WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK r By LEMUEL F. PARTON Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. NEW YORK.—Heroes are almost necessarily young these days. Hence the more news in the stand of Edouard Herriot and Jules n , . Jeanneney A Reminder That against ‘A France There P e t a 1 n , Will Always Be’ ler, and for France. M. Herriot is 70 and M. Jeanneney is 78. There is an old proverb, "A wise old man's word is worth more than a young buzzard’s sword.” M. Jeanneney is president of the senate and M. Herriot president of the chamber of deputies, in the over thrown parliament which still lives in the hearts of true Frenchmen. They were big news in 1934 and 1935, when they were not implicated in the fateful Stavisky pawn shop scan dal, percursor of the inside job which delivered La Belle France, roped and hog-tied to Hitler. Stavisky might have been Mark Twain’s “Man Who Cor rupted Hadleyburg.” Smeared were Chautemps, Laval, Flan din, Tardieu, Daladier and pret ty nearly every top-hole politl-» clan In France, but not these old-timers, who long before had proven both their honesty and loyalty to the republic. “If there were one honest man among you I would have saved you.” France may Invoke Scrip ture and remind the world that she came through with two. The bullet-headed, bull-necked, pompadoured Herriot. former peda gog and for 25 years mayor of Lyons, was long known as the Theo dore Roosevelt of France, super charged with energy. He won the premiership in June, 1924, and he and his cabinet of radical Socialists held power until the following April. Then as later the radical Socialist party was full of termites and included in its lead ership many of the men who later supervised the moral and political collapse of their country. From then. Herriot was an outsider. He rose again in 1933 defeat ing, appropriately, the Tardteu Laval faction. French politics, in those years, was no place for an honest man and he soon was on the sidelines again. He be longs in the picture of staunch bourgeois liberalism. Jules Jeanneney, long a bearded patriarch, is an old-school politician who, like M. Herriot, made his polit ical career in the provinces. Sev eral times he narrowly missed be ing president of France. COME people were talking the ^ other night about econometrics, ecology, geo-politik. and logistics. We asked one of them how about a », It and he There Appears No said; .Tm Movement Against a stranger Dictionary Inflation here my* self.” That goes for a lot of us these days, with new names and events outrunning both dictionaries and encyclopedias. Our fat and conservative old dic tionary doesn't list econometrics, but here it Is, on the financial page, thoroughly respectable. The news is that Jacob Baker, formerly Harry Hopkins' right hand man, down among the al phabetical folk at Washington, has been elected vice president of the Institute of Applied Econ ometrics, Inc. As we get It, after asking many innocent by standers, econometrics has to do with teaming statistics and eco nomic theory, in mutual aid, by which the statistics take on meaning and the theory be comes possibly provable or plausible. Within the last four days we have pegged news stories touching on all of the above four new bright facets of dinner-table talk. They have to do with post-war reconstruction. Whatever happens, we’U have a word for it. Mr. Baker was born and reared In Colorado, was gradu ated from the Colorado Agricul tural college and the University of California school of engineer ing, found plenty of adventure as a mine manager in Mexican hot spots, and started his Chi cago career in the service of oil, utility and engineering firms. He is genial and baldish, casually dressed, usually smoking a pipe, and is the last man you would pick foi such precision and incisiveness as his new title would suggest. We used to meet him at singing parties, a few years ago, at which he was Jake Baker, quite unlike the Jacot Baker of the consulting engineering firm of House, Baker and Associates of Chicago. He was a good catch as-catch-can close-harmony singei and everything about him was a variance with his career of zig-zag price charts, co-efficients of expan cions, torques and obsolescence. ~ _ NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Effectiveness of Bombing Nazi Supply Lines . . . Yank Fighter Planes Can Take It . . . Bell Syndicate—WNU Features. WASHINGTON.