Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, January 09, 1941, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA Washington, D. C. ARGENTINE AAA Argentina, that country of open i spaces, bumper crops and heavy ex ports, is on the verge of doing a Henry Wallace. Never before have the Argentines admitted that there was any system better than grow ing all the wheat you could get out of the soil and all the flax and all the barley. They have long been the greatest grain exporting country in the world, and they have become so by sowing wide, reaping heavy, and filling outbound vessels to the hatches with grain. But now the outbound vessels are few, and the grain is backing up and flowing over the fields where still another crop is ripening. Offi cial estimates indicate that a year hence Argentina will have a wheat surplus of 200,000,000 bushels. So the Argentine government is doing the unheard of; actually is considering acreage control for next year’s crop. The grain board has been given authority to cut the plant ings of wheat, flaxseed, and bafley, by 10 per cent, in an AAA for Ar gentina. • * * NEW BRITISH AMBASSADOR Appointment of the distinguished Viscount Halifax as British ambas sador to the United States was greeted with mixed feelings in offi cial Washington. Those accustomed to the refresh ing candor of Lord Lothian and the tremendous success he had achieved in winning American popularity, greeted Halifax’s appointment with no great enthusiasm. But to the hoity-toity of Washington society, al f/ays a bit shocked at the way Lord xjthian permitted his dogs to lie in the middle of the living-room floor, Halifax will be a great relief. In fact, Washington society al ready is looking forward to the new Halifax era, - when senators and lowly congressmen no longer will be the vogue at embassy dinner tables, as they were under Lothian; and when the ambassador no longer will pick up Rhodes scholars from Wash ington street corners and bring them to dinner without benefit of stiff shirt bosom. From now, on, Washington can be sure that all embassy dinner lists will be guarded by that super-guard ian of social prestige, Miss Irene Boyle, long the czarina of the Brit ish embassy. So all will be peace ful again. However, Viscount Halifax will bring a world of experience to his new job. He has been undersecre tary for the colonies, minister of vjar, minister of agriculture, presi dent of the board of education, lord privy seal, leader of the house of lords and president of the council. By all odds his toughest job, and that in which he probably achieved most success, was as viceroy of In dia at one of the periods when India was striving desperately for home rule. Halifax conducted a long se ries of negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi, in the course of which the Indian leader sometimes would stop at the climax of an important discus sion and go off to commune with his soul. So Viscount Halifax, who also hap pens to be one of the most devoutly religious men in England, but who does not ordinarily mix religion with government discussions, adopted the same tactics. Whenever he faced a difficult crisis in the negotiations, he excused himself for prayer. In the end Halifax got a large part of what he wanted from Gandhi. • • • U. S. WINE TRADE The combination of the war and the holiday season is bringing the best business to domestic wines since World War I. All of the six important wine ex porting countries are affected by the war. France, Algeria, Italy and Germany are shut off from interna- I tional trade, while Spain and Portu gal have difficult transportation problems. In fact, there are no foreign sup plies of champagne in sight, and the department of commerce estimated that the stocks on hand a month ago (275,000 gallons) would be heavi ly drained by holiday consumption and exhausted within the next few months. Result is that the United States domestic wine industry is enjoying a boom demand. We are even ex porting wine. In the month of October, exports of U. S. wines were 204,000 gallons, or more than twice as much as had been exported in any entire year since repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. Odd angle is that most of our wine is going to a market normally enjoyed by France, name ly French Indo-China, • * * MERRY-GO-ROUND The isolationist America First committee is doing a much more ef fective job of organizing units in col leges than its rival Committee for the Defense of America by Aiding the Allies. America First has sev eral hundred college branches while the opposition has only twelve. According to the Repubhcan, monthly G.O.P. journal, thousands of letters have been received by Wendell' Willkie and other party leaders “urging them to change the name of the Republican party.” “TF YOU care tc look a few * months ahead, or a year ahead,” writes one of our leading citizens, “I’ll give you the answer concerning sport. I happen to be in a position to' know what is taking place. We will have more sport than ever before, but most of it will be in army camps. I mean