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RUMANIA FIGHTS OFF ENEMIES AND ‘PROTECTORS’
Chances grew this month that pressure on Rumania from all sides may drive
Europe’s war into the Balkans, where a precarious peace still clings hopefully. Imme
diate sources of trouble are shown above. Not shown are longer-standing sources,
namely, pressure on Rumania from Germany, on the one hand, and Britain and France
on the other. Both want control of Rumanian oil and grain, but so, for that matter, do
Russia and Italy. One Soviet step inside Rumania, however, would bring down the
wrath of Italy, which demands that the Balkans be left severely alone.
DOMESTIC:
America Abroad
There may have been some
marked connection between U. S.
politics and the state department’s
abrupt decision to censure Europe’s
belligerents. Then, again, Ambas
sador Joseph P. Kennedy’s return
from London may have provided
impetus. But while Republican
strategists were debating the wis
dom of attacking the administra
tion’s alleged pro-British stand and
its failure to rebuke Russia for in
vading Finland, Secretary of State
Cordell Hull acted swiftly.
Russia was warned the U. S. would
hold Moscow responsible for dam
ages to American interests growing
out of its blockade of Finland. Since
Americans are already barred from
this area by the neutrality law, the
warning was at best a slight wrist
slap. Next Mr. Hull warned Britain
that her new blockade of German
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His hand was visible.
exports "shall not cause interfer
ence with the legitimate trade of its
(America’s) nationals . . .”
Joe Kennedy’s hand was more vis
ible in the next move. President
Roosevelt told his press conference
the ways were being sought to in
crease the use of American ships on
routes abandoned by the British and
other belligerents.
Climaxing the renewal of vigorous
U. S. action abroad was establish
ment of a dummy Finnish-American
Trading corporation, to be financed
by $10,000,000 in credits supplied by
Jesse Jones’ export-import bank.
THE WARS:
Rumor Hath It —
A persistent but unconfirmed re
port popped up simultaneously in a
half-dozen European capitals to the
effect that Germany was willing to
call off her war with the allies, join
ing hands in a four-power (France,
Britain, Italy and Germany) drive
against the Russian juggernaut. No
"body doubted Nazi interest in such
a project, because Germany dislikes
the Russians. Nor did many ob
servers doubt that this must eventu
ally happen if the Soviet is to be
held in check. But it was equally
evident that until Russia pounds on
their doors, the allies will continue
their “holy war” against Hitlerism.
Arctic War
Whether they were spreading
propaganda or telling the truth, the
Finns did a nice job of building up
world hatred of the Soviets. One
report said they were sending Polish
peasants across the heavily-mined
no-man’s land on the Karelian isth
mus. (The French use pigs for the
same purpose). Another report said
Russian tanks advanced against Fin
nish lines running over the bodies of
their wounded.
It was no picnic for the Reds, at
any rate. Inexperienced in arctic
warfare, they died by the hundreds
as the Finns loosed snow avalanches,
disabled scores of tanks with un
canny firing accuracy and rode to
victory on skis against their ill-pre
pared adversaries.
But the Finns were weakening,
outfought by force of sheer Soviet
manpower. In desperation, Vlinoe
Hakkila, speaker of the Finnish diet,
appealed by radio: “ . . . We be
lieve the civilized world, which has
given us testament of its great sym
pathy, will not leave us to fight
alone . . .”
Western War
Peace talk to the contrary, the al
lies’ war against Germany became
intensified as Britain clamped down
her blockade of all Nazi exports.
A Japanese freighter, which stub
bornly threatened to sail with Ger
man goods from the Netherlands,
suddenly changed its mind. On one
"black Friday” 14 losses to British
and neutral nations were revealed,
plus alleged sinking of three Nazi
U-boats.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS:
China to the Rescue
“It is for us to act in order that little
people in distress will not be deceived."
Thus spake Norway’s Karl J.
Hambro, new president of the
League of Nations assembly, as he
ascended the rostrum to open the
league’s greatest show—the trial
of Russia for an attempt on Fin
land’s life. Italy was gone; so was
Germany. The Russian delegate,
Jakob Surits, stayed at his hotel.
This left the league largely a
group of democracies bound togeth
er in a last futile attempt to main
tain peace by collective security.
There were puppet stragglers like
Lithuania and Latvia, but they could
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China saved Russia.
speak only
in the assem
bly, not in
the council
which must
vote unani
mously in or
der to oust
Russia.
Strangely,
sentiment
for the oust
e r did not
come from
France and
Britain
(without whose support there would
be no league), but from Latin-Amer
ican nations who threatened to quit
if the Soviet wasn’t “punished.”
