INDIAN VAI,LEY RECORD Thursday, April 25, 1940
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(ConsoUdated ~eatures--WNU Servlce.P
NEW YORK.--One bright, sunny
day in July, 1920, King Chris-
tian X of Denmark, mounted on a
beautiful white horse, led his troops
across a
Military Force boundary line
Im New Problem to reclaim the
northern part
For Dani h King of Schleswtg,
lost to the Germans in 1864. Den-
mark had been crippled in the World
war, suffering much more than Nor-
way and Sweden, but somehow she
had managed to save her tittle king-
dom. The king, addressing a cheer-
lag throng, hailed the organization
of international law and order, tm.
der which small nations could live
in peace.
The king, who is six feet, six
inches tall, the tallest man in his
kingdom, recruited a guard of the
tallest and handsomest young men
he could find, but none so tall as he.
They were gorgeously uniformed
and the ceremony of the changing
of the guard might have been read-
ied by Fraflz Lehar. But many
times, the king reminded his people
that all this was merely appropri-
ate ceremonial, and that Denmark's
safety lay in keeping in the van.
guard of civilization, and not in
armed forces.
Last summer, under great nerv-
ous tension, he seemed to feel that
the pozers of darkness were clos-
ing in, and suffered a serious ill.
ness. Today, with the fat~ of Den-
mark resolved in far-ranging and
desperate issues, the old king, near-
ing 70, yields to the inevitable. The
New world structure of law and or-
der has fallen and Denmark is one
of many casualties.
At the age of 28, Christian mar-
ried Alexandrine. princess of Meek-
lenburg-Schwerin. When be was
crowned in May, 1912, the Danish
populace was prepared to dislike
him, descendant of an alien dynasty
as he was, and there were some
overt demonstrations against him,
But he won his people with his fur-
therance of a liberal, constitutional
government. Although he was
trained as an army officer, and had
a liking for military pomp, he fre-
quently denounced militarism and
opposed efforts to get his tiny coun.
try goose-stepping and arming.
While he was proud of hpving the
tallest and most resplendent guard
in Europe, he slipped away from his
bodyguards at every opportunity
and enjoyed tremendously bicycling
around Copenhagen. unattended.
Into the ruck with Denmark's gains
of two decades goes what probably
has been the world's most suttee.
ful state-sponsored industrial and
agricultural eqroperation.
.
EMIL HURJA. big. Babe Ruthlan
political statistician 'and pratt.
sionist, who greatly aided the ear|y
New Deal by charting the public
drift, Is now
Political Field an a~ly of
Is 'Gold Mine" the Garner
To Emll Hurja forces. Fa-
miliarity with
assaying in the gold fields inspired
his system of getting the mill-run
of public sentiment. He once told
this reporter about his interesting
career. Taking a start from the
wilds of the Michigan peninsula,
when he was 18. notes from his di-
ary might be something like this:
Rode the rods on the way to Seat.
tie. Found more comfort in the
cattle car.
Landed in Yakima. did thls and
that. and finally got to Seattle. Since
I had learned to set type at the age
of nine, I convinced the Post-Intel.
Ugencer ! was a newspaper man.
Managed to get by, but realized
an education might help, so started
grabbing one off the side at the Uni-
versity of Washington. Found Dr.
Henry Suzallo. the president, was
the greatest man I ever met.
Dr. Suzallo said Henry Ford want-
ed him to send somebody on his
peace ship and it might as well
b me.
Went on the peace ship; came
home and rammed around the Texas
oil fields and then got to Alaska,
Fell in with Ben Smith, who had
real gold mine. Came back home
and got Into Wall Street and poll-
tics.
Began assaying political mother
lodes; got so I could tell whether
I would get a string of color, and
found ! was assistant to Mr. James
Farley, chairman of the national
Democratic committee.
Like Mr. Garner.
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EIGHTEEN years ago, Manu~
Quezon, president of the Pinhp-
pine commonwealth, said to group
of American business men, "I would
rather live under s government tun
like hell by Filipinos than under a
government run like heaven by
Americans." Now. with the shadow
of Nippon reaching out into the Pa-
cific. he isn't so sure. Word from
Washington Is that while he still
thinks 1946 may be all right for
casting off, but he is dickering for
re-examination of the Phllipp/nu
problem.
