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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1939 i*§ti k W&W WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK.—As we get it, Amos Alonzo Stagg, now in his fiftieth season of football coaching, leads the boys in prayer just before the n game starts. Stagg Prays However, they Only That Boys do not pray Give Their Bert ‘^at they may win, but that they may do their best. That would be considerable for any outfit trained by Mr. Stagg. When his short-end College of the Pacific team turned in a seeming miracle recently by defeating the University of California, all reports agreed that the game was won on merit and not through any outside help. As the old saying goes, “A wise old man’s shadow is worth more than a young buzzard’s sword.” Mr. Stagg, now 77 years old, is, indeed, wise in strategy and diligent in performance. He has contributed to the game the triple pass, the fake pass, the unbalanced line, the flanking for mation and several other dan gerous devices, and he has come along through the era of change a jump or two ahead of his ri vals in mastering and teaching the long pass and the open for mation, much more adaptable than any of the elder statesmen of world politics. He says change and experiment have vastly improved football. This writer once knew an old- timer who worked with young Amos Alonzo Stagg when he was the champion hay-shoveler on the salt marshes around Newark bay. My informant said young Stagg would figure out a nice leverage on the fork handle, and move more hay with less effort than any other man of the lot. He saved his earnings and went to Yale Theological school. After his graduation, he found pub lic speaking difficult, turned away from the ministry and became a coach at the Y. M. C. A. college at Springfield, Mass. In 1892, he went to Chicago and for 40 years was not only a team builder but a “character builder.” He forbade liquor, to bacco and profanity, and made it stick. Seven years ago, he left Chicago because of the re- tirement-at-70 rule, renewed his gentle exhortations at the Col lege of the Pacific. He keeps fit by tennis and a jog up and down the road every day. He was also a demon baseball player in his youth, pitching Yale to five successive championships. While he is, naturally, tagged the “Grand Old Man of Football,” his many admirers would take in a lot more territory. I N OUR present attempt to remain neutral, there is much pulling and hauling over the opinions of John Bassett Moore and Professor Philip Jessup. If any- War as Long as We Love Pomp Attending War body knows what interna tional law is, they are • the two Americans who would qualify, but it is still pretty foggy, as it was 300 years ago when old Hugo Gro- tius left it that way. The 79-year- old, spade-bearded Mr. Moore re signed from the world court in 1928 to compile 75 volumes covering in ternational law and neutrality in the World war. In 1922, after 37 years of ponder ing these matters, he wrote: “So long as we love glory, so long as we worship bravery, so long as we thrill at the call of battle, so long will we love war. Mothers may say that they do not raise their sons as food for cannon, but when the call comes, these same mothers will be the first to answer.” Mr. Moore vigorously opposed the Kellogg pact and all other such de vices and denounced the “callow striplings” and “shallow dupes” who offer them. As befits an au thority on neutrality, he parts his hair in the middle. He is probably America’s most distinguished schol ar and authority in this field. rpOUR railroad presidents have " died in the last year. All have been replaced by younger men and by men of operating, rather than management or legal, background. Charles E. Denney, elected to the presidency of i the Northern Get Rail Chiefs From Ranks, Order of Day Pacific, start ed with a switch compa ny, up through grades with John J. Bernet, who made railroads out of junk-heaps rather than debentures. In Lancaster, Pa., he sold papers as a boy and worked his way part way through Pennsylvania State col lege as a runner for a boarding house. He is si:: feet tall, weighs 200 pounds and has vigor and enter prise to match. (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) V • • * Torpedo Boat: Britain’s Answer to German Subs Here’s one of Great Britain’s powerful new torpedo boats which can launch a projectile straight ahead while traveling at top speed. Arrow points to one of the torpedo tubes mounted on deck. The British count on these boats to combat the German submarine. A large fleet of these boats has been placed in service in the North sea and they are usually attached to destroyer squadrons. Estonia Fires Her Army; Russia Takes Charge Tiny Estonia packed away her vest-pocket army when her foreign minister Karl Selter was forced to sign a treaty making the nation a virtual protectorate of Soviet Russia. Photo shows soldiers of the tiny de fense force watching a tank being taken to storage. Map shows Estonia’s position. The two islands off her Baltic sea coast are being made into Soviet air and naval bases. Later the Soviet demanded and won mutual assistance treaties with Latvia and Lithuania, to the south, placing them in substantially the same position as Estonia. Observers believed Russia was strengthening her position against any possible action by Ger many, her new “ally.” Smiles at Tragedy This Young Skate Cuts Dashing Figure Eight-year-old Dorothy Lewis imiles from her wheel chair at a New York hospital where her right leg was amputated to stem the rav ages of bone cancer. Amputation was made at the hip. P. S.—She Won, Too! Patricia Merifield, Hollywood visitor at Sun Valley, Idaho, makes a dashing picture as she executes a leap on skates that apparently takes her over the rugged Idaho mountain tops, thus* ushering in a new wintex season of outdoor sports in the northern states. Blonde Erika of the Folies Ber- gere at the San Francisco fair is a native of the Austrian Tyrol. Hav ing milked a cow before, she took S pounds, 15 ounces of milk from Mary, blooded Jersey, to win first prize in the exposition’s milking con test. “Miss Frances Murphy,” above, “bearded lady” at the New York fair, charged a gentleman named John Durkin tried to kiss “her” in a Manhattan subway. In felony court it turned out “Miss Frances Murphy” was really a man. Here “she” is shown in the police van, after being charged with perjury. Star Dust ★ New Swedish Find ★ U. S. Film to Russia ★ Third Choice Takes It By Virginia Vale I NGRID BERGMAN is the heroine of the latest pub licity build-up in Hollywood —perhaps the name isn’t fa miliar to you now, birt if it isn’t soon the fault will lie with David Selznick’s public ity staff. For Miss Bergman is the new Swedish discovery who makes her bow to film fans in “Intermezzo,” with Leslie Howard. She is pretty, charming and has a lovely smile. Stockholm is her home town. Whether she is as talented as her Swedish compatriot, Greta Garbo, remains to be seen. “Intermezzo” is a romantic drama dealing with a world-famous musi cian who has to decide between INGRID BERGMAN home life with his family and the thrills of his life as an artist. Edna Best and John Halliday have sup porting roles. 