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