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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY. MAY 3, 1940 VITAL SCANDINAVIA WASHINGTON.—Boiled down to the most brutal fundamentals, the Norwegian war amounts to this: If the British lose it, they also lose the World war. This may seem like harsh and hasty deduction, but it is based upon the fact that all the other nations of Europe, particularly Italy, are watching the outcome of this battle to see on which side they will jump. If the Germans succeed in holding Norway, every small nation in southeast Europe will figure that the might of the British empire is broken, that the time has come to cuddle up to its successor. But more important, you can write it down as certain that unless Britain wins in Norway, Italy will come into this war within approx imately one month. Almost every dispatch which the state department lays upon the White House desk indicates that Mussolini is getting ready for this plunge. Real fact is that the Italian people are by no means in love with Hitler. Nor are they in love with the allies ■—though they probably like Hitler less. However, Mussolini never THE PROTECTORS was a man to worry about the Italian people, and regardless of popular sentiment, he can take Italy into the war any time he wants to. U. S. observers are confident that he will do so, probably jumping first into North Africa the minute he sees that Hitler is victorious in Scandi navia. Note—What many people do not realize in gauging this war is that Italy and Russia were on the side of the allies in the last war, but even so it took four years plus the very powerful help of the United States before Germany surrendered —with her troops still on French soil. In this war, the alignment is far different, which is why Italy can tip the balance. * • • Senate School Teacher. High school students who are flocking into senate galleries these days wish that teacher might be as lenient with them as Senate Chief Clerk John Crockett is with his school-room of 96 members. At high noon, the gavel falls in the presence of less than a dozen members. The bells ring, and Crockett begins his chore of round ing up enough senators to do busi ness. “Mr. Adams . . . Mr. Andrews . . . Mr. Ashurst . . calls out the veteran clerk in a booming voice. For every six names he calls, only one “Here” is heard. He gets through the Bs, the Cs, and the Ds. Then he slows up. “Mr. Gerry . . . (long pause) . .. Mr. Gibson . . . (longer pause) . . . Mr. Gillette.” Clerk Crockett, who lacks the schoolmaster’s power to punish the tardy, looks hopefully at the swing ing doors to the senate cloakroom. But still he has only a score of scholars, and he needs 49 before the session can begin. If he gets through Wheeler, White, and Wiley before that number is reached, he must find the absence of a quorum, and start to call the entire list again. It takes only seven minutes to run the roll call at fast pace, but Clerk Crockett consumes 15 minutes this time, just to give the boys a break. He pauses as long as 10 seconds between names. At the end of the list he makes a hurried count, and whips the tally back to the vice president, declar ing that 49 members have answered to their names. Actually, there are only 30 members on the floor, but Crockett knows another 20 will pop in soon, and he gives them a lib eral leeway that they never got in school. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND Chester Thompson, genial new head of the government-owned In land Waterways corporation, doesn’l believe in remote control. He has moved his agency’s headquarters from its flossy offices in Washington to the river docks at St. Louis . . . National Youth Administrator Wil liams is one New Dealer who has Republican defenders. When he was criticized by Democratic con gressmen, a number of G. O. P. members leaped to their feet and lauded him plus his NYA. General HUGH s. JOHNSON Jaur: United Features J WNU Servtoa ADVICE TO REPUBLICANS Having generously provided the Democrats with wholly unsolicited and gratuitous opinions as to how to run their show, it seems no less than fair to do an equally unsought service for the Republicans. Dr. Johnson’s diagnosis here is based entirely on his findings on the Dem ocrats—that Mr. Roosevelt will be in the opposition. But if Mr. Roosevelt runs, it is probable that he could lick any of the present foremost contenders for the Republican crown—singly or in any possible permutation of pairs. Perhaps it is a little premature to assay Mr. Dewey’s position on national problems because, as Ray mond Clapper has so sharply point ed out, he hasn’t defined it. He did a magnificent job of generalization in his first speech and has well pre sented the argument for the prose- A WOW IN THE GYM cution. But that isn’t enough. Gen eralities and criticism are two small-bore weapons, but specific proposal and constructive sugges tion is absolutely necessary this year. Senator Vandenberg has had to take forthright positions. He is on record on everything. But he is re corded on so many sides of so many questions that Mr. Roosevelt’s ghost manned speech factory would go to work on him with whoops of glee. Senator Taft just isn’t sufficiently articulate. His principal asset is a name and, while it was the name of a very great man, it wasn’t the name of a very great President, and the senator seems to be a chip off the old block. There are two candidates avail able to the Republicans who would take care of themselves with Mr. Roosevelt on their feet in any ring in the country—and with no holds barred. One is Mayor La Guardia of New York, who has a mind like a steel