Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, April 16, 1942, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextMshinglim. Spßlf-GO-foilMD SrobeStai^i Washington, D. C. STANDARD OIL LOBBY Lobbying will always be practiced In Washington. Recently, however, It has reached new heights. In the pre-New Deal days, lobby ists lobbied to get land grants, lum ber concessions, and Teapot Dome oil leases. Under the New Deaj they lobbied for Public Works con tracts, WPA grants, and steamship routes. Today they lobby for war con tracts. But perhaps the most avid, rapacious and lustful lobbying is for priorities on the purchase of materials. In this connection, Standard Oil has just managed to get a remark able priority rating for the shipment of $14,500,000 worth of steel to Vene zuela. The story illustrates how a job can be done if you have the lobbyist to do it. In this case Standard Oil is ably represented by Washington attorney John N. Bohannon, who knows his way around, even to the White House. What Standard wanted was steel for its oil wells in Venezuela, and it had the plausible argument that it must keep up Venezuelan oil pro duction for the American and Brit ish navies. However, other Ameri can oil companies also wanted steel for wells in Texas, Louisiana and California. Also they had the ad vantage of producing oil which does not require a long and hazardous tanker haul. However, they did not have the advantage of an A-l lobby ist. For Mr. Bohannon went to Ad miral Stark, then chief of naval op erations, and practically scared him to death about the danger of losing Venezuelan oil. Stark called Donald Nelson, boss of War Production, and put the pressure on him. Mean while Bohannon and friends pres sured the state department, lend lase administration, board of eco nomic warfare and finally the White House. If there was anyone Standard Oil forgot to high-pressure they were sick in bed. So Standard Oil got what it wanted, a priority rating of A-l-C, higher than that of domestic oil companies, and the materials have now been shipped. • • • LEWIS PAYROLL The Washington Merry-Go-Round wishes to correct an earlier state ment that John L. Lewis had three relatives on union payrolls whose salaries, plus his own, gave the family an annual "take” of $48,500 from the collections of union dues. We regret to say that on further investigation we find we erred griev ously. We apologize to Mr. Lewis for underestimating his capacities and print below the full Lewis fam ily payroll showing that the miner czar has not three but nine rela tives in cushy jobs and that the family "take” is not $48,500 but $70,500: John L. I owls, president. United Mine Workers $25,000* Kathryn lewis, daughter, secre tary • treasurer. District 50. U.M.W 7,500* Denny Lewis, brother, head of United Construction Workers organising committee 10,000* J. R. Bell, brother-in-law, C I O. controller 0,000 Orln Miller, brother-in-law, su perintendent of the U.M W. of fice building In Indianapolis ... 5,000 Dan Collins, brother • in • law, C. 1.0. organizer 3,600 William Thomas, cousin, super intendent U.M.W. building in Washington 6,000 Margaret i.lndlg, sister-in-law of Denny. U.M W stenographer .. 2,400 Ann Miller, daughter o* brother in-law Orln Miller. U.M W. stenographer 2,400 Son-in-law of Floyd Bell, another Lewis brother-in-law. District 50 organizer 3,800 Total Lewis family payroll . .$70,500 (•In addition to their big salaries, Lewis, his daughter and brother also have fat expense accounts. What they spend is their secret. No fig ures have ever been revealed, even to union members.) And Still More. Imposing as is this payroll list, it still does not tell the whole story. There is one Lewis relative who is not on a union payroll but who garners a high-bracket income from unions controlled by John L. He is brother-in-law Floyd Bell, an in surance agent. Representative of a surety company, Bell has what amounts to a monopoly on the busi ness of bonding all national, district and local U.M.W. officers and all C. 1.0. officials. His commissions are estimated at $40,000 a year. This sum, plus the payroll listed above, would bring the total "take” of the Lewis family up to $110,500 a year. V • • MFRRY-GO-ROUND Wayne Coy, brainy young White House assistant, is slated for a pro motion. The ex-Indiana newsman will be made assistant budget di rector. Coy will also continue as head of the Office of Emergency Management. Good news for the cotton grower. Under war stimulation, cotton con sumption now is around 1,000,000 bales a month, is expected to reach an estimated total of 13,500,000 bales for the year. This is nearly 3,000,000 bales more than last year. You can imagine a tidal wave, with the white surf crashing down. You can imagine a hurricane, in the heart of a shattered town. You can imagine an earthquake, as the