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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK, s. C. THTTRSpAY. NOYEMp^R 6- 1941 ' 'Man, About ToUm:~' How British! Lord Louis Mount- batten, the ex-Captain of the Illus trious, will soon be making front page news again, but that's a naval secret. He was telling us about the sinking of the Hood by the Bismarck and toe way the Bismarck was chased, trapped and destroyed. Mountbatten suggested that toe complete exciting sea saga be given to the newspapers—-to cheer lovers of freedom. “Heavens,, no!” ejaculated the Admiral. “No more publicity. The incident has had too much of a press as it is!” 'bee — Observation: Eddy Duchin says he’s surprised that none of the iso lationist editors headlined it this way: “American Destroyer Rams Nazi Torpedo!” • e We’ve Met Her: 'A lovely blonde Walked into a night spot, nose in air. Someone cracked: “She’s sure putting on toe dog since she’s been to the Coast.” “You mean,” Dick Todd elaborat ed, “she’s gone Hollywoof!” • • o — . I Don’t Believe It: Rosemary Lane met a panhandler who asked for a nickel feracuppacawfee and her name and address! “Why my name and address?” “Oh, don’t get me wrong,” he re plied, “I want my secretary to drop you a note of thanks.” • • • “* ' By Way of Report: Most papers missed this bit at the Bioff-Browne trial, where testimony about thou sand dollar bills is being tossed about like confetti. Judge John C. Knox, who has a sensayuma, was questieming Nick Schenck of MGM, who was having trouble remember ing his annual income. “Well, just try to give it to us ap proximately, within $75,000,” said Hizzoner, whose record is toe best on the federal bench, whose deci sions involve billions and whose sal ary is $10,000 a year. • • • — Idiom’s Delight: Seymour Berk- son of Int’l News contributed this one to the book of anecdotes called “The Best I Know.” An American Reporter was summoned to toe of fice of toe Moscow censor, who an grily objected to this dispatch: “The American Ambassador stood vgithin a stone’s throw of Stalin . . .” “What do you mean by this out rageous insult?” thundered the cen sor. “You know perfectly well that he didn't throw a stone' at Mr. Stalin!”’ The reporter finally explained it was an American idiom. “So?” said toe dope. “In that case we change it anyway. Make it: ’The American Ambassador stood near Stalin. He threw NO stones!’ ” • • • — Uncommon Sense: Conrad Thi- bault tells of the three appeasers who were crossing toe Arabian Desert. “Look,” said one, “there’s an ostrich with its head in the sand. Isn’t it a silly bird?” The ostrich jerked back its beak and intoned: “When I have my head in the sand I have enough sense to keep my mouth shut!” • • • — Notes of an Innocent Bystander: typewriter Ribbons: Murray Butler: Many tombstones should read: 30, buried at 60” . . . Bierce’s definition of ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead . . . Anon: Lions of society are tigers for publicity . . . Elsie McCormick: People who live in pleasant places always act as if the weather was their own personal achievement . . . Geo. B. Shaw’s definition of a pessi mist: A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it . . . Wm. Lyon Phelps: This is toe final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him . . . PM: He enjoys diving into a good book and pulling a paragraph over his head. # • • • — The Story Tellers: The title of Nina Wilcox Putnam’s Your Life piece is: “I Was Too Fat to Love.” That’s a variation of the true con fession theme. There the oonfessor is usually too fat-headed . ; . Ex- Warden Lawes in Click writes of J. Weil, the “con” man, who used to wear a beard to appear dignified and who claimed he could only fleece a person who was crooked in his heart . . . The grid experts who invade the mags at this time of the year remind you of most military experts. Their pieces may make sense, but not many make them in teresting. • • • — Manhattan Murals: The bootblack Nicholas people’s “Died at Ambrose Joseph P. MeQuaide Camp Cavalcade S HADOWY figures in a cavalcade of American history—such as the men behind the names of the great irmy cantonments scattered all liver the United States, where young (Americans are learning to be sol- liers in order to defend their coun try when the need arises. Near Watsonville, Calif., is the wily camp named for an army chap lain—Father Jos eph P. MeQuaide, who served as chaplain for the corps in the Phil ippines from 1899 to 190 0,. was drafted