VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
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International
Last week as neurotic Europe jit
tered and shivered, Adolf Hitler led
1,500,000 troops through unprece
dented maneuvers. In England,
there were signs that Neville Cham
berlain’s “kid glove” policy toward
Germany and England was break
ing down. In Shanghai, Japan made
bold advances on the International
Settlement. (See below).
Into such a troubled world stepped
U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull
to deplore once again the “tide of
lawlessness.” A good maker-of-
points, Statesman Hull listed a sev
en-point international program to
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CORDELL HULL
“narrow mental horizon."
accomplish this aim: (1) economic
reconstruction; (2) adherence to in
ternational law; (3) observance of
treaties and their orderly modifica
tion when necessary; (4) abstention
from use of force; (5) non-interven
tion with other nations’ internal af
fairs; (6) disarmament; (7) collab
oration for culture.
To America, Mr. Hull’s speech
was a warning that U. S. isolation
is no longer possible. To European
chancellories it was intended to be
a pep talk for internationalism. But
as comment drifted back home next
day from London, Berlin, Paris,
Rome and Tokyo, it appeared Mr.
Hull had only made his friends dear
er, made his enemies stronger.
Berlin spoke of his “narrow men
tal horizon,” Rome called him
“idealistic and impracticable,” To
kyo said his speech was a “repeti
tion of his idealistic diplomacy
which contains nothing not included
in recent pronouncements.”
But
from ally-hungry Paris and London
came only praise.
Two days later Franklin Roose
velt found occasion to make another
official U. S. utterance on Democ
racy vs. Dictatorship. At Ontario’s
Queens university, where he got an
honorary degree, the President (1)
extended the Monroe doctrine to
Canada by promising that “the peo
ple of the U.‘ S. will not stand idly
by if domination of Canadian soil
is threatened by another empire;"
and (2) took a slap at Hitler, Mus
solini, et al, by remarking: “We
cannot prevent our people from hav
ing an opinion in regard to wanton
brutality . . . undemocratic regi
mentation . . . misery inflicted on
helpless peoples.” To France this
was proof that “the democracies of
the world are standing together."
Foreign
Last February 20, dapper Anthony
Eden resigned as Britain’s foreign
secretary because he didn’t believe
in consorting with dictators. But
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
set out to make friends with Adolf
Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Ap
pointed as Eden’s successor was
Viscount Halifax.
Next came conversations at Ber
lin and Rome, a British-Italian
friendship pact, a plan to take for
eigners out of the Spanish war, an
avowal of peace from Hitler. Until
last fortnight Neville Chamberlain
was a success at winning friends
and influencing people.
But a few days later his house
of cards collapsed. Italy began anti
British propaganda despite her
"friendship” agreement.
Hitler
massed 1,500,000 men for war
maneuvers despite his peace avow
al. Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co, Spain’s rebel commander,
balked at eliminating foreign fight
ers, presumably on advice from
Berlin and Rome.
What was still more disheartening.
Viscount Halifax met secretly with
opinionated Anthony Eden and was
reported ready to resign. Some
thought Neville Chamberlain might
also resign, placing weather-beaten
Sir Samuel Hoare in line for the
premiership.
• At Cologne an anti-aircraft gun |
was planted in front of the U. S.
consulate, barking every 20 minutes
at an imaginary enemy in the sky.
Throughout Germany, troop trains
pulled reserves to the borders of
France, Poland and Czechoslovakia
for Adolf Hitler’s 15-day war
maneuvers. From many points,
foreign observers sent word of
wholesale rebellion among workers
drafted for “state tasks.”
Nowhere was this Nazi show of !
power more keenly felt than in little '
Czechoslovakia,
where
400,000 I
troops were secretly mobilized to
forestall a sudden invasion move I
WHA T to EAT and WHY
In September, 1934, the body of a
headless woman was washed ashore
on Cleveland's Lake Erie front door.
The next three and one-half years
produced nine more headless bod
ies, seven of them men, two of them
women. In each case, clues were
maddeningly absent; always the
same mutilation and cleavage of
bodies, always the papers and boxes
into which the pieces were packed,
always the hopelessness of identi
fication.
Last week, rummaging around a
lake front dump, police stumbled
on an eleventh victim, headless like
the rest. Four hours of patient ex
amination brought no clues. A few
hours later crowds swarmed over
the dump, uncovered a twelfth tor
so. Both were women; one may
have been a Negro.
As police continued to seek the
“mad butcher of Kingsbury Run”
they knew only that he was a sur
gically skilled maniac who appar
ently has no other motive except
a fiendish desire to dissect human
bodies.
6International Lawlessness9
Deplored by Secretary Hull
by Germany. Meanwhile, England’s
Lord Runciman made little prog
ress in his mission to settle the
scrap between loyal Czechs and pro
Nazi Sudeten Germans. As nego
tiations reached an impasse, Su
deten Ernst Kundt warned the gov
ernment that the “gap is unbridge
able.”