This drew the allies into line. Scan
dinavia, its security threatened by
the Finnish war, was quick to fol
low when assured some support.
But at Russia’s darkest hour she
got help from an unexpected, though
logical place. In the presence of
British Foreign Under-Secretary
Richard Austen Butler walked Dr.
Wellington Koo, scholarly ex-ChineSe
ambassador to the U. S., now that
nation’s league representative. Koo’s
announcement: China will not sup
port the ouster. Reason (left un
said): Russia alone remains as a
source of supplies for China in her
war against Japan.
Saddened, Norway’s Karl Hambro
held a last hope that Russia might
at least be induced to settle the Fin
nish dispute peacefully. The league
sent a 24-hour "ultimatum” which
“invited” Moscow to arbitrate, but
every leaguer knew it was a dull
weapon.
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1. The above man, former Rus
sian revolutionary head and now
an exile in Mexico, has agreed to
testify before the Dies un-Ameri
canism committee. What’s his
name?
2. Admiral James O. Richard
son will take over Admiral
Claude C. Bloch’s job January 6.
What’s the job?
3. The father of Movie Actress
Joan Crawford’s ex-husband died
recently. What was his name?
4. According to a Gallup poll,
who would win if President
Roosevelt ran for re-election
against Thomas Dewey?
5. Who is Baron Carl Gustaf
Emil Mannerheim, much in the
news lately?
(Answers at bottom of column).
POLITICS:
Evangelist '
Day after New York’s District At
torney Tom Dewey opened his G. O.
P. presidential drive in Minneapo
lis, America awoke to find itself in
the middle of an election campaign.
Observers disliked impugning the
motives of Attorney General Frank
Murphy and his trust-busting assist
ant, Thurman Arnold, but they
picked a strategic moment to open
a graft crusade in Chicago which
may end up by out-Deweying Tom
Dewey’s cleanup of New York. It
was bandied about that Frank Mur
phy, fired with an evangelist’s spirit,
would prefer continuing his cam
paign to taking a seat on the Su
preme court. Thurman Arnold, tes-
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FRANK MURPHY
Strategic moment?
tifying before the temporary nation
al economic committee against fed
eral price control, said he would
like instead a 150-man trust-busting
staff. At the same time the justice
department announced its vote fraud
inquiries would be extended into
“other oppressed areas.”
AGRICULTURE:
Resolution
Closing its annual convention at
Chicago, the American Farm Bu
reau federation passed an expected
resolution. It demanded more and
bigger farm benefits, financed by
“such tax measures as may appear
most feasible,” to remove the “dis
parity between farm prices and in
dustrial prices.” No mention was
made of the general manufacturers’
sales tax which Secretary of Agri
culture Henry Wallace suggested
earlier in the convention as a means
of making the farm program self
sufficient. The reciprocal trade pro
gram, recently lambasted by farm
officials, was given qualified ap
proval.
MISCELLANY:
Camerlengo
At the Vatican, Pope Pius XII
named Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri
camerlengo of the Holy Roman
church, thus providing an interim
administrative head of the church
during the next interregnum before
a new pontiff is elected. (The pres
ent pope was camerlengo after his
predecessor died last spring.)
Rubber Sale
ft At Chicopee Falls, Mass., direc
tors of the Fisk Rubber corporation
agreed to take $6,827,330 cash, plus
109,981 shares of stock for sale of
their firm to the U. S. Rubber com
pany.
News
1. Leon Trotzky.
2. Chief of U. S. naval operations.
Bloch has reached age limit.
3. Douglas Fairbanks.
4. Roosevelt. Latest trial heat: Roose
velt, 54 per cent; Dewey, 46 per cent.
5. Finland’s "George Washington,”
head of army and man for whom defense
Une is named.
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Behind the Curtain”
YOU know, boys and girls. Old Lady Adventure has some
funny ways of sneaking up on a guy. Sometimes she just
comes up behind your back, and sometimes she drops on you
from above. And there are times, too, when she comes walking
right up to you from the front, and you don’t try to get out of her
way because she is in disguise and you don’t recognize her.
That’s the way it was with John Hoven, New York city. You
know, John started his adventuring career as a sailor before the
mast, and every sailor has half a dozen or more adventures he
can tell you about. But the one John remembers best is his first
one—a thrill he got in 1894, and still remembers.
