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SHAMOK1N NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, PA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1942 PAGE FOUR What's Our Answer? "REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR" to E. V. Durling "On the Side" Peter Edson "Behind the Scenes' yJ'f-Td" pledg to tht Flag and tht Republic for which it ttaruW Sliamokin News-Dispatch nnmhinma KpntarnhGr 18. 1933 SHAMOKIN DAILY NEWS SHAMOKIN DISPATCH (Established 1893) (Pounded 1B88) Published Every Evening Except 8unday by NEWS PUBLISHING AND PRINTING COMPANY, Ins. Oor.

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i. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. Calatians 5:15. The chance of war is equal, and the slayer oft is slain. Homer.

AFRAID OF THE ELECTORATE By their hesitancy about dealing with critical war problems, both the administration and Congress are insulting the American people and are exhibiting a lukewarm faith in democracy. It is anybody's choice whether the insult is to the public's intelligence or to their patriot-k ism. Whichever may be the reason, week after positive action is deferred on important problems. Wage stabilization, taxation, farm produce prices, rubber conservation the list could be expanded almost indefinitely, but these are major items. Let's concede at the outset that nobody in Washington intends to insult even one voter, let alone many millions.

Quite the contrary. But it is an insult, a slanderous insult, when our selected officials dare not do things necessary to win this war, for fear the voters might punish them at the polls. They think, perhaps, that the public is not intelligent enough to understand the compelling logic of those facts which have convinced Washington. Fearing a monster of its own creation an ignorant or a vindictive electorate official Washington prefers to take no chances. "Let's wait until after election," is the attitude.

"Let's try inoffensive stopgaps first. One might work." Meanwhile we are losing the war. Meanwhile we are piling up inflationary forces that soon may become uncontrollable. Meanwhile we are burning up irreplaceable rubber. Meanwhile our procrastination is preparing to cost the lives of thousands of our young men who should not have to die.

Washington believes that those who work for'a living are so selfish that they will not do their part to win this war and to preserve the American way of life. Wasnmgton believes that the farmers are so selfish that they will not accept the hardships that are necessary to win this war and preserve the American way of life. Washington fears that the nation's motorists are so selfish that they will not give up joyriding to help win this war. Such fears insult every mother's son of us. We should resent Washington's attitude, and more of us do resent it than Washington yet realizes.

The electorate must hold Washington to account. Why Flying Boats? Most discussion about an aerial freight car fleet centers upon flying boats. There has been little known consideration of landplanes, although the Boeing B-19, as large as the Mars flying boat, would seem to provide a proto-' type. The explanation given is the gigantic pro-gram of oversized airports that would be needed to service thousands of 70- or even 200-ton landplanes. But harbors for seaplanes exist in abundance.

This is impressive but not wholly ing. Landplanes are faster, more efficient and more economical than seaplanes. They can land in weather such that no seaplane could safely touch water, and take off under conditions that would ground seaplanes. They t. could pickup their cargoes directly from in- land factories and carry them to inland tie lines.

Seaplanes first, perhaps but let's not over- look the possibility of equally large land- planes for cargo purposes. Newspapers have been printing pictures of combat tactics. This is naturally to be resent-ed by umpires who visit Brooklyn. The beauty of heaven is In the stars; The beauty of women Is In their hair. Howell A tire girdle has been originated.

It fits around the lnnertube and permits use of an old tire. A welcome addition to "How to" literature at this time would be a book on tire conservation entitled; "How to Make Your Tires Last Fifty Thousand Miles and Maybe More" Some people suffering from an inferiority complex were given it by their school teachers. Many teachers are inclined to be much too severe on youngsters who appear dumb. With much satisfaction I recall I once took a shy, retiring youngster whom the teachers styled as "hopelessly stupid" and made a smart baseball pitcher out of him. He did well In business later on.

You hav to carefully study a kid before you decide he or she Is a dumb-bell. PLEASE NOTE Red-haired men make the best fathers. Their children are usually very sturdy. Red-haired fathers are, a rule very kind, patient and companionable insofar a their children are concerned. So states a student of family life.

