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Something Different in
a Crocheted Chair Set
Pattern No. 1957
Capture spring with this nar¬
cissus chair set. It will freshen
up your chairs. Or if it’s a scarf
you need, use the chair back for
scarf ends. Pattern 1957 contains
charts and directions for making
set; materials required; illustra¬
tion of stitches.
Send 15 cents in coins for this
pattern to The Sewing Circle, Nee
dlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Avenue,
New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, ad¬
dress and pattern number plainly.
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It Drags Him Down
A man doesn’t improve his own
reputation by spoiling somebody
else’s.
If salesmanship sells you
something you don’t want, all
salesmanship suffers.
Don’t get angry and say things
—then your anger won’t be no¬
ticed.
A Limit to Tact
Be careful that the tact you
practice doesn’t develop into plain
deceit.
To be free from the maddening
crowd requires ingenuity and a
lot of money.
Experience is all very well,
but it robs us of many thrills.
Life Is a Parade
A procession should never get
boggled up and stand still. When
a parade isn’t moving, it isn’t a
parade.
The town saunterer may
saunter along to the age of 95,
while the hurrier gets to the
cemetery 30 years earlier.
People may be childish, but the
innocence of a child generally is
lacking.
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- By Virginia Val« -
'T'HERE’S no telling where
JL the current wave of matri¬
mony that is sweeping Holly¬
wood will stop.- Practically all
of the movie, colony’s famous
romances either have landed
their participants at the altar
or will do so soon.
Of course, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
rather startled the general public
with his selection of a -bride; the
charming Mrs. Mary Hartford was
what would be called, in racing
circles,, a dark horse.
—£—
When Kate Smith celebrated her
ninth anniversary as a radio star
she sang the four songs that she
presented on her initial broadcast:
“I Surrender, Dear,” “By the River
St. Marie,” “Dream a Little Dream
of. Me,” and--“Please Don’t Talk
About Me When I’m Gone.” When
making up her program for her first
broadcast she put in that last num¬
ber because she felt none too sure
that she’d be a success on the air.
KATE SMITH
Too bad a fortune teller couldn’t
have told her that she would lead
the popularity polls for years as the
possessor of the best voice in her
field.
The next time that you hear your
favorite screen heroine let out a
piercing scream, the chances are
that it will be Sarah Schwartz who
actually does the screaming.
She is Hollywood’s prize scream¬
er, capable of curdling any audi¬
ence’s blood when she really puts
her mind on it.
The other day Director - James
Whale was making a scene in “The
Man in the Iron Mask” in which
Louis Hayward, as King Louis XIV,
was about to be attacked by assas¬
sins as he rode along in his coach.
A good screamer was needed, so
Sarah Schwartz was sent for, joined
the milling throngs, and screamed
her head off when Director Whale
gave the signal. She’s been doing
that sort of thing for years, and
works pretty regularly—earns more,
in fact, than many a would-be singer
who tides to make musical sounds.
It looks as if Bette Davis would
be receiving another “Oscar” when
the Motion Picture Academy
Awards are handed out for this
year. “Dark Victory” is the pic¬
ture in which she turned in such a
grand performance that even the
people who never liked her work be¬
fore are now dancing in the streets
and telling all their friends about it.
Fejix Knight, the young tenor who
has climbed so far and so fast as
a radio star, is so enthusiastic about
his Vocal teacher that he has estab¬
lished two scholarships, enabling
two young singers -to work for a
year with Mebane Beasely.
“He took me,” says Knight, “with
almost no voice to speak of and
shortly increased my range more
than an octave.” So now, each
year, two more young singers will
have the opportunities that Knight
had.
If you listerw4d_Jack Benny’s Sun¬
day night programs “Rochester, you’re acquaint¬
ed with ,K his Negro
-
servant. You can see him in “Gone
the Wind,”,as “Uncle Peter”;
>ou probably siW him in “Jezebel”
and “In Old-Kentucky.” His name
is Eddie Anderson.
