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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
*jEKLY NEW.S ANALYSIS RY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Russia's Ouster From League
Is Empty Victory for Finland
Because Geneva Is Powerless
(EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
- Keleased by Western Newspaper Union ____________
They Figured in the Battle of Nations
\
JOSEPH AVENOL
] Secretary-general of the League, he
called the special session at Finland's
behest after the little Baltic nation was
invaded by Russia. Purpose: To win
League condemnation of Russia, pos-
sibly her expulsion, and the support of
other League nations for Finland's
cause. Wh en the assembly agreed unan-
imously to offer its mediation services,
Avenol sent the bid to Moscow.
KARL HAMBRO
League assembly president and rep-
resentative of Norway, he was among
leading pro-Finnish workers who ar-
gued for Russia's expulsion following
receipt of Molotov's message. Rudolphe
Freyre, Argentine delegate, threatened
to leave the League unless this action
tvas taken. Finally such a resolution
teas passed. Avetjol was ordered to give
the Soviet its walking papers.
■
C. SLASHED—Cotton export sub-
sidy rate, for second time in a
week, from four-tenths of a cent
to two-tenths of a cent.
C. MODIFIED—To pacify Nazis,
Sweden formed a new govern-
ment under Premier Albin Hans-
son, retiring Foreign Minister
Richard Sandler who had drawn
German wrath.
<L EXCLUDED—Mexican partic-
ipation in the new low tariff on
U. S. crude oil imports, as pro-
vided in the new trade pact with
Venezuela. Reason: Mexico has
expropriated U. S.-owned oil
wells.
C. RAISED—U. S. tariffs on im-
ports from Danzig and Poland,
now controlled by Germany,
which pays a highe„r duty on ex-
ports to the U. S. than any other
nation.
CHRISTMAS CROSS-INDEXED
COUNTRY
SANTA CLAUS
MERRY CHRISTMAS
HAPPY NF.W YEAR
FRANCE
Pcrc Noel
Joycux Noel!
Bonne Anncc!
SPAIN
Three Wise Men:
Melchior, Caspar
and Baltazar
Fell/. Pascuas
Fellz Ano Nuevol
ITALY
La Bcfana
Buon Natale
Buon Capo d'Anno
SWEDEN
Jultomte
God Jul
Got Nytt Ar
NORWAY
Julenissen
Gladllg Jul
Godt Nytt Aar
GERMANY
Sankt Nicholaua
Froehllche Wvihnachten
Ein Gluetkllehcs
Neues Jahr
HOLLAND
Slnt Nicolaas | Plelzlerlg Kerstteest
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
.. What's Holdin' Him Up?
VIACHESLAV MOLOTOV
Premier of Russia, he replied blunt-
ly by referring Avenol to an earlier
Soviet message which said Russia con-
sidered Finland's appeal "unfounded"; |
that Russia did not consider herself at
war with Finland; that Moscow was
maintaining "peaceful relutions" with
the Soviet sponsored Finnish "peoples"
government; that the regular Helsinki
government no longer had authority. ■
JAKOB SURITS
Russian ambassador to France and
delegate to the League, he packed his
bags and left Geneva silently while the
forces of democracy cheered. But ob-
servers wondered about the wisdom of
this gesture. Would not Russia's oust-
er draw the Kremlin closer to Berlin,
thereby cementing war forces and
spreading the conflict? Moreover, what
had the defunct League gained?
THE WARS:
Western Front
-'.^Strangers are present," said
Prime Minister Chamberlain, and 15
reporters were ousted from the gal-
lery. A few minutes later the house
of commons began its first secret
session since the World war. Sub-
ject: "Organization of supplies for
the persecution of war."
There was probably a lot of ex-
plaining to do. First Lord of the
Admiralty Winston Churchill was
probably asked why Germany's $20,-
000,000 Bremen was allowed to slip
through the blockade and reach
BREMEN
ir/iy, Mr. Churchill?
Hamburg, homeward bound from
Murmansk.
(The admiralty had announced a
Jhitish submarine had sighted the
Hremen but did not attack because it
tvotild have broken international law.
dermany scoffed at this report, but
failed to tell why the Bremen was
called home so suddenly from the al-
leged safety of a Russian port.)
