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the finer points Of the situation over
to you
Because this campaign at first was
as much diplomatic as military, the
powers that be didn't permit our
itchy typewriter fingers to delve into
thing internationally, which were
ticklish enough without that I be-
lieve misconceptions at home must
have grown OFT Of some missing
part Of the picture.
1t would be very bad for another
wave of extreme optimism to sweep
over the United States. So maybe
can explain a little bit about why
things over here. though all right
for the long run, are not all straw
berries and cream right now.
In Tunisia, for instance, We seem
to be stalemated for the moment.
The reasons are two. Our army is a
green army, and most Of our Tuni-
sian troops are in actual battle for
the first time against seasoned
troops and commanders. It will take
us months Of fighting to gain the
experience our enemies start with.
In the second place, nobody knew
exactly how much resistance the
French would put up here, so We
had to be set for full resistance.
That meant, when the French ca
pitulated in three days, we had to
move eastward at once or leave the
Germans unhampered to build a big
force in Tunisia.
So We moved several hundred miles
and, with the British, began fighting
But We simply didn't have enough
stuff on hand to knock the Germans
out instantly. Nobody is to blame
for this. I think our army is doing
wonderfully - both In fighting with
what We have and in getting more
here - but we are fighting an army
as tough in spirit as ours, vastly
more experiences, and more easily
supplied.
Our losses in men so far are not
appalling by any means. but We are
losing men. The other day an Amer
lean ship brought the first news
paper from home I had seen since
the occupation, and it said only Il
men were lost In taking Oran.
The losses, in fact, were not great,
but they were a good many twelves
time IL.
WOUNDED TO ENGLAND
Most Of our convalescent wounded
have been sent to England. Some
newly arrived Americans feel that,
IL more Of the wounded were sent
home, it would put new grim vigor
into the American people. We aren't
the sort of people from whom woun-
ded men have to be concealed.
The biggest puzzle to n who are
on the scene is our policy Of deal
ing with Axis agents and sympa-
thizers In North Africa. We have
taken into custody only the most
out-and-out Axis agents, such rs
the German armisticc missions
and . few others. That done, We
have turned the authority Of arrest
lack to the French.
The procedure is that we investi-
gate and they arrest. AS it winds
up, We investigate - period.
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FOR THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE


With the paper shortage keeping
the publishers in q other, the last
few months of 1894 did not see the
publication Of many new books. Con-
seQuently, these late winter months
and the spring following them finds
many interesting titles scheduled for
publication.
AN INTELLIGENT AMERICANS
GUIDE TO THE PEACE, edited by
Sumner Welles is to have January
publication. The book includes 81
maps and gives "the stakes In the
peace Of every country and depen-
dent area in the world, analyzing
the special conditions of each that
will determine its future" This,
definitely is an early candidate for
l945's best-seller lists.
Also coming this month is John
Steinbeck's CANNRRY ROW. A far
cry from his bestsellers, THE MOON
Is DOWN and GRAPES OF
WRATH, many reviewers compare
this book in mood to his popular
TORTTLLA FLAT.
Lin Yutang CTHE IMPORTANCE
OF LIVING, MOMENT IN PEEK
INGD has written a travel book,
VIGIL OF A NATION, to be pub
lished today (Jan. 25). 1t is the
story of the authors recent six
month tour, by air, rail and truck,
Of seven Free China provinces. To
be published on Jan. Is is a book
on the history Of the Chinese labor
movement. 1t is written by Nym
Wales who spent large part of her
adult life in China. Her husband,
Edgar Snow, you will remember as
the author Of RED STAR OVER
CHINA. BATTLE FOR ASIA and
PEOPLE ON OUR SIDE, the book
currently named Imperative" by the
Council on Books in Wartime.
Later in the spring Holt will pub
lish Harrison Formen's first-hand re-
port from Communist China tenta-
lively titled REPORT FROM RED
CHINA. Like Shows PEOPLE ON
OUR SIDE, this book will acquaini
us with the great story of people
who are gallant and unknown allie:
in the war against Japan. 1t viii
also help explain why these hun
dreds of thousands Of So-callec
Communist" Ca word long feared
and little understood here in Amer.
ica) troops have been battling tn,
Japanese in North China for year.
behind a bar of secrecy and silence.
These three new books land
would suggest that you include
Shows PEOPLE ON OUR SIDE
will surely give you both sides o
the situation in China, eloquent.
presented.
Booth Tarkington's new novel TIL
IMAGE OF JOSEPHINE will b.
. published February % and is to b
:. the Literary Guild selection 70
: March.
A book, to be published Feb II
which has favorable pre-publicatiol
reviews is Shelley Mydans' TIL
OPEN CITY. a novel of American
left behind in the Philippines. Shell
ley and her husband, Carl MydanS
the photographer, covered the Fa
East for Life" magazine. Captures
by the japanese and interned. thi
moving and realistic story is TIL
result of her experience in Santt
Tomas concentration camp.
March and April are to be bus,
months in the publishers world
Carlos Romulo, whose I SAW TIKI
FALL OF THE PHILIPPINES ant
MOTHER AMERICA you read ant
enjoyed. will have his new book. MY
BROTHER AMERICANS, published
on March 20. Romulo was Gen
MacArthur's aide-de-camp and va
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that our losses
have been prac-
tically nil: tn t
the French here
love Us to death.
and that all Ger
m an influence
has been cleaned
out.
If you think
that, it is because
W e newspaper
men h ere have
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ARMY HOSPITAL CUTS
RED TAPE

