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PAGE l'OUtt SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL-NEWS, SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA Sunday, October 17, 1943 American If lade Fires On Wahe Old Santa Cruz Fair Enough By Wcstbrook Pegler The News 25 Years Ago FROM THE SENTINEL FILES Sugar purchasers in California were limited to two pounds at a time. In most of the nation the One of the great years in line and during the grand march tSlillll lilliiiiyil limit was one pound. Registration for the county was 5446 Republicans, 2712 Democrats, 284 Prohibitionists, 186 Socialists, 95 Progressives and 905 who declined to state party preference. A total of 18 cases of Spanish influenza was reported in Santa Cruz. All churches announced they would hold no more services until the epidemic was past.

The Hihn-Hamond Lumber Co. planing mill building at Washington and Center streets was sold to the Santa Cruz Canning Corporation, which had been trying to lease a site near the wharf for a fish cannery. Because of the "flu" epidemic Holy Cross church held its masses with the altar in the vestibule of the church and the congregation on the lawn outside. Santa Cruz county "went over the top" in the fourth Liberty Lona sale by $254,000. The northern end of the county raised $1,013,000 and the southern end $715,000.

m-f mtrnT" wmmmttMZrt't mtmtm, UNIONS DECRY THE POLL TAX, BUT USE IT IN THEIR SETUP New York, Oct. 16. I don't want to accuse anyone of hypocrisy today, being in one of my patient, generous moods, but as to those friends and neighbors over on the left who decry the poll tax in those few States which still have the poll tax and oppose the piece work system and would deny the boss the right to fire a man for cause, the least that I will settle for is inconsistency. All unions use the poll tax and defend it with the very arguments that are offered in its favor by those who would preserve it in the poll tax States of the southern tier. They don't call it a poll tax but it comes to the same thing because the member who doesn't pay his dues and assessments is not allowed to vote.

Even worse than that, he is not allowed to work. The intent of that ostracism is to starve not only the man himself but his wife and children, as well, which is a much more cruel penalty for the mere nonpayment of some money than denial of the ballot in the public elections. In the poll tax States, the delinquent is still permitted to earn his living. He doesn't have to go under cover, change his name or work at; odd jobs in the dark of the moon to get by. Another, and much worse, little foible of some unions is the class-B, or robot, or subhuman membership.

Class-B people are usually the unskilled auxiliaries of skilled-trade unions whose full members want these extra dues and this additional picket-line power to serve their ends, but are careful to provide that the lower classes can't seize control through the ballot. No state has anything like a class-B citizenship but in those unions which I refer to a class-B member may have only one five-hundredth or one-thousandth of a vote, which is really no vote at all. His political inferiority is based on his inferiority in skill, which may not be actual inferiority at all but arbitrary classification. But imagine, if you can, the uproar that would be raised by our friends and neighbors on the left if anyone of prominence were to pro- Capital Dense black smoke billows skyward from American-made fires on Jap held Wake island at the height of the attack by carrier-based planes and ship bombardment. In this Navy photo, CIRCUIT 1IPER opinion that acquisition of the 255tWAR CARRIES Country was the Centennial Year, lHb; ana although only a lad, the writer remembers that everything revolved about the 100th year of the Declaration of Independence, including a Centennial dollar.

Mrs. Alice Neary has handed a Grand Centennial" Party program to the writer which she fnunH among the keepsakes of her father, tne late Patrick Neary. Its lettering was in red and blue on white paper. It read on the 'front page 1776-1876; Grand Centennial Party on New Year's Eve. at the Parifir Ocean House.

The pleasure of your company with ladjes is requested. Tickets, including supper, $2.50. On the back page was the "Committee of Arrangements, J. D. Chace, M.

Bernheim, John Patterson, Robert Effev. W. T. CoDe: re ception committee, E. S.

West, R. c. Kirby, henjamm Porter of So-quel, J. Cunningham of Felton, Henry Heath: floor manaeers. .1 Scott, J.

D. Chace, George Otto. Frank Pray, Robert Effey. It was Local Item Drint. Thp T.n.

cal Item and the Weekly Courier were purchased by the late A. A. Taylor and combined, were known as the "Courier-Item." the fore- runner of the daily Surf and weekly surt. Santa Cruz sent its full share of visitors to the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. Those who went returned enthusiastic over what they had seen in the buildings and possibly this was the forerunner of the use of China glass and metal used to outline the buildings.

