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Show I TlMlixgtah Notes of an Innocent Hjstander: Broadway Small-Talk- : tenborn described him as H V. KulVon Washington, I). C. EGGS AM) SII.FL The senate could learn d lot from the house about brevity in public address Members of the house have learned to express themselves without taking two hours m fact, some of the best speeches last for only one - " Whin we used it the air . gave us a spanking Theres a Socuty nr the Prevention of Disparaging Remarks About in with hi udquarters pmoklyn The East 35th Manhattan btiiet station house is going after several took the ilipjnnts that of H A F lads If Sec'y vising the Navy Frank Knox wanted to scoop the world, imagine all the daily beats (about naval matters) he could tip off to the editors of his Chicago newspaper. officials . . ... Manhattan Murals: The 14th Street bookshop which prominently displays Earl Browders book: This . . . The impoverished Way Out looking gink on 42nd Street who pedbills three for a dles swish dime . . . The middle-age- d who carries a woman's large purse, and stops in the street every few minutes to powder his nose . . . The sign in the Tenth Avenue mission house lobby: People Who Dont Write Home Dont Rate One! . . . The midget usher at the Roxy who stands in the center of the huge lobby with a spotlight on him. Looks like a fugitive from a totem pole . . . ten-doll- The 50th and 6th Ave. restaurant which Invites epitaphs about Hitler for the window display . . . The 9th We Ave. place which placards: trust our food pleases you. Otherwise we dont trust. Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Strikes and lockouts may deliver the knockout punch to the American way of life that the Panzer divisions cannot. It is time for plain Democracy depends upon talking. It cannot survive the individual upon the blood and sweat and tears Unless of The Other Fellow . . management and labor are each ready to yield a point. Democracy will be forced to yield the field. By June, one and a half million Americans will have left their homes and jobs for the Army and Navy . . . These boys are an example of sacrifice to both labor and capital . . . Their lives may depend upon American factories producing materials in Because Hitler's waretime . . houses already are bursting with ammunition for use against us all. These American boys know that the Battle of the Argonne was not fought on any six hour day with time and a half for overtime . . . And they know, too, that the Minute Men never wasted a second waiting for a dividend check . . . The hour is too late for bickering . . . The time has come for all of us to think of public duty instead of private right . . . Every strike in the nationcould be settled at once if the executive in the front office (who gets $21 a day) and the man in the overalls (who gets $12 a week) would remember this: That the American soldier (who gets $21 a month) is ready to die for them both! ... . . Mac- George Holland and George were bitter rival on Boston newspapers . . MacKinnon eventually quit and . He Is now came to New York at Medical Arts Hospital, where he . underwent a major operation He almost had a relapse the other day when his estranged wife (also a Boston newspaper writer) wrote him that she was very sorry to learn about his being so ill by reading George Holland's column! chutter-colyumis- Kinnon . ts . . . Speaker, headlines and footnotes are always interesting and In the metropolitan press I note such headlines as these Indiana Standard Clears thought-provokin- g j Record Breaking Backlog by Republic Steel. Earned by East$20,076,739 man Kodak. General Motors has Sales In Record with $1,794,936,640 1940 Copper Earns Anaconda $35,-05- United States Steel Reports Per Cent Business Rise 2 26 And so on Then, In contrast, I notice this footnote in a country weekly: Eggs, strictly fresh, 14 to 15 a dozen." LABOR SHORTAGE totally different labor problem than strikes gives increasing worry to defense chiefs. Some even consider it more serious eventually than disputes between management A and unions. It is the problem of securing trained workers for vital defense occupations. The Army-NavMunitions board has just completed a confidential report listing 661 occupations in which serious labor shortages are likely soon. The report warns that the tremendous Increase in production, as high as 60 per cent In some industries, is certain to aggravate the problem. The framing program of the National Youth administration and others will afford some relief, but the labor shortage is so urgent that authorities have quietly taken steps to cull skilled workmen out of the draft Over 500,000 men are slated to be called to the colors by July 1. And although the Selective Service law so desbars "group deferments perate is the need for trained labor that draft boards have been advised to exercise the greatest care in inducting certain groups. these are experienced Among merchant seamen, also apprentices in highly skilled occupations lens grinders, toolmakers, chemists, aircraft mechanics, and other crafts which the Army-NavMunitions