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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1941
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
VTEW YORK.—Adam Smith de-
scribed economics as a science
and then added, “Science is an anti
dote to the poison of enthusiasm.’*
FDR’, Economist « “
An Antidote to dent Roose-
f Poison of ZeaV v ? Ws Person
al economist.
rarely heard or seen, serves as such
an antidote when impulsive action
is indicated. He is the somewhat
dimly outlined Dr. Lauchlin Currie,
graying at 37, clothed in gray, as
though in protective coloring, a
shadow-shape in the Washington
fogs of doubt and uncertainty.
Dr, Carrie not only delves into
mountains of detail, as did Hay
and Nieolay for Lincoln, in an-
* other critical hour in March,
1860, but he is a deep fount of
economic doctrine. He has not
been credited with the inspira
tion for the lease-lend bill for
aid to Britain, but it is interest
ing to note that in April, 1938,
he put forward a plan to solve
railroad troubles by a leasing
lending procedure in which the
roads would get equipment
much in the manner in which
Britain would get war goods un
der the new bill.
As the “last of the brain-trust
ers,” he is an advocate of the full
utilization of technical resources by
clearing them of financial entan-
glements and commitments, so far
as possible. The late Thorstein Veb-
len foreshadowed these techniques.
Dr. Currie is a native of Nova
Scotia who became an American
citizen in 1934. He joined the New
Deal in that year, three years after
takbig his doctorate at Harvard, as
an assistant economist under Jacob
Viner of the treasury department.
Later he was taken over by Mar-
riner Eccles of the Federal Reserve
board as an assistant in the di
vision of research.
He is not only the President’s
personal economist, but his liai
son man in economic matters,
appointed as one of those six
White House assistants, “with a
passion for anonymity,” which
passion seems fairly authentic
in his case. He was a teacher
at Harvard and an industrial
consultant in Boston before go-,
ing to Washington.
All of which is a reminder that
the average man’s wife is his per
sonal economist and that she fre
quently is an “antidote to the poison
of enthusiasm.”
I F ADAM SMITH were alive, he
would note that Mile. Eve Curie’s
scientific antecedents had not
dimmed any of her enthusiasms.
Science Ha, Not
Curbed Emotion rie arrives on
Of Mile. Curie
the S. S. Ex-
cambion boil
ing with enthusiasm for free France
and for democracy and civilization
in general, science or no science.
Her previous trips over here had
made her a favorite in this country
and her charm, intelligence and
beauty have been eloquently ex
tolled.
Her burning black eyes might
be called “an antidote to the
poison of indifference.” She
qualified in science, at the Sor-
bonne, but turned to music in
1926, a gifted pianist, praised by
her friend Paderewski. With
all her other gifts, she is an ath
lete and a first-rate bowler.
And with all that, women rave
about her clothes. Writing has sup
planted music as her chief interest
and she has been highly praised for
her biography of her mother, pub
lished in 1938. Her proficiency in
higher mathematics rounds out a
perfect score for one of the most
highly esteemed of our gang-plank
celebrities.
t' RICA MORINI, whose recent
concert drew an overflow crowd
to the Town Hall, frequently has
been called “The greatest woman
violinist.” She doesn’t like it. While
she notes that there have been, in
nearly three centuries, only 73 dis
tinguished women. violinists, as
against thousands of men, she in
sists that the lag is due only to the
fact that women have been too busy
with homes and children to bring
through their talents. She thinks
the above accolade is patronizing to
her sex.
When Adolf Hitler’s tanks rolled
into her native Vienna, the comely
young violinist moved out, with her
$45,000 Stradivarius. It was in 1921
that she first came to New York, a
child prodigy in pig-tails, making
her American debut with the New
York Philharmonic in a recital
which one critic termed “the great
est violin sensation since Kreisler.”
Her father was Italian, one of a
long line of musicians, but none so
gifted as she. She defies snobs and
highbrows by playing Victor Her
bert and Stephen Foster along with
the violin classics.
Testify in ‘Lease-Lend’ Bill No. 1776
Earnestness, sincerity and patriotism are revealed in these candid
camera “shots” of four national figures as they testified on the “lease-
lend” bill. They are: upper left, J. P. Kennedy, retiring ambassador
to Britain. Lower left: Hugh Johnson, columnist. Upper right, Norman
Thomas, socialist leader, and William Knudsen, defense production chief.
