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’ POLITICAL DYNAMITE
There was real political dynamite
behind that letter President Roose
velt sent the Young Democrats con
vention in Louisville blasting Demo
cratic isolationists as “obstruction
ists who are in the wrong party.”
The scorching attack was a tip-off
on undercover plans which may
make next year’s congressional
elections the hottest in years.
Nothing has been said about it, but
certain administration and Republi
can loaders have discussed uniting
Democratic and Republican forces
to oppose all congressional isolation
ists regardless of party label.
Under the proposed plan, Admin
islration-G.O.P. backing would be
thrown behind incumbent anti
isolationist congressmen whether
they are Democrats or Republicans.
Furthermore strong coalition candi
dates would be entered against iso
lationist congressmen seeking re
election.
One of the most significant things
about the plan is that it has the
hearty approval of Wendell Willkie.
Discussing it with a group of
friends the G.O.P. standard bearer
declared, “The people should have
the opportunity in every senatorial
and congressional election next year
for a clear-cut expression of opinion
on this all-important issue of foreign
policy. This referendum should
not be cluttered up with phony or
inconsequential issues.
“In districts represented by iso
lationists we should put the strong
est candidate in the field we can
get, regardless of his party label or
economic views. I’d like to see
young men and women brought into
this campaign. Let's get away from
the old political hacks. Let’s bring
youth into this fight. It’s theirs pri
marily and they should be in the
lead in it.
“Personally, I am prepared to sup
port anti-isolationist candidates re
gardless of their party affiliation or
economic views. If they are right
on the foreign issue, then I will be
for them and will take the stump
for them.”
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SMASHED PLANES
President Roosevelt didn’t an
nounce it, but there were two big
reasons why Pan American Airways
is taking over the ferrying of air
planes across the South Atlantic
up the interior of Africa to the Near
East.
One reason has since been pub
lished, the need of American war
planes to help the British in Iran
and thus protect Russian oil fields
in the Caucasus.
The other has not been published
—namely that the British had been
wrecking an extraordinarily large
number of brand new planes in fly
ing them across Africa.
As a matter of cold, unpleasant
fact, the British have been losing
about 20 per cent of the planes we
have been giving them.
This was partly because the Brit
ish did not use their own pilots, but
Czech, French, Poles and Dutch.
These aviators, sometimes too full
of sloe gin, and sometimes not too
well trained in the tough job of han
dling fast war planes, have succeed
ed in scattering the wrecks over the
heart of Africa.
Furthermore, central Africa is
one of the most uncharted and dif
ficult flying areas in the world. The
hop across the Atlantic has not
caused the casualties. It is the re
mainder of the flight, from Freetown
on the west African coast, up to
Egypt.
This is why Roosevelt finally
called upon Pan American Airways
to take over the African hop. Its
pilots have done a brilliant job of
pioneering the jungles of the Ama
zon and the peaks of the Andes.
And Roosevelt figured that if any
one could fly over Africa, Pan Amer
ican could do it.
♦ ♦ ♦
‘AMERICA’S ANSWER*
The OPM is just releasing for wide
distribution its first post promoting
its drive for greater production.
Entitled “America’s Answer—Pro
duction!” it is a masterpiece of
power and drama. It pictures a
brawny arm twisting a monkey
wrench fastened to the letter “O”
—shaped like a machine nut—in the
word “production.”
The artist is Jean Karlu, as free
a Frenchman as ever worked with
one arm. He lost his right arm
fighting for Democracy in the first
World war and, until the fall of
France, was doing an expert left
handed job painting posters for the
French government.
Recently arrived in this country,
Karlu wanted to continue his fight
for a free France. He submitted
his poster idea in sketch form and
OPM officials snapped it up.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Taking a cue from the German
Stuka dive bombers, U. S. army en
gineers have included a powerful
siren in the midget M 3 tanks. Its
shrill shriek freezes green troops,
and the army is counting on its
scare power, at a 70-mile an hour
speed, to make advance breaks
through enemy lines.
Phil Baker in his new Broadway
show said he will feature a song on
. how to have a good time in a parked
car. The song is titled “Thanks
for a lovely evening, Mr. Ickes ”
Kathleen Norris Says:
Girls Do Strange Things These Days
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
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It is a royal advantage for a girl to live in a family. A snippy older sistei, a
troublesome, noisy brother, a busy hard-working father, a mother who cares enough
to attend to little things—these are pure gold.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
THE problem of the prodi
gal son has quieted down
in recent years; mothers
don’t worry about their sons
as once they did.
Or perhaps it’s just that they
are worrying more about daugh
ters, and haven’t the time they
once had for anxiety about the
boys.
For girls certainly are doing
odd things these days.
Hundreds of them, when they
get to the early twenties, want to
live away from homo. They are
in no hurry to marry; they are
not in the least concerned as to
their chances of marrying; but
they don’t want to live at home.
