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I v Washington, D. C. CHURCHILL'S TIP One significant phase of Winston Churchill's conversations here has just leaked out. He volunteered some yaluable advice on the make up of the U. S. delegation to the peace conference. Talking to a closed-door session of the senate and house foreign rela tions committees, he was reminded that if Woodrow Wilson had given more thought to the makeup of the U. S. delegation, his efforts to enroll the United States in a League of Nations might not have been such a failure. Churchill at first tactfully side stepped comment, explaining he didn't want to stick his nose in American affairs. However, he final ly observed with a grin that he knew a little about politics himself and probably could offer one suggestion. "What is it?" chorused several of the politicos. "Appoint a delegation that is strictly bi-partisan," Churchill re plied, "half Democrat and half Re publican." If the President named such a commission of outstanding leaders of both parties, the prime minister added, his chances of winning con gressional approval of a treaty among the Allied powers would be greatly enhanced. ? ? ? LEARNING JAP LANGUAGE Officer Candidate schools have a reputation for being tough, but the Naval Intelligence Japanese Lan guage school at Boulder, Colo., sets a new record. Hand-picked candi dates from colleges and graduate schools pore over Japanese "Kanji" (word pictures) 16 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 14 months. These 800 students are given inti mate high pressure instruction in classes of only five men each. The faculty consists of 150 Japanese Americans, former professional and business men, recruited from the East and West coast Japanese colo nies. The course is intensive, and the students are given no job except the principal one of learning the dif ficult Japanese language. Unlike other officer candidates, they have no guard duty, KP, or night biv- 1 ouacs. Their job is to learn Japa nese, learn it quickly, and learn it well. ? ? ? SENATOR GLASS ' Much-loved 85-year-old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is expected by friends to drop out of the senate i before many months. He has served as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of the treasury, 23 faithful years in the senate and 17 years in the house. Virginia politicos close to Gover nor Darden are passing out the tip that when Glass retires, Darden will appoint as the senator's successor, not 55-year-old Congressman Cliff Woodrum, the most outstanding con gressman from Virginia, but 73 year-old Congressman Tom Burch. ? ? ? WHO OWNS THE FARMS? Most people have the idea that Washington postwar planners are thinking only ot the people in for eign countries. But that isn't the case. They are also thinking ot how the land of America can be returned to the people of America. Real fact is that much of the big land holdings In the U. S. A. are in the hands of Insurance com panies and absentee landlords, aa strikingly brought out by latest AAA conservation and parity payments. In four of the country's biggest farming states, largest payments were made not to individual farm ers but to life insurance companies. Here are the actual payments, each one being the highest payment in that state: Ohio?Union Central Life Insur ance company, Cincinnati, $49,153; Wisconsin ? Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company, Mil waukee, $47,517; Iowa?Equitable Life Insurance company, Des Moines, $33,418; Missouri?General American Life Insurance company, St. Louis, $52,170. In Mississippi, the largest pay ment went to an absentee landlord, the British owners of Delta and Pine Land company, Scott, Miss. The property is managed by a former AAA official, Oscar Johnston. The payment was $50,141. Highest payment in Illinois went to the First Trust Joint Stock Land bank, Chicago, $29,182. Highest in Nebraska went to the Federal Land Bank of Omaha, $77,805, while the same thing was true In Minnesota, where the largest payment, $75,781, weht to the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul. The land banks hold a lot of property as a result of mort gage foreclosures in the lean years. Largest payments in the four larg est agricultural states of the north east also went to insurance com panies. New York?Metropolitan Life In surance company. New York city, $101,863. Incidentally, this was the largest payment made in the entire country. Connecticut ? Connecticut General Life Insurance