The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1941 Page: 3 of 8
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THE CORRIGAN PRESS
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ISmv Y or kers Arc
Talking About:
Babe Ruth's price ($25,000) for
his services in the Gehrig film,
which Goldwyn screams is too
much. He will prob’ly pay it,
though, as Ruth is a "must" in any
biography of Gehrig . . . Jimmy
Walker, the formef Mayor, who is
being considered as the head of a
new racetrack to be built in N. Y. The
backers being very wealthy French
refugees, wondering where to invest
their coin . . . MGM’s planned film
version of the town’s big hit, "Best
Foot Forward" . . . For Mickey
and Judy . . . The Nice-Work Dep’t:
One of Life’s editors who was or-
dered to spend at least two weeks
with Ginger Rogers—for a profile
piece . . . The way ex-Warden
Lawes has added twenty pounds
since "getting out" of Sing Sing
Prison.
• • • —
The way the British radio pounds
away at Italy’s slipping morale with
eight daily broadcasts urging the
country to unlatch itself from Ber-
lin . . . Rome’s reply prob’ly is:
"Why speak to us? Take it up
with the Warden!" . . . The sev-
eral society lads, on the verge of
being drafted, who flew to Califor-
nia, shifting residences there at the
same time. So that when their
numbers come up they’ll go to a
camp in sunny Cal. . . . Dumb, huh?
. . . The- new bootlegging racket in
England, where more bootlegging
Joes on *111 the clothing field than in
food. And in men’s attire!
• • • —
The book, “I Paid Hitler," by Fritz
Thyssen, the industrialist who first
helped the Nazis in Germany . . .
Jimmy Wong Howe, the Chinese
cameraman, and Rabbi Edgar Mag-
nin, who made speeches for a short
to raise funds for Irish Relief . . .
The depressing news about Hen-
drik Willem Van Loon, whose docs
have ordered him to stop all activity
for the next six months . . . The
Rev. Jardine, who came to the aid
of Wally and the Duke. His letters
are now ignored.
Washington, D. C.
FARMER TRICE VICTORY
Louis J. Taber, National Grange
president, and other farm leaders
didn’t come away empty-handed
from their conference with the Pres-
ident on price control.
While he would not agree to their
proposal that wages be included in
the price control bill drafted by
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son. Roosevelt did make one impor-
tant concession. He said he would
have no objection to a "parity aver-
ages formula" being put in the bill
to limit the dumping of government-
owned wheat and cotton when the
prices of these commodities threaten
to soar out of bounds.
Under this formula, to insure
farmers an average parity price for
the full crop year, restrictions would
be placed on the amount of wheat
and cotton that could be sold. Also,
the dumping could not begin until
prices reach certain above-parity
levels, to be worked out by Hender-
son and the department of agricul-
ture.
Taber and his colleagues had to
do some fast talking to sell the Presi-
dent on this plan. At first he seemed
in no mood to accept any changes
in the bill and told his callers that
if they had come to debate the ques-
tion of controlling farm prices they
were wasting their time.
"We have simply got to head off
inflationary trends," the President
declared grimly, "or face the worst
depression the country has ever
known after this emergency is over."
The farm leaders finally won him
over to their plan with the assurance
that they would not oppose Hender-
son’s system of selective price con-
trols, providing the parity gains won
at this session were not lost.
Taber pointed out that though the
prices of wheat and cotton are now
only slightly below parity, and live-
stock above it, farmers get only 43
per cent of the consumer’s dollar
spent for farm products, as against
60 per cent in 1917, when defense
production was geared to the peak
it has reached today.
• • • —
The way some of the pro-Nazis
over here outsmarted themselves.
The coin they saved on postage by
having their hymns of hate franked
through the mails doesn’t begin to
cover the costs of lawyers and bail
. . . Jimmy Dorsey’s check for $40,-
000 from Decca, as his royalties for
the first half of 1941. In short, he
hit the Jukepot.
• • • —
Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
The Story Tellers: Clifton Fadi-
man will have you know that he’s
a book-reviewer, not a literary crit-
ic. He points out the big difference
in "The Reviewing Business," in
Harper’s. "Literary criticism is an
art," he says, "like the writing of
tragedies or the making of love and,
similarly, does not pay. Book re-
viewing is a device for earning
a living" . . . Charles Poore also
* takes a box-office slant at the prose
racket in The Times mag, in his
definition of the Pulitzer Prize. The
value of the prize, he says, is "a
thousand dollars in cash to those
who accept it and ten thousand dol-
lars in publicity for those who re-
fuse it”.
