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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940
By DREW PEARSON
and ROBERT ALLEN
WASHINGTON—Up untU now it
has been a military secret, but with
in the last three or four weeks the
Finns have received 300 fighting
planes from the British.
They were shipped at the rate of
about 100 per week secretly to
Sweden, where they were assembled
and flown to Finland. This is the
most important assistance the Finns
have had for some time, and indi
cates the seriousness with which the
British finally view the Finnish war.
It will be recalled that when the
war first started and the Finns ap
pealed to Britain for help, Foreign
Minister Halifax replied that aid to
the Finns might alienate a friendly
neutral—Russia.
• • •
Diplomatic Notes.
Members of the U. S. embassy in
Berlin are permitted to import food
from outside Germany, to supple
ment the German rations . . . Dur
ing debate on the state department
appropriation, a congressman called
the department on the phone, and
said, “You’ve got an item in the
appropriations for a U. S. legation
in Thailand. Is that a country?
Where is it?” The answer was,
“Siam” . . . The lady who runs
the apartment house at Nineteenth
and F streets in Washington is proud
that Corcoran and Cohen occupy a
penthouse apartment in her build
ing. She is confident that the entire
government is run from her apart
ment house . . . Carlos Davila, for
mer president of Chile, says of the
new Inter-American bank, “Nothing
more important has occurred in the
field of Pan-Americanism since the
Monroe Doctrine.”
• • •
Vice President LaGuardia.
Don’t be surprised if you hear
more talk of Fiorello LaGuardia as
a vice presidential
candidate from now
on.
Some of the Pres-
ident’s advisers,
plus certain con
servative Democrat
ic strategists, have
been doing some
serious thinking
about LaGuardia
recently.
They point to the
fact that the dy
namic mayor of
Manhattan has strength where the
New Deal needs it most, namely in
New York, Pennsylvania, and along
the Atlantic seaboard. In the big
metropolitan areas he is extremely
popular. And it is exactly in these
areas that Cordell Hull, should he
be the Democratic candidate, would
need strength.
Chief trouble with the LaGuardia
candidacy so far is that no one has
been pushing it. Fiorello himself
has been too busy being mayor of
New York city, and has entrusted
his national political strategy large
ly to Assistant Secretary of State ■
Adolf Berle, than whom there is no
worse politician.
• • •
John L. and F. D. R.
Secret White House social note:
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Lewis were
invited to the White House to dinner
not long before the C. I. O. chief
issued his blast against Roosevelt
in Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
replied that they had a previous en
gagement.
Usually, an invitation to the White
House is a command. Wonder if the
impending blast at Columbus had
something to do with the Lewises’
regrets?
LaGuardia
Capital Chaff.
Significant sights around the
swank hotels: Mrs. Cordell Hull
lunching with Mrs. Farley at the
Carlton. Their husbands are talk
ing of teaming up on the Democratic
ticket—President and vice president.
Captain Joseph A. Gainard dining
with German naval attache Vice Ad
miral Robert Witthoeft-Emden. The
Germans once captured Gainard’s
S. S. City of Flint, but the two men
seemed to enjoy their dinner.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lunch
ing with a bevy of beauty at the
Mayflower, including Olivia deHavil-
land, Liz Whitney and Evie Robert.
• • •
Mail Bag.
P. L. C., Newark.—There is no
truth in the rumor spread by critics
of Secretary of the Navy Edison
that he switched mosquito-boat
building contracts to a New Jersey
plant to improve his chances to run
for governor of New Jersey. All of
the torpedo boats and submarine
chasers are being built outside of
New Jersey, principally in Groton,
New London, and Stamford, Conn.
E. W., Palo Alto, Calif.—State de
partment expects a commissioner to
be appointed to examine claims of
U. S. citizens against Russia. Reso- |
lutions setting up such a commis- !
sion was passed by congress, and
an appropriation will be made avail
able beginning July 1 of this year.
L. G. T., Burke, S. D.—The U. S.
geological survey declares ♦he
Chamberlain manganese deposits in
South Dakota contain only low grade
ares, and officials seriously doubt the
adequacy of these deposits to sup
ply U. S. requirements.
Dead Men, Silent Guns Tell Mute Story of Warfare
With gunners lying dead and frozen under their barrels, these Russian guns are shown on a road of
Suomussalmi as they fell into the hands of the Finns, who mopped up the ragged remnants of the Red army’s
forty-fourth division. This is only a small fraction of the total equipment which was captured by the Finnish
army, and which is now being used against its former owners.
THE RADIO AND EDUCATION
Homework by radio is the latest
in education. We may presently
hear of the little boy who got “E”
in radio.
• • •
A child’s education may ultimate
ly depend on good reception and
whether there was much static in
his formative years.
• • *
“Little Nell was cut out to be
bright,” some fond parent may ex
plain in days to come, “but her out
side aerial fell down at a crucial
period in her education.”
