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THE Sim. NEWBERRY. S. C„ FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1940 Washington, D. C. AIR BASES Cabled reaction from Tokyo indi cated that the Japanese were suspi cious that something more than ap peared on the surface was behind Cordell Hull’s warning against the invasion of French Indo-China. In this, they were right. There was. Nobody in the navy department is shouting it from the housetops, but the U. S. fleet—or at least most of it—will now remain in the Pacific, Previously it was considered nec essary to bring the fleet from Ha waii and California in order to sta tion most of it around Panama and the Caribbean. This would have made it impossible to keep a watch ful eye on Japanese operations in the direction of the Malays and the Dutch East Indies—all-important sources of American tin and rubber. Probably it will still be necessasy to bring a few ships to the Atlantic side of the canal. But the island base deal with Great Britain has now made it possible to police most of the Caribbean and the Atlantic seaboard by air instead of by sea. • • • NAVAL NOTES At first the chief improvement to the new U. S. bases on British is lands will be airports. Not only are they needed immediately, but also are cheapest and quickest to con struct. Naval bases, which mean oil tanks and repair facilities, take time to build and may never be constructed to any great extent. The U. S. navy will take advantage of British naval facilities for the time being. Significant was the fact that many of the over-age destroyers being sold to England were fitted out with cables to neutralize magnetic mines even before the deal was published by the President. In other words, there had been no real doubt for a week or so before toe announce ment that the deal would be closed. Negotiations for naval bases by no means are terminated. What the navy wants more than anything else is a good base in Brazilian waters, and if possible one in Uruguay. In formal conversations regarding a Brazilian base have been going on for some time. • • • V. S. REARMAMENT DRIVE The bottleneck of American re armament is factory expansion. In order to produce more planes, guns and tanks, new factories are necessary. And part of the delay has resulted from a wrangle over how taxes shall be paid on these new plant expansions. In fairness to industry, it should be noted that many of its leaders have gone ahead and financed their own plant expansion without wait ing to see what the tax picture would be. In fact some industrialists were far-sighted erough to begin more than a year ago. Companies which did this include: New York Shipbuilding, Newport News Shipbuilding, Bethlehem Ship building, Bath Iron Works, Federal Shipbuilding, Midvale Steel, Carne- gie-Illinois Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Bausch and Lomb, General Elec tric, Ford Instrument company, Edo Aircraft, Grumman Aircraft, Brew ster Aeronautical, Eclipse Aviation and Walter Kidde. Probably the list takes in many others. And because of their far sightedness, these firms not only are reaping good profits for themselves but also doing a service for the gov ernment. For instance, the Elco company of Bayonne, N. J., put up an $800,000 plant extension about a year ago in order to manufacture motor-torpedo (“mosquito”) boats. As a result, it is now turning over to the navy one new, and badly needed, mosquito boat each week. However, among many other man ufacturers there has been backing and filling over factory expansion and how the new plants will be taxed and financed. There is no question but this dickering has defi nitely slowed up the defense pro gram. Powder Shortage Serious. Powder is the bottleneck of na tional defense. Without it not a shot can be fired, not even a revolver. And today’s powder shortage is most serious. It is to avoid these shortages in the future, not only in regard to powder, but also other essentials of modem warfare that the govern ment is anxious to build some of its own plants, or at least obtain a lien on them. This also would solve the tax prob lem, because industry would have no need to ask for early amortiza tion on its emergency expenditures. Government Arms Plants. There are three general plans: One is the arsenal, completely owned and operated by the govern ment, such as the Frankford arsenal in Philadelphia. Two is the factory completely owned and operated by private in dustry. This was the practice em ployed during the World war. Three is a compromise system whereby the government buys the ground and erects the factory, then lets the private manufacturer step in and operate the plant for a man agement fee. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK Nazis Bomb Poet Milton’s Tomb Heroine N ] Ey LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) EW YORK.—Whether Benedict Crowell is a good prophet or not may yet be revealed. Mr. Crow ell, assistant secretary of war in r. . # the World Experience, of war has been Crow ell Grooved named spe- Into Present Job cial consult ant on de fense, by Secretary Stimson. Ad dressing the Institute of Public Af fairs at the University of Virginia, July 11, 1931, Mr. Crowell said: “Should a great war ever again engulf our country, Amer ican manufacturers, including the new industrialism of the South, as well as the older in- dustrialisms of the North and East, without waste of time, ma terial or priceless human lives, will perform their essential func tion of munitions supply . . . our national security is on a sound foundation.” Mr. Crowell, who was a consult ing engineer before he became a Cleveland banker and industrialist, is a brigadier general in the ord nance reserve. His specialty, as as sistant secretary of war, was in or ganizing our munitions