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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,^941^ v
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WHO^
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
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■VT EW YORK.—From somewhere
- ” dedp in Sybil’s Cave in Wash
ington comes the whisper that the
government has secretly called
Mty.Yardley Again bert O. Yard-
Atspying Foreign ley, its cryp-
Broadhaats Here? tic crypto-
gr ammer,
forgiven his indiscretion in publish
ing “The Black Chamber” a dec-
e4 e a 8° an d set him to work again
plucking diplomatic and espionage
secrets from the air.
- This is highly interesting in view
of Major Yardley’s frequent predic
tions that the state department
would have to set up new listening
■ posts, and carry on where he left
off, in the event of war or even
the .threat of war.
Major Yardley was so expert
as a de-coder that, knowing no
Japanese, he could catch Japa
nese double-talk on the air, and
de-code it. When Henry L. Stim-
son was secretary of state he
didn't like either espionage of
counter-espionage and thought
no decent nation should have
anything to do with it.
Hence, Major Yardley’s secret
“Black Chamber” in New York,
which must have been something
like the lair of Caglistro, was sum
marily closed and the major was
fired. Then he wrote his book and
its repercussions were such that
congress passed a law against his
writing any more of the same kind.
In this book, he included de
coded messages showing how
Japan had been giving this coun
try the grand run-around during
the Washington arms confer
ence. It almost caused a cabi
net crisis in Japan and made
our state department reach for
its smelling salts.
Herbert O. Yardley, a native of
Washington, in his youth a tele
graph operator for the war depart
ment, became a code expert and
yMMs transferred to the cryptograph
ic bureau just before our entrance
into the first World war.
Whether it’s nice or not, the exi
gencies of the time are such that
the newly organized foreign broad
cast monitoring service is now work
ing a 24-hour shift, assaying about
900,000 words of daily foreign broad
casts.
iSfUWN in the valley he heard the
train blow. So the farm boy
/*n the North Carolina mountains
wung up his hoe and followed the
white plume
Old Squirrel Gun of smoke to
Taught Tycoon to fame and
r Dram Sharp Bead fortune.
: Young
•Chomas A. Morgan’s muzzle-loading
squirrel gun was an instrument of
precision compared to the best arti
fice of economics and business at
». time like this. It taught the fu
ture president of the Sperry corpo
ration to draw a sharp bead on what
ever he was shooting at and in Lin
coln’s phrase, never to “shoot at a
louse on his own eyebrow.”
So, today, his target is post
war solvency. With all the rush
of defense orders and plant ex-’
pension there is each day some
thing in the kitty fo{ what may
come hereafter. For the first
half of this year, $433,316 has
gone into this “cushioning”
fund. The margin for error in
such computations probably
is greater than that of a Sperry
bomb - sight, but whatever a
skilled precisionist may do is
being done.
At 16, Thomas A. Morgan fetched
up in the navy, was quickly en
grossed with the magic whirligig of
a Sperry gyroscope and was there
by steered into his manifest destiny.
His skill with the gyroscope
brought him in touch with its in
ventor, Elmer A. Sperry, and his
career as a maker of precision in
struments—the need for which is al
ways in inverse ratio to the stability
and precision in the affairs of men.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing.
During the World war, the czar’s
navy was ducking and dodging
and hiding in the mists. Mr.
Morgan chased it here and there
and everywhere, to sell it gyro
scopes, caught up with it and
rang up a sale. It was an epic
of American salesmanship.
Mr. Morgan became president of
the Sperry corporation in 1928.
Shortly thereafter he became an em
inent patron of aviation and soon
was caught up in a swirl of insti
tutes, chambers, boards, funds,
councils and societies—the inescap
able fate of eminence and intelli
gence in America. If the chariot
of progress needs anything new on
its dashboard, he and his company
can be relied upon to figure it out
and install it overnight. Mr. Mor
gan had but 10 months of schooling
behind him when he broke home
ties to join the navy.
Mexico Pledges Co-operation
Curtain Falls
In top photo Avila Camacho, president of Mexico, delivers his first
annual message to congress. He stressed the attitude of the Mexican gov
ernment as favoring democracy, and pointed out the Mexican intention
of co-operating in the defense of America. In lower photo labor union
adherents to the O.T.M. stage demonstration as evidence of their support
of Hie president’s announced principles.
To Whom It May Concern
The 16-inch rifles on the No. 3 turret, aft, of the 35,000-ton U.S.S.
North Carolina cut loose with a roar as they hurl shells about 26 miles
to sea in the greatest broadside of history. This soundphoto was made
from the stern of the navy’s superdreadnaught during recent firing tests.
The North Carolina is under the command of Capt. Olaf M. Hustvedt.
