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SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1943 MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE EYE OBSERVING "Pickle" Season EDITORIALS A Ghost Ship Rises in New York's Harbor eJMJlf- Look Out Below! angry sea, protests, wails and moans, all to no result. The more he protests the harder he is rocked, until in sheer exhaustion he falls asleep. "Then his' tired mother drops into a chair, or on to the park bench and says, 'He wouldn't go to sleep for "That's just it. He would have gone to sleep for himself, if he had been left to attend to it, but he couldn't very well sleep when his bed was being tossed violently from side to side. "No grown person would stand such abuse for a minute but the helpless baby has to take it because his mother is trying hard to do her duty by him." Information, Please! offer a combination of po- htical science, geography and sports in this set of Little pigs of the middle west must be breathing easier on learning that Tom Dewey was misquoted about favoring the immediate demise for a lot of them sp that eastern cows could have more corn.

Allocating congressional representatives by total votes in the last election rather than by mere population might have the effect of bringing suffrage to Negroes in the southern states. A person with even a slight inclination to work on the farm shouldn't neglect the argument that the average farmer has plenty of food and isn't worrying much about ration points. Amongthe folks on the homefront who are really proving themselves worthy of the boys on the fighting front are those women who work countless hours for the Red Cross. One of the chief values of the typical Iowa August is that it gets one in condition to appreciate fall when it rolls around. If on occasion you feel you are being too much restricted by rationing, talk to somebody who has been in the British isles.

Too bad there's no photographic of Balcony Benny's last meeting with Adolf. It must have been something touching. More Doctors Needed think the recent an-'gynouncement by the feder-al manpower commission that the armed forces are going to require the services of 6,000 additional physicians between now and Jan. 1, 1944, provides all of us with some idea how we're going to have to guard our own health more than ever in the past. There just aren't going to be enough doctors to go 'round.

Doctors still on the homefront will be interested in the directive recently given to generals in command of the various service commands authorizing them to induct into the service physicians between the ages of 38 and 45 who have been declared available by the directing board of the procurement and assignment service for physicians, dentists and veterinarians and who are otherwise subject to selective service. "The needs of the armed forces," says the Journal of the American Medical association in an appeal for voluntary enlistments, "are real. As the war continues and intensifies new needs for the services of the medical profession become apparent. An army in motion and one engaged in the kind of aggressive combat that now concerns our armed forces needs physicians in even greater numbers than have heretofore- been demanded. Many thousands of interned aliens and prisoners are now the burden of the United States and must be given medical care.

"The medical profession may well be proud of the fact that it has been the only group given, by directive of the president, the responsibility of maintaining service in civilian life and at the same time supplying the needs of the armed forces. Let us not fail in meeting fully the trust that has been placed upon us." Don't Rock 'Em! THE FIRE-BLACKENED, barnacled hulk of the Normandie has risen like a wraith from, the mud and debris of its New York pier. The raising of the Normandie to a nearly upright position is a grim victory for 700 salvage workers and navy divers. Since fire and water spilled the Normandie at its berth on Feb. 9, 1942, the navy has thrown all its resources into refloating the Normandie.

The Japs who claim to have refloated the world's largest graving dock at Singapore a month ago, after it was supposedly wrecked, probably pushed the Normandie salvage job. The righting of the Normandie was less spectacular than its ruin. For months the 79.280-ton queen of the French merchant fleet has laid like a dead duck at its berth, a disgrace for all who passed to see. The dangerous job of stripping this burned ship of superstructure and plugging every submerged porthole for pumping went on week after week, 24 hours a day. The huge hulk had to be freed of floating wreckage, thousands of tons of mud "and water, and miles of steel cabin partitions which were an obstacle to salvage.

Divers working in the muck and blackness down in the bowels of this ship had to adjust themselves to crazy angles. They walked on walls and ceilings. Once the Normandie is floated and pulled out of its watery tornb, a real investigation should determine how this giant ship was sabotaged. The loss of this great troop carrier two months after Pearl Harbor, when we were losing the Philippines and almost lost Australia, was a stab in the back. The careless way the navy went about converting the Normandie 'into a troopship, then lost it at its pier, forever discounted American efficiency in the eyes of every loyal Frenchman.

