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Success and Education
At least four of the biggest men in America—men
occupying places of extraordinary prestige and power
in the war effort—never finished high school. They are
C E Wilson, production boss of WPB; James F.
Byrnes, newly named head of the Office of War Mobil-
ization. who will absorb many of the functions of the
president; William Jeffers, rubber czar; and Jesse
Jones, secretary of commerce.
The conclusion-jumpers would ask. What's the mat-
ter with our system of education in this country that
a quartet could reach such eminence without even a
high school diploma?
The obvious answer is that these men are among the
best-educated in the country. They got their education
the hard way, informally; but you can bet your bottom
dollar thev got it.
He would be a fool indeed who would advise any
young man or woman to seek success by passing up a
formal education, on the basis of this quartet's show-
ing. Can't everybody be a genius.
Contemptible Racket
Judge Oscar Caplan of Chicago's “racket court" has
come across what he calls “one of the most shameful
rackets that has ever come to my knowledge." Quot-
ing Judge Caplan, the Chicago Daily News remarks
that “this new and vicious wartime racket, which vic-
timizes unsuspecting servicemen and their govern-
ment, is springing up here and in Canada.” The News
describes how it works: .
“The allotment wife is the modern version of the
traditional 'camp follower.’ She moves to a center near
some large military camp of embarkation point. Then
she marries a soldier on furlough or a sailor about to
embark. When her first husband has left the region
__or, in most cases, the country—the allotment wife
changes her name and address and marries another
“love-on-first-sight’ serviceman. She may do this two,-
three or four times—or until she is caught."
These harpies not only collect the $50 monthly allot-
ment, but in some cases as much as $10,000 in insurance
when their victims die in battle. In Chicago two women
have been arrested for attempting to work this racket.
In Canada one woman was convicted who had five
husbands, the last three of them servicemen. The au-
thorities are spreading a warning among servicemen
not to be taken in, but there is no way of telling how
many have already fallen for this racket.
No more contemptible crime could be conceived than
one which plays on the loneliness, uncertainty and gul-
! libilitv of a man about to offer his life for his country.
That isn't the worst of it;.in some cases, no doubt, the
woman who gave him birth, his mother, who should
have his allotment check and insurance money, gets
nothing but grief. .
A serviceman would do well to exercise at least ele-
mental caution before letting a strange woman get
her hooks in him. He should investigate, check up,
make sure before selling his name and fortune for a
mess of pottage.________
Gresham’s Law
Sir Thomas Gresham was founder of the Royal Ex-
change in London in 1550, which is just 17 years short
of 400 years ago. Gresham's Law bears his name. Gres-
ham's Law is the principle that "bad money drives out
good." The principle is that whenever a government
issues money that is not worth face value, people who
have good coins in their possession hoard them and use
the "funny money." Basically, it was in recognition
of this principle that it was made unlawful about 1935
to possess gold in this country. During the agitation
for bimetallism in the late 1890s people started to
hoard gold coins, fearful of the inflationary effect on
other forms of money. The principle stated by Gres-
ham is as irrepealable as the law of the Medes and
Persians, hence the need for a suitable curb, hence the
anti-hoarding law.
We have a pretty good example of the workings of
Gresham's Law today. It is seen in OPA’s clumsy at-
tempts to control prices without controlling all the
factors that enter into prices.
Because people can't cash-their meat coupons, for
example, for want of legal meat to cover the face value
of the coupons, black markets come into being to
■upplv the demand. "Bad" (illegal) meat drives out
“good” (legal) meat.
Bv not controlling all price factors. OPA has made
it impossible for meat processors to process meats at a
profit, but only at a ruinous loss. So legitimate meat
processors are going out of business all over the coun-
try, which leaves the way clear for black market
operators.
You can almost see the wheels in the OPA brain-
trusters' heads whirring round. They play a tune
something like this: "We'll roll back prices by forcing
raisers to withhold their cattle because the processors
won't or can't pay the price and make a profit, which
means the retailers won’t get any meat, which means
the public will howl. We'll just hold this arrangement
for weeks or months, as may be necessary."
