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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1940 r WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON "VT EW YORK.—If death is taking only a brief holiday on the west wall, the opposition is making the most of it. The life brigades press e . r . forward in Science, Unlike me dicine, re- Death, Pauses search sci- Not for Holiday ence . Philan thropy, social inquiries and studies, and all that has to do with the two healing vir tues of compassion and understand ing. Even the sedate American Philo sophical association feels a touch of the new elan vital and is moved thereby to a spirited teleological free-for-all as it tries to understand John Dewey. The occasion was a special meeting to honor Professor Dewey on having become 80 years old last October. Never before has this courier seen a year wind up with less arthritis and more punch, in the field of science. Young blood is helping a lot. Dr. Albert B. Sabin, of the Uni versity of Cincinnati college of medicine, who scores against in fantile paralysis and viruses at tacking the nervous system, is 33 years old. His paper, read before the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Ohio university, reveals unsuspected tissue defenses against the en trance of the viruses into the nervous system. It is regarded as an epochal advance toward understanding of the disease and later conquest. Dr. Sabin was born in Poland, and acquired his academic and medical education at New York university, from 1923 to 1931, later studying at Lister institute, London. In 1932, he became associate research scientist at Rockefeller institute, New York city. During his tenure with this institution he discovered a new dis ease, caused by an agent which he calls the B virus. His new discovery of the anti virus goalkeepers in human tissue was announced in connection with his receipt of the Theobald Smith award in medical sciences. F)R. ALEXANDER LESSER of ^ Brooklyn college finds there isn’t any such thing as social evo lution—at least not in the old sense. „ „ “In the form Sees Our Hope given it by In Understanding the ‘classical Human Behavior evolutionists,' it is dead as a door-nail,” says Dr. Lesser. But, tossing aside “subjective judgment,’ he finds ample hope of new under standing as he assails the old ration alization of haunch, paunch and jowl darwinism, as rationalizations of force. Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, as above, sees our ultimate hope in “understanding human beha vior,” and urges the scientists to keep on swinging. Dr. Mitchell, it will be recalled, is the widely known Columbia university econ omist who headed President Hoover’s research committee on social trends. V/fATTHEW W. STIRLING, an- l thropologist of the Smithsonian institution, who delves into exciting origins and inducements of what is _ . _ . . . loosely called Found Primitive civilization, is Man Possessed off for the Yen for D. T.s Maya country of Mexico, leading an expedition which will hunt new clues to early Indian cul tures. It is a renewal of Mr. Stir ling’s explorations of last January, in which he found a stone bearing the earliest recorded date of the Americas—equivalent to November 4, 291 B. C. A Princeton scientist traced the honey highball back 5,000 years and thereby gained knowl edge of great historic Indo-Eu ropean shifts in population. Mr. Stirling also has found man’s early day elbow-bending a light source. He discovered that the drinking of primitive man was premeditated and indulged in to induce visions. At Ostia, Mr. Stirling found a bar, several thousands of years old, lacking only the brass rail and tbe free lunch to match ours. In British Guiana, in 1927, he found pygmies who, for full dress, wore artificial tails; whose babies in arms smoked big cigars and whose dogs were barkless. In Flor ida, he found the lost Calooshas, the earliest Americans. In the Jivaro, he was clubby with head-hunters and learned much, not only of their recipe for shrinking heads, but of their visions, legends and customs. He was reared in the Salinas cow country of California and attended the University of California. His explorations have been in North, Central and South America, Europe and the East Indies. He is 43 years old, and, as usual, having the time of his life. (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) Gray Ghosts of Northland Stalk Camouflaged Foe Finland has no monopoly on winter camouflage. The reconnoitering Soviet warrior, left, and his dog are both in “winter dress.” The white-clad soldier of the northern army blends with the snow-covered back ground. Right: Carrying knapsacks under white coveralls, these hardy Finnish troops look like hunchbacks as they glide to their posts on the Karelian front. These men have been the terror of the Soviet troops, attacking and fading again like wraiths. Fast moving, they swoop down on isolated parties, attack with machine guns, rifles, pistols and even knives, then disappear. Messenger . . . Chinese Tickford’ . . . Princess Mahatma Ghandi’s message to America is that British imperialism in India must be supplanted by a new order, according to Miss Bhicco Batlivala, left, of India now practicing law in London, who is visiting in