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EDITORIAL THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 2, 1942. Children's Safety Poster Work Will Promote Cause in Racine I don't want any stamps or bonds, I just want to give the war effort this $50. Josip Loncaric, St. Louis WPA worker, to internal revenue collector.

I There are only a certain number of commissions in each service end too many of them are oing to heroic defenders of home plate and the boxing ring. Representative -Donald OToole, New York The Washington MerryGo-Round Japan Is Preparing Propaganda Drive in Latin America; Recruits Agents in Commercial Firms; Will Try to Whip Up Revolutionary Dissension Here, Too. ed for local, state and national awards. It is indeed astonishing to note the interest commanded by this event, considering the time and energy which is demanded on the part of both the students and their art teachers. The posters take in a wide range of accidents and 'their prevention, and the demonstration of artistic skill is evidence that some of those entering exhibits will develop great talent in the future.

About? 100 of the posters are now on exhibit in the Red Cross headquarters on Main street, and it is hoped thousands of Racine people will avail themselves of the opportunity to see what, is being done along this most commendable line by public school students. i urn uiumg bh mum tmamm mmmmmmmrmmmm nw tj A ifi i ViU J1 HlvJ. 1 l3 1 iff irLiii rt i Keep It Flying Return of Let's Have Some mwm 'wwpuwiji. m. im.wm mm, -a.

mww jvm 'W tfHjrK i- nmm lav 11 i lllt? -im! Vh'-J r- j' which had Martin in hot water for a few moments. According to custom, the chairman-to-be of various committees offer the resolutions for creation of the committees. John E. Jackson, national coramitteeman from Louisiana, was slated to head up the committee on proxies, but Martin orgot to notify "him. When it came i time to appoint this com-'mittee, "MarCn; declared: chair recognizes the genfleman from Louisiana, Mr.

1 Ti4 Jackson, 4 prominent New Ofleans attorney, rose! a rd stammered: 1 "But 1 1 ddn't "wish "to be recognized, Mr. Chairman. I have nothing to 'say." During roar which followed, quick-thinking Martin recovered with this clever piece of -par iamentarism: "The gent eman from Louisiana moves that a committee on proxies be appointed I hear no objections a. It is so ordered." Little Business. Unfortunately it looks as if the little business man nw; has no better chance for government loajns than during the days -before Jesse Jones (was stripped of sole control over, little business financing.

Under the; president's executive order de-! throning Jones, the army and navy were giv- en authority! to grant loans to subcontractors 'for war work. That is, they were empowered to extend loans, in the form of advance up to 100 per cent of the needs of the little business rmenj But neither the army nor navy is using ihis Both condemned. Instead of using them authority to cut red-tape and m4ke direct loans, this is what has happened: fThe army and navy have laid down rule jthat compel little business men 8 to seek the credit they need from cial banks. For this money they will pay from Itt to 3 per dent interest on loans guaranteed up td 90 per cent by the government. In other words, a subcontractor must go to a bank for war loan, and if the bank won't grant it, then he has to start all over again and go to the Federal Reserve board which will take the; matter "under consideration.

So it's pretty much the same old run-around in new To help direct this banker-ruled system a big-shot Chicago banker has been brought to Washington by Sidney Weinberg, who is assistant to War Production Chief Donald Nelson and whq was; senior partner of Goldman, Sachs A New York investment firm. Weinberg's selection is i Mark Brown of the Harris Trust? Savings bank. Working with him will be CoL John L. Meechem, for-i mer vice president of the First National bank of Chicago- i A bill loni has been pending in congress to create a special little business loan agency with ample funds to extend such credits. After the president issued his executive interest in this bill waned, but now it(looks as if the little business loan problem will never be sojved until congress takes the bit in its teeth Sand passes legislation expressly to take carej of he long neglected little fel- I Note: Certain Washington masterminds might well bote the advice of the London Eponomist: "In: the fullest sense, the sole of finance in war is to insure that nothing is ever decided on financial grounds." ul Mail Bag.