board calls "occupations that have special significance in the national defense program. y y RUBBER When a government bureau moves fast, that's news A bureau of the department of agriculture, beginning last August, has completed a survey of potential rubber production in 11 countries and is now moving into two more. But more important than speed, the survey is the first step in an plan to make important this country independent of Fast Indian sources for rubber, and increase trade between the Americas Earlitr this year, congress appropriated $500,000 to the department of agriculture "to develop rubber production. First objective is to establish two stations, pei manent experimental one for Central America, the other for South America It is almost certain that they will be located m Costa Rica and Brazil Brazil originally produced most of the world's rubber, but the seeds weie smuggled out of the country by the British, who set up their own rubber plantations in Malaya. The present drive is to restoie to Latin America her birthright m this product. AMERICAN Latin-Ameriea- n long-rang- e Arthur Krock got agitated over the of Gov't censorship, and lled Boo! In his New York Times ylyum. One neighbor he failed to fare was the Topics of the Times lllarist, a column to his left. The opicker, the very next day, kicked "Freedom of the press was nev-- r mo-- e widespread or more secure lan it is today" . . . Hollywood re-- i iters are ganging up against a cen-j- r threat. It would violate the free-oof the press, they feel. If they ere made to agree on whom Betty Irable is eating her dinners with. British navy enthe caste-bounlisted men can rise to the rank of lieutenant commander, but the U. S. navy does not permit enlisted men to take examinations for permanent commissions except in one branch the supply section. Dr. George A Buttriek, former president of the Federal Council of Churches and a supporter of Herbert Hixiver's plan to feed Europe, claims that Secretary of State Hull also approves the idea. eepers ... . ireat IT- Embroider p That's Easy (0t jto wl Hitlers Spring Drive Into Balkans Follows Usual Pattern of Nazi Blitz As Greeks and Jugoslavs Fall Back; Axis Powers Register African Gains - i 4 V V fallJi if , .'. jL, i 1 THE TOMORROWS OF AMI Kit OF AMERI 7 HE TOMORROWS different a be radically w.ll C of ye? 150 the years c.n,! a led with F I) ITOIl'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In ther columns, they are those of the new analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper ) (Released by Western Newspaper Union terdejs changed our philosophy Whethei of life. living, our way time worse, only for or better f, r socialistic a fi We are sailing w ii ti of sosea but what specific form t apparent. ni yet cial sin is That me tomorrows of America ii will produce another Henry Ford initiative Individual improbable was will not be encouraged as it effecl The the yesterdays darng con- such a course may have on our tinued increase In national wealth ii We have " if ij CALIF. Otto H. de liotirhon Ilapshttrft, 65,uho IKI O , todav unknown. of yester-davs- , Dur.iig tie 150 years was by supported government the people, it was the servant of the the peopeople. For the tomorrows, the govern ple expect support from merit, they are willing that government shall be the master. Will it work? Only time will tell. Within another year America will Pattern 27M UL AGHEILA, LIBYA. Beyond this Nazi armored tank waves a swasa national debt of $100,000,000,-00have the Nazis Joined Since town. In the coastal this Libyan tika from a building handsome par or more. That is approximately Italian troops In the Libyan sector previous sensational successes by the ered in wool or Silk national our of total the of British have been wiped out and much territory formerly won Is now In much more than the ing needlework and i It wealth. is STRIKES: axis hands. total of national Income for one beauty of any home. the Turn of Neiv port virtual evacuation year. ing Pattern 2790 contains s fe British troops To what extent can government by Greek troops. Strike news continued sensational, of a picture 15 by 20 inche oi the the for have not yet gone Into action. turn to a people support Nazi somewhat continue took but of stitches; color chart; One of the five fronts on which the better, with the Dykstra Mediation America? To what limit can such a qulred. Send order to: The sudden onslaught of the Nazi Germans attacked was around bodrd settlirg the system be financed? troops on five fronts against JugoCan, and will, government create slavia and Greece came with terri- Skoplje, in southwestern Jugoslavia, strike and making headway both on Sewing Circle Needtei U. S. wealth as the American profit systhe walkout link between threatened a the railroad vital In against the and swiftness early fying 82 Eighth Ave. 150 at Greeco-Britisthe Ford strike it forces. the and created Steel has tem and big during Jugoslav days of the conflict It was evident Enclose 15 cents in k. years of yesterdays? that a delaying action was the most Early in the conflict German panzer River Rouge tern No