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El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
Sunday, November 19, 1950
A Blue Ribbon Newspaper Serving a Blue Ribbon Community
Issued daily except Saturday'from 207 South ^ _Mand AveaM*,
and entered as second-class mall matter under the act of March », 1879.
~ RAY J. DYER
Editor and Publisher
DEAN WARD LEO D' WARD
Business Manager
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that the country as a whole be made up principally of
yens in good health and of sound mind.
At this time when so many of our most physica '
and mentally capable young men are being taken
armed services it is worth while to give some serious thought j
toThat effect this may have on the future of the nation.
As we understand it, the selective service law was en-
acted with the aim of putting those into military service
who could best serve their country in that way and keeping
out of services those who could contribute more in othei
ways. „ , *
IT has worked fairly well for the short haul, ccrtainly tetter
1 in the second than in the first world war. But the situa-
tion is different now' that it looks like a long pull ahead.
The military leaders are charged with the job of winning
anv battles that may lie ahead and naturally they want
healthiest most intelligent and aggressive men they can get.
But can we afford to be deprived of this kind of person
altogether in civil life*' Will the country not suffer in the
nexf generation by being^deprived^of some of its best blood.
\I7HAT policy to follow is not easy to decide. The'm'
” portance of physical handicaps in relation to mditary
-ervice is changing. With mechanized equipment flat feet
are no longer ns important as once they were; neither are
poor teeth or eyesight. But it does seem too bad that the ----------------------------
illiterate and mentally deficient are left to sire the^noxt |the internal turmoil stirred up by
tithe SCENE Is laid in the val-
1 leys of Eden, or that portion
of the United States which In the
1700’s was thought of as "beyond
the mountains” or “west of the
Alleghenies,” and considered the
end of civilization, but which later
was proved to be the beginning
of the new America.
Back and forth across this
beautiful landscape the red men
hud fought the white and white
men had fought white men from
across the seas, for the land and
freedom.
At the time of which I write,
brother fought brother, not for
land and freedom but a cause,
and the blood of the nation again
flowed over the valley. A tall,
gaunt figure of a man, bearing
not the slightest indication of his
importance, rises to speak to the
people gathered together for the
memorable occasion. The speaker
seemed not to notice the people,
but rather to be considering
those about him who then lay
buried near by.
Not one for high flights of ora-
tory nor instentorian tones of the
speaker of the day, did Abraham
Lincoln address his audience, but
in a quiet voice, as If in respect
for the dead, he gave us the un-
forgettable words of the Gettys-
burg address, Nov. 19, 1863, at the
dedication of the national ceme-
tery.
These words were spoken:
"That this nation, under God.
shall have a new freedom.”
And on this anlversary of that
date, we might do well to consider
our situation and re-pledge our-
selves to the heroes of four wars
“that government of the people,
by the people, and for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.”
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4 Epic
5 Solemn appeal
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8 Heavy harrow 29 Rail bird
16 Route (ab.)
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19 Rough lava
20 Exclamations
21 Driving
command
22 Symbol for
tellurium
23 Two (prefix)
24 Senior (ab.)
26 Fish sauce
28 Criterion
31 Loiter
32 Pedal digit
33 Bustle
34 Anger
35 Dispatch
37 Mythical king
of Britain
38 Suffix
39 French article
40 Pint (ab.)
42 Shade tree
45 Pronoun
47 Part of “be"
49 Fleet
61 Untoof weight
62 Musical note
53 Chamber
54 It sometimes is
used to tend
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9 Woodland
10 Era
11 Pause
12 Distribute
18 Of the thing
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25 Withdraw
30 Year between
12 and 20
36 Sleeping
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37 Harmonizes
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★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★!
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
IHEY had been seasick
getting there. All but Buck Ser-
geant Edward angstrom. The re-
sponsibility of commanding a squad
had doubtless lifted his mind above
the sea.
In the lee of the island there was
generation while the healthy and intelligent go
"’’iv'h.f ifwihinit. cn bo too about this wilt he toito I 5
by others but we as individuals ean per raps ." . not look like a very kood place to
selves that the Rood of Ihe country requires a ntiin s land. Geysers of sand spouted into
son to stay home while another is away fiRlitinR. |the alr every (ew seConds as if
If such differences are really Rood for the health of the [belched up by notoy subterranean
country they will he accepted. But everyone will want to *“ ' "M,w” ‘
be sure that the decision is made with the best interests
of the nation in mind and not at the whim of some local
pi ejudice.
