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Washington, D. C.
THE NEW VICE PRESIDENT
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
droppped into the vice president’s
private office just before Henry Wal
lace was girding himself to make
his debut as president of the senate.
He found Wallace with the senate
chaplain, Rev. Zcßarney T. Phillips.
Vandenberg looked at the two
men, apparently trying to decide
which was the more devout. Josh
ing Rev. Phillips, he said: ‘‘We won’t
need you any more. Henry Wal
lace can offer the prayer.”
In senate circles it is generally
agreed that Wallace will be every
thing that Garner wasn’t. Garner
used to make his appearance for the
opening at noon, stay for 10 minutes,
then disappear. Wallace will start
at noon and stay on the job, really
running the senate in a conscien
tious manner.
But what Garner did after he left
the chamber, Wallace will fail to do.
Garner was a mixer, a mixer of
men and a mixer of drinks. His
backstage work was enough to put
any bill across—or to kill it.
As one senator put it, “Garner’s
office was the only place in the sen
ate wing where we could always
count on getting a drink. We know
we can’t count on Wallace for that.”
* * *
HOPKINS’ SURVEY
Harry Hopkins went to Britain as
the personal emissary of the Presi
dent, but he also had a private as
signment from Mrs. Roosevelt.
She asked the ex-cabinet member
to make a first-hand survey of the
activities of English social welfare
agencies, both private and public,
under blitz conditions. Hopkins is
particularly fitted to make such a
study because of his many years as
a New York social worker.
Note—Mrs. Roosevelt has decided
to break her recent self-imposed
plan to stick closer to Washington.
Following the election last Novem
ber, she made up her mind to aban
don her speaking tours. But on the
strong advice of friends she will re
sume her practice of getting out in
the country, feeling the pulse of pub
lic sentiment, soon will visit the
Midwest.
0 0 ♦
WILLKIE CLUBS
It wasn’t made public, but that
meeting of-Willkie club chiefs in
New York recently named u com
mittee of 14 to draw up a plan for
the future of the movement.
Actually no one could agree on a
definite policy. Some state leaders
reported that there was little hope
of keeping the clubs alive in their
particular bailiwicks. Others, par
ticularly in Pennsylvania, disclosed
that a plan already was afoot to set
up a permanent organization of
county units to be financed by sus
taining membership, running all the
way from 25 cents for rank-and-file
members, to $lOO for founders.
Members of the group are Robert
G. Allen, ex-Dcmocratic congress
man from Pennsylvania who bolted
to Willkie; Mrs. Henry Breckin
ridge, N. Y.; Henry A. Budd, To
peka, Kan.; Arthur Bunker, N. Y.;
Mrs. Marie Jay Cady, Grand Rap
ids, Mich.; Russell Davenport, Will
kie “discoverer” and campaign
brain-truster; James H. Douglas
Jr., Chicago; John W. Hanes, for
mer Roosevelt undersecretary of the
treasury; William H. Harman, Phil
adelphia; Richard D. Logan, Tole
do, Ohio; Oren Root, head of the
Willkie clubs; Howard M. Wall,
Portland, Ore.; Cloud Wampler, Chi
cago; and James K. Watkins, De
troit.
• • •
INCOME TAX CONSCIENCES
With the arrival of open season for
income taxes the public conscience
begins to hurt. People send money
to the treasury, with no name at
tached, to square old debts.
From San P'rancisco came a let
ter containing $193 and the words,
“A mistake in 1935. Penalty and in
terest at 6 per cent.”
From Norwich, Conn., an anony
mous taxpayer sent in $l5. From
Morris, 111., a blind contribution of
$B. From Phoenix, Ariz., $l.B0 —this
coming from a regular and frequent
contributor.
All such money goes to the treas
ury’s “conscience fund.” Total re
ceipts, since the time of President
Madison, $647,563.98.
