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THE WEST NEWS
Hess Known for Loyalty
To Hitler, Nazi Germany •)
Was to Succeed Goering as Nation’s Leader;
Washington Legislators Closely Study
Letters From Constituents.
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Homo Hour Commentator.
(WJHJ Service, 1343 H Street,
Washington, D. C.)
WASHINGTON.—It's a mad world
these days and Washington is a
nervous corner of it.
Outside the iron pickets which sur-
round the White House, human pick-
ets walked. Their banners protested
against convoys, against sending
American soldiers abroad to fight.
Soldiers who may be sent abroad
to fight charged the protesting pick-
ets, knocked down the men, pushed
the women around. Home-returning
theater-goers stopped to cheer the
soldiers.
On Capitol Hill mail protesting
against convoys poured in.
That afternoon Washington was
stunned to hear that a young farmer
In Scotland helped a German officer
who had just dropped from the
skies, into his cottage and gave him
a glass of water. The officer was
Hitler's trusted lieutenant, Rudolf
Hess, and the news of his sensa-
tional flight dropped into the midst
of the Washington melee, to make
confusion worse confounded.
The fighting pickets, Hess in the
headlines, pushed history back for
me. Pickets were attacked in front
of the White House at the beginning
of World War I. I saw Hitler lay
the accolade of succession to Nazi
leadership upon Hess the day World
War II began.
Some of the fighting pickets of 1914
are staid grandmothers today.
HESS PARTY LEADER
If you had asked me, in 1939 when
I was broadcasting from Berlin, who
of all men in the Nazi party would
be the least likely to desert its lead-
er I would have said Hess. He was
not a striking figure, he did not pa-
rade in the brilliant uniforms of Herr
Goering, he did not make the fiery
speeches of Herr Goebbels. But he
was the real head of the party, the
inside man. And so when he sud-
denly turned up in Britain, I could
not believe that he was there except
to be about his leader's business.
I can see Hess that dayAn Berlin.
It was a solemn sight, the hurriedly
called meeting of the Reichstag in
September, 1939. There may have
been many in Germany then who
still hoped that Britain and France
would not fight for Poland. Hitler
had promised he would gain his
ends without shedding German
blood. The bitter memory of the last
war, the starvation, the defeat, the
humiliation were still sharp in the
memories of the people. Then they
had had no victories to cheer them.
Hitler himself was pale and worn
when he walked into the ICroll Op-
era house where the Reichstag
meets. His speech was restrained,
he seemed to me like a man who
had made his will and said his pray-
ers. He spoke almost apologeti-
cally, said his greatest desire was
to be the Reich's first soldier. Then
he announced that he was going to
the front, “and,” he added, “if any-
thing happens to me in battle, Party-
comrade Goer mg will be my suc-
cessor.’’ Goering, in a gaudy uni-
form, on his high pedestal, saluted.
The crowd cheered.
Then Hitler turned to the right,
where the tall, lanky Hess was seat-
ed on the stage in his simple brown
uniform. “And if anything happens
to Comrade Goering, Comrade Hess
will be his successor.” The crowd
cheered. Hess rose deliberately,
looked at his chief and saluted.
I could think only of a great, well-
trained and faithful St. Bernard
slowly and obediently answering his
master's whistle.
It is hard to believe that this man
would desert his master. Hess was
fervent. He may not have been as
religious as his frequent calls upon
the Almighty may have indicated,
but be had a fanatical devotion to
Germany. His loyalty to Hitler from
the earliest contact with the Fuehr-
er-to-be was based on a great faith-
on a belief that Hitler, and Hitler
alone, would save Germany.
Lugulatorg Study
Letters From Voters
The senator I wanted to see was
busy and I was waiting in his outer
office talking to his secretary who
was an old acquaintance of mine. He
had a sheaf of lettesa in his hand.
In spite of the rules for keeping the
windows closed in order not to dis-
turb the air-cooling system in the
senate office building, the window
was open. A breeze caught one of
the letters It dropped on the floor
and I picked it up.
“I don't want to lose that,” the
secretary said, “it’s important. Read
it."
It was an emphatic protest on the
subject of a measure before con-
gress, written in a firm hand, in
good, straightforward English.
"Notice the paper," said my
friend, "see that hole in the corner.
