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WEEKLY l\IEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne
War Action Shifted to Balkan States
As Hitler Moves Toward Dardanelles;
British Forces Sweep On in Africa;
Churchill Plea: Send ‘Tools, Not Men’
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
XTEW YORK.—For four or five
years now, Dr. J. Enrique
SEanetti, professor of chemistry in
Columbia university, has been pooh-
M n » poohing high
Lists Fire Bomb ex plosive
As Head Devil of bombs and
Destructive Might gj *j£
ger on the incendiary bomb as the
head devil of the hosts of destruc-
tion. Just out is his book, “The
ABC of Incendiaries,” in which he
Insists that current European bomb-
ing forays are pretty clumsy busi-
ness, since the high explosives con-
stitute a defense against the spread
of fire started by ‘the incendiaries.
Jlemembering how they blew up
buildings to check the spread of
teie big San Francisco fire, one finds
the professor’s idea plausible.
Dr. Zanetti was a lieutenant colo-
nel of the chemical warfare service
in World war No. 1, and from 1922
to 1926 was a consulting expert of
the League of Nations in studies of
chemical warfare. Supplementing
this experience with academic and
industrial studies of many years, he
has become a world authority on
bombs and what to do about them
If anything.
His main idea is that gas dis-
sipates and fire proliferates—
therefore look out for incendiary
bombs. In January, 1936, he
wrote in a university publication
that fire bombs would be the
worst peril of the next big war.
Two-pound fire bombs could be
sprayed over a city and one ef-
fective hit out of 200 dropped
might start 200 fires in widely
separated places. He cries
down alarmists about gas. He
thinks it would be just as well
to do away with slums, as a de-
fense measure because of their
vulnerability to fire.
Dr. Zanetti was born in Santo Do-
,mingo in 1885, came to the U.S.A.
;ln 1900, was naturalized in 1906 and
jin 1907 took his doctorate from Har-
jvard university. He joined the Co-
jlumbia university faculty in 1913,
and has held a full professorship
since 1929.
-♦-
, A PLEASANT change of subject,
from fire bombs, is Tom Smith,
a ball of fire in his way, but one
everybody likes. Seabiscuit day
^ was recently
Seabiscuit Owes celebrated at
All to This Horse the Santa Ani-
Psycho-Analyst track in
California, to
honor the greatest money-winning
horse of all time. His trainer, the
silver-haired Tom Smith, probably
was inconspicuous, as usual, but
without him there would have been
no Seabiscuit saga of speed, dollars
and romance.
“Silent Tom,” as they call him
around the tracks, was a rodeo rid-
er, cowhand, prospector and black-
smith in Colorado, Wyoming, and
Montana. About four years ago,
Charles S. Howard, later owner of
Seabiscuit, hired him to train the
Howard stable, then unknown to
fame. The new trainer discovered
Seabiscuit on an out-of-the-way New
England track and persuaded Mr.
Howard to buy him for $8,000. The
horse has earned $437,730.
Mr. Smith is probably the only
horse psycho-analyst in the
world. He was about three
years old when he started being
a horse-wrangler and learned
things about horses that nobody
else ever suspected. Naturally,
he became an amateur veteri-
narian, but psychology helped a
lot in bringing through Seabis-
cuit. The nag was fussy and
given to brooding. Long before,
Tom had learned that pleasant
companionship is necessary for
horse well-being. After a few ex-
periments, he picked for Seabis-
cuit’s stablemate an amiable
* old swaybacked roan named
Pete. They nickered and muz-
zled each other happily and Sea-
biscuit began to pick off purses.
Of course what happened was
that Seabiscuit’s ego was bucked
up by having somebody around
he knew he could beat.
“Silent Tom” is 50 years old.
Among other winners he has trained
for the Howard stable are Mioland
End the wild-eyed Kayak II, brought
from the Argentine by Mr. Smith’s
son, Lin. He has about 200 horses
to handle and study.
-♦-
T_J ERE’S a clever Russian, scien-
tifically educated, who took a
different tack than most before the
revolutionary gale. He is Dr. Vladi-
mir K. Zworykin, who came here
in 1919 to make distinguished con-
tributions to American science—
notably the development of the elec-
tron microscope. With his col-
leagues of the Radio Corporation of
America, he now unveils the super-
eye, from 20 to 50 times more power-
ful than the ordinary microscope.
