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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1940 Washington, D. C. CHICAGO LINE-UPS Speaker Bill Bankhead is in a direful predicament. It’s a White House secret, but the courtly mannered and able Ala baman is the President’s personal choice for keynoter at the Demo cratic convention—a high honor much sought after by a number of big shot party leaders. At least half a dozen are pulling every pos sible wire to land it. But Bankhead, who can have it on a silver platter, doesn’t know wheth er he wants it or not. Reason for his dilemma is a virulent case of vice presidentitis. Bankhead feels he is a strong sec ond-place possibility and that the keynote speech customarily is made by a dignitary who is not a candi date. For him to accept the role, therefore, would be an admission that he was out of the running. And Bankhead is anything but that. He is very much in the vice presiden tial race. Roosevelt picked Bankhead be cause he liked the speaker’s witty speeches at the last two Jackson day banquets. But while flattered, the speaker is still undecided wheth er to accept the President’s offer. Note—Roosevelt’s choice for per manent chairman of the convention is Senate Floor Leader Alben Bark ley, 1936 keynoter and also a vice presidential hopeful, though not a very hot-and-bothered one. The President’s choice for his floor man ager is brainy little Senator Jimmy Byrnes, assisted by Senators Minton of Indiana, Pepper of Florida, Lister Hill of Alabama and Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago. * • • HOOVER VS. LANDON Behind the scenes a bitter strug gle is shaping up between Herbert Hoover and Alf Landon at the Phila delphia convention. The ex-President is bent on writ ing into the platform an “endorse ment” of his administration along the lines of the one in the Glenn Frank Program committee report. Landon is not flatly opposed to this, although he considers it unnecessary and likely to prove a campaign handicap. But he is prepared to wage a last- ditch fight for a liberal platform. He is determined to resist to the end Hoover’s plans for a platform to fit his conservative views. Landon is against any blanket denunciation of the New Deal. Landon will be in a powerful posi tion to wage his battle. In addition to leading a midwestern bloc of at least 100 votes, he also will be the Kansas member on the resolutions committee. Note—In its original form the ar rangement under which Hoover will speak Tuesday night, the first ses sion of the convention, also called for a speech by Landon. But this was dropped when it was pointed out that as a delegate he can get the floor any time. • • • WILLKIE BOOSTER Remember the Liberty league which crusaded against the New Deal in 1936? And remember Jouett Shouse, its dapper head, who was a crony of A1 Smith and the duPonts? Well, Jouett is now the No. 1 Wash ington booster of Wendell Willkie. “Dewey will lead on the first bal lot,” he says, “but that will be his high point. From then on he will fade out of thfe picture. On the sec ond ballot, Taft will jump to the front. But he, too, won’t have the staying power; and on the third bal lot Vandenberg will forge to the fore —for a moment. But that will shoot his bolt. He won’t have what it takes to make the grade and the leaders will then turn to the one man who has—Willkie. “On the fourth ballot Willkie will lead and after that it will be a stam- ( pede.” Shouse’s explicit forecast should interest the other candidates—par ticularly Senator Taft, who has pub licly declared he will lead on the first ballot. It also is interesting in view of the fact that Willkie is the one dark horse who so far hasn’t a single delegate pledged to him. • • • POLITICAL CHAFF Thirty years ago, a young man named James Mead came from Buffalo to Washington to take a job as a Capitol policeman. He was befriended by another policeman, James Reilly. Today Mead, a sen ator, is trying to get a raise for Reilly, now dean of doorkeepers. Airplanes have brought a mos quito from Africa to Brazil which is spreading malaria up and down the Amazon. Public health direc tors agree that if not checked it might decimate the population of South America. Ambassador Joe Davies is filling a job which should have been done in the state department long ago. He is contact man with congress. For years the state department has depended upon natty young men to go up and lobby with senators. Re sult: Foreign policy lagged on Cap itol Hill. But Joe speaks the right language. Tourists are pouring in at the White House at the rate of 8,000 a day, of whom 1,700 see the private parlors by congressional letter. The others see only the East room and ground floor. GENERAL JOHNSON Jour: UtfXFau. M ,«NUfcrrk> Washington, D. C. ARMY DRAFT Should the President be given the authority to draft and use the Na tional Guard? Yes and something more. He should be given the authority to recreate the selective service system and draft selected men for either the regular army or the National Guard. This doesn’t mean that either pow er will be used to any important extent. It isn't to suggest the raising of a large conscripted army before we have the equipment for them to use —if at all. It isn’t a counsel of panic or hys teria. It is a means to avoid both and, above all, to prevent hardship and unfairness in raising