There was a string through that.
The pad was fastened to the tele-
phone. And it was written with the
pencil tied to another string. I hap-
pen to know the man who wrote it.
He runs a flour and feed store, but
I’d know just about the type of writ-
er it was from the paper."
"Why,” I asked him, "is it that
important?”
“It's important because the people
who write on that kind of paper,
with a pencil, are important people
to us. They elect us."
(This secretary always said “us”
because he had been in politics with
the senator for 10 years, ever since
his chief was a member of the state
legislature.)
For the past few weeks letters
like that—and other ones, too, which
I’ll speak of in a minute—have been
flooding the post office in the Capitol
building. They have concerned the
question of convoys. And they have
had a lot to do with how congress
voted.
Kathleen Norris Says:
The Meanest Mother-in-Law
<B«U SyndUate—WNU Service.)
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Unlock.)
\/OU’LL see a much slimmer
* Edward Arnold than usual in
“Nothing But the Truth”—slim-
mer by 35 pounds, as a matter
of fact. The reducing wasn’t in-
tentional; Arnold barked his
shin in a plane, developed blood
poisoning, and off went the 35
pounds. As all the action of the pic-
ture takes place during 24 hours, he
had to be careful not to gain even a
few ounces while it was being made.
He's to have the top role in “The
Devil and Daniel Webster" next—
as a result of an accident suffered
by Thomas Mitchell.
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope were
to take the “Road to Moscow” in
their next "Road” picture, but cur-
rent events made it seem advisable
to change the title, so instead they’ll
take the "Road to Morocco."
—*—
Ellen Drew’s good work in “The
Parson of Panamint” caused her
studio to buy "The Silver Queen"
as a future starring vehicle for her.
She’ll play a New York girl of
wealth in the 1880s—the girl's father
LETTERS SPUR DEBATE
When the letters stop, the debate
stops. That’s an axiom. And on an
important question the number of
letters grows each day until it
reaches a peak. Then suddenly the
number drops. The drive is over,
It's time to vote and settle the issue.
There are several kinds of letters
which come in to congress, to com-
mentators and writers. There are
the “nut" letters which are easy tc
identify. They don't count. There
are the form letters, or letter^
which, though sometimes they are
individually written, all have the
same phraseology. They are organ-
ized propaganda, easy to identify
and to assay. Then there are the
letters on expensive stationery. Usu-
ally their writers are known. They
are in the minority. Then there are
the letters I spoke about first. Not
always in pencil or on scratch pa-
per. But simple and spontaneously
written. They count.
But here is another interesting
point. Just because there are more
letters on one side of a question
than there are on the other doesn’t
mean that the apparent majority is
an evidence of the real attitude of
the community. More people who
are against a measure will take pen
in hand than those who are for it.
One senator, in a community
where we all knew the sentiment for
a particular reason was very much
pro-convoy, told me his letters were
running three to one anti. “They
would have to run ten to one against
a measure before it would mean
that the majority of my constituency
were against it,” he told me.
ELLEN DREW
loses his fortune in gambling, and
the girl becomes a spectacular pro-
fessional gambler in the mining
camps of the old West. Her latest
film to be released is “Reaching
for the Sun,” in which she is co-
starred with Joel McCrea and Ed-
die Bracken.
—#—
I
Bill Boyd breaks the long term
screen characterization record with
his present Hopalong Cassidy por-
trayal in "Secret of the Wastelands"
—it's his thirty-seventh appearance
in the part, and he’s been at it for
seven years.
—■*—
Ginny Simms, whom you’ve heard
on the air as the singer with Kay
Kyser's band, has signed a long-
term contract with RKO. She’ll go
right on appearing with the “Col-
lege of Musical Knowledge," paus-
ing to make pictures when she's
summoned.
Jean Arthur is practically certain
to play the lead in "Miss Susie Sla-
gle's,” Paramount's version of the
very popular book of two years ago.
She should be excellent as the
charming little Southern woman
with a flock of medical students as
paying guests in her home.
—*—
PROPHET IN WASHINGTON
A prophet has come to Washing-
ton—but he will not prophesy!
