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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1939
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XTEW YORK.—The aged president
of Poland, Ignaz Moscicki, put
an air-conditioning system int his old
plush-draped Baroque palace three
MM • Li r L years ago. A
Moacickt Look* scientist, a de-
To Science to vout believer
Care III World in the benign
miracles of
the laboratory which will some day
transform a tragically afflicted
world, he devised the system him
self and superintended its installa
tion. It turned heavy, sluggish air
into cool mountain breezes, and gave
him new energy for his continuing
scientific work, at the age of 70.
Perhaps the falling leaves give
poignancy and sadness to the fate
of this kindly old gentleman, driven
from his country in the up-thrust of
the new—or possibly the old—sav
agery of Europe.
One might write off Josef
Beck and Marshal Edward
' Smigly-Rydz, political and mil
itary careerists, al$>o exiled, as
incidental casualties, caught in
the backwash of their own am
bitions. President Moscicki, al
though merely a symbol in
feudal Poland, may find a place
in the later balance brought for
ward. If there is to be a new
dark age, it may be that lab
oratories will be the monas
teries which will be the havens
of the humane ‘ spirit and the
aspiring intelligence, as were
the monastic refuges of .the
Middle ages.
He is one of the greatest electro-
chemists in Europe, ranked with the
great German, Haber. In the field
of synthetic chemistry, he holds
about 300 patents. He was a college
professor for many years, tall and
thin with white hair and a spiked
moustache, as convinced as was
Woodrow Wilson that a “new free
dom” could be gained by the mo
bilization of planetary intelligence
and good will. Much in the manner
of our own distinguished Dr. Robert
Andrews Millikan, he acclaimed the
ultimate triumph of science over
hate and stupidity. To date, the
good genii which they have sum
moned are enslaved by men of
lesser understanding.
D R, JUAN DEMOSTHENES
AROSEMENA, president of the
Republic of Panama, is, in spite of
his middle name, a practical man,
Panama Chief
Talk* American
Unity, leolation
cautious in
speech and ac
tion. As the
keynoter for
the inter-
American conference of foreign
ministers at Panama, he sharply as
sails totalitarianism and religious
and racial persecution and invokes
unity of the American republics in
the spirit of constructive isolation
for which our state department is
proselyting just now.
Dr. Arosemena, a realistic
veteran of Panamanian politics,
has, in the past, accepted our
“good neighbor” policy on
grounds of enlightened self-
interest. He has been keenly
aware that the Canal Zone
might be a major trouble spot,
if war comes this way, and, re
cently, discussing its defense, he
said, “If they start shooting up
the canal, they'll be shooting at
us, too, and that's why we want
to help defend it.”
He was foreign minister of Pan
ama from 1929 to 1936, elected pres
ident in the latter year, and in years
past has been sharply opposed to
the United States on various issues.
In the presidency, he has inclined
much more in our direction. He is
friendly and genial, rather in the cut
of an enterprising business man. In
the 1938 Lima convention, he joined
the Brazilian delegation in accept
ing the Roosevelt overtures for
friendship and unity.
nPHIS writer has heard several ex-
pressions of astonishment over
the eagerness of the Rev. Martin
Niemoeller to fight for Nazi Ger-
, -many. It was
Freedom, Line only last June
Peace, Perhap* that the
f« IndivhibU churches of
democr atic
countries throughout the world pro
claimed him “the first Christian
martyr of modem times” and set
aside a Sunday for commemoration
of his heroism. The submarine
commander of the World war, hav
ing become a great evangelical pas
tor in Berlin, had led the non
conformists in opposition to Nazi
seizure of control of religion, and
had gone to a concentration camp.
The explanation of his back
sliding as a martyr may be
found in the records of his ear
lier career. He was an early
and zealous ally of Hitler and
his brown shirts, aiding in
stamping out freedom, com
placent in the face of pogroms
and the wreck of all civil liber
ties, resistant only when his
church was assailed.
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
New European Peace Threat Centers on Rumania
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Fearing pressure from Germany, Russia and other neighbors, Rumania appointed anti-Nazi George Ar-
gesanu (right) as strong-arm premier following assassination of Premier Armand Calinescu by pro-German
Iron Guardists. Mass executions stopped a threatened overthrow of the government, but Rumania still fears
her neighbors may try to regain territories she gained from them after the World war. International observers
think these dangers might be minimized, however, should Russia continue her apparent policy of increasing
sway over Baltic and Balkan nations, thus cutting off Germany's long feared drive to the east.
No Admittance! War Restrictions Hit Capital
Fearing recurrence of the World war bombing of the senate chamber, the capitol building was closed to
Sunday visitors recently. At left, Sgt. V. O. Deus is turning away wopld-be visitors. Right: White House
police follow secret service orders to close grounds of the executive mansion to all who have no official
business.