• • • —
The Front Pages: An editorial in
the Herald Tribune epigrams the
% spot the Bolo armies have put the
Huns in. "The Russians," the daily
points out, "have only to survive
somehow in order to win; Hitler has
to win in order to survive" . . .
jk You can spot the Fascists’ weari-
ness for the war in their weakening
propaganda bragging. Recently they
claimed only to have damaged the
British plane carrier. Ark Royal. In
all previous naval scraps, both the
Heinies and the Fascists have be-
gun with the sinking of that vessel.
• • • —
Broadway Is Like This:
Broadway is where after you’ve
reached the top—at least a dozen
acquaintances claim having played
a big part in it . . . But when you
fail—everybody blames you . . . And
you blame the "breaks" instead of
looking for a job where your talent
^ will be respected—such as waiting
on tables or being president of a
bank . . . No matter how nice you
are there will always be others who
will knock you—from sheer force of
habit ... A fellow who is consid-
er ered more important than Roosevelt
or Willkic is one who can pick at
least one winner out of seven
races ... If you don’t talk about
yourself—then you run the risk of
being bored stiff listening to others
gab about themselves . . . The
Broadway lights have done more to
make the street famous than any of
the famed folk on it.
NEW LABOR HEADACHE
Strikes are still a serious problem,
but the big labor headache currently
harrying defense chiefs is the com-
plex and mounting difficulty of em-
ployment dislocations.
Almost every day brings new re-
ports of workers let out due to lack
of materials, forced curtailment of
production or other defense causes.
Official estimates of such dismissals
put the number at between one and
two million.
And the end is not in sight. Some
experts anticipate that in the auto
industry alone 200,000 workers will
lose their jobs.
Aware of the serious economic
consequences of such dislocations,
OPM heads are making strenuous
efforts to overcome them. So far
only partial answers have been
found.
Originally, OPM tried to handle
such dismissals by local absorption.
This worked all right in towns with
industries engaged in defense work.
They could use the displaced hands
and gladly took them on. But in
communities where this condition
did not exist, other solutions had to
be found.
Various methods have been used.
In some instances defense orders
have been granted to reopen shut-
down plants. In other cases, where
conversion of a plant wasn't pos-
sible, an entire new defense plant
has been erected in town. In still
other instances, workers have been
given "retraining" instruction and
moved to places where labor was
needed.
Defense chiefs count on Floyd Od-
ium’s reorganized subcontracting
division to take up most of the slack
on defense dislocations.
Odium originally estimated it
would take two months to set up
administrative machinery, but OPM
chiefs are urging him to turn his
attention to getting subcontracts now
and rounding out his organization as
he goes along.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
The American Association for Eco-
nomic Frcedom has reprinted an ad-
dress made more than 10 years ago
by Federal Judge Robert N. Wilkin
of Cleveland on "A New Social Or-
der" in which he advocated a union
of the English-speaking countries to
resist the totalitarian aggressors.
Heavyweight champ Joe Louis,
soon to be drafted, is tackling what
he describes as "the biggest fight of
my career." He has sent a circular
letter to every member of congress
asking them for help to raise a fund
for a movement to improve the eco-
nomic condition of Negroes.
Beloved Singer Pleaded
For Mercy, Not Justice
The beloved Madame Schu-
mann-Heink was a woman of rare
charm and geniality. She was the
first to make fun of her own short-
comings, and was often heard to
comment good-humoredly on her
decidedly matronly figure.
On one occasion, a fashionable
portrait painter asked her to sit
for her portrait. The plump opera
star hesitated for a long while
before making her decision.
"Don’t be afraid, Madame,”
said the artist teasingly. “I’ll do
you justice.”
”Ah,” replied the prima donna,
"it isn't justice I ask at your
hands; it is mercy!”
ASK ME “ 9
ANOTHER1
A quiz with answers offering
information on various subjects
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1. What Roman emperor made j
Christianity a legal religion for!
the first time?
2. Do forest fires kill fish, and
if so, how?
3. How much pressure is exert-
ed by the atmosphere at sea
level?
4. What is an apocryphal story?
5. How does the Black sea com-
pare with Lake Superior in size?
6. What is the largest city in
the United States not situated on
navigable water?
7. Who wrote: “I keep six hon-
est serving men (they taught me
all I knew); their names are What
and Why and When and How and
Where and Who”?
The Answers
1. Constantine (the Great).
2. Yes. The alkali ash washed j
down by rains into the streams
and lakes kills the fish.
3. Pressure of 14.7 pounds per
square inch.