Sir John Simon probably had to
explain why Britain and France had
merged their economic structure
into what English financiers called
NAMES
m . in the n®ws
*
C. Buried: Screen Actor Doug-
las Fairbanks, Drug Magnate
Charles Walgreen and Michigan's
G. O. P. Rep. Carl E. Mapes.
fi. Made political news: New
York's Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr.,
who announced he would enter
the 1940 G. O. P. presidential
race; Candidate Tom Dewey,
who planned a New England
drive; Idaho's isolationist Sen.
William Borah, who fought a plan
to sidetrack foreign policy as a
campaign issue.
C. New job: Bishop John F.
O'Hara, who relinquished presi-
dency of Notre Dame university
to become auxiliary army and
navy bishop of the U. S. under
papal appointment.
an "unbreakable combination of
financial power." But aside from
these matters, the allies could be
fairly well pleased with the war's
progress.
Day after Germany had an-
nounced her war aim was "military
destruction of the enemy," three
British cruisers sent the Nazi raider
Admiral Graf Spee limping into the
harbor of Montevideo, Uruguay,
with 36 dead after a 14-hour running
fight. Same day, however, this gain
was offset when the British destroy-
er Duchess collided with another
warship and went down with 122
men.
Intensified warfare was also seen
on the Western front., where Nazi
raiders provided a mysterious touch
by attacking at night wearing black
hoods and cloaks.
Northern Front
Russia could not blame little Fin-
land for the loss of her steamer
Indigirka, which went down off the
coast of far-away Japan with a loss
of probably 700 lives. But the Krem-
lin did pout that Finland's white-
clad ski units were "using bandit
tactics in sudden attacks . . ."
Wrote one war correspondent to
his Moscow paper: "The enemy does
not engage in open battle. Hidden
under white robes, they suddenly
dart from the woods to shoot at our
advancing units. Then in all haste
they run, frequently taking off their
boots to ski only in their stockings."
Finally, after 14 days of ignomin-
ious defeat, the Russians reportedly
rushed up 1,500,000 men and 1,000
airplanes to bisect little Finland,
whose troops were slaughtering hun-
dreds of Reds each day, disabling
tanks and capturing light artillery
pieces. Britain announced she would
send war materials to aidy the Hel-
sinki government, while Italy con>
tinued sending planes and pilots.
BUSINESS:
Asphyxiation
Ever since its passage the 1935
public utility holding company act
has been fought tooth and nail_by
America's No. 1 holding company,
Associated Gas and Electric com-
pany. Last year a senate investi- i
gating committee was outsmarted
in its sensational search for myste-
rious H. C. Hopson, Associated Gas'
guiding spirit. Meanwhile the firm
fought Henry Morgenthau's treas-
ury department over a tax dispute,
but several months ago agreed to
pay. $8,700,000.
Crux of the holding company act
is a "death sentence" clause pro-
viding for integration of all utility
systems geographically and eco-|
nomically. This month, its long ar-
gument apparently lost, Associated
Gas asphyxiated itself. Resigned
"because of ill health" was Presi-
dent J. I. Mange, replaced by Roger
J. Whiteford. Said the new chief:
"It is my purpose to give my at-
tention at once to simplification of
the corporate system . . . inte-
gration or consolidation of its prop-
erties . . . and adjustment of the
voting power . .
WHITE HOUSE:
Trade Pact
At his press conference President
Roosevelt nosed his ship of state
smack into a brewing storm that
will break soon after congress con-
venes. He agreed with Secretary
Cordell Hull that the reciprocal
trade treaty act should be renewed
in 1940. Though the act has been at-
tacked by most Republicans, many
Democrats and a growing body of
farmers, Mr. Roosevelt said it has
resulted in many American export
gains. The President also:
C. Received a message from Fin-
nish President Kyosti Kallio thank-
ing him for his sympathy toward
Finland. (The President announced
the Red Cross is sending $500,000
for Finnish aid; meanwhile the
Finns were negotiating to buy gas
masks here).
C Joined California's Rep. H. Jerry
Voorhis in attacking the Dies un-
Americanism committee (of which
Voorhis is a member) for the "un-
democratic" way In which it re-
leased a report charging 13 consum-
er organizations with communist ac-
tivities. The report, said Voorhis,
was "purely and simply the opinion
of J. R. Matthews," committee re-
search director, who released it be-
fore other committeemen knew it
was being prepared.