It was so impressed on the mind of the writer when he approached it some 25 years after, when traveling from Philadelphia to Baltimore, he immediately recognized it. It was like an old friend. This exhibition started many to traveling as it was the first trip across the continent many had taken. GRAND BALL The grand ball was in the Pacific Ocean House. The dining room there was the setting for many such affairs.

The balls did not start until about 10 o'clock, always with a grand march. The dances in those days were the waltz, polka, Schot-tish, quadrille, lancers, Virginia reel and others. The floor shortly after midnight was set for the elaborate supper and dancing con tinued until thre to four in the morning. This was on New Year's eve. A nartv was alwavs held oh New Year.

At midnight the new year was welcomed. The fire bell and all the church bells were rung, dinner bells and row bells on the street, horns were tooted and the whistles of the tanneries, the plan ing mills and other industries were sounded. In Dracticallv everv home the kerosene lamps were burning as groims would combine for a social evening and at midnight, after the greetings, refreshments were served to WATCH NIGHT SERVICE The Methodist church was the church' which observed the watch night meeting. It was entirely dif ferent from such church gatherings now. It always started at 8 o'clock with preaching service, always much time was given to a testimony or experience meeting and at midnight they knelt in prayer about the There were no social hours or refreshments as now; it was four hours of continu ous service.

New Year calling was then in vogue and friends called one another to extend New Year's greetings and best wishes. In many homes eggnog was served. A number of vears later the New Year' eve was taken over by the Pilot Hose company. The members were not only the fire men but it was a social set and the Pilots' New Year' Eve Masquerade was the social event of the year. Always in the advertisements and on the tickets were the meaningless word, "Right of Admission reserved." Every masker on entering had to go into the side room of the fair pavilion to lift his or her mask.

It was supposed to mean that only those with good character should be admitted. It was mainly to take the names, and characters represented, for publication in the weekly Some who never got a chance to dance at other affairs took advantage and made their escape before the hour of unmasking. Some would keep dancing with the same charater, sure it was some particular friend and be greatly cha- grined to find who they had a partner. I PRIZES GIVEN i The prizes for most beautiful costumes, most original characters I and best sustained characters were worthwhile. Leading citizens stood By Raymond Clapper By Ernest Otto made the selections.

This erand march was weil worth the dollar admission and a chance for a cash prize in the drawing. The leaders were adepts and moved in and out as they went about the room in most colorful formations. Silks, satins and spangles predominated and several hundred were en-masque with hundreds more in the galleries, long ones which occupied the four sides of the structure. They marched to the music of a full brass band and the city had a reputation for its band music. The fanciful costumes, queens, kings, princesses, gypsies, shepherds and shepherdesses, queen of hearts, night, day, the rainbow with the colors, Italian, German, and French peasants and circus girls with the myriad of tarleton and spangled skirts.

CHARACTER STUDIES These are only a few but the characters and the acting sometimes were unusual. Who will ever forget in first appearance of "looking backward" with the one impersonating it walking backward. There was the usual galaxy of clowns and the Irish. The French, negro and -Germans came in for character studies and for action. Even the South Sea islander with the grass skirts appeared.

No one was allowed on the floor simply with a mask. What a time at the unmasking! A bubbub of Often those in the galleries and floors were fooled when they were sure they had recognized a friend by walk, familiar movements and characteristics. The Pilot masquar-ade was looked forward to as much as a circus. FAIR PAVILIAN The barn-like fair pavilion then facing Soquel avenue along what is now Front which then stopped as Soquel avenue, would be transformed by several day's work with redwoods, bunting and flags. The first time incandescent lights appeared in the city they were a feature of a Pilot masquerade.

The bulbs and wire were first on exhibit in the clothing and gent's furnishing goods store of Butterfield, Effey and Ready, opposite what is now the Hotel St. George. The frist time arc lights were used here was in the tents of the W. W. Cole circus.

It was the star attraction that year. THE COMMITTEEMEN Back to the Centennial. Who were those on the committee? J. D. Chace, owner of a meat market, served as mayor and school trustee; M.

Bernheim, connected with the firm of J. Bernheim and Co. leading merchants; Robert Effey, then a jeweller in his father's jewelry store, a leading spirit in the Pilots, foreman for years, who was the head of the boy council and served the city as mayor; William T. Cope, in later years connected with the office of F. A.

