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PAGE FOUR SHAMOK1N NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOK1N, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1041 'Remember When We Used to Fear 'Overproduction' Shamokin News-Dispatch Peter Edson "Behind the Scenes E. V. Durling "On the Side" Raymond Clapper "In the News" Comblntni September 11. 1933 SHAMOKIN UA1L NEW! SHAMOKIN MSPATCll (Established 1883) (Founded MM) Pubilsned Ivarj enln bcepl Uundsj tj NEWS PUBLISHING AND PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Cnr.

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Office tn. Pittsburgh, Boston, Masai Los Ancelaa, Callt. Ban Francuoo Denver Cnii Omaha. Neb i 8attl Wash. I Portland Rochester A THOUGHT FOR TODAY But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

II Timothy 2:16. Swearing is properly a superfluity of naughtiness, and can only be considered as a sort of pep-percorn sent in acknowledgment, of the devil's right of superiority. Robert Hall. THE EVER-GROWING BURDEN Eighty million Germans are now lording it over one hundred and fifty-two million other Europeans. There are nearly two underlings for every member of the conquering "master race." The caterpillar.treaded Nazi legions have clanked successively through a monotonous 'series of conquests Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Hungary, Ru-mania, Bulgaria, Jugoslavia, and now Greece.

It is an impressive record of conquest from the strictly military point of view. btreet crowds in Berlin are reported strangely silent, strangely lacking in jubilation, as victory piles on victory. Mussolini's caperings are understandable, and the joy of street crowds in Rome at the news that their Greek adventure had been pulled out of the fire for them by Hitler. But to the exosrds in Berlin, the Greek victory was just one more victory. They are used to that.

Tot a year and a half, one victory has followed another, but there is no end. Strange and stubborn, those conquered ''sub-peoples." Their armies are conquered. They fall. But all too many of them retain a pride that somehow doesn't go with the idea that they are "sub-peoples." And the Greeks, newest conquest, stood silent as the tanks rolled by the Parthenon Hill, and their newspapers said, "Remember, Greeks, this, too, will pass!" They cannot revolt, these hundred and fifty- millions oppressed by eighty millions, The eighty millions have the tanks, and planes, and machine guns. But they can hate.

And they can wait. Some of them can even be forced by hun- ger to go to Germany and work to produce the fodder for the iron war-horse. Thousands of Italians, Poles, Czechs and French-men are doing that. Always there must be that overpowering sense that they are waiting, waiting for the time that must come, They feel that, the troops of occupation in a dozen scattered countries. They feel it in Berlin, where news, of victory is accepted stolidly.

They know that even if their legions win the Mediterranean, even if they crush England, the only result will be more millions of people waiting, hating. Nobody has ever built anything very enduring on that kind of a foundation. Nobody ever will. Nobody is doing it now. The Americas Act Together Every time the American nations act to-gether on a matter there is a net gain for the principle of a united Western Hemisphere.

Their joint action in recommending a common policy toward foreign-flag ships lying idle in their ports is excellent. It is a reasonable, sensible attitude, too. The American nations do not normally have between them enough ships to carry their trade. In normal times this trade is largely carried in foreign, European, ships. Those ships are either at the bottom of the ocean today or blockaded.

So it is only sensible to use for inter-American trade those ships which lie rusting at anchor in American ports. That should release for war service any ships the British may be using in that trade. Without going into long dissertations on international law, it is a sensible thing to do, if, as is only right, the ships are paid for when peace comes again. "France Under German e've heard Hitler called worse than that! Why is it peopft always speak of bad colds? Ever hear of a good one? To some people daylight saving time mere-JjUQeans hour they can waste. WASHDOOTON-Not all the aid which hu gone to the belligerent countries of thi Eastern Hemisphere has been in the form of planes, pint and tanks purchased directly by those countries, or leased, loaned or swapped by the United States government.