This brainstorm ignores several fundamentals. Many
raisers are selling their herds because they either can't
get feed for them or they can't pay feed prices and
make a profit. Processors are losing money steadily.
Retail stores, with empty hooks and cases, can’t stay
in business. The public can't cash its meat coupons.
No law has ever been invented that will keep people
in business when they’re losing money at it.
The proposed subsidy won't cure this sort of thing.
For ene thing, it would merely shift the burden from
the consumer’s household budget to his tax budget;
the only advantage might be that he could get some
meat But as a device for holding down prices, it would
be a subterfuge that actually would increase the cost
of living just the same. y
What this country needs is some hard-headed, prac-
tical business men, dirt farmers and saddle-roll cow-
men instead of bureaucrats and cloistered professors
in charge of OPA thinking and doing.
By RAYMOND ( LAPPER
STOCKHOLM, May 31 — (By
Wireless) — Most of the criticism
among Swedes of their own gov-
ernment's position regarding the
war is related to the German troop
trains that are being allowed to
run through Sweden carrying Ger-
man soldiers to and from Nor-
way.
This so-called "leave traffic” 1a
the focus of intense criticism by the
opposition, and of hard feelings on
the part of the Norwegians against
the Swedes. The pressure Is so
strong that I have found a num-
ber of government officials predict-
ing that the German leave traf-
fic" will be stopped in the next few
months
It is hard to know whether such
predictions will be fulfilled, be-
cause there is a certain timidity in
high places here which might pre-
vent such action. Unquestionably
public sentiment is in favor of
ending the traffic. When I was in
Gothenburg recently porminent citi-
zens, including local officials, spoke
indignantly about it and referred
to the traffic as shameful.
Torgny Cegerstedt, Sweden's fire-
brand editor, has criticized the gov-
ernment unmercifully for tolerat-
ing this traffic, which the gov.
------ernment allow-
ed to go on se-
cretly for some
time, beginning
after the Nor-
wegians capitu-
lated in the
summer of 1940.
The Prime
Minister tried to
talk Mr. Seger-
stedt out of his
_____bitter criticism.
CLAPPER Chat failed.
Then the king summoned him.
What transpired is a matter of gos-
“sip, and it has produced some good
anecdotes which may or may not
be legendary. Anyway, Segerstedt
continued his criticism of the for-
eign office, particularly of foreign
Minister E. Guenther, who takes it
philosophically.'
TRAINLOADS OF GERMANS
It is a shock, in a neutral coun-
try. to see a long train of German
soldiers moving twice a day through
Sweden, carrying about a thousand
troops each trip.
One can understand how offi-
cials anxious to keep out of war
hesitated to resist the German de-
mands back in 1940. The Nazis
had conquered Norway and were
overrunning Europe. They could
easily have occupied Sweden, and
many people here are still amazed
that Hitler omitted to do so. But
this is not 1940. Germany is short-
ening her lines rather than extend-
ing them. She is in no position to
open a new front in Sweden. It
would cost her much more than she
could get from it. The Swedes of
Gothenburg scoff at the nervous-
ness of Stockholm on this point.
I am convinced that Swedish
sentiment is with us. Also that
most of the high officials are with
us personally. But there is still a
fear of the Nazis, which seems now
to be explained more by habit than
by realities. I have had the ex-
planation offered to me that bur-
eaucratic influences arising out of
timidity, perhaps affected by cer-
tain earlier backgrounds, account
for the discrepancy between the
Swedes
strongly pro-ally sentiment of the
press, the social Democratic party,
labor, and scores of leading citi-
zens, I have talked to, on the one
hand, and the extremely timid po-
licy of the foreign office on the
other.
I cannot be too sure of the ex-
planation, but It seems beyond ar-
gument that such a discrepancy
exists. In fact, when officials say
privately that public pressure will
force an end to the German troop
traffic, that in itself seems an ad-
mission that the government’s po-
licy is out of line with popular opin-
ion.
