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V WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) N EW YORK.—There was once a hill-billy girl who walked 10 miles over the mountain to borrow a hammer. She said her pappy was t *i figuring to Little Candles build himself Still Burn in a a house next Darkening World faU wa * an act of faith, not to be cynically regarded, in spite of small beginnings and re mote eventualities, and quite com parable to the brave hopes and con trivances of sundry men of good will today. Paul Van Zeeland, former premier of Belgium, is one of them. He sees a world of de centralized power after the war, with small, autonomous states of economic and political group ings, associated in regional col laboration—diverse enough to allow a ^localization of func tion” in world economy and compact enough to form a stable political equilibrium. He presented his plan to the New York conference of the International Labor organization, and, simultane ously, there issued from the con ference a proposal for a bloc of nations, comprising Poland, Czecho slovakia, Jugoslavia and Greece, for post-war rebuilding and for col lective defense. M. Van Zeeland, holding both earned and honorary degrees from Princeton university, is widely and favorably known in this country both as a political philosopher and banking economist. . He was a sol dier in the World war, and in the ensuing years was an experimenter and innovator in financial theory and practice in a desperate effort to sidetrack a doom which he thought might well end Western civilization. » Here in 1937, as unofficial en voy of Europe, he tried to sell the United States a bigger cut in the bank for international settlements, with the quite plausible idea that a freer flux of money throughout the world would cure bellicose national ism. Nothing came of this, but M. Van Zeeland keeps on hunch ing. The son of a prosperous merchant of Soignes, he was educated at Lou vain and Princeton, returned to Bel gium to practice law and won emi nence as an economist and banker— a director of the Bank of Belgium and professor of law at the Univer sity of Louvain. B ACK in the days of the militant suffrage campaign, this report er asked several of the leaders whether they intended to maintain a political Militant Women solidarity' of Out for Equality women after Of Retpontibility ^ said they would do just that. The emphasis was on the effective pres sure group, rather than on widely diffused social responsibility among women. Considering that that is the history of pressure groups, of both genders—how to get power, rather than its social uses and implications—there is news in- ^ terest in the simultaneous arriv al of two distinguished women leaders of foreign countries each of whom has stressed so cial responsibility, along with the ^liberation” and political education of women. They are Miss Caroline Haslett of Great Britain and Senora Ana Rosa S. de Martinez Gerrero of Argen tina. Miss Haslett is an engineer and adviser to the British ministry of labor, somewhat comparable in her career and achievements to our Lil lian Moller Gilbreth of Montclair, N. J. She will study the participa tion of American women in the de fense effort and will deliver some addresses on the technical and in dustrial mobilization of British women in the war. She is president of the Wom en’s Engineering society, direc tor of the Electrical Association of Women, founder and editor of the Woman Engineer and the Electrical Handbook for Wom en. With many variants and on many occasions, she has said: *‘Women once asked for equality of opportunity. Now we ask for equality of responsibility.” The career of Senora De Martinez Gerrero has been a close parallel to that of Miss Haslett in its repeat ed stress on social responsibility. She came to Washington to attend the annual meeting of the Inter- American Commission of Women of which she is chairman. A spirited evangel of Western hemisphere sol idarity against totalitarianism, she tells the meeting that the mission of women is to ‘‘rekindle the flame of a living faith in democracy.” Senora De Martinez Gerrero is the wife of a wealthy cattleman and the mother of three children. Our Sky Fighters in the Pacific Looking something like a football cheer leader, a signal officer aboard a U. S. navy aircraft carrier in the Pacific gives the ‘‘go” sign to a fighter plane (at right) about to take off from the flight deck. Photo at left was made from a plane which had just left the flight deck of an unnamed U. S. aircraft carrier some where in the Pacific. It gives you a bow-on view of the floating airdrome. ‘Somewhere on the Eastern Front’ An ammunition dump in a forest somewhere behind the German lines in Russia is shown in low’er picture. Men are stacking giant aerial bombs near a bomber base, whence Nazi planes go out to blast Russian posi tions. Above: Long lines of Russian war prisoners, carrying their worldly possessions in a sack, are being marched to an internment camp somewhere on the eastern front by the Nazi army. Coal for Strike-Bound Yale Picket at gates of powerhouse of Yale university. New Haven, Conn., moves aside when truckload of coal arrives for the strike-bound uni versity. Maintenance employees at the university struck an hour before the state board of mediation was scheduled to meet with the C.I.O. to discuss settlement of union shop dispute. Inset: Phillip Murray, C.LO. president who, on the same day resigned from the national defense medi- ‘Plaything’ ation board because of an opinion of the bituminous coal industry. rendered on “captive” coal mines Giant Flying Ship Nears Completion The German caption says that these are Russian children playing about the remains of a Red army bombing plane, shot down some where in occupied territory. The red star, Soviet insigne, may be seen on the fuselage. What strange “play things” war has brought to children? Iceland Chief First of a fleet of giant four-engined flying ships built for American ex port airlines, non-stop Transatlantic air service, nearing completion at Vought-Sikorsky aircraft, Stratford, Conn. The planes have a top speed of 235 miles per hour and a maximum non-stop range in excess of 6,030 miles and accommodations for forty passengers. Navy Secretary Knox has estab lished a naval operating base in Ice land. Photo shows Rear Admiral James L. Kauffman, who has been named commandant of this impo* tant base. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) P ERHAPS it’s Shirley Tem ple’s glowing health that in spired the British Ministry of Foods to ask Walt Disney for help. Studio experts say that in all the years that she was mak ing pictures for 20thCentpry-Fox she never suffered from the numerous ailments children usually have, and now that she’s approaching 13 making sub-deb pic tures for Metro she’s still the won der of the studios because she’s so well. That means a lot in Holly wood, where a star’s illness can be so expensive for a studio. Well, Shirley’s diet has always in cluded plenty of vitamins and min erals. And—Walt Disney has cre- SHIRLEY TEMPLE ated three new characters—Doctor Carrot, Clara Carrot and Carroty George, to be used in a drive to get the people of England to eat more carrots! Young women workers in the na tion’s Capitol are about to be glori fied on the screen; evidently the same idea hit several studios at once. Paramount’s version of the life and times of the young ladies will be called “Washington Esca pade.” Metro bought a story called “White House Girl,” by Ruth Fin ney, wife of a newspaper man. * Every so often somebody has to screen Rex Beach’s “The Spoilers.” It was done in 1925 with William Farnum and Tom Sanchey staging the fist fight that made it famous. Paramount did it in 1930 with Gary Cooper. Now Universal will make it once again—this time with Ran dolph Scott and John Wayne in the he-man roles, and Marlene Dietrich as the heroine. *— Another re-make scheduled for the near future is “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” which was last made by Paramount, in 1934, with W. C. Fields, Pauline Lord and Vir ginia Weidler. This time little Caro lyn Lee will be the child lead. That won’t be just gibberish that you hear the actors speaking in RKO’s “Valley of the Sun”; it’s really Apache. Producer Graham Baker hired Chief Chris Willowbird to make phonograph records in which each speech was spoken first in English, then in Apache. Then James Craig, Antonio Moreno, Tom Tyler and other members of the cast settled down to study the records. * Elizabeth Bergner, one of the most famous European actresses to work in Hollywood, has just com pleted the first of her films to be made. It’s “Paris Calling,” a story of the betrayal and fall of France. 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