GENERAL
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
Unl~ F4sI~ It~U Slt~la
THE NEW WAR
It is too early to begin drawing
either military or political conclu-
sions from the sudden outburst of
action in Scandinavia. It was not
anticipated in the writings of the
military experts that I saw, but that
the action taken by both sides had
been carefully planned and pre-
pared for is obvious.
You can't block up the territorial
waters of "a neutral by mine fields
in three separate areas, the extreme
two of which are 500 miles apart,
without plenty of preparation--or do
it in a day. You can't launch such
an assault as has been made on Den-
mark and Norway any more rapidly.
It is curious that the allies would
have so clearly invaded Norway's
neutrality on the exterioi" route when
the disappearance of ice on the in.
terior route will so soon make that
IN OSLO AIR RAID SHEL.
TER---"The rights of neutrals
are only what they have the
strength to make them."
mine-sowing activity superfluous.
There must have been another rea-
son.
In other words, while both prepa-
ratior~s were kept secret from the
world, they were not kept secret
from either belligerent to prevent
the other from knowing and acting
instantly upon their revelation.
It is too early to blame Denmark
for not resisting Hitler's "protec-
tive" invasion. On the face of cur-
rent reports, she could only have
crucified her country--as Finland
and Poland did.
'AMERICANISTS'
The most cockeyed reaction to the
outburst in Scandinavia is that it
sets the "isolationists" back on their
heels. It doesn't even bear on the
question.
I hate sloganeering labels, yet I
would rather be called an "Ameri-
canter" than an "isolationist"--al-
though I sincerely believe that they
are the same thing and, if they are,
"what's in a name?"
My suggestion is addressed to the
amateur military kibitzers who in.
mist in our taking partners in this
dance of death and who call people
of my opinion "isolationists" be-
cause they believe in arming our
own dugout to whatever extent is
necessary and staying in it.
My suggestion is that these people
proudly label themselves "interven-
tlonists"--and, since they glory in
their opinions, be proud of the de-
scriptive title which far more aptly
disfinguishes them than the word
"isolationist" describes our train of
thought.
It is absolutely fair to label them
as "interventionists," but maybe it
isn't fair without distinguishing be-
tween two clear classes of them. One
group presses for American inter-
vention on purely idealistic grounds.
They are the do.gooders. They want
to send other people or other moth
er's sons or other people's money
into this bloody shambles to main-
tain "decency" on earth.
Even that statement might, on the
surface, seem to carry an element
of unfairness. Some of them are
willing to embark themselves and
their own sons on such a crusade.
But whatever unfairness springs
from this is only superficial. There
is ample opportunity for this kind
to do this right now. All they have
to do is to go across the Cana.dian
border and enlist.
But most do-gooders and "great
liberals" are not considering per-
sonal sacrifice. They get, if they do
not seek, the crown of public ap-
proval of their bleeding hearts with-
out bearing any cross or personal
sacrifice to achieve it. They want
to make "government" do It--whlch
means to make everybody do it
wether agreeable or not.
"
Seizing Denmark doesn't get the
Germans any closer by air to ob-
Jectives in Britain than she Is al-
ready but a seizure of Bergen in
Norway would. If this push had
been toward Holland. its object
would have been much clearer. Air
bases in Holland would threaten the
whole west coast of England. But
this move to the north does.not of
itself threaten Holland.
Germany with a superior land and
air force can probably afford a
Scandinavian expeditionary force
better than the allies can.
I RAN across Oscar Pitt the other
night and we stopped to talk
about Bob Feller. Based on his
natural ability, his gain in experi-
ence and the way
he has been round-
ing into shape, ev-
erybody expects
the Van Meter fire-
ball pitcher to have
a great year. So, I
discovered, d o e s
Vitt.
"Itc can't miss,"
the manager of the
Indians said. "This
will be his best year
Grantland Rice up to how--another
step on his way to
being perhaps the greatest pitcher
we have ever looked at.
"Let me tell you about this kid.
You hear all about his fast ball and
his curve ball--you'll find the ball
players will talk more about his
curve ball than his fast ball because
that's what he strikes them out with
in the clutch--but you don't hear
much about how hard he works to
improve himself. And that, if you
ask me, is the greatest asset he
has--or that any ball player has.
