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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-15

and for the beautiful floral tributes at
the funeral.
"He is dead, the sweet musician,
He the sweetest of all players.
He has gone from US forever,
He has moved a little nearer
To the master of all music,
To the master of all playing"
MYRTLE ANDERSON WHITE.
wife
CARL T., and FTP. WHITE, JR.,
sons
MRS. NELLIE OCCOMY, sister
VIM. A., GEORGE and
FRANK WHITE, brothers
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Repeated efforts to persuade Jim Farley to take the stump for Roosevelt have so far been un- availing. Although still holding his job as New York Democratic Chairman, the new Coca Cola mogul balkS at doing anything for his former Chief" Certain Democratic leaders privately are unified and are talking of blast ing Farley-but this is unlikely. Minnesota's Governor Harold Sta ssen has a leading role in guild ing the labor end of the Willkie campaign. The labor section of the Republican National Commit tee consults Stasseen on all it's plans and activities at direct personal orders from Willkie. The President will not go to the Pacific Coast for any campaign ing, but he is going to bat per- sonally for Representative Mon C. Wallgren, Democratic candi- date for Senator in Washington State. Roosevelt will send a mes sage for Wallgren's election.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16
U. S. SUPPLY

The Army has total of 59 Flying FortresseS" plus a num- Der of others in production, which are coming from the fac tory at the rate of about seven a month.
 In addition to buying 25 of those now in service the British also would like an arrangement to obtain every other new ship. Army officials say this would not delay U. s. rearming, but would enable the manufacturer to eX- pand his facilities and achieve a greater output.
 The Navy is amply supplied with PBYs. It already has 196 in service and 200 more being pro- duced at the rate of on every 36 hours. The new ships are consid- erably faster and more powerful than most of tn 196 in service Navy heads declare that 50 of these planes could be spared without any impairment to Navy air power.
 The method of sale under con sideration is similar to the sale of obsolete dive bombers and surplus World War rifles ma chine guns and munitions last spring. The planes would be turn ed in to the manufacturers, who would sell them to the British and credit the Army and Navy with the funds on purchase of new and better ships.
 The British plan to fly the giant planes direct across the Atlantic and crews of English and American airmen are being assembled in Canada for this pur pose. The great flying field at Botswood, Newfoundland, pro- bably will be the jumping off point.
 NOTE-Britain also is seeking 250,000 World War model Lee Enfield rifles. The Army has about l,250,000 in reserve stocks,
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16
The Washington 
By Drew Pearson and Robert s. Allen

WASHINGTON Twenty five of the Army's famed Flying Fortresses" and an equal number or more of he Navy's powerful twin-engined PBY patrol bomb CTS will soon be sold to Britain.
 The negotiations, now nearing completion, have been going on for several weeks. simultaneous ly with conversations regarding the securing of air and naval bases on strategic British islands in the Pacific.
 The British are urgently in need of long-range great weight carrying planes of the Flying Fortress and PBY type. Lack of ships of this kind is vital weak ness in British air power. They have no planes capable of operat ing east of Berlin which makes it impossible to strike at some of the Nazis' key war production center located in what was for merly Austria and Czechoslovak ia.
 A fleet of 25 Flying Fortress es,' which have a cruising radius of over 5000 miles, would bring the war home to the Germans where it would hurt most. Also the British could strike smashing blows at Italian industries and Italy is the Achilles heel of the Axis.
 The naval PBYs are needed in the crucial Mediterranean strug- gle. With range of 4,000 miles these mighty flying boats could destroy Italian submarines, trans ports and supply ships. Italy has to transport everything she
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16
DAISY ON THE STUMP

Mrs. J. Borden C'Daisy") liar riman, U. s. Minister to Norway, will take the campaign stump for President Roosevelt.
 Since her return from the Nazi overrun country. Mrs. Hartman has been under State Depart ment orders not to talk. But the gag will shortly be lifted and she will return to her first love-pol itics.
 Mrs. Hartman will do her orat ing mostly in Wisconsin, Minnes- ota and North Dakota, where
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16
EDITORIAL
DIFFERENT TRAINING IS NEEDED

