Nems^v
By Paul
B?H??d toy Newipapir Union.
BEST BRAINS NEEDED
TO ACHIEVE VICTOR*
WASHINGTON.?It is very prob
able that Mr. Roosevelt will revise
his government immediately for vic
tory and the fourth term campaign.
Now, as never before, he needs
brains in the top places. With the
chaotic condition of the world, with
our ability to survive questioned on
every front?financial, diplomatic,
~ economic, military?the best politics
and simplest sense demands the best
manpower in government as well as
in the army, factories, and field.
You cannot win without power at
the top. Yet Mr. Roosevelt's own
senate leader has now publicly pro
claimed what everyone else knew,
namely that the cabinet and presi
dential advisers fall far short of rep
resenting the best intelligence and
experience of the country.
In the beginning, to satisfy this
deficiency, Mr. Roosevelt brought in
the Byrnes, Baruch, Vinson, Jones
setup as a super cabinet. As Sena
tor Barkley noted, this has not been
enough.
Any ordinary man in Mr. Roose
velt's spot would go out and draft
the best men of the nation to handle
subjects they know best. A belated
move along that line is imminent.
Anonymous news has been appear
ing in the papers suggesting a few
cabinet changes are under consid
eration. The question is whether
they will go far and deep enough.
80ME PROSPECTS:
Edward R. Stettinius, the state
undersecretary, is receiving some
mention as possible vice presidential
nominee instead of the left-leaning
Wallace. This talk originated with
ne more inferior an authority than
Democratic National Chairman Han
na gan.
Mr. Stettinius has an ex-big busi
ness background in Morgan business
not unlike that of Mr. Willkie. Cer
tainly Stettinius is being groomed
to succeed Mr. Hull, when and if.
Foreign Economic Administrator
Crowley also has mounted the to
boggan and a successor is needed
for him.
A sounding-out rumor has been
published that Commerce Secretary
Jesse Jones might go to the treasury
with Joseph P. Kennedy, ex-ambas
sador to Britain, replacing him. The
rumor is probably off the mark.
Mr. Kennedy's finance - business
brain is regarded as the best in the
country and the place for him is
treasury. When big business lead
ers get in trouble, they call on him
to straighten them out for an ex
traordinary fee which they must pay
because no one else can do the Job.
In the current international finan
cial dilemma (Keynes-White inter
national currency stabilization and
even domestic taxes) Mr. Roosevelt
could get him for a $10,000 a year
cabinet salary, whereas a private
corporation seeking his services
would have to pay 10 to 20 times as
much. Why not?
The only objection is political. Mr.
Kennedy is erroneously designated
by certain contrary political ele
ments as an appeaser ? and con
versely also as an Anglophile.
This is world war, and more than
that, it is world revolution within
war. The people of the country real
ly care far less whether a man is
a good political appointment than
whether he can help win for us. The
best politics would be no politics.
In a life and death world crisis
like this, we cannot choose political
directions or political appointees,
whether leftists or rightists.
A thorough change is called for?
and is imminent.
? ? ?
WEAKNESS FOUND
IN ADMINISTRATION
Mr. Roosevelt, speaking in the
closed fraternity of his few top ad
visers after his third term victory,
is supposed to have complained that
the Republican campaign against
him was weak and technically defec
tive. As they remember it, he put
it something like this:
"If I had been planning their cam
paign I would not have made the
fight against me, but against the
men around me."
Mr. Roosevelt certainly knew his
weakness. That weakness has now
been publicly exposed again by the
courage of his own Democratic Sen
ate Floor Leader Berkley. No one
has risen to dispute Berkley's theme
that the President is at least partly
surrounded with men he (Berkley)
described as nitwits or worse?"a
mind more clever than honest." That
long has been a glaring Washing
ton deftoiency.
The public has assumed Berkley
was shooting at treasury officials
who normally would submit data for
a veto message on the subject of
taxes. Inside congress that assump
tion is rejected.