• • •
People in Washington who knew
Hans Thomsen when he was in the
German embassy there will be In-
terested to know that Frau Thom-
sen has arrived here, where her
husband is minister, and that she
is criticizing the Nazis at dinner
partlee was she did in Washington.
Apparently the Thomsens are
working both sides of the street
here just as they did in the United
States.
THE TIMID SOUL
By WEBSTEN
*
Cost
Returning Yanks Pack English Lingo
By HENRY McLEMORE
LONDON, ENGLAND. — Right
along with his gun, gas mask, tin
hat and bedroll, the American sold-
ier coming to England gets a
brochure telling him how to behave
in this country. It is an attractive
little publication and advises the
enlisted man against throwing his
weight around because he makes
more money, against making any
cracks about us having licked the
English in the War of the Revolu-
tion and against laughing at the
words and sayings the English have
and so forth and so on.
After four months in England I
am preparing a booklet, for the Am-
erican soldier to read before he re-
turns to America. I have been here
long enough to know that he haa
absorbed entirely too much of Eng-
land and its habits and customs to
sail past the Statue of Liberty with
perfect confidence that he will be
accepted as an American when he
gets home. The tentative title of
my book is: How An American
Should Act When He Gets Back
To America." or "Forgive Me For
Becoming A Foreigner In Such A
Short Time.”
There can be no denying to those
of us who have watched Americans
slowly become British in talk, ac-
tion and attitude that there is a
need for such a pamphlet. All you
have to do to become convinced is
to see a corporal from Pigeon Run,
Mississippi, lift his glass of beer and
say, “Cheers."
Here is some of the advice my
book offers. When you get back
to Missouri and the elevator doesn’t
work, don't turn to your compan-
ion and say, "I take a dismal view
of this lift.” If you do, your com-
panion is likely to hit you. Don't
use "flat” when you mean apart-
ment. Don't say you live "in such
and such a street" when you mean
you live on a street.
CAREFUL WITH GIRL FRIEND
Don't think you can make the girl
you love accept your most devoted
proposal by offering her a package
of fig newton cookies or a package
of Beeman s gum. The cookies and
the gum were scarce over here but
it might be different at home
Don’t try to bribe the girl’s old
man with a ten-cent cigar just be-
cause cigars are hard to get over
here and Father is willing to say
"Yes" to almost anything in order
to get a smoke with a Havana
wrapper. Don't think you can get
a nice dowry by pulling out a Ro-
bert Burns panatella.
Also, keep in mind that at home
salted peanuts are not on the gold
---standard. You
can't get by with
a can of Plant-
ers Peanuts for
an anniversary,
McLEMORE
wedding or
birthday pres-
ent.
When you get
home try quick-
ly to adapt
yourself to using
a napkin at the
table. I know
you haven't seen a napkin for
months or years but try hard to
break yourself of the habit of wip-
ing your lips and 'chin with the
back of your hand a la Henry the
Eighth.
MONEY TALKS ENGLISH
Don’t talk pence, shilling, half
crown and pound. There still exist
such things as pennies, dimes,
quarters and dollars.
When you ask directions for the
subway, don’t inquire of the guard
the way to get to such and such a
place on the underground or the
tube. When someone asks you how
to get to a certain street, don't
tell him to take the first turning
on the right or the first turning on
the left or to go to the top of the
road. Tell him to go so many
blocks and turn right or left.
And, abort all else, don't say
“Ta" when you mean "thanks.’
This brochure will be added to as
the weeks pass and we observe more
and more Americans becoming too,
too English. Not that there is any-
thing wrong with the English but,
rather that there is nothing wrong
with the Americans. If we don't
maintain a difference, how are we
going to explain Lease-Lend!
(Distributed by McNaught
Syndicate, Inc.)
