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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1940 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) 'VIEW YORK. — Sam Houston Jones, the comparatively young David who toppled the Huey Long Goliath in Louisiana, is a corpora- ‘High-Hat Sambo 9 representing Shines His Shoes 43 corpora- And Gets Elected tions and says he is proud of it. He never took his coat off while he was campaigning, never {talked swamp talk, kept his shoes shined, dishes good' grammar and never tore his hair. Defeating Gov. Earl K. Long, brother of the King- fish, in the run-off primary, he gets the Democratic gubernatorial nomi nation, which means election in Lou isiana. However, he fought like a wildcat, made a half dozen speeches and two radio ad dresses a day, swarmed all over the state and developed a care fully organized state, parish and precinct organization. He is 42 years old, good looking, well- educated and convincing. . He is a political newcomer, little known when the Kingfish called him “High-Hat Sambo." He re plied that he had no high hat, but would not hesitate to get one if he needed it, and would dress as he pleased. So he did and he made them like it. Born in a log cabin in the deep, piney woods of southwestern Louisi ana, he worked in a sawmill until he was 17, with sketchy educa tion. He entered the University oi Louisiana, waited on table to help pay his way, went into the World war as a private, but never reached France, and returned to continue his education in a country law office. He has been on both sides of cor poration law practice, winning the fight for the rice farmers against the millers, and has engaged in some stiff fights with public utilities. On several occasions he defended cases for labor organizations. 'T' ROUBLED observers of world -*• disaster, seeing no light or hope, might do well to compare Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s children’s crusade Popular Author wi * h . J 1 ? ‘T ^ child ren s Stages Crusade crusades of To Aid Children the Thirteenth century. In the latter about 50,000 children went from France and Germany to fight the Saracens. Many thousands died and many others were cap tured and sold into slavery at Alex andria. \ % Something seems to have hap pened in the centuries between. Miss Fisher, the novelist, finds eager co-operation throughout the country as she launches a campaign to gather a penny a year from each of the 30,000,000 American school children for child refugees in all countries of the world, of all races and beliefs. The pledge will cover the entire life of the child. The fund, totaling $300,000 a year, will all go to the children, with private pledges covering the cost of admin istration. Miss Fisher, author of about 25 books, including novels, edu cational and social studies, has been engaged in such humane enterprises all her adult life. During and after the World war, she spent three years in France in relief work. In 1934, she be came chairman of the Advisory Conference of Jews and Chris tians to Oppose Race Prejudice and Religious Intolerance. Her unceasing battle has been against a standardized and ma terialized society. A native of Lawrence, Kan., she could call herself Dr. Fisher, but never does. Her doctorate in philos ophy came from Columbia univer sity in 1904, after her graduation from Ohio State university. She probably wears more academic gar lands than any other American woman, with honorary degrees from Middlebury college, Dartmouth, the University of Vermont, Ohio State, Northwestern and Williams. Her home is in Arlington, Vt. Noting that her crusade is much more humane and sensible than that of Etienne, the shepherd boy of Cloyes, who led the ragged, hun gry children to crush the Saracens, one might also note the upsurge of “Snow White’’ and “Pinocchio” as revealing a new adult entente with the child world. Miss Fisher might do well to make Walt Disney one of the generals of her new crusade. W HEN this writer was in Paris a few years ago, style boot leggers were moving through plots and stratagems as melodramatic as any spy business. It was an old story then. Currently, Lucien Le- long, the Judge Landis of the Paris dressmakers, pegs a new outbreak of the old established custom of sneaking a camera shot of a gown— perhaps bribing a delivery boy—and making the model a dime a dozen all over Europe before the buyer can wear it. That’s just one de vice. There are dozens. Death Misses Classroom Mark by One Hour’s Time Death was cheated by one hour’s time recently when a water heater exploded in the Ripon junior high school at Modesto, Calif. The heater blew up at 6:55 in the morning and ripped out a whole corner of the athletic building, left. It sailed 150 feet through the air and was projected through the agricultural building, right, piercing both walls of the structure like a giant cannon ball. It sailed another 150 feet before burying itself in the ground. There were no casualties as classes were not scheduled to gather until one hour later. Model Railway Helps Make Cleveland ‘Safest City’ A model railway, in use for the past 10 years, is used to test all applicants for motormen’s jobs on the Cleveland, Ohio, street railway. The model railway is an exact replica of conditions the men will face on the city’s streets. Left: A test is made of Applicant William Murray’s reaction. Right: According to the scoreboard, Murray used “poor judgment" in permitting this “crash." Authorities claim the job test has made Cleveland’s streets the safest in the country. Grandstand Swedish Premier Visits King' Gustav A marine mine which was washed up on the English coast provides a grandstand for this youngster who gazes out over the ocean. It isn’t as dangerous as it looks for the de tonator was removed from the high ly explosive machine, which is pow erful enough to sink a ship. King Gustav of Sweden, right, with his premier, Albin