Berkley is believed to have had
In mind one particular Roosevelt ad
viser who did most.of the work on
the veto message?a man net in the
The departure of this man from
the White Bouse coterie may be nec
essary before a mora friendly un
to possible.
Britain's Swordfish
By Scott ft etc hall
(WMU r*Mtzu9?Through tmtc 1*1 uriflinMH
wi* Ctllitrt W?klT.)
Though most Americans wouldn't
believe their ewes if they saw it, the
plane known as the Fairey Sword
fish is one of the mainstays of Brit
ain's Fleet Air Arm.
Every time a Swordfish goes roar
ing down the flight deck of a carrier
and claws its way aloft, the pageant
of man's conquest of the air is lived
again for a few tense seconds. For,
I to the casual spectator, a Swordfish
I flying off to battle in this war looks
about as efficient and dangerous as
a crossbowman on his way to tackle
a squad of Commandos.
A Swordfish is a large, gangling
biplane. It weald St comfortably
into any movie sequence of the peri
od 1917-1918. The wings and fuse
lage are covered with fabric, which
is originally painted in shades rang
ing from gray to bine, bat because
every Swordfish invariably has a
light rash of patches en its skin, the
general result Is a sort of mottled
shade.
rue patcnes are trie result 01 a
curious hazard in a Swordfish's life.
After some service, the fabric be
comes brittle, and curious visitors
find that their fingers inadvertently
punch holes in the wing surface.
Also, in a dive or tight turn, the
fabric covering sometimes flutters
in an unpleasant, nervous fashion.
Fleet Air Arm pilots, both in af
fection and alarm, call these planes
Stringbags.
The space between the two wings
is pretty well filled with struts and
wires and such, and back by the
tail a lot of wires come out of the
fuselage and rim to the control sur
faces. The fuselage itself is a long,
narrow structure. The three open
cockpits start immediately behind
the following edge of the upper wing,
the pilot in the first, the observer in
the second, the aerial gunner in the
last. So the Swordfish looks and
sometimes acts like something out
of a mail-order catalogue.
Aerial Hide and Seek.
Yet, regularly, stories come back
on how these planes can muddle
through. For example, in the Nor
way campaign a Stringbag from the
Ark Royal found itself on the busi
ness end of a Heinkel 111. The
Swordfish, however, came back to
its carrier with nothing worse than
a slight case of dizziness aboard.
The pilot merely dived down on a
Norwegian mountain and then flew
in tight circles around it. The Hein
kel couldn't cut corners so sharply,
so he finally gave up and flew away.
As a matter of faet, one school of
Swordfish philosophy argues that the
incredibly slow speed of the aircraft
is an asset. The fast-attacking en
emy aircraft simply cannot slow
down enough to get in an efficient
burst.
The Royal Navy calls its Sword
fish torpedo-spotter-reconnaissance
aircraft. Every carrier in the fleet
has flown them off to seek the en
emy and, if possible, get a torpedo
into him. To be a naval success a
plane must have a quick takeoff, a
low landing speed, and carry a
heavy load. And that is where the
lumbering Swordfish excels.
mere is no sense in trying to
make a silk purse out of a Stringbag. I
It is painfully slow and awkward
and ugly. Its performance has
guaranteed that as long as the war
lasts there will always be a Sword
fish. It has a great record behind
it On many and curious missions
this strange craft has proved its
worth. The crews who fly the
Stringbags have developed an odd
and somewhat contemptuous affec
tion for their planes.
Italy's Bad Lack
Swordfish flew into the Italian fleet
at Taranto, putting three battleships
out of action and changing the bal
ance of naval power in the Mediter
ranean. They bombed Genoa early
in the war, covered countless Malta
convoys and put torpedoes into the
French fleet at Or an. Again, Sword
fish were down in the Channel fog
looking for the Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau when the German ships
made their dash from Brest That
time only a few came back.
Bad It was la the wintry North
Atlantic that the Bwerdflsh did Its
greatest Jeh. 8trtaghag torpedoes dis
abled the Bismarck so that the sar
faee fleet coald close in for tha kill.