The Normandie was a dream ship into which France had invested her money and artistry. When we seized the Normandie and, through gross carelessness, let it burn up, all America took the blame. The Normandie is now afloat, but with a 49 degree list. It will take another five or six weeks of cleaning bulkheads and pumping to right the derelict completely, so it can be towed out of sight for refitting or salvage. But this dead fish couldn't be left forever at its New York pier.

The navy and the New York maritime contractors that bungled the job will never quite live down the onus of the Normandie disaster. Its ghost has haunted the American war effort too long four general information questions: 1. The lame duck amendment changing the date of the beginning of the terms of president, vice president, senators and representatives is the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd. 2. The total number of amendments to the Constitution is 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 22.

3. Minnesota is known as the Sunflower state, Pine Tree state, Golden state, Cotton state, Gopher state, Sunshine state. 4. The American league baseball team which has never won the pennant is the Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators.

fill ANSWERS 1, 20th. 2, 21. Gopher state. 4, St. Louis Browns.

Junked Automobiles rrrnote with interest that than a mi'llinn mobiles have been innVpH some mothers and too who are going to say that An- permanently in the past 12 months. That's a lot of junk. But, interestingly enough, this total is far below the mortality of peacetime when annually 22 million cars are tossed upon the dumps of American cities, or left to rust on the farms. The junking of a million cars the last year simply means they no longer are serviceable. YOUR HEALTH By Logan Clendening, M.

D. The Day's Bouquet gelo Patri, noted child specialist, is nothing short of sacrilegious in this view recently expressed by him: "Mothers give themselves many a trying hour by rocking the baby in his carriage. He needs no rocking. He will lie quietly in his carriage and sleep peacefully, rest-fully, if he is allowed to do so. "But some mothers, for some reason beyond my understanding, think they are not doing right by their infants if they do not stand by the carriage and rock, and jostle, and sway it until the poor baby must be seasick, "Rocking the carriage violently makes the baby dizzy, and that makes him drowsy, and dull.

Left to himself and to nature he will fall asleep gently and without suffering dizziness. "Often the baby, who is being tossed about as though upon an RUSSIA AT WAR I CONFESS to a weakness for the books about conditions within beleaguered countries at war. The newspaper correspondents' accounts are far better than the ambassadorial or official versions the correspondents Ret around more, have a more comprehensive view of what the common people think. The Last Train From Berlin seems to me the best account of the German situation, and Russia A New Swedish Neutrality SWEDEN which shivered every time Hitler looked north is now singing a new tune, -Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" From the time German guns opened up on Danzig in September, 1939, to date the Swedes have kept their own counsel and tried to be neutral. Even when the hatches of Hitler's sneak ships popped open at Norwegian ports in April, 1940 and nazi troops swarmed ashore, Sweden sat tight.

Unprepared to fight in a big league war, Sweden acceded to German pressure for the passage of nazi troops across the country to Norway. Now that the nazis are losing the war and Sweden has an army of 400,000 mobilized, the government of King Gustav has informed Germany that transit facilities for German troops and war material will cease Aug. 20. Once Hitler Would have swooped down on Stockholm for such defiance and snuffled out Sweden for vengeance. Now the nazis have too much to do in other directions.

Besides Berlin knows that 200.000 German troops holding a hostile Norway against an expected allied invasion from the sea don't want to argue with 400,000 embittered Swedes at their backs. To RABBI NATHAN LEVIN-SON for five years of excellent work in this community, both as head of his synagog and as a civic minded citizen. Crowning achievement of his work in Mason City was the erection of a $35,000 synagog. His many friends here wish him well as he goes on to an enlarged field at Kalamazoo, Mich. DID YOU KNOW? Fights, by James E.

