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THE GIDDINGS STAR
GENERAL
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
LOANS TO FOREIGN LANDS
WASHINGTON— Poor Mr. Hoover
once set out to help our foreign
trade to dispose of our surplus prod-
ucts by loans to “backward and crip-
pled countries." Loans to bankrupts
have a way of turning sour. These
did, and what a panning Mr. Roose-
velt in 1932 gave the Great Engineer
for that suggestion.
Mr. Hoover was only proposing a
policy of private loans—the money
of risk-takers for profit. His project
was relatively piker’s chickenfeed.
Mr. Roosevelt now wants to take
$500,000,000 out of the treasury to
lend to Latin-American countries to
enable their governments to buy up
and hold their own surplus of agri-
cultural products. This is a price-
pegging plan such as Mr. Wallace
has practiced in American farm
products. It has never worked in
the history of the world although
it has frequently been tried—notably
in Brazilian coffee. East Indian rub-
ber, Canadian grain and American
wheat, corn and cotton.
It doesn't work because it is the
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STIMSON GIVEN FULL
AUTHORITY
Henry L. Stimson, Republican
secretary of war, and the only man
in the United States who has served
in three cabinets (Taft's, Hoover’s
and Roosevelt's) is, proceeding cau-
tiously. But he has been given com-
plete authority by Roosevelt to re-
organize the entire war department,
even including the ousting of Demo-
cratic appointees.
The inside story of Stimson’s ap-
pointment can now be told.
It so happened that he had just
delivered a strong pro-allied address
at the Yale uni-
versity com-
mencement exer-
cises, when he
got home and re-
ceived the long
distance call from
Roosevelt inviting
him to become
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presence (rather than the mere own- ;
ership) of unmanageable surplus
and the certainty of oncoming crops
that overhangs the market and de-
secretary of war.
“Mr. Presi-
dent," replied
1 Stimson, ‘I have
just delivered an
Henry L. Stimson
address which no
man in high official position should
make."
“I know all about your speech,”
Roosevelt replied in effect, “and I
still want you to be secretary of
war.”
Stimson then replied that the deci-
sion was so momentous that he
wanted two or three hours to talk it
over with his wife and close friends.
"Take all the time you want, Hen-
has a dream-book but no direct wire, ry," said the President.
although the President says we are Note—To get the full significance
to underwrite the South American of this exchange, it is necessary to
surplus only for one year. How does remember that Stimson and Roose-
he know? velt had fought each other in New
In the romantic days, when spices York state politics ever since 1910,
were the only practical food preser- when Stimson ran for governor and
vative and therefore invaluable, the Roosevelt, just out of Harvard, ran
Dutch controUed much of the East for the state senate.
Indian trade. They had a rougher After two or three hours Stim-
remedy for market gluts. If too son telephoned the President and
much anise, cinnamon, pepper, nut- accepted the appointment. Mowev-
meg, cloves or what-not was con- er, be added one condition.
resting on the wharves they simply “I’m not as young as I used to
sank the surplus in the sea. Mr. . .. he said wand t can't work 18
Wallace has tried variations of that As 1 ‘anda .
also That is why he killed the little and 20 hours a day any more. There-
pies and cattle, plowed under the I fore I’ve got to have men around
cotton, paid farmers for not produc-
ing and recently and more intelli-
presses price. That was the basic
fault with Mr. Wallace’s “Joseph"
or “ever-normal granary" day
dream. Joseph could successfully
buy and store the surplus of Egypt
for seven fat years and then sell it
at hold-up prices during seven lean
years until he owned all of Egypt.
He could do it because he had a
dream-book and a direct wire to the
Pearly Gates. Henry apparently
BY % 9
PAC4TADL
war male A/CE a T
THERE could be no doubt that
L you stood poised on the edge of
another football season. Not the
slightest doubt when you turned and
looked into the honest, rugged coun
tenance of Bo McMillin, the Head
Hoosier of Indiana.
“It won't be long now," Bo opened
the conversation.
It won't. In almost no time teams
will be mobilizing for the leading
all-star games in Chicago and New
York. And just beyond that we get
the call to colors and the beginning
of intercollegiate action.
"This sho’ will be some season all
over the map," Coach Bo admitted
in his Texas-Kentucky drawl. “Ev-
ery section is set up with a lot of
powerful teams, such as Cornell.
Fordham and Princeton in the East
—Ohio State, Michigan, Minnesota,
and Notre Dame in the Midwest-
pretty near all of ’em in the South
Tulane, Duke, Tennessee, Alabama,
and others.
"The Southwest? Tougher than
ever, headed by Texas A. and M.
and Southern Methodist. Then on
the way to the West coast we have
Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and
a few more. The West coast will
be headed by Southern California
and Washington, but there will be
others almost as good.
