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THE MATHIS NEWS
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
'M' EW YORK.—It was quite by ac-
’ cident that little Dorothy Dale
of Kansas became a sorceress and
overthrew the Wicked Witch of the
_ Eastand
Patriotic Songster freed the en_
Inspiring a New slaved
Upsurge of Faith Mimehkins.
We wo n-
dered why Lucy Monroe, the “star
spangled soprano,” kept reminding
us of all this and now it is all clear.
Miss Monroe’s mother, Anna
Laughlin, was the first Dorothy
Dale, in “The Wizard of Oz,” with
Fred Stone, and when the daughter
made her musical comedy debut in
“Louie the Fourteenth,” ^n 1925, old-
timers in the audience, this one
among them, were moved to poign-
ant and all but tearful memories by
the winsome daughter’s resem-
blance to her mother. Little Doro-
thy Dale was forever young, still
in a land of enchantment—that was
all there was to it.
The sorcery of Miss Monroe,
opera, concert and radio star,
is, unlike that of Dorothy Dale,
quite premeditated, and involves
a somewhat wider outreach in
world liberation, but at a time
when people are hoping that
somebody will pass a miracle.
She has become our national pa-
triotic songster and song-leader,
here and there and everywhere,
and at the convention of the Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars at the
Philadelphia Municipal stadium
recently, she led the second
“community sing,” in a series
of great public invocations of
old-time patriotism throughout
the country. More than 39,000
persons attended the first one
at Washington several weeks
ago.
The “star spangled” phase of
Miss Monroe’s career began in 1937
when she was made official soloist
for the American Legion. This
jstirred in her deep patriotic fervor
•which found a response in her audi-
jences everywhere.
, She is an eighth-generation Amer-
(ican, trained as a singer entirely in
(this country. She made her Met-
ropolitan debut in “La Boheme,” in
’the spring season of 1937.
-♦-
■TN THE first World war, facing a
hurry-up job of army morale-
;building, they slammed Irving Ber-
lin into a corner and told him to dish
d j r /-» x UP a few red
Broadway Is Out, hot morale
Osborn In, to Buck songs, right
Up Army Morale away- Here
are a couple
.of lines from the first one:
“Don’t you worry, mother darling,
Although the skies are gray,
For there’s always a little bit of
sunshine,
In the Y—M—C—A.”
This time they pick for the
bucking-up job a eugenist, pop-
ulation expert, conservationist,
business researcher, corporation
executive, art connoisseur, bank-
er, and traffic expert—all in the
one distinguished person of
Frederick Osborn, of New York.
The war department names him
as head of its morale branch,
with the temporary rank of brig-
adier general.
The appointment may or may not
have something to do with the re-
;cent disquieting magazine articles
about unrest in the new army. Gen-
feral Osborn has been occupied, as
a dollar-a-year man in Washington,
•as a consultant in various endeav-
ors and has been chairman of the
'army and navy committee on joint
■recreation. Hence it is possible that
his appointment to the army post
had been decided upon before the
recent flare-up about discontent
among the National Guard and se-
lectees.
Whatever the appointment
may mean, the choice of a civil-
ian for this office sets a prece-
dent. General Osborn replaces
Brig. Gen. James A. Ulie. Fur-
thermore there is disclosed here
a trend away from showmanship
as an old-line, dependable mo-
rale builder. Billy Rose of
Broadway was back in New
York a few weeks ago, after a
session with the army morale-
builders. He was all fussed up.
“Nothing happened,” he said.
“They told me my blueprints were
wonderful, the ideas were wonder-
ful and I was wonderful. Then they
said good-by. That’s all I expect to
happen.”
General Osborn, never a hoofer or
spoofer, is 51, the son of W. C. Osborn,
distinguished New York lawyer, and
an alumnus of Princeton university
who started a career of business
management in 1912. His book,
“Preface to Eugenics,” published
last March, reveals uneasiness
about the falling birth rate and the
urgency of nice people having more
.children. He has six. Always in
deadly earnest, he’s farthest north
from Broadway, and Irving Berlin’s
little bit of sunshine in the Y.M.C.A.
Possibly a highly technical war de-
mands that kind of morale-builder.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
By Edward C. Wayne
Food Shortage in Europe This Winter
Means Thousands Are Doomed to Starve
\
In Most of Areas Occupied by Nazis;
U. S. Court Obtains Spy Confessions
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.
What Price a Mad World!
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The scene is a street in Uniondale, N. Y. The country is not at war.
It is, however, arming for defense. Arming as never before. For the
menace, it is charged, is world wide. And so an army pursuit plane leaves
Mitchell field, New York, one day. A few minutes later it crashes in
Uniondale street. You see the wreck still burning. You don’t see three
children burned whose clothes caught fire. The pilot of the plane bailed out.
