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Page 2 Friday, Novmeber 28, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER WHO’S lOuHiingltm. NEWS «»POUND THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features- WNU Service » ’EW YORK.—There was once a • hill-billy girl who walked 10 N miles over the mountain to borrow a hammer. She said her pappy was figuring to Little Candles build himself Still Burn in a a house next It was Darkening World fait an act of faith, not to be cynically regarded, in spite of small beginnings and re mote eventualities, and quite com parable to the brave hopes and con trivances of sundry men of good will today. Paul Van Zeeland, former premier of Belgium, is one of them. He sees a world of de centralized power after the war, with small, autonomous states of economic and political group ings. associated in regional col laboration—diverse enough to allow a "localization of func tion” in world economy and compact enough to form a stable political equilibrium. He presented his plan to the New York conference of the International Labor organization, and, simultane- ously, there issued from the con ference a proposal fer a bloc of nations, comprising Poland. Czecho- Slovakia, Jugoslavia and Greece, for post-war rebuilding and for col- lective defense. M. Van Zeeland, holding both earned and honorary degrees from Princeton university, is widely and favorably known in this country both as a political philosopher as& banking economist, He was a sol dier in the World war, and in the ensuing years was an experimenter and innovator in financial theory and practice in a desperate effort to sidetrack a doom which he thought might well end Western civilization. Here in 1937, as unofficial en voy of Europe, he tried to sell the United States a bigger cut in the bank for international settlements, with the quite plausible idea that a freer flux of money throughout the world would cure bellicose national ism. Nothing came of this, but M. Van Zeeland keeps on hunch ing. The son of a prosperous merchant of Soignes. he was educated at Lou vain and Princeton, returned to Bel gium to practice law and won emi nence as an economist and banker— a director of the Bank of Belgium and professor of law at the Univer sity of Louvain. the militant ACK in the days of suffrage campaign, this report- B er asked several of the leaders whether they intended to maintain a political Militant Women solidarity of Out for Equality women after getting the Of Responsibility vote. They said they would do just that. The emphasis was on the effective pres sure group, rather than on widely diffused social responsibility among women. Considering that that is the history of pressure groups, of both genders—how to get power, rather than its social uses and implications—there is news in terest in the simultaneous arriv al of two distinguished women leaders of foreign countries each of whom has stressed so cial responsibility, along with the “liberation" and political education of women. They are Miss Caroline Haslett of Great Britain and Señora Ana Rosa S. de Martinez Gerrero of Argen tina. Miss Haslett is an engineer and adviser to the British ministry of labor, somewhat comparable in her career and achievements to our Lil lian Moller Gilbreth of Montclair, N. J. She will study the participa tion of American women in the de fense effort and will deliver some addresses on the technical and in dustrial mobilization of British wom en in the war. She is president of the Wom en’s Engineering society, direc tor of the Electrical Association of Women, founder and editor of the Woman Engineer and the Electrical Handbook for Wom en. With many variants and on many occasions, she has said: “Women once asked for equality of opportunity. Now we ask for equality of responsibility.” The career of Señora De Martinez Gerrero has been a close parallel to that of Miss Haslett in its repeat ed stress on social responsibility. She came to Washington to attend the annual meeting of the Inter American Commission of Women of which she is chairman. A spirited evangel of Western hemisphere sol idarity against totalitarianism, she tells the meeting that the mission of women is to “rekindle the flame of a living faith in democracy.” Señora De Martinez Gerrero is the wife of a wealthy cattleman and the mother of three children. Washington, D. C. N IZ1 IN TRUDER There is a German smuggler op. erating in the Caribbean off the coast of Mexico. This was tlie inside reason for the President's sudden transfer of the entire coast guard to the navy—the coast guard's ships and planes are needed to track down the Nazi in- truder. Sensational feature about the smuggler is that she is a former U. S. vessel—the 800-ton Diesel- engined yacht that once belonged to A. Atwater Kent, Philadelphia radio magnate. The one-time pleasure