J. F. New York CUyLt. Gen. Ben Lear was born in Hamilton, Ontario; and Walter Kreuger was born in Flatow, Germany.

You are ight-that, on account of foreign birth, these very able military leaders would have been denied admission to Naval Intelligence, if they had applied S. Ft. Lauderdale. Fla. According to Major Al- exander P.

de Seversky, in his new book, "Victory Through Air we now have only two types of planes capable of bombing Japan from Alaska M. New York The meeting; pf the New York State Economlfl icouncil at which Fritz Kuhn and j-eotiier bundists were present was a luncheon affair held at Biltmore hotel and not in Madison Square Garden. The bundists not invited by the FYSEC but 'came as the guests of some unidentified person. "However, the bundists were not re-. moved from; the meeting.

(Copyright, by United feature Syndicate. Inc JThe 'rtew ipini( herein are not ta be eo neeewisrily repreeentint the editorial policy of the Journal-Time.) By S. BURTON HEATH Again the Journal-Times has the privilege of commending the efforts of children in the Racine public schools for their fine contribution to the cause of 1 This has been done through the annual contest carried on by United Commercial Travelers in which the scholars of several grades have compet- French Hearken As Brition K. British radio which speaks to the conquered countries of Eurcpe through the voice of a man who calls himself i "CoL Britton" is cutting through the si-i lence which Hitler tries to maintain be-1 tween the nationals of those countries and those who seek to be their Experiments have been performed of late in an effort to find out how well the British radio is heard in France and how seriously it is taken. On a certain day a few months ago, Frenchmen were asked to stay indoors at a certain hour.

At that time the streets were empty. They were asked riot to travel on a certain day and did not do so. Now the voice promises to giye them a signal within six weeks. They are to be calm and 'quiet meanwhile, but be ready to strike when they are given the word. The outer world joins France in awaiting that signal with eagerness.

It is one hundred and fifty years since Rouget de lisle wrote the Marsellaise. This time it will not be the Frenchman who will "rock the -wide fields with his voice of flame" but a rnattetcf-f act British voice speaking a code word through the most modern of tricky gadgets; But when that word comes, Hitler and his chiseling Laval had better look a little out. For when; Frenchmen are really aroused, blood flows in a torrent through the furrows. 1 Too Big to Fight One of the most sorrowful stories. we've heard, in all this recruiting busi-iness, is that of the big boy who can't! get into the service.

He's in perfect health and vigor, sound in wind and famous football player, well educated and eager to serve, not a blot on his 'scutcheon." He's tried the army, navy, coast guard and marine corps, and they all turned him down. They do it for the seemingly absurd reason that he's too big. He, stands 6 feet inches high in his bare feet and weigns pounas, ana me iigniing services are not equipped to handle a fellow like that. No wonder Tim. Baskin of Cincinnati rises up in wrath, puffs out "his barrel chest, reaches up and hits the ceiling a blow that brings the plaster down, in righteous mdignatiori because they won't give him I a chance at the Japs and Germans.

"i Really, there ought to be some way for such a fellow to serve Ms country appropriately. Couldn't they enlist him as a one-many army, ship him to India or Bataan, and let him operate at his own discretion, like Gulliver among the Lilliputians? (Saturday Evening Past) The 20 years since F. Scott Fitzgerald dis-covered "flaming youth" have beeri- perhaps, the strangest in American history. They are marked by bathtub gin and Al Capone, by flagpole sitting and Superman But mostJ cf all, these two decades are remarkable because they were a period when honest sentiment gave way to a brand cf cynicism strange to our shores." I For generations prior to 1920 we had been a people of orthrightness and simplicity. Like Horatio Alger, we believed in rewards of, virtue; like Adam, we! respected the folly of sin.

people were content to be what they were, say what tbey thought without shame or and to live in quiet decency. 1 In the volcanic between World Wars I and all that changed. Men whose toil had rolled back our frontiers beard their grandsons titter at the "booster spirit" of Chambers of Commerce or Retarians who were honestly trying to help their cities. A great many people found it 1 "smarter" to know that George Washington had false i teeth, than that he nearly froze at Valley I Forge. It was an era debunking, and Peeping Toms and exposes, a time when nothing was sacred, and debutantes plained of boredom and disillusionment by their sixteenth birthdays.

