Illinois Valley News, Thursday, November 21, 1940
Page Two
Election Night Crowd in fîmes Square
Hook Posy Pad for
Chair or Foot Stool
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Washington, D. C.
NO CABINET POST FOR WILLKIE
New York Symphony
The shiny look of the midtown
Humors that Wendell Willkie will area Saturday evenings, when it is
be ollt-red a cabinet post or chair drenched with humanity out for a
manship of the defense commission good time, making the atmosphere ,
are Just rumors and no more. Roose laugh . . . Ships from Nazi-domi- ■
velt has no intention of unifying ( nated nations anchored in the Hud- !
along such lines.
son river. A whiff of deep tragedy
After the 1936 campaign, the Pres surrounded by the peaceful, visual
ident and Alf Landon went out of , rhapsody that is the Hudson river
their way to be friendly. The mel I sector. The maze of alleyways near I
low Kansan called at the White the East river, reeking with mys
House when he went to the Capitol tery in the middle of the night, and j
in December for a Gridiron club wearing a blaring ugliness during '
dinner, and a year later Roosevelt the day .
The uptown gym urg- ,
appointed him a member of the U. S. ing that you learn jiu-jitsu, to help
delegation to the Pan-American con our defense program. The instruc- j
ference in Lima. But with Willkie tors are Japanese . . . The trees
the situation is entirely different.
in the city’s parks wearing their
Roosevelt deeply dislikes and dis autumn make-up. Featuring a tap
trusts him—a feeling, incidentally, estry of colors that makes your eyes
that is strongly reciprocated by sing.
Willkie.
Privately, the President believes
The orgy of silence cloaking Riv
that the G O. P. standard bearer’s erside drive at midnight, sprinkled
campaign was motivated chiefly by with lovers slipping into the deep
New York’s Great White Way was the scene of election night excitement as great crowds Jammed Times
personal malice and went far out of quiet without hurting it . . . Starv
square to read the latest bulletins in the thrilling presidential race .(Inset, left) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the
bounds of legitimate political war-I ing actors making the rounds of
first President ever elected to a third term. (Inset, right) The newly elected vice president, Henry Wallace,former
ring in deliberate misrepresentation booking agents housed in the mil
secretary of agriculture.
and distortion.
lion-dollar Radio City edifices . . .
On his side. Willkie feels Just as The workers in the subway change
hotly regarding Roosevelt.
booths gripped by the clutches of
• • •
boredom, looking into nowhere . . .
The Times building electricks flash
EUROPEAN APPEASEMENT
The story of imminent European ing the news of the world to a
peace deals which floated around Broadway that makes news every
London, Berlin and Washington Just moment
before election was no myth.
The cut-rate book shops that sell
Since November 5 these ideas are
dead.
classics for two-bits and cheap song
Ever since Hitler's proposed in sheets for the same price . . . The
vasion of England was frustrated fame and fortune starved, drinking
last September, Nazi diplomats have in and enjoying the jeweled first-
sent out feelers to the effect that nighters during intermissions. They
Germany now had almost the entire seem to be happier than the first-
continent of Europe and might be nighters they long to be.
satisfied to drop the war, leaving
England to stick to Its own islands.
Old, posy-selling ladies, wearing
Such a peace, of course, meets their sadness uncomfortably, desir
no response from the great majority ing to brighten your life with a few
of the British people, nor the govern of their flowers . . . The entertain
ment. and absolutely none from ers in the knick-knack nightclubs,
Winston Churchill. However, it has whose make-believe makes other
been received favorably by the little people happy, haunting the cafete-
group of “City” men (London's Wall I rias after work, trying to make-
Street).
believe they are gay . . . Doormen
Diplomatic reports indicate that 1 in front of theaters wearing million-
had Willkie been elected, this group dollar uniforms with lead quarter
would have launched a strong drivel Jobs, shouting at no one in particu
for appeasement.
