The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1940 Page: 3 of 8
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THE GROOM NEWS. GROOM. CARSON COUNTY. TEXAS
Washington Digest
Kathleen Norris Says:
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Downhill
The human mind always runs
down hill from toil to pleasure.—
Terence.
Being Disagreeable Is a Luxury
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
To Forgive
Only the brave know how to for-
give. A coward never forgave;
it is not in his nature.—Laurence
Sterne.
Rural Schools to Offer Instruction in Mechanical Trades;
Rumors Predict Roosevelt, Willkie Will Name
Loser to Head Defense Board.
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in-
flamed bronchial mucous mem-
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un-
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
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for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
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A young wife was aboard ship,
sailing from New York to Pana-
ma, there to join her husband.
Just before the ship was to dock,
she missed her little twin daugh-
ters and set out to hunt them.
“Have you seen my twins?’’ she
asked a crusty old gentleman in
a deck chair.
“Twins?” he repeated. “I didn’t
even know there were any on
board.”
She was just going to remark
that it was odd he hadn’t noticed,
when she spied a pig-tailed head
peeking around a corner. “There’s
one now,” she told him.
“Oh, that child!” said the man.
“I’ve seen her all over the place!”
attract attention if used to sell at
a church bazaar. All the direc-
tions you need to make one are
right here in the sketch.
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knitted material are good to use
for the braided strips. Cut the
strips two inches wide if the goods
is heavy or wider if light weight.
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white cotton thread to sew, as
shown. A set of these mats are
pretty on the table; and mats for
oval dishes may be made by sew-
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TRADE SCHOOLS
Farm youths will soon be of-
fered training in mechanical
trades, according to Baukhage.
He passes on the rumor whis-
pered in Washington that when
Roosevelt or Willkie is elected in
November, the losing candidate
will be appointed chairman of the
Defense commission. If the elec-
tion is close, Baukhage writes
that it is possible the United
States may be without a presi-
dent after January 20.
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TN 1935, he lost his job selling oil
* burners when the company fold-
ed up. Julia, his wife, said, “Now’s
your chance to do some of that sing-
ing you were always going to do.”
So he piped up right away and sang
his way right through to the dotted
line on a Metropolitan Opera con-
tract. That’s young Arthur Kent,
one of the ten new singers booked
this season at the Met. He began
singing in cafes and churches and
then got 46 weeks in “I Married an
Angel.” His repertoire includes Ital-
ian. Spanish. French.
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
IT WAS the flower handle of the
* tea-pot lid that suggested this
daisy mat. I had been thinking
of making a hot dish out of firmly
braided strips of cotton cloth. I
wanted it to be thick and sewn
firmly like a rag rug, so that it
would stand frequent scrubbings.
The design had to be novel and
gay so that it would be appropri-
ate for a Christmas gift or would
a rut; by feeling that Mary and the
can make, for pleasures and purchases that
By BAUKHAGE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
WASHINGTON.—Remember that
©Id song: “How you going to keep
’em down on the farm, after they’ve
seen Paree”?
Well, you’re not going to be able
to keep some of them down on the
farm who haven’t seen Paree. This
time it isn’t the bright lights that
are calling, it’s the pay envelope.
Not the lure of the ladies but the
lathes and riveters and stamping
machines in the factories that are
calling.
At least, that is what the experts
here in Washington who claim they
can see through a haystack without
blinders prognosticate.
And Uncle Sam is helping. Most
people didn’t notice it but congress
slipped $10,000,000 into the last de-
ficiency bill, most of which is going
toward helping the farm boy get a
job in the city. The money is to be
appropriated as part of the indus-
trial defense program for “out-of-
school rural and non-rural vocation-
al schools” but the fact is that states
will share in the fund according to
their farm population.
At present more than 2,500 rural
vocational schools are offering in-
struction in vocational agriculture.
These schools, if they get additional
money for equipment and teaching,
can provide training in auto-mechan-
ics and other skills basic to deiense
industries.
