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AIR BASES
Cabled reaction from Tokyo indi
cated that the Japanese were suspi
cious that something more than ap
peared on the surface was behind
Cordell Hull’s warning against the
invasion of French Indo-China.
In this, they were right. There
was.
Nobody in the navy department is
shouting it from the housetops, but
the U. S. fleet—or at least most of
it—will now remain in the Pacific.
Previously it was considered nec
essary to bring the fleet from Ha
|waii and California in order to sta
tion most of it around Panama and j
the Caribbean. This would have
made it impossible to keep a watch
ful eye on Japanese operations in the
direction of the Malays and the j
Dutch East Indies—all-important !
sources of American tin and rubber, j
Probably it will still be necessary
to bring a few ships to the Atlantic
side of the canal. But the island j
base deal with Great Britain has
now made it possible to police most
of the Caribbean and the Atlantic
seaboard by air instead of by sea,
* • ♦
NAVAL NOTES
At first the chief improvement to
the new U. S. bases on British is
lands will be airports. Not only are
they needed immediately, but also
nrc cheapest and quickest to con
struct. Naval bases, which mean
oil tanks and repair facilities, lake
time to build and may never be
constructed to any great extent. The
U. S. navy will take advantage of
British naval facilities for the lime
being.
Significant was the fact that many
of the over-age destroyers being
sold to England were fitted out with
cables to neutralize magnetic mines
even before the deal was published
by the President. In other words,
there had been no real doubt for a
week or so before the announce
ment that the deal would be closed.
Negotiations for naval bases by
no means are terminated. What the
navy wants more than anything else
is a good base in Brazilian waters,
and if possible one in Uruguay. In
formal conversations regarding a
Brazilian base have been going on
for some lime.
♦ ♦ •
IT. S, REARMAMENT DRIVE
The bottleneck of American re
armament is factory expansion.
In order to produce more planes,
guns and tanks, new factories are
necessary. And part of the delay
has resulted from a wrangle over
how taxes shall be paid on these
new plant expansions.
In fairness to industry, it should
be noted that many of its leaders
have gone ahead and financed their
own plant expansion without wait
ing to see what the tax picture would
bo. In fact some industrialists were
far-sighted enough to begin more
than a year ago. Companies which
did this include;
New York Shipbuilding, Newport
News Shipbuilding, Bethlehem Ship
building, Bath Iron Works, Federal
Shipbuilding, Midvale Steel, Carne
gic-Illinois Steel, Bethlehem Steel,
Bausch and Lomb, General Elec
tric, Ford Instrument company, Edo
Aircraft, Grumman Aircraft, Brew
ster Aeronautical, Eclipse Aviation
and Walter Kidde.
Probably the list takes in many
others. And because of their far
sightedness, these firms not only are
reaping good profits for themselves
but also doing a service for the gov
ernment. For instance, the Elco
company of Bayonne, N. J., put up
an $BOO,OOO plant extension about a j
year ago in order to manufacture
motor-torpedo (“mosquito”) boats.
As a result, it is now turning over
to the navy one new, and badly
needed, mosquito boat each week.
However, among many other man
ufacturers there has been backing
and filling over factory expansion
and how the new plants will be
taxed and financed. There is no
question but this dickering has defi
nitely slowed up the defense pro
gram.
Powder Shortage Serious,
Powder is the bottleneck of na
tional defense. Without it not a shot |
can be fired, not even a revolver.
And today’s powder shortage is most !
serious.
It is to avoid these shortages in
the future, not only in regard to
powder, but also other essentials of
modern warfare that the govern
ment is anxious to build some of its
own plants, or at least obtain a lien
on them.
This also would solve the lax prob
lem, because industry would have
no need to ask for early amortiza
tion on its emergency expenditures.
Government Arms Plants.
There are three general plans:
One is the arsenal, completely
owned and operated by the govern
ment, such as the Frankford arsenal
in Philadelphia.
Two is the factory completely
owned and operated by private in
dustry. This was the practice em
ployed during the World war.
Three is a compromise system
whereby the government buys the
ground and erects the factory, then
lets the private manufacturer step
in and operate the plant for a man
agement fee.
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Kathleen Norris Says:
What Is This Thing Marriage , Anyway?
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
Ilf fore the first anniversary Dan was deeply attracted to one of the nurses in
his uncles’ office.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
ONE of the most disillu
sioned and discouraging
letters I ever received
came to my desk some weeks
1 ago from a woman named
Mary Baker. She is 32, has been
married eight years, and she
says she is scared.
“Dan and I married for love,
and for six or seven months we
revelled in our love and home
and plans,” she writes. “But
before the first anniversary Dan
was deeply attracted to one of
the nurses in his uncles’ office.
He works with two dentist
uncles.
The affair worried him, made him
ashamed and unhappy; presently
the girl married and Dan got over
it. But it shook the ground under
my feet, and I never felt quite the
same confidence in him again.