It is said to reveal far horizons of
microscopic research,
APPEAL:
But Not for Men
Winston Churchill in an address
to the empire, but phrased also for
U. S. consumption, said the British
did not need American armies—this
yeal, next year or ever as far as he
could foresee. But England does
need munitions, he said. “Give us
the tools, we’ll finish the job,” he
appealed.
There was indication that the tools
were arriving. In January U. S.
factories had a quota of 700 war-
planes and at midmonth expecta-
tions were that the quota would not
be met by 30 per cent. But this
was an error. Survey showed 1,000
planes were produced. If half of
them went to England, as the Presi-
dent promised, England was getting
what it needed. The amounts will
increase.
But Adolf Hitler was carrying out
his threat to “torpedo” American
help to Britain. The planes are be-
ing flown to England, via Iceland.
German bombers raided Iceland and
bombed the airfield there. Iceland
is 1,000 miles from the closest Ger-
man air base. In four more hours
the swastika-emblemed craft could
reach the North American continent.
Senate Goes On
In Washington the house passed
the lease-lend bill for aid to Britain.
The senate began discussion with
the expectation that talk would not
cease before the end of February.
“If this keeps up,” said Senator
Glass, “the Germans will be here
before we get done debating.”
Home from a survey of war-torn
Britain came Wendell Willkie to ap-
WINSTON CHURCHILL
“. ... Not this year, next year, or ever"
pear before the senators. He said
Britain can halt an invasion. But he
urged that the U. S. send them more
destroyers. He said five to ten a
month will be necessary to keep the
sealanes open.
SPRING:
In the Balkans
Spring and Adolf Hitler came to
the Balkans. The fuehrer’s great
criticism of World war tactics was
that Germany permitted itself to
become involved on two fronts at the
same time. He has always avoided
this.
Whether his movement into Bul-
garia and toward the Dardanelles
was an indication that he did not
intend to move against England im-
mediately was not clear. But it
seemed apparent that Germany’s
next campaign would be toward the
Mediterranean.
For months hundreds of thousands
of German troops have been moved
into Rumania. The revolution that
ousted King Carol put Nazis in con-
trol of the government. These na-
tive Nazis quickly put themselves
under order of Germany. Rumanian
oilfields and railroads became sub-
ject to their direction.
First news of the infiltration of
German soldiers into Rumania came
in a speech by Winston Churchill.
Sofia denied it, but within 24 hours
neutral sources made it known that
thousands of German soldiers in
uniform, but wearing civilian over-
coats, were passing the border into
Bulgaria. Then came swarms of
Nazi transport planes with para-
chute troops. Bulgarian railroads
suddenly restricted civilian traffic.
Bulgaria had depended upon Rus-
sia for protection. It was a false
hope. Moscow sent an envoy to tell
Bulgar ministers not to expect them
to fight. Bulgaria and Turkey, who
had spoken big but not mobilized
their troops, suddenly began to talk
Czar—Professional football has
become big business. Last year the
National league played 55 games to
almost 1,500,000 people. Now the
league, modeled after big-time base-
ball, has taken another step toward
stability. Elmer Layden, one of
Notre Dame’s “Four Horsemen”
back in 1924, has been named boss
of the league, with powers like Kene-
saw Landis has in baseball.
out of the other side of their mouth.
King Boris, who had ridiculed the
German army, was silent.
Across the Waters
On the other side of the Mediter-
ranean, in Africa, the British were
sweeping the Italian troops before
them. It appeared as though the
rival armies would hold securely the
opposite shores of the great inland
sea.
Marshall Graziani and his Fascist
legions were retreating so fast that
British armies had chased them out
of virtually all of Libya and were
faced with the question of pursuit
ADMIRAL DARLAN
Marshal Petain was bowing.
into French Tunis. There Gen. Max-
ime Weygand waited with 450,000
French troops. Which way he would
swing was not clear. But in Vichy
aged Marshal Petain was bowing
to the instructions of the Fascist-
minded Admiral Darlan and it was
believed Pierre Laval might soon
return from Paris to take over the
helm of government. Spain’s Gen-
eral Franco was en route through
southern Europe for a conference
with Premier Mussolini. It was said
Mussolini would make a supreme ef-
fort to get Spain into the war on the
side of the Axis and permit an at-
tack on Gibraltar.
