | pecayse they seemed: labored- rather than funny. facilities and to assure 4 sufficient number of skilled pissin .in which American casualties were so low, either absolutely | Despite that enough of Mark Twain's writing is : men in the mitiva] service ls do She pan : Sa still alive to make him a great humorist; I' doubt . . 0 not know nor does the veterans or relative to enemy losses. : : that much of Mr. Dooley stands the test. tion or the public health. service kfiow today how Ww » An outstanding feature of this campaign—and an on ne ed ; ‘ i : | ‘® EHEC yl ered many-men==si bg required. All who have looked unexpected one in view of MacArthur's earlier training and | Thurber Is Always Thutber : : e | | O O S 1 e Y : : O Y l 1 { ) \ itig. 18 Ny laa: an on i we ; experience as a ground general—has been the brilliant use| IT 1S FOLLY to analyse minutely or to quote SEA . he able to use all those now serving in the army and MOND of air power. With his air chief, Gen. Kenney, he did things-{ bits out of sustained writing. Mr. Thurber's work : 1 wholly disagfe with what you say, but will navy medical corps. 1 have received estimates tha —— with airborne troops and planes which seemed impossible hangs ogeiher because of Us losis) evelopment defend to thadgath your right to say it.—Voltaire. range from 10,000 t0.18,000. | : : of the illogical. He is always himself, and, like other = | : : at the time and which have since been followed on other | humorists, notably Artemus Ward and Mark Twain, | _. : ; Shortage of Qualified Teachers Mrs. likes to embroider his advent “NOW, AIN'T (Ti d invited “HOW MANY 9 il es embroider own ventures. » All ‘ Imes readers -are invite i ‘ i will § fronts. : : ; : A humorist is the most individual of writers, for THAT A LAUGH" to ‘express their views in |WOULD REFUSE? THERE IS at the outset, too, he explained, & But perhaps his major achievement, if one can be he sets his own pattern. He can parody serious |g, marry J. Gasper, 903 E. 11th st. asp lL By Mee. ¥. 2. Bosch. G shortage of teachers qualified in the neuro-psychiatrie singled out, was to weld three brave but highly individual- | writers and make everyone laugh, but serious writers | , . . amadiig alt the GV abet these, columns, religious con- he = enn workite, field, and it may be necessary first to train some § an tim 3 a | can’t parody him. Humor, being a break in expecta- i As - trovgrsies~excluded. - Betause 50 4 me - = i Sad Some © i Ryiialy Jealous Tore o* nd Ses tion that doesn't take & tragic turn, runs all the Mr. Wallace's appointment to the of “14k: volume received, let- in war plants for the good pay they SETS giosh also emphasized the necessity of the Learn and air into a unified amp 1b10Us eam. thou a Olige way from puns, gags and -wisescracks—to—compiete-{commerce—past-comes...from. the Ee Tred % receive instead of for patriotism try community taking an active part in meeting this ; every ) - for-all-and-all-for-one operation none of the battles of this | distortion of character and surroundings. same individuals’ and the same uld Be Timifed To 250 |, capitalize on the title “war problem, for in the end it BECOMES & CoMmmMUnIty-protys zl informe . v ) the Star : Appreciation of humor follows the same curve; [press who just a few months ago Letters must be " : _| lem. He pointed out that, even when enough psy= floor, i : paign could ha e been won, -and Sta 5 and Stripes the biggest erowds laugh at the simplest distortions— |were so deeply hurt because Mr. Opinions” set $orih worker and boast of being patrio | chiatrists are trained, there still will be need for ® phone would not be whipping proudly in the Manila breeze today. | ghat we might call the common denominator of |Wallace:was being replaced for vice P tic? Why should they have special! iio ooram : y » = distortion. The crowds grow smaller as the. humor |president. : are those of the writers, Tesognicon and puivieges] 11 ottersd| “Above all,” he said, “it seems to me, it will be x's becomes more circumscribed. At the other end of | Surely a man who has served | a ublication in no wa a With ‘more money, less hours ... .mely important that the community develop the UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, the public is hardly | the curve the bum on the park bench, who chuckles |for eight years as secretary of ag- ele 3 y and pleasant work at > non-essen-|'... oiiitnde toward the reabsorption of these - implies agreement with thoss_ tial try, h | prope prepared for recent hints that MacArthur has finished his | to. himself over something he can't communicate if |riculture and four years as vice Re ; - +» |tal industry, how many of them neuro-psychiatric cases into community life. That iob and ed reti nt. His reaction to that is: “On| fe tried, completes the exhibits, president should be qualified for a| opinions by The Times. The | would refuse? : | will call for close co-operation among community - Job and, earned. retirement. A 15; : cabinet post. After all, did we! Times assumes no responsi- | 1 dont believe I'd be wrong In| jooncies. And it calls for well-defined programs of to Tokyo. We are ready in this veteran and proven com- have Mr. Dewey's assurance that he | Wie for the. return of mane saying # Jubal Jost a Fal co-operation among local, state and national publie ; Fp would keep Mr. Jones if he was. ) © minority of them that are working! j..ith services, with local and state medical, social mand when called upon. God speed the day! ; WORLD AFFAIRS— a i roamanl scripts and cannot ‘ehfer cor ({Ust for the war effort, yet some of| Lens Seroree TLL Just what part MacArthur is to play next in the many- cations, this same wishey-washey | respondence regarding them.) |them holler about it as though they| ~ ro novess, he said, cannot do a great deal in the ———

