Show r NEWS WEEKLY : ANALYSIS By Edward C Wayne Port ts Readied’ J ' U Man About Town t Lord Louis Mount-Dow British! batten the of the Illustrious will soon be making front 'page news again but that's a naval the secret- - He was telling sinking of the Hood by the Bismarck and the way the Bismarck was chased trapped and destroyed Mountbatten suggested that the complete exciting sea saga be given to the newspapers— to cheer lovers t of freedom “Heavens no!" ejaculated the Admiral “No more publicity The incident has had too much of a press as it is!” M- S Destroyer Is Torpedoed and Sunk While on Convoy Duty West of Iceland Strike in ‘Captive’ Coal Mines' Ended 34 Are Killed as Two Airliners Crash ' (EDITOR'S lhii lifmid i— n - t to g the first photos reach the United States follow ing the arrival in port of the — Met Her: lovely blonde walked into a night spot nose in air Someone crapked“She's sure putting on the dog since she's been to the Coast” “You mean” Dick Todd elaborated “she’s gone HollywoofI” e I Don’t Believe It: Rosemary Lane met a panhandler who asked for a nickel feracuppacawfee and her name and address! “Why my name and address?” “Oh don’t get me wrong" he replied “I want my secretary to drop you a note of thanks” e Most papers By Way of Report! missed this bit at the trial where testimony about thousand dollar bills is being tossed about like confetti Judge John C Knox who has a sensayuma was questioning Nick Schenck of MGM who was having trouble remembering his annual income “Well Just try to give it to us ap within $75000” said proximately Hixzoner whose record is the best on the federal bench whose decisions involve billions and whose salary is $10000 a year U S destroyer - Idlom’s Delight: Seymour Bergson of Int’l News contributed this one to the book of anecdotes called “The Best I Know" An American Reporter was summoned to the office of the Moscow censor who angrily objected to this dispatch: “The American Ambassador stood within " a stone's throw of Stalin 'What do you mean by this outrageous insult?" thundered the cen-s“You know perfectly well that he didn’t throw a stone at Mr Stalin!” The reporter finally explained It was an American idiom “So?" said the dope “In that case we change it anyway Make it: 'The American Ambassador stood near Stalin He threw NO stones!’" Mi- - tJncommon Sense: Conrad tells of the three appeasers who were crossing the Arabian Desert “Look" said one “there’s an ostrich with its head In the sand Isn’t it a silly bird?" The ostrich jerked back its beak and intoned: 'When I have my head in the sand I have enough sense to keep my mouth shut!" ni- - of an Innocent Bystander t Ribbons! Nicholas Typewriter Butler: Murray Many people’s tombstones should read: “Died at 30 buried at 60" Ambrose Bierce's definition of ambition: An desire to be vilified overmastering by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead Anon: Lions of society are tigers for publicity Elsie McCormick: People who live in pleasant places always act as if the weather was their own personal achievement Geo B Shaw's definition of a pessimist: A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it Wm Lyon Phelps: This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be' of no PM: possible service to him He enjoys diving into a good book and pulling a paragraph over his A’ofes head - e The Story Tellers: The title of Nina Wilcox Putnam’s Your Life piece Is: “I Was Too Fat to Love" That's variation of the true confession theme There the confessor is usually too Lawes in Click writes of J Weil the “con" man who used to wear a beard to appear dignified and who claimed he could only fleece a person who was crooked in hts The grid experts who heart Invade the mags at this time of the year remind you of most military Their pieces may make experts sense but not many make them interesting eei- - Manhattaa Murals: The bootblack who massages your shoes with a rag bearing the likeness of Hitler The sign on the old flivver parked on 8th Avenue: “Don’t laugh —this one's paid forlL The downtown luncheonette with the nifty name: “The Club Sandwich" The restaurant on Route 22 called “Never Inn" — B’way Byron's Definition of Carry-in- ’ the Torch No 38C328: When You Throw Your Heart at Her Feet— am It Doesn't Even Trip Her Kearny following its torpedoing was the above one - - (Kelcased Myron C Taylor left former board chairman of U 8 Steel William Davis of notional mediation board and John L Lewis of United Mine Workers sro shown ss they left the White House after conferring with President Roosevelt on the strike of 53000 miners of nation’s “captive" coal mines It was shortly following this conference that Lewis announced that the miners had accepted the President’s proposal for opening the mines and would