McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, October 16, 1941, Image 6
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service;)
Blueprinting Ways
And Means of the
Dictators His Job
^EW YORK.—It has been only in
the last year or two that this
country began to realize that the
Germans had done a vast amount
of research
and organi
zation work,
over many
years, in
preparing for their world aggres
sion. Devising ways and means to
meet it on many fronts, military and
political, our government belatedly
discovers Dr. Calvin Bryce Hoover,
dean of Duke university, who was
away out in front in studying dicta
torships, trying to understand them
and find out what to do about them.
Dr. Hoover is an important mem
ber of Col. William J. (“Wild Bill”)
Donovan’s new diplomatic brain
trust, which recruits men of spe
cialized knowledge who have dis
closed a timely awareness of the
more or less declared war against
civilization.
Colonel Donovan's title of co
ordinator of information does
not reveal the exciting charac
ter of his bureau which is in
reality a somewhat mysterious
ideological and political Scot
land Yard, studying the origins
and techniques of Nazi power,
evolving plans to meet it in its
under-surface penetration every
where in the world, recruiting
against the dictators some of the
same psychological forces which
they employed.
So far as the public record shows,
Dr. Hoover scored a clean beat on
our lavishly staffed state depart
ment in trying to understand dicta
torships and to make an accurate
appraisal of their intentions and pos
sible outreach. It was in 1931 that
he wrote “The Economic Life of
Soviet Russia”; in 1933, “Germany
Enters the Third Reich”; and in
1937, “Dictators and Democracies.”
Through the pre-war years of plan
etary complacency, he was writing,
in his books and articles, an out
line of Adolf Hitler as “genius and
fanatic.”
These studies were not phillipios
against Naziism. They were search
ing and studious inquiries into the
origins and inducements of dictator
ships. They now provide invaluable
analyses of the Nazi cultural, eco
nomic, military formula for world
conquest.
Dr. Hoover, bora in Berwick,
m., in 1897, was conditioned to
patient, methodical work by
working on farms and railroads
in his youth. He attended Mon
mouth college and received his
Ph.D. degree at Wisconsin uni
versity in 1925. When he was an
undergraduate at the former
school, he Joined the National
Guard and served two years
in France in the World war, tak
ing part in two battles. He
Joined the Duke university facul
ty in 1925, becoming a full pro
fessor of economics in 1930.
In the above clinical studies, Dr.
Hoover does not find dictatorships
blue-printed in any patterns of so
cietal evolution. They can be fended
off if we’re “up and at ’em” without
losing too much time—but, above
all, they must first be understood.
C ALEB S. BRAGG, manufacturer
of the new plastics-and-mahog-
any airplane, which meets success
ful tests at Roosevelt field, was the
^ r* m o j- matinee idol
Once. Cut Records 0 j ear i y ^j a y
In Airplcmes, Now auto racing
Cuts Cost of ’Em f. nd A \ vi V
tion. A hand
some chap, rich, venturesome and a
Yale man. In 1912, he won the Fourth
International Grand Prix automo
bile race, and was awarded the Van
derbilt cup, by covering 409 miles at
69.3 miles per hour. In that day, a
mile a minute had been put down as
the limit of safety for automobiles.
Newspapers threw a fit over
Mr. Bragg passing this dead
line and living to tell the tale.
Time flivvers on. In 1918 he left
the country breathless by flying
from Dayton to Washington, 430
miles, in 2 hours and 50 minutes.
In 1919 he set a new altitude
record of 20,000 feet for sea
planes.
He was born in Cincinnati in 1686,
the son of a manufacturer and busi
nessman, and was graduated from
Yale in 1908.
He is a former head of the parly
Birds, an organization of aviators
who flew before 1916. At dne time he
beat Barney Oldfield in a race in
California. He had the crowds
whooping for him whenever he en
tered a race. In 1920 he helped
finance the Glenn L. Martin com
pany and moved into less exciting
but no less exacting details of sci
entific plane-building. He and many
engineers think he has pioneered
new strength and economy in air
plane construction with his soybean
job—oi whatever it is.
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1941
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DiMaggio Scores Winning Run in Series
Joe DiMaggio, San Francisco’s stellar contribution to “murderer’s
tow,” is shown sliding into the home plate with the winning run in the
Yank half of the ninth inning of the fourth game of the world series, at
Ebbets field, Brooklyn, N. Y. Henrich, who scored before him, stands
by as umpire Goetz calls the play. Dodger catcher Owen got the ball too
late. In this game the mighty Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 7 to 4.
Governor Weds
Arthur H. James, 58-year-old gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, is shown with
his bride, the former Mrs. Emily
Radcliffe Case, 48, widow of a mem
ber of the Cornell university staff,
after their marriage in Doylestown,
Pa. Only 150 guests attended, in
line with the governor’s desire for a
quiet, unpretentious ceremony. The
Rev. William Steckel of New Ips
wich, N. H., married them.
Navy Secretary Visits Bermuda Outpost
Confer With President
Secretary of the United States Navy Frank Knox recently visited
Bermuda, an important U. S. naval base in the Atlantic. This official
navy photo shows the secretary reviewing the sailors aboard the U. S. S.
Augusta.
Sir Ronald Campbell, left, acting
British ambassador, and Sir Shan-
mukham Chetty, head of purchas
ing commission of India, pictured
as they called on the President.
