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Show | THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, | GENERAL Washington, Bystander exterminate the same Sherwood pitied Some of pages called Rogert ‘‘war-monger’’ when the E. he Poland in ‘There No Night’ . spondents got censors. people. Shall Be . The U. S. correlippy to the British Raymond Daniell called _ them more damaging to the Eng-. lish cause than bombs. Drew Middieton departed from the AP’s ‘“‘impersonal’ policy long enough to register his sassy say-so . . . The blast got results . . Eugene Lyons explains why so many youngsters are covering the war fronts: Wages. The famous ones are cashing in via radio, lectures, etc. ‘“That is how it happens,’’.says Lyons in *‘Eye Witness” (news story anthology), ‘‘that there are more distinguished foreign correspondents at a luncheon of the Overseas Press club than in the world beyond, even when worldshaking events are taking place’’ . The Post’s Jack Miley rates picking All - American footballers second to cutting out paper. dolls. “Putting players the experts have never seen on teams that don’t exist,’’ he calls it . . It looks like Virginio Gayda, who yells Mussolini’s editorial ‘‘boos,’’ hasn’t got many Greek readers. Typewriter Ribbons: Anon’s: Fame is the refreshment that comes when wiping off the perspiration of a career’s hard work . ... H. Hershfield’s: The streets would be safer for pedestrians and motorists if all the cars that aren’t paid for were removed . . . The Thomaston (Ga.) Times’: It is rare that the gift is worth the obligation it involves. . . Wilson Mizner’s: I respect faith— but doubt is what gets you an education . . . Jack Tarver’s: A dollardown-and-your-eyetooth-a-week automobile.. . . L. A. Seaman’s: The palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus the prima donna’s cue to enter. at The Insult Terrible:. Erika and Klaus Mann, daughter and son of Thomas Mann (exiled by Hitler), are introducing Hitler’s nephew around town. .He has written a book about Adolf and is going to lecture in Canada. He is English born despises his kinsman, whose _ mame. he uses, "Tennyrate, nephew Hitler was frst introduced at Dagmar Godowglzy’s, where isa Bois found it difficult to speak to anybody connected with Hitler. Ilsa is a refugee actress from Germany, and her brother Curt is now in “Bitter Sweet,’’ the film, She was telling friends about meeting Hitler’s relative. . ‘I wanted,’’ she said, ‘‘to make the young man do something—just for me. Something with the idea of humbling him!” “What did you make “T asked him to pass ring!” him do?”’ me the her- Words And Music: Lion Feuchtwanger has a sensayuma, although “Thinking on. Louis Nizer’s book, Your Feet,’’ a best-seller, offers the same nifty. Feuchtwanger, they would have you believe, went to see Disney’s ‘‘Fantasia,” .which has powerful orchestral tones. The musie occasionally overpowered him. He told intimates about it. ‘*‘Evidently,’’ he said, ‘‘Stokowski believes that ‘life begins at forte.’ ”’ When his pals groaned at the broad pun, Feuchtwanger sighed disconsolately, nobody loves ‘‘Oh, well. I guess a fact man,” Form of Criticism: Prof. Nathan, of the N. Y. Drama Critics’ Circle, met a playwright at the Algonquin ’ hotel, a chap whose manuscript Nathan had promised to look over instead of everlook. The Regal One shook his head after reading three pages. “You don’t like it,” sighed the writer sadly, “‘what do you think it needs?”’ Ee “First of all,’? Nathan replied, - “1d suggest perfume.” Woof-woof! Bob Benchley of the feelms was visiting a Hollywood dog and eat hospital in search of a pooch. A pal of his trying frantically to locate Benchley (to deliver a message) learned where he was and rushed there. Approaching tie girl at the desk, he asked: ‘Is Bob Benchley of Metro here?’’ “Ts he an airedale,’’ was the retort, “for. spitz?”’ In Other Words: The headlines stated: ‘Italian Resistance Stiffening!’”’ And Al H. observed: ‘That probably. is Italian for rigor morfis.?7 (Released by Western tem. The underlying the draft is that each shall be considered principle of man’s case on its own in- dividual merits and under exactly the same rules governing the selection of all other men. If he has dependents, he is not exempted. He is merely deferred after establishing dependency in his particular case. Occupation deferments are determined in the same way. A man can be deferred for his occupation only if it is shown in each individual case, that he is indispensable to some necessary industrial enter- prise. false teeth. the 1917 draft were influences. This case of policemen and firemen came up first. Equally strong pressure was brought to exempt locomotive engineers and firemen, brakemen and finally all railroad employees as a class, for reasons here stated and, for another reason, we successfully resisted. The other: reason was that we feared that the creation of blanket exemptions would create loopholes as broad as boulevards for whole- sale draft evasion. And so it proved, for finally we gave in on one a blanket exemption for the gency Fleet corporation. = * DEFENSE Recent case— Emer- * PROGRESS promising official and it wasn’t comfortable. Mr. Donnelly was moving several books, in book ends, from one table to another. The books began to slip and he tried to push them back between the book ends with his chin. But the books fell anyway, and the book ends came plopping together with Mr. Donnelly’s nose between them. It was well red. Louis Durdy of Pana, IIll., can understand now why the man in the Bible had so much trouble finding a good Samaritan. Smelling smoke one November afternoon, Mr. Durdy dashed into a nearby hotel room and rescued a sleeping guest from a flaming mattress. Firemen came, seized the burning bedding and tossed it out the window. It landed on an automobile parked outside the hotel. Yes, it was Mr. Durdy’s auto. The auto was burned up, and so was Mr. Durdy—plenty! Joseph Callahan of Chicago always had taken good care of his false teeth and, so far as he knew, they had no reason to dislike him. But one day as he dozed, he slipped off his chair. His teeth fell out and landed tooth-side up on the floor. Mr. Callahan’s forehead struck them jand they gave him a vicious bite. Mr. Jay J. Martin, of Pueblo, Colo., is ready to believe that almost anything can happen in the steel business. Mr. Martin, a steel company executive, was seated at his desk one day, intending to stay there a while, when the next thing he knew, what was he doing but riding out of his office on the cowcatcher of a full-fledged locomotive! utter- ances giving dates when we shall have ready specific numbers of army divisions, navy ships and army and navy fighting planes are something like the earlier way of reporting armaments ‘‘on hand or. on order.”’ Progress has been commendable. Most officials in the armament effort have done the-best they could under present handicaps of faulty organization, planning and _ insufficient authority. But it is a mistake to make promises of performances so far ahead and especially to do so in terms of “airplanes,” ‘‘divisions,’’ or ‘‘men under arms.’’ They are too general in their meaning. They do not paint the true picture to people who are not familiar with just what the words mean. They are apt to paint too rosy a picture. A survey of all the utterances of the war department, for example, over the past few years, would generally indicate a continuing satisfactory state of affairs—at least up to the spring of this year. A glance at our present predicament, in comparison, would indicate how mistaken and misleading they have been. The phrase ‘5,000 army airplanes’ in estimating future production is not very informing. It doesn’t tell whether they are fighting planes or transport planes or bombers and that lack of specification is confusing enough. But there is an even greater confusion. stained, learned that what had happened was that the locomotive had jumped the track just outside his office and had come on in through the wall. Mr. Martin didn’t take the same train back. Drinks Brake Fluid. Bill Hilterbrand, of Springfield, Mo., knows now just how a hydraulic brake feels. He was drinking a bottle of soda pop in a filling station and discussing politics with a friend. Engrossed, he picked up a bottle and took a big swig. It wasn’t the right bottle, and it wasn’t even pop. It was brake fluid! The results weren’t serious, however, for, Warfare of these is a things our pres- trifling quantity. tain that they cannot be delivered in Preparations are being pressed to get them on principal units. Some of the published -reports and estimates are fairly clear. But of others, like cannon, trained personnel and ammunition, the difficulties of getting into production from a nearzero point of existing capacity have been so great that it is almost cerstep with the air force that requires them lag one without to two a time years. In fact, he asked for suggestions and ideas. On old-age pensions, Roosevelt disclosed that he has made up his mind as to what he wants. His idea is to change the existing system of widely divergent state contributions to one of uniform federal Only a bumper