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Show Kathleen Norris Says: Now Is Time to Help Ease Dads Burdens 1 . . BU Syndicate The Private Pa pert Of a Cub Reporter; Too probably read, in the storiei about John Barrymore, how saddened he was over the loss of his interned Jap valet and the Japs family . . . On the other hand, some of Charles Chaplins Jap servants turned out to be spies .' . . The most ironic aitua-tio- n of all, we think, concerns Eugenia Clair Flatto, Grand Hostess of the American Gold Star Mothers annual convention . , . Before the war, Mrs. Flatto had a loyal Jap He had been here for gardener many years had even fought for this nation in the last big war . . . But, because he is Japanese he had to be Interned . , . Mrs. Flatto now has a new gardener, who is acceptable to the authorities a German, who cant even speak English! ... One of President Roosevelt's closest advisers, a New Yorker, was feasting in a delicatessen. As he started to leave, the owner handed him a small package . . . "This," he explained, "is tor the1 President It contains some of my best corned beef and pastrami. Please take it to him with my compliments . . . The next day when the President opened the package, right on top of the spicy cold cuts were two dozen of the delicatessen mans ; FDR sent for Steve cards . and, handing the cards to Early him, dryly Instructed: "Here pass these around to the ,1 , various Embassies." When FDS was assistant secreA tary of the navy, they say, he was visited by some ladies of the Temperance Union. They wanted him to christen the ships with soda pop Instead of champagne. "The trouble with you ladies," said Mr. Roosevelt, "is that Instead of opposing the christening of a vessel with champagne, you should en courage it And get a great temperance lesson." "Why, how can we?" queried one of them. "Well," he replied, "after the first tasta of wine, the ship takes to water and sticks to it ever after,". Then theres the ene about the . Mussolini troops, who will go ' down la history as men wbod rather eat and make love than fight . . . One Italian captain decided te do something abont . It, and. after a pep talk he "AvantH" ; ("For- charged: so and shouting ho led ward!"! j them Into battle. When he turned, the captain found himself M yards ahead ' alone! With all his men still seated on the "Bravo! and yelling: 1 ground-applau- ding . Admirers of Herbert Bayard Swope were disappointed not to find an anecdote about him in our recent pillar called "Newspaperman .Stuff." M. Throckmorton Cohn, who says Swope la a guy you always find In a photo finish when newspapermen are discussed, relays this one about him. While exec editor down on the World, Swope formed a habit of depending a great deal for the exact time on the clock in the tower of the Tribune which was directly across the way , . . Every now and then the Trib clock would stop. This riled So one day he Swope no end got it off his chest by running this on the Worlds editorial page: "The Tribune tries to tell the administration how to run the government, yet cannot keep its own clock going." ... 1 non-offic- tude tests. . 0 0 0 BOND LOTTERY Rep. Adolph Sabath of Illinois, genial chairman of the house rules committee, wasn't able to sell the President on government-sponsore- d lotteries when he called at the White House. However, be was given a novel idea on how to use the lottery principle In the sale of war bonds. Sabath contended that a legalized lottery, conducted monthly by the treasury, would greatly aid in rein lieving taxation and raise billions revenue for the war effort ' Under a bill he is sponsoring, the Illinolan said, the government would realize approximately from the sale of a billion $1 tickets, whereas if it borrowed this amount at 3 per cent for 20 years, the interest alone would total $875,-000,0- , j Meat top salary players could sot squander their money even If they wanted to. The greater part of their aalarles goes te taxes and professional and Uv--1 lng expenses. The rest Is ban-- , died, by business managers. Hollywood stars are not the gourmets they are cracked up to be. They have to eat sparingly of simple foods in order to maintain their figures and physical condition. Most stars dream of. Paradise is to be able to eat steak and potatoes and pie whenever they feel like it but . they dont Dont Believe What You Hear About Hollywood: Modem American believe more myth end legend about Hollywood than did the ancient Greek about the boys from Mount Olympus, from Ajax to Zeu , inclusive. Although there Js a Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to promote this mecca which doesn't exist there Is no Hollywood City Hall or city officials. That vague territory is just the northwest section of the city of Los Angeles. k de fer restoration of normal bus!