Illinois Valley News, Thursday, May 1, 1941
Page Two
Under the \\ ing of the American Eagle
Washington, D. C.
SAVING MONEY
One of defense price regulator
Leon Henderson's staunchest sup
porters is Donald Nelson, dollar-a-
ycar OPM purchasing chief.
At a meeting of his lieutenants.
Nelson said: “We’ve got to watch
price advances like a hawk. Our
national economy won’t stand for
any price skyrocketing I want you
to catch every bid where prices are
out of line, and if we can't scale
them down, we’ll turn the case over
to Leon.”
Several days later an assistant,
examining cotton gauze prices sub
mitted by three companies holding
army contracts, smelled a mouse
and showed the figures to Nelson.
The prices of two of the firms were
okay, but the third had boosted its
bid 10 cents. Checking. Nelson found
that wages in mills had not ad
vanced and that a large stock of
cotton was on hand.
So he called the manufacturer and
firmly informed him that unless his
price was put back into.line the fur
would fly. Next day the company
submitted reduced figures.
Note—Nelson's biggest problem in
keeping defense prices from soar
ing is the military brass-hats, who
are rated chiefly for their ability
to get materials for the army and
navy, and not on the price the gov
ernment has to fork out.
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Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
The Front Pages: The Jap-Bolo
toast to love each other to pieces,
the story of the year for The Daily
Worker, caught that Commy sheet
with its tongue tied. It offered no
lowdown on the pact on the day
when the yarn broke.
Next day
(maybe on a tip from the Kremlin)
it decided the treaty was an instru
ment of peace. The sheet claimed
Russia remains a “staunch friend”
of the Chinese. Of course, the pact
gives the Japs the green light to ex
terminate these "staunch friends,”
but the Bolos feel that anybody who
points this out is a dirty counter
revolutionary capitalist . , . Alsop
and Kintner don't agree with The
Worker’s rose-tined picture. They
canvassed the State Dep't and
couldn’t get anybody to deny that
Stalin signed on the dotted line be
cause Hitler cracked the whip . . .
Gen. Robert C. Richardson makes a
Greenland came under U. S. protection when the government signed an agreement with Danish officials.
good start as boss of public rela
tions for the army. ."Don’t try to Thus the Monroe Doctrine spreads northward in scope. Photos show the fishing colony at L'manak (below) and
conceal information from the news fishing boats at Scoresbysund (upper right). Circle: Hendrick De Kauffmann, Danish minister to the V. S.,
papers,” he advised his helpers. recalled by the German-controlled Copenhagen government, for his role in the negotiations.
“They will only get it anyway—
from unofficial sources” . . . “Com
munist's Wife Accused as Killer,”
headlines The Post. Say, we know
people who think being a colum
nist's wife is a sure-fire defense for
murder.
Cherry Blossom Time in Washington
The Wireless: The radio Is one
BILL OF FRILLS
' of the busiest Nazi weapons in the
Press gallery wits have taken to Balkans. 7heir prize flash was the
referring to the stymied $150,000,000 lie about the
British
quitting
emergency defense housing meas Greece, but they landed some im
ure as the “bill of frills.” This is a portant minor falsehoods on the lo
soft impeachment. Not in a long cal networks. One newscaster is a
time has an important piece of legis pushover for thoir alarms.
His
lation suffered more from congres late-at-night defeatism never holds
sional obstruction and inconsistency. up in tne morning, but it nelps
Introduced several months ago to Goebbels a lot by adding to the wor
meet an urgent defense situation, ' ries of Americans. A dope at the
the bill was stalled for 10 days in mike is just as useful to the Nazis
the house rules committee by a As a spy . . . Gen l Johnson took a
noisy row over the installation- of belt at some of the war “predict
“frills,” such as refrigerators and ors,” meaning air commentators.
gas stoves, in homes for defense The Gen'l is an odd one to object
workers.
to forecasters. Consider all those
Finally, after Inserting an amend uneaten guesses of his left over from
ment barring these appliances, the tht* November elections . . It was
House passed the measure and it strictly knock - down • and ■ drag-out
went to the senate. There it ran when Col. Breckinridge and Sen.
head on Into another "frill” tangle— Tobey clashed on a forum. They
in reverse. This time a “frill" was junked the issue and grabbed at
put into the bill.
each other’s throats. This ringsider
Brick makers protested that the scored a win for the Colonel.
$3,000 limit specified fof each hous- ,
ing unit barred the use of bricks, '
Typewriter Ribbons: Masaryk’s:
and demanded that the ante be
Dictators
always look good until the
raised to $3,500. One of the chief
F Scott
pro-brick spokesmen was Sen. Bob last five minutes
This photo shows how people walked or rode to view the splendor of the hundreds of Japanese cherry
Taft of Ohio, a leading economy ad Fitzgerald's: He had begun to have trees as they burst in full bloom around the Tidal Basin in the nation's capital. Inset: Nancy Alden Strong is
vocate, who touglff V’ slash the k*nd- that harassed and aghast feeling of crowned Queen of the Cherry Blossoms. With her is Sen. John Overton of Louisiana. About a quarter of a
lease appropriation on the ground those who live always on the edge million people attended the coronation.
of solvency . . . Emerson’s: Every
that it was excessive.
On the argument tbtit savings in hero becomes a bore at last . . .