He is John Maynard Keynes, tall, i
slim, precise. He was a member
of the British delegation to the Paris
Peace conference of 1919. With the
ink hardly dry on the Versailles
treaty he wrote that ”... the
Carthaginian peace (a peace of
force) ia not practically right or pos-
sible . . . The clock cannot be set
back . . . without setting up such
strains in the European structure
and letting loose such human and
spiritual forces as ... will over-
whelm not only your ‘guarantees'
but your institutions, and the exist-
ing order of your society.”
I asked Mr. Keynes, who is here
in Washington as a British treasury
official to consult on the lend-lease
law, if he thought it was necessary
to prepare for a new kind of peace.
"Yes," he answered, "but I am
much more concerned now with
fighting the war."
Mr. Keynes believes that we must
raise money for defense by a type
of forced borrowing, a method by
which a part ot all salaries are de-
ducted and turned over to the gov-
ernment. After the war. these forced
savings, according to Keynes, would
help tide over the period when de-
fense production drop* off and thus
help to avoid a depression like the
one that followed the last war.
The man who gave Bette Davis
her first job in a theater is in the
movies himself; he's Harold Win-
ston, dialogue director on Frank '
Capra's pictures. He was directing
at the Cape Playhouse at Cape Cod,
Mass., and she was just out of dra-
matic school when she asked for a
job. He didn’t have one for her,
but she said she'd usher for the
chance to work in a theater. After
several weeks the star of the com-
pany, Marguerite Churchill, had to
leave for Hollywood, suddenly, and
Bette took her place.
BRIEFS
by Baukhage
"Leak Who's Talking” is before
the cameras—with a listener audi-
ence of nearly 100,000,OM radio fans
waiting for it to reach the screen.
It stars Edgar Bergen and Charlie
McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Mol-
ly. LneiUe Ball, who’s very good In
Harold Lloyd's “A Girl, A Gny and
A Gob,” has a major role; Lee Bon-
net! plays apposite her.
Metro has a new singer on its list
—Anne Rooney, who is sixteen, five
feet tall, and has been gathering ex-
perience as an entertainer since she
was two. At five she was guest star
with A1 Pearce and his Radio Gang;
three yean later she did a year in
vaudeville with her sister and par-
ents. She's also done a stint in lit-
tle theater productions.
The mosquito almost became a
columnist the other day—H
have caused a big fire in a
One hundred carrels
been placed around
plant to guard against firs—and
order to remove the moo-
five gallons of oil
the water in each
quite menace, f
A labor shortage in defense indus-
tries is now threatened, according to
eome authorities. But if present
trends continue, John Studebaker,
commissioner of education, predicts
thst 1,000,806 persons will have been
teamed lot defense occupations by
Jtme 00, 1041. Up to January 1 of
thia year. 329,600 have been trained
or were in training.
ODDS AND ENDS—Dmmii Morgan
km the Usd ia Werner Brm.' “Carnival
ia Rio" . . Stem Laurel and (Hirer
Hardy bow signed wkk 2<Hk Century
for nine pictures. the first will ke “Far-
Al f wn'i
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Vm Nila*, mil piny kinunU ia Repub-
lic'. picture, ‘huUin’ Heed1’ . . . Ike
Rudy yelite-Join Barrymore program
will remain an tka air all mummer . ,
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_ Lilia Broun had a stenogrepher’s job in I Lilia used her power, her youth and
Kane Smith's office. That her ton would beauty and his passionate line, to alienate
watte even e passing glance upon this Kane from hit mother,
commoner iuu unthinkable to Mr*. Smith. I
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
X T 7"HEN Kane Smith mar-
\\ ried Lilia Brown his
* " mother didn’t like it.
Mrs. Smith was a proud woman,
prominent in club and social
circles, her late husband had
been mayor for three terms, she
lived in a big house with her
adored son for companion, and
she suspected every girl in the
world of trying to trap Kane.
Lilia Brown was a pretty, am-
bitious girl who had a stenog-
rapher’s position in Kane
Smith’s office. Lilia’s father
was—and is—a cooper, operat-
ing in a small open-fronted shed
down among the machine shops
and factories. Her mother, who
had raised five children, all mar-
ried but Lilia, ran a flourishing
boarding-house. Lilia’s three
sisters and her brother were all
leading far from aristocratic
lives; getting jobs, losing jobs,
having babies and motor acci-
dents, running in and out of each
other’s houses, laughing, cry-
ing, gossiping, and kissing ma.
