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THE ST IN. NEWBERRY. S. C- FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1940 Washington, D. C. NEW WILLKIE STRATEGY Wendell Willkie already has in troduced one major innovation in Republican campaigning by subor dinating the regular party organiza tion to his new network of Willkie clubs. But now his lieutenants are considering another. This is a plan of "direct selling”; in other words, personal solicitation or “button-holing” to win votes for Willkie. The plan was devised by Hugh Stuart Center of San Jose, Calif., former head of the state’s Associat ed Republican clubs and organizer of the California Independents and Democrats for Willkie. Here is how the plan would work: In each state, separate organiza tions would be set up in 12 classifica tions: agriculture, real estate, pro duction, insurance, professional, finance, education, merchandising, transportation, hotel, personal serv ices, and religion. Each group would finance its own activities, thus light ening the load of the regular cam paign organizations and also not pil ing up big totals in their official re ports. Business men would be asked to assign an energetic and personable young man to devote his time to cir culating among workmen in the same business, and to selling them the importance to that business of electing Willkie. Sponsors of the 'plan claim three advantages for it: 1. "No time is wasted in seeking prospects. Each representative meets them through the day, in the apparent normal course of busi ness.” 2. “No sales resistance is encoun tered. The prospect does not real ize he is being approached political ly. It is just a case of two or more persons talking shop.” 3. "No time is wasted on cam paign material that will not interest the prospect, and the cost of the work is carried by the representa tive’s employer or firm, thus avoid ing reportable expenditures.” * * * TIN FOR AMERICA The capital is full of tin men. Patino is here from Paris, and Hochschild from Bolivia. Pierce has arrived from Liverpool and Van den Brocke from Amsterdam. National Lead is represented, and the Grace Lines, and Aramayo; while an ex pert is on his way from the Mineral Bank of Bolivia. It is a matter of moment when these men come to Washington. They are Dutch, British, Bolivian only in name. Actually, they are men of all countries. Simon Patino is a Bolivian who lives in France and controls the great tin smelters of England plus tin mines in Bolivia. Mauricio Hochschild is an Argentine of Dutch descent who lives in Bolivia and aspires to unseat Patino from the tin throne of the world. But today they are all willing to be Americans. They see that inter national tin control is cracking, and that Uncle Sam, who consumes more refined tin than all the rest I of the world, means to smelt his own at last. The tin men have come to talk with the defense com mission and the RFC in order to get in on the business. * • • TIN STORY Here are the latest facts in this tremendously important tin story: 1. The United States is on the point of signing a contract with one | or more American metal firms to establish tin smelting in this coun try. 2. Bolivia is ready to sign a con tract to deliver metallic tin to the equivalent of 1,000 tons per month. 3. Van den Brocke declares the readiness of the Dutch government to deliver 2,000 tons a month from the Dutch East Indies. 4. Grace Lines are ready to re duce freight rates on tin ore from Bolivia to the United States. Behind all this is a tangled skein of conflicting interests. Patino, the Bolivian, is worried that his gov ernment is playing a close game with his rival, Hochschild, the Ar gentine. Van den Brocke, the Hol lander, would lik£ to set up a smelt ery with Patino, but insists that he should control it, since he would supply more ore. Meanwhile, the U. S. government sits back, dickering over prices. Out of all this frenzied activity, there can be no doubt that a smelt ing industry will be established here. But the long-range question remains undecided: Will this new industry outlast the emergency, or will it, as in the World war period, smelt itself out of existence and return control to the international cartel overseas? • • • PINCHOT TO BOLT G. O. P. Gifford Pinchot, twice Republican governor of Pennsylvania, will "take a walk” in favor of President Roose velt as against Wendell Willkie. The bolt will be particularly in teresting because a few years ago Pinchot had a personal squabble with the White House, and only a few months ago clashed bitterly with Secretary Harold Ickes over his de fense of Richard A. Ballinger, mem ber pf the Taft cabinet who was' forced to resign because of charges involving a sale of government land. GENERAL HUGH S. ^JOHNSON Jaur: Uuud Fwtwm M WNU DRAFT MUST BE CLEAN NEW YORK.—In a matter in Which you have given your heart,’ especially when you were very young, you are likely to take your self too seriously. Maybe I am do ing that about selective service. But on that subject I feel sometimes the agony that David Warfield made so clear to everybody in “The Re turn of Peter Grimm.” You remember that the gentle old florist had left some advice and di rections to his children before he passed into the realms of infinite knowledge. There he learned the tragic error of those bequests. In the effort of his disembodied spirit to come back and avert disaster he suffered be cause, although he could mingle un seen with his beloved, he couldn’t get his message to their ears. I I think two of the most poignant words I have ever heard on our stage are his unnoted cry of an guish, “Hear me!” I feel a little that way about the Burke-Wadsworth selective service bilL As I have written before, it makes the classification, selection and deferment of men a matter of personalized executive discretion. There is something of a technical ity here, but it is not an unimpor tant one. It is at the very heart of the democracy and public con fidence and success in this effort. The bill as written, and even as amended by the senate, does not