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N. Pace Four Dixon Evening Telegraph ESTABLISHED 1831 by the B. P. rrtnUnj Company, 124 East trim OUou, UilnoU, Dally Except Sunday For additional information concerning The relegrapn lis of aea tirtt col-ma on classified page A Thought for Today 1 know that, whatsoever God doelli. it shall be for ever; nothing can be put to it.

nor anything taken from it: and Uod doclh it. tint men should £car; before Euclcsiastcs 0:1 1. Wc arc but as the instrument "Ah. Ma Meredith First Shot Pfc. Joseph Muckton of Carteret.

N. J-. will be but briefly noted in the wins 1 of passing events. And these modest, expendable paragraphs about limi will start a fuc or wiap a sandwich or join the paper salvage drive tomorrow. Nevertheless we think In- deserves a transitory word of congiatuln-tion on the part which' fate assigned him in the Mipcrcolossal moduction of curient history.

To Joe (if wc may presume to be familiar) fell the rather mo mentous honor of tiring the Long Tom that sent the first American shell screaming across the border Into Germany. If fate were a better dramatist it might have built Joe's scene up a little more. For the tons of bombs dropped bv American -flyers and the Pus sia shells fired into. East Prussi; have certainly dulled the effective ncss of his entrance. Still, it must( have been quite a moment for Wc don't know Joe said or felt at that moment, but; It mizbt have been something -like this: "Well, Jerry, here it is.

This an American shell, fired by ar American soldier from an Ameri can frun 10 miles away. Maybe Amancan bombs have fallen on your town already. If haven't, you certainly know what thev have done to the cities around Cologne and Ducsscl- dorf and Essen and the rest. this is different: This comes from a gun on the ground. And it's sort of appropriate that it should be an American shell and an American gun.

Your lead thought these shells and pins would ever get 'to that there would be American soldiers to fire then. -That's one reason why Hitler started this war. He wa: wouldn't wnrii to fight, that were divided, that we could rcye'r get ready. "And' he tight, in a way. Americans don't start Wc were unprepared, and squabble among ourselves, when it's necessary wc ca get ready and fight.

And it was necessary this time, because you Germans and your leadci made the world stink, fir: with vour ideas and then wit your deeds. Wc had to destroy the rotten mess you were trying to force down our 'throats. "So here wc arc. You thought that whatever vou did, your Rhine- Fdir Enough "The National Labor Relations Act is a good and necessary law." Tom Dewey said in his Seattle speech. "It acknowledges the trend of our times Dewey's first statement here is wronr.

The Wagner good but vicious and therefore certainly not necessary nor even tolerable in the view of anyone who speaks with such hope and promise of the future. His second statement is correct. The Wngnci Act docs acknowledge the trend of our tunes and that is just the tiouble with it. Kor the trend which it acknowledges and accelerates is toward totalitarianism and oppression. I would chance a guess that Dowcv worked harder on this speech back in his rolling office at the rear of his campaign train in the nichts since we left Dcs Moines tha his position The subject the i nved meaning of the Wag: willing to agree tha jority of the people regard this as "a good and sary iaw." Nevertheless, they vrong deal A me it any other most the both pat i too Into now before elect date.

Dewey, himself may honestly deceived, although that seems unlikely, but if he is deceived now. a shor'. experience as president must prove to him that it is impossible "to bring genuine freedom to the members of the labor movement" and drive out communists and rackctccis as long as the Wn; law, acknowledge "the trend our times." Expciicncc has shown in thousands of cases that the Wagner Act precludes freedom in the labor movement and fotlifics the position of the communist and racketeer. Ostensibly intended to guarantee the workers a right to bargain collectively through their chosen agents, it has compelled millions of men and women to accent bargaining agents selected for them by the Labor Relations Board without consulting preference. A minute but piccious right 01 tnc numan ucmfc mm is ignorcu rifhi.

not to loin in collective bar gaining. -or to eject the scrvcic ticuiar oaigaiiims Ignored in the case of individua too DCttV lor L-onsiuei. tlon tile desires of tnc ninety and nine, that individual by "genuine freedom" abolished. Under the terms, mistral and first to get hci "This is the first But multiply ai II io intcrprctal i of the Wag! and and racketeers minify from land would never bo a battlcficlc that your fatherland was invic late. Well, it 1st -Air.

last i the shell. will be moi c. and then the aimie There aic hundreds of thousaiK of Americans. English, Can; dians. Kicnch.

Belgians. Dutch and Poles. We'll be lsked for it. it to yoi and to Copyright. NBA Service.

Inc. I his own. Some of the couple HTHE situation was saved Tom Bccklcys opportune arrival. Jennifer hated to leave her father marooned, but her business was with her own generation and she went about it. After a vague while, the majd Norah appeared and indicated in pantomime against the ladio that dinner was ready.

Hilyard gathered himself for one more effort. He went to and put his arms about her to say: "Margaret, honey She pushed his arms away with violence: "You take sidcr. against your own wife. You're mining our child." "Oh. Margaret, for Gods sake, snap out of it.

