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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, FRIDAY. MAY 10. 1940 GUFFEY VS. LEWIS Sen. Joe Guffey scored a double victory in his decisive renomination vote. The Pennsylvania New Deal er not only defeated his opponent, Pittsburgh Oilman Walter Jones, but also handed a thorough licking to John L. Lewis. This little-known fact was one of the most significant features of the election. Before the primary, Guffey and the C. I. O. chief were on closest terms. Guffey sponsored the United Mine Workers’ bituminous coal reg ulation act, and in 1938 unhesitating ly went out on a political limb for Lewis by supporting his candidate for governor over the bitter protests of most of the other Pennsylvania Democratic leaders. If Guffey had ducked that fight he could have avoided personal trouble this year. But when he went to Lewis for help in the tough primary battle, John L. turned him down cold. Only a few insiders know it, but the dramatic rebuff took place a few weeks before the election in Lewis’ paneled, high-ceilinged pri vate office. Guffey explained that SENATOR GUFFEY—His vic tory teas a licking for John L. Lewis. he was up against a very serious I situation and needed help badly. Lewis shook his head. “We can’t do anything for you, Joe,” he said. “But why not? You put up plenty of money for Tom Kennedy (Lewis’ gubernatorial candidate) two years ago.” “Yes, but we’ve got a new by-law now,” replied Lewis. “We’re not contributing in primaries.” Chief reason for Lewis’ coldness was Guffey’s advocacy of a third term for Roosevelt. Guffey is a strong third termer and ran on that platform while Jones, who before he became a candidate had declared against a third term, pussy-footed on the issue. Note—Director of Guffey’s suc cessful campaign was Dr. Luther Harr, former Pennsylvania univer sity professor of economics, now an executive of the pro-New Deal Phil adelphia Record and city treasurer of Philadelphia. Harr is slated to replacei State Democratic Chairman Dave Lawrence, who although put in office by Guffey, backed Jones. Scandinavian Desk. One of the busiest men in the state department is the expert who fol lows the tragic fate of Finland, Nor way, Denmark and Sweden. He is Hugh Gumming Jr., son of the former surgeon general of the United States, and one of Secretary Hull’s abler assistants. The state department’s system of keeping in touch is to divide the world into different areas, assign ing an expert to study each area. Thus there is the European division, the Far Eastern division, the Latin American division, and so on. Gumming has charge of the Scan dinavian desk in the European divi sion, and last summer was far sighted enough to take a trip through these countries. It was the last time he could have found their terri tory intact. The minute Gumming came back from his Scandinavian tour, things began to break. His desk shows it. So do the maps strewn over his tables. He picks up the telephone. “Yes, Mr. Minister . . . Yes, sir, our latest reports indicate ..." and he gives the diplomat a fill-in on the latest news. Already Gumming has a new map of Finland which shows its revised borders. He is wonder ing what will happen to other maps on the wall. • • • POLITICAL CHAFF Democratic politicos are getting a big kick out of one Republican claim. Mayor William Fallon of St. Paul proclaims that he brought the New Deal’s food stamp plan to the city and that it will be withdrawn unless he is returned to office . . One of the casualties in the recent Nebraska primary was Charles • Bryan, brother of the late William Jennings Bryan, who tried for a political comeback by running for congress. He was governor of Ne braska for several terms. General HUGH s. ' s, ‘ a Johnson Jour: Untied Femmm W WNU Send* MUZZLED BY NAVY A retired naval officer has beei ordered by the navy department U cease giving lectures on the war An officer on the retired list is ir a peculiar status. Having been dis abled in service he is removed frorr active duty and not subject to order* in the usual sense. He gets, for life what looks like three-quarters pay Actually counting lost allowances it is about half pay. Whether th* navy department can legally muzzle him is a doubtful question. Yet the navy doesn’t shush ur some retired officers who do no say acceptable things. The out standing case is Smedley Butler He has called his erstwhile marine employment the instrument of s racket. The difference is that an obscure little lieutenant-commander (re tired) could be sunk without a trace while a double medal of honoi