It happened when John’s ship called at the port of San
Lucar, Spain, to take on a cargo of lead. It was the 18th of
November when they arrived there, but the weather was still
warm and balmy. In the evening, most of the crew went
ashore to see the sights of the town, John went too—and that’s when Old
Lady Adventure walked up and grabbed him.
You khow, I said that the old girl with the thrill bag sneaked up on
John in disguise. She did. She came in the clothes customarily worn by
another lady known to the world as Little Rosie Romance. And John
never knew the difference until it was too late.
On their way into town, the sailors from the ship stopped to
watch a group of Spanish senoritas and senors dancing their native
dances. John says he thinks the dance they were doing was the
fandango. Anyway, it was the sort of dance in which a senorita
who wants a new partner, just throws her shawl around the neck
of some bird on the sidelines who looks good to her. John was
standing pretty close to the platform where the dancing was going
on, and the first thing you know a shawl was looped around his
neck.
John Adds Fandango to His Accomplishments.
Now John says he never was much of a dancer, and fandangos
were way out of his class. But this girl was a beauty, and one look
from her big round eyes had John feeling that he’d dance in a barrel of
red hot nails if it would please her any. “I got away with the dance
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On that bed lay a dead man, his throat slashed, and blood drippftg
all over the floor.
somehow,” he says, “and then she left the platform and motioned me to
come along. She led me to a little case—a two-story building with a lot
of tables and chairs out in the open and a big canopy sloping down the
side of the wall. There was a big bay window above this canopy and a
small side entrance led to the room above.”
The girl led John into that side entrance. He followed her up the
stairs and into a big room on the second floor. “She spoke to me in
Spanish,” John says, “but I couldn’t understand a word. However, I
said, ‘Si, Si,’ to everything she said. She smiled, and so did I. Then she
opened a cupboard, brought out some wine glasses and an empty bottle
and made a motion meaning that she was going to take the bottle and
have it filled. Then she left the room.”
John could hardly believe his luck. When the girl was gone
he began to look around the room. There was an alcove at one
end, with portiers drawn across it. He walked over and peeped
through those curtains—and right there John got the shock of his
life. In the alcove was a bed, and on that bed lay a dead man,
his throat slashed, and blood dripping all over the floor!
“I felt a chill run up my spine,” he says, “and for a minute I was so
Stiff I couldn’t move. I turned away from the grisly sight in the alcove
and ran toward the door. I turned the knob, but the door didn’t give.
It was locked !”\
John ran to the window—and what he saw there made the
hair stand straight up on his head. Down below in the street was
the girl, coming back—and with her were two big husky Spanish
policemen. John says that thousands of thoughts ran through his
head then, but the principal one was the realization that he was
the victim of a frame-up. That girl had killed a man and was
going to put the blame on him!
Says he: “I knew my only chance lay in getting out of that room.
The girl and the policemen were almost to the door now. I waited
until they were all in the hallway, and then I threw open the window.
They would be opening the door of the room at any moment, and I had
to hurry. Swiftly climbing through the window, I slid down the canopy
below it.
John Finds Dagger in Coat Pocket.
“It was only a drop of about ten feet to the ground, and the minute
I felt earth under my feet I ran like a deer for the waterfront. I reached
it all out of breath, for I had never stopped running the entire distance
of almost a mile. I went aboard ship and sneaked below. Once in
the forecastle I stopped to catch my breath again. I was still shaking
like a leaf. I started to remove my coat and felt something in the
pocket. I took it out. It was a double-edged dagger, about eight inches
long, with a hollow groove in the middle.”
Just another link in the chain of evidence against John. The
girl had planted that knife in his pocket to make the case against
him al) the stronger. He hid the thing under his mattress and
tried to calm his jumpy nerves. And just then one of John’s ship
mates came into the forecastle. “Say, what’s the matter with
you?” he wanted to know. “You look pale as a ghost, and I saw
you running.”
Well sir, John says he knew he could trust this pal of his so he
blurted out the whole story. And his shipmate laughed. “Why,” he
said, “you just fell for an old swindle. I thought it had been played out
long ago in these parts. That was only a dummy you saw in the room,
and the blood was probably catsup or something. The police were fakers,
and all they wanted to do was make you give them all your money to
keep them quiet. Don’t play around with any of those Spanish senoritas.
You’re playing with fire if you do.”
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Ricksha, Oriental Gadget, Invented by American Sailor
The marines have staked out one
more claim to fame by establishing
the fact that the ricksha that fur
nishes a living for thousands of coo
lies in China, Japan and Singapore
was the invention of a member of
the corps.
It came about in this fashion, the
corp official bulletin states:
Private Jonathan Goble, of the
marine detachment on the U. S. S.