4. One of doubtful authority.
5. The Black sea is five times
as large.
6. Indianapolis.
7. Rudyard Kipling.
Gems of Thought
U E THAT is slow to anger is
1 better than the mighty; and
he that ruleth his spirit than
he that taketh a city.—The
Bible.
When you define liberty you
limit it, and when you limit it
you destroy it.—Brand Whit-
lock.
The happiest heart that ever beat
If as in some quiet breast
That found the common daylight
sweet.
And left to llcaven the rest.
—John Vance Cheney.
The Youth of the Nation are
the trustees of Posterity.—
Disraeli.
Head’s Business
The business of the head is to
form a good heart, and not merely
to rule an evil one, as is general-
ly imagined.—Sir A. Helps.
JouyTihe
POP CORN
Liking Duty
The secret of happiness is not
in doing what one likes, but in
liking what one has to do.—James
M. Barrie.
Size of Russ Cities
The Soviet Union's census of
January 17, 1939, lists II cities
with a greater than 500,000 popu-
lation.
These are Moscow 4,137,018;
Leningrad, 3,191,304; Kiev, 846,-
293; Kharkov, 833,432; Baku, 809,-
347; Gorky (formerly Nizhni Nov-
gorod), 644,116; Odessa, 604,223;
Tashkent, 585,005; Tbilisi (Tifiis),
519,175; Rostov-on-Don, 510,253;
and Dnieperpetrovsk, 500,662.
America's Contribution
America has furnished to the
world the character of Washing-
ton, and if our American institu-
tions had done nothing else, that
alone would have entitled them to
the respect of mankind.—Daniel
Webster.
Don’t worry about what to send
the man in Uncle Sam’s services
for Christmas. He’s told the coun-
try himself in any number of sur-
veys. Cigarettes and smoking to-
bacco top the list of what he wants
first of all from the folks back
home—and first of all is Camel
Cigarettes. Actual sales records
from service men’s stores—in the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and
Coast Guard—show Camels the
largest-selling brand, with Prince
Albert Smoking Tobacco a stand-
out favorite. Local dealers are
featuring Camels in a handsomely
wrapped carton and in a novel
Christmas package of four “flat
fifties”—either way you give 200
cigarettes. Prince Albert is fea-
tured in the pound tin and pound
glass humidor all Christmas gift
wrapped.—Adv.
TONIGHT
SAY
‘GOOD
NIGHT”
to colds’ miseries. Slip away from achey
muscles, sniffles, into sleep. Here’s dou-
ble help that acta almost instantly. Rub
with Penetro. 25c. ftrkirTHA
Use as directed. § tlib I If U
Delicious-Quick
Easy
Van (amp’s
PORK.ndBEAN SUPPER
wife of the famous
Columbia football
coach, suggests this smart, practical, inex-
pensive and easy-to-prepare "after the game”
supper.
MENU
Hot Mulled Cider or
Hot Tomato Juice Cup
VAN CAMP S PORK AND BEANS
Garniihed with Canadian or
regular Bacon
Date Nut or Brown Bread and Butter
CONDIMENT ASSORTMENT)
Catsup or Chili Sauce • Curled Celery
Pickled Onion Rings • Olives
Sueet Pickle Relish
Jellied Cinnamon-Pear Salad
Mayonnaise or Salad Dressing
Cookies • Coffee • Football Doughnuts
Try It — It’s delicious.
See your grocer for more complete
detaiit... recipes, and quantifies —
or write i
Van Camp’s Inc. indianapous, Indiana
Also Packed in Essex, Ontario
AMERICAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION
• •
P.A. TASTES SO RICH YET SMOKES SO COOL,
/WILD—THATS CHOICE, FULLY AGED TOBACCO <
NO-BITE TREATED. PRINCE ALBERT SMOKES
SHAPE UP TRIM, SMOOTH WITHOUT THINNING,
BULGING— IT'S THE CRI/WP CUT l
P.A. IS GREAT IN A PIPE, TOO! *
mzm
Most anybody would
bet that the block of
lines at “B” is wider
than the block of lines
at “A”! But puzzle no
more, brother—the two
blocks of lines are ex-
actly the same width!
—But Your tongue Knows
the tobacco thats /MILDER
yet Richer in Rolled
Sniokes!
In recent laboratory "smoking
bowl" tests. Prince Albert burned
DEGREES
COOLER
than the average of the 30 other
Of the largest-selling brands tested
...coolest of all!
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.. Wlnston-Salom.N. a
%
fine roll-your-
own cigarettes
In every handy
pocket tin of
Prince Albert
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