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by Willis Thornton
Self EncircIement

One hears the word "encircle-
ment" used very often these days
in discussions of the affairs of ma
tionS. These Japanese claim they
are being "encircled." The Germans,
back before World War I, always
claimed they were being "encircl-
ed" They claimed they were being
"encircled" just before this World
War II broke out.
What is "encirclement," anyway?
Every country in the world is en-
circled, in the sense that there are
other countries around it. Clearly,
then, "encirclement" has little to
do with pure geography, since in
that sense every country is per-
petually encircled.
1t means not only surrounded
by other countries" which is true
of every country, but surrounded
ny OlllCl COul4GL I'D Will "iIOiii ~ lE
on bad terms, and from whom it
may expect i'll will
The United States does not re-
gard itself as encircled by Canada
and Mexico. Japan, in the happy
days before it got delusions OF
grandeur, didn't regard its chain Of
tiny islands as encircled. Switzer-
land, tiny land in the very midst
of Europe, has never had encircle-
ment jitters, though it is completely
surrounded by countries larger anc
more powerful than itself
No country is encircled unless it'
neighbors fear, dislike and distrus
it. Then they begin to seek ways o
combining together to make a join
and effective resistance to possible
aggression. And when they do tha
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Cranium Crackers
FREEDOM DOCUMENTS

Sacred to this nation are the
mary documents containing as
Surances of freedom that have been
set down for posterity to profit by.
Give the source of each of the fol-
lowing quotations from a famous
document of freedom.
/. We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are
created equal"
2. we, the people of the United
States, in order to form a more
perfect Union. "
3. 6. all the men in all the
lands may live out their lives in
freedom from fear and want. :"
4. this nation, under cd,
shall have a new birth of freedom"
5. In the wars of the EuroF
pean Powers in matters relating to
themselves we have never taken
any part, nor does it comport with
our policy to do So" q
ANSWERS -
l. Declaration of Independence,
second paragraph.
2. Constitution of the United
States, preamble.
3. Roosevelt-C -Churc hill eight
points, part of point six.
a. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
s. Monroe Doctrine.
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DON TELL
YOUR WIFE

A gentleman named A. Kenneth Beggs
who lives at Pittsburg, Calf, has done
the husbands Of this vast commonwealth
a great disservice.
Joining his wife in a suit against cos
metics manufacturing company, he asked
$3.50 damages because, he charged,
liquid lpstick she purchased from the
company made her lips unkissable for
two weeks That figures out, in case you
haven't already done bit of mental arith-
matte, at $125 per week per husband for
kissing his wife.
It's liable to give a lot of wives the
wrong idea, say we. AS if the poor hus-
bands already did not have enough of
burden, what with groceries, clothes and
all the ct ceteras, here we are faced with
the possibility that a lot of wives will
start demanding S125 per week as kiss
ing allowance.
There remains a ray Of hope, however.
A jury has not yet ruled on Mr.. Beggs'
request. If we were the defense attor-
ney, we should insist upon an all-male,
all-married jury.
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by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

which resulted in a song being
written in Is minutes.
They went to New York and
labored in Seclusion to build up
backlog of material. In year
they wrote 268 songs, each one
with some particular entertainer
in mind from Shirley Temple to
Stepin F'etchit. Other day they got
riot call from Paramount for
song for Dorothy Lamour, and could
the boys please have it in a couple
of days?
SNAPPY SONG SERVICE
You can have it in two minutes"
said Revel, reaching for sheaf
of unpublished ditties in the Lag
mour file. And now, in Malaga, "
the sarongstress is warbling Greene
q Revel's "A Full Moon and an
Empty Heart -
Songs used to be tossed intd5
movies will-nilly, but Revel and
Greene have a program for putting
mood in their music and reason in
their rhymes. They pow-wow with
executives, get acquainted with the
singers, and then sit down and
figure out situations where songs
actually can give impetus to the
action and story instead of delaying
it.
More and more they're expressing
story ideas. A song comes from a
title. When I saw them, for in
stance, Greene had come out of a
trance with THE Light of My Life
Went Out Last Night-With Some
body Else" and Revel had done
a melodic phrase to fit it. In a few
minutes they added more music and
lyrics and the chorus was almost
complete.
But there'd be hours of polishing
and verse writing and conferences,
and the session might go on most
of the night. Greene and Revel,
get pretty tired of some of theiS
songs before they're through with
them. ITS a helluva life" they
said. And we love it,"
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by Peter Edison -.
The Inside Track in Washington