Susquehanna, one of the ships in
Commodore Perry’s fleet which vis
ited Japan in 1854, conceived the
idea.
Goble had been a farmer in New
York before he entered the marine
corps in 1851 at the age of 24. He
remained in the service four years.
Just when Goble conceived his
idea of the ginrikisha is not known,
but after leaving the marine corps^
and returning to Japan as a mis
sionary, he suggested to the Japa
nese the idea of making these en
larged go-carts a means of convey
ance.
The first ricksha, contructed as a
result of his suggestion, made its
appearance in Japan in 1867, and
subsequently its use spread to near
ly all the countries of the F»r East
^J^RCTAMEy W. BAK ION
ONE of the excuses made for
a boy or girl of ’teen age
who is selfish, rude, ill behaved,
lacks courage, or demands his
own way, is that
he was a weak
child or had had
many illnesses.
It is only nat
ural that when a
youngster is sick, his family,,
particularly the mother, is like
ly to be over careful of him. She
is continually about him, ar
ranging his pillows, shading the
sun or lights, asking him his
wants, and in various ways
making him feel how important
he is to her. It is not any won
der then that should he be deli
cate or be attacked by a num
ber of children’s ailments, he
takes advantage of the mis
taken kindness of the house
hold. Even between attacks of ill
ness he expects the same “kind”
treatment.
Some very sensi
ble advice is given
to parents and oth
ers by Elizabeth Cot
ton, Huntsville, Tex
as, in Hygeia, the
health magazine.
“Even though spe
cial care is necessa
ry, a child should be
treated as naturally
as possible during
an illness and par
ticularly when he is
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Dr. Barton
out of bed and recovering from the
illness.”
The surroundings of the child dur
ing illness should be such that he
does not become unduly nervous and
upset. The sick child as well as the
sick adult needs to be let alone. He
should not be constantly questioned
concerning what he wants or how
he feels. Neither should he be al
lowed to get the idea that being ill
is a privilege because of the undue
attention he receives. ,
Rest Is Necessary.
From the physical standpoint,
when the child is getting better it is
important not to let him damage
his heart by being up on his feet too
much and too soon. This makes it
hard for the parent or nurse because
the child has been “quiet” so long
he is naturally anxious to get up and
Play.
“Many children are injured per
manently because they are allowed
to return to school too soon after
an illness. No child should be out
of bed following such illness as rheu
matic fever, tonsillitis, scarlet fe
ver, diphtheria, or whooping cough
until his temperature is normal for
24 to 48 hours.”
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Ulcers May Result
From Nervousness
TN MY student days we used to
make up tables of the symptoms
of the various diseases of an organ
—stomach, heart, kidneys—and
tried to remember which of these
symptoms were found in each dis
ease. Thus in diseases of the stom
ach-ulcer, cancer, chronic inflam
mation—we thought of the pain,
presence, absence and amount of
gastric juice, appearance of the face
and other symptoms.
What we did not know in former
days and what we are rapidly learn
ing now is that many ailments are
due to the general makeup—nervous
and emotional—of the individual,
and that it is this makeup which
brings on symptons.
Thus Dr. T. Grier Miller, Phila
delphia, in Virginia Medical Month
ly, says:
“Ulcer can no longer be regarded
as a local disease of the stomach
or intestine. The modern physician
must concern himself with the person
who has the ulcer, with his heredity,
with his physical, mental and emo
tional makeup, with his surround
ings and social standing and with
his personal habits of life.”
Tendency Toward Ulcers.
This does not mean that the high
strung, nervous, emotional individ
ual is bound to develop stomach ul
cer, but that he is more likely to do
so when he is attacked by infection
or eats the wrong kinds of food.
Drs. Clarence F, G. Brown, Chi
cago, and Ralph E. Dolkhart, Bos
ton, in the Journal of the American
Medical Association state that the in
vestigation of 1,500 cases where ul
cer returned after having healed
showed that in order of importance
the causes were, (1) nervousness,
including fatigue and anxiety, (2)
acute infection such as a cold, in
fected sinus, abscessed tooth, or
acute indigestion, and (3) the things
put in the stomach—coarse foods,
highly seasoned foods, hot bread,
seedy vegetables and fruits, fruit
cakes and puddings, cucumbers, rad
ishes, olives and celery.
It is well to remember, then, that
while infection and wrong foods may
be the immediate cause of, or re
turn of, the ulcer of the stomach or
intestine, nervousness and anxiety
prepare the soil or tissue that grows
or develops the ulcer.
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