The man who is a failure because he never can make
up Tils mind really has little to work with.
We’ll have fewer accidents when everybody realizes that
a cowcatcher is put on the front of enRines to catch autos
An Arizona judge contends that most neople can
trusted.'Cash is still much nicer.
A penny for your thouchts-
that is cheap these days.
-that’s about the only thinR
If you eniov driviriR arRuments home, simply
Mrs. ride in the hack scat.
let the
The average person is said to he sick only eight days each
year. Yet the first of the month comes 12 times.
Home, sweet home is any old place where mom wishes
the kids would think to hanR up their things.
monsters. The enemy artillery hid-
den In the steaming Jungle was
checking on the range.
Eddie," said Private Jake Sny-
der, tightening his belt again—this
Is the fourth time, "I don’t know
for sure what’s the matter with me
but I guess I’m scared pantsless."
"Who ain’t?" conceded Sergeant
Eddie, He wished he could put his
hand under his chin to steady It.
"Put your mind on sompin’ else.
Pretend like the beach there Is the
shore of Lake Michigan near West-
waygo where we used to go swim-
mln’.”
"You can take Westwaygo and
stuff It under your neckties,"
snapped Private First Class Smith.
Smith, the only man in the squad
who hadn’t belonged to the na-
tional guard company when it had
been mustered in from the Michi-
gan town of Westwaygo. was a re
him mad. Certainly it cured him of
his seasickness and fear.
The widely deployed infantry cov-
ered the stretch of open sand and
reached the fringe of vegetation.
They went into the brush, firing to
clear out the snipers. Maybe it did
some good. More likely some were
still up there in the trees with their
faces painted green and their bodies
covered with leaves waiting to pick
a man off when everybody relaxed
a little and got careless.
Eddie sent Jake over to the
medical detachment to have them
look at his wound. Jake came back
in a minute. The Doc had Just
sprinkled sulpha in it and marked
him "Duty." He couldn’t have men
with minor injuries cluttering up
the place when life and death cases
were apt to come in any minute.
An hour or so after sunrise the
landing party had reached its ob-
jective. Orders were to dig in and
wait for reinforcements. The navy
was going to go after more troops
and equipment to help hold the
beachhead.
Sergeant Eddie’s squad added to
the natural protective advantage of
a huge fallen tree trunk and made
themselves a cozy little home-away-
from-home as the tourist cabin ads
used to say. A couple of American
machine gun posts were on the left
and half of a mortar battery on the
right.
A hundred yards or so to the rear
Down Memory Lane
Nov. 19, 1925
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hennessey of Tulsa are Ruests of
El Reno relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Robertson, who have been the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. GeorRe Hillman, El Beno, returned to their
home in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday.
Mrs. L. L. Bowers left yesterday for Clinton on business.
Nov. 19, 1940
persons attended
placement from' Syracuse.
First Class Joseph Smith never an-
swered to that name except at roll- would come a little later when the
call. He was known to his Immediate | enemy began to counter attack.
DDIE ENG8TROM was a good
1 non-commissioned officer, not
too long on brains but a good man
comrades in arms ns Joe College. He
had attended Columbln university
a couple of years before his draft
board had snatched him away
More than 900 persons attended the El Reno junior
chamber of commerce Roodwill program Monday night at
Calumet, when an amateur program in the high school audi-
torium followed a dinner at the Methodist church. Five cash
awards were presented winners in the amateur contest by
the Jaycees who sponsored attendance by El Reno persons
and directed the entertainment program. First place winner
was Bobby Coates, humorous reading, while other winners
in order of their placing? were Carolee and Manette Hanson,
vocal duet; Helen Thompson, Helen Hutchison and Naomi
Gardner, vocal trio; Frances Bushers, guitar selection, and
Faye Ellen Brannon, piano solo. The Calumet Methodist
church men's quartet also sang on the program but did not
compete in.the contest. Members are Tom Hurst. George
Bullock, Rufus Meschberger and Max Shaw. Walter P.