John Oitlaen and Joe Public have dug down In their jeans and come up with more than eo million dollars to be passed along to the suffering countries for re lief of their war victims. Because of the neutrality law, it la now possible to check up on these contributions to ate where this money eame from and where It has gone. Every organisation soliciting funds for foreign relief is required to register Ease with the Department of state. All must file monthly reports on their collections, disbursements and expenses, The registration has done seme good, too. In a tew instances it has been found that the costs of collection run well over half the amount collected and all such cases can be spotted as charity rackets and publie opin- ioned out of existence.

Anti'Sveker Machinery Protection of the public is the main purpose of this registration, intended to avoid the phony war charities which mulcted big-hearted Americana out of so many millions in the last war. One famous insldent of that was the now celebrated case of a good priest in New Haven. who. asked for a contribution to aid the starving Armenians, seriously reached in his pocket and produced a cent, What? Was that all the father would five? "That's all the Armenians would get anyway, even if I'd give you more," he answered, and the matter was dropped. Nearly SCO charities for foreign relief are ngw reg istered with the Department of State, This does not include the American lied Cross which has always (seen re quired to submit its disbursements to the eeretary of war, The list does include all sorts of organisations from Bundles for Britain to the Caledonian Club of Boise, Idaho, the niver Thimble of New Orleans, 1., and (he Pel-ham, Overseas Knitting Circle.

Polish charities, numbering more than 100, form the largest group as Poland was the first country invaded. Most Polish relief funds are collected in Polish communities but the amounts they have collected total over four million dollars, British and French funds numbei more than 100 million. Oreek collections have increase i in the last few months. There are a dozen or so societies collecting money for relief of Oerman prisoners captured by the Allies. Top collections have been these: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 340,000.

British American Ambulance Corps, $1,047,000. British War Relief Society, $5,343,000. Bundles for Britain, $1,057,000. Greek War Relief Association, $3,134,000, Heassah, $1,909,000. the total of 90 million dollars collected by these war relief charities, the costs of collection have averaged about 10 per cent, Many of the organisations report no eosts at all, paying for their drives and campaigns out of their own pockets.

Those are the ones that stend out as the most sincere in their efforts to help. On top of cash contributions, there have been collections of clothes, blankets and medical supples total-log nearly six million dollars, British War Rshef and Bundles for Britain head this list with one and a half million dollars worth of goods, from ambulances and rolling kitchens to baby blankets and bandages, sent to Brit-aln. Ten Million From Taxee Red Cross donations of money and material: equal the 90 million dollars privately collected, and the 10 million dollars of this Is U. 8. government money given to the semi-government organisation for the relief of wounded prisoners of war and non-belligerents in six European countries and China.

Britain has received half of tnis Red Cross relief, France four million, Greece two million and the rest was about equally divided between Spain, Finland and Jugoslavia, All this charity is interesting to study because it is, of course, only the beginning. The longer the war lasts, the greater will be the demand for war relief, if permission can be obtained from Germany and Britain to do relief work in the occupied countries. A Book a Day Rex Beach is the kind of author who has lived as much adventure as he has packed Into his novels He has taken the trouble, now, to set down some of hi: expert-ences for the vast public that dotes on his fiction. In "Personal Exposures" (Harper: he indulge, in the luxury of talking about himself and the people he has known in an easy but dramatic manner. This yarn of a Ban Francisco prize fighter by the nsme of Spider Kelly is an example: Kelly was not only a skillful but an extremely canny fighter and a capable business man as well He knew every technicality, every trick of his trade; he took every advantage, gave nothing.

He was signed for a match at-we'U say pounds, and the articles called for both men to weigh in imme-diately before the fight. Kelly was the first to step on the scales and the beam stood level at 135. His rival weighed 135'. Promptly the Spider said. "Send this turnip home and han.1 me the forfeit money.

There aint going to be any fight." Naturally this brought consternation, for the prelimi-naries were over, the coliseum was crowded: the backers and handlers of Kelly's opponent bayed like a pack of stag hounds and his own seconds urgd him to reconsider. He was adamant. 'The articles call for a hundred and thirty-five pounds and you guys can read," Kelly asserted. "But he's only four ounces overweight." they protested. Four ounces or four tons, It's all the same to me." "That mob will lynch us if the fight is called off." "Not me.