trap, can speak masterfully on tiny public question at a moment’s no tice and has hung up the best com parative record in the country—bar none—not only as a vote-getter but as an able, honest, conservative and effective chief executive in the second hardest job of the kind in the nation. He did it with no political party at all behind him. He has a distinct national standing with ag riculture and with labor on his con gressional record. The other is Wendell Willkie. You can’t dismiss him because he runs a public utility any more than you can dismiss La Guardia because he is called “radical.” I try to visu alize these men as candidates or Presidents, rather than by thought less label. With either or, better, both of these men on a Republican ticket, we shall see a real race. The way matters seem to be trending now, it will be just 1936 over again. * • * RAILROAD PROBLEMS Our log jam of unemployment Should be scientifically attacked at the key timbers. For seven years we have been doctoring the symp toms by handouts “to distribute purchasing power.” Every single one of these rules and subsidies, by increased taxes, debts and regula tory burdens, tends to increase the cost of things as fast or faster than it spreads the purchasing power to consume them. The latter effect cancels out the former. Recently more intelligence has been applied to releasing one of the key logs in the jam—building construction. Another equally im portant key log is the railroad mess. There has been so much decay and so many improvements in the railroad industry that if they could get that capital, the modernization of our railroad system would afford a very large re-employment. It could speed up our whole economic system—save time and lower costs of everything that moves in com merce. This is the surest and soundest way to increased consumption, hence production, hence employ ment—and to farm relief. Senator Wheeler’s bill for railroad reorganization is among our most important pieces of legislation. It recognizes that some railroad capi tal structures must be “put through the wringer” by prompt and realis tic court action reducing obligations to pay for dead horses of past mis takes or on values of property be yond what can be properly classi fied as their reasonable power tf earn. U. S. Army Plane Makes First Totally ‘Blind’ Flight The first totally “blind” flight in the history of aviation was completed recently by a United States army air corps 22V£-ton bomber as it landed at Langley Field, Va., from Mitchell Field, N. Y. Pilots W. A. Matheny and Carl McDaniel, shut off from outside vision by a canvas, relied solely upon instruments. Left: Crew of the huge Boeing fortress preparing for the historic flight. Top right: Diagram shows how radio signals sent out from two special trucks guides plane to a landing. Bottom right: The plane in which the experiment was i^ade. Instead of following a radio beam, the plane was “on instruments” from take-off to destination, land ed by signal broadcasts from the two radio trucks. As Swedish Soldiers Man Frontier Defense Posts While neighboring Norway battles against the powerful German war machine, Sweden has increased mili tary preparedness facilities at all vulnerable points. Sweden’s oft-reiterated policy of neutrality is backed up by the small but well-equipped Swedish army. Left: Army machine gunners are shown in position at a border post somewhere near Stockholm. Right: Swedish infantrymen check over their ammunition at a vulnerable point near the same city. Made from the bridge of a Nazi warship as she shelled and set fire to a British destroyer, this is the first picture to reach America via radio of actual battle between ships of the English and Nazi fleets in Norwegian waters. The picture was made during fighting in the Skager- rak. The white plume is where a shell fell short. Note the swastika on the foredeck of the German ship—recognition mark for Nazi bombers. This may be a preview of coming events. “Two-Ton” Tony Galento, challenger to Joe Louis’ heavy weight crown, spied this S2,000 harp in an Omaha, Neb., radio station, and promptly went to work on it. They Plan July Republican Convention His Biggest Day Pictured in Philadelphia, Pa., making plans for the Republican na tional convention in July are (left to right) James F. Torrance, Pitts burgh, chairman of the Pennsylvania committee; John D. M. Hamilton, national committee chairman, and Harold W. Mason of Brattleboro, Vt., national committee secretary. Oscar Vitt, Cleveland Indian base ball club manager, embraces Pitch er Bob Feller after the latter pitched a no-hit, no-run game against the Chicago White Sox in the opening tilt of the season at Chicago. “The Name Is Familiar— —•— BT FELIX B. STREYCXMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON James Smithson Smithsonian Institution nPHE Smithsonian Institution in ■*' Washington bears the name of an Englishman who never had set foot on American soil but who left his entire fortune to establish in this country what was destined to be come one of the greatest storehouses of scientific knowledge in the world. James Smithson, born in 1765, was the natural son of a widow, Eliza beth Keate Macie and Hugh Smith- son, an English country squire. During his boy- hood and college years he bore the name of James Lewis Macie, but after he was ad mitted to the Roy al society and had won some fame as a scientist, he applied to the crown for per mission to take his father’s name. This was granted in 1802 and there after he was James Smithson. How- ’ ever, his father’s title as duke of I Northumberland went to his half- ' brother, Lord Percy. Because of the