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tThe Private Pap ers ,0/ a Cub Reporter ] Eddie Dowling, the star of “Time of Your Life” and other plays, is an intimate of the President. Not long ago Eddie brought some Broad way entertainers to amuse White House guests. Among the stars was Giovanni, the delightful pickpocket .... Giovanni, as almost any Broad- wayfarer can assure you, is so good at his business—he can remove your vest without your suspecting it ... At any rate, the President was vastly amused. He suggested that Giovanni get the gun from a White House guard’s holster . . . But every time Giovanni approached the Secret Service man—the latter backed away, saying: “Nh-nh. Not me, please” . . . When FDR later asked Dpwling: “Did he get that guard’s gun yet?” Eddie explained how the guard was hep to matters and wouldn’t be sociable . . . “If you engaged him in conversation, Mr. President,’' suggested Eddie, “Giovanni would have his gun in four seconds!” . . . “Do you know,” whispered Mr. Roosevelt, “that even the President of the United States hasn’t the authority to get that man away from that door?” Secret service men have only one boss—congress. Why Historians Go Wrong Dep’t: After the Roosevelt-Churchill meet ing at sea, one of the weekly news digests reported that FDR and Win ston m6t for five days and not three days as reported almost every where. A Washington colyumist told us that “five days” is wrong—“they met for three days” . . . “How do you know?” we asked the colyum- er. “You weren’t there!” . . . “That’s right,” he said, “but I got that fact from a feller who hap pened to be on the trip—Averill Har- riman!” . . . Back in New York we confronted the magazine man . . . “Why did you report it was five days,” we asked, “when Aver ill Harriman who was there ought to know?” . . . “I don’t know any thing about Mr. Harriman’s accura cy,” was the reply, “but we got our info from one who was also on the trip—FDR’s doctor!” John Gunther’s new book (due shortly) has been named “Inside Latin America,” but M. Schuster, the publisher, suggested: “The Al manac de Gunther” . . . Mack Gordon, the song-writer, is doing a book on his common-sense diet. He calls it: “The First 100 Pounds Are the Hardest” . . . Gordon went from 322 to 220 in one year—by eat ing . . . Louise Atwill overheard a catty crack about herself ... “Where’d you get that?” she fang’d. “Over the Sourgrape Vine?” New York. Heartbeat The Big Parade: Nancy Kelly of the Moom-Pitchers, strutting south on Madison Ave. in a shapoh made of fresh vegetables . . . Ingrid Bergman, the tough gamin of “Jek- yll and Hyde,” feeding the pigeons in the park . . . S. Jay Kaufman, who says Beatrice Lillie has can celled her passage to here five times. “I want to come,” she cables, “but my heart won’t let me.” Sallies In Our Alley: Pancho, the Riviera’s maestro, tells about the draftee who won deferment after he convinced the medico that ev erything he looked at seemed blurred. Two hours later, coming out of a movie, he bumped into the medico, who glared and glared. “I begya pardon,” said the poker-faced draftee, “but can you please tell me If this is the right bus to New York?” Memos of a Midnighter: A. Wooll- cott will play himself in “Babes in Arms” (Rooney and Garland). In the foreword to the film—an MGMer . . . Harper’s will publish Jay Al ien’s book, his first, which he ex pects to write in six weeks. A honey of a name:'“My Trouble With Hit ler” . . . Ed Murrow is expected back from London in mid-Nov. Shirer may sub for him there . . . Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope is readying Finland’s White Paper due this month . . . Procope is the only Ambassador who looks like one ... A Bund att’y will be in another Jam next week when he is indicted on charges of forging a divorce . . . There will be an entirely new gam bling syndicate in Miami this sea son . . . Bob Feller expects to be drafted by mid-October, fans fear . . . The voice of the harp in Dis ney’s new hit, “Dumbo,” is ZaSu Pitts’. Broadway Byron Says: She’s Got You in the Hollow of Her Hand When You’ve Got Her in the Hollow of Your Head. Broadway Smalltalk: Ben Bernie got his new CBS program when he met Mr. Wrigley, who said: “What are you doing these days?” . . . “Nothing,” said Ben gloomily . . . “Well, how about working for me?” said the choongum man, and now he’s on five nights weekly . . . Paul Ash has a good idea: Turn old li cense plates over to the gov’t for scrap metal. There were over 31,- 000,000 cars registered last year. Each pair of plates