The hospital already has handled
more than 1000 patients and hasn't
lost one. The doctors run to the
nearest stake and knock on wood
when they say it. The surgeons have
performed more than lbs operations.
There's no red tape about whether
a patient is legally entitled to enter
the hospital or not. They take any
body who comes soldier, civilian,
Arab, Frenchman, anybody.
The other day we were looking at
those round-bellied iron stoves half
buried in the ground in east tent.
What do you burnNin them?" I
asked Lieutenant Colonel Bauch-
spies.
Wood" he said.
Where do you get the Wood?" I
asked.
Steal It." he said.
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Ernie Pyle's Slant on the Var:
Lack of Experience at
First Slowed Up Allies
american Algerian Troops We're
Green and Officers UnseasOned
BY Ernie Pyle

Editors Note: This dispatch written and first published
when Pyle with the GI the Algerian He
his way to cover the boys in the Pacific zones)
ORAN, ALGERIA. = Men who bring conveys from
America of whom have just recently arrived tell
the people home don't have impression of things
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A Jolt To Public Confidence

II is unfortunate that OPA fit to cancel without
notice the ration points that housewives had been religious
y conserving 1t in effect the breaking of contract
Millions of women had been saving their points only
needed they understood the points good indef
intely. The person who saved therefore penazed
On top of this business suspension orders were asked
by OPA for stores alleged have sold goods in violation of
the new regulation when the only information the
In specific in Portland Oregon the attorney for food
stores said Enforcement officials of the local OPA had
vousy advised these operators that they being
by the newspapers and that only their releases were
official and that changes be made until official
notice had been given by the OPA."
Such tactics to be inevitable part of bureaucracy
which the people must endure part and parcel of wartime
controls The Congressional investigation that suggested
may in restore public confidence Facts rather
than secrecy are the most potent weapons in maintaining
public morale.
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NJ otes from
Bacon Memorial
Library
BY Helen M. Boothe

