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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. G.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK.—In war, both the
Poles and the Russians seem to
suffer from incurable romance. The
Poles clung to their picturesque cav-
k> »•«.«» airy against
Russ, Like Poles, all the hard .
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Europe, and
their horses made beautiful targets
for machine-gun bullets. The Rus
sians in the latest emergency sent
in, not a strategist in modern war,
but their most romantic cavalry gen
eral, Marshal Simion M. Budenny,
and reports of disaster follow swift
ly. News stories chalk up another
“dismal failure,” in the general’s
latest assault on the Mannerheim
line.
In the late summer of 1919, when
the cables brought the news that the
Bolsheviks were whipped and in
flight, and that the White Russian
Denikin held all of southern Russia,
Budenny galloped through the
steppes, recruiting his army of wild
horsemen. He was a Cossack, from
the Don region, gaudily appareled,
and with a huge blow-torch mous
tache that flared magnificently in the
wind. His little bands of free-boot-
ers grew into a huge cavalry army.
It swept back, not only Denikin, but
his ally, Wrangel and stopped the
Poles until the French came -»o their
aid.
The general was enshrined in
legend. He became the hero of
folk tales and songs throughout
the land—his wife, too, who rode
a«d fought with him. Lenin
later put him in command of all
the Russian cavalry. He is a
man of extraordinary energy.
“Proletarians, to horse!” was
his rallying cry, as he became
one of the country’s main incit
ers of patriotic enthusiasm. He
had all Russia thinking or at any
rate feeling that the answer to
all its troubles was in getting
everybody on horseback.
He was a peasant, without school
ing. And there is no available rec
ord of his having had any training
or experience in mechanized war
fare. He was a private in the Russo-
Japanese war and a petty officer in
the early stages of the World war.
His wife, said to have been the best
rifle shot in Russia, killed herself
accidentally while cleaning a gun, in
1925. He married a famous actress
of the Mali theater in Moscow, and
their joint histrionics have continued
to thrill the Russians. He has main
tained a horse-breeding farm and
encouraged his countrymen to do the
same, evidently on the theory that a
good horse and a good proletarian
slogan would make any Russian un
conquerable. ^
M ANY years ago, this writer
shared an apartment with the
late Willard Huntington Wright. If
the Empire State building were an
_ . _ ,, ivory tower.
Prof Doublet at it would not
Philosopher and have been tall
Author of Thrills ® nou gh for
Mr. Wright in
those days. He was an aesthete,
fastidious in dress, multi-lingual, a
postgraduate of. many European
salons, a distinguished art critic and
a precisionist of ideas, to whom a
primrose by the river’s brim was a
simple primulacea and nothing
more. I began to feel the altitude,
and one day dived out of a 90-story
window. It was not until several
years later that I learned Mr.
Wright had done the same and, con
valescing; had become S. S. Van
Dine, authoring bell-ringing murder-
mystery stories to the end of his
days.
Somewhat similar is Dr. Ru
dolf Kager’s ambidextrous life
as a philosopher and writer of
detective stories. As he is hired
by the New York World’s fair—
they may need to have a philoso
pher around by next spring—it
is revealed that this Kurt Steel
who has been keeping us awake
nights with “Judas Incorporat
ed,” “Crooked Shadows,” and
the like, is none other than Dr.
Kager, associate professor of
philosophy at New York univer
sity. At the fair he will work
as a philosopher rather than as
a detective, palling together a
lot of educational loose ends and
ravelings which, it seemed, got
into a somewhat untidy state
last summer.
His detective stories started as an
anodyne for a feeling of loneliness
in the groves of Academe—as in
the case of Mr. Wright. In 1930, he
had prepared his doctor’s thesis on
“The Growth of F. H. Bradley’s
Logic,” and had climbed where few
or none could follow. He was all
fagged out, and any two-dollar word
made him shut his eyes and duck.
