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SHELTON-MASON Cilurhbunh
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'1. EBER A NGLE
GRANT C. ANGLE
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The eyes of the nation are again turned to-l
ward the far Pacific and the problems of the rc—l
cent turn of Axis affairs due to Hitler taking on!
Stalin and disturbing the ‘old deals between the;
two and Japan which now leaves the Nipponese‘;
out on a limb.
Japan is nearly bled white from the war in;
China which has run longer than the European:
struggles, and certainly is no asset to Germany}.
since the Russian embroglio has cut off any con-l
nection and support from Japan which mightl
help out Germany. i
The Dutch East Indies is the real prize whichl
Japan seeks to make up what is needed for foodi
and raw materials but the United States standsi
in the way with a naval force ready and willingl
to go to the aid“ of the British arms to thwarti
Japan’s aims.’
But the major factor in Nipponese thinking
is the serious effect of cutting off gas and all]
trade from this country which must follow J apanl
taking in any more fighting territory; leavingl
Japan isolated and with slight chance for helpl
in any other direction.
So while the Japanese ministry has been;
shaken up the war party seems to be still in pow-
er and doing the thinking, but the peace partyi
which comprises the commercial and. industrial»,
element and the support of that nation, is fight—'
ing against new war and breaking relations with.
the United States.
Japan is faced with the latest blow, freezingJ
of its assets in America and England and in all'
its domain, and the necessity of moving south to
beat the blockade; while the watching fleets of
the allies are clearing decks to meet the move to—I
ward Singapore and the ‘Philippines, with the!
prospect of real action any day. This means theI
United States is in the war on both sides and in3
earnest. '
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THE OLD ALUMINUM PANS
The drive for old aluminum utensils and!
truck has dug out several thousand more or lessl
old and battered articles, and not a few not so oldl
but perfectly good for their uses which the good-
natured housewife has added to the collection; all
of which means new business later on for alum-
inum or “ersatz” products replacements, and per-
haps in due time some new industries.
The drive is alleged to seek this particularl
product for building of airplanes, but it is doubt-
ful if this old stuff is of particular Value for that
purpose because of the difficulty of separating
the dross materials in old manufacture to reclaim.
the littlepure aluminum suitable for future use;
However, this drive is one of several intended toi
wake up the people to the realization of, the real
I
sacrifices ahead.
Out of Washington comes hints of another
drive, that for salvaging of waste paper, but at
the moment we can think of no better way to save
paper than stop sending out the tons of propa-
ganda which is mailed from the national capitall
bureaus every day; old pap'er has no value except
for strawpaper and corrugated boxes and there
is no demand or price to pay for the time and
energy of the citizen in picking it up. Such pet-
ty savings are but a drop in the bucket of nation—
al spending.
COULD SPARE SOME REDS
The most vocal demand for support of Rus-
sia against the Nazis comes from the Communist
element which has about faced and urges this
country to give all-out aid to the Soviets; yet
there seems to be no marked movement of the
sympathizers to go to help Russia fight. This
country is having some trouble with this element!
in its defense industries and could well, spare a
lot of the Reds, but they prefer to stay here to
make trouble and grow fat on the jobs.
THE TRANSITION SIGNIFICANT
It is significant that when any person, com-
mittee or group of people want to reach the pub-
lic they rush to the newspaper with reams of ex-
ploiting copy to get help to market their bright
ideas and pulsating plans. Seldom, if ever, do
they consider that it costs money to hire print—
ers and buy paper and that even an editor some-
times needs a 65 cent hair cut.
Therefore, this is due warning to the patriots
and near-patriots who are preparing to beat a
path to the doors of the Washington weekly
press, in their plans to do altruistic things, that
there has been a change of spirit come over the
land and that editors, worthy of the name, are no
longer on all-fours, as a community door mat.
Newspaper work has come to be a business in this
state, county and valley—Sumner Standard.
BY RALPH HERBERT
SOME seven years ago, 'when
vast areas of the prairie states
were being converted into dust
bowls, the government planned
to save other areas from a sim—
ilar fate by planting shelter belts
of trees. The scheme embraced
the states of North and South
Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Okla-
homa and northwest Texas. It
was estimated that planting 21/2
million acres of trees would give
protection to 50,000,000 acres of
farm lands.
