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Show the mn.i.ETiN. h'nwiam. utaii i Late Additions to U. S. Navy i cs -- . SS- - I V fA m .J Iff o k. x; LJmUi I ,,' ,, e& fei 1 At the left. Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the Third naval district, reads orders ac ceptlng Floyd Bennett field for the navy at commissioning ceremony In New York. Above Is shown a view of the field. Right: The 8. 8. America, luxury liner of the United States line, moored at her pier In New York. She hat been requisitioned by the government and may be used as a troopship. IIP I I'llVuvJl J Portrait of a Man Pecking at a Portable The N. J. government'! dispos-sessing of the German-America- n Bund (from the state) sent the blood racing through my veins . . . What a victory for all of us who have been taking their insolence all these years! . . . Why the N. Y. press doesn't campaign for similar action I wish I knew ... I'd enjoy print-ing his cap and car numbers if I didn't think his employers would scold him for being human , . . Any-way, he stopped his Broadway trol-ley the other afternoon to unload some passengers and saw blind man on the other corner ... He left his trolley and escorted the blind one by the wing to the other side of the congested street . . . Then he dang-dange- d his bell and went on. For the life of me I cannot figure out why "Amapola" Is so popular. It has the corniest tune of them all . . . And when "Intermezzo" Is played a la Beguine I feel like yell-ing: "Stop! 1 1" . . . Why do they always try to Improve on master-pieces, anyhow? . . . The Com-modity Research Bureau's 1941 Year Book shows that the President's Emergency Proclamation means in-creasingly strict rationing of vital war materials. We're getting invis-ible ration cards now . . . My idea of a delicacy Is the peppery red cab-bage at Moore's. When I read that the authorities say "no sabotage," as in that huge Jersey fire, I wonder do the en-forcement agents know that in York-vill- e they brag: "That was our an-swer to the closing of Camp Nord-land- " ... If the fire is due to negligence, the Insurance companies do not have to pay off. But if It is sabotage, they have to pay Immedi-ately . . . Mr. n Hoover told me that the stories about the fire were inaccurate at' first That in-stead of the damage being 25 mil-lions, it was only two . . . That there wasn't a thing there of a de-fense nature or for Britain and that no sabotage had been detect-ed ... In short colyumists art not alone when it comes to getting wrong steers even newspaper edi-tors fall hard for them now and then like we ordinary people . . . I know, I know. I'm not a Journal-ist , . , I'm merely a jearnalist , Tch, tch, ten. The story of the week most un-likely to be confirmed: Japanese propagandists in the U. S. have just released the following flash: That "the Chinese invaded California in 800 A. D." . . . Something to worry about huh? ... It must be won-derful to be an and visit the Big Street for the first time and see those lights ... It seems wonderful to me, who has lived among them so long and I get a belt too, out of watching watchers watch them. I see news here and there and near it too, that Washington, D. C, is getting so crowded with people that It has become the nation's boom town. And that Broadway showmen and others are seriously thinking of epening night clubs there to cash in quickly . . . But they would be the suckers if they did . . . Apparently they do not know that Washington is still an early town, and that on Satur-day night the bars must close by midnight ... It is not a place where they stay up late since near-ly all of them must be up early with the other worms . . . The numerous parties given by the elite and officials there almost nightly consume all the best customers, any-way and that's Notes of an Innocent Bystander Broadway Alien: The orchids go to the editorialist on the N. Y. Times for this: "The Dionne quintuplets are seven years old. In many re-spects it is a woman's most de-lightful age. At seven she sits on a man's knee without hesitation, af-fected or genuine, and without put-ting the knee to sleep. Unlike the older women of the household, she enjoys listening to him. In fact, she encourages him to talk, and she be-lieves any story he tells her. Her curiosity over what became of his loss is unquestionably sincere. While unduly interested, perhaps, In the state of his exchequer and never too proud to accept pecuniary aid, she is no gold-digg- whose gratitude is measured by the amount of the con-tribution. For as little as two cop-per cents she will bear-hu- g his spec-tacles all out of shape, and he feels sure she Tieans it." Manhattan Murals: The subway singers who have switched from , torch tunes to patriotic themes . . . The sign in the druggist's: "Do you have tattle-tal- e gray matter?" . . . The Greenwich Village gin-mi- ll which conspicuously features a sign advertising the poor quality of its coffee . . . The 8th Avenue barber shop's sign: "Satisfied Haircuts or Your Hair refunded!" . . . The 42nd Street hawker selling "glamour ties" plain cravats with noisy stripes. Washington, D. C. GASLESS SUNDAYS It begins to look as if gasleas Sun-days might not be so necessary aft-er all if certain bare-knuck- re-forms in the oil industry are put through by