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Show I O' Tuesday, January 4, 1949 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH PAGE TWO imaaBgmre iP Dutch Forces Overrun Presidential Inaugurations Are Mostly Circumstantial Peace Feeler Offered China Reds; U. S. Stand Settled If War Comes (FDITORS Western By BAUKIIAGE Sul Analyst end Commentator. The King is dead, long live the King. Thus the ancient rite proclaimed a new sovereign who Tsy the grace of God must take up the scepter. At once a hundred coronation. Courtiers pairs of hands are busy preparing for the and commoners, the noble masters and mistresses of ceremony, seamstresses and workmen, knights and stable boys, each trained to his task begin their work for the great event. WASHINGTON. Form and program may differ, but where king and emperor reign, the ceremony, according to the stem law of tradiUon, seldom varies in any but the smallest degree. Only a cataclysm can effect a1 change. I heard about my first cor- cases of death In office. Five times onation when I a President has taken the oath withwas 12 years old. out the usual ceremony for this reaI remember It for son. President William Henry Hartwo reasons, one rison came Into office as a hardy being the fact that military hero, and, scorning a carIt almost didn't riage. rode d to the Capcome off. On the itol on horseback A month later he very eve of the died John Tyler was ceremonial day, in Williamsburg and did not reach the heir to the Washington until two days after the throne fell ill. All appointed date. Tyler took the oath celebration was on April 6, 1841, in Browns hotel in called off. And the presence of members of the then on the day cabinet. after the event The next emergency installation was to have taken took place when Andrew Johnson place, as the na- took the oath in the Kirkwood hotel y tion waited a few hours after Abraham Lincoln to hear the fate of its had died from an assassin's bullet a shocking and ludiThe first time that a President was crous thing occurred. sworn In away from Washington One of the countrys leading newssince it had become the nation's papers came out with a report of capital was when the coronation, mentioning even Chester Arthur took the oath In his minor details just as if it occurred own home in New Yprk City shortly (and just as It did occur later). after the news came of President James Garfields death at Long waa This journalistic faox-pa- a Beach. forgotten by most people outside When President William McKinof the profession, bat I was to be reminded of it when I went to ley was shot at the Theodore work 'on a rival newspaper In exposition, Roosevelt hurried to Buffalo in time London many years later and tu take the oath in the home of Ans-le- y heard the tale retold as a gTim Wilcox on the same day the Jourto and pressmen warning President expired. And most of us nalists. are familiar with the scene In the The editor of the erring journal little Northampton home where by was think he much didnt taking lamplight a father, as the witnessof a chance. He knew the coronatook the oath of his tion program never varied from the ing notary, son, and Calvin Coolidge succeedto one another 'of reign sovereign ed Warren Harding who had passed Up until that time, I suppose, no a ay a few hours before In a San English king had ever been rash Francisco hotel. ill to and become change enough When Franklin Roosevelt died .the program. at Warm Springs in 1945, Harr) As a matter of fact, I didn't take the warning seriously. Lair l was - Truman- - took the oath 1b the White House executive wing. ame to insert much color in my was "public" in the sense This a royal report of the wedding of that the door to the little offlfce German princess by the simple exwas open, and photographers pedient of translating a story of the and newsmen, this one among ndptial ceremonies of her brother them, looked over each other's which had appeared In a Berlin heads from the crowded cornewspaper some years before. ridors. But no one could attempt to write up the inauguration of an American Some Variations President from the account of a Took Place previous ceremony. A mere two Another circumstance has affectcenturies Is short enough in a naed the procedure of the accession to tion's history, to be sure, but many office. Because of the variability of changes have taken place in our the calendar, March fourth has four habits and customs since George times fallen on Sunday. Until Wood-roWashington took over the presidenWilson took the oath on Suntial oath of office. day, March 4. 