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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1941
WHO^
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
?SJEW YORK—Admiral Claude C.
Blbch, commander of the naval
district at Hawaii, has been known
as the ‘‘Jack Dempsey of the Navy”
, because of
U. S. Adm. Bloch
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Keeper at Wicket
his repeated
and vehe
ment insist
ence on the
tance of ‘‘beating the enemy
to the punch.” He made a remark
to that general effect when he was
urging the thorough fortification of
Guam, early last year.
Things didn’t work out that way,
with Japan letting loose the
“punch,” behind diplomatic shadow
boxing, but that couldn’t be charged
up to the admiral. Any government
adhering to the forms of interna
tional law and order is at a disad
vantage in the prevailing interna
tional anarchy. But Washington
can’t say that the ruddy, desk
thumping old admiral, 42 years out
* of Annapolis, didn’t give it ample
warning. He has long been a vigor*
ous advocate of widely based naval
preparedness in the Pacific and
readiness to strike at the first gong.
He is a Kentuckian, as thor-
oughly schooled in our high-seas
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as any man in the navy, en
tered in all of them and repeat
edly decorated. He won the
specially meritorious Medal of
the Spanish - American War,
when, as a young ensign in the
Battle Of Santiago, he rescued
Spaniards from Cervera’s burn
ing ships. Hia other medals
eame from the Philippine and
Cuban campaigns, the Boxer re
bellion and the World war, the
last being the Victory medal,
and with it went the Navy Cross,
for running transports- through
Hie blockaded section around
France and England.
He has been chief of the bureau
of ordnance, a gunnery officer, com
mander of many ships, a budget of
ficer, judge advocate general, en
gaged in training activities, and
commandant of the Washington
Navy yard. He became command
er of the battle force, with the rank
of admiral, in 1937. From 1928 to
1940, he was commander in chief
of the U. S. fleet, and was assigned
to command of the Hawaii district
iii the latter years. He’s a naval
officer’s officer, with a high repu
tation for strategic and technical
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'T'HIS onlooker, meeting quite a
few explorers in various parts of
the world, has noted in them, .al-
xnost invariably, a good sense of
drama and
No Showmanship an -instinct
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Woman Explorer Sgtfgfc
I Boyd, * just now cited by the
shington Bureau of Standards for
scientific work on her last Arc-
II expedition, is lacking . in these
_ tributes. She rounds out 17 years
df Arctic exploring with never a
tple of a close brush with death, and
never anybody drawing lots to see
who would shoot himself when they
were down to the last kilo of pem-
mican.
She does a lot to validate the
strictly scientific assumptions of
Arctic exploration and to disprove
the tradition that women are gar
rulous. When she popped off 29
polar bears in 1926, it was only by
accident that the news leaked cut
through other members of her ex
pedition. Her log is never like that
of Henry Hudson which spotted up
a lot of mermaids and sea demons
around Spitsbergen.
She is back from her sixteenth
trip up north on Capt. Bob Bart
lett’s stout little schooner, the
Effie Morrisey. For 17 years
she has been commuting up to
the icebergs every summer-
farther north than any other
white woman ever went. This
writer frequently has seen the
imposing old Victorian Boyd
home in San Rafael, Calif., be
hind tall privet hedges, whence
eame the smart, comely young
girl, to buck a frozen wilder
ness, get decorations from two
former governments, special
unique recognition from the
National Geographic society, and
have “Louise Boyd Land” spot
ted up on government maps,
where the De Geer glacier used
to be.
Ship news reporters find her un
communicative, coming and going,
and her reports go through official
scientific channels. En route to the
Far North, she usually arrives in
New York with a car, chauffeur and
maid. She quietly sidetracks silly
questions about whether she pow
ders her nose in a gale.
This writer was once in some re
mote regions of the Darien country.
Later interviewing a gabby explorer
who had just returned frorp there,
he conceived a distrust for ground
and-lofty travelers’ tales which made
Miss Boyd his favorite explorer.
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Paul’s cathedral, which was damaged by Nazi bombs earlier in the war.
The city has not been bombed for many months, and much of the
debris has been cleared away, but there is still “plenty of room for im
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cisco since the start of the war, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com
pany has installed a sandbag barricade across the front of their building.
Workmen are shown here erecting the wall of sandbags, which will pro
tect vital telephone equipment from possible enemy bombs.
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A striking view of the U.S.S.
Ranger, aircraft carrier of our
navy, with a part of her brood of
planes clustered on her flight deck.
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naval aviation issue of Flying and
Popular Aviation magazine.
