Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1944 Page: 3 of 8
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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS. TEXAS
Kathleen Norris Says:
Three Wishes for My Child
Cell Syndicate.—WNU Feature!.
THE CHEERFUL OUTLOOK
Having everything that a
girl could desire — beauty,
health, athletic skill, intelli-
gence, money — does not nec-
essarily foreshadow n happy
life. Miss Norris points out.
Often women who had every-
thing in youth become selfish,
bitter and frustrated in middle
life. They seek happiness by
changing husbands, by travel-
ling, by lavish spending. But
they can’t be happy — their
nature is too self-centered, too
proud, too chronically discon-
tented and critical for them
ever to be satisfied.
On the other hand, there
are many women who are not
particularly pretty, not very
clever or accomplished, who
by their natural good natured
charm make everybody hap-
pier. They are the wives and
mothers who reap a rich har-
vest of affection and respect
in their later years.
While a woman's attitude
toward life seems to be set in
babyhood, yet there is much a
mother can do for her daugh-
ter to try to turn her toward
the way of true happiness, as
Miss Norris explains in this
article.
Hetty, rather fat, not particularly pretty, anil not as smart at Pat, it never-
theless into everything, popular everywhere, laughing herself, and keeping
everyone else laughing.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
y'vROBABLY if you could
L-^do one thing for that baby
X of yours it would be to
make him rich. Oh, yes, I
know what you’re going to
say! That riches do not mean
happiness, that character and
charm are what count and so
on. But if a letter arrived this
morning saying that Uncle
Harold had died leaving each
of your three children a quar-
ter of a million, you’d not only
feel tremendously excited,
elated and grateful, but every
friend and neighbor you have
would envy you.
Second, mothers like their girls to
have beauty. All girls are nice-look-
ing these days, what with their fine
athletic young bodies, their brushed
hair and clean skins and their
make-up. But there is no mother
who doesn't like to have it said,
"Nancy's exceptionally lovely,
Anna. Where'd you ever get such a
glamour girl!"
Third comes a bunch of advan-
tages: travel, cleverness, charm,
magnetism, music, sports, lan-
guages, intelligence. We all want
our children to have just as much
—Oi. all thesa as we can pack into
their lives.
I remember years ago sitting
watching youngsters in a horse
show, in an extremely exalted social
atmosphere. One beautiful girl
about 18 years old had the world at
her feet. She was rich, she was cul-
tured, at least to the extent of being
able to jabber impressively about
foreign embassies, Junior league
dances, one's school days In Paris,
one’s presentation in London, one’s
acquaintance with half the promi-
nent folk of the world. She came up
to show us her horse's blue ribbons;
she was easily the most conspicuous
figure in the show.
Becomes Bitter Woman.
Well, that was 20 years ago. She
(s a bitter, talkative, self-assertive
woman now, always on the de-
fensive. She has been married
twice and divorced twice; neither
one of her children is In his moth-
er's custody. I think it would be
hard to find a more unhappy
woman.
Disposition is the priceless treas-
ure in this world. To be born with
a cheerful, forgiving, philosophical
disposition is to be born with some-
thing worth the gold of Golconda,
or the beauty of the Queen of Sheba.
Everywhere in the world there
are women spreading service and
happiness like so many smaller
suns. Not particularly pretty wom-
en, not women who spend fortunes
upon the tint of their cheeks or the
color of their lips. But radiantly
useful, confident, generous-hearted
women, who are busy keeping
homes places of content and com-
fort, who are laughing off slights
and disappointments, who are plan-
ning a glorious tomorrow for the
boys who come home. Women
with happy natures.
You see the tragedy of this para-
dox illustrated sometimes in the
lives of small sisters or brothers.
Clever Patricia, with the curls and
the star-sapphire eyes, is a discon-
tented, sensitive, jealous little thing,
always wanting Betsy's things, or
Imagining that someone dislikes
her. Betsy, born of the same par-
ents, rather fat, not particularly
pretty, and not as smart as Pat, is
nevertheless into everything, popu-
lar everywhere, laughing herself
and keeping everyone else laughing,
eager, friendly, radiantly interested
in the great adventure of life.
Washington DipesL
Allied Show of Power f
Affects Enemy Morale
Robot Plane Attacks Used to Bolster Home-
Front Spirits Following First
Invasion Landings.
Let's face Facts
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator,
Pat will go on to her destiny of
pride, loneliness, discontent. And
Betsy will become one of those
daughters, wives, friends, moth-
ers, aunts, who draw about them an
adoring, demanding, heart-warming
family circle, building more and
more happiness into this tangled
web of life as she goes along.
