Walkerton Independent, Volume 63, Number 19, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 October 1937 — Page 6

Pursuit Planes for Army Given Official Approval

Success of Craft in Spain Convinces Officials. San Diego, Calif.—Spain is a fiery laboratory in which modern military tactics—especially as regards aircraft—are being tested. Army air corps officers stationed here have revealed that one of the first lessons learned from the Spanish revolution is the extreme value of pursuit planes. “In the United States many strategists have been inclined for the last few years to discount the value of the pursuit type of fighting plane,” one officer of the One Hundred Fifty-fourth observation squadron, who refused to permit his name to be used, told the United Press. “But the pursuit planes definitely have come into their own in Spain.” Reports on Air Strategy. Officers stationed here said for months the War department has been compiling confidential reports evaluating certain types of strategy used by both insurgents and loyalists. JOHNNY GOODMAN "''V' J**r^*^ ' •• -- " v , si"* .'.'s ' * ' x' ' *' ' * - - - - J- \ . * SEbI ' Iw Johnny Goodman of Omaha won the amateur golf championship at Portland, Ore., defeating Ray Billows of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 2 up.

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Operation Will Be Studied by Government Experts. Washington.—The government is prepared to open Greenbelt, its super suburban town at Berwyn, Md., and to study its operation to determine policies for similar projects which soon will open within a few months at Milwaukee and Cleveland. The new farm security administration, falling heir to the $14,227,000 apartment and group house community on rolling, wooded terrain near Washington, promptly found itself involved in experimental nonprofit operation of a model little business district. All three of the low-rent housing developments were begun by the Resettlement administration, target

I Among the findings based on those reports were said to be several of a startling nature insofar as aircraft is concerned. r It was said the Spanish war also - has given military officials a chance 5 to observe the performance of fighting aircraft designed and built by I the great powers of the world, and » to compare the efficiency of design, . armament and speed with similar ; American craft. The tiny, darting pursuit planes have demonstrated, in the Spanish , civil war, time and time again, it was said, their ability to overcome the heavier, but potent bombing craft. Carrying small sized bombs and machine guns the little ships are able to perform deceptive maneuvers around the more cumbersome “flying fortresses” and evade the heavier armament while disabling the larger craft with sprays of ma-chine-gun fire and the small bombs. Then, too, it was pointed out, the pursuit planes are particularly valuable in harassing concentrations of troops on the ground by demoralizing them with machine-gun fire. Army Orders Fast Ships. Army officers here said the lessons of the Spanish war already are being put to use in this country, with the army having placed orders for what were described here as the “fastest pursuit planes in the world.” Eighty-five of these little fighters already are under construction at the Seversky Aircraft corporation in the East, it was said. Then, too, the army, according to officers here, has developed what is known in military circles as the XFM-1. This plane, the officers say, is capable of “overhauling any air target thus far constructed.” This new XFM-1 carries a crew of five men. Is operated by pusher rather than tractor propellors—a decided innovation in modem fighting planes. This plane, the top speed of which is a secret, is capable of fighting at an altitude of 30,000 feet or more. At least five, and possibly more, heavy-caliber machine-guns are mounted on this craft, it is said. Lambs Only One Year Lambs never live longer than a year—then they become sheep! One reason why lambs sell for good prices is that there is little waste meat on them. “Hothouse lamb” is lamb born late in the fall and marketed in the winter. All lambs marketed between spring and fall are called “spring lambs.”

for much anti-New Deal criticism. Recently the FSA replaced Resettlement and assumed the duty of administering the new farm tenancy loan program. A ten-year lease had been signed . by Resettlement with the Consumer I Distribution corporation. To operate all of Greenbelt’s commercial es- i tablishments, including a moving picture theater, when the develop- j ■ ment receives its first tenants in a ! few w'eeks. The corporation w r as j formed by Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, to encourage co-op-erative department stores. Herbert Evans, vice president, I and Percy Brown, secretary-treas-urer, announced after conferring with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace on details of the I program that “we are ready to be-

THE PRINCE “ । OF PEACE By LEONARD A. BARRETT e f In an address atMiddletown.Conn., Woodrow Wilson said, “It is a strenuous thing this, of

living the life of a free people; and we cannot escape the burden of our inheritance.” Our forefathers sacrificed life and material possessions for the preservation of our liberty, which is secure only in times of peace. To preserve peace is perhaps our most