In eastern Africa, the Italians
also were losing fast. Hemmed in
on all sides by British troops and
Ethiopian warriors they knew not
which way to retreat.
Meanwhile British bombers raid-
ed Italy. They dropped 300 tons of
bombs and naval shells upon Genoa
where Winston Churchill said a Nazi
army was preparing to embark for
Africa.
The spring campaign had begun.
OH-GAY-P AY-OO:
In the U. S.
A chambermaid in a second class
Washington hotel opened a guest’s
room and found a man sprawled
over the bed in a pool of blood. She
called police. They found a pistol
in the man’s hands and notes in Rus-
sian, German and French, signed
Samual Ginsberg. A certificate of
suicide was issued and police pre-
pared to write off the case after no-
tifying a New York lawyer who was
named in the dead man’s notes.
But it wasn’t that easy. The hotel
guest was identified as Gen. Walter
G. Krivitsky, former high ranking
authority in the Soviet secret serv-
ice. An early Communist, General
Krivitsky had taken part in many
secret negotiations. Once he was
chief of the Communist party’s se-
cret police in western Europe.
General Krivitsky had incurred
the displeasure of the Stalin regime.
When his associates went before
the firing squad he fled to America.
Here in a series of magazine arti-
cles he began to expose what he
said were the plans of the Commu-
nist Internationale for world revolu-
tion. He foretold the agreement
that later was signed by Stalin and
Hitler, he said the American Com-
munist party was under orders from
Moscow, he named some of their
followers in the U. S. army and
navy.
Since then he has appeared be-
fore the Dies committee with addi-
tional revelations. But he told close
friends that his life was in danger.
He traveled under cover and hid
his wife and young son in isolated
areas. Just a week before his death
he told friends that the most dread-
ed killer of the Russian secret police
the OGPU (pronounced Oh-Gay-
Pay-OO) had arrived in America.
Death—During his 30 years in the
U. S. senate, Reed Smoot, leader
in the Mormon church, rose from
an obscure member to leader of the
Republican majority. He was de-
feated in 1933 in the Democratic
sweep. The co-author of the Smoot-
Hawley tariff act died far from his
native Utah, while on a visit to rela-
tives in Florida. He was 79 years
old.
HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the news
FEED RECORDS
REVEAL COSTS
Lead the Way to Improving
Farming Practices.
By S. B. CLELAND
(Extension Specialist in Farm Management,
University Farm, St. Paul)
The farmer who wants to study
his farm business should not over-
look the importance of good records
of feed consumption by his live
stock. Along with the cash and the
crop records, the information on
feed use will help show the way to
improvement in practices from year
to year.
Records of feed consumption are
usually kept on groups of live stock
rather than on individual animals.
In practice the operator observes
carefully the amount of feed used
in a day, and on this basis estimates
the quantity fed in a month. In the
record book, one page is assigned
to each class of live stock, with dif-
ferent columns for the different
kinds of feed.
It is a good plan to check once
in a while on the estimates by com-
paring the total feed recorded with
the amounts of .feed that have been
actually used.
By placing a value on his feed
as he goes along, the farmer can
readily figure his feed results in cost
per pound of gain for meat animals
and cost per unit produced by dairy
herds.
In order to study his feed records
intelligently, the operator must have
standards with which to compare his
own results. Cow testing records
supply convenient yardsticks for the
dairyman. Co-operative farm man-
agement groups use the average for
the association in the various classi-
fications.
Files of the county agent’s office
usually contain records of various
feeding trials which afford good
standards for comparison. The
farmer who wishes to evaluate his
records can do so conveniently by
consulting the county agent and as-
sembling a set of standards ap-
plicable to his own type of farming.
Nitrogen in Apples
A 600 pound crop of apples from
a vigorous tree 25 years old removes
about one-third of a pound of nitro-
gen from the soil. For growth of its
wood, bark, and roots such a tree
uses about a half pound of nitro-
gen. The leaves used from a half
pound to a pound of nitrogen in their
growth and development, but this
is restored to the tree and soil, and
is not ultimately removed from the
orchard.
