Washington, D. C.
BRITISH AND U. S. POLICY
U. S. diplomats are not shouting
it from the housetops, but there have
been two important occasions when
the British put a very restraining
hand on American foreign policy,
and checked major moves in the
South Atlantic and the Pacific.
One move was last May when it
became conclusively apparent that
the Vichy government was the tool
of Hitler and when many U. S.
strategists favored the taking of
Martinique and the Azores, and per
haps even a landing force at Dakar
in French West Africa.
But the Churchill government pro
tested that this would take U. S.
ships away from transporting sup
plies to the Battle of Britain; would
focus American attention upon an
other part of the world. So Roose
velt kept out of the South Atlantic.
The second move was about two
weeks ago when Mr, Churchill tele
phoned the President to advise
against any showdown with the Jap
anese in the Pacific. His advice
came shortly after the new
Nazi cabinet took office in Tokyo.
Churchill urged that the battle in
Europe was the main show and the
United States should not get ab
sorbed with side-shows.
Regarding this Churchill advice,
there continues to be a wide rift
inside the Roosevelt administration.
And incidentally, there is not com
plete unity on this point inside the
British government. Australian sen
timent leans toward a cleaning up
of the Pacific situation, after which
all parts of the British Empire, plus
perhaps the United States, could
concentrate on Europe.
Rift in Administration.
Inside the Roosevelt administra
tion, the men who urge a go-slow
policy toward Japan are Admiral
Stark, chief of naval operations, and
the state department. On the other
side are many of the other admirals,
including Admiral Ernest King,
commander of the Atlantic fleet,
who says he can get along in the
Atlantic merely with his pres
ent consignment of destroyers and
light cruisers, which are all that
are needed for convoying.
The first big point of the “strong
policy” admirals is that every day
of delay weakens the Russians, and
the Russians are the big potential
allies of the United States against '
Japan. With Russian bombing i
planes operating from Vladivostok I
against the paper and bamboo I
houses of Tokyo and Yokohama, the
Japanese would be up against it.
The second big point urged by
these admirals is one which not
many people realize; When the Unit
ed States went into the last war,
Japan was on our side. There was |
no need to worry about the Pacific.
But this time, the minute the U.S.A.
becomes embroiled in Europe, it
has to guard its back door against
a traditional and very potent rival.
Therefore, argues the Pacific
school within the navy, let’s face
our enemies one by one rather than
have two jumping on us later and
from opposite directions.
There is nothing the navy dreads
more than the idea of attack in two
oceans at once—attacks aimed at
Alaska on one side and Brazil on
the other. That is why some of
the admirals so resent the phone
calls from Winston Churchill.
• * *
U. S. DESTROYERS
The submarine situation which
forced the Reuben James and now
threatens all U. S. destroyers in the
North Atlantic, is far different from
that of the last war.
Today, German submarines op
erate in gangs or wolfpacks of three
to five, lurking in the path of a
convoy, and without putting their
periscopes out of the water. They
do not even run their engines. Thus
the approaching destroyer cannot
pick up the subs with its sound de
tector, but the subs, on the other
hand, can hear the engines of the
approaching convoy.
Then when the convoy is within
range, the subs release their tor
pedoes, sometimes blind: In other
words, they do not lift their peri
scopes but frequently fire merely
in the direction of the approaching
engines. Because convoys travel so
close together these days, hits are
almost certain.
Submarines fire blind chiefly in
the daylight. At night, on the other
hand, when the submarine cannot
be seen, it comes to the surface.
This is one reason for the in
creased number of merchant vessel
casualties since September, for as
the nights became longer, U-boats
have longer hours to operate on the
surface.
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CAPITAL CHAFF
Says an official in the Finnish le
gation, “Eighty-five per cent of
my people desire the defeat of Ger
many—but 100 per cent desire the
defeat of Russia!”
Peru’s air attache in Washington,
Col. Armando Revoredo, cried “To
hell with the Good Neighbor policy”
when Uncle Sam requisitioned
Peru’s 18 bombing planes. But ac
tually he is a good friend of the
U.S.A., was responsible for chang
ing Peru’s aviation instruction from
Italian to American.
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EXPLAINING THE PRICE RISES
(“Retallen must explain to customers the
reason for advancing prices. The public
doesn’t understand the situation."—Louis E.
Klrstetn, chairman of the American Retail
federation.!
Customer—How much are fresh
eggs today?
