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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. O, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940 GENERAL JOHNSON Jour: United Features WNV Servioa Washington, D. C, FRENCH DESPERATE FOR PLANES WASHINGTON.—The French have been too proud to let the public know it, but they have been almost down on their knees before U. S. officials to beg, borrow, or buy more airplanes. The French aviation situation is desperate. How many planes have been smashed is not definitely known —perhaps not even by the French themselves. But most of their air force on the western front has been put out of business. It is estimated that at least an equal number of Nazi planes have also crashed, but Germany started with about 18,000 planes, the French with about 2,000. One big handicap to the French is that they were counting upon Brit ish air support. The original tactics were for the French to do the bulk of the land fighting, with the British reinforcing in the air. But this was before anyone realized that Hitler was going to break through the French lines and head straight for the channel. Now Britain needs every plane she has for the home defense. So desperate was the French plight that they wanted to buy any kind of plane, even those consid ered too old for the U. S. army. The war department estimates it has more than 1,500 out of date planes. However, the secretary of war issued an order no later than March 14 prohibiting the sale of sur plus army material even to third parties who might conceivably re sell them to France and England. Latest Plane Purchases. Meanwhile the delivery of air planes already ordered by the French and British proceeds with tragic slowness. Here are the in side figures, illustrating how long it may take the United States to turn out 50,000 planes for itself: Ordered by Allies (through Deliverer Unde- May 22) to Allies livered Airplanes . 7,588 1,888 5,700 Motors . . 20,820 4,022 16,798 * » • BRAZIL, U. S. CONFER Some of the most important state department conversations in Monroe Doctrine history are now progress ing secretly with the Brazilian gov ernment. They are aimed at protecting South America from Nazi invasion, particularly at preventing surprise air attacks against the Panama canal. The discussions contemplate an air base in northern BAizil, and also probably a naval base. Actually these will not be called American air and naval bases. They will be called “co-operation” between the U. S. army air corps and the Brazil ian army, also between the navies of the two countries. Although not publicly announced, the air corps already is arranging to send a group of hrmy airmen to Brazil to help train Brazilian avia tors. In addition, they will also help to improve Brazilian airports, es pecially in north Brazil, and make them available to U. S. army planes —when and if. All this goes back to the Presi dent’s defense message to congress in which he pointed to the nearness of the African coast to Brazil—with in hopping distance .'or big bombers. A glance at the map shows how close Brazil is to the Canary islands, owned by Fascist Spain, and report ed to have been used as bases by German warships. Should the Nazis take over French and British pos sessions in Africa, Brazil would be extremely close to them. As a mat ter of fact, Germany does not have to take the allied colonies to be near Brazil; already she has titular right to the Belgian Congo. Northern Brazil is sparsely popu lated and extremely wealthy. In it are vast rubber forests, iron ore de posits, cotton fields. It contains just what Germany needs. Should Hitler shatter the United Kingdom, U. S. strategists believe northern Brazil would be his first objective in the Western hemi sphere. Hence the hurried negotia tions between the state department and the Brazilian embassy. • • • WAR SECRETARY WOODRING If the President wants to get rid of War Secretary Harry Woodring, it looks as if he would have to blast. The nobby little Kansan is refusing any ordinary sops to vacate. “Harry,” Roosevelt propositioned recently, “how’d you like to be min ister to Canada? That’s a very im portant post and will become more so as things develop.” “No, thank you, Mr. President,” was the quiet but firm reply. “The only diplomatic post I would consid er is St. James’." GESTURE WITH GOOD SELECTIONS The Knudsen-Stettinius-etcetera | board is not a council of national defense. It is an advisory commis sion to the statutory council which i is composed of Secretaries Wood- I ring, Edison, Ickes, Wallace, Hop kins, and Perkins. Only these New Dealers have authority. They, added to the New ! Dealers on the commission—Leon j Henderson, Sidney Hillman, Chester I Davis, William McReynolds and perhaps Harriet Elliott—make a total of 10 or 11 New Dealers. There are only three non-New Dealers, Knudsen, Stettinius and Budd, and only the New Dealers have any power. Yet the setup is being widely represented as “non political” — several commentators insisting that Knudsen was “nom inated” by Republicans. I don’t know about that but I do know that this column—which is not Republican—began before anybody plugging to have him brought in months ago, and has frequently urged it since. I fear the thing is just a gesture which won’t work and perhaps wasn’t intended to work. It starts just where we started in 1916 before we knew how and began two years blundering before we learned how. It includes not one single veteran of that effort. It studiously avoids every lesson of the past and stupidly repeats every blunder. Yet it must in fairness be said that the selections are excellent. If World war experience is any in- Biggest Hat in the Ring —Carmack in Christian Science Monitor. dication and these men should be given any authority, the metal people may howl at having their in dustries headed by the head of U. S. Steel and the other automobile com