She's what you once. Don't be a hypocrite." She fancied iicrsclf ac a mat tyr. and she began to weep not bc.ai-tifuliy or pitifully bu; as a thwarted bully v.ccps. "My daughter calls inc a dodo, husband C3lls mc a hypocrite." From the radio came the voice of a soprano singing in a young girl's oicc some song of beautiful regret. It might been Mar- from the tomb.

But mic consented to be persuaded to the dining room. She could alw; AFTER dinner he made a last try: be oflcrcd Margaret a game of cards, a trip to a movie, a visit to the theater. She shook her head at everything. At last he was reminded of an imaginary business conference at the club. She laughed: "What's her Mc: so happy once.

I don't WC VOTO but you the old sweet you I used to love." She turned her head from him. "He calls mc a hypocrite and says he loves He left the house without a word. The sight of lighted windows made him wonder where jlherc was happiness and where be like watchers bende it. he fell back to make a man and a woman who nt to be Bccklcy and his hailed him: Come on in and dine 1 Hilyard. dano lie the club." dm "A liqueur then, while wc hi ir cocktails." Lcn one his arms, took the other.

The dining ro dance II They nootl. On mg ih. un.fo: li ne d.u and At Eccklc.Vs a waiter shed un a ch.nr foi Wall next Mrs. Drumnumd, of all people. He was left alone her vhen all the others swung out into irrcnt for He hac You'll have to she laughed and stood tin They jo.ncd the mob.

He felt a fool. pleasant fool, lie found himself laughing he had not laughed for a long, long while. And the woman gicw strangely more beautiful every moment. Suddenly Jennifer was there with Sgt. Tom Bccklcy.

looked startled, frightened at rignt of her father so plainly joying communion with a woman. Walt stopped dano with a sense of guilt. Lcn Bccklcy cxpiamcci him lhat wait on his way to the club and had occn dragged in against hi Jennifer's terror gave Walt the lift he needed. He said he must ay to his Hi.ilificalion because they arc both. An avowed iber of the communist party stands on equal ground in his rcacherous traltonsm with a oyal Amciicin.

A gangster with Ion; criminal record cannot be ejected because he is a crook, lowcver notorious. The CIO is to communists and. in the American Federation of Labor, William Green, the president, and others high in the favor of the jscvclt government, have flag-itly favoted known. criminals as agents for men and men who had no voice in their An honest employer devoted in heart to friendly and prospcr-s relations between industry el labor can fined or even nt to jail under Utc Wagner Act advising the workcis in his employ that a union boss is a allrd ii ay by criminal. That is But.

the In Seattle, where Dewey to the public superstition i nornncc wrought by the ne propaganda, the Tenmstci bombing, beating and murder and they have done so throughout the life of this law without the slightest remonstrance from the Laboi Relations Board. In fact, the board has no right to remonstrate lor Senator Robert Wngncr doggedly saw to it that such intimidation should not be forbidden in that law which Dewey, of all persons, now approves as "good and wed Drummond good night with formality. He was almost afraid to meet Jennifer's eyes. He thought, he saw in them no reproach, but that worse look of pity. rpHE club was deserted save for a few forlorn old widowers some of whom had wives still living what had been built for homes.

The club was an orphanage for unburicd and unwanted old men. Even home was better than this. Margaret had fallen asleep in her bed with the bedside radio still crooning. He turned it off. The silence woke her.

She gave him a drowsy glare, turned the rail.o on and went back to sleep. He was denied that oblivion. He sought for it ia TQ9 Icebox. He ice and soda and a bottle of Scotch into the dining room. He had never been a solitary drinker, but it is never too late to bend.

Walt was such depths that Ins sou-its could go no place but up. Thev took a holiday an aleo-holidny." He had been letting Margaret make a fool of him. He would make a fool of himself from now on. He would sue her for divorce on the grounds, of what? of perjury. She was unfaithful to her marriage vows.

Being faithful to her was being unfaithful to the dear Margaret he had married. Where had she gone? Who her place? an who had He thought of freedom, a world full of Mrs-. Drummonds. But he throw Margaret out into the cold. She was Jennifer's mother.

There must be some way her back to her senses akc her keen her solemn prom ises He the Lrn Bccklcy theory of a breach of promise suit when he grew too drugged for further thinking or fuithcr drinking. He returned to his room und found the bed a trifle elusive. But he made it. His sleep was not good, and he was doubly remorseful for trying to get drunk; and for not quite succeeding, JTo Be.ConUaitBd). PIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH Red Army Pushes Westward I K.clct* Chetm, Ko-nc I miles' I NEA Tclcphoto "The sky and earth the Baltic region is on fire, and thunders i violent engagements." a Moscow broadcast states as the Red ics open a new drive for Riga.