the troops we need—even if the number be less than 750,000. The reasons for these suggestions are simple. Recruiting by volun teering is lagging dangerously. This is partly due to growing in dustrial activity and partly because there are so many men on relief. But there is a stronger reason than any of these. This country was sold Hate That Will Start Next War —By Thomas. In 1917 the idea of raising armies by selective draft—the idea that each man should “serve in that place where it shall best serve the common good to call him.” • • • Men, believing this is our national policy, do not feel the old urge to volunteer before they are told the country’s wishes. Another reason is that if the Na tional Guard is called out in time of peace, about 200,000 men are go ing to lose their wages in industry to take the very low pay of a soldier and many of them have depend ents. Until there is a stark mili tary necessity this should be avoided wherever possible. The regular army and the Na tional Guard at the beginning should be largely made up of able-bodied men without dependents, to whom the loss of a civilian job involves no minor tragedy. » • • Setting up the selective service boards, roughly one in every group of 30,000 inhabitants, is very sim ple. We completed the organization in 10 days in 1917. The next step is the registration of about 13,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 30 inclusive. This is done by means of a fairly simple questionnaire which gives all the facts the board needs for selections. Then the order in which regis tered men are to be called for ex amination is fixed by lot. The standards for the selection of the first 500,000 should be very liberal- such as to impose the very mini mum of hardship on the man or his dependents. Having skimmed off that number of men of this type, that class would wait to be called—either to the regu lar army as fast as it requires men, or to fill up the National Guard or replace the guardsmen, whose, call should be deferred because of hard ship or other good reason. This is the swiftest, fairest, most efficient way to raise armies and it is by far the cheapest way, so that the cost per soldier is only a fraction of the cost of volunteering. In the interest of both prudence and calm ness I think we should proceed along these lines at once. • • • FORD AND AIRPLANES Could Henry Ford produce 1,000 planes a day at River Rouge? He could if all designs were alike, adapted to present production meth ods and there were not constant de sign changes. The success of Henry Ford in producing 10,000 automo biles a day was his invention of uniformity of design and inter changeability of parts. Under exist ing conditions of flux and uncertain ty, Mr. Ford could no more produce 1,000 planes a day than he could produce 10,000. There is another terrible bottle neck—impossible military standards of perfection which take no stock of our facilities for production. That stopped us often in the World war. Henry Ford, in creating the first Tin Lizzie that put America on wheels, had the genius to see exact ly this fault. He built a car that would do all that was required of it in 90 per cent of cases, but which sacrificed no more to theoretical perfection than was necessary to do the work required and meet the re quirement of price and production. Charlie Nash did the same thing. The Roman Phalanx of 1940 A. D. “The Name Is Familiar— BY FELIX B. STREYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON - ’ ' Julius Caesar’s '‘phalanx” of close-packed Roman legions who formed an armored roof with shields cov ering their advance, is improved upon by the modern “Caesar.” Here are today’s Roman “phalanx” armored legions that comprise part of Italy’s war machine. These tanks are ultra-modern, many being equipped with flame projectors. Egypt Prepares for Any Eventuality ||pppp|p5j: : ' ; ~ ’ *< > ' ’T” ? R. J. Gatling Past the pyramids, ages old symbols of Egypt and the Pharaohs, roar these British Blenheim bombers, as the British and Egyptian forces prepare for any "eventuality.” The feared “eventuality,” of course, was the long-expected Italian entry into the great war, with a drive at Egypt from Libya as the first move. Uncle Sam Gets Bigger Battle Wagon Bedecked with flags and bunting, the U. S. S. Washington, 35,000-ton battleship just completed at the Philadelphia navy yard, is shown sliding down the ways to the Delaware river. The 750-foot ship cost $80,000,000 and is the biggest warship ever built on this continent. It is the first completed unit of 68 warships under construction. King George Quite a ‘Shot’ Banks Half Billion Mrs. Essie Ept, in charge of Ohio’s gasoline revenues, has de- i posited $540,316,659 to the state’s credit since 1926. This great sum was collected in dimes, nickels and pennies. It took a lot of ’em—but Mrs. Ept didn’t mind. Steel Chairman ‘Get Your Gat!’ IF RICHARD JORDAN GATLING 1 could know how his name is per petuated in the slang of the under world, he would probably revolve as rapidly in his grave as did the bat tery gun which he invented in 1861. For when a crook says to a com panion, "Get your gat!”, his per sonification of his weapon is a short ening of the name of an inventor, born in North Carolina in 1818, who gave to the world many use ful articles before he invented the gun that bears his name. Among them were a machine for sowing cotton seed, another for thinning cotton- plants, one for sowing rice, an other for sowing wheat, a screw for propelling water craft, a machine for breaking hemp and a steam plow. But Gatling is remembered for none of these. Instead, his name is linked with an instrument of death— a revolving gun consisting of a num ber of simple breech-loading rifled barrels grouped around and revolv ing about a common axis. The orig inal Gatling gun fired only 250 to 300 shots per minute but later mod els were capable of spitting out 1,200 bullets every 60 seconds. It was used with deadly effect in the Civil war and for many years thereafter by the United States army, which adopted it in 1866, until the modern machine gun supplanted it. Even though it’s not in common use now, its inventor’s name is—shortened to “gat.” • • • Vandyke Beard 'TPHE famous artist Vandyke is an- -*• other whose name has been per petuated by becoming a part of our language and yet hardly anyone knows how he spelled it. The Van dyke beard is named for him and is spelled that way, but he spelled his name Van Dyck. Antonius Van Dyck, born in Ant werp, Belgium, in 1599, and one of the greatest art ists of all time, migrated to Eng land. There his name was angli cised to Anthony Vandyke and, al though he spAit some time in Ita ly, returned to Antwerp and did some work in Paris, the Eng lish spelling of his name is the one that remained through the centuries. So we call his type of beard—a rather full mustache with a small, billy-goat-like pendage of hair from the lower lip—a Vandyke beard. And there is a Vandyke collar and cape, so named because it was promi nent on portraits he painted. It consists of fine linen and lace with deep pointed or indented edges. Van Dyck had a successful but short life, made possible by the fact that his talents were brought out while he was very young. At 10 his wealthy father sent him to a famous art school; at 16 he organ ized a firm of portrait painters; at 20 he was called to England and was recognized by the king of Eng land who pensioned him, and at 42 he died. * • • Gladstone Bag '\1I7'HEN you pack your gladstone ’ bag for a trip, you may not realize it, but you will be carrying with you a constant reminder of “the greatest of the long line of Vic torian political leaders and prime ministers of England.” But such will be the case, for this convenient and capacious piece of luggage is named for William Ewart Gladstone, who was born of Scotch parentage in Liv erpool in 1809, served an appren ticeship under an other great prime minister. Sir Rob ert Peel, and him self became prime minister for the first time in 1868. From that time on he and another great prime min ister, Benjamin Disraeli, were con stant rivals and for the next quarter of a century Gladstone was the leader of the Liberal party and served as prime minister no less than four different times. He died in 1898 and is buried in the states man’s corner of Westminster abbey. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Van Dyck W. E. Gladstone During a recent inspection tour of a gun factory that is operating night and day under war pressure, King George tried out a Bren machine gun. He put 60 bullets in or close to the bulls-eye at 20 yards, and re marked: “I had no idea the gun was so steady.” The king has made a number of personal inspections in factories lately. Irving S. Olds, elected chairman of the board of the U. S. Steel corpo ration, to succeed Edward R. Stet- tinius Jr., who resigned to serve with national defense commission. Early Ceremonial Washings In all early civilizations, bathing and handwashing—of a sort—were required decencies. Religions, even of very ancient peoples, called for a great deal of ceremonial washing. Hospitality among the Hebrews re quired offering a foot bath to the guest; among the Greeks and Ro mans the refreshment of a bath was jffered. Velveteen Frames For Your Pictures By RUTH WYETH SPEARS r)G YOU remember Miss Furit who, a week or so ago in one of these articles, made over an old rocker? Today’s sketch shows how she used that chair at her desk. The full description of the transformation of the chair is in Sewing Book 5, which is offered here for the first time. This new book contains 32 pages of helpful ideas for homemakers and is available to readers of this paper HEAVY CARDBOARD OR AN OLD PICTURE FRA»«- CUT VELVETEEN O FIT," THEN TURN — EDGES BACK AND SEW STICK n-o back of glass with oumkd tapb. for 10 cents in coin to cover cost and mailing. Miss Fixit painted an old desk blue to match her chair. She had some enlarged snapshots that she wanted to hang over the desk but she also wanted to repeat the blue color and some of the red in the chintz used for the chair. So, she decided to make blue vel veteen frames for the pictures and then hang them with red rib bon. The diagrams show you ex actly how the frames were made. Betsy, who also streamlined an old iron bed, which she found in the attic, will be with us again next week with more “attic magic.” Meanwhile better send your order for your copy of Sew ing Book 5 to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for Book 5. Name Address Origins of Cattle Brands Probably most of the stories about the origins of the 1,500,000 cattle brands registered in the West are legends. 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