Close Election Would
Necessitate Recount
“The law says that if the electors
can’t decide on the President that
the Vice President with the most
votes has to take over the presi-
dency in the interim. But it would
be quite likely that if one candi-
date’s vote was questioned his run-
ning mate’s would be, too. So who
would be President then?”
This is the problem as some of
the legislators see it. They point
out that if fraud were approved in
a single precinct in a single state,
it might change the electoral vote
of that state and so the outcome of
the election. Meanwhile, an inves-
tigation might drag out and post-
pone the approval of the electoral
vote indefinitely.
Of course this isn’t likely to hap-
pen but at least it provides some-
thing for congress and the country
to worry about and take their minds
off the war. And it could happen.
In the famous case of President
Hayes the vote was protested and it
took a nine-man commission to set-
tle it. Congress selected three mem-
bers of the Supreme court, three
senators and three representatives
to do it. Their task was consider-
ably expedited, however, since they
had a pro-Hayes majority and sim-
ply threw out all the electoral votes
challenged by the other side. The
supporters of Tilden, the defeated
candidate, were never convinced
that he wasn’t cheated out of the
presidency.
Such a thing could hardly happen
again but it is true that fraud
charges are predicted this year and
nobody but a spendthrift or a vio-
lently loyal partisan is anxious to
risk his money betting on the num-
ber of seats that will be won or lost
in the house in November.
What we forget is that the Amer-
ican people usually go in for land-
slides and the close election is the
exception. That’s probably why we
don’t take close races into consid-
eration and perhaps it’s why Sena-
tor Norris and his friends who drew
up the Lame Duck amendment
didn’t allow a little more time be-
tween the meeting of the new con-
gress and the counting of the elec-
toral vote and inauguration day,
“just in case.”
garet getting into their teens, too,
and these are days for simple hos-
pitalities and pretty, if inexpensive
frocks and good times. I’ve begged
him' to relax, to be cheerful, to
stop worrying. I’ve prayed about
it. Can you make any suggestion
to ‘just one more Mary?’ ”
The only suggestion I can make
is that there is a reason for this
man’s moods, and that when it is
found and diagnosed, like any bodily
sickness, Mary will find that she is
halfway to the cure.
It may indeed be physical. It
sounds very much like stomach ul-
cers or colitis or any one of the sim-
ilar ailments that so often attack
men whose habits are sedentary and
who eat heartily. If Larry can be
persuaded to walk two miles a day,
eat a light dinner, and substitute for
rich desserts the invaluable orange,
apple, saucer of prunes or compote
of raw fruits, he may find life taking
on a much rosier color.
Trouble Probably Mental.
But much more probably Larry’s
trouble is mental. He is carrying
too heavy a burden. If two of those
daughters had been sons he would
feel very differently. “The boys will
be helping out in a few years,”
would be his natural thought.
That boys DON’T usually help out,
and are much less reliable as mon-
ey-earners than girls are, doesn’t
often occur to the father of daugh-
ters. But that’s an aside.
The cure for Mary’s problem
might come through a move indeed,
but a move to simpler and less ex-
pensive rather than finer quarters.
It might come through a determined
lessening of expenses, rather than
an increase in them. It might come
if the twins started talking less of
college and sorority days and more
of jobs. It might come if Mary and
the girls all talked honestly to Papa,
dismissed the maid, gave up the
apartment for which they pay $85
rent and planned for a country farm
near the city, at $35. It might come
if they gave Papa a chance to do
a little gardening, to split wood and
chop down trees and putter with a
windmill’s machinery.
Helping Dad Out of Gloom.
There is escape for all of us from
difficult conditions, if we will but
open our minds and hearts to find it.
