Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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McCormick Messenger, McCormick, s. c„ Thursday, july si, 1941 Memos of a Girl Friday: Dear Mr. W.: When William L. Shirer, CBS correspondent whose best-seller is “Berlin Diary,” got back here after many years in Ger many, he visited all the Mr. Bigs in the War Dep’t. They found his ebservations on the German army so interesting and informative they urged him to call on the command ing officers of all the U. S. Corps areas and relay the same info. He was provided with letters of intro duction and rec’d a warm welcome and keen audience everywhere— with one exception . . . Lieut. General Yoo-hoo Lear brushed Shirer off, virtually throwing him out of his office. His explanation was that “nothing a newspaper man has to say about military matters eould possibly interest me.” The college boy who wrote “Daddy” up and enlisted in the anarines—right after getting that plump royalty check for his first hit! . . . Jimmy Stewart is dating Georgia Carroll when he gets “leave.” He’s no dope. Mrs. John Steinbeck is working in a New York ad agency. She ad mits to chums they’ve parted, which you reported months ago and then “retracted”—just ’cause you were asked to do so . . . Chaplin, I hear, has already made a million from “Dictator” and is supposed to have created a trust fund with the coin tor all his employees who worked with him on the picture . . . Hendrik Willem Van Loon is ill at his Old Greenwich home. Collier’s roving correspondent, Frank Gervasi, sent the longest radiogram from Cairo. Says N. Y. newspapers pilloried Lt. Col. Philip JLstley for “mucking up relations between American press and Gen eral H’quarters Middle East.” This Isn’t true, Frank says, Astley’s giv en everybody a fair shake, is a great guy, etc., and even broke some old fashioned rules to be of help to U. S. scribes . . . Patricia Garfield is pulling this brand of baby-talk (calls it a game), to wit: “What’s the color of marriage?” fAnswer: “Wed”) . . . “What’s color of a non-trespassing sign?” f**G’way!”) . . . “What’s the color af a ghost?” “Boo!” ... “A baby ghost?” . . . “Baby boo!” . . . All sight, doctor. I’ll go quietly.—Your Ctrl Friday. of an tmnoeent Bystander: The Wireless: There’s no great liss to American dialers in Italy’s ban of our newscasters. Their copy bad been whittled to nothingness by flie censors anyway. You’ll recall Wm. Shirer decided to quit Berlin when all they left him to say was Goebbels’ propaganda . . . The Goering item showed that the news iest stuff originates outside the Axis borders . . . Sen. Taft, who was the darling of the G.O.P. dailies not long ago, can’t get them to cover bis broadcasts nowadays. It’s sad when your supporters decide you haven’t got anything to say worth hstening to . . . Some of the shows to a whisper the other eve- », the reason being the explosion hydrogen gas up near the center mt the sun disk. Things have come to a pretty pass when we have to depend on another planet to silence some of our radio comedy .... “Daddy” is beginning to make us boiler “Uncle!” . . . Some of the bandleaders are now trying to be, clever and toss their quips as' though they were bricks. The Story Tellers: Dictators’ gratitude, as reported by Francis Hackett in “What Mein Kampf Means to America”—a good book for Senators: When Adolf penned “Mein Kampf,” it was such a mass af hysteria and ignorance it had to be edited. A priest, Father Stamepfie, blue-penciled the illiter acies and rewrote the rest. Hitler couldn’t stand 'the priest knowing him as such a dope, and had him murdered in 1934, with the >rest of his best friends . . . Best of the anecdotes in the SEP's piece on Col. McCormick, Chi. Tribune publisher, reports the time the State of Rhode Island got under his hide. The Cbfonel expelled that state from the Union, removing a star from the flag in the daily’s lobby . . . Very timely, and very attention-worthy is “Free Man Speaking,” by W. F. Bigelow in Good Housekeeping . . By all means read Edgar A. Mow ner’s comparison between America and France in Look. If his revela tions don’t wake you up—then, brother, you ain’t asleep—you’re dead. York Heartbeat: Sounds in the Night: At Club 18: 'He’s the kind of a feller who flies nto a rage and puckers up his arist” . . At Jack Spooner’s: "That old gag dunno what to do aith itself since Berle left town” . . . At the Hickory House: “Well, bey have this in common. He’s rich md she wants to be” ... At Clare mont Inn: “The only capital he las is at the beginning of his name” . . . At the Stork: “You’ve got a lice place here, Mr. Billingsley. Joer it pay?” Eleanor Roosevelt A very delightful day started, for half an hour, with Mrs. Archibald MacLeish singing us charming French and German songs. Then the whole group began to sing them with her. While they have not done much singing as a group, I found they showed signs of getting to gether and really enjoying it. We