(Ontario, Calf, Daily ReporD
 For too long, we Americans have clung to the myth that we are a rugged, versatile people. We like to look at ourselves in the distorted mirror of the past and take pride in the pioneer spirit" and ability we think we see reflected. As a recent critic in the New York Times points out, facts do not support this legend It my have been true years ago when farming was the chief oc- cupation, when each child was brought up to work at many chores. But it is now no longer true that most American are self reliant.
 Here are some eye-opening facts. In the last World War, when all American men were reg istered and classified, actually il- literacy was found to be high, and occupational illiteracy was even higher. Of the millions call ed 65 in 100 were rejected. Of the 35 percent accepted, only Is per cent had the mental and physical abilities required of of ficers of combat troops. Two thirds of the remainder had pos abilities that could be developed into usefulness through training. The lowest third could only with difficulty acquire knowledge and skill enough to be used in non- combat work.
 Studies indicate that given op portunity, only 30 percent of the unemployed are capable of find ing and keeping jobs on their own; that 40 percent can again get or keep jobs in private in- dustry only after some rehabilita tion and considerable retraining, while the 30 percent remaining have little better than day-labor ability and are virtually unable to survive by their own initia- tive.
 Schools are learning that form ulation of education in terms of the conditions and the idealism of 3 century ago will check ec- on5m.c evolution and result in maladjustments and moral ship wreck They are finding that chlld who is exposed to many
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16

needs in her African offensive across the Mediterranean, and the PBYs could cripple this iugular vein.
 These planes also are needed to meet the impending assault on Gibraltar, key to the British con trol of the Mediterranean. They also would put Britain in a much stronger position to meet the threat of Spanish intervention.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16

subjects related to life today is bound to get something that will give him purpose and place in life.
 It is high time we quit fooling our children. We send them to schools where they are encourag ed in useless and proftless cours eS instead of schools of practical instruction.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16

there are large Scandinavian pop ulations. She is an old hand at campaigning. In 1928 she accom- panied Al Smith in all his speak ing trips and was active in the 1882 and 1886 campaigns.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
MIR. and Mrs. Smith
Are Entertained by
Newspaperwomen

Mr.. and Mrs. Nichol Francis
Smith, who are spending the spring
in the home Of the latter's mother,
Mrs. Anne Archbold, were enter
tanned at tea yesterday afternoon
by the Newspaper Women's Club, in
Its headquarters at the Raleigh
Hotel. Mr.. and Mrs. Smith. who
were married about two years ago,
recently returned from trip around
the world, and yesterday Mr.. Smith
told number of his interesting
experiences during their recent trip
on the Burma Road, which is the
title OF his book published a few
weeks ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
spent some time in Indo< China, and
later In this year will go to South
America.
Assisting in receiving was Alice
Eversman, chairman of entertain
ment, and alternating at the tea
table were Mrs. William N. Doak
and Mrs. Matthew John Whittall,
associate members Of the club; Rob-
bert Crawford and Lillian Arthur,
active members, and Kate Scott
Brooks, honorary president.
Guests of members included Capt.
Adelbert Alth6use, U. S. NJ, retired,
and Mrs. AlthouSe, Mrs. w. Duncan
McKim, Mr.. and Mrs. Luis Guzman,
Mrs. William Fitch Kelly, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Heinl, 1t. and Mrs. A.
D. McDill, Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty
OF Harrisburg, wife Of former As
sistant Secretary Of the Treasury;
Mrs. Edward G. Stone, Mrs. Huron
w. Lawson and Mrs. Glenn billiard
Gum and the Misses Gum.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Benefit Showing
OF The Lindens
To Be SATURDAY.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Maurice
Morris will open their home, The
Lindens, Saturday from 10 to G
o'clock for the Women's Auxiliary
of the Police Boys Club.
Patronesses for the benefit show
ing Of the famous old Massachu-
sets house, built IL, 1854 and re-
Gently removed, piece by piece, to its
present location at 2401 Kalorama
road, include Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs.
Hugo l.. Black and Mrs. Stanley
Reed, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr.,
wife Of the Secretary of the Treas
ury; Mrs. James A. Farley, wife of
the Postmaster General, and Mrs.
Harold Ickes, wife of the Secretary
of the Interior; the Norwegian Min
ister's wife, Mime. Munthe de Nor
ganstierne, and the Turkish Am
bassador's wife, Nine. Ertegun; the
wife of the French Military Attache,
Nine. Emmanuel Lombard; Mrs.
Charles McNary, wife of the Repub-
lican leader Of the Senate, and Mrs.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, wife of Sen
ator Vandenberg of Michigan; Mrs.
Sol Bloom, wife of the Chairman of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee; Miss Guffey, sister of Sen
ator Guffey of Pennsylvania, and
Mrs. Paul V. McNutt, wife Of the
administrator of the Federal Secu-
rity Agency.
Reservations for April ~ are in
charge of Miss Elizabeth Howry,
president of the Women's Auxiliary
Of the Police Boys Club.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Federation Urges
Training Projects

