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Washington, D. C.
SABOTAGE, LABOR, EMPLOYER
Most tragic thing about the pres
ent chaotic labor situation is the
black eye which a minority of labor
is giving to their co-workers all over
the country. In the majority of
plants and shipyards, men are work
ing without interruption.
But in certain key plants, so vital
to the national defense that they
could not have been picked by acci
dent, a small minority have bogged
down production. Sometimes this
happens through strikes, sometimes
through slowing-up and sabotage so
deliberate that behind it must lurk
a definite attempt by Communists
to hold back national defense.
While labor has been hitting the
headlines for defense obstruction,
less publicized but equally obstruc
tive has been the attitude of certain
business elements, among them the
shipbuilders, who dickered endlessly
with the U. S. maritime commission
regarding the construction of 200
desperately needed cargo vessels.
This program was adopted in
January, but to date the commis
sion has not been able to complete
negotiations for quite all the 200
ships.
The Bethlehem-Fairfleld Shipyard,
Inc., of Baltimore, for instance, bat
tled the commission for two months
over a fat fee.
The commission proposed a $llO,-
000 base foe per ship, to be reduced
to $60,000 if not delivered by a cer
tain deadline, or increased to $140,-
000 if produced ahead of time. But
Bethlehem rejected the penalty
clause, vigorously insisting on a
fixed fee regardless of when the
ships were produced.
For weeks, while the shipping
crisis daily grew more critical, the
controversy raged. Finally, on
March 18, the company backed down
and accepted the commission’s
terms.
Under them Bethlehem-Fairficld
stands to collect a total fee of
$5,500,000 on the 50 ships assigned
it. In addition it also garnered a
$7,838,000 government contract for
13 ways and other construction para
phernalia.
* • •
JULY OR ELSE FOR HITLER
No one can ever tell just what
is going on in the Kremlin, but here
is how the diplomatic dispatches ex
plain the apparent shift of Russia
slightly over to the British side of
the war scale.
It is now generally agreed by the
best U. S. military observers —and
probably also by the Russians—that
Hitler will have to win this war by
July of this year or else face serious
consequences.
These serious consequences will
be:
1. Tremendously increased muni
tions and ship production by the
U. S. A. After July 1, American
factories will really got into their
stride.
2. The necessity of finding food
for Europe next winter.
3. The necessity of finding more
oil, especially if the British succeed
in blowing up Rumanian oil wells,
which they definitely plan to do.
4. The necessity of pulling n new
rabbit out of the hat to please the
German people. So far Hitler
has pulled out new victories at peri
odic intervals—Austria, Czechoslo
vakia, Poland, Norway, the Low
Countries, France. But the rabbits
have come fewer and harder recent
ly. The German people are report
ed to be restless.
Only answer to these dilemmas is
Russia. The vast and fertile fields
of the Ukraine, rich in wheat, iron
ore and lying just across from th<
oil fields of the Caucasus, arc sure
to beckon to Hitler.
And if he still is unable to take
England by July, it more than likely
seems that he will bite off the
Ukraine. This probability increases
if war in the Balkans disrupts the
spring planting. For one reason
Why Hitler has been so patient with
Jugoslavia is because the crops of
the Balkans are vital to Germany.
All of which is not being lost upon
Russia.
• * *
FLOATING DEFENSE HOMES
Defense chiefs may soon inaugu
rate mobile housing units for de
fense workmen on the water as well
as land, if the novel plan of Housing
Co-ordinator Charles F. Palmer
pans out.
First negotiations of this sort were
for the purchase of an excursion boat
to alleviate a serious housing short
age at Portsmouth, Va., where a
giant naval construction project is
under way. If successful here, the
plan may be tried out at other sea
board defense centers,
Palmer hopes eventually to have
a number of these “floating hotels.”
• ♦ ♦
DIZZY QUARTERS
The tremendous expansion of de
fense activities the last few months
has sprawled already overblown
government offices in Washington
into some unusual places.
An old skating rink has been
leased to house 200 alien registra
tion employees; a department store
warehouse, formerly filled with fur
niture, now quarters 2,300 war de
partment and census clerks; and a
chain grocery warehouse was
cleared of canned goods and banana
supplies for 700 other employees.
CARAROTA, FLA.—There is a ru-
mor abroad that when Manager
Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox
heard that Toto, the gorilla, was
chucking things
gat Gargantua,
her intended mate,
Cronin immediately
rushed to the Sara
sota zoo and tried to
sign Toto up as a
Red Sox pitcher.
For Joe Cronin, aft
er last season, feels
that he can use al
most any form of
animal life that can
chuck things at the
Grantland Rice opposition.
Just a year ago
on this fair western coast of Florida
it was generally agreed that if any
thing happened to the Yankees, the
Red Sox would move up to the va
cated throne. Outside of the pitch
ing, the Red Sox had the best team
in baseball, at that time.
