Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1941 Page: 7 of 8
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When we speak of the “pulse of
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with the policemen's beats?
Serious at Last
“Is Mary still looking for her
Ideal man?”
“Goodness, no! She's too busy
looking for a husband.”
Soaked
“/s your house very dump, Mrs.
Smith?"
“No, Tommy; what makes you think
that?"
"Because father says there’s so much
due on it."
Ambushed
“My wife has the bad habit of
staying up until one or two o’clock
in the morning, and I can’t break
her of it.”
“What does she do all this
time?”
“Waits for me to come home.”
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BUREAU OF
STANDARDS
• A BUSINESS
organieatien which wants
to got the most for- the
money sets up standards
by which to judge what
is offered to it, just as in
Washington the govern-
ment maintains a Bureau
of Standards.
•You can have your own
Bureau of Standards, too.
lust consult the advertis-
ing colnmni of your news-
Grantland Rice
IT TAKES no subtle expert to un-
*■ derstand that in the majority of
cases that condition is one of the es-
sential requirements in the making
of a champion. But there are many
arguments as to how one reaches
condition along the surest road.
"No. I haven’t any very revolu-
tionary Ideas about the training of
young athletes. 1
ask them to be sen-
sible and temperate
in their eating and
adopt regular hab-
its for sleep and ex-
ercise. If the aver-
age youngster will
live a normal life,
eat wholesome foods
and be regular in
his every day hab-
its there isn't going
to be very much
wrong with him."
The speaker was Dean B. Crom-
well, famous track and field coach
at the University of Southern Cali-
fornia. Cromwell's teams have won
ao many track championships that
the experts have almost quit trying
to keep track of them.
I found Dean Cromwell at historic
Bovard field on the Trojan campus,
the field which has sent six foot-
ball teams to the Rose Bowl without
defeat, the field which has been the
proving ground for countless nation-
al and Olympic champions of the
cinderpath, the field which has
turned out several prominent base-
bailers now performing in the ma-
jor and minor leagues. Mr. Crom-
well is always there, no matter what
the season. Of course. Howard Jones
attends to the football and Sam Bar-
ry bosses the basebailers but the
venerable Dean, now in his thirty-
second year at Troy, keeps a weath-
er eye on all the athletes.
A Few Angles
“We’re very fortunate here In
Southern California." continued
Coach Cromwell, “in that the foods
grown so close at hand, plus the
fine sunshine, provide most of the
vitamins so necessary to good health
for growing youngsters. The boys
come from average homes where
for years they have been eating the
right kind of food.
“If a boy has been drinking tea or
coffee and he comes to me a healthy
youngster I'm not going to tell him
to quit. II a boy has been a big
milk drinker and he's sound physi-
cally I don't change his diet even if
some coaches do claim that drink-
ing milk is bad for the wind.”
Coach Cromwell’s training orders
sound simple, but there happens to
be more than he reveals. He sets his
foot down hard on overwork, particu-
larly in early season.
“Many years ago we had our in-
ter-fraternity meets early each sea-
son," said the Dean. “I found that
the athletes who did exceptionally
well in these December meets gen-
erally were beaten later in the year
by those who had been taking It
easy at the start. Right then I
barred my best athletes from these
inter-fraternity meets. And I've
been doing it ever since. We just
coast along for six or eight weeks,
building up stamina and leading a
normal life. When the big tests
come in late spring and midsummer
I generally find my boys in pretty
good shape.”
Cromwell’s rivals in the coaching
business will add a fervent "Amen”
to this statement. His Trojans have
won 9 of the 13 N. C. A. A. meets
in which they have competed, in-
cluding the last 6 straight; taken
top honors in the I. C. 4-A. the last
7 times they entered; and whipped
Stanford in 11 out of the last 12 dual
meets, to say nothing of bagging
several Pacific Coast conference
England May Get Food
Under 'Lease-Lend' Bill
increasing Shortages Now Appear Likely;
Roosevelt Opposed to Censorship
Of ‘Defense’ Information.