Marsh, El Reno highschool principal, led group singing to
open the entertainment program. Judges for the amateur
contest were Larry Robinson, Bob Bell and Harvey C. Dozier,
El Reno junior chamber members. Women of the Calumet
Methodist church served the chicken dinner and arranged
the amateur program.
Members of the El Reno chapter, Future Farmers of
America, won major honors in the annual Canadian county
poultry show being concluded today in the Erbar building at
El Reno. Members placing in the poultry judging contest
were James Upton, first; Bud Foster, second; Glen Ramsey,
third; Virdin Royse, fifth; Everett Feddersen, sevenlh, and
Edward Von Tungeln, eighth. Kenneth Taylor placed high-
est in the poultry show with a champion trio of White Wyan-
dottes. He placed first cockerel, and then first and second
pullets. Virdin Royse placed fourth cockerel and fourth
pullet in White Plymouth Rocks. Glen Ramsey took first
and second with his^ White Minorcas.
study geopolitics bv the laboratory to carry out orders. He looked after
method. hls SQuad with Just the right shade
Joe was a lantern-jawed, satur- of paternal solicitude. They all liked
nine individual with a long sharp him, even Joe College who grum-
nose and a carping disposition. Give bled about everythtng-his natural
Joe a couple of seats on the aisle disposition bubbling to the top.
and a touch of indigestion and he Eddie, 30. was the oldest man in
would have been a first-string dra- the squad. He was also the biggest,
matte critic. Joe had tactfully the tallest man in the entire com-
pany for that matter, and he had
hands like a couple of steam shovels.
All of hls outfit were big guys,
too. They all stuck together, even
off duty, like a dozen playful ele-
phants. None of them, including
Eddie, remembered enough geog-
raphy from school days to have
much of an idea where they were.
All they knew was that they had
abandoned any claim lie might
have hud to academic elegance of
diction For the duration he talked
lust like the others.
Only thing I wish.” said Ser-
geant Eddie. “I wish I had my
good-luck coin in my pocket.
•Yeah?” Joe College again. "Why
ain’t you got it?”
”1 left it in Westwaygo," Ser-
geant Eddie explained. "In the bus I a tough, dirty Job to do before they
could go home. They talked about
the things they used to do at home,
the things they wanted to do again
having sodas at Dowker's drug-
store, a game of pool at All’s place
the movies on Saturday nights,
usually with a girl who would at
least let you hold her hand, and
later the Jive Joint where a beer
and a record on the Juke box cost
a nickel each.
Most of the boys had never been
I used to drive.”
* * *
rpHE barge grounded on a bar.
A The landing-ramp dropped for-
ward into the shallow water and
the small tank which was up in
the bow bobbed out and wallowed
ashore. The infantrymen either
dropped over the sides of the
barge or followed the tank on the
ramp. There was no comfort In
armored vehicle
though "because ^t immediately be- I away from their fathers and moth-
came a lightning rod for artillery
fire.
Other barges were spilling soldiers | dle-strata
and armored equipment along the
narrow strip of beach. The navy,
standing off ahore, was lobbing | honey's
shells over their heads. Doing a
ers until the war came along. Their
families were the substantial mld-
_______ citizens of Westwaygo.
Jake Snyder’s father was foremah
at the bus line shops, Oscar Ma-
did ran the Westwaygo
News. Lloyd Nelson was the son of
aood Job too, because the enemy the superintendent of schools, Jim
guns began to quiet down. Before Hilton’s family worked for the city,
that happened the Japs got a hit Mr. Hilton as a policeman and hls
on the tank but none of Engstrom’s wife as secretary to the mayor. The
squad was killed. Jake Snyder got mayor himself had a son in the
a rifle bullet through the meaty outfit, Private Orman Berglund. Ber-
nart of hls thigh but it missed the geant Bddto was th. only one who
arteries and bones. Mostly It made I didn’t have parent* living. The near-
est thing to a relative that Eddie
had was Mrs. Downing who ran the
boarding house where he slept and
had breakfast.
Many of the families attended
the Swedish Lutheran church of
which Carl Peterson’s father was
the pastor. Carl, the only married
man on the squad, was Eddie’s best
pal.
"Chin up. soldier.” advised Eddie
when he caught Carl glooming.
"Why ain't you in there pitching
about Kirsten like you usually do
i>hen there’s a bull session?” Kir-
sten was Carl’s wife.
