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/ THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. CU OCTOBER 31, 1941 Washington, D. C. FARMER PRICE VICTORY Louis J. Taber, National Grange president, and other fa.-m leaders didn’t come away empty-handed from their conference vdlh tne Pres ident on price control. While he would not agree to their proposal that wages be included in the price control bill drafted by Price Administrator Leon Hender son, Roosevelt did make one impor tant concession. He said he would have no objection to a “parity aver ages formula” being put in the bill to limit the dumping of government- owned wheat and cotton when the prices of these commodities threaten to soar out of bounds. Under this formula, to insure farmers an average parity price for the full crop year, restrictions would be placed on the amount of wheat and cotton that could be sold. Also, the dumping could not begin until prices reach certain above-parity levels, to be worked out by Hender son and the department of agricul ture. Taber and his colleagues had to do some fast talking to sell the Presi dent on this plan. At first he seemed in no mood to accept any- changes in the bill and told his callers that if they had come to debate the ques tion of controlling farm prices they were wasting their time. “We have simply got to head off inflationary trends,” the ^resident declared grimly, “or face the v/orst depression the country has ever known after this emergency is over.” The farm leaders finally won him over to their plan with the assurance that they would not oppose Hender son’s system of selective price con trols, providing the parity gains won at this session were not lost. Taber pointed out that though the prices of wheat and cotton are now only slightly below parity, and live stock above it, farmers get only 43 per cent of the consumer’s dollar spent for farm products, as against 60 per cent in 1917, when defense production was geared to the peak it has reached today. • • • NEW LABOR HEADACHE Strikes are still a serious problem, but the big labor headache currently harrying defense chiefs is the com plex and mounting difficulty of em ployment dislocations. Almost every day brings new re ports of workers let out due to lack of materials, forced curtailment of production or other defense causes. Official estimates of such dismissals put the number at between one and two million. And the end is not in sight. Some experts anticipate that in the auto industry alone 200,000 workers will lose their jobs. Aware of the serious economic consequences of such dislocations, OPM heads are making strenuous efforts to overcome them. So far only partial answers have been found. Originally, OPM tried to handle such dismissals by local absorption. This worked all right in towns with industries engaged in defense work. They could use the displaced hands and gladly took them on. But in communities where this condition did not exist, other solutions had to be found. Various methods have been used. In some instances defense orders have been granted to reopen shut down plants. In other cases, where conversion of a plant wasn’t pos sible, an entire new defense plant has been erected in town. In still other instances, workers have been given “retraining” instruction and moved to places where labor was needed. Defense chiefs count on Floyd Od ium’s reorganized subcontracting division to take up most of the slack on defense dislocations. Odium originally estimated it would take two months to set up administrative machinery, but OPM chiefs are urging him to turn his attention to getting subcontracts now and rounding out his organization as he goes along. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND The American Association for Eco nomic Freedom has reprinted an ad dress made more than 10 years ago by Federal Judge Robert N. Wilkin of Cleveland on “A New Social Or der” in which he advocated a union of the English-speaking countries to resist the totalitarian aggressors. Heavyweight champ Joe Louis, soon to be drafted, is tackling what he describes as “the biggest fight of my career.” He has sent a circular letter to every member of congress asking them for help to raise a fund for a movement to improve the eco nomic condition of Negroes. It isn’t advertised, but the. army now has a regular military air serv ice across both the North and South Atlantic, operating on schedule, just as punctually as any commercial airway in the U.S.A. Good news for the troops eaten by chiggers in the Louisiana maneu vers: Denton Growl of Toledo had just discovered a chemical which will make them as scarce as Amer ican heavy bombers. Jesse Jones is angling to get John Hertz, original king of the Yellow Taxis in Chicago, appointed to the Maritime commission. View in Brooklyn navy yard when the U. S. destroyer, Kearny, was commissioned, under command of Lieut. Commander A. L. Danis. The destroyer was torpedoed while on patrol duty, about 350 miles southwest of Iceland. The ship continued on its course, under its own power, to an unnamed port, with 11 members of the crew missing and 10 injured, two of them seriously. The navy department stated that the attack on the Kearny was undoubtedly made by a German submarine. The Kearny was launched in March, 1940, at Kearny, N. J., and had a complement of 13 officers and 177 men. Five hundred students of the Georgia university came to the Cap itol in Atlanta to protest to Governor Talmage because their school had been dropped from the Southern university conference. Governor Talmage was not in town at the time of the demonstration. Note stu dents mounting bust of Talmage on capitol grounds. At Neutrality Hearing Protests Seizure Secretary of State Cordell Hull, left, is shown talking with Rep. Sol. Bloom, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, during the neutrality hearing on Capitol Hill, on the arming of merchant ships. The attack on the U. S. destroyer, Kearny, gave impetus to the hearings on revision of the law. U. S. seizure of x8 Douglas light bombers bound for Peru and possi ble use against Ecuador, was pro tested by Col. Armando Revoredo (above), air attache of the Peruvian embassy in Washington, who termed the seizure an unfriendly act. Ruins of London Town ‘Swap’ That Failed This photograph, just released by the British censor, shows some of the devastated sections in the center of London after air raid clearance work. An entire block of demolished buildings has been completely removed, leaving nothing but vacant lots, as shown in the picture. Wounded German prisoners are helped aboard British hospital ship at Newhaven, England. They were to have been taken to Dieppe, France, for exchange with British prisoners in Nazi hands, but it was called off. With their duffie bags, 22 Norwegian Nazis and Gestapo agents