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FOUR THE EVEXIXG INDEPENDENT MASSTLLOX OHIO MONDAY. MARCH 10. 1941 (Founded 1863) Published Dally Except Sunday By Triangle Publications. Inc. C.

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New York Chicago Detroit San Francisco Los Angeles Boston Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation, Associated Ohio Daily Newspapers. American Newspaper Publishers Association Telephones: Private Exchange, All 4161 MEMBER THE" 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republlcation of all news dispatches credited to it or not and also the local news pubi'shetl herein. Entered at Postofflce. Masslllon, Ohio, as Second.Cla»« Matter MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1941 THE EVENING INDEPENDENT odt Leader Charles L. McXary of Oregon, hitherto uncommitted on the bill, announced lie probably would "vote for it." It was the first break in the silence the 1940 republican vice presidential candidate has maintained since his top partner on the G.

O. P. ticket, Wendell L. Willkie, came out vigorously for the measure weeks ago. Foes of the bill, concentrating on efforts to ban the use of troops abroad and declare against dispatch of another American Expeditionary force, were routed by the march of administration forces toward passage of the bill that has been before congress for almost two months.

Xo proposal that would in way lend encouragement to Axis chancellories, dampen the spirits of Great Britain, Greece and China, or hamper the freest use of diplomatic weapons on Pennsylvania Avenue, had a chance. Whatever the faults or virtues of the bill, it is gratifying to know that it has been put to a vote. It is not voting, wrong or right, on a good or bad bill that is dangerous. It is obstruction of voting by small groups that is dangerous. The lend-lease debate had reached a place where it appeared that the opponents of the bill were not so much interested in its meaning as in preventing the senate from expressing itself.

Such an attitude would have been as subversive a's a fifth column. It can not be said that privilege of fullest debate was denied anybody on either side. The administration majority encouraged opponents to speak freely and at length. The cloture rule was not invoked. But the time came when argument had been exhausted and a vote was in order.

All that could be said had been said. It was the duty of the senate to make a decision. It did. "ADDITION TO AN OLD MASTERPIECE" Letters To The Editor HITLER HAS HIS PROBLEMS. Hitler has marched over Europe behind the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen but it is doubtful if he feels certain that he can maintain his hatting average.

And because he knows that victory must be piled on victory in order to maintain morale at home, he strives franticaHy to continue his record of conquest. Hitler now has advanced deep into the Balkans without firing a shot. That is his primary strategy. He does not want to fight because he has made it clear all the way through that he believes his best chance of ultimate victory and the mastery of all of Europe lies in fighting on one front at a time, lie has been stopped, for the time being at least, at the English channel. If hostilities should break out in the Balkans he might be compelled to withdraw strength from the channel, switch it to the Mediterranean and do battle in both areas.

There is no gainsaying the fact that Hitler's threat against Greece, Britain and Turkey is serious. He is a powerful contender equipped with able military leaders and superb equipment. But neither is there grounds for believing that the British can not give a good account of themselves in the Mediterranean. Their ability to oppose Hitler has increased in direct ratio to extension of power over the Italian holdings in Africa. Saturday came word that Somali- land had been cleared by the British of the Italians who were fleeing into -Ethiopia.

Every time Italy suffers a blow Britain grows stronger. Control of Somalilar.d gives the latter mastery over Italy's two principal bases for Indian Ocean raiders. That means that maintenance of the sea- lanes by the British will be easier. And it is the sea lanes which may hold the answer to the question of who will win the war. With Britain in contrpl of the Mediterranean, Germany can not-go very far toward helping Italy.

Italy can not go far toward helping herself for at home her morale is declining and Germany is practi- exercising police powers to preserve order. Hitler therefore must realize that the extension of his field of activity into the Balkans coupled with the necessity resting upon him for holding up Mussolini has vastly increased his troubles and his responsibilities. He is being forced to spread himself out pretty thin and to face a foe with resources of the world at its command and one which can grow stronger every day as Germany grows weaker. It has said that the issues of the present conflict will be determined in the Xear East. General Wcygand held to that theory when he was building up his- vast French army in Syria.

Britain has taken steps to develop great strength in the Egyptian region. Just what General Wavell is doing at this time is not revealed but it is probable he is trying to arrange a warm reception for the Germans. trump card however is control of the seas. As long as she holds these, she not be starved out and the British Isles ''an not be subjugated as they must be if i htler is to win. As the war threatens to spread, the out- more clouded with risks to noth mour.tir.g.

