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Nome, Alaska, Monday, December 11, 1950
“BASIC ERROR” of “OUR PEOPLE THEMSELVES”
Twice in the last thirty years the United States has
emerged victorious from tremendous wars and twice
the nation has precipitately abandoned all semblance
of a well-equipped, well-trained, ready-to-fight mili
tary force.
The military men tell us, almost without exception,
that our unpreparedness cost the nation untold dollars
and heavy casualties. Both would have been lower* if
the nation had maintained a balanced fighting force
of reasonable size for its defense.
The war in Korea, as Gen. George C. Marshall points
out, required the nation to fight the first day and there,
is no reason to think that he is wrong when he warns
that the nation can not longer “count upon years or
even months in which to prepare after the war is on.”
The Secretary of Defense expresses the fear that, af
ter the fighting in Korea ends, we will repeat our be
havior of the past. After both world wars there arose
an incessant demand that the boys be demobilized and
something of a public reaction set in against the con
tinuance of anything like an adequate fighting force.
Speaking bluntly this high official, who enjoys the
respect of the vast majority of his fellow-Americans,
declares that “the basic error has always been with the
American people themselves.” He expresses the hope
that the people of this country will willingly support an
enduring system of defense, one that “will not collapse
at every change of the wind and temperature” and will
“keep us prepared for any emergency” without sapping
our economic strength which “is of maximum import
ance to the democratic people of the entire world.”
REDS HAVE U. S. WEAPONS
From India comes the news that a Khantpa tribes
man of Eastern Tibet, captured by the Chinese and es
caping, says that the Chinese Communist army, ad
vancing into his country, come “in huge numbers, like
columns of marching ants.”
Interesting is his report that the communist's were
armed with American rifles and mortars.
This is the story that one gets from China, where the
communist armies are fighting with equipment of
American origin, originally delivered to Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek for the use of the Nationalist army.
Apparently, the great aid that we gave to the National
ist regime in China has resulted in strengthening the
YOU’VE GOT TO HAMMER IT INTO SOME PEOPLE
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By LUCRECE HUDGINS i
AP Newsfeatures
CHAPTER 12
TRACKING THE WOZZLE
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Santa gasped at the name of
Herman the Woozle. Even Lone
some Boy’s face turned pale and
he trembled at his father’s words.
“Go!” ordered CJhief Hurricane.
“Bring tail of Herman the Woz
zle.”
“Who is it? What is it?” -whis
pered Bucky, tugging at Santa’s
sleeve. “Why do yo'u look so sad?”
“Ah,” said 'Santa. “No one who
ever hunted Herman the Wozzle
came back alive. He is half bird
and half animal with the tail of
a snake. He runs faster than a
| rabbit. He roars louder than the
ocean. He is stronger than a thou
sand strongest men.”
“I am a good shot,” said Bucky
cheerfully. “A‘ home, with my |
cork gun, I hit the target nearly j
every time.”
Santa shooks his head. “A cork
gun would never hurt the Wozzle.1
; You need a strong bow and an |
! arrow tipped with silver. I can
1 make you such a bow and arrow, j
But your heart must be unafraid
or *no weapon can help you.”
Bucky thought for a moment.
“I am afraid,” he said finally.;
“But maybe I will forget to be
afraid when I see this creature. I
will try anyway, for I am a cow- j
boy said cowboys must be brave.
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Santa took Bucky to his cottage
and sat before the fire with the
boy at his feet. Santa whittled on
a young sapling until he had fin
ished a bow.
Then he cut an arrow and tip
ped it with purest silver which he
melted and shaped in the fire.
When he had finished he woke
Bucky who had fallen asleep
against his knee.
I “I’ve been dreaming,” said
Bucky sleepily. “I dreamed I was
home with my mother and that I
was tired of playing cowboy.”
Santa smiled. “You know,
Bucky, I hope that dream will
soon come true,” he said. “Now
[ here is your bow and here is your
arrow.”
“What!” cried Bucky. “Only
one arrow?”
“Yes,” said Santa sadly. “You’ll
never get a chance to shoot but
once.”
When they went out they found
Lonesome Boy saying goodbye to
his people. The Jindian carried a
bow and a bag full of arrows
slung from his shoulder. He
looked at Bucky. and for the first
time there was no meanness in
his look.
