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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. JANUARY 9, 1942
Washington, D. C.
WILLKIE AND F.D.R.
Seldom in political history has a
President of the United States re
ceived such wholesome support on
major foreign policy from a defeat
ed candidate as Franklin Roosevelt
has received from Wendell Willkie.
Few people know how active Willkie
has been behind the scenes.
For instance, Willkie has even
done some missionary work on Joe
Martin, chairman of the Republican
National committee and opposition
leader of the house. Willkie remains
on very friendly terms with his old
campaign manager, even though
they differed on foreign policy.
Shortly after the congressional
vote to repeal the Neutrality act,
in which the Republicans nearly de
feated Roosevelt, Willkie phoned
Joe Martin.
“Joe,” he said, “those Republi
cans who voted against repeal of
neutrality are going to have a tough
time being re-elected. They’re go
ing to find the country is behind
Roosevelt on this.”
The Republican national chair
man replied that he would not only
re-elect all the Republicans who
voted against Roosevelt, but he
would also elect a lot of new Repub
licans to fill the seats of the Demo
crats who had voted with Roosevelt.
“Listen,” said Willkie, “if you re
elect 80 per cent of those who voted
against the President you’ll be the
greatest political genius of all time.”
“And,” said Willkie, in telling the
story to a friend afterward, “a few
days later there was Joe himself
voting with Roosevelt for a declara
tion of war.”
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SHIP BUILDING PROGRAM
The action of the house naval af
fairs committee in slashing the pro
posed expansion of our two-ocean
navy was due chiefly to shortages of
materials and construction equip
ment.
However, Rear Admiral Samuel
Robinson, chief of the bureau of
ships, ran into a blunt barrage of
questions about the worth of the
battleship under modern combat
conditions. Committee members
sharply suggested that in view of
the battleship’s record in this war,
the navy might be wise to build no
more.
Robinson contended that this
would be impractical, since the
United States neeaed battleships “if
our enemies continue to use them
for combat purposes.”
“What is your honest private opin
ion of the battleship?” he was
asked. “Do you think this type of
ship is worth all the money it costs
and the time and labor required to
build them?”
“I’m sorry, gentlemen, but it’s not
my function to answer that ques
tion,” sidestepped Robinson with a
smile. “I’m not a policy man. My
job is to build ships after it is de
cided they are needed. However,
I have my own ideas about the bat
tleship.”
This drew laughter, and the ad
miral was pressed no further.
Robinson also was quizzed close
ly about the h:gh cost of certain
vessels which the navy proposed
in the expansion program, chiefly
an aircraft carrier at an estimated
$85,000,000.
“Higher labor and material costs
are the biggest factors,” Robinson
explained. “For instance, we have
a new type of armor plate for our
ships which is far stronger than
that used by any other nation. It
costs $60 a ton, three times as much
as the armor plate we formerly
used.”
“Hoy about the labor supply?”
“We have plenty of labor to carry
out our shipbuilding program,” Rob
inson said. “Also plenty of facili
ties. Getting materials and ma
chine tools is our big problem right
now. However, the shortage doesn’t
amount to a bottleneck. In fact,
production is running a little ahead
of schedule and will be greatly ex
pedited by next spring.”
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CAPITAL CHAFF
The outbreak of the war obscured
the incident, but the house ate crow
in a big way on its action last sum
mer barring David Lasser, former
head of the Workers Alliance, from
government employment. After a
careful investigation, the appropria
tions committee completely exoner
ated Lasser of any Communist af
filiations. Representatives John Ta
ber, N. Y., J. W. Ditter, Pa., and
Everett Dirksen, 111., who made the
original accusation ducked the com
mittee session when Lasser was
cleared.
Puerto Ricans wryly recall that
U. S. navy’s radio towers at Cayey,
25 miles from San Juan, were dis
mantled three years ago and sold
as scrap iron to the Japanese.
Office of Civilian Defense is pre
paring a handbook on “What You
Can Do For Civilian Defense.” Au
thor of the handbook is Eleanor
Pierson, wife of Export-Import Bank
President Warren Lee Pierson.
Australia’s able Minister Richard
G. Casey drives about Washington
in a British car with a transparent
top and right-hand drive.
Apparently not having enough to
do with the war, representatives of
the Pure Food and Drug adminis
tration now ask drug firms the ques
tion: “How much business did you
do last year?”
ll.Phillipr
WNU:
ALL FOR THE BEST
Apathy has flown the coop.
