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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK. — We heard that
Wendell L. Willkie had 300 invi
tations to make public addresses.
Across his big desk, which in
its mountain-
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home, we asked Mr. Willkie about
jit. The report was all wrong. The
number is something over 2,000.
Also in the ruck were enough pleas
for magazine and syndicate articles
to give Mr. Willkie writer’s cramp
for the rest of his life, if he took on
even one-tenth of them.
Mr. Willkie, built like a guard,
works like an end or a halfback.
The range and agility of his mind
is such that he might be a swing
man, either in the line or the back-
field. On his desk was a‘ new
book, the life of the Elder Pitt, about
which he is writing a review; also
a litter of papers having to do with
pretty nearly everything from kant
to kilowatts.
An hour’s conversation covered a
similar range. He talked rapidly
and vehemently, sawing and ham
mering with his extended palm,
when he told how the Common
wealth & Southern forced down
rates, or challenged what he terms
the unfair TV A bookkeeping; mak
ing hesitant or groping gestures
when he touched on the intangibles
of social origins and inducements.
He is like that—assured and vehe
ment on what he knows and thought
ful and explorative on what he
merely thinks.
He doesn’t want to kill th& Se
curities and Exchange commission.
He would merely put it under sound
democratic controls.
Mr. Willkie has tremendous gusto
and live, intellectual curiosity. He
says all this talk of nominating him
for President is incidental to the fact
that he made a rock-and-sock battle
on something he knew about—some
thing which happened to be impor
tant and which perhaps helped to
clarify certain basic issues. He says
he never spent a dime on a personal
build-up and never will. Almost his
strongest emphasis was reserved for
his observation that the run-of-the-
mill citizen is a lot brighter than
he’s supposed to be, and that therein
lies -the hope for our continuing de
mocracy. Out of its context, that
might sound like the old homespun
Indiana political hokum, but that’s
the last thing you could tag Mr,
Willkie with.
P I 1914, Franklin D. Roosevelt, as
sistant secretary of the navy, was
riding the venerable destroyer Pat
terson up the coast of Maine. He
said to young
Navy Commander Lieut. Stark
Ha* Talked Back at the helm,
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a while? I am an experienced navi
gator and I know this coast.” The
young lieutenant replied, ”1 am in
command here and responsible for
the ship. I doubt your authority to
supersede me. If you can offer any
helpful suggestions I should be glad
to hear them.”
It was said that Mr. Roosevelt
liked that kind of sea talk. At any
rate, last August, he jumped Adm.
Harold R. Stark over 54 others who
outranked him, to make him chief
of naval operations, No. 1 post in the
navy. White-haired and professori
al, Admiral Stark continues before
the senate committee on naval af
fairs his advocacy of an adequate
navy, this time pointing up his argu
ment with a reference to Japan’s
eight new dreadnaughts, supposedly
under way.
Admiral Stark commands a force
of 110,000 men, 11,000 officers, 18,000
marines, 550 ships and 2,000 fliers.
Two of his outstanding policies are
a belief that the navy should control
and operate its own air fleet, and
disbelief in “attrition” warfare. In
other words he thinks the navy
should be always in instant readi
ness for quick, hard hitting. His
technical attainments advanced him
in his earlier years and in later
years his frank and outspoken
formulations of broad navy policy.
He is regarded by close observers
of naval affairs as a fortunate com
bination of the “activitist” tradition
and studious and informed knowl
edge in the overlapping zone of na
val and foreign policy. This be
comes important in the latter-day
urgency and delicacy of internation
al affairs.-
He is an inlander, born and reared
in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. When the
World war started he was herding
five destroyers in the Philippines,
so old they weren’t supposed to go
out after dark. However, he got
them half way around the world and
entered them in the main event. He
is primarily a big-gun expert. In
spite of all modern improvements
on the big battle wagons, he thinks
the decision is apt to go to the nation
whose ships are able to display the
finest assortment of the biggest and
best gucs. He’s out for all he can
get
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A Finnish gunnery expert is shown examining one of the strange weapons captured from Soviet
Russian forces during the recent Russo-Finnish war. The gun, a field piece, is believed to be a
non-recoil cannon. It is shown ready to fire (left). The funnel attachment is thought to be a device
which utilizes explosion gases to produce a forward movement of the gun barrel, thus neutralizing
normal recoil. Right: The funnel arrangement is swung aside to show the breech. Experts confess
themselves baffled.