• » •
It has remained for the New York
city board of education to introduce
homework by radio. Teachers dis
cuss subjects over the air 15 min
utes at night, and the pupils report
the next morning. Little Willie’s
excuse, “But, teacher, popper was
using our set to get Bennie Good
man” will presumably not be ac
ceptable.
• • •
Colonists Off to Seek Utopia in Caribbean Sea
En route to East Caicos, a 125,000-acre island at the southeastern end of the Bahamas, this small group re
cently arrived in Cutler, Fla., from Pasadena, Calif. They hope to establish a perfect community on the un
inhabited isle, which is a 700-mile voyage from Miami. Standing, left to right: Dawn Irvine, Mrs. A. E. Law
rence and Jane Irvine. Seated, left to right: Helene Irvine, Mrs. Richard C. Irvine, Mrs. A. L. Lornsten and
Mrs. James Lake. Mrs. Lake owns the island where the colonists will attempt building their Utopia.
Motor Magnates Greet Mickey Rooney
Building the Lily
Mickey Rooney, young movie star, in a friendly pose with motor
car magnates Edsel (left) and Henry Ford. Mickey was a guest of
the Fords while in Detroit, Mich., for a movie premiere. The new film,
shown for the first time in the motor city, was the life story of Thomas
Edison. Henry Ford’s enthusiasm perhaps is the result of his life-long ad
miration for the inventive genius of Edison.
From tiny bulb to flowering plant
within 30 days is the record of this
amaryllis, grown in a display room
in the Merchandise Mart, Chicago.
The lily, measured by Julia McCar
thy, grew without soil or sunshine,
its roots immersed, in a solution of
plant growing chemicals.
Polish National Council Meets in Paris
Lone Sentinel
Ignace Jan Paderewski, world-famous pianist who has re-entered
political life as president of the Polish national council, chats with Wlady-
slaw Raczkiewicz, left, president of the Polish republic, and General
Sikorsky, right, prime and war minister, at the first meeting of the Polish
national council in France since the war began. The government in France
was established after Germany’s invasion of Poland.
Lonesomest job on the western
front is that of this royal artillery
telephonist who sits alone with his
instrument and advises the British
battery on its target accuracy, giv
ing it the correct range.
We can imagine the conversation
between mommer and her boy in
many a home:
Mother—Now, Milton, don’t you
want to listen to the radio now?
Milton—No.
• • •
Mother—But your homework is on
the air.
Milton—That’s why I dor. ', wanna
lissen to the radio!
• • *
Mother—If you don’t listen to the
radio you’ll grow up and be igno
rant, and what happens to boys who
grow up ignorant?
Milton—They get radio jobs at
$5,000 a night.
• • •
Mother—It’s a wonderful thing to
get school work over the radio.
Milton—What’s wonderful about
it?
Mother—Everything. When I was
a little girl I had no radio to listen
to and get my homework.
Milton—Those were the days!
• • •
Mother—Think of it! Just sitting
in a chair by a radio and having
your teacher come to you by air.
Milton—I get enough of her in
school. Besides, it’s not so easy.
Last night I had an important les
son and I got my teacher, two ship
wrecks, a mystery drama, a British
war and the United States marine
band all at the same time.
Mother—Milton, no more non
sense. Time in and do your home
work.
Milton—Okay, mom, but if I grow
up stupid you’ll know this was a
lousy radio set.
• • *
NOTABLES OF 1940
A wonder man
Is Wesley Stagg:
He puts on his
Own auto tag!
A marvel, too,
Is Osoar Pettitt:
He never does
Forget to get it.
• • •
This is the coldest winter Eu
rope has had in years, which
may be why each side seems to
handle the other with gloves
so much of the time.
• • •
THINGS WERE SO TOPSY-TUR
VY THIS YEAR THAT THE SHAD
OW CAME OUT AND SAW THE
GROUNDHOG.
• • •
Jim Farley has issued new stamps
with the faces of famous poets on
them. It’s going to seem strange
to go up to the stamp window and
ask the clerk for three Longfellows,
and “how many Walt Whitmans will
it take to send this bundle to Wap-
pingers Falls?”
• • •
JEALOUS, EH?
I’d like to be a columnist,
A first-rate writing man
Vho can do his stuff in balmy climes
For the nasty month of Jan.
F. P. A.
• * •
I like to be a columnist
First, second-rate, or third,
And do my work in Florida
Till March the twenty-third.
• • *
Blackout kibitzers have ap
peared in London. And our cor
respondents over there report
that they not only tell the man
with the flashlight how to hold
it, but criticize the size.
• • •
“You can count on one thing,”
says W. Pilling: “Stalin’s enthusi
asm for winter sports has cooled.”
• * •
Public subscriptions are asked to
save the Metropolitan Opera House
; in New York. Elmer Twitchell
wants to know if they will take a
note.
• • •
A single platina fox skin brought
$11,000 at a fur auction in New York
recently. There’s money in being a
fox and always taking good care of
your skin.
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