both baseball and football, especially football next fall. “By that time we’ll have around 2,000,000 in army or navy life. Their main recreation will ■PP P " be sport. There have Br been so many turned B I down through physi- Br ' ’ I disabilities that p I we will soon have a liL rush on athletes. It " 1 I a ■' or prise to see an ap- ! P ea * ma<^e to co^‘ lege athletes and to L VpHfllj professional athletes of the right age to Grantland Rice Young, unmar ried athletes earning fame or mon ey next year will not be popular heroes. Certainly not with the divi sions scattered all over the United States. I think you can get their viewpoint. The luck of the draft won’t be taken into consideration. They will not be cheering stars who are young, strong and well fixed financially. It will be just as it was in the World war more than 20 years ago. The New Schedule “I think I can give you the new schedule, as army and navy offi cials think it will pan out. There will be baseball and football games, plus boxing matches, between regi ments and divisions and armies. These men in camp will need some thing beyond the average to break up their routine existence. They won’t get this from entertainers, ex cept in part. In fact, they can only get it from sport, and that will necessarily mean the top-ranking part of sport. “It will mean the best of our football players, college and pros. It will mean many of our better big league and minor league base ball players. They will have to come in, cither from the draft, or through the force of public demand. The old term ‘slacker’ proved very ef fective in obtaining recruits during the World war. “They won’t be getting any extra money for this service. There will be no cashing in. It will be compa ny against company regiment against regiment—division against division —army against army, and then you’ll see some real competi tion. “This means we will suddenly have the greatest amateur swirl in our history. We will have games that will overshadow Michigan and Minnesota, or all the bowl contests. They will take place all over the map. But they will be army and navy contests in which Bob Feller may be pitching against Bucky Wal ters or Joe Louis may be facing Billy Conn—not for World Series money or 40 per cent of the gate receipts, but for the pride and honor of the regiment or the division. Just the way that Gene Tunney fought in France. “You may not believe me, but this is what will take place.” The Right Angle This seems reasonable enough. In the last war I know the feeling en listed men had against those who were still cashing in on their physi cal ability to play some game. It was bitter. This time we are not at war. But in many respects camp life is worse than war, when it comes to the mat ter of dull routine. This routine will have to be broken up. The only an- I swer is sport. With a million or two million men in camp, averaging less than $5O a month from private to lieutenant, you can understand how they would feel and their people would feel about younger and stronger athletes mopping up finan cially. You may say this is unfair—that the luck of the draft is all that counts. Well, the luck of the draft won’t count with those fellows get ting up at reveille and waiting for taps. Not unless human nature has changed completely. They didn’t ask for it, either, but they got it. They are not going to start cheering for some young fel low around 21 or 23 or 25, making the headlines or getting big money, through physical skill, while they are carrying a gun or driving a tank or flying a plane for a buck a day and no headlines. A Change Due So far the volunteer enlistment and the draft seem to be unimpor tant. Just wait a few months. It will be quite different. There will be a tremendous change in mental at titude on the part of the public, as well as those moving from reveille to taps. There still will be big-league base ball and college and pro football games. But I think there still is a big chance these will be secondary matters to army and navy sport. Kathleen Norris Says: The Real Problem of Young Marriage (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) ’* ' 1 '' /l^T- Up. took me. downtown to dinner and bought me gardenias, saying that I had let myself get into a housekeeping rut. When I said that money was an important element in married security he just laughed. i By KATHLEEN NORRIS ALONG about this time of year the questions begin to come in from the June brides. They are still the hap piest girls in all the world and Tim is still the most wonderful man, but still, they’d just like to ask— One particularly bewildered, little bride writes me from a New Mexico city; she says that she cut out an article of mine saying that the money problem was the most important in mar riage, and that she did seriously believe it, but that Walter thinks it is perfect nonsense. “Walter,” writes Marian, “has a small salary, but gets an occasional commission. When we had been married only two months we got a really fine commission, and made the first three payments on an ador able house. We got a