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♦ l McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMTCK. S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1940 ■mkm WSkMi TV WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—The recent emanci pation proclamation of Kene- saw Mountain Landis, freeing an op pressed minority of major and .. , minor league ball Newthound Got players, remind- Landis Aid and ed this courier of Praite of Chief the big blizzard in Chicago, along about the year 1906.1 was a new and much bewildered reporter from the sticks, tossed into the maelstrom of a federal court railroad case be cause there was nobody else to send except the office boy. It was as in telligible as a squirrel cage. The defending attorney loosed a gas at tack of statistics and my pencil dropped from my limp fingers. The judge, a little, brown wheat- straw of a man with a chrysanthe mum thatch, got me in the sharp focus of his bright agate eye. I hadn’t been wrecking any trains or swobbing banks, but I began to fear the worst. I wondered whether my elaborate ignorance of what was happening could possibly be con strued as a federal offense. Then the blow fell. The judge gavelled down the spouting lawyer and said the court would take a brief recess. Then he beckoned me into his chambers. He asked me to sit down. Then he said: “I hadn’t seen yon at the press table before. This case is confusing. I thought I might help yon in getting it straight. It’s like this . . .” In a few concise sentences he brought the courtroom hub-bub into something understandable. I managed to write a story about it without breaking my arm and got my first pat on the back from a city editor who was no spendthrift with such gestures. The voltairean little Judge Landis was like that, and any newspaper man who ever knew him will insist that his $65,000-a-year honorarium as baseball commissioner isn’t half enough. He was a corporation law yer before he began calling strikes on big business, and was appointed to the federal bench by Theodore Roosevelt at the peak of T. R.’s trust-busting rampage. In his dual capacity he has punished two of the major institutions of America, the Standard Oil company and Babe Ruth, the former with a $29,000,000 fine. . He was a newsboy in Logansport, Ind.; a semi-pro baseball player; a stenographer and court clerk at 18, and soon thereafter a law school graduate and practicing l&wyer. His appointment as national commis sioner of baseball grew out of the “Black Sox”'Scandal in 1919. / T'HE easy-going free-for-all of A American joumalisna,. in which public officials sometimes owe their high status to an understanding _ , of newspaper men U. S. Hom Edge an( j how to get on On Europe in with them, has Prett Relatione given this country a decided advan tage over the European countries in wartime press relations. In the World war and now in the present war Europe has demonstrated the limitations of even the most intelli gent of its bureaucrats in co-operat ing with the press. While England and France have, traditionally, a free press, the human contacts be tween the correspondents and high officialdom are still lacking, and both countries are snarled in cen sorship troubles. At the start of the war, liberal opinion noted with satisfaction that France and England had appointed, respectively, to their ministries of information, a distinguished literary man and playwright, and a leading scholar. It seemed to be an exem plification of their war aims. But, like the brass hats of the past, they didn’t seem to understand newspa pers or newspaper men. The scholarly Lord MacMillan of England has faded into the background, and his press cen sor, Vice Admiral C. V. Usborne, is replaced by the clubby and gregarious Sir Walter T. Monck- ton. In France, Jean Giradoux, the playwright, is still minister of information, but his office in spires bitter stories in the Amer ican press about fantastic re strictions. The censorship tangle is an issue of daily mounting im portance in France. Newspaper men liked M. Gira doux tremendously when he was spokesman for the French ministry of foreign affairs a few years ago. He was perhaps, in Goethe’s phrase, '“all too human” for any careful grooving of public opinion—his own is ironic and whimsical—and has been surrounded with a bulwark of bureaucracy against which newspa per men are thrown for a loss. He is a charming, monocled gentleman of 53, who was severely gassed in the World war and so speaks in a husky voice. He did a short turn at Harvard before the World war. World’s Smallest Republic Observes 200th Anniversary San Marino, oldest and smallest republic in Europe, celebrates the 200th anniversary of its inde pendence in February. Perched on a rock in the heart of Italy, (see map and picture at lower left) San Ma rino is governed by a great council of 60 members, two of whom exercise executive powers for a term of six months. Free of debt, the country has postage stamps and coinage of its own. It maintains a military force of 39 officers and 900 men (upper left). Abraham Lincoln was an honorary citizen of San Marino. King Leopold Inspects Belgian Defense Measures Leopold, soldier king of Belgium, walks past a tank as he inspects Belgian defenses along the border fronting Germany. Similar scenes are being enacted in the Netherlands, another lowland country, where troops also have been massed to fight the threat of Nazi invasion. In case of invasion both Belgium and the Netherlands can be partially flooded by means of dikes. Former Champ Shows ’Em How He Did It Jim Braddock, former world’s heavyweight champion, dropped in on friends in the house of representatives in Washington recently, and while the legislators were discussing a bill for amateur boxing in the District of Columbia, Jim gave them some pointers on the manly art. Left to right: Rep. Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, Braddock, Rep. Fred Hartley of New Jersey and Rep. Joe Martin of Massachusetts. Dobbin isn’t too enthusiastic about these New York winters. Here he pops his head inside the window of a heated taxicab while his driver wraps cloth around his feet to keep him from slipping on snowy streets. No Hurry to Quit Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace as he appeared before the house ways and means committee to testify in defense of extension of the reciprocal trade agreements act. At the hearing Secretary Wal lace admitted that he would “like to keep on being secretary of agriculr ture.” Still Life Study A familiar figure on the desert near Phoenix, Ariz., is Bob Zuppke, veteran University of Illinois foot ball coach, who spends much of his time reproducing desert scenes on canvas. Star Dust ★ All Is Not Welles ★ Ingrid Has Promised ★ A Musician 9 s Needs By Virginia Val© (Released by Western Newspaper Union) P LENTY of bets were won in Hollywood when RKO de cided to shelve the first Orson Welles film, “Heart of Dark ness. M People in Hollywood were against Welles before he arrived there; they didn’t like him in advance, and lost few chances to prove it. It was too much for the film colony to have a man demand the world with a pink ribbon tied around it, and get it. That was practically what Welles did. He insisted on producing, writ ing, directing and acting in what ever picture he decided to make. RKO agreed. And after some weeks of trying to get started, and finally postponing the first picture while a second, “Smiler With a Knife,” got under way, it was announced that all bets were off, so far as “Heart of Dark ness” was concerned. The reason ORSON WELLES given was that the budget for the picture—well over a million dollars —was so high. It cost the company $160,000 to settle things up with Welles and the cast that he had as sembled for the filming of the Con rad classic. And various Hollywoodites are col lecting bets made with friends who were sure that the picture would reach the screen. * When Ingrid Bergman arrived re cently in New York on her way back to Hollywood to make “Joan of Arc” she made two definite statements to the press. (1) If she becomes fa mous she will not forget her hus band, back in Stockholm. (2) Dur ing this stay in the United States she absolutely will not lose her head over American ice cream, as she did the last time she was here. As a matter of fact, she has al ready become famous. Contrary to custom, she was introduced to the public in her first American picture, “Intermezzo,” without the usual bal lyhoo. She saved the picture, de spite the fact that Leslie Howard, Edna Best, and two enchanting chil dren were also in the cast—and an enchanting child can give the most experienced actress the toughest kind of opposition. Miss Bergman should be perfect for “Joan of Arc”; her beauty, talent and sincerity make it fitting that the role should be hers. —&— ODDS AND ENDS—The boys in Johnny Green's “Johnny Presents” orchestra have discovered a new way of relaxing after re hearsals; they hold a jam session on toy instruments . . . Robert Taylor got the coveted role of the hero of “Waterloo Bridge” opposite Vivian Leigh; it was rumored that Laurence Olivier, the hero of her private life, might get it .. . Greer Garson, instead of Norma Shearer, will do “Pride and Prejudice” ... So Joan Crawford gets the lead in “Susan and God,” for which Miss Garson was sched uled . . . And Miss Shearer will do the film version of the Broadway success, “The World We Make” . . . Three cheers! Walt Disney has finished camera work on “Pinocchio” after two years; it will prob ably be released late in February. * The aim of many a student musi cian is to land a job in radio, pref erably on a network staff orchestra. It’s a 52-week a year job, at a sub stantial salary, offering a degree of security difficult to find anywhere else in music. Frankie Masters, who has been conducting dance music on the air for more than a decade, offers his advice to those trying to do it. “Don’t expect to get anywhere just on your ability to play one type of music well on one instrument,” he says. “A staff musician’s daily work covers a range from swing to symphony, and the musician who can’t encompass that range hasn’t a chance. And there’s a constant demand for men who can play two or more instruments.” * Joan Bennett seems to have been the very well dressed bride when she married Walter Wanger, the pro ducer, in Phoenix, Ariz. She wore a beige jersey sports dress and a beaver hat and coat. And for the third time she selected a groom a good bit older than she was. Until almost the last minute it was generally supposed that she would marry one of New York’s young men about town. But that would have meant giving up her career—and when you have young children, it’s nice to have a career. Here’s New Dignity For Old Chair Set By RUTH WYETH SPEARS A NY dining room may be made fresh and smart with built-in cupboards, a little paint and in expensive curtains. But what may be done to bring a set of outmoded chairs up-to-date? The one sketched at the upper right is typical of many that are sub stantial and sturdy though scarred by long use. 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