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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1940 Washington, D. C. DEFENSE JAM-BUSTER Donald Nelson, for many years executive of the Sears, Roebuck mail-order house, now has become one of the chief log-jam busters of national defense. Officially his job is director of procurement for the United States treasury — in other words, in charge of government pur chases. Recently the navy department sent a very important order to Beth lehem Steel corporation with a pref erence number to expedite it for the earliest possible delivery. The next day word came back from Bethle hem: “Sorry, but you will have to wait.” For some unexplained reason the navy said nothing to the defense commission about Bethlehem’s de lay, even though the commission has the power to compel compliance. In stead the navy tried to handle the situation itself. But after two weeks of unsuccessful effort, the navy final ly went to Nelson, who in addition to his procurement duties aids the defense commission. Nelson reached for a telephone, called Walter Tower, secretary of the American Iron and Steel insti tute, and said, “I hope we don’t have to get tough, but when an order goes out marked ‘expedite,’ it means just that. I want immediate action on that order.” Twenty minutes later, Eugene Grace, potent boss of Bethlehem, personally telephoned Nelson and assured him it was all a mistake. * * • F. D. R. AND ARGENTINA There has been a lot of publicity regarding Roosevelt’s conference with Argentine diplomat Leopoldo Melo over buying Argentine beef. Actually the conversation covered a lot of things besides meat. Roosevelt promised that this coun try would substantially increase its imports of Argentine products; first because Argentina has suffered heavy loss of her European export market and faces an acute depres sion; second, because Argentina con tinues to buy from the United States, but this buying must fall off if she cannot sell here to obtain dollar ex change for purchases. Discussing these problems, the President told Melo that the defense program would require heavy pur chases of wool for uniforms, hides for shoes, and canned beef for the commissary. Though the govern ment would not buy direct from Ar gentina, the buying from domes tic sources would create a new de mand for imports, substantially ben efiting Argentina. There was also discussion of using a part of the new Export Import bank fund of $500,000,000, about to be voted by congress, for trade with Argentina. Note—Latest export figures show that Argentina has now become the leading foreign purchaser of Amer ican passenger cars. • • » BRITAIN’S FOGS The most important development during the last few days of bombing London is the realization by British and American observers that bad weather is not going to help the de fense of London, but instead will hinder it. Second important development is the realization that Britain’s only real defense is retaliatory raids against Berlin. This means, of course, more long-distance bombers —almost all of which are now ob tained from the United States. It has been generally expected that with the arrival of foggy weath er, London would be safer because Nazi raids would have to abate. However, there was considerable cloudy weather over England last week, and during it, Nazi bombers had a field day. What they did was to use the clouds as a shield and drop their bombs, without aiming, all over London. On clear days they had tried to aim at military targets. But at night, and during cloudy weather, the Nazis gave up any pretense of taking aim. What happened was that when British planes went aloft they could not find the raiders. The Nazis were hidden in cloud banks, dropping their bombs indiscriminately. Un der these circumstances, there was bnly one way for the British to lo cate the enemy bombers—by means of sound detection and radio direc tions from the ground. However, these radio directions must be three dimensional to be ef fective, and there is such a wide margin for error that looking for a bomber in the clouds is like looking for a needle in a haystack. That is why British planes simply did not go into the air when the weather was too cloudy. It is important to note that the same handicap applies to Berlin. In other words, the British raiders will be equally aided by foggy weather over the German capital. So the war of nerves and indiscriminate bombing is likely to get worse. Note—One thing which caused the downfall of France and the lowland countries was the collapse of morale, plus fifth column activities. How ever, U. S. observers in London are unanimous that British morale is at the highest peak, and that the Brit ish will fight as no army has fought foi generations in Europe. By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) ■VJ EW YORK.—The urgency of the ' times is such that perhaps this country needs a good alchemist more than a good five-cent cigar. Good AlC.