Retailer—Sixty-five cents a dozen.
Customer—l said a dozen, not two
dozen.
Retailer—l heard you. Sixty-five
cents a dozen. Five cents extra if
I make an explanation.
Customer—How about storage
6ggS?
Retailer—Forty-two cents, and I’ll
make my explanation a cent cheap
er.
* * *
Customer—Give me twenty cents’
worth of eggs and one cent’s worth
of explanation. Why should eggs be
up?”
Retailer—lt’s the defense pro
gram.
Customer—Are we sending eggs to
Russia?
Retailer—No, but Europe is get
ting a lot of our hens. And you know
about the straw shortage, don’t you?
Customer—No.
Retailer—All the straw is being
used for Gallup straw votes. And
with so little straw in their nests the
hens won’t lay. Is it clear?
Customer—No. I’ll take a loaf of
bread. Is that up?
Retailer—Yes, and I’ll explain
that. The country is short of dough.
Customer—lf it ain’t it soon will
be. How about baloney? There is no
shortage of that, is there?
Retailer—No, but it’s gone up in
sympathy. Baloney is one of our
most sympathetic products. And
don’t forget we are sending a tre
mendous amount of baloney to
Europe.
Customer—This is the first time
I’ve heard anybody admit it.
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SCENE lI—A HABERDASHERY
Customer How much are $2
shirts today?
Retailer—Three dollars and fifty
cents. And I’ll throw in a full ex
planation.
Customer—Shirts aren’t necessary
I to the defense, are they?
Retailer—Of course they are.
Would you defend the American way
without a shirt?
Customer—l may have to!
Retailer—Could you use some
socks? They’ve only gone up fifteen
cents a pair.
Customer—ls there a sock short
age?
Retailer—No, but it’s harder for
me to explain why they should cost
more, so I charge extra.
* * *
SCENE lII—A RESTAURANT
Customer—What would you sug
gest?
Waiter—Our 85-cent order of gou
lash is very good at $1.25 a plate.
Customer—Good heavens! Why
should goulash be up?
Waiter—lt’s the OCCG. Office for
the Control and Co-ordination of
Goulash.
Customer—Must there be a fed
eral board to control goulash?
Waiter—Sir, today there must be
a federal board to control every
thing.
• * •
Customer—Bring me a ham sand
wich. With mustard and a complete
explanation why it should cost more.
Waiter—l’ll be glad to explain ev
erything. Do you understand infla
tion at all.
Customer—Not at all.
Waiter—Good! I’ll explain it then.
* • •
THE BACHELOR LOOKS AT A
FRIEND’S CHILD
Blessings on the, little boy.
Bellowing with fiendish joy!
My heart leaps to see you, lad,
Riding bareback on your dad.
When your daddy opes his trap,
How you prattle, little chap!
A cheerful hail, you lusty scion! . . .
I’m glad you’re hizz’n and not
“mion.”
—M. E. SMITH
• • •
Uncle Sam has cracked down on
an aluminum company which he
says diverted metal needed for de
fense, to companies using it for or
namental work on slot machines, pin
ball games and juke boxes. There
are times when some of our biggest
industries don’t seem to be any
more appreciative of the crisis than
the average man.
• • •
WHOOPS!
Joe Stalin is now seeing his for
mer ally, pal and buddy at such
close range that he may be said to
be meeting him two-face to two
face.
• « •
Elmer Twitchell says the govern
ment’s fiscal policy is the same as
no-limit poker, with the deuces a lit
tle wilder.
* • *
“Ford Yacht Leased to Navy.”—
Headline.
The Queen Lizzie?
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
Kathleen Norris Says:
Help Middle-Aged Women
Learn to Earn
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
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An elderly woman, who is now rich because of a certain pickle she put on the
market, took a cook’s job at $35 a month seventeen years ago. At 43 she went humbly
into a younger woman’s household and experimented in canning and pickling.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
WHY doesn’t someone open
a school for middle-aged
women? Women who
want to earn money or who are
forced by circumstances to sup
port themselves, and have no
idea how to go about it.
In any sizable city such a
school probably would enroll
200 students on the first day.
Classes would be in simple
bookkeeping and budgeting,
cooking, housekeeping, person
al appearance and cleanliness,
i order, sewing, selling in shops,
serving in tea rooms and beauty
shops and dentists’ offices and a
i score of other lines that would
help women to become useful
and self-supporting and inci
i dentally infinitely happier citi
■ zens.
