Pegler: On certain generals
By Westbrook Pegler
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Maj. de Seversky: Air cover for troops is essential as Battle of Salerno demonstrates
By Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky
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Millett: Landlord suggests offering apartments for rent only to couples with children
Claims it has been his experience they are better pay since they don’t go in for extravagances
By Ruth Millett
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McNutt decrees the 48-hour week in 31 more areas
Hundreds of thousands to get pay boost; and lengthened week suggested where shortage ‘possible’
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4 more firms sign contracts with Petrillo
NBC, RCA and Columbia now negotiating to end recording ban
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Mine leaders vote return
Delegates angrily eject reporter
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U.S. now boasts more electricity than all of Axis
Power for war effort is brought to factories, camps and cities on moment’s notice
By Roger W. Stuart, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Employment rises to new all-time high
Gain of 8 million workers above normal labor force reported
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Food subsidy plan delayed
Statistics being checked for Roosevelt
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Völkischer Beobachter (October 22, 1943)
Großer USA.-Betrugsskandal mit ‚staatlichen‘ Rechnungen
Mit zunehmender Korruption wachsende soziale Spannungen
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President Roosevelt’s statement on the Philippine puppet government
October 22, 1943
On the fourteenth of this month, a puppet government was set up in the Philippine Islands with José P. Laurel, formerly a Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, as “President.” Jorge Vargas, formerly a member of the Philippine Commonwealth Cabinet, and Benigno Aquino, also formerly a member of that Cabinet, were closely associated with Laurel in this movement. The first act of the new puppet regime was to sign a military alliance with Japan. The second act was a hypocritical appeal for American sympathy which was made in fraud and deceit and was designed to confuse and mislead the Filipino people.
I wish to make it clear that neither the former collaborationist “Philippine Executive Commission” nor the present “Philippine Republic” has the recognition or sympathy of the government of the United States. No act of either body is now or ever will be considered lawful or binding by this government.
The only Philippine government is that established by the people of the Philippines under the authorization of the Congress of the United States – the government of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands. At my request, the principal executive officers of the Commonwealth were transferred in 1942 from Corregidor to Washington.
Further, it is our expressed policy that all the resources of the United States, both of men and materials, shall be employed to drive the treacherous, invading Japanese from the Philippine Islands, to restore as quickly as possible orderly and free democratic processes of government in the Islands, and to establish there a truly independent Philippine nation.
Our sympathy goes out to those who remain loyal to the United States and the Commonwealth; to that great majority of the Filipino people who have not been deceived by the promises of the enemy and who look forward to the day when the scheming, perfidious Japanese shall have been driven from the Philippines. That day will come.
The Pittsburgh Press (October 22, 1943)
Clark drives four miles, smashes counterattacks
Highway cities captured; 8th Army patrols ‘feel out’ Nazis
By Richard D. McMillan, United Press staff writer
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Charges ‘deceit, fraud’ –
Philippine puppet regime condemned by Roosevelt
President reiterates pledge to drive ‘treacherous Japanese’ from Pacific islands
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Leaves the front –
Stalin talks with British
Soviet leader expected to meet Hull today
By Robert S. Musel, United Press staff writer
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Teenage girls battle in duel over ‘stranger’
Bloody midnight encounter is finally ended by seconds
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I DARE SAY —
It never pays
By Florence Fisher Parry
As I dictate these words, I am having a beautiful manicure. The young lady has just asked me what shade of polish I prefer, and I find myself answering “Hot Dog,” and suddenly feel absurd. I, wearing “Hot Dog”? At my age? But let me hasten to explain.
“Hot Dog” has been more or less forced upon me. For you see, I am a mother of a young lady, and I indulge the frugal habit of using up all the leftover beauty aids.
My bureau drawers now seem to abound in “Hot Dog” remnants, and until they are exhausted, “Hot Dogs” it will have to be.
I don’t like the cold cream I am using now, either, or for that matter the skin lotion; and I just don’t know when I’ll ever be able to use up all these variegated lipsticks. Some fine day I am going out and buy itself a whole outfit of matching cosmetics, and I have no doubt that this simple extravagance will do more to bolster my morale than any other single action I could indulge.
Congresswoman
There is a woman for whom I have always entertained an unbounded admiration, for she has managed to lead the busiest possible life, while at the same time never letting go of her looks which to this day remain her chiefest asset. This is Clare Boothe Luce. Just what this smart woman could have accomplished without a stunning appearance to carry her through, is anybody’s conjecture.
The fact remains that here is a woman who has got further on her looks plus brains than any woman now in the public eye, and I am not one who would hold it against her that, in that recent spelling bee, Mrs. Luce failed dismally. She didn’t know how to spell supersede or defendant or Gibraltar or Albuquerque.
Now there are those who gloated that this not-too-popular young Congresswoman was thus shown up. This is ridiculous. Being a good speller proves nothing but an accurate eye. It has little or nothing to do with one’s native intelligence or even one’s education.
Some of the smartest people I know are wretched spellers, and some of the most tiresome could spell down Noah Webster himself in any spelling bee.
The important thing is that Mrs. Luce has made a stunning success at being a woman, and as far as I am concerned, she can spell “supersede” any way she wants to. I envy, how I envy anyone who can hew to the line of his own ambition and let the chips fall on others’ shoulders! It is said that such successful people ride roughshod over all others to gain their own objectives. Be that as it may, they get there, and by achieving their objectives are far more able to accomplish more for others in the end.
Advice
People like Clare Luce would never be found using anybody else’s leftover nail polish or get their days so cluttered that they would have to wash their own hair and put it up themselves in jaggy kid rollers, as I am prone to do.
And when women let their looks and their figures go, and then try to excuse themselves by saying that they can’t afford to spend the time on themselves because of what they were trying to do for others, in my heart I know that they are just trying to find an excuse for their own weakness and bad management.
No advice is so sound and so acid and so true as that which is made by those who have not themselves acted upon it. Therefore, the following is worth any young woman’s listening to:
It never pays to let your looks go. It never pays to wash your own hair or do your own nails or neglect your clothes or your face. Such martyred sacrifice is a boomerang. It defeats itself in the end.
Well, my manicure is finished, and my nails look very nice, and I feel much better. What I ought to do is just stay here all day and get a good going-over and buy a new corset and a course of reducing treatments and shop my head off for clothes. It would give me authority in my own home. It would boost my stock with my family.
And I know if this goes for me, it goes for you too, you middle-aged mothers and wives. We don’t get any thanks for letting ourselves go. We lose out every time.
I just have a notion, when I go home tonight, to throw away every half-used lipstick and nail polish bottle and cold cream jar that I can find in the house!
And I’ve just made a date with a hairdresser – and, by George, I am going to keep it!