Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, October 23, 1941, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextHOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. PERRY, GEORGIA Washington, D. C. AN INSIDE STORY Word trickling back to the diplo matic corps from Germany indi cates that Hitler is beginning to j realize that the United States means business, and that he made a tragic mistake in not accepting the advice of his more conservative diplomats who warned him of this in the first place. In fact, the inside story, which i now can be told, is one of the most tragic of the war. Possibly if it had not been for overweening personal i jealousies the war might even have been prevented. What happened was that when [ Hans Dieckhoff, German ambassa dor to Washington, returned to Ber lin in 1938, he brought back a strong report that the United States would enter the war eventually if Germany became the aggressor. He was ready to warn that Germany faced a repetition of 1917-18. But Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop would not let him see Hitler. Ribbentrop, probably the most y mbitious man around der Fuehrer and a great friend of Himmler, wanted to be the funnel for all ad vice going to Hitler. Also he was feeding him his own kind of aggres sive advice, not the cooling caution of Ambassador Dieckhoff. In the same cautious school with the ambassador were Baron Von Neurath, recently ousted as gover nor of Czechoslovakia because of his moderate views; Hjalmar Schacht, governor of the Ileichs bank, now in virtual retirement; and Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler’s former commander and more re cently consul general at San Fran cisco, Even Field Marshal Goer ing was much more moderate than Von Ribbentrop. Czech Putsch Delayed. It was Captain Wiedemann, who, around May, 1938, chiefly persuaded Hitler not to invade Czechoslovakia. Me was then Hitler’s military aide and attended a meeting of der Fuehrer’s inner advisers at which general staff advised caution. Final ly Hiller, exasperated, threw up his arms and ordered them all out of the room. But Wiedemann stayed be hind, and finally persuaded his chief to delay the march into Cezchoslo vakia at least until the fall of 1938 which was done. Later, it was Wiedemann and his moderates who persuaded Hitler to receive Chamberlain and Daladier at Munich. But by this time it was too late for Ambassador Dieckhoff to tell his story. Ribbentrop never forgave Wiede mann for this. Also his vaunting ambition would permit no rival close to Hitler. So, shortly thereafter, he got Wiedemann transferred to a dis tant and relatively unimportant German consulate in the U.S.A. Later when Wiedemann was deport ed from this country, it is signifi cant that Ribbentrop once again transferred him as far as possible from Berlin—this time to Tientsin, China. The foreign minister of Germany wants no moderates around. • * * ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN Don’t bo surprised if a U. S. war ship disembarks a load of Nazi sailors and turns them over to the justice department to be tried on charges of “piracy.” It is even possible that in the “haul” may be an armed Nazi raid er or two that had been operating down Brazil way. Anything may happen these event ful days since the President enun ciated U. S. determination to main tain freedom of the seas, and branded Nazi submarines and sur face raiders in American waters as “pirates.” Armed Nazi ships are prowling American waters and the U. S. navy has its orders. It can be revealed that neither the justice nor war department would be surprised if they had some “pirate” seamen and “pirate” craft to deal with soon. Both have been quietly studying for a week the law and precedents concerning such an eventuality. The war department enters the picture because under the law all war prisoners landed on U. S. soil come under custody of the army. However, the U. S. is not at war, so there is doubt over the army’s jurisdiction. No final decision has been reached, but the consensus of the legal experts is that any such “pirates” should be turned over to the justice department. One suggested procedure is that the Nazis be landed at a U. S. port and then jailed by the justice de partment as aliens without pass ports. But most of the legal author ities contend that the Nazis should be dealt with squarely as buccaneers. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF In a direct membership election, the American Newspaper Guild has overwhelmingly defeated the leftist clique which for several years has controlled the national offices of the union. The entire group was cleaned out and a militant anti-Red slate elected. Cordell Hull has a new car, a long sleek limousine, but without either radio or heater. Quoted at $2,615 for the r kail trade, the car cost the gov ernment only $l,BOO. Also gas costs only eight cents a gallon. ALL OUT FOR THE SPAGHETTI HEARING! What is spaghetti, and if so how? I * * * Is macaroni playing fair with the ! government? • * • Is the federal security program in any way being balked by the vermi f celli situation? • * * These are questions which the government of the United States of America is now handling despite all , the other serious matters we j thought were taking up its time. • * • And what department do you think is considering the spaghetti, macaroni and vermicelli situation? You’d never guess. The Federal Security administration! Yes, sir, Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt has ordered a hear ing on the whole subject. Is victory over Hitler and Musso lini tied up in some way with the dollar Italian dinner? Is the ulti mate triumph of democracy depend ent on a standardized bowl of spaghetti? Are the Four Freedoms remotely linked with honesty in the macaroni, spaghetti and vermicelli trades? * * * Who can say? All we know is that Mr. McNutt had ordered a hearing by the Food and Drug board for defense reasons. Even the ravioli situation may be gone into. * * * It just goes to show you the thing the long arm of the govern ment gets into these days. Not even a plate of minestrone soup can go its own unregulated, undisciplined, uncontrolled way. * * • And by the way who is the Fed eral Administrator in Charge of Noodles for the fiscal year? * * * And have you got the address of the U. S. Chop Sucy administration and the first name of the govern ment Grated Cheese Dishes co ordinator? * * * But to get back to the Italian dinner crisis. We understand the macaroni hearing is to be for the purpose of going over the whole spaghetti, vermicelli and macaroni situation in America with the idea of making certain it does justice to modern government and that there is nothing about it that might at some time show that Washington had not been on the job. ♦ • ♦ The government is out to protect you from false spaghetti just as it protects you from a bad stock mar ket investment. It would give you the same safety in the matter of buying 10 yards of spaghetti that it tries to give you in acquiring a few shares of common stocks. * ♦ ♦ Spaghetti should be cord shaped and measure between 0.06 and not more than 0.11 in diameter, the gov ernment holds. It has specified cer- • tain specific shapes, and contours for macaroni and vermicelli, with or without grated cheese. • • * And it is sticking to its policy of protecting you against everything, except a fiy in your minestrone. It may yet get around to that. We hope the spaghetti hearing is a happy one and that somebody will provide red wine. » • ♦ FORWARD LOOK Go ahead, bomber— Have your way! You’ll be a saucepan Again some day. —Grace B. Treadway. * • • “Weygand Renews Pledge of Loy alty to Vichy.”—headline. Unless he does it every few min utes he has trouble keeping his mind to it, no doubt. * * * Hitler and Mussolini have come out for a new world order in which everybody except the Nazis can live on their knees. * * * Add similes; as funny as the Nazi blast denouncing the invasion of Iran as unlawful, unfair and a treacherous blow at a small nation’s integrity. • * • HOW COME? I have never found it otherwise, When I’m in Bangor, Maine, The matchbook covers advertise A quick lunch in Spokane. While in Spokane the covers sell No local haunt forsooth, But rave about some grand hotel In faraway Duluth. —J. H. Niles • • • Hitler is in the position of having won so many enormous victories in such a short time that defeat stares him in the face. • • • Nazi chiefs are said to have left Berlin for a safer city. They have come to the conclusion that aerial warfare can be carried to a point where it is dangerous. • * • Definition of a split second: The time between the changing of the red light and the blast from the horn of the auto behind you. With Ike and Mike A fetv years ago television was a distant prospect. Today it has emerged from the realm of the maybe and is an accomplished fact, with regular programs on the air daily. The television camera is known as "Ike" while the familiar microphone is "Mike" in television parlance, "Ike" handles the scene; "Mike' the sound. These pictures take you to the Columbia Broadcasting system's television studio in New York. View of the control panel where Here you see a television camera television programs are directed man in action, with a "dollyman" and monitored out to the transmit - assisting. The "dolly" is