one Of the authors in Detroit this
past June at the Author War Bond
Rally.
William Henry Chamberlin, whose
THE UKRAINE, A SUBMERGED
NATION is a current book on the
non-fiction list, has another new
book scheduled for March entitled
AMERICA: PARTNER IN WORLD
RULE.
Richard Wright NATIVE SOM
and Glenway Wescott CTHE
GRANDMOTHER both have new
books coming out in March. Wright's
an photographed book covering
the early years Of his life, is titled
BLACK BOY. Glenway Westcotts
novel is APARTMENT IN ATHENS.
These two are TO be the dual selec-
tions of the Book of the Month
Club for March.
Louis Bromfield's PLEASANT
VALLEY. an April publication. will
be illustrated with sixty black and
white drawings. by Katherine Lord,
of his Ohio farm"
A. WOOLLCOTF: HIS LIFE AND
HIS WORLD, the new biography
also coming in April is written by
Samuel Hopkins Adams CREVELRY,
THE GORGEOUS HUSSY). Mr..
Adams has stripped away the mys-
terry concerning Woollcott and pre-
SentS here the whole man and all
his extraordinary and delightful
friends with their laughter, quarrels.
chickering's and love.
So many of you enjoyed co
POSTMASTER that you will be glad
to know that on April 23rd. Crowell
will publish "Ozzie's" further screw
ball adventures of himself. his pals
and the U. S. Army down under"
The book. PROCEED WITHOUT
DELAY is illustrated with more than
100 cartoons.
"Ira Wolfert has covered much
OF the Pacific war - in BATTLE
FOR THE SOLOMONS. TORPEDO
and ONE MAN AIR FORCE Capt.
Don Gentile'S story. Now he has
written, with Lieut.. l. D. Richardson,
that officers story of guerilla fight
ing on Leyte" This book called
AMERICAN GUERILLA also comes
in April.
FOR THE INDEFINITE FUTURE
Sholem Asch, author of THE MAJ
ARENE and THE APOSTLE is
working on a novel OF present day
New York Ferenc Molnar, the
Hungarian playwright OILIOAI,
THE GOOD FAIRY) has written
two new books for late Spring pub
LEGATION. One, novel with an Amer
lean setting, is called FAREWELL
MY HEART The other, gay col
lection OF memoirs is called THE
CAPTAIN OF ST. MARGARETS
Frank Graham, who wrote LOU
GEHRIG and McGRAw OF THE
GIANTS is writing q life OF Al
Smith James Hilton is in Cali
fornia finishing a novel with. as
usual. an English setting. Though
his STORY OF DR.. WASSELL is
his most recent book, this will be
his first novel since RANDOM HAIR
VEST.
See you at the library and re-
member - READING ISN'T RA-
TONED!
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over here.

OfSA A4SAOs
They say people at home think
the North African campaign is a
and will be over quickly:
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universal military training that we are
looking for war than getting vaccnaed man is look
ing for mallpox."-Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
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IF the nations of the world seek today to achieve per
lection in their plan for world organization before participant
ing in It world organization be set up" Sumner
Wel1es
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5 a finer and more peaceful

this finer and more peaceful
world.
Can we expect such things OF
them while they are sick and sui
fering from the lack of essential
clothing?
For their want of such clothing,
the full fruits of ultimate victory
over the Axis can be lost.
But there is no need for any
such lack while the attics and
other storage places in millions Ct
American homes are hung or clut1
tered with castoff, yet still serv.
iceable, SPARE clothes, shoes and
bedding.
Hundreds of millions of pounds
of such materials, useless and new
er to be used by us, are available
to the war-ravaged destitute. The
United National Clothing Collec-
ton, which opened on April l, is
designed. to. tr1nsfer our service.
able castoffs to these stricken peo-
pies. And now is the time for
you to raid your attic or catch-au
storeroom and force it to yield
its share of disable apparel to
those in desperate need.
WHAT CAN YOU SPARE
THAT THEY CAN WEAR?
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suffering from bovine tubercu-
losis or any other disease. If
tender meat of the best quality
is to be obtained, the animal
must be young and well fatten-
ed.
It is necessary to allow the
carcass to hang until it becomes
cold and preferably to chill it
down to a temperature of about
80 degrees for "a hours. It be-
comes rancid with too much age
ing. Pork held for 48 hours at
80 degrees before freezing, will
remain in good condition for APP
proximately year. If, on the
other hand, the pork is held for
S or 10 days at 80 degrees prior
to freezing, the fat will turn ram
cid within a few months storing
at o degrees. .-....
Pork roasts are ordinarily
wrapped in moistureproof cello
plane or other moisture and va
por proof likker paper. A wrap
ped roast may be inserted into
an elastic stockinette, which has
several advantage: l. It protects
the wrapping from being torn or
punctured during handling. 2. It
holds the wrapper in close con-
tact with the meat, without the
use of cord or Scotch tape to hold
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ENGINEERS ARE HUMAN

