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Show THE rAYSON (HIIONKT-E- Hull's Trade Principles Backed by Stettinius Shapes as State Department Is Remodeled to Attend to United States Commercial Interests. Anahit and (atniriirn MJ Service, Union Trust Building;, Washington, 1). C. One of my punster colleagues asked the question the other day; Is theie any .sipnificunre as far as United States foreign policy is concerned, in the fact that the nickname of Fdvvurd Stettinius. the new Becietary of state, is "Stet? iFor the benefit of you who do not handle type or typewriters, stet means let it stand and is usually written beside a sentence or paragraph in a manuscript which had been marked out by error ) Observers have already expie.ssed the opinion that the policies of Secretary of State Hull, resigned, will undoubtedly be carried out by his successor but many have overlooked the fact that the two men have in common a certain formula which is characteristic of the most important trend in the state department policy of recent years Although it was perhaps his character and his integrity which did more than anything else to carve the name of Cordell Hull deep in the annals of American statesmanship, those qualities were not the only ones which influenced President Roosevelt when he chose the stalwart Tennesseean to occupy the highest office in the cabinet. Most Important recommendation was Cordell Hull's long and study of, and the completeness of his belief in, the importance of international commercial relations and the vital role they play In bhe whole economic structure of domestic as well as world affairs. I have dealt with that philosophy of Secretary Hull frequently In these columns. Suffice it to say that the war and the study of postwar problems has already proved the necessity of international trade agreements, one concrete product of this theory w'hich the secretary espoused single-minde- so d whole-heartedl- The trend Is generally recognized, but not many persons realize how the gruwiqg importance of commercial negotiations on the highest diplomatic level has revolutionized the functions of the state department Still more Important is the fact that an awakened Interest in the importance of international trade is actually creating a United States foreign policy, something which diplomatists have always declared never really existed In the sense that other nations have fixed policies in dealing with their neighbor nations. The link between Secretary Stettinius and his predecessor is based upon this same influence. Both men, despite their highly different backgrounds, have a similar formula the formula for relating American trade to American diplomacy. This is an innovation in our foreign service where a tradition of protocol has grown up in an atmosphere bordering on snobbishness and so far removed from the marts of trade that it looked down its diplomatic nose at business Secretary Hull was the first man to head our state department who believed that trade relations have In them the roots of war and peace Edward Stettinius is the first secretary of state who comes to the office with a training in industry. (He left the chairmanship of the board of the United States Steel corporation to Join the committee of national defense. ) So much for the innovations In the viewpoints of the pa-- and present heads of the state depaitment. Now consider the material change in Its organization. New Functions Added to Office When I sat down the other dav and ran over some of ti e new offices and divisions and branches that are sheltered beneath the old rococ-crooftree which were not even a wink in the most progressive statesman's eye when 1 first walked its marble corridors, I had quite a o shook. There would be nothing to raise the eyebrow of past seeietaries of state, of a Hay or Hughes, a Kellogg or even a Madison-i- n the items now officially listed-suas tlie direction of our 35 embassies and 23 legations, nor the description ch la! t ,r 1 Foreign Policy Must Interest Nation And that brings me to the last observation which is the most important: the formation of a definite American foreign policy. The reason w'hv we have had no foreign policy" in the past is because the people have been too busy with their own affairs to demand any special treatment fur other countries except that they be let alone. But increasingly since World War I. the people have come to realize that the consequences of acts of government which affect oilier nations are on the individvery likely to re-a- ual American's private affairs. It is fairly well established by this time that one reason why we had a dcpiession in the 30s was that the world went broke and wouldn't buy from us. Less broadly realized but growing clearer to most people is the fact that although we loaned money abroad to nations with which to buy their goods, when we refused to buy their goods (shut them out with high tariffs) they couldn't earn the money to repay us. Then they went broke and we lost our trade as well as our money Other nations which might have bought spent their money to get ready for a war which eventually stopped all buying. Now many of the best business brains of the country have waked up to the fact that if this nation