That her son would waste even a
passing glance upon this commoner
was unthinkable to Mrs. Smith; the
fact that Kane was serious about it,
bringing bold, defiant Lilia to the
house, announcing publicly that they
were going to be married, made his
mother actually ill. Lilia dressed
conspicuously, she chewed gum, she
took a saucy proprietary attitude
toward Kane. Worst of al) she
seemed to feel that her family was
just as good as his.
Lilia’s Powers Prevail.
So his mother did what so many
mothers do and Lilia did what so
many girls do Mrs. Smith snubbed
Lilia, reproached Kane, let the
whole world know that she had for-
bidden the match. And Lilia used
her power, her youth and beauty
and his passionate love, to alienate
Kane from his mother.
“I know just what a little brute
I was,” writes Lilia. "My own
mother told me I was making a mis-
take, but I was so mad that my one
idea was revenge. For two years
Kane went to see hit mother for an
hour once a week and I never sent
her a message even. When our lit-
tle girl was born she sent me Kane’s
christening dress and his silver mug
but 1 never acknowledged them. She
had said terrible things about my
folks, and although Pop and Ma
never resented them, I did.
"That was three years ago; now
Jo-Anne is three and our little boy
a year old. On Kane’a birthday last
month we moved into our new house
and had a real house-warming for
my family, who all adore Kane be-
cause he manages everything for
all of them, and i asked him if he
was perfectly happy, and he said
yes, he would be, if only his mother
and I didn't hate each other. So I
made up my mind then that I would
make friends.
Efforts to Make up Saokbed.
"When I went to see her and said
that it seemed very silly to keep up
the old fight, I really felt sorry for
her. She has had to give u|i the
big house now and has only two
rooms. She must be very lonely
but she was very cool and said that
she certainly thought that the fault
had not been all on her side. I came
away feeling very much snubbed
and Kane said when I told him that
I had done all I could do, that
the next move must come from her.
“But I don't like to leave it that
way and am writing to ask you what
to do. God has been very good to
Kane and me, we have our lovely
home and our beautiful children,
and everything goes well with him
^ -
MOTHER-IN-LAW TROUBLES?
Are you and your mother-in-law on
speaking terms? Or it there a feud be-
tween the two of you that resembles the
Merlin and the Coy episodes? If the
letter it true, you're not alone in your
trials. Lilia and Jo thought they had
the meanest mother-inlaus of all.
F.ventuully they changed their minds.
Head Kathleen Norris’ stirring lesson
on forgiveness, kindness and humility.
YIELDING HURRY-UP YOST of
r Michigan was 70 years old a
month ago. He came along when
football was young and at 70 he is
still as rugged as his West Vir-
ginia oaks or his Michigan hem-
locks.
By a rule of the Western confer-
ence, 70 is the retiring age, which
means that one of
the ablest and most
colorful characters
from the American
sporting scene has
come to the end of
a football road that
goes back to West
Virginia and the
autumn of 1895.;
Only Lonnie Stagg
and Pop Warner
can look back a.
Gr.ntl.nd Rice deePer distance to
a faraway past-
faraway and long ago.
The game has given us only one
Stagg—only one Warner—only one
Zuppke—and only one Yost. They
painted the scene with a flaming,
flaring smear of vivid color that
no one else—barring only the fa-
mous Knute Rockne—has ever ap-
proached.
It was in 1895 that a big, shaggy-
haired, gawky backwoods teacher
from Fairview saw and played in
his first football game. Hurry-up
Yost had arrived.
Yost was so keen about football
from the start that no one univer-
sity could offer him enough compe-
tition. So in 1895 he played with
West Virginia, Lafayette and the
Allegheny Athletic club. Brink
Thorne of Yale was one ot the
Lafayette ceaches when Yost was
starring on a team that beat one
of Pennsylvania's star elevens by
6 to 4.
are doing well, too, Kane has been
generous in helping them to better
jobs. Lately we have all started go-
ing to church again, and it does
seem very hypocritical to pray when
my own children’s grandmother
never sees them because of the old
bitterness.
Time May Heal Rift.
"What more can I do? There
seems to be no use in going to see
her just to be snubbed again. Yet
for Kane's sake and for the chil-
dren’s too I would be glad to make
peace.”