Unconcern has hit the floor ;
Selfishness has looped the loop.
Dopiness is now no more;
Silent are the “gimme” boys.
All obstructors get the “bird”;
Gone is all light-hearted poise—
REALISM is the word!
II.
Now it isn’t mere routine,
When the dangers round us roll.
Just to gambol on the green
Waiting for a Gallup poll;
Nutty rallies now are out.
Stilled are antis this and that;
On soap-boxes few now spout . . .
We’re a nation AT THE BAT!
III.
Sleeping at the switch is not
Now the leading enterprise;
Mikes no longer get red hot
From the breath of wild-eyed
guys;
Arguments are down the sink.
Discord’s had a run-out pill;
And no little hink-dink
Tries to thwart a nation’s will.
IV.
Now committees full of men
Who are anti-everything
Take the count of “eight . . . nine
. . . TEN!”
(Though some paid officials cling);
Pussyfooting nbw is out.
Half-baked ranters stop their acts
All the country, there’s no doubt.
Sees the truth, and faces FACTSI
V.
Hedgers crawl into a crack,
Compromisers slink away;
Ten per centers now fall back,
Trimmers haven’t much to say;
Racketeering labor rats
(And a lot of bosses, too).
Cease their very costly spats
Under the red, white and blue.
VI.
Critics crawl into their shells,
Know-It-Alls now take the skids;
Experts have bad dizzy spells,
Grown-ups do not act like kids;
Sunk are armchair leaders all,
Hooey has been booted far;
Now at last we stand Or fall
SEEING THINGS JUST AS THEY
ARE!
• * *
ON THE SPOT
(“In case of an air raid alarm:
Lie down immediately on your stom
ach . . .”)
About his paunch Dad was always
defiant,
But now he wishes he was much
more pliant!
—Debchi.
* * •
New York will attempt to jail any
body refusing to get off the streets
during an air raid warning. If this
is really tried we predict that all
traffic will be tied up by long lines
of Black Marias taking folks to the
hoosegow.
* * *
THE CALL
Remember the Arizona!—
The Cassin, Downes and Shaw!
For every one the Japs got
Let’s make it three or four!
Remember the Oklahoma—
And good old Utah, too!
Each hit makes more efficient
Old Yankee Doodle-do.
• * •
FLEET SHAKE-UP
(With apologies to F.P.A.)
Kimmel and Martin and Short—they
are out!
Heeding the umpire’s cry;
Out, one-two-three as the scorekeep-
ers shout
“Tinker to Jacobs to Pye!"
• * *
PEGGED
You must pay the piper
Is what I was taught,
And I’ve always found it
A distressing thought.
But now, with costs soaring,
I think it is nice
To know that the piper
Cannot raise his price!
—Anne Linn.
* • *
If the rubber shortage gets
serious what will this country
do for chicken sandwiches. And
clam chowder?
• * *
AIN’T IT SO
Of all poor friends on whom to call
The “friendly neutral” tops ’em all.
* • *
Elmer Twitchell says that nothing
unnerves him as much as Mayor
LaGuardia urging everybody to let
nothing disturb them.
• • *
The Wright brothers 38 years ago
at Kitty Hawk first proved a heavier
than air machine could fly and it
is this department’s guess that if
the brothers could have foreseen the
future, they would have scrapped
the thing before the try-out.
• • •
“Golf and Tennis Balls to Be
Rationed.”—Headline.
How can we make these all-out
drives without them?
• * * *
Bathing suits and rubber bathing
caps are to be rationed, too, begin
ning next month. This was the first
news to arouse Ima Dodo to a reali
zation the country is really at war.
* * •
Yale has pledged its support of
the country in the war. But a lot
of football fans will put more faith
in Harvard and Princeton.
Kathleen Norris Says;
Teasing Is Innate Cruelty
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
When Maude and her husband came to us for their first dinner party as mar
ried people Dave, my husband, began teasing her. To my horror, he mentioned the
name of the man with whom Maude had been in love.
I "HREE years ago, when
j I was 18,” writes Janine,
“my chum Maude and
1 thought we were deeply in
love. Our two boy friends took
us everywhere, dancing, ski
ing, to movies and night clubs,
and we felt there’was no harm
in the intimate relationship
that naturally resulted. I can
truly say that no thought of
hesitation or guilt ever crossed
my mind.