With macy people, flippancy replaced sincerity; "Oh, became the answer to everything. On Dec. 7 that epoch ended. Suddenly we found that a wisecrack is inadequate when your son may be leaving for an unknown destination tomorrow. Overnight we discarded skepticism and lock a brand-new look at ourselves and our neighbors.

We saw at last that this land and these people who are America are dear? to us all so dear well fight our hearts out to keep; them as they are. That realization will win this war. For tonight a good many of the cynics who wondered "if democracy isn't all washed up are spotting planes in some lonely hut. The parlor pinks who advocated collectivism are smiling proudly at he smoke that belches from our factories. Years hence, in setting down the story of World War II, the historians should not forget that day in December, 1941, when the "era of sneer ended and America discovered the wan to 4 i The Era.

of Sneer By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON. Inside intelligence information is that Japanese propaganda agents are now marshaling their forces for a con- -certing attack against the United States in Latin America, with Argentina, Brazil, and Chile as focal points, i Japan will resort to1 a number of typical axis methods to sway neutral countries away from collaboration with the United States, including the axis-worn tactics of making overtures and giving assurances that she has, no imperialistic aims toward these countries. On the other hand, the Japanese will emphasize that the United States has been greedy in her international trade relations and has imperialistic designs on Central and South America. In launching this propaganda Japan has instructed her agents to do everything possible to solicit the good-will of "Spanish and Portuguese representatives in Latin American countries.

In addition to propaganda agents and diplomatic representatives, Japan has recruited agents in commercial firms throughout both Europe and the American countries to propagandize, persons of Latin culture and Catholic faith. In this connection, plans have been -made to go even so far as to try to exploit his holiness, the pope. Already $50,000 has been forwarded to Japanese representatives in Chile to be used attempting to bribe government officials. One of the most audacious phases of the Japanese plan is the one that calls for an attempt to induce a revolution in the United States by co-operation with factional groups within the country, and- creating dissension among the people by sniping at the Roosevelt administration Republican Harmony. Except for a brief, isolationist flare-up against Wendell Willkie's resolution pledging full support to Roosevelt's war policies, the Chicago meeting of the republican national committee was completely harmonious.

This was due chiefly to skillful GOP Chairman Joe Martin, who not only engineered adoption of the Willkie proposal, but placated a Willkie-hating bloc of mid-western, committeemen who were itching for a showdown firmly on any talk about 1944 presidential candidates, which was another friction-maker. 1 However, there was one minor slip-up Personal Health Service By William Brady, M. 0. SCHOOL AT TABLE If we did not know what peculiar notions about food prevail in the popular mind, this problem submitted by a reader, would merit only a brief answer: My grandson, age 11, likes to eat some fat when he eats meat, such as steak or roast beef or chops, and he says he enjoys his meal better. i My son, his forbids this and cuts off all the fat before he serves the boy his meat, and that starts trouble.

The boy and gets all excited, and you know that is bad for digestion. My son finally suggested writing to you to settle the question, as this goes on day after day at dinnertime. My grandson alsos is pleased that I am writing you, and we will" abide by your decision. (Mrs. L.

The boy should eat the fat along with the lean whenever he eats meat. His father is in error. I wonder how he acquired the notion that a child should not eat fat meat. Let him be a good sport now and join the boy in a toast to Gramma and 01 Doc Brady, and no more arguments about eating fat and lean together. f- Scolding, taunting, emotional displays, heated arguments or quarrels at table put a handicap on the digestion of everyene concerned.

Unpleasant emotions such as anger and hate not only retard or delay digestion but stop it altogether; for a while and in some instances even cause reverse peristalsis which means that intestinal or stomach contents are driven backward or upward, and this accounts for acid eructations or "water-brash," furred tongue, bad taste in mouth and vomiting in some cases. Not only should the food itself be as pleasing to appearance as possible but the dishes and table cover and napkins or decorations should be attractive, Not only that, but the atmosphere jof the table should be pleasant, not glum, somber or quarrelsome. Good cheer aids Children may be taught many things at table, but not 'disciplined, punished, ridiculed or criticized, If the child must be disciplined let the matter wait until after the meal, and then let parent or guardian and child do the necessary in private. It is highly thoughtless and discourteous ato others at table to make them attend an unpleasant wrangle or argument scene be- tween child and parent or; guardian. Within reason children' should eat what they like and neyer be compelled to eat what they dislike.