John Lewis Hopes to Become Labor Czar
By PETER EDSON
Reporter-News Washington
Correspondent
There is much more than meets
the eye in John L. Lewis applica-
non to take the United Mine Work-
ers back into the American Feder-
ation of Labor, and perhaps the
only man in the country who really
sees all the implications is John L.
himself, who hasn't missed a trick
in the last three months of his m-
tricate play for the highest of
stakes.
Informed labor politicians who
keep close track of the involved ins-
end-outs of the labor movement see
in this latest Lewis move the bold-
est bid for power, the most spectac-
ular card ever thrown on the table
in the last 10 or a dozen years.
The obvious items of significance
have already been pointed out:
It is a play to strengthen the
hend of John L Lewis
It is a movs to make the A F. of
L. the dominant labor movement in
the country.
It offers an opportunity for the
retirement of William Green as
president of the American Federa-
tion of Labor. ■
An attempt has been made to
build up a case of political signifi-
cance from this move, by concluding
that Lewis, opposing Roosevelt,
might try to swing the A P. of L.
into the Republican lineup. Some
A F. of L labor leaders lean that
way now, through their opposition
to the Wegner act and the belief
that the C. I. O. has been given
more administration support. But
Lewis tried to lead the C. I. O into
the G. O. P camp in 1940. He failed,
and it is doubtful if he would try
to Moses a second flight, of his
children into an unknown prom-
ised land of politics. __________
OPPORTUNITY TO
CLEAN HOUSE
The real significance of the Lew-
is move back into the A F of L.
le really twofold:
1. This marks the renewal of
warfare between Lewie and the
C. I. O.
2. It presents the opportunity to
clean house and get rid of the
fringe of racketeering labor leaders
who have cluttered up the A. F. of
L directorate for years.
With regard to this second point,
it has been generally forgotten that
the tremendously strong Machinists’
Union has signified its desire to
withdraw from the A. F. of L. and
la now conducting a poll of its mem-
bership on this question The poll
wlA be completed within the next
few weeks While the result is
problematical, the underlying rea-
son for the machinists’ desire to
withdraw has been dissatisfaction
with the leadership in other A. F. of
L unions and the questionable pol-
icies which they have countenanced
and encouraged. New blood in the
A. F. of L. executive committee and
a dominant leadership such as Lew-
is might contribute, could go far in
strengthening the loose organiza-
tion from which the United Mine
Workers withdrew back in 1935,
sterling the original split In the
U 8 labor movement. throne at the top reserved for
• • • "peacemaker” John L. Lewis, of
MANY LOYAL TO LEWIS course.
Warfare between Lewis — with
the A. F of L. at his back - and Shamrock Marine
theC I O may become extremely Flier Given DFC
bitter. Some few labor leaders will
even go so far as to say that the
reunion of Lewis with the A. F. of
L. will mark the end of the C. I. O.
That is doubtful.
What is not generally known,
however is that within the C. I. O.
leadership there is a strong ele-
ment which is still loyal to John L.
Lewis, the man who founded their
movement end set them up in bus-
iness. The older leaders in the
U. A. W. have not forgotten that
it was Lewis
who won them
their original
big gains.
Loyal C. I. O.
leaders fear and
hate Lewis, and
denounce him
bitterly. But if
other of the
original C. I. O.
unions should
decide to follow
Lewis end the
Mine Workers
back into the A F. of U the C. I.
O might be seriously weakened. It
might conceivably develop that the
A. F of L. would emerge with a
EDSON
membership of some ten million
members, giving It dominance That
way also might lie eventual labor
organic unity and peace. With a
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WASHINGTON. May 31.—(UP)-
Nine more Marine fliers have been
decorated for their heroism in an
air combat in the Solomon islands
Marine corpa headquarters announc-
ed Monday.
Two awards were made posthum-
ously, three were to fliers listed as
missing in action, and three others
to wounded airmen Only one of the
nine remained unscathed.
The Distinguished Flying Cross
was awarded to 2d Lt. Henry W.
Hise. 22, not wounded, whose moth-
er. Mrs Henry L Hise, lives at
Shamrock, Tex. Hise was with a
squadron that sank five Japanese
ships and damaged two others
Found: Ono Way
To Beat Rationing
BELLEVILLE, m., May 31.—(—
A panhandler released from the St.