MAIL BAG
H.D.S., New York —The horoscope
reading on John L. Lewis which was
sent to us was to the effect that,
“there is a good deal of conflict and
discord in his life between January
and June, 1941. After that, however,
there are some very sudden
changes, with the return of old con
tacts and associations, and very def
inite financial increase for this la
bor leader.”
P.8.H., Milwaukee The words
used by TVA Director Lilienthal in
warning Wisconsin against soil de
pletion were: “The same process
of depletion of minerals in the soil
that has brought the South to its
present unhappy economic status is
at work steadily and inexorably in
Wisconsin and the Middle West.”
J.S.H., Westport, Conn.— Thanks
for your letter noting that the Con
tinental Congress came within one
vote of making German, rather than
English, the official language of the
Colonies.
/^General
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
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Washington, D. C.
SELF CONTRADICTION
The proponents of the Morgenthau
“lease-lend” bill are certainly talk
ing themselves into a position of
self-contradiction which it may take
their lifetime to explain. The ex
planation required may not be
merely lack of logic—it may be of
why they helped to ruin their coun
try by using their official positions
to dignify statements that, from a
private citizen, wouldn’t stand two
minutes cross-examination before a
justice of the peace.
Secretary Morgenthau, who began
by trying, without consulting public
opinion at all, to divert our war sup
plies to France, where Hitler got
them, says that if we do not pass
that bill, Britain will have to stop
fighting. Secretary Stimson, also
urging this particular bill, says that
it must pass at once, because if
Britain stops fighting, we are subject
to attack.
Mr. Morgenthau’s argument is
that “they haven’t any dollars left.”
That may or may not be so, and
probably isn’t, but if the secretary
means that they have nothing which
they can pledge as collateral it cer
tainly is not so—not by billions.
There is considerable apprehension
in Canada that, if wo begin giving
our manufactures away to Britain,
Canada will lose a lot of business.
The British have to pay Canadian
industry, also British industry, not
to mention all the other nations of
the British Commonwealth and the
whole of the rest of the world. Only
Uncle Sam is rushing out again to
give away his—well, let’s call them
innards—when even the association
of British nations give not theirs.
O. K., failing a franker and more
credible statement of this finan
cial problem, most of us are willing
to give England money outright to
buy our just share of aid to her and
to the precise extent—and not one
inch further—than it really contrib
utes to American defense. We want
congress to control these appropri
ations for the efense of Britain just
as it must control appropriations
for the defense of America. The
“lease-lend” bill doesn’t do that. It
authorizes the President alone to
make, buy and give Britain unlimit
ed billions worth of our resources
without consulting congress.
If, therefore, as Secretary Mor
genthau has said, it is only a ques
tion of dollars for Britain, no argu
ment is left for the much wider
powers of the "lease-lend” bill.
Other official “opinions” that
Great Britain can lick Germany on
the continent with our aid, that if
Great Britain doesn’t, Germany will
lick us etcet, etcet; aren't worth the
paper on which they are written or
the breath with which they are
spoken. Modern war is too unpre
dictable. There is only one rule for
us—a burning lesson of this terrible
age. “Arm for impregnable Amer
ican defense. Rely on no other na
tion—on nothing but the strength of
our own resources and the courage,
ingenuity, patriotism and devotion
of our own people.”
DEFENSE AUTHORITY
Secretary Stimson says that one
reason for bum’s-rushing the in
creasingly discredited “lease-lend”
bill is that it will cure the “disorder
which has existed for nearly two
years in the manufacture of muni
tions.”
His point is that the President
must purchase all supplies for our
several defense departments and
also for any allies because, other
wise, they would compete with each
other, raise prices and create con
fusion.
Whatever confusion has “existed”
is not traceable to any lack of ex
ecutive authority.
Up to the middle of last year, our
government had no plans whatever
for adequate defense and then, in a
moment of panic, dumped indigest
ible billions of dollars of totally un
co-ordinated orders into the lap of
an unwarned industry. It is due
also to the long and inexcusable lag
in setting up any single authorized
and intelligent control. That hasn’t
been done yet.