go back to work pending farther consideration of the issues under dispute n U S NAVY: Loses a Warship First warship of the U S navy to The captive coal mine strike in which 53000 men engaged in digging be lost in the current European war SHOWDOWN: The Lewis Affair coal out of the ground to supply the defense-ladesteel companies laid down their tools approached a showdown in the fight between John L Lewis and President Roosevelt It has been an odd chain of events that had brought Lewis once a close ally and supporter of the President and his labor policy to the point where he had become for the moment Administration Enemy No l p of the After a four day Lewis there came a truce with Myron Taylor former U S Steel chief and William H Davis of the National Mediation board were called to the White House Tor a conference with President Roosevelt Following this meeting Lewis called his district mine labor chiefs into a parley and then came the announcement that the miners would go back to work pending mediation It was proceedings of the dispute called declared that arrangement truce with signs pointfor a ing toward a complete settlement The issue in the strike was a interesting one tor it particularly had nothing to do with collective with wages or bargaining rights hours but a flat demand for the closed shop ' mines TRANSPORTATION: Tragedies After five months without a fatal crash the commercial airlines had a tragic 24 hours in which two airliners crashed to the earth with a death toll of 34 First accident was that of a plane which crashed and burned in the fog and mist within a short distance of the Fargo N D airport where Fourit was preparing to land teen persons were killed with the He pilot being the lone survivor suffered minor injuries and severe shock Unofficial investigators indicated that ice had formed rapidly on the wings of his plane as he descended for the landing but a complete official investigatioa was immediately launched to find all the facts Twenty persons all those aboard were killed In the other crack-uwhen a plane bound from New York to Chicago plunged to earth and burst into (lames near St Thomas This plane too had been Ontario No exflying low In a heavy fog planation of the cause of the crash was immediately determined of Lt Commander Anthony L Danis commanding officer of ship Photo was made and re teased by the U S army signal corps end was taken aboard the Kearny LIFE: In Germany a pronouncement Through by Nazi propaone had received ganda minister a partial picture of what the Royal Air force had been doing to Germany and how life was changing there as compared with that before the bombing of the Reich started in Paul Joseph Goebbels Reuben the U S destroyer earnest James which was torpedoed and He said “I know you have it hard sunk while on convoy duty west of You must all work as never today Iceland before Your wives must sometimes Its sinking marked the first loss stand for hours before stores in orof a U S naval vessel since Presider to buy some vegetables the commanded dent Roosevelt "Your children are frequently navy to "shoot on sight" any for- sent into the country and separated raiders have what eign entering from you for months Sometimes been defined as U S defensive you have to go without a glass of waters beer sometimes without cigarettes This sinking came just two weeks “Then because necessary hands after the Kearny incident in which are not you have to that destroyer survived a torpedo shovel coalavailable Then at nights go loss the and made blast port after into cellars and protection of II lives two hours’ sleep go back to The Reuben James was under the after hard work Comdr L command of Lieut' II “That is the way it is in many Edwards and was an old type flush cities of the Reich and in some in commissioned deck destroyer even worse" 1929 was MAP: 0 South America Though there was much fodder for comment in the President’s Navy day address it was the map of South America which had drawn the most attention in the press of the Western hemisphere The story had been that Hitler had employed 200 geographers and at Koenigsberg to redraw the map of South America giving certain countries there and in Central America the status of vassal states of the Axis There were 14 countries involved and they would have been divider: up and consolidated into five vassa two of them under the countries control of Italy one enormous section under the direct guardianship of Hitler and the others to go to Japan Argentina and Uruguay were to Peru Chile be II Duce’s vassals and Paraguay would be under control of Japan and all the territory from Brazil north to the Panama canal would be Hitler's “lebens-raum- " IRE: Shown by Group The isolationists had shown their ire against the President’s speech as an