is going to achieve prosperity after the war, it is going to have something to sav about a foreign policy that woll produce a stable world In a democracy there can be no foreign policy unless the people unless foreign afmake it, and fairs become personal aff nrs. the people do not expiess themselves Their public servants do the best they can in the short period of their terms or periods of influence The permanent membeis of the foieign service move along accoidmg to a pattern which has hide to do with the swift vieissitades of present day life and. until lecently. no more attuned to the hoalthv and human sounds and scones m Held and mar ket place than an ancient princeling surrounded by courtiers and serv ing men Some that peoi ie are saving Harry Hopk.ns was too lavish in granting lend lease dnmr ds to foreign nations. And all the tune wo thought he was the tt ident's no nun her of civ urn a ern : 1. ,v cos dec e : ir Ocn t er h ,1 d m t v 1 wmi all ,u w ,r a her a: men i i bv 4 I s " si il o for - -- hr hoc n orde red m of b mum is AH I.S V t 0 a. "is t The mrnt cn V tec m- least three person tn the United States now take aeriously the expression, "I'd break my aeck to do that " One n Gregory Stingel, 13, of Chicago, who put his football jer At t the dog, fell through a coffee table, suffered bad cuts oo her arms and legs Doggedly answering the phone, Mrs Hatfield found the call was from aa accident Insurance company making a sur- stepped out of his Texas, was struck by a passing car and tossed high into the air. Just before hi head struck the concrete pavement, his pocket caught on the high truck door handle and held him suspended in the air. C. C. Hardy In Sidney, truck On the way home from the Bronx zoo in New York, Henry Carrumit, sought to Imitate tiie monkeys he had seen. He leaped up and down on the subway seat, scratching and grimacing. On an especially high jump an electric fan nipped his scalp. No more monkey business for 13, sey on backwards in his haste to dress for a game, tugged fiercely to get it off and broke his neck Anne Haldeman, 10, of Doylestown, Pa., snapped a vertebra In her neck while skipping rope And Mrs. Pauline Strother of Indianapolis, topped them both by dislocating a vertebra in her neck while vigorously brushing her teeth! All recovered. s Closely akin to the was Mrs. James Gallagher of West Haelton, Pa , who arose so hurriedly to shut off an insistent alarm clock that she dislocated her spine. neck-breaker- By Remote Control. The Woodrow Andersons of the St. Louis Andersons are careful folk. So when Mr. Anderson got back from a hunting trip, he placed his rifle on a kitchen shelf, out of reach of the Anderson children. Equally cautious, Mrs Anderson took all the arrows away from Donald before leaving the house to visit a neighbor. But Don still had the bow. So he merely substituted a yardstick for an arrow and let it By from the back porch toward the kitchen. The yardstick went through a hole in the screen door and struck the trigger of the rifle. The rifle went off, and the bullet struck Don's little sister. Darlene. eight-year-ol- d time was bad by all but the driver when a grocery truck upset In Bloomington, Calif., setting up an informal but popular grucery in the middle of the street. Eager customers hurried from all sides to fill their needs, their pockets and, in some cases. the trunks of their cars. It was boon for budgets and ration books. Henry. In Washington Court House, Ohio, hot words must have been exchanged over the phone one day. In any event. Superintendent Fred Rost of the phone company reported that too much talking had overloaded eight switches and set the phone exchange on fire. Louis Boardman halted his automobile in Cleveland to watch the huge gas plant fire there last October. He stepped out for a better view and fell through an open manhole, the cover of which had been blown off by the gas blast. Clarence Brown Jr. of St. Louis knows just how a baseball fan feels when he Is really burned up Watch-ing a sandiot game this summer, Clarence was struck by a line drive and promptly burst into flames. The on a batter had scored a bulls-eypocketful of stick matches. Both the blaze and the batter were soon put out. Traveling Buzz Saws. 1 e Henry Butler ate breakfast in Jacksonville, Fla , a buzz saw ripped through the kitchen wall, sliced the breakfast table neatly in two and whirled out the other side of the As self-servi- zoomed through the other wall of the house and eventually crashed into a schoolhouse. Lieut. W. J. McCarthy of Toledo, Ohio, pilot of the fighter plane, was Injured only slightly. The blanket, undamaged, was found in the wreckage of the plane. ' four-year- and i Pranks P rin" Tragedy to Thousands of Homes v er-i- ms st' it , Here are A nine a few of 1944s cases: boy in Long into the tool compartment of an abandoned trailA er companion with a grudge thought it would be a neat trick to slam tr e door The lock snapped and the bov remained inside (lie box lor 3i hours before being rescued Beach, a by year-ol- Calif, crawled passerby An Cher hoy who lived wav tn l SO foi'unale in Chicago He hid in the scaled to'-actual size pieces. Any , . V'N n chair with matching are easy to make ed ky t They Notes of an so is the