Back to Texas ^
Former Vice President John
Nance Garner packs his bags and
leaves Washington for his home in
Uvalde, Texas, a few hours after
the inauguration of President Roose
velt and Vice President Wallace,
winding up a 36-year political career
in the nation’s capital.
Rations for the Channel ‘Watchdogs’
Wins D. S. A.
There is no let-down in Britain’s preparations to meet invasion, if,
and when, it comes. Every hour defense works about the coast of Britain
are being more and more strengthened. This photo, taken somewhere
in England, shows gun crews checking and storing a new supply of am
munition for the 9.2 “watchdog” in the background.
Robert A. Boyer, winner of the
1940 Distinguished Service Award,
presented by the U. S. Junior Cham
ber of Commerce. Boyer, as head
of Ford Research department, has
developed a process to make plastic
automobile bodies.
Illiliiiiiiligl
Wild West Rodeo
Dog Show
Expert cowpunchers will compete at Phoenix, Ariz., on February 13
to 16 in a “world’s championship rodeo.” Cowboys are shown matching
their skills against untamed animals in bone-crushing events of last year’s
contest. Other rodeos will be held throughout the West and are expected
to draw great-crowds.
The Westminster dog show, larg
est of its kind, will be held February
11 in New York. Last year’s “best
dog,” a cocker spaniel, is shown
with its owner, H. E. Mellenthin.
Above: his trophies, and Tanyah
Sahib, champion afghan Jiound.
AAU Holds Bobsled Meet
Tests Coins
America’s foremost bobsled racers will be paced by Paul Dupree and
Tuffield A. Latour, holders of the A. A. U. Junior and Senior and North
American titles, (upper left) when they compete for the National A. A. U.
Senior two-man one-mile championship February 9-10 at Lake Placid,
N. Y. Miss Katharin Dewey (upper right) last year’s victor.
Under supervision of Miss Nellie
Ross, director of the U. S. mint,
sample coins struck during 1940 will
be examined February 12 for ac
curate weight and fineness. Two of
every 10,000 coins made are put
aside for close inspection.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T HE baton Judy Garland
carried fourteen years ago
in an act which she did with her
sisters at a Lancaster theater
has been rejuvenated for her
starring role in “Ziegfeld Girl.”
Four - year - old Judy kept the
“stick” among her souvenirs of
“The Gumm Sis
ters” era. During
“Pigskin Parade,”
in which she first
won screen recogni- i
tion, she carried it '
again. Now as the
drum jnajorette in
the M-G-M musi-
cale finale number,
it once again comes
out ’ of hiding—but
with a difference.
Judy Garland Like Judy, it’s been
glamourized.
Painted in silver, it has 100 spar
kling rhinestones studding the head.
“I’m sure if it had been as impres
sive 14 years ago as it is now, we
would have received more than 50
cents apiece for our ‘Gumm Sisters’ i
act,” chuckled the young star. |
*
It’s pretty Ellen Drew who gets
the feminine lead in “The Night of
January 16th” when it finally goes
before the cameras. Patricia
Morrison was to have had it. Cast
ing difficulties for the picture began
last February, when Don Ameche
refused to have anything to do with
it; Robert Preston is now slated for
the Ameche role.
' *
Frank Capra’s “Meet John Doe”
will be more than just a good pic
ture; its release celebrates his 20
years of picture making. He’s made
26 pictures and is one of Holly
wood’s few directors who can be de
pended on to turn out top-notch ones.
*
Rise Stevens, young American
mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera company,
who made her first
appearance at the
White House when
she participated in
the Inaugural con
cert this year, has
been signed by
Metro - Goldwyn -
Mayer. Her first
picture will be a
Technicolor musi
cal; she’ll leave for
Hollywood at the
end of April, after
the completion of her . concert and
radio season, and begin work in
May.
She made her debut with the
Metropolitan in 1938 (she’d shattered
a 55-year-old record, when she was
19, by informing Metropolitan of
ficials that she was “not yet ready
to accept the greatest opportunity
opened to a young artist”). Still in
her mid-twenties, she is one of the
company’s leading mezzo-sopranos,
and lovely looking to boot. She’s
going to offer very,'very keen com
petition for Jeanette MacDonald.