If they try to lynch me they'll have to hang a brass bed for I'll be in it," Kelly declared and went to his dressing room to put on his clothes The promoter argued, he pleaded and ho wheedled; finally on the verge of tears he spoke of his wife and children and the suffering this would bring upon them. "You got kids?" Kelly inquired. "I have. Three." Alter a pregnant moment of thought, Kelly cried irritably: "All right! All right! in go through for them-kids if I take a beating. Bring on the big stiff." The Alps, the Carpathians, the Apennines, and the Caucasus, all are mountains located on the moon, as veil as the earth.

,41111 He thought to quell the stubborn hearts of oak, Madman! To chain with chains, and bind with bands The island queen who sways the floods and lands We taught him lowlier moods. Tennyson. (Prime Minister Churchill, who usually closes his speeches with a quotation, is saving the above to use as the last words of his last speech about A. Hitler. The lines were originally written about Napoleon.

E. V. Note young woman in news described as "a butter blonde." It is said there are 37 troes of blonde in The golden and straw blondes are reported the most difficult to manage but are said to develop into excellent wives if properly trained by a strong-minded. Deislstent patient man. We have nothing in our files regarding the characteristics of the other types of blondes.

"My Sis ter and is a currently popular song I don't mind hear ing over and over. Seems the newcomers in the music publishing field are turning out songs with better lyrics than the old-timers A brother and sister, or two sis ters, are more closely related than a mother and daughter or father and son and are more likely to have characteristics and talents in common. That is why so many brothers and sisters are successful in the same type of activity, SIDELIGHTS Those who get past age of 56 in good health have a good chance of living at least 90 years longer Now the wearing of "shorts" by feminine bowlers is objected to. A ridiculous objection. Probably sponsored by fem inine bowlers who do not look as well in shorts as the girls now wearing them Whenever beautiful women of the yesteryear are mentioned, the names of the seven Sutherland sisters are never omitted.

Yet none of these much admired slaters weighed less than 190 pounds. ASKING Queries' from clients: Q. Who originated the say ing, "You can't take it with A. Couldn't say, sir. But certainly the Inspiration for this observation comes from the Bible, Timothy 6-7: "For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out." Q.

How long is the Shanghai Club bar, Shanghai, China? A. One hundred and twenty-eight feet, Q. In which of Shakespeare's plays does the word "Honorifica- bilitudinitibus" occur? A. "Love's Labor Lost." Act I. PLEASE NOTE Many slogans catch the eye and ear.

But the slogan, that counts is the one that attracts the eye, pleases the ear and brings the business. A woman in the West at tributes much of her success to her slogan, which "Stylist for difficult That certainly says a lot in four words Seems more and more men are marrying nurses. Such popularity must be deserved. You hardly ever read of a man who has married a nurse get ting a divorce. KISSING "The perfect kiss has three ingredients, attectlon, respect and passion," states that eminent authority on the subject.

Dr. JoSiah Oldfield, The good doctor, how ever, has neglected to advise as to the proportions of the aforementioned ingredients in the aforementioned per fect kiss. Incidentally there is a campaign against kiss ing under Those campaigning say kissing is dan gerous, that in each kiss there are over a hundred thousand bacteria, 40 per cent of which are harmful And that in each kiss between lovers they exchange 40,000 disease-producing bacteria. ASIDES Now a poll of Navy reveals the sailors prefer tall srirl. How can this startling spread of preference for the lengthy ladies be explained? Is it due to propaganda? The time appears to have come when the "cute, little tricks" should do something about regaining their previous commanding position in the hearts of their countrymen "Have just finished my first novel.

It is about a girl who loved and lost. A torch song in prose." writes a New Yorker. "Can you suggest a title?" How about "Rapture's Roadway," Inspired by lines ot Laurence Hope? Whom do you lead on rapture's roadway, far Before you agonize them in farewell? PASSING BY Secretary of Interior lekes. He's quite a gardener; having patented dahlia. Original dahlia came from Mexico and is named after Dr.

