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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1940 WHOS NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) ^J'EW YORK.—If there is a touch of hysteria as we prepare to prepare, it is more among the basses than the sopranos. Counsels of important Women Leaders Urge We Think With Calmness women have been singu larly calm and r e - strained. There is little shrill out cry among them. Currently, Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, and Miss Juliet M. Bartlett, the latter taking of fice as newly elected president of the New York Women’s City club, urge cajmness. Miss Bartlett says we “should keep our feet on the ground and our heads cool.” Mrs. Dunbar, addressing the federation convention at Mil waukee, stresses the collective need for thought, rather than emotion. “Never in our national history has there been a more desperate need for clear under standing,” she says. Mrs. Dun bar’s job is “community organi zation,” heading this effort for the University' of Oregon med ical school. It is understand able that she should emphasize reasoned techniques rather than emotional excitements. “Com munity organization” seems to describe our present national endeavor. Elected to the presidency of the federation in 1938, for a three-year term, Mrs. Dunbar represents about 2,000,000 club women. She tells them, “I want women to tune in with modern life.” A widow and a grandmother, of pioneer stock, she has behind her a unique tradition of “collective organization.” Her grandfather was the first white man to plant corn in Ganger, Mo., where she was born in a log cabin. Her family trekked on to Chanute, Kan., to Fresno, Calif., and thence to Ore gon, where, after her graduation from the State university she taught school. She has served 24 years as executive secretary of the Oregon Tuberculosis association. She was one of six children and is the mother of a grown son and daughter. A GOOD reporter these days should have a diploma from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy. Making inquiries among ex- «? a perts as to Expert* Assure J' he possibiu . Of Swift Work ties of swift In Preparedness industrial and military pre paredness, this inquirer finds the an swers reassuring, but complicated, to be taken on faith, with political factors still an unsolved X in the equation. Both pertinent and en couraging is a general agreement by authorities that with all our fumbling and faltering, the index of productivity in a free state is higher than in a slave state once it gets going. Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau recently met with repre sentatives of the machine tool indus try in Washington to start team work on tooling and standardization for the mass production of planes. Participating were Dr. George Jack- son Mead, vice chairman of the Na tional Advisory Committee on Aero nautics. He accepts a newly creat ed post, at $10,000 a year, the office being established to facilitate deci sion on types of planes, swift stand ardization of parts and swift produc tion. On technical qualifications. Dr. Mead shows a good report card, as one of the leading air plane designers of America. He received the Sylvanus Reed award, for 1939, for his technical eontributions to the advance ment of aviation, and his pro fessional and business experi ence has covered both the tech nical and industrial field. Mr. Mead attended the Massachu setts Institute of Technology from 1911 to 1915. In 1917, he was in charge of the power plants at the laboratories of the United States air station at Dayton, Ohio. He then became a plane designer for the Wright-Martin Aircraft corporation and later chief engineer for the Wright Aeronautical corporation. He founded the Pratt & Whitney Co., and was chief engineer of the United Aircraft corporation. He is 49 years old, a native of Everett, Mass. H OOFERS and spoofers fade, and men who know something im portant climb into the headlines. It is Sir James Barrie’s play, over again, where specialized knowledge took over at a time of urgency. As our metallurgical industry blue prints a steel matrix of national de fense, Walter S. Tower ^becomes president of the America Iron and Steel institute, which is the clearing house for planned and integrated effectiveness in the industry. Mr. Tower is an expert on both econom ics and geography. And well he may need to be. for A Bomber’s Eye View of the City of Paris An airview of Paris, the capital of France, which was first thought to be the objective of the Nazi “Blitz- kriegers,” who swept over the low countries and crossed the French border. When the Germans were within €0 miles of the capital they changed their drive and headed for the channel ports but later German bombers swooped down on Paris suburbs. The British Lion Roars Its Defiance at Sea The mighty guns of the British battleship, H. M. S. “Iron Duke,” roar out a message of defiance. The shells may be seen in front of the smoke “mushrooms.” Consider the speed of the camera that caught these shells in flight! Today Britain’s mighty ships are drawing a tight cordon around England to foil any attempt at invasion by the sea. Belgium’s Royal Family British ‘Fuehrer’ With King Leopold having surrendered Belgium, and his parliament repudiating the action, the status of Belgium’s royal family is uncertain. Left to right, Princess Josephine Charlotte, Prince Albert of Liege, and Crown Prince Baudoin, all Leopold’s children. Dowager Queen Elizabeth (his mother), the king, and his brother. Prince Charles. Pictured in character as the lead er of England’s “Blackshirts” is Sir Oswald Mosley, arrested by Scot land Yard in a great roundup of suspected enemy agents and “fifth column” operatives. Warming Up World’s First Plastic Airplane Minister to Canada Here is the world’s first complete plastic airplane, “baked” in an oven just like a cake, being warmed up for its first trial flight. The plane is built of spruce plies over wood, coated with phenolic resin plastic liquid, then molded and baked. It is claimed such planes can be made more quickly. Jay Pierrcpont, state department “career man,” who has been ap pointed U. S. minister to Canada, to succeed James H. R. Cromwell, resigned. LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN HOTEL A Vacation Paradise Located on highest point of Lookout Mountain, overlooking Chattanooga and seven mountain ranges. Cool nights—pleasant days. All sports, including outdoor swimming pool, golf, riding, tennis. Rates moderate. Addrmas S. JOHN LITTLEGREEN, Manager Lookout Mountain Hotol Chattanooga. Tonnoaaaa ATTERN Dip. \ ARTH ENT rjON’T you think it’s one of the prettiest ideas for cotton prints that ever bloomed in the spring—all set for a summer of great popularity? 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