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RUSSIA AGAIN BUYING COTTON
Here is big news for the South.
Soviet Russia is back in the Ameri
can cotton market.
She already has purchased 58,000
bales, of which 18,000 are en route
via Vladivostok in Greek ships, and
has indicated the total orders may
run as high as 500,000 bales.
To facilitate transportation, the
maritime commission last week
granted sub-charters to Amtorg (the
Soviet trading agency) for three U.
S. freighters, the Carleton, Export
and motor ship Excelsior, which will
load the cotton at Houston and Gal
veston.
The last time Russia bought U. S.
cotton was in the early 19305.
Official Russian explanation for
the U. S. purchases is that under the
latest five-year plan, her spinning
equipment is so rapidly expanding
that she needs more cotton than she
produces. According to the Soviet
buyers their spindle capacity will
reach a point in 1942 which will re
quire a 40 per cent increase in cot
ton supply.
The matter of possible Russian re
export of the U. S. cotton to Germa
ny was one of the subjects dis
cussed by Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles and Soviet Ambas
sador Oumansky, who gave positive
assurances that the cotton was
strictly for Russian use.
• • •
DIPLOMATIC CAPITAL
It looks as if San Francisco is
slated to become the capital for Axis
diplomacy in the United States.
For several years, the city has
been the headquarters of Capt. Fritz
Wiedemann, Hitler’s World war
commander and personal represent
ative in this country. And now he
has been joined by a new Italian
consul general of equal behind-the
scenes eminence. He is Carlo Bos
si, who ranks as high in inner Mus
solini councils as Wiedemann does
in Hitler’s.-*
Bossi, who is carefully avoiding
the limelight, played a leading role
in Italy’s support of General Franco
against the Spanish Loyalists, and is
credited with directing the capture
of Barcelona, the blow that crushed
the Republic. He is strongly anti-
British and has close ties with both
Nazi and Japanese bigwigs.
It was no accident that Bossi as
sumed his San Francisco post short
ly before the announcement of the
Axis-Japanese alliance. From the
Pacific coast city, and working
closely with Wiedemann, he will be
in a strategic position to represent
11 Duce in the Far East.
* * *
NEW SYSTEM FOR ARMY
BUYING
Nothing has been said about it
publicly, but the defense commis
sion has persuaded the army to
make a revolutionary change in its
purchasing methods. It will mean
juicy orders to hundreds of factories
which never had a look in before.
The new system junks the old pro
cedure of advertised bids and sub
stitutes a modified plan of negotiated
contracts. Instead of buying shoes,
shirts, or raincoats in huge quanti
ties from a few large concerns, the
army will purchase these goods a«
far as possible within each of the
nine corps areas.
This means that small local fac
tories will have a chance to obtain
a chunk of the army’s business.
On the basis of orders already
granted under the new system, ex
perts say costs will be no higher
than under the old procedure.
• • •
WINNING ISOLATIONISTS
Very quietly, the administration is
waging a campaign to win over Mid
west isolationist sentiment. Most
striking feature of this campaign is
the distribution of the Bullitt speech
given at Independence hall in Phila
delphia.
This distribution has now reached
the amazing figure of 2,384,000.
After his speech, Bullitt received
no less than 9,000 letters and tele
grams, with unsolicited contribu
tions totaling more than $6,000.
This paid for distribution of the
speech.
Three people saw the Bullitt
speech before it was delivered. One
was Stanley Hornbeck, state depart
ment adviser on Far Eastern af
fairs, who urged, without success,
that Bullitt tone it down. Another
w'as Archibald MacLeish, librarian
of congress, who was elated with it.
The third person was the President.
Note Highlight of the Bullitt
speech was the warning; ‘The Unit
ed States is in as great peril today
as was France a year ago . . . Un
less we act now, decisively, to meet
the threat, we shall be too late.”
• • •
MAIL BAG
S. R., Philadelphia— Any man not
yet 21 may become subject to the
draft whenever the President sets
another registration day. Under the
law he may designate future regis
tration days, and those who have
reached 21 in the interval are then
required to register.
L. P. A., San Mateo, Calif.—Rob
ert Montgomery is not an alien. He
became an American citizen many
years ago. As such he was wholly
within his rights in introducing Will
kie in Hollywood.
Kathleen Norris Says: !
Being Disagreeable Is a Luxury
(Bel) Syndicate—WNU Service.)
He is soured by being held too tightly in a rut; by feeling that Mary and the
girls merely want all the money he cun make, for pleasures and purchases that
mean nothing to him, and that the kindest thing he could do for them would be to
die and leave them the big insurance.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
TO MAKE himself disagree
able is a luxury that costs
a husband very little.
