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Show Rubber and Tin In Malay States Are Rich Prize Area Controlled Notes of an Barretts book on Joseph Pulitzer, the great newspaper publisher: A journalist in JP's (Pulitzer) conception, is a statesman as well as a writer . . . The basis of it was something more profound than persistent curiosity about people and things. JP, of course, W. ( Colorful Singapore, Britain's largest foreign naval base, is well known as the source of important world news. Less is known, however, of the vast Malay penat whose tip Singapores was the most incorrigible busybody insula, load hundreds of ships wharves of his day and age. His habit of with supplies of rubber, tin large about everything asking questions under the sun and demanding accu- and other riches of Malay, the rate as well as immediate answers Netherlands, Indies and Thaiwas an amusing and often annoyland. Because this section of the ing trait, but it was only a mechglobe is now more than of vital anism through which an eager, preinterest in the news of the day hensile mind was kept supplied with the article below was prepared.) obworking material. He had an N.vtapap.r Union (ZioWvt to Wosttrn to refused which he put and jective Copynghttd by National Caograpbic Sociaty. Waabington, D. C.) aside. As long as he lived, he wantOn land which 50 years ago was a ed to inform and mold public opinion not just for the sake of profits, dense, jungle, plantatiger-infeste- but for the sake of progress in the direction where he thought America ought to be heading." Our Incorrigible Busybody Dept.: Doesnt Army Intelligence think that Great Britain has a severe case of brass-ha- . . t Arent the poisoning?,. members of the Supreme Court now all pulling one way at each other's hair? . . . Did you know that the President changed the nickname for Morgenthau to "Six Per Cent Henry"? . . . What two Cabinet officers are suffering from make-u- p poisoning? (Their friends make up the stories, and they do the poisoning) . . . What invention can drop a sandbag down a chimney at 20,000 feet? And what Secy of War would like to do it to what Washington t? 60-fo- ot What sise tank is giving the Generals a bigger headache than the Privates who steer them? . . . What Ambassador turned in an honest days work recently? . . . For what Cabinet post are there more volunteers than for the Marine Corps? And which Secy of State is vastly amused? . . . Isnt it true that Jesse Jones loaned his brother $1.50? Anyway, isnt Jesse wearing his brother's gold watch? . . . Dont they call Secy Ickes "personality plus since his secretary said good morning to him? . . . Who defined a liberal as a guy who will forgive anything but a contribution to his campaign? . . . Aren't the officers Of the Pacific Fleet split squarely on the question of whether it will take three weeks or a month to "solve the Jap navy? . . . What prominent Britishers have the jitters since the Govts inquiry into d foreign-owneThe 'only bonds. thing in which Noel Coward w$s small fry . . . And isn't it true that d Americans brag certain about their ancestors landing on Plymouth Rock and act as though they had just crawled from under it? self-calle- Man About Town: Memos of a Midoighter: Fisherhave told authorities that off the theyve actually seen New England coast . . . That lovely Red Cross nurse in those new posters (shes marching with four men of the armed forces) is Hazel French Plantaof the Powers Pretty-Prett- y tion. Hazel won the nod over all the models who wanted the assignment because of her beautiful brown So what happened? The orbs artist painted her eyes blue . . . There have been five new ditties with the title of Zanucks hit, all ending with: "How green was my valley how blue was my heart men ts ... Thats going to be quite a scandal over the refugee racket dearie . . . It'll involve naturalization and immigration high jinks which have a pretty terrible stench. Itll wreck some prominent politicos . . , Are the authorities following up the sensational charges about the Alnew star, a woman? legedly quite friendly with Quisling, Goering, et al . . . How goods that talk about Marshall Field bidding for the Times and Post after his Chicago paper is launched? . . . Anything to the rumor about his PM taking ads, changing its format and price to 3c? as Chlcagorillas, who were imported into Philly and N. Y. years ago to help in circulation wars are now being recruited for action in Chicago in case, etc. . . . Add comical ironies: A Bway guy who pulled almost every major sin on the statutes, and never served a single day is now in the Bastille for getting caught in a floating crap game! . . . The colyum certainly hopes that Japan will select as her friend the American Navy, instead of the Italian Army. Fleet-minde- d fleet-foote- d d tion owners in the British-protecte-d Malay States of southeastern Asia are producing more than a third of the world's rubber supply. Much of the output is sent to the United States, for this country is not able to