Definite Show-Down Likely
- OnOffensiveAgainstJapan
ChineseFeelThatSuccessofMadameChiang
Kai-shek’s Mission to United States Will
Determine Future of Their Country.
By BAUKIIAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service. 1343 II Street, N.W.,
Washington, I). C.
In a hospital in an American city
one of the great women of the world
is lying under treatment for serious
but not critical trouble. The doc
tors have said assuringly that the
trouble is not dangerous, that
Madame Chiang Kai-shek will soon
be well.
Several million Chinese are wait
ing anxiously for her recovery.
Although the matter has not been
formally discussed as yet, it can
safely be predicted that when
Madame Chiang Kai-shek recovers
and she takes the house she has
rented in Washington, her mission
will not be secret long. According
to hints dropped in reliable quar
ters, this mission is to obtain a def
inite showdown on immediate aid
to China in the form of an all-out
Allied offensive against Japan.
The offensive must be made up of
a shuddering and shattering air at
tack on the heart of the Nipponese
empire—on Tokyo, on Yokohama, on
harbors and cities, on factories and
templed hills. At the same time a
huge Chinese army, well equipped
with supplies from America and
India, must be ready to advance for
Invasion.
It is explained that Japan is pre
paring for a knockout blow against
China. Its objective is not to con
trol the whole of Chinese territory,
but to strike northward from Thai
land and Burma; to take Chungking
and isolate the Chinese armies
which are not destroyed; or perma
nently to cut these armies off from
all aid from the Allies by blocking
off the approach from the Indian bor
der, along the frontiers of Burma
and Thailand and the eastern coast,
which they already hold.
The Japanese would also encour
age and aid the formation of a large
communist state in China in order
to further add to the confusion of
the political situation which the in
vasion would serve to bring about.
This the Chinese believe Japan could
do unless aid from the Allies comes
first. Military observers here agree
that it would not be impossible for
Japan to accomplish this.
As nearly as I am able to gauge
opinion here, the course that the
United Nations strategy will prob
ably follow is this; A real offensive
against Japan by the spring at least;
the strong probability of another
front to be opened somewhere else
before then. The United States
has a million men in its armed
forces outside the borders of the
United States now. It will have
more before long.
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Ruaaia’a Role
In War and Peace
Recently I heard an American
who had spent a long time In Russia
and not long since returned to Amer
ica give a vest-pocket version of
Russia’s role in the war and her
possible role in the post-war settle
ments. It may be a picture colored
over-brlghtly with the tints of wish
ful thought, but I present it for what
it is worth.
The Russians will not quit until
the last dog (their version of the
invader) is hung. After the peace
they will co-operate in establishing
the kind of a peace which the United
States would like to see established.
Several reasons are offered as to
why many experts utterly mis
judged the power of the Red armies.
One explanation is that the offen
sive strength of the Germans was
over-estimated.
The next explanation is that the
Russian, traditionally, will fight an
invader with fatalistic fury, provid
ed he is armed.
Although both of these statements
are accepted as sound, another ex
planation is offered. It has to do
with the reason why the Russian
army was able to put up its re
markable resistance and develop a
powerful striking power—how the
“traditional’’ fury was stimulated.
This is my informant's interpreta
tion, a part of which is not new, but
which offers the basis of his predic
tion as to the future conduct of
Russia.
He says that under the present
regime, especially since the various
long-time plans under Stalin have
been inaugurated, the younger Rus
sian generation, deprived of the
church, has sought an outlet for a
human being's natural desire for
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
OF A COLUMNIST
COMMENTATOR
I will try to write and talk as
much like a human being as pos
sible.
I won’t use any words on paper
or on the air I don’t use on the
street car and I will be sure I
know what the words I do use
mean.
I will not talk or write down to
my audience or up to my news
sources.
I will swallow my snorts and
coughs and wheezes until I can
signal the engineer to cut off the
mike.
I will try to keep personal
prejudices out of my manuscript
if I can’t always keep it out of
my voice.
I will not threaten to murder
the people who write in and ac
cuse me of saying the opposite
of what I did say.
I will read all my mail and
answer it in person if a stamp
is enclosed, or on the air, or, if
there is no other way, in spirit.
I will be grateful for the two
miraculous inventions, the print
ing press and the radio, which
permit me to have my say with
out being interrupted or talked
back to.
hope and faith. Stalin was able to
create a faith in his regime, not so
much in the theory of communism,
but in the government which had
shorn off considerable socialistic at
tributes and borrowed where it had
to from capitalism. And the various
plans had awakened a hope in the
people that this regime would give
them a lot of the things that they
began to find out other nations had.
They were, therefore, fighting to
realize the hope that they would get
the things which the regime, in
which they had faith, had promised
them and a part of which they had
already realized.
Now comes the next step. There
has grown up, with the blessing of
the Stalin regime, a great respect
for many things about America as a
country with whose help the Russian
can obtain the things which he hopes
for and which he knows the Ameri
cans possess.
Therefore, Russia's aim is to help
the Allies win the war and also help
with the peace with the expectancy
that in return America will help
Russia to realize its hopes.
