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Evening star., 1944-08-20
FiHpinos Hope for Early Freedom
VDay May Bring independence Than Planned for 1916

Eager Filipino eyes are
watching with almost un-
restrained joy as Allied
Forces pound at Halma-
hera, last island outpost
barring the approach of
Gen. MacArthur's forces
to the shores OF the
islands which since early
in 1912 have been in Jap
anese hands.
Their interest is in
tensif1ed by the fact that
independence which was
originally scheduled for
1916 has been promised
them once the invaders
have been driven from
their land.
BY the terms of Joint
Resolutions 90 and 94,
which were signed by
President Roosevelt a few
weeks ago. the date of
freedom has been set for
V-Day, which the Fill
pinos now hope will fall
on some date prior to
January /, 1916.
The Roosevelt signature
put on the Nations
statute books our solemn
Evening star., 1944-08-20

pledge not only that the freedom of
the islands would be redeemed, but
that their independence would be pro-
tected in the postwar world. Thus the
United States, with a flourish of the
Presidents pen. put the finishing
touches on pattern for the emancipa-
ton of small nations like the Philip
pines all over the world.
Close students of Philippine history
recalled the Presidents words in this
respect two years ago, on the seventh
anniversary of the Philippine Common
wealth government
Il like to think that the history of the
Philippine Islands in the last A years
provides in very real sense a pattern
for the future of other small nations
and peoples of the world 1t is
pattern of what men OF good will look
forward to in the future-a pattern OF
global civilization which recognizes no
limitations of religion or of creed or of
race
But we must remember that such
pattern is based on two important fac
tors. The first is that there be period
of preparation through the dissehina-
ton of education and the recognition
and fulfillment Of physical and social
and economic needs.
The second is that there be a period
of training for ultimate independent
sovereignty. through the practice of
more and more self-government, and
passing on through the various steps
TO complete statehood
Hull Echoes Thought.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull echoed
this thought more recently when he
said last March: There rests upon the
Independent nations a responsibility in
relation to dependent peoples who
aspire to liberty. It should be the duty
Of nations having political ties with
such peoples to develop materially and
educationally, to prepare themselves for
the duties and responsibilities of self
government and to attain liberty.
IAN excellent example OF what can be
achieved is afforded in the record OF our
relationship with the Philippines"
pledsing independence to the Philip
pines on V-day and the creation OF the
special Rehabilitation Commission to
lend benevolent guiding hand to the
islanders in the postwar world brings
back the prophetic words Of President
Mckinley in 1901, after the United
States had whipped the Spanish three
years earlier and had then outfought
the Filipino troops as an aftermath of
the Spanish American war.
Wrought up over the puzzle of what
to do with the islands, Mckinley slept
on the problem one night and the next
day his mind was made up.
Only One Course Open.
Later he explained:
And one night it came to me this
Vay-I don't know how it was, but it
came:
"U That We could not give them
back to Spain-that would be cowardly
and dishonorable;
'(2) That we could not turn them
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Safety Design
Experts Looking Ahead
To Guard Highways
By Ed,Card A. Harris.
By Richard Tombkins.

NEW YORK-Picture the postwar
highway:
Hundreds of thousands of speed
minded soldiers rejoining the stream OF
millions of motorists
Plenty of gas, for the first time in
Roads jammed with jalopies-there
will be no new cars for some time.
Threadbare tires on many cars.
Will the mechanized ex-servicemen
tear down the highways. like they did
across the Brittany Peninsula. where
the order was: Advance recklessly, but
get there.
The pent-up motorist whose car has
been jacked up in the garage will feel
the urge to go places and quickly, too
These are among the reasons why 40
national organizations are backing a
comprehensive plan drawn by traffic and
safety experts and law enforcement Of
f1cers to prevent the expected epidemic
Of traffic accidents.
75e,000 Lives Lost.
America cannot socially countenance
nor financially afford the tragic waste
represented by the $1,000 trafic deaths
IN the last prewar year Of 194l," says
Kenneth B. Colman, Seattle business
man and chairman Of the special COM
mittee which drafted the program.
Highway accidents have taken 75o,-
600 American lives since 1900. Action
now is essential. The Importance OF this
is indicated by the fact that traffic
deaths have been on the upgrade for the
last eight months even with the sharp
restrictions on wartime highway use
Business and industry, labor agricul-
ture, war veterans, womens groups, en-
eineers and public officials are repre-
sented among the 40 sponsors of the
program
A booklet. Danger, Traffic Jam
Ahead by the National Safety Coun-
Gil, presents the program under two
headlngs-immediate problems and
long-term projects.
The subnormal conditions of vehicles,
street and highway systems and acci-
dent prevention programs, problems re-
sulting from the relaxat ton OF wartime
restrictions on gas and tires and the
tendency of drivers and pedestrians to
"let down the bar" comprise the irst
category.
Due to wartime shortages OF replace
ment parts and skilled mechanics and
(See TOMPKINS. Page C-3l
Evening star., 1944-08-20

