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Tames Russell Lowell. bjVl?T ?X0 ClOCGED NOSrwOWMG ON A112-A6AJN -W1TH2DR0P Of SELF-SPREADING V A l PENETRO NOSE PROPS No Flap In 1777 The continental congress intro duced the flag resolution in 1777, but the nation didn't have an ail American flag over the Capita! un til 3866. English-made cloth was used before that. Lives With Rival Iowa social welfare officials told of an old-age pension applicant who lives as a by-the-week boarder in the home of his divorced wife and her second husband. Wordless Poem A picture is a poem without word s Corn ificus . ASSUR/tUCE t m 8 The buyer's assurance is the advertis >ng he or the re*ds in die newspaper. That is the buyer's guide. It tells die prices one must expect to pay. Let die seller who tries to charge more beware! Washington. D. C. DEFENSE JAM-Bl'STER Donald Nelson, for many years executive of the Sears, Roebuck mail-order house, now has become one of the chief Ion-jam busters of , national defense. Olllcially his job is director of procurement for the United States treasury ? in other words, in charge of government pur chases. Recently the navy department sent a very important order to Beth lehem Steel corporation with a pref erence number to expedite it for the earliest possible delivery. The next day word came back from Bethle hem: "Sorry, but you will have to wait." For some unexplained reason the navy said nothing to the defense commission about Bethlehem's de lay, even though the commission has the power to compel compliance. In stead the navy tried to handle the situation itself. But after two weeks of unsuccessful effort, the navy final ly went to Nelson, who in addition to his procurement duties aids the defense commission. Nelsot. reached for a telephone, callcd Walter Tower, secretary of the American Iron and Steel insti tute, and said, "I hope we don't have to get tough, but when an order goes out marked 'expedite.' it means just that. I want immediate action on that ordor." Twenty minutes later, Eugene Grace, potent boss of Bethlehem, personally telephoned Nelson and assured him it was all a mistake. ? * * F. D. R. AND ARGENTINA There has been a lot of publicity regarding Roosevelt's conference with Argentine diplomat Leopoldo Melo over buying Argentine beef. Actually the conversation covered a lot of things besides meat. Roosevelt promised that this coun try would substantially increase its imports of Argentine products; first because Argentina has suffered heavy loss of her European export market and faces an acute depres sion; second, because Argentina con tinues to buy from the United States, but this buying must fall off if she cannot sell here to obtain dollar ex change for purchases. Discussing these problems, the President told Melo that the defense program would require heavy pur chases of wool for uniforms, hides for shoes, and canned beef for the commissary. Though the govern ment would not buy direct from Ar gentina, the buying from domes tic sources would create a new de mand for imports, substantially ben efiting Argentina. There was also discussion of using a part of the new Export Import bank fund of $500,000,000, about to be voted by congress, for trade with Argentina. Note ? Latest export figures show that Argentina has now become the leading foreign purchaser of Amer ican passenger cars. BRITAIN'S FOGS The most important development during the last few days of bombing London is the realization by British and American observers that bad weather is not going to help the de fense of London, but instead will hinder it. Second important development is the realization that Britain's only real defense is retaliatory raids against Berlin. This means, of course, more long-distance bombers ? almost all of which are now ob tained from the United States. It has been generally expected that with the arrival of foggy weath er, London would be safer because Nazi raids would have to abate. However, there was considerable cloudy weather over England last week, and during it, Nazi bombers had a field day. What they did was to use the clouds as a shield and drop their bombs, without aiming, all over London. On clear days they had tried to aim at military targets. But at night, and during cloudy weather, the Nazis gave up any pretense of taking aim. What happened was that when British planes went aloft they could not find the raiders. The Nazis were hidden in cloud banks, dropping their bombs indiscriminately. Un der th?se circumstances, there was only one way for the British to lo cate the enemy bombers ? by means of sound detection and radio direc tions from the ground. However, these radio directions must be three dimensional to be ef fective, and there is such a wide margin for error that looking for a bomber in the clouds is like looking for a needle in a haystack. That is why British plsnes simply did not go into the air when the weather was loo cloudy. TV THE Yankee clubhouse they * were talking about the fastest pitcher. The argument got down to Lefty Grove and Bob Feller. I ran in my nomination ? a fellow named Walter Johnson. "I never batted against Johnsm," Bill Dickey said, "but my vote goes for Grove when he was at his best. I can see Feller's fast one, even if I don't hit too well ? but I couldn't see Grove's." "I never saw Johnson work," Joe Gordon said, "and I never saw Grove at his best, at the top. But I'll string with Bob Feller. He is fast enough for me. Sometimes too fast." Grant! and Rice I still stick with Johnson. One answer is that Big Barney pitched more shutouts and had more strike outs than any pitcher in baseball ? 113 shutouts, if I recall the exact figures. And Johnson had no chance to ease up with a weak-hitting club. Also every hitter in those days knew a fast one was coming, but they still couldn't hit the Big Train. "I guess Johnson, with that rec ord, gets the call," Dickey said. The Detroit Mystery Here's another angle few fans fig ure out. I asked one of the Tiger stars how he accounted for Detroit's sudden rise from a sixth-place pick to a pennant contender, and then the mid-season slow-up prior to the final surge. "Nature," he said. "In the spring we were afraid of Dick Bartell's legs and Charlie Gehringer's legs and back. But we happened to get a damp spring which ran into June. We had soft ground to work on until July. This gave both /eterans a chance ] to save their legs. ; Then the sun baked out all diamonds ? J and what a differ ence this makes to older legs." "T his is true enough," Bartell told me. "I was a kid again as long as I had soft ground under my feet. But these hard, baked oat diamonds are rough on your legs. I could begin to feel the difference in a few days ? sore ligaments, sore feet." Bartell was one of the main fac tors in Detroit's early summer charge. Both his spirit and his play were major factors in the Tiger drive. And the same goes for Geh ringer, who stands out as one of the great second basemen of all time. When these two begin to skid the Tiger infield began to look porous. "Figure this one out," one of the Yankees said. "We all know the value of big, powerfu1 hands in base ball. fands like Wagner's and La joie's ? but one of the best infielders I've seen in a long time has the smallest pair of hands in either league." "Meaning whom?" we asked. "Boudrean, the Cleveland short stop," he answered. "Boudreau has extremely small hands. They are delicate looking. But I don't know of a better shortstop anywhere to day. He has been one of the main reasons for Cleveland's success. When he gets either hand on a ball (t sticks with him." Dick Kartell The Eternal Argument "I'll tell you something," one of the Cleveland veterans said. "Old timers are always talking about the play of the stars who once made the headlines. They talk about a more | scientific game. I'd like to see some of these old-timers handle the ball they hit at you today ? infield or j outfield. "The name today is twice as last, rhis modern ball comes at you like a rifle shot many times. You can't afford to lose a split second. The same is true in the outfield where line drives come whistling by. It takes much better starting speed to handle the new, faster ball, no mat ter what position you play. Those old-timers were lucky when it came to handling a much slower ball, one that gave you more time to cover j your ground. "Baseball today is far harder on the nerves. You have to be alert every second a man is at bat. You arc tense all the time in any close game. The old-time game may have been more scientific, but the game today is largely a matter of speed and power." ASK ME ANOTHER A Qu,z With Answ