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HOCTSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA
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Washington, D. C.
INDO-CHINESE BASES
Public attention has been so close
ly riveted on the war in Europe and
upon the Lease-Lend debate that
alarming developments in the Far
East have escaped almost un
noticed.
This is the fact that the Jap
anese are now within definite strik
ing distance of Singapore and the
Dutch East Indies; and that Berlin
has been urging Japan to become
the aggressor in the south Pacific
in order to divert American atten
tion away from Europe.
No one knows bettor than the Ger
man foreign office that the Amer
ican people are skittish about hav
ing two oceans—both Atlantic and
Pacific—churned up at once. So
Gorman attempts to persuade Japan
to focus American attention on the
Far East are nothing new.
Absolutely new, however, is the
fact that the Japanese are in a much
more strategic position to take over
the Malays and the Dutch East In
dies —two regions vital to the supply
of American tin and rubber.
For what the Japanese very quiet
ly have done is to occupy the power
ful French naval bases of Saigon
and Cap St. Jacques in French Indo-
China.
In gauging possible war in the
Pacific, one should remember that
distance is all-important. A Jap
anese fleet cannot cross the Pacific
to attack the United States without
great risk, because of distance. Nor
could it have attacked Singapore,
previously, without grave risk, be
cause the distance from there to
Japan is almost as great as from
Japan to Honolulu.
Now, however, with the French
Indo-Chinese naval bases in her pos
session, Japan is in a far better posi
tion regarding Singapore and the
Dutch East Indies than she would
be regarding California if she occu
pied Hawaii.
It still will not be a walkaway for
Japan to take those British and
Dutch possessions, because they are
well fortified. However, the job is
now about 50 per cent easier.
Strategy which U. S. naval ex
perts expect Japan to follow is to
begin the attack at the moment Hit
ler begins his long expected inva
sion of England.
♦ * *
‘MADE IN JAPAN’
Recently, in a test of equipment
at an army airfield, four parachute
flares were shot from the ground.
They opened beautifully, but only
three ignited. The fourth was a dud.
Several soldiers dashed out to sal
vage the parachute. They are sel
dom recovered, because being made
of paper they usually burn up in the
flare when they reach the ground.
The failure of the dud flare to ig
nite saved this one.
But on retrieving it, imagine the
soldiers’ surprise to find on the
'chute the interesting little stamp;
“Made in Japan.”
The salvaged flare was one of a lot
of 3,000 purchased several months
ago from an Ohio company. Ord
nance officials admit they knew the
’chutes of the flares were imported
from Japan, but assert they were
forced to use them because at that
time no U. S. firm made the arti
cles. They say they have now
stopped the use of Japanese ’chutes
in new flares.
• • •
QUARTERMASTER CAMPS
Here is good news for some lucky
draftees!
Within a few weeks, the army will
announce the establishment of two
placement camps to train likely se
lectees for the Quartermaster corps.
First of their kind since the last
war, they will be located at Camp
Lee, Virginia, and Fort Frances E.
Warren, Wyoming.
Selectees with experience as auto
mechanics, electricians, black
smiths, truckers, machinists, paint
ers, radiator repairmen, sheet met
al workers, storage battery experts,
tire repairers, tool makers, uphol
sterers, and welders will stand the
best chance of getting assigned to
these camps for a three-month
course in army buying, maintenance
and transportation methods.
* • •
CRACKING PEACE FRONT
Meanwhile, the isolationist front
of the strongly pacifistic Women’s
International League for Peace and
Freedom is cracking.
Miss Emily Balch, one of the re
vered founders of the organization,
has tendered her resignation from
the executive board because she dis
approves of the anti-British aid
stand of Miss Dorothy Detzer, secre
tary of the league and one of the
most effective lobbyists in Washing
ton. Miss Balch strongly favors "all
out” aid to Britain.
• • *
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Able young assistant to the attor
ney general Matt McGuire is headed
for a judicial appointment, probably
the vacancy created by the recent
retirement of Justice Petyton Gor
don of the U. S. district court for the
District of Columbia.
Presidential Secretary Steve Ear
ly has on his desk a brown bottle of
vitamin pills, a gift of Joe Tumulty,
former secretary to Woodrow Wil
son. Says Tumulty: "I wish they
made vitamin pills when I had your
job.”
/^General
SO'jJ HUGH S,
JOHNSON
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Washington, D. C.
‘FOR WHAT?’
What is needed by our war-mind
ed men is some slogan of high pur
pose like "Make the world safe
for democracy.” That one is just
a little like offering cheese to the
mouse caught in a cheese baited
trap. He doesn’t want any more
cheese. So the trial balloons are go
ing up on another one—" Union
Now.”
