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Show 'Socks' That Count Kathleen Norris Says: Cool, Airy (W WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Farnham F. Dudgeon -tor Outdoor Pl' 'Dark Horse' Willkie Named G.O.P. Presidential Candidate; McNary for Vice President Long Engagements Have Their T EPS play outiTIJj Advantages, loo Bn Syndlct WNU Service.) pinafore, wtth pantie, ety and bonnet to b?." out of our eyes! AUthr2 AH three are compleJ?i able, and cute as dJajS (EDITOR'S NOTE Whe opinions are expressed ta these columns, they are those of the newt analyst and not necessarily ( this newspaper.) RateaMi by WMUrn Nnrvipu Unloa. KrrfiLniuriiv.n "AO Caul la divided Into three parti," said Caesar, and now modem France, covering most of ancient Gaul, is again divided into three parts. The two most Important segments win be occupied by the Axis powers, Germany and Italy. Germany received the black area in the above map according to armistice terms which ended the fighting. Italy now controls the dotted area on the map. The white area remains under French control. POLITICS: G.O.P. 'Oomph' From the opening session of the Republican national convention in Philadelphia, there was little doubt as to what presidential nominee aspirant was the "gallery's choice." For each time the name of Wendell Wen-dell Willkie was mentioned on the convention floor a sally of cheers swept down from the onlookers. The New York lawyer and utilities utili-ties executive in a decidedly brief (two months) period of time had risen from the political unknown to the pinnacle of popular G. O. P. favor. Entering the convention balloting with a mere handful of pledged delegates, dele-gates, Willkie's dynamic super-salesmanship super-salesmanship started its telling effect ef-fect in the form of a definite trend toward him as the second roll call of states was called. On the first ballot he had 105 delegate votes cast in his favor and ranked third while Thomas E. Dewey held first place with 360 votes and Robert A. Taft of Ohio was second with 189. On successive ballots Willkie then gained 65. 86. 47. 123, and finally on the sixth roll call he went over the top with a net gain of 204 votes, giving him a total of 633501 being necessary for the nomination. Willkie Will-kie having won, all stats delegations then made the nomination unanimous. unani-mous. Next day. on the first balloting for the vice presidential nominee, Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon Ore-gon was elected as the party's overwhelming over-whelming choice for Mr. Willkie's running mate. Tagged as a "peace, preparedness and prosperity" platform, the G. O. P. 1940 statement of party policy straddled most important national issues but packed plenty of anti-New Deal and anti-Third term punch. Unanimously approved, the platform plat-form contained a kecp-out-of-war declaration; a plan of Republican-inspired Republican-inspired national defense; a slap at President Roosevelt's "provocative" speeches; and a demand to limit presidential service to two terms. Willkie's political rise stands out as one of the most dramatic in American history. Coupled with the fact that he started his campaign a short two months ago, is the fact that up until the last few years he has been a Democrat Many political politi-cal experts thought this would spell political doom in a Republican convention. con-vention. But it didn't NAM ES in the neics Secretary of State CordeU Hull announced that' he "had 'ordered "An-' thony J. Drexel Biddle, U. S. ambassador am-bassador tu Poland, to follow the exiled ex-iled Polish government from Its temporary tem-porary capltaTat "Bordeaux, Franco, to London, England. 4LtEarl, Brewdcr. general secretary of the Communist party in the United Unit-ed States, lost another court battle when the Circuit Court of Appeals - in New York upheld his -conviction of wilfully using a passport obtained by false statements. C Chairman of the now very important impor-tant senate foreign relations Committee. Commit-tee. Key rillmun I), Ncv.) expressed ex-pressed hope that British plans "to lll't from the New world" (Canada) (Can-ada) witli its navy would nut be delayed de-layed "too long." London cracked back yiat no such move was being be-ing considered currently. Other experts were sure that his connection with the public utilities Industry would carry a political curse that could end nowhere but in oblivion. But his winning personality added to the fact that among all the candidates he stood out as the one having the most political "oomph" appeared to be the determining factors fac-tors in his favor. In his campaign Willkie was quoted quot-ed as saying that he sincerely hoped President