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Show MOAB, UTAH THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, mee siento Reduces Farm Export Market LESSON FOR U. S. Most of the lessons of the war are too obscure to learn. The fall of France cant be explained. Gossip filtering back indicates a stench to By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features-WNU Service.) EW YORK.-Howard Lindsay needed makeup to play "Life With Father."" Dr. Charles Phillips Cooper, managing editor of the New York Evening Dr. red 6 Cooper Sun, around Natural Lead for the turn of ‘Life With Father' © | century, could have walked right into the part without taking off his hat. As he retires as professor of journalism at Columbia university, after more than 50 years of practicing and teaching journalism, he still commands affection and respect from his one-time proteges, an emotion somehow filial, and somehow belonging in that nostalgic picture which the late Clarence Day and Mr. Lindsay and Russell Crouse have recreated for the stage. a ectecetieee They used to set the type for the old Evening Sun in the local room. Charles A. Dana ordered some linotype machines, found workmen delivering them to the World instead, got into a row about it and said to the devil with the whole business, or words to that effect. At any rate this classic of newspapers for many years thereafter kept clear of all technological entanglements, including typewriters. Sa ete i Dr. Cooper's spouting mustache was electrified during the ordeal of getting out the paper. Reporters used to say it was like sensitive antennae, catching impulses out of the air. This was the only way they could explain his way of spotting a red-hot news story in some bit of trivia, moving across his desk. They called him "The Human Sieve." That was due to his trick of sifting bugs, libel suits, and sloppy writing out of a piece of copy with a swift slash of his pencil. When a reporter was beaten on a story, or made a serious error, or otherwise offended, Dr. Cooper would clutch both sides of his desk, lean back, close his eyes and howl. And when one of the boys really put something over (it had to be good) Dr. Cooper would croon and cluck over him affectionately. a ee CE a nee edeaereaneinee aie Rounding 74, Dr. Cooper never moans over the good old days, and has no regrets for the passing of personalized journalism. He thinks newspapers of today are doing a better job than their predecessors. Among his colleagues were Arthur Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis, Woodford Patterson, now secretary of Cornell university, Nelson Lloyd, O'Neill Sevier, George Cartaret, Stephen French Whitman, Homer St. Gaudens and a score of other long-remembered names. ih - 00 nous Hee St ren Sa . =e wate aap at anc mebreraren aon co ipantadenetianatiane sancetnsilinn tncmetenenanesin aataaiocaontosAton itera ae as el vem - baat ae He was always yelling for copy and the boys, if the story was hot, had to write it in short takes. There was always a blizzard of copy paper loose in the city room. As press time came near there were yells, bleats, running foot-beats and a bedlam which could be heard all up and down Park Row. Out of all this came a paper as cool and neatly fashioned as a daisy in the meadow-human, subtle, civilized and deftly done. The noise, smells of ink, grease and tobacco, and above all, Dr. Cooper's rip-snorting energies seemed to make a formula for newspaper ‘‘oomph."' Dr. Cooper, short and stocky, with his bright brown eyes alert and narrowly focused behind his glasses, joined the Sun staff as a reporter in 1889, after a year with the Hartford (Conn.) Post. He was with the Sun 24 years as city editor, news editor, assistant managing editor and managing editor. He retired to become a teacher of journalism in 1919, [ts a long stretch from Gen. Adna R. Chafee's small-arm Indianfighting equipment to Brig. Gen. Adna R. Chafee's new mechanized . army corps- From ‘Boots and a father neal Saddles' to ‘Man The Gear Shifts' son saga. The father was greatest Indian one of the fighters in our his- tory, battling the Kiowas and Comanches along the 900-mi le trail to the Sierra Madre in New Mexico. The son, schooled in the mounted service, was a cavalryman like his father, but in recent years has spe- cialized warfare. in studies of mechanized His new armored divisions are said to be similar in organ ization to the German panzer units. Army men say they fill a long-f elt need in the service. Brigadier General Chafee was born at Junct ion City, Kan., in 1884, and Was graduated from West Point in 1906, a few years too late for the Spani sh-American and Philippine workouts, but he is a veteran of our later military engagements in Europe, holding the Distinguished Service Medal and is regarded asa 800d organ izer and fighter-as "boots and saddles!" changes to "man the gear-s hifts!'' heaven. We are already officially blamed for not doing something that we were somehow supposed to be obliged to do. Who obligated us? Mr Bullitt did say openly that we wouldn't be in it at the beginning but would be in the end. The end came too soon for France. If she relied on Mr. Bullitt, she missed the bus. The lesson from France is not clear enough to learn but there is one lesson from the whole bloody mess that simply shrieks. No nation can rely on any other and certainly not we on the British navy, or Latin America, or on anything but our own strength. France created the ‘‘cordon sanitaire''-the ring of little nations like Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, to keep Germany captive. She relied on them and they on her. She relied on the British navy. Britain relied on the French army. When Hitler began to show strength, France wanted to stop him. Britain wouldn't play. When Mussolini hijacked Ethiopia, Britain wanted to stop him. France wouldn't play. Both let Hitler and Mussolini build up the strength to ravage the French and British reliance on little nations in the ‘‘cordon sanitaire' and their reliance on Britain and France. One by one they fell. Britain and France were helpless or unwilling to stop it. They are responsible for the threat to us today because, finally, came the case of Poland. Britain and France at last were drowsily preparing. But neither was remotely ready. Nevertheless they shoved Poland into the guns. The case was weak. Danzig was a German city. The Polish corridor was a monstrosity. Furthermore, worst of all, Hitler wanted no war in the west, he was headed east and southeast. France, under British pressure, joined in declaring war when Hitler marched. It was one of the greatest and most stupid blunders in history - if not the very greatest. It forced Hitler to turn to the west. The result already has been the destruction of six small neutral nations- and the French empire. It terribly threatens the British empire. It threatens us. Recriminations have already begun. We hear that France didn't want to go to war and Britain forced her-that the French government didn't want to abandon the defensive and plunge into the disastrous Belgian pocket-that Britain forced it and didn't support it. The facts aren't clear. But the blunders are. They shout their lessons to us. Don't start anything you can't finish. Get fully ready before you start slapping down ears. Don't rely on anybody but yourself. Don't push other nations into warlike positions to defend yourself. a a © In this blundering diversion of Hitler to our direction when he might have gone eastward to wear himself out in battle with the bear of Russia, we are not blameless. We supported and encouraged it morally. Part of the argument to bring France in was that only if she were in war could she be sufficiently unified and mobilized for war, and that if she did get in she would have time to get ready afterward. Exactly that is being said to us in this country today. There is another way to say it. It is "Get a dictator.'' Step by muddled step we have followed blundering European war policies. We are still following them. Our two new war cabinet members believe in doing that. That is why they were chosen. Our greatest need is new and competent leadership- before it is too late. * WANTED: a * A PRODUCTION MAN Industrial mobilization isn't just madly appropriating billions. Billions are necessary, but suc: cess is threatened if they are thrown away. Contracts with suppliers are necessary, but they are no good if they don't result in swift and acceptable production so regulated that all the separate parts come to the assembly line properly timed to all other deliveries and with no spoiled work or parts that do not fit. I doubt if we are giving enough attention to either one of these principles. There is too much ballyhoo about billions. It tends to pacify the demand of the people for drive and effectiveness. This column began insisting years ago that we call in Bill Knudse n- but not in his present job of passing on and clearing contracts. What this situation needs is a great production man and Bill is the best we have. He may be good at contracts, but if he is it's just luck. That has not been his life's work. There are many men more expert in contracting. What he should be doing is fitting army design and Specification to civilian manufacture to insure the speediest}abest, and most economical production. Elep hant Survive? Can Baby Asks Seience as Birth Nears ANYre | we. . . ATTACK SOVIET IN SEPTEMBER If Hitler succeeds in his boast re- Agriculture. Blockade Closes Markets. Allied naval blockade closed central Europe's markets to American goods. German occupation of Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, and the entrance of Italy into the war barred American products from almost the | whole of Europe. Some of these nations had been among this country's best farm markets. Agricultural exports were also seriously affected when the allies pooled their economic and financial resources and centralized purchases through a government commission. This effect was increased when England shifted as much of her food purchases to her dominions as was possible. She took this step to save her foreign exchange for the purchase of war necessities. British imports of cotton and wheat-this country's two principal export crops-has dwindled greatly. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace estimates that exports of American agricultural products in the fiscal year which began July 1 will be at least 30 per cent below last year. This will mark an 80 per cent decrease below the level attained in the first World war. England's Market. Continuation of the war through 1942 may force Great Britain to purchase a larger proportion of her agricultural supplies from the United States. The agricultural department warns, however, that by this time the belligerents would be approaching ffinancial exhaustion. American' agricultural products would be needed, but nobody could pay for them. "It appears likely that both belligerents and neutrals will find it advisable or necessary to continue many of the economic controls established during the war," the department added. .American trade can be reconstructed after the war only so far as a way is found to finance the transactions. Foreign countries can purchase American products only by exchange of goods or through the shipment of gold to this country. The department points out that use of gold will be difficult because the United States has most of the world's supply. Australia to Speed Plane Production, Training of Pilots CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA. -A program for making Australia one of the front rank world air powers by March, 1943, has been announced by Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies. It involves an increase of 11 times the present program for training pilots, observers, gunners and aircraftsmen and an increase of seven times in the present program for the production of aircraft. This would give Australia by the time the program is in full operation in March, 1943, a total aviation personnel of 57,473 and an air force of about 2,000 planes. With the program and production then in full Operation, Prime Minister Menzies believes that Australia can increase the air force each year until it ranks with the most powerful air nations in the world. Large Gain This Year. Under the program as launched, Australia will have 28,500 trained men, consisting of crews, pilots and ground personnel by June, 1941. By June, 1942, an additional 18,012 will have been trained and by March, 1943, when the entire program will be in full operation, an additional 10,961 will have been trained, giving Australia an aviation personnel of 57,473, which will be Maintained thereafter. For carrying out the program there will be installed as rapidly as possible three initia] ground training schools; 10 elementary flying training schools; four air observers' schools; four bombing and gunnery schools; four Wireless operators' schools; and two air navigation schools. Menzies announced that this rapid increase in aviation, coupled with the rapid growth that is taking place in the military and naval program, is intended to make Austra lia capable of defending itself. R. (O Federal Government Plans To Cushion Effect on WASHINGTON.-Plans to overcome the unfavorable effect of the war upon American agriculture are being drawn up by the federal government through the office of foreign agricultural relations. While the war has been hurting the farmers, agricultural department experts believe that when peace. is resumed, the after-effects will be far worse. They are convinced that farm prices will continue to suffer unless the war lasts more than three years, when increased foreign buying will begin to bolster the market. Complete governmental control of the economies of belligerents has marked the present conflict. The wars in Europe and in the Orient have assumed an economic character through the widespread use of blockade and counter-blockade. Vegetable Symphor ' Tea Towels Mo garding the conquest of Great Britain, next move on the Nazi timetable is almost sure to be Russia. You can write it down as fairly certain that Hitler will invade the Soviet around September 1. There is one big reason for this- food. Europe is sure to be faminestricken this winter. The Polish wheat crop is bad; so are the Balkan crops. The French will not be able to reap much of a harvest. Denmark is already killing its cattle (Released by Western A. KELLY Newspaper Union.) CHICAGO, ILL. - Naturalists have their eyes turned toward Brookfield zoo, near Chicago. For there some time during August or September, a baby elephant is expected to be born. This is a big event, not only because of the principals involved, but because it may provide the answer to a riddle that has puzzled scientists for generations. Will the baby pachyderm thus born in captivity live and be successfully reared to adulthood? Never before in the United States has a baby elephant survived infancy. So, as the keepers at the zoo are preparing the colossal obstetrical ward for Nancy, a buxom, five-ton Ceylonese elephant, scientists are asking each other what are the chances of her offspring growing up into a fine, strapping pachyderm. Based on experience tables, these chances seem rather dim. Four times before in history in this country a female elephant has labored and brought forth young. Four times did she attempt to murder her calf and then savagely refuse to nurse it. Four times did the baby jumbos die after a short and pathetic existence. The mother in each of these cases was Princess Alice, an elephantine trouper with the Sells-Floto circus of a generation ago. Tragic But Jinx? will the tragic jinx that fol- lowed Princess Alice also pursue Nancy? Not necessarily, says Robert Bean, curator of mammals at the Brookfield zoo. "In the case of the previous four births,'"' he said, ‘‘because the same mother bore all four calves, it is possible that she was an exception which might not occur again. She evidently had some idiosyncrasy that made motherhood murderously distasteful to her. Her experience does not necessarily mean that all female elephants would behave the same way. It is a matter of record that one elephant calf was born and successfully reared in a Berlin, Germany, zoo. The same thing might occur at the Brookfield zoo. "It is well known, however, that some species of elephants do not reproduce in captivity. Because of the extreme rarity of elephant births their reaction cannot be predicted. Nancy Is Docile. "Nancy, unlike