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BISTORT REPEATS ITSELF
WASHINGTON. — If you think
times are tough today, drop in at
the public library and ask for the
back files of any newspaper for the
fall of 1919 or the early part of
1920. That period was just about as
long after World War I as we now
are from World War II and the
headlines are amazingly similar.
In fact, with the mere change of
a few names, a glance at 1919-20
headlines would almost convince
you that you were reading the news
papers of today.
We were having the same
troubles with Russia then—
only a little worse, with Ameri
can troops in Siberia and Mur
mansk. The northern Adriatic,
as now, was the chief bone of
contention at the Paris peace
conference. Only it was Fiume
Instead of Trieste which caused
riots in the streets of Rome and
Belgrade.
“Jews Massacred, Robbed by
Poles," was another tragic but
familiar headline. “Foresees Jewish
state in Palestine. Judge Julian
Mack tells of atrocities and asks
for migration to Jewish home
land.”
“Pershing denies large quantities
of war goods destroyed in France.”
“Rep. Emerson offers resolution
asking war department to what ex
tent soldiers were overcharged in
France.” . . . “War department
criticized for offering $4,000,000
worth of fabrics for sale at pub
lic auction.” . . . “Sergeants arrest
ed in Paris charged with theft of
American stores.”
When it came to strikes, race
riots and soaring prices, the
domestic scene of 1919 was
even more alarming. Labor
troubles caused far more blood
shed. The alleged Communist
menace was much worse.
May day celebratipns in Chicago,
Cleveland, Boston and New York
produced riots, “citizens’ armies”
and an untold number of skull and
political fractures.
By July 6, 1919, the army stood
at 704,845, with 235,000 of these in
Europe. Eight months later when
the Junkers and German army
seized power in Berlin, forcing the
Ebert government to flee to Dres
den, the American army of occupa
tion totaled a nervous 18,000.
Meanwhile, the war department
was recommending a universal
military training program of three
months for all 18-year-olds—more
or less as today.
Unchecked by governmental pleas
and voluntary programs, prices
spiraled. Shoes were three times
their prewar price and women’s
stockings were offered at “2—$25
a pair.” Coffee prices jumped 7
cents a pound and, although the
government declared 11 cents a
pound a fair price for sugar, it was
selling for 30 cents within a year.
“Food now’ costs N. Y. residents 86
per cent more than six years ago,”
announced the New York Times.
Only a national “buyers’
strike” in 1920, with prominent
society women feeding their
families on a dollar a day while
their husbands were wearing
overalls to their Broadway of
fices, changed the trend.
New York clergymen were mak
ing a survey of churches in an at
tempt to ease the housing short
age.
Headlines on August 16, 1919,
don’t seem out of place today. “Di
rector General of Railroads Hines
sees danger of coal gouging. Cau
tions senate that rumors on short
age may pave way for price ad
vance.” . . . “Begin jailing Ger
mans as war offenders.” . . .
"Amendments to food control act
supported and fought before con
gress committees.”
All this and prohibition too.
“Thousands return to Europe,
blaming prohibition here.”
Not only were there strikes, but
also there were the same, familiar
strikes. Telegraph and telephone
workers, maritime and a steel
strike lasting into the fourth month.
. . . Omaha faced a general strike.
. . . In the spring of 1919, 10,000
men were locked out of the Willys-
Overiand plant in Toledo, a strike
committee controlled Winnipeg and
police were using tnachine guns in
Connecticut strike riots.
In the fall of 1919 a United Mine
Workers’ strike closed all bitumi
nous coal mines and produced a
news story headed “Lewis
says mines’ demands are ‘subject
to negotiation’ — puts blame on
operators.”
No, history is just the same. His
tory always repeats after a war.
• » •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Gordon Clapp, who succeeds Da
vid Lilienthal as head of TVA, has
been a thorn in the side of job-
hungry Senator McKellar for years.
Clapp believes in the revolutionary
practice of raising a man from the
ranks when he does a good job,
rather than handling McKellar polit
ical plums. . . . Charles Bay, U. S.
ambassador to Norway, came home
to vote—and perhaps to look for
greener diplomatic pastures. . . .
William Pawley. U. S. ambassador
to Brazil, is at Mayo clinic.
Unfinished Letter for
Special Delivery
To Everybody Concerned in that Strike
of 1,400 Airplane Pilots:
Gentlemen: Even if it is all over
when you get this, I am still scared.
There is something about the very
thought of a strike by airplane pilots
that raises gooseflesh. I always like
to think the guy in thero with all
those instruments is satisfied. I like
to feel that, while the lad in whose
hands my life rests may be think
ing of a lot of things, walking out
of there is not one of them.
