Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, September 18, 1941, Image 2

Houston home journal., September 18, 1941, Image 2

About Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 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. U. S. BASES IN AFRICA The public doesn’t generally know It, though Nazi agents do, but the United States is very quietly and ef ficiently building up a series of stra tegic bases along the coast of Af rica to guard against a Nazi air putsch from Dakar to South Amer ica. First of these bases will be air dromes at Freetown, in the British colony of Sierra Leone, now being developed by Pan American Air ways on the airplane ferrying route to Egypt. Second will be an important air drome in Liberia, the Afro-American colony just south of Freetown. Equally important will be a subma rine base in Liberia. The Liberian airdrome is now being built in co-operation with the Firestone Rubber company. Purpose of these bases is to take the place of the U. S. fleet in the South Atlantic. Long ago, U. S. naval strategists figured they could reduce materially the number of U. S. warships around Hawaii and California, if there were enough big bombing planes on the Pacific island bases to patrol the Pacific. So now U. S, bombing planes op erating from the African coast will do the same thing for the South At lantic in order to guard against Nazi moves from Vichy - dominated Dakar. The problem of shutting off a Nazi blitz in the South Atlantic is much harder than in the Pacific, due to one factor: distances in the Atlan tic are about one-third less than those in the Pacific. * * * BAD EGGS A member of the British air mis sion in Washington, back after a flying trip to England, has a report on food conditions that is a com bination of humor and hard, unpal atable fact. Regarding the food shortage in England he says that eggs in most places are unobtainable. The ration is one egg per person per week. Some millions of eggs shipped from the United States were all bad. “Bacon and eggs” today is un known in England. The nearest ap proach is bacon and “egg,” and if the day you want it is not egg day, you have to be content with bacon and tomato instead. Sugar is limited to half a lump per person per meal. At Claridgc’s, one sardine per person per day is the most sardines anyone can ob tain. Next in scarcity at this swank London hostel is butter. At each meal, you get a vast dish in which you may be able to discern two little dabs, each smaller than a penny. Fresh fruit is nearly non-existent. There are no oranges at all. The returning Britisher also reports that the general shortage of clothing re sults in sloppy dressing. The report urges that England im mediately import thousands of small home-canning machines to be used by housewi-ves in preserving current crops of fruits, vegetables, rabbits, and meats of all sorts. lie advo cates “that the women of England be obliged to preserve food, instead of devoting themselves to the hope less hip and tummy development that results from continual knit ting.” ♦ * * OFFERS FARM FOR DEFENSE John H. Perry, president of West ern Newspaper Union, has offered his 2,500-acre farm in Owen county, Kentucky, to the Royal Canadian Air force as a pilot train ing center. The rest of his large estate has been offered to the U. S. government. “I am for national defense,” said Perry, “and Uncle Sam can have my place, lock, stock and barrel.” • • * ILLITERATE DRAFTEES One of the uncomfortable facts disclosed by the selective service system is that thousands of young men in this great country of educa tional opportunity are unable to pass a simple test of reading and writing. In a recent two-months period, May 15 to July 15, a total of 91,919 draftees were “excused” on account of illiteracy. Of these, 37,217 were white, and 54,702 were Negro. The southern states have tire heaviest percentages of illiteracy. In Louisiana, 4.8 per cent of the whites and 23.7 of the Negroes were rejected on this score. In Georgia and Florida, the percentage was only slightly less. Other states of high illiteracy are Virginia, Missis sippi and North Carolina. Partly to offer the benefits of edu cation, partly to increase the num ber of men fit for military service, WPA is setting up a project to teach reading and writing to the rejectees. ♦ • * NO GAS TROUBLES The shortage of gasoline in the East raises no problems in the life of Hattie Caraway, though, as rank ing member of the senate commerce committee, she plays an important role in the investigation of the al leged shortage. The motherly senator from Arkan sas is one of the few members