When life goes dull for him;
or his business is worrisome;
when he has nothing to remem
ber of his fishing trip but sun
burn and an unpaid poker debt;
when one child has a cold and
the mouth of the other is disfig
ured by dental bands, then it is
Dad’s royal prerogative to be
disagreeable, and ho has to be a
man of real strength of charac
ter and real sweetness of temper
to be anything else.
Nobody can stop him if he
wants to be disagreeable.
When a man drinks or gam
bles to excess, beats his chil
dren, is unfaithful to his wife,
there is something she can do about
it. But when he merely criticizes,
sulks, snaps and growls, she is help
less unless she wants to turn shrew,
and at the same time turn the house
into a hell for all concerned.
Dad’s Mood Affects All.
Most women don’t do that, if only
for the sake of their own dignity
and for the children. They over
look, they smile, they explain and
placate and endure until the bad
mood passes.
“Dad is in a bad mood tonight,”
they say in an undertone. The chil
dren glance at him apprehensively.
A dismal quiet rules the dinner ta
ble No young voice dares pipe up
about the movie; the approaching
finals at school; the need of new
shoes. Mother makes a few tenta
tive starts.
“Nice that Doctor Smith won the
club golf match,” she says. And
after a moment. “Harriet telephoned
today, just to ask about all of us.
They’ve decided not to move.”
Silence. Silence. The head of the
house looks unutterably weary, looks
faintly annoyed.
“My husband is everything that is
good and fine in character,” writes
a Boston wife, “but he is so glum!
I could count on my fingers the
times I have seen Larry really
cheerful. We have four young
daughters, and have had hard times
financially. But times are better
now, and we are paying off bills and
planning—or, I am, at leasC for a
move to a nicer house and a little
expansion generally. Larry takes
no interest in this, he glooms away
silently at meals, is very apathetic
over any talk of change, and goes
silently through life as if he were
half-dead.
“The effect of this on me and the
girls is of course perfectly terrible.
We can’t start up a conversation
while that deaths-head of boredom
and disapproval is looking on. As a
result we make our own plans and
kefp quiet when Papa is around.
Larry resents this, too, for when I
ask for money he hasn’t heard our
plans, doesn’t know what it is for
and generally growls about it.
No Criticism Allowed,
“All this seems very sad, to me.
We could be so happy! The girls
deeply admire and really love their
father; I have never allowed my
self or them the slightest criticism
of him, 1 have always reminded
them that he works hard to keep
us all comfortable and happy, that
he stints himself to carry a heavy
life-insurance, just for us, and that
he does truly love us, deep down in
his heart. But I find it hard going,
sometimes. Now Patsy and Sheila
are 16, twins, and Brenda and Mar-
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
DISAGREEABLE?
Kathleen Norris answers a letter
from a tearful woman who complains
that her husband is always glum and
moody. "lie acts half-dead ,” she la
ments. Miss Norris warns that this may
easily be her own fault. Her down
hearted husband is probably carrying
too heavy a burden resulting from ex
cessive expenses of his wife and daugh
ters. "Come down to earth,” she ad
vises, "and you will all be much hap
pier.”
garet getting into their teens, too,
and these are days for simple hos
pitalities and pretty, if inexpensive
frocks and good times. I’ve begged
him to relax, to be cheerful, to
stop worrying. I’ve prayed about
it. Can you make any suggestion
to ‘just one more Mary?’ ”
The only suggestion I can make
is that there is a reason for this
man’s moods, and that when it is
found and diagnosed, like any bodily
sickness, Mary will find that she is
halfway to the cure.
It may indeed be physical. It
sounds very much like stomach ul
cers or colitis or any one of the sim
ilar ailments that so often attack
men whose habits are sedentary and
who eat heartily. If Larry can be
persuaded to walk two miles a day,
eat a light dinner, and substitute for
rich desserts the invaluable orange,
apple, saucer of prunes or compote
of raw fruits, he may find life taking
on a much rosier color.
Trouble Probably Mental.
But much more probably Larry’s
trouble is mental. He is carrying
too heavy a burden. If two of those
daughters had been sons he would
feel very differently. “The boys will
be helping out in a few years,”
would be his natural thought.
That boys DON’T usually help out,
and are much less reliable as mon
ey-earners than girls are, doesn’t
often occur to the father of daugh
ters. But that’s an aside.
The cure for Mary’s problem
might come through a move indeed,
but a move to simpler and less ex
pensive rather than finer quarters.
It might come through a determined
lessening of expenses, rather than
an increase in them. It might come
if the twins started talking less of
college and sorority days and more
of jobs. It might come if Mary and
the girls all talked honestly to Papa,
dismissed the maid, gave up the
apartment Spr which they pay $B5
rent and planned for a country farm
near the city, at $35. It might come
if they gave Papa a chance to do
a little gardening, to split wood and
chop down trees and putter with a
windmill’s machinery.
Helping Dad Out of Gloom.
