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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY. JULY 19, 1940 By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) Dr. C. P. Cooper Natural Lead for , Life With Father* EW YORK.—Howard Lindsay needed makeup to play “Life With Father.” Dr. Charles Phillips Cooper, managing editor of the New York Evening Sun, around the turn of the century, could have walked right into the part without taking off his hat. As he retires as professor of journalism at Columbia university, after more than 50 years of practicing and teaching journal ism, he still commands affection and respect from his one-time proteges, an emotion somehow filial, and somehow belonging in that nostal gic picture which the late Clarence Day and Mr. Lindsay and Russell Crouse have recreated for the stage. They used to set the type for the old Evening Sun in the local room. Charles A. Dana ordered some lino type machines, found workmen de livering them to the World instead, got into a row about it and said to the devil with the whole business, or words to that effect. At any rate this classic of newspapers for many years thereafter kept clear of all technological entanglements, in cluding typewriters. Dr. Cooper’s spouting mus tache was electrified during the ordeal of getting out the paper. Reporters used to say it was like sensitive antennae, catching im pulses out of the air. This was the only way they could explain his way of spotting a red-hot news story in some bit of trivia, moving across his desk. They called him “The Human Sieve.” That was due to his trick of sifting bugs, libel suits, and slop py writing out of a piece of copy with a swift slash of his pencil. When a reporter was beaten on a story, or made a serious error, or otherwise offended, Dr. Cooper would clutch both sides of his desk, lean back, close his eyes and howl. And when one of the boys really put something over (it had to be good) Dr. Cooper would croon and cluck over him affectionately. He was always yelling for copy and the boys, if the story was hot, had to write it in short takes. There was always a bliz zard of copy paper loose in the city room. As press time came near there were yells, bleats, running foot-beats and a bed lam which could be heard all up and down Park Row. Out of all this came a paper as cool and neatly fashioned as a daisy in the meadow—human, subtle, civilized and deftly done. The noise, smells of ink, grease and tobacco, and above all, Dr. Cooper’s rip-snorting energies seemed to make a formula for newspaper “oomph.” Dr. Cooper, short and stocky, with his bright brown eyes alert and narrowly focused behind his glasses, joined the Sun staff as a reporter in 1889, after a year with the Hart ford (Conn.) Post. He was with the Sun 24 years as city editor, news editor, assistant managing editor and managing editor. He retired to become a teacher of journalism in 1919. Rounding 74, Dr. Cooper never moans over the good old days, and has no regrets for the passing of personalized journalism. He thinks newspapers of today are doing a better job than their predecessors. Among his colleagues were Arthur Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis, Woodford Patterson, now secretary of Cornell university, Nelson Lloyd, O’Neill Sevier, George Cartaret, Stephen French Whitman, Homer St. Gaudens and a score of other long-remembered names. IT’S a long stretch from Gen. Adna A R. Chafee’s small-arm Indian- fighting equipment to Brig. Gen. Adna R. Chafee’s new mechanized From ‘Roof* and a i™y corps- a father and Saddler? to ‘Man son saga. The The Gear Shifts’ father was one of the greatest Indian fighters in our his tory, battling the Kiowas and Comanches along the 900-mile trail to the Sierra Madre in New Mexico. The son, schooled in the mounted service, was a cavalryman like his father, but in recent years has spe cialized in studies of mechanized warfare. His new armored divisions are said to be similar in organization to the German panzer units. Army men say they fill a long-felt need in the service. Brigadier General Chafee was born at Junction City, Kan., in 1884, and was graduated from West Point in 1906, a few years too late for the Spanish-American and Philippine workouts, but he is a veteran of our later military en gagements in Europe, holding the Distinguished Service Medal and is regarded as a good organizer and fighter — as "boots and saddles!” changes to "man the gear-shifts!” France Is Ninth U. S. Sends Newest Army Planes to Ford Plant Nation to Fall Succumbs to Might of Nazi Army After 8 Others Had Given Up. WASHINGTON. — France is the ninth nation to succumb to the might of Germany in little more than two years. The great Nazi offensive viich culminated in the surrender was launched the day after the Germans completed their mop-up of Flanders with the capture of Dunkirk. Nine days later Adolf Hitler’s iron legions marched into Paris and the swastika banners were unfurled over the Palace of Versailles. Within another two days the Germans had outflanked the famed Maginot line and the French were forced to aban don the $500,000,000 system of forti fications in which they had placed their supreme trust. The withdraw al was the beginning of the end