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Pace Fonr THE EMPORIA DAILY GAZETTE Emporia, Kansas, Wednesday, December 10, 1941 THE EMPORIA GAZETTE ROOSEVELT LUCK. Not since 1 Roosevelt i died has this country seen a leader Publlshet P.isít>ríif* in ol part E.TÍBO.-I». cenu 65 nsrosb Er trnnth Ey r.ontr».» SI By WW.y Oaw-itt rear Wreklr Curette mowhi Oi To ChlDff IB orafrint thf ol jour ros romes chsnrc nr.d Glv ADDRESS Adren Urracnu The QucUr reserves lut "Ehl to fcC.T 1'. roay deff imiircof! 10 coinrtci Tte O.ittttt is not resiionslbtt lor aA- OICCIL-Q 1-1 uiicnunlrd tiv Wiipiionr TKt no tiuiiKlal re- fpcmsismty typotripfciMU In vcroserocn'u. reprint Ihat part oJ ta ftiivertlsenicnl In the error ft- the nl tame tt'i p'taif notlfs tile manaRrmFnt Immer) ct M-rcrs maT ocrur ol 1'ieM Tus PrcM ti cxcIUMvely tn tiUed to le or punllcatlon ol ti l1 aevs creante to It or not otherwise criyl Itcd to this Piper loctl ncc- hfem richts of ol Bpectn' herein ire reserred Twenty Years Ago DECEMBER 1021- Th? school Y.

W. C. A. girls, who seals in Lbc rrs-l- rcnre Err-poriR. siartcd today on ilirir rrcpr.ci 10.000- Mr HUG O'-orjrP HaisiriKor liavr- 3ovr-d from 130 South Union to IOCS who hnd more bull luck than Franklin Roosevelt.

A week ago today Jie was struggling with a recalcitrant congressional minority that was ready to make a mean fight in Congress against any declaration of war. American public opinion was with President Roosevelt 78 per cent in helping Great Britain to the limit, but all polls showed 90 per cent against war. He could not lead the nation into war if he hnd wanted to ex- cep! for some thunderbolt stroke of hick. If Germany had attacked us. his enemies would have said: "Well, he provoked it." But with Japan it was different.

Japan is like sin, or sharks or the anyone can Japan! The President was in the midst of negotiations with Jafcm whom many citizens disliked on general principles. He had appealed to the emperor of Japan. The President was doing everything he could to mollify the war party in Japan without war. Mrs U. r.raucíier r.esdr.v nrr- In TU.

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nnr.unl football dinner was held Thursday evening In the Emporln High school squad In whose hrcor ihe iV.nrifr was given is cmrjrjrmrd of Glrnn Campbell, Hnm- er 1 DT.ny. Joe Lcnpr-hore, Homer Mncr. Groh. Theodore Breed. Martin.

Lln.Td H-ryhbercer. Floyd WHsr-n. Mnnurl Hughes. Noel Franklin. Merle Frank Garrison.

Leslie Hnrn. Cnrl Mnrrr.ont, Arnold, mannper. and Orvllle James, cheerleader. D. C.

Bchnffner returned Wednesday several dnyV business trip to Phil- llpsburg nnd Topeia. Misa Hayntt. of penlor attendlnn the University of Kansas. Is mnnftcer of the TJ Follies." proprnm mnde up of miscellaneous cn- The Cnilepc dramivtics dub trill Klve "Believe Me Zruitlppr" Monday evening ift KaTttcrd seruwl. F.mU Larron, thr Hartford schools.

in Eirporia complctlnc plana lor the shorn And then out of the clear sky came that Honolulu attack, a thousand dead Americans, an unprovoked assault. He called it infamy, which, according to the rules of any peace game, it was. But it was Just sheer bull- Roosevelt luck. He won, not because he was smart but because he is a darling of the gods. The Japanese attack Justified all that he had been saying and doing about and ana'nst Hitler and Mussolini and Franco.

The bombs on Honolulu justified our national foreign policy, HiiMvering forever the arguments of nil the President's opponents. It made Christians out of Joe Martin I and the Republican leaders of ap- peasemcnt. In the flash of an eye the Japanese put a united country behind the President. How are you going to beat a man like that? for Instance, publishes a 5,000 word summary of 'Time' each Sunday, so we read the summary of national news from 'Time' here in Sydney even before you get it in Emporia. "It Is hard to get some inaga- Inea, for Instance you can't set 'Saturday Evening Post' or 'Look' or 'Click' or any of the Detective or Western or movie magazines.

