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Food Quality Handicaps
British War Production I
It's a Battle of ‘Periscopes vs. Proteins’ as
England Feeds Soldiers and Workers
On Depleted Meat Supplies.
By BAl’KHAGE
New I Awtlytl end Commentator.
WNU Service. 1343 H Street. N-W,
Washing toa, D. C.
While farmers with their thoughts
oo the crops keep an eye on the
weather these days, members of the
department of apiculture are
watching the eastern Atlantic fat
periscopes. The United States has
the food Britain needs, but not the
ships to deliver it. So it has become
a case of periscopes versus pro-
tcin*.
“Give us more protein for muscle
tone,” say British officials, “and we
can step up our war production 19
to 20 per cent."
Remember that meat is protein
and that Great Britain for the last
three years has turned two million
acres of meadow under the plow.
It was a painful thing for the nation
which for a hundred years has been
a master at animal husbandry and
raised the finest bloodlines of eat-
ing animals in the world, to sacri-
fice that industry. But an acre oft
land in wheat or potatoes produces
more food in quantity than an acre
devoted to grazing. Quantity isn't
lacking in the British diet today, but
according to reports from British
sources, quality in certain tissue-
building elements has had to be sac-
rificed and now the British people
are beginning to use up their bodily
reserves
The British have four million sol-
diers of their own that have to be
fed and also a huge army of war
workers. The American food-for-
freedom campaign is well under
way and with the good weather that
aeems ahead, this year's crops ought
to turn out ail that is needed at
home and abroad with careful con-
servation. But the ship crop hasn't
done so well. That is why the de-
partment of agriculture is scanning
the eastern waters as anxiously as
the navy department these days and
the Britiah are looking even' more
wistfully toward, our shore*.
At this writing there is another
burst of optimism in some official
quarters regarding the scotching of
the submarine menace. And hope
is pinned on another crop besides
those the farmers are growing. It
is the crop of small submarine
chaser* and new destroyers which
it is expected will have reached
sizable proportions within the next
30 days. And with this crop it it
hoped that a crop of subs will be
harvested—and then perhaps John
Bull will begin to get seme more
of the proteins and vitamins he
needs that are hopping out of Amer-
ican soil now.
pile* in the Far East are now lo-
cated, is farther from San Francis-
co than Japan is.
Tha Global War
The President has spoken of this
war as a global war. The sooner
we begin to realize that the high-
ways are skyways traced around a
globe and not along the false pro-
portions of a Mercator projection,
the sooner we will realize what our
task is, today and tomorrow.
The mats raids on Germany have
shown the course that the Allied
Nations are going to follow to vic-
tory. That course is the shortest
aourse. Germany gave us the hint
when she built her once unbeatable
Luftwaffe but didn’t have what
America has to carry out the idea.
This war is what H. G. Wells pre-
dicted 30 years ago in his prophetic
novel, "The War of the Worlds,”
namely, a war in the air. And after
the war the nation which controls
the skyways and the stations (the
bases) will control the world.
Today, the reason why the United
Nations are stymied in their effort
ts because the seaways are closed.
Not because the Axis has blockaded
the seas, although the submarine
is still unconquered in the western
Atlantic and men in Germany are
decreeing that Americans can't run
their cars because they in Germa-
ny won’t let us have the gasoline.
The Allied Nations can't build ships
faster than they are sunk but only
recently has the old-fashioned meth-
od of conveying men and goods by
sea and rail been questioned and air
transport taken seriously as a sub-
stitute.
Before the Russians ever trained
a single parachutist, before the Ger-
mans developed the technique of
landing men and equipment be-
hind the enemy lines from the air,
an American sergeant had patented
a method of landing machine gun
units from parachutes. Before the
first Germans dropped their men
into helpless Holland, Americans
had been dropping men in asbestos
suits from planes to fight forest
fires.
We have been afraid to take the
shortest cuts. Perhaps the new
mass raids over Germany will
awaken us. If they do, a new world
in the skies opens, a world where,
after all these years, we will admit
finally that a straight line is the
shortest distance between two
points. And we will follow that line,
—Bay War Bonds—
Wathington Today
World Highways
Of tho Future
“It's time to tear up all your
Mercator projections!"
That remark, which may sound a
little technical to the layman, was
delivered by a tall, tense officer as
a little group of us sat at a luncheon
in a Washington hotel the other day
He was almost fervent in his tone
and his eye* flashed. He happens to
be in work considerably removed
from aviation, but he believes in
the future of the skies and the work
he is doing deal* closely with to-
morrow.