"About Indiana? We’ve got more
speed this time. That’s where we’ve
been shy. We'll be better off this
season.”
Twenty Years Ago
It has been 20 years since young
Bo came on to Harvard with his
Centre college team and startled the
country. That Kentucky entry had
McMillin, Weaver and Red Roberts,
three of the best. Walter Camp
named McMillin and Weaver on his
All-America.
Uncle Charlie Moran, now in re-
tirement at his home in Horse Cave,
Ky., was Centre's coach, and Uncle
Charlie knew’ more than his share
The Question!
1. What country is the Holy Land
of three religions?
2. How are the freezing and boil-
ing points of water designated on
the centigrade thermometer?
3. Where is the best known
maelstrom (a whirlpool)?
4. What is the tactile sense?
5 Where do the Hottentots live?
6. What is the Aurora Australis?
The Answers
1. Palestine is reverenced alike
as the Holy Land by the Jews,
Christians, and Mohammedans.
2. Zero and 100 degrees respec-
tively.
3. Off the coast of Norway.
4. The sense of touch.
5. In South Africa.
6. The "northern lights" of the
southern hemisphere.
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Vigorous Decision
Men must decide on what they
will not do, and then they are
able to act with vigor in what they
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please, and then to please to do
the wrong thing.—Rollins.
me whom I know intimately and can
absolutely trust. A tremendous re-
sponsibility will be on my shoul-
ders," Stimson added, "and I can-
not afford to fail."
gently, through the food-stamp plan,
sold farm surplus to the poor at a
great discount in prfee and all the
rest of us footed the grocery bill.
O. K. for our own people. This - .
column is for a direct federal sub- want, Henry. The only thing I ask
is not to appoint too many Repub-
licans at the very first.”
To this Roosevelt replied in ban-
tering tone: “Appoint anyone you
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I AST week Marty helped to talk
L Grandmother out of her old
buffet. The Martindale family
were in a dither when she told
them that she was going to furnish
a combination guest and sewing
room with the mirror and two
legs of the old buffet; plus some
spools, a butter tub, unbleached
muslin, some old rags and other
odds and ends.
The rags were used for the hook
rug in this sketch of a corner of
that new guest and sewing room.
Directions for the rug and for
making the spool tables shown
her are both in Sewing Book 5.
The mirror was hung end-wise and
is marvelous for fitting dresses.
The muslin drapery was used to
cover the irregular edge of the
mirror and makes just the right
background for the blue spool ta-
bles. You can see in the sketch
how the lamps and stool were
made. Next week the bottom shelf
of the buffet will be used and
Gram will teach Marty another
trick or two.
EDITOR’S NOTE: As a special
service to our readers, 150 of these
homemaking ideas have been pub-
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which are 10 cents each to cover
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Achievement is the answer to
accepting responsibility, duty.
Why do some rise faster than oth-
ers’ Answer: They invite respon-
sibility-they accept cheerfully
and courageously agreeable and
disagreeable duties, and they do
them promptly.
Responsibilities
Be thankful for responsibilities.
The more heavy they are the more
thankful you should be. Responsi-
bilities are what make men of
those who might otherwise be
failures.
sidy to a “parity price” to our
farmers for all their products that
can be consumed at home and also
for the food-stamp or any similar
plan to subsidize consumption of our
food products to all low-income
groups—not merely to help consume
our farm surplus but to relieve us
of the insufferable charge of permit-
ting Americans to starve or be un-
dernourished in the midst of rot-
ting overabundance.
Stimson apparently did not catch
the joking note in the President's
voice, for he replied: “You can
rest assured, Mr. President, that
whether Democrats or Republicans,
they will be good men.”
The first man Stimson asked to
help him in Washington was a Dem-
ocrat, Benedict Crowell, now presi-
dent of the Central National bank of
Cleveland and formerly assistant
secretary of war under Woodrow
Wilson. He is also a close friend
of Roosevelt's, who was then assis-
tant secretary of the navy. Crowell
got to know Stimson when the war
department was under bitter Repub-
lican attack in 1920, and Stimson, a
BO McMILLIN
But it is absolutely opposed to
pouring five hundred or any other
number of millions of public money
down any Latin-American rat holes
to subsidize our own competition and |
possibly to find their way into Hit- |
ler’s coffers or certainly, in no small
degree, into the pockets of various
satellites of the assorted dictator-
ships of the banana republics. Republican and an ex-secretary of
Sure, we need Pan American sol- , war, defended him.
idarity and friendship, but we can’t So this time Stimson asked
buy it. The only thing that will Crowell to help him, by going to
make it on any worthwhile basis, is Washington and making a quiet sur-
cold-blooded community of interest, vey of the situation inside the war
If that isn't there, any amount of department. Stimson had not yet
billions is just money thrown away, been confirmed by the senate and
Mr. Roosevelt has neither right could not make the survey himself,
nor reason in calling this a “loan," | But he wanted to know all the facts
intimating that one year s operation in advance in order to waste no
will do the trick, or limiting his re- | time once he took the oath of office,
quest to half a billion. | Crowell made the survey and re-
It is well known in Washington ported that the production of new
that this first step is part of a two- | war weapons and material was pro-
billion dollarprogram to make Uncle gressing most satisfactorily. How-
Sam the international broker for all
the products of the Western world.
