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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1941
Private Papers of a
Cub Reporter:
Thornton Wilder was recently re
calling his last visit to London . . .
After a luncheon at Barrie’s flat,
the exquisite little genius. Max
Beerbohm, said: “Mr. Wilder, you
haven’t remarked on the view of
the Thames from here” . . . Wilder
replied to the general effect that
nothing adequate had occurred to
him . . . Whereupon Beerbohm
said: “People usually do, you know.
Only last week, for instance, Mr.
Gene Tunney, the fighter, was here
and admired it tremendously. As a
matter of fact, he spoke of it with
such eloquence and such sensitive
ness that, really, I felt quite
coarse.”
The FBI is more interested in a
prominent Chicago psychiatrist,
who obtained an appointment to The
Morale Board of the Col. Donovan
Office . . . This doctor, a Hungari
an who recently became a citizen,
was given a routine check by the
G-Men . . . When an agent called
at his home, he spotted a large
framed portrait of Mussolini, affec
tionately inscribed . . . That made
it more than a routine investigation
and led to the fact that Fritz Hor
vath, Hungarian Nazi leader, is a
frequent guest at the Dr’s house
. . . And at conferences in a hide
away in Chicago . . . Horvath has
definite Berlin connections—and the
doctor may learn for the first time—
that he is not going to be accepted
for that swell job with Col. Donovan.
The Women's Business and Pro
fessional Group annual Friendship
Dinner took place the other night
. . . They had previously announced
that they would make known at this
dinner—the ten big, important wom
en chosen to represent the U. S. . . .
To inspect civilian defense in Eng
land . . -. The list was prepared
and sent to Mrs. Roosevelt for her
okay . . . The names submitted
did not measure up to her require
ments, and dissension grew to such
a pitch that the idea has been tem
porarily deferred and possibly
shelved.
A vet Broadwayite recalls when
Chinatown was big news every night
. . . And how an assistant district
attorney was phoned out of a sound
slumber one wee hour with the news
of a massacre in a Chinatown dive
. . . When he got there, still fasten
ing his clothes, he found the joint
deep in blood, and bodies on the
floor—the hatchets and knives still in
’em . . . The bartender was moan
ing and weeping noisily . . . “What
happened?” the d. a. shouted.
“What happened?” was the reply,
as the tears dangled from his mus
tache. “Every customer ran out
without paying his check!”
Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
The Networkers: Dinah Shore
sings the blues on her new solo Sun
day spot and relieves you of yours
. . . Frank Black’s classic rendi
tions via NBC’s “American Melody
Hour” are something to hug . . .
Take big-time talents like Paul
Muni, Judith Anderson, Raymond
Massey, Ruth Gordon, mix with a
top-notch script, and you have that
Red Cross program—good as the
cause . . . Betty Hutton is a zippy
person, welcome to the Bob Hope
bill. He said “vitamin pills take
her!” . . . You don’t wonder, hear
ing Richard Crooks sing, why he is
with the Met—but you wonder why
James Melton, who precedes him on
the same station, isn’t . . . Every
body was that surprised when the
N. Y. Times succumbed to radio.
It is only adding a voice to the
ribbon that unwinds the flashes
around the Times Bldg.
The Story Tellers: C. V. R.
Thompson is selling his favorite old
story again—Cafe Society—this time
to Click. Amazing how interesting
Thompson can make them seem in
print. In reality they are as dull
as a blank wall . . . “How to Be
Cole Porter” is the caption of a Look
article about the composer. It’s
good advice if you happen to be
Porter, but late even for him . . .
Movie-Radio-Guide starts a two-in
stalment expose on this column’s
favorite news commentator in the
current issue . . . The fallacy that
the Middle West is isolationist—is
exploded by Time, which points out
that polls have proved otherwise.
“The so-called isolationist Midwest,”
it says in part, “exists only in the
minds of congressmen who have
failed to keep abreast of a great
surge of public opinion during re
cent months” . . . Some people, it
seems, mistake the Chicago Tribune
for the mid-West.
The Press Box: Another corre
spondent with a good book is Ray
mond Daniell — “Civilians Must
Fight.” Daniell, who covered the
London raids, reports a failure to
chase his office boy to cover when
the bombers came. The kid
squawked the underground hideouts
were too risky. The last time he
went down, he lost $10 playing cards
. . . Somerset Maugham, in a fore
word to the Daniell volume, explains
news censors as “more anxious not
to do the wrong thing than to do the
rigM one.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
DINNER WITH PRESIDENT
We had a very pleasant dinner
party one night, consisting of my
lusband and myself! He ate milk
toast and I ate one poached egg,
which was good for our figures and
permitted much conversation, since
aeither of us had to pay attention
to our food.