This does not] lar at the top of their voices . . .
necessarily mean they would have The great gabfest continually going
had Willkie's blessing. But it means on between Greenwich Village intel
that Wall Street groups in the United lectuals at musty bars. When they
States which think along exactly the ' get done with a subject, it’s a nerv
same lines as London's “City” were ous wreck . . . The 14-karat love
all ready to co-operate in this drive1 lies who came to the city to sit on
and expected to get support from 1 the success throne, and are grate
Willkie.
ful to get Jobs as waitresses.
A raw batch of new recruits are pictured as they arrived at Fort Devens, at Ayer, Mass., ready to go
Latin
American governments,
through the routine that will turn them out as soldiers of the line within a few months. There are 3,400 sol
whose weather vane is the United
The coffee-pot philosophers, com diers and 100 officers housed at present at Devens. Meanwhile more than 3,000 artisans are working night
States and who study us with a1 posed of cabbies, musicians, wait and day to complete the first of 27 new barracks to accommodate the 1940 batch of draftees. Each building
microscope, actually were getting ers and other night workers, who
will house 63 men.
ready to warm up to Hitler. But enjoy themselves thrashing out
since November 5, the effect is Just world problems over a cupacawfee
the opposite.
during the 3-to-5 ayems . . . The
see
skyscrapers and the sunrise tinted
PERSHING AN ENVOY TO VICHY with colors of silent music. Na
The situation inside France is such ture's thrilling overture to a new
that there is more and more senti- day . . . Cloudy-eyed successes
merit among administration advisers sprawled across Lindy’s chairs, dis
to draft venerable John J. Pershing cussing their worries and troubles.
as the American ambassador to And the tourists, who see them and
France.
drool with envy—for "such a won
It is believed General i’ershing1 derful existence” . . . The fairy
could do a good job because of his land skyline, ultra-thrilling when
old friendship with Marshal Petain, I you see it from the ferry, wearing ■
now No 1 man in the Vichy govern- i shiny coat of tnoonglow . . A lone
rnent. The two were comrades in I ly plane racing over the city, its
arms during the World war, and i landing lights looking like moving
never do they meet without an af jewels against the night-time sky.
fectionate embrace on both cheeks.
Should the French North African
The inovle theaters around town
army become active on behalf of giving away all kinds of things to
England, it would mean much not attract patrons—except entertain
only to the British but to the United ment . .
The sheer artistry with
States, whose biggest worry con which bus drivers maneuver the gi
cerning the Monroe Doctrine is that gantic things through the maze of
a combination of German-Italian downtown traffic . . . The so-whatty
forces might use Dakar. French craze that afflicts almost everybody
naval base on the bulge of Africa, at this time of the year—guessing
for operations against Brazil and football results . . . The organ
South America.
grinder with the monkey that is al
That is why “Papa” Pershing is ways In films about New York as
considered so important to intluence something typical of the city, but
we haven't seen one for years . . .
his old friend "Papa" Petain.
The soapboxer down at Union
• • •
square making the air shiver from
EXIT FANNY
The U. 8. S. Swanson, new de
his
growls about the "recession.”
Miss Frances Perkins, idealistic
This aged couple spend the air raids in the de luxe shelter constructed stroyer, sliding down the ways at
secretary of labor, will not be in the Remember how popular that word
used to be? Why don't these bores In the basement of their Westminster borough home in London. The the Charleston, S. C., navy yard.
third Roosevelt cabinet.
bunks upon which they rest were installed by the Westminster council It was christened by Mrs. Claude
get a new act?
She will be rephiced as part of
which is providing them for all private shelters, to enable the populace Swanson, wife of the late secretary
the President's plan to put an end
to obtain their proper rest and curb "air raid nerves.”
of the navy.
Broadway at five ayem: When
to A. F. of L.-C. I O. warring and
all
its
throbbing
excitement
has
to bring about unification of the two
organizations. No 1 on the Presi boiled down to a murmuring hush
dent's list for Miss Perkins’ succes . . . The new rubber tires on milk
sor is George Harrison, president wagons, a blessing to light sleep
The antique shop on Third
of the Brotherhood of Railway ers
Clerks and a vigorous advocate of Ave. It has a picture of Ben Bernie
in the window . .
