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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1940 wmi Sr- m WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F, PARTON ISJ EW YORK.—If 'death is taking only a brief holiday on the west wall, the opposition is making the most of it. The life brigades press forward in Science, Unlike Death, Pauses Not for Holiday medicine, re search * sci ence, philan thropy, social inquiries and studies, and all that has to do with the two healing vir tues of compassion and understand ing. Even the sedate American Philo sophical association feels a touch of the new elan vital and is moved thereby to a spirited teleological free-for-all as it tries to understand John Dewey. The occasion was a special meeting to honor Professor Dewey on having become 80 years old last October. Never before has this courier seen a year wind up with less arthritis and more punch, in the field of science.' Young blood is helping a lot. Dr. Albert B. Sabin, of the Uni versity of Cincinnati college of medicine, who scores against in fantile paralysis and viruses at tacking the nervous system, is . 33 years old. His paper, read before the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Ohio university, reveals unsuspected tissue defenses against the en trance of the viruses into the nervous system. It is regarded as an epochal advance toward understanding of the disease and later conquest. Dr. Sabin was born in Poland, and acquired his academic and medical education at New York university, from 1933 to 1931, later studying at Lister institute, London. In 1932, he oecame associate research scientist at Rockefeller institute, New York city. During his tenure with this institution he discovered a new dis ease, caused by an agent which he calls the B virus. His new discovery of the anti virus goalkeepers in human tissue was announced in connection with ''is receipt of the Theobald Smith award in medical sciences. r>R. ALEXANDER LESSER of Brooklyn college finds there isn’t any such thing as social evo lution—at least not in the old sense. - _ “In the form Sees Our Hope In Understanding Human Behavior a door-nail,’ given it by the ’classical evolutionists,’ it is dead as. says Dr. Lesser. But, tossing aside “subjective judgment,’ he finds ample hope of new under standing as he assails the old ration alization of haunch, paunch and jowl darwinism, as rationalizations of force. Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, as above, sees our ultimate hope in ’’understanding human beha vior,” and urges the scientists to keep on swinging. Dr.'Mitchell, it will be recalled, is the widely known Columbia university econ omist who headed President Hoover’s research committee on social trends. M atthew w. Stirling, an thropologist of the Smithsonian institution, who delves into exciting origins and inducements of what is j n • - loosely called Found Primitive civilization, is Man Possessed off for the Yen tor D. 7\* Maya country of Mexico, leading an expedition which will hunt new clues to early Indian cul tures. It is a renewal of Mr. Stir ling’s explorations of last January, in which he found a stone bearing the earliest recorded date of the Americas—equivalent to November 4, 291 B. C. A Princeton scientist traced the honey highball back 5,000 years and thereby gained knowl edge of great historic Indo-Eu ropean shifts in population. Mr. Stirling also has found man’s early day elbow-bending a light source. He discovered that the drinking of primitive man was premeditated and indulged in to induce visions. At Ostia, Mr. Stirling found a bar, several thousands of years old, lacking only the brass rail and the free lunch to match ours. In British Guiana, in 1927, he found pygmies who, for full dress, wore artificial tails; whose babies in arms smoked big cigars and whose dogs were barkless. In Flor ida, he found the lost Calooshas, the earliest Americans. In the Jivaro, he was clubby with head-hunters and learned much, not only of their recipe for shrinking heads, but of their visions, legends and customs. He was reared in the Salinas cow country of California and attended the University of California. His explorations have been in North, Central and South America, Europe and the East Indies. He is 43 years old, and, as usual, having the time of his life. V (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) Helping Hand Extended to Devil’s Island Fugitives Eight men who are fleeing from the dread French penal colony at Devil’s island are shown lined up at the beach at Ensenada Playa, Puerto Rico, as they listened to instructions read by an immigration inspec tor before setting sail in their small boat, in which they hope to reach Mexico. The fugitives first sailed to Venezuela, to Trinidad, then to Puerto Rico, securing help at each port. They hope to obtain a pardon, and if successful will join the French army. ■ t — - • ■ ■ . . , — - ■ . Australian Farmers Strive to Maintain Production “This is our land—and to keep it so we must maintain our primary industries.” That’s the rallying cry of young Australia during war time. The picture is symbolic of the commonwealth’s part in prepara tion. A farmer continues harvesting his crop as an armored car section holds maneuvers on a nearby road. Following their initial maneuvers, many of the armored car regiment members returned to their fields to com plete harvesting. Like Father, Like Son? Definitely Not! Freckle Proof George Young, ace marathon swimmer of years ago, waited 12 years to get the $25,000 cash prize he earned by winning the 36-mile Catalina island swim in 1926. He was a lad of 17 at the time, and was given the money when he reached 30. George and his wife, residents of Canada, turn “thumbs down” on a swimming career for George Jr., who practices bis strokes on the piano stool. The $25,000 is all he and his wife have left from swimming careers which won them $125,000. Latest wrinkle in beach fashion notes