At this point I might explain, if
you are rusty on your topography,
that • Mercator projection is a
kind of map which makes you think
the nearest way to Japan from Chi-
cago is by way of San Francisco
when it would actually be shorter to
cut through Milwaukee and Duluth.
These projectors show the cover of
the globe stretched out flat. And
when you stretch out the cover of
sphere you throw all the space, the
land end water distances, out of
proportion except along the equator,
and by the time you get up to the
far north the arctic countries are
•hews many times at big. and the
distance* many time* as great ••
they really are. You can see that.
For instance, two places on the
equator 3to inches apart on the
Mercator may ha ISP miles apart.
Thirty degrees north oi the equator,
tom places on the same map which
•re really Ml miles apart, are
ststtohad out so they appear three
iachea apart The farther north you
get the more countries and the
spaces are stretched. Naturally,
that makes all direction* cock-eyed
Japan by airline is a lot nearer
to America than the Philippines
By air, as well as tea, Australia,
where moat of our forces and tup-
in the month of April 3,300 gov-
ernment employees were trans-
ferred from Washington to other
cities. Thousands of new govern-
ment workers came here within that
period. Since then it is estimated
that the number of newcomers is
increasing.
That is a slight indication, re-
duced to statistics, of the growing
importance of your capital which
today is more nearly the world's
capital than any other city. That is
one reason why a book which came
to me last night, written by one of
my colleagues, is a highly important
book for anybody who wants to
know the real Washington.
The book is called “Washington
Is Like That.” a rather pert title
for a book that is anything but pert.
Rather, it is pertinent and the beat
factual interpretation of the capital
and what it stands for that I have
ever read.
Willard Kiplinger wrote it He ta
a reporter who was born in a small
town, understands the small town
viewpoint and make* his money
writing for big town folks.
Mr. Kiplinger. with the help of a
stall of news-gettera, has learned
the art of getting facta and assay-
ing them with more objectivity than
moat. That is why his book is good.
It is complete and it is good.
“Washington,” says Mr. KipUng-
«r. “is not a diamond sitting on a
piece of velvet, os some people like
to think it. Instead, it is a collec-
tion of tools or implements to be
handled and inspected. People can
grab hold of them, see how they
ire put together, and how they may
be used to make a better system.
I hope this book may serve as a
training course—on the use of tho
tools in Washington.”
You can “grab hold" of the facts
in Mr. Kiplinger'* book. 1 hope they
will help you to use the “tools" ho
tells about.
Kathleen Norris Says:
Notv Is Time to Help Ease Dad’s Burdens
Dell Syndicate—WNU Feature*.
PRECISELY 22 years ago th*
* Gray Eagle led Cleveland to her
last pennant—her only pennant in
some 50 years end more.
The Gray Eagle is better known
as Tris Speaker—one of the great
outfielders, one of _,
Tris Speaker
the great ball
players, of sll
baseball time.
The Gray Eagle
was the flying
hawk who pre-
vented T> Cobb
from leading the
American league
13 consecutive
seasons. This
makes Tris half-
eagle and half-
hawk—especially ball hawk.
“I'd like to tell you aomethini
•bout this kid Lou Boudreau," Tris
amid.
"Not a bad manager," we sug-
gested.
“Not a bad manager,” the Eagle
almoet ecreemed. “If he hae th*
ehanee to keep going—I'm talking
about the war now—he'll bo one *f
the boat that baseball ever knew.
“Here's a 24 year-old kid who i*
smart, game, crafty, forceful, re-
spected and admired by every mjui
on hi* club—and a corking ball play-
ar on the aide.
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The Quaitiont
1. What does a Scotsman mean
by mickle?
2. What ranch is the largest one
In the world?
I. What countries fought the
Punic wars?
4. What is the difference be-
tween continual and continuous?
5. Whitman's poem "O Captain!
My Captain 1” refers to whom?
I. Does a horse push or pull in
his harness?
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The A new ere
1. Much.
2. The Victoria River Down*
ranch in northwestern Australia. It
is 10,800 square miles in area.
I. Rome and Carthage.
4. Continual implies frequent
repetition. Continuous means un-
interrupted.
9. Lincoln.
I. He pushes.
BEAT-HEAT
To relieve heat mb, to help prevent beet
rush: titer dxwet anytime—du»t with
Mexican Heel Powder Heir
Heat Powder Helpebebygetreet,
Remember that in there trying dart Datfi heart U m keety et yowt. He, loo, lovei j
that big toldier ton. So if world newt u bad it helpi a lot to tee mother and the
children cheerful.