• Fortnight ago, Chinese national
ists in Shanghai celebrated the first
anniversary of Japan’s invasion by
raising flags and waging guerrilla
warfare. Result was an invasion
of . Shanghai’s International Settle
ment by Jap secret service agents
who were promptly spanked and
sent home. Last week two French
soldiers were seized and taken to
the Japanese embassy where they
were held despite protests.
Though Shanghai itself now lives
peacefully under Tokyo rule, the
foreign-owned International Settle
ment houses 1,000,000 Chinese still
loyal to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek. Shanghai diplomats feared
that Japan might attempt to seize
the settlement, a move that would
send U. S., Great Britain and
France into an outraged uproar.
Meanwhile, Tokyo tightened its
belt once more, taking more econ
omy measures to speed up the war
in China. Hankow, long-sought ob
jective, still remained 100 miles
away from war weary Nipponese.
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Causes of Food Allergy
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the old saying that “one man’s meat is another man’s poison.”
They are victims of the curious^
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phenomenon known as food al ble, because they vary so widely
individuals who are sensi
lergy and have an abnormal reac among
tized, and often one person is sen
tion to the proteins in certain sitive to a number of foods. It has
foods and other substances. As a been found that the foods most fre
result, foods which are beneficial quently causing allergic symp
in themselves and which usually toms include wheat, milk, eggs,
pork, fish and shellfish,
have an important place in a chocolate,
tomatoes, cauliflower, cabbage,
normal balanced diet, cause a strawberries and oranges.
variety of unpleasant effects.
Skin rashes are believed to be
These may range from hives or caused most frequently by hyper
■ skin rash to a gastric disturb sensitiveness to milk, cereal or
ance with spells of nausea. The pork. Hives are reported to occur
individual may suf often from eating strawberries,
fer from migraine chocolate, fish and tomatoes.
headache or an at Wheat is frequently an offender in
tack of hay fever migraine headaches.
Asthma
or asthma; or he seems to be common in persons
may have a tend who are sensitive to milk, eggs
ency to what ap
pears to be bron
chial or head colds.
It has been de
termined that these
symptoms in an in
dividual who is al
lergic are due to
intolerance of certain proteins.
Even when the offending foods are
fruits and vegetables, it is the pro
tein that is responsible. It has
been suggested that the sensitiza
tion results because at some pre
vious time, an unsplit or undi
gested protein in some way passed
through the membranes lining the
digestive tract and entered the
blood stream. This acted very
much like a foreign substance and
sensitized body cells in some way
so that whenever the same food is
eaten, the disturbing symptoms
occur as a sort of defense mechan
ism.
“1 am quite confident that he is su
perior in learning and ability to anyone
else available and that his character is
equal to his gifts. He has been a dear
friend of mine for many years, but I am
confident that the judgment I express is
not the child but the parent of my affec
tion."
Thus, in 1932, wrote the late
beloved Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes regarding Harvard’s Felix
Frankfurter, whom he wanted ap
pointed to the Massachusetts Su
preme court. But famed Jurist
Frankfurter declined the offer and
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Other Offending Substances
Foods are not always responsi
ble for allergy, and the symptoms
may be produced by contact with
wool, feathers, dust, pollen, dander
from horses or other animals; or
even the sting of a bee.
Discovering the Offenders
The ideal procedure for the al
lergy victim is to find out the of
fending foods or substances and
avoid them. For early recognition
of a tendency to allergy may pre
vent discomfort and trouble.
There are two ways to discover
the trouble makers. One is to
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• Tie bellelm will be especially
Justice Holmes died. So did an
other great liberal. Justice Benja
min Cardozo.
To fill Justice Cardozo’s post was
a job confronting Franklin Roose
velt last week. Since the court al
ready has a liberal majority he
would not find it necessary to con
sider that factor. Some thought a
westerner should have the job for
reasons of geographical distribution.
Others thought it should go to a
Jew or Catholic for religious rea
sons.
Though no appointment was ex
pected before congress reconvenes,
pro-Frankfurter sentiment was
growing rapidly in Washington.
First to climb the bandwagon was
Nebraska's Sen. George Norris.
Most observers thought Felix
Frankfurter would make a good ad
dition to the high court.
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learn by experience, either by
keeping a record of the foods eat
en and noting the appearance of
symptoms, or by eliminating from
the diet, first one and then another
of the foods that are suspected of
causing difficulty. The other is to
let your doctor conduct simple
skin tests. Small scratches are
made on the arms and legs, and
each scratch touched with a solu
tion made of the protein of a food
or substance known to cause trou
ble. If a person is allergic to that
substance, the skin around the
scratch swells and becomes in
flamed. The inflammation disap
pears after a few hours and causes
no pain or inconvenience.
Other Foods Must Be Used
Once the offending food or foods
are determined, they should be
eliminated either for all time or
until the individual becomes de
sensitized. If the trouble maker
is an uncommon food, such as lob
ster or clams, the allergy presents
no great problem, but when chil
dren react to necessary foods such
as milk, eggs and wheat, the
homemaker faces a difficult task.
