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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1941 ifp* m WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—Dr. Minnie L. Maf- lett, who, as president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, is the 1 e a d e r of Assesses Women about 75,000 For Authority in career worn- Tomorrow’. Era “ m on equal pay for women doing men’s jobs, and she also assesses women with heavy responsibility for what lies ahead. “Women must take leadership in insisting on a new economic world order, ” says Dr. Maffett. That might seem like a lot of bother for the women, what with getting the children off to camp and this and that, but Dr. Maffett tells them sternly they must face it, “if we want women to have authority in the world of tomorrow.” Her ob servations were addressed to the biennial meeting of the above fed eration at Los Angeles. The silver-haired, bine-eyed, pink-cheeked Dr. Maffett, is, like many contenders for equal ity and authority for women, emphatically feminine. Pre meditated or not, it’s a good technique which the early-day suffragists knew and practiced diligently. She lives in Dallas, Texas, where she has long been a distinguished physician and surgeon, a member of the col lege of medicine of Baylor uni versity, on the staff of the three biggest hospitals in Dallas, and a director of the department of health education of Southern Methodist university. Descendant of a family which Went to Texas in 1834, Dr. Maffett took her academic and medical de grees at the University of Texas. She was elected president of the federation in 1939. She rallies wom en to intelligent social effort under the slogan “business women in a democracy.” She is a dynamo of energy, flying everywhere—she’s an avi ation fan—organising and agi tating for women and their work and their readiness for a new economic and cultural show down after the war. Women certainly do like to get things ship-shape. Perhaps they rate a trial workout, considering the general state of masculine un tidiness and confusion now pre vailing. D R. ARTHUR UPHAM POPE, art connoisseur and leading world authority on Iranian art, heads the “Committee for National _ morale” Out to Give War To Adolf Hitler'* 'Secret* Weapon which now, after months of research, makesknown it has discovered and identified Hit ler’s “secret” weapon. As Dr. Pope explains it, the device is the precise scientific mastery of impel ling scientific forces by which you can make men think and act as you want them to. One of the last books of the late Jacques Futrelle, who went down on the Titanic, was “The Thinking Ma chine.” It was about an old pro fessor who discovered what Dr. Pope’s committee thinks it has now learned. He finally dominated the world. The theme of the book was that any man who masters certain definite psychological formulas, and employs them diligently,- will own and operate mankind. • That is exactly what the Germans have been doing, according to the committee, just now issuing a 155- page brochure describing its re search and its findings. The committee, which began work last July, includes many of the lead ing social scientists and psycholo gists of the United States. It deliv ers not only a detailed description of the German psychological mass- pressure techniques, but it con cludes that we have abundant knowledge and skills with which to meet it. But it will be no hit-or-miss job of agitating. It will be a cam paign of psychological warfare as carefully contrived as an air battle. Mr. Pope, a native of Phoenix, R. I., was graduated from Brown university. He has long been a dis tinguished figure in the world of both art and philosophy—but always on John Ruskin’s terms: “Fine art is that in which the head, the heart and the hand go together.” We saw Dr. Pope occasionally when he was professor of philoso phy at the University of California, and again at the Foyot restaurant in Paris in 1923, fired up with Persian art and headed toward Teheran, to sink many years and much brilliant scholarship in that area. After a round-trip to about 3000 B. C., he landed in London in 1930 with the noblest exhibition of Persian art ever assembled. Last year, with his collection greatly augmented, he staged a memorable exhibition in New York, at the old Union League club. Navy Recruits Get Thorough Training America’s “first line of defense,” the navy, takes very seriously to the business of training its men. In the above photo at right naval recruits at Great Lakes Naval Training station practice landing charge with fixed bayonets. At left, simulating conditions on the superstructure of a battleship, these advance course signal corps members go through paces clinging to a steel tower at the training station. Look Again . . . You May Be Seeing Double You'd better give this picture the twice over. It shows a few of the many twins which gathered in Chi cago for the International Twin convention. Twins of all ages, from all sections of the country, were in attendance. New Type Military X-Ray Unit Twin Flags Latest type of field military X-ray unit is demonstrated in New York before being shipped to Free French forces in West Africa. It provides for speedy X-ray diagnosis close to scene of battle. Operating on a self-sustaining basis the trailer unit provides its own power. A British tar is shown atop the flagpole which flies the ensign of the royal navy and the Stars and Stripes over the Townsend, Mass., CCC camp, where 200 British sailors are vacationing. -4- Carrying Air War to Germans Southward Ho! pi I Ground-crew men of the British R.A.F. are shown loading some of their new super-bombs into the racks of a giant long-range bomber be fore the take-off for a raid on German-held territory on the continent. While the Nazis busied themselves with Russia in the East, Britain claimed air supremaev in the West. Fabulous riches of the ancient In cas is the magnet drawing noted Arctic Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth southward. He and wife are shown leaving for Peru expedition. ; 8970 A PET summer fashion for miss two to six. A simple frock which she can learn to put on and take off by herself; it has straps which button on the shoulder. The little bolero has ruffled cap sleeves. 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