Why should I argue with this expert. My father was red-haired Some famous man said there were three things he had always loved and never understood; music, painting and women. Two of these I don't understand either, and one of them Is painting. So who am I to try to defend modern artists from disparaging cracks and odious comparisons with the painters of the past. The modern artist has one disadvantage.

That is to the colors he has to use. The chemists of the Middle Ages, especially those of Florence produced colors that have never been equaled. The secret of making these colors, which did so much for medieval art, died with these chemists. ALMOST CONFIDENTIAL Says Eleanor Early: "The qualities that men desire most in wives are affection, appreciation, sympathy, health and the attributes of a good sport. The things that men dislike most in women are naggini scolding, screaming, finding fault and talking too much' What is all this tripe about the superiority of Nazi efficiency? How about Yankee efficiency? For example the United States Army Air Force by air a complete battery of artillery, men, guns, ammunition and supplies A talent seemingly possessed by many Leo men is their ability to pick nice, loyal girls for wives.

For example a young matron of San Diego, writes: "I am married to the finest, most intelligent, cultured, generous, happy-go-lucky man I know. And, bless him, he's a Leo." PASSING BY Eugene Grace. Most successful man ever born in Goshen, N. J. Started with the Bethlehem Steel Company 43 years ago at pay of 15 cents an hour.

Mr. Grace, whose company pays very high salaries to executives, says the top essential quality for an executive is common sense. Nobody will dispute that claim. But as some observant man has said: "Common sense is not so com' mon." ASKING Queries from clients. Q.

What do you know about twins? Do they make good wives or husbands? A. My knowledge of twins is meager. As for their qualifications as matrimonial mates all I can say Is 1 have heard of no complaints. No great man has ever been a twin. Births twins run In families.

That Is, if a woman has twins it, is likely some of her sisters, cousins or aunts also have twins. A couple named Reads of London, married a few years ago, had for their first blessed event twin boys, for their second twin girls. Q. Perhaps there has been only one film star named Helen, but there never has been a film star named Edgar. A.

How about Edgar Bergen? Q. Am getting married after which I will enlist in Marines; what would be a good inscription for our wedding ring? A. What do you think of "Semper Seems most appropriate for the wedding ring a marine lovingly slips on to the cute little finger of hii bride. SIDELIGHTS Chungking, which is bombed by the Japs quite regularly, has no air raid sirens. When the bombers are an hour away a red ball is run up.

When 10 minutes away a second ball is run up. On the second red ball the citizens of Chungking take to cover. The "all clear" signal is the lowering of the two red balls. Incidentally there are a million Jap soldiers and a thousand Nippone: war planes In China but Chiang Kai-Shek has yield' no Important ground In three years From a London newspaper: "Countess Barbara Hutton Mdvanl Haug-wltz-Reventlow married Archibald Leach professionally known as Cary Grant. The new Mrs.

Grant is worth thirty million dollars. Mr. Grant only earns ten thousand dollars a week" Cure by psychoanalysis is a slow procedure. Sigmund Freud, the greatest of all psychoanalysts, had one patient for 12 years. Man named Powsey of London is said to do an act which consists of diving from a height of 75 feet into four feet of water.

Some act. But I knew a high diver named K. P. Speedy who dived from a height of 90 feet Into four feet of water Am informed by a group of four young matrons all married to Aries men that they are agreed that Aries men are possessive, inclined to be jealous and very argumentative but are nevertheless lovable and extremely romantic. So, young woman, if you are thinking of asking an Aries man to marry you, keep that in mind "You may be surprised to know," writes a young woman of Manhattan, named Culita, "that yQ have readers named Pulica, Merdita, Carajila and Tellcia.

They are going to write to you to prove that I am not Joking." The wearing of 27 different dresses in one film by Kay Francis is not the Hollywood record. In "Gone With the Wind," Vivien Leigh wore 41 different dresses "If there is such a thing as a lucky number it Is three," is what I claimed not so long ago. Ople Warner, San Francisco editor, after reading this took number 33 In an office war bond pool and he won At 11:00 In the morning and 4:00 in the afternoon efficiency of office and factory workers Is said to be at lowest. Why knock off for 10 minutes at these times; serve bouillon in the morning and tea in the afternoon? The efficiency for the next hour would then probably hit the peak. formed that Sophie's hostess would be Mrs.