this country. Another foreign visitor is Tso Yee-Man, center, the “Mary Pickford of China,” who, with her husband, is here to produce two motion pictures. Right: Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg, for mer friend of Adolf Hitler, is another recent arrival. The princess recently lost a breach of agreement suit against Viscount Rothermere, British newspaper publisher. Washington Welcomes New Representative Birthday Blackout A new arrival to the nation’s capital is welcomed by Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead. The Washington newcomer is Rep. Edwin A. Hall Jr., right, of the thirty-fourth district, New York state. He was elected recently to succeed the late Rep. Bert Lord. Alfred E. Smith, former governor of New York and one-time presiden tial candidate, celebrates his sixty- sixth birthday with a “blackout.” He extinguished six big candles—a decade each—and six small ones at a party in the Empire State build ing in New York city. Amateur swimmers who will represent the United States in seven South American athletic meets leave New York for Argentina. Front row, left to right: Helen Rains, Helen Crelenko and Helen Perry. Back row, left to right: Waldimer Tomski, A1 Green, Taylor Drysdale, Tom Haynie and Jack Cullimore. The team is sponsored by the Amateur Athletic union. A Swiss army sentinel is shown at his barbed wire surrounded post near the German border. Since the outbreak of European war the army of Switzerland has been fully mobi lized and at its defense post. Star Dust ★ ‘The Bat' Again ★ Jane Has Preference 'k To the Bitter End By Virginia Vale T HE President’s son plans to give us a mystery pic ture—made from one of the best mystery plays ever written —as the first release of his Globe Productions. It’s “The Bat,” by Mary Roberts Rine hart and Avery Hopwood, and has everything that a thriller should have. It was filmed by Mary Pickford’s company in 1926, and done again, as “The Bat Whispers,” in 1931. Norman Foster will direct the new version. * Hard on the heels of her scrap with Warner Brothers over her re fusal to appear in “Married, Pretty and Poor,” Jane Bryan showed the studio that she preferred to be mar ried, pretty and rich—she announced her engagement to Justin W. Dart, who is general manager of a drug firm. * Mickey Rooney may rank first at the box offices of motion picture theaters in this country, but in Great Britain and Ireland he comes sec ond, with Deanna Durbin pushing him out of first place. She was not among the first ten in this country. * . If you are devoted to the story, “The Light That Failed,” you’ll like the picture version, which sticks to the original, even to the unhappy ending. If it’s Ronald Colman, rath er than the story, who’s responsi- RONALD COLMAN ble for your interest in the picture, you’ll enjoy it hugely, for he gives an excellent performance. ' * So do Walter Huston, Dudley Digges, and Ida Lupino. Miss Lu- pino has had a hard time of it in Hollywood; she was put into ingenue parts and kept there; now that, at last, she had been given a chance to show what she could do with a real role, she had made the most of it. Hers is rather like the one In “Of Human Bondage” that established Bette Davis as a dramatic actress. Miss Lupino’s performance is good enough to do as much for her. No longer can she be thought of as just one of those pretty blondes who are so numerous in the picture-mak ing metropolis. * If you’re interested in the present activities of former radio favorites, here’s news of some of them. Jim my Melton is now known as James Melton, and is a concert singer. Morton Downey wound up his sum mer engagement at the World’s fair and followed it with an equally suc cessful one. in a Hollywood night club. Singin’ Sam is making money by making recordings. Jessica Dragonnette makes occa sional appearances on the air—and ‘ when you see “Gulliver’s Travels” you’ll hear her voice. Vera Van, Leah Ray and Annette Henshaw have retired. *— Gene Autry, the singing screen star who is Public Cowboy No. 1, heads a new western series from “The Double M Ranch” over the Columbia network each Sunday. In cidentally, did you know that Gzne was discovered by the beloved Will Rogers? Rogers stopped at a small town in Oklahoma to forward his syndicated column; Gene, the tele graph operator, was singing a west ern ballad. Rogers advised him to capitalize on his talents—and a little more than a year later Gene Autry was a popular radio and recording artist. —*— Del Courtney, who features Can did Camera music over NBC, has borrowed an idea from the movies in his presentation of “previews” of his forthcoming programs. Before ' concluding his broadcasts, he plays a few bars of some of the new tunes to be featured on the next program. It’s a novel idea, and will probably be widely copied by bandleaders who don’t hesitate to imitate their more successful brethren. * ODDS AND ENDS—The New York Film Critics picked “Wuthering Heights’’ as 1939’s best picture . . . It’s a little more than twenty-six years since Cecil B. De Mille, Samuel Goldwyn and Jesse Lasky began filming “The Squaw Man,” the first motion picture made in Hollywood. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 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