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Show THE V,r I.RT. t';il M. 7TAH - J Doughty Little U. S. Scrappers in Singapore ''V!'.'.'''':' .... ... v..::.V-y- '. Shipped from New York to Singapore In crates, these Brewster fighting planes, built in the Long Island City plant of the Brewster Aircraft company, were assembled by Royal Air force experts In Singapore shops and "Buffalo fighters." They are now ready to receive "visitors" (presumably from Japan). Inset: The Brewsters being assembled in a Singapore shop after delivery from the U. S. III A'ofrs of a New Yorker: After all of George Jean Nathan's work and struggle for recognition, his home burg, Fort Wayne, Ind., erected a plaque to a movie gal named Jane Peters (Carole Lom-bard) . , , Gary Cooper stands a line chance of copping the Academy Award this time for his tip-to- p per-formance in "Sgt. York" . . . When Gary was a student at Grinnell Col. lege, Iowa, he applied for member-ship in the dramatic society there and was spurned because, they said, he couldn't act . . . Back from vacationing in the Catskills, a Broad-wayit- e enthused about the rural sec-tor .. . "So peaceful!" he raved. "Every night you're lulled to sleep by the chirping of crickets, the croaking of frogs, and the ripple of the borscht!" . . . New York is like this: In the office building at 515 Madison Avenue the tenants include the America First Committee and the R.A.F. Benevolent Society. Louis Fischer In his book recalls one of Goebbels' quotes which is probably choking Berlin's lyingest midget by now: "Whoever treats with Bolshevism will end by being devoured by it" . . . The gag in Rumania, they tell you, goes this way; "Bver since we joined the axis we are getting rooa line uer-many- 's earthquakes like Japan's, and an army like Italy's!" Comforting Thought for the Draft-ed: The Commander-in-Chie- f wants them to stay in an army camp for another year so that their families will never be shoved into a concen-tration camp forever. Ray Clapper, the columnist, ex-hibited some of the abusive and . stupid letters he gets from Lind-berghe- rs . . . Clapper pointed out that abuse has replaced reason in the minds of those people . . .All of which is a new way of spelling crackpots . . . But get this irony. Those who submit vile letters are the ones who yelp that their heroes are being smeared . . . Hitler claims he li fighting a religious war against the Russians "who do not recognize any church" . . . That's a cinch to debunk . . . Every time Hitler's air force recognized a church In England they bombed It The Yoo-ho- o incident between Lieut.-Gener- Lear and troops train- - ing In Tennessee has aroused na-tional controversy, Many take the side of the General, claiming that discipline is more important than the soldiers' sore feet (from march-ing 15 miles in a 97 degree heat as punishment for flirting with some girl golfers) ... On the other hand, many think the punishment too se-vere. The following story is offered to show that not all officers are starchy. On a dark, rainy night, out from the front lines of Verdun a water-soake- d, mud-cake- d group of Amer-ican doughboys trudged in the French mud ... At ease for a mo-ment one of them approached an officer in the darkness . . , "Ex-cuse me, Sir, have you a cigarette?" . . . "Certainly, son," was the an-swer ... As the doughboy lit up his cigarette the match revealed the face of General Pershing. "General Pershing!" said the sol-dier. "Yes, son," replied the general, "you took an awful chance. I might ' have been a second lieutenant!" A London arrival (via clipper) brought a half dozen lemons which is practically the same as a million dollars right now . . . The boys at the Savoy were smacking their lips over the thought of a lemon in their cocktails, when they discov-ered that Kathleen Harriman, daughter of Averill, had used the precious lemons for a rinse! Typewriter Ribbons: Nate Co-llier: No horse can go as fast as the money you bet on him . . . Punch: H.i.s.desire was nipped In the budget Ed Howe: A good scare is worth more to a man than good ad-vice . . . Lyman Beecher: Elo-quence is logic on fire . . . Abe Martin: Hain't it a relief when a clerk finally admits he hain't got what you