1917, in the PresiIt is sale that George Washdents room In the Capitol, no President had ventured to keep the law ington never considered himself and violate the Sabbath. America's first President, never re erred to himself or was rePresident Monroe on succeeding himself had announced simply that ferred to by hie contemporaries he would take the oath on Monday, as sorb, since others served beMarch 5. In 1849. the same thing fore him nnder the first constioccurred In the case Of President tution. The United States was Zachary Taylor But for some reaalready a nation, recognised as son. President Rutherford Hayes acsuch by the presence of foreign ambassadors on tpril 30, 1789, tually became President before his time. He was secretly sworn in on the day Washington took the oath of office. Saturday, the third, the ceremony on the fifth in public The position of the previous being repeated It has been For some was years presidents" largely honorary considered necessary for an outand not filled by popular vote, and going President, If there Is one, when the day came to Invest Washto take part In the ceremony. new with the there powers, ington His presence has been as much was no precedent, no set of rules to follow expected In the carriage or automobile which carries both New York was the capital, and men to the Capitol as the PresidenGeneral Washington set out from t-Elect. This was not always Mount Vernon to New York on the both and the Adamses made so, long journey which turned out to it a point to absent themselves, be a spontaneous tour of triumph (he former leaving the ritv bewith a reception at every city along fore the ceremony, and the oththe way er taking a horseback ride at There was no dearth of ideas as the moment when the guns to the social program. A boomed out the salute to his barge, accompanied by a bitterly-hate- d opponent. whole flotilla of private craft, earPresident-Electhe t the across the ned Perhaps inaugural day- first Hudson, and . he - was wined and began to take on, its present- com dined and welcomed with plexion with the advent of PresiJames Madison People giiards of' honor sur- dent - -"thronged into the capital and the rounding him., But when it earn to the actual first inaugural ball was held Presia- - deadlock occurred.' dent Monroe. - who followed him, Ceremony, the The Benate argued for an hour as to gave us another precedent whether it should receive the new presence of the marine band But it chief executive seated or whether was left to Martin VanBuren to the members should rise Indeed, b'ear a unique honor He was the tney might be talking still if the first American born citizen to hold house of representatives had not that office Up until his time the auddenly appeared. Washington Presidents were all former British then entered the building with due subjects Because of the war and a desire pomp and finally wa led to an outas door balcony where the crowds of to emphasize the fourth-term- " Broad street witnessed his oath. little as possible, the 1945 Inauguration ceremonies of Franklin D That part of the ceremony Roosevelt took place on the White the taking ot the oath out of House portico instead of on a platta now an established doors form on the east front of the Capitol precedent, although It was eibuilding which is now accepted as ther forgotten or Ignored until the usual location James Monroes day The chamNo outgoing President will ride of or the senate the ber house with Harry Truman this year, but where it took place until Monone ex President may attend the roe's time waa, however, usualThe warm feeling ceremonies of to aa the pubmany ly open which exists between the former lic aa could find room. small town boy from Missouri and Circumstance has contributed to the wealthy retired engineer will variations in the program. Besides undoubtedly assure Herbert Hoover the moving of the capital In the a place of honor if he wishes to early days there have been the accept it bare-heade- anxi-ipusl- Vice-Preside- Vice-Preside- w flower-bedecke- d -- gaily-.'bedizen- I RED FACES: In Pentagon WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS NOTF Newspaper When opinion Cnteos bw Indonesia; There were red faces In the Pentagon building, seat of army bureaucracy. A citizens comrhittee had declared flatly that the nation s military establishment is "cumbersome and costly" despite reported ore evprcMtd la tbci calamus, they ar these of analysis end aot neeessarUy of lltlt newspaper ) unification. The members speculated that Russia might be trying to achieve victory by bankruptcy in forcing the United States into constantly A Reporter Cross-Examin- es Some Ghosts. Dr. Hialmar Schacht will again go to trial in a few weeks. He was convicted of being a top Nazi and sentenced to 10 years. The ,Jpper Court reversed1 this decision and set him free. The Final Court bat reversed the Lppr Court and ordered btm brought bach to trial. If reporters were allowed to and ghosts could be subpoenaed ibis is something you'd be likely to - If the water is hard add a tablespoon of baking soda before washing your hair with your favorite shampoo. It will soften the water and help dissolve the accumulations of dust, leaving your hair soft and clean. ' increasing military expansion. or scalding vegeBlanching THAT APPRAISAL came from a tables immediately before quick committee of the Commission on freezing prevents loss of flavor Organization of the Executive and color and makes certain that Branch of Government, established the vegetables keep their food by the last congress Former Presivalue during storage. dent Herbert Hoover heads the whole commission, Ferdinand Eber-stad- t, New York financier, is chairEasy to make and extra good for fruit salads is a dressing of man of the unit reporting on nalemon juice and honey. Blend tional security. Ollier members include educators, newspapermen and equal parts or vary to taste. Question: What is your name? business executives. while . . . Answer: Adolf Hitler. Blackened copper utensils can The committee said that unification had made the United Q' Was Hjalmar Schacht a top be brightened with a mixture of