have several young people with very nice voices and several who play the piano. Dr. and Mrs. David Levy lunched with us and after lunch we went back to join the students and listen to Mr. MacLeish, who read a com mencement address which he deliv ered this spring, and his poem: “America Was Promises.” To hear him read, either prose or poetry, is an unforgettable experience. It was so beautiful that I think that every one present felt that, in applauding, they were breaking a spell of beauty which had been cast about them. At about 3:30 Mr. and Mrs. Mac Leish left and then I listened to a discussion between Justice Frank furter and some of the students on the need for political organizations. To my joy, when we returned to our own house, I found that our son, Jimmy, and his wife had arrived. Soon after, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. came, having flown up from New York city under somewhat un certain weather conditions. The fog here was thick until about five o’clock, when it suddenly began to clear and the setting sun shone through a rift in the clouds on the water, making the mouth of the river look like a pool of gold. One evening, I read aloud some selections of rather lighter poetry, ending up with one serious group from “John Brown’s Body,” by Stephen Vincent Benet, after which the students began to ask for poems which were special favorites. I was interested to find how many young people read poetry for pleasure. One of them asked me to bring some poems by Langston Hughes, another would like me to read Hood’s “The Song of the Shirt.” • • • BOSTON STOP As soon as I reached Boston one day, I was greeted by Johnny and Anne. We had a very satisfactory visit and were joined a little later by Franklin Jr. I telephoned my husband and we spent some little time catching up on news of all the different members of the family. He had Ruth and her two children in the White House and I wished I could be in two places at once, for I would love to see her and Chan dler and Elliott Jr. All too soon, the message came that Professor Zimmerman was waiting for me downstairs and Mrs. Morgenthau, Miss Thompson and I went out with him to Cambridge. There we had a delightful dinner at the Faculty club and I enjoyed talk ing to my two neighbors, Mr. Jerome Green and Mr. Mather. At 8:00, we went over to the evening seession of the Institute on the Chil dren of Tomorrow. This was the first of three days of meetings. It seems to be a very well-attended institute. They told me there was probably some one from every state in the Union present. After speaking, I had a short talk with the reporters and then came back to the Statler hotel, where I spent some time discussing their in terests with a group of students, who are planning to go to South America. They hdve two months at Harvard under the direction of Mr. Louis Quintavilla and then, I believe, six weeks to two months in Jiexico. STUDENT CONFERENCE One day during the week I at tended another interesting session of the International Students’ Serv ice conference in Campobello, N. B. We spent most of the meeting listen ing to Justice Frankfurter address ing the Summer Student Leader ship institute. In the morning, he made a remarkably clear and sim ple statement of what law means in a civilized society and what the background of our own law is in this country. He started out by telling us that he could not talk for an hour, since he was trained in the Harvard law school method of making the pupils do the work. Therefore, he would expect the students being trained for leadership here, to behave in the same way and to carry the bur den by asking questions after he had talked briefly. This was at 10:30, and at 12:15 he suddenly looked at Dr. William Allen Neilson, president of Smith college, and asked: “What time is it?” He had been as interested as the listeners and I do not think anyone there had taken any account of the passage of time. • * • VISIT TO NYA PROJECT We returned to our seats and spent an hour questioning him im mediately after lunch. Then all of us got into a boat and went to East- port, Maine, to visit the Quoddy vil lage. Many of the young people at our institute had never seen an NYA resident project. I found some of them watching the boys at work in the aviation unit, rather enviously, I thought. Finally, one of them said: “I’d like to be here if I was not at Campobello.” istoriad Inf Clma Scott lAJotdon (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Strenuous American W HEN a German bomb fell on the Church of St. Mary Wool- noth in London recently, its explo sion had repercussions in America. For it not only destroyed the church but it also blasted into oblivion the dust of a “strenuous American” whose career won him the right to that characterization two centuries before Theodore Roosevelt made the use of the term popular. William Phips was his name—or, more ac curately, Sir William Phips and he was bom on February 2, 1651, in