Hihn company; E. J. West, manager for the Pacific Avenue Street Railroad, secretary of the Masons for many years; R. C. Kirby Tannery on Laurel street.

Benjamin Porter of Soquel who also had a Tannery; J. F. Cunningham of Felton, for years a well known lumberman; Henry "Fink" Heath, a merchant with a tin and plumbing shop attached, from the business he was given his nick name of J. Scott, for years in livery business and later "in the undertaking business. It was not George Otto, but his father on the committee; Frank Pray was of the well known Amasa Pray family on School street.

W. F. Carroll Hurt In Skidding Auto W. F. Carroll, agricultural commissioner for the city and county of San Francisco, who is a cousin of Al Finn and a former employe of the agricultural commission in Santa.

Cruz, was injured Friday when his car skidded as he was driving to his family home in Eu reka. The accident occurred near Cum-mings. Carroll was hospitalized at Willits, suffering a broken leg and sprained back. He was reported to be getting along very well Satur day by Finn. WE WILL HE CLOSED October 14 and reopen on October 22 THE AVENUE GRILL 356 Pacific Ave.

Candy Store TELEPHONE 1385 pose that a pick-and-shovel man should have only a fraction of. a vote in the public elections while a banker should have a whole vote, That would be pretty bad, but still a pick-and-shovel man would have a free opportunity to advance through the grades to some occupation of rating based on skill which would eventually entitle him to a full vote. The class-B union member, however, is permanently inferior. The A-class closes its rolls for varying periods, rigs the examinations so that aspirants are bound to flunk or, in some cases, picks relatives of its members for the vacancies. I suppose few of us realize that unions, themselves, frequently use the piecework system, but they do.

Piecework is where you get a small retainer or salary and a cer tain bonus per unit of production. and that was exactly the system that the CIO used in its great manhunts when captives were be ing driven into the union pounds by the thousand. The organizers got so much per head. That was one reason why they were readv to beat people's brains out with clubs and tire irons in the riots. You give a couple of poor stiffs a working over and scare 2000 others into the union hall to join up and you are doing all right for yourself.

They fire at will, too. In one case, down South, a CIO union canned an organizer who called a strike by a fake vote, after the strike was lost, and because it was lost. The employer and the workers took an awful lacing through weeks of idleness and non-production, but that was just their hard luck. The union, in the end, suffered a pretty severe loss of prestige and canned the organizer, not for faking the operation, but because he didn't get away with it. This happens right along.

They hire and fire at will and no Labor Relations Board ever interferes because the employer is a union. The New Deal won't cite a union for anti-labor activity. It says any union is labor and that labor can't be anti-labor any more than you can be anti-you. There are a lot of things about unions that most people don't know. Comment radical ihu.vui 115111,.

uvjriy Ulilig seems iar 10 me ngnt now witn all buying luxuries and revelling in inflation. Remember the country was conservative as it revelled in the previous Coolidge-Hoover inflationup until the day of the October, 1929, crash. Let indifferent politicians, in and out of the Administration, eavesdrop on the warning given to American industrialists and business men in an advertisement by James H. McGraw, head of the McGraw-Hill group of business magazines. He-says industrial capitalism has written itself certain fundamental weaknesses which can lead to its destruction if they are not counteracted.

This voice to American industry warns that "no democracy can survive When 20 or 30 per cent of its workers cannot get jobs." He says we shall never again have such mass unemployment as we had In the de pression because if business can not offer jobs, Government will make jobs. In other words, private industry and politics must meet this challenge or else. Two S. C. Women Await Husbands On S.

S. Gripsholm Mrs. George II. Greene has received word that her husband is on the Gripsholm, now enroute to America. He was at Santo Tomas, in the civilian internment center in the Philippines.

At the time of the Pearl Harbor incident, he was a transient on the high seas, en-route home. Mrs. Greene lived in Santa Cruz until entering the OWI office in San Francisco. She is the daughter of Mrs. W.

W. Davis, Walnut avenue. W. W. Davis is also a passenger on the Gripsholm returning from China, where he has been a teacher in Yenching university for more than 30 years.

