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TIIF WNT VFWV
Washington Di9CSt;
Compromise Forecast in
Debate on CCC Extension
Labor to Use Organized Strength to Fight
Increased Prices; Administration Is
Counting on That Support.
Kathleen Norris Says:
When lie Stops Loving You
Bell Syndicate.—WNU Paaturva.
Bv BAUKHAGE
\ru\ inmhu and Commentator.
WSV Servlet, I’uion Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
A few weeks ago, an earnest and
agreeable young man came to my
office from the American Farm Bu-
reau federation. His name is Ben
Kilgore. He is a Kentucky Farm
bureau man, a former farm paper
editor who has just been put m
charge of the bureau’s publicity here
in Washingm", probably as a result
of some remarks without any h»rk
on them which Chester Davis, for-
mer war food administrator and
president of the Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis, made at the re-
cent bureau convention.
Davis did not say that the bureau
and some other farm organizations
were interfering with the war effort
and trying to be hoggish by fighting
for higher food prices but he did say
that the people of the country were
beginning to talk that way about
farmers. And he told the organiza-
tion members that if they weren't
as black as they were painted, they
had better begin telling the people
of the country so.
And so the bureau went out for
some “new blood.” Kilgore is not
new to the farm bureau but he is
new to Washington. He has served
in Kentucky. He knows his sub-
ject and can write about it.
I couldn't say whether he has
brightened the grim picture which
Mr. Davis painted to the bureau—
he has hardly had time—but his
presence is evidence of dynamics
which are energizing this chip of
the farm bloc—or one might put it
the other way, for the Farm Bureau
federation is really the tail that wags
the dog when it comes to getting
congressional action.
And soon action will begin, for the
grace extended to the Commodity
Credit corporation expires February
17 and then the fight over the subsi-
dies begins in earnest.
The Federation ‘Line’
What the publicity plans of the
farm organizations are, 1 do not
know, but this is the "line” as Kil-
gore expressed it to me:
“The American Farm Bureau fed-
eration is not opposing consumer
subsidies in order to break down
price control and obtain higher farm
prices. The present general farm
price level is high enough. All we
ask is for a few sensible price ad-
justments on specific commodities
. . . Such small and specific adjust-
ments are far more practical and
wholesome than a billion or more
dollars out of the federal treasury
to help pay the consumers grocery
bill and to regiment and socialize
the farmers of this nation."
The War Food administration,
charged with carrying out the war
farm program, has no publicity plan.
As a matter of fact, the office of
Administrator Jones is about the
quietest place in Washington as far
as the public goes. Its work is car-
ried on without press agenting right
now.
One reason why we don't hear
much from the war food adminis-
trator right now is because the food
situation is pretty good. Of course,
there is wrangling about prices but
that isn’t in his department. The
last week in January he announced
his support prices which can't be
carried out unless the three billion
dollar agency that keeps floors
under farm prices, the Commodity
Credit corporation, is continued.
Jones made it plain that the 1944
program depended entirely on con-
gressional action. In reply to a
question, he said it could be carried
out "without subsidies.”
There isn't any question that con-
gress will favor the support plan.
That's accepted as essential in war-
time and sometimes welcomed at
other times. The reasoning is that
you don't ask a munition maker to
sign a contract to deliver machine
guns without telling him what the
price will be. In order to carry out
the farm program, you have to de-
mand certain things of the farmer
in order to get the thing you want.
Hence the guaranteed price.
But subsidies are a horse of a
different color. Support prices pro-
tect the producer Subsidies protect
the consumer. Without them, the
price ceilings crack.
farm income has risen llff per
cent in dollars since 1939 when the
war in Europe began. During the
last war, it rose steadily, 128 per
cent. However, there is a catch in
those figures. Ip the last war, the
farmer's dollar rose only 13 cents
in purchasing power. Today, the
farmer's income has risen 72 per
cent in terms of purchasing power.
Preliminary Report
Just what is ahead? On or before
February 17, debate will begin on
the bill extending the life of the Com-
modity C. edit corporation containing
an anti-subsidy provision.
Meanwhile, the farm bloc adher-
ents and supporters will probably
carry on a pretty good publicity plan
for their side and some of the con-
sumer groups will be heard from.
Labor will shout the loudest and
most effectively. But that is simply
because it is a large and a well-
organized group. It is a strange
thing, but America, which has or-
ganizations of almost every kind and
description formed largely for in-
creasing the income of its members,
has very few organizations formed
for the purpose of decreasing their
expense. Consumers, as such, are
not organized. There are, of course,
a few cooperatives but they are
hardly more than local affairs and,
comparatively speaking, small and
weak. This is due to the cheerful
American theory that if you haven't
got enough money to pay your ex-
penses, you ought to go out and get
some more money.
