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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
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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
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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
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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. One such out
standing tale, still told and pub
lished as a true story, is that
Burk Burnett adopted the famous
brand “6666” in 1900 because he
won his great Texas ranch in a
poker game with a hand contain
ing four sixes.—Collier’s.
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Remember this also, and be well
persuaded of its truth: The future
is not in the hands of Fate, but in
ours.—Jules Jusserand.
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Education’s Aim
Education has for its object the
formation of character.—Herbert
Spencer.
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