ship now is being operated under the Panama nian flag out of Vera Cruz, Mexico, by Nazi agents in that city, and is being used to transport high test gasoline and mercury to small Car ibbean islands where Japanese ships collect the smuggled strategic sup plies. The yacht recently unloaded 1.000 flasks of mercury at an island which for military reasons must be name less. The former luxury craft came into possession of the Nazis by a cir cuitous route which intelligence ex perts uncovered only a few weeks ago. The purchase was made by a shipping company whose main of fice is in Vera Cruz and has a branch office in New Orleans, where transfer of title took place. The price was $18,000 Fortunately for intelligence the payment was made in U. S. bills of $1,000 denomination. From the seri al numbers, the bills were traced back to a Vera Cruz bank. There it was learned the money had been withdrawn from the account of the leading Nazi business house in Mexico, and turned over to the ship ping company that bought the yacht Subsequent investigation revealed that all the stockholders of this com pany were Germans; also that the two top officers were Spaniards, one a naturalized Mexican and the other a naturalized American citizen. Now, every movement of the yacht is watched, but there is noth ing the United States can do about the ship unless she enters American waters. So far the vessel has been very careful to stay within Mexican territorial waters. Scene of Violence in Coal Strike Often a coat of paint is suved by first washing the wulls before repainting them. This remove« tho soil and stains und assures a better job und takes less paint. • • • When pressing men’s suits al ways press over a dump cloth. • • • It takes less sugar for stewed apples if sugar is added after cocking. 0 o Pickets at the Red Lion mine, one of the "rebellious" spots in west ern Pennsylvania's captive coal strike are routed by state motor police after the pickets had earlier stoned cars and blocked a public highway for two hours. Above photo shows a picket arguing vainly with a trooper. This particular Incident was closed without personal Injury. Gen. Sir Alan Brooke (above), has been nanird chief of the Brit ish Imperial staff. An expert on mechanical warfare, he earned fame as head of Britain's "anti Invasion" home forces, which he brought to a high level of efficiency. Crash of Streamliner in Texas Time Out Attending C.I.O. convention In Detroit, Phillip Murray, C.I.O. presi dent, (right) found time to lour Ford Motor company plant and lunch w ith Harry Bennett, Ford official. a a • • Leftover ntaslied potatoes can be fushioned into small cases and used for holding creumed foods, shuped into fiat cakes and browned, or then can be used for covering meat, fish or vegetable ••pics.” • • • If food burns in a pun, shuke ■ generous amount of soda into it, fill with cold water and let stand on bock of stove until pan can be easily cleaned. • • • A teaspoon of baking powder in the water in which meat and vegetables ure cooked will help make them tender. What to give the mm In Uncle Sam's services for Christmus is alrcudy solved for you by surveys made tn tho Army, Navy, Marina Corps, and Coast Guard. Ciga rettes and smoking tobacco head the list ot gifts the men want t. This naturally places Camel Cigarettes und Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco in the forefront, since actual sales records from the service men's stores, afloat and ashore, show the fuvorite cig arette is Cann 1, und the big fa vorite among smoking tobaccos ia Prince Albert, the National Joy Smoke. Di alers are already fea turing “Send him a carton of Cam els” or a "Pound tin of Prince Al bert" for Christmas.—Adv. DON'T LET •LOW YOU UP e Whtn bowals ar« sluggish and you (•*! Irritable, headachy anti »varythrng you do ia an affort, do aa million* do — chaw FEENAMINT. the nwxl.m chawing gum lazativa. Simply chaw FEEN A- MINT balore you go to bad-«leap with out being disturbed—nait morning gentian thorough relief, helping you feel swell again, full of your normal pep. Try FEENAMINT. Tastes good, is handy and economical. A generous f amily aupply FEEN-A-MINTiot One-Letter Alphabet Egotism is an alphubet of one letter.—English Proverb. %COLDS 666 LIQUID TASLSTS SALVE hou oaoM couch oaors Misspent Genius Some people have a perfect gen ius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.