Waves leaped
paint, repairs and heating through Emma Squire’s:
the use of brick would n)ore than against the bow like rowdy dogs
H W. Beecher's:
offset the $500 difference, the sen- ' eager to play . .
ate approved the boost- and added Poverty is very good In poems, but
another delay. For now the amend very bad in the house . . i . J.
Remember I that when
ed measure has to go back to the Graham's:
house for it to decide whether bricks you're in the right you can afford to
fall in the same "luxury" category keep your temper and that when
you are in ttie wrong you can’t af
as refrigerators and gas ranges.
ford to lose it.
Note—In an effort to make up
some of the time wasted by the frill-'
conscious boys on Capitol Hill, De Notes of a New Yorker:
fense Housing Co-ordinator Palmer
Bob Considine, Arch MacDonald
has gone ahead with plans for a and others were talking shop and
number of projects, ready to start about Damon Runyon's genius . . .
the moment the bill becomes law. “I remember once.” said Considine,
One will be the largest low cost “at a World's Series first game—
housing project ever undertaken by all of is in the press-box ran out of
the government.
fingernails trying to dream up a
snazzy load paragraph. And all rt
Ml RRY-GO-ROUNH
us kept tearing the paper out of the
Mrs Roosevelt has been invited typewriter and starting over and
to address the national Townsend over again striving to be clever.
Plan convention in Buffalo early in Except Runyon.
He began his
July.
Meanwhile. Sen Sheridan story: •Yanks, 2; Reds. 1.’ ”
Downey of California, chief Town-
three mast distinguished
sendite spokesman in congress, has
told leaders of the movement that
he will force a vote on their old-age
One alert lad suggests that
pension plan in the senate by offer
a symbolic connotation in
ing it as an amendment to the tax
syllables of their names.
bill next month.
We lles WII.L-kle WIN-ant.
Justice Stanley Reed follows the
practice of the late great Justice
Maj.-Gen. H. 11. Arnold, chief of
Max Miller, author of “I Cover
Oliver Wendell Holmes in picking a
the U. S. army air corps, shown as
new legal clerk every year, explains the Wateitront," “Reno," and oth
As the Nasi air blits shifts from nation to nation only faces in the he boarded a clipper plane in New
that he does it chiefly for his own er book*:, i ves in La Jolla. Calif.,
York for flight to Europe. General
benefit to get the difTerent view- in a tome right >n the edge of the amiliar pictures of ruined homes are changed. Censors are quick to
Arnold will go to London to act as
ealise
that
photos
like
the
one
above,
taken
in
Greece,
do
much
to
invite
Pacific.
The
excessive
Winter
points of bright young men.
an official observer for the war de
Feature of the latest issue of the rains, aided by faulty drainage, ynipathy of neutrals. Here three generations of Greek peasantry weep
partment.
Republican, monthly party mag». shoved several tons of the beach imld ruins of their "blitsed" home.
zine, is an article by a Democrat on sand and dirt into his basement and
. . Angry, he filed
’ What's Wrong With the G. O P.” furnace room
In a p»oll of 5.765 college students on suit against the city tor damages.
the “greatest weakness” of the Re All he got was a lot of horse laughs
publican party, 35 2 per cent an and a newspaper headline which
“Max Miller Used to
swered “Lack of touch with com taunted:
mon people”; 24 4 per cent held “No Cover the Waterfront and Now the
co-ordinated program"; 25 6 per Waterfront Covers Max Miller.”
cent "Divided leadership”; and 14 8
hooks about
Winston
per cent “Other reasons.”
Several
The late Sen. Morris Shepard of Churchill have come out suddenly,
Texas was known to the public One contains the story of the Indy,
chiefly as tiie father of prohibition, who harped on British war aims*
but on Capitol Hill he was consid- She wanted to know what Britain
ered a great worker for prepared- was fighting for. To which he grim-
ncss .is well as a tolerant, kindly ly told her: •'If we left off fighting
you would soon And out.”
friend.
Veteran New Dealer Leon Hendvr
son. defense price regulator. rat, •
Heywood Broun'» best colyums
OPM Production Chief John Big- (collected by his son) belong on
(Oh,
gers, one of the country’s biggest the required reading lists.
A beauti
glass manufacturers, and Priorities how he is missed!! .
Chief Edward R Stettinius. former ful humane philosophy is summed
U. S. Steel executive, as two of the up in these words by Broun: "It is
fairest and most enlightened big not fair that I should thwart and
business men in the defense organi crush great eagerness for existence
for the sake of the extremely mild
sation.
To Wall Street the No. 1 “nasty diversion which I get from Ashing.
Douglax Fairbank» Jr., appoint
man” in Washington currently is They told me that the fish cared
William McChesney Martin, 34-year-old head of the New York Stock ed cultural envoy to South America
b ird hitting Joe Winer, head of the very little and that they were cold
exchange, signing his induction papers at local draft board No. 13, in to Mr« ng then inter-American under
SEC's utility division, who is doing blooded and felt no pam. But they
New York. He is ghing up a Mlt.OW-a-year job to become a 321-per- standing through the theatrical aria,
something about enforcing the hold- were not the Ash who told me” . . .
moath selectee. Behind him are members of the beard and other draftees. tracing their route with his wife.
By all means, read the book.
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The couple had enjoyed a meal
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“It won’t take me long to slip
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“Sir,” snapped the customer an
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Neighborly Duty
One person I have to make good;
myself.
But my duty to my
neighbor is much more nearly ex
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To Watch Air War
Cultural Envoy
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