In answer to Lilia I am going to
quote again what was printed here
some years ago; the true story of a
fine woman in our town.
In her case the mother-in-law was
positively hostile; she had picked
out another girl for her son, she
would not even speak to the girl he
married.
For two years Don and Jo had to
live in another city; when they re-
turned to our town Jo called on her
mother-in-law, who refused to see
her.
"Yost wanted to play football all
day long," Brink once told me. And
talk it all night, he might have
added.
Covering the Map
On his march across the country'*
map Yost coached teams at Ohio
Wesleyan, Nebraska, Kansas and
Stanford.
Breakfast With Grandma Works.
After that Don asked his wife
somewhat uncertainly if she would
mind his going to see his mother. Jo
said of course not, and to take the
baby. So Don took Phyllis to call
on the old tyrant, who suggested
that they come to breakfast on Sun-
day.
For two years Don and Phyllii,
and after awhile baby Arthur, went
to have breakfast with Grandma and
Grandpa. Grandpa, by the way, waa
a gentle, brow-beaten old fellow who
saw something of Jo on the sly, but
never dared face down his wife.
Jo surrendered husband and chil-
dren every Sunday for two years
and more, and then one day the old
lady came to sde Jo and burst Into
tears and asked forgiveness. Now
they all have Sunday breakfast and
many another meal together.
Smart, or just plain old fashioned
good, in all that time Jo has never
■aid a cruel, critical, resentful word
She solved the prdblem in her own
way, and it was the way that nevci
fails.
Keep Calling.
So my advice to Lilia is to call
again, and again after that To ask
Kane's mother to come in for a
family supper. To ignore the past,
letting the actions of tha present
speak louder than any memory of
foolish hot words in a day long dead.
For in her heart the older woman
is dying to bo friends. Years of
pride and hate may have built bar-
riers across and around that heart;
they are not easily lowered. But she
loves her son, and so she loves be-
yond all other loves the children of
her son, and she thanks God in that
stubborn soul of hers that Kane has
found a wife who has given him a
real home and lovely children.
LiUa can afford to bo humble, to
bo patient, to be loving to Kane’s
mother. Someday she may want
some other young woman, strong in
youth and beauty and love, to be all
that to her. Family unity is a thing
of incalculable value in all our lives;
it enriches and beautifies everyday
drudgery; tt puts into the souls and
characters of children something
that nothing else can replace.
Love is the irresistible weapon.
Love's manifestations in patience,
humility, forgiveness, kindness an
an arsenal no human heart can re-
sist To make a friend of an enemy
ia one of the privileges of all human
Again one university wasn't
enough. While at Stanford he also
coached four other teami success-
fully—the Stanford freshmen, San
Jose Teachers, Lowell high school
of San Francisco and the California
FIELDING YOST
Ukiah team. Five teams—that’
what you might call putting In i
fall season.
Most of hit teams had victorim
sweeps, but it was not until 19<
when hia famous battle cry i
“Hurry-up—Hurry-up" arrived i
Michigan that Yost came to instai
fame.
"I still believe those Michigs
teams from 1901 through 1905 wei
the greatest five consecutive too
ball teams any university ev<
moved into destructive action. Pla;
ing through heavy schedules the
won 95 games, tied one and la
one while scoring around 3,01
points.
Yost coached Michigan for 1
years before he took over the dire
torahip of athletes. In those !
years his teams won 189 games sr
lost but 10. They won or tied fi
the Big Ten title eight times, az
during 11 of those 29 years tl
Maize and Blue was not in the coi
ference.
What an all-time Michigan tew
Yost could have put into the fie
from the men he coached. He turm
out 16 All-American nominatioi
through 1920.
In addition to all thia, Yost directs
the construction of six athlet
buildings, including the Michigi
Stadium that seata some 87,01
people.
A Football Life
For over 40 years football
been Yost's life. He has eaten
dreamed it, talked it and lived
Uto last time I saw kim we
luneh together at one o'clock,
throe o'clock the next morning
waa sUll shewing mo what mad
good punter, and hew to Meek,
the bisk 1 waa a battered an
You have to be in Meal condition
to talk with Yost. He hammers
your cheat with the powerful, stub-
by fingers ot both hands.
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