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New Yorkers Are
Talking About:
Babe Rath’s price ($25,000) for
his services in the Gehrig film,
which Goldwyn screams is too
much. He will prob’ly pay it,
, though, as Ruth is a “must” in any
biography of Gehrig . . . Jimmy
Walker, the former Mayor, who is
being considered as the head of a new
racetrack to be built in N. Y. The
backers being very wealthy French
refugees, wondering where to invest
their coin . . . MGM’s planned film
version of the town’s big hit, “Best
Foot Forward” . . . For Mickey
and Judy . . . The Nice-Work Dep’t:
One of Life’s editors who was or
dered to spend at least two weeks
with Ginger Rogers—for a profile
piece . . . The way ex-Warden
Lawes has added twenty pounds
since “getting out” of Sing Sing
Prisofi.
• • • —
The way the British radio pounds
away at Italy’s slipping morale with
eight daily broadcasts urging the
country to unlatch itself from Ber
lin .. . Rome’s reply prob’ly is:
“Why speak to us? Take it up
with the Warden!” . . . The sev
eral society lads, on the verge of
being drafted, who flew to Califor
nia, shifting residences there at the
same time. So that when their
numbers come up they’ll go to a
camp in sunny Cal. . . . Dumb, huh?
. . . The new bootlegging racket in
England, where more bootlegging
goes on in the clothing field than in
food. And in men’s attire!
* • • —
The book, “I Paid Hitler,” by Fritz
Thyssen, the industrialist who first
helped the Nazis in Germany . . .
Jimmy Wong Howe, the Chinese
cameraman, and Rabbi Edgar Mag-
nin, who made speeches for a short
to raise funds for Irish Relief . . .
The depressing news about Hen
drik Willem Van Loon, whose docs
have ordered him to stop all activity
for the next six months . . . The
Rev. Jardine, who came to the aid
of Wally and the Duke. His letters
ore now ignored.
• • • —
The way some of the pro-Nazis
over here outsmarted themselves.
The coin they saved on postage by
having their, hymns of hate franked
through the mails doesn’t begin to
cover the costs of lawyers and bail
. . . Jimmy Dorsey’s check for $40,-
000 from Decca, as his royalties for
the first half of 1941. In short, he
hit the Jukepot.
• • • —
Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
The Story Tellers: Clifton Fadi-
man will have you know that he’s
a book-reviewer, not a literary crit
ic. He points out the big difference
in “Thfe Reviewing Business,” in
Harper’s. “Literary criticism is an
art,” he says, “like the writing of
tragedies or the making of love and,
similarly, does not pay. Book re
viewing is a device for earning
a living” . . . Charles Poore also
takes a box-office slant at the prose
racket in The Times mag, in his
definition of the Pulitzer Prize. The
value of the prize, he says, is “a
thousand dollars in cash to those who
accept it and ten thousand dollars in
publicity for those who refuse it.”
• • • —
The Front Pages: An editorial in
the Herald Tribune epigrams the
spot the Bolo armies have put the
Huns in. “The Russians,” the daily
points out, “have only to survive
somehow in order to win; Hitler has
to win in order to survive” . . .
You can spot the Fascists’ weari
ness for the war in their weakening
propaganda bragging. Recently they
claimed only to have damaged the
British plane carrier, Ark Royal. In
all previous naval scraps, both the
Heinies and the Fascists have be
gun with the sinking of that vessel.
• • • —
Broadway Is Like This:
Broadway is where after you’ve
reached the top—at least a dozen
acquaintances claim having played
a big part in it . . . But when you
fail—everybody blames you . . . And
you blame the “breaks” instead of
looking for a job where your talent
will be respected—such as waiting
on tables or being president of a
bank . . . No matter how nice you
are there will always be others who
will knock you—from sheer force of
habit ... A fellow who is consid
ered more important than Roosevelt
or Willkie is one who can pick at
least one winner out of seven
races . . •. If you don’t talk about
yourself—then you run the risk of
being bored stiff listening to others
gab about themselves . . . The
Broadway lights have done more 'to
make the street famous than any of
the famed folk on it.
• • • —
Broadway Is still the zippiest
street of them all . . . Remember
when some people wrote articles al
leging it was dead a few years back?
. . . Many visitors come to The
Big Town to see the shows when the
best show is New York itself . . .
The Bowery, where many people are
starving, is full of restaurants . . .
The best way to disillusion your
daughter who is stage-struck is to
point out the chorus girls staggering
into subway kiosks ... No playboys
or sables—just yawns and smelly
fubway stations, sister.
