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COUNCIL FOR AMERICA
A new organization to be known
as the Council for America will soon
be launched to rally public senti
ment behind the President’s foreign
and defense policies.
Leaders of the movement are
prominent liberals whose aim is to
bring together labor, farmer, liter
ary and similar groups into a mili
tant organization to oppose the ac
tivities of the America First Com
mittee and other isolationist units.
The Council for America will not be
a rival of the Committee for the De
fense of America by Aiding the Al
lies, but will work along similar lines
through elements that are not
reached by it.
The plan is to launch the new or
ganization publicly on Lincoln’s
birthday with a nationally broad
cast address by Mayor LaGuardia.
Among those interested in the new
movement is Mrs. Dwight Morrow,
mother-in-law of Col. Charles Lind
bergh.
• • •
SCORNFUL OF JAPAN’S NAVY
Behind the scenes in the United
States navy there arc two schools of
thought regarding the danger of war
with the Japanese. Both of them
agree, however, regarding its out
come.
One school, made up of younger
officers who have served recently in
the Far East, has developed a scorn
for Japanese sea power, declares
that Japan never has met a first
class navy, that annihilation of her
fleet would be a matter of two or
three months.
They cite especially the Japanese
effort to reduce the Woosung forts
protecting Shanghai in 1932, when
the aim of Japan’s big naval guns
was so poor that for a while Ameri
can photographers stood on top of
the fortifications taking pictures of
the bombardment.
The other school of thought is com
posed of older officers who are spe
cialists in naval tactics. They have
figured out the time necessary to
move the fleet from Hawaii, to es
tablish a largo enough garrison to
protect the Philippines, and to pre
pare for meeting the Japmese fleet
in its own waters. To do all this
they want at least a year.
Both groups agree that the United
Slates would come out on top, but
they disagree widely on the time
required for victory.
It is extremely important to note
that both groups are assuming the
British fleet would remain on guard
in the Atlantic and the United States
would not face the job of protecting
Latin America from Hitler—simul
taneously with the attack by the
Japanese.
This is one reason why many
younger naval officers definitely fa
vor an aggressive policy toward Ja
pan now. They argue that this would
be the surest means not only of
helping the British, but also of pol
ishing off an almost certain enemy
at a time when the Atlantic still is
protected.
NOTE Naval reports indicate
that the Japanese are shying away
from the idea of invading the Dutch
East Indies, despite Nazi urging.
One deterrent has been the strong
defenses of the Dutch. Another has
been significant U. S. naval moves,
particularly storing a large supply of
torpedo tubes in Hongkong, keeping
a large flotilla of submarines at
Manila, and concentrating the fleet
at Hawaii instead of California.
• ♦ ♦
NEW FLYING TANK
The Royal Air force has been con
templating for some time a relent
less bombing of Amsterdam. Ad
vice for such a raid was sent in coded
cables from the British embassy
here, after intelligence reports re
vealed that the Germans had de
veloped a tremendous production of
military equipment in Amsterdam
intended for the invasion of England.
Directly after the invasion of Hoi- I
land, the Germans took over the tre
mendous Fokkcr aircraft plant in
Amsterdam and began production
of a large four-motored plane. Word
received here from Holland—and re
layed back to Britain—is that this
type of plane is for use as a tank
transport.
Special tanks are being built in
Germany sufficiently light to be
hoisted aboard these planes and car
ried across the channel. The Brit
ish are planning to buy a similar
type of “aero-tank” from the United
States, but are awaiting passage of
the lease-lend bill before signing con
tracts.
Meantime, they may be expected
to try to cripple Amsterdam’s pro
duction of this new weapon.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Lanky, curly-haired Rep. Carl
Durham of North Carolina is one of
the top golfers in congress. He con
sistently shoots in the low seventies.
Rep. Jim Scrugham of Nevada
has had a bird’s eye view of an
earthquake in action and has the
evidence to prove it. In his office
hangs a picture he took in 1929,
when, as a newspaper man, he flew
over the Sierra Nevada mountains
and snapped a quake just as it
opened a huge fissure in the moun
tains below.
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THE AUTO HORN SOLUTION
Mayor LaGuardia of New York is
In another campaign against auto
mobile horns, but hizzoner makes
the same mistake others make when
he thinks anything can be done
about auto horns except abolishing
the darned things. Campaigns to
soften the notes, decrease the vol
ume and dilute the pitch are silly.
An auto horn is an auto horn any
way you take it, the human thumb
being what it is today.
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Caricature of Mayor LaGuardia
by Jack Rosen which won first prize
recently in Waldorf-Astoria employ
ees exhibition in arts and crafts.
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The mere presence of a horn on
an automobile transforms a driver
into a speed maniac, a pig, and a
fathead with the manners of a dic
tator and the ethics of a gangster.