of the upper chamber who doesn’t own an automobile. Mrs. Caraway depends on street cars and buses to get to and from her office. Kathleen Norris Says: Good Manners Make Good Marriages (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Some wives treat their husbands cavalierly and show contempt for them in com pany because they are ashamed of them. Their sneers and snubs are expressions of humiliation. They probably are going about with richer married women. By KATHLEEN NORRIS A YOUNG married woman in a Kentucky town is a good housekeeper and a good mother to two small girls. She keeps her expenditures well within her budget line and is a faithful wife. But she is invari ably sneering, rude or inatten tive to her husband when they are in company, and he gets very tired of it. “Eugenie spoils any party for me,” he writes, “whether it’s just having her sister to dinner or whether it’s a big affair at the club, by making fun of mo all the time. At homo she’s always nice to me, and often acts upon my suggestions or asks my ad vice. But the minute we’re out in company she is rude. I don’t think she knows it. But I look at fellows whose wives are sweet to them and, gosh, I surely do envy them. “To have a wife smile at you, and listen to you, and agree with you, and even tell other people what you say or think would be heaven to me. And the worst of it is that I know Eugenie really doesn’t feel the amused contempt she is always showing toward me. “Now, for instance,” this letter continues, “if I say that Jones has had a fifty-dollar raise, Eugenie says in a low tone to everyone in the group, ‘Thirty.’ I say, ‘Oh, I un derstand it was 600 a year,’ and she says, ‘lt was.’ Somebody laughs and says, ‘That’s fifty a month, Eugenie,’ and she says carelessly, ‘Well, Larry never gets anything straight anyway.’ Always Scoffing. “Later I suggest taking hamburg ers to the picnic. Eugenie looks around the circle and says, ‘Oh, for heavens sake, think of something original!’ If I comment upon Euro pean affairs, she murmurs to some one, ‘Not that Larry ever reads any thing but the comics!’ If I have any trouble with the car she seems actu ally triumphant over it, and will laugh as she jumps into somebody else’s car, saying, ‘Larry can’t man age the old bus again.’ “I gave her an ice-box last year as a surprise; some woman friend looking at it, had to say as women always do, ‘Oh, why did you get this brand? Why didn't you get a So-and-so?’ ‘This is $27 cheaper, darling,’ Eugenie said, right before me. “If I tell a joke or anecdote with which she is familiar she will barely wait until the last word before say ing, 'Are you finished, Larry?’ Her allusions to me are: ‘That husband of mine and his queer ideas,’ ‘You know Larry,’ ‘Please don’t bore them with that, Larry.’ "I am to blame for everything; the neighborhood in which we bought our house; that the right peo ple decline a dinner invitation; that the wrong ones don’t; that little Jean is shy and that Diana is bold— everything I do, say or have is dis missed with that same sneering, su perior sort of manner. “Is there any cure for this, and how can I go about trying it? I am perfectly satisfied with my home, children and position in life, and I would b» with my wife if she would only be polite to me.” Analysis Is First Step. There would have been a cure in the old days before divorce, Larry, when a man with such a wife could HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA CAN THEY BE HAPPY? His wife is pleasant and kind to him when they are alone. But when they are out with others she is rude and takes every opportu nity to point out his faults. She blames him for everything. She spoils his parties and laughs at his gifts, his had luck and his ef fort to please. But, writes this Kentucky husband, he is satisfied with his home, his children, and his position, and he would he satisfied with his wife if she would only be polite to him. Can they be happy? Can their mar riage be saved? Kathleen Norris' answer is a lesson, not only to husbands and wives, but to all of us who want to live gracious and happy lives. take her away from her present en vironment, make her live in a much humbler neighborhood and a much humbler way, and refuse to go into company at all until she learned tc treat him with decent respect. But Eugenie, under this treatment, would add one more marriage to the thousands that are broken up be cause of bad manners every year. However, when you realize why she is acting this way you may find your own cure. Analysis of the dis ease is always the first step. Wives treat their husbands so cavalierly because