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* McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK.—The U.S.A. gets a
quartette of political warriors
on the job, to map and push for
ward a campaign of counter-espio-
s * • a jj j nageahdag-
Impetus it Added gressive
To U.S. Attack on propaganda.
• j t * t They are
Spies and Lie* ^ william
J. Donovan, J. Edgar Hoover, Brig.
Gen. Sherman Miles, head of the
military intelligence division of the
war department, and Capt. Alan G.
Kirk, head of the office of naval in
telligence. All of them have highly
specialized and unique schooling for
the job. They will work together,
the flying wedge of a quickening at
tack on spies and lies.
Captain Kirk, a veteran of 35
years’ service in the navy, eases
quietly into the picture, which is his
usual procedure. It just happened
the captain, a discreet and highly
personable officer, was sent to Lon
don, as naval attache, in May, 1939.
His investigation and report on the
sinking of the Athenia impressed the
state department and, from his
ringside seat, he was a keen observ
er of many important events of in
terest to this country. When the
Germans were taunting the British
about “Where is the Ark Royal?”
Captain Kirk quietly reported that
he had just had lunch aboard her.
AX/’E MISS the garret inventor,
W but here’s the penthouse inven
tor, doing just as well. Charles L.
Lawrance, widening the bomber
range by his
tiny auxil
iary aircraft
engine, had
what Elbert
Wealth f Handicap*
Fail* to Prevent
idea* Developing
O. Hubbard might have put down
as the handicap of wealth and social
position, but he tinkered and
schemed aviation over many a
hump and now, crowding 60, he turns
in another finished performance.
There are no loose ends or rav-
elings to anything he does. His
“watch charm” engine is already in
mass production for the navy. It
is a supplementary power plant
which will enable the hombers to
venture high and far, as it takes
care of the energy overhead of
starting motors, feathering propel
lers, and powering heat, light, radio
and instrument board.
Mr. Lawrance, the first man to
adapt air-cooled engines to air navi
gation, also contributed much to
wing design. His is the Wright-
Whirlwind motor and he was the
designer of the engine that catapult
ed Charles Lindbergh to Paris—also
the engines of the three Byrd polar
flights, the Chamberlain flight and
many other historic hops of airplane
history.
When he was a Yale undergradu
ate, Phi Beta Kappa passed him by
because he spent all his spare time
scheming and dreaming about air
plane engines. Out of Yale, he at
tended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in
Paris, bringing through his first en
gine before he finished his three-
year course. Returning home, he
took up his profession of engineering
and established the Lawrance En
gineering corporation, of New York.
It was in 1917 that he perfected
his first air-cooled engine. He if.
given to cautious understatement.
When, in 1927, Adm. Richard E.
Byrd said passenger planes would
be flying the Atlantic in 10 years,
he said we couldn’t be too sure about
that—mail possibly but not passen
gers, for a long time to come.
New U.S.O. Head
i* ‘Bu*ine** Man*
Of Wide Intereat*
U ARPER SIBLEY, newly elected
1 president of the United Service
Organizations, is the sign, symbol
and substance of unifying, and
never of dis-
r u p t i v e
forces. If
agriculture
and industry
seem to have divided interests, he
has farms scattered here and there
and everywhere, and he also Car
ries a nice line of lumber com
panies, banks, loan societies and
coal companies.
When the government and busi
ness are at outs, Mr. Sibley is the
man in between, counselling a bit
of give and take here. He was the
successful intermediary in the auto
mobile strike of 1937, and while, as
a conservative business man, he
was shelling the New Deal, he was
backing up Secretary Hull’s trade
treaties and the President’s foreign
policy.
He has held forth steadily against
class animosities. His career is a
refutation of the philosopher Berke
ley. He can see both sides of any
object at a given instant. As a for
mer president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, Mr Sibley
is an authoritative voice in Amer
ican business and he is never happy
unless he has 8 or 10 highly diversi
fied jobs, with plenty of time for
tennis and golf. He is a former
Groton and Harvard schoolmate of
President Roosevelt, and like the
President an upstate country squire
istoricd
by Elmo Scott Waldo*
(Released by Western Newspaper Unions
First Credit Reporters
fF YOU’RE accustomed to “buying
it on time” instead of paying cash
for it, you can thank two brothers
named Tappan for that convenience.
For your ability to “buy it on time”
depends upon your credit rating,
and Messrs. Tappan were the first
credit reporters. They established
that business just 100 years ago.
. Their doing so was one of the re
suits of the panic of 1837, the first
great financial disaster in America.
Arthur and Lewis Tappan were na
tives of Massachusetts. In 1814 they
established a dry goods business in
Boston, importing most of their
goods from England. They were
very successful and accumulated a
large fortune. Then they branched
out and in 1827 became silk mer
chants in New York and financial
sponsors of button manufacture, un
der the name of Arthur Tappan and
Co.
For 10 years they prospered in
New York. But when the panic of
1837 hit the country, among its first
victims were the Tappans. Their
failure was the result of the “freez
ing” of hundreds of thousands of
dollars owed them by country mer
chants. Although they re-estab
lished their business within 18
months, this disaster gave Lewis
Tappan an idea.