Keknv.i and Bauska, south of i. have fallen, as has Volga on the Latvia-Estonia border. Berlin Reds established bridgehead on west bank of Vistula, north of ion and m.iny employers made a leal. Thc employers drive their into thc union and thc inion bons. in return, protects he employers' interests and rranls them privileges.

Thc un-on can fix prices on retail goods ind services, place embargoes on goods from other states by refusing to carry them over thc roads and Keep down competition from rival merchants desiring to start business by forbidding deliveries of merchandise to their doors. Thc degree of this regulation, very pleasant, no doubt, to the business man so fa vored, is controlled only by thc favor of the union boss, not by thc Wagner Act from which he derives his power. He is said to be wise and fair ajid faithful to his lord but he might be succeeded by a Willie Bioff under thc same law. In Portland ajid elsewhere, several hundred thousand shipbuilders employed by Henry' Kaiser and paid out of thc people's taxes, arc compelled to join and pay tribute to a union which was rec ognized as their bargaining agent long before they ever heard of it. Kaiser signed a closed shop contract with thc Boilermakers' union for thc expedient purpose ol union trouble when he id only a skeleton crew, thus iposing this choice on the hordes later.

one them is compelled to buy life surancc and pay a premium mission to a racketeer who is son of the union's president at office in Kansas City, Kan. This racket and thc Seattle tatorship aie imposed and forced by the Wagner Act. wl stated original purpose 10 prevent thc boss from firm (At k. .5. n.

11 To Mr. erctt Thurm of Dixon To Mr Cecil Morn: tcr. Mr WE To John McLane of Dixor MA IV A To Ml' MichRel Mainarc of Dixor PAGE To Mr. and nrth Pare of Ashtonr a To Mi Edwara tjnippcu. ji son.

Patrick Friday Novcna scr 00 and 10. CARD OK THANKS- wish to thank thc many friends, neighbors and members parisn tor tncir ny kind expression; of received and also slnccic thanks to the American Legion for their kindness shown at the nt bcrca- 1 service dur- death of our beloved son ai brother. Pfc. Anton Gicsc. rs.

Louis Gicsc and Daughters. Adv.t CARD Ol" THANKS to express my Lhanks to all for the man of received du: bereavement. Miss Martha Dunn. Adv.tl NOTICE I will not be responsible for debts other than James H. Friel.

Adv.tl' HEALO -lor aching, tired leotl Funezals WILLIAM The funeral of Mrs. William Kurzrock. 45. whose unexpected death in a Kcwar.cc hospital was announced in Tucs- icicgrapu. Immanucl LuUicran crurcn.

Dixon. 2:00 OClOCK rncay anernoon. Thr Rev. C. Wagner, pastor, ill officiate ana win oe Oakwood cemetery.

The 'body will be brought to Dixon following at the Seincrt. funeral home in Kcwance tcrnoon. and will nc in ic vestibule of the church from tomorrow until the hour for: ic cervices. Clara Fischer was born in Dixon June 13. 1693.

a. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fischer, who reside at 521 Hennepin ave- and attended the local grade and high schools and Northern Illinois State Teachers college at DcKalb.

After her graduation from the latter institution in the Dixon elementary hools until her marriage to ham H. Kurzrock of Dixon, which solemnized in the parsonage Immanucl Lutheran church eh SI. 1919. ic this citv then home for a time to Litchfield. Ill- sided for numbi transferred their wancc 10 years Kurzrock's work city.

where they rc-r of years. They home to Kc-igo when Mr. him to that Mrs. KurzrocK was an active member of the Zion Lutheran church of Kcwancc and the ladies' aid society of that church; was a past president of the auxiliaries of trc Kcwancc Veterans of Foreign War and American Legion: and was active in the work of the Wcthcrsfield Parent Teachers and the Mothers' Org: zation of the Whcthcrsficld school band. She was also a member of Dorothy chapter.

Order of Eastern Star, of Dixon. She is survived by her parents; her husband: three daughters. Mrs. Donald (Eleanor) Records of Chicago. Miss Coral of Dixon and Miss Alice of Chicago; four sons.

William A. M. M. (H) Arthur Machinists Mate and Robert Seaman all of whom arc on duty with the United Stat outside the continental United States: a sister. Mrs R.

Browne of Stcilmg: and a bi other. Carl H. Fischer of Dixon. Dixon. Illinois, Thursday, September 21, 1944 of Glenn Shaw of Mattoon will be held at 10:00 o'clock Saturday morning at Uic Congregational church in Lee Center, with burial in W'oodsidc cemetery.

Details of the young man's death, whose mother passed away rcccntl; been learneu nerc touay. body will be brought to Vaughan funeral chapel here. HEALO- Thc best thing on aching, tired feet. Buy Healo now: The Deaths J. JORDAN Friends here have been advised of the sudden death of Maurice J.

Jordan, a former Dixon resident, at his home 7752 Jeffrey in Chicago Wednesday morning. Funeral arrangements have not been completed pending the arrival of his sister. Mrs. Frank Cavanaugh from Worland. Wy- work IKi SHOES Amboy.

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