Stringbags hare alee engaged In
eztraenrriemlar activities. At the
time of Dankerqne, some of them
were sent over the French and Bel
gian coasts. So they flew op and
down the coast In tight formatien,
pretending to bo flghter coverage
(or the troopo below. Apparently
they got away with It, too.
In another case a Swordfish was
turned into a flghter when, after the
two machine guns were emptied, an
observer drew his revolver and as
saulted an attacking Italian plane
with that. The Italian Sew home
across the Mediterranean.
THOSE SMALL-TOWN TEACHERS
(Apropos of a recent belittling of
school teachers by the mayor of
New York on the ground they cam*
from rmall towns.) -
They're Just some small - town
tetchcrf?
They're Just the smaller fry;
toy come from little places
(Where bo load-speakers ery);
They're imall-town educators?
Their I.Q. it is slight;
They merely know the secret
Of teaching troth and light!
They're Just some small-town teach
ers
Not qualified to talk
Of things like education
la cities like New York;
They come from all those hick spots
Like York town, Miller's Bon,
Benniags, Ticoaderoga .
And?let's say?Lexington!
They're lust some little people
From places far away
From all the super spotlights
And microphonic play;
Just schoolma'ams who don't mat
ter?
The class and type I scorn?
Who teach in towns Hke Springfield
Where Lincoln's kind are born.
They're Jost the small fry tutors?
The mind they merely mold
In Concord and in Plymouth
And other spots of old;
They're merely bush-league teach
ers
Yon know the sort I mean?
Who taught the Hales and Prescetts
Kit Carson and Nate Greene.
They teach hi far Missoula,
In Saybrook and Fort Lee . . ?
In Medford town and Trenton
In Kent and Little Tree;
In schools around Mount Vernon
And Saratoga Heights
In Gettysburg and Menltrie;
They're Just the lesser lights!
So eh teachers! Merely bashers!
The kind I scorn and shim;
They merely taught Steve Foster,
Bell, Ford, and Edison!
How dare they make suggestions
To cities all aglow,
Where noise and sise and clamor
And rudeness ran the shew.
? ? ?
IN THE RED AND BLUE CHIPS
How're you doing with those new
ration "tokens"? The red and blue
chips that will supplant coupons are
now in circulation.
Good fun, too!
?
This department has investigated
and found that tokens have it all
over coupons for fun and utHity. If
a coupon falls from your pocket you
can't hear it drop, a disadvantage
completely removed by tokens. And
remember that a coupon always had
one big drawback: Ton couldn't
stitch it onto a pair of pants as a
suspender button.
?
It is also possible, if you are a
skilled operator, to use ration tokens
in buses, peanut machines and juke
boxes. We just tried out the juke
box angle. We put in ten red disks
and got two frankfurters, n piece
of cheese and a song hit.
?
For Ave blues we got a half pound
of "Shoo Shoo Baby" on rye bread,
three eggs and one patty of butter.
?
Then we tried a pinball machine.
We used about 500 points in ration
tokens and only got 350 points on
the pinball scoreboard. The matter
was referred to OPA which prompt
ly referred it to the department of
justice.
?
Those new red and blue ration j
tokens are now being issued in
change for ration coupons. This
means you are allowed twice as
many arguments on the same num
ber of points.
?
When yea come back from the
botcher market yea now have, not
ealy you bandies, bat a collection
of disks, slogs and buttons of
Junior's party-pants.
These tokens or buttons will be
worth one point each as a starter.
(If the baby swallows a few, bring
him to the nearest delicatessen store
and swap him for a can of peas
and some meat loaf.?Ed note.)
?
If daddy swallows a ooupie Just
tail Urn it serves htm right for
reaching far aspirin tablets in the
dark.
a
Our grocer, however, says he is
well pleased. Customers with cou
pons could always swoop in and take
him by surprise. But carrying these
new tokens he can hear 'em rattle
at 200 yards.
a a a
Elmer Twttehell Is always Issllng
far trouble. He has put In an appli
cation to bo a referee srhen the
executors of Mrs. Shaw's estate be
gin trying to remodel the Irish.