are being taken to the immigration station in East Boston, Mass., aboard a coast guard patrol boat, after the German radio supply ship, Busko, was rought to Boston, following its seizure in Greenland waters. The Busko --i5'-:t to establish a radio station in Greenland. Six new uniforms for women in civilian defense have been approved. Photo shows girl with office work- ys’ uniform looking at insignia on nurse’s aide uniform. Kathleen Norris Says: Moral Co&3 Result of Long Struggle (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Some women never cease getting into romantic mischief. They go on into wrinkles and gray hair, still looking for conquests, still secretly proud because men continue to be selfishly attentive to them. By KATHLEEN NORRIS T WO words that used to play an enormous part in American family life are “duty” and “morality.” These terms went out of fashion a long while ago; our younger genera tion wouldn’t know how to ap ply them to general behavior. Duty, they think, means do ing certafii disagreeable things whether you want to or not. And what a nerve anyone has to tell you what you should or shouldn’t do! Morality means not lying, not talking scandal, keeping your word, keeping your thoughts and your actions pure, conquering in your soul, as much as you can, feelings of hate, revenge, jealousy, lust, anger. Not being intemperate. Not being proud. Not being selfish. “Isn’t it comfortable to be good?” one of the wisest women I know said one day. Secret of Married Bliss. So that when an old wife talks to a younger one, and advises her to make humility and patience, for giveness and understanding a part of her wedding outfit, she is not ad vocating a course that leads to mar tyrdom. She is giving the bride the secret of married happiness. She is telling her that she will be hap pier in the long run, will indeed be one of the truly successful and con tented women of the world, if she goes into matrimony armed with a sense of duty and a strong deter mination to keep the moral law. Once that law is accepted firmly nothing else matters. Here is a letter from a woman whose experience unfortunately is somewhat typical today. It is just possible that if some good mother, 20 years ago, had given her a sound respect for morality and duty her story might have been different. “Twelve years ago I was madly in love with a doctor I will call Bill,” she writes me. “He loved me, too, but he didn’t want to get married. It hurt my pride to be the one most in love, but there was no help for it, and even though I knew he wasn’t any paragon, I was weak enough to give him everything he asked. First Love Renewed. “After awhile he went away, and I formed a deep affection for an other man, Frank. Frank was the one in love now, but I liked him so much that eventually we were married, had a nice home, and a son and daughter. Five years ago we lost our boy, a grief that caused me a serious illness. In this illness my doctor was Bill, who had come back to town, and soon the old in fatuation took possession of us both, with Bill the more ardent this time. He was married now and had two dttle girls. “Frank discovered our affair and was heartbroken, as I was also, for he had always been the kindest and best of husbands, and had never mown of my affair with Bill. We were divorced, and Bill was divorced yy his wife, and he and I were mar ried. Wretchedly unsuited to each ither, this union was doomed from he first; Bill was always talking i bout his first wife and how wonder- ui she was, and I soon discov- red that he was taking his daugh- 'rs to lunch once a week and that ten she joined them. “I went to Reno, and feeling lone- A WORD TO THE WISE What a pity we are so reluctant to heed good advice! Children don’t like to hear about such dis agreeable things as “duty” and “morality.” And when an older woman tells a younger one that the way to insure the happiness of her marriage is by patience, tolerance and forgiveness, the younger woman is likely to say something about not wanting to be a martyr. But the prevalence of this attitude does not alter the fact that only through obeying the rules of morality can we achieve that larger freedom which is so different from mere willfulness and which is the only real basis for a lasting happiness. Let Kathleen Norris tell you why she might have helped the Gear- gianna of this letter if she had known her mother twenty years ago. ly and blue, associated there with a group of very rich people who thought of only good times. Among them was an attractive man of 50 who devoted himself to me. I con fess that my mood was one of reck lessness and irresponsibility. I made several trips with him to San Francisco and let him make me some very handsome gifts. “But all the while my heart was steadily turning back to Frank, and the security and happiness we had known in our home, with our beau tiful little girl. I longed for them both, and for my husband’s advice and understanding. When I re ceived a letter from him saying that he felt the same way, and that Tanya needed her mother, my heart was filled with joy for the first time in years. But ‘the Squire,’ as I call my Reno friend, also wants me to marry him. He has been three times divorced, but in two cases it has been to free his wife for a mar riage she desired. The first time it was from a woman 28 years his senior; he was but 27 then. Seeks True Happiness. “Can you help me find my way to true happiness through this mesh of mistakes? I know I am a foolish, weak woman, although I have never consciously done anything that could hurt anyone but myself. But I do want to be happy even though I am 32 now and don’t expect the raptures of young love again. The Squire has little money, but he lives in New York and knows everyone worth knowing. To go back to Frank, on the other hand, means my old environment, my old friends, and my little girl. Which way lies wisdom?” Georgianna, who writes this let ter, includes a picture of herself, a pardonable bit of vanity, for she is a beautiful woman. Slirr., well- dressed, with a smart hat sweeping off her face and her hands in the pockets of a magnificent fur coat, she looks capable of getting into a lot more mischief before she is through. Such women, in truth, never get through. They go on into wrinkles and crimps and gray hair still looking for conquests; still secretly proud of themselves be cause men continue to be selfishly attentive to them. I have no advice for her. She wouldn’t take it anyway. But if I had known her mother 20 years ago I might have been able to say some thing that would have been helpful. Something about morality and duty. 0AEJUELEMY tMUMKWIER INVENTED THE SEWINS-MACHIWE IN 1850. A MOB, resenting his BETTER WAV, PESTRoyEP IT. THE SETTER WAV 10 TREAT constumoM PUE TO IMX. 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