Trend Shows In Babyhood.
There is not much we can do
about It. We come to this life with
sunshine or shadow in our way of
looking at things, and even in a
baby of two the trend of a lifetime
can be discerned.
But we can do something. What
you can do for your proud, pretty,
selfish little girl is build about her
a world of simplicity, humility,
service. Try to show her how much
of her future happiness in life de-
pends upon herself, depends upon
just how much goodness and unself-
ishness she can plant in her own
soul. Point out to her the wreckage
that is so often the life story of a
beautiful, rich, independent wom-
an, and the very real joy that fills
the life of the wife and mother
who may, indeed, say to herself that
she can't cure the Ills of the world.
But that what she can do is keep
these few who love her—this tired
man, these children, this old father
and mother, these friends, glad that
she is alive.
Many a wealthy and beautiful
woman never has heard anyone
come home to say the things this
humbler, more serene, more needed
and beloved woman hears day
after day.
"Mother, you’re home, oh, goody!
You take awful good care of your
tired old husband, Mary. Nobody
ever had a daughter like you, Mary.
You do it, Mary — you bring it —
you break the news (o her — you
cook It for us — you be there —
you take care of me, Mother.”
It is of such homely stulT as that
that the heart’s true ecstasies are
made. If we can give our children
that formula, beauty and wealth can
be relegated to fifth place, tenth
place, no place at all.
Motherslike their girls to have beauty ..
Brushing Good for Hair
Do you brush your hair each
day? Brushing gives sheen, that
“polished look,” as well ns re-
moving dust and lint. It will not
destroy the wave, If your hair is in
good condition. Even the simplest
hair dress will be attractive, says
Ruth Current of North Carolina
State college.
Do you wash your brush and
comb after each shampoo? As
a dandruff precaution, combs,
brushes, pins and clips should aV
be washed each time.
WNU Services, Union Trust Building
Washington, I). C.
In the last days of June when the
papers were full of stories of Ger-
many’s "secret weapon," the robot
plane, a scene which I witnessed
some three decades ago returned to
haunt me. I stood in a large tent
with a crowd of people, oh-ing and
ah-ing at a mechanical miracle we
were witnessing. It was In Germany.
Before us stood a pompous gentle-
man in evening clothes with fero-
cious mustachios. He had a wand
in his hand and with it directed the
movement of a beautiful little dirigi-
ble about three feet long, a perfect
replica of the Zeppelins which were
just beginning to be talked about.
It did look rather startling. The
Impressario moved his wand to the
right and the miniature dirigible
started off around the top of the
tent, its tiny propellers whirring. He
dipped his wand and the little ship
nosed down and began to descend.
He traced a graceful circle upward
and the ship ascended and re-
produced his movement in the
air. Finally, after performing all
sorts of such feats it gracefully de-
scended and landed on a table.
It was an impressive sight but
afterwards an American engineer
who had witnessed the display ex-
plained to me that it was all "per-
fectly simple." He said the wand
was merely a signal to a man con-
cealed from the audience who sat
before an electric switchboard and
controlled the ship by radio. Since
then many experiments have been
carried on by this type of remote
control but so far as I know it has
not been used in any engines of war.
Naturally, when I first read the
news of the robots, the picture of
the little zeppelin floated into my
mind. Experts admit that the Ger-
man pilotless planes are nothing
but rockets and they can be sent in
only the general direction of their
targets. But the same experts freely
admit that there could be radio-con-
trolled pilotless planes.
I mention the rocket attacks
not so much to emphasize the last
hysterical gesture of the writhing
Teuton, but because they mark an
Important milestone in the psycho-
logical battle whose frenzy has
mounted in these weeks since the
invasion. The robot attack was not
nearly as much of an offensive as
a defensive stroke. Reports reach-
ing Washington in the last days indi-
cate that there is a defeatist
psychosis mounting in Germany.
That this bit of Buck Rogers fantasy
was to be an antidote, is clear from
the tremendous play it received in
German propaganda.
The tension in enemy countries Is
understandable to any of us in Wash-
ington who have gone through the
strain of that morning when the
first hint came over the air that
D-day was dawning. Like many
other newsmen, writers and broad-
casters, I was routed out of my bed
shortly after midnight after be-
ing on the alert for weeks, and from
then on for many hours that bed
was a stranger to me.
How Did the Enemy Feel?