™., Z Might Be Our Dr. Samuel Greatest Need Co^^Lind who offers what appears to this department to be the first soundly conservative sanction for the possible availability of atomic power—power in our time. At the Detroit meeting of the American Chemical society, starting its national defense in ventory of chemical skills and resources. Dr. Lind reports a startling advance toward the power riches of the metal ura nium 235. Hit a few atoms of U-235 with 50 electron volts and you draw off 200,000,000 electron volts. It looks like a power mil- ienium, which this country could use just now. Dr. Lind says there is plenty of uranium and that the seizure of its power is a practical possibility, not nul lified by high costs of the proc ess. Cutting the power atom out of the herd of slightly different atoms is the one great remaining obstacle. Dr. Lind has been an ace utom- nucleus bomber for many years. His field of radioactivity has been a zone of wizardry in chemistry and he has turned in much basic re search, including his ionization the ory of the chemical effect of radium rays. He has written extensively on subjects in his field. From his native McMinnville, Tenn., where he was born in 1879, he went to Washington and Lee uni versity and the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology, with an educa tional chaser at the University of Leipzig and later at the University of Paris. He taught at the Univer sity of Michigan, served as chief chemist of the U. S. bureau of mines and is now dean of the institute of technology of the University of Min- nesota. M ILLIONS by the hundreds are just about an irresistible ■ tar get, and perhaps Sunday supplement writers can be forgiven for trying , ,, . occasionally Field Humps to make a Keeping English playboy out Children Moving of .Marshall “Field, a 1- though in his heyday his chief sins have been no more than an under standable interest in hunting and horses, and dogs, mainly retrievers. Now, however, even these trot into the background as he gears up the National Child Refugee committee of which he is chair man. His job is to keep well oiled the wheels that roll Eng lish children by the thousands out of the reach of Nazi dive bombers. It must keep him whacking away long after the latest fox has taken cover. Just the same the supplementers were right on one point. He really has hundreds of millions. They pour down from the original Marshall Fields of Chicago. In his middle forties now, Chair man Field is sturdily handsome, with a grayish pompadour and a big gish, sharp nose. He dresses well, as he was taught at Eton and Cam bridge where he got his schooling, though conservatively. His pants have no cuffs at all. ♦ T HREE Americans talk up the war with King George and one is Major General Emmons of the United States air corps. He is one Maj. Gen. Emmons est^officTrs’ Still Puzzled as picked by To Why of •Delos’ President Roosevelt a while back to give the country’s sev eral military arms extra socko. Fifty-two years old, he has been in the army since 1909; with the infan try until 1916, when he was switched to the signal corps. That made him a flier because in those dark and stumbling days the signal corps was all the flying service the United States had. At birth his parents named him “Delos.” Mostly, the Deloses lack adequate explanation of their par ents’ curious preference, and the general belongs to this forever-puz zled fry. In full his name is Delos Carleton Emmons. In many given names there is little sense indeed, but in “Delos” there can be no rhyme or reason. This commentator knows one “Delos” who explains feebly that his giv en name stems from a French cook in a Wisconsin lumber camp where his father was fore man. No more! Not even that he flipped a noble flapjack. The general has one daughter; she undoubtedly has told him he is a man who never learns. Because, guess what he named her. Delosie! Helpless Victims of Nazi Cruelty Jane, Jacqueline and John, three pitiful little inmates of the East Grinstead (England) sunshine home for blind babies, hurry to the home’s air-raid shelter as Nazi bombs roar overhead during one of their “morale softening” raids on non-military objectives in England. This high-explosive shell, being unloaded for display at the British pavilion, New York World’s fair, is an unfilled and harmless duplicate of those which the British royal railway artillery are hurling across the English channel in answer to the shells of the “Big Berthas” being used by the Nazis. Dairy Congress Will Attract Thousands More than 200,000 of the nation’s leading dairy farmers and live-stock breeders are expected to attend the thirty-first Annual Exposition of the Dairy Cattlk Congress and Allied Exhibits at Waterloo, Iowa, September 30 to October 6. Above are shown an airview of the permanent plant which houses the exposition, and a group of milkmaids competing in the annual contest. Inset: L. D. Miller of Waterloo, Iowa, president of the exposition. 