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Dixon, Illinois, Monday, August 1, 1940 Page Four DIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH Dixon Evening Telegraph ft. r. Shew Printing Co. wruHK ASSOCIATED PU With Full LMHd Wire Sarvto business much better already than it was. A St.

Louis manufacturer says "1949 will prove to be considerably ahead of 1948 as a whole." A midwest automobile insurance company official says "the out- iooK ior our business this fall is excellent An airline executive n-ports the largest month i for re- this Of fiaMre tins of all newt credited to It or not otherwise credited to Seeded also die local news tberetn. All rights of re-publication dlipo.tr Imh brain art Iho Otxon Evening Telegraph la a member of the Association Manacera. which Includes lead! Nowsoeser ciaeomea throorhout too country tod for one of IU aim. the elttniaattoa of fraudulent and misleading olaaalflad advertising. of tts Association endeavor to print only trnthfal classified end will appreciate baring ita attention called to any not eonf orndng to the hlgfaeat atAndarda of honesty.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in C. H. Spurgeon. Do 'Wonder' Drugs Guide Us? The American people should concern themselves about the health ef their leaders. This is the advice of Burnet Hershey in a recent article in the Nation magazine.

Author Hershey contends that ulcers, high blood pressure, heart trouble, nervous exhaustion and various other ailments are becoming almost occupational with modern statesmen. Batteries of medicine bottles fill the luggage of the traveling statesman today, he declares. He hints that there might be a permanent council of physicians to keep an eye on this nation's leaders and see that their illnesses do not adversely affect their judgment and decisions and, indirectly, the interests of their nation. A more specific proposal is advanced in an article by Ladislas Farago in the current issue of the United Nations WnrM wrmlrl have the nation coov the system used by the American navy in the recent war. Admiral King stole the idea from the Germans who, in turn, got it Irom a bwiss physician.

All admirals were reauired to undergo a thorough check up on the eve of major operations. Medical officers were made responsible for the fitness of their superiors. They had unlimited authority to "ground" their patients, without consideration for the state of the war, if and when they regarded them as physically or mentally unfit for command. And the authority was used. Farago argues that this regulation was ultimately fair to the individual concerned, who should not want to command unless at his best, and to the navy and the nation.

Farago thinks it would be just as fair if applied to our national lead ers and diplomats. He says mat naa amies uorrestai ioi-lowed this procedure, which he supported firmly as under secretary of the navy, he would retired as secretary of defense, or taken a leave pr aosence, Deiore nis DreaK-down. The warning of the Forrestal case, to statesmen and their people, is "to quit before it is too late," Fargo says. But knowing that most individuals, particularly in moments of stress, become convinced of their indispensibility, he thinks that the impetus to make them retire, or rest, must come from the outside. Certainly the articles by Mr.

Hershey and Mr. Farago raise some interesting and important questions. Historians disclosed how the personal ailments of statesmen have affected the course of the world. Now the matter is complicated by the fact that some present day ailing leaders dose themselves with the, so-called "wonder drugs," some of which are toxic and should be taken only in a period of rest. "Wonder drug" decisions may not be the same as the decisions of the normally functioning mind.

For generations, marionettes have been made mainly of wood. Now hollow metal limbs and bodies, formed of springy sheets that hold the joints securely, yet give enough play for freedom of movement, compete with the traditional material. An electrical system known as "dovap" can determine the position and speed of a moving body in space, such as a nying airplane or a rocxet missne. In some respects, more is known of the topography of the moon than of the ocean floor, and more is known of the movements of certain stars than of ocean currents. Business Men Differ Among Selves on 'What Is Ahead By SAM DAWSON New York, Aug.

