r- THE SELMA TlMES-JOUR AL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1941 fAUt ruuw 1 (EIjc elrtta tntes-Tourna! Casual Comment By C. C. SEAY Letter Box The Cheshire Cat Established 1827 Th Tunei-Jearqai win pot only ilpoiy from It reader on ll matter ol BUbilc Th only condition your nun Iqd ai cation no ittra on eeoirevaralal aubjec catlap only UPdiy le puoiiih put tnvitea letter dad opinion lnurtat addrera mutt accompany each eommuni-aubjecta will be used without Signature ei be eonolae." Very hrngthj articles cannot Ob used. Pubiisned daily except Saturday, THE SELMA TIMES-J OURN AL PUBLISHING COMPANY, proprietors Enterted at postoffice at Selma, Alabama, aa second class mail matter. Writer The rule la F.
T. Halford Editor and Publisher 1814-1937 RECREATION FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF, AN ENLISTED MAN To The Selma Times-Journal; This communication carries no official significance, being merely the personal views of, the writer regarding proposed recreational facilities for soldiers. In the course of a casual conversation with a prominent and alert local business man the subject of recreation for the soldiers was touched upon. It appears that recently a civic-minded resident, having gt heart the welfare of the large number of Air Corps men soon th be stationed here inquired concerning what could be done along those lines by the residents of Selma, who, he said, were so inclined. It was mentioned that in Montgomery plans are under way for ments for service eligibility.
Airs P. T. Halford Publisher and General Manager Edward B. Field .1 Editor MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub-llcntion of all news credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Daily wire reports and Associated Press correspondence.
HUMAN LIVES IN THE BALANCE I Alabamians were given another forceful demonstration of the folly of allowing livestock to roam at large on the highways when a bus on the Montgomery-Selma-Meridian run hit a mule and narrowly escaped a serious wreck. There were sixteen persons aboard that bus and only the valiant efforts of its veteran driver, James Otis Mapes, averted disaster. Despite the fact that he was badly battered and suffered serious Internal injuries in clinging to the steering wheel, Mapes managed to turn the heavy vehicle back onto the highway afte? it had crashed against guard rails on one shoulder. According to reports by highway patrolmen who investigated the crash, there was no chance for Mapes to avoid hitting the mule, as the animal darted directly into the path of the bus from behind a passing car Had the driver been rendered unconscious by the impact, it is entirely possible that several lives would have been lost and another tnaior tragedy chalked up against the practice of free range. It does now seem that a stronger argument than this incident should be necessary to convince a majority of Alabamians that they must make a choice between free range and further progress for highway transportation.
It is manifestly impossible for motor vehicles of present-day Speed and power to deliver their full efficiency in behalf of highway travel if we continue to permit roaming livestock to largely nullify benefits from heavy investments in modern highways. While elimination of free range might not be to the benefit of some persons, it does not seem just or logical that they should ask continuation of special privilege at the price of risk of life and limb for their fellows. Eventually the livestock peril must be removed from the highways and protracted sufference seems to be sheer folly when it is evident that human lives are in the balance against free rang. If you care to make fiends with those Air Corps men of your own selection something can be done about it to further a mutual understanding which should result in happy benefits to all. Desirable Contacts Needed At present it seems that opportunities for desirable contacts are unavoidably limited here and the vitality and friendliness of these young mfen may lead the observer to erroneous conclusions as a result of that.
Some citizens have already done something to avoid such conclusions and have called Sundays and have taken to church those men who felt like going. If and when we have a gymnasium here we except to hold a dance, perhaps once or twice a month, to which the laches of the Vicinity will be invited, as is the custom at most Air Corps stations, where everybody always has a very enjoyable evening. In the meantime, suppose there appeared in the Times-Joumal an announcement something like this Dance Sat. Eve. Feb.
1, 1941, 8:30 tii 1:00, The Ladies Auxiliary of the Club will give a dance at the Hall for the enlisted personnel of the Air Corps. Music by the Orchestra. Ice cream, soft drinks, sandwiches beer. Comfortable seats and tables for wall-flowers. Enlisted men 25 centsl?) Ladies free.