It unlikely however Hitler reniiin as he claims 'i-j iong as his cru-h one position to he ha; cOUn- field HALF-WAY MEASURES WON'T WORK The federal administration is preparing to extend its priority order so that materials needed for war may be withdrawn from peacetime industry. At the same time it moved to protect the price levels. To the Editor of The Independent: Thanks for the many Included in your paper, and especially your good write up on the Farmers' Institute by Mr. Terrell. ALFRED J.

KURZEN. R. D. 2, Dalton, March 4. To the Editor of The Independent: Even clergymen have been" known to say that the gentlemen of the robe should not be exempt from military service.

However, advocates of drafting the clergy for military service know not whereof they speak. Such action would be nothing short of catastrophic I Pew things would suit the Communists better! Even with the clergy at their posts greed, indecency, murder, and their kind are fast turning this nation into a moral morass. What would happen if all the clergy joined the armed forces? There is no doubt but that the home front would be so weakened and demoralized as to make resistance to external aggression impossible. Being a clergyman, I wish to give the layman my personal reasons for (See 5). Your Heart And Home Problems By BEATRICE FAIRFAX (Copyright, 1938, King Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Do People Quarrel From Force Of Habit? Why we do certain things becomes more of an open secret every to send them off, and they are at it with violent gestures and eyes flaming.

You expect shooting to begin within the next few minutes day. Books have been written on but nothing of the sort occurs. AftefW such subjects as "Why We Behave they've had their row out, they're Til IT A TTll "Rftin Ore" OflrT a Tl av 4-ti r- Jvinifn Behind The Scenes In Hollywood By HARRISON CARROLL Ingrid Bergman follows her husband tack to Sweden this summer, she'll have to go by Finnish freighter to the Arctic circle port the same route but heSleaves in April. Make no mistake, the studios are going to try to keep the blonde actress on this side of the ocean. So far, however, she is determined to carry out her plan.

She finishes "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in April and would have time to go to Sweden, make a picture and be back here before Paramount would start "For Whom the BeUs Toll." And for that matter, it isn't definite yet that she'll play Maria, the girl in the Hemingway novel. Isn't it strange? Phil Regan presumably was signed by Paramount because he is a singer, yet he doesn't warble a note in his first picture, "Las Vegas Nights." It was announced late Friday that scrap Petsamo. The dootor (Peter Lindstrcm) takes T.llO CO VY1O Will Voif 1 JirAl an IM A iron prices would be pegged and mandatory priorities placed upon nickel and neoprene, a synthetic rubber.

This followed President Roosevelt's declaration Friday that there is not, at present, enough nickel for military and civilian uses. The defense commission announced that a schedule of maximum prices for scrap iron and steel would be established soon at rates below current quotations. All of the rates to be set will be below $20 a ton at Pittsburgh, the commission said. This would be the third price schedule promulgated by the defense commission, previous ones having been issued for aluminum and machine tools. The Office of Production Management imposed priorities on nickel and neoprene, action which E.

R. Stetinius, defense director of priorities, said was made necessary by defense needs. Nickel is widely used in steel alloys and Stettinius said that the United States would obtain approximately 14,500.000 pounds of the metal from the British Empire durin From Independent Files 69 YEARS AGO It is gratifying to the friends of the Rev. R. L.

Williams to learn that his health is improving and that he will be able to preach next Sunday. For sometime a series of religious meetings in the form of a revival have been in progress in West Brookfield, some two miles west of this place. The meetings are attracting the attention of all classes in the vicinity. 46 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs.

W. B. Humberger left today for New York and will also visit other cities before returning. Like Human Beings," and a later one, "Why We Behave Like with many of the compliments in our simian cousins' favor. Other behavior books clutter the shelves of our public libraries and, if you have tune, you may discover why Europe is tearing at each other's throats and why we are likely to engage in the same madness at any time.

There are other revelations such as quarreling for the kick we get out of it. It seems that a good row has almost the stimulation of a cocktail. IU whips up the circulation and brings about a state of forgetfulness of troubles other than the one we're fighting over. Take this following letter, for instance: "DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: "I have been married nearly a year, and if it were not for the baby I'm expecting, I would light out of this house within the next twenty-four hours. We are all Americans to the third and fourth generations, my husband's family and mine, but never was there such a difference between people, allegedly civilized.

"My family is of Quaker descent and we are opposed to family quarrels. We talk things out peaceably. I have seen my dear mother, when her color began to rise in some family discussion, leave the room on an imaginary errand. Later she would return and the discussion would start over again peaceably. "I've he.ard my father say to my mother, when there was talk on which they did not agree, 'Sara, we will resume this conversation But there was never any rushing into the fray with the joy of battles to be fought and won at any cost as there is in the family in which I find I must use the "The first trivial thing is enough the best of friends, invite each other to lunch, to the movies, to take a motor ride.