company, Hartford, $48,437. Pennsylvania? Providence Mutual Life Insurance company, Philadelphia, $13,022. New Jersey?Mutual Benefit Life Insur ance company of Newark, received ^^^peyment of $82,128. Hundreds Offer Home to Soldier's Waifs Their father Is in the arm; and their mother is ill in the South, so the fonr bright-eyed brothers pictured at top were waiting at the Chil dren's Aid society in New York for someone to give them a home until their parents can come back. Hundreds responded to their plea ex pressed via a newspaper. Among them was William G. Helis, mil lionaire oil man shown at bottom. Helis is a Greek-American who has contributed over >1,000,000 to Greek war relief. He Made Salt Water Drinkable w "Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink." This cry of the shipwrecked sailor is no longer true. Lieut. Clare R. Spealman, USN (left), has discovered a simple process to make sea water drink able which can be carried out in a few minutes by a shipwrecked sailor. He is shown being congratulated by Capt. William L. Mann. Paralysis Healer at the White House President iMiertK meets n famous Australian narse, Sister Kenny, who has developed a new method of treating infantile paralysis. Pic tured above are President Roosevelt, Basil O'Connor, head of the National Paralysis Foundation, and Sister Kenny, She was a luncheon guest at the White House. WAVES Learn to Rule Waves The historic Charles riser la Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard mas caline crews practiced and raced fat many decades, la aow the scene of a training headquarters for WAVES. A creep Is shown carrying their shell (rem the hoathanse. They learn In raw, handle a small heat, and | ather water tore. ,, Warning! "Yon trays better get oat of here while the setting's good." That's what the characters on this imita tion leaf told the Japs on Kiska island. The leaves were dropped by O. S. aviators to enemy forces who are supposed to have an aversion for the leaves, supposedly from a Japanese Kin tree. The Road Back With the Axis cleaned out of North Africa, refugees like the ones shown above can move back into tbeir homes. These people are returning to Bizerte aboard their carriage which is fitted out with springs, rub ber tires, and a wheel assembly from a Rolls Royce automobile. Zip Off Zoots Servicemen and loot suit wearers fought a small war of their own in Los Angeles, sending many youths like the one above to Jails and hos pitals. The servicemen were strip ping the "sooters" in revenge for previous assaults. Limbering Up Gander Hie|{, Swedish distance runner, limbers up with Gref Bice, America's speediest two" miier, after Bu(| arrived hi New Ink for the National AAC championship track meet. Speaking Released fcy Western Newspaper Unloa. QUITE a lew baseball enthusiasts question the activities of the Philadelphia Phillies in trading Dan ny Litwhiler and Earl Naylor to the St. Louis Cardinals. Baseball in Philadelphia was at its highest ebb in many years when Bill Cox, president of the Phillies, j announced the transaction which brought Cardinal outfielders Coaker Triplett, Buster Adams and Dain Clay to the City of Brotherly Love. The question of which team got the 1 better of the trade seems to be of secondary importance. There is an other factor which, in the judgment of many, makes the Phils guilty of an error in timing. Philadelphia Story That factor concerns Philadelphia fans. Those long-suffering individ uals, accustomed to last-place stand ing and to predictions that "pros pects of moving op are not too good," finally were being convinced that President Cox and Manager Bucky Harris were men who wouldn't dispose of a star player for half interest in the Fort Knox gold vaults. Bill Cox entered baseball business late last winter when he invested a large pile of money in the Phillies. Prior to the advent of Cox, Gerry NugSnt was head man. Nugent would dispose of baseball players as fast as venders could sell hot dogs in the bleachers. Cox had sold the cash customers on his new policy. No longer would valuable players be sold down the river. The manner in which the fans responded was little short of pathetic. They had seen the Phils win a few ball games and they were happy. It was once remarked that a Phil winning streak consisted of splitting a double header. Now the club was winning its share of bat tles. Litwhiler probably was the best all-around player on the team. He was popular?one of the favored few, along with Babe Dahlgren, School boy Rowe