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0 ee eee UR fo Tingere ara having diffie-ities 4 . - ,~. both the joh of National Civilian’h | ‘ais , } , and that of mayor the éne tig st Whely : . X ‘ 4 * thd, Wal’ eeye-for' the first Axis ton .. air raid, FOCED VEDI COM LO fem ir ne Bvegl pome “Of “his beat friends would tell him— “ “hay ould reach him—that the task to make Man- i ° / . mn pecure more than enough for one man. +t ‘ say Hia Honor's heart je in She right place ze PIE OP Oy . % . moves around so much you can never find | ¢ place. sky .attacks and Jeft his own front yard without * even @ plan. Back he came and iasued 30 many or- ‘ 3shon ‘ders that the City Hall clerks ran out of mimengraph Tse Paper. Timid souls had the jitters and skeptics said, “All thi talk about bombing A) Smith's Enmipire State Building is = lot of bunk.” The city set up | a huge warning stren that was supposed to chill the: steadlest spine, When tt croaked nobody heard 31. | Now the Board of Estimates has handed the mayor & million dollars to put up as many horns as one | ‘ finds loose on New Year's Eve. , Whether La Gusrdia will give up his douhle-bar- | /Feled job is something which only horestopers dare | answer, Most everyone admits thal if he stuck {o hia desk hin administrative talents would give New | RON TON 1¥ork such protection that a raid would be handirg| 2” defense. Cer- &% as carily xa an ardinary traffic jam. But a great i Roing to approach , epany also say that even the versatile mayor cannot | der the present Carry out a cool, practical defense program foggegy the war. civilian “own home town if he has to take time out 1 ome so important Calexico, Walla Walla. and the rest of the cof 93% whole that it ta i ——- ge a Febhould continue in the } Fmaxor of New hands of half-time amateurs. It : e . tax the powers of endur-|is a business for the War Depart- ‘ |ance and occupy all the thought|ment. not for the busy Mayor of ‘fand time of any man. But, in ad-!}New York or the well-meaning wife ition, Mr, La Guardia is.a mem-l[of the President. Tha President ber of the Canadian-Amecrican De-|knows all this and is ahxioua to fenge Board, which Involves numer-leffect. a reorpanization. He bas ous mectings, considerable travel/ said as much very recently. . and. js anything but unimportant. —_— o *. * Just Folks ow rer er ie "|THE Mavor is able and honest, but that de-« “at mean that he is ca- { | pable of taking on this OCD job! t [and doing it well The fact je that ne Pootes# o *.. dt wet) at all. The fact is - { jUnat at isa very badly demoralized By Edgor Guest { jatate. The confusion was preat { orate we got into the war, His] prayey for Christmas Week ! jmauch greater now—so great, in ° d, we come With -tact, dbat it horders on the outra- This Wever dear Lor reat The best evidence of this] and pleading for especial care. ne ; tig that the President himself is Bee ere to atl any ele. " part .ibed over the situation. So} ang everywhere Thr children dwell . ae Reod many others. Unwit-] we ask of Thee to keep them well. ‘. |ungiv, of course, Mra, Roosevelt be gon | {nas contributed no little to the con- ae eee ear eee one. aie ‘ ifmsion. In the firat place, herland grant te Hitle girls and boys : [activities ate apread all over the |The strength to pisy with ell thelr * Blase. She does a daily syndicated | we ask this naw as 80 would He © ~ _ ltewapaper article; she makes &/ Who said: “Let children come to met il weekly: red . : ry. an Ve - fo broadcast, sponsored pleas se pal : : cong zation anvwhere. They both have averat gifts for publicity, and there hardiv a day in which, in her » WAY, Mrs, Roosevelt does eee out some More or jess By Wit '*M RIT The United States covernment has put a han on civilian night fying except by permit. This plies to everyonr, we hasten “ta, assure Junior, except Santa on . * we : ‘The Japabese navy may priage of courage, but ++ wel] = Fah