That is the way my informant
tells the story—and. I might add,
that is the way America "hopes"
history will one day record it.
• • *
Questionnaires
The other day I was sitting beside
a man who has a great deal to do
with whether you and I will be run
ning our automobiles next year.
Somebody asked him what he
thought about these questionnaires
which farmers who want gasoline or
tires have to fill out.
This gentleman paused quite
awhile.
“I can’t tell you what I think of
them," he replied sadly, “while
there are ladies present."
I would like to tell you that man’s
name, but it was a strictly private
gathering. In any case, I hope it
will show you that all Washington
officials are not bureaucrats and
since this man is a man of action,
you can count on his help to carry
out some of the recommendations
of the Truman committee on gaso
line and fuel rationing.
"The farmer with a small truck
operating 12 hours a day,” says an
informal report of the committee,
“working 12 hours a day to keep
body and soul together and to con
tribute in some small measure
to the war effort finds himself sud
denly obliged to digest a 32-page
pamphlet of instructions and fill out
an elaborate questionnaire requiring
detailed data on activities long past
from entirely nonexistent records.”
This is the thing Washington is
now fighting against. All that is
needed is to get someone who is
"familiar with the problem of the
small farmer and truck operator"
to make up the questions. And that'
is the prescription that will have to
be applied in the writing of all ques
tionnaires in the future. Perhaps it
will be.
BRIEFS ••• by Baukkage
Members of the United States
armed forces and persons sending
money to them received a 50 per cent
reduction in domestic telegraph
money order rates effective Decem
ber 1, 1942.
• • •
Average annual loss of eggs
through careless handling amounts
to 4 to 5 per cent of entire produc
tion.
Married nurses are now eligible
for active duty with the army. If
you are a graduate, registered
nurse, between 21 and 40, you can
enroll with the Red Cross today!
• • •
The first USO club in America for
the exclusive use of all servicewom
en of the United Nations has been
opened by the Metropolitan Detroit
USO at the Downtown YMCA.
Between Fights in Solomons
What wise man, two years
ago, would have predicted
that the lonely Solomon is
lands, strewn in the path of
the route to Australia, would
today be a show-down battle
ground of the United States
and Japanese forces?
U. S. marines took a vital
airfield from the Japs on Au
gust 7-8, on Guadalcanal is
land, in the Solomons. Since
that time the Japs have
spent lots of money, men and
ships trying to take it back.
To keep it has cost Uncle
Sam much in money, men
and ships. But Old Glory is
firmly planted on Guadal
canal, and on other islands
of the Solomon group.
These pictures give you in
timate close-ups of life as it
goes for our boys in these
embattled islands.
In picture at top a marine re
moves his whiskers during a lull
in the fighting near the front
lines on Guadalcanal. Right:
Chow call for jungle fighters. A
lunch of soup, meat and bread
is served up to the marine troops
near the front lines.
Victorjn
Paraded
Set afire by a Jap bomb hit on the hangar in the background,
this marine fighter plane was pulled into the open by leathernecks
who used chemicals to extinguish the flames. The plane, a Grum
man Wildcat, returned to the air.
Shown above (left) is
a captured enemy field
piece. Above (right)
the girl he left behind
him is not forgotten
by this marine. Left:
Coffee is dispensed by
the barrelful.
Before this crude leanto on Tulagi island. Father James Fitz
gerald, beloved navy chaplain, says mass for marines of an amphi
bian tractor unit. Father Fitzgerald's home is in Chicago.
Shark-nosed army fighters such as thpse have combined uith
nary and marine planes to take a heavy toll of Jap aircraft in the
continuing battle for the Solomon islands.
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EMOTIONAL
DISTURBANCES
A man of 50 consulted his physi
| cian for indigestion. He had no
appetite, had pain regularly after
eating, slept poorly, and had no en
Ur. Barton
■
ergy. As one of the
symptoms pointed to
ulcer (regularity of
the pain) and anoth
er pointed to cancer
(lack of appetite)
and the patient was
at cancer age, an
X-ray examination
was made.
The X-rays showed
that neither ulcer
nor cancer was pres
ent but the pain was
due to rapid and ir
regular movements or the stomach.
This is called nervous or emotional
stomach and the patient admitted
that he had a serious problem wor
rying him. As there was no organic
trouble and the problem was solved
shortly afterwards, the digestive
symptoms disappeared and the pa
tient returned to normal weight. This
is called functional disease or dis
turbance of the stomach.
About 20 years ago, some physi
cians believed that just as emotional
disturbances caused these functional
symptoms in the stomach, so also
could they cause functional symp
toms in the liver and gall bladder by
interfering with the manufacture of
bile in the liver and the outflow of
bile from the gall bladder.
More recently, however, interfer
ence with the flow of bile from gall
bladder was thought to be due
to ‘‘stones, kinks and bands” which
‘‘slowed up” the natural flow of bile
from gall bladder. However, when
the surgeon operated for removal of
these obstructions, none of these
conditions were found to be causing
the slowness or stoppage of the bile
flow. What was found was evidence
that the gall bladder had great dif
ficulty in emptying itself because
emotional disturbances were closing
or tightening the ring or opening
through which the bile passed out
of the gall bladder.