{were sacrificing their life. | nee phase of the problem, but, he added, “18 I realize many women: work from| i; very clearly the responsibility of congress to see Necessity, but do any of these y; it that adequate provision is made for treatment of women working for extra money {hese veterans in the veterans hospitals.” have any cause to gripe about a : {mother who has turned down. the

‘temptation of money to care for her! IN WASHINGTON—

press that seems to be so concerned about Mr. Wallace's being ‘qualified for a cabinet post is the same press = that wag. backing. Mr. Dewey for EXAMPLE OF MAN'S Presidegt of the United States, and INHUMANITY TO MAN if memory serves’ me right, his only | By Pvi. Ralph M. Wise, Billings General . qualification as far as the press was | Hospijal own children as oO oe] WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 Official [concerned was the fact that he was| Recuperating from a wound gut. [O70 children i a ire Jota ed | Washington is saying that there |& Repwelican. Now, ain't that a! : | ! o unate| y (fered in Holland after 18 months! enough to be able td» do so? > is much more between- the lines |laugh. Give us more dog stories, | overseas it is my present pleasant | TVA atc et en of Gen. MacArthur's “Manila- |they are more amusing. ji ’ > i . nn ] ;

bas-fallen—on to Tokyo!” state-| I'm all for freedom of the press, Pastime to read your modern up-to- “IT WAS ONLY AN By Daniel M. Kidney

sided campaign required to knock out Japan, of course, is 5 ; N not for him or for the admiring public to decide. That is | WwW at ext? for the commander in chief to determine, on recommenda- LEA =F : tion of the chiefs of staff and their over-all strategy in| By William Philip Simms co-operation with our allies, There are plenty of hard jobs ahead, including reconquest of the vast Southwest Pacific. But, whatever his future assignm- t, we should be assured that it will be an important one:

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ment than In the lines them- |but for God's sake let's not try to the-minute paper every evening. | HONEST OPINION" selves which, of course, is saying |use it for a Louisville slugger. In tonight's edition there was aly, M., walter (No Election) Haggerty, a great deal. y 5 = story, with picture, which to me 1s| ® B®: 6 Box 404 port pi vipa pm pans A si a pérfect example of man’s i a5 3iicle Deir 10° election] : WASHINGTON, Peb. 8—Twe 3 humanity to man—poor little in-|SuS8ested that we postpone the na-| of the most irascible and waspish

