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THE EVENING TIMES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1941 PAGE FOUR ROBINSON CRUSOE UP TO DATE The Daily Washinj Robert Qoillen Laymen Loved Charlie Chaplin For Years Before The Critics Saw Greatness In Him MerryGoRoiind By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN I THOUGHT I S-V THP5TGUV s. 'Bassjas- The Evening Times Founded In 11 nd consolidated with the Valley Record In 1907. Tlie Evening Tlmee la published every venlns except Sunday at the Sayre Printing Company, a corporation, at Sayre, Pa. Clara S. Johnston President and Treasurer Annie M.

Stephen Vice-President Mrs. Dorothv Arnold Secretar) Albert R. Mlchener Harold Ytngling News Editor Francis P. McCormick Advertising Manager Dana S. Johnston Circulation Manager The Waverly office of The Times Is at 41 Fulton treet, phone JS.

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Entered at the post office Sayre. as second class mall matter. The Evening Times is the only oaper in Northeastern Pennsvlvania having two full leased wire telegraph services member of the Associated Press and United Press. Member of Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations MONDAY, FEB. 17, 1941 Airport I Important Importance of an airport for the Valley was indicated again Saturday when the pilot of a TJ.

S. navy plane took advantage of the local field to permit two fliers in an open plane to warm and to make certain of weather condition before proceeding on their way to Buffalo. In this particular case, the fliers probably could have 'carried on' even if there were no port in this area, but their being able to land here for an hour nevertheless prov-td highly welcome to them. "With America taking more and more to the-air, such incidents are certain to be multiplied, and there are bound to be cases where a field in this vicinity will prove a life-saver to pilots and passengers stricken with more serious trouble. And aside from the service it will be able to render to the flying public, a modern airport in the Valley will be important to the towns of this section.

Fliers who know that they can count on a suitable landing field here will be attracted to the Valley, and Sayre, Athens and "Waverly will be 'put on the map' for the flying-conscious section of the public, which is growing rapidly. And should a real defense emergency ever arise to require airport facilities here, the basis for a port will be immediately available. The Valley airport already has shown a part of its value. It will become of increasing importance as time goes on. Laymen, who aren't supposed to know anything about art, have a legitimate quarrel with modern painting and with the critics who tell them they should like it.

As physicians once used Latin to make simplt herbs and spring water sound more impressive, so the critics use big words and fancy language to make art seem an ethereal something beyond the comprehension of dull clods who don't agree with them; but the simple truth is that any person blessed with clear vision and good sense can recognize art. And though the critics and the heathen may rage, one of two things must be true: either the standard of excellence has changed in the last few centuries, or much of the modern painting honored by critics is atrociously bad. "What was the original goal and purpose of art? It was to reproduce or imitate or picturt nature. The stone-age artist who drew the picture of a bison on the wall of a cave tried to make it look like a bison and succeeded remarkably well. And later artists, who used brushes and colors, had the same ambition.

They tried to paint what they saw and make it look real. If the art of photography had been invented a thousand years ago, there might have been no painters. Portrait painters tried to produce likenesses of the great modified by charity or discretion. And the fact that they painted jewelry and fabrics with photographic exactitude proved their ability to do as much for persons. Dutch artist painted fat infants and ladies because the infants and ladies were fat.

Has the standard changed? Does the popularity of African swing mean the standard of good music has changed since Beethoven's timet Standards of excellence change only to improve. And a modern painting without good drawing or true perspective or correct coloring is a childish and amateurish daub though all the critics in Christendom gush and rave over it. Guided only by the desire for excellence, public taste steadily improves to corrupt and degrade it by teaching false standards is a crime against civilization. for defense workers, Defense Housing Coordinator Charles F. Palmer finally has proposed to Roosevelt that the Government buy fleets of trailers and rush them to the most congested industrial spots as temporary living quarteri.

In submitting his plan, Palmer carefully avoided the term "trailers" and has cautioned his staff to refer to them as "mobile But never mind the fancy terminology. Plain, ordinary auto trailers art what he proposes to use." Palmer contemplates the purchase of thousands of these homes on wheels, but where he is going to get them remains to be seen. A check of trailer manufacturers disclosed two interesting facts: First, available at present are not more than 2,000 trailers, a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of thousands of housing units needed. Second, the plants are working day and night on urgent orders for the Army, and unless they suspend such operations, can't make trailers. Meanwhile, with a vast army of migrated workers jammed into makeshift quarters, the defense housing problem daily becomes more alarming.