It was not because government
had not been warned by the voice
of intense and highly successful ex
perience. B. M. Baruch warned it
over and over again as to precisely
what was wrong and what was nec
essary to cure it.
To use the excuse that Mr. Stim
son thus advanced for the passage
of this totalitarian bill—this gratui
tous American assumption of re
sponsibility for the world-wide con
duct of this war—is either a confes
sion of ignorance or it is an attempt
to frighten this nation into such an
abandonment of democratic and con
stitutional processes as is neither
necessary nor desirable.
The second and only other point
of Mr. Stimson’s argument is that
the barter process of “lease-lend”
or “otherwise dispose of” our
weapons is “more flexible” than the
advancement of credit or cash.
“More flexible” for whom? Money
and credit were invented and over
the ages have proved to be the most
flexible of all methods of exchange
of goods between nations. One of
our chief complaints against Hitler
is his design to substitute barter in
kind for money transactions. The
secretary’s testimony is self-contra
dictory and astonishingly absurd.
HUGH S.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY. GEORGIA
Kathleen Norris Says:
Don't Waste Time Being Jealous
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
An older woman gave me a hint as to the cause. A pretty young grass widow has
been employed there and everyone is quite aware that she and my husband are inter
ested in each other.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
JEALOUSY is one of the ex
pensive luxuries. For no
other human failing do
women pay as high a price as
they do for jealousy. It is a com
pound of all that is insufferable
in our daily lives; hate, fear, hu
miliation, dissatisfaction. Noth
ing is right to the woman who is
jealous. She may be young,
pretty, beloved, prosperous, but
jealousy will wither all those
good things into ashes in her
heart, and nothing will matter
except that someone else has
what she wants.
As a destroyer of married happi
ness, jealousy has few equals. It
makes of a wife a peering anxious
suspicious spy in her own home. She
wastes so much time fretting over
the charms of the other woman that
she loses all charm and sparkle her
self. Nothing makes a woman so
pretty as to feel herself important to
the man she loves, to know that
someone is deeply devoted to her.
Nothing dulls her looks and her
manner like the drooping, wretched
sensation that some other woman is
infringing upon her married rights.
Divorce Different Today.
Now we live in the world of 1941,
and for women it is a different world
from that of a century ago. Divorce
and remarriage then were things
held in horror; the divorced woman
completely lost caste; and in many
countries and in some of our states
by the mere fact of wanting to leave
her husband she lost all authority
and claim over her children. All
women were supported then by their
men; fathers, brothers, husbands
carried the entire financial responsi
bility for all the females of the
family, from Baby up to Grandma.
All this is changed now. Women
are breadwinners, expected to do
their share of the world’s work out
side their homes, and divorces are
common. The picture of a frail
young heiress was in the paper the
other day in connection with her
fourth marriage; I believe she is 24.
No one will ostracize her for this
irresponsible conduct. That is why
my answer to the following letter
amounts really to np more than a
warning “Wake Up!”
Other Woman Enters Picture.
This is part of Joan’s letter.
“I am 34, and we have two chil
dren: Tom, nine, and Betty-Lou, six.
My husband has always been a good
man, a devoted husband, son and
father. But about six months ago I
noticed that he was growing absent
minded, rather indifferent to home
affairs, and that he was away a
good deal.
“An older woman in his office,
who has been our friend for years,
finally gave me a hint as to the
cause. A pretty young grass widow
has been employed there for some
thing less than a year, and everyone
in the office is quite aware that she
and my husband are interested in
each other.
“This news broke my heart, and
it took only a little watching and
interpreting to realize that I was
supplanted. Despite her history,
which is anything but savory, he is
infatuated with her, lunches with her
almost daily and often stops in at
her apartment for a cocktail and a
few minutes’ talk before coming
home.
