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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
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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. It is certainly different
from anything I have ever read by
him before. He is dealing with facts,
whereas in the past he has dealt
almost always with theories. It is
a valuable little book and will en
able people to visualize daily life
for the ordinary man and woman
vhere total defense is required
THING!
f TTENSILS appliqued in the col-
^ or that is to be accented in
the kitchen—shall we say yellow
or red—would be pretty for this
set of tea towels. Lovelier still
are these designs when delicate,
harmonizing tints or shades are
used for the flower appliques as
an accent.
The mischiefs of fire, of water,
or robbers, extend only to the
body; but those of pernicious doc
trines, to the mind. — Chinese
Proverb.
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