Then it would remain merely to obtain the floor, arrange for the refreshments and orchestra, and some amateur entertainment from among the sponsors and guests. Perhaps our own orchestra will be sufficiently in practice by that time and there should be no dearth of volunteers to assist the sponsors committee. Then, while it should not. be expected to be a. moneymaking affair, neither would it be a gamble.
However, if any profit results the sponsors' committee could use it-for compensating the volunteers for the efforts. If the sale of beer threatens to interfere with the availability of a suitable floor then let us omit that. It would not make an awful lot of difference, for many of us do not care for it at all. The only difference would be that we simply would be missing one of our principal objectives, for many people object less to.it than to tile usual environment. If we include it we should be bringing it to an acceptable environment where particular people can enjoy it with pleasant companions.
Enlisted Man (Name furnished with communication) Selma, Jan. 16, 1941 instituting a so-called recreation center, and immediately it was ventured that progressive Selma could and would prove itself equal to the occasion. That is a fine gesture indeed and was deeply appreciated. Subsequently, in at least one civic club, (as far, as is known) the subject was pressed to determine both the advisability of such action and how best to proceed, under the prevailing lack bf familiarity with military life. Hence, it occurred that perhaps a word from an enlisted man might be of assistance.
As to the advisability, it is assumed that you want to do some thing to welcome these men; to make them feel at home; to make them like Selma; to remove that feeling of. stranger in your midst; to get them to lake an interest in the comumnity of which they will soon be no insignificant part and to make them ehjoy staying here. If these are your motives then there no question of advisability and the rest is simple As to recreation center, it is true that enlisted men want to be left alone. They are directed ail day long, and when they relax they dont want to be directed at that too, so no form of group recreation should be considered. Post to Offer Facilities It is expected that before long we shall have at the post almost every recreation that you could imagine, theatre, gymnasium, swimming pool, library, billiards baseball and other forms of outdoor sports, restaurant and club rooms, a place where friends can enjoy a glass of beer or a dish of ice cream, or dance to the music of our own orchestra.
So anything along those lines doubtless will soon prove to be a duplication, except that you might warn your various teams to brush up for the coming season' and arrange for some games with Us, to which the public is always cordially invited without charge. Further, it is not necessary for any community to worry about the welfare of U. S. soldiers, nor to spend any money at all for their recreation. You would be making a mistake to provide any sort of place for games or time killing, for few would go there.
However, it is impossible to make any statement which would cover all Air Corps men, as to their personal traits or behavior, except, that they are an exact cross-section of the entire civilian population put into -uniform, and in most instances this is not presuming to take the benefit of the doubt because of character require- About the funniest order th-cuiumn has even had is tu write something tunny about flu. lht answer lies somewhere between a grin and a horse-laugh. Were ufpjild the applicants will, have to look In some other corner of this paper fdr a wisecrack about the solemn situation. Maybe Sidyglancer will supply'lt. If they are up oil national and local news they know that a war of germs Is raging in this country that resembles in intensity the war of bullets In Europe and Africa, and that it promises it become a world conflict In its rapid advance from West to East.
In the last World War influenza claimed more victims than did guns and it the present germ war crosses the Atlantic Ocean it will kill more of the eastern hemispheres ill-cloih-ed, ill-housed and 111-fed inhabitants than any war of guns has ever done. present epidemic is not so fatal in this prosperous country as was that of 1918, but it is laying thousands low and having an appreciable effect on business by throwing the health of the nation into a low slump. He who laughs last, laughs bent. A heartening sign, Hbwever, is that a good many people are trying to laugh off an attack for themselves. Theirs is a sort of just-before-the-bai tie-mother refrain heroic in its effort to go over the top unbowed and unafraid into the No Mans Land of devastating inertia, flus unmistakable premoni-tary symptom.
Suffering the incipient pangs, they endeavor to ward it off with the ir.ind-pver-matter mode of not recognizing a malady when you meet it. Eyes red, sniffling and emitting Jerky little coughs- they repeat, with a handkerchief over the mouth, this little voo-doo rhyme: I feel fine and bold, Ive Just got a cold, Ive not got the flu Ker-choo! The next thing heard of them after this incriminating evidence is that theyare in bed with a mustard plaster and a box of asparin, still croaking the theme song. A lady out in all that slush Thursday staunchly declared she didn't have the flu. it was Just In her head, with which we heartily agreed for hers was about the worst stopped-up. head we have heard operating since the epidemic struck.