used to ter atop the Chrysler tower, then work the camera into any desired sent through the ether. position. Telecast of a children s hour at the studio finds Lydia Perera telling the story to little Ann Francis as John Rape (left) illustrates the story with drawings. The story here was "Jack and the Beanstalk." This is Toy and Wing in action before "Ike and Mike." They are performing one of the ballroom dances that made them famous. In the foreground is a roller skating act awaiting its turn before the cameras. And here is a typical scene in a home equipped with a television receiver. The family sits around and enjoys its own little theater. THE football scythe, 1941 model, ; will continue to be extremely busy during the next few Saturday afternoons. A few more teams from the upper ranks must drop into the list of the beaten before the season ends. Future upsets are to be expected. One of the favorite current debates concerns the tough est football schedule of the year. MV vote goes to Coach Charles Bowsers’ Pittsburgh squad. Here is the Panther hookup—Purdue, Michigan, Minnesota, Duke, Ohio State, Fordham, Nebraska, Penn State and Carnegie Tech. The last named team is on the off side, but look over those first eight Pitts burgh games. I can’t find another schedule that calls for such opposition as F.tt must meet from Michigan, Minne sota, Duke, Fordham and Nebraska, without calling on the others, which are none too soft. Another Entry Considering the material at hand I’d say a good runner-up would be Dr. Mai Stevens and his group of Violets from N.Y.U. This year the Violets face Texas A. and M., Syra cuse, Holy Cross, Penn State, Mis souri, Tulane and Fordham. Tulane > jßp m, Ik r I 1 SI • COACH CHARLES BOWSER and Fordham alone would make a a hard schedule for any normal squad. This menu is entirely too much for the material Mai Stevens has at hand. From now on it would be a fine day’s work for N.Y.U. to beat anyone of these opposing outfits. Bowl Scouts Busy The rush for bowl selections is I already warming up, and the rival ry is keener than ever. Eight lead ing teams are needed for Pasadena, Dallas, New Orleans and Miami, | and they want the best. The Pacific coast always has one fixed starter—her own conference champion. But the western delay in waiting for the final game may cause trouble again, as so many leading candidates won’t hang around that long with other bowls pressing the issue. The Texans are hoping to keep their own conference champion j hooked to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, where they can handle over 50,000 spectators at top prices. The Sugar Bowl, now able to accommodate 75,000 or more, would like to get the pick of the North and the South for New Orleans—Ala bama, Tulane or Duke, for example, against a Fordham or a Colgate. And Miami, with an increasing ! capacity, is just as keen to keep ; building up her big winter show. This means the Rose Bowl com mittee faces claimants ready to pluck six of the best teams in the field. The Rose Bowl cut of $lOO,OOO is a golden lure, but many teams invited to collect $60,000 or $70,000 don’t care to gamble on losing the lesser amounts. Which is sim ple enough to understand. Who They May Be It is entirely too early yet to have any bowl teams line up. The West ern conference and Notre Dame are out. So is Navy and the Ivy league —two years ago Cornell would have been a terrific card. But the main candidates now, apart from the Pacific Coast con ference, are Alabama, Duke, Ten nessee, Tulane, Texas, Fordham, Colgate, Southern Methodist, Ne braska, and Oklahoma. To be beat en once is no bowl bar. Last season Fordham, Texas A. and M., Nebras ka and Georgetown—all bowl teams —had each suffered a defeat. Two defeats are usually the eliminating point. It isn’t certain that Duke would ! take on a bowl visit, unless Wallace Wade changes his mind. * * * The two leading candidates from 1 the North are Fordham and Col j gate, which are not likely to be ! beaten twice, at any rate, and which | are almost certain to have fine rec ! ords. Alabama and Tulane are excellent bowl prospects. They are two of the best. In the Southwest the bat tle is always so bitter that few teams ever finish a spotless season, no matter how good they are. The competition is so keen in that sector j that the jcb of winning them all is I nearly always an impossible turn. 1 Eleanor Roosevelt I I held my first staff meetin„ . I the office of Civilian Defense 8 M I think it cleared up certain difflSß ties of procedure which are not v B organized within the office' itself ■ I came back that day to o ■ White House for my usual persoSSß press conference. I had asked n! ■ Harriet