grow the rubber which its factories turn into tires, hose, mats, balloons, and a thousand-and-on- e other articles. Why does rubber flourish in the Malay Peninsula? Geography gives us the answer. Rubber trees need plenty of rain and hot weather. The Malay States are just north of the Equator, and their climate is one of the hottest and dampest in the world. Similar climate makes rubber production profitable also in the near-b- y Netherlands Indies. Supply From Brazil. The first rubber plants Were brought to the Malay States from Brazil about 60 years ago, and it soon became evident that they would grow well there. Now the Malay region far surpasses Brazil in rubber output, partly because its plantations are readily accessible to railroads and seaports, while Brazils rubber trees are far inland in wild country. It was no easy job to clear mile after mile of underbrush and trees from the Malay jungles so that plantations could be developed. Snakes and wild animals tigers, elephants, buffaloes, and rhinoceroses were a constant menace, and aboriginal savages threw poisonous darts at the workers. Large jungle areas, however, never have been cleared; some parts have not even been explored. Long before plantations were laid out to grow rubber, pineapples, and other tropical farm products, the Malay Peninsula was an important source of tin. From its mines still comes about a third of the worlds tin supply. Some of the tin cans in your kitchen cupboard were made from this Malayan ore, for the United States mines virtually no tin. Tin From Mountains. The tin ore is found in the heavily wooded mountain ranges which rise like a backbone along the Malay , Why do the Supreme Court Justices call their edifice "the Mausoleum when it isnt that lively? . . . Hasnt photography helped the 'British censors more than it has Hollywood? Wouldnt this be an aid to Britain: To mail the photostats to your friends and let His Majestys govt keep the originals? . . . What Canadian official, who believes the war can be won by lowering wages, will shortly be elevated by a kick in the tail light? Met-oper- Washington, D. C. NAZI INTRUDER There is a German smuggler opoff the erating in the Caribbean coast of Mexico. This was the inside reason for the Presidents sudden transfer of the entire coast guard to the navy the coast guards ships and planes are needed to track down the Nazi in- Supplies Important Products For U. S. Industries. Innocent Bystander: From James by British truder. Sensational feature about the smuggler is that she is a former Diesel-engine-d n U. S. vessel the to once belonged that yacht A. Atwater Kent, Philadelphia radio magnate. e The pleasure ship now is being operated under the Panamanian flag out of Vera Cruz, Mexico, by Nazi agents in that city, and is being used to transport high test gasoline and mercury to small Caribbean islands where Japanese ships collect the smuggled strategic supplies. The yacht recently unloaded 1,000 flasks of mercury at an island which for military reasons must be nameless. The former luxury craft came into possession of the Nazis by a circuitous route which intelligence experts uncovered only a few weeks ago. The purchase was made by a shipping company whose main office is in Vera Cruz and has a office in New Orleans, where The above map explains in detail the source of the important products branch The took place. obtained on the Malay peninsula. Most important of these supplies as transfer of title was $18,000. price Indicated are, rubber, tin, pineapples and other tropical farm products. Fortunately for intelligence the Japan, already entrenched in French reportedly could use was made in U. S. bills of payment to now of Britain. the the products United States and Great many going $1,000 denomination. From the seriPeninsula. The ore is dredged from Ships traveling between the Pacific al numbers, the bills were traced back to a Vera Cruz bank. There tremendous open pits. Along with and the Indian oceans pass it. Singawas learned the money had been it Matin, miners dig for smaller amounts pores wharves handle not only of gold, iron, manganese, lead and lay rubber and tin the latter is withdrawn from the account of the business house in tungsten. The latter is vital for smelted in the city but the riches of leading Nazi over to the shipturned and Mexico, making the filament used in electric the Netherlands Indies and Thaithe yacht. that bought company the land. The fortified ping British have bulbs. light revealed investigation naval as Subsequent their largest foreign The laborers who first mined the port that all the stockholders of this comtin and who did much of the work base. pany were Germans; also that the of clearing the Jungles were not the two top officers were Spaniards, one native Malays, but Chinese. The lata naturalized Mexican and the other ter came to the region in large numnaturalized American citizen. a two-fiftbers, and now make up about Now, every movement of the of the Malay States populayacht is watched, but there is nothtion