Avoiding ilu Uae the plague-2 and it is a plague is the best preventlal, say the health au norttiesr but people don't believe The first step in this direction, it would seem, is for people wbo have it to avoid others ano not go around spreading it. Nobody wishes to make lepers of them, out it might ba a good Idea for the circulating cases to cry "Unclean so that others can give them wide berth on the reet or have time to Jump out the window before they enter the room. On the Other hand, and more especially, well people should slay away from sick ones at home and in hospitals. Hpw many times have yeu heard this recently; Oh, I Just peeped in' a minute and stood ajj, the foot of the bed to see how she was getting along? A germ can travel fast and a long distance -in that minute and it doesn't care yvhether you ate sitting down 01 standing up during the brief period of peeping. Its aim is as deadly as a bullet across a battlefield and orange Juice in your tummy and sulphur in your shoes are weak armour if you stand in its path.
When you depart from the foot ol that bed you may carry along with you a load of germs sufficient to put out of commission yourself and forty others. An invisible germ when it hits you can be ps fatal in effect as a German bomb or a collision of planets. Flue is no Joke, though if we could think up a wisecrack or so wed pass them alopg just to brighten up this column a bit for the good of a gloomy cause. Somebody wanted to know when we are going to have flu and we told her our job is to collect all the left over germs and use them after everybody else is through. And she said its a good idea to have It late as all your friends who are over It arent afraid to come to see you.
SERIAL STORY CONSCRIPTS WIFE BY BETTY WALLACE NOT IN VAIN Those who have vivid recollections of the medical mishaps which followed introduction of sulfanilamide in various parts of the nation will be interested to learn that deaths caused by adverse reactions from the drug in elixir form have not been in vain, for a new member of its family has been produced and is doing yeoman work during the current epidemic of influenza. Taught by experience that sulfanilamide, despite certain marvelous qualities for combatting virus diseases, is dangerous to human life unless carefully administered by persons thoroughly informed about its properties, medical science has developed sulfathiazole, a similar product but one which is not as likely to result in toxic reactions. Sulfathiazole is not particularly useful in combatting flu itself, but it has proved to be singularly efficacious in preventing serious complications, such as pneumonia. As the influenza now prevalent appears in a comparatively mild form and soon runs its course unless lowered resistance permits other germs to gain headway, physicians report that serious results generally are avoided by use of sulfathiazole. Thus civilization is given another example of the amazing ability of medical science to profit from experience and to turn tragedy for some I ersons into blessings for humanity as a whole.
GLORIFYING YOURSELF By ALICIA HART NEA Service Staff Writer Your great beauty the woman whose good looks may dim bul never completely fade with the years has nice hair, blear skin, attractive face and the ability to choose art clo.hes and weai them smartly. In addition, ahe has: A reasonable, if not actual; sunny, disposition. (The lines across ti brow, the set look around the mouth, the rigid neck, all of which aid and abet ths passing of beauiy, are.very often, due to bad temper and being unable to keep little, unimportant things 'om being dreadfully annoying. The sentrys raucous voice began again, and Martha reluctantly withdrew her arms- from around her husbands neck. Here, Ill move over.
You drive, darling. Bill Opened the door and slid in behind the wheel. He waved, with exaggerated patronage, to the sentry. YESTERDAY: Paul demands a showdown, calmly analyzes the situation, denies that he is in love with Martha. He is only doing hat Bill asked him to do look out for Bills wife.
As Martha speeds toward camp, she realizes that'- this is the best solution, a gradual break with Paul. Tomorrow she will be with Bill, where she belongs. COME AND GET IT Whot to Eot in Winter ond Why ivu uuijuis, a aonii.r loou ettt-m-is! for the government, is a nationally recognized authority on diet. PRIVATE MARSHALL, U. S.
A. CHAPTER XI The little watch oh Martha Marshalls wrist Bill had -given her this watch showed she nosed the shining new' coupe into the recently improved side-road which led to Camp Mac-Allister. A khaki truck with white U. S. A.
lettering on its body and a grinning soldier at the wheel slowed down to let her pass. Ahead, a long line of traffic flowed toward the camp. "Visiting day, she thought. How many wives, how many sweethearts, had looked forward to this Sunday as eagerly as she? Butch, on the seat beside her, was wriggling ecstatically. As if he knew he was to see Bill.