Public health authorities are scared stiff over the danger of epidemics. Krivitsky and Dies When J. B. Matthews, Dies Committee investigator, viewed the limp blood-stained body of Walter G. Krivitsky in a Washington hotel room, his thoughts flashed back to his first meeting with the former OGPU general, a meeting as strange as his death.

It was two years ago April, 1939. Through grapevine channels Matthews learned that Krivitsky had reached this country safely after a narrow escape from Soviet assassins in France. The Dies Committee wanted him to testify and after weeks of intensive searching, Matthews located two intimate friends of Krivitsky in New York. They agreed to take him to the agent's hideout, providing he told no one of the visit and agreed to abide by Krivitsky's yes-or-no answer. "What followed was the most fantastic ride I've ever taken," recalls Matthews.

"We kept doubling back and traveling on dirt roads for hours. Finally we reached the house, a neat little bungalow on a backwoods farm. It was about 150 miles from New York, but I'd never be able to find the place again." Krivitsky was secluded there with his wife and small son. At WASHINGTON John L. Lewis is keeping his own counsel, but privately he is cooking up a batch of demands that are going to give the mine operators convulsions when they meet with him early next month to negotiate a new union contract.

Chief proposals the United Mine Workers boss has up his sleeve are (1) a basic $8-a-day wage, (2) a 6-hour day. Present average union wage scale is $5.50 for a 7-hour day, 5-day week. Highest pay was $7.50 for an 8-hour day, 8-day week during the World War, and again in 1928 under the so-called Jacksonville agreement, which later was repudiated by the operators during the Hoover depression. Both the coal industry and the UMW sank to a low state In the ensuing years and it wasn't until the NRA, followed by the Bituminous Coal Act, put an end to cutthroat competition and gave the union legal recognition that both operators and miners got back on their feet. Now, with the UMW contract expiring March 31, Lewis is out to capitalize on the defense program and the tremendous demand for coal.

He is in a strategic position and intends to make the most of it. Privately, government labor chiefs are fearful that Lewis is bent on a coal tie-up. He is bitterly against the President's foreign policies and defense program, and could almost paralyze both if the mines shut down. Already there is a shortage of coke. Many beehive ovens, which make coke for small steel plants and which have been shut down for years, have been reopened in recent months.

But still they are insufficient to meet the steadily rising demand. In 1929 there were 10,028 beehive ovens; now there are less than 1500 in operation, mostly located around Uniontown, Pa. Morgenthau' Bankers At a recent press conference with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, newsmen noticed on his desk the book, "Bankers be by U. V. Wilcox.

The author himself, who writes for The American Banker, was present at the conference. "Are you reading this book, Mr. Secretary?" asked one of the newsmen with a wry smile, knowing that the book contained acidulous criticisms of the Treasury Department. "Yes," replied Morgenthau, "I like to read fiction." Mobile Housing Harried by the national criticism of failure to provide housing THE WAR IN EUROPE By J. W.

T. MASON United Press War Expert London's official confirmation that British parachute troops have been operating in southern Italy has special significance because of HOW'S YOUR HEALTH By LOGAN CLENDENING, M.D. the implication that some of the men had returned to their "base." While the wording of the British communique was obscure, probably intentionally, the natural use of "base" in its military sense means starting point or some place of security for recuperation. If this be the actual meaning, in the present instance, then it would seem that the British have found some secret means of rescuing parachute troops after they have done their work in enemy terri- clearings where the rescue planes could land. This factor 'would limit the area of operation.

It would be necessary for the operations to take place in darkness. How the parachutists could make their way back to their planes in unfamiliar country at night is difficult to understand, unless the timing allowed for the return just as dawn broke or the planes may have used flares which the Italians may have thought were their own signals. The Italian report on the mysterious operation mentions peculiarities of the uniforms of the parachutists. It is possible that they used special uniforms which though of military character yet were so designed as to make difficult their detection as British while they were returning to their planes, if, indeed, planes actually rescued them. The actual landing of British planes in Italian territory without immediate detection could be done without too much difficulty, especially in the dark.