they are ashamed of them. Eugenie probably is going abou f with richer women, women whose husbands are more successful. Her sneers and snubs are expressions ol humiliation. She is saying to her friends, without exact words, “I don’t think Larry is so much! 1 don’t want you to think I’m satis fied with him!” In her heart she probably is more than satisfied. She knows what a serene home life, free from anxie ties, you give her. She has a part time maid, a garden, lovely children. But all that doesn’t count against the need she feels to impress hei friends. Loyalty to you counts foi nothing, if only she can be sure that they are not laughing at her or pity ing her. An Effective Treatment. Some years ago a wife of my ac quaintance had this trouble with an inconsiderate husband. He hurt hex feelings, interrupted her, scorned her opinions, laughed, bantered, teased until she was almost a nerv ous wreck. Finally, for she was a dignified, cultured woman whs could afford to take this position, she be gan to counter quietly ‘‘You mus' forgive Billy’s manners.” Over and over again she would say it pleas antly enough, apologetically. Billy protested that he had splendid manners, and she asked him serf ously, ‘‘Didn’t your mother or some one ever do anything about youi manners, Billy?” Before she started a story at a dinner table she would say, “I’n. afraid my husband is going to inter rupt me and correct me, so don’t mind it, for I’m used to it.” She kept a little list of the times he had flatly and mistakenly contra dicted her, and although she never showed it to anyone else she did occasionally good-naturedly call his attention to it. Finally it was Billy who began to get nervous. There is small fun in badgering and correcting and in terpolating when the victim of it is all ready to demonstrate one’s bad manners at the first opportunity. And the upshot actually was thal Billy was cured. A NEW GOLF ANGLE PROFESSIONAL golf needs a new angle in a ranking or scoring ' way. It needs badly something like i ! the “Standing of the Clubs” in base ' ball. There are too 1 many different win nors in too many Br tournaments for the B public to know who ■ T is ahead and who &**** This could be ar- 1 ranged by picking out a number of the - i leading tournaments 'l*4 in which most of Wmjh the stars play, and from these a record Grantland Rice of the total strokes could be tabulated. Also, a point system of first, second, third, fourth and fifth places might be kept so that followers of the ancient game could get a clearer idea of what I the leading stars are doing. The first method was tried out a few years ago on the West coast and it scored a clean hit. Four big tournaments were picked for the test. The total scores of the leaders were printed after each tournament with the result that by the third tournament there was keen interest in trying to pick the winner. On the final day, as I recall, Ed Dudley and Harry Cooper were neck and neck, with several pursuers not far away. Follow-Up Value The trouble today is that different golf tournaments have no follow-up value. Hogan wins—Snead wins —Wood wins—someone else wins. The public soon becomes confused. It has no combined record of com parison to follow in the way of total strokes, or for first, second, third, etc., points. Freddie Corcoran would be an ideal man to handle this new “Standing of Golfers” and so link one tournament with another. In this way, each added tournament would become more and more im portant as general interest began to build up. j To make this new ranking method ! more effective there should be suit able rewards for the top men—es : pecially the winner. Some enter prising advertiser could afford to put up $lO,OOO for the top five, opening with $3,500 at least for the big win ner. The advertiser would get the benefit of many tournaments through a long campaign. There could be a winter’s stand ing, leading up to the U. S. Open. And there could be a summer’s ranking for the remainder of the tournament year. There is no doubting the interest value this would have for tourna ment golf. In place of each big tournament being a somewhat iso lated case, there would be a new na tional following. A Simple Record For example, we would come to the fourth tournament in the list. The record might be something like this—Hogan, 850 strokes; Snead, 841; Craig Wood, 841; Sarazen, 842; Nel son, 843. By the start of the seventh tournament the count might be—Ho gan, 1,440; Snead, 1,442; Wood, 1,443; etc. Perhaps there is a better way for this to be worked out. But I know the above method got by with a rush the first and only time