Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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X # McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1941 iVeu; Yorkers Are Talking About: The 1,000 (4-engine) long-range bombers that the United States will turn out monthly in 1942 . . . Pub lisher Pope of an Italian-American daily being the first ever to edit a Presidential speech. Omitted the raps at the Axis. The closing of Camp Nordland, a Bund racket, in New Jersey by the man who sent Hauptmann to the chair (Attorney-General Wilentz.) It’s about time! . . . The Book-of- the-Month club’s August choice, A. J. Cronin’s “The Keys of the King dom” . . . The fact that the Zam- zam was partly “insured” by a syn dicate of which the Tokio Fire & Marine and the Generale of Trieste, as well as Swiss insurance firms owned by Germany, are members . . . This confirms our recent re port on how Nazi Intelligence can know when U. S. ships sail—their destinations, cargoes, etc! Notes of an Innocent Bystander: In Case Tou Bidden Know: A pet newspaper man legend is this one. “A newspaper man is a guy who sits at his window looking down at the passing parade. Sooner or lat er everybody he knows passes by. And he can drop a flower—or a flow er pot!” It Really Happened! A small time actor walked into a bookshop and asked to see some books on the thea ter for his wife. The clerk brought out the memoirs of Daniel Froh- man, Stanislawski’s “An Actor Pre pares” and others. “Sorry,” the customer said, “these won’t do. Too thick.” “Too thick?” said the clerk, “I’m sure she’ll find them interesting.” “She’s not gonna read them,” the guy explained, “she’s gotta juggle some plates while balancing some books on her head!” Sweet and Lovely: Tito Guizar tells about Mrs. Mefoofsky who was saying ta-ta to her drafted darling. “Be a good boy, Sam,” she cau tioned, “and when you get to camp —try to be punctual in the morn ings, so you don’t keep breakfast waiting.” Last Langh: In the Spanish Amer ican war days the Hearst papers were putting out a dozen extras daily —many of them scoops. But as quickly as they came out the old Morning World, the legend goes, would copy them. This got Mr. Hearst sore, but how to trap them in the act? One day the following appeared in the Hearst papers: “Colonel Reflipe W. Thenuz, a prominent Austrian military strat egist, has reached Cuba and will ad vise and direct Spanish militarists on the war.” The copy-cats on the World swal lowed the bait and had it on their front page the next edition. The next afternoon the Hearst papers ran a facsimile of the swipe and then added: “Reflipe W. Thenuz, if you read it as an anagram, says:, “We pilfer the news!” Add Sillies: Vic Mature sends the one about the horse in a maiden race at Belmont. He asked the steed in the next stall: “Have you ever run here before?” When the oth er nag nodded “yop,” the newcomer replied happily: “Good! I’ll follow you around. It’s my first time here and I’d hate to get lost.” In Fewer Words: “The Hollywood smoothie,” grieves Hedy Lamarr, “takes back the car he’s given the girl when the romance is over. He also quarrels with her—so she will throw his diamond baubles in his face—with which he quietly slinks away.” In short, he slinks. The Story Tellers: Fortune lists the problems America is confronted with, and describes the situation as “the most desperate emergency that the democratic world ever faced.” Senator Wheeler, who has a phrase to answer every fact, probably would call that “preaching fear” . . . Take a look at the most poison ous of the theatergoers in the late Scott Fitzgerald’s Esquire piece. You’ve been annoyed often by the same type of noisy stew bum, whom the author called “The Woman from Twenty-One” . . . “The woman who greets her man at the door,” ad vises the mag, You, “should be glad to see him not only as a human be ing—but as a man.” Mark the dis tinction, Men! Liberty’s expose on Lindbergh was sold out in 36 hours. Alley-Oop: Tommy Tucker hopes you haven’t read it before, which you probably did, if you read the old Graphic. Anyhow, it’s the one about the two acrobats who never played in New York and were booked into the city’s “biggest the ater.” They decided to look at the place on their layoff period and went to the Met Opera House by mistake. They were awed by the size of the Met and the enormous orchestra. Then, when the musicians played the first strains, one beefed: “How do you like that? They swiped our music?” For Freedom of the Seven Seas Midshipmen of the United States Naval academy, Annapolis, Md., pass in review (right) during presenta tion of the colors ceremony. Graduation time takes on added significance with the expansion of our navy. In set: Miss Fay Ann Albrecht of Columbus, Wis., presents colors to Midshipman William Heroneumus, of Madi son, Wis. At right, beside girl, is Rear Admiral Russell Wilson, commandant of the naval academy. Haile Selassie Stages ‘Comeback’ Officers and Ethiopian patriots are shown above listening to a speech by Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, who, with British co-operation, has once more entered Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, from which he was chased five years ago by the Italians. Inset: This road sign is also a sign of victory, for it shows British imperial troops in Addis Ababa. Eleanor Roosevelt RESPONSIBILITY The flags of all the Americas dec orated one end of the East Room of the White House and were draped over the room’s main door. It gave me a curious feeling to sit there and watch the President at his desk, faced by all the microphones. I felt as though all the newspaper photographers in the world were grinding and clicking in front of him. The atmosphere in the room was one of suppressed and intense excitement. Diplomats are trained to observe the amenities, no matter what they feel, but everybody’s face showed some emotion as the evening progressed. I felt strangely detached, as though I were outside, a