Washington, D. C.
HOME-GROWN FASCISTS
After three months of temporizing
with native Fascist champions, At
torney General Francis Biddle is
finally going to get tough—on direct
personal orders of the President.
Roosevelt directed Biddle to take
vigorous legal action against cer
tain factional leaders who have been
publicly denouncing the war against
the Axis and in some instances ac
tually expressing pleasure over Jap
victories.
Complaints have poured into
Washington from parents of boys in
the armed services demanding that
these domestic foes be jailed. But
Biddle demurred on the ground of
“preserving civil liberties.”
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FBI
agents arrested Robert Noble, rabid
Los Angeles Fascist leader, on seri
ous charges involving statements
concerning the war. Despite the
FBl's evidence, Biddle ordered
Noble released.
This brought down a storm of
protests on Biddle’s head that stead
ily increased as the hostile opera
tions of these elements became bold
er and more outspoken. Still Biddle
refused to allow either the FBI or
federal district attorneys, who were
champing at the bit, to crack down.
Finally White House advisers,
alarmed over the situation, took the
matter direct to the President. They
laid before him a mass of evidence
dealing with Nobke, Father Cough
lin, Francis P. Moran of Boston,
Gerald L. K. Smith of Michigan and
Charles B. Hudson of Omaha.
One document shown Roosevelt
was the March 16 issue of Coughlin’s
weekly publication which declared
that a "world-wide sacred war” was
declared against Germany nine
years ago. The publication also at
tacked aid to Russia, denounced the
British bombing of French plants
making Nazi supplies, and contained
such statements as;
“Unless the German forces can
overcome Russia and successfully
invade England by the end of Sep
tember, there is every evidence that
the entire world will have elected to
experience a blood bath the like of
which was never imagined by the
most poetic minds.”—“lt has been
the practiced policy of the Roose
velt administration to favor the Chi
nese in their war against Japan.
This policy has rankled in the hearts
of the Nipponese war lords who are
devoted to the policy of Asia for the
Asiatic, a policy which, after all, is
nothing more than an expression of
our own Monroe Doctrine.”
After carefully examining the
evidence, the President summoned
Biddle, ordered him to get tough
and do so immediately.
• * •
GOOD WAR NEWS
Here is some all-important GOOD
war news for a change.
The United States and the Brit
ish Empire have won a victory of
supreme importance in the crucial
war production race.
For the first time in the 2Vz years
of the wax - the United States and
Britain now are outproducing the
Axis and its vassal states in vital
arms and munitions.
Although the two Allies still are
on the defensive, henceforth Anglo-
American war output should pile up
an ever-increasing margin of arma
ment superiority.
U. S. producing capacity in par
ticular is just beginning to swing
into an all-out war scale. The mighty
auto industry, for example, is now
being furiously converted. Other
major industries are undergoing the
same transformation. Also hundreds
of new war plants are in various
stages of completion, with hundreds
of others being projected.
Sage old "Bernie” Baruch com
ments: “We can’t yet crack our
heels together in celebration, even
if things are better.”
What he means is that there are
still plenty of sour spots.
Some of these are: labor supply,
certain obstacles in the flow of ma
terials, shortage of materials, in
adequate use of equipment insuf
ficient subcontracting, red tape and
bureaucratic obstruction, the incom
petence, greed and lack of initiative
of many employers, the profit
mindedness of dollar-a-year men.
But despite all these, U. S. indus
try every week is pouring out a
steadily soaring floodtide of war sup
plies. On the basis of a private
survey made by the authors of this
column, it can be stated definitely
that with the British Empire’s
greatly accelerated production the
two Allies now are ahead of the
Axis.
Note: The survey was limited on
the Allied side to the U. S. and
British Empire because it is impos
sible to get detailed information
about Russian production.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
Congressional critics of President
Roosevelt are caustically denounced
by A. F. Whitney, white-crested
president of the Railroad Trainmen,
in the latest issue of the union’s
magazine. In a lead editorial Whit
ney declares, "No congressman or
congressional committee, no sena
tor or group in the senate, no Axis
agent or anyone else seeking to use
the war to discredit the President
will throw any sand in our eyes in
any way useful in their desire to
advance a selfish, ignoble purpose,"
Eleanorßooseve It
U, S. HEALTH
Several months ago, I spoke at
the Town Hall in New York city
> with various other people, on a sub
‘ ject which seemed important to all
! of us—“ What Must We Do to Im
-1 prove the Health and Well Being of
the American People.” The Town
! Hall offered prizes for 1,000-word
essays by adults, and by young peo
-1 pie below the age of 21. I have
1 just heard that the first prize in the
adult group was won by Dr. Jacob
1 Sobel, a well-known New York pedi
atrician.
