Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, January 23, 1941, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextY&»**£/ O. wfs Washington, D. C. FARM BUREAU CHIEF CHIDES ROOSEVELT The President’s chat with Ed O’Neal, soft-spoken head of the I American Farm Bureau federation, was not as harmonious as the im pression given when he emerged beaming from the White House. On foreign policy the two men saw eye to eye, but it was quite different on the farm question. O’Neal bluntly chided Roosevelt for not giv ing more consideration to agricul tural interests in the defense pro gram. “We’ve been hearing how business will prosper and the rights of labor will be protected,” O’Neal said. “You’ve had plenty to say about this in your speeches, but you’ve been silent on the farm ques tion as related to national defense.” “Maybe that’s because I have no complaint against the farmers,” said Roosevelt, in effect. “Well, we have a complaint against you,” shot back O’Neal, with no trace of jocularity. “All this bickering and indecision in con gress about farm legislation to be submitted at this session is due chiefly to the administration’s fail ure to agree on steps that should be taken.” O’Neal had no real success in urging on the President the Farm Bureau’s plan for government loans up to 85 per cent of parity on basic crops to keep production up to de mand. (Parity loans now range from 52 to 75 per cent.) Acreage control benefits, plus the loan guar antee, he contended, would enable farmers to get full parity, while “dumping” on government ware houses of cotton and wheat sur pluses could be stopped by the im position of penalties for overproduc tion. This plan was a compromise, O’Neal told Roosevelt, between the present loan program and the proc essing (sales) tax proposal of the Republican-backed income certifi cate plan. Roosevelt agreed that farm prices would have to be jacked up and pro duction restricted, but demurred at appropriating more funds for parity loans. *He argued that the vast defense expenditures would boost crop prices automatically. But this line of reasoning did not per suade O’Neal. “Mr. President,” he said with a grin, “I’m telling you now that we’re going to demand full parity from this congress. Our convention in Baltimore approved the plan I have outlined to you and we won’t rest until we get it.” * * * IT. S. FAR BEHIND EUROPE IN PLANES’ PROTECTIVE ARMOR One hushed-up sore spot in the dragging plane program is in armor protection—a field that, like so many other aviation developments, origi nated in the United States but was loft to others to exploit. Armor-plate protection for fighting planes first saw the light of day in the Nicaraguan campaign against the rebel General Sandino during the Coolidge administration. To pro tect themselves against snipers lurk ing in the jungle, marine corps pi lots equipped the undersides of their ships with makeshift armor guards. Although crude, this protection saved more than one pilot’s life. But beyond this start, the army and navy did almost nothing. And it re mained for the alert Nazis to devel op the idea, just as they did the Stuka dive bombers which originat ed with the U. S. navy. As a result Nazi planes are among the best pro tected in the world. Simultaneously, the Nazis began increasing the caliber of their air plane guns in order to offset enemy armor plating. Belatedly England turned to armor protection and heavier guns, but we did nothing regarding armor and very little re garding guns—until recently. As a result, the United States is now up against a double bottleneck. One is limited technical experience on how to armor planes without diminishing speed and maneuvera bility. Two is lack of plant facilities to produce a light-weight, bullet resistant armor. • • • BRONZE KING FISH Huey Long has returned to the halls of congress. A seven-foot bronze statue of the late "Kingfish” has been placed in Statuary hall of the Capitol between two other noted figures, William Jen nings Bryan and the elder Sen. Rob ert M. LaFollette. Long’s statue is covered with an American flag and will be formally unveiled at a cere mony sometime this month. The work of Charles Keck, Brook lyn sculptor, the statue took several years to complete and cost $15,000 • * * MERRY-GO-ROUND Capt. George Maines, one of the founders of the American Legion, has submitted to government offi cials a plan for the formation of a junior national defense organization. There is no more scorching critic of the ,New Deal than Gen. Hugh Johnson, but this is not preventing the blustery one-time NRA boss from heading a columnists’ commit tee to boost the President’s birthday parties to raise funds for the Na tional Infantile Paralysis Founda tion. HO General HUGH s. JOHNSON Jaur: Uniud FfJiurw WNU Srfvkt Washington, D. C. TWO MAN CONTROL There will doubtless be consider able criticism of the executive order ( setting up the new War Industries board—called, for some prideful rea son, “The Office of Production Man agement.” It may be said that two man control (Knudsen-Hillman) is an administrative abortion, that not enough authority has been delegat ed and so on and on. That criticism will not come from this column which has been yapping for such action for two years. Mr. B. M. Baruch, the father of indus trial mobilizations and war indus tries