Elliott, the commissioner 0 B the Division of Consumer p rot( sß tion, to attend, so as really to stimT■ late a discussion on the whole tion of the increased cost of I$ T'M There is no question in my mind thatH we must have some method which , ■ legal to control the rise in prices ■ It cannot be done by voluntary oar I ticipation alone, nor by the action* of community groups, because itH is too difficult for people in the com H munities to get information O nH which they can act. I am happy to | know that representatives of con ■ sumer interests will be appointed on I defense councils. ■ More than this is needed, how-H ever, particularly when you realize I that the snowball of rising prices H has rolled up very rapidly in the I past four months, and in some cases | this increase is higher already than I it was during the last World war ■ We must profit by our former ex-H perience and realize that prices I which go up must eventually come I down, and the coming down process H I is a very difficult one. I ♦* * H SOUTH AMERICAN VISITORS I At luncheon one day Miss Marj I Winslow brought two very delight- H ful guests, Senorita Gradela Man- H dujano of Chile and Senora Ana H Rosa de Martinez-Guerrero from H the Argentine. Senorita Mandu- H jano, whom I have had the pleasure H of meeting before, has traveled in H many parts of the United States H since her arrival here last spring, H so she must now feel quite at home H in our country. She has just spent H some time in Maine and announced H to me that she had become a Re- H publican. ■ Senora de Martinez - Guerrero H brought me an interesting scroll H signed by many of the women of H Buenos Aires who have joined to- H gether to aid the women in other H countries who are fighting Naziism. H They call their organization “Junta H de la Victoria.” Senora de Mar- H tinez-Guerrero, who is a very H I charming young woman, has lately ■ been interested in building a hos- ■ pital. I have long known that the H control and the management of the I hospitals in the Argentine are in I the hands of the women. I have II often wondered if the contact with I problems in the hospital would not H some day create a situation where H the women would wish to prevent H certain things instead of waiting to ■ alleviate them when they reach the I hospital stage. Much to my interest, Senora de i Martinez-Guerrero said that she had I decided that the only way to do this I was through a more active interest I on the part of women in the govern- I ment, and that she was beginning I to talk to other women along these I lines. This is interesting, not only I from the point of view of what it I might mean internally, but of what I it would mean in better understand- I ing and co-operation between the I women of the Americas. ★ * ♦ ARMY LIFE REACTIONS At luncheon on the train one day I I found myself at a table with two j young army boys and we were joined shortly by a young marine who had just finished his Paris Island training and was being sent from Quantico, Va., to a new post. The army boys came from Virginia and New Jersey respectively, and had spent some months in camp in | the state of Washington, and were i now on their way to a New Jersey I camp. All three were fine boys and j I enjoyed talking to them. The I ! thing which I remember most in I retrospect, however, as we talked I about their lives and need for their present sacrifice, is that they unani- I mously agreed that they did not have enough information or enough opportunity to talk about the larger aspects of world affairs as they re lated to their own individual serv ices. j One of the boys finally said, “Well the trouble is, when you get into the army, the training is often the same, day in and day out, and you begin to think that the whole of life centers in what you get to eat, and when you get your pay.” I wonder j if perhaps one aspect of our officers training is not being neglected. Should we include a course in the art of encouraging conversation among your associates? Should we j remember that in both the German I and Russian armies there is a re lationship between the officers ana their men which is not entirely of . ficial in character? * • . I have been sent a little brochure from the Consumers Book Co-opera tive, which they call Reader’s C ‘ server. It is a helpful little pu * lication because it lists books in various fields, and has an article a the beginning, telling one about t trend of interest in reading materi al, and commenting on books J many fields. I was interested to find that a popular vote which t-'.e have taken shows a great ' n^ re . 1 in religious books, and secondl> I books that can be classed as educ 1 tion for democracy.