There is escape for all of us from
difficult conditions, if we will but
open our minds and hearts to find it.
A wife and four daughters, when
the man of the house is the only
bread-winner, shouldn’t have a
maid. Larry’s family has one, and
often, for part-time, another. Girls
in such a family should be busy put
ting up fruit to sell, or taking after
school jobs in frock shops or tea
rooms. A mother like Mary should
be talking of resources, not of con
stant needs. If she found some
weather-beaten old place outside the
city, painted it with the girls’ as
sistance, opened a lunchroom, took
a couple of small children to board,
started a bank account of her own,
from which to supply her daughters
the luxuries they want, she might
find the man of the house a changed
person.
Worry over family finances will
make the best natured men “dis
agreeable.” If the family would co
operate to help save or earn money,
this moodiness usually disappears.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
THE question of who owns
Dorothy Lamour’s hair
has become a burning issue. It
isn’t the hair that Dorothy had
left when her famous long locks
were removed, but the tresses
that fell to the floor when she
won the victory to have her
hair bobbed.
She bobbed it for Paramount’s
“Moon Over Burma,” you’ll recall.
Instantly the studio’s publicity de
partment requested the make-up de
partment to save the shorn locks;
they knew that thousands of requests
for a lock of Dorothy’s hair would
pour in.
The requests poured, all right. But
—when the head of the publicity de
partment sent for the hair, the
make-up department replied that it
was in the possession of Dorothy’s
mother, Mrs. O. L. Castleberry.
Mrs. Castleberry had protested bit
terly against the shearing, and to
appease her Dorothy had taken her
the long and lovely locks.
Now the question is—does the stu
dio own those locks, or are they the
rightful property of Mrs. Castleber
ry, who refuses to give them up.
Humphrey Bogart just goes from
bad to worse, so far as his work is
concerned. Years ago he made a
hit in his first important role in the
stage play, “Cradle Snatchers,” in
which he played the very juvenile
mi
III
HUMPHREY BOGART
escort of Mary Boland. Jeanette
MacDonald’s husband, then known
as Raymond Guion, was another
very youthful and capable member
of the cast.
But the movies have turned Bo
gart into one of our most sinister
villains. In his new picture, “High
Sierra,” he’s more villainous than
ever. One of his milder acts is to
crack the heads of two “goons” who
cause trouble in his “mob.”
Two years ago the Song Hit guild
of New York set out to prove that
amateurs can write hit songs. The
guild’s record proves what a grand
idea that was.
In less than 18 months 18 unknown
authors and composers received ac
credited publication, advance royal
ties and contracts equal to those
given established professionals. The
list of their songs includes the popu
lar “Can’t Get Indiana Off My
Mind,” “I’m on the Verge of a
Merge,” and “What Ev’ry Young
Girl Should Know,” featured a while
ago on the Hit Parade.
The Song Hit guild is now con
ducting its third nation-wide search
for talent. If you’re interested, send
your manuscript to the Song Hit
guild, 1619 Broadway, New York
city, at once. An advisory board
headed by Paul Whiteman, Guy
Lombardo, Billy Rose and Kay Ky
ser passes on all songs, and writers
requiring such help are invited to
collaborate with hit songwriters like
Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy McHugh
and others of equal note.
Radio artists are reviving an old
parlor game as a means of whiling
away off-time in the studios, but
they play it with radio programs
instead of the titles of books or
songs. Turning to the radio page of
a newspaper, they run the titles of
radio programs together to make a
story in sentences like this—“ Blo
ndie, Meet Mr. Meek, Light of the
World!”
Marjorie Anderson is calling her
new home on the outskirts of Phila
delphia “The house that shadows
built.” Married, mother of a two
year-old daughter, and wife of a
successful construction engineer,
she commutes to New York for her
work on Mutual Broadcasting Sys
tem’s Shadow program, and has
earned enough to pay the rent for a
year, landscape the grounds, and
furnish the house.
ODDS AND ENDS—BiII Stern is lining
up Robert Taylor, Mickey Rooney and
Claudette Colbert for guest appearances
on his “Sports Newsreel of the Air" if
his program moves to the coast for De
cember . . . Bing Crosby’s sun Gary will
follow in his dad's film footsteps, it's re
ported . . . Benny Singleton, who broke
into films as a dancer, dances for the first
time in foAr years in Blondie Goes
Latin“ . . . Fred Allen is willing to give
$2O for a penny, if it’s the righ penny.
He left an 18H7 penny, valued at $2O,
on his desk, and the maid, needing an
other penny to pay the milkman, picked
it up. So the $2O penny is now in circula
tion qj just another penny,
IN THE wake of football’s mid
* season mark we find again one
major flaw in the mental attitudes
of too many supporters. It is
gthis. When some
team gets beaten
the crowd swings
from that outfit to
others unbeaten and
untied.