But the news, while somewhat betThe change from the yesterdays that the Greeks could offer, and that divisions captured Skoplje, and nawe have known, and under which Name the Jugoslavs, prepared mentally, drove a wedge through the Vardar ter from the standpoint of the but unprepared physically to resist, valley. The Germans reported tak- tional defense, was still disquieting we have prospered, to the questionAddress Most sensational of the able tomorrows has come to us could do little but harass the ading more than 20,000 prisoners in enough. this action, and radioed photographs stories was the claim that C I.O. through a revolution which we asked vance of the invader. oralso were showing long lines of truckloads of chieftains had been canvassing local for and insisted upon, but which we troops Hungarian dered to enter Jugoslavian territory Serb and Crotian prisoners going unions throughout the United States did not recognize. By classes voRAZOR bla: mountain roads, passing seeking to find what sentiment, if cations we have demanded special separated from Hungary after the along rd-moving the on Nazi divisions We have asked for any, there was for a general strike consideration. ASK YOUR DEALI8! war of move and received class if the Bridges deportation Events moved swiftly in those first way. legislation to OUTSTANDING BLAD While the United States, led by should be carried out. few days. Immediately the city of benefit one minority after another. The Bridges case was in the hearRoosevelts promises of President to the close Those of each class or vocation have Belgrade, perilously border, and in the center of a plain, sympathy and aid to Jugoslavia and ing stage when this move was un- considered only themselves, not the Doubt Edg was declared an open city and Greece during this invasion, was covered in Washington when Sidney American people as a whole, and to for 10cTHEBLADES COUNTRY! that the Jugoslavs would not defend watching with anxiety and hope for Hillman of OPM was asked by a have been given what they asked TAKING some more favorable news, the gen- house committee investigating the for. it KNOWN FROM COAST It CUPPLES COMPANY We can look forward to the path of However, the first act of the Nazi eral tone of opinion was that the national defense program to investibombers was to deliver a series of story of Poland and Finland was be- gate the report. the tomorrows with trepidation, but Mr. Hillman expressed surprise at with a assaults on Belgrade, closely fol- ing rewritten before their eyes. hope, at least, that it may Dangers Surra Americans interested in seeing the question and said he did not be- lead us to a desirable destination. lowed by similar attacks on Saralike move this lieve was of such that Man never wale is other happen any and being again something Nis, points Zagreb jevo, It is a path we are to follow military importance to the invading scanned the news dispatches in vain carried out. Mr. Hillman said that against dangers that t for signs that the Nazi putsch was Philip Murray, president of the army. every hour. Horace, C.I.O. and chairman of the Steel TOOK The attack on Belgrade may or bogging down. BALLYHOO TO SELL Workers The shock of the fall of Salonika Organizing committee, may not have put the city entirely LIBERTY BONDS hors du combat, but the Immediate was matched by the shock to learn would not tolerate a strike against THE UNITED STATES will offer effect was to shut off all communithat the British forces were rela- the defense program. us war savings stamps, baby This Mr and came Hillman report by cation with the outside world, tively small, but the fact that they bonds, and government that caused the reports of the early were in a reported "second line just one day after Mr Murray had bonds, the sale regular of which will at least phases of the new war to be frag- gave some measure of hope to those made a surprise visit to the White partially pay for our own preparedutto House the the at of invitation President ness and our aid to mentary and conflicting anxiously watching the defense that England. most degree. something might happen when the Roosevelt, and then had made a flyWill the American people buy In One heard that the Jugoslavs were second line was reached and went ing trip to Detroit, and later had anconsiderable any an without quantity had nounced that the projected strike into action. Invading neighboring countries, sales ballyhoo? taken Flume, were bombing Sofia against U. S. Steel would be held in accompanying The first World war was financed and in the same breath the Germans FASCISTS: abeyance for a time, ostensibly to largely by the sale of government razthe claimed the capture of Nis, permit work by mediators and conMove in A ciliators to avert the strike entirely. bonds, but that sale was effected ing of Belgrade, the cutting of vital The war was not only taking a The report came from a mediator only by a vigorous and spectacular railroad lines. in turn Nazi and In seemed New York that part of the coal sales campaign. The effort was to Greece, Jugoslavia Only the British reports sell to the people, not to