1 He based his essay on the point
1 of view that only the nation which
has healthy children has a future
as a nation, and included a detailed,
specific plan for a better health and
education program. The reason I
am telling you of this particular es
say is that his premise seems to me
one which we should consider very
carefully today.
The tendency is to feel that any
thing which is not directly connect
ed with war production, the build
ing of ships, airplanes or other mili
tary equipment and the induction
into the military services of an ever
increasing number of young men, is
of no importance in the war effort.
If we fall into this misapprehension,
we may find ourselves not only
handicapped in winning the war, but
very much handicapped in winning
the peace.
The best machinery in the world
has to be handled by intelligent peo
ple, and unless we continue thd serv
ices we have set up for better
health, education and recreation for
the children and young people of
today, not only the future of the war,
but the future of the country is in
danger.
We should learn something even
from our enemies. Germany has
paid great attention to the very
things which we are already neg
lecting in our haste to make war,
something which can only be won
on a military basis and has nothing
to do with what happens on the ci
vilian side of the picture. Just the
other day, I found in the crowded
industrial areas near San Diego and
Los Angeles that one of the most
agitated questions was how day nur
series and nursery schools could be
set up. The lack of them slows up
production on the part of the women,
many of them mothers, who are em
ployed in the aircraft factories.
“Welfare activities” seem to have
military importance.
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i SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Since I missed the morning plane
for San Diego, 1 took the train and
the trip was not without interest.
The first person to speak to me was
Mrs. Bancroft from San Diego. She
and her husband have written a book
on Southern California. They stud
ied the bird life of the region for
years, incidentally becoming very
familiar with the geography and the
Mexican people. Their knowledge
has been of use in our preparation
for defense and she was kind enough
yesterday to send me her husband’s
book, which I know the President
will enjoy.
I enjoyed also talking to a free
lance writer, who is evidently the
kind of man who does not think
that you can put your liberalism up
in camphor balls when the going is
i hard and take it out unharmed when
difficulties come to an end. One
hears this argued so much these
days, that it is sometimes difficult
to decide where common sense and
patriotism end and self-interest be
gins.
■ Southern California is very beauti
‘ ful with its flowers and waving trees
s and houses covered with vines.
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-1 ‘WILL OF THE PEOPLE’
All travel today is more or less
uncertain and may be interrupted.
I discovered this on my trip across
1 the country, when just beyond Tuc
son, I learned that the plane was
! almost entirely filled with ferry pi
lots. I think there were just two
> other civilian travelers besides me,
• who had been allowed to make the
■ trip without interruption One of
■ the boys had an advance release of
' Mr. Archibald MacLeish’s speech,
and it was passed around and read.
; It led to much discussion, but
there was general agreement with
his thesis that the will of the people
determines the final outcome of any
1 war. I think the will of the people
; is pretty well set in this country,
“ except for occasional slight confu
-5 sions created by certain interests on
' one side or the other. They may
| succeed temporarily in gaining some
; particular point of interest to their
! group, but if we hold to the old the
i ory that it is impossible to fool all
. of the people all of the time, we
shall probably feel that whatever is
the truth will eventually reach all
the people.
AFFECTION FOR ‘HOMELAND’
Strangely enough, I suppose if you
t live long enough in certain places,
j their very familiarity makes you
j feel an affection for them. In spite
of the beauty, which I acknowledge
’ and enjoy when here, I never have
_ any desire permanently to leave the
' countryside which for me has been
“home” during most of the years
s of my life. Nature is not so kind,
winters are hard, summers are
‘ I sometimes too hot, sometimes too
i j cold, the lot of the farmer and gar
dener is always a gamble, and yet
, I I like the change of seasons.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
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Kathleen Norris Says:
This Woman Should Not Wed Faultless Man
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
Jay, my former sweetheart, has a lovely daughter, who is a pupil in the school
where I leach. So I have seen Jay again once or twice. He has all his old charm and
high spirits.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
ONE of the most awkward
questions that youth can
ask age is the one a girl
named Vera asks me this morn
ing, Vera’s letter comes from a
Georgia town; she evidently be
longs to a somewhat prominent
family, for she was given four
years at an expensive Pennsyl
vania college, and also tells me
that she has had two visits in
California “where Mother and
Dad usually go every winter.”
Vera’s problem is this; When she
was 19 she had a love affair, en
tirely unknown to the family, and
extremely serious. For three months
she and her sweetheart were pas
sionate lovers, then Vera’s feeling
waned, and she had an uncomforta
ble time extricating herself from
Jay’s still exacting devotion.