*—
It was aching arms, not art, that
lent a new and more sinister note
to Humphrey Bogart’s performance
in Warner Brothers’ “High Sierra.”
Visitors to the set noticed a new and
sinister alertness, produced by Bo
gart’s carrying his arms out from
his body as if ready for a quick
draw.
But—“When you have a holster
strapped tight under each arm all
day, you get tired of the contact and
involuntarily hold your arms away
from your body,” Bogart explained.
“But I may as well confess; when
I found that it gave a sinister ef
fect, I kept 1 doing it, even without
guns.”
—*
Boris Karloff is appearing on the
New York stage in a goofy and
hilarious murder mystery entitled,
“Arsenic and Old Lace.” He’s cast
as a man who terrifies people be
cause he looks so much like Boris
Karloff of the movies. And even
highly sophisticated members of the
audience are audibly delighted when
they recognize him. Mr. Karloff,
incidentally, gives an excellent per
formance as the man who resembles
him.
*
Turhan Selahettin Shultavy Bey is
a new name in American motion
pictures; its owner is a young man
of distinguished lineage in Turkey.
But when 24-year-old Turham came
to this country to seek his fortune
he left his dignified and aristocratic
past behind him. Which was just
as well, for when the cast and crew
of “Murder on the Second Floor”
had difficulty pronouncing his name
they just dubbed him “Bay Rum.’*
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Doris Dudley dyed
her blonde hair midnight blue for a rele
in the Miriam Hopkins stage play “Battle
of the Angels”; now the play hnt been
called off, and Doris must turn blonde
again, fast, for a role in another play, “The
Bo Tree” ... Since the hectic days of July,
1939, Raymond Gram Swing has been broad
casting almost every day without missing a
single program because of illness; recently
he look a three weeks’ vacation, and spent
most of it in bed, sick ... It’s reported
that Dick Rowell, who recently left that
coffee program, is forming his own orchc*
tra for another radio program.
Rise Stevens
Smiles
In Realm of Fancy
Sergeant after war game)—Pri
vate Bjones, didn’t you realize
you were exposing yourself to an
imaginary enemy only 250 yards
away?
Private Bjones—That’s all right,
sergeant, I was standing behind
an imaginary rock 25 feet high. ,«
Said the office boy: “Boy, if 1
was boss and I asked me for a
raise! Would I give myself one!”
Ammunition Supply
Mother—Bobbie, you seem very fond
of the druggist’s little boy. Why is it?
Bobbie—He can get all the pills he
wants for our new air guns.
Distant Relative
“Yes, Simpson, your daughter is
one in a thousand. She’s extreme
ly good-looking and a fine dancer.
By the way, old man, could you
lend me a fiver?”
“I’m sorry I can’t, Bimpson—
but she’s my former wife’s child
by her first husband.”
Dr. Hitchcock’s All-Vegetable
Laxative Powder — an intestinal
tonic-laxative—actually tones lazy
bowel muscles. It helps relieve
that sluggish feeling. 15 doses for
only 10 cents. Large family size 25
cents. At all druggists.
Dr. Hitchcock's
LAXATIVE POWDER
Will of the People
Well, will anybody deny now that
the government at Washington, as
regards its own people, is the
strongest government in the world
at this hour? And for this simple
reason, that it is based on the will,
and the good will, of an instructed
people.—John Bright. '
Girls!
Cranky? Restless?
Can’t sleep? Tire
easily? Because of
distress of monthly
functional disturbances? Then try
pound.
Pinkham’s Compound Is famous
for relieving pain of Irregular periods
and nervous, cranky spells due to
such disturbances. One of the most
effective medicines you can buy to
day for this purpose — made espe
cially for women. WORTH TRYING!
Rise to Fall
As the blessings of health and
fortune have a beginning, so they
must also find an end. Everything
rises but to fall, and increases but
to decay.—Sallust.
Black 1
Leaf 40
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DASH IN FEATHCRS..
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GO MUCH FARTHER
OR SPREAD ONI ROOSTS
His Choice
Sergeant (instructing class)—
Man can serve but one master.
Draftee—Well, in that case, ser
geant, I’ll cast my lot with the
paymaster.
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Lost Sense
They never taste who always
drink.—Prior.
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