"Lemme alone,” growled Carl.
“Sure. I Just thought it might do
you good to talk to somebody about
that little house you're goln’ to buy
when you get back.”
"No.” Then all at once Carl’s
pent-up misery burst the flood gates.
“I got a letter from Kirsten Just be-
fore we left yesterday. She goln' to
have a baby."
"Swell.” Eddie pounded his pal on
the back. "That’s what you want-
ed—” Eddie stopped. The sudden
thought which had struck him
blurted out. "But we been away over
a year now.”
"Yeah. Kirsten didn’t want to
tell me about It but you can’t keep
a thing like that secret—even with
censors. Somebody would have
written to one of the other guys
sooner or later."
“Who—?" Eddie began.
Carl shook hls head. "I guess
maybe I don’t want to find out.
I’ll kill a Jap instead.”
Eddie tried to think of something
consoling. “Well it’s all over now.
You’ll forget about it.”
Carl looked at him incredulously.
Good Lord. Eddie, a wife Is a part
of a guy and when a thing like this
happens—” He let the primitive
black lightning shuttle through his
soul for a moment. Then he cram-
mad the spectre back into hls lacer
ated breast. "Even if nobody ever
fired a shot at us, thij is sure a
tough war for married guys."
Machine-gun fire clipped the
leaves from left to right.
* * *
I7IDDIE was glad for the diver-
ts slon. It disturbed Eddie to have
his best friend unhappy. It seemed
like an unnecessary addition to the
physical discomforts of warfare.
Why did women have to complicate
men’s lives—or vice versa? He sup
posed that probably girls got them
selves in a state over guys. He had
never had a girl himself excepting
temporarily sometimes Saturday
nights. In Eddie’s lexicon women
were strictly expendable.
“I know where I'd like to be." said
Jake Snyder, mopping hls forehead
with a leaf—his handkerchief was
worn out—“I’d like to be sittln’ on
the dunes out at Lakevlew Beach.'
’Yeah?" from Joe College. “What's
Lakevlew Beach got that's different
from here?"
Jake was practically inarticulate
he was so anxious to tell him.
There's clean sand there and wa-
ter without any salt in it. No bugs,
neither. No malaria. No snakes.
Lakevlew Beach Ls heaven."
"That," said Joe. "I would have
to see.”
The constant, buzzing hum of the
insects was slowly being augmented
by a deeper, sustained reverberation.
“Take covert" warned Eddie.
"Planes coming.”
"Probably ours,” decided Joe
College.
"And probably not," replied Jake
Husband Finds Food
Costs Have Raised
MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Nov. 18—<U.Ei
—W. F. Buttrey did the marketing
for his wife while on vacation and
found out what all housewives
know—food prices have gone up.
His suggestions:
Make up the menu a week In ad-
vance: work all left-overs into at-
tractive and tasty dishes: buy fruits
and vegetables in season.
Planning meals a week in ad-
vance. Buttrey said, would make it
easier to figure a budget and bal-
anced diet.
As for fresh fruits and vege-
tables, Buttrey said they are both
cheaper and more nutritious in
season.
"During the off season,” he said,
“it ls cheaper to buy canned or
fwsh frozen products, which have
almost as much nutritional value
as the fresh product if properly
prepared.”
Buttrey threw in a final sugges-
tion that housewives ask the
butcher the grade of meat they are
buying. He said it helps her to
know how the meat should be pre
pared.
Taft Sings Different Tune
In Latest Capital Interview
W'
ASHINGTON, Nov. 18— <NE’A) I The senator was asked
-Ohio’s Sen. Robert A. Taft, would propose amendments
the victorious. Republican "happy Taft-Hartley act, He™l<
to Washing- were some which he favored, am
if
to th
ther
Lesson in Enqlish
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do
not say, "Where’s our hats?”
Where's is a contraction of where
to. Say “Where are our hats?"
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED:
Portmanteau (suitcase). Pronounce
port-man-to, both o's as in no, a
as in man, accent second syllable
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Assess-
able; able. Accessible; ible.
WORD STUDY: “Use a word
three times and it is yours." Let us
increase our vocabulary by master-
ing one word each day. Today's
word: FELICITOUS; happy In ex-
pression. "Hls felicitous state of
mind was due to a recent business
success.”
