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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1941 cilterf indie Notes of an Innocent Bystander: Old, but Good: Mrs. Jimmy Young, the newspaper gal, passes along the one about the American woman in London for' her first air raid. She was so scared she jumped into a nearby garbage can. Two Chinese came along and saw her. “Goodness me!" said the first. “What strange people are these Oc cidentals. In China we wouldn’t think of throwing away a pretty woman like that for at least another ten years!” • • • — Dot Is Dot Vay: Eddie Cantor’s favorite anecdote about Dot Parker deals with the time she was bored stilf at someone’s country place for the week-end. She sent a pal this telegram: “Please rush loaf of bread and en close a saw and file!” • • • — In Other Words: The World-Telly interviewer described Franz Werfel, the German refugee author, this way: “Here is a small, stoutish man with a face broad and gemuet- lich as a kartoffel pfannkuchen.” That’s a nice thing to portisen about a stan portis, and how’d you rillarah if he prampsoned the same sedkuppit? • • • — Quiteso, Quiteso: Two vaudevil- lians were standing in front of the Palace Theater reminiscing about the good old days. “Too bad,” sighed the first nostalgically. “Just as I was about to be booked into this house, they rang the curtain down on vaudeville—and gone are all my hopes and dreams—my tough est break.” To which the other replied indif ferently: “So what? What did you miss—a couple of bows?” • • • — Notes of a New Yorker: It could only happen in the mov ies, eh? Well it happened over at a New York afternoon paper, where the city desk was supposed to as sign a photographer to cover the war maneuvers in South Carolina . . . Instead, they sent him to North Carolina, about 400 miles away—tch, tch . . . Strangest sight on Fifth Avenue these days—seeing Boris Karloff, the Hollywood chill-billy, entering Elizabeth Arden’s. Not to get prettified, merely to remove the gray streaks from his hair so he will look more like Boris Karloff in “Arsenic and Old Lace.” • • • — The Andrews Sisters will get $5,000 per week when they head line at the Paramount Theater . . . The America Firsters are having their problems. Many backers have deserted. The committee has shaved expenses, slicing the publicity staff to the bone. • • • — The Big Parade: Robert C. Bench- ley, who lost one of his sox on the east-bound train the day before— ankling around the midtown places wearing a gray one—with the other ankle nekkid ... A. A. Berle Jr., the Ass’t Sec’y of State, reminiscing with Damon Runyon over their Hearst apprenticeship . . . Gail Pat rick of the Moom-Pitchers giving The Stork cub some class . . . Errol Flynn—the reason the beauty par lors are doing business . . . Eddy Duchin was in a boot shop when Geo. Jean Nathan came in . . . “I want a comfortable pair of shoes,” he said . . . “Something for walk ing?” asked the clerk . . . “Well,” well’d the critic, “something for walking out.” • • • — Jan Masaryk, now foreign min ister for the Czechs in exile, is bound for the U. S. . . . Jim Morris, owner of the Detroit hockey team (and a big racing stable) dropped $20,000 on Nova . . . Eighty million dollars has been spent in Manhattan and The Bronx this year for postage— biggest sales since 1929 . . . The post office here will add 9,000 postal em ployees for the Christmas biz. Hired only 6,000 last year . . . MGM’s answer to that senate snub-commit tee was the $40,000 purchase of the film rights to “Above Suspicion,” another uppercut to the Bund. • • • — Judge Landis’ new ruling will stop ball players from endorsing ciggies and hooch in their uniforms. In street clothes, anything goes . . . The Louis-Conn fight contract has been signed for June, 1942, and pro hibits Joe from giving anyone else a crack at the title before that date . . . One of the nation’s leading chemists still refuses to pay off on his Willkie (for President) wager —a Grand . . . The writers and the shoe-string publishers of the hit smash, “I Don’t' Want to Set the World on Fire,” are living on bor rowed coin! • • • — The Retort Proper: Then there’s the one about the draftee who es caped from the guardhouse. The sentry caught the dickens from his corporal. “Didden I tell you to put a man at every exit?” “Yeah, but this bird was smart He left through an entrance.” • • • — Broadway Byron’s Definition of Carryin’ the Torch: When the Gal Who Made You Forget What Time It Was—Has You Staring—at the Cal endar. by Eleanor Roosevelt I held my first staff meeting at the office of Civilian Defense and I think it cleared up certain difficul ties of procedure which are not yet organized within the office itself. I came back that day to the White House for my usual personal press conference. I had asked Dr. Harriet Elliott, the commissioner of the Division of Consumer Protec tion, to attend, so as really to stimu late a discussion on the whole ques tion of the increased cost of living. There is no question in my mind that we must have some method which is legal to control the rise in prices. It cannot be done by voluntary par ticipation alone, nor by the action of community groups, because it is too difficult for people in the com munities to get information on which they can act. I am happy to know that representatives of con sumer interests will be appointed on defense councils. More than this is needed, how ever, particularly when you realize that the snowball of rising prices has rolled up very rapidly in the past four months, and in some cases this increase is higher already than it was during the last World war. We must profit by our former ex perience and realize that prices which go up must eventually come down, and the cojning down process is a very difficult one. * * * SOUTH AMERICAN VISITORS At.