At the sentry hut, two soldiers were on duly, asking questions of the people in the cars. Thty did not keep them long, and Martha slowed tr a crawl instead of stop-Ping. But befdre the soldier had time to open his mouth, someone behind him rushed forward. A voice cried, joyously, Martha! Martha! Bill, unfamiliar in olive drab, his eyes startlingly blue in a newly tanned fa.ee, leaped on the running hoard and thrust his head through the open window. Darling, Ive- been hanging around here practically since reveille! Oh, Bill! SAMPUNG SENTIMENT ON FIREWORKS Following a din-filled Christmas season, the Mobile Press-Register launched a determined campaign for suppression of the sale and use of fireworks at the Port City and agitation soon reached such intensity tha' Commissioner Charles A.
Baumhauer asked for expressions of opinion on the issue by the public. Since that time he has been the recipient of numerous communications from Mobile citizens and now he reveals that the indicated sentiment of the public is ten to one for elimination of fireworks. I am making a record of information on the case, he said, and will be guided by it in determining what action is proper in the case. Baumhauer said he had received views from Mobllians via telephone, lett rs, word of mouth and a symposium which appeared in The Mobile Register. So it appears that Mobile is about to rid itself of a costly and dangerous nuisance and by a method which appears to be about as democratic as one could want.
As long as elimination of fireworks has approval by a majority of Mobilians, the city commission cannot do otherwise than suppress them and its members can be assured that there will be no widespread resentment as a result The Times-Joumal believes that a similar sampling of public opinion in Selma would also reveal a decisive majority of the citizenry as favoring suppression of fireworks. We may be wrong in this belief but expressions which have come to us do not indicate that this is the case. Nothing would be lost if members of the city administration would test sentiment on the issue and it is possible that following Mobile's example eventually would result in action which most other cities of Alabama have already taken. 0 THEY CANT SHAKE-UP GRAZIANI Things have come to such a pass that most Italian military leaders cannot be sure from day to day how long their jobs are going to last. Repeated reverses for Fascist armies have resulted in one staff shakeup another and one never knows just how long a commanding general Is going to command.
But there is one outstanding exception to this rule. Tha't is the case of Marshal Graziani, commander-in-chief of Mussolinis African armies-The marshals job appears to be safe, at least for the present, for naming a successor would be only a gesture when he couldnt even reach his post of duty. 0 TITLED TERMITES uu the surface of the sea, in the sunshine, float large masses of a tiny form of life called plankton. The action of the suns rays on certain substances in this plankton forms yitamin D. Small minnows and shell fish feed on this plankton.
iThen 'along come cod and halibut, who feed on tile small fish. The vitamin which the sun put into the plankton is now stored in the liver of the cannibal cod or halibut. Along comes man, catches the cod, and makes cod liver oil from his liver. There, in a roundabout way from the sunny sea, comes our vitamin D. The doctoy will know whether the children should have this concentrated vitamin D.
Many specialists in nutrition believe that it shoud be added to the diet of all growing children during the winter months. NEXT: Vitamin G. Knows How To Laugh A sense of humor. (Without this, even the loveliest face is wasted on at least half of the people who see it.) A sense of fair play and tolerance de within her. (The most beautiful mature faces are those that are kindly.) A deep conviction that no woman can get by on good looks alone.
(Your real beauty never is called beautiful, but dumb.) Full knowledge that being a good listener is not enough. (She can talk, as well as listen, because she reads and thinks and therefore has somelhinc interesting to talk about. One of the secrets of her success as a beauty lies ip knowing when to talk and when to listen.) posed to do with visitors. "What are the shacks like? See them, over there? Just wooden buildings, quickly constructed, if you ask me. Tar paper, no paint.
Like the CCC camps. Better than the tents, though. "Wont we be able to to go somewhere, this afternoon? She had not expected to stay here in the camp all have to get a pass from the C. O. "Well, hurry up and gist it Her nose wrinkled in laughter.
I like the camp, darling, but Id rather have you all to myself." Bill turned the car around and they pulled up in front of one of those administration buildings. Inside, it was very bare and very clean. He took her into a long room where soldiers and girls and men in civilian clothes were sitting in groups. She saw a piano, and curtains at the windows. The reception room, honey.
