Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I a THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, NOVEMBER 7, 1941 Washington, D. C. CANAL DEFENSE PLAN UPSET It isn’t going to be announced, but Nazi propaganda in South Amer ica has upset U. S. plans for an im portant new base defending the Pan ama canal. Plans had been care fully laid for commercial develop ment of an island off the coast of Ecuador, to be followed by naval installations. But genial Jesse Jones innocently let the cat out of the bag, and the Germans did the rest. The island is known as Alber- marle, in the Galapagos group, ly ing southwest of Panama, a perfect location for watching Japanese ma neuvers near the Pacific entrance of the canal. To inspect it Roosevelt went fishing there three years ago, when the U. S. S. Houston took him on a Pacific cruise. Roosevelt had heard about the Galapagos since childhood. His great-uncle, Capt. Amasa Delano, put in at the islands on his voyages to China. And his mother, as a young girl, stopped there on a voy age to China. The President personally was re sponsible for the strategy of form ing an American trading company to develop Albermarle. He knew the sensitive Latins, knew that a direct proposal for building a U. S. naval base would arouse the old enemies of “Yankee imperialism,” and that the only safe way was to set up a company for the development of fish ing and cattle, thus bring the navy in edgeways. Accordingly, the Pacific Develop ment company was formed, incor porated in Delaware, and financed with funds from the RFC. First it got a credit of $30,000, but later, when a credit of half a million was extended, RFCzar Jesse Jones inno cently announced it to the press. Jesse Jones’ Joke. Apparently the naval stratagem was such a dark secret that even Jesse, a member of the cabinet, didn’t know about it. So he an nounced it as nothing but a commer cial development, because the is land was owned not by Ecuador but by a private individual. And then he added a little jest of his own. “And if you can spell the man’s name,” said Jesse, “I’ll give you the island. The name is pronounced ‘heel.’ ” Up spoke a correspondent who knows Spanish well. “You spell it G-i-1," he said. “That’s right,” said Jones. “Go to the head of the class.” “No,” said the newsman. “I want the island.” “I’ll owe you the island,” said Jones, and everybody laughed. But there was no laughter in the navy department; for German prop aganda, through short-wave radio and local newspapers, stirred up the old fear of Yankee aggression, in timating that a U. S. naval base off the west coast of South Amer ica would make little puppets of the Good Neighbors for all time. The propaganda was successful, and the deal had to be cancelled. It may be that the Pacific Devel opment company will still pursue its “livestock, fishing, and mining of sulphur,” as provided in the con cession, but President Roosevelt’s dream of a Panama defense base is sunk. • • • MORE CRACKDOWNS You can put it down as a certainty that there will be other OPM crack downs, in addition to the one on the Chicago “juke-box” firm, for “bootlegging” scarce raw materials. OPM Priorities Director Donald Nelson said nothing about it, but he has his gimlet eye fixed on a big steel plant, an auto manufacturer and others. Both have been secretly thumbing their noses at priority re strictions. The auto maker was called on the carpet by Nelson and spent several uncomfortable hours trying to ex plain the unauthorized purchase of a large quantity of strategic materi als and the action of a parts sub sidiary selling such supplies. When the auto executive left OPM he was red-faced and obviously wor ried. The steel company is suspected of secretly filling orders for big cus tomers in direct violation of defense requirements, particularly naval. An investigation is now under way. The company has a long history of bat tling th6 government and the fur will fly if the suspicions are sub stantiated. Note: After Nelson’s investigators finish with their aluminum inquiries, they will move into chemicals, where there have been numerous com plaints of wholesale disregard of pri ority orders. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND Informed that defense officials want to use her famous legs to pub licize non-silk stockings as soon as she has recovered from her frac tured ankle, movie queen Marlene Dietrich sent back word that she stands ready, or will sit if pre ferred, for any patriotic purpose. One subject that Speaker Sam Rayburn always is ready to talk about is his Texas ranch. “I like to be knowrf as a rancher,” he grins, “although I haven’t got much •'■s show for it.” Lewis Announces Coal Strike John L. Lewis, head of the C.I.O.’s United Mine Workers Union of America, announced that 53,000 workers in coal mines owned by the major steel companies would strike. Lewis told a press conference that he had sent a letter to the President notifying him that the miners could not renew their truce with the steel companies, and that produc tion .would be halted forthwith. In the letter, Lewis advised the Presi dent the miners were willing to negotiate in the hopes that “no sub stantial loss of production” wculd be incurred. Photo shows John L. Lewis as he gave out his statement to members of the press. Growing Fast Kathleen Norris Says: Mothers-in-Law Should Remain Aloof (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service ) Harriman Reports to F.D.R. * r W. Averill Harriman, upon his return from Moscow, where he had been heading the U. S. mission to Moscow, called at the White House to have a further conference with the President. Photo shows him as he was talking with members of the press in the reception room in the executive offices of the White House. Divine Service in the Army Despite the strenuous work of the soldiers during maneuvers, religious services for every creed are held every week. Photo shows one of many which depicts a day in the life of Catholic Field Chaplain Vanholm of the First army, Camden, S. C., as an officer plays a portable organ during services held by Father Vanholm. To Help Maintain ‘Freedom of Seas’ The submarine chaser, PC-490, sliding down the ways in a broadside launching at the Neville Island yards of the Dravo corporation, Pitts burgh, Pa. It is the first of 15 such craft being built here for the navy, • hich will travel down U'e Ohio and Mississippi to join Uncle Sam’s r forces at sea. THt FAMOUS Z BMP mat to otre rous MS AO COLD THE AIM. use as oisecrco. USE 2 ODOMS OF COOUMS, SOOTH mo PENETROE Unusual view of the bow of the battleship Indiana, which is rapid ly taking shape at Newport News, Va. Construction work on the deck of this 35,000-ton ocean giant is well forward. Lehigh’s Skipper Capt. Vincent P. Arkins, com mander of the torpedoed U. S. freighter Lehigh, who gave an ac count of sinking upon his arrival at Freetown, South Africa. Red Objector This Tuscarora Indian, shown with his lawyer, Wilfred Hoffman, is one of the members of the six Indian tribes who appeared before federal court judges in New York to argue that the U. S. has no right to draft members of the Iroquois confeder acy. To do so, declared their coun sel, would be in violation of the treaty signed in 1784. 1 r MVST STEP ASIDE The time has come, says Kath leen Norris, for this “Devoted Mother” to step aside, even though in doing so she must watch her only son risk his hap piness by marrying a woman already two times divorced. There is nothing she can do for him now. And, of course, there is always a chance that he will make a success of his marriage. Then she will be sorry to have with her the memory of harsh words and bitter recriminations. Some mothers-in-law are lucky enough to be needed. But most mothers, Kathleen Norris contin ues, must learn that there may come a time when another wom an means more to their sons than they do. Then they must face a period of loneliness before they begin to build for themselves a new and equally useful life. Don’t fail to read this story of a “Devot ed Mother.” Soviet Defenders This photograph shows three young workers of a Leningrad muni tions factory who have enrolled with the popular volunteer force to pro tect their city. With many others, they are lined up for instruction in bayonet fighting against the Nazi foe. My son Don's interest in a twice^Uvorced woman quickly developed into an Infatu ation that swept everything else aside. I had hoped it would end when the voyage ended. She came to Brooklyn and he saw her every day. By KATHLEEN NORRIS nr r~>HE sons of all the other mothers I know have married decently,’* wrrites a despairing mother from Brooklyn. “Sometimes they haven’t especially l^ked the girls, but invariably they have been fine girls, ambitious to make good homes, have chil dren, help their husbands in every way they can. “Only mine has lost all bis bearings, forgotten every thing I ever taught him or helped him to discover for himself and is planning a marriage that will wreck his life and alienate him from me for ever! Let me tell you a little of his background. Both his father and grandfather were well-known doc tors. My father was a musician; my mother belonged to one of the finest old families of Kentucky. “Don lost his father when he was three, and I gave my whole life to him. His friends were the children of my friends. I tried in every way to keep him simple and unspoiled, for his beauty and charm were no ticeable from the first. We spent many summers in Eurppe, where he perfected his languages. We were in Europe when the war broke out. “It was with great difficulty that I obtained a cabin for the home trip. We had no sooner gone on board than Don brought to me a young woman with a small boy. Don was then 26, the woman ad