- luncheon one day Miss Mary V/inslow brought two very delight ful guests, Senorita Graciela Man- dujano of Chile and Senora Ana Rosa de Martinez-Guerrero from the Argentine. Senorita Mandu- jano, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting before, has traveled in many parts of the United States since her arrival here last spring, so she must now feel quite at home in our country. She has just spent some time in Maine and announced to me that she had become a Re publican. * Senora de Martinez - Guerrero brought me an interesting scroll signed by many of the women of Buenos Aires who have joined to gether to aid the women in other countries who are fighting Naziism. They call their organization “Junta de la (Victoria.” Senora de Mar tinez-Guerrero, who is a very charming young woman, has lately been interested in building a hos pital. I have long known that the control and the management of the hospitals in the Argentine are in the hands of the women. I have often wondered if the contact with problems in the hospital would not some day create a situation where the women would wish to prevent certain things instead of waiting to .alleviate them when they reach the hospital stage. Much to my interest, Senora ae Martinez-Guerrero said that she had •decided that the only way to do this was through a more active interest on the part of women in the govern ment, and that she was beginning to talk to other women along these lines. This is interesting, not only from the point of view of what it might mean internally, but of what it would mean in better understand ing and co-operation between the women of the Americas. * * * ARMY LIFE REACTIONS At luncheon on the train one day I found myself at a table with two young army boys and we were joined shortly by a young marine who had just finished his Paris Island training and was being sent from Quantico, Va., to a new post. The army boys came from Virginia and New Jersey respectively, and ; had spent some months in camp in the state of Washington, and were now on their way to a New Jersey camp. All three were fine boys and I enjoyed talking to them. The thing which I remember most in ! retrospect, however, as we talked about their lives and need for their present sacrifice, is that they unani mously agreed that they did not I have enough information or enough i opportunity to talk about the larger aspects of world affairs as they re lated to their own individual serv ices. One of the boys finally said, “Well the trouble is, when you get into the army, the training is often the same, day in and day out, and you begin to think that the whole of life centers in what you get to eat, and when you get your pay.” I wonder if perhaps one aspect of our officers’ training is not being neglected. Should we include a course in the art of encouraging conversation among your associates? Should we remember that in both the German and Russian armies there is a re lationship between the officers and their men which is not entirely of ficial in character? • • • I have been sent a little brochure from the Consumers Book Co-opera tive, which they call Reader’s Ob server. It is a helpful little pub lication because it lists books in various fields, and has an article at the beginning, telling one about the trend of interest in reading materi al, and commenting on books in many fields. I was interested to find that a popular vote which they have taken shows a great interest in religious books, and secondly in books that can be classed as educa tion for democracy. William Clark Camp Cavalcade S HADOWY figures in a cavalcade of American history—such as the men behind the names of the great army cantonments scattered all over the United States, where young Americans are learning to be sol diers in order to defend their coun> try when the need arises. Near Nevada, Mo., stands a camp which bears the name of one of the greatest explor ers in the annals of America. He was William Clark, younger brother of George 1 Rogers Clark, | conqueror of the § Old Northwest | during the Revo- §| lution. Born in | Virginia /in 1770, William Clark was appointed a lieutenant in the regular army in 1792 and served with Gen. Anthony Wayne in the campaign against the Indians in 1793-94 which ended in the decisive Battle of Fallen Tim bers. A brother lieutenant in that army was a redheaded Virginian named Meriwether Lewis who was to be Clark’s partner in an undertak ing which would make both men famous. That was the exploration of the vast empire in the West acquired by President Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase. They started up the Missouri river on May 14, 1804, and after a journey of 8,000 miles which took them, through many perils, clear to the Pacific coast, they returned to St. Louis on Sep tember 23, 1806. Camp Clark in Mis souri honors his memory, as Fort Lewis in Washington honors that of his partner in their “magnificent ad venture.” Down in Texas is another camp named for a white man who exerted unusual influence over the Indians. It is Camp Bullis, near San An tonio, which perpetuates the fame of Brig. Gen. John Lapham Bullis. He served three years in the Union army during the Civil war, became second lieutenant in the regular army in 1867 and during the next 14 years made an enviable record as an Indian fighter. In 1882 the Texas legislature passed a resolution thanking him “for the gallant and efficient services in repelling the depredations of Indians and other enemies of the frontier of Texas.” Promoted to captain, Bullis was named agent for the Apache Indians at San Carlos, Ariz., one of the most difficult and dangerous posts in the West. But he won the respect and admiration of these savages so com pletely that when he left San Carlos at the end of four years they were a peaceable and prosperous tribe. Soon afterwards he was named agent for the Pueblos and Jicarilla Apaches in New Mexico and his four years there were equally successful. Bullis was retired from the army as a brigadier general in 1905 and died at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on May 26, 1911. Camp Boyd near El Paso, Texas, is named for another army officer who served in two wars. Charles Trumbull Boyd (1871-1916), a native of Iowa, was graduated from West Point in 1896 and became a cavalry officer. He saw active service in the Philippines in 1898 to 1900 and, after an interim as professor of mil itary science and tactics at the Uni versity of Nevada and a practicing lawyer in California, returned to the Islands as a major of the Philippine Scouts. In 1916 he joined his old regiment in the regular army, the Fourth cavalry, in the punitive ex pedition against Villa into Mexico and was killed in action at Carrizal, on June 21—the only American offi cer to die in this “Second War with Mexico.” Camp McCoy, near Sparta, Wis., also honors a veteran of tyo wars— Maj. Gen. Robert Bruce McCoy, who captained a company of Wis consin volunteers in the Spanish- American war, commanded the 125th infantry and later the 128th infantry of the Thirty-second divi sion of the A.E.F. and represented the war department in establishing the reservation which has been used for war games in recent years and which has borne his name since 1926. Camp Fordyce in the town of Sam Fordyce, Texas, is named for S. W. Fordyce, a leading attorney of 5t. Louis who served as counsel for the War Finance corporation dur ing the World war. He was a di rector of the M. 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