the banks. to carry conviction, together with but In northern Africa as well with strike difficulties had been settled. The combined Fascist-Naz- i defgovernment wished the people He said those from Athens. The former prethe that troops reopening of other dicted a general withdrawal, and the initely on the forward move again. mines had been delayed, and appar- the Toms, Dicks and Harrys to As In a football game, the British ently the mam difficulty was a de- have a direct financial interest in latter told how that withdrawal was the war, to have them feel it was had out. and ference in attitude between Northern evidently "lost the ball, carried being unless the Anzacs could hold the and Southern Appalachian actually their war and that they But from the start it had been exmine opwere the fellows who wanted to see Fascists "for Salonika that there this erators downs," country might the pected by demands of concerning the Kaiser properly licked. would be defended, and that the be a drive to a touchdown in Libya. the United Mine Workers. With spectacular It was odd that the reports of the The mediator said. British had 150,000 to 200,000 troops showmanship the In that general neighborhood, and advances in Libya by the government put it over in the large "We are trying desperately to cities for the first loan. It did not forces should have coincida complete accoid and to sta-bwere prepared to make a serious deed with dispatches saying that Gen. fense of the port. 70 this, backbone industry for a work so well in the country, where tms gerrfl? tfAyt Then the British announced that Sir Archibald Wavell and large numbig two scores of if period He also sa d parades, cmWATiou poet "minute years Salonika might fall, and gave rise to bers of picked troops" had been that the schism between the two geomen," speeches and other spectacuthe general belief that perhaps the sent to Greece graphical portions of the operators lar methods could not be applied. CORFecT THE CAW Whether tins was true or nut could group For the second and future loans, British forces were not so numerous ;lS caus.ng the chief difTROUBLE with a it be learned, but if so, it was an ficult v the government or so strong as at first stated. appealed for sup-pr- rt CEREAL, jf In ffie meantime there were to the country Suddenly came the word that the interesting coincidence that the press. It prosigns British had only 60,000 to 90.000 backward movement of the British that the mediation efforts in the posed to publishers that they sell unIT PJERV FAV troops on the scene, and that they In Libya tallied in time with the ru- Ford strike were bearing fruit, when derwritten advertising to local merAM PRltlK REM were in the second line of defense, mor that Wavell was gone to another Govern, r Van Wagoner of Michigan chants, banks, churches, lodges and CF WATER. west field. or as to to east veer wired to President Roosevelt as f "ready individuals Country newspaper The the situation demanded. British, in their forward low s publishers did that to the extent of This was the answer to the disdrive, had gone past Sidi Barrani to "Please do not approve cortifica-- t more t! an 500, COO pages from the on of the Ford str.ke to the patches of tlie first few days, which Derna, and thence to Bengasi, the Defense second to the Victory loan. In redid not reveal the British in contact Libyan capital Photos of Brit.sh Mediate nB.ard hi fore I have talked sit rise to that advertising, people of with the enemy at any point They troops taking down street signs, putI y, u ,un m umfm ice now rural America bought Liberty bonds. were, in tins report placed in the ting up their own. and other reports u th Ph ,p Murray and The national treasury can sell gov-ern- n James A vicinity of Katerine, which put them tended to the belief that Italy was Di xe the cunc.i iter) " ent bonds by telling the banks 1 somewhat in the center, between two knocked out of the war in Africa, n.a !e it lot k, t least for how much each must take. the can But and that it was "all over but the n oil,, p.t main forces of Greeks. ai though s me sittlen ent it soli thorn to the extent of several this dispatch shout. ng following Closely !i 1S tl0d ''K billions to people of America with-(u- t slssriw' UP came a report from Berlin claiming Suddenly Berlin reported a minor OO arcos.ng through some method success on the Lilnan front, amt n uht be that their troops had entered Salon1. , ism for j. preparedness and with ika, and from Athens itself came the then, equal suddi unes Britain SHI! for a, to England? That is a ques-- ! MI); began announcing that there would following terse, yet disquieting ren to be answered My guess would be that Wnvc'Ts On f()!r withdrawals, port. le "p forces would pick their own fine if "The German blitz has split Greek 1 Vt- w u!d all like to see the Euro-Prforces in two with a wedge driven defense and fall hack to that a. i : dicaturs l.cked. We do not price,,ha!,rb51 Came the fall of Bengasi, and then too ; down west of Salonika, trapping unwhat w api rove i f them, but we should like .atiti: P counted thousands of troops defend- the fall