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Washington, D. C.
NO CABINET POST FOR WILLKIE
Rumors that Wendell Willkie will
be offered a cabinet post or chair
manship of the defense commission
are just rumors and no more. Roose
velt has no intention of unifying
along such lines.
After the 1936 campaign, the Pres
ident and Alf Landon went out of
their way to be friendly. The mel
low Kansan called at the White
House when he went to the Capitol
in December for a Gridiron club
dinner, and a year later Roosevelt
appointed him a member of the U. S.
delegation to the Pan-American con
ference in Lima. But with Willkie
the situation is entirely different.
Roosevelt deeply dislikes and dis
trusts him—a feeling, incidentally,
that is strongly reciprocated by
Willkie.
Privately, the President believes
that the G. O. P standard bearer’s
campaign was motivated chiefly by
personal malice and went far out of
bounds of legitimate political war
ring in deliberate misrepresentation
and distortion.
On his side, Willkie feels just as
hotly regarding Roosevelt.
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EUROPEAN APPEASEMENT
The story of imminent European
peace deals which floated around
London, Berlin and Washington just
before election was no myth.
Since November 5 these ideas are
dead.
Ever since Hitler’s proposed in
vasion of England was frustrated
last September, Nazi diplomats have
sent out feelers to the effect that
Germany now had almost the entire
continent of Europe and might be
satisfied to drop the war, leaving
England to stick to its own islands.
Such a peace, of course, meets
no response from the great majority
of the British people, nor the govern
ment, and absolutely none from
Winston Churchill, However, it has
been received favorably by the little
group of “City” men (London’s Wall
Street). i
Diplomatic reports indicate that i
had Willkie been elected, this group '
would have launched a strong drive
for appeasement. This does not
necessarily mean they would have
had Willkie’s blessing. But it means
that Wall Street groups in the United
States which think along exactly the
same lines ns London’s “City” were
all ready to co-operate in this drive
and expected to get support from
Willkie.
Latin American governments,
whose weather vane is the United
States and who study us with a
microscope, actually were getting
ready to warm up to Hitler. But
since November 5, the effect is just
the opposite.
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PERSHING AS ENVOY TO VICHY
The situation inside France is such
that there is more and more senti
ment among administration advisers
to draft venerable John J. Pershing
as American ambassador to France.
It is believed General Pershing
could do a good job because of his
old friendship with Marshal Pctain,
now No. 1 man in the Vichy govern
ment. The two were comrades in
arms during the World war, and
never do they meet without an af
fectionate embrace on both cheeks.
Should the French North African
army become active on behalf of
England, it would mean much not
only to the British but to the United
States, whose biggest worry con
cerning the Monroe Doctrine is that
a combination of German-Italian
forces might use Dakar, French
naval base on the bulge of Africa,
for operations against Brazil and
South America.
That is why “Papa” Pershing is
considered so important to influence
his old friend “Papa” Pctain.
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EXIT FANNY
Miss Frances Perkins, idealistic
secretary of labor, will not be in the
third Roosevelt cabinet.
She will be replaced as part of
the President’s plan to put an end
to A. F. of L.-C. I. O. warring and
to bring about unification of the two
organizations. No. 1 on the Presi
dent’s list for Miss Perkins’ succes
sor is George Harrison, president
of the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks and a vigorous advocate of
labor peace.
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MERRY GO ROUND
Probably the best campaigning
among the Roosevelt children was
done by Franklin Jr., whose wife is
Ethel duPont, daughter of Eugene
duPont. The far-flung duPont fami
ly contributed around $50,000 to the
Willkie campaign, but Ethel re
mained loyal to her in-laws.
Franklin’s speeches were of a
rather naive, amateurish nature, but
they endeared him tremendously to
his father. Franklin would start
his speeches in most formal vein,
carefully referring to his father as
“the President.” But when heckled
from the side, he usually forgot his
dignity and sometimes shouted, “my
old man’s a great guy,” which al
ways brought down the house.
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles listened to election returns
until 4:15 a. m. but was down at
his desk reading a telegram from
Greece by 9:30 a. m.
f^IGENERAL
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
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Washington, D. C.
BURYING THE HATCHET
I have been deluged by telephone
calls asking if I am ready, as I
promised, to eat my column of sev
eral weeks ago saying that Dr. Gal
lup’s poll predicting this Roosevelt
landslide was grossly in error. If
it will please anybody, I am willing
to eat that column. It would hardly
give me indigestion. It is only 600
words.
But I doubt the obligation. Dr.
Gallup ate it before I did. He got
so jittery that he covered himself
on every side and finally said that
the election was so close that a
breath could swing it either v >y.
j Some breath!
