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I \ f McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940 WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK , By LEMUEL F. PARTON K (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) ^■EW YORK.—“Incentive com- pensation,” frequently cited as the sparkplug of business in the lat ter’s resistance to governmental in- - .. trusion, is Cash Incentive narrowed Is ‘Spark-Plugf down to an For Executive intra - mural engagement in George W. Hill’s argument with certain stockholders of the Ameri can Tobacco company, of which he is president. He fights a resolution to reduce the profit percentage bonuses of the five top officials of the company, and says, M I cannot, with self-respect, continue in the company if a decision is 'made which I must regard as a repudia tion of proved successful policies.” In the depression year of 1930, Mr. Hill fanned up sales to a figure which yielded him $2,283,000 for his year’s work. In 1938, his was the top salary of American,executives-^ $331,348, in addition to. his bonus. He did nicely in the years between, and reminds his stockholders that, during the 14 years of his presi dency, the company paid $358,660,- 431 in dividends and increased >its surplus. He thinks . management like that needs “incentive.” If it comes to a strike, it won’t be a sitdown strike. Mr. Hill never likes to sit down if he can help it. His staff discovered that When he was pioneering radio advertising with his personally supervised or chestra in which he ran rehearsals and whipped up a terrific pace. He has put a fast tap-dance tempo into his promotional work, and has fielded more hot advertising slogans than prob ably any man in the business. Several of the most famous and durable are his. He is a rather small, good-looking man with a vivid personality, highly ener gized, the Daniel Boone of new I sales ideas. Mr. Hill was graduated from Wil liams college, joined the American Tobacco company in 1904 and be came president in December, 1925, succeeding his father, the late Per- cival S. Hill. 'TP HIS courier heard an argument 1 the other day between a radio technician and an amateur sociolo gist. The radio man said this new modulated, or staticless radio, just now starting, would mean free air for the people— f that it would provide space for all cbmers to say their say, that no government or wave-band monopoly could block it, and that it marked a tremendous gain for free speech.. The sociolo gist said the innovation carpe at a time when the air was loaded with international snarls and whines, worse than static. For good or ill, it is Maj. Ed- . win F. Armstrong, Columbia i 1 professor, who brings in ' the change. More than 20 years ago, back in the days of the cat’s whisker and crystal sets he has been crowding the future with new radio devices. Wars are apparently propitious for his inventive spirit. In the World way, we couldn’t catch German signals. He caught them, with a rig which brought along the super-heterodyne, and other fix ings which led him into a 20- year legal battle with Lee de Forest. He was a hayloft radio experimenter, and has been a professor of engineering at Co lumbia since 1934. This writer drives by his great steel tower on the cliffs at Alpine, N. J., on which he staked $300,000 to bring through today’s frequency modulation. We never understood it, but, hung with red lights at night to warn aviators, it had a Wellsian look of the “shape of things to come.” M adeleine carroll, the moving picture actress, is back from Europe expressing deep concern over the fact that French soldiers behind the lines earii only 33 cents a month. At Hollywood, Miss Carroll organized a knitting brigade for distressed French ci vilians and soldiers, and took with her to France eight suitcases of sweaters, socks and the like which she and girls of the University of California at Los Angeles had fash ioned. She became somewhat of a Fran cophile when she majored in French at the University of Birmingham, England, where her father was a professor. She taught French at a girls’ seminary, but took her first pay check of £20 and went to London to try for the stage. There was a stretch of tutoring and some other trying expedients before she joined a road company, at $15 a week, to her father’s chagrin, but later grati fication. Later she became a pet of the British moving picture pub lic. In 1934, her first Hollywood pic ture was “I Was a Spy.” New Radio Idea Has Possibilities For a ‘Free-Air* Sourdough Operates Skagway’s Lone ‘Street Car’ life’ll :• • • . . . VAvvvw.-.;^.}^rr.;« w.v.w.