new National Oil Ad-ministrator Ickes. For instance, the tanker system. When an oil tanker comes from the Gulf of Mexico up the East coast, it may stop at Charleston to discharge part of its oil, then at Norfolk, then at Baltimore. It dis-charges a certain amount at each port where its company distributes or refines oil Simultaneously, a tanker belong-ing to another company will stop off at exactly the same ports. Thus the tankers of three or even four dif-ferent companies may be feeding the same cities at the same time. If, on the other hand, one com-pany served one section of the coun-try, or if one tanker delivered oil to all the companies in each port instead of only to its own, distribu- - tion would be measurably speeded. Also, there are four different types of high octane gasoline being re-fined in the United States. All these varieties are not particularly neces-sary, one type being sufficient dur- - IntT 'Via omctrcranv Ct rrt ra t iri on only on-- type of high octane gas also would considerably increase gasoline output and distribution. There is plenty of oil in the U. S. A.; it is only a matter of refining and distribution. Note The anti-trus- t laws have prevented the oil companies from cutting competition of this kind, but the government oil administrator should be able to do what the oil compunies can't Dut LaGuardia, who made his own terms when he took his defense post, is still in charge of national morale. SECRECY OF CONVOYS Most people don't realize it, but the contents of almost every ship leaving the United States for Eng-land is known to Nazi Germany. However, learning just when the shipment will reach England and the route It will take, is another matter. Getting Information regarding the departure of supply ships to Eng-land Is relatively simple. All Nazi agents have to do is go down to the waterfront to watch the loading of British ships. The type of goods being loaded cannot be readily con-cealed. Or if an American vessel is load-ing for the Red Sea, the papers signed by the crew must disclose the port of destination. This is requlrec by law, so that a seaman may knov where he is going, and because ex tra Insurance and sometimes extrt wages are paid if the ship enten certain areas. Once a British ship is loaded, how ever, the utmost secrecy Is imposec on its route and time of departure Usually the ship hugs the shore ai far north as the Canadian port ol Halifax. There it may wait for dayi or even two or three weeks for a convoy to be made up. When it finally leaves for the haz-ardous voyage across the Atlantic, orders are given to the ship's mas-ter by hand. Nothing is trusted ta radio. A small boat puts out from the commander of the convoy, car-rying sealed orders to the master of each vessel. No other orders are given, and no radio messages are exchanged dur-ing the trip except in case of at-tack, because radio messages might be picked up by Nazi patrol planes. Note American ships, on the oth-er hand, follow a regular, course and constantly send out radio messages informing the world of their position. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Supporting the plan of Chief of Staff Marshall to lower the age of army commanders, war department officials quote the late Justice Oli-ver Wendell Holmes, who fought in the Civil war. To Lady Pollock, during the Spanish-America- n war, he wrote: "A general of 43 and a private of 30 are old men." The commerce department has set up a separate British empire unit, headed by W. Walton Butter-wort- h, former state department offi-cial in London. His job is to estab-lish closer commercial ties with British dominions and colonies. After Gen. Allen Gullion, the army's efficient judge advocate general, appeared in the comic strip "Hap Hopper," he received a let-ter from an old boyhood chum say-ing: "I have been wondering where you were for 40 years, and now at last I've located you through the funny papers." Twenty-si- x years ago Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt toted a friend's baby son around the old Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Savings bank, much to the amuse-ment of Judge John E. Mack, who later nominated FDR for President. The other day, on the anniversary of the incident, the baby Charles Durant Maines of Flint, Mich. was Inducted into the army. Rural Electrification Administra-tor Harry Slattery is proud of hav-ing strung up wires in Alaska and the Virgin Islands. Also, he is mak-ing a survey in Puerto Rico. Ktlad by Weitern Newpapr Union.) A BILL OF IMPORTANCE TO FARMERS A BILL of great importanct to the American people was recently Introduced In the house of represen-tative- s - H.R. 4591 - by Congress-ma- n August H. Andersen of Minne-sota. H.R. 4591 does not call for billions of expenditures; It has nothing to do with the production of war ma-terials; it has nothing to do with partisanship, but it will r.ot be easy to get it through congress. The bill provides for the discov-ery, introduction into this country, breeding and testing of agricultural crops for utilization in industry and manufacturing, and for replacement of surplus agricultural crops. That bill, if and when enacted Into law, will be the foundation on which a permanent solution of the Amer-ican farm problem can be built It would provide for crops for