Brown (published by Scribners, New York), far and away the most vivid picture I have encountered of what the Russians are doing. The Russians, according to Mr. Brown, are thinking this they are for Russia and nobody else. They have done four-fifths of the work in stopping the nazis and when they get what they want they are probably going to quit. Unless Japan attacks them, they are not going to declare war on Japan for us or anybody else.

Their miu i in ii 1 f- imrnffl frill inLm By Frederic J. Haskin Most Famous Love Affairs of All Time EDITOR'S NOTE: For an answer to any question of fact writo "Maaon City Olobe-Cjarette Information Barton, Frederic J. Hankin, Director. Washington, D. Please lend 3 eenti postal for reply.

The short stories included in this booklet are not only entertaining but educational. They reveal how romance touched the lives of men and women who have made liter- PROS and CONS Some Interesting Viewpoints Gleaned From Our Exchanges Hollyhocks for Minnesota's Highways Fairmont Sentinel: Some knocking, no enthusiasm, greets the announcement of the state's plan to pretty up roadsides with hollyhocks. We think those who fear they'll become a weed and choke out the farmers crops are ghost seers. Personally we think it will take cultivation to get hollyhock gardens started and maintained. Some years ago we saved about a peck of hollyhock seed.

We didn't take pains to find out if it was against the law or not but we scattered it along roadsides out in old Tenhassen. Two years later we saw just two spindly hollyhock stalks with a discouraged looking bloom or two and then faded out our own noble experiment with roadside fiollyhocks. There Must Be Jobs for Returning Boys Rockford Register: It's to everybody's advantage for industry to keep on at full speed when the boys come home, and certainly the least they can ask for is good honest work to do. But will enough red tape be abandoned as soon after the war as is practicable? We all know we can't throw controls overboard the day the fighting stops or we'd have a bedlam of inflation. But will wartime controls be cut away when the time comes so that American industry can do its stuff in peacetime as magnificently as it's doing it now in war? Fascism and Nazism Davenport Democrat! What most of us mean when we say fascism and nazism is the irresponsible government which these two terms imply.

Fascism has been Mussolini. Nazism has been Hitler and the little ring around him. The fall of fascism and nazism alone means an end to government by self-chosen autocrats. We Must Be Realistic About It Manly Signal: To get oneself into the emotional state where he believes that after Hitler is disposed of, the lion will lie down with the lamb and that we can bring universal peace by promising a quart of milk to everyone, is getting into a decidedly unfortunate state of mind. There's Nothing Good About Badoglio Daily Iowan: Just because Badoglio does not wear the fascist badge does not make him any Jess dangerous than his predecessor, Mussolini.

lie must be dealt with in the coldest, hardest, most military manner possible. Sole Alternative in Italy Marshalltown Times-Republican: If we can't talk Italy out of the war we shall have to proceed at once to knock her out, and that means ridding her of the Germans and feeding the Italians as we go. Why Is Pessimism Necessary? Boone News-Republican: Officials are constantly emphasizing the gloomy side of the war, but Americans don't see why they can't fight a war just as well optimistically as pessimistically. A Correct Diagnosis From Berlin North wood Anchor: "Berlin Lays Duce's Ouster to Bad Health." says a newspaper headline. ably not far from the truth upset stomach, violent headache and alarmingly cold feet.

Acquisition of Italy Will Mean Problem)! Ames Trioune: The acquisition of the peninsula is not an unmixed blessing. It means, probably, that we shall have to tighten our belts a bit more at meal time. The One Way to Put Down Garden Thievery Cedar Rapids Gazette: The answer seems to lie in co-operative arranKements among gardeners to work out their own guarding systems. One Blot on the Western Hemisphere Webster City Freeman-Journal: Argentina is the only blot upon the entire map of the western hemisphere. Editorial of Day THE CASTE SYSTEM IN CHARITY Martin Aasgaard in Lake Mills Graphic FROM time to time there have been individuals here in Lake Mills, as well as in other communities, who have been in need of public charity the kind of help that could best be given them at the county home.