<L Named 12 new rear admirals for
the navy.
C. Attended the White House diplo-
(matic reception where assembled
(the Washington envoys of warring
Finland and Russia, Germany and
France, Japan and China.
THE NEUTRALS:
Flight From Rome
I In non-warring European nations,
news was made by:
C. Russia's Ambassador to Italy
Nicolai Gorelchin, who arrived in
Rome just as Soviet troops reached
the Finnish frontier, and left abrupt-
ly for home without waiting to pre-
sent his credentials. Reason: Uni-
formed young Fascists have stormed
Rome's Russian embassy daily, pro-
testing the Finnish invasion.
C. Italy's Editor Virginio Gayda,
who hinted how Britain might woo
and win his nation's support. Said
he: Italy must have "certain free
exits," all of which (Dardanelles,
Suez and Gibralter) are now con-
trolled by Britain.
C. An explosion in Rumania's cellu-
lose plant at Zarnesti, killing 80, in-
juring 200. Following quick on the
heels of train wrecks and oil plant
fires, the incident was blamed on
"foreign agents" who are pressing
Rumania from all sides.
LABOR:
NLRB Probe
Introduced before the house com-
mittee investigating the national la-
bor relations board was evidence
designed to show NLRB is badly in
need of a housecleaning. Chief pro-
testor was the board's Dr. William
Leiserson, whose charges of bias
on the part of fellow board mem-
bers (Edwin L. Smith and Warren
Madden) were interspersed with
revelations from the board's corre-
spondence files. Conservative, prob-
ably favoring the American Federa-
tion of Labor
against C. I.
O., Dr. Lei-
serson has
been a mi-
nority, non-
co-operative
member.
Evidence on
this and oth-
er points:
C. Dr. L e i -
serson tried
to force re-
moval of the
board secre-
tary, Nathan Witt, charging he
lacked "impartiality." Unsuccess-
ful, he occasionally declined to par-
ticipate in board decisions, where-
upon the other members recom-
| mended disciplinary action.
«, One such case involved the Pres-
ident's son-in-law, Seattle Publisher
John Boettiger, who complained of
a boafd ruling but expressed the
hope that Leiserson's failure to par-
ticipate indicated "a change of pol-
icy."
C. Elinore Herrick, regional NLRB
director for New York, protested
that two of Witt's assistants had
conducted an investigation in her of-
fice in a manner "one might expect
from the (Russian) O. G. P. U., but
not from fellow administrators ol
an ag/hcy of the American govern-
mer "
All ready for bed, these inquisitive young men don't believe what
most boys and girls know—that Santa Claus is not only a very busy
fellow but that he usually comes when nobody's watching.
Hide Aivay Extra Toys
So Youll Have Reserve
For 'Indoor Days Later
Most children are flooded with so
many toys on Christmas day that
they're positively bewildered and
therefore jump from one plaything
i to another uncertainly. This is why
{so many child experts recommend
that mothers take away and store
out of sight certain of the young-
sters' new possessions. When a
spell of bad weather comes later to
Too many toys confuse the child.
keep the children in the house, bring
out one or more of the toys in this
reserve supply. Or do'it when you
have special company of your own
and want to be sure of peace and
quiet. There are two reasons for
this. First, children enjoy playing
intensively with a few things than
being "snowed under" with too
many gifts In the second place,
some of the toys they receive at
Christmas time may be too compli-
cated for their age.
LEISERSON
iV on-cooperutive.
HOLIDAY HINTS
for HOUSEWIVES
HOLIDAY cookies and cakes
in which honey is used need
about two weeks for ripening.
They improve with age, provided,
of course, they are stored in cov-
ered jars in a cool place.
Apples stuffed with mincemeat
and baked make a delicious win-
ter dessert. Wash, peel and core
the apples and stuff them an
inch from the top. Bake as usu-
al. Lemon sauce goes well with
this combination.
To make your holiday popovers
really pop over, be sure to have
the baking pans well greased and
very hot. The pans should "siz-
zle" when you quickly touch them
with fingers dipped in cold water.
Watch Your Weather
During Christmas Day!
Remember these old supersti-
tions about Christmas weather:
If the sun shines through the
apple tree on Christmas day,
there will be a good crop the fol-
lowing year.
