Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, April 24, 1941, Image 6

Houston home journal., April 24, 1941, Image 6

About Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1941)

Page of 8

Prev Issue Next Issue

Text PDF JP2 (4.6 MB) Clip/Print Image

Page of 8

Prev Issue Next Issue

Return to Top

Newspaper Page TextWashington, D. C. FRANCES PERKINS For a long time Secretary of La bor Frances Perkins seemed un aware of her unpopularity. But in recent months it apparently dawned on her. To give the Presi dent freedom of action to replace her (a degree of sincerity in marked contrast to certain of her former colleagues), she tendered her resig nation, but for weeks he failed to act on it. His failure to name a successor cannot be attributed to lack of ma terial. Three top-notch New Deal ers of proven ability have been available—Solicitor General Francis Biddle, who was chairman of the original national labor board; Wil liam H. Davis, vice chairman of the national defense mediation board, who has had extensive experience in the labor field; and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York. * • • FDR PAYS STIMSON HIGH PRAISE Through half a century Franklin Hoosevelt and Henry L, Stimson have differed on almost everything political. But at the Gridiron din ner, Roosevelt paid his Republican secretary of war one of the finest tributes he has ever given anyone in public life. The suffering people of the world, he said, must keep faith in their democratic ideals and in their hope for peace. It was in this connection that the President paid his tribute to his Re publican secretary of war. Mr. Stim son, he said, had never lost faith. In 1931, when the world was first beginning to plant the seeds of the present war, (when Japan invaded Manchuria), it was Stimson who registered the first protest against an aggressor nation. History, the President said, would vote Stimson an everlasting debt for keeping faith and working for the principles of peace. • • ♦ ZAPP IN HAVANA Dies committee investigators have uncovered the interesting fact that Dr. Manfred Zapp, head of the Nazi Trans-Ocean News Service, was so cially active during the Pan-Ameri can conference in Havana last year, • • • REFUELING BARGES IN MID ATLANTIC The navy has been making some careful studies of how to carry out Roosevelt’s promise of a bridge of ships across the North Atlantic to carry supplies to England. One re sult is a unique plan for anchoring flat-bottomed scows or barges in mid-Atlantic to serve as refueling depots for airplanes. The plan is not yet perfected, and still awaits highcrup approval. But here arc details of the revolutionary idea. British experience in the North Atlantic has shown that scouting bombing planes are the most effec tive protection lor merchant vessels. Planes can sight an undersea boat at a far greater distance than a sur face vessel, then drop depth bombs on it. Chief problem is the refueling of these planes. Expensive aircraft carriers, requiring three years to build, cannot be used as airplane bases in mid-Atlantic. They are too easy targets for submarines. However, the flat-bottomed scow does not have sufficient depth in water to be a target for a submarine. Furthermore, in the relatively storm-free summer months, flat-bot tomed barges would experience little trouble from weather. They would be subject to attack from the air, but on the other hand each would be defended by its own scouting planes, and if it were sunk the cost of replacement would be insignifi cant. Whether the barges and their ac companying planes would be con structed for use under the British flag, or whether the United States would risk its own planes that far at sea has not yet been determined. But it is known that the navy has the scheme under consideration. • • ♦ BRIDGE OF SHIPS Any big move to aid Britain on the sea in cargo ships will be a big boon to the American railroads. For it is quietly planned to give the Brit ish the large fleet of freighters op erating between the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. These total 113 ships, averaging around 7,000 tons. Last year they transported 7,000,000 tons of freight between the tw r o coasts. Rail haul age across the continent was over 1,000,000,000 tons and the carriers have advised the government that they can handle the additional amount without difficulty. However, the cost will be higher, but this is considered part of the price to be paid for national defense. The intercoastal vessels are pri vately owned and authorities still are undecided how to take them over. Two courses are open: to buy them outright or to requisition them and come to terms later. Most of the ships are old and slow, but they are the only ones immedi ately available. This factor of im mediate availability without seri ously impairing U. S. shipping, de cided Roosevelt to take them over to help maintain the "bridge of ships.” \\T HO will be the two pennant winners of 1941? Who will meet in the next world series? It is quite a jump from the pink and white dogwood blooms of early spring to the red and gold tints of late September, especially when the prophet must also gamble on the break of the army draft. Just at this spot, after a month’s dugout contact with teams that should be somewhere close, my guess is that either the New York Yankees or the Cleveland Indians will meet Bill McKechnic’s Cincin nati Reds next fall in the scramble for world series cash. Joe McCarthy’s Yankees are the solid club. In Dickey, and Rosar they have all the catching any team needs, with Dickey much improved over his 1940 form. From Ruffing, Chandler, Gomez, Russo, Bonham, Donald, Murphy and younger entries, McCarthy should get high-grade pitching all along the route. He has at least 12 stout prospects on his roster. He has one of the best infields in baseball, and the best outfield in Di- HI r *" 01 " ' I y ' . * j * ‘.