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McCormick messenger, iv^cormick, s..c^ Thursday, November aa, WHO^ NEWS THIS WEEK Official Pictures of Torpedoed U. S. S. Kearny By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) “^JEW YORK.—We are quite cer- tain that there is a chipping sparrow out our way which didn’t stand still long enough to be count- o. ~ ed, but at any Stuff ed Bird Cut* rate Roger Peterson’* Count Tory Peter- To 5,750,000,000 f on ’s national bird count of 5,750,000,000 receives respectful, even admiring attention, and no challenges or quibbles about it. Concurrently the National Audu bon society, of which Mr. Peterson is educatignal director, begins a drive for the protection of birds and other wild life in defense areas. At the age of 26, Mr. Peterson proved that bird lore can be : made to yield a lot more than mere bird seed. That was in 1934, when he published his book, “Field Guide to the Birds.” As bird books go it was a best-seller, warmly praised not only by the somewhat eso teric cult of bird-fanciers, but by a much wider public, which appreciated its clarity and sim plicity. There came other edi- , tions and then his “Field Guide to Birds of the West,” and his “Junior Book of Birds,” of 1939. All in all, Mr. Peterson’s books \nd magazine articles were so Successful that he has had plen ty of time to count birds—even five billions of them. He not only writes but illustrates his books, having emerged from the New York Art Students’ league as a highly qualified decorative artist. He is known as the best American authority on field identification of birds. Mr. Peterson had an adventure at the convention of the society at Cape May last year, which, so far as we can learn, was not picked up by the news hawks at the time. It seems a group of ornithologists, Pe terson included, got up at 4:30 to clock a scheduled hawk migration. It didn’t come off and all were downhearted until a rumor got around that a black-necked stilt had been seen near the lighthouse pond. There had been no stilt in this sec tion since 1870. The party set out for the spot. Finally far across the pond, inaccessible to any dry land ap proach, the bird was sighted. Mr. Peterson said it would be necessary to approach as near as possible, disturb the bird, and then observe its flight care fully. He and William Fish vol unteered to brave the mud and cold. They waded in, and at times were up to their armpits in slimy mud. Finally Peterson waved his arms at the stilt. It didn’t move. Approaching near er, they discovered it was as stiff as a plank. The convention finally ran down the story. The National Academy of Sciences at Philadelphia had had a housecleaning and heaved out a lot of stuffed birds. Some rival bird fans of the Delaware valley had re trieved the stilt and set it up acfoss the pond. U P IN Maine, on last summer’s holiday, this writer talked witl&. an old road-side philosopher who was concerned with problems aris- _ , _ _ . ing from the Prof.Perry Boldly lengthenin g Trumpets an *Old life - span in Age Movement’ New Eng- ® land. “They don’t do much dyin’ up here,” he said. “Down at West Newton, they had to shoot an old feller, just to start a graveyard.” Professor Ralph Barton Per ry, of the faculty of philosophy of Harvard university, is simi larly concerned about old age, but for a different reason. In a brilliant essay in a recent issue of the Princeton Alumni Week ly, he rallies the oldsters against being “hustled around by their juniors in politics; he notes the capitulation of wise old age to bumptious youth, and chal lenges Rabbi Ben Ezra by in sisting that there’s no use grow ing old with him, or anybody else, if old-age is to be merely a tolerated short-ender in the life sweepstakes. “The most striking evidence of the down fall of the aged,” writes Profes sor Perry, “is to be found in the domestic circle.” “The authority of the father was first broken by the mother, and the children poured through the breach. The last remnant of paternal au thority was the period in which the father was an ogre, who came home at the end of the day to deal with major offenses. He was no longer magistrate, only executioner. “But even this role disappeared when domestic criminology was modernized and the child’s insubor dination was regarded as a person ality problem, to be solved by love, hygiene and psychoanalysis.” Official pictures released by the navy department show the damage done to the U. S. S. Kearny when she was torpedoed by a submarine off Iceland. At left, crew members look at twisted wreckage below decks after the torpedoed destroyer steamed into port. Right: the Kearny, tied to sister ship, is shown limping into unnamed port. Arrow points to the hole made by the torpedo. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) I T’S difficult to write calmly and critically about Walt Dis ney’s “Dumbo”—in fact, it’s practically impossible. This story of the baby elephant with the over-size ears, who’s born in to a circus and made miserable by the other animals because of those same ears, is completely enchanting. There’s Timothy Mouse, successor to Jiminey Cricket; there’s the band of black crows, there’s the squealing circus engine—and there’s the really lovely sequence in which pink elephants dance. Every mo ment of this hour-long picture is de lightful—no two ways about it, you’ll have to see “Dumbo.” * A Lesson or Two in Preparedness Jean Phillips, once Jean Harlow’s stand-in, had moved from a bit to a co-starring role in just two pictures —she’s the first stand-in since Adrienne Ames to become a lead ing woman, which is bad news for girls who hope to climb to stardom by that route. Her first break came when she was cast in “Among the Living”; that performance earned her the second lead in “The Morn ing After.” Now she’s co-starred with Macdonald Carey in “Dr. Broadway.” Her resemblance to { Ginger Rogers blocked her career when she first went to Hollywood. —* Glenda Farrell is happy. She’s signed to play the ex-sweetheart of a gangster in “Johnny Eager”; says she’s fascinated by the part, and , f'' r • •• 4 r ^ Ibpp r J Marines of the royal Netherlands navy, still loyal to their exiled queen, are pictured above crossing a river, fully dressed, during maneuvers at Sourabaja, Netherlands East Indies. Japan is their nearest Axis enemy. Inset: A “casualty” is floated across a river on a makeshift raft during demonstration staged by Britain’s royal army medical corps. Buoyancy is given by empty oil cans. GLENDA FARRELL also wants to do it because the pic ture is being directed by Mervin LeRoy, who gave her her first part in films. * They Watched the Tanks Go By ... Not to Market ' < ; ' ^ 4 ' ;.v.;.w.^v.*.*e.*.\-.v.v.;.v.v.v.v.vM* Standing at attention while the national anthem is being played at the Schenectady, N. Y., plant of the American Locomotive company during a defense day inspection of the plant. M-3 medium tank is shown at left. Another tank, on flat car in background, is about to be sent on its way to army proving grounds. Turkey Dinner in the Offing Turkey, with all the trimmings, will grace the festive board at army camps throughout the country on Thanksgiving day. These sol diers of Camp Lee, Va., could not resist their battle training as they creep up on the all-unsuspecting turkeys at the Wippernock farm, South erland, Va. Not to market, but to San Fran cisco’s grand national livestock ex position, is the destination of these two little pigs, chosen as her en trants by Miss Milo Kimmerle. The exposition will present a livestock, horse and radio show of national character, November 15-22. After Record Leap Irving Berlin has written 14 new songs for “Holiday Inn,” more than have ever before been turned out in a single picture*^ Bing Crosby will sing some of them, Fred Astaire will dance to them. The score in cludes two old Berlin favorites, “Easter Parade” and “Lazy.” * Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant will co-star in RKO’s production of Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man,” with an original score by Oscar Strauss, the Viennese compos er. If you want to see ahother version of the same story right away, you can go to Metro’s “The Chocolate Soldier,” with Nel son Eddy and Rise Stevens, of the Metropolitan Opera company. It’s Miss Stevens’ screen debut, and Metro executives feel sure that the | public will take her to their hearts. *— Remember the parting of the Red sea in C. B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments”—or the chariot race in “Ben Hur”—or the earth quake in “San Francisco”? Mr. De- Mille thinks he’s added a memo rable sequence to that list—the 1 squid fight in “Reap the Wild Wind.” Ray Milland and John Wayne, in diving suits, are explor ing the hull of a wrecked vessel in a search for Susan Hayward