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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY. JUNE 2& i941 i-.i fafeiv inche MmL naaBBaagn Private Papers % a Cub Reporter orottay Thompson, the columnist, refused to sit at a dinner table the other night where the guests were lauding the achievements of Hitler. She said she couldn’t sit with her enemies . . . “Enemies?” asked one of them, “but you are a pure Aryan journalist!” . . . “Perhaps,” wap her volley, “but I'm also an American, and you people are un- American—so you are my ene mies!” That isn’t the first time she’s done that . . . During the recent cam paign she found herself with dinner guests among whom sat a sena torial “dark horse,” who made some remarks that made her innards somersault. “You four - syllable!” Dorothy shouted as she got up and left. The following amazing story about Hitler is credited to one of his for- nier intimates now in theU. S. It is passed on to exercise your eye brows . . . The one-time intimate of Hitler says it came from Hitler’s personal pilot . . . The legend: That Hitler maintains a secret hide away in Bogota, Colombia ... It is said to be a 50-acre estate, and the front gate is two miles from the main house, which, above the ground, is a plain flat building. The building underground—is five stories deep—and there is enough food stored there for two years. A Hitler aide inspects the place every two months, etc. Sports writer Chas. Scnlly and some of the boys were reminiscing . . . When Heywood Broun was cov ering big league ball games (before he took up colyuming) he casually mentioned, in one of his reports, that‘a large and intelligent crowd witnessed the contest . . . What, , his sports editor wanted to know, was the idea of writing that a large and intelligent crowd had attended the game when the Associated Press coverage of the same tussle men tioned that the attendance was slightly less than scanty. “Crowd at game was large and in telligent,” wired back Broun, “Fat ty Arbuckle was in stands. He is large. I am intelligent.” The Damon Runyons were doing the town the other midnight with Hazel Forbes, the ex-Ziegfeld girl, w wlio married Harry Richman . . . Itf 'the night the stories broke announcing the split of the Rich- mans, and Hazel’s plan to go to Reno . . . “Tell me « love story,” Hazel said, “anything to show me that romance can bloom on this dam old street—or that marriage can sur- vive.” Patrice Runyon, who rarely gabs, then revealed how she met Damon —and how she almost didn’t . . . It was at the Silver Slipper many years ago, and Patriqe was in the new show as featured dancer . . . Runyon came in for the premiere, and the manager asked him if he’d like to meet Patrice.. “She’s a nice girl,” he said . . . Then he went backstage and asked her if she’d like to meet a nice Broadway guy . . . “If there is such an animal,” she said, “lead me to it. I never met one before!” ... In the mean time, the star of the show sat with Runyon . . . “I’m going to meet the dancer,” Damon remarked . . . “Oh, you won’t like her at all!” the star said, “she’ll bore you stiff. I’ll 1 ave you meet some of the pretty c aes” . . . But Patrice met Run- 3 jn first and They Lived Happily Ever After. “The star,” Patrice dramatically added, “was Harry Richman.” Notes of an i Innocent Bystander The Big Parade: F.P.A. and John llieran of “Info, Please” getting more laughs playing tennis at For est Hills than they’ll ever get with their typewriters . . . Just a duti ful wife—Leelee Pons gingerly blot ting Andre Kostelanetz’s damp brow on E. 57th, with her little silken hanky . . . Gloria Swanson looking more glamorous eating cheesecake in Reuben’s than most Hollywood hopefuls look in a bathing suit. Sallies in Our Alley: One of the local ham actors was complaining about the way the New York press refused to admit he existed. “Amaz ing,” he intoned, “the way they all ignore me!” ... It reminded some one of the guy who made a similar squawk to Oscar Wilde. “It is a complete conspiracy of silence against me,” he said, “what ought I do about their silence ... To which Oscar counseled: “Join it!” The Ho-hum Dep’t: Cudahy says he submitted his interview to Hitler, and Adolf didn’t change a word . . . , Which is the worst criticism that interview has rec’d! . . . Maxie Rosenbloom is now taking dancing lessons . . . Meaning that he's re turning to the ring? . . . The League of American Writers, mostly Left ists, met a while back and agreed that they still disliked the people they didn’t care for last year . . . If they didn’t get better surprise twists in their yarns than they get in their politics they’d starve. Eleanor Robsevelt COMPULSORY TRAINING I have been requested to answer the following questions in my col umn. They are evidently based on an article I wrote for the Ladies Home Journal. First: “How do you visualize the organization and registration of the service of girls on a compulsory basis?” I see it done exactly as done for young men, perhaps with certain modifications. Two: “What would be the relation of this plan to women already em ployed, especially in industry?” It would have no relation whatsoever, because I visualize it only as a