*.M.y i ■: ' . "CL*:. One of the most famous tourist sights in the northland is the solitary “street car” of Skagway, Alaska, owned and operated by dyed-in-the-wool sourdough, Martin Itjen. With other gold-seekers of 1898, Itjen left the United States to seek his fortune in Alaska. He remained to build a street car, the only one in Skagway. The car is built on an automobile chassis, but there it& resemblance to an auto or street car ends. A dummy is pictured on the platform of the vehicle. Itjen is now visiting the United States for the first time since 1898. The sourdough conductor is familiar to thousands of tourists. Press Club Gets Preview of Next (Maybe) President Possibilities, near possibilities, vague possibilities and one perennial candidate for the presidency are pic tured at the National Press club’s first political rally in Washington, D. C. Seated, left to right: Paul McNutt, federal security administrator; Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan; Jesse Jones, federal loan administra tor, and District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, New York. Standing, left to right: Robert Jackson, attorney general; Rep. Bruce Barton, New York; Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, Montana; Norman Thomas, perennial candi date of the Socialist party, and Sen. Bennett Champ Clark, Missouri. As Red Machine Wages Finnish War Two of the first pictures released by the Soviet censorship bureau of the Red army in Finland. Left: The Russian caption states “all units of the communications service of the Red army bring mail to the front every day. An airplane is being loaded.” Right: A machine-gun team moves its weapon in search of a new position. Mikado’s Warriors Harass Snow ‘Enemy’ m Blesses Followers The Most Reverend Samuel Al- phonsus Stritch, newly installed archbishop of Chicago, bestows a first blessing upon his followers. Archbishop Stritch succeeds the late George Cardinal Mundelein. Many thousands of people witnessed en thronement services. Wants Long Rest jim £< ' - ■■ ■ <*< j Japanese soldiers of the garrison at Hankow, China, build snow effi gies which they named “Chiang Kai-shek” and “Sung Mei-ling,” China’s fighting marshal and his American-educated wife. Says the Japanese caption—“They will be melted away soon by the bright sun of spring” . . an unrpoken hope that Chinese resistance vWU melt. After 35 years of public life, Sen. Vic Donahey of Ohio has announced his decision to retire at the end of his present term. In Washington the senator stated that he is retiring to secure a much-needed rest. “The Name Is Familiar— BY FELIX B. STREYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Platt R. Spencer 'Fine Spencerian Hand* I N THIS day of typewriters, tele grams, telephones and even order blanks where all you have to do is check the items, handwriting is be coming a lost art. But perhaps you can remember when it was still an attainment to be able to write “a fine Spencerian hand.’* Why “Spencerian”? Because Platt Rogers Spencer, an Ohio farm boy, born in 1801, be came famous as the father of American pen manship. As a schoolboy he loved grace and elegance and practiced fancy writing almost to the exclusion of everything else. He became not only proficient as a penman but the first American to make it a specialty and a business. He wanted to be a minister and started to study for it but, since he loved other things besides grace and elegance—liquor, for instance—the powers that be—or were—ruled him out of the pulpit before he could get in. As a second-choice vocation he began to crusade for better pen manship and traveled the country giving lectures, demonstrations and instructions. Spencer published his first copy book in 1848 and it immediately be came a best seller. His fame and fortune were made and penman ship became the country’s most im portant study. As late as 1870, a million copies of Spencer’s book were sold annually. But the typewriter came and flow ing capitals and fine flourishes were soon supplanted in writing practice by “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.” • • * Bloomers Y OU probably think “bloomers” are called that because the word sounds the way bloomers look. Well, what would you think if they were called “jenkers”? That might have been the word by which they were known today had not Miss Amelia Jenks, for whom they were named, been married to Dexter C. Bloomer. Or had she married a man named Smith they might have been called “smithereens,” or if she—well, with all the names there the possi bilities are unlim ited. Mrs. Amelia Jenks Bloomer of Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1849 start ed a woman’s