He realized that the method of
granting credits to country - mer
chants, often on forged letters of
introduction, was not only unreliable
but out-of-date. True, a few of the
big American importers had individ
ual credit reporters and others co
operated to hire one. But the ex
pense of sending a credit reporter
into the West and South was too
great even for a group of importers.
So he proposed the establishment
of a mercantile agency, the function
of which was to serve as a central
office of credit information. This in
formation would consist of the con
tributed experiences of the leading
importers, commission houses,
wholesalers and bankers which
would be supplemented by the re
ports of correspondents appointed in
every community.
After their disastrous experience
with the old slipshod methods of
extending credit, all of these busi
ness men were quite willing to listen
to Tappan’s proposal. So the first
credit reporting agency was opened
in New York on August 1, 1841, and
was a success from the start. Soon
two young men came into the com
pany who did a great deal to develop
the credit reporting business. They
were Benjamin Douglass, the son of
: a. West India trader, who joined the
• p^pm in 1846, and Robert Graham
<6un of Ohio, who came in 1854.
In 1859 young Dun purchased full
control of the company and the
Tappans retired from the business
to devote their time to the various
philanthropies and social reforms in
which they were interested. Mean
while John M. Bradstreet had estab
lished a similar credit reporting
company in 1849. For 85 years the
two companies were competitors.
Then in 1933 the Bradstreet com
pany and R. G. Dun and Company
were merged to form the famous
combination of “Dun and Brad
street” which has become synony
mous with the word “credit.”
In 1859, when Dun bought out the
Tappans, the first “credit reference
book” was published and it con
tained 20,000 names. The 1941 “Blue
Book,” its descendant, lists 2,300,000
names of commercial enterprises in
50,000 different communities! More
over it is published six times a year
and is the largest publishing ven
ture of its kind in the world.
It is interesting to note that among
the early correspondents of the pio
neer credit reporters were four fu
ture Presidents—Abraham Lincoln,
Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland
and William McKinley.
• • *
The Tappans were also journalists
and reformers. They started the
New York Journal of Commerce in
1828 and Arthur Tappan founded the
Emancipator, an anti-slavery organ,
in 1833. Both were ardent abolition
ists. Arthur Tappan frequently
aided fugitive slaves in their flight
northward and he rescued William
Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Libera
tor, when he was imprisoned in Bal
timore. He was president of the
American Anti-Slavery society and
contributed $1,000 a month to its
support for several years.
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Jackets! They Play Important
; Role in the Fashion Picture
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
A ccording to fashion’s say-so,
you must be smartly jacketed
everywhere you go. Your play suits,
your daytime ensembles, evening
dresses and afternoon frocks are all
supposed to have complementary
jackets, with a few “extras” to be
held in readiness to report for duty
at the beck and call of time and
occasion. So no matter how many
jackets you have they will be none
too many to include in a fashionable
wardrobe.
In a program of interchangeable
jackets the secret’s out, as to how
to go victoriously through the mid
season stretch between summer and
actual fall with “flying colors” so
far as keeping a well-dressed ap
pearance is concerned. Every wom
an wants to maintain a refreshing
up-to-the-moment look in summer
hangover apparel until autumn
styles are set. This is quite a “trick”
in the art of dressing. Interchange
able jackets that flaunt “the latest”
in styling details is an answer.
With the thought in mind that the
attractiveness of the jacket fash
ions pictured might inspire you in
a sewing spree venture, we are espe
cially calling your attention to the
several pen and ink sketches, select
ed because the numbers are really
very easy to make. You can buy
up such pretty remnants at this time
of year, so reasonable and with the
investment of a little time and ef
fort you will find yourself the happy
possessor of jackets that, ingenious
ly interchanged, will set new tempo
for your frocks in keeping with ev
ery move of fashion.
Referring to the pen-and-ink
sketches, the ones at top to right
and left, are of the casual type for
town and travel wear. For these
remnants of tweed will work up
to good advantage and if you want to
give them a “last word” touch, em
broider a big scroll monogram
somewhere about them—on pocket
or sleeve or some other strategic
point. •
Outstanding on the season’s pro
gram is the sleeveless long-torso
jacket, known as the jerkin. It is
the schoolgirl’s idol and adored by
sportswomen. The jerkin sketched
at lower right, is easy to make,
easy to wear! Use bright corduroy
or suede cloth. Jerkin patterns are
available anywhere they sell pat
terns.
Coolie coats, the popular choice
for evening wear, are ever so easy
to make for they require little or
no fitting. The “coolie” sketched
at lower left, is a “perfect little
treasure.” The material used in this
instance is prettily embroidered in
quaint little posies. Handsome bro
cade or metal cloth yields beauti
fully to the coolie treatment. Women
of discriminating taste love coolie
wraps made of fine wool or silk
crepe in subtle pastel greens, vio
let shades, or Chinese reds. The
newest thing is to embellish them
with a restricted amount of sequin
or bead embroidery. Note the model
in the lower oval inset. In this in
stance the sheer crepe is in a soft
stone blue, the embroidery done in
silver threads and beadwork.