(AP) Business men differ among themselves in their guesses as to what's ahead this fall for their factories and stores. But either way they face, they express strong opinions doubtless because they are farther out on the firing line than Here are the views of top men their various ir.dustnes across the country: An optimist in Ohio predicts a per cent increase fall sales." He is echoed by others in many lines across the country A pessimist in Pennsylvania writes: "My industry is sick and the outlook for the next few months is not at all encouraging." He, too, has his brethren here and there. In-between views range from a Minnesota underwt-ar maker's guess that "sales will be slightly off tms tall, but not alarmingly so." to the hunch of a Cleveland manufacturer of everything from food to metal products that: Depends On Slcei 'Our business will be very good If the steel companies stand pat against a lourth round of They wrote thi-ir views to Scarborough, publisher of The Magazine, who asked thorn: "What is the outlook for this in your business?" For nple. division "are currently running well ahead of the corresponding period of last year contrary to the trend of the industry as a whole, which is scarcely holding its own." Increase Force A Milwaukee machine tool maker, "optimistic about business this fall" plans "to increase our working force beginning with the month of August." A Cleveland sewing machine firm thinks the outlook "good enough to justify our manufacturing expansion." However, the immediate future looks far less bright to others. An Indiana blanket maker says "there has been little disposition on the part of buyers to place oiaori, lor A chilling pros pect.

A Detroit chemical firm re ports: "Practically all the salesmen who come in here, whether they are selling- bottles, drugs, or space, admit thev are having difficult times." An official in a large communications company predicts: "The present decline will soon level off and by fall signs of a gradual recovery will be in the offing." And a mill, just a auncuit period, says uur outlook for fall is one of higher unit volume than spring in most of our opeiation. but at relatively low profit A New Jersey life insur company exculiM- R1W.S something to thn.k about. writes: i wond'-r if usn't a lauaf-y to continually set oi objective toward higher and high. Dusmess volume with the aim that each year must surpass the last aa miinuum. "We might be much better M'" history.

less A cooperative society in Iowa I more ba.an. reports sales of refrigeration market which benefits the good McKENNEY ON BRIDGE Here's a Hand Easy to Misplay ATS AJ974 8 2-, 4 10862 VNone I uooier i AK5 VK8S3 43 KQ 107 Neither vuL South Went North Cast Pass IV Pass Paw By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY Card Authority The fact that so many people ask me how I became interested in bridee may be the reason why I like to ask celebrities how they got their start. I asked David koss, who has been in radio for years, whether it was his original ambition to be a writer or a radio announcer. He said "It was away back in 1926 that I my start in radio.

I had hoped to become a writer. But one day I was in the original Gimbel Station, WGDF. There was a terrific thunder storm going on outside, and the orchestra which was supp to play did not show up. So they asked me to take a volume of Edgar Allan Poe and start reading." That, my friends, was how David Ross became the first man on ra dio to make popular the reading of books and poems. Many of you will remember his program called Poet's Gold." Later he published a book by the same name.

David said that in his 23 years of broadcasting, he has been the announcer on practically every; kind of program except a bndgt program. The success of a good announcer is in his ability to see and deliver a story. Would see the story in today's hand? East cashed the king- and jack of diamonds and shifted to the queen of spades. Dummy won the king. Declarer cashed the king of hearts, and now he had to lose two trump tricks.

If you missed the story, you would say it was hard luck to find all the trumps in one hand. But it was not. It was played wrong. Declarer should lead a small heart. Then, no matter who held the four hearts, declarer would lose only one trump trick, making his con- For whom was "Hail to the Chief originally written? "Hail to the Chief," music by James Sanderson, words by Sir Walter Scott, was intended orig inally ior tne head of the Scottish Clan Alpine.

There is no record of just when our presidential theme song crept into Washington's official music literature. When was the longest re- coraea baseball game in American League played? The game between Philadel phia and Boston, Sept. 1, 1906, which lasted 24 innings; and the game between Detroit and Phila delphia, July 21, 1945, which lasted 24 innings and was called on account of darkness. What percentage of our population lives on farms? A At the beginning of this year, the farm population made up 19 per cent of the civilian population of the country the same as in the last few years. In 1940, the farm population was 23 per cent of the total.