boards, is also enthusiastic. I have just been looking up the 1918 documents that set up the War Industries board. The essential one was a simple two-page letter from President Wilson to Mr. Baruch. It is far less explicit than President Roosevelt’s executive order and delegates less specific authority. Yet it worked to a marvelous result. It worked because, notwithstanding the supremacy of excellence or the ultimate in sloppiness in drawing up organization charts and orders, suc cess or failure will depend on the ability and fitness of one man. Regardless of organization charts, “Wherever the MacGregor sits is the head of the table.” The prin ciple question is not the curious "law firm” concept of two-headed executive control (Knudsen-Hill man). While a law firm is utterly inappropriate for executive action, the real question is whether or not Bill Knudsen is the MacGregor, as Mr. Baruch demonstrably was. It’s all up to Knudsen. He says with some satisfaction that he can now “keep his hat on and spit where he pleases” (which is a quaint com bination of the unmelancholy Dane and Uncle Remus) but now let’s see whether he will do it. One doubt is that Mr. Hillman is there to tell him at least where he can’t spit. That doesn’t trouble me very much. 1 have worked with Sidney Hillman. The President says he knows them both and isn’t worried. I know them better and neither am I worried. Undivided responsibility is better than compromise, but Mr. Hillman is both a realist and a high ly educated and intelligent leader. Ho will obstruct only on the greatest of provocation and the clearest case. On complete analysis, what Mr. Hillman has is no more than a limit ed veto power. In truth, it is less than that. It is a power to declare a division resulting in an automatic and instantaneous appeal to Caesar who, in the clutch of circumstance, must instantaneously and automat ically decide. That would follow anyway if Knudsen were supreme and any such differences arise as would compel Mr. Hillman to make a fight. * * * AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY The “Captains and the Kings” of the production lines don’t need any “talking at” for extreme effort in national defense, at least not in the automobile industry. I was asked by Mr. Knudnen to pinch-hit for him at his long-dated engagement at a convention of the Society of Automo tive Engineers. It was supposed to be a “pep talk,” a sort of harangue especially urging the farming out of orders, greater co-operation with the airplane industry and the inven tion of methods to use all idle skilled men and idle machinery. My prepared talk soundejl pretty silly. I arrived in Detroit several hours before I was scheduled to talk. In conversations with old friends in this industry and in press announce ments that day, it became apparent that all I was supposed to talk about is being done, was started long ago and is proceeding with all the speed end vigor that is to be expected from this particularly swift and robust industry. All the large companies are joined up with the big airplane companies to produce parts or engines for air plane assemblies on a seals that is dizzy in its magnitude. There may once have been some mutual rivalry, some fear among the aircraft manu facturers that the automobile people would like to take over their busi ness, some apprehension among the motor folk that airplane work would hamper car production. There is no evidence of anything of that kind now. The Detroit people are actually taking the lead in combined produc tion and, so far as I can see, hold ing back nothing., It isn’t confined to aircraft production £ithdr,~ These great manufacturing e'slablishmcqts i are straining every effort to do what ever the Olllce of Production Man agement wants them to do on tanks, shells, guns, cartridge cases,-' armored cars or whatever else thej can fit into their production lines. They are not haggling about prof its or commercial conditions. Tljus, confirms at the manufacturing end what I heard at the overhead rhati agement end in Washington before I came to Detroit. . In many ways, the extent to which this has gone is astonishing. In our competitive system where combina-. tion and joint action by manufac r turing concerns is forbiddem under heavy penalty by the law, it requires at least some government leader ship, if not outright government sanction, for competitors to act to gether HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, CEORLIA Kathleen Norris Says; When a Woman Deliberately Fools Herself (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) I hear he is going with another girl, not seriously, but he has taken her out twice, and it makes me feel just heartbroken. I will never like anyone else as well. By KATHLEEN NORRIS THIS week I had two letteis that said the same thing; one from Nancy, a girl of 16 in Los Angeles, and the other from Anne, a woman of 44 in Boston, Each one was fooling herself and each one wanted me to go on with the fooling. It was the old question. “I know he likes me better than anyone else; he was unmistake- in his attentions and inten tions for months, but something has happened—he was away, or I was away, and now for some weeks he hasn’t telephoned or come to see me.” The girl of 16 is quite desperate about it. “I wrote him twice,” she writes, ‘‘and then I returned a