major-general super showman with a national reputation, a picturesque vocabulary and a voice like a fog horn—“old augur-eye” or “old gim let-nose” or whatever “old” it is— Captured ‘Mystery Gun’ Puzzles Military Experts A Finnish gunnery expert is shown examining one of the strange weapons captured from Soviet Russian forces during the recent Russo-Finnish war. The gun, a field piece, is be’ieved to be a non-recoil cannon. It is shown ready to fire (left). The funnel attachment is thought to be a device which utilizes explosion gases to produce a forward movement of the gun barrel, thus neutralizing normal recoil. Right: The funnel arrangement is swung aside to show the breech. Experts confess themselves baffled. REAR ADMIRAL TAUSSIG— His voice is being “shushed” by the navy. couldn’t be sunk at all without a splash that would raise the tides on all the seven seas. In times of peace, I can’t see why there should be any shushing at all. Nine-tenths of this military secrecy business is the bunk. I was glad to read of Admiral Taussig’s testi mony, that the reason for the navy’s insistence on fortifying Guam and increasing naval estimates at a cost of more than a billion is that we’ve got to fight Japan. For this purpose, he wants to es tablish an “impregnable base in the Philippines” (which is not possible) “fortify the Island of Guam to make its capture impossible” (which is equally absurd) “and make an alli ance with Great Britain, France and the Netherlands that will insure co operation in the maintenance of the status quo in the area to the south ward of Formosa.” The navy didn’t attempt to shush Admiral Taussig. It merely said that his opinion was his own and contrary to its views. But the navy is asking for exactly what Taussig is defending. It con cedes that it wants to fortify Guam “to stabilize the political situation in the Far East.” Admiral Taussig was simply more explicit. He wants to check Jap anese expansion in Asia and Ma laysia which he says is “under way at present with the subjugation of China, the Philippines, Netherlands Indies, French Indo-China and Ma laya are to be taken over in due course of time. Russia is to be driven westward of Lake Baikal.” It is a fair interpretation of the rest of the admiral’s testimony that we have to fight a naval war with Japan to prevent all this and must get ready now. I don’t agree with Admiral Taus sig. If we are to engage our strength and effort on distant and indefensible objectives half way across the world, we shall be duck soup for enemies much closer to our shores. We have no bone buried in Asia. But it is a wonderful thing to know that he could speak and did speak his mind. It is unfair to the army, the navy and the country to tell them to pre pare for war and not tell them what war—how, when and where. What is the foreign political, mili tary and naval policy of the United States? That is our most important question. It needs to be debated and explored, and as to its military and naval aspects, professional mil itary and naval men know the limi tations. For the present at least, let’s not shush any of them. Sen. Bennett Clark wants to court martial Admiral Taussig for say ing that naval preparedness plans are aimed at checking Japan in Asia and Malaysia. My esteemed col umnar colleague, Raymond Clapper, writes: “The function of the armed forces is to carry out policy and not to make it.” This is 100 per cent right. “We depend on military and naval officers to advise us as to the preparedness measures we should take for the national safety or to maintain given policies.” O. K. as a theory, but it doesn’t mean a thing in our practices. Parade of States Features Washington Convention Feature attraction of the spring fete of the Woman’s National Democratic club, held recently in Washington, D. C., was a parade of states, which included daughters of senators and representa tives. Some of the marchers were, left to right: Louise Ransdell, Kansas; Esther Devine, Rhode Island; Dorothy Ramspeck, Georgia; Pauline Guessford, Delaware; Ruth Overton, Louisiana; Patty Mayfield, Mississippi; Helen Kine, Indiana; Martha Wever, Florida, and Barbara Grosser, Ohio. France Keeps Vigil on Western Front 1,400,000 Volts Somewhere on France’s Lorraine front a French soldier keeps eternal vigilance behind his rifle-machine gun, lest a German sur prise attack be successful. Note the cache of hand grenades just below the gun. They are used for close-in fighting. Main generator, voltage divid er stack and tube housing of Gen eral Electric’s powerful new 1,400,000-volt X-ray machine at Schenectady, N. Y. Its