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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, JANUARY 23, 1942 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) '^J’EW YORK.—Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, -*■ ^ the anthropologist, once had a plan to measure the skulls of all 'congressmen, in his studies Brain Indexers head-size and contour Studying Skills, in their rela- /jnorins Skulls congressmen didn’t like the idea and nothing came of it. Stndying skills, rather than skulls, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, president of Tufts college, gets better c i-operation. In August, 1940, the- government put him at the head of a committee of sav ants to work up a national brain index. They have compiled an index of several hundred thou sand good brains. This committee was known as the National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel, and now there has been added to it a special committee on wartime requirements for specialized personnel, with Dr. Carmichael as chairman. The ob vious function of the committee is to find good brains and recruit them. Since the first World war, the clas sical Binet-Simon intelligence quo tient has gained by sundry repairs and betterments. The inquiry now covers not only the question of whether we know much of anything but whether we have any sense. • In 1920, we saw an experi ment in a progressive school in San Francisco which now seems pertinent to what Dr. Carmich- agl and Ids committee are try ing to do. They picked a group of high I-Q. boys, of superior heredity and cultural back ground, and then they picked some less favored lads, of low I.Q. from the North Beach for eign section. They gave each child a certain amount of mon ey, told him to buy some thing, start trading and report gains or losses in two months. When the bell rang, most of the silk- stocking lads had lost their shirts and the North Beach mob had fanned its holdings up to sizeable juvenile fortunes. From this, the pedagogs figured something like survival intelligence as distinguished from merely super imposed and possibly non-converti ble cultural intelligence. It is un questionably survival intelligence that Dr. Carmichael and his brain- indexers are looking for, as their study has to do with particularized, specialized, useful, workable skills. Dr. Carmichael, qne of the most distinguished of modern psycholo gists, was born in Philadelphia in 1898, and was educated at Tufts and Harvard, and taught at Princeton and Brown before becoming presi dent of Tufts in 1938. r)OWN near Windy Gap, on the edge of Death Valley, we knew a big, dead-pan cow-puncher who doubled in dancing and fighting, and who could dance doVn or smack do'wn any body in those we have found this unique blend of talents only in Manuel Quezon, recently inducted into his second term as president of the Philippines. President Quezon Blends Dancing, Politics Perfectly parts. Elsewhere, Sr. Quezon negotiated for Philip pine independence in the New York studio of Arthur Murray, the danc ing master. Dancing is his art, his recreation and his driving passion. Four hours a day went to dancing when he was cutting the islands adrift—with second thoughts later. The first dancing shift was from 10 o’clock until noon. The hours from one to three went to Philippine in dependence, and then the dancing picked up from three to five. Washington, D. C. SCRAP IRON It may be that those who let mil lions of tons of scrap iron go to Japan are not too anxious to adver tise our present dearth of scrap, but the real fact is that it is so serious as to cause the shutdown of nine blast furnaces in Youngs town, Ohio, alone. To meet the shortage, the OPM has been conducting an experi mental campaign to collect scrap iron in Erie, Pa., and is launching other campaigns in Boston, Pitts burgh, Bridgeport and Akron. How ever, the campaign is going very slowly. Chief trouble is that col lections are made through the nor mal scrap iron trade. Therefore, it looks as if the Amer ican public might have to take things in hand. A survey of Butler county, Ohio, shows that every farmer has an average of about 500 pounds of usable scrap iron and rubber rusting or rotting behind his barn. On this basis, the OPM estimates that it should be possible to collect 1,500,000 tons of scrap from American farmers. Not many people realize the im portance which scrap plays in the iron and steel industry. Ordinarily, steel is made 50 per cent from ore and 50 per cent from scrap iron. But today ordinary supplies of scrap iron are diminished, not only by previous sales to Japan but by the fact that war industries supply no scrap. Many tanks, guns, and mili tary motor trucks are shipped off to Egypt, Malaya or Russia. They never come back. Ordinarily, indus try supplies its own scrap iron from junked automobiles, etc. But now there will be fewer automobiles to junk. So the scrap iron problem is one Which will require every