9.000 Miles for a 5-Minute Show Two groups of astronomers from the United States will travel 9,000 miles to Brazil to observe a five-minute eclipse of the sun to occur on October 1. Dr. Charles H. Smiley of Brown university, shown with the camera he will use, will accompany one expedition to Quexeramobim. The map indicates the place chosen by his expedition. Recovering Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, ex president and “strong man” of the Dominican Republic, who is recover ing from a long illness, plans to va> cation here for his health. U. S. Drops Charges Charges against Dr. Herbert Hoehne, asserted German agent, have been dismissed by the U. S. When Hoehne was seized in Los : Angeles he had German diplomatic papers in his possession. ‘SCHOOL DAZE, SCHOOL DAZE’ The public schools have opened again and millions of children give up playing outdoors and start fooling in the schoolroom. ♦ * • They had a lot of fun difting the vacation, but weren’t anywhere near as idle as they will be when they get back to their studies. * • • Whether the children have been getting the right sort of education is now a question agitating many nations. That many of the weak nesses in social systems are due to emphasis dn the wrong things in school is widely charged. France declares, through Marshal Retain, that its public school system was “a lie,” and says that from now on schools will teach “respect of the human individual, the family, soci ety and the nation.” • • • France has blamed about every thing else for its defeat, and it may be stretching a point to blame the schools, but this department thinks a little shaking up of the American public school system wouldn’t do us qny harm. • • • If Uncle Sam’s schools are teach ing American boys and girls respect for the family, society and the na tion, a lot of the kids are not listen ing. (There we go preaching again.) • • • How about getting back to the old- fashioned days when school was opened with prayer and the na tional anthem, with teacher sup plying the inspir ation? The schools are instructing the kids in dates that don’t matter, his torical episodes that they will nev er remember and various subjects which will be of little use to ’em. The only exam they pass quickly is the one which asks, “What was Jimmy Cagney’s last picture?” “Name four night clubs most often mentioned in the press,” “What six movie stars were divorced in the last 10 days?” and “Has mommer developed a system to beat bingo yet?” • • • The three Rs would seem to be Robinson, Rooney and Romero. • • • Of course, the schools may not be entirely to blame for the fact that little boys grow up into men who yawn as a veterans’ parade passes, give a sloppy salute to Old Glory and say “So what!” when told that democracy is in danger. I Transfer Z8976 C'OR our first fall needlework, r what could be more appropri ate than making some new pan holders? 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Ha has been a forceful supporter of the policy of providing every aid short of war to Great Britain while speeding defense preparations of tha United States. Honor Remington UNITED STATES POSTAGE Last in the series of new postage stamps commemorating “Famous American Artists,” a 10-cent brown stamp bearing the likeness of Fred eric Remington will be placed on sale on September 30 by the post office department. Above is shown a reproduction of the stamp which is expected to be a popular item among philatelists. RIMES IN HEAVY TRAFFIC Shed a tear for Margie White, She signaled left . . . and then turned right. —A. G. OdeU. • • • Bandaged up is Gus Q. Bray— He said he’d fix his brakes “some day.” —K. L. T. • • • Gatti Casazza died in Italy the other day at 71. He had been direc tor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York for 27 years, and before that was director at La Scala. Gatti was a glamorous figure in the days when the world not only felt like singing, but sang and even paid money to hear others sing. He must have been pretty unhappy lately. • • • Kathryn Holhlman Frank defines an optimist as a man who kept his sunglasses in his hand during the last two weeks in August. ... The explanation of the hour: He was going to get married anyhow this summer. . . . ! The new France is talking of adopting the “family vote” system of franchise, under which a man has as many votes as there are in his immediate family. The French have something there that we might copy on this side of the ocean. Imag ine the rush of party leaders to take Pap Dionne to the polls! ... New York has a new milk-bottle, shorter, lighter and “gurgle proof” whatever that may mean. If it still holds notes to the milkman it is okay with us. Using Every Moment Every moment may be put to Some use, and that with much more pleasure than if unemployed. —Chesterfield. 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