. - : ; t phase of the Pacific struggle i [4 ’ Bill 235, the hotly contested child adoption measure, yester- Tea ree [BY Petts vate, indianapolis | hild deall due 10 the{'/7831 election for the duration. For men. in Wasiinglon ay loiy s and set the stage for another”— Venus, who reigns supreme in our | ROCENt € ildren, one dead due e Trces 10 the discomfort of TVA

day ; - the final phase which, no doubt, : {poverty strick ts' inability | What honest opinion one would) : . " ' these nights,|POVEItY siticken paren IY ci E. Lilienthal. Under this measure, juvenile court approval and rec- will end in the Son of Heaven's palace in the heart Se ®t all the|(0 afford better care. Sad? Yes— think from some that I had com- Ca a pair whe . . : ; of the Nipponese capital, : ets. Indeed she was named for Put what Is the first reaction of the mitted a crime. Now the state be tossing curves at Mr, ords would have been required In all child adoption and | - But, it is asked, who will command the allied Plapsss DN beauty. Like Police? Find the culprit, the cause legislature Hag up before it a “skip| Ku on may ate i Secretary placement cases and, as representatives of numerous organi- | forces in this final “great phase"? MacArthur, him- |} ony an earthly beauty, she owes| of this terrible rugeay) Livi whom SY eo Ihave said Jee BR ¢ “Ickes and Senator McKellar (D, zations concerned with child welfare pointed out at the | Self. seems to be asking the same question. In effect, go) this to the fact that she is do they find? The bewlidered and “ aR Tenn). At one time they were

. : i : . : he says that his Southwest Pacific task being largely 0 8d. We never see her | grief stricken parents! “Oh, for the|® “steal” Well, it I-have been a| or Mr. Ickes’ public hearing, it would have brought back a situation | jooomplished, he is ready for turther assigment. “We or at all She is always rarity of human clarity!” bad influence forgive me please. I Mr. 1c) comparable to the old “scarlet letter branding days.” | are ready in this veteran and proven command when |oorpeq in billowy clouds of vapor,| At the present time in Chicago a It was only an honest opinion and lot al igh Youn Difficult social problems, such as cases involving unwed | called upon,” he said. which reflect the sun's rays in so’ certain newspaper is denouncing, by| didn't wish anyone to take my word| = per the Tennesses senator th hould be handled with deli d di ti Gen. MacArthur is supreme commander of allied |gpalescent light. Even at maximum |Story and picture, the squalid hovels for it. One more thought or sug- tid Yr throw Iii wat mothers, shou e handled wi elicacy and diSCretion. | forces in the Southwest Pacific—land, sea and air. |prilliancy, Venus remains a crescent called homes by a great mass of that gestion sn I hope isn't bad, i But for Zome Yeals now Mr. Lilienthal has headed They are not properly matters of public record—a brand | This includes everything from Australia up to and |_albeit rather .a ‘fat one—for her city’s so called “poor people,” but I ve air Dave an honest election,| ou nr MolEeliars a a . . . . 3 - , 2 | . et’s - ” . .peev . of shame which conld easily put an enduring blight on the} cluding ths Philippines "But Aum. Nimits com- orbit lies inside thay of the artis | 1ave Not yt do Youd lini Be Bolo | ot ils Are You 10} is reappointment to the three-man TVA board foe li f both th fortunate girl d their infant Halids- ihe sarny, an $31 DOTHWaLY. nearer the sun, and she can never) tO RAtE BB : 3 a 10-year term comes up in May. ves 0 € uniortunatle giris and their iniants. Philippines. Thus China and the main islands of [appear to us as “full.” "of ‘those unfortunate parents. » 2 = oles Lp In MAY. catiling to put al Sponsors of the measure had charged previously in a | Japan are outside MacArthur's theater of ‘operations. | Would earth appear so beauti-| The conditions under which any|“FURN YOUR RE, ACRES