This was closed by the Japanese after December 7. McQuaideTo Hold Firing Practice Troops at Camp McQuaide will fire artillery practice subcaliber 155 mm from Sunset Beach between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m.

on October 18, 19 and 20. All firing will be done at a sea target, the danger area extending into Monterey bay 8000 yards and to a height of 3000 feet. John L. Lightner of the Montezuma school near Los Gatos has been here. planes c5n be seen on the airfield (center).

Barbed wire can be seen stretched along the beach in foreground, (Associated Press photo from U. S. Navy.) By LEON ROWLAND $Wo fait a curiae nt Unnlrn ,1 braced ourselves. Nothing more happened. When, after watch, I went up on deck they 'told me that a destroyer had steamed down the center of the fleet dropping depth bombs.

Of course I don't know exactly what happened but the story that went around was that it was a whale that got depth-bombed. "Another time we were in the Carribean. A periscope was sighted. A couple of corvettes dashed for it. Hurriedly that submarine came to the surface and broke out the United States flag.

For the rest of the day that sub traveled on the surface as part of our convoy." LIVES LINK US WITH PAST THAT IS HISTORY In 1844 the French whaling ship La Grange came into Monterey and immediately put the Mexican authorities in an uproar. The French residents of the town were fined 500 pesos each for smuggling goods ashore and Alcalde Joe Amesti sent a letter around to Branciforte saying that five of the crew had deserted and were believed to have found refuge here. Despite considerable correspondence between the Branciforte juez de paz and the Monterey alcalde the five Frenchmen stayed in the Santa Cruz vicinity. Their refuge was with Pierre Sainsevain, a naturalized (as a Mexican) Frenchman who had been given the Rancho la Canada del Rincon as a grant by Governor Micheltorena the previous year. Cowell's lime plant at Rincon is on the site of the sawmill Sainsevain built.

Three of" the Frenchmen were Jean Baptiste Dabadie, the ship's carpenter, who married one of the Gonzales girls; Francois Poile, who married Victoria Feliz; and Julian Omnes-Gui, who found a wife in Concepcion Espinosa and became known as Guy Omnes. All of them have descendants here. A daughter of old Julian Omnes-Gui died 11 days ago in San Mateo. She was Mrs. Joseph Velasco, born here 81 years ago.

Two children out of the 12 or 15 born to the Frenchman of the forties and his Spanish-Californian wife still survive, Santos Omnes of Boulder Creek and Mrs. Josephine Valencia of Redwood City. McCRAY HOTEL WAS ONCE KITTERIDGE HOUSE The old McCray hotel, bought last week by C. B. Bender, was built in the early seventies by Dr.

Francis M. Kitteridge, a physician from Laurell, who came in 1851. His wife was a sister of Harriet Mead, who came with them and in 1861 married Judge William Blackburn. Kitteridge's first home was a two-story cottage which still stands on the east edge of the property, facing Second street, to which site it was moved when the hotel was erected. The hotel, two stories high, was operated after Kitteridge's death in 1879, by J.

B. Peakes and later by E. J. Swift until, in 1890, the latter sold it to James P. Smith, a New York millionaire.

Smith, who also acquired property on Pacific avenue and Laurel and invested in our early trolley systems, rebuilt the old structure, added a third story with a mansard roof, terraced the grounds and built retaining walls. Re-named Sunshine Villa the old Kitteridge House became a social center where its owners entertained the elite of the town as well as prominent out-of-t own guests. His foster-daughter, Anita was queen of the first of the water carnivals on the San Lorenzo river around the turn of the made from a plane at low altitude, two surface ships (arrows), that were damaged in previous attacks can be sees at the left obscured by smoke while the-wreckage of several Japanese PERIL FOR WHALES Stanley Hancock, who stepped out of the circulation manager's job into the maritime service, is back in town for a couple of weeks, with stories of his travels: "I don't know anything to prevent telling about things that happened if they're well in the past," he says. "My ship was part of a big convoy heading east on the Atlantic. In Service ssix months today, paid 15 cents for it." When Smee gets back to Gaudalcanal he will receive his promotion papers, which arrived after he left.

On October 1 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant senior grade. DURCAN John J. Durcan writes to his mother, Mrs. C. Altamirano of 330 Mission street, that he has just finished his boot training of six week's course at San Diego, and has been sent to the Hospital Corps School, Balboa Park, San Diego, 34.

He was formerly a Sentinel-News carrier. SANFORD "From the good news we hear, I hope to be going home soon," writes Edmond Sanford from Africa to his aunt, Mrs. Robert Buck-ely in Santa Cruz. He has; learned his cousin, James Sanforfi is also in Africa, but has not yet run across him. He writes a cheery letter and says he is geting along nicely.