book he had loaned me, and telephoned him to see if he had gotten it. He was as nice as he could be, and said he would telephone as soon as he was free for an evening, but that was a week ago, and I’m just sick about it! I hear he is going with another girl, not seriously, but he has taken her out twice, and it makes me feel just heartbroken. I will never like any one else as well, and I seem incapable of getting any interest in life except thinking of him.” Older Woman’s Case Sadder. The middle-aged woman is less despairing, but after all, her case is sadder, for at 44 a love-affair bites pretty deep, and one is not at all sure that there will be an other coming along in a year or two to heal the wound. “I was unhappily married more than 20 years ago,” says the Boston woman’s letter. “The marriage was a mistake from the first, and after seven months of it we were divorced; my daughter was born some months later. This marital failure was a bitter experience to me, and for years I took no interest whatever in men, devoting myself to my child and my profession. I am department head of a preparatory school for girls. My daughter, now 20, was married a few weeks ago. She has been the one great interest in my life until recently, when I be came extremely friendly with a doc tor, widowed, two years younger than I am, and in every way the man I have dreamed of all my life. He is successful, good-looking, popu lar, music-loving; his daughter, an only child, has been with us in the school for a year. “Billy began paying me real at tention last spring—a happy time for me! We took both daughters on little trips, he dined often at my little apartment, sent me books, flowers, telephoned every day and ' finally asked me to have a photo graph taken especially for him, , which I did. Her World Stops. *‘Then, quite suddenly, just three weeks ago, everything stopped. I sas stunned. No message, no tele phone, no dates; it left me feeling scared and blank. I wrote him, tried to resume the old easy tone, but I felt that I failed. After some 1 cldys he did come to dinner, but he • -brought his young office associate with him, making the meal a three spirhe that was an utter loss to me. n '“i" made a luncheon engagement with him, knowing that something must be very wrong, and determined 'to be quite frank with him and ask him what had happened to break up our friendship. However, on the morning of our luncheon he tele phoned the office to say that he could not keep the engagement, but would ‘get in touch with me soon.’ He has FACE THE FACTS "Slop looting yourself” is the sound advice. Kathleen Norris gives to wom en in love with men who do not re turn their affections. When a brief period of mutual love is terminated, they try desperately to restore the old bonds of affection. Miss Norris advises them that the shortest way to peace is to realize the love affair is over. She admits this may he a heartbreaking task, but believes it is the best way out. not done so. So after some hesita tion, believing the whole thing to be a dreadful misunderstanding and mistake, I wrote him honestly. His answer came today. It was cheer ful, friendly, casual, and answers absolutely nothing. He says he is terribly busy but will come around soon. This morning’s paper lists his name as a guest at a smart little theater supper given by one of out prominent society women. “I know he likes me better than any new-found friend. We have known each other for seven or eight years, although the specially inti mate friendship only began last spring. For the first time in my life I am in love, and I cannot have the whole thing terminate this way, and yet I have my pride to consider, and I don’t want to overstep the line In what way can I attract him back to me, for I know that it would take little to restore the old happy con fidence.” Love a Fleeting Fever. Both Forty-four and Sixteen are fooling themselves. They know in their own hearts that until an en gagement is announced and the ring safe on a woman’s finger, a man is as free as air. A few loveletters a few exquisite memories are all that remain to the woman, and at mos they would go only to prove what w< all know anyway, that man is u fickle animal, as woman is, and that once that fleeting fever called being in love is over, it is OVER. Any attempts to restore it only be littles the woman in the man’s eyes No man needs any reminder if he really wants to see a woman. In the happy first stages of an affair she has a thousand proofs of this He finds excuses for messages, meet ings, exchanges of notes. Her life is one blissful reminder of his devotion. Go Bravely On. When it stops, the only thing to do is to make the most of flattering memories, and go bravely on to the next exciting friendship. Re proaches and reminders will only annoy him, and destroy the remain of his affection. For Sixteen, of course, life hola. deeper and truer emotions; she wil laugh at her little-girl tragedy somi day, and regard the object of it wit! indifferent amazement. But for For ty-four the matter is more serious It is a real calamity to have glimpsed, at that age, after the lone ly and hard-working years, what companionship and a home and the devotion of a fine man might mean, and to relinquish it will be a hard slow painful task. Women pay high for everything they get in this life; love means more to them than it does to men, and married life offers them induce ments that it doesn’t hold for their mates. Children cost mothers in finitely more than they do fathers; they have a higher value to their mothers. But of all things for whicl women pay an incomplete love-affai; is the most expensive; Anne is goint to need real philosophy in'the nex few months. To stop fooling herself is perhap; the shortest cut to peace. The soon er she does that, and poor little Six teen does that, the happier they wil) be. MSS Jr RESTAURANT MEN ARISE! “Washington.