♦
To me the operator of one of those
super planes is a sort of god with
a little Sir Galahad, a little Tom
Edison and a lot of Jimmy Doo
little thrown in. The idea that he
can under any circumstances look
like John Lewis or an unhappy pick
et floors me. It takes me right back
from a state of being air-minded to
one of being covered-wagon-minded.
*
No matter what I worried about
up in the air, I always pictured the
pilot as having nothing to take his
mind off the altimeter:!, range find
ers and various gauges; and I
thought he was too busy to tiunk of
money, longer weekends, the capi
talistic system and what was said
at the last union meeting. Now I
am sick enough to go to bed at the
discovery that way up there, skid
ding around a cloud and plotting
the right course to dodge the next
mountain peak, a superdooper air
plane pilot is just a workingman
with a union card, a letter from a
leader and maybe a conviction that
the boss is a louse. •
*
I sort of had the notion when I
was 5,000 feet up there I was where
no national mediation boards, fact
finding commissions, union de
mands or picket lines could touch
me. I felt sure the airplane bosses
and the pilot were buddies and that
the bosses would be as frightened
as the passengers if they knew the
skippers were sore about anything.
*
So I hope you have got every
thing fixed up now for keeps, and
that it can’t happen again. If it
does, please keep it out of the pa
pers. Here I have put in 15 years
getting air-minded, and now all of
a sudden I am back where I like
bicycling.
• * *
Viewpoint on American Loans
(Soviet Alleges America Enslaves Na
tions It Helps—headline)
I know he is a low, vile bum;
He is exploiting me;
I have the proof, with more to
come—
He aids me cheerfully!
He’d make of me a helpless slave,
A wooden stooge at best;
Full evidence to me he gave—
He grants me each request!
We must beware of every tie
And wary as we go;
There can’t be good in any guy
Who dishes out his dough.
Let not suspicions fade at all!
Beware of any man
Who answers to a frantic call
And does the best he can.
The Good Samaritan we ban,
That tale is pretty lame;
When he helped out his fellow man
ENSLAVEMENT WAS THE AIM!
* • *
CAN YOU REMEMBER—
Array back when food was not a lux
ury?
* * *
Things we didn’t know until now:
That Congressman Sol Bloom got
his start in life as boss of the Mid
way at the Chicago World’s Fair
and that he invented and produced
the first hoochy-coochy show, in
America there. Fioreila La Guardia,
one of Sol’s best friends, said so
in a laudatory article, urging his
re-election. The campaign had
been pretty uninteresting and we
regarded this development as ter
rific. To anybody who has watched
congress function it is obvious that
a hoochy-cooch dance background
must be mighty helpful.
• • *
Office Affairs
The phones in- business offices *
Speed deals at record rates.
The wires hum with big affairs—
The girls are making dates.
Pier.
• • •
Elmer Twitchell wants those for
mer World Fair symbols at the fair
grounds where the U. N. is meeting
restored and another added. He has
a blueprint showing a trylon, a per-
isphere and a veto.
• • •
Controls are now of) liquor. A man ca”
now get inflation and a hangover in one
operation.
• • *
Want a Battlewagon?
FOR SALE: One battleship
(BB-37) the former “U.S.S. Okla
homa”; total weight 24,300 tons.
Moored in West Lock of Pearl Har
bor. Bids accepted until November
28. Navy Material Disposal admin
istration, Brooklyn, N. Y.”—Adv.
m
Just in case, as Tom Fitzpat
rick says, you are disgusted with
that outboard moiorboat.
CLOUDBURST HITS TEXAS TOWN . . . Two young women of Beaumont, Texas, were forced to leave
their flooded homes on the back of their pet pony. A cloudburst covered a large portion of the city with
water ranging from several feet to inches deep. Most of the water receded within four days.
LIF 2 ON THE ISLAND OF GUAM . . . Navy dependents living in the tropical village of Sinajana on the
island of Guam have been furnished with a thriving community under the U. S. naval military government.
The Guamanian version of the “little red school house” is being presided over by Mrs. Louise Garrison, Hono
lulu. Mrs. Doris Estes, formerly of Auburn, Me., pages through a magazine in the living room.
FIVE HUNDRED NEW DEPUTIES . . . Ready for action, more than
500 recruits were sworn in as special deputies by Sheriff George Han
ley of Milwaukee to help the police department handle the Allis Chal
mers strike at the plant at West Allis, Wis. The plant was closed
on election day, but opened the following day with the picket line
still active and cases of trouble from different groups of strikers
as well as those who passed the picket line.
CELEBRATE COMING OF THE “NEW JAPAN” . . . They have a
brand new holiday in Japan as part of their “brave new world.” It
is called the festival of the reconstruction of the new Japan. It was
inaugurated in Tokyo to celebrate the reconstruction of the capital
and the new Japanese constitution which was promulgated November
3. Photo shows the Omikoshi shrine, which was carried in the parade.
Such shrines are brought from the temples only on ra:'e occasions.