MOUNT Stanley Mount, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Mount, left Friday to begin- boot training for the Sea-bees at Williamsburg, Virginia, His rating is fireman, first class. GANN Enrolled in the electricians school at the U. S.

naval training station, Farragut, Idaho, is Francis Sinclair Gan, son of Mrs. Diana Westbrook, 30 Campbell street. Upon completion of the course Gann may qualify for a petty officer rating. MINOR Lawrence James "Jimmy" Minor, son of Mrs. N.

Minor, 96 Barson street, has reported to the U. S. naval training station, Farragut, Idaho, for his boot training. ALFA NO George Alfano, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Leo Alfano, Boulder Creek, reported last week at Goodfellow field, San Angelo, Texas, to begin his basic pilot training. Alfano was transferred from primary flying school at Bruce Field, Ballinger. Aviation Cadet Alfano graduated from Boulder Creek high school in 1941, having won the Bausch and Lomb science award that year. STUCK Robert E. Stuck, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Leon H. Stuck, 32 Van Ness avenue, was recently promoted to the rank of captain. He is a pilot in the army air corps, stationed at Maxton, North Carolina. HAMER Sergeant Harry Hamer, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Cyril Hamer of Paradise Park, recently spent a week's furlough here and now has returned to Camp Chaffee, Ark. Hamer is a tank commander in Company 716th Tank Battalian, with a rating of technician fourth. Buy War Bonds and Stamps UNCLE SAM NOW OWNS CAMP M'QUAIDE Four hundred and three acres, with an assessed valuation of 160, have been taken off the county tax rolls. Camp McQuaide is now property of Uncle Sam and the county treas urer will, at the current county tax rate, receive $444 less in taxes.

The proportion of real estate re moved from the tax rolls in Santa Cruz county is small. The latest available figures (and they are for 1939) showed that in all of California Uucle Sam owned worth of land which is now paying no taxes. In only one state, New York, and in the District of Columbia was the value greater. The Roache airport, despite its federal air and service use, is the property of the city of Watsonville, and the municipality will pay the county taxes on it. CLIFF EROSION CONTROL PLANS PROGRESS Plans for those groins, to thrust out from our shores and, by impounding sand drifting with the rip tide, widen our beaches, are progressing.

Sure of $14,000 from the county as half the cost of experimental groins, backers of the project are moving to comply with requirements to secure a like sum from the state. Plans now in the drawing contemplate three of the breakwaters, spaced between the Santa Cruz east city limits and Rio del Mar. W. A. Williams of Opal Cliff, leading spirit in the chamber of commerce committee which has succeeded the original independent group, will go to San Francisco to morrow to confer with Otto C.

Von Seggern of the army engineering department. Hope of the backers is to secure construction of the three test groin (one to be a double one) without waiting for the end of the war. Proof of their efficacy will, it is hoped, induce Uncle Sam to shower down as part of the post-war pro- giam, SAN LORENZO HAS ITS POST WAR PLAN Post-war construction schemes are springing weed like. The state is supplying money to pay for plans for county road building. The planning is to be immediately; the construction after the war.

The state itself is laying out highway construction. The Santa Cruz chamber of com merce, city and county have their scneme for groins to impound drifting sand and widen our beaches (thereby preventing cliff erosion) with hopes for building of three test groins before the war's end and for federal money after peace comes. From the San Lorenzo valley chamber of commerce the county supervisors can look for a suggestion that the County Big Tree Park (100 acres) be augmented by the 255 acres remaining in the hands of the syndicate which bought the whole tract from the Welches 14 years ago. SYNDICATE MADE COUNTY PARK POSSIBLE The 355 acres were bought by the syndicate for $150,000, and 100 acres (most desirable because of the big trees) was turned over to the county for $75,000. The remaining acreage includes the flat pasture north to Zayante creek, and the wooded hillside east of the Southern Pacific tracks to the top of the hill.

The valley chamber has held no meeting since its summer recess, but members have expressed their acre tract and its development into public camp grounds would be a meritorious post-war proceeding. Plans of the syndicate at the time it made it possible for the county to acquire the park (the Welches insisted on selling all or none of the 355 acres) were for eventual subdivision. An option for purchase was held by Andy Balich when the war started, which lapsed early in 1942. Our Men KITAHARA Their father, Aguri Kitahara, was a Live Oak rancher evacuated to Poston, Arizona. Franklyn and Arthur Kitahara are both in the United States army.