I spent the evening wrapping
Christmas presents and was joined
ay one of my friends, who arrived
'rom the train. She remarked that
*he had not found me in such a
aarefree mood for a long time,
rhere was no mail in sight and no
interviews scheduled, just a deluge
af Christmas wrapping paper, rib-
Dons and cards.
• • •
PRIORITY PROBLEM
One noon, I met a very charming
froung woman who, with her sister,
aas taken over her late husband’s
business, the making of wire screen
ing. Priorities affect this industry,
especially where they use copper.
It is not a very large industry and
the amount of materials needed in
it are not very great, but Mrs. John
Ralston is here not only in the inter
ests of her own plant or the indus
try, but because of the danger she
feels a shortage of screen wire will
mean to the health of the nation.
She points out that screens are
of vital importance in our camps,
and in all our defense industry
buildings. Without them, we lay
ourselves open to epidemics of all
kinds which are spread by flies and
mosquitoes.
* * *
HEALTH GROUP
Talking of health, a most inter
esting health co-operative came to
my attention the other day. It is
called the New York Volunteer
Health co-operative. You have a '
certain freedom in the choice of doc- I
tors. You pay $18 a year without j
hospitalization. You cannot belong
if you earn more than $2,000 a year
while single, or $3,000 a year when
married. There are already over ,
1,000 members.
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There is much I should like to
find out about this organization. For
instance, just what are the services
rendered if hospitalization is not in
cluded? I suppose if there is only ,
a limited choice of doctors, there !
will be the same complaint about
the doctor-patient relationship. Peo- i
pie in this salary range do need
more access to good and inexpen
sive medical care.
• • •
FULL SCHEDULE
Here was my schedule on one
busy day:
Beginning with a meeting in the
morning at nine o’clock at the of-,
flee of civilian defense, I had no
free minutes until I was back at
the White House at 12:15 to meet
and be photographed with Miss
Margaret Hamma, the world’s
champion typist. Then I went to the
Women’s National Press club lunch
eon.
In spite of my membership in this
club, I rarely manage to get there
for lunch. Tuesdays come and go
and there always seems to be some
thing desperately necessary to be
done at home.
At 2:30 I went to the sale for
United China relief, received a group
of 10 people at the White House a
little after three, and made a four
o’clock plane for New York city.
This was followed by a speech
that night at Hunter college.
* • •
WAR NEWS
I find it increasingly difficult to
feel either elated or depressed by
the news which comes to us from
the actual theaters of war. When I
read one dispatch, the Nazis claim
continuing victories. When I read
another, the other side has moved
forward without any setbacks. I
now just pray that I can believe the
things which I want to believe, and
try to forget the rest.
• * *
MUSIC AND DEFENSE
One morning there came to my of
fice in Civilian Defense headquar
ters, three women representing the
National Federation of Music Clubs.
They told me of the work they are
doing for defense, and what they
have accomplished is really astound
ing. Through their state and na
tional organizations, they have al
ready given phonographs to every
camp. They provide records and
their members volunteer to teach
choral singing, to play for entertain
ments and to give concerts in vari
ous camps and nearby places where
the boys congregate on leave.
Here is an organization which
really has something to offer in the
way of entertainment and has quiet
ly gone about its work and already
accomplished a great deal.
* * •
‘UNEMPLOYABLES’
I received an interesting little
folder the other day sent out by the
Community Service society in New
York city. It describes their em
ployment service, which is largely
devoted to placing people who, for
one reason or another, have lost
confidence in their own ability to
hold a job. This is a difficult serv- |
ice because it is hard to find the
right conditions and the right peo
ple to work together, so that the
person to be rehabilitated will finally
feel capable of standing alone.
The Junto Lives Again
IF THE spirit of Benjamin Frank-
lin had been strolling along the
streets of Philadelphia on a recent ‘
night, it is not unlikely that a pass
erby might have heard the ghostly
presence of the immortal Ben
chuckling to himself. For that day
had witnessed the spectacle of 2,000
of his fellow-Philadelphians crowd
ing into the Academy of Music to re
vive an organization which he start
ed 214 years ago, and, according to
Time magazine, “at week’s end
fresh hordes were still coming. It.
was the biggest cultural revival in
many a Philadelphia year; the
cozy little study club he founded in
a tavern with 11 convivial compan
ions in 1727 has a mammoth re
incarnation.”