One young girl I knew left
mother, father, younger sister and
two younger brothers, rented an
apartment a few blocks away, and
for the three years that preceded
her marriage maintained a separate
establishment, often running in to
see her people, making no apologies
to society, and eventually settling
down into orthodox wifehood and
motherhood. But most girls go away
to another city, launching into in
terior decoration, photography, of
fice jobs, preferring hard work, re
sponsibility, the care of an apart
ment to the much easier life at
home.
Mothers Are Bewildered.
It has been hard enough for moth
ers to lose their sons in this fashion,
but it is utterly bewildering to them
to lose their girls, too. It is one
more of the many elements that to
day are destroying the American
home, and women feel it, and would
do something to stop it if they could.
But the current is too strong. The
girl knows she can be self-support
ing, and the thought of the independ
ence of her own establishment, her
right to come and go unchallenged,
to make what friends she pleases,
intoxicates her.
A girl named Freda Sanderson
puts the situation very well, and I
will quote verbatim from her letter.
Freda lives in Pittsburgh; she has
two older sisters, 27 and 25, and a
younger brother, 19. Her father is
teller in a bank: her mother, with
the help of a colored girl, keeps
house for the family.
"Anne is my oldest sister, a
school teacher who never has had
a beau and looks down scornfully on
anyone who has,” writes Freda.
"She is brilliant, admired and suc
cessful, but her whole interest is
education and poetry. Margaret
comes next, engaged for two years
and to be married in two more. She
and Dick murmur together in the
sitting-room three nights a week.
Rod is in college, but lives at home;
he and a friend usually are studying
in his room until ten or so, then
they race downtown for sodas and
movies.
Elaborate Preparations.
"If I want my crowd in at home,
Mama has to make preparations, of
course. Margaret and Dick will go
downtown; Papa will go over to Aunt
Emma’s, Rod can have a snack in
the kitchen. Will I and my friends
be on time for supper, because pop
overs don’t wait. No, she won't
just have plain bread and frank
furters, the idea! Things must be
‘nice.’ Will I buy some yellow can
dles and send home some flowers?
Will we try to remember that Papa
is trying to get to sleep and keep
the radio low?
“Mama wishes I wouldn’t ask the
Miller eirl, because her mother is
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY. GEORGIA
A REAL PROBLEM
Beset at home with the usual
difficulties of entertaining
friends, along her and their pref
erences, in competition with
family ideas, Freda of Pittsburgh
writes Miss ISorris for her opin
ion. The young woman com
plains that she and her friends
are crowded into a small space,
only through sacrifice on the part
of the family and smothered
with intended kind acts by moth
er, brother and sisters. Unfor
tunately the little tributes made
by her folks differ from what
she and her crowd like. Then
th e family asks her to avoid cer
tain guests and invite others she
does not particularly care about.
Freda wonders in her letter, if
she should not take an apart
ment with another girl or two
and lead her life ns she pleases.
Her answer from Miss Norris
strikes into the heart of one
problem that is helping to de
stroy the American home.
divorced. Margaret says not to put
coats all over her bed this time.
Anne says she thinks it’s vulgar to
ask a man whose wife I don’t know.
(She lives in another city; he is just
a visitor here.) Delly comes out of
the kitchen to say she will make a
cake. I explain that all my friends
are dieting, but she goes ahead just
the same, and the day of the party
she can't do anything else but slop
around with frosting for the cake.
“What the crowd wants is a place
to bring cheese and crackers and
drink milk and pop. There’s nothing
wild about us. We are as decent as
any group in town, loving writing
games and dancing, and with neither
money nor inclination for night
clubs. But the way my family acts
makes me want to join up with some
other girl and take a little place of
our own. What do you think? And
should I make it a different city, to
save the family face? I could be
transferred to Philadelphia, but of
course I would miss my friends
here, and have to start from scratch.
Do you think it is utterly unreason
able for me to long to get away?”
The answer is that for every good
thing we have in life we have to pay
something. Young wives and hus
bands pay in that loss of independ
ence, that disciplining of character,
that changed attitude toward old
friends which is marriage. Mothers
pay, every hour of their lives, for
the privilege of bringing sons and
daughters into the world. Single
women pay, in odd moments of
sharp heartache, for their freedom
from family ties. We must choose
what is worthwhile to us, and pay
for it, as long as we live.
A Royal Advantage.
It is a royal advantage to live in
a family. A snippy older sister, an
other older sister complacent in a
happy engagement, a troublesome
noisy brother, a busy hard-working
father, a mother who cares enough
to fuss with candles and popovers—
these are pure gold, when it comes
to estimating human values.
Hour for hour, living at home far
outweighs in advantage any other
sort of living for girls. For the
important secret is that there is no
independence in this life for any of
us, until we learn to make the
claims of those we love the doorway
to unselfishness and service. Then
all our values miraculously turn
topsy-turvy, and we discover that
only whoso loseth his life shall gain it.
