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Personal Indorsements.
OUSTON, TEXAS.—I used
indorsing things. But I realize
now what a piker I was. I in-
dorsed only one thing at a time.
fer a suggestion.
guished world trav-
eler (‘Bringing Tes-
timonials Back
Alive’) and that
eminent movie star,
who lives in Holly-
wood right next to
Live Reading Mat-
ter and is authoress
of “Miss Colddeck
Recommends,” get
through indorsing
practically every-
thing else, let them
then club in and at-
tain the very highest peak of ine
dorsementology by jointly indorsing
the famous society queen who has
indorsed more products than they
even, or anybody.
Maybe it's a sign of the times
that today the most fascinating lit-
erature and the most familiar
names are found in the advertising
sections of a magazine rather than
in the table of contents.
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Noted Ancestors.
N THE little Hogg-Dickson
ranch at Casa Blanca, Mexico—
only 300,000 acres—I met the caporal,
or head man, of the cow herd and one
famous as a rifle-shot, an upstand-
ing, clear-eyed Mexican, but, I fan-
cied, with some faint indefinable sug-
gestion of the Anglo-Saxon in his
facial contours. However, his name,
Cin
Irvin S. Cobb
nesto Boo-na,’”’ which, to my alien
ears, sounded Latinesque enough
for all purposes.
He knew no English, yet, when I
mentioned Kentucky—a thing I've
been known to do before—he
poured out a rippling flood of Span-
ish. Louis Kresdorn, the Texas-born
manager, translated:
“Ernesto says he has heard of a
far-away place called Kentucky. Ac-
his great-great-grandfather
lived there—was muy valiante, muy
vivo, and was the nephew of an even
greater Gringo warrior who drove
the savages before him like tumble-
weeds before a wind.”
So I saw a light and I inquired
how Ernesto spelled his last name
—he spelled it the orthodox way.
So, as members of the same stock,
a pioneer ancestress of mine having
married a kinsman of the great
pathfinder, I held a reunion with this
mighty huntsman, who is proud that
from Daniel Boone.
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Dachshunds.
I LIKE dachshunds. They've more
sense of humor than anything I
ever saw that came out of Prussia.
I always figured the breed was pro-
duced by crossing a rat terrier on
still believe you could combine use-
fulness with their natural comedy
by training them to retrieve collar
buttons from under low bureaus.
I indorse the phrase of the math-
ematical sharp who said a dachs-
hund was half a dog high and a dog
tain Mike Hogg's chauffeur, Mose,
coined the best description yet.
When Mrs. Hogg brought home the
first one Mose ever beheld, his eyes
bulged out like twin push-buttons on
a mahogany door-jamb.
“Lawsy, Miss Alice!” he ex-
claimed, ‘““whut is this here thing?”
“It’s a dog.”
“Wellum,” said Mose, “if you
hadn't told me, I'd ‘a’ said it was
a snake on roller skates.”
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Hunting in Texas.
clubhouse. So the ducks went away
somewhere, out of the weather. So
the hunters, who were less intelli-
gent than the ducks, came back
from the blinds dripping like so
many leaky hot water bottles.
After being bailed out, we sat
down to vittles—nothing unusual,
just the customary club dinner. All
we found on the menu was beef
hash, duck stew, liver and onions,
country smoked sausage and home-
made headcheese, also hot biscuits,
corn pones and rice cakes; likewise
turnip greens, rice, sweet potatoes,
squash, snapbeans and eye homiry;
moreover, six kinds of pickles,
stewed pears, apple pie, papershell
pecans and various fruits. Then
Mrs. Jacob Smothers, the club host-
ess, came in to say that, if anybody
in the future craved anything spe-
cial, she'd try to fix it up—and won-
dered why such of her gorged guests
ble laughter.
Being now convalescent, 1 am
regular habit,
IRVIN 8. COBB.
Copyright.—~WNU Service.
NATIONAL PRESS BLDG
Washington.—It is a little early in
the new year to become despondent.