Open fields are numerous and while the take tory. That is to say, parachutists can no longer be described as "suicide troops" or as men marked inevitably for capture if they are not killed while engaged in their hazardous tasks. The Italians have announced the capture of several parachutists and the British say "some" did not return to their base. Thus, the rescue device seems to have operated imperfectly; but that it should have worked at all is one of the astonishing developments of the war, if true. The most reasonable assumption of the way the British parachutists might be brought home after completing their attacks is that British planes had landed at specified points near the scene of operations.

It could have been arranged beforehand that at a definite time, the parachutists would have finished their work and would assemble at an agreed nearby place for rescue. Any such plan, however, must necessarily be precarious. It would depend for success on exact timing and on enemy confusions due to the suddenness of the parachute attacks. If there were a certain degree of inefficiency on the part of the enemy, the hazards would be decreased. The objectives of the parachute offensive would be to be near (Continued on Page 5) Along Capital Corridors The Literary Giaidepost By JOHN SELBY By WILLIAM W.

TYLER to be expected that a greater number of divorces and separations will follow in the wake of the present struggle to sustain our democracy." off would be more troublesome, it would not be impossible. It is known that on several occasions, German aviators who had lost their way over England and Giddy Days Ahead? So America is in for an of elegance" in male attire That is asserted, at least, in behalf of the Merchant Tailors' and Designers' Association of America, whose New York members have just been giving a pre-view of spring fashions. One of the points emphasized is that there is to be a plentiful display on mere men of diamonds and jewelry with brightly hued clothing, hatbands are to be of a contrasting color with hats and even, in some instances, crowns and brims will be of different colors. It is further insisted, though it strains credence, that soon "midnight blue" full dress and dinner clothes will be succeeded by garments at least two shades lighter, "twilight blue," in fact. "Show 'em something new and make 'em buy it" has been a guiding principle of fashion designers for centuries.

It would not be surprising if today, when wars are raging in many parti of the world, there should be a reaction here against anything that smacks of regimentation in men's attire. And if it does set in, trust the lads who "make" the styles to ring all the changes possible. Maybe ladies will again be dazzled by diamonds blazing from starched shirtfronts and marvel at the color schemes of street attire. What a temptation it will be to the man with jeweled cuff links to be "shooting" that wrist watch at the shortest permissable intervals. And the most modest of men will be justified in sporting a scarfpin of quality if the Ascot cravat becomes the vogue.

(Continued on Page 8, Column 5) MAN ABOUT MANHATTAN By GEORGE TUCKER Defense and state finances are the most important problems before lawmakers this year but neither figured in the sharpest debate of the month-old session. It started with a senator's protest at "ridiculous bills that only take up our time" and his proposal such matters "be turned over to the conservation department." That led to a 20-minute fight over delegating legislative powers and the climactic argument such action "Is against the democratic principle of government." Touch-off was proposed advancement of a bill for a closed season on "land-locked chinook salmon." How Physicians of Today Detect Vitamin Deficiency We went along for years without realizing that the substance we call vitamins in the food are necessary for normal growth and vigorous health. The conditions which result from lack of vitamins are rather elusive. Nowadays, however, the modern doctor 5s alert to the possibility of vitamin deficiency and he pays particular attention to the following signs which may indicate vitamin deficiency In the first place, he makes an examination of the eyes to see whether or not there is any night blindness. This is perhaps the best general test of vitamin deficiency, and if night blindness is present it indicates that probably a number of vitamins are deficient in the diet.

The condition of the tongue is very important. A rough, fissured or raw tongue is good evidence of vitamin deficiency. Ulcerations or cracks under the lips are also noted. The condition of the bones, especially if there is any swelling of the long bones toward the end; whether there is any pain present over the bones, are especially valuable signs in infants. The condition of the skin itself is an indication of vitamin deficienej.