averages two lbs. If all car owners did their dutv—that’d be 62,000,000 lbs. - • V- r ;> v 4 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S- C., TftURSftAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 194i O. H. Perry Henry Dodge (Released by Western Newspaper Union., Camp Cavalcade CHADOWY figures in a cavalcade ^ of American history—such are the men behind the names of the great army cantonments scattered all over the United States, where young Americans are learning to be soldiers in order to defend their country when the need arises. Camp Perry, near Port Clinton, Ohio, is one of the few, if not the only, army camp which is named for a naval hero. It perpetuates the name of Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), a na tive of Rhode Is- land, who en- tered the navy as a midshipman at the age of 14 and saw his first serv ice against the Tripolitan pi rates. During the War of 1812, he built a fleet of ships from green lumber and launched them on Lake Erie to fight the British fleet there. The result was the Battle of Put-in- Bay on September 10, 1813, after which Perry wrote his historic mes sage to Gen. William Henry Harri son, commander of the American army in the Old Northwest: “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” Camp Dodge, near Des Moines, Iowa, is named for Henry Dodge (1782-1867), a na tive of Indiana who emigrated to Missouri, rose to the rank of ma jor-general of vol unteers in the War of 1812 and became the great est Indian fighter of his day. Then he moved to Wis consin, command ed the mounted forces in the Win nebago war of 1827, was made colonel of the Michi gan volunteers during the Black Hawk war and won the decisive Bat tle of the Bad Axe river on June 15, 183&. Commissioned a major of the United States Rangers, then colonel of the First U. S. Dragoons, he led two successful expeditions against the Indians on the western frontier for which congress voted him a sword and the.thanks of the nation. Later Dodge distinguished himself as governor of the Territory of Wisconsin twice, delegate to con gress and United States senator from the new state of Wisconsin after which he retired to private life in Burlington, Iowa, where he died. Among the Illinois volunteers who “joined up” to help subdue Chief Black Hawk and his Sacs and Foxes in 1832 was a tall, lanky young man from New Salem. He didn’t distinguish himself as a sol dier but Fame was reserving a greater role for him. After many disappointm e n t s in politics, he would be elected President of the United States and as commander-in chief of the United States army, lead his nation to victory after four years of the greatest civil war in history. Camp Lincoln, near Spring- field, 111., his “home town,” bears his name. Camp Bowie, near Brownwood, Texas, perpetuates the fame of a man whose name has become a common word in our language— the bowie knife. He was Colonel James Bowie (1795-1836), a na tive of Tennes see, who became a sugar planter in Louisiana and a smuggler of slaves which he bought from the pirfte, Jean La- fitte. A vigorous, muscular six-foot er, he roped and rode giant alliga tors for fun and won a fearsome reputation as a duellist and a fighter with the long-bladed knife which bears his name. There was a bowie knife in his hand when he perished gloriously in the defense of the Ala mo during the Texan War of Inde pendence. Abraham Lincoln James Bowie Origin of Army Unit Names The word company comes from the French word for bread (pain) and the Latin “con” (together). Men of a company eat bread together. The regiment is the unit under the “regime” of an officer. A brigade is a crew of many together. A corps means a body (Latin “corpus”) of men. A division was originally a “part” of an army, now of an army corps. A platoon is a “ball of men,” a squad, a “square of men”; and a battalion “a body of troops in baU tie-formation.” by J WNU S«rvtc« Vnlt*d r«&tur« Eleanor Roosevelt THE ‘MINUTE MAN’ I wonder how many people know that the statue of the “Minute Man” which is used on our defense bonds posters, was done by the sculptor, Mr. Daniel Chester French, who did the great marble Lincoln statue in ' the Lincoln Memorial in Washing ton, D. G. Perhaps it would interest you to know a little about the mak ing of this statue, since the story is told to me by the sculptor’s daugh ter, Mrs. William Penn Cresson: “The young sculptor borrowed from the art museum a large plas ter cast of the ‘Apollo Belvedere,’ which he set up on one side of his studio, and on the other side he placed a long full-length mirror, in which he surveyed his own not un attractive form. And there he made his ‘Minute Man.’ ” The dedication of the statue on the nineteenth of April, 1875, was a very great occasion in the little town of Concord, Mass. It was one of those bitterly cold days that we have so often in the New England spring. More people were said to have died from the effects of that cold, than had died on the day of the' battle they were celebrating. President Grant and all his cabi net came from Washington for the unveiling. Longfellow and Lowell marched in the procession. George William Curtis was the orator of the day, and orated for more than two hours in the cold. Emerson read his poem written for the occasion, the lines of which were cut on the pedestal of the statue. • • * WOMEN IN DEFENSE I am shocked to find through some of the clippings which have come to me, that my answer to a press conference question last week, as to whether I was satisfied with the vol unteer participation in civilian de fense, seems to have caused a com plete misunderstanding of my atti tude. I answered truthfully, that I was not satisfied with the civilian defense participation. But that was no criticism, as it was apparently taken to be, of Mayor LaGuardia, because I am sure he is not satis fied either! How could any of us be content when the organization is just be ginning and will never be complete until every man, woman and child in every community throughout the nation, feels that in one way or an other, they are contributing to na tional defense? Secondly, I find that certain groups of women think that I do not believe in the participation of women in national defense. I can hardly understand how this miscon ception took place, because I have wanted women to take their place in national defense long before the government machinery was set up. I felt strongly that, while it was well to take up any training avail able, it was better not to set up programs which could not later be easily incorporated with whatever arrangements were made through government channels. I believe that there is work to be done by every man, woman and child in the coun try. Some of us can take training which Will make us useful in ways that are closely related to military work. Others, many more proba bly, can devote themselves to im proving the life in their own com munities. This is a very important part of national defense, for it is this life in our own communities which makes national defense worth while. If it is a good life and meets our needs, and we know our neighbors are co-operating to achieve better conditions, then any sacrifices we make to preserve what we have and to attain what we hope for, are cheerfully made, and are part of the duty which we recognize as citizens in a free democracy. * • • ‘THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE’ Last night we saw a very beauti ful movie, a documentary film, “The Forgotten Village,” written by John Steinbeck, with music by Hans Eisler. It is the story of a boy in a small village in Mexico and shows the life of the village, the supersti tions which still exist, and the bad sanitation. It portrays the gather ing of the family round the fire in the evening, the birth of a new baby, the selling of the corn which is the basis of life, a festival and a death in the family. Finally, the young Mexican leaves his village, because the local school master has brought knowledge and inspiration to such of the youth of the community who are open to new ideas. The boy will return trained to lead his people to a better life. I was tremendously interested in the medical trucks which go over almost impassable roads to serve the people of these remote villages. • * * A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT I want to mention a housing de velopment for colored people in Pensacola, Fla., which pleased me very much. I was not able to go out and look at it very carefully, but it seemed to be well planned, and considerable, attractive landscaping had been done. One of the ministers had writ ten to me about it, and told me that the people living there were making every effort to provide opportuni ties for civic education and recrea tion. Beautiful CIass Garden From Old Jug or Bottle A DELIGHTFUL mystery 1 He- liotrope with sweet clusters of tiny flowers, graceful palms and ivy-striped pandanus—all growing merrily in a small-necked jug. Bottle terrariums are almost as simple to make as the more usual kind. 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