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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1940
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‘ By LEMUEL F. PARTON
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YORK. — Most airpjane
makers who expressed an opin
ion about Henry Ford’s offer to
make 1,000 planes a day were doubt-
t j m. about Mr.
Industry ‘Can Do Ford . s ability
Anything* in Our to deliver.
Defense Effort Young and
energetic
Sherman M. Fairchild, president of
the Fairchild Engine and Airplane
corporation, thought “anything
would be possible” provided suf
ficient money, materials and person
nel were available. He was re
assuring as to the industry’s capaci
ties in tooling, plants and other re
quirements for a quick shift to mass
production.
Mr. Fairchild is, himself, re
assuring in exemplifying the
tradition of Yankee inventive
ness. His father, the late
< George Winthrop Fairchild, once
-chairman of the International
, Business Machines corporation,
was the inventor of the dial tele
phone, the computing machine v
and finally the adding machine,
to keep track of his mounting
* millions—about 10 of which went
to his son. He had begun his
business career at 08 a week.
, “Anything is possible” seems to
! have been a sort of family
slogan.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
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As a youth, Sherman M. Fairchild
was mainly interested in cameras.
His father had tapped him for
junior executive of his company,
iWhen- the young man stuck to
cameras, this interest later shading
into airplanes, his family was indul
gent. They thought the boy was
just having a “wanderjahr” and
would round up at a desk when the
time came. But the camera obses
sion wasn’t just monkey business.
At 21, he had invented an unique
flashlight camera and several years
later brought through a radial aerial
camera, organized the Fairchild
Aerial Surveys and caught attention
with a trail-blazing aerial survey of
New York. This led to plane-build
ing. In 1927, he corralled several
companies, set Igor Sigorsky build
ing planes and turned out the first
cabin monoplane in the United
States.
S INCE chivalry is not inseparable
from T»»trir»t.ism this writpr
Lauds Response
Given to Appeal
..w... patriotism, this writer
asked Norman H. Davis, chairman
of the American Red Cross, to send
Red Cross Chief „ m ‘ hl a
paragraph s
about the
work of the
Red Cross in its greatest endeavor.
He responded as follows:
“Anyone attempting to bring ma
terial assistance to the millions of
homeless and miserable war refu
gees is inevitably seized with a
sense of futility. Th2re is so much
that needs doing immediately, and
there are so many obstacles to over
come that the burden of responsibil
ity becomes almost overwhelming.
“These moods of futility I can
diSpel by concentrating my
^ thoughts on the splendid sup
port received by the American
Red Cross from all over the
country. When I think of the
350,000 volunteers sewing band
ages and knitting garments, or
of the millions of Amerioans in
every walk of life who are con
tributing to the Red Cross war-
relief fund, my spirits are im
mediately buoyed. Pride in the
generous and patriotic response
i of the public gives each Red
Cross worker new courage to
carry out his tasks.
“The war-relief funds are going
to work for humanity almost as fast
as they come in. Relief supplies are
being distributed, hospital supplies
are on the way and ambulances have
been ordered. Clothing and surgical
dressings are being shipped to the
stricken areas, in huge quantities.
Our activities are rapidly being
geared to greatly increased needs
as the toll of invasion continues to
mount. I have an abiding faith that
the people of this country will help
the Red Cross keep pace with its
increasing obligations.
■ Mr. Davis is a Southerner by
birth, and therefore fundamen
tally humane; as a successful
; business man and financier, he
is effective, and as a European
i { ambassador at large under five
Presidents, he is discreet.
1 In the dark depths of the rear seat
(of his town car, one night two years
ago, I had a talk with him about
power politics in Europe. He was,
indeed, discreet, but I gained an
Impression of his shrewd awareness
'of the deeper realities of the Euro
pean impasse, as now tragically re
vealed. When, later, he was ap
pointed chairman of the Red Cross,
it seemed to me that our greatest
humane tradition had been fortu
nately personalized, in a man with
both a touch of homespun and the
sophistication of one accustomed to
getting things done.
Britain’s ‘Rock’ Under a Double Threat
An aerial view of Gibraltar, Britain’s mighty fortress at the entrance to the Mediterranean, one of the
key points of the European chessboard. Great Britain may be forced to defend Gibraltar against both Musso
lini and Gen. Francisco Franco, who has been urged to repay Spain’s debt to the Rome-Berlin axis by co
operating in any axis operation against the “Rock.”