If the skin is rough and shows little plugs at the mouth of the sweat glands which make it look as if there were gooseflesh, this is considered to be an indication of vitamin deficiency. A general feeling of lassitude is noted, and, in general, a feeling of well being would indicate that the vitamin supply in the food is sufficient. Dietary Habits In trying to arrive at a diagnosis, it is well to inquire into the dietary habits of the individualWhat kind of a cook is there in the household! Does the cook cook for one or several? A person living alone and cooking his or her own meals is much more likely to use processed foods which do not contain vitamins in large numbers. A housewife cooking for several people, on the whole, is likely to have a more balanced diet containing a good quantity of vitamins. ALBANY, N.

Feb. 17 (AP) Republican lawmaking leaders who cooked the majority's weather eye last month for defense-tagged proposals, must have had a finger in the legislative wind. Hardly had Governor Lehman completed his opening day plea for "total defense" when Senator Joe R. Hanley cautioned against "the mass of legislation that will come in here wrapped in the American flag." On the other side of the capitol, Assemblyman Irving M. Ives counselled "closest scrutiny of bills introduced in the name of defense." They shove tongues further into their cheeks as the preparedness label, tacked on by hopeful sponosrs, bobs up repeatedly in the swelling steam of legislation.

Assembling the Jig-saw scramble of "essential" defense, for which the Republican majority pledged its support, is slowed, as a result, by the bane of all puzzle workers too many parts. Some of the pieces project themselves from the nearly 2,000 bills in legislative hoppers and slip naturally into the defense framework. In many others, lawmakers recognize old acquaintances, once or repeatedly rejected and back in new, star-spangled dress. "REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE." by Carson McCullers. A year ago a young woman named Carson McCullers published a book called "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." This had a reasonable popular success and a good critical success, although a few reviewers who got out the flags for the book on publication later took the flags down and furled them.

They will have no cause to break them out on the publication of "Reflections in a Golden Eye," the novelette Mrs. McCullers publishes as her second book. The book is said to be, on its handsome dust jacket, one of the most compelling, one of the most uncanny stories ever written in America." What is not said on the jacket is this: That it also is one of the most vulgar. Its presence on bookshelves about town makes one marvel at the fuss raised over Joyce's "Ulysses" by those simple folk of the 'twenties. "Ulysses" at least had the recommendation of genius.

Mrs, McCullers can write, although the new book is not as well written as its predecessor by a great deal. She also is young, and quite likely thinks the way to attract and hold attention is to shock the living daylights out of everybody at least that is what she has done this time. I have no objection whatever to good, honest Rabelaisian prose, but on the other hand I doubt the use to anybody of the kind of super-abnormality which distinguishes "Reflections in a Golden Eye." "Distinguishes" is the wrong word; characterizes is better. There are seven beings in the book, and only one of these is normal. This is a horse, and even that helpless creature is used for strange purposes at one point.

The settling is an army post, and Mrs. McCullers simply does not give a good picture of post life, although she may have been born in one for all I know. The story leads up to a murder; unfortunately the murder was single, instead of sextuple, and occurs on the last page instead of the first. The point of the foregoing is not to discourage prospective readers, because there is always a market for this sort of book, and it would circulate in spite of anything. The point is that Mrs.

McCullers could be an important talent if sh would work hard at the job. First query reported put to Herbert Bayard Swope, chairman of the State Racing commission, when he went before the Senate Finance committee considering his reappointment was: "Can you give us a hot tip?" "Sure, and I won't give you a loser," Swope replied, thereupon naming "Speed to Spare'' in the sixth race at Hialeah. He knew and some of his hearers learned why the horse could not lose; it already had been scratched. NEW YORK If you think everything happens to you, consider the plight of the poor taxi driver I encountered today. Twice in two days he has been overwhelmed by events that were none of his choosing.

He was just an innocent bystander. Last Thursday night he was parked on Fifth Avenue at 49th street waiting for a fare. A roadster tore past and as he followed it with his gaze he was horrified to see two bodies tumble from it. "It happened so fast," he explained, "that for a moment I thought a couple of drunks had toppled out of the rumble seat. But they weren't drunks.

They weren't even in the car. They were pedestrians and that hit-and-run roadster had knocked them down." The cabby went on to say his first impulse had been to rush them to a hospital. But in New York, a very big city, picking up bodies has complications. It might be difficult to prove that YOU weren't the one who knocked them down. Fortunately, however, another cabby ran up and said, "I saw that guy.