“Don’t think I didn’t pay for my
early foolishness,” writes Vera. “I
did, when it came time to try to
break engagements with Jay, to cut
down on letters and meetings, to
make him see that I was through.
The day he came to me and said
that he realized at last that it was
all over, and would trouble me no
more, was actually one of the hap
piest of my life.
“Two years later, when I was
glorying in college days, Jay mar
ried, and I felt nothing but utter
relief. Novels for generations have
talked of the shame and danger of
love affairs, but my real difficulty
and tragedy, instead of being that of
trying to hold my lover, was that of
getting rid of him.
Fell in Love Again.
“I am now 27. Last year I met a
man whose fineness, dignity, intelli
gence made me feel that he was set
apart from the ordinary run of men.
We are deeply in love and were to
have been married this June. Rob
ert is a church member, indeed once
studied for orders, and has an al
most fanatic sense of honor.
“Meanwhile Jay’s wife has died,
and lie had a lovely daughter of five,
who is one of the pupils in the
school where I teach. So that I
have seen him again once or twice.
He is much developed from the im
pulsive boy I knew eight years ago,
with all his old charm and high
spirits.
“As Robert’s wife I would have
wealth, position, and the compan
ionship of a man who is bound some
day to be conspicuously successful
in his profession. Jay is just one
business man among many. But Jay
wants to marry me, and Robert feels
that it might be right.
“Perhaps the path I should take
seems smooth and obvious to you,
but I can assure you I am harassed
and undecided to the point of almost
going out of my mind. It has never
seemed to me possible that any
woman could be in any doubt about
which man she wants, but the cir
cumstances here are peculiar, thanks
to my little-girl folly, and I really
don’t know what to do. Robert says
he will leave it entirely to my con
science, and that he knows I will
decide rightly, and yet—while that
may make you smile with the idea
that he wouldn’t mind getting out of
it entirely himself, I know that, at
36, he has never cared for any wom
an but me, and would be deeply
stricken at losing me.
Robert Worries.
“His brother tells me he cannot
sleep nights for worrying over this
thing; the brother doesn’t know all
the circumstances. Robert has had
the old house completely modern
ized; he has talked to me of our
life together as though it were a
dream too precious ever to be real-
A NEW PROBLEM
Here is a problem Kathleen
Norris has not recently discussed.
The “Vera” of this letter cannot
choose between two men. The
one, her former sweetheart, can
give her charm, a spirited sense
of humor and a love that has ma
tured into deep devotion. The
other, a solid, successful man of
36, can give her wealth and posi
tion, but her life with him would
probably be very dull. He has
already told her that if she feels
it is her “duty” to marry the oth
er man she is, of course, free to
do so. But Vera believes that los
ing her would break his heart.
What should she do?
ized, and if I decide to marry Jay
it may embitter him for life.
“A hundred times he has said to
me, ‘Oh, why, why, why, does it
have to be this way? Why you, of all
women?’ Of course that is what my
own heart echoes. But twice lately,
Robert has used the expression, ‘if
you feel you must pay the debt.’ Will
you tell me what you think and
help one more distracted woman to
peace?”
Judging from your letter, Vera,
I would say that life with Robert
might be a rather rigid affair. It
seems plain that this self-controlled
conscientious man is having the sort
of battle between the spirit and the
flesh that comes only to religious
persons. He is in love with you, and
it is his first love, and so overwhelm
ing and painful.
Robert undoubtedly thinks that
Jay has a claim upon you, that you
pledged him wifehood when you
yielded to him in that early affair.
And that nagging conviction will
grow stronger after marriage, when
the first wild glamour dies and he
discovers that you are human, and
can make mistakes and be trouble
some and disappointing like any oth
er wife.
So I wouldn’t marry Robert if I
were you. If the more easy-going,
cheerful Jay is sympathetic to you,
and you can imagine yourself as
making a good mother to his child
and working out a happy normal life
for yourself as his wife, then why
not tell Robert once and for all that
you see the justice of his attitude
and that you have determined to
make the only reparation in your
power for your youthful mistake.
This will make him feel heroic and
that you both are committed to the
dutiful and self-sacrificing course.
Success Rests With Vera.
But if your decision meets with
violent opposition from Robert, and
he implores you to forget the past
and go on with him into a more
honorable future, then of course you
might relent and accept the more
distinguished destiny. A faultless
husband is a fearful and wonderful
thing, so be sure that you are re
luctantly talked over, if you decide
to be talked over. It might be that
in the future you will be glad to re
mind him that your decision was
made to marry Jay, when Robert
persuaded you otherwise.
