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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
and more talk of Donald M. Nelson
for the one-man head of the nation-
Miracle-Man Sana
Sleight ~of-Hand,
/« Don M. Nelson
al defense ef
fort. A Wash
ington friend
informs this
writer that
powerful New Dealers, as well as
important members of the opposi
tion are working to the above end.
There has been much favorable
comment on his showing in a recent
radio debate on prices. Processed
through several alphabetical scram
bles at Washington during the last
year, he has been appointed execu
tive director of the President’s new
Supply, Priorities and Allocations
board. There seems to be a growing
belief that if anybody can perform a
micracle, he can.
Mr. Nelson probably would
concede no more than a depre
catory wave of the hand to this
miracle business. Tall, bulky,
bespectacled, slow-moving, and
deliberate in speech, he would
resolve the bewildering compli
cations of plane and tank pro
duction in orderly and methodi
cal processes instead of sleight-
of-hand. The former and never
the latter is his unfailing pro
cedure.
Mr. Nelson’s business career of
29 years has been given entirely to
Sears Roebuck & Co., of which firm
he became chairman of the execu
tive committee in 1939. He became
a defense aide at Washington a year
ago. He joined Sears Roebuck as a
chemical engineer, fot which he had
been trained at the University of
Missouri. His friends have noted
that thus he would bring a technical
equipment to the job, as well as
long experience in organization and
co-ordination, if he should be as*
signed a one-man seat in the defense
wheel-house.
\
He’s slightly red-headed but
isn’t that way temperamentally.
In this connection, he is an in
veterate pipe-smoker, the same
being the classical deterrent to
going off half-cocked. He was
shoved around considerably in
the more or less broken field of
the earlier defense drive, But
has shown a capacity to get on
with his workmates and is cred
ited with ability to clear log
jams and get things done. He
v is 53 years old, a native of Han
nibal, Mo.
T HE life of Artemus L. Gates has
been one continuous anti-climax.
From the day of his 99-yard run in
the Yale-Harvard game of 1917, he
A. L. Gate, Long has been
Has Been on the
fDown-and-Down*
slipping
steadily. In
the World
war the best
he could do was to become Yale’s
most decorated war hero. He didn’t
even become a bank president until
he was 33 and was probably near 30
before he gathered his first million.
And now he has dragged along to
46 before being named by the Presi
dent as assistant secretary of the
navy for air. His final slump from
that golden November afternoon of
24 years ago probably will be when
they make him president of the
new League of Nations, after the
war.
He entered Yale from Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, his home town,
guessed right on our entering
the World war, joined an ap
prentice flying group and was
ready when the call came, vol
unteering in the naval air serv
ice. He was a tackle in the air,
as he had been on the ground,
dropping many German planes.
The British awarded him the
Distinguished Flying Cross, the
French the Croix de Guerre, and
his own country the Navy Con
gressional Medal of Honor. His
most sensational exploit was the
rescue of two British fliers
whose bomber had been downed
in the channel.
All this got passing mention in the
public prints, as did his appointment
to the presidency of the Liberty Na
tional bank, in New York, in 1929,
at the age of 33, but it was just a
whisper compared to the uproar
touched off by that 90-yard run.
At this writing Mr. Gates is presi
dent of the New York Trust com
pany.
Others engaged in Wall Street ao*
tivities who are on the up-and-up at
Washington include Robert Lovett,
(he not so long ago served as one of
Mr. Gates’ directors) who now has
a war department post correspond
ing with Mr. Gates’ new navy sec
retarial job; James C. Forrestal,
who is deep in production-manage
ment, and then there is Averill Har-
riman, who is swing-man diplomat i
in England and Russia l
Three New Rear Admirals for U. S. Navy
President Roosevelt has approved the recommendations of the line selection board, which selected 12 offi
cers of the grade of captain for promotion to the grade of rear admiral. Among the navy officers to step into
the charmed circle are, left to right, J. R. Beardall, J. F. Shafroth and O. M. Hustvedt. The promotion was
made necessary by the expansion of the U. S. navy to meet threat of war.