A wife and four daughters, when
the man of the house is the only
bread-winner, shouldn’t have a
maid. Larry’s family has one, and
often, for part-time, another. Girls
in such a family should be busy put-
ting up fruit to sell, or taking after-
school jobs in frock shops or tea
rooms. A mother like Mary should
be talking of resources, not of con-
stant needs. If she found some
weather-beaten old place outside the
city, painted it with the girls’ as-
sistance, opened a lunchroom, took
a couple of small children to board,
started a bank account of her own,
from which to supply her daughters
the luxuries they want, she might
find the man of the house a changed
person.
Worry over family finances will
make the best natured men “dis-
agreeable.” If the family would co-
operate to help save or earn money,
this moodiness usually disappears
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political opponent as head of our
gigantic effort to ring America with
an impenetrable wall of wings and
ships and men.
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U. S. May Lach
President in January
As a matter of fact when inaugu-
ration day rolls around there actual-
ly may not be any President to in-
augurate.
At least that’s what some of the
prophets of gloom on Capitol Hill
are predicting will happen if the
November election should be very
close.
This is what the worrying ones
say:
“When the Lame Duck amend-
ment to the Constitution was written
and inauguration day and the con-
vening of the new congress were
moved back from March to Janu-
ary, Senator Norris and everybody
else thought our troubles were over.
We all agreed it was wonderful to
get rid of the painful sight of lame
ducks limping around the political
barnyard. It was a waste of time,
often with a defeated President still
in the White House, always with
some defeated congressman who
really didn’t represent anybody, sit-
ting in the Capitol until the March
following the November elections.
“That’s all very well under ordi-
nary circumstances, that is when
we don’t have a close election. But
suppose we do have a real close
election this year. Congress meets
on January 3. The brand new con-
gress. It has to organize, elect a
speaker and be ready for the joint
session with the senate three days
later because thgt’s when the elec-
toral vote is counted. And until the
vote is counted and approved by the
whole of congress the results of the
election are not official.
“Usually this ceremony is just an
empty form—unlocking the specially
made box, taking out the beautifully
engrossed certificates from each
state signed by the proper officials
and reading off the score that every-
body has known since election day.
But suppose the vote is close and
there are charges of fraud and the
side which makes the charges has
enough votes in the house to de-
mand a recount?
A humorous note was given de-
fense preparations recently when
President Roosevelt vetoed legisla-
tion designed “to safeguard and
promote the breeding and training
of the homing pigeon for use as a
means of communication in an
emergency.” The President com-
mented that this was carrying na-
tional defense “a little too far.”
The measure would have made it a
Federal offense to shoot or tamper
with a homing pigeon, because the
birds may be needed to carry mili-
tary messages.
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City Employers Prefer
Men Raised on Farm
And this isn’t just a defense meas-
ure, either. We know that scarcely
any city produces enough babies to
keep its population even. We know
that while some farm districts are
overpopulated now and have been
since the depression, a lot of farm-
ers’ sons will always go to the city
if they can find work there. Right
now defense industries need help
and they prefer a man with a card
that shows he has had vocational
training. This doesn’t mean that ag-
ricultural vocational training will be
cut down but the $10,000,000, while it
won’t go very far, will help a lot to
give the farm boy the mechanical
training the city boys have been get-
. ting.
But there is another reason why
more farm boys are going to get city
jobs. They are preferred in a lot
of industries anyhow. A farm boy
makes a good factory worker, the
experts tell us, if he comes from a
farm where machinery has been
used, because he’s just that much
more experienced than the city boy.
Especially the tractor wheat farms
of the Northwest, the corn-belt, the
Mississippi South. He knows a cam
from a gear, he knows what makes
the wheels go round. He can trans-
fer this “feel” he has for farm ma-
chinery to a lathe or any other
simple machine.
Another thing, he’s better disci-
plined than the city boy. On the
farm Pa is the foreman. The boy
is used to taking orders. Also he’s
used to working hard. And when he
goes to the city he’s likely to be
steadier and more reliable than the
city worker.
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Defense Commission
Post in Doubt
There is an interesting rumor
chasing itself around the lamp-posts
on Pennsylvania avenue these days.