States far better prepared, the cost Nazi . . . Hitler: When I lost table salt and lemon juice. Rinse of were the July, 1932 elections, even be- in lukewarm water. defense preparations WAR IN INDONESIA . . Describing the offensive as police action fore I took over, Schacht wrote me: in terms of money, high alarmingly against Indonesian terrorists, the Dutch government managed to But what you could perhaps do on and resources. dram Driftwood, if you can get it, is manpower Invade the Indonesian republic by land, sea and air in time to enable It cited mistakes it said had been with In these days is a word of good to use in the fireplace, since Dutch troops to spend Christmas on Java. The capital city, JogjaYour the salts in it make pretty colored made by the armed forces, hence most sincere sympathy. karta (1), was captured in the first hours of fighting, and the Nethermovement is carried by so strong flames. the red faces in the Pentagon. lands forces moved easily .through Indonesia in an almost bloodless ' It added that President Truman a truth . . . that victory cannot occupation. To remove paint from washablf elude you for long You can always mignt well have asked for comfabric, scrape oil fresh paint ,..J plete mobilization if he had followed count on me as your reliable asDUTCH PUSH: the estimate that "an immediate sistant wash m warm suds. If stain 'has PEACE FEELER: Into Indonesia dried, soften first with vasel ne, military effort was afoot abroad, with turpentine. rather than an intensification of the Q: Did Schacht ever raise money then sponge The young Indonesian republic To China Reds . . . Hitler: By the milfor cold war Wash suds. warm m you? Time was vas fallen on evil days. Dutch troops really running out for The agency making the mistake lions of marks. That was how I of raced through Java and Suihatra the Nationalist government not identified in the report, but won the March, 1933, elections. was If your family likes the flavqr of Chinas Generalissimo Chiang in a bloodless occupation, threatenDid he know what the money garlic try sprinkling carrot and stemmed it was Q: there speculation Yat-seSun of Dr Sun Fo, son ing the remaining important centers for? . . . Hitler: Yes, I bluntly celery sticks with a dash of garof the republic. revered "father of the Chinese from the air force It appeared, too, was the industrialists Schacht had lic salt before serving. told somehow lost that had the army was at the helm as DUTCH MARINES had forged to republic, to the meeting that I inof its tanks. of track 9,000 brought a and had the outskirts of the Republican premier put together to tended destroy the parliamen- Fantastic Story-Tellin- g armys only oil center on Java. new cabinet We have to fight on," TAFT: tary system in Germany, crush all Other Netherlands forces, in a light- he told the cabinet, "until we can internal opposition by force, build Is Normal in Children with Main Event ning thrust through western Suma- secure an honorable peace up the Wehrmacht and gain my tra, were within 40 miles of the the Communists. Ohios U. S. Sen. Robert A. Taft, objectivea outside of Germany by chief Republican city on that Island THUS WAS the cat out of the bag "Mom, theres an elephant in longtime big wheel in Republican the use of force. back yard and hes eight feet the Indications were plain that if notha talk conceded in reDecrying charges of war and Inparty affairs, Q: And what was Schacht I just saw him and he high' ing could be worked out with with capital newsmen that he faces action? . . . Hitler: He collected vasion, the Dutch termed their activities police action." Weftl ahead Chiang in the saddle, he might be a fight for his political life ih 1950. several million marks for me on smiled right at me!" Ridiculous7 Of course. But what an idea for a of their time-tablthe Dutch had unhorsed and peace brought to TO ONE newsman who asked if the spot, following my speech. the next time Jimmys effected advances with practically troubled China by other hands. he bad any Ideas of seeking the Q: Is there any official record of story no bloodshed. peSuns statement, which could be presidency In 1952, Taft replied, "I this? . . . Hitler: United States teacher calls for story-tellin- g International diplomats turned viewed as a peace feeler toward am going to run for the senate two Documents, Nazi Aggression, Vol- riod. Dont worry if your youngster years from now. Frankly, my eyes ume 2, Chapter 16, Page 741. yes toward Washington where the the Reds, came as the Commusuddenly begins telling stories. It United States had been formally nists tightened their squeeze on the cant see a thing beyond Novemwill shock you at first, but imagiber 2, 1950 or whatever the date asked to grant "political and eco- big northern city of Tientsin. Q: Herr Goebbeis, did you nation is a good thing if it is dinomic" aupport to the tiny repubAfter hi comment about an is. Its going to be a major conconsider Hjalmar Schacht a top rected in proper channels. Its lic. The Indonesian minister had test." honorable peace, Sun added: Nasi? . . . Goebbeis: As early Taft was only admitting what all further asked serious consideration your job to give tall tales the emas Nov. 21, 1932, I made the "I CAN ASSURE you that we Ohio have known and of U. S. cutting off of Marshall-pla- n will not politicians phasis due them, and give direcIn