WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
NEW YORK.—News of our partici
pation in the Egyptian offensive
against Rommel has not been highly
personalized, but an occasional pass
General Brereton
Supplies Complete Maj. Gen.
_ .. _ Lewis H.
Dramatis rersonae Brereton
makes up for the general lack of a
dramatis personae. He’s a whole
cast of characters all by himself, as
he commands our air co-operation
in the attack—with the widest and
readiest grin, one of the stiffest wal
lops and unquestionably the most
flexible vocabulary in the army. He
swears In four languages, with rare
improvisation and in a rasping voice
which is said to be miraculously ef
fective in hopping up fighting men.
He is the commander of the U.S.A.
Middle Eastern air forces, trans
ferred from India last July.
One might call him the Larry
MacPhail of the Army, as he Is
both sestful and exultant with a
fight on, or the chance for a fight
anywhere In the offing. He par
ticularly seemed to enjoy com
manding America's first offen
sive in the war in the Far East.
That was on April 2. Heading
the bombing mission from India
to the Japanese-held Andaman
Islands, he jockeyed his B-17
right into the thick of the fracas
and by all accounts had the hap
piest day of his life, as the Jap
anese were given a handsome
pasting.
He hit the road to glory after a
stiff jolt. He had just been trans
ferred to the command of Clark field
in the Philippines when the Japa
nese came, with no time to get
things air-shape. The blasting of
his planes and men in the hopelessly
uneven contest was terrific and Gen
eral MacArthur, ordering no more
sacrifices, sent him to Australia with
his air force and then to India. From
his new base, he swarmed all over
the battle area, fighting with Gen
eral Chennault’s Flying Tigers and,
all in all, made a magnificent come
back.
From Pittsburgh, he went to
the Naval academy In 1907 and
transferred to the signal corps,
our fledgling air service, a year
after his graduation in 1911. He
fought in the air at Verdun, was
shot down at St. Mihlel and
came out of the war with the
Distinguished Service cross, the
Purple Heart, the Legion of
Honor ribbon and the Croix de
Guerre. Last September, in non
or of his exploits in the Pacific,
there was added to these the
Distinguished Flying cross.
DAUL C. SMITH, quitting the OWI
* to join the marines, hits this en
terprising outfit with a fast running
start and should catch their cadence
Halley, Comet of ^th/young
Newepaperdom I, speed - ball
Now Leatherneck
San Francisco, a West coast mar
vel of the last few years, who not
only supercharged the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, as its general man
ager at the age of 29, but outshone
many of the graybeards of the town
in labor mediation, civic enterprise
and battles for the public weal in
general.
He Joined the OWI in Decem
ber, 1941, and became chief of
its news bureau last August. It
was to be expected that he
would Join the marines. He saw
many of the global aspects of
this war long before It started.
The marines go places, globally,
and that’s always his big idea.
Mr. Smith, the Halley's comet
of recent newspaper decades,
never went to college. From his
take-off at Seattle, his home
town, he worked in lumber
camps, coal mines and on farms
In the northern United States
and Canada and later formulat
ed and applied much of this ex
perience in newspaper work.
In 1928, when he was 20 years
old, he made a few cautious plays
in the market, did well enough, and
ventured into investment banking in
San Francisco and New York. This
turned him toward financial writing
and his first connection with the San
Francisco Chronicle. He became its
financial editor and its general man
ager in 1937.
In 1938, Mr. Smith toured Europe
with his friend Herbert Hoover, and
returned, in March, with some omi
nous prophecies. He said war was
surely coming “in from one to five
years.” The United States, he said,
“will pay the price along with the
rest of the world. It is no longer a
question of whether or not we pay,
but a simple question of how much.”
An interesting forecast in view of
what the marines are paying tn
Guadalcanal. Mr. Smith was one
of the few journalists who saw and
reported what was happening in
France.
Second Front in Africa
Points North to Italy
Underground Anti-Fascists in Italy Want
Strong Brand of Democracy for Aiding
Allies; Seek U. S. Pledge.
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyit and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1343 II Street, N-W,
Washington, D. C.
According to a number of people
in Washington, of whom your cor
respondent is one, the most star
tlingly important event of the war
may be taking place and nobody,
including the enemy, will admit it.
A second front has been opened,
the first carefully planned and
meticulously timed offensive against
the Axis since the war started has
begun in Africa. There are diplo
matic developments as well as mili
tary which, some believe, indicate
that the path to victory will lead
through Rome.
Of course, you couldn't get even a
whiff of official confirmation for
such a presumptuous assumption
from anyone higher than a first ser
geant. Nevertheless, there seems to
be quite a bit of circumstantial evi
dence to support the observation
of such a development. At the
same time certain happenings in the
diplomatic field add their touch of
verisimilitude to what the military
might say was a bald and unwar
ranted, if not unconvincing state
ment.