Hansson, dis cuss the results of the recent Copenhagen conference between Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The foreign ministers of the three countries voiced hopes for a peaceful solution of the Finnish-Russian war and decided their own countries would continue their policy of neutrality in Europe’s wars. Glamour Boy Hoover Sees Europe a ‘Starvation’ Spot Shades of Christy Mathewson! Pictured here is Tom Healey, cap tain of Harvard university’s base ball team, acquiring a bit of glamour in a Cambridge, Mass., beauty par lor. Why? It might be for pub licity’s sake. Former President Herbert Hoover as he appeared before the house foreign affairs committee recently to tell members that the whole conti nent of Europe would be “a starvation spot’’ after the war. Hoover urged that congress make a start toward the general European relief program by appropriating $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Rep. Sol Bloom, committee chairman, holds a paper as Hoover makes notes. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) HE most extensive nation wide talent search ever con ducted for a motion picture role is under way; Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer has sent scouts out to as semble candidates for the boy role of "Jody” for the filming of "The Yearling.” The boy se lected will appear with Spenceri Tracy in Sidney Franklin’s pro duction of the novel, a story of, early days in Florida. The role calls for a boy be tween the ages of ten and twelve, of slight build, from four and one-half to five feet tall. It’s the chance of a life time for some lucky lad. If Ronald Reagan hadn’t accom panied the Chicago Cubs to their training camp on Catalina island he woudn’t be' a rapidly rising movie star today. After leaving college Easter Bunny Stays As White as Snow By RUTH WYETH SPEARS TUFFED toys of oil cloth or water-proof bath curtain mate rial are something mothers have been dreaming about. Just wipe them off with a damp cloth to keep them fresh and clean. The Easter bunny shown here is 11 inches long. He is white, hand- stitched in heavy pink thread and has pink bead or button eyes. Make your own pattern for him' by following the diagram. Rule paper into 1-inch squares; num ber them; then draw the pattern outlines. Cut two body pieces; four ear pieces and a 2-inch strip to be used between the two sides of the body. Interline the ears to make them stand up. Join all raw edges, as shown, leaving an opening in the body for stuffing tightly with cot^m or? bits of soft cloth; then finish sewing. * • * NOTE: Mrs. Spears’ Sewing Book No. 2 contains numerous gift and bazaar items, including a doll’s wardrobe; men’s ties; purses; baby’s bassinet; 32 pages in all. Send your order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York EmSose 10 cents for one book, or 40 cents for books 1. 2, 3 and 4 and set of quilt block patterns. • Name Address Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. he got a job writing a sports col umn for a newspaper. That led to radio, and he became a sports an nouncer for a large network. While covering the Cubs’ spring training trip he was introduced to Warner Brothers’ casting director, and his voice and appearance made such an impression that he was given a screen test, and then a con tract. His newest assignment is “An Angel From Texas,’’ in which his bride, Jane Wyman, and Eddie Al bert appear with him. Incidentally, Jane won’t part with her wedding ring for an instant. But you won’t see it in this picture; she had to tuck it under her belt so that it wouldn’t show. * It’s among the extras in Holly wood that you hear the most dra matic stories, but few of them equal the true tale of what happened to Dona Dix, who’s now an extra on the Warner lot. (She’s in the new Reagan picture, but you probably won’t notice her.) A few years ago she left the New York stage and took a boat to Hollywood. When the ship stopped at Panama she bought some lottery tickets. She won $52,000. She promptly abandoned her ca reer, and devoted herself to enjoy ing her wealth. But one bad invest ment followed another, and the money disappeared. Today she’s an extra—and glad of it! * Florence Gill, who created the popular “Clara Cluck” in the Walt Disney cartoons, publicly confessed on the “It Hap pened in Holly wood” program re cently that it was all the result of bad luck—or so she thought at the time the bad luck came along. She was ! studying for an op eratic career when a long illness caused her to retire from singing. When she recovered she worked on her barnyard imi tation, Disney heard her, and promptly put “Clara Cluck” on the screen. * Arthur Lake, the “Dagwood” of the CBS “Blondie” series in which Penny Singleton plays opposite him, couldn’t possibly escape being an actor. His parents were circus ac robats. His cradle was a dressing room trunk. And he went on the stage as soon as he could walk, switched to the movies, and now holds his own with the most popu lar radio stars. * ODDS AND ENDS . . . KTarner Broth- ers’ Director Vincent Sherman and John Garfield could put on a pretty good box ing exhibition; they’re both former Gold en Gloves fighters . . . Claudette Colbert has a League of Nations dog kennel—a French poodle, an English setter, a dachs hund and a Welsh terrier . . . Wendy Barrie, who’s been appearing in thosg “Saint" pictures, made a lusty protest when the script called for her death at the end of “The Saint Takes Over"— just refused to die, because a series like that means work for ages . . . Charles Laughton has been teaching his wife to drive the family automobile. Walt Disney FIGHT COLDS by taking Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery over a period of time. Helps build physical resistance by improving nu tritional assimulation.—Adv. Overly Popular The lass that has many wooers oft fares the worst. 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