* * ♦
He can own a revolver without
the slightest yen to use it; he can
possess a shotgun without the least
impulse to use it, but put an auto
mobile horn under his control and
he becomes a potential assassin with
all the instincts of a hungry hyena.
• * *
“It is the horn,” said Elmer
Twitched today, “that gives an auto
owner the Nero complex, shucks
him of all remnants of civilized im
pulses and makes him a plain
damned fool, filled with the idea
that all he has to do is to press
the button to make the whole world
jump.
* • *
“I don’t care whether it is a loud
horn or a soft horn, a bass horn or a
canary, a blaster or a boop-a-doop
er, nothing can prevent the owner
from making a nuisance out of it,
and Mayor LaGuardia is suffering
from drooping intelligence if he
thinks otherwise.
* * *
“All the reckless driving, all the
violations of automobile laws, all the
disrespect for the rights of other
highway users, and most of the auto
accidents are due to the horn, and
to nothing else. Take that horn off
the car and the driver would be
forced to depend on common sense.
• ♦ ♦
“Back in the horse and buggy
days you didn’t see teams crashing
into one another at every crossroad
or wobbling all over the road at
breakneck speed, did you? And why
not? Because they never had horns
on horses!
• • •
“Yes sir, this world started go
ing savage the day the first horn
was clamped to a gasoline vehicle.
It started swelling up with inconsid
eratencss, self-importance and the
to-hell-with-everybody-else spirit the
firsf time an auto designer put a
button under a car owner’s calloused
thumb. It converted a nation of tol
erant, easy-going, kindly folks into
a country of bad-mannered, jittery,
wild-riding, mean and homicidal
dogs. It made bigger and better
hospitals the never-ceasing need of
America.
• * *
“And there will be no change un
! til the horn is removed, made un
constitutional and plowed under for
all time. Man won’t be so reckless,
so selfish and so pigheaded once he
has to depend on brakes instead of
breach of the peace!”
* • •
CHILBLAINS?
“Don’t rush the season!” says the
man
Who claims he likes winter sports;
But yesterday I caught him with
A folder on Southern resorts!
—Doris Irving.
• • •
SHORT STORY
A motor car,
A little horn,
A human thumb . . .
And peace is “gorn.”
• • •
Women’s hats for spring and sum
mer are being taken from the old
family album. Instead of out of old
numbers of “Puck” and “Judge.”
* • •
A New Jersey court holds that
anybody walking on a moving esca
lator does so at his or her own risk.
Not only that, but it looks so darned
silly.
• • *
Elmer Twitchell, in our opinion,
always had the right idea on esca
lators and energy conservation. He
always sits down on them.
Kathleen Norris Says:
Don’t Marry a Man to Change Him
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.!
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He. never rises when a woman stands up to leave the table; he doesnt take off
his hat when women are in the elevator, or pull out my chair. In short, he is a rough
diamond.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
THE fears of a girl before
she takes the serious step
of marriage are very nat
ural fears. Any girl who is will
ing to jump into the new life,
accept the new name and home,
responsibilities and position
without any misgivings, is a
rather shallow girl. We expect
the bride to be a little dubious,
a little hesitant, a little afraid
of her own fitness to handle the
problems of marriage.
But the other extreme is al
most as unfortunate as the one
of too much confidence. To
weigh and measure, doubt and
worry, analyze and hesitate
over your matrimonial pros
pects is to rob the happiest time
of your life of its fragrance and
beauty. When I receive a letter
like the following, I have small
hopes that the girl who wrote it
is headed for a successful ex
perience as a wife.
An Eye to Alterations.
“David and I have been engaged
for more than a year,” writes Maude
Brown. “He is 34, I am seven years
younger; we are both school-teach
ers. Everything I know of David’s
character is fine, but there are
many little things about him that
worry me; they may not seem
important to most girls, but they
are to me. I would not hurt his
feelings for the world; just because
he has not had some of the social
advantages that most of my friends
have had. But I feel that just a
few changes in him would make him
perfection itself and I need advice
as to how to go about accomplishing
them. Intellectually he is more than
a match for any of my friends; next
year he will probably be superin
tendent of our Union High, the young
est man ever to hold that position.
“To give you an idea of what 1
mean. David is very outspoken.
Before our friends he will say things
like: ‘How can you folks afford
that?’ or: ‘we’re going to board with
Maude’s mother awhile, at regu
lar boarder rates;’ little intimate
matters that embarrass me and my
friends. Once at a picnic David
refused frankfurters saying that
they ‘gave him gas;’ he never rises
when a woman stands up to leave
the table; he doesn’t take off his
hat when women are in the elevator,
pull out my chair, or open the car
door for me. In short, he is a rough
diamond, but he is a diamond!
Makes Her Feel Self-Conscious.