- -, ness, wbe would rather bare a chance to make money and live peacefully even under the Japs ' than te pay the frightful cost of continued war. Meanwhile, Japan seems determined to crush China now. Apparently the U. bombing raids on Tokyo scared the Japs sick, made them see the danger of nearby Chinese bases, caused them to shift their strategy to cleaning up China ahead of other warfronta MERRY-GO-ROUN- Heard In the navy press room: sailor after 20 years service retired with a sizeable fortune of He amassed this sum through careful investment, enterprise, initiative and the death of an uncle who left him 159,000. The war departments service of supply shortly will release a new A C0,-00- 0., movie called, "The Army Behind the Army," showing America's vast war production machine. The picture will be shown in defense plants throughout the country. Street, N-- Washington, D. C. While farmers with their thoughts on the crops keep an eye on the weather these days, members of the department of agriculture are watching the eastern Atlantic for periscopes. The United States has the food Britain needs, but not the ships to deliver it So it has become case of periscopes versus proteins. "Give us more protein for muscle tone," say British officials, "and we can step up our war production 15 to 20. per cent" ' Remember that meat is protein and that Great Britain for the last three years has turned two million acres of meadow oinder the plow. It was a painful thing for the nation which for a hundred years has been q master at animal husbandry and raised the finest bloodlines of eating animals in the world, to sacrifice that industry. But an acre of land in wheat or potatoes produces more food in quantity than an acre Remember that In thete trying day Dags heart i a heavy at your. He, devoted to grazing. Quantity isnt lacking in the British diet today, but too, love t that big soldier ton. So if world new it bad it help a lot to tee mother v and thi children cheerful. according to reports from British sources, quality in certain elements has had to be sacby KATHLEEN NORRIS REMEMBER DAD rificed and now the British people much having He probably misses his ton are beginning to use up their bodily In these tlssue-buUdi- DAD Isnt dispen-saUon- Kal-ahe- t WNU Service, 1343 H vultures ready to pounce. Dads, problem Is considerably worse than It has been In a long time.. This is not to depreciate the heartaches and fears of Mother. But Mother has work to do; she Is knitting, attending meetings, raising money, arranging for camp entermise. tainments, pouring coffee In can"Why not apply your lottery Ideas teens, trying on her new uniform. to the sale of war bonds," he sugHer hatred and fear of war are not gested. "The Belgian government lessened, but at least she has presheld bond lotteriey for i number of ent activity. Not a day goes by but what she manages to send someyears. cookies, sweaters, socks, thing books, letters to her own or some SIIAKY CHINA Chinese leaders In Washington are other mothers boys. not shouting it from the housetops, As for the boys themselves; well. s but behind closed doors they are It Is one of the unbelievable that times mad efthey these of some to the tough talking doing fect that an Increasing number of are living at topmost pitch. I haven't Chinese are getting discouraged met one yet, who, under his Imporabout the war and would like to see tant and businesslike and mysterious manner, isnt thoroughly enjoysome kind of appeasement with Japan. Chinese leaders give this as ing himself. And what an unlooked-fo- r the reason why China must have airblessing that Is! ' planes and have them immediatePities Men Left Behind. ly. feel sorry for any kid that isnt The Chinese dont demand a going," a young naval lieutenant, off lot of planes. But they do say for the south seas, said to me pitythat even a small fraction of the ingly, just before he sailed. "That munitions going to Russia would guy that just sold me these boots, work wonders la bolstering Chi-now," he added, "he goes home te Generalissimo Chlang Is net weakening. But many Chinese are, especially the wtll-U-class, the people whe yearn NW AND USED desk trrnrrit-raddtat fi. L. DESK EX, m. Hews Analyst and Commentator. . y, as By BAUKHAGE 00 Here is the Chinese picture now being presented to U. S. war strategists. After five years of war, the Chinese are warweary. Most discouraging thing is the ironical tact that the Chinese ate worse off now, with Allies, than they were before, of Periscopes vs. Proteins England Feeds Soldiers and Workers On Depleted Meat Supplies. my days. is Dad having opinion, the worst time of any member of the family. The gallant boys who go away are getting a tremendous lot of sympathy; mother and the girls are deep in new and exciting activities. t)ad is in the same old grind. No, not quite the same old 1525,000,000. grind. With prices tip, help "It wouldnt be the first time our scarce, and taxes darkening government has held a lottery," ar- his sky like a flock of hovering 1778 Sabath. "We For almost a year she has been trying to crash the Broadway heavTo attract attention she ens circulated the fable that she is an alone. The Chinese were heiress to millions and that her fam- fighting after Pearl Harbor bedelighted ily pays her a large sum weekly to cause it meant they had a powerful keep out of the theater . . . Natur-allBut now after ally Japan. against. that kind of a story got her a six months of it, they almost wish lot of publicity, and playwrights