I suppose, after
“Bill’s”’ Not the manner of a
Ha certain radio star,
PPY I ought to be hap-
But 1
Developments of the last few weeks
simist of the first water. I hope I
am wrong; yet, present conditions
force the conclusion that this coun-
try faces a condition as serious as
that through which it passed in 1932
and 1933. There is no reason evi-
dent to me why we should not face
the facts, discouraging as they ap-
pear.
So, let us consider some of the
things that have happened lately,
and some that are happening these
days. Only in that way, I believe,
can we get a correct understanding
of this new depression which a thou-
sand government propagandists in-
sist upon calling a “recession.”
Four months ago, industry began
to lay off men and women workers.
There was no market for the goods
they were manufacturing. The re-
duction in payrolls was necessary
Nobody can
afford to pay workers if there is
no work to do. Dismissal of work-
ers continued in an ever-growing
volume until on January 1, the great
General Motors corporation laid off
something like 60,000 men at one
time and placed its remaining 200,-
000 workers on a four-day week.
That action, while it appears sensa-
tional, was illustrative of what had
been going on during the four
months that I mentioned; it brought
public attention and political atten-
tion to a focus, but it was sensa-
tional only because of the numbers.
impression that dis-
missal of a few or several hundred
here and there had failed to make.
During this same period, prices
were undergoing a natural and nor-
mal reaction. Some were up; some
were down. Altogether, they were
and are in a topsy-turvy condition.
Government business analysts
smelled the mouse. They were
watching all of the trends that were
Those officials in high places and
tional welfare were informed of
what was in prospect. But govern-
ment propaganda continued to show |
bright and smiling faces in the pic- |
ture. It won't last, they were say-
ing in the written and spoken words.
It is a psychological condition, Pres-
ident Roosevelt said—and thereby |
made the same mistake that Presi- |
Hoover made when he an-!
It is the
same old corner and it is the same |
old prosperity, but apparently the
Roosevelt administration is going to
have just as much trouble finding |
either the corner or the prosperity |
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To get back to the sequence of |
events: the time came when the re- |
sponsible officials |
had to say some-
Busting thing by way of
admitting the ex- |
istence of the depression *“‘reces- |
sion.” Mr. Roosevelt, it will be re-
called, went off on a fishing trip |
around December 1. He took with |
him the brilliant and able young |
Robert Jackson, of the Department |
of Justice. Now, Mr. Jackson's par- |
ticular ability lies in the direction of
breaking up trusts, monopolies, big
business combinations. Those of us |
whose job it is to watch Washing- |
ton, thought we foresaw the next
move by the administration. We
have it now in full flower—a great |
drive against all of those sinful |
More Trust
Of course, it should be
remembered at the same time that
there must be a ‘‘goat’” when poli-
tics gets balled up, and big busi-
ness again is the ‘‘goat’’ of the ad-
ministration.
In consequence of the crash in
business, the collapse of the theories
of the long-haired crew that seeks
to remould America under the guise
of New Deal plans, and the general
running out of Democrats on the
New Deal leadership, the country is
now to be treated to another trust-
busting drive comparable to that
conducted by the late Theodore
Roosevelt when he was Presient.
Yes, big business can always be at-
tacked, cajoled, threatened. It is
a proper stunt, nearly always re-
sorted to by politicians and others
who find themselves locked within
the meshes of their own fishnets.
Big business is the red herring that
the administration is trying to drag
across the trail. It is because the
administration is attempting to con-
ceal its mistakes, and make people
forget them instead of doing a con-
structive job that I find myself de-
spondent in the early weeks of 1938.
The real tip-off to the drive on
big business was In the form of a
speech by Mr. Jackson who said by
‘The only way to insure a rea-
sonably steady well-being for the na-
tion as a whole is for the govern-
ment to act as an impartial over-
seer of our industrial progress,
ready to call a halt at all times on
monopolistic practices which threat-
en to throw our economy out of or-
er.”
That theory is basic with most of
the New Dealers. America must be
made responsive to the Washington
government, It is that theory to
which more and more business men,
little as well as big, are objecting.