Hard Test of Character.
But women of 40 and older, essay
ing real work for the first time,
after 20 or more years of being their
own mistresses and arranging their
own hours, are not often ready to
take jobs on terms equal to those
girls get. Girls are brisk, smart,
modern, clean. Yes, clean.
A woman employer of hundreds of
women told me that one great trou
ble with older women is that they
don’t observe personal hygiene—
which in plain English, is that
they don’t bathe daily. Their cloth
ing isn’t fresh and dainty.
Then they are apt to be sensitive,
suspicious and resentful. To be or
dered about, at 55, by a girl exactly
half one’s age, is a hard test of
character. But many a woman, if
she could have met that test with
sweetness and amiability, would be
in a good job today.
Complaining at great length of the
change in her fortunes, and going
over the head of the office manager
with complaints to the higher boss,
are only two of the things that
make the employment of older wom
en risky. Higher bosses haven’t
time today to listen while the wid
ow of some old friend, coming smil
ingly into the office, proceeds to tear
the entire organization of the mail
order department to pieces.
A Pickle Made Her Rich.
One woman, who is now rich be
cause of a certain pickle she put on
the market, took a cook’s job at
$35 a month 17 years ago. At 43
she went humbly into a younger
woman’s household, experimented
in canning and pickling for the bene
fit of the family, sold a few jars of
this and that to friends, found her
market, and won success. She says
that she went to work to save a
devoted son and his burdened wife
and small family the extra care of
“Ma.” It is a satisfaction to her now
to be putting the two older sons of
that son through college.
And there are hundreds of such
women, revelling in modest suc
cesses, glorying in their work, for
getting that they are getting old and
that the children have flown away
to live their own lives. One woman
developed—from one 45-cent apron—
a great factory that makes hundreds
of aprons every year.
Scores of women have learned
how to manage roadside eating
places and have prospered because
of the simple truth that we, in Amer
ica, eat nearly 400,000,000 meals a
day.
Many of the finest saleswomen of
the best shops are gray-headed; in
all the big hotels dignified, elderly
women are in charge of linen rooms,
making the staffs of the dining-
THEY CAN BE USEFUL
They can be useful and, being
useful, they can be happy. They
are usually more reliable than
younger girls, whose minds are
still on the fun they are going to
have after working hours. They
often make fine saleswomen, tea
room managers, and one woman,
who visits the patients in a large
hospital, is so valuable that she
has been unable to resign, al
though she now has an inde
pendent income. Yes, middle
aged women can work and do it
well, BUT—they must he willing
to take orders from a younger
woman, do a lot of things they
weren’t hired to do, and never
complain.
rooms and bedrooms. One woman
I know was an adored and pam
pered wife until she was 51. Now
for 10 years she has been in a big
hospital; she is the visitor who
comes into your room every day,
asks a question or brings you a
piece of good news; she is free ev
ery day at two o’clock, has a charm
ing room, her meals and laundry
expenses paid, and a comfortable
income of $l5O a month.
Can’t Be Replaced.
“I’ve been wanting to stop for two
years, I’ve inherited a little money,
and I could go out to Santa Bar
bara and be near Jane and the chil
dren,” this woman said to me re
cently. “But they can’t find any
one to take my place! I mean some
one who won’t depress the patients
with her own troubles, and who is
willing occasionally to carry a tray
or answer a telephone.
“Last year,” she further confid
ed,” the night cook was ill, she was
off for a month. I used to get
the girls something to eat about mid
night—clam chowder or club sand
wiches. I loved to do it, and they
were so appreciative! Sometimes I
help them with their charts—any
thing to have things work smoothly.”
That is the answer to success in
any job. Opening a door, filing a
letter, running out for stamps, wip
ing tea cups, brushing crumbs, fill
ing in for the absent cook or nurse
or elevator boy or telephone girl,
“anything to have things run
smoothly.”
But that isn’t the answer that
most middle-aged women find. They
want to know what their duties are,
and to those duties they will adhere.
“I am not supposed to—l didn’t un
derstand that I was expected to—
when you engaged me you didn’t
say anything about my doing things
like that,” they say.
Possibly the employer makes no
protest. He knows it would be no
use. But he presently says to Miss
Bright, “We might get rid of that
Mrs. Smith. She doesn’t seem to
catch on. She just told me that she
didn’t know she was expected to
hang up their coats for the other
young ladies, and when she wanted
that window pushed up she rang for
the boy to come in and open it.”