and had been left to hold out alone. they producers catered to her as a potenThat is why recent reverses in tial backer . , . The thing exploded Burma .and along the China coast right in her pretty face when she have shaken Chinese determination was threatened with eviction over a to foundation. down the $20 hotel bill. ... -- The campaign for enlistments in the Womens Army Auxiliary corps has succeeded too well. MaJ. Oveta Culp Hobby and her chief lieutenants, Mrs. Arthur Woods and Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, have a bear by the tail and they know it Sad truth Is that there cannot possibly be more than 500 WAAC offi- taken in. now. No "auxiliaries," that is, WAACs, can be recruited until, the officers have been trained, possibly around September 15. The greatest number of WAACs that can be taken in this year is estimated at 25,000, and all of these will be subjected to a minimum of four weeks training. This leaves some 275,000 disappointed would-b- e WAAC's out of an estimated registration of 300,000. Toughest job of all falls apon the chief recruiting officers in the nine army corps areas. It Is their job te sort out the WAAC registrants and select Ibe lucky women. Those chosen then must face a series at very stiff apti- It's a Battle as much as you do. And he doesnt have canteen work and first 'aid classes, to help him forget the heaviness of his heart. He isnt young any d more, and those "comforts of home " mean more than ever to him. So try to save the good, instead of ell the bad, news for him. Instead of greeting him with a long account of Aunt Janes . operation, tell him about the nice things Juniors teacher said. See that dinner is ready on time, and the petty annoyances of the day dis, much-discusse- Dad doesnt get too much thanks for his quiet pamissed. tience and diligence. 'A little kindness wont spoil him, and it will tell him better than words that you love him. , Bravel" , Features. Washington, O. C WAAC ENLISTMENTS Thousands of determined women, eager to don the WAAC uniform, are driving WAAC officials wacky. did It In to gued help finance the Revolutionary war." "Yes, I knew," said the President, adding that he doubted the advisability at lotteries at this time because of the strong opposition of religious groups, instead, be proposed a compro- 1 WNU Food Quality Handicaps British War Production a lUUe house somewhere, couple of kids maybe, hamburger and shortcake for supper gosh, what tough luck!" Im saving this remark to retail to his mother, should the time come when she will want to hear it Meanwhile, he and she are living under high emotional tension; she is praying. hoping, working, serving, cooking, knitting, planning, conferring, writing letters at a rate never even dreamed in her life before and those things sum up into a sort of happiness, after alL But Dad. In these days when we ought to be doing most tor him and thinking most of him, we are apt to be ignoring him entirely, and this Is a good day to remember him, and put him back In his rightful place as head of the family. Remember that Dads heart Is as heavy as yours, these days. Dad loves that big son of his, too. He goes down to the office. Things there are far from gay. Every business that isnt directly concerned with defense Is suffering now, and the chances are Dads business is in that list He takes it sturdily; he Isnt complaining. He and Mollie started in with nothing, and they arent afraid to go back to first principles. But this shortage of materials and supplies, this question of priorities and transportations, this stoppage of European goods and eternal delay in deliveries of orders. Is very trying, to say the least. There are a million men in the country engaged In the little supply agencies that carry accessories or fuel for motor cars. They are having a quiet time, these days. Does the man of your family the man who has been so quietly carrying the financial load for so many years, come home these nights to peace, affection, comfort, a good dinner served with laughter for I sauce? If he doesnt, there Is war work tor you to do, right hi the family circle. What One Woman Did. For example, I know of one woman, perhaps quoted in this column before, whose determination a year ago to see that Dad was not the of the family has sole resulted in the happiest possible results for all concerned. She began by moving to a small farm whose rent was half the city rent; she told me that this year she would put more than $100 worth of provisions into her cellar from the farm. She bought a cow; she' Is the only private individual I know who can successfully preserve milk. She got Dad to try pruning and raking on Sunday afternoons, and he has stopped headache pills and sleeping tablets. All this in about seven months time. And she told her daughters that for the duration they must buckle down to the sort of quiet, economical living that made their female ancestors the fine, strong, heroic American women they were. This woman said frankly that she wanted her husband to be the most satisfied, serene, affectionate, happy man in the world, and though you might not notice it if you went Into his