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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.
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Our Confidence
The confidence which we have
in ourselves gives birth to much
of that which we have in others.—
La Rochefoucauld.
Liking Duty
The secret of happiness is no^
in doing what one likes, but in
liking what one has to do.—James
M. Barrie.
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulslon relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender. In
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell yvu
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSiON
lor Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
What Now?
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in your intestines to bring welcome relief
from constipation. And the good old
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finicky children love the taste of this
pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Cald
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today. Try one laxative combined with
Syrup Pepsin for ease to your stomach, too.
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“My latest income-tax return.”
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