The District Federation of Women's
Clubs advocated extension of w. P
A. training projects and urged that
projects which would contribute to
rehabilitation of individuals be given
preference in the w. P. A. program
for the District, in a resolution
passed at its monthly meeting yes
terday at Hotel 2400. Mrs. Horace
j. Phelps, chairman of the depart
ment of public welfare of the
federation, presented the resolution
Mrs. Allen l.. Worries, first vice
president of the District Society fol-
the Prevention of Blindness, guest,
spoke briefly on the work Of the
society and the benefits from proper
care of infants eyes.
Mrs. Albert N. Baggs, chairman
Of the Gray Ladies Of the District,
also gave a short talk, bringing a
request from Miss Mabel Boardman
for more volunteer Red Cross
workers. The federation voted $25
for the cancer control fund for
which benefit party was held yes
terday at the Mayfower Hotel. The
federation also voted funds to be
used in the purchase of a flag to be
carried by the District Federation at
the convention to be held in Mil
Waukee this summer.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Pen Women to Hold
Puerto Rican Fete
At Willard Tonight

Anticipating an invitation for its
id-congress In l041, to be held In
Puerto Rico next February, the Ma
ttonal League Of American Pen
Women will have q Puerto Rican
reception and dinner tonight at the
Willard Hotel as a feature Of its
biennial sessions here.
Formal invitation will be extended
Thursday, but the Pen Women will
have message tonight from Gov
William D. Leahy as well as greet
ings, extended In person, from Gen.
Blanton Winship, former Governor
OF Puerto Rico.
Oscar Chapman, Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Interior, will talk on
Puerto Rico from the point of view
OF the Interior Department, while
Senator Capper of Kansas and Rep
resentative Mouton of Louisiana
also will speak briefly.
Other speakers will include Ever
EFT Wilson, director Of the Puerto
Rican Trade Council; Mrs. Henry
F. Grady, wife Of the Assistant Sec
retary Of State; Senior Francisco ].
Hernandez, chief Of the travel divi-
sion OF the Pan-American Union:
Senor Rafael Pico and Mrs. Joshua
Evans, jr.
Senorita zoraida Martinez Nadal.
daughter of the President of the
Puerto Rican Senate, with a num-
Der Of attendants, will make an en-
trance, wearing the gown In which
she was crowned queen of the Puerto
Rican carnival two years ago.
The Pen Women discussed bylaws
this morning and were to tour the
Folger Library this afternoon.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Christ Child Sociei,
Farley 10 Discuss
Settlement Work
Archbishop curIey
To Be Speaker at
Meeting Tomorrow

Christ Child House, Community
Chest settlement at 600 Massachu-
sets avenue NE, was host today to
more than 100 delegates from 40
cities at the seventh biennial con-
vention Of the National Christ Child
Society.
Delegates who attended mass at
st. Matthews Cathedral at $50 q IN.
were addressed by Msgr. Lawrence ].
Shehan, director Of Catholic Char-
ties.
Other events on the program to-
day included a panel discussion Of
settlement activities with Miss
Anna j. Ready, head resident Of
the Christ Child House, leading the
topic.
Speakers on the program included
Father Vincent Mooney of the Ma
tional Catholic Youth Bureau. Miss
Dorothy Abts, Miss Olive Gage, Miss
Helen Walker, Thomas Geraty, di-
rector of Merrick Boys Club; James
Cuminsky. neighborhood boys work.
er, and Miss Mary Margaret Ruth
erford, girls worker. A luncheon,
with the Board of Managers as
hostesses, and a tour of the settle
ment were to follow.
Archbishop Michael j. Curley of
the diocese of Washington and Bal
timore will be guest Of honor and
speaker at a public meeting at the
Mayflower Hotel at 8:15 pm. to-
morrow. Mrs. Arthur F. Mullen of
Omaha, national vice president OF
the Christ Child Society, will pre-
side.
Tomorrow afternoon will be de-
voted to a tour of the Christ Child
Convalescent Home for Children at
Rockville, Nd.
Delegates will visit the Merrick
Boys Camp of the Christ Child So
ciety in Charles County, Nd, on
Thursday. The convention will close
with a banquet at the Mayflower
at 7:30 pm, thursday, at which
speakers will be Father John Lyons,
o. P, of San Francisco; Mrs. VIII
liam Kittle of the Minimum Wage
Board, and DR.. Allen J. Nolan, di-
rector of the Criminal Justice Asso-
citation. Mrs. Frederick Altemus will
preside and Mrs. Charles p. Neill,
national secretary, will be toast
mistress.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Grenfell Industries
Articles to Be Sold
Here Monday

