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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.
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more delicate emotions, as they do
by set words and phrases. Indeed,
the soul has a thousand ways of
communicating itself.—Turnbull.
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. • •
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war, General Pershing is still a
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UNITED STATES POSTAGE
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American Artists,” a 10-cent brown
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eric Remington will be placed on
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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.
WNU—7
39—40
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