when they encounter the sea monster. Mr. DeMille donned a diving suit and directed the scenes, in a huge tank. For other scenes in the pic ture he descended 20 feet into the Pacific, to the ocean floor. Said it was the only way he could get the eerie realism that he required. * Who’d be your choice to portray Will Rogers in Warner Bros, film of his life, niade from the book, “Uncle Clem’s Boy”? At present Stuart Erwin, Spencer Tracy and Roy Rogers, Republic’s Western star, are under consideration. It’s said that Mrs. Rogers prefers Tracy, though Erwin’s supporters urge that he’s a better choice be cause he resembles the famous comedian and philosopher. * Arthur Starnes is greeted by his wife and son, Robert, on right, aft er plunging six miles in record “free fall” chute leap. He para chuted less than 1,500 fe?t in (he six-mile drop. ODDS AND ENDS—Paramount will star Charles Boyer and yeronica Lake in u Hong Kong,” a romantic story played against modern, war-torn China . . . Ginny Simms has just been made an honorary colonel of Southern California district, American Legwn, Los Angeles—first time a star’s been awarded the honor by an en tire district . . . We hear that Tony Martin said he was "ready and willing” to enter the army, even though an appeal from his draft classification had been filed . . RKO’s "Mexican Spitfire at Sea” brings you not only the team of Lupe Velez and Leon Errol, but Zasu Pitts, Elizabeth Risdon, Charles (Buddy/ Rogers, Eddie Dunn and Harry Holman as well. Little Girl Will Love A Lovely Bride Doll Pattern 2945. \/T Y, OH MY, won’t she love this! A real bride—veil and all—to be her very own doll! You can make the dress in a sheer or heavier material and, of course, make it white. • • * Pattern 2945 contains a pattern and di rections for making the doll and clothes; materials required. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave. New York Enclose 15 centi, In coins for Pat tern No Name Address.^ .' CHEST COLDS Mother^-Glve YOUR Child This Sams Expert Care! At the first sign of a chest cold the Quintuplets’ throats and chests are rubbed with Children’s Af&f Musterole —a product made to promptly relieve the distress of children’s colds and re sulting bronchial and croupy coughs. Musterole gives such wonderful re sults because it’s MORE than an ordi nary “salve.” It helps break np local congestion. Since Musterole is used on the Quints you may be sure you’re us ing just about the BEST product madel IN 3 STRENGTHS: Children’s Mild Musterole. Also Regular and Extra Strength for grown-ups who prefer a stronger product. All drugstores. CHILDREN’S *1 HUsraotF Needed Habit The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.—Sarah A. Bolton. Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels, with Ease for Stomach, too When constipation brings on add in digestion, stomach upset, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste and bad breath, your stomach is probably “crying the blues’’ because your bowels don’t move. It calls for Laxative-Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowds, combined with Syrup Pepsin for perfect ease to your stomach in taking. For years, many Doctors have given pepsin prepa rations in their prescriptions to make medicine more agreeable to a touchy stom ach. So be sure your laxative contains Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr. Caldwell's Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pep sin. See how wonderfully the Laxative Senna wakes up lazy nerves and musdes in your intestines to bring welcome rdief from constipation. And the good old Syrup Pepsin makes this laxative so com fortable and easy on your stomach. Even finicky children love the taste of this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Cald well’s Laxative Senna at your druggist today. Try one laxative combined with Syrup Pepsin for ease to your stomach, too. Appreciation Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past.—Cowley. ^COLDS quickcy tilt LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSE DROPS COUCH DROPS • TEACHING A CHILD • • VALUE OF PENNIES • • A child of a wise mother will be • • taught from early childhood to be- • • come a regular reader of the adver- • • tisementa. In that way better perhaps • • than in any other can the child be • • taught the great value of penniesand • • the permanent benefit which comes • • from making every penny count. #