Norwegian Ships are carrying to
England one-third et her took supply
and one-half of her ail.
N Y , have recently enlisted to the
form cadet victory service. Mem-
bars at the service will be certified
by the U. 8 em-
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
T"~'V AD isn’t having much fun,
) these days. In my opin-
■*—' ion, Dad is having the
worst time of any member of
the family. The gallant boys
who go away are getting a tre-
mendous lot of sympathy; moth-
er and the girls are deep in new
and exciting activities. Dad is
in the same old grind.
No, not quite the same old
grind. With prices up, help
scarce, and taxes darkening the
sky like a flock of hovering
vultures resdy to pounce, Dad’s
problem is considerably worse than
it has been in s long time.
This is not to depreciate the heart-
aches and fears of Mother. But
Mother has work to do; she is knit-
ting, attending meetings, raising
money, arranging for camp enter-
tainments, pouring coffee in can-
teens, trying on her new uniform.
Her hatred and fear of war are not
lessened, but at least she has pres-
ent activity. Not a day goes by
but what she manages to send some-
thing — cookies, sweaters, socks,
books, letters—to her own or some
other mother's boys.
As for the boys themselves; well,
it is one of the unbelievable dispen-
sations of these mad times that they
are living at topmost pitch. 1 haven't
met one yet, who, under his impor-
tant and businesslike and mysteri-
ous manner, isn’t thoroughly enjoy-
ing himself. And what an unlooked-
for blessing that is?
Pities Men Left Behind.
”1 feel sorry for any kid that isn’t
going,” a young naval Ueulenant, off
for the south seat, setd to me pity-
ingly, joet before be tailed. “That
guy that just sold me these boots,
now," be added, "be goes borne to
a little house somewhere, couple of
kids maybe, hamburger and short-
cake for anpper—gosh, what tough
luck!”
I'm saving this remark to retail
to his mother, should the time come
when she will want to hear it. Mean-
while, he and she are living under
high emotional tension; she is pray-
ing, hoping, working, serving, cook-
ing, knitting, planning, conferring,
writing letters at a rate never even
dreamed in her life before—and
those things sum up into a sort of
happiness, after ail.
But Dad. In these daya when we
ought to be doing most for him and
thinking most of him, we are apt to
be ignoring him entirely, and this
is a good day to remember him,
and put him beck in his rightful
place as head of the 'amity.
Remember that Dad s heart Is as
heavy as yours, these days. Dad
loves that big son of hi*, too.
He goes down to the office. Things
there are far from gay. Every busi-
ness that isn’t directly concerned
with defense is suffering now, and
the chances are Dad's business is to
that list He takes it sturdily; he
isn’t complaining. He and Moliie
started in with nothing, and they
aren't afraid to go back to lint
principles.
But this shortage of materials and
•uppliet, this question of priorities
and transportations, this stoppage
of European goods and eternal de-
lay to deliveries of orders, to very
trying, to say the least. There are
a million men in the country engaged
•upjrtj agencies that
REMEMBER DAD
He probably misses his son as
much as yaw do. And he doem't
have canteen work and firtl aid
classes to help him forget the
heaviness of hit heart. He isn't
young any more, and those much-
discussed “comforts of home”
mean more than ever to him. So
try to tave the good, instead of
all the bad, news for him. Instead
of greeting him with • long ac-
count of Aunt Jane's operation,
tell him about the nice things
Junior’s teacher said. See that
dinner is ready on time, and the
petty annoyances of the day tlis-
missed. Dad doesn’t get too much
thanks for his quiet patience and
diligence. A little kindness won’t
spoil him, and it will tell him
better than words that you love
him.
“But the war la far more impor-
tant than Boudreau or baseball. He
one knows what will happen a little
later on. I'm just trying to tell you
what Boudreau might have been ir
normal times."
Hating t>ur Victims
It to human nature to hate thoe*
whom wt have injured.—Tacitus.
in the little
carry accessories or fuel for motor
cara. They are having a quiet time,
these daya.
Does the
man who has
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home these nights
sauce? If he doesn’t, there ia war
work for you to do, right in the
family circle.
What One Woman Did.
For example, 1 know of one wom-
an, perhaps quoted in this column
before, whose determination a year
ago to see that Dad was not the
aole wage-earner of the family has
resulted in the happiest possible re-
sults for all concerned. She began
by moving to a small farm whose
rent was half the city rent; she told
me that this year she would pul
more than $100 worth of provisions
into her cellar from the farm. She
bought a cow; she is the only pri-
vate individual I know who can suc-
cessfully preserve milk.