< ; I TrT? - s .-, f ’ . ! : ' ' : -t .... . £ > 'i . ' . ~ i joe McCarthy Maggio, Keller, Selkirk and Hen rich. Don’t sell the Yankees short. The Indians have a good man back of the plate in Rollie Hemsley. They have the league’s star pitch ing staff, headed by Bob Feller, A1 Milnar, A1 Smith, Mel Harder. They have one of the game’s best infields with Mack and Boudreau at second and short. They have at least a fair outfield. Their weak point is hitting—that is, hitting on the heavier side. This is where they drop well back of the Yankees, who can call on the power of DiMaggio, Dickey, Keller, Rolfe, Gordon and others to ham mer in runs. The Next Two Boston’s Red Sox and Detroit’s Ti gers are next in line. The Red Sox again must bank on power. They will be handicapped by a weak defensive infield, barring Doerr at second, and uncertain pitching. There will always be un certain pitching with an infield that allows too many ground balls to reach outfield territory. Red Sox pitchers have a double burden to carry. They get less defensive sup port than almost any other staff. The Tigers, plus Hank Greenberg, will be tough again. But Greenberg has little chance to linger long. They have fine pitching and fine spirit, with an uncertain old-age fringe at short and second. They will be somewhere close. The White Sox may surprise and the Browns should be the most improved team in the race. But neither is a pennant winner. In the Notional The Reds won going away last fall—in a canter, .under wraps. They still have Derringer and Walters, the two best, as a combi nation. They have Junior Thomp son, Whitey Moore, Johnny Vander Meer, Monte Pearson, and a few more to make up the best pitching staff in either league. They have a sound infield and a sound outfield. Brooklyn’s Dodgers should finish second. In Reese, Reiser, Medwick and Camilli, the Dodgers have top notch people at work. The Brooklyn infield and outfield will match the Reds’. But Dodger pitching is still a guess when it conies to pennant-winning form. Billy Southworth’s St. Louis Cardi nals remain one of the major prob lems. This problem surrounds both the infield and the pitching. They have the punch, the wallop or the run-making power. They have one of the best outfields in ei ther league. But they have been scrambling around with a changing j infield all spring, and no one can say now how their young pitchers will carry on. Some of the Others Reds, Dodgers and Cardinals should take the first three spots. Who will finish fourth? It could be either the Cubs or the Pirates. I can’t see the Giants, Bees or Phil lies crowding in above fifth place. They haven’t the pitching that might offset the many other weak spots now in sight, especially on the part of Giants and Phillies. The best balanced club in either league—l mean on offensive and de fensive play or all-around strength —is the Yankees. HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA — —I! Kathleen Norris Says: Which Door Is Yours? (Bel) Syndicate—WNU Service.) Ann went to him, “Why, George, shame on you! We’ll move right into tne city, I’ll have my baby jor nothing, in a ward, we’ll cut expenses und we’ll pay that off in five years.” By KATHLEEN NORRIS TWO men, both in the early thirties, were going home in the subway last night. It was a bleak dreary night, streets were dark and slippery with slush and the underground train was filled with weary homego ers, who occupied seats or hung on straps with the tired expres sions of men and women whose day had been dull and hard. One man was Tom Smith, who rents four rooms in the Bronx for $32 a month. A parlor and kitchen on the street; two bed rooms on air-shafts. Bathroom, some heat, hot water included. The Smiths have one little girl, Eileen, who is 8. Jean Smith is pretty, nervous, dis satisfied. She is tired of cooking for Tom, caring for him and Eileen, and doing without furs, trips, down town meals, theaters. She lives by a jealous and minute comparison of her affairs with those of her friends; she has no coda and no standards of her own. If some woman friend— and most of them are some years older than she, and all of them ih better circumstances—if some friend has a new blouse, a new hair-do, a new dining table or car, Jean is wretched. Cold Reception. When Tom gets home she is often lying down reading. Or perhaps the house is cluttered from a bridge aft ernoon; the air thick with cigarette smoke, the womeh finishing the last rubber. A daintily wrapped prize goes to somebody, the guests depart with many kisses and thanks, and Jean wearily begins to straighten up the room. Tom has cold mutton, beets, sandwiches and eclairs for supper, a good enough meal if Jean had any appetite or any interest in it. To his kindly inquiries she re sponds vaguely; she isn’t disagree able, but she simply doesn’t care w'hat Tom eats or feels or