The work was started by ex-
ecutive order of the President in
1934. Actual tree planting be-
gan the following year. To date,
one-tenth the original plan has
been effected. If the rate in the
past is maintained, it will be 54
years before the whole scheme
is consummated. An average of
40,000 acres of trees has been
planted since the plan was
started. Twenty-seven thousand
farms have been provided with
tree shelter belts. Sixteen thou-
sand miles of trees have been
planted. This means about 190,-
000,000 trees.
They came from nurseries
operated by the U. S. Forest
Service. The government plants
the trees, the farmers guarantee-
ing for some years to look after
them by hoeing the ground, get-
ting rid of weeds and killing
rodents. The total. cost to the
government so far has been
about $9,000,0 0.
a: a: a,
REES selected are those
which it has been , found
, thrive best in the prairie' states.
Those most favored are cotton-
wood, green ash, Chinese and
American elms, Osage orange,
hackberry, black locust, Russian
olive, catalpa, tamarisk, willow,
chokecherry, ponderosa pine,
blue spruce and wild plum.
The trees are planted in from
five to ten rows. The center
rows haVe the trees which grow
tall. The back and front rows
are planted with trees which are
more on the bushy type.
It has been found in the prai—
rie states that the greatest enemy
of the farmer is the wind. The
PLYWOOD PRODUCTS—ADDITO EATY 0F HOMES
NEUTRAL WALLS contribute lo the cool.
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t HELTON
I Shelter Belts of Trees Prove Worth ,
Vin Protecting Farms in Prairie States
MASON COUNTY J OURNAL‘
In 1935. Ed Casey’s South Dakota farm looked like this. Sand
had drifted onto his land three days after tree planting started
(top photo). Mr. and Mrs. Casey and the children are now happy
and contented on the farm they were going to leave (lower photo).
Their field windbreak planting of trees gets the credit for the
change. Note watermelons grown on their farm in 1940.
shelter belts are designed to
protect farms from those winds.
-i= fie .
IT is claimed that the belts
shield growing plants from
being burned by hot winds; pre-
vent wind from blowing the
fertile top soil off the land; keep
high winds from actually blow-
ing seeds and young plants right
out of the ground; prevent rapid
evaporation of the water in the
ground after a rain fall; slow up
the growing crops; and give
shelter to wild bird life, the lat-
ter in turn helping the farmer
by beating insects which other-
wise would be free to attack the
crops.
In addition, it is claimed for
these shelter belts that they give
the farmer something which is
very precious in the prairie re-
gion—wood for fences and posts
and fuel.
transpiration of moisture from
pleasant atmosphere of this dining room facing a’bacl:
pailo and lawn. Fir plywood. applied vertically wi+l1 grooves between
edges. has mellow light _stain
finish. Ceiling pane
~WCldest and ' Youngest Twins
9 are stored to give block effect.
Mrs. Mary Snyder. left and Mrs. Myrtle Snyder, '78, Oldest twins
at the Twins’ Convention in Chicago, hold Jane and Judith Wrede,
youngest twins. An outing climaxed the convention.
vacation at Soap Lake.
joined him this weekend.
Kamilche Doings
Told By Scribe
Progress Grange met Thursdayl
evening in regular session.
ing lecture hour, Mrs. Roy Green- ,
wood gave an interesting account
of their recent trip to Illinois.
Dur—
Harold Carr is spending his
Mrs. Carr
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Nelson,
Bruce and Alta Nelson and Jim-
Imy Miller of Seattle, motored to
‘Pacific Beach Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Bailey of
:Marshfield, Ore, spent Friday at
,- lllc Wm. Boico home and brought
[Mrs Boice's mother, Mrs, J. B.
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Underhill from Belle Fourche, 50-
Mr.
Olalla,
were weekend guests and the en-
tire party motored to West Port
Sundav. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Boice.
