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UTILITY SENSATIONS
The hard-hitting Truman commit
tee hasn’t got around to the
matter yet, but some hot sensations
are in store when the committee
digs into the dollar-a-year-man han
dling of the power phases of the war
production program.
For years one of the hottest issues
in Washington has been the power
lobby. It has been repeatedly inves
tigated, and several years ago, aft- ;
er fierce legislative battles, the fed- I
eral power and holding company
laws were enacted to curb the lobby.
The Truman committee has con- j
fidential information that today this i
lobby is more powerfully entrenched
in the capital than ever before.
For months, it has been operating
directly inside the government, for
mulating and running the power pol
icy of the OPM, which was until
last week the key war production
agency.
The OPM power division is not
only manned with utility officials,
but they are still on the payrolls of
private power companies. In other
words, while presumably working
for the government, they are actu
ally paid employees of the utilities. ;
After being deluged with com
plaints that the utility-ruled OPM
power division was secretly aiding
independent rural power co-ops, the
house appropriations committee
questioned J. A. Krug, head of the
division, on these charges.
Krug defended his staff, but the
committee, unconvinced, ordered
him to submit a detailed report on
his dollar-a-year assistants, includ
ing the amount of salaries they are
drawing from utility companies
while working for the government.
Two months have elapsed since
Krug promised to produce this im
portant information and so far he \
has not done so.
All the committee has received 1
was a cagey letter from John Lord
O’Brian, former corporation attor
ney who is OPM general counsel,
giving a list of the power division’s
personnel, but has nothing about
their private salaries. However, the
little information O’Brian did dis- |
close speaks volumes.
It shows that no less than 18 key
officials in Krug’s division are dol
lar-a-year and “WOC” (without com- i
pensation) men, who are still on !
private utility payrolls.
Note: Appropriation committee
members estimate that the total pay
these men draw from power com
panies is more than $250,000 a year.
War Production Chief Donald Nelson
has privately indicated he will
houseclean Krug’s unit.
BAD FILMS Frtll GOOD
NEIGHBORS
Young Nelson Rockefeller, who on
the whole has done a good job for
Pan - American cultural relations, j
has bogged down badly on films for
our Pan-American neighbors. His
Museum of Modern Art, which was
supposed to do this, has been labor
ing for nine months at a cost of
$15,000 per month to the govern
ment—and finally has brought forth
a mouse.
Rockefeller and Jock Whitney are
getting a large dose of criticism
about this because they personally
are interested in the Museum and
have permitted an amateur group
to run the show—into the ground.
Without benefit of competitive bid- j
ding or any system of checks and
balances, amateur after amateur in
the Museum has tackled the job of
deciding what kind of films should
be sent to Latin-America. Here is a
cross section of the results so far:
“Better Dresses Fifth Floor," “A
Child Went Forth,” “The City,” and
“Power and The Land”—all utterly
unsuited and without objective for
South America.
Some reasonably good commer- 1
cial films have been donated, such
as “U. S. Steel,” “Greyhound Bus,”
“General Electric Excursions in Sci
ence,” and “The American Can
Company's Silver Millions.” Also
Hollywood has handed over a group
of pictures, such as “Eyes of the |
Navy,” “Soldiers of the Sky,” “The ;
Battle,” which are the best pictures
that have gone to South America.
Meanwhile the amateurs continue
to chatter and muddle over uplifting
the films for our Good Neighbors—
all at the expense of Uncle Sam.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
C.Navy Secretary Knox has a bust
of Theodore Roosevelt on his desk.
C. Bakers in the army quartermas
ter corps are experimenting with
“tomato bread,” made by adding to
mato juice or canned tomatoes (rich
in vitamins) to the baking dough.
C. New York air raid wardens are
complaining that every order they
receive is countermanded five min
utes after it is given.
C. E. B. Craney, Montana radio man
who is a close friend of Senator
Wheeler, recently promoted, financed
and successfully completed a Red
Cross relief drive netting over $60,-
000 in 24 hours.
C. Rep. William S. Hill of Colorado
tried to drum up trade for pinto
bean growers during his recent visit
to Britain. He took with him a laage
bag of the beans and distributed
them among British officials, “I
hoped they might include pintos in
lend-lease orders,” Hill grins, “but
the British still prefer their while
beans.”