“Now, if these things worry me
before marriage, and make me self
conscious before all my old group—
he is a comparative newcomer in
town, by the way, will they not wor
ry me infinitely more when we are
married, and I feel that there is no
escape? Marriage is a delicate and
an intimate relationship; to a sensi
tive woman there cannot be in it
too much consideration or finesse.
I want to be proud of my husband in
every way, and in every way that
really counts, I am proud of David.
He is moderate in all his habits,
popular, thrifty, successful.
Would Destroy David’s Bigness.
“I would hope by gentleness and
example and the influence of a wife
to influence him, but even now he
only laughs good naturedly if I am
disturbed, and within a few days
repeats the offence, whatever it was.
David really does not see in what
way he is failing me, and I ask
myself if he ever will see. Have
you had problems similar to this
one before, and if you have what
has been your advice?”
My advice in this case, Maude,
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Marriage Fears
You don’t like a few habits of your
husband-to-be? Should you marry?
Kathleen Norris says . . . Read her an
swer and her advice to young brides
who are hesitant and dubious about i
their fitness to solve the problems of
matrimonial life.
is to David and not to you. It is
Punch’s immortal advice to the
young man about to marry.
“Don’t.” You are going into this )
partnership determined to destroy
David’s bigness and confidence and
originality by a long process of flea- j
bites; you care already for the opin
ion and judgment of your friends
more than you care for him. Your
attitude is not loyal, protective, con
fident; you are not looking beyond
these school-teaching days in a i
small town to the days when he,
with all his crudeness and frankness
and tactlessness will be moved on to
a better position. No, you’ve deter
mined to make a polished courtier
out of him, a husband who does
everything Maude wants him to do,
a lackey dancing about with chairs
and opening car doors and never
forgetting to remove his hat.
It’s unfortunate that David didn’t
have a mother during his small boy
hood, to train him in gentler man
ners. The example of a wife may
indeed change him miraculously
but only if that wife makes him feel
that he is the one object of her
solicitude in the matter. Not to im
press her friends, not to save her
“embarrassment,” not to spare her
old-maidy nerves, but because she
loves him, because she is close to
him in everything, and she likes to
receive from him the little atten
tions that all women prize.
To take the attitude of a teacher,
to guide, will destroy her marriage
sooner or later, for David is obvi- '
ously the bigger-natured person of
the two, and to have a swarm of j
gnats, in the shape of gentle re
proaches, sweet reminders, sensitive
tears and hurt suggestions buzzing
around his head from morning until
night will speedily disillusion him. j
True Spirit of Wifehood.
In one of Dickens’ stories there is !
an incident of a country farmer and
his lass, who come to the bureau j
for a wedding license. The man !
cannot write and so makes his
mark; the girl makes her own mark
beside his. Later some friend re- 1
proaches her, reminding her that she
was well educated and can of course
sign her name. “Yes, I know,” says
the wife-to-be, “but the dear good
fellow hasn’t had any schooling—l’m
to help him get started, and I didn’t
want to shame him!”
That is the spirit of wifehood.
Wifehood has to be oneness or it
isn’t anything at all. To be watch
ing a man nervously, exchanging
disturbed smiles with your friends,
trying to shush off your husband’s
references to the fact that Mama
is in money difficulties or that frank- t
furters occasionally disagree with |
certain stomachs may satisfy your
little inch-wide sense of propriety,
but it isn’t marriage, and the woman
who feels that it is will be much hap- I
pier unwed.
Ninety-Seven Per Cent All Right.
If you go into it at all go into it
confidently and gloriously, willing to
put up with 3 per cent of imperfec
tions for the sake of that 97 per cent
of solid fineness and character and
achievement.
Some years ago a bride that I
knew asked four old friends in for
tea. They didn’t know her husband
very well! they were surprised to
find that “tea” was actually tea
and not cocktails and that he didn’t
smoke, didn’t like many of the things
they liked, and had a distinctly Swed
ish accent
SAN FRANCISCO.—The years slip
by rather easily out under this
western sun. There is Lonnie Stagg
romping around at the age of 78,
still coaching a football team.
I ran across another young fel
low who is only 65, but one few of
. us would care to
tangle with, even
||r 1 though he is bald. I
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get an even break
with a grizzly bear,
jj which wasn’t too
y His name is James
lived—the greatest
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important opinions.
I asked Jim about the modern
crop. Here was his answer —
“The main trouble with our mod
ern day fighters is that they won’t
take the time and effort to train
properly and they won’t listen to ad
vice. The boxer who won’t work
can’t fight, because it takes more in
side stuff to train hard than it does |
to get in there and start swinging.
