Pay as you go – crazy!
Income tax befuddles 3 ‘experts’
With identical figures U.S. examiners get different answers
By a Press reporter
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Pay as you go – crazy!
I DARE SAY —
Are parents people?
By Florence Fisher Parry
Are parents people? Are children human?
Will we ever learn, we parents, that we are just as impossible, present just as discouraging a front to our children as they could possibly confront us with?
There is a play in town, Kiss and Tell. It will be here for another fortnight. I urge its seeing. It provides the best medicine for parents of adolescent sons and daughters ever administered by that doctor of pleasant mien (whose bedside manner should be emulated by all practicing physicians) – THE STAGE.
Now in this play a typical young couple with a pair of typical young kids finds itself in a spot which, though not (we trust!) typical of the average American home, certainly has its familiar aspects. These parents have a perfectly normal daughter, 15, always hungry, excessive, exhaustingly healthy, the very epitome of everything that makes adolescence at once the most forlorn and objectionable phase in human development.
And she comes very near to wearing her parents out by her awful HEALTH. She’s at the Frank Sinatra stage. She is the spittin’ image of Junior Miss multiplied by a thousand mirrors.
The brats
There are other youngsters, too, in this engaging and hilarious play, and other hysterical and hopeless parents. The whole piece is a burlesque of American family life in any small town. Parents are going crazy with worry over children who look to be hopeless.
And then – all at once – the children are no more. And in their place is this generation that is winning the war for us. And all that seemed to us preposterous and hopeless becomes something to cherish as the funniest, dearest, NICEST memory we are ever likely to have!
The children! The blessed little BRATS!
There have been so many of these funny little American comedies of adolescence lately Junior Miss, Janie, the Hardy pictures, others too many to mention. It is as though suddenly we are hungry for yesterday, and can’t get our fill of anything that will remind us of how silly we were ever to have worried about our children while they were going through that most awful of all periods, their teens.
I was looking at some old kodak pictures the other day up home. They had been taken of our boys, the whole “connection” of them, in our backyard, the sand pile and the tiny swimming pool somehow all tangled with clotheslines and bikes and tents. And there was a moving picture, too, of them in a cops-and-robbers play, in improvised costumes.
Looking at these pictures, we didn’t remember at all what insufferable little brats they were, how completely hopeless they seemed so short a timer ago. The girls were gawky, and toothy and grimacing: the boys ungodly little devils profoundly despised and feared by the girls. All but two of these same little devils are now in the warm doing well! Well!
Yet somehow, when I think of them now, I get the picture of the way they looked then – little brats. And now already old – in their twenties – old in the knowledge of what killing and dying and separations and loneliness.
Will we never learn?
What made them turn out so well, so nobly? Not just the war, even war isn’t enough to change devils into gods. They had it in them anyway. All the time they were being impudent and shrill and unmanageable and repulsive little brats, the seed of all this – Now – was in them, getting warm, getting ready to sprout in the dark recesses if their obscure chemistries…
Will we never learn we parents? Will we never remember to laugh – secretly, covertly of course at the hopelessness of our adolescent children? Will we never remember that they’re still little boys with little hearts in their big hulking bodies: little girls with little unsure frightened attitudes.
Will we never remember how – unpleasant, how uncomfortable and humiliating it is, just to be young? How we hated it! How they hate it now!
Will we never realize that to them we are just as ridiculous, as infantile and as unmanageable, as they could possibly appear to us?
There is NO way to penetrate their world which is to us so idiotic and to them so PREFERABLE! All we can do, really, is to stand by (not appearing to be too watchful) and give them room to grow up!
Bishop scores Russian attack on the Vatican
Former rector of college at Rome denies charges of fascism
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Bell believed set to oppose Senator Davis
Duff’s withdrawal leaves no other candidate for Grundy, Pew
By Kermit McFarland
Lieutenant Governor John C. Bell of Wynnewood, Montgomery County, is the leading probable as the anti-Davis candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.
Mr. Bell, a potential candidate all along, becomes the principal prospect as a result of the positive refusal of Attorney General James H. Duff to enter the race.
If he runs, Mr. Bell will be supported by Governor Martin, his chief political backer, former U.S. Senator Joseph R. Grundy, and Joseph N. Pew, wealthy Philadelphia oil man.
Mr. Bell is a Pew protégé and Mr. Grundy, up to now, has been averse to running him against U.S. Senator James J. Davis, who will seek renomination in the April primary.
No other candidate
But the refusal of Mr. Duff to run leaves the Grundy-Pew axis virtually without any other candidate.
Chief factors pointing to Mr. Bell’s selection are these:
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He is the most available candidate.
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He has the strong backing of Mr. Pew.
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While he is not held in high favor by the Governor and Mr. Grundy, Mr. Grundy is so set on trying to beat Senator Davis he is likely to take any “reasonable” candidate.
Mr. Grundy was once a member of the U.S. Senate, by appointment of the late Governor John S. Fisher. But in his first campaign, Senator Davis beat him – and badly – for the Republican nomination.