INCIDENT:
U. S. S. Greer Attacked
When the news was flashed that a
submarine attacked the U. S. de-
stroyer Greer while the latter was
en route to Iceland, the words “in-
cident of war” leaped to the thoughts
of many. Still, there were other
“incidents” and they did not bring
war. The Greer was not hit.
FOOD:
For Conquered
Most were agreed that the com-
ing winter will find starvation walk-
ing the lands of conquered Europe.
Germany took the bull by the
horns by stating her position clearly.
Not only, said Berlin, was Germany
not going to feed the hungry in con-
quered Europe, but she felt at com-
plete liberty to feed herself from
the stores of conquered countries.
If anybody was to feed conquered
nations, let Britain and the United
States, who control the seas, do it,
declared Berlin.
As long as this was the declared
Nazi policy, it was a certainty'that
the United States and Britain would
do no feeding of these populations,
for if the food was sent over, Ger-
many felt “at liberty” to feed her-
self with it. The food would just
be going into enemy hands and do-
ing no good to the starving millions,
it has been held.
Assuming that the Russians in con-
quered sections of the Ukraine had
not been able to flee, but had been
able to burn their wheat, as seemed
likely from general reports from the
area from both sides, then there
were a few million Ukrainians in
danger of starvation within the
shortest possible time.
Nor were the people in France,
Norway, and the low countries in any
better condition, and with the excep-
tion of the Rumanians, the Hungari-
ans and the Croats, reportedly fight-
ing with the German arms, and the
Finns, coming down from the north
into Russia, most of Europe was
going to be hungry.
I talked with a Russian refugee
from Paris, who had been conquered
by the Germans but escaped to this
country by a devious route, and he
told of the French people eating
dogs, cats—any meat they could get
their hands on.
Starvation already was stalking
the land in August, he said, when
he escaped via Lisbon.
Medical men said this hunger
would not point definitely to revolt,
however, for starving people soon
!lose their ability to fight or to resist
even the inroads of their own hun-
ger. Starvation carries with it only
apathy, finally coma and then
death, they declared.
JAPAN:
Full Mobilization
Ordering a full mobilization of his
country, and at the same time, ac-
cording to rumor, bidding President
Roosevelt to visit him “in the Pacific
on a Japanese battleship,” Premier
Berlin: German fashion dictators
had de'creed shoes of straw as an
“ersatz” for leather. Rationing de-
crees that each person may buy only
two pairs of leather shoes each year.
Now, such is the demand for straw
shoes (which wear out in four to
six weeks) that the manufacturers
are running out of straw.
Prince Konoye of Japan seemed to
be throwing a monkey wrench into
what little hope remained that Nip-
pon might be peace-bound.
The tempest, which these sources
figured the Nazis were stirring up in
Japan on the question of the Si-
berian port, was raging full blast
when Konoye issued his order of
complete mobilization of the coun-
try.
Konoye said “Japan is facing the
greatest crisis in her history, and a
total mobilization of the nation is
necessary to overcome the emer-
gency.”
This statement was a far cry from
his July 30 position that all Japan
wanted was peace and' prosperity in
the Pacific, to “close out” the China
affair, and to be friendly with the
United States.
Dispatches from Washington said
that diplomatic advices had been
sent to Tokyo, probably the cause
of Konoye’s action, stating that this
country was going to “stand firm”
on its right to send lease-lend aid
to Russia through Vladivostok, and
to continue to send such aid as long
as peaceful relations exist between
Russia and Japan.
The same day Nichi Nichi, influ-
ential Japanese paper, defied the
United States to “place any ob-
stacle in Japan’s rightful sea routes
in the name of freedom of the
seas.” It continued:
“Japan will not hesitate to take
steps against any obstacle such as
this.”
Complicating the issue at about
the same time were two Russian
seaplanes,carrying 47 Soviet airmen,
flying over the Bering sea on their
way to Washington to join the Rus-
sian mission to this nation’s capital.
While Moscow disclaimed any-
thing but a peaceful intent for this
trip, another Japanese paper, the
Times and Advertiser, 'took alarm
at it, stating it was “an effort to
establish a warplane service be-
tween the United States and Rus-
sia.”
This newspaper said that Japan
felt itself now encircled by the Brit-
ish and Americans on the south,
through these countries’ aid to China
and the Dutch East Indies, and that
any “effort to encircle Japan on the
north” would be a matter for grave
study.
SPIES:
First Trial
News readers turned their eyes to
New York where 19 out of 33 mem-
bers of an alleged German spy ring
went on trial on charges of espio-
nage.