reeling earth is spun, But can you imagine Joe Louis —with four grenades and a gun? C'OR the moment there is the chance that Soldiers Two might even provide snappier reading than Kipling’s "Soldiers Three.” Soldiers Two are Private Joe Louis and Private Billy Conn, who this next summer will give some war relief fund more financial aid than any other pair in sport could hope to furnish, in or out of uniform. A second Louis-Conn outdoor show should be good for at least a $600,000 gate, the largest take any single war fund will approach this season. It is the one major natural left. The Second Visit In the ring at Madison Square Garden recently, the contrast be tween slender, alert Billy Conn and the pachydermic Abe Simon was startling. Simon was facing his second Louis visit, while Conn’s second trip was on ahead. Conn and Simon were 80 pounds apart in weight and a Privates Billy Conn and Joe Louis world apart in speed and skill. The contrast was a case of the rapier and the falling redwood. How Conn will make out in his second visit is something you’ll be hearing about through many weeks ahead—until Conn and Louis supply the answer. Whatever happens then, It will be a much more active eve ning than Simon could oiler. There will be 80 pounds less target and far greater elusiveness in front of the Louis barrage. And a far better fighter. Early Debating In the course of the next two or three months army life and army food will add several pounds to the present weight of both men. At least, it usually does, except in the case of the overfat. Conn can stand additional weight better than Louis can. Joe looked physically perfect at 207, so far as hand speed and power go. His mis takes were due to an overeagerness that upset part of his timing. Just how much speed he will lose at 212 or 213 is a guess that belongs to the future. Conn could stand an extra five or six pounds, without speed cost. Ap pearing for a minute or so in the ring just before last Friday’s fight, Private Bill in his uniform looked to be thinner than half a toothpick. Conn still believes the best punch he landed in his first Louis fight was the blow that cost him the scrap. "When I nailed Joe near the end of the twelfth round,” he said again, "I knew I had hurt him. I knew he was tired. It was the best punch I had planted in the fight. Right there is where I made my mistake. 1 decided to get tough instead of getting smart. I honestly thought I could knock him out.” These are merely some of the angles that will come up when the two famous army privates meet again. Power vs. Speed Hard punchers always have had their main trouble tangling up with i speed or better boxing skill. You may recall the fact that in their 20 rounds Jack Dempsey could win only something like two rounds against Gene Tunney. Jack had 35 rounds in which to draw a bead on Tunney and Tom Gibbons with only t one knockdown. And Harry Greb I was a green mamba against the big fellows, as long as he had two eyes. Joe Louis had far more trouble with Billy Conn than he ever had 1 against the mammoths and the ’ mastodons. It took him 21 rounds, ) or thereabouts, to leave Bob Pastor flattened in the pleasant meadows. There is no intention here to sug gest this far in advance that Conn ; has an even chance to win. But - there are at least the possibilities of i another big-time thriller, especially - when it is private soldier against s private soldier for the largest re / lief gate any single contest has yet offered. . Louis and Conn are sure to be - sports major party for 19*2—first, 3 as a spectacle; second, as the more i important contribution to the gen s eral good of a much tougher and a 3 much bigger game—the matter of needed relief. HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA Kathleen Nor ris Says: | Most Divorces Are Failures (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) 1 ~ / teas glad to come home from Mexico, but I faced great unpleasantness between my parents. Mother wanted to place me in a school that cost almost twice the one hun dred dollars a month that my father was paying for me. By KATHLEEN NORRIS “W / rHAT can 1 say t 0 my Wf mother that will make ’ * her stop knocking my dad?” asks Susan, who lives in St. Paul. ‘‘Mother and Dad were divorced six years ago, when I was 10. When she first told me that she was leaving my father and going to marry a man I will call Sam, Mother said that she still loved Dad, that we were often going to see him; it was only that she loved Sam more. “However, complications arose. For a few months I was left with my father and his sister, my Aunt Ann. Aunt Ann has two children * about my age and I was very happy there. Then Mother and Sam came home, and great was my excitement because they were going to take me to Mexico with them. We stayed a year, and during that time my mother became so angry when I spoke of Aunt Ann, or of my cousins, that I stopped mentioning them. “About that time it seems Aunt Ann and my father sold some furni ture and some books that Mother thought were rightfully hers, and that began it. After that she enter tained all her friends with long ac counts of my father’s and my aunt’s peculiarities. ‘No Smith was ever honest. That’s the Smith temper com ing out in her. Nobody knows how cruel John Smith can be. Nobody knows what I went through. My doc tor told me it was divorce or in sanity. I think John wasn t quite right in his head.’ Faced Unpleasantness. “I was lonesome in Mexico and glad to come home, but when we did get home it was to face great unpleasantness between my father and mother. Father was paying $lOO a month for me, but the school in which Mother wanted to place me cost almost twice that, excluding extras, and she tried to get a court order for a larger allowance. “My father’s home is ten miles out of town and quite near the school, so I could live with him, but Mother won’t hear of it. She told my dear est friend that my father was so close with money that nobody could get along with him, and that cost me a scene with my mother and a crying spell. “Don’t you think that when a man and a woman decide on a divorce the least they can do is to spare their children from taking sides? Incidentally my mother and her hus band now quarrel a great deal; he is 34 and she is 37; they go out al most every evening and often for week-ends, and leave me to home work and the radio. That is why I Mother wants me to go away to school. 1 know I will never be di ' vorced, for no matter what my hus band did I would forgive him, but if ever I did you may be sure that ' my children will never hear me say ' ing anything of their father that is ( not kind and generous.” Susan Protects Mother. The injustice of a case like Susan’s is this: she is reluctant to t hurt her mother, to leave her moth- er’s house and perhaps expose her j to criticism or blame among her , friends. Susan doesn’t want to give any one a chance to say that she was unhappy with her mother. Oth t erwise she could go to her father, at tend the desirable school, build a , new life for herself as his closest companion and housekeeper. ’ Susan, in other words, is treating _ with generosity and kindness the , mother who has never shown her I the slightest consideration. Instead of repaying that mother in her own IT ISN'T FAIR Divorce is bad enough when there are no children to be con sidered. But it simply isn’t fair, says Kathleen Norris, to deprive a child of the normal home life he needs just because things may not be running as smoothly at the moment as you want them to. Successful marriage has al ways been based on willing com promise and adjustment, and parents must think of their chil dren as well as themselves when they consider divorce. A child's happiness is too big a price to pay for a little self-indulgence. coin, Susan is protecting her. I know that if I suggested to Susan that by quietly moving to her fa ther’s home and bidding her mother an affectionate farewell she would be doing the fairest thing possible, she wouldn’t pay the slightest at tention. Her mother has hurt her in every way; robbed her of her father and her home; put a strange young man in that father’s place, refused to let Susan’s own father offer any solution to the school problem, and neglected Susan for days at a time. What I do suggest, therefore, is a compromise. I suggest that Susan have a talk with her father and ask him to pay her expenses as a board er at the extravagant school for the next half-term. From school let her spend as many holidays as she can with her father, and after the half-term quietly move to his house. A Common Tragedy. But how can mothers so complete ly overlook the welfare of their chil dren, and sacrifice their lives so cheerfully? It is going on all the time, everywhere, this disruption of homes and demoralization of girls and boys. If marriages are child less, that is one thing, and divorce, however regrettable, is not quite the same sort of tragedy. But when there are children to love and build for and establish in normal attitudes toward the serious business of living, then it is simply extraordinary that so many good women can con vince themselves that it is “really better for all concerned” to break up the right and natural relation ship. Some years ago I was passing the doorway of a hospital room whe© an extremely pretty woman, married exactly 17 months, called to me to come in and see her. While con gratulating her upon the arrival of a fine baby boy I spoke of the father’s pride in the new arrival. “Oh, George,” she said, smiling and flushing, “I don’t believe he’ll come to see him. You see, we’re get ting a divorce, and he said he was afraid he’d grow fond of him. He loves children.” And seeing my consternation she added pleasantly, “No one could live with George, of course! He’s actually out of his head most of the time.” She married again in a few months; the new husband, it seems, is so rigid a disciplinarian that be fore the first child of this second marriage was born, the wife was obliged to see her small son dis graced and punished in away that would have done credit to Mr. Murdstone himself. Her new mate was angry when his own chile turned out to be a daughter, and presently the little stepson was sent to boarding school, was taken ill, went to his adoring grandmother and so got back into his father’s hands. And the much - criticized George has proved to be an excel i lent father. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST D D | Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, j (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for April 19 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se- j lected and copyrighted by International j Council of Religious Education; used by , permission. GROWING TENSION WITH FALSE LEADERS LESSON TEXT—Luke 11:37-48, 62-54. GOLDEN TEXT—He that is not with me Is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. —Luke 11:23. Opposition to Christ and to Cnris tian teaching has come down through the centuries practically un changed. Hence, we find in Christ’s dealings with the enemies of His day helpful indication of what may be done in our time. It is sad to note that the chief opposition came from those w'ho professed to be religious leaders. It is expected that the world, the flesh, and the devil should fight God’s truth, but one might expect better of those who profess His name. The difficulty is that there is only pro fession, with no real life. I. Hypocrisy Unmasked (w. 37- 44). The Pharisees professed great in terest in the observance of religious laws, but their concern was for the outward appearance, while God judges the heart. First we note a false profession of cleanliness. Christ came to the Pharisees’ table with clean hands, but He had not observed all their ceremonial wash ings. When rebuked He struck home with terrific force at the heart of the whole matter (v. 39); namely, that inward filthiness of heart which often makes folk meticulous about outward cleansing. This leads to a substitution of technical observance of the letter of the law that ignores love and judgment (v. 42), which are so precious to God. There can be a dead, dry, and technical ortho doxy which entirely misses the point. But worst of all is the covering up of spiritual death (v. 44). Some j times we speak of those who are , “dead and don’t know it,” and that may actually be true spiritually. ' There may be death within and yet a brave and sometimes self-delud ing outward show of life. 11. Theological Deadness Con demned (vv. 45-52). The lawyers of that day were those learned in the Mosaic law, hence were really the teachers of theology and ethics. They came un der the rebuke of Christ as He pro nounced three “woes” upon them. First, they were guilty of heap ing upon others burdensome require ments which they did not them selves keep, and which they did not help the people to keep. There are such teachers today who set up standards they do not themselves observe, a sort of signpost pointing the right way, while they are not themselves going that way. Then there are those who present high ethical standards without the spir itual dynamic needed to live up to them. To tell a man to be good without telling him of the Saviour who can make him good is mockery. Then, those of Christ’s day were condemned for hating God’s wit nesses. They were willing to build sepulchers for the dead prophets (killed by their fathers), but were not willing to hear the living proph ets, How true to life that is! The very ones who hate and hinder those who are preaching God’s Word, speak and sing smoothly of the faith of our fathers, and claim as their own the witnesses of a past day. Christ also pointed out that while professing to interpret the law they obscured its meaning. They threw away the key to knowledge so that neither they nor their people could learn—and yet they continued to teach. Have not the false teachers of our day done likewise? They deny the integrity and authority of the only infallible Word—the Bible; they reject the deity of, our Saviour, Christ, and yet they talk about be ing Christians and preachers of the truth. Woe be unto them in the day of God’s judgment and wrath! What happens when such men are condemned or unmasked? We find— 111. Enmity Intensified (vv. 53, 54). The scribes and Pharisees had two approaches: they sought vehemently to provoke Him to overspeak, and they craftily laid in wait for Him. The writer of these notes has seen both methods at work in our day. Liberals, or modernists as they are called, profess for the most part to ! a suave courtesy which makes them | speak smoothly and gently about the I conservative and orthodox believer or teacher; but if one only has eyes to see, there is often the strong and cruel hand of iron hidden under the velvet glove. Whatever may be the approach, be assured of this—every effort to reveal false teaching in its true light, or to deal with hypocrisy in j spiritual things will bring intensified I opposition. Christ took it—we too can take it in His name and for His sake. Praise the Lord I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who con fi. (l. <\* O- • A- O- f'-* fc (\., (v I ASK MS *%] \ ANOTHER I \ I A General Quiz r 7 o- O- O-* O- O- O- O- O- (V. 0-. 