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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’
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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’
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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.
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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.
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. 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.
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