McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, September 18, 1941, Image 3
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.
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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
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ties for civic education and recrea
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