America Strengthens Sea and Air Arm
Pictured at left is a view of the keel laying for the new 10,000-ton cruiser, Wilkes-Barre, at the recently
re-opened century-old Cramps shipyards, near Philadelphia. Upper right: Widely heralded new flying fortress,
probably world’s deadliest instrument of destruction, emerges from the Boeing plant in Seattle for first test
flight. Lower right: The U. S. cruiser San Juan, after being launched at the Fore River yard of the Bethlehem
Steel company, Quincy, Mass.
But This ‘V’ Is for Sieg
For Civilian Defense
Attempting to steal the thunder of “Col. V. Britton,’’ who is the
sparkplug of the British “V for Victory’’ crusade, the Germans release
this photo to a skeptical world. It shows a great “v’’ inscribed in a pub
lic square in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The V stands for Victoria, an
ancient German word for victory, long superseded by the familiar “sieg”
of modern Germany.
Alice Marble of California, assist
ant director of civilian defense in
charge of physical training for wom
en, looks over some civilian defense
insignia. Miss Marble was formerly
national singles tennis champion.
Rescued Yankee Fliers Land in British Port
Vest Pocket Rations
Five American fliers who were en route to England to fly for the
R.A.F. and who were rescued when their ship was torpedoed. Four
other Americans were drowned. The rescued men, who landed at a
British port, are, left to right: Norman Echord of Kansas City, Tom
Griffin of Mississippi, Jack Gilliland of Kansas, James Jordan of San
Francisco and Rivers Grove of Georgia.
Lieut. Col. Paul Logan shown with
the army’s new “vest pocket’’ ra
tion for parachute troops, now being
tested by the quartermaster corps.
Three complete meals will be con
tained in these tiny boxes, each
weighing but a few ounces.
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signs are here to tempt ham
mer and saw into use. At top,
left, is a very practical item—the
“Leave a Note’’ bungalow. Inch
wood makes this, and it is to be
placed beside the front door. Pad
and pencil inside tho hinged door
invites friends to leave word if they
call when you are away. Practi
cal, too, are the doorknockers—
the red-headed woodpecker and the
horse. And kitchen or dining room
will welcome this clever cottage
flower holder and the matching
shade pulls.
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1. Approximately how many
members has the British house of
lords?
2. What is a euphemism?
3. What is meant by the French
phrase vis a vis?
4. What was the nationality of
the traveler Marco Polo?
5. Nemesis, the avenging deity
of the ancient Greeks, was repre
sented as what, man, woman, or
beast?
6. What river supplies the wa
ter by which the Panama canal
locks are operated?
7. The science of pomology
deals with what?
The Answers
1. Seven hundred and forty.
2. A mild name for something
disagreeable.
3. Opposite.
4. Italian (Venetian).
5. Woman.
6. The Chargres.
7. Fruit.
Reflections
The world is a looking-glass,
and gives back to every man the
reflection of his own face. Frown
at it, and it in turn will look sourly
upon you; laugh at it and with*
it, and it is a jolly, kind compan
ion.—Thackeray.
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CONSTIPATION
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Treatment of Men
There is nothing to do with men
but to love them; to contemplate
their virtues with admiration,
their faults with pity and forbear
ance, and their injuries with for
giveness.—Dewey.
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Privilege to Listen
It is the province of knowledge
to speak, and it is the privilege of
wisdom to listen.—Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
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Distrusting
It is more disgraceful to dis
trust than to be deceived by our
friends.—La Rochefoucauld.
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THi PUDGE
TO THE FI AG
is 0 fine, heart-warming
patriotic custom that began in a
great national public school
celebration October 2t, 1892.
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Cigars in moments of relaxation or
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another pleasant American custom.
Try King Edward today. You’ll^
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The more we desire the more we
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