The home of Mrs. James Law.
renee Houghteling at 2424 Wyoming
avenue will be the scene Monday o1
the sale of articles from the Gren.
fell Labrador Industries. The sale
which will be from 10 to $50 o'clock
will include articles made by the
convalescents in the hospitals anc
the f1sherfolk of the North New.
foundland Labrador coasts. In the
exhibition will be hooked rugs
handwoven articles, pieces of carved
ivory and toys.
The committee assisting with the
sale include Mrs. Warren r. Austin
Lady Chalkley, Mrs. Leander Nc.
Cormick- -Goodhart, Mrs. Robert S
Brookings,a Mrs. Edward B. Burling
Mrs. Levi Cooke, Mrs. Charles B
Crawford. DR.. Ethel Dunham, Mrs
George A. Garrett, Mrs. Oliver J
Hart, Mrs. Hennen Jennings, Mrs
Rudolph Max Kaufman, Mrs
George Maurice Morris, Mrs. VIII.
liam B. Poland, Mrs. Charles A
Richmond, Mrs. Edward w. Sturde-
want and Mrs. Carl Voegtlin.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Mark Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph M. Hobbs of
Connecticut avenue celebrated their
25th wedding anniversary at their
home Monday, April IS. Several
hundred guests called during the
evening.
Mrs. Hobbs was formerly Loyola
Jane Burns of st. Louis, Mo-, OF
which city Mr.. Hobbs is also a
native. They came to Washington
10 years ago. Mr.. Hobbs is con-
nected with the Federal Housing
Administration, District insuring Of
flee.
A high light Of the evening was
the repeat performance of the we'd
ding ceremony, at which Mr.. Maui
rice Massey OF Philadelphia off,
ciated.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Speaker. Sees
Extension of
Woman Democrats
Hear Correspondent
AtLuncheon

The European war now being
waged in Scandinavia will effect an
extension of new credits to Latin
American countries by the United
States, predicted Leon M. Pearson,
Washington correspondent and stu
dent Of international affairs, before
the Woman's National Democratic
Club luncheon yesterday.
Latin American credits, he said,
will be extended through funds from
the Export-Import Bank out of the
commitments of $55 100000 made
two months ago to Finland, Sweden,
Norway and Denmark. Already
there is evidence, he continued, of
the new lending-Chile to get $12,-
100000, Colombia $4,000, 900, PAN
ANA between 100000 and $3,000,-
600, while credits are regularly 60
ing out to Brazil.
Although record of default on
Latin American dollar bonds will
give the appearance of further
credit sending good money after
bad, the Government defends its
new lending, said Mr.. Pearson, with
the argument the default situation
is improving. He pointed out that
Chile resumed payment two years
ago, that Colombia resumed on a
temporary basis this year, and that
Brazil and Panama within the last
month have announced plans for
resumption of payments. The cred
Its are going to these debt-honoring
countries for the most part, he
added.
The dislocation of trade brought
about by the war, said Mr.. Pearson,
presents a new opportunity and a
new obligation to strengthen trade
relations bteween the Americas. All
the Americas have lost European
markets, he asserted, and must de-
pend more upon the exchange of
goods with this hemisphere. Cred
its, he continued, are required to
stimulate this trade and to develop
products in Latin America which
can be sold here within coming into
competition with our own goods.
Thus far, said the speaker, the
United States Government credits
to Latin America have been linked
to the export Of United States prod
ucts, have been short term or medi-
um term credits and are being cur
rently repaid. The latest move, ac-
cording to Mr.. Pearson, is to take
the step beyond commercial credit
to political loans.
"It remains to be seen," he said,
whether the leftists, who urge this
policy, will prevail, and if they do,
whether that kind of money will
ever come back again."
Mrs. D. Tucker Brown, president
OF the club, presided at the lunch
con, and the speaker was intro
duced by Mrs. Arthur .. Condor.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Local D. A. G.. Unit
Is Awarded Prize