Sr., of Marvin, So. Dakota, ac-
companied Mr. and Mrs. Fuller,
Dakota, for a month’s visit.
and Mrs. Earl Fuller of
back to Olalla for this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott at-,
vtended Pomona Grange at
stine Island Sunday. »‘
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Savage. f0!“
Har-
Latest Group Of
Selectees Will
Face Same Rules
Men who registereg under the
Selective Training nd Service
Act on July 1 and whose order
numbers were determined in the
National Lottery on July 17 are
subject to the same rules of in—
dividual classification as the
youths who were enrolled pre-
viously, Lieutenant Colonel Wal-
ter J. DeLong, State Director of
Selective Service, emphasized to-
day.
Under no circumstances wil the
new group of potential trainees
be classified and considered for
[possible military training en bloc,
the Director declared. Each man
will have his .order number by
which his Local Board will con-
sider his classification and no Lo-
cal Board can classify the individ-
ual registrant until his number is
reached, except in case of volun-
teers, he said.
The National Lottery served as
a guide for every Local Board to
integrate its new registrants
among those who registered last
Autumn, and that integration
recent registrants will consider
,their classification only in a fair
1and equitable ratio to those men
not yet inducted, Director De-
Long asserted.
It was pointed out that it was
vobvious that the new registrants
,who had received the
A, low order numbers would be clas‘
lsified sooner than those who had.
mer residénts; but now living atlreceived the higher numbers.
Belfair, are the parents of
baby girl, born Friday in
Shelton Hospital.
the
“I’d like to stress
‘ again," said Colonel DeLong “that
there isn’t any difference between
ltreatment of the new registrants
TWO-thirds of all the life insur- ' and the old registrants in any
ance in force throughout the en-grespect
whatsoever. They
tire world is owned by American treated exactly alike. The same
families.
\
rules of deferment apply to both! 1y.”
l THE HARD W'AY
must be carried out so that the ,.
Tuesday
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Carlsbad Caverns Display ;
Brilliant orks f Nature (30301?ng
mighty; he W
joice over thee
rest in his 10"
thee with Sin
Among the c v
prise the Les!S
following 1"!‘0m(‘i .
in the Lord, 3“ t
thou dwell in: "‘
, thou shalt be f r
em the days ,
their inheritan
er" (Ps.37:3.I_3
The LeSSO:
'cludes the
from the Chi
book, “Scienc
Key to the *
Baker EddY?’
ways has me
meet every 11
vine ear’ is 1’10
It is the al
knowing Mind
of man is 3}:
whom it W1u
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SIGHTS woRTH SEEING
New Mexico’s greatest tourist attraction, the Carlsbad Caverns,
are visited annually by 250,000 tourists. Here nature has spent
millions of years in carving its brilliant masterpieces.
BY WINIFRED CLARK level. The third dips 1320 feet
EIRD and wondmus earls- into the earth. Of the 32 miles of
bad Caverns National Park. caves that have been explored,
nestled in the rugged foothills of Only Seven 81‘? ope? to travelers-
the Guadalupe Mountains, in EBCh tour 15 EUIded by Na-
New Mexico, have thrilled as tional Park Service rangers over
many as 250,000 Visitors each well-lighted, well-laid trails and
year, . stairs. Natural scientists esti-
Ethereal in their beauty, the mate it TequI‘Ed 200,000,000
caves are believed to be the larg— years to Cal‘Ve 0111: the huge un-
est in the world. Carlsbad Cav— dergmund cathedral'
erns is a series of connected Stalactite and stalagmite for-
caves. Three main levels have mations which range in height
been discovered and several from a few inches to 100 feet—-
haven’t yet been penetrated. some of them 200 feet across the
First level of the caverns is base—glitter and glisten like dia-
750 feet below the surface. Be— mondsdt’s an immense, dazzling.
low, at 900 feet, is the second beautiful display.
I. I d l By
x I e I e BILL
\\ S DICKIE
many thousands of baseball fans
with his “impossible” catches in
over 20 years of performing in'
the professional ranks.