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, sacred obligation. It is for us to ' emphasize the grave importance of , our fathers’ vision of peace, remem- ’ bering that without a vision the people perish. What is that vision? , We have had many panaceas offered for permanent peace, nation- , ally and internationally, but all have failed. We thought that the last great war was fought to end wars and make the world safe for democracy. A cursory review of European conditions and those in the Orient today clearly convinces us that we have failed hopelessly. We have tried protocols, peace courts, signed agreements, and EVENING FROCK ml 1 WK ; wi® i If W 22 The vogue for the short evening frock of the “ballerina” type with full, swinging skirt is shown in this creation of metallic-printed Celanese taffeta and sheer ninon for the blouse and bolero. The red of the blouse and bolero matches the background color of the print. used many other devices which were scrapped in the hour of crisis. The world lacks confidence. Nations grow in accord with national spirit, and when that national spirit lacks confidence in the word and deeds of other nations, all is distrust and confusion. To the vision of peace bequeathed to us by our fathers we must add a sincere element of loyalty to the sacredness of personality in every nation. Tyranny belongs not to one tyrant but to an anonymous mass of humanity we fail to identify as human personalities. In other words no man will respect the body of a man unless he believes that the body is the temple of an eternal spirit. We may cry, “Peace, peace,” from now until the end of time, but wars will not cease -until men everywhere acknowledge the eternal soul which has its abode in the body. We may handle tangible things roughly: but not intangible things. We owe an international responsi- ’

gin as soon as Greenbelt opens.” They explained that the organization had been “drafted” to undertake the operation of the Greenbelt establishments until co-operative | committees at the settlement can take them over. “We are performing merely a public service,” Evans explained. ' “We are glad to help. But I doubt that we will continue for the full ten years because the resident committees should be able to be in full swing long before then.” Western Reserve Squabble Just as the slavery issue split the Union so also the question of which state owned what later became the Western Reserve also threatened to break up the Union. This territory—about 4,000,000 acres—was claimed by existing states, whose arguments were finally settled when they all agreed to turn the w'hole thing over | to the federal government.

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ETTING ready for company usually means furniture moving. And that incurs a lot of remarks from the man of the family who is called upon to lend his strong arm. Marietta J. got tired of getting ready for company herself. So when the question of remodeling came up, she talked her husband into building a guest house out in the garden; a very plain little room with a bath, but private and comfortable and completely equipped for a guest to move in and settle down without tearing the family asunder. They spent a minimum on the guest house in the first place and Getting Ready for Company Usually Means Furniture Moving. expenditures for fu niture had to be even less than minimum. Marietta's husband sealed up the inside himself with knotty pine boards which they finished with thin shellac. A maple chest and mirror and a maple spool bed were hand-me-downs but they did perfectly. Then they bought a little maple rocker, a small bedside table and a plain green summer rug. Marietta had some striped material—a ticking weave material with a wide brown stripe in it alternating with verynarrow stripes in beige, orange and green. This she used for curtains made on rings to slide back and bility to the sacredness of personality. We need not “write our wills across the sky in stars” to earn our freedom from the curse of war, but we must leave the Chris- । tian principle: “I am my brother's keeper” deep in the heart of the world. Mary Pickford wrote a little book —“Why Not Try God?” The writer j never read the book, but the title suggests the question—Why not try \ the Prince of Peace? Why not try the life-power of the Prince of Peace who brought light to life? It was of Him the last of the Roman emperors to persecute the Christians cried, when dying: “O Galilean, j thou hast conquered!” We would have international peace if men everywhere tried to understand and use these words of the Galilean: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you.” “Unless we realize the supremacy of spiritual forces, the pallbearers who have borne forth other dead civilizations wait at our door.” C Western Newspaper Union.

Bull Gives French Crowd Big Laugh '■far ''< A bull gives the crowd a laugh at a bullfight at Saintes-Maries-de-la Mer, La Camargue, France, as he chases the razeteer over the barricade. The traditional Spanish sport is being carried on in parts of France while Spain is engaged in civil war.

My Neighbor — Says := To remove the odor of fish from a frying pan, fill pan with water, add a little vinegar and let water come to a boil. • • • Cake should be cold before boiling icing is put on. Uncooked icing may be spread on either a slightly warm or cold cake. • • • Before putting away screens for the winter, dust and paint. Paint will be thoroughly dried before screens are to be put in again. ♦ • • One tablespoon of orange juice and one teaspoon of chopped Maraschino cherries added to boiled salad j

forth and take the place of both window shades and curtains. For the bedspread, she got unbleached domestic and dyed it orange. The same thing made a slip cover for a small settee that had been discarded from the front of the house but seemed a very pleasant place to sit here and added a lot of comfort to this small room. A built-in bookcase painted green held guest oddments and new magazines, good books and smoking things. A builtin closet was made to resemble a peasant cupboard with doors painted in bright designs of green, orange and brown against the thinly shellacked pine. • • • All in a Heap. We found Anna in tears the other morning when we stopped by to see her. All because her roast burned and the laundry man came and the phone rang and the sink got stopped up and the baby cut his finger—all at practically the same minute. Anna sailed through these emergencies on high but when all the ends were tucked in and life was tranquil again, she had to take time out for a tear or two. Which is all right. It gets things out of a lady’s system and girds her for struggles to come. But right in the midst of her weep, Anna looked up suddenly, “That reminds me. I wanted you to help me plan how to do over my kitchen.” If there’s anything that brings a lady out of the dumps, it’s planning some doing-over about the house. zXnna’s ideas about her kitchen were excellent, we thought. To begin with, she had the usual white \9 We Found Anna in Tears When We Dropped By to See Her. sink, refrigerator and stove, and her linoleum was in several shades of gray. And she wanted something different and cool in her redecorations. Here is what she had in mind and we approved! A bright I grass green paint for table and chairs and the insides of the cupboards, white for walls, woodwork and outsides of the cupboards, green for ceiling, green and white checked gingham for curtains and chair seats, white and green kitchen pottery. We wouldn’t mind dish washing in a kitchen like that! And we think it sounds nice enough to get anybody out of the dumps. c By Betti- Well*.—WNU Service.