I'll be a witness." The victims therefore were speedily taken to a big mid-town hospital. But this hospital had no emergency entrance, and the driver was told he would have to go up to the third floor to see about having the patients received. Angered, he rushed around the 'corner to another hospital that had less red tape. But his troubles were only beginning. He then had to hurry to the police station and report the accident.

Th police received his report with skepticism, despite the accompanying driver's corroboration. Fortunately the roadster's bracket mirror had been knocked off, and after a detective checked to see that the cabby's mirror was intact, he was released. That was Thursday night. Friday night he drove from a mid-town, address to Amsterdam avenue, and quickly returned to his downtown stand. When he checked into the taxi's garage about 3 a.

the other drivers in the fleet began clustering around him excitedly, crying "Haven't the cops picked you up yet?" When he ascertained that his colleagues were in earnest, he hurried away to the police station to find out the trouble. It seemed that just as he dropped his fares at Amsterdam avenue two men had held up a corner store and escaped. An eye-witness to the robbery had noted that a green Packard car at that moment had turned around and driven away. He jotted down the cab's number. A few moments later the bandits held up another store further uptown, and escaped again, and about an hour later help up still another store and escaped in a green Packard cab.

Nobody got the license number this time but the inference was obvious. It took our driver a lot of explaining to convince the police that he was innocent, but they finally released him. "Not only that," moaned the driver, "but think of all the time I lost. That hit-and-run driver and those stick-up bums cost me five or six bucks, easy." Home of the Future In the unrelenting march of civilization (current phase) streamlined and air-conditioned occur together so frequently that there is a tendency to think of them as inseparable. Now there is a notable exception in the home of the future; it will be air-conditioned, but not streamlined.

It seems the architectural forecasts are all the other way. The home of the future will be ahaped like a box, at least until the era of the home of the ultra-future, which may be shaped like a farmer's silo. The dominant house models as yet are of the beehive type, cubical and angular. The old-fashioned things, around a home happen to be the streamlined things-cornices and caves and dormers and other flowing lines. They will disappear.

Probably on the inside of this simple geometrical home the furniture and the utensils still will flow. There must be many old-fashioned people who resent the stiff lines and sharp corners of modernistic furniture. Sixty-five state troopers "riding herd" on thousands who pushed through capitol corridors Wednesday to attend the budget hearing found little use for night sticks they carried. Orderliness of the gathering Surprised veteran police, one of Whom remarked "it isn't much like '35." That year blood flowed in an Assembly gallery brawl and troopers barely rescued one of their number from being pitched 50 feet into the chamber. Here are samples of pending bills, some previously defeated, what they would do and sponsors' statements accompanying their introduction: Establish a 35-pupil maximum for New York City public school classes to give "adequate attention" to individual students "the strongest defense of democracy lies in protecting the welfare of these future citizens;" Provide compulsory health insurance for low-income persons "The high percentage of rejections for physical defects under the selective service act is but another glaring example of need for more adequate distribution of medical care and health education;" Memorialize Congress to authorize a national lottery "proceeds would provide an immense fund for financing national defense;" and Create marital clinics in supreme courts to effect reconciliations between parties seeking divorce "domestic peace on a large scale is seldom present when national peace is disturbed.

It is QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS J. M. "Is ulcer of the stomach curable in a man of 30? lie has had it for 10 to 12 years. Is an operation necessary and successful? He has been in bed for three weeks and has had five hemorrhages." Answer Ulcer of the stomach takes so many different forms that blanket advice is not very good. In this particular case I should say that surgical consultation would be indicated.

If an ulcer case does not get well on diet and alkaline powders, and when there are weakening hemorrhages, it is advisable to consider surgery at any rate, to get a surgeon's ad vies. One legislator, listening to speaker after speaker urge budget cuts that would not hurt his particular group or increases to benefit it, glanced at the calendar, murmured "Lincoln's birthday" and added: "With malice toward none, with charity for all." Factories to turn out materials for gas masks are being constructed in the United States. The masks may come in handy during the next political campaign, at any rate..