UNITED WOMEN
One night, Mayor LaGuardia flew
down to Washington, had dinner
with us, and spoke before a meet
ing of the United Women’s Organiza
tions in the District of Columbia.
This group of women’s organizations
is composed today of 57 women’s
groups, ranging from labor groups
to political organizations.
They started with a meeting of
12 and stated that they would come
together in a united organization to
work for civilian defense. I think
this is a fine achievement and hope
there will be co-ordination and unity
all over the country at this time in
the interests of greater efficiency in
community defense work.
The next morning, Mrs. Kermit
Roosevelt arrived in time to have
breakfast with me at eight o’clock
on the south portico. Then I met
my daughter and son-in-law on their
arrival from Seattle, Wash. It gives
a lift to my spirits just to see these
two young people, even though I am
so busy that I think most of our
talking will be done in the middle
of the night!
At 10 o’clock, I was at the Office
of Civilian Defense, and returned be
fore lunch in time for two appoint
ments at the White House. Then,
three representatives of the Ameri
can Women’s Volunteer and some
of our Civilian Defense Office staff,
came to lunch. We talked over the
co-operation between the American
Women’s Volunteer association
workers already in the field, and the
Civilian Defense people, working
through our voluntary information
and placement bureaus.
I hope this will develop in every
part of the country and am anxious
that we should use all the work that
has been done. We must keep in
mind! the objectives before all of
us, which are to do good work to
meet emergency situations and to
improve the communities in which
we live.
* • •
PLANNING AHEAD
One afternoon I again had the
pleasure of meeting with the re
gional directors of the social securi
ty board. This time I heard them
discuss some of the problems which
are facing them, not only today,
but in the future. Very wisely, they
are thinking not only of such things
as they may have to meet now,
but of what may come when the
present emergency is at an end and
smother period of readjustment is
before us.
It is a great satisfaction to me to
find so many groups looking for
ward and planning ahead, so that
we shall not be caught unawares. I
find this one of the most encourag
ing signs, for it shows that some of
us, at least, are able to profit by
experiences in the past.
* • •
POSTCARD REQUESTS
I have received several post cards
which interested me very much.
Suddenly people seem to have the
urge to put their innermost secrets
on post cards! One person asks me
Irindly to arrest three other people,
asserting that they are guilty of
slander. It never seems to occur to
the gentleman that the power of ar
rest lies in the hands of certain spe
cial individuals, authorized by the
government, and if I started usurp
ing their rights, they might be some
what indignant.
I also have a post card which di
rects that I shall bring certain prac
tices of a local draft board to the
attention of the President, and to
no one else. The writers are ap
parently not at all interested in ask
ing the proper people at the head of
the draft service in their difficulties.
Jn fact, they tell me, that if the
4 president, himself, can not take a
hand in this matter, under no cir-
; cumstances am I to give the post
card to anyone else!
However, these two cards show a
confidence in the fact that the White
House will take an interest in pri
vate matters which are brought to
its attention. I think this is very
flattering and am very grateful to
both of these writers, thhugh I am
afraid I can not do anything about
either request which meets their
desires.
* * *
FREEDOM’S PEOPLE
On another night, Dr. John Stude-
baker and Dr. Ambrose Caliver, and
several of their assistants, brought
over the transcription of their radio
program, “Freedom’s People.” The
secretary of the treasury and Mrs.
Morgenthau, and Lord and Lady
Mountbatten were with us. We all
sat and listened with great pleasure
to this program, which will be
followed by others, all of which I
hope will be equally interesting and
well carried out.
These programs should bring be
fore the whole people, the contribu
tion of the Negro race to the nation.
After we listened to this program,
Lord Mountbatten brought in the
records of two songs bj' Noel Cow- |
ard, which have been a great sue- ]
cess in London lately. One is called
“London Pride,” and is charming.
The other has to be approached
with a sense of humor. It was writ
ten to stimulate the British govern
ment to giving proper consideration
and equipment to the Home Guard.
It is fairly satirical, but they tell
me it achieved its object.
Camp Cavalcade
CHADOWY 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.
If, for many years, Uncle Sam’s
soldiers have been the best cared-
for of any in the
world, much of
the credit for that
fact belongs to
the man for
whom Camp Hol-
abird, near Bal
timore, Md., is
named. Samuel
B. Holabird, a na
tive of Connecti
cut, was graduat
ed from West
c ■> u i u- .i Point in 1849 and
S. B. Holabird after several
years’ service on the frontier was
appointed captain and assistant
quartermaster soon after the out
break of the Civil war. Much of
his service during that conflict was
in Maryland and West Virginia as
chief quartermaster in various di
visions and corps of the Union army.