Roosevelt would accept the Democratic nomination for a third term as he would be happy to campaign against him. This attitude atti-tude seemed to please Republican party leaders, who realize that a vigorous, energetic personality like Wendell Willkie's will be needed in the coming political battle. UNEASY WORLD: Europe As the Nazi war machine continued con-tinued to push its military occupation occupa-tion of France's entire Atlantic sea coast and German bombers continued contin-ued scattered raids over an uneasy England, the power of the Soviet Union was being felt in Rumania. Word from Bucharest Indicated that the Rumanian grand "council, headed by King Carol had decided to agree to Russian demands for the cession of Bessarabia long a disputed dis-puted territory. Bessarabia belonged to Russia before the World war and the Soviet has for many years fumed about its control by Rumania. Up until a few months ago it seemed that Rumania would fight Russia rather than accede to demands for the province. But of late King Carol has had an uneasy time attempting to keep his nation at peace with both Germany and Russia. With collapse. of French forces it appeared that the small nation was not willing to force the hand of its powerful neighbor by refusing this demand. Late dispatches dis-patches indicated that a portion of the province of Bucovina was included in-cluded in the grab. U. S. DEFENSE: Activity Plus In the Brooklyn navy yard, the new construction program which will add four huge capital ships to the U. S. fleet, got under way with the laying down of the keel of the 43,000-ton super-dreadnaught the Iowa. Contrary to the usual practice very little ceremony surrounded the event and only officials were on hand to watch the beginning of what will be the largest battleship ever built for America's navy. " Less dramatic- perhaps but vitally vital-ly important was the announcement that the Reconstruction Finance cor7 poration had started bargaining to obtain reserve supplies of rubber and tin. Under" a new bttr signed by the President the corporation is authorized to finance purchases of strategic material so that' "in any eventuality'' supplies win be en hand. . ,., Firsts jriajur.snag hit by the defense de-fense program was' the d'ocisfbri 'df Henry Ford to discontinue his plans to start mass production of air-. ptnic for the federal government. Now both deals are oil. For Ford. has Ttriw- 'ortridunced thit he would be able to turn out 1,000 fight planes a day in his automobile automo-bile factory, the government authorized author-ized the purchase of 3,(MK) Hulls-Royce Hulls-Royce motors from him. At about the same time the British air ministry min-istry announced-it was negotiating an order for 6.000 motors of the nic type with the Kurd company. It's better to drop bombt on an invader than to knit socks for young soldier$ in the opinion of Mrt. Lorene Hollo-way, Hollo-way, able Jackson Heights, N. Y air pilot. If war strikes this country, she wants to join 17. S. defense forces and or-ganize or-ganize young women fliers into in-to a fighting corps. AVIATION: Spreading Wings Three new air routes mark current cur-rent developments in America's ever-expanding aviation industry. Hailed by Alaska's governor, Ernest Er-nest Gruening, as a stride toward national defense, the 20-ton Alaska Clipper began regular pay-passenger scivice between Seattle and the territory ter-ritory On the first flight the Clipper Clip-per made a trip that usually takes four days by boot in slightly over five hours. Twe ity passengers were aboard. Ths initial fl.ght called attention to Alaska's ai defenses which are in the process cl being strengthened iy tie U. S. navy Two new flying bases at Sitka and Kodiak are under un-der construction at the present time and the naval expansion program calls for further bolstering of Uncle Sam's air arm in the area. Pan American Airways is starting transoceanic service over 8,000 miles of the South Pacific to New Zealand and a new flight schedule with daily plane service to Argentina Argen-tina is slated to get under way July 12. On the New Zealand route, four and a half day service will be provided pro-vided between Los Angeles and Auckland, New Zealand. INDUSTRY: Cwnge of Pace Current reports of Federal Reserve Re-serve banks plus other commercial indices reveal that a downward trend of industrial activity which has marked U. S. business since last December has now been reversed. Expanding production is noted in many key Industries. With much of such increasing activity ac-tivity centered directly or indirectly in war and defense materials, non-military non-military Industries are also registering register-ing important gains. Steel