for the armies of France. The train of events which led up to the outbreak of war last Septem ber began on March 11, 1938, when German troops marched into Aus tria without opposition. View of one of the two newest U. S. army planes sent to the Ford company plant at Dearborn, Mich., for inspection by Ford and the Ford company engineers, to determine if the plant can be changed to manufacture a thousand of these planes daily. (Inset) Henry Ford peering into the front of one of the planes. In March, 1939, Hitler, defying threats of British and French resist ance, took over Czechoslovakia with out firing a shot. On September 1, 1939, he ordered his armies into Poland, again defying Britain and France, who proclaimed a state of war with Germany two days later. The Germans required less than a month to overrun Poland. Warsaw fell on September 28 after a terrific siege that reduced the city to ruins. Invade Norway April 9. On April 9, after a winter of com parative inactivity, the Germans in vaded Norway and Denmark, meet ing no resistance in the latter coun try. On May 10, they invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxem burg. Holland capitulated in four days, and Belgium gave up the struggle 14 days later, on May 28, paving the way for the final defeat of the allied armies in Flanders and the pulveriz ing German march on Paris. The rapidity with which the Nazi blitzkrieg methods accomplished the downfall of Frani-o amazed military experts, who before the war had rated the French army as the best in the world. Most observers believe the French made their gravest mistake in im posing too great confidence in the de fensive strength of the Maginot line and in failing to adapt their strate gy to the German methods of light ning warfare. The maximum strength of the French army at the outset of the war was estimated at 6,000,000 men, including the air force. The latter was acknowledged to be far inferior numerically to the German air arm, which generally was considered the most powerful in the world. 69 Millions in Empire. France has an unestimated num ber of troops under arms in the Near East and in its African possessions. Whether they will continue to fight and what will become of French ter ritories overseas is a matter of spec ulation. France itself has an area of 212,- 659 square miles and a population of 42,000,000. Its colonial empire en.- Yule Card 12 Years Traveling Two Miles MT. WOLF, PA.—Miss Louella Rentzel of Manchester mailed a Christmas card to Miss Mary Frits of this town in 1928. The card was delivered several days ago to the now Mrs. Edward Kuhn. The towns are two miles apart. braces 4,613,315 square miles and a population of 69,076,627. These possessions include: In Asia: Syria, French India, and French Indo-China. In Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tu nisia, French West Africa, Togo- land, Cameroon, French Equatorial Africa, Reunion, Madagascar, Como ros, and Somalliland. In the Americas: St. Pierre and Miquelon islands; Guadelupe, Mar tinique and French Guiana. In Oceania: New Caledonia and Tahiti. Find Most Powerful Germ Killer in Garden Soil PHILADELPHIA.—You can go out in your back yard and dig up mate rial for the most powerful germ- killer known to science, according to a Franklin institute micro-biolo gist. The new drug was described as a gray, powdered substance derived from harmless vegetable micro-or ganisms found in the ordinary gar den soil. But it can kill hosts of virulent, disease-causing bacteria, such as pneumococci, streptococci, staphylococci and anthrax. Dr. J. C. Hoogerheide, of the institute re vealed. Dr. Hoogerheide isolated the drug, known only as HI, after three years’ work in the institute’s biochemical research foundation. Institute spokesmen stressed the fact that HI has not been tried in ternally on human patients pend ing further research. One physi cian reported, however, that he used solutions of the new drug to clear up infected wounds and treat cases of gangrene. End of Classes at Ryan Flying School Arranged neatly as peas in a pod are the PT-20 training ships in which flying cadets of the air corps detachment at the Ryan School of Aeronautics, San Diego, Calif., are becoming skilled aviators. This is one of the nine civilian elementary schools selected by the C. S. army for training purposes. JENNY WREN GOSSIPS WITH CHATTERER What's the harm of gossiping upon a pleasant day? It's nothing but a means, you know, to pass the time away. IT ALL depends. Yes, sir; it all A depends. If you gossip about pleasant things there is no harm. But if—well, if you gossip about oth er people and their affairs you may get somebody into a great deal of trouble. Now, Jenny Wren is a great gos sip. Everybody knows that. Her tongue is going from morning to night. For the most part it is harm less gossip, but not always. She didn’t mean it to be harmless this morning as she settled herself in the old apple tree nearest the stone wall on the edge of the Old Orchard and at once began to gossip with Chat terer the Red Squirrel. No, sir. Jenny Wren didn’t mean it to be harmless. The fact is, she had de liberately set out to make trouble for Bully the English Sparrow. “Good morning, Chatterer!” ex claimed Jenny. “I hope you