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THE CASS COUNTY SUN
Wonder-of-the-W eek
ROGER
SHAW
By
RUTH WYETH
SPEARS
SEW
HOW
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
German March Toward Paris
Marked by Terrific Fighting;
U. S. Maps New Defense Plans
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are those of the news analyst and not necessarily oI this newspaper.)
by Western Newspaper Union.)
II GERMAN WAR:
III Reich
Nothing succeeds like success.
The latest Third Reich included Ger-
many, Austria, Czecho Slovakia, Po-
land, Norway, Denmark, Holland,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Memel, the
Saar. Its friends and allies took in
Russia, Italy, Japan, Spain, Hun-
gary. Its sinister "list" seemed to
include Switzerland, Jugoslavia, Ru-
mania, and some said Sweden. It
was more than Napoleonic—Poland
in 18 days; Norway in 21; Holland
in 5. So what next? England by
parachute? France by tank?
There was serious talk of moving
the French government out of Paris
—destination unknown. England
rounded up another 3,000 Germans
and Austrians between the ages of
16 and 60; two-thirds of them refu-
gees from the nasty Nazi terror at
home. Some quarter-million Eng-
lish volunteers enrolled to sharp-
shoot parachuters, and Premier
Winston Churchill nervously prom-
ised his new constituents blood, and
sweat, and toil, and tears—always
a clever psychological trick in deal-
ing with dogged Englishmen.
German authorities indicated that
the government of any of their "pro-
tectorates" depended on how much
resistance the "protected" had put
up. Thereby, Denmark was getting
grade-A treatment, Norway perhaps
grade-B, and Poland a very low
grade indeed. Holland was expect-
ed to get a rating similar to that of
the Norse, though perhaps a trifle
lower. For the Dutch had fought
rather hard.
Belgian Bungle
Brussels, Namur, Liege, and Lou-
vain fell as the Germans pushed
ahead in Belgium. (The three big
Belgian fortification sites were Na-
mur, Liege, and Antwerp.) The Bel-
gians, on the whole, fought better
than the Dutch, but as the Belgic
capital surrendered to Hitler, the
German invaders were within 75
MARSHAL HENRI PETAIN
'A cabinet post for this hero of Verdun.
miles of that not so gay Paree. The
Belgian government decamped to a
safer spot, Ostend on the channel.
In at least four places, the Ger-
mans had pierced the French Magi-
not line extension, back of the Bel-
gian border. Dr. Robert Ley, the
not very Nordic Nazi minister of la-
bor, announced that the German
army was performing a "God-given
natural mission." The Field Grays,
he added, intended to make the
world "happy and reasonable." But
the French refused to be happy,
and the English were certainly not
feeling reasonable. In desperation,
the English Churchill government
began to woo Russia with a "new
and more friendly approach"—Rus-
sia, the recent "red beast" that vic-
timized brave little Finland. Mean-
while, the United States and the 20
Latin American states went on rec-
ord with an official denunciation of
Germany's invasion of Holland and
Belgium. Harsh observers branded
the joint resolve as a Uruguayan
"publicity stunt." And in France, a
cabinet reshuffle found the hero of
Verdun in the last World war, Henri
Philippe Petain, named as vice pre-
mier to Premier Paul Reynaud.
Bull on Spot
John Bull, said critics, was on the
spot. The state department warned
7,000 Americans to get out of Brit-
ain, and stay out, and ordered them
to go to the peaceful, prosperous
Irish Free State. It was indicated
that a Yankee rescue ship would
fish the U. S. refugees out of the
emerald Eire. But many Ameri-
cans refused to leave J. Bull.
Sweden Overmatched
Sweden was nervous as bullying
German troops, in Norway, were re-
ported massed on the Swedish bor-
der—whence comes more than a
third of the German iron supply.
But that was not all. The entire
Swedish match industry, turning out
90,000,000,000 matches per year, was
closing down because it could not
export. "Sweden is-or-has no match
for Hitler," exploded a wit. But
fine Swedish iron continued to pour
out of Swedish Lappland.