You’ve se6n ’Bill Robinson, the
great tap dancer, in pictures with
Shirley Temple, of course. But did
you know thatjthey telephones are good friends, several
and that he her
times a week, no matter where he
may be. He called her- from New
York recently, just before he went
on the air—he talked to her mother,
and asked if Shirley might be al¬
lowed to stay up late enough to hear
his performance. Let’s hope that
she did; it was a good one.
—*—
ODDS AND ENDS—Gabriel Heatter,
host of “We, the People ” presented Kate
Smith with a gift in honor of her radio
anniversary—a charm bracelet with minia¬
ture gold microphones dangling from it
. . . Radio fans have been complimenting
Martha Raye on the improvement in her
vocal arrangements, not knowing that it’s
her new husband who does them . . .
They’re making a terrific effort to make
the public hail Bobby Breen as “Bob”
. . . “Information Please“ will reach the
screen, as e series of RKO Pathe News
reels.
O Western Newspaper Union.
CLEVELAND COURIER
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Terrible stock market
crash is predicted if war
should break out in Europe
. . . Democratic primary in
Mississippi in August sure
to arouse national attention
. . . Illness of Harry Hop¬
kins most important factor
in the political situation.
WASHINGTON. — A very shrewd
stock market operator, recently in
Washington in connection with the
government’s concern over what
might happen to our security val¬
ues in the event of the outbreak of
war in Europe, was talking to an
old friend.
. “If war should break out in Europe
tomorrow,” he said, “there will be
a terrible crash in the stock market
If you want to make a big profit
without any trouble whatever, wait
for that crash. Then buy any good
stock to the limit of your financial
.-ability. Hold it a'little while and
then sell it.”
Most of us remember something
about what happened in 1914. When
the World war broke out the col¬
lapse of the stock market was so ter¬
rific that it was necessary to close
it Ignoring what the real value of
stocks is, or was, file performance
then was remarkable.
Actually, most stocks which
dropped to record lows in the au¬
tumn of 1929 afterwards made rec¬
ord highs.
Some folks are pointing out that
this logic is faulty now because of
the “take the profit out of war”
movement. They are saying that
congress would impose such terrific
taxation, in the event that the Unit¬
ed States got into the war, that no
profit could possibly be made.
War in Europe Would Mean
Unusual Prosperity Here
This is obviously true as far as
prospective “war babies” are con¬
cerned. There will probably be no
period, should there be another
world war, resembling, from a
financial viewpoint, that which ex¬
isted shortly after the outbreak of
the last World war, up until the en¬
try of the United States into that
war nearly three years after it be¬
gan.
Neutrality laws today might pre¬
vent that sort of profits. But it is
just possible that they might not.
The theory in Washington at the
moment is that the administration
would not be "neutral in thought”
if a world war should break out in
Europe tomorrow. Best judgment
today is that the administration has
made it perfectly clear that in the
event of a European war this coun¬
try would be in strong sympathy
with the democracies—Britain and
France—from the first day.
If this is true, and it is difficult
to deny it, the probability is that
there would be “war babies.” It is
true that they would be subject to
a higher rate of taxation than ap¬
plied in 1914 and 1915, but it is
scarcely reasonable to believe that
they would be taxed to the point of
diminishing returns.
Leaving the war babies aside, the
best financial opinion is that war in
Europe would mean extraordinary
prosperity for. the United States for
a substantial period—prosperity not
only for the manufacturers of war
supplies, but for wheat and cotton
farmers, for everybody.
Later on, assuming—as most ob¬
servers do—that the United States
would be dragged into the war, the
taxation might be terrific. But, just
as the rain falls on the just and the
unjust, so must war taxation fall.
And most business men figure that
high taxation and good business is
better than low taxation and poor
business.
So maybe the able financier is
right!