it was tried. There is now no follow-up in the present system of tournament play. The leading money winner and the Vardon trophy winner might easily be two different players. What general interest would there be in baseball if there were no stand ing of the clubs, no comparative record of each team’s ranking? Golf has a great chance in the way to add tremendously to a na tional public following from one , tournament to another if the P.G.A. ' will get back of the idea and put it through. ♦ ♦ ♦ The National Open — Golf’s Danger Spot The excitement of the recent Na tional Amateur championship at Omaha will long be remembered by the galleryites who watched the campaigners battle it out for top honors. Many weird things can happen in these double 18-hole tests. Few estimate the danger of these 18-hole matches. I wonder how many recall the fact that for four years so fine a golfer as George Von Elm was beaten in his first round. When he finally managed to scramble through at Baltusrol—and he might easily have lost his first match again, being one down and one to play—he went along to beat Bobby Jones in the final rush. Also few recall the fact that Bobby Jones barely escaped with his scalp and his shirt more than once. Dick Jones almost nailed him at Baltusrol one down, where Bobby holed a 15- footer and Dick blew a two-footer i on the same hole in the stretch, j Maurice McCarthy had Bobby two down and four to play. Others of no ranking caliber carried him to i the eighteenth or nineteenth holes, including Ray Gorton at Brookline. Johnny Goodman finally caught him at Pebble Beach. The 18-hole tests were Waterloos to men who could go longer matches e- e- c* ;* ■ f 1 - f- e•e- C- m tv, >. (v. o-e. e.. o-. (v. fi. fv. f<-. p., (v. (v I ASK MS 7* »i. | • ANOTHER. information on various subjects \ (V. (V. fw, (V. (V. (V. o- f'- 0- O- O- O- O- 0- 0-* O'* O- O- 0- O” 0” 0-» O- 0~ O- O-* f'- (v* (v. rv, rv ? The Questions 1. How often do twins occur in the United States? 2. What is meant by the title 1 of the book “Quo Vadis”? 3. Where are Plimsoll lines seen? 4. To what committee of the United States house of representa tives do all bills for raising rev enue go? 5. Which of the following is not a ruminant—buffalo, kangaroo and camel? 6. A gammadion is a symbol associated with what? 7. Who was king of France at the time of the revolution? 8. How many American women have become members >of Brit ain’s house of commons? 9. Which of the following would be most interested in an artifact— a magician, archeologist or a machinist? 10. The famous battle of Boro dino took place in what country? Carnegie Hero Medals Since it was established in 1904, the Carnegie Hero Fund commis sion has received 39,500 applica tions for awards, but only 3,200 were granted, 2,627 being bronze medals, 554 silver medals and 19 gold medals, says Collier’s. The only gold medal awarded in the past 25 years went to the family of Charles Coe of Burkburnett, Texas, who rescued one child but died attempting to save another in a fire in 1923. “Heads up is the rule when you’re handling money,” says Bank Teller STANLEY RAMLER feeling that way.” a " K Hogg'sCorn Flakes that tastes 1 Aiding Another aging him to think for himself, The only way in which one hu- instead of endeavoring to instill [ man being can properly attempt ready-made opinions into his head, to influence another is by encour- —Sir Leslie Stephen. game began to become a popu- V\ KING EDWARD CIGARS m I arouse similar enthusiasm in smokers IrfV* 1 JjO* /TpHE PUBLIC nature of advertising bene- X fits everyone it touches. It benefits the public by describing exactly the products that are offered. It benefits employees, because the advertiser must be more fair and just than the employer who has no obligation to the public. These benefits of advertising are quite apart from the obvious benefits which advertising confers—the lower prices, the higher quality, the better service that go with advertised goods and firms. The Answers 1. One in 87 births. 2. “Whither Goest Thou’”’ 3. On a ship (load line marks! 4. Ways and means committee 5. Kangaroo (a ruminant k n mammal which chews the U ka). The Na2iS <Same ™as. 7. Louis XVI. 8. Two (Lady Astor and Mrs Beatrice Clough Rathbone wh „ took her seat on March 19, 194^ 9. Archeologist (a product nt simple aboriginal art). 10. Russia (Napoleon against the Russians under Kutusov in 1812). ln 4ok Man’s Creation Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a mon ster they call Destiny. j 0 h n Oliver. 10C T* M* ,A % *OOO Pride and Mistakes In general, pride is at the bot tom of all great mistakes.— Ruskin.