—If the air enthu siasts are right—and there is a very j strong probability that they are— hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved by prosecuting the war along the line of their plans instead of “fighting the Boer war over again.” The point is that everyone now ; gives lip service to Gen. William j Mitchell, but actually most of the | admirals and generals are still thinking in terms of World War No. 1, if not Civil war strategy. It would be libelous to print what the generals and admirals say privately about Alexander de Seversky. But De Seversky MAY be right. Any such idea as crushing Germany by air power is resisted mostly by three points to which the ad mirals and generals cling. One is that the airplane cannot con quer anything—ground troops must move up to occupy. The second is that the bombing of London did not reduce Britain. It only made her fight harder. The third Is that Madrid did not fall despite the terrific air raids, which is generally linked with the more recent development that General Field Marshal Er win Ilominel seems to have done pretty well, on the whole, in North Africa, despite United Na tions superiority in the air. The air enthusiasts contend that none of these points is valid in the immediate problem of crushing Ger many. The Nazis are now fighting Russia, they point out, with a supply line extending up to 1,500 miles. Tremendous air power, exerted against that supply line, in addition to bombing the factories in western Europe which are producing its materials, would soon be of far more help to Russia than any imaginable second front. Nazis Admit Helplessness The Germans are admitting to their own people that they cannot properly resist or properly retaliate against Britain for the present raids against Germany This is an ad mission that at the moment the Nazis do not have enough bombing and fighting planes for their cam paign in both East and West, not to mention Africa. Tlie air enthusiasts say that rapidly increasing air strength in the West would soon make a shambles of Germany's pro duction centers, and that there is no better target for precision bombing than a railroad bridge. Or a highway bridge for that matter. The Flying Fortresses have demonstrated what they can do with precision bombing. It is contended by the British that the Flying Fortresses do not have enough range, or enough carrying power as compared with their own big bombers. The air enthusiasts, though not agreeing that this is sound criticism, point out that the big United States bombers can at tend to the northern France and Western Germany objectives, and thus free the longer range and heavier explosive load-carrying British bombers to handle eastern Germany and the supply lines to the Nazi armies fighting in Russia Opinions of Aviation Experts On Various Nations’ Planes Here is the careful conclusion of aviation experts on the merits of airplanes of the warring nations: The British have the best fighter in the world—the Spitfire It is con siderably superior to the latest im proved Nazi fighters, which, how ever, are better than the United States fighters. The Jap Zero fight er is also superior in maneuvera bility and altitude possibility to the United States fighter planes. BUT— these “inferior" United States fight ers invariably, up to now, have de stroyed more enemy planes than they have lost. More of that later The United States medium bomb er, the type used in the attack on Tokyo—a two-engined job—is great ly superior to anything comparable made by any nation in the world. The very large bombers. In cluding the Flying Fortress, have the critics arguing with each other. The British critics— not oflicial army people, but edi tors of aviation magazines, etc. —insist that they are not as use ful as the big British bombers. They are compared with big bombers which carry a much larger load of explosive, and can fly much farther with that load. The British are thinking in terms of bombing Austria and astern Germany when they talk about long flights, and they are thinking of the nearer tar gets in the Reich, such as Bremen and Hamburg and the Ruhr, when they talk about the amount of explosive carried for such missions. PREPAREDNESS Irf ^ 1Mr AMERICAN RED CROSS A SSISTANCE to members of ** the nation’s fighting forces and their dependents is the pri mary duty of the Red Cross. This obligation is set forth in the charter granted the American Red Cross by congress in 1905, and in the army and navy regula tions. It is also stated in the pres ent selective service regulations, which require all draft boards to refer questions concerning the welfare of selectees and their de pendents after induction to the Red Cross. Red Cross help to service men and their dependents takes two forms: In every army camp and with every American fighting unit anywhere a Red Cross field direc tor is on the job. His duty is to h^lp the service man with his problems and relieve him of wor ry over them. In nearly every county in the United States is a local Red Cross chapter, with a home service worker. Its job is to help the serv ice man’s dependents, and relieve them, too, of worry and need. Assistance to members of the armed forces may take the form of advising them or their depend. ents on government life insurance, allotments or pensions, and of helping them in filling out the nec essary application forms. The Red Cross may even help members of the service man’s family in getting employment, emergency medical treatment, or it may grant them money to tide the family over until an allotment is actually received from the gov ernment. More than 2,500 field directors with the armed forces, and 3,735 Red Cross chapters throughout the nation stand ready to help and advise service men and their de pendents. Prepared exclusively for WNU. TERNS SEWQNG CDD2CLE ~ DINAFORE and panties which * you can turn out on your sewing machine in just a few hours! Snug little bodice top, full, flounc ing skirt, buttons down the back and a lovely big bow make the frock as cunning as any you’ve seen in a long while. It will be mighty smart in a cheerful ging \ ON THE HOME FRONT/ RUTH WYETH SPEARS X -PAD WITH COTTON BATTING BASTED TO MUSLIN REMOVE MAGAZINE HOLDER OR ARM «STy!n?