industries for the war effort. He was widely praised for his efficiency in this and gained fame as the most ruthless cutter of red-tape in the army high command. This may have some thing to do with his selection as defense consultant at this mo ment. Yale university, his alma r;atcr, recognized the above service by giving him an hono rary master of arts degree in 1918. A native of Cleveland, 71 years old, Mr. Crowell began his business career as a chemist with the Otis SteSl company. He rose in execu tive positions and at the same time gained technical qualifications which made him a metallurgist and con sulting engineer. He is the author of several books, including a six-volume se ries called “America Went to War,” of which Robert Forrest Wilson was co-author. Oue of these volumes is entitled “The Armies of Industry,” singularly pertinent to problems and back grounds of our present national endeavor. Reporters, interviewing Mr. Crow ell in the old days, frequently used to note his resemblance to ruby Bob Fitzsimmons, and deduce, from this his capacity for hitting and staying- power. ♦ I N HIS novel, “Le Couple,” pub lished in 1925, Victor Marguer- ritte, the French writer, foresaw the disaster which was to overtake French Prophet described toe O/ Doom Accepts debacle quite Conquest Foretold accurately, but put toe date at 1943 instead of 1940. Today, toe author accepts the conquest, which he tragically described and makes common cause with the con querors. He denounces General De Gaulle and his followers as toe hire lings of England. In present and future clinical re search into toe fall of France and its causes, M. Marguerritte’s lament and prophecy, as of 1925, will be interesting. After describing toe al liance of French politicians with “Prussian and Bavarian junkers,” and toe subsequent collapse and conquest, he says: “And then we shall be reap ing what we have sown. It will be the result of our policy of at tempting the semblance of gran deur—stupid because it is not warranted by our power, nor by our national wealth, nor by our trickling birth-rate, nor by our exhausted finances.” Years of self-indulgence, mad pleasure-seeking, the softening of moral fiber and the ebbing of national vitality, he said, would precede the final destruction of the French nation. The League of Nations, he predicted, would be a ghastly failure. M. Marguerritte is toe son of a famous French general of toe Franco-Prussian war. In his study were medals and memorials of his father’s war service. He is a stal wart man, tall and straight with abundant pompadoured hair and a Van Dyke beard. He was a member of toe Legion of Honor and honorary president of the French Society of Men of Let ters. Poincare, no defeatist, had urged his Legion of Honor decora tion. This and all his other honors were stripped from him when he published an offending book, “La Garconne.” He had been for 10 years an offi cer in the French army. In his books, which he continued to write during his army service, he cham pioned virile French nationalism. Now, at 73, he watched France “reap what she has sown.” The statue of John Milton, the famous blind poet of Great Britain, is toppled from its pedestal by a Nazi bomb that fell on St. Giles, one of London’s oldest churches. In the churchyard lies the tomb of the great poet. The interior of the church itself was also damaged by the blast. Both Their Hearts on Wrong Side Miss Leonora Lindsley of New York, shown on her return to Goth am, after having been an ambu lance driver in France. She dis tinguished herself in the great re treat of Dunkerque when she car ried many wounded and refugees to safety. The Smith twins, Bell and Nell, of Decatur, Ga., are in reverse. Their hearts are on the right sides of their bodies, instead of the usual left side. Their spleens, too, are on the wrong side—right instead of left, and their livers, to make the turnabout complete, are on the left instead of the right side. Their eyes, strangely enough, have exactly the same measurements, and exactly the same ailments, a rarity, even in identical twins. The girls are eight years old. Father Francis X. Quinn of New York receives Congressional medal from President Roosevelt for induc ing a gunman to surrender after police had been unable to dislodge him from a home. Congress appro priated $250 for the gold medal. # * P/&~4MeU& * * * U. S. Postmasters to Convene While the guardian of the U. S. mails at “the world’s smallest com plete post office” of De Luz, Calif., (pictured at right) may not take time off from his strenuous duties to attend the convention of the Na tional Association of Postmasters at Columbus, Ohio, September 26-28, approximately 5,000 of his brother workers will. Michael J. O’Rourke, Beverly Hills, Calif., (upper right) is scheduled to be chosen the group’s next president, and Frank C. Walk er, (directly above) President Roosevelt’s new postmaster general appointee, is expected to attend some of the sessions. Sophie Tunes Up for Legion Convention Sophie Tucker shows a war veteran how she will sing for the Ameri can Legion’s twenty-second annual convention, at Boston, September 25, when Schenley Post, No. 1190, presents its mammoth “Cavalcade of Stars.” Other headliners: Bill Robinson, Ben Bernie and Tommy Dorsey. Right: 1940 Legion convention badge. Mother and Child Lina Medina, the world’s youngest mother, who will observe her sixth birthday on September 23. The ju venile mother who is shown with her 15-month-old son was expected to journey from her home in Lima, Pern, to Chicago to undergo an in vestigation of her strange case by scientists. Happy Birthday! A famous English author and an American statesman who advocates every assistance to Britain short of war will celebrate their birthdays September 21. The English author is H. G. Wells, (right) who will be 74. The American statesman is Col. Henry L. Stimson, (left) new secre tary of war, who will be 73. * THE WAR BY RADIO Dear Ed.