part of the general public. I represented no nation, I carried no responsibility, except the responsibility of being a citizen of the United States of Amer ica. Then I looked at the President, facing representatives of all the Central and South American coun tries, Mexico and Canada. Like an incoming wave, the thought rolled over me: “What a weight of responsibility this one man at the desk facing the rest of the people, has to carry. Not just for this hemisphere alone, but for the world as a whole! Great Britain can be gaUant beyond belief, China can suffer and defend herself in equally heroic fashion, but in the end, the decisive factor in this whole business may perhaps be the solidar ity of the hemisphere and, of neces sity, the President of the United States must give that solidarity its leadership!” If we all preserve our freedom, it must be accomplished because we believe in each other, because we want to go forward with the demo cratic processes, no matter how far short we may be today of perfec tion. We can only do this if we trip to Washington, D. C. Then the President began to speak. For three-quarters of an hour he told us what conditions ex isted, what obligations lay before us and, finally, what his present step to meet those obligations was to be. More must follow, and day by day each one of us is going to realize that his life is changing, that he has an obligation to perform. In my capacity of objective citi zen, sitting in the gathering, I felt that I wanted to accept my respon sibility and do my particular job, whatever it might be, to the extent of my ability. I think that will be the answer of every individual cit izen of the United States, for when all is said and done, it is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on. * • • Play Is Curing Bomb-Shocked Children The power of play is credited with helping these children recover from the effects of bomb shock. At left, children are climbing in the “jangle gym” at the Anna Freud nursery center in Hempstead, England, maintained by the foster parents plan for war childfen. Right: British children enjoying the adventures of Mickey Mouse. New Type Army Troop Carrier First new personnel carrier built for the army by the Diamond T Motor Car company in Chicago. The truck, which will carry 13 men, is shown as it was inspected by company and army officials. L. to R., in vehicle. Brig. Gen. N. F. Ramsay, Fred A. Preston, C. A. Tilt, presi dent of Diamond T. and Col. Donald Armstrong. ‘Boche-Buster’ England is proud of its biggest gun, pictured here, said to be the largest caliber gun in the world. This is the first picture showing the huge railway gun being fired. Army’s Latest Lieut. R. O. Norton, public rela tions officer at Edgewood, Md., ar senal, wearing army’s newest typo of gas mask which offers many ad vantages over the older type. NUTRITION CONFERENCE The closing session of the National Nutrition Conference for Defense was most interesting to me. I heard Dr. Thomas Parran, of the United States public health service, speak, and Mr.' M. L. Wilson, director of extension work in the department of agriculture, present the recommen dations which came as a result of the various group meetings and from the conference as a whole. This seems to me to have been a very valuable meeting. It brought together not only the people, like the home economic experts who have studied nutrition for years, but the educators, doctors, parent-teacher groups, business and professional women etcetera. All possible groups must be interested if a program of education is really to be carried on throughout the country. I returned to the White House to see a number of people at tea, 1 and to shake hands with the little Girl Scout, Beatrice Vlach, and another very charming young girl, Dorothea Bock, both of them winners in con tests which provided as a prize a trip to Washingtonton, D. C. In the evening, I went to my local Newspaper guild meeting. Then I found a basket of mail awaiting me, but even with this to do, I did not have to sit up very late. It is be coming easier to get through the work, though I must say the days seem to be filled. I don’t believe that the time will ever come in Washington when we can sit down and say: “There is nothing left which we ought to do.” We arrived in Hyde Park the next night just 15 minutes after my hus band reached home, which shows that there are some advantages to flying, for I left Washington three hours later than he did! He insists, however, that he accomplished a great deal more work on the way, and I haven’t a doubt that is true. Miss Thompson and I motored up from LaGuardia field, and it was quite evident that a holiday crowd was wending its way up the Park way. We passed one accident, but no one seemed to be seriously hurt. * * * GASLESS SUNDAYS I see that Secretary Ickes is sug gesting that we have gasless Sun days and universal daylight saving, thereby saving power. The gasless Sundays and less rapid driving might not only save gas and rub ber, but a considerable number of human lives. The power, however, if it means fewer lights, will be hard on me, because I have acquired the bad habit of working late at night. When I don’t do that, the tempta tion to read is hard to resist. Exercise Ends Bulges That Give an Old Look / T'HAT discouraging matronly ■•■ bulge at the waist! You push it in, girdle it in, but out it pops— unless you exercise it away! Middle age begins at the middle. Abdominal muscles may get £lack as early as twenty-five, and when Middle Age Starts at Middle. vV they do, it means a thickening jwaist, drooping shoulders, a for- 'ward head and then—a “dowager’s hump.” You’ll be looking old while still young. 1 Or is your special problem fatty hips or heavy legs or a drooping bust? •, , i • • • v ' V. \ Our 32-page booklet has .exercises to remedy those figure faults, too. Tells how to correct poor posture, faults of shoul ders, bust, arms, waistline. 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