When milk is the offending food,
it must be avoided, not only as a
beverage, but in bread, cakes and
puddings. Sometimes dried or
evaporated milk, goat's milk or
soy bean milk may be used in
stead. When wheat is the trouble
maker, the alternatives include
cornstarch, rice flour, potato or
rye flour; rice and corn cereals;
tapioca or barley. When hen’s
eggs are injurious, duck’s eggs
can sometimes be used with suc
cess, or meat or fish may be sub
stituted.
Sometimes after a period of ex
clusion, an immunity is built up
so that later the foods may be re
introduced gradually into the diet.
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and butter.
A tendency to allergy seems to
be inherited. But the substances
which cause a disturbance differ
with each individual, and the type
of reaction also differs. For exam
ple, a mother may be allergic to
milk; her child inheriting the tend
ency may be allergic to fish.
Drinking milk may give the
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It !: difficult to generalize re
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Last week, as Adolf Hitler pa
raded his manpower before the
world and England's Leslie Hore-
Belisha began "streamlining” Great
Britain’s army, many an American
wondered about his own national
defense. To their surprise, inves
tigators learned that U. S. army of
ficials are placing an accent on
youth, are moreover tightening ef
ficiency strings.
New regulations require periodic
reports on major generals and 12,500
officers below that grade. And,
because a score of majors and
brigadier generals reach retirement
age this year, a wholesale reshuf-
fling of upper ranks is in progress.
But to Maj. Gen. George Van
Horn Moseley, attending Third
army maneuvers at Camp Bullis,
Texas, officers were only part of
the problem. Said he: “The No. 1
problem facing the United States
today from a military standpoint is
manpower, which is the worst in
our history. There are five reasons,
in this order: graft, crime, health,
illiteracy and venereal disease."
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cause allergic reactions,
NEW phrase has crept into daily usage in recent years,
and also those which are
has in fact become so common that comedians use it in jest
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This year, more than ever, state
primary campaigns have brought
complaints of “dirty poker.”
In
Kentucky, both Sen. Alben Barkley
and Gov. A. B. “Happy” Chandler
were accused of misusing federal
and state funds to influence voters.
Investigating such charges last
week, Sen. Morris Sheppard’s com
mittee on campaign expenditures
found a particularly juicy morsel.
Uncovered in Pennsylvania were
letters carrying Sen. Joseph F. Guf
fey’s signature, urging WPA work
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Well-Known Food Authority Names the Foods
That Cause Trouble
In New York’s Madison Square
Garden, 20,000 fight fans saw dusky
Henry Armstrong enter a boxing
ring wearing two crowns, world
featherweight, world welterweight.
In another corner sat Lou Ambers
wearing one crown, world light
weight. For 15 rounds they fought
at terrific pace as Henry Armstrong
clearly held the edge. In the
fifth, Ambers dropped under a
crushing right. In the sixth he
dropped again under a fusillade of
rights. But in the thirteenth he
fought Armstrong to a standstill.
At fight’s end, Henry Armstrong
left the ring wearing three crowns
instead of two, the first man in box
ing history to hold three titles at
one time. But from the audience
came jeers, boos, catcalls, straw
hats, cigar butts and pop bottles.
Last week Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull reported satisfactory prog
ress with his reciprocal trade treaty
program whereby the U. S. be
comes “most favored nation” with
a host of governments. Then came
a stumbling block, thrown in his
path not by a foreign power but
by Mr. Hull’s next door neighbor.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wal
lace.
In all the world there are wheat
surpluses of 975 million bushels. Of
this the U. S. has 325 million, Can
ada 250 million. Easily the biggest
competitors in wheat export busi
ness, North America’s “good neigh
bors” have made price-cutting
moves against each other to sell a
major part of the 400 million bush
els the world export market needs
this year.
What Secretary Wallace suggest
ed last week was an “understand
ing” on wheat export policy with
the Canadian government which lias
pegged No. 1 wheat at a minimum
of 81 cents a bushel and agreed to
absorb losses connected with export
business. After he reaches an
agreement,
Secretary
Wallace
hopes to make a similar provision
for U. S. exports, subsidy money to
come from customs receipts.
Determined to dispose of at least
100 million bushels on the export
market this year, Secretary Wallace
might easily disrupt the reciprocal
trade treaty by underbidding na
tions now operating under agree
ments with Secretary Hull.
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It must be borne in mind that
many of the symptoms produced
by food sensitivity may also result
from other causes. For this rea
son, it is unwise to decide that one
is allergic without due investiga
tion. Nor must the imagination or
the current widespread discussion
of the subject be allowed to cause
adults or children to mask their
unwillingness to eat certain foods
with the false notion that they are
unduly sensitive.
On the other hand, homemakers
should be sympathetic with both
children and adults who say with
good cause, “I can’t eat thatl”
And it would appear that there
may even be some compensation
in this unpleasant situation. For
a group of scientists who have
studied the subject announced ■
few years ago that those who be
long to the allergy group appear
to have a definite capacity for be
coming intellectually superior.
Thus, the child who suffers from
a skin rash or stuffy nose today,
due to food sensitivity, is apt to be
full of energy when he reaches
manhood and exhibit unusual abil
ity for cultural leadership.
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