Dahl, a Swedish botanist Frank Leahy, Notre Dame coach, is complaining about slow motion newsreel shots taken of the games played by his last season's outfit, Boston College. These scenes give away his system, says Frank. Knute Rockne never complained about anything like that. As a matter of fact up to this time Notre Dame has never had a tern- peramental "prima donna" type football coach. ALMOST CONFIDENTIAL Most expensive fur eoat over sold In Manhattan was a sable priced at $39,000, bought by a Mrs.

Drouilard in 1913. That would be same as paying around $65,000 for a coat at present buying power of the dollar A celebrated "cute, little trick" la Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind." Margaret weighs 100 pounds, is four feet 11 inches tall. Anita Loos, author, of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Is even smaller than Margaret. Looking Backward Twenty-five Years Age 1911 John Hancock, 17, a printer's "devil." employed In the job department of the Shamokin Daily News, had his hand crushed in one of the job presses. Coal Township school authorities announced that a class of 95 students would be graduated from high school at exercises June 1, with Dr.

George P. Bible, of Philadelphia, listed as the speaker. Fifteen Years Age 192t Miss Elisabeth Mifflin, Paxinos, was elected to fill a vacancy in the domestic science department of Shamokin High School. Rush Gunther was selected to occupy the office of chief burgess and Robert Startsei the post of chief of police as Shamokin Boy Scouts took over the leins of municipal government during a one-day celebration in connection with National Boys' Week. Five Years Age 193s Dr.

Paul E. Witmeyer, superintendent af Shamokin Borough schools, was elected district governor ot Pennsylvania Rotary. Leonard Lyons "Broadway Medley" A New York model was invited to the Palm Beach home of Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury.

She made a pri vate inspection of the magnificent house, and in all the rooms the model found many packages of the Stotesbury private brand of clgarets. And so from each room the model took one package, and crammed them all Into her bag Downstairs later, while Mrs. Stotesbury greeted all the guests, the hostess suddenly discovered that a precious earring was missing. Guards immediately circulated around the room, blooming with suspicion. The innocent model clutched her handbag full of stotesbury cigareta and waited for the thorough search she believed imminent Fortunately, the earring was found under a chair.

Prince Biihnu, of Nepal who wanted to attend a cocktail party given by a beautiful lady, was unable to make it. Some knockout drops, placed in his beer by the lady's foremost rival, did the trick Thomas Benton, who, plays the harmonica in his spare time, war asked what his plans were, now that he's been deposed as head of the Kansas City Art Institute. "From now on," Benton declared, "I don't know whether to compete with Rembrandt-ror with Larry Adler" The President's Home-Defense setup is expected to be announced next week Fred Waring introduced "Bill Pratt" at the Lambs Gambol and the applause was feeble. But when he then added: "That's only his real name. Hu stage name's Boris Karloff," the star received his due, Starting today, and until the end of June, the Collector of Internal Revenue will initiate the most intense tax collection drive in the history of American taxation.

For the first time, the provision concerning criminal prosecution where the delinquent taxpayer had tin funds at the time he made the return will be enforced John Ford is anxious to make the long-delayed screen adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' "it Can't Happen Here," which M-O-M now owns Samson Raphaelson author of such hits as "The Jazz Singer," "Accent on Youth," etc. will become an actor this summer at Stony Brook, Conn. He'll play the male lead in his play, "Sky-lark," with Mrs. Raphaelson playing the Gertrude Lawrence role Alec Woollcott and Kathleen Norris no longer are friends. Mrs.

Pat Washington, who is here now representing the Women's Auxiliary' Service in England, was the only woman who was evacuated from Dunkirk, when the B. E. F. was rescued there Mrs. Washington now is telling the ladles here of the important work they can perform during an emergency "in England," she stated, "we at least have discovered this fact: Women are a Peacetime Luxury-and a Wartime Necessity." Henry Nemo, the song writer who is known along Broadway as "The at last is rehearsing his own orcheatra-a 19-plece band which will feature four Chinese chicks" to do the vocals.