They are fearful of it for the reason
that they can not see how this ad-
ministration or any that may follow
will be ‘impartial’ in overseeing
industry. It is quite natural for a
political group to be intent upon pre-
serving itself in power, and that end
never has been accomplished by im-
partiality.
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But the New Dealers wish to avoid
blame for the conditions now con-
fronting the na-
Would
tion. Conveniently
Shift Blame ¢nough, there is
no mention being
made now of the tremendous pres-
sure that was exerted through four
of the last five years to bring about
higher prices. Those prices now
are held to be the result of mo-
nopoly, not the fault of the profes-
sors who were saying a few years
ago when prices were moving high-
er that ‘we planned it that way.”
So political guns are turned on big
business—but my guess is that lit.
tle business will be hurt more than
big business by the refusal of the
Wallaces, the Ickes, the Oliphants,
the Jerome Franks, the Corcorans
and the Cohens to recognize that
Hitler's style of business manage-
ment must fail here as in Germany.
The frankest statement about the
whole thing has come from Mr.
Roosevelt himself. He declared re-
cently that “‘over-extension of in-
ventories'' was responsible for the
current depression. That is to say,
producers and manufacturers, feel-
ing that business was booming, pro-
duced or manufactured too much.
They did not recognize that the bet-
ter business we appeared to have in
1935 and 1936 was highly superfi-
cial. Nor were they aware what
the Washington government would
do in the way of controlling or bur-
taxation and new restrictive
It was from those latter two
things that a fear was bred and the
factories and farms that were being
worked full tilt because prices were
I think it can be fairly said
also that few persons expected to
administration for labor to flout the
law and take over control of prop-
Whatever
else may be said, however, the fact
remains the theories constantly be-
Roosevelt's advisers have
frightened millions of persons who
still have a few dollars which they
would like to put to work. On the
whole, I am convinced those dollars
until there is assurance from Wash-
ington that sanity and not monkey-
doodle schemes will be exercised in
governmental dealings with the
country's business. It is dishonest
on the part of government, regard-
less of political party,
that business brings about depres-
sense must know that no individual
President Roosevelt has taken a
firm stand for a larger navy. His ac-
tion deserves com-
mendation. Condi-
tions
For Larger
Navy
defense. It will cost money,
course, but preparedness
proved cheaper always than being
thrown into war because no other
nation is afraid of us.
I have an idea that Mr. Roose.
velt will be attacked from a dozen
different directions. So-called peace
organizations will try to pin his ears
back and make him say “uncle.”
but I have gained the impression
that Mr. Roosevelt will adhere to
his program. Certainly, nearly all
students of international affairs
agree that he is 100 per cent right.
In a leiter to house leaders, Mr.
Roosevelt suggested the necessity
for construction of two battleships,
two light cruisers, eight destroyers
and six submarines during the fiscal
year beginning next July 1. These
craft are in addition to other naval
construction already considered for
the next fiscal year. It will take
two or three years to build some
of these boats. Planning and pre
liminary work ought to be started
on them as soon as possible. Mr.
Roosevelt believes the work ought
to start right away-—and after all I
think most folks will agree that the
President is in a better position
than anyone else in the country to
know what the dangers are.
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I NSPIRED by the swarm of lo-
custs in “The Good Earth’
and the terrific storm in Gold-
wyn’s “Hurricane,” several
motion-picture producers have
set out to capture honors for
staging spectacles that make
your hair stand on end.
Advance reports indicate that
Twentieth Century-Fox have topped
all in the matter of spectacular de-
struction, This company in filming
“In Old Chicago,” staged a fire
that destroyed a sixty-acre city. In
the midst of stampeding cattle and
terror-stricken crowds, gas
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Before this cycle
catches up with
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providing
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“True Confes-
No one can
girl who
not quite
to of the beauteous
role for her, that of
a girl who just can-
not tell the truth.