It’s one of those wish-fathered
thoughts but it’s worth repeating
over anybody’s back fence. This is
the way it goes:
“If Roosevelt is elected he’s going
to make Wendell Willkie chairman
of the defense commission. If Will-
kie is elected he’s going to name
Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the
job.”
Such a consummation might do
more to unify the defense program
than any other single thing.
At present there isn’t any chair-
man of the commission. When Mr.
Knudsen, head of the production unit
of the group, has a problem that in-
volves national policy he has to put
on his hat and walk over to the
White House, or else call National
1414 and ask to speak to one Frank-
lin Delano Roosevelt, for he’s the
boss.
The same thing applies to the
heads of the other units. As a mat-
ter of record there has been no pub-
lic criticism on the part of the de-
fense commissioners about the ar-
rangement but some people feel that
it would be a wonderful thing as far
as public opinion goes, if the next
President, whoever he may be aft-
er next January, picks his erstwhile
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He is soured by being held too tightly in
girls merely want all the money he
mean nothing, to him, and that the kindest thing he could do for them would be to
die and leave them the big insurance.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
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able is a luxury that costs
a husband very little.
When life goes dull for him;
or his business is worrisome;
when he has nothing to remem-
ber of his fishing trip but sun-
burn and an unpaid poker debt;
when one child has a cold and
the mouth of the other is disfig-
ured by dental bands, then it is
Dad’s royal prerogative to be
disagreeable, and he has to be a
man of real strength of charac-
ter and real sweetness of temper
to be anything else.
Nobody can stop him if he
wants to be disagreeable.
When a man drinks or gam-
bles to excess, beats his chil-
dren, is unfaithful to his wife,
there is something she can do about
it. But when he merely criticizes,
sulks, snaps and growls, she is help-
less unless she wants to turn shrew,
and at the same time turn the house
into a hell for all concerned.
Dad’s Mood Affects All.
Most women don’t do that, if only
for the sake of their own dignity
and for the children. They over-
look, they smile, they explain and
placate and endure until the bad
mood passes.
“Dad is in a bad mood tonight,”
they say in an undertone. The chil-
dren glance at him apprehensively.
A dismal quiet rules the dinner ta-
ble No young voice dares pipe up
about the movie; the approaching
finals at school; the need of new
shoes. Mother makes a few tenta-
tive starts.
“Nice that Doctor Smith won the
club golf match,” she says. And
after a moment. “Harriet telephoned
today, just to ask about all of us.
They’ve decided not to move.”
' Silence. Silence. The head of the
house looks unutterably weary, looks
faintly annoyed.
“My husband is everything that is
good and fine in character,” writes
a Boston wife, “but he is so glum!
I could count on my fingers the
times I have seen Larry really
cheerful. We have four young
daughters, and have had hard times
financially. But times are better
now, and we are paying off bills and
planning—or, I am, at least, for a
move to a nicer house and a little
expansion generally. Larry takes
no interest in this, he glooms away
silently at meals, is very apathetic
over any talk of change, and goes
silently through life as if he were
half-dead.
“The effect of this on me and the
girls is of course perfectly terrible.
We can’t start up a conversation
while that deaths-head of boredom
and disapproval is looking on. As a
result we make our own plans and
keep quiet when Papa is around.
Larry resents this, too, for when I
ask for money he hasn’t heard our
plans, doesn’t know what it is for
and generally growls about it.
No Criticism Allowed.
“All this seems very sad, to me.
We could be so happy! The girls
deeply admire and really love their
father; I have never allowed my-
self or them the slightest criticism
of him. I have always reminded
them that he works hard to keep
us all comfortable and happy, that
he stints himself to carry a heavy
life-insurance, just for us, and that
he does truly love us, deep down in
his heart. But I find it hard going,
sometimes. Now Patsy and Sheila
are 16, twins, and Brenda and Mar-
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NJ EW YORK.—In 1933, young Nel-
’ son A. Rockefeller was hand-
ed a delicate job of commercial
and cultural co-ordination, indeed a
Rockefeller Well stiff . assign'
ment for
Qualified for His beginner
>• . • it this field.