I mean to say it is unwise to insist on a child eating spinach if the child doesn't like it provided the child does eat some kind of green leafy vegetable or greens in salad, etc. If the child likes meat and refuses to eat eggs and cheese it is all right, and vice versa. If a child refuses to drink milk but takes butter and cheese freely, that is all right too. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1 Afraid of Face. My daughter does not eat, as she is afraid of her face; it is broken out.

She is 15, and I had to take her out of-school as her face was so bad (Mrs. Answer She should have the benefit of the doctor's advice. If you can't get that for her, send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet "Blackheads and Pimples; Or let your daughter write me in confidence about it. I had acne when I was her age, and I remember how miserable I felt a girl must feel much worse. Skin aad Nails Poorly Nourished.

Nails have become very brittle and thin and show streaks or uneven ridges skin sensitive, tendency to become very dry and wrinkled. (P. I Answer Perhaps both nails and skin would be improved by supplementing diet with I a good daily ration of vitamin and vitamin complex. Send 10 cents and stamped envelope bearing your address, for booklet "Cosmetic Blemishes. (Copyright, 1B, John T.

DU1 Co.) Signed letter perttinlnc to personal iiealta and brriene. not to disease diacnoala or treatment will be ancwered bj Dr. Brady a- stamped self-addressed envelope Is enclosed Letters sboUd be brte and written Ink. Owing to the Urge number of letters received only a few ean be answered here. No reply can be made to oueriee not eon- firmtne to rnstroeUoBS, Address Dr.

Willies Brad, ftMS pi eursei-Ttfa. the Native Good Old Hoop-La ticati4n. We permitted ourselves to be caught unprepared. Now we have been forced into a last ditch defense, struggling desperately to keep from being pushed off the face of the earth we can muster our strength, to fight back. I Cool, calm, reasoning efficiency is necessary.

But that is not enough today. We peed the firecracker enthusiasm of 1917 and 1918. We need flags waving, troops marching, one-minute speakers. We need war songs that will spring to our lips as spon-. taneously as Tipperary and Over There did quarter of a century ago.

Why should able-bodied, unattached young men argue with themselves about going into the army or navy, and pull strings for cushy home jobs or commissions? Why we tolerate business, labor, the farmers; consumers, all jockeying for immediate or future advantage at a time like this? Why does the president pull his punches, and carry on long preparatory campaigns before -me takes each tiny step toward all-out war? Because we're not psychologically ready. Because jwe haven't reached the flag-waving, hallelujah-shouting, Star-Spangled Banner-singing, to-hell-with-conservatism, 1 go-ahead-and-don'rmind-if-it-hurts-me" pitch that will, win this War. We hate Hitler. 'We hate Mussolini. We hate the Japs.

We hate everything which distinguishes the axis from civilization. Let's say so. Let's have some songs, some slogans, some cheerleaders, some flag waving, some name calling, some enthusiasm, something toilet the 10 millions who are going to be in uniform know that we're with them not away behind. Columnist's Mail With Tex Reynolds Claims Story Was a Hoax. Dear Mr.

Reynolds: Next time the news reporter better take along a sleuth and investigate -the authenticity of a "fish story" such as was printed in Tuesday's paper under the picture showing-a 36-pound trout caught off the pier in Racine. By that I mean that the story is false. That 36-pound trout was sent from up north where it was caught by someone else and not the person in tiie picture. I KNOW, i That sure was a "whopper" that "got away" from the reporter this time. i I SCOUT HA HA.

i What! No Twin Contest? Dear Sir: I wish to voice a complaint re-, garding the manager of a certain theater in town. A week ago Wednesday he said from the stage that the next Wednesday he would have a twin contest and that the twins that; looked most alike would get $10. I mentioned this to a pair of twins who made a special trip to the theater on that ac- count, and the manager did not have the contest, nor did he make any mention of it at alL I wonder how he thinks people can have i any confidence in what he says. It was most unfair of him to act in this way and I only M. Give-Other-People's-Stuff-Away Deptj Two pianos one -at 1611 Superior and the other at 1345 Park avenue.