She got Dad to try pruning and
raking on Sunday afternoons, and
he has stopped headache pills and
sleeping tablets. All this in about
seven months' time. And she told
her daughters that for the duration
they must buckle down to the sort
of quiet, economical living that
made their female ancestors th*
fine, strong, heroic American wom-
en they were.
This woman said frankly that she
wanted her husband to be th* most
satisfied, serene, affectionate, hap-
py man in the world, and though
yeu might not notice it if you went
into hia dull office and saw him,
short and gray and middle-aged and
quiet. I believe he to.
Greet Bias Cheerfully.
First, the room* to which he
comes ought to be orderly and rest-
ful, with whatever he likes right to
hand—the radio, the newspaper, a
glass of iced tomato juice or a cup
of hot soup.
Second, all home new* that isn't
good, ami all world news that to
alarming, ought not to be hurled at
him before be haa time to wash hi*
hands or change his coat
Third, every worry that it to pos-
sible to remove should have been
removed by Mother during the
course of th* day. an that her first
report might be: “The dentist to fin-
ished with Mary. Tom got an aver-
age of B plus. I talked to the butch-
er and he took that roast off the
bill. I had a lovely letter from
Mother and aha says my brother
to better."
Fourth, if the world news is bad.
It helps a lot to have Motile and
the children cheerful Not idiotical-
ly airy, but courageous. ”W* won’t
always have bad news, Dad.”
And so on and on through the
the
that
How It Happened
“When Alva Bradley, president o)
the Cleveland club, was looking
around for a new manager," Speak
er continued, "he asked me about
three or four possibilities. The)
were all good men,
“But I asked Alva, 'Why go
away from yeur own elub?’
'"Who would that he?’ Mr.
Bradley asked.
“ ‘A kid named Boudreau,’ I
said. ‘How can you find a better
man?'
" ‘Lou'a only 24,’ Bradley said.
** 'If he were 21 I’d still like him
In a year or two he'll be one of the
best in baseball. Take him and
give him a chance.'
“At that time we were not at war.
I figured then that Boudreau would
need a year or two, or maybe three,
to pick up the answers He's picked
them up, with the material he had.
"Lou took over a club that wasn't
to hot last season—even with Bob
Feller winning 29
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games. Lou didn't
have Feller
around this
spring. Feller has
a much bigger
job to look after.
Cleveland, mi-
nus Bob Feller,
looked to be one
of the major flops.
Feller meant
Cleveland. Bob
had won 24 games
in 1930, 27 games
in 1940, and 29 games in 1941. When
you lose a guy who can win 79 games
for you in three years, you've lost
more than your shirt i
Leu Boudreau
Boudreau11 Job
“When Boudreau took Ms Cleve-
land club teeth this spring, be un-
derstood what Feller's absence
meant. He knew the psychological
effect. 'I den t think.’ hu told Ms
sqnad, ‘this to a eoe-maa chib. Let’*
prove K.'
"1 don't know where Cleveland
will finish this season. Everyone
who knows baseball also knows that
the Yankees have most of the good
ball players. How can you beat a
club that hu Joe Gordon. Bill Dick-
ey, Joe DiMaggio. Charlie Keller
and such pitchers as Bonham, Ruff
ing, Rutao, Chandler, Breuer, Don-
ald and a few more.
"But in this flrat year, with Pal-
ler missing, the Indians are still up
there giving the Yankee* a battle.
"And don't forget there are hardly
any members of this Cleveland
squad who could even make th*
Yankee team."
Purpose of Happiness
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shared.—Corneille.
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About the Eagle
W* turned the page* back to 1909,
ecly 34 yeare ago. when Trie was
playing with Little Rock. That was
our first meet t The Gray Eagle
was a great bt.i player than.
Time has taken nothing from him.
He haa bees beyond all qaesttou the
greatest fielding eutfielder to the
game's btatery-aad I caa give yea
Jimmy MeAleer, Fred Clarke, Jim
my ffbeekard (Ring UHbir'i pick).
Ty Cobb, Bab* Bulk, Joe Jackson,
and several other*. mm
„ and
in any form of war
go a draft board
"where," he teUa 1
ing no favorites."
And normally Trto wu better than
a .390 hitter. Beyond this, the Gray
Eagle from Hubbard ---- “
hu had more bratn*
the tribe.
Speaker hu had th*___
that belongs only to a tow around
top rung. He to now in his flf
tiu, all gray and uriiy baid, but
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