Such military information as I
might offer, which has not been a
part of official statements, would not
be wise to print. But It is permis
sible to recall that the Germans
claim that the British have a million
men under General Alexander’s
command in Africa. The official
accounts of the number of American
flown planes in almost continuous
activity over a huge area indicate
that the American air force in
Egypt is not inconsiderable, even
In these days of giant armies and
armadas.
Apprehension in Tunisia
There are diplomatic reports of
apprehension on the part of the
populace of Tunisia, a vital strip of
territory lying along the coast of the
narrow waters that separate it from
Sicily, the Axis stepping stone from
Italy to Africa, which hint that
activities may extend even further
west than Libya.
These are some of the outward
signs which are there for all to see.
From a military standpoint
Italy Is the weak sister of the
Axis partnership. From the
standpoint of anti-Nasi-Fascist
Internal subversive organization
she is perhaps the strongest ally
for the United Nations. An Af
rican offensive might logically
end In an invasion of Italy.
The recognition of these anti
Fascist underground organizations
as important elements in the gen
eral Allied offensive against the
Axis can be taken as a straw show
ing which way the tide of war may
be flowing. And they are being rec
ognized.
One very significant development
was a recent statement from Lon
don, which at first blush simply
seemed to dampen any hopes that
the king of Italy might be a force
in bringing about a separate peace
with Italy. But this negative sug
gestion, when taken together with
certain other indications, has quite
another meaning. The London re
port indicated that the king was no
longer the "prisoner of Mussolini”
he had been pictured, but really the
friend of Fascism. This seemingly
gratuitous statement may well have
been offered as a piece of firing data
for the diplomatic marksmen indi
cating that they must change their
sights. And an inkling of just what
must be done in order to obtain the
support of the elements in Italy
which can be of service to the Allied
cause comes from an objective re
port on the underground in Italy.
This report, originating with anti
Fascist sources in the United States,
clearly analyzes who these people
are, what they have already accom
plished and what must be done to
get their co-operation. A realistic
program is laid down by inference
which will not be at all palatable
to the conservative or the conven
tional masters of official intrigue
among the United Nations.
According to this report from anti
Fascist sounces the underground in
Italy is now composed largely of
young men, born and educated in
Fascism, who are working entirely
from within its framework. They
are members of the party because
they have known no other party and
no other government through their
mature years. They are members
of the armed forces because they
are loyal to Italy.
According to the report which
1 mention, made by supposedly
authentic and authorized repre
sentatives of the anti-Fascists,
the underground movement in
Italy is powerful and effective;
It has accomplished a weaken
ing of civilian and military mo
rale; publishes a large and ef
ficient antl-Fascist press; has
organized political meetings
and combat groups in nearly
every Italian town; has brought
about unity for the first time in
Italian history between the
working class and the intel
lectuals. It has caused general
inefficiency in the army, caused
sabotage in the campaigns of
Greece, Albania and Libya and
effectively sabotaged war indus
tries.
The members of these groups, the
young men who grew up under
Fascism, are not revolting to bring
about a status quo ante—they are
revolting against the status quo for
definite aims. They want a new
democratic order.
Italian Anti-Fatcist Demand*
The members of the Italian un
derground are thoroughly deter
mined to overthrow Fascism wher
ever it exists. But they demand a
concrete, complete, sincere state
ment of the program of the anti
Fascist forces before they will join
them, since they risk everything
in revolt and think they might sim
ply gain new chains for old if they
faced a typical political peace.
They want, specifically, a clear
cut statement of the peace aims of
the United Nations. They want
these aims stated without equivoca
tion or couched in the fine generali
ties of the Atlantic Charter. And
they want to be sure that they have
the guarantee of the United States
as the administrator of those terms
with freedom to build the kind of
an Italy they want.
There is something of a parallel
between these Italian demands and
the revelations, or what the con
servative diplomats would call the
indiscretions, of Wendell Willkie
when he called for assurances of
the non-imperialistic designs of the
United Nations.
Willkie, as is his wont, used a
blunderbus instead of a scalpel to
obtain his end, but he did clear up
the atmosphere on the subject of
what Russia and China thought
about the need of extending the
scope of the Atlantic Charter. The
realistic Jan Smuts, prime minister
of South Africa, echoed this senti
ment a few days after Willkie’s re
port to the nation. Others are re
peating the demand for a full state
ment of peace aims.
Strong Brand of Democracy
Another point upon which some of
our allies, and particularly our po
tential allies in Italy, want recog
nized by us and emphasized is the
belief, many times stated but very
seldom elaborated, namely, that we
don’t expect to go back to things
as they were.
They expect democracy, but’
they make it plain they expect
it to be economic as well as
political, and they want a brand
that may prove stronger medi
cine thau everyone might care
to take. The groups in Italy,
like those in other countries,
have forged their political
philosophies in the fire of perse
cution.
