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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1941
By LEMUEL
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
Morgenthaa, 85,
Gazes on World
Without Blinders
N EW YORK. — Birthday inter
views with venerated patri
archs of this land are usually given
to bland optimism, though the
heavens be
falling. It’s
ail old Amer
ican custom.
Henry Mor-
genthau Sr., just turned 85, has been
an exception. We haven’t seen his
customary chat with the reporters
this year, but when and if it is re
corded we may be sure he sees what
he sees and isn’t trying to slick
things up. Not that he’s a pessimist
or defeatist. I remember meeting
him on Mt. Desert Island, Maine, a
few years ago and was tremendous
ly impressed with his faith, ardor
and fighting spirit.
He knows a lot about wars
and trouble. It was our Civil
war that brought him here from
his native Mannheim, Germany.
His father was a prosperous
cigar manufacturer. Civil war y
tariffs put him out of business
and the family came to this
country when Henry Mprgen-
thau was nine years old. He
was a lawyer at 23, turned to
real estate and finance, and had
his money-making over at 55,
with time, means and mental
equipment to turn to the human
ities, to philanthropy and good
works in general. Now he has
a son in the cabinet, Children,
grandchildren and great-grand
children and the unflagging en
ergies which are the reward of
an abstemious life.
If there’s a dark side, he isn’t
afraid to look at it. He was back
from Europe in 1933 with the simple
conclusion that the world was head
ing into another war. “There is,
in Europe,” he said, “no honest,
moral desire for peace.” In 1913,
his friend Woodrow Wilson made
him ambassador to Turkey, which
post he held until 1916. Thereafter,
he helped pick up the pieces, in
the ruin and chaos of the middle
east. He has been both observing
and studious and unhappily for
easy-going optimists, singularly clear
sighted in his prophetic look ahead.
T HERE’S a tale of a professor
who grew old writing a history
of civilization. Late one night he fin
ished it. Then, after a brief survey
.. of the result
Thorndike Now his ar du-
Holds Intelligence ous labors,
Can’t Be Tested he he . aved ®
great sigh
and threw the history in the fire.
“What’s the matter?” asked his
wife.
“There isn’t any civilization,” he
replied.
Dr. Edward L. Thorndike,
author of the famous Thorndike
intelligence test, probably
wouldn’t say there isn’t any in
telligence, but he does say in
telligence can’t be tested, ac
cording to news reports of his
address before the American
Philosophical society at Phila
delphia. Dr. Thorndike’s apos
tasy no doubt will set up some
new measuring standards.
If we don’t learn much, about
keeping out of wars and such, it
isn’t Dr. Thorndike’s fault. A pro
fessor at Columbia for 37 years, he
is the author of a shelf of books in
the general field of the psychology
of learning. He has just about sur
rounded the subject of “How We
Learn.” The question of what we
learn seems to be still wide open.
From Williamsburg, Mass., he
went to Wesleyan university. Har
vard and Columbia and taught at
Western Reserve before joining the
Teachers’ college faculty in 1897.
He is 67 years old.
'X'HE word is getting around that
the founding fathers could
fight well because they were super
charged with vitamin B.. They ate
~ e • anything
Get Courage in handy and
Bottles, Baskets got the thia-
In These Days min of the B,
which is to
be found mainly in roughage.
Prof. Russell M. Wilder of the
Mayo foundation is alarmed over our
shortcomings in this regard. He
says, “Continued deficieney of the
thiamin content of American diets
may have led to a certain degree of
irremediable deterioration of the
national will.”
His conclusibn is one of many in
which it is insisted that we must
look to the drug store and the gro
cery for the real fighting urge.
Courage comes in bottles or baskets
in these fantastic days.
Dr. Wilder is one of the country’s
, leading specialists on nutrition and
diseases of metabolism. Born and
reared in Cincinnati, he was educat
ed at the University of Chicago, and
Rush Medical college; practiced in
Chicago and has been with the
Mayo foundation since 1922. He was
a medical gas officer in the World
war
More Power for the R. A. F.
The largest fleet of light planes ever seen In New York was christened on behalf of the R.A.F. benevolent
fund, and will make a barnstorming tour of the country to raise funds for the families of England’s air defend
ers. The fleet was inspected by these models. Inset: A Canadian woman working in a De Haviland aircraft
factory at Ottawa, Canada. In Canada, women are taking the place of men in industry.
‘Before and After’ in Ireland
Northern Ireland has had a taste of Nazi wrath, and southern Ireland is getting ready to meet “any in
vader.” At the left an impromptu concert is enjoyed in a destroyed area of Belfast after German bombers
visited Northern Ireland. At least 500 lives were lost. Right: Prime Minister Eamon De Valera of Eire
inspects troops during the greatest military display ever seen in Dublin.
Standing Ready—Somewhere in England
In the “danger zone,” the Dover-Folkestone area of England, which
has become the “front” in the battle of Britain, home-guardsmen patrol
the barren sea cliffs and shore—ready to give Hitler’s Nazis a warm
welcome if they come. Sergeant W. Read, a retired civil servant, stand- !
ing guard, typifies the spirit of Great Britain.
New Chinese Foreign Minister Greeted Here
Appointed foreign minister of China while serving as that nation’s
ambassador in London, Dr. Quo Tai-Chi is shown on arrival in New York.
