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Washington, D. C.
ON FLANDERS FIELDS
Germany allows no press reports
ito tell of the plight of France, but
i this does not prevent refugees in
(America from telling what is going
on.
A dramatic picture of French life
is brought overseas by the secre
tary of the manufacturers’ associa
tion of France, M. Robert A. Dor
det, who came in by Baltimore, and
was not exposed to general press
interviews. As told the Merry-Go-
Round exclusively, this is his story:
There are no automobiles on the
streets of France, because there is
no gasoline. Supplies have been cut
o(T by the British embargo and lat
er the German.
There is a shortage of all foods,
a complete absence of some. There
is no coffee, no tea, no butter, no
milk. Winter is coming and there
is no coal.
Some of these supplies are nor
mally available in France, but to
day they are lacking either because
of interrupted transportation or be
cause of confiscation by the Ger
mans.
Furthermore, the invasion of ref
ugees—French, Belgian and Dutch
—has reduced food supplies. So far,
refugees swarming all over the coun
tryside have kept themselves alive
on the fruits and vegetables of
southern France.
Fall harvesting and planting is
further disrupted by the absence of
workers. A million French soldiers
are held as prisoners, and requests
for their release to work in fields
and factories have been unavailing.
Three times Vichy’s Vice Premier
Laval wefit to Paris to appeal to
the German high command, and
even was refused an audience. Ger
many was too busy waging war on
England to talk about problems of
peace.
* * ♦
COME’N’ SEE IT
. If certain leading advertising
| agencies can sell the idea to army
brasshats, the boys in camp this
winter will see star radio shows—
with glamorous movie queens, fa
mous comics, popular crooners and
top bands—put on the air.
However, there is considerable
difference of opinion among army
chiefs on this novel plan. They are
agreed that the shows would be a
big hit and a morale builder, but
some of them question the com
mercial features of the program.
If one class of sponsors, such as
•cigarettes or automobiles, are al
lowed to stage broadcasts in army
camps, they contend that others,
such as patent medicines, might de
mand similar privileges and couldn’t
fairly be refused. They also argue
that no commercial performances
should bo allowed in government
posts.
Proponents of the plan retort that
this would no more imply govern-'
ment endorsement of the product
than if soldiers in uniform attended
the same shows in radio stations.!
Also, that it didn’t matter who the
sponsor was so long os the show was 1
clean and star entertainment.
Note —Civilian press aides in the
war department are strong for the
proposal, but their military asso-'
ciates are not.
* • *
A FINE TRIBUTE
Finest recent tribute to a United
States senator was circulated be
hind his back, when 84 colleagues;
signed a petition asking Roosevelt
to appoint Sen. Henry Fountain Ash
urst to the U. S. Court of Claims.
There are only 96 members of the
senate, and 12 were absent or ill
when the petition was circulated
proposing this reward for the sena
tor from Arizona. Ashurst has
served that state for 28 years since
the first day it was elevated from a
territory to statehood. He was de
feated this year in the Democratic
primary, largely because a weak
heart prevented him from going
home to campaign.
In addition to his old friend, Sen
ator Tom Connally of Texas, the
person who helped get the record
breaking total of 84 senatorial sig
natures for Ashurst was Mrs. Lionel
Atwill, daughter of the late Edward
T. Stotesbury and sister of Jimmy
Cromwell, now running for senator
from New Jersey.
When the list was handed to
Roosevelt, he remarked: “I wish I
could get 84 senators behind me.’'
• * *
CAPITAL CHAFF
Edward H. McCrahan, World war
Veteran, has proposed a new army
decoration to the war department—
a “Good Conduct medal” that would
be given to all honorably discharged
veterans and draftees.
To block Nazi seizure of Dutch in
vestments in the United States
through terrorization of their fami
lies and associates, Dutch business
men in this country have quietly
formed new companies that have
taken over the assets of the old
ones under long-term notes, payable
only when Holland regains its free
dom. This reorganization has been
done with treasury and SEC aid,
thus saving about $50,000,000 from
Na?i coffers.
Sen. Cabot Lodge of Massachu
setts takes his two dachshund dogs
for a stroll before bedtime.
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THE DICTATOR AT HOME
Dictator (returning home after a
bumptious day)—Hail!
Wife—Hail my eye! Remember
you’re not at the chancellery now.
Dictator —Do you realize to whom
you are speaking?
Wife—l’m the only person who
does!
• *
Dictator (still unable to shake off
the dictator mood) —My smoking
jacket, please!
Wife—You know where it is, don’t
you?
Dictator—Get it for me at once,
Ella.
Wife—Get it yourself. You’re no
cripple.
