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DEFENSE ‘INCIDENTS’
Out of 26 major “incidents of dam
age” in defense plants last month,
military intelligence authorities
have evidence that 14 were caused
by sabotage. The other 12 were ac
cidents.
Of the 14 sabotage cases, four
were fires and 10 were mechanical
damage. Two are attributed to
Communists; the others to Nazi
agents. There is no indication that
Communists and Nazis worked to
gether.
Since the outbreak of the Russo-
German war, the Communist party
line has somersaulted. The current
dictum is, no interference with de
fense output. It is significant that
since the Nazi attack on the Soviets
there has been a sharp decline in
strikes.
However, intelligence agents re
port that the party has made no
change in its policy of propagandiz
ing soldiers and sailors. This is be
ing pushed as vigorously as before,
although with little success. In fact,
party generals are so dissatisfied
with results that they recently or
dered labor unions dominated by
Communists to help their campaign
by offering their halls as soldier rec
reation centers.
Japanese Consulates.
Another significant development
in subversive influences relates to
the Japanese.
Since the expulsion of the Nazi
and Italian consulates, intelligence
officers have found that the Japa
nese consulates in Los Angeles and
Seattle have become the chief clear
ing houses for espionage on the West
coast. Japanese residents are send
ing in a constant stream of reports
on airplane production, ship move
ments and other military informa
tion.
The recent arrest of two Japanese
spies in Los Angeles caused a flurry
in Japanese quarters, and a num
ber of Japanese rushed to Wash
ington, apparently to place them
selves under the protection of their
embassy. Others hotfooted for Mex
ico, which may mean they are plan
ning to shift spy headquarters to
Mexico City.
• * •
SECRET NEW AAA CZAR
American Farm bureau and Na
tional Grange moguls are smart pol
iticians. Although their bill to cre
ate an independent, five-man board
to rule (he AAA has not yet seen
the light of day on Capitol Hill,
they are already greasing the way
by canny wooing of possible oppo
nents.
Latest to be “propositioned” is
Rudolph (“Spike”) Evans, ambi
tious head of the AAA, who might
be a vigorous foe of their scheme
to gain control of his own agency.
The farm leaders have sent word to
Evans that they will back him for
chairman of their proposed board if
he will go along with them.
An inner group of 11 decided on
this move at a secret pow-wow dur
ing the recent conference in Chi
cago of the Farm bureau, Grange
and National Co-op council on the
defense emergency.
The master minds also accepted
Walter Randolph of Alabama as the
Farm bureau’s selection on the
boards, pledged themselves to take
whomever the Grange picked, and
agreed to allow this hand-picked trio
to name the other two board mem
bers.
The plan is very pat, but the mys
tery is where Roosevelt and Secre
tary Claude Wickard fit into the
picture. Under the law the Presi
dent appoints board members, and
on agricultural selections he natur
ally would consult Wickard. Appar
ently, the Grange and Farm bureau
manipulators propose to do the pick
ing and force Roosevelt and Wick
ard to go along.
No Chance.
Actually, the five - man board
scheme has no chance of getting
anywhere this year.
Not yet even introduced, it faces
such a long battle when it does ap
pear that months will elapse before
it goes through the committee proc
ess. Further, there are indications
that certain Farm bureau moguls
privately don’t want the legislation
considered at all this session.
According to Farm bureau insid
ers, Earl Smith, Illinois big-gun,
and Francis Johnson, lowa chief,
secretly want to make it a political
issue in next year’s congressional
election. Militant New Deal foes,
they are said to believe that a lot
of GOP campaign hay can be made
in the rural districts by raising the
cry of “give the farmer control of
the AAA.”
How much control he would have
is shown by the fact that the boys
already have made sure that they
would do the controlling.
• * ♦
.MERRY-GO-ROUND
Frank Grille, secretary-treasurer
of the United Rubber Workers, is
slated for membership on the anti
discrimination committee that Pres
ident Roosevelt is planning to set
up to eliminate bars against Ne
groes and other minority groups in
defense industries.