which a market would be available. It would make the farmer Independent of government doles, but would in-sure adequate farm revenue from year to year. It would make the farmer Independent of Washington and for that reason, it will be a hard bill to pass. No one doubts the existence of hundreds of soil products that can be utilized In industry, as tung nuts, soy beans, castor beans, hemp and others are now being used. Under the proposed law, they would be found and applied to industry through chemical research, to be conducted largely at state universi-ties. It is a simple and practical plan on which to build a permanent solu-tion of the American farm problem and is one the farmers want. The farmer asks for a market for such things as he can raise, not neces-sarily for what he now raises. He wants to produce and be paid for what he produces, not to be paid for not producing. The enactment of Congressman Andersen's bill would be a definite first step in that direc-tion. A SYSTEM THAT CREATES, THAT'S AMERICAN SYSTEM I HAVE A FRIEND who, as a young man, started a manufactur-ing business on the proverbial "shoe string." Through energy and ex-ecutive and sales ability he made it a success. Today he operates plants in three states and provides employ-ment for more than 2,000 people. Over the years he has, as we would say, amassed wealth for him-self. In reality he has added materially to the national wealth and in the distribution of our national annual income. His ability has very largely helped to provide for the maintenance of some 2,000 Ameri-can homes food, shelter and cloth-ing for 2,000 families. That friend is getting well along in years now, and some day, like all of us, will pass away, but he will leave behind the plants which rep- - resent an increase in the national wealth and the more than 2,000 jobs he created. They will go on. The experience of that friend rep-resents the operation of the Amer-ican system of free competition, the American way of life. It has been operating since the first colonists ar-rived on our Atlantic coast Be-cause it is a creative system, it has made America the most prosperous nation in the world. It is a system that creates and divides, and what it creates, it leaves for use by posterity. HALF-WA- MEASURES WON'T GET RESULTS WE AMERICANS all too frequent-ly attempt to accomplish big results with half-wa- y measures. We are ! seldom willing to look any problem squarely in the face and take full measures for solving it at one time. We try to do it piecemeal. Our problem today is to prevent i inflation. To do that we say to the manufacturer-a- nd later it will in-clude the farmer-'-y- ou can charge un.y so much for your product " We do not say to the workman that he can charge only so much for his time. Ae do not say to governmen-t- Deficit spending for must stop," or "fix a defi-nit- e hm,t on government borrow-"IB- s. or "The tax load on the man-creased-forrncr 'mui "t be to- - To stop with only a limitation on tr.e pnee that may be charged corr mod.ties will not do ail the job' Without the other it will be but killing the Eoose l'at golden eggs. ' AIR MINDED FARM aS TS " 'So the 8 SCh1S report fullv onehalff ,he farms 7mSatUndyenatSirpclaone cflruobms "e being They fly hght pianeXh rcanTe 'nded in ordinary pasture fle", SACRIFICES J-- Fuller Per B JERRY U1 Tuller." 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Members of the Northeast gun club , seem to have the matter well In hand, and 4t are now engaged in doing their bit as part of 4 the training program of the home defense m unit set up by the Frankford Post 211 of the i American Legion. At left, members of the H club are shown receiving instructions from a leader. Above, drawing a bead on a "raider" at Somerton airport. A Conscience and Fassi Conscience is the voice soul, the passions are the the body. Rousseau. 1 Ambassadors at Columbia's Commencement ., . 1 4. X ' :, , , V O ' ' ' ,,' .., k I - hV f, 4 x s x v Three ambassadors to the United States are shown In the procession that was part of the 187th commencement at Columbia nniversity, New York. From left to right, Felipe A. Espil (holding hat), Argentine am-bassador; Carlos Martins, Brazilian ambassador; and Lord Halifax, Brit-ish ambassador, who received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Far From Air Raids ( - - Jiffs'; ? 1 On vacation here from Britain's air raids, Mrs. Pat MacLeod, left, and Miss Winifred Ashford, mem-bers of England's women's mecha-nize- d transport corps, marvel at New York's Empire State building. Bed of Its Making Jealousy spreads the be stinging nettles and then lit to sleep. Dealing With Faults Bad men excuse their ;ood men will leave theffl- Amphibian Scout Car Tested by Army . WWlHllll.lVwWWW"' y :v:.-.-' I !Z- -r -" """? ;'' " ' . Roger W. Hofhelns of Buffalo, . Y., the Inventor, driving his "Aqua-Cheetah- " through Niagara river in a test before army engineers. The craft has a three-blade-d propeller and four wheels, all powered by a regu-lar automobile motor. On land the car can attain a speed of 60 miles an hour. t Wins Again ' IHjfflstwswiaa i im - V Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, won many victories as an air il the ace World war. celebrates his new est victory. This is his first outint since Injury in ptane crash. |