and Johnny Kraus. Per haps he wasn't quite as good as he was a couple of years ago when he ut9Q havintf n nrpat spaonn hut hp still packed plenty of guns. Miracles Unusual Granted that the Phils have been slipping a little. Quite possibly the customers expected that. Miracles are unusual this season. But the future looked considerably brighter with a man at the helm determined to hang onto his good players and anxious to acquire more. It undoubtedly came as quite a blow when Cox sent one of the favor ite players on his way. He had run ads thanking the fans for their pa tronage, and then, oddly enough, turned around and made a move to kill the good will which he had built. There are two sides to the story, of course. Cox and Harris had their reasons for desiring the swap. Cox expressed little anxiety about fan reaction: "All three of the new Phillies are speedsters and my first promise in taking over the Phils was that the only thing about baseball of which I was certain was that speed was essential to success. The deal has been completed with thit appraisal of baseball success in mind. . . Sending Litwhiler to the world champions is no insult to Dan ny, who has played hard for us this season and is a competitor we hate to lose. Naylor, while he has not played so much as Litwhiler, has shown a splendid attitude." About Harris At the season's end. Manager Har ris will deserve much of the credit? or blame?for the Phils' final stand ing. He doesn't talk ? great deal, but he has his say in settling every deal made by the chib. He alone of the organisation knows the value of men np for sale or trade. He put thumbs down on the propo sition when the Yankees tried to get rid of Rollie Hemsley and Bill Knickerbocker in the Nick Etten deal. He insisted on Rowe in the face of strong opposition. It was Bucky who originated the idea of making Dahlgren over for Shortstop duty. Most baseball crit ics chuckled at Dahlgren's unusual style of handling grounders, which was strictly unorthodox, to put it kindly. But Dahlgren stayed at short and made the grade. Earl White hill, a smart pitching coach, was engaged by Harris. White hill taught Jack Kraua to break his curve ball at the waist instead of the shoulder. And Kraus repaid that effort tenfold. The Future la as early-spring summary of National league clubs, one writer had this to say: "Phillies lack pitching, eatehing, fielding, hitting, everything. Only first class major league ball player ea team is Daany Litwhilcr." Even though Litwhiler is gone, it is unlikely that the Phils will go to pieces. They are handled by one at the soundest, most underrated man agers in baseball If anyone can . bold the club together, Bucky Har ris is the man for the Job. Balanced Meals For Humans, Too Nutrition Chart Helps Avoid 'Hidden Hunger' Food is always important, but in wartime it becomes strategic ma terial. That's why the seven basic food groups form the groundwork of a plan to get full benefit, nutrition ally, from all the food in the national larder, according to the U. S. de partment of agriculture. It's easy to figure out a balanced diet, nutritionists say, if the food chart is followed. If one or more of the "Basic Seven" groups is left out, day after day, it's a danger signal. "I'm never hungry. I eat plenty of steak and potatoes." People who talk like that, who never order vegetables, may be suffering from "bidden hunger." This "hidden hunger" shows Up in subtle ways. Workers who suffer from It tire more easily, GROUP 1 ? RUN AND YILLOW VIMTABLIS... lln rfw-nwi cooked, froxon or formed are more liable to stumble into accidents resulting from abnor mal fatigue. They fall prey to minor illness, their morale is lower, they are irritable ant: dif ficult to work with. All this may add np to millions of lost work ing days, if "hidden hunger" spreads across the land. By dividing food into seven groups, the problem of selection is simplified. Each group has enough different kinds of foods in it to allow wide variety in meals. If, during wartime, you find some usual kind of food to be scarce, try new ones, making sure you hit all seven food groups. Among the foods in Group 1? green and yellow vegetables?are asparagus, beet greens, broccoli, cabbage, chard, collards, dandelion greens, escarole, green peppers, let tuce, mustard greens, okra, parsley, green peas, snap or string beans, spinach, turnip greens, and water cress. Also carrots, pumpkins, ruta bagas, squash, sweet potatoes, was beans, yams and yellow turnips. In Group 2 are all