refrigerator and a gas stove and just a few things we had to have, paying more than half down, but planning to pay the rest off in monthly installments. This, with the house, means $92 monthly. What we are sure of is $37.50 a week, so you see we need pretty close figuring to get through, months when there is no commis sion. Walter had a heavy cold in October, lost 22 days at the office, so we got behind and he borrowed $3OO to keep abreast of our obliga tions. Running Into Debt. “Now this is what worries me. He does not like to talk finances with me, and I don’t like to bother him. But by chance I learned that we are running behind with all our pay ments, and unless we have a streak of great luck—and in the winter real estate developments hardly move at all, I can’t see how we are going to manage. What I want to do is to rent this house for a year, which we could do, move into a small apart ment, live on our salary, and let the house pay for itself and its fur nishings, which it would just do. “When I hinted this plan to Wal ter he was amused and disturbed. He took me downtown to dinner and bought me gardenias, saying that I had let myself get into a housekeep ing rut. When I said that money was an important element in mar ried security he just laughed and said that he had been in and out of hot water all his life and certainly was not going to begin worrying now. He admitted that he had made our indebtedness ‘an even five hun dred’ but that if the bank ever made any trouble, he could ‘get it from someone.’ He spoke of a ‘second mortgage’ on the house, but while it is unpaid for I don’t think we could do that. Meanwhile he is anxious for a child; both the men in his office have small children and he says he is jealous when he hears them talking of them. But it seems to me we have no right to go ahead with a family, dearly as I would love a baby, until we are a little more out of the woods. Will you tell me what position I ought to'take and whether I am unnecessarily worried? Moss Rose.” Breakers Lie Ahead. Poor little Moss Rose has a real problem on her hands and certainly there are breakers ahead. She and her Walter will lose their home, and take to smaller quarters, and then FINANCIAL SECURITY Money problems in married life ARE important, Kathleen Norris in sists, even where the husband and wife love each other intensely. This does not mean that couples with small in comes cannot be very happy, she adds, but that unnecessary financial inse curity resulting from poor manage ment will gradually undermine and possibly destroy the best of homes, liead this story of a tearful young wife who is faced with just such a problem. Walter will lose his job. The higher ups in an office distrust a man who runs into debt and depends upon vi sionary commissions to extricate him, and who at the same time feels himself fitted for the responsi bilities of marriage and fatherhood. Through this crisis Rose will have to stand by him, and when the smoke blows away, and he secures a position without the dazzling pos sibilities of commissions, she will have to persuade him to let her handle their financial affairs. If he agrees and sticks to his bar gain, they may emerge into the sun shine of a more secure prosperity again, find a new home, set a room aside in it for the nursery. But if Walter refuses to let his wife share in the management, the whole thing will be repeated over again, with very doubtful results. For women get tired of bright promises that are never fulfilled; money shortage that is never ended; eternal humiliations from tradespeo ple. They know that these things aren’t necessary, and they would rather work out their problems on a certain $lOO a month, than have a dazzling rush of riches one week, and a bitter shortage for the 51 weeks to follow. Wife’s Right to Share Money Planning. It is the right of every wife to share money responsibility, money planning. If a young husband re fuses her that right, he has only himself to blame if she runs into extravagances, cannot account for what he gives her, and blames him for necessary economies. Nothing enrages a husband more than to discover that the little extra money, a bit of luck has brought him, has been blandly spent by his wife, or to open bills for all sorts of ridiculous expenditures that send his scheme for a budget tumbling down into fresh depths of debt. And nothing upsets a wife more than to find herself going about the daily tasks of beds and dishes think ing resentfully: “he told me I’d have to send Tom’s shoes back and take Mollie out of dancing school, and then he plays poker and loses $6O in one evening! I can’t have a maid even for three days a week, but he can loan Bill Porter a hundred dol lars. He gave me a call-down for sending Mama a check for her birth day, and yet he says he matches the boys at the club every day to see who pays for the lunch!” Married love ought to be high above thoughts of money. But it isn’t. Such reflections as these cor rode the home atmosphere when ap parently far more serious things are forgotten and forgiven. Money in the purse is