L. to R., Newbold Morris, president New York city council, welcom
ing Dr. Quo Tai-Chi, while Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador, and Li Yu
Ying (right) personal representative of Chiang Kai-shek, look on.
‘Buddy’ Poppy Girl
Daughter of a World war veteran,
Joan Leslie, actress, is shown in her
new role of national “buddy” poppy
girl. She was selected for the 1941
“buddy” poppy campaign of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars of the U. S.,
for aid of veterans’ families.
Bomb Shelter
Jacob Baker of Cleveland, with
model of his shock-proof bomb shel
ter which will house four persons.
Mr. Baker says the shelter will be
in process of manufacture soon.
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
R OBERT TAYLOR has very
rarely visited his wife, Bar
bara Stanwyck, on a motion
picture set, but he broke the rule
when she was working in “The
Great Man’s Lady” (originally
titled “Pioneer Woman”) and
watched her working with Brian
Donlevy. .
A few days before, Donlevy had
been shooting Taylor for the final
scenes in “Billy the Kid.” Now that
“Billy the Kid” is finished a quan
dary has arisen. In the Metro script
Billy was left-handed, so Taylor
practiced for several months draw
ing his gun from the holster with his
left hand. Then came word from
William S. Hart and Col. Archer
Adams, both familiar with the des
perado’s character, that he used his
right hand. Looks as if the argu
ment never would be settled.
‘ *
Anne Shirley, who appeared in her
first picture when she was three, has
a word of advice for
mothers who want
their children to be
come movie actors.
She’s been working
with a series of
youngsters in “West
Point Widow”—five
of them, in all, be
cause the babies be
haved so badly that
substitutes had to
be used. Miss Shir
ley thinks* it’s a
great mistake to
have a child learn to do imitations
and tap dancing and all that sort of
thing; an attractive, intelligent child
with acting ability needs to do just
one thing, says she—obey the di
rector.
^
Walter Abel had visitors on his
set a while ago who rattled him com
pletely. He was do
ing a scene with
Paulette Goddard
for Paramount’s
“Hold Back the
Dawn,” in a Mexi
can tborder town
set. The Abel sons,
aged 11 and 9, re
spectively, had been
studying about Mex
ico in school, and
wanted to see the
set; it interested
them more than this
first sight of their father at work.
Abel finally had to ask Director
Mitchell Leisen to shoot the scene
again, on a closed set this time; his
sons made him nervous!
*
Joel McCrea took a short trip
when he finished his work in the
Stanwyck picture; went to New
Mexico to see some men about
some cows. He has enlarged his
Ventura county ranch from 1,000 to
1,500 acres, and all that extra graz
ing space has to have customers.
. *
Constance Moore, feminine lead in
“I Wanted Wings,” now is deter
mined to earn wings of her own.
All that flying in the picture made
her yearn to do it too—and she
ought to be able to manage it eas
ily, for her husband, Johnny Mas-
chio, is a licensed pilot. Her close
friends, Margaret Sulla van and Oliv
ia de Haviland, are urging her on;
they both fly, and love it. Constance
threatens to take to the air any day
now.
*
Columbia has fioally signed all the
players who will be seen in the new
series of pictures based on the “Til-
lie the Toiler” comic strip. Kay
Harris, one of Hollywood’s Cinder
ella girls, gets the lead; others in
the cast are Daphne Pollard, Wil
liam Tracy, George Watts, Jack Ar
nold and Benny Bartlett.
*
The release by RKO of Walt Dis
ney’s “The Reluctant Dragon”
marks Disney’s entrance into a
brand new field; the picture com
bines both “live-action” photogra
phy and animated pictures. The lo
cale is the Disney studio, and Robert
Benchley is the star.
r'fi
Maureen O’Sullivan paused in
New York with her baby son, on the
way from a visit with her husband—
he’s stationed in Bermuda—back to
Hollywood. Metro will co-star her in
a new Tarzan picture with Johnny
Weismuller — the first Tarzan in
nearly three years.
'1'
The Court of Missing Heirs has lo
cated 71 heirs in 69 weeks of broad
casting—and the value of the es
tates returned to the rightful heirs
amounts to $4^,375.
7^
ODDS AND ENDS—Ray Collins, who’s
played ( )00 roles in the theater and on ihe
radio, makes his film debut in "Citizen
Kane" . . . Harold Lloyd plans to be his
own star in the next picture that he pro
duces . . . The war department is buiMiiiK
36 movie houses in the nations draft
camps . . . E arners have signed Eric Sere-
reid, ace war correspondent and radio re
porter, to do background commentating in
"Underground,” a film about a secret revo
lutionary movement in Germany . . . Rris-
zilla Lane has the lead in “Hot Nocturne,"
a story of swing bandsters . . . Shirley
Temple's out of the Wallace Beery picture,
"Lazybones”; Virginia Weidler’s in.
Walter Abel
Anne Shirley
Suitor Found the Girl of
That Understanding Type
For months he had been her de
voted admirer. Now, at long last,
he had collected up sufficient
courage to ask her the most
momentous of all questions.
“There are quite a lot of ad
vantages in being a bachelor,” he
began, “but there comes a time
when one longs for the com
panionship of another being—a be
ing who will regard one as per
fect, as an idol; whom one can
treat as one’s absolute property;
who will be kind and faithful—”
To his delight he saw a sympa
thetic gleam in her eyes.
“So you’re thinking of buying a
dog?” she said. “Do let me help
you choose one! ”
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