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
Not for the Boys
Cromwell believes the recent em-
phasis on eastern indoor meets is
bad on the college runners. Says
it is all right for the A. A. U. and
the promoters who cut up the mount-
ing gate receipts, but states that the
boys who are bearing down in Janu-
ary and February on the boards are
put to too great a strain by having
to be in shape clear through the
summer for outdoor competition.
"You can bring your athletes to
a peak only two or three times dur-
ing a season," continued the Dean,
"and these occasions must not be
too far apart."
I asked Coach Cromwell what
world record he thought would be
broken next.
“The high jump," he returned.
"And we may have just the boy to
turn the trick. The record is now
8 feet 9% inches. Johnny Wilson, a
senior here at Southern California,
has done 6 feet 9% inches, and I
firmly believe he will hit 6-10 be-
fore the 1941 season closes.”
• • •
His Greatest Athletes
The 60-year-old Trojan mentor,
who looks and acta 20 years young-
er, has turned out a long string of
champions, among them Charley
Paddock, Morton Kaer, Bud Houser,
Charley Borah, Lee Barnes, Earle
Meadows and many more.
IVNU Service. 1395 National Press
Bldg., Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—In the past few
weeks the tall figure of a Hoosier
farmer has been seen frequently en-
tering and leaving the White House.
This was not so strange to us who
watch the busy portals because the
man was Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard. Like other members of
the cabinet, he is called in for fre-
quent conferences with the Presi-
dent these days. Cabinet officers and
other government officials have been
helping the President plan the con-
crete steps to be taken to aid Brit-
ain under the lend-lease bill.
But what a lot of us did not guess
was just what Secretary Wickard
was up to. The purpose of those
visits has not been officially an-
nounced, as I write these lines. But
It can be safely predicted that he
was working out plans with the Pres-
ident to include farm products
among the first supplies to be loaned
or leased to England.
Secretary Wickard was able to
achieve his purpose partly as a re-
sult of his own persuasiveness, and
partly for other reasons that I will
explain later.
Here is the tip-off on the plan the
secretary discussed with the Presi-
dent, in Mr. Wickard’s own words.
It is pretty cagily expressed but if
you know how, you can read be-
tween the lines. This is what Secre-
tary Wickard said in a public speech
during the congressional battle on
the lend-lease bill:
Overproduction Held Unlikely.
"Frankly speaking, there is little
likelihood that we will produce too
much meat, butter, cheese, milk and
other dairy products in the months
to come. I have an idea that ali
we produce in the South and else-
where will be needed.
"The reports about the British food
situation are not too encouraging.
The British have lost their sources
of food supply on the continent.
, They are handicapped still further
by their shipping losses. The Eng-
1 lish may want some of our food and
want it pretty soon. If they call on
! us, I think wc will answer the call.”
Almost all of the products to be
sent to Britain under the lend-lease
plan will be proteins (meat, milk
and milk products and eggs). There
will be. however, some cotton, wheat
and tobacco, but these commodities
will constitute a minor part of the
shipments. The practical arguments
for sending proteins are obvious:
1. The extra physical demands on
fighting men require a greater pro-
tein diet.
2. These products up to now have
been shipped to England all the way
' from Australia, New Zealand and
i the Argentine. Two trips can be
! made from New York to Britain
while one is being made from these
distant points.
Unfortunately the protein commod-
ities which are needed by England
are not the ones we most want to
sell. They do not constitute our
great surpluses, disposition of which
has caused the biggest headaches
in the department of agriculture
since the farm problem was tossed
in the government's lap.
Surplus Produce Unaffected.
