Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Man About Town: John Edgar Hoover trimmed Heinrich Himmler’s Hamburg Ges tapo out of $21,000 in cash! Spent 3Gs for that “Nazi” Long Island short-wave station and is keeping the rest for widows of his agents . . The Left Wingers and John Labor Lewis are not so wide apart as Washington circles hope. Herr Bruening, who was Ger many’s chancellor before the Nazis came, has applied for membership at the Harvard club . . . Louis Bromfield’s description of the Paris social set: “The International White Trash.” Tom Mooney, they say, is topping a committee petitioning the release of Earl Browder . . . Sidney Wein berg, the OPM exec, to hear his severest critics tell it, is running things as though it were a flop show Sammy Kaye, who helped “Dad dy” to fame, isn’t to blame for the arranger not getting his royalties . . . How come the gov’t allows Nazi “journalists” to remain here after their own colleagues (the Foreign Press Ass’n) kicked them out of that club for “unprofessional conduct”? . . . Four days before the “horror ship” Navemar arrived —the line gave a sumptuous dinner for ship news reporters, trying to soft-pedal matters . . . The newly wedded Howard Reillys (pretty Jean Harrington) aren’t being yaps, are they? The Savoy-Plaza had an attentive and respectful listening audience the night FDR spoke. Except one table where two foreigners and a blonde were noisy . . . When a lad asked them to hush—the fight was on—and police summoned . . . The ironic part of being Miss America. It takes about nineteen years to be come that beautiful and then it* takes the public about one week to forget her name. ‘ The U. S., we hear, is willing to pay Japan’s indemnities to woo it from the Axis and get out of China. Russia is willing to give Japan some more “living space” to help matters along . . . Chiang Kai-shek warns “that a drop of oil to Japan means quarts of Chinese blood in Chung-, king” . . . That coffee program without Baby Snooks is like a trav elogue without a sunset . . . True Story’s current piece on Willkie (The Man Who’d Rather Be Right Than President) is a honey. Robert Sherwood has completely rewritten “There ShaU Be No Night,” and the Lunts will shortly take it on tour again. The play no longer takes place in Finland out in an unnamed neutral country . . . There will be a phonograph record price war, when Victor starts ped dling two Red Seals for a dollar . . . Gov. James of Pennsylvania has a peculiar hobby. Just loves parading around his hotel room, on the hot test days, in his long underwear. The following demonstration helped to precipitate the present Norwegian mess: Goebbels was eager to do something to eliminate the anti-Nazi feeling among the Nor wegians, so he moved the entire Berlin opera company up to Oslo for an elaborate performance . . . Tickets were put on sale at bargain prices, and tremendous publicity ac companied their sale . . . The next day the house was sold out . . . Goebbels was in the honor box along with high Nazi officials . % . They waited and waited, but no audience . . . Later a handful of stragglers appeared ... All the rest of the tickets had been bought by anti- Nazi Norwegians. Memos of a Midnighter: Fred Astaire, the Tip-Tap-Toer, time stepping down Vth Avenue during lunch-time with a flock of stenogs giggling behind him—and was the suave star embarrassed . . . Sophie Tucker, whose new book, “The Life of the Red Hot Mamma,” will have asbestos covers because Mr. G-Man so suggested in a clowning mood . . . The Senate’s Nyzi indicted Chaplin’s film, “The Dictator,” as warmongering. The speech at the finish is a ringing plea for Peace! New Yorchids: Chief Quarter master Matt (USN) Murphy’s water colors. He’s done nearly all the Navy’s posters . . . Jimmy Dorsey’s version of “Embraceable You” . . . Zanuck’s “Yank in the RAF” . . , Marie Whitebeck Clark’s “Sing Me a Song,” a book of safety ditties for tots and adults . . . Jerome Wedman’s philosophy in the SEP: “Life is just a series of ‘pals’—all giving a little so they can get a lot.” The Book-of-the-Month selections for December will be “Storm” by George R. Stewart (Random House) and “Language in Action” by S. I. Hayakawa (Harcourt Brace) . . , A soldier who deserted from Ice land and stowed away on a returning ship (according to locals) was par doned by FDR and sent back . . . Last winter we itemed about a Ger man raider in the Pacific. It’ll be a whale of a tale when it is collared and when it is found carrying U.S.A. marked supplies W. T. Sherman (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. Today thousands of soldiers from the state which sent U. S. Grant into the conflict of 1861-65 are train ing at a camp near Tullahoma, Tenn., which bears the name of another Amer ican military gen ius. Nathan Bed ford Forrest (1821-1877) is re membered by most Americans as the man whose recipe for victory N. B. Forrest ‘‘ Gitthar fustest with the mostest men” but more than one Union general remembered him as a “wizard of the saddle” who re peatedly outrode, outwitted or out fought them whether he had the “mostest .men” or not. Despite the fact that he was uneducated and had no formal military, training, his deeds won from a West Pointer and another great leader this tribute: “the most remarkable man the Civil war produced on either side.” The man who paid that tribute to Forrest was William Tecumseh Sherman (1870- 1891) for whom Camp Sherman near Chillicothe, Ohio, is named. It was Ohio which sent “Cump” Sherman to West Point where he learned the art and science of making war. Years later he ut tered the phrase by which he is best remembered by most Ameri cans—“War is hell!” He knew that from experience—in Mexico in 1846- 47, but more particularly from 1861- 65 when he was Grant’s right-hand man in dealing the death blows to the Confederacy. One of Lee’s commissioners of surrender at Appomattox was a fel- low-Virginian and a militant church man — William Nelson Pendleton (1809-1883). A graduate of West Point in the class of 1831, he re signed two years later to teach mathematics in colleges in Pennsyl vania and Delaware. Then he joined the Protestant Episcopal church, was ordained a priest and was serv ing as rector of a church in Lexing ton, Va., at the outbreak of the War Between the States. Putting off his church robes to don the Confeder-. ate gray, he rose to the rank of brig adier-general and chief of artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia and at the end of the war returned to his pastoral duties in Lexington. A camp at Virginia Beach, Va., bears his