In any case, labor (although or-
ganized primarily to get more pay)
is going to use its organized strength
to fight higher prices and the ad-
ministration is at present counting
on enough support from the labor
lobby itself, the results of the pro-
subsidy publicity on the general pub-
lic, to sustain a presidential veto of
any measure banning subsidies.
There is no sign of enough votes to
prevent the passage of the bill, but
enough are expected to sustain the
veto. So that legislative process will
have to be gone through with unless
the farm bloc feels it has an accu-
rate measure of the administration's
strength, as revealed by various test
votes, so that it can compromise
without going through the veto proc-
ess. Either way, some kind of a
compromise will undoubtedly be
reached.
But the way is a weary one.
• • •
Preview of
Invasion Tactics
With invasion in the offing I de-
cided I wanted a preview. A little
difficult to arrange, I admit. I know,
however, that you could see a full
dress rehearsal at the amphibious
base at Fort Pierce, Fla. That
institution has been cloaked in the
darkest secrecy until recently. Just
before the base celebrated its anni-
versary I was allowed to look behind
the scenes.
No details can be reported of this
revolutionary development in Amer-
ican military history that started
fresh from zero.
For almost a full week I watched
and, in some cases, worked with
the men who make “amphibious ac-
tion” possible—those who go over
the transport tide into the landing
craft and up the beach, and the other
men who see that they get there,
from scouts and raiders who slip in
at night, crawling through the wash
of a strange beach to throttle the
sentries and clear the way for the
others, to the last of the reserves.
I have never met a finer type of
man, soldier or marine, and they
are all there—army, navy, coast
guard, and the engineers, the sea-
bees, the medicos, scouts, raiders
and the other specialists. Coopera-
tion is the key to the greatest
achievement in amphibious action—
army and navy working together as
one. It is a navy operation right up
to the tide water mark, where the
army takes command, but a close-
ly interwoven texture, as much a
single unit as a fighting division of
land troops or a navy task force.
I talked with their leaders, tough,
quiet young men, who have learned
oy doing—they know what it is to
land on a strange shore in Africa or
Sicily or the Pacific. They are a
great lot—the scouts and raiders
(our commandos) some big, some
little, some college athletes, some
from farm and factory; but at) hard,
wiry, certain, and anxious for more
action.
Frank Leahy
battle, Grant,
Wood is growing in our forests at
the rate of about 11,000,000,000 cubic
feet per year of about 21,500 cubic
feet per minute. Wood is being
taken from the forests at the rate of
about 13,000,000,000 cubic feet per
year, of which 2,000,000,000 cubic
feet is tost due to fire, insects, and
disease If these destroyers could
be controlled, present wood growth
would almost balance wood use.
Twenty-seven barter stores have
been opened in Berlin, the Bri'iah
radio cayt, in reporting that the
Berlin chamber of commerce had
decided to make all wares subject
to barter.
• • •
Texas farm woodlands have an
excellent record in fire prevention
with less than 1 per cent burned an-
nually for the paat several years.
\\7 HAT was the greatest Notre
' ' Dame team? The Four Horse-
men? Rockne's masterpiece of 193#?
Or Frank Leahy's 1943 squad «itk
Bertelli on the job?
Here's the opening argument—
“Dear Grant: They are saying the
1943 N. Darners were a better aggre-
gation than the
undefeated fight-
ing Irish of 1930.
Those who do
overlook the fact
that the latter
outfit had the
coaching benefit
of the daddy-stir*
rer-upper of 'em
all—the best
damned coach
that ever lived.
Rock, himself! In
between these two
teams, how much of a factor would
having Rock on your bench figure in
the final outcome? 1 should say
plenty, the fact that Frank Leahy s
an inspirational leader and a bril-
liant strategist, himself, notwith-
standing. But Rock was Rock, that •
all. And that means the best.
“I think another proof of the 19?0
team's greatness is the fact that I
can remember names from It. And
I’m not a Notre Dame man, nor
rooter. 1 generally root for the
N. D.’s to get it in the neck. The
little guy, the underdog, always finds
favor with me. But 1 can remem-
ber the many nominees for All-
America mention from that team;
the guards, Bert Metzger and Can-
non, Tommy Yarr, the center, the
great tackles, Joe Knrth and Harris,
and Philadelphia'* Tom Conley, the
captain and end. The other end has
bowed to memory, but I know he
; was a dandy.