my following . . diary: entry . surrender outright all labor people are saying To to that imagination, aid to the Netherlands be- Such a tion with Dr. conversation a In surrender, he said, would cause of the Dutch action in the mean them, the only question remaining I that assured myself Schacht, the "scuttling East Indies. he absolutely represents our front and "China would be- is who his "Democratic opponent The Dutch announcement on the come a second Poland or Czecho- will be. point of view. He is one of the TAFT RECALLED that he had outbreak of hostilitiea aaid: few who accepts the Fuehrer slovakia which I am trying to preread some place that labor has FOLLOWING a breakdown of vent." entirely. Schacht himself adthree million dollars to spend, and Miscellaneous Informal talks with the republic mits this. Indeed, on Schachts Failure of any enthusiastic recepCalif. Datea, figs, mammoth prunes, 5 lb they probably will spend one milafter lta failure to comply with its tion to Madame Chlangs sixtieth birthday, I ordered carton any one $ 2 10 postpaid, 3 cartons "help, lion in Ohio. truce obligations or to reply to the anv one or assorted $5 oO, express prepaid. the Voelkischer Beobachter, to of visit and Washington please" Other fruits, shelled nuts, olives available Standing firm on Issues which 11. tiers official paper, to exlast Dutch pota asking for a bind- the nationalist armies to stem the CALIFftUIT Calimesa, California out of debt to Dr. Hitlers ing declaration on four essential Communist hordes combined to may ultimately drive him press nodefinite served Taft the senate, Schacht. It did in this lanpoints, the Netherlands government dim any hope for survival of the tice of his unyielding opposition to reluctantly finds Itself obliged to present nationalist guage: In the critical period Planning for the Future? regime. any administration move to repeal take military action against terSchacht never 1933, before y law outright. the Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! rorist activities and undisciplined GOOD NEWS: failed to point at Adolf Hitler elements In the republic who render of leader as the only possible FARMERS: any constructive policy impossible." About Food These questions, the Reich. Mr. Prosecutor, are silly. They The Indonesians had ome supOut of the welter of news of bad No Croesus are established as war crimes port. An American member of the things that might happen, came Contrary to a supposition among 8. and E. C. (2409-United Nations good offices comexhibits news reof food among them good many citizens, farmers were not mittee charged the Dutch had vio- port of prospects of lower 499). Do Americans not read on "boom time rich prices. getting prices lated the Indonesian truce agreetheir own rect ds? during 1949. THE NATIONAL Planning assoment signed laat January after the vOR various food authis out when it raised DT first abortive war In Java had ended. thoritiesINSTANCE, that increased ciation found Should VJBC.1L Q: Yours was so bad. Dr. Goebthe question: farmers use predicted It turned their stomachs that beis, food supplies would reduce to some profits from record-higfarm prices U. S. DECISION: extent the cost of setting the na- to buy more Indoor plumbing, give in the first few pages and they it. That is all. Next All Settled tions tables in the coming 12 their children better educations, or couldnt finish . . . Herr Goering, where witness. or should U it cornea to war with Russia, months. Comments to this effect take a trip to EuWpe7 did you get the money to rebuild where will the United States stand? were forthcoming from the annual they buy more land and expand the German army? . . . Answer: Issue of of in the the their farms making Dr. Schacht hope Diplomatic informants had no arranged it. He stole doubt at to the answer. Their National Grocers bulletin, a publi- more money? the savings of the German people Associated of National the Association cation The staid, was firm and immediate: competent opinion them to Hitler Press sampled farmer opinion on by merely lending The United States Is prepared, even of Retail Grocers. that he intestified Schacht himself Results: Many in advance of a formal military Too, various indexes of wholesale these questions. vented a system which "enabled made had denied farmers any Its to food showed they coordinate the military prices alliance, price level Reichsbank to lend by a subter"boom time profits, claiming that the forces In Europe with those of the declining. to the government what it fuge catIt must have been the western western European powers In the In the grocers bulletin, Agriculnot do." who normally or legally could wheat tlemen and growers event of open conflict with Rusture Secretary Brannan said: This is documented in the war Vtt the all made money. sia. "The United States has entered trials (3728 P. S ). Not only that. W They contended, generally, that IF SHOOTING ever starts, these the door of the year of plenty. he forced the the high price of labor and farm Schacht boasted that officials said, American forces FOOD RETAILERS added rosy opponents of Hitler to build his machinery ate up the profits. would come under the general oper- tints to the A obserarmaments by loaning their dewith the picture ational control of the western Eu- vation that to besides These are Nazis the prices, declining