dull office and saw him. and short and gray and middle-age- d quiet, I believe he is. Greet Him Cheerfully. First, the rooms to which he comes ought to be orderly and restful, with whatever he likes right to hand the radio, the newspaper, a glass of iced tomato juice or a cup of hot soup. Second, all home news that Isnt good, and all world news that Is alarming, ought not to be hurled at him before he has time to wash his hands or change his coat Third, every worry that it Is possible to remove should have been removed by Mother during the course of the day, so that her first report might be: "The dentist is finished with Mary. Tom got an average of B plus. I talked to the butcher and he took that roast off the bilL I had a lovely letter from Mother and she says my brother is better." Fourth, if the world newt Is bad. It helps a lot to have Mollie and the children cheerful. Not idiotically airy, but courageous. "We wont always have bad news. Dad." And so on and bn through the sixth and seventh and up to the twentieth of the little details that hearten and rest and comfort a tired man. The right dinner. The right pleasant affectionate talk at dinner. The desire and resolve of every separate member of the family to help him carry the load. wage-earn- . er ng ' reserves. The British have four million soldiers of their own thst have to be fed and also a huge army of war The American campaign is well under way and with the good weather, that seems ahead, this years crops oughi to turn out qll that is neled at home and abroad with .careful conservation. But the ship crop hasnt done so welL That is why the department of agriculture is scanning the eastern waters as anxiously as the navy department these days and the British are looking even more wistfully toward our shores. At this writing there Is another burst of optimism in some official quarters regarding the scotching of the submarine menace. And hope i pinned on another crop besides those the farmers are growing. It is the crop of small submarine chasers and new destroyers which It is expected will have reached sizable proportions within the next 30 days. And with this crop it is hoped that a crop of subt will be harvested and then perhaps John Bull will begin to get some more of the proteins and vitamins he needs thst are hopping out of American soil now. a e e workers. m World Highway a Of the Future plies In the Far East are now located, is farther from San Francisco than Japan is.. The Global War USED CARS TRAILER (W Liberal Cri,t JESSE M. CHasr I Sell Buy U1 8a Hula 8treet ?,) alee lortiin u BOISE. POCATELLO. R Ti,S The President has spoken of this war as a global war. The sooner we begin to realize that the highways are skyways traced around a globe add not along the false proUSED TIRES portions of a Mercator projection, the sooner we wUl realize what our Wa hare a limited number task is, today and tomorrow. tiree IT to 21" for ue oa fL?, Build a wayon from omr The mass raids on Germany have LYMAN MOTOR C0MPJ shown the course that the Allied 1ST South Mala St.. Salt Lake (0 Nations art going to follow to victory. That course Is the shortest course. Germany gave us the hint when she built tier once unbeatable Luftwaffe but didnt have what America has to'carry out the Idea. This war is what H. G. Wells predicted 30 years ago in his prophetic novel, "The War of the Worlds," namely, a war in the air. And after the war the nation which controls the skyways and the stations (the bases) will control the world. Today, the reason why the United Nations are stymied in their effort Is because the seaways are closed. Not because the Axis has blockaded the seas, 'although the submarine Is still unconquered in the western Atlantic and men in Germany are decreeing that Americans cant run their cars because they in Germany wont let us have She gasoline. The Allied Nations cant build ships faster than they are sunk but .only Fawn FI;' methrecently has the od of conveying men and goods by A! sea and raB been questioned and air transport taken' seriously as a subAsk your Friendly Gmr stitute. , Before the Russians ever trained a single parachutist, before the Germans developed the technique of Could Be landing men and equipment beTeacher How was Iron hind the enemy lines from the air, discovered? an American sergeant had patented Jimmy I believe they a method of landirig machine gun units from parachutes. Before the first Germans , dropped their men into helpless- Holland. Americans Treat Constipath had been dropping men in asbestos suits from planes to fight forest This Gender Wtj! fires. We have been afraid to take the Many folks aay that almas bad aa constipation an he' shortest cuts. Perhaps the new cathartics and purges. T mass raids over Germany win because many medicinal M awaken us. If they do, a new world ttvea work this way: they ta in the skies opens, a world where, prod tha Intestines into aa or draw moisture into them at after all these years, we win admit I other parts of tha body. finally that a straight line is the Now cornea newa of a gea shortest distance between and pleasanter way af tmi two constipation, for the mlllto points. And wa win