That, too, is grotesque fantasy.
Its cost would eventually take us
out of the multiplication tables and
into the field of logarithms.
of football. We played football to-
gether and against each other in
Nashville, .and 1 can say now I’d
rather play with him than against
him.
Bo still grins when you recall the
time at Geneva when he told Gene-
va’s president, "I just can't keep all
these boys from followin' me
around,” one of them being a midget
by the name of Cal Hubbard, i feet
4, displacement 240 pounds, and fast-
er than most backs. That was the
era when Cornell beat Geneva, 6 to
0, a game during which Geneva was
penalized only something like 380
yards. A week later Bo's Geneva
outfit beat Harvard.
“That Cal Hubbard was pretty
near a whole team all alone,” Bo
tells you.
Still a Favorite
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The essence of all New Deal plan-
ning, statesmanship, diplomacy and
solution of all public problems can
be expressed in a single phrase
"give us billions of dollars.”
As statesmanship, that is about
as realistic as Santa Claus and Alad-
din's lamp.
Bo McMillin is still one of foot-
1 ball’s favorite sons, no matter where
he happens to be. Bo is not only a
smart coach but highly popular with
his players, or, as he calls them,
ever, he found the war department My po little Indiana boys,
rent with feuds and the personnel The only time 1 ever saw him
situation badly in need of reorgani- upset was the day Centre played
zation , Georgia Tech. Just before the
... game Bill Fincher, a great tackle,
| made his address to McMillin,
_ . NEW NAVAL BOSS . .. "You’re a great player, Bo. There
Col. Frank Knox, new Republican are 30,000 out here today to see you
secretary of the navy, already has play. I feel awful sorry about it be-
been sized up by the admirals. They
j describe their new boss this way: |
! "Hard-boiled and seems to know his j
stuff."
Naval officers frankly admit, how-
cause you are not going to be in
there very long—about three min-
utes.” .
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LOUIS JOHNSON I which is 8 good omen. For the ad'
1 returned to Washington after the | mirals never like a secretary of the
conventions to find a rumor that navy who really runs the show,
the new Tory Republican secretary | And in the navy today they certainly
of war had asked his vigorous as- need a two-fisted secretary
sistant, Louis Johnson, to get the Note—It is significant that Knox
hell out of there, is clearing all naval changes through
Politics marches on—ruthlessly, | Roosevelt. The President still keeps
respecting nothing, sparing nothing, the navy as his governmental pet.
I have not always seen eye to • • •
eye with Mr. Johnson. At first I
thought he was politicalizing and ____________.____________
New Dealizing the army. My criti- sas, lame-ducked in the 1938 G. O. P.
cism was well-informed but it cleanup, is hot after the Land Bank
commissionership that will become
vacant August 1, when incumbent
Roy Green leaves to become presi-
dent of the University of Colorado.
McGill has the backing of American
Farm bureau moguls who have
bucked the administration on land
bank policies—which won’t help
McGill's chances.
Unfortunately for Bo, the proph-
ecy came true.
"I'd certainly like to see that
game between Cornell and Ohio
State,” Bo said. "I know Cornell
is strong, but Ohio State is going to
have a great team. Their captain,
Don Scott, is one of the best football
players I ever saw and in addition
he is a sparkplug leader. Yes sir.
there's a great football player—and
he Isn’t the only Buckeye star.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Ex-Senator George McGill of Kan-
proved premature.
That job differs from any other
sub-cabinet position. It is charged
by statute with industrial mobiliza-
tion of the whole nation in an emer-
gency. My observation was that
Mr. Johnson did not fully appre-
ciate this vast problem in the be-
ginning. He certainly does new.
His work here is not paralleled else-
where in government.
"About Michigan? Any team that
| has Tom Harmon is off to a running
| start. There’s another member of
; the greats."
I ran into young Jack Reid of
Yale, grandson of John Reid who
founded St. Andrews and was the
real pioneer for American golf.
Also, Jack's father is Archie Reid,
lately president of the U. S Q. A.
"Yale gets a tough break draw-
ing Cornell this fall," I suggested.
"Why?" young Reid asked. "We
don't expect to win them all. I’m
glad we are playing Cornell because
you can learn from such a team."
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