Show Views of the Press In the dim past when Chinese armies fought with stinkpots aswell as aswell aswell well as with spears and matchlocks matchlocks match match- locks they employed as their first line of skirmishers certain acrobats of mobile countenance whose business it was to make terrifying faces face's at the other side and so frighten the foe from the field of battle How much muzzle velocity these scarecrows carried is not set down in precise records But could it exceed the fire volume of the present-day present counterparts of these makers face-makers the bur bur- who emit the propaganda propaganda ganda of the axis and the sovi soviet t These do not make faces but they distort facts and twist figures figures fig fig- ures on a grand scale to frighten the enemy enemy H Herr Her e r r Goebbels Signor Signer Gayda and Comrade What's name of the Kremlin are the vocal contortionists who are the direct descendants of the medieval Chinese ugly mugs Say this however for the Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese makers face-makers They did get out between the armies where arrows flew and javelins hurtled Th Their ir modern imitators do their horrifying from safe office desks if it necessary necessary sary in bomb shelters Courage was essential to the old China hina men all the Goebbels and Gaydas Gaydas Gay Gay- das need is vivid imagination and large vocabulary The palm it appears belongs to th the ancient Chinese San Francisco Chronicle Donald 11 M. M Nelson director of purchases of the office of production production production pro pro- management just has predicted that before the defense defense defense de de- de- de nse fe-nse emergency is done with the country will feel shortages not alone of industrial materials but butof butof butof of food Only the other day we were reading of the millions paid out outto outto outto to insurance companies and other corporate landowners to grow less food One we recall got for cutting down the food supply But the corporate beneficiaries of government crop control got only a fraction of the total as we are reminded by bythe bythe bythe the b bumper ap appropriation congress con con- gress grass recently made to continue the same program into next year The farmers are being urged from Washington to produce more p pigs gs and are paid from Washington to grow less corn Wonderful Alice in her travels through Wonderland found nothing nothing noth noth- ing tag to equal it If It this country with Its truly abundant capacity for food production production pro pro- still experiences food shortages it will be because it suffered first from a shortage of good sense Detroit News Since the policy of ot intercontinental intercontinental intercontinental solidarity has been intensified intensified muc much talk has been current current current cur cur- rent regarding inroads nazis have been making in American trade Many of us have the impression im Sm- our commerce with the countries south of the Rio Grande is rather tenuous and could easBy easily Sly ily be torn away by European trade blitz but our products are liked there bought even in preference to priced lower-priced German German Ger Ger- man items the Items the reason superior more durable goods So we have have- havea a real foundation on which to build to greater trade inter Inter- change St. St St. Louis Globe Demo Demo- crat Uruguay's announcement that sh she will not consider any American American Ameri Amen can country fighting overseas powers as a belligerent and will keep her ports open to to- United States warships if it the war moves westward is significant in that it may give a cue to other Latin- Latin American governments It is not nota a novelty for Uruguay took the same action in the World war But it does invite her sister re republics republics republics re- re publics in South and Central America to put their cards on the table by revealing the degree degree degree de de- de- de gree of cooperation the United States could expect from them New New Orleans Item |