Did Robert Ingersoll, the well-known lecturer, serve in the Civil War? Voice of the People ATTENTION, Editor of Dixon Evening Telegraph, Dixon, 111. To the Arguing Women: In regards to whether a woman is dressed decent or indecent when he wears a pair of shorts or halter downtown, is a matter of opinion. I wonder what the women would think of it the men would come to town with a pair of shorts ana a couple of handkerchiefs UM around their chests. How many blocks could he walk down town? Some swimming pools won men in with just a pair of trunks cn It is indecent: I wonder little i do husbands and fathers think of a this. Let's get into it, too.

a. neaoor. Lehman was a political sub ordinate of this woman's late hus band, whose monument belongs in Soviet Russia because the greatest work of his life was the creation of the strong and formidable enemy which now confronts the United States. In due proportion, as he strengthened Boviet Russia and emboldened her brutalitarian bosses, Roosevelt weakened the United States. The clumsy, floundering Russia of 1933, illiter ate, inept in arms ana Daniea Dy the mechanical mystery of the wheelbarrow, became, under the late Roosevelt's patronage and coaching, all at the expense of the United States, the militant, armed contemptuous colossus which now controls the destiny of this country.

Russia's gratitude was earned by the man who: destroyed east and west, enemies which Russia never could have conquered without his help but, more likely, would have conquered her and put down Bolshevism. As governor of New York, Mr. Lehman was non-mischievous, emotionally sober and harmless. We have passed the point at which governors or even Senator lait. as president, could not redeem a trifle of the calamity wrought by Roosevelt and Truman in 20 years.

The best that could be expected of him would be slowing-down of the disastrous process, and he is honest enough to admit that, even were he elected in 1952, still could throw this country into war at will, which, being done, the United States and her republican system of government would become a historical memory. Throughout the long and steadily unsuccessful struggle with Communism the one force in the United States which has offered the strongest resistance, next to the house committee on un-American activities, has been the Catholics. Unfortunately, many stupid greedy crooked Catholic politicians thought that the Roosevelt regime was just game, the old, familiar game of politics. These mistaken cr cor rupt men. therefore, laughed at the earnest fears of wiser and better men and served Roosevelt and his design.

Unfortunately, and for the very reason that the cjainonc clergy are not a political unit, they were not of one mind during mis descent. Many of them, as men and citizens, were Democrats and some seemed to me to have captivated by the cheap, premeditated flattery of the regime, which thus was able to use them as reassuring fronts. I do not endorse priests who invoke their unquestionable citizenship to justify participation on public boards on public pay. They are being taken in. They are appointed not as citizens but as Nevertheless, in religion Family Portrait reason and because no other element of equal size dwelt in similar relation to its religious leadership, the Catholics have been throughout 'The Great Betrayal the- greatest block of opponents of Communism.

The time to have come to a stand against Eleanor Roosevelt, tellectually and politically and ith cold, proper politeness, was long ago. There are in tne pub lished volumes of testimony and of the house committee on -l-American activities more than tifty references to this woman. Even bv the official word of lorn Clark, the attorney general, him self one of the confused, entrap- ed, unwitting- servants of the reat design, eight of the organi zations with which she had open, defiant and notorious traffic were Communist fronts. No Pleasant Duty It was not a pleasant duty to attack a woman and it was the less so in the case of one who was the greatest political faker in our history. I say this with appropriate respect for her husband, because, after all, he did have to get elected and assume an ap pearance of responsibility.

never has been elected to any office and yet she is today one ol the most influential persons in the country. She has so fortified her position that she is able to become the covert leader of great anti-Catholic movement the United States with only the most nominal and formal pre- to the contrary. ernor Lehman said the ques tion between Cardinal Spellman r.id Mrs. Roosevelt was whether Americans were entitled freely to express their views on publi questions without being villified or accused ot religious bias. The truth is that Mrs.

Roosevelt has enjoyed the protection that very kind of vilification and false accusation from organized groups for at least ten To criticize her was to profane some Holiness, for there are actually persons so deluded as to regard her as the mother of a Holy family and the relict of a deity. It would have been well years back to put down that vicious menace and make it possible ior Americans to examine this woman's effronteries factually r.nd judge her according to the rather than submit to a de-fading superstition. This is something that Governor Lehman might remarked with equal loree long ago. Falsifies Truth When he says "her every act been a matter of oublie rec ord" he falsifies the truth, for he certainly knows that many of her most important acts have been clandestine He knows that she exploited tre White House for financial profits which Mrs. Roosevelt Has Exploited the White House for Fabulous Gains Which Are Not Recorded By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1949, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) New York The defense of Eleanor Roosevelt uttered by Herbert H.