chair. It is cow Innocent Bystander: y V a flower print. Meet Me The Magic Lanterns: The dining room furnH E Is In St. Louis bulges with enough made of straight blocks movi a pleasant amusement to provide son ar month of daydreams. Set in the FROM BLOCKS OF nec gUrf and humor era, the warm 'SCRAP LUMBER 10 AMD OTHER infection ditties inspire the spiril Mar0005 s AN0,dc Delightful show its dimples. to the c garet OBrien steals the picture and A your heart. Something for the Boys, and comes in on a lands gently on the eyes and ears. th Wi! As in all musicals, the plot plays 1 second fiddle sometimes it seems orchestra. the in even isn't that it The March of Times latest pVlli Br concerns China a nation of great great heroism, great il pm- tragedies, . The script of "Blonde " of tl hopes. Fever gets lost in a jungle ol chairs are smartly upho e of tl . . cliches and no one misses it. bright oilcloth to simulafand w Those who dreamed up a The bed with upholste:,ands i like The Last Ride should piece is especially glamric are be in the Hall of Fame sweeping it. the dainty dressing tabs here matching stool made oft with padded top V ' spool The Paragraph of the Week: ... sCk.'1 ... . . . dullo-dram- L. H. R.s coljum a skirt. The nursery is alsc nished with attractive p. Y. in the N. Times previewed history with One more questhis dialogue: tion, Daddy. What finally became of this terrible Hitler? . . . For a long time, my child, nobody knew. There were stories. He was hiding in Spain, Japan, Argentina, Eire. You took your choice. Then, in 9(40, a rug collector named Donner-blit- z died of indigestion in Chicago. That was Hitler. He had been living there sixteen years. . . . But didnt anyone guess, Daddy? . . . "No, you see, except for changing his name and shaving off his mustache, he went right on being himself, damning Russia, England, democracy, the Govt at Washington, and the U.S.A. in general. So the neighbors took him for just an ordinary crackpot and ne r gave him a second thought. NOTE Pattern 274 gives patterns or dimensions for al ot this furniture with illustrate for making. Patterns and di: also given for the lamps anc cessories. Pattern 273 gives a for making the doll house Pan cents each. Send direct to: 1 MRS. Rt'TII WYETH SPI Bedford IIiUs is, Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for eaetif ordered. Name pm Address. e girls rays get .want tl rfORCHRm ne; GET THE UN THIS The book stores will shortly receive an extraordinary book called Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It is by Raphael Lemkin. It is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. . Book oracles state it is really the last word on what the Nazis have done to The Old Country. The Writers War Board (staffed with intellectuals, authors, editors, et al) is unable to name a more important volume in its field. . . The author of the book has created a word genocide to define the calculated destruction by the Germans of national and racial groups. . . Buy two copies. One to read over and over again and the other to hang on the head of any supporter of a Nazi 'GUAPAHCr IS 1.000 qback znnualy icebox while playing with his dog. The little animal leaned against the door, shutting it and clicking the latch. The boy suffocated before bis mother and sister returned. William was trying to amuse himself on the back porch, because he could not play in the He yard tnsd rope over the clothesline Somehow, he got tangled up A loop coiled about his neck, tVher he tnrrod. the loop tightened, am, he was choked to death a let- Dr. Burke spent 50 years in China. . . . The letter in part: "The whispering campaign in China against the Generalissimo and his wife is largely the work of pro-Ja5th columnists Unfortunately some of our correspondents over there have gotten some of the reports in the papers over here. At first the Generalissimo thought he would ignore them. Then he realized the rumors were directed more against China than against himself. Therefore he felt that he had to bring these stones into the light. As to the report he had been unfaithful to his wife he declared his relations with his wffe had been without stain, absolutely pure. I can understand the object of the Japanese, but it is hard to get the workings of our American com undents mind. This is for publication. Jaaswei Bake VIltm a Com SUCCESS bega URAfe . . soys Mother mike-believin- g Sho Gen ..averse: 0 of a jFn to am any m y ' idy Be areen With Amazing MACA The Fast, Dry il: Ye t It USE JUST Llg COMPRESSED YEAST! Theres nothing new to la you use tius wonderfully cr yeast Maca requires no speonp ods or recipes. It acts so fast quickly your baking is all c few hours. And ithat a bak.4 Maca Yeast gives bread and ro5 golden beauty, a smooth, end a delicious eves t Stays Fresh for Weel Without Refrigeratioj ... The Wireless: A radiorator offered this bit of irony: The British re moved handcuffs from Fascist Mos ley, but jailed Gandhi who only de sires freedom for India. The March of Time again proves that the headlines are writing the most ex plosive dramatic scripts. The MOT makes dreamed-useem more irksome than static. Nothing more ludicrous than com mershilis nowadays urging listener: to buy ciggies. You're told why yoi should