Headed by a band composed Of
Grand Army veterans, the Chicago
drummers and a group of idle factory
workers marched from the depot to the
Mckinley home, swinging red, white
and blue Mckinley and Hobart umbrel-
las. Maj. Mckinley stepped out on the
piazza with a silk hat in his hand He
advanced two steps bowling put his hat
on and removed it thrice as the assem-
blage sent up deafening cheers.
There was hush as little Napoleon
climbed on a chair to address the dele
CATION. After thanking his visitors for
their interest in sound morey the pro-
lection of the tariff and the return of
prosperity Maj. Mckinley presented
his sweet wife and aged mother to the
cheering multitude"
Evening star., 1944-08-20

bolted the ticket, termed Bryan an an
archist and ''popocrat." tHe was also
the nominee Of the Populist rarty)
Many gold standard Democrats alb.
stained from voting, and some support-
ed Mckinley. Members of the New York
Stock Exchange staged a patriotic
rally declaring they were for "McKin-
ley and the gold standard.
Bryan's silver tongue" drew great
crowds, but Mckinley carried all of
the Northern States east of the Mis-
souri,, Oregon and California in the Far
West and won by an electoral majority
Of s5. Bryan made another powerful
campaign against Mckinley in 1900, and
the latter again front -porched his way
to victory.
Distributed by Associated Press)
Evening star., 1944-08-20
Bv Alexander x. Georqe

Front-porch campaigning, slated to
feature both the Roosevelt and Dewey
bids for votes, Is an old and apparently
very successful kind of political
strategy.
Only two candidates in modern cam
paign annals-Woodrow Wilson in
1912 and Franklin Roosevelt in 1882
and 1936-won the presidency after
making extensive speaking tours, and
those three victories were credited to
factors other than far-ranging cam
paigns,
Wilson won a triangular contest when
Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt and William
H. Taft split Republican vote which
vas considerably larger than the Dem
Evening star., 1944-08-20

the Filipinos and uplift
and civilize and Chris
tianize them, and by
Gods grace do the very
best We can by them, as
our fellow men for whom
Christ also died"
Jurisdiction and control
of the islands were placed
in the Bureau of Insular
Affairs of the War De-
partment. On July 3,
1901, william Howard
Taft, later President, was
named Civil Governor,
and a new Governor Gen.
eral was appointed by
each succeeding Presi-
dent.
THE records Of sue
ceeding Governors Gen.
eral," former Senator
Harry B. Hawes. now
legal adviser in Washing
ton to the Philippine gov.
ernment, told the writer,
lis just cause for pride.
Not one had a scandal
connected with his ad-
ministration. They all
understood the American
intent and carried it
Evening star., 1944-08-20

See PARLEY, Page C-3J
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-23
LAWYERS HUSTLE IN BETHLEHEM AT XMAS

In Bethlehem, the place of the Nativity, CnrlsJmas IS also observed on January 6, and in peaceful years, 1t has one of the most picturesque Of all celebrations Tourists do not see in Bethlehem the reverence they logically expect to see. On the con- trary, the most sacred spot in the Christian world on one of the most sacred days in the Christian year becomes a virtual fair-ground.
 Sellers of miscellany cry their wares at the very door of the Church of the Nativity, built on the site of the Manager. Hucksters of moth- CT -of-pearl crosses hawk their goods among the throng of visitors. One eyed beggars tell their tales of woe to Would-be contributors while Mos lems persuade pilgrims to buy bright-colored and sticky sweets brought from Damascus. In the throngs are Jews, hundreds of them.
 The legend is that the Moslems left this church standing when they destroyed or converted all others in the Holy Land because of the legend of the Three Kings which was worked over the main door. When these Arabs saw the Arab-looking king bringing presents to the Infant Jesus they refrained from laying sacrilegious hands on the edifice built where He was born.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-23
Three Use Is Now Traced 10
 Forest Legend