The object of the altercation, as it seems to me, is just to get their blood up. "At first these quarrels saddened me, particularly when I found myself Involved in them. Later I learned to fold my hands hi my lap, as I had seen my good Quaker grandmother do, and not say a word. But long after my husband and his family are enjoying the delights of reconciliation I'm a nervous wreck. I don't suppose there's any remedy for this, as it seems instinctive, but I'm glad to have told you about it off my chest as they saay.

"VERY MUCH As you realize violence in this family means little more than a game to rouse sluggish circulations. In the interests of the latest member of the clan, your baby, why not try to take this situation wiHrv humor. Put on your hat and go out in the street when the rov.y begin. Some evening when your husband is in a particularly good humor, ask him sweetly why he does not start a family gym-: nasium, so that he and the in-laws could get themselves feeling tit without the horrors of rowing. Ask him to install, perhaps, a trapeze for the more violent members, where they could swing by their toes likn our arboreal ancestors, and dumbbells for the ladies.

Besides, exercise would have the effect of reducing those ugly "spare tires" that have a way of settling 'round the abdomen. Bending and swaying would reduce hips. But perhaps so few of us have yet learned "How to Behave Like Human Beings" that family gym work, as a substitute for quarreling, is too easy. The folks back in Montana ought to appreciate George Montgomery's enthusiasm. He was so keen to get authentic western outfits for "The -Cowboy and the Lady" that he asked Twentieth Century- Fox to let him buy the wardrobe himself.

Including a beautiful saddle, it cost more than Montgomery's salary for the entire pictured Wonder if you've heard the ironic story about this young actor's start in the business? The first time he came to Hollywood, he couldn't get anywhere. Finally, he asked his agent what to do. "Beat it," said the agent. "Stay away until they forget you and then we'll faring you back under a new name." long shall I stay?" "Two months," was the agent's cynical reply. Can you beat it? At the last minute, both Warners and M-G-M offered contracts to Pat Dane, who was around here for months without getting a studio offer.

The funeral of John Ogden held at his residence Sunday afternoon with the Rev. E. L. Kemp and the Rev. John Herron officiating.

Pall bearers were Ephraim Jones. H. F. J. D.

Wetter. John Albright. E. P. Edgar, Godfrey Maier, and William Crookston.

26 YEARS AGO 'Miss Jennie Patterson, who with Miss Sarah Naysmith of Canton, was to have left this morning on a trip to California including visits to the San exposition, Portland and other places, has been forced on account of a bad cold, to put off her journey for a week. She expects to leave with Miss Naysmith next Wednesday. Diet And Health By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. Author of "THE HUMAN BODY" NEW CONCENTRATED LIGHT RATION FOR OUR SOLDIERS Mr. and Mrs.

David Rosser of Maple street left early this morning for Cumberland? where they were called by the serious illness of Mrs. John E. Johns. Mrs. Ernest A.

Kenyon and son, William, have returned to Des Moines, after spending the past week with Mrs. Kenyon's mother, Mrs. Eliza J. Rigdon, in Johnson street. Will the Gene Autry fans please answer a tures? Grey has a good story in mind but it would be necessary fee Gene to kiss the heroine.

Every time this happens, there's a squawk from the fans. Grey wants to know what Hollywood actress would Gene's admirers LEAST object to seeing him kiss. GREEN LIGHT of crrbaur. Hcnce- r'i r.l is cx- to be more than routine. by Administration votes on early ic-t isolationists ail but gave up the fight Friday night and prepared to watch one of the most vital measures in Amcriran history roil to victory by a margin better than two to one.

AS stampede developed, Senate Mia- j- Aii JXLILL piC-Abc ilLiovt CT It -March, representing about 70 per cent of the questipnjor Harry Grey, producer of the star's pic- total British Empire production. Virtually ail nickel used in the United States comes from Canada. British. Canadian and United States de- tense orders will be given equal treatment in obtaining both nickel and neoprene. Thus it is apparent that the country is advancing toward a strict war cconomv which lead ultimately to the control of all prices and distribution of goods bv the government.

Such a 5 tep probably is'abso- lutely necessary. Certainly a ceiling should be placed on it should be placed on all prices. How can the price of any material be held down unless the prices of the raw materials it contains likewise are held down? How can prices be he-id down if wage increases run wild? Labor and raw materials are the sole content of any war material. To check one and give free rein to the other would be to destroy balance, force price increases and invite or nationalize industrv. If socialistic control of industry is to be avoided, the profit system must be preserved.