bar sinister on his name he never married. He hated the monarchial system and left Eng land to make his home in Genoa, i Italy, where his life of tragic frus- tration ended in June, 1829. When his will was opened it was found that he had left a fortune of more than half a million dollars “to the United States of America to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian institution, an estab lishment for the increase and diffu- siun of knowledge among men.” Why did he do it? That is one of the unsolved i mysteries of history. Once he wrote, “My name shall live in the memory of man when the ti tles of the Northumberlands and the Bercys are extinct and forgotten.” That may afford a clue! * * * Bowie Knife I”) ICTIONARIES say a bowie knife is a stout, straight, single-edged hunting knife. But more than a hundred years ago, when hunting knives were more important as a means of self-preservation, a Bowie knife was known as “the kind that Jim Bowie carries." History is not certain as to who invented the knife, but there is no question that it was named after Colonel James Bowie, a native of Tennessee. There is a story that Bowie thrust his butcher knife into an attacking Indian and his hand slipped down over the blade, cutting it severely. However, it was the Indian who failed to heal up, not Bowie, and at his first opportunity Bowie had a hunting knife made to order with a guard on it. Soon after he began to carry it he was attacked by three desperadoes and killed all of them : with his new kind of knife. The men of the times began ordering knives like Bowie’s and soon began merely to ask for Bowie knives. Bowie was finally killed himself in the battle of the Alamo but when his body was found it was surround ed by dead Mexicans whom he had killed first. CoL James Bowie was the kind of man who, if he lived to day, would be prominent in the tes- timonial advertisements. * * • Volta V OLTS—the units for measuring electrical force—are named in honor of Alesandro Volta, Italian professor who tamed the electric spark in the early 1800s. Up until then electricity was pro duced only by rubbing a piece of glass, resin or wax with the dry hand or a piece of dry cloth, making a spark. Electricity had no prac tical use—except as a novelty of the French draw ing rooms. There gentlemen who wore laces would shock ladies who wore hoop skirts by generating static electricity and then touch ing the ladies on the cheek. This pastime is much less shocking, however, than some of the others that history says went on in French drawing rooms and perhaps we should not minimize the importance of static electricity. At any rate, Alesandro Volta spent the greatest part of his life trying to generate electricity with out rubbing anything. One day he tried piling silver and zinc discs of equal size upon each other with wet pieces of cloth between. He con nected the first and last discs with a wire and got— .ot a shock, but the first steady current of electricity in history. IBeleased by Western Newspaper Union.) James Bowie Alesandro Volta Embroider Bouquets On Your Bedspread A SPREAD, in true Colonial style, of sprays of varied flow ers, can be yours with ease—these bouquets are all in the simplest stitches. Place them in a wreath if you prefer. Pattern 6656 con tains a transfer pattern of 18 mo tifs ranging from 6 by 6 inches to 1% by 2 inches; illustrations of stitches; color schemes; materi als needed. Send order to: Sewing Circle Needleeraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave. New Yerk Enclose IS cents in coins for Pat tern No Name Address Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels, and Also Pepsin-ize Stomach! When constipation brings on add intfi- gestion, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste, and bad breath, your stomach is probably loaded up with cer tain undigested food and your bowels don’t move. So you need both Pepsin to help break up fast that rich undigested food in your stomach, and Laxative Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be sure your laxative also contains Pepsin. Take Dr. Caldwwll’s Laxative, because its Syrup Pepsin helps you gain that won derful stomach comfort, while the Laxative Senna moves your bowels. Tests prove the power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of undigested protein food which may linger in your stomach, to cause belching, gasfiie acidity and nausea. This is how pepdo- izing your stomach helps relieve it of such distress. At the same time this medicine wakes up lary nerves and muscles in your bowels to relieve your constipation. So see how much better you feel by taking the laxative that also puts Pepsin to work on that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin icky children love to taste this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell's Lax ative—Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your druggist today! Growth With Activity All growth depends on activity. There is no development, physi cally or intellectually, without ef fort—and effort means work. Work is not a curse—it is a prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood and the measure of civi lization.—Calvin Coolidge. . Ways of Paying There are but two ways of pay ing debt—increase of industry is raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.—Carlyle. TSAinQS&££^(essedFeUe/. RHEUMATISMKago As Usual They Split “I understand that those two politicians have split.” “Yes, fifty-fifty!” Malaria •Chills* Fever T*U roli«bl« Oxidww. Stop* chile end lever, deem blood of melerie. Femoue for 50 yeers. Money-back guarantee. 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