want? . . . Anon: You could tell the show's goose was cooked as soon as the audience started roasting , , . The Brandon Sun: Only two classes of people fall for flattery men and women . . . Jack Warwick: Many things can happen while the experts are making wrong guesses . . . George Bernard Shaw: In Heaven an an-gel is nobody in particular . . . Dolores Anderson: Everything in Hollywood is real except the peo-ple. When the White House sent some of the secretarial staff in a White House car to the funeral of Louis Howe's sec'y at Asheville, N. C, the car was barred from the pro-cession because it did not have a union driver . . . "Any three-card-Mon-player will tell you," Howard Whitman declares in Coronet, "that ' good, simple, honest people make the best suckers" . . . Smarter crooks will tell you different . . . The ripest sucker is a chump with a taint of larceny, and he's in- - a vaifably booked. orecoh iNsrni J. Fuller P Br JERRYJ The widow Brown sparkln' old Jed Moone Jed's dancin' thsttuc It's his "pep ppeT Which showiihe'ii woman, becaun ti fledged vitamin fan m KELLOGQ'S PEP ivitj; PEPhasntgotantki of course, but It's on the two that are nti many people's mealj- -i What's more, It's plumb Why not try It tomonti rr frvlmf: t2t)il 4S I 1S th mmimi iai WDLE--j WOMEN HEED THIS ADV Ik, arehelwi!i ing thru due 4t lar to ww "V bythUpera y? with Lydli f bam' Vepa !X4 Dound-- l; Over 60 years. TtnkliM'ii made especially l helped thouiandt to rt. . weak, nervous feeling! functional dUturlwia WHEN kidneys suffer nm with diuiness, burning, frequent urination ana f night; whn you Mf airupset...useDoni Doan's are espew y working kidneys. arc used every year. IW mended lh country v HOTEL BEN Llj OGDEN, UTAH mi ilr-- 'J -- B. C, 151 Bocm-- M Family Boomtfo' Hotel Bcm (Keleaed by Western Newspaper Union.) ' DRIFT LAW BRINGS ABOUT HEALTHY ASSOCIATIONS THERE IS A JOB the new army is doing that may not be realized by all. It is breaking down the class consciousness that was growing all too rapidly. When the poor man's son and the rich man's son sleep under the same canvas or occupy adjoining bunks; j when they wear the same kind of 'clothing, do the same routine Jobs day after day, they find they are Ivery much alike. They are both young men with the same aspirat-ions, much the same likes and dis-likes, both of them humaa They find the top sergeant knows no distinction between rich and poor when it comes to naming a kitchen police detail; that the rich man's son can go to the guard house for any infraction of army rules quite as quickly as the poor man's son; that In army regulations there is no rich or no poor all are sol-diers. Out of It all will come many thou-- ! sands of lasting friendships between the rich and poor. When it is over and the poor boy goes to a factory Job and the rich boy to the office desk, the friendship formed in the army camp will continue and will result In a better understanding in that factory. Service in the army Is making for better American citizenship that Is fully as valuable as the making of soldiers. When the emergency is over, the draft law should be con-tinued, with the age limit reduced to 22 years, so all American boys, rich and poor, may continue to get ac-quainted. The nation will be strong-er because of such acquaintance. HOME TOWN PATRONAGE OR ELSE AS A SMALL BOY, I knew the then prosperous little town of Ver-non, Iowa. I knew its four general stores, well-stocke- d with the mer-chandise of that time. These stores constituted the foundation on which Vernon was built Their existence was responsible for the comforta-ble homes of the town, for its two churches and for its, for that time, excellent school. The "drummers" those stores brought to the town made possible that hotel. The bank was dependent on the stores for its business. Vernon was a market place. Then came the Invasion of the mail-ord- catalogue, with a con-certed blitzkrieg on business of the town. The sales of the merchants declined. With that decline came a reduction in the quantity and vari-ety of merchandise offered by local merchants. In time the stores closed. With them went the bank, hotel, homes, churches and the school. Today Vernon does not exist, even to the extent of a post