Clair county jail after serving a
30-day vagrancy charge was found
plying his trade downtown.
Arresting, officers told him he’d
be back in a call—for six months
thia time. The offender waa pleas-
ed: "They really feed you,” he ex-
plained
Pondering the situation, police
hurtled the panhandler out of town
with orders for him to stay out.
Unlucky Advice
MILWAUKEE. May 31. ——
Two-year-old Bobby Sodemann and
his mother were out walking when
she noticed Bobby pleying with a
piece of peper
"Throw It away," she commanded.
“Mustn’t pick things off ths
street”
Bobby did. It was a ten dollar bill
and someone else coming along be-
hind who didn’t believe in such ad-
vice picked It up.
(Editor’s Not* The next major Al-
lied offensive must be carried to the
enemy through the home waters of
either the German or Italian fleets.
In this article, a United Press writ-
er with the British fleet, discusses
Italy’s navy, its strength and poten-
tials >
By CLINTON B. CONGER
LONDON. May 31—(UP)—Italy
has six battleships, a maximum
of 15 light cruisers and an un-
known number of destroyers,
which most certainly would be
considered expendable in any at-
tempt to etop en Allied invasion.
They constitute Italy’s enure
workable fleet. In addition, there
is one battleship building and
two heavy cruisers are undergo-
ing repairs. Another battleship,
the Cavour, was so badly damag-
ed in Taranto harbor, by Brit-
ish torpedo planes as to be be-
yond repair.
The sacrifice would be a great
one, but the returns, from ths
Axis point of view, would justi-
fy its loss, naval experts believe.
And It Is considered likely here
that the Italian fleet to being held
in reserve for an all-out defense
in the crucial first 48 hours of
an invasion attempt.
An invasion surely would mean
the end of the fleet, either by
internment, surrender or destruc-
tion
Thus far in the war, thanks to
a policy of caution and timidity,
both the German and Italian
navies have fulfilled only the role
of fleets In being" — warships
which by their very existence,
active or inactive, Immobilize
and monopolize the attention of
portions of the Allied naval
forces
With the fall of Tunisia, the
tables were turned on the Italian
navy. Until then. It held a stra-
tegic advantage over the Brit-
ish navy and with German air
support over the Sicilian straits,
was in a position to keep the
British eastern and Western
fleets apart.
Theoretically, it would have
been able to bring numerically
superior force* against each Brit-
ish force in turn. The opportun-
ity was offered several times-
notably abainst the eastern fleet
at Matepen in March, 1941. and
against the western fleet In No-
vember 1940 But apparently it
was unable to steel itself for bat-
the /
Now the situation to reversed
and the Royal Navy with the Al-
lied strategic air force in North
- Africa, dominates the Sicilian
straits and even watches over the
Straits of Messina.
Mussolinis fleet now to separ-
ated into two parte. The stronger
half is in the Western Mediter-
ranean guarding Corsica, Sardin-
ia, Sicily and the Italian main-
land It is headed by three bas
tleships of the Litterio class-
the Littorio, Vittorio Veneto and
the Roma.
These are fast, 35,000-tonners,
mounting 15-inch guns. They may
be joined soon by a sister shy
now in the ways.
The battleships compare to the
King George V class in the Brit- *
Uh fleet, but there seems to be
something wrong with Italian
ship building. They seem unable
to stand up well under punis.O
ment. Two of this class already
have been seriously damaged by
torpedoes
These three recently were re-
ported at Spezia, where they have
better protection from air attack
but cornered, they might put up
an impressive fight. Desperation,
combined with a long succession
of humiliations might provide an
incentive to fight.
Two laid-up heavy cruiser
normally would support the be#
tleships.
II Duct's Eastern Mediterran-
ean flset—otherwise known as the
Adriatic fleet—consists of four
battleships of pre-World War I
vintage—Cavour (probably out M
good) Cesare, Doria and Duilio.