Perhaps in a school for the middle
aged the motto might be simply:
“Work Is Work.” Work isn’t a
chance to complain, review the hap
pier past, sit idly at a desk a few
hours a day and draw a pay enve
lope every Saturday. Work is doing
for someone else something that
may be hard, boring, humiliating,
tiring; something perhaps diametri
cally opposed to what you want to
do. But it has its compensations, its
delicious rewards. And the happi
est persons in the world—indeed, the
ONLY happy persons ir. the world
are those with a job.
Greenberg’s Return
ANK GREENBERG doesn’t ex-
I pect to leave army life for an
■ other couple of weeks. I ran across
the towering slugger the other day
and he confessed
that he had never
felt better in his B;
life. Hank will be W/ : ?
31 years old this m ;||
impending January, K«P U
and his army re
lease means his re
turn to a baseball
career well in ad- >•
vance of the next jppHv'%*
spring training sea- W
Hank looked lean Qrantland Rice
and hard and about
five years younger than he looked in
Florida last spring. “I feel that
way,” he said. “Even on my way
to 31.”
I asked Greenberg about various
reports that he was to be traded or
sold to the Red Sox.
“I haven’t heard a word about it,”
he said. “Detroit is a great base
ball town and so is Boston. Walter
Briggs and Tom Yawkey are both
fine owners to work for. My main
idea after I leave the army is to
pick up where I left off in 1940, to
keep in shape and try for a big
year.”
It may be recalled that in 1940
the Tiger gunner batted .340, blew
himself to 41 home runs and 150
runs driven home—one of his great
est years. At the age of 31 he should
be close to his prime next spring.
Certainly the few months he missed
i from baseball last summer should
i have no slumping effect upon his
1942 play.
I doubt that the Tigers will either
trade or sell him, considering the
fact that Lank Hank was one of
the main answers to a Tiger pennant
in 1940.
The Hot Stove
Even the loud noises that rise
from so many packed football
stands can’t quite drown out early
gossip around the Old Stove at the
edge of the winter league.
Tom Yawkey and Joe Cronin are
still sighing for a few more pitch
ers. Which is like sighing for a
few more millions.
The Red Sox were 20 games away
from the top when the Yankees
packed away the pennant last Sep
tember, and the Yankees show no
signs of caving in, skidding or div
ing overboard. Only the act of tak
ing another pennant for granted
can slow them down, and Joe Mc-
Carthy isn’t the fellow to let that
happen.
In the meanwhile, the Red Sox
are growing older, year by year.
Jimmy Foxx, Cronin and others are
no longer bounding rookies. There
are other gaps to fill as well as
the pitching, where even a million
dollars might not be enough.
Winter Golf Training
Northern golfers are wondering
about the best methods of building
up a better game for next year,
since hope still springs eternal in
the golfing breast.
One method is the indoor school.
Another can be used in the home
apartment, provided there is space
enough to swing a club.
This latter method calls for build
ing up the left hand and the left
arm. The idea is to keep swinging
the club only with the left hand
on the shaft, the right hand out of
play altogether. It will be surpris
ing at first to learn how weak and
ineffective the left hand, left wrist
and left arm feel. This form of
exercise is a good way to build up
and develop the weaker hand and
arm that should play a big part in i
any correct swing.
One common weakness among
most golfers is the collapse of the
left hand and wrist before impact, !
as the right hand takes control.
Right-hand action is important, but
there also must be a strong support
ing left hand and left side to keep
the club face on its proper line.
This same brand of exercise also
helps to increase the left side turn
—that left shoulder and left hip,
especially, which are usually left
behind.
The Florida Trek
It is only a matter of a few weeks
now before golf’s leading stars will
be moving into Florida to open an
other 10,000-mile campaign. The
first big show comes off at Miami
in December, with $lO,OOO on tap
for the money finishers, and from
there swings to California and
back via Arizona, Texas and Louisi
ana.
This new campaign figures to be
the most interesting of them all.
* * *
In the first place, there is Ben
Hogan’s dream of starting another
long in-the-money parade, ended
last fall after 56 successful tourna
ments. Ben is resting from the
tournament grind at this moment,
but not from practice. In this re
spect the slight Texan is the hardest
worker of the lot. I’ve seen him
play short 4« and 50-yard pitches for
an hour at a time.
In the second place, the pace set
by Craig Wood and Sammy Snead
will call for more than passing ob
servation.
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