If destructive regulations are imposed, private industry can not survive. If cost of production exceeds sale price, industry must down and allow the government to over. The question of priorities and price control calls for comprehensive the cost of raw materials and the cost of -abor. To concentrate attention on one and ignore the other is to bring collapse to in- LI-try or nationalization of productive ma- chincrv. Mrs.

Priscilla Park, Mrs. W. B. Gardner and daughter, of Akron, were guests at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.

L. E. York, of East Tremont street. Mrs. Edward Ott and sons, Warren and Edward of Park street, are spending the day with Mrs.

Ott's mother, Mrs. Anna Tfuby, of Justus. ONE MINUTE PULPIT God cannot be deterred from keeping His promises: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executcth my counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have proposed it, I will also do Cyclorama By C. E. CHIDESTEB To the new army of income tax payers drafted and forced to the colors for the first time this year goes the sympathy of all veterans.

Reduction of the exemption of married men and women from $2.500 to $2.000 and for unmarried men and women to £800 has doubled the number of persons liable for income taxes and brought a headache to millions of ts and to thousands of revenue agents and clerks charged with the responsibility of making out, deciphering and checking returns. That difficulties were in store for the novices was foreseen by some of the five and ten stores who offered fov sale a book of instructions so written that he who ran might read and that a child could understand. If there Is any book in the world that could make income t-ax returning simple and understandable, it would be supernatural origin. What the veteran tax-payer learns every year just before March 15, he forgets during the next 12 months. He pulls out copies of his previous returns and glances over them for the purpose of mental refreshment only to wonder how in the world he ever prepared such a complicated mess of figures and calculations.

Making out a lax return is like building a skyscraper. If you start from the ground and build from there on, you understand every detail of construction. Because you understand you do not get the jitters. But if you come suddenly upon a lofty skyuraper under construction it looks like a network of steel just as an income tax return looks like a jumble ot unintelligible lines of type and column rules. If your eye falls upon such a line as.

let us say, "Add line 19 to line 20 and enter in line 30 whichever amount is less" or "Add this to that or subtract this from that and enter in line so and so whichever is greater" you are very likely to, throw the blaJik on the floor, tread violently upon it and tear your hair, if any. Our reaction when reviewing copies of previous return blanks is one of utter mystification and helplessness. Being highly allergic to addition, subtract ion and multiplication in any form, we can not believe that we ever filled out past blanks. The heiroglj-phics seem as unintelligible as those of the ancient Medes and Persians. But, like the old man McGuffey's reader, who showed the boys that the way to break a bundle of sticks was to break one at a time, you begin with the simplest declaration: your salary for the year ajid work from there.

If instructions are translated together with laboratory work on the blank it Is possible to proceed one step aftet the other to that goal: the line calling for computation of income tax due your Undo Sam during the coming year. That information acquired you ifeel you have audited, the United States treasury department. Miss Millie McLain, of Rice's Landing, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. C.

M. Russell, corner of East Main and Prospect streets. 10 YEARS AGO Massillon is a $15,500,000 business city. This is established by a report of the bureau of census which has bern making a survey of the volume of retail trade in Ohio. It means that every man, woman and child spends approximately $600 in local stores during the course of a year.

For every person who is a non-purchaser there is a visitor from the rural district. Mrs. Norman McLain, of Pittsburgh, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Ida M. Chandler, of Canton, and Massillon relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rickard, of Medina, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Manly Clark, of 6th NE.

Mrs. Edgar Rice of Akron, is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clark. Mr.

Rice, who spent the weekend here, has gone to New York on a business trip. Mrs. Edna Schnierle and son, Maurice, of Euclid SW, returned today from Chicago where they spent the weekend with the former's sister- in-law, Mrs. Grace Byers. Several wars ago during the Boer, Spanish-American War period, it was a favorite mental occupation of army officials to prepare a concentrated light ration.

The idea was perfectly obvious and its successful accomplishment would have been very useful. The most cumbersome part of a fighting unit's equipment is the kitchen. Not only cumbersome, but slow; its operations time-consuming and it Constantly needs replenishment. While chasing the wily Emilio Oguinoldo through the Luzon swamps, the kitchen equipment was a decided hindrance and I have heard many warriors dilate upon its painful necessity and speculate, by contrast, on the, advantage of a small cube that could be carried in the soldier's side arm pouch and would keep him going nutritionally for days. Unpopular With Soldiers The American soldier, however, the kitchen no matter how wasteful f.om a stra- tegical standpoint, with undisguised, affection.