I'll be right back. I'll have to find out where he is A It was swell; of Faul to lend you his car, he said, as they into the camps main street. With a grin, be added, Id almost forgotten the top-of-the-world feeling driving a car gives a man. In this dump, we buck scramble out of the road; fast, -as the general's car fires by. See what I mean? Martha cuddled against him, her fingers on his arm.
"Its so wonderful to be together again. Feel any new muscles? he teased. Theyre hell bent on making a man out of your Bill." Do your feet still hurt? she giggled. I brought you new Socks. "I looked it up in the Soldiers Manual what you do for sore feet, I mean.
It says sore feet are due to ignorance. "You're making it up! Theres a lot of queer doings in this mans army. Stuff civilians never think of. Like Saturday inspection, and saluting every time yeu pass an officer, if yeu pass him three thousand times a day I hardly ever forget to salute He sounded quite proud of himself. Martha looked about with interest as they drove on.
Its, a regular street, she murmured I didn't think camp would be quite like this. There were long, low white building, which Bill explained were the administration buildings, the canteen, and so on, Those houses over there are officers quarters. We call It Officers How. Letters painted just below the top front step cm each house gave the name and the rank of the officer who occupied the house. jHdw thoughtful, said Martha Nobody ever rings the wrong bell.
Gosh, Bill, wouldnt it be wonderful if they gave privates little bungalows? You get the silliest notions! Lots of officers, even, cant get quarters on the post. We're jammed. We have Regslar Army men, Reservists, and us lowly con scriptees. The top kick he's reg ular, of course, been in the Army about a hundred year has a cute little trick of calling us Strip Tease guys." You dont loqk as if you're being mistreated, she couldn't help saying. He looked brown and fit; more handsome than she had ever seen him, really.
"I think you even sit straighter, darling. His shoulders were inches above her own, and his hands on the wheel were brown and capable. Some nervous energy which he bad always radiated a slight restlessness was gone, and in Its place there was a sense of quiet power. Maybe I'm Imagining it, she thought But he does look so well. 30 Years Ago By WILBUR L.
deBOIS, M. A. Vitamin has a pleasant name the sunshine vitamin. It is produced by the Ultraviolet rays of the sun on suitable substances, one of which is ergosterol. This compound is found in the outer layers of the skin.
Vitamin is formed When the sun shines on this material In our skins. It is then absorbed into the body. Sun bathing isn't as idle as it looks. Our blood must contain an ample supply of calcium and phosphorous to make sound bones. The normal content of these minerals in our blood depends on the presence of vitamin D.
It is the regulator. There must be enough calcium and phosphorous in the blood to start with. Then vitamin must be present to keep them in order. Most mothers have heard the word rickets. It is the ihost common nutritional disease oc-'ourring among children of the temperate zone.
Fully three-fourths of the infants in large cities show signs of rickets. Apparently the food eaten by most children is deficient in important vitamin D. The food can and should be supplemented by concentrated forms of this vita min, especially during the winter when there is not as much direct sunshine as in the summertime. Egg yolk is the richest food source foi vitamin but oils made from the livers of see fish contain much more. Heres why.
The Cow sftid The Moon was presented to a very fair sized audience ai the Academy of Music last night. Miss Hazl Rice as Innocence, t-tracted the audience at her first appearence and held it during the evenings performance. She proved to be very clever and pleasing as an actress. The scenic effects of the show were beautiful. Her arms were reaching for him.
She clung tightly, in a sudden rush of emotion that surprised her. As if she hadn't seen him for years! As if an ocean had separated them, ins.ead of 100 miles. Butch began to bark. High, delighted yelps. His tail thumped the upholstery and he climbed over Martha's lap to get to, his master.
Save it, soldier!" grinned the sentry. "Youre blocking traffic. Bill said, Dont get gay. This lady's my wife." Bill, Martha was laugh ing weakly. Its so good to see you.
Ive missed you so. Ive missed you, too. And Butck, look at the darned pooch, he cant stand still 1 Just As Expected (Tuscaloosa News) Lott of people are worried because there seem to have been holes in the Hatch Act Not Senator Carl A Hatch, who wrote it "I sort of expected that there might be some violations, he said in New York recently. You cant expect practices of long standing to be disrupted overnight. The Hatch acts are just beginning.