On the desk of Lawrence Fly,
scrappy chairman of the Federal
Communications commission, is one
of those little plaster busts designed
for temperamental people to smash
—when they lose their temper.
Kathleen Norris Says:
Don't Try to Live Your Husband's Life
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
I resent, at 39, being relegated to the
position of a sort of superior servant, a
person who must accept AVs careless an
nouncements and goodbyes.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
ARE you a person or the
/—V echo of some other per
son? This is an important
question, where the happiness
of some women is concerned,
for unless she can answer it, “I
am myself,” no woman can be
happy.
For each one of us brings
with him, or forms and culti
vates in the early years, a com
plicated mass of likes and dis
likes, prejudices and inclina
tions, and it is the encourage
ment of some of these and the
weeding out of others that
makes that baffling, fascinating
thing called ‘‘personality.”
No matter how rich and beautiful
and socially prominent a girl is, if
she chooses to adopt rowdy man
ners, use vulgar language, show no
consideration for the feelings of
others, defy the code of dignity and
self-control, if not of actual morality,
she is not a gentlewoman, even
though the wealth and power of her
family go back a dozen generations.
Becoming a Lady.
And by the same law, any girl
who studies fineness in every way,
in what she reads, says, does and is,
can raise herself from the humblest
or least fortunate of backgrounds,
and eventually be recognized for
what she is, a lady. Any girl or
woman who feels she is dull, unin
teresting, left behind by more fas
cinating rivals, need only face the
situation honestly, to find the cure
all about her, easily within reach,
and costing nothing.
It may take her a few years to ac
custom herself to the necessity of a
daily bath, manicuring, hair-brush
ing, immaculate dressing, carefully
accurate speech, abstention from
excesses of all sorts—for the table
glutton is an even less pleasant sight
than the excessive drinker or smok
er. Gentlewomen don’t giggle over
questionable stories; they don’t
eagerly retail scandal; they don’t
laugh loudly when someone falls off
his chair or mispronounces a word.
Culture and fineness are essential
to a lady, but the qualities of heart
are just as important as those of
mind.
Husband Is Too Popular.
There are problems, however,
that come even to a fine and strong
and cultured woman, a woman who
is her husband’s equal, if not sup«d
or in intellect and soul, and when
they arise the answer comes in the
form of a question. Are you a per
son or the echo of some other per
son?
A letter from a woman in Au
gusta, Maine, illustrates what I
mean.
“We have been married 17 years,”
she writes. “We have three fine
children; a boy of 15, twin girls of
12. Alf, my husband, is a good,
steady, successful man, extremely
popular with everyone—perhaps es
pecially with men. I mean that he
belongs to golf and town clubs,
lunches with associates every day
downtown, and always has pleasant
adventures in friendship when busi
ness, as it frequently does, calls him
away for a few days or a week
at a time.
Went Through Hard Times.
“When our boy Fred was about
four, and the girls tiny babies, hard
times came. A1 lost his job, and
we lost the little home we were buy
ing. We asked my father, who fives
in California, for $lOO a month, and
we five l.fSnaged on that for nearly
three years. We had two rooms; the !
babies’ milk alone came to $lO a |
month, and if I could have afforded j
a nervous breakdown believe me I l
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY. GEORGIA
Are you a person or the echo of some
other person, Pauline? Manage all quite
free from any thought of Al's joining you
or any resentment because he docs not.