silly posits ropean commander, Field Marshal slightly, would be more stable In A questions. Your own documents 2 Viscount Montgomery, of Britain it. 1949 than they have been in the if that Isnt enough But them. prove Montgomery Is chairman of the postwar years. why call our ghosts to the stand military staff committee of the TB, in just 7 days ... in one short week ... when Dr. Schacht is alive? householders and Breadwinners western European union. a group of people who changed from (heir Both news the warmly. But these sources added that greeted Q: Why do you suggest that? . . . old dentifrices loCalox Tooth Powder avercould stand a lot of price slashing there Is no reason now more than as an ease in such other Goering: As on- - of the greatest aged 38 brighter teeth by scientific test. aggravat there ever has been to consider criminals of all time, my record Why not change to Calox yourself? Buy as and automobile that war with Russia is close at lng problems would not be complete unless 1 Calox dollar housing dwindling so your shortages, today hand or unavoidable. In fact, it was ratted on my accomplices. I think teeth can value in other fields, drafting of the looking a'art said top officials have great hope nation's the Nazis presented the most magand threats to peace tomorrow! that the building up of real power aboard. youth nificent panorama of depravity in brighter f In the western world by devices the worlds history as they counter-acas the military arrangement I such cused each other from the for western Europe will discourage DOPE: witness stand. the Russians from committing any Feuer Addicts overt act. Q: Will the Court call Dr. 1 Federal narcotic agents could TTIE COUNTRIES In the western Schacht? . . . Dr. Schacht, please a take fewer there were, breather & Bobbin Inc Bridgeport, Coma MtKenon European union, Britain, Belgium, answer yes- or no 'to the following dope addicts In the United States. France, the Netherlands and Luxquestions: At the Leipzig Fair, on r.ow in with the Three are experts, writing negotiating embourg March 4, 1935, did you say in a Smiling happily as on!ya Journal of the American Medical the United States on more perma149 public speech:- - I assure you that WNU W Trincess young mother can, declared there are nent military arrangements. Their Association, all 1 am doing and saying enjoys Elisabeth poses with her baby embassies are working with U. S only 48,000 narcotic addicts in the the absolute approval of the Fuehafter the royal Infant had been state department officials to draft nation now. and most of them are rer and that I would never do or PhilPrince Charles christened a north Atlantic region security men. These experts declared that say anything that does not have High-Scho- ol Graduates ip Arthur George of Edinburgh. alliance by which the United States the number of drug users has his approval"? . . Schacht: It is The prince took all the pomp would be committed to help any dwindled from between 150,000 to a public document, in your own and circumstance with tongue member nations If any of them 200,000 in 1914 to sbout 48,000 at archives. No. EC 503. In cheek and thumb in mouth. were attacked. the last count. CHOOSE YOUR CAREER Drug addiction Is a symptom of POLL-TOPPERQ: Did you tell the Pomeranian IN A GROWING Can't Stay There a basic underlying personality malchamber In Stettin on economic to exthe adjustment, according Mr. Truman "In Germany PROFESSION! January i9, 1936: Housing remained critical. In Deperts, and victims fall into five If there is anything to the adage general classes. These are. in the troit, four families with a total of there is fortunately only one policy, bout he who laughs last laughs order of their numerical importance faced eviction from to work with Hitler, for his goals 15 children, pm lo girl nnder 35, are the highest satisfaction for best, Hrrry S. Truman should be graduate and THOSE WHO become accidentalliving quarters they had set up in college girl. chuckling fit to kill himself. The families, all every member of the people' com ly addicted while taking drugs for voting booths m unity? . . . Schacht; Ja. more opportunities avert the pollHe not only pole-axe- d Illness; those who take drugs to aole to pay rent, were allowed to year for the gradoatenarae. sters with his election victory but. relieve psychoneurotic symptoms; use the vacant wooden polling Qr Did you unveil Hitlers beat preparation for both snatching a hair from the dog that psychopathic persons who learn shacks when they were unable to and bust at the Reichsbank on bit them, he turned up as the "most through association with other ad find other housing marriage. July 31, 1935, and did you say: admired man in the world, as far diets, persons with real mental ill An ofTcial ordered the children ask for nor Information a Americans are concerned And "Germany stays or falls with ness who feel bttter uh le lak.ng taken to hospitals or childrens si tha hospital where yon the success of the policy of the would like to enter nursing. lion es ana gave the parents more he did it In a poll Dr George Galth be drugs, and a minor giot ; Fuehrer? . . . Schacht: Ja. t.n e to find u i.irters havior or charaiter lup's poll, In fact. cross-exami- j Kai-she- n, ; Classified Department Taft-Hartle- DO h Prince Charlie kdf aL ... POVDZn. TOOTS S: higb-tcho- -- |