But his opinion on concentrated ration cubes, was couched in unfavorable terms. real difficulty, however, hi the early days of this- century, was that the nutritional knowledge of vitamins and essential proteins was so scanty that no adequate concentrated ration could be devised. Today, with more complete understanding, Prof. Robert S. Harris at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D.

Little, has devised a more or less concentrated ration which is manufactured with all the newer knowledge of nutrition. The basis of this mixture is cereal. no simple cereal known contains all the essential protein amino- acids, one kind is fortified with another. A blend of wheat, soya bean meal and oats and corn will produce, it is said, a mixture with as good a protein content as milk or eggs. Certain nutritional elements still, however, need to be added.

Skim milk powder, a low cost by-product, constitutes a further protein, as well as minerals and some vitamins. With other additions, the mixture contains a balanced diet with all the essential food products except Vitamin C. Two-thirds of an ounce ol the mixture a day, together with a reliable Vitamin source such as a tomato or an keep an adult in good condition. The mixture was designed primarily to supply the underprivileged groups with, a low cost food that would supply all the necessary food elements in which their diet has been found to be so often lacking. The manufacturing cost of the food has been estimated at $1.80 per person per year.

The experiments show a trend which is evident in ot" -i activities realisation of the need of supervising and deliberately controlling the diet of the underprivileged groups. Lenten Reducing Diet As suggested by the Chef of Hotel Huntington, Pasadena, Cal. Second Day No seasoning on anything. Either coffee or tea (no sugar or cream) with every meal. Breakfast: Grapefruit and coffee.

Lunch: Jelly omelet or scrambled eggs with jelly; 3 saltines. Dinner: Two thick lamb chops; stewed tomatoes, carrots or string beans; lettuce and tomato salad; grapefruit, or pineapple. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS advise in your column the cause of hives. Would dieting remedy or prevent a recurrence?" are, in nearly all cases, related to something that was eaten. Exactly what that substance is differs in different cases of hives "and in different people.

In other words, some people are sensitive to one kind of food and break out with hives from it, and others from other kinds. The proper procedure is to find out what food causes hives and to omit that from the diet. Mr. and Mrs. Heister Oberlin, of the Millersburg road and their daughter Mary Blanche, a junior at Wooster college, entertained a group of girls from the college at their home over the weekend.

Washington At A Glance By CHARLES P. STEWART, Central Press Staff Writer Read 'Em And Laugh Re Complied what did he do when you told him you didn't want to see him any more? up and turned out the lights. Backfire A man on a visit with a friend in London on New Year's Eve overstayed his welcome. It was getting toward the midnight hour, and his host thought a kindly hint would have the desired effect. "Don't you think," said the host, "that your wife and the rest of your family will want you to be with them as the New Year comes in?" "Man," replied the guest, "I believe you're right.

It's real thoughtful of you. I'll send for Rays of Sunshine. Modern Youth "Is your daughter home from school for the holidays?" "I think so. One of the servants said she saw her day before yesterday." The trend in the death rate from respiratory la steadily declining. Although Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi has been an outstanding fighter for the upper congressional chamber's adoption of aid-Britain and American defensive legislation, he hasn't been the official leader of the campaign for the administration's program.

The discussion has been a mixture of a foreign affairs, military affairs and naval affairs debate, and Senators Walter F. George of Georgia, Morris Sheppard of Texas and David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, as chairman of the senate's foreign, military and naval affairs committees, in the order named, have been the appropriate solons to figure as experts along the lines of their respective specialties. Pat, by the way. could have been foreign affairs chairmen if he'd chosen to be.

When the committee's last chairman, Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, died not long ago. Pat was in line to succeed him. He already was chairman, however, of the senate's finance committee. It isn't customary for the same statesman to head two different and important committees, and Pat preferred to stay on his finance job. Consequently, Senator George, next on the seniority list, assumed the post.

But if Pat's been a trifle obscured, by his chairmanship's nature, in consideration of aid-Britain and domestically defensive plans, oh. how he'll loom up when the controversy arises as to methods of fooling the bill for these twin undertakings! It'll have to be footed by taxation, and doping out taxes is the finance committee's particular function. It behooves the taxpayers, then, to develop a heap or interest in Senator Harrison. Chairman Robert L. Doughton (North Carolina) of the house of representatives' ways and means committee will get the first crack at the tax problam, because all revenue measures have to originate luv the representatives' chamber.

Last Crack Is His When the representatives are through with one of 'em. though, it gees up to the senate, and there Pat i See.