a singularly healing thing; when Rose can look at a growing bank account with satisfac tion, when Walter feels that his wife is as interested as he is in making the financial end of their bargain a success, then both feel a confidence and security that is the very base and root of happiness. General rf HUGH s. JOHNSON I |lw Jour: VmkmM Feature* WNU fcfvkt Washington, D. C. PLANE PRODUCTION Phil Murray’s plan for increased plane production may be wrong in places, but it has at least a germ of the right idea in it. Boiled down to its bones, what he proposes is to make a single great production unit out of the whole automobile in dustry, instead of a cluster of com peting companies. That idea was also at the center of his earlier plan to speed produc tion by creating a control board for each industry. That also is the idea of treating such industry as a unit and so mobilizing each separately and then marshalling all these great units in one combined economic reg iment for defense production. That is exactly the essence of what was done in the war industries board in 1918. It is exactly what is not being done in the Knudsen four-man production office. What the war industries board did was to request each great industry to appoint a “war service’’ commit tee, which could speak and receive the government’s instructions for the whole industry. Then there were or ganized in the board “commodity committees’’ one for each or more industries. It never became neces sary to make this alignment and method too formal or sticky, but it was an arrangement that enabled the organization of the government overhead to mesh with the overhead control within each industry, like the interlined fingers of your two clasped hands. * * • Every production problem was broken down by industries and con sidered in joint meeting of these committees or their representatives. It is the only quick way to explore the productive facilities of each in dustry, to prevent overlapping, con fusion and waste, to determine the merits of vexed questions of priori ty, relative effort and bottlenecks. It created a kind of piano key board upon which federal industrial control can produce, or try to pro duce, all the harmonies and effects of which our economic music box is capable. Indeed if you don’t have that, in view of the immense vol ume of material and the vast com plex of American industry, you are simply fumbling in a jungle of ob scurities, cross purposes and divid ed interests, with never enough facts to decide wisely or well and with not enough controls to act with full effect, even if you could decide. • • • TOOL BOTTLE-NECK There is a tremendous reservoir of machine tool capacity and skilled tool and pattern makers idle in this country at a time when mass pro duction is our greatest need, and it isn’t coming. In talking with a considerable va riety of people I find much confu sion about what machine tools real ly are. In my varied career of jack of-all-trades-and-master-of-none, I was once responsible for a forge shop, a machine shop, an engine and an automobile factory—such as they were. Many people seem to have an idea that machine tools are like a carpenter’s box of tools—saws, plan ers, chisels, square and maybe, plumb-bob and a ball of blue chalk. They aren’t like that at all. Vol umes have been written on what they are like and it is not my pur pose to try to reproduce those vol umes here, further than to say that machine tools are the instruments of American mass production. They have enabled us to produce an au tomobile for, say, $7OO, that in an other country, with other methods, would cost $7,000 —and to produce them by thousands a day where, in another method, we should do well to produce 10 a day. • * • They are giant stamping machines that produce a whole automobile frame, for example, in one opera tion. They are batteries of ma chines that receive raw iron at one end of the production line and turn out completed butt-welded and painted steel pipe at the other on a flat car, with scarcely a human hand intervening. They are forging machines that will do on a single trip what it would take a battery of blacksmiths three months to do. There are drill-presses, lathes and automatic screw machines that, set to the proper gauges, will turn out in a few motions hundreds of perfected parts of this or that complicated piece of machinery of instruments of modern mechanized warfare, with more accuracy than all the an cients ever dreamed. But these things do go in bat teries. Their operations have to be planned months, if necessary, in ad vance. Some consideration of this brief sketch will suggest how important are tool makers to swift mass pTo duction. It isn’t just that they make the working tools for the machines that produce these miracles. They also make the tools that make the tools that do the job. There are no words adequate to express the im portance of these men to any pro duction program. What Phil Mur ray says is that there are about 10,000 of them unemployed, or only part-time employed. 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