Look and Learn
is the oldest of
the
1. Which
sciences?
2. Of what country is the kang-
aroo a native?
3. According to ancient myth-
ology, what was the name of the
boatman who ferried the souls of
the dead across what river Into
Hades?
4. Who is considered the pioneer
American Journalist?
5. What is meant by "altruism ?’’
ANSWERS
1. Astronomy.
2. Australia.
3. Charon, across the River Styx.
4. Benjamin Franklin.
5. Regard for and devotion to the
Interests of others.
warrior,” came back - . ,
ton to say again that he would not which^ °usht t0
campaign for the GOP presiden- *’ u‘
tial nomination, though he would
take it if offered. When he start-
ed answering questions, however,
he certainly talked like a candi-
date.
One of Taft's greatest virtues
has always been that he said ex-
actly what he thought. That has
involved him in a lot of hot fights
in the past. But at his first
Washington post-election press
conference, he sounded a lot more
like Mr. Caution than Mr. Re-
publican.
There was little of hls best “give
'em hell" technique in what he
had to say. This, “would require
careful consideration.” That, he
had "not made up his mind about.”
The other, “was something I don’t
know enough about.”
He corrected an important policy
statement on which he said he had
been misrepresented, before he
came back east.
Out there, he nad given the im-
pression that the whole arms aid
program should be cut back. He
had thrown a tremendous scare
into some of the Democratic for-
eign policy planners in Washing-
ton and some governments abroad.
Here In the capital he said he
was not against military aid to
Europe. There would have to be
some. He was not against increas-
ing the number of American divi-
sions sent to western Germany.
The point he wanted to make
was that the scope, the method
and the character of the arms aid
program ought to be re-examined.
* * *
AT about Far Eastern policy?
depended on whether we
continued the bipartisan foreign
policy, the senator said. The ques-
tion ought to be studied very care-
fully.
He thought anyone who called
anyone else an "isolationist' was
an idiot. There Just couldn’t be
any such thing as an isolationist.
Senator Tnlt saying this, mind
you.
w:
be considered)
He thought the Taft-Hartley la(
was here for as far ahead as
could see. but he didn’t want
commit himself on all the <
proposals.
Originally the senator said
had been in favor of the ban
industry-wide bargaining. It ha
lost by one vota in the senate. Bd
some ol the International union
had to have industry-wide ba
gaining, so the subject should
reconsidered.
* * *
tvID the senator think the 19
U elections Indicated a trend fo
1952? Yes, he did—but a lot
things could happen between no*
and then.
Did he think rent control^
should be extended? He doubted
it, but if an extension was neede
they might go along with pric
controls. He did not believe wag^
and price controls were necessar
at this moment. Then he hastene
to add that this was purely a per^
sonal opinion. Incidentally, it
an opinion shared by President
Truman.
Did Senator Talt think ther
should be an excess profits tax?
He hadn’t made up hls mind. He’dl
go along with the taxation com-]
mittees on It.
For the new congress, Senator |
Taft said he thought the main ls- ]
sues would be the size of the de-
fense program, where the money
was coming from to pay for it, and
how inflation could be prevented.
What was this, anyhow? Here
was the senator who had taken
the lead to cut European aid, to ,
cut Korean aid, to end rent con- |
trols, to tie price controls to wage
controls. He had voted against an
excess profits tax last summer. He
had criticized the administration
up one side and down the other
for its foreign policies.
Yet here he wns, pleasant as
could be, open-minded on every
subject, ready tc recognize there
was an Inflationary problem.
Problem a Day
Bobby is 1/6 as old as hls sister.
His mother’s age. when divided by
2, 3, 4, 6 and 8, leaves one re-
maining year. When divided by 5,
however, there ls no remainder.
How old ls Bobby?
ANSWER
4 yrs. and 2 months. Find least
common multiple of 2. 3, 4, 8 and
8; this ls 24; add 1 for mother's
age: divide by 6 for Bobby's age.
Snyder, yanking Joe off from hls
feet and rolling him under the tree
trunk.
Crump!
"No ours," repeated Jake. “That
was meant for our field hospital
back there. Another coming. Duck I”
That second bomb none of them
heard.
(To Be Continued)
“Be very careful an’ not break It, Doc—It’a part of the
goal post of the big State-Tech game • • • •
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