Primary in Mississippi
Sure to Be Tops in Interest
Late in August most of the folks
in the country will be more interest¬
ed in the pennant races and the
European situation than in domes¬
tic politics, but here in Washington
there will be more interest in the
Democratic gubernatorial primary
in Mississippi than anything else—
unless of course there is war in
Europe by that time.
The reason for this is that the
two contenders for the governor¬
ship have made the New Deal the
issue. Former Gov. Martin Sennett
(“Mike”) Conner is really responsi¬
ble, for if he had not begun attack¬
ing the New Deal it seems likely
that local issues would have pre¬
dominated. But once Conner began
his attack his opponent, Paul B.
Johnson, naturally took the other
side. f.
To make the situation more com¬
plicated Sen. Theodore G. (The
Man) Bilbo is supporting Johnson.
Sen. Pat Harrison has not moved
into the fight as this is written, but
his friends say that he will be found
on the side of Conner, as being on
the same side as Bilbo in any fight
is unthinkable for Pat
Conner ran against Pat Harrison in
the 1936 primary, and, though Pat
beat him nearly three to one there
was a stage in which the senator
was badly frightened.
As*ls natural in such cases, some
bitter things were said. Conner at¬
tacked Harrison, among other
things, for playing golf, intimating
that he was wasting his time with
this effete pastime instead of at¬
tending to the business of his Missis¬
sippi constituents.
Pat Harrison’s Golf Story
Went Well With Voters
“It’s true that I play a few holes
at golf every once in a while,” Har¬
rison told Mississippi audiences.
“The truth is that I do it on doc¬
tor’s orders. The doctor came to
see me a while back and, after an
examination, said that I was obvi¬
ously overworking, and that if I did
not take some relaxation I would
wind up in a hospital, or a ceme¬
tery.
“ ‘You are killing yourself,’ the
doctor declared. I told him I could
not help it; there was such a press
of things that I must do for my
country and for the people of Mis¬
sissippi. Finally we compromised
on my promise to play a few holes
of golf every time I got a chance,
just to give me some fresh air, and
exercise, and sunshine.”
Harrison’s golf story went well
with the Mississippi voters but it
was his fear of being beaten in that
campaign that tied him so closely
to President Roosevelt, and made
him take so many steps in that
fealty which were to embarrass him
later.
. So, adding together the fact that
Bilbo, Pat’s bitter enemy, is sup¬
porting Johnson, who is defending
the administration, to the fact that
Conner is attacking the administra¬
tion, maybe Pat will not be too dis¬
tressed to support the man he was
battling bitterly three years ago.
Health of Hopkins Takes
On Political Significance
Perhaps the most important sin¬
gle factor in the political situation
today is the state of health of Harry
L. Hopkins. The secretary of com¬
merce is a very sick man, accord¬
ing to several close friends. He is
now being strongly advised to go
back to Rochester, Minn., and un¬
dergo more drastic medical atten¬
tion. If he should take this advice,
he will not, of course, be at Presi¬
dent Roosevelt’s elbow, and hence
the strength of his pressure for the
appeasement of business program
will not be so potent.
The tremendous importance of
this, both as to business and as to
the next presidential election, can¬
not be exaggerated. It is beginning
to be obvious that in the whole so
called appeasement program it is
Hopkins, and Hopkins alone, who
can translate his ideas as to what
should be done to encourage busi¬
ness into affirmative action by the
President
Hopkins’ program for unshackling
business was ambitious. It was tre- '
mendously encouraging. In fact it
was the first sunshine, as business
men see it from within the ranks of
the powers that be in Washington—
if one excepts a few mirages—for
six long years. As unfolded to indi¬
vidual senators, and to certain gen¬
tlemen having influence with the sen¬
ate, it had many ramifications.