Berle. A few furious telephone calls were exchanged, followed by some letters of sizzling verbiage and the three friends grew angrier and angrier. At this point, Mrs. Berle Is not talking to Fanny and Sophie; Fanny is not talking to Sophie and Mrs. Berle; and Sophie Isn't on speaklnz terms with Mrs.

Berle and Fanny. Which only goes to prove that, although you may think these things happen only among the Ladies Aid of Laramie, they are quite universal. U. S. NEEDLES THE AXIS WITH NIFTY GAGS A native of well, say Java, Burma, occupied China or even Japan itself; plodding along the road or coming Into the streets of his nativt village after an American plane has passed over, may one of these Rp- davs llrd his feet a paper of matches of the kind given away in the U.

8. with every package of cigarets. Matches in the rest of the world are a dam sight scarcer than they are here, so the chances are even that the native will pick up this not-so-insigni-cant gift dropped from out the skies. Inspecting the matches he will find that the match cover presents a face of the typical toothy Jap, each of the matches being a tooth In the Jap Jaw Edson There li a slogan, "Yank out Tojo's teeth," and, sure enough, every time a match Is pulled from this paper, a tooth disappears from the printed face. This novel notion is supposed to be one of the latest touches of putting over propaganda in foreign lands.

There are similar striking Ideas, to match that, for distribution in other lands. Cracks at Laval for France, gags on Mussolini for Italy and you know who for Germany. The propaganda, of course, Isn't confined to matches. There are reproductions of Henry Wallace's speech advocating a world In which everyone will have a bottle of milk a day, printed In little booklets. There are statistics on American resources and American war production, illustrated by cartoons and gagged-up graphs, indicating the eventual United Nations victory.

There are pretty little stories for the children, printed on rice paper to make them thin enough to hide in school books. AXIS IS KIDDED One of these children's stories for grown-ups Is titled "Three Men in a Boat." In simple language it tells how Mussolini starts out in an old tub to look for his fleet. He picks up Hitler, and later Tojo. The tub flies over America, and they see the U. S.

war production. "I know that the Americans are deaf," cracks Hitler, "because I told them such production was Impossible." Later he says, "Nobody believed me when I said I would conquer the world." To which Mussolini replies, "Neither did Anyway, they finally find Mussolini's fleetat the bottom of the ocean. All this, and a lot more that can't be told about, is the work of the Overseas Publications Bureau of the Office of War Information. Most familiar aspect of this overseas propaganda is of course the short wave broadcasting beamed to foreign countries. But the job of telling the world particularly the neutral countries which are potential allies can't all be done by radio or by dropping leaflets or safety matches out of a plane.

A lot of it has to be direct contact work and for that job this Overseas branch of OWI has set up an outpost bureau which has established offices all over the world. Into places like Turkey, for Instance, go Americans whose job it is to spread the American story through established media in that country. One of the strangest assignments given by this Overseas branch was to open an "outpost office" in London, to help explain and interpret the American war effort to the British. If the British have to be sold on the benefits they are receiving from Lend Lease, you can see how difficult the Job would be in Brazzaville or Burma. EVERY DETAIL STUDIED Getting this atmosphere native to the country of consumption is one of the important details.

When a broadcast or a pamphlet is to go out in French, for instance, they don't just write it in English and then have it translated. It is written in English, then given to a French writer to rewrite. He puts it in French idiom and in a style to which Frenchmen are accustomed. A case might be made that a lot of this effort could be spent to better advantage turning out bullets or beans to feed soldiers who would fire the bullets to shoot Germans dead. But this is a fancy war with a lot of newfangled ideas, such as trying to talk your enemy tc death.