This “cozy little club” was the
famous Junto or “council,” a mutu
al self-improvement society, formed
by Franklin and several of his “in
genious acquaintances.” It was a
democratic organization, too, for
among its members, besides 21-
year-old Ben Franklin, were a sur
veyor, a glazier, an Oxford scholar
and a “young gentleman of some
fortune.”
Although the proceedings of the
club were secret and no minutes of
its meetings were kept, Franklin, in
his writings, has revealed some of
the topics which the members of the
Junto discussed. Among them were
these: “Whence comes the dew that
stands on the outside of a tankard?'*
Earliest known portrait of Frank
lin, painted probably about 1748, now
owned by Harvard university.
“What unhappy effects of intem
perance have you lately observed?”
But the Junto is important in
American history if for no other
reason than this: It was this
club which helped launch Franklin
upon the career as a scientist which
brought him world-wide fame, es
pecially in the field of experiments
in electricity. Franklin first became
interested in electricity in 1746 when
he attended a lecture by a Dr.
Spence of Boston. This led eventu
ally to correspondence with Peter
Collinson of London who sent him
an electrical tube and with it Frank
lin performed various experiments
for the edification of the members
of the Junto. Writing to Collinson
later, Franklin said:
“I never was before engaged in
any study that so totally engrossed
my attention and my time as this
has lately done, for, what with mak
ing experiments when I can be
alone, and repeating them to my
friends and acquaintances, who
from the novelty of the thing, come
continually to see them, I have, dur
ing some months past, had little
leisure for anything else.”
Undoubtedly the encouragement
which he received from his fellow
members of the Junto had a great
deal to do with his continuing the
studies in electricity and branching
out into other scientific fields.
“Franklin seems to have carried on
his studies in physical science, natu
ral philosophy, wholly during the
period 1747 to 1756, and then to
have been driven off from his work,
which he described as the most ab
sorbing of his life, by the increasing
demands of public life and civic ob
ligations.”
Thus writes Howard McClenahan
in the chapter, “Franklin, the
Philosopher and Scientist,” in the
book, “The Amazing Benjamin
Franklin.” In it he lists all of the
“striking phenomena observed for
the first time by this fundamental
physicist.”
The Junto lasted for 40-odd years
and out of it grew the American
Philosophical society, the oldest sci
entific society on the American
continent. During its existence of
four decades it was the originator
of many important institutions—in
all of which Benjamin Franklin
played a leading part.
Among these were: 1731, the Li
brary Company of Philadelphia, the
first circulating library in America;
1736, the Union Fire company, the
first volunteer fire department in
Philadelphia; 1749, “Proposals re
lating to the Education of Youth in
Pennsylvania,” which led to the for
mation of the College (afterwards
the University) of Pennsylvania;
1751, the Pennsylvania hospital, the
first of its kind in America, and 1752,
the “Philadelphia Contributionship
for the Insurance of Houses From
Loss by Fire,” the first chartered
fire insurance company in America
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The Questions
1. In what sport do the partici
pants wear bathing suits but try
to keep out of the water?
2. What is the largest railroad
tunnel in the Western hemisphere?
3. What is another name for the
Suomi?
4. What country ranks next to
the United States in the number
of miles of railroads?
5. In what year did Joe Louis
win the world’s heavyweight
championship?
6. The trident is the symbol of
authority of what god?
The Answers
1. Surf-board riding.
2. Cascade tunnel in Washing
ton (7.79 miles long).
3. Finns.
4. Russia.
5. In 1937.
6. Neptune.
There’s always a Cousin Joe
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lan a card, but you can’t afford
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n of smoking tobacco. The cost
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Kipling Found His Anger
Was Profitable—to Another
A bus driver once crashed his
vehicle into one of the trees out
side the home of Rudyard Kipling.
The author wrote the man de
manding reparation. The driver
ignored the complaint and sold the
letter to a friend for 10 shillings.
Not receiving an answer, Kip
ling penned another note threaten
ing legal action. This scathing let
ter the driver also ignored—and
sold.
Finally losing patience, Kipling
called on the man and angrily
demanded an explanation.
“I was hoping that you would
write me some more letters. Sell
ing them is most profitable,” re
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It’s not how much you pay, but
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a Christmas gift welcome. That’s
why Camel Cigarettes and Prince
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Camel is America’s favorite ciga
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Tobacco is the National Joy
Smoke. Local dealers are featur
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handsome gift packages — the
Camel carton of ten packages and
a gay package of four “flat fif
ties.” Prince Albert is featured in
the pound tin and the pound glass
humidor in specially designed
Christmas gift wrappings.—Adv.
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But for some trouble and sor
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Dickens.
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One inch of joy surmounts of
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proper to the man.—Rabelais.
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