Arthur was a graduate from Santa Cruz high school in 1941 after a school career in which he was an outstanding athlete, captain of the baseball team, co-captain of the basketball team and end in football. He is now a private in the infantry at Camp Shelby, Miss. Franklyn, his older brother, is a corporal in the signal corps at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Papa Aguri Kitahara, from Poston, sends the data on his sons, for inclusion in the Lions Club "Honor Roll." OLSON Donald Olson is the latest contribution from Santa Cruz to the U. S.

navy, he left last Tuesday for Farragut, Idaho to start his boot training. Donald, who attended local schools, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Olson, 74 California street.

BILODEAUX Sgt. Francis C. Bilodeaux, formerly of Santa Cruz, was recently graduated from the special 18-hour course in field preparation and advantages of dehydrated food given at the Camp Stoneman Baker and Cooks school. Prior to entering the army in August, 1942, Sgt. Bilodeaux was meat market manager for the Watsonville Safeway store.

His wife, Mary Jane, who has been living in Santa Cruz is now visiting in Lawton, and his David is in Watsonville. SLATON Frank E. Slaton, son of Mrs. Ruby Slaton, has completed his boot training at San Diego, and now has the rank of seaman second class. He has been selected for special training in electrical school in San Diego and will be there for the next four months.

Upon graduation he will be an electrician's mate. Frank enlisted in the navy shortly after his seventeenth birthday last August. His brother, Pfc. Kenneth Slaton is with the communications branch of the army anti-aircraft at Camp Haan, Riverside, California. He was inducted in April.

SMEE Lt. Bud Smee, son of Rev. and Mrs. Roy F. Smee of Beulah Park, is one naval officer who takes orders from the army.

Stationed for the past six months on Guadalcanal, he recently received furlough orders directly from Gen. Douglas' MacArthur. He is now spending his nine-day leave in Australia. In a recent letter to his parents, from New Caledonia, Lt. Smee writes "the meals are very reasonable here, only twenty-five cents.

I went window shopping yesterday; the stores have certainly gone all-out to hook the service man. I had my first inc-cream cone in WE SHOULD HAVE SOME POST WAR PLANNING DONE NOW Washington, Oct. 16. An advance copy of Wendell Willkie's St. Louis address has just arrived but I have not read it and this is written 24 hours before he speaks.

I hope he strikes bluntly, and without being intimidated by the cheap politics of the Missouri Republicans. They propounded to Willkie recently a- series of tricky questions which sounded as if they were inspired by something other a desire to deal intelligently with the problems facing the United States. Republican organization ranks are honey-combed with isolationists who take the narrow view of Senator Taft instead of his father who was president of the League to Enforce Peace and who gave all of his power and prestige in behalf of the League of Nations. Willkie is one of the few powerful Republican voices. It will be fortunate for our political life if he uses it to save the Republican Party from being merely a futile obstruction in both domestic and foreign affairs.

On the domestic side, neither the Administration nor the Republicans are preparing for the vast unemployment that may hit the United States when Uncle Sam suddenly ceases to be the chief customer of American industry. The extent of the shutdown that the end of the war may bring is suggested by the fact that the Government has financed 534 airplane plants, and in all, more than 15 billion dollars of war industrial facilities. Some here in the Government fear heavy unemployment. Not much is being done about it. New Deal planners are scattered now and are either in service or in other work.

Congress denies funds for planning. Mr. Roosevelt doesn't seem interested enough to make a fight for it Within a year, Germany may be defeated and hundreds of thousands of war plant employes may be out of jobs. An equally large number of soldiers may be coming back to civilian life because we are not likely to maintain our ground forces in full during the war with Japan, which will require chiefly Navy and air from us. Are we going to be caught unprepared, as we were in the great depression when the Hoover Administration did not know what was happening and tried to stem the greatest unemployment crisis in our history by the futile attempt to balance the budget? The country appears conservative now.

But give it a second dose of depression and it might go Announcement of CLOSING We are Closing Thursday, Oct. 21 AND WILL REOPEN Monday, November 1st ORCHARD'S 138 PACIFIC AVENUE.