Furthermore, they are the prod-
ucts which, later on, when the de-
fense industries expand, we will
need at home because if all our un-
employed were working fulltimeand
eating three meals a day, we would
not have enough proteins at the pres-
ent rate of production to satisfy
them. The things we do want to
get rid of—the things of which we
have enough and to spare—are not
as greatly affected by increased em-
ployment. Department of agricul-
ture experts here will tell you any
day that in prosperous times there
is not an important increase in the
use of cotton, tobacco and wheat.
But as far as the British go, they
have to consider first things first,
and they have all the cotton, wheat
and tobacco they need, or they can
get these products as conveniently
from their own dominions as from
the United States.
So this new "lend-lease” market
won't solve the problem of farm sur-
pluses. Nevertheless, it will absorb
some of them, for the government
is insisting that along with the pro-
teins, some of the surplus products
will be included in the commodities
we dispose of under the lend-lease
plan.
How long this new market over-
He says Bud Houser, former
world's record holder In the discus
and Olympic champion in both this
event and the (hot put, was the
greatest competitor he ever
coached.
seas will last no one can say. It
is impossible to predict how long
the emergency will last or what the
fortunes of war will be. But the ef-
fort of the New Deal planners is to
build up an increasing demand at
home for the things the farmer
raises. As Secretary Wickard says
on every occasion when he gets the
chance:
"Whether they lose or keep the
foreign markets, farmers must try
to increase consumption in their best
market—the domestic market."
• • •
President Discusses News
Control With Reporters
Imagine the head of a European
state sitting for half an hour while
he was questioned by a group of
newsmen on any subject they chose,
including the government's confi-
dential transactions!
And, yet, that happens twice a
week in Washington at the White
House press conferences. There the
President sits at his desk covered
with papers; members of the White
House staff rotting about him, two
secret service men standing incon-
spicuously behind him, between the
stars and stripes and the presiden-
tial flag.
To us in Washington, the White
House press conference is routine.
But a recent meeting was so demo-
cratic. so unlike anything that could
possibly happen abroad, that it
stands out clearly in my memory.
Mr. Roosevelt started it. The ques-
tion which the American public
ought to think about, as he put it,
had to do with the ethics, morals
and patriotism of making public,
matters which might be injurious to
national defense. First, should a
member of congress divulge testi-
mony before a secret committee ses-
sion; second, should a newspaper
publish or a radio station broadcast
such information.
The issue was raised by the publi-
cation of testimony given by the
chief of staff. General Marshall, be-
fore an executiveksession of the sen-
ate military affitrs iommittee in
connection with a shipment of army
bombers to Hawaii.
Censorship Not Desired.
The President said he had neither
the desire nor the power to censor
the news, but he wished us to con-
sider whether it was ethical, moral
or patriotic to publish any informa-
tion which the heads of the army
and navy believed should, in the in-
terests of national defense, be kept
confidential.
The newsmen did not question the
advisability of withholding from the
public important military secrets,
but they showed plainly that they re-
sented any suggestion that the free-
dom of the press be interfered with.
One correspondent said frankly
that the chief of staff ought not to
tell things to congressmen which he
did not want to get out because such
information always leaked. The
President replied, quietly, that nat-
urally. one did not like to withhold
any information asked for by con-
gress.
Another reporter asked how the
press was to know what information,
once they had received it, ought to
be withheld, and what could be
printed. The President answered
this could be determined by what the
heads of the army and navy felt
would be injurious to national de-
fense. The President admitted he
had no specific proposal to suggest.
No definite conclusion to the dis-
cussion was reached at the interview.
The incident had one effect. Short-
ly after the meeting, a writer who
is usually excellently informed, stat-
ed that the President had turned
down flatly a plan to place all in-
formation concerning defense under
what amounted to a censorship
board. It had been long known
that such a plan was placed on the
President's desk at the time war
broke out abroad. The President
turned it down then. When it came
up the second time, he again turned
it down. Later, Lowell Mellctt, ad-
ministrative advisor to the Presi-
dent, said no plan of censorship was
being considered.