comes up with a project that makes
you wonder. Latest OF these is a
writer's project to prepare book
called America Eats. Each chap
ter is to describe a meal typical of
some phase of American life-a po-
litical barbecue. church supper, Ro-
tary luncheon, clam bake, city cafe
terra, family reunion. And, no kid
ding, research is to be made to find
the source of such gastronomic ira
ditions as unite baked beans and
Boston.
The graded rent" idea continues
to take hold in U. S. Housing Au-
thority projects for low income
families, but there's no harm in
trying to sell the idea to your pri-
vate landlord. Under this theory.
the rent you pay is not determin-
ed by the size of your apartment,
but by the size of your income
and the size of the family.
Take the case of a man with a
wife and four children. The man
was a steel worker but during the
depression he had to take a job as
a garage mechanic at S18 week,
and rent was SIT a month. When
the steel mill opened up the man
got job at S22 a week, or $1100
a year, and his rent was advanced
to S21 a month, although he didn't
move to larger apartment. When
the mans wife got job as a
stenographer, the family income
was raised $500 a year, bringing the
family income to $l620 year. The
rent was raised to $33 a month.
By long distance telephone, Gu
ba's leading sugar men recently
fought a couple of fast rounds with
the Cuban embassy in Washington
over Leon Henderson's order slap
ping a price ceiling Of $3.50 per 100
pounds on Cuban raw sugar. A
member of the Cuban legation call
ed on Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles to protest that the
Cuban mills couldn't operate on a
price below 1882 Wire service re-
porters bulletined the story to Ha-
vana and in a matter of minutes
the sugar market reacted.
Havana called Washington, and
the Cuban ambassador had to issue
a denial that the subject of sugar
prices had been mentioned at all.
Then the wire services were asked
TO kill the report, which they did.
But some of the New York trade
papers, which had not been asked
to kill the story, carried the report
in their next days editions and
the market took another turn for
the worse. When one trade paper,
hearing about the kill, called the
Cuban embassy to check, four
phones rang and rang unanswered.
There was a saying in the last
war that God has no love for
second Heutenants", and it's being
revived in this emergency. There is
now no shortage Of "90-day- won
ders'', as the shavetails of the last
fracas were called, and the present
plentiful supply is due to the ex-
tensive reserve officers training
program carried on in colleges
throughout the country. Even with
$4,000 National Guard ana reserve
officers, a good many had not seen
duty with troops.
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HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 13-The pro-
lific team of Harry Revel and
Mort Greene today told this depart
ment how in Is uneasy minutes
to write a popular song. Without
separating the jive from the an
dante, shall pass along their re-
marks-not as an inspiration, but
as a warning.
It's an incurable affliction once
a person gets something published.
Greene is a good example because
he has been monkeying with lyrics
ever since he fell terribly in love
at the age of Is, wrote song about
it, and spent $50 to have it printed
so he could give his girl a copy
After that nothing could stop him.
On his 30th birthday, Oct. 3, he will
inherit a great deal of money left
by his grandfather, an Ohio banker
and industrialist, but it won't make
any difference to Mort-he is lost
in the far-flung environs of Tin
Pan Alley.
Revel, an established composer
with hundreds of tunes to his credit,
has written for Hollywood ever
since the invention of sound, did
the music for the last Ziegfeld
Follies in 90, and before that had
four shows running in four diff
ferent European capitals at the
same time. incidentally, he never
studied harmony or counterpoint
was born 35 years ago in London
started as a pianist in a Hawaiian
orchestra, and speaks seven langu-
ages.
BROKE WITH BANKING
Greene, who quit courses in bank
ing and business law to major in
English and art at Akron, came
here nearly 10 years ago to find
what he somewhat strangely re-
ferS to as a normal life" He was
doing fine as a ScenariSt at Metro
and writing a few songs on the side
when he began deyiling Revel for
a chance to do his lyrics. They
teamed up after a stormy argument
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The Germans said they consci-
ously followed the American plan
for industrial mobilization, and they
improved on it. But don't forget.
We wrote the book.
Bernard Baruch, World War T
industrial production chief.
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NOT A PARTISAN MATTER