“When I became engaged
last year, however, I told
Dave of that early affair. He
immediately assured me that
he was no angel and had not
expected me to be one, and
that he felt that sort of thing ought
to be forgotten.
“Maude was also married some
weeks ago, and after her honey
moon she and her husband came to
us for their first dinner party as
married people. We had a table of
eight and everything went perfect
ly, except that Dave began to tease
her, and to my horror mentioned
the • name of the man with whom
Maude had been in love and asked
her if she ever saw him.
“All this mystified Maude’s hus
band. Maude called me up in a
perfect panic the next day, saying
she had not told Rod anything of
her early affair and that Dave had
simply infuriated her by his teasing
talk. Immediately I told Dave he
said that he would of course not
go on with it, and added that he
would never have thought Maude
was thaksort of a girl.
Caused a Quarrel.
“You can imagine how this made
me feel! I was so mad that we
had what Dave called our first
knock-down-and-drag-out fight, but
we got over it and were friends
again and decided to forget the
whole thing and start fresh. But a
day or two later he asked me how
long my intimate relationship with
my first sweetheart had gone on. I
answered only for about three
months, and nothing more was said.
“Yesterday morning the paper
mentioned the fact that Maude is
on the women’s committee to pro
vide amusement for the men in
camps, and Dave made a sneering
reference to it; he said this was only
in fun. But later Maude sent me
a brief cold note, saying that they
could not come to a buffet party
that we are giving after the big
football game, and I know they
have given two dinners at least in
the last month, but we have not
been asked to their house yet, I
am afraid David has carried his
fun too far.
“Maude is my oldest friend, and
we have talked for years of the
pleasure we would have as brides
doing our shopping and discussing
our housekeeping together. Can you
make any suggestion that may save
me from losing her friendship and
influencing Dave not to tease her or
remind her again of the past?
A Fatal Flaw.
A teasing husband, my dear
Janine, is a much more serious
matter than it sounds. Impulses
toward murder, theft, arson and
forgery are kept in order by the
law, and by a man’s natural fear of
punishment. But teasing is a fatal
flaw in the relationship between
married persons, and I don’t know
of any cure.
Teasing is innate cruelty seeking
an outlet. It veils its intention
ITS NOT FUN
No one—not even the teaser
himself — escapes the cor se
quences of the hints that are
dropped “all in fun.” It’s not fun
for anyone concerned, when a
husband begins to suspect that
the jokes about his wife may
have some basis in truth. It’s not
fun for anyone, when a wife
loses her best friend because her
husband just can’t resist the
temptation to make personal re
marks. Kathleen Norris believes
that those who enjoy teasing
others have in their makeup a
streak of real cruelty. “Teasing,”
she says, “is innate cruelty seek
ing an outlet.” Don’t be deceived
by the fact that it is supposed to
be a joke.
to sting and hurt under a merry
mask of fun. It is always “just
fooling.”
When he carelessly and laughing
ly has threatened the actual founda
tions of a marriage, as Dave in his
light-hearted banter with Maude, he
retreats, coward-fashion. Dave pre
tends not to realize that he may
have started suspicions in the mind
of Maude’s husband,
May Regret Her Secrecy.
You were smarter than Mauds in
that you made a clean breast of
your own early weakness in the
safety of engagement days, when
Dave was so anxious to win you that
nothing you could have done as a
girl would deter him. Maude chose
to keep her secret, and she may yet
live to regret the deception.
You had better give up the hope
of continuing your friendship with
Maude; young wives almost always
have to sacrifice their school-girl
friendships to the claims of hus
bands, and you will be no worse off
than the others. Make new friends,
devote yourself—as I am sure you
are devoting yourself—to the full
time job of keeping Dave happy and
building for you both a sound and
successful marriage.
But if he continues his teasing,
and extends it pretty generally to all
your friends, one way to spike his
guns is to acknowledge cheerfully
that David isn’t happy unless he’s
teasing someone.
Say something like “HeTl tell you
that your children are undersized,
Tom, and that if you’d been as
smart as he is you wouldn’t have
had to pay that speeding fine, and
that he knows you and Betty came
here to dinner to get our insurance,
but don’t take it seriously. Dave is
a darling in spite of it all.”
No Perfect Solution.
