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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, OC' Ti a ter* mme m aaaoEJsssji: The Village News-Press (Prop, and Editor, Walt Winchell) Right smart remark by Ed Cantoi on his radio hour*. Said to Carol Landis that she must excuse Joe DIMaggio for never hearin’ about her as he never seen any movie shows. “Then what is he doin’ on the N. Y. Yankees?” Carol said back. “He should be with the Wash ington Senators!” • • • — Ezra Stone, accordin’ to reliable report direct from his camp, had to drill in double time last week ’cause his gun was dirty. • • • — Yestiddy in 1938 Olsen & John son’s op’ry came to town. Three years old goin’ on 4 million dol lars. Oley and Chick sent ye ed a telegram, sayin’: “Thanks for what you wrote about it to make it an all- time annuity for two lucky and appreciative Scandinavians.” How about a coupla passes, fellers? • • • — Ye ed sure wishes his detractors would hold a rehearsal of some thin’. In a magazine piece it was claimed we ain’t never had no scoops on the Hauptmann case. But in a new book (The Bunk of the Month) ye ed is criticized for spill- in’ secrets about the case! The se crets (scoops!) came from New York policemen workin’ on it. • • • — How come those famous speakers and lawmakers get $600 and more from the America Firsters to make those “patriotic” speeches? • • • — New York Heartbeat The Big Parade: Arthur Treach er, who once swallowed a monocle, ankling along Vth Avenue a few inches behind Grace Moore, who once swallowed a swallow . . . The Jack Bennys and Ida Lupino sitting at the left rear table in The Stork club to give that corner some class . . . Gladys George and her groom decorating Cora & Irene’s . . . Lois January at the Belasco Jessel re hearsals telling puns. The Lois form of wit . . Elsa Maxwell squeezing into a cab outside the Hur ricane . . . Broadway Rose now called Broadway Cactus . . . Wen dell Willkie, who proves that the only way you can put your country before everything else is by getting behind the President. • • • — Memos of a Midnighter: Garbo and a dance director here are caus ing merger talk . . . S. I. Haya- kawa’s “Language in Action” (a Book of the Month choice soon) has been condemned as unfit and un- American by the Americanism Comm, of the Legion. It will com bat “the cleverly concealed Axis propaganda” . . Jim Tully’s new book will be published by Scrib ner’s, which claims it is his best yet . . . Local Italians are sup porting “II Mundo,” the new anti- Axis paper . . . The winner of the Mrs. America beauty contest (en tered as non-professional) is a Pow ers model. • • • — Things / Just Found Out About Newspaper Features The California legislature in 1899 passed a law prohibiting publication of cartoons in newspapers . . . Only one important daily newspaper doesn’t run comic strips—the New York Times . . . The most univer sally popular story, “Robinson Cru soe,” and the most influential Amer ican novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” (it is credited with fomenting the Civil war) appeared first as news paper serials. • • • — The first serial in an American newspaper was Defoe’s “A Reli gious Courtship,” in a Pennsylva nia gazette. It wasn’t completed because the agonistic Ben Franklin took over the paper and threw it out . . . Franklin published the first newspaper cartoon in this coun try . . . Paul Revere was a news paper cartoonist. So were John Barrymore and Gary Cooper. • • • — Early U. S. newspapers took care of “syndication” themselves. They clipped freely from each other, and anything good that appeared, for ex ample, in Thomas Fleet’s excellent Boston Post was sure to be repub lished throughout the Colonies. Fleet, by the way, put stories told to his son by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Goose, into a book and made her the immortal Mother Goose. But Fleet’s paper printed no story of the Battles of Lexington and Concord in its next issue, be cause, “The unhappy transactions of last week are so variously related that we shall not at present under take to give any particular account thereof”! • • • — The first popular serial writers were Horatio Alger Jr. and Mary Jane Holmes, developed by the N. Y. Sun. And, believe it or not, the 60-year-old “Lena Rivers,” by Miss Holmes, last year topped sales of Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and Roberts’ “Oliver Wis- well” . . . The longest novel in history is Adele Garrison’s (real name, Mrs. Martin White) story of one couple’s married life, called “Pitfalls of Love.” It has appeared in newspapers every week-day since 1915—more than 5,750,000 words. V P. G.T. Beauregard (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. On January 23, 1861, Louisiana- born Capt. Pierre Gustave Ton- tant Beauregard (1818 - 1893) was appointed super intendent at West Point. He had been graduated there in 1838, and served for 14 years as a lieu tenant of engi neers, during which time he had fought in the Mexican war and had been twice wounded in the capture of Mexi co City. On Feb ruary 20, 1861, he resigned his com mission to offer his services to the new Confederate government. v He was placed in charge of the defenses of Charleston, S. C., and so.it fell to his lot to start the Civil war when he ordered his gunners to open fire on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. He also was in command of the Confederate forces at the first real battle — Bull Run — three months later and he served throughout the war, taking part in many important battles until he surrendered with Gen. J. E. Johnston to General Sher man in April, 1865. Camp Beaure gard near Alexandria, La., bears his name. The war which started when Gen eral Beauregard gave the order to fire on Fort Sum ter in the harbor of Charleston, S. C., came to an end near Appo mattox Court House, Va., in 1865. The last charge there was led by Gen. John Brown Gordon (1832 - 1904) who stormed Union breastworks and captured some artillery in a des perate attempt to Grant’s encircling hosts. Georgia-born Gordon had been in it from the beginning, start ing as a captain of infantry and ris ing to the rank of lieutenant-gener al. After the war was over, he re turned to Georgia to practice law, was sent to the United States senate in 1873 and remained there until 1880. Then he served as governor o»f his native state from 1886 to 1890 and again served in