The revolt against the physical
brutalities of totalitarianism is likely
to carry them far in the opposite
direction. They demand an ideal of
democracy hard to attain.
It becomes, therefore, a vital task
of the American statesman, in as
suming the necessary leadership of
the United Nations as their supreme
physical effort approaches, to for
mulate a post-war world peace
ideal. If, as seems possible, the
second front will touch Italy, home
of Fascism, before it reaches the
Nazi borders, the attitude of Italy’s
anti-Fascists must be clearly under
stood and taken into account.
B R I E F S • • . by Baukhage
*
The U. S. Civil Service commis
sion is looking (or dietitians to till
jobs at $1,800 a year.
• * •
When soldiers don't write to their
girls, the girls write to camp host
esses.
. * •
One company is hoping to ease the
transportstion situation by building
a 117-pas#tHiger bus.
San Francisco motorists can now
park their cars in a four-floor un
derground steel and parking area
beneath the park.
• • »
Farmers received higher prices in
mid-September than a month earlier
for grains, cotton, tobacco, fruits,
dairy and poultry products, reports
the U. S. bureau of agricultural eco
; nomics
I
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HIDDEN HUNGER
Some months ago the Canadian
Medical association, with funds pro
vided by insurance companies, pub
lished a little book called “Food and
Health,” a copy or
which was to reach
every home in Can
ada. This little
book told of food
values, the needs of
the body for various
kinds of food, the
cost of an “all
round” meal for
families of various
sizes and other use
ful information about
Dr. Barton food and health.
The National Nu
trition program, through the United
States Federal Security agency, in
cludes a motion picture on nutrition
entitled “Hidden Hunger.” “We all
have a job to do these days and
part of our share in the nation’s
wartime effort begins with our
choice of foods."
A recent nation-wide survey
showed that two out of five of us
suffer from hidden hunger—live at
half speed, because we only feed
parts of our body and let the other
parts starve. The body needs 40
different food elements to feed its
various cells—some elements to
feed muscles, others to feed the
brain, others for the cells by which
we see, feel and hear.
I will not reveal the plot of the
film story by which we will all be
taught “to use food wisely and
thereby stop extravagant waste of
our abundant food stuffs and at the
same time get ourselves an equal
chance for health the way we got
ourselves an equal chance to vote.”
“If the American people will only
buy and cook well-balanced meals
those now suffering from hidden
hunger (not the hunger coming from
an empty stomach but the hunger in
a body that has been fed the wrong
kind of food) will be brought back
to health and efficiency.”
What is the amount and the kinds
of food a man should eat every day
to be hale and hearty?
“One egg, one pint of milk (three
fourths to one quart for growing
children); two vegetables (green,
leafy or yellow) and a potato; an
orange or tomato juice and another
fruit, three or four slices of the
right kind of bread (whole wheat
or enriched white); two tablespoons
of butter or margarine, and meat.”
• • •
What Causes
Bad Breath?
A few years ago I followed a con
troversy as to whether bad breath
was due to food particles left be
tween the teeth or to some disturb
ance in the stomach and intestines.
It is admitted that bad breath can
be caused by mouth and nose condi
tions such as infected teeth and ton
sils, and by the dry form of catarrh.
But what causes bad breath when
mouth, nose and throat are free of
infection?
Drs. Burrill B. Crohn and Rudolph
Drosd, New York, in the Journal
of the American Medical Associa
tion, state that heretofore patients
with bad breath have consulted nose
and throat specialists and dentists
who searched for decaying teeth, in
fected gums, and infections of
throat and sinus. The teeth, the
gums, the tonsils and sinuses are
the cause at times only and cases
due to nose and throat conditions
are becoming less in number due
to better knowledge of the impor
tance of a healthy mouth, throat
and nose.
Experiments were made as to the
best method or methods to prevent
the odor of garlic on the breath
These research workers found that
it was not the mouth nor the stom
ach that was responsible for the
odor of garlic on the breath but the
intestines, particularly the small in
testine into which the partially di
gested food is poured from the
stomach.
Why is the small intestine respon
sible for bad odors on the breath,
because oil of peppermint and oil
of wintergreen were also used in the
tests and these two oils acted ex
actly the same as garlic?
These research workers state that
halitosis is due to the fact that fat
foods eaten are not handled properly
_>r are not handled completely by
the liver and it is these incompletely
digested fat foods, lying in the small
intestine, that cause the odor. They
point out that patients with peptic
ulcer taking much milk daily often
have a bad breath. "If these pa
tients are gi%’en a diet of cereal,
eggs, and lean meat, the odor dis
appears."
• • •
QUESTION BOX
Q.—Is it harmful to eat a raw po
tato every day?
A.—A raw potato will do no harm
if eaten daily . One raw vegetable or
fruit daily is rerommended by food
experts.
