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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, NOVEMBER 14, 1941
Washington, D. C.
NAZI SABOTAGE
The man to watch in Europe to
day—next to Hitler—is a suave and
charming diplomat in Turkey
named Franz von Papen. It is al
ways a significant omen when Hitler
sends Von Papen to a country. It
means he has dire and potent in
tentions regarding that area.
It was Von Papen who went to
Austria as ambassador to soften
it in preparation for the Nazi oc
cupation. It was Von Papen who 26
years ago tried to do the same
thing here. And now, with weath
er getting cold in Russia and Hitler
running lower and lower on oil, a
Nazi squeeze on Turkey becomes
almost inevitable. To prepare for
it, Ambassador Von Papen has been
working overtime in Turkey.
Almost forgotten is Von Papen’s
attempt to soften and sabotage the
United States during the last war. ,
But his operations here indicate the
lengths to which he may go in Tur
key to bring that country into the
Axis.
In 1915, Von Papen was German
military attache in Washington
when Count Johann von Bernstorff
returned from England with a
satchel containing $150,000,000 in
German treasury notes.
Von Papen, then in Mexico City,
hurried north, and immediately
began organizing a network of
spies.
Invasion Via Canada.
After selecting his agents care
fully, Von Papen laid the following
plans:
No. 1. To invade Canada through
British Columbia with the aid of
German warships in the Pacific and
German reservists in the United
States. This plan was vetoed by
Von Bernstorff.
No. 2. To blow up the Welland
canal. This scheme likewise was
abandoned, because the canal was
too well guarded.
No. 3. To blow up Canadian rail
roads in an effort to prevent trans
portation of Japanese troops
through Canada. (The Japanese
were fighting with the Allies.)
No. 4. To blow up the Internation
al bridge at Vanceboro, Maine.
This was accomplished through an
agent named Werner Horn.
Von Papen was so industrious and
unscrupulous that he over-reached
himself, and Wilson demanded his
recall. But when he reached home,
both he and Bernstorff were award
ed decorations, and both promoted.
Subsequently, Von Papen became
chancellor of Germany and he took
part in the conspiracies which
brought Hitler into power.
As Army Takes Over Air Plant
With an armed soldier standing by, machinists are shown at work
fn the Bendix plant of Air Associates, Inc., Bendix, N. J., the defense
plant taken over by the U. S. army on orders from President Roosevelt.
The army rehired workers “as Americans,” disregarding their previous
status in the dispute which had kept the vital defense plant idle. Col. Roy
M. Jones, military commander of the plant, stands behind the sentry.
More than $5,000,000 in defense contracts are held by the plant, which
manufactures airplane parts.
They’re Heady for Anything
Members of a volunteer parachute troop, in training at an R.A.F.
station, rush to “attack position” after discarding their 'chutes. Their
work calls for skill and daring, as they may some day be called upon,
if Britain invades German-occupied territory, to drop behind the lines,
much as Nazi parachutists have done.
RUSSIAN REQUEST—A DRIBLET
Averell Harriman’s confidential
report on Russian requests for aid
was vastly different from British re
quests after Dunkirk. In compari
son with the British, the Russian
orders seemed a mere driblet.
After the Lowlands debacle, the
British had to start from scratch,
having lost practically all their
armored equipment and most of
their field artillery. The Russians
have lost tremendous quantities of
material, but judging from their
relatively modest requests, they
still must have a lot left.
One of the chief things they asked
for was 75 and 105 mm. guns,
which, luckily we can supply. Pro
duction figures are a military
secret, but these cannon are now
rolling off assembly lines in quan
tity. The Russians also asked for
machine guns, which we can furnish
also in large numbers, since ma
chine gun production is at a high
level.
One of the biggest, and pleasant
est surprises to Harriman was that
the Russians do not need machine
tools, at least for the present. This
took a big load off his mind, as
both the U. S. and Britain have few
tools to spare right now.
Note: U. S. military experts con
sider lack of co-ordination between
the three Russian armies to be one
of the principal reasons for the
break through in the center against
Moscow. Although there has been
a shift of Russian generals, doubt
etill exists about the co-ordination
of the three armies under a cen
tral command.
On Peace Time Mission
On special duty for the New York City Cancer committee, two units
of the British-American Ambulance corps are being loaded with surgical
dressings and other supplies for New York hospitals. Four young as
sistants wear costumes of the Free French, Chinese, Greek and Dutch.
Canada’s Answer to Battle of Atlantic
INFLATION CURE
Here is the inside lowdown on
Price Administrator Leon Hender
son’s own private preventive against
inflation.
He disclosed it to a group of
Charlestown, W. Va., business men
during a speech on the dangers of
runaway prices. One of the
audience asked Henderson how a
business man could best protect
himself against inflation.
“Work like hell,” was the prompt
reply, “and go to church regularly.”
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
Introduced to a British production
expert who had just completed
a survey of U. S. defense plants,
OPM boss William Knudsen took
him off his feet by inquiring “What
impressed you least?"