POTPOURRI The First Movie Motion pictures result from a series of pictures taken at short intervals. In 1872 Eadweard Muybridge secured a number of such photographs of a moving horse by setting up a series of cameras along a race track, each camera being snapped by the breaking of a string as the horse moved along the track. © Western Newspaper Union. dressing makes a delicious dressing for fruit salads. * • • When groceries have been removed from paper bags, fold the bags neatly, place them inside a long-handled broiler and hang it on the wall in your pantry. © Associated Newspapers.—WNU Service

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® New York Post.—WNU Service. Let Alumni Rave— Here’s an Idea of Ivy Grid Prospects 'THIS properly should be written -*■ while the glee clubs fronj six major universities gather in the background to croon their demands for touchdowns. Letters from duly indignant alumni should be strewn all over the desk. The telephone should have been briskly ringing for hours so that irate acquaintances could demand free ducats on the 50-yard line. A bevy of the world’s greatest detectives should be near at hand to unravel the rules committee’s newest tangle. Nevertheless, while lacking such colorful inducements to get into the real spirit of the thing, duty must be done. Forthwith is presented one guy’s notions as to how some of our better publicized eastern institutions of higher learning shape up for the 1937 football season. First bat. naturally, is given to the alma maters which yelp loudest about their own innate purity. YALE—The Elis look better on paper right now than they did twelve months ago, but it is doubtful if they will be as good as in 1936 when they lost only to Dartmouth. Clint Frank, possibly the greatest all-around back to wear the Blue since Coy, heads an impressive list of ball carriers but there are too many danger spots up front. Men such as Merri Scott and Bob Beckwith. both underrated by observers last fall, will be sorely missed. Also scholastic shadows hover over several other dependables and there will be no Larry Kelley. Dick Harlow's System Clicks at Harvard HARVARD—Dick Harlow’s hard hitting system was working last November almost as well as it did during his years at Western Maryland. Most of those heroes, who scared Yale so badly, are back. Headed by Alex Kerkovian, a bruising Armenian giant who brings fond memories of Pennock, Hardy and other Crimson tackle greats, the line should be the best in years. Tom Healey, rugged sophomore son of a Worcester police captain, is almost as good a tackle as Kerkovian. Don Daughters is an impressive end. In the backfield there is the famous passing combination of Art Oakes and tiny Bob Stuart to go along with the blocking of Chief Boston and the line plunging Vernon Struck. Together with Torbet MacDonald. soph triple threat from Andover who is claimed as the best Harvard back since Crickard, they may provide the Crimson with its ardently craved Big Three title. PRINCETON—Jack White, tops as a ball carrier but weak defensively, and Charley

Toll, a good but not great tackle, are the only survivors from Crisler’s mighty 1935 team. This year, with the Tigers still sore over what happened to the well ballyhooed veterans in 1936, anything may happen. On paper, the prospects are not too impressive but

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if bald Tad Wieman does his usually high class job on a green soph Une it might be well for Yale to get an alibi in working order early. PENN—Backs such as Elverson, Warwick, Kurlish and Murray are replaced no more quickly than are such fine centers as Jim Hauze. Nevertheless, the red helmeted Walter Shinn heads a strong front line and it may be difficult to flag such impressive soph backs as Jim connell and Bill Koepsell. On the whole a good team, although scarcely as good as a year ago. DARTMOUTH—Boys to watch here are Merrill Davis and Larry Hull, a great pair of ends and Bob McLeod, a superior ball carrier. They fit well into the system Earl Blaik finally has established on a firm basis at Hanover and it may be they can carry the team until raw recruits get the feel of things. Not too much optimism among Green alumni, though. You can’t lose men such as Handrahan. Cammerer and Mutt Ray and not feel it. COLUMBIA—A stride or two ahead of last year's pace. Lou Little is cheerful, as he very well might be, when he looks at his big squad so well equipped with ends and backs. Probably not another Rose Bowl year but it should be Sid Luckman’s time to go places. Also watch Frank Sposato, sophomore, converted from center to quarterback to replace George Furey. How that boy can block. CORNELL —A tough schedule doesn't make things too easy for Carl Snavely. But those sophs of last fall should now be ready to go to town in a big way and so his worries mainly concern the development of a kicker and passer. At the moment the Big Red line, anchored by Ted Hughes, a great center, seems the best on the Eastern seaboard. Al Van Ranst and Bill McKeever appear to be tackles capable of making any team in the |country.

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