If ice will bear a man before
Christmas, it will not bear a
mouse afterward.
Thunder and lightning Christ-
mas week means much snow the
rest of the winter.
Wet causes more damage than
frost before than after Christmas.
If it snows Christmas night, the
hop crop will be good next year.
At Christmas meadows green,
at Easter covcrcd with frost.
If windy Christmas day, trees
will bear much fruit.
Christmas wet gives empty
granary and barrel.
A green Christmas makes a fat
graveyard.
A warm Christmas, a cold
Easter.
Evangeline Booth
Stille nacht! Ileiligc nacht!
Alles schbieft; einsam wacht.
Nur das traute, hoch heilige Paar,
Holder Knabc im lokkigen lluur.
Srlilnl "in himmlischer ruh"!
Schlaf "in himmlischer ruh"l
It was near the Christmas season
in 1812 when Franz Gruber, organ-
ist for a tiny Arnsdorf church In
Austria, practiced one stormy eve-
ning in the Tyrolean church. Sud-
denly the organ broke.
<"3s-
Well.
Salvation Lassies
Retain Yule Spirit
Of Founder Booth
Christmas will be happier for
thousands of homeless people this
year because'Catherine and William
Booth carried the torch of evangel-
ism from their New Connexion
church in England in 1861 and start-
ed the Salvation Army. Today that
torch is being carried by the second
Booth to succeed the founder. Gen.
Evangeline Booth, who in turn suc-
ceeded Bram-
well Booth in
1934.
So familiar
at Christmas
time, the Sal-
vation Army's
group singing
on street cor-
ners and "boil-
ing kettles"
for which con-
tributions are
solicited, had
theirbeginning
in the youthful reformer of 19 who
was almost stoned to death preach-
ing in slums and denouncing "rum."
Penniless and with four children,
the Booths worked tirelessly in
London amid taunts of critics, yet
old General Booth lived to banter
with jovial King Edward.
He also lived to see the Salvation
Army become better established in
the United States than in England,
to see it acquire banks, insurance
companies, factories, public houses,
farms, hospitals and cadet schools,
all the outgrowth of the "expedi-
tionary" force of seven lassies sent
here in 1880 under George Scott Rail-
son.
Broken-Down Organ Responsible for 'Silent Night'
Rushing to the 25-year-old parish
priest, Joseph Mohr, he cried:
"Father, unless we can find mu-
sic so simple it can be sung without
rehearsal our Christmas service will
be without any music."
The young priest, called out into
the storm to a home where a first-
born son had just arrived, returned
a few hours later and wrote the
words; Gruber stayed up all night
writing the music.
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.—Britain has an un-
usual and difficult task in car-
rying out its decision to bar Ger-
man exports from the seas. It puts
this undertak-
Can He Pocket jng jn the
Germans as He hands of a
Did Decisions? J*;
I by making a diligent study of enemy
I exports when convicts burned Dart-
mouth prison and exported 300 from
their ranks in 1932.
He is Sir Hubert du Parcq,
judge of the High Court of Jus-
tice, and now chairman of the
enemy exports committee,
which, in view of neutral pro-
test and somewhat confused
precedent for such action, may
be steering a difficult course.
For reasons which did not ap-
pear in inadequate press ac-
counts here, Sir Hubert's in-
quiry into the Dartmouth prison
break brought him great nation-
al acclaim, and, soon thereafter,
he was both knighted and raised
to the high bench. .
The savage outbreak made Eng'
i land a bit jittery, as such occur
rences are rare there. Sir Hubert,
a penologist as well as a lawyer and
judge, is a stern symbol of authori-
ty, a strict interpreter of the law,
and he found and discountenanced
evidences of "coddling" the con-
victs as a possible cause of the
mutiny. He recommended a stouter
jail and more watchful keepers. In
his report, he stressed the fact that,
just before the outbreak, the gover-
nor of the prison had said to the
prisoners, "I am sorry that the por-
ridge at yesterday's breakfast was
not up to the usual standard." That,
j thought Sir Hubert, was surely tak-
en as a sign of timidity and might
I well have caused the break. After
I that Sir Hubert became a bulwark
of empire.
Taking his master's degree at
Oxford, he won honors in the
classics. He was president of
the Oxford Union in 1902. He be-
came a highly successful lawyer
and politician, and, as a judge,
the strict legal constructionist
which the British traditionally
like. Lawyers could find no holes
in his decisions.