repose in the exclusive and uncon trolled jurisdiction of the selective service boards the absolute and final decisions as to which men shall be taken for military service and which shall be selected for civilian, service. That could convert the whole effort from a perfect use of our democratic institution of local self-government to a possible hog pen of favoritism, influence and per haps of political patronage and pres sure. Now I know that this is the wish of neither the President, nor Mr. Willkie, nor any member of con gress or politician with influence in this effort. One of the most inspir ing things about this legislation is the effort on all sides to take it out of politics. I know that Mr. Roosevelt wants to keep it clean. I know that, apart from the un doubted patriotism of this wish, it could ruin any administration or any politician not to keep it clean. This legislation will, sooner or later, af fect, directly or indirectly, and, much or little, every home and fam ily in this country in the most sacred of relations. It can’t have even the color of unfairness or favor. This understandable oversight is a simple result of the slap-dash fash ion in which this bill was put to gether. There are other errors clearly revealed by experience. They can be corrected later without great harm. This one can’t. I called this fatal oversight to the attention of some senators who seemed to sense its importance without argument. An amendment reported in the press from the house committee, at least as reported, does not cure the fault. If, in the present rush for passage, nobody else gives attention to this grave error, I hope the President himself will do so. I sometimes sus- j pect that he does not altogether en- j thusiastically approve of some of | the issues in this column. On this J particular subject, however, I am sure that he concedes its informa- i tion, experience and his intense j common purpose with even this col- i umnist, no matter how far he ; speaks, de profundis, from the of ficial dog house. It is an essential matter of national defense. • • • PRODUCTION PROBLEM NEW YORK.—The delay about getting the armament program go ing and this dangerous talk about in dustrialists hanging back on ac cepting contracts because they want exorbitant profits is almost wholly due to bad planning of the effort in the beginning and bad or ganization and direction of it now. This business of contracting to make an absolutely new unit—like a tank—is a fearful and intricate thing. Laying out a production plan for a standard type of automobile, for example, is duck soup in com parison. In the latter case you can figure very closely on the cost of those parts of the final assembly that you will not make yourself, but buy from perhaps as many as 200 suppliers. You can figure that because those parts are near enough to standard for the manufacturer of them to know and tell you to the fraction of a cent the price you must figure in your cost. Much of this war production misses that whole pattern entirely. The designs are new and. highly specialized. While the quantities seem huge—like 50,000 airplanes— they are chicken feed compared to a year’s production in a single fac tory of, say, automobiles. Furthermore, "50,000 airplanes” is a very misleading term. It in cludes everything from cheap light training planes to giant bombers— items so different that it is like saying "50,000 vehicles” when you mean everything from a stream lined train to a kiddie car. ... Review^' • • • Assailed in Senate Fuehrer and His New Field Marshals Chancellor Adolf Hitler presenting to his new group of field marshals their baton of authority, in the leader’s workroom at the new chancellory in Berlin. The new field marshals were successful during the western push. Right to left: General Von Reichnau; General Von Witzleben; Gen eral Von Kluge; General List; General Ritter Von Leeb and General Von Bock. And Thanks, God, for a Safe Crossing Sir George Paish, British econo mist now in the United States, who has been accused by Senator Wheel er of boasting that he was responsi ble for America’s entry in the World war, and his present purpose is to repeat his former feat. Alien Registers These newcomers from England are saying their prayers, and among a flock of things that they are thankful for, they are thanking the Almighty for getting them safely to the United States. All are from Garden City, England, and they are stopping temporarily at the Gould foundation. O * , P/ie-KM&UPb • • • Mexico Celebrates Independence Day Festivities in every Mexican city and village will mark the 130th an niversary of Mexico's declaration of independence from Spain on Sep tember 15. Special tribute will be paid to Hidalgo, martyred village priest who led the first uprising. Military parades and the ringing of the liberty bell will be among other events on the program. Above is shown the National palace in Mexico City, with President Cardenas in inset. Pennsylvania U Marks 200th Anniversary On September 16th the University of Pennsylvania will mark its 200th Anniversary with a 6-day celebration. 500 institutions will participate. Above, the campus in early days. Below, Dr. Thomas Gates, president, and statue of Benjamin Franklin, founder. Frank Higginson, 77, a Canadian now living in the United States, makes a close scrutiny of the alien registration blank before filling out the form at the Brooklyn post office. Millions of aliens now living here must be registered and fingerprinted within the next four months. Will Be 35 Here is one of the most recent photos of Greta Garbo, famous Swedish film actress who will pass her thirty-fifth birthday on Septem ber 18. Safe in the United States while her native Sweden remains the sole independent state in the Scan dinavian peninsula, Garbo retains her traditional reticence and dis taste for personal publicity. Dedicate Plaque PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE JfS*THE LOCATION OF MAN/ newspapers and printinc houses INCLUDING ; . ■Sun k Times morlb Sribuuc f HERALD CfC 8* P.emf » t«n • PJMN7-N5 ■ASArtNt A bronze plaque to "Printing House Square,” in New York city, will be dedicated September 16, marking the 500th anniversary of printing from movable type. Grantland Rice T HE great bulk of all cheering in sport arises for those competi tors who come from behind. This is supposed to be where true game ness waits. Which is an entirely incorrect angle. There are many times when the front runner needs more gameness than his pursuer. Francis Ouimet brought up the mat ter concerning Sam my Snead. “One trouble Sam- my Snead has known,” Qnimet said, “is taking the jump in his first two rounds. He may get four or five strokes ahead. To many people that might seem to be a killing advantage. But they don’t know the psychology of golf. “Once out in front you have the feeling that you must protect this lead. 1 know what the difference is. I know it is much easier to come from behind, if you are not too far back, than it is to protect a lead. Out in front your big temptation is to start steering away from bad trouble, to take a few chances—to abandon boldness in your piay— from tee to cup. Yes, even with the putts. Follow the Leader "I had to come from behind to overtake Vardon and Ray,” Francis said. “I knew just what I had to do. I knew I could play nothing on the safe side. But it would have been entirely a different matter if I had been leading, with Vardon and Ray on my heels. You feel un der such conditions you can afford no mistakes. You visualize only pars and birdies your chasers are making hole after hole. “Just check back,” Ouimet added, “on how few have ever taken the lead in the first or second rounds and - held it to win a U. S. Open. Hagen did in 1914, when Chick Ev- Strange Facts I Pause for Humanity I I Behead the Bottle * Sensitive Skin C. All ships at sea and all shore wireless stations in contact with them are required by international law to stop transmission for three minutes, at the fifteenth and forty- fifth minute past the hour, Green wich time, to listen for distress signals. C. When a bottle of wine is very old and its cork, therefore, is likely to crumble and drop into the liq uid, connoisseurs and wine stew ards have been known to remove the neck of the bottle, below the cork, by cutting through it with a pair of red-hot tongs. C. Racing shells in intercollegiate : regattas cost as much as $1,200 ; and are rarely used by a varsity’ crew for more than one season.' : After this short service, they are I passed on to oiher crews in the college. SAMMY SNEAD ans almost caught him. But most Of the winners have come from be hind. The pace setters have usually faded out. The Pressure Begins "Now Sammy Snead has had the habit of taking the lead, of setting the pace. Look over his record. He was far ahead in the recent Canadian Open, and then had to face a playoff. He got the jump in the Open at Philadelphia and again in Cleveland. The pressure was more than he conld face. “Snead won his biggest money tournament some months back by coming from behind with a 64 down the stretch. That was easier than shooting a 72 when in front. “You can burn yourself out, emo tionally, in golf quicker than you think in championship play. When you are behind there is only one thing to do—go out for everything. All out. Lay on Macduff. I’d like to see Snead about two or three strokes behind in his next Open. He might burn up the course on the last 18 holes.” I put this argument up to an old ball player in connection with the two big league races. “Absolutely true,” he said, “for golf or baseball. What affects an individual affects an entire squad. The Reds had a nine-game lead over the Dodgers—practically running away. But they were still the pace setters. Then the Hershberger tragedy broke and they began to slip, and then to crack. The Dodg ers had their target to shoot at. That makes a difference. A big dif ference. The team in front carries the heaviest package, as any com petitor knows. Pacemaking Jitters “Today there are no clubs that outclass the others. The Reds might have galloped in if the suicide crush er hadn’t hit them. “The same is true of the Indians and Tigers,” he said. “There is no great difference in present playing strength among the five leading clubs—Indians, Tigers, Red Sox, White Sox and Yankees. But the Indians and the Tigers have had to carry the pressure of pacemaking, just as the Cincinnati Reds have been doing. C. Human skin is sometimes so sensitive that it becomes painfully inflamed upon exposure to day light. People so afflicted must live in darkened rooms and re main indoors until nightfall.—Col lier’s. Our Deepest Chasm The deepest chasm in the United States and in continental North America is Hells canyon on the Snake river, directly along the bor der between Oregon and Idaho. This abyss, formed by the Wallo wa mountains of Oregon and the Seven Devils range in Idaho, is about 75 miles long. For over 40i miles it averages 5,510 feet in depth. At one point it is 7,900 feet deep, almost a mile and a half from rim to river, which exceeds by some 1,800 feet the 6,100-foot maximum for Grand canyon in Arizona.— Pathfinder. Brotherhood There is a brotherhood, not of equality nor of likeness, but of giving and receiving.—Ruskin. due to Constipation/ Dr. Hitchcock’s All-Vegetable Laxative Powder — an Intestinal tonic-laxative—actually tones lazy bowel muscles. It .helps relieve that sluggish t< eling. 15 doses for only 10 cents. Large family size 25 cents. At all druggists. Dr. Hitchcocks LAXATIVE POWDER End of Man The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest.—Carlyle. 666 MALARIA in 7 days and relieve* COLDS LIQUID - TABLETS - aALVB-NOSB DROPS oymptoma flnt day r-aW* The Borrower He that trusts to borrowed plows will have his land lie fallow. AT GOOD ORUO STOKIS RHEUMATISMlumbag! "All the Traffic Would Bear" a There was a time in America when there were no set prices. Each merchant charged what he thought "the traffic would bear.” Advertising came to the rescue of the consumer. It led the way to the estab lished prices you pay when you buy anything today.