—Thomas C. Hah bur ton. Revision of the neutrality act In the house was one of the hardest fought battles to come before that body In years. These photos, taken on the day the bill was repealed, show (top), left to right, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader John McCormack, examining letter from President Roosevelt declaring that a vote by the house against repeal would “cause rejoicing In the Axis countries." Below: left to right, Rep. James P. Richards (S. C.) floor leader for the Democratic opposition, congratulates Rep. Sol Bloom (N. Y.), leader of fight for passage. Strengthening Burma’s Defenses Miss Adelaide Whitehouse, of Washington, I). C., enrolls the Pres ident In the American Red Cross as Its annual membership drive be gins. Miss Whitehouse wears the new volunteer uniform. She Is as- i sistant director of volunteer services of the national organization. Photo shows the President receiving his membership button. (LccuLe/iid Coat« without wsminy - Know stors »boat (Lccidsni That <Ml* I sm thse I seats per day »e istere sll the fsmily up 70 y«S»» eld to (P/iotect ifoui jmruLp Writ* tedey far PIU INFORMATION - MO OBLIGATION WIITIRN INSURANCI CO. Hens Office FULLtSTON 11 DC. St. Leela, M* Chilean Resigns ADVERTISING • ADVERTISING represents the leadership of a nation. It points the way. We merely follow—follow to new heights of comfort, of convenience, of happiness. a CAPITAL CHAFF Capt. Jules James, commandant of the U. S. naval base at Bermuda, is a nephew of Secretary of Stimson. White House has received a bar- rage of letters and telegrams urg- Ing Maury Maverick as ambassador to Mexico. Madame Maxim Litvinov was born Ivy Low, daughter of British historian Sidney Low, and niece ot Sir A. Maurice Low, who was Wash ington correspondent of London's Morning Post. 0 CONSTIPATION As Neutrality Act W as Revised RETURNED FAVOR When Rep. John McCormack of Massachusetts was elected Demo cratic floor leader of the house. one of his strongest and most un expected supporters was Georgia's fiery New Deal-hating Gene Cox. Though the two men were poles apart on economic views, Cox never theless backed McCormack and did yeoman work for him. Recently McCormack returned the favor. Before leaving on a trip to Massachusetts, McCormack named Cox floor leader during his absence. “There's one condition, however. Gene,” he grinned. “You’ll have to refrain from those hot one-minute speeches on the floor. I don’t want my stand-in taking swings at the administration. It would look bad.” McCormack wished the Georgian luck and left the chamber. Hardly had he departed when Cox jumped up and asked permission to address the house for one minute. New Dealers held their breath, expect ing him to uncork one of his scorch ing blasts. But they relaxed with a sigh of relief when Cox launched into a ter rific tirade against John L. Lewis. 0 Crocheted bedspreads cun be washed, but they should be care fully spread out on a clean sheet to dry und not hung on a line. • • • Keep in ntind that rubber dark ens silverware, so nevur let any thing with rubber on it remain in the silver druwers. Use cord or ribbon to hold silver together in its case—never fasten with rubber bands. This photo shows the wrecked locomotive, tender and car of ’ the streamlined railroad train that struck a truck near Dallas, Texas. Note 1 LEND-LEASE MILK EXPERT the rail twisted and uprooted 30 feet In the air by the impact, Two The most novel type of lend-lease were killed as a result of the accident. operation thus far was the lend- leasing of a man named Adolph. Adolph Eichhorn went over to help the British against Adolf Hitler. The British are suffering from in sufficient production of milk, be cause of diseased cattle, and Eich horn is the man who knows all the cow cures. He is director of the animal disease station under the de partment of agriculture. Three principal diseases afflict British cattle: tuberculosis, which makes the cattle lean; Bang's dis ease, which results in the loss of the calf; and mastitis. Eichhorn was obliged to tell the British that tuberculosis, which af flicts 35 per cent of British cattle, cannot be cured during the course of the war, unless the war lasts for another generation. It took the United States 22 years to get the disease under control. Bang's disease is more readily cured. By vaccination, a calf can be immunized so that its adult life will not be afflicted with the dis ease. Meantime, the British are import ing great quantities of dry and pow dered milk from the United States. Fresh milk is worth a king's ransom. • • • Kritisli Chief As time goes on advertis ing is used more and more, and as it is used more we all profit more. It's the way advertising has — A Burmese longshoreman, clad only in breechclout, aids in unloading Bren gun carriers from a British freighter at Rangoon. Burma is very much in the spotlight as the gateway through which passes British and American supplies to keep the Chinese fighting. One of Japan's threats was that she would cut the Burma ro.»d. President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, popular front head of the Chilean government for three years, who re signed In favor of Geronimo Mendez, head of the radical party. of bringing a profit to ovorybody concornod, tho contumor Included