A sports commentator, sponsored
by a shaving cream, called the duke
of Windsor in Baltimore, inviting
him to appear as guest star on the
radio program, the money to be
paid to British charity. The duke
declined—even before he was told
the offer was only $100.
Moored at their berths are seven of the eight Canadian built ves
sels that were launched at Sorel, P. A., Canada, as part of the Do
minion’s answer to Germany in the far-flung battle of the Atlantic.
Four are trim corvettes and four are sturdy little minesweepers, all
velcome additions to the fleet.
King of Tin
First picture of Sihanok, new king
of Cambodia. He is pictured stand
ing ominously in the rain during last
rites for King Sisovas Monivon, for
mer ruler of the kingdom of 3,000,-
000. Most important resource is its
tin. The kingdom is now largely
under Japanese influence.
Ship Lost
Lt. Comdr. H. L. Edwards, com
manding officer of the U.S.S. Reu
ben James, sank by a torpedo while
on convoy duty near Iceland. The
ship was an O-type flush-deck
destroyer.
Russ Guns Move Up
This photograph of heavy Russian
field pieces moving up to the front
was presented to Lord Beaverbrook
by Josef Stalin, when the British
production chief was in embattled
Russia to see in what way England
could best help the valiant Russ.
The caption reads: “To the Front.
To Victory.”
Fooled Gestapo
Safe in London, this couple smile
happily after escaping from occu
pied France and the Gestapo. The
girl was ringleader of a gang of
juveniles who plastered their town
with anti-Nazi posters. She fled with
this lieutenant to North Africa, and
thence to British territory.
Kathleen Norris Says:
Old Men and Women Eat Too Mach
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
To hear mamma’s martyred description of having had a “bad night” and of suf
fering “those spots poor grandpa always had before his eyes” infuriates loving chil
dren even if they don’t show it. '
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
OST old persons eat too
much. That is why they
so often are unhappy,
annoying, useless and ill.
This is an unpleasant truth,
but it is one that makes a most
important difference in one’s
life, when it is fully grasped.
The difference between feeling
young and cheerful and eager
to serve, and feeling heavy and
old and ill is often the difference
only between a sensible dinner
and a foolish one.
Two pork chops with gravy,
mashed potato, hot biscuits, a
stuffed tomato and a cup cus
tard can do you no harm while
they remain in the refrigera
tor. But once inside you they
can cause an amount of sheer mis
ery that may end in death. Thou
sands of elderly persons kill them
selves with poison every year—only
it doesn’t seem like poison because
it comes off the family supper table.
In one New England town I visited
many years ago the old people spoke
of “getting your shock” as though it
was something the postman infalli
bly delivered between the ages of
55 and 60.
“Her father got his shock last win
ter. Poor Maria’s had her shock.
Why Lizzie got her shock when she
wasn’t but 32 beats me!”
In winter this particular family,
which comprised several families,
consumed meals that would have
satisfied lumbermen. They were all
elderly, but they ate Just as they
had in vigorous youth. Every meal
was embellished with hot breads and
variegated jams; we had pie for
breakfast and strong tea, with thick
Jersey cream late at night. Dum
plings, turkey dressing, fresh lob
ster right out of the bay and hot muf
fins were daily fare.
One woman, complaining con
stantly of sick headache, vertigo,
heartburn and a dozen other ail
ments, called down to her daughter
each evening for a sherry and egg
flip as a night cap.
Many Become Burdens.
If all this resulted in a swift and
clean exit from this mortal scene
it wouldn’t be so bad. But it doesn’t.
The chronic dyspeptic, the patient
sufferer from head colds and indi
gestion, headaches and chills, or
from that perpetual languor and
weariness that so many elderly
women think is inevitable at their
age—these people don’t die. No,
they live on and on, a burden and
expense to those who Jove them.
And yet the fifties and the six
ties and the seventies can be beau
tiful years, filled with vigor and
health and service and the joy of
life. There is no key to that envia
ble state more valuable than a de
termination to STOP STUFFING.
Some years ago I asked Irvin
Cobb, who had been seriously ill,
the secret of his restored health,
his improved figure, hiff tremendous
ly increased vitality.
“Honey,” said this old friend
mournfully, “I’m tryin’ to eat only
twice too much from now on, instead
of five times too much!”
Now, by these suggestions for an
old age that will seem like youth I
don’t mean merely to cut down—a
little—on starches, go easy on a sec
ond cut of roast beef, refuse the
third piece of candy. I mean trying
the little game of seeing how LIT
TLE you can eat—that is, if you’re
getting up in the roaring forties.
Happiness Ahead.
You will find that you can live a
new type of glorious life, on jus!
TO LIVE—DON'T EAT
Of course, no one expects you
to starve. But Kathleen Norris
believes that many of the com
mon ailments of older people are
the result of overindulgence.
They could get along very nicely,
she maintains, on about what
our Victorian forebears con-
su. ted at five o’clock tea. You
may feel that her plan is too
drastic, but Kathleen Norris sug
gests that you try to eat as little,
rather them as much, as you can.
