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PAGE TWO
THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
Friday, March 25, 1938
News Review of Current Events
WE MUST ARM FOR PEACE
Secretary Hull States America's Foreign Policy
... Flays World Anarchy and the Rule of Force
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ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
This picture, made in an Austrian border, town and transmitted by
radio photo, shows a contingent of Hitler’s troops marching toward Vienna
after being landed from airplanes in the country that has now been made
a state of the German reich.
ad
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
"The Crack of Doom"
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
TELLO EVERYBODY:
1i Fate plays dirty tricks on some of us—and to others
it gives all the breaks. George Keiser of Clinton, Iowa,
must be one of Fate’s favorites. George woke up one day
out of a sound sleep to listen to the Crack of Doom—and
he lived to tell the story.
George is a railroad man—and the lads who work on the railroad all
seem to have an adventure yarn or two under their hats. George’s
adventure came to him in 1931, when he was working as head brakeman
for the C. M. St. P. & P. railroad, on a run between Nahant and Green
Island, Iowa.
It was the morning of April 5. The night before George had had a
meal in a restaurant in Nahant, and some of the food he ate well—
George thinks it was tainted. Anyway, he woke up the next morning a
very sick man, with a lot of the symptoms of ptomaine poisoning.
George felt pretty bad—but he thought the feeling would wear
off if he pitched in and worked a bit. It was a freight run he was
braking that day, and when the train started out George was
aboard her. But that terrible feeling didn’t wear off. Instead,
it got worse.
George Was Sick and Went to the Caboose.
He stuck to his job and managed to perform his duties until the
train reached Le Claire, Iowa, and then he felt he couldn’t take it stand-
ing up any longer. He went to the conductor and told him what was
wrong. The conductor called in the rear-end brakeman and told him to
take over George’s work.
George went back to the caboose, thankful for a chance to lie down
and rest. But he wouldn’t have been so happy about it had he known
that Fate had picked that train out for its especial attention that day, and
that the caboose was due to be the most dangerous spot of all.
George lay down in a bunk and began to doze. Soon he dropped
off into a sound sleep, and while he was sleeping, Fate began to set the
WHAT to EAT and WHY
. Hous ton Gou diss Dis cuss 25
CARBOHYDRATES and FATS
Foods That Provide Motive Power
For the Body Machinery ★
By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
6 East 39th St.. New York.
★
Armed Peace: No Alliances
A MERICA must pursue its quest
A for world peace, but must fol-
low a policy of arming for protec-
tion of its rights against “interna-
tional lawlessness.”
- So declared Secre-
tary of State Cordell
Hull in an exposition
of America’s foreign
a policy and a discus-
sion of all aspects of
■ the world situation.
He spoke at the Na-
tional Press club in
Washington and his
address was broad-
cast over the land
Secretary Hull and to other nations
by radio.
In brief, be set forth a policy of
peace, no alliances, collaboration
with peaceful nations, military pre-
paredness, and opposition to the
"seclusionist" viewpoint.
i “It is my considered judgment
that, in the present state of world
affairs, to do less than is now pro-
posed would lay out country open
to unpredictable hazards,” he said,
referring to the naval expansion
program.
“The momentous question,” he
said, “is whether the doctrine of
force shall become enthroned once
more and bring in its wake, inex-
orably, international anarchy and a
relapse into barbarism.”
Hull expressed “our deep concern
over the rising tide of lawle,ssness,
the growing disregard of treaties,
the increasing reversion to the use
of force, and the numerous other
ominous tendencies which are
emerging in the sphere of interna-
tional relations.”
His speech abounded with such
sharp phrases as “methods of vio-
lence,” “another dark night of in-
ternational anarchy,” “rule of
force,” “violators of international
decencies,” “medieval chaos” and
“blind extremism.” .
He did not refer to any nation
by name, but his implication with
regard to legal recognition of Aus-
tria’s absorption by Germany and
z Japan’s expansion in China was
clear when he said: —
“The catastrophic developments
of recent years, the startling events
of the past weeks, offer a tragic
demonstration of how quickly the
contagious scourge of treaty-break-
ing and armed violence spreads
from one region to another.”
The secretary came out strongly
for an adequate armed force for
this country:
“In a world in which the rule of
force has hot as yet been firmly and
surely supplanted by the rule of
law, it is the manifest duty of a
great nation to maintain armed
forces adequate for its national de-
fense.'