“He was thrilled when our little
boy was born, and said he hoped we
would have three or four children.
But Peter was not a year old when
1 went away to the country for three
weeks and during my absence Dan
carried on an affair with a divorced
woman, who had always said she
was my friend. When I got home
he confessed that he had been car
ried away by temporary emotional
excitement, and that it was over,
but Mrs. B. came to see me, show
ing me a letter in which Dan had
written that if I would give him a
divorce they could be married.
Bears Sorrow Silently.
“This disgusted me, and I had a
time of despair. For weeks I did
| not speak to Dan, and as I would
not tell even my own mother of
what had occurred I had a lonely
and uncomfortable time. Eventual
ly we were reconciled in a sort of
surface fashion, and after some
months, convinced of his reform, I
returned to his room and enjoyed
a short time of confidence and
happiness. Our second son was
born, and Dan was so devoted to
all three of us, and so helpful and
patient that I thought myself a for
tunate woman, and that our troubles
were over.
“My boys are now six and three.
And Dan is again in love, this time
with a woman so cheap and ordinary
that it is unbelievable to me that
any man could fall for her, least of
all Dan!
Marriage in the Modern Manner.
“Now, I know your advice. I’ve
been reading your column all my
married life. I know all about being'
independent of anyone else for my
happiness, and building a life around
myself and my boys. But what I
j want to ask is, what is marriage?
If it is a relationship that nine times
out of ten grows irksome and stupid
to both parties after a few years,
and is maintained only because of
children, or society, or family dig
nity, or business considerations, isn’t
iit a failure? Most of my friends
1 are already taking a sort of serio
j comic attitude toward their mates.
■To a great many of them the sud
den ending of. the married state,
through any cause, would be a great
relief. Don’t you believe this is
true of all but the exceptional mar
riages? The husband enduring all
sorts of defects in his wife, the wife
setting her teeth to force herself
to put up with her man’s limita
tions, peculiarities and general
cussedncss.
“What’s the answer, if this is
true? Is a wife to go on for 30
more years, blandly accepting, as
in my case, the fact that any flat
tering unscrupulous woman can
make a fool of her husband, break
up whatever happiness remains in
her home, give her friends a chance
to pity or laugh at her, and then,
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA
DIVORCE
Social changes which have occurred
in the past hundred years seem to
have removed the stigma from divorce,
Kathleen Norris observes. She is con
fronted hy a young wife who has an
unfaithful husband, asking if divorce
is the only solution to her problem, or
if there is any better way she can find
happiness. Miss Norris advises her not
to seek a divorce, but to develop other
interests.
when the infatuation is over, blandly
forget and forgive and go on as if
nothing had happened? Where is
my dignity, where is that future
toward which all women want to
build, a future of security and peace,
with children growing up, and gar
den, home, friendships, trips, vaca
tions all shared with a real com
panion? And is it my fault that Dan
has no desire to plan for such a fu
ture, but pays mo attention only
when he is not interested in some
one else?
A Five Year Plan.
“My own idea is that all mar
riages ought automatically to be
cancelled at about five years, at
which time the man and woman
should be forced to live apart for
six months or so, to see how each
feels about resuming the relation
ship. It is frightful to feel that the
step you took confidently in girlhood
is holding you in prison for life.’’
That is only part of the letter, but
sufficient to show that Mary is one
of the great class of wives who feel
a childish despair upon discovering
that husbands are just human be
ings after all, selfish and stupid and
subject to flattery and apt to get
bored with home ties of wife, chil
dren, familiar dinner table, domes
tic routine.
Stigma of Divorce Removed.
Truly today’s husband is a little
more trying along these lines than
his father was, because of social
changes in the last 50 years. With
divorce so common an escape, mar
riage has indeed come to be some
thing of what Mary hints, at least to
those whose religious scruples do
not prohibit divorce. Many a
marriage breaks up in its fourth,
or fifth, or seventh year, and many
state laws insist upon a period
during which the couple, who seek
divorce, may have a chance to think
things over in cool blood. Fifty
years ago a husband had to stand
by his wife, and a wife by her home
and children, for divorce carries a
bitter stigma, and few women could
become self-supporting. These re
strictions are swept away now, an
enormous percentage of the names
in the Social Register are those of
divorced men and women, and what
the Social Register does the less
prominent circles think it right to do.
So that the flirtatious detached
woman your husband meets in his
business may well feel that she is
free to win him and hold him.
Cure Same Today as Yesterday.
There were abuses and difficul
ties and domestic martyrs in the
old days, of course. But also there
was stability, there was security,
and both those things are very valu
able. The disappointed wife turned
her spurned affections to other
things, she grew all the stronger
and more self-reliant as she aban
doned the futile chase toward “hap
piness,” and learned to make other
people happy instead of herself.