? ? ?
Mayor LaGuardia announces that
butter may be nerved again at
lunches In New York restaurants.
But are didn't have much luck.
"Butter, please," we said.
"No butter," said the waiter.
"The Mayor says I can't have it."
"Get it over the radio," be
snapped.
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Bonin. The other is directed at the Philippines.
Up and Coming People Make Today's News
Now that so many wives and mothers are engaged in war work, men are learning to cook. Picture at left
shows Carlton Roil, student at a cooking school for men, just opened in New York. Center: Miss Mary Fretch,
whose suggestions for speeding op production have saved 2,500 man hours a year in one plant, receives special
award from Donald M. Nelson, head of WTO. Right: Merrill Wolf, 12, youngest student ever enrolled at Yale.
i Life Goes Merrily On in Burma
A tiny half-dressed Burmese girl gets u early education on how to
carry en, in spite of being homeless and poverty-stricken. She is helping
her mother sift rice near the rough shelter they call home. Bight: A pretty
Burmese nurse feeds a tasty bit of food to Capt. John Colling of San Fran
cises during a Jungle picnic somewhere in Burma.
Senators Live a Day on Army Rations
are -T?*. ..*? *,tWiirt ? *?7 ???oa fer a day
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| 'Young Democrat'
Pretty Mr*. Dorothy MeElroy
Vredenbnrgh, 27-year-old Alabama
leader of the "Yoimg Democrats,"
shown upon arrival hi Chicago.
Battlefront Baby
Ae Italian baby toy is pietared
pUym, in the sand oatside
W? Crass home, near Aasis, Italy,
orictaal home was liotriyad
AM battle (or the beachhead.
\ Perhaps It Was the ff'oj ?
That Mr. Smith Said It ?
Smi'h was discussing his wife'.!
peculiarities with a few frieraiB
who l.ad gathered at his home ?
"Tie other day," he said, ';m, ?
wile put on a new dress which ?
atrocious beyond words. 1 daren't ?
say a word about it, and dared I
hardly look at it, but as she went I
out I went to the window to haw I
another look and?" ?
At this juncture his wile entered I
the room suddenly. ?
"And," continued Smith, "they I
found the cat eleven days later cs I
top ol the Eiffel Tower!" ?
And Mrs. Smith still does not I
understand what there was in that I
ridiculous statement to mai? ?
them all laugh so uproariously. I
Add Indigestion I
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Mate th? fnsteet-actmg methanes known far ?
SNAPPY FACTS"
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M. HUBBEB
Authorities expect that letie.
American countries will cae
tribute 13 to 40 thousand tees
of crude rubber during 1944,
In 1941 the U. 3. and Canada
used *00,000 tens of rubber,
wnd current reguiremeets are
larger.
The Quartermaster Corps has devel
oped a rubber and canvas Ansy
boot for tropical wear. The sale
contains both crude and redaesed
rubber, and is not affected by
lungle moisture and soil chemicals.
Over seven billion passengers
were transported by motor
bee la 1942, compared with
abeat four and a half billion
In 1940, reflecting the curtail
ment of passenger car use by
rubber conservation.
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WHY BEAM 10
HARSH LAXATIVES?
Simple Fresh Fruit Drink
Has Restored Millions to
Normal Regularity!
Here's a way to overcome con
stipation without harsh laxatives.
Dnnk juice of 1 Sunkist Lemon ia
a glass of water first thing on
arising.
Most people find this all they
need?stimulates norrrial bowel lo
tion day after day!
Lemon and water is pood for
you. Lemons are among the rich
eat sources of vitamin C, which
combats fatigue, helps resist colds
and infections. They supply valo
able amounts of vitamins Bj and
P. They pep up appetite. They
alkalinize, aid digestion. Lemon
and water has a fresh tang too?
clears the mouth, wakes you up,
starts you going. . ,
Try this grand wake-up dnn*
10 mornings. See if it doesn t help
you! Use California Sunkist
Lemons.
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