her predecessor, Princess Alice, is a docile animal. She is only 24 years old, or much younger than Alice. We are preparing to take every precaution to prevent accidents from marring a successful birth. Nancy will be given every encouragement possible to be a normal mother. She will not be separated from the other elephants unless it becomes absolutely necessary. "We hope that accustomed surroundings will have a calming effect and induce Nancy to assume her motherly duties toward her baby at once. "If she refuses, however, the little calf will be fed cows' milk. We believe this will be a successful dietary procedure if the young ele- entirely of grain. Norway never self-supporting. - phant is closely watched for adverse effects."' So, in the weeks to come, the answer will be found to the question whether a baby elephant can survive infancy in America. If the answer is yes, then a new trend will begin. But if the answer is no, then the story of Princess Alice may be repeated. That story made newspaper headlines before and during the World war. It was immortalized in a chapter in Bene Fowler's book, ‘‘Timberline."' First in United States. It was on a spring afternoon in 1912, near the close of the matinee that Princess Alice delivered the first baby elephant ever born in America. Fred Alispaw, the circus elephant trainer and his aides, were midwives. As a precaution during labor, they pulled a burlap sack over her eyes. But once the infant was born, things began to happen. "The nearness of humans enraged the mother,'' writes Fowler. *‘She lowered her great head, flexed her wrinkled knees and then rolled upon her baby, with intent to kill. Alispaw tried to reassure her, to implore Alice to rise of her own free will. Her answer was a lashing blow of the trunk, knocking the trainer a full 20 feet across the sawdust floor. "She had shaken off the burlap blinder, glimpsing her 180-pound son afresh and renewing the murderous attack. Attendants used wooden bars as levers to pry her heaving belly from the squealing newcomer. They applied elephant hooks to her defiant trunk and brought other persuasive instruments into play. Finally the hysterical mother reared to fight off the men, and now they dragged the bewildered, half-suffocated calf to safety. He stood as though puzzled by a world which greeted strangers with such sudden, ugly brutality."' Description of Calf. The calf, relates Mr. Fowler, looked like a ‘fatigued ant-eater, was pink all over and had a trunk six inches long. Black hairs bristled from his blushing hide. He was 24 inches high and 36 from tip to tail." Zoologists everywhere were concerned with the youngster's future. The mother refused to nurse it. She attempted to kill it when it approached. The baby was fed a mixture of Jersey milk and condensed milk from a bottle. Two months after birth it fell ill and died. An autopsy revealed a putty-like substance in the calf's large intestines, indicating digestive faults. Three times more within six years was this tragic story repeated. Each time Princess Alice tried to crush her infant to death and each time attendants were able to save the calf after a tremendous battle. ~All of the baby elephants died within a few weeks from the same cause: digestive disturbances. Event Attracts Attention. Twenty-two years have passed since the birth and death of the last baby elephant in America. Thus interest inevitably centers on Nancy's approaching accouchement at the Brookfield zoo. Whether it lives or not, Nancy's baby will be the hugest ever born at the zoo. Although a hippopotamus weighs 4,000 pounds, its offspring weigh less than 50. An elephant calf tips the scales close to 200 pounds and stands about three feet high. U.S. Ignition Invention Supercha rges Bombers A new aircraft ignition distrib ution system which will give military planes enough added power to make them supercharged ships at any altitude has been announ ced by one of the large airline compan ies in the United States. The government has approv ed the plans following flight experi ments, according to one of the officers of the company. Carl E. Swanson, a lack was However, just across the Carpathians lies one of the richest granaries in the world-the Ukraine. Its wheat crop this year, although not the best, will be sufficient to keep down a lot of anti-Nazi unrest in a hungry Europe. Hitler not only needs it, but long ago announced in that infallible document, Mein Kampf, that he will take it. Obviously Stalin knows this. That is why he has sent tremendous reinforcements into the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. That also is why he has edged his borders across Bessarabia up to the Carpathian mountains. Upper photo shows a group of children enjoying a visit with their favorite zoo friend-the elephant. Right-This is Nancy, about whom naturalists are speculating regarding the care she will give her prospective offspring. No baby elephant in previous history in the United States has survived. By RICHARD for former faculty memb er of the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, is the inven tor, Aircraft ignition steps up through this hew system by the complete elimination of cont aminations. This is accomplished by Pumping the chemically treated air through the Shielding cables. This air goes through a number of different processes before it is ready. ~ a 2 RADIO SPIES Five hundred men are being added to the staff of the Federal Communications commission to do a job of wartime counter-espionage of a type never done