Outside of the pitching, the same
thing is true today. But “outside
of the pitching” is the same as be
ing outside of the money. It is like
being a well-dressed man, minus
your pants.
A year ago Manager Cronin for
veteran pitchers had Bob Grove,
Jack Wilson, Denny Galehouse,
Fritz Ostermueller, Joe Heving, and
Jim Bagby. Fof rookies he had Bill
Rutland, Herb Hash and Mickey
Harris, who had won 60 minor
league games and had cost Tom
Yawkey over $lOO,OOO.
Most of the veterans hit the soapy
chute, and all three of the rookies
took an even deeper
dive. After leading
Cronin began to use
up his pitching staff
ness, and when the
crash came you WLm ;;
could hear it 50 HkT*
miles at sea. |I»F il|P^
The Yankees blew
the flag, but the
Red Sox were too <- -
far back to know j oe ron j n
what happened—or
to care enough to find out.
On to 1941
Measured by its infield and its out
field, by its power and its defensive
play, the Red Sox still have the best
club in baseball—up to the outer rim
of the pitcher’s box.
With Frank Pytlak catching and
first-class reserves, the Red Sox
look even better now than they did
a year ago.
But what about their pitching?
The only two veterans they hbve
saved from the wreck of 1940 are
Bob Grove and Jack Wilson. Grove
will probably be good for only 20
games this season, working once a
week. Wilson, loaded with potential
powder, is still an enigma.
Cronin’s fhree outside dependen
cies are 36-year-old Mike Ryba from
Rochester, 29-year-old Oscar Judd
from Sacramento, and Dick New
some from San Diego—three men
who won over 60 games last season.
He should also get some help from
his rookies of last year—Hash, Rut
land, Harris, Rich and Dickman,
plus Hughson, Brown and Dob
son.
This isn’t, by any wild meander
ings into the field of imagination, a
strong pitching staff. But from the
cluster of right and left arms Cronin
should be able to improve on his
pitching of 1940.
With enough luck he might even
be able to have four or five good
men ready, and if this happens the
Red Sox will bo dangerous people
to have around—with Jimmy Foxx,
Ted W illiams, Bobby Doerr, Dom
DiMaggio and others who can ham
mer over the needed runs when they
count the most.
The possibilities arc there, but his
entire pitching string is stuffed with
“ifs.” It is a staff of question-mark
veterans and rookies, sore arms and
1940 failures. Cronin must feel as
if he were wandering into a heavy
fog, minus a miner’s lamp or a
torch.
The Lone Exception
The lone exception is Robert
Moses Grove, the Lonaconing Lancer
from Maryland.
Grove reached the ripe age of 41
last week. This is his twenty-second
season—his seventeenth in the ma
jor leagues. In his day and time,
Grove has won 293 ball games—for
the Athletics and Red Sox—and his
left arm is still hanging on. His all
time major league average is .686,
which is far up in the higher brack
ets. In this span of time Lefty has
whiffed 2,217 opponents.
He is undoubtedly one of the
greatest pitchers of all time.
Last season the former speed king
won 7 games and lost 6. It was
the leanest year of his long career.
Tennyson’s brook may go on for
ever, but not a pitching arm. Grove
now can work only once a week, or
once every 10 days.
Cronin hopes the tall and willowy
southpaw can win 12 or 15 games.
This would border on a miracle.
Exactly 10 years ago Grove won 31
games and lost only 4 for one of the
greatest seasons in all pitching his
tory. But when you add 10 years to
31 years you begin bucking the im
pregnable fortress known as time.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA
Kathleen Norris Says:
The Luckiest Girls in Town
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
No girl of sixteen or eighteen knows what she is jeopardizing when she goes
about with a reckless crowd. She endures half-intoxicated women and men who cant
make up their minds to go home. She risks the return home with a drivtr who is
unfit to handle a car.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
GIRLS who are kept at home
by strict maternal rule
and obliged to obey pretty
severe rules of conduct in the
matters of dances and dates
and late hours, are the luckiest
girls after all.
They may not see it at 18, but
ten years and fifteen years later
they see it. And it is then, in
happy young wifehood and
motherhood, with their own po
tential responsibilities coming
along, that they turn to the older
woman with an affectionate
laugh and begin to repay the
debt they owe her for guarding
their girlhood.
“Mother was a Gorgon!” they say
proudly. “Nancy and I couldn’t get
away with ANYTHING! Mother
had to know all about boys before
they could even take us to movies.”
But of course Sixteen and Eight
een don’t see this, and if they pos
sibly can they escape from home
control. “Good heavens,” they mut
ter, as they curl up their shining
locks and paint their young mouths,
“what’s the harm of dancing?