With either man, the success or
failure of the marriage rests with
you. With Jay you probably would
have cheerful companionship, more
laughter, more of the unexpected
than with Robert. But with Robert
you would have wealth, position, the
power a young wife with both’can
wield, and the knowledge verv
much to your credit—that you did
not conceal anything from him and
that he contracted this marriage
with his eyes open to your early
history.
JF
SAVING TIRE WEAR
“Anybody who drives more than
40 miles an hour is a slacker.
Mr. Henderson in his appeal for rub
ber saving.
• • •
True, but the average man has
become so accustomed to moving
fast that he unconsciously gets into
the upper speedometer brackets.
Only today we were riding to town
with Elmer Twitchell, a fiery expo
nent of cutting down speed to save
tires.
“Mr. Henderson is dead right,
snapped Mr. Twitchell. “This is no
joking matter. Tires must be saved
and it can only be done by driving
with more care.”
(He was doing about 28 now.)
* * *
“I can’t understand the mental
processes of the American who
reads all about the rubber situa
tion, knows how speed shortens the
life of tires and yet keeps on driving
as he always did. It is shameful.”
(We noticed the speedometer now
showed 32.)
• * •
“We’re in a great war. Our coun
try needs every ounce of rubber it
can get. There are no more new
tires to be had. Everybody ought
to know without being told, that it
is impossible to conserve tires and
not reduce driving speed at all
times. Yet we find ignorant, stupid
fellows driving as if nothing had hap
pened.”
(He has now got the old bus up to 38.)
• * *
“Why do people take these warn
ings from government agencies so
lightly? Something should be done
to make them obey the suggestions.
There is no place in American life
today for the speed nut who just
won’t change his habits.”
(He was now doing about 42.)
♦ * *
“I favor backing up Henderson,”
went on Mr. Twitchell, with deep
agitation. “Every community should
back him up. The police should be
more vigorous. No halfway meas
ures should be shown. I am for the
arrest and punishment of every
short-sighted, pig-headed, self-satis
fied son of a sea cook who is too
blankety blank thick to see his re
sponsibilities to do his full duty.”
(He was now doing 50.)
* * *
“There oughta be a law! Why
should anybody be unwilling to co
operate with the government? Why
should—.”
We nudged him and pointed to
the speedometer which had begun
climbing toward 55.
Elmer reddened and took his foot
off the accelerator.
“Sfunny!” he said guiltily. “Just
a habit, I guess. Now, as I was
saying ...”
• ♦ «
THE COMMUNIQUE
A terrific crash was heard ... it
was followed by a sound of wood
work crashing . . . presently the
whole window came out of the
house, as the form of Elmer Twitch
ell was flung through it.
“What’s the matter?” we asked,
picking Elmer up.
“It’s okay,” explained Elmer,
“I’m fighting a delaying action.”
* • *
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* • *
C.P.T. say's he knows a fellow who
is so nervous about the draft that
he won’t take anything in capsule
form.
* • *
THOUGHTS ON THE
WOMEN’S ARMY
Mother is a colonel,
“Sis” wears major’s bars;
Auntie is a sergeant,
Grandma wears some stars;
Jennie’s a lieutenant—
So are Nell and Liz;
Johnny’s quite dejected—
A private’s all HE IS!
♦ • *
me 100 U - Si air fighters to
200 Japs and we will lick them every
time.”—Lieutenant General Brett.
Shucks! Our boys are just
practicing now. When they real
ly get down to real fighting they
will think it poor sportsmanship
to take on less than three at a
time.
* ♦ *
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Elmer Twitchell*is in a dither over
the ban on quarter and pinball ma
chines I just about had it figured
out when the jackpot was due to
drop, he squawked, “and in an
other couple of months I would have
had the right momentum on the
marbles all figured out.”
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Mose Knew Not What
Lucy Talked Of, but Howl
Before the court on wife-brought
charges of desertion and non
support, Mose Brown meekly ad
mitted his guilt and offered noth
ing in extenuation except that the
lady talked too much.
“That’s no excuse for desertion,
Mose,” said the judge. “The law
gives a woman the right to talk all
she wants to.”
“Yassuh, Jedge. I knows it
do. Only Lucy she never stop
talkin’. She keep it up stiddy,
mo’nin’, noon and night, till I cain’t
stan’ it no mo’.”
“She does? What does she talk
about?” inquired the court.
“Jedge, suh,” Moses said, "she
don’t say.”
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