After the war he was chief quarter
master of the military departments
of Dakota, Texas and California and
in 1883 he was appointed quarter
master-general of the United States
army, a position which he held until
he was retired as a brigadier-gen
eral in 1890. At that time it was
said of him: “General Holabird was
ever alert to the needs of the army
and while occupying the position of
quartermaster-general he intro
duced many reforms to improve the
condition of the enlisted men, supply
ing them with comforts and conven
iences which soldiers could scarcely
have dreamed of 25 years earlier.”
Camp Guild near Wakefield, Mass.,
is named for a journalist and sol
dier,. Curtis Guild, (1860-1915) who
was born in Boston and succeeded
his father in the ownership of the
Boston Commercial Bulletin. He
was brigadier-general of the Massa
chusetts militia at the outbreak of
the Spanish-American war and aft
er being mustered into the volun
teer service was inspector-general
of the department of Havana in
Cuba. General Guild was elected
lieutenant-governor of Massachu
setts in 1902 and served two terms.
Camp Michie at Del Rio, Texas,
honors the memory of Virginia-born
Robert E. Lee Michie (1864-1918),
who was graduated from West Point
in 1885 and served in the cavalry at
various posts in the West. During
the Spanish-American war he was
adjutant-general of the department
of Havana in Cuba and served in the
Philippines in 1903-04. At the out
break of the World war he was
made a brigadier-general of the na
tional army and was commander of
the Fifty-third infantry brigade at
Camp Wadsworth, S. C.
Camp Callan, near San Diego,
Calif., bears the name of Maj. Gen.
Robert Emmet Callan, born in
Maryland in 1874 and now retired.
He saw his first active service in
the Puerto Rican campaign in 1898.
As chief of staff of the army artil
lery of the First army of the A.E.F.,
he won the D.S.M. for having “de
veloped the heavy artillery regi
ments under his command into com
bat units of remarkable efficiency
which proved to be of the utmost
value during the St. Mihiel and
Meuse-Argonne offensives.”
Heroes of World War I, both offi
cers and enlisted men, have pro
vided names for
numerous train
ing, camps. There
is Camp Sibert
near Boulder
City, Nev., which
recalls the serv
ices of Maj. Gen.
William Luther
Sibert (1860-1935)
the Alabama en
gineer who built
the Gatun locks
and dam in the
Panama canal, for which he re
ceived the thanks of congress, and
who commanded the First division
of the A.E.F. in France under Gen
eral Pershing.
There is Camp Edwards near For-
estdale, Mass., named for Maj. Gen.
Clarence E. Edwards (1860-1931),
commander of the Twenty-Sixth
(“Yankee”) division of the A.E.F.
who was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal for having organized •
that division and commanding it
with distinction during all but 18
days of its active service at the
front from February 4 to November
11, 1918.
W. L. Sibert
National Army Spirit
“A visit to one of the canton
ments is unforgettable. The great
ness of this superb effort to raise an
army that will be truly national
floods the heart with fire and pride
These molten pools of manhood have
been poured into the crucible. The
dross is being purged, the harden
ing metal tempered and welded. I
think it will be the finest army the
world has ever seen, because it is a
true cross section of a nation.”—
Christopher Morley, writing from
Camp Dix, October 24, 1917.
How to Make Your Own Rugs
A HOOKED rug gives your
home such a warm, intimate
lir! And you can hook this
charming design easily.
Alien Officers
For many years in the British
irmy, says Collier’s, King Haakon
sf Norway has held the rank of
colonel, Kings Christian of Den-'
mark and Leopold of the Bel
gians have been colonels-in-chief
tnd Emperor Hirohito of Japan
las been a field marshal, a rank
digher than that of a full general.
Use any material you have on
hand (though woolen is best) and
as for colors—the more the mer
rier! Lovely together are rose,
green, black, beige, orchid.
• • •
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The Soviet Union’s census of
January 17, 1939, lists 11 cities
with a greater than 500,000 popu
lation.
These are Moscow, 4,137,018;
Leningrad, 3,191,304; Kiev, 846,-
293; Kharkov, 833,432; Baku, 809,-
347; Gorky (formerly Nizhni Nov
gorod), 644,116; Odessa, 604,223;
Tashkent, 585,005; Tbilisi (Tiflis),
519,175; Rostov-on-Don, 510,253;
and Dnieperpetrovsk, 500,662.
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