0-. 0_ fv, The Questions 1. How many men hold the rank of commodore of the U. S. navy? 2. How long must a senator have been a U. S. citizen to be eligible to that office? 3. Who wrote the words “All mankind loves a lover”? 4. How many known elements are there? 5. Who was the first vice presi dent of the United States to be come President as a result of the death of his predecessor? 6. What statue has a theater within it? The Answers 1. None. The rank was abolished in 1899. 2. At least nine years. 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. Ninety-two. • 5. John Tyler. 6. The Statue of Liberty. A small theater was installed where in illustrated lectures were given. FAMOUS ALL-BRAN MUFFINS. EASY TO MAKE. DELICIOUS! They really are the most delicious muf fins that ever melted a pat of butter! Made with crisp, toasted shreds of KELLOGG’S ALL-BRAN, they have a texture and flavor that have made them famous all over America. KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN MUFFINS 2 tablespoons % cup milk shortening 1 cup flour V 4 cup sugar y 2 teaspoon salt 1 egg 2Vi teaspoons 1 cup All-Bran baking powder Cream shortening and sugar; add egg and beat well. Stir In All-Bran and milk; let soak until most of moisture Is taken up. Sift flour with salt and baking powder; add to first mixture and stir only until flour disappears. Fill greased muffin pans two-thirds full and bake in moderately hot oven (400°P.) about 30 minutes. Yield: 6 large muf fins, 3 inches In diameter, or 12 small muffins, 2V4 Inches In diameter. Every Home (Needs a''Grandma' Home im't complete without herl If •he’e with you help keep her in good health. Should her appetite “•lip," get VINOL. This modern tonic contain* Vitamin B1 and Iron, combined with other valuable ingredient*. Your druggi*t ha* VINOL. DON’T LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP • When bowels are sluggish and yon feel irritable, headachy and everything you do is an effort, do as millions do chew FEEN-A-MINT, the modern chewing gum laxative. Simply chew FEEN-A MINT before you go to bed—sleep with out being disturbed—next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again, full of your normal pep. Try FEEN-A-MINT. Tastes good, is bandy and economical. A generous family supply FEEN-A-MINT"^ Use of Divinity Divinity consists in use and prac tice, not in speculation.—Luther. EsfjERVOOS on “certain days” of month If functional monthly disturbances make you nervous, restless, high strung, cranky, blue, at such times -try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound - famous for over 60 years —to help relieve such pain and nervous feelings of women's "difficult days.” Taken regularly— Pinkham’s Compound helps build up resist ance against such annoying symp toms. Follow label directions. Well Don’t Neglect Them! Nature designed the kidneys to do » marvelous job. Their task is to keep tne flowing blood stream free of an excess or toxic impurities. The act of living—W* itself —is constantly producing waste matter the kidneys must remove from the blood if good heath is to endure. When the kidneys fail to function as Nature intended, there is retention oi waste that may cause body-wide dis tress. One may suffer nagging batkacne, persistent headache, attacks of dizziness, getting up nights, swelling, pufliness under the eyes —feel tired, nervous, all worn out. Frequent, scanty or burning pasaac's are sometimes further evidence of kiu ney or bladder disturbance. The recognized and proper trestinent Is a diuretic medicine to help the kidneys get rid of excess poisonous body waste. Use Doan's Pills. They have had more than forty years of public approval. Are endorsed the country over. Insist on Doan's. Sold at all drug stores. WNU—7 15-42 Bureau of Standards A BUSINESS organization which wants to get the most for tjie money sets up standards by which to judge what is offered to it, just as in Washington the government maintains a Bureau of Standards. • You can have your own Bureau of Standards, too. Just consult the advertising columns of your newspaper. 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