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Show Smart Chair Set Simple to if 01 Prices Goin" Up Strike Stops Warship Building Canada's Effort in War Explained to U. S. Public Millions Commissioner McDonald Attempts to Correct Inaccurate and Unjust Statements Regarding Dominion Activities. By BAUKIIAGE National Farm and Home Hour Commentator. WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N. W Washington, D. C. The breathless calm of a tropical Washington Sunday was disturbed by a unique gathering recently. It took place in the midst of the period of debate in the senate over the extension of military service for the But it was a emergency army. long way off from the Capitol, and the setting was in sharp contrast with the somewhat drab chamber the greatest deliberative where body in the world convenes. We met, a little group of newsmen, in a stately room of marble pilasters and ceiling-higmirrors, at the top of a wide staircase upon which looked down the ermined figures of royalty. Through the doors of the room itself, their majesties King George and Queen Elizabeth, had passed when they graced that famous garden party at the British embassy two years ago. Some of us sat in the summer-covere- d furniture, some in gay lawn chairs brought in to take care of the added number of guests. There and cigarettes were was n A smooth-faceoffered. Briton, his majestys high commissioner to Canada, Malcolm McDonald, faced us with a few sheets of memoranda before him. h r, quick-spoke- Purpose of Visit. He had come, he said, to dispel and unjust inaccurate certain statements concerning Canada's war efforts. That, I felt, was only a part of his mission. I knew that many of the letters written to American congressmen by their constituents were protesting the extension of the military service period on thea grounds that the United States, nation at peace, was asking more of its citizens than Canada, a nation at war. The commissioner spoke. The first misconception which he wished to correct, he said, was the frequent statement that there is no conscription in Canada, that her youth serve only a few months with the colors and are then returned to civilian life. This is not the case, he said, for every Canadian between 21 and 24 is subject to conscription for defense and for the duration of the war. After four months of intensive training these men ate assigned to military service within Canada, thus relieving units of the regular army and navy and air force for service abroad. The conscripts cannot, by law, be Sent outside of Canada, MacDonald explained, but so many have volunteered for foreign service that conunnecscription for this purpose is unessary. Canada has more men der arms today than she had at any time during the last wan naFoity per cent of Canadas tional income is devoted to her war That amount would be effort. to equivalent, MacDonald said, reckoned in terms of $10,000,000,000 United States income. For the supCanada plies she sends to Britain, is not paid. The commissioner offered other detailed information, some of which was confidential. Tremendous Fffort. Canada has not been drawn willas ingly into this war. It is true, the British high commissioner said, that her present effort, in proportionis to her population and wealth, tremendous. But it was not until last May that by orders in council, of military service for the durationfirst the war was established. At training only 30 days of intensive indefinite was required. But now, service is retroactive and all those and were boys who did their 30 days to the back called are discharged colors. I could not help thinking of a line from Kipling as I sat there In the Queen Anne palace transplanted which is the British embassy and heard that very earnest Scotsman The pleading the cause of Canada. Our verse I thought of is from and Canada Lady of the Snows Daughter am I in my speaks: mothers house but mistress in my own, she says. The British commissioner was not do for asking that the United States is doing for Canada what England her. But I could veil imagine that he was talking over our heads to the men who would be in heated debate in the senate chamber the next day, deciding what the mili-tai- y duties of a citizen of the United States aie to be. of those who follow on the field or through the sporting pages of the country have become steamed up over the stretch batting battle between Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox and Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees. Here are the two great modem hitters, the ranking class of 1941 with .400 or thereabouts set as the winning goal. They deserve all the plaudits and the hoarse huzzas of those' who follow the base 5hit from the single to the home run. But if a few of these millions dont mind Id like to take them back into a Canada, daughter in her mother Englands house, gives her sons who go of their own free will; but Canada, mistress of her own domain, will not write into her law the duty of overseas service. The will to peace, in spite of pleas and threats, seems very strong in the hearts of the Western world. younger country Can Oklahoma Match This Tale? It was hot The sun came up over the Anacostia hills like a Bengal tiger out of the jungle. The asphalt gave gently under your feet The cold water