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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK, s. C. THTTRSpAY. NOYEMp^R 6- 1941
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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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