^ V Id SATEEN, GREEN FRINGE AND BUT- /Til TONS- TUFT BT BB SEWING THROUGH^/, ARMS,BACK AND ^ CUSHION p\ON’T throw away that frayed wicker chair for with a little expense in time and money it may be made to serve for the duration. The sagging arm rest, magazine holder and frayed-out wicker around the legs should be re moved. Cotton batting is then basted to muslin and sewn to the chair. The sateen cover for chair and cushion is made next. The tuft ing is done by sewing through cover, padding and openings in the wicker work with carpet thread and a long darning needle; add ing a button at each stitch. l/ncle Phil An Unnatural Liking Success is attained not by 4oing the things we like, but by liking the things we have to do. If a man doesn’t know anything, he will tell you all about it at great length. Perhaps the reason romance lasted longer in the old days was because the bride looked the same after washing her face. When one will not, two cannot quarrel. Pleasant Wishing It is more consoling to wish that one were as young as those who value the ephemeral enjoyments of youth than to look contemptu ously on youth that overestimates them. If you wait too long for some thing to turn up, it may be your toes. If you want to leave footprints on the sands of time you must have plenty of sand. NOTE: This chair remodeling idea is from BOOK 7, of the series of booklets which Mrs. Spears has prepared for read ers. Book 7 also gives directions for a dining room cupboard; spools, boxes and orange crates made into useful furni ture. A washstand, an old buffet, and some chairs are remodeled. Thirty-two pages of illustrated directions for 10 cents postpaid. Address: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 10 cents for Book 7. Name. Address. jv. tv. tv. tv. (V. (V. (Va (A. (V. (V. TAe Questions 1. What is the distance from home plate to first base on a regu lation baseball diamond? 2. What is the Saorstat Eireann? 3. What does the word “pizzi cato” mean to a violinist? 4. How many active volcanoes are there on the island of Hawaii? 5. Are any baseballs stitched by machine? 6. What is a scallion? 7. What sea is sometimes re ferred to as the Gulf of Venice? 8. What officer normally has command of a regiment? 9. If a boat is jury-rigged, it is rigged for what? 10. Has any vessel in the U. S. navy ever been named for a woman? The Answers 1. Ninety feet. 2. The Irish Free State. 3. Pluck the strings. 4. Two, Kilauea and Mauna. 5. Seams in baseballs are sewed by hand. No machine has ever been invented to sew them satis factorily. 6. An onion. 7. Adriatic sea. 8. A colonel. 9. Temporary use. 10. The only vessel in the United States navy to be named for a woman was the USS Harriet Lane. 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The minister was trying to teach the significance of “white’’ to a Bible school class. “Why,” he said, “does a bride invariably desire to be clothed in white for her marriage?” As no one answered, he explained: “White stands for joy, and the wedding day is the most joyful occasion of a woman’s life.” A small boy queried: “Why do the men wear black?” Some Comfort Winston Churchill, the story goes, was walking through the ruins of some blitzed streets when an old woman greeted him. The prime minister asked her how she felt after the night of bombing. “Well, there’s one thing about these air raids,” she replied cheer fully, “they do take your mind off the war.” Aggravated Fellow Didn’t Tell All, It Seems “Going far?” asked the chatty little man in the club car as the open fields began to whisk by the train windows. “Only to Pittsburgh,” replied the grouch, who had been in Washington filling out question naires. “I’m in the steel brace business. My age is 53. I am married. My name is Henry Smith. 1 have a son 22 in the field artillery. And a niece with red hair. I shoot around 89 in golf. Is there anything else I can tell you?” “Yes,” replied the chatty little man amiably. “What oil do you use for your tongue?” r i J. Fuller Pep By JERRY LINK f/ I been reactin' about some of these divorces and It seems to me hus bands are like automobiles. If you take good care of them, you don't have to keep getting new ones all the time. And one way of takln' good care of him Is to see he gets all his vitamins. And that’s where KELLOGG’S PEP comes In. 'Course It hasn't got ’em all, but It's extra rich In the two most likely to be short In ordinary meals—vitamins B, and D. 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