— Well, I have been following ton war almost a year now by listening, (to radio broadcasts, and all I can, make out is that it is a gigantic; struggle between toe breakfast food, nickel cigar, hair tonic, railroad watch, ice cream, salad oil, savings bank and soap interests. • • • I thought it was a fight between philosophies and systems, but what J mean is that you could never prove it to me by what comes out of my radio set. I have spent the whole of 1940 listening to the radio war news, and as toe situation now stands the Nazis are better off in coconut-covered confectionery and part-Havana-leaf stogies, while the democracies are ahead in point on scalp oils, stop watches and the breakfast food that has four vita mins, from what I can grasp. I * * * You wrote me that your radio has been on the bum and would I tellj you what has been going on, so It am glad to give you my impression.! Last night I hear that the Greek I dictator. some fellow named 1 Bounds, has had a conference with three Turkish leaders rich in pro teins, headed by Meatena, over the sinking of a couple of Greek ships named Vim and Vigor. . It looks like Greece may be taken over and divided between toe Tastee Gum Drop alliance and toe Open a Check ing Account With Us for Any Sum From a Dollar Up bunch. * * * There is not much new from Af rica. Mussolini has took Fruity Bars, Blue Owl and Fair Humor by direct assault, but toe British are holding onto toe Smootoier and Glossier Hair Area, and Berlin is remaining aloof. I don’t know whetoer it is aloof of white or rye. The thing to watch is whether toe British lose toe Pure and Delicious Suez canal, which is rich in those qualities what gives you energy and ambition and a clear complexion, on sale at all leading drug stores, but pretty vulnerable from toe air. • • • I don’t seem to make much out of the situation in France. Petain, the marshal with that rich, creamy quality, has named a court to try six Frenchmen and a whopping stick of chocolate that comes in three sizes. The French govern ment would like to leave Vichy and toe watch that is toe official time piece of 11 railroads and move back to Paris and toe soup that comes in 11 flavors at 10 cents a can. I don’t know what will come of it all on account of I use a dollar watch and do not care for soup except vege table, home made. • • • Personally, I think the situation is very confused and that no good will come of it for us, no matter what we smoke or eat, but I think congress should top stalling and pass a conscription law which has at least Vitamin C in it. I also favor letting England have 50 full- flavored destroyers and a case of Meatena in return for Bermuda, a year’s supply of Dr. Whoziss’s Tooth Powder and any good peach- nut ice cream. Yours, Luke. • • • TOOT! TOOT! (“Railroads to Sell Tickets on In stallment Plan.”—Headline). Oh, give a thought to Wilbur Gaines, He travels on toe choo-choo trains; He travels far to see sights new— And does it on an I. O. U. He grabs a train to Buffalo Without a thought about the dough; He goes to Frisco or Pen Yan , And does it on the credit plan. • • • The Westinghouse Electric com pany is exhibiting “Sparky,” a me chanical dog which sits up and begs at the odor of an all-hot. And there probably will be some man mean enough to feed it a mechanical frankfurter and rolL • • • A big laugh comes in a Broadway musical when Jack Haley, toe co median, during a scene in a haunt ed barn, is advised, “If you see any thing suspicious, just call ‘Oh, Alex ander!’ And Haley replies, ‘Don’t wait for the Alexander; just come | in on toe Oh!’ " • • • MOVIE He holds her hand . . . Wedding bells . . . Rockbound coast ... Citadels . . . Knife in teeth, He drives away Savages And she’s okay. Ruth Page. • • • Ima Dodo can’t quite make out which is in toe tougher spot, the British empire or the New York Yankees. Trick of Reclaiming The Discarded Chair By RUTH WYETH SPEARS npHERE were two of these old -*■ bent-wood chairs—both with cane seats gone and a badly scarred varnish finish. “Get them out of my sight!” their owner said, “I can’t stand the thought of wood bent and forced into unnat ural curves.” In toe end she did get them out of sight and used ^PLYWOOD SEAT ✓MARK, THEM WITH HOLE _ SEAM T< WTTERN FOR EAT COVER SEAM OUTSIDE WITH BiNome OUTSIDE SEAM INSIDE them too. The trick was done with slip covers made, as shown here. The one you see in the sketch became a side chair for toe living room dressed in richly colored cretonne in soft red and blue- green tones with deep wine bind ings. The legs of toe chair were sandpapered and stained mahoga ny to tone in with the cover. The cane seat was inexpensively re paired with a ready made seat of plywood reshaped to fit by first cutting a paper pattern to fit the seat of the chair and then using toe pattern as a guide as indi cated here. Next week I will show you how toe other one of these old chairs was used. NOTE: As a service to our readers, IfiO of these articles have been printed in five separate booklets. No. 5 contains 30 illus trations with directions; also a description of the other booklets. To get your copy of Book 3, send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer !• Bedford HUls New York Enclose 10 cents for Book 3, Name Address Mom I Koop O-Cedor Polish handy ... for' dusting, cleaning, polishing Keep genuine O-Cedar Polish handy... then when sudden guests come, when the club meets, or when it’s the usual time to clean and polish, you can do both easily, speedily (with O-Cedar Polish and the mop) and you leave behind s soft, silken O-Cedar lustre that’s lovelier. 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