Brawn and Co-ordination for Flying Men
1941 Infantryman
It might be Just another physical ed class on another college campus,
but this time it’s aviation cadets at the “West Point of the Air,” Randolph
Field, Texas, who are building muscular co-ordination and body control.
An hour a day of calisthenics and outdoor games keeps these prospec
tive flying officers in trim.
Sergt. Dap Rosser of Fort Ben-
ning, Ga., poses as the U. S. in
fantryman of 1941, with new type
steel helmet that combines the best
features of the British and German
types. Loose fitting breeches and
comfortable puttees are w<«rn.
Guarding the Life Line to British Shores
Defense Volunteer
A striking photo is the above, taken somewhere in the Atlantic, and
showing the guns of the British destroyer Holderness on guard over a
convoy of British supply ships as they make their way across the sub-
infested waters of the Atlantic. These ships with their holds laden with
war supplies and food are the lifeline of the British.
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt walked to
work to the DuPont Circle office
building in Washington, where she
began work as assistant director of
civilian defense in charge of wom
en’s activities. Mayor LaGuardi^,
of New York (shown) inducted Mrs.
Roosevelt into office.
WHV Service Van* FtalM
Eleanor Roosevelt
RADIO BROADCAST
j FROM HYDE PARK.—We drove
j down to New York city after lunch
one day and I had a visit from Dr.
Reinhold Niebuhr and Dr. James
Loeb Jr., who came to ask me to
speak at a meeting. They allowed
me a choice of dates in October
or early December. October is al
ready so filled with obligations and
December is filling up so rapidly, that
I had a very hard time deciding.
I finally agreed that I would try to
go, if certain conditions can be met,
and if no one can be found who will
do a better job than I.
Then I went over to the broad
casting station and went through
the usual preliminaries of photo
graphs and rehearsals. I wish my
reading time would be the same at
least twice, it would save the poor
people who run these programs a
great deal of trouble. As a result
of the broadcast, I had a most enter
taining telegram which reads:
“Face the fact that Communism
and Democracy are not the same
and see where that leaves you.” It
was signed: “An Isolationist.”
* * *
DEFINITION OF DEMOCRACY
I must be very dull, because I
thought I had made crystal clear
that Communism and Democracy
are not the same. I thought that
I had given a fair definition of what
Democracy really is! However, I
am delighted to have an opportunity
to say here that it seems to me that
Democracy has one great advan
tage over Communism—it really re
quires the participation of every cit
izen in the choice of the people to
fill government office.
Of course, it would be impossible
to have a real democracy in a coun
try which has not so far had, for at
least two generations, free public
school education and laws which pro
tected people in their right to ex
ercise fundamental freedoms of
thought, of speech and of assembly.
Mr. and Mrs. “Isolationist,” who
ever you may be, facing the fact
of this difference between Commu
nism and Democracy, leaves me in
just the position I was in when I
made my radio speech.
• • •
ANOTHER NEW YORK TRIP
One day we caught the six o’clock
plane for New York city and worked
on my personal mail during an ex
tremely smooth flight. I went home
first, where I had a glimpse of Jim
mie and Rommie, who were just
starting out in their best bibs and
tuckers to dine very gaily in cele
bration of her birthday.
Miss Thompson and I dined in a
little restaurant on Sixtieth street
near Fifth avenue, which we both
like, and had a very leisurely and
pleasant meal by ourselves.
* * *
The meeting called the next day
by the Co-ordinator of Federal Se
curity Services, Mrs. Anna Rosen
berg, was a most inspiring occa
sion. It brings together not only
the different agencies under that
bureau, but all the other govern
ment agencies working in the area.
Here were government representa
tives on a regional level, working out
the problems which affected all,their
different agencies. Thereby, they
accomplished results, which, if they
had not met together once a month,
probably would have taken weeks of
correspondence finally to clear up.
In the afternoon, all the state of
ficials joined the meeting. This
meant that purely state responsibili
ties, and the points at which the
state officials touch the federal gov
ernment officials, could also become
clarified because of personal con
tact.
In addition, Lieutenant-Governor
Poletti of New York state, state co
ordinator of civilian defense activi
ties, and Maj. Gen. Irving J. Phil-
lipson, representing the military in
terests of the area, were present.
It seemed to me that this was as
good a co-ordinating job as I had
seen accomplished anywhere in the
government.
* * •
SOUTH AMERICAN FILMS
One evening the President and I,
with our dinner guests, had the
pleasure of seeing some new films.
One is made from pictures taken
during Mr. Julian Bryan’s last trip
to South America, and his voice
gives the running comment.
Life is full of little coincidences,
and I smiled when I thought that,
only that morning I had read a let
ter which a young friend wrote from
Bogota. She told most interestingly
of the country and the life there and
casually mentioned that they had
been spending some very pleasant
hours with Mr. Julian Bryan. Here
I was looking at the picture made
on his last trip, while he was out
making pictures for a future film!
The other picture shown was
done under the direction of Mr.
Joseph Losey. It is a very charm
ing picture of a nursery school in a
rural area. Children are shown
in all the activities that are possible
in country surroundings. We see
: them at work and at play. The
children range in age from two to
seven years. It has no great sig
nificance, except that it brings the
people who see it a realization of
' the value of the nursery school.
This educational experiment is fair
ly new in our country. In Europe
i it has long been known.
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So have your guests enter by a
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out of black paper, fasten to
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* • •
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’Tis safer to be that which we
destroy than by destruction dwell
in doubtful joy.—Macbeth.
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