are feeling as well as you look.” “I should put it the other way,” grinned Chatterer, who hapened to be in the best of spirits that morn ing. “I hope I look as well as I feel, because in that case I must look very fine indeed.” “You do,” declared Jenny. “You never have looked better in your life. I believe you are actually grow ing handsome.” Chatterer pretended not to notice this flattery, but Jenny’s sharp eyes saw that he was tickled, and she went on. “That red coat of yours is one of the handsomest coats I know of. I always did admire red. You don’t know how envious we folks who have to dress so plainly get some times. Speaking of plain dressers, have you noticed those upstarts who have come out from the city to live here in the Old Orchard? I mean Bully the English Sparrow and his wife. Goodness knows, my dress is plain enough, but I do try to keep it in order! But Mrs. Bully doesn’t. Why, she doesn’t seem to care a crooked feather how she looks! She and her husband are a disgrace to the neighborhood.” “I’ve noticed that they seem very noisy, and I judge by some of the sounds I have heard that they are not altogether easy to get along with,” replied Chatterer. “Easy to get along with!” Jenny Wren fairly danced as she snapped this out. “Easy to get along with! Why, we don’t pretend to get along with them. We just don’t have any thing to do with them! They are beneath our notice!” Jenny held her head very high when she said this. Chatterer chuckled. “I notice that they stay just the same, and, so far as I can make out, they seem very much at home,” said he. “Yes,” sputtered Jenny, “they are at home all right. I suppose you know where they are living?” “No,” replied Chatterer, “I can’t say that I do.” “You don’t say!" exclaimed Jen ny. “Well, they are living in that old house that Drummer the Wood pecker built two years ago and in which Skimmer the Swallow start ed housekeeping this spring.” “What has become of Skimmer?" inquired Chatterer. “Oh, they drove him out and took the house away from him. It was the most outrageous thing! That’s just what it was—outrageous! Now they’ve built a nest there themselves and I heard Mrs. Bully say this very morning that they’ve got six eggs! Think of that! I’ve no busi ness to say such a thing, but I can’t help wishing that something would happen to those eggs. Well, I must be hurrying home. Don’t, for good ness sake, repeat what I have said.” With this off bustled Jenny Wren, leaving Chatterer in a brown study. C T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service. TF YOU cannot spare your busy hands for a long-time beauty treatment, dab cream between each finger so that it spreads to the knuckle. This makes it possible to go about your work without fear of leaving grease spots and helps to make your hands young looking. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Grave Digger Missing, So Vicar Takes Spade CHELMARSH, ENGLAND—There is at least one vicar in the country who appreciates that the grave dig ger has a tough job. He is the Rev. J. Basil Gower- Jones who, with a funeral service to conduct in three hours and no grave or grave digger, took off his coat and did the job himself. He then went home, changed and re turned to conduct the ceremony. “I never worked so hard in my life,” said the vicar. “The last foot was a bed of clay as hard as a rock and I had to use my pick and then shovel it out. It was back-breaking work.” U. S. STARTS USE OF LONG RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING WASHINGTON.—The U. S. weath er bureau is all set to start forecast ing weather a week in advance un der a system developed by Ameri can meteorologists. The start of long-range forecasts on a nation-wide scale is scheduled to be made within a few weeks, in collaboration with the Massachu setts Institute of Technology at Cambridge, Mass. Weather data from all parts of the nation will be gathered by the weather bureau and charted for Dr. H. C. Willette of M. I. T. He will prepare the forecasts in collabora tion with weather bureau meteor ologists. These forecasts will be sent twice a week—each for seven days in ad vance—to weather bureau stations throughout the country. Local fore casters will check the forecasts and make any necessary changes for lo cal conditions before issuing them. “The value of such long-range forecasts to agriculture, aviation and other industries will be tremen dous, probably rumrng into millions of dollars a year,” F. W. Reich- elderfer, chief of the weather bu reau, said. Preparations for the forecast service began six years ago at the urging of Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. Larry Gage of the weather bureau was sent to Germany to study advanced meth ods there, and Dr. Carl G. Rossby, an outstanding Norwegian author ity, came here to direct the work. President Roosevelt detailed Reichelderfer to his present post from the navy, where he had an outstanding record as a meteorolo gist. At the time, Mr. Roosevelt requested that long-range forecasts be developed as rapidly as possible. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) J OE E. BROWN’S first week before the cameras in the ' Columbia picture, “So You i Won’t Talk,” marking his re turn to the screen after a seri- j ous automobile accident that put him in the hospital for four ! months, left no doubt that he j was fully recovered. In the first three days Joe fell off beds, crawled under them, jumped out of a second-story win dow, and swung a haymaker to I Charles Wilson’s jaw that connect ed accidentally and knocked the actor senseless for two minutes. [ “So You Won’t Talk” is a comedy in which Brown plays the dual role of a timid book reviewer and a gang JOE E. BROWN Sporting whiskers he grew while recuperating. baron for whom he is mistaken; Frances Robinson plays opposite him. Ace Director Clarence Brown re calls that in the days of the silent pictures the saying was that the worst pictures had the most titles, and a really great picture such as “The Last Laugh” had no titles at all. Now it seems likely that one of the great talking pictures has proved that the bigger they are, the less the actors say. “Edison, the Man,” Mr. Brown’s latest directorial effort, goes a long way toward proving that fact. There is perhaps half a reel during the climatic sequence in which hardly a word is spoken. “The suspense during the 40-hour test of Edison’s first electric bulb, I tried to relate entirely in pictorial terms,” said the director. “And that is the stretch during which the audience is most acutely attentive.” * Wayne Morris can’t escape the Lane sisters. If he isn’t acting with Priscilla, he’s acting with Rose mary. Priscilla’s one up on her sister; she teamed with him in “Love, Honor and Behave,” “Broth er Rat,” and “Brother Rat and a Baby.” Rosemary won him in “An Angel From Texas,” and she’s his romance again in “Ladies Must Live,” their current picture at War ner Brothers’. Meanwhile the ro mance of his personal life seems to have hit the rocks. * Betty Brewer, Paramount’s 13- year-old discovery who is making her film debut opposite Fred Mac- Murray in “Rangers of Fortune,” has a suggestion for anyone who wants to learn a foreign language. She suggests that the would-be student live next door to a family which speaks no English, be broke and hungry, and have to ask the foreigners for food, in their native tongue. “That’s how I learned to speak Spanish,” she explained. —m— If you’re one of the vast army of fans who’ve enjoyed the pictures made by Osa Johnson and her late husband, Martin, you’ll want to see “I Married Adventure,” which Co lumbia is releasing the last of this month. It is based on Mrs. Johnson’s auto biography, and is the first pictorial dramatic thriller of a famous wom an explorer. It tells the story of 27 years of adventure, shared by the Johnsons. * The Court of Missing Heirs, a half- hour radio program which has been taking only 25 minutes because of Elmer Davis’ news broadcasts, has moved from its customary spot on CBS to one-half an hour earlier, which will give it a full half hour. Even in its 25 minute weekly broad casts it has not done so badly at digging up missing legatees; in 28 weeks under its present sponsorship the program has found claimants to more than $120,000—more than $6,000 a week. —*— ODDS AND ENDS C, John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader, finished his work in Bing Crosby’s “Rhythm on the Range,” rushed for a plane, and flew 2£00 miles to eat the birthday cake baked by his mother for his thirty-second birthday. Half his home town turned out to welcome him back. But the home town is Charlotte, N. C., which is also Randolph Scott’s home toivn, so the citizens are accustomed to having local boys make good. c. James Cagney, George Brent and Pat O’Brien, stars of "The Fighting 69th,” will go to war together again in “The Lost Battalion.” An Old Washstand Becomes a Sideboard By RUTH WYETH SPEARS 1 OLD WASH Sol ■ StSHfflfSSSfPfe j-T-OC S’^BOARDS IM! : 'r — ' 1 ^ Jib boards to YELLOW C-vV/f—r^—^t-~. • THUMB TACKS J Tf 3 HOLD TOP 'hwse’HOIttI X FRILLAND JON 1 <~~ SKIRT k rJ55=i!SJ • 1 6 ORANGE CRATES OR BOXES^^^fc— CO MANY of you have written ^ me letters of appreciation about the new SEWING BOOK 5 that I want to thank you all here at one time. In Book 1 is sketched and described methods of making slip covers, curtains, bedspreads, dressing tables and other things for the house. Next came Book 2 with gifts, novelties and a glossary of embroidery stitches. Then, in Book 3, I began to share with you some of the human interest side of this fascinating job of mine, and to tell you about the adven tures of many clever women who make the things that they want for their homes—sometimes from almost nothing. There were more of these adventures in Book 4, and there are still more in Book 5. There is nothing that pleases me so much as when you tell me that my sketches are so clear that you can see at a glance how to make things. I am glad that everything needed is in today’s sketch about this remodeled washstand be cause I have used up all my space now; and the frill around the top shelf is five inches deep. Books are 10 cents each. Send order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 10 cents for each book ordered. Name Address Think, Then Work Work hard; but before you begin to work, think out your plans care fully. Think, then work.—Vein Am- burgb. NO MORE CANNING WORRIES! 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