This makes what ammunition
Dave has in store decidedly wet. But
it is not a perfect solution. There is
no perfect solution for so serious a
fault except the solution that must
come from the tease himself, a gen
uine resolution to be considerate of
the feelings and misfortunes of
others.
In New York some years ago
there was a complacent wife who
couldn’t sufficiently impress all of
us, who had suffered in the general
financial collapse, with the fact that
she and her husband were luckier
than ever and richer than ever.
"Isn’t it wonderful?” she would
babble happily, “Harry just got out
of This in time and into That when
it was going to make that sensa
tional rise, and just before the crash
he sold our place for three times
what it would bring today!”
by,
Eleanor Roosevelt
ACTIVE ASSIGNMENT
In the paper, a few days ago, I
read that our second son, Elliott,
was asngned to an aviation unit and
will be off on active duty again.
This time it will not be, I am sure,
[ over the wilds of Iceland, Greenland
and Newfoundland that he will fl^
as he did all, last summer. I thougnt
he was still taking a training course
and secretly rejoiced with his wife
in the comparative security of rou- ,
tine flying. Shortly, apparently, i
there will be three boys whose
whereabouts for us are wrapped in ,
mystery.
I left Washington one night on the
night train and found my cousin,
Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, waiting for
me in New York at a very late hour
to talk over certain changes in the
organization for which she has done
so much work. “Young America j
i Wants to Help” has been a part of
the British War Relief. Now, I ,
imagine, they will redouble their ef
forts to help not only young people
| in England, but young people any-
: where in our country who need it.
I love the photograph which re
cently appeared in some papers of
young Colin Kelly and his mother.
, I think many people will be touched
as I was, by the letter addressed to
the "President of the United States
[ in 1956” by my husband. He asked
that this little boy be given an ap
pointment to West Point because of
the services which his father had
rendered to his country.
Colin Kelly has a proud heritage
and though pride can never remove
the sense of loss which Mrs. Kelly
and this little boy have suffered,
still, in the future, it will mean
much to both of them. Perhaps a
child brought up in the shadow
of heroism may find it always a
motivating force in his young life.
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INFANTILE PARALYSIS
In stopping at the headquarters
for the celebration of the President’s
birthday for the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis, I found
that Mr. Kieth Morgan was pleased
and deeply stirred by the telegrams
which he has been receiving from
his chairmen throughout the coun
try.
Apparently, being at war has not
in any way lessened their interest
in the war against this dread dis
ease. They feel more intensely than
ever that they must save the chil
dren by finding out how to prevent
epidemics and how to care for those
who are stricken. The strength of
our children is the strength of our
nation.
The heavy epidemics of infantile
paralysis during-, the past three
years have brought us 26,000 casu
alties in this particular war. We
can ill afford such losses as these,
and so, no matter what we give in
other ways this fight must go on.
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SEEDS TO ENGLAND
It seems queer, in winter, to be
thinking about shipping seeds to
England, but England can think
about gardens earlier than we. I
received a notice today that the New
York Home bureaus had sent more
than $2,000 for the purchase of vege
table seeds to Mr. Donald Neville-
Willing, who allows his home at 18
East 70th street. New York city, to
be used as headquarters for the
committee working for American
Seeds for British Soil.
Mrs. A. W. Smith, the state leader
of the Home Demonstration Agents
in New York, writes me that one
dollar’s worth of seed will provide
enough vegetables for a family of
five. I can only believe that the
English are better gardeners than
we, for I am sure that the vegetable
seeds that I buy for my own use
cost me far more. I am not, how
ever, a very good gardener, even by
proxy.
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COUSINS APLENTY
One night we had a rather large
gathering of various family groups
at Christmas dinner. The number
of cousins was really quite amusing.
I think the complications cf family
relationships, as regards my husband
and myself, became completely baf
fling to our English guests.
When you tell some one, that the
lovely lady sitting opposite him ia
your husband’s half-niece, that she
married your first cousin, and that
he was her sixth cousin, whereas
you are married to your fifth cousin
once removed, and are also her
sixth cousin and that her children, in
order to simplify life, say “Uncle
Franklin and Aunt Eleanor,” when
the relationship is really only that
of a half great-uncle, you may well
imagine that you have led anyone,
no matter how great his interest in
genealogy, through a maze from
which there is no emerging! |
A few old friends were here with
us as usual, and we drank the usual
toasts to absent family and friends, |
adding one toast in tribute to our
British guests. After dinner, we had
newsreels, featuring both the prime
minister and the President, and then
sang together for a while
It will be quite impossible for me,
of course, to thank the many people
who have sent the President and me
Christmas cards and telegrams, but
I want to say here how grateful we
are for their thoughts and the con
fidence and affection which so many
of them expressed E. R
A SHORT while back we collect-
ed the opinions from over 40
well-known football coaches and
trainers along the line of physical
fitness — of getting
back in shape. With
out exception they
featured the legs
and the stomach,
especially the lat
ter.