The continuous
labor peace
• • •
sleight-of-tongue by auctioneers who
blah-blah about a 10-cent item with
MERRY GO ROUND
Probably the best campaigning as much fervor as if they were run
. . The
among the Roosevelt children was ning for public office
done by Franklin Jr., whose wife is whacky intolerance of an uptown
Ethel dul’ont. daughter of Eugene barber shop They have a sign in
duPont The far-flung duPont fami the window announcing that they
ly contributed around $50.000 to the don’t give haircuts to red heads.
Willkie campaign, but Ethel re Ever hear of anything dopier than
that?
mained loyal to her in-laws.
Franklin’s speeches were of a
The castle-like Fifth Ave. library
l ather naive, amateurish nature, but
they endeared him tremendously to reading room filled with unemployed
his father. Franklin would start drinking knowledge . , . Broad
his speeches in most formal vein, way's bloodstream—the amazing
carefully referring to his father as lights that decorate a sector filled
"the President." But when heckled with the cheapest kind of honkj-
from the side, he usually forgot his tonk establishments . . . The eerie
dignity and sometimes shouted, "my quiet running wild throughout Cen
Gaston Henri-Haye, French am
old man's a great guy.” which al tral park during the wee hours. It
bassador to the V. S„ who deliv
ways brought down the house.
British captions with these pictures describe them as "another large ered to Secretary Cordell Hull the
is the perfect atmosphere for love
Undersecretary of State Sumner
or crime . .
Poverty-stricken hu parly of mothrrs and children being evacuated to the country from reply of Marshal Petain to Presi
Welles listened to election returns
London.” At the left a child in a policewoman's arms shows her be dent Roosevelt's appeal that the
until 4 19 a. m. but was down at man zeros draping the Bowery. wilderment at the excitement. Right: a youngster with an identifica Vichy regime abstain from collabo
Probably
all
of
them
have
a
valua
his desk reading a telegram from
tion tag around her neck is being carried to a waiting bus by a policeman. rating with Germany in the war.
ble novel locked in their lives . . .
Greece by 9 30 a. m.
New Recruits for Uncle Sam’s Army
The Old Folks ‘At Home’ in London
As London's Children Are Evacuated
Christened
Speaks for Petain
WHEN I made the sketch in
v V Sewing Book 5 showing the
method that our Grandmothers
used for making original hooked
rug designs, I forgot that Grand
mother did not wear silk stockings
every day. There have been doz
ens of letters saying, ‘‘I would
like to hook the flower designs for
which you give directions in Book
5. Will you please tell me if I
can use old silk stockings for
these?”
Silk stockings may be used for
hooked rugs but they do not wear
as well as woolen materials. They
are perfect for hooked chair pads,
foot stool tops and wall hangings.
All the popular stocking colors
may be dyed soft green, red and
brown tones, without first remov
ing the tan color. "White dye”
should be used first if bright colors
are needed. After dyeing, cut a
strip around and around the stock-
i ing spirally, making it from %
inch to 1% inches wide according
to how fine the work is to be. When
your design has been marked as
’ described in Book 5, draw the
j stocking strips through the burlap
with a rug hook.
• • •
Flowers may be hooked in outline or ia
a shaded effect, as shown here. And here
is good news for all of you rag rug en
thusiasts. Book 6 is now ready for mail
ing. There is still another hook rug de
sign in it; also a braided and a crocheted
rug and dozens of other things that you
will want to make. Send order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills
New York
Enclose 20c for Books 3 and 6.
Name ...................................................
Address ....................................... .
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Dominion Over Self
You can never have a greater
or a less dominion than that over
yourself.—Da Vinci.
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Beauty and sadness always go
together. Nature thought Beauty
too rich to go forth upon the earth
without a meet alloy.—George
MacDonald.
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