into the federal service August 5, 1917, went overseas and served there until December, 1918. C o m m i s- sioned a major in 1922, he became regimental chaplain of the 250th roast artillery, a position which he held when he died in Los Angeles March 29, 1924. Camp Berkeley, near Abilene, Texas, is named for private David B. Barkeley (1898-1918) of Company A, 365th infantry, Eighty-ninth divi sion, who was awarded, posthu mously, toe Congressional Medal of Honor “for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, above ahd beyond toe call of duty, in action with the enemy near Pouilly, France, No- trember 8, 1918.” Barkeley respond ed to a call for volunteers to swim across the River Meuse to recon- noiter enemy positions, secured the desired information butwas drowned while returning. California also has a camp near San Miguel, named for a soldier who was awarded, posthumously, a Congressional Medal of Honor. He was Corp. Harold W. Roberts (1899- 1918) of Company A, 344th battalion, tank corps, who, when the tank which he was driving slid into a shell-hole, 10 feet deep and filled with water, gave up his chance to sscape, pushed his gunner through toe back door of the tank and was nimself drowned. Camp Davis, at Holly Ridge, N. CL, honors a North Carolinian, Maj. Sen. Richmond Pearson Davis (1866-1937), chief of artillery of toe Ninth corps of toe A.E.F. and win ner of toe D.S.M. Camp Croft, near Spartanburg, S. 2., is named for South Carolina’s Maj. Gen. Edward Croft (1875-1938), who came out of toe World war as a colonel with two decorations, toe Silver Star and toe Purple Heart, rose, through toe grades to major- general and was made chief of in fantry of toe army in 1933. Camp Williams, near Sparta, Wis., bears the name of a Pennsylvania- born journalist who, after work ing on newspa pers in Missouri, became a foreign c orrespondent and gave up that career to become first lieutenant with the 128th machine gun bat talion of the A.E. F. He is Maj. Gen. John F. Wil liams, who be came a colonel in the Missouri National Guard in 1923 and is now'chief of the National Guard bureau of ,the war depart ment in Washington. - Camp Welters, near Mineral Wells, Texas, recalls the services of Brig. Gen. Jacob F. Wolters of Hou ston, who organized the Texas cav alry during the World war and after wards recruited a regiment of cav alry in New Mexico to complete the brigade. Later he was placed in command of the Fifty-sixth cavalry brigade of the Texas National Guard and he is said to be the only man ever awarded a service medal of appreciation, given by an act of the legislature of the Lone Star state. Camp Blanding, near Starke, Fla., bears the name of Maj. Gen. Albert H. Blanding, born in Iowa in 1876, commander of the Thirty-first (“Dixie”) division of the A.E.F. and until his retirement in 1940, chief of the National Guard bureau of the war department. Camp Hulen near Palacios, Texas, honors Brig. Gen. John A. Hulen, who won the D.S.M. for services during the Meuse-Argonne offensive in October, 1918. Camp Wallace, near Hitchcock, Texas* honors the memory of Col. Elmer J. Wallace of South Dakota who was killed in France on Novem ber 5, 1918, at which time he was a major (temporary cojonel) in the coast artillery corps. John F. Williams Mood of the American Soldiers “It is a stoical determination to who massages your shoes with a 1 see the thing through. They have rag bearing the likeness of Hitler ) entered this war after reading of it The sign on the old flivver 1 f or three years. They know its hor- parked on 8th Avenue: “Don’t laugh —this one’s paid for!” . . . The downtown luncheonette with the nif ty namo: “The Club Sandwich” . . . The restaurant on Route 22 called “Never Inn.” • • • — B’way Byron’s Definition of Carry- in’ the Torch No. 386528: When You Thjrow Your Heart at Her Feet—and It Doesn’t Even Trip Her." rors. In this they are unlike the men of any nation whom circum stances rushed into war, as into an unknown adventure. Our men know this war; they followed it in the press since its outbreak. They are going in, dogged and grim; theirs is a solid courage—which is the most sublime.”