office. What was once a market place, a social and cultural center, a place of com-fortable homes, is now a corn field. The value of those acres and other farm acres surrounding the place that once was Vernon is not as great as it was 60 years ago. Ttere have been all too many Vernors throughout America too many market places that have died because ol the tendency to central-ize merchandising. Whenever peo-ple of a community permit their market place to dr from lack of home patronage they racriflce their social and cultural center, their churches and schools, and turn what has been a place of homes into a field. That, continued to a logical conclusion, would make peasants of the American farmers. It would de-prive them of all that makes farm life pleasant. NO FEAR FOR U. S. IN TRADE BARRIERS WHEN ANYONE attempts to tell you we, as a nation, must do things to protect our world markets, it is well to remember a few simple facts. America represents Just about 60 per cent of all the purchasing ' power of the entire world. We are i as great a market place as all other ' nations combined. We do, or can, produce 97 per cent of all the commodities needed to maintain the American standard of living. We could build a trade wall around the country and suffer jno serious Inconvenience. Our one greatest item of export is raw cotton. We import in the form jf manufactured products practically as much cotton as we export in bales. It is other nations, not America, that would seriously suffer from any trade barriers they might attempt against us. A KIT COMPLICATED ARE EGG PRICES, ETC. ENGLAND ASKS that we reduce our egg consumption so we can sell more to her. "on the cuff." Englam does not buy eggs in Canada, where It would be a cash transaction. The price of eggs in Canada is about ? "nt.s dzen less than the price to the American consumer. We pay 'or eggs for England and raise our own price on those we eat. but the Amencan Poultry raiser profits. It is a complicated world, a complex, bewildered world. Washington, U. C. 100D FOR BRITAIN In the headlines, lend-leas- e aid to Britain is chiefly a story of planes, tanks, ships, guns and munitions. But these dramatic war supplies are only one part of the picture. An equally vital, though little known, phase of this gigantic pro-gram is food. Today, pracUeaUy every ship leaving U. S. shores for embattled England carries stocks of food as part of its cargo. Also significant is the fact that this steady flow of food shipments differs markedly from those of World war days. Then the foodstuffs were in bulk ! form boatloads of grain and fresh meats. But now, with British and Allied shipping suffering terrible de-- j struction, there aren't enough bot-- ; toms to transport both bulky arma- - ments and bulky food across the hazardous Atlantic. j Since the cargo space for bulky armaments cannot be reduced, and with the British food situation be--1 coming acute, food is being shipped in concentrated and dehydrated form. Thus it is carried in the same ships with arms and muni-tions, taking up relatively little space. The extent of these shipments and what they meant to the American farmer is shown graphically by the following list of lend-leas- e food pur-chase- s In a very recent seven-wee- k period: American cheese, 20,483,175 pounds; corn starch, 35,820,000 pounds; frozen eggs, 36,648,630 pounds; dried eggs, 4,458,650 pounds; canned fish, 1,083,052 cases; dehydrated soup, 4,400,000 pounds; soy beans, 9,070,000 pounds; dried beans, 40,770,000 pounds; corn sugar, 5,696,000 pounds; enzymes, 3,360 pounds; dried apricots, 9,986,-00- 0 pounds; honey, 3,557,300 pounds; enriched flour, 399,000 pounds; con-centrated orange juice, 92,302 gal-lons; vitamin A, 2,547,183 units, vi-tamin Bl, 3,965 kilograms; peanut butter, 1,762,000 pounds; lard, pounds. Note Management of the lend-leas- e food program is under the Surplus Marketing administration, aided by the U. S. public health service, the British ministry of health and the Anglo-America- n food purchasing committee. FREEZING CHINESE FINDS There was one unwritten chapter in the story of American freezing of funds of those two Oriental neigh-bors, Japan and China. It was published that the funds of friendly China