These are 23,622 - tonners,
mounting 12.5 inch guns and
completely modernised just before
the start of the present war. All
have been hit This section has
no heavy casualties and U out
numbered by the Royal Navy in
light cruisers and destroyers.
Their home base is Taranto
Corfu, Brindisi and Albanian
ports supplement, with the dis-
advantage of being in the neO
of the Adriatic bottle and easily
corked
The Mediterranean is a MA
without an outlet for the Axis
ships end II Duce’s ships even-
tually could be left with no plays
to retreat They could run to
Vencie or Trieste but would only
be prolonging the agony and al-
lowing smaller Allied forces to
contain them
As an alternative, the Italian
navy could enter Spanish pori
to be interned or, while it is in-
conceivable that any could pass
Gibraltar and join the Germane
in the Atlantic. It could be turn-
ed over to the Germans at Tou-
lon or Marseilles at the last mos
ment before an Italian surrender
But in either case the ships would
here to get by Allied air power
and the British fleet.
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Buried Treasure
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. May 11
—(P)— Nine years ago Austin Hafet
lost his pocketbook while helping
plow a neighbor’s field
The neighbor’s son, Eugene Gay-
man, turned up the moldy wallet
while plowing the same field this
spring. Inside it Hafer found two
$5 bills, little the worse for the
long stay underground.
Not Tooth Powder
OAKLAND, Calif . May 31——
All she wanted waa tooth powder.
So when the customer found the
ean contained dust, she returned it
and got her money back.
The store manager and Patrol-
man Ross Feliz examined the can
and found emery dust and a tiny
envelope.
Inside the envelope were gold
filings worth $13.
Victory to Sunken
sr. JOSEPH, Mo. May M—OF)
—Joe Suters couldn’t believe his
eyes.
He stepped to a window to gaze
proudly at his victory garden. Sud-
denly the whole thing disappeared.
City officials said a sewer leak
had undermined the soil.
WASHINGTON, May 31--
Americans will come clean
through 1943—government end
manufacturers ear there should
be enough map to meet essential
civilian needs this year.
But they say soap supply will
need cooperation on the home
front:
From housewives butchers and
meat packers who must keep on
salvaging fate which are essen-
tial in soap-making.
From all soap-users who must
conserve it by keeping it dry
when possible and not using it
needlessly.
•A spokesman for the Association
of American Soap and Glycerine
Producers says he s unable to ex-
plain even to himself why there
have been panic-buying spurts in
soap—particularly in the West
and Midwest:
“How can it be explained any
better then a run on a bank can
be explained? Someone starts a
rumor, then the rush is on But
there le a good deal of soap-
hoarding by people who keep on
storing It away ”
ia this country last year the
per capita-that to, for every man
woman and child la the country
—use of soap was 17 pounds. It
‘may be less this year.
Before the war animal lets end
grease were about M percent at
6
the total ingredients— which In-
cluded coconut, palm and soybean
olls—in the nation’s soap kettles.
This year, according to eti
mates the soap-making Ingredi-
ents will be SO percent animal
fats and grease. Q
Meanwhile fats are being sent
out of the country on lend-lease
shipments of meat since they pro.
tect the meat; fats on black mar-
ket meat are lost to the nation;
and Japanese seizure of the Ph
ippines and East Indies has
crimped the coconut oil supplies.
But a spokesman for the Food
Distribution administration says
the FDA elms to meet the soap
problem by importing more fats
and making greater use of PAY
plentiful soap-making matertA
like rosin
“Beyond 1943,” this spokesman
says, "the supply of soap will de-
pend upon the size of the erap of
oil seeds grown this summer, the
slaughter of cattle and hogs,
of course upon the continued vo-
operation of the housewives,
butchers and meat peckers ’
Soap quotas are being held down
below the 1940-41 level by the
government, but soap manufie
ture still must be maintained on
■ high level if for no other reason
than that so much of vital glyc-
erine—used in explosives— is pro-
duced in the soap-making process.
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