name. Virginia gave to the Confederacy its “Fighting Rector” of the Prot estant Episcopal church— William Nelson Pendle ton. Louisiana gave to the same cause its Protes tant Episcopal bishop— Leonidas Polk (1806-1864). Born in Raleigh, N. C., Polk, who Was a cousin of President James K. Polk, was graduated from West Point in 1827 and served as a second lieutenant of artillery : 'or five months before resigning Tom the army to study theology. Eleven years later he became the j missionary bishop of the Southwest and in 1841 he was consecrated bish op of Louisiana, a position he held : or 20 years. At the outbreak of the War Between the States he was com missioned a major-general in the * Confederate army. Promoted to lieutenant-general in 1862, he com manded the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana rom January to May, 1864. The next month he was killed by a cannon sail at the Battle of Pine Mountain, Ga. Because of his prominence in the religious, educational and mili tary life of Louisiana, it was singu- arly appropriate that one of the argest camps, near Leesville, in that state shoulfl bear his name. Leonidas Polk A Pioneer in Physiology In 1822 William Beaumont, an army surgeon, began what was to be the most important contribution to the physiology of digestion in cen turies. For eight years he made a study of Alexis St. Martin, a French Canadian, who had the misfortune to have a permanent opening in his stomach due to a gunshot wound. In 1833 Beaumont published his “Ex periments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion,” which was the founda tion of modern dietetics. by Eleanor Roosevelt RETAILERS AND DEFENSE One noon, I went to buy a stat^p at the exhibition which opened “Re tailers For Defense Week.” This effort on the part of retailers to do a real job for defense is a very wise move. While it may curtail some of the buying at the present time, it will put money in people’s pockets for future use. We shall need that money to keep us from -too great a business slump during the transition from defense work to normal activities. It seems to me that in everything we do today we should have an eye to our present needs, but at the same time think far enough ahead to guard against some of the dif ficulties we have undergone in the past. For instance, if the production of automobiles is going to be drastical ly curtailed in order that industry may take a bigger share in defense work, why not plan to put money, which in ordinary times we might set aside for a new automobile, into Defense Stamps, and call those stamps: “Our Automobile Fund” for the future? We may have to use our old car a bit longer than we would ordinar ily think wise, or even economically sound, but at least we can arrange our own finances so that they are helpful to the government at pres ent and useful to us when the day comes for buying that new car. • • * WOMEN AND BUSINESS Women are as interested in all these business questions as men. During the second week of October which will be observed as Business and Professional Women’s week throughout the nation, there will be special emphasis on the plans laid by which women, many of whom are influential in business and pro fessional groups, can aid the de fense program. I wish they would all think not only of the problems which come before them in business, but also of the many local problems which in the end are going to be very vital in national defense. A particularly vital problem is participation of volunteers in work where their ef forts will be valuable. I am counting on these important women’s organizations to make a valuable contribution in the working out of the volunteer services. They must be rendered on a very large scale if this country is ever to be really well prepared and fully de fended. I was very much interested to see that the “Reader’s Digest” is going to be published in Portuguese as well as in Spanish. This publication has proved that it is possible to bring out in this country a magazine that is read by opr South and Central American neighbors with interest, and I wish this new venture great success. * « • ‘SHAPE OF THE FUTURE’ I want to tell you about a series of articles which the magazine “Common Sense” is announcing. They plan later to have them pub lished in book form, but in the meantime, both the subject matter and the authors make me feel that none of us will want to miss them. They deal in a general way with the “shape of the future.” The editors, in their announce ment, say a few things which, if they are really carried out by the articles, mean that we shall be given something vital to think about. One statement reads: “The crucial question for believ ers in democracy is whether the constructive possibilities are to be realized . . . We can not hope merely to save what we have. No Maginot Line can hold back the tide of change.” * * * CIVILIAN VOLUNTEERS A conference one morning with Miss Eloise Davison to talk over some of the things in connec tion with civilian volunteer partici pation in national defense. I am trying, as far as possible, to familiarize myself with the or ganization which now exists. I am studying its accomplishments and publications, so that when I do go to the office, I shall not find myself meeting people whose names I do not know and who are functioning in ways which I do not as yet under stand. I am very much interested in a pamphlet which has been compiled for the organizations which are deal ing with the registration of volun teers. It is intended to aid in set ting up Volunteer registration cen ters. This seems to be a valuable step, but it will take some time to set them up so they function smoothly. I like Mayor LaGuardia's idea that registering people is compar atively useless, but enrolling them to do definite things is well worth while. Obviously, it accomplishes two things at once. It gives a card catalogue of people who may be called upon at any time, and actual ly places people in positions where they function in their communities. I talked also that morning with Miss Jane Seaver, who is the youth member on the Committee of Forty- Five on Volunteer Participation. She has worked out a preliminary program for youth participation. We Are Novices We arrive complete novices at the different ages of life, and we often want experience in spite of the number of years. DON’T LET CONSTIPATBON SLOW YOU UP • When bowels are sluggish and you feel irritable, headachy and everything you do is an effort, do as millions do —chew FEEN-A-MINT, the modem chewing gum laxative. 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