- “No policy would prove more dis-
astrous than for an important na-
tion to fail to arm adequately when
international lawlessness is on the
rampage.”
In the Far East crisis,- Hull said,
the United States has. .“consistently
collaborated with other peace-seek-
ing nations.
“But there is not a trace of alli-
ance or involvement of any sort.”
He disclaimed “the slightest in-
tention to entertain any such notion
as the use of American armed
forces for ‘policing the world.’”
He specifically opposed the pro-
posal the United States retire from
the Far East.
The triumph of the “seclusionist
viewpoint,” he said, “would ines-
capably carry the whole world back
to the conditions of medieval chaos,
conditions toward which some parts
of both the eastern and the western
worlds are already moving.”
Tiekakd
Mars in the Ascendant
VAR clouds over Europe were
growing dense and alarm in-
creased throughout the world. Se-
curities experienced sharp breaks
on the exchanges in
.America, -London,
. Paris and elsewhere
1 because of the dis-
quieting reports.
Cabinets and diplo-
mats everywhere
were trying desper-
ately to find a way
to peace. The dan-
ger seemed to in-
S volve at the moment
Maxim
Litvinoff
chiefly Czechoslo-
vakia, the civil war
in Spain and the re-
newed quarrel between Poland and
Lithuania.
Maxim Litvinoff, wise commissar
for foreign affairs of Soviet Russia,
put forth an invitation to the great
powers other than Germany, Italy
and Japan to confer on joint action
aimed at “checking further devel-
opment of aggression and eliminat-
ing increased danger of a new world
massacre.” The United States was
asked to participate in this action.
France and Russia formally noti-
fied Czechoslovakia that they would
give that nation armed support
against any aggressive action by
Germany. Great Britain, while not
going so far as this, warned Hitler
that it expected him to observe the
assurances he had given that he
would not attack the Czechs.
Dispatches from Warsaw said
more than 100*000 of Russia’s para-
chutist soldiers had been mobilized
and were ready to be flown
0
Czechoslovakia in case of emergen-
cy. Several Russian and French
generals hastened to Prague to con-
fer with the Czech military chiefs.
Nazi leaders of the Sudeten Ger-
mans in Czechoslovakia boldly
warned the Czech parliament that
the country had better yield to Hit-
ler, and this demand was strength-
ened when other large groups of 1
Germans in that country decided to
merge with the Sudeten party.
France stood ready to pour troops i
and armament into Spain to aid the
loyalists because of reports that
Germany and Italy were sending
large reinforcements to Franco,
whose insurgent forces were press-
ing rapidly on toward the east
coast. Madrid had sent word to
Paris that the government could not
hold out much longer unless it re-
ceived help. France called on Brit-,
ain to join her in an effort to bring
about an armistice in Spain during
which all foreign troops could be
withdrawn, and the British ambas-
sador to Rome-was instructed to
tell Mussolini that unless he called
home his “volunteers” in Spain,
Britain would be unable to restrain
France from sending troops and
munitions across the Pyrenees bor-
der to aid the loyalists. The Brit-
ish government has promised naval
help to France to keep open her
communications in the Mediterrane-
an if she becomes involved with It-
aly, but the British will keep out
of Spain.
Lithuania Alarmed
T ITHUANIA and Poland have
L been in an unofficial state of
war for 18 years because of Po-
land’s, seizure of Vilna, and a trifling
border incident has brought them
near to open conflict. Warsaw was
on the point of sending an ultima-
tum to Kaunas, but delayed this on
appeal from France and Britain.
The Liths also were afraid that
Germany, taking advantage of the
general ferment in Europe, would
undertake to recover the once Ger-
man city of Memel, which also is
coveted by Poland.
Buried Beneath a Pile of Wreckage.
4:
stage. The train stopped at Comanche, to set out a car. The conductor
was given some new train orders. He looked over the orders but
there was one he missed.
And that order had to do with a certain train—on the same
track his own train was using—which had left Davenport behind
him and was coming along at a fast clip with no stops scheduled.
How It Feels to Be in a Collision.
George was asleep, so he didn’t see anything of it. He had been told
about it later. But that second train—a C. B. & Q. freight, came up
behind them, smashed right through the caboose in which George lay,
smashing it to matchwood. Then it kept right on going until it had
smashed up two freight cars up ahead of the caboose.