Live Animals Set Off Fur Coat Fashions
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt,
mother of the President, who died in
her home on the Hudson river, at
Hyde Park, N. Y., at the age of 86.
Mrs. Roosevelt, famed for her
beauty in youth, was from an era
of grand dames and dowager duch
esses and she ruled h4r household
in a regal manner. She was buried
beside her husband, James, who
died in 1900.
Miss America
The crown of Miss America of 1941
was placed on the blonde locks of
Miss California, Rosemary La
Planche, at Atlantic City, N. J. The
19-year-old, hazel-eyed beauty, re
sides in Los Angeles, and wa? a run-
nerup in last year’s beauty pageant.
Investigator
New styles in furs for 1942 were displayed in a novel live animal fur
review held on the million dollar pier in Atlantic City. These girls are
shown wearing the coats and leading by leash some of the animals
from which milady’s coats are made. Just in case you are wondering, the
skunk shown at left has been deodorized.
Aircraft Police Instructed in Gas Mask Use
Owen D. Young, who has been ap
pointed special representative of the.
national defense mediation board, to
investigate issues in the dispute be
tween the United States Gypsum
company and the gas products, coke
and chemical workers union, C.I.O.,
who ended a two months’ strike at
request of the board.
Into Indo-China
Above, Lieut. Watts Clark of the U. S. army chemical warfai\. c~rps
is pictured at San Diego, Calif., as he instructed members of the Consoli
dated Aircraft corporation police force in the use of gas masks. Lieuten
ant Clark said the information of how to use a gas mask will be passed on
to the workers. In background a “Liberator” bomber nears completion.
A Japanese supply convoy enters
an undisclosed Indo-China city fol
lowing an agreement between Tokyo
and Vichy allowing Japan to station
troops at points in Indo-China.
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The Questions - The Answers
1. How often do twins occur in
the United States?
2. What is meant by the title
of the book “Quo Vadis”?
3. Where are Plimsoll lines
seen?
4. To what committee of the
United States house of representa
tives do all bills for raising rev
enue go?
5. Which of the following is not
a ruminant—buffalo, kangaroo and
camel?
6. A gammadion is a symbol
associated with what?
7. Who was king of France at
the time of the revolution?
8. How many American women
have become members of Brit
ain’s house of commons?
9. Which of the following would
be most interested in an artifact—
a magician, archeologist or a
machinist?
10. The famous battle of Boro
dino took place in what country?
Carnegie Hero Medals
Since it was established in 1904,
the Carnegie Hero Fund commis
sion has received 39,500 applica
tions for awards, but only 3,200
were granted, 2,627 being bronze
medals, 554 silver medals and 19
gold medals, says Collier’s. The
only gold medal awarded in the
past 25 years went to the family
of Charles Coe of Burkbumett,
Texas, who rescued one child but
died attempting to save another
in a fire in 1923.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
One in 87 births.
“Whither Goest Thou?”
On a ship (load line marks).
Ways and means committee.
Kangaroo (a ruminant is a
mammal which chews the cud).
6. The Nazis (same as swas
tika).
7. Louis XVI.
8. Two (Lady Astor and Mrs.
Beatrice Clough Rathbone, who
took her seat on March 19, 1941).
9. Archeologist (a product of
simple aboriginal art).
10. Russia (Napoleon against
the Russians under Kutusov in
1812).
SNIFFLES
Man’s Creation
Men heap together the mistakes
of their lives and create a mon
ster they call Destiny. — John
Oliver.
TO CHECK
Pride and Mistakes
In general, pride is at the bot
tom of all great mistakes.—
Ruskin.
Heads up is the rule when you’re handling
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money,” says Bank Teller STANLEY RAMLER
“and the
helps me keep
feeling that way.”
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Copr. 1941 by
Kellogg Company
Aiding Another
The only way in which one hu
man being can properly attempt
to influence another is by encour
aging him to think for himself,
instead of endeavoring to instill
ready-made opinions into his head.
—Sir Leslie Stephen.
It’s A GOOD
AMERICAN
CUSTOM
Tearing Down Goalposts
by enthusiastic spectators at
football games began about
1876 when teams were reduced
from 25 to 11 men and the
game began to become a popu
lar spectator sport.
KING EDWARD CIGARS
arouse similar enthusiasm in smokers
who appreciate the mild, mellow
qualities of the nation’s most popular
cigar. Try King Edward today.
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for
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<HE PUBLIC nature of advertising bene
fits everyone it touches. It benefits the
public by describing exactly the products that are offered. It
benefits employees, because the advertiser must be more fair
and just than the employer who has no obligation to the public.
These benefits of advertising are quite apart from the obvious
benefits which advertising confers—the lower prices, the higher
quality, the better service that go with advertised goods and firms.
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