ran warm and you just didnt turn on the warm water at all. The government was so, sorry for the workers that it let most of them go home by noon even the folks in the weather bureau gave up their job as a bad one (too bad to do anything about) and quit. The next day I picked up that most widely unread publication in America, the Congressional Record, and read a plaint from Representative of Oklahoma. He thought the government clerks ought not to He told have heat vacations. about how hot it was in Oklahoma. Said Mr. Wickersham: washday "Today is Monday back home and thousands of good housewives are bending over steaming hot tubs, thousands of farmers are sweltering in the wheat fields, harvesting the gram, hundreds of laborers are swinging the pick in the ditches . . . Each of these fine citizens in Oklaho'ma are paying the price and sharing the burden of the defense program, rain or shine, hot or cold, and I want you to know that I do not think it is fair to give these Federal employees extra leave because it is a little warm here in Washington. All right, Mr. Wickersham, I hate to brag but look at this: Today I arrived at my office 30 minutes before the elevator service started so there was nothing to do but walk up. 8 stories by 10 feet by 170 pounds equals 10,260 in Washington. Wick-ersha- Leoh Henderson, chief of Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, told congress that there soon will be a tremendous increase in the cost of living. He appeared before the house banking and currency of the While work on some $373,000,000 worth of warships and merchantmen committee to urge passage Henshows price-fixin- g bill. Photo remained at a standstill, these members of the C.I.O. industrial onion of showAmerica picketed outside the yards of the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry derson pointing to 10 foot chart of Dock company at Kearney, N. J. The strike was called over the failure ing changes in commodity prices war present period. of the company and the onion to agree in a dispute over the classification of some 1,500 workers. New and Old Governors of Puerto Rico Air Support Chief f u Sf TM shadow Williams Grantland Rice and DiMaggio. It may be the encroaching years. It may be the humidity. But Ill stand on the figures and the class, as the multitudes of 1941 stifle a laugh. Cobb-Jachso- 1911 n & r: When the American league season of 1911 opened Ty Cobb, the Georgia Peach, had led his league four successive seasons. At the age of 25 he was just coming to his peak. That same year a tall, lanky entry from Brandon Mills, S. C., had reported to Cleveland from New Orleans. His name was Shoeless Joe The Carolina Crash-smitJackson, picked by Cobb, Ruth and Speaker as "the greatest natural hitter that ever lived. O, the brave song his black bat sung as Shoeless Joe stepped into the ball. Cobb, on his way then to nine m r s and tell them the story of three major hitting contests that I believe over- h, straight batting championships a run of 12 leagueleading years out of 13 in a row, kept waiting for the Car- rookie NEi R I EFS of Pattern 7002 contains a a motif 13 by 8 Inches The course of tiue love never did smooth which is something one-ardrivers will confirm. 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( .his rr Winoatec You cannot believe indent til you have achieved it, lande keep yourself clean and ames, you are the window through why you must see the Bernard Shaw. educe world.-ihri- ne if evei IfiDIGESTIg as what Doctors do Porters know that gas trapped in tltN tangUIT on , grulletiDay act like a hair trigger nieiij XeeuOH set gas free with the fabtct-actin- g . the fastest act like the me nme H ..x the Utlon, Tablets 'iry Belt-an- s If today. II ann better, rptarn bo t.- doe'tn t prove u receive noUBUe money beck, tue auii . (gainst times. Poor and Rich xj,e No man is rich whose tonifies tures exceed his means, hrust i one is poor whose incon reit wl ceed his outgoings. Hah toms rf relig xuiireedon Sir el t Sewing Circle Needlemft DOeopll free-wheeli- foot-poun- a sland Enclose break. Cobb started above .400 and he kept above .400. But Col. Wm. E. Lynd, appointed chief he couldnt shake gangling of the air support command, former- off the Rexford Guy Tugwell, left, who has been nominated by President ly air officer of general headquar- challenger with the and effective swmg. Roosevelt to be governor of Puerto Rico, shakes hands with Guy J. Swope, ters in the war department. There And those were the days when Ed center is In Luis the the now commands. five air Monozmarin, are governor. retiring right, president support Walsh was spinning his famous of the Puerto Rican senate. The meeting took place on the liner S. S. spitter through when they were Coamo, when Tugwell greeted the newly arrived retiring governor. using emery balls, and every type of fuzz to make the ball dip and 10,260 by 13,560,000 skid and duck and slide. an I but dont know, ergs equals oh, erg is a unit of work and there are In the first demonstration of its I lifted 13,560,000 in one S kind, the second armored diviWho was this rookie who could 170 pounds '60 feet before 7 a. m. sion at Fort Benning, Ga., shows neither read nor write, who had Then I settled down to work. how it plans to minimize effects of Can you beat that in Oklahoma? gone shoeless in most of his earlier I? poison gas. Armored vehicles were k (A games, to challenge the great Cobb? gas bombed, then minute men Connie Mack had turned him back The Great Delusion sprang into action and established in 1908 and 1909. Cleveland had S And the U. S. Army a decontamination unit. Real gas If turned him back to New Orleans in H iM si.1 , was not used. Top: plane drops 1910. Why, well never know. Fpr Before the last war a generation ' gas bombs. Below: a decon--had grown up in the United States, his lowest average in those years tamination squad removes traces most of whom had never seen a had been .354. of gas from a tank. man in federal uniform except the Even a blind man could sense the Ifll j postman There was a very populyrical smoothness of his swing. 