A word of appreciation to the
engineers who visited this area
last week and who. will be here
for some time surveying the route
of the proposed dixie in connec-
ton with the Umatilla dam. They
were thorough in their explana-
tons, painstaking in their desire
to answer all questions satisfact-
orily and at all times courteous.
They had a difficult job. Nu-
merous people bombarded them
with all kinds of questions-most
of them reasonable requests and
some of them not so reasonable.
Through it all these men, who
are engineers and not funda-
mentally public relations experts,
maintained calm sense of bal
ance. We have heard Of no COM
plant whatever.
We are fully aware of the fact
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that they were dealing with maps
and figures. They didn't have the
prospect of a dixie cutting across
their own property or the fear Of
their land becoming waterlogged
from seepage. But nevertheless
they took keen personal interest
in everyone's individual problem
and attempted to give sympa-
thetic understanding. Perhaps it
was because they are natives of
the northwest, interested in its
development and interested in its
people.
In any event they did good
job of a tough assignment. We
are happy to discover that the
blood that courses through the
arteries of an American engineer
is governed by a human heart
and not q centrifugal pump and
a system of penstocks.
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TOR WANT OF "A NAIL
"For want of a nail shoe was

"For want OF nail shoe was
lost"
Most of us are familiar with
the military adage which opens
with that line and goes on to tell
how the missing mai, costing the
loss of a shoe, cost the loss OF a
horse. of the general who rode
it. and ultimately, the loss OF
the battle in which the generals
leadership was essential to VIC
tory. 49,.
Through its frequent REPETITION,
or through sayings OF similar
character, the lesson of the inn
portance of seemingly trivial
things to great achievements has
been pretty well established in
American minds.
Yet. we wonder how many have
thought of the importance of their
cast-off clothes, shoes and bed
ding to the restoration Of this
war-torn world and wholesome
and lasting peace which we all
desire when the final victory over
the Axis nations is won.
For want of adequate clothing,
during the five or more years OF
Axis aggression, uncounted num-
bers of the men, women and chill
dren-innocent victims of the
Nazis and Japs-have been dying
of exposure or diseases traceable
thereto. AS our valiant armies
liberate their lands and free their
peoples, the full extent of their
suffering and their present des-
perate needs are revealed large
families forced to share tattered
garment scarcely adequate to COW
er a single person; children and
older people forced to remain in
their shattered novels or to step
forth virtually naked into the rig
ors of harsh climates; other Axis
made conditions equally appall-
ing.
And these are the peoples who
if a real peace is to come with
final victory, must rebuild their
broken homes and towns and cit
les; theirs are the children who,
with ours, must join in making
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the wrapper on the roast. 3. It
makes a neat package.
In freezing pork chops, pieces
of cellophane or other moisture
proof paper should be put be-
tween layers to prevent their
sticking together during freezing.
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A SOLDIERS SIlccHsr,.

I'm every town we visi. aON
an american doughboy from MILES
European war theater, "tbe lhe
dition of the peoples c,oth I Con.
pathetic. If the folks ~ y
really want to do a good aons
Id suggest big drive for ueeg,
clothing" This soldiers nj. us
answered by the United Mats
Clothing Collection, April Una
What can You spare that tho,i dO
wear? '''ey can
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FATS NEEDED

Extreme need for fats for man
ufacturing munitions and civilians
supplies call for full cooperation
in the campaign for fat salvage.
The Extension Service Of the
State College Of Washington,
working with local fat salvage
committees in the salvage Of fats
in rural areas, is urging farm
people to save all used fats in
the home and fats from butcher
ing that are not disable, including
rancid fats. These fats should
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County Agent Click and Asst
Agent Mrs. Bolon met. at the
Whitstran school house April 4
and plans are under way for a
community All in that area. Pro-
jects will be taken up at April
18th meeting at 10 am. in the
schoolhouse. All interested boys
and girls come out if you failed
to come April 4th.
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FROZEN PORK