"But the backs! Frank Carideo, a
! Mills’ pupil, and one of the greats
of all time, certainly would give hia
I team a vast edge in this depart-
ment. Marty Brill, with Earl Brit-
tain of Illinois, will go down in his-
| tory among the great blocking backs.
Joe Savoldi was a human battering
| ram, while Marchy Schwarz was
the breakaway guy who could do
more than his share of breaking
away. Chuck Jackwich, Bucky
O’Connor, and Moon Mullins were
other fine backs and important cogs
: in Rock's mighty machinei
“This present team would have it
over Rock's outfit in the passing de-
partment with the Accurate Angelo
heaving the leather Schwarz and
| Carideo were no more than fair
dingers for Rock, but they seldom
had to be, what with the overland
1 game so profitable. Rock's line could
invent the holes! And there is recent
proof that a line of such caliber
might completely nullify Angeio's
fine passing game.
“I'll take Rock's boys, Grant, of
the two. And you?
“Very truly yours,
“George E. Heiser.w
A Feiv Words in Rebuttal
I’m sorry, George, but I'll have
to string with Frank Leahy's 1943
squad with Bertelli in action.
To me the Four Horsemen outfit,
with a backfield averaging 159
pounds, plus a rather light line were
the all-top and all-time artists.
Pound for pound. But they lacked
the needed poundage. Here's the
answer. Red Blaik and other Army
coaches will tell you and prove they
| could handle the older Notre Dame
attack. Army outplayed Notre Dame
badly the day Jack Elder ran 95
yards for the winning touchdown—
; and Savoldi was there. In 1930,
| Notre Dame beat a fair Army team
7 to 6.
The 1943 Army team was f»r bet-
ter than the 1938 Army team. Yet
it is m} belief that with Bertelli
faking and passing and running his
squad, Notre Dame could have beat-
en Army 40 te 8, or worse.
Don’t forget this 1943 Notre Dame
team ran up over 80 points on fine
Navy and Georgia Tech teams,
which Bill Alexander and Billek
' Whelchel will tell you could have
been 60 to 0 in each game, going all
the way out.
"Army teams could bold the
I Rockne attack to small scores” Red
Blaik told me. "We couldn't hold
this 1943 team to any smali score,
even with Bertelli missing. They
hit us with too much speed and pow-
er at too many spots.”
The 1943 N. D. team had a bigger,
faster line. It had much -ger,
faster ends. It had a much .etter
backfield with Bertelli, Creighton
Miller, Kykovieh, Mello, Kelly, and
several others.
And it had that smoothly clicking,
devastating T-formation, hitting Uit
opposition like a bazooka shell.
Bertelli Most Dangerous
Above all—in Bertelli 1943 Notro
Dame had a quarterback far moro
dangerous on the scoring side than
Carideo ever came close to being.
It is my belief that Notre Dame’a
1943 team, with Bertelli in action,
could have beaten the 1930 team by
two or three touchdowns and
wrecked the Four Horsemen through
a surplus of power, deception and
passing. I doubt before Bertelli left
that any 1943 pro team could have
beaten it—and the pros in general,
are well ahead of the collegians
T
A SECOND HUSBAND
PROVES UNFAITHFUL
She left her first husband and
two children years ago for a new
love. Now at the age of 40 she
finds her second husband is un-
faithful. She maintains that
"sheer pride” has kept her quiet
and now inquires into the “spir-
itual values of this situation."
She asks if she should continue
being "patient” and “Up g-suffer -
ing." This u'ornan is reminded
that when she deserted her first
husband and two children she
lost all sense of spiritual values
and that this sense is not easily
regained. She is offered two so-
lutions. One involves leaving hus-
band number two and becoming
self-supporting. The other con-
sists of making herself so agree-
able to her husband that he will
lose the taste for younger, more
frivolous, women.
“Disillusionment, as a wife. came when I discovered that John had had many affairs
oj the heart during his utdouhood’'
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
F YOUR husband has
stopped loving you, says
frankly that he has lost all
interest in you, isn’t that an
excuse for divorce?” demands
Philippa Allen of Germantown.
“Or am I, .at 40, supposed to
drag on into middle age and
old age, with an entirely un-
sympathetic man?
“John and I met s?ven years
ago,” her letter goes on. “We
were instantly attracted to each
other; he was a widower with a
daughter aged 10; I had two
sons, now 19 and 17 years of age.