In the last three months the Overseas branch, and its personnel of 1,600 people, have cost around a million and a half dollars a month, but that includes not only salaries but travel, cables, expenses of men overseas, printing, propaganda and a healthy hunk of money to buy time for short-wave broadcasts. WASHINGTON JIG The "sell your typewriter to the government" campaign has bogged down, resulting in prohibition of further typewriter renting, to give the government a larger supply Survey of 749 war production plants showed 75 per cent of 434,000 workers arriving by private automobile Use of dynamite as a commercial explosive has been increased by war production from a million to a million and a half pounds a day New auto sale quotas for September run from 60 in Delaware to 3,800 in Michigan Half of the industrial establishmentst but only 1 per cent of the homes, in the eastern seaboard area have converted heating plants from fuel oil to coal Forty camps for conscientious objectors have now been opened. Looking Backward Twenty-five Years Ago 1917 Stanley Zraboskie, 27, of Excelsior, was fatally injured when struck by a train near Continental. Thousands of local residents signed a petition to be sent to President Woodrow Wilson to have coal prices reduced. Fifteen Years Ago 1927 John Ruffing, of Locust Gap, suffered severe burns when a quantity of gasoline which he was pouring into the tank of a friend's automobile exploded.

Coal Township school faculty was reorganized to meet state requirements at a special meeting of the school directors. Five Years Ao 1937 Two special deputy sheriffs stood guard at Trevor-ton High School buildings to prevent interference by pickets with students who wished to return to their classes, as the student strike continued. When you have something saved for a rainy day, it doesn't seem to rain so often. Man is the million or more reasons why women are Interested in the attractive fall fashions. Maybe it's only natural that blood relat'ons usually are the ones who bleed you.

Raymond Clapper "In the News" WASHINGTON, Sept. War Production rests on steel. You can't make steel without using scrap metal. To make steel you dump pig iron into the furnace and then you dump in junk. Maybe something else, for all I know.

But scrap metal must go Into the furnace when you make the steel. So when steel men tell us there is only two weeks' supply of steel scrap in the hands of the nation's steel mills, that Is what they are worried about. It is Just as bad as if they were going to have a strike in two weeks. No scrap, no steeL Two furnaces in Chicago were In danger of going down over the week-end for lack of scrap. Pitts Clapper burgh and Youngstown steel mills are in horrible shape on scrap, so industry spokesmen say.

That Is why Donald Nelson of WPB called newspaper publishers from all parts of the country to Washington last week. There is enough scrap lying around thu country to get us through. But it must be collected, sorted and hauled to the steel mills. The sorting and hauling will be taken care of. But the junk must be collected from millions of basements, millions' of back yards, millions of farms.

Hence public assistance is necessary. The Omaha World-Herald recently conducted a scrap -collection throughout Nebraska. The results were so successful that WPB has asked that similar campaigns be conducted throughout the country, and the newspapers have agreed to cooperate. I don't know what the details will be but they will be simple for the householder. All he needs to do at the moment is to go through his basement, his backyard, and around his place, and pile up his metal junk.

Within a few days his local newspaper will tell him about the pickup. The main thing at the moment is to get the household pile of scrap together, so that collections can move rapidly. There really isn't any point in going into all tht how-come-we-got-into-thls-fix, except to emphasize that it has come about as a natural result of the terrific steel production which has been going on and which eats up half a ton of scrap for every ton of steel manufactured, or something like that. True we used to send scrap to Japan, but if we had kept it here it would have been used up long ago. The overwhelming fact that has made everybody fumble in war planning is that we are trying to rush the war job at a pace we never expected to have to make.

We are in a race with Hitler and It's a hotter race than we had expected it to be. The drafting of men is going up into figures nevei dreamed of a few months ago. It is going up higher every month. In another year the size of our Army may be twice what it is now or more. Ships, tanks, weapons far beyond original schedules will be necessary.

We already have passed the War World stage and from here on are moving into something far bigger than that evei got to be. Unquestionably the war will go on for somt time most people here think for several years. We must not only supply this enormous Army and the enormous Navy and merchant marine with all the steel that will be needed. We must also supply 'arge quantities to oui allies. The main load of the war is rapidly shifting to America's shoulders.