—A meeting of the Re gional Restaurant Convention was told by speakers here that restaurant owners should serve foods which would help na tional security. ‘Restaurant men should put their knowledge of nutrition and diet to work in the cause of defense,’ a speaker said. ‘They can help improve the stamina of America.’ ” —News item. • » * Elmer Twitchell was much inter ested in the above item. As an old restaurant man himself, the idea ab sorbed his interest. “I think there’s something in it,” he declared. “You take a hamburger . . . The reporter reached out to take one, but Mr. Twitchell explained he was speaking figuratively. “Take a hamburger. There are hamburgers and hamburgers. I don’t know how they rate J in the matter of stamina, but the kind many restau rants serve today certain ly make a man want to fight.” “What about all-hots?” he was asked. “The all-hot rates about B plus in a defense program,” explained El mer solemnly, consulting his charts. “They are not only nutritious, but they are a national habit. They are a part of the American system. Take our frankfurters and rolls away from us and our morale would undergo terrific damage.” * * * “How does the combo or ham and egg on rye rate in a national defense program?” “Our tests have shown,” replied Elmer, “that a man cannot remain r m m an adequate fighting unit W&tylfl a s long on the combo as F be can on a three-decker Sgaaflß liverwurst with lettuce and mayonnaise, but he is within one point ten of being as durable as a man who prefers a salami on a hard roll.” “What about the minute steak?” “This minute steak business de mands an immediate study,” snapped Mr. Twitchell. “It covers too much territory. I ordered a minute steak sandwich in a fairly good restaurant last night. It unfitted me even for draft purposes by loosening all my front teeth.” * ♦ ♦ “How about chicken salad as an aid to national security?” “I understand there are places where chicken salad is chicken sal ad,” replied Elmer, “but I have not been able to 10-1 1 cate ’em. There is nothing ‘ n tbc chicken salads I IVUdm have ordered that would sustain a man through a minor skir mish with a platoon of Singer midg ets.” “What about the cheeseburger sandwich? Could the nation put its trust in that in time of war?” “The war and navy departments have the cheeseburger under con sideration at this moment. Messrs. Stimson, Knox and others had a spe cial session to determine the prop er place of the cheeseburger in any defense program,” said Elmer. “How about beef stew and beans?” “Now you’re talking sense,” con cluded Elmer. “No matter what the restaurant man or the de- fense bodies may suggest, Sp stew and beans are what Efr/jH the fighting forces will get B&.jHn . . . and past perform ances show it ain’t half bad.” * * * Reaction to the ASCAP-Radio War. I cannot get the old sweet songs; Somehow it strikes me funny That those who write of “love and you” Can think so much of money. * * * If ell, anyhow, the ban on all thane song hits on the chain radios has killed off the fellow who was always asking for request numbers. * * * The best slogan for America in the present crisis is reported on bill boards in Miami: “AMERICA, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT,” * * ♦ Germany has gone to the rescue of Italy. This may turn out to mark the introduction of a new type of German warfare: Rescue with pur suit. ♦ ♦ * Observations. Misfortune, friends, befell me, I hate to walk an inch; I let some salesmen sell me A pair of shoes that pinch. * * 0 Have you broken any New Year’s resolutions yet? ♦ • • This looks like a year when a gpod slogan for anybody is, “Never change skis in midair!” * * * DEFENSE PROGRAM STUFF (“New army camps are at least a month behind schedule."—News item.) Last night I saw most everywhere An army camp that wasn’t there; | It wasn’t there agaiA today— I hope the foe will keep away! * * • The present horizon To II Duce is “pizon.” * . . THE GIST OF IT Marshal Graziani’s report, boiled I down, would read, “I shoulda stayed I in bed.” Pinafore-Jumper For the Little Tot ]SJO WONDER she looks sweet as pie and decidedly pleased with herself! This little miss, with the bows in her curls and her doll by the arm, is wearing the newest and best of pinafore-jumper fash ions, and one that you should make up immediately for your own f i small daughter. The pinafore jumper is so deliciously full, below that down-scooped cut in the front, and the sash bow in the back ac cents its saucy flare. The little guimpe is plain with round, tai lored collar and a little neck bow. Send for the pattern right away (the number is 8860). Make the pinafore-jumper of checked ging ham, printed calico or plain cham bray, and trim with braid or bias binding. 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