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Radio programs that introduce
you to your neighbors, both famous
and obscure, and act as community
get-togethers are getting more pop-
ular every day. Charles Martin's
“Front Page News’ and “Thrill of
the Week” have been renewed for
a year. Edgar Guest's “It Can Be
Done,” Bob Ripley's program and
Gabriel Heatter's “We, the People”
are slated for a long and successful
life. Paul Wing's Sunday morning
spelling bee over NBC has a list of
applications yards long from peo-
ple who are eager to test their
prowess.
Carole
Lombard
an
Jean Muir was a very unhappy
girl when she left Hollywood a few
weeks ago. For the three years or
so that she was under contract to
Warner Brothers she had been
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draperies or not will depend
on how heavy the material is. It
however, that the
top of draperies be stiffened when
A soft
canvas which may be purchased
in drapery departments is gen-
to cut the heading canvas.
the top of the curtain material
at A.
Now measure the width of your
curtain and plan the plaits to take
up half this width. In heavy ma-
terial, four or five inches will be
enough. It is a good plan to let
the space between the plaits be
the same as the amount of ma-
depth of the stiffening, so that
they appear as shown here at D.
Now turn to the wrong side and
| sew a ring to the back of each
| plait as at E.
Every Homemaker should have
a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book,
SEWING. Forty-eight pages of
step-by-step directions for making
| slipcovers and dressing tables;
restoring and upholstering chairs,
| couches; making curtains for ev-
| ery type of room and purpose.
Making lampshades, rugs, otto-
mans and other useful articles for
the home. Readers wishing a copy
| should send name and address,
| enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears,
| 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago,
Illinois.
plait may come just inside the
finish of the outside edge of the
or three inches in.
Start to sew the plait about an
inch down from the top of the
drapery and sew it the depth of
the stiffening, as shown here at B.
Pinch this plait into three small
plaits and, starting two
Hopeful Impulse
Every heart that has beat
strong and cheerfully, has left a
hopeful impulse behind it in the
world, and bettered the. tradition
|#f mankind, — Robert Louis
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their big pictures, but they relegat-
ed her to dull parts in quickly-
made films. Now Jean can rejoice
that Hollywood let her go. She
opened in a play in London and
two talent scouts cabled Hollywood
that she was the big find of the
year. She will probably come back
with a contract calling for a much
bigger salary, much betier parts.
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The most important member of
Benny Goodman's swing band is a
woman, and she doesn't play an in-
strument. She holds the checkbook.
So while you won't see her with
Punctuality Essential
The individual who is always a
little late in appointments reveals
of character
It is a hard thing
can just figure that she is there in
spirit.
that she has been with the band
straight, she has mothered the boys,
eat their spinach or get enough
sleep, sympathizing with them when
Wen
nation “Contented
Hour"
succeeds Dr. Frank
as general musical
director of
quish the baton.
With Weber's debut
as conductor, “The
Contented Hour”
enters upon its sev-
enth consecutive
year on the air, In
har, composer of “The Merry Wid-
ow,” said of him, “lI cannot wish
for a better interpreter of my
works than Marek Weber.”
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ODDS AND ENDS-—Jack Benny won't
start working on his next picture for a
Jeu weeks, so Paramount has assigned
is old dressing room to Marlene Dietrich.
Jack and his radio script writers arc no
end upset because that is where they do
their best work . . . Myrna Loy encour
ages the freckles on her face by going
about in the sun hatless. The freckles
serve as a fine disguise when she appears
in public . . . Edward G. Robinson's new
picture “The Last Gangster” is the best
gangster film of all . . . Glenn Morris who
stars in “Tarzan's Revenge” says exactly
four words in the whole picture . . .
Tony, the backstage boothlack at the C.
B. 8S. playhouse in New York, has his
an way of honoring a Seuiah He
a special rag i t hip pocket
og which he shines her shoes just be.
fore she goes to the mike . . . Bing Cros
9 and George Murphy entertained the
aloppers in o Holliwood store no end
on George to y floorwalker
nd Bing decided to handkerchiefs.
Then customers balked, Bing threw in a
ang.
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Importance of Duty
There is nothing on earth so
Opportunity Created
Things don’t turn up in this
world until somebody turns them
up.—Garfield.
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