He Practices Bunting
"Here's one detail: I rounded all
the pitchers up one day and talked
to them about bunting. I don't
mean fielding bunts, i mean doing
the bunting themselveS.
" 'When I send you up there to
sacrifice,' I said, 'what do you do?
Most of the time you bunt the ball
right back to the pitcher for a force
play or you pop the ball in the air.
Anybody can learn to bunt if he'll
only give a little time to it. And
remember this: You're working for
yourself when you'ru at the plate
just as much as you are when you
BOB FELLER
are in the box. You can help your-
sel~--or you can wreck your ball
game. Do you reallz, that by learn-
ing to bunt, $o that you can move
runners along when you're up there
trying to sacrifice, you might win
two more games a year? Two more
games won might make a difference
in your record for a season and
might make a difference in the
standing of the club.'
" 'They all agreed with me. They
had to, because I was right. But
you know who has done most about
it, don't you? Sure. You guessed
It. Feller. He came to me after
practice that day, when everybody
else was heading fa,r the club house,
and asked me if ! could get a couple
of fellows to throw to him.
" 'Throw to you?' I asked him.
'What do ~ou want them to throw
to you for?'
" 'So I can practice bunting,' he
said.
" 'You bet your life I'll get some-
body to throw to you,' I said,
"I got a couple of strong-armed
young fellows out to throw to him
and he practiced bunting for an
hour. He's been at it every day
ever since. The other pitchers have
been practicing, 9)o. But not llke
this kid.
All He Had to Say
"You see, I told him ff he could
bunt, it might win tw mare ball
games a year for him. That's all
I had to say. He'd do anything to
win two more games year. He'd
stand on his head in the box if he
thought it would help hhn that
much.
"It's the same way with pitching
with men on the bases. That was
his big weakness--but it isn't any
more. They might steal on him
once in while, just like they will
steal on any pitcher once in awhile.
But if they .think they are going to
run on him this year like they used
to, they,re crazy. I hope some of
them try it. He was a sucker for
them once--but he's laying for them
nOW.
"It'S a great thing to see in a kid
like that. The average kid breaking
in as young as he did--why, I was
looking at him the other day and
thinking to myself he still looks like
baby--and getting all that pub-
licity--the average kid would have
got a swelled head and you wouldn't
have been able to tell him any-
thing, But this kid just hangs
around waiting for you to tell him
something or asking questions of me
or some of the older players on the
club-and he is a cinch to wind up
as one of the greate,t pitchers we
over had--maybe the greatest."
Kathleen Norris Says:
Every Woman Should Make Some
Plan to Avoid Dullness
(Bell Syndtcate---WNU bervlee.)
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Sometimes a dreadful dullness comes into married life, for the woman. She
remembers other days, eager joyous days of girlhood. Now comes a pause.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
SOMETIMES a dreadful dullness
comes into married life, for the
woman. Not illness, not trou-
ble, not money worry, but just in-
sufferable dullness.
Life for Betty goes on without ex-
citement, without thrill. The kitch-
en routine proceeds placidly; the
children go to Pchool; Ed comes
home and has his dinner and goes
out to his lodge meeting. Betty
helps the boy and girl with home-
work, turns on the radio, yawns,
mends a sweater and then decides
to go to bed.
Sometimes this even flow of un-
eventful days frightens an intelli-
gent woman. Earthquake, flood or
fire might horrify her, but at least
they would find her active, ade-
quate, swept off her feet in the sud-
den new demand. But monotony
scares her. She remembers other
days, eager joyous days of girlhood,
dances, laughter, the glory of her
engagement and marriage, the fun
of showing off the new house, of
telling her friends that she and Ed
were expecting a baby. The baby's
coming, too, was an occasion never
to be forgotten; the flurry of getting
him started; the happy, wearying
absorption in his needs, and the
needs of the second baby. All this
might have been tiring, anxious, re-
sponsible, but it was satisfying and
triumphant, too.
Ten Years Later.
But now, lO years married, with
the thirties beginning to slide by,
with Ed taking everything quietly
for granted, and only articulate
when dinner isn't satisfactory or
little Ned sleeps too late in the
mornings---now comes a pause.
