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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1940 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—Being deaf, and naturally shrewd and alert, lit tle Ismet Inonu, president of Turkey developed various sensitivities to _ .. . - such an ex- Preaident Inonu tent that he Of Turkey ‘Mon soon became With Antennae? known not only as a lip- reader, but a mind-reader. It was inevitable that he should become an excellent dead-pan poker player and be a wary and knowing participant in international politics in his neighbor hood. “You’d think the man had an tennae,” a correspondent who had interviewed him told me several years ago. “It is almost spooky the way he seeems to feel out everything around him.” Perhaps, making his frank ad dress before the national assem bly, he has a hole card which the juggernaut powers hadn’t figured on. At any rate, he is bold and explicit about Turkey’s determination to stick to her al liance with Great Britain, and proclaims that “The bonds of alliance which unite us to her are solid and unbreakable.” Those who have played poker with the man, ingratiating little fighter and diplomat say that when he bets ’em he has ’em—all kibitzers gloom ily shaking their heads, however, as they figure the Axis hand. It was as Ishmet Pasha that he made his career, changing his name in line with Kemal Ataturk’s mod ernization program. A colonel in the Turkish army, he made a peril ous passage through hostile lines in 1920, and joined Kemal Ataturk. Jointly, in less than two years, they drove the / Greeks out of Anatolia and Smyrna and in the following years built modern Turkey. He was mysteriously benched during Kemal Ataturk’s last year, but appeared at the helm, with power and prestige unlessened at the latter’s death. For the last two years, Ger many’s clever and resourceful Von Papen has been attending to political and diplomatic sabo tage in Turkey. The word has been that the astute President Inonu has always been a jump or two ahead of him and that Turkey hasn’t been readied for the kill in the manner of other small powers. The president has fostered carefully the Turkish hegemony over the Moslem bloc, • and whenever the Axis powers kick Islam in the face, his peo ple know about it. His alliance gives England a valuable liai son with Islam, which may be come more and more important as the war wears on. T RAINING for the next war won’t be just one-two, one-two and squads right or left. As Maj. Gen. William N. Haskell, commander of „ *• l n t New York’s Gen. Haskell for Twenty . se v- Strictest Discipline enth division Of Army Recruits at Fort Mc Clellan, Ala., starts his mobilization program, he lets it be known that recruits will be schooled in all the new tactics and disciplines of modern soldier ing. War today requires more and better specialists and tighter organi zation, to which the war depart ment adds, “military discipline, health, strength and endurance, mo rale, initiative .and adaptability, leadership, teamwork, technical proficiency and tactical proficiency.” Big, bluff, ruddy, iron-jawed General Haskell, appointed to the command of the New York National Guard by Gov. Alfred E. Smith in 1926, is a West Pointer who has preached stiff discipline and long yelled for more and better fighting tools for the army. Out of West Point in 1901, he was graduated from the infantry school in 1904 and saw service in the Philippine islands, the Mexican border, France, the Near East and Rus sia, directing American relief in Russia from 1921 to 1923. He - has been an alert student of the new requirements of mechanized warfare — no traditionalist or mossback and by all accounts will go far in bringing the boys up to the above ambitious war department standard. I N THE groping for more fruitful cultural relations with South America, Nelson A. Rockefeller seems to have made a shrewd choice in adding to his committee Don Francisco, president of the Lord and Thomas Advertising Agen cy. The aptness of the name is obvious. For 23 years, Mr. Fran cisco contributed to the successful cultural and commercial relations of Los Angeles by booming oranges and the orange industry. Good-look ing and personable, he “makes friends and influences people.” Election Night Crowd in Times Square New York’s Great White Way was the scene of election night excitement as great crowds jammed Times square to read the latest bulletins in the thrilling presi dential race. (Inset, left) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the first President ever elected to a third term. (Inset, right) the newly elected vice president, Henry Wallace, former secretary of agriculture. New Recruits for Uncle Sam’s Army A raw batch of new recruits are pictured as they arrived at Fort Devens, at Ayer, Mass., ready to go through the routine*that will turn them out as soldiers of the line within a few months. There are 3,400 sol diers and 100 officers housed at present at Devens. Meanwhile more than 3,000 artisans are working night and day to complete the first of 27 new barracks to accommodate the 1940 batch of draftees. Each building will house 63 men. * The Old Folks ‘At Home’ in