POTOMAC POWER:
FDR Wants Money
The President told congress, dra-
matically, in joint session, that he
wanted a billion bucks and 50,000
warplanes to defend our country
against 3,000-mile blitzkriegs. Two-
thirds of the billion were to go to
the U. S. army. Roosevelt hinted
that it might be nice to raise the
legal national debt limit—which is
$45,000,000,000. He asked that he
be given $100,000,000 in cash, to pro-
vide for "emergencies." But an
answer, in part, came from presi-
dential possibility Willkie, in an In-
dianapolis speech. Willkie said that
adequate national defense depended
on domestic recovery. Meanwhile,
the continentalists rallied against
the anglophiles and internationalists,
in and out of congress. Senators
Johnson, Norris and Wheeler—all of
them, naturally, pro-ally — were
WENDEL WILLKIE
He has an answer for a tough problem.
especially active against any "1917"
wiles. But old Pershing, a big man
in 1917, spoke of the "possibility of
war," while War Secretary Woodring
spoke of our maintaining peace. It
was all very confusing. There was
even talk of lending some money to
the no-pay French and English, but
it was only talk.
Good Old Garner
There was a tale to the effect that
Vice President Garner now admit-
ted Roosevelt's nomination for the
Third Term. He said, supposedly,
that Roosevelt had absolute control
of the Chicago convention, and that
was that. But, Texas Jack contin-
ued (so they say) that he himself
would not run again, because he was
opposed to Third Terms for vice
presidents, as well as for Presidents.
Thereby, he established his consist-
ency, and may have opened the door
to a swarm of ambitiously would-be
V. P.'s. Roosevelt had at least 431
convention delegates pledged or
committed, and was expected soon
to possess more than the necessary
548 majority.
U. S. CIVIL WAR:.
Doivn in Looseana
Down in Creole Looseana, there
was an American civil war going
on. It was being fought out be-
tween hard-working units of Uncle
Sam's tried and true regular army.
Some 30,000 blues were defending
the state against 25,000 red invaders
from Texas. Somehow (an unusual
feature of this La-Tex struggle) the
defenders were reported as employ-
ing blitzkrieg tactics, and seemed to
be forging ahead. There even was
a fifth column, to make things per-
fect. This fifth column (so-called)
consisted of local bovines, who
licked the insulation of army tele-
phone lines, and thereby committed
military sabotage in the first, sec-
ond and third degrees. In Russia,
they'd have fixed 'em! But these
fifth-columnar cows of Dixie gained
reprieve. As to the battleground it-
self, Looseana—its new governor,
Sam Houston Jones, told 100,000 peo-
ple at a barbecue that no more
Huey Longs would run the state.
ON THE MOVE:
25,000 residents in the Dutch East
Indies, definitely were off the move.
These were suspects, both German
and Dutch, rounded up by the watch-
ful colonial authorities, only too
conscious of fifth-column and Tro-
jan Horse tactics. Simultaneously,
in New York, great dissension arose
when a popular native declared:
"The fifth column in this country
is headed by that fellow in the
White House." At this, the pro-
Roosevelts decidedly got a move on.
At Odessa, by the Black sea, Rus-
sia has a parachuting doctor, who
bails out in a big hurry, to get to
urgent cases. He delivered two ba-
bies from the air. It was suggest-
ed that, next December, German
parachute men might be disguised
as Santa Clauses.
New York hosiery counters report-
ed a hectic rush for nylon, at $1.35,
And, alas, the feminine rush was
followed by nylon runs. Or so they
said. Macy reported 20 fast-moving
women at the nylon counter in the
first minute, but there was little or
no intra-female1 carnage.
/ $
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Here is the latest wonder of
the plant world—the "Topato."
It is displayed here by its "in'
ventor" George H. Chisholm,
superintendent and horticultur-
ist at the greenhouses of the
Yonkers, N. Y., estate of the late
Samuel Untermyer. Chisholm
crossed a tomato and a potato to
produce a new non-fattening
type of potato, which he has
dubbed the "Topato."