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Here we see American-built fighting planes sweeping over the dense
Malayan jungle in the Singapore area. These war craft are now serving
with the British Royal Air force, and giving battle to invading Japanese
forces in this strategic area. The ships are Brewster Buffaloes and they
are giving a good account of themselves.
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This sign in Japanese is on display outside a newspaper office in
Los Angeles’ Japanese colony, which is known as “Little Tokyo.” 'Only
a scattering of persons were on the streets in Little Tokyo as residents
of that section read this news of the war’s beginning. After reading the
message they went quietly home.
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Several of the 14 men found guilty
of conspiring to avoid registering as
Nazi agents and guilty of delivering
military information to Germany
are shown filing from the Brooklyn,
N. Y., federal court, under guard,
after a “guilty” verdict was ren
dered.
Farewell Kiss
Dear World:
Of course, I’m disgusted. You’d
feel this way too if folks said you
were too dumb to enjoy Christmas.
They say that we babies less than
a year old don’t need presents be
cause we can’t appreciate them
anyway. The idea!
A lot of other babies are also com
plaining about this attitude. Why,
we can talk better English than
most grown-ups.
“Dud iddy biddy baby want pretty
rattle-wattle? Daddikens will pick
it up from the floorsie-worsie for
oo.”
Phoey ! If I couldn’t talk better
than this I’d keep still. And then
they have the audacity to assume
that babies under one year are too
young to enjoy Christmas.
Last month we conducted a poll
among babies 12 months of age or
younger, asking them if they con
sidered themselves capable of en
joying Christmas.
Exactly 987 of the 1,000 babies
questioned replied emphatically in
the affirmative. The 13 who voted
“no” are going to be a year old
before Christmas and felt they
would have a better chance of get
ting presents from relatives if their
younger cousins were left out. But
that’s a purely selfish motive and
doesn’t affect the unanimity of the
poll.
Now that you have had indisput
able proof that babies enjoy Christ
mas, don’t rush out to buy us an
electric train or bicycle. After all,
we act our age even though we
know better.
There are several points you
should keep in mind while looking
through the toy department: We
want toys that will attract our at
tention, and they must be cleaned
easily. We babies have a bad habit
of putting things in our mouths, so
if the toy is too small, we might
swallow it. Don’t worry, though.
We’ll get over the habit.
Colored bakelite disks on a chain
make one of the nicest and least
expensive gifts for babies. We can
have a lot of fun playing with those
white, yellow, red and green disks.-
And they’re real easy to keep clean,
too. '
Other children want only toys
they can play with, but we babies
can appreciate the more practical
gifts such as cribs, playpens and
jumper-swings. They are virtual
necessities to us and make our lives
much more pleasant.
Clothing also makes excellent
gifts. A few of the many articles
we would be glad to receive include
shirts, night gowns, dresses, romp
ers, shoes, stockings and bonnets.
One of the most practical and
welcome gifts for any baby would
be an automobile seat. These can
be attached to the seat of any auto
mobile and permit babies to see
out, but prevent them from falling
out. Babies must be able to sit up ,
before using them, but all babies
learn to sit up before they are very
old. And we enjoy looking out of
the window of the car as much as
you do. It’s no fun just looking at
the inside of the car when we’re
going some place. How would you
like it?
Another practical gift would be a
life-insurance policy that will ma
ture in about 18 years and provide
funds for a college education. Or,
savings account can be opened in
baby’s name for as little as $1—but
you don’t have to make it that small
We babies can’t get Christmas
presents for our parents and other
grownups, but we certainly would
if we could. Just wait a couple of
years and see if we don’t.
Signed, Disgusted **Youth”
Early Puritans Forbid ‘Crime’ of Celebrating Christmas
A U. S. sailor, summoned to re
turn to his post following the attack
on Hawaii, kisses his girl good-by
at Penn station, New York. It may
be a long time between kisses.
Celebrating Christmas was a
crime to the early Puritans in Mas
sachusetts. The practice was looked
down upon with so much disfavor
that anyone observing the date was
fined five shillings. On May 11,
1659, the general court in Boston
passed a law against Christmas cel
ebrations which said:
“It is therefore ordered by this
court and the authority thereof that
whomsoever shall be found observ
ing any such day as Christmas or
the like, either by forebearing la
bor, feasting, or any other way,
upon such account as aforesaid, ev
ery such person so offending shall
pay for every such offense five shill
ings as a fine to the county.”
Fair Warning
“Listen, chillun” said Uncle
Eben, “don’t eat yohsefs into a state
of mind whar you’s wishin’ for a
doctor harder dan you did for Santy
Claus.”