production is now booming along at capacity speeds and new orders from foreign and domestic buyers which are currently pouring pour-ing in should keep blast furnaces roaring for many months to come. Automobile tire shipments have shown large increases and leading rubber companies say these more than offset a seasonal decline in sales to car manufacturers. Southern South-ern Pacific railroad is negotiating for the purchase of some 2,500 new freight cars. LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Business Report Eighty-nine employees of the league of nations the last 89 to be exact were given notice to resign for business appeared to be at a standstill. Secretary General Joseph Avenol started closing up shop about May 16 when Germany launched its blitzkrieg against the low countries. It was then he gave 205 league officials and employees a chance to resign or have their contracts suspended upon any notice. Two decades ago the league was created to aid in the settlement of international disputes, but business was dull until two years ago, when aggressors started to work in earnest ear-nest and things began to hum in the great marble building that housed the delegations. But this activity began to slow down1 as -one by oao. Austria, Poland, Po-land, Czecho-Slovakia, Albania. Finland, Fin-land, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Neth-erlands, Belgium and then France wilted under the pressure of more powerful natiftns.- -- -.- Starting out as a noble bid for peace and world understanding, an idealistic -institution is- closing its. books in c worid where .force feulds-the feulds-the balance In" the ledger.- - MISCELLANY: - Fortune magazine announced results re-sults of a nationwide poll it had conducted which revealed that 46 per cent of the voters believed they j would supxrt President. Roosevelt-1-for a third term. The survey was j takf-n after the war reached its crit ! ical sl.igf, magazine officials point- ( cd out. I Justire department officials an preparing for registration and fingerprinting fin-gerprinting tif.some million uU ens in this country a a result o'. legislation passed by i igrvss. , " . Our girls of 18 tnd our boys of 21 r bound to fall in lov. By KATHLEEN NORRIS TODAY'S paper has the story of a boy of 21 and a girl of 19 who couldn't afford to get married and so decided to die. The boy couldn't earn enough to support sup-port a wife and the girl had to help out at home, where she had an invalided father, a hard-working mother and a small brother. The sympathetic press adds that: "Here is one more tragedy trag-edy of youth caught in today's tide of no job and no future." . If this girl and boy were the only selfish young couple who took this course they mightn't be worth noticing. But there is a lot of this sort of thing. There is a lot of self-pity in youngsters who have caught up the modern jargon about conditions in America, and who use it to disguise weak ness and inefficiency. There are ALWAYS more than 40,000,000 jobs in America, and to say: "I can't get Job," means that there art 40,000,000 persons in the land who can do what you can't do. But that doesn't mean that in any land under any conditions a boy of 21 can be started off at employment that will support a wife. And that doesn't mean that a girl whose $30 contribution to the horns finances Is badly needed is free to get married; mar-ried; free to start of with her boy husband on his $18 a week, and have him, burdened and worried and exhausted, ex-hausted, lose even that Job in a few years, when her second big, fat, hungry, exacting baby is four months old. Flaming Youth. When our girls of 18 and our boys of 21 fall in love the Immediate question of everyone concerned is: "And when Is the wedding to be?" And the sooner it is the better satis-fled satis-fled are both. They sre burning up with young passion; their first and foremost consideration is physical possession of each other, and while her family borrows money for a modest wedding, the boy rashly commits himself to a long lease on an adorable bungalow. Into it they ecstatically scramble, equally enchanted with the little rose-bowl her chum gave her, and the electric- refrigerator for which they have te pay $11 a month. It is all such fun! Kisses and laughter season the burned omelette and the watery coffee; on Saturday and Sunday Sun-day nights the college crowd come in, and smashed crackers and stepped-on cheese and sticky glasses and over-loaded ash-trays litter all four of the pretty little modern rooms. Baby Brings Care, Worry. But if a- baby arrives at once, then suddenly all glamour disappears. disap-pears. Marge and Rob, if they are sweet-natured, -fine persons, may still love