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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1940 By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—For many years, Ernest G. Draper has been speaking up for the small business man whenever he had a chance. Oat to Channel This n0 J b T “ comes his of- Small Business ficial assign- !n Defense Work fs the Federal Re serve board, of which he is a gov ernor, designates him as the board’s representative in its invitation to small business to get in happily on the defense effort. He will work with the officers of reserve banks in their co-operation with local banks in loosening credit and giving small concerns a crack at government contracts. The idea seems to be to channel small .banking as well as small manufacturing into the de fense mobilization of money .and productivity. Mr. Draper, New York head of a food packing and marketing business which isn’t so small, has earnestly extolled what he calls “business statesmanship.” He writes for trade journals and expounds for business forums his idea of a wide diffusion of oppor tunity among small business men, and the peril of unre strained monopoly and whole- hog taxation. From 1935 to 1938, he was assistant secretary of commerce, becoming a gover nor of the Federal Reserve board in March of the latter year. In 1939, he was the representative of industry on the National La bor board. In June of last year he advocated, before a senate sub-committee, a proposal to liberalize federal banking ma chinery in the interest of the small manufacturer and mer chant. Owning a yacht and belonging to several swank yachting clubs might seem to exclude Mr. Draper from the small business league, but it has been no bar sinister. Amherst gave him a degree in 1906 and later on an honorary master’s degree. /This writer was . talking to the owner of a small tool plant in New Jersey the other day, and found him quite angry about the defense program. He said the New Deal had rigged everything for the big boys, with nothing for the little ones, and that it will be worse now that the election is over and small-busi ness votes aren’t immediately need ed. Mr. Draper’s new activities may reassure him. 'T'HERE is pace and precision A in Rachel Crothers’ polished dramas of life and manners. Simi larly everything clicks in her Amer- Needy of Britain is Taken Undir she started Thespians? Wing la . s ^ January with six wom en, and which now has more than 3,000 persons knitting, sewing, gath ering funds, garments, food, blan kets, even ambulances and can teens, and keeping theta moving to England in mounting quantity. About 1,000 of Mrs. Crothers’ asso ciates are New York women, in and out of the theater. But the organi zation and momentum are distinctly of the theater, and a score for the world of make-believe in facing the grim urgency of harsh reality. Mrs. Crothers has staged an average of one play a year ever since the Broadway presentation of “The Three of Us,” in 1906. At her home in Bloomington, 111., she was an impresario of paper dolls at the age of four and staged her first play—in the back parlor of her home 50 years ago, when she was 12. It was a five- act play, called “Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining.” She was the outstanding dramatist of her Sunday school class, but, be cause of the deacons, her plays were discreetly offered as sketches. Her parents, of Scotch, Irish, Hugenot antecedents, were both doctors. After her graduation from the state normal university of Illinois, she worked first in amateur and then professional theatricals, • writing, acting and producing and then stormed Broadway with no impres sive resources other than the manu script of “The Three of Us.” The Sunday school playwright from Bloomington hit a bright note of big- town sophistication right from the start, clear on down to “Susan and God” of two years ago. She is slender, brisk and alert at 62, a bit prim, but in and of the big town, a distinguished lady of the theater and supremely effective in all that she does. During the World war, she organized and managed as president the Stage Women’s War Relief organization, with similar success in its humane objective. In the slump of 1932, she and John Golden, the theatrical producer, or ganized the highly efficient stage re lief fund. She supplies at least one courageous answer to defeatism and futility. All around one hears of the gallant efforts of the stage women. Plumber’s Helper Nation’s First Draftee John E. Lawton, 21-year-old Everett, Mass., plumber’s helper, shak ing hands with Maj. Gen. James A. Woodruff, at the armory in Boston, after winning the signal honor of being the first man in the U. S. to be accepted for the army under the selective service program of 1940. He passed the stern physical examination with flying colors. Desert Fort Now in British Hands Here From Orient arer? untr mcne [(WNUSe^ict) The New York Scene: Faces About Town: The F.D.R. Jrs. practically necking at a ring side table (next to this colyum’s) the other night just when several newspaper men phoned him to check this “reliable” tip: “We hear y£ur wife is in a plane bound for Reno” . . . Count Vincent Orssich talking tactlessly for an alien . . . Prettiest of the Texas skyscrapers—turning every neck at the Stork club—lovely Mary Dowell, of Fort Worth . . . Tommy Manville growing old grace fully. He can dance only one cho rus, and then retreats back to his coca cola and ringside table . . . Charlie Chaplin being greeted affec tionately wherever he goes. More than 200 American evacuees from the Orient arrived in San Fran cisco on the “President Pierce.” These youngsters from Hong Kong and Shanghai were aboard. Escape Nazi Bomb Sallies in Our Alley: George Jean Nathan, the critic, was asked his opinion of a young newcomer play wright. “The best thing I can say about his writing,” Nathan’d George “is that it is legible” . . . Wilkie Mahoney, the scripter, says that for every genius in Hollywood there’s a rotten movie on Broadway ... A drunk displaying a gigantic Willkie button was yelling: “I won with Willkie! I won