A friend suggested that he bang out
a murder story—anything that came
into his head. “Murder of a Dead
Man” was his first extra-curricular
workout. The publishers yelled for
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Men at Work—They’re Fighting Freedom’s Cause
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Three national leaders whose independence efforts have made news around the world: Left: Mohandas
Gandhi, Indian independence leader, whose demands for autonomy from Great Britain have increased since
the British request for Indian support in the war. Center: Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine
islands, who told the national assembly it must choose now between permanent subservience to the United
States or an insecure independence in 1946. Right: Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist and former pre
mier of Poland, who has been named president of Poland-in-exile, with headquarters in France.
Airplanes End Starvation for 50,000 Wild Ducks
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More than 50,000 wild ducks were saved from starvation when Illinois sportsmen distributed six tons
of grain from the air along the Illinois river in the LaSalle region. The feed was distributed by the-air
planes in ice-locked sloughs and back waters. Top: Some of the hundreds of ducks already dead from star
vation. Bottom: Loading shelled corn in the plane at the LaSalle-Peru, 111., airport.
Bankhead Pledges Support to Bankhead
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Census Chieftain
Senator Lister Hill of Alabama pins a “Bankhead for President”
button on the lapel of Senator John H. Bankhead, also of the cotton state.
They are booming the senator’s brother, Rep. William B. Bankhead,
speaker of the house, for the Democratic nomination for President in the
1940 campaign. Senator Hill is Bankhead’s campaign manager.
City of Flint Crew in Home Waters
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Commander-in-chief of 150,000
census takers is William Lane Aus
tin, whose army will compile essen
tial facts about 132,000,000 Ameri
cans, 3,000,000 business firms, 33,-
000,000 homes and 7,000,000 farms
during 1940. Austin, a native of
Mississippi, began with the census
bureau 40 years ago in a minor
capacity and worked to the top.
Winter Training
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Members of the crew of the City of Flint turn thumbs down on the
banner with the pinwheel cross. The City of Flint arrived in Baltimore,
Md., recently after an epic cruise which lasted 114 days. This Nazi
flag was hoisted by the German prize crew put aboard to take the ship
to Germany after its capture by a sea raider. The ship was later freed
by Norway.
Joe McCarthy, manager of the
world champion New York Yankees,
lays aside baseball deductions for
a snow shovel at his Buffalo, N. Y.,
_ home. McCarthy is busy laying
j plans for the spring training season.
“The Name
Is Familiar—
BY
FELIX B. STREYCKMANS
and ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Solon
Solon
\\Z HEN we want to say that a
man is wise we call him a
solon and we call lawmakers solons,
too. This doesn’t mean that we
think all lawmakers are wise men—
heaven forbid! The reason is that
the world’s original lawmaker on a
big scale was a very wise man and
his name was Solon.
That name isn’t just a first name
or a last name—
it is all the name
the man had and
all he needed. He
lived so long ago
that the popula
tion was small
enough to let men
get by with one-
word names. So
lon was one of the
original Seven
Wise Men of
Greece and was born in Athens about
640 B. C.
He wrote or rewrote practically
all the laws that were in existence
during his time and was the first
lawmaker to devise a code that gave
people rights instead of merely pro
hibiting them from doing this or
saying that they must do that. Be
sides regulating private and public
life, his code reformed the calendar,
the system of weights and meas
ures, the monetary system. It re
lieved the burdens of debtors with
out curtailing the rights of credi
tors. (He could be elected on either
ticket today!)
His laws were crudely written on
wooden cylinders and set up in pub
lic places for everybody to read.
This must havq been just a matter
of form, because in his day about
the only ones who could read were
the ones who wrote the cylinders.
• • •
Kelvin’s Law
'T'HE kelvin, a commercial unit of
electricity; Kelvin’s law for
measuring the most economical di
ameter of an electric wire; Kelvin,
or absolute, temperature scale,
which begins at 561 degrees below
zero Fahrenheit; and the Kelvina-
tor, the first electric refrigerator for
household use, were named for Lord
Kelvin of Largs, Scotland, one of the
greatest and most
practical scien
tists of all time.
