McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, July 31, 1941, Image 2
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941
By LEMUEL F. BARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK. — Early in World
War I, Louis Raemaekers,
Dutch cartoonist, drew a cartoon
called “When the Grain Is Ripe.”
n , It showed
Raemaekers Ink Deat h ad-
Horn Blasts at vancing with
Germans Continue his scythe,
reaping a
human harvest. Perhaps the only
other cartoon which has had com
parable range and staying-power
was Sir John T^nniel’s “Dropping
the Pilot,” in Punch, or possibly
some of Thomas Nast’s pen Philippics
against Tweed. If American views
had been evenly balanced in World
war days, Raemaekers’ cartoons
might have tipped the scales, so
powerful was their impact on our
public opinion, with their grim por
trayal of German brutality.
At 72, with no slackening of
pace or skill, or of his devastat
ing hatred of German aggres
sion, he renews his pictorial
blitzkrieg over here, just now
drawing posters for the Belgians
in Britain and other groups ral
lying against the. Nazi on
slaught. He arrived here about
1 year ago, his country a cap
tive, his home and all other
possessions swept away in the
German lunge against which he
first began warning Holland in
1908. Through this stretch of
more than three decades, dur
ing wars and in between, he
never has faltered in his almost
daily portrayal of the deadly
menace of expanding Germany.
He is a small, compact, pink
cheeked man, looking much younger
than his years, with roached-back,
thinning hair, sharp blue eyes and
a shadowy goatee. His mother was
German and his Dutch father was
for 40 years editor of the liberal
Weekly Volkvriend. He was for 32
years political cartoonist for the
Amsterdam Telegraph.
He speaks of himself as “writ
ing,” which aptly denotes his ability
to pack the content of a long and
powerful harangue into a bit of
black and white.
The Marines Have Landed
This photograph was made at Jacksonville, N. C., during marine
maneuvers—first time—between army-navy and marines on beach land
ing practice. Transports unloaded armored cars and troops carrying
equipment, etc. Photo shows marines going over the side of transport
into landing boats.
Pay Day for Dollar-a-Year Men
Here are some of the 262 dollar-a-year men in the defense program
on their recent “pay day.” Total of all payments was only $126 to the
262 workers as many of them had not worked a full year and could not re
ceive their “total” salary. Distributing checks above (center) is Ed
ward Stettinius, priorities director.
T TSUALLY, there’s quite a loss in
^ transmission when real life is
sluiced into the movies. The new
film, “Blossoms in the Dust,” seems
to be an ex
ception, at
least so far
as the deep
er and truer
Import of the film is concerned. The
critics score it high in sensitivity and
udult emotional content.
Illusion Comes
To Terms With
Reality in Picture
Mrs. Edna Gladney would
naturally come out that way in
a film. , The widow of a Texas
flour manufacturer, she built the
Texas Children's Home and Aid
society, which has now provided
happy homes for several thou
sand waifs. Her effort began
before the death of her husband,
a sublimation of her yearning
for children who never came.
The 1929 crash wrecked her hus
band’s prosperous business. He
got work in a flour mill. She
rang door beUs to get money to
build her home for children. He
developed a new process of
flour-milling which was restor
ing their fortune, when he died.
She kept on recruiting and
mothering stray children, until
one day a Hollywood writer
knocked on her door in Fort
Worth.
“What on earth could anybody
write about me?” she asked.
The movies ranged clear back into
her girlhood, as Edna Kahly in Mil
waukee.
N ikola tesla’s eighty-fifth
birthday finds his death ray still
in the blueprint stage. The great
inventor says he could build a few
plants, at a cost of $2,000,000 each,
within three months, and melt .the
engine of any approaching plane at
a distance of hundreds of miles
Safe Arrival for Canadians
A Canadian tank division, which includes many U. S. volunteers,
arrives at a camp “somewhere in England,” after a trip through the
Atlantic danger zone. They were part of the largest contingent of Cana
dian troops to reach England. Thousands of men made the safe journey
across, said the British censor.
Miss Liberty Waves Good-bye
The immigrant youth from
Jugoslavia already had discov
ered the rotary magnetic field,
which made possible alternating
current motors, before he ar
rived here in 1884. He helped
harness Niagara, turned in nu
merous invedtions which be
came historic contributions to
power transmission, was an as
sociate of Edison, won the 1915
Nobel physics prize and now
holds 700 patents.
When he grows too old to dream,
he’ll have this and many other
things to remember. Among other
things he may remember that many
of his earlier dreams caused amuse
ment—as when he made the declara
tion that it would soon be possible
to telephone around the world.
Alone in his room in the Hotel
New Yorker, he still delves deep in
the hidden chambers of electro
mechanics, his deep-set eyes eager
and intense under their bushy
brows. Wireless transmission of
power is still one of his many deep
preoccupations.
The ship West Point eases out of New York harbor with her passen
ger list of German and Italian consulate employees. The Statue of
Liberty, welcoming hope to liberty loving immigrants bids a long fare
well to these Axis nationals who have been ordered out of the nation by
the federal government.
‘Unlimited Army’
Arrow indicates Gen. George C.
Marshall, army chief of staff, as he
appeared before senate military af
fairs committee asking congress to
authorize a draft army of unlimited
size. He spoke of the “grave na*
tional peril.”
Another Number
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox is
shown drawing the second number
in the second peacetime draft lot
tery. The number was 98. * First
number was 196.
New Product
Steve Vassilakos, for 30 years the
White House peanut vendor, now has
a new product. Steve, who has been
selling peanuts near the White
House since Teddy Roosevelt’s time
now offers peanuts, popcorn and de-;
fense bonds.
General ‘Yoo-Hoo’
This is Gen. Ben Lear, whose
marching penalty for soldiers “yoo-
hooing” at shorts-clad girls on a
golf course, made him “famous”
overnight.
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