BUSY HUSBAND
This wife and mother issues an ap
peal to Miss Norris for advice on the
problem of getting her husband back
into the family fold. Otherwise a model
husband, he spends most of his time
with others, socially and in business,
asking to be left out of family social
life. Kathleen Norris gives the reason
and suggests a remedy.
would have had one in those dark
days. I did everything at one time
washing 70 didies a day as well as
the entire family wash, and even
Al’s collars and cuffs. In 1934 my
father died, leaving me a few thou
sands that I immediately invested
in two small houses, living in one,
renting the other, and taking two
boarders to make ends meet. A1 had
a job then, but when I broke down
and went for 10 weeks to the hos
pital we had to borrow. From that
time however things steadily im
proved, we sold both five
years ago at double what we had
paid for them in the depression, and
A1 went from one promotion to an
other and our hard times were over.
Now we have a nice home, two
email cars, and I have a good
kitchen helper.
Alf a Stranger.
“But far more serious to me than
anything that those difficult years
brought,’’ the letter goes on, “is the
fact that for three years now my
husband has not shared our lives
at all. He is amiable, appreciative
of good meals and home comfort.
“But dines at the club, entertains
some customer downtown, works
late at the office and afterwards
drops in on some bridge game,
makes engagements for all day Sun
day, often for Saturday night as
well, and tells me, if I make any
plan for a family affair or picnic, to
go ahead by all means, but not
to count on him.
Now I resent, at 39, being rele
gated to the position of a sort of su
perior servant, a person who must
accept Al’s careless announcements
and good-bys. I am a college grad
uate, my family is of a higher rat
ing than his, and but for my father's
generosity I don’t know how we
could have weathered our hard
times. Yet I can’t beg back my hus
band’s affection and company. The
situation is changing me into a brood
wretched woman and I wish you
could give me an answer to it.”
Make Self an Interesting Individual.
The answer is, as I said before, is
a question. Are you a person or the
echo of some other person, Paul
ine? Al, for all his selfishness and
obtuseness, is evidently a person.
He has found a great deal in his life
to amuse and occupy him; all he
asks is that you do the same. With
health, home, sufficient income, car,
with three fine growing children, you
certainly should have no trouble.
You don’t speak of friends, but cer
tainly you have friends. If you
could manage club days, gardening
days, hours for reading, walking,
plans with the children, all quite
free from any thought of Al’s joining
you or any resentment because he
does not, you wmuld find yourself
immersed in so full and happy a
life that nine hundred and ninety
out of every thousand women in the
world might well envy you. Keep
that son close to you; you won’t have
a mother’s frequent difficulties in
paternal jealousy. Join the girl’s in
their homework and invite a few
chums in to study with them.
Your real trouble is that for years
you held Al in happy monopoly.
You and he were inseparable in in
terests. But that never lasts un
brokenly. It can be regained. It
[ will be regained as soon as Al real
| izes that you are just as busy and
j complete and interesting and indi
-1 vidual an entity as he is.
np HOSE looking for further late
■*■ summer and early autumn ex
citement should find what they want
in the battle for the batting cham
pionship of the American league be
tween its two best hitters—Ted Wil
liams of the Red Sox and Joe Di-
Maggio of the Yankees. Heath, Cul
lenbine or possibly some other son
of swat may upset this combination
—but we doubt it.
Williams and DiMag are the two
A. L. standouts and they still have
the better part of
three months left in KBr '
which to prove their Sr ,
places in polite ».'•> »
baseball society. P
DiMaggio’s bril- Bi*** Lj
liant consecutive &
hitting streak has
given the San Fran
cisco entry most of
the publicity lately,
but the gangling kid ,
from San Diego and ;
Boston is still far Grantland Rice
out in front when it
comes to the main figures.
Anyone who can reach the half
way mark over .400, as Williams
did, knows how to handle ash furni
ture. And even the excellent DiMag
will have to keep on swinging his
mace effectively to catch or pass
the tall, relaxed entry from the Red
Sox reservation.
Looking Back
How do the two compare at this
spot along the pennant road? Here
is DiMaggio’s five-year Yankee rec
ord through 1940: 1936 .323; 1937
.346; 1938 .324; 1939 .381; 1940
.352; grand average— .343.