Temperatures rose and fell for
.many days thereafter but the peaks
and valleys of emotion in this coun-
try could have been nothing com-
pared with those of our enemies. As
yet we cannot know exactly what
the German pulse beat was when
our forces reached their shores after
all the boasting about Hitler’s "West
Wall"; or how kimonos fluttered
when the Japanese homeland was
ruthlessly hammered by an engine
of war more terrible than any they
expected existed—or when Ameri-
can naval guns roared in the
Kuriles and the Bonins, almost in
Hirohito's back yard.
It takes some time to assay the
morale in enemy lands, but thanks
to certain reports which have al-
ready reached the Allied capitals we
can gauge the mental state of the
population In Germany.
Some of the information comes
from secret sources which may not
be disclosed lest they give a hint
to the gestapo as to whom or where
the sources arc. One such report
speaks of that spectre "the third
man” who is haunting the Nazi
minions everywhere they go. Per-
haps he is a bent old derelict sweep-
ing the street crossing. Perhaps
he Is a garrulous workman drinking
his thin beer with a group of
friends; perhaps he is even the
quiet-faced fellow wearing the
swastika, heiling Hitler with the
rest. Anyhow, he is described in the
document I quote as the "third
man" who, like a dark shadow,
"overhears all conversations."
"lie learns," says a nervous
Nazi warning, which I cannot
Identify further, translation of
which I am quoting literally,
"that the enemy took a village
a week ago, that there Is only
one German soldier to every
500 meters along the eastern
front (I have been told by a
Colonel) that the Americans
will attack with a hundred thou-
sand aircraft steered by remote
control methods (yes, certainly,
our charwoman’s nephew who
works In the secret department
in the Reich air ministry says
so). . . and so the trans-
lalidh runs, revealing the state
of Nazi nerves.
No wonder that when the Ger-
man "secret weapons,” the
pilotless bombers, were sent
over London the German propa-
ganda fairly shrieked its tri-
umph from every housetop in
an elTort to olf-set the grim news
of the invasion. Unfortunately
for Herr Goebbrls, at almost
that very moment the most
powerful air weapon ever
created, the B-29, was making
the longest flight on record to
strike at the heart of Japan's
chief war industry. That, un-
doubtedly, had its repercussions
in Germany.
What is the state of nerves in Ber-
lin, where, according to a corre-
spondent of the Swiss Journal de
Geneve, "everywhere one travels
there are ruins, piles of rubble ....
paper has taken the place of win-
dows and there are makeshift roofs
with no tops on them .... in many
quarters .... the majority of the
inhabitants are buried beneath the
ruins. . . .”
No Complaints, Please
You can judge what the govern-
ment is thinking about the attitude
which Berliners are taking by an
article printed in the Lokal An-
zeiger:
“For the sake of your lives bt
careful!” it says and then begs that
no complaint about their work oi
revelation of what they are doing be
made which might reveal some-
thing to the enemy.
"Talk about how well we are fed,"
the writer begs, "say that the Ger-
man people get more bread, buttei
and milk than ever before, that
everybody still gets fresh white
bread and even occasionally eggs
and some lovely apples.”
Obviously this Is directed to a
people utterly discouraged by minds
equally desperate. From another
source, which I cannot identify, is
revealed a message said to come
directly from the High Command it-
self, calling for "strong hearts” to
miet the nows of the retreats on
the Russian front, which it freely
admits has become a "psychologi-
cal burden."
• • •
A Remarkable Map
The many members of the Na-
tional Geographic society have re-
ceived the remarkable new map of
Japan and adjacent regions put out
recently by that organization.
This is the first time that a de-
tailed map has been computed with
the geographic heart of Tokio as its
center. The National Geographic
Bulletin states that the exact spot
is Tokio's central railway station
about which cluster the imperial pal-
ace, the central post office and the
Marunouchi building, one of the
city's largest official structures.
The map has been compiled of
entirely new base material and is
being used by the general staff and
other government departments
which opened their files to the Na-
tional Geographic researchers for
its preparation.
Just because we have our eyes on
western Europe at the moment is no
reason why we should forget what is
going on in the Pacific. Fortunately,
our forces have been built up there
to the point where we can carry on
simultaneous action with the move-
ments of the armies in Europe.
A Bit of Wheat History
May Prevent Mistakes
In Postwar Planning
By BARROW LYONS
— WNU Staff Correspondent —
Barrow Lyons
Julius Caesar would have had
more water to cross today in invad-
ing Britain—the clills of Dover have
receded that much.