the senate from 1891 to 1897. A camp near Chamb- lee, Ga., perpetuates the fame of this soldier-statesman. What Blackstone is to students of the law, Upton is to the students of military sci ence. So a camp near Yapahank in his native state of New York hon ors the memory of a great teach er of soldiers, Emory Upton (1839 - 1881), fa mous author of “System of Infan try Tactics” and “Military Policy of the United States.” Upton was not merely a theorist—he learned the science of/#rar on the battle field. Graduated from West Point in 1861, he had his baptism of fire as a lieutenant of artillery at Bull Run, where he was wounded. From that time on he was constantly in the thick of the fighting and was repeatedly wounded. He fought at South Mountain, Antietam, Fred ericksburg, Gettysburg, in the Wil derness campaign, at Spotsylvania, with Sheridan in the Shenandoah and in the expeditions which cap tured Selma, Columbus and other cities in Alabama and Georgia. By the end of the war he had received all brevets from major to major- general in the regular army but held merely a captain’s commission. After the war he commanded at West Point and devoted himself to the writing which has made his name synonymous with “military tactics.” Camp Joseph T. Robinson, near Little Rock, Ark., originally named Camp Pike for Brig. Gen. Zebulon M. Pike, was renamed in 1937 in honor of the veteran Arkansas con gressman and United States senator who died that year. John B. Gordon break through KS Emory Upton A Famous Bugle The most famous bugle in the United States army is the property of Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, veteran bugler of the Third cavalry. Witchey blew taps on the horn when .he Unknown Soldier was buried in Arlington cemetery and he used it for the same purpose at the funerals of ex-President Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Lieut. Gen. S. B. M. Young and many other prominent Ameri cans. Eleanor Roosevelt AN ENTERTAINING EVENING We had an interesting evening as we watched some short documenta ry films, and then two gentlemen, Mr. Charles L. Todd and Mr. Son- kin, who have been making record ings of interesting folk songs and dance music in the migratory camps on the West coast, for the Library of Congress, played some of their records. One, a song by a boy of 14, was a gem, though he was covered with confusion and ran away when he heard it played! Many of the rec ords, like the song written by a woman about her trip from Texas to the West, were heart-rending, in spite of the fact that one could not help laughing at certain little twists of language and expression. These recordings are going to be historically interesting, but the in spiring thing to me is that people can live through such hardships and still have music in their souls and the ability to express themselves hopefully. Mr. Todd told me that when they have a dance, or are happy, over the prospect of work or some small event in their daily lives, these people apparently seem to be able to enjoy themselves with complete forgetfulness of the past and the future. They have learned what so many of us do not learn— that the present is the only thing we .really possess. * • * CHINESE PHILOSOPHY That night I read a little volume, arranged for publication by Stan- wood Cobb. It is called, “The Wis dom of Wu Ming Fu,” and is a col lection of his translated poems and sayings. The Chinese philosophy over the centuries has come to the same conclusion as our migrants, and they would agree with Mr. Fu that “it should be our concern to make each present moment per fect.” • * * ‘WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS’ The next da? was most beautiful and four of us #/ent by car to Sugar Loaf mountain and basked in the sun, with a beautiful view spread out below us After lunch, in the shade of some trees, with the rocks as our seats we read aloud the preface to a Short anthology called “We Hold These Truths,” compiled by Stuart Gerry Brown of Grinnell, Iowa. This address impressed me, for I know two pretty good representa tives of what American citizenship means, who are, now in Washing ton and who have had close associa tion with this same place in the past. This anthology is a collection of documents, written by our great men over the period of our whole history. Documents which all of us frequently want and should turn to, to clarify our own beliefs. One afternoon I received Dr. Juan Carlos Blanco, the ambassador of Uruguay and Madame Blanco, and Mr. Fernand Dennis, the minister of Haiti, and Madame Dennis. They were my first diplomatic visitors for the fall, and they certainly were charming ones. Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau dined with us that night, and the next day Mrs. Morgenthau was catching up on some of the civilian defense work on which we are go ing to work together in the coming months. I find a wealth of volun teers who are anxious to do some thing useful, but I shall not be satis fied until I begin to see people ac tually at work in communities all over the country. That is where the real civilian defense must have its roots. By proxy, that day, I learned a good deal about my new job, be cause Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. met the staff in the morning, and sat in on Director LaGuardia’s meeting. In the afternoon, she met with another group, which discussed the complexities of the jurisdiction of work. All existing organizations will finally be drawn into a pattern where everybody will do his best with the least possible friction. Anybody with experience knows what this can mean in the way of difficulty during the period of or ganization. A hundred times a day I shall wish what I have so often wished in the past, that human be ings could be reconstructed over night. If we would think only of the objectives to be achieved and never of the instruments to be used, least of all ourselves, how much more we could accomplish. Great teachers through the ages have tried to teach us that this is the only efficient way of work ing and, perhaps, in the end, the only way through which any civili zation can be saved. However, we do not always believe these teach ers. • • * ‘DIGGING FOR MRS. MILLER’ I read through a little book called “Digging for Mrs. Miller,” by John Strachey. It is an account of the experiences of an air raid warden in England. 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