with Willkie!” in front of the Rivoli theater. One of the stem’s gamblers asked him: “Whaddaya mean you won with Willkie? He came in second!” . . . “So what?” hiccoughed the stew, “I had him across the board!” Somewhere in Africa . . . These British soldiers are shown occupying the ruined Italian fort which was captured by the western forces of Great Britain while fighting Mussolini’s army in Africa. A fierce shelling reduced the fort to so much rubble. This official photograph was ap proved by the British censors. Mrs. Ann Haltrecht and her son, (shown on arrival in New York) who had narrow escape in their Eng lish home when a bomb pierced the cot in which the boy was sleeping, continued through the floor, and ex ploded in the basement. Noted Golfers Compete for Crown Fajrn Bureau * Many nationally famous golfers will compete in the seventeenth an nual Miami $10,090 Golf Open Tournament in Florida December 12-15. Chief contenders, shown above, are (L. to R.): Vic Ghezzi, Ralph Gul- dahl, Jimmy Hines, Dick Metz, Harold McSpaden, Paul Runyan, Horton Smith and Sammy Snead, the defending champion. Lower left: the spa cious Miami Springs Country club, scene of the tournament. About 1,800,000 people are being represented at the 22nd annual con vention of the American Farm Bu reau federation, at Baltimore, which closes its session Dec. 12. E. A, O’Neal, president, is shown above. Pan-American Aviation Day President Roosevelt has proclaimed December 17 as Pan-American Aviation day in commemoration of the Wright brothers’ first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., this day in 1903. The first Wright plane and a 30-ton Super-Boeing Flying Fortress are shown flying over Kitty Hawk memorial pylon. The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, are pictured in the insets. Birthday Greetings! Only a day separates the birth days of two very prominent men, al though widely separated by years and miles. Dr. Francis E. Town send will celebrate his seventy- fourth birthday on December 13. King George VI of England will cele brate his forty-fifth birthday on De cember 14. This is the second birth day which King George will cel* brate under wartime conditions. Memos of a Midnighter: They are saying that Twentieth Century-Fox stopped growing when Shirley Tem ple didn’t . . . Phyllis Ruth is Pretty-Face Shearer’s successor in G. Raft’s affections . . . Marjorie Logan, filing from golf champ Chap man, is the shadow of J. Carrott of Greenwich . . . The L. Carltons of the Post hafre a new Blessed He- vent . . . The Taft Bellmen’s annual affair will attract the Broadway crowd. Satdee at the Park Palace on 110th . . . Doris Greb, one of the many omigoddesses in the Copa- cabana girl division, is the reason . for the nightly attendance of Ho- racio Sanchez Alzagar. He is Macoco’s nevview and one of the richest blokes in Argentina. New Yorchidsc The American Art ists Group’s contribution to quicken appreciation for contemporary art— Yuletide cards. Merely wonderful . . . Twentieth Century’s “Chad Hanna,” a Nunnally Johnson delight . . . Gloria Blake’s thrilling trill ing at the Beachcomber. A 17-year- young lark . . . Joey Adarfis’ Loew’s units, the talk of the circuit . . . The British Empire Circle’s Grand Ball at Manhattan Center . . . “Big White Fog” by talented colored players at the Lincoln theater . . . And the marriage of words and mu sic in the ditty: “The Girl Who Took a Second Look at Me.” Broadway Smalltalk: An Austrian baroness is to be evicted from a midtown hostelry because her kind friend, an aging banker, refuses to pay her rent any longer . . . George Davis, who was recently reported proposing to Gypsy Rose Lee, has quit Harper’s Bazaar . . . The wise- guys will betcha that wheat will again be $1.50 in May, 1941 . . . “Meet the People,” the revue in H’wood (it is a pet there) debuts in New York December 25 in a Shu- bert house . . . Jerry Cooper thinks the authors of those three Hollywood plays (which libel the movietown people) should be written up them selves in a show entitled: “Beverly Heels” . . . Park & Tilford, now celebrating their centennial, pen sioned four vet workers with full salary . . . Allan Finn is now radio ed of Newsweek . . . French Vichy- men are using U. S. society women (whose friends leave by clipper) to carry their confidential messages to Vichy. To escape censoring and control at Bermuda. Manhattan Murals: The projec tionist at Radio City Music Hall lis tening to Uncle Don on his portable radio while screening “Escape” . . . The two Japanese with miniature candid cameras slung over their shoulders. One took pictures (at night!) of a Fifth Avenue shop in terior. Sunday eve’g about 6:45. Looked very comical . . . The eat ery on 116th and 7th which adver tises: “Don’t Eat Until I Open!” Midtown Vignette: Jean Harring ton, the post-deb, tiffed with the Stork management recently and stayed away from the joynt for a few weeks. She walked in again Sunday midnight, waited for the balloons to fall an hour later. She caugiit a lucky one containing a $100 bill . . . The following day she gave a luncheon for several friends —at “21”! Midtown Melodrama: Stage mag azine’s debut was a bit tardy for the darndest reason. The editors investigated the background of one of the four “pretty and promising’’ girls who were shown meeting all the celebrities—and discovered that one of them, a cute and dimpled thing, was too well-known about Sixth avenue as a Midnight Madon na .. . And so another had to be selected and new pictures made . . . She is so hurt—she has vowed to tell the wife of her “finger-man” next time she meets them in public. Pattern No. Z9033. CLEEPY, an oilcloth burro, is as ^ lazy as he can be. He just nods and sleeps all day, and seems not to care what the children do with him. But he has three redeem ing recommendations: a cute per sonality, ease of making, and his ability to part from fingerprints with the whisk of a damp cloth. Z9033, 15c, brings outlines and direc tions for this 12-inch burro with the green yarn mane and red halter. 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