ANTI-PARACHUTE:
Penn Patriots
England's new war minister, cute-
looking Sir Tony Eden, has been ac-
tive in .organizing local corps of
sharpshooters to pick off, willy nilly,
invading parachute jumpers from
across the channel. Jeannette, in
western Pennsylvania, was not to
be left behind. It formed a group
of "sharpies"—the first civilian anti-
parachute legion in the United
States. Its members feared that
parachute activities might be direct-
ed against the Pittsburgh industrial
belt, of which Jeannette is a part.
"Gauleiters" Brust and Landis, lo-
cal marksman and local editor,
headed the Jeannette parachute-pop-
pers.
S. S. HARDING:
In Memoriam
The former United States liner,
President Harding, was sunk by
bombs off the Flemish coast of Bel-
gium. She was built in 1921, and
her tonnage totaled 13,869. Your
correspondent returned on her from
the war, last October. The U. S.
lines sold her to a Belgian shipping
corporation, after American neutral-
ity rules precluded U. S. boating in
the war zone. The Belgians renamed
the Harding, the Ville de Bruges.
So perished the namesake of the
leader of the Ohio Gang. But out of
death comes life—two brand-new
American destroyers were launched
in Washington's Puget Sound: the
Hughes and the Monssen, both
named after Yankee naval heroes,
and christened by their widows.
YANKEE JAW-POWER:
We Cant Bite
America is not short on manpow-
er, but it was announced that Ameri-
cans are short on jawpower. Forty-
five years ago, the average Yank
could bite 171 pounds-worth. But in
1940, the Yank, degenerated, can
only bite 125 pounds-worth. Soft
food, alas, has done it. Take the
average Eskimo, lucky fellow. He
has, it is said, a good strong bite of
300 pounds-worth. This is called
"chewing-force."
NAMES
. . . in the neivs
The woodchopper of Doom, Hol-
land, figured again in the news. The
ex-kaiser was skirted by the Nazi
invaders, guarded and ultra-courte-
ously treated. This was to keep the
still monarchist army officers—East
Prussian Junkers — contented and
happy. Gossips have had it that
the ex-kaiser, deeply religious and
anti-revolutionary, is mildly pro-ally
and intensely loyal to his kindly
refuge of Holland. It was said that
Prussian Wilhelm nearly fled to
England with Dutch Wilhelmina!
Known as the "right hand" of
Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch in
the last World war, French Gen.
Maxime Weygand, now 73 years of
age, is named commander-in-chief
of the Allies in their present conflict
with Germany. He comes to the West-
ern front from the Near East where
he was in top command and re-
places General Gamelin. Born in
Belgium he became a French cit-
izen and was head of the army from
1931 to 1935.
Dorothy Thompson, columnist,
urged that the Republican party
support Roosevelt for a third term.
George Sokplsky, columnist, strong-
ly opposed the urge of Miss Thomp-
son. He said that war under Roose-
velt would turn these United States
into a totalitarian unit. Both col-
umnists write for the New York Her-
ald Tribune,
A Long Island cat, Tessie, adopt-
ed a baby hyena, name unknown.
The hyena babe belonged to Frank
Buck's well-known jungle camp, and
Tessie was nursing it, along with
five bona-fide kittens.
for a table 26" high
use 3 boards
with holes.,/
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use SZ
small spools
and 24 large j
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through
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spools-
««r)EAR MRS. SPEARS: I would
like to make some handy end
tables of spools for the living
room, but I can't think of a way
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Wild Imagination
There is nothing more fearful
than imagination without taste.—
Goethe. ,
to make them rigid. Have you
any suggestions as to how this
may be done? B. P."
Curtain rods are used through
the spools to make the legs. But-
ter take along a spool to try when
you shop for the rods; and get
the type that has one piece fitting
inside the other. If the spools are
a little loose on the rod, it won't
make any difference for they
must be glued between each spool,
and also between the spools and
the table shelves. I have shown
in the sketch everything else you
need to know to make this table.
Good luck to you!
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NOTE: If you have an iron bed
or a rocking chair, you would like
to modernize be sure to send for
my Book No. 3. It contains 32
fascinating ideas of things to make
for your home. Send 10 cents coin
to cover cost of book and mailing.
Send order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New *or"
Enclose 10 cents for Book No. 3.
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Idleness a Tomb
Idleness is the sepulcher of the
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