T OS ANGELES.—For some time
ahead, outside of two such phys
ical and mental conditioning games
as football and boxing, where body
contact is vital, the main demand
on the country will be for playing
games above spectator games.
The two leaders here are golf and
bowling. Basketball is also a play
ing game on the
S major side, but it
also carries a ma
jor spectator follow
ing, which neither
golf nor bowling
The bowling call
on the playing side
now runs away with
all the others. Ex
m. t >mm e^o,ooo,ooo
Grantland Rice bowlers of one de
gree or another
now actively engaged at target
work down the alleys. This far over
shadows golf in numbers. But golf
still has the call in the matter of
open country and five miles of hik
ing for some 3,000,000 club swingers
between the ages of 8 and 80.
Bowling today is by all odds the
most popular sport in the United
States. It is a game that costs far
less than golf, that requires as much
skill, but which still misses the sun
and wind and rain and the longer
leg hike. We are not trying to com
pare the two, since they are totally
different. They are both great
games.
Neither has the toughening, fiber
making aspect of football and box
ing, in which you have to take and
give a physical beating to get any
where. But not everybody can play
football or box. And almost every
body can play golf or bowl.
About Howling
The astonishing feature about
bowling popularity is that it hap
pens to be a difficult game to write
about. It lacks the thrills of foot
ball, boxing, tennis and other sports.
1 mean for the reader. It lacks the
diagnosing qualities of golf.
But it is one of the simplest of all
games for the player, especially on
the equipment side. And it happens
to carry just as much entertainment
| as any game one can think about in
a hurry.
A game must have amazing quali
ties to round up from 15,000,000 to
20,000,000 players without the bally
hoo so many other games get. If
you have never bowled or if you
haven’t bowled for many years, give
it a try and you’ll be converted.
About Golf
Golf has always been—and always
must be—a game for the player.
Many have asked me why big golf
championships don’t draw with oth
er sports. In golf it is the spectator
who takes the beating, not the play
er. Although, in a big tournament,
the player takes his share.
How often would you draw big
crowds in football, racing, baseball
or any other game if the spectator
had to gallop five or six miles over
cross - country territory, jump
ditches, climb fences, wade through
a morass, fight through briar
patches, be a broken-field runner
and a blocking back to see every
other shot played?
A golf spectator has to be an ath
lete, in training, willing to take a
hard beating, to see most of the
shots played in»a championship by
some leading star who is drawing
| the crowds.
If golf had the same accommoda
tions for the spectator that other
games have, it would be on a par
with any game played in the way of
admissions. It is the only game 1
know where the spectator gets a
harder workout than the player
draws.
The Range of Games
This happens to be the greatest
sporting country in the history of a
cock-eyed world. But with war con
ditions as they are there must be
certain readjustments.
For the youth of the country I
still insist there must be a maxi
mum of body contact games—espe
cially football and boxing. Baseball
is also a great game. So are track
and field and basketball. Also ten
nis. Also golf. They help to make
l»gs. They add to physical stamina.
They are strictly worth while. This
is especially true of golf and bowl
ing for those who have bumped into
the march of the years.
But for high school and college
play there should be a big increase
on the side of football and boxing.
I am not referring to champion
| ships, to big spectacles, to money
making enterprises. I am taking
into consideration the major values
of give and take in the way of disci
pline, punishment, hardihood, stam
ina—rugged qualities of manhood.
This doesn’t mean there should be
any falling off, aside from all the
I needs of war, on the part of the old
i er men participating in sport. To
; help win an all-out war an entire
| country must be physically ready.
I This means participation in the
' sport or game that is best suited
I for the individual.
i
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
Kathleen Norris Says:
This Gentlewoman Should Wed Chauffeur
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
My father for several years has had a chauffeur named Tony Benito. He is a
simple man who has a wonderful mother and family. Tony and I love each other. My
mother would be crushed if she knew this.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
HERE is a letter from a
young girl that might
make some mother
thoughtful. Linda sends me her
picture with her letter, and it is
the picture of a sweet, sensible,
pretty creature. She makes no
complaint; she only wants some
advice. But I think she has
been badly treated, and that it
is the fault of a selfish father
and mother.