5 lar book in those days called "The That year Shoeless Joe carried Ty '! It was written by Great Delusion. Cobb to the wire. Ty finished at X. .420. Jackson, the rookie, at .408. an Englishman, and it incontrovert-ibl- y Ty needed his greatest year to beat proved (as far as most people in this country believed) that war Jackson out. was an economic impossibility Was Shoeless Joe merely a one-yev '.A , I that any great nation which atfluke? jW 14 V A later Cobb found himself tempted war on a large scale would year SfT 74 t ' J. down the stretch, again batting go broke in a few months. '(Xjk'ei above .400, with Jackson now in the About that time a boy was growfelof lead. Jackson was .420. It was most his like and, up ing Mw here that Ty, applying winning psylows, he believed that war was a But he was to chology, refused to speak to Jack-so- n great delusion. d in a series and find it very real to him for by 1918 V Shoeless Joe, wondering what he in one himself. he was knee-dee- p had done to offend a friend, fell into Earl C. Ewert is now a lieutenant-colonw a brief slump. r' s of field artillery and the last $ At least this is the story of those I heard of him he was in command days. In any event, Ty went on to of the reception center at Fort win with an average of .410 against Bragg. Now he has written a book. Jacksons .395. It is not about wars, their causes In those two seasons the Shoeless Radiophoto showing German maor their cures. It is about one thing chine gunners in action protecting a Swinger had averaged .402 for his wars make necessary,, specifically bridge against attack from the first two years in the majors, yet he the United States army. houses in (he background. Appar- couldnt lead the league. You You may not believe in war. ently Russian snipers were hiding may think it is a great delusion. in the buildings. No hint is given Cobb never of the god, you may grace By by German censor as to the'lacation live to see your country in another Cobb had run into a close call of the scene. one. But you cannot escape the years before against Larry Lajoie, It is all over the place. army. the most graceful ball player of all Quite aside from its military Imtime and one of the games great portance it has become one of the D. C. hitters. But he came to the camchief economic factors in the counvmmiiMwi paign of 1916 for his tenth consecuefan is having try and it certainly tive shot at the batting championfect on our social structure. The ship. Today they rave about one more you and I as simple civilians year at the top. know about it the better for us, and t Here was his chance to lead his !r for the nation. Cobb league 10 straight years. Colonel Ewert has made the job went into a tailspin. He batted only 371 as Speaker finished at .336. of knowing about the army easy in . .. 72 pages m The United States He had been facing such pitching ! stars as Cy Young, Walter John(Little, Brown and ComArmy son, Ed Walsh, Addie Joss, Rube pany) illustrated in color by Everett Shinn and James Ilulme with a Waddell, Eddie Plank, Chief Bondforeword by the famous military er, Jack Coombs, Smoky Joe Wood an amazing galaxy. writer, Ilanson Baldwin, l V ! t n 1 Txccpt for tills one year intcilude, I wobb would have led the big parade 13 straight years. As it was he came by Ilaukhage back to make it 12 out of 13 and to v $ v finish with a 24 year average around ') During the last war no official at363. j tempt whatever was made to make We are removing no credit from ' V data available that was helpful to & the extremely able hitting of Ted making postwar plans. Recently, Williams and Joe DiMaggio, IVe are Senator Davis of Pennsylvania InBob Feller, Cleveland Indian merely offering them a target at troduced a resolution for the creaDistrict of Columbia pitching sensation, having teeth in- abii.li thiy can shoot. Continuing the eampaign for tion of a bipartisan commission to to warned drivers Cobb Jackson Lajoie Speaker their in economical run- spected during draft board examinaautomobiles .iatk police keep problems. In the study post-wa- r condition. Motorists driving smoky vchkles are warned to make tion. He passed lu fine far away and long they were so stjle, house, Repiesentative Voorhis has ning Those could lather that But go. the are necessary adjustments will immediately. Indians ignoring they be one short warnings good an asked for pitchappropriation of subject to arrest under a nuisance statute. er soon. whirling apple. 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