panies may not care to be rounded up by the head of General Motors. The New Dealers who like to scream: “Wall Street! Du Pont! Morgan!” at every patriotic effort by a business man, will find materi al for all three cries of anguish. In view of the splendid personalities here none of these objections is valid. Subject to these qualifications these selections are so good that it will be a pleasure to find at least something to support in the defense effort which has been so fumbling and inefficient to date. Sometimes men can be so good that they can make even a bad plan and organi sation work. A war psychology is growing in which much can be done by the three industrialists by mere sugges tions and agreements among busi ness men. Stettinius, Knudsen and Budd can do that as well as any three Americans alive—if Thurman Arnold will let them do it. This is a point of real importance. Since the Supreme court decision in the hot-oil case it is dangerous to do anything by agreements in in dustry at the suggestion of the gov ernment. We need a statute vali dating such agreements for national defense when made at the demand of the President. Because of the rift in the ranks of labor, there was no other possible choice but Sidney Hillman. He is brilliant, patriotic, co-operative and has the confidence of labor and of every industry with which he has dealt. I brought Leon Henderson into this government from obscurity to an important post. I believe that he is too biased and pinkly partisan for his job in SEC and with the monopoly committee, but he will be, I think, ideal for this job. Of course, Henry Wallace isn’t go ing to let Chester Davis do anything in agriculture, any more than Mud- dom Sec will permit Sidney Hillman any initiative in labor, but Mr. Davis is, by all odds, the very best selec tion that could have been made. POLITICAL CHAFF The Republican National commit tee is making vigorous efforts to line up the Scandinavian vote, im portant in a dozen states. The John Ericsson Republican league, found ed 30 years ago in honor of the in ventor of the Monitor, first Union ironclad warship, is being rejuvenat ed. Principal speaker at the recent Ericsson league convention in Chi cago was Senator Bob Taft. The A. F. of L. is boiling with resentment because of Thurman Ar nold’s anti-trust prosecutions. I don’t know the lady who is going to protect the consumers. It is a tough and almost impossible job. 1 do know all the rest of these selec tions, most of them intimately and well. From my experience from working with them under high pres sure they are the cream of the cur rent crop. Whether we think this curious and illogical organizational contraption, which failed so dangerously in 1917, will work or not, it is at least a faltering step in the right direc tion. Everybody will wish it well. F.D.R. Confers With Advisory Defense Commission President Roosevelt conferring with his newly created advisory defense commission on plans to gear in dustry for a $4,000,000,000 national defense program. Left to right, Ralph Budd (Burlington); Ed R. Stet tinius Jr. (U. S. Steel); William S. Knudsen (General Motors); Miss Harriet Elliott, (Nor. Car. Univ.); Leon Henderson (Securities Com.); Chester C. Davis, (Fed. Res. Bd.); William H. McReynolds, (Administrative As sist. to Pres. Roosevelt). Sidney Hillman, Pres. AmaS. Clothing Workers, was not present. French Poilus in London Escape Flanders ‘Hell’ Freed from the Nazi trap in Belgium and northern France, these French troops are shown marching from the railroad terminal in London, after a fiery crossing from the European mainland. Transports, convoyed by British naval craft, were bombed incessantly during the voyage. Medical Supplies to Be Flown to France In British Purge This picture, taken at Port Washington, Long Island, shows Polly Pope and Edin Harter, Red Cross staff assistants, loading medical sup plies aboard transatlantic clipper plane for France. The supplies were donated by the American National Red Cross, Washington, D. C., for use in the war. Portrait of Capt. Archibald Ram say, conservative member of parlia ment, who was arrested by the British government, with many oth ers, in a sweeping roundup of sus pected enemy agents. A million mothers, equipped with guns by July 1, to combat para chutists, is the aim of the National Legion of Mothers of America, says M.-s. E. Johnson, New York regional director of that body. She is shown seiond from the right. Mrs. Charlotte Young, a member, appears pointing a rifie President Roosevelt has nominat ed Sumner T. Pike, Maine Repub lican, to the Securities and Ex change commission. Mr. Pike is an expert in the oil industry. “The Name Is Familiar— BY FELIX B. STHEYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Strange Facts ! Spike Down Earth Heat Crime Excuse Cross Classification ! Grog DEOPLE say a man “likes his * grog” today but when the word first came into use early in the Eighteenth century it was because those who drank it didn’t like it. Here’s why: Admiral Edward Ver non of the British navy was called “Old Grog” because at sea he al ways wore a cape of cloth called “grogram”—water-resistant materi al of either mo hair or wool mixed with silk. The seamen un der his command were served a half-pint of rum or brandy each noon and drank all of it at once— probably so no one else would get it. To prevent their stomachs from receiving too hearty a jolt, the admiral ordered the daily allow ance diluted with a quart of water and six hours of time—serving it in two installments, one at 11 in the morning and the other at four in the afternoon. Although the stomachs may have appreciated this change, the sailors didn’t and they referred contemptu ously to their daily ration of liquor as “grog,” after “Old Grog” who had ordered it. So widely was the term used that inns became known as grog shops in England—and still are. This British admiral had something