What’s the harm in one cocktail! I
never took too much to drink in my
life and neither did Nancy! You’d
think from the way Mother and Dad
talk that we were going right to the
bad!”
Too Much Freedom Harmful.
But there IS harm in giving youth
too much freedom. The harm is
that no girl of Sixteen or Eighteen
knows what she is losing or jeopar
dizing when she goes about with a
reckless crowd. She is completely in
capable of judging how she will feel
a few years later, how this group of
men and women will impress her.
Even if she stops short of actual
improprieties with men, she has to
face infinite dangers. She sees men
drunk; she hears stories and
phrases that should never reach her
ears; she endures the stupid de
lays of half-intoxicated women and
men who can’t make up their minds
to go home, or go anywhere, but
who remain drowsily drinking and
dancing hours after all pleasure has
gone out of the occasion. She risks
the return home with a driver who
is unfit to handle a car.
Must Pay Some Price.
Many a girl quite innocently in
vites danger and fright and harm to
herself in this way. She may ap
parently escape actual injury, she
may not have to face the world with
a fatherless child in her arms; al
though even that Victorian situation
is not as unusual as today’s girls
would like to think. But no girl
gets off scot free after a few young
years of recklessness and license.
Her manner, speech, standards,
personality are all affected; other
women realize that the minute they
meet her.
For the young years are very im
portant years. It is in them that
we lay the foundation for the future.
And restraint and fineness and dis
crimination and self-control in those
years bear inevitable fruit. The
girl who deliberately makes herself
lawless and common at eighteen is
not going miraculously to emerge
from cheapening associations and
find herself admirable at 25, clean
of speech, clean of mind, clean of
soul.
Here is a letter some girls might
read to advantage this Sunday
morning. It comes from East St.
Louis.
“Dear Mrs. Norris, I am 29,”
writes Anna, “and have been mar-
WHAT PRICE FREEDOM?
Does mother have to know tchert
you’re going, with whom, and how long
you intend to be gone? . . . Does she
object to late hours and dime-a-dance
night clubs? . . . You say she does and
you hale it! Well, Kathleen Norris has
a different view on the subject. Read
her frank discussion of the effect too
much freedom has on young women!
ried for five years to the finest man
in the world. We have a daughter
of three and are expecting a new
baby in midsummer. This is my
problem.
Went With Wrong Crowd.
“My husband is a doctor, a year
younger than I. He was recently
offered a very advantageous posi
tion with a clinic in my old home
town. Since our marriage, and in
deed for two years before that, my
family has lived in this city, and I
met Tom here. I have never been
back to the place where I lived as
a girl, nor seen any of my old asso
ciates there. I went with the wrong
crowd, as I see now, and I was glad
to leave it all behind me.
“In that old group, in those reck
less days, was a man I will call
Larry. He was a rough, dark, vio
lent sort of fellow, older by six or
seven years than the rest of us,
coarse and noisy, but fascinating,
and we all knew he was brilliant.
This man, if Tom accepts the flat
tering offer he has just received,
will be my husband’s immediate su
perior and close associate.
“I was never, in the sense of mak
ing our relationship public or con
stant, this man’s mistress. But we
were always paired off together, and
on certain week-end trips either to
hotels in the mountains, or to some
body’s cabin or camp, I did not feel,
at 18, able to behave in a manner
very different from the rest. The
tragedy of it is that I never really
loved Larry. He wanted me and I
wanted to go along with the others.
Fears to Move Back.
“My husband knows nothing of
this. It was long ago, it was un
important, it has been completely
forgotten in the realer experience of
being a beloved and honored wife.
Tom is proud, sensitive and fine in
every way; he would be shocked to
know it and I would never recover
my place with him. And, as I say,
it is not important enough to worry
about; it has nothing to do with our
lives now.
“But at the same time, how can
I move straight back into the neigh
borhood not only of this man, who
will instantly remember all the
past, but perhaps other members of
that group, who knew perfectly well
what was going on? Larry is a
coarse man, our sex is not much re
spected by him, it was part of his
charm—or in my idiotic little girl
days I found it so, that he boasted of
his masterful ways with women.
“I am trying to influence Tom not
to accept this offer, which bewilders
and disturbs him. What I am
writing to ask you is whether it
would be wise for me to write hon
estly to Larry, and ask him to have
his board of directors withdraw the
invitation?”
And she encloses the money for
a telegraphic answer.
Face the Difficulties.
What I advised w-as her return to
her old town, an honest facing of
the difficulties, an explanation to
Larry that will not be too long or
involved or tearful or penitent, and
a concentration upon the building
into her life of fineness and goodness
and simplicity, with a complete for
getfulness of the past.