Figure George’s chances out for yourself. A sleeping man in. a
caboose that had been ploughed right through by an engine. Anybody
who would give a nickel for George’s chances would just be throwing
away good money.
“Since I was asleep at the time,” he says, “I couldn’t know what
was happening. The first thing I was aware of was a terrible crashing
I that broke into my slumber. The crash was followed by an almost deaf-
ening roar of escaping steam. I felt as though I was being picked up
' bodily by some giant hand and thrown a great distance.''.
- “1 opened my eyes just then, and the sight I saw was appall-
ing. Everything about me seemed to be breaking. The bunks
were tearing from the walls and bending at crazy angles. The
sides of the car were splitting and breaking. The back end was
crushed in. The floor was bucking and heaving. For just a small
part of a second I watched the car falling to pieces—and then
Copyright.—WNU Service.
blackness!"
George doesn’t know how long he was out, but when he regained
consciousness he was buried beneath a pile of wreckage. Was he hurt? i
He, didn’t know. His body was numbed by the pressure of the debris
that held him down. He tried to wriggle around to take a look at himself
and see if he was bleeding, but he was pinned fast.
Then He Heard the Deadly Steam.
“I was held down so tightly,” he says, “that the only thing I could
move was my eyes. I lay still a minute, and then, suddenly, I heard the
hiss of escaping steam. I began to scream for help then, but the noise
of the steam was so loud that my voice couldn’t be heard.”
Again George screamed—and again! The sound of the steam
threw him into a panic. Hot steam from an engine boiler has
scalded many a man to death, and every railroader knows what
it means. But this steam wasn’t close enough to George to harm
him, and finally one of the trainmen from the C. B. & Q.
freight heard his cries.
Frantically, the whole crew began dragging for his body, prying up
timbers and pushing the debris aside. They were only a few minutes
at it, but it seemed hours to George as he lay there fighting the pressure |
of the stuff that was bearing down on his body.
At last they got him out.’ Not one of that crew of rescuers expected |
to find anything but a man badly, if not fatally, injured. After all, when
a locomotive crashes through a car, smashing it to matchwood, you i
don’t expect the man inside to come out unhurt. But THAT’S EXACTLY |
WHAT GEORGE DID!
When they got him out there was nothing showing.on his body but
a few scratches. They took him to a hospital, and the doctors couldn’t
find anything else wrong with him either, outside of a bad case of nerves.
And if George isn’t one of Fate’s white-headed boys—well—I’d like
to know who is.
From Forest to Fireside
Since the ancient Egyptians, cen-
turies before Christ, wove, pounded
and polished reeds to make sheets
of papyrus, paper has been made
of vegetable substances. From
about 1880, the most prolific source
of paper for printing has been the
American forests of conifers, the
spruce being the most important
tree for this purpose. Virtually all
newspapers are printed on paper
made from a mixture of ground
and chemically digested wood.
THE human body might be compared to a framework filled
1 with machinery. It takes food to build the framework,
food to run the machinery and food to keep it working effi-
ciently and this food must be of the proper type.
Last week, I discussed the body building proteins and
explained how to distinguish between those which build and
repair body tissue, and those<
that are adequate for main-
tenance, but not for growth.
It is equally important that.
you should learn something of
the fuel foods which are neces-
sary to fire the body engine
and furnish motive power to
propel the body machinery.
Fuel Foods Keep
Us Alive
The body could not function in
the absence of fuel foods any more
than a machine
could run without
power, or a car
without gas. Ev-
re-
ery breath
quires an expendi-
ture of energy,
and so does every
movement — from
the beating of the
heart to the wink-
ing of an eye.
Even in repose,
the body machin-
ery is kept functioning only by
an ever-present supply of fuel.
For, as long as life continues—
even when you are lying perfectly
still—you need fuel to carry on
the internal work of the body-
Activity Demands
Energy Foods
Every type of daily activity, in-
cluding work and exercise, re-
quires additional fuel. If you walk
slowly, you expend twice as much
energy as when you sit still. And
when you walk fast, you may use
up four, five or six times as much
energy.
The chief fuel, or energy pro-
ducing foods, are the carbohy-
drates—that is, the starches and
sugars; and fats. Protein also
has some fuel value, but its pri-
mary function is to build and re-
pair tissue.