each other. But it now be-omean be-omean anxious.., a wearied love. The baby is a darling, but the baby's presence means that the old, young good tfmes'are fdreve; over. Milk far-the baby. Someone to jit with the baby. Bills. Worries -over the baby's fever. Wakeful nights when the babX.ri-And. when. Joe Smith t and Mildred stop at the door with a car, on a broiling hot Sunday, with talk of. the .beach, and barbecue sandwiches. Marge and Rob of course, can't, go. "I couldn't leave the baby in the car. Mil." ''o, I suppose you couldn't, you poor thing, you!" No Babies Headache Too. Off go Joe and Mildred, and Rob and Marge turn back to the morning morn-ing papers again. No hurry about beds or breakfast dishes. Now while the baby is asleep they can take it easy. Nothing to do all day. If there are no babies, curiously enough, the situation is worse. It doesn't seem so, at first Marge's mother says firmly: "No babies until un-til you can afford them," and Rob's mother warns him that a baby would be a calamity. They are free to go about with the old crowd. Insofar as they are able to afford it, and Marge has nothing to do when the simple housework Is over but to shop, have her hair done, fix flowers in vases. But shopping is expensive, lunches downtown with the girls cost money, beauty parlors are ruinous to budg ets. Marge sees frocks and hats she wants, and kitchen ware and a gorgeous gor-geous bridge lamp. Also she hears the girls talking of the winter sports that week-end. Everyone is to give Connie $10 and Con and Fred will manage everything. Ten dollars, with Rob's whole salary only seven times that every month! Nature's Protective Plan. And the childless young marriage has an even deeper and much more serious handicap. It is this. The marital relation is a fragile and sacred thing; its physical aspects inseparable from the more subtle elements of mind and souL Uncontrolled Uncon-trolled mating would destroy even animals, and animals are protected from it by Nature herself. Mating seasons are interrupted by the long periods of bearing and rearing the young. When human beings Interrupt this process, passion, here called love, soon burns itself out The Immature Imma-ture boy and girl, never trained for life at alL not developed in resources re-sources and interests and character, tire of each other, and the emotion emo-tion that should extend itself through long and beautiful years, that should be only a part of a thousand other balanced elements in married life, is destroyed. So what about the long engagement? engage-ment? In Italy and Germany and England and France, seven and eight and even ten years are not supposed to be too long for a man and a woman to maintain a dignified friendship before conditions permit them to marry. Certainly five years would not be too long. They must learn to control themselves in many ways if they are to be happily married; mar-ried; control extravagance, laziness, temper, selfishness, over-indulgence. Why not practice self-control in the most important matter of sex? Sex Self-Control EssentiaL Thousands of fine men and women achieve continence even in marriage for one reason or another; thousands thou-sands of happily married folk, efficient effi-cient and successful in their lives, know that that one thing will be always al-ways denied them. Why all this hullaballoo about the children not being able to wait? Of course they're able to wait, if they're properly trained to respect themselves and each other, and to regard marriage as a state some day to be entered upon with reverence, with an increased in-creased appreciation of its high privileges priv-ileges and an increased sense of Its responsibilities. " To those who wait, who study the duties and cares of marriage seriously,, se-riously,, who develop a fine and deep-rooted deep-rooted friendship and a congeniality" of taste while waiting, marriage tomes as an almost miraculous consummation con-summation of hope and desire .and love. The long-anticipated home- is a sacred place. 