Lehman, formerly governor of New York, in her controversy with Cardinal Spellman, is based on claims and assumptions which cannot be proved. and navy, and that she secretly interceded with the state department and other departments on Lehalf of communists so that they juld enter this country when the aw would have excluded them. So her "every act" as not, as Governor Lehman says, been a matter of public record. She has been, on the contrary, as he knows, a pestiferous, pernicious, mysterious influence. Her most important activities are dug up laboriously and perilously.

Now, at last, after years of taunting, mocking, tempting, daring those who, for religious and other reasons, have fought the communist conspiracy, she has been driven from cover. Cardinal Spellman will have to endure great abuse for this great service. No church man in any other congregation save the Catholic could have done this with auch effect, but those who abuse the cardinal now may enjoy in time to come the rewards his courage in this crisis. SO THEY SAY am very reluctantly step by step, destroying myself so that this nation and the faith by which it lives may continue to exist. Whlttaker Chambers, after testi fying in the Alger Hiss perjury trial.

Melancholy critics insist that the North Atlantic Pact is born of a purpose to defile, if not to scuttle, the United Nations. I am certain they are wrong. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R) of Michigan. The great forces of the world are growing in strength.

Recession marks the front of the forces of tyranny in every land throughout the world. The swift and easy interchange is taking place between human minds all over the world, and it shows that the forces of freedom on a broad front are advancing steadily. Winston Churchill, Tn these crucial days we cannot afford the luxury and wastes of dnnlication and the oi coue- sion among members of the same oii-Ampriran national defense team that characterized some of nut. efforts. of Defense Louis Johnson.

Bachelors know more about women than married men. thev' be married, too. H. L. Mencken, in "A Mencken Chrestomathy.

cri rF HAS THE STUFF N. Jim Stuff, Army's centerfielder, not only led the Cadeta in batting this spring but also the Eaatern Tnter-collegiate League The Cin-ennatian made 12 hit. in 28 trips to the plate in eight league games 429 mark. For his feat he rharles H. Blai record, that she Walter Loanes of Catholics were all, of necessity, secretly interfered with appoint- playing for Perm, was anti-communiste ana ior um'menu, particularly in the army with IN HOLLYWOOD 'New1 Joan Caulfield Has Curvaceous Petty Girl Role Bj ERSKINB JOHNSON (NE A) Miaa Joan Caulfield was wearing a plunging neckline clear down to tee level.

a smug expression and a new title, "The Petty Girl." "It's the new Joan Caulfield," aha announced. I Uke the Joan Caulfield but Joan said she didn't. "Too dull and too sweet," she said. "On the screen that is," she added, hastily. She sighed: "Someone had to be lady-like at Paramount and I was it." But now, Joan said, thlnre will be different.

She'e going to take off that halo and most of her clothes for the role of the model with the Interesting curves in Columbia's "The Petty Girl." "Isn't it Joan sighed again. 'Whenever I got into shorts at Paramount I was playing tennis like mad with my muscles show ing. I guess I had about as much sex appeal as Fred Allen." script of "Petty Girl' sounds like just a big plot to undress the lady. She wears different model bathing suits, does moamea strip tease at a formal eception, climbs in and out of filmy night gowns and is trapped in a night club raid wearing only her lingerie. All this happens to sweet little Joan Caulfield, who frowned on leg art and cheesecake when she first arrived in Hollywood five- and-a-half years ago? Yep.

BIG SURPRISE Hollywood lifted its eyebrows when Joan was announced for the role. But Columbia studio had lifted them before that when her agent, Harold Rose, suggested her for the role. "You mean that sweet little girl without the curves the studio said to Rose. "I mean," said Rose to the studio, "that' sweet little girl with the curves." "You'll have to prove it," said the studio. Rose telephoned Joan and said: "Have you got any bathing-suit pictures? Joan replied: "I think there are couple at Paramount.

Taken hen I was up at Carmel on 'em over to Columbia quick," said Rose. "You. may be 'The Petty Girl." Joan was so excited she to Paramount herself, "I through about 400 photographs in the publicity department library and found three. I was in a white two-piece bathing suit. I delivered them to Columbia myself." Columbia looked 'em over Hmmm! The lady's curves were all right.