Carbohydrates are quick burn-
ing. They might be compared to
the flare of a match in a dark
room, which gives bright light for
an instant, but is soon ' ex-
tinguished. Fat, on the other hand,
burns slowly, like a lamp whose
wick is turned low.
Danger of Inadequate
Fuel Supply
Recently there has been a ten-
dency to minimize the importance
of the fats and carbohydrates, due
to the craze for dieting. Some of
the results of disregarding the ab-
solute necessity for these foods
I are extreme irritability, and a
i greater susceptibility to fatigue,
nervous diseases, tuberculosis and
other infections.
Too Much Fuel
Causes Overweight
It is true, however, that an excess of
| fuel foods will tend to produce over-
i weight. For if we assimilate them,
Your Food Is Your Fate
THE third of the series of
1 articles entitled “What to
Eat and Why,” written by C..
ouston Goudiss, the eminent
food authority, author and ra-
dio lecturer, appears in this
issue..
In these articles Mr. Goudiss
tells how you can be strong,
beautiful, wise and rear healthy
children by combining the right
food materials in the diet. He
points put the vast influence
food wields over one’s
which
life.
The
housewife and mother
who desires to know what foods
will benefit her family the most
will do well to read these ar-
ticles week by week and make
a scrapbook of them for ready
reference.
FIVE
minus
TWO
leaves
FOUR
WRONG? Well, yes—and no. The arithmetic of your
school days taught that if "Mary had five dollars and
spent two . . .” three dollars remained. But that is
mathematics—not shopping!
In managing a home •. . guarding a limited family
income ... we’ve simply got to do better than Mary did.
We must sharpen our buying wits ... ascertain where the
dollars of extra value lurk ... take five dollars to town
and get much more for the money spent.
Fortunately, there are ever-willing guides right at hand
—the advertisements in this newspaper. Advertised mer-
chandise is often exceptional value merchandise. It makes
dollars S-T-R-E-T-C-H.
Early Furniture-Making
Until comparatively recent times,
woodworking did not exist. There
was no need for it. Ancient peoples
spent most time outdoors Merely
eating and sleeping in the home,
they used little furniture, usually
preferred that to be made of metal.
But about 400 years ago woodwork-
ing became an art; furniture mak-
ing was highly profitable and its
secrets handed down from genera-
tion to generation. But machinery-
made furniture ended that.
and do not utilize their potential energy
in muscular effort, they will be stored
—as fat—usually in most inconvenient
locations! On the other hand, an excess
of any food is a detriment. Therefore
the goal should be enough, but not too
much, of all necessary foods.
Since both carbohydrates and
fats are energy foods, one might
expect them to play an inter-
changeable role in the diet. To a
certain extent, they do, although
fat, being more concentrated, pro-
vides two and one-fourth times as
much fuel value as an equal
weight of carbohydrate.
But because of the variation in
the way these materials are han-
dled by the body, it is generally
considered that health is best
served when 40 to 50. per cent of
the total energy value of foods is
provided in the form of carbohy-
drate and 30 to 35 per cent in the
form of fats.
Carbohydrates Are
Quickest Fuel
Carbohydrates, which originate
chiefly in plant life, are readily
converted into heat and muscle
energy. Foods rich in carbohy-
drates include bread, potatoes,
macaroni, rice, cooked and ready-
to-eat cereals, peanuts, dried and
preserved fruits, sugars and
syrup.
Sugar furnishes heat more
quickly and more abundantly than
any other food. But it has a ten-
dency to dull the appetite and is
also apt to cause fermentation.
Therefore, a large measure of our
heat and energy is best secured
from starchy foods such as bread,
cereals, macaroni and potatoes.
Quick energy can also be ob-
tained from the easily digested
sugars of fresh and dried fruits,
such as prunes, apricots, raisins
and fully ripened bananas.
Here is an interesting and important
point which is frequently overlooked in
unscientific reducing diets. Fat re-
quires carbohydrates for its proper utili-
zation by the body. That is why women
who try to reduce without following a
scientifically planned diet frequently
become seriously ill as a result of cut-
ting down on carbohydrates while over-
looking the fats contained in milk, but-
ter, and other foods.
Relation of Fat
To Health
Fats are so necessary to the
body economy that it is no exag-
geration to say that without fat,
AY TIPS to
gardeners
Vegetable Pests
THERE are two major classifi-
I cations of insect pests—suck-
ing and chewing.