buy a certain brand instead of where. Si nch jo I took tc? Yes, ma'am! You The Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Our Macon editor relays this 2C each r bi T soft-peac- ter from Dr. V B. Burke. His son James is with our State Dep't. Jim auth'd My Father in China Ca --Jon! . . but 'Wt JQS.lT TIMS . Sufferers from the cigarette short- age would like to know just why it Is that night clubs are enjoying near- ly all I': cufeie biz. This is how come. . . . The night clubs are in this enviable position because theyve always charged a dime to 15 cents over the retail shop prices, and, of course, they still are permit- ted (by the OPA) to charge the same tariff as before the ceilings went into effect. . Then, besides get ting 10c and 15c more per pack, the cigarette gals are invariably tipped an average of 25c for each pack. This, too, goes to the concessionaire. . . . As a result, getting 50c per pack for cigarettes (for which retail stores charge 17c) the concessionaires are able to pay a good deal more for cigs than the retailers. That explains why all the night spots are doing a terrific ciggie biz. tl of HIM PACKAGE . Then there was the strange case of the disappearing woman. It happened in Los Angeles as Mrs. Jan-ie- l As an enthusiastic jitterbugger, Reesse gossiped of this and of Pfc. Ernest Olivier of McCook, that with three neighbors. In the Neb., often bad been "sent by a middle of a sentence whoosh! Mrs. hot tune. But never as literally as Reesse disappeared. Firemen came the evening he spun In a super on the run. extricated her from a maneuver, grabbed for his pretty forgotten excavation 12 feet deep, jiving partner's hand, missed and Mrs. Reesses fence-sid- e weight is house. It had broken loose from a 325 pounds. plunged through the second-stor- y saw mill nearby. window of the dance ball. Not so spectacular but just as surIf men bite dogs to make news. . Nine persons riding cozily in an why shouldn't a horse smack an prising was the feat of another buzz automobile driven by Mrs. Adaline auto? That's what two Norwich, saw that went A. W, O. L. This one broke loose in Florence. S. C., Clasby of Winslow, Ariz., were in- - Kan., horses figured one afternoon sailed through the air for a mile and when car wtien the slightly crashed jured they were scared silly by a into the rear of a bus that had girl on roller skates. They ran and ripped through the roof of a parked car whose owner had just alighted. stopped lo discharge a passenger. ran until they encountered a parked Mrs. Clasby readily explained the car. Then they got their signals Robert Julian of Chiaccident. I failed to see the bus in mixed. Horse No 1 went on one side time to stop. she said, because 1 of the car, horse No. 2 on the other. cago was shooting a dart gun at a on the wall. The dart had a was nursing my baby That left only one place for the target rubber suction cup on the end to Shot by Lawnmower, wagon tongue to go right through hold when it struck a flat surface. When Pfc Charles Smith came the car. Nobody was hurt. Often it hit glanctngly, and didnt home to Claudell, Kan., to reAuto Picks Up Boy. so Robert fastened a needle The driver of an auto in Chicago cling, cuperate from wounds received in in the suction cup so that the point three south Pacific invasions, he figwondered why people were point- would stick into the wall. ured he would get some rest frum ing and yelling at him one day An elder brother, Frank, 19, enBut as he last August. He stopped the car and dodging shrapnel. tered the room just as Robert shot. watched a power lawnmower at The dart struck Frank in the chest. woik in his front yard, the darn He felt a slight pain but thought tiling picked up an old spoon and nothing of it at the time. Later he hurled it with such power and accollapsed, and was rushed to the hoscuracy that it penetrated the calf of pital. Private Smiths leg and had to be Surgeons discovered, after conremoved by an operation. It's the siderable hunting around, that there same wherever you go, Private was a needle imbedded near Franks Smith remarked glumly at the hosheart. Little Robert had forgotten pital. about that sharp point on the end of Ivt. Harley Paul Collins of Kanhis dart, but it was there all the sas City, Kan., knows exactly how same, and it came near killing his Private Smith felt. For Private Colbrother. As it was, a skillful operalins, borne oo furlough, was showtion removed the needle, and Frank ing his wife how the bos make was as well as ever after a few booby traps over there. He hooked found, of all things, a bewildered days. up a shell, a hoard, a nail and a boy Timothy Ochall piece of wire. Then he tripped, and by name on the front bumper. The Top honors in the freak fall dethe homemade contraption went off car had struck Timmy and carried partment for 1944 go to and shot him in the leg. him two full blocks Tim got a bump old Davis Jr of Chicago, on the head, a few bruises and a who Raymond fell three stories from a back Paul l.ewchick of Coaldale, Pa , flattering amount of attention. and suffered only a bruise on porch knows that prudent people lay m a Kd Cloud and Earl Thomas of the head. A neighbor's clothes line supply of coni every year But he Knoxville. Tenn., didn't know