of some 4,000,000. ing the United States can do about The Malays, short, brown-skinne- d the ship unless she enters American with straight black and thick-sewaters. So far the vessel has been hair, are a clever, people, but like very careful to stay within Mexican many residents of hot countries, waters. New fears that horse "sleeping territorial they are not overly industrious. One reason is that food, clothing, and sickness, which has already killed LEND-LEAS- E MILK EXPERT shelter are not hard to obtain. Many tens of thousands of American e most novel The type of also be transmissible horses, may of the Malays wear only a jacket was the thus far operation to human beings were indicated in and a skirtlike sarong, live in clusof a man named Adolph. ters of bamboo or thatched huts built reports of a recent study by the Eichhorn went over to help Adolph Animal American Foundation for on piles, and eat little besides rice the British against Adolf Hitler. Health. and fish. The British are suffering from inThe reports are based on deaths British Development. sufficient production of milk, bein Minnesota, Texas, and Eastern Development of the Malay States seaboard states, in areas where cause of diseased cattle, and Eichhorn is the man who knows all the has been in the hands of the British (sleeping cow cures. He is director of the ever since Sir Stamford Raffles, an equine encephalomyelitis has been prevalent In sickness) Englishman who envisioned a great one of the eastern states two indi- animal disease station under the deof agriculture. future for the region, founded the viduals who were handling horses partment Three principal diseases afflict port of Singapore in 1819. Its site afflicted with were sickness sleeping on an island at the southern tip of stricken with a disease that was British cattle: tuberculosis, which the peninsula was then part of the identified as human makes the cattle lean; Bangs disencephalomyejungle, but now Singapore has grown litis. One man died and the other ease, which results in the loss of into a colorful, cosmopolitan city, the calf; and mastitis. recovered. one of the worlds leading ports. Eichhorn was obliged to tell the In 1938 a number of acute cases British that tuberculosis, which afIts importance as a shipping center is derived from its situation. were reported among children along flicts 35 per cent of British cattle, the East coast with an extremely cannot be cured during the course high rate of mortality. Examinaof the war, unless the war lasts for tions revealed the presence of a another generation. It took the virus which was believed to be the United States 22 years to get the "eastern strain of horse sleeping disease under control. sickness. This was followed in the Bang's disease is more readily same year by the discovery of hu cured. By vaccination, a calf can man cases of equine encephalomyebe immunized so that its adult life litis in Minnesota. These, however, will not be afflicted with the dislaws of nature. These superabundant possibilities for the production were traced to a different strain of ease. the virus, the western strain. Still of raw materials from air, moisture, Meantime, the British are importsunshine and soil, are unlike those later, similar reports were received ing great quantities of dry and powfrom the Pacific coast and this dered milk from the United States. of mineral production. year fresh reports of cases in hu- Fresh milk is worth a kings ransom. Conceivably the stores of wealth man encephalitis have come from nature had deposited underground Minnesota, Texas, and other states. RETURNED FAVOR may in some distant century become When Rep. John McCormack of As a result, authorities are warnexhausted, or become too inaccessible for economical use! Plant growth, ing that horse sleeping sickness Massachusetts was elected Demomay be transmissible to man, al- cratic floor leader of the house, on the other hand, is renewable, usuof his strongest and most unwith each cycle from though they are unwilling to say one ally annually, this is the case. In that expected supporters was Georgias definitely seed to harvest. Gene Cox. fact, horse sleeping sickness is still fiery New Deal-hatin-g a highly baffling disease. It kills Though the two men were poles Within the Twentieth century, two thousands upon thousands of valua apart on economic views, Cox nevertheless backed McCormack and did ble horses every year, yet veterina Important new tools have been developed for the utilization of our ry scientists are still not sure of yeoman work for him. the exact means by' which it is plant raw materials. Recently McCormack returned the The art of the organic chemist, a transmitted. They believe it is favor. Before leaving on a trip to Twentieth century art, has added passed on by the bites of mosquitoes Massachusetts, McCormack named and other insects. The only known Cox floor leader during his absence. enormous importance to plant substances as industrial raw materials. protection for horses, to date, is by "There's one condition, however, You'll have Gene, he grinned. With this art crops need no longer immunization. This year veterinabe regarded merely as sources of rians are vaccinating horses against to refrain from those hot speeches on the floor. I dont want food, clothing and shelter. The the disease with a new concentrated taking swings at the chemical industries take the crops form of a vaccine developed from my stand-ichick embryos, and report better administration. It would look bad." for their cellulose, proteins, starches, McCormack wished the Georgian sugars, and oils, and convert these than 95 per cent immunity in field usage. However, vaccination of this luck and left the chamber. Hardly compounds into innumerable superior products for every-da- y type should be done before a horse had he departed when Cox jumped use. is stricken by the disease, it is said. up and asked permission to address the chemist is Alongside organic New Authorities are urging that in the house for one minute. the plan geneticist, with his art of areas where horse sleeping sickness Dealers held their breath, expectimproving plants for specific puring him to uncork one of his scorchposes. He has made it possible for is raging, persons working with ing blasts. hanshould exercise care horses in the first time to grow crops to inBut they relaxed with a sigh of dustrial specifications, as is actually dling the animals, and should be relief when Cox launched into a terwatchful mos particularly done with cotton, soybeans and against being rific tirade against John L. Lewis. other plants. quitoes and other biting insects. 800-to- one-tim- Indo-Chin- a, Fatal Horse Malady , t, Studied for Effect On Human Beings lend-leas- lend-leasi- Resources of Nature Offer Opportunity For Unlimited Production in United States By WHEELER McMILLEN (Mr. McMillen is president of tbs Nation-a- t Farm Cbemurgte Council, which has as its objective tba advancement of tba industrial usa of American farm products through applied science. Ha explains below soma of tba principles of chemurgj in relation to the future of tba United States.) There is a single fact in science that has far reaching significance for the future of the United States. 1 refer to the fact that of the entire composition of nearly every plant growth, whether it be a pumpkin, an ear of corn, or a walnut tree, roughly 98 per cent of the substance is manufactured by nature from atmosphere and moisture. Only about 2 per cent, on the average, is actually extracted from the soil. In other words, the resources we say are derived from the soil are actually derived, by the miraculous action of sunshine, from the atmosphere and moisture. Within the borders of the United States may be found nearly every known combination of the attributes of plant growth of temperature, of soil characteristics, of rainfall and humidity, of altitude and length or intensity of sunlight. We have air and rain and sunshine available in illimitable and inexhaustible quantities. The significance of this fact is that there need be absolutely no upper limit to the potential production of the United States, except the limit imposed by human ignorance of how to take full advantage of the d home should EVERY have an attic as a place for the storage of memories. In the attic the memories will lie dormant until there comes a moving day. When that time comes, its treasures will be revealed and the problem of disposing of those treasures will be a serious one. There will be found the crib and high chair the babies used years ago. Those babies are now grown to men and women. They have homes and families of their own in y places. What memories of their days of babyhood the days when the home echoed the happy prattle of little children those simfurniture ple bits of bring back. There can be no more babies to use them, but it is hard to let them go. In a litter of the attic are found the school and college dance programs of the daughter. Written on them are the names of boys, many of whom we have long forgotten, but those names recall memories of hopes for the daughters future, of evenings when one or another and "Ma and I retired "called from the parlor or living room and watched the clock for the appropriate hour for the young mans departure. Ransacking the attic gives one an opportunity to live over again those cherished days of the long ago. You dig out of the clutter the uniform you wore as a soldier before the turn of the century and with it the sword that was your badge of office. They remind you of the comrades of those soldier days. Then you find "Mas wedding dress and hat and marvel at the style and size of the dress. You recall incidents of that happy day when you took her from the home in the little Iowa town to a new home in the city. You recall those who were present at the wedding ceremony. Most of them you have not heard of for years and you wonder at what changes life may have brought to them, what success or failure may have been their lot. These are but typical of the thousands