The other 14 pleaded guilty, which
made it improbable that the full
story of their guilt would be told.
But the trial of the 19, prosecutors
in the federal court said, “would un-
fold ramifications beyond belief.”
U. S. Attorney Kennedy said that
much of the information in the pos-
session of the prosecution had been
obtained from those who had plead-
ed guilty.
One of these, Everett Minster
Roeder, 47, pleaded guilty to “ob-
taining information and sending it to
a foreign power.” He worked in the
plant of the Sperry Gyroscope com-
pany, makers of the famous secret
bombsight of the United States army
—one of the country’s most prized
war possessions.
But the airing of the secrets of
the spy ring in open court promised
news readers a delectable dish they'
were looking forward to. Sensational
revelations were expected of fifth-
column activities.
Washington, D. C.
POLITICAL DYNAMITE
There was real political dynamite
behind that letter President Roose-
velt sent the Young Democrats con-
vention in Louisville blasting Demo-
cratic isolationists as “obstruction-
ists who are in the wrong party.”
The scorching attack was a tip-off
on undercover plans which may
make next year's congressional
elections'the hottest in years.
Nothing has been said about it, but
certain administration and Republi-;
can leaders have discussed uniting
Democratic and Republican forces
to oppose all congressional isolation-
ists regardless of party label.
Under the proposed plan, Admin-
istration-G.O.P. backing would be
thrown behind incumbent anti-
isolationist congressmen whether
they are Democrats or Republicans.
Furthermore strong coalition candi-
dates wpuld be entered against iso-
lationist congressmen seeking re-
election.
One of the most significant things
about the plan is that it has the
hearty approval of Wendell Willkie.
Discussing it with a group of
friends the G.O.P. standard bearer
declared, “The people should have
the opportunity in every senatorial
and congressional election next year
for a clear-cut expression of opinion
on this all-important issue of foreign
policy. This referendum should
not be cluttered up with phony or
inconsequential issues.
“In districts represented by iso-
lationists we should put the strong-
est candidate in the field we can
get, regardless of his party label or.
economic views. I’d like to see
young men and women brought into
this campaign. Let’s get away from
the old political hacks. Let’s bring
youth into this fight. It’s theirs pri-
marily and they should be in the
lead in it.
“Personally, I am prepared to sup-
port anti-isolationist candidates re-
gardless of their party affiliation or
economic views. If they are right
on the foreign issue, then I will be
for them and will take the stump
for them.”
* * *
SMASHED PLANES
President Roosevelt didn’t an-
nounce it, but there were two big
reasons why Pan American Airways
is taking over the ferrying of air-
planes across the South Atlantic
up the interior of Africa to the Near
East.
One reason has since been pub-
lished, the need of American war-
planes to help the British in Iran
and thus protect Russian oil fields
in the Caucasus.
The other has not been published
—namely that the British had been
wrecking an extraordinarily large
number of brand new planes in fly-
ing them across Africa.
As a matter of cold, unpleasant
fact, the British have been losing
about 20 per cent of the planes we
have been giving them.
This was partly because the Brit-
ish did not use their own pilots, but
Czech, French, Poles and Dutch.
These aviators, sometimes too full
of sloe gin, and sometimes not too
well trained in the tough job of han-
dling fast war planes, have succeed-
ed in scattering the wrecks over the
heart of Africa.
Furthermore, central Africa is
one of the most uncharted and dif-
ficult flying areas in the world. The
hop across the Atlantic has not
caused the casualties. It is the re-
mainder of the flight, from Freetown
on the west African coast, up to
Egypt.
This is why Roosevelt finally
called upon Pan American Airways
to take over the African hop. Its
pilots have done a brilliant job of
pioneering the jungles of the Ama-
zon and the peaks of the Andes.
And Roosevelt figured that if any-
one could fly over Africa, Pan Amer>
ican could do it.
* * *
‘AMERICA’S ANSWER*
The OPM is just releasing for wide
distribution its first post promoting
its drive for greater production.
Entitled “America’s Answer—Pro-
duction!” it is a masterpiece of
power and drama. It pictures a
brawny arm twisting a monkey
wrench fastened to the letter “O”
—shaped like a machine nut—in the
word “production.”
The artist is Jean Karlu, as free
a Frenchman as ever worked with
one arm. He lost his right arm
fighting for Democracy in the first
World war and, until the fall of
France, was doing an expert left-
handed job painting posters for the
French government.
Recently arrived in this country,
Karlu wanted to continue his fight
for a free France. He submitted
his poster idea in sketch form and
OPM officials snapped it up.