exposition of his own policy and led by Wheeler and Taft in the senate had fired shot and shell into Senator Pepper of Florida a backer of the President’s foreign policy Not far behind them waf Walsh of Massachusetts who flatly charged that the President sought to lead the country into actual war without submission of the question WEATHER: to the judgment of the country or o congress In Moscow Taft was more bitter He said The military miracle needed to “President Roosevelt ha admitsave Moscow from almost certain ted that he has tricked th4 Amerconquest by the Nazi mechanized ican people While talking of peace hordes occurred and came in the he has admitted that he jhas alform of a heavy rain which turned ready done what he can to plunge a aea of snow into mud and slush the nation info a shooting war" and bogged the Germans down And Wheeler said that he had alPrior to this the defending Rus- ways believed that the President sians had reported the pep gone had been crposed to our involvefrom the invading forces and that ment in the war and had sought to the presence among the prisoners of keep us out but that in view of the men soldiers with limping Navy day address he was convinced legs and other basic physical do- - that he would have to change his mind fecta had been significant Most confirmatory evidence that ! something serious had happened to EXECUTIONS: the German drive Just when it was j Halt Hitler by on the threshold of success came A sudden halt In the execution o from the pen of Goebbcls ace Naz a hen he warned that Frenchmen In reprisals for attacks propagandist on German officers of thf army o hard weeks were ahead n The rain was the crux of the occupation had been acdompaniec however the Nazi ofilcla by the report which wa said to tha1 have “leaked out" that two Geradmitting pronouncements roads had disappeared blending man officers had be in killed in the into fields that motor transporLille sector tation had been utterly halted anc Hitler had ordered a halt in the that the problem of supplying Ger- executions in France “to five the man troops at the front had be- French a last opportunity to cocome paramount operate" JAPAN: More Restive Nippon of chafing under the peace American-Britis- h terms with Japan under her present policy was evidently becoming more restless The newspaper Yomiuri writing of President Roosevelt’s promise of full aid to the Chungking government said: "American aid to the Soviets and Britain is reasonable and acceptable but support to Chungking which is not at war with Germany is inconsistent in view of the United States' aim of destroying Hitlerism “This promise of aid may be taken as a direct challenge to Japan" In the meantime it was reported from Shanghai that Japan despairing of ever being able to build a real government under the regime of Wang Ching-Win occupied China was now turning to a new plan The Japanese were seeking it was said to establish small new local governments The first of these was to be set up at Kukiang with jurisdiction over three occupied provinces and part of a fourth LABOR: General Vieiv Generally speaking the labor front the United States was troublous inwith several defense plants volved and others threatened A machine-gu- n factory in Detroit was silenced by a walkout with wages at thq bottom of the conThere were 1500 worktroversy ers and they were asking a minimum raise There was a fear that three other plants of the same company In the Detroit area would suffer a sympathy strike The wages were $1 an hour for men on machines and 85 cents for women One of the union issues was the removal of the lower-pai- d women from the factory The OPM office demanded that striking welders in a Seattle shipyard return to work and were met by the defiant retort that the request should come from the White House direct The welders organization an A F of L union stated that it had appealed three times to the President and that the OPM had let them down This was sn odd strike because the basic point was said to be a charge by the welders that under existing union arrangements they had to pay dues in several unions at the same' time in order to ply their trade These were Instances but Washington was fearful that the whole was situation labor growing! touchy In by Western Newspaper Union) A GOOD DEAL OF HOPE RESTS WITH RURAL COMMUNITIES A GENERATION ago an evening occaspent at a friend’s borne andinner sional visit to the theater or a wers restaurant at a hotel or good considered the pleasures of Iff® by Automobiles cities the of people did not provide quick transportation to night clubs which did not exist with their blare of saxophones and snare drums their “blues' singers scantily dressed women entertainers round after round of alcoholic concoctions and their headaches