Don’t stop at merely “cutting
down” on desserts, gravy, hot
breads and second helpings.
fVork out a systematic diet—and
stick to it. Then you will have
nothing to fear from the fifties,
the sixties and the seventies.
And, best of all, you won’t have
to bore your loving family and
friends with your complaints
about ailments you have no busi
ness having anyway.
about what our Victorian forebears
considered “high tea.” You won’t
eat more in 24 hours than they ate
in the way of cakes, hot buttered
scones, toast, cream, jam, marrons
and chocolates at the cozy five
o’clock fireside. Your breakfast will
be what it is now; most of us aren’t
sinners at breakfast. Your lunch
will be a big plate of mixed salad
with slivers of chicken or ham or
crab or shrimp in it, and some dark
toast; and your supper will be a
bowl of soup, more buttered toast,
and some fruit. Not any more rich
meat, sauces, gravies, starches,
heavy sweets. Your sweets will be
about what your baby grandson
gets; cooked fruits, an occasional
cookie, an occasional molasses taffy.
Achieve this by degrees, and you
will find that this diet is far more
filling than it sounds. And with it
comes freedom from all the choked,
poisoned, dragging ills of the body.
You will sleep as soundly as you
did at the age of 10; you vnll feel as
light, all day, as a dancer one-third
your age.
We are very apt to feel, we aging
women, that the younger generation
owes us something. But we owe it
something, too. Habitual complaints
of “bad nights,” headaches, weari
ness, physical discomfort worry our
children, as their nursery ailments
once worried us. To see Mama plac
idly pouring cream over her mince
pie, and then to hear her martyred
description of having had a bad
night, and of suffering “those spots
poor Grandpa always had before his
eyes,” infuriates loving children,
even though they don’t show it. The
one thing a devoted son or daughter
wants from Mama or Dad is health
and cheerfulness. The old man or
woman may be of real use and com
fort to the younger household, if he
or she can forget bodily discom
forts long enough to find the oppor
tunity.
A Boy’s Last Wish.
One of our popular American writ
ers of almost 100 years ago tells in
her biography of the desperate ill
ness of a beloved child of eight. He
was just rallying from typhoid fe
ver, when he chanced to smell
“Grandma’s dinner” cooking, and
his mother reports that the “sore lit
tle mouth” asked wearily what
Grandma was having for Sunday
dinner.
The answer included roast goose,
stuffing, batter pudding, fried onions
and beaten biscuits. The sick child
begged for some.
“What a joy,” writes the mother
of 1850, “to gratify my darling’s last
wish, for last wish it proved to be!”
Little Girl Will Love
A Lovely Bride Doll
Pattern 2945.
A/TY, OH MY, won’t she love
Lvl this] a real bride—veil and
all—to be her very own doll! You
can make the dress in a sheer or
heavier material and, of course,
make it white.
• • •
Pattern 2945 contains a pattern and di
rections for making the doll and clothes:
materials required. Send your order to:
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept.
82 Eighth Ave. New York
Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pat
tern No
Name
Address
relieve nbery of
CHEST COLDS
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Expart Cars!
At the first sign of a chest cold the
Quintuplets' throats and chests are
rubbed with Children's Uild Must*role
—a product made to promptly relieve
the distress of children’s colds and re
sulting bronchial and croupy coughs.
Musterole gives such wonderful re
sults because it’s MOKE than an ordi
nary “salve.’* It helps break up local
congestion. Since Musterole is used on
the Quints you may be sure you’re us
ing just about the BEST product made!
IN g STRENGTHS: ChUdren’s Mild
Musterole. Also Regular and Extra
Strength for grown-ups who prefer a
stronger product. All drugstores.
CHILDREN’S
Needed Habit
The victory of success is half
Won when one gains the habit of
work.—Sarah A. Bolton.
Pull the Trigger on
Lazy Bowels, with
Ease for Stomach, too
When constipation brings on add in
digestion. stomach upset, bloating, dizzy
spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste and
bad breath, your stomach is probably
“crying the blues” because your bowels
don’t move. It calls for Laxative-Senna
to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels,
combined with Syrup Pepsin for perfect
ease to your stomach m taking. For years,
many Doctors have given pepsin prepa
rations in their prescriptions to make
medicine more agreeable to a touchy stom
ach. So be sure your laxative contains
Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr. Caldwell’s
Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pep
sin. See how wonderfully the Laxative
Senna wakes up lazy nerves and musdes
in your intestines to bring welcome relief
from constipation. And the good old
Syrup Pepsin makes this laxative so com
fortable and easy on your stomach. Even
finicky children love the taste of this
pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Cald
well’s Laxative Senna at your druggist
today. Try one laxative combined with
Syrup Pepsin for ease to your stomach, too.
Appreciation ^
Enjoy the present hour, be
thankful for the past.—Cowley.
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TEACHING A CHILD •
VALUE OF PENNIES •
A child of a wise mother will be •
taught from early childhood to be- •
come a regular reader of the adver- •
tisements. In that way better perhaps •
than in any other can the child be •
taught the great value of pennies anti •
the permanent benefit which comes •
from making every penny count. •