We get the 'Reader's DlgesV from England now but you can't get papers like 'Esquire' at all. A magazine I miss very, very much Is the 'Book Digest' or 'Boots of Are they still being published? If your secretary has any of them on your table (and I Eaw how untidy your table was In the recent Issue of 'Camera'), I would like to have a copy of any of the Digests about books." These are strange times and they are making a strange new world out of the old mud ball that the Lord put against the fence to dry so many million years ago. WAR HITS EMPORIA. Ten or a dozen men arid women were sitting at the soda fountain or leaning against the show cases In a drug store, listening to the radio. Streets on nil sides of the White House in Washington were blocked, said the announcer, who had left the street and was in the House of Representatives with his microphone, waiting for President Roosevelt to address a joint session of Congress on the Japanese declaration of.

war on the United States. "The the announcer. "Many men are OSAOE COUNTY Gibb-Stacey Bpeeial to The Oaretter Coltonwood Fallf, Dec. Miss Pnullne M. Gibb, daughter of Mr and Mrs.

John E. Olbb, of Elmdnle nnd Leonard R. Stacey, of Mcnterey, were mnrrtcd In Emporln the evening of December 3, the being performed by the Rev. Hush B. Fouke, pastor of the First Methodist church.

The wedding took place fit the parsonage and the bride nnd proom were accompanied by her parents. Mr. nnd Mrs. Gibb, and daughter, Mary, of Following the oeremony the couple went to Topeka where they spent a ciay and then left for Monterey, where Sergeant Stacey has been stationed for the past year. The bride was born and reared at Elmdale.

She was graduated irom the Elmriale Rural HlRh school in 1931 then attended the College in Kmporln for 1 year. She also spent n. at the S'ricklrr'f; Business College In Topeka. She hns worked as stenographer for Manhattan and Topeka business firms since that time nnd wns whue in Topeka she first met Mr. Stnccy.

Fly the Flag City, Dec. 10 John B. Gane on patriotic to display the Stars nnri The followinc ad appeared in rlassilicd columns of todav'? "INFAMY." The President, in his speech Monday, cried out against the Infamy of Japan because Japan had kept negotiations alive while it was planning ordinary" sane an attack. To and chivalrous minds. Japan's course waa unspeakably treacherous.

But it was war. In war you are in the business of murder, wholesale murder. Truth should not interest, you. Fairness is for sissies, not lor commanders defending a people. men All the morals that have built up in recorded times go in reverse when war comes.

A general with moral scruples would be laughed Into oblivion. If you want to consider that Japan was at peace, her conduct was Infamous. But she was really at war and she had been at war for 10 days, when she finally realizes that the United States would fight the idea of her Asiatic empire After that she was only lying In ambush, waiting to strike. Whj should she advertise her position! This the American mllltarj forces should have realized. They knew Japan.

It will be better not to blame Japan for her craft rather to censure our military and naval lenders for being caught In the clutches of that craft. The game of war, after all, not a chivalrous game. It Is not sport, rot good football, not good cricket. It Is murder on a large scale, and all morals fade and ptile before the lust of blood In war. So don't let's get too excited about Japan's infamy.

Also don't It's forget that neither Germany nor Japan is going to be beaten without trying to check defeat with poison gas. It Is coming. "War," General W. T. Sherman said so' truly as he marched through Georgia.

"Is hell." nickel and shut that damn thing off." "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked," began the President, his voice coming clear and strong over the radio. Someone had pulled a plug on the music box. The war had hit Emporia. F. C.

C. It KEEP CALM. te fine thing to organize this town for peace. Our reserve corps, meeting promptly Monday evening, has organized to preserve the peace. The men will be alert and they may be needed.

We are a railroad division. can find an easy Here sabotage mark. These place Is packed," said wearing uniforms of the various branches of service. The President should appear most any minute nnd the crowd Is waiting anxiously." The people at the soda fountain stopped eating or drinking nnd turned from the fountain toward the radio. Two or three customers moved from the tobacco counter back toward the music department.

"Here 'comes the President," exclaimed the announcer. "The procession Is moving slowly. Behind the President are policemen. The procession Is moving to the front of the room." The crowd in the drug store became even more quiet. Waitresses Mopped their work behind the fountain.

"The Vice President is rising," said the announcer, "and In Just a second the President will be presented." Then hell broke loose. The brightly colored, electrically lighted juke box which looks like a circus caliope and sounds even more like one, broke loose with a jive number which might have been in the groove at some other time, but not then. A woman, who wanted song with her sandwich, had dropped a coin In the slot. "Shut that thing off." "Well, ol all the nerve." All of (hose who had been listening to the radio were Indignant. Severn! appealed to clerks to stop the music box.