Q.—What causes me to become
exhausted easily?
A.—Two eonimonest causes of ex
haustion are: (a) nervousness or
emotional upsetments, worries and
conflicts, (bi some low infection,
teeth, tonsils, sinus or intestines.
,
Greater Farm Safety
Part of War Program
Accidents Cost People
$4,000,000 During ’41
“I knew I shouldn’t have done
it,” is a remark often made by acci
dent victims after the damage has
been done. And because the war
now makes the full working ability
of every man and woman more im
portant than ever before, greater
accident-prevention care should be
taken.
Accidents cost the American
people $4,000,000 in wages, medi
cal expenses, insurance, and
property damage last year. A
total of 102,500 persons were
killed, 350,000 permanently dis
abled and 8,950,000 temporarily
injured. ,
Much has been written on how to
prevent accidents, but the best rem
edy is individual care i?nd thought
fulness.
Common among the causes of ac
cidents is placing hands between
gears, chains, cutter knives, or oth
er parts of machinery in motion. In
addition to avoiding this danger,
A picture of an excellent Spartan
burg county, South Carolina, farm
showing strip rotation of cotton and
small grain, with the small grain
followed by annual lespedeza.
other precautions are listed as fol
lows:
Do not cut toward yourself
when using a knife.
Do not climb a ladder until it
is properly placed, Arm and
steady.
Use a safety rope or strap
when climbing a tree for prun
ing.
Drive tractor and car care
fully. '
Field machinery will last longer
if operated at moderate speed. Farm
machinery and equipment, as well
as industrial machinery, are now
provided better than ever with safe
ty devices.
Agriculture
in
Industry
By FLORENCE C. WEED
Tung Nuts
Back in 1904, Dr. David Fairchild
of the government bureau of plant
industry secured a quantity of Tung
nuts from China. They were plant
ed widely in this country, in all ex
cept cold climates, and from this
beginning, has sprung a new indus
try which aims to furnish essential
quick-drying oil to the paint indus
try.
A bumper crop in 1940 provided
5,000,000 pounds of tung nuts with a
million dollar income to growers.
A narrow belt in the southern states,
50 to 100 miles wide, has been found
best suited to growing tung trees.
These come into bearing in the
third year. They yield nuts with
woody hulls the size of small apples
inside of which are from three to
seven seeds. Machinery used in
crushing the seeds is similar to that
used for crushing oil from cotton
seed, peanuts and soybeans. The
residue left is pressed into cakes and
returned to the grower who uses it
; for fertilizer.
During the last ten years, before
the outbreak of the war with Japan,
oil valued at ten million dollars was
imported from China each year.
Much of this was of inferior grade
and adulterated with other oils. It
has sold from 5.1 cents to as high
as 27.2 cents per pound in barrels at
New York. With this foreign supply
unavailable, the superior American
j product is finding a ready market.
Mills equipped for dchulling and
! crushing tung seed have been estab
lished in Alabama, Florida. Geor
gia, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Is Your Food Poundage Up ?
In a population of 133 million, ap
petites vary tremendously. There
may be dainty eaters while others
are hearty eaters, but adding ma
chine experts have calculated that
each of us would have had on the
average, 1,422 pounds of food in a
year if all the food were evenly di
vided in the five-year period 1920
1924. In the "prosperity” years 1925
1929 the average went up 52 pounds
to 1,474 pounds.
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RUTH WYETH SPEARS^
TJERE is a hooked hearth rug
that may some day grow up
to room size. The turquoise flowers
and red cherries in the alternate
squares are from dyed pieces of
the old cream colored wool blan
kets.
Twelve-inch squares of burlap
overcast around the edge made
the foundation pieces. Patterns
for the repeat design were cut
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TOGETHER
from paper and the burlap was
marked by drawing around these
with wax crayon. Loops of fabric
strips wen* drawn through with a
steel rug nook. Red was used for
the curved lines shown at the up
per left. Tones of brown for the
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1. How much water does an inch
of rain give to the acre?
2. What building is known as
the “Cradle of Liberty”?
3. How many pairs of walking
legs has a spider?
4. In court procedure, if a tales
is issued, it means what?
5. A cross shaped like a plus
sign is called what?
The Answers
1. One hundred tons.
2. Faneuil Hall.
3. A spider has four pairs of
walking legs.
4. Additional jurors are sum
moned.
5. A Greek cross.
6. Lydia.
flower and gray for the cherryi
background. Mixed colors for the'
rest of the design.
• • •
NOTE: Mrs. Spears has prepared a
special pattern for the rug in today'*'
sketch with detailed directions for begin
ners. So, even if you have never mad*
a hooked rug, you can start now making
squares for a rug of any size you wish.1
Book 7 in the series of homemaking book
lets contains 31 of these sketches with
Instruction text; also descriptions of th*
series. Send your order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
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