Also four kittens, at 1324 Center street. EXTREMITIES The easternmost point of United States is West Quoddy Head, near Eastport, Maine. The westernmost point is Cape Alva, Wash. FOCUS HEADLIGHTS When automobile headlights are out of focus, driving on a wet pavement is increasingly dif- Frightened Fuehrer To Americans, at least, the mighty Fuehrer seems -scared. His latest harangue to the reichstag revealed a very different man from the torrential orator and world conqueror of past years-Paeans of victory were missing.

Ner-vqusness and uncertainty ran through and were doubtless as perceptible to the German people themselves as to the outer world. Gone are the glib and confident promises. The Russian defense has obviously hit him between the eyes. It is stich a novel experience for the superman to be stopped and staggered that he has not yet got his bearings. He has, however, the grace to "brag less and to acknowledge the strength of the enemy and the need of more time.

The that was to be won between weekends, as he now recognizes, must drag through another year. And what is his recipe for victory now? He asked for more power, when he already had all the power his government could give him. The new vote of confidence, however if that's what it is may have some psychological value in a nation now frightened and war-weary. But apparently all the Germans have to look forward to are new blood-baths, in the field and at home. What They Endured The full debt owed by Americans at home to those brave fighters on the Bataan peninsula and other parts of that region cannot be estimated even by their weariness, their hunger and their inferiority of numbers.

They were fighting not only the Japanese but three other powerful enemies tropical heat, malaria and gangrene. The moist, tropical heat in that part of the world, and its debilitating effects, are hard to understand in our climate, Alone they are enough to demoralize an army from the temperate zone. But the greatest enemy that Gen. MacArthur's men had to deal with was malaria, the "disease of the tropics." Normally, quinine rations are regular procedure there. When the supply gave out and no more was obtainable, most of the American troops were prostrated.

Then gangrene, to which wounds are especially liable in that region, has been still more dreadful in some ways, but affected fewer troops, These facts help to explain why "so many owed so much to so few." Their sufferings must not be forgotten. I They also serve who only stay at home and take care "of things. It isn't necessarily the best claimer that wins the war. What to do about rubber: Stretch it. REVOLUTION AT THE TABLE Kansas City Star: One of the constructive results of the present war is the return of hash to the American dinner table.

Hash, a once-honored American institution, in these latter days has fallen into considerable desuetude. Under the impression that it is a. plebeian dish certain of our high-nosed citizenry have banned it. Yet as a matter of fact, hash has the royal robe of antiquity and the benison of the ancients. It is true that because of abuses in certain of the boarding houses of the past generation hash fell into a certain disrepute which even extended to its lineal relative, stew.

This, however, should not blind us to the fact that hash and stew, properly prepared, are among the most savory, as well as nutritious dishes, with the added virtue of economy. The recent food fair in Kansas City revealed a good many changes in the dietary habits of the; nation. Coaarse breads, including corn bread and whole wheat bread, are coming back to their own. The American public is turning to good plain foods like turnip top greens, and the dried apricot is once more seen in the kitchen. Housewives who formerly depended almost exclusively on the can opener in getting their meals are, we trust, finding a creative pleasure in devising repasts in which the all-pervading taste of tin is not prevalent.

The fresh vegetable is being introduced to children who never knew it could come outside a receptacle and the strange results, for an acquired taste is an acquired taste, and some children actually have to be taught to like the food in its original form. The whole thing, if the dietitians are to be believed, will decidedly benefit the nation from a nutrition standpoint. As for us, we welcome with joyous hosannas the palate titillating aroma of hash. It restores to us childhood memories of gustatory delight, which had almost been forgotten in the pass-izj cf the years, I i Our Neighbors One thing missing in this war is the good old hoop-la that gets under the toughest hide, brings one's heart up into his throat, and transforms humdrum mechanics and prbsaic clerks into dashing heroes. In a mechanical way we are doing Very welL We are making enormous quantities of very superior airplanes, tanks, jeeps, ships, guns, etc.

Yet five months after the sneak attack ijpon Pearl Harbor there is nothing like that swelling emotional response which swept the nation immediately after war was declared against Germany in 1917. This is no evidence of disunity. Probably the people of the United States hate Hitlefism more intensely and more universally than their fathers and mothers disliked Kaiserism. But we refuse to let ourselves go. We don't want to emote.