Here is Ted Williams’ record for
his two complete years; 1939 .327;
1940 .344; average— .336.
But up through the halfway stretch
of 1941 Williams is now in front,
counting the games both have played
under the big tent.
Both Williams and DiMaggio can
be listed high in the natural hitting
class. One of the
main features of Di-
Maggie’s base-hit
1|» ability is perfect
Kgt Ir* wrist action. The
PpPy DiMag has a pair of
I* coc ked wrists that
p..- qW&wr carry both power
; and control.
Too many hitters
are bod y and arm
■? swingers. DiMag
*■ ■■■■■' gj 0( well balanced
Joe DiMaggio on both feet, lets
his body work with
his hands, but that brace of cocked
wrists deliver most of the poison.
The main feature of Ted Williams’
bat swinging is his almost complete
lack of tension. Williams won’t be
23 until October, but he still acts
with the ease and confidence of a
veteran who has been through many
baseball wars. In this respect he
reminds you of Napoleon Lajoie.
Larry at the plate looked as loose
as ashes. He was apparently indif
ferent as he waited for the pitch.
“You either hit it or you don’t,”
Larry told me years ago. “Why
bother about it? Just take your cut.”
The fact might be mentioned here
that with this modern lively ball
Lajoie, a smoking line hitter with
the old one, would soon have sev
eral hospitals full of crippled infield
ers who happened to be in the line
of fire.
Another Hot Match
With Williams and DiMaggio grab
bing off most of the wild laurel
sprigs in the American league, you
can look for another hot scramble
in the N. L. between Pete Reiser of
the Dodgers and Johnny Mize of the
Cardinals.
It might interest you to know, if
you care for the succulent statistics
in baseball, that Johnny Mize’s five
year average with the Cardinals is
now .339 up through 1940—just four
points below DiMaggio’s mark for
the same span.
Big John is one of the top hitters
of his time. Ball players through
the South this last spring all picked
him as the best hitter in the older
league. Mize hails from Demarest,
Ga., not so far away from Royston
where Ty Cobb spent his younger
years, (Ever notice how most of the
top ones come from the unsung
hamlets—not from the big towns?)
Mize has a freshman challenger in
Brooklyn’s Pete Reiser, who in his
first year on big time has been
whacking away between .350 and
.370 most of the season.
Pete Reiser is the ball player
named by Leo Durocher as the
“next Ty Cobb—provided there will
ever be another Ty Cobb. Reiser is
185 pounds of speed, power, head
and heart,” according to Durocher’s
estimate.
Reiser is now just 21. Don’t for
get that when Tyrus Raymond was
a Tiger debutante he batted .322.
But from there on he finished with
a lifetime average of .367 for 24
years—and that, my fellow country
men, is something to shoot at.
But for all that, the stretch duels
between Williams and DiMaggio,
Mize and Reiser, will add consid
erably to the general public interest
in both races. Suppose someone
else beats them out? What of it?
They are still the four best hitters
in the two big leagues over a period
of time.
Government Agency Helps Y^Tl
Dream of Home Comes True
IS A “home of your own’’ an un
■ fulfilled dream? Then you will
want to know more about the Fed
eral Housing Administration, one
of the most important agencies
created by the national govern
ment in the past few years.
Loans insured by the FHA have
helped thousands of families—
many making under $2,000 a year
—to buy their own homes. Other
There’s No Doubt but
McTavish Asked for It
Sharp received a letter from his
friend McTavish which bore no
stamp, and he had to pay the post
age. The letter concluded:
“You will be delighted to hear
I am enjoying the best of health,
old chap.—Yours, McTavish.”
Sharp pondered over this for a
time, then he secured a large
stone, wrapped it, addressed it
and sent it express collect to his
friend McTavish. Attached to it
was a note, which read as follows:
“Dear McTavish;
“This great weight rolled off my
mind when I received the good
news of your state of health.
“Yours sincerely,
“Sharp.”
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