I wrote a piece on the ballyhoo
for a federation of English speak
ing peoples. In it I used the ex
pression "Union Now” and said that
what is now proposed is to unite
us with the British empire under
something like the Articles of Con
federation under which the 13 Col
onics fought the Revolution—which
means, of course, in addition to
“Union Now,” "War Now.” I ar
gued that all the "Articles” made
was a league of nations proved by
both of them and the later inter
national league to be futile and un
workable.
That column drew indignant deni
als including one from Clarence
Strait, the author of "Union Now.”
These denials complained that the
proposal is not to entangle ours with
the destiny of other nations in any
futile league. No, sir. We are go
ing all the way into an United
States of Earth, in which America
is to be only one state among many
bound, not by weak articles of con
federation, but by a document like
the Constitution of tlfe United States.
The distinguishing features of that
Constitution are—no secession; con
trol in a superstate of interstate
commerce, all foreign relations, tax
ation and spending, the right to
make war, to keep troops and ships
of war and the denial of those rights
and controls to the several states—
including the U. S. A.
All right. If I misconstrued Mr.
Slreit, I am sorry. But I didn’t
misconstrue the others and I didn’t
misconstrue Mr. Streit very much.
They say, and so I think does he,
that this is only an eventual result.
Right now all we need is "articles
of confederation” with these other
nations but (as in and after our
Revolution) "as soon as the war is
won” under the new confederation,
we shall create with them a real
federation, on the plan of the Amer
ican Constitution and rub Uncle
Sam out as an independent entity.
It is all consistent. Fisst these
people sell us into a war when it
isn’t necessary and, without waiting
for Mr. Hitler to sell our country
down the river, they want us to do
it ourselves. We commit national
hari-kari, dilute our strength with
the weakness of the world and dis
sipate the wealth and advantage our
fathers fought and labored to create
here, to the four winds of heaven
and the five continents of earth.
• * *
GOVERNMENT CONTROLS
So my old buddy Leon Henderson
told the lumber industry that $5O a
thousand was an outrageous price
for southern pine, that $25 was
enough, that if they didn’t get the
price down he was going to do some
thing about it—and then stamped
angrily not only out of the room
but out of Washington.
I think Leon was about 100 per
cent right on his facts and inten
tions—that, somehow, this tendency
toward soaring prices must be
socked every time it sticks its head
up and that, exactly as in World
War I, it has already started, among
other places, in wholly unjustifi
able lumber prices.
But to control this danger, govern
ment has got to get in step with
itself. Leon must have forgotten
that he was not back in his old NRA
days, when government could talk
to industry as a unit and tell it, as
Leon frequently and properly did,
to police and discipline itself and,
in the public interest, to purge its
membership of improper practices.
He could do that then because NRA
made such joint action by govern
ment and any organized industry
lawful.
It is lawful no longer. Leon
should have a little talk with Thur
man. The latter, Mr. Arnold, is
trying to put industrial gents in jail
—or at least getting grand jury in
dictments against respectable citi
zens for potential felonies—if they
act as an industry to do, for exam
ple, what Leon commanded the lum
ber industry to do. It is and has
been declared by all our courts to
be just as flagrant an offense to the
anti-trust acts for industrial gents
to combine to put prices down as to
put prices up. The former practice
has proved to be the most effective
weapon of the big fellows to slaugh
ter competition of the high-cost pro
duction of little fellows in business.
• • ♦
There is a basic fault here which
NRA tried to solve. No other na
tion condemns outright all industry
wide agreements as "combinations
in restraint of trade.” All other
industrial countries condemn only
such agreements as are "not in the
public interest.” That is a realistic
recognition that every principal
contract in business is in some re
spects a restraint of trade. The
NRA formula was that such codes
should not be regarded as violations
of the Sherman and Clayton acts.
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Kathleen Norris Says:
‘Wherels God All This?’
(BeU Syndicate—WNU Service.)
"God,” said the lovely mother of a houseful of sons to me, on the church steps
last Sunday, "could slop all this overnight. If'IIY DOESN’T HE?”
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
WOMEN by the hundred
write to me pathetic and
bewildered letters about
the fearful wars that are rock
ing the world today. Most of
them are praying women, and
they have been praying a long
time for peace; some of them,
like myself, have been for twen
ty years members of peace
organizations. Their faith has
been heavily tried during the
last eighteen months; they feel
that their fervent and incessant
prayers are unheard. “Where
is God in all this horror?” they
ask. “Why doesn’t God help
us?”
“God,” said the lovely mother
of a houseful of sons to me, on
the church steps last Sunday,
“could stop all this overnight.
WHY DOESN’T HE?”