Dictator—l warn you, you are ex
hausting my patience.
Wife—Aw, cut out that line, Toots!
Dictator (wincing)—Toots!
Wife—You never used to object to
me calling you that.
Dictator—That was away back be
fore 1 . . . before, I, er . . .
Wife—Before you got all those uni
forms, emblems and ideas for
salutes. You were a nice boy in
those days. Little did I ever dream
you’d turn out like this.
Dictator—There you go belittling
me again!
Wife—l’m not belittling you.
Dictator—Yes you are. (He lights
a cigar.)
* «
Wife (sternly)—Put out that nickel
stogie! You know better than to
smoke in the living room.
Dictator—l’ll smoke where I wish.
This is my house.
Wife—Lissen, you either put that
roman candle out or you go out on
the back porch and smoke it. And
no back talk!
Dictator (who knows when he is
licked) —Oh, all right, but I want it
understood that my action is not to
be misinterpreted as a sign of weak
ness. I am not establishing a prece
dent. I know my rights and . . .
Wife—Aw, Joe, pipe down! You
sound so silly.
* *
Dictator—l resent your studied at
tempts to undermine my self-confi
dence. It’s not very nice of you.
Wife—You’ve got me wrong, Joe.
All I want you to understand is that
you can’t get away with all that
boss of the universe stuff with me.
I knew you when.
Dictator—You ought to be proud
of me.
Wife—Why?
Dictator—Look what I’ve done!
Look where I’ve risen! And all on
my own ability.
Wife—Gee, but you’ve got a
swelled head. Don’t I get any cred
it? Who designed that emblem? I
did. Who thought up that color
scheme for the shirts? Me. Who
sat up with you night after night
studying history and trying to point
out Napoleon’s mistakes?
Dictator—Have we got to go over
all that again? You helped me, I
admit. But I had to have brains.
Wife—Baloney. All you had to
have was a radio and your nerve.
• •
Dictator—Let’s not argue. Is my
steak ready?
Wife What makes you think
you’re getting steak?
Dictator—l told you I wanted
steak tonight.
Wife—So what? You’re getting
cold roast beef.
Dictator—l will not have my or
ders ignored with impunity. I will
not be treated so contemptuously.
I will not permit my authority to be
disrespected.
Wife—lf you knew how funny you
looked talking that way, you’d cut
it out, Toots.
Dictator —Don’t call me Toots. Do
you know what millions of people
are calling me? They are calling
me their hope, their idol, their peer
less leader!
Wife—Yeah. And do you remem
ber what the boys used to call you
in your boyhood days?
Dictator —What?
Wife—Peewee!
• •
Dictator—This is too much. I’ll
go down to the palace where the
boys respect me for what I am.
Wife—Okay, as long as you don’t
bring ’em up here.
* *
“Eight types of Near Beer Being
Tried in Germany.”—Headline. So
that is victory!
• • •
CAN YOU REMEMBER—
Away back when the word “de
fense” generally referred to foot
ball?
• • •
Marshal Retain is for a back
to-the-farm movement. The Man
With the Hoch.
• * •
ALLIANCE
Three howling dogs got out one day
Into such blustery weather
That lest they be blown off the map
They tied their tails together.
H. Langeler.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY. GEORGIA
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Kathleen Norris Says:
When Someone Loves You —
Watch Your Step!
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
She plays about with If alter like a happy kid, and he is beginning to feel that
she is the most important person in the group. If he cleans the car, Nancy is out at
the garage laughing and helping. If he must run uptown she dances along.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
“ T F I didn’t love him,” sobs
I the bride, “I wouldn’t
care when he’s so mean to
me! ”
‘‘lf I didn’t love him,” mourns
the mother in her stricken
heart, ‘‘it wouldn’t be so hard
for me when he’s away at night,
when he marries the wrong
woman, when he’s shabby and
tired and discouraged!”
Love is the greatest joy and
the greatest sorrow in life; the
deepest satisfaction, the most
acute fear. The power held by
those who love and who are
loved is a limitless power.
That’s why we have to be so
careful of it; why it is such a
crime against love itself to mis
use it.
Every mother has the power to
completely destroy her children’s
lives, if she will, because they love
her. Every child has potentialities
of hurting his parents with coldness
and cruelties, because they love
him. Wherever love is, there is also
the possibility of agony and cruelty
and fear. This is true especially be
tween husbands and wives, because
of the necessary closeness of their
relationship, and their dependence
upon each other.
Bliss—Misery Not Far Apart.