mits being five years, and I think is at least eight years older than he. She is beautiful; the divorced wife of an Austrian count, herself American born of Swedish and Eng lish parents. Married at Sixteen. “We found out much later that her mother had been in a. circus, and that she herself had been married at 16 to a man she divorced also. Don insisted, on this first meeting, that she and the child move into the cabin with me, while he found a bunk somewhere else; and I con sented. “I have blamed myself a thou sand times for this, because Don’s interest quickly developed into an infatuation that swept everything else aside'. I had thought that with the end of the voyage it must end, but she came to Brooklyn, lived near us, and he saw her every day. He gave her the money for her i divorce from the Austrian; gave her a great deal more than he could af ford; bought her everything for which she showed the slightest whim. He paid over $2,000 for med ical attention for the child. “Now, you would think, if she de cided upon a third marriage, it would be to my poor infatuated boy. Not at all. While spending Don’s money at Reno she met a man who was, she said, the only man she ever had loved, and she married him there. My poor Don attempted suicide; we found him unconscious. Transfusions saved his life. I took him to Mexico, feeling that I would ratner live there the rest of my life than expose him again to this siren. “A month ago he left me without leave-taking, joined her, and is liv ing with her now, caring for her and the child in a flat in New Jer sey. Her marriage to her third hus band, he says, can be proved ille gal, and that as soon as she is free they-are to be married. Meanwhile, as she is quite ill, and should have an operation, he is caring for her, bringing her trays, washing dishes, going to market. I followed him up, attempted to see him, to reason with him. But he is determined to make her his wife. “I need not tell you what agony of spirit this causes me. She will never have a child. There will be an end to the family. She will not be faithful to him or give him a home; she has already all but ru ined him; she will not be satisfied until he has mjr modest fortune, too. He asks me tb try to understand her, that she is at heart only an adorable child. “But I understand her only too well, and if that is the heart of a child there is something wrong with the child. Is there no way that I can stop this before it goes any fur ther? Appeals to him have failed. Is there any use in appealing to her? “Don used to talk of being an architect; Cara wants him to go on the stage. He has not done a day’s serious work for more than two years. I cannot stand idly by and see his life, trust, faith, future all ruined together! What can I do?” In answer I would say, my dear “Devoted Mother,” that in having this splendid son to yourself for the first 26 years of his life, absorbing him, glorying in his constant affec tion and companionship, you have had, in the argot of the day, about all that is coming to you. Mother Should Withdraw. Since there is no common ground, of understanding between you and the woman he is so determined to make his wife, your only course is to withdraw. Tell them both frank ly that you wish them well, that you want them to forgive any lack of enthusiasm or co-operation, and that if ever they need you you will be ready. And then go back to Mexico or to China or to Baffin’s Bay and build a life for yourself, while at tempting to assimilate the bitter truth, that the time comes when an other woman is more important to a boy than even his mother, and that you are just about as necessary to Cara as your mother-in-law was to you 30 years ago. Our mothers-in-law! Those dim, elderly dames who were to be a little considered and petted and cul tivated because it pleased darling Tom, but who remained shadows still, quite apart from the vital, ab sorbing interests of our young lives. How little they mattered! You’re in that place now, “De voted Mother,” and it’s for you to say whether they ever will love you or need you again. For wealth is no help here. In fact, it’s in a poor family that grandma holds her own; she is necessary there, and often she really is beloved. “I suppose I love my own daugh ter as much as I do my son’s wife,” one fortunate mother-in-law said to me some years ago, “but Ann doesn’t need me, and it’s so good to be with Jinny, because sb« does.” Hardy Eskimo Dogs Although Eskimo dogs prefer to and usually do sleep outdoors in the coldest weather and even in the worst blizzards, it is not un common for them to freeze to the ground and be snowed under suf ficiently to die of suffocation. ME TOM Rowelt SttoUttMut? fry kindaeul first of all you can 9 * •xpect them to act unless yon fire them a chance. Most people make sore to get 8 meals a day. 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