LIFE-SIZE . . . Amanda Allers-
meyer, New York City, has select
ed her Christmas doll early. She
found out that Santa Claus had
ordered a large number of life-
sized dolls, an indication that this
Christmas dolls will be big.
ANSWERS MOLOTOV . . . War
ren R. Austin, chief U. S. dele
gate to the U. N. general assem
bly, has taken the lead in answer
ing Russia’s foreign minister, Mo
lotov, on plans to police atomic
energy and other issues.
A
STRIKING picture came along
a few weeks ago. This was a
Pop Warner
picture of Alonzo Stagg returning to
the Midway and Stagg field at the
U. of Chicago for a
look around, before
the Northwestern
game. The amazing
part of this snap
shot of Lonnie with
the snow-white hair
was the fact that he
fir^ came to Chi
cago as a coach just
56 years ago, back
in 1890.
At the age of 84,
this amazing veter
an is still an alert,
hard-working coach with the College
of the Pacific, and the 56 interven
ing years had failed to slow him
down with the thin material he had
at hand.
This picture of Stagg back home
again reminded us of great coaches
of the past, Pop Warner and Hurry-
up Yost, long before the days of
Knute Rockne and Percy Haughton.
In talking over old times with a
veteran group of football manda
rins, it was generally agreed that
Pop Warner, now forgotten, was the
master of them all.
Pop is now walking with a cane
and a crippled knee around his gar
den at Palo Alto, Calif. Pop isn’t
far from 80. Bui more than 40 years
ago, when the game was young and
there were no precedents to work
with, it was Pop who brought in
the single and the double wing and
other innovations that still remain
today. It was Pop who discov
ered Jim Thorpe at Carlisle, when
Jim was a slender young Indian of
some 16 years, weighing around 150
pounds.
It was Pop who built the Carlisle
Indians into a drawing card that
today would rank above even Army
and Notre Dame on a general aver
age.
Thorpe, Guyon, Calac, Metoxen,
Hauser, Bemus Pierce, Little Wolf
and Little Bear, Mt. Pleasant, Hud
son — remember any of these,
old-timers? They were among foot
ball’s greats.
Greatest in Football
“Pop Warner should be the great
est name in football,” a veteran
coach said. “Yes, Rockne was great.
Knute had the most amazing per
sonality football has ever known.
Knute was the most popular coach
of all time. And a great one. But
Pop Warner gave the game more
than any of the others when he had
Carlisle, Pittsburgh and Stanford.
Pop wasn’t a handshaker. He was
direct, abrupt and at times brusque.
He said what he thought. He was
no diplomat. But he was the only
man that Jim Thorpe both feared
and respected when Jim was king.”
There happened to be at least 10
old-timers in this midnight group.
All agreed that Pop' was the top—
the game’s greatest genius. I’ll vote
with Red Blaik of Army along these
lines.
Another great coach, in some
ways the greatest of modern times,
is Tom Hamilton of Navy. Tom
Hamilton did more for college foot
ball than all other coaches put to
gether—and I mean all of them in
one compact mass. Except for
Hamilton’s Navy V and Navy pre
flight teams, there would have been
no college football from 1942 through
1945.
College football should erect a
statue or a monument to Hamilton,
too high for Luckman, Baugh or
Dobbs to cover with a pass—or a
kick.
He has been the big man of foot
ball during the last four years for
the job he did of saving college foot
ball, whatever happens to him in
this waning season of 1946. I hap
pen to know the inside story of the
fight made against him to abolish
college football in 1942, and the val
iant stand he took against heavy
odds, the odds that Hamilton loves.
* • *
Kickers and Passers
The growth of “air travel” in foot
ball—particularly professional foot
ball—is one of the features of this
air-minded age. I refer to passing
and kicking.
Passers such as Luckman, Baugh,
Dobbs, Ace Parker, Filchock,
Christman, etc.,have increased in
importance from year to year. And
there soon will be a new flock head
ing in from the colleges—Gilmer,
Layne, Wedemeyer, etc., who will
be in big demand when their cam
pus time is over.
A group of pro coaches recently
was atguing about the fastest backs.
“I see,” one said, “where Halas
names McAfee. I’d say Gallemeau
on his own club was even faster.
He can fly.”
“What about Franck of the
Giants?” another asked. “He can
also move.”
Greasy Neale still refuses to be
lieve any of these can outrun Steve
Van Buren with a football under ei
ther arm.
This led to another argument—
who is the best combination kicker
and passer — Baugh of the Red
skins or Dobbs of the Brooklyn
Dodgers? Both are great passers
and both are among the best kick
ers. Both can call on a play that so
few use—the quick kick. It is the
greatest yard gainer of all.
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