(PalO Alto Times)
In his anger over disagreement with
his policies relating to the war, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has declared that those
Democrats who do not agree with him
belong in the other party.
The poorest way to bid for national
unity in a defense crisis is to place the
issue on a partisan footing. If loyalty
to the president in this course is inher-
ent in party membership and support
of his defense policies is purely Demo-
Gratis political duty, then opposition to
his defense program is logically the in
herent political duty of Republican par
tisans.
The defense crisis however, transcends
party narrowness. Wendell Willkie has
demonstrated that fact magnificently.
The President would rally unified sup
port faster if he desisted from his recur-
rent use Of the party club.
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That fellow standing on the cor
ner scratching probably just got
back from vacation.
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Bdrbs

Success consists of having others
wish they were you.
think prices uncanny.
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You can't blame fat people for want
ing to change their weighs.
Sixty thousand dressmakers were lock-
ed out in New York. So what? Sew
nothingl
It's wonder grammar sharks don't
ridicule the owl. Ever hear one say
"WhOm"2
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EDITORS NOTE: The follOUing edit
oriaIs are presented as interesting OpiH-
ions UOiced by editors etsephere. 1hey
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
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1t is no longer a question of nation
against nation. 1t is a question of man
himself against the forces Of despotism
and oppression.-Paul V. McNutt, fed
eral security administrator.
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Astronomical effects are strange
for instance a full moon making
utos run out of gas.
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thought for the Day

He that doubteth is damned if he eat because he
eateth of fah for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Romans 1923.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 = AS an
example of the vicious type of MI
graine headache defense officials
and industrialists are having to sit
up with these days, here's one for
the book:
General Motors with S490 million
worth of defense prime contracts
has been criticized for getting more
than its share of the business,
thereby freezing out small manu-
facturers. simultaneously, there is
a big drive on to get prime con-
tractors like General Motors to do
more ub-contracting. Trying to CO.
operate, G.MC. is Sub-letting jobs
to small manufacturers wherever it
can, but with automobile produc-
ton curtailed, G.MC. now finds
that the more it sub-contracts. the
more of its own men it has to lay
off.
Trying to schedule fair priorities
to the 5000 or more manufacturers
now working on defense orders is
one of the toughest problems in
Washington.
Take the case of a boiler tube
maker with orders from-Well, say
a naval base, a locomotive works, a
shipbuilding company and power
plant. Priorities allocations might
give the manufacturer material to
finish the jobs in the order named,
though all are defense projects.
This manufacturer, however, bell
ewing it impossible for anyone to
schedule production for the entire
country, became his own private
priorities board. He found that
work on the power plant was stop
ped waitning for boilers; the loco
motive works couldn't use it's first
deliveries for a month; the naval
base wouldn't need boilers for six
months; the shipyards ways were
not even built. So this manufac-
turer decided to forget government
priorities and schedule the jobs as
needed.
THESE SPIES NOT SHY
For a most peculiar reason, Col
John Thomason of the Marines and
Col R. Townsend Heard Of the
Army have been sent on conf
dental mission to overhaul and CO.
ordinate the intelligence service
listening posts run by military and
naval observers attached TO u. S.
embassies and legations. Military
and naval intelligence offices in
washington noticed their missions
were in some cases sending in all
too similar reports on what the
Germans and Italians were doing.
Investigation showed that certain
informers, after passing on their
reports to one branch of service,
would then take them over 10 the
other service, thereby collecting
double pay. Army and Navy Off
GERS not telling each other of their
reports and anxious to score scoops,
were thus being taken for twin
ride by their spies
Many people have no doubt con-
yinced themselves that WPA is a
good thing and necessary, with all
its faults, too keep the unemploy-
ed from going hungry. It's defense
projects have been q big help and
many of its schools, hospitals,
roads and sewers are permanent
assets. But every so often, WPA
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A couple always at odds evenF
tually come to ends.
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MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
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INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
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Famous Sayings