I am disappointed but not down
hearted. After all, it was an Amer
ican election. It expresses what our
people think. I believe it was wrong.
But I am eager to give the result
all that I have to give. So must
everybody. The President didn’t
have a more earnest supporter in
1932 and 1936. He didn’t have a
more earnest opponent than in 1940.
But now we are on the brink of
war. He is my President and yours.
| He could ask me for nothing that
I I would not give.
For the result, we couldn’t have
gotten a bad man, no matter who
was the final choice. I know both
of these men—know them as well
as you know a college chum or the
man next to whom you work or
the guy who drops in to sit on the
cracker barrel in your store, which
is a figure of speech because we no
longer have cracker barrels. But
the simile is still the same.
I don’t call Mr. Roosevelt “Frank
lin any more because, somehow,
you can’t do that to the President
of the United Slates. But I think
he wishes people would, and I am
very sure that Mr. Willkie doesn’t
like to be called anything but Wen
dell. The point is that both of these
men are plain Americans. It has
never seemed to me that either of
them went very far astray—except
as to his advisers. Maybe that was
because I wasn’t one of them.
♦ • •
There is a classic army yarn
about a young lieutenant or “shave
tail” just out of West Point. He
reported to his captain at a western
station in those days when captains
wore old, gruff and apt to be very
wise. This one treated him so kind
ly that he became over-enthusiastic
and said: “Oh, Captain. I can see
; that we are going to get along in
j complete co-operation.”
“Yes,” said the wrinkled old vet
| cran, “and in this man’s army you’ll
do all the co-operating.”
A situation something like that
surrounds the late opponents of Pres
ident Roosevelt. I don’t know one
who, because of the danger in the
world, isn’t perfectly willing to for
get the late and bitter political fight
and join up with recent political ad
versaries in anything that will ad
vance the interests of the country
and cement its strength. But it takes
at least two for any true co-opera
tion.
The tremendous vote for Mr. Will
kie measures the mass of protest
and skepticism on some of Mr.
Roosevelt’s acts and policies. Any
hostility or roughshod riding by this
administration over contrary opin
ions might destroy the President’s
great opportunity to usher in the
healthiest “era of good-feeling” and
national unity that has occurred—-
at least in my lifetime.
I thought that kind of era would
come in 1937, but some of Mr.
Roosevelt’s closest advisers and
strongest henchmen were vindictive
scalp hunters. They said they had
a mandate and started out to keel
haul and purge even their own par
ty It didn’t work so well and may
be with this much smaller majority,
there won’t be so much reprisal.
Old Andy Jackson was like that.
He thought he had been cheated out
of one election and the assaults on
him had been very hateful and high
ly personal. It was said that he re
tired to the Hermitage “after hav
ing rewarded all his friends and
punished all his enemies.” That may
be a great personal satisfaction, but
it is just what the country does not
need at a time like this.
• * «
Thomas Jefferson is as great a
titulary deity of the Democratic par
ty. He didn’t do that. In his first
inaugural, he even offended his own
party by telling the people that with
the election over, they were all
Democrats and Republicans—or the
equivalent labels of that day—Re
publicans and Federalists.
Abraham Lincoln didn’t do it ei
ther He appointed to his cabinet
some of the strongest personal op
ponents in his own newly formed
and hodge-podge party.
Any man who has to fight as has
Mr. Roosevelt is bound to support
his friends without too much con
sideration for his opponents Every
body expects that. What is now
needed is good will and mutual con
fidence among all Americans, and
that is exactly what is within Mr.
Roosevelt’s grasp today.
But the 22,000,000 people who vot
ed for Mr. Willkie, representing the I
views of alrnest half the population 1
of a great nation, can’t, like the
young army shavetail, “do all the
co-operating.” Their opinions must
be respected.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY. GEORGIA
Kathleen Norris Says:
Smugness in a Husband Is Hard to Bear
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
"' *
When I was about 18 we used to go up to a little cabin in the mountains, we girls
cooking the dinner, and all of us taking tramps, swimming, and having fun. Mabel and
Hud were lovers and Chester and I, very much in love, were not long in following suit.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
SMUGNESS is a terrible
thing, in husband or wife.
It is one of those marital
faults that are much more try
ing, in the daily encounter of
matrimony, than much more
serious failings. Smugness is
disagreeable in anyone, but
when a wife knows that it is al
ways lying in wait for her, and
when she also knows that there
is some justification for the
holier-than-thou attitude in her
spouse, then her path is hard in
deed.
Ruth, whose letter reaches
me this week, is suffering
from the smugness of the
man she married some ten
years ago, and I don’t know
that there’s any cure for it. For it
is the very essence of smugness that
i it rises above correction and criti
cism and only feels sorry for the
person stupid enough to find fault
with perfection.