con tinuation of practical training for one year. This will benefit the com munity and, at the same time, be of value to young women in their fu ture lives. , Three: “What ages would be in cluded?” I surmise the ages would be from the end of high school, if girls were going no further; to the end of college training, if they had planned on taking a college course. I suppose it would be between the ages of 18 to 24. Four: “How would existing organ izations be used?” They would be used to give opportunities for train ing. Five: “Why do you feel compul sory service necessary?” Only be cause it is obvious that the better the training people have today, the better are the opportunities they have in life. This training should develop a broader knowledge of the whole community and should, there fore, be entered into by all girls in the community, physically able to participate and not exempted for special reasons, such as prepara tion in specialized fields of work. Six: “Is this plan an integral part of military defense?” It has nothing whatsoever to do with military de fense, but it is an important part of civilian defense. I believe raising the standard of living has a good effect on our civilian defense. I should like to point out that this plan has no official backing and has not been considered by anyone in the government. It was suggested by me purely to bring about discus sion, so that there would be a wider appreciation of the situation of young people, especially girls, in all the communities in our country. It should also bring about a considera tion of what would be wise proce dures for the benefit of individuals and community life. I am very glad that I have achieved so much interest on the part of different groups, even those such as the American Youth Con gress and certain political groups which are violently opposed to the word “compulsory.” I think we should ponder this statement a very eminent man. Dr. Edmund Ezra Day, president of Cor nell university, made the other day: “It is high time for America to face squarely the problems of indi vidual and social discipline in a de mocracy.” / • * • GOVERNOR’S ISLAND In New York one day I managed to do a few errands between defense bond broadcasts. At 2:00 o’clock. General ‘Drum and Miss Fannie Hurst called for me. We ferried over to Governor’s island together on the special barge and found Mrs. Drum waiting on the other side. She has been laid up for a long time with an ankle broken in three places, but at last she is able to get about again. The little booklet, published by the Governor’s Island club, was giv en me. It tells the history of the island and is very interesting. The old forts are purely ornamental to day, but the building which McKim, Meade and White designed, is not only dignified and charming, but filled with activity. I paid a short visit to the hospital. While I doubt if it is ever pleasant to be ill, still I think these officers and men are in pleasant quarters. I never saw anything more effi cient and orderly than the cafeteria, the kitchen and the supply rooms. The sergeant in charge seemed to me remarkably able and efficient. When he showed me the field kitch ens, each one of which can pro duce a meal for 50 men, I was lost in admiration. He told me it takes two hours to prepare a meal, though he has produced a satisfactory din ner in 45 minutes, and it cat be done with the trucks in motion. I thought of an old army kitchen, my one real contact with army feed ing. The Red Cross used it in the last war to make coffee for train loads of troops coming through the Washington railroad yards. I still remember our difficulty in keeping it clean. It did not remotely re semble this modem and effi cient equipment. After tea with General and Mrs. Drum, I came home to keep an ap pointment with Dr. John Eliot and then had dinner with Miss Esther Lape. I spent the evening catching up on the mail. • • • One morning, at Mayor LaGuar- dia’s request, I looked at some de signs for uniforms, which volunteers may wear in the future. I confess to a little confusion in thinking about uniforms before being entirely cer tain what work is to be done in them, but I suppose simple working clothes can fit all types of work. istorical ly Scott WatiOH (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Famous in Triplicate D URING the recent celebration of “I Am an American” Day, a group of church dignitaries and members of the American Legion gathered at a monument in the little city of Carrollton, Mo., to pay trib ute to a man who has been called the “most honored American.” His name was James E. Shields and he is described on the monument as a “soldier> jurist and statesman.” But those three words are only a slight indication of the factors which made his career so remarkable. A quotation'Trom a recent book, James Gray’s “The Illinois,” a volume in the “Rivers of America” series, published by Farrar and Rinehart, sums it up more adequately. It says: “With a thoroughness charac teristic of his executive tempera ment, James E. Shields seems to have done everything in triplicate. He fought in three wars and repre sented three different states as Unit ed States senator.” No other