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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.
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PLEASURE
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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
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TER PACK.'
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