: 7 federal power projects in f{terior. - He Fas cons . i ‘ o : 5 y prov lions of miles away? of us live are fo a great extent gov= , closed hearing that “baby adoption rackets” were being Capture of Manila Amazed Experts fui some ~MLLORS--OL.T0) 85. ZWAY WHISKERS OUT”

2 . . re . : Or would she present the reddish erned by heredity #nd circumstance; deed Bg An rE rr an proj= § x conducted by public welfare officials in some counties and | ~ pop TyEsE and other reasons. the general's |CASt Of Mars, god of war? Cer- therefore, to blandly reach a SO | Yer. Wndoubletly. whikor Valley MVA | . . . - ope . - ~ ¢ ‘ i s = 0, 8 Are . by certain private agencies. - No specific cases or evidence | pronouncement is widely regarded as a strong hint IY he atte would be more ap-|to a tragedy in poverty by locking have been offered publicly to support these charges, or | that lie would like to have his future status clarified..|\f = iroieq” with all the blood, stupid but Teeks with the methods

nn haps the up everyone in sight is not only coming back. A number of . : up perhaps. theiUp eve) hove 8 EIR Jen McKellar Writes to Ickes : : : . | There remains of course, much work to be done in . : . w's inf Gestapo. ‘ : the charge that welfare officials had been paid off in| "s, ihuest Pacific but, barring the unexpected, | OUI foften the light somewhat. of Hers amos Torem faces showing signs of a.new growth| THROUGH TVA Mr. Lilienthal, s graduate of adoption cases. “Racket,” “shake-down” and. “pay-off” | it should be mostly of a mop-up nature which does | .. Ib y h of beard. DePauw university, has become a world-famous aue are harsh terms; they must be*viewed as reckless and irre- | not require the permanent supervision of a five-star Side Glances = By Ga rait Our fighting men have to go a| thority on regional planning. Mr. Ickes at a ree sponsible charges .unless they are backed up by definite | 8¢7f™! - - on CKING CO gait

: Week or mors without 3 shave and ference referred to him as a “leadin ) : , MacArthur's capture of Manila in 94 days from then have to ‘use cold water and PER} press sory 4 io ¢ ntl Senator MeKell proof. If the ‘welfare investigators have evidence of | his landing on Leyte has amazed the experts. When Subsequently Senator McKellar | COAST 10 COAST

WELL-CONSIDERED ACTION

HE social security committee of the Indiana house of representatives acted wisely, we think, in killing House

By W. H. Richards, Indianapolis

shave out-doors. The sensible thing| Propagandist.” wrong-doing, in fairness to the majority of conscientious | he went ashore on Oct, 20, most of them were con- for them is to give up shaving and| said to have prepared a 35-page letter to Ickes oute social workers and as a duty to the state, they should pro- yinced the war In Europs-would be over Befom he let the beard grow. Not only is| lining the history of TVA and his (McKellar's) cons ; : " np >: “ven landed on Luzon. duce the facts so that those responsible can be removed

shaving a nuisance, but the face| na.tion with it. Aside - from his military qualities, one reason for feels ‘much better with a beard half : : or prosecuted. MacArthur's success is his thorough knowledge of the He sdid he obtained TVA. dam appropriations

an inch to an inch long than it : : : Far East; its terrain and the workings of the oriental does with a second day's growth, | (NToush hs power a Sung Shain ot ihe seni 8 a a mind. He went to the Philippines immediately after ‘Nature tries ‘her ‘best to -putj APPTOPFiations commiiee 1andUng : EVEN IF some isolated abuses exist, they can he cor- | graduation from West Point in 1903, then on to