But rather than go to the county home they have chosen "to sit it out" or "starve It out' in a boarding house bedroom. This feeling of "going to the county home" has come down to us, not only from pur immediate pioneer ancestry, but from British and other European homelands, a horror of the alms-house, the "poor farm" of early midwestern life, and a lesser but still strong fear of being "on the county." So long as a home can be maintained by old people or the weak it is worth while and worth extra cost to the community, but we should try to overcome, the prejudice built up through centuries against the antecedents of the clean and comfortable county homes maintained in Iowa, in many of which the variety of food is greater than most private citizens can enjoy, and encourage those indigents who are alone or unable to care for themselves to avail themselves of these facilities. There is no disgrace attached to acceptance of public charity when it is needed. Slemp Knew His Political Cards TO THOSE whose memory goes back to the Coolidge administration, the recent death of C. Bascom Slemp had a meaning.

But to others it's just another transplanted Virginian gathered to his fathers. Mr. Slemp was as close to President Coolidge as any man was, and he was among the chief political advisers of the executive. As such he was the target of every oratorical or editorial marksman of the democratic opposition. And that name of his made him a shining mark.

With such a handle C. Bascom Slemp a sage could be converted into a clown in a trice. And so it was. Slemp became the butt of many a joke. But he laughed last.

As chairman of the Virginia republican state committee in 1928, he carried the Old Dominion for Hoover. It was the first and only time the republicans ever won in that state. C. Bascom Slemp was no fool, political or otherwise, and democratic managers were acquainted with that fact. He knew what cards to play.

And when. And how! REMEMBER? From Globe-Gazette Files FORTY YEARS AGO A canvass of a large section of this state shows that the sentiment in favor of Memorial University is very strong and a very large enrollment is confidently expected the coming year. The Postal Telegraph will receive reports from the big Jeffries and Corbett fight tomorrow night, furnishing a service to the Elks and J. 11. Atkinson's cigar store.

THIRTY" YEARS AGO All dogs found running on the streets without being muzzled will be taken care of by officers. Hot weather coming on and fears of people being bitten by dogs having rabies compels this notice. See to muzzling your dug at once. John Stanton, mayor. Savannah.

Ga. Recorder John E. Schwartz today fined Miss Bessie Carter $50 for appearing on Savannah's main shopping thoroughfare in a short skirt and low cut waist. Henry Smoak, her escort, paid $25. TWENTY YEARS AGO W.

H. Baird of the Northern Sugar corporation has been elected a director of the Mason City Chamber of Commerce to fill the unexpired term of W. E. Groom. Mr.

Groom's resignation, accepted with regret, was due lo his moving lroni Mason City to Minneapolis. The directors of the chamber have also approved a number of applications for membership recently, including those of Harold L. Van Note. G. S.

Moorhcad, Vaughn 1. Griffin. G. H. Feldman and F.

J. McNeil of the Mason City Grocery company and that of the Hotel Hanford, a plural subscription of 16 memberships. TEN YEARS AGO The Rev. Walter II. Kampen, who has been supply pastor at Beloit, the past year, has accepted a call to become the minister of the Central Lutheran church in Mason City it was announced Saturday.

Mrs. Elsie Ramsey and daughter. Miss Kathryn Ramsey, have left for Chicago for a week's visit at the Century of Progress exposition. ABOUT BOOKS By John Selby "THE UNITED STATES NAVY: A HISTORY." by Carroll Storrs Alden and Allan Wcstcott; (Lippincott; TWO OR THREE matters distinguish the new naval history being published this week by Carroll Storrs Alden and Allan Wcstcott under the chaste title, "The United States Navy." The first of them is the fact that the authors have done all they could to relate the navy to American life. The old habit was to assume that the navy was a kind of orchid, existing parasiti-cally and outside the American frame.

Whether we like it or not, it has its political relationships and it is directly affected by trade considerations with other nations, by the condition of our diplomatic policies if any. and even by the internal conditions of the United States. The irresponsible handling of the navy by congress and the executive department in the 'twenties is a perfect example of this last. The second basic idea the authors have had In mind is that of naval co-operation with the other services. For some odd reason, it seems to be assumed by much of the public and even by some alleged experts, that combined operations are shining examples of our brilliance in this war.