This is a part of Ruth’s letter:
“Dear Mrs. Norris: My father was
a factory hand and my mother kept
boarders. After three years of high
school I went into a box factory,
helping to support three small half
brothers. My father had died and
my mother married again. When I
was about 18 I had a girl chum
named Mabel, and her brother and
her sweetheart and I used to go
around together for two years. Ches
ter, the brother, was a fascinating
sort of fellow; we used to go up to a
little cabin in the mountains, we
girls cooking the dinner, and all of
us taking tramps, swimming, and
having fun. Mabel and Bud were
lovers and Chester and I, very much
in love, were not long in following
suit.
Enters College at 28.
“After about a year of this he
went away, and a fall invalided my
mother, who lingered completely
helpless for seven years. I took
over the boarding-house, and was
presently offered a hotel in town,
to which we all moved. At 28, when
my brothers were pretty well
launched, an aunt of theirs left us
some money to complete our educa
tions, and I was delighted to take
coaching, and to enter college with
girls 10 years younger.
“This was a happy time for me. I
met my husband, who was, and is,
a professor of English, and the year
we were married I sold three short
stories—for very small sums, but
it was a great thrill to me. Of late
years I have had little time to write,
as we have three children and I do
all my own work, but I have al
ways hoped that the time w r ould
come when I could go on.
“Some months ago I noticed a
change in Phil, my husband, that I
could not understand. He is 13 years
older than I, which makes him 51.
He grew excitable, moody, explo
sive, silent. He has always been a
serene man, a church-goer, ideal
istic and really faultless. His devo
tion to the children is remarkable,
and he has always seen that they
help me as much as small children
can.
Husband’s Suspicions Aroused.
“One day I had a call from Ches
ter’s brother, who as a young boy
had sometimes been with us on our
expeditions. 1 had not heard of any
of them for years and believe me
he was an unwelcome reminder of
what I would have been glad to for
! get. He said that he was worried
because he had met my husband
and made some reference to me, as
a girl. He said that he had had no
idea that I had left the box factory
days behind me and was married
SMUGNESS
The “holier than thou ” attitude
adopted by some husbands or wires
can make married life almost unbear
able. Kathleen Norris is approached
by a woman whose loving husband
adopted a smug attitude when he
learned of a minor love affair she had i
had when a young girl. Miss Norris
stales that unfortunately there is no
solution In this problem ; her only hope
is to develop other interests.
to Phil, and that he was afraid he
had spoken in away that roused
my husband’s suspicions. The con
versation was perfectly insufferable
to me, and I was glad to see the
last of this odious boy.
“This explained the change in my
husband, and wisely or unwisely,
when he burst out one day with
questions I told him the whole truth.
It stunned him, and he left me with
out comment. For days he hardly
spoke, and then one evening with
the greatest kindness and gentleness
he told me that he had talked the
matter over with our minister, and
that affairs at home must go on just
as they were; for his sake, the
children’s, mine, and that of soci
ety, he had finally decided against
divorce.
Cast in Humiliating Role.
“I knew that in a few days the
stiffness would wear off the situa
tion, so I accepted this decision. The
alternative of losing my children
was too terrible. And presently ev
erything was going along just as be
fore, except for moments when Phil
ip saw fit to take the attitude of a
mentor, and ask me what I had
been doing, to whom my letters were
addressed. It was stupid and hu
miliating to me, but I thought it
would wear off.
“But even now there are occa
sional reminders that I am a sin
ner and must be guided. Philip
wishes I would cultivate the lovely
Mrs. Brown, who has always been
such a dignified, discreet woman.
Last night when I was working with
the typewriter he asked what I was
doing. I said writing the story of a
girl’s struggle to better herself. A
faint smile came over his face and
he said T don’t know that I’d make
it TOO biographical.’
“How long should I bear this sort
of thing? In actual campus populari
ty I’ve long ago outstripped Philip.
I am president of two clubs; people
love my Sunday garden lunches; my
children are wonderful. Am I to go
on forever being made ashamed?”
pise Above Handicap.
The answer, Ruth, is that the fault
lies with Philip, and apparently
there’s no reaching him. He will
continue with this small-boy smug
ness to the end. Even if he com
mitted a fault far more serious than
yours he would go right on feeling
that you were the sinner, and that he
was fully justified in whatever he
did.