of Derna, with the British Cl I! can to have some Idea quality we as to what the PSP still and fight -- g a ing the l.ae of the Truma river. columns result rf such a sefV licking would be. action all the way In Right on the heels of this report, worth while t result W.ll a in a yar. better world for dollars unpleasant to Americans who were Eritrea and Ethn pia, however, the many Ml lv ISO'S concerned, or will It be but a British continued their suciesv, hoping that the Nazi attack on northto more prelude l,ISV.aabrtl!!'' selfern Greece might be halted, came making mass attacks on Massaun. more gilt rivalry, of " lu.ll.dn ishness. mi re greed, and In the end, the word from London "German the sole remaining point of military P fime we moke mm-S d the war Axr- troops have entered Salonika follow- - importance t O prctixtsc have olr'odr. w, or C What are we gtivcrr.r paying for, and possiwant and s I '..ill I; from fi e Ur H, ,, , bly fighting for to hea pretender to the Freni h throne; hi daughter. and 40, 32, and tuo sons, II to reports, were at cording ended from their house in Oakland for alleged of rent. Otto Leopold, the elder son, is shoun above arry ing part of his personal belongings. claim s 0 THIS HzLKzNS: Power h forwa- 1914-191- 8. KEN1 frica Italo-Germa- n ef-f- one ho oth 30 '( dltl! eavi Gil lie w )emp ri ') right. Loui '5o-- a ig hea rf to mor a i iong or il iit p eit as :es. 7( ever tamb asn'i l:s al- tm ren of 'Cat est. -- We Can XPE (1 urud "sei Mel . t P 'let i hi in-- A Union College prof has predicted that in ten billion years the sun will . lose the fuel that keeps it going Gosh! Another thing for Miami An to worry about asked he that writes reader (Jrnaha a local German storekeeper why he opposed Hitler and Naziism . . He Even Hitlers Aryan replied: have bars on the windows . K. one-thir- d 699. cents I Edward C. Wayne V HKII.l.EI) A F VKMl R A home town farmer ft lend was kidding homely Claude Wickurd, suretary of agriculture, about sitting next to Clark Gable at the Prtsidenfs defense "fireside chat" "You know, Claude," the friend said, "there are a lot of young back in Indiana whose hearts fluttered when they heatd you were paling around with a movie star." ' Wtdl." replied Wickard ruefully, "that's just about the closest I ever came to getting the ladies excited . By 1IKONH The other day Congressman William L. Nelson of Missouri rose in the house and said, "Mr Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to speak for one minute " Then he delivered himself of the following, within exactly 60 seconds The gavel fell In the midst of applause from the other bailies in Our Alley: Kettle Cat- toll, the reporter, records the one fc WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ( minute . about Charles MacArthur and an- other scribbler who worked with him on the same gazette. They were at the funeral of a pal (and almost as tiff as he was) when the minister The Lord giveth and the intoned: To which Lord taketh away Well, wot MacArthur yelled out: . . . The could be fairern that? present feuding of the drama critics has started rumors that the Prize Play, instead of getting the customary plaque, will be awarded the Gene Tunney Belt . . . NBC wouldnt permit commentator John B. Kennedy to use tins on the network: The only thing left for Mussolini to do Is go over Niagara Falls In a balcony. YSON 1 MERRY-GO-ROUN- In YE m rear-guar- e- d d i a A JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A Negro stole a car. and the police knew the car was gone, and figured he'd soon run out of gas and abandon It. But the car. kept moving, and was reported here, there, everywhere. They couldnt figure where he was getting gas" money. They found Uncle Sam was providing The man had found a WPA courtesy card in the car and was using it to get credit to buy gas. NORFOLK, Va. Coast guards-mewere dragging waters off the Eastern Shore of Virginia, seeking wreckage of a huge patrol bomber thought to have carried 10 navy men In its crew to their deaths Bodus of some of the crew had been f. urd and others were sought The men were making a simple transfer fi.ght when the accident happened The accident was being investigated by naval authorities. ;m S' i,c,nb1. u:e.i , : P ne rt Tho -- ax U, ;r c ,i;erepferouiPS()f W 1 e , ea 111 hrnment ic ai d ln t.me to dl tense trans- - will g0 iwed, t0 kfep rjnJrtcr,j 1''' teal I.' on at :' P- - , ,u 3uno znci r t H e 'a ,ir . u.mi :(""rUCtei the S country Ji C..W the world: adequately prPre l w II IS AMERICAN A DISTINGUISHED California official m a recent speech told of the "import from foreign lands of the puenpp.e juice now consumed in America We have spent half a billion and more dollars In fortify-m- g Uiat foreign land" that it might tri act California and the rest of continental United States from a The "foreign land P","' ble enem-re erred to is the United States ter-- r e ry of Hawaii. We do not om Hawaii any more than om Cal. forma or Iowa. lm-U- ,r When we 0' beforehand a offered and cnerpertbuynb the fee!"0 m a w.dg' j wi - ? unhappmest ,o a 'ack tismfl shows ,n T ,1,0 lace kallj fytet 15 j, Tt0l sh |