These things are so obvious as to
be truisms. And yet it is a matter
of great surprise to some young
wives—and even some older ones,
that close to utter bliss there can
be complete misery. When a wom
an gives her heart into a man’s
keeping she doesn’t always realize
that he may break it as well as
cherish it.
When a love-tone in a man’s voice
thrills you to utter ecstasy, remem
ber that a little chill in that tone, a
shade of indifference or criticism,
can lower you to corresponding
depths of despair. A wife may ruin
her husband’s life. A mother may
ruin her son’s. A son can break his
mother’s heart. Easily, easily, eas
ily.
Fortunately for most of us, love
begets love. The young husband
forgets his anger, and in the flood
tide of a blissful reconciliation scene
the bride seems to regain a surer
position than ever. The son has
only to say, with a sleepy kiss, “why,
we were only over at Harry’s play
ing bottle-pool, Mom. You’re my
girl!” to send his mother’s spirits
soaring to heaven again.
As for mothers and small children,
thank God most mothers know their
power, and use it wisely. Even dis
ciplined children know that Mother
loves them only too well.
Domestic Triangle.
But used or unused, the awful
force for hurting those we love re
mains. Here is the case of “Dee
dee,” who lives in Pittsburgh, and
whose letter has this to say:
“We’ve been married 14 years,
I’m 36 and Walter 39. We have a
boy of 12, and for the past 10 months
my sister and her small girl of five
have been with us. Junior adores his
cousin Jo-Anne, and as I love chil
dren and housekeeping and garden
ing it is nice for me to have a girl
as well as a boy.
“The trouble is my sister, Nancy.
She is eight years younger than I,
not pretty, but with a great deal of
charm. She and my husband have
struck up a friendship that excludes
me.
“Walter defended her in her di
vorce suit, which was an unpleasant
one. He finally secured her a good
alimony and the custody of Jo-Anne.
Jo-Anne admires and loves her
mother, and Nancy is nice enough
with her, but mote like a sister than
a mother. I am like the mother of
the whole crowd.
Friendship Causes Heartaches.
“If Nancy were ever inclined to
be indiscreet, it wouldn’t be with
LOVE
Because love holds the greatest pow
er of all for making others terribly
happy or terribly sad, Kathleen Norris
earnestly admonishes that it he used
wisely. She writes this after being
consulted by “Deedee,” a heart
broken young wife, whose husband
and sister are very friendly. They both
love her, but neither realizes the pain
their friendship is causing her. Miss
Norris advises that only time can cor
rect this lamentable situation.
my husband, I am sure of that. She
is giddy and perhaps shallow, but
she loves me. But she plays about
with Walter like a happy kid, and
he is beginning to feel that she is
the most important person in the
group.
“If he cleans the car, Nancy is
out at the garage laughing and help
ing. If he must run uptown to get
beer or see somebody, she dances
along. She listens to him; she laughs
at old stories.
“When Nancy first came both Wal
ter and I said repeatedly that she
brought life and brightness into the
house. She does help me; she can’t
do enough for Junior; she is up and
downstairs like a bird. It was a real
pleasure to me to have her and
darling little Jo-Anne. But when it
comes to the three of them going
off to movies, leaving the baby with
me; Walter sprucing up in the mat
ter of hair-cuts and neckties; tele
phone calls in which he would as
soon have Nancy answer as have
me answer; what Nancy likes to eat
and do his first consideration,—then
I get mad! Or rather, I get blue and
diffident, afraid to ask Walter to do
anything for fear it interfere with
plans he and Nancy have made.
“I don’t want to make a moun
tain out of a mole-hill. I don’t want
to lose my sister or my husband. Tell
me how to solve this problem wise
ly, without hurting anyone.”
Bear the Burden.
Deedee, there isn’t any immedi
ate answer. This is one of the diffi
cult times most of us have to en
dure, sooner or later; a time when
you have to admit another woman’s
superior charm, beauty and oppor
tunity, and bear it. The alternative
is to quarrel, destroy the friend
ship that now exists among you
three, and possibly lessen your hus
band’s affection and admiration for
you. He probably thinks of you as
a woman with common sense. To
burst out with jealousy of your sis
ter would shock and disgust and dis
illusion him.
But you won’t have to bear this
forever. Nancy doesn’t want to mar
ry your husband. She’s just playing
with him to keep her hand in. In
a few more months she will be free
to find another mate, and then she
will settle down to real business, and
you will have the grateful job of
consoling your husband for the
change in Nancy.
“She isn’t a bit like what she used
to be,” he will complain, “and it’s
all that boob. What she sees in him
is more than I can work out! But if
she’s going to act like such a fool
the sooner she marries him and set
tles down the better.”