But don’t despair. You have great
consolations. The cultural atmos
phere, the dramatics and discussions
and opportunities of a campus are
real advantages, and the mothering
of three lovely children a great priv
ilege. Beside that, you show a gen
uine gift for writing, and if some
day you write the college stories,
or the college novel for which all the
publishers and magazines are wait
ing, you will be able to ignore Phil
ip's miserable little taunts. There is
an old saying that the sins of youth
are the masters of age. But there
are other sayings, too, and other
truths, about what we gain through
the humiliation, the bitter lesson of
having sinned, and sometimes the
woman who rises above such a
handicap is actually wiser and
stronger in the end than the self
righteous woman who never knew
temetation.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released dy Western Newspaper Union.)
IN HOLLYWOOD apparently
one of the first things a young
actor has to learn is when to
quit a job, if staying is likely to
be a bad idea.
For example, there’s Allan
Jones. He left Metro, because
he didn’t like the kind of parts
he was getting, when he got
them. Margaret Lindsay left War
ner Brothers. After a while they
landed the romantic
t ! leads in “There’s
Magic in Music,”
'iH and now there’s a
ill big demand for
them.
k Cary Grant and
: W Jean Arthur depart
■ e( 3 horn Paramount
f ~ —and now look at
> them! Dick Powell
* and Joan Blondell
left Warner Broth-
Margaret er f and nice, fat
Lindsay now their
“I Want a Divorce
shows that they were right in de
ciding that he wasn’t just a singer
and she was some- M ~v
thing more than a *
The list goes on M 'S'wtm
and on and on. Fred w .
Astaire left RKO, HK
Paulette Goddard
left Hal Roach, to
become one of Par
amount’s most pop- MR
Rathbone gave up |ggj| Jf IBSEI
a fat contract at SB®i JI JBSSt
Metro because he Allan Jones
was sick of appear
ing in drawing room comedies; Ma
rie Wilson left Warners and dumb
dame roles, to become a sophisti
cated, glamorous woman in Para
mount’s “Virginia.”
Madeleine Carroll left Walter
Wanger to star for Paramount.
Metro was perfectly willing to let
Deanna Durbin go elsewhere, a fact
from which certain executives will
probably never recover, since Joe
Pasternak developed her into one of
moviedom’s most valuable stars.
Virginia seems to be the most
popular state in the Union, so far
ak movie makers are concerned.
What with “The Howards of Vir
ginia,” “Virginia,” and now “The
Vanishing Virginian,” which Metro
has just purchased, you can hardly
escape it for long if you go to the
movies.
Knox Manning, one of the best
known news commentators, walked
right into luck recently when he
used a Scandinavian dialect on the
air. Director Tay Garnett and Pro
ducer Richard Rowland were trying
to find a performer who could both
look and talk a certain role in
“Cheers for Miss Bishop.” Garnett
happened to turn on his radio, heard
Manning for the first time—and now
the radio man will appear in sup
port of such experienced perform
ers as Martha Scott, William Gar
gan, Dorothy Peterson and Sterling
Holloway.
Quite a few years ago, when he
was a student at Yale, Beirne Lay
Jr. spent 50 cents to see a picture
called “Wings,” and the course of
his life was changed. He decided
to be an aviator, and to write about
flying.
That was in 1928. He decided to
go into the air corps; in those days
it took longer than it does now, but
he was finally admitted to Randolph
field in 1932, and was graduated
the next year from Kelly. Then he
began writing. He got a lot of re
jections, but he stuck to both flying
and writing, and was on his way to
fame.
Last year, after he’d sold some
articles on flying, his book, “I Want
ed Wings,” appeared. Paramount
bought it. He thinks that proves the
truth his own story offers—that a
man who has freedom and future
in America can get anything he
wants if he’ll try hard enough.
In New York city, Doris Dudley,
star of the air’s “Meet Mr. Meek,”
entertained members of the cast at
a party in her haunted house. When
photographers ushered them into the
room where George Weinberg, mem
ber of the underworld, either was
killed or committed suicide, and
asked them to pose over the spot
where the non-eradicable blood
stains show, one chap gasped,
turned green, and got out as quickly
and quietly as possible. He was
Frank Readick, formerly the blood
thirstiest villain on the air—The
Shadow!
—
ODDS AND ENDS
C. Three spectacular airplane crashes will
be featured in “I Wanted Wings"—but no
matter who seems to be crashing, I‘aul
Manlz, veteran stunt pilot, will probably
be the lad who does ike flying leading up
to the accidents.
C, Tou may not consider Peggy Diggins ,
If arner’s discovery, “The Most Beautiful
Irish Girl in America," but she’s pretty
enough to have the second feminine lead
in “Footsteps in the Dark," opposite Errol
Flynn.
C, And the British can hardly wait to see
Charlie Chaplin as “The Great Dictator."
CL In spite of daily air raids, “Gone With
the W ind,” is in its IHlh week ig London.
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