If loss of nitrogen by leaching can
be prevented, a pound of actual ni-
trogen a year for a tree in full bear-
ing is an ample supply. Too much
nitrogen checks the desirable color-
ing of the fruit. About 6 pounds of
nitrate of soda or 5 pounds of sul-
phate of ammonia would supply a
pound of nitrogen.
Farm Machine Sales
Show Big Increase
Comparative study of the farm
situation since 1935 with the five-
year period preceding the World
war reveals that current pur-
chases of farm machinery and
motor vehicles has doubled those
made in the early period.
The great increase was made
in the purchases of motor vehi-
cles, while expenditures for other
farm machinery averaged about
the same.
The number of horses and
mules on farms was reduced
from 25 to 15 million head and
the number of hired laborers em-
ployed was about 13 per cent
lower than in the pre-war years.
The number of farms is about
10 per cent greater, the acreage
cultivated has increased, and ag-
ricultural production is material-
ly greater than it was.
Care of Orchard
Fertilization of the “orchard” in-
stead of the “trees” would do much
toward maintaining good orchard
sites through succeeding genera-
tions of trees, says Grover F.
Brown, agronomist in the northeast
region of the Soil Conservation serv-
ice.
Nitrogen has been the chief plant
food used in orchards with the re-
sult that cover crops often lackTime,
phosphorus, and potash. Tests
show, says Brown, that although
trees in orchards may not respond
to phosphorus and potash, the cover
crops frequently do need these two
elements.
Seedlings Need Room
It is a big mistake to plant forest
tree seedlings too close together, ac-
cording to R. W. Graeber, extension
forester of N. C. State college. He
recommends a spacing of six by
seven feet, requiring 1,000 trees to
the acre. This can be varied some-
what according to conditions, how-
ever. In reclaiming gullies, for ex-
ample, a closer spacing of four or
five feet by seven feet may yield
better results. Much closer planting
will stunt the trees’ growth.
J
He likes the best seats at shows, always comes for me in a taxi, sends me orchids.
Kathleen Norris Says:
Don't Look for an Angel
Instead of a Husband
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
A TROUBLED girl writes
/A me from a Kentucky town
■I Y to ask just how she can be
sure that she loves her young
man enough to marry him; just
what tests of heart and soul and
mind he should pass before she
will know that he is the one and
only love of her life.
“Should I think he is abso-
lutely perfect in everything?”
asks Nancy. “Because, while I
love him very much, I do see
his faults! They’re not very
serious, but suppose they grew
more serious after we were
married? I can’t imagine my-
self liking another man better,
or indeed liking another man at
all, but at the same time Ken-
neth does fret me in certain lit-
tle ways and I’m wondering
how important they are.
“For example, he’s extravagant;
he likes the best seats at shows, al-
ways comes for me in a taxi if the
family is using his car, sends me
orchids and gardenias when there’s
really no occasion for them. Then
he takes everything so lightly; I
love .books, poetry, art, but if I take
him to an exhibition or concert he
only goes to please me, and I know
it. Also I never knew such a man
for sport! Duck season, bass fishing,
perhaps going to Florida or Catalina
for marlin, tennis, golf, bridge, dom-
inoes; he plays everything and he
will bet on anything. Since these
things—or rather what they may
lead to, really disturb me, am I safe
in marrying this man I have known
all my life and respect and love so
well?”
What really disturbs ME about this
letter is the almost infantile sim-
plicity and self-centeredness of Nan-
cy. It seems incredible that any
girl could grow to marriageable age
with so romantic and idealistic a
viewpoint.
I’ll tell you something about mar-
riage, Nancy, and at the same time
tell some of the other girls and
brides who write me the same sort
of question.
Marriage an Eye-Opener.
Marriage is one of the eye-openers
of life. War is another; serious pov-
erty, long illness, enforced solitude
and a religious vocation are some
of the others. When you marry you
wake up with a bump from all your
little-girl dreams of that gallant
suitor, who was going to ride into
your life on a great white horse,
leap to earth to kiss your hand, and
put you on a pedestal of devotion—
more, of idolatry, forever.
