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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.”
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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.
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