follow that line. people with normal tnterf t whoaa trouble U due to krf Bay War Bands -bulk" in the diet. This wayr Washington Today eating KELLOGGS ALL-a crisp, delicious cereal, i In the month of April 3.300 government employees were transdrinking plenty of vit unlike many m e ferred from Washington to other nal laxatives, acts principal cities. Thousands of new governthe contents of the eokn I ment workers came here within that helps you to have easy, sen Is m elimination. period. Since then it is estimated In Battle Cred.1 by Kellogg's that the number of hewcomers Is your condition Is pot btlpril this simple treatment, bettel increasing. your doctor. That is a slight indication, reduced to statistics, of the growing importance of your capital which today is more nearly the worlds capital than any other city. That U one reason why a book which came to me last night, written by one of my colleagues, is a highly important, -- V'JtmWV book for anybody who wants to. JUST A know the real Washington. PATH INI The book is called "Washington M Is Like That, a rather pert title W: for a book that Is anything but pert. Rather, it is pertinent and the best Hating Our Victims j factual interpretation' of the capital ItJs human nature to htTand what It stands for that I have whom we have injured. ever read. Willard Klplinger wrote It. He Is a reporter who was born in a small town, understands the small town viewpoint and makes his money Taraliarrepalftftd mil name, bora-writing for big town tolkf. kcwtaedamamaehettoaattete Mr. Klplinger, with the help of a staff of has learned this, aoothteg, euehloain pads j the art of getting facto and assayTT 1 ing them with more objectivity than most That is why his book is good. It is complete and It is good. Washington," says Mr. Kipling, Purpose of Happin er. "is not a diamond sitting on a seems mad Happiness piece of velvet as some people like shared. Corneille. to think it Instead, it is a collection of tools or implements to be handled and Inspected. People can grab hold of them, see how they are put together, and how they may be used to make a better system. I hope this book may serve es a Dont Neglect training course on the use of toe Nature dmaed the tools in Washington." Job. Their task avnlra Itwini bteod Kma te M You can "grab hold" of toe facto testa imyetaataa. Tbe set MS In Mr. Kiplinger's book. I hope Uttif te eeaetaatly predate they matter tha kldaaya ate to . will help you to use toe "tools" be the Weed It teed heath tefv Vhm the kIdaeya Ufl tells about Nairn tataaded. there body-b- - t.. Whjte Leads Them , J - ALL-BRA- "Its time to tear up til your Mercator projections! Thst remark, which may sound a little technical to (he layman, was delivered by a tall, tens officer as a little group of us sat at a luncheon in a Washington hotel the other day. He was almost fervent in his tone and his eyes flashed. He happens to be in work considerably removed from aviation, but ba believes in the future of the skies and the work be is doing deals closely with tomorrow. At this point I might explain. If you are rusty on your topography, thst a Mercator projection is a kind of map which makes you think the nearest way to Japan from Chicago is by way of San Francisco when it would actually be shorter to cut through Milwaukee and Duluth. These projectors show the cover of the globe stretched out flat And when you stretch out the cover of a sphere you throw all the space, the land and water distances, out of proportion except along the equator, and by the time you get up to the far north the arctic countries are shown many times as big. and the distances many times as great as they really are. You can see that For Instance, two places on the equator 2H inches apart on the Mercator may be 800 miles apart. Thirty degrees north of the equator, two places on the same map which are really 800 miles apart, are stretched out so they appear three Inches apart. The farther north you get the more countries and the spaces are stretched. Naturally, . that makes an directions Is a airlint lot nearer Japan by to America than the Philippines. By air, as well as sea, Australia, where most of our forces and sup cock-eyed- . ALL-BRA- N I rlJj raoasEsrj 1 news-getter- s, in hiib fno' Tbt 1 aa oaete that may eaaee BR 1 JE1-- S Oae may auffar aarrte yenteeaat headache, atuckam-BKti- Baukhage ay alfbte,-aede- the ay Farmers can now order construcNorwegian ships are carrying to tion lumber for their farm storage England d of her food supply r tml tired, Ttmqumt, eeaaty a are so dim further D te h1 erwa one-thir- and packing needs under an amendment to the WPB lumber freezing order. and one-ha-lf of her oil. m a eiursue bwom get rid at es High school students of Canton, N. Y.. have recently enlisted in toe American poultrymen hatched 19 farm cadet victory service. Memper cent more chickens in toe first bers of toe service win be certified four months this year than they did for work on farms by the U. S. emlast according to reports to the de- ployment service and paid prevailpartment of agriculture. ing wages. - w aadot d the aeeatry Lee aa. 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