The studio sent the photographs to George Petty in New York for his approval. Two days later Petty wired back his okay and Joan was signed for the role. Next day Joan spent eight hours in the studio still gallery posing only for bathing-suit pictures. There was a man from the Johnston censorship office approving every shot. WHISTLES WERE WONDERFUL "It was wonderful," Joan said, "to walk on a set and hav body whistle.

It never happened to me before. Joan has since bought a new wardrobe of 12 gowns. "I think it's important to look like a new Joan Caulfield off the screen as well as on." lumed to London after being a guest of Uncle Sam, claims they He Dases nis pitying actu- fation on the fact that on a Sunday afternoon the American husband piles his wife and children the famly automobile and on They go for an afternoon's outing. On the otner nana, accoraing to the critic of American family life, on a fair Sunday the British husband goes out for a solitary stroll or joins some male companion in a bar. Granting that the Englishman's observations are sound, it doesn't lollow that he has reached the right conclusion.

There may be a better reason why the American husband spends rtach of his leisure time with his wife and k'ds than that he's hope lessly tied to his wife's apron strings and I think there is. WHY POP'S HAPPY, THOUGH MARRIED American wives make a great effort to be companionable their husbands. They get taken along where their husbands go. because they a-e good sports who have learned to enjov the same kind of cre ation aa their men. If Papa to baseball Joan's performance in "Dear Wife," her last picture at Paramount, didn't hurt her, either, when Columbia was considering her for the Petty film.

The front office looked at the picture and was surprised. It's the first time in five-ana-a-haif years that Joan has shown some fire in a performance. She admits that herself. "But really," she said, "it wasn't e. It was the roles.

I started playing a nice but dull girl in my first picture (Miss Susie Slagle'e). and I never got out of the rut" Getting the Petty girl role re minded Joan of one of her first stage roles. She played Veronica, the gold- digger in "Beat the Band," for George Abbott. The first time she walked on stage Abbott threw up his arms in disgust and said: "Young lady, you're walking into a boudoir not onto a tennis court." Dana Andrews is getting his yacht tuned up for an extended vacation down South America way. The Mrs.

and four kids go along, too. Cary Grant is house-hunting again, this time in Bel-Air. Betsy Drake? A movie company on location was constantly amazed at the unfailing weather predictions made by an old Indian who lived near the filming site. He was consulted every day and his forecasts proved ery reliable. One day, however, refused to perdict the weather.

"Is anything wrong?" asked the film's producer. "Yes," replied the Indian, "radio broke." BARBS By HAL COCHRAN Bees, they tell us, don't sts red, What is it, then, that upsets them so much that they upset us England has a post office en wheels, but the letter paper Britons use continues to be stationery. A couple In North Carolina got married on a locomotive. Now, isn't that just choo, choO clever Autumn approaches the yearja little breathing spell between the hay fever and the cold. TEXAS TECH ARIZONA Tucson, Ariz.

(AP) The University of Arizona and Texas Tech have agreed to meet on the football field in 1950 on Nov. IS at Tucson and on Oct. 27, 1951 at Lubbock, Tex. BAD LITTLE CUBS Chicago -Coach George Halaa predicts that his Chicago Beara wiH have the youngest team in professional football. RUTH MILLETT American Wives Don't Need Apron-Strings on Husbands Are American husbands tied to their wives' apron strings? i Englishman, recently re chances are Mama is just as fond of relaxing at a ball park.

If Papa likes to fish, chancel are Mama has learned to sit still and keep quiet for hours at a time. If Papa is a golfer, Mama haa very likely been taking from a pro. And so it goes. As a matter of fact, the American wife has made herself so companionable to her husband that often she's the one who is tied Far from wanting to be alone the American husband with a companionable wife has a fit if she plans to go to a bridge party on his afternoon off, or if he cornea home from work to an empty house. When an old buddy happens to be going through town the American husband doesn't say "I'll meet you at a bar." He says, "Come on' out to the house dinner.

I want you to meet my" wife." And he couldn't be pried loose from his easy chair to take ft solitary as any wife wanting to run a vacuum cleaner oveF the living room nig well knows. The American husband is a family man, not because he's tied, to Mama's apron atrings, but be-cause la likes it.