They are by no means so just as an example, there are Grant's campaigns on the Mississippi, the Cumberland and the Tennessee in the early years of the War Between the States. Grant not only made use of water-borne forts, transports, and such. He used them precisely as they are being used today, which is to say as units of a striking force, carefully integrated, working on meticulously adjusted schedules. He also used them with superb success. Messrs.

Alden end Wcstcott have had to keep their text concise, and have loft out a few of the standard anecdotes and such like. What they have done is to write in the background of our various campaigns horn Revolutionary days to the present, and to bridge the gaps between the campaigns with the equally fascinating story of America's development of naval tactics find naval efficiency. This is a very useful book. Dr. Clendening- post-war policy is isolationism and plenty of it.

They are going to rebuild Russia their own way. They had felt that before the war they were surrounded by a hostile ring of capitalistic states, and the fact that they got very little help when they were in trouble has made them sore. I must say this attitude makes sense. It stiffens your backbone. It is a good antidote to the treacle about internationalism of Mr.

Lippmann and Mr. Willkie. The account of Mr. Churchill's visit to Moscow is rich. He appeared at an official soviet banquet in overalls, which didn't make near the hit that he makes at the white house.

Mr. Willkie's visit made a much better impression. The accounts of these two visits, the pen picture of the factory workers, the amazing development of Russian women, nurses and ambulance drivers at the front, the Eakunia trials, the probable successor to Stalin, are all well worth reading in detail. Here are some thoughts: An official said, "Our neighbors start the wars, we don't. There would be no wars if the other nations of the world adopted our social system." I was interested in the accounts Mr.

Brown gives of the work of the hospitals. However we may feel about it here, socialized medicine works in Russia. The nursing is efficient, the hospitals clean, the medical attendance intelligent, and the patient are individualized in treatment as they should be. "There are fewer deaths from serious wounds than in other wars: We take care of casualties better: We give emergency treatment on the battlefield," a military surgeon told the author, "Then the sulfa drugs have saved many lives. We get a good deal of sulfa from America, but we need more of it." All that sounds very alcit and up-to-date.

Questions and Answers H. E. A. What vegetables have bulk and produce elimination? Answer Nearly any except potatoes. Radishes, celery, carrots, string beans, asparagus, lettuce, cabbage, onions, turnips, and beets are conspicuous in having plenty of roughage.

These fruits not only have bulk, but their juices are laxative oranges, apples, grapefruit, watermelon, cantaloupe, blueberries, cherries, peach, pears, apricots, etc. How did calico ret its name and aryt musical, art, military, and does it refer only to printed history, and they give bio- cloth? graphical details that make the Calico takes its name from booklet valuable for reference Calicut, a seaport of India. It was purposes as well as for diversion, first given to white cotton cloth From that of the Monk Abelard but now includes colored cotton anc the gentle Heloise to Queen cloths. Victoria's with Albert, the Prince Is Gary, or Pittsburgh, Consort, there are more than the more important steel cen- score cf these famous love affairs er" and you will find interest in each Gary far outranks Pittsburgh and every one. Inclose 15 cents to as a steel producing center.

cover cost, handling and postage. What is the hishest price ever Use This Coupon paid for a horse? Highest prices were $300,000 The Mason City Glebe-Gazette each for the English Call Boy and Information Bureau, the Italian Nearco. Frederic J. Haskin, Director, What is the name of the horse Waeshington, D. C.

Mussolini rode? i inclose herewith 15 cents in On July 27, 1940. Mussolini coj (carefully wrapped in pa-rode a chestnut mare, a Hanover- prr) for a copv of lne booklet ian calvary horse named FAMOUS LOVE AFFAIRS. This is the only occasion where we find his horse referred to by i a a a) ii 0 awj name. Name Please furnish a list of books SlJ" H. L.