“I have fretted myself sick over
this thing and don’t know what to
do. I tell myself that he cannot
possibly be considering a divorce—
it is like a bad dream. And yet in
many ways he seems to be trying to
show me that if I make the parting
easy for him he will be generous to
me; I can put no other interpreta-
Jcalousy
When a wife secs her husband’s af
fections being taken from her by an
other, what should she do? Kathleen
Norris is confronted with this question
asked of her by a mother of two chil
dren who is fearful of their future.
Miss Norris offers her some clear-head
ed advice which offers the best solution
to her distressing problem.
tion upon some of his words. What
shall I do? It seems impossible to
hold him in these circumstances,
and yet my entire life is ruined if I
let him go. I won’t keep any man
beside me against his will, and yet
I certainly won’t let a woman of
that type triumph over me and rob
my children of a loved father.”
Accept the Facts.
Here is Joan in 1941 thinking along
the lines of —well, say 1870. Of
COURSE he is considering a di
vorce, and of COURSE you’ll have
either to deny him that divorce, or
endure the real discomforts and
heartaches of separation.
That is the way of the world to
day, Joan, and you might as well ac
cept it. Any woman can try to lure
away any other woman’s husband,
and any man can find plenty of
precedent and excuse for abandon
ing his wife and children and going
off with his new love.
Why not accept these facts, ana
lyze the possibilities, and build your
life along constructive rather than
passively helpless lines? Why not,
firstly, try to become an independ
ent, busy, happy women WITHOUT
that marital love that has made
these years so pleasant, that dear
companionship that you thought
would be yours forever?
Build Own Life.
It is highly possible that if you
and the children develop a happy
full life of your own, making as few
demands as possible upon Dad, ask
ing few questions, he will begin to
perceive again the charm of the
home atmosphere. If he doesn’t, if
he begins to make life uncomforta
ble for you by demanding, pleading,
coaxing, praising you into a divorce,
you still may follow the course that
I think its always advisable to follow,
I mean refuse him steadily, and pur
sue your way regardless of the
storm. If he goes away, live as
normally as you can until he comes
back. If he refuses support, get
legal advice for help with the chil
dren’s expenses, and get a job.
Don’t gossip with your friends about
it; you’ll gain immense prestige by
being charitably quiet and serene
until this sickness passes. For the
infatuation of a man for a second
woman is a sort of fever. It is a
feeling that is worth nothing unless
there may someday be put behind
it mutual trust, companionship,
home, friends, children. A divorced
woman who has won him away,
open-eyed, from his first home and
family, is not usually willing or able
to supply these. She doesn’t want to.
Her one hold upon him is the hold of
a temporary physical fascination,
and of all things in the world that
is the one that never lasts. The more
stable feeling of mutual affection
which must follow earlier infatua
tion cannot come to them under the
circumstances—obviously the wom
an is not the type.
Patience the Solution.
So that if Joan will only wait in
patience until the thing burns itself
out, she cannot lose. To say that
her pride won’t allow that, that her
Harry must be punished, must be
taught a bitter lesson, is only to
hurt herself in the end. She may
have the momentary satisfaction of
showing to the world just what a
weakling he is, but after all, he’s the
children’s father, and to belittle him
belittles them.
Hl.Phillipr jF
DRAMATIC REVIEW OF A 1941
INCOME TAX BLANK
“You Can’t Take It With You” or
“Tax Blank for 1941” has had its
presentation before the American
public, and, while it met with a
mixed response, your reviewer
would describe it as adequate. It
is a straight, direct, merciless, tight
ly written affair which, despite mud
dling passages here and there, gets
its message across. That, after all,
is its purpose.
* * •
“Tax Blank for 1941” is in a sense
a revival. It follows the pattern of
other years but has been extensive
ly rewritten, with many new lines
and some startling effects, particu
larly that part of the narrative
where it is discovered that Jona
than Q. Doe, our hero, supposing he
gets the same exemption as in the
past for being a married man, finds
the exemption has been cut from
$2,500 to $2,000. This is an obvious
slap at matrimony, and, since it is
a widely cherished institution, we do
not think the authors have done a
service to society by belittling it in
this way.