Your only cure, Deedee, is time.
But I would like to give a hint to
the husbands and wives who so
cheerfully take chances with the sa
cred and easily destroyed thing that
is married love and confidence. It
would be a good idea for every mar
ried person to check up on himself
or herself, now and then. Ask your
self if the flattering friendship that
seems so harmless and so amus
ing to you is hurting your old mate.
Ask yourself if the person nearest
you has any reason to feel herself or
himself left out in the cold.
Love is a great responsibility. To
hurt it—to repulse it, is no laughing
matter. It is my profound—if some
what old fashioned—conviction, that
one of the sins we pay for most bit
terly is the sin of throwing love
aside.
GENERAL
HUGH S.
Johnson
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DEPRESSION FIGURES
In the campaign now closed Mr.
i Roosevelt’s first “political” speech
i was forced, he said,
against his intention
l p to be “drafted” as
\ an unwilling candi
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• “misrepresentation”
fc - Mk| of his opponents.
m-jum The chief “mis
s-u / representation” of
which he complained
ilßp was their assertion
|k that thi s depression
„ >1 * u is still with us.
Hugh Johnson Mr Roosevelt said
that times are better than in 1929.
And he further stated, “The output
of our factories and mines is now
about 13 per cent greater than the
peak of 1929; 1929, mind you, not
1932. It is at the highest level ever
recorded.”
Col. Leonard Ayres, a national au
thority on production, writing in the
Cleveland Trust company bulletin,
says: “There has recently been pub
lished a perplexing revision of the
Federal Reserve index of the vol
ume of industrial production. Ac
cording to the new index, our indus
trial production has been much
greater in recent years than the old
index led us to believe.”
“This seems hard to reconcile with
the fact that on a per capita basis
our national income last year was
only 82 per cent as large as it was
in 1926. Freight loadings per cap
ita were 58 per cent as large. Au
tomobiles made were 67 per cent as
many. Bank checks drawn were 50
per cent as much. All construction
was 64 per cent as great in value.
Industrial employment was 84 per
cent as large. Department store
sales were 75 per cent as great.
There are many more similar dis
crepancies which appear irreconcil
able with the claim of the new in
dex that we produced last year as
large volumes of industrial goods per
person in our population as we did
in the boom years of 1926 and 1928.
This bank will regretfully refrain
from reliance on the new index and
will substitute for it an index com
puted in its own offices and com
piled from component sources mak
ing up the Federal Reserve index.”
Colonel Ayres, who made these
computations, was this government’s
World war statistician. He has just
been recalled to that service by the
war department. He is a leading
authority on this subject. He made
.these remarks long before the Pres
ident spoke.
The figures he quotes are not syn
thetic deductions such as overall in
dexes of production must be. They
are actual counts.
• • *
NATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Now that the numbers have been
drawn for America’s first peacetime
conscription, an incident which
arose during the draft lottery of 1917
can finally be told. At that time a
young lady with oversized shoes al
most upset the entire draft mechan
ism.
Great ceremony and close inspec
tion accompanied the drawing of the
first few numbers by various high
officials. But the numbers were
picked out of the bowl for hours
after the “novelty” had worn off,
and lesser lights performed the
tedious work for 16 more hours.
One of the employees was a girl
with shoes too large for her. The
historic work she performed was
also very tiring, so she was glad
when she could return to her room
that night.
She kicked off her shoes with a
sigh of relief, and—horrors—a draft
capsule rolled out.
Almost frantic, she rushed to a
telephone and explained the whole
story to an unnamed general who
promptly told her to rush back to
headquarters.
The authorities held a short, secret
conference and selected the only
course that seemed open to them:
They palmed the capsule and dex
terously slipped it back into the
bowl. And no one was the wiser.
• * *
German overlords apparently are
trying to use America’s sympathy
for the French as a lever to break
the British blockade. At least this
is the opinion held by some govern
ment officials who are watching the
efforts of M. Gaston Henri-Haye,
French ambassador to America, to
release frozen French assets in this
country.
They note that any advantage se
cured for the Vichy government
could be utilized by the dominat
ing Germans. The prestige and ex
perience of the French consular and
diplomatic forces in Washington
place them in a far more favorable
position than the German legation.
• • •
The federal government will prob
ably control more than $1,500,000,000
worth of food and fiber supplies by
midwinter as farmers continue to
store millions of bushels of wheat
and thousands of bales of 1940 cotton.
Government loan programs which
encouraged the storage will be made
available on corn and possibly sev
eral other crops in the near future.
Originally designed to bolster
farm prices, the loan program is
being fitted into the national defense
program, according to agricultural
department officials.
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