says or wants any more. Half the time her answer to his remarks is “What?” If things are uncomfortable for Tom he accepts them in silence. Any criticism rouses Jean to an angry summary of the situation. She has given Tom Smith the best years of her life! She has drudged along in this rotten little place, when Ethel has moved into those new flats and Glad and Billy are buying a house. This can go on for a long time. Tom and subdued little Eileen have learned not to invite it. So Tom reconciles himself to a damp dis orderly bathroom, sits cheerfully reading the paper in the cold dusty parlor when meals are late, trots I down to the delicatessen for forgot ten butter, or coffee, takes Jean to movies night after night. Tom doesn’t complain, but one day he revealed more than he knew of the situation to his friend George Brown, when he said hesitatingly, “You see, I have to sort of think out the effect of what I say to Jean sometimes. I have to kind of feel my way.” Browns Are Happy. George Brown, the other home going man, lives in the same crowded block with the Smiths. He and Ann pay the same rent for the same space. But there the similarity be tween the two families ceases. Ann has a girl and a boy; and she and their father rejoice in them and love WRONG WAY? Does cooking for your husband bore you? Are yon angry because Tom says you can’t afford a new fur coat? Are you tired of constantly having to nuike the pennies s-t-r-e-t-c-h? Then you should read Kathleen Norris’ an suers to wives who are going the wrong way. them and they know it. George is the all-important head of the house; he comes home to warmth, light, welcome, comfort. If there is good news, Ann loves to tell it. She has a pleasant little custom of bringing him a cup of hot soup as he reads before dinner. If there’s worrisome news, either from his end of the partnership or hers, Ann has a great way of mini mizing it. A sick child is either al ways better, or “just reaching the peak, George, it’s got to go up to go down!” Ann has a dozen amusing anecdotes of her day to relate; if she is tired, it is just being “com fortably tired.” Dishes take about ten minutes in the Brown house aft er supper; Davy clears the table and Nancy brushes the floor. George comes into the kitchen to help not because she exacts it, but because he likes to share so much pleasant activity and chatter. Sometimes he and Davy work out arithmetical problems with beans on the kitchen table. Domestic Co-operation, The Browns go to the movies once a week and look forward to it as a treat. On Sundays they always pic nic, in bad weather taking their sandwiches to a big museum or gal lery and buying hot drinks in the cafeteria. Because with all the pleasure of their lives the Browns are solvent and are saving. Seven years ago George’s father died leaving him debts totalling more than $4,000, and Ann’s mother, a helpless cripple, came to live with them. They had an eight-room house in the suburbs then. When he realized that their house of cards was coming down around his ears, George hated to go home and tell Ann. Her mother needed medical care and nursing, a new baby was coming, and he was over whelmed with a debt that represent ed his entire income for a year and a half. Ann went over to him, where he sat despondently finishing his story and knelt down and put her arms about him and said, "Why, George, shame on you! We’ll move right into the city, I’ll have my baby for noth ing, in a ward, we’ll cut out fur nace and commutation and taxi ex penses and live right near the office, and we’ll pay that all off in five years. We have each other and the babies, and I CAN take care of Mother and that’s the great bless ing, so you and I’ll go househunting tomorrow, and start all over again!” Typical American Success Story. Well, you know the rest. It is the story of 99 out of every 100 Amer ican stories of success. Ann’s moth er was the only one who minded, and George and Ann, strong in con fidence and laughter and their mu tual love, stood that heroically for the remaining few years of her life. The debts were paid off in less than four years, for saving became a sort of game, and an unexpected commission swept away the last tbirrf at them in one glorious wave. Eleanor Roosevelt Out-of-Doors Days Our two days in the country were, on the whole, very peaceful and I think we accomplished a good deal. I was outdoors all one morning look ing at trees and planning where to put in shrubs and plants, both at the President’s cottage and my own. By noon it began to rain really hard and so, at two-thirty, I did not re gret delivering a speech indoors at Vassar college to a group of girls. I saw a good many of my neigh bors and read a good many things which I have been carrying around in my brief case for some time. I was back in New York city by five o’clock the next day and went to the meeting of the Faculty club at Columbia university. It seemed rather presumptuous to address people on a subject as large as: “What Is Really Happening in the United States Today,” many of whom knew much more about this subject than I possibly could. I real ized, however, that what I had to say was merely a preface to an open discussion. It proved to be a very interesting evening, more profitable to me prob ably than to those who listened to me start it off! President and Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler were kind enough to come to supper and 1 en joyed seeing them very much. I took the night train back to Washington. GRADUATES One afternoon, I received a group of winners in an essay contest from Lancaster County, Pa. They were such bright looking young people and evidently were enjoying their trip to Washington. Then we gave the annual tea for the graduating classes of the various schools. I think the group should be congratu lated, for they came past me more rapidly than any other group that has ever been here. UNION NOW At dinner that night, Mr. Clarence Streit talked to us a little about his lectures on his plan “Union Now.” After dinner, Mr. Theodore Dreier showed us some of his slides of Black Mountain college, near Ashe ville, N. C. This is a most unique educational experiment, where the students and faculty are not only building their own buildings, but really are attempting to demon strate democratic procedure in an educational institution. Then the movie, “Men of Boys Town,” was shown and made a tre mendous impression on everybody. I had to leave for a time to broad cast for the Federal Employees’ council, but could tell on my return what a moving story it is. COMMON SENSE There is an editorial in Common Sense for this month, which I think will do a valuable service in stimu lating thought and argument. It is entitled “Whose Sacrifice?” I am going to quote one thought here: “Sacrifice is indeed called for. But it is the sacrifice of the old meth ods of unplanned, competitive, mo nopoly profit-seeking business, and not the sacrifice of the bread and butter of the poor.” That is a large statement with which many people will agree whole heartedly. The difference always arises as to how we shall achieve the ends which almost anyone will concede are desirable. The edito rial makes some valuable sugges tions. Some of the statements are open to argument. But, after all, the value of anything which is writ ten lies largely in its challenge to further thought and study. I hope a great many people after reading this month’s Common Sense, will do some constructive thinking. CONGRESSIONAL WIVES I had a very pleasant luncheon one day during the week with the wives of the members of the Seven ty-third congress, who came to Washington in 1933 when we did. Then I received some 200 members of the Daughters of Patriots and Founders at the White House. After that I took the plane to New York city. I spoke at the dinner given by the New York city board of educa tion to hear the conclusions of months of hard work and innumera ble reports, made by groups of doc tors and educators on the care and education of handicapped children. It is a study made in New York city, but of value to the whole coun try. Changes have come about in med ical care, more knowledge is now at hand and certain new techniques must be developed in order to give handicapped children the best pos sible opportunity for education and future usefulness in life. I hope many people will read this report, since we have, I believe, some 6,000,000 handicapped children in the country. FRIENDS OF CHILDREN The next noon I spoke on a broad- ! cast which is being inaugurated by the Friends of Children Incorporat ed. Once a week they will broad cast an American play for children. It will go by shortwave not only to British children, but to other chil dren throughout the world. Up to this time, the Friends of Children, Inc., have been sending boxes of clothes to children in England, but they felt that there was need for a message which would interest the children themselves and tie them closer to children in this country. pTEI f SEWING V CIRCLE j VOU really get three different * apron patterns when you send for this one: Using it, you can make two styles of over-the-hcad coveralls, and a pretty little tie around. They all fit trimly, stay in place, and protect your dresses thoroughly. * * • Pattern No. 8878 is designed in even sizes 34 to 48. Size 36, 2y 3 yards 35-ind material for No. 1 and No. 2; 3V« yards trimming: 1% yards for No. 3; 2V* yards frills and binding. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 211 W. Wacker Dr. Chieago Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No Size Name Address k Vegetable Laxative f ' - ifFor Headache, f Biliousness, ®and Dizziness when caused by 11 Constipation. Influence of Absence Absence diminishes little pas sions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.—La Rochefoucauld. Ist1 st EESHSrO! choice r MTfrl MILLIONS S -JB Bright Outlook To temperance every day > s bright; and every hour is propi tious to diligence.—Samuel John son. rFEMALE PAIN] WITH WEAK, CRANKY NERVOUS FEELINGS— You women who suffer pain of irrep* ular periods and are nervous, cransy due to monthly functional dtetvm ances should find Lydia E. Pinß ham’s Vegetable Compound s ,rn pv marvelous to relieve such annoying symptoms. . ~ Plnkham’s Compound is especially for women to help ren?” such distressing feelings and toils help them go smiling thni suf" "dlfflcultdays.” Over 1,000,000 women have reported remarkable benem*. I beacons!; —SAFETY— • Like a beacon light on the height—the advertise* ments in newspapers direct you to newer, better and easier ways of providing the things needed desired. It shines, this beacon of newspa pe f advertising—and it will e to your advantage to f° ' low it whenever ) c0 make a purchase.