• • •
Nazi slave-labor recruitment
among women in occupied northern
Italy now applies only to unmar-
ried women between the ages of 18
and 30, resulting in a desperate
matrimonial rush.
Pillow feathers are so scarce in
Hungary and the Balkan countries
that Nazis are offering a bribe of
one gallon of gas for a quantity of
feathers worth about 15 cents.
• • •
A "seat changing" signal is given
at regular intervals in the crowded
trains in Japan, and people who
have been sitting stand up to change
places with the others.
WASHINGTON, D C.
We might save ourselves a deal
of misery if we could think back
clearly and recall
the problem we
faced 13 years
ago when the
world wheat mar-
ket was an Inter-
national head-
' ache. Almost cer-
1 tainly, unless we
have learned our
lesson much bet-
ter than mere hu-
mans usually do,
we shall be faced
again with simi-
lar situations. Perhaps the memory
of what once was so disheartening
will help us to avoid making the
same kind of mistakes again.
Year after year following the last
war, we had been piling up a larger
and larger surplus of wheat, and the
domestic price as well as the world
market had declined to a point
where you could almost count or
one hand the number of wheat farm-
ers operating at a profit. Still, w»
seemed to be unable to reduce oui
wheat acreage. It was much the
same story in every important
wheat-growing nation on earth, ex-
cept China and Russia.
By 1931 Russia had made enough
progress with Its Five-Year plan to
permit wheat export again. Once
Russia had been the "bread basket
of Europe." In 1931 Russia desper-
ately needed foreign exchange with
which to purchase machinery
abroad. Our own government did all
it could to discourage Russia's
industrial development, although it
was that nation's mighty effort then
to gird for war that enabled it to
drive back the Nazi armies 11 years
later while we prepared to do our
part.
International Problem
In May, 1931, we sent to London
a delegation of the federal farm
board to meet representatives of
other great wheat growing nations
It was hoped that they might work
out an agreement to control tht
movement and price of wheat Ir.
international trade, and thereby
take the first constructive step tc
lift the wheat farmers of the world
from the very depths of despond
ency. At that time wheat was sell-
ing in Chicago at 83 cents per bush
el and for much less on the farm
In Winnipeg wheat brought 49 cents
and in Liverpool 72 cents. Samuel
R. McKelvie headed our delegation.
At that time I wrote in an article
entitled “The Wheat Chaos—Poo] or
Ruin?" which appeared in the Na
tion:
There are three courses the farm
board might pursue. It could lock
up its wheat holdings, as some of
the western senators have de-
manded, but it has refused to ac-
cept this suggestion and has decided
to unload as rapidly as it can. It
could sell In an open market in
competition with the huge carry-
over stores of the Argentine. Can-
ada and Australia and with the
splendid crops that in a few months
will be ready to flood world mar-
kets with even more unwanted
grain; but to do that would in-
evitably depress prices still further.
Finally, the farm board could co-
operate with the rest of the world
on the problem of wheat."
The London conference did not set-
tle the matter. Argentine, which
had introduced farming machinery
on a considerable scale and prob-
ably was then the cheapest produc-
er of wheat, felt that it was not nec-
essary for it to limit its output,
since it could undersell anyone—
at least, anyone but Russia. Rus-
sia had been successful in forcing
her wheat into any market where
machinery was to be purchased.
Other’ Control Measures
But eventually measures of con-
trol were brought Into the world pic-
ture, and after a time international
depression was absorbed in produc-
tive energy—and the world moved
along toward the next war, which
burst upon it only seven years after
the London wheat conference.
What might have happened, if
the great nations of the world had
been able to cooperate promptly and
intelligently to improve the eco-
nomic condition of wheat farmers—
and the producers of other agricul-
tural commodities that entered into
world trade—no one can tell.
As to wheat production control—
the world never did get very far
with that one, mainly because \r-
gentina would not play ball.
The world of tomuriow is for us
to make, however, and it is for-
tunate that thoughtful men already
are giving consideration to plans,
which may assure farmers of the
future steadier Incomes.
There are a number of elements
in the present world situation which
presage a very different economic
and political outlook than after the
last war. The most Important of
these is the rise of Russia, now
powerful in the economic, military
and diplomatic spheres. Since Rus-
sia’s economy is based on- produc-
tion for use, rather than for profit,
it may take some time for us to ad-
lust ourselves to bargaining with
that country. But Russia, neverthe-
less. is anxious to obtain all It can
from the rest of the world in ex-
change for her exports.
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• • •
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