There has been bungling in the distribution of steel. That is being worked on. Some plants have had to shut down or go on short hours because other plants were hoarding steel, or because the Navy or the shipyards were excessively stocked. But that is another problem, one of distribution. If every kink is worked out of the bungled steel supply situation, we will still need to keep steel production at the peak.

The appetite of this war is absolutely insatiable and steel is the wheat, the staff of life, on which our Army and Navy feed to gain strength for battle. That is why scrap is so desperately needed. The tough part is the mourning after the night be fore. The sun's age is put at about five million years but then It goes to bed early every night. One good way to cut down on rubber thieves is to give them longer stretch e.

Dorothy Kilgallen "Voice of Broadway" SPEAKING FOR MYSELF I think one of the most interesting small problems of national life today is that of motion pictures and the war. On the West Coast, where movie-making is spoken of as "the industry" in capital letters and italics, there seems to be a great desire' to make films play a proper part in the war effort, and then there seems to be some concern about how the industry is going to achieve this goal without actors. Many of the biggest stars and more dependable featured players have already enlisted, and a great many more, from Mickey Rooney to Cary Grant, are about to enlist. This is fine, and no more than hundreds of thousands of young men all oyer America are doing, and these actors do not feel that they are being particularly heroic or self-sacrificing and would be embarrassed if the public thought" so. But if they keep going off to camp at the present rate it will not be many months before the movie-makers are filming pictures about old men, ladies, and children and I wonder if that is what the government wants.

I am not feeling sorry for the producers because of themoney they will lose by this; because plenty of businesses have lost money or completely folded since December 7 as part of the price of the war; but the government does seem to regard motion pictures as an important propaganda device, especially when the propaganda is contained In a box-office success, and I wonder how many good propaganda pictures the industry will be able to turn out about old men, ladies and children. When I say good propaganda pictures I mean pictures like the one which has just opened on Broadway "Wake Island." This film makes you love the Marines, hate the Japs, want to fight; and if you cannot fight it sends you out of the theatre with your money In your hand ready to buy war bonds to make bullets and guns for those who can fight. It should be worth much more to Uncle Sam in men, money and morale than it is to the company that made It. But it was made with actors. There were four women in it, for five minutes, and one child, and no old men.

The problem, I think, is simply what Is best for Uncle Sam. If Actor Jones is valuable to the country digging ditches in Egypt, he certainly ought to be sent there to dig. But if, because of some combination of talent and luck and a photogenic face Actor Jones has the power of stirring men and Women who see him on the screen, and the government wants them stirred In some particular way, then it would seem he were more valuable in that capacity, just as a man who knows languages and is broadcasting short wave to Europe is valuable even though he has not killed any Germans. But no khaki goes with acting, and at the rate the boys out there are getting into uniform, it looks like a great year for Monty Woolley. One of the real scenic changes of Manhattan comes every September when the Broadwayites return from the resorts and flock to the Stork or Lindy's, wearing faces of various hues from nut-brown to cafe sans lait.

It is always a shock to me because I am used to seeing these same faces shaded their usual white with green overtones, and I get the feeling that the boys are wearing Max Factor's 26 to give them that unnaturally healthy look. But I'm not worried. A few weeks of diligent pub-crawling and they'll be back to normal I wonder what happened to that little blond singer, Yvette, who was such a rage for a while? Haven't heard her on my radio dial for a long time Jean Arthur has the funniest voice I've ever heard on a girl, but I like it I've noticed a gradual disappearance of the mobile ice cream vendor. Is it the gas shortage, is it the end of summer, or are the little vehicles needed for more urgent work than peddling goodies? I have been greatly amused by the saga of Sophie Tucker's trip to California. Sophie left for Los Angeles last week for her first vacation in years, and wired her two best buddies, Sandra Berle (Milton Berle's mother) and Fanny Brice, that she was coming.

Both Sandra and Fanny wired back, asking her to stay at their respective homes, and not wishing to offend either, Sophie declined both invitations with thanks. Somehow, Mrs. Berle heard that Sophie was going to stay at Fanny's; and Fanny, by another channel was In-.