As Tom Keene,
the veteran trainer
at Syracuse told
me, “When the bel
ly’s okay you don’t
have to worry about
the rest of it, for Grantland Rice
here’s the center of
most good health and most bad
health.”
We’ve printed their diets and their
suggestions — plain foods, simple
foods—and not too much of it. But
many of these coaches and trainers,
who know their trade, brought in an
other angle—this was the mental
side, which has direct bearing on
the all-out war today.
“The best football player,” a lead
ing coach wrote me, “needs some
thing more than size and speed and
physical fitness. He must be able to
sacrifice himself for the good of the
team. He must be able to take
punishment—and like it—for the
cause he is fighting for. He must
be willing to give up all outside
pleasures that conflict in any way
with the main idea, which is to win.
Only those who have this frame of
mind or really worthwhile- The
others are only good when things
are rolling their way.
“Football is no game for those
easily discouraged. Mental fiber is
ever, more important than phys
ical fiber—and mental fiber means
giving all you have in the direction
of victory, no matter what the odds.
We might call it ‘intestinal forti
tude,’ a phrase the late Dan Mc-
Gugin of Michigan and Vanderbilt
invented.”
The Big Word
Words, as a rule, are unimportant,
when the air is full of flying steel.
But in this same connection we still
recall a conversation with a hard
bitten colonel of the First division
in France early in 1918, when the
German army, apparently, was
about to break through.
I happened to bring up the matter
of courage. The First division
colonel gave me a cold look.
“Courage,” he said, “is secondary.
Most people and most nations have
courage. The big word is ‘fortitude.’
This is a far more important word
than courage.
“Fortitude, of course, includes
courage. But it goes far ' beyond.
Fortitude means both physical and
mental stamina. It means the abil
ity to carry on a job that might be
dull and uninteresting. It means
giving all you’ve got to give, out
side of the spotlight. In a football
way, it means the blocking back,
who clears the road for the ball car
rier. It means sacrificing yourself
for the cause.
“In this war, those up around the
front may get killed, but they get
all of the excitement. Those back
of the lines get the drudgery, minus
the thrills. You’ll find that almost
all of those back of the lines would
much rather be up where the ex
citement is. It takes more fortitude
to do your work in a place where
there is little chance for any thrills,
little chance for any publicity or any
reward.”
A Leading Example
Some years ago I was talking with
Bobby Jones about the brilliant golf
record he piled up from 1922 through
1930. Bobby made no claim to any
superior skill with wood or iron.
“Tournament golf,” he said then,
“is a game in which you just can’t
afford to be easily
discouraged when
you step into trou
ble, as everyone
does. So I had to
make up my mind
to take a hard nerve
beating— not a
physical beating, of
course. No one will
ever know the time
I felt like chuck-
Bobby Jones in 8 * aU - and may
be wait for another
chance.
“I may be wrong, but I believe
you can take more of a beating on
the mental and nerve side than you
can on the physical side. When I
used to pick up those sevens in a
championship round, and I got more
than my share of those, the tempta
tion to ease up and forget it all was
pretty strong. You get the feeling
there’s no use fighting it out at that
particular time.”
This is all trne. I recall Gene
Sarazen, one of our finest golf com
petitors, once saying you can’t win
a big championship with ‘sevens.’
“I battle to try to keep from get
ting any sixes,” Gene said.
But Bobby Jones’ championship
cards were studded with sevens. He
had a seven at Hoylake in his Grand
Slam march—when it took him five
strokes to get down after he was
only 40 yards from the green in two.
He had a killing seven at Scioto,
but he won. He had two sevens on
the last 10 holes at Winged Foot, but
he went on to win the playoff.
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of women's ‘dlfllcullMays.”
Taken regularly—Lydia Plnkham’s
Compound helps’build up resistance
against such annoying symptoms.
Follow label directions. WORTH
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