Co-Ordination Job was
suade the Fiery Diego
x-out that head of Lenin in his mu-
rals at Rockefeller Center. He man-
aged the affair with tact and re-
straint, undisturbed by the thunder
from the left.
Now he has progressed to full-
time work in that highly specialized
field. He is co-ordinator of com-
mercial and cultural relations be-
tween the United States and other
Western hemisphere nations. Cur-
rently he is in the news as he ap-
points John Hay Whitney to his staff,
to take care of motion picture de-
tails of the above co-ordinating.
I remember talking to one of
his teachers at Lincoln school,
New York. She said Nelson was
good material for progressive
education, as he had a way of
getting on with people. He was
a good student, too, romping so
far ahead of schedule at Dart-
mouth that they gave him his
senior year off. He devoted it
to a wanderjahr, in which he
went to India and had a long
chat with Mahatma Gandhi, and
studied photography. Taking up
the rich man’s burden, he de-
voted himself mainly to the fam-
ily real estate, becoming presi-
dent of Rockefeller Center,
which, incidentally, is one of the
most successful feats of com-
mercial and cultural co-ordina-
tion in the world.
Mr. Rockefeller, born in Bar Har-
bor, Maine, in 1907, is tall, blond(
and reticent, an abstainer from al
cohol and tobacco, always deeply ii
earnest. With his manifold busines
interests he combines a careful an
diligent trusteeship of the Museum
of Modern Art. This departmeni
can’t help but feel a bit doubtfu.’
about co-ordinating commerce and
the arts—unless there is a Johr
Masefield around to write a poem
like “Cargoes.”
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DISAGREEABLE?
Kathleen Norris answers a letter
from a tearful woman who complains
that her husband is always glum and
moody. “He acts half-dead,” she la-
ments. Miss Norris warns that this may
easily be her own fault. Her down-
hearted husband is probably carrying
too heavy a burden resulting from ex-
cessive expenses of his wife and daugh-
ters. “Come down to earth,” she ad-
vises, “and you will all be much hap-
pier.”
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IZ ING BORIS of Bulgaria is doing
the best he can for his little
Cinderella kingdom, but things don’t
look so good. He reviews troops
King Boris Would and s^ifts
tanks and
Rather Be ‘Casey guns around
Jone, of Balkan* S
that he is just making himself a
lot of unnecessary trouble. As a
king, he never did have his heart
in his work.
He has a passion for trains
and never misses a chance to
drive a locomotive. Engines fill
his life and his dreams. When
his father, Ferdinand, abdicated
in 1918, the young man insisted
that he be allowed to go to
America and be a railroad engi-
neer, but his father forbade it.
Ascetic in appearance, always ol
seemly behavior, he moved immacu-
lately through Balkan wars, revolu-
tions and internecine dogfights. Fer-
dinand had apprenticed him to a
versatile fighting man in 1912, when
he was only 18 years old. He fought
dutifully, but seemed always to be
listening for the whistle of old 97,
coming round the bend.
His wardrobe, one of the best in
Europe, runs mainly to pinstripes.
He is a" nimble dancer, good at all
such orthodox sports as boar-hunt-
ing and timber-topping, but aroused
and eager only when he has his
hand on the throttle of a locomotive.
In 1930, he married the Prin-
cess Giovanna of Italy. This al-
liance was regarded, among oth-
er dynastic ties, as a stabilizing
and safeguarding influence for
his kingdom, but now seems of
small account. In 1934, internal
stress led the king to set up a
dictatorship, by a military coup.
It didn’t help much. About 80
per cent of the exports of Bul-
garia continued to go to totali-
tarian countries, and it came
more and more under their
thrall. The king flirted with Rus-
sia for a while, with no gratify-
ing results. He has been in fre-
quent peril of assassination—
and nothing seems to matter
much, since they won’t let him
be a railroad engineer.
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