* * *
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Taking a cue from the German
Stuka dive bombers, U. S. army en-
gineers have included a powerful
siren in the midget M3 tanks. Its
shrill shriek freezes green troops,
and the army is counting on its
scare power, at a 70-mile an hour
speed, to make advance breaks
through, enemy lines.
Phil Baker in his new Broadway
show said he will feature a song on
how to have a gcod time in a parked
car. The song is titled “Thanks
for a lovely evening, Mr. Ickes.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
BUSY DAY
Here’s what happened one busy
day in Washington. A press con-
ference at 11, to which Dr. Louise
Stanley of the bureau of home eco-
nomics, in the department of ag-
riculture, brought the various sairf-
ples they have developed in cotton
stockings.
She then showed us some very
charming models of work clothes de-
veloped for housewives and women
workers on the farm and in the fac-
tory. The designs were not only
practical but very attractive. Since
the department offers its designs to
the trade, I hope some of these gar-
ments will be on the market shortly
at attractive prices.
At noon, Mrs. Dana Backus brought
Mr. William A. Dillon of Ithaca, N.
Y., winner of the first prize in the
national competition for a “song of
the hour,” sponsored by the Wom-
en’s Division of the Committee to
Defend America by Aiding the Al-
lies. He wrote a song many years
ago which you will remember en-
titled: “I Want a Girl.” That song
has been sung from coast to coast in
many gatherings in this country.
Mr. Dillon entered this competi-
tion because he and Mrs. Dillon ap-
parently make it a hobby to bring
up young people. They have
brought up eight youngsters besides
their own, so the young girl who is
at present growing up in their home,
begged him to win this competition
so she might put aside $300 toward
her college fund.
Mrs. Hobbe, from Texas, Mr. and
Mrs. John Herrick and one or two
other friends lunched with me yes-
terday. The afternoon was taken up
with appointments. At about 7:00
the duke of Kent, and his aide, Sir
Louis Greig, returned from their
day’s trip. Our dinner and the
evening were pleasant and I said
good-by with regret to our guests.
* * *
NYA WORKSHOPS
I went one morning to Astoria,
L. I., to go through the National
Youth administration workshops. It
was over a year since I had seen
them. They have expanded greatly,
and the equipment is far better than
it was a year ago. Now they are on
a really excellent production basis.
At the present time, when the short-
age of skilled labor is what we are
trying to meet, it is most impor-
tant to give every young person who
is learning a trade the number of
hours of work required by employ-
ers on the particular machine he in-
tends to use. The worker may, of
course, acquire a number of hours
on a number of machines, but what-
ever the employer’s requirements
are, they should be met in training
these boys and girls.
Of course, they must also have
some related training, given by the
departments of education to supple-
ment their skills. In many cases
this related training has to be con-
densed, and the number of hours re-
quired by the departments of educa-
tion should be lowered in order to
make it possible to meet the require-
ments for actual work. This is not
purely an educational job. It is de-
signed to give us skilled workers.
I think we should realize also that
there are comparatively few trades
and technical schools throughout the
nation with modern enough equip-
ment to do the job required by em-
ployers. This is something which
of course, should be remedied in the
future, but it is impossible to do so
at present because the emergency
makes it impossible to buy this
equipment now.
* * *
PENSACOLA IMPRESSIONS
I have been able to say so little
in my column lately about what
I have actually seen, that I want to
add a bit to my impressions of Pen-
sacola, Fla. While there, we
lunched at the San Carlos hotel with
the mayor. I think one gets the
feeling in that attractive hotel of
the change and growth of the whole
city.
Life is really humming in Pensa-
cola. Captain Read drove me
around in the morning to see as much
as possible of the naval training
station. I saw the various air
squadrons, where the boys learn the
different phases of flying which are
necessary in the navy. I saw their
auditorium, where movies are given
free for their entertainment, and
where many classes also are held.
I saw the section which is given
over to the training of British pilots
and met their commanding officers,
who spoke with appreciation of the
training their boys are receiving. I
do not think I have seen in any sta-
tion, a more complete setup for
physical exercise and recreation.
Every available space is used for
courts and playgrounds, so that the
boys may have different kinds of
exercise according to their tastes.
Great attention is paid to their
physical development through par-
ticipation in the athletic program.
Mr. Gene Tunney and his superior
must be very happy over their ac-
complishments along these lines.
There is, as yet, no U.S.O. building
or program being carried on in the
city, though the money raising cam-
paign went over the top. It seems
to me important that these buildings
be erected as quickly as possible
and the programs begin to function,
for they are much needed in the
towns near our various training sta-
tions and camps.
J. Fuller Pep
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