Legends dealing with the origin of the use of the Christmas tree go as far back as the Tenth century when George Jacob, the Arabian geogra- pher, declared that all of the trees in the forest blossomed and bore fruit the night of our Lords Nativity.
 It is believed that Jacobs story might have led to the later custom of hanging apples and fruits on the evergreen tree, and, as is the habit in certain parts of Europe, of using blossoming cherry sapling ill the home as Christmas tree
 One August Imgart introduced the Christmas tree to America 100 years ago in Wooster, Ohio, and, in so do- ing, preserved the tradition that had been handed down in Germany In 135-, Rev. Henry c. Schwan, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Cleve- land, Ohio, put up the first Christ mas tree in church in this coun- try, for which he and his parishion- CTS were severely denounced by other congregations.
 One of the most beautiful legends concerning the Christmas tree is the ancient tale of dealing with the for ester and his household, who had just gathered around the fireside on Christmas eve when they heard a timid knock on the door
 The forester opened the door to behold little child shivering on the steps. Touched by the childs cold and apparent exhaustion, the forest CT took him in, and he was well comed by the whole family and warmed and fed. Later, the forest CTS son, Hans, gave up his bed to the little child
 In the morning, the family was awakened by the singing of a choir of angels, and looking at their little guest saw him standing transfigured in their midst. They recognized him as the Christ child. As the Lord Jesus bade the family farewell, He broke off branch from fir tree, set it in the earth, and said, Be hold, I have gladly received your kind gifts, and this is my gift to you. Henceforth, this tree shall al- ways bear its fruits at Christmas time and you shall always have abundance.
 The first community Christmas tree was set up in Paris, France, in l84C, but was not popularly accept ed throughout the world until the advent of electricity, when the light ing could be stabilized and proper effect given to it's display.
 Albert of Saxe- -Coburg- -Gotha, who came to England in 1840 to wed the young Victoria, is credited with bringing the Christmas tree to the British Isles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-23

thorns. By the berries we confess that He shed His blood for sinners.
 The yew has little outside bark, but only a small rind, to teach us not to make a great outside show of religion; it is lasting timber, suggesting the soundness of a Christian; it has many branches, meaning plentifulness in good works; and it is always green and prospering, even as the Christian should always grow and thrive in grace
 The laurel has the significance of victory. Jesus came into the world to loose the bands of sin and to ascend up into Heaven, leading cap- tivity captive.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-23
of Decorations
 AfChrisin,as

Not many probably know of the deeper meaning associated with
 the three plants we ordinarily use for Christmas decorations, an au- thority writes. The holly has prickles and red berries. But the prickles we confess the bitter life of Jesus on earth. His watchings. His fast ings. His weariness, His crown of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-23

North Carolina makes TO percent of all the cigarettes smoked in the United States.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-11
flashlights from thu Latest Books

had trained vigorously under
Captain Jack for forest warfare,
and he was ready when it came
time for the white mans mas
sacre at the Salt Kettles, kill
ing that destroyed not only the
redmen but their squaws and
children.
Few modern writers can APP
proach Hervey Aliens anecdotal
vigor; few can make a story so
robust as he. Superb is his re-
portage Of the countless Incl
dents that illumine Bedford
Village" There come to mind,
as pregnant examples of his
skill, his description Of the
death at the Salt Kettles, the
revelations of Captain Jacks
past, and the sparkling story of
Captain Ecuyers fight against
religion as dispensed by the
reverend McArdle.
But these are only colorful
patches on the broad canvas that
Allen paints in Bedford Viii
lage' the siX-panel panorama
he has promised will comprise
"The Disinherited." Here are
careful research and fine writ
ing combining their talents to
inject life into the pages Of early
American history.
Those sophiSticates who relish
brittle repartee and the bizarre
situation will find "On Such AS
We (Bobbs MerrilD much to
their liking. And even those
readers who don't mind another
variation of the triangle theme
will be more than satisfied with
Perry Adams story of young
man who tried for years to
shake off the influence of his
mother.
Here is new fuel for the lit
erary fires; a novel daring in
treatment, story with a hero
inc both fascinating and hate
full, and a hero without much
gumption. 1t is the story of two
women who wanted the same
man; the one for self-protcction
and the other 10 protect him
from the first.
Ned Anderson was no grea
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-11