London Christened This aged couple spend the air raids in the de luxe shelter constructed in the basement of their Westminster borough home in London. The bunks upon which they rest were installed by the Westminster council which is providing them for all private shelters, to enable the populace to obtain their proper rest and curb “air raid nerves.” I The U. S. S. Swanson, new de stroyer, sliding down the ways at the Charleston, S. C., navy yard. It was christened by Mrs. Claude Swanson, wife of the late secretary of the navy. Election Trim Coverall and Statistics Smart Tie-Around _ ^ S' - « _ _ (Table below shows state by state re sults In the election of the President (electoral vote). Congressional Representa tives, U. S. Senators and the governors of each state in which these posts were at stake.) 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D. . 4 2 1 tTenn. . 11 6' 2 1 1 Texas . 23 21 1 1 Utah . 4 2 1 1 VL . . 3 1 1 1 Va. . . 11 9 1 Wash. . 8 6 1 1 W. Va. 8 6 1 1 §Wis. 12 1 6 Prog. 1 Wyo. . 3 1 1 TOTALS 449 82 267 162 22 12 18 15 Additional Congressional Results. * Minnesota has one Farmer-Laborite. t New York has one American-Laborite. J Tennessee has one Independent. S Wisconsin has three Progressives. NOTE: It should be remembered that only 33 states elected governors and 35 states elected senators in this 1940 elec tion. (Tabulation below gives the popular vote for the presidential election as reported by the vari ous states.) Alabama • • Roosevelt 179,589 Willkie 27,651 Arizona . • • 77,212 41,833 Arkansas . • • 102,805 26,495 California • • 1,750,876 1,240,231 Colorado • • 198,675 212,435 Connecticut • • 417,858 361,869 Delaware . • • 74,387 63,059 Florida . . • • 338,847 121,033 Georgia . . • • 240,734 41,482 Idaho . • • • 117,201 99,490 Illinois . . • • 2,130,194 2,036,431 Indiana . • • • 860,472 884,557 Iowa . . . • • 572,655 622,737 Kansas . . • • 348,974 465,599 Kentucky . • • 481,550 350,222 Louisiana . • • 186,171 29,542 Maine . . • • 154,774 163,928 Maryland . • • 364,168 250,362 Massachusetts • 1,052.678 916,411 Michigan • • 1,025,963 1,032,963 Minnesota . • • 622,032 583.536 Mississippi • • 100,825 4,737 Missouri . • • 946.125 856,531 Montana . • • 109.130 73,379 Nebraska . • • 256,761 341,863 Nevada . . • • 31,567 20,946 New Hampshire • 125,625 , 109,992 New Jersey • • 1,014,978 947,638 New Mexico • • 105,031 82,754 New York . • • 3,262,273 3,029,180 North Carolina 575,072 182,706 North Dakota • • 113,909 144,635 Ohio ... • • 1,728,020 1,584,855 Oklahoma . • • 468,397 342,672 Oregon . . • • 229,819 262,715 Pennsylvania • • 2,168,693 1,884,847 Rhode Island • • 181,881 138,432 South Carolina • 85,077 4,193 South Dakota • • 114,623 159,370 Tennessee . • • 323,710 150,531 Texas . . • • 682,173 162,755 Utah . . . 153,434 93,006 Vermont . • • 64,244 78,335 Virginia . . • • 236,512 109,682 Washington • • 349,869 244,057 West Virginia • • 483,566 360,769 Wisconsin . • • 693,017 672,343 Wyoming . • • 58,262 51,998 Total . • • 25,960,408 21,606,691 (Above figures are unofficial. 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Joseph ^ aspirin yy/iiivvv As London’s Children Are Evacuated British captions with these pictures describe them as “another large party of mothers and children being evacuated to the country from London.” At the left a child in a policewoman’s arms shows her be wilderment at the excitement. Right: a youngster with an identifica tion tag around her neek is being carried to a waiting bus by a policeman. Speaks for Petain Gaston Henri-Haye, French am bassador to the U. S., who deliv ered to Secretary Cordell Hull tho reply of Marshal Fetain to Presi dent Roosevelt’s appeal that thg , Vichy regime abstain from collabo- i rating with Germany in thj wa?. Both presidential candidates car ried their own home voting districts. Roosevelt received a majority of 74 votes to win, 376 to 302; Willkie’s native town gave him a margin of i 438 votes. The count was Willkie, 4,151; Roosevelt, 3,713. • • • Post-election celebration kept Manhattan firemen busy after Roosevelt’s victory became appar ent. More than 50 fire alarms were turned in as a result of street bon fires set by celebrants. • » • In order to record the electoral vote the 531 presidential electors will gather oq December 16 in their various state capitals and send theii votes to Washington by registered mail. These letters will actually be tabulated by Congress on January 6 and President Roosevelt will be sworn in for his third term on Janu ary 20. Members of the electoral college used to get a trip to Wash ington but in 1934, congress decided that its duties were too routine and turned it into a “correspondence school.” Dominion Over Self You can never have a greater or a less dominion than that over yourself.—Da Vinci. ‘601 B/iuiqs RHEUMATISM ^mbago •••••••••••••••••••••• • TEACHING A CHILD • • VALUE OF PENNIES • • A child of a wise mother will be • • taught from early childhood to be- • • come a regular reader of the adver- • • tisements. In that way better perhaps • • than in any other can the child be • • taught the great value of pennies and O • the permanent benefit which comes • • from making every penny count. •