Just as emotional disturbances
cause spasm of the ring of muscle
surrounding opening from stomach
to small intestine, so can emotional
disturbances cause a spasm or par
tial closure of the ring of muscle in
opening carrying bile to the tube
which, in turn, carries bile to small
intestine.
• • •
Stammering
And Allergy
While there was no such word as
allergy known to us until a few
years ago, we all remember foods or
surroundings that upset the stom
ach, caused head colds and brought
out hives on the skin. By recogniz
ing this fact and gradually losing
some of this allergic tendency by
use of vaccines or taking small
amounts of the substances, many
are kept free or nearly free of the
symptoms.
Physicians now believe that many
cases of asthma and some cases of
migraine—one-sided headache—are
due to allergy or are at least asso
ciated with allergy in some way.
A more recent and most interest
ing finding is that many cases of
enuresis (bed-wetting) and stam
mering are due to allergy or are a
part of the makeup of the allergic
individual.
In the British Medical Journal,
Dr. O. Gordon reports a history of
allergy in the child or his family in
85 (65 per cent) out of 128 bed
wetters as compared to 28 in 200 chil
dren without a personal or family
history of allergy. There were 70
children who stammered and of
these 46 (66 per cent) had a per
sonal or family history of allergy
and of the 200 children who had no
personal or family history of aller
gy, only 28 per cent were stammer
ers.
As migraine is often present in
bed-wetters and stammerers, it is
suggested that migraine and other
forms of headache may be a factor
in causing bed-wetting and stam
mering. In other words, it is not
allergy that causes the bed-wetting
and stammering, but there is some
thing in the makeup of certain in
dividuals that causes allergic symp
toms and this same something
causes the bed-wetting and the stam
mering. Dr. Gordon puts it thus:
“Bed-wetting and stammering are
not themselves direct symptoms of
allergy but result from the abnor
mal psychological traits (character
istics) commonly found in allergic
persons. The outstanding trait or
characteristic may be called self
consciousness, looking inward too
much.”
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QUESTION BOX
Q —Please tell me what 1 should
do for a rash and itching skin.
A.—I'm sorry but I try not to
prescribe for individual ailments.
Rash and itching often due to food
eaten.
Q.—Is it too late for cod liver oil
and massage to try to straighten the
bowed legs of a four-year-old girl?
A.—Your physician can refer you
to an orthopedic physician who will
give you the necessary information.
Don’t delay.
ON THE
(HOME FROM.,*;
RUTH WYETjJ-SPEARS.
BOTTOM OF
SPRINGS SEWN
TO WEBBING
WITH FLAX
UPHOLSTERY
TWINE
HEAVY HEMP
TWINE TIES TOPS
FROM BACK
TO FRONT-THEN
FROM SIDE
TO SIDE
CPRINGS in need of repair should
^ be removed and new webbing
stretched across the bottom of the
chair seat. The springs are then
replaced and the bottoms sewn to
the webbing.
Next comes the tying. Cut a
generous length of cord and tack
it to the back of the seat frame.
Using the knot sketched, tie to
the back and then the front of the
first spring. Continue across the
row, finishing in the front, as
shown. In the best furniture,
springs are tied in this manner
from back to front; side to side
and diagonally across rows. About
four ounces of the sewing twine
and eight of tying twine will do
an average chair.
Don’t try to keep tin utensils
shiny. If you do, you’ll take off
the very thin coating of tin and
leave the metal underneath open
to rust. Remove burnt foods by
boiling soda and water in a pan
from three to five minutes—never
longer. Wash and dry thoroughly,
because water left on the tin may
cause it to rust in a very short
time.
• * •
When examining silk stockings
to see if they need darning, double
the fingers into a fist with the
fingernails turned into the palm
before thrusting the hand through
the stocking. Then you will not
start a runner with your sharp
nails.
• * *
If food burns in a pan, shake a
generous amount of soda into it,
fill with cold water and let stand
on back of stove. It will be easier
to clean.
* * *
If shredded cocoanut becomes
too dry to use, soak it in milk for
a few minutes. Then drain and
use.
• * •
When buying dish towels of
mixed cotton, rayon and linen you
will do well to ask how much
rayon is in the mixture. Those
with less than 45 per cent rayon
will last well if not laundered too
severely.
NOTE: If you have springs to repair,
be sure to clip and save this article eg
it is not in any of the homemaking bookJ
lets which Mrs. Spears has prepared for
our readers. Booklets are numbered frorrs
one to eight and No. 5 and 6 contain direct
tions for remodeling old rockers and others
out-of-date chairs. Copies are 10 cents
each postpaid. Order direct from
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS 1
Bedford Hills New York
Drawer 10
Enclose 10 cents for each book de
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• RELIEVE the stinging itch—allay
• irritation, and thus quicken healing
Begin to use soothing Resinol today.
RESINOlw
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Great men never feel great;,
small men never feel small.—Chi
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