were frozen as well as the funds of unfriendly Japan. But unpublished was the fact that China for four months had been asking the state department to freeze its funds, but the state de-partment had refused. China's request was quite unusual, for most nations object strenuously to having their funds frozen. For instance, Switzerland, hearing that she would be included with Ger-many when Hitler's funds were fro-zen, argued for weeks. But in the case of China, many of her funds are in the hands of big Chinese merchants and bankers in Shanghai, who for business reasons are playing with the Japanese. And they have been draining Chinese currency from the country. So Roosevelt's special Chinese emissary, Lauchlin Currie, was re-quested by Chiang Kai-she- k to ask Secretary of State Hull to freeze Chinese funds. This would have ham-strung the Chinese. However, Secretary Hull refused. Twice Chiang Kai-she- k made the re-quest, but both times it was refused. In fact the state department even denied that such a request was made, presumably cn the ground that it came not through diplomatic j channels, but through Mr. Currie who Is only a White House secre-tary. Finally, however, when Japanese funds were frozen, Chiang Kai-she- k got his request fulfilled. But it took Japanese aggression in the South Pacific to do it BOOTLEG GASOLINE The days of bootlegging from Canada may be coming back again In this case, however, the bootleg-ging will be gasoline, not alcohol Canada has imposed a ban on sale of gasoline between 7 p. m. and 7 a. m. on weekdays, and all day Sun-da- y. But this restriction does not apply to Americans. Now comes the proposal of Oil Administrator Ickes to impose a similar ban on gasoline sales in eastern states. Result would be that a motorist would be unable to buy gasoline in Buffalo or Detroit but could cross the river and buy it in Canada. MEURY-GO-ROUN-Administrations are quietlv throwing their weight behind the candidacy of Francis Miller, mili ant New Dealer, for the Virginia legislature. Miller is being opposed by toe Old Guard machine Sen. Harry Byrd. To out-of-to- friends who call on him, President Roosevelt is present tag copies of "America." absorbing booklet wntten by David Cushman Doyle. The President s.y, he m real WiCan h b Frcecrdr, .teenth-centur- y jfc Hunt; Dore, Watts, r6oss;J and plays include Z nunzio, Pellico, Ech Maeterlinck. 2 U. S. Fleet Reported Leaving Hawaii I . ' i 1r1MI View of the U. 8. fleet in Hawaii, our "Gibraltar of the Pacific," which was reported to have sailed under sealed orders. Coincident with this report, President Roosevelt ordered all Philippine armed forces into the elective service of the United Statee. The move followed the freezing of Japanese credits in the United States and Great Britain. Three Chain I have three chaL' house : One for solitud friendship and three fc: Thoreau. Here's a Real Outfield ihmwyww ',-- ." i iiiwpwii.iii hi iiliw iiiiihiiiiii.ii mhuhxj p w wiii.hu iin Three of the greatest outfielders of all time get together in Cleveland at an amateur day celebration Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb (L. to R.). Speaker is the former center fielder of the Cleveland Indians. Ruth is the great Yankee home-ru- n hitter of old, and Cobb the former Detroit Tiger star who holds so many records. J Skyscraper Farm 'vw- wcwwa- ............. r-- - ' ! t ' &JLx The sky is the limit w hen it comes to raising vegetables. A. M. Van Den Hoek, horticultural director of; Rockefeller Center, is shown on his! eleventh-floo- r farm at RCA building, New York. He raises enough vege-- ! tables for a family of four. Without Queslii Questioning is not conversation among f Samuel Johnson. Didn't Get Away V Lord Halifax, Briiish ambassador, took time out for day's deep-se-a fishing while on tour of the C. S. He caught a yellowtail, and this barracuda. They're in the U. S. Service Now President Roosevelt has ordered all armed forces of the Philippines into the U. S. service. The order placed some 150,000 trained and semi-train- ed Filipinos under the command of MaJ. Gen. George Grunert. Here Philippine scouts of Battery E, Ninety-fir- st artillery, are shown loading 10-In-ch gun during a coast defense drill on the Island. |