from Miami, Fla., this winter is a “freckle proof” sun mask, com plete with dark glasses and “breath er.” The new style note prevents sunburn of delicate faces. Its popu larity depends on beach beauties, who may not care to remain hidden. Brother of Soviet Chief Hits Red Tactics Would Deny Vote While his brother, Gen. G. M. Stern, leads Soviet army forces against Finland, Morris Stern, above, waits on customers in -his modest Los Angeles grocery store. Morris Stern’s sympathies are with Finland. A naturalized citizen, he stated: “I don’t like it, why don’t they let them alone.” Aged persons, “in their second childhood,” should be denied the right to vote, according to Dr. Ray mond Pearl of Johns Hopkins uni versity. His reason: Too many votes for old age pension plans. Star Dust ★ *The Bat Again ★ Jane Has Preference it To the Bitter End By Virginia Vale T HE President’s son plans to give us a mystery pic ture—made from one of the best mystery plays ever written —as the first release of his Globe Productions. It’s “The Bat,’’ by Mary Roberts Rine hart and Avery Hopwood, and has everything that a thriller should have. It was filmed by Mary Pickford’s company in 1926, and done again, as “The Bat Whispers,” in 1931. Norman Foster will direct the new version. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS - To prevent gowns slipping from wooden coathangers, cover the hangers with velvet. * • * ■Tips of canned asparagus may be removed whole if the bottom in stead of the top of can is opened. * * * ...... Give house plants an occasional feeding of a teaspoonful of bone meal dug into the earth in flower pots. * • • Give your cacti plants all the light possible during the winter. Keep in a cool place and in a dry atmosphere. * * • As chocolate burns easily, it is safest to melt it over hot water. 7 * ' Hard on the heels of her • scrap with Warner Brothers over her re fusal to appear in “Married, Pretty and Poor,” Jane Bryan showed the studio that she preferred to be mar ried, pretty and rich—she announced her engagement to Justin W. Dart, who is general manager of a drug firm. Mickey Rooney may rank first at the box offices of motion picture theaters in this country, but in Great Britain and Ireland he comes sec ond, with Deanna Durbin pushing him out of first place. She was not among the first ten in this country. * If you are devoted to the story, “The Light That Failed,” you’ll like the picture version, which sticks to the original, even to the unhappy ending. If it’s Ronald Colman, rath er than the story, who’s- responsi- RONALD COLMAN fcle for your interest in the picture, you’ll enjoy it hugely, for he gives an excellent performance. * So do Walter Huston, Dudley Digges, and Ida Lupino. Miss Lu- pino has had a hard time of it in Hollywood; she was put into ingenue parts and kept there; now that, at last, she had been given a chance to show what she could do with a real role, she had made the most of it. Hers is rather like the one in “Of Human Bondage” that established Bette Davis as a dramatic actress. Miss Lupino’s performance is good enough to do as much for her. No longer can she be thought of as just one of those pretty blondes who are so numerous in the picture-mak ing metropolis. * If you’re interested in the present activities of former radio favorites, here’s news of some of them. Jim my Melton is now known as James Melton, and is a concert singer. Morton Downey wound up his sum mer engagement at the World’s fair and followed it with an equally suc cessful one in a Hollywood night club. Singin’ Sam is making money by making recordings. Jessica Dragonnette makes occa sional appearances on the air—and when you see “Gulliver’s Travels” you’ll hear her voice. Vera Van, Leah Ray and Annette Henshaw have retired. —X Gene Autry, the singing screen star who is Public CowbQy No. 1, heads a new western series from “The Double M Ranch” over the Columbia network each Sunday. In cidentally, did you know that Gene was discovered by the beloved Will Rogers? Rogers stopped at a small town in Oklahoma to forward his syndicated column; Gene, the tele graph operator, was singing a west ern ballad. Rogers advised him to capitalize on his talents—and a little more than a year later Gene Autry was a popular radio and recording artist. —&— Del Courtney, who features Can did Camera music over NBC, has borrowed an idea from the movies in his presentation of “previews” of his forthcoming programs. Before concluding his broadcasts, he plays a few bars of some of the new tunes to be featured on the next program. It’s a novel idea, and will probably be widely copied by bandleaders who don’t hesitate to imitate their more successful brethren. * ODDS AND ENDS—The New York Film Critics picked "Wulhering Heights” as 1939’s best picture . .. it’s a little more than twenty-six years since Cecil B. De Mille, Samuel Goldwyn and Jesse Lasky began filming “The Squaw Man,” the first motion picture made in Hollywood. (Released by Westena Newspaper UnlonJ When straining the pulp from liquid such as orange juice, if .a piece of cheesecloth is placed in side a strainer none of the pulp can go through. * * • . .. Grape Juice With Grapefruit.— Two tablespoons of grape juice added to a grapefruit after it has been cut gives a delicious fla vor and a pretty color. • * * To remove feathers from ducks, first pick them dry. This leaves a down all over the skin. To re move the down, wring out a large cloth in boiling water and wrap it around the duck for five min utes. Remove the cloth and the down can be wiped off easily with a drjr cloth. • • • Creamy Fudge.—For a smooth er and creamier fudge, add a tea spoon of cornstarch to each cup of sugar used in making it. • • * Crusty french rolls, cut diag onally into slices a fourth of an inch thick, buttered and toasted, make a good salad accompani ment. Gorgeous b\ ooms in wealthy profusion. Your yard aglow all summer. 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