Washington, D. C.
GASLESS SUNDAYS
It begins to look as if gasless Sun
days might not be so necessary aft
er all—if certain bare-knuckle re
forms in the oil industry are put
through by new National Oil Ad
ministrator Ickes. For instance, the
tanker system.
When an oil tanker comes from
the Gulf of Mexico up the East
coast, it may stop at Charleston to
discharge part of its oil, then at
Norfolk, then at Baltimore. It dis
charges a certain amount at each
port where its company distributes
or refines oil.
Simultaneously, a tanker belong
ing to another company will stop off
at exactly the same ports. Thus
the tankers of three or even four dif
ferent companies may be feeding
the same cities at the same time.
If, on the other hand, one com
pany served one section of the coun
try, or if one tanker delivered oil
to all the companies in each port
instead of only to its own, distribu
tion would be measurably speeded.
Also, there are four different types
c. 5 high octane gasoline being re
fined in the United States. All these
varieties are not particularly neces
sary, one type being sufficient dur
ing the emergency. Concentration
on only one type of high octane
gas also would considerably increase
gasoline output and distribution.
There is plenty of oil in the
U. S. A.; it is only a matter of
refining and distribution.
Note The anti-trust laws have
prevented the oil companies from
cutting competition of this kind, but
the government oil administrator
should be able to do what the oil
companies can’t.
But LaGuardia, who made his own
terms when he took his defense post,
is still in charge of national morale.
SECRECY OF CONVOYS
Most people don’t realize it, but
M>e contents of almost every ship
having the United Slates for Eng
land is known to Nazi Germany.
However, learning just when the
shipment will reach England and
the route it will take, is another
matter.
Getting information regarding the
departure of supply ships to Eng
land is relatively simple. All Nazi
agents have to do is go down to the
waterfront to watch the loading of
British ships. The type of goods
being loaded cannot be readily con
cealed.
Or if an American vessel is load
ing for the Red Sea, the papers
signed by the crew must disclose the
port of destination. This is required
by law, so that a seaman may know
where he is going, and because ex
tra insurance and sometimes extra
wages are paid if the ship enters
certain areas.
Once a British ship is loaded, how
ever, the utmost secrecy is imposed
on its route and time of departure.
Usually the ship hugs the shore as
far north as the Canadian port of
Halifax. There it may wail for days
or even two or three weeks for a
convoy to be made up.
When it finally leaves for the haz
ardous voyage across the Atlantic,
orders are given to the ship's mas
ter by hand. Nothing is trusted to
radio. A small boat puts out from
the commander of the convoy, car
rying sealed orders to the master of
each vessel.
No other orders are given, and no
radio messages are exchanged dur
ing the trip except in case of at
tack, because radio messages might
be picked up by Nazi patrol planes.
Note —American ships, on the oth
er hand, follow a regular, well-ad
vertised course and constantly send
out radio messages informing the
world of their position.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
Supporting the plan of Chief of
Staff Marshall to lower the age of
army commanders, war department
officials quote the late Justice Oli
ver Wendell Holmes, who fought in
the Civil war. To Lady Pollock,
during the Spanish-American war,
he wrote: “A general of 45 and a
private of 30 are old men.”
The commerce department has
set up a separate British empire
unit, headed by W. Walton Butter
worth, former state department offi
cial in London. His job is to estab
lish closer commercial ties with
British dominions and colonies.
After Gen. Allen Gullion, the
army’s efficient judge advocate
general, appeared in the comic strip
“Hap Hopper,” he received a let
ter from an old boyhood chum say
ing: “I have been wondering where
you were for 40 years, and now at
last I’ve located you through th*
funny papers.”
Twenty-six years ago Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Franklin
Roosevelt toted a friend’s baby son
around the old Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
Savings bank, much to the amuse
ment of Judge John E. Mack, who
later nominated FDR for President.
The other day, on the anniversary
of the incident, the baby—Charles
Durant Maines of Flint, Mich.—was
inducted into the army.
Rural Electrification Administra
tor Harry Slattery is proud of hav
ing strung up wires in Alaska and
the Virgin Islands. Also, he is mak
ing a survey in Puerto Rico.
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WHO’S
NEWS j
ini WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NTEW YORK,—Capt. Oliver Lyttle
• ton who tells the British they
can’t fight a war and keep their
pants pressed, at one and the same
time, is one
Frayed Cuff and 0 f the hand-
Threadbare Knee somest and
Smart in Britain we H a * t:h j e t st
and, to date,
best-dressed men in England. It is
as president of the board of trade
that he rations clothing and decrees
the proud distinction of shabby ap
parel. It is now smart to be shabby
in Britain.