Women in the War
Out of Jail at Last—and So
to College
Woman’s place is no longer in the
home, say these English lassies.
Top: Miss Elspeth Ironside (right),
daughter of Gen. Edmund Ironside,
ehief of the imperial general staff,
drives her father’s official auto.
Below: Actress Elizabeth Allen
serves tea at a canteen “somewhere
in England.”
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Double Trouble—
Jaek Young, Chicago private in
vestigator, sued a national maga
zine for $250,000, saying the publi
cation called him a “cuckoo” be
cause he allegedly made capital of
his resemblance to President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
Joan, daughter of Sing Sing Warden Lewis E. Lawes, and the only
person ever born within Sing Sing’s grim walls, enters Pembroke college
at Providence, R. I. Daddy went along to help fix up her room the day
Joan started school.
Parents Charged With Whipping Child
Mr. and Mrs. Mariano Fanelli of Camden, N. J., had to be guarded
against mob violence when arraigned in police court on charges of beat
ing their three-year-old daughter, Madeline. Recovering at a hospital
from multiple cuts and bruises, the child showed the effects of a terrible
thrashing.
Star Dust
★ Fame a Handicap
★ Come-Back at Seven
★ Gang O. ICs Marlene
— By Virginia Vaie
I F THE public likes Lon
Chaney Jr. in “Of Mice and
Men’* he’s going to be one of
the happiest young men in Hol
lywood. For he’s severely
handicapped in trying to carve
a career for himself. As the
son of a famous father he is ex
pected to be better than aver
age; what would be success for
somebody else is just a passing
grade for him. . ,
He tried out for the lead in “The
Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and
didn’t realize how lucky he was not
to get it until he saw a revival of
the film recently. “It made me re
alize more sharply than ever how
good my father was,” he remarked.
“And what a tough time anybody
will have trying to live up to the
part. Anything I might have done
would have been a pale carbon
copy.” Yet he had the courage to
LON CHANEY JR.
try to get that role, which many
people consider one of the greatest
screen performances his father ever
gave. Lon Jr. is hoping that, as
“Lennie” in “Of Mice and Men,”
he can take a long stride forward
on the path that leads to success as
great as his father’s.
*
Hollywood was all interest when
Lillian Gish began making tests for
“Triumph Over Pain”—the prospect
of her being co-starred in it with
Ronald Colman made the town’s
older inhabitants look way back to
the days when Lillian went to Italy
to screen “The White Sister,” with
a young English actor who’d ap
peared only on the stage booked to
be her leading man.
That engagement put Ronald Col
man into the movies to stay, but
Lillian abandoned the screen for
the stage a few years later, and
now a whole new generation of
movie goers will have to get ac
quainted with her if she returns to
it.
*—
Baby LeRoy, at the ripe old age of
seven, is staging a comeback. (He
used to be the infant who nearly
drove W. C. Fields mad, remem
ber?) He’s Lonnie LeRoy now, and
will make his return in “The Bis
cuit Eater,” a story about a bird
dog and two small boys. Part of
the picture will be made at the
bird dog trials in Georgia.
*
Charlie Chaplin’s long-awaited
satire on dictators doesn’t sound so
awfully subtle, if it’s really true
that in the picture two of them are
known as “Adenoid Hinkly” and
“Gasolini.” But, subtle or not, it’s
sure to be funny.
*
It looks as if Marlene Dietrich
has decided to be herself; she stays
around when she’s not in front of
the cameras, in “Destry Rides
Again,” instead of retiring to her
dressing room, and the rest of the
cast has decided that she’s really
regular.
In the course of the picture she
has a battle with one of the other
girls, which makes one wonder if
that fight between Paulette Goddard
and Rosalind Russell in “The Wom
en” has started a cycle. Remem
ber what happened when Jimmy
Cagney squashed a grapefruit in a
girl’s face!
&
The popular program for Alec
Templeton, the blind pianist, is
heard on Monday nights over NBC.
&
After running for years as a play
and then being made into a picture,
“Abie’s Irish Rose” may land on
the air as a serial, where it will
probably run on forever and ever.
In some of those serials practically
nothing happens, because so much
of the time is taken up by the an
nouncer, trying to whip up interest
in what may take place the next
day. At that rate, “Abie’s Irish
Rose” could run forever.
%
ODDS AND ENDS — Norma Shearer
gives one of the best performances of her
career in u The Women”—a picture that
everybody should enjoy . . . Joe Penner
has a really funny picture, in "The Day
the Bookies Wept” . . . Ann Sheridan is
making a personal appearance tour . . .
Monogram, not to be outdone by Metro's
all-female cast in “The Women,” employs
an all-male cast in “Mutiny in the Big
House,” the story of a prison riot.
(Keleased by Western Newspaper Union.)
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