And somehow the wife and mother
knows that it is a dangerous pause,
and that something must be done
about it or it may have lasting and
serious results.
"Floyd leaves the house at eight-
thirty," writes a Kansas wife. "I
go to the door with him and kiss
him good-by, Then I get the two
boys off for school, and turn back
into my quiet house for morning
dust, planning of meals. At noon I
have a cup of soup or malted milk
and a sandwich, and afterward lie
down and, rest for awhile. Then
perhaps shopping, a movie, a club
meeting, a hospital call.
"At five, I am occupied in the
kitchen, with the table to set. Floyd
is home, and there is quiet talk of
what he did all day and what I did,
not either interesting or important
to either hearer, and then we settle
down to evening paper and radio,
or, on rare occasions, have guests
for dinner and bridge--very poor
bridge aH 'round, with nobody sure
of the scoring-or Floyd goes out
and I am alone.
Goes On--No Change.
"Everything pleasant, friendly,
Just a~s it was last year and will be
next year, Our income is small,
but enough, we all have good health,
questions of budget and allowance
were long ago adjusted. My hus-
band Is a trusted employee in
rubber finn; his salary is $38.50 a
week. Recently be asked for
weekly raise of $7.50 and was re-
fused. It would have made some
difference to us, but not an impor-
tant one.
"What can I do to make our
lives more exciting and glamorous?
I am home woman; I know I
@muld be more than satisfied with
what I have, But I'm not. I'm
restless and bored. Floyd's people
are straight American. My grand-
father was a general in the Spanish
army 30 years ago; my mother
Swedish, Is it the mixed blood that
makes me at once shy and eager?
I did not speak English until I was
eight years old."
The obvious answer to Loin is that
she has more now than nine-tenths
of the women of the world have,
and that ninety-nIne hundredths of
them would feel themselves rich
with a steady husband, a steady
income, two small sons, home, gar-
den, car, perfect health, and that
security from aerial bombardment
that is becoming luxury in the
world.
Suggestion for Lola.
But that isn't fair. For she ad-
mits herself that she OUGHT to be
content, and really wants to cure
herself if it is her fault that she is
not. So instead of reproaching her,
I am going to make to her several
suggestions that may help her ex-
tricate herself from the rut into
which she has fallen.
To begin with, there is an inner
spirit or subliminal consciousness
or soul or entity in every woman.
It is a correspondence with ele-
ments that are supernatural. Call
this thing whatever you like---Kar-
ma, Yogi, mental healing, the ir~
finite, Oneness--it means that you
recognize some influence higher
than a merely earthly influence, and
your values in life are formed on
something higher than a purely
earthly scale.
Most of us call this imponderable,
infinite, intangible but very real
presence, God. We don't attempt
to analyze Hirh, work Him out on
charts and graphs; we merely go
into that stillness called prayer now
and then, and await with perfect
confidence a renewal of life within
us; a new sense of potentiality,
trust, and above all delight and
eagerness in the outwardly dull rou-
tine of every day.
The Happiest People.
The happiest persons in this be-'
wildered world, in fact the only
happy ones, are those who have
found this secret for themselves,
and revel in that unbounded glory
of living which the orientals call
"bliss." You can live in three
rooms in a crowded tenement, and
possess it. You can be the wealthi-
est woman in the world and miss it
completely. Yet it's open enough
to find, and it costs nothing. Ask,
and, you shall receive it, and to re.
peat, it costs you nothing. It can be
yours.
Once this is achieved, a thousand
interests and indeed fevers possess
you. You want to live forever, so
that you may have time to read
thousand books; accomplish a thou.
sand prison reforms and live to see
them work; establish a Spanish
class at 25 cents a lesson and watch
it grow until you are besieged with
class and radio engagements; plan
a garden, and glory in its beauty;
build a backyard grill and enter.
tain the boys and their friends
there; find an old country place and
move into it, and have chickens and
a cow; raise fine-bred Persian kit.
tens; gather a circle of their friends
about your boys and be sure that
the group ,in which they grow to
young manhood is a safe group;
study beekeeping, astronomy, book-
bindi~ng; put up fancy preserves and
sell them. Or, under state super-
vision, take three or four small chll.
dren to board. The state pays
much more than they cost and the
work of bulldirig little citizens is
valuable one. Or go into politics,
by the simple process o~ attending
meeting or two, accepting a posi-
tion on some committee, and con-
tributlng your mite toward better
and wiser administration of your
local affairs, The country would be
better off if more women did this.