before in our entire history. For this war presents a problem that was not known in World War I. Widespread use of radio makes possible the transmission of spy messages or interference with U.S. government messages by spies. To prevent this, the FCC intends to police the ether waves. Using an allotment of $1,600,000 from the defense appropriation, they will expand the field force sufficiently to monitor radio messages 24 hours a day in all parts of the country. If it is suspected that an unlicensed operator is sending messages from a certain section, the monitors move in with mobile equipment and start their detection. Through the triangulation method, they pick up the beam of the pirate radio, and track it to the house of origin. If it is a large building- office building or apartment house- they prowl around 2 "President will have none of it in his office. He keeps the vents turned off and opens the French doors looking out on the rose gardens and the south grounds. This, and the coat removal, are enough for him. In the White House proper, separate air-cooling units have been established in the various rooms. (This was preferred to air-conditioning, so as to avoid tearing out walls to introduce new vents.) But the President at first declined to have even a cooling unit in his rooms. Finally he was persuaded to accept it, with the understanding that it would not be turned on when he was there. The same is true of the Presi- dential yacht, Potomac. equipment has Air-condijust been in- stalled throughout the boat, but the President insists that it be turned off in his room. e . op up B; frame cross stitch borders seven corner designs, and a idea is illustrated suggesting use of vegetable motifs on | ; apron. From hot iron transfer A 15 cents, you receive the tea ( motifs and the apron designs, of the tea towel motifs eo ; made up into a panholder to a complete kitchen set. Seng der to: . AUNT Box 166-W Enclose 15 MARTHA Kansas cents, for City, each pa desired. Pattern Address eocccorrcerccccccccccecccen No Know Your Age? - Persons not certain of their may apply for this informatig the bureau of the census ang will be given to them, if avails provided a definite address be furnished at any census per If the facts are required from suses taken before 1880, any may search the records ag are not confidential.-Collier' fe Common Sense About Constipation A doctor would tell you that th best thing to do with constipatior is get at its cause. That way yo don't have to endure it first an¢ try to "cure" it afterward-yoy can avoid having it. 4 Chances are you won't have to look far for the cause if you ea the super-refined foods mos people do. Most likely you don' get enough "bulk"! And "bulk" doesn't mean a lot of food fF means a kind of food that isn* consumed in the body, bu leaves a soft "bulky" mass in the h intestines. If this is what you lack, try }kal crisp crunchy Kellogg's All-Bran tea for breakfast. It contains just the "bulk" you need. EatAll-Bran often, drinkplenty 1? of water, and "Join the Regulars," Made by Kellogg'sin Battle Creek, If your condition is chronic, it is oa 4, 7% to consult a physician, Common Line The craving for sympathy is common boundary-line bety joy and sorrow. for helping female tional troubles. Try IA E. PINKE mm s MERRY-GO-ROUND Miss Marguerite LeHand, private secretary to the President, won $25 in bets that Willkie would be nominated. She gave the money to the Red Cross. SEC Commissioner Leon Henderson gets towork before most officials are awake. A congressman found him there at 7:00 one morning; he had been at his desk since 5:00. With the $20,000,000 credit from the Export-Import bank, Argentina will buy a flock of U. S. buses for her new transportation system. VEGETABLE COMPC Health and Sense Good health and good sense two of life's greatest blessing Miserable @ LOVES HOT AIR Summer heat has come to Washington, but the President's only airconditioning method is to take off his coat and hang it over the back of a chair. The executive offices of the White House are air-conditioned, but the tioning carrots -in fact the whole vege with a detection apparatus strapped to the waist, which, like a witch's crooked stick, gives the signal when the vital spot is reached. Meantime, the FCC requires that persons licensed for radio transmission give proof of American citizenship. Also it forbids amateurs to broadcast outside the U. S., and warns all operators to stop useless chatter by wireless. Note-There are 55,000 licensed radio amateurs in the United States. * RADISHES, * RIBBENTROP WARNING Key to Hitler's Russian policy was contained in a cable received here in diplomatic code which told of the great numbers of Red troops crowding into Lithuania, and how the Lithuanian minister in Berlin reported this to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop. He said, among other things, that Red troops from as far away as Siberia had entered Lithuania, and asked Ribbentrop's advice as to what his government should do. ‘Don't do anything,'' Ribbentrop advised, according to the cabled report. ‘‘After we finish with Great Britain we'll take care of them." 3 and garden has been worked delectable tea towel motifs. SOUT ut European War LURE el | ae \W/HEN kidneys function badly you suffer a nagging bad with dizziness, burning, scanty or frequent urination and getting up night; when you feel tired, nerve all upset . . . use Doan's Pills. Doan's are especially for poc working kidneys. 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