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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1939
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Buy Dr. Caldwell’s Lax
ative-Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your
druggist today 1
Some women’s hearts are so
hard the only thing that will make
an impression on them is a dia
mond.
TAKE FOR
MALARIA
Get Relief From Chills and
Fever!
Don’t put up with terrible Malaria.
Don’t endure the wracking chills
and fever.
At first sign of the dread disease,
take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic.
A real Malaria medicine. Made
especially for the purpose. Contains
tasteless quinidine and iron.
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic ac
tually combats Malaria infection in
the blood. Relieves the awful chills
and fever. Helps you feel better
fast.
Thousands take Grove’s Tasteless
Chill Tonic for Malaria and swear
by it. Pleasant to take, too. Even
children take it without a whimper.
Don’t suffer and suffer. At Ma
laria’s first sign, take Grove’s
Tasteless Chill Tonic. At all drug
stores. Buy the large size as it gives
you much more for your money.
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