And even today in her home and
garden and kitchen, with her books,
pets, children, friendships, with the
letter-writing that was so remark
able a feature of a woman's life a
hundred years ago, and today with
movies, motor trips, radio, with all
the world’s best music boxed for
her convenience and with small
neighbors needing mothering, any
woman can form for herself a life
of beauty and use and content, in
side of the jail that she calls mar
riage, more easily than outside it.
f^GENERAL
HUGH S *
JOHNSON
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CAMPAIGN WEAKNESSES
WASHINGTON. You certainly
nave to hand it to the old master in
the White House for his ability to
keep the show going all by himself
and to conduct a brilliant political
campaign without even seeming to
know that one is going on.
He is doing it in scintillating fash
ion. He is getting away with it.
He isn’t even being seriously chal
lenged by what should be his opposi
tion. Maybe Mr. Willkie is just wind
ing up, but he is taking a painfully
long time about it.
Public enthusiasm is a fickle jade.
Mr. Willkie’s performance in taking
the nomination away from the pro
fessionals at Philadelphia was as
spectacular a show as Mr. Roose
velt’s getting the naval and air
bases. It captivated the country,
but, as the President knows so well,
a popular figure has got to keep the
glass balls dancing.
Mr. Willkie, himself, apparently
relies more on Orrin Root’s ama
teur Willkie clubs than on the Re
publican party organizations in the
several states. That is a mistake
that Mr. Roosevelt never made. He
had all kinds of amateur clubs, too,
Businessmen’s Roosevelt for Presi
dent clubs, the Good Neighbor
league and as many others as could
be thrown together.
These don’t have to putter around
depending on emergency organiza
tion and manufactured enthusiasm.
They depend on dough and, Hatch
act or no Hatch act, money still
talks. Mr. Roosevelt has 10 billions
to spend. Yet, with all that intri
cate pattern of decentralized region
al organization, Mr. Roosevelt never
neglected the good old Democratic
political organization. On the con
trary, he relied on it, rewarded it,
reorganized it, and built it up to a
greater strength and on a wider
range than any Democratic organi
zation had ever known before. Mr.
Willkie may have been nominated in
spite of the professionals, but he
certainly cannot be elected without
them.
He can’t be elected without mak
ing election issues either. The am
munition is there by the ton—cais
sons bursting with it. But no shell
is worth its cost without a gun to
shoot it. I always thought the Presi
dent was wrong in condemning
“Yes-But” men in off-term debate
of issues but you can’t get any
where in a political campaign if all
you have learned to say is “Yes-
But.” You have got to learn to say
“No Sir!” and make it emphatic
and convincing enough to be heard
and carry conviction.
I didn’t expect that any candidate
or any party would ever again make
the terrific blunders of the Alf Lon
don campaign, but so far this Re
publican campaign looks enough like
it to be its twin.
* * *
The high command of both the po
litical armies appear reasonably
confident and tranquil, but the great
general staff of each is in a dither,
i For the Democrats, the loss of
!Jim Farley on the eve of the battle
of the third term was some such
icatastrophe as would be the loss of
Hitler to the Nazis before a decision
in the Battle of Britain. Mr. Flynn,
.make no mistake about it, is a very
[able man with a better basic brain,
f think, than his great predecessor.
But Mr. Flynn’s field command
[has been restricted to the Battle of
[the Bronx and this great American
terrain is a very different matter.
•Even on his own ground, Mr. Flynn
[will have to wait until the great
[boss - buster, Tom Dewey, gets
through with him.
1 Mr. Flynn’s Bronx empire was
Jjust a little imitation, competition
Tammany. I don’t know what bones
are buried in that realm—but may
be Mr. Dewey does.
On the Republican side, campaign
manager Joe Martin is as active as
[a night prowling tom-cat on a tin
roof dodging missiles and talking
back, but that is in congress—not
the campaign. The purely politi
cal general staff is therefore, leader
iess and accordingly disorganized.
.There isn’t even a speech-factory.
I There is no strategy board of elder
(statesmen—or rather, seasoned poli
ticians. Mr. Willkie fascinates ev
erybody who sees him or hears him
talk extemporaneously either on a
chair or platform, but there are 130,-
000,000 people in this country and
he can’t see them all.
There is the radio, but he is not
coached to click there and in spite
of the wailing of several such speech
experts as Haines Falconer that he
has a natural equipment with which
he could promptly be made the
greatest radio orator of our time, a
combination of diffidence and rug
ged individualism prevents that. A
great opportunity seems to be trem
bling in the balance.
♦ * •
WASHINGTON.—Senator Pepper
Wants the President to have the
power to “suspend all statutes” in
preparing for defense and, imagin
ing that he is Patrick Henry, shouts;
*-if this be dictatorship, make the
most of it.” It happens to be Pat
rick Henry in reverse.
Senator Josh Lee wants the Presi
dent to have power to take the news
papers and radio for “propaganda”
—in other words, to suppress truth
and tell lies to the American people.
In short, they say, we must be
came Nazis to fight Hitler.
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