Pemmaquid, now the city of Bristol, Maine, but at that time a town in the British colony of Massachusetts bay. He was the son of a gunsmith who is described as a man “in hum ble circumstances.” But there was nothing humble about the size of his family. There were 26 children and William was his twenty-first son! At the age of 18 William bound himself to a ship-carpenter and at the end of his term of service went to Boston where he started out on his amazing career. Ten years after he left his birth place he was the master of his own ship. In 1684 he set out to recover the lost '■ “Hispaniola Treasure” which lay beneath the clear waters of the Bahamas in a wrecked Spanish galleon. His first search was a fail ure but three years later, under the patronage of the duke of Albemarle he recovered bullion, coin and plate worth more than a million and a half dollars. So generous was William Phips and so liberal was he to his sailors that his own share amounted to only $90,000, as compared to the duke of Albemarle’s $250,000. King James II, who by law was entitled to one-tenth of all treasure discovered by his subjects, received nearly $150,000 and he was so grateful to the bold young colonial that he made Phips a knight and gave him a commission as high sheriff of New England. In 1690 Sir William commanded an expedition against the French at Port Royal in Acadia which cap tured that place and later in the year he was placed at the head of an expedition of 34 vessels, manned by 1,500 sailors and carrying 1,300 New England militia which attempt ed to take Quebec. After a siege of several days, the colonials were forced to withdraw and, when nine of his ships were later wrecked, Phips greatly depressed by his fail ure, returned to Boston. However, he did not suffer any loss in pres tige, for when he went to England to urge another expedition against Canada, the king appointed him captain-general and govemor-in- chief of the Massachusetts Bay col ony. Phips arrived in Boston in May, 1692, and immediately asserted his authority by putting an end to the witchcraft nonsense by organizing a special court to pass ujpm all such cases. As a result the jails were soon emptied of persons accused of witchcraft, but it won Phips the en mity of powerful political and ec clesiastical forces in the colony. They began making claims of dis honesty and cruelty against him and in 1694 he was summoned to Eng land to answer to these charges. Assured by crown officials that he was still in royal favor, he was pre paring to return to New England to resume his duties as governor when he died suddenly of a malignant fever on February 18, 1695. He was buried beneath the floor of the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth and there his bones lay for 245 years— all but forgotten until the explosion of a German bomb reminded his countrymen once more of this early-day “strenuous American.” • * • In his day Phips was noted foi his height—six feet, three inches— his mighty fists and his sense of hu mor. While he was short on “book learning,” he was long on signs and superstitions. He believed that seven was his lucky number and, since he was the twenty-first, or the thrice seventh, son, he believed that the three sevens gave him a triple advantage over other men. He must have felt assured of that when, after one failure, he recov ered so much of the “Hispaniola Treasure.” NEW IDEAS ctfome- By RUTH WYETH SPEARS IT ALL started with a bright idea 1 for making a simple, painted coffee table from odds and ends of lumber. The sketch at the low er left gives the dimensions. The two end sections were made first; the top and sides of these being screwed together with 1-inch met al angles. A shelf was then nailed in and a % by 3-inch board nailed across the back of it. Two boards for the top of the table were then screwed to the end sections. Now the needle-lady comes in. The table was to be painted putty color and then waxed. She bought a yard of slightly darker tan sateen and appliqued a design of bright blue and red morning glories and green leaves on it with stems and tendrils in green outline stitch. This was placed over the table top and tacked around the edge. A piece of window glass was then cut to fit and % by 3-inch pieces were screwed to the sides. * • * NOTE: This graceful morning glory de sign is so attractive that Mrs. Spears has arranged to furnish transfer patterns to be used in stamping fabric for a table Great Gang Justice is as strictly due be tween neighbor nations as be tween neighbor citizens. A high- wayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when single; and a nation that maket an unjust war is only a greaf gang.—Franklin. and matching cushion. The pattern ii for both cushion and table top. If yott are interested in husband and wife proj ects in homemaking you will be fascinated with the Book 7 in the series of booklets available with these weekly sketches. 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