Ours was a whirlwind courtship
and the first years of our mar-
riage seemed to me nearer com-
plete ecstasy than 1 thought
human beings ever could at-
tain. My boys were with their
father's mother, and in boarding
school; I saw them whenever I
could, but we did not live in the
same city, or even state. Daphne,
then a dear little girl, I made my
especial charge and pet.
“Disillusionment, as a wife, came
when I discovered that John had had
many affairs of the heart during his
widowhood, and was still going on
wilh them. I won’t go into de-
tails; but at the time of our marriage
his office secretary sued him for
breach of promise; he had to settle
with her. I knew nothing of that
until later. But I did know that
many a time when he pleaded late
work, professional calls out of town,
he was carrying on an affair with one
woman or another.
Wife Humiliated by Husband.
"Sheer pride kept me quiet; I en-
dured unthinkable humiliations, I
kept my mouth shut. Daphne grew
up to the usual independence of the
teens, and is now her father's favor-
ite companion. He refuses her noth-
ing. She has a chum whom I will
call Edith, a beautiful girl of 18. John
is openly infatuated with this girl.
The reason I am writing you is that
just yesterday 1 found out that
Daphne and Edith are planning to
visit John at the Florida camp where
ne is stationed, some weeks from
now. He is a captain, loving his
work, filled with youthful enthusi-
asm; he wants the girls to come
down for some special occasion; not
being in their confidence 1 don’t
know exactly what it is.
"My boys are in California; the
younger one a volunteer in the navy,
the older at an officers' training
camp. Neither one could be with
me, of course; if 1 leave John I will
be entirely alone, and he is in no
position now to pay more than a
very scant alimony. Will you advise
me? Will this come out right if I
continue in patience and silence and
long-suffering? What are the spir-
itual values of this situation? I truly
want to do right, and not to act pre-
cipitately and make a mistake.”
My dear Philippa, your time for
patience and silence was years ago,
when you were the wife of another
man, and had the rights of boys of
12 and 10 to consider. Whin you
deserted them and their father for a
new love, and jumped into a situa-
tion you obviously did not thoroughly
understand, you lost all sense of
spiritual values. And that sense, and
the situation that makes such values
what they aie, are not easily re-
gained.
Hard Work and Separation Advised.
It would seem to me that the dig-
nified thing to do would be to write
John that you mean to take him at
his word and leave his house, and
to find hard work—essential to these
crucia. times, that will make you
self-supporting and save your self-
respect. Ask him to make some
arrangement for Daphne; perhaps
*h« would board with the fast inoting
Edith, and remove yourself entirely
from the whole picture. To continue
to maintain a handsome home for
a man who has no appreciation of
it, and for a thankless, independent
girl, is only to embitter yourself.
Do this without haste and without
ugly feeling. Then let later events
shape your further policy. Possibly
John will ask for a divorce. Pos-
sibly he will awaken to the fact that
you are more valuable to him than
his conduct has made you feel. Forty
is an age that may have, and often
does, a riper charm than any girl
of 18 can display.
Or you might wire him, "Coming
down with girls.” The risk then
would be of their rudeness, and his
answering wire, "Cannot possibly
make arrangements for you here.”
On the other hand, he might be de-
lighted to be relieved of the full re-
sponsibility for them, and to have
the dignity of chaperon making,
putting their visit beyond criticism.
Why not try this idea; tell them
pleasantly that you are going along?
Look your prettiest, act your best,
and in assuming your rightful place
as John's wife, you may do much
to straighten out the whole situation.
Use All of Your Vegetables,
Says College Home Economist
URBANA, ILL.—At present many
varieties of fresh vegetables are
short in supply and high in price.
Every edible portion should be sal-
vaged and served in some tasty way,
says Miss Frances E. Cook, home
economist, University of Illinois col-
lege of agriculture.
According to the Bureau of Hu-
man Nutrition and Home Economics,
beet tops represent 22 per cent of
the beet as purchased; outer leaves
of brussels sprouts 23 per cent of
the whole; turnip tops and parings
34 per cent, and potato parings at
least 16 per cent loss of the potato,
even when the job is done carefully.
Far too often these edible parts are
considered as refuse and discarded.
Leaves of cabbage and lettuce
need not be discarded just because
the edges are touched with brown,
or because there are broken places
or wilted spots on the leaves. Wash
them in cold water and trim out
j the spots. Those that are crisp can
be shredded and used in a mixed
vegetable salad or for a sandwich
filling. Others can be chopped and
put into a soup or stew.