Failure in past
Efforts of the Pew-Grundy combine to beat Mr. Davis six years ago ended in a similarly dismal result.
Mr. Bell is 51, a lawyer, finance chairman of the Republican campaign in 1938. Secretary of Banking in the James administration and Lieutenant Governor since January 1943. He belongs to the Old Guard faction of the party and is bitterly anti-New Deal, a qualification which rates first with Mr. Grundy and Mr. Pew.
Supreme Court rides for fall, justice fears
Disregard of precedent may cause public to lose faith
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Umpire closes door on Ford hearing
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Heavy fighting ahead for U.S. in Marshalls
Invasion opens assault on Japan’s inner ring of defenses
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U.S. bombers blast French invasion coast
Mosquitoes harass Berlin; 20,160 tons dropped by RAF in month
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Eyewitness on invasion!
Shelling smothers Kwajalein defenses
American bombardment sets big fires in Marshalls base as Marines storm ashore
By Robert Trumbull, representing combined U.S. press
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Roosevelt: U.S. won’t hold Jap-held area
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Willkie, Dewey, Stassen in Wisconsin primary
Madison, Wisconsin (UP) –
A slate of Republican convention delegates pledged to former Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota will be entered in the Wisconsin presidential preferential primary April 4, Dr. F. L. Gullickson, former GOP state chairman, announced today.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Wendell L. Willkie will also be represented by slates of delegates in the primary election.
In Washington –
McNutt favors military view on labor draft
Legion reports support of all of services, 75% of people
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Russia moves to strengthen voice in peace
Foreign affairs autonomy for Red states seen aimed at Britain
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Americans drive several hundred miles toward Tokyo in one giant Pacific sweep
Strongest points in Jap-occupied Marshalls enveloped
By Hal O’Flaherty
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Japs occupied islands in 1914
Marshalls built up since into powerful base
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22 U.S. planes lost in flight from Gilberts
All but six of pilots saved as Corsair fighters run into storm
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Editorial: Some are counted, some aren’t
They are being counted – those young Americans on the warships, in the air, on the beaches of the Marshall Islands in this greatest of our battles with the Japs.
They are being counted – those young Americans who press forward today against the Germans’ fire, over the hills and plains of Italy, on to Rome.
Their comrades have been counted on a hundred bloody battlefields, from Attu to Bataan to Guadalcanal to Tunisia – and white crosses mark the places where they stood when they were counted.
But some of their representatives in Congress, trustees of the government for which those young men are fighting and dying, don’t want to be counted – not even at $10,000 a year.
Today the Congressmen are voting on the question of whether the Armed Forces shall be permitted to vote in the next election by state ballots or by federal ballots. But they are not deciding this issue by a record roll call, which would provide a public count of where each Congressman stands.
They are deciding it by a “teller vote,” that being a parliamentary device by which lawmakers register their will anonymously – to the end that when election time comes constituents will not know where they stood or how they were counted.
Gen. MacArthur said:
Only those who are ready to die are fit to live.
Only those Congressmen who are ready to vote in the open on the merits of this issue or any other, without weighing party considerations and the danger of political death, are fit to make our country’s laws.
Editorial: Not propaganda
There has been widespread public protest that the government used the Jap prison atrocity report for propaganda purposes. Because it was made in the midst of the Fourth War Loan Drive, many people accepted it as a horror story designed to boost bond sales.
This charge isn’t true. The report was not timed for the bond drive – that was accidental.
The Chicago Tribune had obtained and widely syndicated a story written by Lt. Col. W. E. Dyess, one of the escaped prisoners. This forced the government to reconsider its policy of withholding the story, which it could no longer enforce. We believe that the government acted wisely in making the report official, instead of permitting a portion of it to be revealed through the medium of a Chicago paper.
The Army and Navy apparently realized that publication of the story would bring shock and grief and terrible uncertainty to the families of every American soldier or sailo9r reported missing in the Pacific theater of war. Therefore it had refused to sacrifice, for propaganda effect, the feelings of those American families. When it became impossible any longer to do so, the story was released. And it was merely by chance that the release came in the midst of the War Bond drive.
But once the report was made public, inevitably and legitimately it was used as an added reason for buying bonds and for increased effort all along the home front. There is only one answer to the Jap atrocities – the retribution of complete and final Jap defeat at the earliest possible moment.
Let us get on with the job!
Editorial: The President says oh
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
There is some small speculation on the question whether President Roosevelt, saying “Oh: when a fourth-term resolution was presented to him, meant the expression to convey surprise, approval or dissatisfaction.
There are, of course, always the further possibilities that he intended the oh of depreciation, or the shrinking oh, or the wool-gathering oh which denotes that the speaker has not kept up with the conversation.
Possibly, also, the President intended to say “Oho,” and committed a typographical error. If he did, this would explain nothing at all, Oho being open to an equal number of interpretations. The best guess is that he meant exactly what he said, and that it was the noncommittal oh, the big round empty oh, the oh of the present non-indicative mood.