else more familiar to Americans named after him. Among his many friends and admirers in the Amer ican colonies was Lawrence Wash ington, who gave his estate on the banks of the Potomac in Virginia the name of Mt. Vernon. When he died Mt. Vernon became the prop erty of his half-brother, George Washington. C. After an earthquake has oc curred in the territory occupied by the primitive Baigas in India, the men of the tribe drive nails into the ground to make it firm again. C. At certain periods of the year on the hot plains and deserts of South America, South Africa and Asia Minor, the bitter and burn ing winds are so nerve-rending that persons who commit crimes, even murder, during these gales are seldom punished. Admiral Vernon <L Probably the only island whose inhabitants, normally about 700, now consist solely of women and children is Molene, off the coast of Brittany. Every one of its men has been called for service in the French army. C. Telephone subscribers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are listed in the Red Book under five classifica tions: name, street address, busi ness or profession, post office box and automobile license number.— Collier’s. Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels, and Also in-ize Stomach! Pepsin- London Bobby When constipation brings on add indi gestion, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste, and bad breath, your stomach is probably loaded up with cer tain undigested food and your bowelsdon’t move. So you need both Pepsin to help break up fast that rich undigested food in your stomach, and Laxative Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be sure your laxative also contains Pepsin. Take Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative, because its Syrup Pepsin helps you gain that won derful stomach comfort, while the Laxative Senna moves your bowels. Tests prove the power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of undigested protein food which may linger in your stomach, to cause belching, gastric acidity and nausea. This is how pepsin- izing your stomach helps relieve it of such distress. At the same time this medicine wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your bowels to relieve your constipation. So see how much better you feel by taking the laxative that also puts Pepsin to wort oa that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin icky children love to taste this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell’s Lax ative—Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your druggist today 1 I N AMERICA a policeman may be a “cop” or a “bull” but in Lon don, he’s a “bobby.” And he’s that because in 1829 Sir Robert Peel, home secretary in the duke of Wel lington’s cabinet, created the Lon don metropolitan police force. At first these officers of the law were referred to by Londoners as “Sir Robert’s men.” Then as Peel’s pop ularity increased and he was known by the affection ate diminutive of “Bobby,” they be gan calling his policemen “Bob by’s men.” From that it was only a step to referring to them as “bob bies” and “bob bies” they are to this day. Nor is this the only common word in which the fame of this Brit on, who twice served as prime min ister (1834-35 and 1841-46), has been perpetuated. While serving as sec retary for Ireland in Lord Liver pool’s cabinet, Sir Robert estab lished the Irish constabulary. Nat urally they weren’t especially popu lar with the “fightin’ Irish” who re ferred to them as “peelers,” i.e.. Sir Robert Peel’s men. That word crossed the Atlantic with Irish emi grants to America and since so many of that race became police men in our cities you’ll find some old-fashioned folk who still call po licemen “peelers” rather than “cops” or “bulls.” • • • Bakelite Robert Peel Death No Evil It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so uni versal as death should ever have been designed as an evil to man kind.—Swift. USCULAR ACHES?! PENETRO-J Close Neighbors There is nothing one sees often- er than the ridiculous and magnifi cent, such close neighbors that they touch.—FonteneUe. Self-Knowledge A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing some thing of himself.—Disraeli. OR SPREAD ON ROOSTS IN 1889 a 36-year-old Belgian chem- * istry professor named Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland came to the United States and a few years later his research in the chemistry of photography brought about the de velopment of certain very sensitive photographic papers. Important as these were to the art of picture-tak ing, they probably would not have perpetuated his name in a com mon word if he had not turned his attention to another field of scientific re search. For Dr. Baeke land became the “father of plas tics” and you can thank him for the beauty and dura bility of dozens of articles made of bakelite, named in his honor. Bake lite is a synthetic resin resulting from the action of formaldehyde and | i phenol (carbolic acid) when it is ! } subjected to a special heat treat- j ment under pressure which makes it ! | hard and tough. It is widely used as a substitute I j for hard rubber, amber and cellu- j loid, for the manufacture of certain machinery gears, phonograph rec ords, buttons, billiard balls, pipe- stems, umbrella handles and a g::eat v ariety of other things. Being a non conductor it is especially useful for insulating and protecting electrical apparatus. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Dr. Baekeland As Their Character No nation can rise higher than the character of its people.—Anon. DIO unurv selling TO DIU mUNtT COLORED Cosmetics, Medicines, Household Articles. No experience needed. We tell you how. Fast selling wonderful agents proposition. Pleasant. Easy. Writ* for Plan and FREE Samples KEYSTONE, the Old Reliable Co. D«pt. WNU . MEMPHIS, TENN. 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