"But the lady put a nickel in," protested one, mildly. "Give her back her nickel," exclaimed a woman. "Here," shouted a man, reaching into his pocket. "Give her this young men who are offering their time and their service to their country deserve every support. But don't go running to them crying bloody murder every you see the flag accidentally turned wrong side out! Don't go running to them when you hear the Jehovah's Witnesses are distributing foolish tracts.

Don't bother with little things so long as they are little. There are enough big things to engage our activities the piddling things that mean little and merely distract and divide the people. some startling facts about labor union finances. The committee sent out questionnaires to 162 AFL and CIO international unions. So far 101, or about two-thirds, have replied.

veals A digest of their reports re- the interesting fact that JEANNETTE RANKIN. Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase: "The female of the species more deadly than the male." look at Jeannette Rankln. Probably a hundred men In Congress would have liked to do what she did. Not one of them had the courage to do it. The Gazette entirely disagrees with the Wisdom ot these unions had more than $73,000,000 salted away in their treasuries as of April 1, 1941.

Acquired through fees, per capita taxes and special assessments, the $73,000,000 represented an Increase of about 25 per cent over assets on September 1, 1939. The International unions profited to the extent of nearly $20,000,000 from the defense program. In other words, these unions, like the contractors, did right smart for themselves out of the national emergency. One of the biggest union beneficiaries of the defense program, the committee report will show, Is the United Mine Workers, bossed by John L. Lewis: The questionnaire received back from him disclosed that the UMW had a fat treasury balance In April of $4,014,075.80.

Since then, there has been at least one special assessment, reported to have yielded smother $1,000,000. Note Rep. Carl Vinson of Georgia, committee chairman, is quietly ilannlng to follow up report with a bill to lax international unions the same as corporations. The Internal Revenue law now specifically exempts labor organizations. Under Vlnson's bill International uniQps would be taxed but local unions would continue to be exempted.

her position. brave thing! But, Lord, it was a And its bravery someway discounted Its folly. When, in a hundred years from now, courage, sheer courage based upon moral indignation, Is celebrated in this country, the name of Jeannette Rankln, Who stood firm in lolly for her faith, will be written in monumental bronze not for what she did but for the way she did it. THE WASHINGTON MERRf-GO-BOUND. Unions Profit by Defense Program Labor Finances May Be Aired in Probe Report IBT Dnw rnrun ana Roberl a Alltnl The Washington Merry-Go-Round revealed that the House Naval Affairs, committee had unearthed sensational evidence about huge profits being made by shipbuilders, aircraft manufacturers and other defense firms Further detalla will be unfolded when the committee makes public Its full report shortly.

Contract profiteering, however won't be the only bombshell In this report. The committee also will disclose ISOLATIONIST TARZAN. Members of Congress have many strange hobbies, including that of Rep. William P. Lambertson Kansas, who plays golf barefoot, and Rep.

Usher Burdick of North Dakota, who makes a hobby of collecting hobbles. However, the oddest hobby of all is claimed by Rep. John M. Vorys Ttulitant Ohio isolationist and Vory's pet pastime is climbing trees. Weather permitting, he sallies forth in old clothes into Hock Creek Park every Sunday and spends hours shinning up trees.

Recently, a magazine photographer accompanied Vorys on one these Tarzan expeditions. A big spread of pictures was to be used, showing the congressman in various tree-climbing poses. He is perturbed, however, over one picture the photographer snapped. Vorys fears it may embarrass him if printed after he hns cast one of his frequent votes against defense measures. "Yep, you're right," he says.

"It shows me out on a limb." Achilles Heel. Orders have gone out to devise protection for ship's propellors. The answer to the engineering problem involved Is not an. easy one. Bulges extending beyond a ship's propellors would offer some protection, but this would be offset by serious reduction In propulsive power and maneuverability.

Some solution has to be found. One thing Is certain: The Ger- man'c had none up to the time they built the "Bismarck." LEADED ORDER. Next on the pan for grilling by the Senate defense investigating committee will be OPM's Priority Division, long a little business peeve. Specific target of the tough Senate probers is the priority order banning the use of lead for making tin-foil. Reason given for this ukase was shortage of lead for defense purposes.

Committee members are convinced there Is more to it than this, They scent the trail of the powerful Aluminum Corporation of Am- erica, long the object of deep suspicion and sizzling condemnation by che committee. Hardest hit by the lead ban is the Reynolds Metal go-getting competitor of giant Alcoa. Severa, months ago, as a patriotic move when the aluminum shortage became acute, Reynolds, a big foi. manufacturer, stopped using aluminum in their product. At considerable cost the company converted its plant to use lead instead.