of incidents the contents of the attic will bring back to you. Each item, as you dig it out of the accumulation, presents a problem. Can you discard it? Can you throw away the old lamp beside which you spent so many pleasant evenings? Should you not keep the old and badly worn quilt your mother and quilted so many, "pieced many years ago? There are the pictures of friends of the long ago, some of which are now hard to recall, but when you do, they live again. Should you not keep each and every one of them, as well as the thousands of letters you spend hours and days rereading? Yes, the attic is a storehouse of memories. A storehouse that offers more problems when you move than does all the rest of the house together. In the end you keep much of it to be stored away in another attic that becomes another storehouse of memories and presents other problems should you ever move again. well-ordere- long-forgott- far-awa- long-discard- long-forgott- ONE WAY OF GETTING THE FACTS TO PEOPLE SECRETARY MORGENTHAU is asking congress for another heavy tax increase, one that will produce an additional seven or eight billion dollars each year. He also asks for legislation that will collect all fed eral taxes at the source, that the taxes be deducted from the pay envelopes of employees and from the dividend checks to stockholders. Such action by congress would give the mass of the people a better understanding of what they pay for what government provides. It would give them facts our system of "hidden taxes has long denied the greater portion of the American people. It would make for a more intelligent citizenship and more intelligent voters. Let us hope the politicians may accept at least that part of the secretarys recommendation. one-minu- n character and finances. All of these, Camouflage Takes Shine U. S. Woman Has a Job it was felt, are fields in which our From U. S. Army Truck In Democratic World education system can contribute. WASHINGTON. Its farewell to For twenty-nin- e COLUMBIA, MO. U. S. women years Dr. Wood the shiny army truck. In fact, its for need better has been a housewifely training and motherly duties of tomorrow was the gist of the conclusions reached at a huge forum of sociologists, economists and feminine leaders held at Stephens college here. Called at the suggestion of Dr. James Wood, president of the college, the forum decided that the salient points of training were health. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THE ATTIC IN WHICH MEMORIES, TOO, ARE STORED student of education's duties in helping women to understand their responsibilities toward democracy. Need for education to do something about this has been present since suffragist days, he believes, for since that time, the U. S. has emphasized womens opportunities in democracy rather than their responsibilities. all right even to allow some dust to stay on the surface. Old army chauffeurs who spent hours brightening up paint until it glistened may think theres just a taxing of work, but the new system was developed for better camouflage. Lustreless paint now used on army vehicles makes it difficult to see a truck from the air or from distances on land. CAPITAL CHAFF CapL Jules James, commandant of the U. S. naval base at Bermuda, is a nephew of Secretary of War Stimson. White House has received a barrage of letters and telegrams urging Maury Maverick as ambassador to Mexico. Madame Maxim Litvinov was born Ivy Low, daughter of British historian Sidney Low, and niece of Sir A. Maurice Low, who was Washington correspondent of Londons Morning Post. FEDERAL MAIL WASHINGTON tells us we must economize in our use of paper, but the federal government has ordered one billion, four hundred million en velopes for 1942. That represents 11 envelopes for every individual ir the nation, including the babies. Those envelopes will be distributed as franked mail. At the normal postage rate of three cents, it would mean a postal revenue of 42 million dollars. There is one reason for postal deficit. HAIR CURLERS THE LADIES cannot buy hair curlers, the kind they wear to bed. The reason is the factories making them cannot get necessary material as it Is needed for the war munitions we are producing for England. But cheer up, ladies, the stores will sell you exactly the same thing, with a trifle different name, made in and imported from Efigland. English hair curler factories are still operating, price, incidentally, is just half of a kind. made-In-Ameri- ca made-ln-Americ- TpYPING away with n, glance at the keys' k tricky to you, if youre seeker without such tram. Really, touch typing's can teach it to yourse keyboard chart like the sketch. -- Prepare for a Job with the u new booklet. Has keybo 4 exercises, speed drills to trj touch typing. Includes rules b English; business, social and ters, tables of figures. Send youi READER-HOM- f 3 SEEYK3 Minna St. San Franctie Enclose 10 cents In coin fc, copy of TEACH YOURSELF TYPEWRITING. 117 I Name... Address. 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