Mr. Lyttlcton is managing di
rector of the huge and powerful
British Metals Corporation Ltd.,
and, before taking his present
post last year, was controller of
non-ferrous metals. Under a
wide extension of his powers as
head of the board of trade, he
was enabled to take over indus
try for defense purposes and to
shift and re-allocate labor to any
tasks he deemed necessary. He
proceeded swiftly with his mobi
lization of defense resources.
This assertion of governmental
control caused the newspapers to tag
him as the “czar of industry,” and
it is interesting to note that our
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. is thus
headlined, as the mandatory priori
ties bill gives him the power to sub
ordinate all production to defense.
The extended parallel is also inter
esting in that Mr, Stettinius is also
a steel-master, former chairman of
the board of the United States Steel
corporation.
England, perhaps more un
easy and alert than we in the
abstractions of social change,
was quick to interpret this cen
tralization of power as of pro
found significance. Beaver
brook’s Evening Standard said:
“This constitutes the biggest
economic and perhaps social
revolution that this country has
faced since the breakdown of
feudalism. In tact, we are on
the verge of a vast experiment
in syndicalism.”
Captain Lyttlcton has never been
involved in any such social drift. He
is Cambridge bred, the inheritor of
a vast fortune and an ancient name,
a hard-hitting industrialist and sol
dier with a reputation for quick and
effective action in any emergency.
He fought through the World war
with the Grenadier Guards, gather
ing the D.S.O. and several mentions
in dispatches. He is 48 years old.
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\/| UCH as it esteems tolerance,
this department occasionally
has noted that people who always
can see both sides of everything
are frequent-
New OPM Deputy j y taken
Boss a Wonder at down with
Human Catalyzing alternating
personality,
or something like, and just cancel
themselves out.
James L. O’Neill, appointed dep
uty director of the OPM Priorities
is an exception. The baldish, ami
able, friendly New York banker has
an instinct for understanding the oth
er man’s point of view, and at the
same time holding to his own. It
upped him steadily in the business
world, to his present post of operat
ing vice president of the Guaranty
Trust Co. of New York. This ambi
dextrous vision has given him rare
effectiveness in personnel problems
and in allaying friction in manage
ment. That might have a bearing
on his moving into the OPM at this
moment.
A Republican, he had a flexi
ble attitude toward the early
New Deal, and was loaned by
the bank as control officer of the
NRA in December, 1934. When
the Supreme court saw only one
side of the NRA, and not the
sunny side, if any, Donald Rich
berg moved out and Mr. O’Neill
moved in, as administrator. He
solved the problem of immedi
ate personnel by tiring about
one-third of it, but by this time
the NRA was functioning only
to save funeral expenses. Mr.
O’Neill liquidated it in neat and
workmanlike fashion, and went
back to his bank. Rut he left
many friends in Washington, and
should be helpful In breaking pri
ority log-jams. He is known as
a marvelous human catalyzer.
He was born and grew up in
Pittsburgh.
Mr. O’Neill drove a grocer’s wag
on at the age of 10, became an er
rand boy for the Bradstreet Corp.,
and later credit man for the Car
negie Steel Co., a job which nur
tured his talent for mixing and paci
fying.
After 22 years of this, he joined
the Guaranty Trust Co., in 1918, en
caged at first mostly in personnel
studies. He likes people and can
understand almost anybody. He is
ueeply religious and is occupied as
a Presbyterian layman in church
and welfare undertakings at lii«
home in Short Hills. N, J.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
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Hawaii—Our Pacific ‘Gibraltar
Long famous for its pineapple, Hawaii has a new claim to fame note,
for it is the base of the largest, best equipped and best trained fighting
forces under the American flag. These pictures take you to our islam
fortress.
A lonely sentry, walking his post at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu.
The army mule is not yet obsolete. Mules can
navigate terrain that would stall machines. He never
runs out of gas, either.
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V. S. army bombing and fighting planes on the Tarmac at Hicham
Field. Honolulu.
A searchlight barrage from the U. S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, our most
powerful naval base in the Pacific, lights Honolulu s tropical skies.
Some of the garrison on review in an army tribute to the navy.
Phi Hipr Jr
THE NEW BUNKER HILLS
(“We must be realistic about that word
’attack.’ It can begin anywhere in the
western hemisphere. If you wait to shoot
until you see the whites of their eyes as
at Bunker Hill you will never know what
hit you."—President Roosevelt.)
Bunker Hill may be in Iceland—
Boston may be far at sea,
Concord Bridge may be a structure
Beyond visibility:
Distance in this war is shrinking
And it quite disturbs our sleep
To regard the North Church belfry
As upon the briny deep.
II
Paul Revere once watched for lan
terns
From a famous Charlestown
shore—
But he now needs long-range glasses
That will take in Labrador;
He must watch a lot of steeples
On some Arctic stretch of land
And must look for signals flashing
From some Indian coral strand.