Celery can be used to the last
clean leaf. The coarser stalks
and the leaves can go into soups
and stews. Frequently the outer
stalks can be stewed or panned and
served as a hot vegetable.
Battle Courage
C.apt. De Foney, U.S.N.
(WNU Future—TSrutS seeds! sussssmeuS
with Tb• Amtncaa M agatin* )
One of the first things to under-
stand about military courage is that
you cannot apply a yardstick to It
in advance of action. Human forti-
tude cannot be measured like the
tensile strength of a bar of steel.
Only battle can write the answers.
Often as not, a lion turns out tc be •
lamb in combat, or a lamb a lion.
For several months I served on
one of the biggest aircraft carriers
in the Pacific. On this ship was a
downy-faced 18-year-old kid whom
we called Babe. Re was a timid,
introspective sort of boy who read
books in his bunk at night, itam-
mered when you spoke to him, and,
while he was a member of a 50-cali-
ber gun crew, he appeared to be juat
about everything a fighting man
shouldn't be.
Then, one axure morning, we were
attacked by enemy dive-bombers.
Down they came, peeling off one by
one and lancing straight at the car-
rier. We had fighters op, and oar
heavy antiaircraft slammed at th*
Japs like a hundred doors, bat the
kids back of the long file of 58-cali-
bers just waited. During long, des-
perate seconds they simply had to
stand and take it.
I was watching Babe anxiously.
; He looked sick with fear, I wouldn’t
have been surprised to see him col-
; lapse at his post.
But he didn't collapse. As the
bombers screamed into range and
the 50-calibers blazed into action, the
scared kid suddenly becartK a man
! —a cool, efficient, and entirely dead-
ly man. He never faltered for an
instant in the performance of his
duties.
Wartime Emotions.
When the attack was beaten off.
Babe was transformed. Hia face
was flushed, his eyes bright, and
he danced up and down on deck in
a kind of unholy ecstasy. “We got
one of 'em,” he shouted jubilantly.
That Illustrates a point which
many noncombatants do not under-
stand about war. It was largely dis-
| cipline and training, of course, which
enabled Babe and his comrades to
stand fait during the terrible eec-
onds when the Japs dived straight
at them, but, once they were able
to strike back, they were immense-
ly strengthened by an emotion which
old-time writers used to refer to as
“the fierce joy of battle."
There comes a time, however,
when the mental and nervous fa-
tigue which results from constant
risk-taking can, if continued long
enough, sap the fortitude of the
; bravest.
The ease of Johnny Allen was like
that. (Uxor-keen, spunky, a blue-
eyed kid with a triangle of ginger
bair on hia forehead, Johnny had
everything n fighter pilot needs.
There wasn't anything In the air he
was afraid of. and on the ground be
was invariably good-natnred, happy-
go-lucky, always up ta some amus-
ing deviltry. ,
After bis arrival in the Solomons,
Johnny went on hazardous opera-
tional missions day after day. Often
! he would be in combat two or three
: times in 24 hours.
After a few week* of this, John-
< ny's personality underwent a marked
! change. In an airplane he seemed
just as daring as ever, but he
; stopped enjoying life. Instead of
horsing around with fellow pilot* aft-
er a filght he would go off in a cor-
ner and read. He groused a lot.
One night he flew into a raga and
took a poke at his best friend merely
because he had scattered some
equipment on his cot
Rest Core.
The squadron's flight surgeon had
a quiet Uik with Johnny. He broke
down and bawled in the middle of
it. The flight surgeon knew the
symptoms. What really ailed John-
ny was fatigue. He wouldn't admit
it even to himself, but his nerve
was gone. The surgeon sent him
back to a hospital for rest, followed
by leave.
When he returned to the squadron
he was himself again, as brave and
cheerful as ever, but if the doctor
had not acted promptly Johnny
might have suffered a nervous
crack-up which would have coat his
life, and possibly those of some of
the men who flew with him.
Modern Improvements,
In the amphibious warfare of the
Pacific, one of the chief dangers to
■ flier is that of running out of gaso-
line and being forced down at sea
or over jungle, and, in the first
months after Pearl Harbor, many
a kid lay awake nights thinking
about these hazards. Today they
worry leas about them. They have
been taught how to survive in the
jungle, end they know that they have
7 out of 10 chances of being rescued
if they are forced down at sea in
the vicinity of the group of island*
where fighting is now going on.
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