If war comes, some method of
regulating the publication of milita-
ry information will probably be put
into effect. But until that moment,
the press and radio will fight for
freedom of speech, the spoken word,
or the written.
BRIEFS • • • by Baukhage
On the same da ‘hat President
Roosevelt declared t he approved
of wire-tapping bj epartment of
Justice operatives ;re sabotage
was suspected, the lards in the
Capitol building were replaced by
pottcemeirand no one is now permi*-
ted to carry packages of any kind
into the building. Even cameras
have to be checked at special stands
at the entrances.
i The average American soldier
eats about 40 per cent more than he
does in civilian life, according to the
national defense advisory commis-
sion. He gets much more than 40
per cent more meat. In some lo-
ealities as many ar-one-third of the
draftees who are otherwise eligible
for army service have to be turned
down because of physical conditions
due entirely to deficiency in diet.
35
(LPhitopr
PRIVATE PURKEY WRITES
AGAIN
Dear Mo—
Well when I first got called in the
draft I was told no soldiers wud be
sent to Europe and that I was just
going to get a year's training just in
case but everything I here on the
radio sounds like I am not up here
Just for fizzical kulshur. I see the
lcasc-lend bill is all but past and all
I am still wondering is if I go with
the lease.
• • •
Nobody In my divishun seems to
no what the lease-tend bill is all
about except that it is for all aid to
England short of war and the boys
say you can be a midget in this
army and not be too short for war,
so I gess if war comes there Is no
way out for me, mom.
• • •
I am still getting a lot of Instruck-
shuns in how to saloot and from all
the emphassiss
put on salooting I
gess there are
some people who
are so old-fash-
, „ cned they think
If this war is going
W&ZA L 11 to be as polite as
' the last one. I am
gradually getting used to going
around with a gun. At first this
felt very funny as all my life I was
brung up to avoid weapons.
• • •
The life here is pretty confining as
11 sed before and how I wud like a
week end auto trip to no place spe-
cial! It wud also be a big kick to be
abel to talk back to people whenever
I wanted to like in sivilian life. Up
here if you talk back to anybuddy
you wind up in the gard house.
• • •
1 got reprlmmandid for smoking
cigarettes while marching. The cap-
tin was very sore and sed it wuz
against the rules and he sed it was
bad for my lungs also. What made
him sore was when I asked him not
to worry about my lungs but start
worrying about my feet.
• • •
Well, mom. now I know why they
went over my teeth so carefuly in
the draft test. I _
could not under-
stand why the
doctors made so
j much fuss about
my teeth but it is
J all clere now
j since 1 got some
| of the beef the
army uses in beef stew. The cows
j they get it from must be half ele-
phant, ma. I wish Mr. Nuddson of
the defense bored wud do something
about getting sharper knifes for sol-
diers.
• • •
If this army life dont do nothing
else for me, mom, it will make me
appreshiate good coffee. I gess they
use tobacco leaves for coffee in the
army. The boys say the cook dont
know how to make coffee which I
gess has ben true all through the
history of armies and navies and I
dont see why the U. S. dont have a
secretary of coffee just like a secre-
tary of war so a cup of java will
taste like a cup of java and not like
a hot brake smells.
• • •
I still got that chance to join a
tank corpse like I wrote you but dont
worry as they are still using ice
wagons for tanks and I wud look
pretty going to war in an ice wagon,
wudn’t 1. ma?
Well this is all for now so I close
with love.
Oscar.
• • •
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to
lower.
Comes a pause in the day's occupa-
tion
That is known as the Children’s
Hour.
I see there beside the loudspeaker
The innocent, sweet little dears
While stories of gangsters and
bump-offs
Are brought to their infantile ears.
From four until seven they sit
there—
Enslaved by the programs’ ap-
peal,
And hear of the gats and the gun
molls
And terrible mobsters who squeal,
Cowboys and horses and rustlers,
Love and the wages of sin.