Parade of, States Features Washington Convention
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Feature attraction of the spring fete of the Woman’s National Democratic club, held recently
in Washington, D. C., was a parade of states, which included daughters of senators and representa
tives. Some of the marchers were, left to right: Louise Ransdell, Kansas; Esther Devine, Rhode
Island; Dorothy Ramspeck, Georgia; Pauline Guessford, Delaware; Ruth Overton, Louisiana; Patty
Mayfield, Mississippi; Helen Kine, Indiana; Martha Wever, Florida, and Barbara Grosser, Ohio.
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Somewhere on France’s Lorraine front a French soldier keeps
eternal vigilance behind his rifle-machine gun, lest a German sur
prise attack be successful. Note the cache of hand grenades just
below the gun. They are used for close-in fighting.
Discuss New Jobs for American Youth
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Discussing a clinic on “New Frontiers in American Life,” spon
sored by the University of Rochester in New York state, are Dr.
Alan Valentine (right), president of the university; Carl W. Lauter-
bach, vocational counselor (left), and Wilbur Hooker, graduating
senior. The election of Dr. Valentine to the board of Freeport Sul
phur company established an industrial precedent last year.
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Main generator, voltage divid
er stack and tube housing of Gen
eral Electric’s powerful new
1,400,000-volt X-ray machine at
Schenectady, N. Y. Its X-radia
tion will equal that of 14 pounds
($150,000,000 worth) of radium.
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Dr. J. C. Hoogerheide in his
Philadelphia, Pa., laboratory ex
amining a culture of what he con
siders one of the most powerful
germ-destroyers. Administered
to mice, it enabled them to with
stand 1,000,000 lethal doses of
pneumonia germs.
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By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T HERE’S a superstition in
Hollywood that an actor cast
as a newspaper reporter goes
right on into bigger and better
roles. Robert Paige believes in
it firmly, because it’s worked
for him.
He was brought into pic
tures from radio because of
his ability as a singer—and
then he was given one part
after another in which he had
no chance to sing. He seemed
to be stuck in melodramatic
roles. Then he was cast as a news
paper reporter in “Golden Gloves,”
and again played a reporter in
“Opened by Mistake.” And now
he’s booked for the leading male
role in Paramount’s “Dancing on a
Dime,” a musical comedy, in which
he’ll play opposite Grace MacDon
ald—and will sing and dance, at
last!
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At 75, May Robson has no idea
how many roles she has played on
stage and screen, but she’s ready to
tackle her newest one, that of Ellen
Drew’s grandmother, in “Texas
Rangers Ride Again.” It’s one of
Sills
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Birthday greetings from Gary Cooper to
May Robson.
the most strenuous parts of her long
career, that of a salty old lady who
looks upon modern Texas peace of
ficers as poor successors to the ones
she knew in her youth.
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You’ll be able to see Pat O’Mal
ley, of radio’s “Alec Templeton
Time,” on the screen before long.
His first picture will be “Captain
Caution,” in which he will play a
Cockney sailor who is captured dur
ing the War of 1812—and in which
he’ll sing the “Apple Song,” which
he has already performed on the
Templeton program.
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When you see “A Night at Earl
Carroll’s” you’ll also see what was,
two years ago, the community’s
most expensive night club. Remem
ber when it opened, with a special
section for movie stars? Nowadays
it’s a dime-and-dance emporium in
the evenings, but during the days
it’s been returned to its former glory
by Paramount. Ken Murray and
Rose Hobart play the leads in the
picture, Cobina and Brenda, radio’s
comedy team, and some of the
much publicized Earl Carroll beau
ties will support them, and Earl
Carroll, besides acting as producer,
will play himself.
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The Philadelphia-LaScala Opera
company wants Deanna Durbin to
make her operatic career under its
auspices next season. James Mel
ton’s already signed with the com
pany.