farmer and householder to look around be hind his barn or in his basement to see what he can spare for war in dustries. You can check off lead as the next strategic material to be put under interdict for civilian use. OPM’s banning order will be issued short ly. That will mean the end of lead foil and numerous other items of normal everyday use. One possible exception may be lead for automo bile batteries, but even that will be under severe restrictions. Reason for the ban is inadequacy of domestic supply to meet the increasing need for bullets. War production tables call for a lead con sumption of 60,000 tons monthly by June; 100,000 tons monthly by next January. For military reasons, fig ures on U. S. supply can not be disclosed, but it is below what is needed even with production in creases now under way plus imports from Canada, Mexico and other for eign sources. So civilian use will be restricted for the duration. WLW ICELAND The largest standard-wave broad casting apparatus in the U.S.A.— owned by WLW Cincinnati—may be set up in Iceland to drown out Hit ler’s rasping broadcasts to the Ger man people. For many years WLW operated a 500,000 watt station in Cincinnati, but was forced by the Federal Com munications commission to reduce to 50,000 watts, which is the maximum for ordinary commercial stations in the U.S.A. Therefore, WLW has now offered its big 500,000 watt set to the government to be established in Ice land. Since Hitler’s stations are no where near as strong as 500,000 watts, WLW’s beams from Iceland could drown out his voice every time he went on the air. Furthermore, WLW Iceland would not operate on short wave, which the German people are not permitted to hear. It would operate on a standard broadcasting beam and would come in over the ordinary German radio. By turning a button in the station in Iceland, the wave length could be clanged to cut in on any German program. There is one catch to the proposal, however. WLW Cincinnati wants to make a deal with the government whereby it would be permitted to set up another 500,000 watt station in the United States in return for sending its equipment to Iceland. The bright-eyed, coffee-colored little man with the dazzling smile so captivated Woodrow Wilson that the President put a declaration for Philippine inde pendence slap-bang into the Democratic platform. But in the Hawes-Cutting bill, enacted in 1933, Senor Quezon found a one way tariff squeeze, unsatisfac tory guarantees as to the atti tude of Pacific powers, and oth er defects, and started dancing and negotiating his way around these obstacles. He is said to be just about the smartest politician in the business. He is university trained. His father was a Filipino and his mother half Spanish. He smokes cigarettes in an endless chain, dancing or sit ting still, gesticulates fluently and turns the sharp spotlight of a keen, agile, realistic mind on matter in hand. He was wounded in the Phil ippine war for independence and for years strung with the jungle die- hards, somewhat embarrassed in his later career by the rampant and bellicose Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. President Quezon is 55. » • • CAPITAL CHAFF Secretary of War Stimson has been shaking up some of his gen erals, and has put Gen. Raymond Lee temporarily in charge of mili tary intelligence. Lee was former U. S. military attache in London and an A-l officer. Army people hope he stays in charge of the intelli gence service. To make more office space in Washington, the Farm Credit ad ministration is being moved to Chi cago. Through its nation-wide co-ops, Harry Slattery’s Rural Electrifica tion administration has erected more than 370,000 miles of trans mission lines. This was more than the 15 largest utility holding com panies in the country combined. Over 1,250,000 farmers are benefit ing from cheap electricity as a re sult of the REA system. Fifty per cent of our vitamin A is being sent to England. This, to gether with the shortage of fish liv ers and oils from Norway and Japan, is causing a shortage of vitamins in the U.S.A. Ready for Another Crack at Hitler’s Huns Picture at left shows Polish volunteers who recently arrived in Britain from Sonth America to join their free Polish compatriots against the Nazis. They are learning the technique of operating a Bren gun car rier. Right: These strapping soldiers, marching along an English country road, are some of the Polish volun teers who came to Britain from Sonth America to join in the fight for freedom. New Hawaiian Guard in Training Troops of the. newly formed Hawaiian territorkT^guard drilling near Honolulu. Japanese and Filipino children, natives of the islands, squat in the foreground. Inset: Janet Ishiyma, seven, holding her two-year-old brother, Rudy (both are Japanese residents of the Hawaiian islands and loyal to the U. S.) places a flower behind the ear of Private A. Sambueno, pure Filipino member of the newly formed Hawaiian territorial guards. U. S. Avengers in Formation From Distant Lands This U. S. navy photo shows group of dive bombers flying in close formation. Look out Nippon! Little Pedro Hadhandia, seven, Maria Rosa, seven, and her sister Anainda Rosa, nine, warm their hands as their arrive in New York. They came aboard an unidentified ship from some distant land. They are Americans, and await aid from Traveler’s Aid society. These Cadets Are Officers Now High Commander There’s good reason for the smiles worn by these young men as they surrender their rifles to the seated sergeant. They have just changed status from- cadets to commissioned officers at Randolph field, “West Point of the Air.” They don’t need the drill rifles any more, and are plenty happy about it. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of China, supreme commander of all land and air forces of the United Nations operating in the Chinese theater of war against the Axis. Eleanor Roosevelt UNKNOWN SOLDIERS TOMB One morning, two children, who were staying in the house, de cided they would like to go to see the Unknown Soldiers. Tomb, so we took them there and to Rock Creek cemetery to see St. Gauden’s me morial. To me, that memorial is one of the most beautiful things in Washington, in snow or sunshine. I said my prayers of thankfulness and of hope, with my eyes fixed on that strangely enigmatic woman’s face. She lived a full life, I am sure, but I am never quite certain whether she just became resigned, or whether life gave her a complete and peaceful contentment. Back for luncheon, after which some of our guests left, so that I spent a fairly quiet two hours in my sitting room before Mrs. Aymar Johnson came in with some English children who are staying with her. Later, about 15 political Science stu dents from Mt. Holyoke, with their teacher, Miss Victoria Schuck, came to see me. They asked a number of questions and I arranged for them to go to the Office of Civilian Defense to find out all they could about our work. Miss Jane Seaver, of our youth ac tivities division, came to us from Mt. HSlyoke, so I am sure they found a friend and made use of the Washington Bureau of the Interna tional Student Service also. * * « WOMEN’S SERVICE After writing my column one aft ernoon, I went over at 6:30 to the opening of the American Women’s Voluntary Service Club house. They have been given the use of Mrs. Sumner Welles’ stable, and they are to use it for their activities. I hope that the attendance at the opening means that they will have a large number of workers, be cause I feel sure that there is plenty for them to do. There are too few places in this city for the newcom ers who are department workers, or for the influx of sightseers from the camps, etc., to meet in a congenial atmosphere. After dinner, I went up to the Li brary of Congress to the opening of an exhibition of South American posters. A few of our own are also shown, but I do not think we have yet learned to use our best artists, so our posters do not seem to be quite as vivid and colorful as some of those from the South American countries. I was struck by the fact that so many of them dealt with questions of social security, housing and youth activities. I hope a great many people will see this exhibi tion. • • • TRIP TO BOSTON Back from the poster exhibit, I dressed for the train, then had a short talk with one of the assistant directors of Civilian Defense and, finally, Miss Thompson and I made the 11:00 train for Boston. We ar rived there neit morning and after breakfast at the Hotel Statler, drove out to Hingham with Mrs. Frances MacGregor. 1 would hardly have come at the present time, if I had not broken this engagement when I went west right after Pearl Harbor. I have been able to do some of the things ‘ which I had to give up at that time, but I am afraid I shall never be able to catch up on others. • • • PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE I listened to the President’s mes sage over the radio and wished that I could be in two places at once. It is rather an interesting thing, when you are accustomed to watch ing a person speak, to hear him now and then over the radio, and to have an idea of how it seems to other people who never actually see the person face to face, even when they know his voice quite well and have listened to him many times on the air. The war news seemed a little bet ter that evening and for some reason we all seemed in a carefree mood at dinner. Perhaps I was just happy myself because I had talked to Franklin Jr. and so imagined that everyone shared my mood. * • • MUNITION BASE I had a chance to see the tremen dous development at the naval am munition base at Hingham, Mass., the next day. Then, before lunch, our hostesses, Mrs. Gordon Mac Gregor and Mrs. Janet Raymond, took us to a meeting of the League of Women Voters. Afterwards, Mrs. MacGregor and I went over all the very beautiful pictures for her book. 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