He and Tris Speaker and Eddie
Rousch are rated by many learn-
ed baseball experts as the greatest
defensive outfielders of all time. ‘
Statz played his first major
One of the reasons the San
Diego Padres have been the sur-
prise club 'of the 1941 pennant
race in the Coast League is their
penchant for copping extra inning
games.
Figured as a second divisionren-
try in preseason predictions, the
Padres have been scrapping the league game with New York in
Seattle Rainiers for second place Chicago. Daddy Brady, score_
all season and have held thatl board Operator at Wrigley Field,
post about as much as the charm—1 LOS Angeles saw that game
pion Rainiers have and have been and recalls {hat John. Mega-a“;
much more successful against the after the game told him he
league leading Sacramento Solons rated Statz as the greatest fly
than any other club in the circuit. hawk he had ever seen.
The Padres have engaged ,in They still talk in New York
,_more extra lnnlng games so far about a match Jigger made m
than any other league club and left center in 1919, but Statz
have won eight out of the eleven says the play of the thousands
contents WhiCh have gene 9X' of sensational ones he made
tra dlstanCE, 50 l‘tfiports t h e which he regards as his greatest
Coast League’s PUthiSt- was a shoestring catch off
One of these marathon scraps “Brick” Eldred in Seattle which
was the _1eague’s longest .to date, saved the game with the tieing '
a 17-mmns‘ 3 t0 verdlct the run on third in the ninth. At
Padres posted over Portland be- Washington park, statz liter-
hind young A1 Olson’s SOUthPaW ally clawed part way up the
pitching. board wall with his spikes to
When )‘911 W111 the 0105? on?” make what appeared to be a
you 11 be m the ChampionShlp fair catch. But in reality he 2. Cub
scrap, goes an old sports saying,
and that seems to account for the
high perch the Padres enjoy in
the standings as well as anything
else. ..
ARMY SOFTBALLER
Ned Snelgrove, our old neigh-
bor in city league softball af-
fairs, writes up from Camp
Roberts, [alif., where he now
is one of *ncle Sam’s selectees
in Company A, 87th Battalion,
that he is playing third base,
for his outfit’s softball forces
and “hitting as well as anyone
“smothered” the ball against the
fence with his glove. Jlgger
says his conscience has .bothefi-
ed him a little ever since. In
fact, he did not admit doing
that until just the other day,
waiting more than twenty years
to unburden his soul.
SHIP vounrnEI’,
on the team.” Such an admis- v
sion from Ned must mean he
is whaling the swollen apple at
a pretty fancy clip for Ned was , .
never one to enlarge upon his SERngTO. Pints
WITH DOOR DELIVERY IN sH
I ,
Seattle Freight should be routed via Str. In '~
Tacoma Freight via Str. Skookum Chief. ,
No. 2 ~
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Time Schedule as follo‘l’t55 .
Leaves Tacoma daily, execept sunday, a *
Olympia. and Shelton
Arrives Shelton daily, except 5“
CLARENCE CARLANDER, .P"
PUGET SOUND FREIGHT
personal achievements.
VETERAN FADING OUT ,
There is something akin to
pathos, writes the Coast League’s
public relations agent, in the
gradual fadeout from the field
of active play of such a star as
Arnold Statz, who has thrilled
nt Be
Green
Peewee League To
Practice Basketball
Members of the local Peewee
League will meet at Lincoln Gym
Wednesday morning at o’clock. ‘
athletic director Homer Taylor
announced today. The youngsters
’will spend the next two weeks in.
workouts on basketball funda-
mentalswith‘ Taylor in charge.
$9.;
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Cliff Wivell’s CERTIFI
TEXAGO SERL
Representative in Mason COun
KEEP WASHINGTON GREEN
During 1940 Pierce county led
all counties in Washington in the
number of forest fires set with
a total of 180, according to the
‘ third with 144 fires.
relatively ‘
the fact 3
are 1
Keep Washington Green commit-
tee. King county was next with
167 fires, and Stevens county was
Olympia gig-g
Gas is Quicker.
Both have the same right of ap-
peal. The interests of both are
protected by the government in
the same manner. And each case
is considered individually when
the registrant’s order number
comes up, regardless of whether
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