Fear that makes faith may break faith-Swinburne.
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POULTRY
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/UQh 800 800 -

Never wash tea strainer or a
teapot in soapy water. Wash and
rinse in clear water always.
.
When running rods through your
curtains put a thimble on the end
of the rod. It will u through
more easily. /
Winding wool is difficult if there
is no one to hold it. Put two fiat
irons on a table at a sufficient dis
lance apart to allow the wool to be
tightly stretched. Then wind over
the irons, just as if someone was
holding it.
To keep down the cost of operat-
ing a mechanical refrigerator it is
important to watch the frost on
the cooling unit and defrost as
often as it is necessary.
To prevent metal salt-shaker
tops from c%orroding. cover the in
side of the tops with parafin.
When washing white silk
blouses, dresses, ties, etc., for the
first time, put a dessertspoonful
of powdered borax dissolved in
enough cold water to cover the
article, leave it soaking for half
an hour, then wash in the usual
way. This prevents the silk from
becoming yellow.
II short of eggs when making
scrambled eggs for the gang, add
a tablespoon of fine bread or
cracker crumbs for each egg short
up to half eggs and half crumbs.
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Spring Comes
To Nations Capital
to the CAPITAL,

Spring comes to the Capital.
A cheerful squirrel is begging for
peanuts in the shadow of General
Lafayette's statue. Suddenly it darts
for a tree as a newsboy cries:
Whole col-lum an-eye-a-lated in
Balkans"
The newsboy passes. selling his
blood-spattered news.
I watch the squirrel. He watches
the newsboy, then darts down to the
grass and rolls over three times in
sheer glee at not being a man
Walking down with the govern
ment workers in the morning: l pass
the tall and digniied brick facade
and the great, s%heltering dome OF
St. Matthew'S cathedral.
A couple, arms locked, pass me.
They have walked this same path,
this same way to the same office
for years. But today, after an Eas-
ter holiday. a bright new platinum
band is on her finger.
A sudden spot Of color on Wash
ington's wide Sixteenth street. A lit
tie row of one-story. brick houses.
Once they we're slave quarters. now
they are squeezed in between a stiff,
grim brownstone mansion and a tail
residence with high peaked roof and
bellying bay window. prim clipped
hedges. The dWeller in M OF the
little brick boxes has painted his
front a warn red. 1t glows like a
glass Of chianti held against the
light.
The cherry blossoms. Walking un-
der them early enough to be alone
you can almost feel their envelop-
ing beauty resting on you like a
delicate robe of pink down.
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NAL population Of the primeval for
est and the lonely glen.
But the white man cut down trees.
planted corn and wheat.
Birds and animals. robbed Of their
ancient homes, poached on the set
tiers field and garden. The set
tier, both to protect his crops and
to add to his larder, went forth with
trap and rife. The sportsman hunt
ed where he would. American wild
life all but disappeared in some Sec
tons. did in others.
Most farmers-most people, for
that matter-have a sneaking affec-
ton for the furred and feathered folk
who live on their land. But the old
fear Of their predatory habits lies
deep-birds that pick and rabbits
that nibble and the foxes, the little
foxes that clear back in King Solo
mons time, spoiled the vineyards.
Today the farmer is rapidly
breaking down this ancient fear and
with the encouragement Of the gov
ernment-material as well as moral
he is hanging out the welcome
sign and offering free board and
lodging to wild life.
Already more than half the ma
tons game exists on privately
owned farm, range and forest land.
Department of agriculture officials
tell me:
THE biggest part Of III work Of
conserving OUT national resources Of
quail, p~heasants, doves, rabbits.
squirrels, raccoons, opossums and
many other kinds of valuable game
and fur animals must be done by
individual farmers-right on their
own land"
That is why benefits under the
Triple A 60 to farmers who plant
odd corners with trees and brush
and grains and legumes which fur
nish house and hearth Of the wild
folk.
So now many a patch Of scab rock
in a field that once was a desert
island has become an oasis where
small animals and birds live and
move and have their being.
Given a pat on the back the wild
life helps the farmer, eats the bad
bugs. Given a chance to forage in
the upland growth and woodlots and
helped with a little food that the
state is glad to furnish. they do not
bother the crops.
And the game birds and animals
have served another purpose. They
have built a new comradeship be-
tween the city sportsman and the
farmer. Twelve million sportsmen
in this country are glad Of the
chance to shoot on the farmers
land. Six million farmers have
proved by their cooperation with
the AAA plan for conserving wild
life that they are glad to offer the
hospitality and the sport which the
city people love: a chance to hunt
with gun, rod or camera and sketch
book.
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WPA '~Bookmobiles'
Reach Rural Readers