This is all out of
focus. In the first
place, most teams
have certain objec
tives for which they
must later on be
ready. In the sec-
Grantland Rice on d place, sched
ules play a big part
in any season’s final roundup—a ter
rific part.
Pennant-winning teams in the
National and American baseball
leagues are only supposed to have a
.660 average—about two out of three.
Few coaches have the reserve
strength on hand to get keyed up for
every game. It can’t be done unless
the reserve material is exceptional
or the schedule is full of weak spots.
Why should a team that plays
eight or nine hard games be judged
against a team that plays four hard
games and four or five setups?
Take Your Choice
I recall a good many years ago
when Major Daley was coaching
Army. His two main assignments
were Yale in October and Navy in
late November.
“I can win either game,” he said
to the Army staff, “I can beat Yale
in October or Navy in November.
But 1 can’t win both. Which is your
main objective?”
We’ll take last fall. Ohio State
won one of the hardest conference
championships football knows—the
Big Ten. Yet Ohio State lost two
major games—to Cornell and Michi
gan.
Southern California won the Pa
cific conference title and the Rose
Bowl windup. Yet Southern Cali
fornia was tied by Oregon and out
played by Washington, both of whom
were beaten and outplayed by U,
C. L. A.
Shining Examples
The two best teams in football
last fall were Cornell and Texas
A. & M. They were neither tied nor
beaten. Nor was Tennessee until it
hit the Rose Bowl. But in all frank
ness not one of these had to play a
Notre Dame or an lowa schedule—
nor a Minnesota schedule.
For another example, suppose
most teams had to meet Vander
bilt’s current schedule—Princeton,
Kentucky, Georgia Tech, Mississip
pi, Alabama and Tennessee among
others.
Let some of these mop-up winners
try out that last-named menu on
their piccolos.
I’ll give you another—U. C. L. A.
Here it goes—S. M. U., Santa Clara,
Texas A. & M., California, Oregon
State, Stanford, Oregon, Washington
State, Washington and Southern Cal
ifornia. Only nine or ten tough ones
in a row, including six of the na
tion’s best.
The Big Difference
Two or three setup games can
make all the difference in the world,
such as many high ranking teams
have. They give the coach a chance
to rest up any injured men and get
them ready for the next hard test,
while another coach, facing one
tough opponent after another, has
no such break.
For this reason there is no such
animal as a national champion. It
is a complete impossibility with so
many teams playing so many differ
ent schedules.
The closest claim I recall to any
so-called national championship was
Knute Rockne’s last Notre Dame
team—l93o—that mopped up East,
Midwest, Southwest and Far West.
The only close calls came against
Southern Methodist and Army, the
latter on the worst football day and
the worst football field I ever saw—
rain, sleet, snow, fog and ice.
Bob Zuppke of Illinois, philoso
pher, artist and coach, comes closer
to calling the turn
times you can lose kLim*.
’em all, and still
game you lost afe. M
you can win and
?. "There is only Bob Zuppke
one thing in foot
ball that is more important than win
ning. That is to leave the field with
your opponent’s respect, win or
lose.”
♦ • *
The Game’s the Thing
After all, if you have left either a
winning or a losing field without
your opponent’s respect for the main
things that make up sport—we’ll say
courage, clean play, hard play, de
cency—the harvest is hardly worth
while. It’s tough to be a good loser,
but a good loser looks better in de
feat than an overbearing, unsports
manlike victor does in his moment
of triumph.
Once again 1 believe too many
football followers expect too much
from too many teams.
Daisy Hot Dish Mai
An Appropriate Gift
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
IT WAS the flower handle of tbo
•J tea-pot lid that suggested t hi g
daisy mat. I had been thinking
of making a hot dish out of
braided strips of cotton doth r
wanted it to be thick and sewn
Grm }y a rag rug, so that I
would stand frequent scrubbing
The design had to be novel anrf
gay so that it would be appronri
ate for a Christmas gift or would'
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attract attention if used to sell at
a church bazaar. All the direc
tions you need to make one are
right here in the sketch.
Cotton flannel or heavy cotton
knitted material are good to use
for the braided strips. Cut the
strips two inches wide if the goods
is heavy or wider if light weight.
Braid tightly and then use No. 8
white cotton thread to sew, as
shown. A set of these mats are
pretty on the table; and mats for
oval dishes may be made by sew
ing two daisies together.
• * *
NOTE: There are directions for a hot
dish mat made of cable cord in SEWING,
Book 4. Books 2 and 3 also contain direc
tions for many gifts and novelties. These
booklets are a service to our readers and
each contains 32 pages of illustrated di
rections for things to make for the home.
Send order for booklets, with 10c coin for
each copy desired, direct to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
Enclose 10 cents for each book
ordered.
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