The District of Columbia Society
Daughters of the American Col
onists, has been announced winner
OF the first prize for the best his
torical scrapbook submitted at the
general assembly of the national
society.
Mrs. David D. Caldwell is regent
OF the District of Columbia Society
Mrs. Leo Kasehagen, State historian,
compiled the scrapbook and also
compiled the winning scrapbook OF
1899.
Second prize went to Maine and
third prize to North Carolina.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Plan Florida Trim

Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Lee Webb will
leave this week to visit their son
and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Delmar Evans Webb, at their home
in Jacksonville, Fla.
Smyrna times., 1940-10-10
Vitanins Are
InVogue;Let's
Get the.Facts

In recent years, the term "vita-
min" has become a household word.
To nearly everyone it means vim,
vigor, vitality, and all that goes with
good health. What are these vita
minis anyhow? What is the story
back of them? 4
The existence of certain uniden-
titled substances having superior
nutritive properties was suspected
long, long ago. AS early as 1900
BE-, Egyptians and Chinese hit on
the discovery that eating livers
would improve ones vision in dim
light. Today we know that the liver
supplied vitamin A, recognized as
a protective food factor for night
vision. About 1920, Kramer, an Aus
trian physician, found that when
certain fresh foods, such as vege-
tables and fruits, were added to
the diet of persons suffering from
scurvy, this disease was cured. To-
day we know that these foods sup
piled vitamin C. These and other
instances of earlier times afford an
interesting background to our pres
ent knowledge of vitamins.
O Word Coined % Years Ago
1t was only % years ago that the
word "vitamin" was coined. And
since that time, the nation has be-
come 'vitamin-conscious." Scores of
scientists are engaged in vitamin
research. New discoveries are being
made, and the subject has aroused
such interest, that the public last
year spent about $75,000,000 for vi
tanin products in drug stores.
For a long while, vitamins were
looked upon as something quite mys-
terious. Today, although there is
still considerable mystery, a great
deal is known about them.
Several Kinds of Vitamins
We know there are several kinds
of vitamins, and that each has its
own specific function in the body.
They help children to grow, give
endurance and stamina, stimulate
appetite, build body resistance, and
have other values. Taken into the
human body, they act somewhat like
the ignition spark in an automobile.
Outstanding among recent dis
coveries are those of DIR. G. A. Ell
vehjem of the University of Wis
consin. He found, in studying the B
vitamins, that meat is the richest
source of these important factors.
The three on which the most infor-
Smyrna times., 1940-10-10

worth, all the rest put together fin
ancially.
In a communication in another
column, Hon. N B. Smithers gives
in his own language his position as
to manner and time in calling a
convention to give us a new con-
stitution. Mr.. Smithers has doubt
less considered the question in all
it's aspects with we'll defined views
upon a legal basis, and whatever
opinions he expresses will, as they
always have been, be received with
great consideration.
New Castle county has a queer
way of discriminating in the choice
of its county officers. In the rural
districts, viz, all outside the city
of Wilmington they are elected by
the people, but for the city they
are chosen by the Levy Court, en-
tirely of one party, and that body
met yesterday to appoint inspec-
tors and assistant inspectors for
the polling places. Just why the
people of Wilmington are less able
to choose their election officers
than the country people, is one of
the puzzling things in our anti
quated laws.
The Post Office Department has
issued stringent orders for the en-
forcement of the anti-lottery law,
Smyrna times., 1940-10-10
MARYLAND ITEMS

An incendiary fire destroyed the
stock of Thomas Hubbard, a groc-
er in Cambridge.
The party managers are tardy in
sending names to the Secretary of
State for Australian ballots.
William Ford, aged 16. son of
William H. Ford, of Perryman's,
Hartford county, was accidently
killed while cunning.
G. Clinton Roberts of the Cen
treville Observer will leave Centre
vile, Maryland, for Denver, Colo
RADIO. in few days. His interest
in the newspaper firm will be leas-
ed by the other two members.
DR.. E. B. Tanning, homeopathic
who went from Smyrna to Crump-
ton three or more years ago. has
been compelled to quit the place
on account of i'll health. He and
family left for Philadelphia last
week.
One of the greatest revivals that
Deals Island has ever known is
now in progress there. There have
been 1T conversions up to date.
many of these are adults and were
the oldest and hardest sinners of