“Let’s go,” said Bucky. The two
boys got on their horses and rode
away.
They had not left Santa Land
1 very far behind when Lonesome
boy stopped and pointed at tracks
in the snow—the strangest tracks
Bucky had ever dreamed of.
There were two prints like the
webbed feet of a duck—but a
duck with feet larger than an ele
phant. Behind these tracks was
a long furrow that seemed to have
been made by a snake twisting
through the snow.
Twenty feet away was another
rh<S
There in front of the cave uias the missing track.
such track. As the boys pushed
on, they found another and an
other. j
On they hunted until they came
to' the edge of a cliff which fell
a hundred feet to the sea. Here
the trail disappeared. The boys
searched but found no tracks at
all. |
Lonesome Boy pointed down to
the rocks piled on the beach far
below. Bucky nodded. If the crea
ture they hunted was anywhere
he was somewhere among those
rocks.
Without saying a word, the boys
got off their horses and began
climbing down to the sea. They
crawled backwards, clutching at
the side of the cliff with their
i
hands and feet. They slipped and j
slid and tore their hands and
scraped their faces.
When they were near the bot- i
tom they dropped to the rocks
and rose bruised and shaken.
LqpesoTne Boy had spilled all
his arrows but Bucky’s one arrow
was safe. When he helped the
Jindian find his arrows among
the rocks, Lonesome Boy did not
speak but smiled as though to say
“Thank You.”
Suddenly they found them
selves standing before a huge
hole. In front o*f the hole was the
missing track.
Bucky’s heart pounded. His
legs grew weak. Lonesome Boy
calmly fitted an arrow into his
bow. “I’m a cowboy,” Bucky told
himself. “I can’t let him see I’m
afraid.”
So he held his bow ready. The
two boys walked together into the
great black hale.
(Next: Lonesome Boy Shoots)
DAILY BIBLE READINGS
"The Bible—A Light and Guide"
These Bible selections bring out
helpful truths concerning this
theme.
Monday, December 11.Luke 15
12 ..Isaiah 40:1-8, 28-31
13 .1 Corinthians 13
14 .1 John 3
15 . Romans 12
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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Farr, teach
ers gor White Mountain arrived
yesterday enroute to their station.
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communist forces. Through unexplained causes, the]
Reds managed to get most of the American equipment,
arms and munitions.
PIONEER WOMEN'S
MEETING POSTPONED
•
, Due to the storm last Friday
the Pioneer Women of Alaska did
not have enough members'out at
their meeting to hold their elec
tion of officers. The president,
Mary Roell has announced that u
special meeting will be called
some day this week when the
weather is improved.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
(Continued from Page One’
breakout column.
One Red prisoner, a Chinese
Rationalist veteran, who wore
sneakers, said 30 of his men were
evacuated with frozen feet. All of
them wore the rubber-soled ten
nis sneakers and morale is low,
he said.
The more than 20,000 First Di
vision Marines and Seventh Divi
sion infantrymen and a few Bri
tish commandoes were the largest
intact unit of the U. N. forces try
ing to reach Hungham.
Secrecy hung over the where
abouts of the Seventh Division’s
17th Regimental combat team
and and two Republic of Korea
divisions—the 17th—only U. S.
unit to reach the Manchurian bor
der—was ordered days ago to
withdraw from the Yalu River
border town of Hyesanin.
In the northwest, the main ac
tion was Allied air attacks on
communist attempts to build up
their forces for smashes at the
new Eighth Army defense line
south of Pyongyang. There was
little ground activity in the north
west except for patrol encounters.
Monday, December 11, 1950
Gen. MacArthur visited the Ko
rean warfronts, and says the Al
lied troops are “in excellent
shape” despite recent heavy re
verses. Calls them “undefeated
command of high morale.” The
last remnants of 25,000 Marine
and doughboys break through the
Changjin reservoid trap to reach
Hamhung plain. The northwest
front is relatively quiet.
The Indian U. N. delegate an
nouces Asian and Middle East na
tions will introduce “peace reso
lution in the United Nations con- •
taining proposal for an immediate
“cease-fire” in Korea.