X-radia tion will equal that of 14 pounds ($150,000,000 worth) of radium. Discuss New Jobs for American Youth Germ Killer Discussing a clinic on “New Frontiers in American Life,” spon sored by the University of Rochester in New York state, are Dr. Alan Valentine (right), president of the university; Carl W. Lauter- bach, vocational counselor (left), and Wilbur Hooker, graduating senior. The election of Dr. Valentine to the board of Freeport Sul phur company established an industrial precedent last year. Dr. J. C. Hoogerheide in his Philadelphia, Pa., laboratory ex amining a culture of what he con siders one of the most powerful germ-destroyers. Administered to mice, it enabled them to with stand 1,000,000 lethal doses of pneumonia germs. “The Name Is Familiar— —♦— BT FELIX B. STREYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Wistaria 1ST ARIA, the beautiful light blue or purple flower which makes your front porch so attractive, is a perennial memorial to Caspar Wistar, a Philadelphia physician who was born in 1761. He went to medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, was graduated in 1782 and then went to England and Scot land, where he served as presi dent of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh and also as president of a society for the further inves tigation of natural history. After his return to America, he became almost as famous a nat uralist as he was a physician and anatomist and his home was a meet ing place for students, citizens, scien tists and travelers who met there to discuss subjects of common interest. In fact such assemblies, called “Wistar parties,” continued long aft er his death in 1318. When Thomas Nuttall, the Eng- lish-American naturalist, discovered a new woody vine in the forests of the western and southern states, he wanted to honor the famous Phila delphia scientist by naming it after him. But he spelled it “wisteria” and if you spell it that way, too, you’re helping Nuttall perpetuate an error instead of helping perpetuate the fame of Dr. Caspar Wistar. • • • Von Zeppelin Zeppelin '"p ECHNICALLY, an airship is a dirigible but it is popularly called a zeppelin and probably al ways will be. And so the name of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, its inventor, will live on. This ought to please the count no end, as he was just a little conceited. As a military observer in this coun try during the Civil war, he wrote copiously for his German readers but told as much about how popu lar he was with the American of ficers as he did about military ac tivities. Immediate ly after the Civil war he stayed in America for a short time to “en joy his populari ty,” and while in St. Paul, Minn., he made his first ascent in a balloon. He returned to Germany and con tinued to serve in the army until 1891 when he retired with the rank of general and studied aeronautics. In 1900 he made the first ship that rose from the ground. It stayed in the air for 20 minutes but it was wrecked in landing. In 1906 he made two successful flights with another ship of his and traveled 30 miles an hour. The next year his ship made 36 miles an hour and progress was steady from then on. The count died in 1917 dur ing the World war when his Zeppe lins were at their peak of military usefulness. • * • Morse Code I N A small glass case in a museum at Harvard university is a little ribbon of paper on which is printed a series of dots and dashes. If you know your “Morse code,” you can spell out the message which these dots and dashes tell. “What hath God wrought,” it says. For this is the first message ever sent over the “electric telegraph.” It was clicked off on May 24, 1844, in Washington by Samuel Finley Breeze Morse, former daguerre- otypist and por trait painter, who became the in ventor of the tele graph, to his part ner, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore. Its wording was sug gested to Morse | by Miss Anne 1 Ellsworth, daughter of the commis- ! sioner of patents, who had brought him the joyful news that congress had passed an appropriation with i which to carry on his experiments with his invention. As the use of the telegraph spread, men who were skilled in sending messages in the “Morse code” were called “Morse operators” quite as frequently as they were “telegra phers.” Later they became known as “boomers” or “lightning-snatch ers” but due to the increasing use of modern teletypewriters “Morse men” are rapidly becoming “van ishing Americans." (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 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