ment converted him TO war
production, and when the bright
young men with the blueprints
and tools were done, there were
rows of workers homes, a fine
recreation field, a commissary,
a big wire fence. But there was
no factory.
Mr.. @. went to Washington 10
remedy this slight deficiency,
but all he got there was the
runaround and tremendous
hangover. When he woke up en-
route home, he found that the
lovely, uninhibited Christine
and a bottle of vodka were with
him. He killed the one and con-
tinued on the way with the
other, for better or for worse.
But there were other difficult
ties. People moved in unlimited
10 the workers cottages and de-
manded employment. They
were d Sappoi ted lot.
The Rev. Teatwater found
there were no souls TO save.
Birdie and Pee-Wee, the Home
Front girls, chafed at the lack
OF business. krausmeyer, the
German saboteur, wore himself
down to a fragile trying to bomb
the non-existent factory. And
right in the middle Of it all, Mr..
G. received the Army Navy "E"
for production excellence.
Mr.. G. and Christine had Just
settled down to career of bene-
VIOLENT despotism and drinking
with their "boarders" when the
government decided that he
must reconvert again. 1t was all
due TO the locustS and little
Long Whang in far-off China,
but it would be unfair TO the
reader to reveal the how. what
or why Of this brand new con-
version program. Let him find
out for himself betW n
chuckles.
Wilder already has estab-
lished himself as a reconteur of
considerable ability and there is
no reason why now he should
not be recognized as humorist.
What makes MIR. G.. Strings
Along a must on every read
er's list is that it is funny with
out being obvious, clever with
out being obnoxious about it.
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shakes Of a man. AT an age wher
most young men are through
with college he was still prepar-
ing for it. And the reason why
his education had been retarded
was a beautiful woman named
Fable Rennie, who happened to
be his mother. Fable was a peri
odic drunk and whenever she
was taken suddenly with a spell
Ned had to drop everything and
take over.
He was much too much
ashamed of his mothers drink
ing and her promiscuities TO tell
Vera about them, but it was in
evitable that she would find
them out. And when Fable dis
covered that Vera was a threat
to her own plans for Ned, she
did the informing herself.
When the battle was joined,
Vera learned just how strong
was the link between the weak
er Ned and his charming, wan
ton mother. There was only one
move for her TO make and she
left the next one up to Ned
Fable, however, had an ace up
her sleeve and she played it in
the hardest game of her life,
and finally lost.
Adams tells his story grace
fully and with a restraint engen-
dered by the delicate theme he
is handling. In less secure hands,
ION Such AS We" might have
been vulgar, but he keeps il
both lively and decorous with
the aid Of humor and under
standing. II definitely is not Just
another novel.
The chances are that the fun
niest book of the season has
just been published and that it
is Robert Wilder's story Of a war
contractor beset by many diff
fulties, including a lusci o u S
blond mink and no factory. He
calls it "Mr. G.. Strings Along"
(Putnaml, and it lives up to its
pert little title in every respect.
Mr.. G.-more formally known
as Harvey l.. Grafton Of Cold
River, N. C.-Was a peacc-lov-
ing bachelor who was very con-
tent to while life away making
little tin jumping frogs for the
gadget trade. But the govern
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-11
By United Press