Chewing insects, such as
beetles, leave telltale holes in
leaves. They are best controlled,
according to Harold N. Coulter,
vegetable expert of the Ferry
Seed Institute, by dusting or
spraying plants with arsenicals
(poisons with arsenate of lead as
a base.)
These arsenicals are known as
stomach poisons, for they must be
eaten by the insects. Plants at-
tacked by chewing insects include
cucumber, squash, other vine
crops, mustard, tomato, pepper.
Sucking insects, such as aphids
or plant lice, can be detected in
small groups on the under surface
of the leaves. Control by dusting
or spraying nicotine sulphate or
pyrethrum directly on the insects.
Plants attacked by sucking in-
sects include peas, pepper, cab-
bage, and crops grown for greens.
Make certain what type pest
you are fighting. Buy properly pre-
pared poisons; follow directions.
life, in its higher forms, is im-
possible. The noted Arctic ex-
plorer, Stefansson, found that he
could exist satisfactorily on an
all-meat diet, provided he ate lib-
erally of fat. On a diet of all lean
meat, he became violently ill
within a week.
Besides furnishing concentrated
energy values, fats help to create
the fatty tissue which cushions
the nerves and abdominal organs,
and forms the pleasing contours
of face and figure.
Because it leaves the stomach
more slowly than proteins and
carbohydrates, fat retards the di-
gestion of these food groups some-
what, and thus gives staying power
to a meal.' At the same time it
promotes the flow of pancreatic
juice and bile, thus helping in the
assimilation of other foods. Foods
rich in fat include butter, cheese,
egg yolk, cooking fats and oils,
margarine, olives, pastry, peanut
butter, most nuts except chestnuts
and lichi nuts, various kinds of
sausage and fried foods.
Anger Destroys
Fat Reserves
Experiments have demonstrated
why nervous, irritable individuals
are usually thin, while those with
a serene temperament often ac-
cumulate weight. It has been
proven that anger and fright in-
crease the amount of fat in the
blood and remove a corresponding;
amount of fat from its usual stor-
age place beneath the skin. A fit
of anger may take off more fat
than an hour’s exercise, or two or
three days of enforced diet. Thus
the person who allows himself to
become upset continually with-
draws the fat reserve from his
body. Such persons could profit,
perhaps, by taking more of the
fat-forming foods.
But whether the members of your
family are good natured, or irritable,
young or old, they need a constant sup-
ply of fuel foods—al every meal, every
day. Fuel foods produce energy—and
energy is the motive power of life and
work and thought.
© WNU-C. Houston Goudiss—1938
"Home-Wrecking"
Qualities of Poor
Furniture Polish
How often a houseful of fine fur-
niture and handsome woodwork is
spoiled by the use of a poor furni-
ture polish! There are many pol-
ishes on the market today—some
fair, some good, others excellent
for luster and long life of the fin-
ish! The best is non-greasy, be-
cause made with a fine, light-oil
base! In time, furniture and wood-
work,can be ruined by the per-
sistent application of a cheap,
poor polish! Such polish will con-
tain kerosene, harsh abrasives;
and harmful acids—destructive el-
ements, that are unseen and un-
suspected! The housewife may
use one of these polishes, feeling'
that she is economically keeping;
her furniture polished—but this is
poorest economy, if she values
her furniture (and what house-
wife does not?). The furniture in
a home constitutes the largest
part of the furnishings—and will
show up like “sore thumbs” when
dried out, cracked or checked.
This is just what occurs,- when
other than a reputable oil polish
is used! Too, a quality oil polish,
is less expensive! Less is used at
one time—for it’s undiluted. The
resultant glow is deeper, richer,
more lasting! Best of all, the fin-
ish of the furniture and woodwork
is properly “fed” and kept in
prime condition! So beware of
harsh, “bargain” polishes—for
through them, the furniture suf-
fers!
WHEN YOU CLEAN HOUSE
USE O-CEDAR - THE
POLISH THAT CLEANS
AND PRESERVES YOUR
---— FURNITURE
i)S More
women
. use
O-Cedar
Polish
y. than any
kind—for
/ - furniture,
r woodwork
and floors.
It CLEANS
as it POLISHES
POLISH
MOPS • WAX
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