The man you marry is as selfish
as you are, perhaps even more self-
ish. He doesn’t know it any more
than you do. His innocent amaze-
ment that because you love your old
friend Barbara you want to ask her
to dinner once a week, that be-
cause you don’t like cornbread you
aren’t ever going to make it, that
you will send your mother five dol-
lars’ worth of flowers when she is
ill and then insist that he turn out
all the lights upstairs before he
comes down to dinner, is just as in-
nocently inconsistent as a hundred
things you do.
Early married life is full of pin-
pricks, jars and shocks. Often a
young wife actually forgets the
thrill, the glamour, the joy of be-
longing to Philip, the pride of wife-
hood, in her bewilderment and dis-
tress over trifles that mean selfish-
ness, indifference to her wishes, per-
sistence in his own way.
Face Percentage of Differences.
This is inevitable. Courtesy and
affection may cloak the situation for
a shorter or longer time, but eventu-
ally the man and woman must face
a certain percentage of differences.
Differences of opinion, of custom, of
habits, or everything.
Not only that. The situation is
complicated by the fact that a man
is one thing whe*; . he is courting,
UNPREDICTABLE
Do you look toward marriage with
an idealistic and romantic viewpoint?
“Please don't,” says Kathleen Norris,
“for marriage is one of the eye-openers
of life and in its early stages is full of
jars, shocks, pinpricks ... it is un-
predictable.” In today's article are tips
on how YOUR problem can be solved.
and quite another when the respon-
sibilities of married life have set-
tled upon him. Your extravagant
sweetheart may not turn out to be
merely reasonble in what he spends
upon you, as a husband, he may be
penurious. The night-club-loving
man often is the home-staying hus-
band. The man who fussed so long
and so anxiously about not wanting
to see too much of your family, may
become as devoted to your people
as you are. The husband who
doesn’t particularly care for chil-
dren will be the most devoted of
fathers; the dreamy unsuccessful
man who couldn’t hold a job turns
out to be a genius, and surprisingly
gives you fame and wealth.
Nothing is predictable about mar-
riage except that it is unpredictable.
If it is contracted between two rea-
sonably agreeable and adaptable
persons, a man and woman with
some generosity of spirit, with at
least the intention of making it a
success, it can develop from the
young passion and confusions and
suprises of the honeymoon into the
finest, deepest and truest relation-
ship human beings ever will know.
What True Marriage Means.
It can mean that in all the years
to come the bond only draws closer
and dearer. That the man comes
home at night to gentleness, under-
standing, affection; that the woman
grows slowly but steadily to feel
that she need fear no crisis, no
shock or sorrow in her life as long
as Phil is beside her to help her
face it. Years of companionship
make marriage, and happy marriage
is attainable by 99 couples out of
every 100, if they but knew it. True
marriage means joys shared, sor-
rows shared, nursery delights and
fatigues and crises and responsibili-
ties shared, picnics and anniversa-
ries, the successful dinner party, the
unsuccessful dinner party, illness in
the house, money worry, the raise
in salary, vacations, visitors—and
always the same man and woman,
planning for them, talking them
over, building between them the
strong web of married friendship.
When a woman says to me: “from
the very beginning Ned has been the
sweetest, the gentlest, the most con-
siderate of men. There’s never had
to be any adjustment, any conces-
sions on my part. We were sweet-
hearts 25 years ago and we are
sweethearts today,” she is saying as
much for herself as for her Ned.
She is saying “we were both fine,
gentle, reasonable human beings,
disciplined into consideration and
wisdom before we were ever mar-
ried.”
A lovely woman was praising her
husband after 16 years of wedlock
in terms that brought tears to her
eyes and his.
“I was a foundling,” she told me
later, “for the first 18 years of my
life I had nothing and nobody be-
longing to me. I hungered for home,
for love, for a chance to live. Char-
ley was my bosses’ son when I had
a factory job, he had been crippled
and we thought he could not live. But
he did live, and he got well, and all
our happy years followed!”
In other words, she told me that
she and Charley had both been to
the hard school of life, and had
learned some of its lesson before
marriage and not after it.
Mary Celeste Mystery
The Mary Celeste was a sailboat
which left New York harbor on
November 7, 1872, under Capt. Be-
jamin S. Briggs. She was laden
with alcohol and bound for Genoa.
Five weeks later the ship was found
abandoned in the Atlantic 300 miles
west of Gibraltar. The crew has
never been heard from.
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