* * *
A moment of high drama comes
in a bleak scene laid in the Upper
H Brackets country.
Here we have the
same heavy mood
of resentment, of
despair so char
acteristic in pre
vious years. Sel
dom has there
been a more moving scene than
when T. Dudley Softtouch and Lu
ther Gettahead come face to face
with Paragraph 6, Item 7, Page 4
and find that on the same income
as they had last year they must
now pay a supertax of almost twice
as much. Here is action belonging
to the sternest school of realism.
* • •
Perhaps the peak of emotion
comes in a little scene where Soft
touch, almost a mental wreck after
having finally figured up what he
owes the government (with the help
of six lawyers), is about to make
out a check when he suddenly dis
covers that congress has placed a
separate defense tax of 10 per cent
on top of all! For a moment this
reviewer thought the performance
had all the elements of a fusion of
“Hellzapoppin” and “Macbeth.”
Screams penetrated the rafters and
seldom have such lines as “They
can’t do that to me,” “This is an
outrage” and “It’s that feller in the
White House” been delivered with
such power and feeling.
• * *
There is both drama and comedy
in the later chapter when millions
of Americans in the lower income
group, who have been laughing at
the upper groupers all these years,
discover that at last they must come
across too.
• • *
All in all (and that’s the way
they take it now), the production is
sure to have the usual appeal, cou
pled with the additional response
always occasioned by the surprise
note. Your reviewer must say in
all oandor that “Tax Blank for 1941”
lacks laughs. There is hardly an
amusing line anywhere if you ex
clude the old gag, “Were you dam
aged by fire or storm during the
last fiscal year?” But it is set for a
run lasting through to next Decem
ber 15. Nothing can stop it.
• • •
Bill Pfriender says that Mr.
Roosevelt’s broadcasts these days
might be billed as “Firearms
Chats.’
• • *
Wendell Willkie has now gone over
to the administration side so com
pletely that some people are even
speaking of him as Wenlin Wiloo
velt,
* • *
New York city will have a popula
tion of eight to nine million people
ultimately, an expert says. It is
hard to imagine that many people
running around asking questions on
how to reach destinations in New
York city.
• • *
The annual National Automobile
show has been abandoned for this
year. The public will have to find
some other good excuse for going
to the big city for a two or three
day spree.
• • *
The Jackson day dinner by the
Democrats will be a unity banquet.
This will require special arrange
ments to see that nobody gets hurt.
• ♦ *
I trust Wendell Willkie doesn’t get
into a bombing raid in London and
send Roosevelt a card “Having aw
fill time; wish you were here!”
• • *
The only difference between our
aid to England in the last war and
in this one will be that this time
our aid will have a zipper on it.
Here’s a Design for
Rag Rug Enthusiasts
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
MAKE one rag rug and you will
* find yourself a member of
enthusiastic clan that gloats over
any soft piece of old woolen goods
and who count the days until thev
fall heir to a dress of a particular
color that they want. These e 'n
thusiasts bleach materials to tone
them down; they brighten others
with dye; they antique sorr with
tea and they have a wonderful
time.
The sketch gives all the direc
tions you will need to copy this
fascinating braided rag rug with
a flower medallion in the center.
Or you may make two of the me
dallions, sew them together and
add a braided handle for a knit
ting bag. Braid the fabric strips
tightly and keep the work flat
while you sew the circles for the
roses and the loops for leaves;
then sew them together.
• • •
NOTE: There are two other fascinat
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Book 3 and the new Book 6 contains direc
tions for a hooked, a braided and a cro
cheted rag rug. "The Rug That Grew Up
With the Family” is in Book 3. Each
book has 32 pages of pictures and direc
tions. Send order to;
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
Enclose 20 cents for Books 3 and 8.
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