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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. CU FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1940 Mrs. Borah May Write . . . Mrs. Taft Can Speak . . . New Con versations Between Nazis and Soviet Worry Allies. By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON.—Plans for the fu- . ture are still uncertain for “Little Borah” as Mrs. William E. Borah, widow of the senator, is affectionate ly known. Except for one thing—the decision to give up the spacious, beautifully furnished apartment in which she and the senator lived for many years. It was their only home. They had none in Idaho. When they returned there in the summer they lived in a Boise hotel. The senator left a small estate which, with the $10,000 which wid ows of members of congress re ceive, will enable Mrs. Borah to live comfortably. Borah could have made big money, but he always re fused. He had many offers of le gal cases; and a few years ago he was handed a contract by a news paper syndicate for $52,000 to write a weekly, 1,200-word article. But he rigidly adhered to the rule that he was an employee of the people and that they were entitled to his full time. Borah was so meticulous about this that when, during his fourth term, congress increased senatorial pay from $7,500 to $10,000 a year, he refused to accept the addi tional $2,500 until re-elected. Mrs. Borah has a sister in Mos cow, Idaho, and another in Port land, Ore. She will visit them be fore deciding where she will set tle permanently. In the past, she has had a number of requests to write about Washington and about her many experiences in the offi cial and social world. She has always declined, but now she may turn her gentle wit and charm to such work. • • • Merry-Go-Round. Mrs. Bob Taft, wife of Ohio’s G. O. P. “favorite son,” doesn’t play bridge, but she can make a better political speech than her husband . . . The SEC is quietly investigat ing a Wall Street “bear raid” on securities of the $800,000,000 Stand ard Gas & Electric company, fol lowing inside reports that the raid was staged by utility interests as part of a campaign to discredit the More to Blow About . . . Mrs. 'Bob’ Taft helps Girl Scouts blow out birthday candlelights. She can also blow about making better speech than her senator husband. SEC . . . E. R. Stettinius, able young head of the U. S. Steel cor poration, is high among the possi bilities for assistant secretary of navy, made vacant when Charles Edison was elevated to the cabinet . . . Townsendites have picked St. Louis and June 30 as the place and date for their convention this year. Politicos are much interested in the timing, because it is before the two national nominating conventions. In 1936, Townsend teamed up with Fa ther Coughlin against both Roose velt and Landon. * • » War Pessimism. The confidential war reports re ceived by government agencies have not been too optimistic of late re garding the Allied positions. This pessimism has nothing to do with the sudden mobilization of the Dutch and Belgians, which had be hind it only the fact that the canals which constitute the best defense against Germany were frozen, and the lowland countries suddenly real ized how easy it would be for the Nazis to cross. Chief reason for pessimism is the very mediocre success of the Brit ish blockade, plus rumblings of new conversations between Russia and Germany. How far these new conversations have gone is impossible to say. But they revolve around the Rus sian failure in Finland and the fact that the Russian transportation sys tem has broken down. This gives the Germans an excellent excuse to become the technical doctors of the Soviet. In fact. Foreign Minister von Rib- bentrop, who has been under a lot of German army criticism for ne gotiating the Russian pact in the first place, now sees this as a gold en opportunity to redeem himself. He has proposed to Stalin that Ger many take over Russia’s transporta tion and industry, but only if she has a completely free hand. Whether Stalin accepts is anyone’s guess. But if he does, Russia and Germany together will constitute the most powerful region in the world, ruled by two dictators, stretching from the Rhine to the Pacific. Only R.O.T.C. Ski Unit Practices Winter Maneuvers Only U. O. T. C. ski unit in the United States is maintained at Manlius school, Manlius, N. Y. Each young member of the ski platoon is an expert skier, rifleman and machine gunner. Left: Michael Senzimir, 16, halts while Headmaster Col. Guido Verbeck straps a machine gun to his back. Right: The platoon, having sighted the “enemy,” hastily takes up prone positions in the snow. The white uniforms blend into the back ground provided by King Winter. Texas Quadruplets Celebrate First Anniversary Each sitting behind a cake adorned with one candle, the Badgett quadruplets of Galveston, Texas, cele brate their first birthday. When born, the quads, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Badgett, weighed a total of 17 pounds. Their combined weight is now 78 pounds. They are already becoming talkative, though the tra ditional “Dada” is as yet the keystone of their vocabulary. Left to right: Jeraldine, Jeanette, Joyce and Joan. Now Hans Has a Reason to Be Sick Action Skyward Hans von Appen, left, German sailor who tricked the British by feigning illness when the S. S. Dusseldorff was captured by an English warship, talks to a reporter at Balboa, in the Canal Zone. Von Appen was put ashore at Panama, where authorities found his illness an “act.” He was placed under custody of United States army officials, and in due course, will be turned over to the British