FROZEN PORK
Freezing meat and holding it a
few days at zero degrees kills all
trichinosis parasites. Although
freezing destroys trichinella spi-
rails, it does not destroy many
other disease producing micro
organisms. For this reason, one
must always be sure that the
animal to be slaughtered is not
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be turned in to fat salvage GEN.
tiers. Two red points are given
for each pound, except for ran
cid fats. No amount of fat is too
small to save. One tablespoon
will help to make enough syn
thetic rubber for two gas masks.
One couldn't live a normal day
without using time and again
equipment that was made with
the help of fat.
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Every kind of children's wom-
ems mems clothing can save lives
abroad. WHAT CAN YOU
SPARE THAT THEY CAN
NEyEAPS
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-. suys cIayfon Speek, Automobile
Deuler IN Svnnysids. Washington
sWhen I first started In the automobile
business, ran blacksmith shop along with
il for bread and butter, and was lucky to
have a single electric motor and four
32-candlepower carbon 6lament lamps. I
shod horses by the light Of one Of the lamps,
pumped tires by hand, and delivered gaso-
line from 4 measuring can filled from z
pitcher pump. That was 50 years ago.
"Today, thanks to PP&L's progressive
ness, we use more than 80 electric motors,
and light the shop as bright as day. And we
get all this electricity at small fraction Of
the cost per kilowatt- hour SO years ago.
'In this great farming territory that ships
100000 tons Of food to market every year,
it's our job to keep farm machinery and
trucks repaired and on the go. And we're
doing it, with electric power tools and
PP&L's dependable electric service.
Pacific Power & Light Company has
played big part in development Of the
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'PP&L's pioneering has figured
: in the success Of my shop"

Yakima Valley. It's forward-looking poll
cies, good service, and reasonable rates have
helped lot in getting the new businesses
and food processing industries that are To-
eating in this area"
Clayton Speck, owner and manager Of Clayton
Speck Motors, has been identified with business
activity In Sunnyside since 1909. and with the
automobile business since 1911.
A native Of Lenark, Illinois, he was working for
the Milwaukie Railroad In Chicago when he came
to Sunnysids on . vacation trip in 1909. He saw
the promise In the Yakima Valley, resigned his
railroad job, collected months pay Of $50, and
staked his future on the development Of the Sunny
side district
When be established his own automobile busi-
ness in 1912, there were only about 80 cars in the
entire lower Yakima Valley. In 1896 he built his
own modern garage building and completely equip
ped it with electric power tools Much of his cleo
trical equipment has been busy during the war,
machining valve fittings for Liberty ships
The Speck home makes generous use Of electric
ity, too. Their 6rst electric range was bought in
1872 And they have had electric refrigeration
since 1924.
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NSO Thewholeelec-
food saving and health
trie industry promotes
PROJECTION Widh elee.
trical cehieecatioo.
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Homemakers'
Briefs
GLADYS x. B0LON
Home Demonstration Agent

During spring housekeeping
this year, make your house as
safe as possible. Pick up, straigh-
ten up, find place for things!
Ask the family to help keep the
house so that accident hazards
can be reduced. One of the most
important things is to avoid falls.
Falls often result from standing
on a lettering or rickety chair.
Another thing that may throw
you off balance is to try and
overreach. Know how far you
can reach and don't try any fur
Their.
When you are carrying brooms,
sweepers and mops up and down
stairs, sometimes you can't see
skates, toys, brooms or other
things left there, you are likely
to trip and fall. That is why
it is so important to keep your
steps clear of everything. At
the same time, remember that
running up and down stairs might
mean tripping.
In the dark, whether up the
stairs or just going into a room,
turn on the light. Darkness
breeds falls. Low tables and other
objects are hard to see in the
dark. It is hard on your shins
when you hit them, and it can be
much worse # you fall.
Better use up you corpmeal
before warm days come. An old
Dutch dish, "Pannhas" is q corn
meal mush made Of meatStock
and cooked ground pork OF liver.
Cooled and sliced, It may. be
served fried with scrambled eggs,
or cold.
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1870 Electric oook.
ing being populafised
By Pacific Power &
Light Electric water
heating en- On de Wy.
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1V4 Developmsne
q 2uocesoent iShfing
o6scs Improved oppor.
Qualities for ''Bettee
uGhe-Beesee SiGht".
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1915 Television now
ready for postwar
homes. Great advances
IN science Of electrooi0
swat peaoetime u.s.
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1910 Masdalampse.
places Old cafboa bulb.
giving moe Light Per
XVII. PPAL gives usen
noee XVIII PEE dollar.