(XT ASHVILLE, TENN.—This Blue
■LN grass section of Tennessee is
heavily endowed with coaches,
1 scouts and other football veterans
; who from a central position cover
almost the entire map. And two of
the first questions they ask are—
“ Who is going to beat Minnesota
this fall?” “Who is going to beat
! Fordham?”
Most of these experts have been
working around with various foot
ball summer schools of instruction
| so they are in close touch with a
major portion of the football map.
Football interest is no longer sec
tional. It is widespread. It covers
the country.
“From all the early gossip I could
pick up,” one leading coach said,
JIM CROWLEY
"my guess would be that Minne
sota and Fordham—the Gopher and
the Ram—would be the two hardest
to beat. Both get rough early tests
against Washington and S.M.U.,
both exceptionally strong, but hard
ly strong enough to drive back the
two combinations Bernie Bierman
and Jim Crowley will be able to
j wheel into action. They have the
backs and the lines, plus the needed
reserves. They have speed to give
away and even more power.”
“What about Notre Dame?” I
asked.
“Extremely good, especially in
the backfield,” my adviser said.
Red Sanders, Harry Mehre and a
flock of other coaches have been
working around in these summer
schools with many other able pro
fessors from other points east and
west, north and south.
What They Tell You
Here are a few more items they
bring up.
“You can watch Frank Thomas
and Alabama in the South. Not far
from the front, anyway. You can
bank on Mississippi with Hapes and
Hovious to be dangerous—you can
rate Vanderbilt well above last year
—and you can enter Georgia with
some of the best material in the
South, especially in the backfield.”
“The Southwestern scramble \yill
be one of the hottest in years wfth
Texas exceptionally good, S.M.U.
close and several others above last
year’s strength. This will hardly
include Texas A. and M. which has
lost almost its entire 1940 first
stringers. If I had to name a lead
er now I’d make it Texas.”
“Outside of Minnesota in the Mid
west you can keep an eye on Notre
Dame and Northwestern, with im
provement in Wisconsin, Indiana
and Ohio State. Michigan has lost
too many stars from her great outfit
of last fall.”
“Tennessee loses many stars, plus
Coach Bob Neyland. Tulane and
Duke will be good. Both Nebraska
and Missouri lose important cogs.”
From the East
“What did you pick up from the
eastern scouts outside of Fordham’s
Rams?” I asked.
“Navy should come next. Swede
Larson has a fine squad. Cornell
won’t be any flop although Snavely
has lost most of his 1940 starters.
Colgate will bo better. So will Co
lumbia. I didn’t hear so much about
Harvard and Princeton, but I know
Harvard has been hard hit by air
force and army losses. But they
tell me Yale may be one of the
surprises. Spike Nelson has a well
drilled squad and he will also call on
the T-formation with some fast,
hardhitting fellows to carry it
through. Don’t rate Yale any push
over this time.
“Army and Dartmouth are doubt
ful. Georgetown will be very good
again, but Boston college loses its
coaching staff and such people as
O'Rourke, Gladchuck and Kerr, and
can’t be as strong as B.C. was last
fall. Pittsburgh is another guess.
“My ranking would be Fordham,
Navy, and then a pretty general
sort of mixup, which is good for
general football interest.”
“In the Far West they rate Stan
ford on top again, with Washington
a close second,”
It was the unanimous opinion of
the group that 1941 would pile up a
new record attendance. They point
to the crowds the Yankees and
j Dodgers have drawn in baseball and
1 football doesn’t demand any such
[ winning consistency.
You can figure in advance how
many highly excited spectators No
tre Dame will draw at every start—
! especially against Army, Navy,
i Southern California.
“You’ll see more sellouts this fall
than you ever saw before,” one
veteran coach said. “I mean all
over the map.
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That Was Proper
Father and son were running a
business.
“Bear in mind,” said the father,
“I am the main support of the
firm.”
“Right!” said the son. “You’re
on our billheads as ‘J. Brown,
Prop.’ ”
IN THE DARK
Ji \
Urma—Has Jack ever kissed
you against your will?
Helen—No; but he thinks he has.
Pre-Stuff ed
They were just married and she had
cooked her first chicken.
When he was about to carve it, he
asked: “Ifhat did you stuff it with,
dear?”
“It didn’t require stuffing, darling,”
she replied. “It wasn’t hollow.”
Cutting Reply
“Your hair needs cutting badly,
sir.”
“No it doesn’t; it needs cutting
well. You cut it badly last time.”
If Jacobs Protested —
Abrams Had a Remedy
Abrams and Jacobs took up golf.
One afternoon they were playing
for a stake of one dollar a hole,
and the competition was spirited.
Abrams drove into a bunker. With
his iron he made four ineffectual
swipes, raising the sand in clouds.
Then he stooped, picked up the
half-buried ball, and tossed it out
on the fairway.
“Look here!” roared Jacobs.
“You couldn’t do that. It’s against
the rules.”
“I,’ve already done it,” said
Abrams, calmly.
“But I tell you it’s against the
rules. What am I going to do if
by such tricks as that you win?”
“Sue me,” said Abrams.
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