The modern fighter doesn’t know
what real work is. Nor real train
ing.” • , *
I found the ex-champion at Jef
fries Barn, a modest little fight club
located in Burbank on the outskirts
:of Hollywood. Appropriately enough
j the arena is situated on Victory
boulevard. Jim Jeffries knows some
thing about victory. He had more
than 20 fights and lost only one, that
to Jack Johnson at Reno in 1910
when he essayed a comeback after
a five-year layoff.
The Most Dangerous
“The most dangerous and crafty
fighter of all the heavyweights was
Bob Fitzsimmons,” continued Jeff,
the stub of a cigar clenched in his
teeth.
“Jack Dempsey was the best of
the modern hitters, but you noticed
that Jack’s oppo
nents kept getting up
off the floor after he
had cracked them. I
remember one fight
Fitz had against Gus ;*|.
Ruhlin in New York. pli|»' igT-
Bob hit Gus with a , 1
terrific punch to the < ~
chin and Ruhlin was <
unconscious for 36 •
hours. There was no ■
publicity about it at ‘ w - - •
the time because ey- Jack Dempsey
erybody was afraid
it might be bad for the fight game.
Jeffries shies away from attempt
ing to compare Joe Louis, the pres
ent champion, with the old-time
greats.
“Louis has never been thoroughly
tested. He has no competition. Yes,
I think Dempsey would have beaten
Joe, because Jack could hit just as
hard and liked the rough going.
But how can anybody tell? Louis
may be the greatest of them all, but
I doubt it.”
Jeffries says Louis has been a
credit to the sport of boxing and sees
little chance of anybody beating him
—because there are no standouts
among the crop of contenders and
the youngsters coming up just won’t
work hard enough to get any place.
Underdog Against Fitz
Jim is now 65 years old. He had
his first fight at the tender age of
16, in Los Angeles,
j “I weighed 218 pounds that night,”
said Jeff, smiling as he recalled the
battle. “Boy, and did I learn some
thing. My opponent was Hank Grif
fin, a big Negro and it took me 14
; rounds to put him away. And was
I tired? I resolved then I wouldn’t
fight any more until I had done a
lot of work. That’s when 1 really
began training,
j “You know, when I got the chance
to meet Fitzsimmons for the title in
1899 I worked five months on the
road before I ever entered the gym.”
I Fitzsimmons was a2to 1 favorite
over Jeffries for that fight, but Jeff
trained diligently with Tommy Ry
an, once middleweight champion,
and took both the bettors and Fitz
for a ride when he stopped the title
holder in the eleventh round. In the
same year Jeffries proved his condi
tion by taking a 25-round decision
from Tom Sharkey in the same Co
ney Island ring.
And the big fellow is still in pretty
good shape for a man of 65. He
weighs around 250 and keeps his
waistline down by “chasing gophers
and digging weeds on my ranch.”
i Jeffries successfully defended his
title five times, twice against Jim
Corbett, and also against Sharkey,
Fitzsimmons and Jack Munroe. He
i was 24 years of age when he won it
and 31 when Johnson kayoed him in
his comeback attempt in 1910.
The Super Start
Incidentally, that Reno fight was
the first of Tex Rickard’s super pro
ductions. It drew a gate of better
than $270,000 and brought Jeffries
his largest purse. His share, which
included his cut of the motion pic
ture profits, amounted to more than
$lOO,OOO.
Jim has saved his money, but he
still likes to mingle with the fight
mob and he’s happiest while refer
eeing the bouts iff his arena, which
has been running eight years and
houses about 1,200 fans.
Smiles
In Realm of Fancy
Sergeant after war game)—p r j.
Vate Bjones, didn’t you realize
you were exposing yourself to an
imaginary enemy only 250 yards
away?
Private Bjones—That’s all right,
sergeant, I was standing behind
an imaginary rock 25 feet high.
Said the office boy: “Boy, if f
was boss and I asked me for a
raise! Would I give myself one!”
Ammunition Supply
Mother — Bobbie , you seem very fond
oj the druggist's little boy. Why is it ?
Bobbie—He can get nil the pills he
wants for our new air guns.
Distant Relative
“Yes, Simpson, your daughter is
one in a thousand. She’s extreme
ly good-looking and a fine dancer.
By the way, old man, could you
lend me a fiver?”
“I’m sorry I can’t, Bimpson—
but she’s my former wife’s child
by her first husband.”
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Will of the People
Well, will anybody deny now that
the government at Washington, as
regards its own people, is the
strongest government in the world
at this hour? And for this simple
reason, that it is based on the will,
and the good will, of an instructed
people.—John Bright.
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Rise to Fall
As the blessings of health and
fortune have a beginning, so they
must also find an end. Everything
rises but to fall, and increases but
to decay.—Sallust.
His Choice
Sergeant (instructing class)—
Man can serve but one master.
Draftee—Well, in that case, ser
geant, I’ll cast my lot with the
paymaster.
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They never taste who always
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