“When I was quite little,
mother and dad made much of
| me; I felt that they loved me,”
! writes Linda. “But when I was 10
| another man appeared in the fam
| ily, was there continually, taking
| mother to lunch or dinner or danc
ing; I didn’t like him very much,
and neither did dad. Soon mother
explained to me that dad was go
ing away; it made me feel strange
| and lonely, but of course I was only
| a child, and when mother married
j the man I will call Van she ex-
I plained to me that it only meant
| that I had two homes now and three
I persons to love me instead of two.
“For a year dad and I and my
j nurse lived together. Mammy and
| I did the cooking and we were all
i very happy. But then dad married,
| and although Elise was kind to me
| and gave me presents, she talked
j about my mother’s treatment of my
1 father, said she had been cruel to
him and worried me so that I was
really ill. Mother was expecting a
baby then and could not have me
I so I went to a hospital and from
| there for years to boarding-school.
“My father has always been care-
J less about money, and every quar
ter I would have to write and re
mind him to pay my bills, which I
think accounts for the fact that I
am pretty shy to this day. I hoped
i to be with my mother in vacations,
but instead they arranged for me to
! go to camp every year.
Inherited Money.
“Please don’t think I am com-
I plaining,” the letter goes on, “but
I loved my parents and my home
, and I used to feel very lonely. My
father was divorced again last year;
j and as I pleaded to be able to be
i with him and make a home for him
he agreed. At 18 I came into some
j money my grandmother left me;
' that meant that he and I need have
no money troubles. I came home
Christmas a year ago and for a
; few weeks I was completely happy,
I going downtown independently, hav
i ing my own car, and feeling free.
But my father has changed, is rare
i ly at home, and so I see little of
I him.
“But my mother was very much
I annoyed at this arrangement; she
j said that having sacrificed me all
these years for my education she
i felt that I should be with her, and
I help out with the family finances.
My little half-brother was a strong,
beautiful baby, but he got infantile
paralysis, and will always need
care.
"Van, my stepfather, is not much
of a success in business, and my
mother misses the luxuries to which
she had been accustomed. Altogeth
er she is in a nervous state, and
yet she cannot get another divorce
because she would get no alimony
this time.
Love Comes to Linda.
“Now here is my question: My
father for several years has had a
chauffeur named Tony Benito; he
is a simple man who has a wonder
ful mother and family. He was
married, widowed 10 years ago. I
have been to his mother’s home sev
eral times. They have a restaurant
FOR PARENTS ONLY
Kathleen Norris’ advice, this \
time, is for the parents instead
of their erring and wayward chil
dren. Here is a case where an
apparently blameless child has j
been denied the love and secur
ity she needs by the selfishness
of her parents. Unwanted when
she was growing up, she is notv
claimed by both parents for the
sake of the money she inherited
from her grandmother. But she •
is in love with her father s chauf- \
feur and wants to marry him, \
And, surprising as it may be to
some, Kathleen Norris advises
her to do just that. She may be
embarrassed by Tony’s limita
tions, and she will not have the '
luxuries she has always known,
but she will have love and a ]
family bound together by sim
ple good-heartedness. Her par
ents, divorced for many years,
cannot even offer her a home, !
and in return for the nothing
they can give her, they would j
probably expect to claim all her I
time, attention —and money.
which the father, daughters and
another son manage.
“They are uneducated people, I
suppose, talking very little English,
and living a very natural home life,
with babies, dogs, old grandparents,
plenty of good food and good wine,
and plenty of love.
“Tony and I love each other. We
are happy together. My father prob
ably would want to kill him if he
knew this, and I know my mother
would be crushed.
“If we married I would take what
money I have and invest it in a ga
rage, which Tony has long wanted
to buy. We could go along for a
few years comfortably on what was
left, until he began to make money.
We both want children, for all the
Benitos love them, and I could nev
er be happy without them.
“Shall I refuse Tony and ask Dad
to let him go, join my mother and
become a nurse to my little half
brother, whom I would come to
adore, I know, or make this mar
riage? Please help me.”
Parents Want Her Now.
Now, you parents who submit lov
ing sensitive small girls to the mis
eries of your own marital failures
and the wretchedness of partings
and changes among those who seem
to them faultless, what do you think
of the father and mother who shoved
Linda about without any considera
tion for her loving little heart, her
child’s love of stability and security,
and her child’s confidence in her own
family?
Now that she is no longer a re
sponsibility and a bother they want
her. Now that she is an heiress both
father and mother could use her
money. And now she has sought
companionship and love in strange
places and is likely to go out of
their lives forever.