magazine called The Lily, and its Mrs. Bloomer purpose was to advocate temper ance and women’s rights. For pub licity purposes, Mrs. Bloomer adopt ed a costume consisting of a jacket with close sleeves and a pair of Turkish pantaloons secured around the ankle by bands. Several of her contemporary advocates of women’s rights wore the same costume and these persons were known as “Bloomerites” or just “Bloomers.” The campaign died out but the pantaloon idea did not. A modified form, shortened to gather just be low or above the knee was adopted and became the bloomers as worn today—or are they worn today? At least, Amelia Bloomer was the in spiration for bloomers as they are remembered today, even if shorts have taken their place. • • • ‘Let George Do It* ’T'HERE is only one man in the history of the world who ever said “Let George do it” and really meant it—really meant to let George do it and knew what George he was talking about. When the expression is used today, it may mean to let anyone else do it or just to dodge the responsibility knowing that no body will do it. But when Louis XII of France used to say, “Let George do it,” he meant George d’Amboise, his prime minister. And it was no idle phrase — George did it and did it well. Louis XII was the originator of the phrase. Al though King Lou is was a strong ruler. Prime Min ister George was a clever execu tive, too, and the king delegated most of the delicate and unpleasant tasks of his rule merely by saying, “Que Georges le fasse.” So we see that the good old Ameri can phrase, “Let George do it,” is really a French expression and it was only with super-control that we resisted the desire to start this with, “Once there were two Frenchmen, Louis and George.” (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) George d’Amboise HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Cool Foods.—Never put hot foods into the refrigerator. Wait until they have cooled. * • * Labor Saver.—Part of the pot and pan washing job can be elim inated by storing frying fat in paper cups which can be discard ed when empty. ■*** ■> . Treating New Broom.—If you have bought a new broom you will find it lasts longer if soaked in warm water for a few hours. Shake off as much moisture as possible and hang by the head to dry. * • • If lemons are stored in a cov ered jar in the refrigerator they will not wither and shrink. * * * Candied fruits and raisins for puddings and cakes should be soft ened by soaking overnight in fruit juice. , * ‘ • • • Molasses Sauce.—Here is a de licious topping for hot bread, rice, puddings, and so on. Combine one cup molasses, two tablespoons lemon juice, one tablespoon butter and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Cook for 15 minutes over low heat while stirring. Serve hot. * * * Removing Fish Smell.—A little vinegar and water scalded in the frying pan will take away any smell of fish or onions. Wash thp pan afterwards in the ordinary way. • • • Refreshening Taffeta Frock.—If ybu want to refresh and restiffen a taffeta frock, make a solution of one teaspoonful of borax dissolved completely in half a pint of warm water. Sponge this all over the wrong side of the fabric. When It is nearly dry iron on the wrong side, using a fairly hot iron. FOR HEAD COLDS head^cold you've I * * * rUsh - < «'» got to have I dogging miseries Nose 11 must be I -rush-in vitalizing freshiw. 1 I hea'MiS air. giving, healing air get in. And just 2 drops Penetro Nose Drops will instandy start you on the ’’open- nose” way out or cold-stuffed misery. Remember, free and easy breathing takes the kick out of head colds—helps cut down the time these colds hang on. So, for extra, added freedom from colds this winter—head off head colds’ misery with genuine Penetro Nose Drops. * Though It Hurts Justice and truth are absolutely essfential to the highest friendship; we respect a friend all the more because he is just and true, even when he hurts our pride and mor tifies us most.—O. S. Marden. Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels, and Also Pepsin-ize Stomach! When constipation brings on add 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 comfort, 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 That Which Reigns At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30, the wit; and at 40, \he judgment.—Gratian. Blacks Leaf 40 JUST A = OUR = Cap-Brush"Applicator j makes "BIACK LEAF ‘ "' GO MUCH FARTHER DASH IN FEATHERS.. OR SPREAD ON ROOSTS VESPER TEAl PURE ORANGE PEKOE 50 Cups for 10 Cents U rtic for ' lea Fact*— Ho* /<» rnaie 11 J LEVERING COFFEE CO . Baltimore. 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