Personally, I don’t see how any
thinking woman can ask this. As
well scratch a match, apply it to
curtains you have already soaked
in gasoline, and then wonder that
the house burns down. To rush
about then screaming, “Oh, God,
hear us! Put out this fire!” would
be nothing short of blasphemy.
A Plan Never Tried.
A long time ago wise men, good
men, agreed that the world should
have a new plan. Enemies should
be forgiven; won by love rather
than hate. Evil should no longer
be overcome by evil, but evil should
be overcome by good.
Did they ever try this, among the
then scattered and weak tribes that
were the beginnings of the nations
of Europe? Never. Never once. They
always said just what good and wise
and Christ-professing men are say
ing today. “We’ll destroy this one
enemy and trample him into the
dust. And THEN we’ll all live in
peace and harmony forever!”
If 15 hundred years ago the law
of love, brotherhood and forgiveness
had been observed, what would have
happened? Christian lands would
have been invaded by infidels, an
swer the histories promptly. Well,
it is highly possible that bands of
Asiatics might have penetrated into
central and southern Europe, and
attempted to foist their types of
civilization upon the hardier and
more enlightened northern stocks.
For a generation or two they
might indeed have influenced them.
Then the higher law that recognizes
love as its root and reason would
have triumphed. The invaders
would have been would
have been won to the new and mi
raculous creed.
Europe Eternally Warring.
But it wasn’t the danger of bar
barian invasion that began to de
stroy Europe a thousand years ago
and that has been eating at her vi
tals ever since. It wasn’t the out
sider. It was the Christians them
selves, eternally warring. It was re
ligious wars, territorial wars, boun
dary wars, family wars; one war for
30 years, one for 100 years. It was
wars of Christians against innocent
—if unconverted, alien races; it was
militaristic power, and militaristic
abuse, generation after generation.
Was there ever forgiveness, resti
tution, apology? Never. Among
these brothers—and all of the Euro
pean nations are brothers, and the
same blood flows in all their veins,
was not the insolent reply of Cain
rather than the law of Jesus Christ
made the international answer?
“Am I my brother's keeper?”
Being Schooled in Hate.
We are being carefully schooled
In hate for everything German to
day, because of one mad German
house-painter who has been raised
by war and famine, pestilence and
crime to power. We forget that
among the Germans are home-lov
ing, music-loving, law-loving people.
We forget that all European civiliza
tion, our own included, has been fol
lowing one line for hundreds of
LIVING HATE
Wars are so obviously wrong. This
one will end, with both sides retiring
to lick their wounds, bury their dead
and begin to rebuild. And Kathleen
Norris wants to put an end to all this.
Read her sane, American plan for
peace.
years. Our marital, property, busi
ness laws are similar; in our home
towns are the same books and rugs,
the big chair for Daddy, the com
fortable low rocker for mother, the
cribs and play-pens, the delicates
sen store at the corner, the kinder
gartens and libraries and concerts,
and the ringing of church bells.
These people who are killing each
other have everything in common.
They even have in common the hal
lucination that a greater nation has
the right to oppress a weaker one, to
enrich herself infinitely at that weak
er one’s expense. Or perhaps I
should say that some of them are
only outgrowing that hallucination a
little faster than the others
Discuss Terms for Peace.
If I had the power today I would
ask each warring nation throughout
the world: “What are your terms
for peace?” I would have all the
world know and discuss these terms,
adjust them, modify them; concede
this island there, that trade conces
sion there. I would have the Presi
dent’s opinion, the pope’s opinion,
the opinions of rulers and kings. I
would know at last just what all
these men are fighting for; just what
trade advantages were threatened
when these great nations went into
war.
This should have been done 18
months ago; 18 years ago, before we
ever heard the names of Hitler or
Mussolini. This should have been
done when beaten and crippled Ger
many was attempting to struggle to
her feet as a republic, when we were
all laughing at her, and buying mil
lion mark notes for five cents. They
were playfully called “book marks,”
do you remember? They should have
been called marks of starvation,
marks of ruin, marks of revenge.
Try God’s Way,
We know only one thing of this
war. It will have to end. One side,
the side counting the most ruin and
the most dead, will take a certain
amount of ruin and loss when it
ends. The other side will take slight
ly less. Both will retire to lick
their wounds, bury their dead, and
begin to rebuild. They’ve done this
since the days of Charlemagne;
they’ll continue to follow this pat
tern until there slowly seeps into
hearts of the rulers and war-makers
—not the people, not the men and
women who die in the wars and
pay for the wars!—but the rulers
and war-makers, that it might be
as well to try God's way.
It might be as well to see how
long these boasting dictators would
last, with God against them. How
long injustice and religious intoler
ance could flourish, with All-power
ful God opposing them. How quick
ly little centers of love and faith
and brotherhood would spread until
they touched borders, and all His
world be inundated with the green
ness and glory of peace and confi
dence and security.
