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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
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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.)
Bok Feace Award
In 1923 Eo ward Bok, the philan
thropist, founded the American
Peace award, offering $100,000 for
the most practicable plan to estab
lish and preserve the peace of the
S. F. B. Morse
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