1 heir community of teste,, their memories of long planning. plan-ning. makelfvet hbUrvtogether""a fresh delight The man has completed com-pleted his professional trainings The girl has discharged to the full her dutv til her rwxm rmnnln Thr.,, a man ana a woman, mis husband and wife, not a pair of passionate children. Statistics seem to indicate that one of our national dangers now is the young divorce. More than half our divorces are of persons under 24. and two-thirds of those after marriage periods of less than three years. Washington, D. C BRITISH WEST INDIES Within a two hour plane flight of the Panama canal lies the British Island of Jamaica, wich Is 99 per cent black and 100 per cent restive. Intelligence reports from Jamaica warn of the danger of a Negro uprising. up-rising. Jamaican Negroes have never been prosperous, but this year has been unusually bad. The cane crop was a failure, the banana crop was ruined by a hurricane, and on top of this, word is being passed around among the Negroes that their misery mis-ery would disappear under German rule. As a result British authorities, practically deserted by the home government are keeping a watchful eye on their arsenal Unrest in Jamaica would create a double problem for the United States and the other American republics. Roosevelt has already warned European Euro-pean dictators that he will tolerate do change of sovereignty in this hemisphere. But the situation would be embarrassing if the natives na-tives of Jamaica were to revolt against England and Invite in Hitler. Nate Jamaica's harbor, Kingston, Kings-ton, is one of the finest in the West Indies and Just 600 miles from the Panama canaL At the beginning of the war, Britain held in this harbor har-bor a convoy fleet of 70 ships. Changing Attitude. Confidential reports cabled back to the state department show that the French people have become bitter bit-ter not only toward Great Britain but against the United States. Sentiment has been so vitriolic that it was the subject of a conversation conver-sation held by Ambassador Tony Biddle, who substituted for Bullitt In Bordeaux. Sumner Welles also mentioned it a little sadly to the French ambassador in Washington. The French simply cannot understand under-stand why the British and Americans Ameri-cans did not come to their aid. Only their men were killed, their country coun-try destroyed, and their prisoners are now seen marching behind German Ger-man guards. This has so infuriated them that now many Frenchmen almost al-most relish the possibility that their fleet may be used against the British. Brit-ish. Another effect has been a change of feeling in France toward the Germans. Ger-mans. Frenchmen, especially in Paris, are beginning to say: "Well, after all we are Europeans, Euro-peans, so let's be Europeans. To with the Anglo-Saxons. They can't be depended upon. Maybe the Germans are not so bad, after afl." This attitude has been helped by the excellent behavior of the Nazis in Paris. There are almost no troops on the street Nazis hav kept out of sight and the arrests made by Herr Himmler's Gestapo have been done very quietly. Meanwhile, some of the French newspapers, obviously coked up by Nazi subsidies, have begun a ter rific attack upon the British, together togeth-er with a campaign to educate the French people regarding the better qualities of the Germans. The French are still inclined to look upon their conquerors as Germans, Ger-mans, not as members of the National Na-tional Socialist party. Few Frenchmen French-men seem to realize that this Is revolution, not a war, and that Hit ler is conquering Europe for National Nation-al Socialism, which has made mort far-reaching changes in the capitalistic capital-istic system than Russian Communism. Commu-nism. HiUer's Tactics. It has become increasingly obvi ous that the smartest thing Ritlei did was to knock off the countries of Europe one at a time instead of permitting them to gang up on him. When Hitler took Czecho-Slovakia, for instance, he Poles were encouraged en-couraged to take a smaU piece oi Czech territory. Then after they had taken it Hitler took back th little piece of Czecho-Slovakia plui one-half of Poland. One reason Hitler was able to takt Poland was that he promised Russis the other hall And now Stalin, realizing re-alizing his own Deril is frantlcalli defending his Polish-Baltic border. one year ago, talking to Ameri-can Ameri-can diplomats in Berlin. Nazi lead ers made no secret of their inten tion to employ the same strateg in the Western hemisphere: in othei words, to isolate the United Statei from Britain and France, then provoke pro-voke revolutions in South Americi and take those countries away twt and three at a time. The United States itself. Nazi leaders laid would be relatively easy. Social' revolution was sure to come in year or. so, at. which time all Germany Ger-many needed to do was to aid, tb icvuiuuuimrjr puny. MERRY-GO-ROUND Erudite 'SetwtoT --'Warner st in ; York is the author of most Nu Deal labor legislation, but his cvhoict diversion away from the senate ii strictly top-hnt. He- is the senate'i leading grand opera fan; buys t season ticket for the Metropolitar every year. Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma li not only one of the senate's mos accomplished orators, but also is I hot Wild West movie fan. 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