Thats usually the way under democratic procedure and under any other, if the truth were known. The perfect solution is seldom bit the first time out Dictators cover ip their nfis-takes, and charge policies secret Democracies must wash their dirty dishes and remodel their legislative clothing in public. Miss Cora Ingram who for the past two years has been associated with the Selma Hair Dressing and Manicuring Parlors, has returned to her home in Atlanta where ahe will in future reside. A great deal of thought is being given to refugees. We dont want any ol this political or that racial origin.
We are choosy. 4 But there is one "Open Sesame" that seems to swing wide all doors In this democratic country a title. Any kind of a moth-eaten, semi-bogus. home-repudiated, shopworn title will do. The country is flooded with exiles, refugees, visitors, lecturers and sojourners affecting titles of nobility.
There are always people glad to give Mike Romanoff, the entertaining phony, the same cordial welcome they give to duller but more genuine royalty. Some people might be inclined to grow serious about the activities of th- titled termites. We cant. In most cases the people who accept such viaitots on title and without requiring them to prove themselves, are as void of influence and solid worth as the titles themselves. SO THEY SAY Longevityisexqusitely hereditary.
Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, the Johns Hopkins Medical School. THE CHEERFUL CHERUB We can meet the demands of armament because we are a people with the will to defend and the means to defend. President Roosevelt to Congress.
JUST BEGINNING Most of the soldiers here, Martha guessed, were younger than Hill. AU of them had the tanned, fit look BiU had acquired. The girls were carefully dressed but she saw one girl in a bright, cheap dress and one girl, sitting in a corner with a man who seemed no different from the other girls man, had carelessly thrown a mink coat across the beck of her chair. "Democratic, aU right! BUI came back very soon. Ha was waving his pass and saying jubilantly, Honey, a whole afternoon and evening.
I dont have to be back until 10 oclock!" One whole afternoon and evening! si repeated. "BiU, mustn't waste a minute of it. Oh, darling, it haa been ao long. I' re missed you so! Bills fingers tightened on hen. "Ten o'clock tonight is a long way oft sweet And in case I neglected to mention it before, I love you, darling.
(T Be Cent In Bed) side. How the fires started no one knows, but the chances are that they were due to carelessness on the part of hunters or others who were in the woods. There was no railway or industry near enough for either fire to have been the result of a apark. We have made some progress in education in forest preservation but have a long way to go. It must be made to thorough that when we pass through the forests we instinctively see that lighted matches or cigarettes are put out when they are thrown away or that killed fires are extinguished.
With Talladega the headquarters of the TaP ladega national forest and the example of the beneficial work that it forces have done, we in this section should be impressed with the importance of protecting our timber resources It worries mn wKen 1 hwve tvlLed, Expanding viewy LotL long and wita, To tkat Kvnted, glassy look Staal slowly oar my kaartr eye. American youth, starting on its first worth-while Job today Is going to be proud to remember experiencing the year 1941. Col. Philip B. Fleming, wage hour administrator.
Serpents Of Fire (Talladega Dally Heme) Serpents of fire crawled slowly along the borders of Talladega last night in two directions. On Law-son mountain on the East side of the Lincoln highway a forest fir inched along the crest. The red flames that licked up into tile air mad a beautiful but blighting ght To the South of town beyond "outhwrod hill on the East side of the road, fires burned along the ridf mrui th hill- Lots of people are worried because there seem to have been holes in the Hatch Act Hot Senator Carl A Hatch, who wrote It I sort of expected that there might be some violations, he said in New York recently. You cant expect practices of long standing to be disrupted overnight. The Hatch acts are just beginning.
That usually the way under democratic procedure and under any after. the truth were known The perfect solution of nothing la ever bit the first time out Dictators cover up their mistakes, and chcnge policies secretly Democracies must wnih their dirty dishes and remodel their legislative clothing in public that "Asg you taking me to lent yu wrote me about? Tent? No, were out of those thing. They've finished our barrack lhacks. I'm driving you around, then rii take you over to the re-ceDtion room. That's what we sup- am convinced that the days of asperate nation end empires are at an end, and that world federations are tha only way out of wot rhoos.
H. Wei is. Hi- novH.