It was especially encouraging to
business because it seemed to have
sound political logic back of it and
Hopkins gave all and sundry to un¬
derstand that the President ap¬
proved both the political logic and
the necessary steps involved. It
looked, in short, to bringing about
a real revival of business which
should reach full flood before the
election to be held in November,
1940, when the New Deal is either
to be continued, under Roosevelt or
some successor satisfactory to him,
or else voted into outer darkness.
First Step to Stop Scrap
With the Electric Industry
The very first step of this pro¬
gram, as Hopkins painted the pic¬
ture, was to stop the scrap with the
electric industry—to have TVA pay
a fair price for the Tennessee prop¬
erties, and to take other steps which
would release the piled up spending,
amounting to four billions accord¬
ing to William O. Douglas, which
fear of government has been re¬
straining. Before Hopkins had been
in office a week the first move was
made on this. TVA agreed to buy
the Tennessee properties. Later
came another step. TVA announced
it would pay the state and local gov¬
ernments where it operates a sum
more commensurate with the taxes
they would receive were privately
owned companies operating the
properties. It even went further
and proposed a study of whether the
TVA should not make some return
to the federal treasury in lieu of
corporation income taxes that the
government would receive from the
properties if privately operated.
Which, incidentally, is quite a
commentary on the majority report
of the special congressional investi¬
gating committee, which actually
approved the yardstick!
The majority of the committee
disregarded the testimony of David
E. Lilienthal, who said the govern¬
ment had certain advantages as
against private companies in fixing
rates — that the government can
charge off large parts of the cost
to navigation and flood control, that
it can borrow money on tax exempt
bonds at 2 per cent or less, and
that its contributions in lieu of taxes
are only a fraction of what private
companies would have to pay.
But Hopkins did pay attention to
these factors. Since he started this
one move he has been sick. And so
has the rest of the appeasement
program.
® Bell Syndicate.—WNU Serylre
ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
‘Old Put’
\yf OST Americans think of Israel
Putnam as the New England
hero of two thrilling escapes. One
was during the French and Indian
war when a providential rainstorm
put out the fire which the savages
had kindled to torture him. The
other was during the Revolution
when he avoided capture by the
British by riding his horse at break¬
neck speed down a long flight of
stone steps. But these were only a
few of “Old Put’s” adventures.
During his busy life he saw ac
tion on many fronts—from Montreal
in the north to Havana in the south
and from Boston in the east to De¬
troit in the west. They began in
1755 when he served under Sir Wil¬
liam Johnson against the French;
they continued when he enrolled in
Rogers’ Rangers in 1758, was cap¬
tured by tHe Indians, sent to Canada
as a prisoner and freed by exchange
the next year.
Then he accompanied a British
naval expedition against France’s
allies, the Spanish, in Cuba, where
he was in the thick of the fight when
the English stormed Morro Castle.
He had hardly returned home
when Pontiac’s war broke out in
1763 and he accompanied Colonel
Bradstreet on the expedition to
! raise the Indian siege of Detroit.
| Company In 1772 he of was Military a member Adventurers of the
who visited the Lower Mississippi
and West Florida to look over lands
promised the Colonials who had
served in the French and Indian
war. Nothing came of this so Put¬
nam returned home in time to be¬
come one of the heroes of the Battle
of Bunker Hill.
• • *
Navajo Bill
THE Navajoes were holding a fire
dance. White men were not wel¬
come at this important ceremonial
so there were hostile mutterings
among the young braves when they
saw a “pale-face” looking on. Sud¬
denly a young buck, his face dis¬
torted with a frenzy of hate, dashed
out of the circle of dancers and,
brandishing a long knife, bounded
toward the white man.
But before he had time to strike,
a lariat shot out from a group of
Indians near by, settled over the
young brave’s shoulders and jerked
him to the ground where he was
soon trussed up so tight that he
could not move. The lariat had been
thrown by the great chief, Manueli¬
to, and he had thus saved the life of
his good friend, Dr. W. N. Wallace,
otherwise known as “Navajo Bill.”