Until that day begins let’s blame
men, the insincere men who say
love and live hate, who say for
giveness and live revenge. If ever
we really turn to God He will not
fail us. But until we do let’s at
least refrain from blaming Him for
what we do.
Concealing Dinner Table
In extra large living rooms, made
to serve as a dining room as well,
it is frequently desirable to have a
decorative screen to conceal the din
ner table while it is being set or
cleared. Such screens, in three or
four hinged sections, can easily be
made at home by applying panels
of pressed wood over wood frames.
The finished screen can be left in
its natural brown color, varnished,
painted or covered with a decorative
wall paper.
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BIG CITY BLACKOUT
The move for a blackout test of
New York continues, but this de
partment is against it. More people
would get hurt by the blackout than
by any enemy attack. New York
ers, as Elmer Twitchell pointed out
today, can’t even get around safely
wi*h all the lights on.
* ♦ *
And then, too, there’s the question
of morale. What would a New York
er do if he couldn't be seen by
anybody?
* * •
What would happen to a genuine
Manhattanite if he suddenly found
_ there wasn’t a
light on him or
r near him? “No
[ sir, nev ‘
4 er work i n a city
■^alike New York,”
onN/t'gj Mr. Twitchell in
sisted. “Think of
w^a t would hap
pen to the stamina of those thou
sands of New Yorkers who live in
night clubs if this blackout comes!
If they couldn’t find the night clubs,
they’d be in a bad way. And what
would be even worse, suppose they
got into a night club and then
couldn’t be seen in ’em by the col
umnists!’
* * *
Mr. Twitchell was terribly worked
up. “Take the matter of photo
graphs,” he continued. “Pictures
can’t be taken during a complete
blackout. There must be a coupla
million New Yorkers who lose
weight and go into a decline if they
ain’t photographed wherever they
go.
♦ * *
“If they have to leave their apart
ments without being seen, travel to
the theater without being seen, and
even enter it and leave it without
being noticed or photographed, can
you imagine what would happen to
their morale!
* * *
“I tell you there are tens of thou
sands of New Yorkers who can’t
even sit at a dinner table and have
a cocktail in complete happiness un
less a snapshot is taken. Ask all
these classes to go a night in com
plete oblivion, and what will they
do? Revolt, that’s what. And there’s
no telling how far a revolt in New
York by people who demand the
spotlight might go. It might spread
all over America.
♦ * ♦
“And there’s the matter of some of
our big personalities. What would
be the reactions of Elsa Maxwell,
Billy Rose, Jimmy Walker, Dot
Parker, Tom Dewey or Mayor La-
Guardia in a blackout? They’d curl
right up and expire.
* * *
“The same thing goes for the rank
and file. What do New Yorkers live
on? Delicatessen
do°they get ’em?
Delicatessen and [ooO
drug stores. How I J
would they find |fi r J
these stores with
green and yellow
j lights on ’em? Why, they’d starve
| to death in 48 hours. Blackout of
New York! It’s a crazy idea. Why,
the enemy could locate the city by
the loud squawks, wails, protests
and letters to the editor.”
• • •
OUT OF WORK
Silken frills and all their glory
i Have changed their former cate
gory,
! For now milady’s lingerie
Is made of fiber from a tree.
Her stockings, too, from top to toe,
Are coal and air and H2O;
Alas, the erstwhile busy worm
Has nothing left to do but squirm.
—Kathryn Walter.
* • •
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may form band, opportunity, near
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zine.
* • *
Would you mind running over it
again on the zither?
♦ * •
SUBWAY HATES
I’d turn the heat
Upon the guy
Who keeps his seat
But gives the eye/
—Evelyn Bligh.
* • *
Ima Dodo thinks that “Random
House” is a story of a five and ten
cent store.
• • *
THESE CHANGING TIMES
Mussolini now feels so small that
he stands on a table in order to
whisper in King Victor Emmanuel’s
ear.
• • •
A rabbit was found scampering
around London in an air raid the
other day. That’s easy to under
stand. All the underground room
was occupied.
♦ • *
Mussolini is reported thinking of
undergoing an operation to have his
strut removed.
Sh AROUND
IP THE HOUSE
If curtains are dry before being
starched they will keep clean
longer.
• * *
Turn the handles of pots and
pans on the stove out of reach of
small children.
* • ♦
To lime your house plants, save
all egg shells. Keep the shells in
a jar of cold water and use the
water on the plants.
* * ♦
Hot pans should never be set on
porcelain surfaces as the heat
cracks the porcelain.
* * *
To remove grease marks from
book pages: Sponge with benzene,
then place pages between blotting
paper and press with hot iron,
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