—Capt. E. L. Fox, in Forum magazine, January. ^IB. Eleanor Roosevelt YOUNG PEOPLE IN CIVILIAN DEFENSE One day of toe week was spent very largely on one subject, because from nine o’clock to 13:30 we sat in Room B in toe Labor auditorium and talked about participation of young people in civilian defense. The conference adjourned to the White House for lunch, and we were back at toe Labor department build ing at two o’clock. We actually fin ished by four o'clock, which was the time we had scheduled to bring the conference to a close. I think this speaks well for the young people and their ability to keep their pro gram moving on time. At toe meeting, there was a feel ing expressed that, through our de fense work, certain goals should be set which we should all strive to attain in the next few years. It was agreed they should not be for youth alone, but must be goals for every age and group. The entire over-aD picture must be covered, though there may be certain inter ests on which youth will want to place special emphasis. Mr. Eugene Meyer came in to tea with me that day to tell me how deeply impressed he was with the work of the women in England. He considers that their labor is not only contributing valuable service, but is creating unity throughout toe British nation. There is no doubt that women have a tremendous role to play and I am looking forward to toe meeting which Miss Eloise Davison will hold soon in Washing ton, when the role of women in civilian defense will be canvassed from many points of view. • • • HURRIED EVACUATIONS I have been reading some ac counts of toe removal of the Jewish people from Germany to Poland and Russia. Somehow, being suddenly told that within an hour you must leave your home never to return, is very difficult for us here to visual ize. It is a leave-taking which sa vors somewhat of death. In all partings with people whom we love, there is in a minor way, that sense of temporary loss which presages toe horrible finality of sep aration which comes over one at the time of death. These mass re movals, where people are treated like animals and not like human beings, are so horrible to contem plate that one can only hope that at a certain point feelings become numb and suffering ceases to be acute. NEW YORK VISIT My daughter and son-in-law were leaving one day for toe West, so we devoted last evening to being with each other. We went to a little res taurant on Sixty-third street in New York which we often frequented when they were living in New York city. After a short, but very good dinner, we went to toe theater to see “The Wookey,” by Mr. Fred erick Hazlitt Brennan. It is amus ing, dramatic, well acted and very moving. To those of us who know the peo ple of toe East End in London, it brought all that has happened in toe past few months vividly before our eyes. Mr. Wookey did not agree with his government. It was his right to criticize and to advise, and even to write toe prime minister. In spite of all his disagreement, however, when his people were real ly in danger, and his country under attack, Mr. Wookey could put up with any amount of discomfort and go forth cheerfully to almost cer tain death on the docks. That is why some of us believe that Great Britain must come out victoriously in this war. ' I love the scene where Mr. Wookey airs his views to a high ranking of ficer. A lump was in my throat when his home was destroyed and his wife was killed. Other 1 people are brave, other people suffer in just the same way, but not even do we have that sense of complete inde pendence of expression and assur ance that makes the British feel that they know how to rim the affairs of the nation far better than those who are in charge. That is a Brit ish trait. * • • ANOTHER POSTCARD I have one postcard, which I want to share with you today. The writer seems very indignant with me be cause I said my knowledge of the Bible was superficial. I wonder how many people would dare to say otherwise. Few people can claim a real study and knowledge of that book, which is probably the most widely read book in the world and, frequently, the least understood. My correspondent seems to feel that say ing one’s knowledge is superficial means that one had little respect for the subject. As a matter of fact, it is because I have such a deep appreciation of what real knowledge the Bible im plies, that I would never presume for a minute to consider it possible for me to claim anything beyond a very superficial study. On the other hand, my correspondent ends by thinking it odd that people in Wash ington can ever understand what is going on there. I should like to assure him that it is quite easy to understand what human beings con ceive and carry out in Washington . . . and I am sure most of them wish often for’Divine Guidance! 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