IpSD
rtlPhillipr Jr
THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE
TURKEY
Dear Ma:
Well, ma, I now feel so tired and
sore all over that I gess I am in
the pink of condishun. All feeling is
gone from my feet and my legs are
numb from the knees down so the
drilling and marching don’t hurt me
no more witch shows how well
trained I am. But the officers keep
i drilling me just the same and pay
no attention to me when I tell ’em
I have had enuff.
We are sleeping five to a tent, but
I am not getting any two much rest
on account of the old saying that two
is company and three more is over
crowding. There is always at least
two buddies who want to tell stories
or argue about ways and means to
get promoted to be a kernel or sum
thing. And we have a radio fan
natick in our tent who thinks the
best programs come after every
body else is asleep. This guy is
such a nut that if he was out in No
Man’s land he would carry a porta
ble so he could hear a broadcast of
what he was doing.
* * *
Another fellow in my tent don’t
sleep at all. He just sits on the edge
of the bed moaning. It seams he
was on a trip to see his best girl
who lives 50 miles from his home
town when he got a call to report
for draft induckshun at once and he
is still squawking. I also got a tent
mate who was a union man in Pitts
burgh before he was drafted and
he keeps making speeches trying to
convinse us that we shud picket the
general’s tent and demand more
money and less drilling.
• * *
We have movies every night in &
big tent, but I do not like them
mutch as it makes me soar to see
v all those fellers
; v.: | lolling around on
f r * ting * n ti l6 moon
they should be in
some camp lern
ing how to take a gun apart and
guard a latrine. But they do not
make me as soar as news pitchers
of congressmen when they was still
chewing the fat over that lease-lend
bill. I don’t even know yet weather
I am going to be lent to Europe or
just leased or what?
* « •
It sure has been a cold winter tc
be in a army, but the old sarge who
was in the last war says we shud
of been around then and we wud not
be kicking now. We have wood-burn
ing stoves in tents here and he says
in the last war he never saw a stove
from the time he got his draft sum
mons until he got home three years
later. They also have boilers so
we can have hot water in this camp
witch he says nobody had accept
Pershing and Alexander Woollkott
in the last one. When we got here we
wuz given a saferty razzer five
blades a cake of shaving sope and a
a toothbrush and he laffed like ev
erything and sed we must be going
to the opera or sum place like that
as in the last war soldiers shaved
with there bayernets and only
cleaned their teeth when they had
a friend who was a Y. M. C. A. sec
retary and carried a spare.
• * *
He says we are all getting bet
ter considerashun in draft camps to
day than he got in the best hotels
on furlow in 1917 and he showed me
a pitcher of an outfit in the last war
witch backs him up when he says
we are dressed like dudes in com
parison. He says that in those days
they just chucked a bundle at you
when you reported at camp and that
whatever you found inside you had
to put on as a uniform, even if it
was just a slip cover off a piano. And
he says he spent 18 months in
France with a burlap bag over his
head because the sergeant told him
it was the regulashun army hat.
So when I feel like kicking I just
listen to him talk. Well there is
not much more to say now. One of
those new Ford pigmee trucks ar
rived here yesterday. It is all made
of armor steel and all I want when
I get back home again is one of
these to use in Main Street traffic
and pay no attenshun to those taxi
cabs what try to shove me around.
Your loving son,
Oscar.
P. S. I need more bunion plasters.
♦ * *
WAITRESSES
I never leave the slightest tip
For girls who let the gravy drip
Merrill Chilcote.
• * *
Walter Brennan recently got the
award for the best piece of support
acting in pictures last year. And
well did he rate it. There’s an ac
tor so good he will probably never
be starred by Hollywood.
• • *
Mario Naldi says a dictator is a
fellow who is always putting his best
feud forward.
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
Gilt picture frames can be re
stored to brightness by rubbing
with a sponge moistened in tur
pentine.
• • •
Grease the inside of the contain
er, near the top, to keep milk frorn
boiling over.
• • *
To prevent dough sticking to the
spoon when making dumplings din
the spoon into hot liquid each time'
before putting it into the dough.
* • •
Paint piazza and garden chairs
now so that they may be thorough
ly dried before you wish to use
them.
• * *
Drain all boiled vegetables as
soon as tender. They become sog
gy if they are allowed to stand un
strained after cooking. The water
drained off may be saved for soup
stock.
• • *
If using icebags in a sickroom,
instead of shaving ice each time
you wish to fill a bag, to save time
shave enough to fill a quart pitch
er and keep it in the refrigerator, i
♦ ♦ •
Stewed prunes, stuffed with
cheese, nuts or celery and ar
ranged on lettuce leaves, make a
suitable salad to serve with chops
or roasts. French or mayonnaise
salad dressing may be used with it.
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To Be Young
To be seventy years young is
sometimes far more cheerful and
hopeful than to be forty years old.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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