Ameri can, it might be added, holds such a record. Bom in Dungannon, County Ty rone, Ireland, in 1810, Shields came to this country at the age of 16. He enlisted in the army, served in the Seminole Indian war, then went to Illinois, where he was elected to the legislature in 1836, made state auditor in 1839 and appointed a judge of the State Supreme court in 1843. Two years later he was appointed commissioner of the general land BRIG. GEN. JAMES E. SHIELDS office, but gave up civil life at the outbreak of the Mexican war to ac cept a commission as brigadier gen eral of Illinois volunteers in 1846. Shot through the lung at the Battle of Cerro Gordo and brevetted major general, after his recovery he served in the Valley of Mexico as com mander of a brigade, only to be wounded severely again at the storming of Chapultepec. Mustered out of the service on July 20, 1848, he was immediately appointed territorial governor of Or egon, but resigned this office when he was elected senator from Illinois. He served in the senate from 1849, to 1855, then moved to Minnesota. When the state government was organized there he was again sent to the United States senate where he remained until 1859. He next moved to California, and at the out break of the Civil war he was com missioned a brigadier general of volunteers in August, 1861. At the Battle of Kernstown, Shields was wounded, receiving a broken arm from a fragment of shell. On March 28, 1863, weakened by the wounds which he had suffered in two wars, Shields resigned from the army. Going to California he found that the lands granted to him for his military services had been lost by his trusted agent and he bought a farm near Carrollton, Mo. Although he had decided to retire from public life, he was soon back into politics. In 1868 he was Demo cratic candidate for congress, and although his friends declared that he had been elected, he was not seated. Six years later they elected him to the legislature, and upon the expira tion of his term, the general, aged, weakened and impoverished, sought the humble position of door-keeper of the United States senate. * But this was denied him and he returned to Missouri. That state promptly honored him by electing him to the senate. He held this posi tion until his death, which took place on June 1, 1879, at Ottumwa, Iowa. • • • One of the most famous incidents in Shields’ career was his “duel” with Abraham Lincoln while he was state auditor, Lincoln wrote an anonymous letter to the Illinois State Journal, ridiculing the financial pol icies of Shields who challenged him to a duel. Lincoln accepted but chose as weapons cavalry broadswords and specified that the fighting be done over a plank set in the ground with the duellists standing on op posite sides “at the distance of the whole length of the sword and three feet additional.” They didn’t fight! NEW IDEAS Jlome- > By RUTH WYETH SPEARS BLANK WALL.SINK. —TUB AND LIGHT CUPBOARDS, SHELVES AND COUNTERS PLANNED TO ACCENT ROOM WIDTH AND DISPLAY DISHES-» GLASS' DOORS IN A STOCK SIZE LEAVE FOR COOK BOOKS TRAYS AND SPICES COLID doors for the cupboards ^ at the sides of this sink would have placed the accent on verti cal lines and made the room seem narrower. But most important of all, this combination of glass doors and plywood doors gives an op portunity to display dishes and other things that lend color, and at the same time makes a place to hide away less decorative utensils. The lower cupboards and sink enclosure were built first. The vertical supports for the glass cup boards are 1 by 12-inch boards. These rest on the lower cupboards and are placed far enough apart to accommodate the glass doors. The 1 by 12-inch board across the room makes the top of the glass cupboards and the bottom of the upper cupboards. The ruffle trimmed shelf between the glass cupboards is 6 inches wide and the plate rail below it is made of two moulding strips. • • * NOTE: If you are fixing up your kitch en you will find complete directions for fascinating new curtains on page 16 of your copy of Book 3. containing reprints of this series by Mrs. Spears. It also contains directions for a space-saving pantry door pocket. In Book 4 there is a cook book shelf to be made for a kitch en table: also a twine bag that you will find useful. These booklets may be se cured by writing direct to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose ordered. Name ... Address.. 10 cents for each book Uncle Phil With Doers in Minority The world is divided into people who do things, and people who take the credit. So far, no navigator has made a reliable chart of the Sea ol Matrimony. A little pull will get you most places—< but not through a door marked “push." 1 Monkeys Look On Seriously Men laugh at the behavior of monkeys, but the monkeys are more polite. When a man pays his taxes his patri otism is at its lowest ebb. A chairman spends 20 minutes introducing the man “who needs no introduction.” Many a man is put in the shade because he stands in his own light. A Blessing Possible Peace can be made perpetual if nations will agree not to make new wars until they have paid for the old ones. 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