) » in the days of whiskers on a man’s face so why he pioneered in Muscle Shoals back . . . : Tokyo where his father, a lieutenant general, was should we fight against, nature and President Wilson and backed President Roosevelt in rected, as the committee decided yesterday, without chang- ache as his fathers aide Ne was dent on 4

keep scraping it off? To many men its revival under TVA. However, he isggid .to res ing the law and upsetting a system that is both sound in | number of missions elsewhere in the East and acted comes the thought that for the first| Sent the fact that Norge Jem jae Tamed Mier the theory and tested by practice. as observer in the’ closing phases of the. Russo- Savy IW esks WINOUL 8 aan ey tre we he has introduced a bil to atop TVa We do not approve of witch hunts. Nor do we believe Sa ee a vith) tours of duty in the Philippines il 9% | of

to avoid that. methods of land condemnation and take all power in changing existing organizations and laws merely for the | after the first world war—as commander of the 1 shaved off my beard in 1905 and | funds or other revenues from the authority and pus

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sake of making a change. As we have stated before, we think it is hardly wise to throw out the baby with the.

district, .of Manila, then of the whole Philippine department, and finally, on loan from the United States, as marshal of the “islands. in. charge .of

after regretting it all these years 1 shaved the side face for three weeks and lgft the chin and upper lip, I

them in the treasury for reappropriation by his committee. Last session he sponsored an amends ment to an appropriations bill doing the latter, bus

bath water, => : national defense under the late President Quezon. hig Hof oom like a bum, for T wes|-it-was defeated by the house. And we ar in t ‘es i really shaved and in three days it ’ pia nd we .are glad to find that in the present instance, | Flaif for the Dramatic was plainly seen’ that T was grow-| Seeks Compensation for Doctors | at least, the house social security committee agrees with us. ing a chih beard. After three weeks ; CRITICS CHARGE that MacArthur has a flair I put the TeB0f away. Now'T am IT. 18 BACK in the hopper again, together with Jusf y for the dramatic. There is some truth ih this, In wearing a full beard and never ex-| 3 New measure whereby Senator McKellar is seeke An ‘ ,. while hi , the famous STILWELL ROAD 1918, for «instance, while his command

Ge 4 ig ENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK is fo be congrat-

“Rainbow division,” was marking time, he penetrated the German lines with a small patrol. His only weapons were a pair of pliers and a swagger stick.

«ulated upon the gesture of suggesting that the Ledo- | ye returned with a boche colonel as his prisoner, Burma road, by which China once more is brought into | prodding him along with his little stick. |

overland.communication with the civilized. world, should be

named after’ Gen. Joseph Stilwell.

MacArthur is tall, well dressed and distinctly

at West Point was made hell for him on that account.

The circumstance under which “Vinegar Joe” and the | However, titough sheer ability he won the respect alissimo parted company has been variously explained.

of the academy, graduating with the finest scholastic

has even hinted that Gen. Stilwell did not do a | press items seem to be symbolic of the man and tary job for China.- Chiang’s happy tribute will | his life. Like the late Marshal Foch of France, he

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e from the Ciina scene.

a minimug cost in human’ life.

handsome. Some people object to this, His first year |

bacon. And his victories seem to have been. won “

"Well, Bub, ‘1 guess putting it on my. a : : uta iN casting iH 2 aes .

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pect to shave it off again, " Come on'““men! Turn your whiskers out and when your boys come back bearded men, let them find that Dad too has made himself look like a real he-man.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the devils 2s believe, and tremble.—~James MW, nl ed bol

"THE German 3 the discipline of |

fear; ours is the discipline of faith

i—and faith will triumph. —Joftre. |

ing to have the government pay four doctors $10,000

‘damages each on the grounds that building Norris

dam caused them to lose their practice. Senator McKellar claims President Roosevell ed to take Mr. Lilienthal out of Tennessee and he is doing all he can to see that the President deliver—or else. «i * with Secretary Ickes wanting to grab all power projects for the interior department, Senator Mc Kellar may have a new ally and Mr. Lilienthal a