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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1941
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
EW YORK.—It was quite by ac-
cident that little Dorothy Dale
of Kansas became a sorceress and
overthrew the Wicked Witch of the
_ . . _ East and
Patriotic Songster f reed the en-
inspiring a New slaved
Upsurge of Faith Munch kins.
° We w o n-
dered why Lucy Monroe, the “star
spangled soprano,” kept reminding
us of all this and now it is all clear.
Miss Monroe’s mother, Anna
Laughlin, was the first Dorothy
Dale, in “The Wizard of Oz,” with
Fred Stone, and when the daughter
made her musical comedy debut in
“Louie the Fourteenth,” in 1925, old-
timers in the audience, this one
among them, were moved to poign
ant and all but tearful memories by
the winsome daughter’s resem
blance to her mother. Little Doro
thy Dale was forever young, still
In a land of enchantment—that was
all there was to it.
The sorcery of Miss Monroe,
opera, concert and radio star,
is, unlike that of Dorothy Dale,
quite premeditated, and involves
a somewhat wider outreach in
world liberation, but at a time
when people are hoping that
somebody will pass a miracle.
She has become our national pa
triotic songster and song-leader,
here and there and everywhere,
and at the convention of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars at the
Philadelphia Municipal stadium
recently, she led the second
“community sing,” in a series
of great public invocations of
old-time patriotism throughout
the country. More than 30,000
persons attended the first one
at Washington several weeks
ago.
The “star spangled” phase of
Miss Monroe’s career began in 1937
when she was made official soloist
for the American Legion. This
stirred in her deep patriotic fervor
which found a response in her audi
ences everywhere.
She is an eighth-generation Amer
ican, trained as a singer entirely in
this country. She made her Met
ropolitan debut in “La Boheme,” in
the spring season of 1937.
IN THE first World war, facing a
hurry-up job of army morale
building, they slammed Irving Ber
lin into a corner and told him to dish
o j , ^ * up a few red
Broadway Is Out, hot morale
Osborn In, to Buck songs, right
Up Army Morale awa y* He ^ e
are a couple
of lines from the first one:
“Don’t you worry, mother darling,
Although the skies are gray,
For there’s always a little bit of
sunshine,
. In the Y—M—C—A.”
This time they pick for the
bucking-up job a eugenist, pop
ulation expert, conservationist,
business researcher, corporation
executive, art connoisseur, bank
er, and traffic expert—all in the
one distinguished person of
Frederick Osborn, of New York.
The war department names him
as head of its morale branch,
with the temporary rank of brig
adier general.
The appointment may or may not
have something to do with the re
cent disquieting magazine articles
about unrest in the new army. Gen
eral Osborn has been occupied, as
a dollar-a-year man in Washington,
as a consultant in various endeav
ors and has been chairman of the
army and navy committee on joint
recreation. Hence it is possible that
his appointment to the army post
had been decided upon before the
recent flare-up about discontent
among the National Guard and se
lectees. ,
Whatever the appointment
may mean, the choice of a civil
ian for this office sets a prece
dent. General Osborn replaces
Brig. Gen. James A. Ulie. Fur
thermore there is disclosed here
a trend away from showmanship
as an old-line, dependable mo
rale builder. Billy Rose of
Broadway was back/ in New
York a few weeks ago, after a
session with the army morale-
builders. He was all fussed up.
“Nothing happened,” he said.
“They told me my blueprints were
wonderful, the ideas were wonder
ful and 1 was wonderful. Then they
said good-by. That’s all I expect to
happen.”
General Osborn, never a hoofer or
spooler, is 51, the son of W.C. Osborn,
distinguished New York lawyer, and
an alumnus of Princeton university
who started a career of business
management in 1912. His book,
“Preface to Eugenics,” published
last March, reveals uneasiness
about the falling birth rate and the
urgency of nice people having more
children. He has six. Always in
deadly earnest, he’s farthest north
from Broadway, and Irving Berlin’s
little bit of sunshine in the Y.M.C.A.
Possibly a highly technical war de
mands that kind of morale-builder.
Nazis Kept on the Alert
Guerilla warfare is admittedly a thorn in the side of Germany’s invad
ing army. Top photo shows German troops in a village watching the
windows of the houses in an effort to catch snipers. At bottom, German
troops have dropped to the side of the road to flank an enemy patrol
after learning the patrol was headed towards them.
Confers With Hull
Admiral Kichisaburo Normura,
Japanese envoy, after conference
with Secretary of State Hull. Both
Normura and the secretary refused
to divulge the nature of their con
ference.
Quick on the Trigger
The motorcycle scout shown in this photo demonstrates how he would-
act if an “enemy” plane attacked the truckload of supplies he was
escorting during third maneuvers at Camp Polk, La. The soldier quickly
dismounted and set his automatic rifle into play against the plane.
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On Their Toes in the Desert
Daylight patrols in the western desert carried out daily by the
South African infantry brigade quite naturally keeps *'the unit on its
proverbial toes, and when the long journey is over those toes need a
rest. The waves along the beach have a cooling effect, and shoes are
piled neatly, military style, on the sand.
Attorney General
President Roosevelt has named
Solicitor General Francis Biddle
(above) as attorney general, to suc
ceed Robert H. Jackson, now asso
ciate justice of the Supreme court,
Biddle is 55.
In Unison
Members of the Hawaiian swim
team who competed against an all-
star Pacific coast aggregation at
Los Angeles swimming stadium,
churn through the water with
machine-like precision. They have
just returned from the nationals.
That Was Proper
Father and son were running a
business.
“Bear in mind,” said the father,
“I am the main support of the
firm.”
“Right!” said the son. “You’re
on our billheads as ‘J. Brown,
Prop.’ ”
IN THE DARK
Urma—Has Jack ever kissed
you against your will?
Helen—No; but he thinks he has.
Pr e-Stuff ed
They were just married and she had
cooked her first chicken.
When he was about to carve it, he
asked: 44 What did you stuff it with,
dear?”
“It didn’t require stuffing, darling”
the replied. “It wasn't hollow.”
Cutting Reply
“Your hair needs cutting badly,
sir.”
“No it doesn’t; it needs cutting
well. You cut it badly last time.”
If Jacobs Protested—
Abrams Had a Remedy
Abrams and Jacobs took up golf.
One afternoon they were playing
for a stake of one dollar a hole,
and the competition was spirited.
Abrams drove into a bunker. With
his iron he made four ineffectual
swipes, raising the sand in clouds.
Then he stooped, picked up the
half-buried ball, and tossed it out
on the fairway.
“Look here!” roared Jacobs.
“You couldn’t do that. It’s against
the rules.”
“I’ve already done it,” said
Abrams, calmly.
“But I tell you it’s against the
rules. What am I going to do if
by such tricks as that you win?”
“Sue me,” said Abrams.
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Growth In Silence
Silence is the element in which
great things fashion themselves to
gether; that at length they may
emerge, full-formed and majestic,
into the delights of life, which they
are henceforth to rule.—Carlyle.
No Burden
“No doubt you will allow me to take
my laundry with me” said the haughty
lodger who had been backward with hit
payments.
“Certainly,” replied the landlady.
“Your other collar is downstairs.”
Later Acquaintance
The henpecked husband was be
moaning his lot.
“But,” said his friend, “I knew
your wife Gertrude as a child—
she was just ‘Gert’ to me!”
“Well,” came the answer, “she’s
just ‘rude’ to me!”
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Trapshoot Champ
Sightseers aboard the boat in the background of this photograph got
real free show as city firemen tested out fire pump trailers at Battery
park, in New York. The test was given to determine just hnw much
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