the citrus fruits and certain greens?oranges, toma toes, grapefruit, cabbage and salad greens?served raw. In Group 3?a large one?are po tatoes, and other vegetables and fruits. It includes beets, cauliflow er, celery, corn, cucumber, egg plant, lima beans, kohl-rabi. leeks. mushrooms, onions, parsnips, rad ishes, salsify, sauerkraut, turnips, and many others. Fruits included, and not mentioned in Group 2, are all those excepting the citrus, such as apples, berries and plums. Milk and milk products make up Group 4. In it are buttermilk, cul tured milk, evaporated and con densed milk, dry whole and skim milk, cream, all kinds of cheese, and ice cream. Group 5 is the meat, poultry, fish and egg group. It includes also the protein alternates, dried beans, peas, nuts, and peanut butter. If your meat points don't last you through the week, switch to some unrationed food in this group, to be sure your meals contain enough pro tein. Bread, flour and cereals (natural whole grain or enriched or restored) fall into Group 6. Breads and cere als should be of whole grains or enriched with vitamins so essentia] for health. Group 7 contains butter and for tified margarine (with vitamin A added). Farm Notes As the butterfat of milk tends to soften the rubber parts of milking machines, the milk should be washed off with cold water immediately aft er milking is finished. ? ? ? Such breeds of rabbits as New Zealand Whites, Chinchillas, Belgian Hares and Flemish Giants?furnish a quickly grown, wholesome and economical table meat. \<fANY an American of pioneer background can remember when all the floors in the house except the parlor were covered with woven rag rugs and carpete. Today the local weaver with a rug loom is flourishing in many com munities. The modern weaver has an as sortment of colors in warp and I jL r STRIP WIDE 1, ENOUGH TO BTV ; DIAMETER OF A lfAD%^^ -i *? > PENCIL WHEN TWISTE0 JVT filler that may be used with the rags that you have prepared in (he manner shown here. About one and three quarter pounds of sewn rags will be required for a square yard of carpet. Rugs may he either cotton or wool but do not use both in the same rug. The rags should be soft and clean and hems or uneven finishes should be removed. Dye white rags the col ors you wish to predominate. ? ? ? NOTE?It Is possible to make a pen variety of floor coverings from odds and ends of things on hand. Books 9 and W of the series offered with these arttdcw contain fascinating new designs for hooted and braided rugs. In Book 7 there is ? rug made from old felt hats and scteS pennants. Books are 15 cents each. On* der booklets direct from: MRS. RUTH WVKTH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer I* Enclose 15 cents for each book desired. Name Address Admirals may be admirable, bad that isn't where the word "coma from. It comes from an old Arabic word "amirial" meaning "com mander of." That's what the Ad miral is, the top-ranking officer ? the Navy. Top-ranking cigarette with our Navy men is Camel?the favorite, too with men in the Army, Marines, and Coast Guard, accord ing to actual sales records from their service stores. Camels are a top-ranking gift, too. And thoo^ there are Post Office restrictions on packages to overseas Army men, you can still send Cameb to soldiers in the U. S., and te men in the Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard wherever they are. ?Adv. npa* with its beat rub nrfre*. K CRI Sprinkle on Mezssns, for ths ^ roertyMexicanHasthw HEAT der. Costs little, sad pre nEAl ssve lots in lsrgsr am. Million to Billion The ratio of a million to a Id lion is the same as that of a cent to a ten-dollar bill. FRETFUL CHILDREN Many mother* rely on naey an take Mother Grey* Sweet P.mdmm when ? laxative is needed by dm Tji: J little ones. Equally effective fes try-wide approval. Package of 16 eeey Re take powders, 35c. At all drug stores. MOTHER atari ?WT PQWWM Qualifying I am not a politician, and my other habits are good.?Art ran Ward. ?-w / ijcrk. vr-w. v^-ir Whizzine flics can be easily fc. posed of by the NEWSPAPER METHOD. Quickly fold a news paper and strike violently at An buzzing fly ? crushing fly afaanss nearest object. Result: occaaian ally, you spot the fly as well an the tablecloth, wallpaper, curtains and buttered toast. An easin way is to CdtcA 'e*c wWL TanolefooT ? FLYPAPER ? It is tbe old reliable tbat MVM fak Alwiyi economical to mo, and oof rationed. For sale at dreg aaJ grocery stores. IK HMUHK
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