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Ben Grauer has grabbed off the
most coveted announcing assign
ment in radio. He’s been selected
to introduce Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
when she takes the air. Oddly
enough, he and she will be in studios
hundreds of miles apart, since she
will be on the go most of the time;
she’ll broadcast from a city con
venient to her schedule, and he’ll
chime in from a New York studio.
He is an energetic, jovial young
man, who, since he joined NBC 10
y*ars ago, has been working toward
liberating the announcer from his
stiff-necked, plush-voiced make-up.
He’s been trying to sound like a
human being, and deserves a medal
for the way that he has succeeded,
and inspired other announcers tc
unbend.
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Radio’s “Uncle Ezra,” (Pat Bar
rett) a confirmed bachelor in his Na
tional Barn Dance air show, found
on his arrival in Hollywood recently
that the screen expects him to have
a wife. In the Bob Burns picture,
“Cornin’ Round the Mountain,”
“Uncle Ezra” will find himself wed
ded to a movie actress, whether he
likes it or not.
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Nine years and 49 weeks ago Joan
Blondell decided that she might as
well leave Hollywood and go back
to New York, because she’d never
get anywhere in pictures. She was
working in “Sinner’s Holiday,” with
! James Cagney, and she made up
I her mind that she’d stick it out till
the picture was finished.
But she never got away. In fact,
she’s been so much in demand that
she’s had only a few trips to New
York to do shopping, and the one
she made with Dick Powell on their
over-ballyhooed honeymoon.
Venetian Blinds to
Simulate Windows
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
LJ AVE you ever tried placing
-*■ your davenport on the side of
the room where there was a single
window? You probably found that
it did not look well, because the
back was just high enough to give
the draperies an awkward cut-off
appearance, as shown in the upper
sketch. The lower sketch shows
how a friend of mine solved this
problem.
There are no windows under
those lowered blinds. A painted
SINGLE WINDOW WITH
CORNICE BOARD,
VENETIAN BLINDS AND
DRAPERIES OVER WALL
AT SIDES-A NARROW
PLANT SHELF IS USED
DAVENPORT
IN FRONT
OF A
SINGLE
WINDOW
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DRAPERIES
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box-like cornice board was made
about 2 feet longer than the dav
enport and was fastened to the
top of the frame of the one win
dow. The Venetian blinds and the
rods for the draperies were fas
tened inside this. A narrow shelf
for plants just the length of the
davenport back was fastened se
curely to the window sill.
NOTE: Sewing Book No. 1 tells
how to make this cornice board.
Also how to make curtains and
draperies for every room in the
house from child’s room to kitch
en. All about slip covers. Dress
ing tables from boxes, tables and
old mirrors. You will be delight
ed with it. Send order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
Enclose 10 cents for Book No. 1.
Name
Address
Piles—Why suffer the agony when
simple self treatments at home re
lieved me. Very bad case—full in
structions mailed for one dollar—
worth hundreds or will gladly refund.
Timely care is necessary. May save
you expensive operations. Address
H. J. OTIS, 319 East 9th St., Kansas
City, Mo.—Adv.
Small Pleasures
The chief secret of comfort lies
in not suffering trifles to vex us,
and in prudently cultivating an
undercurrent of small pleasures
since very few great ones are let
on long leases.—Aughey.
4 FOLD WAY TO RELIEVE
BACKACHE
DUE TO FATIGUE AND EXPOSURE
( EN-AR-CO helps nature
' bring quick relief four pow
erful ways: 1. STIMU
LATES surface circulation.
2. REDUCES local conges
tion. 3. RELIEVES muscu
lar soreness. 4. SOOTHES
superficial nerve endings —
and relieves local pain and
discomfort. Just rub on
En-ar-co and enjoy glorious
relief. Pleasant to apply. At
all druggists or send 10c for
trial size to National
Remedy Co., 55 W. 42 Sb,
N. Y. C. Dept. W-l.
EN-AR-CO
Within Onr Reach
What is remote and difficult of
success we are apt to overrate;
what is really best for us lies al
ways within our reach, though
often overlooked.—Longfellow.
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Inner Things
Happiness depends, as Nature
shows, less t on exterior things than
most suppose,—Cowper.
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In the Care
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