The Allied Troops Retreat From Dunkirk
The picture shows the allied troops wading out from the beach to the rescue boat in the right fore
ground, during the evacuation of Duqkirk. This was one of the most remarkable retreats in history, 887
British craft taking part in the operation. A correspondent reports that every building in this city of 33,000
persons was destroyed by the Nazis.
$230,769,230 Per Ounce!
Between 1935 and 1940 federal expenditures have increased by $3,000,-
000,000, and the budget has gained 13 ounces in weight. This means that
every time the budget becomes an ounce heavier the spending increases,
on an average, by $230,769,230. The picture was prepared by the National
Small Business Men’s association with headquarters in Chicago.
Middies March in June-Week Fete
Middies parade during the presentation of colors ceremony, one of
the features of June week at the United States Naval academy, Annapolis,
Md. Helen Barbara Engh, 19, Sweet Briar college sophomore, was
selected color girl for the ceremony.
Interned by Nazis
P. G. Wodehouse, British humor
ist, and his wife (shown) were giv
ing a cocktail party in Le Touquet,
French channel coast town, when
the Germans came along. He was
interned, but his wife was allowed
to leave.
Visitors Barred
Every armory in New York state
has been put under military guard.
The buildings have been closed to
the public to prevent possible sabo
tage.
“The Name
Is Familiar—
BY
FELIX B. STREYCKMANS
and ELMO SCOTT WATSON
‘Get Your Gat!*
IF RICHARD JORDAN GATLING
■■■ could know how his name is per
petuated in the slang of the under
world, he would probably revolve as
rapidly in his grave as did the bat
tery gun which he invented in 1861.
For when a crook says to a com
panion, “Get your gat!”, his per
sonification of his weapon is a short
ening of the name of an inventor,
born in North
Carolina in 1818,
who gave to the
world many use
ful articles before
he invented the
gun that bears
his name.
Among them
were a machine
for sowing cotton
seed, another for
thinning cotton-
plants, one for
sowing rice, an
other for sowing
wheat, a screw for propelling water
craft, a machine for breaking hemp
and a steam plow.
But Gatling is remembered for
none of these. Instead, his name is
linked with an instrument of death—
a revolving gun consisting of a num
ber of simple breech-loading rifled
barrels grouped around and revolv
ing about a common axis. The orig
inal Gatling gun fired only 250 to
300 shots per minute but later mod
els were capable of spitting out 1,200
bullets every 60 seconds. It was
used with deadly effect in the Civil
war and for many years thereafter
by the United States army, which
adopted it in 1866, until the modern
machine gun supplanted it. Even
though it’s not in common use now,
its inventor’s name is—shortened to
“gat.”
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R. J. Gatling
Vandyke Beard
'T'HE famous artist Vandyke is an-
other whose name has been per
petuated by becoming a part of our
language and yet hardly anyone
knows how he spelled it. The Van
dyke beard is named for him and is
spelled that way, but he spelled his
name Van Dyck.
Antonius Van Dyck, born in Ant
werp, Belgium, in 1599, and one of
the greatest art
ists of all time,
migrated to Eng
land. There his
name was angli
cised to Anthony
Vandyke and, al
though he spent
some time in Ita
ly, returned to
Antwerp and did
some work in
Paris, the Eng
lish spelling of
his name is the
van Dyck one ^at remained
through the centuries.
So we call his type of beard—a
rather full mustache with a small,
billy-goat-like pendage of hair from
the lower lip—a Vandyke beard. And
there is a Vandyke collar and cape,
so named because it was promi
nent on portraits he painted. It
consists of fine linen and lace with
deep pointed or indented edges.
Van Dyck had a successful but
short life, made possible by the
fact that his talents were brought
out while he was very young. At
10 his wealthy father sent him to a
famous art school; at 16 he organ
ized a firm of portrait painters; at
20 he was called to England and
was recognized by the king of Eng
land who pensioned him, and at 42
he died.
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Gladstone Bag
YlfHEN you pack your gladstone
W bag for a trip, you may not
realize it, but you will be carrying
with you a constant reminder of
“the greatest of the long line of Vic
torian political leaders and prime
ministers of England.” But such will
be the case, for this convenient and
capacious piece of luggage is named
for William Ewart Gladstone, who
was born of Scotch
parentage in Liv
erpool in 1809,
served an appren
ticeship under an
other great prime
minister, Sir Rob
ert Peel, and him
self became prime
minister for the
first time in 1868.