Kidnapers, death and destruction,
Maniacs, arson and gin.
The serial, ah, how it grips ’em!
Enveloping all in its power;
If the kids ain't In jail when they're
fifteen
Then no thanks to the air "Chil.
dren's Hour.”
—Mary Holland Gordon.
• • •
Probably whenever anything
goes wrong with Hitler he ex-
claims, "It must be something I
hate!"
• • •
We take no stock in Fiorello La-
Guardia's statement that he will not
run for mayor of New York again.
His auto siren is in too good shape
and his fire helmet isn't nearly worn-
HCW-Tq SEW
Ruth Wyeth Spears
USE A6”SAUCER Aft A GU
FOR CUTTING BACK.FRONf
AND INTERLINING-FACE
IS TANTURB
RED AMD
WHITE-
HAIR IN L
BLACK L
outline!
RED- v • -4KH53^
THREAD—--'
DRAW A HEART
uTT| AND EMBROIDER
WHITE- OUTLINE TEETH
IN BLACK THREAD
'T'HESE moody young ladies
with their sun-tanned faces,
gay bandannas and sparkling but-
ton eyes will stand out among pot
holders with less personality. Also,
you can have fun making them.
You won’t need a stamping pat-
tern. Just follow the directions in
the sketch to change the faces
from gloom to joy by easy stages.
Baste the tan piece for the face
to a cotton flannel interlining with
a line of basting exactly through
the center up and down and an-
other crosswise through the cen-
ter. The two pieces for the ban-
danna lap 4ne inch below the top
of the up-and-down line. Their
lower ends come one-half inch be-
low the ends of the crosswise line.
Stitch these in place. The one-
inch buttons for the eyes are
spaced two inches apart and the
tops are one-fourth inch above the
Way Back When—
T INEN “dusters" were con-
sidered "the thing” and
were worn by nearly everyone.
People called the phonograph (a
little box uitli a large horn mounted
on it) a “talking machine.”
The auto gas tank was under
the front seat cushion.
A census of toothbrushes in
the average town of 5,000 peo-
ple would not have required
numbers going beyond the unit
column. -
All of us wore wristlets (knitted
by grandma) in the winter.
Hitching posts were essential
features of every “parking lot.”
Churches had a tuning fork
to set the pitch for hymns.
crosswise line of basting. The top
of each mouth is lVs inches below
this crosswise line. The lady be*
comes sad, speculative or gay ac-
cording to the slant of the stitchea
for the eyes or the shape of he»
mouth.
* • •
NOTE: There are many other illustrated
ideas for gifts and bazaar items in nun*
bers 2 and 4 of the series of 32-page book*
lets which Mrs. Spears has prepared fol
our readers. She will mail copies to read*
ers who will send name and address witli
10c in coin for each booklet ordered. Just
address;
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
Enclose 10 cents
ordered.
Name ..............
Address ............
for each book
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
When buying mats and doilies
for the dining table remember
that those of rectangular shaps
provide a wider space for silver
and glasses than oval or round
ones. Arrange the doilies about a
fourth of an inch from the edge of
the table.
• » •
To remove chewing gum from
rugs, rub with any drycleaninj
fluid. Rub different ways on the
rug and soon the gum will loosen
so that it can be picked off. The
cleaning fluid then removes the
gum stains.
• • •
A dry cloth is better for remov-
ing a pan or dish from the stove
than a damp or wet one.
* • •
Kerosene will soften boots and
shoes that have been hardened by
water.
• MM
Potatoes to be french fried will
be more crisp if allowed to stand
in cold water for half an hour be-
fore frying.
• • •
Soup is usually better if allowed
to stand overnight, giving the fla-
vorings a chance to blend.
DEPENDABLE
Seeking Truth
If you seek truth, you will not
seek to gain a victory by every
possible means; and when you
have found truth, you need not
fear being defeated.—Epictetus.
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