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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.
Miss Bergner’s European pictures
include “Catherine the Great,” “Es
cape Me Never,” and “Dreaming
Lips.” She became famous as one
of Europe’s leading stage figures be
fore she made pictures.
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ODDS AND ENDS— Bob Hope has
been away from home so much, making
personal appearances, that he swears that
his children havent the slightest idea
who he is . . . Jean Arthur, Cary Grunt
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