From that time
on he and another
great prime min
ister, Benjamin Disraeli, were con
stant rivals and for the next
quarter of a century Gladstone was
the leader of the Liberal party and
served as prime minister no less
than four different times. He died
in 1898 and is buried in the states
man’s corner of Westminster abbey.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
W. E. Gladstone
Early Ceremonial Washings
In all early civilizations, bathing
and handwashing—of a sort—were
required decencies. Religions, even
of very ancient peoples, called for
a great deal of ceremonial washing.
Hospitality among the Hebrews re
quired offering a foot bath to the
guest; among the Greeks and Ro
mans the refreshment of a bath was
offered.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
E ACH year Hollywood
makes a “sleeper” — a
picture that, during the mak
ing, created no excitement,!
but during the preview show-!
ing had all the earmarks of
being one of the best of the
year. “It Happened One
Night” and “Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington” are two of the
better known sleepers. This
year’s, according to some of
the people who have seen it,
may be “Down Went Mc-
Ginty.”
Written and directed by Preston
Sturgis, with a cast including Muriel
Angelus, Brian Donlevy and Akim
Tamiroff, it is the “saga of a bum.”i
It may be the making of a new
star, Muriel Angelus. In England
she is one of the foremost musical
MURIEL ANGELUS
comedy stars; she played the lead
in “Balalaika” on the stage there—
you’ll recall that Nelson Eddy and
Ilona Massey did the picture ver
sion. She has been in this country
for two years; last year, while sing-!
ing on the New York stage in “The!
Boys From Syracuse,” she was
signed up by Paramount, and “The:
Light That Failed,” with Ronald
Colman, was her first picture. Then!
she did “Safari” and “The Way of
All Flesh,” followed them with
“Down Went McGinty.”
When John Barrymore seemed to
be unavailable for the role of John
Barrymore in “The Great Profile,”
at Twentieth Century-Fox, Adolphe
Menjou was engaged for it. Then
Barrymore’s plans changed, he took
the part, and Menjou took his sal
ary, as the studio had no other pic
ture ready for him.
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Rod Cameron, a young, six-foot
Canadian, went to Los Angeles a
year ago to learn the dime stone
business. That didn’t work out
very well, so he quit, took up little
theater work, and now finds himself
acting for Paramount.
Death brought him his first role,
that of “Corporal Underhill” in
Cecil B. DeMille’s “Northwest
Mounted Police.” Earl Askam, a
former stage star and war hero, was
to have played it, but he died recent
ly of a heart attack, and young
Cameron (whose real name is Rod
Cox) was summoned for it. By a
grisly coincidence, the role includes
a death scene, but he’s so elated
over getting the part that he can’t
afford to be superstitious.
Now that they need passports to
sail for a tour of South America, it
has been discovered that many of
Toscanini’s NBC Symphony musi
cians are men without a country.
It seems that there was a general
impression among them that all
they had to do to become American
citizens was to file their intentions
of doing so; now they’re not Amer
icans, and, as they renounced their
native lands, they don’t legally be
long anywhere.
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George Brent, working in Warner
Brothers’ “The Sentence,” offers to
put up $10,000 at 10 to 1 odds that
he won’t marry for another three
years. “That’s no reflection on
Aim,” he says, meaning Ann Sheri
dan, whom gossips have him wed
ding soon. “It’s just that I’m going
to wind up my picture contract
then, and I’m not making any mar
riage plans until I do.”
Miss Sheridan (working in “They
Drive by Night,” same studio) is
equally vehement. “George and I
haven’t even discussed getting mar
ried,” says she. But—it’s the kind
of buildup that so often leads to ah
elopement, in Hollywood!
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Carl Hoff, on the CBS A1 Pearce
show, drew an impressive crowd the
other day and wished he hadn’t. He
parked his new coupe and then tried
to get out of it, and couldn’t. He
went through assorted acrobatic
convulsions, thrusting his feet and
arms out of the windows in all pos
sible combinations, while the crowd
offered advice hilariously. The new
coupe has patent thief-locks on its
doors. Only after he had struggled
till he was limp did it occur to Hoff
to pass the key to one of the
amused bystanders.