We take pride in our cynicism in being so sophisticated that even a world holocaust can't sweep us off our feet. We believe this is all wrong. The undeidog has to get steamed up to snarling, drooling oblivion of the odds against him, before! he can hope to win a war. We and our associates in the United Nations are the underdogs today. Don't let any Polly-anna convince you otherwise.

Potentially unconquerable, we softened ourselves with phony logic, rationalization, sophis- 40 YEARS AGO Friday, May 2, 1902. T. W. Burritt and Andrew L. Lewis today successfully passed the police examination, and were placed on the eligible list.

Mrs. John O. Jones and Mrs. Margaret Hughes have arrived safely in Liverpool, England, Where they are visiting relatives. Racine was Visited by a severe electrical storm during the night accompanied by I torrents of rain.

Farmers said the rain was badly needed. The schooner Melitta arrived in portithis morning with a cargo of lumber for the West Shore Lumber company. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 2, 1912. City council committees and others plarining a safe and sane Fourth of July celebration met last night and decided on a tentative program which will cost $1,500. This includes a civic and industrial parade, games and son-tests at Horlick park, water ball and polo off North beach, competitive drills, band concerts, an address by some national figure fireworks; I i Two hundred and fifty persons saw President J.

V. Rohan of the Elks turn the first, sod for their new building at 10 this morning. A banquet in honor of the event will be held on May 18. Henry Adam Guenther, 86, died at 5 p. m.

Wednesday. Mr. Guenther was born in Germany, Oct. 19, 1826, and came to the U. S.

in 1850 and to Racine in 1855. I 20 YEARS AGO I Tuesday, May 2, 1922. f. One hundred and fifty babies are entered in the Journal-News baby contest to be held Saturday in the First Methodist church. Prizes are $15, $10 and $5.

Charles Henry Mackintosh, president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, will be the speaker at a meeting at 8 tonight in the Association of Commerce rooms, W. Thompson in a series how running in the Journal-News on "How I Earned My First $100" told how he met Andrew Simonson at the World's fair in St Louis in 1884 and came here as his assistant in running the Racine Manufacturer Agriculturist at a salary of $400 per 1 In observance of its 50th the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters issued a medallion with pictures of ive outstanding Wisconsin men, including I Dr. Philo R. Hoy of Racine, physician and natur-aliit, who was born Hi 1810 and died in 1832, It Happened Here 1 i Poetry Corner A column for the original work of Racine county writers. i You and I.

lt Over my little radio Comes strains of our favorite song How could they sing of our love When it's gone? it is so wrong. i h- Yet I would sit and listen And enjoy if I knew Somewhere you were listening, And ourj song was haunting you. ENDORA FONTAINE. Heritage of the Sea. Yet pounds the surf upon the aged sands, Yet firm the mighty ocean stands And shouts a roaring challenge out To those who would her terrors floutl Supreme as ever waves of blue, For war or peace has not changed youl iThey are yet bewed, the seaman brave, The sea, their lea, is a silent grave.

silent as death, as bold as life he sounds yet 'mid worldly strife, $ler mysterious depths have this day Sad yet fearful words to say. And would waves but speak The tales thus told would pale the cheek: Of youthful lads their struggles ended. Sink to rest. The peace-loving, unoff Die as they. Ari unknown, cold, deep grave, And yet the seamen are staunch and brave.

They know the: tales, they know the sea They love it too and thus it shall be; Fc this is heritage of life and men Ttbugh death strikes out again againl J. J. ERDMANN, JR. DOUGHNUT HOLES Wheh he was a boy, Hanson Gregory, a New England sea" captain, noticed that the center of his mother's "cakes were doughy, and suggested the center be cut out before cooking. Thus came about the hole in doughnuts.

1 MOST PHONES IN U. 8. The highest per capita number of telephones in the United States is in San Francisco, with 44.58itelephcnes to every 100 persons. THEY WERE WRONG Abtfut a century ago, many well-informed persosis believed that the greater portion of the western Ui-iad States was uninhabitable. 'A jwta, Usmx, ua ta ma lacreasea sare.