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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. K. & T. railroad
uid a director of many important
orporations in the Southwest.
‘Soldiers of Freedom’
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4.rmy: The heart of the whole coun
ty is with you. Everything that
pou do will be watched with deep
interest. For this great war draws
! as all together, makes us all com-
| :ades and brothers, as all true
\mericans felt themselves to be
vhen we first made good our inde
pendence. The eyes of all the world
will be upon you, because you are
n some special sense the soldiers of
xeedom.”—President Woodrow Wil
son’s message, September 3, 1917.
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