guard prevented this automobile from plunging into The Lake Michigan after*it skidded out of control on an icy pavement. accidents -driver escaped with a ducking. Some of the many other freak are illustrated above. of 1940 described in the stery below as you might expect, Mr. Hilterbrand was able to stop quickly. | Ever so often, it seems, some poor soul has to have his pants jerked off in public by an automobile. This year’s victim of Fate’s perennial gag was Mr. Giovannia Evangeliati, of Rochester, N. Y. Mr. E. was waiting, believe it or not, for a street car in the crowded downtown district when the door handle of.a passing automobile caught the Evangeliati trousers and neatly ‘swooshed them off. The apologetic driver rushed Mr. E. home for replacements. Calf Lassoes Man. When a calf lassoes a man—that’s noose! The man, Edward Acree, was walking along a road near Brazil, Ind., when the man-puncher calf broke loose from its tethering stake and dashed across the highway, its chain swinging. Mr. Acree com- plains that the next thing he knew the calf had lassoed him with the chain. Bob Forde, strolling along in Marysville, Calif., wondered..why the two men approaching him were walking, so far apart. It wasn’t neighborly. Mr. Forde decided to go between them. By the time he discovered they were carrying a big sheet of window glass, it was too late. Mr. Forde describes the experience as paneful. Walter Bell, a rural mail carrier | of Harlan, Iowa, has heard of people fighting buzz saws, and he believes he can appreciate what they are up against. On a warm day this summer Mr. Bell plugged a six-volt fan into an: 110-volt socket. The fan, the sissy, couldn’t take it and leaped whirring toward Mr. Bell like an airplane. He raised his arm to stop it. Result: 35 stitches. Inflates Elmer ple who perhaps of an Arm. Mahnke is one of the peofear quick inflation. This is understandable in view experience Mr. Mahnke had this year. Mr. Mahnke is a filling station man at Racine, Wis., and part up blow to is course, of of his job, footballs and basketballs for small Becomes & -- Guy Lembardo’s line on an American Christmas: ‘“When you hang hat.” supply & ent your which or so, travel of from Americans Spent More, Earned More Last Year MINNEAPOLIS.—Americans are with going places and doing things durtheir rearmament prosperity; galbillion a bought ing 1940 they aulons more gasoline, 600,000 more entermore tomobiles, 25 per cent tainment, 13,000,000 gallons more cigaliquor, and 6,000,000,000 more year, rettes than by this time last summary to a buying according made by Northwestern National Life Private sale Insurance company. FOR CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR SEND Greeting Cards of Tlistinction AND ~ Quality had no particular program in mind. an Art ‘ Oep! At the Maison Louis a wellknown radio singer button-holed an NBC executive and cooed: ‘“‘Did you hear me do ‘Blueberry Hill’ last night?”’ “Yes,’?’ was.the answer. ‘You sounded as though it were too steep for you.”’ up your stocking, also be thankful for the country in which you hang At the end of his journey, took him fhrough a partition Mr. Martin, understandably One airplane isn’t a good unit of measure. One airplane means at least on and sometimes three or four extra engines. It means a crew aloft of one or more highly trained pilots | and sometimes as many as eight other more or less expert technicians. It means an adequate mechanical ground equipment and a ground crew of skilled mechanics as numerous as the flying crew and sometimes more numerous. Even more significantly it means armament—cannon, light and heavy maThe technique of camouflage is chine guns, torpedoes, bombs and, You would have to get U. S. army. for all these, sometimes tons of exbefore you could identify it for the plosives and incendiary material in identification would come too late. the racks or in reserve storage on at Fort Belvoir, Va. the ground. % F. D. R. VIEWS AID TO YOUTH During the week before his Caribbean cruise, the President held a series of private conferences which were of prime importance in connection with his plans for the new congress. In them he disclosed that he is doing a lot of thinking about domestic problems along two lines— 1. Youth. a ’ 2. Old-age pensions. Democracy can resist subversive ideologies, ‘the President held, only by convincing youth that it does have a stake and a future in the existing system. The President indicated that he ; Some of these odd accidents are Others are tragic. Put ‘amusing. them all together and you find that’ Fate, the master showman, again has produced a literal hit parade of the year—the Oddities of 1940. So, without further ado, on with the show! Chief Clerk John Donnelly of the Cleveland Municipal court is quite a reader and frequently has his nose in a book. But one March day this year he had his nose in book ends— a continuous battle to prevent the system from being discredited and impaired with ‘‘blanket’’ exemptions pressed for by some of the most powerful - A steel executive locomotive. 