SCARCELY a day passes without
new evidence that Stephen T
' Early, White House secretary, has
| become a new and authoritative
voice of the
I Early s Say So government.
Second to That His direct
Of the President and emphatic
discourse, on
matters too delicate perhaps, under
present conditions, for the usual
frank presidential press conference,
has moved Mr. Early into the right-
hand po3t of the late Louis Howe
and the Washington scribes are
| writing him down as the most im-
portant person in the execuiive of-
fices, next to the President.
Born into an old Confederate
family of Crozet, Va., Mr. Early
became a Washington corre-
spondent. He received the "sil-
ver star" citation for bravery in
the World war, returned to
newspaper work in Washington,
and, immediately after the war,
established the long friendship
with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
the allegiance of years which
has carried him up each plateau
of the Rooscveltian rise.
When President Harding was dy
ing in San Francisco, he slipped
down a hotel fire escape and had
the news of the President's death on
the wire seven minutes before the
physician's bulletin appeared. He is
thus given to acting on impulse, and,
as a poker player, he never played
close to his vest. Now he does,
say the Washington correspondents,
tight-lipped and cagey, and speaking
"not as the scribes and Pharisees,
but as one having authority."
♦ —
CAUGHT in the ruck of the Rus-
sian revolution was a 17-year-
old girl, playing the piano with swol-
len and half-frozen fingers, taking
. .... her turn in
Genius Is Like the bread-
A Pine Growing lines, some-
From Rock Cleft Vmes , from
four in xthe
afternoon until 10 o'clock the next
morning. Today, she is Madame
Ania Dorfmann, Arturo Toscanini's
guest soloist at a recent New York
concert, as another savage upheaval
shakes the world.
The years between have made
her a world-famous pianist. In
1920, she escaped to Constanti-
nople. Thereafter she was never
ragged or hungry. She is small,
merry, blue-eyed and dark-
haired and was Dorothy Thomp-
son's choice as the "perfect par-
ty guest."
Her home is In Madison avenue,
New York city. "Music," she says,
"is a holding force." Hers has held
through epic stress and strain.
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
Cutwork for Linens
Mark of Good Taste
JUST a touch of this needlework
adds distinction to linens. Do
these motifs in a color to match
the linen or in varied natural col-
ors. They are just the thing foi
cloths, scarfs, towels and pillow-
cases. So replenish your linen
closet with these and you'll be
Pattern 6300.
proud to show it. Pattern 6300
contains a transfer pattern of 10
motifs ranging from 2Vi by
inches to 2Vz by 8 inches; mate-
rials needed; color schemes.
To obtain this pattern, send 15
cents in coins to The Sewing Circle,
Household Arts Dept., 259 West
14th St., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, ail-
dress and pattern number plainly.
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
Read the labels on canned foods.
Many tell the number of slices
contained in the can. Others give
additional useful information about
the contents.
* * •
About Grapefruit.—A soft, dis-
colored area at the stem end of
a grapefruit indicates decay and
decay, even in one small spot, will
affect the flavor of the whole fruit.
* * »
Making Muffins.—Muffins should
be mixed just enough to moisten
all ingredients, but should not be
stirred. Stirring develops gluten
in the flour and makes the muffins
elastic and tough.
* • *
Milk will not scorch or stick to
the pan when boiling it if the
saucepan is rinsed with boiling
water just prior to putting in the
milk.
» » ♦
Picking Lemons.—Lemons that
have a fine-textured skin and are
heavy for their size are usually
of a better quality and have more
juice than those that are coarse,
textured and light in weigh**
Pamela's Enthusiasm
W as Wasted on John
John felt that he could never
ask Pamela to be his wife.
True, he loved her as he had
never loved anyone else before,
but then she was an angel, while
he had many little weaknesses of
which no angel would ever approve.
Pamela, on the other hand,
spent her time thinking that it was
high time John popped the ques-
tion!
One night he came to the point.
"Pamela, Pamela," he urged,
"will you marry me?"
"You bet," she replied briskly.
"I know, darling," he answered,
ashamed. "But if you'll only say
'Yes,' I'll promise never to back
another horse!"
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Count that day lost, whose low
descending sun views from thy
hand no worthy action done.—
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