His first hit composition. "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart," will be his theme song, and his slogan will be, "Hit the Beam With the Neme" Sidney Sails, the Lepke witness whose body was discovered last week, was identified by a lodge notice notifying him that unless he paid his back dues, he'd lose his right to burial by that organization Henri Bernstein listened to an exiled writer's feeble discussion of the woes of Europe. "Aias," Bernstein, the rrench playwright, lamented, "there is no exile for platitudes." Washington's odds now are against Senator Reynolds' getting the chairmanship of the Military Affairs Committee, despite his seniority if Tito Guizar should desire to try for a job with the Metropolitan Opera, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, would not be averse to sponsoring him A stock-manipulation incident against ome. magazine officials is expected to be handed down this week Charles MacArthur is tailing friends that he plana to go to London for one of the press associations Moss Haft's new book wiU be called "Acton Speak Louder Than Words" PM has asked Koneychil' Wilder to submit Broadway columns In Jive.

The Columbia River flows, 1400 miles to reach the Pacific, at a point only 450 miles from where the river originate. WASHINGTON, May 3-Here is the kind of letter that shows the spirit which this country must have to carry through the days ahead. It is from a reader in Georgia who signs his name and says; "I am willing to pay $600 a year in Income taxes. My income is $2,600 a year. I have a wife and baby with no other means of support.

"The middle-class group of economists with whom I work does not complain at the idea of taxes. We are eager to pay as we go and go far and fast. I writing this because I fear that' the complainera will be Clapper the most vocal ones when it comes to considering taxes." From an editor in Massachusetts comes the pointed complaint that Congress is trying to operate on a business as usual basis, playing politics as usual, shying away from action which members fear would antag-onlze some of the various pressure groups because they think to do otherwise would lose votes. He says Congress Is one of the last groups to put national interest ahead of self-interest that is ahead of reelection. Or, as Secretary Hull once lamented, self-preservation is the first law of politics.

There you have the whole story of our situation. Persons of small means ready to cut "into their few modest luxuries to help the government. Congress ready to put politics first. The farm vote Is being treated to a bigger subsidy with only the most feeble resistance from the White House and none at all from administration leaders in Congress. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau takes the bull by the horns and urges Congress to cut non-defense expenditures.

Business is having to cut civilian production. Why not cut civilian expenses? Secretary Morgenthau is not making proposals that he thinks will wreck, the government. He suggests that Congress could cut appropriations for the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Nstlonal Youth Administration, the Agriculture Department and Public Works. Republicans will cooperate in much of this. When it comes to the showdown, they are likely to cooperate in raising taxes if the administration forces will show some real desire to cut non-defense expenditures.

Certainly a cut in such civilian outlays would make the tax increases go down much easier. It would help national morale more than any one other thing Congress could do. Nobody can afford to have pets in this matter. The administration must sacrifice some of its pets and the Republicans must sacrifice some of theirs. The treasury shaped its surtax proposal in order to reach some $33,000,000,000 of government bonds which are exempt from normal income tax but not from surtaxes.

The treasury proposed to raise the surtax so that income from this huge amount of government securities would pay its share of the freight. But Representative Frank Crowther of New York denounced that as burning down the barn to kill the rats. He would shove up the normal tax which would mean that holders of these bonds would be exempt (from such tax increase. The congressman stands for higher taxes with reservations for a special group. Non-defense expenditures should be reduced but that eannot be used as an excuse for deferring tax increases.

If we begin waiting for something else to be done instead of moving in on all fronts at once, nothing will happen. It's been ten years since people had money to pay taxes with. It's been ten years since the factories were running to capacity. This is the time to go after the cash and to cut the spending started in the depression. Many complain about lack of leadership by President Roosevelt.

But In taxes and economy, Congress can take the leadership. It doesn't have to wait for Mr. Roosevelt. Congress can take the bit in iU teeth and go ahead. If It did so, it might win greater esteem la the country.

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