Mencken, the eminent au- thority, says: "It would be hard City indeed to pick out'any American novels and say that they were the Stale best. My own favorite is 'Huckle- (Mail to Washington, D. berry by Mark Twain. I believe that it is one of the best Mason City Globc-Gaxetre books ever written. 1 also have All A lee newspaper a very high opinion of Babbitt.

1-Ud wk Dy (h by Sinclair Lewis, and of 'Jennie Mf, nir r.mB, by Theodore Dreiser. ,21.123 Ijt Sut- 38C0 Did British troops remain in Iceland after United States troops fSh arrived? CJ By the fall of 1942 United States Irnnnc vvpip th h1p nrni. rrtlwd a cond-clas matter April Mates troops weietne soie occu- ,7 i930 st ptvl0(flre M0n city, pying forces. Iowa, under the act of March 3, i879s How many more automobiles were there in the United States in 1 r' LOOMI9 194 than ill 1917 EARL HALL Managing Editor There were about six times as "EM manv LLOID GEES AdvertUinj Mgr. Who were the Chickaniauga In- member associated press Th diatlS? Awociated Press 1 exclusively entitled tu' to the Ufte for republication of all newt They uei a group ho seceded dlspatchs crdlted to it or not other-, from the Cherokees in 1777 under credited this paper and aUo the local Chief Dragging Canoe.

news published herein. many Wendeli United PRESS-FulI leased wire. Nillkle carry in 1940? Tn 1Q4D Mr Willki rarrid MEMBER Iowa Prs and Iowa DaUy in ia-u, wr. vviuKie carried Press with Deo Moine Colorado, Indiana. Ohio, Kansas, and business oificea In Shops Building.

Main, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Ver- SUBSCRIPTION RATES mont Mason City and Clear Lake by year, ilO Does Alaska produce any oil? WlU0n Clty "ld Clear by 200 Some years ago the refinery om.ide Manon ntr na cir ake and burned down and it never became I'rrnV economically desirable to rebuild Mason city and clear La: Per vear bv carrier tlO.Of I have a small fox. What should Per week by carrier .20 he eat Ppr year by nil mi He should be fed a varied diet consisting principally of horse By mail month meat, with some bread, fruits and 0ui(U 1nA Mi 7nno-Per yr no, vegetables. months JJ.W; 3 months 1 month SL New Phase of the War Opens ANNOUNCEMENT that the war department had canceled a recent $60,000,000 order for tanks is proof that the cut-back in war production for the armed forces has begun in earnest. United States News disclosed that 5,335 contracts for weapons and equipment have been canceled by the war department recently because of the already tremendous surplus. A large number of ammunitions plants are now on a stand-by basis, and many of the huge new TNT projects have been producing at half-speed.

There are only three main elements in the war supply picture which are now running top speed motorized equipment, aircraft, and shipbuilding. Plane production is just now reaching its planned peak, and the axis is already feeling the tremendous weight of bombers and fighter planes which are now getting into action. The war boom in ordnance is about over. The bloom is off war orders in this area of production. The cut-back policy in procurement has already returned a number of war production plants to civilian production.

Lantern Light Lyrics By Ray Murray of Buffalo Center WAR DAWN Europe's Neutral Nations THERE IS a great deal of poetic license in the reference to Europe's neutrals. Among them is General Franco. His sympathies are well known. It was axis guns which placed him in power, and axis guns to which his emotions looked. In a different role is 85 year old King Gustaf of Sweden.

His neutrality was the most difficult of all to obtain and only last week could he cancel German transit privileges for troops and supplies across Swedish territory. And then there is Switzerland, and her president, Enrico Celio; Turkey and the Turkish president, Ismet Inou; and Portugal with Premier Salaea. With the exception of Turkey, they owe their present status to the fact they were not immediately in the path, or were not worth the effort. Gray dawn breaks, the dead earth shakes As a great sun belches death, and tosses off With raucous cough it's scaring, screaming breath. Thick vapors rise to weeping skies From a steaming, sohbing earth, in agony Of the tragedy that shrouds the war God's birth..