He invented
flashing signals
for lighthouses;
designed an oil-
floated self-level-
ing magnetic
compass which al
lowed this instru
ment to be used
on steel ships; in
vented the ultra
sensitive detect
ing and recording
apparatus that made the trans-At
lantic cable possible—and became
chief executive of the cable com
pany to supervise its laying; re
duced temperature to a mathemati
cal basis and announced absolute
zero where there is no heat and
where molecules stand still.
His name was William Thomson
and he was born in Belfast in 1824,
the son of a professor of mathe
matics at the Royal Academical In
stitution of Belfast. As early as
1852 he foresaw the practicability
of heating and cooling buildings by
means of currents of air. When he
built a mansion of his own in 1874
on the Scottish coast, he built in
heating ducts and ventilating facili
ties. When he died in 1907, he had
received every degree a scholar
could obtain and had made a for
tune of many millions of dollars.
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‘Rich as Croesus’
W HEN a man is so rich that he
actually reeks with wealth, we
call him a Croesus. The word is
pronounced like those things in a
man’s trousers—and we don’t mean
wrinkles, like in ours.
But don’t misunderstand — we
don’t call a rich man a Croesus be
cause he is the only one who can
afford them in his pants. Perhaps
we never should
have brought the
matter up.
Croesus is a
word for a rich
man and goes
’way back to 560
B. C., when the
original Croesus,
a Greek king of
Lydia, was born.
He was richer
than any king be
fore him, hence
the use of his
name. Living in
the time when men wore togas, you
can see that he didn’t even wear
pants—or did they wear pants with
togas? Now we are sorry we brought
the matter up.
Lydia, at the time Croesus was
king, included practically all of
Asia Minor, and his wealth was ob
tained mainly from the mines and
gold dust of the river Pactolus.
Proud of his treasures, he carried
his love of splendor to extravagance
and thought he was the happiest of
men.
All of which proves it isn’t the
number of pairs of pants you have
that makes you wealthy.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lord Kelvin
Croesus
Recreation Room
Trimmed Nautical
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
’T'HINGS that have to do with
-■■ the sea are a good theme for
decorating a recreation room, a
boy’s room or a summer cottage.
A ship model has a salty flavor
but is not a necessity. One young
ster made a map of a desert island
complete with a legend of hidden
treasure. No one knew more than
he about the island the treasure
for he invented both of them. He
also salvaged the steering wheel
EMBROIDER
ANCHOR
CHAIN IN
CHAIN
STITCH
BASTE AND THEN
STITCH FABRIC
STRIPS OR TAPE
TO FORM ANCHOR
from an old boat and hung it on
the wall with ropes. A small fig
ure of a sailor was wired for a
lamp.
His mother made a smartly
tailored navy blue couch cover
trimmed in a red anchor and a red
cushion was adorned with a blue
anchor. Straight strips of material
1-inch wide after the edges are
turned under will make an anchor
12-inches long and 8 inches across
as shown here. Bias tape may
be used for the smaller anchor
which is just half the size of the
large one.
NOTE: Mrs. Spears* Sewing
Book No. 2 contains a complete
alphabet to be made of straight
or bias strips; also illustratiops of
five processes of fabric mending;
36 embroidery stitches; making
doll clothes; and numerous gift
items. Ask for Book No. 2, enclos
ing 10 cents to cover cost. Address:
Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford
Hills, N. Y.
Animal Obituaries
In memory of the dogs, cats and
other pets that are buried or cre
mated on its grounds each week, a
pet cemetery in Los Angeles pub
lishes obituaries of these animals
in a Sunday newspaper. Written
and signed by the bereaved own
er, the notices often include such
expressions as “Bubbles—I could
not have loved you more.”—Col
lier’s.
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