The anti-lead priority order is a double-barreled blow to Reynolds It not only puts, the company completely out of the tin-foil business, with thousands of workers thrown out of jobs, but it also jeopardizes the firm's booming aluminum business that for the first time is giving Alcoa real competition. Reynolds went into aluminum production by means of an RFC loan. As security RFC took a lien on all Reynolds plants. Thus, while one government agency has a mortgage on Reynolds, another government ager.cj is cutting the ground out from under Reynolds In regard to paying off Its government mortgage. The senate probers think some strange undercover doings will be brought to light that will crack certain high-placed defense heads senate probe will be a pleasant surprise to Guy Holcomb, scrappy young head of the Justice department's Little Business bureau, who has been deluged with complaints at the lead ban and has been trying to get relief for hard- lilt little business men.

MERRY-GO-ROUND. Bert D'Armand of Hollywood has sent the White House this plan for raising funds for defense: One day a month should be designated "National Postage Day," on which everyone mailing a letter would add one cent postage to every letter. Says the National City Bank of New York, "The critical development in foreign affairs have had little ef- fect the business situation. Seemingly the adjustment to conditions gone so far that bui- iness has become immune to shock." EASE MISERY OF CHILD) COLD MB ON WICKS VAPORUt OPPORTUNITY WANTEO-RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE A nationally known company, furnishing an Investment ter- vice now being used by thousands of business and proftwlon- al people in many state bag an openinc for a local man to represent us on a highly remunerative basis a permanent connection. This Is a high class business offering excellent opportunity for the right man to increase his Income without materially interferrinj with his present business or occupation.

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Kansas City, c. Farm and City LOANS NO COMMISSIONS PROMPT CLOSING The Citizens Building and Loan Association Emporta Kansai LUCKY HIT. That lucky hit by a British aerial torpedo on the propellers of the Ill-fated Nazi battleship. "Bismarck," was a shot heard around the world In naval circles. It has started reconsideration of designs' that will result In far- reaching changes In naval construe- tion.

Except for the direct hit on the "Bismarck's" driving gear, which slowed her down and enabled the British fleet to close In, the giant Nazi battlewagon might have escaped to rove the seas and prey on shipping. This fact has sunk home to naval builders and they have become extremely conscious of this KmiNvs City Times: "Free tn the will Install flagpole ropes ar.ci help you rake your flag. LI 4650." AMERICAN LEGION and AUXILIARY Hnrnrr Ball Post A Meet 2nd Jth" Tuesdays Club Rooms Com! mcKinncv's MUSIC STORE 1 Wen BREAD DEMOCRACY DOWN UNDER. The other day the editor of The Gazette received a letter from a friend In Australia, In Tasmania, to be exact. Tasmania would be reached by digging a hole straight down through Elmendaro township.

Lyon county. This letter, below was written before we and Australia got into this world war. So remember that. The man who writes the letter is a render of The Gnjcttc. He recalls that E.

M. Robinson, florist, who advertised for "a stronp, and willing boy," had to plug out his telephone to get to sleep on the night the advertisement appeared in The Gazette. Apropos of this, our friend writes; "Boys nre practically priceless 1" Au.slr.ilia touny. So ncute i.s thr shortage that the Eastern Tele- crapl) Company which has from Immemorial used boys as inrssenscr boys, yesterday appointed a dozen messenger girls, who will this week appear in uniform In the strec'ti to carry the messages. "In the offices today we have no have messen- rcr plrls.

i "Boys here of fifteen years of age can the equivalent of ten Ami ericcin dollnrs per week for unskll- i led labour. This is due partially to the fnct that there has been such a tremendous strain on our young rr.anhccd of the men who have en- both in the Militia nnd in vhc A. F. for service so that the boys are r.ow doing work cone by young men. "Even with the men here is a and the Government here is considering recruiting ten tliou- ir.nna women (Or service nbrond RS clerk.

1 or or one or all 'other clerical duties, formerly done by soldiers. "As a matter of fact I have been advocating the appointment of wo- men cocks Instead of the traditional i army men cooks. It Is a revolu- tlonarj' suggestion but these are chivs "Again ret papers like 'Time fror'iv in A us I traiia. The Sydney 'Daily Tele- Do Your Share DEFENSE BUY A SHARE IN AMERICA The United States has been attacked by Japan! It behooves every American to do his part in helping to defend America! Whether we are in the armed forces or not, we can do our part. We urge you to buy United States Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps.

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