'si' — While Mr. Selznick was discover ing a Swedish actress, Russian mo- j tion picture men were discovering an American one. Intorgkino, inter national film trading company for the Soviet Union, has bought Dean na Durbin’s “One Hundred Men and a Girl” for distribution there. It is the first American picture bought for that market since 1936, when Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” and “City Lights” were purchased. w 7(s William Powell may appear in “Susan and God” opposite Greer Garson, who became famous over night as a result of her appear ance in Goodby, Mr. Chips.” But the doctors have the last say in* regard to Powel’s taking on this new assignment; two weeks of re takes for “The Thin Man Returns” necessitated a rest, as his health still isn’t what it might be. w 7i\ “Drums Along the Mohawk,” ac cording to an announcement from Twentieth Century-Fox, will be 14 reels long when it is released. Not the longest picture ever offered to the public, but the longest in Tech nicolor. In case you didn’t read the book, it’s a swell story. * It’s three times and out for “My Girl Friday,” the new screen ver sion of “Front Page.” Irene Dunne was offered the lead, and refused it. Jean Arthur was offered the lead, and also refused it, which resulted in her suspension without pay for 12 weeks. (However, her contract will be extended for that same period.) The picture finally got started with Rosalind Russell in the role that the Misses Dunne and Arthur wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole. As a rule, when this sort of thing happens in a motion picture studio, the actress (or actor) who steps in and saves the day makes such a success that she leaps ahead several rungs on the ladder to fame. 34 Every radio broadcast has to have a production man; his job, principal ly, is to sit in the control room and guide the progress of the show to split-second accuracy of schedule. Since radio began it’s been a man’s job. But CBS’s “Grand Central Sta tion” is produced by a woman. She’s Betzy Tuthill, from Tucson, Ariz. You girls who’d like to take on a similar job will be interested in the story of her career. After being graduated from the University of Arizona sh^ worked with the Har vard Film Service, editing and cut ting educational films. Then she went to work for Irving Reis, who was directing the CBS Workshop se ries. She looked after his mail, did some casting, read scripts and helped re-write them. First thing anybody knew she was in the studic, helping with production. X A1 Pearce, who added “I hope, I hope, I hope” to American slang, is back on the air on Wednesday nights from 8 to 8:30 eastern stand ard time, on a nation-wide hook up. He has a new Gang, which in cludes Billy House, the radio old- timer, and Don Reid, a new lyric tenor who hails from Canada. N t ' ODDS AND ENDS — The papula, u Myrt and Marge'’ serial, soon to celc brute its eighth year on the air, canv into being because the real Myrt ant. Marge were hit by the 1929 crash . . ! The new March of Time, “The Battl Fleets of England," is a film story of th ; British navy today. (Released bj Western Newspaper Union.) Handy Small Table Made of Camp Stool LJAVE you ever wished for a small, low table that would appear from nowhere and dis appear again when you were through with it? Have you ever thought it would be nice if Fa ther’s ottoman could be folded up and put out of the way when not in use? Or perhaps you have un packed a suit case in a guest room and wished for something other than the bed; a chair or the floor to put it on during the process? A camp stool plus a tray to fit the top makes a very satisfactory small table to place beside a game table or to set up for your books or mending basket by your favorite chair. But be sure to dress it up to best advantage. A remnant of material and some up holstery braid will do the trick. Stain and wax are suggested for the base as paint might be marred in folding the stool. EDITOR’S NOTE: Mrs. Spears has prepared for our readers a booklet containing 32 useful and practical suggestions for beautify ing the home; with step-by-step directions clearly illustrated. To get one of these useful booklets, just send name and address, with 10 cents in coin to Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. E$SO REPORTER NEWS A.M. Noon PJ«. P.M. WCSC 8:00 12:00 6:30 11:00 WIS 7:30 1:15 6:30 11:00 WFBC 8:00 12:30 6:30 11:00 WWNC 7:40 12:15 6:00 11:00 WPTF 7:40 12:30 6:30 ♦WOOD 7:45 12:25 6:10 10:30 •WNOX 7:15 12:00 5:55 10:00 WBT D7:55 12:55 5:25 10:30 (Fri.) 9:45 Sl0:30 * Centra l Standard Time O.Daily S-Sunday Ignorant Belief Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.—Mon taigne. Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels, and Also Pepsin-ize Stomach! When constipation brings on acid indi gestion, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste, and bad breath, your stomach is probably loaded up with cer tain undigested food and your bowels don’t move. So you need both Pepsin to help break up fast that rich undigested food in your stomach, and Laxative Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be sure your laxative also contains Pepsin. Take Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative, because its Syrup Pepsin helps you gain that won derful stomach-relief, while the Laxative Senna moves your bowels. Tests prove the power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of undigested protein food which may linger in your stomach, to cause belching, gastric acidity and nausea. This is how pepsin- izing your stomach helps relieve it of such distress. At the same time this medicine wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your bowels to relieve your constipation. So see how much better you feel by taking the laxative that also puts Pepsin to work on that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin icky children love to taste this pleasant family laxative. 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