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Sun-Hat and Bag
Here is a practical sun-hat and
bag that should interest beach stroll
ers who want to protect their com
plexion from burning sun rays. The
large sun hat worn so appealingly
by the young lady as she poses in
the picture at the top acts as a per
fect “freckle fender.”
In the pose below you see how
this huge brim folds to pancake size
so as to fit into the outer pocket
of a made-to-match rubber-lined
beach bag. This hat has a navy
blue brim with red and white striped
crown and the color combination is
repeated in the bag.
Accent Is on Luxury
Blouse Type for Fall
^ The blouse program as mapped
out for fall and winter will use much
luxurious fabric. Pastel metal cloth
made up in classic simplicity is one
of the happy outlooks. Matching the
pastel of the metal weave with crepe
in identical tone presents endless
possibilities for achieving charming
effect. In some instances a bit of
the crepe used for the skirt is re
peated in stylizing accents on the
metal blouse.
Wide use will be made of deep-
toned satins and they will be made
up similar to the manner suggested
above for metal weaves. Silk jer
sey is also a favored medium. Used
in vivid reds, greens or blues to
wear with black suits, the new jer
sey blouses are stunning.
Drastic Changes Seen
In New Fall Silhouette
Here are changes you will find
as the new silhouettes make their
debut this fall. There will be very
few if any set-in sleeves. The
trend is to deep armhole effects in
dolman sleeves, cut all in one with
the bodice or blouse top. Bulk
above the waistline and slimming of
skirts is noted.
Everything is being done to ac
cent lower waistlines, especially
with inset belts. Beltless dresses
are very new in style stressing so
phisticated simplicity.
There will be hosts of pleated
fashions that emerge from long-torso
lines with pleats manipulated to re
tain slenderized lines.
Chiffon House Coats
Torrid days call for cool apparel,
a need which is filled in very love
ly house coats made of pastel chif
fons. You can bring the summer
to a very happy conclusion wearing
one of the very lovely chiffon crea
tions.
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The Question*
1. What South American coun
try has a Colorado river?
2. What writer described the
Brobdingnagians?
3. What is the weight of a gallon
of pure water?
4. What is believed to be the
oldest city in the world that is
still inhabited?
5. The bundle of rods on the
back of a dime is called what?
6. What is the largest star
known?
7. Is a pound of feathers heavier
than a pound of gold?
TRY,
if
HAIR TONIC-
Effect of Society
Society is the atmosphere o*
souls; and we necessarily imbibe,
from it something which is ek
ther infectious or salubrious.
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DRUG
STORKS
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RHEUMATISM Lumbago
The Answer*
1. Argentina.
2. Swift (in “Gulliver’s Trav
els,” the inhabitants of a country
where everything is of enormous
size).
3. One gallon of water weighs
8.355 pounds.
4. Damascus.
From Choices
Look out for choices; they run
into habits, character, destiny.—
Maltbie D. Babcock.
YOU BUY
5. Fasces.
6. Antares (90,000,000 times larg
er than our sun).
7. Yes. Gold is weighed by the
troy system, 12 ounces to the
pound, while feathers are weighed
by the avoirdupois measure (16
ounces to the pound).
Up 25,661 Feet Afoot
Nanda Devi, a 25,661-foot sum
mit of the Himalayas, is the high
est mountain ever climbed by
man, says Collier’s. Although en
circled by almost insurmountable
peaks which have frustrated the
best mountaineers for 50 years,
it was reached by an expedition
consisting of four Americans and
four Englishmen on August 29,
1936. No oxygen was used, despite
the fact that unconsciousness usu
ally occurs at 22,000 feet.
ON FAITH
Field tests have shown a biz difference
in the quality of inoculator brands on the
market. You cannot see the legume bac
teria you purchase. Immediate demon
stration is impossible. What is the repu
tation and experience behind the inocu
lation you buy?
• NITRAGIN Is the ORIGINAL LEG
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by a big margin. NITRAGIN demand
in the South has rapidly increased
year after year. During the faU of
1840 the Southern shipments of
NITRAGIN were for more than 45
million pounds of VETCH and WIN
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due to many field tests carried on year
after year. We prove by these tests
that NITRAGIN is a good prodnet.
Send for our booklet “Plant Legumes to
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Worthwhile Illusions
Don’t part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still
exist, but you have ceased to live.
—Twain.
Failures Teach
Every failure teaches a man
something if he will learn.—
Dickens.
It all adds up to this. .
says RUTH KNIPPEN Comptometer Operator
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Use of Satire
A satire should expose nothing
but what is corrigible, and make a
due discrimination between those
that are not the proper objects of
it.—Addison.
It’s A GOOD
AMERICAN
CUSTOM
READING THE FUNNIES
Sunday comics had their origin
when Jimmy SwinnertorYs car
toons first appeared in 1892 in
the San Francisco ,, Examiner. ,,
SMOKING mild, fragrant King
Edward Cigars is another American
custom in popular favor every
where. For genuine smoking pleas
ure, light up a King Edward today.
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