A Plan Is Necessary.
Some months ago I was walking
through a dark Boston slu~ with a
young professional man. It was
broiling summer, and the high tene-
ment rooms were like so many little
hot boxes glaring into the crowded
night. To my exclamation of pity
and concern, the young doctor said,
"It all depends upon whether you
have PLAN or not. People with-
out plans are to be pitied, no mat.
tar where they are."
DIPLOMATIC TWIST
WASHINGTON.--Fate has a way
of playing pranks with the most
carefully laid plans of diplomacy,
and it has given two queer twists
to Roosevelt's diplomatic appoint-
ments.
One was when he thought he was
putting 70-year-old Wilbur J. Carr
on the shelf by making him min-
ister to the then secluded country
of Czecho Slovakia, but found in-
stead that he had sent Carr to the
hottest hot spot in Europe.
The other was when he sent Mrs.
J. Borden Harriman to the peaceful
and obscure capital of Norway,
where a lady diplomat could make
few mistakes, but recent events find
Daisy in the middle of the war zone
--and enjoying it.
Furthermore, and according to a
state department which is definitely
MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN
A 'quiet' post in Norway?
prejudiced against lady diplomats,
Mrs. Harriman is doing an excellent
job--in fact, a much better job than
some of our other ministers pleni-
potentiary.
Mrs. Harriman also is 70 years
old, though few people who have
ever watched her tireless energY
would ever guess it. In those 70
years she has seen more riders
come and go on the Washington mer-
ry-go-round than almost any other
dowager of capital society.
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Scrambled Dinner Parties.
"Daisy," whose real name is Flor-
ence Jaffray Harriman, became fa-
mous during the Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover administrations as a
lone Democrat who lived only for
the pleasure of baiting the reigning
Republicans. She made them like it.
Her deliciously scrambled dinner
parties became legendary. She in-
vited naive and unsuspecting Repub-
licans, placed them beside such ra-
pier debaters as Sen. Tom Walsh,
Sen. Burton Wheeler and Charley ,
Michelson, then after dinner, pushed
back the chairs and made them go
to it.
She Fought Roosevelt.
It was a political paradox that
having kept Democratic enthusiasm
flaming during the lean and hungry
years from Harding to Hoover, Mrs.
Harriman at first should have been
unrewarded by the RooseVelt ad-
mtnistra~on.
There was an interesting reason
for this. Daisy had been an ardent
opponent of Franklin D. Roosevelt
before the1932 convention. She had
worked vigorously for Newton D.
Baker, and led a faction of the Dis-
trict of Columbia delegation in vot-
ing against Roosevelt at Chicago.
So when Roosevelt adopted the
policy of awarding his "B. C." (Be-'
fore Chicago) friends, Daisy was out
of luck. She remained out of luck
for five years, despite many efforts
by powerful friends to win her an
appointment in the Roosevelt fold.
Finally, thanks to the persuasive
influence of Sumner Welles, Roose-
velt relented. Daisy Harriman was
appointed Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Norway
---a quiet and unimportant post to
which it was considered safe to send
a woman.
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Will Rogers.
Will Rogers has been demoted.
His statue no longer stands in the
rotunda of the Capitol.
A few days ago the statue was
moved out of the rotunda, and was
not even given space in the adja-
cent Statuary hail,
In this hall, where only one figure
l~ admitted from each state, Rog-
ers was second comer to Oklaho-
ma's famous Indian, Sequoia, in-
renter of the Cherokee alphabet.
Rogers was placed in a corner in
the narrow hallway leading to the
house wing, He has not lost his,
smile and his slouch, but he bas
lost the center of the stage,
POLITICAL CHAFF.
New England, New York and New
Jersey G. O. P. leaders are receiv-
ing le':ters from Midwestern col-
leagw s warning that to win the farm
vote the party platform must con-
lain a farm plank similar to that
proposed in the recent Glenn Frank
report. The Iowa state central Re
publican committee thought so high-
ly of the Frank plank that it is cir-
cularizing a speech by A. M. Piper,
of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil,
lauding the suggestions in it
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