as a prisoner of war. Anti-aircraft gunners aboard a Swedish man o’ war in the gulf of Bothnia practice with their weapon —one of the most deadly guns made to counteract the warplane threat. Although Sweden remains neutral, she continues to intensify defense measures. New Solicitor General of U. S. Sworn In Honeymoon Helper Flooded with requests is Clinton Francis X. Biddle, center, of Philadelphia, Pa., sworn in as solicitor Mozley Washburn of New York who general of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, offered two free weeks for honey- right. Attorney General Robert Jackson witnessed the ceremonies. Biddle mconers on his palm-covered island succeeds Jackson, who was named to his present post following the appoint- off the coast of Florida. Mozley ad- ment of former Attorney General Frank Murphy to the Supreme court. i mits a huge, unlooked-for response THAT MAN IS HERE AGAIN! (“Government Announces a New Cen sus in April.”—Headline.) Q.—I’m the census man. A.—We don’t want any today. Q.—You don’t understand; I’m tak ing a census. A—Again! • • • Q.—Do you own this house? A—I can’t find out. I thought I owned it but I get so many bills, statements, demands and inquiries about it that I’m not certain. Q.—Is there a federal loan on it? A.—Do you know anything there isn’t a federal loan on? • • • Q.—How many people live here? A.—Six. Q.—How many are working? A.—They’re all working. Q.—Doing what? A.—Answering questions of cen sus takers. • • • Q.—How many adults in the fam ily? A.—Three adults and two children, but I think the children are more adult mentally than the others. Q.—What makes you think so? A.—They know better than to an swer the doorbell every time it rings. • • • Q.—Were you born in this country? A.—Yes, and away back when it was THIS country. Q.—What does your husband do? A.—He’s a questionnaire prepar er. Q.—Is he satisfied? A.—Why not? He and you are in the only two lines which there is always plenty of work in this coun try. • • • Q.—Have you a bank account? A.—Do I have to answer that one? Q.—Why hesitate? Is there any thing wrong about having a bank account? A.—I’m beginning to wonder. * • • Q.—Have you an electric refrig erator? A.—Aha! I begin to see it all now. You’re an icebox salesman. Q.—No mam; that’s just one of the census questions. A.—For goodness sake, can’t we have a refrigerator in this country any longer without notifying Wash ington? Q.—How many bathrooms have you? A.—Who wants to know, the attor- nev-general, Secretary Ickes or the SEC? Q.—Never mind. How many bath rooms and have they tubs or show ers? A.—Showers. We would have had tubs only Washington discovered my grandfather was a Republican. • • • Q.—Is anybody in the house en gaged in farming? A.—No; my aunt tried raising geese, but you can’t do it ip a show er bath. Q.—Thanks. 1 think that completes the questions. A.—Oh, no, it doesn’t. YOU’LL BE BACK AGAIN NEXT MONTH! • • • WINTER SPORTS He took his aunt out riding. Though icy was the breeze; He put her in the rumble seat To see his anti-freeze. Seymour Sussman. • • • General Motors turned out its twenty-five millionth car last week. But it is still working on a “jack” big enough to jack up one car while you fix a tire. • • • Stalin’s secret weapon turns out to be a “sled tank.” But what he needs is a tank that is good on a ski jump. • • • Oscar Blitzer says the Soviet army is so bad it even smells on ice. • • • Add similes: Quicker than the United States can change attorney generals. • • • THE WIFE She’s a strange creature; A creature of moods. But I thank the good Lord That she doesn’t wear snoods. K. F. • • • WHAT? NO SONNY’S NEWSSTAND Hi—Down here in Miami Beach one corner of Dempsey’s hotel has been opened by “Mammy’s” Res taurant. And last week a man who opened a drug store on the other end of the building named it, in neon lights, “Pappy’s Apothecary." Hilary. • • • Brenda Frazier gets an allowance of $52,000 a year, or one thousand smackers a week. Miss Frazier has infinite faith in America and thinks everything will turn out all right. WWW** 9 -Ask Me Jlnothe* O A General Q UJ2 The Questions 1. Can you give three words, having two pronunciations each, the meanings of which change with the pronunciations? 2. Which are the three fastesl animals on foot? 3. What is a martingale—a song bird, part of a horse’s harness, or a flowering shrub? 4. What kinds of twins are there? 5. What are the male and fe male figures used in architecture called? 6. What three birds have be - come extinct in the United States in the last 100 years? The Answers 1. Record, produce, minute. 2. The cheetah, the gazelle and the race horse are the three fastest animals on foot. 3. Part of a horse’s harness. 4. Identical, unlike, and Siamese. 5. Male figures, used as supports in architecture, are called carya tids, female figures are called at- lantes. 6. The passenger pigeon became extinct in the 1880s, the Labrador duck in the 1840s, and the great auk in the 1840s. SPEED'S MV BUSINESS -BUT FOR. PLEASURE GIVE ME A SLOW-BURNING CIGARETTE. CAMELS ARE MILDER AND cooler! "FASTEST MAN ON WHEELS" in six-day bicycle racing is 8-time winner Cecil Yates, Jr. (above). But in cigarettes, Cecil is on the slow side — he smokes slow-burning Camels. Try Camels. Find Out for yourself how Camels give you more pleasure per puff — and more puffs per pack! (Yes, more actual smoking.) In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 25% slow er than the average of the 15 other of the largest-sell ing brands tested — slower than any of them. That means, on the average, • smoking plus equal to ^SMOKES TER PACK.' FOR EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR— CAMEL