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Show Hmtlnsnnkp. Rattle Axis diplomats have started the groundwork for a peace offensive. Their peace conditions will be flatly rejected by our Comrnander-in-Chief. There is no other course because there is no such tiling as conditional freedom. A peace offer from a dictator is what a rattle is to a rattlesnake. The American war policy is both clear and final. We will only return to peace when Hitler can never again return to war. Once we were lulled Into false security but we shall never be swindled out of victory. vic-tory. We shall never lose with a pen what our men have gained by the sword. America remembers Pearl Harbor and she is determined deter-mined that Tokyo will never foigei. The only Americans who will ever go to Munich will be flying bornoers made in Detroit. Our fleet stands between us and Hitler's war but our graces stand between us and Hitler's peace. We have learned Europe's Eu-rope's lesson there Is no such thing as an honorable treaty with a dishonorable government. The American people will m&.ke peace some day but only a peace that will explain to 0in. Kelly's son why his father died. Things I Never Knew And Still Don't Know: That the Japs consider four ad unlucky un-lucky number, just as we feel about thirteen over here. (Sho' nufl the American eagle unloaded his first batch of eggs on Nippon in April, which is the fourth month of the year!) . . . That a new official ejict in England prohibits those rows of X's, representing kisses, at the bottom bot-tom of letters, because spits can use them as a code . . . How we overlooked this for our Literary Lace dep't: Alimony the high costi of leaving. That the word coined by the R. A. Fliers for those propaganda pamphlets pam-phlets they drop on enemy territory is "Bomphlets" . . . That the Chinese Chi-nese regard cockroaches as symbols of wealth. (Their logic being that a family must be pretty poor, if they can't afford to feed a few cockroaches) cock-roaches) . . . That the British Medical Med-ical Journal offers this tip for prevention pre-vention of colds: Throw your head back and let a few drops of pure medicinal cod liver oil slide into your throat through each nostril. (I'd rather have a cold.) Whether you know that ice cream manufacturers have concocted a "victory sundae," which is made of red, white and blue ice cream. The plan is to charge 25 cents and give the customer a 10 cent defense stamp as a rebate . . . That Mrs. Chip Robert, wife of the secretary of the Democratic Committee, recently re-cently gave a Washington luncheon for some femme friends. One of the women invited, phoned and asked: "What shall I wear to your luncheon?" ... To which Mrs. Robert Rob-ert replied: "Come in an open throat and a back suitable for knifing!" Whether it will depress you to learn that you have only one chance in 20,000 to be questioned in a Gallup Gal-lup poll. (That's the capitalistic system for you) . . That in Australia there are lizards that bark ... Whether, after all these years, Jimmy Cagney won't finally win the Academy Award for his Geo. M. Cohan portrayal in "Yankee Doodle Dandy," the film dandy . . . That the recruiting slogan of the Marine Corps at Amarillo, Texas, is: "Join the Marines and see Tokyo." Whether you know that cats are employed by the U. S. Government with the Post Office Department footing the bill for their keep. (Their job is to keep rats and mice from making a meal of the mail) . . . That on a highway in Venezuela there's a monument to a wrecked automobile with the inscription: "Slowly one goes far" . . . That the tag of Ann Sheridan's oomphlicker, "Juke Girl," is the funniest fun. Annie says to Ronald Reagan: "Let' settle down on a farm and raise tomatoes" . . . Reagan, ogling her chassis, retorts: "Who's interested in raising tomatoes?" That if yon feel cold in bed because be-cause you haven't enough blankets, just cover your head with a scarf, and your whole body, feet and all, will warm up in a jiffy. (In these days that alone is worth the price you paid for the paper!) . . . That when Louis XIV was King of France, for a nominal fee people could come to the palace and watch him eat. (That must have been scads of fun!) Whether you know that in ancient Gaul there were laws making it taboo ta-boo to get too stout. (If a guy got stouter than the law permitted he was fined) . . . That a psychologist has figured out that a person who lives seventy years has spent 2.100 hours looking in mirrors. (Who, trie?) . . That the latest wrinkle Is a cosmetic for women to put on their teeth, like nail polish, to give them that toothpaste-ad smile . . That in China the nicest gift you can give a man on his 41st and 51st birthdays is chow-mein. (Because it's a symbol of longevity there). |