My advice to her is to marry
Tony. She will be many times em
barrassed by his limitations; she
may have to apologize for him and
for her family.
But she will have love; a real
mother and real sisters and broth
ers, amusement, distraction, com
panionship, and probably adoration
from her husband. She will have
children; good strong children born
of peasant stock, and she will build
a home around them, and have the
picnics and trips and birthdays and
mothering that her own childhood
w T as denied.
|i§s
AUTO RATIONING
Q. —Why do you want a new car?
A.—lt’s the only way I can get
five new tires.
Q. —Are you aware of the restric
tions?
A.—No, but I knew something was
all wrong. I called up several auto
salesrooms yesterday and in no case
did a salesman show up at my
home inside of five minutes.
» * *
Q. —You already have a car?
A.—Yes.
Q.—What’s wrong with it?
A.—Nothing.
Q.—-Then why do you wish a new
model?
A.—My wife thinks our next-door
neighbor’s car looks better.
Q.—The kind of car your neigh
bors have is of no importance.
A.—That’s what YOU think!
* * *
Q.—Only certain classes of people
are eligible for new cars. Are you a
doctor?
A.—-No, but my feet are just as
tender.
Q.—Are you a farm veterinarian?
A.—ls this a car rationing bureau
or an Information Please program?
Q.—Are you engaged in fire fight
ing?
A.—No; that’s just an impression
some people get from the way I
drive.
* * »
Q.—Are you engaged in crime pre
vention?
A,—No, but if you’ll let me have
a new auto I’ll give any cop a lift
from now on.
Q. —Are you engaged in law en
forcement?
A.—Yes. I’m a lawyer.
Q.—l said “enforcement,” not
“evasion.”
A.—l didn’t come here to be in
sulted.
Q.—That’s all right; we don’t
mind doing it. Listen, do you re
gard a new car as a necessity?
A.—Positively.
Q.—Give three reasons.
A.—Well, first of all, I live four
| blocks from my office, and without
I a car I would have to negotiate the
! entire distance on foot. Second, we
i use the car to go to church.
Q.—How far is the church?
A.—lt’s almost an eighth of a
| mile!
Q.—What’s your third reason for
| regarding a car as indispensable?
A.—My third reason is the most
important of all.
Q. —What is it?
A.—lf I didn’t have an automobile
| where would I store all those out
j dated road maps and useless tools?
• * *
RIMES ON PUBLIC DUTY
Folks who buy
Defense stamps gladly
Speed the day
Our foes run madly.
Those who buy
Bonds make more certain
Hitler’ll get
An early curtain.
• * *
Ed Pearson, who has evidently
| been flat hunting, says he can’t un
i derstand why the ads don’t group
j apartments under three headings:
furnished, unfurnished and under-
I furnished.
i* * •
The United States department of
| agriculture is working on a motor
i fuel made from corn and potatoes.
| Juliet Colt says it is going to seem
funny to ask the station attendant
for six bushels of high test.
* • *
CANDIDATES FOR THE
FIRING SQUAD
' A guy on whom I’d pour hot gravy
|ls always asking, “Where’s our
navy?”
* ♦ •
CAN YOU REMEMBER—
Away back when a post-office
clerk sold nothing but postage
stamps at the stamp window?
♦ • *
Ima Dodo bought one of those
U. S. auto tax stamps today and she
says she is going to buy one every
day and save them until maturity.
* * •
Canned beer may be discontinued
; due to the need for tin. It is okay
i with us. We never did like reach
ing into the icebox for a glass of
beer and coming out with a can of
j tomatoes.
* * *
Moe Berg, Boston Red Sox ball
player, has retired from the dia
mond to become a government good
will ambassador to Pan America.
This is most encouraging. We have
long had a distinct impression that
our team in that area was weak
both in the field and at the bat.
Mr. Berg speaks nine languages.
But the umpires were always able
to defeat him in one.
* * •
We favor more baseball players in
our diplomatic forces. You can’t
j name one in twenty in our entire
diplomatic service who has color,
speed, punch or even a good throw
ing arm. We will never think an
envoy is really good until we see
some kids surround him and ask
for an autograph.
* * •
W’hy ban those radio quiz pro
grams? If the enemy gets as much
wrong information from them as
the American people do everything
will be just ducky.
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