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Now “the muffled oars” must cover
Lots of distance, wild and rough,
And the epic Charlestown rowboat
Must do ocean-going stuff;
Paul was once a local rider—
And we owe a lot to him,
But he now must get around more—
And must teach his horse to swim!
IV
Now he stands beside his saddle
And he wonders what to do
As he keeps an eye on Dakar
Trinidad and Suez, too;
|As he watches for new doings
j With that classic “eagle search,”
He may catch a warning glimmer
From a Madagascar church.
V
Mystic once was in New England,
But who thinks it there today?
Medford cocks now crow in Iceland
Or perhaps in Baffin Bay;
It was one o’clock, they tell us,
When Paul got to Lexington . . .
But the journey was a land trip—
And was not an ocean run.
VI
It was two o’clock at Concord—
Then a Massachusetts place—
Not a village in the Azores
j Or a borough near Cape Race;
Then the flocks that Paul heard
bleating
Were all flocks quite close at hand
Never flocks in far-off Narvik
Or some spot off Newfoundland.
VII
Middlesex was then non-shifting,
Not transferable each week;
It was not in midatlantic
And 'twas not in Martinique!
Distance isn’t what it once was—
Now our shores, so we hear,
Can be somewhere close to China,
Crete, Suez or Finistere.
L’ENVOI
So to wait to “see the whites of”
Hostile eyes brands you a dope—
Unless you are tensely squinting
Through a big Lick telescope;
So we give Revere the curtain
As a far out-dated lad
And we shoot his horse quite
blithely—
But it leaves us pretty sad!
• • •
The trouble is that too many
Americans think of an unlimited
emergency as meaning tire trouble
during a week-end auto trip, a slight
traffic congestion on the way to the
bathing beach or a shortage of auto
parking space for the hired hands.
♦ ♦ ♦
A blackout may be tried in New
York soon. It is going to be a terri
ble order for the average New York
er to have to find the delicatessen
and drug store in the dark.
• • •
The Nazis have perfected the art
of jumping out of planes, but the
time will come when they will have
to solve the problem of jumping
back.
* * ♦
CANDIDATES FOR THE FIRING
SQUAD
I’m very sick of lots of things,
But of nothing more today
Than golf stars striding four abreast
To the camera man’s “Okay!”
• * *
What America needs more than
anything else is a good five-cent
dime.
♦ • *
Elmer Twitchell can’t help won
dering how long it is going to take
radio advertisers to realize that
nothing loses them more customers
than having the war commentators
abruptly turn from the latest crisis
into a spiel on hair tonics, shoe pol
ishes and spinach dressings.
* * ♦
■DELAYED IN TRANSIT’
Whenever I zoom up an elevator,
I get there first—my stomach later!
—Lee A. Cavalier.
♦ * *
The North Carolina, just launched,
is the first battleship built by this
j country in 18 years. And yet Uncle
Sam would resent it if called a dope.
♦ * *
Tn-Laws and Canned Dinners
Cause High Divorce Rate, Says
Judge.”—Headline. Bunk. Judges
are the cause of the high divorce
rate.
Ju& i W|||i
Obliging Her I
“Last night George annoyed *. ■ '
and I told him I never wanted f H
see his face again.”
“What did he say to that’” I
“Nothing; he just turned out tv ■
light.” m the ■
Full Surrender H
Hubby (tenderly)~r ve already ol t H
mitted that I was wrong. U hat , ,
do you want me to do?
Wifey (tearfully)—Just own up that } H
was right,
SAW IT COMING I
Sis—Did you tell Mr. Smythe I
would be engaged for a half hour?
Tommy—No I told him you’d be
engaged in a half hour. H
Quite Frank
“Yqu look marvelous today,
Barbara!” H
“Flatterer!”
“No, really; I didn’t recognizi
you at first.”
Open for Bids H
Having an unusually heavy rrop o)
hair because he had been on n country H|
visit and hadn't bothered to pet n hair■
cut, a man tvent immediately to his
barber tvhen he returned to town.
“Haircut?” asked the barber.
“Not now,” said the man. “I just
dropped in for an estimate.”
Put Fear in Him H
“Have you caught the burglar H
“No,” replied the village consta- H
ble, confidentially, “but I’ve got H
him so scared that he doesn’t dare H
show himself when I’m about.” ■
MINOR I
Unsought Thoughts I
The thoughts that come often H
unsought, and, as it were, drop H
into the mind, are commonly the |l
most valuable of any we have, and I
therefore should be secured, be- |l
cause they seldom return again.—
Locke.
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“Did anyone in your family ever
make a brilliant marriage?”
“Only my wife.”
Driven by Thought
A spur in the head is worth two
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