for the morrow The Victorian pleasures of the eighties and nineties were of a simple kind but they were real They made for a substantial citizenship that was not subject to ) A Ml- ) ttif — Observatlon: Eddy Duchin says he's surprised that none of the isolationist editors headlined it this way: “American Destroyer Rams Nazi Torpedo!" We’ve r: ' ' aalamaa la U NOTE— Wba aalalaaa Ult ! u ulrM l rl Rt by WMteHl Na'wapapar Union) mi Jrr hysteria Today those city pleasures of the They have given place to wild orgies of hilarity which leave in their wake only regrets for lost opportunities have imported the ways of were the gky capitals of Europe and those ways weffe at least partially responsible for what has happened in Europe They helped to make Hitler possible People of our rural communities are today more typically American They live a more rational life They represent the culture of the nation They provide the foundation upon If which our future must depend our civilization survives the world it will be because of the cataclysm rural influence of our American ‘communities past are gone WHAT OF THE FUTURE A QUESTION WHAT LIES AHEAD? What will happen when the war or the emergency or the boom blows up? Such a day is coming ini Some of my acquaintances Washington assure me that there is nothing to fear They tell me it has all been given thoughtful consideration The government is prepared to provide A bit of discreet questioning disare closes that these acquaintances eagerly waiting that as the day on which will be disclosed the failure of the American system of free enterprise and the substitution of the state socialism of Germany or the state capitalism of Italy These twy systems are 60 nearly alike that only a microscopical analysis can determine a difference and both savor of Communism How will the government provide? Can we keep on adding to the mortgage of approximately $5000 that is plastered on every American family and on which it must pay an interest charge of some $150 a year? How far can we continue to add to an indebtedness that now equals close to of the value of all our national wealth? Industry is not now permitted to accumulate any reserve to provide shelter for the rainy days ahead There is nothing to insure a day’s wages for the workman when the demand for guns tanks and planes is no more Congress should be thinking of that future day unless congress is willing to see our American system go overboard and America follow the road all the rest of the world is traveling FIXING WAGES PRICES THE PAYMENT at exceedingly high wage rates of billions of dollars each year to American workmen and a drastic limitation on production of commodities for civilian use produce dangerous conditions for the creation of wild uncontrolled inflation Ways by which such conditions may be offset include a limitation on all prices including wages an exceptional and drastic tax rate on all incomes that are above those of normal times or an enforced purchase of government A securities commodity and wage g policy is possible under a totalitarian form of government but has never proved successful in a democracy i i i BETTER RELATIONS EDWARD C JOHNSON of New York heads an organization whose purpose is to exchange information between people of North and South America and so create a mors He wants the friendly interest North Americans to know and appreciate Bolivar and the South Americans tq know and appreciats U we understand the Washington history and culture of our neighbors we will be less critical and mors appreciative of them It Is a worthy cause being promoted in a practical way and for a good purpose TIIE LORD HELPS' AN ENGLISH FRIEND a former officer in the British army quotet to ms the old adage “the Lord helps those who help themselves" and ap He said “Eng plied it to England land will do a much better job at helping herself when the Lord or the United Slates do not attempt to When help is offered help England Is Inclined to let up on her own efforts and let the Lord or the United States do the Job” Tha may account for lack of newt of war activities from England More cakes yes hut better ctkes too You save when you buy Clabber Girl and then the light and flavorful tenderness of your cakes and pastries gives you added pride and satisfaction Clabber Girl in your baking means Bigger value when you buy Better results when you bake Youlrbe surprised when tells you Clabber Girl’s price You’ll be delighted baking results You Pay LESS but use NO MORE ' Vanity's Tongue Egotism is the tongue of vanity — Chamfori ! ffis'Gmcwsm Bob Hopa Tells All In tha Dizziest Breeziest Autobiography Ever Written Ml A Riot from Start to flnlshl Number 1 radio and movie senudoa has written s book! 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