Wallace served in an Indiana reg¬
iment in the Civil war, then went
west. He landed in Portland, Ore.,
where he became a doctor and prac¬
ticed his profession until tubercu¬
losis forced him to go to Arizona.
There he became acquainted with
the Navajoes.
One day a little Indian girl fell
into a campfire and was badly
burned. The skill of the “white
medicine man” saved her from be¬
coming a cripple and from that time
Bn his position among the Navajoes
was secure. They adopted him into
the tribe, gave him a Navajo name
and he became a close friend of the
great Manuelito. It was that friend¬
ship which saved his life at the fire
dance.
• * *
The Mad Poet
HP WO months before McDonald
Clarke died he wrote this auto¬
biography: “Begotten among the or¬
ange groves, on the wild mountains
of Jamaica, West Indies. Born in
Bath on the Kennebec River, State
of Maine, 18th. June, 1798. 1st. Love,
Mary H. of New London; last Love,
Mary G. of New York; intermediate
sweethearts without number. No
great compliment to the greatest
Poet in America—should like the
change tho’; had to pawn my Dia¬
mond Ring (the gift of a lady) and
go tick at Delmonico’s for Dinner.
So much for the greatest Poet of
America.”
If that sounds a bit “goofy” to
you, it’s no more so than much of
the poetry he wrote. That’s why he
was called “The Mad Poet.” At the
beginning of the Nineteenth century
he was “constantly seen on Broad¬
way, his blue coat and military
bearing, enhanced by his marked
profile, making him a conspicuous
and striking figure. It was his hob¬
by to fall in line with all the belles
of the city and to commemorate
their beauties and worth in verse.
However well-meant these effusions
on the part of the poet they were
annoying. His poems helped to sup¬
port him, but the number of edi¬
tions and present scarcity show that
he must have eked out the revenue
necessary to supply his humble
wants, by subscriptions or the char¬
ity of publishers and friends.”
From 1820 to 1841 he issued eight
books of poems. Then the “Mad
Poet’s” adventure in living came to
a tragic close on March 5, 1842. A
policeman found him on the street
in a destitute and apparently de¬
mented condition and took him to
jail for safekeeping. The next morn¬
ing he was found drowned by wa
ter from an open faucet!
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AROUND
THE HOUSE
When Buying Kitchen Tools.—
Consider their weight, the sharp¬
ness of the cutting edge, and how
comfortable their handles are.
* * *
Longer Life for the Broom.—An
ordinary broom will last longer if
dipped in boiling soapsuds for a
minute or two each week.
• * *
For Tar Stains. —Rub tar stains
on cloths with lard, and after¬
wards wash out in hot water to
which a little liquid ammonia has
been added.
• • • ■ -
Caution. —Any spot that is too
hot to place your hand Is too hot to
place a can of kerosene.
* * *
Wrap Up Meats.—Steaks, pork
and lamb chops, ground meat,
bacon and other cuts of meat will
shrink if stored in the refrig¬
erator unwrapped.
* * *
Save the Crockery.— Crockery
will not be so easily broken if you
wring out a spare dish-cloth and
spread it over the draining boarJ
before placing the washed china
on the board. The dishes will not
slip and will need less drying, as
the water drains into the cloth.
* * *
No More Frayed Edges.—Trou¬
sers will not fray along the edge
of the turn-up if a strip of skirt
binding is sewn just inside, where
they rub on the wearer’s shoes.
Replace the binding when worn.
( Safety Talks )
Driving Too Fast
/~\F ^ THE 28 states which pub
lished fatal traffic accident
summaries for the year, 21 classi¬
fied more drivers as “exceeding
the speed limit” or “driving too
fast for conditions” than were
charged with any other kind of
improper driving.
All 28 states combined, says the
National Safety council, in its 1938
edition of “Accident Facts,” re¬
ported about 18 per cent of the
drivers in fatal accidents and
about 9 per cent of the drivers in
non-fatal accidents were in thi»
category.
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