Those who feared that Her
vey Allen had tackled too mon
umental a job in plotting six
part novel of American colonial
life by now should have their
doubts scattered to the winds.
For in Bedford Village Ear
rar & RineharD, the second vol
ume, he pays off handsomely on
the promise he made in the first,
and it is, if anything, a firmer,
more robust story than its
predecessor.
This is a continuation of the
story of frontier Pennsylvania
Of pre-Revolutionary days, and
it lives through the medium of
the young man who figured so
prominently in The Forest and
the Fort" Salathiel Albine, the
white boy brought up by the In
dians, who never knew how his
own people lived until his early
manhood.
Fresh from the defense Of
Fort Pitt, Salathiel came to Bed
ford Village and there found
that life conferred, as it always
did in pioneer days at the Inn.
With him was his old friend Of
Fort Pitt days, Captain Ecuycr,
and there came also the Rev.
James MrArdle, the missionary
who had educated Salathiel and
had married him to a young
white woman. AT Pendergass'
Salathiel found that life and
love went on, that it was where
people gathered to eat and drink
and stage their brawls. 1t was
at the Inn that Salathiel fell in
love, forgetting the wife he had
lost somewhere in the Allie
ghenies.
That, however, was only a
part OF the strange, new life
into which Albine plunged HIM
self in the year 1854. For the
rest, he turned instinctively to
the forests where he had been
brought up. There he took up
with Captain Jacks Mountain
Foxes, the small band that
Sought the Indian in his dwell
ing place. There, too, he sought
Jane Sligo, his young bride. He
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-12-23
North Field
Extensions
In LimeIight

Interest in oil possibilities Of
the extreme northwestern sec
tk0n of the Kevan-sunbmrst
field, heightened by recent field
extensions I'm that area, was in
creased again this week when
Pacific Western OIL Corporation
completed one well I'm the dis
trict and announced locations
for two others.
The completion was the concerns
No. on government acreage ac-
quired earlier this year from J.
Bland Catlett, in NE NV NE 9-35N-
3W, a diagonal southwest offset to
the concerns No 1, a producer. The
No. 4, drilled to 1886, got the Ellis
Madison contact at 1885 and swab-
bed ITO barrels of oil and 80 barrels
of water the first IA hours.
The new locations are the firms
No. 5, In NE NE NV 9-35N-3W, and
the firms No. 6, in NE NE SW o
35N-3W.
The No. 5 is a quarter mile west
of the No 4 and If productive will
extend the field to the northwest.
The No. 6 is across a forty east of
the No. 3, completed as a producer
some time ago, and Is a direct west
offset 10 an isolated forty held by
Prevol & Shay.
Continued on Page y
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-12-23
IHHr miBll gnu " Merry Ghrtatmas!

We know it would help if the government
would quit foolng Ground with the Impractical
oil subsidy pldn md treut oil producers us
wheut formers ere reoted. And we know q lot
of you have drilled dry holes during the
post Yen. And virtuollY oil of you hove
come off second best. some us we hove.
in tlssles with Official red tdpe. In spite
of oil these things. most of you we've met ldtelY
look reasonably hdppY. and fdirlY wellfed
And SO ore -lmgely because of the support
oil of you hove given this publication. So,
please GLOW us TO do the one thing we CON still
do without getting bureaucratic okdY Allow
us to wish you q MERRY CHRISTMAS.
AL. Raymond Mary Lou Rice
Lois Bailey Nellie Pacini
Gertrude Blomquist Bill Forsyth
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-12-23
RESERVATION WILDCAT
BEGINS MAKING HOLE

Wildcat of the Hagan Structure
OIL Company, few miles southwest
Of the south end of the Cut Bank
field, on tine Biackfeet Indian reser-
walton, made hole this week to $50
feet, alter delay occasioned by the
necessity for driving 15-inch pipe
through surface Quickeand.
Of interest because It may find
the elusive southwest extension of
the Cut Bank sand, this well Is
about six miles from another wild
cat that is being drilled by the
Texas Company, with the same OBJ
iective.
The Hagan Structure wildcat Is
expected 10 make steady progress
despite winter conditions, with
power supplied by a new diesel en-
CINE. Location Is NE NE Sc 0-31N-
wv.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-12-23

The campaign has been divided
into four sections, initial geological
surveys, followed by gravimetric
surveys, followed by seismograph
surveys, and eliminating In the
drilling Of test wells and In the
drilling of core tests.
The initial geological survey, the
report discloses, merely served to
confirm that virtually the whole
area is so covered with glacial and
erosional debris as TO give almost
no surface clues as TO probable
structural conditions.
Accordingly the company under
took 10 survey selected portions OF
the area with gravity meter and
seismograph, following by core
drilling and in some Instances by
the drilling of deep test wells
Joining with the Imperial In the
survey was Norcanols Oil & Gas
company. This company has as
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