2 of Washington, D. C. Union.) in Colorado rides out of his office on the cowcatcher of a Some particular fireman or some particular policeman might be shown to be indispensable to a city police or fire department, and so deferred, though it is difficult to see how. That is exactly the rule in New York city now, but it is not what New York’s mayor wants. He wants to say to the national government: ‘You can’t take any fireman or policeman.’’-A man’s badge ousts the board from even considering his case. This is what is called a ‘‘blanket exemption’’—automatically _ lifting out of the selective service systems two entire and very numerous classes of men. It couldn’t be done without changing an established national policy of the draft. If it, is permitted in New York, it must be permitted everywhere ‘ throughout the nation—in some cases with grotesquely absurd results. This is old stuff. The first six /'months Newspaper CHICAGO. —Each year a surprising number of people discover new and novel ways of getting hurt. And the results are positively startling. | A man in Chicago, for example, is bitten by his own would weaken popular confidence in the fairness of the selective sys- Of many asin By PAUL JONES | D. C. DRAFT PRINCIPLES The attempt to have all New York city policemen and firemen exempted from the draft, if successful, being developed to a fine art by the close to the machine-gun nest above death trap that it is, and then your These soldiers are shown practicing of guns and firearms also increased. Soft drink manufacturers report new sales records; candy sales are up, the report goes on. Out of more pay envelopes and fatter pay envelopes the public bought 25 per cent more theater tickets and admissions to other amusements. It purchased 25 per cent more radios and radio equipment; .the boom in sales of this last named item can probably be partially credited to interest in war news and in the political campaign just finished, the report comments. boys in occasion the neighborhood. to which On the we refer the air needle not only pierced a basketball, but Mr. Mahnke’s arm. The first thing he knew his arm was bigger than Popeye’s. Never have more things happened to the Kaczynski family, of the Pittsburgh Kaczynskis, than on a eold day last winter. First, six-year-old Frank Kaczyn- ski grabbed a charged wire and couldn’t let go. Then his brother Walter, eight, grabbed Frank, and he couldn’t let go. Then sister Anna, 17, heard about it and dashed for the scene, just in time to see her sister, Frances, 14, get struck by a car. As Anna ran to help Frances, a big dog ran up and bit Anna. The commotion attracted brother gensions, beginning at a lower age than present cistn of the moguls of. the social security board who have so vigorously opposed liberalization of the law. He declared that they have been and sergeant whe wrote it-all up for the records was treated for writer’s cramp and fervently hopes that if it all ever happens again, it will happen to Smiths. In Chicago a dignified old gentleman was standing on a safety island, waiting for a street car and having no intention whatsoever of taking a taxicab. But he did. For as a passing taxi swerved: sharply to miss another car, the back door flew open. It scooped up the nice old gentleman and deposited him. gently on the floor of the cab, all set for a ride. As Ralph Lyman of Clarinda, Iowa, hurried to answer the phone he slipped and fell, but crawlec painfully on to hear a voice say, “This is Doctor Burnett. Can yot come right. over and look at my fur. nace? It’s broken.”’ ““You’d better come right over and look at my leg first,’’ replied Lyman. “It’s broken, too.” And it was! Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Mann of Indianapolis weren’t expecting anyone to drop in on them that day last winter. But 22 students of In- diana university did—in a buss! Mr. Mann was that surprised he thought it was an earthquake shaking the house. But Mrs. Mann wasn’t so sure, and when she investigated she found a big bus poking its nose through the basement wall. The bus was taking the students back to school from a vacation and the driver had swerved to miss an auto. Herbert Greenwald of Berwyn, Ill., is a meticulous golfer and always tries to have his eye on the But one day in October Mr.. ball. Greenwald switched the formula and had the ball on his eye. Swinging lustily in the rough, Mr. Greenwald struck the ball squarely. It hit a nearby stone concealed in the grass, ricochetted straight upward and broke Mr. Greenwald’s glasses into bits. The unhappy golfer not only was cut about the face, but he lost a stroke—and it was match play! Mrs. Olen Deatherage of Springfield, Ill., knew that some women drivers can make an automobile do some mighty funny things. But she never dreamed she could run over herself, until she did it. Her car spun around after a collision, throwing her out the right hand door. Her body hit the gear lever and shoved the gear from low to reverse. As she fell from the car it backed up over: her. Yes, in these days anything car .happen—and does! Many. a_ pedestrian has_ beer struck by a hit and run driver. But to Mrs. Anna Martinelli of Johnston, R. I., goes the distinction of being the victim of a hit and run dog which itself was the victim of a hit and run driver... The driver hit the dog and fied. The dog hit Mrs. Martinelli and fled. Mrs. Martinell: did not flee. She had been knockeé Her in “unconscious by the dog. juries were not serious. : These are but a smattering of the many freak accidents of 1940 re corded in the files of the Nationa Safety Council in Chicago. a big obstruction. that the time had rule them. It was to reform come to over- significant oldsters on federal pensions within a year. = * de- fense chiefs is lack of machine-tool facilities. Yet there are many small plants of this type around the country that have been literally begging for orders and not getting them. One company with 150 lathes has been advertising for business in trade journals for months. ~ Also there is strong evidence of a lack of vision or initiative or both the best use of mass production facilities. The blame for this goes right back to high defense quarters. The gigantic resources of the auto industry, for example, have been practically untouched for points. William Reuther, young official of the United Auto Workers, long ago proposed such a plan for a daily out- put of 500 all-metal pursuit planes of the most powerful type in the world, and at one-third their present cost. But the matter is still “being discussed.”’ Other industries could be used in the same way for similar shortcuts on other armament needs, but they are not. 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With the $7,048,000 paid out in lump sum claims to survivors, the total oldage pension outlay so far is around $28,000,000. The average pension is $22 a month. In his conferences, Roosevelt talked of placing 5,000,000 in 5 65. Roosevelt also voiced sharp criti- John Kaczynski, 24. John chased the dog away and a few minutes later the Kaczynskis began pouring into the hospital. : Frank and Walter were treated for burns, Frances for cuts and bruises and Anna for dog bite. The police the Air Brush Designs (Hand Painted) Oilettes . Steel Die Engraved Cards DeLuxe Box Assortments Whom Beware to Watch of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.—C. H. Spurgeon. | with backache> yore kidneys function badly and. you suffer a nagging backache, with dizziness, burning, scanty or too frequent ‘urination and getting up at night; when you feel tired, nervous,, all upset... use Doan’s Pills, Doan’s. are especially for poorly working kidneys. 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These cannot be broken up into small units, and they have been so heavily damaged that the repair of British ship- ping is very materially wrens ac emeren | Jays.’ § euensyenascrncpremrgn | JOHNSON The Front Pages: Editorials expressed horror over the Hun atrocities in Poland, where the aim is to nncctemnepmenipendine People Hurt Themselves the Hard Way During Most U nusual Accidents of 1940 S. spe HUGH Broadway up UTAH gen (WNU Service) and MOAB, retarded. In many cases, British warships have been repaired at sea. This, plus the tremendous increase in the sinking of merchant vessels, is what. makes the British shipping plight so desperate at present. = e * CAPITAL CHAFF Irony of diplomatic fate is that when Mussolini marched into Albania, the U. S. state department actually condoned it. Instead of registering a protest as in the case of ‘other occupied countries, the state department dropped the Albanian minister from its diplomatic list. 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