for a caught him as he fell, bounced him believes few of them do It as liter- minute whether were coming gently a they of times and then let ally as he did He Uy in-under or going the day that a train hit him fall couple the few remaining feet to -- 13 tons of it when he and his car their truck. The engiue tossed the the ground. were buried beneath the contents of truck onto the pilot of another locoa coal truck that upset in a near motive going the other A And in Hollywood, Strip Teaser collision with I.ewchnk's car Dug scratch on Cloud's head was way. the only Betty Rowland put so much heart out after hard work. Lewehick casualty. Into her work that she nursed only minor cuts and onuses, bumped one of her swivel hips and refrained manfully from exagainst a wall In Chicago, Mrs Rita Hatfield ran and took off for the hospital, sufferplaining that it was soft coal. to answer the phone, stumbled over ing from partial paralysis. Thousands of children are killed or injured every year while playing Ignorance of dangerous things and places, heprilessness and foolhardiness bring trag.c consequences It seems unlikely tbit the time will ever come when ii'tle boys and girls have sc se eno ,gn not to Jun p off barns, or leip fr nr ore Poarng ice c me 'a another, or p'u in railroad a r l s v of a nu died l other is miniature glass-toppe- vey. Was she. they wanted to know, covered against accidents in her home? She wasnt. A good ( hildi-l- by liciukhaso reduction has the import ceiling right as long as tee j You would think, then, that the annual crop of wacky accidents would have been even wackier in the wartime year of 1944. Ard you would be right. They were A roundup by the National Safety council proves that an amazing number of people still patronize the Whack market in accidents To wit: As Margaret Morton of Groton, Conn , lay sleeping in her home one October night, a navy plane plowed through her bedroom and whisked the blanket off bed without touching her. The plane s The Japs are now calling us al- bino baboons Weil, they me pretty much experts when it comes lo monkey business mail. The laundry eventually sends back the right buttons, but the shirts are missing. Maids who used to have one night out now allow the lady of the house to have one night in. A customer is publicly commended for slugging a waitress who said, Doncha know theres a war on? many of who,e functions will he continued when peace comes. Hole is lodged the responsibility for "initiation" that means the alpha and the omega of the coordination not only of "policy but of "action on such a highly businesslike matter as the pi ocui ement of all essential war materials from foreign countries You may be the lowliest or the mightiest of importers or exporters, but if you wish to buy or sell such materials you will have to talk with a representative of the department of state Then there is a complete "office of economic affairs. Here again action as well as policy concerning "protection and promotion of all American commercial and agricultural interests in foreign nations is initiated that sounds more like Kansas City or Madison avenue or Wall street than Pennsylvania avenue or Downing street. And those are only part of a modern diplomat's duties. There is also the tariff, trade treaties and agreements and international commercial policy as well, In just one division of the office of economic affairs. In addition, there Is a monetary division, and (believe it or not) labor relations and another separate unit to deal with that essential to the American home (when it gets on wheels again) petroleum. How we have departed from the haughty aloofness that sneered at vulgar trade! The spats and the monocles have been laid aside and the gentlemen once referred to by the cynical as "cooky-pusherhave gotten right down to the brass tacks of everyday life, and the activities shared by America's millions. the sidew .U level HERE and Narrow Escapes never could stand bananas now howl their heads of! because they cant get them. tivity, A Of 1944's Freak Accidents By PAUL JONES As you may have begun to suspect, wartime days are wacky days. People stand patiently in line for two hours to get a pack of cigarettes, and then blow their tops if they miss one section of a revolving door on the way back to work. Guys who of the duties of ambassadors, ministers an consular officers, nor the head of piotoeol or of the divisions which de il with passports and treaties They all fit into the traditional atniospheie of gold seals, tail coats and top hats. Hut what about aviation and shipping And what about the whole great, new office of waiUme economic ac- BRIEFS Making Doll Ho Furniture Others Unscathed Bv BAUKI1AGK .Wits Home Front Isn't So Safe Either: Here Are Oddest Capjrices of Fate ijure Some, Leave New Policy I'AlSON. UTAH . Think how Maca saves you O to the store on bake djys! ir always keep a handy suf ply u pantry shelf For your comple'W tion, we date every package So bake with success imu radJ ic Maca, the original fast, gr.inu. Ask your grocer for Maca todj tho way: Maca is reffu armed forces so, sometimes, ? j fj cer might be out of it If he Yeast Foam (Magic Yeast). It, 'si Cy bakings a grand NORTHWESTERN YEAST CO 1750 N. Athiand Avi, ChicS? |