More than 200 travelling lending Ii
braries are now on the road. They
are called bookmobiles. Before the
WPA library program began operat-
ing bookmobiles about four years
ago. travelling library service to
rural communities was almost un-
known" says Assistant WPA Com
missioner Florence Kerr, who ma
tionally administers WPA library
service along with all other commu-
nifty service programs.
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and HOMILIES
BY Baukhage

q The United States has never de-
clared war in any month but April,
with one exception. Here are the
dates:
Revolution, April 10, ITS.
War of 1912, June Is, 1872.
War With Mexico, April Is, 1916.
Civil War. April IS. 1861.
War With Spain, April 81. 1898.
World War. April 6. 1917.
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fine perform nance In
II Wanted Wings"
he was chosen by
Cecil B. De Mile
for one of the two
male starring roles
in Reap the Wild
Wind" It's a tale Of
the Florida kets a
hundred years ago.
and Midland is a
fighting young law
yer from Charles
ton, who smashes a
desperate crew OF
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robes owned by
Hollywood actors.
is breaking in some
$22.50 suits for his
role as a power line
man in Warner
Bros ''Manpow-
err" That's the pic.
ture in which Hum.
phrey Bogart was
slated to share hon.
ors with Raft and
Marlene Dietrich.
but Raft, who wise
~ raaIjzaS his 1irni.
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tations, refused to appear with him.
Ida Lupino didn't want the talented
Mr.. Bogart in THE Gentle People"
with her, either. Warmers offered
him a nice, fat part in BAD Men of
Missouri but he would have none
Of it, and was suspended.
-
John Loveton, producer Of '"The
Court Of Missing Heirs" insists that
actors in mob scene say sane, per-
tinent words. He had his lesson long
ago; he was part of . mob scene
on q radio drama broadcast, and
when an unexpected silence fell on
the air his voice doomed out, shout
ing "Gobble! Gobble! Goblet"
He's never acted since, but as a d.
rector he cracks down on anyone
who doesn't contribute something
sensible to those background muir
murs and mutterings.
Paramount believes that a new
Jean Harlow. or Clara Bow, has
been discovered in the person of
"sultry, blonde" Veronica Lake. Ito
quote a press agent who is fea-
tured in Il Wanted Wings" mot
since Greta Carlo leaped to over
night fame in her first picture. The
Torrent" have New York movie
critics lavished such acclaim upon a
newcomer" to quote another press
release. Maybe so, but the low cut
of Miss Lakes necklines made such
an impression on a good many peo-
Pile that they hadn't a great deal to
say about her acting.
ODDS AND ENDS-Universal has
taken an option on the screen services
OF Baby Sandy's brother-,Uho is one
week old 80. The March OF Times
latest, "The p. B. L.-l94l." shotos how
the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is
concentrating on tie prevention OF es-
pionage and sabotage in industry :. .
Mutuars 1.-THE Peoples Playhouse"
heard Tuesdays and Thursdays, pre-.
ssnts dramatic sketches based on ideas
submitted by the public -. RKO is
screening parachute Battalion" ,Uiih
Robert Preston, Nancy Kelly and Harry
Carey 80. You'll see Tommy Harmon,
AHAmeriean half-back, in Harmon Of
Michigan"
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the hot water so
many hours at a
stretch and when
I can't sleep now
I don't u n t
sheep I just count
dirty h s. I
had q terrible
dram Ia CT NIGHT
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